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Even though she may not be found guilty in the eyes of the court, she’ll have to live with the guilt of knowing whether or not she really did murder her own child. Jasmin Abraham, sophomore business administration major
The jury made a serious mistake, how much more proof do you need to convict her? Christopher Lee, sophomore geophysics major
Not guilty?! Are you serious?! This is like the OJ Simpson trial all over again. If she didn’t kill her kid, then who did? Nimroz Momin, senior industrial engineering major
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I think the case should have been looked into more deeply by the jury. Shanil Wazirali, senior human resources major
nation &world Casey Anthony not guilty ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Anthony’s eyes welled with tears and her lips trembled as the verdict was read once, twice and then a third time: “Not guilty” of killing her 2-yearold daughter, Caylee. Outside the courthouse, many in the crowd of 500 reacted with anger, chanting, “Justice for Caylee!” One man yelled, “Baby killer!”In perhaps the most disputed and dissected verdict since O.J. Anthony, 25, was convicted only of four misdemeanor counts of lying to investigators. Associated Press
The Battalion For the 13th year the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum presented their “I love America” event. However, for the first time ever, there were no fireworks to end the birth of America celebration. The day was filled with events that started off with a 4K “Fun Run” at 7 a.m. through Veterans Park and ended with the laser light show performance, instead of the traditional fireworks. The museum was free of charge to the public for families to come and enjoy all the exhibits and historical actors playing the famous figures through American history. “They come because they’re interested in the library, they’re interested in learning more the president and Mrs. Bush,” said Peggy Wright, a library docent. “It’s really a rewarding thing to do.” Students also worked through out the day to keep things running smoothly as over 5,000
guests arrived. “I have been working here for a year and a half, this is my second Fourth of July here,” said Noermila Cardenas, a senior sociology major. “Some people come here from the north to see the museum and enjoy the holiday, but it is mostly local people.” Several families, local and out of state, came dressed in patriotic colors to commemorate the day. “This is our ninth or tenth time in a row coming on the fourth. We come to the bush library quite a bit and every time we come we always find something that interests us and I hate to say it but I actually enjoyed the Red Dress part,” said Bennie Pate, a Bryan resident who came with his wife and son. Outside the museum were attractions to participate in. Live performances by the Kathy Ross Band and Jason Adams as Elvis with an F-16 flyover after the presentation of colors.
The crowd sits and waits for the laser light show to begin at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum to celebrate the Fourth of July on Monday.
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Adrian O’Hanlon III The Battalion A&M added another reputable assistant coach as Aggie Friday. Head Coach Pat Henry announced the track and field program hired Wendel McRaven on Friday. McRaven, coach at the University of Illinois for the past six years, replaces the vacancy left by former Dan Waters, A&M distance coach, who took the head coaching job at the University of Alabama. “I’m very pleased to hire Wendel,” said Henry. “He has had great experiences in coaching, and he has been a head coach as well. So, he understands all aspects of our sport. I feel he is a good fit for our staff.” Under McRaven, the Illinois men finished 11th in the NCAA Outdoor Championships and the young cross country team took fifth in the NCAA Midwest Regional. After all his success as a coach, McRaven still expressed his excitement for joining the national powerhouse established by Pat Henry’s A&M squads. “I’m really fired up to join the Texas A&M staff,” McRaven said. “It’s a great opportunity to be part of the nation’s premiere program. I’m looking forward to working with Coach Henry and the talented staff he has at Texas A&M. It’s a privilege to be part of such an outstanding program and help build on the legacy the program is starting to build.” See Coach on page 4
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Wendel McRaven was hired Friday as the track team’s assistant coach adding another valuable member to the team’s staff.
Amber Jaura The Battalion Campus has many places to offer to students. The libraries serve as homes when coursework gets tough and popular dining spots where you and your friends break for a bite to eat in between classes. So where can you go on-campus to view years of Aggie history in sports and memorabilia? The Texas A&M Sports Museum at the Zone in Kyle Field offers all this and more, standing as the only sports museum funded solely by former athletes. Cathy Capps is the director of the letterman’s association and part of the committee that puts together the sports museum. The committee consists of former A&M athletes of all different sports that come together to fundraise, design and determine the exhibitions of the museum. “We opened the doors in 2002. This is the tenth year it’s open. We had a capital campaign and raised 100 percent of the money for the museum just within our membership of former athletes, not from any outside or corporate donations,” Capps said. “They wanted to raise the money themselves and then give the museum back to the public and A&M as a gift to the university for all that they received as athletes here.” Capps said there are plans to renovate the museum
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Scattered throughout were concessions and games for kids as well as a chance to sit in a hot air balloon and ignite the fuel source to light up the night sky. “My personal favorite part of the celebration was the hot air balloon display. It was very unique and entertaining,� said Blanca Guerrero, a senior communication major. After the library closed the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra began to perform classic American tunes as well as a melody of their ballads. At 9:45 p.m., the orchestra began to play the Star Wars theme song as part of the beginning of the laser light show. Many guests were skeptical of the new edition being the first year fireworks.
“It’s a little bit disappointing, it’s a really good show and a lot of people enjoy it but with the burn ban we will just have to do with the laser show,� Cardenas said. Even families in the B-CS area were disheartened by the change due to the burn ban. “Of course we are disappointed there will be no fireworks, but it’s not just here it is everywhere so just have to accept that laser show,� Pate said. As the lights dimmed and the show ended a few short claps were heard as families followed it and onlookers began to pack up and make their way to the cars. The Fourth of July was over and the day filled with sights and sounds ended on a low note. “I come from a town where we have a fireworks show every year and it’s one of the best in Texas, so I’m used to getting the real deal experience on the Fourth of July,� Guerrero said.
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news for you campus First summer learning seminar exceeds expectations They came to Mays Business School to hear about “Business in a Turbulent Economy,” dozens of former and future business students, and they took away some lasting lessons – foremost, the importance of relationships with their fellow attendees and the presenters. The inaugural Mays Business School Summer Learning Seminar could not have gone more smoothly, says David W. Blackwell, associate dean for graduate programs and event coordinator. “Feedback from the participants was outstanding, and the presenters felt heard and understood. There were a lot of great questions and comments from the audience,” Blackwell recalls. Keynote presentations included “The Economic Outlook for Investors and Business Decision Makers” by Mark Dotzour, chief economist and research director of the Real Estate Center, and “Domestic and Global Economies and the Implications for Human Resources” by Asghar Zardkoohi, the T.J. Barlow Professor of Management. Other presentations ranged from demystifying the Federal Reserve to props for PowerPoint. Texas A&M News & Information Systems
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McRaven also coached at Kent State for nine seasons prior to the Illinois stint, serving five of those years as head coach. While there, he coached Kent State to five Mid-American Conference Championships on his way to five MAC Coach of the Year honors. He also earned USTCA Great Lakes men’s and women’s Coach of the Year awards and led the women’s cross country team to their first title. A&M continues the tradition of seeking talent in every sport as each hire this offseason has a good deal of experience. McRaven is no different.
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and bring in more interactive technology in the next few years. “Technology changes so quickly, ten years ago what we had in there was state of the art and now it’s completely outdated and we want to keep the museum fresh and relevant. Just give it a whole facelift,” Capps said. “We also have an opportunity to possibly have a new building on-campus, we’re waiting to see if that pans out, that’s a more ideal place for us to relocate the museum, to a larger area with more convenient parking for visitors, it would be close and on-campus but not as land locked so we’d have more space to do more interesting things with our exhibits.” Capps said the committee is made up of 13 former athletes who meet every year to keep the museum updated with current accomplishments. “One of the agreements we all made collectively as a group is once there is an accomplished showcased in the museum, it would never be taken down so we either have to reconfigure it or make more space, so that’s one of the challenges we have,” Capps said “We keep adding to it. That’s one of the reasons we want to integrate more interactive rather than static pictures. We’re winning championships left and right and we’ve got a lot of good things going on.” Capps said the one of her favorite parts of the museum is the wide display of all A&M sports. “What’s special about the museum is it’s not just a football or a basketball museum either, we have exhibits for all the sports, we have swimming and diving, and tennis and that’s something that was really important to our board of directors, that every sport had an area that they could showcase.” The sports museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. People who want to see Kyle Field can come through the sports museum and volunteers show visitors out to Kyle Field and give them history of the museum as they go. Ted Lowe, class of ’58 and a former yell leader, volunteers at the sports museum. He said after his career in the Air force and insurance business, he was fortunate enough to come back to A&M and take the opportunity to work on the museum. “I had the opportunity to be a junior yell leader, a head leader, with my classmates we had Greg as the coach, we had great football and around 2001 that was around the time the museum opened up and they were looking for volunteers so I took that opportunity. I love the school. It changed my life,” Lowe said. Lowe said the spirit section is a part of the museum he really enjoys showing incoming students as they attend their NSC. He said he believes any student who hasn’t seen the museum is missing out. Aneesa Karim, a senior sociology major, said that before graduating she intends to visit the museum. “A museum honoring A&M past and current achievements is definitely something I’d be interested in visiting” Karim said. “The legacy of A&M’s athletes and accomplishments lives on through the museum.”
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Solutions often look at efficiency in an institution or its relative quality, but perhaps the most detrimental and least questioned problem is our outdated and perverse obsession with a well-rounded education. This outdated model of education goes back to a time of plutocracy, when only elites could afford an education and upward mobility was difficult. The work force was poorly educated, illiterate and most jobs involved manual labor. Having any education separated one from the masses. The inherent problem with any policy seeking to be well-rounded, fair or balanced, is that real life is none of these things. An education in math or science intensive subjects are generally a better value. Ignoring this reality is why ideas like, “degrees are less valuable today,� are often misinterpreted or overstated. Our well-rounded education system makes another error in assuming the value of subjects are static over time. An example could be the common introductory history classes required for each student. Today’s students study history from the elementary level through the high school limiting the amount of new information a college student is likely to learn. Class sizes are in the hundreds and scantron tests are the norm. Collegiate history classes resemble a Jeopardy cram session far more than an intensive collegiate course designed to hone critical thinking skills. If these classes cannot be taught in a way which encourages broad understanding then what is the point? With the advent of the search engine, learning trivia is only a few clicks away. Why make students spend the time and money on a game show education. Wouldn’t it be better spent learning information more applicable in today’s economy, information that is actually higher level and not freely accessible? The final absurdity of a well-rounded education is the rational choices it encourages. Requiring students to fill out their education with subjects from political science, social sciences or humanities creates a collegiate
market for blow-off classes. It enables an attitude where, “my potential employers won’t care about this subject so I’ll take the easiest course.� Students regularly trade information on the easiest classes to fulfill this or that requirement turning a noble, if ignorant, goal of a balanced-education into a catalyst for lesser education. Rapid technological advancement with the advent of the internet and increasing globalization have changed the structural make up of the workforce. Technical knowledge and expertise are the future. A game show education is obsolete. Universities need to adjust to this new reality. There will be those who believe a wellrounded education is best. Old tropes like, “those who forget history are doomed to repeat it� will be regurgitated. Reforming educational requirements would be difficult to implement because of laws and the nature of education at competitive universities. Real reform takes time but it is never too soon to start looking at the very real problems and priorities in higher education today. It takes 120 hours to receive a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M. In economics, my major, I am required to take 33 hours of economics courses, including econometrics. That will be supplemented with six hours of math, which are certainly needed, three hours of statistics and three hours of English which are worthwhile but accompanied by additional hours studying relevant topics like Twilight. That puts me at 45 hours with 75 left to fill out in courses designed to give me a well rounded education. Almost 63 percent of my education will have almost nothing to do with my major. Many of these fillers will hone valuable skills like choosing between A, B, C, D and E. They will be filled with forgettable trivia accessible at the click of a mouse and ofteb easily learned by simple reading and having the slightest sense of curiosity. Higher education in the U.S. isn’t preparing students for the jobs that are available. We live and study in an outdated system which mistakenly places equal value on knowledge that isn’t equal. The best thing our education system could do is stop core curriculum requirements and take a long hard look at our educational priorities. With a more valuable and practical education students might get jobs paying well enough to become a well rounded individual. Taylor Wolken is a junior economics major and editor-in-chief of The Battalion
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