Local, national lawmakers converge on e-cig regulation
Electronic cigarettes are a part of life for some student users, but lawmakers have
yet to step in to regulate their use. That may soon change — around the city and across the nation.
Unlike cigarettes and smoke-less tobacco, e-cigarettes remain unregulated and can be used and purchased by minors. The Food and Drug Administration lacks the authority to regulate makers of e-cigarettes, but the FDA will propose rules for e-cigarettes as early as this month, according to the Associated Press, which could have a significant effect on the multi-billion dollar industry.
College Station Mayor Nancy Berry said the negative health ef-fects of e-cigarettes must be taken under consideration, and Berry
said the lack of e-cigarette regu-lation in College Station could change in the near future.
“At some point, I would expect in the next month or so, our staff will come back with a report and I’m hoping we ban e-cigarettes in the same places that regular ciga-rettes or tobacco is banned — so you wouldn’t be able to light it up anywhere inside, or at a restau-rant or all the places that you can’t smoke now,” Berry said.
Berry said she hopes institut-ing regulations will be as simple as amending current smoking regu-lations to also include e-cigarettes. Berry said she is working with Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski and Brazos County Judge Duane Pe-ters on the matter, both of whom are interested, she said.
“I think they’re waiting for College Station to take the lead
and then they’ll follow,” Berry said.
Texas A&M student policy, meanwhile, requires all university property to be “entirely smoke-free.” A&M policy defines smok-ing as “the use or carrying of a lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette, to-bacco or any other type of smok-ing substance,” and under the definition of tobacco are listed e-cigarettes.
The rules specifically ban all to-bacco use on campus, said Anne Reber, dean of Student Life.
The e-cigarette debate often centers on the health effects of their use. Dr. David Teller, asso-ciate director for Student Health Services, said opinions on the health effects of e-cigarettes differ widely but said using e-cigarettes
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Over the years, Marty Cobb, vet-eran flight attendant for Southwest Airlines, found that anecdotal and humorous safety instructions break up the monotony for well-seasoned travelers and relieve the anxieties of first-time fliers.
Recently, Cobb became the sub-ject of a YouTube video, featuring her popular safety antics and coaxing laughs out of countless Southwest pa-trons. Her video has gone viral and drawn more than 11 million viewers to YouTube.
Cobb received a phone call from the producers of The Ellen DeGe-neres Show to appear as a guest on Tuesday’s airing. Sunday, she hopped on a plane to California along with her two daughters, one being Hagan Parkman, junior communication ma-jor.
“I remember it had 33 views and she was freaking out,” Parkman said. “I shared it and then I had some friends who were sharing it and it just blew up so quickly. It definitely was
In-flight humor: Aggie’s mom goes viral
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Flight attendant appears on Ellen show
Screaming fans, a flip cup tournament and a talent show with a star-studded panel of judges all made ap-pearances Wednesday in a series of events before the pre-screening of the up-coming film “Neighbors.”
Actors Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Jerrod Carmichael field-ed student questions in a question-and-answer session and judged “Texas A&M’s Got Talent!”, a talent show won by dance group Fade 2 Black.
Torri Clark, Fade 2 Black member and senior telecommunication media studies major, said she was excited to perform in front of well-known actors.
“I think it’s an amazing opportunity to showcase the young talents of our univer-sity to the young talents of Hollywood and have our fellow Aggies cheer us on from the audience,” Clark said.
The event filled Rudder Theatre and some hopeful
attendees were turned away. “I’ve been doing my
assigned job, but this has drawn out a large crowd, mostly of enthusiastic girls,” said Lilly McAlister, Class of 2013 and security guard for the event. “However, everyone’s been reasonably understanding and respect-ful and good Aggies.”
Jenna Kassul, senior tele-communication and media studies major and CampusU representative for A&M, said students have been emailing in and lining up for tickets to the screening of the film for the past two weeks.
The Aggie Screenwrit-ing, Acting and Movie Pro-duction Club assisted Kassul in screening the movie.
Martin Hinojosa, mem-ber of Aggie SWAMP club and educational technology graduate student, said he hopes A&M continues to be seen as a destination for such film promotional tours.
“I can hope that other studios will take note of this growing population of moviegoers,” Hinojosa said.
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Christopher Mintz-Plasse, at Rudder to promote his film, poses with a portrait painted by a fan.
Magazine writer stretches limits of traditional
journalism
SEARCH FOR ‘HOOPLA’
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Allison Rubenak, lifestyles editor, sits down with Skip Hollandsworth, award-winning journalist and executive editor at Texas Monthly, who spoke on campus Wednesday. In 1998, Hollandsworth wrote “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas,” which was later turned into the 2011 film, Bernie.
THE BATTALION: Did you grow up in a small town? When did you discover that you were drawn to small town stories?
HOLLANDSWORTH: I grew up in Wichita Falls, which is not a small town, it was a city of about 90,000 when I was there. But my hero growing up was Larry McMurtry, the famous novelist who wrote Lonesome Dove. When I was a boy,
they were shooting the movie ‘The Last Picture Show,’ it’s a famous movie from the early ’70s and they shot some of the movie in Wichita Falls and I would go stare at McMurtry — this nerdy cattleman’s son who had become this nationally famous novelist, and I thought that’s what I wanted to do. I can’t explain why I am drawn to these stories, but I love looking for small town hoopla.
THE BATTALION: What sparked your interest specifi cally for long-form narrative journalism?
With the announcement of the Spring 2014 grant recipients, the Ag-gie Green Fund Advisory Board al-located about $233,000 to nine dif-ferent sustainability projects around campus.
The board has been allocating funds since 2011, and the money comes from the university advance-ment fee.
Sophia Mora, student intern at the office of sustainability and freshman business honors major, said the nine projects include, among others, fund-ing for the Big Belly recycling bins and water filling stations and a “visual recycling” program in the chemistry department that uses a color-coded system to guide people as to what is recyclable.
Another organization benefitting
Green Fund awards campus grantsJennifer ReileyThe Battalion
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sustainability
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Journalist Skip Hollandsworth speaks Wednesday on campus.
See Hollandsworth on page 3
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Pros and cons of e-cig use, as provided by Dr. David Teller of Beutel.
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The Aggies will continue through the SEC base-
ball gauntlet Thursday as they head to Starksville, Miss., to take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the first of a three-game series.
A&M will take the dia-mond at Dudy Noble Field sporting a record of 25-17, including a conference
ledger of 8-10. Thusday’s game against the No. 21 Bull-dogs will be the third-straight game against an opponent ranked in the top 25.
The Bulldogs (27-15, 10-8 SEC) own a 10-8 all-time se-ries edge over the Aggies, in-cluding victories in the last six meetings between the two. Last season, MSU toppled the Aggies in all four contests be-tween the two programs on its way to a spot in the cham-pionship series of the College World Series.
MSU is batting .270 as a team, including a .372 on base percentage and .333 slugging percentage. Led by
Brett Pirtle, with a .338 bat-ting average, 25 runs and 18 RBIs, the Bulldogs boast four players hitting above the .300 mark.
Thursday’s pitching matchup will pit A&M’s Tyler Stubblefield against MSU’s right-hander, Trevor Fitts.
Stubblefield’s 3.45 ERA is second on the team to Gray-son Long’s 2.44. Thursday will be Stubblefield’s ninth career start. In his previous eight starts, Stubblefield owns a record of 3-0 with a 2.62 ERA and 40 strikeouts in 38 innings of work.
Fitts (2-2) has started in all
10 of his appearances this year and is the owner of a 3.30 ERA in 43.2 innings pitched.
Junior Aggie infielder Blake Allemand enters Thursday’s conference matchup riding a 18-game streak reaching base. During that span, Allemand has produced a .464 batting average and currently sits atop the squad with an on-base percentage of .410.
Following Thursday’s 6:30 p.m. first pitch, the series will continue on Friday and Saturday. Friday’s game is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. while Saturday’s first pitch is expected for 2:15 p.m.
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Junior infielder
Blake Allemand
(left) takes a swing during
A&M’s 4-3 victory
against Florida.
Freshman pitcher Tyler Stubblefield
is projected to pitch
Thursday.
The Texas A&M track team will be traveling to
Franklin Field in Philadelphia for the 120th Penn Relay Car-nival Thursday through Satur-day where the Aggies will be defending 12 first-place fin-ishes from 2013.
The Aggie women are cur-rently ranked No. 1 by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and will try to re-peat their wins in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays. They have won the 4x100 five consecu-tive seasons at Penn.
Olivia Ekpone and LaQue Moen-Davis will defend their titles in the 100 meters and long jump, respectively.
A&M men have moved up in the rankings, overtaking Arkansas to claim the No. 3 spot. They will be defending titles in the 4x200 and 4x400 relays and Wayne Davis II will try for a repeat victory in the 110 hurdles.
With a time of 1:31.82 in their victory at the Texas Relays last month, the Aggie men’s 4x200 team is the cur-rent collegiate leader.
Another A&M group will participate in the Bobcat Clas-sic at Texas State in San Mar-cos Friday and Saturday. The Aggies top men and women throwers will compete, in-cluding Shelbi Vaughan, Jill Hydrick and Dalton Rowan.
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Junior sprinter Olivia Ekpone launches off the blocks at the SEC Indoor Championships at Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium.
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From the trademark mustache to otherworldly futuristic inventions, students were emerged in the sur-real world of Salvador Dali.
The Visual Arts Committee hosted “Salvador Dali: His Image and Imagi-nations” Wednesday in the Reynolds Arts Gallery. The show exhibited both mixed media pieces from Dali and the iconic collaborative photog-raphy with Philippe Halsman. The show, now a year in the making, fi-nally became a reality when the VAC received the collection from the Uni-versity of Colorado.
Amy Arndt, programming ex-ecutive for VAC and sophomore English and psychology major, said they chose Dali to keep up the suc-cessful momentum VAC had been experiencing since the reopening of the MSC. Arndt said by using a widely popularized artist, they were sure to draw in a large crowd.
“Using a high-profile artist draws in more students and draws in peo-ple from outside of the University,” Arndt said. “So that’s sort of our goal — to bring together students and the community for art. When you have someone as popular as Dali, it draws in people that maybe don’t know as much about art. That is a really great segue for them to learn more.”
Dali’s surrealistic style was shown
through his use of otherworldly forms and predictions of futuristic technology in the pieces that were featured. Eric Clausen, advisor for VAC, said Dali’s surrealism was an extension of another art movement.
“To put it simply, surrealism came from dada,” Clausen said. “Dada is centered around things that are illogical and insensible — so art by accident.”
Arndt said Dali could be seen as a visionary who explored the surreal-ist style that was not common when he emerged onto the art scene.
“His work really wasn’t the style that was popular during his time,” Arndt said. “So for him to publish things like that is more revolution-ary than I think he gets credit for.”
Denise Carlos, sophomore foren-sic and investigative sciences major, had her first experience with Dali’s lesser-known works Wednesday. Carlos said she was surprised by the vast difference of the displayed works when compared to Dali’s fa-mous melting clocks.
“My first impressions of the piec-es were crazy and random,” Carlos said. “I never knew he did other works. I only knew the melting clocks. These pieces almost seem childish.”
It was exactly this vast difference in work that intrigued Jose Espi-noza, senior environmental geosci-ences major.
“To me, it’s interesting,” Espi-noza said. “I had never seen this side of him before. Famous artists sometimes get pinned down to one painting, so it’s interesting to see a different side of him.”
Nicole Copeland, sophomore biomedical sciences major, said for her, Dali’s fame overshadowed his own art. However, Copeland said she found a connection with the technical practicality of his pieces.
“Sometimes it’s the artist that intrigues me more than the art,” Copeland said. “His art wasn’t my
favorite, but the thought behind his painting — it’s realistic ideas, not just art. It’s art with a purpose.”
Although Halsman’s input was overlooked by many visitors, Clau-sen said Halsman’s work with Dali was a feat due to the limited tech-nology at the time of their creation.
“I think all of the work is great,” Clausen said. “The photographs are some of the most iconic works of his. Halsman’s work with Dali was interesting because of all the alter-ing. You have to remember this was before Photoshop.”
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is in some cases a good first step to quit smoking.
“It is similar to the nicotine patches in that this is a replace-ment for cigarettes without the tar and toxins of real cigarettes,” Teller said. “A person that wants to quit may be able to use this as a bridge to quitting completely.”
Still, Teller said nicotine is a toxin and can be purchased for e-cigarettes in much higher con-centrations than found in normal cigarettes. Teller said the grow-ing popularity could also encour-age younger people to use them, potentially serving as a gateway to other tobacco products.
An e-cigarette user, junior so-ciology major Syd McIntire said he originally smoked in the “tra-ditional way” but found that he felt healthier with e-cigarettes.
“Just from a personal stand-point, my lungs feel healthier, I can work out a lot longer, I can run a lot farther and it’s been an overall positive experience for me,” McIntire said. “The cool thing about the vape is I don’t need to sit there and smoke a whole one to justify buying it, I can just take a couple of puffs on my way to class and put it back in my pocket.”
Chemistry major Mark Goloby said he never habitually smoked cigarettes but now takes at least a few puffs from an e-cig-arette daily. Goloby said though there are a variety of reasons why e-cigarettes are better to smoke than cigarettes, he also does it for aesthetics and convenience.
Goloby said as long as e-cig-arette users aren’t creating obvi-ous distractions with their clouds of vapor, there is no reason why they should be held under the same regulations as cigarettes.
“You’re not going to get can-cer from an e-cigarette, there’s no second-hand smoke from an e-cigarette, there’s not even an unappealing odor from smoking e-cigarettes,” Goloby said. “All the reasons why they should be regulated kind of go out the window in this case because they’re all health-based reasons.”
McIntire said the increasing use of e-cigarettes on campus can be attributed to two groups — those looking to e-cigarettes as an alternative to smoking and those who are simply drawn to the appeal of it.
“On some level, people who smoke cigarettes or smoke other forms of tobacco and are looking for a way to diminish the harm-ful effects done to their bodies, but I’ve also seen it’s becoming trendy,” McIntire said. “It’s not one of those things that I think is going to go away, but I do believe that people who are looking for a vice without the detriments of truly having one will turn to a vape just to get the experience of smoking without any of the negative effects.”
HOLLANDSWORTH: It would be reading Texas Monthly back in college. I had never seen stories that were that long, and they broke the rules. I did a lot of straight reporting at the [Daily Skiff, student newspaper of TCU], and I think it’s important to do straight reporting — you learn how to do shoe-letter work and you can’t make these stories work unless you accumulate the facts. I tell a lot of college kids to go to the newspapers. They think newspapers are passe but people still read newspapers, there’s still jobs that get open and you can do a lot of things. There used to be things called Sunday magazines in the Sunday newspaper and I would write for the Dallas Morning News Sunday magazine because I loved narratives. This is during the time that there was writing called new journalism going on and Tom Wolfe was writing books and Esquire tried things and Texas Monthly was letting their writers sort of meander away from the story and then come back, so I was really fascinated by all of that. I was just a puppy in that world peeing over everyone.
THE BATTALION: From start to finish, what do you enjoy most about the writing process?
HOLLANDSWORTH: The start. I love the reporting, I hate the writing. Because I’m not a facile writer — I’m not someone
who can just knock out a phrase — it’s a struggle for me. But I love talking to people and love getting them to open up and say things. So that part is the most fun for me.
THE BATTALION: You’ve written many crime stories, which often features content that is grisly in nature. How do you handle writing about these difficult subjects?
HOLLANDSWORTH: I’m able to separate myself from these stories. The only one that I was never able to separate myself from was a story titled “The Lost Boys” about a man who was abducting boys exactly around my age from a neighborhood in Houston, back in the early ’70s. So these boys were 10, 12 — my age back then. And then when I went and did the story a few years ago, I went and found the parents and I found some of these mothers whose grief never left. And I just thought it was a very emotional experience for me because I kept thinking about my own mother and that’s how she would have been if I had been abducted and killed.
THE BATTALION: What was your experience like being on the set of Bernie, which you helped co-write and was based on the article that you had written, Midnight in the Garden of East Texas?
HOLLANDSWORTH: I couldn’t tell while watching the movie if it was going to be funny. It was the first time that I had watched a movie get filmed, so I would
see all these things going on and I would think, ‘This isn’t going to work.’ But somehow in the magic of moviemaking those things turned out to be uproariously funny. So I was surprised at how complicated it is to shoot a film, even how complicated it is to shoot a simple scene.
THE BATTALION: What characteristics and what content do you look for when searching to write a new story?
HOLLANDSWORTH: It’s a very simple question: How did that happen? How did he do that? How did she become a bank robber? How did he open up the world’s greatest rodeo store? It’s when I become absorbed with that question, that simple question that drives this engine for me and then I try to recreate the story so that I make the reader start flying through the sentences trying to figure out the same way I did. How did this happen? It’s just the nature of curiosity.
THE BATTALION: Do you have any advice for young and aspiring long-form narrative journalists?
HOLLANDSWORTH: Well, it’s to find one story and work on it for months. The first story I wrote for Texas Monthly was about a women’s bass fishing tournament. I went out and got the quotes and looked at how they did these kinds of stories and looked at how they did the structure, but I didn’t rush it. You find one great story, and everybody probably knows, in the business, just work on it a little bit at a time.
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What are the facts?While the BDS movement uses highly emotive
language in their appeals for support—such as “endingrepression” and “Israeli war crimes”—a closer look atthe real motives of the movement reveals a moresinister goal.
First, note that the BDS movement focuses only onalleged war crimes and repression by Israel—andignores real war crimes andtyrannical repression by otherMiddle Eastern nations andterrorist organizations. WhenHamas and Hizbollah targetthousands of rockets at Israelicivilian populations in violation of international law,BDS utters not a word of criticism, let alone a call forboycotts or sanctions. When Iran’s governmentviolently crushes peaceful protests and Egypt stifles itspress and political opposition with a dictatorial hand,BDS is likewise silent. Why?
By singling out Israel for criticism and economicpressure, BDS employs a double standard—ahypocritical and dishonest tactic frequently used byanti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate groups.
The reason, as we’ll see, is that the BDS movement isnot really interested in alleged war crimes or repression.Rather its purpose is to delegitimize and then destroyIsrael.
The second critical fact about the BDS movement isthat while it masquerades behind words like “freedom”and “occupation,” one need only listen closely to itsrhetoric to realize that these are code words for theelimination of Israel.
BDS leaders oppose a two-state solution—why?While the United States, Western European powers,Israel and the U.N. Security Council have embraced a“two-state solution” as the basis for peace in the MiddleEast, BDS leaders, such as Ali Abunimah and OmarBarghouti, are clear: They openly and outspokenlyoppose a two-state solution. Why?
Because when BDS supporters talk about “theoccupation of Palestine,” they refer not to disputedWest Bank territories, but to all the land between theJordan River and the Mediterranean Sea—including allof Israel. When they talk about “freedom,” they don’tmean freedom from security roadblocks, they meanfreedom from Jews in their midst. When they talkabout “occupation,” they mean not just Israeli security
forces in the West Bank, they also mean Israelis“occupying” the state of Israel.
The third telling fact about the BDS movement isthat it consistently and vehemently opposes any effortsto bring Israelis and Palestinians together to work inpeace and on peace. For example, BDS leaders advocateboycotting cultural exchanges between Israelis andPalestinian artists. They condemn educational
cooperation between Israeliand Palestinian universities.Most revealingly, they opposepeace talks between Israeland the Palestinianleadership, calling them
“collaborationist.” BDS is not about “occupation.” In short, BDS is not
about peaceful coexistence or ending the “occupation”of the West Bank. Indeed, Omar Barghouti, a graduatestudent at Tel Aviv University and BDS founder, admits,“If the occupation ends . . . would that end support forBDS? No it wouldn’t—no.”
Not only do BDS leaders admit this, but theyimplacably support the “return” of nearly five milliondescendants of Arab refugees who left during Israel’swar of independence in 1947. In fact, most of thesePalestinians are not truly refugees—fully 95 percent ofthem have never set foot in Israel.
Most importantly, the immigration of millions ofArab refugees’ descendants to Israel would make Jewsa minority in their own state. As President Obama hascorrectly noted, “The ‘right of return’ would extinguishIsrael as a Jewish state, and that’s not an option.” Yetdestroying Israel by flooding it with millions ofPalestinians is precisely what BDS leader Barghoutiinsists upon: “This (the right of return) is somethingwe cannot compromise on.”
BDS’s goal: “Extinguish Israel as a Jewish state.”BDS unequivocally rejects Israel’s many peace offers—including numerous land-for-peace proposalssupported by the United States—and rejects Israel’swillingness to sit down to direct peace talks withoutpreconditions.
Thus, the facts make BDS’s intentions clear: Ratherthan being a movement that seeks peace and freedom,it is a movement motivated by an obsessive hate ofZionism and Jews and opposition to the Jewish state—one bent on fomenting strife, conflict and enmity untilIsrael is utterly defeated.
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Does it stand for Middle East peace or does it seek Israel’s destruction?
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Regent Buzbee donates $1 million to law school
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The law firm of Anthony “Tony” Buzbee, Class of 1990 and Texas A&M Uni-versity System regent, donat-ed a $1 million endowment to Texas A&M University School of Law this month, the school announced Wednesday.
Buzbee said this was a good time to donate since the law school is still new and rising in the ranks.
“I’m just trying to jump-start the campaign for the law school,” Buzbee said. “The Board of Regents is very happy to have a law school now — it’s been a long time coming — and I think each one of us is doing what we can to make sure it’s fully integrated into the Aggie system and we are going to leverage the Aggie brand and all the other things that make our school great, so hopeful-ly we will have a great law school as well.”
The funds will go to the new law school dean once he or she is chosen, Buzbee
said, who can then use the money for the betterment of the school.
“This will be a fund for the dean, so it can be used as the new dean sees fit, wheth-er it be for marketing or any programs the dean wants to use it for, but it’s specifically designated for whoever fills the chair of the dean of the law school,” Buzbee said.
Buzbee said the donation encourages the law school to choose the best dean to use that money.
“It encourages us to get the best dean we can get and I think we are going to do that, and secondly it helps the dean in his or her prima-ry interests, which we would expect would be to advance the law school,” Buzbee said. “Anything we can do that increases the prestige of the law school is going to help every student that attends there — specifically in get-ting jobs after.”
Aric Short, law school in-terim dean, said this endow-ment will provide resources for the expansion of pro-gramming, the improvement
of education quality and fac-ulty scholarship.
Short said the endowment is an excellent way to end the law school’s first academic year.
“It’s been a year of incred-ible transformation for the law school and I think this is a wonderful way to finish up the first academic year of the Texas A&M law school,” Short said.
Shawn Johnson, Class of 2010 and first-year law stu-dent, will intern with the Buzbee Law Firm at the end of the summer. Johnson said he hopes the generous do-nation will go toward the programs and curriculum to help raise the prestige of the new law school.
“I just hope it helps grow the law school, make it bet-ter, whether that means a wider curriculum or whether it’s a smaller student to fac-ulty member ratio,” Johnson said. “Really, whatever it is, I admire what Mr. Buzbee is doing, trying to help get A&M as a top-ranked law school.”
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Texas A&M will receive a visit from Cu-ban poet Reina María Rodríguez Thursday afternoon as she presents a selection of her own works to Evans Library.
Rodríguez, who was born in Havana just a few years before the start of the Cuban revo-lution, uses her poetry to advocate for cul-tural spaces not policed by the state.
Rodríguez received the Pablo Neruda Iberia-America Poetry Award Tuesday af-ternoon, said Anton duPlessis, curator of the Colonial Mexican Collection at Cushing Memorial Library. This can be considered one of the highest awards a Spanish-speaking poet can win, he said.
DuPlessis said it’s rare to have a major poet visit A&M and present their work for the school’s collection, which is why he encour-
aged students to attend the event.“It’s unusual of course, one to have a ma-
jor poet here on campus, particularly some-one who is from Cuba, and so she had to get permission to travel from Cuba to the United States,” duPlessis said. “One of the big things she is known for is advocating having rooftop readings and discussion if you will, clamoring for where people have cultural events that are not controlled by the state.”
From a political standpoint, duPlessis said Rodríguez is an engaging speaker as she re-acts against the controlled system she grew up in.
“Here’s a chance to see someone who is, you know, very well-known for being rec-ognized for that, while being in a system of controlled regime,” duPlessis said. “She is agitating against that.”
The event will be in Evans Library at 4 p.m. Thursday.
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a really cool experience and I’m glad people got to see that side of her.”
Cobb said she received a preliminary call from Dege-neres’ producers on April 14. When she received the second call three days later, she said she “screamed like a school girl.”
Cobb said being asked to appear on Ellen was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. She said she always admired the talk show host not just for humor, but also for her ability to “pay it forward.”
“I just love that kind of per-son she is,” Cobb said. “To be on her show — I would have been happy to be in the audi-ence, and the fact that I could be there with my family made it that much more memorable. I just will never forget it.”
Parkman said her mom be-gan putting a twist on flight safety instructions early in her career. Humor and positivity are a part of Cobb’s personal-ity that shows through in her job, Parkman said.
“She’s funny, like, that act she does on the plane, it’s not scripted,” Parkman said. “She’s like that in real life.”
As a flight attendant, every-one is trained a particular way and taught the same protocols.
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However, many flight atten-dants put their own spin on safety, Cobb said.
“Some sing, some rap — you know, everybody has their thing and we’re able to do that as long as we get the point across and as long as we’re safe, we can still have a good time,” Cobb said.
Cobb said one of the rea-sons she uses humor at the be-ginning of a flight is to break up the monotony for those who travel often and to attract
the patron’s attention. “It makes people listen to it
more, not just something we do all day, everyday,” Cobb said. “People that fly a lot — it kind of goes in one ear and out the other. To be able to make it fun does make people listen to it a little bit more.”
Parkman said flying on an airplane can often create anxi-ety and the instructions pro-vide a distraction from any uneasiness the passenger might be feeling.
“At the end, one woman came up and said that her mother or her son had passed away and she was dreading flying,” Parkman said. “Be-cause of my mom it made the experience so much bet-ter. She definitely knows how to lighten the mood because flying can be scary and a very stressful situation.”
Cobb said she has always felt like attitude is a choice. She said she tells her children that even if they are not work-
ing their dream job, it is im-portant to perform a job well.
“One of my favorite sayings is, ‘You can’t always choose where you work, but you can choose how you work,’” Cobb said. “I think that your attitude and the way that you react — you never know why people are traveling and just to sometimes smile and listen and reach out to people, it makes such a difference.”
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from the grants is Howdy Farm, which has two proj-ects being funded. Mora said one project will allow the farm to hire and pay a volunteer coordinator.
Corey Wahl, agricultural research technician and staff advisor for Howdy Farm, said the grant will be beneficial to improving the farm in other ways, such as assisting the gar-den after its move from its original location.
“Since the farm had to move locations because of the new dorms that are going in, it re-ally stalled us because we went two semesters without hardly making any money from selling vegetables because we didn’t have enough space and we were trying to move,” Wahl said. “This grant money is re-ally going to help us get back in the swing of things and get some money flowing in so that we can plan future projects and future research for students and expand the farm.”
Now that the grants have been allocated, Mora said the board will stay in touch to mon-itor the progress of each project.
“Each grant is assigned an Aggie Green Fund advisory member who is sort of in charge with managing and keeping up with how the project is going along its path,” Mora said.
Kelly Wellman, university
sustainability officer and advi-sor for the committee, said the grant money allows sustain-ability projects to remain active on campus.
“The grants provide the op-portunity for environmental change to happen, so what I mean by that it’s a tough finan-cial environment right now, and the seed money from the Aggie Green Fund allows for projects to happen that might otherwise not be allocated for funding,” Wellman said.
Wellman said the Office of Sustainability has used funds to install water bottle filling sta-tions on campus, and the fund has acted as a catalyst for oth-er buildings to install stations as well.
“We have installed 20 from Aggie Green Fund, but due to popularity, success and demand, other buildings have installed them on their own,” Wellman said. “It kind of serves as that spark. It gives people a chance to try something out, see if it’s going to be effective and fea-sible, desirable and then it goes from there.”
Wellman said there are limi-tations as to which projects can be funded by the grant.
“The project has to impact the Texas A&M campus,” Wellman said. “You couldn’t apply for a project and it be in one of the cities and not impact Texas A&M. It is designed to be a local improvement for our campus.”
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