University seeks Loftin’s replacementStudent Body President Reid Joseph said Monday
that a committee is being formed to find a new University president for when current President R. Bowen Loftin steps down in January.
The committee will begin looking for a candidate that encompasses the six core values of Texas A&M.
“There is going to be a search committee formed and President Loftin did mention that students would have an input,” Joseph said. “I’m going to make sure of that. The committee will present to the Board of Regents, who will have final say.”
Joseph said there is no time frame for the hiring of the next president and said he “would not be surprised at all” if there is no decision by January.
“It may very well be that we may have an interim as we continue to try and name a president,” Joseph said. “That’s purely speculation, it will be a thorough and thought out process.”
Joseph said he was notified of Loftin’s resignation Thurs-day when he was prompted to attend a meeting Friday where Loftin announced his
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Kyle Field is not only the home of the Aggies, but a representation of the Aggie Spirit to rivals and
guests alike. Future renovations to the in-side and outside of the field will not only memorialize the Aggie experience, but also display the Aggie Spirit to the rest of the world.
On Wednesday, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs (VPSA) asked current students to offer their assistance in the renovations by applying to model for the War Hymn Memorial, a statue depict-ing a diverse group of the 12th Man “saw-ing varsity’s horns off,” to be built outside the east side of the stadium. Applications will close at noon on Tuesday, and the me-morial will tentatively be finished for the start of the 2014 football season.
Sam Torn, co-chair of the Kyle Field redevelopment committee, said the memorial was a way of honoring the unique spirit of the student body at
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Texas A&M. “The east side of the stadium at Texas
A&M is of course very unique in that we allocate 31,000 student tickets on the east side of the stadium for the 12th Man, which you won’t find anywhere else in the coun-try,” Torn said. “We wanted the exterior of the east side of the stadium to tell the
story of the student experience and Aggie football.”
To adequately portray what he called the unique Texas A&M experience, Torn said the committee decided the best way to honor the 12th Man would be to have a
Image shows a conceptual rendering of the War Hymn Memorial. The memorial will be constructed for the renovated Kyle Field using 12 Texas A&M students to depict the 12th Man “sawing varsity’s horns off.”
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COLLEGE STATION (AP) — Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor stemming from a 2012 bar fight near campus, closing a case that had dogged his Heisman Trophy-winning season.
Manziel admitted he failed to identify him-self to police following the altercation. As part of a plea deal, other charges against the 20 year old, including disorderly conduct, were dismissed.
Brazos County Attorney Rod Anderson said Manziel was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine, about $230 in court costs and was credited with the overnight jail time he served following his arrest.
Police said an officer on bike patrol had intervened to break up a fight between Man-ziel and Marvin McKinney just after 2 a.m. last summer on a street of Northgate. McK-inney told police that a friend of Manziel’s had called him a racial slur. He said Manziel shoved McKinney as he approached the two,
and then they exchanged punches.When officers asked Manziel for an ID, he
produced a phony Louisiana driver’s license that showed a fabricated birth date. Police checked Manziel’s wallet and found two more ID cards — a fake Texas driver’s license and Manziel’s real driver’s license.
The quarterback dubbed Johnny Foot-ball piled up 4,600 total yards last season and helped the Aggies knock off No. 1 Alabama on the road. He became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy and has continued to garner headlines in the offseason.
He has been famously photographed party-ing and gambling, and even his decision to take classes online last semester became con-troversial. Manziel said his decision to limit himself exclusively to the virtual classroom was a reaction to the attention he was receiv-ing on campus, though he expects to return to regular classes this summer and next fall.
The Texas A&M Health Science Center was formally added to Texas A&M Uni-
versity on Monday in connection to a move that was authorized in August by the Univer-sity System Board of Regents.
The move followed a multi-step process of approvals with the complete execution of the transition expected to be completed in the next year.
“Today marks the culmination of nearly one year of careful planning and coordina-tion aimed at placing Texas A&M in a unique collaborative and competitive position that realizes the extensive academic and scien-tific opportunities made possible through the merging of two leaders in biomedical education and discoveries,” said University
President R. Bowen Loftin in a statement. “Together as one, we are now poised to of-fer a new model for education and research in the health sciences for the state of Texas.”
Senior economics major, Marsh Miller, is a student worker in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies in the Health Science Center. He said from his experiences stu-dents in the Health Science Center will enjoy
gaining more access to luxuries and rewards available to other A&M students.
“The main difference for students regard-ing the merger with the Health Science Cen-ter is students will now be able to order Aggie Rings, sports passes and participate in Texas A&M organizations,” Miller said. “I believe it is great for the students and adds a lot of high-income alumni for the University.”
The Board of Regents approved the estab-lishment of the center in September of 1997 and began operation in September of 1999.
Loftin looked back on the early days of the Health Science Center in 1999 to compare how far the two programs have come to this merger.
“Our institutions have enjoyed a strong working relationship since the Health Sci-ence Center’s inception in 1999, with nu-merous joint projects and several of its pro-grams housed on main campus,” Loftin said. “So while we officially welcome our new faculty, staff and students to the Aggie family, this transition actually represents a strength-ening of the already robust academic experi-ence and research environment.”
The Health Science Center now has
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Approaching a landmark population of 100,000, Col-lege Station continues to grow into a thriving and
booming community.The city of College Station has consistently been close
to approaching the 100,000 people mark, but recent growth shows the milestone could be reached in the next 2-3 months.
According to the most recent census collected in 2010 by the United States Census Bureau, College Station’s population sat at 93,857 people.
Morgan Hester, staff planner in the Planning and Development Services Department of College Station, said the actual population count is not always able to be
exactly reflected due to the number of “outstanding” temporary Residential Certificate of Occupancies (COs) given to certain building and complexes.
“The Cottages opened last year and were issued tem-porary COs, so those numbers haven’t been fully ac-counted for even though they’ve been living there a year,” Hester said.
The population total is determined by the national average household size (2.38) provided by the Census Bureau, multiplied by the total number of Residential Certificate of Occupancies (COs) and occupancy rate collected by each city.
A residential building attains a Certificate of Occu-pancy once the development has been inspected and
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After years of hovering near a population of 100,000 people, the city of College Station could reach the landmark within 2 to 3 months as new students ,move in. See Population on page 2
Johnny Manziel pleads guilty to 2012 ‘failure to identify’ chargesports
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Heisman-winning quarterback Johnny Manziel is crowded by reporters and cameras during the initial practice of spring training. Manziel made headlines Monday after he pleaded guilty to a 2012 misdemeanor.
The main difference for students regarding the merger with the Health Science Center is students will now be able to order Aggie Rings, sports passes and participate in Texas A&M organizations. I believe it is great for the students and adds a lot of high-income alumni for the University.”
— Marsh Miller, student worker in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies in the Health Science Center.
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cleared to live in. However, not every struc-ture is considered one CO. Group Quarters, such as University residence halls, are consid-ered multi-unit structures.
While campus population is not deter-mined by College Station’s Planning and Development Office, they do receive the “average household size” — residence halls included — and can then determine its population.
Therefore, on-campus residents are in-cluded into the total population count.
Hester said a contributing factor to the influx in population can be attributed to the construction in the Northgate area with a significant number of future COs emerging from the Rise at Northgate and The Stack, new apartment complexes near Northgate.
“Northgate development is really popu-lar right now,” Hester said. “There are also smaller developments going on. Everything adds a few numbers.”
Meredith Malnar, program coordinator for New Student Programs at A&M, esti-mated that A&M would gain 10,200 fresh-man and 2,000 transfer students with the Fall 2013 semester.
Hester said a larger population will bring “definite positives,” such as more part-time jobs for students and an overall increased workforce.
“It’s attractive for businesses to [be] locat-ed here — knowing that [where] you have a concentration of people, you have a market and product base,” said Hester, mentioning that many franchise opportunities require a certain population base in order for them to be built in an area.
Evan Carlton, junior chemical engineering major, said he thinks an increase in popula-tion will help local business as well.
“I feel like the more students we have, the more businesses are going to thrive,” Car-leton said. “It’s going to impact the commu-nity in a good way.”
However, with more people, transporta-tion time has concerned some of the students of Texas A&M.
“It takes so long for someone to get home, whether you’re on a bus or in a car,” said Kimberly Hargrave, junior mathematics ma-jor. “If you want to go somewhere you’re out of luck.”
Hester said that with Bryan being consid-ered a “twin city” to College Station, a popu-lation increase would also attract more tour-ists to areas like historic Downtown Bryan.
“If people are coming in town they have no idea what the city boundaries are,” Hester said. “What happens to one city is what hap-pens to the other. When one is growing the other one is too.”
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memorial of 12 students in the “saw ’em off” pose. The statue, he said, would be more than artwork and serve to “anchor the story” of Texas A&M students.
Joel Wakefield, junior aerospace en-gineering major, filled out an applica-tion to participate in the project. He said using the Aggie War Hymn was the perfect way to memorialize the stu-dent body.
“Honestly, I can’t think of anything better,” Wakefield said. “When I’m watching an Aggie game — or doing anything Aggie related — and the [War Hymn] comes on, no matter who’s to my left or to my right I find myself draw-ing close together with my fellow stu-dents as we all shout aloud in supporting our school.”
Torn said the committee asked the VPSA for assistance in finding 12 stu-dents to represent the student body and model for the sculptor, who Torn said would be selected in the next week or two.
“What we’re trying to accomplish through the help of the University is to depict the 12th Man as it actually ex-ists at Texas A&M, a group of students reflecting the diversity of Texas A&M
who all come together within the Ag-gie Spirit at football games,” Torn said.
Tom Reber, an associate vice presi-dent of Student Affairs, said a commit-tee of faculty, students and staff will help choose the 12 students who will participate in the project. Reber said 3,000 to 5,000 applicants are expected.
The models will be asked to come to College Station for initial photo-graphs within the next several weeks, Torn said. They will be wearing “game day attire” and pose as if they are “saw-ing varsity’s horns off” during the War Hymn.
The only things that will not be du-plicated by the sculptor are the models’ faces, Reber said.
“The statue’s not intended to be rep-resentative of the individual students,” Reber said. “So, you shouldn’t walk by it and go, ‘Oh, that’s Mary Smith from my biology class.’ It’s supposed to
be 12 models who represent the entire 12th Man.”
Even though the statue won’t be in-dividualized, Wakefield said he would be thrilled to be part of the project.
“It would be awesome to be made into a statue for any reason, but to represent the entire 12th Man would be a great honor, to say the least,” Wakefield said.
Reber said he thought allowing stu-dents to fill out applications to partici-pate in the project would increase mo-mentum early for the fall semester and the 2013 football season.
“I really thought this would be a good opportunity to get the students excited about coming back to school and the new football season, because you know July is kind of a slow month for athletics,” Reber said. “I thought this would be a good time to see what sort of interest we see from students.”
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“Over the coming months we’ll be working to appropriately integrate systems and processes across a number of departments, while maintaining the
Health Science Center’s distinct orga-nizational identity as a health-related institution of the state,” said E.J. Ped-erson, interim executive vice president and chief executive officer for Texas A&M Health Science Center, in a statement. “Bringing the health science center under the University umbrella creates prospects for interdisciplinary programs in health and life sciences, as well as allowing extended research col-laborations across the expansive Texas
A&M network of scientists.”The six colleges within the Health
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Honestly, I can’t think of anything better. When I’m watching an Aggie game — or doing anything Aggie related — and the fight song comes on, no matter who’s to my left or to my right I find myself drawing close together with my fellow students as we all shout aloud in supporting our school.”
— Joel Wakefield, junior aerospace engineering major
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However, no Israelis are being transferred to thesettlements—all are moving to them voluntarily. Also,the areas of the settlements are neither under thelegitimate sovereignty of any state, nor on private Arabland. Most importantly, they have never displaced anylegitimate Arab inhabitants. What’s more, any
instances of illegal Israelihomes in the West Bank havebeen disallowed by the IsraeliHigh Court and dismantled.
Second, no PalestinianArabs are being deportedfrom their places of residenceto any other place. Third, theGeneva Convention applies to
actions by a signatory “carried out on the territory ofanother.” However, the West Bank is not the territoryof a signatory power—since the Palestinians havenever had a state—but rather is an unallocated part ofthe British Mandate.
If Arabs can live in Israel, why can Jews not live ina future Palestinian state? Every effort by Israel andthe United States to bring the Palestinians to peacenegotiations is met with refusal by the Palestinians,who demand as a pre-condition that 1) Israel give upall rights to Judea and Samaria, including thesettlements, and 2) that all Jewish settlement buildingcease. Given that the Arabs lost the war in 1967 andthat Palestinians have never possessed Judea andSamaria (the West Bank), these preconditions seemoverreaching and unreasonable.
Indeed, the Palestinians insist that their proposednew country be entirely free of Jewish residents, evenas 1.5 million Palestinian Arabs are permitted to live asfully enfranchised citizens in Israel. What’s more, thePalestinians insist that five million descendants of Arabrefugees from Israel’s war of independence bepermitted to settle in the Jewish state. In short, theyare demanding both a new Palestinian state with noJews and the right of Arabs to take over Israeldemographically.
The only solution to the settlement issue:Negotiations. The entire territories of the West Bankare disputed. They cannot legitimately be said tobelong to the Palestinians or to Israel. Clearly, the onlyway to determine the final borders of Israel and thoseof a future Palestine is through peaceful negotiations.Likewise, the disposition of Israeli settlements andIsrael’s Jewish character will be resolved by mutualagreement.
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In short, the settlements are not the issue. The only path to a resolution to all these disagreements will be reachedwhen the Palestinians finally agree to sit down with Israel and forge realistic compromises for achieving theirown autonomous state, as well as peace and security for Israel.
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Manziel even drew attention this weekend after leaving the Manning family’s football camp in Louisiana a day early, citing illness.
“After missing and being late for some prac-tice assignments, Johnny explained that he had been feeling ill. Consequently, we agreed that it was in everyone’s best interest for him to go home a day early,” camp spokesman Greg Blackwell said Sunday.
The headlines won’t end any time soon: SEC media days are this week, as are ESPN’s ESPY Awards.
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b-csCity Council approves funding agreements for Kyle Field redevelopmentThe College Station City Council approved a pair of agreements Thursday for the Kyle Field redevelopment project by a 6-to-1 vote.
The council approved funding agreements with the Convention and Visitors Bureau securing the city’s reserve, unallocated hotel tax funds for access to Texas A&M facilities attracting large-scale events to town.
In exchange, the CVB will get preferred access to A&M meeting places like Reed Arena, the Memorial Student Center, Rudder Theatre Complex, The Zone Club and Penberthy Field.
The agreement lasts for 30 years and is expected to generate $14 million in hotel-taxes within the city that will help pay for the $450 million renovation of Kyle Field. A
0.75 percent countywide Hotel Occupancy Tax was approved in June by the state legislature and signed by the governor.
The county hotel tax and the College Station hotel tax together will provide A&M with a minimum of $36 million over the course of the agreement, according to the City of College Station.
The agreement ensures that A&M will receive the same funds for the entire 30-year term if the CVB opts out of the relationship.
The agreement comes in conjunction with the previously announced increase in student sports pass pricing to help pay for the renovations that will increase seating capacity to 102,500 seats by 2015.
To become final, the agreement has to be approved by Brazos County, the University and the Bryan-College Station Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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After missing and being late for some practice assignments, Johnny explained that he had been feeling ill. Consequently, we agreed that it was in everyone’s best interest for him to go home a day early.”
— Greg Blackwell, Manning Passing
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