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In-flight humor: Aggie’s mom goes viral

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Flight attendant appears on Ellen show Allison Rubenak The Battalion

Local, national lawmakers converge on e-cig regulation Homer Segovia

The Battalion lectronic cigarettes are a part of life for some student users, but lawmakers have yet to step in to regulate their use.

That may soon change — around the city and across the nation.

Unlike cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, e-cigarettes remain unregulated and can be used and purchased by minors. The Food and Drug Administration lacks the authority to regulate makers of e-cigarettes, but the FDA will propose rules for e-cigarettes as early as this month, according to the Associated Press, which could have a significant effect on the multi-billion dollar industry.

College Station Mayor Nancy Berry said the negative health effects of e-cigarettes must be taken under consideration, and Berry

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said the lack of e-cigarette regulation in College Station could change in the near future.

“At some point, I would expect in the next month or so, our staff will come back with a report and I’m hoping we ban e-cigarettes in the same places that regular cigarettes or tobacco is banned — so you wouldn’t be able to light it up anywhere inside, or at a restaurant or all the places that you can’t smoke now,” Berry said.

Berry said she hopes instituting regulations will be as simple as amending current smoking regulations to also include e-cigarettes.

Berry said she is working with Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski and Brazos County Judge Duane Peters on the matter, both of whom are interested, she said.

“I think they’re waiting for College Station to take the lead

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Pros and cons of e-cig use, as provided by Dr. David Teller of Beutel.

Over the years, Marty Cobb, veteran flight attendant for Southwest Airlines, found that anecdotal and humorous safety instructions break up the monotony for well-seasoned travelers and relieve the anxieties of first-time fliers.

Recently, Cobb became the subject of a YouTube video, featuring her popular safety antics and coaxing laughs out of countless Southwest patrons. Her video has gone viral and drawn more than 11 million viewers to YouTube.

Cobb received a phone call from the producers of The Ellen DeGeneres Show to appear as a guest on Tuesday’s airing. Sunday, she hopped on a plane to California along with her two daughters, one being Hagan Parkman, junior communication major.

“I remember it had 33 views and she was freaking out,” Parkman said.

“I shared it and then I had some friends who were sharing it and it just blew up so quickly. It definitely was See Flight attendant on page 5

and then they’ll follow,” Berry said.

Texas A&M student policy, meanwhile, requires all university property to be “entirely smokefree.” A&M policy defines smoking as “the use or carrying of a lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette, tobacco or any other type of smoking substance,” and under the definition of tobacco are listed e-cigarettes.

The rules specifically ban all tobacco use on campus, said Anne Reber, dean of Student Life.

The e-cigarette debate often centers on the health effects of their use. Dr. David Teller, associate director for Student Health Services, said opinions on the health effects of e-cigarettes differ widely but said using e-cigarettes See E-cig on page 3 Jenna Rabel — THE BATTALION

Christopher Mintz-Plasse, at Rudder to promote his film, poses with a portrait painted by a fan.

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Green Fund awards campus grants Jennifer Reiley The Battalion

With the announcement of the Spring 2014 grant recipients, the Aggie Green Fund Advisory Board allocated about $233,000 to nine different sustainability projects around campus.

The board has been allocating funds since 2011, and the money comes from the university advancement fee.

Sophia Mora, student intern at the office of sustainability and freshman business honors major, said the nine projects include, among others, funding for the Big Belly recycling bins and water filling stations and a “visual recycling” program in the chemistry department that uses a color-coded system to guide people as to what is recyclable.

Another organization benefitting See Green fund on page 6

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Q&A: THE BATTALION: Did you grow up in a small town? When did you discover that you were drawn to small town stories?

HOLLANDSWORTH: I grew up in Wichita Falls, which is not a small town, it was a city of about 90,000 when I was there. But my hero growing up was Larry McMurtry, the famous novelist who wrote Lonesome Dove. When I was a boy,

Student groups lend hand with ‘Neighbors’ tour Pallavi Kaushik

Magazine writer stretches limits of traditional journalism

Allison Rubenak, lifestyles editor, sits down with Skip Hollandsworth, award-winning journalist and executive editor at Texas Monthly, who spoke on campus Wednesday.

In 1998, Hollandsworth wrote “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas,” which was later turned into the 2011 film, Bernie.

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Journalist Skip Hollandsworth speaks Wednesday on campus. they were shooting the movie ‘The Last Picture Show,’ it’s a famous movie from the early ’70s and they shot some of the movie in Wichita Falls and I would go stare at McMurtry — this nerdy cattleman’s son who had become this nationally famous novelist, and I thought that’s what I wanted to do. I can’t explain why I am drawn to these stories, but I love looking for small town hoopla.

THE BATTALION: What sparked your interest specifically for longform narrative journalism?

See Hollandsworth on page 3

The Battalion Screaming fans, a flip cup tournament and a talent show with a star-studded panel of judges all made appearances Wednesday in a series of events before the pre-screening of the upcoming film “Neighbors.”

Actors Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jerrod Carmichael fielded student questions in a question-and-answer session and judged “Texas A&M’s Got Talent!”, a talent show won by dance group Fade 2 Black.

Torri Clark, Fade 2 Black member and senior telecommunication media studies major, said she was excited to perform in front of well-known actors.

“I think it’s an amazing opportunity to showcase the young talents of our university to the young talents of Hollywood and have our fellow Aggies cheer us on from the audience,” Clark said.

The event filled Rudder Theatre and some hopeful

attendees were turned away.

“I’ve been doing my assigned job, but this has drawn out a large crowd, mostly of enthusiastic girls,” said Lilly McAlister, Class of 2013 and security guard for the event. “However, everyone’s been reasonably understanding and respectful and good Aggies.”

Jenna Kassul, senior telecommunication and media studies major and CampusU representative for A&M, said students have been emailing in and lining up for tickets to the screening of the film for the past two weeks.

The Aggie Screenwriting, Acting and Movie Production Club assisted Kassul in screening the movie.

Martin Hinojosa, member of Aggie SWAMP club and educational technology graduate student, said he hopes A&M continues to be seen as a destination for such film promotional tours.

“I can hope that other studios will take note of this growing population of moviegoers,” Hinojosa said.

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Freshman pitcher Tyler Stubblefield is projected to pitch Thursday.

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Aggies aim to halt MSU’s five-game streak Clay Koepke The Battalion

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he Aggies will continue through the SEC baseball gauntlet Thursday as they head to Starksville, Miss., to take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the first of a three-game series.

A&M will take the diamond at Dudy Noble Field sporting a record of 2517, including a conference

ledger of 8-10. Thusday’s game against the No. 21 Bulldogs will be the third-straight game against an opponent ranked in the top 25.

The Bulldogs (27-15, 10-8 SEC) own a 10-8 all-time series edge over the Aggies, including victories in the last six meetings between the two.

Last season, MSU toppled the Aggies in all four contests between the two programs on its way to a spot in the championship series of the College World Series.

MSU is batting .270 as a team, including a .372 on base percentage and .333 slugging percentage. Led by

Brett Pirtle, with a .338 batting average, 25 runs and 18 RBIs, the Bulldogs boast four players hitting above the .300 mark.

Thursday’s pitching matchup will pit A&M’s Tyler Stubblefield against MSU’s right-hander, Trevor Fitts.

Stubblefield’s 3.45 ERA is second on the team to Grayson Long’s 2.44. Thursday will be Stubblefield’s ninth career start. In his previous eight starts, Stubblefield owns a record of 3-0 with a 2.62 ERA and 40 strikeouts in 38 innings of work.

Fitts (2-2) has started in all

10 of his appearances this year and is the owner of a 3.30 ERA in 43.2 innings pitched.

Junior Aggie infielder Blake Allemand enters Thursday’s conference matchup riding a 18-game streak reaching base.

During that span, Allemand has produced a .464 batting average and currently sits atop the squad with an on-base percentage of .410.

Following Thursday’s 6:30 p.m. first pitch, the series will continue on Friday and Saturday. Friday’s game is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. while Saturday’s first pitch is expected for 2:15 p.m.

track An informational meeting will be held at Ellis Field on April 30 at 11 am. For more information contact Curt Magnuson at curtm@tamu.edu.

Aggies aim to defend relay titles A&M strides to match 2013 results Elizabeth Kamenicky The Battalion

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he Texas A&M track team will be traveling to Franklin Field in Philadelphia for the 120th Penn Relay Carnival Thursday through Saturday where the Aggies will be defending 12 first-place finishes from 2013.

The Aggie women are currently ranked No. 1 by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and will try to repeat their wins in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays. They have won the 4x100 five consecutive seasons at Penn.

Olivia Ekpone and LaQue Moen-Davis will defend their titles in the 100 meters and long jump, respectively.

A&M men have moved up in the rankings, overtaking Arkansas to claim the No. 3 spot. They will be defending titles in the 4x200 and 4x400 relays and Wayne Davis II will try for a repeat victory in the 110 hurdles.

With a time of 1:31.82 in their victory at the Texas Relays last month, the Aggie men’s 4x200 team is the current collegiate leader.

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Salvador Dali exhibit opens in MSC Cassidy Tyrone

The Battalion From the trademark mustache to otherworldly futuristic inventions, students were emerged in the surreal world of Salvador Dali.

The Visual Arts Committee hosted “Salvador Dali: His Image and Imaginations” Wednesday in the Reynolds Arts Gallery. The show exhibited both mixed media pieces from Dali and the iconic collaborative photography with Philippe Halsman. The show, now a year in the making, finally became a reality when the VAC received the collection from the University of Colorado.

Amy Arndt, programming executive for VAC and sophomore English and psychology major, said they chose Dali to keep up the successful momentum VAC had been experiencing since the reopening of the MSC. Arndt said by using a widely popularized artist, they were sure to draw in a large crowd.

“Using a high-profile artist draws in more students and draws in people from outside of the University,” Arndt said. “So that’s sort of our goal — to bring together students and the community for art. When you have someone as popular as Dali, it draws in people that maybe don’t know as much about art. That is a really great segue for them to learn more.”

Dali’s surrealistic style was shown

through his use of otherworldly forms and predictions of futuristic technology in the pieces that were featured. Eric Clausen, advisor for VAC, said Dali’s surrealism was an extension of another art movement.

“To put it simply, surrealism came from dada,” Clausen said.

“Dada is centered around things that are illogical and insensible — so art by accident.”

Arndt said Dali could be seen as a visionary who explored the surrealist style that was not common when he emerged onto the art scene.

“His work really wasn’t the style that was popular during his time,” Arndt said. “So for him to publish things like that is more revolutionary than I think he gets credit for.”

Denise Carlos, sophomore forensic and investigative sciences major, had her first experience with Dali’s lesser-known works Wednesday.

Carlos said she was surprised by the vast difference of the displayed works when compared to Dali’s famous melting clocks.

“My first impressions of the pieces were crazy and random,” Carlos said. “I never knew he did other works. I only knew the melting clocks. These pieces almost seem childish.”

It was exactly this vast difference in work that intrigued Jose Espinoza, senior environmental geosciences major.

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HOLLANDSWORTH: It would be reading Texas Monthly back in college. I had never seen stories that were that long, and they broke the rules. I did a lot of straight reporting at the [Daily Skiff, student newspaper of TCU], and I think it’s important to do straight reporting — you learn how to do shoe-letter work and you can’t make these stories work unless you accumulate the facts. I tell a lot of college kids to go to the newspapers. They think newspapers are passe but people still read newspapers, there’s still jobs that get open and you can do a lot of things. There used to be things called Sunday magazines in the Sunday newspaper and I would write for the Dallas Morning News Sunday magazine because I loved narratives. This is during the time that there was writing called new journalism going on and Tom Wolfe was writing books and Esquire tried things and Texas Monthly was letting their writers sort of meander away from the story and then come back, so I was really fascinated by all of that. I was just a puppy in that world peeing over everyone.

THE BATTALION: From start to finish, what do you enjoy most about the writing process?

HOLLANDSWORTH: The start. I love the reporting, I hate the writing. Because I’m not a facile writer — I’m not someone

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Students examine several of Salvador Dali’s pieces Wednesday afternoon in the Reynolds Gallery.

“To me, it’s interesting,” Espinoza said. “I had never seen this side of him before. Famous artists sometimes get pinned down to one painting, so it’s interesting to see a different side of him.”

Nicole Copeland, sophomore biomedical sciences major, said for her, Dali’s fame overshadowed his own art. However, Copeland said she found a connection with the technical practicality of his pieces.

“Sometimes it’s the artist that intrigues me more than the art,” Copeland said. “His art wasn’t my

who can just knock out a phrase — it’s a struggle for me. But I love talking to people and love getting them to open up and say things. So that part is the most fun for me.

THE BATTALION: You’ve written many crime stories, which often features content that is grisly in nature. How do you handle writing about these difficult subjects?

HOLLANDSWORTH: I’m able to separate myself from these stories. The only one that I was never able to separate myself from was a story titled “The Lost Boys” about a man who was abducting boys exactly around my age from a neighborhood in Houston, back in the early ’70s. So these boys were 10, 12 — my age back then. And then when I went and did the story a few years ago, I went and found the parents and I found some of these mothers whose grief never left.

And I just thought it was a very emotional experience for me because I kept thinking about my own mother and that’s how she would have been if I had been abducted and killed.

THE BATTALION: What was your experience like being on the set of Bernie, which you helped co-write and was based on the article that you had written, Midnight in the Garden of East Texas?

HOLLANDSWORTH: I couldn’t tell while watching the movie if it was going to be funny. It was the first time that I had watched a movie get filmed, so I would

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favorite, but the thought behind his painting — it’s realistic ideas, not just art. It’s art with a purpose.”

Although Halsman’s input was overlooked by many visitors, Clausen said Halsman’s work with Dali was a feat due to the limited technology at the time of their creation.

“I think all of the work is great,” Clausen said. “The photographs are some of the most iconic works of his. Halsman’s work with Dali was interesting because of all the altering. You have to remember this was before Photoshop.”

see all these things going on and I would think, ‘This isn’t going to work.’ But somehow in the magic of moviemaking those things turned out to be uproariously funny. So I was surprised at how complicated it is to shoot a film, even how complicated it is to shoot a simple scene.

THE BATTALION: What characteristics and what content do you look for when searching to write a new story?

HOLLANDSWORTH: It’s a very simple question: How did that happen? How did he do that? How did she become a bank robber? How did he open up the world’s greatest rodeo store? It’s when I become absorbed with that question, that simple question that drives this engine for me and then I try to recreate the story so that I make the reader start flying through the sentences trying to figure out the same way I did. How did this happen? It’s just the nature of curiosity.

THE BATTALION: Do you have any advice for young and aspiring long-form narrative journalists?

HOLLANDSWORTH: Well, it’s to find one story and work on it for months. The first story I wrote for Texas Monthly was about a women’s bass fishing tournament. I went out and got the quotes and looked at how they did these kinds of stories and looked at how they did the structure, but I didn’t rush it. You find one great story, and everybody probably knows, in the business, just work on it a little bit at a time.

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is in some cases a good first step to quit smoking.

“It is similar to the nicotine patches in that this is a replacement for cigarettes without the tar and toxins of real cigarettes,” Teller said. “A person that wants to quit may be able to use this as a bridge to quitting completely.”

Still, Teller said nicotine is a toxin and can be purchased for e-cigarettes in much higher concentrations than found in normal cigarettes. Teller said the growing popularity could also encourage younger people to use them, potentially serving as a gateway to other tobacco products.

An e-cigarette user, junior sociology major Syd McIntire said he originally smoked in the “traditional way” but found that he felt healthier with e-cigarettes.

“Just from a personal standpoint, my lungs feel healthier, I can work out a lot longer, I can run a lot farther and it’s been an overall positive experience for me,” McIntire said. “The cool thing about the vape is I don’t need to sit there and smoke a whole one to justify buying it, I can just take a couple of puffs on my way to class and put it back in my pocket.”

Chemistry major Mark Goloby said he never habitually smoked cigarettes but now takes at least a few puffs from an e-cigarette daily. Goloby said though there are a variety of reasons why e-cigarettes are better to smoke than cigarettes, he also does it for aesthetics and convenience.

Goloby said as long as e-cigarette users aren’t creating obvious distractions with their clouds of vapor, there is no reason why they should be held under the same regulations as cigarettes.

“You’re not going to get cancer from an e-cigarette, there’s no second-hand smoke from an e-cigarette, there’s not even an unappealing odor from smoking e-cigarettes,” Goloby said. “All the reasons why they should be regulated kind of go out the window in this case because they’re all health-based reasons.”

McIntire said the increasing use of e-cigarettes on campus can be attributed to two groups — those looking to e-cigarettes as an alternative to smoking and those who are simply drawn to the appeal of it.

“On some level, people who smoke cigarettes or smoke other forms of tobacco and are looking for a way to diminish the harmful effects done to their bodies, but I’ve also seen it’s becoming trendy,” McIntire said. “It’s not one of those things that I think is going to go away, but I do believe that people who are looking for a vice without the detriments of truly having one will turn to a vape just to get the experience of smoking without any of the negative effects.”

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The law firm of Anthony “Tony” Buzbee, Class of 1990 and Texas A&M University System regent, donated a $1 million endowment to Texas A&M University School of Law this month, the school announced Wednesday.

Buzbee said this was a good time to donate since the law school is still new and rising in the ranks.

“I’m just trying to jumpstart the campaign for the law school,” Buzbee said. “The Board of Regents is very happy to have a law school now — it’s been a long time coming — and I think each one of us is doing what we can to make sure it’s fully integrated into the Aggie system and we are going to leverage the Aggie brand and all the other things that make our school great, so hopefully we will have a great law school as well.”

The funds will go to the new law school dean once he or she is chosen, Buzbee

said, who can then use the money for the betterment of the school.

“This will be a fund for the dean, so it can be used as the new dean sees fit, whether it be for marketing or any programs the dean wants to use it for, but it’s specifically designated for whoever fills the chair of the dean of the law school,” Buzbee said.

Buzbee said the donation encourages the law school to choose the best dean to use that money.

“It encourages us to get the best dean we can get and I think we are going to do that, and secondly it helps the dean in his or her primary interests, which we would expect would be to advance the law school,” Buzbee said.

“Anything we can do that increases the prestige of the law school is going to help every student that attends there — specifically in getting jobs after.”

Aric Short, law school interim dean, said this endowment will provide resources for the expansion of programming, the improvement

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Short said the endowment is an excellent way to end the law school’s first academic year.

“It’s been a year of incredible transformation for the law school and I think this is a wonderful way to finish up the first academic year of the Texas A&M law school,” Short said.

Shawn Johnson, Class of 2010 and first-year law student, will intern with the Buzbee Law Firm at the end of the summer. Johnson said he hopes the generous donation will go toward the programs and curriculum to help raise the prestige of the new law school.

“I just hope it helps grow the law school, make it better, whether that means a wider curriculum or whether it’s a smaller student to faculty member ratio,” Johnson said. “Really, whatever it is, I admire what Mr. Buzbee is doing, trying to help get A&M as a top-ranked law school.”

Texas A&M will receive a visit from Cuban poet Reina María Rodríguez Thursday afternoon as she presents a selection of her own works to Evans Library.

Rodríguez, who was born in Havana just a few years before the start of the Cuban revolution, uses her poetry to advocate for cultural spaces not policed by the state.

Rodríguez received the Pablo Neruda Iberia-America Poetry Award Tuesday afternoon, said Anton duPlessis, curator of the Colonial Mexican Collection at Cushing Memorial Library. This can be considered one of the highest awards a Spanish-speaking poet can win, he said.

DuPlessis said it’s rare to have a major poet visit A&M and present their work for the school’s collection, which is why he encour-

aged students to attend the event.

“It’s unusual of course, one to have a major poet here on campus, particularly someone who is from Cuba, and so she had to get permission to travel from Cuba to the United States,” duPlessis said. “One of the big things she is known for is advocating having rooftop readings and discussion if you will, clamoring for where people have cultural events that are not controlled by the state.”

From a political standpoint, duPlessis said Rodríguez is an engaging speaker as she reacts against the controlled system she grew up in.

“Here’s a chance to see someone who is, you know, very well-known for being recognized for that, while being in a system of controlled regime,” duPlessis said. “She is agitating against that.”

The event will be in Evans Library at 4 p.m. Thursday.

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forces in the West Bank, they also mean Israelis “occupying” the state of Israel.

While the BDS movement uses highly emotive The third telling fact about the BDS movement is language in their appeals for support—such as “ending that it consistently and vehemently opposes any efforts repression” and “Israeli war crimes”—a closer look at to bring Israelis and Palestinians together to work in the real motives of the movement reveals a more peace and on peace. For example, BDS leaders advocate sinister goal. boycotting cultural exchanges between Israelis and First, note that the BDS movement focuses only on Palestinian artists. They condemn educational alleged war crimes and repression by Israel—and cooperation between Israeli ignores real war crimes and tyrannical repression by other Rather than a movement that seeks and Palestinian universities.

Most revealingly, they oppose Middle Eastern nations and terrorist organizations. When peace and freedom, BDS is motivated peace talks between Israel by an obsessive hate of Zionism. and the Palestinian Hamas and Hizbollah target leadership, calling them thousands of rockets at Israeli “collaborationist.” civilian populations in violation of international law, BDS is not about “occupation.” In short, BDS is not BDS utters not a word of criticism, let alone a call for about peaceful coexistence or ending the “occupation” boycotts or sanctions. When Iran’s government of the West Bank. Indeed, Omar Barghouti, a graduate violently crushes peaceful protests and Egypt stifles its student at Tel Aviv University and BDS founder, admits, press and political opposition with a dictatorial hand, “If the occupation ends . . . would that end support for BDS is likewise silent. Why? BDS? No it wouldn’t—no.”

By singling out Israel for criticism and economic Not only do BDS leaders admit this, but they pressure, BDS employs a double standard—a implacably support the “return” of nearly five million hypocritical and dishonest tactic frequently used by descendants of Arab refugees who left during Israel’s anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate groups. war of independence in 1947. In fact, most of these The reason, as we’ll see, is that the BDS movement is Palestinians are not truly refugees—fully 95 percent of not really interested in alleged war crimes or repression. them have never set foot in Israel.

Rather its purpose is to delegitimize and then destroy Most importantly, the immigration of millions of Israel.

Arab refugees’ descendants to Israel would make Jews The second critical fact about the BDS movement is a minority in their own state. As President Obama has that while it masquerades behind words like “freedom” correctly noted, “The ‘right of return’ would extinguish and “occupation,” one need only listen closely to its Israel as a Jewish state, and that’s not an option.” Yet rhetoric to realize that these are code words for the destroying Israel by flooding it with millions of elimination of Israel.

Palestinians is precisely what BDS leader Barghouti BDS leaders oppose a two-state solution—why? insists upon: “This (the right of return) is something While the United States, Western European powers, we cannot compromise on.”

Israel and the U.N. Security Council have embraced a BDS’s goal: “Extinguish Israel as a Jewish state.” “two-state solution” as the basis for peace in the Middle BDS unequivocally rejects Israel’s many peace offers— East, BDS leaders, such as Ali Abunimah and Omar including numerous land-for-peace proposals Barghouti, are clear: They openly and outspokenly supported by the United States—and rejects Israel’s oppose a two-state solution. Why? willingness to sit down to direct peace talks without Because when BDS supporters talk about “the preconditions. occupation of Palestine,” they refer not to disputed Thus, the facts make BDS’s intentions clear: Rather West Bank territories, but to all the land between the than being a movement that seeks peace and freedom, Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea—including all it is a movement motivated by an obsessive hate of of Israel. When they talk about “freedom,” they don’t Zionism and Jews and opposition to the Jewish state— mean freedom from security roadblocks, they mean one bent on fomenting strife, conflict and enmity until freedom from Jews in their midst. When they talk Israel is utterly defeated. about “occupation,” they mean not just Israeli security If you support peace between Israel and the Palestinians, if you support two states for two peoples—living side by side in cultural, social and economic harmony—please oppose the ill-intentioned BDS movement in your community. Speak out against hateful, one-sided campaigns to boycott Israeli goods, to divest from companies that do business with Israel and to enact sanctions against the state of Israel. This is not the path to peace!

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Cobb said being asked to appear on Ellen was a once-ina-lifetime experience. She said she always admired the talk show host not just for humor, but also for her ability to “pay it forward.”

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I just will never forget it.”

Parkman said her mom began putting a twist on flight safety instructions early in her career. Humor and positivity are a part of Cobb’s personality that shows through in her job, Parkman said.

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“One of my favorite sayings is, ‘You can’t always choose where you work, but you can choose how you work,’” Cobb said. “I think that your attitude and the way that you react — you never know why people are traveling and just to sometimes smile and listen and reach out to people, it makes such a difference.”

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Corey Wahl, agricultural research technician and staff advisor for Howdy Farm, said the grant will be beneficial to improving the farm in other ways, such as assisting the garden after its move from its original location.

“Since the farm had to move locations because of the new dorms that are going in, it really stalled us because we went two semesters without hardly making any money from selling vegetables because we didn’t have enough space and we were trying to move,” Wahl said. “This grant money is really going to help us get back in the swing of things and get some money flowing in so that we can plan future projects and future research for students and expand the farm.”

Now that the grants have been allocated, Mora said the board will stay in touch to monitor the progress of each project.

“Each grant is assigned an Aggie Green Fund advisory member who is sort of in charge with managing and keeping up with how the project is going along its path,” Mora said.

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sustainability officer and advisor for the committee, said the grant money allows sustainability projects to remain active on campus.

“The grants provide the opportunity for environmental change to happen, so what I mean by that it’s a tough financial environment right now, and the seed money from the Aggie Green Fund allows for projects to happen that might otherwise not be allocated for funding,” Wellman said.

Wellman said the Office of Sustainability has used funds to install water bottle filling stations on campus, and the fund has acted as a catalyst for other buildings to install stations as well.

“We have installed 20 from Aggie Green Fund, but due to popularity, success and demand, other buildings have installed them on their own,” Wellman said. “It kind of serves as that spark. It gives people a chance to try something out, see if it’s going to be effective and feasible, desirable and then it goes from there.”

Wellman said there are limitations as to which projects can be funded by the grant.

“The project has to impact the Texas A&M campus,” Wellman said. “You couldn’t apply for a project and it be in one of the cities and not impact Texas A&M. It is designed to be a local improvement for our campus.”

The grants provide the opportunity for environmental change to happen, so what I mean by that it’s a tough financial environment right now, and the seed money from the Aggie Green Fund allows for projects to happen that might otherwise not be allocated for funding.”

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