After a year of prepa-ration, MSC SCO-NA hosted its con-

ference, “Caught in the Sandstorm: From Persia to the Sahara.”

The annual week-long conference is centered on international policy and SCONA invited expert speakers to discuss real world issues with A&M students and the local community.

Ross Brady, chair of SCONA and senior urban planning major, said this year’s conference focused on the Middle East and North Africa and how recent events play into U.S. policy. The theme was chosen last March, soon after last year’s February conference ended.

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Hunter Hampton, di-rector of programming for SCONA and sophomore international studies major, said this year’s theme is a topic of interest because, in recent years, the public thought the Middle East and North Africa were go-ing to fade from attention, but events have brought it back into the spotlight.

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Destroying the notion that sports can’t be

played sitting down, Aggie Adaptive Sports provides an opportunity for disabled stu-dents to play and compete in the sports they love.

Aggie Adaptive Sports will host its first event of the semester Friday, a wheel-chair basketball game from 5-8 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center. Games of wheelchair soccer, wheel-chair football and wheelchair softball are also scheduled for this semester.

Former student Rejy Bac-chus, who founded Aggie Adaptive Sports last semester, said he first intended for the program to benefit veterans but soon realized it should extend its reach further.

“We started gearing it toward veterans, especially veterans who are coming back with [post-traumatic stress disorder] and different disabilities as a way that they can reintegrate back into society, but also [to] have a great time and find that ca-maraderie again,” Bacchus said. “We realized that it would be better if we in-corporated all of the A&M student body instead of just veterans so now its geared toward everybody.”

Elliott Schwartz, presi-dent of Aggie Adaptive Sports and junior psychol-ogy major, said Aggie Adap-tive Sports would organize sporting events the commu-nity asked for.

“We’ll go to outside sources to bring funding in so we can go forward to host all of these events,” Schwartz said. “We want the organi-zation to tell us what events they want and then we’ll put them on and they can just enjoy.”

Schwartz turned his at-tention to helping veterans after seeing his brother suffer from PTSD, even changing his major in the process.

“After going through multiple tragic events, it kind of changed the way I looked at everything,” Schwartz said. “I switched from be-ing a business major to be-ing a psychology major and wanting to help. It definitely propelled me in a different direction, and that’s why I’m so involved with veter-ans now.”

Bacchus said the social support offered to veterans through programs such as Aggie Adaptive Sports is es-sential to handling the physi-cal and emotional aftermath of war.

“One of the big issues, es-pecially with PTSD, is severe depression and a lot of isola-tion,” Bacchus said. “If we can get a lot of the veterans coming back to get out and try something, even if it’s just once, a lot of the times it will catch on and they’ll continue to go. If not for the sport itself, from the related benefits, the friendships that are made, the camaraderie and the competition.”

Autumn McKenzie, vet-eran and senior marketing major, said the importance of social support for student veterans is even more im-

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Behind a 19-point performance from junior guard Jamal Jones, Texas A&M defeated

the Alabama Crimson Tide 63-48 Thursday night at Reed Arena in front of a crowd of 7,089.

Head coach Billy Kennedy said he was happy with his team’s overall performance.

“I thought our guys did a good job of bounc-ing back from a tough game the other day,” Kennedy said. “Especially in the second half, we did a good job of attacking in transition and sharing the ball. It was good to make some tough plays. We took some charges, we got some loose balls, and we made the extra pass. We played like a team should play.”

The game was close in the first, with the lead changing six different times. The Aggies (15-11, 6-7 SEC) went into halftime with a 24-23 lead over the Crimson Tide (10-16, 4-9 SEC).

At the 15:58 mark in the second half, junior forward Antwan Space blocked a three-point shot by Alabama’s Trevor Releford, which led to a fast break layup by Aggie freshman guard Shawn Smith, changing the momentum in fa-

vor of A&M. After a missed three-point shot by Alabama’s

Rodney Cooper, junior guard Jordan Green made a fast break layup off the assist by Space, giving the Aggies a 13 point lead — their largest of the night — with 8:11 to go.

Smith said he knew he would have a tough defensive matchup against Releford.

“Going into the game, they were talking about how he was a great player and a great scorer, averaging like 20 points a game,” Smith said. “I think it was a nice challenge because if I want to be a great player, I’m going to have to be ready to play other great players.”

Space came away with a career-high 12 re-bounds and four assists. Space also recorded all three of the Aggies blocked shots.

“I talked to the coaches, trying to find a role that could do to help our team out, and they told me to just rebound,” Space said. “If your shot’s not going in, just play defense and re-bound, so that’s what I focused on today.”

A&M welcomes Tennessee (16-10, 7-6 SEC) to College Station at 2 p.m. Saturday in Reed Arena.

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The seventh-annual Laboratory for Study

of Intercollegiate Athlet-ics lecture series will fea-ture former University of Tennessee softball pitcher and U.S. Olympic medal-ist, Monica Abbott, at 6:30 p.m. Friday.

Shane Hudson, the lab-oratory’s director and clini-cal associate professor, said Abbott will bring some-thing new to the plate.

“From a player’s stand-point, she has competed at the pinnacle of youth, col-legiate, professional and the Olympic level,” Hudson said. “She has literally seen the world from the eyes of a female softball player. Her insight into female sports will give the audience a national as well as an inter-national perspective.”

Abbott’s status as a 2008 Olympian is a major com-ponent in attracting an au-dience for Friday’s lecture. Amber Elaine, sophomore psychology major, said that’s something to look up to.

“I’m really interested in hearing what an Olym-pian has to say about what it takes to get it done,” Elaine said. “It’s really neat because Olympians are far and few between. She’s one

of the top people to make it athletically. It has to take a lot to make it there. It has to take a lot of hard work and a lot of sacrifice.”

Abbott’s work ethic is a characteristic that stuck out to Christina DeRuyter, freshman sports manage-ment major

“In Monica [Abbott], we’ve noticed that she’s so motivated to be able to get to an Olympic level,” DeRuyter said. “It’s such an accomplishment that takes so much hard work. That’s definitely something to look up to — motiva-tion and dedication and someone that always per-severes.”

DeRuyter is in an event management class, which plans sport-related events around campus, including Friday’s lecture. DeRuyter said these lectures can be beneficial to a wide range of audiences.

“I like hearing other people’s perspectives, es-pecially since I’ve never played softball before,” DeRuyter said. “She has a different view point that I think would be really in-teresting to hear and espe-cially how she’s motivated as a softball player and just in life in general.”

Elaine said she expects Abbott to touch on issues that pertain to college stu-dents as a whole rather than only athletes.

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The No. 16 Texas A&M women’s basketball team downed the Ole Miss Rebels 73-61

Thursday night, winning its fourth consecutive game and improving its SEC record to 11-2.

A&M (21-6, 11-2 SEC) jumped out to an early lead on the Rebels, shooting 50 percent from the field in the first half. The Aggies fast start was aided by senior center Karla Gilbert’s 12 first half points, the most she’s scored in an opening frame all season.

Gilbert pushed her point total to 21 in the second half while pulling down 10 total re-bounds to earn her sixth double-double of the season.

The Aggies scoring was led by sophomore forward Courtney Williams, who posted 26 points, her second-highest career total and her fifth performance this season with 20 or more points.

Upon its return from Oxford, A&M will welcome No. 15 Kentucky to Reed Arena on Sunday in a highly anticipated rematch of last year’s SEC tournament championship in which the Aggies upset the Wildcats 75-67.

The game will be known as the “Bookmark Game” due to efforts the team has made to en-

courage reading among local elementary school children.

“Essentially what this game is about is pro-moting reading in the community,” said Casey Doyle, assistant director of marketing for the Athletics Department. “We reached out to local elementary schools and we produced a book-mark that features Karla Gilbert, Jordan Jones and Courtney Walker. Each bookmark has a quote promoting reading and on the back it has information to redeem a ticket. Each child received a bookmark in the Bryan elementary school system so there are more than 7,000 bookmarks that went out. It’s just another way for these kids in the area to connect with our student athletes.”

In addition to the bookmark promotion, halftime will feature a “battle of the sexes” be-tween former A&M basketball players Logan Lee and Katy Pounds Lee, who are now mar-ried. The couple will compete in a three-point shooting competition. After the game, fans who are members of the “winning sex” will receive an “I Love Aggie Hoops” decal on their way out of the arena.

“If this might be something that’s going to gen-erate interest with our students, maybe next year we’ll have Johnny Manziel come back and do it against one of my former players as well,” head coach Gary Blair said. “We want everything to be positive when [fans] come into Reed Arena.”

Tipoff against the Wildcats is at 1 p.m. and the game will be televised on ESPN2.

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Sophomore Jordan Jones directs the offense during Thursday’s win over Ole Miss.

The No. 21 Texas A&M baseball team will host

the Sacramento State Hornets (3-2, 0-0 WAC) at Olsen Field this weekend, eyeing its best start to a season since 2011.

Victories on Friday and Sat-urday would mark six straight wins to open the year for the Aggies (4-0,0-0 SEC), match-ing the record of the 2011 team that finished 42-18 and advanced to the College World Series.

Junior pitcher Daniel Mengden (1-0, 3.00) is sched-uled to start for A&M at 6:35 p.m. Friday and he will face ju-nior Ty Nichols (1-0, 3.00) of the Hornets. The Aggies will send senior Parker Ray (1-0, 1.80) and sophomore Grayson Long (0-0, 0.00) to the mound at 6:35 p.m. Saturday and 1:05 p.m. Sunday, respectively.

Offensively, the Aggies hope to continue their hot streak as they have batted 0.319 as a team through the first four games.

A&M is led by junior short-stop Patrick McLendon, who was 4-for-6 in Tuesday’s 12-3 victory over Stephen F. Aus-tin, and junior third baseman Logan Nottebrok, who hit the first walk-off of the season Sunday with a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to seal a 1-0 win over Northeast-ern.

“I’ve got a better feeling going into this weekend than I did last weekend,” Childress said. “When you open the

season, you don’t really know what you’re going to have. Once you start playing — and you put people in the stands — I think there’s a little bit more comfort with our guys.”

The Hornets are led by sophomore designated hitter Chris Lewis who had an im-pressive freshman season, bat-ting 0.349, scoring 33 runs and driving in 46.

Sutter McLoughlin, sopho-more relief pitcher, had a 2.11 ERA in 28 appearances out of the bullpen for Sacramento State in 2013.

Before the season, Sacra-mento State was chosen to finish third in the WAC by conference coaches.

“They’re going to be a solid team,” Childress said. “They’re going to throw strikes, make routine plays and be very of-fensive. It’s going to be a tough test for us this weekend.”

Although SEC play does not begin for A&M until March 14 against Auburn, Childress said he will approach this weekend as if he were preparing for con-ference foes.

“We’ll treat this weekend just like a conference week-end,” Childress said. “We’ll roll our three starters out there and do our very best to win on Friday night.”

Friday’s game will be the first meeting between A&M and Sacramento State.

After this weekend’s series, the Aggies will finish their eight-game home stand at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday against Houston Baptist.

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Brady said the event is signifi-cant for students because it gives them the opportunity to gain ex-periences that people in the work-force haven’t had.

“[The conference] provides opportunities to interact with people who an ordinary student would not have the ability to in-teract with,” Brady said. “[You are] getting this insight that you wouldn’t ordinarily have and bringing that to Texas A&M.”

Brady said he is excited about the variety of speakers SCONA is hosting this year, including retired four-star U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who Brady said is a kind of celebrity among Marines and who spoke in Rudder The-ater Thursday afternoon.

“The majority of our speakers are coming from outside of A&M because that’s the whole purpose of SCONA, is to bring insight and discussion to A&M that the student body wouldn’t be having otherwise. This year, we defi-nitely have a very diverse slate of speakers, and that always depends on who we can connect with that year and what their schedules are,” Brady said.

Callie Copeland, vice chair of SCONA and senior English ma-jor, said Mattis was a sincerely humble man.

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Mattis shared his opinion and insight on current military po-litical issues, speaking for ap-proximately half-an-hour before allowing for a half-hour question-and-answer session.

Adrian Guajardo, senior uni-versity studies major, said he wanted to attend Mattis’ speech to be better informed about his ca-reer choice with the U.S. Army.

“I’m an army contract,” Gua-jardo said. “I am going to be an officer in the army, so listening to political military opinions over current and future and even past issues is informative for me.”

Guajardo said he also looks forward to other SCONA events and that the conference is a valu-able asset for students who enjoy politics.

The conference began Thurs-day morning, with a group of 151 delegate students having par-ticipated in a two-day pre-confer-ence event, the International Stra-tegic Crisis Negotiation Exercise. Brady said the ISCNE has been a part of the SCONA confer-ence for four years, but the time has been extended as the result of popular request.

“One thing that we have done differently this year is that ISCNE is a full two days this year, where-as in the past it’s just been two hours on the Tuesday and all day Wednesday,” Brady said. “They want to find their solution to this diplomatic problem so much that they want that extra time.”

The goal of the exercise is to split students into “nation” groups that then meet with mentors in-vited from the Army War College to discuss key issues, ranging from oil revenue to border disagree-ments, before meeting in a model

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“If you’re a veteran you kind of feel a little bit left out, you have a differ-ent experience than just normal col-lege kids who are coming out of high school, so we want to give an oppor-tunity for veterans to come in and be with other veterans,” McKenzie said.

Although adaptive sports are gen-erally for the disabled, McKenzie said there is also room for the nondisabled to participate.

“If you’re not disabled and you want to play, that’s cool too, but basically we just put you in a wheelchair and you just play like everybody else does,” McKenzie said. “There are straps to lock your feet down so you’re not

tempted to use them, there’s a seatbelt for the wheelchair so it’s easier to fit in and you’re not tempted to stand up.”

Bacchus said he wants Aggie Adap-tive Sports to be involved with Bryan-College Station as well.

“You don’t have to be a student at Texas A&M University to be involved, we want anybody and everybody to participate,” Bacchus said.

Bacchus said through efforts such as creating wheelchair sports teams that compete regularly in the Rec and part-nering with adaptive sports programs in other cities, Aggie Adaptive Sports will establish itself for the long run.

“We’re taking these small steps that hopefully will create a long-time time-table for success,” Bacchus said. “We want to build relationships that last for a lifetime and we really, really want this to be something that has an impact on lives for years to come.”

for time management and motivation for getting past the struggles of college that aren’t athletic, like school, grades [and] the professors that are hard to handle but knowing that that’s your only option and you have to gradu-ate,” Elaine said.

Elaine said the motivation involved in playing sports is easily transferable to other aspects of life. Students who come to the lecture may be inspired by her motivation for athletics and apply it to school, she said.

“Because within our majors and within our studies, maybe we’re not studying something that we’re pas-sionate about and there’s a block in

our head that makes it difficult for us to be passionate temporarily about what we’re studying and we let it get the best of us,” Elaine said.

DeRuyter said Abbott’s leadership skills are strengthened by her involve-ment in sports.

“I think playing sports helps with becoming a leader just because on the field there are going to be times when you get stuck or your team’s down and some people have to step up and mo-tivate each other and encourage each other that, even if you’re losing or whatever the problem might be, that you can overcome it,” DeRuyter said.

The lecture will be in the Hagner Auditorium in the Bright Football Complex.

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UN session, set in the year 2021, to attempt to solve issues with the other nations. This year’s meet-ing centered around problems between Sudan, South Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North.

Brady said the problems the students are given are difficult by design and often the meeting will end without issues being resolved.

“Every scenario that they choose is one that really has been gridlocked for professional diplo-mats and they have been working on for up to 25 years,” Brady said.

After closing the session, An-drew Natsios, a professor at the Bush School, connected the stu-dent meeting to real world events.

“I wish all of you could be in the place of the people going through this in reality because we’ve reached an agreement on a large number of issues and I want to compliment all of you for do-ing it,” Natsios said. “The prob-lem, of course — and this is true in all diplomacy — it’s always in the implementation that things get screwed up. There isn’t com-plete trust, people reinterpret the words and interest groups within these three groups will start com-plaining that their interests aren’t fully protected.”

SCONA will continue through Saturday evening. Students, fac-ulty and members of the Bryan-College Station community are welcome to attend the open fo-rum speaker events throughout the conference.

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Reserve your 2014 yearbookPre-order your 2014 Aggieland yearbook by April 1, 2014, for $75 (including shipping) plus tax, and $Ave. The 112th edition of Texas A&M University’s official yearbook will chronicle traditions, academics, the other education, sports, the Corps, Greeks, ResLife, and campus organizations, and will feature student portraits. Distribution will be during Fall 2014.Go to http://aggieland.tamu.edu or call 979.845.2696 to order by credit card. Or drop by the Student Media office, Suite L400 in the MSC from 8:30 a.m. to  4:30 p.m. Monday–Friday.

Feb. 25 will be your last chance to have your portrait made for the 2014 Aggieland yearbook. See the photographer in Suite L400 of the MSC before 4 p.m. Tuesday or make an appointment by emailing arphototamu@gmail.com. All Texas A&M students welcome. There is no sitting charge.

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Aerospace EngineeringErin WestChemistry

Amanda WhatleyEnglish

Lesley WheelerCommunication

Bradley Whelan

Aeronautical Engineering

Matthew WhighamUniversity Studies

Lindsay WhiteHistory

Bryan Whiting

Industrial Distribution

Emily Whitmoyer

Agricultural Communications & Journalism

Morgan Whitwell

Agricultural Communications & JournalismJonathan Widdig

BiologyKoby Wilbanks

PsychologyRyan Wilck

Political ScienceKathleen Wild

Biomedical Science

Eric Wilkins

Mechanical Engineering

Dana WillenborgPsychology

Ashley WilliamsBiology

Clora WilliamsHealth

Jennifer Williams

Biomedical Science

Rachel Williams

Forensic EntomologyKelly Wilmoth

HistoryEmily Wilpitz

University StudiesAngela Wilson

HorticultureJason Wilson

Agricultural Education

Jazmyn Wilson

Bioenvironmental Sciences Jordan Wilson

Interdisciplinary StudiesMarkay Wilson

Biomedical ScienceTory Wingate

Bioenvironmental Sciences

Heather Winkle

Interdisciplinary Studies

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Civil EngineeringJoshua Witter

Agricultural EconomicsRyan Wolff

Information & Operations Management

Jordyn WoltersdorfHealth

Alyson Wolthoff

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Kristen WomacManagementAndrew WoodPsychology

Dustin YateElectrical Engineering

Ryan YeatmanGeologyKrysten YezakEducational Admin and HR Development

Sarah YezakInterdisciplinary Studies

Tiffany Ynosencio

MicrobiologyChase YoungSport Management

Katherine Young

SpanishLauralee YoungMarketingLauren YoungEnvironmental Geosciences

Lauren YoungEconomicsShaley YoungUniversity Studies

Lauren Youngblood

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Mechanical Engineering

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Tracy AshtonAgricultural Leadership and DevelopmentKaela AstleyAccountingMichael AtkinsonComputer ScienceJonathon AusburnBiomedical ScienceJaime AustinPsychology

Jamesia AustinAgricultural Leadership and DevelopmentLaura AvilaMathematicsMichael BabcockAccountingEliezer BadilloInternational CommerceBrennan BaileyBiomedical Science

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

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Rebecca Abbate HealthKen Abdullah

PhysicsMaegan AblesFinanceMichelle Abney

Wildlife and Fisheries SciencesAndrea AbramsCommunicationKelli Adam

Management Information SystemsEmily Adamcik Management Information SystemsSeth Adams Spacial SciencesJoshua Aduddell

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Some 5K runs benefit charities, and some incor-

porate obstacles. The Rebel Run does both.

Rebel Run is a 5K and 8K obstacle race, and money raised from the event will benefit Youth Impact, a min-istry of Grace Bible Church that uses students from Texas A&M and Blinn to mentor local youth between the ages of five and 18.

Erin Christian, Youth Im-pact coordinator and Class of 2011, said Youth Impact

began 30 years ago and has grown to include 120 college leaders and 300-400 children.

“We did this last year for the first time and it was a good trial run,” said Micah Hoevelman, Youth Impact intern and Class of 2013. “This year we are trying to make it a little bit bigger and a bit better.”

Rebel Run will feature a variety of obstacles that vol-unteers have been working to create over the past couple of weeks, Hoevelman said, complete with monkey bars, barbed wire, a castle and a slip and slide.

Alexis Williams, Rudder High School senior involved with Youth Impact, said she got involved in Youth Im-pact in the seventh grade.

“I was struggling in my faith like a lot of people,” Williams said. “I went to camp and it kept bringing me back. It was just amazing to see how in love these people were with Jesus.”

After hearing Williams speak at the church’s annual pancake breakfast fundraiser about the effects Youth Im-pact had on her life, Katie Bower, senior international studies major and Williams’ mentor, said she knew she had to get involved.

“That’s when I decided to join,” Bower said. “It’s been just so fulfilling to see her grow and just to see how a ministry that’s consistent and faithful to these kids can re-ally make an impact on them. She’s a great girl — super ambitious, super smart, really driven.”

Williams said Bowers has mentored her for two years and she has enjoyed their time together.

“She’s legit,” Williams said. “Sometimes we go to Spoons, the Village coffee shop and study or just go somewhere to hang out with each other.”

With mentors visiting the younger students at school, helping them with home-work and providing a good influence and encourage-ment as they go through dif-ficult times, Christian said she hopes this program and the fundraising event has a impact.

“It gives [the kids] some-one to show that they are loved and that they are cared about,” Christian said. “It empowers them to be Christ-like leaders in our commu-nity.”

The 8K starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at Millican Reserve with the 5K following at 10:30 a.m. Day-of registra-tion is $25 and can be paid by cash or check.

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Run to feature obstacles, slip and slide

Currently the largest 5K on campus, the G.L.O.W. 5K has an average participa-

tion of more than 3,000 people. The night-time fun run, which is held annually by Mag-gies and Aggie Men’s Club, is ready to light up the night again Saturday.

G.L.O.W. stands for “Giving to Light Others Way,” and the entirety of the $10 registration fee goes to support Aggie Men’s Club and Maggies’ philanthro-pies. AMC’s philanthropic effort is a partnership with the nonprofit organization Building-a-Future.

Based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and run by Jorge Mahomar, Building-a-Fu-ture seeks to rescue children from impoverished condi-tions. Before travel restric-tions to Honduras were enacted three years ago, members of AMC traveled to Tegucigalpa during spring break and assisted in the ef-fort to build homes for fami-lies. G.L.O.W. co-director and senior international studies major, Andrew Samples, said he trav-eled to Honduras his freshman year.

“I just loved getting to work with the peo-ple there,” Samples said. “I remember seeing the kids’ faces light up when we walked into the room. There was this baby girl who had the most beautiful grey eyes I had ever seen. She had no idea what we were doing, but she was giggling the whole time. Just the joy they had the whole time, even given their circum-stances, it was so cool to see.”

The other half of the proceeds will benefit Maggies’ philanthropy project, New Hori-zons, a residential treatment center for abused children located in Goldthwaite. The cen-ter was built for children who have suffered traumatic experiences, from abusive parents

to drug addiction, and helps them reestablish a sense of normalcy until they can be placed with a foster family or returned to their par-ents.

“We get to actually go and visit once every semester, so that’s really cool,” said Brittany McConville, G.L.O.W. co-director and se-nior health major. “It’s definitely something that is worth the $10 because we’re able to do so much with the money and help make better lives for all of these children.”

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the G.L.O.W. 5K, which McConville said re-flects the growing significance of the fun run

to the A&M community. She encouraged people to bring family and friends to run with them to help grow the event’s impact both in Texas and internationally.

“G.L.O.W. has really become such a vital part of A&M’s campus,” McCon-ville said. “I’ve heard about G.L.O.W. ever since I got here as a freshman, and now I’m a senior and it’s really cool to see how it has formed over the past few years. It’s a really great event.”

Zachary Vaughn, junior mechanical engineering ma-jor, said he was impressed not only with the large at-tendance at G.L.O.W. but at how fun it made the task of giving back to others.

“It was insane,” Vaughn said. “There were hundreds of people and they had all these glow sticks out. Probably one of the funniest moments of my freshman year was going to the 5K. It was really great — they had people cheering you on. I liked that the 5K was really fun and enjoyable. It was really great, easy way to give back.”

G.L.O.W. starts at 9 p.m. Saturday outside The Zone Club in front of Kyle Field. Partici-pants receive a T-shirt, glow sticks and admis-sion to a concert following the race.

Registration will close Saturday night. Ta-bles will be set up at Rudder, the Commons and Wehner, and are open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and online registration is available on the G.L.O.W. website.

5K lights path for service projects

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G.L.O.W. to benefit charities in Texas and internationally

“G.L.O.W. has really become

such a vital part of A&M’s campus. I’ve heard about G.L.O.W. ever since I got here as a freshman, and now I’m a senior and it’s really cool to see how it has formed over the past few years. It’s a really great event.”

— Brittany McConville, G.L.O.W. co-director and senior health major

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