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inside campus | 3 Going green The Aggie Green Fund supports nine sustainability projects around campus, including Aggie Zimride and the Big Belly trash compactors. See inside to learn more.
voices | 7 Can you hear me? It’s hard to ignore the yelling evangelizers while walking between classes on campus. Opinion columnist Andy Rowell says it’s time for people to reconsider the effectiveness of their message delivery.
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State fire totals Joint responses by Texas Forest Service and fire departments this year: ◗ 3,193 fires ◗ 2,876,122 acres burned ◗ 5, 775 structures lost ◗ 28,131 structures saved
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Katlene Lee, a student at A&M and a firefighter with the Brazos County Precinct 3 Volunteer Fire Department, helped extinguish some of Texas’ recent tri-county fires.
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Religious violence intensifies in Egypt Kevin Smith The Battalion Riots and a deadly military assault against Coptic Christians engaged in a peaceful protest in Cairo on Sunday have left 24 Christians dead and more than 100 injured. The protesters assembled in response to an earlier attack on a church. Coptics are the dominant Christian sect in Egypt. The Associated Press reported that the clashes Sunday night raged over a large section of downtown Cairo and drew in Christians, Muslims and security forces. The violence began when about 1,000 Christian protesters tried to stage a peaceful sit-in outside the state television building along the Nile River in downtown Cairo.
Protesters said they were attacked by “thugs with sticks” and the violence then spiraled out of control after a speeding military vehicle jumped up onto a sidewalk and rammed into some of the Christians, according to The Associated Press. Isis Hannah Farag, a native of Egypt currently residing in Bryan, feels a personal connection to those suffering violence. “I’m worried because most of my family lives there. I don’t know what’s going on — I would like all of my family to come here, but how can I help them?” said Farag, a Christian. “It is impossible for us to remove the history of hostility between Christians and Muslims, but I know that we will see God’s hand.” Farag said Egypt has a long history of See Egypt on page 2
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Week of Action events Tuesday National Coming Out Day: Commit to end bullying: 7 p.m. in Cain B111 Shades of Colour meeting: 5:15 p.m. in Rudder 510 Wednesday GLBT Sandwich Luncheon: 12-1 p.m. at the Canterbury House, 902 George Bush Dr. Thursday Speaker Neil Miller: 6:30 p.m. in Rudder 601 Friday Faculty/Staff Guess Who’s Gay Panel: 7:30 p.m. in Cain B111
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NEW YORK — Less than a month after announcing a plan to separate its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services, Netflix reversed course Monday and said it would keep the two services on a single website. Customers had complained loudly that the plan would have made it more difficult to watch movies. Investors hated it, too. In the end, the company backed down. But Netflix’s turbulent relationship with subscribers over the last three months raises questions about how it’s being managed during the transition fxrom delivering movies on disc to sending them over the Internet. Net-
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Christian persecution. However, the violence has escalated in recent months due to rebellions against Egyptian government, now ruled by the military. “Many years ago, persecution happened everyday,� Farag said. “When I was an engineer in Egypt, Christians and Muslims had certain names; also on our ID cards they wrote what religion we claimed. So, when I applied for my job they asked if I was a woman, and then if I was a Christian. They would prefer to hire Muslims rather than Christians. We faced daily persecution.� Both Muslims and Christians have expressed disdain over the lack of action from the Egyptian military. “Ever since the old government was taken over by the military things have been chaotic,� said senior biomedical science major Affan Zafar. “They really need to get it together in terms of bringing insurgence who are causing these riots to justice.� Christians, who compose roughly 10 percent of Egypt’s 85 million people, blame the ruling military coun-
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cil that took power after the uprising for being too lenient on those behind the riots, according to the Associated Press. Taha Habib, sophomore general studies major and an officer in the Muslim Student Association, said military violence is a greater factor than hostility between Christians and Muslims, and that many Egyptians and Muslims found unity during the recent revolution. “I have heard that tensions between Egyptian Christians and Egyptian Muslims aren’t that high,� said sophomore general studies major Taha Habib. “I remember during the change in government, Egyptian Muslims were praying on the side of the street, and the military was hosing them down in an attempt to make them stop, but Christians stood in front of them to protect them.� Pope Shenouda III, the leader of the largest Christian sect in Egypt has called Christians everywhere to participate in a three-day period of mourning starting Tuesday for the victims. “We will certainly be joining the churches in fasting and praying,� Farag said. “And I know he that God will hear our cries.�
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Student fees support nine sustainability projects Luz Moreno-Lozano The Battalion Students contribute to the Aggie Green Fund through a $3 per semester fee in an effort to create visible and sustainable impacts on campus. The Aggie Green fund contributes to environmental enhancements around campus. “We are trying to provide a way to recycle conveniently,” said Kelly Wellman, sustainability officer and advisor to the Aggie Green Fund. “There are more recycling resources and the new big belly trash compactors allow students to recycle paper, plastic, and aluminum.” The Aggie Green Fund was established after the Spring of 2010 when 57 percent of the student body voted in favor of adding the fee. The fund charges students $3
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Farm, Outdoor Recycling for Main Campus, Jack E. Brown Made Green, Office of Sustainability Internship, Winnie Carter Wildlife Center, Bike Friendly University and the TAMU Zimride Rideshare. “The Bike Friendly University grant is small but has a big impact,” said Matt Cope, senior renewable natural resources major and chair for
the Aggie Green Fund. “The Rec center is offering a bike repair shop where students can go and fix their bikes free of charge. Hopefully we can get some of the vehicles off the road and help the environment that way.” Big Belly trash compactors are the biggest green effort on campus. Providing 19 three-stream trash compactors around the academic plaza area, the brown recycling bins give students the option to recycle paper, plastic and aluminum. Because of the compacting feature, the bins can hold as much as five times the trash found in a normal bin, saving money and time for the University. “There has been an increase in recycling quite a bit,” Cope said. “We like to see visible impact and students using these services. We try to make sure we are using the money wisely.” A change has been made to the
Big Belly trash compactor grant. Originally, the project called for 26 big belly trash compactors. After revision, 19 have been ordered. Thirteen of the trash compactors have been installed in high-traffic areas around the academic plaza area. Next week, the BigBelly Solar Company will place the final six. The bins include wireless technology that sends a signal when the bins are full for all three streams. “These new compactors have no structural difference from the ones that are already on campus,” said Rob Dalton, director of education market segment at BigBelly Solar. “They are still solar powered just with a slightly smaller panel. It is providing energy to sense fullness.” Any student, faculty and staff member can apply for a grant geared toward going green. Applications will be available for submission at the end of this semester or the beginning of the spring semester. “For the future we want to students to start thinking and figuring out what they want to do,” Ellis said. “We encourage them to send emails to the Aggie Green Fund. It is never too soon to plan what they want to propose.”
Social network coordinates carpooling to campus Megan Nolan Special to The Battalion Students can pay to park or try to catch the bus for a ride to campus. However, the Environmental Issues Committee has provided an alternative to conventional modes of transportation: carpooling. The Aggie Zimride project is a growing social network where students can coordinate ridesharing with other Aggies. “People who use Zimride can benefit by saving money if they choose to charge for their rides and by having a more enjoyable trip for those who like company when traveling,” said Environmental Issues Committee Co-Chair Jakob Rosenberg. “Possibly the largest beneficiaries are those students without cars who need rides to and from home, class, away games or anywhere else they need to go.” Aggie Zimride was initiated by an Aggie Green Fund grant proposed by Lindsey Adams, and is being pro-
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Share rides ◗ Students can set up a profile at zimride.com/tamu by loging in with a NetID and password. moted by the Environmental Issues Committee of the Student Government Association. “Zimride has already been highly successful in a number of universities on the east and west coast, but Texas A&M is actually the first university in Texas to use Zimride,” Rosenberg said. The organizers of Aggie Zimride said the system is secure because it is set-up within the Texas A&M community. “You have the option of posting rides to the entire Zimride community, as well, and even link it to your Facebook account,” Environmental Issues Committee Co-Chair Amanda Cernovich said. Zimride is one of the nine projects supported by the Aggie Green
Fund, which was created to increase sustainability efforts on campus. “Sharing rides helps sustain the environment we live in by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emissions we generate,” Rosenberg said. “By carpooling we can lower the amount of cars out on the road thereby reducing our dependence on gasoline as well.” Rosenberg said the Zimride system is very simple to use. Drivers are able to charge for rides, and the system also allows users to post specific details about their rides, including music and seating information. Students who started using Aggie Zimeride said they have enjoyed the opportunity to help other Aggies and also be environmentally conscious. “I’m constantly on the watch for new opportunities as an Aggie to be more environmentally friendly. As soon as I heard about Zimride, I signed up,” said Carly Thompson, class of 2010 English major and research assistant. “My schedule as
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An A&M student was arrested for engaging in organized criminal activity and burglary of a vehicle last Tuesday. Ryan Alderink, a 20-year-old business administration major from North Richland Hills, was arrested at the Campus Village Apartments on Harvey Mitchell Parkway after police found him and his roommate, Joshua Hill, a student at Blinn College, in the process of committing a theft. Sgt. Mike Dean of the College Station police said that Alderink and Hill were found on two separate sides of the complex. “We’re told that they had been walking through the parking lot checking door handles,” Dean said. Alderink initially denied knowing anyone else associated with the burglaries, but Hill admitted to police that he and Alderink are roommates at the ZIslander Apartments after police discovered Alderink’s wallet in Hill’s truck. Police recovered 22 GPS units, 7 radar detectors, 4 laptops, 19 pairs of sunglasses, 2 sets of golf clubs, ammunition and a purse from Hill and Alderink. Hill also had credit and debit cards on him that were not his own, and he was charged with debit card abuse. Police are currently looking for a third person that they believe is associated with the burglaries.
NEW YORK — Apple says first-day pre-orders of the iPhone 4S topped 1 million, breaking the record set by last year’s model. Apple Inc. and various phone companies in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Britain started taking orders for the phone last Friday. It hits stores this Friday. The base model of the iPhone 4S costs $200 with a two-year contract. It has a faster processor and an improved camera compared to last year’s model. However, some customers and investors were disappointed that Apple didn’t launch a more radical new model. It’s been more than a year since Apple since the previous model was released. Despite the record-breaking pace of iPhone 4S pre-orders, it’s hard to determine whether consumer demand is stronger for the new device than it was for previous versions. Although first-day orders for the iPhone 4 were 600,000 when it launched last year, Australia and Canada weren’t among the launch countries then — they got the phone a month later. AT&T said it had taken more than 200,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4S in the first 12 hours, making it the most successful iPhone launch yet.
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Allies, hopes that members of the GLBT can feel safe when coming out to their friends and loved ones. “For allies, our whole purpose is to create a safe zone for GLBT people,” Hutchison said. “We’re trying to achieve a place where people can be open and can be themselves with the community.” Hutchison said he hopes to see more acceptance of the GLBT community on campus and across the nation. “On a personal level I hope people will view it as a wake up call to combat homophobia to promote acceptable on campus,” Hutchison said. Lowell Kane, program coordinator for Texas A&M GLBT resource center, said National Coming Out Day is a very important day for the GLBT community.
“National coming out day was established in America in the early 1990s,” Kane said. “October is GLBT history month, and it commemorates the first march on Washington for GLBT rights in October 1979.” GLBT Aggies will have a table in Academic Plaza this week for people to get information about the Texas A&M GLBT community. “The resource tables in Academic Plaza are to provide educational materials about the GLBT community and how to be an ally for the GLBT community,” Kane said. Kane invited people to ask questions this week, saying National Coming Out Day is a meant to spread the message about the GLBT community. “The goal is to encourage people to engage in dialogue about the experiences, the concerns and the needs of GLBT individuals,” Kane said. “It’s also to encourage people to openly and honestly discuss issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity.”
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research Climate debate reaches A&M Professor refutes claim that clouds cause global warming Jessica Orwig Special to The Battalion In August, A&M atmospheric sciences professor Andrew Dessler’s work concerning clouds’ influence on climate change attracted media outlets not for its mainstream results, but for its direct criticism of an earlier paper. “I looked at what effects clouds have on the overall energy of the planet and found that clouds cannot be causing climate change over the last 10 years,” Dessler said. Roy Spencer, proclaimed skeptic of climate change and climatologist at the University of Alabama — Huntsville, coauthored a paper that was published in July suggesting that clouds were the primary reason for temperature changes in the last decade. “It is widely accepted in the climatology community that clouds play a very small role in climate change over short periods of time [such as a decade],” Dessler said. “Spencer’s paper suggested that there should be major revisions to climate change theory.” Less than six weeks after Spencer published his paper, Dessler released his refute. Due to Dessler’s quick response, critics said his refutation is invalid because Dessler’s published his results too quickly. Dessler said he knew about Spencer’s argument as early as last December, and started working on his own version in January. “When Spencer’s paper came out, I looked at it and adjusted what I had already written,” Dessler said. Because climate change is communicated as controversial within the media, both Spencer and Dessler received coverage.
“Every month, hundreds of papers come out that are either explicitly or implicitly in agreement with mainstream climate theory that humans are in the driver’s seat of the climate and that future warmings could be really large,” Dessler said. “And those papers don’t get any traction in the media. But then a handful of papers published every year by hardcore skeptics do get a lot of traction because there’s a huge sympathetic media for those papers.” Dessler said Spencer’s paper received the media attraction because it falls under the category of “hardcore” skepticism. Fox News picked up the story about Spencer’s paper, addressing the topic on its website. “Has a central tenant of global warming just collapsed?” the story began, and continued, “the planet isn’t heating up, in other words.” Dessler said someone needed to refute Spencer’s article because of the media traction it gained. “It was necessary for me to write my paper because even though no scientists believe Spencer’s work, it was important to get a rebuttal out there so that policy makers wouldn’t be able to trumpet this,” Dessler said. An article that appeared in Scientific American Magazine in early September compared the scientific validity in Spencer’s and Dessler’s works. Although both scientists used the same data set, their approaches in data analysis varied, leading to differing outcomes. Using data collected by a NASA satellite for Earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures from 2000 to 2010, both climatologists calculated
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After climatologist Roy Spencer theorized that clouds are responsible for climate change, A&M atmospheric sciences professor Andrew Dessler refuted the nition. Dessler’s paper says clouds only amplify the effects of climate change, not cause them. whether the atmosphere or the ocean had a more significant effect on the earth’s surface temperatures. They then fit their data to climate models. “…[Spencer and colleagues] plotted only six [climate] models [from 14 total] and the particular observational data set that provided maximum support for their hypothesis. Plotting all of the models and all of the data provided a much different conclusion,” Dessler stated in his paper, which was published in the journal Geophysical Research
Letters on Oct. 1. Dessler went on to show that it was ocean heat, from the El Niño/La Niña-Southern Oscillations, that inf luenced temperature evolution for the last decade, and that the ocean is 20 times more inf luential on climate change than clouds. These oscillations represent cyclical changes in the southern Pacific Ocean’s surface temperatures that occur approximately every five years. El Niño means the warming
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Texas Christian University accepted an invitation to join the Big 12 on Monday night, ignoring the conference’s recent instability and seizing an opportunity to be a part of a league with natural geographic rivals. Chancellor Victor Boschini Jr. made the expected announcement in front a packed room of more than 200 people, and athletic director Chris Del Conte fought back tears as he recalled receiving the phone call from the Horned Frogs’ new conference last week. “This is living proof that dreams do come true,” he said. The move could provide some much-needed stability for the Big 12, which lost Nebraska (Big Ten) and Colorado (Pac-12) during the summer and will lose Texas A&M to the Southeastern Conference next year. Missouri is also exploring a move to the SEC. TCU currently competes in the Mountain West Conference and was previously set to join the Big East next July.
NBA Commissioner David Stern canceled the first two weeks of the season Monday after players and owners were unable to reach a new labor deal to end the lockout and warned that there may further cuts in the schedule. “With every day that goes by, I think we need to look at further reductions in what’s left of the season,” Stern said. The cancellations mark the NBA’s first work stoppage since the 1998-99 season was reduced to 50 games.
A copy of Steve Jobs’ death certificate made public Monday indicates that the Apple Inc. co-founder died of respiratory arrest resulting from pancreatic cancer that had spread to other organs. Jobs died last Wednesday at age 56. Apple did not disclose Jobs’ cause of death, but he battled pancreatic cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of absence for unspecified health problems.
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Andy Rowell: Making a point without making a scene
Tim Issac — THE BATTALION
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t’s usually pretty easy to disagree with people. What’s challenging is being at odds with someone you agree with, or at least tend to agree with.
As one is exposed to more and more of the world, one is also exposed not only to varying viewpoints, but also to varying ways of exhibiting those viewpoints. Case in point: the other day, outside of Evans, I witnessed a gentleman speaking about Christianity to interested passersby. And by “speaking� I mean this fellow was yelling irately at people who soon realized that taking a longer path to class would’ve been totally worth it. Two quick things about me: I’m Christian, and I believe in free speech. In fact, one of the things I love about free speech is that it sometimes makes people look like idiots, and we could always use some real-life America’s Funniest Home Videos
in our day-to-day. But this guy should have thought to print a few evaluation forms to get feedback about the effectiveness of his technique. One question he might consider including is: “On a scale of one to ten, how strong is the correlation between my volume and your eternal salvation?â€? Another instance where I found myself annoyed with a group in which I tend to fit involves the Texas Aggie Conservatives at the MSC Open House. I, myself, am moderately conservative, and find similarities between what I believe and what this organization believes. I have to admit I was a member of the Young Conservatives of Texas — Texas Aggie Conservatives’ predecessor — for a month in my freshman year. What I don’t agree with, however, is their little PR stunt at Open House. They handed out stress balls in the shape of brains (so far so good‌) with “Don’t be Brainwashedâ€? printed on them (still fine‌), and, underneath, had words like “di-
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versity� and “respect� (ok, no probl — wait, what?). What I get from this is that the Aggie Conservatives don’t want students “brainwashed� into being respectful. And by “I� I mean myself, everyone I talked to about it, and I’m assuming anyone who happened to glimpse one of these (ironically labeled) stress-relief tools. Hopefully, that’s not what the group meant. Maybe it was a typo? Maybe it’s supposed to say, “resect,� which, according to Dictionary.com, means, “to do a resection on.� Yeah, that’s probably it. So what have we learned from this? Everyone should be open with his or her beliefs, yes. But if people don’t think about how to broadcast these beliefs, instead of gaining followers, they may end up with someone like me; someone who is now a little less confident claiming to be a Christian or a conservative. Andy Rowell is a senior university studies major and opinion columnist for The Battalion.
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Firefighters battle wildfire in Bastrop County Sept. 5. A lawyer for three victims of September’s Bastrop County wildfire is suing an electric utility whose fallen power lines officials say likely started one of the most destructive wildfires in Texas history. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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fighting fires to be one of her passions. “My department is like a big family, and no matter what one of us needs, we are all there to help,” Lee said. “It has taught me a lot about working as a team, and taking what I learn in a practice or classroom setting and putting it into action. It has also helped me with my social skills.” Jason Ware, assistant fire chief with the Brazos County Precinct 3 Volunteer Fire Department and president of the Brazos County Firefighter’s Association, emphasized the importance of the personality traits Lee brings to the team. “Katlene joined our fire department and brought a unique set of skills with her,” Ware said. “She brought an ‘I’m just as good if not better than anyone’ attitude, and immediately stepped in and started being a leader.” Ware, who accompanied Lee fighting the tri-county fire, said that Lee’s resilient nature and problem-solving attitude were important assets to the task force, and contributed the group’s success. “Katlene and I were sent to Grimes-Montgomery-Waller counties as a part of a Wild Land Firefighting Task Force from Brazos County,” Ware said. “As a team leader for the
Task Force, I was very pleased with Katlene. She worked in a dangerous environment without hesitation and pulled her weight and others’.” Ware also said that Lee’s sold track record has been acknowledged before, when she was named Rookie of the Year. “Katlene was named our Rookie Firefighter of the Year for 2010 for her hard work and dedication to our department,” Ware said. “Katlene has earned the trust of not only me, but the rest of the firefighters in Precinct 3 Volunteer Fire Department, therefore making her someone who can be trusted to go into any type of situation without concern.” Kyle Comeaux, class of 2009 and a firefighter with the Friendswood Volunteer Fire Department, also recognizes the importance of having trust in peers during difficult and dangerous tasks. “I personally believe that this job is hard on anyone who chooses to take it,” Comeaux said. “As we were told in our new member training, ‘We are 911, so who do we call when we are in trouble?’ The answer is we have to rely on the people who go into those life-endangering atmospheres.” In Comeaux’ words, Lee was 911 when the Texas wildfires started in September, along with many other responders to the call for courage and aid.
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