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$5 visitation charge may be put in place by June 2014 for normal visits to Beutel as Student Health Services administrators review their budget and potential sources of revenue. Dr. Martha Dannenbaum, Student Health Center director, said this is the approach that will most likely to be taken, as opposed to raising the Health Center Fee on students across the board. Currently, a normal visit is free of charge, which is made possible by the current Health Center Fee of $72.50 that every student pays as a part of tuition. “If we were to implement that, it probably would not be more than five dollars, and if we were to implement it, it probably would not be any sooner than June of this year starting for the summer session,” Dannenbaum said. “We are not anticipating requesting a student health fee increase. That is not on our plan at this point in time.” Dannenbaum said instating a charge for visits would provide a revenue stream that SHS could use to provide merit pay, or bonuses, for their staff. However, the revenue could be used toward any of the costs of operating Beutel, such as renovations on the aging building to accommodate the increasing population of students. “[Renovations] would be a likely reason that we would add in an office visit charge,” Dannenbaum said. “Not necessarily to support merit, but we’re looking long range that if we’re going to be in this building for another five to 10 years, which we could be, we’ve got some things we’re going to have
To Washington and back: Gates returns to A&M Former Aggie president delves into memoir Jennifer Reiley
The Battalion ormer Texas A&M President Robert Gates visited A&M on Tuesday, blending in to Aggieland again with a Blue Baker cup in his hand and a familiar greeting. “Howdy,” Gates said. “I’ve been waiting a long time to say that — I wanted to open congressional hearings that way.” Gates, former secretary of defense, spoke about his book, “Duty: A Memoir of a Secretary at War,” in Rudder Auditorium Frederick McClure, CEO of the George Bush Presidential Foundation, introduced Gates, the first secretary of de-
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Softball ranked No. 11 Texas A&M softball will start the 2014 season ranked No. 11 by the USA Today/NFCA Division I Softball Poll, which is voted on by coaches around the country. The Aggies ended last season ranked No. 13 after finishing at the NCAA Super Regional level. The No. 11 Aggies start the 2014 season on Feb. 7 at UC Santa Barbara’s Gaucho Classic.
inside history | 3 “Banality of evil” The Glasscock Center and Annenberg Center will host “Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: 50 Years On” from Thursday through Saturday. The conference will address the “banality of evil” and post-Holocaust trials.
gsc | 3 Graduate student council The Graduate Student council met for its first meeting of the semester and discussed, among other topics, its updated bylaws and constitution.
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fense to serve under two presidents of different parties. In his career, McClure worked with Gates both at the White House and at Texas A&M. For those who came to the event wanting to hear Gates speak about A&M, Gates did not disappoint. Gates spoke about the football program and said he has trouble watching Aggie football today because of the stress it caused him during his time as University president. “Texas A&M football was a source of great stress for me,” Gates said. “I once turned to [my wife] and said ‘I’ve been the director of the CIA, why does Aggie Football cause me more anxiety?’ In her wisdom after many years of marriage, she said ‘Because you have no
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Beutel could begin charging patients a $5 visitation fee by June 2014, says Dr. Martha Dannenbaum, Student Health Center director.
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45-acre garden plan takes shape Campus green space could break ground in 2014 Anna Davidson
The Battalion he Board of Regents planted the seeds for the Gardens and Greenway Project in 1998 when it designated a 45-acre plot of land on which to develop a public garden and various outdoor teaching platforms. Now the project is coming together. Doug Welsh, program coordinator for the project and veteran horticulturist, said green spaces are vital in a campus setting because they are a place to rejuvenate and restore the soul. Universities such as Duke, Caltech and the University of Pennsylvania, ranked among the top-10 universities in the country by U.S. News & World Report, have arboretums and interactive gardens used as teaching tools, Welsh said. The project will likely break ground in 2014 with either the restoration of White Creek or the construction of the Teaching Gardens Complex, Welsh said. Construction and longterm management of the Gardens and Greenway will be funded primarily through founda-
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tions, private donations and corporate sponsors. “If we are smart, we plan better,” Welsh said. “If we don’t plan for green spaces, there won’t be any. The Gardens and Greenway project will put the ‘land’ back in Aggieland.” The vision for the property was given life in 2012 by Mark Hussey, current interim president of the University and then-vice chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, when he publicly announced his support of the development of the land that spans from White Creek behind the AgriLife Complex all the way to the Bush Presidential Library property. “The Gardens and Greenway project is an opportunity for A&M to showcase and enhance its worldwide impact in agriculture, life sciences and the environment,” said William Dugas, acting vice chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, in an email. Once complete, the Gardens and Greenway will include a teaching complex, amphitheater and rose garden, among other features. In the summer edition of Texas A&M Foundation’s William Guerra — THE BATTALION
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No. 14 Kentucky handily dispatches Aggies, 68-51 Tyler Stafford The Battalion
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nable to overcome early foul trouble, Texas A&M (12-6, 3-2
SEC) was defeated by No. 14 Kentucky (14-4, 4-1 SEC) on Tuesday at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., in front of a crowd of 22,634. After starting SEC play with three straight wins, A&M lost its second conference game in a row. Tuesday’s game was vastly different than the last time the Aggies travelled to Kentucky, when they handed
UK head coach John Calipari his first home SEC loss during his tenure, beating the Wildcats 83-71. Junior guard Jamal Jones, who set a career high with 24 points against Mississippi State on Sunday and came into the contest averaging 20.8 points in SEC play, was held to eight points in 21 minutes of play. Jones struggled with fouls, racking
up three before the first half was over and finished the game with four. The Aggies were also without senior guard Fabyon Harris, who was held out of the game by A&M head coach Billy Kennedy. Harris is averaging 6.8 points per game and has 36 assists on the season. See Kentucky on page 2
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control.’” Gates said the American troops were the reason he became secretary of defense after serving as president of A&M. “Literally overnight, I went from campus seeing students walking around in T-shirts and flip-flops to seeing same-aged kids in uniform, putting their lives and dreams on hold to protect everyone on this campus and in this country,” Gates said. His support of the military is what guided Gates through his four and a half years as secretary of defense, he said. “As I look back, there is a parallel theme between my four and half years at war, and that is love,” Gates said. “I came to feel for the troops and the overwhelming sense of personal responsibility I developed for them. So much so that it would shape some of my most important and significant decisions.” Gates said he was treated very well while acting as secretary of defense. “Critical as I am now, I did like all those people,” Gates said. “Throughout those years, I was treated by both President Bush and President Obama with consistent generosity, trust and confidence. They gave me the opportunity and honor of a lifetime in serving as secretary. With only a few exceptions, members of Congress, both republican and democratic, were respectful and gracious to me, both publicly and privately.” The book, along with dis-
cussing the actual conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, details his political struggles with Congress and in Washington. “Despite everyone being nice to me, getting anything of consequence done in Washington was so damnable difficult even in the midst of the two wars,” Gates said. “From the bureaucratic inertia and complexity of the Pentagon to internal conflict within the [executive] branch, the partisan abyss in Congress over every issue from budgets to the wars, the single-minded, parochial self-interest of so many members of Congress and the magnetic pull exercised by the White House and the National Security Council staff especially in the Obama administration — all these made every issue a source of conflict and stress. I was more than happy to fight these fights, especially on behalf of the troops. “ Gates said he had observed the uncivil way members of Congress treated each other firsthand during his years as secretary. “When the television camera is turned on in a hearing, it has the same effect on members of Congress as a full moon on werewolves,” Gates said. Dan Wood, political science professor, said political party members in Washington have been using Gate’s book to further their own agendas. “One thought is that there has been a partisan reaction to a book,” Wood said. “Republicans are extracting snippets to support their dislike for President Obama. Democrats are extracting snippets to support their president. I don’t think any of this is what Dr. Gates intended. He has even said so
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in various public settings.” Gates was asked multiple times why he did not wait and publish the book after President Obama’s second term. Gates said the book discusses major themes and issues that he thinks are important in the present instead of in 2017, such as how to deal with the Middle East and civilian-military relations. Wood said Gates has spent his career as part of the bureaucracy, especially in the area of national defense. “The book suggests the natural conflict that will exist between a president and representatives of the bureaucracy,” Wood said. “Dr. Gates is a lifelong bureaucrat, having been recruited by the CIA at an early age, went to college at the behest of the CIA, rose through the ranks at the CIA to become its director, took a short hiatus to be TAMU president and then returned as a bureaucrat representing the Defense Department. As a lifelong bureaucrat, Dr. Gates promoted the interests of the national security bureaucracy. However, as president, Obama must represent broader interests, namely that of the American people. Much of the reputed conflict between Gates’ perspective and Obama’s perspective stems from this difference.” Gates said while some of the issues in politics will not be changed tomorrow, political leaders can step up and be proactive in making the political system improve. “Part of the way we got here is history, which cannot be changed quickly,” Gates said. “But what could make a difference starting tomorrow would be if all these people
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Davonte Fitzgerald, reigning SEC Freshman of the Week, scored 12 points, which tied with sophomore guard Alex Caruso for highest on the team. Caruso shot 66 percent (46) from the field and added four rebounds, three assists and three steals in 35 minutes
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started treating each other better. If they could be civil to one another, listen to one another and recognize that the other person may have good ideas, if they would not demonize each other or distort facts, I think we could change the tone in Washington.”
played, all of which were team highs. Freshman guard Shawn Smith also played 35 minutes, pulling in four rebounds and scoring eight points. The loss drops A&M from second place to sixth place in the SEC, tied with LSU. The Aggies return to Reed Arena at noon Saturday to face Vanderbilt (9-7, 1-3 SEC).
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uch of the discussion and education of the Holocaust is focused primarily on the actual events that occurred during the Holocaust, said Ashley Passmore, professor of German, Jewish studies and international studies, but the aftermath, including the trials and proceedings following the Holocaust, are much less discussed and comprehended today. The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center will host “Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: 50 Years On” Thursday through Saturday, a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” originally published in the New York Times. As a part of a two-year series, “World War II and its Global Legacies,” the conference will explore Hannah Arendt, the late journalist and philosopher, whose well-known work concerned the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a key figure in the S.S. in Nazi Germany. “He was largely involved in the organization, deportation and extermination of the Jews, primarily in Poland, including Auschwitz,” said Richard Golsan, director of The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. The conference features discussions surrounding human rights, Arendt’s philosophy and the Eichmann trial conducted in Israel in 1961. “She asks questions such as, ‘Who is capable of committing such evils?’ and ‘Under what conditions?’” Golsan said. One of Arendt’s most well-known ideas was her conceptualization of the “banality of evil.” She theorized that the greatest evils throughout history, including the Holocaust, were not executed on a day-to-day basis by “fanatics” or “psychopaths,” but by the ordinary and bureaucratic person, who accepted the terms of the state and didn’t question them. Thursday, the conference will show a screening of “The Trial of Adolf Eichmann,” directed by critically-acclaimed French docu-
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to do, some renovations.� A charge for a visit to Beutel is not a completely new notion, as there are already charges on visits for what Dannenbaum called nonessential services such as physical therapy, lab tests and x-rays. Visits for typical symptoms of illness fall under essential services, and Dannenbaum said it is students with these symptoms who may be deterred by the idea of a visitation charge. “For the student who comes in with cough, sore throat, flu-like symptoms, that’s pretty important and we would really like not for there to be a barrier for them to come in for care,� Dannenbaum said. “Even a small amount of money could be a barrier for some people so as of right now, those services, those visits, they don’t have a cost for the visit for them to come in and see the nurse practitioner.� While not in the forefront of discussion, Dannenbaum said officials have bounced around the idea of an insurance-only plan, wherein SHS would do away with Health Center Fees and charge a set fee for visits. This would make Beutel similar to a typical doctor’s office, in which payment per visit depends on the insurance of the visitor. “People think ‘Oh, you can make millions if you just bill their insurance,’� Dannenbaum said. “Well, you can make some money but you have to charge for what you do. We can do that, we know how to do that, but the question is, is that the best for all students? That’s the challenge because we have some who are not insured at all.� Dannenbaum said the problem found with this is that students would still have to pay the insurance copay and the uninsured would have to pay a fee much larger than what insured people pay. Although the idea of a visitation charge has been discussed by SHS for three years, the decision to establish any charge is far from set in stone. “I think we’re probably still 50-50 on it to
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“Spirit� magazine, Welsh likened the project to the University’s backyard, as the Memorial Student Center is referred to as Texas A&M’s living room. XXX QQEJ DPN t t 5FYU i11%w UP UP SFDFJWF TUVEZ JOGPSNBUJPO XXX QQEJ DPN t t 5FYU i11%w UP UP SFDFJWF TUVEZ JOGPSNBUJPO XXX QQEJ DPN t t 5FYU i11%w UP UP SFDFJWF TUVEZ JOGPSNBUJPO Nine graduate students from the Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture — Quingshu Wang, Yuxi Cheng, Pengzhi Li, Xiaohan Gao, Siyu Chen, Ao Shi, Dan Zhao, Wenyan Ji and Jing Lei — worked in cooperation with Jon Rodiek, leader of the master plan effort, to collect the data, calculations and zoning information necessary for the creation of the 2013-2014 Texas A&M Campus Directory master plan in just eight months. Convenient listings of departments, administrators, faculty, staff, “The grad students were fully and other information about A&M. involved,� Rodiek said. “They EPARTMENTS: You may charge and pick up Campus Directories designed everything. They are in the Student Media office in Suite L400 of the MSC. Cost is $4 per copy. Please bring a Student Media Work Order. Call 845-2646 on campus and know the needs for info. of this site. They are also dediTUDENTS AND OTHERS may purchase directories for $4 plus tax cated because they believe in each in MSC L400 (by cash, check or credit card). what they are doing.� Hours: 8:30 A.M.– 4:30 P.M. Monday–Friday. For Siyu Chen, the landscape architecture graduate student who designed the space in front
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be honest,� Dannenbaum said. “I’m very interested in hearing the input from students on this topic. If it’s what it has been in the last five years that I’ve done this, there is probably going to be more support for doing something along this line rather than not at all.� Dannenbaum said everyone will have an opinion over how much it should be, but the ultimate decision will be made in coordination with the vice president’s office. Student senator and junior political science major, Fernando Sosa, said Dannenbaum has been invited to speak at the Feb. 5 Student Senate meeting, giving students the chance to let their opinion be heard on the matter. Sosa said he would rather pay a visitation charge than see the Health Center Fee increased on all students. “Supporting a $5 office visit should be a better compromise than going without an opinion and ending up with a $20 office visit fee or an increase to the Health Center Fee,� Sosa said. “I’m glad Dr. Dannanbaum is interested in getting input from Student Senate, and as student representatives get feedback from students, I’m sure student government will be able to formulate an opinion that best serves the student body.� Sosa said the opinion of students will likely be divided along how often they visit Beutel. “At this point, I would expect most students who make use of Beutel to oppose office visit fees,� Sosa said. “And I would also expect students who rarely or never use Beutel to oppose an increase to the Health Center Fee.� Hannah Parks, Student Senate Health Policy advisor and senior health major, said Texas A&M is one of a few schools across the nation without a fee for health services. Parks said that a service fee, while unfortunate, may be better than increasing student fees. Junior biology major Rushab Patel said he did not support instating a visitation charge. “I don’t like the idea,� Patel said. “The nice part about Beutel was it being free and I think charging students would deter them from going there.�
of the Borlaug Center, this was a very special project. “The campus is ours and it’s very valuable to us because we are Aggies and have a real design to make our place better,� Chen said. The project will feature the Teaching Gardens Complex, which will include a schoolhouse and pavilion that will accompany three acres of gardens for outdoor teaching and demonstrations. A themed garden will display A&M’s rich agricultural history while another will display herbs and human-use plants. Student designed and constructed gardens will rotate in the children’s area as well as a Butterfly Garden. The Feed the World Plaza will commemorate past Texas A&M researchers like Norman Borlaug and become a rentable space for tailgates, farmer’s markets and graduation day celebrations. Plant varieties developed by Texas A&M’s own scientists will be planted on the site because of their influential role in feeding people across the globe.
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“It’s a daily habit to eat,� said David Cottrell, sophomore soil and crop science and rangeland management major. “People should be aware of where their food comes from. This can be showcased through hands-on learning experiences.� Another major feature of the project will be the reconstruction of Grove Amphitheater. Once home to Yell Practices, movie nights and other social events, this recreated version will provide room for 500 to 1,000 students. The Post Oak Savannah Ecosystem Restoration will feature wildflowers, including engineered maroon bluebonnets developed by TAMU AgriLife extension. “That’s what’s so exciting about this,� Welsh said. “A&M’s own agricultural developments from cotton to corn to maroon bluebonnets can be showcased in these gardens. “ The rose garden will be located near a courtyard, outdoor living area and new main entrance to the AgriLife Complex. Texastough rose species developed at A&M will surround the central arbor with concentric circle designs. Welsh said he expected this venue, as well as the meadows, arboretum and various gardens to become destinations for engagements and photo shoots. The railroad-themed Howdy Station Visitor Bus Stop will provide open-air pavilions for guests and students alike in front of the Norman E. Borlaug Center. Further west, a coffee station and visitor entrance will be located close to the George Bush Presidential Library and is envisioned to be the first stop for visitors. “Looking at this master plan, I like the elements involved in it as well as the trails they seem to have planned,� said Stephani Smith, senior landscape architecture major. “They could really make White Creek stand out and not just be a sideshow to the gardens. It could teach students what kinds of plants grow around water and the differences between regular vegetation and water vegetation.�
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