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Police kick off National Night Out The Bryan Police Department and the College Station Police Department, with other organizations, will have an annual kickoff event to prevent crime Saturday. This event is known as National Night Out. The event shows potential criminals that communities are organized and will stand together to ďŹ ght against crime. “What the cities, University and county hope to accomplish is for the community to come together in partnership with local law enforcement,â€? said OfďŹ cer John Agnew, College Station Police Department. “The desired effect is for everyone to come out and have fun and gear up for the actual National Night Out on Oct. 5. ... We hope by having this pre-event, we will get people signed up for their own block party in their neighborhoods.â€?

The Bryan-College Station community will be joining more than 15,000 other communities across 50 states and military bases worldwide. “We try to come by and visit every block party to mingle and listen to any problems in your area,� Agnew said.

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Above, a wall in Dheisheh Refugee Camp, south of Bethlehem, displays graffiti pleaing to end the occupation and stop the building of the wall, which Israel is building to separate the two countries of Palestine and Israel. Below, the Dome of the Rock stands on the Temple Mount behind the Western Wall.

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Ben Feller Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Grasping for peace, President Barack Obama on Thursday challenged a pessimistic world to overcome decades of shattered promises and help Israelis and Palestinians close a historic deal within a year. “This time will be different,� he declared, offering a nowor-never choice between Mideast stability and perpetual bloodshed.

To a hushed audience of global leaders, Obama made Mideast peace the dominant theme of his yearly address to the U.N. General Assembly, a sign of the fragile state of the latest talks and the importance he attaches to their success.

Nearly every other topic of his international agenda was shoved to the margins, save for a vigorous call for support of human rights.

In a message to allies and foes alike, Obama devoted the final passage of his speech to a need for people to live freely, and he warned that “we will call out those who suppress ideas.� While he spoke of tyranny by the Taliban and in North Korea, he did not single out allies that the U.S. has accused of repressing their people, such as Russia and China.

With fresh Mideast peace talks seemingly on the brink of collapse, Obama took on skeptics directly. He challenged

Israelis and Palestinians to make compromises, exhorted supporters on both sides to show real backing instead of empty talk and painted a grim picture of what will happen if the current effort is consigned to the long list of failed attempts. “If an agreement is not reached, Palestinians will never know the pride and dignity that comes with their own state,� Obama said. “Israelis will never know the certainty and security that comes with sovereign and stable neighbors. ... More blood will be shed. This Holy Land will remain a symbol of our differences instead of our common humanity.�

The speech came amid a wider burst of presidential diplomacy in New York.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed an afternoon session of the assembly. At one point he said that some in the world have speculated that Americans were actually behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks and that they were staged in an attempt to assure Israel’s survival. At that, the U.S. delegation walked out.

The search for Mideast peace always tests the limits of U.S. presidential power, and this time is no different. There See United Nations on page 6

Northside halls to be torn down for new residence Connie Thompson Special to The Battalion On-campus living is the preferred residence choice of many Aggies. For some, their choices may be limited come August 2011, but not for long.

Demolition for Crocker, Moore and McInnis halls is scheduled for summer 2011 to allot space for a state-ofthe-art residence facility.

In 2007, the Department of Residence Life and the Residence Hall Association student leadership conducted a campus-wide study and generated short- and long-term plans for enhancing the on-campus student living environment. These plans pushed for high-quality, long-term living options for students to ensure on-campus facilities continue to be the choice in student accommodations.

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McInnis Hall is one of three residence halls to be demolished in 2011. The halls are being torn down to make room for a new hall.

The 600-bed Northside residence, yet to be named, is scheduled to open in August 2013. Crocker, Moore and McInnis halls house approximately the same number as the new facility. The hall will be Texas A&M’s first new residence facility since 1989.

The capital plan for the project, which was approved at the Board of Regents meeting in July, is estimated to cost $58 million. “Building a new Northside residence hall is the next major step in our ongoing effort to enhance service to our students living on campus,� said Chareny Rydl, director of Residence Life. “The new facility also will allow us to better manage increased campus enrollment projections, create desired academic enhancement and collaboration Meagan O’Toole-Pitts — THE BATTALION

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Texas sues Department of Education over aid AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to overturn the federal agency’s rejection of the state’s application for more than $830 million in aid that has been tied up in political wrangling.

A state-specific provision inserted into a federal law by a Democratic Texas congressman requires that Republican Gov. Rick Perry promise Texas will maintain certain education spending levels through 2013 in order to get the funds. Perry has called the requirement unconstitutional because the Texas Constitution prohibits him from committing future state spending.

Texas applied for the money anyway, but was rejected because its application included a caveat saying the state would not violate its own constitution. Federal officials urged the state to reapply without the caveat.

President Barack Obama last month signed a $26 billion jobs bill intended to protected 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from layoffs. Perry said Texas is the only state whose funds application was rejected. “Texas taxpayers are footing the bill for the education jobs fund, and Texas’ hardworking teachers deserve their share of that money,� Perry said. “Had the Congressional majority chosen to work for Texas schoolchildren and teachers, instead of playing partisan politics, this money could already be on its way to our school districts.�

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The Texas constitution says no “appropriation of money be made for a longer term than two years.� “With $830 million in funding for Texas schools tied up by congressional discrimination, we are taking legal action to secure Education Jobs Funds for Texas children,� Abbott said. “The Doggett amendment singles out Texas for discriminatory treatment and requires Texas to make assurances that were not required of any other state.�

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The Beta Beta chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon will be having its 5k Fun Run from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, beginning at the A&M Polo Field. All proceeds go toward enhancing science education in Brazos County.

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Manhattan Transfer to come to MSC OPAS Rebecca Bennett The Battalion When one thinks of singing quartet, the first image that probably pops in mind is a barbershop ensemble, happily harmonizing away in pinstripes and straw hats. The Manhattan Transfer, who will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday for MSC OPAS, is not that group. “I think that students would really enjoy the performance quality. These people have been around for quite some time ‌ they’re known as the jazz legends, they really define the genre,â€? said Alex Bushunow, MSC OPAS student committee chairman and senior civil engineering major.

The 10-time Grammy Award winning-ensemble has pleased crowds for more than four decades with its renditions of jazz and pop tunes.

Jess Wade, director of the Texas A&M Century Singers, said Manhattan Transfer is one of the most well-known vocal jazz groups and one of the first contemporary jazz a cappella ensembles. “I’m looking forward to hearing some familiar favorites, as well as hearing some new stuff,� Wade said.

Wade said the group is known for the songs “Birdland� and “Boy from New York,� among others. Most recently, the album “The Chick Corea Songbook� allowed the group to work with the jazz legend of the same name. “[Corea]’s one of America’s greatest contemporary composers as well as being an unbelievable pianist,� said founding Manhattan Transfer member and bass singer Tim Hauser. “I’ve been a friend of Chick since the ‘70s, when we both lived in L.A., and I always wanted to work with him, so it was great when this opportunity came up.�

In addition to selections from the latest album, Hauser said the group will perform a cross-section of albums. “I think the more we’ve worked, the more we’ve learned a way to embrace the complex harmony. Even though we did a four-part harmony approach, we did a much more simple style,� Hauser said. “And as we got more into jazz, we got into more complex harmonies. I think it was really just a matter of learning.�

Hauser began to get involved with music during his college years at Villanova University, where he sang with the Villanova Singers, a well-established glee club. He also would sing in coffee shops and other campus hangouts with a folk group called the Troubadour Straits. After serving in the Air Force and a brief stint in marketing research for Nabisco, he joined the first version of the Manhattan

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Friends Congregational Church will have a community screening of “Papers,� a documentary about undocumented children growing up in the U.S. The screening will be at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 at the church.

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Transfer in 1969. “The name comes from the book by a famous American author from the early 20th century, John Dos Passos. They’re actually putting a play about it on Broadway, but I basically just took the name from the book because the book gave me a lot of images of New York — and I lived in New York at the time — that coincided with the way I felt about the city, and it just felt like a very appropriate name,� Hauser said.

Over time, the group shifted its sound from country to jazz, a decision that pleasantly suited Hauser’s personal tastes. “I think that jazz is probably the highest form of American music. It’s the most complex; it’s the most musical by far. And it incorporates pretty much anything you can listen to — rhythm and

blues, Latin — it’s all inside jazz,� he said.

Eventually, the group changed its members to include Hauser’s current fellow crooners Cheryl Bentyne, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel, and began to experiment with a unique mÊlange of genres.

The Manhattan Transfer takes credit for introducing Brazilian music and the iconic reggae group Bob Marley and the Wailers to American audiences. “I think OPAS does a great service to all of campus by providing a wide variety and broaden horizons, and I think the Manhattan Transfer is definitely a good way to do that,� Bushunow said. “It’s something out of the ordinary. It’s not your typical show in a See OPAS on page 6

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Above: Aggie front line goes up for a block in team’s three-set victory over Texas Sept.

16 at Reed Arena. Below: Freshman setter Allie Sawatzky prepares herself at the net.

Volleyball takes on Tech at Reed Courtney Nelson The Battalion The Aggies (7-5, 1-1 in Big 12) are looking to rebound this weekend against the Texas Tech Red Raiders (2-10, 0-3 in Big 12) at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Reed Arena.

A&M swept the No. 8 Texas Longhorns this past week, shocking everyone in the conference, including the Longhorns. The Aggies then traveled to Lawrence to face the Kansas Jayhawks, who had lost its past seven matches against A&M. The home team was able to defeat the visiting Aggies in five sets, sending them back to College Station with a 1-1 record in conference play and a desire to regain their winning streak.

With a .167 winning percentage, the Red Raiders are in last place in the Big 12.

After losses to Oklahoma, Kansas State and Missouri, they are also among the bottom teams in every category of Big 12 rankings.

Junior Amanda Dowdy leads Texas Tech with a total of 150 kills, averaging 3.66 kills per set with a .138 hitting percentage. Karlyn Meyers, one of the more experienced players on the team, runs the offense, with 8.6 assists per game.

Tech has the advantage in blocks, with 99 total blocks while holding its opponents to just 79.5. The Aggies have typically not been as solid in that area, so Tech will be looking to capitalize on that. The

Above: Freshman defender Rachel Lenz gathers the ball during the Aggies’ 5-0 victory over Cal State Northridge Sunday. Below: Junior defender Rachel Balaguer plays the ball.

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Red Raiders’ serve receive has proven to be their downfall as they have twice as many errors as its opponents.

Junior Kelsey Black leads the conference with 4.94 average points per set. Black is also second in kills, as she swings for 4.02 a set, 173 overall. She is first in service aces, an area where the Aggies are consistently dominant.

Sophomore middles Lindsey Miller and Alisia Kastmo have a big presence at the net, hitting .292 and .184 and averaging more than 2 kills per set.

The Aggies have struggled with blocking, so these girls will be counted on to improve the block and minimize balls getting through.

After losing a senior setter in 2009, Allie Sawatzky is stepping up and filling in some big shoes.

The Canadian freshman has 404 total assists, good enough for fourth in the conference.

Sawatzky was named Big 12 Rookie of the Week last week.

It is Aggie Ring Day at Reed Arena, so anyone who shows up wearing their ring will be admitted free to the game.

The Battalion The No. 5 Texas A&M women’s soccer team opens up Big 12 play at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Aggie Soccer Stadium against Colorado. The team will travel to Lincoln to take on Nebraska Sunday afternoon.

The Aggies closed out a tough nonconference schedule with the third shutout of the season in a dominating 5-0 win over Cal State Northridge last weekend, improving to 7-2 on the season. The only losses have come against No. 1 North Carolina in the season opener and No. 3 Portland. “We wanted to challenge ourselves in the nonconference part of the season. If you’re gonna lose a game, losing to a team against that is of that quality, and a team you have a chance to play again later in the season, that’s not as bad as it could be,� said Head Coach G. Guerrieri.

Texas A&M faces Nebraska and Colorado for the last time in conference play as both schools have elected to leave the Big 12 after this season. “The fact that those two teams are going to go for what they perceive as greener pastures is fine,� Guerrieri said. “Nebraska has never done much but try to break our legs in the past anyway — I’m half kidding about that. I think Nebraska in the Big 10 is a good fit, and Colorado in the Pac 10 is a good fit.�

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two teams now gone from next year’s schedule, Texas A&M has a unique opportunity to compete against highly ranked nonconference teams. Heading into this weekend, however, 2010 is on the minds of the players. “We’re out here working as hard as we can to win that ring,� said sophomore defender Mary Grace Schmidt. “We have a lot of older players on our team this year; we don’t have a lot of freshmen, so we know what it takes to win, and we’re ready to do it.�

Sophomore midfielder Beth West echoed similar sentiments. “Coming in my freshman year, we were coming off back to back to back Big 12 Championships, so it was kind of disappointing to come in and not win one,� West said. “That has really been driving us to work harder.�

The Buffaloes (5-4) are coming off a double-overtime 1-0 win against then No. 10 UCLA. The Huskers (7-2), predicted to finish 2nd behind A&M in preseason Big 12 polls, boasts the 2009 conference point leader and offensive player of the year in sophomore Morgan Marlborough. Aggie senior Alyssa Mautz is tied with Marlborough with a conference-leading seven goals. “You have an ultra physical team with Nebraska and then a very good, very talented, well-conditioned Colorado team,� Guerrieri said. “Coming into conference, we’ve learned we don’t have to do as much with forcing the plays.

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The goals include the creation of an independent Palestinian state and security for Israel.

But direct talks between the leaders, which just resumed three weeks ago in Washington, have stalled over the impending end of an Israeli freeze on West Bank settlement construction.

Obama challenged Israel to relent, calling for the moratorium to be extended, knowing that would help keep Abbas at the table. “Talks should press on until completed,” Obama said as his administration worked to hold them together.

Separately, senior Palestinian officials said Thursday that their side would consider an expected U.S.-brokered compromise on Israeli settlement-building.

On a broader level, Obama summoned the world to show leadership, and he showed as much impatience over the familiar Mideast grievances and the latest obstacles as do skeptics of the process. He implored everyone to stop wasting time and drew a rare round of applause by saying there could be an agreement to secure a Palestinian state by next September’s U.N. gathering.

“We can say that this time will be different — that this time we will not let terror, or turbulence, or posturing, or petty politics stand in the way,” Obama said.

Netanyahu did not attend, and Israel’s seat in the U.N. hall sat empty because it was a Jewish holiday.

Abbas was present, listening to the president through a translator’s earphone. Obama made no mention of the militant Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip and refuses to accept Israel’s right to exist.

In calling on the world to get more involved, Obama assigned responsibilities to nations beyond those at the negotiating table. He made a particular plea for “friends of the Palestinians” to support the creation of a new state providing political and financial support, and to “stop trying to tear Israel down.”

An attentive audience packed the hall to hear Obama speak for just more than a half-hour, twice his allotted time. Some dignitaries took pictures with their cell phones.

The speech was the centerpiece of a day in which Obama was also meeting individually with Chinese and Japanese leaders and introducing first Lady Michelle Obama at a meeting of Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative.

Obama’s capping argument was for open civil societies across the globe: freedom of assembly, of the press, of the Internet. He said no government delivers more for people than democracy, echoing a frequent U.N. message of his predecessor.

“The ultimate success of democracy in the world won’t come because the United States dictates it,” Obama said. “It will come because individual citizens demand a say in how they are governed.”

and its Palestinian neighbors reverberates throughout the region in ways that directly undermine U.S. strategic interests in the region. More specifically, the points outlined manifest themselves into the continuation of two major tenets of global Salafi and Jihadist operations: recruitment and fundraising.

In 2002, Osama bin Laden released a declaration, “Letter to America,” which outlined specific grievances against U.S. foreign policy that he believed justified violent attacks against American citizens, including 9/11. Despite the title “Letter to America,” bin Laden uses his high publicity press releases as a medium of spreading his ideology to receptive audiences, rather than an explanation to the typical American.

Out of his 22 “justifications,” 11 of them directly mentioned Palestine. Using rhetoric such as, “The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.” Considering the fact that the first Gulf War and the spreading of Shari’a law were mentioned only a single time each, it is clear that bin Laden views this as the most critical issue to its campaign against the U.S., and uses the issue to mobilize support and recruitment.

But it is difficult to quantify the correlation between Palestinian discontent and recruitment. However, there is another indicator that is much easier to measure.

Money. On Sept. 23, 2001, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13224, which implemented sweeping programs to freeze financial assets of known terrorist organizations. By 2003, $200 million already had been seized. Almost all of this money was being laundered through specific charity organizations. One of the more prominent ones was based right here in the state of Texas. The Holy Land

Foundation was convicted for raising more than $13 million, which was distributed to Hamas. According to the U.S. Department of Treasury website, The Holy Land Foundation, in addition to dozens of other charities spread across the U.S. and Europe, appeals to sympathies for the Palestinian struggle and promises the deliverance of humanitarian aid and education to those suffering. Admittedly, these charities do provide some of the money for humanitarian aid to Palestinians, but they also divert a significant amount of the aid to funding specific terrorists operations, such as the al-Qassam Martyrs Brigade, in the case of The Holy Land Foundation. Although this particular organization focused primarily on funding Hamas, similar organizations divert money to terrorist operations spread across the globe, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

Are these people exploiting a sensitive issue in the Middle East in order to push a political agenda? You better believe it. But these ideologues constantly refer to the Palestinian issue again and again for one simple reason. It works. It resonates within the mind and soul of the Arab people. And if we care about what happens in the Middle East, then we need to pay attention to what they care about.

Whether you believe these connections are legitimate or justifiable is irrelevant.

Because these connections are real inside the minds of people who are willing to either open their wallets or take up the mantle of radical Islam. There is no magic key to the Middle East. No specific issue that if we just got right would set the rest of the region on track. American policy in the Middle East requires a comprehensive understanding of the people and issues. This issue is one we must take seriously. And as a democratic nation it is our civic duty to look at and understand these critical issues.

Learn about this issue, engage your friends about it because until we are willing to stand up and say that we believe this to be an important issue, the cycle of violence will continue.

OPAS

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The Manhattan Transfer performs at 7 p.m.

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college town.”

Prior to the group’s upcoming visit to Aggieland, the Manhattan Transfer has performed at venues around the globe.

“I think the most interesting performance was the first time we played at Moscow in Russia. We played at the Kremlin. And we played at the same stage where all the Russian political leaders would talk about destroying the U.S. during the Cold War. And as soon as we walked

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out, people were shouting out requests for songs.

And that really stands out to me because I just thought that was so wild,” Hauser said.

Even after a lengthy musical career, Hauser said he still looks forward to each performance.

“I always say that I don’t get paid for performing, I get paid to travel. And I make a living doing this. I could be working in an office, so it’s quite a blessing,” he said.

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