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22011thebatt.comThe Battalion’s endorseeThe Battalion editorial board interviewed candidates and chose to endorse Hilary Albrecht for student body president. Reasons for this endorsement can be found on thebatt.com.

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Hilary Albrecht, junior political science major, and Jeff Pickering, junior communication major, are the two SBP candidates left in the race. Runoff voting is today and Friday.

Pickering pledges to serve campus

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After the runoff between student body presi-dent rival Hilary Albrecht and candidate Jeff Pickering was announced, Pickering said he is excited to see the results come Friday.

Voting was extended to today and Friday in order to determine who will be student body president.

Pickering is looking forward to victory. “They have a great choice in front of them,”

said Pickering concerning the student body. “To come out in the lead and go into a runoff, I still need to wake up from it.”

What concerns him is for students to vote again. Though voting opens up today, Pick-ering has not let up on his campaign. They celebrated Tuesday night, but have continued to meet with leaders on campus and organize endorsements.

“It’s an unbelievable honor that so many

people say they believe in what I stand for,” Pickering said.

Throughout the campaign Pickering said he and his team stayed consistent in their message and walked through with their integrity intact. He did not face any fines for violating campaign rules.

In anticipation of the results Friday, the can-didate said he is ready to begin implementing his platform with a greater understanding of A&M.

“My message has not changed at all, but my idea has evolved. I always knew I loved Ag-gieland but after speaking with so many organi-zations and people I have a new appreciation.”

Pickering’s main priority is to connect the campus by communicating with the student body, which ties into his agenda of influenc-ing the conversation on diversity. He plans to achieve this through Town Hall Meetings and

Rebecca HutchinsonThe Battalion

See Pickering on page 4

Josh McKenna — THE BATTALION

Albrecht vows to stand for students

Hilary Albrecht sat cool and composed after the last day of campaigning before the student body president runoff elections.

“I guess what I have done today, besides talk-ing to people and shaking hands, is just taking in the moment and just being excited for it,” said Albrecht, a junior political science major.

Albrecht, speaker of the 63rd session of the student senate, will runoff against Jeff Pickering, junior communication major, for the position of student body president today and Friday.

“I think students here at A&M really deserve someone who will work not just for their needs but for every aspect of their Aggie experience,” Albrecht said. “They deserve someone who will stand up for them, take the fall for them.”

Albrecht learned a lot from being part of the legislative branch of the Student Government Association. She said running for student body

president will help combat the sometimes severe politicization of SGA.

“Sometimes it just gets political and that is the last thing the Student Government Association needs to be,” Albrecht said.

As speaker of the senate, Albrecht puts in nearly 40 hours per week. She said she hopes next year the student government will focus less on politics and more on tackling issues it can change as an on-campus body.

“It is our own internal structure that needs the most reflection,” Albrecht said. “SGA has given me a knowledge of different outlets available to students to get their voices heard.”

A common criticism of the student govern-ment in the past has been whether elected sena-tors properly contacted constituents and if they represented their caucuses accurately.

Albrecht and Pickering worked together this

Katie WhiteThe Battalion

See Albrecht on page 4

Mendoza tosses strikes

Jostling for junior yell leader positions

Tyler Hosea — THE BATTALION

The No. 9 Texas A&M baseball team rode another solid outing from starting pitcher Dylan Mendoza to shut out the Texas-Pan American Broncs 7-0 in Wednesday’s matchup.

The sophomore lefty lasted six innings, tossing three strikeouts while ceding zero runs. The ef-fort gave Mendoza his second win of the season while lowering his ERA to a miniscule 0.69.

“[Mendoza’s pitching] was good,” said senior shortstop Kenny Jackson, who finished the day 2-3 with an RBI double. “Pounding the zone, throwing strikes, letting his defense work. And as long as he is locating and mixing up his pitches,

he’s going to be effective.”After two Broncs hitters took Mendoza pitches

to opposite sides of the outfield where they were caught by Aggie outfielders to open the game, he quickly regained his composure and started paint-ing the outside corners of the plate. The defense behind Mendoza performed phenomenally, with Jackson making more than one acrobatic play in the field. In the two-game home stand, the Ag-gies did not record a single error.

“With our pitching staff, as long as we play good defense and back him up, I think we’ve got a chance to win every ball game,” Jackson said.

Austin MeekThe Battalion

With junior yell leader elections narrowed to four candidates after the election Tuesday, Sterling Bennet, Nelson Ingram, Josh Light and Drew Nelson talk about why they should receive the student body’s vote.

Bennett, sophomore international studies major, said he is excited to continue his cam-paign this week.

“Today was great; it was fun,” Bennett said. “Some people are like, ‘You have to do this for three more days,’ and I’m like, ‘Thank the Lord we get to.’”

Bennett said his enthusiasm for servant leadership is what differentiates him from the other yell leader candidates.

“Obviously all the candidates here are pas-sionate, but what sets me apart is my deep, driving passion to be a selfless servant,” Ben-nett said. “A true leader is someone who loses himself in selfless sacrifice for the people he’s serving.”

Bennett said a true servant leader is the best kind of leader and that being a yell leader is a way of giving back to the University.

“I want to give back a portion of what A&M’s given to me. After a lot of prayer and thought, yell leader was an awesome oppor-tunity to do that,” Bennett said.

Nelson Ingram, sophomore business ad-ministration major, said he feels honored to be in the runoffs.

“It would be a dream come true to rep-resent Texas A&M,” Ingram said. “I never imagined I would be here.”

Ingram said that being a yell leader is a full-time job, and it is something that he would not take for granted.

“The position of a yell leader is 24 hours. It’s not what you do when you’re wearing the whites; it’s what you do when you’re not,” Ingram said.

Ingram said that to be a yell leader is to be a representative for the University.

“Without a doubt I would do the best I can to represent Texas A&M day in and day out, when I’m wearing the whites and when I’m not wearing the whites because it means that much to myself and the student body,” Ingram said.

Light, sophomore chemical engineering major, said his participation in the Corps has equipped him to bring tradition to the Twelfth Man.

“I was nominated by my peers through a Corps selection process, and I believe that be-ing in the Corps helps someone experience tradition more fully and therefore prepare

Emily VillaniThe Battalion

Brandon Wood slides into base during Wednesday’s game against Texas Pan-American.

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Having a yell leader with a prior criminal record is a dreadful thing for A&M. It certainly doesn’t reflect well on the University. There is, of course, more evidence as to why we shouldn’t trust the Corps’ judgment. 5 For Yell did the same thing in 2009; they ran a candidate, Cody Howdeshell, who had a DWI and a marijuana posses-sion charge on his record.

You will surely say that these are minor offenses. Well, “minor” is relative (these are less “minor” than jaywalking or speeding, in my opinion), but even so, one minor charge is one too many for someone who is representing the Uni-versity in public. Ask yourself: How much would we make fun of Texas Tech if their stu-dent body president had a well-known DWI on his record? And yes, no matter what you may say about “every under-age college student drinks,” it is possible to find many viable yell leader candidates who don’t break the law. Really. Even in college.

I’m not saying anyone who drank alcohol while underage is a terrible person. I’m not saying Joshua Light is a terrible person. I don’t know any-thing else about him, and I’m not passing judgment on him as a person, or on the other yell leaders with prior records. But I AM saying those people probably shouldn’t be elected as Yell Leader, because it does not reflect well on A&M to those outside the University, and it damages A&M’s reputation.

5 For Yell has a prior history of running poor candidates, as well. Austin Trahan, one of the yell leaders this year, was

not put back on the ballot for “5 for Yell” because of his performance this year. Accord-ing to The Battalion, “Trahan missed the Kansas game due to oversleeping, because he slept late after going out the night before, and there were other incidents throughout the year.” So “5 For Yell” ran a candidate who performed so poorly, they didn’t even want to bring him back the next year. Does that really inspire you to trust their judgment?

In response to Monday’s article about Joshua Light be-ing published in The Battalion, Corps members decided to steal some copies of the Battalion in order to prevent the story from getting out. The Battalion will have to repay nearly $5,500 to advertisers to compensate them for the lost readers. So effec-

tively, Corps members stole $5,500 from The Battalion because they didn’t like an article that was going to be

published. That’s right, stole. Classy.

This is yet one more reason why you should not vote for 5 for Yell— their bloc mentality encourages them to do things like this. They look at it as

“Corps vs. non-reg”, and any-one who publishes a negative article about the Corps must be punished. It’s the victim mentality at work.

Many Corps members simply vote for these 5 For Yell candidates without even putting any thought into their vote. However, I think we can change this tendency. If we refuse to elect the Corps candidates, they may realize that voting in a solid bloc isn’t working. They will have to put up candidates who will do a great job as a Yell Leader, like Reagan Thompson (a non-reg yell leader from two years ago) did. As of now, all the Corps of Cadets has to do is put up any Corps guy (and it is always a guy), regardless of qualifica-tions, and he’s almost guaran-teed to be elected.

We’ve seen how well that worked out with Cody How-deshell, Austin Trahan, and now Joshua Light. The Corps’ process, done in the dark and without open input, doesn’t lend itself to good Yell Leaders who will uphold A&M’s repu-tation. This isn’t personal— given past experiences, I just don’t trust the Corps’ judgment in selecting candidates.

The solution is clear. Don’t vote for 5 For Yell.

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I mentioned to one of my friends that I don’t vote

for Corps candidates. My friend, quite reasonably, asked why. Here’s why: as The Battalion detailed on Monday, Joshua Light, one of the Corps’ “5 For Yell” candidates, was pre-viously arrested for minor in consump-tion of alcohol.

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While I do not condone the actions of some of my fellow cadets did with the Feb. 28 edition of The Battalion, I can understand their frus-tration and anger. The article that The Battal-ion printed was poorly written and widely perceived as an attack against Josh Light and the Corps of Cadets, which he is represent-ing in the 5 for Yell Campaign as a junior yell leader candidate. Yes, the student body needs to know that he has this strike against him, and they should take this in consideration before going to vote on 5 of the most important student positions on campus. The complaint against The Battalion is that the article was printed on Monday, Feb. 28, the first day of the voting process. The fact that the staff at The Battalion did not mention that they had just gotten this information over the weekend, and that the title of the article made it seem like there was going to be more than one candidate talked about when there was not. That these simple journalistic mistakes were made caused a huge amount of controversy and a perception of an attack on the Corps; which led to lots of problems for both The Bat-talion and the Corps of Cadets that could honestly have easily been avoided. What really irks me, though, is that on the day of Silver Taps, one of our most important events on campus where we should be coming together as an Aggie Family to remember our fallen broth-ers and sisters, The Battalion proceeded to print an edito-rial and an article on the theft the papers Monday as the first

thing that students see when they pick up The Battalion. I do not condone this action committed by these cadets, but we should have spent Tuesday remembering Taylor Gillespie and Nicolis Williams, not arguing over what happened on Monday. That is what the Wednesday edition of the paper is for, to be brought up in full force. The Tuesday paper should instead have been talking about these two great Aggies being remembered, and there could have been a small article off to the side of the main page mentioning it with more to come the following day. The fact that The Battalion instead of talking about these great Aggies, and why Taylor

Gillespie is being remembered this month instead of last month, goes on about this supposed

attack against free speech really both-ers me. I am all for free speech, but when the people who are supposed to be defenders of it, like the staff at The Battalion, print a controver-

sial article, have mistakes in the title that make the reader think it will be about more than one person, and do not explain in the article why it ran on the first day of voting, while the Marshall Bowen campaign controversy ran over two weeks ago, raises huge concerns on the journalistic integrity of The Battalion and its staff. The Battalion needs to look at its approval process for articles being submitted so this issue does not come back again. It is really disappoint-ing to start questioning the integrity of a newspaper, but the student body deserves bet-ter written articles that do not come across as attacks on spe-cific people or organizations. By a poorly written article that was perceived as an attack on the Corps of Cadets, 5 for Yell Campaign, and Josh Light, The Battalion did the entire student body a disservice. By continu-ing to make a huge deal out of this on the day that we mourn the loss of two great Aggies, is downright disrespectful, not only to the University and the student body, but to the memory of Taylor Gillespie and Nicolis Williams and their families as they deal with the loss of their amazing sons.

First off, I would like to state that my views

do not represent the opinion of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets or the 5 for Yell Campaign. This whole controversy over the past couple of days of the article printed in the Feb. 28 edition of The Battal-ion is ridiculous.

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MAILCALL

After the election results were released, I could not help but be disappointed with the student body. I have heard and read so many complaints about the negative articles written about the junior 5 for Yell candidate, Josh Light. It’s really disheartening when, at a school where integrity is such a core value that

students complain about The Battalion writing negative articles rather than complaining about the lack of integrity demonstrated by someone that so many have voted to represent them. A candidate who contradicts himself and argues with authority fi gures is not someone that I would like to be represented by. This, on

top of the behavior of the select members of the Corps of Cadets, whom I’ve always had respect for, is sickening. They call themselves the “Keepers of the Spirit,” but whatever happened to “An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do”?

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Jayhawks take over late in victory at The Phog

A Kansas catastropheNo. 2 Kansas 64, No. 22 Texas A&M 51 Kansas State 71, No. 5 Texas A&M 67

Women shocked by Wildcats in Manhattan

Perhaps there’s something to be said for keeping it close.

Texas A&M headed to Kan-sas on Wednesday night with a 61-point margin of defeat in its past five games against the Jayhawks and improved it by 13 points in an up-and-down battle but still left Phog Allen Fieldhouse with a 64-51 defeat to show for it.

No. 2 KU (28-2, 13-2 Big 12) beat the Aggies to loose balls and open spots on the floor in a second half where the better team emerged with increasing force as time wore on. Kansas won despite being out-rebounded 34-26, primar-ily after making eight of 17 3-pointers, many uncontested.

In again failing to get over the hump against the Jay-hawks, No. 22 A&M (22-7, 9-6) dropped its second straight game and sixth of 12 after a 16-1 start to the season. Kansas has now beaten the Aggies in six straight matchups.

Only A&M’s final game, at home against Texas Tech, stands between the team and ceding its long-held third-place spot in the Big 12 to Kansas State on the eve of the confer-

ence tournament.The Aggies turned the ball

over 17 times, often when they were poised to tie or take the lead. They pushed and clawed to stay within striking distance for 30 minutes and pulled themselves to a 43-41 deficit with 10:09 remaining, but af-ter a missed free throw by KU’s Tyrel Reed, A&M allowed an offensive rebound that went out to Reed, standing alone behind the 3-point arc. He drained the shot and, just 40 seconds later, the Aggies turned the ball over again, leading to another 3-pointer for the Jayhawks.

Kansas, which finished with nine turnovers by comparison, took its nine-point lead and didn’t look back from there.

Jayhawk forwards and broth-ers Marcus and Markieff Mor-ris scavenged 13 points apiece and eight combined rebounds. Reed finished with 12 points.

In only 15 minutes played, freshman forward Kourtney Roberson did his part to keep the Aggies in the game. He to-taled six points and 10 rebounds in the face of Kansas’ formida-ble frontcourt. Junior forward David Loubeau added 14 with six rebounds and senior guard B.J. Holmes totaled 10 points behind three 3-pointers and a

free throw.Kansas harassed sophomore

forward Khris Middleton, the Aggies’ leading scorer, around the perimeter all night, beat-ing him to spots on potential passes and driving lanes; Mid-dleton ended the game with nine points — his season av-erage is more than 14 — and four turnovers.

Beau Holder The Battalion

Texas A&M’s No. 5 wom-en’s basketball team was able to survive a near-upset at Texas Sunday. The Aggies weren’t so lucky Wednesday, losing 71-67 at Kansas State.

“We had a lot of fight to get back in the game,” A&M Head Coach Gary Blair said. “We needed to be in that situa-tion because we’ve been in the lead so many times this year. We fought back right before the half to make it a four-point game, and then I think we made three-straight stops to start the second half.”

Texas A&M (24-4, 12-3) will finish the season second in the Big 12 standings and will be the No. 2 seed in next week’s conference tournament. No. 3 Baylor clinched the conference regular-season championship with a win Wednesday.

Coming into the game, Kan-sas State (19-9, 9-6) was a bubble team that was not in the pro-jected NCAA Tournament field because they lacked a signature win. Wednesday’s victory over A&M provided just that.

“’Welcome to the NCAA Tournament K-State’… that’s what I told [Kansas State head

coach] Debbie [Patterson] at the hand shake after the game,” Blair said. “It was a great game for their fans and tonight we got beat by the better team. .”

Senior guard Sydney Colson led the Aggies with a career-high 21 points and dished out seven assists. Colson took mat-ters into her own hands down the stretch scoring seven points in the final 1:24 of the game.

“At the end of the game, Colson just put her team on her back and penetrated in,” Blair said.

Senior center Danielle Adams had a below-par performance for A&M. The Big 12’s leading scorer was held to 19 points and was only able to pull in three rebounds. Picking up the slack, junior guard Sydney Carter re-corded 16 points, hitting four 3-pointers.

“They were just playing real aggressive post defense,” Adams said. “Sometimes they were double-teaming and my team-mates had the open shots, and they made some and they missed some. Some points were hard to come by, but I give credit to their aggressive post defense and their coaching.”

Putting on a career–perfor-mance for the Wildcats, sopho-more guard Brittany Chambers

could not be stopped by A&M, scoring a game-high 35 points. Chambers knocked down 11-of-19 from the field including seven 3-pointers.

The Wildcats got off to a hot start and took an early 20-5 lead over A&M in the first eight min-utes of play. The Aggies fought back and cut the deficit down to 34-30 going into halftime.

“We came out in the be-ginning of the game not in-tense at all,” Colson said. “We didn’t come out focused and didn’t play like the No. 5 team in the nation.”

Mike Teague The Battalion

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Kansas State guard Brittany Chambers puts up a layup in the Aggies’ 71-67 loss Wednesday in Manhattan.

Kansas guard Tyshawn Taylor shoots over sophomore forward Khris Middleton in the Aggies’ 64-51 loss.

“I think we did a good job of that, just making routine plays and staying focused.”

With one runner down in the third inning, senior second base-man Andrew Collazo sent a bunt down the first base line, bringing home junior left fielder Scott Ar-thur from third to give the Aggies the 1-0 lead.

The home team built on that momentum with a four-run fourth inning rally that started when an Arthur bunt enabled freshman catcher Troy Stein to cross the plate for the 2-0 lead.

“Just like yesterday, two outs with nobody on in the fourth inning, [freshman catcher Troy] Stein squirts one through the four hole and away we go,” said Head Coach Rob Childress. “We were able to score four runs with two outs and were able to build on that lead. Out of the seven

runs, five of them were with two outs.”

Freshman center fielder Krey Bratsen smoked a pitch past the outstretched glove of Broncs third baseman Vincent Mejia that resulted in a 2-RBI double after Jackson and Arthur made it home, and Collazo’s RBI single to right field extended the Ag-gies’ lead to 5-0.

Things got heated when the first base umpire called junior designated hitter Matt Juengel out at first on a questionable call

that ended the fourth. Childress trotted over to the base for some friendly banter with the ump, the result of which was Childress’ ejection from the game. He ex-ited Olsen Field to the raucous applause of the 2,486 fans in at-tendance.

“It was a play that I felt like he was safe and I feel like I’ve got to back our players up, especially ones that are hustling down the line and trying to keep the in-ning extended,” Childress said. “That’s about all I can say about

that.” Junior first baseman Jacob

House ensured the survival of his nine game hitting-streak with a chopper up the middle that grazed the toes of Pan-Am pitch-er Jonathan Sa. House’s hit-and-run brought home the speedster Collazo, who hauled his way from second to give the Aggies the 6-0 lead. Jackson’s double in the seventh scored Stein and gave the home team the 7-0 mark they would never relinquish.

“I was most proud of what we

did offensively tonight,” Chil-dress said. “Thirteen hits, we needed to feel that again. It’s been a while since we’ve done that and it’s a good feeling going into this weekend.”

The Aggies will travel outside the friendly confines of Olsen Field for the first time this sea-son when they participate in the Houston College Classic this weekend at Minute Maid Park. They will face Utah Friday, Rice Saturday and the University of Houston Sunday.

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year to start a program in which colleges put their specific sena-tor’s contact information on their website pages to increase senator contact with students in the college.

“[SGA] does a better job than it used to,” Hilary said. “It’s the ultimate problem for every government entity in the world – truly representing their constituents.”

Albrecht has been a voice against issues that have become highly politicized on campus, such as the in-state tuition bill last semester, which many stu-dent senators and Jacob Rob-inson, student body president, said did not concern a student government association.

“We need to move on to the issues we can tackle ourselves on campus,” Albrecht said.

Albrecht said these issues in-clude differential tuition at the college level, changes in student registration and improvements in academic advising at the University.

“Advising is something I think every student struggles with; the confusion between expectations from each side,”

Albrecht said. Albrecht said this issue, like

many on her platform, has a simple fix SGA could work to implement if the student body could make a clear indication of the direction it wants to take. For example, Albrecht proposed employing pink slips in advising meetings so students and advis-ers alike will have records of is-sues they discussed to eliminate confusion and promote better relationships between students and their advisers.

“There need to be better sys-tems in place so students can get the most out of their experience here,” Albrecht said. “I would love to see a revamp of the hon-ors program and improvements to student registration.”

In addition, Albrecht said she would like to instigate a system that makes the University more supportive of students who want to study abroad while staying on track for graduation.

“It is going to take students really standing up and saying, ‘This is the direction we want to take,’” Albrecht said. “The problem with all of this ‘vision’ rhetoric at the University is that there is a lot of fluff that keeps us from really figuring out what direction we want to take in the immediate.”

Albrecht said her background

as speaker of the senate gives her a large advantage, consider-ing a common problem in SGA in the past has been the discon-nect between the executive and legislative branches.

“Coming from my back-ground as speaker, I know the ins and outs of senate and will be able to understand where they are coming from,” Albre-cht said.

Albrecht said, granted she wins student body president, she will have a legislative agen-da for next year’s session ready by May 3, in time for the joint session.

“If we can have that set, we can come in on day one and re-ally get things rolling quickly,” Albrecht said. “We can help senators get in touch with their caucuses early and during the summer, already talking about the issues on the agenda.”

Albrecht said she understands that the SGA is elected to keep students aware of University decisions being made for them and representing them as well as it can.

“I think we have made leaps and bounds in this session and it has really given me the courage to run for SBP,” Albrecht said.

assigning a director of commu-nications to be his presence on campus and speak with organi-zations.

“We are a service to campus first. I want campus to know who their student body presi-dent is and what SGA is doing for them.”

Aggies are from different

backgrounds, ethnicities, states; they harbor different opinions and beliefs. Regardless of that, Pickering said, A&M can be stronger together, and respect each other.

The last item on his platform is to place the responsibility of student service into the hands of student government so stu-dents’ know who is account-able, and this SBP hopeful said he and his team are prepared to deal with the Texas State Legis-lature in this matter. In all issues

however, he said he will honor student opinion.

Yet, issues pertaining to con-cealed carry, budget cuts and immigration, is ultimately the decision of the state legislature.

If he loses, Pickering said he is prepared to jump on board with Albrecht.

“Will I cry? Yeah, probably, but we have a mutual respect for one another and I believe SBP can make an impact on campus. I want to see them ac-complish something.”

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In addition to commend-ing the character of the other candidates, Light expressed his hope that many students will vote.

“I’m really excited and I hope we have a large turnout for these runoffs,” Light said.

Drew Nelson, sophomore accounting major emphasized his service and dedication to

Texas A&M.“I’ve magnified my dedi-

cation by not only attending sporting events but also through acts of service that is the core of the Aggie Spirit, such as Car-pool, Fish Camp and numerous other service organizations that I’ve been blessed enough to be a part of,” Nelson said.

Nelson holds his own signs when he’s not in class.

“I hate asking people to do things if I’m not willing to do them myself,” Nelson said.

Nelson talks about his com-mitment to the Aggie Spirit,

win or lose. “Everything I do I try and

put my whole heart into it,” Nelson said. “If I’m given the opportunity, I’ll take that with passion and pride, and even if I lose I’ll still be living out the Aggie spirit by going to all sorts of sporting events and living a life of service and respect.”

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In today’s world, it is a fact that many people have

smartphones. They are sleek, sexy and technologically im-pressive — although my experience with the Blackberry Bold 9700 seems to suggest that they are still far from being “smart.” There are only two that really stand out and seem to compete with each other: the Apple iPhone and the Motorola Droid.

really recommend this one. Downloading apps is quick and con-venient provided that the phone has ser-vice, and that there is great diversity within the App Store.

The only down-side is that if you use Verizon, the iPhone lacks world roaming and the Internet is a little slower than on its AT&T counterpart. Over-all, the iPhone 4 is a strong contender if you want a good, dependable smartphone.

Next up is the Motorola Droid, specifically the Droid X. The first thing I noticed was that the Droid’s screen is bigger than that of the iPhone. This feature makes the Droid a little more aesthetically pleasing than its competitor. As with the iPhone, the Droid also boasts high-speed Internet that I found to be a little more responsive than the Internet on most computers that I’ve worked with thanks to Veri-zon’s network.

Like any smartphone, the

Droid also has its own app market. Downloading apps for the Droid is

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on the Droid’s app market are free. For people with a tighter budget, that can pose a con-siderably significant advantage.

As a phone, the Droid does not disappoint, thanks to the fact that Verizon has two separate networks, one for data usage and one for voice usage. This applies to the iPhone on Verizon as well. The Droid is every bit as strong of a contender on the smartphone market as the iPhone.

Both the iPhone 4 and the Droid X are excellent smartphones. However, after testing both of them, I give my slight recommendation to the iPhone. The phone feature on

both is the same, they can call and text, although both might drop calls once in a while.

The real deciding factors here are Internet speed and apps. I found that the iPhone had a faster Internet con-nection than the Droid. The touch screen on the iPhone is also considerably more respon-sive and precise than the touch screen on the Droid. In addi-tion, I found out the Motorola phones have been known for considerable lag, while Apple seems to be praised consistently for technological innovations in its products.

Finally, the App Store on the iPhone is superior to the Droid Market in my opinion. Even though the Droid has more free apps, the iPhone’s apps are better and often exclusive, due to Apple’s corner on smartphone apps. As a side note, the Droid lacks a forward-facing camera, although a feature like this is more or less trivial.

Bottom line: Although not by much, the iPhone 4 is superior to the Droid X.

First up, I got my hands on the Apple iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 has extremely fast and reliable Internet as long as it has a working signal. Thanks to the “4G,” I was able to ac-cess higher bandwidth sites like elearning, Howdy, and Texas A&M e-mail. Compared to an Internet connection on a computer, these websites actu-ally loaded faster, which came as a pleasant surprise. When it comes to effectiveness as a phone, I’ve heard about the iPhone being notorious for dropping calls, but in my ex-perience, most mobile phones occasionally do.

“As a phone, it’s been great. I haven’t had any dropped calls; texts always go through. It’s easily the best phone I’ve ever had,” said Nathan Jordan, a junior inter-national studies major.

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