Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic tsunami that killed 20,000 people and caused widespread destruction along Japan’s Pacific coast.

While tsunamis are common in Japan, this series of waves was caused by an 8.9-magni-tude earthquake — one of the largest ever recorded. Two nuclear power plants in Ja-pan were damaged by the earthquake, re-leasing radiation into the surrounding com-munities and environment, and entire towns were destroyed by the waves. The result for thousands of homeless was power shortages, food and water contamination, and debris

obstructing transportation. As much as 60 miles wide traveling as fast as

500 miles per hour, tsunamis can be one of the most destructive forces on Earth. However, recovery teams poured into devastated areas, seeking to rebuild what was lost. By the end of April, major roads had been cleared, a stable food supply restored and several tourist re-gions reopened.

Kelsey Witt, senior genetics major, was studying abroad in Ja-pan at the time of the tsunami and said major improvements were made in the affected areas in a short amount of time.

“I did notice that Tokyo bounced back

fairly quickly. The subway system was run-ning in a very reduced form two days later and back up to functioning capacity by the

next week. I believe most other rail lines that were stopped for a few days due to debris on the tracks were also running soon after,” Witt said.

Masato Hirai, chemistry graduate student from Japan, said his family felt the earthquake in Tokyo, 250 miles from the epicenter.

“My entire family lives in Tokyo, and even though they didn’t see direct damage from the tsunami, the magnitude of the earthquake hit the entire country. They had no idea it was coming. It was really terrifying,” Hirai said.

Hirai and other students with family in Japan were forced to

wait for half a day until phone service was reinstalled before they could contact their

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For the second year in a row, the Texas Department of Pub-lic Safety warned spring beakers to avoid traveling to Mexico because of continued violence throughout the country.

“The situation in Mexico today is significantly different than it was just a decade ago,” the department’s director, Steven McCraw, said.

“Many crimes against Americans in Mexico go unpunished, and we have a responsibility to inform the pub-lic about safety and travel risks and threats. Based on the unpredictable nature of cartel violence and other criminal elements, we are urging in-dividuals to avoid travel to Mexico at this time.”

Julietta Dasilva, sophomore inter-national studies major from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, previously traveled to Mexico every year to visit family, but hasn’t been since spring break of 2010 because of safety issues.

Dasilva said it is increasingly dan-gerous to travel across the border,

especially as an American with an American passport. Her family has experienced first-hand the random-ized criminal activity of the cartels. Dasilva’s aunt was kidnapped last summer while waiting for a local bus. She didn’t have the money to pay her kidnappers, but family members gathered funds to give as ransom and her aunt was released.

“Mexico is in a very unstable state right now. It’s really danger-ous and I don’t recommend going, ” Dasilva said.

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Soldiers attend flag-lowering ceremony over silhouettes representing people allegedly killed by military members during Mexico’s drug war, at the Zocalo central square in Mexico City.

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Sophomore pitcher Rafael Piñeda winds up during an A&M win against Michigan State.

The No. 5 A&M baseball team (12-1), winners of its last seven games, will face its toughest test thus far when it takes on No. 11 Cal State Ful-lerton (8-4) for a three-day weekend series begin-ning 6:35 p.m. Friday at Blue Bell Park.

The Aggies — coming off a momentous sweep of the defending Big 10 champions, Michigan State, and a 10-1 thrashing of Prairie View A&M — have looked the part of a top-10 squad fresh off a College World Series run. A&M currently leads the Big 12 in batting average at .314 and pitching ERA at 2.33 and will look to maintain that performance against the Titans.

Cal State Fullerton enters the contest coming off a Big West championship run in 2011 and a pedigree of winning. Most recently, however, a seven game winning streak entering Tuesday was snapped after a 7-4 loss to USC.

A&M head coach Rob Childress said he’s

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March 1, 2012

My entire family lives in Tokyo. ... The magnitude of the earthquake hit the

entire country. They had no idea it was coming. It was really terrifying.

— chemistry graduate student Masato Hirai

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March 13, 2011

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(top) Encouraging messages from A&M students decorate a Japanese flag that was sent to Japan along with $25,000 in relief funds following the March 2011 tsunami. (below) The progress of Otsuchi town, Iwate, one year after a tsunami devastated the coast of Japan.

In the teams’ third meet-ing of the season, sixth man Elijah Johnson led the Kansas Jayhawks to an 83-66 victory in the second round of the Big 12 conference tournament. Johnson’s career high 26-point effort, in addition to Thomas Robinson’s 19-point, 10-re-bound performance, proved too much for an A&M squad that had finished playing a game just 16 hours before tip-off.

“I’m proud of our guys for competing, especially in the first half I thought we did some good things,” A&M head coach Billy Kennedy said. “But Kansas was very good today.”

Kansas converted on 61 per-cent of its field goals and put on a 10-for-15 shooting clinic behind the arc.

“They demand so much help with Thomas Robinson and Jeff Withey that we left some guys open on the perim-eter,” Kennedy said. “When they make ten threes and Rob-inson hits two threes, they’re a very difficult team to beat.”

Johnson’s stellar perfor-mance was as impressive emo-tionally as it was physically.

“His uncle passed middle of last week and services were Tuesday,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “So his family wanted him home. So he left Sunday and came back Tuesday night late. So he was away from the

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“The Mexican govern-ment has made great strides battling the cartels, and we commend their continued commitment to making Mexico a safer place to live and visit,” McCraw said. “However, drug cartel vio-lence and other criminal ac-tivity represent a significant safety threat, even in some resort areas.”

Karla Gutiérrez, senior biology major from Gua-najuato, Mexico, said she frequently travels to Mexico and plans to go this summer without worry that she will encounter any trouble.

“I would say it’s safe to go during vacations or breaks. As long as you are in a safe place, it’s fine,” Gutiérrez said. “Just as any other coun-try, there are risks [to travel] because you draw at-tention to yourself. If you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, you can probably get [assaulted].”

Spanish professor and Mexican native Bertin Ortega said the tourist industry is one of the three main pillars of the econo-my in terms of hard currency dollars in Mexico.

“The U.S. and Canada, especially the U.S., are the

main sources of visitors to Mexico. That is why the Mexican government is

working hard to dispel mis-conceptions about tourist places,” Ortega said.

A Department of Pub-lic Safety spokesperson ac-knowledged that many

travelers go to Mexico with-out any issues, but said the risks involved can-not be ignored. Travelers are encouraged to carefully re-search and plan trips as well as check the U.S. State Depart-ment website

for the most recent updates related to security issues in Mexico.

families to see if they were safe.

After the terror and con-fusion of the days follow-ing the disaster, Hirai said the government did a good job repairing damages to infrastructure.

“I visited the site where the tsunami struck, and there was absolutely nothing left,” Hirai said. “But it only took six days to fix one of the main streets beside the nuclear plant,

and a lot of the big streets and public areas were fixed within the first three months. We did pretty good in recovering from the disaster.”

Eager to support their family and friends in recov-ery efforts, the Japan Club on campus founded the Texas A&M Tsunami Relief Effort, which raised monetary sup-port toward relief efforts for tsunami victims.

“Right after the disaster, we started to fundraise for the American Red Cross. We raised $20,000 to $25,000 dollars, and Aggies were very

helpful in terms of raising money. It’s hard to ask under-grad students for money be-cause school is so expensive, but a lot of students were very generous,” Hirai said.

The American Red Cross was so impressed with A&M’s contributions that it featured a picture on their website of a Japanese flag covered in notes and messages to the tsunami victims from Aggie students.

“The American Red Cross raised $100 million dollars total, so the contribution from Aggies was pretty big,” said Hirai.

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Department, there were 12,903 narcotics-related ho-micides reported in the first nine months of 2011 and the number of U.S. citizens mur-dered in Mexico increased from 35 in 2007 to 120 in 2011. The State Department warned against non-essen-tial travel to areas within 14 Mexican states, an increase from 10 states one year ago. There are 31 total states in the country.

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Workers sort debris in Minamisanriku nearly a year after the March 11 tsunami hit the northeastern Japanese town.

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pleased with the progress of the team and recognizes the weekend challenge.

“[We’re feeling] good. We’re 12-1. We’d certainly like to be 13-0, but we’re not. This series will be a tough challenge,” Childress said. “They play a lot like we do. They play with a lot of inten-sity, they play hard, they’ve got great pitching and they’ve got great team speed.”

The Aggies and Titans will meet for the seventh time on the diamond and the se-ries stands dead even at 3-3. A&M’s most recent bout with Cal State Fullerton oc-curred in 2011 as the Aggies snuck out a 2-0 victory with nine current players seeing playing time.

Offensively, the Aggies have been considerably pro-ductive. Junior shortstop Mikey Reynolds continues to impress at the plate with a .388 average in 49 at bats and a team-leading 16 runs. Junior right fielder Tyler Na-quin continues to perform at an All-American level, lead-ing the team in batting aver-age at .490 in 49 at bats and slugging percentage at .612. True freshman Blake Alle-mand has taken off running in his seven starts at second base, hitting a .476 average in 21 at bats alongside five runs and three RBI.

Sophomore outfielder Jace Statum, who had a 4-for-5 night against Prairie View A&M, said the Aggies should have a solid shot against the Titans if the team continues

its strong performance. “It’s going to be tough,

we’re going to have to bat-tle,” Statum said. “Our pitch-ing staff is really good and as long as our offense keeps roll-ing, we’ll be alright.”

The weekend pitching ro-tation of junior Michael Wa-cha, senior Ross Stripling and sophomore Rafael Piñeda, respectively, continues to be one of the best in baseball.

Wacha enters Friday’s con-test with a 0.92 ERA, giving up only two runs in 19.2 in-nings pitched. Stripling re-turned to his 2011 form Sat-urday against Michigan State, pitching eight shutout in-nings. Piñeda brings in a 2-0 record, 1.0 ERA and thirteen strikeouts to Sunday’s contest.

Childress anticipates this matchup being one of the most intriguing in the nation.

“It aught to be a great weekend of college baseball,” Childress said. “As far as a na-tional weekend, I think this is as good a match up as you’ll see across the country.”

BaseballContinued from page 1

team for three days.”Much like the game two

weeks ago at Reed, John-son provided a spark off the bench by shooting early and often, racking up 15 first-half points.

“Everything I let go just felt like it was going in, nowhere else, even off bal-ance or however it went,” Johnson said.

Junior forward Khris Mid-dleton flashed NBA potential with stat stuffer, leading the team in points, 24, assists, four, and steals, four. He poured in 15 points in the first half and his bucket with 8:48 gave the Aggies the 21-17 advantage.

However, the Jayhawks responded with a run of their own, a 13-0 jail break that nearly swept the Aggies out of Kansas City and kept the season storyline of hit-ting colds streaks alive and evident.

“[It showed] just how good of a team we can be if you play for 40 minutes,” Middleton said. “There were stretches we played really good for five, 10 minutes,

but we just have to play good basketball for 40 minutes.”

Kansas dispatched A&M for the third consecutive time this season.

“I think that [playing the same team multiple times] can be easy or it can be hard,” Johnson said. “If you pay at-tention to how you played them the first two games, it can be quite easy. But if you just take it for granted and think that the third time is going to happen like the first two times, that’s when teams get you. You try to focus and make sure the third time we do everything we did the first two times.”

The loss puts an end to a difficult season for the Aggies. After suffering injuries to key three contributors, the grow-ing pains of a new coach, and the final season in the Big 12 Conference, A&M’s next men’s basketball game will be as a member of the SEC.

“I think as a team, yes, next year we’ll be able to [have success],” said Keith Davis, who scored eight points and pulled down seven boards, five offensive. “We’ll have more guys willing to compete. If we compete 40 minutes, I think we can’t be beat.”

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Kansas forward Thomas Robinson pressures Texas A&M forward David Loubeau during a Big 12 Conference tournament game Thursday in Kansas City.

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Senior first baseman Jacob House tags a Michigan State runner Sunday in a 9-8 victory.

CS Fullerton comes to town◗ Friday’s probable starters:Texas A&M: Michael Wacha

(Jr., RHP, 2-0, 0.92)Cal-St. Fullerton: Dylan Floro (Jr., RHP, 1-1, 2.45)◗ Saturday’s probable starters:Texas A&M: Ross Stripling (Sr., RHP, 2-0, 2.08)Cal-St. Fullerton: Kenny Mathews (Fr., LHP, 1-0, 2.77) ◗ Sunday’s probable starters:Texas A&M: Rafael Pineda (R-So., RHP, 2-0, 1.00)Cal-St. Fullerton: TBA

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