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Single China’s surplus potential of single men could cause future problems Jessica Orwig The Battalion China has a gender problem. Valentine’s Day isn’t the only romantic holiday in the world. Nov. 11 marks a day of celebration for anyone in China who’s single and ready to mingle. First celebrated in 1993, the Chinese pop culture holiday dubbed “Singles’ Day” is a time to enjoy singlehood or, conversely, to find love. However, for many Chinese men, bachelorhood will be the only companion they find on “Singles’ Day” or any other, according to a new study. When China experienced an industrialization era in the ’70s, the number of births per family dropped significantly. On average, women went from having six children in the ’60s to three in the ’70s before the one-child policy was implemented in 1978. With some exceptions, the one-child policy stipulates that urban Chinese families may have one child and rural families may have two if their first is a girl. Traditional Chinese culture favors sons for many reasons, including that sons carry on the family name and support their aging parents. So by limiting the number of children allowed per family, some couples go to great measures to ensure they have a son. See China on page 4 Jorge Montalvo and Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION
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Reasons for this are varied and disputed. However, Chinese culture dictates that boys are valued more than girls. Sons provide for the family, while daughters are often married off. Sons will care for their parents in old age, while daughters may move away and care for their in-laws instead. China’s one-child policy, which restricts Chinese families to one child each, further increases the value men hold over women. Parents are only allowed one child. As it is, men are preferred over women. If reproductive freedom could be exercised in China, then
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parents could rest assured a son would come along sooner or later. But that’s not an option. So, in order for Chinese families to combat the diminished value women face, sex-selective abortions take place at a rapid rate. In journalist Mara Hvistendahl’s book, “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men,” she said, “Some women were going in for scans halfway through their pregnancies. If they discovered their fetus was female, they would abort.” Abortion, under certain circumstances, is fine. Mass abortions catered to gender specificity are not. Women in every single culture must be valued.
“If 160 million women were missing from the U.S. population, you would notice — 160 million is more than the entire female population of the United States,” Hvistendahl said. “Imagine America’s women wiped out … Erase your wife and your daughter. Or erase yourself. Imagine this and you come close to picturing the problem.” How can we stand by and allow this to happen? Gendercide has severe consequences not only for China but also for the rest of the world. Time and time again, we have stood by and done nothing while the rest of the world has committed mass atrocities — the Holocaust, See Gendercide on page 3
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Barrett House The Battalion Campaign season has officially begun on campus as the six student body president candidates articulated their platforms during an introduction presented by the Election Commission and the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The candidates were given the opportunity to answer questions highlighting issues ranging from the move to the SEC to diversity initiatives. The questions also allowed
them to introduce who they are to the student body. Junior finance major John Claybrook said years from now people won’t know his name, but that doesn’t change the fact that he can make an impact on students during his time at Texas A&M University. “The thing that does matter is the impact that I can make on individuals, through caring for them and mentoring them,” Claybrook said. Jay Kapadia — THE BATTALION “A mantra that I’ve lived by The six student body president candidates participated in an introduction at George Bush See SBP on page 6 Library and Museum Monday night.
Chandler Smith The Battalion After the highlighting of an SEC rule requiring the reallocation of specific student seating at Kyle Field, Texas A&M University student representatives — including members of student government, the Corps of Cadets, and the Aggie band — met with Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin, among other university staff, Monday and concluded with a proposed compromise. As the SEC bylaws stand, student
Quick facts ◗ More than 30,000 seats are allocated to students currently. ◗ The diagrams discussed Monday increase student seating.
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MAILCALL From Jim Kinkennon Howdy! As a proud Aggie dad and a Tennessee Volunteer, I want to extend my welcome to Texas A&M into membership in the SEC. Some years ago, the outrageous lack of sportsmanship towards visiting teams at some SEC football venues made it necessary to make changes in football seating regulations so that some degree of civility towards visitors could be maintained. In response, the SEC required that the 25 rows behind visiting teams should not be occupied by the home team student seating. To comply with this request burdened the home team athletic departments. After contemplating various inconvenient seating plans, I believe the University of Tennessee Athletics Dept. decided to leave the fans where they were, and have the home and visiting teams change
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the Srebrenica massacre, the Rwandan genocide, while we, as Americans, were more interested in the O.J. Simpson trial than the mass murder of 800,000 people Fortunately for us, there’s hope. Elizabeth Witt, Class of 2011 and representative for All Girls Allowed, said there are many ways college students can get involved to end gendercide in China and around the world. All Girls Allowed is an organization created to rescue baby girls that have been sold into slavery, to educate people about the injustice of gendercide and to restore dignity and value to the lives of baby girls born in
sides of the field. Applying this plan to Kyle Field might be inconvenient in some ways. However, an advantage would be that the student body of Texas A&M would be able to literally stand behind their team, supporting them even more strongly, if that’s possible If every SEC school maintained the high standard of sportsmanship and friendliness that is part of the spirit of Aggieland, this rule would never have been needed. Rest assured that the rule is needed at some of the stadia the Aggie teams will regularly visit. It is not practical to have a rule for some SEC schools and not others. However, it does not appear to be necessary to interfere with the seating at Kyle Field that is part of the tradition of the Twelfth Man. It makes sense to put the Twelfth Man behind the team by moving the team bench to a position in front of the Twelfth Man.
China. “All Girls Allowed has specifically chosen gendercide because [founder] Chai Ling, is a native of China and was moved to start a movement that would combat something that she realized was becoming a huge issue in her country,” Witt said. To start fighting gendercide, All Girls Allowed is collecting signatures on a petition to send to President Barack Obama and Congress to take actions to end China’s One Child Policy and the forced abortions the policy encourages.
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world’s HIV positive individuals reside. A rampant virus like HIV Continued from page 1 may be only one of the many problems that thrive within Due to the cultural preferthese bachelor ghettos, said ence for sons, China has seen Valerie Hudson, a professor at a significant increase in the Everybody counts on having safe, ratio of boys to girls born each the Bush School of Government and Public Service, who year. In 1990 there were 115 effective medicine for anything from boys born for every 100 girls in studies certain repercussions of the common cold to heart disease. But China. That number increased sex ratio imbalances in counmaking sure medications are safe is a tries like China and India. to 120 boys in 2010. Most complex and careful process. “Violence against women countries have a sex ratio berises, including chattel markets tween 104 and 107 boys born At PPD, we count on healthy volunteers for women and sex slavery, to every 100 girls. to help evaluate medications being both within-country and crossChina’s imbalance of the developed – maybe like you. You must border,â€? Hudson said. “Fursexes at birth has resulted in a meet certain requirements to qualify, thermore, the suicide rate for voluminous surplus of young including a free medical exam and women increases significantly men, a team of Texas A&M screening tests. We have research University scientists reported in when sex ratios are this high ‌ a paper published last Decem- In addition, there will be fertilstudies available in many different ity effects, because the percent ber. The researchers said that lengths, and you’ll ďŹ nd current studies of persons of childbearing age around 41 million men who listed here weekly. are at or nearing their mid-20s, that are females is dropping steadily over time.â€? the acceptable (and expected) PPD has been conducting research As a result, there will marrying age, will be unable to studies in Austin for more than 25 years. likely be fewer children in find a bride. Call today to ďŹ nd out more. China’s future if the number Moreover, if China of childbearing-aged women maintains its current sex ratio continues to drop and the oneimbalance, the country will child policy remains in effect. have an estimated 55 million Professor of economics Dennis lifelong bachelors by the year 2020. That is more than twice Jansen said the consequences of this are twofold: China will the population of Texas. become an aging country with “Countries have never more elders than adults, and experienced this level of bachelorhood,â€? said sociology the country’s labor force will professor Dudley Poston, who suffer. AgeAge Compensation Requirements Timeline “A rapidly aging China led the study. “Never have there been millions upon mil- means that young workers will Thu. 16 Feb. through Sat. 18 Feb. lions like we see in China right be in relatively short supply, Healthy & Thu. 23 Feb. through Sat. 25 Feb. and wages will rise relative to now.â€? Non-Smoking Up to Men and Women Thu. 1 Mar. through Sat. 3 Mar. the past and relative to trading BMI between 19 and 30 $2500 While bachelorhood is 18 to 50 Weigh more than 110 lbs Thu. 8 Mar. through Sat. 10 Mar. partners,â€? Jansen said. “China not the worst scenario for an Outpatient Visit: 16 Mar. has relied on its low labor costs, individual, tens of millions of and this advantage is diminishbachelors can spell trouble for Healthy & Fri. 24 Feb. through Mon. 27 Feb. Men and Women Up to ing with economic developa country. Non-Smoking Fri. 2 Mar. through Mon. 5 Mar. 18 to 65 $1800 ment and will further diminish BMI between 18 and 33 Outpatient Visit: 8 Mar. “I’m mainly worried about the spread of STDs like HIV,â€? with the aging population. So Healthy & this will likely lead to a lower Poston said. “These men will Men and Postmenopausal Wed. 29 Feb. through Sun. 4 Mar. Non-Smoking Up to growth rate in China over most likely be poor and uneduor Surgically Sterile Women Outpatient Visits: 7 & 14 Mar. BMI between 19 and 30 $1700 time.â€? cated. And with no wife to be 18 to 50 Weigh between 110 and 220 lbs. Hudson said even if the with, I think they will move Chinese government removes to the large cities in China Healthy & or alters the one-child policy, and settle in bachelor ghettos Men and Women Up to Thu. 8 Mar. through Sat. 10 Mar. Non-Smoking the country’s cultural preferwhere commercial sex will be 18 to 55 $1500 BMI between 19 and 29 Thu. 15 Mar. through Sat. 17 Mar. ence for sons still poses a major available ‌ HIV can be very Weigh at least 120 lbs. obstacle for equalizing the sex prevalent in those areas.â€? ratio imbalance. Poston is not the only one Healthy & Men and Women Up to Fri. 9 Mar. through Mon. 12 Mar. “If China were to go to, concerned with such a develNon-Smoking 18 to 45 $2000 Multiple Outpatient Visits say, a two-child policy, the sex BMI between 18 and 30 opment. In similar research, ratio would still be unnatural scientists suggest that China because those who have a girl could easily become a haven XXX QQEJ DPN t t 5FYU i11%w UP UP SFDFJWF TUVEZ JOGPSNBUJPO for the HIV/AIDS virus similar first will make darn sure the second child is a boy,â€? she said. to that found in sub-Saharan Africa where 70 percent of the “Furthermore, in experiments that the Chinese government has performed in certain locations, even when told they can have two children, most couples preferred to still have Be it poetry, literature, art, music, design graphics, one child and to have that child photography, a critique, thoughts, or anything creative be male.â€? and unique that you have done, Explorations the Texas The desire for fewer chilA&M Undergraduate Journal welcomes your submission. All forms of creative pieces are welcome! dren was first noticed in the Please, visit explorations.tamu.edu ’70s when Chinese industrialto review our submissions guidelines. ization took off. Although the Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2012 desire for fewer children may have negative consequences, industrialization has given women more opportunity to contribute to their families. Sons may still be favored, but the inclination is becoming less pronounced in some areas of Questions? the country, said a Texas A&M Explorations@tamu.edu student who is from China and wished to remain anonymous. “In the rural areas, son preference is still prevalent,â€? the student said. “But daughters are not so discriminated against SCULPTURE ... Some traditional families still wish to have a son, but it doesn’t mean they don’t like their daughter. â€? Moreover, a smaller family can also lead to better nutrition and a better education for each child, the student said. 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Joanna Raines The Battalion There are many factors to consider in a potential significant other — common interests, physical appearance, personality traits and hobbies. For some, religion is one of these factors while, for others, faith is not on the checklist. Paul Eastwick, an assistant professor in the psychology department who studied romantic relationships, said that while religion is a contributing factor to dating decisions, it is a “deal breaker” much less often than one might expect. Often people of the same religion date each other because they spend time together. “In many ways, religions are like in-groups — if you are very religious, you probably spend a lot of time doing church-related activities, so you run into members of your church or denomination very frequently. So when two people of the same religion end up dating each other, it’s often a function of familiarity or proximity, just like with any other in-group,” Eastwick said. Jason Wise, senior physics major
and vice president of education for the Student Board at the Chabad Jewish Center, said he will only date Jewish women. “Being Jewish and having a Jewish wife is a value I have been raised with,” Wise said. Mattie Griffith, senior psychology major, is a Christian, and said she would not consider dating a member of another religion. “In my marriage, I want my husband to be a spiritual leader who inspires and challenges me to strive for more intimacy with and knowledge of God. That man, therefore, must love, seek and follow the same God that I do,” Griffith said. Wise said he has other Jewish friends who do not share his preferences of dating within the religion. Wise said Jewish students are more prone to maintain the value of marrying within the Jewish faith. He said he does have Jewish friends who want to find the person who is right for them, not necessarily the Jewish person who is right for them. Luis Fayad, sophomore history major and president of Texas A&M
Atheist and Agnostic student group, said he would not be opposed to dating someone of faith. He said he finds it close-minded when people use religion as a means of restricting dating prospects. However, he does not think he would convert to maintain a dating relationship. “When considering a potential mate, it’s important to take religion into account,” Eastwick said. “If a member of the pair is devout in his or her beliefs, this could signal trouble in the future for a mixed religion relationship.” Overall, Eastwick said, religion is a less important factor to consider. “There is some data suggesting that religious similarity predicts marital satisfaction, but in general such the effects of that similarity tend to be on the small side,” Eastwick said. Eastwick said more important factors to consider before committing to a lifelong relationship are how the couple handles conflict, if they can handle substantial stressors to the relationship and if they are self-controlled and compromising.
The Battalion Amid mixed reviews and emotions, “The Vow” made $41.7 million nationwide in its first weekend. The College Station Cinemark ran “The Vow” in eight theatres between the hours of midnight and 2 a.m. on opening day, Friday February 10. Out of those eight theatres, seven sold out, and Cinemark presold more than 500 tickets. According to Cinemark’s assistant manager, the theatre sold 1,298 tickets in one night. Premiere Cinema in Bryan ran “The Vow” in two theatres and sold out in one. The Premiere’s assistant manager said the other theatre was more than a third full. A heart-tugging chick flick full of love, grief and hope, the film brings together the stars of The Notebook and Dear John — just in time for Valentine’s Day. “The Vow” is based on a newlywed couple, Paige (Rachel McAdams) and Leo (Channing Tatum). A car accident puts Paige in a coma. When she wakes up with severe memory loss, Leo strives and struggles to win her heart back. The storyline is addicting and poignant. Moviegoers were also surprised with the lack of romance in the
film. All in all, both viewers and critics say “The Vow” was definitely worth seeing, but were let down by the lack of affection. Tickets were sold out everywhere, and many viewers had to purchase their tickets ahead of time to get a seat. Leaving the theatre, many viewers were laughing and quoting the characters; others were criticizing a puzzling ending. “I was just a little disappointed in the ending,” junior finance major Katherine Larson said. Audiences sought closure after everything that happened throughout the film, but it didn’t end like most hoped it would. “It had a good storyline but could have ended stronger,” junior sports management major Brandon Hollek said. Many viewers have gone to see “The Vow” on date nights. “I saw ‘The Vow’ with my boyfriend and it ended up being a great date night movie,” senior allied health major Allison Hollek said. “He didn’t want to go at first but ended up enjoying it. There were some pretty good laughs in it.” According to MTV movie reviews “The Vow” was so well received that Fox pushed back the opening day of This Means War to avoid competition.
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for the past few years is to leave things better than I found them, and there’s an incredible legacy at this University of people taking the steps to make sure that this University is better than when they found it.” Junior political science major Thomas McNutt plans to leave his mark so that he can come back in the future and see his, and the student body’s, accomplishments. “Right now I think the things we can improve on campus affect the individual lives of students on campus, but also set precedents for those improvements to continue so we can come back 10 years from now and see what we started in the coming year,” McNutt said. Senior history and political science major Brody Smith com-
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means to serve; it means to be there.” Junior political science major Drew Barber wants to utilize time spent at Texas A&M to improve the University. “I’ve seen the things that are done well, I’ve seen the things that are done poorly and I’ve seen things that are just ugly,” Barber said. “We have some goals that we can get accomplished next year and ensure that our University moves forward and that we continue to be the best public university in the country.” Junior political science major Sam Hodges said that, while experience is
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Sexual Responsibility Week brings panels, discussions Luz Moreno-Lozano The Battalion To coincide with the romances of Valentine’s Day, February is also known as National Condom Month, and Feb. 13-17 is Sexual Responsibility Week. Student Health Services has planned many events this week to raise awareness of sexual responsibility among students. “With 57 percent of surveyed Texas A&M students in spring of 2011 reporting that they have engaged in vaginal sex, there is the potential for transmission of [sexually transmitted infections] — and prevention is key to stopping the spread,� said Traci Toone, health educator for Student Health Services. Campuses across the nation are campaigning for Sexual Responsibility Week, which is about considering how to make responsible sexual decisions. “Sexual responsibility can be improved on campus by being open to the discussion of sex and sexuality,� said Morgan Hiser, Aggie REACH president and senior health major. “It is important to be respectful of others and realize that sexual health is an extremely important aspect to anyone’s health, and is worth being informed about.� According to the CDC, one in two sexually active young people will get a sexually transmitted infection by age 25. The American Social Health Association reported that in the U.S. there are approximately 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections annually — about half of which occur among youth ages 15-24. Sexually transmitted infections often lack noticeable symptoms and can be contracted from partners who don’t have a clue they have an infection. Untreated sexually transmitted infections can cause a host of medical complications, including
infertility. Research overwhelmingly shows the value of condoms in reducing transmission risks with a host of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and chlamydia. Also, condom use is linked with lower rates of HPV infection and cervical cancer among women. “This week’s events aim to provide students with multiple opportunities to learn more about sexual health,� said Lauren Dorsett, Aggie REACH advisor and event coordinator. “We hope students can take away the message that sexual health is not just the act; it is a major part of human development, and with enough knowledge students can make the healthiest decisions for themselves.� A panel of experts will host a “Take Heart� discussion in Rudder 601 on Tuesday. Additionally, free, confidential HIV and Syphilis testing will be offered from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on the second floor of Rudder Tower on Tuesday. “It’s important that students know how to make healthy, responsible decisions about their sexual health, as those decisions could affect many facets of their lives now and in the future,� Dorsett said. Aggie REACH, a student health organization that focuses on health issues and acts as an extension of Student Health Services, will be distributing free condoms on Feb. 14 and Feb. 16. Throughout the week, Aggie REACH will be hosting several “Sex in the Dark� presentations in residence halls to allow students the opportunity to ask questions from certified peer educators to expand their knowledge and learn about resources available to them. “Aggie REACH hopes to improve sexual responsibility by being open to talk about things,� Hiser said.
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