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The number of students on campus at Texas A&M is a large one, and a smaller num-

ber of students work for local busi-nesses. Smaller still is the number of students who create such businesses — and Ryan Walters is one of them.

Walters, freshman computer engi-neering major, structured his spring schedule in such a fashion that he wouldn’t have class on Friday to spend the day planning for the business he’s been working on for eight months

with the aid of Startup Aggieland, self-described as a student-designed, student-led business accelerator whose goal is to aid students in business start-ups.

“At Startup Aggieland, I’m what they call an entrepreneur-in-resi-dence, starting a business called Scout-Alert,” Walters said. “It’s an online athletic recruiting service. It’ll change lives for athletes, giving them visibil-ity to recruiters that they’ve never had before. I’ve built the entire website myself. I’ve been doing programming for websites since I was thirteen or

fourteen.”He started his career making apps,

and his first app, Pong for the iPhone 3G, was the catalyst to spur his interest in programming and technology.

“I think one of the coolest things in the world is being able to build something and then have it be in-stantly available to everyone,” Wal-ters said. “I started out having built an iPhone app, made it for free, and just sent it out there. It was the No. 3 app in Panama and it’d turn up on

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Ryan Walters, freshman computer engineering major, is the second-ever freshman to be an entrepreneur-in-residence at Startup Aggieland.

Freshman creates recruiting service tech A STARTUP SPIRIT

Working to both prevent sexual assault and assist in the coping process when it does occur, advo-

cates at the Sexual Assault Resource Center fulfill the role of supporting those affected by sexual assault in the community. In the last year, EJ Smith, SARC volunteer coordinator, said SARC served 427 clients.

SARC will be holding its 77th tri-annual advocate-training program on Feb. 10, and applications are now open for those interested in becoming volunteer advo-cates through the center.

“The SARC plays a vital role in our community,” said University Police Lt. Allan Baron. “If it wasn’t for the advocates who work on a daily basis, the center would be non-existent. A large portion of the community is between the age of 18 and 24, which are college-age vic-tims. It’s important to have members of the community as well as students serve as advocates.”

By state law, victims of sexual assault have a right to an advocate before any further examination. Taking on the role of an advocate entails several duties from attending emergency room visits to answering hotline calls. Smith said it’s important to be there for clients as a friendly face, because reporting is not often an easy process.

“While not all volunteers that serve are A&M stu-dents, a decent portion of them are, and I think when you live someplace, even if it isn’t your hometown, its great to work to benefit that community,” Smith said. “Our advocates aren’t just advocates on the hotline or on accompaniments, they are advocates 24/7 empowered to educate friends, classmates and others around them.”

Sonia Mahabir, WRC assistant coordinator, said she attend the SARC Advocacy training program last sum-mer as she was beginning her position with the Women’s

Advocate training applications now open

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sexual assault resource center

Volunteers serve as ‘friendly face’ for assault victims

Despite a career-high 26 points from senior

center Karla Gilbert, No. 17 Texas A&M (17-6, 7-2 SEC) fell to No. 16 Vander-bilt (17-5, 6-3 SEC), 71-69 Sunday in Nashville, Tenn.

Gilbert, who also added a blocked shot and a game-high 12 rebounds, earned her fifth double-double of the season.

Losing 30-23 at halftime, the Aggies clawed back in the second half, taking their

first lead of the game with 12:38 to go.

The game would go back and forth down the stretch, but eventually came down to one play with three seconds remaining. After a Gilbert la-yup and free throw tied the game, Aggie junior guard Tori Scott fouled Vanderbilt guard Morgan Batey, who made both free throws to put the Commodores up by two. Batey finished the game with a team-high 17 points while knocking down all seven of her free throw attempts.

A last-second shot from A&M sophomore guard Jor-dan Jones hit the back of the rim, giving the Aggies their first road SEC loss of the season.

Although she didn’t make

a shot from the field, Jones hit 4-6 free throws and dished out eight assists. Jones kept pressure on Vanderbilt’s guards all game, adding three steals to her team-leading to-tal of 57 on the year.

A&M was helped by the bench play of junior forward Tavarsha Scott-Williams, who was perfect from the field and hit all seven of her shots to finish the game with 14 points and nine rebounds.

The loss drops the Aggies to second place in the SEC, one game behind No. 7 South Carolina, who A&M beat 67-65 in overtime Jan. 16 at Reed Arena.

The Aggies return to ac-tion for a 2:30 tip off Sunday at Reed Arena against No. 14 LSU (17-5, 6-3 SEC).

Vanderbilt clips A&M in final moments

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Gilbert pours in 26, adds 12 boards in losing road effort

Bosley Jarrett — THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER

Marqu’es Webb, Vanderbilt freshman forward, shoots a free throw during her team’s 71-69 win Saturday over Texas A&M.

The No. 2 Texas A&M women’s swim-ming and diving team wrapped up its

regular season on Saturday with a 153-97 victory over North Texas at the A&M Recreation Natatorium.

Saturday’s meet marked the end of one of the most successful senior classes in A&M history. Of the seven seniors that swam in Saturday’s meet — including five school re-cord holders, three conference champions, two defending NCAA Champions, and three Olympians — six ended their colle-giate careers with individual victories.

“It was just a solid performance from a great group of seniors,” said Texas A&M head coach Steve Bultman. “I wish this group wasn’t seniors, but they really took us to the next level with national and inter-national competition.”

Senior Olympians Breeja Larson and Cammile Adams continued their domi-nance in the pool, sweeping the backstroke and butterfly events, respectively.

A&M looks to improve last year’s run-ner-up finish in the conference champion-ships when it heads to Athens, Ga., on Feb 18-22 to compete in the SEC Champion-ships.

“We are excited to move on,” Bultman said. “We’ve got a lot of girls already quali-fied for NCAAs so we feel good heading into the conference championship.”

Olympians bid farewell to A&M

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Larson, Adams among seven seniors to win final home meet

Shelby Knowles — THE BATTALION

Seniors and 2012 Olympians Cammile Adams and Breeja Larson embrace Saturday after the final home meet of their A&M careers.

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“Every year, me and my roommates watch the Super Bowl and bet on the result.

Sometimes, they have to do something special to

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“We’re just watching it here at the MSC. We have a few friends coming too, so maybe we’ll go

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The sense of sight is sometimes taken for granted by those

who have it, but the upcoming event, Dining in the Dark, will aim to give insight into the world of the visually impaired.

Lindsay Long, freshman psy-chology major, is volunteering for Dining in the Dark with her sorority, Delta Gamma. She also has a visual impairment. She en-couraged her sorority to volun-teer and believes that the event is a unique experience. As a result, 50 Delta Gamma members will be volunteering as cart runners, servers and other jobs.

“It’s really a once in a lifetime experience because you get to experience blindness for a din-ner and its not just like walking around with a blindfold,” Long said. “You wont be able to take

off your blindfold because you are in the dark and that’s what it feels like a lot of the time for me.”

Brazos Valley Center for In-dependent Living is hosting the event as a visual impairment awareness and fundraising event. Casey Schneider, president of the Infinite Aggies, a group volun-teering to help set up the event, is hopeful that the dinner will help to build empathy for stu-dents with disabilities so it will be easier to understand what they go through.

“This event is a great oppor-tunity for people without visual impairments to experience what people with these disabilities have to go through everyday,” Schnei-der said. “We will be helping set up the event the day before by laying down the tape the servers will be following during the din-ner, among many other things.”

The idea of Dining in the Dark has been around for a few decades and is not only used for blindness awareness, but some restaurant owners and chefs will

host a similar event to give their patrons more of an appreciation for different aspects of their food, Long said.

“This concept of dining in the dark has been around since the ’90s where it started over in Zu-rich,” Long said. “Some people use it as a awareness event and some people do it in their restau-rant because they want you to pay more attention to the food’s smell and feel.”

Wesely Delin, president of Insightful Connections, a social organization for the visually im-paired, hopes that people who are attending will appreciate their sight after they finish the event.

“It is a good way for the general population to see what people with visual impairments go through on a daily basis,” Delin said. “For individuals, it will hopefully make them realize they are blessed in terms of their sight and they don’t have to deal with the obstacles that come with blindness or other visual disabili-ties.”

Event coordinator Lauren Long said there will be a social hour before the dinner where people can participate in activi-ties such as braille dominos and checkers. Attendees will also be able to use an assisted currency identifier.

“It is geared toward aware-ness of visual impairments and I hope people get to ask the candid questions that they want to ask,” Long said. “I know that many people feel that they will offend us if they ask questions about the disability and how it affects us, but we would rather that you go head and ask instead of going on assuming the answer to those questions.”

The event will begin with a social hour at 5 p.m. Feb. 15, at the Hilton in College Sta-tion. Student priced tickets are not yet offered but will be sold a week before the event. Normally priced tickets for the event are available now at www.diningin-thedarkbcs.com.

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Sighted served dinner by the visually impaired

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Participants pose for a photo at the 2013 Dining in the Dark event.

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the leaderboards nationwide. It was cool to think of all these people I’ll never meet using something that I’d built.”

Walters said he sometimes does more planning on paper than programming on the computer, and emphasized the importance of planning for as many scenarios as possible.

“I’m really thinking a lot about what to do with the potential ScoutAlert has,” Walters said. “I’m going to take it, and I’m going to run with it and build it up as much as I can. Hopefully we’ll be the No. 1 recruiting tool in the United States. It’d be amazing to build a product that has the potential to truly change lives.”

Walters said he couldn’t have been where he is today without Startup Aggieland. One of the biggest lessons he’s learned thus far, he

said, was not to be afraid of reaching out to people and resources and to treat every day as an opportunity for a learning experience.

“The future is awesome, as far as technol-ogy goes,” Walters said. “I want to be a part of that someday.”

Taylor VanSickle, Class of 2013 and Wal-ters’ mentor — or “wrangler” as they are called in Startup Aggieland — said she felt fortunate to know such a driven young man during her time in college.

“He’s very dedicated trying to launch a re-cruiting website,” VanSickle said. “I think he has a lot of leadership potential. We did a pitch competition together, and from that I know that he’s a very hard-working freshman. His goals are insane — he’s got really big dreams.”

Walters said while the work he does on his business is exciting, he tries to focus on other interests as well.

“I enjoy hanging out with my friends,” Walters said. “If I’m not here with them, I’m

back home with my family or my girlfriend in Round Rock. See a movie, go out dancing, or just hang out. It’s not always easy, but it’s good to find a balance between everything.”

Shelly Brenckman, marketing coordinator at Startup Aggieland and Walters’ supervi-sor, has what Walters calls a “comprehensive viewpoint.” She has worked closely with Walters and other student entrepreneurs over the last semester to aid them in meeting their goals and dreams.

“He’s a fantastic pitch competitor,” Brenck-man said. “He made an excellent showing at our competition last semester. He’s the second freshman ever admitted to Startup Aggieland as an entrepreneur-in-residence.”

Walters doesn’t have a set launch date yet for ScoutAlert, but he hopes to launch by April.

“We’ve come very far, but we still have a long way to go,” he said. “We still have that final hurdle to jump over.”

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“This is our first meet back from a long break, and there were some rusty spots,” said head coach Tana McKay. “We had some really good rides, so I was proud of a lot of the girls. As with anything, you have to be able to make improvements, and we had a couple of big mistakes that you can’t make when you are playing a team like Georgia.”

The Aggies will saddle up for another conference show-down on Saturday as they ride into Auburn, Ala., to take on the Auburn Tigers.

Clay Koepke, sports editor

Equestrian falls to Georgia

Lindsey Bernbaum, senior animal science major, competes Saturday with her horse, Elmer.

divingA&M competes in Air Force invitationalThe fi nal day of the Air Force Academy Invitational fi nished Saturday with the Texas A&M men’s and women’s diving team taking home three top-score victories and eight other top-10 victories. The Aggie divers will rejoin the swimmers when they next compete at the SEC Championships from Feb. 18-22 in Athens, Ga.

golfAggies set to open springThe No. 5 Texas A&M men’s golf team is set to tee off its spring schedule Monday morning at the fi fth-annual Sea Best Invitational. The tournament will be hosted by the University of Jacksonville, and will be played at the Players Stadium Course on TPC at Sawgrass. “Playing one of America’s great venues to kick off the spring season only adds to our excitement,” said Texas A&M head coach J.T. Higgins. “TPC at Sawgrass is an incredible course. It is familiar to golfers of every level with history at every turn. We love to compete on great courses with great players and teams so we couldn’t ask for more.”

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Resource Center. Participants in the training program will be introduced to important com-munity resources so they can refer their peers to the appro-priate outlets, Mahabir said.

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James BakerAgriculture Leadership and DevelopmentAndrea BakkeBiomedical ScienceMary BaldwinPsychologyZachary BaldwinWildlife and Fisheries Sciences

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Rebecca Abbate HealthKen Abdullah

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Management Information Systems Management Information Systems

Human Resource Development

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Freshmen, sophomores,juniors, seniors,graduate students

This WEEKjust walk in to have your portrait made for Texas A&M’s 2014 Aggieland yearbook, if you didn’t last fall. 9 a.m – 4 p.m. Monday – Thursday in the Student Media office, Suite L400 of the MSC. Or, for appointment email arphototamu@gmail.com or call 979.846.9690.

It’s your yearbook. Be in it.

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If you did not order the 2013 Texas A&M university yearbook (the 2012-2013 school year), a limited number are available at the Student Media office, Suite L400 of the MSC. Hours: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday–friday. $85 plus tax. Cash, check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, accepted.

2013 Aggieland yearbook:584 pages of memories.

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There’s a Spirit can ne’er be told, but receiving the

Buck Weirus Spirit Award comes close.

Monday marks the last day to submit applications for the 2014 Buck Weirus Spirit Award, an honor given by the Association of Former Stu-dents to recognize students who make positive contribu-tions to student life programs at Texas A&M.

Kathryn Greenwade, Class of 1988 and vice president for communications at the Asso-ciation of Former Students, said recipients of the award are students dedicated to impact-ing campus.

“Those who receive this honor are recognized as ones who are motivated, organized and able to handle multiple demands on their times,” Greenwade said. “When em-ployers familiar with Texas A&M see this award listed on a job applicant’s resume, they know they are looking at an individual who will make

positive contributions and not sit on the sidelines.”

Kevin Andrews, doctoral student and 2013 Buck Wei-rus Spirit Award recipient, said receiving the award was a moving recognition of his campus work.

“I can recall being moved nearly to tears to know that my impact and experiences at Texas A&M University were judged to be worthy of this award when I read the con-gratulatory email — and then having to play it cool because my co-workers were all five to 10 feet away,” Andrews said.

The award was established in 1982 by the Association and is named after Rich-ard “Buck” Weirus, Class of 1942. Weirus served as ex-ecutive director of the Asso-cation from 1964-1980. His namesake award recognizes students who make positive contributions through high involvement and enhance-ment of the Aggie Spirit.

Even after winning the award, Andrews said a true campus leader continues to push themselves to excel and give back.

“None of my co-winners have rested on their laurels, but rather they continue to

stay involved on campus,” Andrews said. “That’s how our paths all end up crossing, because we’re always looking for opportunities to lead and serve.”

Andrews said the award made his family proud of what he was doing as a student and was a way of being recognized for the day-to-day campus service his family is not often privy to.

“You want to live in a manner worthy of the desig-nation you have been given,” Andrews said.

To be eligible for the award students must be currently en-rolled, have completed at least two semesters at Texas A&M, must have a cumulative mini-mum 2.25 GPR for under-graduates and 3.0 for graduate students, be in good academic and disciplinary standing with Texas A&M and not have won the award previously.

Award applicants are en-couraged to share their own personal Aggie story through considering the four tenants of the award: involvement, experiences, impact and spirit.

Students may apply by 11:59 p.m. Monday at ag-gienetwork.com/buckweirus.

Spirit award embodies student life contributions

Pallavi KaushikThe Battalion

association of former students

Buck Weirus award apps due Monday

Jenna Rabel — THE BATTALION

Kasey Kram, senior agribusiness major, displays the watch he received from earning the Buck Weirus spirit award his freshman year.

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