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Fireworks can be seen over a statue at the 49th annual College Station Lion’s Club Fourth of July Celebration. The fireworks show brought the evening events to a close.
Fanfare for the
Fourth By Christen Beck | The Battalion
The crowd snapped photos and clapped and hollered as four F-15 jets flew over the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum Saturday afternoon. Simultaneously, a group of Boy Scouts posed in front of the museum with American and Texas flags beside them as patriotic music played in the background.
It was the Fourth of July in College Station, and Saturday marked the 10th Independence Day celebration at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Around 3,000 visitors toured the museum during the celebration, said Bush Library and Museum Director Warren Finch. He said there were about 6,000 people on the grounds, and 15,000 to 20,000 people lined up to enjoy the 20-minute firework display that evening. The library began coordinating the event a year ago, and next year’s July 4 plans are already underway, said Finch. See Food on page 6
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Children enjoy the festivities at the George Bush Presidential Library Saturday, which included numerous musical shows, a military fly-over and games.
Professor contributes to women’s health research ■ Dubriwny dedicates career to study of medicine and rhetoric Lindsay Lewis Special to The Battalion
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Think you know every nook and cranny of Texas A&M? Test your campus know-how by e-mailing The Battalion and telling us where you think this photo was taken. The first people to get the answers correct will have their names published in The Battalion. Send your response with your name, class and major to photo@thebatt.com.
Thursday’s answer: Rudder Tower
Correct response: Natalie Pollak, junior kinesiology major
Fifty years ago, women’s health topics were rarely discussed in popular media. Postpartum depression, cervical problems or something on breast cancer? Not likely. But now with ample public information available on women’s health, Texas A&M educator Tasha Dubriwny wants to know how issues are being portrayed and what it is that’s being said. The answers are both personal and professional for Dubriwny. She grew up in a house filled with conversation about the medical world, thanks to her mom, a psychiatric nurse, and father, a psychiatrist.
Dubriwny was surrounded by the medical world from her youth, and as an assistant professor in communication and women’s studies, her work primarily focuses on aspects of women’s health and communication. Raised in Oklahoma, she started her college career at the University of Oregon, but returned to her home state where she obtained a degree from the University of Oklahoma in women’s studies and met her husband. Her choice of a major fell into place because of what she called a “click moment” during an introduction to women’s studies course when she realized what was important to her. “It was one of those moments I hope every student has in a college career,” Dubriwny said. “It happened for me when we were talking about issues of discrimination, inequality, social structures and power. I thought, ‘That’s it. That’s what matters,’
Biography Influenced by her mother’s experience, Dubriwny wrote her master’s thesis on hormone replacement advertisements to graduate from the women’s studies department at the University of Cincinnati. Dubriwny then earned her doctorate in speech communication from the University of Georgia and began searching for a job.
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LOS ANGELES — Prehistoric creatures and robots are in a photo finish for the Fourth of July boxoffice crown. The studios behind “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” are reporting their movies in a tie for the No. 1 spot with $42.5 million in ticket sales each. Numbers reported over the weekend are estimates based on the studio’s projections for how much business the movies will do on Sunday. Final numbers Monday will sort out which movie actually came in first. Johnny Depp and Christian Bale’s gangster epic “Public Enemies” debuted a solid No. 3 with $26.2 million.
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Teresa Walker Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Shot twice in the head and two more times in the chest, former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was the victim of a homicide, police said Sunday. But authorities wouldn’t say it was a murder-suicide — even with his 20-year-old girlfriend dead at his feet from a single bullet. McNair had been dating Saleh Kazemi for several months, and Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said Sunday that a semiautomatic pistol was found under her body. She was shot in the head. McNair, who was married with four sons, had a permit to carry a handgun in Tennessee, and he was arrested once before with a 9mm weapon although charges in the case were dropped. Police said they had not yet determined who owned the gun found at the scene. Investigators were questioning friends of the couple as well as Kazemi’s ex-boyfriend. They were also waiting for results of drug and other laboratory tests before decid-
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BRIGNOLES, France — Lance Armstrong just wanted to stay out of trouble on a scorching day one rider felt was better suited for baking bread. British sprinter Mark Cavendish won the second stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, with Armstrong finishing safely in the pack and Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland keeping the leader’s yellow jersey. Cancellara captured the opening time trial a day earlier. Cancellara has an 18-second lead over 2007 Tour winner Alberto Contador of Spain. Bradley Wiggins of Britain is third, 19 seconds behind. Armstrong, the seven-time champion, is 10th, 40 seconds back. Tyler Farrar of the United States finished second and Romain Feillu of France was third in the 116-mile route from Monaco to Brignoles.
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“People have certain things that they do in life,” Gaddy said. “We don’t need to look on the situation at this time (but) on the fact we just lost a great member of society.” The quarterback’s agent, Bus Cook, said he had never heard Kazemi’s name until news of the shooting broke Saturday. What McNair’s wife knew wasn’t clear Sunday. Cook said Mechelle McNair was “in and out of it.” He said she had no comment after the police called his death a homicide. “It doesn’t make any sense. I don’t know what to say,” Cook said. Mechelle was “very upset, very distraught” Sunday, Cook said. She was preparing to finish funeral arrangements Monday. McNair split his time between Nashville and his farm in Mount Olive, Miss. He recently opened a restaurant near Tennessee State University that was aimed at serving healthy, affordable food to college students. McNair was seen so often at Kazemi’s apartment that a neighbor thought he lived there. McNair met Kazemi when
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Disney crash kills one ORLANDO, Fla. — Two monorail trains crashed early Sunday morning in the Magic Kingdom section of Walt Disney World, killing one train’s operator, emergency officials said. The transit system, which shuttles thousands of visitors around the sprawling resort each day, was shut down while authorities investigated the holiday weekend wreck. The monorail operator died at the scene of the crash, which happened around 2 a.m., said Bo Jones, deputy chief for Reedy Creek Fire Department. The other train operator was not injured, but was taken to a hospital because he was emotionally shaken. Five park guests were treated at the scene.
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Armstrong is making a comeback to the Tour four years after retiring. The 37-year-old Texan said his strategy for this leg was “just avoid trouble and get in the rhythm of the race.” The Tour rolls across the rim of the Mediterranean for mostly flat stages the next few days, with a challenging team time trial Tuesday. Three days in the demanding Pyrenees start in Stage 7. “Yesterday was not really a normal stage,” Armstrong said as he headed toward his Astana team bus. “These start to be the more normal stages.” The heat, however, was anything but normal. “The heat was like you were baking bread. ... It was terrible,” Cancellara said on French TV. “I haven’t seen heat like that in years.” Associated Press
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Melanie Lewis writes a tribute to Steve McNair at his Gridiron 9 restaurant in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday. McNair, a former NFL quarterback, was found dead of gunshot wounds in a downtown Nashville condominium Saturday. his family ate often at the Dave & Buster’s restaurant she worked at as a server, and the two began dating in a relationship that included a vacation with parasailing. Photos posted on TMZ.com showed McNair gazing and smiling at the young Kazemi. “She pretty obviously got mixed up way over her head with folks,” said Reagan How-
ard, a neighbor of Kazemi’s. The victim’s sister, Soheyla Kazemi, told the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville that the young woman had expected McNair to get a divorce. “She said they were planning to get married.” Besides his wife, McNair is survived by his sons Junior, Steven, Tyler and Trenton.
Obama seeks new start in US-Russia ties MOSCOW — Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship. Both sides appear to want to use progress on arms control as a pathway to possible agreement on trickier issues, including Iran and Georgia, the tiny former Soviet republic. Those difficulties and others have soured
a promising linkage in the first years after the Cold War and pushed ties between Moscow and Washington to depths unseen in more than two decades. A White House official told reporters the presidents expect to announce progress on negotiations that could lead to a treaty to replace the START I agreement, which expires Dec. 5. More broadly, the U.S. wants to use the summit to overhaul the U.S.-Russian relationship. Associated Press
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Killed in his prime, the game of football lost a great man on Saturday.
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admit, I was never a fan of the Tennessee Titans; in fact they are probably the team I despise most in all of sports, more than the Yankees, more than the Cardinals, and more than all the teams in a certain North Texas city. They held Houston hostage for years, always threatening to move unless the city and the people paid for renovations to the Astrodome and then a new stadium entirely. The day they left for Tennessee in 1997 was the day I learned childhood heroes and larger-than-life organizations are cold-hearted businesses just like any other. It still pains me a little to think that Texas hall of famers like running back Earl Campbell and quarterback Warren Moon have their Oilers jerseys hanging in Nashville. But while I hate the Titans, there was one player on that team I was always a fan of, Steve McNair. McNair was shot Saturday in Nashville along with a woman he was dating named Saleh Kazemi. Police are calling it a homicide, but questions of whether or not it was a murdersuicide, or to what degree Kazemi was involved, remain. Regardless of the details of the killing, McNair’s legacy shouldn’t be connected in any way with the tragic way his life came to an end. “Air” McNair was arguably the greatest Div. I-AA football player of all time; single-handedly putting Alcorn State on the map. Drafted third overall to the Oilers in 1995 he would have a brilliant career with the Titans. He was the quarterback who famously led the last-minute drive in the 2000 Superbowl, which ended one yard short of the end zone as time expired. He shared the 2003 MVP with Peyton Manning and was always in the AFC playoff mix, whether it be with Tennessee in his prime or with Baltimore at the end. McNair exemplified toughness in an age when many think quarterbacks are too protected. Oftentimes he was so beat up that he couldn’t practice in the week, coming out on Sundays only to will his teams to victory. McNair gave back to the community and did things the right way. He was an ambassador for his sport and an example of doing things right at a time when so many NFL stars are in the wrong. You will be missed McNair, the game has lost one of its best. Brett Sebastian is a senior geography major.
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The Brazos Valley Bombers’ Geoff Lomax swings against the East Texas Pumpjacks Saturday. The Bombers won the game 8-3.
Bombers bursting in air Brett Sebastian The Battalion The Brazos Valley Bombers split this weekend’s series with the East Texas Pumpjacks 1-1. East Texas took home a 13-9 win Friday and Brazos Valley won 8-3 on Saturday. Friday’s game saw the Bombers jump out to an early 6-1 lead over East Texas in the first inning with Aggies Nick Anders and Brett Parsons along
with Sam Houston State’s John Hale scoring runs. Texarkana College’s Joaquin Hinijosa scored a run in the second then hit a two-run homer in the third. East Texas responded with eight runs over the fourth and fifth innings to pass the Bombers 9-6. Hinijosa and Missouri’s Andre Rodriguez scored in the eighth to help close the gap, but East Texas went on a hitting spree, bringing in four more
runs in the ninth. Despite the Bombers scoring a run, East Texas came out with the 13-9 win before the recordbreaking crowd. On Saturday the Bombers returned the favor, taking a 4-1 lead in the second inning thanks to scores by Hinijosa, Northeast Texas Community College’s Wes Schill, Arkansas’ Kyle Atkins and Tennessee-Martin’s Drew Mason. The Bombers would expand their lead slowly through the night be-
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■ Roger Federer outlasts Andy Roddick in Wimbeldon final WIMBLEDON, England — Roger Federer hoisted the trophy and celebrated making Grand Slam history, a year removed from an epic five-set final when he left Wimbledon a broken man, his title ripped away and his aura of invincibility shattered. Federer waged another fiveset marathon Sunday, and left as the holder of the most prestigious record in tennis. This time, the trophy belonged to him, with the No. 1 ranking in his grasp again and his reputation enhanced as perhaps the greatest player in history. Federer won his record 15th Grand Slam title, outlasting Andy Roddick for his sixth Wimbledon championship in match that went to 30 games in the final set. Federer served a career-high
fore sealing the 8-3 win. Every Bomber in the lineup had a hit Saturday as the team had a season-high 14 hits. Hinijosa had three hits, four runs and two RBIs. His home run gives him two for the season, which leads the Bombers and is second in the league. Texas State’s Michael Pitts pitched eight innings, striking out eight batters to secure his 3-1 win and the Bombers’ 12th to put them 12-9 on the season and third in the standings.
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Roger Federer kisses the Wimbeldon trophy after defeating Andy Roddick 16-14. 50 aces and overcame the resilient American 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14 to break the record of major titles he shared with tennis great Pete Sampras. “I’m happy I broke the record here because this is always the tournament that meant the
most to me,” Federer said. “It definitely feels like coming full circle, starting it here and ending it here.” Federer is the third player to win six Wimbledon championships; Sampras and William Renshaw each won seven. Associated Press
The Battalion The Texas A&M softball team announced the addition of junior pitcher and outfielder Lindsey Sisk to the team Thursday. Sisk played at the University of Arizona before transferring. “We’re thrilled to have Lindsey join our program,” said softball Head Coach Jo Evans to Aggieathletics. com. “What a great addition for us. She’s going to be a difference-maker the day she steps on the field. She brings a presence on the field and her experience and tremendous drive will only enrich our program.” Sisk was 23-8 with 155 strikeouts and a 2.86 ERA at Arizona from 2008 to 2009, a stretch where Arizona went 88-38 and went to two Women’s College World Series. She is a gold medal winner from the 2006-2007 Women’s junior national team. She is also the only Arizona pitcher to earn a win over an A&M team over the past two years. “The fans were really into the games and were
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Professor Tasha Dubriwny says her mother’s battle with breast cancer is part of the inspiration for her career.
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and I never looked back.” Her junior year at the University of Oklahoma, her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she remembered it being a scary, torturous year-anda-half for her family. Dubriwny’s mom had a mammogram that came back clean, but she found a lump doing a self-examination in the shower shortly thereafter. She insisted her doctors test her again. The new test revealed the cancer. Walking away with more than a sigh of relief when her
Question everything and take nothing for granted. — Tasha Dubriwny, assistant professor in communication and women’s studies.
mom survived, Dubriwny developed what she calls a “healthy amount of skepticism” when it comes to the medical industry. “There’s just something about the knowledge of our own bodies and not always relying on the experts to tell us what’s what,” Dubriwny said. Though her family will never know for sure, the cause of her mother’s breast cancer was likely due to the hormone replacement therapy her mother began post-menopause, two years prior to her diagnosis. Fueled by her mother’s bout with breast cancer, she wrote her master’s thesis about hormone replacement advertisements and graduated from the University of Cincinnati’s women’s studies department. Dubriwny earned her doctorate in speech communication from the University of Georgia and began searching for a job. Her first job was at the University of South Florida, but it wasn’t long before she was looking to move closer to home. Texas A&M hired her in 2007, putting Dubriwny and her husband nearer to family in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Today, Dubriwny has molded her long-time interest in medicine into a career studying women’s health and communication, and hopes to bring light to the public discourse surrounding women’s health. She teaches two classes each semester, in addition to conducting research for a book she is writing. Titled “Post Feminist Risk: Contemporary Representations of Women’s Health Issues,” Dubriwny studies what movies, television, Web sites, advertisements and blogs say about three facets of women’s health. The first looks at stories told by women who have the breast cancer gene, also known as being BRCA positive, and their decisions to have prophylactic mastectomies, meaning to re-
move their breasts before being diagnosed with cancer. Actress Christina Applegate’s story is included in this study, as she opted for this preventative surgery. The next study revolves around the advertising campaigns for the cervical cancer vaccine known as Gardasil, and how the campaign portrays issues of sexuality and morality in girls. This issue surfaced recently when Gov. Rick Perry supported a law requiring girls to get the vaccine. This second study looks at the public outcry that caused him to retract his support. The final section of her book looks at postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and what has been said about each. Dubriwny studies instances such as the Andrea Yates case, in which Yates drowned her five children due to postpartum depression. It also looks at celebrity motherhood dealing with postpartum anxieties, like Brooke Shields endured. “A lot of this case study revolves around ways in which psychiatry is being framed as a real science or, if you’re listening to Tom Cruise, as a bogus, made-up adventure,” Dubriwny said. Familiar with her work, communication professor Barbara Sharf said she thinks Dubriwny helps bring an understanding to the perceptions of women’s health issues. “She has a very good grasp of rhetorical perspectives and rhetorical theory,” Sharf said. “She’s bringing that to bear on women’s health, and there hasn’t been a lot of that done.” Sharf said Dubriwny has a unique perspective and her work will substantially contribute to the health communication field. University of South Carolina assistant professor Kristan Poirot has worked with Dubriwny on a National Institute of Health grant concerning the public’s understanding of genetics. “She is one of the hardest working people I know, and her book is going to make a great contribution to the study of women’s health and rhetoric,” Poirot said. As a professor, one of Dubriwny’s former students, senior communication major Emily Heaton, said her teaching methods challenge the students to analyze their surroundings and form their own opinions. “In her classes, I feel like I truly learned,” Heaton said. “She makes it fascinating.” While she didn’t always want to be a professor, education was important to Dubriwny, and it is reflected in her passion for both the teaching and researching aspects of her profession. Dubriwny hopes her research instills a greater curiosity about medical science and generates a willingness to question authorities rather than take expert knowledge as fact. “Question everything and take nothing for granted,” Dubriwny said.
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EDITOR’SNOTE The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of Texas A&M University, The Battalion or its staff.
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Cap and trade bill will hurt U.S. economy
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wo Fridays ago, while the untimely death of Michael Jackson dominated headlines, the U.S. House of Representatives debated and eventually passed one of the most damaging pieces of legislation to ever see the floor on Capitol Hill. The so-called “cap and trade” bill is an effort to control carbon emissions in order to combat global warming (err… I mean “climate change”). In reality, it does nothing more than simply raise costs on energy companies, who will then pass those costs on to their consumers. House Republicans correctly labeled the bill as a massive new energy tax. By capping the amount of carbon dioxide private companies are allowed to emit and charging them for any amount beyond that, this act would drastically raise energy costs for every American citizen. Energy affects almost every aspect of our daily lives and if this bill becomes law, the American people will pay for it at the gas pump, the grocery store and while they heat or cool their homes. Even President Barack Obama, a vocal supporter of this bill, said during the campaign that it would cause electricity rates to “necessarily skyrocket.” That is the absolute worst thing we could do in the middle of a severe economic recession. In addition to raising the living expenses of every American, this bill would send a lot more people to the unemployment line. The proof of this is in the bill itself. There is actually a provision in the bill that sets up and extends unemployment benefits for people who lose their job as a result of this new policy. It simply blows my mind that our Congress could bring to the floor a piece of legislation that they admit is going to put people out of work. Even more proof lies in Spain, where some of the provisions created by this legislation already exist. Despite creating some “green” jobs, Spain has seen job losses in other sectors of their economy that far outpace any gains they have made. Economics Professor Gabriel Cardaza, of Spain’s Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, recently produced a report that said for every “green” job created in Spain, 2.2 jobs were lost in other parts of the economy. That is probably why Spain has an
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The new carbon monitoring bill will make costs skyrocket. unemployment rate of 18.1 percent, roughly twice that of the average of European Union countries. Perhaps the worst thing about this bill is that, like the so-called “stimulus” bill, nobody really knows what is in this thing. The bill itself is over 1,000 pages, and the Democratic leadership in the House had the audacity to drop a 300-page amendment to the bill at 3:09 a.m. on the morning before the vote. This was not an amendment that added something to the bill or changed just one part. Instead, it was meant to be pieced together with the actual bill, and it changed different provisions throughout the original 1,000 pages. The end result is that no one really knew what they were voting on. Even Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the bill’s co-sponsor, was unable to answer specific questions about the bill during committee hearings. Instead, he and other supporters of the bill resorted to grandstanding and spouting off platitudes and criticisms of the Bush Administration. What we witnessed in the House that Friday was an absolute mockery of our legislative process. President Obama has made it no secret that he will sign this bill. That means the only thing standing in the way of this nonsense is the U.S. Senate. Fortunately, even most Democrats are skeptical at best about it getting the necessary votes there. However, regardless of its passage, this cap and trade bill represents a tremendous disservice to the American people. It is a mystery to everyone who voted on it, it raises taxes and it represents another massive increase in the size of the federal government. No thanks.
Torrey Ognoskie is a member of the Class of 2008.
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Osa Okundaye — THE BATTALION
How the Rev. Ted Haggard made me think outside my box
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he Rev. Ted Haggard is a familiar name to many Americans. First as the highly successful and well-loved pastor of a Colorado Springs evangelical megachurch, and more recently as the disgraced and disowned former pastor of the church he founded following a gay-sex scandal. While he was pastor of New Life Church, Haggard endorsed and propagated a system that vehemently condemned homosexuals, making him public enemy No. 1 for many in the homosexual community. A lot of people feel he’s gotten what he deserved, since he was basically beaten and kicked to the curb by a system he helped create. It’s true — there is more than a little irony in his punishment. When I first read of the scandal, I was sickened. By his church’s merciless response toward him and by Haggard’s own hypocrisy. But rather than feeling vindicated by his downfall, I’m saddened. When asked why he didn’t come out about his problems before, Haggard made an accurate observation: “The reason I kept my personal struggle a secret is because I feared that my friends would reject me and abandon me and kick me out and the church would exile me and excommunicate me, and that happened and more.” I wonder how we got here. How did Ted Haggard happen? What kind of religious system splits a man in two to the point that he doesn’t know who he is, but knows with certainty there is no one he can talk to about it? I’m not saying Haggard is blameless, far from it. But neither is the evangelical church in America when our children are growing into conflicted adults who can’t discuss their issues. Alexandra Pelosi, a documentary filmmaker, followed
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The former pastor’s fall from grace reveals the danger of staying in one’s comfort zone. Haggard and his family for a year after his exile from Colorado. He was forced to leave the state as part of a severance deal from his former church. Instead of the confident pastor, the film shows a humbled Haggard trying to rebuild his world after being forced to abruptly reconcile the two lives he’d been leading and being betrayed by everyone he’d considered a friend. So, how did we get here? Somewhere along the way, the Church started looking at people like Haggard as bad for business instead of remembering that “I am their business,” as Haggard put it. “Jesus came for the sinners,” he reminds himself and the filmmaker. Another documentary, “Jesus Camp,” features scenes disconcertingly similar to my own church-camp-going childhood. It provides a glimpse of how the children who become adults like Haggard start out. Ironically, Haggard himself has a cameo speaking out against homosexuality, back when he was still a pastor. Children are our future, in the most literal of ways. But when we, as groups in society, start seeing children as the future we want to create and raising them to fit that mold, we prevent our children from becoming their own person and blur the line between
culture and cult. Becky Fischer, featured prominently on “Jesus Camp,” recognizes children’s usefulness. “They’re so open, they’re so usable to Christianity.” I don’t know about you, but talking about children as useful leaves a bad taste in my mouth. In the documentary, young children are groomed to be warriors for God. Most of them are homeschooled and attend churches with the same conservative, evangelical bent as the camp. The scenes where children sob and speak in tongues while praying for an end to abortion don’t bother me nearly so much as the behindthe-scenes footage of Fischer talking about how easy it is
Children are our future, in the most literal of ways. When we, as groups in society, start seeing children as the future we want to create and raising them to fit that mold, we prevent our children from becoming their own person and blur the line between culture and cult. —Kat Drinkwater
to win children over with a smile and a quick object lesson and have them back out on the street with pamphlets. If you can win them over with five minutes and the clever application of a Jell-O brain mold, is it genuine or is it just another box? Children are born blank slates, onto which is writ-
ten the culture, language and morality of their parents and society. They have no frame of reference for the world. In some ways they crave someone to give them a box to inhabit: to provide clear rules and structure for a world that’s really too complicated for that. Children have no idea what is OK, what is normal or what is wrong. Which is why it can be so damaging to raise children in a parentally created box. If it turns out the child doesn’t fit in that box or they run into someone else who doesn’t, they have a schism of what’s right in front of them and what they’ve always been told. Sometimes, worse yet, they never question the box, and they never get out. I’m a follower of Jesus, but I didn’t sign up for a system that uses its children as tools with no care for their futures. Haggard’s situation doesn’t make me angry, it makes me sad. He seems like someone who was raised inside a box, and when he started to feel that he didn’t belong there he didn’t know of any other place to go, so he ignored the parts that didn’t belong as best he could, a point reiterated by Pelosi in an interview with New York Magazine. “He hasn’t fully formed his answer. He’s going through all of this in public. He’s working out his sexuality live on television. ‘Are you gay?’ ‘Well, I’m … kind of …’” I genuinely believe that he has been forced to come up with an answer to these things that he’s worked 53 years to ignore.” At 50 years old, Haggard was unceremoniously dumped out of his box, which has led me to think about my own.
Kat Drinkwater is a senior University Studies-Honors: psychology and neuroscience major.
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“We just love it,” Finch said. “We think it’s a great partnership to have a Fourth of July celebration at a presidential library.” The Bush library promotes civic literacy. “You learn about your country on the Fourth of July,” Finch said. Visitors had the opportunity free of charge to learn more about the nation’s history, including President George H.W. Bush’s role in World War II. The exhibit features the space program. To accommodate thousands of guests, Finch said that the museum implemented the help of 30 to 40 volunteers, many of whom were dressed as American figures. Anne Hays has volunteered at the Bush Library on the Fourth of July for the past 10 years. She has contributed more than 4,000 volunteer hours to the Bush library. This year Hays dressed as an astronaut in honor of the space program’s 40 years. Hays was the only one willing to wear an orange space suit, she said with a laugh, because she’s a “t-sip.” She said her love of history and the fun of the event were reasons why she continually participates at Bush library events.
Like Hays, Bruce Miles, another Bush library volunteer, has participated at the Bush library on the Fourth of July since the event’s inception. For the past decade Miles, a gentleman who towers well above 6 feet, has worn a black beard, top hat and 19th century suit. Although he enjoys conversing with younger children who usually identify him as Abraham Lincoln, Miles said what is amazing for him is teaching international students, who might not recognize him as easily, about America’s 16th president. “I believe he’s one of our better presidents,” Miles said. Seven-year-old College Station resident Garrett Powell asked to take a picture with Miles. Powell’s parents said they were excited to see the museum for the first time on the Fourth of July. “We heard about it on TV,” said Garrett’s mom, Olivia Powell. “We’ve been wanting to see the library, and hear about the exhibit. We’re real excited about celebrating the Fourth of July here, and see the fireworks.” When mother asked son to choose a favorite character of historical importance, other than Darth Vader, Powell said, “I guess Teddy [Roosevelt].” Paul Wooderson of Brownsville, Texas, said he also was excited
Volunteers hand out watermelon for visitors as temperatures reach 102 at the 49th annual College Station Lion’s Club Fourth of July Celebration. This is the 10th year for the festivities to be held at the George Bush Presidential Library. Photos by Patrick Clayton — THE BATTALION
about seeing the Bush Library for the first time. “It’s incredible, looking back at some of the events that took place during the presidency,” the middle school choir teacher said. “For me, it’s a good reminder of the events that took place that I can share with my kids. It’s a great way for us to teach them history.” It was more memorable for his two children, ages 8 and 11, to learn
American history on Independence Day, said Wooderson. “Sometimes we forget what American history means for us,” said Wooderson. “Because you get complacent in your life and forget that there were a lot of things and sacrifices that had to take place in order for us to be where we are today.” As a naturalized citizen originally from Mexico, Wooderson said that the Fourth of July is special to him.
Wooderson said he enjoyed “being able to look more and more at the history of the country and see all the things that have brought this nation to where it is today, so that I can enjoy the freedoms that I probably would not have had growing up in Mexico. “That’s a double blessing for me to be able to come and learn about the country that I call my own country now,” he said.
The Brazos Valley Ballooning Association inflates a hot air balloon Saturday for visitors at the Fourth of July celebration to get an upclose look.
A volunteer, dressed as George Washington, hands out historical information and talks with visitors Saturday at the George Bush Presidential Library.
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