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Bright complex break-in snuffed ■ Police say an individual acted inappropriately; Athletics will not press charges

Photos by Jeremy Northum — THE BATTALION

Wednesday’s public fire demonstration at the Brayton Fire Training Field received 2,000 spectators, said Texas Engineering Extension Service communications director Jay Socol. “This is something the instructors look forward to, and the community looks forward to,” he said. Around 100 firefighters in training tested their skills on seven industrial fire props, Socol said. “The props simulated petrochemical plants like oil and gas refiners.” photos | 6

Controlling

chaos Citrus center grows at Kingsville campus Laura Sanchez The Battalion After 10 years of planning, construction for the Texas A&M University - Kingsville Citrus Center at Weslaco is underway.

The new research center will replace the old facility in Weslaco.

“It’s going to be a bigger building with two stories. We’re trying to make it more flexible,” said center director John da Graca. “It should be a lot more efficient and accommodate the changes for future generations. And we will continue to grow in the building.”

The existing center was built in the late 1940s and was continually in need of renovation.

“The new center is going to be very well designed, where all the laboratories will be on one floor, and the crew and staff will be

all together,” said Mani Skaria, plant pathology professor at the center. “So the building itself is going to be well designed for research and for conducting teaching purposes.”

Before the University joined the Texas A&M system, growers encouraged the establishment of the center, Prewett said.

“The very start of the citrus center was because some citrus growers went to what was then Texas A&I University in Kingsville and said ‘We need citrus research. We will help donate some land. We will help get the resources to start this and we’d like to do it through Texas A&I,’ which is now Texas A&M-Kingsville,” said Valley Ag president Ray Prewett.

The center researches and creates varieties See Citrus on page 4

Tin Roof Tango The five-musician band Tin Roof Tango performed Monday at the Presidential Conference Center. The show featured music from different cultures across six continents.

At right, Cecilia Hamilton plays an electronic wind instrument as part of The Tin Roof Tango. Hamilton teaches flute at Austin College and conducts a community orchestra.

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A&M System Chancellor Mike McKinney and other dignitaries recently broke ground for new facilities at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Citrus Center in Weslaco.

■ Worldwide protest of Iran election results will take place Saturday Meagan O’Toole-Pitts

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Aggies react to loan program ■ Obama’s plan to change loan disbursement moves to House

Supporters unite in Austin for Global Day of Action

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The Bright Football Complex was broken into on Monday evening. Athletic tape was used to write “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You,” a line from the University of Texas’ fight song, on the locker room floor, and football equipment and locker nameplates were stolen from the building.

The complex houses the locker room, training facilities and coaches’ offices for the football team.

The break-in was not committed by anyone from the University of Texas, said University Police Department chief Elmer Schneider.

“It was a single act of an individual who acted out inappropriately,” Schneider said. “We have no indication that there’s any affiliation with Texas or any other conference schools.”

UPD was notified by the Athletic Department of the break-in on July 21.

“The individual has been identified and interviewed.

The athletic department does not wish to pursue charges.

Restitution will be made and we consider the matter closed,” Schneider said.

No similar break-ins have occurred recently around the campus, Schneider said.

Julie Rambin, staff writer

The Battalion United for Iran’s Global Day of Action, a day of worldwide protest against the violence that ensued in Iran after the results of the June 12 presidential election, will take place Saturday in more than 50 cities, including Austin, Texas.

“Freedom and human rights are not limited to borders anymore, and people attending this event will show their support for Iranian peoples’ fight against dictatorship and for their basic rights,” said electrical engineering graduate student Mehran Mirjafari, organizer of the

Texas A&M University protest on July 16. “I think the people should attend to show their solidarity with the people of Iran and to show that they are not alone in this.”

The Global Day of Action was collaboratively organized in a few weeks, said immigrant rights attorney Bitta Mostofi, co-organizer of the rally in New York City.

“I think many of us are inspired by what we have been seeing and I hope we might be able to [inspire] in return,” Mostofi said. “We are hearing incredible stories of bravery — 80-year-old women stopping basiji from beating kids, mothers and sons protesting together, etc., all while knowing the government plans to violently suppress any peaceful demonstration.”

See Iran on page 6

The Battalion A bill to end the Federal Family Education Loan Program was sent to the House of Representatives Tuesday after being approved by a congressional committee. The bill has been pushed by President Barack Obama.

The bill would move all federal student loans to the Direct Loan Program run by the U.S. Department of Education. Under the Federal Family Education Loan Program, the government subsidizes private lenders that then make the loans.

“By converting all new federal student loans to the Direct Loan program starting in July 2010, we will finally end wasteful taxpayer subsidies that are keeping a broken system afloat,” said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the House education committee that approved the bill.

Obama said that the Federal Family Education Loan Program is a wasteful program that “costs the American people billions of dollars each year.”

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Houston clinic raided for Jackson evidence HOUSTON — A lawyer for Michael Jackson’s doctor says Los Angeles police and agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration who searched Armstrong Medical Clinic on Wednesday in Houston were searching for evidence of manslaughter. Dr. Conrad Murray had been interviewed by police as a witness to the pop star’s death, but has not been considered a suspect.

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Bob Lewis and Sue Lindsey Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Mental health records for Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho that were missing for more than two years have been discovered in the home of the university clinic’s former director, according to a state memo shared with victims’ family members.

Cho killed 32 people on April 16, 2007, then committed suicide as police closed in. His mental health treatment has been a major issue in the vast investigation of the shootings, yet the records’ location had eluded authorities.

They were revealed by a lawyer involved in a lawsuit filed by two families of Cho’s victims against the former director, the university and several other parties, claiming gross negligence in failing to prevent the shooting.

A memo from the university to Gov. Tim Kaine’s chief legal counsel says Cho’s records and those of several other Virginia Tech students were found last week in the home of Robert C. Miller.

The memo said Cho’s records were removed from the Cook Counseling Center on the Virginia Tech campus more than a year before the shootings, when Miller left the clinic.

Kaine said a Virginia State Police criminal investigation was under way into why the records disappeared. Removing records from the center is illegal, he said.

Miller, 54, declined to comment when reached at a number for his private practice.

Miller is named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed by the families of slain students Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde. The suit claims Miller was told

by Cho’s English professors about his disturbing behavior and by the school’s residential director that Cho had a history of erratic behavior, suicidal thoughts and had “blades” in his room.

The lawsuit claims Miller never passed that information on to either of the therapists from the counseling center who dealt with Cho during three 45-minute triage sessions in 2005.

Because Miller never passed on the information and the records were lost, opportunities to “deflect him (Cho) from his dangerous and ultimately tragic course were lost,” the lawsuit states.

Notes of the warnings to Miller or those made by the therapists concerning the three meetings

were never found by investigators.

It is unclear if those are part of the recovered records.

The medical records are protected under state privacy laws. The state planned to release the records publicly as soon as possible, either Cho by consent from Cho’s estate or through a subpoena.

The discovery shakes up the lawsuit, an attorney for the two families said.

“Why would he (Miller) take any student mental health records to his home at any time, and why that student?” Robert T. Hall said.

“It certainly is a question of whether there is more to the Seung-Hui Cho mental health history than we’ve been told,” Hall said.

Kaine said he was dismayed that it took two years to find the records.

“That is part of the investigation that I am very interested in and, of course, I’m very concerned about that,” Kaine said.

The discovery calls into question the thoroughness of the ongoing criminal probe and the findings of the Virginia Tech Review Panel, a commission Kaine appointed to review the catastrophe, one victim’s relative said.

While a large part of the investigation focused on how university officials and law enforcement responded following the first reports of two deaths in a dormitory, family members of victims have also inquired how the troubled Cho slipped through the cracks at university counseling.

Miller was not listed among the more than 200 people interviewed. The leader of the investigation, former Virginia State Police Superintendent Gerald Massengill, said Wednesday that investigators interviewed Miller’s successor at Cook Counseling Center, Christopher Flynn, but not Miller.

Massengill said Cho’s records could be critical to understanding the rampage, depending “on what the records say, what they reveal.”

“To have any documentation reflecting or giving an understanding of what actions Cook Counseling took was certainly what we were looking for,” he said.

Massengill said the records “should give us a better understanding of what actions the university did or did not take.”

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Final concert in series succeeds despite storms Lorelei Willett The Battalion Despite the severe thunderstorms and tornados Monday, the Presidential Conference Center at the George Bush Library was still crowded with visitors eager to hear Tin Roof Tango perform its Big Acoustic World Show.

Tin Roof Tango is known for its world-class performances, but even more so its worldly instruments, including violin, flute, penny whistle, guitar, snare drum, bass, mandolin, a washboard and a shaven cow’s jawbone.

The band, while having performed in Bryan a few times before, had never played on campus at Texas A&M University. The show was presented as part of the Texas A&M University Summer Performance Series. The series is offered every summer by the Texas A&M Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts. The 2009 series featured performances of the Texas Musical Festival, a project produced at the University of Houston.

The concert was offered as extra credit for a Music 324 class.

“Tin Roof Tango was exactly the reason I took this class,” said senior electrical engineering major Ben Lessenger. “I like different cultures and we’re going through a lot of these in class right now.”

The performance started off with a traditional Irish jig and continued with music from six continents, as well as some original pieces. The band has changed and grown over the years, adding players as well as music genres to their repertoire, including Zydeco, Klezmer, West African, Bluegrass, Andean and Cajun.

“Back in ’87 I started a band to play traditional Irish music. Over the years the band has evolved into a world music ensemble,” bandleader Mark Shelton said.

Tin Roof Tango has been playing together for a long time but they are still subject to some mishaps.

During the first song of the concert, guitarist Jonathon Malone broke a guitar string but was still able to play a complicated solo before borrowing Cecilia Hamilton’s guitar for the rest of the night.

“I like them a lot. They are a lot of fun. They throw in the violin and flute, which doesn’t seem like they would fit with the band but they make it work,” said sophomore chemistry major Clara Stock. “Even if I can’t contribute to the music, I can at least appreciate and listen to it.”

Along with singing and clapping, Shelton and Hamilton showed off their dancing skills by waltzing and demonstrating contra dancing.

All of this transpired in the midst of Monday’s thunderstorms. As Shelton played a soft lullaby on the hammered dulcimer, every now and then a roll of thunder would accompany the sweet notes.

Songs performed by Tin Roof Tango included a West African welcome song called “Funga Alafia,” a Caribbean salsa number written by Shelton called “Noche Azul,” a Japanese lullaby, a bluegrass number called “Who Knew,” the Irish song, “Rosetree” and an original blues piece written

by Malone titled “Blue Sky Monday,” which was accompanied by Shelton on the bongos and David Shaw on the string bass.

“Everyone in the band can read conventional notation, and most songs start with something notated,

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Guitarist Jonathan Malone sings an American folk song while playing banjo in concert Monday. but the arrangements are usually put through the Tin Roof Tango rehearsal machine with band members giving creative input,” Shelton said.

Such an example is an original piece written by Shelton’s wife for her soprano saxophone, which Shelton altered to fit Hamilton’s gifts as a piccolo player. On another occasion, Shelton ran through the auditorium with a stick covered in bells.

“They performed in class [Music 324] Listen today and played To listen to samples some of the same of Tin Roof Tango’s songs. This is really music and find out more, cool because we’re visit their Web site at focusing on flawww.tinrooftango.com. menco right now,” said senior computer engineering major Jason Post.

When the band is not hard at work in the rehearsal room, touring or performing in the classroom, members have other occupations to stimulate their creativity.

“All of us perform and/or teach in other settings,” Shelton said. “Rachel and Cecilia are both conductors of orchestras in the Dallas area and David Shaw runs a successful business as a carpenter, in addition to performing.”

Shelton currently teaches percussion at Christ For the Nations Institute in Dallas and enjoys running marathons. Malone began learning guitar while recuperating from an injury and now plays guitar and sings in another band, Rolo’s Pocket.

Rachel Jarvis studied in Oklahoma, but after moving to North Texas she founded the MidCities Strings music school, where she teaches Band leader Mark Shelton gives the audience a brief history and conducts. Hamilton teaches flute at Austin College and conducts a community orchestra. of some of the music performed in the concert. Shelton also teaches percussion at Christ For the Nations Institute in Dallas.

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of citrus, such as the Texas Red grapefruit. Classes for graduate students are also offered at the center.

“Research is being done to solve real problems for the industry and it’s not just being done to allow someone to publish a paper and get a grant,” Prewett said.

The support of citrus growers and the citrus industry is vital to the center’s success, Skaria said.

“We are very well supported by the growers and the industry,” Skaria said. “Of course, we have new varieties and new ways of doing things — these are all scientific achievements — but our greatest achievement is our ability to solve problems for the industry.”

Those problems include a disease called citrus greening, which is spread by psyllid insects. The center has been working on studies of this disease since 2005.

“This is an industry-threatening disease,” da Graca said. “If it gets here it’s going to add more cost to the growers and producers because they’ll have to have better control of the insect that spreads it.”

The insect and the disease have already affected Florida, one of the leading citrus-producing states.

“If we’re not able to find some solutions to this citrus greening disease then we could end up in the same chain as Florida,” Prewett said. “If it continues to expand, then there could literally be a shortage of oranges and grapefruit, so the research that goes on in the center benefits consumers and not just growers.”

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police say two recent University of Texas graduates from Houston whose bodies were discovered in a condo near campus were murdered. Police on Wednesday identified the victims as Stacy Barnett and her boyfriend John Goosey. Both had been shot. Lt. Mark Spangler says Barnett’s parents called friends in Austin when she did not arrive home in Houston.

Friends went to the apartment to check on the couple Tuesday afternoon and discovered the bodies. Police found no sign of forced entry at the residence, leading investigators to believe the victims may have known the attackers.

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Joseph Pettibon, the Texas A&M University assistant provost for scholarships and financial aid.

The money saved by ending the Federal Family Education Loan Program will be used to fund more federal student grants, specifically the Pell Grant, Obama said.

“Everyone will agree that increasing Pell Grants is a very good thing, which is what they’re promising to do with a good portion of that money,” Pettibon said.

He said his only concern was whether the government has the capabilities to run such a large program.

Seventy percent of students use the Federal Family Education Loan Program and 30 percent use the Direct Loan Program, so he said the concern is whether the government has the system and funds to take on the other 70 percent.

“It’s basically the same loan,” Pettibon said. “The difference is where the money comes from. Does it come from a private bank or directly from the government?”

Students at Texas A&M

won’t feel any great impact from the switch, Pettibon said.

“In some respects it will have a mental impact, in some respects it will just be a different source of loans for students,” he said. “The students will no longer have the choice of where to borrow their money from.”

Senior political science major Austin English said the Federal Family Education Loan Program was essentially a way for government funds to be distributed to students, while private banks make a profit in the process. The switch would mean lower interest rates for students, while saving government money.

“Overall, I like the idea.

Considering how well banks have handled loans recently, why give them a disguised bailout when they’re not actually taking any risk themselves?”

English said.

Other students are less enthusiastic about the prospect of the government handling all federal student loans.

“After the handling of previous government loan programs — mortgages in [Freddie] Mac and [Fannie] Mae — my trust in governmental ability to handle money is severely shaken,” sophomore biomedical sciences major Matthew Fitzhenry said.

Farmers to profit from climate bill WASHINGTON — Farmers stand to make more money than they will lose if Congress enacts legislation to limit the gases blamed for global warming, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Agriculture Department. The study, the first to look specifically at the bill’s toll on the agricultural sector, shows that higher energy prices will cut into farmers’ bottom lines in both the short and long term. But the projected 1 percent to 7.2 percent loss in income is far outweighed by the tens of billions of dollars farmers are expected to rake in for projects to reduce greenhouse gases. The Agriculture Department estimates that farmers capturing methane gas from manure ponds, planting trees or practicing no-till agriculture — which keeps heat-trapping gases in the soil — could earn $75 to $100 million a year starting in 2012, and as much as $15-20 billion by 2040. That’s because farmers could sell the reductions they make in greenhouse gases to energy and manufacturing companies forced to reduce emissions under the legislation.

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

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It’s my religion,

and I’ll do what I want to Variations of the golden rule: “Do not to others what would cause pain if done to you.”

— Mahabharata 5: 1517 “What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man.

This is the law: all the rest is commentary.” — Talmud, Shabbat 31a “Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do.”— from the Egyptian “Tale of the Eloquent Peasant”

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mericans are very patriotic; it’s my country and my flag. In our great country we are free to live life as we wish, for the most part.

However, some people let the freedom go to their heads, and it becomes all about my religion.

Because while in most things people understand that their right to do whatever they want ends where it infringes on someone else’s right to do the same, people forget that freedom of religion applies to the other guy, too.

The issue is obviously a sticky one.

When one guy’s right to pray when and where he chooses impinges on another guy’s right to not listen to heresy, someone’s got to give, but who?

Situations like this call for mutual respect and willingness to compromise — qualities that are quickly dying out.

Residents and politicians, when dealing with religious issues, resemble preschoolers squabbling over a toy on the playground.

“It’s my school, and it’s my religion and I can post scriptures from my religious book if I want to.”

Like a rowdy classroom, the issue has gotten out of hand. Here are a few things freedom of religion — and a

Kat Drinkwater

Freedom of religion in America goes to our heads and adults end up squabbling like children. Can’t we all just get along? disregard for the same right of others — gets you in America today.

It’s my religion and I’ll evangelize if I want to: This one is a toughie. As has been expressed in countless mail calls, if an evangelical Christian isn’t evangelizing, they aren’t evangelical.

It goes beyond religious right or requirement to just plain religion.

There are other groups, mostly Christian, who also share that conviction, if not the name of evangelical. When spreading the message is the message, there has to be a limit.

Westboro Baptist Church and Fred Phelps come to mind, well known for standing on roadsides with vehemently anti-homosexual signs.

While the Phelps clan has a right to express views, passing motorists have a right not to expose themselves or their children to such hateful messages and profane words.

The same concept applies to those spreading other doctrines: it must be done with respect and tact.

It’s my religion and I’ll display graphic photos if I want to: The memorable annual anti-abortion display that makes its way through campus really represents the same concept as the previously mentioned point.

Whatever you believe, whatever it is you’re advertising, other people have a right to avoid seeing or hearing things that upset them, which is difficult to do when there are 12-foot-high photos placed in a central location.

It’s my religion and I’ll pray if I want to: Another sticky and hotly debated issue is prayer and scripture in school.

The very fact that no one who just read that is wondering “prayer to whom?” or “scripture from what?” is part of the problem.

“The issue is obviously a sticky one. When one guy’s right to pray when and where he chooses impinges on another guy’s right to not listen to heresy, someone’s got to give — but who?”

Children of more than one religion attend public schools, and just as Christian parents wouldn’t want their child being directed in a prayer to Allah over the announcements every morning, parents of other faiths have the same right.

Teach your children to pray for themselves and leave the prayer out of public schools.

It’s my religion and I’ll marry a 12-year-old if I want to: The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints has a history of unsavory practices, but continues to exist with a vast membership because the public is largely unaware and the government can’t figure out how to take them down without causing a

public relations nightmare.

One of the tenets of the religion, required for entrance to heaven, is marriage to at least three wives (or for women, to be married to a man with three wives.)

This causes a predictable gender imbalance, so girls are married as soon as possible and large numbers of teenage boys are tossed out of their homes and out of the group for minor infractions in order to keep the ratio of girls higher.

Being restricted and isolated in a cult-like setting doesn’t allow freedom of religion for anyone.

Having and sharing religious freedom is a matter of common sense and respecting others. Interestingly, every major religion has some form of the golden rule, so maybe that’s a good place to start.

The same bullheaded loyalty that has held our country together and carried us through wars betrays us in religion. It is our country and our flag.

All of ours.

Kat Drinkwater is a senior University Studies-Honors: psychology and neuroscience major.

Regent’s choices for search echo 2007 process

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s trite is it may sound, the past is now just the past. It’s time to move forward as this institution seeks to establish new leadership that will continue to guide generations of Aggies into the future at one of the premiere public institutions in the U.S. Board of Regents Chairman Morris Foster announced Thursday the membership of the search committee that will discover our new leader, reinforcing his previous commitment to stakeholder representation in this process.

To some, this announcement was met with a sigh of relief. Even before the resignation of Elsa Murano as president of Texas A&M University, some thought that presidential search committees might become a thing of the past, prompting both the Faculty and Student senates to make known to the regents that the idea of a comprehensive presidential search committee was strongly supported by their constituents.

Regardless of past speculation, this committee will seek to do what its predecessor seemed to struggle with — find a long-term leader for the Aggie family. Regent Richard Box, chairman of the search committee, said that Foster led the establishment of the committee by diligently seeking stakeholder input.

In addition to orchestrating the committee, Foster has provided the committee with a 16-step procedure to follow in selecting viable candidates.

Also, the regents have established a deadline for final selections to be named, aiming for February 2010 — roughly six months from now.

The makeup of the committee is similar to that of the most recent presidential search committee including 15 members, but there are some notable exceptions.

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One third of the regents will sit on and monitor this committee. There are three regents on this committee, whereas there were two in the previous committee. The chairman of the 2007 committee was the speaker of the faculty senate.

The 2009 committee retains the speaker of the faculty senate, but the chairman is a regent.

As far as students are concerned, the undergraduate and graduate student communities are being represented by one member each, as on the previous committee.

Student body president and senior petroleum engineering major Eric Beckham is charged with representing all 48,000 undergraduate students, and the president of the A&M Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine Association, third year veterinary student Meredith Maloney, is supposed to represent all graduate and professional students.

Though the numbers of members on the past and present committees are equivalent, the personnel and titles are different from the 2007 committee. The student voice is still underrepresented, but on paper this new membership seems to be composed of upper echelon faculty and staff.

The prime example is that of Mark Hussey, vice chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. That is the same position that Murano occupied when she was selected to be president of A&M. Murano had many other qualifications, but as far as titles go, having the same position move from presidential finalist to committee member says that the regents are striving for quality membership.

Beckham said, “I’m optimistic to see the process the Board of Regents put together to make a complete committee with as many stakeholders

Steve Humeniuk

The search committee’s membership bodes well for representing all the University’s constituents. as they could, and I’m confident that together we can select the next president of Texas A&M.” Though the pitfalls of the 2007 committee are still in our minds, it is important to realize that this is a new team functioning at a different time in A&M’s history.

With everything that has transpired in the past few months, a few more eyes are upon us than usual, and it’s not a stretch to say that expectations are high for upper level decision-makers to deliver with an outstanding candidate to expedite the process of moving forward.

Box made it clear that this committee is dedicated to soliciting feedback and responding to concerns from the Aggie family.

“We want to make it a process that is viewed as being fair, accessible, inclusive to all the stakeholders and comprehensive,” Box said. “I want to do the best I can for A&M because A&M has done so much for me.”

It may seem like a challenge for one person to represent the vastness of our undergraduate

population, but Beckham is certainly the man for the job. In speaking with him and Maloney, their optimism is contagious, and both of them are up to the daunting task of being the lone voice for thousands of people.

“I would encourage all students to put in input. Let us know what you want to see in your next president and what your concerns are,” Maloney said.

Foster has said that there will be special forums to solicit feedback for what students would like to see in a candidate, and outside stakeholders will have avenues for input, as town hall meetings will be scheduled around the state, as step three in Foster’s outline dictates.

Maloney encourages students to take advantage of these chances. “Use the forums that will be provided to get your voice heard,” she said.

Foster delivered on his promise to include stakeholder feedback in this process. Though the regents solely conduct the hiring of the president of A&M as the Texas Constitution mandates, they do not necessarily have to use a search team.

Ignoring the choice of the last search committe led to the selection of Murano, whose name was not on the list of finalists, and whose tenure was marred by accusations by faculty and students of inside wheeling and dealing.

I applaud the board for electing this plan of action, and encourage all students to participate in the process of helping to select a president for A&M. If the regents listen to the voice of the University’s representatives, our school will be more safely on our way to achieving the excellence for which we constantly strive.

Steve Humeniuk is a senior political science major.

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Protestors in New York City will gather at noon in Times Square and march to the United Nations Headquarters.

“The movement in Iran has been led in large part by the youth, and we have seen their ability to utilize new media to get their voices heard,” Mostofi said. “It is now our responsibility through international solidarity to amplify those voices.”

The Global Day of Action will draw hundreds of thousands of supporters to the streets, Mostofi said, but the rally’s impact will not be in numbers.

“I think our significance will not be in our numbers alone, but in the breadth of unity this day has inspired in such a short time amongst those raising their voices for human rights in Iran.”

— Mehran Mirjafar, electrical engineering graduate student

“This event is taking place in over 55 cities from Bogota to London to Tokyo,” she said.

“I think our significance will not be in our numbers alone

but in the breadth of unity this day has inspired in such a short time amongst those raising their voices for human rights in Iran.”

In Austin, protestors will gather at 8 p.m. at the Texas State Capitol, Austin City Hall and march across the Congress Avenue Bridge to Auditorium Shores Park. The Houston rally has been moved to combine with the Austin rally.

“We put out a statewide call,” said Austin Center for Peace and Justice interim director Sylvia Benini. “We’ve gotten several MySpace comments — word’s spreading, we are getting this out.”

A&M students are expected to participate in the gathering.

“Among Iranian students

in A&M, I think at least 25 of them will attend this event. I hope though that this number increases. I think the people should attend to show their solidarity with the people of Iran and to show that they are not alone in this,” Mirjafari said.

“Support of American people, especially, means a lot to Iranian people since two nations have not had direct contact with each others due to political reasons.”

The Global Day of Action will serve as a wake-up call to the Iranian government, Mirjafari said. “[I hope it will] increase the level of awareness of what is happening in Iran right now.

One or two weeks after, the

Austin rally For more information about the Austin rally visit austinforiran.org.

For a list of other participating cities visit united4iran.org.

June 12 Iran election was the main headline of most of the global media. Now that it has faded people might think that the protests have faded as well which is not true,” he said.

“This action day might emphasize that Iranian people have not been silenced, as the government want them to.”

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