The Battalion: June 21, 2010

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What do you think about A&M’s decision to stay in the Big 12?

I like the decision because it keeps up the rivalries.

The whole point is rivalries.

The best game to go to is the UT game.

Garret Trahan, senior biology major

I didn’t agree with it. I think the Big 12 isn’t going to stay together anyway. I think it’s a temporary fix for teams leaving.

They should have went to the the SEC, because they would have had a better chance of winning.

Tiffany Deal, sophomore general studies major

Jacob Tadesaz, senior industrial distribution major

Matt Marshall, architecture graduate student Matt Young — THE BATTALION

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news for you texas Battery ends town’s blackouts Presidio’s electricity is served by a single 60-yearold, 60-mile-long power line, which is often knocked out of commission by bad weather.

This month, $25 million, 4-megawatt sodium-sulfur battery gets up to full operation. It will be capable of powering the town for eight hours at a time.

Chained dogs create concern

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Highly ranked administrator resigns Discrepancies in Alexander Kemos’ resume have called into question his qualifications last week.

Kemos, associate executive vice president for operations resigned Friday. Hired in February 2009, Kemos worked to oversee university facilities and the physical plant, as well as auxiliaries that include dining services and transportation services.

University President R. Bowen Loftin has launched an investigation into Kemos’ credentials.

“Upon learning of questions into Mr. Kemos’ background, I immediately contacted the office of general counsel and initiated an investigation for verification of his credentials,” Loftin said.

In his resume, Kemos said he spent time as a Navy SEAL and earned a doctor-

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Right on

In some rural areas, no laws keep dogs off chains, and animal advocacy groups say it is a problem.

The nonprofit organization LoveA-Bull has helped five dogs who were victims of chaining from Martindale this year. The group mostly does education and advocacy work, but it has acted to rescue the dogs in extreme situations.

ate from Tufts University. Yet there was no record of him completing or attending training for Navy SEALs, known as the BUDS program.

“Mr. Kemos confirmed several misrepresentations about his academic degrees and military service,” said Jason Cook, chief communications officer for the office of the president.

Pending the investigation, H. Russell

Cross, professor animal science, has been named as acting senior vice president for administration.

“Texas A&M is founded upon six core values, with one of those being integrity,” Loftin said. “We expect nothing but the highest principles from our administrators.”

Gayle Gabriel, special to The Battalion

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Baghdad car bombing kills 28 A double suicide car bombing tore through a crowded commercial district near a state-run bank Sunday in Baghdad, killing at least 28 people in the second strike to hit a major financial institution in a week. The attack added weight to warnings that insurgents would try to foment unrest as deadlocked politicians squabble over forming a new government.

Swedish Princess Victoria weds Royalty and dignitaries from around the world started arriving Thursday for Sweden’s biggest royal party for decades — the lavish wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and personal trainer Daniel Westling. The wedding between Victoria and a commoner came with a price tag of 20 million kronor ($2.6 million).

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Tyler Hosea — THE BATTALION

Kevin Fowler performed fan favorites and selections from his upcoming album Saturday at the Texas Reds Festival in downtown Bryan.

Visitors of all ages flocked to the Texas Reds Festival in Bryan

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outh-watering steaks, Cajun cuisine and Mexican food combined with country music and scorching summer heat to create a fitting celebration of the Lone Star State. The fourth annual Texas Reds Steak & Grape Festival in downtown Bryan shared the varied tastes and sounds of the Brazos Valley with residents and out-of-town visitors this weekend.

Caroline Ward | Special to The Battalion

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Juneteenth honors slaves’ emancipation

Bush School professor receives national award

Patrique Ludan The Battalion Union soldiers marched into Galveston, Texas and announced the end of the Civil War along with an order freeing over a quarter million slaves on June 19, 1865. Over 115 years later, June 19th was established as a state holiday in Texas by the state legislature.

Residents in Bryan-College Station observed this year’s Emancipation Day with a week full of activities celebrating the life and culture

of African-Americans.

Emancipation Day or Juneteenth, the name used more commonly for the holiday, has grown into a national and worldwide event. To date, 36 states recognize Juneteenth as an official holiday.

Last week in College Station, events took place at the Lincoln Recreation Center. Celebrants were treated to a free aerobics session on Tuesday. However, Thursday marked the penultimate activities of the week.

See Juneteenth on page 6

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Celebrants of Juneteenth line up for watermelon slices Thursday at the Lincoln Recreation Center.

Special to The Battalion In honor of William J. Donovan, the only American to win the country’s four highest awards, the William J. Donavan award was given to Texas A&M professor Jim Olson. The honor is given yearly to an individual who has rendered distinguished service in the interests of the democratic process.

The list of past winners include presidents George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and

Dwight D. Eisenhower.

After a 31-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency, Olson calls Aggieland home.

Olsen has taught at The Bush School for 12 years, where he was recruited from the CIA by former president Bush.

Olson said his time at the Univeristy has left him impressed by Texas A&M’s excellent tradition and upstanding moral quality and that he and his wife can call it home.

See Olson on page 4

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Final day to Q-drop

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Y L L U F PED P I U EQ

You need to Q-drop any Summer I courses by 5 p.m. today.

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Sustainability forum today

An open forum to share the draft campus sustainability master plan and receive your input is from 10 a.m. to noon today in Rudder 601.

Can’t make the forum? View it live at http://ttvn.tamu.edu/ streams Channel 20.

University Summer Performance Series

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Japanese anime film screening

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Young artists learn about Indonesian art

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. today in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center.

Tickets can be purchased through the MSC box office.

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

The first workshop in the University Art Galleries’ Young Artists Series will be at 1 p.m or 3 p.m. June 27 in Evans Library and will teach the art of Indonesian Ketupat to young artists ages 10-15. International student groups will create interactive art programs for young artists in the community.

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campus Bryan police make arrest of resident

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The Bryan Police Department received a report at 1:30 p.m. describing a major accident that occurred Sunday, in the 1500 block of Military at Orlean. An 18-year-old Bryan resident was struck by a motor vehicle and was taken to St. Joseph’s hospital for injuries. The driver of the vehicle, who had fled the scene, was later found and arrested. Briana Nicole Morrison, Bryan resident was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and family violence.

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nation&world Students cancel trip amid document issue

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KANSAS —Johnson County Community College won’t be sponsoring a trip by Hispanic students to the National Council of La Raza conference in San Antonio next month. The Kansas City Star reported that college officials and the Hispanic student organization couldn’t reach agreement on travel arrangements. The original plan called for seven students — members of Latinos United Now and Always — to fly to the July conference. The college would have paid for the trip using student fees.

But the students rejected that idea because two of the seven were undocumented and might not be able to get through airport security. The students wanted to drive to the conference. But that ran afoul of a college policy that prohibits sanctioned trips by car if the destination is more than 500 miles away.

CSU to allow media at Palin fundraiser After months of requests from reporters, a California university has agreed to allow members of the media to attend a fundraiser next week featuring Sarah Palin.

Officials with California State University, Stanislaus issued an e-mail advisory Friday announcing that the June 25 gala at its Turlock campus would be open to the press. Palin’s appearance has generated widespread coverage and criticism since it was announced in March. University officials have refused to divulge the terms of the former Alaska governor’s contract or her speaking fee for the event, where the least expensive tickets cost $500.

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Music at Reds Festival attracts diverse crowds Caroline Ward Special to The Battalion The fourth year of the Texas Reds Festival was marked June 18 and 19 in Bryan-College Station and surrounding areas where crowds gathered to experience the food, live music, art and shopping.

Despite the summer heat, the festival drew a large, diverse crowd. Venders sold everything from jewelry to raffle tickets to wine bottles, bags and funnel cakes. With activities such as a petting zoo, inflatables, a zip line, fishing, trackless train rides and a magician, the festival became a summer activity for families as well.

“It was nice to see the whole community of Bryan-College Station getting together to enjoy music and food. I enjoyed seeing all the people hanging out and having a great time.

When I go back to Houston, I’m going to look for a festival similar to this one,” said Demi Dillman, class of 2010 and a first-time festival attendee.

Bands varied in genre, and each artist brought energy to the crowd. Show after show, the bands continued to lure fans onto the dance floor.

Friday night, the Texas Twisters, a classic rock cover band, and Karan Chavis, a soul singer, entertained hundreds.

Saturday, Kelly Austin Curtis, a country singer, opened the day, followed by Greg Tivis and the Dixieland Jam. They were followed by the Rockafellas, Randy Pavlock, Razz and the Tejas Brothers, a mix between music of Mexico and Texas country. Closing out the show was Kevin Fowler, a real draw for college students in the area.

“If America is the melting pot, Texas is the roux,” said Dave Perez, lead vocals and accordion player for the Tejas Brothers, referring to the base used to thicken and deepen the flavor of Cajun dishes.

The food offered at the festival also reflected the variety of cultures that have been influential in modern Texas culture.

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burgers, Philly cheese steaks to Cuban sandwiches, Cajun cuisine to tacos, ice cream to fried Oreos, this festival truly had a variety of food representative of a wide range of heritages.

Texan summer heat did not deter the crowds. Sponsors passed out water and fans, and permanent businesses in downtown Bryan provided a haven from the blazing sun.

Kathy Penny, a fourth year vendor, said though the heat is brutal, summer is the best time to hold the festival. She said that too many other festivals are offered in the spring, and fall does not provide a consistent month for the festival to occur in.

“They are hot, but everybody has been really nice and friendly,” said Karen Thompson, a first-time Cajun food vendor.

The Reds Festival was widely attended by many different types of people, despite temperatures in the upper 90s. The festival was a reflection of America’s appreciation and enjoyment of a myriad of cultures.

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Texas Reds Steak and Grape Festival attendees stomped grapes Saturday in downtown Bryan.

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Country concert at Harry’s

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Live music in Navasota

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KEOS Bash at Wolf Pen

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Korean War memorial

The Brazos Valley Bombers begin a weekday series starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Brazos Valley Bank Ballpark

The Casey Donahew Band will play at 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Hurricane Harry’s. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door.

The Corner Cafe in Navasota offers live music every weekend.

Randy Pavlock performs at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday.

KEOS 89.1 FM will have 15th Anniversary Bash at 4 p.m. Saturday at Wolf Pen Creek Amphitheater.

The show features Rosie Flores, with Magic Girl.

The memorial will take place at 10 a.m. Friday at Veterans Memorial Park.

At the park is the newlycompleted Lynn Stuart Pathway.

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Blue Baker

“Blue Baker is probably the best sandwich shop in College Station,” said Stephen Pennington, sophomore political science major.

It should be, because it is home to a continuous deal. Customers who wear something blue get something free.

It’s simple, wear a blue hat, get a free cookie. Rock a blue outfit, receive a free drink with your free cookie. Go so far as to sport a blue epidermis, dyed-blue hair and blue-stained teeth?

Expect a free meal. Just remember to mention the deal to the cashier, or you won’t get the freebies.

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Chicken Oil

Make Mondays bearable with half-priced burgers at Chicken Oil. The deal starts after 5 p.m. and goes until closing at 10 p.m. Customers will enjoy the thick massive burgers in the atmosphere of the sit-down restaurant for almost a fastfood price.

“They’re so tasty,”said Kendall Raabe, sophomore geology major.

With the money saved, one can buy a side of fries or fried jalapenos, or another burger if hunger persists.

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n the Bryan-College Station area, there are plenty of places to dine. But what some of you may not know is that plenty of restaurants around town offer daily and weekly specials that will save you some cash. Here’s my five choices. If you know of any others that aren’t listed, send an e-mail to features@thebatt.com.

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Buffalo Wild Wings

“OMG, don’t get me started,” said sophomore general studies major Alli Morris. “‘Bdubs’ is by far my favorite place to eat. They have boneless Thursdays, always a sports game on and the wings are delish.”

Every Thursday, Buffalo Wild Wings offers tender, juicy, boneless chicken wings for 60 cents, all day. With games on the TVs, music always playing and cheap, yet wonderful wings, “Bdubs” proves to be a great Thursday deal.

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Rosa’s Cafe

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“Rosa’s Cafe has easily the best tasting tortillas in Texas,” said Jennifer Meeks, sophomore biomedical sciences major.

Every day, by presenting a Texas A&M student ID card, a student may receive a choice of a free bean and cheese burrito or 10 percent off the order. “Taco Tuesdays” offers a taco platter for $3.69. For those with a sweet tooth, Thursdays are free sopapilla days for college students.

Always count on Rosa’s for a free snack or a cheap meal.

Fazoli’s

Not in the mood for sports and wings on Thursdays?

Fazoli’s offers spaghetti, meatballs, and salad for just $2.99.

Fazoli’s is a fast and convenient Italian restaurant with both a drive through and a place to sit down.

“It’s perfect if you’re in a rush,” said junior business major Tara Price.

“You can take home great Italian food with out having to wait forever.”

Also, if customers choose to sit inside, waiters constantly walk around offering more breadsticks for free.

Other deals around town Chick fil-A: The fast-food restaurant offers daily summer specials Monday through Saturday. They include “Milkshake Mondays” and “Free Breakfast Thursdays.”

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Olson Continued from page 1

“My wife and I aren’t going anywhere else,” Olson said.

“We love it here.”

As a senior lecturer, he teaches courses on intelligence, national security and international crisis management. As a former CIA agent and expert in espionage, he provides his students with unmatched knowledge and experience in these fields of study.

“He’s a really exceptional professor,” said former student Phil Kuhlman. “He was just someone who has a passion for teaching and for his students.

Given his experience, he has a lot to draw back on. And he shows a personal interest in his students and their well-being and performance.”

Olson has mastered five languages, including French, German, Russian and Spanish, and he said his students should work toward the same thing.

“Knowing a foreign language is one of the most important things to have on your resume,” Olson said. “The students that come through the program are required to know at least one foreign language.”

Olson is the author of Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying, a book that takes its readers inside real CIA missions involving moral decisions that undercover agents have to make while in the field.

The book includes experiences from Olson’s 31 years spent in the CIA, and the CIA had to scrutinize over it to make sure it was safe for the general public to read.

“It took me six months to write it, but it took one year

to get approved by the CIA,” Olson said.

Olson’s life-plan didn’t always involve the CIA. “I planned to be a small town lawyer in Clinton, Iowa,” Olson said.

He graduated with his law degree in 1969 from The University of Iowa. Shortly after his graduation, he was recruited into the CIA for what he thought would be just a couple of years. He did not know at the time that he would find both his wife and his passion working for the CIA. Olson has received the Intelligence Medal of Merit, the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal and several Distinguished Service Citations.

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Jim Olson stands in front of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum among the flags of the country he protected as a former CIA agent. Olson is a senior lecturer who teaches courses on intelligence, national security and international crisis management.

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Building on the border This shack was home to a family in Jaurez, Mexico, before being replaced by a house built by Casa Por Cristo.

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ast week, I found myself staring past a border fence at a luxurious building in El Paso while I stood in a neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, with several surrounding homes made of little more than wood pallets and cardboard. After four weeks in Mexico, it is still difficult for me to grasp that only a fence separates the prosperous from the impoverished.

This summer, I am working for Casas Por Cristo, which provides homes at no cost for needy families in Juarez and Acuña, Mexico.

When I tell people what I do, they often Caleb Wilson give me a jaw-dropped junior history response. Most are major and special especially stunned after to The Battalion I mention that I work in Juarez, now considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

I realize working in a city having more than 1,000 homicides this year alone is not the safest occupational decision. But in the face of the violence, I have witnessed a great need very few Americans have ever seen.

Before my first trip to build a house in Juarez, I viewed extreme poverty as something across seas in a hard to pronounce country, but it exists much closer to home. According to the

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ourselves from Mexico, especially Juarez, because of the violence. We overlook the areas in dire need that are too impoverished to be involved with the cartel because we deem the entire country too dangerous to give a second thought.

Just as poverty anywhere is a tremendously difficult cycle to escape, I believe the grind of college often has us running in similar World Factbook, 47 percent of the Mexican circles. For a lot of us, the daily routine is population lives below the poverty line. eat, class, sleep and repeat, with little else in The U.S. has its share of economic between. Sometimes we are so focused problems, but seeing firsthand peoon lining up for the perfect job People living ple who have no running water or or are simply so involved in our in third world electricity is an eye-opening exlives that we forget that there perience. The average household is a world outside of comfortconditions income for the communities that able College Station, a world are closer we build is less than $60 a week. in need of a helping hand, not than students “Many of these people live handouts. may think. with almost nothing, so providing I do not want you to think that them with a home completely changyou have to donate a stack of cash, es their lives,” said David Quiñones, the work in a soup kitchen or build homes to Acuña Representive for Casas Por Cristo. make a difference in the world. But I will I love what I am doing, because I am say that those things certainly help impact helping to meet a very basic physical need, peoples’ lives, and whatever help you can and I also to play a part in inspiring hope to give to those less fortunate will be greatly the hopeless. appreciated.

Poverty in Mexico and the rest of the We are not forced to change the world, world is something we have a difficult time but we are forced to decide if we will allow understanding in America. Of course, we the Earth to continue in its cycle. I know we have citizens in need, but one would be cannot make the world a better place overhard-pressed to find an entire community of night, but we can set it on a more positive nothing but shacks. It is very easy to distance course one day at a time.

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here is absolutely something wrong here. Like it or not, our Aggie family is splintered. I am not willing to place the blame on Texas for a decision that our University has made. I am left to believe the University’s most prominent individuals — generous donors and politicians — influenced it.

We — the most deeply entrenched, networked and older Ags like me — are most certainly to blame because we wield the most power and influence.

And rightfully so because we are in our prime giving years, whether it’s time or money. But we are also the ones who should, as time may tell, receive all of the blame for the direction of our beloved University. We are the ones who keep everything the same. We affectionately and most honestly refer to it as “tradition.” However, if we traditional Ags don’t come away with anything else from this entire upheaval, then we must at least remember this: The times, oh how they are a changin’.

The financial baton will soon enough pass to the next generation, and once it does, the “traditional” way of doing things in Aggieland will no longer exist, assuming we are lucky enough to retain their future support. We should be working with them to create a new future in order to retain our core values instead of dismissing them.

Keep in mind, most younger Ags have never witnessed the excitement of watching the Wrecking Crew defend an entire season at Kyle — let alone an entire conference schedule. Even in the most passionate game memories, they have no idea what thunder Kyle can create. Our last national championship was in 1939. They don’t remember that, and neither do most of us, and yet they are the ones who we expect to show at each of our season ticket games. Students are the ones we expect to continue to fill Kyle in triple degree heat and stand and yell until their voices fail or until the game clock ticks to zero because we did. They do this, not us, and they do this for A&M. For these Ags, playing in a national Old Ags championship at least once in a need to seek 10-year time span is expected. input from Defending a conference crown the current should be common. They believe student body four and five-star recruits should on how to litter our rosters two-deep because spend their playing in front of 80,000 rabid and time and hungry fans in the great football state money. of Texas should be enough to attract any high school athlete from anywhere.

Given our facilities are on par with, if not better than most, expectations should be high. This state is fertile enough to support both A&M and Texas, but we continue to not be nationally represented.

Yet, in current students’ opinion, this is a far cry from where we are, and I agree with them. You need only to look as far as recent events, and the vision that we entrenched Ags call “tradition” is all but dead.

For students, this is not about what conference they play in. They only desire and expect their University to represent them in a way that makes them proud to say that they are an Aggie after speaking in a meeting full of peers that graduated from Texas.

They desire continued growth and support from their roots that at the least comes close to the affection and devotion that they model each and every day in their community, even if they can’t afford to float a $10,000 check. Yet they are continuously disappointed, shame on us all for ignoring the future foundation of our University.

So I must ask the most influential and generous and deeply entrenched Ags: Have you walked the campus lately and talked to the students? Do you subscribe to Facebook? Do you know what is happening? And if you surprisingly do, then how long are you willing to wait to make a change before our “tradition” fades into each successive freshman class until it no longer exists, and we eventually lose the one true tradition that we all hold so dear — Aggie pride. Or have you already forgotten it yourself?

Joseph Cash, class of 1992

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On Thursday, children who attended the summer program at the Lincoln Center went on a freedom walk from the center to the George Bush Library, which is a two-mile walk.

“A lot of groups are involved,” said LaVerne Hawkins, director of educational programs at the Brazos Valley African-American Museum. “Many of the rec centers [in the Brazos Valley], such as the Neal and Lincoln recreation centers come together for this event.”

At the presidential library, Brazos Valley youth were treated to a storied performance from Clifton Fifier, a well-known African-American performer throughout the state of Texas. Fifer drew from a number of creative elements

French revolution KNYSNA, South Africa — France’s World Cup ambitions lay in ruins Sunday after public rifts erupted between players, coaches and national officials over Nicolas Anelka, who was thrown out of the squad for insulting team coach Raymond Domenech.

The squabbling was even brought to the attention of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Amid chaotic scenes at France’s training field in Knysna, Domenech had the humiliating task of explaining why the whole of his squad was sitting on a bus, curtains drawn, refusing to join in a public training session in front of 200 local fans. Before his brief speech, Domenech had been in a heated argument between his captain and the team’s fitness coach.

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in his presentation of AfricanAmerican culture, such as his original poetry and representations of buffalo soldiers, which are African-American servicemen who served in black-only military units.

Students from A&M who work at the Lincoln Center took part in the walk.

Jessica Gibson, sophomore recreation, parks and tourism science youth development major, said the importance of celebrating Juneteenth lies in the ability of the youth to express their pride being the way they are and that they can outwardly speak out as a group of children for the values of civil justice and freedom.

“Our ultimate goal is to help these kids stay in school and do well in life instead of getting in trouble and going crazy,” Gibson said.

Another summer worker at the center was Brian Jelks,

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who is in the health policy management graduate program at A&M. “I think it is really important that they understand African-American history, which is the same as American history,” Jelks said. “I think it is really good that there are kids from all cultures, all social classes and all nationalities that are taking part.”

For many youth who attend the summer program at the center, it was their sixth or seventh time taking part in the Juneteenth festivities, Jelks said.

“They know what [Juneteenth] stands for,” said Chase Jones, junior ag-leadership major and center summer worker.

“It is a huge deal to them and their families.”

The festivities concluded with a carnival and jam session by the Razz Band on Thursday night.

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Young kids lined up for snowcones at the Juneteenth celebration Thursday at the Lincoln Recreation Center.

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