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LONGEST YARD Students serve couple for 10th year maintenance as part of the 29th Big Event for Texas A&M University. The Balmains have lived in their LeRoy Balmain helped his wife home in Bryan since 1972. Their Maurita onto the patio and into her children, a son and daughter, both seat before he took his seat looking out on the pond, gardens and tree at have families in the Bryan-College Station area. the far end of the yard. “We’ve been using The Big “We just need a little help around Event for about 10 years now,” Lethe yard,” Maurita said. “We can’t Roy said. “We usually have them do it anymore.” work on the fish pond.” Saturday, the Arab Students AsThe Balmain’s yard fights the sociation will make its way out to swelter of Texas heat with dozens of the Balmains’ home to help them with some landscaping and backyard colors, a burgeoning tree providing
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ample amounts of shade, statue critters, a swinging bench nestled underneath the shade of the trees and of course, a fish pond complete with a small waterfall. “We spend time out here as much as the mosquitoes will allow us,” LeRoy said. The Balmains said they first learned of The Big Event from friends. Over the years, they have had several groups help them with
Get involved Big Event will be allowing students to register on March 26 in Lot 100c of Reed Arena during kick-off ceremonies. Email questions about registration to signups@ bigevent.tamu.edu
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Aggies discuss Libya events Christine Perrenot
The Battalion Students recognize Moammar Gadhafi as the Libyan leader of the regime responsible for killing many Libyan civilians. The opening phase of U.S. and coalition military action in Libya bruised Moammar Gadhafi’s ground forces and set the stage for extending a no-fly zone across the country, but American officials made clear
Monday their military goals stop short of targeting Gadhafi or directly assisting rebel forces. Students at Texas A&M have reactions and concerns for the impending issues in Libya. “I totally disagree with Gadhafi, and feel bad for the people that live there needing freedom because the only way they see to get it is through violence,” said Edwin Xiao, freshman chemistry major.
With recent changes in regards to the Libyan military regime and no-fly zones, many are left to wonder what will happen next while citizen’s lives are at stake. “There are Libyans here that this has affected and there may be a concern with the money spent on missiles and things like that,” ASSOCIATED PRESS said Nathaniel Lum, senior elecA Libyan rebel arrives to the frontline of the trical engineering major. outskirts of the city of Ajdabiya, south of See Libya on page 4 Benghazi, eastern Libya, Monday.
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ate problems for students, the Health Science Center is doing For the class of 2015, the Col- everything possible to ensure lege of Medicine overbooked the students have every opportunity class size by 80 students, resulting to achieve their doctoral dream. “Determining just how many from an unexpected acceptance offers to make each year has alinto the college. ways been a calculated risk,” As the number of students said associate dean Fiomeno G. applying to medical school has Maldonado in a document to the gradually increased over the students. “We don’t, however, years, Texas A&M University regret for a moment the offers has seen an influx of students that we have extended, and we for the fall of 2011— more than are indeed excited that you have the Health Science Center could handle. While this will creSee Overbooked on page 9
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Texas A&M University graduate and NASA astronaut Mike Fossum will return to space in May as part of the International Space Station Expeditions 28 and 29. Fossum, a 1980 Texas A&M mechanical engineering graduate, will serve as a flight engineer on Expedition 28 and as commander of Expedition 29. Serving under him will be Satoshi Furukawa of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov. The trio is scheduled to launch to the station aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 30 and will return Nov 16. Fossum says the team will conduct numerous experiments while in space, plus replace a faulty pump module on the station that went out several months ago. Staff & wire reports
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The Battalion The Aggie family is made up of students from all around the world. “The International Students Association was the first organization for international students on Texas A&M’s campus and helped small cultural groups mature into their independent organizations,” said Zachary Gibson, the organization’s president. ISA aims to represent international organizations on campus and to help organizations advance on an individual basis and collaborate efficiently. “We represent the international student body’s concerns and opinions and guide them in organizing community events
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such as I-Week, Mini World Cup and Brazos Valley World Fest,” GibVisit the website http://isa-aggies. son said. There are many tamu.edu/ or community memcontact an official bers and students from ISA. involved that promote awareness of the international students at the University. “I got involved in ISA when I was looking for a way to meet students from other countries,” said Kerry Omughelli, vice president of marketing for the organization. Every member of the Aggie family has See International on page 8
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