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As Texas A&M University at Galveston vice president and chief executive officer, and 2008 Galveston United Way campaign chair, Interim President R. Bowen Loftin has had to think on his feet. “I’ve had a long and pretty broad career; I’ve had to do many kinds of things,” Loftin said. “2008 brought [TAMUG] two major crises. I’ve gone through enough experience in my life … that nothing much suprises me anymore. We had the kick-off luncheon at United Way in early September of 2008; on the 13th of September [Hurricane Ike] happened.” In addition to the evacuation and relocation of TAMUG students due to Hurricane Ike, the sailing accident was an extremely difficult moment for all TAMUG students, faculty and staff, Loftin said. “I got to the office at 7 in the morning on the 10th of September and looked at the models and it
looked okay,” Loftin said. “As the day went on I watched the models change, and by 2:30 I said we’re going have to leave and I made a decision to evacuate the campus and all the students were gone by the end of the day.” Loftin did not have the privilege of time in making the evacuation decision, he said. “So planning is important. Dwight Eisenhower once said that plans are nothing, planning is everything,” Loftin said. “We were able to improvise and follow our plan in general.” The timely evacuation and smooth transition to the flagship campus is widely attributed to Loftin, said Galveston County’s The Daily News editor Heber Taylor. “When he began to ask around and realized they didn’t have a plan on campus, he convened a meeting See Loftin on page 2
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Festivities to celebrate Juneteenth
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The community will come together to celebrate African-American heritage and culture for Juneteenth. Festivities include a Freedom Walk, .a storytelling event and a carnival Thursday and Friday in College Station. Juneteenth is a national holiday commemorating June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger landed in Galveston and brought the news to slaves in Texas that they were free, although the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued almost two and a half years earlier. The Civil War had ended about two months earlier with Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender. The annual celebration at Texas A&M University starts with the Freedom Walk at 9 a.m. Thursday, which begins at the Lincoln Recreational Center and ends at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The event will be on Thursday, rather than Friday, due to scheduling conflicts.
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The Freedom Walk was established for children to talk with adults about what Juneteenth means to African-Americans, said Chelita Johnson, coordinator for events at the Lincoln Recreation Center. After the Freedom Walk, participants may listen to a storyteller at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the George Bush library. Freedom’s Legacy: Drumbeats of African American Heritage, the public storytelling concert, and Echoes of Africa as Historical Concepts, a teachers’ seminar, will be by storyteller, entertainer and educator Elizabeth Kahura. Born in Kenya, Kahura was recruited by a U.S. company to teach and tell stories about African culture. The main focus of her organization is knowledge enrichment to society, she said. “The first event I am doing is a teachers’ seminar,” Kahura said. “We are showing the teachers folktales from Africa and connecting them to the outside world.”
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Special to The Battalion More than 25,000 people are expected to sink their teeth into Texas steak and sip Texas wine in downtown Bryan this weekend. The third annual Texas Reds and Grapes Festival, a free public event, will kick off Friday with live music. “Midnight Express will open for Big Otis,” said event coordinator Gwynne Shillings. “Big Otis is more of an all around R&B rock and Midnight Express is more classic rock.” More than 20 wineries from Texas will be competing in a taste-off. “We’ll have wineries from all over the hill country and Dallas and some from the bluebonnet trail,” Shillings said. “ You can purchase glasses of wine or you can purchase a bottle.” Every wine is worth tasting, she said. “[The wineries] are all great. They’re all different,” Shillings said. “Of course we have the Messina Hof from here in town. They’re here every year.”
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Francessa Sturino pets “Runway” a 16-year-old American miniature horse Wednesday morning outside the Bryan Public Library. “Runway” is a part of the nonprofit organization Aggieland Pets with a Purpose which uses temperament trained animals for educational, rehabilitative and emotional assistance purposes.
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with the faculty and staff,” Taylor said. “I think he really does listen to faculty, students and members of the community. As a result, A&M’s performance during and after that storm was amazing.” More than 90 percent of Galveston Aggies made the transition to College Station, said TAMUG regents English professor Stephen Curley, and the Galveston campus experienced a record student enrollment in the returning spring semester. “The main campus needs that kind of a leader, especially now,” Curley said. “He brings no hidden political agenda to the position of interim president.” As a TAMU graduate of 1971, and former faculty member, Loftin said he can relate. “I’m a faculty member at heart … I know how faculty think; I think the same way. I was a student here … so I know how students think as well,” Loftin said. “So I believe that I’m in the right place, at the right time to be able to help this university quickly heal and continue on its mission without any disruption.” Loftin was part of the faculty for over 30 years, and served as faculty senate president. “I taught freshman physics,” Loftin said.
The seminar is meant to implement integrated storytelling into the teachers’ curriculum, Kahura said. “When people pull together they have a common goal,” she said. “With the group of people they can use each others’ gifts to achieve this goal.” The storytelling show features Harambe, Swahili for “coming together,” costumes, drums and audience participation. “Juneteenth is a special holiday for African-Americans,” Kahura said. “It is when Texas slaves who didn’t know they were free came to know that fact, and this is an important day not only for Texans but for the world.” As part of the Juneteenth celebration, Texas A&M history professor Albert Broussard will speak to seventh through 12th-grade teachers. Broussard, whose area of expertise is Afro-American history, will lead a discussion on reflections on Civil Rights activities and race relations in the classroom. Rachel Day, the program manager for the Big Brazos
“I’ve done graduate education, undergraduate education, research, administration; so in a way, by accident, my career has really prepared me for this [position].” The shared services initiative will not involve Loftin until later, he said. “That initiative is going to be handled through a series of task forces that are going to consist of people from both the System and the campus,” Loftin said. “I’m sure I’ll be engaged with the chancellor in deciding which ones we can implement, which ones we can’t.” It is necessary that the University be reevaluated, Loftin said, and stakeholders need to ask two questions in doing so. “I think it’s always good to look at how you do your job,” he said. “There’s a natural growth of costs that you can’t get rid of, that’s why it’s important to back up and say ‘Are we really doing things right?’ and you also ask the question ‘Are we doing the right things?’” The University’s leadership objective is attracting the best faculty, making discoveries and providing services, Loftin said. “I really want to keep the university focused on its mission: teaching, research, service … we don’t want to lose track of that because we’re being distracted by other things right now,” Loftin said. “We are really interested that our students get the full extent here and get a chance to sample ev-
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“Sneaky Pete” back in action Former Texas A&M biology professor Peter Rizzo, musically known as “Sneaky Pete,” has returned to College Station for a June 19 performance at Hastings. When he retired from A&M and moved to Maryville, Tenn., he gave a couple of “goodbye” performances, but said he found it hard to stay away. His daughter, Autumn, transferred to A&M from Ithaca College. He will return RIZZO to College Station during breaks to visit her and do a few musical performances. “Just when they thought the streets were safe, the Sneak returns,” Rizzo said. He will be back to do at least an annual performance. He said when he did his performances in the spring, he was pleased with the turn out and he was reunited with people he hadn’t seen in decades. He would like to continue to see those kinds of turnouts to keep in touch with his Texas friends and fans. “This is my coming back concert — the return of the Sneak,” he said. “But I will at least be back off and on until Autumn graduates.” He said there is not much of a music scene in Maryville so he will enjoy coming back to College Station to perform. “It’s great being back here,” he said. For more information, e-mail Sneaky Pete himself at rizzo@mail.bio.tamu.edu. Megan Ryan
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adgets don’t come more unique and entertaining than this one: A robotic, egg-shaped mp3 player that dances to the tunes it plays. The dancing mp3 player, called the Rolly, is brought by Sony and is touted as one of the best gadgets released in 2009. Its initial release in Japan last year was received well and the Rolly has just been released to U.S. markets. “Just one look and I was hooked. Few things can capture people’s interest this way,” said Kunihito Sawai, one of Rolly’s designers. Price Sony products are generally priced steeply and the Rolly is no exception. The Rolly is available at all SonyStyle
Strengths Gadgets are best when they are simple to understand and you don’t have to read manuals to be able to use them. This tiny gadget scores in simplicity. For all the incredible features it is equipped with, it is surprisingly simple to control. The device is seamless and just has one button for playing. To move to the next song all you do is give the gadget a forward roll. The Rolly is egg-shaped, and comes in black and white. It is possible to add a hint of color to the Rolly by adding the red, blue or silver arms as accessories to your Rolly purchase. The major attraction of the player is definitely the dance moves. The Rolly has six moving parts, sideflaps and tiny wheels which move to music. On both the side flaps there are flashing lights that change between 700 colors when the Rolly moves. This device is best viewed in the dark. “We applied a little ingenuity in how Rolly emits light. Full-color LEDs are embedded inside the shoulder,” said Yujin Morisawa, one of the principal Rolly designers. “Light gently emanates from these slits when Rolly is viewed straight on. When it
is viewed at an angle, light reflected from the inside of the wheel streams out. With this little trick of positioning the LEDs, it’s not readily apparent how Rolly is lit.” The Rolly can be choreographed to move with software. There is an automatic and a custom mode. In the automatic mode, the Rolly analyzes the music being played on its own and creates its dance moves. The custom feature allows you to control the Rolly’s motion: arms, wheels, shoulders and lights. The Rolly is portable and will fit in your palm, which makes it a great travel companion. It is quite heavy for its size. The device is equipped with high quality speakers and plays a variety of mp3 formats. The memory size of the Rolly is adequate, storing approximately 520 song, each four minutes long. The Rolly is not one of those clumsy automated devices. It is intuitive and senses surfaces well. Weaknesses The biggest weakness of the Rolly is that, even though it is so small, it doesn’t come with a headphone jack. You can only listen to the Rolly out loud, so if you want to listen to your music privately, you still have to have a regular mp3 player.
As the Rolly cannot replace your personal mp3 player, it is of most use if you travel a lot. Having said so, its price does not match the function it serves. One can easily get good quality portable speakers for your mp3 players for less than $100. Other contentions include the battery life, which is less than five hours, and the lack of a display screen. Conclusion The Rolly is one of the most entertaining gadgets of the year. However, the price is a deterrent and the gadget’s usefulness is doubtful, considering it doesn’t come with headphones. But on counts of originality, the Sony Rolly is definitely worth a look. “My only concern is that people won’t appreciate how entertaining Rolly is until they see it for themselves,” Morisawa said. “People who have only heard about it, and even those who’ve seen video clips of Rolly in action online or on TV — I’m sure their jaws will drop when they see it firsthand. I want as many people as possible to interact with Rolly themselves.” Visit the Sony Web site at http:// www.sonystyle.com/ to learn more. Romy Misra is a graduate industrial engineering student.
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From John Lacky, junior computer science major These are the Anne Franks of our time. Tweeting fragments of sentences to an audience just across the Internet; intermittent, fleeting glimpses into the chaos that has engulfed Tehran. As the city burns, some nondescript, elusive Iranis are the sole narrators of a story heard by millions. “Confirmed - Tabriz - Baseej headqurters set fire — “many” dead #Iranelection,” they write. Nine words slip through the Ayotollah’s information crackdown and paint a picture of rebellion — the flames spark the birth of democracy and kindle a passion in young Iranis and in the hearts of Americans who fight vicariously through these tiny looking glasses. These people are the medium through which the world will see Tehran in flames, and we will never know their names.
From Ashlie Baty, senior speech communication and English double major In response to a mail call Tuesday: Calling A&M “very traditional” and saying “anyone who has a different outlook is not really welcome” disheartens me. Aggieland is known for its abundant friendliness and welcoming atmosphere. With New Student Conferences on campus this summer, I would like to apologize to the Class of 2013 and their families who read the mail call in The Battalion. Not all Aggies are closed off to different cultures and points of view. To refer to “diversity this and diversity that” at Texas A&M appalls me. As Aggies, it is our responsibility to educate ourselves about issues and the world outside of Texas. Do not blame the Texas A&M University System for failing to diversify your environment. Put some effort into your “other education” and learn about someone different from yourself. Mahatma Ghandi is aimlessly quoted everywhere; well Ags, here’s our chance: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
From Jill Richards, senior computer science major If the cost of A&M trying to become a Top 10 school is losing its character and soul, I say we remain content to be the No. 1 politically incorrect research University in the country. Why is it that the progressive thought-police cry for conformity and forget how important their sacred shrine of diversity is whenever the issue is maintaining a tradition different than theirs? They are out to destroy our world, and we need to draw the line in the sand — right here, right now. Beat the Hell outta them!
From Phillip Toledo, senior human resource development major Without taking either side, I’d just like to point out that if those resistant to change had their way, Rudder would not have been successful, and there would be no Aggie women (the best kind of woman, if you ask me) walking this campus.
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Student voice essential to progress
Questions remain
O
ver the course of the past two weeks, changes have happened in odd sequence, with unusual rapidity. Where bureaucratic tape should have insulated, it has been cut away. Where events could have been described clearly, there has been obfuscation at best, but more often silence has been the only response. Given the nature of former President Elsa A. Murano’s exit from the stage, the enormity of the shared services proposal passed this Monday and the sequence of these events, we believe it is reasonable to ask that the following questions be answered, by those who are knowledgeable enough to not be surprised by recent developments: Why was President Murano paid to not sue A&M, if it was she who resigned? Did she have grounds to sue that are not being made available to the public? If the Board of Regents was prepared to discipline or remove her on Monday, why did it hire her back as a professor and grant her emerita status? How did the board produce an interim president so quickly? Why is the board determined to spend only six months in searching for a new president, if a year’s search produced our last president, with whom they obviously have not been impressed? We welcome answers from the people who know them.
Hunter Bollman StudentRegent@tamus.edu
As challenges confront us, students’ opinions are still important.
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exas A&M University is undergoing a period of unprecedented transition. When students return in the fall, they will return to a University that looks a lot different than the one they left in the spring. This fall, the student body
will welcome the largest freshman class in history to campus and face the Memorial Student Center being closed. Students will return to a University that won three national championships in June and a University that is under the guidance of an interim president. I want to take this opportunity to address you as your student regent and answer some of the questions you might have as we begin moving forward. On Monday, the Board of Regents voted to appoint R. Bowen Loftin as interim president of Texas A&M. I have had the privilege of getting to know Loftin over this past year and there is not a finer individual capable of leading our beloved University during this time of transition. As you will see over
the coming months, Loftin’s love for Texas A&M is great but his commitment to students is even greater. His first comment to me when he arrived in College Station Monday afternoon was to inform me of his deep commitment to students and his desire to begin working with student leaders immediately. Loftin understands the importance of shared governance and the value of student input. Speaking as a fellow Aggie, I want to let each of you know that I trust Loftin and that he has my full support as interim president. On Monday, I attended my first board meeting as the student regent. One thing that was clear to me was that the nine regents on the board care just as passionately
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for Texas A&M as do all of us. Everything the board does and everything we discuss is with the best interests of Texas A&M and the students in mind. I am very optimistic for the future of Texas A&M and the A&M System. Looking forward, I want to let each of you know that the Board of Regents is committed to shared governance. The board believes that shared governance is absolutely critical to achieving the goals of Vision 2020. As the student regent, I remain committed to shared governance and will work with student leaders across all 11 System campuses to ensure that the student voice is articulated to the Board of Regents. As we begin discussions on the structure of a search committee, know that I remain committed to advocating a full, transparent and national search for our new president that includes all University stakeholders — students, faculty and staff. The continued leadership and counsel of students during this time of great change will be vital to the success of our beloved University. I have full faith in our institution, our values and our traditions. They will guide us through this time of change. Rest assured that the Aggie Spirit and the Aggie Family will endure. Hunter Bollman is a senior accounting major and newly appointed student regent.
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University must remain accessible to all Texans Morris Foster
Texas A&M must make a world-class education affordable.
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n the summer of 1963, my father, who had nothing more than a first-grade education, ordered me to drive to College Station and enroll in Texas A&M College. Our family was the definition of dirt poor. The idea of a kid like me going to college seemed unfathomable. Nonetheless, Texas A&M let me in, and my life changed dramatically because of it. I am worried that a lot of young men and women in Texas won’t be afforded the same privilege of attending what is today a world-class institution. I’m not necessarily talking
about the poorest of the poor, for whom financial aid is available, but an entire class of families that make too much to qualify for grants and loans, but not enough to afford the escalating cost of attending Texas A&M. As the chairman of The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, I am determined to trim costs in order to keep our flagship university affordable. Since 2000, tuition and fees at Texas A&M have risen from a little more than $1,500 per semester for 15 hours to more than $3,900 for the same course load. Even if you factor in inflation, the cost has more than doubled for our families. There is a price for excellence, but there must also be a greater sensitivity to the tough economic times families are enduring today. Texas A&M has added more than 300 faculty members since 2004 under the faculty reinvestment program — increasing faculty by about 30 percent compared to single-digit enrollment growth — yet the professor-to-student ratio has
hardly changed. Operational costs have gone up $238 million in just three years. Instructional costs have increased $132 million over the same period of time. We cannot sustain this trend if we want to continue to attract the best and brightest to Texas A&M University. The Board of Regents has therefore empowered the chancellor to come up with a plan for a shared services initiative to eliminate redundancies in services provided by both the A&M System and the flagship campus a mere 10 minutes away. What can be performed by one entity on behalf of both the University and System will be shared and coordinated, saving millions of dollars and controlling the cost of education for our families. There is not a large corporation or leading institution in the world today that doesn’t integrate services and implement the best practices from around the globe. We must do the same. When it comes to the direction of Texas A&M, I want to emphasize my commitment to the concept of shared
governance. Students, faculty and administration have a great stake in the success of this world-class institution, and their opinions will be listened to by the Board of Regents. This applies, of course, to the selection of a new president over the course of the next several months. I do think it is important to clear up a common misconception about the last search process. It has been alleged as fact that the search committee made a recommendation for three viable candidates to the board in 2007. This is simply not true. Though I am not at liberty to discuss those candidates for obvious confidentiality reasons, it should be pointed out that one candidate had withdrawn from the selection process, and a second didn’t even meet the search criteria. In essence, the board was given the choice of one candidate, which is not a choice. If the board is confined to choosing one candidate based on stakeholder input, it is the equivalent of conceding its governing authority. That we will not do.
The search process for the next president of Texas A&M will be carried out with a continuing commitment to shared governance. We will actively engage key members of the faculty, student body and former students, among others, in the process. Regents will consider that input and make a choice based on what we independently believe is best for the future of Texas A&M. Ultimately, that’s what this discussion needs to be about: pursuing excellence in the classroom through research and through service. Whatever wounds have been created by recent acrimony over the resignation of the previous president, Elsa Murano, can only be healed if we unite together in charting the best future for the school we all dearly love — a school that gave a chance to a poor kid from Salado like me, and must continue to be open to Texans from all walks of life. Morris Foster is Chairman of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents.
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Lavard Skou-Larsen, composer, has won prizes both as soloist and as chamber musician, including the "Concertino Prague” and "Sergio Lorenzi" Competitions. He was a member of the Camerata Academica under Sandor Végh from 1983 to 1986 and has been teaching violin at the Mozarteum/Salzburg since 1991, the same year he founded the Salzburg Chamber Soloists. From 1996 to 2002 he also served as artistic director of the European Union Chamber Orchestra. All performances will take place at the Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University. For more information, please visit academyarts.tamu.edu. Tickets may be purchased through the MSC Box Office at (979) 845-1234.
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The third annual Texas Reds and Grapes Festival, a free public event, will begin at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Messina Hof staff will shuttle guests Saturday for free tours to the Messina Hof winery, located on Reliant Road in Bryan. “We like to have a variety out there because not everybody has the same taste,” Shillings said. “There’s something there for everybody who likes wine.” More than 20 teams will compete at 11 a.m. Saturday in the steak cook-off, including last year’s best of show winner Hometown Gang from Bryan, Texas. Local celebrities, including elected officials, will be judging the steaks, said April Saginor, Bryan communications director and a 2008 steak cook-off judge. “You don’t know you can cook steak that differently. They were all very different,” she said. “Some were cooked in wine or seasoned with different seasonings or have special cuts. They’re all very unique.” A Kids Zone and Grape Stomp will be open until 7 p.m. Saturday. The Grape Stomp competition costs $5 and proceeds benefit the Texas Reds 4-H scholarship program. The champion stomp-off will begin at 6:30 p.m. Prizes include passes to Texas amusement parks. “If you haven’t done [the Grape Stomp], you should,” said Darrell Lovelette, director of parks and recreation. “It’s a lot of fun.” A big turnout is expected at the festival, Shillings said. “The first year was very successful; we brought in about 8,000 to 10,000 people,” she said. “The second year was estimated about 18,000, and this year we expect 25,000.” The festival helps Bryan economically, Lovelette said. “This is a festival that really puts Bryan on the map,” he said. “We market to all of Texas including the Houston area, to Dallas and Austin.” Robert Earl Keen, a Texas
Admission to the event is free, but tickets must be purchased for the steak cook-off and wine tasting. FRIDAY 6 -10:30 p.m. Festival Open Main Stage Entertainment 7- 8:30 p.m. Midnight Express 9-10:30 p.m. Big Otis Show Band SATURDAY 10 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. Festival Open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Kid Zone 11 a.m.-7 p.m. grape stomp 11 a.m.-9 p.m. steaks served (Ticket sales end at 8:30 p.m.) 10 a.m.-7 p.m. wine tasting 7 p.m.-10:30 p.m. wine concessions Main Stage Entertainment 7-8:30 p.m. Earl Thomas Conley 9-10:30 p.m. Robert Earl Keen For ticket information and more visit texasredsfestival. com singer, will be performing at 9 p.m. Saturday. “I think it is catching on by word of mouth. Robert Earl Keen is drawing a lot of attention this year from outside Bryan,” Saginor said. “I had a lady from Austin call me the other day asking about this event. She’d never heard of the festival but she wanted to take her husband to see [Keen] for Father’s Day. It’s a great way to introduce other people to our little town.” Father’s Day has been a big help to draw attention to the festival this year, Saginor said. “I think [Father’s Day] enhances it,” Saginor said. “It’s a pretty good Father’s Day gift to eat the food, drink some wine and enjoy the show.”
Leak delays Endeavour launch again CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the second time in less than a week, a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak forced NASA to delay shuttle Endeavour’s launch to the international space station early Wednesday, this time until July at the earliest. Launch officials waited almost an hour after the leak appeared during fueling, trying to fix it through remote commands, before calling off the predawn launch. The leak occurred in the same place as one that cropped up Saturday, in the hydrogen gas vent line that hooks up to the external fuel tank. A similar problem stalled a shuttle flight three months ago. AggieSAT2, a satellite designed and built by Texas A&M students, and BEVO-1, a satellite designed and built by University of Texas students, are slated to launch on Endeavour. Associated Press
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