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The Commandant Staff and dis-tinguished University officials gath-ered to recognize — amid laughter and tears — the retirement of Col. Jake Betty, who worked with the Corps of Cadets for the last 24 years.

The Sam Houston Sanders Corps of Cadets Center hosted Betty’s re-tirement ceremony Friday.

Guests came to share stories, ex-periences and gratitude with Betty, Class of 1973. Betty most recently served as deputy commandant un-derneath Brig. Gen. Joe Ramirez. Before the arrival of Ramirez, Betty had been assigned to the position of interim commandant.

“I’ll never forget a certain day

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Students camp outside Kyle Field Sunday evening, waiting to pull tickets for the fi rst home game against Florida.

Campers without a cause

insidesports | 4Arkansas series returns to ArlingtonThe A&M-Arkansas series returns to a premier venue when it begins playing at Cowboys Stadium in 2014.

sports | 4VolleyballThe Aggies made a statement in their debut road challenge, clinching the Yale Classic title.

life | 5Concert kicks off festivitiesThe weeklong MSC Grand Opening Celebration started Saturday when MSC Town Hall invited musicians Ben Rector and Mayer Hawthorne to perform in Rudder Theater. Students said the artists improvised during the show, incorporating A&M traditions into the lyrics.

Updated software randomizes ticket pulling process, surprises students

The change will take affect Monday, the first day seniors can pull tickets for the A&M-Florida matchup. The new process ran-domizes how tickets are allocated to students, eliminating the ability to pull early to reserve better seat-

ing.Since as early as Friday night,

students have set up tents and TVs on The Zone to camp out until ticket windows open Monday morning. Many of these students were unaware of the altered ticket

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s the A&M football season approaches its

season opener at Kyle Field, students re-

ceived an email from University officials

Saturday afternoon that said there was a change in

the ticket pulling process.

Students stretch hammocks across trees Sunday evening before ticket windows open Monday morning.

pulling system or that an email was sent.

“We actually read [the email] after we got here and were al-ready set up,” said Josh Hooton, sophomore mechanical engineer-ing major. “At that point we were like, ‘Eh, oh well.’”

The email described the new ticket pulling rules, changes to seating due to SEC bylaws and how tickets will be distributed. The email ended with a paragraph saying that camping was not nec-essary.

Col. Jake Betty ‘73 holds his grandchild as he sits in a specially made commemorative chair.

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Friends, family honor Deputy Commandant

corps of cadets

Aggies work with NASA

Texas A&M aerospace engineers are developing new technology for space debris removal in a joint project with NASA. The project has been in prog-ress since last year to develop and test methods of autonomous debris removal.

Kurt Cavalieri, aerospace engineer-ing doctoral student, is part of the team of aerospace engineering graduate stu-dents working on the project. He said currently all testing is ground based to produce sensor and control algorithms to allow for space debris removal au-tonomously.

“We are developing and testing in our lab different sensing techniques and

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in Feb. 2010 when I summoned Jake into my office and asked him to do a very special job: interim commandant,” said President R. Bowen Loftin. “And Jake didn’t

hesitate; he said ‘yes sir.’ Aggies do that.”

Others, like Lt. Gen. Joe Weber,

ESPN film crew shoots footage for the ESPN College Gameday ad on Kyle Field. The ad will be aired Monday – the ad can also be seen online.

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Already announcing its arrival in College Station for Saturday’s A&M-Florida game, ESPN College GameDay — the network’s flagship college football program — will be officially debuting its commercial featur-ing A&M’s Midnight Yell tradition starting Monday.

The commercial, filmed July 31 at Kyle Field, attempts to blend the tradition of Mid-night Yell with a touch of comedy. Uploaded to YouTube Thursday, the video — placed

online due to postponement of the Louisiana Tech game — gave fans the full-version of the commercial before its television release.

This specific commercial spot was unique given ESPN’s placement of the opportunity for an on-campus commercial to a vote, the first such contest in GameDay history. A&M competed within a field of 124 FBS schools and edged Nebraska for the chance to bring ESPN College GameDay to campus, giving the University a chance for additional expo-sure throughout the 2012 college football

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spoke of Betty’s efforts to be an influence on the Quad.

“[Betty’s] legacy is going to be the men and women that [he’s] touched over al-most a quarter of a century,” Weber said. “They will always remember [him] and [he] will always remember them.”

Weber read a certificate of retirement from Gov. Rick Perry, citing Betty’s mili-tary service and dedication to the Corps.

“It has often been said that the actions of the brave allow us all to live free in this great land that we call home,” the certifi-cate read. “Our armed forces have long borne the standard of our great nation in defending our most cherished rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We salute you for your service to the United States of America, the state of Texas and Texas A&M University.”

Ramirez, who made Betty his deputy commandant and chief of staff after he arrived, said Betty had been a model in which to follow.

“When I got here, people said ‘do what Jake did,’” Ramirez said. “It didn’t take me long to realize they were right.”

Ramirez said Betty became more than the position he had been assigned.

“He became a confidant. He became the guy I turned to,” Ramirez said. “Not only is Jake Betty a great officer and a great deputy commandant, but he’s also a great friend.”

Ramirez also spoke about Betty’s leg-acy, which has surpassed the realm of the Quad.

“I can’t tell you the number of young men and women who came up and said ‘let me tell you how Col. Betty kept me in the Corps,’” Ramirez said.

Through tears Betty addressed the crowd, thanking everyone for their sup-port and helping him to be successful.

“Everyone in this room has had an im-pact on my life and my success here at Texas A&M,” Betty said. “It makes what I’ve done at Texas A&M worth that much more.”

Betty first came to Texas A&M after initially being denied admission to the school, but his father’s friend was class-

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approach maneuvers to allow a capture spacecraft to autono-mously dock with and de-orbit larger debris,” Cavalieri said. “Specifically, we are targeting spent rocket boosters that were used to put other spacecraft into orbit.”

The project is being devel-oped at the Land Air and Space Robotics Lab located at Easter-wood Airport.

Cavalieri said space debris has always been an issue but was ignored until two satel-lites collided a few years ago. He said without a solution, the amount of debris continues to grow.

“If something isn’t done soon, the amount of debris will continue to grow expo-nentially with every collision,” Cavalieri said. “Debris can be the size of a paperclip to the size of a pick-up truck and it all poses a threat to current and future space missions because it travels at such a high velocity.”

Space debris occurs primar-ily from launches, satellites and satellite collisions. It threatens the International Space Station and communication satellites used for TV, Internet, cell-phones and GPS.

John Hurtado, associate professor in aerospace engi-neering, said the means for this project have been developed over several years of work in the lab. He said many problems stem from space debris and will continue to increase unless a solution is perfected.

“Our laboratory specializes in design and rapid prototyp-ing of robots and robotic con-cepts for space applications,” Hurtado said. “Space debris poses a problem for space mis-sions because spacecraft must

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travel through the cluttered environment. A collision be-tween orbiting debris creates more debris, which increases the probability of subsequent collisions.”

Junior aerospace engineer-ing major Hunter Ritter said the technology is an effective means to reduce problems in space and he hopes it contin-ues to advance.

“With this project they’re using different sensing tech-niques to calculate how much debris and where it’s going to be able to pick it up,” Ritter said. “As of right now there’s a lot of debris in the air and the atmosphere. If a satellite piece breaks off or any other de-bris, it orbits around the Earth causing a lot of problems.”

Cavalieri said while the project involves a new con-cept that makes it more challenging, it is crucial for a breakthrough in reducing space debris.

“What’s important is that we’re able to learn a lot about what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t work,” Cavalieri said. “Over the last year we’ve been able to develop a few prototype demonstrations to show the difficulties associated with autonomous debris removal. This project puts A&M in a great position to play a pivotal role in debris removal.”

Ground testing will begin October 1st at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Col. Jake Betty ‘73 listens on as his brother recognizes him.mates with the president of the University at the time.

“He wrote a recommendation letter to Gen. Rudder,” Betty said.

Later Betty became Mrs. Rudder’s es-cort and was told that Gen. Rudder had been keeping an eye on him as he pro-gressed through school. As a result, Betty became very close with the Rudder fam-ily, and even has a grandson with that name.

Betty said as a senior in the Corps, he hoped he would work with the Corps in some capacity.

“I remember one evening my senior year with my buddies and we were dis-cussing our future. All of a sudden one of my buddies turns to me and says ‘Jake, if you had you’re dream what would you be doing in 25 years?’” Betty said. “I said if I had my dream job I would be working with the Corps of Cadets.”

As he looked out over the crowd one last time, Betty said he would always re-member the Corps.

“To say that the Corps of Cadets had an impact on my life would be an under-statement,” Betty said. “The Corps will forever be on my mind, and will forever be a part of my life.”

“For me, I don’t ever camp out, so it’s good for me,” said senior industrial engineering major Johnny Khai. “But the hardcore campers are out here Friday nights.”

In summary the email said tickets will be distributed

starting with the best sections — four sections at a time — randomly to students assigned to that classification day. Se-niors will still have the first chance at the best seats, but seats among those sections will be distributed at random. The particular time of day at which those tickets are pulled doesn’t matter.

“I’m not a huge fan of [the

system],” said senior psychol-ogy major Lydia Boyles. “I like the reward of getting here early and being able to be re-warded with a good seat.”

The fully randomized sys-tem has been implemented by the University in the past. The ticket pull system was original-ly designed to create an equal opportunity for everyone to get good seats. As software

changed several years ago, randomization was no longer an option, and it had to be done manually. The manual method of randomization was flawed and gave students the impression that better tickets could be pulled earlier in the day, which defeated the pur-pose of a randomized draw.

“We want to change the system back to the way it

was,” senior finance major Garrett Rowe said. “In the email it said it’s to make it more fair, but I feel like, for people that are up here, it’s not fair to them.”

Even with the email acces-sible for the students to read, most students camping in front of The Zone didn’t let the news dampen their spirit for having the opportunity to

camp out.“I think it’s awesome that

everybody is out here camp-ing just promoting that cama-raderie, getting excited for the first Florida game,” senior yell leader Nelson Ingram said. “It’s really neat to see Ag-gies bonding together even if they necessarily don’t have to. They are coming together to hang out because they get to.”

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season. “It’s a tremendous payoff

for all the Aggies who voted in the online contest. It’s a 45-second commercial and it’s an opportunity for us to spotlight one of our most unique and cherished tradi-tions in front of a national television audience,” said Ja-son Cook, A&M vice presi-dent for marketing and com-munications. “I think the commercial turned out ex-tremely well and Texas A&M fans will be very proud of it.”

Generating a buzz among fans, the YouTube version of the commercial surpassed 100,000 views as of Sunday night. Featuring ESPN tal-ent including Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreet, Tom Rin-aldi and Desmond Howard, the commercial showcases a highly recognizable cast. The ad should only continue to receive publicity come Mon-day’s television release.

Fredrik Treven, a junior electrical engineering major, said the commercial spot was

a testament to the dedication of the A&M fan base.

“It’s pretty big because, one, it was a contest that we won, which shows how com-mitted and large our fan base is,” Treven said. “Secondly, a bunch of people showed up to the actual commercial shoot, which is another testa-ment to the very same thing.”

The debut of the commer-cial comes on the heels of the announcement ESPN Col-lege GameDay will be broad-casting live from College Sta-tion on Saturday morning. The presence of the show only adds fuel to what is ex-pected to be one of the most intense atmospheres in Kyle Field history.

Junior marketing major Liz Gunther said it’s about time GameDay made its way back to Aggieland.

“It’s exciting that ESPN College GameDay’s going to be here because it hasn’t been here in so long, not since 2006,” Gunther said. “The fact it’s A&M’s first SEC game will have everyone especially pumped and excited.”


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The Texas A&M volley-ball team completed its first road trip of the season by de-feating Yale, American and Stony Brook to win the Yale Classic in New Haven, Con-necticut. After the road trip, the Aggies are now 5-1, with a four game winning streak to start the season.

“It was a total team ef-fort today,” said head coach Laurie Corbelli. “We didn’t drop a set today, we worked on some of the kinks that we have been having and to complete the first road trip [of the season] was good.”

The Aggies were led by All-Tournament MVP, se-nior middle blocker Stepha-nie Minnerly as she posted a .460 hitting efficiency with 26 kills and only three errors. Making the All-Tournament

team were fellow Aggies ju-nior setter Allie Sawatzky and junior outside hitter Heather Reynolds.

“Sometimes kids just get a zone where everything just comes together and feels right,” Corbelli said. “[Min-nerly] found openings, and Sawatzky certainly is blos-soming this season early here in the second weekend just being comfortable with a variety of hitters. Reynolds was just all-around one of the most valuable players of the weekend.”

A&M opened the match with a 5-0 run as Sawatzky had five kills in the frame and kept Stony Brook’s defense off-balance with her attacks. A&M used that attack to win the first set 25-14.

“Allie is one of those re-turning starters who is in charge of making sure that

she commands the court,” Corbelli said.

For the rest of the match, Corbelli was tweaking the lineup to get some of the younger players some expe-rience. Junior outside hitter Ashley Vrana went into the game for senior Tori Mel-linger, while sophomore defensive specialist Hannah Hood and freshman Shelbi Vaughan entered the game as well. In the second set, the Aggies used key kills from Sawartzky and Vrana to give the Aggies the 2-0 lead.

Before the third set began, Corbelli once again opted to insert more youth like fresh-men Kate Praslicka and An-gela Lowak, while later sub-bing rookies Sierra Patrick and Shelby Sullivan. All the

substitutions worked out well for the Aggies as they closed the set and match with a 25-18 third set victory.

“One [of our goals] was to make sure we did our best to give our new players who are going to be having an impact in some court time,” Corbelli said. “Just that kind of expe-rience is really hard to get sometimes.”

The Aggies will wrap up their non-conference sched-ule by taking part in the Dela-ware Invitational starting with a doubleheader on Friday September 7th as they play Xavier and host Delaware. The Aggies will conclude the invitational by facing Colum-bia Saturday afternoon.

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James Sullivan is a junior business major and sports writer for The Battalion.

“Having a game annually in the [Dallas-Fort Worth] Metroplex is very advanta-geous for Texas A&M from a visibility and recruiting stand-point,” Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin said. “This was a significant, unresolved issue as part of our transition to the SEC.”

From the Aggies’ point of view, the revived rivalry creates more opportunities for the program to spread its ever-growing brand. Nation-ally broadcasted matchups against recognized conference teams garner A&M a stronger presence in college football, particularly in their home state of Texas.

Head Football Coach Kev-in Sumlin has already spotted advantages for his program in the announcement.

“It’s another game guar-anteed in the state instead of having to go to Arkansas,” Sumlin said. “From a recruit-ing standpoint, it’s conve-nient. For our players, it’s exciting.”

On a consistent basis, the Dallas-Fort Worth area produces multiple talented high school prospects, many of which commit to the Ag-gies. With A&M playing just minutes away in Cowboys Stadium instead of hours south at Kyle Field, local re-cruits have at least one more chance to catch time with the coaching staff and current players.

While seemingly insignifi-cant, any time a program can visit with volatile high school

Allie Sawatzky had 12 kills to lead Texas A&M to a 25-14, 25-22, 25-19 win over Stony Brook Saturday.

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athletes is valuable. An entire game is easily enough to swing a teetering prospect in one’s favor, making the recommencement of the Southwest Classic a giant gain for the Aggies on the recruiting trail.

For the student body, they’re allowed the op-portunity to visit the DFW Metroplex and see the series continue in high-class fashion. The Dallas Cow-boys’ relatively new dome is largely considered one of the finest facilities in the nation, making the visit to Jerry’s World more than worth the trip.

Despite the fact that the Aggies lose out on a match-up in Kyle Field once every two seasons, many fans are excited about the prospect of competing in the professional arena.

“It will be sad to lose an-other home game especially against a big rival like Arkan-sas,” sophomore computer science major Travis Wil-liamson said. “The experi-ence of going to Cowboys Stadium, an away game you can actually travel to, against an SEC opponent will be amazing.”


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Mayer Hawthorne and his band, the main attraction of the evening, performed songs from their motown and retro album, in contrast to Ben Rector’s lean toward pop.

The free concert was a unique way to get A&M students excited about the events offered this week, of which there will be more than 30 held in the MSC.

“We realize [this concert] tran-scends any concert we’ve done before because it’s really not about MSC Town Hall,” Salmon said. “It’s about celebrating the reopen-ing of this facility.”

After the MSC was closed for renovations, several organizations came together to form the MSC Reopening Committee and be-gan planning the week’s variety of events. The committee was inten-tionally large in order to include the opinions of various organizations on the programming of events.

“The Grand Opening Commit-tee wanted this celebration to be not only a housewarming event for

the MSC, but to show the breadth of experiences that students have at A&M,” says Eric Blodgett, the com-mittee coordinator for the MSC. “[We wanted] to make sure every-one knows that all are welcome at the MSC; that there’s room for all kinds of activities.”

According to Salmon, the week is in the interest of the students as it showcases everything the MSC has to offer.

“This party is for y’all,” Salmon said. “This is yours. We included activities to show students from all walks of life that there is something to do in all areas of the building.”

The various activities and events offered each day can be found on the Grand Opening Celebration’s web-site, ourmsc.tamu.edu/grando-pening.

Salmon summed up the purpose of the week’s events as being geared toward the students.

“Our passion is you and your 50,000 friends,” Salmon said.

ence by having them sing along, as well as by showing his impromptu song writing skills on stage.

Senior accounting major Ricky Arnold said he loved this creativity.

“My favorite part was when he made up a third verse about Texas to ‘Loving You Is Easy’ on the spot,” Arnold said. “He incorporated a lot of traditions that we are used to here at A&M into the verse.”

Changing between the piano and the guitar, Ben Rector’s perfor-mance was full of energy, a dancing crowd and gratefulness he expressed to be playing in Texas.

“We were extremely lucky to find these artists,” Salmon said, not-ing the large fan base for Ben Rector at A&M. “And Mayer Hawthorne is

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Students packed into Rudder Theatre Saturday to hear free per-formances by musicians Ben Rec-tor and Mayer Hawthorne to kick off the Memorial Student Center’s Grand Opening Celebration.

The concert, put on by MSC Town Hall, was the first event of the weeklong celebration from Sept. 1-8.

“We worked hard to use as much marketing information as possible, as far as what the students’ interests were, because this concert is for you,” said Dave Salmon, advisor for MSC Town Hall and co-chair of the MSC Reopening Committee.

The bluesy, soft rock, pop musi-cian Ben Rector opened the show, and kept the attention of the audi-

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Town Hall concert opens MSC celebration

Ben Rector (left) and Mayer Hawthorne (above) entertain the audience at the MSC’s Grand Opening Celebration.

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