The Battalion: February 11, 2011

nation&world Mubarak stays in post, hands powers to VP

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CAIRO — Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak refused to step down or leave the country and instead handed his powers to his vice president Thursday, remaining president and ensuring regime control over the reform process.

Stunned protesters in central Cairo who demand his ouster waved their shoes in contempt and shouted, “Leave, leave, leave.”

The rapidly moving events raised the question of whether a rift had opened between Mubarak and the military command. Hours earlier, the military announced it had stepped in to secure the country, and a top general announced to protesters in Tahrir Square that all their demands would soon be met, raising cries of victory that Mubarak was on his way out.

Several hundred thousand protesters packed into Tahrir Square, ecstatic with expectation that Mubarak would announce his resignation in his nighttime address.

Instead, they watched in shocked silence as he spoke, slapping their foreheads in anger and disbelief.

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Above: Chemical engineering professor Mark Holtzapple has been working on a process, called MixAlco, that converts biomass into renewable fuel, and has built a pilot plant in Bryan.

Right: The process begins with fermenting a solution of biomass and soil containing microorganisms.

The acetic acid produced by the microorganisms breaking down the biomass is used to make the renewable fuel.

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Coaching legend dies Former Texas A&M head football coach and athletic director Emory Bellard died yesterday morning after being diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, this past summer. Bellard coached the Aggies from 1972 to 1978 winning the Sun Bowl against Florida in 1976 after a 10-2 season.

After six years, he left the Aggies with a 48-27 season and moved on to coach for Mississippi State from 1979-1985.

He was best known for creating the innovative Wishbone offensive play. In 1994 Bellard was inducted to the Texas A&M Hall of Fame.

Gayle Gabriel, staff writer

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A&M has the answer Professor develops renewable energy process Jill Beathard The Battalion President Barack Obama issued a challenge to American scientists in his State of the Union address last week, and a Texas A&M professor has an answer.

The president announced plans for a budget proposing greater investment in technology, particularly clean energy, while citing the benefits to national security, the environment and job creation. Obama said the budget will help us meet

the goal he set two years ago to “reach a level of research and development we haven’t seen since the height of the Space Race.

“We’re issuing a challenge. We’re telling America’s scientists and engineers that if they assemble teams of the best minds in their fields and focus on the hardest problems in clean energy, we’ll fund the Apollo Projects of our time,” Obama said.

In his address, Obama called for an end to the nation’s dependence on oil and for the U.S. to become “the first country to have 1 million electric

vehicles on the road by 2015.”

However, chemical engineering professor Mark Holtzapple has been working for 20 years on a process that converts biomass into renewable fuel and doesn’t require a change in the design of the car. In partnership with the small company Terrabon, Holtzapple’s team has built a pilot plant that has produced 25 gallons of jet fuel and 100 gallons of gasoline.

Holtzapple said the government is focusing on See Biofuel on page 2

Library gets text service Can’t get to Evans?

Text a librarian. During scheduled hours, librarians will text back answers to questions and help students, faculty and staff take advantage of the library’s resources.

“Texting is a great way for students, faculty and staff to get short, immediate answers to questions or even leave us feedback,” said Dennis Clark, head of public and research services for the University Libraries.

The University Libraries already had a service that allows you to look up a book online and have the book information texted to your phone.

There is also a chat and e-mail service. Now they are expanding the communication networks through the more convenient, more personal medium of text messaging.

“We want students to add the University Libraries to their contacts list, along with friends and family,” Clark said.

Text the University Libraries at 979-525-1741.

Chat with the University Libraries at http:// library.tamu.edu/ chat.

Emily Villani, staff writer

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University boosts community’s economy Katie Marie Pogue Special to The Battalion Texas A&M University was inaugurated in 1876 and the next year the Postal Service named the area “College Station, Texas,” after the train station. Over the next few decades A&M continued to expand, as so did College Station. The first City Council meeting was in the campus administration building in February 1939, Historical-

ly, the University caused a mushroom effect on the twin cities of Bryan and College Station and this mutually beneficial relationship still exists today on a bigger scale.

Texas A&M Division of Finance released a study on the economic impact of the University on the B-CS area per a request from President Loftin. This study showed that the total impact for 2010 reached an astounding $3.73 bil-

lion. The Texas A&M University system economically benefits the B-CS area through a number of factors, such as student spending on housing, food, entertainment, clothing, school supplies, employees of the University system who are based in BCS and the number of out-of-town visitors the University brings in for sporting events and families visiting students.

The official College Station website

records the population of College Station as 94,347 through September 2010, not including the 49,129 students of the University. Solely examining the impact the students had on the community, the number is estimated at $464.5 million.

The students’ effect on the economy can be seen through the number of coffee shops in College Station. There are 10 See Economy on page 6

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Alex Lotz The Battalion Red is no longer the dominant color of love in February. Twelve crimson red dresses previously worn by A-list celebrities graced the catwalk of the George Bush Presidential Library Friday, Feb. 4. It was part of the most exclusive fundraiser to reach the borders of Aggieland, “The Heart Truth® Red Dress Collection and First Ladies Red Dress Collection.” As its name might suggest, the goal of the event is to raise needed funds to assist in the campaign to warn women of the dangers of heart disease.

“This exhibit arose from the Heart Truth® national campaign (sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) to raise awareness about women’s heart health,” said

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Susie Cox, curator of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

Beginning Oct. 1, 2010, and continuing until Aug. 14, 2011, the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum has been home to an exhibit to raise awareness about heart disease, which is now the No. 1 killer of women in America.

“This is the first time we have had this event,” said Will King, the public relations director of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

The Texas A&M Health Science Center is one of the major sponsors of the event. Dr. Alicia Dorsey of the Health Science Center See Red Dress Day on page 6

April Baltensperger The Battalion It’s mobile. It’s fun. And it’s free. Foursquare is a new service that is accessible from Smartphones and other mobile devices that allows students and visitors to share information about favorite places in the Bryan-College Station area. It is a free program that provides great benefits, such as discounts at restaurants and bookstores, to students who use it.

“We see many great ways to use this location-based social networking site, including encouraging students to explore

our campus and participate in campus events and communicating the great Aggie traditions as students experience campus life,” said Diane C. McDonald, director of social media and marketing programs.

The Foursquare program can be compared to a sort of loyalty card. When a student or visitor uses the service to “check in” to a location, they receive points that add up to rewards and benefits.

“Foursquare rewards users for ‘check-ins’ with badges, points and mayorships,” McSee Foursquare on page 6

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two approaches to creating biofuel. One is the thermochemical platform, in which biomass is gasified by partially burning it, similar to the way electricity is produced from coal. Another approach is to put enzymes onto biomass to make sugar.

Holtzapple sees flaws in both approaches — the first will probably never be economical, he said, because biomass is more expensive than coal — and the second won’t work well on a large scale because it requires the biomass to be sterilized.

“One of the great beauties of our process is it doesn’t require sterile processes,” Holtzapple said. “We literally throw chicken poop, waste paper and food scraps into the fermenter without sterilizing it, and it works great. It’s very robust, very simple technology.”

By the end of the year, Terrabon, in partnership with Waste Management, will have a commercial plant producing fuel through this process in Alvin, Texas, the site of a Houston garbage dump.

Obama said energy technology must be marketable in order to create jobs.

“1970 was when we peaked in our oil production in America,” Holtzapple said. “We’re on the other side of the hill; we’ve been there for 40 years. So we have to import 60 percent of our oil, and it’s expensive.

That’s one of the things that’s hurting our country. We spend

$400 billion a year importing foreign oil. Think if that money stayed in this country what good that would do,” he said.

He estimates that the fuel produced by MixAlco on a large scale would cost about $70 a barrel. According to Bloomberg.com, Americans are paying $89 to $98 a barrel, depending on the type of crude.

“So as long as oil is above $70 a barrel, this is just a cheaper way to go,” Holtzapple said.

Laura Terry, class of 2010, said working for Occidental Petroleum, one of the largest oil companies in the world, has exposed her to information about oil and ways to receive energy.

She said although there might be costs to starting up renewable energy processes, the benefits will outweigh them.

“We’ve actually become more dependent on foreign oil supplies, which is hurting our domestic companies,” Terry said. “To help with this, they’ve been discovering new processes used to recover oil, like shale and fracking. Eventually these discoveries are going to come to a halt, forcing the world to decrease their normal consumption of energy.

“Because we’re so dependent on oil to receive energy, I think they should put more research into renewable energy. This will help ease into this new way of living and avoid chaos when the inevitable arrives. The initial costs will be high, but once they develop and perfect these procedures, the benefits will outweigh the costs.”

Gasoline produced by MixAlco is the same as any other,

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Mark Holtzapple, professor of chemical engineering, is expanding the MixAlco process from the lab to the commercial level. so it doesn’t eliminate the pollutants that an engine emits. But because it is based on biomass rather than fossil fuel, it doesn’t release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

“In terms of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, when you source your fuels from biomass, that’s not putting new CO2 into the atmosphere because plants will fix that CO2 and make more plants so you have a cycle. When you have a fossil fuel as a source, you’re taking carbon that used to be under the ground and now lifting it up to the surface,” Holtzapple said.

Obama focused on other types of energy in his speech, such as wind, solar and natural gas, but Holtzapple said MixAlco deserves more attention than it is getting from the government. However, he also said he wishes the public would maintain interest in the energy

problem in general.

“I’m glad people are paying attention to it, I just wish they would maintain that attention even when prices are a little lower,” he said. “I think people have this idea you just go to the store and you buy something; it’s there. But the reality is somebody had to create that product and the technology to make it. You don’t just snap your fingers and you have a new energy technology; it takes decades and millions and millions of dollars to make that thing happen.

“I would wish there was some continued sustained support in what we’re doing. And it may be because I think if oil prices are where they are now, given the recession; I think it’s only going to go up from here. It’s actually remarkable to me that prices are as high as they are.”

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Statewide shape-up Texans, Aggies show need to improve unhealthy lifestyles

Jennifer DuBose The Battalion Half-priced pizza rolls, two-for-one tacos and dozens of other tasty but fatty deals around town make it almost impossible for Texas A&M students to eat healthy. After all, who would choose leafy greens over grease-infested pizza when stressed and studying for exams? Yet however delectable “college food” might be, there are serious consequences to making bad dietary choices.

“As far as [A&M] students, about 73 percent of students report eating fewer than two servings of fruits and vegetables per day and 31 percent of Aggies say they are overweight or obese,” said Rhonda Rahn, the health education coordinator in the Department of Student Health Services.

Rahn also said 19 percent of students are getting the recommended physical activity per week. To be blunt, we’re in pretty bad shape, pun intended.

But, it’s not just Aggies that are not “feeling the burn.” According to Rahn, “more than 60 percent of adults in Texas are overweight or obese and about 32 percent of Texas teens are the same,” putting our state at No. 15 in the nation. By 2040, it is projected that 75 percent of Texans will be overweight.

How on earth did we get this way?

“College is often the first time when students are personally responsible for selecting foods to meet their individual health needs,” said Sandra Baxter, dietician for Dining Services.

“When given the responsibility for the first time to portion and select their own foods, many students select foods they ‘want to eat,’ not what they ‘need to eat’ and find themselves a member of the class of ’15 — the ‘freshman 15’ weight gain group!”

Culinary independence is not the only cause of obesity in Texans and A&M students.

“As technology gets more advanced, we don’t have to be as active to be productive in the workforce or entertained. We now have to plan to be physically active whereas, in the past, it was just part of life,” Rahn said.

For example, consider how fast and easy it is to Facebook a friend rather than to walk and meet them in the park for a chat, a common occurrence in our parents’ or grandparents’ youth.

Modern convenience in cooking also plays a big role in growing obesity rates.

“As parents and students get busy, they tend to eat more fast food or pre-packaged foods rather than having prepared, sitdown meals,” Rahn said.

The worry is not about simply going up a few pant sizes or having cellulite at age 23. Weight gain can cause serious and sometimes critical health problems.

“Obesity is directly related to cardiovascular disease, cancer, hypertension, strokes, bone and joint disorders, as well as Type 2 diabetes,” Baxter said.

Another disease related to bad health decisions is osteoporosis.

“Unfortunately, college students don’t realize that it’s a preventable disease caused by poor choices they are making now,”

Baxter said. “You have until age 30 to eat as much calcium as you can and exercise to build strong bones — but after age 30, bone mass decreases and the lack of calcium intake before age 30 cannot be made up.”

Bottom line: choosing milk over soda at Rattler’s or in Sbisa is a more important choice than you think, and will save you from severe bone loss in the future.

However bleak the above stats and facts might seem, there are ways to avoid being unhealthy and make changes in your body for the better.

The best thing you can do is plan ahead. Cook meals on the weekends, when you have more time and then freeze individual portion sizes that are grab-and-go, perfect for the busy week ahead.

Product placement is also key.

“Try to shop on the outside grocery aisles, the more you go towards the center, the more processed the food will be,” Rahn said.

But don’t be fooled by that “organic” sticker, as the term only describes how the food is grown. It doesn’t make a difference in its nutritional value and is sometimes just a way for stores to increase prices. There is no scientific evidence that organic foods are better for you than nonorganic foods.

For snacks, Rahn recommends nuts, vegetables, whole grain crackers, fruits, beef jerky, yogurt and string cheese.

They are easy to carry from class to class and less expensive than visiting the vending machines several times a day.

As far as actual meals go, eat at least three per day, with a couple of snacks, while making sure that you select foods from each of the five main food groups. Stay away from processed foods, choose grilled over fried and drink plenty of milk.

“Don’t omit the food groups that are richest in nutrients: the fruits and vegetables,” Baxter said.

Planning is also key in this situation. Baxter said he suggests visiting http://mypyramid.gov for your own personalized eating plan and a wealth of other information.

Avoiding alcohol and tobacco also makes for a healthier being. Getting seven to nine hours of sleep every night is also vital for mental and physical health, along with making that Fightin’ Texas Aggie 4.0.

Being active also takes — you guessed it — planning.

“Work it into your schedule just as you would a class, treating it with importance. Find an activity you enjoy and work it into your schedule,” Rahn said.

Thirty minutes of cardio or aerobic exercise five to seven days a week is recommended.

“A great chance to get active is by forming a team of friends

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to participate in Walk Across Texas, an eightweek physical activity program, created by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, to help Texans establish the habit of regular activity,” said Sara Mendez, the Walk Across Texas co-chairwoman.

The kick-off event will be at 10 a.m.

Saturday at Post Oak Mall. The goal is for each team to collectively log at least 830 miles, the distance from El Paso to Orange, Texas. Visit http://brazoswat.com for steps on how to register a team of up to eight people and get started.

In addition, the Texas A&M Health Science Center and the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, in partnership with Scott & White Healthcare, St. Joseph Regional Health Center and the College Station Medical Center, will present a free community health fair from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

Here at A&M, we’re surrounded by opportunities and resources for healthy living. Visit Student Health Services or Dining Services for free help with making healthy choices. We can beat the hell outta being unhealthy!

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men’s basketball | The No. 22 Aggies look to win the second game in a row when they travel to Lubbock to face off with Texas Tech at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

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Aggies welcome 12 schools for tournament

Starting with a bang Softball team begins season with tough tournament in Arizona

Adrian O’ Hanlon III The Battalion “It’s two weeks out from the conference championships, and if you can’t get it done right now, you may not be able to get it done,” said Head Track Coach Pat Henry.

Henry and the Texas A&M Track and Field team look to prove they can “get it done” this weekend in the Texas A&M Conference Challenge featuring three schools each from the Big 12, C-USA, Pac 10 and SEC. This weekend is pivotal in the track season as teams gain momentum from intense training, experience from competitions and athletes across the nation return from injuries.

“This [weekend] starts making changes in the sport, and that’s why we wanted to have so many good teams together at one place,” Henry said. “This weekend coming up we’ll see the biggest changes [in rankings], because people start getting in shape and they’ve had enough competitions that they’re now ready to compete. With 12 schools with good track programs, you’re going to have a good matchup in every event and you’ve got to come to the meet ready to compete.”

The meet will pit several nationallyranked teams against each other including Arizona (No. 18 men, No. 13 women), Arizona State (No. 24 women), Baylor (No. 25 men), Nebraska (No. 14 men and women) and Tennessee (No. 5 women).

Jeneba Tarmoh, junior sprinter, explained the importance of focusing on personal performance instead of worrying about the competitor in the next lane.

“We all got to compete in our individual events to get points for the team, get strong individually, but at the end of the day it’s very much a team thing,” Tarmoh said.

“When it comes to other teams, I don’t really notice them. It’s like the weather, you can’t do anything to [change] it, you just got to go with it.”

As teams step up training in preparation for the full sprint toward the conference championships, Henry said it is crucial to stay healthy from this point and continue to improve individual efforts for team success.

“If you stay healthy through this timeframe, then you’re going to be ready and the team’s going to be ready,” Henry said.

“Our [focus has been] about working hard in training and going to the track on Saturday on these first four weekends to do our best right now.”

Jessica Beard, senior sprinter, has performed well this year, leading the nation in both the 200-meters and 400-meters.

Beard said to prepare each week, individuals must focus on achieving the highest levels of training and effort to help the team.

“When we do the best that we can and get a win then we’ve done the best for ourselves and the team. It’s like killing two birds with one stone,” Beard said. “We’re very team-oriented, but the better the individual does, the better the team does. You have to focus on your race strategy and be aware of your surroundings.”

Beard will face competitors from Baylor, which has been noted as “Quartermiler U,” given their unprecedented 30 combined national championships in the 400-meters and 4 x 400 relays. Coach Henry acknowledged Baylor’s prestigious history, but said A&M’s progress in recent years has started to challenge Baylor.

“We can say they have some good quarter-milers but our quarter-milers have run very, very well against them,” Henry said.

“We don’t look at it that way though. Baylor has a good program and we have a lot of respect for them, but it’s about what we’re capable of doing. We’ve got good experience in this group and they know what they have ahead of them.”

Henry and the Aggies will prove what they are capable of doing in the meet ahead as 12 teams face off at 12 p.m. Saturday at Gilliam Indoor Track Facility.

Junior Jeneba Tarmoh and the Aggies take on 12 teams Saturday at the Gilliam Indoor Track Facility.

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Sean Lester The Battalion Normally the first games of any season are against cupcake teams that are likely to get walked all over. For the Texas A&M softball team, the first five games of the season at this weekend’s Kajikawa Classic Tournament in Arizona will be anything but a piece of cake.

“It’s a big deal,” said sophomore pitcher Mel Dumezich.

“We’re playing top-ranked teams when we get to Arizona, we play top-ranked Arizona and Oregon is in the top-10 or 15, so I think it’s a good tournament to see where our team is at.”

Dumezich and her teammates will play three ranked teams in the five games at the tournament. The Aggies will play No. 1 Arizona, who lost last year’s College World Series to UCLA, in the tournament on Saturday.

“We spend all this time practicing, and now it’s time to get out their and get a measure of where we are and where our strengths are and what are some things that we need to spend some more time on,” said Head Coach Jo Evans.

Evans returns five seniors to an A&M team that lost in the regional round of the World Series last year. They enter the season with a No. 19 preseason ranking and, along with Arizona, will take on No. 14 Oregon and No. 20 BYU. “We do have a lot of youth and inexperience, and we will have some freshmen in our line up,” Evans said. “It will be challenging for them to play against these caliber of teams, but I think it’s really valuable for them.”

The inexperience of incoming freshmen will be important, but this team will look to ride the experience of the five seniors who were a part of the 2008 team that went to the College World Series Championship against Arizona State.

“Having been to this tournament for the last 10 or 15 years, if you go out and play good in this tournament it

Sophomore pitcher Mel Dumezich (left) and the No. 19 Aggies begin play Friday against Cal State Fullerton in Arizona.

During the Kajikawa Classic Tournament, the Aggies will face off with three ranked teams in five games.

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jump starts you, and it bumps you up in the polls and the rankings,” Evans said. “It gives your team a lot of confidence.”

One player who knows what freshmen will be experiencing is sophomore catcher Meagan May who led the team in almost every offensive category

last season and was named an All-Big 12 First Team catcher and a second team All-American. May’s experience will be important to how the Aggies start their season.

“It’d be great if we go out and win five games, but if we don’t and learn new things about our-

selves it’s also helpful so either way it will be good,” May said.

“Personally for myself, I don’t want to do too much and have this idea that I have to live up to last year. I just want to go out and help my team as much as possible.”

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Men and women return to Mitchell Tennis Center Ben Crook Special to The Battalion The Aggie men’s and women’s tennis teams will both be home in Aggieland this weekend. The action begins Saturday with the Aggie women and continues with a men’s doubleheader Sunday afternoon.

The women play at 1 p.m. Saturday against instate rival TCU. The Aggies, ranked 33rd in the nation by the ITA, are coming off a close 4-3 win over LSU last weekend in their home opener. They face a TCU team that has only played two matches this young season — a 7-0 win over Texas Pan-American and a 4-3 defeat to St. Mary’s during ITA Kick-Off Weekend.

The No. 54 Horned Frogs do not have any players ranked by the ITA in doubles or singles.

A&M is holding a promotion that all fans wearing the 2011 “Beat the Hell Outta

Breast Cancer” T-shirt will be admitted for free as part of this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness match.

The Aggie men continue the action at the Mitchell Tennis Center with a double-header Sunday. Play begins at 1 p.m. against Troy and continues at 6 p.m. against St. Edwards. No. 65 Troy has had a difficult start to the season, losing every match thus far on the road to ranked opponents. Their task will not get any easier as they face the No. 1 doubles duo of seniors Austin Krajicek and Jeff Dadamo. A&M has a 21-match win streak at home, and will certainly be keen on extending it against these opponents.

The nightcap pits A&M against their second Division II opponent of the season, St. Edwards. The Aggies prevailed 5-2 against No. 13 Abilene Christian earlier in the year, and hope for more of the same against the No.15 Hilltoppers. St. Ed-

wards has talent to compete against Division I foes, coming of a run to the Elite Eight in last year’s NCAA tournament. St. Edwards also took home a first place finish in the doubles “B” draw of the UTSA Invitational in their final tournament of the fall season behind a strong performance from the duo of Jonathon Stockdale and Ryan Wiggins. This will also be a homecoming for Hilltopper senior Mick Walter, who attended A&M Consolidated High School.

The Aggies are off to a strong start to the season with only one close loss to archrival Texas to blemish the record. Head Coach Steve Denton will look for continual improvement from each line on this deep Aggie squad this weekend as the team readies for next weekend’s ITA National Indoor Team Championships in Seattle.

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Senior Austin Krajicek and the No. 10 team in the country will take on St. Edwards and Troy in a doubleheader Sunday.

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places without hassle. “Users use their smart phone’s GPS to check in wherever they are — business, restaurant, etc. — and can leave tips in a place to let other users who have never been there before know some inside knowledge,� McDonald said. “For example, ‘Best wings in town’ or ‘Vending Machine on the third floor.’�

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George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, some of the actresses whose dresses were on exhibit included Heidi Klum, Felicity Huffman, Danica Patrick, Christie Brinkley, Dara Torres, Lee Ann Womack and Vanessa Williams, among others. For the first time in Aggieland, local women sashayed down the runway in an effort to raise awareness of heart disease. “We have found such a diverse group of great local models; it is all a very exciting process,� said Julia Gardner of David Gardner’s Jewelry.

David Gardner’s Jewelry provided jewelry on loan for the exhibit. Mrs. Gardner stated the company had an “If the Dress Fits Party,� where models tried on their dresses to see if it fit their personality. Afterward, they matched jewelry with the dresses. Mrs. Gardner wore a red Betsey Johnson dress. “The third part of the exhibit is about the First Ladies from the 13 Presidential Libraries of the National Archives and also includes the current First Lady Michelle Obama. Each is displayed with a dress from their own wardrobe and a biography,� Cox said. “Mrs. Laura Bush, the founding ambassador of the campaign, originally began the First Ladies Red Dresses

to show her support for women’s heart health issues.�

Alongside the dresses will be an explanation of how each First Lady participated in increasing awareness about health issues while in the White House. “We would love for the public to come and visit the exhibit, not only to enjoy the visual display, but to engage in the educational activities — including blood pressure, body mass index and diabetes screenings — so they can take home a bit of information that might be useful to their lives,� Cox said.

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute said they hoped the event not only brought classic Hollywood glamour to College Station, but that women took the idea of a healthy heart literally into their hearts. “The fact that they have this exhibit and they are doing something fun and different behind the cause really gets women’s attention. I hope the public will take away the renewed awareness of the whole point of the red dress exhibit,� Gardner said. “As women, we just blow stuff off and we are not wired to take care of ourselves, but this is something that if we pay attention to, it will pay off.�

Results of the fundraiser have not yet been totaled.

didn’t exist] there wouldn’t be as much choice in restaurants or medical care. The best restaurant might be the vending machine in the MSC — oh, but that wouldn’t even exist,� said John Allen, professor of economics.

Even during this time of economic uncertainty, there was “an increase of more than $85.3 million compared to the previous year� in direct economic impact on the B-CS area from the Texas A&M University System. President Loftin contributed the increases to the higher level of enrollment, the multiplying construction and the large number of visitors to campus.

Local real estate agent Lisa Boren sees the economic impact of the University in her business daily. “As most areas are struggling in the real estate market, I feel B-CS has stayed relatively stable due mostly in part to [Texas A&M]. I would say close to

70 percent of my business is either directly or indirectly related to the college,� Boren said. “Whether it be professors, grad students, baby-boomers returning to their alma mater or households with multiple young adults attending [A&M], there is no doubt the outlook without the college, in my opinion, would be bleak.�

President Loftin was quoted in an A&M news article about the relationships between the University and the community. “Our strong partnerships with local governments, businesses, community organizations and other entities are sources of great pride for us, and we look forward to continuing to support the region as we all adjust to current economic conditions and move forward. We are pleased that our presence is contributing to the area’s thriving economy,� he said.

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