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Senior political science major Jennifer Nichols competes in her third Olympics in London, while incoming freshman molecular and cell biology major Miranda Leek, bottom, prepares for her first Olympics.

Three-time Olympian, incoming freshman train around the clock

Aggies archers take aim

Archery has been at the forefront of media outlets this year, due in most part to the popular young adult book series, “The Hunger Games.”

Although Nichols and Leek may not be using a bow and arrows to fend for their lives, such as “Hun-ger Games” main character Katniss Everdeen, they will aim for a gold

medal. Competing archers have four

minutes to shoot six arrows. When the horn goes off, they might spend two-and-a-half to three minutes walking to the target, 70 meter away, retrieving arrows and

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The Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics begins on 3 p.m. Friday. The ceremony has been named “Isle of Wonder,” inspired by William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”

See Archery on page 3

T he 2012 Summer Olympics in London officially

begins Friday, making it a very exciting and

anxious time for two of Texas A&M University’s

archers: Jennifer Nichols and Miranda Leek.

Torchbearer Lloyd Scott carries the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg through Haringey, England.

Most of the time, there is little to no room for monetary donations to charitable causes in a college stu-dent’s budget. Fortunately, there are endless ways to give back in the Bryan-College Station area through community service opportunities from baking to building houses.

Tara Price, graduate student in nutrition, said the on-campus com-munity service opportunities should

be taken ad-vantage of by students.

“I think community service is the most impor-tant thing you can con-tribute to society, espe-cially at this

age when you’re able,” Price said.During the school year, students

can get involved through a number of community service organizations at Texas A&M University.

Helping the HomelessAggie Habitat for Humanity is

an organization dedicated to raising awareness about poverty housing. Working in conjunction with the local Habitat for Humanity orga-nization, this organization helps provide opportunities for fami-lies living in substandard housing to own a home. The family must commit to at least 500 hours of sweat-equity into other homes and is then sold a house for the cost of materials on a 30-year, no interest

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For more infoTexas A&M community service organizations can be found at studentactivities.tamu.edu.

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John Junkins, distinguished pro-fessor of aerospace engineering, was named director of the Texas Institute for Advanced Study.

The institute will seek to help all colleges on campus attract nation-ally and internationally accomplished

faculty fellows who will propose research and scholarly activities with professors.

Junkins said the proposal for TIAS has been in the making for more than a decade after Vision 2020 was set in motion. The

idea emerged from faculty and was approved by the Board of Regents last year.

“The activities will involve mul-tiple graduate students — funded by fellowships — and several undergrad-uate students for each faculty fellow,” Junkins said. “The goals are several, however the main goal is to greatly enrich the talent pool of extremely accomplished scholars to enhance the quality of our academic and research programs.”

The institute aims to attract aca-demic scholars such as Nobel laure-

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Professor recruits scholars

campus

Says institute needs $200 million endowment

See Service on page 3

ASSOCIATED PRESS

See Junkins on page 2

Fire school lights the evening

Jennifer Nguyen — THE BATTALION

Firefi ghters light fl ares in preparation for the next demonstration Wednesday evening at Brayton Fire Field. This fi re-awareness and demonstration is presented by Texas Engineering Exten-sion Service which teaches more than 2,500 fi refi ghters — the largest of its kind in the world.

Junkins

Olympic games to begin

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ates, members of the National Academies, and Guggenheim awardees. Faculty fellows will be announced mid-semester in fall.

Junkins said the institute currently has funds of $2 mil-lion a year for five years but will need an endowment of about $200 million for the project to prosper.

“The endowment for the institute will be a significant part of the overall capital cam-paign that is anticipated for the University to undertake in the next few years,” Junkins said. “The attractiveness of TIAS for endowment will depend on the success achieved during the early years of operation.”

Vice President for Re-

search and Chief Research Officer for the System Jeffrey R. Seemann said the primary challenge of the institute will be meeting the expectations Texas A&M has set for TIAS.

“Creating a new, highly visible, highly energetic, fully engaged organization requires time, commitment and re-sources,” Seemann said. “We must recruit truly outstanding faculty fellows and assure a high level of engagement with faculty and students at Texas A&M.”

Seemann said through the institute TIAS faculty fel-lows will engage in meaning-ful interactions with current faculty, while providing new educational and research op-portunities for students. He said the ideas and relationships from these collaborations will elevate Texas A&M’s prestige

as a Tier 1 research institution and to achieving consensus status as a top 10 public re-search university by 2020.

“With ongoing campus-wide support and the leader-ship of individuals like Dr. John Junkins, as well as mem-bers of the advisory board and the administrative council, I am confident that we have the elements in place to en-able TIAS to overcome any hurdles it may encounter in the future,” Seemann said.

Christine Woods, junior computer science major, said she hopes the institute will continue to raise academic standards at the University.

“Some of the top scholars in the world are Aggies and I think it’s great that we are cre-ating an institute to lead stu-dents to more extraordinary achievements,” Wood said.

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loan. The houses are built using volunteer labor, which is where students come in. Alongside fami-lies, they work on houses through-out the year.

Mentoring YouthFor students interested in play-

ing a part in the future, Aggie Big Brothers Big Sisters is an organi-zation that helps children through one-on-one mentoring relation-ships. Aggie Big Brothers Big Sis-ters is a professional mentoring organization where volunteers are evaluated and matched with a child best fit for them. Volunteers are responsible for spending time with the child, being an exemplary role model and encouraging the child to pursue positive goals in the future.

Cooking for a CauseStudents interested in sharing

love through food might be inter-ested in Texas A&M Cupcakes, a student organization that brings students together through a mu-tual love of baking. Members orga-nize various bake sales and events throughout the year in order to raise funds for the Brazos Valley Food Bank. For every dollar do-nated to the food bank, five pounds of food are distributed to people in need.

When the school year is not in full swing, there are still a number of ways to get involved in the com-munity.

Animal AdoptionThe Brazos Animal Shelter is

constantly accepting applications for those interested in volunteering to help take care of animals with-out a home, be of assistance at the shelter and help at charitable events

such as Wienerfest and PetSmart Mobile Adoption.

“They have a good thing go-ing and they need help. So do the animals,” said sophomore animal science major and Brazos Animal Shelter volunteer Kaitlyn Porter.

Brazos Animal Shelter is also seeking individuals willing to foster animals that need medical assistance or are too young to adopt.

Sharing TalentsStudents interested in using their

performance talents for a cause might consider visiting a retire-ment home. Junior education ma-jor Ciara Scott said singing to the members of the Crestview Retire-ment Community was a touching experience.

“A group of my friends wanted to go sing Christmas carols to them last December,” Scott said. “It was a really simple thing — we’re not professional or anything and we

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returning to the firing line.“I feel so honored. There is nothing bet-

ter than to walk in the Opening Ceremonies as your country chants ‘USA-USA-USA’ ... The excitement and energy is overwhelm-ing and so inspiring. To wear USA on your back fills you with pride and honor as you compete for the best country in the world,” said Nichols, senior political science major.

This will be Nichols’ third time compet-ing in the Olympics. Her first at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, followed by the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing.

“To be an Olympian once is an honor, but to receive the honor three times, I feel inexpressibly privileged,” Nichols said.

Depending on where she is in her travel and competition schedule, Nichols trains six

to eight hours a day with her coach. “Here in London, we have been leaving

the Village around 8 a.m. to train and don’t return until 5 or 6 p.m. A light training day for me is two to three hours of shooting,” Nichols said.

Nichols took up archery 16 years ago at the age of 12, when her father gave her a bow and arrows as a Christmas present.

“About a year later, I became involved with a local junior olympic archery devel-opment club and I discovered my love of competition. It was a rush that was abso-lutely addictive. My involvement grew from there until I graduated from high school and decided to train to make my first Olympic Team,” Nichols said.

Although most of her time is spent train-ing, Nichols intends to explore London the second she gets a free moment; in particular, taking a ride on the London Eye, the Ferris wheel looking over the Thames River.

“The most exciting thing so far has been training for the team competition with my two teammates and shooting 11 points off perfect, 229 out of 240 — truly a training record for us,” Nichols said.

Leek, 19, will take on the Olympics for the first time while preparing to join the in-coming freshmen class as a molecular and cell biology major in the fall.

“Wow! It is an unbelievably huge accom-plishment to make the Olympic Team and an even bigger honor to be able to participate in the Olympic Games. It is so great to see all the hard work paying off as I am making more improvements and shooting stronger each day leading up to the Games,” Leek said.

Leek lived at the Olympic Training Cen-ter in Chula Vista, Calif., since February, where she would shoot up to seven hours a day.

“It is so cool to be a part of an event of this

magnitude, and to have the greatest country in the world supporting me as I do my best to show the rest of the world what the USA has to bring to the table,” Leek said.

She has taken in a few sites while staying in London.

“We took the underground to Bucking-ham Palace then walked to Big Ben, Parlia-ment, and the London Eye. We continued on to the London Bridge and the Tower Bridge, which have the Olympic rings hang-ing off of them right now,” Leek said.

The Olympics kick off Friday and many students, professors and coaches said they plan to watch.

“Both girls are extremely talented, but yet very humble. Their strength, drive and determination are amazing to watch, which makes both of them true ambassadors for the sport of archery, as well as Texas A&M Uni-versity,” said Lorinda Cohen-Gomez, one of the University’s three archery coaches.

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A nearly completed house is built by Habitat for Humanity on Holleman Drive. Habitat for Humanity is one of many volunteer opportunities around the Bryan-College Station area.

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Miranda Leek and Jennifer Nichols earned two of the three positions on Team USA women’s archery team.

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Cadets have four uniforms: Alphas, Bravos, Army Combat

Uniforms and Midnights. Alphas are primarily worn

for semi-professional occa-sions. They include a long sleeve khaki shirt, black tie and khaki pants. Bravos are the most frequently worn uniforms on campus, which include a khaki short sleeve shirt with matching pants.

Army Combat Uniforms include a camouflage over shirt with a tan undershirt, camouflaged pants and tan combat boots; these are worn more often during inclement

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onor, integrity, discipline and selfless

service are the characteristics of the

more than 2,100 men and women of

Texas A&M University’s Corps of Cadets.

See Corps on page 5

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1 Each cadet wears a shield on their shoulder symbolizing the major unit they come from. There are eight major units in the Corps plus

Corps Staff, which has its own shield. The light blue “wingshield” pictured is from Second Wing. Also pictured is the rank on the collar of the cadet, which ranges from the standard AMUs for fish to what is nicknamed “moons and diamonds” for seniors.

2  Belts and buckles are unique to each class. Freshmen have black cotton belts with a roller buckle; sophomores have black nylon belts with

a plain buckle; juniors have white cotton belts with a Texas A&M Corps of Cadets insignia on the buckle; and seniors have white nylon belts with the Great Seal of the U.S. on the buckle.

3 When a cadet earns awards or recognition, they can display symbols of them on their uniform, if applicable. Pictured are several ribbons worn

above the pocket, a Corps athletic team badge in the center of the pocket, and an O.R. Simpson Honor Society shoulder cord.

4 Senior cadets in the Corps have the option of adorning their boots with spurs, which make the infamous tapping while they walk. Senior

cadets also have the option of having “butterflies,” or custom images, to wear on the boots.

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weather. Midnights are the most for-mal, worn on special occasions; these include a slim olive drab shirt, khaki tie and midnight pants.

On each of these uniforms, patches are worn over the shoulder on shields to denote separate major units in the Re-serve Officer Training Corps branches: Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine or Non-Combat. Medals are worn over the left-hand pocket on the chest of the shirt while the cadet’s nametag hangs over the right. The Corps ranking or brass is displayed on the collar, and ci-tation cords are wrapped over the left shoulder, representing membership in certain organizations or for outstanding performance.

Alders said he has worn the uniform for years.

One of the more storied traditions of the Corps is senior boots. These boots cost more than $1,000 and are a point of pride for Corps members. Derek

Bull, senior human resource develop-ment major and member of Squadron 3, said he remembers his first memories of seniors and their boots from his fresh-men days.

“My fish buddies and I would bust out of our doors and proceed to literally fight each other for the privilege to pull our seniors’ boots off their feet,” Bull said. “In the end, they’d ‘pay’ us by giv-ing us candy, pennies, dirty socks, other random junk or privileges.”

Fish buddies are another tradition close to Bull’s heart, as it is to many cadets.

“They are the individuals who joined the Corps and your outfit with you,” Bull said. “Your fish buddies are the people that you go through your very difficult first year in the Corps with, and you will most likely go through your entire Corps career with them.”

Bull said for many members of the Corps, fish buddies are their close friends throughout their entire life, well after graduation. He said they become so close that they are like family in many ways and will always stand by each oth-er throughout their lives.

Another tradition for the Corps is holding titles such as “Keepers of the Spirit” and “Guardians of Tradition.”

“The health of this institution is de-pendent on the entire Aggie family,” Alders said. “It is essential we join in the common pursuit of furthering the impact of our great school in the future, while preserving what has made us great in our past.”

The University has had a Corps since its beginning in 1876. The school was built under the terms of the Morrill Act of 1862, which designated the school as a land, space and sea grant institution. At this time, enrollment is the Corps was mandatory and all students were required to receive military training. Since then the Corps has seen many changes, especially during Gen. James Earl Rudder’s tenure when the school and the Corps began admitting women and minorities. In 1965, under Rud-der, participation in the Corps became voluntary.

Even with these changes, the Uni-versity’s Corps is the largest uniformed body outside of national service acad-emies.

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