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Kevin Smith The Battalion President Barack Obama rejected a permit on Jan. 18 to start building the Keystone XL Pipeline, a 1,700-mile pipeline that would travel from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf Coast. If construction were approved, the pipeline would create tens of thousands of jobs for construction laborers and engineers. Kelly Brumbelow, associate professor of petroleum engineering, said in the long-term, all students at A&M, along with everyone else, would be affected to some degree by the effects of the pipeline — good and bad. “On the good side, the U.S. would have another means to import petroleum from a friendly neighbor,” Brumbelow said. “On the bad side, there will be a lot of greenhouse gas emissions just to get the oil into the pipeline, and the processing costs will make this a relatively expensive oil source.” Many factors contribute to the controversy that surrounds the president’s decision, including environ-
mental concerns, profitability of the Keystone XL project and conflicting bipartisan views. Brumbelow said the big conflict is that it would cross western Nebraska, over the Ogallala Aquifer, which is a very important aquifer for several states. “You might have a rupture or leak, and petroleum would seep into the aquifer underneath,” Brumbelow said. “Sometimes it can be very expensive to treat the water and clean potential spills. The number one issue of tar sand oil is that it’s very hard to get out of the ground and also hard to process because it’s so thick. To draw oil out of a place like that, you have to scrape open the earth for thousands of acres.” Stephen Holditch, the director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and professor of petroleum engineering, said the pipeline is so vital to the well being of the American oil power struggle that its construction is inevitable. “Let’s say the unthinkable happens and they don’t build this pipeline — the Canadians are just going to build a pipeline to the pacific and sell it to China,” Holditch said. “The environmental concerns are essentially nonsense; See Pipeline on page 5
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Michael Dror The Battalion The glowing blue lights of emergency phone columns have dotted college campuses for years, allowing people to alert others of their impending danger. Texas A&M’s 115 emergency stations allow anybody to make a free 3-minute call to 911 or any other number to seek help. Texas A&M prides itself on having one of the nation’s friendliest campuses, but safety is equally important. Many college campuses are hubs for criminal activities, with young adults’ rash mistakes contributing to dangerous environments. While Texas A&M is safer than many locations, there are still reasons to remain vigilant. “Twenty assaults, one aggravated assault, and two sexual assaults were reported to the University Police Department since last January,” said officer Kristi Hosea of UPD. “Even though our crimes against persons are relative-
ly low, it is important for everyone to utilize some measure of safety in their daily activities. It is all about taking precautions such as being aware of your surroundings, being assertive and making eye contact, and knowing that there is safety in numbers.” Now, students with smart phones can download an app to better utilize the availability of technology as another way to call for help. The myGuardianAngel app uses a wide variety of tools to ensure that its users feel safer in hazardous situations. When activated, the large red “help” button can send out an immediate 911 call, while simultaneously alerting multiple friends or family members that a call was made. The app includes an array of technical features, such as a GPS tracker and a 30-second video recorder. The recorder lets the user take a video of his or her surroundings for potential evidence in further investigations.
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Muslim students invite questions, open discussions Chase Carter The Battalion With a student body nearing 50,000, discussions of cultural origins reach across the globe, encountering numerous races, cultures and creeds. In the midst of this ongoing conversation, the Muslim Students’ Association, strives to raise awareness and understanding of its culture and religious beliefs. Conciding with Muslim Awareness Month during February, the student group has organized events for
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those curious about Islam and the people who practice it — beginning with a look into the life of famous human rights activist Malcom X and his conversion to Islam. The Muslim Students’ Association has been active since the mid-1990s, and not only on the Texas A&M campus. Branches operate all over the nation with an extensive communication network among them all. “We want to show the people who go to class with us, eat lunch with us, walk by us on campus that there isn’t anything separating us but our religion,” said
Muhammad Daoudi, senior university studies major. “But that’s just a part of who we are. The more others can understand and appreciate that, hopefully they will become more comfortable with it.” More so than a religion in the Western sense, the Islamic faith also contains a foundation of model behavior listed in a set of rules called Shariah. According to the Muslim Students’ Association, people sometimes believe this exempts Muslims from U.S. law. See Muslim on page 4
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Lost and found bargains attract students Emily Davis The Battalion MSC Hospitality will be hosting their biannual Lost and Found Auction Thursday. The auction, which is held every semester, is an opportunity for students to purchase items that have been left around campus at a price much lower than retail value. Items at the auction are collected from the different lost and found locations around campus. If an item is not collected from the lost and found after 90 days, it is given to MSC Hospitality to be auctioned off. The auction will take place in the Rudder Exhibit Hall from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Dylan Colbert, co-coordinator for the auction, said he has purchased items before and there are often good buys to be had. “From a buyer’s perspective, I think a lot of the stuff is a great deal. It’s a lot cheaper than going to a store to buy it,” Colbert said. Colbert said it is easy to find and purchase small items at the auction, but the bigger ticket items are handled differently. “For any regular items, it’s just a flat price — it’s really easy. You pick it up and go check out like any other store. For more expensive items, it’s more interesting because we actually auction those off,” Colbert said. While most of the items are little things like umbrellas and sweaters, an occasional iPhone or iPod finds its way into the auction. Keith Landry, vice chair of MSC Hospitality
and international affairs graduate student, said that MSC Hospitality tries to find the owners of these big-ticket items before auctioning them off. “We make a solid effort to try to figure out who they belong to,” Landry said. “If we can’t find the owners then those are the first things gone.” But if someone comes to the auction and finds something they lost, Paige Edwards, financial executive for MSC Hospitality and junior business major, said MSC Hospitality is willing to give it back to them for free if they can prove that it belongs to them. According to Landry, MSC Hospitality usually aims to make around $2,000 from the auction. This semester, though, they are having two auctions instead of one, one this week and one in May. MSC Hospitality is hoping to make a little more this semester than in previous semesters. “We‘d like $2,000 each time,” Landry said. “But I do think the second one would make a little less.” Edwards, who has been on both the buying and planning sides of the event, said she hopes this event will be successful for everyone involved. “Like last semester when we went above and beyond our expected gain — as a buyer, it’s really great. I really couldn’t ask for anything else,” Edwards said.
nation&world Morning after pill gets vending machine Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the “morning-after” pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and raised questions about how accessible emergency contraception should be. The student health center at Shippensburg, a secluded public institution of 8,300 students tucked between mountain ridges in the Cumberland Valley, provides the Plan B One Step emergency contraceptive in the vending machine along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests. “I think it’s great that the school is giving us this option,” junior Chelsea Wehking said Tuesday. “I’ve heard some kids say they’d be too embarrassed” to go into town — Shippensburg, permanent population about 6,000 — and buy Plan B. Federal law makes the pill available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older, and the school checked records and found that all current students are that age or older, a spokesman said. It doesn’t appear that any other vending machine in the U.S. dispenses the contraceptive, which can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after sexual intercourse.
California gay marriage ban goes to the Supreme Court SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional but agreed to give sponsors of the bitterly contested, voter-approved law time to appeal the ruling before ordering the state to resume allowing gay couples to wed. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedents when he declared in 2010 that Proposition 8 — a response to an earlier state court decision that legalized gay marriage — was a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians. “Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of oppositesex couples,” states the opinion written by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, one of the court’s
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most liberal judges.However, the appeals panel took pains to note that its decision applies only to California, even though the court has jurisdiction in nine western states. California is the only one of those states where the ability for gays to marry was granted then rescinded, the court noted in its narrowly crafted opinion.“Whether under the Constitution same-sex couples may ever be denied the right to marry, a right that has long been enjoyed by opposite-sex couples, is an important and highly controversial question,” the court said. “We need not and do not answer the broader question in this case.” The ruling will not take effect until the deadline passes for Proposition 8’s backers to appeal to a larger panel of the 9th Circuit. Lawyers for the coalition of conservative religious groups that sponsored the measure said they have not decided if they will seek a 9th Circuit rehearing or file an appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Associated Press
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“This app has features that appeal to everybody,” said David Dyal, creator of MyGuardianAngel. “But the fact that so many sexual assaults occur against college women make it especially useful to have myGuardianAngel. If they only have time to call one person, they may or may not get a response, but when five or six people get contacted with the push of a button, the user will be much safer.” One of the most unique features of the app is the audio streaming, which allows someone to secretly communicate with their contacts with only 10 seconds delay. Students entering potentially risky situations, even blind dates or parties, can have friends monitoring the event before a problem arises. “When I made the feature, I was hoping that people on a date or party situation could push it and let friends know that things aren’t right, without immediately calling 911 or risk waiting too long. If you’re uncomfortable, you can describe exactly what’s going on and use a code word your friends know to signal for help,” Dyal said. Hosea said there are several programs on the market geared towards personal safety. “Taking personal safety precautions help to limit the opportunity for a crime to occur, while the personal safety device may be helpful if the crime actually does occur,” Hosea said. Dyal is planning several new innovations
to help myGuardianAngel appeal to college students. “I’m working on introducing Geofencing to the app, which would alert campus police departments if the ‘help’ call goes out on campus to increase response times,” Dyal said. “You will soon be able to customize the emergency number in addition to your contacts, so you can input local police departments or embassies rather than having it go straight to 911.” Associate provost for information technology Pierce Cantrell said Texas A&M has been working to improve its cell phone coverage on campus to provide more accurate location data for students trying to make a 911 call on campus. Cantrell said one of the main upgrades were additions to the Distributed Antennae System, DAS. The University has added 25 new antennas inthe last few years, which are shared by Verizon and AT&T. “We have a lot better coverage on campus than we used to,” Cantrell said. “There used to be lots of dead spots in the residence halls. Having good coverage is a good safety feature for students.” Sarah Maddux, sophomore biology major, said she has never personally been threatened on campus, but that crossing campus at night can be dangerous. “It is a bit disconcerting to walk through darker, secluded areas alone at night,” Maddux said. “However, having an app would make me feel like I had a plan if something did happen.”
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“Shariah and American law aren’t diametrically opposed. That’s a pretty common misconception,” said Affan Zafar, president of the Muslim Students’ Association and senior biomedical sciences major. “In truth, the two work together. It not only governs our actions towards other Muslims, but everyone.” The members of the Muslim Students’ Association say Texas A&M has been a welcoming and understanding place, which they are grateful for. At each event, attendees will be offered a chance to speak openly and ask questions of the organization, the speaker, and other Muslim Aggies in attendance. “It’s interesting to see the kind of people who ask questions,” said Sidraa Naeem, education officer for the Muslim Students’ Association and senior nutrition major. “I’m happy to answer, or just talk. Someone was honestly sur-
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To build or not to build Tim Bardin: Pipeline endangers environment
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ver since the BP oil spill in the Gulf two years ago, oil and energy have been a hot-button topic in Washington and across the country. Political parties, environmentalists, judicial officials and the “everyman” are involved in this national debate, which recently centered on the planned Keystone XL pipeline. This pipeline, proposed by TransCanada, is a terrible idea for reasons economical, environmental and legal. The TransCanada website claims the new pipeline will create 20,000 new jobs, boosting our struggling economy. But, according to Tar Sands Action, a blog that tracks the issue, this is a lie. The original application submitted by TransCanada estimated 3,500 temporary construction jobs would be created by the pipeline, but in a report later commissioned by the company, that figure jumped to 20,000. Why the discrepancy? Is TransCanada trying to deceive the population? If they are lying about the number of jobs this pipeline will create, who is to say they are telling the truth about the environmental safety pipe they plan to construct? Not only will the pipeline not produce the promised number of jobs, it will also increase our country’s addiction to crude oil, subverting efforts to produce a clean, renewable energy source. The majority of the oil that will supposedly be injected into our energy supply will, in actuality, be refined and exported to international markets, according to a report by the New York Times. The proposed 1,661-mile pipeline — which stretches from Alberta, Canada, south through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, to refineries near the Gulf Coast at Port Arthur, Texas — would be a huge environmental risk. The network of pipelines will “virtually assure the destruction of swaths of one of the world’s most important forest ecosystems, produce lake-sized reservoirs of toxic waste, import a thick, tar-like fuel that will release vast quantities of toxic chemicals into our air when it is refined ... [and] emit significantly more ... pollutants into the atmosphere than fuels made from conventional oil,” according to the National Wildlife Federation. The route proposed by TransCanada would pass through sensi-
Kori Wilson: Environmental objections baseless
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he Keystone XL project has been paraded under a myriad of facades, but from the point of view of a realist in the midst of a fragile and recovering American economy, the pipeline seems to represent some of the most basic economic concepts and is anything but farcical.
tive areas, significantly increasing the chance of pollution caused by oil spills to our agricultural heartland, important water supplies and wildlife preserves. The company says its pipelines are safe for the environment, only suffering an estimated one spill every seven years, according to Reuters. However, according to the Christian Science Monitor, the existing segments of the Keystone pipeline has experienced fourteen spills since May 2010. If this historically faulty pipeline were to fail and pollute the Ogallala Aquifer, at least two million people would be affected by the poisoned water supply. Environmental safety would be an issue all along the pipeline, as numerous water sources pass near or even through the proposed pipeline route. Another important problem created by the pipeline is the issue of eminent domain. This term is defined as the legal power a state has to appropriate land anywhere within the state’s borders for public use, such as water, electrical, gas or oil lines. Individuals are supposedly “reasonably compensated” for their land with fair market value, but there are concerns that landowners are being cheated out of the value of their land, not to mention the cost of damage if a spill destroys crops or other farming and ranching-related livelihoods. I applaud President Barack Obama’s decision to reject the pipeline. In light of the evidence, his decision, whatever the political ramifications, was the correct one. By rejecting the pipeline, Obama averted economical dependence, environmental disaster and legal exploitation.
President Barack Obama rejected the $7 billion proposal to extend the Keystone pipeline in January, citing Congress’ move for a morespeedy approval as detrimental to the due diligence needed to protect environmental interests. TransCanada, the sole owner of Keystone, will be required to submit a new application with no guarantee of any real move forward in the near future. To the American public, it looks as if the environmentalists have prevailed and Obama has stood resolutely against “Big Oil.” However, if we look deeper into our country’s ever-fragmented political system, it is clear what entities stand to become the real beneficiaries of a nonexistent Keystone XL. From Canada’s point of view, the U.S. would be stupid to reject “friendly oil,” while simultaneously touting efforts to reduce our dependence on bloodstained petrol from Arab states. Although Keystone XL may never be realized in the contiguous 48, production of Canadian oil sands will continue, with a potential 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day to be shipped to the People’s Republic of China — a willing customer in the face of American ignorance. An even more pressing issue, the Keystone XL project would address is the precarious state of the U.S. economy. It has been estimated that the extension alone could directly create up to 20,000 new jobs for Americans, 13,000 of these in construction — the industry considered to be hardest hit by the credit crisis of 2008 — and 7,000 in manufacturing, not to mention the countless indirect jobs that would spring from an upshoot in refining along Texas’ coast. The leftist Natural Resources Defense Council has repeatedly highlighted the supposed grave environmental effects of Tar Sands oil, failing to recognize key facts that undermine their position. In reality, emissions from the oil sands are a fraction of the emissions from coal and are equivalent to Cali-
Tim Bardin is a senior English major.
fornia heavy crude oils or ethanol and only account for about 0.1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Furthermore, the State Department has conceded that railroad transportation, which would be the substitute to Keystone XL, discharges more global warming gases than pipeline transportation. So, if environmental claims prove to be without base, what are the true motivating factors behind Obama’s veto? All arrows point to the upcoming presidential election in November. It is no grand revelation to say that elections are often bought — there is no doubt that wealthy Democrats will donate a grotesque amount of funds aimed at combating any opposition candidate, as long as individual agendas can be promulgated. One of the main beneficiaries of the veto of Keystone XL is Warren Buffet, a long-time benefactor of the Democratic Party and supporter of Obama. Buffet’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC would be one of the main railroads to transport Canadian oil as far into the future as 2030 if the project is not approved. Environmental groups, which mainly appeal to the upper class that has the means to ‘go green,’ also make up a key fundraising and voting bloc for the Democratic campaign. These entities have leveraged their potential support in exchange for a presence on Capitol Hill. Obama’s rejection of TransCanada’s Keystone XL proposal has given way to an ugly look into a collective of individual agendas that have tossed national interest aside. Keystone XL is an integral step toward reduced unemployment and energy security — issues that are clearly at the bottom of the laundry list for those elite who can afford (quite literally) to ignore them. Kori Wilson is a senior finance major and special to The Battalion.
Quick facts ◗ The Keystone XL Pipeline has a capacity of 400,000 barrels a day, so that means we will be importing 400,000 barrels less from other regions like South America and the Middle East.
◗ Most experts estimate the project’s cost at $7 billion for about a 3-year construction time, which would make it the largest single infrastructure project underway in North America leading to increased employment.
◗ The length of the pipeline would be 1,661 miles long.
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it’s astounding to look at a map of all the pipelines that have been laid already in North America. This is just one more pipeline.” Holditch said modern technology has advanced to the point that an entire aquifer would not be contaminated. “The facts are that for the next 30-40 years we will have to live on oil, gas and coal,” Holditch said. “If you want to drive your car or fly a plane, we have to have petroleum, and this is a safe and secure place to get it from.” To build, or not to build? As the Keystone pipeline is speculated to cost $7 billion, major concerns are raised in the pipeline debate and
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for Aggie engineers as well. Future job opportunities could potentially be crushed by the rejection of the Keystone Pipeline. “A significant number of our engineering graduates go on to jobs in the oil and gas industry,” Brumbelow said. “Obviously, petroleum and chemical engineering students go to work in the industry, but we also have a fair number of civil and mechanical engineers who work directly for companies like ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips and many who indirectly work for the industry in construction of infrastructure and facilities.” Brumbelow said A&M has graduates trained in environmental engineering and science who work in the industry’s environmental branch. They work on compliance with environmental regulations, environmental
risk analysis, data gathering and more. “If the Keystone project goes forward, there should be a few years of intensive design and construction work where Aggie engineering graduates would find work,” Brumbelow said. According to ABC News, U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner said the House would try again to tie approval for the Keystone pipeline project to a new jobs bill that is being introduced next week. Robert Niland, Class of 2011, earned a degree in petroleum engineering and is currently employed at Newfield Exploration in Denver, Colo. He said if the pipeline is not approved, it could mean fewer jobs for Aggies because of problems involving high production and low transportation. “It will have a bigger effect on petroleum
students more than anyone, because in places like North Dakota, where I work, we have had huge advances in production, and there is no way to export it all to the places it needs to go,” Niland said. Brumbelow said he thinks it is a very complicated issue with a lot to think about, including the environmental aspects. “We all need to be looking at it in a deliberate manner and not reducing it to simple decisions like about whether we do or do not want jobs, or whether we do or don’t want a good environment,” Brumbelow said. “We have to take our time and make the best decision for the long run.”
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