The people who had the opportunity to meet Tex-as A&M student and football player Polo Manu-kainiu before his death described him as genuine,

friendly, an ambassador and a gentle giant. While on a return road-trip from Utah to Texas Mon-

day night, Manukainiu was one of five occupants in a 2002 Toyota Seqoia. The driver of the vehicle drifted off a New Mexico roadway and overcorrected, rolling the vehicle several times, according to police reports.

Manukainiu was ejected from the vehicle and died on the scene. None of the four passengers were wearing seat-belts at the time of the incident.

“We lost a terrific young man,” Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin said in a statement released by the A&M athletic department. “Polo was loved by his team-mates and coaches. Anyone who came in contact with him was struck by his sense of humor and smile. My heart aches for his mom and family members.”

At A&M Manukainiu struck many people as a virtual giant. Upon meeting him for the first time, former Texas A&M football player Damontre Moore said he was caught off guard by the 6-foot-5, 275 pound Manukainiu.

“He was this huge kid,” Moore told The Associated Press. “I’d been in college already for like two years and he was this huge monster who had at least two inches over me and he was so intimidating. And when he talked he was the kindest person in the world. He was like the gentle giant.”

Moore told The Associated Press that Manukainiu “never complained” as a redshirt freshman and was like a brother to everyone on the team.

Manukainiu came from a tight-knit Tongan com-munity in Euless, Texas. Tonga, a set of Polyne-sian islands, is known as the “Friendly Island” with a heritage that brought Manukainiu and Texas A&M swimmer and Olympian Amini Fonua together

as the only Tongan athletes at A&M. “The likelihood of two guys going to A&M, both be-

ing athletes and — being Polynesian is rare, but being Tongan is rarer — so both being Tongan, we connected on that,” Fonua said. “We would walk past each other at (Netum) Steed and we would joke with each other or speak Tongan to each other. There was a commonality between us because of our background.”

Fonua said he received text messages early Tuesday in-forming him of Manukainiu’s accident, which eventually drove him to an early departure from work.

“It hit me on so many different levels,” Fonua said. “There are so few Polynesian sports stars out there. He was someone who I think could have been a really great role model not just as a Tongan but as an Aggie. Everyone that knew him on the football team loved him.”

Fonua told stories of walking through the Bright Football Complex with Manukainiu only to be stopped countless times by teammates or friends, guys and girls, yelling his name.

Manukainiu was described by Fonua as humble, fami-ly-oriented and the opposite of the untouchable celebrity athlete, talking to anyone and everyone in his path.

“He was one of those guys that when you go to study hall there are people you hope to see and I know he was one of those guys,” Fonua said.

Senior agricultural leadership & development major Jerron Reese spent last year working as an intern for Student Athlete Services and Career Coordinator Zerick Rollins. During his time at the Bright Football Complex he would sign Manukainiu into study hall, making casual conversation.

“It wasn’t just a ‘hello’ and ‘thanks’ when he would stop,” Reese said. “I would sign him in for study hall

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Gentle GiantFriends remember fallen Aggie football player

Senior Aggie swimmers Cam-mile Adams and Breeja Larson

packed their bags to travel over-seas this week as they compete in the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

Adams will have the chance Thursday to make A&M swim-ming history. On Wednesday she qualified second in the women’s 200-meter butterfly semifinals.

With a strong showing in the final she could become the first Aggie medalist at the World Championships. Winning would mean adding to an already ac-complished season after titles in the 200 fly at the Southeastern Conference Championships, the NCAA Championships and U.S. National Championships.

The 200 fly is arguably Adams’ best event, as she placed fifth at the London Olympic Games a year ago. It was the highest ever finish by an Aggie swimmer at the Olympics.

Larson competed Tuesday in the 100-meter breaststroke plac-ing fifth. Joining the two women’s swimmers in Spain was former A&M All-American diver Grant Nel who finished 11th Friday in the three-meter springboard div-ing final.

While the competition will be over for Nel, Larson will compete in the women’s 50m and 200m

breaststroke. Adams will compete in three more events — the 100m butterfly as well as the 200m and 400m individual medley.

Also in world competition, Texas A&M javelin thrower Sam Humphreys was forced to withdraw from the IAAF World Championships after being in-jured in competition.

Humphreys suffered a broken rib and torn abdominal muscles on one of his throws at a meet in Finland. He will now miss the trip to Moscow, Russia where the Championships will be held.

“It’s a tough, tough break for Sam,” Aggie head track and field coach Pat Henry said in a press re-lease from the A&M athletic de-partment. “He will bounce back from this injury, but it won’t be in time for the World Champion-ships. It just proves that the jav-elin is the toughest event in track and field.”

The setback is a familiar tale for Humphreys, who won the Olym-pic Trials a year ago but missed the standard to make it to the Olym-pics with a throw that came up just five inches short.

Humphreys broke his own school record to qualify for the World Championships after be-coming an NCAA Champion in the javelin in June when Henry and the Aggie men won their fourth team championship in five years.

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Texas A&M senior Cammile Adams could make history Thursday by medaling in the 200-meter butterfly finals at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.

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The Texas A&M University Col-lege of Veterinary Medicine &

Biomedical Sciences broke ground Friday on a new Exotic & Wild Bird Aviary that is scheduled for comple-tion in May.

The 11,000-square-foot building will hold a hospital, a receiving area with quarantine capabilities, two isolation rooms, a Biosafety Level 2 laboratory for infectious disease re-search, teaching and classroom space and four offices.

The building will be located off of F and B road near the General Ser-vices Complex.

Second year veterinary medi-cine student Anastasia Koinis was asked to speak at the ground breaking ceremony.

“It’s going to bring a great facility for our vet students to learn on our in-house avian population as well as enhance the research being done, giving us a better facility and giving the birds a better environment to live in,” Koinis said.

The current aviary uses fans dur-ing the hot summer months to cool the birds while heaters try to keep

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up with the winter. The new facil-ity will be climate-controlled and capable of holding a population of 200-250 birds.

“This is a beautiful facility that ex-emplifies the College’s commitment to exotic species and to conservation in general,” said Ian Tizard, Profes-sor of Exotic Bird Health, in a state-ment. “It enhances our programs in environmental health and will be a

magnificent resource for the whole college.”

The aviary will be able to separate infected and healthy birds, some-thing the current facility cannot do.

Sharman M. Hoppes, clini-cal associate professor in the de-partment of small animal clini-cal sciences, is a specialist in avian

Faculty from the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences breaks ground Friday on an 11,000-square-foot exotic bird aviary. The new facility will be able to hold 200-250 birds.

See Aviary on page 4

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We lost a terrific young man. Polo was loved by his teammates and coaches. Anyone who came in contact with him was struck by his sense of humor and smile. My heart aches for his mom and family members.”

— Kevin Sumlin, A&M head football coach

insidestudy abroad | 3Aggies overseasAggies travel the globe to gain knowledge and experience.

Redshirt freshman defensive end Polo Manukainiu was entering his second season with the A&M football team. Manukainiu was killed in a car crash Monday in New Mexico at the age of 19. See Manukainiu on page 3

There’s definitely going to be a little less sunshine around the Bright Football Complex.”

— Amini Fonua, former A&M swimmer and Olympian

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Luke Urbanovsky died in a car ac-cident on June 16, 2012, at the

age of 19, but his family — both bio-logical and Aggie — has ensured his memory will live on.

The “Luke Urbanovsky MSC FISH Endowment,” formed after Luke’s death, has now raised $35,000 — $10,000 more than the original goal — with donations from friends, relatives and Aggies. The money raised for the endowment fund will go to support MSC FISH (Freshmen in Service and Housing), a freshman leadership organization with an em-phasizes on community service that Luke was a member of.

Luke was one of 80 freshmen cho-sen to participate in MSC FISH his freshman year. His girlfriend Charley Taggart, a junior psychology major and the current executive director

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of MSC FISH, said the organization changed Luke into a more service-minded individual, an occurrence common for many members of the organization.

“They come in, and they end up

learning how to serve others with-out receiving in return, and that’s pretty much what our goal is — to give back to this community and

MSC FISH (Freshmen in Service and Housing) is a community service freshman leadership organization that completes more than 5,000 service hours each year.

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Aggies have traveled across the globe to study abroad, gain new experiences and

learn about other cultures. Summer is often a popular time to study abroad because it works better with many students’ degree plans.

“Over 3,300 students are going abroad this academic year, which is a 13 percent increase from last year,” said Jane Flaherty, study abroad director. “As part of Vision 20/20, the study abroad office helps to globalize the A&M com-munity and to make Texans more aware of other cultures.”

Jessica Jewell-Elliott, a junior psychology major who studied abroad in Santa Chiara, Italy, for the spring semester, said a desire for an enhanced perspective on a different culture from her own motivated her decision to study abroad.

“I studied abroad to broaden my perspective of knowledge and culture so that I could bring those experiences to what I study, psychology,” said Jewell-Elliott. “But I also went for my own personal reasons. I wanted to let go of life here for a little while and send more time discov-ering things myself without the distractions I seem to run into a lot here.”

Jewell-Elliott said she misses her personal ex-perience in Italy.

“The friends I made will last a lifetime and Italy itself opened my eyes to a wide range of issues,” she said. “I never got homesick. In fact, I think I’m more homesick for Italy now that I’m back.”

Dustin Ritter, a biomedical engineer-ing graduate student, studied abroad in Rwanda this summer as a teaching assistant and said his time in Rwanda provided real world experiences.

“It was a very rewarding, eye-opening and nontraditional educational experience,” he said. “Our first month consisted of courses while we worked in hospitals, repairing medi-cal equipment during the second month. It provided real world immersive application of the engineering skills we learned during our undergraduate years.”

Flaherty said studying abroad provides a unique learning opportunity to experience new cultures especially because of Texas’ presence in international markets.

“[The program] allows students to get out of their comfort zones,” she said. “They learn not just academically, but they learn how to navigate in another culture. Texas itself is the leading state for export revenue and is therefore tied to international markets and students need to understand other cultures in order to prepare them for their future careers.”

Alexandria Liquez, a senior international studies and Spanish double major who has studied abroad more than once and is now a study abroad ambassador, said students need to understand their neighbors of the world.

“We are not only American citizens but global citizens,” she said. “The world has be-come more globalized and we shouldn’t see the world as a matter of us and them. They are our neighbors and although I started out thinking that I would learn about their differences from us, I actually realized how similar they are to us. It’s a worthwhile and inspiring experience.”

Jewell-Elliott said she encouraged other stu-dents to study abroad, but also gave some tips for how to have the best experience.

“Everyone should go,” she said. “But make sure you’re open to the experience. Don’t go if you just want to tell people you did it. Go to understand and participate in a different art of our world. Get to know the people of the country you go to. They are the ones that re-ally show you how they live. Don’t be a tour-ist. Go to learn and grow as an individual and incorporate that into your life when you come back. It’s a beautiful thing, to be exposed to something new, and can be the greatest experi-ence of your life if you let it.”

Ritter said the study abroad office helps to overcome different barriers that students might face.

“Go for it,” he said. “It can be very afford-able due to funding, scholarships and online fundraising. It can be hard to make the com-mitment to decide to study abroad and there may be different barriers like finding the money and navigating paperwork, but the study abroad office provides so much information as well as resources and funding that help the process go smoother.”

Emily Drastata, a sophomore environmental geosciences major, said her experience this June in Costa Rica and Nicaragua allowed her a new perspective on her own lifestyle.

“I was interested in having a hands-on learn-ing experience, and I ended up having a blast doing field work,” she said. “One highlight was doing research projects at Texas A&M’s property in Costa Rica called The Soltis Cen-ter. It was unique to learn in a non-lecture based environment.”

Christina Berger, a senior international stud-ies major, said she is excited to experience Ital-ian culture in her upcoming study abroad trip to Rome.

“Studying abroad is built into my major, In-ternational Studies, which is partly why I chose the major,” she said. “I am blown away by the beauty of diversity and culture in other regions of the world.”

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Biomedical engineering graduate student Dustin Ritter and a group of study abroad students observe a lesson on how to work an infant incubator in Rwanda.

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brother you will be missed.”Manukainiu, 19, was a rec-

reation, parks and tourism sci-ences major and he is survived by his mother, Lima Uhatafe of Euless.

Manukainiu is the second Aggie football player killed in an auto accident in less than two years as senior offensive lineman Joseph Villavisencio, 22, was killed in a December 2011 car accident. Manziel mentioned Villavisencio dur-ing the Heisman Trophy cer-emony last year.

While Texas A&M has not yet decided on wearing patches with Manukainiu’s No. 90 for games, his legacy will continue to live on as more and more accounts like Reese’s come up.

“It seems he really made an impact on a large number of people’s lives during his short time on campus,” Reese said. “We were lucky to have had Polo.”

Fonua too hopes that the legacy of Manukainiu can live on and “galvanize” the football team. But things will certainly be different around the A&M football team with-out their gentle giant around, Fonua said.

“There’s definitely going to be a little less sunshine around the Bright Football Complex,” Fonua said.

in a statement. “They were loved and adored. They were kids you loved to send out as ambassadors for Trinity High School. We took as much pride in their being Trinity graduates as they did from be-ing Trinity grads.”

On Tuesday, around 2,000 people gathered at the indoor facility of Trinity High School to honor Manukainiu and the others killed in the wreck. The school set up a “Memories & Messages” page on its web-site on which more than 80 comments have been posted remembering the young men.

Economics teachers, lunch ladies, classmates, parents of friends, Macy’s employees, coaches and nurses all have written personal accounts of interactions with Manukainiu on the page.

With only a year of school under his belt at A&M, Manu-kainiu was already beginning to make a similar impact at the university, most apparent in encounters experienced by individuals like Reese.

On Tuesday, many Aggie football players took to Twit-ter to express their condo-lences in addition to former coaches Kliff Kingsbury and Tim DeRuyter. Texas head coach Mack Brown tweeted his thoughts and prayers along with former Baylor quarter-back Robert Griffin III.

Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel tweeted his sorrow Tuesday morning say-ing, “Heart hurts waking up to news about Polo.. I think I speak for everyone on our team when I say we love you

and he’d hang around the desk talking to me and whoever was sitting up there with me at the time. He would ask about classes, how the year was going, or would talk about football, or any games that had gone on in the past week. He would also ask the lady who I shared the front desk with, Mrs. Janice, about her children and how her day was going as well.”

For Reese, Manukainiu’s interest in other people’s ev-eryday lives showed how much he cared for everyone.

“It says a lot about his character for him to stop and talk to me without necessar-ily knowing me,” Reese said. “He genuinely seemed to care about how I was doing. He was a great Aggie, outstanding football player, and an overall phenomenal human being.”

A member of A&M’s 2012 recruiting class, Manukainiu was traveling with friends from Euless Trinity High School when the accident happened. Also killed in the wreck was incoming freshman for the Utah football team, Gaius “Keio” Vaenuku.

Manukainiu helped Trin-ity High School to an unde-feated regular season and the state playoffs in 2011 as an all-district defensive end and was a four-star recruit according to ESPN.

“Not only were they physi-cally bigger than life, but so were their personalities,” Trin-ity principal Mike Harris said

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The enlarged facility will provide the space needed for specialized birds such as raptors so students can give appropriate care and treatment.

“It’s going to be nice to have a place to learn more and be able to handle the bird in a better environment and enhance the learning process and learning capabilities we are going to get from all of this,” Koinis said.

The new building will expand on what the Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center started.

Founded in 1987 thanks to an endowment by Richard M. Schubot, the center is already help-ing improve the health of birds kept by zoos, activulturists and individual pet owners. The center also helps to conserve threatened avian species in the wild.

The new facility will help glorify those nu-merous accomplishments, Hoppes said.

“Although the Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center is already known internationally in the avian world, many in our own university and community are unaware that we are here and what we have done or are doing in terms of both avian conservation and clinical diagnosis and treatment,” Hoppes said. “This new and improved aviary will increase our exposure and hopefully excite the community and encourage them to support our work in avian research and the care and management of our birds.”

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this university with-out receiving in return,” Taggart said.

Luke’s mother Connie Urbanovsky said the out-pouring of “love and sup-port” from the university, especially the members of MSC FISH, was vital after Luke’s death, and that the family “couldn’t have gone through this without them.” Sixty to 65 members of MSC FISH attended the funeral, she said.

“One night, they were all in Luke’s room,” Connie said. “Probably 15 of them all spent the night in the room. Just wonderful kids. I can’t say enough about the type of friends that Luke was associ-ated with, but he was that type of kid too.”

This is her “Aggie family,” Connie said. William Mues-sig, a sophomore kinesiology major and friend of Luke’s, said though Connie lost a son, she has gained many of what she calls “Aggie kids.”

“They really encompass the Aggie spirit and they call us their Aggie family,” Mues-sig said. “Whenever Connie texts us, she calls us her ‘Aggie kids.’ It really makes us feel so good to know she wants us to be involved and to keep us in the know.”

Immediately after the ac-cident, Connie said her old-est son, Josh, wanted a way to memorialize his brother. After making a few phone calls and much discussion, family and friends decided to create an endowment fund to benefit MSC FISH, an organization Luke was not only passionate about, but that Connie said held a “special place” in the family’s hearts.

The family originally set the

funding goal for $25,000, un-sure that there would be a way to reach it. Through dona-tions and a benefit concert put on by Josh, the goal was met and exceeded.

“To tell you the truth, when we looked at $25,000 we thought that was an im-possible goal,” Connie said.

“We re-ally were l i k e , ‘There is no way w e ’ r e going to do this,’ and we did it in

a year. That speaks a lot. It speaks a lot of Luke, but it also speaks a lot of College Station and A&M and the kids who attend.”

Childhood friend and ju-nior petroleum engineering major Kirk Wallace said the creation of the endowment fund was the perfect way to memorialize his best friend. Luke was passionate about many things at A&M, he said, but MSC FISH stood out among the rest.

“I felt like it was a really cool way to carry on his legacy, es-pecially because it was an orga-nization that he was very pas-sionate about,” Wallace said. “Every time I was with him he would say something about MSC FISH.”

Taggart said this would not only benefit incoming fresh-man, but also the community and University the organiza-tion provides more than 5,000 service hours for each year. She said she believed Luke “would be so proud” of the endowment fund’s outcomes.

By helping fund a service organization, Connie said she hoped this would not only honor her son, but also help create individuals committed to volunteerism.

“My whole take on this is if you can teach the kids to want to give and volunteer, then that’s what they’ll do,” Connie said. “It’s almost like we’re developing kids who are going to go out and help in the future. Instead of just help-ing the people who need help, we’re actually trying to pro-vide a foundation for people to learn to do that.”

Connie said this caring spirit was inherent in her son, along with his constant smile and unflagging opti-mism. Both she and Muessig said Luke was a presence that could be felt every time he en-tered a room.

“He was funny, he was outgoing, he was loud, he could make you laugh, he could make you want to punch him, he was all the above,” Muessig said. “He was everybody’s friend.”

Taggart said he had more confidence than anyone she had ever met.

“He just kind of bounced up the stairs,” Taggart said, on first meeting Luke on the steps of the Rudder Tower. “The kid literally acts like he had it all together all the time. He was on top of the world. He is the definition of not caring what people thought.”

Whether he was delivering oranges and juice as the self-declared “soccer mom” for a friend’s intramural soccer team or completing service proj-ects, Taggart said Luke cared about making a positive differ-ence much more than creating an “image.”

“I know people exaggerate things after people die,” Tag-gart said. “A lot of people do that, but I really feel like no-body has in this situation. He truly had a heart for people. He loved everybody — he gave everybody the benefit of the doubt.”

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House approves lowered rates on student loans, sends to ObamaWASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan bill that would reduce the costs of borrowing for millions of students passed the House on Wednesday and was heading to President Barack Obama for his signature. The legislation links student loan interest rates to the financial markets, offering lower rates for most students now but higher ones down the line if the economy improves as expected. Even as they were preparing to pass the bill, many lawmakers were already talking about a broader approach to curbing

fast-climbing costs.“Going forward, the whims of Washington politicians won’t dictate student loan interest rates, meaning more certainty and more opportunities for students to take advantage of lower rates,” House Speaker John Boehner said. The measure passed 392-31.Undergraduates this fall would borrow at a 3.9 percent interest rate for subsidized and unsubsidized loans. Graduate students would have access to loans at 5.4 percent, and parents would borrow at 6.4 percent. The rates would be locked in for that year’s loan, but each year’s loan could be more expensive than the last. Rates would rise as the economy picks up and it becomes more expensive for the government to borrow money.

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