Student Senate opens fee talks The Student Senate met at 7 p.m. Tuesday night to discuss the potential student fee increase in the upcoming school year of 2011-2012. Nine departments presented their cases as to why they asked to increase the following student fees: computer access and instructional technology fee, student service fee, recreational sports fee, group hospital and medical services fee, diploma fee, master’s in business administration program fee, master’s of real estate program fee, professional program in biotechnology program fee and master’s of agribusiness program fee. After each presentation, the floor opened for senators and students to ask questions about how the increase in fees will benefit the student body. The Student Government Association asked students to participate in a survey about the proposed increases starting today on the Student Government Association website, http://sga.tamu. edu/. Katie White, staff writer
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Siegel, who is also a second field maintenance manager. “It’s a team effort.� Pierce and Siegel are agronomy-turf management majors who graduated in May 2008. They have worked on Kyle Field since they were college students at A&M and were a part of the crew who helped Kyle Field be named the best collegiate football field in the nation by the National Sports Turf Managers Association. “A buddy of mine told me, ‘Hey, take this turf class with me, it’s an easy class,’� Siegel said. “I said, ‘You mean I can get paid to wear shorts and a T-shirt every day to work and get to go to sports free? Sign me up.’� The crew uses six to seven student workers who, like Siegel and Pierce, work as part of a class. The crew members never know what challenges they will face each day as the job entitles
come in once a week and they expect this stadium and the field to look the same way it did the last time they left,� said Leo Goertz, athletic field maintenance manager. “So we try to catch every little detail.� Those repeats details are the same details that make up the big picture of Kyle Field on game days. Some crewmembers such as Matthew Pierce, second assistant grounds keeper, will work 70 to 80 hours a week to make sure everything is just right for game day. “Painting the lines isn’t hard; it’s making a precise line and I’m talking within an eighth of an inch,� Pierce said. Student workers contribute to the painting and maintenance of the field. “We can get this whole thing painted in one morning, not counting end zones and depending on how many people we have,� said Andrew
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Zogby visits campus Austin Burgart The Battalion The mid-term elections on Nov. 2 are going to bring change to this country’s Congress. For an average person to make such an assumption many might not take it very seriously. But when John Zogby, the president and CEO of Zogby International, the polling firm used by every major news network for upto-date statistics and research, makes this claim, you should believe him. Zogby brought his expertise and insight Monday to the George Bush Presidential Library. “To be honest I have no idea what will happen Tuesday,� Zogby said. “I expect the Republicans to win substantially in the House of Representatives, as for a majority I’m not quite sure if they will get it. The Republicans will not take over the Senate either.� The Republicans are currently down 178 seats to the Democrat’s 257, but with public dissatisfaction for democratic policies being pushed since the Democrats took over the House in 2006 and since President Obama’s election in 2008, the Republicans look to gain big. John Zogby’s job is to predict the future and tell us how the elections will pan out long before they happen, and he has perfected the art. Since 1984, the year his firm was founded, he has created an extremely accurate polling process. Zogby attributes to his own unique interactive polling methodology which is constantly embracing new technologies such as cellular devices and the internet to get their data. “The increasing use of technology is doing great letting our own generation get their say in current issues,� said sophomore Tucker Bomar, sociology major. “ The revolution that is embracing these devices shows that our country is moving forward instead of staying in the background.� Zogby finds statistics by surveying a sample of people which will show how the population feels as a whole. Even though many numbers and percentages See Zogby on page 4
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Health program ranks amid nation’s top Luz Morena-Lozano The Battalion The National Research Council rankings, released in September, show the Texas A&M doctoral health and kinesiology program as one of the top in the country. “It is a tribute to all the hard work of the students and faculty,� said Richard Kreider, professor and department head of the health and kinesiology program. “It helps with recruiting, jobs for students, recruit faculty and the reputation of our students.� The research council analyzed information from the 2005-2006 academic year, based on two parallel sets of rankings. The analysis included information from more than 5,000 doctoral programs at 212 uni-
versities in 62 fields of study based on quality. “It’s great when rankings like these from the National Research Council confirm what we believe to be true about our program as one of the strongest in the country, and it may raise our visibility with the Texas A&M administration,� said Susan Bloomfield, a professor and associate department head and chairwoman of graduate programs. “It may lead to a few more students each year inquiring about our graduate programs. However, I don’t expect these high rankings to change how we operate, which is to recruit the very best students we can and then, once they are here, to provide a supportive and intellectually rich environment for all our
Joanna Raines The Battalion From $5 subs to dollar menus, it seems the food industry is selling dinners cheaper than ever. But what we gain in our wallet we lose in our stomachs. Monday, Texas A&M Rotaract students waving signs with smiles offered a bargain that could not be rivaled. Bryan Rotary club provided the “whole enchiladaâ€? for $10, and it went to a good cause. At the Bryan Rotary Club’s annual benefit dinner Monday, guests paid $10 for a full Mexican-style dinner including enchiladas, chips and salsa, beans, rice and beverages. The members of the rotary club prepared the dinner and served it. Aggie Rotaracts, the Texas A&M organization affiliated with the club took pickup orders from members of the community who paid in advance to get car-side service. “Right now we have people that are running in and out, serving people in cars,â€? said Imran Chaudhry, senior University studies major and rotary relations officer. Guests who dined in participated in a silent auction, where items included a basketball signed by the Texas A&M Women’s basketball team, gift cards to restaurants and home dĂŠcor. Guests were able to browse a display of the programs the dinner bill sup-
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graduate students.� This is the second time the health and kinesiology program was included in the NRC rankings under the biological and health science field. Doctoral programs were rated on 20 characteristics such as faculty publications, grants and awards; student Graduate Record Examination scores, financial support and employment outcomes, and program size, completion time for a degree and faculty composition. Measures of faculty and student diversity were also included. The program was the highest-rated doctoral program at the University among the 48 doctoral programs evaluated by the research council.
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A nun from the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, hangs a serum bag on a tree for patients suffering cholera symptoms Saturday in Robine, Haiti.
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Fall Harvest offers fun, free alternative Eighth installment of Open Party features games, Christian film producer on the Simpson Drill Field with a a fair amount of star power with different theme introduced each year. Chuck Norris’ son, Mike Norris The Battalion Last year’s Open Party was themed being in attendance. Mike Norris As autumn reaches its peak, its Mess Fest, which was promoted as is a Christian film producer, actor reputation as the melancholy season a large-scale food fight. This year’s and motivational speaker. He will grows more apparent. Firmly escaptheme, coined by Bishop, is Fall speak briefly beginning at 7p.m. ing the carefree spirit of summer, the Harvest, which coincides perfectly its and will stay throughout the durapromise of winter is the only thing Oct. 29 date. tion of the party. that awaits the casual observer. “The idea of seasons and While looking for a speaker, Yet if that observer were to seasons of life has been a Norris’s wife contacted a family stroll past Simpson Drill Field recurring theme this semester, friend who also happened to be a on Friday night, they would see so it was decided that a theme member of Stephanie’s team and a much different atmosphere of fall should incorporated,” informed her that they were thinkreflected. They would witBishop said. ing about visiting the College Staness- through myriad scene of Following last year’s suction on the same weekend that Fall Norris giant inflatables, carnival games, cess with Mess Fest, Fall Harvest was scheduled. matches of tug of war and ultiHarvest has been in the On the coincidence, Bishop said: mate Frisbee, sack racing and carved planning stages since May, with “We needed a speaker who would pumpkins, Texas A&M’s Open Party organizers challenged with topping draw in a crowd and Chuck Norris’ in full swing. the past year’s event and reaching a son just happened to contact us! It “We really want anyone and wider audience. definitely wasn’t by accident.” everyone to come and there is no “The location of the event is crucial,” Open Party represents the collabinvitation or RSVP necessary,” said Bishop said of the Simpson Drill oration of several different on senior communication major StephaField location. “We have campus organizations nie Bishop, who is also the lead it on campus so more who wish to remain when: 6:30 p.m. Friday coordinator of the party. “If anyone people can attend.” anonymous. passes by we really want them to what: an annual party for This year’s “The purpose come and have fun at this event.” A&M students Open Party will of Fall Harvest Open Party is an annual event held who: any student at A&M bring with it this year is to
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At least 300 dead in Indonesian volcano, tsunami MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia — The death toll from a tsunami and a volcano rose to more than 300 as more victims of Indonesia’s double disasters were found and an official said a warning system installed after a deadly ocean wave in 2004 had broken from a lack of maintenance. Hundreds were still missing after Monday’s tsunami struck the remote Mentawi islands off western Sumatra, where officials were only beginning to chart the scope of the devastation. At least 311 people died as the huge wave, triggered by an undersea earthquake, washed away wooden and bamboo homes, displacing more than 20,000 people. About 800 miles to the east in central Java, the Mount Merapi volcano was mostly quiet but still a threat after Tuesday’s eruption that sent searing ash clouds into
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more than just mowing and painting the field. “We never know what’s going to happen. Every day there is something different and we have something going on,” Pierce said. “Not sure if you can see, but earlier we had a bird that was eating stuff over there. Two days ago there was feathers and carcasses everywhere because the hawks come down here. So we just kind of have to walk over and assess everything on a daily basis.” Many people think the grass is artificial but Kyle Field is actually one of only four stadiums in the Big 12 with natural grass. “People don’t realize that the most damage done to the field is after the game when they let the fans on the field,” Siegel said. “It’s already been beat up by 300-pound men for 60 minutes, then you add that factor of kids kicking everywhere and thousands of people everywhere.” The crew that works on Kyle
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were delivered in the speech, crunching numbers in a calculator is not all that Zogby does. There are many intangible factors that play into election results. Historically in the midterm elections after a new president is elected his party generally loses seats in the house. “This year the Democrats are
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A villager walks past a buffalo killed in the Mount Merapi eruption in Kinahrejo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday. A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia. the air, killing at least 30 people and injuring 17. The first cargo plane loaded with tents, medicine, food and clothes landed Wednesday in the tsunami-hit area, said disaster official Ade Edward. Hundreds of homes were washed away in about 20 villages, displacing more than
20,000 people, Edward said. Many were seeking shelter in makeshift emergency camps or with family and friends. With the arrival of help, Edward said officials “finally ... have a chance now to look for more than 400 still missing.” Associated Press
Field also covers Olsen Field, the Aggie Softball Complex, the Aggie Soccer Complex, Anderson Track Field and two natural grass practice fields. Siegel heads Olsen Field’s crew and said the differences between Olsen Field’s maintenance and Kyle Field lies within the dirt. Because there is dirt in baseball, it makes keeping the field nice much harder. As the mud on cleats pats down the grass, sod constantly needs to be replaced and if a special design is needed in the outfield Siegel will be riding out the design. “In baseball and softball, especially, 80 percent of the action is taking place on the dirt,” Siegel said. “The coaches and players are more concerned about the dirt.” A mixture of clay, silt and sand makes up the dirt at Olsen and keeps the playing surface intact. The baseball team does not have a practice field like the football team – everything takes place on Olsen Field, giving Siegel more responsibility. For Pierce, just because the football team doesn’t practice on Kyle Field doesn’t mean
his time spent there is any less. Pierce is in charge of many things and is the operator of the lights when they turn off during Midnight Yells. “I’ve never been to a Midnight Yell in the student section; I’ve always been on the other side. But I still get tearyeyed and get chills,” Pierce said. “I am up here all the time and when they say this is home, this is home. I sleep up here every now and then.” The results speak for themselves as the crew gets a chance to step back and look at the work they have done on Saturdays. Goertz said they get calls from people at professional sports programs that say how great the field looks on a particular day. Those, Goertz said, are where the rewards lie. “These kids give us 100 percent and we’ll be here at six o’ clock Saturday morning, and we’ll be here Sunday morning cleaning it up,” Goertz said. “It takes a different breed of kid to come out here and work, and they don’t get a whole lot of rewards or a lot of recognition but they still enjoy what they do.”
in the hot seat after they failed to produce legislation that affected people first hand,” Zogby said. “In 2008 everyone wanted change but were not certain what direction they wanted that change to take, that left these voters with tremendous frustration and exasperation with 2010 mid-terms around the corner.” Zogby’s experience and track record in predicting what will occur in elections gave his predictions at the lecture some serious weight. Such predictions,
ranging from how many seats will be lost by Democrats, to movers and shakers who might run in 2012, demonstrated what Zogby does best – obtaining data from the people he interviews. “His industry is important on providing feedback on what issues people care about which is why he’s so commercially sought after,” said sophomore chemistry major Robert Litwin. “His work gives us all a picture of what others are thinking.”
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Tech fans are rumored to damage visitors’ vehicles during home games and even go as far as throwing batteries at opposing fans. Whether it is true or not, they do have one tail that is directed at A&M confirming a true rivalry. A statue of Will Rodgers, who is actually “Oklahoma’s Favorite Son,” is placed on Tech’s campus and originally faced west so it would appear he was riding into the sunset. This would cause his horse’s posterior to
face east toward Lubbock’s downtown and the school feared it would insult the Lubbock business community. They then decided to face the horse 23 degrees to the east to face our campus in College Station, Texas. In my opinion we deserve to give Tech something in return. Something better than our 35-32-1 record against them. Something to truly say, “Take this.” Sure, a win for the Aggies would mean defeat to our rival and would get this team a win closer
during the day and warm at night, making it a perfect environment for the bats. The Mexican free-tailed bats come from the north and make the flight south, migrating to Mexico with a stop in College Station just before leaving for winter. Before and on game days, crews power-wash the stadium to wash away any smell or substance from the stands. The University has also tried using deodorizer to help solve the problem. “These bats help us by eating a lot of bugs around the stadium, but unfortunately, what goes in also comes out,” Athletic Director Bill Byrne said in his blog two years ago. So that’s what that smell is at Kyle Field. I noticed it at the first Midnight Yell of this year and as an uneducated freshman, I assumed these bats and their droppings were something new. Little did I know they have been around for years and have made students wondering what that horrendous odor they smelled really was.
to becoming bowl eligible but we need to give Tech something with a little more substance. In perfect Halloween horror we will release the bats of Kyle Field on the Red Raiders, returning dark and scary behavior that is rumored to happen on their campus to them. By allowing these creatures to fly wild, we will return the favor. Kyle Field will become all the more daunting with these viscous mammals on the loose. The Mexcian free-tailed creatures that are the official flying mammal of Texas have been calling Kyle Field home for years. They appear to be the perfect potion for perfection to gain revenge upon Texas Tech this Halloween weekend. The ghoulish creatures are said to have been calling Kyle Field home for several years but it cannot be confirmed when the first real sighting of the bats was. Although they seem harmful and very out of place, the bats call Kyle Field home because it is cool
But no matter how much we like the curiosity of the bats or dislike their presence they don’t seem to be leaving any time soon. In the Oct. 20 edition of Byrne’s blog he said the Athletic Department has been keeping track of the bats they find on game day. On the weekend of the 16th while Missouri was in town he said, “The dead bats beat out the live bats by the final of 17-10.” Byrne was optimistic for this Halloween weekend as he predicted the outcome by saying, “We expect a better effort from the live bats for the Texas Tech game in two weeks.” The bats are not here to trick. Rather, they live here, and this is their home too. Rather, they are a treat, something we should enjoy and use upon our rivals. With the Red Raiders and their dark antics heading into town this Halloween weekend the bats are sure to be present and I couldn’t agree more with Byrne hoping for a haunting this Halloween.
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Joyce Go The Battalion Texas A&M University’s College of Architecture’s program, Architecture-for-Health, provides architecture students with the opportunity to design health care facilities all over the world. This fall, A&M students designed a hospital for the Nkololo area of the District of Bariadi in Tanzania. The students were asked to design a hospital building that would be cost-effective and take the geographical location of the region into consideration. George Mann, A&M architecture professor and chairman of health facilities design, started the Architecture-for-Health program and spoke about how this project got started, why he got his students involved and his goals for this project. “We got an e-mail asking us if we would be interested in designing a hospital for Tanzania, and right away I thought it would be a wonderful learning experience for our students to do a real project in Africa which has such tremendous needs,” Mann said. “The next thing I knew, we were in constant correspondence preparing for their visit. Father Paul Fagan is such an inspiration. He spent 50 years out there building roads, giving scholarships to kids, building clinics, and churches, etc. I knew that when he got in front of the students, he would inspire them.” Fagan, a Roman Catholic
priest who serves the people of the Nkololo area in Tanzania through the Roads of Life Tanzania, Inc. organization proved to be an inspiration to Mann’s students throughout the project. “We were responsible for trying to come up with ideas to help Father Paul Fagan, because he’s been wanting to build medical facilities but he didn’t know what he wanted or needed to design the hospital,” said Rebecca Barenblat, junior architecture major. “Right now, they don’t really have much of anything, so I just hope that we’ll be able to impact the small community and that the community will be able to impact other communities around them.” Mann’s students applied innovative ideas and enjoyed designing the hospital even though this project required the students to primarily provide simple and functional designs rather than aestheticallypleasing ones. “This area isn’t connected to the grid, which means that they don’t have water lines or electricity, “ said Luis Gomez, junior architecture major. “So I decided to add windmills to my design so that there was a way for them to have electricity in the health complex. I also placed water tanks [in my design] so they can filter [their water] or have a place to store it.” Other students, like Eric Opperman, junior architecture major, hope the work with this project will help similar rural areas provide proper health care
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