ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The lat-est distraction for the Denver Broncos comes from All-Pro linebacker Von Miller, who in-sisted Monday he did nothing wrong in the face of reports he could miss four games for violating the NFL’s drug policy.
Miller will miss the first month of the sea-son for violating the NFL’s drug policy, pend-ing an appeal, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. The per-son did not want to be named because the league hasn’t announced any punishment.
ESPN first reported the pending discipline for Miller, who responded on his Twitter ac-
count, saying he had seen the reports about the four-game suspension.
“I know I did nothing wrong. I’m sure this’ll be resolved fairly,” he tweeted, adding he was disappointed the Bron-cos have to open training camp with this news hang-ing over them.
Miller and his agent didn’t return messages left by The Associated Press.
Miller played for Texas A&M from 2007 to 2010. As a junior, Miller led the nation
in sacks with 17 and was named a first-team All-American. After sitting out for the first six games his senior year, Miller came back to post 10.5 sacks and won the Butkus Award as the nation’s top linebacker.
The Broncos report to training camp Wednesday with big expectations but a growing number of off-the-field distractions, as well.
Shortly after last season’s 13-3 campaign ended with a loss to Baltimore in the division-al playoffs, none other than Miller guaranteed a Super Bowl title for Denver for the 2013 season. Then, just last week, left tackle Ryan
Clady signed a new contract and, during in-terviews to discuss the deal, said it was, “Super Bowl or bust, for the most part” for Denver.
It’s the kind of talk, at least in public, that Peyton Manning and coach John Fox disdain. It is, however, in line with what Las Vegas says (At odds ranging between 9-2 and 6-1, the Broncos are widely listed as the favorites to win the Super Bowl) as well as the roster Executive Vice President John Elway has as-sembled. He added Wes Welker to Manning’s receiving corps, shored up the line with free
Regents’ Scholarships help first-generation studentscampus
After high school seniors receive their acceptance letters, the challenge of
paying for college can sometimes become a daunting reality.
Established in 2003 under then presi-dent. Robert Gates, The Regents’ Schol-arship Program was created to alleviate financial struggles of incoming first-gen-eration college students. It allots students up to $5,000 each semester for up to four years, which can be utilized for tuition, books and room and board.
Casey Gros, coordinator of the Re-gents’ Scholars Organization, said the program will soon see its 10th cohort of students. The program impacts approxi-mately 600 students. Gros noted her ex-citement for the expected four hundred additional freshmen this fall.
“With this program, what we really aim to do is give students an opportunity to have someone here to help them and have someone point them in the right direction,”Gros said.
Heriberto Rodriguez, junior com-puter engineering major and Regents’ Scholarship recipient, said although he is a first-generation college student, he has felt “capable of succeeding” in college and “going up to those challenges and passing right through.”
“The advisors try to prepare us with seminars and workshops to touch on how to be a successful Aggie,” Rodriguez said. “They want us to have a successful expe-rience here at A&M and try to accommo-date to us as much as they can.”
The Regents’ Scholarship requires that students live on campus their first year and participate in academic success pro-grams designated by their college.
Scholarship recipients are also provided with different leadership opportunities, regionally and within the program itself.
“Our slogan is ‘pay it forward,’” Ro-driguez said. “That simply means to de-vote your time to the community.”
Abigail Martinez, junior urban
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Lea and Loftus Fitzwater donated $100,00 to establish The Fitzwater Endowed Reagents’ Scholarship, part of a program that benefits approximately 600 students.
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Von Miller faces 4-game suspension, pending appealsports
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Texas A&M’s 12th Man Foundation is facing lawsuits from Aggies in Hous-
ton and central Texas whose endowed seats at Kyle Field will be moved after the $450 million redevelopment project.
A press release Monday announced that Tom and Delma Tullos, along with the family of Chester Young and several other unnamed Aggies, are filing a lawsuit alleging breach of contract and misrepresentation by the 12th Man Foundation.
Tom and Delma Tullos endowed a $20,000 scholarship in 1994 to the 12th Man Foun-
dation and claim they were guaranteed their same seats and benefits for 30 years, without any additional payment. Under the reseating process brought about by the redevelopment project, the Tulloses would have to pay an additional $30,000 plus an “indeterminate ad-ditional amount” to keep the same seats, the press release stated.
“A deal is a deal,” said Tom Tullos, Class of 1979, in the press release. “I just want the Foundation to do the right thing, which would be to honor the agreements they made in 1994 that prompted us to endow the schol-arship. We tried to get them to do so, but they refused. As much as I regret having to sue, they left me no alternative.”
12th Man Foundation President Skip Wagner said the dispute is about seat loca-tion, not a guarantee of having a seat in the redeveloped stadium.
“We’re thankful for the shared commit-ment in the redevelopment of Kyle Field,” Wagner said. “What you’ve got is tens of thousands of people who are supportive and excited. Then you have literally a handful — one or two or three — that have chosen to go down a different road.”
Wagner said the Foundation guarantees each endowed seat holder a seat in the en-dowed seating section. That decision was made by a committee that included oth-er endowed members of the Foundation,
Wagner said.“Every endowment will be honored com-
pletely and totally,” Wagner said. “If you look at those endowment agreements they entitle people to game tickets, they entitle people to parking and they entitle people access to away game tickets. That’s not being taken away from anyone.”
Wagner said the actual seat each endowed member is given is not guaranteed by con-tract. They are guaranteed a seat in the desig-nated seating area instead.
“They are guaranteed a seat in the endowed seating area or a seat in the stadium and that
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Doors to close on health clinicAdvocates and
supporters maintain their
causes
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast an-nounced Thursday in a press release it would be closing clinics in Bryan,
Huntsville and Lufkin at the end of August, after almost a 40 year presence in the area. The announcement came as a result of an “increas-ingly hostile environment” created by the Texas Legislature, Melaney Linton, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast said in the press release.
Bobby Reynoso, the executive director for the Christian pro-life organization Coali-tion for Life of the Brazos Valley, was said he was “excited” and “ecstatic” as his phone lit up with news of the closure. The Coalition for Life of the Brazos Valley began in 1998, Reynoso said, in response to Planned Parent-hood’s announcement that they would offer abortions at their Bryan clinic.
Rochelle Tafolla, the spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, said the clo-sures of the three clinics were the result of a “devastating decision” in response to cuts in the state budget for family planning programs. In 2011, legislators voted to restrict beneficia-ries of the Texas Women’s Health Program, a Medicaid-like program for women’s repro-ductive health, from receiving free services at
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The Bryan Planned Parenthood Clinic, which provided patients with sexually transmitted diseases testing, contraception, cancer screenings and abortion services, will be closing in August after increased legislative restrictions affected the organization.
Planned Parenthood Clinics.This change in coverage resulted in a 49
percent decrease in patients served at the Bryan clinic from 2011 to 2012, Tafolla said. The coverage change, coupled with the recent passage of House Bill 2 resulted in the closure of all three clinics. The Huntsville and Lufkin locations did not provide abortions and were affected primarily by the 2011 legislature.
Yet, Reynoso said Planned Parent-
hood’s exit from the Brazos Valley specifi-cally was a result of more than the effects of restricted legislation.
“For them to just exit the scene means that their appeal in the community and the con-troversy that they’ve brought here just with their name and brand shows they realized that it wasn’t appropriate for them to maintain any kind of a presence,” Reynoso said.
Audrey Saltarelli, junior philosophy and
political science major, is a volunteer with the Coalition for Life. She serves as a sidewalk counselor, and stands outside of the Planned Parenthood clinic to provide the individuals entering the building of alternative health care clinics and options.
“The women and men around this area deserve better than Planned Parenthood,”
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agent guard Louis Vasquez and used a second-round draft pick to add Wis-consin running back Montee Ball to the mix, as well.
But not all the offseason news has been positive for the Broncos. Elway’s top two assistants, Matt Russell and Tom Heckert, are each serving suspensions after arrests on drunken driving charges
— an embarrassing run of news that de-prives the Broncos of their top personnel men at a time when personnel decisions are paramount.
The other bit of bad news for Denver this offseason was its inability to keep pass-rushing defensive lineman Elvis Dumervil because of a mix-up with a fax machine that kept the team from receiv-ing his signed contract in time.
The Broncos felt good about replac-ing Dumervil and his 11 sacks last season, but in large part, the comfort came be-
cause they had Miller, who has 30 sacks over his first two NFL seasons, lining up on the other side.
Without Miller, the Broncos defense would be missing its best pass rusher for its first four games — against Baltimore, the New York Giants, Oakland and Philadelphia. If suspended, Miller would be able to participate in all of the work-outs at training camp but would have to leave the team after its final preseason game on Aug. 29.
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For more than 10 years, researchers at Texas A&M have been trying to an-
swer a not-so-simple question of cogni-tion: what is the world like through the eyes of an infant?
Teresa Wilcox is the director of the Infant Cognition Lab and a pro-fessor of psychology at Texas A&M. The Infant Cognition Lab studies how infants perceive, interpret and use incoming information.
“Most of our research is focusing on infants’ ability to individuate objects and the ability to trace objects through space and time,” Wilcox said. “For example, a ball rolls behind the couch and comes out on the other side … when you see it again you have to decide whether it is the same ball as before or whether it is a different ball.”
Upon entering the A&M Infant Cog-nition Lab, toys and infant pictures can be seen scattered about.
During one experiment session, 13-month old Katie Harding was placed in a high chair in front of a screen. From there, the researchers played a short vid-eo for her. Using eye-tracking technol-ogy, the researchers were able to record data about how her eyes shifted when she watched the video.
“It is my third time [to come here],” said Lacy Harding, Class of 2009 and Ka-tie’s mother. “It was a lot of fun. Katie seems to have a good time. She loves to play with the toys beforehand. Ev-erybody here is really friendly. We will probably come until she is not able [to satisfy the age limit].”
Marisa Biondi, a psychology graduate student who works in the lab, said infants such as Katie can return to the lab many times until they turn 18 months old. She said the lab is lucky to have “such great parents” who are willing to bring their children back.
Biondi also talked about what makes it so special when subjects in experi-ments are all infants.
“We are dealing with pre-verbal pop-ulation, so you cannot tell babies what to do or give them instructions,” Bion-
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di said. “You have to be very creative about the type of events you show them to keep them interested and engaged. We have music, we have attention grab-bers … so [in the video] there are differ-ent colors, motions and sounds that goes along with it to keep them engaged.”
When asked about ongoing research and future directions, Wilcox said the researchers now focus more on the un-derlying neural basis of the cognitive abilities in contrast to previous studies, which have focused more on observing infants’ behaviors.
The technique used to study the underlying neural structure is called
near-infrared spectroscopy, which is a noninvasive brain imaging technique that could tell which part of the brain is activated when the infant is processing an object.
“In our lab we found, and another people found it too, that there are maybe a number of ways to go about learning things,” Wilcox said. “And if you give babies a number of different kinds of ex-periences and pay attention to … it is a matter of you knowing your baby, what they find engaging, and providing a sup-portive environment as you can.”
Aggie baby Brooke Kilmer reacts to stimuli at Texas A&M’s Infant Cognition Lab where studies take place on how infants perceive, interpret and use incoming information.
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it’s up to the 12th Man what the endowed seating area is,” he said. “You can go back in history and as we made the offer to endowed seat hold-ers who didn’t want to pay anything else could get a great seat, great location and still come to the games. Those who do want to pay more for an access to a club, they can apply their credit and get that access.”
Wagner said he is un-aware of any agreement that states seats will be guaranteed in an exact section, row or seat number.
“There’s never language like that,” he said. “Since the
whole west side is going away those seats don’t exist any-more. The stadium will be moved closer to the field and indeed if you thought about sight lines and distance from the field and all of that, they would logically be in a differ-ent location even if they were going to be the exact same distance from the sideline and height in the air.”
An unnamed, unnum-bered, group of Aggies joined the Tulloses lawsuit on July 12 represented by Houston attorney William V. Wade, Class of 1973 and longtime Foundation member and for-mer President of the Houston A&M Club.
Following too is Craig Young, Class of 1985, whose father Chester, Class of 1959,
also endowed a scholarship. His pending lawsuit against the Foundation seeks damages alleging breach of contract and breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing.
“My father and grandfa-ther (Charles, Class of 1932) would be troubled that their heirs have to litigate the Foun-dation’s breach of the endow-ment agreement,” he said in a statement. “Why would any-one want to give the 12th Man Foundation any more money after the Foundation inten-tionally broke their promises that led to the endowment and then shamelessly denies having done so?”
Wagner said Monday that the Foundation has nothing to worry about after having attorneys look at the endow-
ment agreements and pro-posed lawsuits.
“I never try to crystal ball things,” Wagner said. “What I expect to happen is we will continue with our seating process. We’ll defend our-selves vigorously if there are any lawsuits. We sure hope that doesn’t happen ultimate-ly. We’re very prepared to proceed with the reseating of Kyle Field and the project and have absolutely no reason to think we shouldn’t be able to do so.”
A press conferenece is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tues-day in downtown Houston where Tom Tullos, Young and the attorneys will dis-cuss the pending lawsuit and take questions.
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Saltarelli said. “Planned Parenthood is not there to help them. It’s there to make money. We’re providing them with other re-sources — about places that are cheaper, places that are safer, places that are easier access for them, places that are safer for babies, places that don’t perform abortions.”
Some of the patients Saltarelli might en-counter entering the clinic are students such as Athena Mason, senior biology major, who said she has been visiting Planned Parenthood clinics for education and health services since she was in high school. Though Mason had visited other clinics, she said nothing equaled her experiences with Planned Parenthood.
Whether or not they are visiting Planned Parenthood or another health care clinic, Tafolla said a woman’s annual “well woman exam” is vitally important to her overall health. Often, Tafolla said, this is the one medical visit a woman will have each year, and can be es-sential for preventative care.
“When women come to Planned Parent-hood or they go to their OB/GYN, most of-ten, that is their one visit to a medical provid-er,” Tafolla said. “That is their primary care. So they’re going to get their well woman exam, their pap test, their breast exam, but they’re also getting weighed, their getting their blood pres-sure taken, they’re getting a blood draw, their blood sugar, their diabetes screening. All of that is being covered in that well woman exam.”
Tafolla said the removal of Planned Parent-hood from the community will impact women who will not be able to receive these services. But Reynoso said there are plenty of viable op-tions for women of the Brazos Valley to receive affordable reproductive health care.
“We’re encouraged, and we hope to make sure to let people know that there are other options,” Reynoso said. “A lot of what people are hearing right now is there’s nowhere else to go, and I’m afraid people are actually going to believe that and not go somewhere here in our community. I want to make sure people are aware people can get the help they need.”
Reynoso said women can visit TexasWo-mensHealth.org for more information about providers in their area that accept the state-funded program.
Tafolla said this isn’t a viable solution. She
said the state acknowledged when the program first came out that the list provided on the web-site was not accurate, and that women trying to find a provider may be faced with a lack of ap-pointments, extended scheduling conflicts and increased costs.
Tafolla said within the Texas Legislature, much of the focus of women’s health is on reproductive health, especially abortion. This emphasis detracts from the bigger picture, she said, of health problems such as weight, blood pressure or diabetes that also affect women.
“When politicians chose to overlook those preventative measures in a visit to Planned Parenthood or a family planning clinic, then they are missing the entire story,” Tafolla said. “They’re focusing on something they chose to use as a political football. What we’ve been say-ing from the very beginning is we need to focus on women’s health and making sure women have access to that basic healthcare. That’s it.”
Texas has the highest uninsured popula-tion in the nation, and Tafolla said this in-creases the importance of the access to basic healthcare for women. Without affordable health care, she said the quality of life can be significantly lowered.
“And unfortunately for women, they’re more often likely to take care of everyone else in their family than to put their health care first,” Taffolla said. “What happens is, if they’re making a decision between paying their rent or their electric bill or putting gas in the car or going in to get their annual check-up, that an-nual check-up is probably going to be the last thing on the list.”
Reynoso also spoke about increasing the quality of life of Texas people. His focus, he said, is also on what he sees as a developing human life, which he feels the need to protect.
“They’re not donkeys, they’re not ele-phants,” he said, speaking of developing em-bryos and fetuses. “Something is growing, and that something that’s growing came from two human beings. It’s exactly where you and I were years ago in our mother’s womb. It’s a human being that’s growing. It’s developing, and it’s unique.”
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Saltarelli said she was enthused about the ces-sation of abortions in the Brazos Valley. She said it is the preservation and cherishing of life.
“There are so many lives that are going to be saved because of [the closure],” Saltarelli said. “There are no more abortions going on there, which will be awesome. That’s so much more than what we expected or what we had prayed for.”
Long term, Mason said she believes there will be increasingly negative results of the closure on men and women’s health in the community.
“There will be an increase in unintended pregnancies and STDs because people won’t have as many choices to get tested or not want to go to the student health center,” Mason said. “I think overall, over a long term, we’ll see a big increase in STDs and pregnancies.”
Even after the devastation and celebration experienced by both groups, both sides said they had no intention of reducing their efforts to promote what they believe will help Texans.
Mason, the founder and president of Pro-Choice Aggies, said the group is working now
to support Planned Parenthood. Saltarelli said the Coalition for Life exists to improve the quality of life, and though she sees the closure of the local Planned Parenthood clinic as a victory, that does not mean her work is done.
“Coalition for Life exists to help women, and just because Planned Parenthood is shut down doesn’t mean that the goal has changed at all,” Saltarelli said. “We’re still there to provide free ultrasounds, we’re still there to provide coun-seling, still there to help people no matter what they’re going through.”
Even with the closure of clinics, Taffolla said Planned Parenthood’s fight is not over either. In light of increased restrictions, she said Texas patients have become even more vocal in their support for the organization.
“We’ve been in Texas and in Houston and the southeast Texas area for nearly 80 years,” Tafolla said. “It was a very tragic decision that we have to make because of these drastic cuts, but we’re going to keep on fighting for women in Texas.”
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planning major and Regents’ Scholarship recipient, was selected to be an orientation counselor for the required orientation that takes place during Gig ‘Em week.
“Being involved as an ori-entation counselor helped me grow in my leadership skills and learn more about the scholarship,” Martinez said. “As an orientation counselor, we want to tell the fresh-man more about it so they can be grateful for it. A lot of the regent scholars wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for that scholarship.”
The program is funded by institutional allocations in the University’s budget, however many of the scholarships are created through endowments.
Gros said a $100,000 gift endows a regent scholarship. Of the 12 endowed gifts, one was provided by Texas A&M graduates, Lea and Loftus Fitzwater.
Loftus Fitzwater, Class of 1993, described his and his wife’s decision to be donors as an “intersection of life events,” after undergoing a personal loss.
“We had a baby taken
late in term,” Loftus said. “We kind of felt like we would be sending her to school anyway.”
Fitzwater said both he and his wife had always wanted to give back and wanted to promote what had made them successful.
“We really felt like educa-tion is the key for anyone,” Fitzwater said.
The Fitzwaters found as-sistance in 2007 from the Texas A&M Foundation, which matched donors to their causes.
DeAndre Ward, senior mechanical engineering ma-jor and recipient of The Fitz-water Endowed Regents’ Scholarship, expressed his appreciation for having the opportunity his parents did not have.
“It’s taken a lot of stress off, because I don’t have to find money in other ways,” Ward said. “It’s so nice that some-one would be so generous, and maybe someday I can be that generous.”
Fitzwater said their dona-tion has given an “internal satisfaction” in which they can see tangible results.
“To me, if you affect one life through education, then they will pass this down,” Fitzwater said.
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College of medicine appoints new deans
The Texas A&M Health Science Center an-
nounced Friday that Dr. Ruth L. Bush and Dr. Wei-Jung Chen have been named in-terim vice dean and acting associate dean of the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
The two positions were filled upon Dr. Paul Og-den’s appointment as the HSC College of Medicine’s interim dean.
Ogden, the former vice dean of Academic Affairs and Class of 1979, said he’s anxious to fill the roll as dean of the college. Ogden was a member of the Texas A&M College of Medicine charter class, gradu-ating with his medical degree with honors in 1981.
“As a former student of Texas A&M and a graduate of the Texas A&M College of Medicine, I am honored to assume the role of interim dean at this critical time in the college’s history and in the practice of medicine,” Ogden said. “I look forward to per-sonally welcoming our next class of 200 medical students in the fall as we prepare them to deliver care in an ever- evolving industry.”
Ogden replaced outgoing dean Dr. T. Samuel Shomaker,
who is now a special assistant to the interim president of the Texas A&M Health Science Center. Ogden said the new appointments of Bush and Chen would continue to serve the faculty, staff and students in the College of Medicine.
“Ruth Bush and Wei-Jung Chen bring a wealth of knowl-edge both in academic medi-cine and the inner workings of the College of Medicine,” Ogden said. “Our faculty, staff and students continue to be well served through the experienced leadership Drs. Bush and Chen are providing in their respective new roles.”
Bush served as the chief of vascular surgery at the Olin E. Teague VA Medical Center in Temple from 2008 to June 2013. She also served as associ-ate dean for Academic Affairs in Round Rock, as well as serving in various positions at A&M since 2011.
Chen was a professor in neuroscience and experimen-tal therapeutics at the Temple campus, where he also served as assistant dean for Student Affairs, and has been working with the Texas A&M Col-lege of Medicine for nearly 13 years. Chen’s primary research interests are in fetal alcohol syndrome and the effects of substance abuse on brain de-velopment.
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