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news for you campus Blackout The University’s main campus experienced a partial power outage at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday due to a breaker operation conducted by the University’s power transmission service provider, Bryan Texas Utilities. “The brief loss of power occurred because of regular circuit testing at a new BTU substation off of Dowling Road,” said Karen Bigley, communications manager for the University’s division of operations. Utilities and Energy Management located the problem and restored power within approximately 10 minutes. Katie White, staff writer

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Meal plans mandatory in 2012

Students should oppose Dining Services decision Texas A&M’s Dining Services has students. The increased price is more than made a requirement, effective in 2012, for some students can afford, especially those students living on campus to purchase the living in the ramp-style dorm who will minimum meal plan. This new requiresee an increase of 87 percent to the cost ment is not in the best interest of of living by the $1,200 required the students, especially with the minimum option. It seems Dining high cost of the minimum Dining Services bit off more Services meal plan. The reason is than it could chew with the to “provide Texas A&M expansions. Now they are should not University Dining with the asking students to digest the force students volume it needs to sustain costs. Students should speak to buy meals. its current level of service up and protest this failing while making much-needed University auxiliary’s infringeupgrades and improvements to ment on their pocketbooks. It is the department’s infrastructure, and overunthinkable that such sweeping changes all quality, and to enhance the residential should simply be imposed, rather than experience.” Dining Services should not allowed by a campuswide vote. We call pass the burden of ineffecient performance upon President R. Bowen Loftin for a on to the students by forcing them to referendum, so that we can decide on the pay for services, especially services that issues that will affect Aggies for generaare unaffordable or unwanted by some tions to come.

Katie White The Battalion Goodbye Maroon Plate Special, here come the Dining Dollars. On Sept. 9, University Dining Services adopted a plan to phase in a requirement that all campus residents buy a meal plan — a meal plan without meal units and featuring 100 percent Dining Dollars. The plan will not be implemented until Fall 2012, to coincide with the re-opening of the Memorial Student Center, which will add 800 more seats for dining on campus. Students currently attending A&M will not be ‘grandfathered’ into the program and freshmen from the class of 2016 will be the first to use the plan. The program will be gradually phased in over a period of four years. “It is important that current students understand they will not be affected by

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this,” said David Riddle, executive director of University Dining Services. The program will be Dining Dollars. The option to buy a certain number of meals per week will not be provided. Freshman biomedical sciences major Melanie Prenger said she would rather have the option of buying meals. “If I have Dining Dollars I spend them really fast,” Prenger said. Riddle said using Dining Dollars will reduce the number of missed meals on campus. Students will have the freedom to spend meal plan money on food without paying for the required items they may not like in the Maroon Plate Special. “Students won’t have to worry about rolling over meals at the end of the semester if they haven’t used them,” Riddle said. Students with special dietary needs See Dining on page 7

The Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System will meet today and today in the H.D. Smith Operations Complex (Building 25) at the Brayton Fire Training Field. Included on the agenda is a vote to establish the Nuclear Solutions Institute.

nation &world President heckled for AIDS program funding President Barack Obama was heckled at a fundraiser by protesters pushing for more funding for AIDS programs and quicker action to allow gays to serve openly in the military. Obama responded by insisting he’s increased AIDS funding and was working to overturn the military’s so-called “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. He told the protesters to go shout at Republicans, noting that a vote on “don’t ask, don’t tell” failed this week in the Senate, with Republicans united in opposition.

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Master keys missing from residence halls unlock questions Katy Ralston The Battalion Imagine not knowing who could have access to your home and belongings at any given moment. This scenario has been a too close for comfort for some on-campus students. Within the past two months, three of the Texas A&M Northside residence halls’ master keys have been reported missing. Upon the discoveries Residence Life put into place extra security measures until the situations were resolved. Two were found within two days while the third remains lost but no longer a match for the rekeyed dorm. But the question remains, how did this happen and will it happen again? About the master keys The master key to opens any of the student rooms within the dorm. Each residence hall has master keys unique to that specific dorm. According to the residence adviser manual, master keys are in a locked security cabinet called a Chit Vault. There is a predetermined amount of master keys kept in the vault for use on a need basis by hall staff, such as fire drill evacuations and in rare cases when emergency access into a

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room is warranted, the manual states. Policy requires the loss of a master key to be reported immediately. The master key does not provide access into the building. The user must still have a valid ID card to be granted entrance through the access card readers stationed at each door before having access to the rooms, excluding the first floor of the balcony style residence halls where no outside door is present. The number of master keys per residence hall varies based on the size of the building. Typically, said Maggie Guzman, program coordinator for Residence Life Risk Management, the hall staff can access four, and there are others stored in different locations where the custodial and maintenance staff has access. Custodial staff members require the use of master keys during weekly cleaning of the rooms, and maintenance staff requires the use when making requested room repairs. Hall staff with access to the master key includes the residence hall director and resident advisers, commonly known as RAs, who are permitted use of the master key in cases of emergency response.

While master keys have gone missing before, until the past two months there was not an incident of a missing key in the last six years. Guzman said keys are a big part of what they do and they take them very seriously. “We do training on keys, but occasionally people are human and mistakes are made and we have a situation like we recently had,” Guzman said. What happened in Hobby Hobby Hall was the first residence hall to report one of master keys as missing. The key was discovered to be missing the week before students could start moving in, although the exact time it went missing cannot be determined, said Residence Life Associate Director of Residence Education Kathy Collins. Collins said the key was accounted for at the end of May when the residence halls closed for the semester and not checked again until the start of fall, when it was nowhere to be found. Collins said this is a special situation and that in the case of another missing master key it wouldn’t be a possible three months before it was realized. “When our buildings are occupied we

do a key inventory once a week, with all thousands of our keys. It is a requirement of our staff when the buildings are occupied,” Collins said. “This happened in the summer when no staff was there so no inventories were being done.” Since the key was discovered missing so close to scheduled move-in, the building could not be rekeyed before the residents began to arrive, Collins said. The rekeying was completed Aug. 27, five days after students moved in. Each resident was notified of the situation via their Neo e-mail account prior to move-in and informed by the residence hall director upon check-in. Hobby Hall resident Kelsie Brunson said checking in on Sunday was the first time she heard of it. “I got the e-mail after I moved in to the dorm,” said Brunson, a freshman communication major. The e-mail stated the master key was “misplaced” and gave students the option to choose a later day to move in, temporarily relocate to another hall until the building had been rekeyed or move in as planned. In the latter case, the e-mail enSee Keys on page 7

Sylvie Ragucci gives academic advice Rebecca Hutchinson Special to The Battalion Sylvie Ragucci has been a faculty adviser in the department of European and classical languages and cultures for three years. Ragucci gives tips to students looking into changing their major, minor or even studying abroad. Q: What problems do you see most freshmen face? A: Not claiming AP credits. They don’t automatically transfer, you have to call Mea-

surement and Research Services and have them post it. Take placement tests for language levels. You can’t just say, “I think I’m at this level.” It’s a little more scientific than that. Plan ahead because you have to make an appointment and some students don’t find out until a week before classes that they need a placement test, and that’s when the center is busiest. Q: What advice would you give them? A: Take classes that can count for every

degree, to get your feet wet. Don’t take too many classes in your major because it ends up hurting your GPR. Talk to other people with similar majors, faculty and advisers – join groups, preferably ones that have to do with the major. It might not decide what you want to do, but it helps to reassure you. Don’t overload. Get an idea for how things work. Universities are full of people from different backgrounds and all walks of life – you’re trying to find where you fit in. See Q&A on page 4

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his Thursday, NBC will premiere the new officebased comedy “Outsourced� at 9:30 p.m. The plot follows the transition of a Ryan young American manager of Haughey a call center for Mid America sophomore Novelties who finds his job aerospace outsourced to India. With a engineering major young, ambitious cast, a mixture of character development and gag humor and a writer/producer who has worked on “The Drew Carey Show� and “George Lopez,� “Outsourced� has potential to brand its own unique humor or be lost in an already crowded Thursday night featuring “30 Rock� and “The Office.� As always, the most crucial component of a successful show is the cast. It appears that the chemistry, both off camera and on, among the actors is a huge strength of the show. “Even [from the beginning] you could really sense a great chemistry and a great sense of bond,� said star Ben Rappaport, who plays Todd Dempsy, the recently relocated manager of Mid America Novelties call center, in a recent teleconference. “It’s really just a great playground of character and story.� Rappaport, a Julliard graduate who hails from Spring, Texas, is making his on-camera debut after performing in various drama productions in the New York area. Sounding confident, energetic and optimistic, Rappaport has potential to make just as big a splash as John Krasinski of “The Office� in a similar role of the young businessman trying to sort out both personal and profes-

sional problems. Sharing the camera with Rappaport is Anisha Nagarajan, who plays the role of Madhuri, a quiet, reclusive worker at Mid America Novelties hiding tremendous talents and a charming personality. Nagarajan, who was born in Illinois but lived for a time outside of Bombay, said she is excited to star in a role that promises to develop over the course of the show. “She’s so charming and innocent,� said Nagarajan of her character, but that at the same time, “she’s actually quite witty.� Nagarajan appears to be a near-perfect fit for her role. “Anisha came in and not only was funny, but you [can] see the humanity [in her character],� said executive producer Robert Borden. Possibly the greatest difficulty in the first season of a show is building a dedicated fan base. As “Outsourced� finds itself directly following “30 Rock� and “The Office� on NBC’s Thursday primetime schedule, the obvious challenge is convincing an audience that has already spent one hour watching workplace-themed comedy to stay tuned for another half-hour. “You get to see ... three completely different types of workplaces with Dunder Mifflin and 30 Rock and us,� says Ben Rappaport. “I think what’s different about our show is [that] the people that work in Mid America Novelties really actually want to be there.� In addition to scheduling conflicts, “Outsourced� may touch a raw nerve in a country with 9.6 percent unemployment, by making light of a real-world business practice that is costing thousands of Americans a source of livelihood. In defense of the show, producer Robert Borden said, “If you haven’t seen [the pilot episode], I think it’s a valid question. But when you see the pilot, you realize that it’s really just a point of departure to get our lead character over to India and to start the fish out of water story.� How Americans react to the show content will become readily apparent after the first episode airs. If it can avoid the many pitfalls in its path, “Outsourced� could become a household favorite by featuring a plot line and characters to which others can relate. Through an exploration of the common ties that unite all of humanity, “Outsourced�

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could become a humorous reflection on Western culture and the impact of globalization on our generation. However, if the show simply becomes a carbon copy of the plethora of programs already on the airwaves, it will quickly join the vast majority of pilot shows that never get past the first episode. Either way, it appears that the cast is eager and ready for the pilot episode of “Outsourced� tonight. From an Indian version of “American Idol� to adventures in the overcrowded transit system, “over the course of [the show],� Borden said, “we’ll get to see all kinds of different facets of the characters and of life in India.� At the very least, “Outsourced� promises to be a comic look into the clash of cultures when people of two widely different upbringings try and sort out problems half a world away.

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Sorority to throw princess party for Boys & Girls Club The Texas A&M Chapter of Delta Delta Delta will be throwing a princess party for the children at the Lincoln Center Boys & Girls Club in College Station. Upon arrival to the party, girls will receive manicures and have the opportunity to make a crown and wand. “We want to make them feel like royalty and emphasize that true beauty comes from the inside,” said Kendall Jenkins, senior finance major, Tri Delta member and coordinator of the event. The girls attending will be 8 to 12 years old and will have to complete tasks such as “sharing a smile with a stranger” to earn a prize next Friday, Jenkins said. Tri Delta works regularly with the Lincoln Center. “I hope this will inspire other people to get involved at the Boys & Girls Club,” Jenkins said. Katie White, staff writer

White House boosting health law at 6 months FALLS CHURCH, Va. — President Barack Obama is touting benefits taking effect this week under the health care law he signed six months ago, including provisions allowing young adults to stay on their family’s health plans until they turn 26. Polling shows the law remains unpopular with much of the public and many don’t know what’s in it. With crucial midterm President Barack Obama elections six weeks away, the White House is undertaking an effort to tell people what’s in the law that will help them. Obama held a health care discussion Tuesday with about 20 people gathered in the sunny backyard of home in suburban Falls Church, Va. He said he sought the law because rising health care costs were “bankrupting families, companies and our government.” Associated Press

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Q: As students get older, what problems do they face? Do these problems change through the years?

Q: What do you think about students taking random electives?

A: Choices start diminishing much more. As a junior and senior you’re taking upper division courses, learning the tools of the trade. You shouldn’t change majors once you’re in your junior year. It’s at this point you’re asking things like: How do I market myself? What will I do when I get out? How do I make myself appear attractive to grad schools and professional schools? So start attending career fairs — there are a lot of resources through the Career Center. Take advantage of the resources available to you before you’re in the job market. You don’t have time anymore as a senior. Do it as a junior. You can’t wait until midway through your senior year and realize you don’t have any volunteer work. And remember, your diploma is very important but there are other things – look at what’s a ‘good fit’ for your interests, personality. If you’re an introvert at the post office, you’re going to go postal! This doesn’t mean you can’t do these jobs; it’s just not the right fit. You’ll be unhappy and you’ll make the people around you unhappy. It takes time to know what you want. Don’t stress too much – it won’t determine the rest of your life. Your generation will have to go back to school, even my generation to some degree, if for nothing else but retraining.

A: General electives are there for interest. As an undergraduate it’s your job to still work on being a well-rounded individual. Peruse the catalogue, take something off the wall, explore for the heck of it. Q: What are your thoughts on double majoring? A: You’re allowed two majors and two minors per degree, so if you have the bachelors of arts, and then the bachelors of science, well you do the math. There are natural fits, such as language and international studies. But then there are some that are not necessarily logical – it opens doors that very few people can go through — provides a unique profile. I have a student who’s a French and physics major. She’ll have opportunities that very few others will. Q: Do you suggest internships or studying abroad? A: Yeah, oh yeah. You have to beef up your resume. It’s great if you have a 4.0 but it’s not enough anymore. Companies are expecting more and more, even grad schools are expecting experience. Definitely intern or study abroad. Students should start looking the first year so they can have time to talk to people.

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s the student body faces a weekend without a football game, the question of what to do SatRyan urday looms large. Haughey And while there is sophomore aerospace always Northgate, engineering major sometimes it is nice to try something new. One alternative is seeing live music, and Saturday, the Austin-based rock band Driver F will be playing a concert at The Stafford in Bryan. Bursting with so much energy on stage that the crowd cannot help but be drawn in by it, Driver F shows always deliver that perfect combination of sound, emotion and excitement that sets apart a good live band from a great one. “The energy of it all, it’s a religious experience,” said Chuck McFarling, senior psychology major when asked about what he enjoys most about Driver F shows. Featuring guitars, drums, synthesizer, trumpets, trombone and a lead singer who has been known to climb the occasional rafter, Driver F is an eclectic blend of talented musicians whose passion for what they do is evident every time they take the stage. Since their first show eight years ago, Driver F has grown from a bunch of high school kids playing ska music to a group exhibiting a dynamic approach to creating music. “As we have grown up we have been through a lot of different life experiences that have helped us gain more courage to experiment with our music and to just take chances,” lead singer Tyler Welsh said. “We became somewhat bored of [playing ska music all the time. We felt] it was very limited in what you could do with it and then all of our musical interests just went off in six different directions.” Combining horns, percussion and guitars,

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Driver F, comprised of Nathan Parrish, Juan Lopez, Jeremi Mattern, Bandy Rector, Wandy Lane and Tyler Welsh, performs at 9 p.m. Saturday at The Stafford in Bryan. Driver F presents an eclectic mix of instruments, managing to make coherent music that is not drowned out by a cacophony of sounds. “After [Driver F’s first album] Fly Away, we realized we didn’t want to sound like any other band out there,” Welsh said, ”and for better or worse, we feel that we have accomplished that.” Driver F, whose name comes from a red wagon drummer Jeremi Mattern had as a child, originally formed when its members were all students at The Woodlands High School. “Each one of us brings a very unique musical taste and background to the table,” Welsh said. However, what really sets Driver F apart is their live shows. When I first saw this band under a canopy tent behind a retail center in north Houston, I was blown away by the sheer energy that flowed from the band. Five years and countless concerts later, I still have yet to attend a show in which the audience was as much a part of the show as the performers themselves. “The first time I saw [Driver F] I was front

and center,” said Jordan Meyer, sophomore petroleum engineering major. “I couldn’t believe how much energy and excitement came from the band. It was ridiculous.” The passion exuded by Driver F flows over the crowd and, for a brief moment, it is as if everyone is a member of the band simply by being there. “Without getting too specific, we literally have had several people say to us that listening to our music really helped them through rough patches of their lives,” Welsh said of the most rewarding component of performing music. “There’s really nothing better than knowing that somehow we made a difference with our music, no matter how small a band we might be.” Driver F’s latest album, Chase the White Whale, was well received by the music press and showcased a group that was seeking the define itself, both musically and personally. Recent shows have featured a handful of new songs, suggesting that a new album may be in works. “We hope to put [a new record] out by the end of this year or early next year,” Welsh said.

Saturday at The Stafford Quiet Company, 9 p.m. Fulton Reed, 9:45 p.m. Driver F, 10:30 p.m. Clairmont, 11:30 p.m. Bachelor Police, 12:30 p.m. “Every song is different. [Song writing is] usually a long and arduous process, but it works for us.” Regardless of musical tastes, seeing a live concert is always something special. “The best part is the crowds are always great,” Welsh said of playing in College Station. “Everyone is just there to have a good time and not try to be cool or anything, but just to listen to the music and rock out.” So this Saturday, instead of going through the same old routine as every other weekend, try exploring the town and check out an event that will not be soon forgotten.

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couraged students to “always be aware of your surroundings� and not to admit non-residents. Brunson decided to move in as normal. “My first reaction was kind of scared because [of] who might have it, and then they told me it was probably just sitting on someone’s desk somewhere and had just gotten lost and I was like, ‘OK that’s a relief.’ But at first I was kind of freaked out,� Brunson said. Collins said no student took them up on their offer to temporarily relocate. Extra security measures were put in place until the building was rekeyed. Residence hall staff members were stationed at every entrance with resident rosters, and people were only admitted entrance if they showed their ID proving they were a resident or were escorted by a resident from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Campus security took over the roster sheets from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. A&M security was also present in the halls 24 hours a day, and the University Police Department kept Hobby on close patrol. Once the building was completely rekeyed, everything went back to normal. The missing key still hasn’t been found, but it will no longer work on the new door locks. The situation happens again, times two Not long after the resolving of the first occurrence Residence Life was confronted with the same problem, and this time in multiples of two. On the afternoon of Sept. 10 the Northside halls of Schuhmacher and McInnis reported their master keys as missing. “It’s like lightning actually struck twice. It hasn’t happened in five years prior, asking colleagues that have been here longer than I have, they can only remember two other times,� Collins said. Along with these incidents came more cause for concern because both of the halls are balcony-style dorms, meaning individual student rooms can be accessed from the outside without having to pass through an ID card access system. Once again, e-mails were sent to the students’ Neo accounts regarding the situation, and RAs also hand-delivered copies to the rooms. First floor

expenses and our revenue. By requiring students to buy meal plans, in the long run, we find it is better to increase revenue than cut services,� he said. 88 percent of campus residents voluntarily buy a meal plan. Riddle said the extra 12 percent would give Dining Services the modest revenue needed to make improvements to spots on campus, such as the Commons, which conducts the largest number of transactions a day. “From an infrastructure standpoint, the Commons is the worst,� Riddle said. “I want to be forward-thinking.� Some students expressed disapproval of the plan. “I think they overprice everything here anyways,� Nick Prisco, a freshman civil engineering major, said. “Without the option of meals, I don’t know why we can’t just pay in cash.� residents were given the option to relocate to different dorms, and rekeying was set to begin for the first floor the following Monday. UPD began 24hour close patrol, with officers stationed at every entrance to the halls. Both missing keys were found two days later in another residence hall. “The keys were found by one of our staff members in one of our buildings the weekend after they were lost. We were able to verify that they are original University keys by the markings on them, which can only be placed there by the University key shop. They were returned to one of our administrative offices,� Guzman said. Due to the fact that the keys were found the building was not rekeyed, Collins said. McInnis first floor resident Joshua Lee said he was never aware of the missing key. “I didn’t really know about it. All I knew was that they were changing the locks,� said Lee, a junior industrial engineering major. One of Schuhmacher’s first floor residents, Kelsey Nation, said she was aware of the situation. Nation said she was confused as to how they managed to lose a key. “I was curious about the situation. All they told us what that it was ‘misplaced.’ Did they just drop it on the sidewalk, or what?� Nation said. “It was also scary because we are on the first floor and we don’t have the access cards, so if someone had the key they could just walk in.� In response to the three incidents, Residence Life has ordered a full audit of the processes and policies regarding the use of the master keys. The audit is being led by the department of Risk Management within Residence Life. Guzman, the program coordinator, said she is communicating with the maintenance and custodial supervisors and people in the administrative office who process keys to find out what procedures they use. Then a group representing her department and others will review the processes and make recommendations for changes to try to prevent this from happening again. They will present their findings to the Director of Residence Life. “Key security and our process regarding keys are things we take very seriously as a department, [because] the security of our students and their rooms and their belongings are something we really strive to protect as well as we can,� Guzman said.

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