Working to cre-ate a place for

international refugees in Houston, MSC FLI’s annual drive only collected bi-cycles in the past, but this year, the freshman leadership organiza-tion is encouraging students and faculty to donate anything from old furniture to old shoes, along with bicycles, to the Hous-ton-based nonprofit Life Cycles.

Life Cycles Global helps refugees from war-torn countries assimilate into Ameri-can society. Bryan Walker, MSC FLI assistant director and sophomore business major, said Life Cycles helps refugees from Burma, Africa, Nepal and the Middle East.

“One of their big-gest focal points is providing them means of transportation — bicycles, specifically, since they’re move-able, they’re easy to maintain,” Walker said. “That’s kind of their biggest point is getting them bicycles as a means of trans-portation.”

Alex Heinze, MSC FLI assistant direc-tor and sophomore business administra-tion major, has helped lead the committee facilitating the drive. Heinze said FLI has a box in the Student Programs Office on the second floor of

the MSC where do-nations are welcome at any time.

“We’ve picked up a couple couches, just different things — bigger items from people that are not able to bring them to school, if it’s faculty or students,” Heinze said. “We can make arrangements to get that picked up. We actually have an event on Facebook right now. We have infor-mation as far as who you can contact if you have something you may want to do-nate.”

The refugees often come from refugee camps without work or education avail-able, which Heinze said gives the refugees a sense of appreciation for what is offered to them upon arrival.

“They haven’t been able to get real jobs unless they leave the refugee camps, and so it’s not just people we’re giving things to, it’s people we know are going to return the favor and are going to make the most of it and go get jobs and pro-vide for themselves and provide for their families,” Heinze said. “They’re really pas-sionate about getting in and working into society once they get here.”

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Seniors engineer virtual reality project(Left) Senior Chief

Okorocha leaves a note for the family of Polo Manukainiu at the Reflections displays in the MSC Flag Room.(Above) Junior John Boran Jr. shows mementos belonging to his grandfather, Robert Brown, Class of 1950, to freshman Elizabeth Brooks.

The tablecloth that sat under Polo Manukainiu’s hand as he signed with A&M. A

cross made out of the necks of Ian Pogue’s cherished guitars. An Ag-gie Ring placed next to Ken Nel-

son’s Harley Davidson jacket and motorcycle helmet. A placard with the words “City of Bryan Mayor” printed neatly under Lonnie Sta-bler’s name. These items and more will be displayed in the MSC Flag Room until Muster on Monday in an attempt to tell the story behind the names called.

With the addition of memora-bilia brought throughout the week by families of the deceased, the re-flections display honors 40 of the more than 80 Aggies who will be honored at the campus Muster.

Madeline Kinnaird, Muster committee member in charge of the reflections display and junior elec-

trical engineering major, said the presentation happens every year.

“It’s a little different every year, but we always display cherished items, things that tell more about their passion,” Kinnaird said. “The roll call is just a list of names if you

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Memorabilia displays honor deceased Aggies

For their senior design project, a group of eight engineering stu-

dents from different disciplines are working on a virtual reality glove to be utilized while training future NASA astronauts.

Matthew Torres, senior electri-cal engineering major, said NASA is trying to build a virtual environ-ment that will help astronauts get acquainted with their work environ-ment — space.

“Our title for it right now is ‘vir-tual simulations’ and it involves cre-ating a new platform to train astro-nauts at NASA,” Torres said. “Right now they build full-scale mock-ups of the environments in space that they train in and they are scaling it down to a virtual environment that is contained in a 12-foot dome.”

The team is composed of three electrical engineers, a computer en-gineer and four industrial engineers — twice the size of a normal senior design group. Senior electrical en-gineering major Ivan Gomez said NASA was initially asked for a way to interact with the virtual environ-ment, but the group members de-cided to take it to the next level after speaking to their professor.

“Initially they wanted us to just have an environment that we would control with just keyboard input,” Gomez said. “We came back and talked to our professor and decided to take it a little bit further with the glove running and vibrating based on the signals that are inputted. An-drew [Butler] is working on using cameras to track the glove, so let’s say you touch a virtual object, then the camera would detect that this is where the object should be and then send a signal to the glove.”

The A&M group’s research aims to deliver a system above NASA’s initial request by introducing haptic feedback into the glove’s technol-ogy. Haptics, which focus on touch feedback, are present in everyday technologies ranging from touch-screen cell phones to videogame joysticks. Haptic feedback would enable an astronaut who uses the glove to be “aware” of simulated items he or she interacts with in vir-tual reality.

“So the glove has these vibrating motors at the end of each fingertip and as you interact with different

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Donning red high heels, more than 100 men took

to campus streets and sidewalks to raise awareness for sexual violence.

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes was hosted by the Women’s Resource Center and the Stu-dent Anti-Violence Educators Tuesday in Koldus Plaza. Sup-ported by wives, daughters and friends, the men walked a mile course in three-inch-tall red heels. Holding signs that said, “I am man enough to walk a mile in her shoes,” participants hoped to bring visibility to sex-ual violence in the community.

Sonia Mahabir, assistant co-ordinator for the Women’s Re-source Center, said it was sig-nificant to host this on a college campus because colleges are home to the populations most affected by sexual violence.

“We have seen from research and statistics that women in

college, ages 18-24, are in the age group that is most likely to be victims of sexual violence,” Mahabir said. “You have to think of the environment — they are new, they don’t have a comfort zone. There are peo-ple who know how to prey on these women.”

The University Police De-partment participated in the walk. Ed Costello, UPD ser-geant, said he hopes participat-ing in the event will help male

police officers identify with women and make the officers more approachable. Walking in heels, Costello said, helps him view sexual violence from a woman’s perspective.

Proceeds from the event benefited educational programs to raise awareness in hopes of preventing future sexual as-saults on campus.

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Senior applied mathematical sciences major Zach Maril (left) and sophomore university studies major Alonzo Williams walk a mile in red heels to support victims of sexual violence.

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Stringing together popular music, rock ’n’ roll and jazz, Aperio-Music

of the Americas will feature the works of younger composers in its perfor-mance, Indie-A-Go-Go, presented by the A&M Department of Performance Studies.

While planning a different concert in Houston eight years ago, founder and artistic director Michael Zuraw said he realized the music he was looking for was slipping away.

“It occurred to me that the music I was looking for had a future that was in jeopardy,” Zuraw said. “I realized if there were somehow I could get my hands on the music and perform it, it would take the music out of the realm of endangered music. We started the program to bring that music to light.”

Zuraw said his mission is to promote the works of up-and-coming composers.

“This particular program we will be presenting is by a group of younger composers who have all been inspired by American popular culture, in par-ticular influences from the 20th century such as rock and roll or just popular mu-sic,” Zuraw said.

Radiohead and Van Halen are a few notable inspirations for the pieces that will be performed, Zuraw said.

“If anyone in the audience is familiar with Eddie Van Halen they will prob-ably know the major guitar solo that he does,” Zuraw said. “It’s the very first thing that is quoted in the piece and then becomes the inspiration for every-thing that happens thereafter.”

Full-time composer D.J. Sparr wrote “The Glam Seduction,” which he said draws its influence from the guitar solos of the ’80s.

“Growing up as a guitar player in the ’80s, popular music had these crazy, searing, really noted guitar solos,” Sparr said. “Then I studied classical music and thought it would be cool to combine that into one piece.”

Brendan Kinsella, pianist, will per-form a couple of pieces by Radiohead at the concert. For Kinsella, classical music is hereditary, which is what he said in-spired his career.

“One grandfather was a pianist and another was a conductor,” Kinsella said. “When I was out thinking about what I wanted to do with my life I was think-ing between music and computers, but I thought music would be more fulfill-ing.”

Indie-A-Go-Go will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Rudder Theatre. Tickets can be purchased online or at the MSC Box Office in Rudder Tower.

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American experience, Heinze said, like how to interpret the bus system or utilize health care services.

After working with Life Cycles for two years, Heinze said she communicated often with Laurie and Jeremy Howell, the founders of Life Cycles. Laurie started the organization after working with Burmese refugees as an ESL teacher, Heinze said.

Heinze said the Howells are invested in A&M and are passionate about their organization.

“She has left teaching and doing ESL to do this full time so I feel like she’s the main drive behind it,” Heinze said. “Everything she does is for Life Cycles.”

The Howells decided to accept clothing and household items after the number of bikes ex-ceeded the number of families arriving.

“If we can just provide the bare necessities for them to start their lives, it makes their transition a lot easier,” Heinze said. “It makes life a lot easier for them and their families.”

Heinze said students can donate clothes they’ve outgrown, sheets that no longer fit their bed size and any other linens or towels.

“Anything that you can think of as far as go-ing into a house so kitchen utensils — plates, cups, pots and pans,” Heinze said. “On-campus people — if they have a lamp that they’re not using, a chair that they’re not using. Anything, really, that goes into making a house.”

Taylor Beach, executive director of MSC FLI’s international service and outreach and sophomore university studies major, said Life Cycles is a good way to localize an international issue.

“We’ve been through a lot in our lives, but it’s put into perspective that there are people struggling more than us and that everything we can do for them — they’re going to be so ap-preciative,” Heinze said.

FLI will accept donations until April 25.

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surfaces the system sets off the motors,” said Andrew Butler, senior computer engineering major. “So if you were reaching out to touch a virtual wall you could actually feel that it was there.”

Along with student groups from across the nation working on similar NASA-related projects, the group will be presenting their glove at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston Monday.

Madeline Brown, senior industrial engineering major, said they were giv-en three different situations that their device would have to give haptic feed-back responses to and that the group has been doing extensive testing to figure out what will work best.

“NASA had three scenarios for the haptic feedback for the mission simula-tions,” Brown said. “One was a struc-tural object like walls or tables to let you know that you can’t go through it, but-tons on a touchscreen or interface and then an object that you can pick up and manipulate.”

Senior electrical engineering ma-jor Quynh Nguyen said designing the glove is challenging since it is in a new field with no prior designs the group

could use as a starting point.“Since this a haptic glove it techni-

cally falls into the category of wearable technology, which is a relatively new field,” Nguyen said. “There is not a lot of background to go into, you can’t re-ally look up circuits to put onto gloves or the best way to build an electronic glove. A lot of it has been kind of un-known, but I think that is the exciting thing about it.”

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Shacks built to raise money for Habitat for Humanity will be in Rudder Plaza for a week.

The campus squirrels have new neighbors this week

in Rudder Plaza.Habitat for Humanity is

hosting its annual Shack-A-Thon, in which organizations are invited to purchase a lot and have members construct and live in a shack in the Shack-A-Thon village for a week.

Morgan Grinstead, fresh-man psychology major, said the event is meant to foster a sense of community and raise awareness, as staying in the shacks is purposefully un-comfortable to imitate some of the issues related to pov-erty.

“We paid $800 for our lot and it raises awareness be-

cause we are out here and people are kind of like, ‘What are you doing in a shack?’” Grinstead said.

While some of the inhabit-ants of the shacks said staying in the shacks overnight was the most difficult part, Jake Schnows, sophomore me-chanical engineering major, said building was the hardest

part for his group, FLASH. “[The only limitation for

us was] just that we are not very good at building things,” Schnows said.

Themes among this year’s shacks include “Sharknado,” “Up,” and “Frozen.” Shack-A-Thon 2014 began Monday and will end Friday.

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Fresh off a series win over No. 7 Vanderbilt, the

Texas A&M baseball team returns to College Station to take on the Abilene Chris-tian Wildcats at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday at Olsen Field.

The Wildcats (12-20) come to College Station trying to recover from seven straight losses after being swept by Lamar, Texas Tech and Sam Houston State.

Senior infielder Seth Spivey leads ACU with a .393 bat-ting average. Spivey also has a team high in home runs (3), runs scored (30), walks (16), stolen bases (10), slugging percentage (.607) and on-base percentage (.514). Spivey an-

chors the Wildcats in fielding as well, posting a team-high .979 fielding percentage.

The Aggies (22-15, 7-8 SEC) are placed fifth out of six teams in the SEC western division, but trail division-leading Alabama by only three games.

A&M freshman outfielder Nick Banks leads the club with a .337 batting average and .446 slugging percentage. Banks was 4-for-5 in his team’s 10-4 victory over Vanderbilt on Friday and added another hit in the Aggies 8-2 Sunday win.

Junior right-handed pitcher Corey Ray — who has ap-peared in eight games out of the bullpen for the Aggies this season — will make his first start Wednesday.

Ray enters play with a 2.35 ERA in 7.2 innings pitched. Last season, Ray made six starts for A&M. Ray marks the eighth different pitcher head coach Rob Childress has used as a starter this season.

The Wildcats will send a first-time starter to the mound Wednesday with junior Lad-gie Zotyka expected to take the hill. In 12.1 innings out of the bullpen this year, Zotyka has posted a 6.57 ERA, strik-ing out 10 and walking eight batters in his nine appearances.

After Wednesday’s match-up, the Aggies will host No. 19 Kentucky in a three-game weekend series at Olsen Field.

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at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Aggie Softball Com-plex.

“We always have tight games with [Sam Houston State],” said A&M head coach Jo Evans. “They’ve played well against us. It’s a midweek game where we can’t relax right now. You can’t do that against them, they’re too good and ag-gressive.”

The Bearkats (22-18, 11-6 Southland) are led by senior outfielder Cecilia Castillo, who is one of six players hitting better than .300 this year. Junior infielder Hillary Adams and sophomore infielder Tiffany Castillo are both approaching double digits in home runs with eight apiece, and the pair leads the team with 26 and 28 RBIs, respectively.

In the circle for SHSU, senior pitcher Shel-

by Lancaster (7-6, 3.20 ERA) and junior Haley Baros (9-8, 3.26 ERA) have shouldered the ma-jority of the work. The Bearkat pitching staff has tossed a combined five shutouts this season.

The Aggies (28-14, 9-9 SEC) are coming off a series loss against the No. 4 Tennessee Volunteers last weekend. Junior pitcher Rachel Fox threw a complete game on Friday, including eight strike-outs, while senior outfielder Cassie Tysarczyk had two homers during the weekend.

“I think anytime you have anybody come into your house, it’s important to get a ‘W,’” Fox said. “Especially with a team like Sam, we play them all the time. They’re scrappy and well coached. They’re going to come in here and fight until the bitter end.”

The Aggies continue conference ball on Fri-day, playing the first of a three-game series against the No. 5 Florida Gators at the Aggie Softball Complex. Friday and Saturday’s games will be televised on ESPNU.

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don’t tell their story and this display is a way to tell their story and a way to put a face to the name. It just makes it all much more real and it makes it a lot more personal.”

Jaynish Amin, Muster committee member and se-nior biochemistry major, said the cherished items on display include Aggie Rings, senior boots and scrapbooks — any-thing that shows current stu-dents why the deceased are important members of the Aggie family.

While looking at the tables of items, Maggie Gaylord, sophomore international studies major, said the articles

displayed show the love of the families.

“It’s really cool for me to see the love of the families that’s here,” Gaylord said. “It reminds me that these families are still grieving and that their lives have changed forever.”

Javier Davila-Lopez, soph-omore psychology major, said the reflections display gives him a greater apprecia-tion of Muster, and in exten-sion, A&M.

“I was already a die-hard Aggie,” Davila-Lopez said. “So this just makes me more proud. I haven’t seen any other colleges that do any-thing like this.”

Ellen Temple, Muster committee member who helped set up the display and senior health major, said she

got involved with Muster on campus after growing up with parents who organized Mus-ter in her hometown. Temple said the reflections display is a sort of tradition in itself.

“At hometowns, it’s a lot more about celebrating their lives at the beginning, then at the end it’s solemn and everyone kind of talks about that person and shares stories of that person,” Temple said.

Gaylord said honoring roll call Aggies is in some ways a means of serving one’s future self.

“We’re serving our fu-ture self, because someday our names are going to be called and there is going to be another sophomore that will lead my family around,” Gaylord said.

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