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Up in smoke New policies limit tobacco use on campus thoughtful decision-making process based on well-documented evidence The Battalion Texas A&M’s policy on smoking and that use of tobacco products poses sigtobacco use on-campus has been modi- nificant health risks,” Loftin said. “Those fied to prohibit smoking in more areas health risks extend to non-users of such — a policy that has not been changed products as well as to users.”

Included in the email to staff and facsince 1996. ulty was a compilation of resources to The smoking regulations — which help tobacco users stop smoking. were officially changed on Thursday — Cook said that a movement outside now prohibit smoking and tobacco use of College Station itself motivated the in more areas than before.

“We have had a rule that dates back University to revise their policy on tobacco use. to 1996 on campus that prohib“There is a movement across its tobacco and smoking use the country for university The tobacco in buildings, residence halls campuses to move more and vehicles,” said Jason policy change towards being tobacco Cook, the vice president isn’t solely due free,” Cook said. “The of marketing and comto health risks.

Cancer Prevention and munication at A&M. See column on Research Institute of Tex“Now [it includes] sidepage 4. as last year announced new walks, parking lots, walkguidelines for tobacco use ways and parking structures around buildings where funded immediately adjacent to these.” research is taking place.”

The new policy also prohibits smokWhen the new guidelines were first ing in all vehicles owned, leased or rentannounced in the spring, it came with ed by the University.

Texas A&M President R. Bowen the possibility of non-compliant instituLoftin said in an email that the policy tions losing their funding from CPRIT. Cook said the University updated the was changed as a more comprehensive safeguard to the health and well being smoking regulations with the best inter-

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Due to recent policy changes, smoking is now prohibited in vehicles, on sidewalks, parking lots, walkways and parking structures.

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Fall elections to commence in SGA

Experts discuss the economic implications of various Kyle Field renovation options.

Annabelle Hutchinson The Battalion Fall elections for vacant Student Senate seats, Freshman Student Senate seats and Freshman Class President are right around the corner. According to the Election Commission’s reports on Tuesday, 47 students filed for the Senate elections, and 15 students filed for Freshman Class President.

Filing for elections ended Monday, Sept.

24 at 3 p.m. The filing dates were expedited in a last minute adjustment made by the Student Government Association last week because of an error in the originally published

life | 6 Freshmen update Freshmen weigh in on their university experiences thus far.

election schedule.

Over the weekend, more vacancies became available when senators were removed due to absences at Senate Meetings. As a result, the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Science caucuses were opened for filing.

This is the first year that vacancies in Senate have been filled by student wide elections. Students will vote on Oct. 2 and 3 to determine who represents them this year in their respective Senate caucuses.

Students who did not file still have the opportunity to run as a write-in candidate

in any race.

Scott Bowen, the speaker of the Student Senate, said in the case of the University Apartments, where there were not any filings for the vacate Senate seats, the writein candidates who receive the most votes will win.

Allison Krenzien, the Election Commissioner said if a write-in candidate wins, they must submit the required documents after the election in order to be accepted.

“Should a write-in candidate win for any race, they have 48 hours to submit a decla-

Every vote counts ◗ Information about Fall 2012 elections, including an election timeline and details about the open vacancies and candidates can be found at election.tamu.edu.

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Coaches, players talk Razorbacks

Yom Kippur inspires reflection, forgiveness

Chandler Smith The Battalion Coaches and players addressed the media Tuesday to discuss the Aggie football team’s upcoming game against a wounded 1-3 Arkansas Razorbacks squad led by interim head coach John L. Smith.

The Razorbacks, ranked as high as preseason No. 8, fell out of the rankings after a demoralizing loss to Sun Belt upstart Louisiana Monroe. They would then proceed to lose 52-0 to Alabama and 35-26 to Rutgers, hurting their hopes of competing for an SEC West title.

Still, head coach Kevin Sumlin said the Razorbacks maintain a heavy dose of talent despite their record.

Among the potential offensive threats will be preseason Heisman candidate

Jessica Smarr

quarterback Tyler Wilson, running back Knile Davis and wide receiver Cobi Hamilton.

“There’s a reason they were preseason No. 8.

They have a lot of great skill, a big offensive line and one of the best quarterbacks in the country,” Sumlin said. “Cobi Hamilton put 300 yards on the board last week, so you know he can play. Knile Davis going back two years ago before the injuries is as a good running back as there is.”

Arkansas, traditionally strong offensively, has bested A&M in each of the past three contests. The Aggies haven’t beaten the Razorbacks since their final contest as members of the Southwest Conference in 1991. That game would See Football on page 3

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Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff opens the ark, that holds scripture scrolls at Rohr Chabad in College Station.

The Battalion Students around the country are in the middle of their year while others are beginning anew.

The Jewish New Year began with Rosh Hashana and is now culminating with the observance of Yom Kippur. The 10 days in between are a process, a time of forgiveness and reflection.

Cory Nagelberg, a junior agricultural economics major, described Rosh Hashanah as a celebration, and Yom Kippur as a more somber event.

“It’s all about concentrating on what you’re praying, what you’re thinking, your relationship with God,” Nagelberg said. “It’s the end of a whole year’s worth of good and bad things, and it’s kind of the final appeal to be judged in a good light.”

Traditionally, this has been a period of time for individuals to request forgiveness from anyone they may have wronged throughout the year. In an era of social media, this has evolved from a face-to-face exchange to a text message or Facebook status. Nagelberg said he has seen many statuses and tweets making blanket statements requesting forgiveness for any possible wrongs.

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Galveston makes pitch for HMS Bounty The ofďŹ cial tall ship of Texas could be getting a oating neighbor. The Galveston County Daily News (bit.ly/RUlaOu) reports owners of the replica tall ship HMS Bounty are considering berthing the vessel in Galveston from November to April. The Bounty was built in 1960

by MGM Studios for use in the movie “Mutiny on the Bounty.� It’s now owned

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PSY says “Gangnamâ€? song success unreal South Korean rapper PSY ďŹ nds his success with “Gangnam Styleâ€? so unreal that he wonders if he’s being tricked into believing it — like Jim Carrey in “The Truman Show.â€? PSY said Tuesday in a press conference in Seoul that he cried in disbelief when his song entered the Billboard 100 earlier this month. The 34-year-old now says he’ll go topless in joy on a stage if “Gangnam Styleâ€? tops the chart. The song’s at number 11 this week. The music video for “Gangnam Styleâ€? has more than 270 million YouTube views and counting. People around the world are mimicking PSY’s horse-riding dance in the video.

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87,114 people attended the University of Florida game. Renovating Kyle Field could move home games to Houston, thus affecting the College Station economy.

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N.Y.C. schools dispensing morningafter pill to girls It’s a campaign believed to be unprecedented in its size and aggressiveness: New York City is dispensing the morning-after pill to girls as young as 14 at more than 50 public high schools, sometimes even before they have had sex.. Nurse practitioners or physicians dispense the pills, and parents can sign an opt-out form preventing their daughters from taking part. Only about 1 to 2 percent of parents have opted out, according to the city Health Department.

The program is seen as a way to reduce a startling number: More than 7,000 New York City girls ages 15 to 17 get pregnant each year. More than two-thirds of those pregnancies end in abortions.

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Special to The Battalion Community leaders, students and Texas A&M officials gathered Tuesday morning as Oxford Economics announced their study results on what is shaping up to be one of the most significant topics of the fall semester: renovating Kyle Field.

The study focused on two things: what the possible economic and community impact would be if Texas A&M home football games were played away from College Station for one year; and on the current impact home games have on Brazos County.

The results rang deeply as Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics under the Oxford Company, laid out the facts. “$86 million dollars in business sales will be lost in one year,� Sacks said. This would be a massive loss that cuts out almost threefourths of the revenue that Texas A&M home football games generate.

In addition to this loss in revenue, a oneyear stint spent away from Kyle Field by the Aggie team, Sacks said the loss would negatively affect local income and jobs. “$21 million dollars in household income would be lost in a single year, which equates to a loss of nearly 1000 jobs,� Sacks said.

For the average student, the possible consequences of playing a season of Aggie football away from Kyle Field may only seem like a

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also be the last time the Aggies have played the Razorbacks at Kyle Field.

Senior wide receiver Ryan Swope, having not defeated Arkansas since the reinstatement of the rivalry in 2009, said the seniors are hungry for a win against their recent nemesis. “I think it’s one of those games that’s really personal. We haven’t beaten them in three years so it’s a big game for us. It’s something we take seriously,� Swope said. “I can tell you the seniors, talking to them, we’re hungry to win. We have to be critical with ourselves at practice and do the best that we can do.�

The countdown is on for skydiver Felix Baumgartner. In just two weeks, Baumgartner will attempt to go supersonic when he jumps from a record altitude of 23 miles over New Mexico. Project managers announced Tuesday the feat will take place Oct. 8. The Austrian parachutist jumped from 13 miles in March and 18 miles in July. This time, he hopes to break the all-time record of 19.5 miles set in 1960.

Baumgartner expects to reach a top speed of 690 mph and break the sound barrier with only his body, less than a half-minute after he hops from his capsule.

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loss of tradition, but closer attention reveals a potential student job loss. The Oxford Economics study found that a significant amount of jobs that would be affected would be student jobs created from the revenue injected by home games. According to Sacks’ presentation, there is a more than 60 percent increase in student employment among local businesses during football season, and 80 percent of (local) profits are in the last three to four months of the year.

The Oxford Economics study found that the University’s decision on whether to move Aggie football to a separate location while renovations take place would also have significant impacts on the governments and communities surrounding campus.

Sacks said almost every local industry is affected by Texas A&M football, from the restaurants lining University Drive, the hotels located on almost every street and corner and the multitude of retail, clothing, and service businesses scattered throughout the Bryan/ College Station area.

On average each home game weekend rakes in about $17 million dollars, a revenue from sources as widely dispersed as spectators, team traveling and catering, and real estate. In a series of stakeholder focus groups that Oxford Economics put on to gather the input from local community and business leaders, a wide range of foreboding comments were gathered.

“Moving A&M home games would be a ‘self-induced recession,’� one business stated.

To better understand the consequences of moving A&M’s football season from the Bryan/-College Station area for at least one year, the study also presented the positive impact home football games have. The 2011 football season brought nearly $120 million into the University and local economies alone. “The dollar just doesn’t stop once it’s spent,�

Sacks said. “There is a $177 million gross impact in one year when you take into account the indirect and induced impacts. That equates to 2,400 jobs supported by Texas A&M home football games.�

Adding A&M’s Southeastern Conference debut, Sacks said the University’s game-day potential becomes close to perfect. “It is projected that the SEC represents a potential 15 percent increase in spectators and 25 percent increase in spending that can be realized in a few years,� Sacks said.

The presentation’s conclusion echoed what many of businesses surveyed thought of the idea of Kyle Field’s potential closing. “Texas A&M should never consider taking away its main attraction for the Bryan-College Station area: A&M football. The total commerce is unbelievable. Don’t give it to another city for any amount of time.�

One exploitable flaw of the Razorbacks will be their defensive unit and lack of a running threat. Ranked 108th in pass efficiency defense, Arkansas has failed to effectively slow down even average passing attacks. The running game has been similarly ineffective even with Davis in the backfield, ranking 112th with 97.75 yards rushing per game.

Despite their glaring deficiencies, senior linebacker Jonathan Stewart said the Aggies will continue to play the Razorbacks as if they were the team of recent memory. “We have to make sure we prepare as if they’re an undefeated team,� Stewart said. “Just because they lost three games in a row, we can’t think that this isn’t a traditional Arkansas team. We have to prepare as if they’re

a very good team.�

A potential swing game for both squads, the Razorbacks and Aggies will be vying for their first SEC win of the season when the old rivals clash at Kyle Field Saturday. “They’re coming in here, they have a lot to prove. A wounded animal is maybe the most dangerous one. I think it applies in this case,�

Sumlin said. “We’ve got a lot to play for, too.

This is our second SEC game and we’re at home after losing a close one [against Florida].

I think our guys are excited to get back on the field and play somebody in our league.�

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The budget for each candidate running for Senate is $150. The budget for each candidate running for Freshman Class President is $400.

Campaigning for elections begins on Oct. 1.

Voting starts on Oct. 2 at 9 a.m. and ends Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. at vote.tamu.edu.

Krenzien said that these students’ candidacy is not official until they have attended the Mandatory Candidates’ Meeting on Sunday, Sept. 30 from 5 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.

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Trevor Stevens: Health isn’t the issue in the decision to prohibit smoking

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oes anyone have a light? Mmm, nothing like a cigarette after a hardy meal ‌ of constitutional freedom.

Too bad, those freedoms are being infringed upon by an updated University policy.

An email, sent Sept. 18 and signed

by University President R. Bowen Loftin, stated A&M’s policy regarding tobacco use has been modified.

The new rule prohibits tobacco use in all areas “immediately adjacent� to buildings and campus structures. This supposedly includes sidewalks, parking lots, walkways and attached parking structures. Previously, tobacco use was only prohibited from inside buildings on campus.

The explained reason for the change: it’s the result of a thoughtful decision-making process based on well-documented evidence that use of tobacco products poses significant health risks.

I find it frustrating when health risks are used as the argument behind prohibiting smoking anywhere on campus, when health is not the reason for the change. In my understanding, there are a few reasons.

First, the motivating factor is actually a policy being pushed by research funding provider, Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, upon grant recipients such as Texas A&M. CPRIT announced a policy earlier this year that stated its grant recipients are required to implement campus policies that prohibit tobacco use in

and around buildings associated with CPRIT research financing.

Texas A&M has received more than $4 million in grant funding from CPRIT. This does not include the millions of dollars that entities within the A&M system have received. The latest grant to the A&M Health Science Center, paid March 29, was more than $1.4 million. The HSC was approved by the board of regents to fall under the purview of the University in August.

Now, few smokers will tell you inhaling tar-ridden smoke is good for them. But the argument (at hand) is not whether smoking is unhealthy, or even whether second-hand smoke is unhealthy. The issue for the University is found in the middle of a balancing act: comply with all of CPRIT’s rules to receive the desirable research funding or protect the individual liberties of the people who live, work and learn on this public ground.

This brings us to the second reason why using people’s health as the justification for encroaching upon individual liberties is, at the very least, frustrating.

Personally, find one casual smoker near the steps of a building entrance any more harmful to one’s health than the iced mocha latte or processed potato chips ingested on your lunch break.

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“With any effort like this, it begins first with education — not only for students, faculty and staff on our campus but also for visitors to our campus,�

Cook said. “We are looking at [putting] signage in high traffic areas and also in University vehicles.�

A&M workers replaced the signs leading to a designated smoking area with ones reading instead “Please No Smoking,� while Brooke Trahan, a junior psychology major, sat nearby in this smoking area. “I feel like it’s my right to smoke just like it’s other people’s right to not have

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est of students, faculty and staff in mind, while also considering visitors to the Campus. “We want to try to make the entrances to our buildings a little bit friendlier to visitors,� Cook said.

Cook said that the first step in such a policy implementation is educating people of the rule and of the resources available to them.

nated smoking areas? People who want to smoke have a place to go and people who dislike smoke know where not to go.

And thirdly — just the thought of enforcing such an extensive policy gives me a headache. Aren’t the resources that would be used for such law enforcement preoccupied with other duties?

Currently, such resources are being used to facilitate the education and safety of law-abiding citizens, smokers and non-smokers alike. But I guess crime prevention, traffic order, state and municipal law enforcement and catching bad guys aren’t more important than Camel Carey lighting up between his economics class and chem lab.

Hyperbole aside, people have a right to voice their opinions for or against smoking. If the legitimate concern is health, lets open the decision to the people who are affected or involved with that issue as a whole. The decision shouldn’t just be left up to those concerned with research finances: choosing one necessity (research funding) at the compromise of another necessity (individual liberties).

Trevor Stevens is a senior English major and the editor in chief of The Battalion.

secondhand smoke,� Trahan said. “But I feel like it is going to just continue to where smoking is not allowed on the whole campus.�

Trahan said that it is not necessary to entirely forbid on-campus smoking. “There is so much pollution from cars and other things,� Trahan said. “But with secondhand smoke, if you don’t want to breathe the smoke, you can walk around it. I don’t think it’s fair to completely ban it—you can avoid [the smoke] if you are that adamant about it.�

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Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center, said that this social media custom is not a sincere form of the task.

“Asking forgiveness on Facebook or Twitter might make the annual religious task less onerous, but that does not let you off the hook from looking someone in the eye and offering a sincere apology,” Lazaroff said. “It is about as sincere as the level that those contacts really are your ‘friends’ and ‘followers.’”

Sarah Van Dam, a sophomore psychology major, said she does not agree with the practice of asking for forgiveness at a specific time of the year.

“I believe that if you have to say sorry for something, you don’t need to wait until Yom Kippur,” Van Dam said.

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Yom Kippur is also a time to focus on community and family. Van Dam said this is the personal focus for her during the holiday and that she is attempting to return to Venezuela to see her family.

“I don’t feel that close to God,” Van Dam said. “I do feel close to my family and my community.”

Though practices may differ, Yom Kippur is highly regarded as an important holiday within the Jewish community. Van Dam said it is the most respected and observed of the Jewish holidays.

Lazaroff explained why this is so.

“We are judged. The question is: are we going to be granted a good year? Are we going to live? The actual prayer itself says we are judged as who’s going to live, who’s going to die, who’s going to be rich, who’s going to be poor, who’s going to suf-

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Nagelberg said Yom Kippur is a very somber holiday, and there are religious practices performed during the day.

“We fast, we pray, there’s a part of the service that involves striking yourself that’s a physical representation of the anguish you should feel for the sins you’ve committed,” Nagelberg said.

Though Yom Kippur is a day of judgment, it is also a day of forgiveness and renewal.

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Freshmen face the challenges of college, adapt accordingly John Rangel Special to The Battalion On a warm August evening, 8,000 Aggie freshmen walked their parents to the car, gave one last round of hugs and waved goodbye to the past 18 years of their lives.

A limitless horizon beckoned ahead and what each freshman did during the days and nights of Gig â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Em Week will forever remain purposefully vague. As the weeks crunch by and the first round of college tests slam into this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural freshman class, that sense of unbounded freedom has largely begun to fade in the face of stark reality. Contrary to high school beliefs, A&M actually includes more things besides football, Northgate and free pizza.

One aspect of college life freshmen get used to early on is waking themselves up for class in the mornings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve woken up late and ended up missing most or all of my morning class several times already,â&#x20AC;? said Jon Bumann, freshman political science major. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Before, there was always someone prodding me to act responsibly, but here I need to learn how to do my own thing.â&#x20AC;?

Making it to class on oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own volition is a unique experience that every freshman on campus goes through, but the classes themselves are often the point where the first definitive line between â&#x20AC;&#x153;thenâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;nowâ&#x20AC;? is drawn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;College takes out all the busywork and replaces it with really big, really hard tests,â&#x20AC;? said Daniel Kauffman, freshman accounting major, as he studied for a psychology exam. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I need to really focus to motivate myself to read all the suggested homework on my own, or Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fail.â&#x20AC;?

The fate of Kauffmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s test grade remains

unknown, but beneath the coursework lays unexpected challenges for many who walk this campus for the first time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saying goodbye to my family was really tough. Besides everything else college has been a big emotional adjustment,â&#x20AC;? said Alexis Luedke, freshman microbiology major. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was so used to seeing my mom and dad and all of a sudden theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gone. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big transition.â&#x20AC;?

After spending four high school years constantly looking for ways to subtly subvert parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rule on all social topics, parents are now the number one commodity amongst the freshman class. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How am I supposed to pay for things?â&#x20AC;?

Kauffman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could always rely on my parents for cash to go out with friends, but now I have to buy every meal, pay for my own gas and really try to limit how I spend.â&#x20AC;?

Although parent visits can be cause for much groaning and spontaneous dorm cleaning, it is the secret desire of most freshmen for mom and dad to show up and, more importantly, take them out to eat or provide a much needed college stimulus packages. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My mom sends me money every few weeksâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the food off campus is so delicious!â&#x20AC;? are common remarks, especially by those freshmen who are confined to the same culinary offerings on campus week after week.

Add these obstacles to never-ending laundry, a massive campus and trying to avoid â&#x20AC;&#x153;pushing itâ&#x20AC;? as a consequence of Aggie Tradition ignorance adds up to hundreds of problems for the typical freshman to try to balance on any given day. Despite this daunting task, ask any member of the Class of 2016 if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather be back home and the reply is always the same: Home?

Definitely not. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just getting started.

9/25/12 10:31 PM