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Parking changes to be finalized The College Station City Council will make the final consideration for the purposed parking restrictions in the Southside Historic Area at the meeting Thursday.
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Sherman discusses switch Following Ryan Tannehill’s performance in A&M’s 45-10 rout of Kansas, the Aggies may have a quarterback controversy. Sherman and his quarterbacks discuss the current situation.
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‘Burn the Floor’ recap MSC OPAS will present “Burn the Floor,” a high-energy ballroom performance featuring a variety of dance styles as seen on popular television programs like “Dancing with the Stars” and “So You Think You Can Dance.”
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Ty Petty The Battalion One would never expect to shake hands with Thomas Chester Edwards, the Democratic congressman born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1951 who represents District 17 in the U.S. House. As the representative walks into a room to spend three hours with college students on a Friday afternoon, the personable and outgoing Edwards introduces himself as such and extends his right hand. On this hand is a battered chunk of gold, barely recognizable as a traditional symbol of a university. When asked, an unassuming look comes over his face as he moves his ring and reveals the pale white skin underneath. “My wedding ring and my Aggie ring don’t come off,” Edwards said. “I’m very grateful for what A&M did for me in my life, I feel I’m standing on the shoulders of Aggies of previous generations.” The Aggie ring isn’t the only device he never takes off; however, Texas A&M is a significant part of his past. Edwards graduated from A&M with a bachelor’s
degree in economics in 1974. After graduation, he spent three years working for the man who would groom and mentor him into the congressman he is today. Edwards said the legendary William “Tiger” Teague prepared him well. Teague taught the young Edwards how to continue the legacy of “Mr. Veteran” from central Texas. Edwards often reminiscences about how Teague inspired him to champion veterans’ causes. After three years, Edwards ran for Teague’s seat and lost a close contest to an up-and-coming politician named Phil Graham. He was one of Edward’s economics professors at A&M. After this loss, Edwards attended Harvard Business School where he obtained an master’s of business administration. After the Ivy League, he returned to Texas where he ran a small communications company and worked in real estate until winning the election to the Texas Senate in 1983. Much like his ring, Edwards never takes off his nice guy persona. His aides bemoan having to keep him on schedSee Edwards on page 7
Ty Petty The Battalion The “Bill Flores for Congress” campaign’s “war-room” is a long darkbrown conference room with a long dark wood conference table as its centerpiece. Papers, files, laptop computers and the cables required for all the technology litter the tabletop. At the end of this table sits Bill Flores. Upon approach, his hefty, glistening and almost flawless Aggie ring catches your attention. After two hours with Flores, you can tell a lot about a candidate. Flores is an energy industry heavy weight. He values tradition but wants to take a new direction. He believes that his execution of a hard fought election battle has been nearly flawless. He is ready for the payout: a win on Election Day. Bill Flores is the Republican challenger in the longtime Democratic 17th congressional district. This district encompasses a swath of central Texas. It runs from just south of Dallas, to Waco, through Bryan-College Station and
ends southeast of Navasota. The district is competitive for a Republican challenger. Flores is riding a wave of what appears to be voter discontent with the Washington establishment. Incumbents all over the country are in a fight for their political lives. Groups such as the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) activists are exerting political pressure on incumbents and candidates whom they deem as not conservative enough. The discontented, TEA activists, Republicans and independents, and students in the district are looking to Flores for ideas on issues such as the economy, taxes, government spending through earmarks, veterans issues and higher education costs. These issues are at the center of Flores’ campaign, but he was not always concerned about such issues. Flores is the fourth-generation in his family from the grassy windswept plains of the Panhandle and a ninth-generation Texan. He grew up in the town of Stratford, about 80 miles north of Amarillo. See Flores on page 6
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Vote in the election the nation is watching Texas A&M is situated in the hotbed of a congressional race with the nation’s eyes peeled. While incumbents typically have the advantage going into races, this year the tide is turned, and your vote will decide how extreme the turn is. Experts across the nation are laboring to determine the exact culprit, but many say a general dissatisfaction with the current administration will spell trouble for incumbents, and the Democrat party as a whole, next week. Early polls nationally are telling a grim tale for the blue faithful – Republicans
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appear to be on the verge of a convincing take-over of Capitol Hill. Congress will be gridlocked for at least the next two years. In District 17, there are two candidates that will do very different things in the predicted Congress. Incumbent Chet Edwards will continue the course he has trekked for years; he is a conservative democrat who does not blindly vote with the party. Edwards has the backing of the National Rifles Association, Veteran’s of Foreign Wars and Texas Farm Bureau. As a democrat, Edwards opposed bills con-
cerning financial services and health care. Edward’s independence in a divided congress may help alleviate the paralyzing effects of stubborn partisanship. Bill Flores brings something new to the table. He is a strong Republican who started from humble beginnings to rise to the elite ranks of the energy business world. Flores wants to strengthen the private sector, so it will, in turn, rebuild the economy. He proposes that, if elected, ideas he shares with others could balance the national budget in the next four to eight years.
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Perhaps it is the fresh, staunch Republican that Central Texans need representing them in Congress. Regardless of this particular race, it is highly unlikely anything outside a shellacking by the Republican party nationwide will happen next week. The question is simple, do Aggies want someone who will strongly stand against the current standards, or do Aggies desire someone who will cross party lines as a potential swing vote? Let your stance be clearly evident and go vote next Tuesday.
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Ten years later, Replant Day lives on Haley Lawson The Battalion It has been 10 years since the idea of Replant budded from the imagination of Scott Hantman, the Chairman of the Environmental Issues Committee. Aware of the effects that bonfire has on the environment, spring 1991 he and a group of 40 volunteers planted trees in the Bryan-College Station community. The following fall, Replant was officially named an Aggie tradition. Ten years later, the tradition still lives on.
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Replant Day was on Saturday. Aggie Replant is a student-run organization on campus. “Replant is an SGA organization dedicated to environmentally giving back to the BryanCollege Station community, be it by planting trees, working with [Keep Brazos Beautiful] or educating young Bryan-College Station elementary students on the importance of trees to our environment,” said Kathryn Murphy, a junior educational psychology major and member of Aggie Replant. Replant Day is the main event put on by Aggie Replant. It is an annual event where
hundreds of student volunteers go to sites in Brazos Valley to plant trees. “Around 1,500 Aggie student volunteers from all different organizations and majors get together and plant trees,” said Taylor A. Paine, a senior horticulture major and Aggie Replant director. “We plant trees at various locations including on campus, for Habitat for Humanity, and residentially. The goal of Replant Day is to give back to our community in an environmentally responsible and beneficial way.” The event started at Spence Park and then See Replant on page 7
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times when fire trucks responded to an emergency in the Southside Historic Area and were forced to park more than a block away from the incident. “What we’re trying to do is provide the best services to residents as we can,” Hurt said. The fire department and public works department had three public meetings with Southside residents to form a plan for parking regulations. “We sent out postcards to the owners of the houses in the Southside Historic Area according to the Brazos County Appraisal District, informing them of the public meetings,” Rother said. Students renting houses in this area did not receive the notices in mailboxes if the landlord did not live at the residences. This left it up to the owners to inform renters of the contingent changes. Brittany Burns, a junior allied health major, and Natalie Wright, a junior leadership studies major, had yet to hear about the proposed changes to the parking in the area off of Dexter Drive. “We barely fit in our driveway as it is. I wonder what would happen if we had another roommate.” Burns said.
Burns and Wright said if parking is eliminated in the area, their friends would have to walk or ride their bicycles to visit them. “I guess we’d have to start a carpool service of our own for friends to come over,” Wright said. Students living off Hereford Street said they would leave if the parking proposal passed. “It’s against city ordinance to park on the grass already,” said Mason White, a junior English major. “Where will we park?” John Paul Dodson, a junior business major said reducing parking would disrupt his roommates’ and his routines. “Our driveway is a single lane, so every time someone needed to leave we would have to re-park,” Dodson said. Rother and Hurt both said participants in the meetings agreed with the proposal on the whole. The majority of attendees were not students. “It’s a compromise, it is not the perfect fix for the fire department’s side,” Hurt said. “It will still be a tight fit but we will at least be able to get through now.” The proposal will go through its last consideration at the city council meeting on Thursday.
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“Burn the Floor� is a two-hour experience that is meant to leave the audience breathless through the combined efforts of world-class dancers, said Karen Hauer, one of the dancers for the upcoming event and the 2009 finalist for the hit show “So You Think You Can Dance.� “I feel privileged to be a part of ‘Burn the Floor,’ to be among the best dancers in the world and be able to do what I love. I get to travel to the world and experience cultures that I never have,� Hauer said. “Burn the Floor� goes all over the world to place like Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The event requires daily planning and the full attention of all the dancers. “It’s definitely a tough schedule,� Hauer said “There are hours of rehearsal before the show and the entire ordeal can be mentally, physically and emotionally draining. Every night on the stage you put immense trust in your partner to pull off an amazing show. Yet through all the sweat and tears I wake up every morning excited, excited that I get to learn something new and be a part of something extraordinary.� She said the physical requirements of the event are tremendous and demand top performance and fitness for all the dancers. “Every performance is high intensity,� Hauer said. “You’re out there for two hours doing nothing but dancing all the while getting only 15 to 30 seconds to change costumes throughout. The show is tough on the body; we do around eight shows a week. The physical demands are only half the battle. Learning how to handle the experience emotionally is a large part of the job.� The show is anything but an everyday dance routine. “People come into the show thinking they’ll see a boring and standard dance, when in fact it’s spectacular and mind-blowing. It’s filled with energy and passion that you can’t find anywhere else,� Hauer said. “We want people to go home and dance.�
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Celine Dion gives birth to twin boys NEW YORK — Celine Dion has given birth to twin boys, finally realizing her dream of being a mother again after a long struggle to become pregnant. A statement released by St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., said that the 42-year-old superstar singer delivered the boys Saturday afternoon. One boy weighed 5 pounds, 10 ounces, while the other weighed 5 pounds, 4 ounces. No names have been announced. Dion and her husband-manager, Rene Angelil, are already the parents of one son, 9-yearold Rene Charles. But Dion had long wanted to have more children, and, as with her first child, she had difficulty becoming pregnant. She has spoken openly about her struggles, undergoing several rounds of in-vitro fertilization. Last year, after information leaked that she was pregnant, she confirmed the news, only to learn
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that the in-vitro procedure was not successful. She had to issue a reversal weeks later. In an interview earlier this year, Dion said she hoped that by publicly sharing her struggle, she could help others. “If I help people through my voice, through my interviews, through what I go through, I do not want to change that at all,� she said. “I think it’s making a difference.� The boys came a month early. Dion was due to deliver next month, but earlier this week, it was announced that she was hospitalized as a precaution to make sure she was near her doctors as she prepared to give birth. Dion, a five-time Grammy winner who has sold tens of millions of albums, announced earlier this year that she would be returning to Las Vegas for a three-year run at Caesar’s Palace. Associated Press
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Downplaying a controversy Sherman and quarterbacks discuss situation Austin Meek The Battalion Even though it took two quarterbacks to do it, the Aggies registered their first win in more than a month, embarrassing the Kansas Jayhawks in Lawrence by a tally of 45-10. Starting senior gunslinger Jerrod Johnson broke Texas A&M’s career record for total offense while posting an efficient stat line of 139 yards, one rushing score and no interceptions. Junior quarterback and wide receiver Ryan Tannehill played well in reserve duty, accounting for four total touchdowns and completing 75 percent of his passes. Despite Tannehill’s impressive debut, Head Coach Mike Sherman insists there is no quarterback controversy brewing in Aggieland. “They both get along, they both are good friends,” Sherman said. “If they weren’t unselfish, and they didn’t like each other, and they didn’t complement each other, then there might be [a controversy], but there is absolutely, positively no friction. We have two good quarterbacks and they both played well.” Johnson agreed with Sherman. “We’re both competitors and we both want to play, but at the same time we’re friends,” Johnson said. “We understand that it’s a team and only one guy can play at a time. When I’m out there he supports me, when he’s out there I support him.” The same sentiment was echoed by Tannehill just minutes later. “I think it makes it easy that we’re friends,” Tannehill said. “We want each other to succeed. We don’t wish any bad things upon each other. “It could be a tough situation, but the fact that we’re friends and we want this team to win and succeed makes it a lot easier.” If Tannehill learned anything from watching Johnson over the course of the season, it was this: get junior receiver Jeff Fuller the ball. Tannehill connected with the talented wideout on scores of 27 and 39 yards; he finished with five receptions for 121 yards and extended his streak of consecutive games with a reception to 27, two shy of Martellus Bennett’s record of
29 games. “He’s a big guy, he gets open well, he can run after the catch,” Tannehill said. “Anytime you have a receiver that you feel can win one-on-one situations, it’s a great situation to be in.” The time split between the two quarterbacks offered very little insight into who’ll see the majority of the snaps this weekend. Johnson played 26 plays in the first half and 15 in the second; Tannehill took in 15 first half snaps at quarterback and 26 in the second half. “We had to do what we had to do to win last week, and now we’ve got to win this week against a very good Texas Tech team,” Sherman said. “We’ll take it one week at a time and go from there. I’m very confident in both quarterbacks.” The defense churned out another stout effort, yielding only one touchdown and 130 passing yards. Freshman quarterback Jordan Webb was picked off twice by the Aggies; one interception was taken 83 yards downfield by Dustin Harris before he was tackled just short of the goal line. “We’re not often talked about as being a physical defense, and maybe we take a little offense to that,” said senior linebacker Michael Hodges, who recorded a season-high 12 tackles. “We went into Saturday hoping to change that perception of us.” The Aggies will have their hands full when the Red Raiders come to Kyle Field Saturday. Playing their first season without former head coach and offensive guru Mike Leach, Tech has managed to maintain its identity as one of the nation’s most prolific passing offenses. Senior quarterback Taylor Potts leads the nation in passing with 213 completions (averaging 30.43 per game) and is tied for third nationally with 20 touchdowns. “They’re going to be fired up to come in here,” Johnson said. “We went to Lubbock last year and beat them, so I think they’re definitely going to come down here and try to return the favor. “My games at Kyle Field are kind of dwindling away, so I want to win as many as I can.”
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“Dad decided he wanted to start his own ranching operation. He didn’t have any money to hire anyone, and I was the oldest out of five kids,” Flores said. “I went out and started working with him. I learned the value of hard work at a very young age.” While attending A&M, Flores was active in the Aggie Corps of Cadets, he was the Memorial Student Center vice president and was a Ross Volunteer. Equipped with a degree in accounting, Flores, class of 1976, began work as an accountant and married the woman he pursued in high school, Gina. After becoming a certified public accountant and earning a master’s in business administration, Flores’ business career took off. Flores was in the boardrooms of the energy industry. After 30 years of success, he felt something was missing. When asked about the economy, he comes alive. His face brightens and his voice becomes animated when he begins to address economics, unemploy-
ment and tax policy. “I am against the stimulus bill. The government takes wealth, and I don’t mean stealing, and spends it in other ways. There were no jobs from stimulus,” Flores said. “Even President Obama admits there was no such thing as ‘shovel ready’ projects. People want to say it could have been worse. You can’t prove it.” He said he enjoys answering questions about the ideas a businessman has to fix the troubled economy. “A payroll tax holiday for one year would’ve created $340-50 million of economic impact. It would’ve reduced taxes by roughly 15 percent for every individual,” Flores said. “That’s where the rubber meets the road. When the individual gets to make a choice about how they want to improve their situation.” Flores said there has been criticism from the opposition for being somewhat ambiguous in his stance against earmark spending. He said his position in simple language. “Earmarks should be limited to critical national priorities. It’s the tip of the iceberg on a broken appropriations
process,” Flores said. “It’s done though a transparent process. The earmarks today don’t have that.” Try to sell Flores the image that his opposition to the stimulus bill and earmarks would cost the University $131 million in research money, and like shrewd businessman, he’s not buying it. “There’s two primary funding sources: there are grants, and A&M always gets over their fair share. Why is that? Because the researchers we have are so good,” Flores said. “The second source is earmarks. The bulk of the research that is federally funded comes from grants, and these are earned on their own merit. Not because Chet Edwards is associated with them.” While he is on the topic of A&M, research and higher education, he has a few ideas on those topics as well. Flores said A&M does an outstanding job of minimizing administrative costs per credit hour, thus keeping overall costs to the student down. He said this model could apply to colleges throughout the U.S. In addition to keeping administrative costs down, he is willing to look at another hot-button issue
with college students. “The only other thing I’d like to do is look at the cost of textbooks. To me, those seem to be unreasonably high,” Flores said. Flores was roused about veterans’ issues as well. He said he never wanted to or advocated the privatization the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System as Edwards said. Flores wants to explore options to ease the overburdened routine care sector of the VA. Flores adds to his accomplishment with veterans’ issues and his passion for veterans’ causes. He mentions his father is an Air Force veteran, and released documentation showing more than $136,000 in personal donations to veteran related causes since 2007. Flores is optimistic about how his campaign is turning out. He has overcome going through an emergency neck surgery for a debilitating bone spur in his neck at a critical time in the race, the long hours, the ups and downs of campaigning. “That’s the disappointing part of the political process,” Flores said. “The truth becomes the victim.”
He also had an embarrassing error about increasing the retirement age for Social Security, but the error results in an amenable moment for Flores the candidate and the man. “I’m human and I make mistakes. The thing about it is I stand up and say I made a mistake,” Flores said. “I wasn’t trying hide. I’m sorry I made that mistake.” Even though Flores could retire to his Bryan home or return to the boardrooms of the corporate world, he chooses to run for Congress. He said there is a hole in his background because he did not get to serve. Yet. “I’ve always felt like there was a hole in my background because I hadn’t served. I always felt like I needed to give back to my country,” Flores said. “The way to change things is through Congress. I want to change things. Congress is the best option that I have to make an impact.” Indeed, you can tell a lot about a candidate by his ring.
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ule. He will try to talk to everyone in the room and answer any question. On this particular afternoon, one of the students in attendance asks about a careerin public service. “You don’t have to be an old Ag to get involved,” Edwards said. “Don’t let all the ugliness and imperfections of politics keep you out of public service.” It has not kept Edwards away. Underneath it all, Edwards is passionate about the issues facing Americans and his constituents. He is neither a hyper-partisan nor can he afford to be one. Since he is the underdog and the incumbent, he has been listening attentively to the constituents of the District 17. Edwards knows people are concerned about issues such as the economy, taxes, earmark spending and higher education. Edwards is comfortable talking about the economy, even though it might be the most damning issue of his campaign. “We’re not where we need to be,” Edwards said. He has a plethora of ideas he would like to work on if he is reelected. One idea on his agenda is to see reform of federal banking regulations, especially on smaller banks. “These are the source of many small business loans,” Edwards said. “We overregulated the small banks and under-regulated Wall Street banks.” Edwards also envisions working to draft a “credible bi-partisan debt reduction plan.” He advocates middle-class tax cuts. Edwards has indicated that he could even support a year extension of the Bush tax cuts. Even though it is important to
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earmark is just an idea for a project that didn’t come out of the executive branch,” Edwards said. “It’s trying to get your tax dollars back.” According to opensecrets.org, Edwards has sponsored or cosponsored $90.45 million worth of earmarks in the fiscal year 2010. He also said that A&M received $131 million in funding from the Economic Recovery Act that allowed the University to save 350 jobs. Edwards is confident about how the election will turn out despite the anti-incumbent fervor sweeping the nation. He is proud of his campaign and his record. “Use your own judgment and go beyond party labels and 30-second sound bites,” Edwards said. “It’s hard. Don’t believe me. You’re an independent thinker.” Edwards is an approachable congressman. Not a ruling elite. He wants to shake your hand, introduce himself and listen to you. “It’s a privilege; it has been the honor of my life to serve. I’m running because I worked hard for jobs and education for our district. I am grateful the voters have repeatedly said they would like me to work for them in Congress,” Edwards said. “The record shows I’ve been an independent mind, been a voice for our troops and veterans and fought hard for jobs and education in our district.” Shaking the hands with the Congressman from Waco at the conclusions of their conversations gives students and potential voters the opportunity to take notice of the battered gold ring on his right hand. After the election on Nov. 2, Edwards has a final “lame duck” session of Congress before the new Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2011.
Farm on the TAMU Riverside Campus,” Paine said. Along with giving back to the community and beautifying Bryan-College station, Aggie Replant is striving to become recognized nationally. “Looking at the bigger picture, we are helping Texas A&M University become recognized in the Arbor Day Foundation’s
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him, economic policy is not what Edwards is known for. He is the new “Mr. Veteran” in Congress. He is willing to and often shares his account about making a promise to the late Teague, his mentor and the original “Mr. Veteran” to continue championing veterans’ causes. Edwards often becomes emotional when he speaks of his work to pass the Marine Gunnery Sgt. John David Fry Scholarship law. This law amends the post-9/11 G.I. Bill and provides full benefits to the children of U.S. military personnel killed in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001. “Having represented the largest Army installation that sent more troops to Iraq than any other: Fort Hood,” Edwards said. “It has been the honor of my lifetime to try to give something back to our service men and women, our veterans and our families who’ve given more to this country than I could ever give.” Veterans’ issues are not the only topic Edwards is passionate about working on. He represents a district with 92,000 college students and nearly 150,000 elementary through high school students. “For America to do well, we need to be educated,” Edwards said. “The government has two vital roles: student loans and Pell grants.” He said during this past term in Congress he supported legislation that does both. He also has supported legislation that provides a $700 increase in the Hope Tax Credit, which allows the deduction of college tuition from income taxes. Edwards is under fire for how he often goes about funding programs in the form of earmark spending. Edwards is candid in his explanation of this method for acquiring funding. “Not all earmarks are bad. An
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