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Since the end of the “Wreck-ing Crew” era following Slocum’s departure and as the game of foot-ball evolved into more “spread based” concepts, the secondary hasn’t lived up to its previously ex-ceptional reputation.

One of the larger question marks for the 2012 season in a conference

known for its defense, the A&M secondary was hurting for experi-ence. After losing four seasoned seniors and as underclassmen were injected into starting jobs, the unit was begging for a leader.

Senior safety Steven Terrell an-swered the call.

Named a team captain prior to

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Senior safety Steven Terrell snagged two picks in A&M’s 58-10 win over Arkansas, continuing A&M’s improvement in the ever-significant arena of turnovers.

Terrell makes his mark forcing key takeaways

Turnover terrorthe season’s beginning, the speedy defensive back is making his pres-ence known after mixed experi-ence as a starter and backup. With 91 career tackles, two interceptions and 11 career starts leading up to his senior year, Terrell had his sights set on going out the right way in his fi-nal hurrah.

In a heated ri-valry game with serious season im-plications against Ar-kansas, Terrell did what the Aggies couldn’t accom-plish a year prior: force turnovers — and two to boot.

“This whole week we’ve been emphasizing turnovers because as

great as our offense is, we know if we get turnovers they’re going to turn them into points,” Terrell said following the Aggies’ 58-10 drub-bing of the Razorbacks. “That’s

all we were working on, trying to get turnovers.

Luckily we got some this week.”

Turnovers were a rare commodity for the Aggies in 2011, a commodity

desperately needed as the offense was reg-

ularly distributing it to other teams. A similarly tal-

ented conference rival with com-parable expectations that season, Oklahoma State, took advantage of turnovers better than any other

team by forcing 44 takeaways. The Aggies, meanwhile, only forced 15 last year.

The result? Oklahoma State skyrocketed to a 12-1 record and conference championship status. The Aggies skidded to a disap-pointing 7-6 finish after a preseason Top 10 ranking.

By Terrell picking off vaunted Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wil-son twice — particularly the first with the score at 13-10 A&M — he bucked more than the trend of losing to Arkansas, but possibly the trend of losing much at all.

Head coach Kevin Sumlin lauded the initial interception and teased Terrell for nearly giving the

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A look at the stats◗ Senior safety Steven Terrell leads the Aggies this year in interceptions with two. Both came last week in the win against Arkansas.◗ Terrell has 13 tackles on the season.◗ The safety from Allen, Texas, has a total of 91 tackles in maroon and white.

Check out page 4 for a look into Ole Miss’ legendary

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Among the student body at Texas A&M University are developing role models and leaders within respec-tive organizations who emphasize academic success and applied skills. Within these diverse organizations are underrepresented students who demonstrate a commitment to serv-ing their university and becoming men and women who others want to follow.

The Xi Psi Chapter of Alpha Kap-pa Alpha Sorority, Inc., has been on the A&M campus since 1985, and has served the community through countless projects from providing free childcare services to single parents in Bryan-College Station to having a scholarship pageant for underrepre-sented men at Texas A&M.

The Xi Psi Chapter will be hold-ing their fourth annual “Mr. Ivy League Scholarship Pageant” at 6:08 p.m. in the Memorial Student Cen-ter’s Bethancourt Ballroom on Oct. 6. The pageant is themed “Havana Nights.”

“This pageant serves as a way to highlight the underrepresented lead-ers and role models on campus who can easily be overshadowed at a pre-dominantly white institution,” said

Joseph Puente Special to The Battalion

Male pageant raises minority awareness A&M travels to Oxford for first conference road game

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Lucretia Stanfield, senior accounting major and president of Alpha Kappa Alpha. “The contestants are able to serve as role models for other minor-ity males on campus and are able to

prove that they can stand out in the crowd as well.”

The six candidates were selected after being considered men of high

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Pageant contestants practice their dance performance for the Alpha Kappa Alpha sponsored “Mr. Ivy League Pageant,” taking place Saturday.

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football preview

The Aggies (3-1, 1-1) be-lieve they broke a barrier last week in a home victory over Arkansas, notching their first Southeastern Conference win and proving they can retain a large lead. Moving the ball in the friendly confines of Kyle Field and snatching a win from an SEC opponent on the road are two dif-ferent games.

A&M makes its conference road de-but against Ole Miss (3-2, 0-1) Saturday in Oxford, Miss.

Head coach Kevin Sum-lin said last week’s 58-10 thrashing of Arkansas was promising, but consistency plays into the equation.

“There are a lot of teams that can play well for three hours one week,” Sumlin said.

“But what about the three hours the week after that? The ability to keep focus and maintain a certain level of play takes maturity.”

Few have talked about the Aggies this season without mentioning freshman quarter-back Johnny Manziel in the

same breath. In four career starts, Manziel has yet to surrender a single turnover and ac-counted for 16 touchdowns and 1,460 total yards. A&M’s leading passer and rusher, the Aggie offense has begun and end-ed with Manziel to

this point in the season. In his last outing, Manziel’s 557 total yards broke school and SEC single-game records.

Sumlin said the quarterback

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Ole Miss thus far◗ Ole Miss is 3-2 on the season and 0-1 in SEC play.◗ Last week, the Rebels lost 33-14 to Alabama on the road.

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o remember the last truly elite defenses to don

the maroon and white, A&M fans have to look

back to R.C. Slocum’s “Wrecking Crew” of

the late 1980s and early 1990s. Known rightfully as

“Linebacker U” in the same era — with such greats

as Aaron Wallace, John Roper and Quentin Coryatt

— there was one area of strength often overlooked

in Slocum’s stalwart units: defensive backs.

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correctionsThe Environmental Issues Committee does not collect and recycle waste in Kyle Field to earn money. The committee is dedicated to volunteering service hours in order to give back to the University while bettering the environment. The committee chair is Amanda Cernovich.

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Looking into the past

Tanner Garza — THE BATTALION

Sophomore biomedical sciences majors Rolando Gomez, Jeremiah Burks and Maria Melgar look at photos from A&M’s past on a timeline Thursday afternoon at the MSC. The timeline was put on display for the University’s 136th birthday, showing images from 1876 to the present.

ball back to Arkansas in his excitement. He then expounded on the significance of the mighty takeaway.

“I thought that was a big play. He tried to give it back to them. I saw [it] on the big screen to see what all the commotion was,” Sumlin said. “We’ve been talking since we’ve been here

about critical plays and game-changing plays … they’re not only turnovers, they’re game-changers.”

Terrell’s interceptions were game-changers indeed. What was a 13-10 grudge match became 27-10 at the half. After picking off his second Wilson pass at the beginning of the second-half, Ar-kansas had lost its will to fight.

Terrell said the win over the Razor-bcks, a team he had not performed well against in previous meetings, was espe-

cially meaningful to him. It was also a sign of his increased maturity as a leader of the team.

“I’m trying to do my job and help the team, be a leader for these younger guys,” Terrell said. “It was a big win for us, especially for me. I’ve played hor-ribly, honestly, against Arkansas until this year. It was a big game for me, a big game for this defense and the whole team.”

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morals with ethical standards. They were also required to be in good academic standing with the Uni-versity and must have demonstrat-ed an active approach in the com-munity and various organizations.

“I feel it’s a great way to foster awareness of the diverse commu-nity at Texas A&M,” said Lauren Jackson, junior accounting major and pageant co-chair. “Through the pageant we want to show stu-dents that racial barriers in educa-tion no longer exist.”

The pageant will consist of contestants modeling one style of clothing as well as formal evening wear, a five to six minute talent performance, and a debate where contestants will have six to eight minutes to present their standpoint on a current event or political issue of their choice.

“A lot of what we work on is personal development. As an African-American or Hispanic, the community here is small, so you see a lot of support from each other,” said Alana Frailey, senior sociology major and pageant chair. “Most of them have never been on stage, but when the lights hit they’ll also have the support of

their friends and family and their personality will truly shine.”

Jomo McDuff, senior technol-ogy management major and pag-eant contestant, said he believes the purpose of the pageant is positive for the unrepresented commu-nity and thinks everyone should get involved.

“I feel everyone should do this because this is an opportunity to showcase what you can contrib-ute to the community,” McDuff said. “This is also a great way to knock off stereotypes others may have of Hispanic and black men in college.”

The top three contestants will be awarded book scholarships — $1,000 for first place, $500 for sec-ond and $250 for third. Stanfield said the pageant gives students the opportunity to wit-ness the diversity firsthand at Texas A&M.

“I feel like this is a great pageant that we will continue each year be-cause it shows the true quality of minority students that Texas A&M possesses,” Stanfield said.

Tickets will be on sale Friday in Rudder Plaza from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Presale tickets are $8 for Greek-life students and $10 for non-Greeks. Tickets will be $12 at the door.

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has improved and is learning to handle success.“Based on results, he’s been pretty good,”

Sumlin said. “You see him getting better. That’s all part of it. As a young guy, you have to handle success at all positions, more so at quar-terback. Like me [as head coach], you get too much credit when you win and all the blame when you lose.”

As successful as A&M’s offense has been — ranked seventh nationally with an average of 48.3 points per game — the defense has been similarly statistically productive. The unit slots in eighth nationally, allowing 11.8 points per game.

Defensive coordinator Mark Snyder said this is a result of the athletes buying into the culture.

“We still have a lot of work to do,” Sny-der said. “I think the kids are buying in. We asked them to create turnovers; don’t give up the deep ball. The kids are doing that week in and week out. The glaring thing for me [against Arkansas] was simply our tackling ability.”

During week three, Ole Miss competed against the No. 11 Texas Longhorns and fell 66-31. Last week, No. 1 Alabama dispatched Ole Miss 33-14. Senior receiver Ryan Swope said the Aggies should expect a hostile, engaged crowd.

“I expect Ole Miss to be a crazy atmosphere,

real loud,” Swope said. “This is going to be spe-cial for us and is what I came back for to play, to go out and experience all those SEC schools. It’s going to be cool to see everything these teams have to offer. I’m really excited about it.”

The Rebels will likely lean on sophomore quarterback Bo Wallace, who Damontre Moore, senior defensive lineman, said is unlike any quarterback A&M has seen this season.

“We have to be very disciplined,” Moore said. “He’s the most athletic quarterback we’ve played all year. He’s a little more agile.”

Five of A&M’s next six games take place away from Kyle Field, including a date with No. 1 Alabama. Senior linebacker Jonathon Stewart said the team must shake the tempta-tion to look ahead.

“If we start worrying about LSU and Ala-bama, then those future games will become in-significant because we didn’t take advantage of the opportunity we had,” Stewart said.

After the 58 points posted against preseason Top 10 Arkansas, there were some murmurs of disappointment when the weekly polls were posted and A&M was left out. Stewart said the polls change nothing.

“If we were ranked [No.] 23 we would be the same exact team,” Stewart said. “We know how much talent we have on this team. We know what we’re capable of doing. It’s not a big-time priority for us right now. There’s still a lot of season to play.”

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ith this weekend’s away game at The University

of Mississippi, Aggies are curious about the tra-

ditions associated with Ole Miss. One tradition

in particular has caught A&M’s attention, the gather-

ing of students and alumni at a location near the center

of their University’s campus. “The Grove is a 10 acre

piece of land, that is shaded by a huge oak tree where

all of the fans go to tailgate before the game,” said

senior communication major Sarah Noland. Freshman

mechanical engineer major Sarah Martin said, “I’m very

excited about seeing all of the Aggie fans who show

Rebel’s GroveCourtesy Photos by Austin McAfee

up at The Grove to support

our 12th Man.” A staple of Ole

Miss pregame tradition since the

1950s, The Grove has remained

an integral tradition for the Reb-

els. Widely considered one of

the premier tailgating venues in

the country, The Grove draws as

many as 25,000 fans on gameday

and features food ranging from

hors d’oeuvres and barbeque to

traditional Southern cuisine.

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