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Venezuelan student Esteban Garcia (center), pictured with Eduardo Cerri and Julio Gonzalez, says while he is located in Texas he is emotionally invested in Venezuela.

While the violent conflict in Ven-ezuela continues across lines and borders, the effects of the turmoil

are felt by Venezuelan Aggies. Esteban Garcia was born and raised in

Venezuela, and came to Texas A&M to fol-low in his parents’ Aggie footsteps. Garcia, senior civil engineering major, said his life is still very much rooted in his home country.

“I am emotionally, and my life is invested in Venezuela,” Garcia said.

Garcia said because of his investment in Venezuela, he feels Venezuelan students are in many ways fighting his battle.

Garcia said the movement led by Venezu-elan university students was revitalized on Feb. 12, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Victoria, a battle for independence against the Spanish government in Venezuela. Gar-cia said the movement began in part because

Venezuelans wanted the right to formulate their own opinions.

“So, the [Venezuelan] students try to make something out of [the symbolic date] and de-manded a nation-wide protest and marches all over the country,” Garcia said. “This is because especially at these universities, these are public universities, the government has tried to implement the ideology of their own, of communism and socialism, into students

that just want to think by themselves, who don’t want to be told what to think.”

Garcia said those involved with the move-ment are also concerned about the crime rates in Venezuela. Garcia said his father and his friends’ fathers have been kidnapped in the past. Garcia said it is now a widespread prac-tice to rob someone then drop the robbed party in the middle of nowhere hours later to ensure that no one is following them. Be-cause of this security threat, Garcia said he now calls his mother three to four times a day to make sure that his family is okay.

“It is awful, you cannot go on the streets,” Garcia said. “While you are walking, you are going to get mugged. I am constantly fearful for my mom and dad every time they leave for work. Like this, there are many stories. Most of the students over here identify with this security problem.”

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HERE AND THERE

A pair of Texas A&M defen-sive starters were arrested

early Sunday.According to a Bryan Police

Department report, defensive lineman Isaiah Golden was ar-rested for possession of less than two ounces of marijuana while linebacker and 2013 leading tackler, Darian Claiborne, was arrested for a noise violation.

Golden and Claiborne were later released after posting bail.

Golden, Claiborne and fresh-man signee Devante “Speedy” Noil were parked in a handicap parking space when approached by a Bryan police officer, ac-cording to the report.

The officer reported that he immediately smelled marijuana upon approaching the vehicle. According to the report, Gold-en admitted ownership of the marijuana and was arrested for possession.

Claiborne, who was sus-pended for the Chick-Fil-A Bowl in Dec. 2013 following a possession of marijuana ar-rest, “became very loud again complaining that this was going to ruin the defendant’s career,” according to the officer’s state-ment.

The police department also found a three-quarters full bottle of brandy in the vehicle, which Claiborne was ordered to pour out in front of the officer as none of the occupants were of legal age to possess alcohol.

According to the report, Noil, who was seated in the back of the vehicle, was not ar-rested.

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insidenews | 5AdmissionsA&M administrators and students prepare for 35,000 applicants for the Class of 2018 as A&M’s national brand continues to grow.

sports | 2A&M to play HBU TuesdayA&M closes out its opening eight-game home stand Tuesday against Houston Baptist at Olsen Field. Junior third baseman Logan Nottebrok, who bats .296 and has scored 10 runs, leads the offense into the matchup.

After 70 years of silence, the GI brides of Tiger

Bay are getting a chance to add their legacy to WWII history.

Valerie Hill-Jackson, a clinical associate professor in the department of teach-ing, learning and culture at Texas A&M recently cre-ated the documentary film, “Tiger Brides: Memories of Love and War from the G.I. Brides of Tiger Bay,” which illuminates the un-told stories of six brides

from Cardiff, Wales, who crossed the Atlantic to be with their African-Ameri-can GIs. The office of the Vice President and Associ-ate Provost for Diversity at Texas A&M will be host-ing a screening at of the film at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center.

Tiger Bay is a half-square mile, multi-cultural community, Hill-Jackson wrote in a blog entry. The diverse community of Ti-ger Bay offered a place for black GIs to experience civil liberties they were de-nied in the U.S., she said.

“When they came to town they weren’t judged

Prof gives GI’s wives a voice

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Valerie Hill-Jackson draws inspiration from her mother-in-law, Patricia Ann Ismail (pictured).

Prof discusses genetics research,

intricacy of his work

HANGING WITH THE FRUIT FLIES

QA& :David Cohen, lifestyles reporter, sits down with Keith Maggert, associate professor of biology.

THE BATTALION: You do your research on fruit flies. Would you elaborate on how that works?

MAGGERT: So I study fruit flies not because I really like bugs, but because I really like chromosomes. I’m primarily a geneticist, and what interests me and those in my lab is primarily how genes are regulated. For example, when a gene knows to be turned off or on. Fruit flies have been studied to be good evidence for this over the last 100 years, so we can capitalize on this.

THE BATTALION: What makes fruit flies different than any other types of organisms?

MAGGERT: Flies are really easy to culture, first of all. You can take two flies and they will generate 200 flies within two weeks. They can also withstand very crowded conditions, and if you care about concepts like unusually large chromosomes and muscle development they have tissues that can help you there. They have got a pretty short life, but they’re complex enough that

See Maggert on page 4Keith Maggert, associate biology professor, researches genetics utilizing fruit flies.

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“Jay Leno was funny but I think he needed to be replaced by a newer,

younger host.”Lauren DeBolt, senior

kinesiology major

Q:thebattasks How do you feel about recent shifts in late-night TV hosts?

“Even though it is sad to see Jay go, he was getting to that point where he has had a

really great career. Jimmy Fallon has been getting a lot of fan base over these past few years. It’s a good move for the network. It

will bring a lot of people to watch it.” Preston White, freshman communication major

“I think that it’s a good change. I think that Jay

Leno was kind of old-fashioned, they need

someone new in there, kind of like a young gun.”

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Junior third baseman Logan Nottebrok slides into home Sunday for one of his team-leading 10 runs scored.

No. 18 Texas A&M baseball will host the Houston Baptist Huskies at 6:35

p.m. Tuesday. The game is the last in the Aggies’ opening eight-game homestand.

The two teams last met a year ago in the season-opening series at Olsen Field, with the Aggies trumping the Huskies 6-5. This will be the third time the two teams have met in College Station in the last three years, with A&M holding a 2-0

advantage entering Tuesday’s matchup. The Huskies (6-1, 0-0 Southland)

come off a series win against Northeast-ern. A&M swept Northeastern while HBU won two of the three game series.

Both teams’ strengths have been their offense, averaging more than six runs per game this season. The Aggie bullpen has accumulated a 1.71 ERA this season as opposed to HBU’s 2.91 and A&M has notched two shutouts this year to the Huskies one.

Junior infielders Logan Nottebrok and Cole Lankford have led the team in hit-ting. Nottebrok has posted a .296 bat-ting average with nine RBIs and three homeruns while Lankford has a .286 average with seven RBIs. Nottebrok has scored more than any other Aggie this season, crossing the plate 10 times.

The Aggies will travel to Fresno, Ca-lif., to take on the Fresno State Bulldogs (6-2, 3-0 Mountain West) starting Friday in a three game series.

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When students are faced with problems of any caliber, sometimes a listening ear is

just the help they need. Texas A&M HelpLine, staffed by volunteers known as “HelpLiners,” seeks to provide that and any other services to students in need.

HelpLine, founded in January 1995, is pro-vided by the Student Counseling Service and seeks to provide information, referral, support, crisis assessment and intervention for A&M students. The group of 33 volunteers that staff the phones includes undergraduate, graduate and former students. While the wide spectrum of experience represented allows for a unique perspective from any given HelpLiner, the vol-unteers make sure to offer support rather than advice.

“We listen to callers, we provide the listening ear,” said David Pollard, HelpLiner and Class of 2013. “It’s not directive. We don’t tell people the answers, because we don’t have them. We support their thoughts, their feelings, and when appropriate, we give them referrals to services either provided by SCS or in the community.”

Susan Vavra, HelpLine coordinator, said HelpLine provides the same services to students on nights and weekends that the SCS provides during the day, allowing students’ needs to be heard at any time.

“HelpLine is the after-hours component of what we do at the Student Counseling Ser-vice,” Vavra said. “Obviously we have clients coming in to see licensed psychologists, licensed professionals. We wanted to offer something in the evening hours, throughout the night and during weekends.”

All HelpLiners have extensive training in a myriad of topics and are required to attend an intensive six-day training the week before their first semester staffing the phone. The instruc-tion includes both lecture and interactive pre-sentations and trains HelpLiners in counseling and listening skills. Additionally, all volunteers are continually trained over the course of their service.

“The training is pretty special,” Pollard said. “We have topical classes, lectures, over topics or issues callers might bring up. Suicide, depres-sion, relationship troubles, eating disorders, that sort of thing. Then there’s skills training, where you learn how to do sub-verbals, active listen-

ing skills, summarize and repeat, to not only build rapport with your caller, but also com-municate with your partner.”

When staffing the line, HelpLiners always work in pairs, with one volunteer speaking on the phone and the other ready to provide any support necessary, usually pulling information or referrals for the caller.

“You have your partner right next to you, they’ll write down the time the call started,” said Stephanie Leal, current HelpLiner and se-nior psychology major. “You’ll hear the callers presenting problem and you’ll talk it out, all the while writing notes on a notepad so your partner can see what’s going on.”

Even though the number is on the back of all Texas A&M student IDs, Vavra said many people forget the service is available to all stu-dents. To promote the service, HelpLine holds an Awareness Week each semester, with all HelpLiners wearing their distinctive hot pink HelpLine T-shirts.

“There was a group of HelpLiners that wanted us to be better known on-campus, several years back,” Vavra said. “They pitched an idea of a HelpLine Awareness Week where we try to paint the campus pink. So then we talked about, what would that look like and what would we do. So we do a variety of things from hanging a banner on Koldus to putting sandwich boards out and handing out fliers. We have pens and magnets and we had an email go out to all students.”

While the HelpLine staff is trained to deal with emotional issues such as suicide preven-tion, depression and relationship issues, the HelpLiners are glad to offer assistance on many topics, including directions around campus.

“Sometimes it’s just a brand-new student on campus saying, ‘I don’t where this building is,’ and we give him directions. Sometimes that’s all they really need,” Vavra said. “The way we look at that as a HelpLine is that if we’re help-ful for when Starbucks closes, then if they feel depressed, if they have a relationship that goes south, then we hope they’ll call us for a second time.”

Vavra said while there is no specific require-ment for joining the HelpLine staff other than wanting to help others, the HelpLine makes sure to uphold high standards in its volunteers.

“Just because someone applies, doesn’t mean they will get a spot,” Vavra said. “A lot of peo-ple think, ‘This is a volunteer opportunity, and therefore you’ll take anybody,’ but our stan-dards are very high. “

For those who do give their time to HelpLine, the experience proves immeasurably rewarding. Pollard said he has been able to meet great people.

“One of my favorite things is the people,” Pollard said. “It’s such a diverse group and peo-ple volunteer to talk, so they’re good at talk-ing. Conversations have lasted until four in the morning working graveyards.”

Pollard said HelpLine grants useful skills to those who volunteer their time to help others over the phone.

“I think HelpLine does a good job of train-ing people to be calm under pressure, and not just be calm but also be able to show empa-thy,” Pollard said. “A lot people say, ‘Oh I feel for you,’ but there’s a difference between that and being able to express it in how you talk to somebody, through the questions you ask, the tone of your voice and how you pay attention.”

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The Council for Minority Student Affairs held a panel Monday night

to discuss the possibilities and limita-tions faced by undocumented students when applying to graduate and medical school.

Nery Guerrero, CMSA vice presi-dent and senior nutritional sciences major, said the advice offered by the panel is significant because many advi-sors are ill prepared to assist in applying to graduate school.

“Some students are afraid to ask about graduate school,” Guerrero said.

Alfredo Garcia, president of CMSA and senior economics major, said the goal of the organization is to provide resources and support to undocument-ed students and students of minority groups.

“We are advocating for the citizen-ship for 11 million undocumented citi-zens,” Garcia said. “This includes our parents. This includes the children left in the care of the government.”

The panel was comprised of undoc-umented graduate students who offered advice from their own experiences.

Panel member Jose Luis Zelaya, cur-riculum and instruction graduate stu-dent, said he emphasized networking.

“It’s not only about what you know, but about who you know,” Zelaya said.

Being an undocumented college student adds another level of difficulty to the already complex graduate school application process. Organization advi-sor Bonnie Bustos-Rios said she en-couraged students to seek help.

“There’s an added level of stress,” Bustos-Rios said. “Students need to connect with their mentor, whoever they feel comfortable and safe with.”

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they are better than something like yeasts or fungi.

THE BATTALION: What would be your prized discovery, if everything went correctly?

MAGGERT: It’d actually be one I’m working on right now. This growing fi eld called epigenetics, which is trying to get at how the environment infl uences how genes turns on and off, has an offshoot in which it seems that if the environment communicates with a cell, the cell remembers what it learned from the conditions of that day, like if it was a hot day for example. It remembers that information for quite a long time, sometimes even passing that on to offspring. One of the unusual ones is diet, where if an organism overeats as a child, they might develop something like cancer 10 years earlier than their siblings. There is very little understanding of how this really works. Fruit fl ies, as it turns out, may do the same thing. So that’s what we’re trying to understand with our work.

THE BATTALION: What created your interest in biology and fruit fl ies?

MAGGERT: Both my parents were biologists. My mom was a marine biologist and my dad was a physiologist. He used to go to Antarctica and collect penguins. I was always around biology and animals, so I loved it from the get-go. So when I went to college, it was the fi rst thing I did. When I went to grad school, I just picked the lab that I found the most exciting and the one that I selected kicked me off in this direction of gene regulation.

THE BATTALION: Do you try to foster the same kind of interest on your students?

MAGGERT: I try to, but everyone has different ways of running their labs. What I try to do is provide a safe place for all my students to explore things and there’s a balance I try to fi gure out between directing their research and letting them learn and make discoveries on their own.

THE BATTALION: Since you’ve been here for almost 10 years, how would you compare the culture at Texas A&M to your previous experiences?

MAGGERT: It’s certainly very different. The best thing to compare it to would be UC Santa Cruz, where I was an undergrad. We have 55,000 students here, and they had at most 8,000. That school is the middle of a forest, so you can’t really see one building from the next. We also didn’t have grades, so every class was decided on an individual one-page narrative that the professor would do on you. The way education ran there was very different. Culturally, it’s obviously very different than here. At that time, the atmosphere was very anarchistic whereas here it’s more culturally conservative.

THE BATTALION: Did the fact that your school did not have grades affect your teaching style or your learning experience?

MAGGERT: Don’t mistake this — not having grades was awful. You can learn how to work for points, or to make it work with what’s expected of you from the syllabus. With a narrative evaluation, however, you can have things that can be way more damning than just a “B”. When I applied for grad school, I just gave them a stack of these reviews and

by the color of their skin,” Hill-Jackson said. “They were just Americans, not black Ameri-cans.”

Hill-Jackson said black GIs courted and mar-ried a documented 101 women from Tiger Bay — an incredible number in consideration of the town’s small size.

Hill-Jackson said some of these marriages suf-fered when the brides returned with their hus-bands to the U.S. The Tiger Brides faced racism and segregation that they had not been subject-ed to in their inclusive Welsh community, she said, which spelled the end of many of the mar-riages and led many homesick women to return to Cardiff.

Hill-Jackson said she drew inspiration from the women in her family. Hill-Jackson’s mother-in-law, Patricia Ann Ismail was a Tiger Bride and her grandmother, Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson, was the president of the NAACP Baltimore chapter for 35 years until her retirement in 1970.

Hill-Jackson said the documentary is impor-tant because it shines a light on people who have been largely marginalized in history.

“Our LGBT kids, our kids who speak another language, our kids that are Latino, our kids that are Asian, our kids who are poor, our kids who are African-American, they are all looking for, ‘Where am I in the history book?’” Hill-Jackson said. “That’s why we need to make sure we in-clude these diverse perspectives.”

Hill-Jackson said her ultimate goal is to create meaningful and authentic work.

“It should touch and transform lives in a way that makes people think differently or be inspired to do great work,” Hill-Jackson said.

Jennifer Leblanc, curriculum and instruction graduate student, said the documentary will speak to both college students and younger students.

“She didn’t just write a book,” Leblanc said. “She made a documentary. That is so relevant to the millennial generation.”

Katie Sewell, colleague, family friend and Class of 2006, said the documentary has some-thing that will appeal to everyone.

“Whether you like history, you like educa-tion, you like female rights — it will spark your

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Lydia WessnerEntomologyDavid West

Aerospace EngineeringErin WestChemistry

Amanda WhatleyEnglish

Lesley WheelerCommunication

Bradley Whelan

Aeronautical Engineering

Matthew WhighamUniversity Studies

Lindsay WhiteHistory

Bryan Whiting

Industrial Distribution

Emily Whitmoyer

Agricultural Communications & Journalism

Morgan Whitwell

Agricultural Communications & JournalismJonathan Widdig

BiologyKoby Wilbanks

PsychologyRyan Wilck

Political ScienceKathleen Wild

Biomedical Science

Eric Wilkins

Mechanical Engineering

Dana WillenborgPsychology

Ashley WilliamsBiology

Clora WilliamsHealth

Jennifer Williams

Biomedical Science

Rachel Williams

Forensic EntomologyKelly Wilmoth

HistoryEmily Wilpitz

University StudiesAngela Wilson

HorticultureJason Wilson

Agricultural Education

Jazmyn Wilson

Bioenvironmental Sciences Jordan Wilson

Interdisciplinary StudiesMarkay Wilson

Biomedical ScienceTory Wingate

Bioenvironmental Sciences

Heather Winkle

Interdisciplinary Studies

Paul Witkowski

Civil EngineeringJoshua Witter

Agricultural EconomicsRyan Wolff

Information & Operations Management

Jordyn WoltersdorfHealth

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Christopher Wynne

Petroleum Engineering

Harika Yalamanchili

BiologyJessica YanceyAnimal ScienceDustin YatesElectrical Engineering

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Sarah YezakInterdisciplinary Studies

Tiffany Ynosencio

MicrobiologyChase YoungSport Management

Katherine Young

SpanishLauralee YoungMarketingLauren YoungEnvironmental Geosciences

Lauren YoungEconomicsShaley YoungUniversity Studies

Lauren Youngblood

Agricultural Leadership and Development

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Keith Maggert, associate professor of biology at Texas A&M, is doing research centered around epigenetics.

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it was a lot more informative than just a transcript. As far as the way that affects my teaching, I learned from my close interaction with professors. Whereas there you could take the time to fl ush out ideas with each student, here it is

just not as practical if you have to do 12-page exams that you have to grade fairly and timely. So there’s a constant struggle to have classrooms that can be as interactive as they were when I was a student.

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(Top) David Roensch, freshman business major, listens for the next command. Michael Willis, (far left) freshman international studies major, gives commands as Clifton Sims, sophomore computer science major, critiques him. The Fish Drill team will compete in Tulane’s Mardi Gras Drill meet on Friday.

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“In 2010, U.S. News and World Report sur-veyed 1,400 companies across the country and asked them ‘Where do you like to go to get your new fresh recruit?’ We were ranked num-ber two.” Buchanan said. “We were ranked ahead of Harvard, Princeton, MIT — all the schools you would typically think of.”

Melanie Griffin, admissions counselor, said Texas A&M’s growing national visibility has led to recent increases in applicants.

“I think Texas A&M is gaining more of a national reputation,” Griffin said. “I believe [joining the SEC] brought a lot of national at-tention as well.”

In light of the increase in applicants, Buchan-an said the admissions department was asked to increase the freshman class.

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Freshman class increased in response to application increases

Texas State Rep. Jim Keffer was given the Friend of Texas A&M

award on Monday for his work to-ward advancing higher education in the 83rd Texas Legislature.

The Friend of Texas A&M award was established in 1994 to recog-nize individuals or organizations who provide exceptional service or support to Texas A&M AgriL-ife. Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp said in a news release that Keffer’s service in the 83rd Legisla-ture furthered university education in Texas.

“Through our shared commit-ment to the future of Texas, the Texas A&M University System and State Rep. Jim Keffer are leading the way for quality, higher educa-tion across our nation,” Sharp said. “It has been a pleasure to work with such a dedicated public servant and I commend him for his efforts during the 83rd legislative session.”

Keffer was involved in legislative initiatives that increased financial aid for students in Texas universi-ties and held a role in restoring the Hazlewood Program, which of-fers benefits to student veterans and their dependents.

State Rep. Keffer bestowed with A&M rewardJohn Rangel The Battalion

man class.”Shaylie Boles, junior marketing major, said

she doesn’t mind the increased number of stu-dents, but she doesn’t want her quality in edu-cation to be affected by it.

“I love all the new students on campus, but I’m worried about the size of each incoming freshman class,” Boles said. “I don’t want to lose the feel or elite quality of students at Texas A&M because we allow more and more stu-dents each year.”

Griffin said with an increase in admitted stu-dents, maintaining class size would continue to remain a priority.

“Keeping class size down is a priority for most faculty, but the logic would follow the more students the bigger the classes, yet I think they are making a financial effort to keep the class size small,” Griffin said.

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Griffin said students should not worry that Texas A&M is becoming any less competitive or prestigious.

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Gina Yannitell Reinhardt, assistant professor at the Bush School with an expertise in Latin American political systems, said movements such as the one in Venezuela right now typi-cally involve university students, as this segment of society is in an environment that encourages activity and organization.

“Students are the people who spend a lot of time thinking about things on an intellec-tual level,” Reinhardt said. “It’s certainly not entirely true, but it tends to be a time in some-body’s life when they are learning a lot about the interaction of economics and politics and society in a way that sort of awakens their own thoughts and feelings, sometimes puts concrete terminology to things they’ve already been thinking and feeling.”

Reinhardt said the movement is in itself un-certain for a number of reasons, including a lack of media coverage.

If the uncertain goal of protestors is to re-move current Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro, Reinhardt said there is a possibility that protests are replacing more democratic means of addressing the problem.

Reinhardt said the protestor’s plight mirrors a distribution of wealth debate also found in the U.S., wherein members of the middle class want to pay lower taxes and the poorer seg-ments of society want or possibly need financial help.

Reinhardt said this political ideology went into governmental practice in Venezuela when Hugo Chavez took power under the pretense of helping the country’s poor.

Reinhardt said the movement is largely tak-ing place in a few pockets of the country with a strong middle class and a lot of university stu-dents, not in poorer segments of the country that generally supported Chavez before he en-dorsed Maduro.

“So, it doesn’t appear that this movement is really widespread — that it’s completely na-tional in terms of being in all locations of the country,” Reinhardt said. “It’s really local, and it’s in a few pockets.”

The governmental suppression of social me-dia is a factor that fuels the protestors’ fire, Re-inhardt said, as shutting out underground media and outside media has been a common practice of dictators in repressing past protests.

“So governments are afraid of [social media] now,” Reinhardt said. “It’s not unique to shut those things down, and that’s what’s starting to make it look scary and what’s starting to make it seem very much like a dictatorship instead of just a standard, ‘Hey we are trying to keep control or order.’”

With the Venezuelan government’s shut down of various social media outlets and oppos-ing broadcast channels, Garcia said the Venezu-elan population cannot be properly informed.

In an effort to collects as much information on the movement as possible, Garcia said he views broadcast channels that the government allows in Venezuela every day to see what the opposing political sides are reporting. Garcia said these channels are repressive and unfortu-nately the only news options for Venezuelans.

“I see the channels every day just to see what the other side of the political parties are say-

ing, and, I mean it’s brainwashing, it’s commu-nism,” Garcia said. “It’s a constant derogatory end, they try to insult those that think like you, they try to make them their enemies, they cre-ate hate between classes and that can’t be toler-ated anymore.”

Reinhardt said another reason the move-ment is unclear is because the demands of pro-testors vary.

“It’s not really clear what the demands are,” Reinhardt said. “It’s not really clear what this movement wants, and to say, ‘We want an end to Maduro, we want an overthrow,’ that’s a big thing to ask for. They don’t really have a viable leader to install in his place. To say they want a new election would be different, but they aren’t really saying that either that we can tell.”

With the recent imprisonment of one of the more charismatic Venezuelan opposition lead-ers Leopoldo Lopez, Reinhardt said the situa-tion is more uncertain.

“With Lopez in jail, it’s debatable as to whether Maduro is moving towards oppres-sion or he is trying to secure the government again,” Reinhardt said. “And, that’s sort of the big debate, depending on what side of the de-bate you are on.”

Reinhardt said the fate of the protest is still unpredictable.

“Until we see more, it’s possible that the momentum could just sort of fizzle out,” Re-inhardt said. “It happens often in movements like this, where a protest is really just a protest and lasts a few weeks and kind of fizzles out. Whether or not is can be sustained into a full on movement is yet to be seen.”

Until the state of affairs does calm down, Garcia said the tension of worrying about his family and friends back home dominates his thoughts. While Garcia said the burden he bears is nothing in comparison to that of Ven-ezuelans protesting everyday, his concerns for his home country have affected his studies.

“I’ve got two tests [this] week and I am dy-ing,” Garcia said. “I have not studied anything. It is impossible and the worst part is that all of my roommates and most of my friends are Venezuelan, and not just Venezuelans that were born in Venezuela and came here when they were three. They were born and raised in Ven-ezuela like me, so a lot of their families are still there and they live in constant fear as well.”

Contrasting the atmosphere among Ven-ezuelan Aggies, Ricardo Lugo, senior sports management major and friend of Garcia, said students on campus are generally unaware of what is happening.

“I had a test [last week],” Lugo said. “I didn’t even study for the test. It’s hard, especially because it’s almost like you are in your own bubble and it’s almost like no one else knows about it.”

Lugo said it is difficult to see fellow unaware students laughing and having fun, but attributes the surprise on fellow students faces when he tells them of happenings to the lack of media coverage internationally.

“This weekend, nobody, at least the people I know, didn’t go out,” Lugo said. “I mean, you aren’t going to party when you don’t know what’s going on back home. It’s been hard, but it’s harder for the people that are back home. We got it easy. We don’t have to worry about anything except for that, they have to worry about everything.”

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