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    2015 I SERVING TEXAS A&M SINCE 1893 I © 2014 STUDENT MEDIA I ©THEBATTONLINE
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Aggies fill
Reed Arena for
campus Muster
ceremony
By Nikita Redkar
f ^ he campus Aggie Muster
ceremony honored the
memories of Aggies be-
JL fore a maximum-capacity
crowd of around 13,000 in Reed Are
na Tuesday.
Muster, said Student Body Presi
dent Kyle Kelly, is about both consid
ering the past and savoring the present.
“Through Muster we experience
the spirit that can ne’er be told,” Kelly
said in his speech. “The Roll Call for
the Absent represents not just names,
but stories and faces, each with a life to
be remembered.”
This year’s Muster celebrated the
50th anniversary and reunion for
members of the Class of 1965. Aggies
around the world gathered in College
Station to be part of the largest Muster
ceremony and answer “here” for their
fellow class members who have died.
Mike Tovey, Class of 1965, came
to town from Phoenix with his wife
Tuesday.
“It’s really amazing to see the whole
class gathered here and 1 speak for ev
eryone when 1 say we wouldn’t be
anywhere else,” Tovey said. “This
was my first time attending Muster in
College Station since I was on campus
50 years ago.”
Distance from College Station did
not hinder many former students from
being part of the ceremony. Tovey
said one man in his class flew all the
way from Korea.
MUSTER ON PG. 2
Shelby Knowles —THE BATTALION
The Camaraderie Barbecue, which was held Tuesday afternoon, gave current and former students a chance to
share their memories of Aggieland.
Barbecue brings generations together
By Evan Flores
Current and former students greeted
and conversed with one another be
fore Muster on Tuesday, recalling old
and new experiences in Aggieland.
The Muster Committee hosted its
Camaraderie Barbecue in front of Kyle
Field to celebrate the reunion of students
from the Class of 1965 and encourage
communion with current students.
The barbecue featured guest perfor
mances from the Aggie Wranglers, Fish
Drill Team and appearances from the
Yell Leaders and Head Coach Kevin
Sumlin.
The Muster committee has worked
tirelessly to put on the barbecue, and
to see it happening brings a sense of ac
complishment, said Brenna Thompson,
one of two Camaraderie Barbecue co
ordinators.
“It’s been really awesome since we’ve
worked hard to improve it,” Thompson
said. “Every year we try to come up with
something better than the last.”
Thompson said the best part of the
Camaraderie Barbecue is to see how the
reunited classes respond to the event.
“We do our best to bring in students
each year because that’s the former stu
dents’ favorite part,” Thompson said.
“We always try to get more students to
come out so that they can interact with
the reunion members.”
Current students have the chance to
learn more about how former students
see and interact with A&M now that
they are back on campus, said Gerald
Kirk, aerospace engineering sophomore.
“Whenever I’ve had a chance to sit
down with these people, a lot have such
passion,” Kirk said. “Passion for A&M,
passion for what they believe in here,
whether it is for the Corps, fraternities
or sororities.”
Sitting down with the former students
also provides insight into the past, Kirk
said.
“They offer such a wonderful per
spective,” Kirk said. “They are more
than willing to share stories about their
time here, and that refreshes your view
of A&M.”
Although decades have passed,
seeing current students still valuing the
importance of traditions brings joy to
former students who have long left the
BARBECUE ON PG. 3
No. 2 A&M baseball
rebounds with win
over UT-Arlington
By Andre Perrard
►
would be concerned if we
weren’t setting those in-
After dropping its first m ng> up. Definitely had,
some opportunities in the
series of the season,
A&M baseball needed a
win to end its first losing
skid of the year and did
just that in a 4-2 win over
UT-Arlington on Tuesday
afternoon.
The Aggie bats started
hot early with two home
runs in the first two innings,
and with that lead in place
A&M never looked back.
The win keeps A&M un
beaten in mid-week games
and move to 24-0 against
non-conference opponents
this season.
“We started out like
gangbusters,” said A&M
head coach Rob Childress.
“We had a great approach
and were able to build
a lead early and held
on. But we set up
some innings, and
just were not able
to knock them
down with the guys
we want in those
spots. I’ll take set
ting those up
every time,
I think 1
middle innings to put the
game away, but we were
able to play with some pres
sure late and I was proud of
the way we finished.”
A&M (36-5, 12-5 SEC)
broke the scoring seal in
its first at-bat of the game.
Blake Allemand hit a lead-
off home run to give A&M
the early 1-0 lead. In the
second, Hunter Melton hit
another leadoff home run,
his fourth of the year, to
give the Aggies a 2-0 ad
vantage. RBIs from Mitch
ell Nau and Nick Banks
in the third inning helped
A&M to a 4-0 lead after
BASEBALL ON PG. 4
Blake
Allemand hit
a home run
at Tuesday's
game against
UTA.
Aggie author lends a hand in collaborative book series
By Keeley Wirries
A new literary collaboration that
^ explores apocalyptic scenarios has
an Aggie twist to it.
The “Apocalypse Weird” proj
ect consists of a collective of writers
including Chris Pourteau, a senior
research editor at the Texas A&M
Transportation Institute and Class of
1989. Each author follows their own
story throughout a series, all under
an overarching plotline created by
Wonderment Media.
Wonderment Media, a publish
ing company founded by indepen
dent fiction authors, hosted an online
book launching party Tuesday for the
series’ newest book, “Genesis: The
White Dragon.”
“Each of us writers have our
own approach to creating a story,”
said Pourteau, author of “Serenity
Strain.” “Some of these stories are
based on theories that might actually
happen, we just take them and dial
them up to 11. We each have our
different story lines but they
contribute to a larger narra
tive that over time is going to
evolve out of the novels and
bring the heroes of the novels
together later on. If you think of
Marvel Comics, it’s like that.”
As more novels are written, au
thors are allowed to share characters
across stories. Several of the novels
take place within Texas, includ
ing Pourteau’s book, which is set in
Houston.
Part of the mission of “Apocalypse
Weird” is to interact with readers
as much as possible. In the E-books,
available on iBooks or Amazon,
readers are able to click hyperlinks
within chapters that are “Easter eggs”
APOCALYPSE ON PG. 4
...
"Apocalypse Weird" is a project that
combines the work of several different sci-fi and
fantasy authors in one common alternative world.