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news for you campus Former University chancellor dies Arthur Gene Hansen died July 5 after surgery-related complications. Hansen, 85, served as chancellor of the Texas A&M University System from 1982 until 1986. Hansen retired after four years as head of the statewide network of universities and state agencies. Hansen was president of Purdue University before he came to Texas A&M.

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Kemos’ lie surprises Julie Rambin | The Battalion In the early hours of June 18, senior vice president Alexander Kemos admitted to University President R. Bowen Loftin, he lied on his resume about military experience and a graduate degree. Later that day, Kemos resigned. The news had repercussions across the University campus. “I really thought it was a joke,” said graduate student Sly Mata. “I started laughing, and then, nobody else was laughing.” Mata was the graduate student representative in the search committee that selected

Kemos for the position of senior vice president for administration. No one in the committee voiced concern about Kemos’s credentials, Mata said. “He sounded very sincere,” Mata said. “He said all the right things in the interview. There were no red flags.” Kemos said among other things, to have been a Navy SEAL. Adam Unger, senior finance major and 2011 Corps of Cadets SEAL Platoon commanding officer, said many of his fellow Corps members were angry at Kemos for lying.

“It was pretty messed up,” Unger said. “Some of us are working really hard to get a chance to do what he supposedly did. We all look up to real Navy SEALs.” Kemos gave a speech to the Navy and Marine Corps outfits about his experiences in the military. “He was sharing a story about some mission he had been on as a SEAL and talking about how hard the training was,” Unger said. “The way he talked sounded like he was trying too hard to sound like a tough guy and trying too hard to use the right terminology.” See Kemos on page 3

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ost graduates are eager to begin building their careers in the real world. Emily Gillham, class of 2009, decided to take a different approach. She has spent the past six months working in various Latin American countries, designing orphanages, churches and other buildings with Engineering Ministries International. Megan Ryan The Battalion

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Snow White. Who wouldn’t want to party with seven dwarfs all day?

Jasmine. She was the only cultural one!

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The Iranian government will send hundreds of clerics into Tehran’s schools this fall to ﬁght Western inﬂuence and the appeal of the political opposition. The move is seen as an attempt to tighten the government’s grip on the schools in the aftermath of 2009’s disputed presidential elections.

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Ariel. She is adventurous and brave! Plus, she is gorgeous. Kelsey Curry, senior allied health major

Belle. I think her love for books is a good inﬂuence on children. Laura Keating, senior political science major

Mulan. The movie had awesome music. Mulan was “mysterious as the dark side of the moon!” Adán Peña, graduate student of visual studies

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Stem cells reveal cause of diseases Michael Golding, associate professor in the veterinary physiology and pharmacology department who specializes in fetal diseases, made use of stem cells to discover the processes by which certain diseases and other health problems develop in the human body. His work was published in the scientific journal Cell Stem Cell. Different types of stem cells have unique methods to combat retroviral integration, the process by which some viruses insert into the host’s DNA and cause diseases such as AIDS. “We discovered that each stem cell lineage has its own methods of expressing genes and silencing retroviruses,” Golding said. “This is different from what we used to believe, which is that each type of stem cell used

similar mechanisms.” fetal development. Using mouse embryo stem cells infected “In in-vitro fertilization, often the plawith mouse leukemia virus, Golding centa does not develop properly, and observed how the different stem cell we had no idea what caused the problineages responded to the retroviral inlems,” Golding said. “Now we’re led fection. He found that one lineage, exto believe it’s because the different traembryonic endoderm cells, attacked mechanisms used by the TS cells leave the infection with an extremely aggresthem more vulnerable to toxins and sive response using an epigenetic control chemicals in the environment that they mechanism, which is a mechanism that ordinarily would not be exposed to.” Michael Golding, controls whether the DNA is open, or For Golding, the publication of associate his results represents three years of tightly coiled. professor of work. The data gathered from the experiveterinary ment has also led to breakthroughs in “It’s sort of my masterpiece,” physiology and he said. understanding the profound impact pharmacology chemicals in the environment have on Alec Goetz, staff writer

Cinderella. She was on the shoe game way before Jordan. Jackson Conrad, sophomore general studies major

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The Texas A&M Sports Museum features rotating exhibits.The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday from at Kyle Field.

Lee and Grant Exhibit opening

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 Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History presents Charles Grear, Melissa WaddyThibodeauz and Maureen Broy Papovich on Saturday at the opening events of the Lee and Grant Exhibit. For more information visit the museum’s website at www. brazosvalleymuseum.org.

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Science ﬁction and fantasy

The displays at the Corps of Cadets Center offer an overview of Aggie traditions and the history of the Corps of Cadets.The exhibit is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Sanders Corps of Cadets Center.

Exhibition will feature pieces from Cushing’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection, including manuscripts, first editions and pulp magazines that capture science fiction’s influence. The exhibit is open from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Cushing Memorial Library.

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Aggie uses engineering degree to help others Megan Ryan The Battalion Emily Gillham, class of 2009, is living her dream of having a family and finding the perfect job, while traveling the world and trying to make it a better place. Gillham graduated last December with a civil engineering degree and left three weeks later to serve in Costa Rica for six months with Engineering Ministries International. She also worked in Peru, Haiti, Mexico and Guatemala. “Every day I wake up in a beautiful country with an incredible host family and the opportunity to serve,” she said. “I go to work where every project I’m working on is for the kingdom of God and my co-workers are my good friends.” Engineering Ministries International leads students on projects such as orphanages, hospitals, churches, schools and water systems. “I’ve been working on the designs for a variety of projects these last six months, but the majority of my time has been spent on a church in Peru, an orphanage in Haiti, an orphanage in Mexico and a boys’ home in Guatemala,” Gillham said. “[Engineering Ministries International] has offices around the world, but I’m currently in the Latin America office, which contains long-term licensed architects and engineers, and also interns who come for shorter periods.” Gillham said when she arrived in

Latin America, she spoke almost no Spanish, but she learned a lot from the host family. “Every change comes with challenges,” she said. “I do miss my friends and family and being able to communicate easily with them. And in the beginning, I was living with people with whom I could barely communicate, nor did I know very much about their culture.” There isn’t always running water, and the bugs and heat are endless, Gillham said. “However, after witnessing the lack of food, adequate shelter and hope that so much of our world experiences every day, it gave me a new perspective on comforts that are nice but in the end, not necessary,” she said. Gillham said her day-to-day life isn’t too much different from one in America, except for the culture around her. “I wake up around 5:30 in the morning and some days go for a jog,” she said. “Then I have breakfast with the family, which usually either consists of bread and natilla — like sour cream — or gallo pinto — a traditional meal of rice and beans — and always incredible coffee. Then I’m at work from 8 to 5, just like any other job.” Matt Sanders, a mechanical engineering graduate student and friend of Gillham’s, said she has always been a dedicated student with a caring heart.

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Emily Gillham holds two siblings from her host family in Guatemala. Gillham graduated last December with a civil engineering degree and is using her degree to work with Engineering Ministries International. “I think she has worked very hard to set herself up to be very successful in her career, but that wasn’t the number one thing for her,” Sanders said. “She has always believed in helping people, and she shows it by sacrificing the first year of her making money to use her talent to help others. I think what she is doing is showing other students that as educated people in this world we do not only have a responsibility for our own well-being but also for others that are less off. “ Gillham plans to use her engineering career in the U.S. after she finishes in Latin America. “I’ll be heading to San Antonio

to work as a civil engineer,” Gillham said. “I will undoubtedly be leaving a piece of my heart in Central America and really wouldn’t be surprised if I’m back here one day.” Rachel Sanders, Emily’s college roommate and class of 2009, said she admires the way Emily packed up and headed south to use her talents. “I know that even when she is back in the U.S. and working in San Antonio, she will continue to serve those around her,” she said. “I know that the real world experiences she has gained while in Costa Rica will help her throughout her career.”

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TOMS RIVER, N.J. — A New Jersey man has been indicted in the hit-and-run death of a former “American Idol” contestant whose angry rejection rant became an Internet sensation. Ocean County prosecutors say Alexis Cohen was killed in Seaside Heights on July 25, 2009, when she was struck by a motor vehicle driven by 24-year-old Daniel Bark of Toms River. At the time, Bark allegedly was ﬂeeing from police, who tried to stop him following an earlier car accident. He was arrested the next day and later charged with drunken driving. Bark faces charges including aggravated manslaughter in the indictment handed up Thursday by a county grand jury. He remains jailed on $150,000 bail. Cohen, a 25-year-old Allentown, Pa., resident, performed during the seventh season of “American Idol.”

‘Despicable Me’ tops weekend box office LOS ANGELES — “Despicable Me” wasn’t such a bad guy after all, it seems, opening at the top of the box office with an estimated $60.1 million. The first 3-D animated movie from Universal Pictures stars Steve Carell as the voice of Gru, a bumbling villain with plans to steal the moon — until three adorable orphan girls enter his life. Jason Segel, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews are among the star-studded voice cast. Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal, said Sunday that “Despicable Me” far exceeded the studio’s expectations for opening weekend. “I would never have said $50 million-plus,” Rocco said. Rocco believes a number of factors worked in the movie’s favor, including jokes for the kids and more grown-up humor and a warmhearted story for adults. But the tiny, yellow Minions — quirky, pill-shaped creatures who spout gibberish and help Gru carry out his dastardly plans — were appealing to both, and were a huge part of the film’s marketing campaign.

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Despite that, Unger said no one seriously considered the possibility of deception. “Everyone was kind of impressed,” he said. “No one thought that he might be lying. It’s pretty ironic because the topic of that speech was ethical dilemmas.” After the scandal broke, Mata said he had lost some confidence in hiring practices at the University. “It made me really wonder,” Mata said. “To see somebody at a high level of administration lie about something like this, we’re busting our tails

to get our master’s degree but is it going to be worth it for someone else to lie on paper and get the job?” A new search committee to find Kemos’s replacement is being formed, and Mata Loftin will be a member. University president “We still have an obligation to do this job right,” Mata said. President R. Bowen Loftin said he was concerned about the damage Kemos had done to the public standing of the University. “Reputationally, there’s something out there,” Loftin said. “We had a person who was hired here in a very senior level of responsibility

who was not who he said he was.” Should students feel let down by this? “I think so,” Loftin said. “I made a mistake in hiring Dr. Kemos.” Kemos, who does not hold a doctorate degree, could not be reached for comment. “We didn’t do enough to catch this particular deception,” Loftin said. “I’m sorry we made a mistake, and we’ll do our very best to avoid making that mistake again.” University auditors are verifying the degrees of all officials in an associate director position or higher, Loftin said. “It’s almost everybody in any kind of executive position,” Loftin said. “We’re having that checked out by the auditors themselves, who are

kind of independent of the University and the System, to make sure that everyone currently employed in senior positions has all the credentials that they actually said they had.” Some students say they wonder if any changes can repair the damage to the University’s reputation. “It’s caused me to worry about repercussions that will come to me through this, in terms of my name, in terms of my character and in terms of my degree from Texas A&M,” Mata said. “Will this come back to bite me later? I don’t know. I hope not.” According to The Eagle, Jason Cook has confirmed that H. Russell Cross, then chief of staff, will step down from his administrative position when a replacement is found.

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Politics as usual: Episode V: The Podcast Strikes Back Hear Richard Creecy and Ian McPhail interview Texas A&M’s president, Bowen Loftin about the Big 12 and the budget situation. James checks in on the Hell’s Angels in his segment, Cavin Fever.

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n a recent interview with President R. Bowen Loftin, he mentioned a need to revamp the Vision 2020 plan for Texas A&M and asked for student input.

Loftin said. “[Let’s] make sure all the premises we use to generate it 12 years ago are still valid. If they’re not, let’s recalibrate that part of the plan.” Vision 2020 started under Robert Gates in 1999 and needs to be recharged For most students, the idea of a student govto make sure it’s still in ernment is laughable, conjurline with our ever-changing images of aspiring high ing needs. 11 years almost school socialites jostling seems like forever; since for do-nothing positions then we have had nearly to pad their resumes. But two full classes of underthe student government graduates leave Aggieland and voice of the average and two different adminisstudent can be heard. DeRichard trations changes. spite the real challenges Creecy “I don’t mean to remove facing our University, real progress can be made, senior classics major or change in any real way the long-term goals; the because Loftin listens. question is what are the The Legislative Budget Board has directed actual actions we’ll take to all universities and colleges in the state to reach those goals,” Loftin submit a plan to potentially reduce its budget said. “Things have changed 15 percent by 2014-2015. Over the next two years, Texas A&M is preparing to cut $26 mil- in 12 years. We have to lion, while keeping tuition increases one of the recognize it’s time to renew it, refresh it and put it back lowest in the state. Megan Ryan — THE BATTALION in front of the entire com- Ian McPhail and Richard Creecy interview President R. Bowen Loftin on the voices podcast: Politics as usual. “We are doing our plans for the request from munity here, including all next biennium, which includes the 10 percent team,” Lofin said. exercise your chance to change things by letting [cut],” Loftin said. “We have a group convening of our students and say let’s If you consider Loftin’s track record with the president of Texas A&M know what matters which will include the student body president as embrace this again now, nine years out.” The challenges that our current classes face students, overt attention has been paid to the to you. well as the graduate student council president to are much different from a decade ago, and Loftin needs of the students. Loftin is frequently Texas A&M has grown so much in its 134 help make the recommendations directly to me wants to know your opinion on Vision 2020 and seen around campus having lunch with years of existence. But there is still much Agas to how to actually make these things happen. receive input from the students who will shape students or going to student events gies can and must do. Do not waste the The student leadership will be directly involved the future of this University. In this upcoming such as the Student Employee of opportunity to bridge the gap between Students in all the decision-making here.” school year, there will be forums where students the Year awards banquet. He administration and the student body. These cuts will impact Vision 2020 as well, need to take can express their sentiments. has responded by raising tuition Get out to the forums and make your which encompasses 12 primary goals to bring advantage For so many years, students have claimed their only 2.8 percent or $104, standvoice part of the discussion. Goal 10 Texas A&M to a top 20 school by 2020. Among of Loftin’s ideas and concerns have been unheeded by a ing up for student against the of the Vision 2020 imperatives is to these goals is strengthening the graduate and willingness to cold, sterile administration handing edicts down 3.95 percent or $280 increase “demand enlightened governance and undergraduate experience to bolster the overall listen. from an ivory tower. But those times are over; it recommended by a resolution leadership.” Loftin is the sort of dylevel of education. namic leadership that can bring about great “I am going to convene a group of individuals is time to act. Loftin is giving you the opportunity passed in the Texas Legislature. The president’s enthusiasm should be met changes for Texas A&M, and he wants student next academic year, beginning in September, that to speak, and he will listen. “It’s a team effort obviously, and the students with an equal level of eagerness to contribute. help to build a better University for all Aggies, will include students both current and former that are really the most important members of the The apathetic never accomplish anything, so now and in the future. will help me. I call it Recalibrate Vision 2020,”

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