news for you inside Chabad group shares Hanukkah tradition Tonight at 5 p.m. the Chabad Jewish Student Group will have an celebration open to the public to kick off the start of Hanukkah, concluding with the lighting of the on campus menorah by H2O fountain.
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Cotton pickin’ The Aggies’ selection for the 75th Cotton Bowl shows that the program has taken the key next step and is beginning to gain respect on a national level.
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Cotton Bowl bound The Texas A&M football team was selected Tuesday to play in the 75th Cotton Bowl Classic, according to multiple sources. “As a football team we are very excited about playing in the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic,” Head Coach Mike Sherman said. “This is a great reward for a group of players and coaches who have worked hard. Our players have family and friends who will be able to attend and we know we will face a quality SEC opponent.” A&M will play against a Southeastern Conference opponent yet to be determined. However, the opponent is said to most likely be either LSU or Alabama. “As a senior, I am very excited about playing my final college football game in my backyard, the Cotton Bowl,” senior ‘joker’ Von Miller said.
“This team is a family and just getting a chance to prepare with them is a blessing. We know a big challenge is ahead from the SEC.” The Aggies finished the 2010 season 9-3 with six consecutive victories and were the tri-champions of the Big 12 South. The Cotton Bowl is slated to take place at 7 p.m. on Jan. 7 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to have the Aggies back in the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic,” Chairman Tommy Bain said. “Texas A&M has had a remarkable season and they deserve to be rewarded for their tremendous efforts. It’s going to be quite a celebration at the 75th Classic.” David Harris, sports editor
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nation &world Guards watch inmate attack BOISE, Idaho — The surveillance video from the overhead cameras shows Hanni Elabed being beaten by a fellow inmate in an Idaho prison, managing to bang on a prison guard station window, pleading for help. Behind the glass, correctional officers look on, but no one intervenes when Elabed is knocked unconscious. No one steps into the cellblock when the attacker sits down to rest, and no one stops him when he resumes the beating. Videos of the attack obtained by The Associated Press show officers watching the beating for several minutes. The footage is a key piece of evidence for critics who claim the privately run Idaho Correctional Center uses inmateon-inmate violence to force prisoners to snitch on their cellmates or risk being moved to extremely violent units. Staff and wire reports
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After an exhilarating six-game winning streak, including wins over Nebraska and Oklahoma — both ranked No. 8 at the time — Texas A&M has accepted a bid to play in the 75th Cotton Bowl Classic in Arlington on Jan 7. The Aggies will face a team from the Southeastern Conference TBD.
Finals are approaching Choose procrastivity over procrastination
All-nighters are bad for student health ing major, starts her studying a week before each test. She said The Battalion Between the carols and the she also reviews old tests and lights, the frenzy of shoppers and suggests that students do not the excitement of children and procrastinate. “Study the hardest things first adults alike, the winter season and the classes with the most brings with it one foreboding notion: finals. For students, the material first,” Bell said. “You’re last few weeks of the fall semes- going to have to stay up late ter present a dichotomy of emo- studying, so you might as well tions. On one side, the promise get used to it.” Rhonda Rahn, health eduof the winter holiday season, cation coordinator for Student including spending time Health Services, said with loved ones and getting the approrelaxing. On the priate amount of other side, howFour to six hours sleep is very imever, many stuof uninterrupted portant in staydents spend the sleep is the ing healthy durfirst two weeks minimum amount ing finals. of December students should “There’s a cramming for lot of research aim for. tests and sacrificout there correing health and haplating sleep patterns piness for a few extra to health,” Rahn said. “If points on a final grade. they really feel they have to pull JD Meyerdirk said grades are an all-nighter, they need to have not the end of the world. Meyerdirk, a senior recreation, park four to six hours of uninterruptand tourism science major, said ed sleep.” Bob Bustion, agraduate stuhe always tries to do well on dent in public administration, said his finals, but he does not make he slept through a final his freshhimself ill over the prospect. “Freshmen should remember man year as an undergraduate. “My roommate woke me up it is just their first semester and because he knew I usually had they have plenty more to come,” class at that time. I ran to class he said. Meyerdirk makes flashcards and the teacher thankfully let me from his reviews to study. Lindsey Bell, a sophomore accountSee Finals on page 4
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PROCRAST… big scary paper-monster, and there Procrastivity, procrasare actually quite a few people who tination’s marginally usedon’t possess the imprudent tenful relative, might actualdency to put things off. ly be good for something. “I try to get projects done in Often times, when faced small increments, that way I’m with a task perceived to Ryan Seybold not cramming at the last minbe difficult, people find ute,” said Katie Jacob, sophosenior philosophy themselves taking refuge major more general studies major. in household chores, the Procrastivity is, at least, a gym or other tasks with better option than its ugly, illess imminent deadlines. Of course the legitimately conceived stepbrother, promost advantageous thing to do would crastination. In some cases, it might be a be to immediately set to work on the See Procrastination on page 4
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Q&A Professor gives information regarding malignant breast cancer research Stephanie Massey The Battalion Dr. Vijayanagaram Venkatraj is a genetics professor at A&M. He does research involving molecular biology alterations and malignant breast cancer. Q: What does your research focus on? A:The main focus of my laboratory is to explore the possible connections between molecular biology alterations that drive malignant breast cancer cell proliferation and the cellular metabolic switches that accompany these alterations. I collaborate with Dr. Aniruddha Dutta, associate director of Genomic Signal Processing (GSP) laboratory from our electrical engineering department. He supports our molecular transcriptome (gene expression analysis) by providing dynamical modeling of gene networks. This in turn allows for efficient ways to explore potential avenues for therapy. Q: What got you interested in the field of genetics and your research? A: A great teacher enticed me into genetics. As a veterinary student in India we had to take a course called genetics and animal breeding. Most of us dread it assuming it has boring mathematics (a typical biologist view point). By the time he was through explaining Mendelian Genetics, epistasis and multifactorial traits and how they relate to Animal (phenotype) breeding, I was sold. Still three decades later the relation between the genotype and the phenotype is work in progress, but every day there are intriguing connections made that shed more light on this question, we still are far from untangling the layers of complexity that bridge them. He encouraged me to think about genetics as a continuum with adaptive evolution. See Q&A on page 4
Chancellors rate profs as profit or loss Ty Petty The Battalion In the business realm, profit is referred to as being “in the black” and loss is referred to as being “in the red.” When it comes to rating professors in terms of profit and loss, a recent report has A&M students seeing red. In September, the A&M University System Chancellors office released a report that rated every faculty member in terms of profit and loss to the University system. This massive spreadsheet weighs the annual salary of professors and lecturers against the number of students taught, the amount of tuition revenue generated and the amount of research money brought into the University. “I’m completely against it,” said Marshall Sales, junior political science major. “If you’re just measuring how profitable a teacher is based on how much money they can bring in — I don’t think that’s fair. [A professor’s] job should be to educate and that’s the sole purpose for it.” In 2008, Gov. Perry invited the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a
conservative think-tank, to a summit on state universities. The report might have stemmed from the results of this summit. The report appears to push for a radical reshaping of higher education, placing more emphasis on practical information versus less practical pursuits such as the liberal arts. “Taxpayers of the state of Texas [need to know if] they should be spending two years paying the salary of an English professor so he can write a book of poetry simply to add to the prestige of the university or the body of literature out there,” said Bill Peacock, vice president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Some students feel that it is not about how much money the University is receiving or if professors should keep their jobs. They said University officials should examine the inequity of salaries between professors and start any changes there. “I would be absolutely fine with lowering some salaries,” said Logan Jack, junior political science major. “I don’t think we need to eliminate some professors. Profit/loss is certainly not a good way to improve See Profit on page 2
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education.” Other students said the University should spread out the large salaries and benefits over graduate students and other lower level researchers. “There’s a lot of professors that make [a lot of] money, but rely on a lot of people,” said Britney Coody, junior accounting major. “They make too much money and rely a lot on grad students.
They shouldn’t get all that money, but it’s not a good way to measure.” When the Chancellor’s office released the report to the public on its website, it caused an outcry from the faculty and staff at the University. Texas A&M President Loftin sent e-mails out calming staff who were worried that the data could be used to determine viability of jobs. Not long after its release, the Chancellor’s Office pulled the report down to review the data amid the response from faculty and staff. The report has not returned since.
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The Freudian Slip Improv Comedy group will present the program “Soap Opera Time Machine!” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday in Rudder Forum. Tickets are available at the MSC Box Office for $5.
One Love will have a free concert featuring Phil Murtaugh, Charlie Gore an Miranda Dodson from 7 to 10 p.m. tomorrow at the Village Cafe in Downtown Bryan. The concert benefits Mocha Club, an organization that funds relief and development projects in Africa.
Texas A&M students from ENDS 105 have partnered with the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History to create an original marionette puppet show about the Space Shuttle, the Ice Age and more. All puppets are made from recycled materials. The show is free to the public and will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the museum.
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Chabad student group shares Hanukkah tradition Gabrielle Royal The Battalion Over the years, the Chabad Jewish Student Group has illuminated A&M’s campus with a 13-foot menorah. In celebration of Hanukkah, Jewish customs and traditions will be observed at 5 p.m. today at the H20 Fountain. All students are welcome to join. The Chabad Jewish Student Group is interested in educating other Aggies on the historical and faith basis of the holiday. The group began the construction and installment of the menorah on Sunday. “We are very proud to say that the height of our menorah is around four feet taller than the menorah at the University of Texas,” said Rabbi Yossi Lazroff, the director of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center. Students said that the lighting ceremony of the menorah is a way for others to learn about the history of the Jewish faith and build a dialogue around it. “The menorah can be seen as a symbol of religious freedom for all religions,” Lazroff said. Hanukkah commemorates the story of how the menorah in the reclaimed Holy Temple in Jerusalem miraculously burned for eight days from a one-day supply of olive oil. Each of the menorah’s eight candles are lit on consecutive nights during Hanukkah in remembrance of the faithfulness of the Jews, who persevered under the oppression of the Greeks. “The Jewish community is small on campus. Outreach to all students on campus plays a major role in the Chabad Jewish Student Group. It is our job to reach out to other Jewish students, but we are also very interested in educating non-Jewish students on Jewish life, culture, Israel and politics,” said Cody Weaver, sophomore political science major. “It’s not just for the Jewish community; it is also to reach out to the rest of the Aggie community as well.” At the menorah lighting, food and other activities will be provided. “These events can affect all Aggies and we are excited to share this experi-
ence with the campus. The menorah lighting is an event open to everyone,” Weaver said. The menorah lighting on campus is a way to celebrate religious freedom and religious expression. “Hanukkah is a holiday about hope. Having a menorah on campus is a great thing; it’s my first time to get to experience it,” said Cory Nagelberg, freshman agricultural economics major. The Rohr Chabad Jewish Center takes pride in providing a “home away from home” for Jewish students and is open to any students interested in gaining knowledge or experiencing the activities that the Jewish student group has planned for the semester. “The menorah lighting on campus has become a continuous tradition. It sends a positive message; it affects everyone. I think it will promote questions and curiosity, building a conversation about Hanukkah,” Nagelberg said. “I feel students here are open to understanding different religions and I am sure people will be interested in learning. This will be a great opportunity for all who participate and wish to gain religious perspectives.” If you are interested in gaining more knowledge about the celebration of Hanukkah or the Chabad Jewish Student Group, please visit http://www.jewishaggies.com/. Christina Fuentes — THE BATTALION
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WASHINGTON — All 197 airlines that fly to the U.S. are now collecting names, genders and birth dates of passengers so the government can check them against terror watch lists before they fly, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. Getting all air carriers that travel to or through the U.S. to provide this information marks a milestone in the government’s counterterrorism efforts and completes one of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations. The program, called Secure Flight, has been delayed for years because of privacy concerns and went through three versions before it was approved. It’s designed to give U.S. authorities more time to identify and remove suspected terrorists from flights and reduce instances when passengers are mistaken for people on terror watch lists. Misidentification of passen-
gers has been one of the biggest inconveniences in postSept. 11 air travel, and widely known for putting thousands of innocent travelers and wellknown figures like former Sen. Ted Kennedy, through extensive searching and questioning before they were allowed to fly. Previously, airlines have been responsible for checking the passenger lists against terror watch lists. But the airlines did not have any information other than a name. Now the screening is done by the Transportation Security Administration. The more information available about a passenger, the less likely a passenger will be mistaken for someone on a watch list. When someone makes a flight reservation, that information goes to the Secure Flight database within seconds, TSA Administrator John Pistole said. Compliance with the program has been phased in over
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its contributors is collected by self-report surveys. Certain correlations, however, do turn up concerning procrastinators: “Strong and consistent predictors of procrastination were task aversiveness, task delay, self-efficacy and impulsiveness, as well as conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization and achievement motivation. These effects prove consistent with temporal motivation theory, an integrative hybrid of expectancy theory and hyperbolic discounting,” Steel writes. Predicting behaviors based on specific risk factors is a lot of what behavioral and social scientists do. Steel has uses the data presented in his study to form an equation that predicts a person’s propensity to procrastinate: “…Its simplest formulation is
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method by which to build up the necessary momentum to start working on that 20-page, 46-headed hydra that’s due tomorrow by 5 p.m. In a study published in the 2007 Psychological Bulletin (The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure), Piers Steel of the University of Calgary, who visited Texas A&M University in March 2010, unveiled the results of years of empirical data collection and analysis. The data showed an alarming prevalence of procrastination among college students: “Estimates indicate that 80 to 95 percent of college students engage in procrastination, approximately 75 percent consider themselves procrastinators, and almost 50 percent procrastinate consistently and problematically,” Steel writes. This statistic is reflected in conversations with fellow students here at Texas A&M, though the severity and causality of each case are wideranging. “I try to be productive, although it doesn’t always work out too well with things like Facebook around,” said Ashley Daniels, senior allied health major. The problem isn’t just limited to college students, though. Fifteen to 20 percent of the general population struggles with chronic procrastination, which affects unemployment, taxes, retirement and ultimately the GDP. It is difficult to account for all the contributing factors to any behavior, and the procrastination behavior is not an exception. Most of the data on
Utility = E x V Γ x D” Utility refers to how desirable a task or choice is for an individual. By definition, people pursue whatever behavior has the highest utility. As the numerator of the equation indicates, activities that are high in expectancy (E) and value (V) should be more desirable. The denominator of the equation captures the element of time. Enjoyable activities that are immediately realizable (D), that have a short delay, should be more highly valued. As delay becomes large, utility necessarily shrinks. Γ refers to the person’s sensitivity to delay, and the larger Γ becomes, the greater is the sensitivity,” Steel writes. In light of the available data on procrastination, what can be determined about the practice of procrastinating by working on other tasks, i.e. procrastivity? It’s likely that the difference between procrastivity and plainJane Procrastination is a higher proportion of task aversiveness to other factors. “Task aversiveness is almost a self-explanatory term. Also known as dysphoric affect (Milgram, Sroloff, & Rosenbaum, 1988) or task appeal (Harris & Sutton, 1983), it refers to actions that one finds unpleasant. Its relationship is predictable. By definition, one seeks to avoid aversive stimuli, and consequently, the more aversive the situation, the more likely one is to avoid it,” Steel writes. If, in a given case, task aversiveness is the leading factor by a wide enough margin, it is more likely the subject will resort to taking on other tasks that s/he finds more agreeable. Although no work is being done on the most pressing task, a positive result might come from this sort of activity. Procrastivity can sometimes make it easier to start work on the big project simply by having set oneself to action rather than remaining sedentary. “I focus on other things that are due that I find easier, so my waste of time isn’t such a waste of time,” said Ernest Plasencia, senior philosophy major.
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the past year, and many travelers have already been supplying their gender, birth date and full name as it appears on their government identification when they purchase their tickets. Pistole said it’s too early to tell if there have been fewer instances
of mistaken identities now that the new system is in place. “It’s just still too early to say,” he said. “If six months from now we haven’t seen a reduction, then that will concern me.” Associated Press
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take the test in her office,” he said. Bustion said the first two years of an undergraduate career are not as important as the last 60 credit hours. He said there is no use in getting too upset about the first few years. Bustion said the most difficult obstacle for him when studying for finals is trying to predict what the professor is going to include on the exams from class. “For undergraduates, I learned whatever the professor talks about five or six times in class is going to be on the exam,” he said. “I’m still trying to figure out what they want you to know in grad school.” Patricia Garcia, junior communication major, said she collects all of her notes and review sheets from all of her classes into one study packet. She organizes the packet in sequential order of when her finals take place. “I put all my textbooks and reviews together in a big packet of studying by order of which test comes first and then I go through it all,” Garcia said. “It’s rewarding to see it get smaller and smaller.” She said a great tip before finals is to have a friend change your password on Facebook and not tell you the new password until after your finals so you cannot log on and distract yourself. “Even if you think you will only get on for five minutes, you won’t,” Garcia said. Rahn suggests students take frequent breaks and exercise to reduce stress from studying. She said fruits and vegetables are known as brain food and will help students’ performances on tests rather than junk food packed with fats and sugars. “Take breaks. A lot of students will study eight hours at a time,” Rahn said. “They should take at least a half hour break for every two hours of studying.” Bell said when she gets stressed from studying, she takes a half hour to an hour-long nap to regenerate. Meyerdirk listens to music or goes rock climbing. “It’s just something active to get my mind off of things,” Meyerdirk said. “Get out and do something when you’re stressed, sometimes you just need a change of pace.” For students studying in Evans Library or West Campus Library on December 9, 13 or 14 between 7 and 9 p.m., Student Health Services will be providing free massages to help with physical stress management.
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Q: In your opinion, what are the key genetic misconceptions that students have? A: Same as I did several years back: boring mathematics. It has some basic mathematical underpinnings that need not more than typical high school math’s to comprehend. We are currently in the post genomic era (after sequencing the human genome in 2003). Remarkable advances have been made in as how we think about and treat multifactorial conditions such as diabetes type two, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases and cancer. I can give several examples where understanding the molecular basis of disease has revolutionized the practice of medicine. For sake of brevity, I will cite one example, The Oncotype DX breast cancer assay. This test examines a breast cancer patient´s tumor tissue at a molecular level and gives information about her individual disease. This information can help individualize breast cancer treatment and identify options. The Oncotype DX breast cancer assay predicts the likelihood of chemotherapy benefits, as well as, recurrence in early-stage breast cancer. This tool is a gift to the oncologists and breast cancer patients. It identifies patients that can be saved from unwanted painful agony of chemotherapy and saves millions of dollars in that process. This is just the beginning. There are several diagnostic and molecular weapons that are being added at a rapid rate to the physician’s toolbox on the battle against cancer and other diseases. Q: Even though students cannot alter their genetic make-up, what advice would you give them for a longer, healthier life? Are there any behaviors to do or avoid? A: You are right. We can change only our environment and not our genetic make-up. There is a mismatch between the time frame of evolutionary adaptation and our current diet. Across the globe our calorie intake has grown several folds in just a couple of generation. This in turn has given rise to obesity and related disease such as diabetes type two, cardiovascular disease and cancer at an alarming rate with early onset of symptoms. Also, as a society we have become sedentary opting for playing video games with gamers across the globe instead of a friendly pick- up basketball game with neighbors across the door. Exercise and moderation in calorie intake will solve about half our health issues. Q: Is there any additional information you would like to tell students? A: Human Molecular Genetics is proceeding to permeate all aspects of health care and revolutionizing the practice of medicine. Preventive health care based on “genetic susceptibility” will be streamlined in good time. There will be good employment opportunities both at the discovery and application of this burgeoning area of science. Again there is a mismatch between the available technology and its application in the field due to delay in legislation and laws, rightfully so. We need good “problem solvers” to take science from the bench to bedside and great business leaders with vision to take advantage of the silent revolution that has just begun.
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or any and everybody wondering whether or not A&M could cut it in the Southeastern Conference, here is your chance to see. For all those thinking this six-game winning streak is an aberration, those thoughts will be put to the test. For all those David Harris complaining about the lack of respect in the latest polls, senior economics here is something to chew on. major, sports editor The Cotton Bowl extended an invitation to Texas A&M Tuesday. With that invitation and ensuing acceptance, this football program gets the opportunity, on a national stage, to prove they have, in fact, arrived. All throughout fall camp and at the season-opening press conferences, Head Coach Mike Sherman and this team’s leaders vouched to take the next step. Well, here it is. It is undoubtedly the best possible outcome for a team that, six weeks ago, was sitting at 3-3, with a fan base in disarray. “As a football team we are very excited about playing in the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic,� Sherman said. “This is a great reward for a group of
players and coaches who have worked hard ‌ we know we will face a quality SEC opponent.� Quality is understated. Regardless of whether the opponent is Alabama or LSU, A&M — one of the hottest teams in the country — will be put to the greatest test they have faced in 2010. On national television, in primetime, at the country’s greatest venue to boot. Alabama, under Head Coach Nick Saban, has turned into the premier program in the country. The Crimson Tide has gone 42-11 under Saban’s tutelage including two undefeated regular seasons and one national championship. LSU, with Les Miles at the helm, has gone 61-17 since
2005 including one national championship. Both squads have athletes littering the two-deep. Both squads can run with the best of them. And both squads are as physical as they come. There were two camps this summer regarding to A&M’s flirtation with the SEC. One camp thought that A&M fit the culture of the SEC better and would benefit from playing in the best conference in America. The other hypothesized that A&M, as currently constructed, couldn’t compete with the big boys and would embarrass themselves. Well, that debate will be settled Jan. 7 at Cowboys Stadium. There have been uproarious comments over the seeming indignity shown to A&M in the recent polls. However, any complaints over this disrespect should end now. Because the Cotton Bowl and its partners are showing this program an incredible amount of respect in extending this invitation. Think. There are four other teams in the Big 12 with the same conference record — 6-2. There are four other teams with a 10-2 overall record, better than A&M’s 9-3. Yet, the bowl with the second selection out of this conference chose the Aggies.
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The Aggies accepted a big to play in the 75th Cotton Bowl Classic set to take place at 7 p.m. on Jan. 7 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. The opponent is yet to be determined. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to have the Aggies back in the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic,� said Tommy Bain, the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic chairman. “Texas A&M has had a remarkable season and they deserve to be rewarded for their tremendous efforts.� With a fan-base whose fervor
rivals any in the country and with a team riding a six-game winning streak, the Cotton Bowl believes in this program and its direction.
And A&M will get a chance to pay them back for that belief and, in the process, end any and all discussion of this team’s direction and legitimacy.
Ticket info Students can purchase tickets for the 75th Cotton Bowl Classic starting at 8 a.m. Dec. 9.
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hat is your natural hair color, type and texture? Many females who’ve spent excessive amounts of time and money coloring and styling their hair require photographic evidence to remember what it looked like naturally.
Many people have naturally beautiful hair that is buried under a mountain of hair products, artificial color and/or too much styling. Not only do these Caroline Ward things cost time and money, they cost the junior overall health of the hair. communication major Let’s face it, nobody longs for frizzy, over-processed hair. I have never once wished for more split ends. No one dreams at night for a color that doesn’t look remotely natural or hair that is drier than the Sahara desert. According to the Livestrong website, step four of “Ways to Keep Hair Healthy” advises readers to “cut back on the use of chemicals on your hair. Hair treatments such as coloring, perms or chemical straightening damage and burn the hair shaft much the same way that direct heat does.” Step three of the same article suggests caution to avoid overheating hair. Hair dryers and straighteners, staples of many a morning routine are major contributors to damaged hair. In the article, John Gray informs readers “heat first damages the keratin of the hair, which weakens the hair strand and makes it susceptible to breaking. Limit your use of heat styling products to keep hair healthy.” Beautiful hair is healthy hair; healthy hair is easy to obtain and maintain with minimal to no color treatment or styling with heat. In addition to damage caused by over-processed hair, coloring and styling can also be Too many expensive. If we hair care were all Rockefellproducts can ers, I would say, “Go be damaging crazy; money is no to your hair. object!” However, in college this is clearly not the case. If money is limited, try going back to your natural color and take a break from costly hair coloring treatments.
Coloring your own hair can cost around $10 for store-bought color, but no matter what your friends tell you, this rarely looks good. The other option is to spend $50 to $200 by having it done by a professional, according to Wiseprice. com. This might not seem so expensive, but hair coloring needs to be maintained to avoid roots (and yes, we can see the dark brown roots against the contrast of the white blonde highlights). Trying to stretch the times between colorings in order to save money leads to unsightly roots, so if it’s too expensive to maintain, returning to the natural color is the way to go. Hair can take up a lot of our time, but does it have to? Discontinue the monthly highlight
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trip that can take hours. See what your hair does when it dries naturally. Skip the flat iron more often than not. The people in your history class don’t care if you wear a ponytail 15 weeks in a row, so give yourself a break. I am not suggesting giving up hairstyling forever or letting yourself go, but try going natural on a regular basis and go overboard with styling for special occasions. Mail Online, a British news publisher, stated that the average woman spends just under two years styling their hair per lifetime. There are many more productive ways to use your time.
Life is short, and I for one cannot afford two years of curling, straightening and coloring. The hair color we are born with is destined to look best with the complexion we are born with. Save time, money and the health of your hair and see what it does naturally. High maintenance hair is only high maintenance if you let it be. Take back your two years and the pile of money allotted for highlights and put them both to good use. The truth is that most of the time shiny, healthy hair looks fabulous without breaking the bank and your hair.
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It’s in the motorized shopping carts at Wal-Mart am astute in none of these but I have stayed at a and the drive thru at McDonald’s. Sure McDon- Holiday Inn Express. ald’s sells salads and apple wedges but these unDuring public schooling an overweight child fortunate souls can’t make responsible decisions. can eat twice that of a healthy child. At maturity They still wind up elbows deep in French fries the obese can tip the scale at four times that of and ketchup. Parents can’t be trusted to cook a a healthy adult. The obese are at higher risk of well-balanced meal or to say no to their precious diabetes, heart disease and stroke. The increased snowflakes when their kids want to supersize. At health costs burden the state and drive up the home, rotund little babies twiddle their thumbs price of health care making it imperative governon X-Box Live with nature only a backyard ment save us from ourselves. As the obese grow away. This lack of government superviin numbers, revenue shifts from industries that Banning trans-fats and happy meal toys sion enslaves children to mediocrity. produce products for physical activity to indushave had little effect on obesity rates and In time kids will forget how their feet tries that profit from lethargy. I’ve named this don’t go far enough. We need to raise look. As adults, they’ll waste away in economic effect the “footballs for Fry Daddy’s.” awareness and bring an end to this epia bland corporate cubicles slurping As we become less active, our opportunities for demic otherwise risk leaving people at down milkshakes and picking crumbs activities will become scarce. risk from their own personal choices. from their keyboards. The Some Americans believe the obese It’s been 281 years since Jonathan future holds diabetes, high need to bear the responsibility for Swift coined “A Modest Proposal.” Taylor medical bills and elastic their actions. The obese consume He was a poet, cleric and satirist. I’m a In no way, Wolken waistbands. thousands of fatty, high carb pseudo-journalist at a University that shape or sophomore general The exponential meals in a lifetime and spend lacks a journalism major. Swift wrote form does studies major growth of the obese countless hours in front of the “Gulliver’s Travels” and I wrote, “The in population and television. They believe the Daily Show with Jon Stewpid.” I am a The Battalion waistline is creating a deplorable obese should bear the cost of sixth year sophomore in college while Swift was endorse predicament in our nation. More medical expenses and consethe Dean of St. Patrick in Dublin. cannibalism. government is the simple solution quences of lower life expectancy. When Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” to slow the growth of these poor souls We need the tender hand of mother poverty in Ireland had the Irish living on pofor the sake of the commonwealth. government to nudge us in the right tato mush. As I write this, poverty means you This isn’t just about the kids. Adult onset diadirection. We can’t leave important decisions don’t own a flat screen television or an iPhone. to individual choice. Swift wrote for the starving masses, and I write betes is an epidemic. I have studied and obsessed The primary benefits to my moderate proposal for the morbidly obese. The similarities boggle long and hard over the subject, 30 minutes at least. The problem is complex, requiring experare drastic reductions in medical costs and the the mind. immediate elimination of adult onset diabetes. In the modern America obesity is everywhere. tise in health, social economics and politics. I
s we’ve finished indulging in Thanksgiving festivities and are preparing to gorge ourselves during winter break we should turn our attention to the state of health in America.
Government savings through Medicare and Medicaid could even set us on a path toward financial stability. We have more than 300 million citizens in the nation. According to Gallup, 26.7 percent of Americans are either overweight or obese which is more than 80 million heads. On good authority, I have been told a ham hock from these specimens could fetch upwards of $500 and the tender parts make excellent bacon. The shoulder makes a delicate roast. The tenderloin has unparalleled marbling and is excellent for grilling. Leftovers are easily turned into dinosaur shaped nuggets to fatten the next generation. Broiled or fried, burgers or steaks, the obese could be the other, other white meat. Sold by the side these specimens could easily fetch more than $3,000, and overseas they would be a delicacy. Shipping is easily accomplished in containers stocked with Twinkies and World of Warcraft. The most economic option for raising our new food supply is setting up ranches and farms in Mississippi, the fattest state in the nation. Franklin Roosevelt promised “a chicken in every pot.” How much more would this plan provide. Being a scrupulous man I would never turn away good advice. If there is a cheaper, more effective option I would delight to hear it. I only wish to end the obesity epidemic. In the mean time if we can lower health care costs, reduce the deficit and increase our exports, all the better. Our health is too important to be left up to us.
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