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have a good time. “It’s a really simple way to get involved,” she said. The event will feature live entertainment from

more than a dozen performers, all who have offered their time and talents for the cause, headlined by red-dirt country musician Brandon Rhyder. In addition, Lawrence said there will be a silent auction and food provided by various companies.

“All of the performers agreed to play for free,” Lawrence said. “They’re donating their time so we can make this an all-profit event.”

Bucky Bachmeyer, musician and owner of Big Red Drum Entertainment, said he will perform on Sunday and his commitment to assistance comes from the same altruistic desire that fuels his business.

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Regents to hear Kyle proposal

The University Board of Regents prepares to meet Wednesday and Thursday to con-

sider approving various proposals, including the University’s proposed Kyle Field renovations and changes to tuition and fees for the Texas A&M University System.

A projected $425 million expansion and reno-vation of Kyle Field would include a $95 million renovation of the east side, or student section. Of that sum, students have been expected to raise $75 million. The source of that funding will be poten-tially determined at the regents meeting.

The University proposed that 60 percent of needed funds come from a mandatory increase in the University Advancement Fee, UAF, and 40 percent from an increase in the price of student sports passes. The proposal calls for an increase in the cost of student fees by $2.42 per semester credit hour and an increase in the cost of home game tickets by $11.48 per game.

As the meeting nears, some student arguments regarding the way Kyle Field should be funded have resurfaced.

The 66th Session of Student Senate will con-sider an emergency piece of legislation during its Tuesday meeting that opposes the administra-tion’s proposal to fund Kyle Field.

Bill authors Cary Cheshire, junior political sci-ence major, and Fernando Sosa, sophomore po-litical science major, claim the proposal is a side effect of a greater lack of University transparency.

Sosa said University officials did not seek the advice of the Tuition and Fees Advisory Com-mittee, which is made up of staff and students, before submitting the payment plan to the board, a violation of the University’s own protocol, and

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Juggling early finals and the approaching end of the semester, student leaders at A&M continue to launch a six-day

camnpaign to raise money for relief efforts of the community of West, Texas.

The citywide profit share “A Night Out in B-CS” begins Wednesday and all money raised will benefit victims affected by the fer-tilizer plant explosion.

The event was created last year to aid the families of constable Brian Bachman and Christopher Northcliffe after their deaths in an August shooting in College Station.

Junior finance major Hudson Hoyle is one of the founding members of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, PIKE, which created the event.

With 22 businesses registered to partici-pate compared to last year’s 40, Hoyle said because this event is being organized over the course of six days, efforts might not reach their maximum potential.

“The only thing hindering us from hav-ing more people sign up is just the short no-tice and not having enough time to go to the businesses and get in touch with them,” Hoyle said. “We haven’t had the privilege of a month’s worth of planning so we couldn’t go through the process of recruiting busi-nesses then figuring out the operations and then marketing the event.”

Hoyle said although he is losing sleep and time that would be spent studying for finals, it is well worth the struggle.

“I could give up nights of sleep to make this event as big as possible, but at the end of the day we’re going to have a bed to go home to,” Hoyle said. “These families in West — a lot of these people instantly lost their entire homes and apartments — their lives were just completely changed, so really the least we could do is give a week of our time.”

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President of the Collegiate Panhellenic Council Alice Schneider, a senior economics major, and fellow student leaders sport the “Stand for West” T-shirts made to raise funds for relief efforts for West, Texas.

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Sophomore first baseman Cole Lankford looks to return to his old form in Tuesday’s matchup with Grambling State at Olsen Field.

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b! Struggling A&M preps for Grambling visit

Following a seven-game road trip, the Texas A&M baseball

team aims to ground itself with a home matchup against FCS oppo-nent Grambling State on Tuesday at Blue Bell Park.

A&M has lost nine of its past ten games, including each of its past five, and have sunk to the bottom of the SEC West.

A&M head coach Rob Chil-dress summed up the team’s frus-tration throughout the past three weeks, saying a “short memory” is a necessity for the final stretch of the season.

“They’re mad, but it’s a matter of us going and doing something about it on the field,” Childress said. “We have to go out and play a better game. We’ve got to get after it from start to finish.”

For A&M (22-22, 7-13), a knee injury to senior shortstop Mikey Reynolds, which sidelined the

Aggies’ top offensive threat for two games near the beginning of the stretch, has left the team look-ing for a spark at the plate.

Reynolds, now back at full strength with five starts under his belt since the injury, continues to lead the team behind his .393 bat-ting average, but has found little support. Sophomore first baseman Cole Lankford, second on the team with a .360 batting average, has failed to return to his usual form after sitting out five games due to illness.

Lankford said the Aggies need to remain levelheaded and ap-proach the final stretch with an unequaled passion.

“We made some errors, but that’s baseball, that’s what hap-pens,” Lankford said. “We’re going to get some rest and come out and play our hardest with an intensity that we hope they can’t match.”

Grambling State (16-26, 8-13)

enters the matchup coming off a doubleheader sweep of Selma University on Saturday. Behind Darren Farmer and Juan Bueno, the team’s leading batters with .352 and .309 averages, the Tigers offense has recently surged. The two combine for 100 hits, 57 RBIs and five home runs on the year.

A&M will look to sophomore Corey Ray (3-2) to start on the mound against Grambling State, who holds a 5.58 ERA with 40 1-3 innings pitched.

The Tigers turn to Edvardas Matusevicius (0-3) to start, who holds a 8.04 ERA on 43 2-3 in-nings pitched.

Ray, who has struggled in his past two starts, aims to shut down Grambling State behind a combi-nation of defense and pitching.

“It always feels good when you can go out and produce for your team,” Ray said. “I just try and throw strikes and let my defense work.”

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Bryan groups gather music acts for West relief festival

Multiple Bryan-based organizations and compa-nies will come together Sunday to host Fest

for West, a festival that will raise money to assist re-lief efforts for victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West.

Rene Lawrence, executive director of the Down-town Bryan Association, said the idea for the event originated after family members of one of the asso-

ciation’s board members were impacted by the blast, including the loss of a cousin and first responder.

“We discussed how we could help and we kind of jumped on board and were excited to be able to help,” Lawrence said. “[The event is] pretty simple — it’s about raising as much money as possible for families who lost their homes or loved ones. People have to rebuild their homes and pay medical bills. Even homes that weren’t destroyed have a lot that needs to be repaired.”

Lawrence said she wants people to show up and

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Memorial service set for CS managerA public visitation for College Station City Manager Frank Simpson, who died Saturday of an apparent heart attack, will be held Tuesday from 5-7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church at 2541 Earl Rudder Freeway. A memorial service is set for Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the church, followed by a reception. The graveside service will be private.

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Junior history major Chris Harvey picks up a copy of The Eckleburg Project and speaks to two of its founders, Amanda Yanes and Amanda Hendrix-Black, on Monday at the Creative Writing Center.

Although the members of PIKE or-ganized the event in the past, they were not the first to inspire this year’s event.

Senior accounting major and former president of Old Army, Addison Por-ter, said he and two other students felt called to action to help alleviate turmoil in West.

“It was just such a devastating deal,” Porter said. “So when something like this happens, I think we have the duty to stand up and do something about it.”

In search of a method, they came across Mark Holubec, a business owner who participated in the event last year and who suggested they reach out to members of PIKE.

Hoyle said he and the other found-ers of PIKE readily offered their trademark event.

“We came up with this idea of doing a citywide profit share and just getting as many people involved as possible, that way we could mobilize the com-munity and enable everybody to give back to these businesses as they’re giv-ing back to a good cause,” Hoyle said.

Porter said an event like this, to a college student, is a more appealing way for students to get involved and help those in need.

“I think people want to give back but college students have a difficult time forking over cash,” Porter said. “Having these businesses come togeth-er makes it so much easier because go-ing out to get a meal is a lot easier than just forking up a $20 bill.”

Hoyle said student leaders from about 20 organizations on campus are involved in bringing this event to life

once more. “Some people are helping market

the event to students and community members, some are helping recruit businesses and others are donating actu-al monetary contributions,” Hoyle said.

Hoyle said because profit shares are common practice among student orga-nizations, finding students with an ap-plicable skill-set is simple in this rushed effort in meeting the Wednesday dead-line.

“There are a lot of different peo-ple doing a lot of different things to make it come together and it’s nice to know that I can trust other Aggies,” Hoyle said.

Dallas Schipp, director of market-ing for Aggieland Outfitters and Class of 2003, said Aggieland Outfitters was commissioned to make special T-shirts for the event. All of the money from shirt sales will be donated to the West relief efforts.

Alice Schneider, president of the Collegiate Panhellenic Council, said they have a unique opportunity to help the community of West.

“Our 2,400 members are also in-volved in other organizations so word of mouth is really powerful when you have that many people,” Schneider said.

Hoyle said leaders hope this event is able to help West even beyond Wednesday.

“Right now West needs money to aid them — that’s what their need is,” Hoyle said. “Probably next semester they’re going to need hands and feet to actually go there and rebuild and help the community. So all of our hopes are that students will be made aware that there is a need and the next time some-thing arises where we can give back — they’re willing to donate their time.”

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texas legislatureWater fund bill dies in Texas HouseA plan to transfer $2 billion from the Rainy Day Fund to create a water infrastructure bank failed Monday because the author broke a parliamentary rule about when such a bill could be considered. The error was pointed out by House Democrats who were frustrated that the Republican-controlled Legislature was ready to spend the Rainy Day Fund on water projects, but not on restoring funding cut from public education. Conservative Republicans welcomed the measure’s failure because it saved them from having to make a politically difficult vote. Tea party members called the bill’s spending reckless and fiscally imprudent. Earlier Monday, Gov. Rick Perry had called on lawmakers to tap the Rainy Day Fund to create the State Water Infrastructure Fund to meet the state’s water needs. The fund would have established a bank to help state and local authorities build $53 billion in water projects over the next 50 years. Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Speaker Joe Straus all said financing the state’s water plan was their top priority at the beginning of the legislative session in January. The measure appeared to have little opposition until tea party activists and the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a right-wing think tank, came out in against it.

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‘Before I die I want to … ”Thanks to architecture graduate student Nesrine Mansour,

students on campus have the opportunity to write their answer to this question on a chalkboard in the center of Rudder Plaza.

As Mansour reflects on all the written responses, she said she is able to find her own personal strength.

After recently facing her mother’s death, Mansour said she was exposed to the fragility of human life and began reflecting on the meaning of human existence. While searching for a method to cope with her pain, she stumbled across an online video titled “Before I Die.” The video was of a New Orleans’s artist who, in order to cope with her grief of a lost loved one, transformed the side of an abandoned building into a chalk-board similar to the one Mansour has stationed on campus.

“When I watched this video it attracted me because that’s exactly what I was looking for — a purpose for my life,” Man-sour said.

Mansour said the wall has been reproduced more than 100 times around the world in 30 different countries and 10 dif-ferent languages. She wanted to be the first to bring the idea to College Station.

Mansour said with this project she also sought to inspire others to spread similar projects as well as encourage people to meditate on the purpose of their own life.

“The thing that struck me the most was watching people actually stop for a few seconds to think about their answer,” Mansour said. “They actually took the time to read what oth-er people wrote and think about what they wanted to write. That’s what I wanted to happen. That’s the purpose behind my wall.”

As an architecture student, Mansour was able to receive aid in the construction of her chalkboard from faculty at the Architecture Ranch on the Texas A&M Riverside Campus. Also, because Mansour is insistent on the practice of green architecture, she made sure the chalkboard was constructed solely from recycled materials. Mansour said the chalkboard

was salvaged after being thrown away by the University .Although the board, put in place Sunday, is expected to stay

up through May 10, Mansour said she hopes to leave it up a few more days during graduation so visiting parents can offer their personal responses to the question. Mansour says this is beneficial because it reveals responses by people who may have a different perspective on goals at different ages.

As Mansour believed it would, the chalkboard received positive feedback by the student body.

Javis Stephens, sophomore engineering technology major, said he found it difficult to respond to the question. After 15 minutes of thought he was able to provide his answer.

“It was a question that I’ve never really answered or thought about,” Stephens said. “I found it was more difficult to answer when thought was really put into it.”

Junior education major Jeffier Dawson said the chalkboard allowed her to examine her own personal experiences.

“About two years ago I was involved in a car accident where I was supposed to die but didn’t,” Dawson said. “When I saw that question it really made me reflect back to that moment.”

Dawson said her response, which was to swim with sharks, gave her a chance to write out her fears to the public.

“I feel like I was able to have a voice on the board,” Dawson said. “I wrote that because it’s something that I fear and fear loves to take over your life. This question that we are being asked to answer gives us the chance to fight those fears and uncertainties of life that we carry with us.”

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Chalkboard bucket listInitiative displays students’ lifetime aspirations in public

Eyes focus on highlighter-saturated notes and the dim light emitted from computer screens. This sud-den shift in atmosphere only means one thing: final exams are approaching.

Lyle Slack, the director of the Academic Success Center, advises students throughout the year on study habits. His number one study tip is to avoid procrastination.

“Finals are all about pace and balance,” Slack said. “Pacing between now and finals is the best thing to do.”

Slack said students need to find a study spot that is tailored to their specific needs.

“[I’d tell them] to go to a place that works for them,” Slack said. “If you are a socializer maybe a noisy place isn’t the best place for you. Don’t wait until reading days to try and find your place.”

Senior political science major Heather Fogus has two regular study spots on campus and off campus. She said there are positives and negatives of study-ing at both locations.

“I study at Evans [Library] or Muldoon’s [coffee shop],” Fogus said. “Evans isn’t too crowded and you can usually find a quiet spot, but it closes at midnight and you have to migrate to the annex.”

Fogus said studying off campus can help students avoid having to relocate but can be more distract-ing.

“I really like studying at Muldoon’s because they have good coffee and cheap refills,” said Fogus. “But sometimes it can get pretty loud if people are having study groups or meetings.”

After scouting out a location for studying, Slack said students shouldn’t try and learn every thing about a subject in one sitting.

“Split things up,” Slack said. “We don’t tend to

memorize in chapters anyways.”Senior communication major Margaret Stroud

said students should adapt how they study based on their particular preferences. Stroud uses sounds to better understand her study materials.

“I am a very auditory learner,” Stroud said. “I use that when I am studying. This includes read-ing things out loud and using mnemonic devices.”

Along with studying required material, Slack said students should incorporate other activi-ties into their finals routines.

“Get out and exercise,” Slack said. “Go eat and try to have a little bit of a social life.”

Fogus advises those preparing for finals to avoid burning the midnight oil with a costly all-nighter.

“Make sure you are getting enough sleep so you are actually productive when you study,” Fogus said.

Slack also encourages students to come to the Academic Success Center in the YMCA Building and speak with one of the academic coaches.

“We can assess where you are at right now so you can finish as well as you can,” Slack said.

In addition to one-on-one “coaching” offered by the Academic Success Center, advisors offer workshops throughout the semester, including fi-nals preparation and stress management classes.

“We’d love to talk to you early in the semester,” Slack said. “We need to sit down and come up with a plan — what’s best for you.”

Stroud said the best advice she can give other students is to make their own studying decisions.

“My philosophy is ‘know how you learn,’” Stroud said. “Think about the way you best learn and what helps you retain information in the class-room and apply it to how you study.”

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Sophomore business administration major David Jordan takes a look at the “Before I Die” wall set up by architecture graduate student Nesrine Mansour, asking students to write down their life goals.

Senior interdisciplinary studies major Catharine Hoxie studies in the MSC Flag Room on Monday afternoon.

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4bd/2ba house. Close to campus,wood floors, tile floors, ceilingfans, granite countertops, W/D,fenced yards. 979-776-6079.www.aggielandleasing.com

4bd/4.5ba house available inAugust, $1500/mo, pets ok.979-314-4505.

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Live smart.  Live cheap.  Live innewly remodeled apartment. www.100GeorgeBush.comAcross the street from Kyle Field. $445 for one bedroom. $545 fortwo bedroom. $399 deposit spe-cial.  Call 979-209-0123 for moredetails.

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Newer 1/1, 1/1.5 loft, 2/2, 3/3.Granite, ceramic, w/d, walk-inclosets, cable and internet, shuttle. $820-$1560. Brokerowner 979-777-5477.

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Courtesy of Aggie Athletics

Senior sprinter Ameer Webb won the 100 meter dash at the Penn Relays on Saturday.

ERA: 3.67W-L: 3-4

vs ERA: 8.04W-L: 0-3

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A&M claims 12 victories at Penn Relays

Competing at the Penn Relays — a three-day national col-legiate track and field event — this past Thursday through

Saturday in Philadelphia, Pa., the Texas A&M men’s and wom-en’s teams concluded the tournament with 12 total victories, eight of which came during Saturday’s finale.

A&M head coach Pat Henry said both squads performed well, noting that winning so many titles was a significant accomplishment.

“The team did a fine job up here,” Henry said. “This has been the best effort from a team I’ve had at this meet in a long, long time. This team definitely left a mark on this weekend.”

During a span of only an hour and a half, A&M secured six events and swept the men’s and women’s Championship of America titles in the 4x200 relays, the 100/110 hurdles and the 100-meter dash.

Senior sprinter Ameer Webb, who won the men’s 100-me-ter dash, said events such as the Penn Relays help define A&M as a program.

“This is what Texas A&M is all about. We came here to compete,” Webb said. “My plan was to just go out and beat someone today. In the 100-[meter dash] it’s all you, focusing on your race and doing whatever steps it takes to get the win.”

In the 4x200 relays, the women’s squad recorded the fourth fastest time in Penn Relays history at 1:29.98 while the men claimed the 10th fastest time in the event’s record books with 1:20.75.

In the women’s 100-meter hurdles, first-time Penn Relays finalist Donique’ Flemings set her own season best in taking first in the event with a 13.11 time.

“I’ve been practicing for this and trying to do everything correctly,” Flemings said. “I had to get out there, finish well, and don’t let anything distract me. I just knew I had to con-centrate on my race, and just finish.”

Senior hurdler Wayne Davis II set out to redeem his fourth place finish a year ago at the Penn Relays, notching a first place victory with a 13.67 time. Davis beat out Donald Pollitt of Syracuse by 18 hundredths of a second.

Following the win, Davis said he felt the event was “sloppy” but was glad he pulled out first place.

James Sullivan The Battalion

track & field

Texas A&M vs. Grambling St.The Aggies return to Olsen Field at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday to battle Grambling State in a weekday non-conference matchup.

“I felt like I could have done better,” Davis said. “But it was better than what I ran last year, so it’s definitely a win. Com-pared to where I was last year, I’m already ahead of myself, so I’m happy about that.”

With the victories, the women’s team looks to hold onto its national No. 1 ranking while the men aim to move up into the top spot from their current No. 2 placement.

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While discovering the challenges associated

with building an organization from the ground up, a new women’s organization seeks to give members an outlet to develop strong friendships while engaging in pursuits of leadership and service.

Founded in fall 2012 by a group of 15 students, Aggie Belles is an organization dedi-cated to serving the needs of its members and the greater community.

Jessica Watson, senior psy-chology major and co-presi-dent, said the impetus for the formation of the organization was an overwhelming de-mand for more all-women’s organizations and an under-whelming supply.

“Essentially we really just saw a huge need for women wanting to get [involved in] service and to develop their leadership more,” Watson said. “There are just a few women’s organizations out there and so many girls that want to be a part of them, but there are just not enough spots.”

Taking a page from the

sorority handbook, the Aggie Belles have a big-little pro-gram called ‘Rosies’ mod-eled after Rosie the Riveter in namesake and purpose to help new members acclimate to the organization. Each Rosie family consists of one officer or staff member and two or three new members.

“All the founding mem-bers have a group of new members, and so those are the ones we get to know first and foremost to make sure they are adjusting well,” Watson said. “Rosie the Riv-eter, that’s what we want to be, strong women leaders.”

Watson said creating a new organization lends special op-portunities for leadership de-velopment to its members.

“I think the girls in this organization really have a unique opportunity to be a leader because we’re so new,” Watson said. “They get to bring this up and make this their own. That’s a unique thing we can give them. ”

Welch said the Aggie Belles place great importance not only on their commit-ment to service but also on the value of random acts of kindness.

“One time [we took baked goods] to firefighters and policemen.” Welch said. “We just wanted to kind of give back to them because they do so much for us and they don’t always get that ap-preciativeness from students on campus so we wanted to reach out to as many people as we can.”

Welch said the Belles hope their actions inspire other students to take the initiative and to take action to help those they see in need.

“We kind of hope that by starting this we can maybe implement other people and get them excited to start their own things and really just give girls an outlet to find their place here on campus,” Welch said.

Although the concept of leaving a legacy is a bit unreal to her, Watson has great as-pirations for the organization she helped to establish.

“People need something to be a part of; they need something to put themselves in, to put their hearts in and I really think Aggie Belles can be that for so many girls.” Watson said.

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that the proposal has no men-tion of a sunset provision.

“The problem with not having a sunset clause is that, in the long run, there is no way to guarantee that the fee will decrease after the reno-vation is finished,” Sosa said. “Without a sunset clause, the fee is permanent.”

Quinten Womack, A&M System student regent and junior business administration major at Texas A&M Univer-sity-Kingsville, said with any issue like this, there will be players on both sides. Wom-ack added that the actions taken by the board of regents reflect their comprehensive knowledge of the matters that come before them.

“It’s not always that they make the decision that the most vocal group of students brings about,” Womack said. “It’s a very long-term deci-sion. I think the board of re-gents knows that they have to make the best decision on topics like this even if it isn’t the most popular decision.”

Steven Moore, System vice chancellor of market-ing & communications, said while the issue is important, the meeting agenda addresses items other than Kyle Field.

“There are significant aca-demic and facility highlights for many of the schools in this meeting. In terms of tu-ition and fees, there will be thoughtful discussion on all proposed increases, no for-malities. It is important to our chancellor and board mem-bers that we are good stew-ards of all resources, regardless of the source,” Moore said.

Eric Schroeder, junior bio-medical engineering major and chairman of Texas Aggie Conservatives, sent an email to students’ University email accounts inviting written tes-timony to regents against the Kyle Field proposal. He said that in addition to written testimony, Texas Aggie Con-servatives will protest from 1-2 p.m. Wednesday outside of the MSC. Schroeder said the protest is more than just a stand on principle.

“[The board of regents] genuinely cares about the stu-dent experience here at Texas A&M University, and will make the best decision they see fit,” Schroeder said. “If this is prompted by hundreds of Aggies submitting testimo-ny against the fee, and even thousands leaving comments against any sort of proposed fee increase, then I have done my job.”

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Planning for the event be-gan April 19, and Lawrence said the response from Bryan-College Station was immedi-ate and overwhelming.

“People started calling me wanting to donate,” Lawrence said. “We were able to get in less than a week’s time, so it’s been fast and furious. When it’s for a good cause, a lot of people jump in just to help organize it.”

Kristy Petty, a small busi-ness owner and board mem-ber of the Downtown Bryan Association, said help came pouring in during planning discussion for the event.

“It was a testament to our community and how giving it really is, always,” Petty said. “All you have to do is lead something and if it’s positive, Bryan-College Station gets behind it.”

Petty said she understands that the event will take place right before finals for students, but encourages them to help in any way they can.

Petty said 80 to 100 vol-

unteers for the event are still needed to work two-hour shifts throughout the day. For students who are interested, she said a volunteer form is available on the Downtown Bryan website. She also said silent auction items will be ac-cepted through Thursday.

Lawrence said this event is a small way to do what she feels is right and that she did not hesitate to become involved.

“It’s just what you do and it’s the right thing to do,” Lawrence said. “You help out your neighbors. It’s kind of the Texas way.”

Petty said the tragedy in West was easily relatable and she hopes to do all she can to help.

“I’m from a small town … and I know, an event like this, what it would do to a com-munity like where I grew up,” Petty said. “West really does symbolize small-town Texas. It touches every citizen of that small town. I’m sure ev-eryone in West knew some-one that died. I can’t imagine. Being from a small town and being able to relate to that, it spoke to me so much and I was just recognizing how it would have felt. I really think Bryan-College Station is really just a big, small town, even though it has 300,000 people. It’s like one “small” town helping another.”

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mexico borderOpen access ends for US security agenciesMexico is ending its unprecedented open relationship with U.S. security agencies that developed in recent years to fight drug trafficking and organized crime. All contact for U.S. law enforcement will now go through “a single window,” the federal Interior Ministry, the agency that controls security and domestic policy, said Sergio Alcocer, deputy foreign secretary for North American affairs.

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