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Dr. Nancy W. Dickey an-nounced her resignation as presi-dent of the Texas A&M Health Science Center and vice chan-cellor for health affairs Tuesdayafternoon.

Having served as president for 11 years, Dickey increased fund-ing for the program by $70 million per year and added two colleges and three new campuses while doubling the school’s student enrollment.

Dickey said it seems like an appropriate time for a new leader to take control of the program. Her resignation went into effect Tuesday.

“The impending merger of the TAMHSC into the Univer-sity seems an appropriate time for new leadership to take the helm,” Dickey said. “This is an oppor-tunity for me to return to my passion regarding health policy, health care delivery solutions, medical ethics and professional-ism — and the importance of these topics in the education of health professionals.”

Acting as the immediate head of the TAMHSC is E.J. Peder-son, former executive vice presi-dent and chief operating officer of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Pederson will be voted on as interim head in November at the Board of Re-gents meeting.

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Sophomore goalie keeps team confident Saving the day

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Sophomore goalkeeper Jordan Day helps secure A&M as a championship contender, posting nine shutouts on the season.

A&M soccer head coach G. Guerrieri has noticed a confidence shift in his team. His team is more ferocious, quicker on the attack. The confidence stems from the trust given to its sophomore goalkeeper Jordan Day, who has allowed only seven goals this season, giving A&M the seventh-best goals-against average in the country.

“If you do not have confidence in your goal-keeper, you’re playing with one eye on your goal,” Guerreri said. “When you know that she’s got it sorted out, you can play with total freedom and that’s what we’ve been doing since last year.”

Yet when asked about her game, Day simply passes on all accolades over to her teammates.

“I would give a lot of credit to my defense,” Day said. “They have been doing a phenomenal job with their shot stopping and area balls and all

of that makes my job much easier.”Born in Chandler, Ariz., Day began playing

soccer when she was four years old. Her parents, although not soccer players, believed the game would fit their daughter. Before long, Day was a natural.

During her high school years, Day was the varsity goalkeeper at Basha High School in Gil-bert, Ariz. She saw goals being scored, yet she

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Students of Texas A&M Greek life gath-ered in front of the Zeta house Tuesday night for a solemn candlelight vigil that honored the memory of one of the most influential men in the University’s Greek history.

Leonard Ledet was flying to watch the Ag-gies play Ole Miss with his brother Gregory and two sons Paul and Mason when their plane crashed after trying to avoid inclem-ent weather.

Leonard was one of the founders of Sigma Chi during a time when the University was not “Greek friendly.” As a transfer student determined to see his brotherhood active on campus, he paved the way for Greek life to flourish into the system as it is today.

“Len is the entire reason we have a Sigma Chi chapter here,” said senior biology major Parker Lachosky. “He came with the intent of starting Sigma Chi here, and he wasn’t going to be denied.”

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Water-only campaign draws student ministry

Candlelight vigil illuminates greek unity amid tragedy

off campus

In response to the loss, the men of Sigma Chi and the Interfraternity Council orga-nized the memorial, which began with a “maroon out” in memory of the Ledet’s lost and the ones that remain in grieving.

Not only did Greek students lose a leg-end, but they watched their sister lose a fa-ther. Leonard’s daughter, Alyson Ledet, ju-nior biomedical sciences major, is a member of the Texas A&M chapter Zeta Tau Alpha.

“It’s brought us nothing but unity, and our strength is kind of coming from Aly-son right now. She’s so strong,” said senior civil engineering major and Zeta Tau Alpha president Sarah Caruth.

Alyson was at home Tuesday with her mother Debra and sister Lauren, but the candlelight vigil still served the purpose of

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Hundreds of students gather in support and remembrance of the Ledet family Tuesday night outside the Zeta Tau Alpha house.

Water — a basic necessity to sustain life — is something that the majority of people are for-tunate enough to have access to on a daily basis. Yet, 783 million people around the world go without clean water every day.

The Wells Project at Texas A&M encourages students to do something to change this statistic and end the global crisis.

The Wells Project is a student organization with a sole purpose to provide a source of clean drinking water to people who lack access to such necessities. It is a group of 109 students who work with Living Water International.

Both organizations are faith-based, non-profit organizations whose mission is to accom-modate safe drinking water effectively and effi-ciently to developing countries. A&M’s branch of The Wells Project mainly funds the drilling of water wells in the African country Rwanda.

In the efforts to raise money for the exten-sive project, The Wells Project is challenging students with the 10 Days campaign. Beginning Oct. 10, The Wells Project is asking students and faculty to join them in fasting any drink that is not water for 10 days. The group is asking par-ticipants to donate whatever money they would have spent on coffee, soda, energy drinks or any other non-water beverages to the campaign.

Conor Barry, sophomore English major and member of The Wells Project, said even the smallest donation could make the difference with helping with the global water crisis.

“A one dollar donation gives a person access to clean water for an entire year,” Barry said. “Let’s say you donate $10 during the 10 days, that is either 10 people that have water for a year or one person that has clean water for 10 years. It is just cool when you can actually think of that impact that you are having.”

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In response to apparent gender stereotypes, Tuesday’s Coming Out Week program, “Deconstructing Queer Identities,” emphasized that one-word labels, such as gay and straight or black and white, cannot encompass the complexities found within one individual.

The program featured two pre-sentations and a panel discussion.

The first lecture was given by aca-demic Sima Shakhsari, a professor at Wellesley College, on “Cyberspace, the War on Terror, and the Hyper-visible Iranian Queer.” Following her presentation was Carre Adams, the director of community organiz-ing for Allgo, an Austin-based or-ganization that serves queer people of color across the state. Shakhsari and Adams participated in the panel, as well as Amber Johnson of Prairie View A&M University and Antonio

la Pastina of Texas A&M Univer-sity.

The conversation of the evening called into question the construc-tion of the identity of the queer population. The panelists were highly critical of the portrayal of the gay population as white, middle-class males who were primarily con-cerned with gay marriage and don’t ask, don’t tell policies. Adams said

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Professors, speaker deconstruct queer identitycoming out week

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Upcoming events◗ Coming Out Stories on Thursday at 7 p.m. at MSC 2404 ◗ Guess Who’s Gay Panel: Faculty/Staff on Friday at 7-8:10 p.m. at Rudder 501

thebatt.comItalian cuisineThe Battalion’s new food blogger, Sheila de Guzman, creates her own version of the traditional Italian pasta dish all’Amatriciana.

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The No. 22 Aggies did just enough Saturday to pull out a 30-27 win in Oxford, Miss., against Ole Miss and climb into the Top-25 rankings for the first time this season. During Tuesday’s press con-ference, head coach Kevin Sumlin and the Aggies said while the win was worth cel-ebrating, they’ll have to do more in this weekend’s road date against No. 23 Louisiana Tech.

Sumlin said situations like Saturday’s — when the Ag-gies managed a win in spite of six surrendered turnovers — help a team along the pro-cess of making the leap to the next level.

“All kinds of situations presented themselves telling you that you should lose,” Sumlin said. “Our guys had to deal with those and then win the football game. You have to get some bounces and some calls, but what it does is creates confidence in each other. From that standpoint it gives team confidence that we do have enough talent, we do have the type of team that can win a game at any time no matter the situation.”

Redshirt freshman quar-terback Johnny Manziel entered the Ole Miss game turnover-free on the season. That changed in a hurry, and Manziel accounted for half of the team’s six giveaways. Se-nior offensive lineman Patrick Lewis said he was impressed with how Manziel responded.

“You could tell Johnny was shaken a little bit,” Lewis said. “But he’s real poised be-yond his years. He did a great job recollecting himself and gathering us as an offense.”

The worst-kept secret in college football over the last year has been A&M’s seem-ing inability to close games late. Junior defensive lineman Damontre Moore said Satur-day’s win over Ole Miss was indicative of the program’s

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is an overwhelming experi-ence,” Moore said. “It helps us build confidence in our-selves and realize that we’re a different team than last year. To see us break that habit this year shows that this is a new year and we’re doing new things.”

A&M prepared for Louisi-ana Tech already this season — in week one — for what would have been the team’s season opener. However, adverse weather conditions forced a postponement of the contest until Oct. 13, a date in which both teams previously had a week off. Sumlin said the 5-0 undefeated Louisiana Tech team of today is better than the one his team pre-pared for.

“I’m not surprised by them being ranked,” Sumlin said. “They won’t be intimi-dated by us one bit and they shouldn’t be. They’re proba-bly ranked a little bit low. For our team to come in and play a top-25 team, we’re excited about that.”

The Aggies will be with-out a brace of rotation play-ers Saturday. Junior starting linebacker Steven Jenkins and sophomore backup safe-ty Howard Matthews were

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providing support. Caruth read a message from Alyson

regarding the support, saying that it is the most love she has ever felt.

The turnout for the event was mas-sive. The keynote speaker was Leonard’s pledge brother Lee Beauchamp, Class of 1975. Beauchamp spoke to the crowd on the character of Leonard and his im-pact on Texas A&M.

“It’s a tragic event for everybody.

Tonight’s a good example that it has a far reaching side effect, but also there’s a great sense of the Greek community to rally around this and support each other,” Beauchamp said.

Leonard’s legacy will live on through the tradition of Sigma Chi and his daughter Alyson, who will continue his work impacting lives through dentistry.

“Alyson’s smile is a visible symbol of her dreams to follow in her best friend, her daddy’s footsteps to reach all ends of the earth through the healing work of dentistry,” Caruth said.

The support for the Ledet family will

also continue. There have been efforts around the state to provide the Ledets with prayers and gifts, and there is ex-pected to be a donation fund set up on their behalf.

As those impacted begin to heal from the loss, comfort can be taken in the respect and honor that was shown for Leonard and his family.

“At Sigma Chi we have a saying to provide strong arms and tonight’s event shows that we’re all here to provide strong arms for each other,” Beauchamp said.

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originally suspended for the Louisiana Tech game due to violation of team policy, and the suspension will hold despite the game’s postpone-ment. Junior backup offen-sive lineman, Shep Klinke, will miss the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery on a broken bone in his foot.

Senior linebacker Jona-than Stewart said the team couldn’t allow the absence of a few players to affect the game.

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think about them not being there. Other guys have to show what they can do and why they’re at Texas A&M.”

Sumlin said emotional pre-paredness would be crucial for moving forward.

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Freshman cornerback De’Vante Harris and the rest of the Aggie secondary will be tested again Saturday.

At a glance ◗The Aggies rank No. 8 nationally in scoring offense, scoring 44.6 points per game.◗Louisiana Tech ranks No. 3 nationally in scoring offense, scoring 53.2 points per game.◗A&M ranks No. 14 nationally in scoring defense, allowing 14.8 points per game. ◗Louisiana Tech ranks No. 106 in scoring defense, allowing 35.8 points per game. ◗Both teams rank in the Top-30 nationally in all major offensive categories.

Individual stats ◗ Redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel ranks No.6 nationally in total offense, compiling 356 yards per game. ◗ Junior defensive end Damontre Moore ranks No. 4 nationally in sacks, averaging 1.4 sacks per game. ◗ Moore is tied for No. 2 in the country in tackles-for-loss with 2.5 per game. ◗ Manziel and Louisiana Tech quarterback Colby Cameron are both among the Top-15 quarterbacks nationally in pass effi ciency, ranking No. 12 and 14, respectively.

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These 10 days are dedicated to drinking water, but The Wells Project will be having several events to encourage participants to keep up the commitment they made. On Oct. 14 they are hold-ing a profit share at Yogurtland from 6 to 9 p.m. Here they are inviting anyone to come get yo-gurt, temporary tattoos and make donations at the halfway point of the campaign.

On Oct. 19 and 22, The Wells Project will have donation stations at Wehner, the Commons, Rud-der Fountain and Sbisa.

Julie Brown, junior interdisci-plinary studies major and campus director of The Wells Project, said it is one of the easiest campaigns for college students to partake and is encouraging everyone to participate.

“It isn’t asking you to give outside your normal budget,” Brown said. “If you think about how much you spend on cokes or Starbucks and consider that one dollar can provide clean water for someone for a year, then 10 days of water is worth it.”

In order to make it easier for participants to follow up and com-mit with donating, there is a free smartphone app called 10 Days. The app calculates how much someone would personally spend on beverages and that is how much they are asking people to pledge to donate at the end the 10-day period. The app also tells how much the school has pledged, the number of participants, drinks given up and the people who will be benefited from the donations.

Will Whitehill, senior account-ing major and president of The Wells Project, said the main goal of both organizations is to drill as many clean, safe, drinking-water wells around the world, but with an underlying message that is equally important to both groups.

It is more than just donations

Whitehill said, but missionary work as well.

“We are an organization work-ing with Living Water Interna-tional to drill clean water wells around the world in the name of Jesus Christ,” Whitehill said. “We are passionate about ending the global water crisis, and also shar-ing the [Christian] Gospel, teach-ing people about Jesus’ salvation.”

The Wells Project started at Texas A&M five years ago. It started with a group of students with a poster board and a fish bowl for donations who wanted to help the global water crisis. It has grown into what it is be-cause of the Aggie community, a partnership with LWI and 20 Wells Project chapters around the nation.

Last year, more than 2,000 people participated in the 10 Days campaign from more than 42 different schools. This year they are hoping for at least 2,500 participants and have already by-passed the number of schools that participated last year, with 90 schools involved.

Texas A&M has raised $20,000 in previous years, but hopes to exceed that number this year and make an even bigger impact. The Wells Project stresses that it is easy to make a difference and even the smallest donation matters. White-hill said people at Texas A&M are compassionate enough and would want to help if they knew how simple it was.

“At Texas A&M there are 50,000 students and if every stu-dent could just give a dollar we would be able to provide 50,000 people with clean water for an entire year or we could be able to drill five clean water wells in Rwanda,” Whitehill said. “A lot of people just don’t know how simple the solution is and how much of a difference they can make with a small donation of a dollar. I wish everyone knew that just a dollar could change or save someone’s life.”

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Sophomore goalkeeper Jordan Day has defended the A&M goal in 19 of 21 games this season.

said she knew she was meant to be a college goalkeeper.

“My high school team didn’t win many games, and I was scored on plen-ty of times,” Day said. “But I got to learn a lot from the past goals.”

As graduation approached, Day was inundated with offers to play soc-cer for many schools. Yet on her visit to A&M, she knew this would be the place for her. The environment and the camaraderie between the coaches and players were the main reasons Day felt her choosing to play for the Aggies would not be a mistake.

From the beginning, Day was named the starter for a team looking to go deep in the NCAA Tourna-ment. Day started 19 out of the 21 games played, and posted nine shut-outs, six coming against conference opponents. The difference she felt her first year was the immense sup-port from her teammates and the

12th Man.“It was both nerve-racking and

exciting to see so many fans at our games,” Day said. “During high school, you have your parents go, and at most 50 people go, but to come out on Ellis Field and see the thousands of fans is awesome.”

Guerrieri said Day has improved her game in the way that she knows best ¬¬— hard work and extra prac-tice. Guerrieri said when everyone else leaves practice, Day stays behind to improve on her weaknesses.

“She’s very coachable, she’s want-ing to do everything she can to im-prove,” Guerrieri said. “Last year we were having to pull a player from the field to take goal kicks. Now she’s able to hit the ball twice as far, which al-lows us to start attacks offensively. That comes from hitting thousands and thousands of balls when no one is looking.”

Her weaknesses have decreased and her team is expanding their game to their full potential. With a team con-fident that its goalkeeping is solid, the

focus can now shift to attacking and scoring goals. The mentality is notice-able, as the Aggies have scored 33 goals through 15 games this season.

“The mantra is that offense sells tickets, but defense wins champion-ships,” Guerrieri said. “If our defense and goalkeeping can continue to keep us in games, we know we can score goals, we just need to go out to do it.”

This season, the Aggies posted seven consecutive shutouts with Day right in the middle of it. With a salty defense, Day didn’t need to save many shots, but the ones she did were significant.

While the opportunity is there to soak in the glory of posting shutouts and owning a national ranking, Day remains humble and is always praising her teammates while maintaining fo-cus on the next scheduled game.

“I try not to keep track of streaks or stats,” Day said. “I just ask people not to tell me stats because our focus is to win as many games as possible. Playing strong as a team the way we have been, we’ll be able to go pretty far.”

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wednesday 10.10.2012

Jenna Rabel— THE BATTALION

At the Shades of Color event, “Destructing Queer Identities,” on Tuesday in the Psychology building, Sima Shakhsari presents a slide show and gives a speech about technology’s influence on homosexual identity.

this is merely a glimpse of the true identity of the queer person.

“What does gay look like? What does lesbian look like? The face of a lot of these national organizations are white, cisgendered (non-transgendered) people,” Adams said. “The perception of what queer folks in this country look like is that.”

Even when the intersections of identities such as race, religion or gender are consid-ered, Johnson said the representation of queer people is never as simple as it is portrayed.

“This intersection, if you think of it as a map, the streets are not straight. The streets don’t cross at perfect X-Y axes,” Johnson said. “The streets overlap, they intermingle, they play, they dance. I do not know what it means to be sexual outside of being a woman, outside of being black.”

La Pastina was critical of the picture of a queer population that was only concerned with marriage and discrimination within the military. He said this was a construction of an idealized population that served a social func-tion, but does not benefit the queer identify-ing community.

“The function I think of gay marriage and don’t ask, don’t tell has been one of me-dia campaign,” La Pastina said. “It’s easily accessible.”

The panelists said this easily digestible pre-sentation of the diverse spectrum of issues

unique to the multitude of queer-identifying factions is offensively simple. Shakhsari said that even if gay marriage was legalized, it would solve none of the real problems expe-rienced throughout this population.

“What does gay marriage do for queer im-migrants? Nothing,” Shakhsari said. “What does it do for single moms who are having a hard time making ends meet?”

Johnson said that many of the true issues get ignored in the popular media, such as vio-lence directed towards transgenders.

“So many stories get lost,” Johnson said. “We have so many transgendered people who are killed or in prison for defending them-selves and those stories never get told.”

Panelists called for reform throughout the spectrum of social justice, in issues that im-pact queer identifying peoples but are not specific to this population. They said the country needed to consider economic justice, to re-evaluate notions of nationalism and militarism, to construct new languages and discourses, and to reorganize the prison and health care system.

Adams said that what the queer population needs is not equality, but justice.

“In order for equality in America to exist for me, and for members of my community, America would have to not exist because of the history of colonization,” Adams said. “The other thing is that I don’t want to be equal to anybody, because I don’t want to be in a position to do the things to other people that have been done to us.”

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