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Wildfire relief efforts Delta Tau Delta will be collecting donations and selling Robert Earl Keen CDs this week for wildfire relief efforts. Students can stop by from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today at Koldus Plaza, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at Wehner Plaza and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at West Campus Library. There will also be a donation drop off during the same times in front of The Lofts at Wolf Pen Creek. Amber Jaura, Staff Writer
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Caitlin Red, a senior international studi studies major, has taken her collegiate sp specialization to heart in the island nation of Madagascar. “I “I’m interning with a Chr Christian ministry called Operation Op Mobilization,” Re Red said. “They have a missions team here in M Madagascar,” Red said. ““And I’m doing some ccommunications work ffor them. It’s kind of like a journalism position.” Caitlin’s study abroad ttrip started with visits to SSouth Africa and Zambia, w where she got to know th the locals before starting
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John Tee The Battalion The summer of 2011 has gone and school has started. For David Glasheen, a senior history and Russian double major, it was a summer to remember. Glasheen traveled to Russia with CIEE, a nonprofit organization that organizes student sudy abroad trips. Requirements included at least one year of Russian language classes because students had to interact with the locals who speak very little English. “You had to have at least some Russian. We had placement tests,” Glasheen said. Much like the language, Glasheen
Popular Catholic musician Matt Maher is visiting College Station this weekend. Learn about Maher’s journey to the top of the charts and what he thinks of true American worship.
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Senate convened last week for the first time in months. Columnist Naila Dhanani weighs in on what she saw at the meeting and what students should expect from their elected representatives this semester.
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Medical memories Luz Moreno-Lozano The Battalion Gabriela Pina, junior school health major, traveled to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic this summer in a five-week program. The Memorial Student Cecneter’s L.T. Jordan Institute offers the Internship Living Abroad Program that gave Pina the opportunity to work in a hospital and receive a one-hour course credit for her experience.
“I wanted to study abroad to get that type of exposure,” Pina said. Working at the “Hospital Infantil Dr. Robert Reid Cabral,” a hospital for infants and young children, Pina interned with five others, rotating between three different services: emergencies, surgery and consultation. Pina said coupling an international experience with See Dominican on page 2
The T he Battalion For five weeks this summer, C Chris Standley, a senior aerospace engineering major, studied abroad in Brazil where he visited Sao Paulo, Rio de Janiero, Petropolis, Manaus, Campinas and Foz de Iguacu. “I have never traveled outside the country, and I figured this was my best opportunity to do so,” Standley said. “We also got 12 hours of class credit from our two classes, rocket propulsion and material failure modes, as well as six hours of ICDs [international cultural and diversity credits].” Standley said Brazil has many different customs and is mostly famous for its culture, music and food. “Some of the music was the exact same as ours, mostly in pop culture, but we also went to a samba club to take See Brazil on page 4
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Career Center welcomes busy semester Justin Mathers The Battalion Engineering majors crossed the railroad tracks in droves Tuesday, headed for Reed Arena and day one of the engineering career fair. It was the first of three days of career fairs on campus this week, with the engineering fair continuing Wednesday and the science career fair Thursday in Rudder Tower. With these events now in full swing,
it is open house at the Career Center. Leigh Turner, Career Center executive director, greets students who stop by with a smile and a small koozie filled with information about the services that her organization offers students. She also has good news for students: despite the economy, recruiters are flocking to A&M. “We’re absolutely swamped with students looking for career advice and
employers looking for potential employees,” Turner said. “We’re spread out all over campus working to meet all the demand. And with all of the career fairs coming up soon it’s only going to get busier around here.” The career fairs, many of which have been running more than 13 years, continue to attract top multinational companies. More than 100 employers and graduate schools sent representatives to
the fair, and 74 are scheduled to participate in the science career fair. The fairs are a staple of the Career Center’s annual activities, introducing students to hiring businesses. Officials said making these connections and bridging gaps is a central mission for the Center. Patricia Barron, career coordinator for Liberal Arts majors, has been pleased See Fair on page 8
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Equality bus rolls into town O’Dell Harmon Jr. The Battalion The “On the Road to Equality” bus tour stopped in G. Rollie White Plaza Tuesday to address gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights Tuesday. GLBT Aggies worked with a nonprofit group, the Human Rights Campaign, to bring the bus tour to town. The event included free frozen yogurt, prizes, support material and guest speakers from
around the country who told their stories. “The Human Rights Campaign has been around since the 1980s as an organization, but this is the first time we have ever done a bus tour,” said Candace GingrichJones, youth and campus outreach associate director for the Human Rights Campaign. “We’ve done polling, the research, we know anecdotally that there is support out there; it’s just about engaging people publicly about that sup-
port.” Event organizers stopped students walking through the hightraffic area to talk about equality for GLBT students and the importance of ending hostility toward GLBT students. Camden Breeding, senior electrical engineering major and GLBT Aggies president, said he was there to help and offer support. “The whole point of the Road See Equality on page 3
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her many mission trips in Madagascar. “I’m writing stories about their different ministries to the people here in Madagascar, like micro-finance and skills training,� Red said. Red records these stories a blog that chronicles her travels for people back in the states; in a way, bringing them to Southeast Africa through the internet. Many students at the University study abroad to learn, research gain insight and ex-
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perience the rest of the world. Caitlin said she is using the experience to give back by spreading her faith. She wanted to experience a different culture and impact the world as an Aggie. “I came into A&M with a lot of hours already finished, so I didn’t mind taking a semester off, essentially,� Red said. Towards her goal, Red said she feels she has already made an impact in some ways, and wishes to continue her work and change hearts and minds before returning home. “I have been in Antananarivo (Madagascar) for only one week, and several times
already I’ve been approached by fellow believers telling me that my presence here has encouraged them,� Red said. “Encouragement is a word often thrown around in Christian circles, but sometimes I find that the true depth of the word has been lost.� For Red, the experience became especially personal when a friend put her actions in global context. “One new friend here in Madagascar told me ‘Just your being here gives me strength to carry on in ministry, because I know that someone across the world cares,’� Red said.
Pina said, many people speak English and there are shopping malls like the ones found in the U.S. The many historical markings, however, give the nation a distinct flavor and remind locals and tourists of the entrance to the new world and Christopher Columbus’ journey. “There’s definitely a lot of culture and American influence,� Pina said. “This was great exposure to a different way of living.� “The exposure really helped,� Pina said. “That’s the path I want to take.� Living in the Dominican Republic with a host family and two other Aggies, Pina also had the chance to go on two excursions. She traveled to the beach at Punta Cana, to the north to Samana, and even went dancing in La Romana. They were served three meals a day starting with a light breakfast, heavy lunch and
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“Everyone is always asking ‘Why does Christian music always sound the same?’ I wanted to make an American worship record. There is something about bluegrass and rock n’ roll that’s in the DNA of our culture.
Prolific Christian songwriter to perform in College Station Joe Terrell The Battalion Famous for penning worship anthems like “Your Grace is Enough” and “Christ is Risen,” popular Catholic musician Matt Maher will be making a stop in College Station during his tour to promote his new worship project — The Love In Between. Maher was born and raised in Newfoundland, Canada. His parents recognized his musical ability early and enrolled him in piano lessons. Maher participated in several concert and jazz bands throughout his middle and high school years. “Music was a big part of the culture in Newfoundland,” Maher said. “Everyone would go out on the weekends to see all the local shows. Even I was in a garage band.” For a religious artist, Maher said his beginnings fell short of piety. “I was raised Catholic and would go to service every Sunday,” Maher said. “Then in high school I started only going on Christmas and Easter,” Maher said. After his parents’ separation when he was 20, Maher moved to Tempe, Ariz. and began to raise money with aims to attend college in Los Angeles so he could pursue a degree in film scoring. While in Arizona, he ran into one of his cousins, an encounter that would change the course of Maher’s life. “My cousin invited me to a local church, and that’s when I realized what was missing in my
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to Equality is for the Human Rights Campaign to go to some of the toughest states for GLBT equality,” Breeding said. Organizers said the bus tour visits conservative locations across the U.S. with their message. Citing the Princeton Review, Breeding said A&M’s reputation as the “single most homophobic public institution in the country” made it a logical destination.
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life,” Maher said. “I had a radical overnight conversion experience. From then on out, my relationship with God was the most important thing in my life.” After that night, Maher took steps to make sure his musical abilities were used. He abandoned his plans of going to Los Angeles and instead went to school at Arizona State University where he graduated with a degree in jazz pianos and music studies. He also became the worship leader at a local Catholic church and began to write worship music. “I was writing music for the church,” Maher said. “I wasn’t thinking that the songs I was writing would be sung all over the world.” Through Maher’s job as a worship leader, doors of opportunity started to open. “I was really inspired by the music that was coming out of the Passion movement,” Maher said. “Then [Chris] Tomlin recorded [my song] ‘Your Grace is Enough’ and that opened a big door. Soon after, I got a publishing contract with EMI record label. So it’s been a bunch of small steps. You need to have faith in what’s in front of you right now.” Maher has penned songs for Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Audrey Assad and Jars of Clay. In a five year span, he has toured extensively with various contemporary Christian artists including Third Day, Mercy Me, Tenth
Avenue North, Michael W. Smith and Leeland. “Melodies come to me by living life,” Maher said. “I never know when an idea from a song is going to arrive. It’s not instant. There are good things on this Earth that simply take time and songwriting is one of them. If you get an idea [for a song], then just sit on it for a while and let it age.” In 2009, Maher released his fifth studio album Alive Again, which peaked at number six on the Billboard Christian albums chart. The album produced three hit singles, “Alive Again,” “Hold Us Together,” and “Christ Is Risen.” On September 20th, Maher will release his sixth album, The Love In Between. The first single off the album, “Turn Around,” was released digitally and to radio stations at the end of the summer. “This is an album for people who think they are in an endless loop of bad decisions,” Maher said. “I intentionally made this record for a particular people struggling in America. It covers a lot of themes like money, addiction, naturalism and divorce.” Among many inspirations for the record, Maher points to the classic rock sounds of Tom Petty, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Beatles. “This album isn’t like a normal worship album,” Maher said. “Everyone is always asking, ‘Why does Christian music always sound the same?’ I wanted to make an
The tour’s focus was not limited to GLBT students. The group encouraged heterosexual students to join as allies or supporters of equal rights. Hudson Taylor, wrestling coach at Columbia University and founder of Athlete Ally, a nonprofit organization promoting equality in gender identity and expression, attended the event to talk about being an ally to the GLBT community. “Truthfully, for a long time I wasn’t speaking out. I was complacent as I heard homophobic and derogatory language,” Taylor said.
“It wasn’t until I was a captain of my team — I was an All-American wrestler — I heard the homophobic language used by my teammate and said ‘wait a second, this is not what I want on my team,’ this is not what I wanted to hear in the athletic community.” Breeding said many GLBT students face homophobic and derogatory language on campus. “I can’t speak for everyone who is GLBT at A&M,” Breeding said. “I’ve had some harsh experiences; I’ve had really, really great experiences as well. I think you’ll see that
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Christian artist Matt Maher, who has written songs for Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman and Jars of Clay, is performing in College Station Sept. 16 to support his new album, The Love In Between. American worship record. There is something about bluegrass and rock n’ roll that’s in the DNA of our culture. There’s a rawness to the record that’ll I think will make it much more accessible.”
there is a wide diversity of experiences, from the homophobic student senate bill trying to get rid of the GLBT student research center to being called ‘faggot’ or any of the derogatory terms on campus, but we also have a really strong community here. We have the GLBT resource center and we have GLBT Aggie. There are just a lot of resources.” Those involved with the tour said their mission is to give young people a support system and the ability to come out or stand up for equality. “I get lots of e-mails, around a thousand, from young, positive kids
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across the country, especially athletes who don’t feel comfortable coming out, who don’t feel like they can participate in sports because of their sexual orientation,” Taylor said. Breeding said individual courage is needed to spread the message that “hate is not an Aggie value.” “If you’re visible and you say, ‘Hey I’m gay, I’m lesbian, I’m bisexual, I’m transgender, and I’m your brother, sister, mother, daughter, father or son … that humanizes that identity that I’m an Aggie and I’m gay and I deserve equal treatment,” Breeding said.
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said the culture of Russia is largely shaped by its past. The country experienced dynamic political turbulence during the past century and spent decades locked in a nuclear arms race with the U.S. Glasheen chose Russia out of many potential countries because of its global role in the past, present and future. “I was really interested in Russian history and the Cold War,” Glasheen said. Glasheen stayed with a host family in St. Petersburg. He had the opportunity to volunteer at the Hermitage Museum, which Catherine the Great founded in 1764. “It was a really excellent opportunity to practice my language,” Glasheen said. “I worked with a lot of Russian visitors, and Sting even played a free concert there.” In addition to living in St. Petersburg, Glasheen made a day trip to Moscow, Russia’s capital and the location of most of many landmarks, including St. Basil’s Cathedral, Red Square, the Kremlin and Lenin’s Mausoleum. Glasheen said the summer was eye-opening. “Once you get over the language gap, the people are just like us,” Glasheen said.
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in their music and dance,” Standley said. “Many people dress colorfully with a live band playing on stage, and it was surrounded by a three story restaurant so the entire experience was very musically entertaining. And we had never seen so much fried bananas or pineapples before, both of which were served with our first meal.” Standley and other students also enjoyed a notable change in climate. A fay cry from Texas heat, the temperature in Brazil ranged from 50 to 80 degrees. “In the South, it was chilly the entire time,” Standley said. “But in the north and especially in the Amazon, it was very hot and humid, which is still better than the current weather in Texas.” Speaking mostly Portuguese and some Spanish, before embarking on this five-week journey Standley spent every Friday afternoon in the spring semester learning the native language with four Brazilian students in College Station. “To be honest, we didn’t retain very much until we were immersed in the culture and really needed to use it on a regular basis,” Standley said. Rather than spending the entire summer in a classroom,
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Austin, the program added an opportunity for students to spend a semester, or nine weeks in the summer, interning at the American Embassy in Paris, France. While in France, Christ was required to speak French in the office.
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these students were given the opportunity to study in a different culture and learn things they might not be able to learn or fully grasp in a classroom. “[I enjoyed] taking classes outside of a classroom,” Standley said. “Some days we were in the university classrooms, and some days we were learning in a hotel lobby, or at an airport. And it was group driven almost the entire time, which made for a much more entertaining work environment and in the end made it stick better.” “Some of the music was the exact same as ours, mostly in pop culture, but we also went to a samba club to take in their music and dance,” Standley said. “Many people dress colorfully with a live band playing on stage, and it was surrounded by a three story restaurant so the entire experience was very musically entertaining. And we had never seen so much fried bananas or pineapples before, both of which were served with our first meal.” Not only is the culture different, even the weather shows a significant difference. A rare occurrence in Texas, the climate in Brazil ranged from 50 to 80 degrees. “In the South, it was chilly the entire time,” Standley said. “But in the north and especially in the Amazon, it was very hot and humid, which is still better than the current weather in Texas.” “I really felt it was necessary to have an internship in this increasingly competitive academic environment, and I figured that an overseas internship, especially with the Foreign Service would be beneficial to my future plans,” Christ said. Christ worked in the Department of Commerce’s U.S. Commercial Service office. His job included encouraging business partnerships
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Speaking mostly Portuguese and some Spanish, before embarking on this five week journey Standley spent every Friday afternoon learning the language with four Brazilian students here in College Station during the spring semester. “To be honest, we didn’t retain very much until we were immersed in the culture and really needed to use it on a regular basis,” Standley said. Rather than spending the entire summer in a classroom these students were given the
opportunity to study in a different culture and learn things they might not be able to learn or fully grasp in a classroom. “[I enjoyed] taking classes outside of a classroom,” Standley said. “Some days we were in the university classrooms, and some days we were learning in a hotel lobby, or at an airport. And it was group driven almost the entire time, which made for a much more entertaining work environment and in the end made it stick better.”
between French and American companies. “I didn’t see a lot of fruit from my work in the moment… but I think that maybe I planted the seeds for something to come later,” Christ said. PPIP provided Christ with a stipend to offset the cost of living in Paris. Christ opted to stay with a host family. “It was extraordinary … they were extremely generous people, very kind, sociable, inclusive people,” Christ said. Previously, Christ studied abroad in Paris at the Sorbonne. His second experience in Paris this summer presented a contrast.
“It wasn’t as poetic. It wasn’t as magical. It was more realistic. I had a job to do,” Christ said. “The first time around I sat in cafes, the second time around I sat at my desk; it was a balance.” Beyond resume building, Christ said he was able to acquire a first-hand experience with international relations and observe the contrast between American and French business practices. “In those nine weeks I feel like I got a pretty fair understanding of French-American trade relations, the pace at which things progress and what happens at an embassy as well,” Christ said.
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he 64th session of the student senate is coming off of an extremely controversial and largely ineffective year. Last year’s ill-conceived efforts, which spanned from aiming to end rightly deserved in-state tuition for hard-working students, to creating a “traditional family values” center, caused some to wonder if the student senators were truly advocating in the best interest of the student body or were just using their position as a platform to express their political views.
This year the senate claims to be different. Long gone are the days of alienating the student body. This should be a victory to all students who want to see an efficient student senate working hard toward enhancing the quality of student life here at A&M. Well, if their first meeting is any indication of how the year will go, then that goal will never be realized. Although the student senate doesn’t seem to be offending any particular group yet, it is not doing a good job of taking actions that are in best interests of students. At last Wednesday’s meeting the student senate passed, two resolutions
and one bill. The first was “a resolution requesting that the Big 12 support Texas A&M moving to the SEC,” and will be sent to University President Loftin’s office. Loftin has already declared his intentions to do all in his power to ensure our university moves to the SEC. Will a resolution drafted by the student senate give him the extra incentive he needs? Doubtful. It’s fine if the student senate wants to give their opinion on A&M’s conference realignment, but it is not appropriate to spend large amounts of time debating its passage when it will have no visible effect on student life. In keeping with tradition, the sec-
ond resolution passed also will have no effect whatsoever on the student body. It is the “Aggies Against Human Trafficking Resolution.” Its aim is to commend the Texas Legislature on their efforts in the fight against human trafficking. It should go without saying that the A&M student body supports an end to human trafficking. If the student senate feels that strongly about this issue, they would be better served if they actually joined the movement against human trafficking instead of patting the backs of those who do. There are numerous organizations on campus that aim to alleviate social injustices. Perhaps the student senators responsible for this legislation should join one of them or draft a bill in support of funding t hese organizations. The first and only bill passed in the evening, surprisingly, had merit. SB 64-04, “City of College Station Proposition No. 1 Opposition Bill” lobbies students to vote against Proposition 1 which would allow the regular elections of Mayor and City Council to be held in May instead of November — November being a month in which no finals are taking
place and most students are in town and thus more likely to vote. The Student Senate may not have the controversy surrounding its meetings as it did previously, but it still has not proved itself to be representative of the student body at A&M. In order to do so, the senate should be more innovative and proactive. Instead of passing legislation that has no direct impact on students, it should be figuring out what matters to students most — whether it’s increasing classroom sizes or expanding undergraduate research opportunities and then coming up with ideas on how to address them. Although the Texas Legislature and A&M administrators are in charge of most decisions made, our university is ultimately responsible to the students. The student senate has an incredible opportunity to initiate substantial reforms on behalf of students. Let’s move away from praising the Legislature and work towards instituting acts that will promote a higher quality of education at A&M. Naila Dhanani is a junior biomedical science major and opinion columnist for The Battalion.
This past weekend, my family and I spent the weekend at “CAMP FOR ALL.” This camp, located near Burton, is a unique camping and retreat facility that enriches the lives of people with special needs and challenging illnesses. We were part of the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundations’ Family Camp. Neurofibromatosis, or NF for short, is a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow throughout the body and sometimes causes pain, disfigurement, blindness and even death. NF affects all races, all ethnic groups and both sexes equally. It is one of the most common genetic disorders in the US affecting 1 in 3,000 people, including my wife and son. There is no known cure. I say this because most of the counselors there attend A&M. I want to express my deepest thanks to those Aggies (too many to list). Every one of them showed the utmost compassion and dignity towards the attendees by treating them like people, not individuals with disabilities. By doing this, they gave us one of the most wonderful experiences we have ever had. To those counselors: Thank you and keep up the good work. You exemplify what it means to be an Aggie.
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Director. “Scheduling an appointment with a Career Coordinator is a great place to start.” Logan Nichols, class of 2010, said the Career Center helped him in lessrecognized ways. “I got to know and work with my career advisor and career center staff,” Nichols said. “They taught me how to use the online job search portal, which was vital to my job search and ultimately helped me land a job upon graduation. I also met with my advisor to go over job offers and was coached through the different offers and benefits that came with each.” In addition to the fairs this week, a month-long series regarding federal employment is to begin on Thursday. Bob Foley, assistant director of experiential education, had special praise for the federal employment program. “The program does a really good job of bringing in a lot of high profile guests and helpful information,” Foley said. “At the upcoming U.S. State Department seminar, there’s going to be both a current
and former ambassador giving out information on Foreign Service and speaking to students about how to reach their goals. It’s really a great tool for students interested in that line of work.” Marilyn Yeager, life sciences coordinator, said the performance of A&M graduates in the work force brings employers to A&M. “To put it simply, companies want to hire Aggies,” Yeager said. “We have an excellent academic record and the fact that these companies continue to pay to be here really shows the quality of the students we produce.” Career center employees said it is a tall task organizing career events for a university of more than 50,000 students, but added that belief in the mission at hand keeps the morale high. “What we care most deeply about here is matching our great students with the best employers out there,” Barron said. “That’s what gives us the most satisfaction.”
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