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news for you texas Coast preps for tropical storm Parts of coastal Texas are under hurricane warnings in case Tropical Storm Alex gains strength and heads for the state. The National Weather Service said a hurricane warning was in effect Tuesday for Cameron, Willacy and Kenedy counties.

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Former governor Briscoe dies at 87 Former Gov. Dolph Briscoe Jr., who presided over Texas from 1972 to 1978, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 87. During his time in ofﬁce, Texas enjoyed increasing oil and gas revenues, and Briscoe kept his campaign pledge of no new taxes. Gov. Rick Perry has ordered ﬂags to be lowered to halfmast out of respect for Briscoe.

CEOS and students differ in business interests

he Millennial Generation has been accused of many things from entitlement to egocentrism, but a recent international survey conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value reveals a higher percentage of college students place emphasis on sustainability, global awareness and social responsibility than experienced CEOs. Student leaders in Mays Business School share what values they think today’s businesses should uphold in an increasingly technology-dependent and globalized world.

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nation &world BP gives financial help to suppliers Oil giant BP PLC is floating a financial lifeline to the owners, operators and suppliers of the gas stations around America that bear its name and have been struggling because of boycotts prompted by the Gulf spill. The company is informing outlets that they will be getting cash in their pockets, reductions in credit card fees and help with more national advertising.

Google continues battling China Google Inc. said Tuesday it will stop automatically routing users in China to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license after it expires Wednesday. Google shut down its China-based search engine March 22 to avoid cooperating with the communist government’s Internet censorship. Staff and wire reports

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Honors Programs recruiter moves to College of Education

Student trespasses on beach damaged by oil

Casey Ricketts, a national competitions and academic scholarships recruiter with the Honors Programs office at Texas A&M for the past four years, is moving to the College of Education and Human Development. “I will miss the challenges that were present in national recruitment,” Ricketts said. “Having to go up against other high-profile universities and show off A&M to potential students in comparison to other top 10 percent universities in the nation was exciting.” Ricketts’ new position will be focused on the college area, especially recruiting students who want to be teachers. There is a need for teachers

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at the high school and elementary level across the nation and filling that void is important, Ricketts said. Although he is still getting to know the ropes to his new job, he said he is ambitious for what is to come. “From the A&M standpoint, the College of Education isn’t as well known as the Business or Engineering Colleges, but this is where my new challenge lies: showing students how great our program is here and how they can be successful in the future,” Ricketts said. Sarah Ammerman, staff writer

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Professor serves on design committee Jessica Funke The Battalion Wei Yan, assistant professor in the Department of Architecture, was elected in April to serve on the Steering Committee of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, the oldest academic organization focused on the research and education of computer-aided architectural design. “Computer-aided architectural design has come a long way, from drafting to now modulation. We can now use it in all steps from conception to schematics to documentation to construction and operation.” Yan said. Yan said he will serve a two-year term on the committee. His term will begin in October at the association’s annual peer-reviewed conference, which will be held this

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Wei Yan, assistant professor in the architecture department, uses new computer technologies to aid in the architectural design process. year in New York City. As well as assisting with the conference, the Steering Committee sets research and education agendas and provides guidance over the association’s policies and objectives, controls the

budget, allocates resources and makes decisions regarding large expenditures. The committee is made up of nine to 10 experts from different universities across the U.S. in the field of See Yan on page 3

The Battalion With little more than his car, some protective gear and a camera, Jesus Mares, senior ecological restoration major, set out to see for himself the devastation that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused. No less than an hour after venturing onto one of the beaches affected by the oil, he was detained and arrested. Mares said he did not know the initial reason for his arrest. Mares said he wished he could do something, so he went to the beaches and had a look for himself. “I started around 6 in the morning to collect oil samples from the affected beach areas,” Mares said. His initial plan was to travel along the Gulf coastal regions, picking up samples while capturing what he observes on photographic film. He soon found photos were the only item he was allowed to take back with him. Born in Mexico, Mares became a citizen of the U.S. when he was 18 and came to A&M as a biology major. He changed majors after a few years in order to work with environmental issues. “There is a lot more field work in environmental restoration,” Mares said. “I wouldn’t want to sit in a lab all day.” Despite the lack of manpower and little backing Mares possessed, he still ventured onto a contaminated beach. He said the initial response from the beach workers he encountered was concern that he was a part

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Jesus Mares, senior ecological restoration major, took this photograph of an oil-covered stick while walking on the beach in Jefferson Parish, La. of an unspecified organization. “A majority of people I saw on the beach were wearing BP ID badges,” Mares said. After the initial encounter, Mares was told to stay on the ocean side of the protective boom, which is where the majority of the oil contaminants resided. Mares said he continued down the beach to take more pictures and attempt to gather a sample. After more time passed, Mares began to see more and more people populating the beach, picking up trash and other duties that were assigned to them to help abate the ecological disaster the spill is causing. “Two men on an ATV veSee Oil spill on page 3

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Japanese anime ﬁlm screening

Lee and Grant Exhibit opening

The Japanese Animation Appreciation Club (Aggime) will have an anime ﬁlm screening from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday in Room 414 of the Langford Architecture Center, Building C.

The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History presents Charles Grear, Melissa WaddyThibodeauz and Maureen Broy Papovich on Saturday at the opening events of the Lee and Grant Exhibit. For more information visit the museum’s website at www. brazosvalleymuseum.org.

Read our blogs on thebatt.com ◗ Jill Beathard is “sub-editing” for RE&D in Dublin, Ireland. Learn about life in Ireland and what Jill has experienced. ◗ Jeffrey Frankens is in Amman, Jordan, producing a featureﬁlm documentary about Palestinian refugees. Read his blog to ﬁnd out more.

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Sanders Corps Center Exhibits

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The displays at the Corps of Cadets Center offer an overview of Aggie traditions and the history of the Corps of Cadets. The exhibit is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Sanders Corps of Cadets Center.

View pieces from Cushing’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection, including manuscripts, ﬁrst editions and pulp magazines at the exhibition. The exhibit is open from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Cushing Memorial Library.

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CEOs and students offer opinions on business Angela Washeck

There’s a need for corporations to inspire creative leadership and innovation.

The Battalion For the past eight years, the IBM Institute for Business Value has surveyed students and company executives to explore the generation gap on business issues. In the study, 1,500 CEOs were interviewed, and more than 3,600 students from 40 countries were surveyed online about what they thought were the most vital factors that will affect large organizations during the coming years. The students who completed the assessment, titled “Inheriting a Complex World: Future Leaders Envision Sharing the Planet,” were from an array of backgrounds with more than 55 percent working toward undergraduate degrees. The remaining students were pursuing advanced degrees at the time of the survey. The students represented a broad spectrum of knowledge, studying everything from liberal arts and social sciences to finance. Twice as many students as CEOs said globalization was the most im-

Ragna Bell, IBM representative

portant factor affecting the corporate world, with environmental issues following in a close second. Although students said the two dynamics were important, six out of 10 said their education had not prepared them to address such issues in business. IBM representative Ragna Bell said this study is relevant to students because it helps them to understand the status quo in today’s business and how to challenge it. “There is a need to rethink business value,” Bell said. “There’s a need for corporations to inspire creative leadership and innovation. It’s certainly something CEOs are asking of their future leaders.” Bell said an overwhelming number

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of students said despite the economy, they are hopeful for a bright future due to technological advances. “In order for a company to succeed, a solid technology base is crucial,” said Karly Holash, Mays Business Student Council president and senior finance major. “Technology allows businesses to become more efficient, lower costs and create competitive edges within their industries.” Survey respondents indicated a strong emphasis on data analysis rather than gut instincts or life experience to make business decisions. Students showed high expectations that natural resources will become scarcer, affecting business. Garrett Bottlinger, Business Student Council vice president for events and junior finance major, said companies should know the value of seeking new markets in business. “Theory is one thing, but practice is another,” Bottlinger said. “On a global scale, you can’t automatically expect the same international results that a business has achieved domesti-

cally. Cultural differences can’t be expressed enough.” CEOs interviewed in the study said today’s world is far more complex digitally and technologically. They said creative leadership was important but did not place as much significance on sustainability and global thinking as student respondents. “Both CEOs and students were consistent in the most important leadership qualities,” Bell said. One area of the study suggested that 60 percent more students than CEOs thought “customer expectations for social responsibility will increase significantly.” In a question over the most important external affairs affecting business, CEOs responded that market factors and technology play the biggest roles. Bell said students should pay attention to these statistics. “It’s listening to [your] peers,” Bell said. “It provides a relevant global insight on what students are thinking.

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entertainment ‘Charlie’s Angels’ composer Allyn Ferguson dies WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — Allyn Ferguson, an Emmy-winning composer who co-wrote the themes for the 1970s TV shows Charlie’s Angels and Barney Miller, has died at 85. Ferguson died at his home in Westlake Village near Los Angeles on June 23, said his daughter, Jill Ferguson. Ferguson wrote scores for dozens of TV episodes in the 1970s and 1980s but he may be best-known for the Charlie’s Angels and Barney Miller themes he co-wrote with Jack Elliott. He received eight Emmy nominations, winning the award for music composition in 1985 for scoring a television adaptation of the classic novel Camille. “Allyn will always be remembered as the co-writer of two iconic television themes,” said Jon Burlingame, author of TV’s Biggest Hits. ‘’But I think his real strength was in writing large-scale orchestral scores for Rosemont.”

‘Lil Boosie’ pleads not guilty to murder BATON ROUGE, La. — Baton Rouge rapper Torrence “Lil Boosie” Hatch has pleaded not guilty to several charges including ﬁrst-degree murder. Hatch ‘Lil Boosie’ appeared Monday before state District Judge Mike Erwin. Hatch’s attorney, Marcus Allen, spoke after the hearing and said Hatch is “absolutely not guilty.” Hatch is accused of paying a man to kill 35-year-old Terry Boyd, who was shot to death through a window while inside his home on Oct. 21. Two other Baton Rouge men also face ﬁrst-degree murder charges in Boyd’s death.

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computer-aided architectural design. “I have been an active member of [the association] since 2004 and have frequently presented papers for [the association] and its affiliated organizations’ conferences.” Yan said. “I wish to help enhance the role of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture in assisting our profession to get prepared for new services and knowledge required by the adoption of new technologies and by supervising and coordinating the development of those technologies to better meet the needs of our profession, the clients and society.” Although he is the only fac-

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ulty member from Texas A&M this year, Yan is not the first Aggie to serve on the Steering Committee. “A&M has long been a leader within [the association]. We have three past presidents on our faculty: Larry Degelman, Bob Johnson and myself,” said Mark Clayton, Yan’s mentor and associate professor in the architecture department. “We have great projects for the coming year too. Dr. Yan has been appointed coordinator of that program.”

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hicle then began to question me again about why I was on the beach,” Mares said. He was sent to a decontamination pool and questioned further about his purpose on the beach. “I refused questioning and doling out my information until the Jefferson Parish sheriff came to the scene,” he said. After a series of questions and search of his car, the Grand Isle Police Department arrived at the scene. Mares was taken into custody for one day. He was told he was detained for trespassing on the beach. He was released on $200 bail the next day. Mares said this experience

will continue to inspire him to also pursue fields in environmental activism as well. David Briske, an ecologist at A&M, said Mares was a student in his rangeland communities and ecosystems class. Mares cited Briske as one of his mentors in studying the environment. There was a report filed by the AP that a Texas man was caught swimming in the oilaffected water at the same date. The article mentions Mares’ name as the Texas man. However, Mares said he did not swim in the gulf waters. “They said I was some crazy Texas man,” Mares said. Many students are concerned with the growing oil spill. “It is quite tragic the events that are unfolding,” said Drew Parks, junior mechanical engineering major. “We all wish we could do

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Jesus Mares took this photo on his trip to the beach where he was arrested for trespassing. something about it.” However, students are also aware of the help being provided by people all over the world. “There are a number of people working on the solution to fixing the oil leak

and cleaning up the spill,” said Ramteen Morad, a junior French major. “I even heard Kevin Costner had a hand in helping with the oil spill. He is such a great actor, as well as a scientist.”

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his past week, Iran once again threatened Israel and the known world with the threat of war. Iran not so subtlty tried to provoke Israel into attacking a “humanitarian aid” ship headed toward Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza strip. The incident aroused the concern of the U.S. becoming entangled in another conflict, but the country would be better off pursuing a Swiss policy of neutrality.

After an equal danger of developing Israel’s nuclear weapons and North letter to Korea has them.There will the U.N. always be nations threatening claimed other nations, and threatensending ing America as long as we are the ship involved in the affairs of the would be world. Richard an act of Instead of acting as the world Creecy war, Iran police, America should adopt our pre-WWII isolationist senior classics promptly policy. Although this reaction major tucked its tail in seems cowardly, the U.S. should between follow the example of Switzerits legs and hid under the sofa. land, a country that prides itself But Iran has become more on its neutrality and has not and more brazen, threatenbeen in an international state of ing nuclear holocaust and war since 1815. The Swiss have jihad. Even though most a higher quality of life than most of these threats seem idle, places in the world, with Zurich America needs to change its and Geneva claiming the second global policy and adjust to our and third spots, according to emerging new world. Mercer’s 2010 global survey. It seems America has two Switzerland became a place choices, continuing on our cur- of great wealth because it chose rent plan of spreading ourselves to be neutral and not meddle too thin around the world or in the affairs of other governpursuing an isolationist policy. ments, participate in world Historically speaking, the wars, or police other nations. downfall of the Romans began The Swiss are content to exist with the continuous expanapart from the world. America sion of their empire, America could be this way again, as we is falling into a similar trap, were before the two world except we do not get the benwars, largely independent from efits from nations our country the rest of the world. By letmeddles with. Given the state ting the world resolve its own of the economy and our differences, America own internal problems, could return to a The U.S. needs American should put time of peace to be more itself first. and prosperity. selective in The U.S. can When deciding which no longer afford to was the last world conﬂicts involve itself in wars time you saw and affairs to that we should have Middle Eastnothing to do with, erners burning get involved in. like Vietnam and Iraq. a Swiss flag? I am While Americans should willing to bet never, support the war in Iraq because but Switzerland isn’t any less its our country, the reasons culpable for jihadist hot butgiven for our involvement are tons; immense wealth, cultural present in countless countries. and morality differences and so Iraq was torturing and killing on. But because the Swiss have its own people, but not to the decided its citizens are more same extent as the genocide important than the rest of the in Darfur, the U.S. decided to world, the interests of the Swiss ignore. The reasons given for people are put first by isolatintervening militarily can be ing the country from the affairs applied to more countries than of others. Countries like Iran our country can feasibly and will always bully other nations, reasonably fight. commit atrocities against its A similar hypocrisy exists own people and threaten the in the accusation that Iraq was world in general, but until they developing weapons of mass target Americans specifically, it destruction and threatening is not our responsibility to act as America. Iran has shown at least the world police.

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