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thebattalion THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF TEXAS A&M SINCE 1893
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THE BATTALION (ISSN #1055-4726) is published daily, Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and Monday through Thursday during the summer session (except University holidays and exam periods) at Texas A&M University. Periodicals Postage Paid at College Station, TX 77840. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Battalion, Texas A&M University, 1111 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-1111. News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in Student Media, a unit of the Division of Student Affairs. News offices are in The Grove, Bldg. 8901. Newsroom phone: 979-845-3313; Fax: 979-845-2647; E-mail: metro@thebatt.com; website: http://www.thebatt.com. Advertising: Publication of advertising does not imply sponsorship or endorsement by The Battalion. For campus, local, and national display advertising, call 979-845-2696. For classified advertising, call 979-8450569. Advertising offices are in The Grove, Bldg. 8901, and office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Fax: 979-845-2678. Subscriptions: A part of the Student Services Fee entitles each Texas A&M student to pick up a single copy of The Battalion. First copy free, additional copies $1. Mail subscriptions are $125 per school year. To charge by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express, call 979845-2613.
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Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Eric P. Schmitt signs books for his new release “Counterstrike” on Tuesday at the Sanders Corps Center.
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Karl Marx is coming to the Texas A&M campus Wednesday — or, at least, a professional actor characterized as Karl Marx. Students interested in the life and philosophy of Karl Marx can attend a discussion at the Sul Ross Statue from noon to 1 p.m. Students will be presented with the question: Is Marxism the answer to America’s current social and economic problems? A theatrical performance by actor Robert Weick will follow at 6:30 p.m. in Rudder Theatre. The 70-minute production will discuss economic policies and social justice, including the Occupy Wall Street movement.
BOSTON — Students and faculty at Harvard University are calling on the school to award posthumous degrees to seven students expelled nearly a century ago for being gay or perceived as gay, and they’re timing a rally for their cause to coincide with a visit by Lady Gaga. But Harvard says it doesn’t award
posthumous degrees, except when students complete academic requirements but die before degrees have been conferred. Students and faculty members plan a rally during a campus visit by Lady Gaga, who will be at Harvard on Wednesday to launch her Born This Way anti-bullying foundation.
Adolf Hitler’s art collection discovered in Czech Republic
Michal Ann Morrison, staff writer
Football season ticket prices increase with move to SEC
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — A five-year search by a Czech author has discovered that 16 paintings in the Czech Republic were once owned by Adolf Hitler. The art works, which Hitler bought in Germany during World War II, had been moved to Czechoslovakia after it was occupied by the Nazis to prevent them being damaged by Allied attacks. Hitler bought the 16 paintings — by
Increases in football season ticket prices are the latest change brought on by Texas A&M’s move to the SEC. Student season ticket prices were raised by $25, bringing the football pass to $225 and all-sports passes to $350. General public tickets were raised by $50. These changes are also affecting single game tickets, which sold for as little as $25 last season. With the increase of visiting ticket allotments mandated by the SEC, no cuts made to the number of student season tickets, and the waiting list for season tickets boasting more than 4,000, single-game tickets may no longer be an option for Aggie fans.
German artists such as Franz Eichhorst, Paul Herrmann, Sepp Hilz, Friedrich W. Kalb, Oscar Oestreicher, Edmund Steppes and Armin Reumann — in 1942 and 1943 at the Great German art exhibitions that were held anually in Munich from 1937 to 1944. The German institute, Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte in Munich, said that while “interesting,” the collection is “low” value.
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