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“I don’t see any problem with A&M starting its own program.” Stephen Brigaitis, senior accounting major
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“I think there would be a lot of competition. Texas has a few really good law schools already.”
“I think that A&M should establish a PreLaw Curriculum first to help prepare students.”
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The board of regents will meet today and Friday to tackle a long list of items regarding the A&M system. One item creating significant buzz is the Big 12 Conference and the Longhorn Network. Other items include renewing Mike Sherman’s contract and the possible approval of another construction project. The project proposes tearing down and replacing Moore, Crocker and McInnis halls with one five story $68 million Northside Residence Hall. If approved construction would begin in August with a target completion date of 2013.
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A sketch of the “house of the future” with its design that uses the earth’s natural elements to help power the house.
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Military lawyers lead case FORT HOOD — The Army psychiatrist who faces the death penalty in the Fort Hood shooting rampage will be represented by three military lawyers after he unexpectedly severed ties with his civilian attorney Wednesday. Maj. Nidal Hasan told a judge during an arraignment hearing that he had released his civilian defense attorney and wanted to be represented by three military attorneys, including two who already had been on his defense team.
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The architecture students started looking at ways to take existing technology and incorporate it into the construction of new buildings during an inaugural Mitchell Lab Visiting Designer Program and partnered with Emergent, an organization dedicated to architectural research based in Los Angeles. “This project was a housing prototype called ‘house for the future’ and the idea behind it was part of Mitchell Lab and [its] ways of investigating new technology with new ideas about architecture,” said Gabriel Esquivel, an assistant professor of architecture and project director. This project involved multiple A&M students who had the chance to design and work with big name companies in producing the prototype.
A view from the inside of the prototype helps the house’s designers envision the final product.
“It was a combination of several students; it was not only third year [students], it was a combination of second year students, third year students and fourth year students, so it’s a really vertical studio,” Esquivel said. “It was approximately six students from second year, 10 students from third year and four students from fourth year so it was a very large project.” Mitchell Rocheleau, class of 2011, worked closely with the Los Angeles firm and was a vital part in the project’s completion. “My part was to serve as a representative of the firm in Los Angeles that we worked with,” Rocheleau said. “I worked there previously and that was our partners that we did the project with.”
Students were grateful for getting a chance to work on something that could change house design forever. “What I liked about it was that no other sophomores, probably in the United States, at a undergraduate level were doing what we were doing. We were the emerging group of students from the University trying to put A&M on the map it was interesting,” said Dylan Weiser, a junior environmental design major. The house does not use common materials like wood, brick or steel for its construction. The architecture team at the University spent approximately seven weeks to complete the project, Esquivel said. See Future on page 4
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full-time position. Three of the jobs to be cut will be through retirement or an acceptance of a new position. The decisions do not reflect the job performance of the affected individuals, Neely said. “I genuinely appreciate and respect their dedicated service,” he said. “Our hardworking employees are our very foundation, and this difficulty action is taken only as a last resort after an exhaustive review of our entire organization. It is one of the saddest and most painful decisions of my professional career, but I firmly believe it is the right decision for our long-term fiscal health.” The filled positions that have See Jobs on page 4
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The Battalion Seven months after ESPN and the University of Texas announced their 20-year, $300 million partnership to form an unprecedented 24-hour news channel called The Longhorn Network, A&M has shown little interest in striking a similar deal to step out of the shadow of its financially dominant rival. The future is grim for all Big 12 members not sporting burnt orange, but an added agenda item for the A&M System Board of Regents comes as a flash of hope for Aggie fans. Jason Cook, chief communications officer at the University, confirmed to The Battalion on Wednesday that the board of regents will be briefed on the legal matters pertaining to recent developments within the Big 12 Conference—presumably the formation of the menacing Longhorn Network. Cook verified that the agenda item is informational, where the board will discuss the item in executive session. He
Schedule ◗ The Longhorn Network is scheduled to begin programming Aug. 26 with a two-hour show from the UT campus. The $300 million partnership between ESPN, UT and IMG College and is signed for a 20-year deal.
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We are interacting with a variety of different media companies and we know that we will have potentially a different model than the one that people keep hearing about in regards to the one at the University of Texas.” Joe Casigilone University of Oklahoma athletic director something that could have more of a 24hour a day, seven day a week presence, although it might vary for that.” OU has been in hot pursuit of a 24hour channel since getting permission a year ago when ESPN agreed to pay UT $15 million a year and help with the start-up costs of establishing the network. Although Texas already had production facilities in place—like OU, A&M and most universities across the nation— ESPN gave the Longhorns some peace of mind by paying for additional staff and production equipment. Oklahoma is actively competing with the Longhorns, or is it chasing? Give OU its props for having the guts to explore similar venues, but at this point it looks like a dog chasing a car. The dog will put all its energy into chasing the car, but it will return to the porch to anxiously await the passing of another shiny car. Castiglione told newsok.com that the school is cautiously preparing for advancements in news technology before signing a contract. Aggie fans have to wonder if A&M officials are also taking precautionary measures or if they are just chasing another shiny car.
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news for you texas Perry courts potential fundraisers AUSTIN — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has met privately with potential fundraisers in Los Angeles as he nears a decision on whether to enter the 2012 presidential race. About 30 people joined the conservative Republican at a Century City neighborhood hotel Wednesday at an event coordinated by influential fundraiser Renee Croce, who helped raise millions of dollars for former California Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pete Wilson. Perry has been traveling the nation to gauge his support among party loyalists and donors, and fashion the framework of what could become a national campaign.
nation &world 37 arrested in Guinea after coup attempt CONAKRY, Guinea— At least 37 soldiers have been arrested in a wave of detentions in Guinea the day after gunmen nearly killed the country’s first democratically elected leader, pounding his house with rockets. Many of the officers who are being held have ties to Guinea’s past two military rulers, said a military official who confirmed the arrests Wednesday asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press. They include a bodyguard and a minister in the military government of Capt. Moussa ‘Dadis’ Camara, who seized power in a 2008 coup and was ousted a year later. Also among the group is the head of the army under Gen. Sekouba Konate, who succeeded Camara. It was Konate who surprised the world by agreeing to hand over power to civilians in elections last November. President Alpha Conde, who won the vote, initially enjoyed the backing of the military whose members are largely from his own ethnic group. The United States condemned the attempt on Conde’s life in a statement Wednesday.
Famine strikes Somalia NAIROBI, Kenya — Tens of thousands of Somalis are feared dead in the world’s worst famine in a generation, the United Nations said, and the U.S. said it will allow emergency funds to be spent in areas controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants as long as the fighters do not interfere with aid distributions. Exhausted, rail-thin women are stumbling into refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia with dead babies and bleeding feet, having left weaker family members behind along the way. “Somalia is facing its worst food security crisis in the last 20 years,” Mark Bowden, the U.N.’s top official in charge of humanitarian aid in Somalia, said Wednesday. “This desperate situation requires urgent action to save lives ... it’s likely that conditions will deteriorate further in six months.” The crisis is the worst since 1991-92, when hundreds of thousands of Somalis starved to death, Bowden said. That famine prompted intervention by an international peacekeeping force, eventually pulled out after two American Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in 1993. Associated Press
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“[The house] is not really using materials you would traditional see in like a suburban house the house is actually constructed out of a carbon fiber layup process so its basically layers of resin and carbon fiber, similar to what you would see in sailboats construction, cars and that type of thing,� Rocheleau said. “It’s a process of using the multiple layers variable thickness in these layups to achieve structural stability in places were we need it to hold up.� Using today’s technology, Tom Wiscombe, founder of Emergent and Esquivel created the house prototype. The team used a grey-water system where water is sent into a pump and storage room where it is purified and injected with phosphate powder a catalyst for the photosynthetic reaction. Water dissolves the phosphate and is pumped through the booms into polycarbonate bubbles within the opaque shell of the house. An artificial solar leaf uses sunlight to power the lithium battery complex in an electrical room. These batteries will charge during sunlight hours when the reaction occurs and each leaf can produce 45 hours of energy. The students at the University put in many hours to see this project through and were happy to see the results of their labor. “The fact that we were with the project from start to finish. Figuring out the mechanical, electrical and plumping and all the things involved,� Rocheleau said. “To see a project done that way from its original roots all the way to its finished product was amazing.�
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