The Battalion: February 6, 2017

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“OUR NATION CAN ONLY MAINTAIN ITS GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE AND ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP POSITION IF IT ENCOURAGES THOSE TALENTED PEOPLE TO COME HERE TO STUDY AND WORK.” — excerpt from a letter 598 U.S. colleges and university presidents, including Michael Young, sent to Secretary of Homeland Security

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“The brain has a way of adjusting to new realities.

You must look at the positive side, as little as it is.”

Niloofar Zarei

“It’s not just us — a couple of my friends at other universities had plans to get married, some had children.”

Sina Mohseni

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“For some people it’s lifealtering … No one is safe.”

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he last time Shabnam Daghaghi saw her parents was in an airport more than two years ago when she came to the United States from Iran to get her Ph.D. in electrical engineering at

Texas A&M. “You know, I didn’t have enough time to make it more of a goodbye with them,” Daghaghi said. “I was really in a hurry and I couldn’t actually hug them the way I should have. I think about that all the time — how I didn’t have enough time to be with them.”

According to the Data and Research Services enrollment profile for fall 2016, more than 200 international students at A&M are from countries affected by President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 Immigration Ban, which blocked citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan from coming to the United States for 90 days, even with valid visas. Daghaghi is one of them.

On Friday, a federal judge in Seattle put a nationwide block on Trump’s executive order, which permitted travel to resume. The

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Justice Department appealed the decision Saturday and requested that the ban be restored immediately, but early Sunday morning the federal appeals court rejected the appeal. The Trump administration’s reply is due Monday, according to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.

Despite the ban being lifted for the time being, ambiguity remains about what will happen next.

With uncertainty looming, A&M international students like Daghaghi who have been affected by the

Immigration Ban are trying to continue their lives despite the confusion and developing situations.

During the two years Daghaghi has been in the United States, she was confident in her decision to study in the country and was looking forward to seeing her

parents soon. Then she found out about the executive order.

“I couldn’t focus on my research — I couldn’t do anything,” Daghaghi said.

“I’m just thinking maybe I made a mistake to choose this country. I really love this country, the people. But maybe I made a mistake.”

Daghaghi has several friends at A&M, and she said while she’s thankful to have them as a support system, she still misses her parents.

“Thank God I could have many friends,” Daghaghi said.

“We have the same problem; we have the same pain. But nothing is comparable with our families.

Nothing

can replace them.”

Ahad Esmaeilian came to A&M from Iran in 2012 to pursue his Ph.D. in e l e c - trical engineering.

His wife Yasaman joined him in December 2014 after she finished her medical degree in Iran.

Ahad has his green card and is considered a “National Interest” due to his extensive research and recognition for his work, and Yasaman has an Employment Authorization

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Document (EAD) card, which gives non-citizens temporary employment authorization.

Yasaman secured 33 interviews with top residency programs all over the country, but Ahad said program directors may not rank her due to the unpredictability surrounding the executive order. Additionally, her EAD card expires in May and programs begin

in June. Even if she were to secure a ranking at one of the programs, the executive order, if restored, would prohibit her from extending her EAD to allow her to begin one of the programs, Ahad said.

Despite the ambiguity of the future, Ahad said he and his wife are trying to stay positive.

“For us, it’s really important but I think if something happens to me, if I can’t get into residency this year, it’s still fine,” Yasaman said. “We’re together, he has a

g r e e n card, we can do something. He can work, I can stay at home. And if it’s just one year, it’s okay. But for some people it’s life-altering … No one is safe.”

Ahad said part of staying positive includes trying not to worry his family back home in Iran.

“Every time I talk to my mom, and my brothers and sisters, I tell them every time, I just say, ‘Everything is okay. We are good, I have a green card so you don’t need to worry. Other people are being affected, but not us,’” Ahad said. “I know that she is the kind of person who cannot sleep at night if she knows something is wrong.”

Niloofar Zarei, a Ph.D. student from Iran, hasn’t seen her parents since the fall of 2015.

Her parents obtained a visitor visa to visit her and her husbandto-be in mid-February, but the executive order brought both the visitation and wedding plans to a screeching halt.

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TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION BAN GOES INTO EFFECT

FEDERAL JUDGE PLACES NATIONWIDE HALT ON IMMIGRATION BAN

FEB. 4 JUSTICE DEPARTMENT APPEALS,REQUESTS BAN BE REINSTATED IMMEDIATELY

FEB. 5

FEB. 6

FEDERAL APPEALS COURT REJECTS APPEAL

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REPLY IS DUE

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IMMIGRATION CONTINUED “The brain has a way of adjusting to new realities. You must look at the positive side, as little as it is,” Zarei said. “Sometimes I think we may not be the worst case. There are people who went home for Christmas to visit their family and they were planning on coming back to continue their studies and they can’t. Many of us work part time for the university as research assistants, [teaching assistants], and those are commitments you can’t ignore.”

Zarei’s fiancé, Sina Mohseni, said the executive order didn’t provide any notice for people who were in the middle of traveling when it went into effect.

“I can’t tell you how hard it is for someone who’s at the airport and they don’t let him or her in, and they just say, ‘Go back,’” Mohseni said. “All the plans — it’s not just us — a couple of my friends at other universities had plans to get married, some had children — many different situations.”

Daghaghi said she feels there are misconceptions of those who were banned.

“The wrong thing that many people misunderstand is that all people who are banned because of this order are not refugees,” Daghaghi said. “Many of them are just ordinary people — parents, students.”

A&M President Michael Young sent a campus-wide email Jan. 30 offering support and resources for students affected by the ban. Bill Taylor, director of International Student Services, also sent an email to students from the seven affected countries notifying them of

counseling resources.

“This can be a stressful time and people deal with stress differently,” Taylor said. “That’s why we encourage the students to seek Student Counseling Services if they’re feeling stressed because of the situation.”

On Friday, presidents from 598 colleges and universities across the country, including Young, sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly expressing the importance of international students and exchange programs to universities.

“Our nation can only maintain its global significance and economic leadership position if it encourages those talented people to come here to study and work,” the letter reads.

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) met with editors from The Battalion Sunday as part of a visit to A&M. O’Rourke said he’s impressed with the support A&M is offering to international students affected by the ban.

“I’m so proud that the university is signing on to [the letter sent to Secretary of Homeland Security] and is able to articulate the strength that immigrants bring to institutions like this one and also just to the country and who we are,” O’Rourke said.

On Jan. 30, hundreds of A&M students flooded Rudder Plaza for a protest aimed at denouncing the executive order and making international students affected by the ban feel welcome on campus.

Ahad said while his and Jasmine’s situation is difficult, he feels grateful for the support they’ve received.

“I could have studied here and gone back home,” Ahad said. “But I see

these things, and I decide to stay … I try to make some contribution on my studies and on my research, so I can be recognized as a National Interest so I can get my green card. Because I realize that this is the place that I want to be — this is where I want to raise my children.”

Daghaghi said despite the uncertainty, she and her parents still have hope they will see each other soon.

“I actually still have hope that I can see my parents, but right now it feels like a jail,” Daghaghi said. “We still have hope … And my parents actually have not canceled their tickets yet.”

After the ban was lifted over the weekend, Zarei’s mother immediately boarded a plane to see her daughter while she could.

“Once [the ban was lifted] the airlines started taking passengers from the seven banned countries and I got a ticket for my mom,” Zarei said. “This was not possible without the thousands of Americans protesting for our rights and I am very, very grateful to everyone that has a part in any protest.”

Zarei said she’d encourage people with stories similar to hers to be patient.

“There’s nothing we can do,” Zarei said. “We can just tell our experience, say what we’re going through, and hope that people will understand.

There’s safety for Americans, and that’s their right. But the way the law is being enforced is causing a lot of people to suffer. Maybe there’s a better way.”

Editor’s Note: This story is developing.

The Battalion will update the article online as more information becomes available.

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Partner in Philanthropy Faculty Award given to 3 professors

By Meredith McCown @meredithrhoads Three distinguished A&M faculty members received the Partner in Philanthropy Faculty Award given by the Texas A&M Foundation in January to recognize employees who have shown dedication to philanthropy at the university.

This year the award was presented to M. Edward Rister, agriculture economics professor and the namesake of the M. Edward Rister ’74 Chair in Rural Entrepreneurship in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, chemistry professor Janet Bluemel and her husband, John Gladysz, chemistry professor and legatee of the Dow Chair in Chemical Invention in the College of Science. Nominated by the Texas A&M Foundation staff and development officers, recipients of the award are selected by the seven members on the Board of Trustees.

Chairman of the Texas A&M Foundation Bill Toler said the purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding faculty who have decided to share part of their wealth with students and other potential faculty in the future of A&M. “The main criteria is to recognize Texas A&M faculty that have reinvested some of their own personal wealth back into the university in a meaningful way,” Toler said. “Dr. Rister did it to his own department as have Dr. Gladysz and Dr. Bluemel.”

Rister and his wife graduated from A&M in 1974 and he attended Michigan State University for his doctorate. He began teaching agricultural economics at A&M in 1981 and additionally became the associate head of the department.

“I was told if I ever wanted to work here, to leave and go to school somewhere else,” Rister said. “So we went to Michigan State from ‘77 to ‘81. So I’ve been back here since June of ‘81, and I’ve done a lot of different things. But in the most recent years, both associated with my courses in agribusiness entrepreneurship and then working for the department as associate head, I had development responsibilities.”

In his work with former students, Rister said he is humbled by the overall contributions from former students including donated scholarships, generated donations and endowments from different departments.

“It was a huge surprise, because … It’s one of those awards you don’t know about, but then also it’s pretty humbling working with the former students and their involvement, what they say they about our program is that we’ve given them ‘some ownership,’ and they are involved,” Rister said.

While Rister was one of the three recipients of the award, he credited the honor as a team effort including former students, people at the Texas A&M Foundation, as well as the staff in his department.

“I’ve been very blessed since I came back here with support from former students, and this one here I think is a team award, it isn’t just for me because by myself, I don’t get a whole lot done,” Rister said.

Taught by Rister, the Rural Entrepreneurship class, AGEC 424 and 425, began donating a scholarship in 2010 and each continuing class continues to carry on the tradition.

“In 2010, that class started their own scholarship, and every class since 2010 I have given a scholarship to the current class,” Rister said. “Those kind of things, they catch you from left

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(Left to right) Mark Hussey, Van Taylor, Otway Denny, M. Edward Rister, one of the recipients of the Partner on Philanthropy Faculty Award, Tyson Voelkel and Jorge Bermúdez present the award to the recipients.

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Recipients of the Partner in Philanthropy Faculty Award were Janet Bluemel, John Gladysz and M. Edward Rister.

field. The first impression was, ‘Gee, why me?’ And then again knowing it’s more than me.”

Gladysz and Bluemel do not have children, and therefore wanted to donate money to the university in their estate.

“I think the university looks for a lot of things,” Gladysz said.

“They want help with donors, they want people to hold up faculty as examples … Both my wife and I, we don’t have any children. So in our estate, we’ll be giving some money to the university also for faculty chairs.”

Before coming to A&M in 2007, both professors taught in Germany — Bluemel at Heidelberg in and Gladysz at a university north of Nuremberg. After both received offers to teach Texas A&M, Gladysz said he and his wife felt privileged to be brought to the university together.

“What we hope is that it’s going to leverage our legacy, but in a way that we want to be catalysts that increase giving to the university,” Gladysz said. “And that’s what we want to do. We want to see other people step up and help with all these needs that we have, all these needs that state can’t meet, so every time everybody else gives that maybe we had a small part in that.”

As someone raised in a family that has given money on behalf of supporting higher education, Gladysz described the encouragement of donorship towards faculty and former students as a potential chain reaction.

“I think the thing I’m most proud of is that in my family, my mom and dad died about two years ago, and my sister and myself there are no descendants,” Gladysz said. “I’m just glad that we’re all in as a family...And then the other part is just that this great university here becomes even better.”

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Student Senate passes bill to improve campus sustainability

By Rachel Knight @Reknight18 Texas A&M will begin improving sustainability efforts on campus by labeling compostable containers in the MSC Food Court to raise awareness of on-campus composting initiatives.

Products sold in the MSC Food Court from the GrabNGo line are in compostable packaging made from cornstarch, and will now include labels that better inform students of the packages’ ability to be thrown in the compost bins in the MSC Food Court area instead of the trash.

The compost labels are being implemented as a result of an SGA bill. Jasmine Wang, chair of the Sustainability Subcommittee, introduced the bill after meeting with Chartwells, the company that sells GrabNGo products in the MSC. “I met with Chartwells originally because I wanted to improve composting efforts specifically at the MSC,” Wang said.

“I was told that the GrabNGo products were compostable, but you can’t tell because they look exactly like a regular item, so nobody would have ever known that they were compostable.”

Ben Kalscheur, assistant manager at the TAMU Office of Sustainability, said composting is important for environmental,

economic and social components of sustainability.

“If you put your container in a compost bin at the MSC it’s not going into a landfill,” Kalscheur said. “It’s actually going to go into what’s called a compost pile, and that’s actually turned into a usable product that’s used to help grow things in the future. If you’re not composting things you are taking resources out of the loop.”

Landon Woods, the SGA executive vice president of student services, said SGA better informing consumers of a product’s compostability in the MSC Food Court would improve sustainability on campus. After meeting with the Chartwells director of operations on campus SGA was confident they would get the labels implemented.

“He told us adding something to the label would be relatively simple,” Woods said. “And that they were willing to add something that would show which products were compostable. We would like the stickers to say, ‘I’m compostable,’ or something along those lines to let students know what they’re throwing away and what they’re doing with their trash.”

Wang said the timing of this bill reflects the way society treats waste.

“We’re moving into a period of time where we are more

wasteful than ever,” Wang said. “If the university is investing resources to create compostable items, then I think it is important that we as students take advantage of those resources and then return them back into compost so that we can continue the cycle.”

Kalscheur said composting and sustainability fits in with Texas A&M’s core values.

“If we embrace the Aggie core values — respect is one of our core values, loyalty is one of our core values. If those are things that we really care about and want to embrace then we have to have a sustainable lifestyle,” Kalscheur said. “We have to think about how are the decisions I’m making going to impact someone else because it could impact someone negatively or it could impact someone positively. We want to make decisions that are impacting people positively.”

Kalscheur said raising awareness of composting and other sustainability efforts on campus will eventually affect the sustainability efforts of the world.

“Future leaders are going to be coming from Texas A&M, so if we are able to embrace sustainability then we will be able to leave the world in a better place than when we found it,” Kalscheur said.

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