Seventy-nine percent of the student body at Texas A&M have financial aid, whether it’s a loan, a scholarship, a grant or a work-study. Lynn Barnes, director of Outreach for scholarships and financial aid at A&M, said that the University faces potential budget cuts that could diminish the amount of financial aid the University can offer to students. According to the Proposed Budget Reduction Plan for 2010-11 from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, financial aid is indispensable since it draws lower-income students into higher education. Budget cuts at A&M could mean fewer dollars to give to financial aid applicants through state financial aid programs like the Texas Grant Program. But it’s not just A&M; all state agencies are facing cuts. Whether or not a student receives financial aid depends on the amount of money that the University has to give, which depends on what the Legislature determines. The Texas Legislature, a series of negotiations that prioritizes how to spend the state’s money talk about the potential cuts in the spring. This discussion will determine the amount of money available for Texas students seeking needbased financial aid. “If that cut goes through it has a direct impact on students,” Barnes said. “There’s no question about it.” The growing gap between need and aid could increase even more. With less free money for students, it is likely that more students will have to borrow loans. The University gives money on the basis of need and first come, first serve. To better chances of financial aid, students are advised to apply early. The FAFSA will be available in January. “The need for financial aid increases year after year,” Barnes said. “But the dollar amounts do not. If the University receives fewer dollars through state financial aid programs like the Texas Grant Program, it doesn’t mean fewer dollars per student. It means fewer students get free money from Texas A&M.” Emily Villani, special to The Battalion
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Ty Petty — THE BATTALION
Smoke rising and sirens howling shattered the typical tranquility found in Research Park on a Tuesday afternoon. A small grass fire broke out on the southeast side of Research Park near Research Parkway Drive, the Landscape Services Building and Research Park. A&M Landscape Services employees noticed the small fire and called the fire in to emergency services at about 2 p.m. University Police and the College Station Fire Department arrived within five minutes. Ten minutes after the fire was reported, CSFD and landscape employees had the unseasonal fire extinguished using a combination of water sprayers and fire extinguishers. An emergency worker at the scene confirmed that grass fires this time of year were uncommon. Campus police could not be reached for comment. Ty Petty, staff writer
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and adventures across the Atlantic he had heard so for the students. Jolynn Easter, a junior business much about during the War. He also knew of the management major, said she is relieved when she The Battalion More than three decades. The majority of the Brazos Valley because his grandfather was a cotton encounters a professor such as Woodcock who has been at Texas A&M for an extended period student population hasn’t even been alive for that buyer for a spinning company, and bought many shipments of cotton from right of time. Like many students at A&M, “I’ve been long, much less planning life that far in advance. here in College Station. Easter juggles school and multiple teaching here Most people want something from life. On the “When we opened our archijobs; she is an Advancement Via longer than other hand, the “what” part of that equation is a Individual Determination (AVID) whole different can of worms. For those of you tecture magazines to read about some of my what was happening in the world tutor at Stephen F. Austin Middle who wake up in the morning and wonder if you students have we saw that America had recovered School in Bryan, Texas and is the should change your major (for the fourth time), been alive.” brilliantly from the war,” Woodassistant coordinator for Aggie Athor can’t decide between traveling the world or atArnold Krammer cock said. “I decided I really wanted letics 12th Man Rewards Program. tending MATH 141, there is hope for you yet. to find out what it looked like.” Through the day, she is comforted by David Woodcock and Arnold Krammer are two The journey to get to Texas A&M the fact that the goal of professors like professors at Texas A&M who began their careers was quite different than today. The trip took two Woodcock is to help shape the students’ future, while unsure of which path to take. Yet through weeks and consisted of a freighter from Liverpool not make their lives more complicated. their experiences and their 30-plus-years at Texas to Boston, a train to New York, a train to Chi“The main advantage to having a professor who A&M University, not only have they taught many cago, a train to Houston, and a Grey Hound bus to has been here for so long is that they understand students, they’ve grown up and found their calling College Station. When Woodcock finally arrived what being an Aggie is all about,” Easter said. with A&M. Texas A&M for the first time, he experienced the “It’s more than just getting an education. It’s about Woodcock of the architecture department has effects of culture shock and not to mention a heat making a difference and caring about people.” taught at Texas A&M University for 44 years with wave as it was August. In addition to Woodcock, another professor 14 different presidents including General James “For the most part the students I was working devoted to the students at Texas A&M is KramEarl Rudder. Woodcock came to Texas A&M in for were in uniform, and I was quite unaccustomed mer, professor of history, who has been at A&M 1962 after graduating from the University of Man- to that,” Woodcock said. “It was very strange.” 37 years. chester with a professional degree in architecture After his Fulbright Scholarship term, Wood“I’ve been teaching here longer than some two years previous. Wanting to see the world but cock returned to England and began teaching at of my students have been alive,” Krammer said. lacking a certain amount of funds needed, Wood- Canterbury University. A few years later, the first “I’m getting people in my classes telling me that cock applied and received a Fulbright Scholarship dean of the Architecture College of Texas A&M their parents also had me as a professor when they allowing travel and stay at Texas A&M for visited Woodcock in England and gave him came to A&M.” nine months. a job offer. In the end, Woodcock packed Hailing from Chicago, Krammer began his “They “The idea of the Fulbright Program is up once again and, along with his wife, collegiate career in chemistry at the University understand a scholarly exchange, you visit another of Wisconsin, only to end up a devoted history what an Aggie traveled back to College Station. country and share your experiences “By then, it had become Texas aficionado and tenured professor of Nazi and Geris all about.” and knowledge with them and meanA&M University. Earl Rudder had man history. Jolynn Easter died sadly, and far too young,” Woodwhile, you get a better understanding “I love to teach,” Krammer said. “My wife says of who they are so when you go back cock said. “We had a new image of what that if I didn’t have a classroom, I’d probably teach home,” Woodcock said. Texas A&M was becoming; women had been door to door saying ‘Hello! Have you heard about During this time, Britain was still recovering allowed to enroll and enrollment of the Corps of World War I?’” from World War II and had bread rationing in Cadets was optional – two decisions that I think The passion for the past has been a fundamental until 1952. In choosing a destination, Woodcock were brilliant.” See Professors on page 6 came to America looking for new experiences It is evident how professors like Woodcock care
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Newly diverse sport report card Katie White
The Battalion A study conducted by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, TIDES, at the University of Central Florida found collegiate sports leadership in the National Collegiate Athletics Association overwhelmingly held by white men. The Racial and Gender Report Card, created by the sport management department of UCF, grades schools on the percentages of minority people they employ in the sports departments. In 2008, Federal Affirmative Action policies stated the percent of minority college sports leadership positions should reflect the percent of the minority in the entire population. Schools that meet the percentage receive an ‘A’ in the study and subsequent lesser percentages receive lower scores. “The Institute continues on this work to keep doing its part to raise awareness about the need for diversity and equality in college athletic depart-
ments and professional front offices,” said a media representative from TIDES. The report states TIDES aims to illustrate how important it is to have diverse individuals playing and working for a school’s athletic department. The numbers from the 18-year-long study show improvements have been made in college athletic departments. In 2001, 11.6 percent of athletic directors were people of color. By 2008, that number rose to 16.2 percent. “TIDES has been at the forefront of creating social change for decades, and there is evidence that information such as this really works,” said George Cunningham, a professor of sport management at Texas A&M. “It sheds light on a critical problem facing sport, and the more people who know about it, the more likely the problem is to change.” Cunningham said he believes there is still much improvement to be made to be more gender and racially equal in sports, but the movement towards
diversity over the years is a testament to TIDES and other diversity reports. Black Coaches and Administrators, or BCA, publishes an annual report card but uses different criteria to grade the nation’s colleges hiring practices. Schools are graded for how often communicate with affirmative action committees, how many people of color work for employment recruitment committees, how many of the candidates interviewed are African-American and how long a school takes to make a decision in hiring. “The numbers have improved since we started making the report since 2003,” said Floyd Keith, executive director of BCA. “The numbers before our first report were abysmal.” BCA publishes its reports and sends them to the schools under scrutiny to see where they need to improve. “The big problem with the major sports in Division See Diversity on page 6
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On the road again
Singer-songwriter to pass through Aggieland Kyle Cunningham
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Laura Meyer will perform at the Stafford as part of her nearly never-ending tour, which has been ongoing for the 26-year-old since 2007.
The Battalion Tomorrow night, singer-songwriter Laura Meyer will headline a three-artist show at the Stafford on Main Street in Downtown Bryan. It’s another stop on the nearly never-ending tour for Meyer, 27, who has been going full-time as a musician since 2007 with no tour hiatuses longer than a month and a half. It’s what some would call a lonely life: put your belongings in the car, drive to a gig where the fan count can range from tens to 10,000, then leave only to repeat the same process again and again, the only constants in life being yourself and your writing. But actually, it’s just the opposite for Meyer, who said that if anything, there might not be enough time to herself. “I love what I do,” Meyer said. “And people always ask ‘Well don’t you get lonely?’ But the truth of the matter is no, I’m not. If anything, I’d like a little bit more alone time because I’m typically in a venue every night with a bunch of people. I usually stay with people, so that’s also time with people.” Many songwriters need to detach themselves from the pressures of touring, performing live and writing songs. The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, for example, stopped touring in 1965 after the added responsibilities became too much. But songwriting comes more organically on the road for Meyer, who said she is continuously inspired by what she sees and does. “I write when I drive,” Meyer said. “And I’ve gotten pulled over for it, but
I’ve also written some of my best songs doing it. I need that inspiration. I need going out and getting in the world, living.” The road, however, does have its downsides. Meyer faced bed bugs and swine flu from her last tour, but has taken steps forward from her first tour, where self-professed “crazy driving” and eye problems became a persistent issue, not to mention the always present factor of added adrenaline from place to place and pent-up energy from sitting and driving day in and day out. “Really, I’m learning just how much you need to take care of the body,” Meyer said. “That’s really the hardest part because I feel like if you have your health, you have everything else. It’s so important to tap into your center and [be] healthy and creating. If I’m creating, that contributes to my health – my mental health.” Despite being a native of the Northeast – she’s lived in Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Connecticut — Meyer said she has always had a love of the West Coast. “I definitely have always felt a pull out to California,” Meyer said. Her online autobiography describes her musical epiphany, hearing the track “Yer So Bad” by Tom Petty in the backseat during her years before kindergarten and calling it the “equivalent of the first glimpse of Southern California by eyes acquainted to gray New England winters.” She goes on to describe Petty as a musician whose songs “emit love” and has been the continuous inspiration from that
first listen. “I think he [stands out because] he was the first, and he planted the seed,” Meyer said. “Every one of his songs, they fell complete from heaven. They don’t feel pieced together; they feel organic and pure. He’s all about good times. The hooks are incredible and the musicianship is just top-notch. The band is just so rock ‘n’ roll. Today, you have, like, indie-rock and all these hyphenated categories and genres. But they’re just rock — have fun, rock ‘n’ roll. It’s so American and so California — have that dream, coming out from Florida and it’s ... I like it.” That American dream of living life to the fullest has stuck Laura Meyer with Meyer as will perform she continues her at 8 p.m. perpetual musical tomorrow at road trip, always the Stafford trying to find that next moment of in Downtown bliss, be it from Bryan. music or other avenues of expression. “I’m all about having fun right now,” Meyer said. “It’s so serious growing up, and work’s really hard. Being on the road has transformed my life and taught me to enjoy life because this is all we have and it’s a gift – it’s not meant to be suffered through. It’s meant to be enjoyed and money will come. You have to be responsible, but what’s the point if you don’t enjoy life?”
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Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the military to immediately stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops, bringing the 17-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy closer than it has ever been to being abolished. Justice Department attorneys have 60 days to appeal the injunction but did not say what their next step would be. President Barack Obama has backed a Democrat effort in Congress to repeal the law, rather than in an executive order or in court. But U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’ injunction leaves the administration with a choice: Continue defending a law it opposes with an appeal, or do nothing, let the policy be overturned, and add an explosive issue to a midterm election with Republicans poised to make major gains. Department of Justice and Pentagon officials were reviewing the judge’s decision and said they had no immediate comment. “The whole thing has become a giant game of hot potato,” said Diane H. Mazur, a legal expert at the Palm Center, a think tank at the University of California at Santa Barbara that supports a repeal. “There isn’t anyone who wants to be responsible, it seems, for actually ending this policy. “The potato has been passed around so many times that I think the grown-up in the room is going to be the federal courts.” A federal judge in Tacoma, Washington, ruled in a different case last month that a decorated flight nurse discharged from the
Air Force for being gay should be given her job back. Phillips, based in Riverside, California, issued a landmark ruling on Sept. 9, declaring the policy unconstitutional and asked both sides to give her input about an injunction. The judge said the policy violates due process rights, freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances guaranteed by the First Amendment. Gay rights groups hailed Phillips’ latest move, crediting her with what the administration and Washington have not been able to do. “For a single federal judge to tell the government to stop enforcing this policy worldwide, this afternoon, with no time to think about it or plan for it, is almost unprecedented,” said Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights. “This judge was sure. There was nothing in her mind that could justify this even for one more day, one more hour.” Gay rights advocates, however, tempered their celebrations, warning service members to avoid revealing their sexuality for fear that the injunction could be tossed out during an appeal and they would be left open to being discharged. If the government does not appeal, the injunction cannot be reversed and would remain in effect. If it does, it can seek a temporary freeze, or stay, of her ruling. An appeal would go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Either side could then take it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Pentagon did not immediately comment, and a Justice Department spokeswoman said the government was re-
viewing the decision. Meanwhile, a group of 19 Democrat senators signed a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to let the injunction stand. A “don’t ask, don’t tell” supporter said Phillips overstepped her bounds. “The judge ignored the evidence to impose her ill-informed and biased opinion on our military, endangering morale, health and security of our military at a time of war,” said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, a public policy group. Wright said Phillips should have let Congress continue to investigate the impact of the repeal. Phillips’ order goes into effect immediately, said Dan Woods, the attorney who represented the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay rights group that filed the lawsuit in 2004 to stop the ban’s enforcement. The group says more than 13,500 service members have been fired under the Clinton administration-era policy, which prohibits the military from asking about the sexual orientation of service members but bans those who are openly gay. Under the 1993 policy, service men and women who acknowledge being gay or are discovered engaging in homosexual activity, including in their own homes off base, are subject to discharge. Phillips’ ruling also ordered the government to suspend and discontinue all pending discharge proceedings and investigations. Government attorneys had warned Phillips that such an abrupt change from an injunction might harm military operations during wartime.
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Hear Ye:
|this week| |let’s raise our glasses| |to that awful city…| |full of smelly hippies| |and skinny jeans-wearing men| |…known as Austin| |because heck| |it’s home to some great musicians| (and a lot of crappy ones)
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1. Bob Schneider “40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)”
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ometimes, school is hard. Sometimes, we sit in class and hope the professor doesn’t call our name because our only response would be “um, WHAT?” In such times of trial, we are faced with a decision: gradually give up and blame the class — which I wouldn’t recommend — or suck it up and find a way to learn the material. One such way to achieve the latter is to get some tutelage.
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The Mother Truckers “When I Get My Wings” |the woman can sing|
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There are plenty of helpful tutoring services to choose from in College Station, each with varying styles and services. Probably the best well-known services are A+ Tutoring, 4.0 & Go, Tutorjohn and 99Tutors. Courtesy photo The first three of these offer primarily classroom-style tutoring sessions for services. A+ Tutoring’s schedules and company inforcertain Texas A&M courses. Each has a small team of mation are available online at aplustutoring.ws. instructors who lecture to students during scheduled 4.0 & Go is located at Southwest Parkway and Texas sessions. The sessions are typically around two hours Avenue near Lack’s Furniture. It was founded in 1994 long and take place mostly Monday through Thursby Arf Carr, who is also a member of the organizaday nights. Pricing is $6.00 an hour for A+ Tutoring tion’s all-Aggie instructor team. 4.0 & Go, like A+ and for 4.0 and Go and $7.00 an hour for Tutorjohn. Tutoring, offers classroom-style sessions for a wide Clay Harley Each of these organizations offers one-on-one sesrange of lower-level A&M courses. senior MIS major sions as well, but focuses primarily on group lectures. “Most of our sessions have about 40 or 50 students,” 99Tutors works in a different way. Founded by said Betty Tinoto, one of the organization’s managers. Detrick Eaton, 99Tutors specializes in one-on-one tutoring. 4.0 & Go has the widest range of classes of the three Students can apply to receive tutoring for a particular class, classroom-style tutoring services, and offers tutoring for many and 99tutors will pair them with an instructor who has expebusiness courses. The schedules and course information can also rience with that class. 99Tutors employs more than 500 tutors be found online at 4.0andgo.com. consisting of college students, retired professors, teachers and Tutorjohn is located off of Texas Avenue next to Barnes and TAs. By using the resources that the University provides, Noble, behind On The Border. Tutorjohn also offers course99Tutors has been able to offer tutoring for any and every specific group tutoring sessions, but aims for smaller class sizes, Texas A&M course, as well as Blinn College and Bryan-Colwith its smallest sessions at about five students, and its largest at lege Station ISD schools. 50. Also, the sessions for a given course are scheduled weekly Eaton said that “the one-on-one tutoring, the wide range and progress along with the A&M material. [of courses] and the fact that the student gets to pick their “The students have a chance to learn the material as we tutor” is what separates 99Tutors from the competition. Pricgo,” said John Forsyth, who founded Tutorjohn in 2001. ing for individual tutoring ranges from $32 to $40 an hour, Information about times and courses can be found online at depending on the number of hours taken – basically, the more tutorjohn.com. hours you take on a weekly basis, the closer you’ll get to the Clearly you’ve got some options for your tutoring needs. lower price. Students can apply for tutoring from 99Tutors Each service certainly has the potential to help you. The trick online at 99Tutors.com. is picking the right one. A+ is great for technically difficult A+ tutoring is located on University Drive, across from cam- classes: engineering, physics, chemistry and the like. 4.0 & Go pus and behind McDonalds and Taco Bell. The business is run gives sessions for a wide range of courses and can be very useby Ali Kazerouni who, along with one other instructor, gives ful for lower-level business students. Tutorjohn is great if you tutoring sessions for many math and science-related courses. want a smaller group size with weekly reinforcement for a good According to Kazerouni, “the point [of tutoring] to teach the price. And 99Tutors is definitely best for a one-on-one, very course-specific and personalized experience. students how to do the problems, not just show them shortcuts The Battalion does not endorse a specific tutoring service, but enor work out old exam questions,” and he said that this is what courages students to find what is best for them individually. differentiates A+ Tutoring from other classroom-style tutoring
The Octopus Project “Truck” |crazy bitrate junk|
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Explosions in the Sky “First Breath After Coma” |see them live| (bring earplugs)
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joy of Professor Krammer as his parents came to America as Hungarian immigrants. This sparked his interest for the time period and culture of World War I and II in Europe. “I heard all about the War and the Nazis growing up; I got it with my mothers milk,” Krammer said. Through the years, Krammer is always gathering new bits of information he wouldn’t be able to gain elsewhere such as discovering a German Prisoners of War Camp while passing
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I is that there is a huge lack of black head coaches,” said Marshall Ward, a senior marketing major. BCA found since 1996, 16 African-American coaches received positions out of 221 university coaching vacancies in the nation. “The NFL has the Rooney rule,” Ward said. “If there is a head coach vacancy the team is required to interview one minority candidate. I think that works really well. I don’t know what college football’s problem is, but maybe they need to adopt a Rooney rule.” The TIDES 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card showed college sports earned the lowest grade in hiring practices out of all men and women’s sports, including professional leagues. “Research shows that former players represent the most viable pool of coaches,” Cunningham said. In Division I football, African-Americans account 46.4 percent of athletes, compared to the 46.6 percent that
white athletes account for. Cunningham said by this measurement, more coaches should be African-American former athletes. However, coaching in Division I football remains unbalanced with an 89.2 percent white male population. Athletic directors remain predominantly white and male as well. “An element of diversity can provide a different perspective, and possibly a competitive advantage for a win in the board room as well as on the athletic fields of play,” said Richard Lapchick in his executive summary of the 2009 report. The 2009 season broke the record in college sports with nine coaches of color at Football Bowl Subdivision schools. Six more received positions for the 2010 season. “The issues move beyond simply race and gender,” Cunningham said. “There is considerable research showing, for example, that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans gender athletes and coaches face considerable prejudice and discrimination in college sports. The same is also true for religious minorities. Thus, while strides have been made, there is considerable room for improvement.”
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Aggies CAN is the largest single day student-run canned food drive in the nation, and it’s happening this week. Today at 7:30 p.m. students can get free admission to the Aggie volleyball game against Missouri by bringing a non-perishable food item. Aggies CAN will also be at the Aggie football game Saturday. Although a donation won’t buy you a seat at the football game, a donation of canned, non-perishable food or cash goes directly to the Brazos Valley Food Bank, which supplies food to needy families. “We’re collecting for the Brazos Valley community. This is what gets them through the holidays and the following months. This event accounts for most of the Brazos Valley Food Bank’s supply of food from Thanksgiving through New Year’s. They rely on Aggies CAN,” said Stephanie Davidson, chairwoman of Student Athletic Advisory Committee. At the aforementioned events, those who wish to donate may look for Aggies CAN volunteers in lime green T-shirts. “You can donate at the volleyball game [today],” Davidson said. “There will be about 50 volunteers in lime green shirts. We’ll also be at the football game this Friday. There will be reps walking around tailgates taking donations. You can also send a check to Brazos Valley Food Bank or you can donate in the Bright building. More information is available at Aggieathletics.com. Just click
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Members of Aggies CAN collect canned goods at a football game. Aggies CAN is offering free admission to tonight’s volleyball game if students turn in non-perishable food items. on ‘gameday info’ and follow the green link. Every dollar can help. If you bring a dollar, that’s five cans, and who doesn’t have a dollar to spare?” Aggies CAN is run by SAC; however, there are other involved parties. Many student organizations have joined in the effort to provide food to the Brazos Valley. “We’re getting all corners of the Aggie community involved. The Corps, fraternities and sororities, student organizations, the whole student body,” Davidson said.
Caroline Maxvill, SAC cochair, mentioned a few more ways that the campus has been involved. “We’re trying to make it campus-wide as much as we can. Club sports and Greek Life help out a lot, and some professors have even volunteered to take donations in their classes,” Maxvill said. Aggies CAN has been a successful event in past years, and has helped the Brazos Valley community’s poor. “I think the event is a great way to showcase the student body’s generosity. It also reaf-
firms my belief in the Aggie Spirit — that even the athletes are participating and truly making a difference in the community,” said Andrew Schaff, junior chemical engineering major. The student organizers of Aggies CAN said they appreciate the impressive amount the Aggies give. “We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of the Aggie community in previous years, and we hope that it will continue to benefit the Brazos Valley well into the future,” Maxvill said.
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Special to The Battalion As dinner time rolled around for the Corps in Duncan Dining Hall Monday, many Cadets chose to forego their usual meal with their unit, opting instead to participate in the Corps of Cadets Language and Culture Dinner. More than 125 Cadets and international students chose to sit at eight different tables, each labeled with a different language. “This was my first time to come out to the dinner,” said Gabriel Clark, junior psychology major. “It’s a great experience to get to talk to the different cultures and to increase international and minority awareness.” The event, which was the second of year, helped harbor a cultural exchange between the Corps of Cadets, with its own unique customs, and the many international students that are around campus. “I’m trying to get more interest in the program. Right now, we are getting the news out mainly by word of mouth,” said Rae Lietzau, senior mathematics major . “We want to expand to get more languages represented. I’ve had requests for Turkish Italian and even Norwegian.” The dinner started as a way for cadets to sharpen language skills for any foreign language classes that they were taking, but this dinner focused more on diversity, understanding and broadening the cultural awareness of Texas A&M’s increasingly mixed campus. The international students had a chance to sit down and ask questions about the Corps culture, which is foreign and new to them. “I’m seeing how diverse Texas A&M truly is and understanding the traditions more and more,” said Rodrigo Landivar, junior industrial engineering major. “There is a good exchange between both the Corps and international students, since we both are united on the common ground that we are both Aggies.”
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Energy Management employees manage a power outage that occured Tuesday afternoon near Albriton Bello Tower.
Power goes out near Albritton Tower It was extraordinarily dark at the Albritton Bell Tower and the surrounding area of campus last night due to a power outage caused by an accident. At about 2:30 p.m., a construction worker was moving dirt around Cain Hall, and he backed into a transformer just northwest of the building. The collision pushed the transformer onto a set of power lines. The accident knocked out power for the area until about 9 p.m. The worker sustained no injuries in the accident. Campus activities continued as usual for most students including those attending Breakaway at Kyle Field. Not all students were unaffected by the power outage. “Initially there was some uneasiness with not having a newsroom until late in the night, if at all for today’s paper, but we have a great staff that accepted the challenge and continued to impress me,” said Matt Woolbright, Editor-in-chief of The Battalion and junior sociology major. The power outage will have no affect on any campus activities on Wednesday. “Everything is back to normal,” said Mack Keg, a Utilities and Energy Management employee. Ty Petty, staff writer
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas sheriff says the dismembered head of a Mexican police commander investigating the reported shooting of an American on a border lake was found in a suitcase outside a Mexican Army base. Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez told The Associated Press that “reliable sources within the law enforcement community of Mexico” told him that Rolando Flores’ head was discovered Tuesday morning. Flores was the commander of state investigators in Ciudad Miguel Aleman and was part of a group investigating the reported shooting of American David Hartley on Sept. 30. Mexican divers have been searching the lake for Hartley’s body. Gonzalez says the chances of finding Hartley’s body grow slimmer with each passing day.
101-year-old Texan becomes US citizen
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A South Texas woman marked the 101st anniversary of her arrival in the United States as an infant Garcia-Maturey by finally becoming a citizen of her adopted homeland. Eulalia GarciaMaturey took the oath of allegiance Tuesday from a federal magistrate in Brownsville on during a special naturalization ceremony administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agency says Garcia-Maturey was born in Mexico on Feb. 12, 1909, and arrived in Brownsville with her parents on Oct. 12, 1909. She has lived there ever since, raising two children. Her family says part of the reason GarciaMaturey waited so long to take the oath was her husband, who died in 1982, didn’t want her to.
Gas leak blamed for Texas house blast; 2 burned
SAN ANTONIO — An 80-yearold San Antonio couple are hospitalized with extensive burns after their home exploded in a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the city. Virginia Mann and companion Frank Nava are in Brooke Army Medical Center’s burn unit after the 12:30 p.m. Tuesday explosion. That’s according to Mann’s son, Johnny Mann. Hospital spokeswoman Jen Rodriguez says Mann is in critical condition, while Nava is stable. The son tells the San Antonio Express-News that the couple were both in the house when the house exploded, blowing a wall out, collapsing the roof, shattering a nearby car window and filling nearby streets and yards with broken glass. San Antonio Fire Department spokeswoman Deborah Foster tells The Associated Press that a natural gas leak is suspected as the cause of the blast.
Texas plant, 4 other nuke sites get awards AMARILLO, Texas — A U.S. Department of Energy agency has named Pantex, the country’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant, as one of five U.S. sites honored for pollution prevention and environmental excellence. A National Nuclear Security Administration statement Tuesday said employees at Pantex, near Amarillo, came up with ideas that helped save the plant 18 million gallons of water last fiscal year. Associated Press
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