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B-CS courses support student disc golf appetite

Down range

With virtually no barrier for entry, a strong and growing local community and a course located right here on cam-pus, disc golf is quickly becoming the alternative sport of choice for Aggies looking to try something new.

Disc golf’s concept is fairly self-ex-planatory. The game is played much like regular golf, with players trying to throw discs into a basket made of chains in the least amount of throws possible. Discs are for the most part smaller and heavier than the average Frisbee, and

advanced players combine different disc types with different throwing tech-niques depending on what kind of shot the situation requires. That might sound complicated, but for prospective players, there is a lot to like about disc golf, most of all the sport’s low bar for entry.

“It’s a really easy sport to pick up and play,” said senior geological information systems major Kyle Glaeser, who began playing disc golf after having played Ul-timate Frisbee for a while. “All you need to know how to play is throw a Frisbee

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Photos by Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION

David Kent, Class of 1996, putts to make par on hole six after recovering from a drive into the woods.

Texas A&M is a great place to go to school for fans of

just about any sport. The University’s commitment

to athletics extends even to some lesser-known sports

that are growing in popularity on campuses around the

country.

and it’s pretty much free.” Unlike traditional golf, which can

require players to spend hundreds of dollars on equipment and club mem-berships, disc golf is a relatively low cost sport. A decent set of discs can set a play-er back around $25, but public courses are usually free.

“Disc golf is great because it doesn’t really cost any thing to play,” said senior horticulture major Colin Wickstrom. “You can just grab your discs and go out to the park whenever you want, you can play while you walk your dog, whenever.”

The casual nature of disc golf lends itself to a variety of levels of competition — it can be played alone in a city park or in an organized professional tourna-

See Disc Golf on page 5

Senior horticulture major Colin Wickstrom releases a “drive” at hole six. The course at Research Park features 18 par-3 holes.

Senior geography major Kyle Glaeser tees off at hole six Monday afternoon at the Research Park disc golf course on West Campus.

a&m football

Coaches emphasize consistency,

team embarks on SEC road debutStudent issues spark political discourse

As the presidential election nears, students are hashing out issues expected to be debated by Re-publican nominee Mitt Romney and current oval office holder Barack Obama. And around A&M’s large campus, opinions about national, local and social concerns clash with student-related issues in the mix.

The primary issue that needs to be dealt with, no matter who is elected, is the fiscal cliff, said po-litical science professor B. Dan Wood. The fiscal cliff refers to the Bush Tax cuts that are set to ex-pire on Dec. 31, as well as the fiscal stimulus tax cuts for the middle class initi-ated by President Barack Obama and the reduction in the payroll tax. If there is no congressional action prior to Dec. 31, Wood said all Americans, rich or poor, will face a large tax increase.

“If Obama is re-elect-ed, he has pledged to al-low the cuts to expire for the wealthy, but not for the rest of the na-tion,” Wood said. “In other words, he wants to keep taxes low for the poor and middle class. In contrast, Romney has pledged to protect the cuts for the wealthy and everyone.”

Wood said he hopes that a balanced solution can be decided on, where a combination of tax increases and spending cuts can put the country on a path toward fiscal soundness. He also said since the Republican House has uniformly signed Grover Norquist’s “no new taxes pledge,” they have restricted themselves, so it’s a dangerous situation to deal with in the fall.

“If Obama wins, he may be facing the same ‘no to everything’ House as he has for his entire administration,” Wood said. “We might hope

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campus | 3Post-game pickupStudents volunteer to collect and recycle waste left in the stands of Kyle Field after football games.

trends | 6Campus art portfolioUniversity art galleries exhibit rare and classic works of art from around the world.

b!For Texas A&M, the 2012 season has

evolved into a year destined for earth-shat-tering milestones. To cite a recent exam-ple, last Saturday’s 58-10 demolishing of Arkansas can be noted as the Aggies’ initial Southeastern Conference victory, not to mention the program’s first win over the Razorbacks since 1991.

And that’s not even digging into the multiple individual records, both for the

school and within the conference, that were splintered over the weekend by a certain redshirt freshman quarterback.

This season is one for the history books and next Saturday’s visit to a hostile Ox-ford, Miss., will be no different. The Ag-gies will be on the road for the first time in the SEC, a scenario many teams loathe. Yet, for A&M, it holds a certain charm.

“I expect Ole Miss to be, obviously, a crazy atmosphere,” said senior wide re-

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Quick stats◗ Ole Miss lost to No. 11 Texas and No. 1 Alabama

◗ The Rebels’ record is 3-2 (0-1)

◗ The Rebels’ are ranked 23rd overall in rushing yardage

Eagle’s eye offers new perspective

Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION

Native American Harley Eagle parallels Israeli-Palestinian issues with North American-Native American past relations Tuesday at Rudder Tower.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has generated social and political unrest for decades, and de-bate and diplomacy is a constant resource uti-lized by world leaders. Harley Eagle, a Native American who has visited Palestine, argues a different approach based on personal encounters with those affected by the conflict.

Eagle’s presentation, “An Eagle’s Eye View of Palestine,” Tuesday night in Rudder Tower was presented by Aggies for Palestine, a student group focused on raising awareness about the conflict and social issues stemming from the ten-sion between Israel and Palestine.

Eagle, who is of the Salteau and Dakota Na-tions (more commonly known as the Sioux), has visited Palestine several times through an ex-change program with a faith-based non-profit organization. His initial experience with the program had been with a group of Palestin-ians who visited the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He brought them onto a radio show he was working with.

“We had a little interview, had a little talk with them and the phone lines lit up because there were so many indigenous people from

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See Eagle on page 4 See Politics on page 3

presidential election

Israel-Palestine confl ict

See Football on page 5

thebatt.comNational Night OutStudent, residents and local law enforcement gathered Tuesday night for National Night Out. The University Police Department offered advice on how to stay safe and better integrate into the Bryan-College Station area.

The debatePresident Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mit Romney will participate in a debate Wednesday at the University of Denver. The debate will air from 8 to 9:30 p.m. CST.

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Sponsored by the Department of Student Activities Leadership and Service Center, there will be a volunteer opportunities fair from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Ballroom A and B in the MSC.

5 Cultural dance

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Texas A&M’s Hispanic Studies Association presents “La Noche Bohemia,” an evening of music, dance, and poetry. The event is free to the public and begins at 7 p.m. Friday at the Palace Theatre in Bryan.

4 Classic fi lm screening

The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation showcases the Classic Film Series free of charge and invites anyone in the community to attend. The Alfred Hitchcock fi lm “Suspicion” will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Hagler Auditorium.

1 Debate viewing

partyThe MSC Wiley Lecture Series presents students the opportunity to watch

and discuss the 2012 presidential debates. The

viewing will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Rev’s Grill in

the MSC.

3 Lunch concert

MSC Town Hall presents The Docs in concert as part of the Lunchbox Concert Series. The show begins at noon Thursday in Rudder Plaza.

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Woodson Black Awareness Committee organized a free verse poetry reading where 2011 National Poetry Slam champions Dominique Ashaheed and Ayinde Russell shared their poems Tuesday evening at Rudder Fountain Plaza.

news for youcampus

Vice President for Research resigns After more than three years of service as Texas A&M University’s Vice President for Research, Dr. Jeffrey R. Seemann announced his resignation Tuesday. During his tenure, Dr. Seemann was responsible for contributions that helped the University grow to become one of the largest research institutions in the country. Dr. Seemann will continue to serve as a special assistant to President Loftin. For the time being, Loftin is assisting in the search to fi nd an interim Vice President for Research.

John Tee, staff writer

Class presidents lead through council, tradition

This week, the freshmen class will vote for one of the 15 candidates for class president of 2016.

An anticipated run-off election will take place Friday between the two freshmen tied with the highest votes for class president on Wednesday’s bal-lots. Vacant positions in A&M’s Senate will also be filled through this week’s election.

President of the Class of 2014 and allied health major Rachel Norman said she hopes that there are freshmen running who understand the class pres-ident’s role in keeping A&M’s tradi-tion a priority.

“A lot of [freshmen running for class president] don’t really know ex-actly what they would do yet,” Nor-man said. “A lot of people hear about class president, but don’t realized that there is a lot of background work that you do.”

Though many students may mistake the role of class president as being part of the Student Government Associa-tion, the two organizations’ purposes are distinctively different.

“I think a lot of people think that class president directly correlates to SGA,” Norman said. “When you are senator in SGA, you represent your college. With [class presidents], we

represent your grade.” Trent Segers, president of the Class

of 2013 and industrial engineering major, said the class president’s chief responsibility concerns Class Councils, a group of 40 to 60 students who rep-resent their class.

“The biggest role is the executive role in Class Councils,” Segers said. “We are in charge of making sure that all of the various events and traditions that Class Councils do are successful.”

Additionally, the class president guides the Council in fundraising their class gift through tradition-centered events such as Maroon-Out, Ring Dance, Elephant Walk and Junior El-ephant Walk.

As far as time commitment is con-cerned, the class president meets with the Class Council every other week, as well as attends executive meetings with all class presidents and directors.

The class president also participates in the Student Body President’s round table meetings twice a month.

“Every two weeks, I sit in on the Student Body President’s round table meetings,” Norman said. “We all get together to talk about everything that’s going on at A&M. It’s great because we all get to hear different aspects of campus and how to integrate everyone at A&M.”

Segers, who has served as president

of the Class of 2013 said the most dif-ficult part of his job has to do with bal-ance.

“Our biggest internal struggle every year is the struggle to make sure we are frugal with our money so we can give our class gift, but also to make it an awesome event so that people want to come and enjoy the traditions,” Segers said.

Meghan De Amaral, president of the Class of 2015 and political science major, said she is certain the fresh-men class will do great things, and she passionately summed up her role as a leader.

“Leadership is empowering oth-ers to do their best,” De Amaral said. “There is nothing more rewarding as a leader than being able to empower others to enact change.”

The reward of seeing a job well-done makes Norman honored to have played the role of class president.

“It is really great to see your hard work pay off,” Norman said. “When students are excited about events like Maroon Out, it’s really cool to know that each tradition wouldn’t be there if Class Councils weren’t there to put them on.”

Freshmen can cast their vote for freshmen class president at vote.tamu.edu. Voting ends 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday.

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that Democrats regain control of the House so that a balanced solution can be found. However, this does not seem likely.”

Political science professor Harvey Tucker said it doesn’t make much of a difference how students vote in November because results of very few elections in Texas are in doubt.

“Only a few Texas A&M Univer-sity students who are going to vote in November have not yet decided how they will vote,” Tucker said. “The opposite is the case as well; al-most all have decided how to vote but only half or fewer will vote.”

Sophomore philosophy major Sam Taylor, who is a member of the Aggie Democrats, said he thinks it’s important for students to vote in the election because many topics in

the race include issues that affect stu-dents’ education, including the ris-ing cost of earning a college degree. Last year, Taylor attended Ameri-can University, a private college in Washington, D.C., for one semes-ter and said his family would have had to pay $200,000 if he chose to stay there.

“Education is so expensive, and going to a private university made me realize that, which is why I transferred here,” Taylor said. “But even if it’s less expensive to go to A&M, it’s still ridiculous to pay so much because to get ahead, you need a degree.”

To help alleviate the cost of col-lege, Taylor said the government needs to provide more assistance to those who want to go to college be-cause so many students are still pay-ing off their student loan debts 15 to 20 years after they graduate.

“The government should help

alleviate these loans for students,” Taylor said. “We need more aid like the Pell Grants to encourage more people to go to college because many people want to go to college but can’t afford it.”

On the other end of the political spectrum, sophomore business major Zoë Christiansen said the govern-ment exacerbates the issue of college expenses. She said it’s another way of redistributing wealth for those who have parents who can afford to pay for college.

“We need more merit-based grants and scholarships instead,” Christiansen said. “We need to recognize the fact that not every-one is made for college and also focus on those who wish to go to technical college.”

Aside from issues concerning education, other topics such as the economy, need to be taken into con-sideration, Christiansen said.

“Social issues, like gay marriage, shouldn’t be emphasized by the fed-eral government, and we need to focus on economic issues and fixing our country first,” she said.

Taylor, on the other hand, said he thinks social issues should be wide-ly addressed. Gay marriage should be legalized, and the government should accept the time period we’re living in, he said. But aside from so-cial issues, Taylor also said the coun-try needs an economic change.

“I would like to see everyone pay the same amount tax and see the gov-ernments get rid of all loopholes in the tax code,” Taylor said. “I’d like to see rich pay more because they can afford to, while impoverished shouldn’t have to suffer as a result.”

When it comes to the future presidency, Tucker said the president will have different options depend-ing on whether his party controls the entire Congress, one chamber or

neither chamber.“At this point, it seems possible

that either Republicans or Demo-crats could control either chamber after the elections,” Tucker said.

Christiansen said she’ll be voting for Mitt Romney in the fall, not nec-essarily because she believes in what he stands for, but that she doesn’t want his counterpart to win.

“I don’t want another term with Obama, so I’m basically voting against Obama instead of voting for Romney,” Christiansen said.

Unlike Christiansen, Taylor said he supports Obama because he’s handled situations very well, includ-ing dealing with foreign policy and his support of social issues.

“Obama has made compromises and that’s what most important,” Taylor said. “In the end, a president’s job is to please his constituents no matter who he is.”

PoliticsContinued from page 1

Some students consider A&M football one of the most important and exciting parts of the Aggie experience. At every home game, more than 80,000 fans pile into the stadium. In their wake, they leave a wasteland of de-bris in the stands.

“I’ve never thought about how stadium cleanup is handled after the game,” said junior telecommunications major Becca Green. “It makes you wonder how many students just throw things under the bleachers and don’t think twice about it.”

With Kyle field being the 13th largest sta-dium in the NCAA and seating up to 80,000 fans, a vast amount of waste is generated dur-ing every game.

The Environmental Issues Committee of Student Government Association began a voluntary recycling program, called Kyle Field Recycling, in 2004. This program is comprised of a group of students who are responsible for increasing the sustainability of Kyle Field and other athletic facilities.

“Kyle Field Recycling, to me, exemplifies what it is to be an Aggie,” said Kyle Field Recycling manager Michael Brown. “It’s a

selfless, student-run event where Aggies get to work alongside their fellow students in a humbling and gratifying task.”

In 2006, Coca-Cola donated 50 plastic recycling bins to EIC. After the first few games, the committee rented a truck to take the bottles to a recycling center in Houston.

Soon after, EIC became aware that Texas Commercial Waste in Bryan recycled plas-tic bottles. They soon partnered with Texas Commercial Waste who dropped off a large receptacle after each home game for the col-lected bottles and would pick the receptacle up the next day.

At the beginning of the 2012 season, EIC partnered with Brazos Valley Recycling, which donated 100 recycling bins that were dispersed throughout Kyle Field. After clean-up, the recycled items are transported to the Brazos Valley facility in College Station.

At 7 a.m., every Sunday morning follow-ing a home game, the Kyle Field Recycling committee and various other student organi-zations collect plastic bottles to be recycled. These bottles have to be collected by hand from each deck.

Various student organizations on campus take part by volunteering to help pick up and recycle waste after each game.

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Sophomore electrical engineering major Zach Rozinski helps raise money for MSC Fish by cleaning up Kyle Field on Sunday morning.

Students pickup post-

game garbage, earn cash

“1Love is a group that has helped out a lot this year,” said senior EIC chair Amanda Cernobich.

By the end of every football season, the committee recycles more than 150,000 plas-tic bottles and saves the University thousands of dollars in cleanup costs.

This season, after the first game, Kyle Field Recycling recycled 9.6 tons of waste. The second game, they recycled 12.29 tons.

“Before this year, the most recycled in an

entire season was 11 tons,” said volunteer and senior biological and agricultural engineering major Cole Skinner.

Cleanup dates for this season are Oct. 21 and Nov. 18.

For student organizations that would like to volunteer in the cleanup process, contact eic@tamu.edu.

“As an Aggie event, it’s run in the spirit of supporting our community and the traditions which make A&M so great,” Brown said.

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that community that found their stories so similar,” Eagle said.

Eagle said the similarities be-tween the two groups stem from how they are treated by domi-nant governments.

“They talked about the oc-cupation of their land, of their forced confinement, to being removed from their land,” Eagle said. “Those kind of words are very familiar to indigenous peo-ple in this land.”

Eagle said the Palestinians were overwhelmed because they were experiencing firsthand what could potentially happen to Palestine.

“One of them asked, ‘Is this what is to become of Palestin-ians?’” Eagle said. “He saw, physically, the poverty and the difficult issues that people face and he wondered, ‘Is this what is to become of my land, of

my people?’”For Eagle, visiting Palestine

allowed him to see first hand how his people had been treated, something he said he had never personally experienced.

“When I went to Palestine and I saw what Palestinians have to live with and the general fear of the whole area, it really affected me,” Eagle said. “I saw how my own people were damaged and what they had to experience.”

Visiting political hot spots around the world and his per-sonal experiences on Native American reservations has given Eagle a plethora of knowledge in regards to problem analysis and conflict resolution.

“Understand the connections to the situation rather than fo-cusing on one specific event or occurrence,” Eagle said. “Con-flict is something that shouldn’t be shied away from. We should figure out a way of embracing it.”

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conflict, and conflict in general, were something students — such as junior international studies ma-jor and Vice President of Aggies for Palestine Deniz Mustafa — said they had never seen.

“It gives us a Native American perspective that connects the sto-ries of Native Americans to what Palestinians are going through now,” Mustafa said. “What hap-pened to Native Americans is a sad tragedy and we don’t want that to happen to Palestinians, or any oth-er group on Earth.”

Eagle said the best chance for any type of improvement for Pal-estinians and Native Americans is going to come from young people who are becoming more and more aware of their surroundings.

“I see that there is a desire to know the full story, desire to un-

derstand the story from a better perspective that gives us true solu-tions,” Eagle said.

Senior international studies ma-jor and public relations chair for Aggies for Palestine Jala Naguib said Eagle’s presentation was an opportunity for young people to get involved and become aware.

“It’s a really good opportunity because a lot of people here didn’t even know about the conflict,” Naguib said. “It’s great that we’re able to bring him here and he can educate and inform and engage us in critical thinking.”

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ment—and there are courses scat-tered all over College Station that are open every day from sunrise to sunset.

Wickstorm and Glaeser have both been playing disc golf for less than a year, but they are already members of the Professional Disc Golf Asso-ciation—or PDGA—as well as a lo-cal organization, the Brazos Valley Disc Golf Club.

“We started playing disc golf be-cause we wanted a casual sport to play and disc golf is pretty much the most casual one there is,” Glaeser said. “We both ended up getting re-ally competitive about it. Now we make good money playing in tour-naments on the weekend.”

Professional disc golf tourna-ments are held year-round across the country, and there are multiple championships to be held by ca-reer players. As might be expected given, its semi-underground status as a sport, disc golf is quite popu-lar with college students across the

country. This year, the Colorado State University team won the Na-tional Collegiate Disc Golf Champi-onship. Smaller schools that are less competitive in NCAA sports often have a good chance of coming out on top in a national disc golf tourna-ment because the teams are smaller and not dependent upon recruiting.

Though A&M does not have an official disc golf team, the sport has something of a history with other Texas schools. Students at Rice University in Houston have held disc golf tournaments as far back as 1964, and once a year the state’s capitol plays host to the largest team disc golf tournament in the world. Each college in the SEC except for Texas A&M has at least one unof-ficial team representing their school in collegiate level tournaments.

“One of the things I want to see happen at A&M is for there to be a disc golf team that can play against other schools in tournaments,” Wickstorm said. “Some of us tried having a University-sanctioned club last year, but it didn’t end up work-ing out. I think it will happen soon since more people are starting to get

into it.”The sport’s growing level of

popularity can be seen in the nine courses in the Bryan/College Sta-tion area. The course nearest to campus is located at Research Park. There are also courses at Oaks Park, Wolf Pen Creek and Byran’s First Baptist Church. The Research Park course attracts a number of students and locals, not all of them die-hard disc golfers.

“I’ve only been coming out here the last three months. It’s a casual thing for me,” said Tommy Harkey, Class of 2009. Harkey got into the sport from his experience playing ultimate frisbee. “I just decided to pick it up one day. It’s nice to come out and play and relax.”

Students interested in playing disc golf and/or in need of someone to play with need only come out to a course on a weekend to find golfers out on the links.

“There’s a very chill community here,” Glaeser said. “We’re always out here Saturday mornings. Any-one interested in playing should come check us out.”

Many factors go into a proper drive: grip, footing, reach and follow through. A typical drive grip takes four fingers under the disc, light steps, straight release and, finally, following through with force.

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David Kent, Class of 1996, uses a driver disc to tee off. There are several types of discs in disc golf, including drivers, midrange discs, putting discs and discs that curve left or right.

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ceiver Ryan Swope during Tues-day’s press conference. “This is go-ing to be special, though. This is what I signed up for when I came back to play. I want to experience all these road games and SEC schools and see what they have to offer.”

What both Florida and Arkansas experienced at Kyle Field during their Sept. 8 and 29 visits, respec-tively, A&M will be receiving whilst competing at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium this Saturday against the Rebels.

In an overall sense, Ole Miss will actually serve as the measure as to what the Aggies will encoun-ter when taking trips to Mississippi State, Alabama and Auburn later in the season.

With the Rebels sitting at 1-16 in conference play over the past three

seasons, many fans and analysts have expressed belief that the game is, for all intensive purposes, a bye week.

The A&M coaching staff remains convinced that fostering an envi-ronment of complacency would only lead to future failure. In other words, any mention of Ole Miss as an “easy win” is forbidden.

Following the Rebels’ surprising-ly close 33-14 loss to No. 1 Alabama last week, A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin saw support of his theories from, arguably, the top play caller in the country.

“Nick Saban said it best last week, ‘here’s a team playing with a lot of energy, plays hard [and is] well-coached,’” Sumlin said of the Reb-els. “That is very indicative of Hugh [Freeze]. He’s won wherever he’s been. This is a well-coached bunch that plays extremely hard and has some good team speed.”

Freeze, like Sumlin, has also been fighting for his program’s respect

among peers in his first SEC season. The underrated Rebels sit currently at 3-2 (0-1) with both losses com-ing to Top 15 powerhouses No. 11 Texas and No. 1 Alabama.

In other words, watch out Texas A&M. Competing against a tal-ented, not to mention win-starved, team on the road in the SEC poses more possible problems than most would believe.

Fortunately, the Aggies’ leading seniors understand the enormity of the situation. Internal coaching of the freshmen will be essential throughout the course of the sea-son, particularly during A&M’s ini-tial road trip.

“You have to keep your hel-met on,” said senior wide receiver Uzoma Nwachukwu. “You [can’t be] in tune of everything behind you. The combination of their ath-leticism, their effort on every play, they’re going to be a pretty good defense to test us.”

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J. Wayne Stark, Class of 1939 designed a gallery available to students, providing them the opportunity to view and share museum quality art on campus. To-day, The J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, located in the MSC, display various forms of art from around the world.

Amanda Cagle, the collections manager, spends a lot of time with the art. Having hands-on experience every day, she collects and organizes the pieces that make up each display.

Cagle said she strives to promote the importance of the artwork in the gallery.

“You don’t get a proper education without expo-sure to art,” Cagle said. “All of this culture we provide here to students is part of a greater work.”

A current exhibit, “Surrealist Visions,” includes pieces from Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali and many others. The collection focuses on the cultural movement in the 1920s with work ex-pressing artists’ new attitude on life.

“Surrealism is not entirely founded in reality,” said Ryan Anderson, sophomore petroleum engineer-ing major and staff member at Stark Galleries. “It’s morphed reality, more of a waking dream.”

Anderson said that of the Surrealist Visions exhibit,

he favors Salvador Dali’s “Alice’s Adventurs in Won-derland” woodcuts.

Also included in the Surrealist Visions exhibit is a rare collection of 21 surrealist postcards produced in Paris in 1937 by artists like Marcel Duchamp.

The Surrealist Visions exhibition will be on display until Oct. 14.

The ‘Painting Borges: Art Interpreting Literature’ exhibition, organized by The University of Buffalo, New York, targets the prominent literary figure Jorge Borges. The collection concerns human existence and conceptual literature and is on display until Oct. 30.

Still-life subject art by the contemporary painter Ron A. Clark is also on display. His pieces are inspired by religion and psychology and will be at the Stark Galleries until Oct. 21.

Stephanie White, director of ARTISTS on campus, said she is thrilled to have such prolific art at A&M because it provides inspiration to young adults.

“The Stark Gallery, along with other programs, helps people feel like they are in the right place,” White said. “It can be hard to pursue art when the culture around you does not. Texas A&M and College Station has never been known for their love of the arts.”

Stark Galleries also host student workshops and activities throughout the year. For a full calendar of events, visit www.uart.tamu.edu.

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b!As the season changes and Fall sets in, Forsyth Center Gal-

leries in the MSC trades former, vibrant mixed media art and abstract sculptures for soft, Impressionistic paintings and smooth Cameo glass works.

The exhibit, “Highlights from the Runyon Collection” at the Forsyth Center Galleries includes a wide array of work. From cameo glass to impressionist paintings, the variety of pieces reflects the values and characteristics of the time in which they were created.

English cameo glass pieces, in addition to American Im-pressionist and Western paintings, are included in the exhibit.

These pieces come mainly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and showcase different perspectives of the era.

Amanda Dyer, the assistant director at the University Art Galleries Department, said the gallery is eager to become reacquainted with the University through the new exhibit.

“In this highlight collection, we wanted to showcase the entire collection for the students and the rest of the Univer-sity and community who really haven’t been able to see that much in the last few years,” Dyer said.

Dyer said this highlight collection contains a little bit of everything. Paintings characterized by American Impression-ism make up a handful of the current gallery’s exhibit. Pieces by artists such as Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Thomas Hart Benton and Guy Carlton Wiggins decorate the Forsyth Center Galleries’ walls. They are meant to exemplify the loose brush strokes and distinct colorings associated with Impressionism.

Dyer said interesting history and information surrounds each piece in this collection. “Winding the Clock” by Amer-ican impressionist Winslow Homer is one such example.

“Our piece by Homer is called ‘Winding the Clock’ and is one of the few watercolors that he did,” Dyer said. “He really worked in oils mostly and so the fact that we have a watercolor of his is pretty significant.”

The gallery’s exhibit is also compromised of a number of Western paintings, showing society’s fascination with the old west at the time.

“It was a really well-received form of art,” Dyer said. “That’s when the American west and cowboys and things like that were really romanticized.”

Dyer said that with the decline of the frontier at the time, paintings by artists such as Oscar Edmund Berninghaus and Frederic Remington conveyed information much valued and sought after by the people living in the East.

The glasswork, particularly the English Cameo glass, seems to be a very popular part of the exhibit too. Dyer said these pieces reflect both the ancient and more modern in their com-posures, having been produced in the Greek Revival Period. The intricate patterns and beauty of the glass makes this part of the exhibit a favorite of many students.

“I really like the glass pieces. The different forms are fas-cinating,” said senior computer engineering major Kunal Chhajer.“The collection the Forsyth Center Galleries has on

display is certainly impressive and showcases various parts of history.”

Anthropology graduate student Laura Short said students are lucky to have access to such a collection.

“It’s the opportunity to see art that most students wouldn’t get to see without the art museum,” Short said. “It’s stuff that’s in the A&M collection, so that’s pretty cool too.”

“Highlights from the Runyon Collection” exhibits only a segment of the actual art collection allocated to Forsyth Center Galleries. Though only a sample, the pieces in the display show a rich variety of history in themselves, and the indelible beauty that makes them art.

“Highlights from the Runyon Collection” is available for viewing in the Forsyth Center Galleries until Dec. 7.

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This English cameo glass vase by George Woodall is one of many rare glass pieces on display at Forsyth.

“Mother in a Large Hat Holding her Nude Baby” was finished in 1909 by American Impressionist painter Mary Cassat.

Stark Galleries offer multiple collections

Diverse exhibition

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A Salvador Dali woodcut print, “The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill” is part of Dali’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” series on display in Stark Galleries.

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