The Battalion: June 16, 2010

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news for you b-cs area Kroger recalls chocolate ice cream The Kroger Co. is recalling some containers of its Kroger Deluxe Chocolate Paradise Ice Cream that were sold in 17 states because it may contain tree nuts, a potential allergen, that were not listed on the label. People who are allergic to tree nuts could have a serious or life-threatening reaction if they consume the product.

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texas State punishes foster center Daystar Residential Inc., a residential treatment center in Manvel where staffers allegedly pushed some developmentally disabled girls into a “fight club,” will be assigned a state monitor. The center has 55 foster-care children.

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Cloned foal Mouse meets his genetic parent, Marc. Mouse is a Lippizan, so his fur will change to a lighter color as he matures.

nation &world President Obama visits Florida President Barack Obama walked a pristine stretch of sand on Florida’s shoreline Tuesday and pledged to fight against the spreading oil lurking offshore. Obama spoke to troops at Pensacola’s Naval Air Station to conclude a two-day visit to the Gulf.

Germany denies gay marriage A Berlin court declined to set a precedent by recognizing a gay marriage performed in Canada, ruling Tuesday that the union would be considered a civil partnership in Germany. Andreas Boettcher, 37, married his partner in Montreal in July 2006. He asked a Berlin administrative court to recognize the relationship as a marriage after authorities listed him as “single” on his registration card, despite his Canadian marriage certificate.

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ike father, like son. Perhaps “father” is not the appropriate word to use in the case of Marc, a Lippizan stallion whose skin cells were used to produce newborn foal, Mouse. Nevertheless, Katrin Hinrichs and fellow members of her equine reproduction lab have made history by successfully delivering the first foal cloned with eggs from a live mare. The creation and birth of Mouse marks another cloning milestone for researchers at Texas A&M. Alec Goetz | Special to The Battalion

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Health services warns about summer heat

Professor advises national environmental agency

Gayle Gabriel Special to The Battalion With temperatures on the rise, the summer heat gives students a new set of precautions to follow in order to stay cool and safe while walking around campus. Ignoring the precautions and symptoms of heat-related injuries could be fatal. Students can fall victim to dehydration, heat exhaustion or heat stroke.

“I saw a girl come in who wrecked her bike,” said Christen Bachmann, senior marketing major and Student Health Services employee. “She was dehydrated, and she passed out while she was riding.”

Rhonda Rahn, health education coordinator for Student Health Services, said dehydration causes people to lose focus and might cause them to pass out.

“It might lead to more severe things, like heat cramps where parts of their body start to cramp up, kind of like a cramp you feel after you have been very active,” she said. “If it gets more severe, it can lead to heat exhaustion, and that can lead to heat stroke and that is the more serious one. Heat exhaustion is serious, but heat stroke will land you in the hospital.”

Nausea, vomiting, weakness, headache and fatigue are symptoms of heat exhaustion.

The absence of sweating is an indication of heat stroke, with hot red or flushed dried skin. id Rahn said there aree several ways that students ent can prevent this.

“The first thing they want to do is to drink a lot of water and a lot of fluids, in general,” Rahn said.

“It does not necessarily have to be straight water. It can also be sports drinks, non-caffeinated drinks and teas. Students should also wear appropriate clothing — that is clothing that is lightcolored and loosely fitting; they do not want to be wearing sweatshirts and stuff like that during summer. Sunglasses are good to protect their eyes, and sunscreen to protect their skin. A lot of people do not think about using sunscreen every day, but they really should.”

Rene Aguirre, senior biomedical sciences major, said See Health on page 3

Sarah Ammerman The Battalion Anne Sweeney, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, has been appointed to a review panel to advise the Environmental Protection Agency on health risks from dioxin and related compounds.

“Dr. Sweeney is very knowledgeable and passionate about her work,” said Brett Walker, class of 2010.

Throughout her career, Sweeney’s research interests have included environmental and occupational exposures to toxic agents and the relationship to

adverse reproductive effects. She has been a member of the Environmental Health Committee since 2002 and is a principal investigator for the Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Environment study.

Dioxin is one of the most toxic chemicals known to science and exposure can cause many health threats including cancer.

“Exposure to dioxin and the health risks that are associated with it has been an important and controversial issue in

Anne Sweeney, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics

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climate

Global warming affects Texas It is not just Texas; it is global. The rising temperatures that have afflicted the state are only part of a larger problem. Earth’s temperatures are rising at an alarming rate, rates unseen for thousands of years.

“The warming that has occurred in the last 100 years seems to be very unusual,” said Gerald North, professor of atmospheric sciences and oceanography. “We do not see warming changes like that for 10,000 years. The rate at which it is going up has not stopped.”

Even though the global rise in tempera-

ture is small, 3 degrees Celsius over a period of 100 years, the implications of such warming are large.

“3 degrees Celsius is about 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit, and if you ask most people, they would say that it does not sound like very much,” said Andrew Dessler, professor of atmospheric sciences and oceanography. “If you look at the global average temperature, it really varies a small amount.”

Dessler said what seems like a small change in See Climate on page 3

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The Lincoln Recreation Center will have its annual historic celebration of independence for AfricanAmericans. The Freedom Walk begins at 9 a.m., the carnival from 4 to 6:30 p.m. and the Jam session from 7 to 9 p.m.

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Spend the weekend walking through historic downtown Bryan, eating steak, and drinking wine. Numerous wine exhibitions will be available. Live music performances will feature Midnight Express, the Big Otis Show Band, Earl Thomas Conley and Robert Earl Keen.

The festival will be from noon Friday to midnight Saturday in downtown Bryan.

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Japanese anime film screening

University Summer Performance Series

The Japanese Animation Appreciation Club (Aggime) will have an anime film screening from 7 to 10 p.m. every Friday in Room 414 of the Langford Architecture Center, Building C. Everyone is welcome.

The Texas Music Festival artist faculty dazzles with brilliant solo works. The University Summer Performance Series called Virtuoso Vehicles will be from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Monday in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. Tickets can be purchased through the MSC box office.

Thursday 20% chance of storms high: 95 low: 75 Friday mostly sunny high: 95 low: 75 Saturday mostly sunny high: 96 low: 73

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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Condemned Texas prisoner David Lee Powell looked to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to keep him from execution for using an assault rifle to kill an Austin police officer during a traffic stop 32 years ago. Powell’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to halt the lethal injection scheduled for Tuesday, saying Powell’s exemplary behavior on death row over the past three decades showed jurors were wrong they decided he would be a continuing danger and should die for killing 26-year-old Ralph Ablanedo.

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A&M first to clone foal from live mare egg cells Alec Goetz Special to The Battalion Researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences have once again made headlines with the successful delivery of a foal cloned using egg cells from a live mare. The cells used to create the clone make it the latest in a number of cloning firsts achieved by the University.

The birth of the foal was the result of two years of work by the lab of equine reproduction expert, Katrin Hinrichs, who created the first cloned horse in North America with her lab in 2005.

“This is actually our first foal produced using oocytes, or egg cells, from live mares,” said Hinrichs, professor in the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology. “We used the cells for the cloning process, which made it difficult, as we had very few to work with at any one time. We also tested a new technique during the process reported to decrease birthing problems in mice.”

Using skin cells taken from the original horse, viable embryos were developed with the recovered egg cells, which were then implanted in a mare named Minnie. The mare was then sent to Florida, where experts at the University of Florida assisted with the foal’s delivery.

The foal, named Mouse in honor of the research that made his birth possible, is a clone of a Lippizan stallion named Marc. Both horses are owned by dressage trainer Kit Knotts, who lives

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Mouse got his name because of the research that made his birth possible. in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Knotts cared for the pregnant mare before she delivered the cloned foal with the help of the University of Florida vets.

“Having Minnie with us for the months before the birth has been great,” Knotts said. “The teamwork between Hinrichs and her colleagues has frankly saved Mouse’s life more than once

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Knotts provided the inspiration for the cloning project after learning about Texas A&M’s cloning efforts while searching for a horse similar to her stallion.

“Everything I could turn up was too small, too young, too old, not quite sound, etc.,” Knotts said. “I realized I didn’t just want another horse, I wanted another Marc.”

While Mouse was born with dark brown fur, as a member of the Lippizan breed, he will become a gray-white color like that of Marc, said Angela Clendenin, director of communications and public relations for the vet school.

Knotts was happy to be a part of the University’s research in the field of cloning.

“Dr. Hinrichs has been wonderful about keeping me up on what is going on in the lab,” Knotts said. “I’m very proud of the contributions our project has made to the body of knowledge about cloning, which benefits far more areas of equine reproduction than most realize.”

In addition to Hinrich’s achievements in equestrian cloning, Texas A&M has made other cloning milestones in the past decade. Researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences created the first clone of a domestic animal, a cat named CC for “Copy Cat,” in 2001. Scientists from the University also became the first to clone a deer in 2003. Other successfully cloned species include cattle, pigs and goats.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Looking for the savior of the Big 12? Follow the money. Assurances that the big television money will soon be coming to the leaner Big 12 pulled the league back from the dead, officials with schools and the league said Tuesday.

With Colorado (Pac-10) and Nebraska (Big Ten) leaving in the next two years and the Pac-10 making a hard sell to Texas and four other schools to join them, the promises — not guarantees — of bigger checks in the future finally persuaded the Longhorns and the others to stay put. Last year, Big 12 schools divided between $7 million and $10 million each, depending on how many appearances they made on regional and national TV. The Big 12’s television deal with Fox expires in 2012, and a more lucrative contract with ESPN runs through the 20152016 academic year.

nation&world US teen sailor unfazed by world trip accident PARIS — The 16-year-old California girl whose dream of sailing solo around the world was dashed by a massive wave that snapped her mast says she still loves sailing and hopes one day to circumnavigate the globe. In an exclusive interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Abby Sunderland also defended her parents, who have come under fierce criticism since the young sailor hit 3-story-high waves Thursday in a remote zone of the Indian Ocean. The accident triggered a tense, 20-hourlong maritime search over the dangerous Southern Ocean and her eventual rescue by a French fishing boat.

Sunderland acknowledged that her adventure “can look pretty crazy.

But the thing is, those people don’t know me. And if they did, they wouldn’t be criticizing my age.” She spoke by phone from the remote Kerguelen Islands, near Antarctica, where her rescue boat stopped briefly Tuesday en route to Reunion Island and a true reunion with her family.

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recent years,” Sweeney said. “The panel’s goal is to further research and identify the specific health risks that dioxin poses to humans.”

The average tenure of service on the board is two years. The first telephone conference is June 24, and the first meeting in will be July 13-15 in Washington, D.C. .

Meetings will be documented and posted on the web for the public to view.

This will not be Sweeney’s first experience on a review panel for the EPA. She advises and researches on national air quality standards for carbon monoxide.

She has years of experience in environmental and reproductive health studies and is widely published in this area, said Rae Lynn Mitchell, director of communications and institutional advancement in the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health.

the global average corresponds to large changes in the global climate.

“For example, in the last ice age there was 3,000 feet of ice over Boston, the oceans were 300 feet lower than they are today and that was 5 to 8 degrees Celsius cooler than it is today,” he said. “So if you lower the global temperature 5 to 8 degrees Celsius, which is about 12 degrees Fahrenheit, you end up with an ice age.”

Global climate changes are having equal effect on Texas‘ climate, which is part of the reason for the increased temperatures over the summers.

“Texas temperatures are going up pretty much like the Earth’s temperatures are,” North said. “Generally speaking, the global average temperature changes about the same as in Texas, so it is probably going to be warmer in Texas in the next 50 to 100 years. Last summer was a really hot summer, and while I say that is a fluctuation, it does probably indi-

wearing a hat keeps the majority of the sun away from your face. Some students have found more creative ways to beat the heat and stay cool.

“My favorite thing is to walk through the sprinklers,” said Michael James, class of 2008 and Student Health Services employee.

“Wherever those guys with the power washers are, I’m walking right with them.”

Along with following personal safety measures, some students expressed that the University could help students beat the heat.

“We could use more outdoor water fountains around campus because the majority of them are inside,” Aguirre said. “Or maybe covered waiting areas at the bus stops like at West Campus.”

Some students still fall victim to heat-related injuries, dehydration being the most common.

Rahn said the most helpful thing that students can do if they start to

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cate things that we might expect in the next 20 or 30 years. And what you can expect in the next 50 years is that the heat we experienced last summer is going to be the average summer temperature.”

Gayle Gabriel, special to The Battalion

Signs of dehydration ◗ Thirst ◗ Loss of appetite ◗ Dry skin ◗ Skin flushing ◗ Dry mouth ◗ Fatigue or weakness ◗ Chills feel dizzy and dehydrated is to get indoors and get some fluids.

“I drink cold water before I have to walk somewhere. It helps,” James said. “Water is the big one.

If you don’t like water because it gets boring after a while, spice it up and add one of those Vitamin C or Crystal Light packets to your bottle.

But always carry water with you.”

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Basically, a germ is a microscopic version of that old freshman-year-roommate of yours who invites himself over to your new apartment so when you get back from picking up groceries he has brought over six dozen friends and is having a garbage fight in your living room with a stripper named Misty, except that the living room is your sinus cavity and the trash is 700 gallons of mucus and Misty is your ability to breath... yeah, I didn’t really think that analogy out.

Germs are easily available in a variety of convenient locations near you, such as bathroom floors, doorknobs, kitchen sinks, cages full of rabid weasels, Walton Hall. Once you have your germs, place them carefully in your sinuses.

As I’m sure you remember from Mr. Schaefer’s eighth grade biology class, the sinuses, also known as the “Great Cranial Phlegm

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The problem with medi- want to skip the tissues for cal professionals is that they a bucket. On the plus side, like using medicine. At first now I’ve got some Legos to play with! glance, this may seem like

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Thomas’ career counts

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here has been a lot of negative feedback from an editorial that we previously published on the issue surrounding the retirement of Helen Thomas. We would like to take the opportunity to clarify some of the opinions we stated.

First of all we would like to reiterate, “The Battalion does not approve of the statements made

by Thomas.� Though some of our statements could have been worded differently to represent a clearer presentation for our readers, we stand by our opinion.

Thomas has Thomas’ had a very achievements successful should be career and considered has opened along with her comments. many doors for women, especially women journalists. Thomas became the first woman officer of the White House Correspondents Association and went on to become their first woman president, among many other accomplishments.

Because Thomas made so much progress for women and added much to the news business over her long career, we made the point that it is sad to see her career, or anyone’s career, ended by an unfortunate asserted opinion. Again we do not agree with her sentiments.

Just like many of you we are students learning more every day, so we would like to apologize for our statement about Palestine. We were wrong in saying Palestine was a country, when in fact Palestine was a colony under British rule. We apologize for this mistake and the comments we made based off of the statement.

However, we at The Battalion feel Thomas should be judged by the weight of her career, instead of one comment, and allowed to retire on her own terms.

EDITOR’SNOTE The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants in this paper do not necessarily reect those of Texas A&M University, The Battalion or its staff.

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