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campusCeremony formally installs LoftinCeremonies leading up to Academic Convocation will begin about 1:45 p.m. Friday when about 250 faculty, staff, students and others — among them more than 50 delegates representing other institutions and learned societies — march across the heart of the campus in a traditional academic procession.

Regents to meet ThursdayThe Board of Regents of The Texas A&M University System will meet Thursday and Friday in the H.D. Smith Operations Complex (Building 25) at the Brayton Fire Training Field.

b-cs areaPolice fi nd no motive for murderOn Monday evening 45-year-old Stanley Lamar Griffi n was arrested and accused of murdering Jennifer Hailey and severely injuring her 9-year-old son. College Station police responded to a call early in the morning on Monday regarding a possible homicide. The police found 29-year-old Hailey dead in her apartment around 5 a.m. less than fi ve miles south of campus on the 2400 block of Pedernales in Hailey’s residence. Hailey was pronounced dead at the scene. Her 9-year-old son, who suffered serious bodily injury, was immediately transported to the College Station Medical Center for surgery. After Hailey’s son positively identifi ed Griffi n as the man he saw choking his mother, he was detained as of 5:15 Monday afternoon. Hailey’s son told police that Griffi n came into his room and struck him in his face and neck. College Station police say the little boy was stabbed several times in the neck with a gardening tool. The boy is in stable condition and recovering from his wounds.

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Senior economics major Zach Piñones visited Segovia, while studying at the University of Toledo in Spain. Cagle also went

to Amman, Jordan where he produced a feature-film documentary about Palestinian refugees in Jordan.

McAfee also took weekend trips touring Ireland, including the northern coast.

Junior international studies major Nicole McAfee traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland while interning in Ireland, where she worked for a Member of European Parliament.

Andrew Cagle, senior international studies major, took a trip to Jerusalem this summer where he visited the Dome of the Rock.

Study Abroad offers new insights

Adventure awaits. From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. today, the Study Abroad

Programs Office will have its annual Overseas Day Study Abroad Fair in Rudder Exhibit Hall. A vari-ety of information and resources will be available for students who are interested in opportunities such as studying, researching, interning, working and volun-teering abroad. Faculty and staff from the University as well as representatives from outside program pro-viders will be present to give out information and answer questions.

“The goal is to recruit students and to also inform students of their options other than classes — these are valuable real world experiences,” said Angelina Fonseca, study abroad adviser.

Over 80 programs will be represented today, and

of these, about half are led by Texas A&M faculty. “It’s a good opportunity to compare different

programs — you may prefer a faculty led program or maybe reciprocal exchange,” said Kristen Kurtz, senior international studies major. “What helped me the most was being able to narrow down my choices; ultimately I decided that an independent program was right for me.”

Fonseca encourages students from all departments to come to Overseas Day because there is a program to fit everyone’s goals and interests.

“One of the goals of the University is to have this vision 2020. Diversity is important — not just race and gender, but a well-rounded group of students, and all majors need to be represented,” she said. “A larger amount of funding is increasingly becoming available for majors like math, technology, science, agriculture, biology, etc. We’re looking to interna-tionalize the study body; by 2020, we would like for

25 percent of the student body to have this credit bearing experience.”

Even after completing her study abroad experi-ence, a reciprocal exchange in Lausanne, Switzer-land, senior international studies and French double major, Amber Wilmeth said she will attend this year.

“After last year’s Overseas Day, I was encour-aged to do more research into different study abroad programs.”

This year Wilmeth plans on returning to help guide her in her search of post graduation opportunities.

“I hope to learn more about different options such as the Peace Corps or teaching abroad, and maybe discover a career path I haven’t considered before,” Wilmeth said.

To show her support of the Corps and of Study Abroad, Reveille will be there from 11:30 a.m. to

Paula HarmanSpecial to The Battalion

Dining Services proposes change for students

Texas A&M University is the only uni-versity in the Big 12 that does not require students who live on campus to purchase a meal plan. Come 2012, that might change. There is a possibility on-campus residents will be required to buy a minimal meal plan. If it were passed, the new policy would be phased in over four years, start-ing in 2012.

The proposed change would provide the funds Dining Services needs in order to operate its facilities at a break-even point rather than a deficit, so it’s possible that it might result in lower prices for on-campus dining or improved facilities with

more staff. “Right now about 88 percent of resi-

dents buy a meal plan voluntarily, and while you’d think that that would be enough to sustain places like Sbisa and some of the other infrastructure that we really have for residents, not so much the general campus population, it’s not. The difference between 88 percent and 100 percent is, for me, running some these op-erations at a break even or at a loss,” said David Riddle, director of dining services.

It may be important to note that even if the proposal is approved and comes to frui-tion, A&M’s dining program would still be

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1 Study abroad

The Overseas Day Study Abroad Fair will be from

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the Rudder

Theatre Complex.

3 ConvocationThe 2010 Academic

Convocation and the Installation of R. Bowen Loftin as president of Texas A&M will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Rudder Theatre Complex. Visit http://convocation.tamu.edu for more information.

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Texans OL Brown gets 4-game drug suspension HOUSTON — Houston left tackle Duane Brown was suspended for four games Tuesday for violating the NFL’s policy on performance enhancing drugs, joining Texans linebacker Brian Cushing on the sideline for the same offense. Brown said he would not appeal the suspension, meaning his fi rst game back will be Nov. 1 at Indianapolis. He will miss the undefeated Texans’ home showdown Sunday with the Dallas Cowboys and the next three games. Brown apologized to the team’s owners, coaches, fans and his teammates. “I take full responsibility for putting myself in this situation,” he said. “I unknowingly took a supplement tainted with a banned substance and now have to deal with the consequences. After reviewing the appeal process and speaking with legal counsel, I have decided not to appeal my suspension. I understand the rules and accept my punishment.”

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one of the cheapest around, and it would only affect students living in campus housing.

Another possibility is doing away with meal plans altogeth-er, and moving to a system that uses dining dollars only. This sort of system has been well-received by other universities in the Big XII, and it would eliminate the inconvenience of being limited to the spe-cific items that constitute a “maroon plate.” It would also mean students would not have to worry about using all of their meal plans each semester, since dining dollars roll over to the next semester.

“I think another cool thing, part of the recommendation that I made is that we eliminate meals and go to a dining dol-lars only model,” Riddle said. “What happens with meals is that you either have to come to Sbisa to use them, or you can go to one of the retail loca-tions, but the choices are very limited and students don’t like that. I think students really like the flexibility that dining dol-lars provide.”

Michael Woodie, a senior chemistry major, said going to straight dining dollars would be better.

“At the end of the semester, you have to use all your meals or you lose them, and if you con-vert them into dining dollars, you lose half of what they’re worth. Dining dollars roll over, so we wouldn’t lose money ev-ery semester,” Woodie said.

Max Kolyesnikov, class of 2009 and employee at Ber-nie’s Café Espresso, said about 80 percent of students who eat there use meal plans to buy items included in the “maroon plate,” which offers students a choice between two or three different predetermined com-binations of food items.

“It’s a little frustrating for some people because they’re limited to what’s on the ma-roon plate special. Since most students have a very limited supply of dining dollars, they try to conserve those when they can,” Kolyesnikov said.

It is possible that both of the aforementioned ideas might be implemented in the next few years. If that happens, campus residents may be obligated to purchase some minimal amount of dining dollars.

“If [either measure] is ap-proved, we’ll start meeting with student groups right away and getting feedback. That’s an im-portant piece of this. We want to structure this in a way that is most favorable for residents,” Riddle said.

12:30 p.m. for photos.

“There are a lot of oppor-

tunities [for Corps members]

who want to travel to places

like China or the Middle East,

and there are several scholar-

ships that go along with these

programs,” Fonseca said.

A variety of resources, in-

cluding information about

scholarships will be made avail-

able at Overseas Day. Financial

Aid office, Career Services and

Disability Services will be pres-

ent to answer questions and give out information regarding

their supporting roles within the study abroad process. In preparation for their overseas experiences, students can also have passport photos taken and apply for a passport at the fair.

Photos from the Aggies Abroad photo contest, with over 140 entries, has tripled in size this year and will be dis-played in Rudder Exhibit Hall today. The contest showcases photos taken by Aggies who were abroad during the previ-ous year.

“The photographs are really amazing — all of the students can vote, and it’s a good op-portunity to see what would a study abroad experience really looks like,” Fonseca said.

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Republicans block bill to lift military gay ban

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort by Democrats and the White House to lift the ban on gays from serving openly in the military, voting unanimously against advancing a major de-fense policy bill that included the provision.

The mostly partisan vote dealt a major blow to gay rights groups who saw the legislation as their best hope, at least in the short term, for repeal of the 17-year-old law known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

If Democrats lose seats in the upcoming congressional elections this fall, as many ex-pect, repealing the ban could prove even more difficult — if not impossible — next year. With that scenario looming, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that a lame-duck ses-sion was being planned and that lifting the ban would be taken up then.

The episode upset advocates who believe that neither President Barack Obama nor Reid did enough to see the measure through.

“The whole thing is a political train wreck,”

said Richard Socarides, a White House adviser on gay rights during the Clinton administration.

Democrats included the repeal provision in a $726 billion defense policy bill, which authorizes a pay raise for the troops among other popular programs. In a deal brokered with the White House, the measure would have overturned the 1993 law banning openly gay service only after a Pentagon review and certification from the president that lifting the ban wouldn’t hurt troop morale.

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Hall of FameCountry artist Wes Hayden, who has appeared on the TV show “The Bachelorette,” will perform at 11:10 p.m. Friday at the Texas Hall of Fame.

1 Be an artist

Students can enter two-dimensional pieces of artwork to be potentially displayed at the MSC Visual Arts Committee’s “Freedom to Create” exhibit in the University Club of Rudder Tower. Aspiring artists can begin projects from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in Rudder 402.

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Virtually nothing in “Easy A,” however, is rooted in reality. At the fictional high school in Ojai, California, the blonde bombshell with the huge chest is un-chased, the hottest guy in school is also the mascot, the girls wear four-inch heels to class, everyone is aghast at the loss of virginity in 2010, and those pesky “Jesus freaks” crafted in the minds of liberal Hollywood manipulate their doctrine to shame and terrorize the floozies and the gays. Of the 1,500 kids at my seemingly stereotypical high school, I never met one person like that.

Lead heroine Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) is the “invisible” girl who is so quick-witted, so fast-talking, so beyond her years, you would think it safe to assume that the overly self-aware lines were penned by a sharp female screenwriter attempting to rewrite her high school loner experience. But then you would be wrong. The self-conscious script comes from Bert V. Royal, who seems to have waited three years to make a movie just to fit in a 20 minute joke on the ter-ribly addictive Natasha Bedingfield song “Pocket Full of Sunshine.”

Olive, pretty, witty and somehow anonymous in the halls of Ojai High, has grown sick of being a nobody. So, the teacher’s pet takes her reputa-

tion into her own hands when a little white lie about swiping her V card to a winner at the community college is over-heard by the self-righteous leader of the Christian kumbaya clan, Marianne (Amanda Bynes). Despite the averted stares and whispers behind her back, Olive embraces her scandalous reputa-tion and even goes so far as to help her gay friend fake a straight sex encounter at a kegger in an effort to stop the bullying he’s forced to endure. Soon enough, the fairer sex challenged boys of the school learn of her favor, and Olive begins a risky business of letting them tell tales of scoring with the

school trollop in exchange for money and gift cards.

Olive’s parent’s (Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson) are the highlight of the film, deliver-ing the best lines of the movie in what appears to be flawless improvisation. Their parenting style is that of a non-judgmental college room-mate, hilariously allowing their “cool” daughter

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Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) attempts to salvage her loner reputation at Ojai High by faking a number of hookups in exhange for money and gift cards.

I’ve always thought my high school to be straight out of the movies,

as though John Hughes wrote us a script in 1985 and dropped it off

in the Austin hill country 20 years later for us to act out. We had the

jocks, the band geeks, the theater kids, the popular girls, the brains and

even a few stoners under the bleachers for good measure. Why MTV

never came knocking for a reality show is beyond me.

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to do whatever and whomever she wants. Stone also impresses in her first leading role and is sure to take over as the up-and-coming funny girl in Hollywood. Bynes previously held that seat, but hasn’t churned out a good movie in several years and can’t even pull off the vapid shell of a character she had in “Easy A.” Her performance almost makes you wish she had stuck with the self-imposed retirement she tweeted about this summer.

Now, I never skimmed The Scarlet Letter in high school. I don’t really appreciate summer reading, so out of sheer principle and procrastina-tion, I decided to avoid the concept entirely. I didn’t learn much from the Spark Notes, but I’m fairly certain that Nathaniel Hawthorne would

not classify his book as humorous. And “Easy A” falls short in its attempt to update the novel into a modern sex comedy.

The latter half of the film morphs into a John Hughes tribute, which any fan of the teen angst romances can heartily appreciate. Unfortunately for “Easy A,” and unlike “The Breakfast Club,” the characters really can be “seen how you want to see them, in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.” Other than our heroine, everyone is a cliché who has been tirelessly played out on the big screen before. “Easy A” delivers a lot of easy laughs and is worth a trip to the nearest Redbox, but it does not live up to the classic high school ‘80s movies it so desperately tries to emulate.

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At the tail end of a long day in which other coaches, recruits and relatives of both parties skip in and out of this unique family unit, the men and women in the coaching ranks return to those waiting for them at home, where the process of recruiting and planning follows them.

This life seems stressful, chaotic and relent-less. And all those things it often is. Yet, when juxtaposed with the love most college coaches hold for their occupation, some discord between the legends of the profes-sion, both good and bad, arises. How is it that one can love such a job while understanding and liv-ing with the intense and far-reaching ramifications that it presents and the toll it may take on their personal lives?

Stress in Coaching“It’s a great job, so

no one’s asking anyone to feel sorry for me or for anyone that’s lucky to have a job like this, but it is a huge stress on the family in that it’s so public; your wins and your losses are so public,” said Bill Walker, assistant coach for the A&M men’s basketball team. “Any-body that’s in business or teaching or anything can have good days and bad days, but they don’t put them on the sports page or on the Internet where people can say,

‘Hey, that was a win, that was a loss.’ My wife, at times, has to

pick them up from school and cook dinner and I’m just not there to help, especially in-season. That’s when it’s the

hardest. And the problem too, quite frankly, is even when you are home, you’re wor-ried about your next game or your next scout or your next

recruiting trip.”Walker has been married 21 years but indi-

cated that, at times, the demands of the job can still frustrate his family.

Recruiting is the tallest task any coach can be entrusted with. Coaches interviewed said that the recruiting ordeal is truly year-round. Walker spent 20 days on the road in July for recruit-ing purposes, and said that when not recruiting physically, he must keep up with the process at home and at work through e-mail, Facebook and his cell phone.

Nick Toth coaches the outside linebackers for the Aggie football team. In recruiting he maintains an area that spans the south side of Houston over to Austin. He follows players of interest, contacts those being actively recruited, lends his assistance to other coaches and con-tinuously scouts the area for talent.

“It is what it is,” he said. “They’re not long days, they’re just abnormal hours. We catch up sometimes Wednesday nights, Thursdays and Fridays.”

The 34-year old Toth, who married his high school sweetheart eight years ago and has two young boys, touched on another tough issue

with coaches — the hours. While most don’t complain about them, they don’t have to be prodded much to admit that they are far from normal. He typically arrives in his office around 5 a.m. and sits in meetings concerning various things for the next six to 10 hours.

Afterward, practice keeps him occupied until 6 p.m., at which point he showers and eats — “Maybe.” — then watches more film, makes recruiting calls if he needs to, readies for the next day’s practice and leaves, arriving home, he said, sometime around 11 p.m.

“The one thing about this job is it’s not an eight-to-five deal,” Walker, 43, said. “There’s an ebb and flow to it. Obviously in-season, weekends are mini-mally different from weekdays. You’re in the office or on a bus or on a plane or at the gym all the time. I usually drop my kids off at school and come straight here, so I’m in the office at about 8:15. Depend-ing on what time practice gets out you

can be here 10 or 12 hours a day. If you have a game at night, obviously, you’re here ‘til the game’s over…you’re here for at least another hour or so afterwards.”

A semblance of balance“I get resentful that I have to leave some-

times. I don’t unpack my bag that often other than to do the laundry,” said vol-leyball Head Coach Lau-rie Corbelli.

She has two children with her husband John, who serves as her assistant coach.

“Some-times I’ll see moms walking their dog in the morning or the old ‘raise the kids, make sure dinner is ready’… all of that stereotype and I’d question myself sometimes and say, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’”

The Corbellis are parents of Rachel, 19, and Russell, 16, both of whom grew up as coaches’ kids and spent time away from their parents. Corbelli recalls having to find people to watch her children, as both her and her husband would be out coaching and at times against each other. She recalls one moment that she wishes she could have been home during her daugh-ter’s freshman year in high school.

“I’ve told stories of my daughter getting ready for homecoming in her high school years and she called and said she looked so good and her hair looked good and her dress…” Corbelli said.

Corbelli recounted that time spent on vol-leyball in comparison to time at home during the season is usually 80/20 in favor of volleyball. The ratio narrows to 70/30 in the offseason with recruiting. That time away from home hasn’t always been easy, but she says that it has made her children grow throughout the years.

The balance of time from the court to the home proved to be tough but Corbelli says she has found ways to get her mind away from volley-ball and to enjoy the time she does have with her family. John is from Hawaii and they’re able to visit relatives there for nearly a week of relax-ation and time together. For her it is the simple things that keep her going as a coach.

“I do like to read. I do try to jog and do some yoga,” Corbelli said. “It’s been fun to go home and listen to how the kid’s day went, I love that kind of stuff, and I do get away from volleyball by doing that.”

Walker and Toth both said their respective head coaches, Mark Turgeon and Mike Sher-man, are excellent at buying time for their as-sistants to spend with family and get away. Since it often becomes hard to keep the line between their job and their lives from being obscured, the staff must get creative about mixing the two, allowing families to visit the Bright Building or Cox-McFerrin Center and have dinner there.

Corbelli, now in her 18th season at A&M, has a familiar strategy to balance her life at home and the life she lives on the court every day. She says to avoid some of the stress during the offsea-son; she will be dividing the recruiting process

between her three assistant coaches, so she isn’t on the road nearly as much. With the stress of having the poten-tial to win sometimes dominating her willing-ness to coach, she says there’s really one thing that keeps her going.

“I keep going for the players. I love being involved in younger peoples lives,” Corbelli said. “I want to make sure that these girls know that they can do whatever they want to do and I feel like I owe it to show younger kids that they can do that. I think if I didn’t have them in my life I’d be really depressed.”

Leaving work at homeFor multiple-title-winning head A&M track

and field coach Pat Henry, the life is nothing new. Henry’s father, Gwinn Bub Henry, was the assistant track coach at the University of New Mexico and his grandfather Gwinn Henry

was once proclaimed the fastest man in the world as a track star.

“I grew up in a coach’s family so I knew going in the kind of commitments it was go-ing to take and I knew that at a young age,” Henry said.

While coaching at LSU, Henry was trying to make time for his two children and his wife as well. Although he now lives with just his wife he still has to find time to see his children and his four grandchildren as well.

“My wife understood what coaching was going to be all about,” Henry said. “It’s a differ-ent life and it’s one that my wife is a big contribu-tor to the success I’ve been able to have.”

Henry lives on a golf course but does not golf. He does not fish. He said there are plenty of things he enjoys doing but just doesn’t have time to do them.

“I have 10 days at Christmas and a few days in the summer that I feel like I can get away. I spend that time being with family or going somewhere with my wife,” Henry said.

Henry recognizes that some coaches have trouble leaving what is supposed to stay in the office in the office rather than bringing it home

with them. That strategy proves tough because recruits will call or an athlete will have a prob-lem and call. With more than 100 athletes in his hands, the task of escaping his job once he goes home becomes harder than expected.

“There is a difference between your family and your job. For me I’ve had to do my best of saying when I go home that’s the end of the day,” Henry said. “I don’t think you ever get away from this profession. You can’t shut the tractor off and go home.”

Stories about coaches sleeping three hours a night and sometimes not leaving their office at all encircle the profession. Walker said such happenings are neither exceptions nor the majority.

“I think [some coaches] do,” he said. “We’re pretty smart about working hard when we need to but being able to understand that you have to have a life outside of the office, and we do.

“You can see there’s no couch in my office. I haven’t slept here. I can’t say I won’t some-time,” he said with a chuckle. “Anyone that’s successful or works at a high level like Texas A&M, there’s demands. It’s fun. There’s a lot of fun in my job. A lot of people would love to trade spots with any of us.”

What it amounts toIndeed, many would. Surprisingly, the sup-

posed inability to separate work and home has often paid dividends. Walker said the families of the coaches bond over their similar situation. Players visit the coaches’ homes for dinner or for leisure.

His kids know the players and get to experi-ence a life few can, as will Toth’s. Walker told a story about his daughter getting senior guard B.J. Holmes to sign a piece of memorabilia for a classmate.

“They feel very privileged that they can be a part of a bigger family with these girls and understand what their mom and dad do and they feel a connection to these girls,” Corbelli said of her children. “They had big sisters for so many years and they still have their favorite ones from years and years ago that are now moms themselves.”

It was agreed, the good stories generally out-weigh the bad for these average people thrust into the most unusual of professions.

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The 2000 census chronicled that the American family, on aver-

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As the students of A&M be-gin to prepare for the stressful season of exams and papers, there is one community in Ag-gieland that is preparing for celebration. The fall is a con-tinuous time for holidays in the Jewish community and this weekend the Aggies involved in the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student and Community Cen-ter celebrated Yom Kippur.

Yom Kippur is the known as “the day of atonement.” It is one of the holiest days of the year and occurs on the tenth day of Tishiri, the seventh month in the Jewish calendar. It is a 24 hour period of fasting and prayer in which the Jew-ish community takes time to make amends with God, and the people they have wronged throughout the year.

“We look back at the past year, and we see where we can use correction and get better,” said Rabbi Lazaroff, founder and rabbi of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student and Commu-nity Center.

The festivities begin the day before the fast, when the peo-ple eat and drink in abundance. One meal is eaten early in the

day while the next is eating just before the onset on Yom Kip-pur. The evening service that begins the holiday is known as Kol Nidre. It is during this ser-vice that women light candles and fasting begins.

The majority of the day of fast-ing is spent in five prayer services.

“Saturday we have servic-es throughout the day. Yom Kippur is a complete Sabbath; therefore no work shall be done during the fast,” said Naomi Heller, senior animal science major and president of the cen-ter for the past two years .

The day is focused on re-pentance and forgiveness. The holiday is intended to help the Jewish community be-come right with one another and God.

“My favorite thing about Yom Kippur is that in the Jew-ish community, repentance and confession is between you and God,” she said. “There’s no one pushing you, it’s just up to you. The Neilah service closes the holiday, and Yom Kippur is ended with the prayer, “next year may we be in Jerusalem.”’

The meal that follows the fast is an official Yom Tov, a cel-ebration. It is customary to eat and drink in merriment, while

looking forward to the next holiday, Sukkot. “The holiday of Sukkot begins Wednesday evening. It is a period of time when we, for eight days, eat in a booth-like structure through-out this period of time in re-membrance of how the Jews left Egypt,” Lazaroff said.

The Rohr Chabad Jew-ish Student and Community Center has been active in the Aggie community.

“It helped me get in touch with my roots,” said Vinnie Villaverde, junior industrial en-gineering major. “When I say that I’m Jewish it’s more specif-ic that other ethnicities or faiths because being Jewish is a way of life more than anything else. Getting in touch with that is far more important than anything I was doing before.”

The center offers a place for Jewish students, who are normally a minority, to come together and fellowship while learning more about their faith.

“We provide classes, social events, every Friday night we provide Shabbat dinner. We are synagogue, we are a stu-dent center, we are a commu-nity center. We provide all the needs for the Jewish commu-nity,” Lazaroff said.

Joanna RainesSpecial to The Battalion

College Station bans salvia and salvinorin productsOn Sept. 5, the City of College Station’s ban on products containing salvia or salvinorin went into effect. If an individual is caught in procession of any of these products, with brand names such as K-2 and Spice, they could be facing a fi ne of up to $2,000. Student reaction to the new ordinance has been negative. “I do not believe it will work. People will instead be looking for the fresh sticky green that they hear about in town instead of K2 and the other imitation highs people can no longer legally purchase in the B-CS area,” said Yohann Dyke, a junior political science major.Other groups of students are concerned that they may not have access to legal alternatives to relaxants that they need in order to ward of stress and get the relaxation they need. “I know some people who take it so they can overcome anxiety and sleeping problems. These people are afraid of taking controversial medications, so they opt for a ‘natural way’ of treating their health issues,” said Berta Salazar, a senior sociology major. However, the push to ban these products stems from questions on their safety. According to a press release from the American Association of Poison Control Centers, there is a concern about their quality and safety. “The reactions being reported – including agitation, anxiety, an extremely fast, racing heartbeat and elevated blood pressure – are the opposite of what would be expected from marijuana, which is a source of concern,” according to a press release. The ban also covers the use and procession of devices used to smoke K-2 and other similar products. An individual will be accessed a fi ne up to $2,000 if they are in procession of an illegal smoking device such as bongs, glass pipes or any type of smoking mask.

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