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UPD releases A&M bomb threat details Jake Walker The Battalion Texas A&M University Police Department released further details Tuesday that led to the arrest of a primary suspect in the A&M bomb threat case. A UPD investigator said he has good reason to believe that Dereon Kelley of Bryan sent an email to Texas A&M stating, “Campus will be bombed at twelve this afternoon.” The email was received by A&M Computing Services Center at about 11 a.m. on Oct. 19. Students and staff evacuated the campus. According to a probable cause statement, an investigator retrieved the IP address from the email regarding the threat and found that the address was linked to Verizon. The investigator requested information from Verizon and found the address was linked to a Yahoo account. Information was requested from Yahoo and showed that the account belonged to Brittany Henderson. Henderson was charged with terroristic threat after allegedly emailing a bomb threat to Texas State University on Oct. 18. After further investigation, records showed that the Yahoo account was accessed by a cellphone belonging to Dereon Kelley at 10:47 a.m. the day A&M received a bomb threat. Kelley’s phone number made contact with Texas A&M University Help Desk at 11 a.m. through Yahoo. Kelley told investigators he was in possession of the cellphone at the time the email was sent and admitted to the FBI that he had access to Henderson’s Yahoo account. After a search warrant was issued, police recovered text messages from Henderson’s cellphone between the two suspects both before and immediately after the bomb threat at A&M. “And I logged into your email”, Kelley texted the night before the A&M bomb threat. “Ima go ahead and leave brit I will not be hurt any longer dont [c]all or text me for anything goodbye you ruined my love life”, Kelley texted the day of the A&M bomb threat. The connection between Kelley and Henderson, as it pertains to the bomb threat, remains under investigation.
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Lately you might have been noticing a trend of sexy Halloween costumes for women. Is this socially acceptable?
lifestyles | 3 Battle of the bad guys Ever wonder who is the scariest villain from a horror movie? Check out page 3 where the classic villains of popular horror movies duke it out to see who is the scariest.
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The haunted house attraction “Fright Nights” takes place in the basement of the LaSalle Hotel, which some say is haunted because of mysterious deaths at the hotel.
Bump in the night Bryan residents cultivate hotel’s haunted past Camryn Ford The Battalion
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rapped under almost a century of ghoulish history, winding black trails of surprising horrors lash out at unsuspecting community members at the historic LaSalle Hotel in downtown Bryan.
The haunted house attraction, “Fright Nights,” captures the imagination of vistors in the basement of LaSalle — full of haunted stories. The building opened in 1928 and was converted to a nursing home in 1959. Some locals, such as front desk agent Bobby Chambers, said the hotel was even an insane asylum for some time. After it was shut down for several years, the
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Candidate’s polarized positions culminate on health care Annabelle Hutchinson The Battalion President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney both agree the health care system has problems, but each candidate has his own ideas on how to improve the system. Health care reform is a complicated issue and a high-priority topic in the presidential election. Laura Dague, a professor at the Bush School who specializes in health care policy, said Americans need to understand the problems of the health care system to evaluate the candidates’ plans. “There are really two big issues that the U.S. faces with respect to health care policy,” Dague said. “One of them is that we have a lot of people who do not have access to the health care system. The second problem is that costs of health care are increasing at a high rate.” Dague said customers who want insurance the most are also those who need it the most, so they will be the most expensive to insure. This problem is called “adverse selection” and is one contributing factor to why it is expensive to buy insurance on the individual market. “Economic policy says we can make it cheaper, require it or give it away,” Dague said. “Unfortunately, the cost problem is really hard to fix.” Dague said part of the problem with the high cost of health care comes from uninsured people who can’t pay hospital bills and the hospital having to cover the cost. “The idea is that somebody has to pay for people who get sick when they are uninsured,” Dague said. Public emergency rooms have to treat anyone who walks in the door. When uninsured people cannot pay for care, the hospital or a charity organization gets
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building reopened as a hotel. Squeaking doors and the rustling of thin black tarps against the basement walls would be enough for some people to second-guess their entry into the haunted house, but some dare to enter anyway. “When you walk in it’s really dark,” Chambers said. “You can’t see anything. There are lots of little turns, so you have no idea when
something is going to happen, but you know that it is. Everywhere you go, you have to wonder if something is coming out at you. It’s nerve-wrenching.” The event is organized by a group of volunteers from around the Bryan area. One of the volunteers, Jeff Sparks, said he and a friend used to put on a haunted house in his yard. But they found out in 2011 that the hotel put on a haunted house and asked if they could be a part of it. After putting countless hours of work into it, they were invited back this year to help again.
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stuck with the bill, Dague said. The Affordable Care Act, referred to as Obamacare, is the Obama administration’s health care plan that has been initiated. According to Obama’s campaign website, Obamacare is “making health care work better for all of us, even if you already have insurance. It puts the health of your family first — ensuring access to free preventive care and protecting consumers from insurance company abuses.” Dague said the Affordable Care Act can be broken down into four main points: increased coverage, state-based exchanges, insurance offered by employers and an insurance mandate. “Its main goal is increasing coverage,” Dague said. “One way it does that is it takes the program for poor
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Americans, Medicaid, and it extends Medicaid from current requirements to 133 percent of the federal poverty line, which is around $22,000 for a family of four.” The act also creates provisions for state-based insurance exchanges, which Dague said could be implemented as an online system where individuals can browse private insurance plans that meet federal requirements. “This [exchange] is definitely not intended to be owned by the government,” Dague said. “It is supposed to be administered by the state governments.” She said the Act also requires employers with more than 50 employees to offer insurance or pay a penalty, See Health Care on page 4
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s a woman, when I go shopping for Halloween costumes my choices are something like this: a sexy nurse, a sexy zombie or a sexy piece of fruit.
The variety of characters available to me fills an entire warehouses, but they all have one thing in common; every costume is intended to render me as a sex object. The fact that my choices are slim bothers me. I feel like I should at least have an option of whether I want to look provacative or not. It wouldn’t be so bad if next to the dirty cop costume there hung an innocent — I don’t know — Cowgirl costume. Or maybe a Rosie the Riveter get-up that doesn’t require a garter and fishnets. Anything. Just Anything. Because really, I’d rather not be a blow-up doll for Halloween. (Yes, blow-up doll costumes do exist.) When manufacturers eliminate my choices, it makes me feel like I don’t have control. In my opinon, the stores and manufacturers who sell these perverse and often baffling costumes are promoting the objectification and sexualization of women. Instead of trick-or-treating for candy, women are now expected to be the candy. I’ve noticed that men’s costumes are in no way as provocative; they usually aren’t sexual at all. But even if they are, they don’t imply weakness or vulnerability. Most of the
time, they’re just comical. Why is it that only women have to suffer the blunt? Not that I advocate sexism, but if we’re going to objectify, let’s do it all the way. Why can’t we see men in lace aprons and thigh-highs too? I guess it’s not their place. Instead, it’s mine. The problem escalates when provactive costumes are marketed for pre-teen girls. It It’ss as if once a young girl begins puberty, it’s time for her don her first push-up and slap on the lipstick. I have a problem with this because it encourages girls to view their bodies as sex objects, meant for the pleasure of others. Why can’t there be doctor or astronaut costumes for girls? Is it so wrongg to encourage success and an attractive mind instead of
sexualization? And I know in the end, it’s my choice. I can choose to wear lingerie in public or I can forgo the experience and just make a costume at home. But let’s say that I was proud of my body and wanted to wear something revealing for Halloween. I would still be labeled as a slut and some would even say that I would be deserving of every hungry-eyed gaze and drunken slurs at Dukes. The pretend of the costume would become my identity and that isn’t ok either. A woman should be able to wear what she wants on Halloween and not be put under fire for dressing an up as a make-believe character. Her body is her own and sometimes, she bo dresses for herself, not for the pleasure dr of those around her. Bottom line, the lack of respect towards women and girls in the context to of Halloween costumes is only getting worse. From the objectification tin of women by costume sellers to the slut-shaming of women who choose to slu be in costume, Halloween has become nothing more than a giant misogyny no parade. pa Jennifer DuBose is a senior English major and lifestyles editor for The Battalion.
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Classic monsters battle it out for supremacy The Battalion Paranormal Activity Spirit Silent but deadly, this villain tends to target suburban families with its eerie household pranks and occasional possessions. Though totally evil and a definite bad guy, this demonic character also shows some definite weaknesses in this competition, with breaking household items and setting small things aflame being its main haunting strategies.The real villainous activity seems to be rare and last minute for this bad guy, with the occasional possession and murder being the usual occurrence at a chilling end.
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Jeff’s son, Jordan Sparks, was the brainchild of this year’s operation. As a computer science major at Sam Houston State University, Jordan’s specialty is design. He designed the entire haunted house this year and spent almost 200 hours on the project. “It was all planning and constructing,� Jordan said. “I just started writing it down on graphing paper.� Although he didn’t want to spoil any scenes, Jeff did mention his costume. He said he is playing the role of Michael Myers this year. “Most people don’t like David Cohen — THE BATTALION my character at all, and most of the girls are scared of me,� LaSalle Hotel, located in downtown Bryan, was a Jeff said. “I did get punched nursing home in 1958 and then an insane asylum in the face Saturday night, but before it was converted into a hotel. that was the first time I’ve ever had that happen. The most frustrating thing is that some ness are not enough to scare that a few dead bodies were people call me ‘Jason.’ I’m people, the hotel has a fear found in the room before it factor of its own. Chambers became a hotel. He said the not Jason.� As if the characters through said most guests of the hotel bodies belonged to homeless the winding trails of dark- say the sixth floor is haunted, people who were living in the but nobody knows why. He room while the building was said it could have something not in use. to do with the dead body of a As a preview to the ending man found outside the hotel scene of the haunted house, several years ago. Jeff said one attendee came “A guy was going to buy with a date, and when he the hotel, and he was up on got to the last scene, he must the roof measuring,� Cham- have forgotten he had a date bers said. “He either fell off or because he ran out the door. got pushed off. I don’t know, “It’s really creepy,� said but they found his body.� LaSalle bartender Erica PeaAnother creepy aspect slee. “I think I screamed of the old hotel is the boil- most of the time. You know er room. The boiler is too when [attendees] are going heavy to be moved, so it still through, because you can hear sits there. Jordan said he heard the vibrations.�
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and that everyone must get insurance. “To deal with adverse selection, there is an insurance mandate that says everyone has to get insurance,� Dague said. “This is definitely theoretically necessary in order to solve for the adverse selection problem. The bigger pool, the better off you’re going to be.� A provision of the act that affects students requires that insurers allow parents to keep dependents on their insurance plan until the age of 26. Dague said there is already research that shows uninsured rates among young adults has decreased because of the provision. Romney’s plan is to repeal Obamacare. According to his campaign website, he will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible. Dague said Romney plans to replace Medicare with a system of private plans where the beneficiaries get a check from the government to purchase a plan. “We don’t know exactly how much this check will be,� Dague said. “Many people worry that if costs continued to go up, this check
may not cover everything.� Romney wants to keep the popular provisions in the Affordable Care Act, such as the provision to keep dependent children on their parent’s plans until they are 26 and allow states to implement their own plans. Students such as Patricia Arruda, graduate student at the Bush School, are in favor of Obamacare. “The bill is more than ‘free health care,’� she said. “It sets standards for care providers, it increases transparency between those companies and consumers, and it’s a chance to put consumers in charge of their health care.� Hunter Testerman, junior economics major, said he is opposed to Obamacare as a matter of principle. “The primary reason I oppose of [Obamacare] is I feel that the resulting financial consequences could very well be more harmful to our society than the health care it would provide for the uninsured,� Testerman said. “I also oppose the idea of the government essentially forcing individuals to buy insurance.� When evaluating policies, Dague said students should understand that all government spending is a trade-off. “All government spending represents a trade-off between things we want and things we can afford,� Dague said. “How you feel about these things depends on where you fall within that spectrum.�
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cclaimed screen and stage actors Nicholas Hormann (Kramer Vs. Kramer) and Jane Carr (Dear John) lead L. A. Theatre Works' superlative company in this stunning adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Published in 1813, this season marks the 200th anniversary of one of Jane Austen's most acclaimed and strikingly modern works of world literature. See this literary favorite live in Rudder with this clever semi-staged production starring a superlative company.
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