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B Mark Dore, Editor in Chief THE BATTALION is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer session (except University holidays and exam periods) at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. Offices are in Suite L400 of the Memorial Student Center. News: The Battalion news depart ment is managed by students at Texas A&M University in Student Media, a unit of the Division of Student Affairs. News room phone: 979-845-3315; E-mail: edi- tor@thebatt.com; website: http://www. thebatt.com. Advertising: Publication of advertising does not imply sponsorship or endorse ment by The Battalion. For campus, local, and national display advertising, call 979-845-2687. For classified advertising, call 979-845-0569. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Email: battacls@thebatt.com. 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A&M softball throttles Lamar behind eight-run first inning By Milkyas Gashaw The Texas A&M softball team defeated ^ the Lamar Cardinals 13-0 in five innings Wednesday at the Aggie Softball Complex. The No. 2 Aggies (33-12, 8-7 SEC) pounced on the Cardinals from the get-go. Head Coach Jo Evans said she was pleased with the all-around execution. “I thought we did a good job taking advan tage of their mistakes and getting up there and stroking the ball,” Evans said. “We were tak ing our walks early and squaring the ball up.” Evans said the team got a big night from the offense. “We don’t get those games very often where you can relax and sit back in the dug- out,” Evans said. “Usually it’s a heated batde but I loved the way I saw the kids came out hitting. I thought April Ryan was terrific to night. She went out there and went with the pitch. The first hit she gets in the third inning, she hits it hard and then the next at-bat she goes the other way and hits a grand slam. It’s just nice to see her out there feeling comfort able.” The first two Aggie runs came on an odd sequence in the first inning. Freshman Ashley Walters came up to the plate with the bases loaded and hit a grounder to shortstop. The Lamar shortstop threw home to get a force- out, but the catcher lifted her foot off the plate and the umpire called the Aggie safe at home. The Lamar players thought the inning was over with their double play so another Aggie rounded third and scored the second run of the game. After two more ru ns came in the first to increase the Aggie lead to 4-0, sophomore April Ryan stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded against starting pitcher Laura Na poli and belted a grand slam to complete the eight-run first inning. Ryan spoke about her change to leading off the Aggie lineup. “I just pretend that it’s the middle of the game and I’m leading off the next inning,” Ryan said. Homers from Celena Massey and Cali Lan- phear along with a three-RBI day from Kayla Ober helped seal the Aggie victory. The Aggies take their show on the road when they face the No. 1 LSU Tigers for a three-game series beginning Saturday. THE MUGDOWN CONTINUED “I know some people will want to be able to claim their work and claim specific ar ticles and stunts, and others may not want their name associated with specific ar ticles,” Polk said. “I’m very proud of my work, I think it was all done in good taste, but I’ll probably wait for every thing to die down.” By the founders’ account, anonymity allows The Mug- down the ability to direct the reader’s attention away from the writer and toward the ar ticle’s message. “It’s not about us trying to get the attention or glory, but it’s more about us trying to create something of value,” said William French, one of the founders and manage ment senior. Anonymity also serves a more practical purpose. Like other writers at The Mug- down, Polk said she has writ ten about organizations she is in and about people she knows. She said she draws the line at jokes she would not say in front of the people she writes about, but the fact remains that she would be approached by subjects of ar ticles if they knew she wrote them. “We’ve actually had writ ers whose names have leaked further than they meant them to and were contacted by the subject of their own articles,” Polk said. “It was just a really awkward situation.” The Mugdown founders said other awkward situations could arise without the pro tection of anonymity. “If you happen to write a friend’s name in there, or a friend might come up to you and say, ‘Hey could you write me into the next article?’ And when you are anonymous, they won’t keep asking you to put their name into the next article,” French said. “It gives you more freedom for that.” Founder and business hon ors senior Lucas Williamson said the reveal allowed him to to have a fuller conversation about The Mugdown. “I am a horrible secret keeper, and if I haven’t spoiled it, friends and some teachers have, so today was rather an- ticlimactic,” Williamson said. “On the whole, the response is almost always positive. I’ve had people be like, ‘Oh my gosh it’s like meeting a cam pus celebrity,’ but really I just love the opportunity to talk aranee* about this organization.” The founders said by na ture satire can be offensive, but Benjamin Gothman, editor-in-chief and biology senior, said four editors re view an article before it is published under The Mug- down’s name. Gothman also said some subjects are out of bounds for The Mugdown, namely Muster, Silver Taps and the Bonfire Memorial, among other topics. “We all came together to The Mugdown out of a place of love for Texas A&M,” Gothman said. “We’re all Aggies and we all want to be the first to laugh at our selves in that sense. And so we definitely knew going into it there were going to be certain topics that were [not appropriate] for parody because they were not going to promote discussion or do anything to better the com munity of Texas A&M.” As the founders prepare to graduate and go their separate ways, Polk said there is no way to ensure the next wave of editors will adhere to the founders’ guidelines, but she believes The Mugdown is in good hands. ''‘Stas**}! Jjg| < '$ppgp®! Fuel yew siu&efiVs §tudm fey § l,. gift &&& far them dumg MM Parem# Weekend Aerif if - 1§, m§ We f M threw in P&EE shies end a sheise ef die with the eurshese ef their next regeier-nrised entree* <57 m* m’mt# mtm nemm stassn- n 3m vattgit mm mm# ip B " I HHHT
