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Football player arrested for assault Early Sunday morning Rhontae Laqwan Scales, 19, a redshirted freshman on Texas A&M University’s football team, was arrested SCALES for assault following a fight in the Northgate Parking Garage. “An officer was on a traffic stop in Northgate and heard a loud commotion coming from the parking garage,” said Lt. Rodney Sigler of the College Station Police Department.

“He looked into the first floor of the garage and he saw the victim on the ground and the man, who was later identified as Scales, punching him.” Sigler was not aware of any previous relationship between Scales and Jamar Dewayne Johnson, 24, who was complaining of pain in his arm following the incident. Texas A&M Head Coach Mike Sherman said he is still looking into the occurrence. “I’m still investigating and getting all my facts together, college kids out at night don’t make the best decisions sometimes,” Sherman said. “I’ve talked to him, this will be something I take care of.” Scales was released on a $4,000 bond from the Brazos County Jail at 4:30 later Sunday morning.

Scales could face up to one year in county jail and up to a $4,000 fine.

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Grassy knoll question continues Katy Ralston

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A temporary master plan drawing of the location of the proposed liberal arts building.

The Battalion The debate over the proposed site of the new liberal arts building continues.

In an effort to correct misinformation and clear up confusion about the site of the liberal arts building, Vice President of Facilities Charles Sippial gave a presentation to the Student Senate Wednesday night focusing on the placement of the building, and the improvements needed to the

current grassy knoll.

“I think there has been some misunderstanding by a number of people which caused some upset,” said chairman of the design review board David Woodcock.

“I think that there was a Facebook page that somebody put up that showed the liberal arts building right in the middle of the green space, but it’s never been there.

I think that has pretty well died down because Mr. Sippial has made several presentations to tell

people where the building is really going to be.”

The location of the building is not in the middle of the grassy knoll, but instead occupies a small portion of the west end.

“I think the real concern was that the new building was going to take the entire green space and once the students saw how little space we were talking about then the majority of that concern went away,” Sippial said.

See Grassy knoll on page 7

Helping hands

Volunteers at Epicures Catering work alongside Twin City Missions to help provide Thanksgiving meals to Bryan-College Station residents who might not otherwise have such a meal.

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Samantha Johnson, staff writer

Health Center to receive $3.9 million The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded the Center for Community Health Development in the Texas A&M Heath Science Center’s School of Rural Public Health $3.9 million over five years. “This five-year funding from the CDC will provide critical support for the center, school and Health Science Center to work closely with regional and state organizations and groups to improve the health of our rural and underserved populations,” said Kenneth McLeroy, the Center’s grant principal investigator.

McLeory said these funds are a renewal of the initial funding the center received in 2004, making it one of the 35 research centers funded by the Center. In addition to the money that will be used to support outreach centers in order to provide health care and social services needs, the funds will be used in several research projects focusing on cancer research, healthy aging and the connection between location, economic situation and nutritional well-being.

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Volunteers join Twin City Mission to bring Thanksgiving to community Megan Keyho | The Battalion

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very Thanksgiving the Twin City Mission has a free banquet for anyone in the community who is in need. Traditional Thanksgiving foods are cooked at the banquet, which is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, including turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and bread.

“Not only our clients come for the meal, but also those who don’t have access to a traditional Thanksgiving meal,” said Ron Crozier, the director of

Aggie project helps Iraqi agriculture

community relations for Twin City Mission. “Some choose to take the meals home to their families, and we make meals to go as well.”

In 2008, they cooked 672 meals using 38 turkeys. Crozier said each year they factor in an increase this year they are using 45 turkeys.

Crozier said about 50 volunteers help during the holiday. They get calls in August making sure they are on the list to volunteer for the day.

“The volunteers are wanting to give back and make a difference, at least on that day, and it makes everyone pause and remember what that day is about; it’s not about the turkey, and it’s not about the free meal,” Crozier said. “What is really neat is that you see the faces of the individuals who know what Thanksgiving is about, and they are very appreciative that they don’t go unnoticed.”

Student bonfire to burn Student-led off-campus bonfire will burn tonight like it has since 2002. “I’m just looking forward to celebrating the Aggie Spirit. It can mean just as much to someone who built than to someone who comes to watch it burn,” said senior redpot, Mitch West, a finance major. Student bonfire will take place at “dark-thirty,” which is estimated to be about 8 p.m. today. This year, student bonfire will be at 6824 Old Hearne Road, about 20 miles north of College Station. There will be on-site $5 parking.

Admission tickets are $5. Gates will open at 3 p.m. No alcohol or coolers are permitted at burn, but guests may bring lawn chairs. Drinks and bonfire shirts will be sold at the site.

Students began working on the bonfire in September with cut, and with stack in early November. A ceremony takes place right before the bonfire is lit with leaders of the bonfire. “Bonfire has always been built by the students and for the students,” West said.

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Training will offer insight to a developing country Jaclyn Sokol Special to The Battalion Iraqi agriculture will soon get a boost from Aggie scientists.

A program developed through the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M, the Ministry of Agriculture in Iraq and U.S. Department of Agriculture officials aim to train Iraqi agriculture specialists the latest agricultural technologies.

The Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization Project allows Iraqi agriculture specialists to receive extension training through hands-on programs.

“This project is a ‘train the trainer’ type program in which these Iraqis interact with faculty and extension specialists through tailor made programs,” said Kate Whitney, program coordinator for the project.

This group will take the knowledge ranging from dairy training to small remnant training and develop curriculum and work plans that can be used when they return to Iraq.

The standard of living in Iraq is poor, with few agricultural advancements, Whitney said.

“Being that they are 20 years behind in technology, it is important that we pass on methodologies and techniques that can improve the current standard of life in Iraq,” Whitney said.

The 13 Iraqis, 10 from the Ministry of Agriculture and three from agricultural colleges in Iraq, are completing the six-week training of the second phase of the project, which began Oct. 1 and will end Saturday.

Although it is essential to understand the logistics of the program, it is far more important to take a look at the rewards gained by this group as well as the University, Whitney said.

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CARACAS, Venezuela — A hunger strike by opponents of President Hugo Chavez has grown, with 24 university students vowing not to eat until the Organization of American States sends a delegation to Venezuela to review allegations of human rights abuses. Twenty four students are consuming only water, lounging on mattresses outside the OAS’ Caracas offices, demanding a probe led by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.

Eight students joined the protest on Monday, two days after it began.

Chavez denies persecuting critics. Dozens of Chavez foes say they were forced to seek asylum abroad after facing trumped up criminal charges.

Four fled to Peru this year. Others are in prison or awaiting trial on what they call politically motivated charges.

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Junior recreation, parks and tourism sciences majors Aubrey Hunt and Michael Atwell perform at Mugwalls on Sunday. Mugwalls had several musicians perform this weekend, including Baylor’s Jillian Edwards, and Nashville’s Robert Kelly.

Woman to fight insurance co. over Facebook MONTREAL — A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company’s decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party.

Nathalie Blanchard said Monday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits until payments dried up this fall.

When Blanchard called her insurance provider, Manulife, to find out why, she says she was told the Facebook photos showed she was able to work.

“If you have insurance, be careful. This is a major battle and it’s not going to be easy,” Blanchard, 29, said in a telephone interview from her home in Bromont, Quebec.

She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on Facebook, including ones showing her having a good time at a Chippendales bar show, at her birthday party and on a holiday.

Blanchard said Manulife told her it was evidence she is no longer depressed.

Her lawyer, Tom Lavin, said Blanchard was wrongfully dismissed from her benefits, and she had

the right to go on a sunny vacation.

“The issue for me is that they stopped her disability benefits without the proper medical recommendations. Her doctor recommended she go on vacation,” he said.

Blanchard said she took three four-day trips when she was feeling especially low, on her psychiatrist’s advice.

Manulife declined to comment on the case specifically but has said in a statement that “we would not deny or terminate a valid claim solely based on information published on Web sites such as Facebook.”

Still, Lavin said the issue raises concerns for anyone who expects their private life to remain so if they post personal information to social networking sites such as Facebook.

“It’s good warning for people who use Facebook.

It’s not like being at home and writing in your diary.

It’s out there for the whole world to see,” he said.

Blanchard’s case will be before Quebec Superior Court Dec. 8.

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The ‘right’vaccine Steven Laxton

Republican opponents have wrongly treated the H1N1 epidemic as a “scare.”

Getting the vaccine should transcend political parties.

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ince the H1N1 flu has become an epidemic, critics have raised staunch opposition to the vaccine for little reason other than causing controversy. People already scared and confused about H1N1 may avoid getting the vaccine because of this political ploy. People who may get sick and even die.

Several institutions and public figures have inanely attacked the vaccine. Health Freedom USA’s “Stop the Shot” Complaint for Injunction claims, “There is no pandemic disease which threatens our health. There are only vaccines that do so.”

Adding to the madness is Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s who made the following claim concerning the H1N1 vaccine in a FOX News interview: “The Earth can’t take 6.5 billion people. We just can’t feed that many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some disease.”

Such a claim is absolutely ridiculous, yet media clowns continue to thrive. Glenn Beck’s show on FOX News earlier this month claimed to show both sides of the argument, but made a very clear bias. When a strong

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pro-vaccine comment was made in the debate, he made implications like holding up cigarette advertisements with doctors on them, making snide remarks like “remember, doctors say lucky strikes.”

The show coupled facts and figures with opposing speculation, further confusing the American people as to the current state of affairs.

“Do you trust your government in A, that this crisis is even real, and B, that they have competently worked with the best medicine to develop, distribute, and administer a potentially lifesaving vaccine,” said Beck on the Oct. 9 episode of the Glenn Beck Show. “Do you believe that?

Meanwhile, Beck will not disclose whether

or not he and his family will get the vaccine.

Obama has declared the H1N1 pandemic a national emergency. Since April, millions have been infected, more than 20,000 have been hospitalized and more than 1,000 have died, according to Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thomas Frieden.

A popularly elected president deserves far more faith than a media clown. But if you truly doubt the president, on June 11, Margaret Chan, the director general of WHO, raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 5 to 6 on the WHO Web site, declaring that, “the world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic.”

At no point does Beck say that either the

vaccine is more dangerous than the virus or vice-versa, but his questioning of a safe vaccine is meant to bring up fear and distrust for the sole purpose of attacking the current administration, waving the American flag to draw attention.

Members of the right-wing political community are going ballistic over potential healthcare reform, and yet criticize the current plan for dealing with H1N1. They are simply finding any way to attack the president, regardless of the issue.

Vaccine scares have happened before.

When the oral polio vaccine was tested on roughly 1 million people, it was blamed for the spread of AIDS. Modern studies have since disproven this. What must be realized is that the vaccine is no different from any other flu vaccine.

“This vaccine, it’s very similar, it’s made the same way as the yearly flu vaccine, which we’ve given to over hundreds of billions of people over the past 50 years, same technique,” said FOX News Medical Contributor Marc Siege.

Glenn Beck’s behavior, using fear mongering to stir up sentiment against the H1N1 vaccine for no purpose other than to attack Obama, is opportunist and irresponsible.

He raises doubt and paranoia, ultimately threatening lives, all while leaving himself free to take the vaccine.

Our political parties shouldn’t attack each other on something as simple as a flu vaccine for the sole purpose of gaining a rally effect.

It’s a yearly flu vaccine. Ignore the cries of lunatics and jesters, the H1N1 pandemic is a real concern, beyond all reasonable doubt. Go get the vaccine as soon as you can.

Steven Laxton is a freshman general studies major.

Curbing contagious children T

he idea that vaccines cause autism began in 1998, and it should have ended there. Instead the myth has grown, leading some parents to choose not to vaccinate their children. Not only are these unvaccinated children at risk for preventable diseases, but also they put everyone else in danger, too. The misinformation about vaccines has persisted long enough; it’s time to stop the lies.

Autism is a genetic disorder that impairs social functioning, sometimes accompanied by other deficits. Individuals with severe cases can require constant, lifelong support. There’s no valid evidence that vaccines directly cause autism. More importantly there are many studies that prove there is no relation.

Of course, unvaccinated children can still have the disorder.

The original study which suggested a correlated link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism was poorly designed and funded by lawyers in need of evidence to prove a connection, representing a serious conflict of interest. It was later discovered the data had been falsely manipulated.

The study should have been of little consequence, but the issue persists because autism is a terrible disorder affecting millions. People need someone or something to blame.

The movement against vaccinations is championed by actress Jenny McCarthy, the mother of an autistic child. Although autism is present from birth, symptoms often don’t manifest until around 18 months old, as was the case for McCarthy’s son.

Since the MMR vaccine is given just before the age symptoms become visible, it’s easy for desperate, scared parents to cling to the idea that by not vaccinating they can spare their child. With celebrities such as Jim Carrey throwing his weight behind her movement, the misinformation is far spread.

Until recently, the poor decision for a minority of parents not to vaccinate children wasn’t much of an issue. However,

Kat Drinkwater

Protective parents have endangered an immune population by preventing their children from getting vaccinated. as the first substantial wave of unvaccinated children enters California’s school system, it has become an issue concerning everyone. The growing number of unvaccinated children compromises the herd immunity of our society. Herd immunity allows unvaccinated individuals to benefit from the immunity of vaccinated individuals. For the very young or those whose vaccines don’t work, such as people undergoing chemotherapy, the vaccination status of others becomes very important. When there’s no one to catch the disease from, the vulnerable people are protected. This is very important because the unvaccinated individuals protected by herd immunity typically have weak immune systems and are especially susceptible to disease.

With California’s herd immunity in jeopardy, immunocompromised children undergoing chemotherapy, who might have at least enjoyed the normalcy of day-care or pubic school, are forced to stay isolated to avoid deadly, preventable diseases. Although the risk to these children and those too young to be vaccinated should be enough to convince us to stop the nonvaccination trend, there is a greater problem. If viruses that have been nearly eradicated are allowed to spread

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The idea the vaccines cause autism is perpetuated by the victims of its lie. Although research in the field is ongoing, it appears that like all genetic disorders, there is no way to prevent or cure autism. Parents can only to treat it, a fact understandably hard to swallow. Although some people are definitely more prone to having autistic children (some couples have as many as six) researchers aren’t yet able to consistently say why and who. It is hard for parents to keep things in perspective when confronted with the possibility of their own child suffering, however, the possibility of losing a child to a preventable disease is real and should be much scarier.

By choosing not to vaccinate, confused parents are positioning us on the brink of potential epidemics of diseases we haven’t dealt with in decades. In states where parents are allowed to opt out, vaccination rates are dropping, and some elementary schools are at high risk for outbreaks of disease. This problem will soon affect everyone. The spread of misinformation about vaccines has to stop. Vaccination rates should be rising, not falling. If public education campaigns fail to stem the tide, the federal government should remove the option to opt out for nonmedical reasons. Credible behavioral treatment programs for autism are being developed with positive results, hidden amidst hundreds of futile therapies.

Autism is not a death sentence, but measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, Hib and many other diseases could be for thousands.

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Junior applied exercise physiology major Jacob Rice and freshman civil engineering major Thomas Forseter run through some drills during practice for the club wrestling team.

Wrestling returns to the mat Michael Sullivan The Battalion After a long break from the National Collegiate Wrestling Association, the Texas A&M club wrestling team has updated their status to compete as a club team once again.

With a lot of work from graduate student Thomas Abia and a successful recruiting campaign at the MSC Open House, the team is back in action for the 2009-2010 season.

“We just set up a booth at the MSC Open House and a lot of kids were interested,” said club wrestling Coach Nathan Hill.

“We had probably 40 to 50 kids come up and we noticed that it was what the people wanted.”

The club wrestling team is one of 33 club teams sponsored

by A&M. The wrestling team has open doors to anyone with an interest in wrestling, including females. Participants can be involved as an official member who pays semester dues and competes against other schools or just drop in occasionally to workout with the team.

“We welcome anybody and everybody, whether you have wrestling shoes or not,” Abia said. “We encourage everyone

to come in and check us out for a day or two, and if you like what you see stick around; if not, thanks for coming by.”

The club wrestling team has a routine practice schedule, Monday through Thursday from 5 to7 p.m. in the Read building.

Practices are led by Hill, who wrestled in high school at Cinco Ranch High School and finished third place individually in the 2008 UIL State Championships.

Although the team has a regular practice schedule, practices are not mandatory but suggested for those who want to compete.

“This is a student-run pro-

gram for the students by the students,” Abia said. “We come in here and want people to come in here and feel like they learn something. We don’t make this a mandatory thing; we can’t.

People get out of this program what they put in.”

Though the team has open doors to anyone who cares to give the club wrestling team a try, the wrestlers are far from a recreational team, and instead plan to compete at high levels.

In their first meet in several years, the Aggies defeated Sul Ross State 24-21 and lost 1815 against Texas despite win-

ning more individual matches than the Longhorns.

This year, the team has scheduled nine competitive events, including four this fall and five during the spring semester.

Despite all of the activity on schedule, Hill reminds all interested wrestlers that studying comes first.

“We are very much studentathletes,” Hill said. “They have to do well in school to compete on the team. If they need to leave to go to tutoring, they can go to tutoring, but the ones that are serious don’t leave earlier.”

With its first season of action

underway, the club wrestling team looks to re-establish their presence in the NWCA. Although it is only its first season as an organization, Abia said the team is making a bold prediction that they will join the high standards set by the other A&M club teams.

“I think we are going to be recognized and put ourselves on the map this year,” Abia said. “I think we can do some serious damage this year. We are going to make an impact this year, and club wrestling is going to be on the same level of A&M’s other club level sports in the future. Guaranteed.”

Football prepares for Thanksgiving rivalry Brad Cox The Battalion Texas A&M Head Coach Mike Sherman does not have any boxing matches queued up to inspire his team to beat undefeated archrival Texas on Thursday.

“We’ve gone through the boxing matches,” Sherman said. “I’ve run out of radio clips. We’ve done that a couple times, but no we don’t have anything for this one.”

Sherman showed the 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, known as the “Rumble in the Jungle,” to the Aggies the night before they defeated Texas Tech 52-

30 on Oct. 24 in Lubbock.

Sherman said he’s keeping his plans to inspire the team a secret, though he’s running out of things to use.

“It’s a shorter week so my creativity is on a bit of a standstill,” Sherman said.

“It better be dang good because this is going to be a big game, obviously.”

The Longhorns are coming into the annual Lone Star Showdown game with an 11-0 record and are one of few teams still in the running for a spot in the BCS National Championship game.

A&M, on the other hand, has had what coaches and players called an up and down season. Highlights include the win against Tech and lowlights in-

clude a 62-14 loss at Kansas State.

“Our guys are very excited about the challenge,” Sherman said. “This is Rocky Balboa versus Apollo Creed.

It’s one of those types of deals, where we have a chance to play against a top-notch team that certainly has not stumbled one time this year.”

At 6-5 overall, the Aggies are eligible to be selected for a bowl game but are not guaranteed to be chosen to play in one of the few remaining openings. An Aggie victory Thursday would help its bowl prospects.

So if the hatred of a 115-year rivalry wasn’t enough, the game has extra meaning for each team.

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hen our Aggies win, I swear it makes the air smell sweeter, food taste better and classes seem easier.

In fact, my finding is that there is a general correlation between victory on the gridiron and a building sensation of overall school spirit on campus. A friend of mine actually has a theory that there are more babies born nine months after an Aggie victory than any other occasion, including Valentine’s Day and Christmas.

I like it when we win; we all do. After all, we went to the game, yelled our faces off and undauntedly supported our squad. It’s only natural that we should feel a part of the favorable outcome.

But inevitably the tides of good fortune will turn against us, finding a way to snub us out of the joy in celebrating the fruits of harvesting yet another opponent on the battlefield of Kyle Field.

We may find ourselves on the opposite end of the scoreboard.

The slogans “Be loud, wear maroon” and “Maroon Out” have appeared on countless versions of shirts and bumper stickers over the years, and used to be the only prerequisites for participation at an Aggie sporting event.

And maybe times have changed, or signals have been crossed or I flat missed the memo, but Saturday looked a little more salt and pepper with maroon and white than I remember.

Remember as enthusiastic supporters of our beloved Aggies, we are game changers.

There is a reason why they call us the Twelfth Man. From the stands, shirt color may not seem like that big of a deal to you. But from the field, looking up into the eyes

of thousands of blood thirsty, marooned out, towel-waving school spirited Aggies has got to be intimidating. However, students have to accurately portray that Twelfth Man picture. The first step is to put any notions of “cool” on the backburner by wearing maroon.

But our team on the field is wearing maroon, and as the Twelfth Man, we should stand alongside them. Anyone selfish enough to put their estranged thoughts of comfort before the embodiment of school spirit by wearing white to an Aggie home game might as well be stealing pennies off the feet of Sul Ross.

Only two groups of people are exempt from this strict though entirely unenforceable dress code, our Corps of Cadets and yell leaders. What they wear embodies a lot more Aggie tradition than the rest of us can probably fathom.

OK, call me a staunch supporter of consumerism.

Here I am imploring people to buy a certain colored shirt and wear it six more times to home games this year, but wasn’t that the point of the utter failure that was Aggie Colors day in September?

It doesn’t have to be a simple T-shirt, any freshman can pull some maroon shirt out of the dirty clothes bin.

For those that enjoy variation, collared shirts look classy, and for girls, I love sundresses just as much as the next guy.

Whatever you do, just don’t be like those two guys I saw standing next to each other wearing sloppily cutoff shirts to show off their muscles and tattoos. No one wants to stand next to you and share your body odor.

People like that, you are also exempt from the ‘wear maroon’ rule. You can wear anything you’d like as long as you stop sucking the class out of Kyle Field.

To the final whistle, as the Twelfth Man, we need to strive to look like the Twelfth Man. In order to cheer our Aggies onward to victory, the students need to wear maroon. When the University of Texas comes into town, remember “Be loud, wear maroon.”

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Crozier said this experience does not only belong to Twin City Missions, the volunteers and the people who come to eat, but also to the entire Bryan-College Station community.

“We call this the Twin City Mission Thanksgiving Day feast, but in essence Twin City Missions belongs to the community so it’s a community Thanksgiving feast,” Crozier said. “It is something I think the community is really proud of.”

Epicures Catering provides another volunteer opportunity in which anyone can participate. Epicures delivers 1,200 meals on Thanksgiving

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The design review board, comprised of faculty members, staff and a student representative, oversees all design projects and ensures they adhere to the campus master plan. The review board has set forth strict placement requirements for the new liberal arts building, including an uncrossable line.

“We were always making sure the building stayed at the very west end of the plaza, it was never the intention to put the building in the middle,” Woodcock said. “We were absolutely insistent we would not come to the east of that line.”

The imaginary line extends from the front door of the Scoates building across the green space to the front door of the Animal Industries building.

The building will only occupy the west side of the line with the east side remaining green.

“Animal Industries and Scoates are two of our very historic buildings and we wanted to be sure those two buildings could still look at each other across the green space. So we drew a line there and the building is not coming any closer or going any further east than that line,” Woodcock said.

During construction, the knoll will receive its own much-needed improvements as well, Sippial said — a change he believes will be for the better.

Created in the 1970s from piles of excess dirt dug up from excavations to clear the plot for the building of Langford, the layout of the grassy knoll is now causing problems to the area’s vegetation.

The mounds of grass have had the effect of draining water towards the Langford building and many of the original live oak trees along the edge have

Day to people in need at their homes around the area. Created by Danny Morrison, this will be their 26th year to deliver Thanksgiving meals. For the past few years Sbisa Dining Hall has allowed the use of their facilities to cook the food; however, this year due to the home football game they had to decline.

Epicures will be using 54 turkeys to make their meals, funded by donations and contributions.

People can get involved by donating food, money, time or names and addresses of those in need of a meal. Meals are usually limited to six per household.

Morrison, who had originally intended to deliver Thanksgiving meals for profit, was touched by the first meal

died from the drowning of their roots. During construction of the liberal arts building, the knoll will be leveled off to eliminate this drainage problem. Additional trees will also be planted.

“The intent is to restore the east quad to its original configuration and improve the quality of the area which includes drainage, and placement of trees that will survive once the drainage problem is resolved,” Sippial said.

Woodcock said students should not worry about the disappearance of what has come to be beloved as the grassy knoll.

“I think from a student stand point there will be just as much space to throw Frisbees and sit on the grass and talk and all the other good things that I observe students doing,” Woodcock said. “I am in the college of architecture so I get plenty of opportunity to observe them. I think it’s going to stay, I don’t think that’s going to go away at all.”

Due to the Green Space Bill’s failure to pass and the enlightenment of the building location and knoll improvements, the Student Senate has decided to pursue other goals than a different location.

“With the current set up of only taking up a part of the knoll, the Student Senate will not pursue finding a new location for the liberal arts building; instead, we will try to improve the area that the liberal arts building does not cover,” said Speaker of the Senate Michele Breaux. “We want to make sure that the green space not being taken up by the new building can properly drain and will not be covered in concrete walkways.”

In his presentation Sippial also addressed concerns with the current proposed design of the building and provided a way for student input.

he delivered when a recently widowed man broke down in tears at the thought of having a Thanksgiving dinner. Morrison said he realized he would never be able to charge anyone.

“It’s a very communitywide effort that we’ve created,” Morrison said. “It’s just a really fun experience and some of the people that come every year are so touched. It shows there is a greater being than yourself.”

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With the current set up of only taking up a part of the knoll, the Student Senate will not pursue finding a new location for the liberal arts building; instead, we will try to improve the area that the liberal arts building does not cover. We want to make sure that the green space not being taken up by the new building can properly drain and will not be covered in concrete walkways.”

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President of the American Institute for Architecture Students and student representative on the design review board Emily Sunseri said her main problems aren’t with the location but with certain aspects of the design that have been changing.

“To me, the location is not the problem. It’s redesigning the building and making it five stories tall instead of the way it was originally proposed without any approval, and the courtyard not facing the way it was originally intended. I think issues like that are a bigger problem than necessarily the location,” Sunseri said.

Students can let their voice be heard in this process within the guidelines of the Campus Master Plan by contacting a senator at senate.tamu.edu, or Chief of Staff, Lauren Allen, at allenlauren@neo.tamu.edu.

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“Projects like this help bridge gap between Iraqis and our scientists because they are able to see what we do and apply it to their farms and communities,” said chief of staff for the Bourlaug Institute Joey King.

Jeff Ripley, assistant professor and extension specialist at A&M, said his involvement

with the project helped him on a personal level.

Although there are cultural differences between those here at A&M and Iraqis, “this enthusiastic group has helped us to realize that we are all similar in our commitment to work to serve the people of the community, regardless of our locations,” Ripley said.

Ripley said he had a great interaction with this group, who he said were “a group of engaged

and sharp individuals, and in return for their dedication, our goal is to help them go home and be better equipped to revitalize their agricultural situation.”

Whitney said she appreciated A&M for her beneficial international experiences through the program.

As for the Iraqi specialists, they are “thrilled to take back home with them the new information that they received during this process,” Whitney said.

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