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Cuba releases political prisoners Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday that the communist government has agreed to free 52 political prisoners in what would be the island’s largest mass liberation of prisoners of conscience in decades. The deal was announced after a meeting between President Raul Castro and Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the archbishop of Havana. Staff and wire reports
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On thebatt.com Richard Creecy and Ian McPhail interview Texas A&M’s president, R. Bowen Loftin, about the Big 12, the budget situation and, of course, bowties. James Cavin checks in on the Hell’s Angels in his segment, Cavin Fever.
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Gayle Gabriel The Battalion FitLife is an exercise program that features exercise classes throughout the year to keep Aggies and community members active while providing a complete cardiovascular health assessment and consultation. The program was created by the Applied Exercise Science Laboratory and the Department of Health and Kinesiology to help students, faculty and staff of Texas A&M, and residents the Bryan-College Station community stay fit for life. April Baltensperger “I came to A&M in 1984, THE BATTALION and FitLife was created in A FitLife instructor encour1985,” said Stephen Crouse, FitLife program director. “It ages a participant as he was designed to meet the exercises on a treadmill. teaching, service and research health assessments that will enmissions of the University. able and encourage them to be Academically, FitLife provides physically fit. undergraduate and graduate FitLife offers classes Monday students in our kinesiology through Friday in the Read and program with experience in G. Rollie White buildings and practical skills development re- conducts exercise and cardiolated to clinical and sport phys- vascular testing at the Applied iology, while also providing a Exercise Science Laboratory in quality physical fitness testing the Steed Physiology Research and exercise experience for and Conditioning Laboratory our clients.” near Kyle Field. Crouse said the goal of “The students teach the the program is to provide the exercise classes,” said Steven University and the community with exercise classes and See FitLife on page 2
Who knew that some leftover fabric swatches could be a potential means of warmth to Texas residents. Nearly 60 unique quilts were designed and created by children of all ages this year, thanks to a challenge by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service’s 4-H youth program. AgriLife Extension agent Katie M. Phillips of Kaufman County said she received word from the Texas Department of Agriculture that the organization had leftover scraps of fabric from a quilt project, which began in 2007. Since then, more than 113 quilts have been designed and donated. The project is receiving attention from professional quilters, area residents, and the A&M network. The department sent Phillips a large box of
fabric samples, which she gave to the children on the 4-H Clothing and Textiles Advisory Board, a group that promotes and organizes clothing projects across Texas. The children, some as young as 6 years old, started sorting the fabrics according to size, shape and color, and went back to their home counties to begin creating the works of art. Six months later, the 4-H Roundup had 20 quilts present for judging. The project continued to grow, so they came up with a few guidelines for the young quilters. The first and most important rule was that every child had to give away his or her blanket rather than keep it. See Quilts on page 3
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Professor studies effects of stereotype Jeffery Liew, associate professor of learning sciences at Texas A&M, heads Project Chinese American Successful Living, which will study Houston’s Chinese population to understand factors that help or hinder the success of Chinese-American teens in school, thanks to a grant from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. Liew’s project might provide mental health professionals with information to help them work with Chinese-American parents and students by examining the effects of stereotypical and cultural influence on mental health and academic performance. The research team will survey adolescents and their families on their cultural be-
liefs, psychological health and academic achievement with the goal of reaching at least 100 families. Liew said the extreme pressure caused by the stereotype of the over-achieving Asian-American student may put Chinese-American students at a higher risk of suffering from mental health problems. Students experiencing mental health issues may also avoid seeking help. “Asian-Americans have often been stereotyped as ‘model minorities’ in the U.S as being financially successful and high-achievers academically,” Liew said. “The model minority See Liew on page 3
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care world because there is not a perfect way to do it. It is so subject to human error, and everything needs to be double-checked.” During the semester, each team worked with faculty and hospitals to find efficient and economic ways to improve the reconciliation process. After the competition, students said they had a better understanding of medication reconciliation, teamwork and working with those outside the University. “It was a great experience working with faculty outside of A&M because you have to be professional at all times,” Bell said. “The opportunity to work in a team with so many different-minded people was a great experience. We all viewed the problem in a different way and would have to work together to solve the problem.”
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Each child had a unique way of creating a blanket. Some designed their quilts with grandparents in mind, others stitched away for charity fundraisers, and one quilt is hanging in a Texas county courthouse. Since the overwhelming response three years ago, Phillips and her coproject manager Sandra Fry helped determine the annual theme for the quilt challenge. From a Texas theme to this year’s “4-H green” and farm animals theme, the program has started to see big numbers of blankets
coming in. AgriLife Extension clothing program specialist Angela McCorkle said quilting is no longer a lost art. “It is making a comeback with young people, and Texas youth are right on the forefront.” Not only are kids learning valuable skills like sewing, design, and ingenuity, they are exercising their math aptitude skills, McCorkle said. For this year’s entries, officials from Quilting Inc. were the judges. Quilt makers from the Texas 4-H club will be featured at the 2011 Quilt Market and Festival event, which will mark Texas’ 175th anniversary. Angela Washeck, staff writer
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As part of the a challenge created by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service’s 4-H program, children design and sew quilts to donate to charity.
stereotype creates extreme pressures to achieve academically, and there are still many Asian-Americans who are underperforming, undereducated and have low socioeconomic status.” The team’s research was made possible by a grant from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, a grant-making foundation at the University of Texas in Austin that works to improve mental health in Texas. Liew’s grant was one
of 10 one-year grants capped at $15,000 awarded to researchers at Texas schools this May, including two from Texas A&M. “Many of the students who participate in [the project] will likely apply to Texas A&M and become a part of our Aggie family,” said Liew. “It’s important that we are able to appreciate individuals for who they are, not who their stereotype says they should be.” Alec Goetz, staff writer
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still remember opening day when I saw Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and realized for the rest of my life I would be excusing my unhealthy love affair with Star Wars with the disclaimer: not the prequels. Similarly, for fans of the Emmy Award winning cartoon, The Last Airbender is another abysmal adaptation, which will leave followers forever excusing the television program. I wish I could say it took M. Night Shyamalan the full 103 minutes to alienate Avatar fans and discourage newcomers from seeing the show, but Shyamalan has become the shaman of making miserable movies. The film starts by introducing the audience to the world, where individuals called benders can control one element: earth, air, water or fire. Each bender is stream of fire and have it immediately restricted to controlling only the element blocked by another element. Aang ocof their nation, except the Avatar, Aang, casionally gets inventive by hurting othwho is the link between our world and ers with his attacks, but his air bending the mystically vague spirit realm. leaves what appears to be a vapor trail. The movie’s major flaw is it never This wouldn’t be a problem if the stops summarizing the plot, not master of all elements wasn’t to develop the characters or to forced by the director to deviate use some special effects. Instead again from the show by strugof recognizing the difficulties gling to manipulate water. in cramming a TV series into Too many inexplicable an hour and a half, Shyamalan changes to the story are perhaps copies and pastes plot lines Shyamalan’s greatest sin, other from 20 episodes. The result is Ian McPhail than continuing to write and dialogue which simply skims over events with stilted narrasenior history direct films after The Sixth Sense. tion and never gives the audimajor Two years past its initial TV run, Avatar still has millions of ence a reason to care about the viewers from every age, drawn characters. To say the acting is horrible is almost unfair, because the script in through the countless awards the show never gives the child actors an opportunity has earned. While certainly some elements of the series must be altered to fit into a to connect with the characters. more condensed time, Shyamalan actively Even effects that seemed so promismakes an effort to estrange fans who will ing in the previews are the wrong kind be only the ones shelling out to see this of “special.” Animated fight scenes in failure. the cartoon offered more than watching At least the change from Asian to Anglo a bender spend an eternity performing main characters could be justified, if the an endless Kata only to shoot a simple
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actor is good. But Shyamalan changes the pronunciation of every name. For fans who’ve heard these names before, the sound of them butchered only draws the faithful out of the movie, and serves no purpose other than the director, writer, producer’s ego. However, by far the worst change is to the end of the film. The climatic aweinspiring destruction of the Fire Nation Fleet by the cartoon Avatar is replaced by a harmless ocean wave. Despite the 8 percent approval rating on Rottentomatoes.com and the half a star review by Roger Ebert, I went and saw this movie so you wouldn’t have to. It’s easy to blame Shyamalan, the film industries equivalent of a one-hit wonder, but this movie is bad enough for me to blame everyone ever involved with it and their children.
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