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For some students, the best place to be on campus is above it. The Flying Aggies provide affordable lessons and partownership of five aircraft to A&M students and nonstudents who join. Percy Leucke, who graduated in May with a degree in industrial distribution, joined the Flying Aggies to earn his pilot’s license. “I have aspirations to be a pilot in the military and having my private pilot’s license will help my chances achieving that goal,” he said. Leucke said he joined the club because of the great rates. “I would not be getting my license in a few weeks without the Flying Aggies.” Club president Brandon Erwin, a senior industrial engineering major, said: “joining the club and paying dues is cheaper than renting a plane to fly anywhere else.”
◗ For more information about the club, visit http://www. flyingaggies.org. “Instructors will take flying students up for one-on-one lessons. It can take anywhere from three months to a couple of years to get a license,” Erwin said. He said most members do not join to receive a pilot’s license, but to fly airplanes for an inexpensive price. “When you pay dues of $40 per month, you are part-owner of five aircraft that the club owns,” Erwin said. When the club began, it provided services to A&M faculty; now anyone may join. Andy Hampton, a sophomore computer science major and member coordinator of the Flying Aggies, said the club consists of approximately 140 members. “Only about a third of our members actively fly, while members with an inactive status pay $10 a month to go up in the air with other pilots, but not to fly the planes,” Hampton said.
Former student, NASA spokesman to visit A&M Victoria Daugherty
Special to The Battalion Outer space will meet College Station Thursday when Josh Byerly, class of 1999, public affairs officer and spokesman for NASA, visits communication classes. Based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Byerly is the voice of Mission Control, providing commentary during space shuttle and International Space Station missions. Starting his undergrad as a pre-medical student, Byerly did not plan to be the voice of Mis-
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sion Control for NASA. He said he explored many career paths in his life before reaching his profession. “I want everyone to realize that regardless of how planned out you think your career is going to be, it most likely will end up in the most unpredictable and unplanned place that you can imagine. That’s why it is important to be flexible, open-minded and to take advantage of every portunity that you can,” Byerly said. See NASA on page 4
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Luke Luecke, class of 2010, and Stevent Maple, fourth year vet student, are members of Flying Aggies.
Borlaug series aims to ease world hunger Meagan O’Toole-Pitts
The Battalion For 5-year-old, 27-pound Hagirso, hunger is more than just an issue, said former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Roger Thurow. “His eyes were remarkable and frightening. They were deep black holes. There was no sign of playfulness and ambition, as you would see in a 5-year-old. There in those eyes I found my calling,” said Thurow, co-author of “Enough.” “What I saw infected my soul.”
Thurow led a discussion on world hunger Tuesday at Texas A&M as part of the first Borlaug Legacy Series. “My career changed at that moment. Hunger became the only story I cared about. There was only one story I wanted to write about,” Thurow said. “After years of wandering story to story as a foreign correspondent, I now wanted to settle and concentrate on one story … to take readers into the eyes of the starving.” See Hunger on page 4
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Derek Barger, freshman chemical engineering major, plays the piano Tuesday in the Commons. Having taught himself how to play the piano, Barger has played for his church devotional band and enjoys treating students and passers-by to a little light music.
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Divine Perspectives: Music and Baha’i Divine Perspectives is a religious podcast where I seek to unpack complex ideas through the perspective of religion in a non confrontational Matt Poarch forum. In this episode, we discussed music and the Baha’i faith with Taraz Nosrat, a junior biomedical engineering major, and Christine Spencer, a senior nutrition major, from the Baha’i College Club. The Baha’i faith is a cross-cultural religion with followers around the globe. It teaches unity among people as one family, as well as the oneness of God and of religions. The Baha’i College Club aims too apply these teachings to modern lifestyles in order to empower the next generation to stand for unity and peace. Be sure to check out this episode and other episodes on www. thebatt.com under “podcasts.”
Talk Sports with Thom Howdy Ags! The second week of college football brought a second win for the Aggies, but why do we still feel uneasy about our future? I’ll break down the good and bad from our win over Louisiana Tech Thom Raabe and what we have ahead of us. Week 1 of the NFL had its highs and lows so catch what I thought was important. Spoiler Alert: I talk about the Texans! Also tune in for a glimpse around the rest of sports world, including Team USA’s finish at the FIBA World Championships and how the postseason looks for the Rangers and Astros. Then I’ll bring it back home as I look in at our 6th-ranked Aggie Soccer team’s win streak and Aggie Volleyball’s impressive tournament display as the team heads into conference play tthis weekend. Now, head over to tthebatt.com to tune in!Tune in this week to hear this and more at www. thebatt.com under “podcasts.”
Mass. doc gets 6 months in patient death BARNSTABLE, Mass. — A Massachusetts doctor was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the case of a woman who died after he performed an abortion on her. Dr. Rapin Osathanondh was sentenced in the 2007 death of Laura Hope Smith, 22, of Sandwich. He pleaded guilty Monday, just as his trial was about to begin. He was sentenced to six months, but will be eligible for parole after serving three months. His jail term will be followed by nine months of home confinement with electronic monitoring. He had faced a maximum of 20 years. He is also banned from working as a doctor or teaching medicine ever again.
NJ dad pleads not guilty in baby’s death NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A New Jersey father accused of tossing his 3-month-old daughter to her death off a bridge pleaded not guilty Tuesday, as a judge ordered him to have Shamsid-Din no further Abdur-Raheem contact with the child’s mother. Shamsid-Din AbdurRaheem sat silently as his attorney entered the plea in state Superior Court in New Brunswick. The 22-year-old Galloway Township resident is charged with murder and five other counts related to the infant’s abduction and death. He remains jailed on $2.7 million bail. Associated Press
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Spanish guitarist Maestro Soler will perform a variety of jazz, swing, blues, be-bop and contemporary music as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in Rudder Theatre.
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Students can show off their childhood art skills at the Etch-A-Sketch Battle sponsored by the University Art Galleries at 5 p.m. Friday outside the Koldus Building. The contest will be followed by showings of “Toy Story” at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. Student tickets are $1.
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Dr. Steven M. Bock of Stanford University will lecture on the growing threat of bioterrorism and biological weapons at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Annenberg Presidential Conference. Admission is free.
Stock up on fruits and veggies!
Aggies can purchase fresh produce from local vendors at the Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in front of Sbisa Dining Hall.
The Houston-based Irish band Murder the Stout will perform from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. Saturday at O’Bannon’s after being gone for three years.
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“Resident Evil” films continue past prime
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he 2000s were an interesting decade for monster movies. The first half was dominated by psychopaths who put people in life-ending traps to prove a point. Then we evolved into the zombie phase, which became very strong until the Twilight films made vampires popular to adolescent girls. During the zombie phase, though, we had a successful franchise of movies known as “Resident Evil,” which is also among the most successful video game adaptations.
We had three movies, the first one in 2002, starring Milla Jovovich. And they all had pretty much the same story retold over: girl finds abandoned residence infested with zombies, kills them all, comes out alive with one more fight that won’t start until another movie. Just recently came the latest installment of the franchise, entitled “Resident Evil: Afterlife,” which followed a similar pattern to “Apocalypse and “Extinction;” and in all honesty, it should have ended at No. 3. The movie in and of itself was pointless after the first five minutes, and of course, it’s the same story as before except with little nuances. Jovovich reprises her role as Alice, the heroine who was first a pawn of the evil Umbrella Corporation. For those unfamiliar with the franchise, it’s about a pharmaceutical corporation accidentally releasing a virus called the T-Virus, which kills people who get infected and turns them into fleshhungry zombies. By “Afterlife,” the Corporation is still at large and trying its best to manipulate survivors with more research, including Alice, who has developed superhuman strength, senses and powers. So what’s so different about this film? It starts off with Alice defeating the Umbrella Corporation facility in Japan where the third movie left off. She tackles that in about five minutes with the help of clones the same corporation created in “Extinction.” Here we meet the bad guy, Selker, who honestly looks like an agent from “The Matrix.” In fact, the movie rips off a lot of the elements in “The Matrix” — from fight scenes to slowing bullets to the bad guy dodging bullets. The bad guy injects Alice with some neutralizing serum that removes her superhuman powers, making her human again. However, he does it on a plane, and like any idiot who leaves the cockpit mid-flight, crashes it. And Alice survives. She finds
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Alice (Milla Jovovich), the protagonist of the “Resident Evil” series, retains her zombie-fighting skills despite the fact her enemy injects her with a debilitating serum. a survivor in Alaska played by Ali Larter, then more survivors in in the head. Ali Larter shoots it in the head with a sawed-off shotgun and knocks it down; Alice shoots it with the same gun Los Angeles in a prison surrounded by zombies. and blows its head clean off. Did Alice have some extra It’s your typical monster movie lineup: a chick, a dick, power running in her veins after losing her powers? a useless goon and your minorities, so you know Most likely, especially if she could kill zombies with what’s coming. a shot in the shoulder instead of the head like you’re The acting is worse. Jovovich shows little emosupposed to shoot them. tion throughout the movie, much like Keanu Reeves The bottom line: this movie is stupid. The acting’s did in … yeah. In fact, everyone else was just your bland; the story makes no sense; it has very little typical character in this movie, down to the boss. The to do with the game it’s based on; and it’s mostly Umbrella Corporation is also your typical evil corpoSteven a blatant rip-off of “The Matrix.” It continues the ration, who is only interested in their personal gain. cliffhanger set off in the third movie for about 10 Olivier We’ve seen that before. The best acting in the movie came from the zombies, and they were dead. junior English major minutes and then goes off into something else. This movie may have ended with the promise of a fifth The worst part is how the movie constantly breaks movie, but there really shouldn’t have been an “Afthe rules of physics and zombie survival. Nothing terlife” at all. is coherent. There is one massive zombie creature with a giant axe that apparently can’t get killed with a shot Steven Olivier is special to The Battalion.
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tion and showed ending world hunger could be done, Thurow said. Continued from page 1 “We’ve seen policies change, great sums of money raised, “Enough,� an investigative narrative, calls to attention that millions of lives saved,� he said. Former Texas A&M Presimore than 9 million people — mostly children in Africa — die dent Elisa Moreno, while takof hunger, malnutrition and re- ing part in the question and answer session of the series, lated diseases each year despite asked: “Should we not move to modern knowledge and techa major reform in the [United nology. States Agency for International “We’re in the second deDevelopment]? cade of the 21st century and “They’ve been spending no one should die of hunger,� millions for decades in Haiti Thurow said. and it’s making a small differAgronomist and Nobel ence in different places, but not Peace Prize laureate Norman in the big picture. So the earthBorlaug, credited as being the father of the Green Revolution, quake was a big wake-up call,� forever changed wheat produc- said Moreno, a member of the Board for International Food and Agriculture Development, which formed a task force for the reconstruction of Haiti. “I was in Haiti three months ago and it’s horrible. There’s rubble everywhere, trash everywhere. People are living in tents seven, eight months later. We need to change things so we can do things smart, not just keep pouring money in.� Individuals and organizations play a key role in easing world hunger, Thurow said, but governments need to wake up to the problem as well. “[Congress] can find the money to get crappy cars off the road and help Detroit, but when it comes to feeding the hungry and help the hungry
feed themselves — and eventually feed us — that’s when they get stingy,� Thurow said. “That’s an outrage. And that needs to be shouted loud and from the ramparts. We need to raise the clamor that hunger won’t be tolerated.� Starvation becomes conscious reality, rather than a political agenda, when it has a face, said Ed Runge, soil and crop science professor and Borlaug’s colleague of 25 years. “Translating this isn’t easy. You’ve got to kind of see these people yourself. Going on a trip to a foreign country verses somebody showing you their slides — it just isn’t the same,� said Runge, who visited Africa several times since 1984. A year after Borlaug’s death, the fight continues, Runge said. “I think we’re on a better foreign assistance program now. I think we’re gaining, I think things are looking up,� he said. “And I’m encouraged but I still don’t think we understand the steps that might need to be made to get us on what I call a continuous development.� Through books, lectures and conversations, hunger elimination inches closer, he said. “I’m afraid that some of the things that have to be said aren’t being said. We’ve got to get the information out so people can make up their mind,� Runge said. “As Borlaug says, if they have the facts they’ll do the right thing.�
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Unfortunately, eating on campus is too expensive for some students. Meal plan bundles present a large barrier for those who wish to dine affordably on campus. The highest option comes at a cost of $1,841 a semester, providing 250 meals and 100 dining dollars. The cheap option comes in at $680 a semester and gives students 30 meals and 400 dining dollars. This is approximately $37 per week or $5.28 a day. “A&M has some of the lowest cost plans in the country and the lowest in the Big 12,” said David Riddle, executive director for the Department of Dining Services at Texas A&M. It may seem like a great deal, but not many students can put down this much money at once. It’s possible to purchase smaller packages, such as 10 meal bundles for $65, or students can buy 25 Daniel Crump — THE BATTALION or 100 dining dollars. But these options are only available to those who have already purchased the Students eating at Sbisa would beneft from having more control over their meal plans. more expensive semester plans. While this may seem lousy, the Fall semester’s meal plans was developed from our requests. meal plan options shouldn’t be withheld from guarantee their children are well “Two years ago, when the current students who haven’t purchased the expensive meal fed. By the end of structure was being developed, students options beforehand. Many students don’t need a lot the semester, were asking for plans with fewer of meal plans and dining dollars. Some people just these freshmen meal plans and more dining dolwant an occasional meal after studying for hours in A&M should offer usually have lars,” Riddle said. the library. enough more smaller The lack of diversity in the Even if nothing can be done about the indidining meal plan options available meal plan options must vidual prices, some consideration can be extended dollar left for those who George be addressed. More dining dollars to those who want more than one meal but less to ensure don’t eat on Maldonado is what students want, since many than 250. The school has to make money, but not even their campus often. junior economics would rather not get everything that at any cost. friends are major and special comes with the meal, but students were “[The Department of Dining Services] has seen eating enough. to The Battalion not specific enough. The administration meaningful growth in our meal plans sales under Similarly out of took advantage of student’s inability to voice the current structure,” Riddle said. But by loosenluck are those who enjoy their needs. Freshmen who have no experience ing up these restrictions, dining services can attract drowning themselves in a sea of Sbisa food, but purchasing these plans are usually the victims, since lack the funds to buy excessively large meal plans. more Aggies to purchase meal plan options and their parents blindly purchase too many meals to gain more revenue for Texas A&M. But it shouldn’t have to be this way. The smaller
Walking into Wehner Monday morning, expecting another great headline to clip out, I was immediately shocked to see “Sluggish Start” in bold on the front page. If any Aggie wanted to show up to school Monday reading about the failures or mistakes of the game (I know I didn’t), they would have only needed to look at every other published article about the game. This is why The Battalion should not result to merely echoing the frustrations published Sunday. Instead, publish an article our football players deserve, especially when no one else will. “Defense holds under pressure” or “HAIL MARY!!!” would have been equally outstanding titles, highlighting what was done right. Frustrations such as “why are we playing Louisiana Tech?” have no place being restated either. Our schedule follows the same formula as every Big 12 school, except for Oklahoma and Kansas; three games against unranked opponents to allow adjustments in all areas of play. We can all think of more examples of why the negativity wasn’t necessary. Instead of pointing them out I’ll leave you with this. Great job last Saturday Aggies, BTHO FIU!!!
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Valerie and Veronica, The Best Friends in the Best Friends the class are hard to miss.
Valerie and Veronica have been best friends since birth and always do everything together, like the living version of some sort of stereotypical sitcom situation where the roommates are shackled together for the day. They have been friends so long; they have merged into the same person with the same look, the same voice and the same sense of humor. They pay no mind to the educational experience taking place around them, their social life is just too important to wait 50 minutes. Be prepared to put up with them texting and talking all semester, until they develop telepathy.
n college, there is an uncanny difference between small classes and large classes. Students will have to attend both, but small classes have a reoccurring pattern of people. There might be more of them in larger classes, but they are dispersed over the sea of students. In a small class, it’s impossible not to notice each of the following people.
Jimmy the Joker
Oscar the Oddball
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Depending on your sense of humor, the most enterD taining taini in the class is the Joker. The motto of the Joker is “why “wh so serious?” No matter how the teacher reacts to the joker, the entertainer will not stop their own version j of hilarity. This person always has a clever comment, hi prank, pran funny story or impersonation of whichever lame family famil happens to have a show on E! at the time.
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Burt the Burnout
The most interesting is the Od Oddball. ddball. They are unpredictable in what they say, do d andd wear. Nobody N b d likes lik to t be b stereotyped, t t d andd this thi person tries t i so hard h d to t break every mold, ironically perfectly fitting into the stereotype of the person who dares to be different. The comments they make are so off the wall in a desperate attempt for attention, and the rest of the class doesn’t know how to handle them other than encouraging him.
Sally the Suck-up
Opposite of the Oddball is the Suckup. The ever-predictable Suck-up is the first to compliment the teacher on his or her clothes. In the class discussion, their oh-so-important opinions must be heard, which is crucial to the survival of the suck-up. Their opinion is always right and the most important. This person is first in class with the reading finished, the first to raise their hand (because they can’t wait to share their wisdom) and always asks that last question that keeps the class going an extra five minutes. Not that it matters to the suck-up, they are last to leave the class to get in the final few minutes of brown-nosing.
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Similar to the Best Friends is the person who is without fail, always late. No matter what time of day the class is, this person is in every class and will find so many ways to be tardy, the class will wonder if clocks have been invented in their own little world. The activities in the always-late person’s life are far too important to make it to class on time. Being the daydreamer I am, I like to ponder the reasons for their tardiness (just finishing up the cure for cancer, organizing the stamp collection, blowing up fireworks in his toilet…). It would almost make more sense if they were being late on purpose just to make a statement.
The last person everyone notices is the Christina Fuentes — THE BATTALION Burnout, which is intentional on their part. It may take you halfway through the semester to realize a burnout is in the class because he or she just sits in the back, saying and doing nothing. Many times I wonder why they come to class. Again, if the class is particularly boring, I like to imagine why they come to class. Maybe they don’t want to be around their ultra-preppy roommate, or they aren’t even enrolled in school and they just like to take in the knowledge or they just want to sit in the back and look scary… Readers may be thinking, “Hey, that one is me!” or “Wow, I have all of those in my English class.” Be the person to recognize them for their stereotype and decide whether to feel amused or alarmed. Compiled by Caroline Ward - THE BATTALION
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Fashion Week embraces ‘70s muse
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NEW YORK — Say what you will about disco, the 1970s were a good time for American fashion. It’s when New York really carved its niche as the sportswear capital of the world. And now, for spring 2011, designers, are reclaiming the look as their own at New York Fashion Week. Marc Jacobs led the pack with models in frizzed-out hair, jumpsuits, hot pants, culottes and striped knits. But he’s not the only one to embrace the billowy shapes, scarf-tied tops, tunics, crafty macrame looks and long, wide-legged trousers of that era. Badgley Mischka, Rachel Roy and Elie Tahari embraced a ‘70s muse on Tuesday. Halston and Diane Von Furstenberg always have a touch of ‘70s glam, and their spring 2011 collections were no different. If it feels like decades whiplash, you may be right. Fall is the time for the ‘50s polished lady, and it wasn’t so long ago that fashion was embracing the ‘80s. But the ‘70s have been creeping forward, too. Wide-leg pants hitting stores for fall will go looser and easier for spring.
Kid Rock defends himself in ‘07 fight DECATUR, Ga. — Kid Rock and his entourage were trying to defend themselves from another customer at a suburban Atlanta Waffle House when a fight broke out in 2007, said a lawyer for the musician who was in court Tuesday. The entertainer, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, and five people who were with him that night are being sued over the fight. Harlen Akins claims the group beat him for no reason and is seeking unspecified punitive damages, according to the lawsuit filed in DeKalb County. The entertainer and his party behaved “like a pack of wild animals,” starting a fight inside the restaurant and pursuing Akins into the parking lot to beat him up before leaving in their tour bus, Akins’ lawyer Eric Hertz said in his opening statement. Akins demonstrated “a pattern of provocation and escalation,” while Kid Rock and his party consistently tried to defuse the situation, said William Horton, a lawyer for Kid Rock and five others being sued.
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