courses being online,” Davis said. “We didn’t have space at the Bush School for all the classes. Most of the students are middle to upper class working pro-fessionals and are working during work hours. The online classes provide flex-ibility to work and do schoolwork.”

The online set-up of the program not only allows students with full-time

jobs the ability to participate in the pro-gram, but also invites the best in the industry to instruct the courses whether they are full-time professors at another prestigious university, full-time profes-sionals in the field, or even professors at Texas A&M.

From June 9 to July 6, Laine Melikian, a junior recreation, parks and tourism

sciences major, rode his bike from Virginia Beach, Virginia, all the way back to his hometown of Georgetown, Texas, to raise money and awareness for cancer.

In January of 2010, Melikian lost his mother, Wendie Melikian, to brain can-cer. In March of 2012, he decided to start a nonprofit organization called Wendie’s Wish, of which he now serves as president, to help families struggling with the finan-cial and spiritual weights of cancer.

Melikian and three friends from high school pushed through 90 to 100 miles a day on bikes in the rain and wind all in

hopes of promoting Wendie’s Wish. Me-likian said he knew this ride, spanning over 1,800 miles, would not come without sac-rifice and hardship, but he could not have prepared for the mental and physical abuse he and his team would take.

“The whole trip started off pretty bad,” Melikian said. “It rained the whole ride to Virginia Beach from Texas and it rained at our first campsite the whole time. Unfor-tunately that just kind of set the tone for the first half of the trip.”

West Virginia proved to be the state that troubled the team the most. The weather was constantly against them, and at one point, Melikian thought they might not make it out of a storm with winds exceed-ing 50 miles per hour.

Melikian said a stranger took them in

and let them stay in his home to wait out the storm. Kindness like this met them spo-radically throughout the trip, and the bike trip became secondary to the relationships they each made along the way, Melikian said.

Positive experiences along the ride en-couraged Melikian and taught him about human nature, he said. At least 100 people were present in Georgetown to greet and support the riders, Melikian said.

“I learned how much people want to bless other people,” he said.

Not only did the trip raise awareness about Wendie’s Wish, it also gained fund-ing for the project.

“This trip was 100 percent effective and

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A summer on Texas’s Gulf Coast is typically known for its popu-lar beaches in Galveston or South

Padre Island, not a lack of oxygen in the water.

A team of 10 Texas A&M scientists and graduate students embarked on an annual six-day research cruise in June to confirm and study the growth of large regions of hypoxia — oxygen depletion in the water

— across the Texas and Louisiana coast.Led by principal investigator Steven Di-

Marco, associate professor in the Depart-ment of Oceanography, the cruise extended from Matagorda, Texas, up to Southwest Pass delta and Lake Charles in Louisiana.

DiMarco described a hypoxic region, or “dead zone,” as a natural occurrence in summer months when the air is still, and fresh saltwater forms into stratified lay-ers. The hypoxia disallows the mixture of

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Led by principal investigator and associate professor in the Department of Oceanography, Steven DiMarco, 9 Texas A&M scientists and graduate students traveled on the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico testing oxygen levels in the water.

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(Front to back) Evan Hibbs, Cameron Foreman, and Laine Melikian ride from Virginia to Texas raising awareness for Wendie’s Wish. See Biking on page 2

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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Johnny Manziel strode into Southeastern Conference Media Days and was swarmed by hundreds of reporters and dozens of tele-vision cameras.

He shook some hands and the cameras flashed as he settled into his seat, the star of the SEC’s latest must-see TV show.

If the Texas A&M quarterback was troubled by all the attention, he didn’t show it.

Dressed in a dark blue suit, checkered shirt and striped tie, Manziel answered every question thrown his way during the 30-minute Q&A, some were even about football. He said he largely enjoys the spotlight

that comes with winning the Heisman Trophy — even if it sometimes includes unsavory headlines.

“This is just another day,” Johnny Football said with a grin.

The 20-year-old sophomore and face of college football spent most of his three-hour stay at the Wyn-frey Hotel, bouncing from one interview session to another. He mostly talked about an eventful offseason that has frequently made him a trending topic.

“I don’t feel like I’ve done anything that’s cata-strophic,” Manziel said. “Of course, I’ve made my mistakes. It’s time to grow up.”

The most recent misstep came Saturday at the

Manning Passing Academy. Manziel was one of many college quarterback counselors at the camp for high school prospects run by Archie, Peyton and Eli Man-ning in Louisiana, but he left before it was over.

He says he missed activities because he “overslept,” and his absence had nothing to do with being out the night before.

“I was not asked to leave,” Manziel said. “It was a mutual decision.”

He said that while there were social events every night with the Mannings, he did not miss his meetings

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With a growing demand for pro-fessionals in the field of home-

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After the Homeland Security agen-cy was founded in 2004 in response to the 9/11 attacks, academic institutions were provided with a new task: pre-paring a workforce for this new field.

Lisa Brown, acting director of the Extended Education program, said the Bush School began offering courses in Homeland Security in 2004.

The next year, the Bush School of-fered the ability to earn a Certificate in Homeland Security (CHLS) com-pletely online. To be eligible, students

must have earned at least a Bachelor’s degree. The program consists of one required course in the Fundamentals of Homeland Security and four elec-tives of their choice for a total of 15 credit hours.

“After 9/11 took place, people were looking at how to protect America and her citizens,” Brown said. “The gov-ernment took at more in-depth look at where we needed to improve to protect people. Schools realized that people needed to be educated on how to prepare for this field.”

Danny Davis, lecturer and direc-tor of the CHLS program, said the program courses were offered online because of limited physical space and increased flexibility.

“Classroom space is big reason for all

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Lecturer and director of the CHLS program, Danny Davis, talks with Eben Moore who completed the certificate course. The Bush School began offering courses in homeland security in 2004.

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ESPN to televise Rice gameThe SEC office announced Tuesday that Texas A&M will open the 2013 football regular season against Rice at noon on Aug. 31 at Kyle Field, with the game being televised on ESPN. The Aggies welcome defending national champion Alabama on Sept. 14. The game will be televised on CBS with kickoff scheduled for 2:30 p.m.

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did what we needed it to do,” Melikian said. “We doubled our funds. We left with about $5,000 in the bank and we came back with $10,000. We had a lot of sponsors donating on our behalf.”

Wendie’s Wish will use this increase in funds to help more families cover the everyday costs associated with a cancer di-agnosis, such as prescription medications and groceries.

Melikian was finally able to meet fami-lies Wendie’s Wish has already been as-sisting when the team rode into George-town on July 6.

“I finally got to meet the families we have been helping; they were calling us heroes even though we didn’t really do anything,” Melikian said. “We were just trying to help in any way we could.”

Michael Pickle, a junior recreation,

parks and tourism sciences major was the driver on the final day of the ride from College Station to Georgetown.

“I was the driver, the helper and the mother for the final day from College Station to Georgetown,” Pickle said. “When I was talking to Laine [Melikian] a few days before they got to College Sta-tion, I was so excited. I ran cross coun-try with all these guys in high school, so there is a bond between the four of us through that.”

Pickle had originally intended to do the entire ride with the team but unfortunately couldn’t because of financial reasons.

“Hearing about it all month, that last day was so awesome,” Pickle said. “Be-ing able to help them out and serve them I think was better than being able to bike with them.”

Scott Turner, a junior studying hu-manities at Blinn, was part of the wel-come party in Georgetown, and said he

believed Melikian was exhausted, but satisfied with the journey.

“I could tell Laine [Melikian] was very tired and I think overall he was glad it was over, but still excited he had done it,” Turner said. “It seems like they did get a decent amount of publicity especially in the Austin and Georgetown area.”

Wendie’s Wish is looking to help more and more families in the coming months and years. Since his return, Melikian said he and others at Wendie’s Wish have been in the process of assisting two more families and creating a new system for the non-profit organization.

Melikian is hoping to get other events planned to raise money like 5k and 10k runs and bike races.

“This trip gave us a lot of confidence,” Melikian said. “There will be large scale events to come for Wendie’s Wish. If we can pull off something of this magnitude then we can do anything.”

oxygen in the water, making the lower layer unable to support sea life. DiMarco noted that fish, crab and shrimp could become susceptible to these unsustain-able conditions.

Although dead zones have been monitored since 1985, funding from the National Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Association (NOAA) began in 2003 for continued monitoring and prediction making.

“Our main contribution is quan-tifying and determining the processes of what contributes to the dead zone,” DiMarco said.

DiMarco and his team utilized a tool named “The Acrobat,” an instrument that moved through the water column in order to measure oxygen, salinity, tem-perature and chlorophyll.

Heather Zimmerle, a graduate student on the team, operated the Acrobat during the night hours.

“It was really important to make sure we were able to collect the data,” Zim-merle said. “Without it, we might not have been able to see all that hypoxia at that time.”

Natural causes help create dead zones, however, concerns have been raised by commercial fisheries because of the excess fertilizer and other chemicals from farm-ing runoff in rivers like the Mississippi and Brazos, and eventually into the ocean.

DiMarco described the nitrates from fertilizers as “fueling” algae growth. Once

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it begins to decay and die, they sink and the microorganisms eat the remnants.

“Because the dead zone is driven by microbial processes, they respire oxygen out of water,” DiMarco said. “That’s when it gets lethal for commercially viable species.”

Laura Harred, a graduate student on-board the research cruise, examined the abundance of algae, specifically in the Port Aransas area, using an Imaging Flow Cytobot.

“If we see an abundance of phyto-plankton in a place, we might expect in the future there might be a large hypoxic area,” Harred said.

DiMarco said the NOAA encourages farmers to reduce the amount of fertilizer

used. However the action is voluntary for the farmers. Zimmerle mentioned that regulation in the future could be possible, but enforcement would be difficult.

“It would be hard to enforce such a large area,” Zimmerle said. “There are a lot of rivers that dump into the Mis-sissippi watershed. I think the research will be more of a general awareness used for farmers.”

Both Harred and Zimmerle agreed that knowledge of the hypoxia situation should be more widespread.

“A lot of people use fertilizer for their lawns,” Zimmerle said. “It would be good for the general public to know the importance of what they are doing to the environment.”

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Graduate students Laura Harred and Jordan Young work from the back deck of “The Manta,” the boat used in the Gulf of Mexico to study oxygen levels in the water.

AMARILLO (AP) — The nation’s pre-eminent quarter horse association, trying hard to safeguard a prestigious registry that adds financial value to listed animals, faced off in court Wednesday against two breeders who claim the orga-nization is wrongly excluding clones and want the technology to join a long line of others the group already allows.

Since 1960 the American Quarter Horse Association has registered animals born through means other than natural, Nancy Stone, one of the attorneys repre-senting two breeders suing to have clones registered, said. Those means include ar-tificial insemination, frozen semen and cooled semen, an attorney for the asso-ciation said.

Testimony began Wednesday af-ternoon in the 2012 lawsuit filed by two breeders, Panhandle rancher Ja-son Abraham and Amarillo veterinar-ian Gregg Veneklasen, who own cloned quarter horses or offspring and want the animals registered with the 280,000- member organization.

The case is being closely watched by other U.S. horse-breeding groups be-

cause it could set a precedent. No U.S. horse-breeder group allows clones to be registered. Breeders worldwide could be affected because semen could be transported to other countries, though some international laws might not al-low the use of clones, said Billy Smith, a spokesman for the American Paint Horse Association.

It costs about $150,000 to clone a quarter horse, association lawyer Wade Arnold said in his opening comments. But to register a horse the animal must come from a registered mother and a father.

In “cloning you don’t have that,” he told jurors. “That is the fundamental rule of our association and it has been since 1940.”

He told jurors that Abraham, Venek-lasen and others interested in cloning quarter horses could start their own or-ganization and set their own rules like the quarter horse association does.

AQHA has denied antitrust allegations and says its rules promote competition.

Stone disagreed, saying there is a re-duced supply of elite quarter horses be-

cause of the rule that excludes clones, which means the value of those remaining is higher. The association wants to keep it that way and continue monopolizing the market, she said.

“Registration is absolutely essential for a quarter horse to be worth anything,” Stone said. The association “is holding these [cloned] horses and their offspring to a higher standard than horses born” through other technologies.

The breeders are seeking $6 million in damages, Arnold said. But the breed-ers stand to make plenty of money with the technology to clone quarter horses if the rule prohibiting clones is changed, he said.

One of the plaintiffs would get 10 percent of the royalties from a company with a patent on the quarter horse cloning technology, Arnold said.

“This is about money,” he said. “It’s not just about the rule.”

Ron Nickum, also representing the breeders, countered that only 1,000 were returned and of those 13 percent were in favor.

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Lightning data from Houston has been re-corded with the Lightning Mapping Array system since Richard Orville, professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M, and his graduate students installed it back in 2004, but the system received an upgrade in June. This upgrade included replacing the sensors’ wired power system with solar panels and adding a wireless delivery system that allows upload of data via Wi-Fi to Orville’s weather center in his office as well as to a website that anyone can access.

The system’s accuracy at detecting inner-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning activ-ity has increased from about 95 percent to 100 percent.

“We purchased and installed the system in 2004 with the support of grants from the Na-tional Science Foundation,” Orville said. “The equipment didn’t work very well because there was no reliable power source and the data was transmitted over phone lines. Last April, we received additional funding to upgrade and improve the system. The new system is reliable and currently the best running network.”

Matt Cullen, former graduate student of Orville and current employee of the National Weather Service in Portland, Oregon, said the upgrades improved the quality of the data.

“The solar panels can be located farther away from the sensors, which ensures that they don’t interfere with the readings and therefore cre-ate more accurate data,” he said. “Plus, Texas receives so much sunlight that it makes sense to have solar panels for our energy source. We also had problems with Internet connection,

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“Houston is the fourth-largest city in the U.S. and has the most lightning strikes in Texas,” Orville said. “Three to four people die and 10 to 20 people are injured from lightning strikes each year. The system detects where lightning is occurring right now and can inform people about the direction and movement of the storm based on past readings. Many people participat-ing in outdoor activities such athletic depart-ments would benefit from using the system.”

Hannah Alger, junior wildlife and fisheries major and resident of Houston, commented on the system, saying it would be a great tool for keeping people safe from lightning strikes.

“Knowing where lightning may strike is extremely useful especially in regards to sports and outdoor activities,” Alger said. “This makes [the system] very useful especially for safety and emergency awareness in an area like Houston.”

Orville said he uses the network (lightning.nmt.edu/hstnlma) daily by checking it before he takes his dog on a walk so that he doesn’t get caught in a thunderstorm.

The Lightning Mapping Array system, invented by Paul Krehbiel at New Mexico Tech and installed by Aggies, can detect lightning for research and public safety.

but the new cellular data modems are much more reliable and efficient compared to land-lines.”

Orville said the LMA information was used for two main purposes: academic advancements and public safety. The data provides great re-search opportunities for students and will help them understand more about lightning.

“The research application is the first and foremost aspect [of the LMA],” Cullen said. It allows us to map the lightning in three dimen-sions and learn from it. We also share the data with the National Weather Service. Secondly, it is a public safety tool to help everyone since anyone can access the data and use it as a deci-sion support tool such as whether or not to close down a pool. The research comes first, but public safety is something I’m passionate about. It can forecast lightning ground strikes that can save lives and prevent injuries.”

Cullen also talked about the analysis of the data and how the new upgrades had been working so far.

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Orville said Houston was chosen because its heat and humidity attracts lightning strikes.

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because of too much partying.“The speculation of me being too hung

over … is absolutely incorrect,” he said.Manziel said he fell asleep without set-

ting his alarm and his phone died during the night. He said he was rooming with Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron, but that McCarron didn’t wake him up.

“I’m definitely not going to pin it on him,” Manziel said. “It’s my fault — 115, 120 percent.”

He said he was disappointed he missed camp activities, but that there were “no hard feelings” between him and the Man-nings. He said he’s already been invited back to next summer’s camp and looks forward to attending.

The early exit from the Manning camp is just part of Manziel’s offseason in the public eye.

— He pleaded guilty on Monday to a misdemeanor of not identifying himself to a police officer following a 2012 alter-cation at a bar near campus in College Station.

— He sent out an update on Twitter in June saying that he “can’t wait to leave” College Station, before quickly deleting the updated. He later apologized.

— He also created a minor stir in Feb-ruary when he said he took most of his classes online and didn’t go on campus very often.

None of the transgressions were huge, but they combined to keep Johnny Foot-ball in the news and raise questions about his character.

Every move Manziel made on Wednes-day was shadowed by a media throng. At

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one point, the quarterback said he felt like pop star Justin Bieber.

He talked about his friendship with NBA star LeBron James, his upcoming trip to the ESPYs and all the other posi-tives that comes from his fame.

He said his carousing has been at times “blown out of proportion,” though he did acknowledge that he needs to make better decisions because he’s such a public figure.

“My offseason, all the stuff’s that’s gone on will have no effect on this season,” Manziel said. “I’m ready to stop. No more talk after this. Let’s play football.”

Manziel is the first freshman to win the Heisman and undeniably a unique talent on the field. He led Texas A&M to an 11-2 record, including a 6-2 mark in its first Southeastern Conference season.

Second-year coach Kevin Sumlin’s hurry-up offense was a perfect match for Manziel, who finished with 3,706 yards and 26 touchdowns passing and 1,410

yards and 21 touchdowns on the ground.His 5,116 total yards were an NCAA

freshman record and No. 9 on the NCAA’s all-time list.

“I think (handling the Heisman spot-light is) a learning experience, a grow-ing experience, because, quite frankly, it’s something that nobody’s ever been through at that age,” Sumlin said.

Mississippi quarterback Bo Wallace was also at the Manning passing camp and said the other quarterbacks enjoyed their time with Manziel. Wallace said Tuesday Manziel is “a fun kid” and “may catch more slack than he should.”

“It’s difficult — you want to go out and do 20, 21-year-old things,” Wallace said. “But at the same time, you’ve got to know that you’re the face of a brand. Ole Miss is a huge brand, A&M’s a huge brand and you’ve got to have that in the back of your mind with every decision that you make.”

After leaving the Manning football camp early Saturday, sophomore quarterback Johnny Manziel appeared at the SEC Media Days in Hoover, Ala., on Tuesday where 1,200 credentialed media awaited.

“Our professors are scat-tered all over the country — the best experts in homeland security in the field and the best professors around the country, and one or two resident pro-fessors,” Brown said. “Every class, I learn from my students because [many of them are] professionals in their fields.”

Dan O’Brien, a current stu-dent of the CHLS program and Director of Safety and Environmental Health at the San Antonio Water Depart-ment, said the professors who have the opportunity to in-

struct the course, because of the online set-up of the pro-gram, provide increased op-portunities and an expanded knowledge base.

“The professors are what make this program so great,” O’Brien said. “They are sea-soned industry leaders with deep and diverse experience coupled with exceptional teaching skills. They keep the class participation active, time-ly and educational.”

The students who par-ticipate in the program are also from varied loca-tions and backgrounds, and O’Brien said this allows for diversity not found in a traditional classroom.

“By being online, classes have students that are special-ists in their field from all over the country, if not the world,” O’Brien said. “So the depth of knowledge and experience in the class composite is excep-tional and could not be dupli-cated in a classroom setting.”

The courses offered cover

any area that may be included in homeland security includ-ing terrorism, cyber security, policies, strategies, issues and research methods for home-land security at the federal, state and local levels.

“It’s a challenge keeping courses updated,” Davis said. “Homeland security is not like history. Things are changing constantly. New policies are developed by the federal gov-ernment. We constantly have to pay attention and stay up to date.”

O’Brien said homeland se-curity professionals consider A&M to be a leader in the field, and the certificate would help his future plans.

“I found the Bush School after comparing similar pro-grams across the country,” he said. “A&M has one of the most respected programs in the country.”

Brown said the homeland security workforce contains more than 200,000 workers, and the Bush School’s CHLS

program is providing educa-tion for members of this ever-increasing field.

“It’s exciting to see that [the program is] growing,” Brown said. “We hope to see con-tinued growth. What sets our program apart from the others is the quality of the professors as well as the content. We have a director that ensures that the content is fresh and relevant. The field of home-land security is growing and will continue to do so.”

O’Brien had mainly posi-tive comments on the pro-gram, but said he wished it of-fered a higher degree option.

“My single disappointment is that it is only a certificate program,” he said. “With the history of A&M, the mission of the Bush School and the commitment to our military, A&M should have a full mas-ter’s program. I already have one master’s, but I would love to continue taking homeland security classes toward a mas-ter’s program.”

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