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RAKING IN THE HOPERAKING IN THE HOPE

Six weeks ago, Elizabeth Brooks discov-ered a lump in her breast — a frightening moment shared by millions of women across the globe. Prayer, countless medical visits and a double mastectomy followed as Brooks persevered through an uncontrollable reality. However, amidst the sea of chaos, Brooks’ home will remain a stronghold, thanks to The Big Event.

Brooks and her family purchased a house in June, situated on two acres of land in the College Station countryside. While repairs and renovations remained on the “to-do” list, time was another matter completely.

“With a devoted, working husband and raising three kids, we never seemed to find the time to fix our home,” Brooks said. “I saw that anyone could apply for Big Event, so I decided to take a chance. It wasn’t until the cancer that I realized what a true blessing this was. There was no way possible we could have gotten around to all our plans.”

Brooks applied for The Big Event and subsequently received the news of her breast cancer.

“The Big Event team came out to verify the job the day after I came home from my surgery,” Brooks said. “I couldn’t believe it.”

Afterward, The Big Event assigned The Wells Project, a service-based organization, to the Brooks’ home. Former executive committee member Brittany Goetzinger was particularly excited to learn about the Brooks family and said she couldn’t wait to make a difference with her fellow Wells Project members.

“It’s amazing to work with these people, knowing they have heart behind their ser-vice,” said Goetzinger, a senior communica-tion major.

Brooks, her children and family friends plan to be right alongside the participants of The Big Event. After tremendous healing and faith, Brooks said she can’t wait to meet those willing to give their time and assistance.

“Honestly, the breast cancer was a bless-ing,” Brooks said. “The diagnosis wasn’t a blessing but many blessings, such as The Big Event, came out of it.”

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We help shape up the city that we tear

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Zachary Papas: Nuclear power remains safe source

Twenty percent of the electricity in our country comes from nuclear power. Despite the tragedy in Ja-pan, its presence in America should remain prominent.

The safety of nuclear power has come to the forefront of public concern since the events in Japan. While the situ-ation at the nuclear plants at Fukushima Diiachi has yet to be fully resolved, so far there have been no deaths directly

See Nuclear on page 6

It’s effective because it is helping people

that are in need sometimes.

Emre Yurttas, sophomore general

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‘American Idol’ contestant performs free concertDue to the support of more than 15,000 Texas A&M students expected to volunteer in this year’s Big Event, PepsiCo and A&M are teaming up to sponsor a free concert at 6 p.m. Sunday in Reed Arena featuring season nine winner of American Idol Lee DeWyze. “Pepsi has been extremely generous to The Big Event this year in their partnership to help serve the Bryan-College Station community,” said Ryan Byrne, the 2011 Big Event director. “In addition to the concert, they are donating free beverages to students at our kickoff ceremonies at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and sampling groups dubbed the Pepsi Patrol will go out into the community to pass out free samples of Pepsi products to participating student groups and community residents.” Doors open at 4:30 p.m. for the fi rst 9,500 people that arrive. Free parking will be available in lots 61, 74, 100 A, B and C at Reed Arena. Lots 100 E, F, and G are reserved for baseball and softball parking. “Pepsi also is providing each participant with a free T-shirt to wear on the day of our event. The shirts will show that we are united in serving our community,” Byrne said.

— Roland Ruiz, special to The Battalion

DeWyze

Nuclear power is among the clean-est, safest and most

efficient energy sources in the world. For nearly half a century, nuclear power has been an integral part of the United States’ energy plan.

Elizabeth Brooks and her children Josh, Jacob and Madison stand outside their home where A&M students will help paint and create a walkway Saturday.

thebatt.comNorthgate projectThe College Station City Council approved a $2 million Northgate construction project Thursday. See more details online.

William Sames: Summarizing nuclear situation in Japan

The reactors that are ex-periencing difficulties are at the Fukushima Dai-ichi site, located along Japan’s eastern coast. There are six reac-tors at the site. At a separate site, Fukushima Daini, four plants safely reached cold shutdown conditions.

When the earthquake hit, the reactors were shut down, or “scrammed,” which took them down to approximately 8 percent power production. Reactor power cannot be turned off immediately because heat is still being produced from See Japan on page 6

On March 11, Japan suf-fered a 9.0 magnitude earthquake followed by

a tsunami. The occurrence of these natural disasters led to death and destruction across the country, and it also led to problems at some of Japan’s older nuclear reactors.

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From Dan Kiniry, class of 2006 A student senator has reintroduced the bill that nearly made A&M a national disgrace last year. This bill would make the statement that kids whose parents brought them here illegally should not be able to pay in-state tuition. Currently, the law actually treats them equally and says that if they’ve lived in Texas long enough, they qualify for in-state tuition just like the rest of us! And like the rest of us, they can’t get it if they haven’t lived in Texas long enough. But equality is very offensive to some people! You senators who support this bill: we get it. You’re prejudiced against undocumented immigrants. And some people think that’s cool. But it’s not. It’s immoral, hurtful, moronic and unfair. Kids shouldn’t be discriminated against just because their parents brought them across a border. Surely you’re not too lost to understand that! The crowd of demonstrators who showed up to oppose the bill last time (as opposed to the three or so demonstrators who supported the bill) made the student population’s opinion very plain. I wish you had respect for that and would stop antagonizing your fellow Aggies in a way that could hurt many and help none.

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1 ‘Driven to explore’

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Saturday: noon to 12 p.m.

2 ‘Monstrous Intimacies’

Christina Sharpe will present a lecture titled “Monstrous Intimacies” from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday in the Glasscock Building, room 311.

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1 AggieCon 42

Dubbed “the Brazos Valley’s premier literary event,” AggieCon is a science-fi ction, fantasy and gaming convention that includes an art show, Japanese anime marathon and a live action Rocky Horror Picture Show. The event takes place from 12 p.m. today to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Hilton on University Drive.

5 Science cafe

George R. Welch from the Department of Physics and Astronomy will speak on “From Slow Light to FAST-CARS” at April’s Science Cafe. The event will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Revolution Cafe & Bar.

4 Outdoor cooking

clinicRec Sports’ Outdoor Adventures program will have a clinic from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the garage of the Student Recreation Center on how to make fresh-baked goods for camping trips. Cost of the clinic is $15 for Rec members and $18 for non-Rec members.

2 ‘True Grit’

screeningMSC Aggie Cinema will present the Oscar-nominated fi lm ‘True Grit’ at 7 and 9 p.m. today in Rudder Theatre. The fi lm tells the story of 14-year-old Mattie Ross, whose father has been shot in cold blood.

3 Physics and

engineering festivalAggies can get up close and personal with many wonders of science and technology at the 2011 Physics and Engineering Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Mitchell Physics Building.

Student choir ‘Voices of Praise’ ministers through music

The gospel truth

The piano keys bang out a tune everyone knows — they have been practicing for weeks, after all. A soulful, wonderful sound comes from the group. Their voices echo around All Faiths Chapel, where they practice. Complete with choreographed steps that are completely in synch, these students make up Voices of Praise, Texas A&M’s gospel choir.

“There are a lot of singing groups on campus, and when someone doesn’t quite fit in with an-other group, they are more than welcome here,” said senior psychology major Terra Williams, pres-ident of the group. “We are non-selective because everyone has their own distinct voice, and if you have a passion for singing, then you are in.”

Everyone who tries out is welcome to join because Voices of Praise is the only non-selective choir on campus and the only gospel choir. The two go hand-in-hand, said junior accounting ma-jor Rachel Job, secretary of Voices of Praise.

“A lot of people say, ‘Well, I can’t sing very well,’” Job said. “But come to tryouts anyway. It is really just to come together as Christians and have fun. We are non-selective because the way we see it is that God isn’t selective, so why should we be? We are a representation of God, and He wouldn’t turn anyone away.”

The goal of Voices of Praise is to minister to campus through the art of music. By singing gospel music, contemporary Christian music and other forms of praise music at campus events, they try to provide an atmosphere of Christian worship on campus.

“Our main mission is to be the right hand of God,” said Desiree Mosely, Spring Fest chair-woman and a senior biomedical science major.

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Voices of Praise rehearses Wednesday evenings in All Faiths Chapel and welcomes students of all religious and musical backgrounds.

‘Earth Hour’ to promote eco-friendly habitsSaturday, 5 million individuals in more than 100 countries will turn off their lights for one hour to take a stand against climate change. The event, known as Earth Hour, began in 2007 when 2.2 million people and businesses participated in Sydney, Australia. The event immediately generated popularity, as global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Colosseum of Rome subsequently remained in darkness for an hour. The Texas A&M student organization One Love encourages participation in Earth Hour each year, as it is the world’s largest global climate change initiative. “I wanted to be a part of this because it’s something new — it’s something I can be a part of,” said One Love member Miranda Reinhard, a freshman biology and environmental science major. In conjunction with Earth Hour, One Love plans to have a musical event taking place from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Simpson Drill Field, with performances by groups such as HardChord DynaMix, Will Boesl and The Jeremiahs. For those who can’t make the event, One Love asks Aggies and the community to shut off their power from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. in hope for a better, more sustainable future. “There are so many ways we can help out the world,” said member Emily Trutter, a freshman psychology major. “If we can get the word out, we can make a difference.”

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“It is a place to come and freely worship and provide a Christian atmosphere. We sing; we hold programs on campus in order to let people come and have that space to worship.”

They frequently have programs and sing at other events on campus such as Aggieland Saturday and New Student Conferences. They also perform in a lot of churches in the area, as well as non-local churches. The group has travelled to churches in Huntsville and Austin for performances.

“We went last weekend to [the University of Texas] for a really big show with a bunch of schools,” Mosely said. “It’s funny because they are supposed to be our rivals, but it really wasn’t about rivalry. It was just a great way to connect with other Christians from other campuses. We are Facebook friends with a bunch of them now.”

Community is the most important aspect of

the choir, Williams said. “One thing I want to stress about us is to

not be intimidated if you think you can’t sing well. God allows us to sound good,” Williams said. “We put God first and are a unit. We pull each other up in order to sound the way that we sound.”

The upcoming event that Voices of Praise is organizing is called Spring Fest. It is an all-day, free event on April 9 at Alders Gate United Methodist Church. It is a sort of “spiritual edu-cation,” Mosley said, for youth ages five to 18. Speakers come and teach workshops, the stu-dents learn dances, songs and skits and perform them at the end of the day for the parents. The theme of this year’s Spring Fest is “Transforma-tion,” which is based on Romans 12:2.

“Spring Fest is our way of giving back to the community,” Job said. “It’s important to be an example of God to the younger generation.”

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Texas A&M’s second-seeded women’s basketball team begins the Dallas re-gion of the NCAA Tourna-ment Sunday with a Sweet 16 matchup against sixth-seeded Georgia.

Four players on the Ag-gies’ roster will be heading home for the Dallas regional. Senior guard Maryann Baker (Dallas), junior guard Sydney Carter (DeSoto), junior Sky-lar Collins (Cedar Hill) and freshman guard Kristen Grant (Arlington) are all from the greater-Dallas area.

“Having fans there has a lot to do with how we feed off the crowd and how we play,” Carter said. “I’m glad we’re going back home be-cause we’re going to have a lot of fans there. I know Mary [Baker] has a lot of people coming and I have a bunch of people coming. The fan support is definitely going to play a big role.”

Texas A&M (29-5) comes into the Dallas regional after blowing-out the first and second-round competition in Shreveport, La. The Ag-gies trounced No. 15 seed McNeese State 87-47 before cruising to a 70-48 victory over seventh-seeded Rut-gers. Senior guard Sydney Colson is excited about where the team is after the victory over Rutgers.

“There were a lot of things that we did well,” she said. “There were times when you can see that we’ve improved on a lot of things as the season has gone by. Right now is the perfect time for us to be starting to peak and playing well together.”

With a potential Elite Eight showdown with No. 1-seeded Baylor, A&M head coach Gary Blair and the Ag-gies are making sure that their focus remains on their game Sunday with Georgia.

“This basketball team has worked very hard for this moment but instead of en-joying the moment, you have got to seize the moment and make sure it doesn’t pass you by while you’re patting your-self on the back,” Blair said. “We’ve got to where we’re

supposed to be but now the problem is getting to that Elite Eight. When we talk about Georgia, there will not be another word mentioned about Baylor when we talk to our team.”

The Bulldogs are coming

off a second-round upset over third-seeded Florida State. Georgia trailed by one with 10 seconds left. Junior for-ward Porsha Phillips missed a jump-shot but sophomore guard Jasmine James tipped the ball in and drew a foul

with two seconds remaining. James hit the free-throw and the Bulldogs won 61-59.

“I thought it was a toss-up game all the way,” Blair said. “Georgia getting there, I think it’s good for basketball. Nothing is predetermined

that says who has to win or is supposed to win.”

Georgia presents a bal-anced attack with four play-ers averaging more than nine points per game. James leads the Bulldogs in scoring with 12.3 per game while Phil-

lips averages a double-double with 10.9 points and 10.8 re-bounds per game this season.

Tip-off is set for 3:30 p.m at the American Airlines Center and will be nationally televised by ESPN2.

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No. 2 Texas A&M vs. No. 6 Georgia3:30 p.m. Sunday

American Airlines Center, Dallas

Aggies take on Bulldogs for bid to Elite Eight

Taste of Georgia sweetness

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Junior guard Sydney Carter (top) is a Dallas native along with several other teammates who will return home to play Georgia in the Sweet 16. Sophomore Adrienne Pratcher (below) is one of many bench players that will have to help the Aggies off the bench in order to handle a Georgia team that has upset potential.

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A look at the Dallas regionNo. 1 Baylor (33-2)Ahead of the Aggies, Baylor claimed the Big 12 regular season and tournament championships. Coming into Dallas, their only two losses this season came at No. 1 Connecticut and at Texas Tech. The Bears are led by two All-American fi nalists in sophomore center Brittney Griner and freshman guard Odyssey Sims. Griner averages a team-high 22.6 points and 7.7 rebounds per game and was named the Big 12 tournament’s “Most Outstanding Player.” Sims, the Big 12 freshman of the year, averages 13.3 points per game. Baylor beat the Aggies in all three meetings this season including a 61-58 victory in the Big 12 tournament championship. The Bears beat the No. 16 seed Prairie View and ninth-seeded West Virginia in their fi rst and second round games in Waco.

No. 2 Texas A&M (29-5)The Aggies enter the Sweet 16 in Dallas as the Big 12’s runner-up for both the conference’s regular season and tournament championships. Led by senior center and State Farm All-American fi nalist Danielle Adams, the Aggies are in the Sweet 16 for just the fourth time in school history. Adams leads the Big 12 in scoring with 22.7 points per game and is averaging a team-high 8.6 rebounds per game. At the point, senior guard Sydney Colson is one of the top passers in the nation with 5.9 assists per game. In the fi rst and second-round matchups in Shreveport, La., the Aggies throttled 15th-seeded McNeese State 87-47 and picked up a 70-48 win over seventh-seeded Rutgers.

No. 5 Green Bay (34-1)For the second time in 2011, a team from Green Bay, Wis. comes to Dallas looking to bring another trophy back to ”Titletown.” The Green Bay Phoenix made it to the NCAA tournament as the fi rst team other than Connecticut or Tennessee to win 32 regular season games. The Phoenix only defeat this season came in a 63-60 loss at Marquette in early December. Regular season and tournament champions of the Horizon Conference, Green Bay boasts the trio of junior forward Julie Wojta and senior guards Kayla Tetshlag and Celeste Hoewisch, each of whom averages over 13 points per game. The Phoenix knocked off Arkansas-Little Rock and upset fourth-seeded Michigan State 65-56 to get to Dallas.

No. 6 Georgia (29-10)The Georgia Bulldogs, A&M’s Sweet 16 opponent, fi nished the regular season at third in the SEC standings and lost to Tennessee in the conference tournament semifi nals. Georgia senior forward Porsha Phillips was named fi rst-team All-SEC and averages a double-double with 10.9 points and 10.8 rebounds per game. Sophomore guard Jasmine James leads the Bulldogs in scoring with 12.3 points per game. Georgia began their NCAA tournament in Auburn, Al. with a 56-41 win over the No.11 seed, Middle Tennessee State. The Bulldogs advanced to the regionals for the 19th time under head coach Andy Landers with a 61-59 upset of third-seeded Florida State.

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linked to the accident and none are ex-pected to occur.

There have been two major acci-dents in the history of nuclear power: Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Both incidents have been thoroughly analyzed and the flaws that caused the accidents have been designed out of our modern reactors. That is, reoccurrence of these calamities is physically impossible.

In fact, according to John Poston, professor of nuclear engineering at Texas A&M University, the new gen-eration of reactors on slate in the U.S. is much safer than the current Japanese reactors at Fukushima.

“Keep in mind that the reactors we’re planning to build in the U.S. are very different from those [in Japan]. They have passive cooling [safety features], they have fewer pumps, fewer valves and they rely less on offsite and onsite power to shut them down. They can cool themselves,” Poston said. “So we’ve come a long way since 1979 [year of the Three Mile Island accident] in terms of designing and understanding the physics and the principles we can use to keep those reactors safe.”

All power options have their dangers — some more than others. Frederick Best, professor of nuclear engineering at A&M, believes we as a society must weigh the costs versus the benefits of our different energy sources.

“Tens of thousands of people die annually in the U.S. from automobile

accidents, yet we accept this death rate in comparison with the benefits of our automotive society,” Best said. “Everything a society does involves a trade-off among risks. Our civilization is based on using power. All sources of power generation have risks.

Burning coal produces green house gases that we feel contribute to global warming and produce the associated negative effects. Wind, photovoltaic, hydro, etc. each has associated nega-tive consequences. As a society, we must decide among alternatives.”

Consider the number of deaths from various energy sources in the past four decades. The sole fatal nuclear power accident in the last 40 years occurred at Chernobyl and directly resulted in less than 60 deaths. Three Mile Island, the U.S.’s only major nuclear accident, produced no deaths. In comparison, Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute calculated that since 1969, more than 20,000 people died due to severe acci-dents in the oil supply chain and more than 15,000 fatalities directly resulted from accidents in the coal supply chain. This results in a rate of direct fatalities per unit of energy production that is 18 times worse for oil than for nuclear power.

Experts and state politicians alike still have faith in nuclear power. Last week members of the nuclear engi-neering community and a handful of county judges spoke to the State Legislature in Austin, lobbying for the continued development of new units at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant and the South Texas Project Nuclear Power Plant. Poston cited a

benefit to the overall well-being of the citizens of Texas.

“The Legislatures in the state of Texas should not be swayed by what’s going on in Japan and we should go ahead [with the building of the new units],” Poston said. “It means more jobs; a better economy; it means a better standard of living for people in Texas; it means a lot to the economic progress in Texas and our need for electricity.”

Instead of using the situation in Japan as a hindrance to the growth of U.S. nuclear power, we should see it as a valuable lesson. U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu agrees.

“The president and the administra-tion believe we have to be looking very, very closely at the events in Japan. We have to apply whatever lessons that can be and will be learned from what has happened and what is happening in Japan,” Chu said. “We will use this op-portunity to learn as best we can.”

The engineering world is an ever-changing realm, and it is the duty of engineers to make the necessary adjust-ments when problems arise. There was a moratorium on new nuclear power construction as a result of the Three Mile Island incident. The United States nuclear industry came away from that hiatus with a safer and more ef-ficient way to produce nuclear power. We will treat the Japan incident in the same manner. United States nuclear power will come away better, stronger and safer.

Zachary Papas is a senior nuclear engineering major.

information updates, failure of recirculation pumps occurred at three of the Dai-ichi reactors following the tsunami. These failures led to problems cooling the core, and to the formation of gas pressure in the primary containment.

Hydrogen gas is formed when the fuel is not fully cooled due to a chemical reaction between water and zirconium. Hydrogen explosions occurred when hydrogen gas vented to the secondary containment reached critical concentra-tion levels, causing damage to secondary containment of four of the six reactors.

Venting was a necessary action to reduce pressure in the primary containment. Currently available informa-tion shows no damage to any of the primary contain-

ment structures protecting reactor vessels from these explosions.

Spent fuel pools located on-site at these reactor loca-tions contain used nuclear fuel. Water levels and circulations need to be main-tained to remove decay heat and prevent fuel damage. Substantial resources are be-ing focused on this task and there have been reports that the situation is stabilizing.

As of March 20, the re-maining reactor sites affected by the earthquake have been shut down or cooling has been restored. The radiation dose rate at the site bound-ary ranges from 1-34 mil-lirem per hour. Dose rates between 20-40 kilometers from the plant have been reported as “marginally above background.” Spent fuel pool cooling continues to remain a top priority to response teams. Seawater and boric acid are being used as methods to cool the reactors

and the spent fuel pools. “I would say optimisti-

cally that things appear to be on the verge of stabilizing,” said William Borchardt, executive director for operations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

According to John Poston, professor of nuclear engineering at Texas A&M University, the largest dose to an on-site worker has been .10 Sievert. While this dose is five times the legal annual limit in Japan, this dose is still considered to be safe and no health effects are anticipated.

There have been reports of milk and spinach exceed-ing radioactivity limits in some areas of Japan. The levels are still so low that Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano felt the need to put things into perspective.

“This is not at the level that would have any direct effect on your health,”

Edano said.He went on to say that

drinking the milk for a year would result in the equiva-lent dose of one CT scan and eating the spinach for a year would result in one-fifth of a CT scan. Eight other tested food products had radioactivity levels be-low allowable limits.

As Japan continues to monitor the reactors, status updates will continue to be released. Technical analysis of these events will provide a basis for improved safety in nuclear plants worldwide. In the United States, the NRC will use this information to conduct additional safety reviews of all plants in the country. Based on the les-sons learned from this natural disaster, additional safety fea-tures will be implemented.

William Sames is a senior nuclear engineering major.

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Marketing students participate in Chevy event

Chevy’s “Drive It, Ags!” event outside G.Rollie White Coliseum was a hit on Wednesday, with several hundred students participat-ing in a marketing study for A&M marketing graduate students.

The event was created by the Chevrolet Company and occurs at universities all across the nation with the intent of exposing gen-eration Y to newer more gas-efficient Chevy models. Three cars were featured in the event, and students were encouraged to get a hands-on look at the vehicles.

“The models that are out here are the Camaro, the Cruze — which is the new-est — and the Equinox,” said Janelle Colberne, a market-ing graduate student who is a part of the project. “We’re getting a good number of people participating, espe-cially in between classes.”

The three vehicles were available for students to enter and examine from the inside out. Students were also asked to complete a brief survey about company preferences. Spoons provided the event with a frozen yogurt booth, and Candy95 supplied back-ground music while advertis-ing the event over broadcast.

“We are trying to increase the perception of Chevrolet as a company that produces cars, not just trucks and sub-urbans,” said Brittney Ste-phenson, a graduate student who helped organize the

event. “We are trying to promote the new Chevrolet Cruze, which is a very gas-efficient car. We are trying to get awareness out to genera-tion Y.”

According to Stephen-son, the event is part of a nationwide competition in which graduate students will compete with students from other universities who are also hosting events on their campuses. The graduate stu-dents presenting the event were not expecting a certain number of students to par-ticipate, but encouraged all students to come out and see the vehicles.

“The more the merrier,” Stephenson said.

Within the first 30 min-utes of the event, “Drive It, Ags!” received a bigger than expected turnout.

“We’ve had about 200 students complete the sur-vey already,” Colberne said. Students were given freebies such as Chevy logo water bottles and sports bags if they got in the cars and completed the surveys.

Chevrolet’s regional mar-keting manager Mark Har-land observed the event.

“The two objectives of the event are to reintroduce the Chevy line-up to generation Y, and to present [Chevy] with a realistic market study for generation Y,” Harland.said. “The marketing world is changing so dramatically due to digital and social tools. I’m learning from [students] what’s important to genera-tion Y.”

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The study is a joint effort between A&M graduate stu-dents in the marketing and consulting course, and the local Chevrolet dealership, which was willing to provide the vehicles in exchange for free survey information. An organization called edVen-ture Partners served as the

middleman between Chev-rolet and the seven graduate students hosting the event.

“It’s an absolute win-win,” said Katie Meier, a representative for edVenture Partners. “The students get real world marketing experi-ence, and the client gets free information.”

Above: Students test out the cars at Chevy’s “Drive It, Ags!” event. Below: Freshmen Parker Reed, biology major, and Diane Muller, civil engineering major, pose in front seat Wednesday

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