l tuesday, june 25, 2013 l serving texas a&m since 1893 l first paper free – additional copies $1 l © 2013 student media the battalion entities. “Our initial response, first off, was concern about the injured workers, to make sure they were okay,” Hansen said. “Our thoughts and prayers were first with them and their fami- lies, and our first response on top of that was to secure the project, make sure those guys were taken care of and also to notify OSHA and the governing authorities and work with them in the investigation to determine what happened.” Hansen said no work would be done on the building site until the investigation is complete. Construction on the Equine Complex be- gan in the fall of 2012. According to a Col- lege of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science press release, the complex would include an education and outreach center, along with facilities for the Texas A&M Eques- trian Team, the cross country team and Parsons Mounted Calvary when completed. “This center will be a major center of equine research, care and outreach,” said University President R. Bowen Loftin. “It is an excel- lent example of one of the things we do best at Texas A&M: work together across academic disciplines. Non-academic units are involved as well to make the center truly one-of-a-kind.” C hartwells, the food management division of Compass Group USA, proposed a new meal plan system to be implemented in the 2013-2014 academic year. Students will recognize familiar aspects of the 2012-13 plans in the proposal. There will be an increase in the num- ber of meals included in the plan and a decrease in dining dollars. The din- ing dollars will not roll over from the fall to spring semesters as they have in previous years. Some A&M students preferred the plans they purchased last year over the new proposal. “It was good to have an excess of din- ing dollars, like if I wanted to buy a snack at Rattlers in the Commons,” said Jill Palmer, sophomore International Studies major who was an on-campus resident last school year. When asked how she believed students would react to the discontinuation of the “rolling over” of dining dollars, the Di- rector of Residence Life, Chareny Rydl, said the reaction would depend on indi- vidual students. “Honestly I think it depends on the individual student and how they use their meal plans and dining dollars,” Rydl said. Another key implementation is of “meal trades” and “meal trade zones” in the new plan. A “meal trade” is a meal used anywhere other than Sbisa or Duncan dining halls. Under the pro- posed Corps of Cadets, mandatory fresh- man and sophomore, and resident meal plans, only three meal trades may be used Josh McKenna — THE BATTALION OSHA investigates accident Equine complex collapse injures 5 workers On Saturday morning a building under construction as a part of the Texas A&M University Equine Complex project collapsed, injuring five. At time of press at least three workers had been released from the hospital. Jessica Smarr The Battalion O ccupational Safety and Health Ad- ministration investigations are un- derway to evaluate the cause of the collapse of a 300-foot-long barn under con- struction, which injured 5 workers, as a part of the $80 million Texas A&M University Equine Complex Project. Tom Hansen, senior vice president of Gam- ma Construction Company, said he and other company officials are working closely with federal investigators to provide information rel- evant to the collapse. Hansen said the investiga- tion would be ongoing throughout the week. The building collapsed Saturday morning as workers were elevated in a lift 40 feet off the ground to tie beams together. Five workers, all employees of subcontractor Ramco Erec- tors Inc., were injured in the collapse. Ramco Erectors could not be reached for comment. Four of the injured workers were sent to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan, while the fifth was sent to the College Station Medical Center. The Associated Press reported three of the work- ers at St. Joseph had been released. A representative of the College Station Medical Center said the injured worker they received was still in their care but in stable con- dition. Hansen said the efforts of the first responders on the scene were commendable. “I’m not from College Station, but I was real impressed with your people up there,” he said. At the time of collapse, Hansen said the first response of Gamma Construction company was two-fold — to ensure the well being of the injured workers and to immediately secure the site and notify the respective government Our thoughts and prayers were first with [the injured workers] and their families, and our first response on top of that was to secure the project...” — Tom Hansen, senior vice president of Gamma Construction Company inside lifestyles | 3 Brand new operation Apple recently introduced it’s new operating system with it’s first overhaul since the iPhone’s introduction in 2007. Our writer gives his opinion on the modern iOS 7 update that will be available this fall. COURTESY movie review Sean Lester: Pixar’s latest coming-of-age tale isn’t just for the kids Monster weekend A s I sat near the front row of the theater with kids at least 10-15 years younger than me Sunday, I couldn’t help but get a sense of nostalgia. We were all there to see Disney/Pixar’s “Monsters University,” the prequel to the 2001 blockbuster “Monsters Inc.” What we didn’t have in common was I remember seeing Monsters Inc. in theaters 12 years ago. Most of the other customers in attendance weren’t even thought of 12 years ago. “Monsters University” tells the story we didn’t know for all these years, how did Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (John Good- man) meet? It all began at a university that churns out the best “scarers” in the industry for a land that runs on the screams of scared children. Mike enters college as a wide-eyed freshman ready to hit the books and become the best scarer after his four-year stay. He is quickly introduced to the equivalent of a no-brain jock in Sulley who considers himself too cool for school. The two are more enemies than friends, as Sulley quickly becomes the big man on campus while Mike falls in as a brainiac. The two charismatic characters are only united as friends when they are dropped from the scaring program, ending any dream of someday working at Monsters Inc. Mike joins a misfit group of monsters in the Oozma Kappa fraternity, vowing to win the annual Scare Games and win Opening weekend by the numbers “Monsters University” tells the story of Mike Wazowski and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan in their journey through college. The movie is a prequel to the 2001 hit “Monsters Inc.” movie gross change total gross 1) Monsters University $82,429,469 ----- $82,429,469 2) World War Z $66,411,834 ----- $66,411,834 3) Man of Steel $41,287,206 - 65% $210,078,153 4) This is the End $13,290,642 - 36% $58,082,166 5) Now You See Me $7,876,002 - 29% $94,456,978 6) Fast and Furious 6 $4,930,685 - 49% $228,618,155 SOURCE: www.the-numbers.com See Monsters on page 2 Chartwells proposes new meal plan, dining dollar system dining services Allison Rubenak The Battalion Josh McKenna — THE BATTALION David Riddle, resident district manager of Chartwells, said the new meal plan proposal acts as encouragement for students to dine in the dining halls, such as Sbisa (above) and Duncan. See Meal Plan on page 2 BAT_06-25-13_A1.indd 1 6/24/13 9:03 PM
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entities. “Our initial response, first off, was concern
about the injured workers, to make sure they were okay,” Hansen said. “Our thoughts and prayers were first with them and their fami-lies, and our first response on top of that was to secure the project, make sure those guys were taken care of and also to notify OSHA and the governing authorities and work with them in the investigation to determine what happened.”
Hansen said no work would be done on the building site until the investigation is complete.
Construction on the Equine Complex be-
gan in the fall of 2012. According to a Col-lege of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Science press release, the complex would include an education and outreach center, along with facilities for the Texas A&M Eques-trian Team, the cross country team and Parsons Mounted Calvary when completed.
“This center will be a major center of equine research, care and outreach,” said University President R. Bowen Loftin. “It is an excel-lent example of one of the things we do best at Texas A&M: work together across academic disciplines. Non-academic units are involved as well to make the center truly one-of-a-kind.”
Chartwells, the food management division of Compass Group USA,
proposed a new meal plan system to be implemented in the 2013-2014 academic year.
Students will recognize familiar aspects of the 2012-13 plans in the proposal.
There will be an increase in the num-ber of meals included in the plan and a decrease in dining dollars. The din-ing dollars will not roll over from the fall to spring semesters as they have in previous years.
Some A&M students preferred the plans they purchased last year over the new proposal.
“It was good to have an excess of din-ing dollars, like if I wanted to buy a snack at Rattlers in the Commons,” said Jill
Palmer, sophomore International Studies major who was an on-campus resident last school year.
When asked how she believed students would react to the discontinuation of the “rolling over” of dining dollars, the Di-rector of Residence Life, Chareny Rydl, said the reaction would depend on indi-vidual students.
“Honestly I think it depends on the individual student and how they use their meal plans and dining dollars,” Rydl said.
Another key implementation is of “meal trades” and “meal trade zones” in the new plan. A “meal trade” is a meal used anywhere other than Sbisa or Duncan dining halls. Under the pro-posed Corps of Cadets, mandatory fresh-man and sophomore, and resident meal plans, only three meal trades may be used
Josh McKenna — THE BATTALION
OSHA investigates accidentEquine complex collapse injures
5 workers
On Saturday morning a building under construction as a part of the Texas A&M University Equine Complex project collapsed, injuring five. At time of press at least three workers had been released from the hospital.
Jessica Smarr The Battalion
Occupational Safety and Health Ad-ministration investigations are un-derway to evaluate the cause of the
collapse of a 300-foot-long barn under con-struction, which injured 5 workers, as a part of the $80 million Texas A&M University Equine Complex Project.
Tom Hansen, senior vice president of Gam-ma Construction Company, said he and other company officials are working closely with federal investigators to provide information rel-evant to the collapse. Hansen said the investiga-tion would be ongoing throughout the week.
The building collapsed Saturday morning as workers were elevated in a lift 40 feet off the ground to tie beams together. Five workers, all employees of subcontractor Ramco Erec-tors Inc., were injured in the collapse. Ramco Erectors could not be reached for comment.
Four of the injured workers were sent to St. Joseph Hospital in Bryan, while the fifth was sent to the College Station Medical Center. The Associated Press reported three of the work-ers at St. Joseph had been released.
A representative of the College Station Medical Center said the injured worker they received was still in their care but in stable con-dition.
Hansen said the efforts of the first responders on the scene were commendable.
“I’m not from College Station, but I was real impressed with your people up there,” he said.
At the time of collapse, Hansen said the first response of Gamma Construction company was two-fold — to ensure the well being of the injured workers and to immediately secure the site and notify the respective government
Our thoughts and prayers were first with [the injured workers] and their families, and our first response on top of that was to secure the project...”
— Tom Hansen, senior vice president of
Gamma Construction Company
insidelifestyles | 3Brand new operationApple recently introduced it’s new operating system with it’s first overhaul since the iPhone’s introduction in 2007. Our writer gives his opinion on the modern iOS 7 update that will be available this fall.
COURTESY
movie review
Sean Lester: Pixar’s latest coming-of-age tale
isn’t just for the kids
Monster weekend
As I sat near the front row of the theater with kids at least 10-15 years younger than me Sunday, I couldn’t help but get a sense of nostalgia. We were all there to
see Disney/Pixar’s “Monsters University,” the prequel to the 2001 blockbuster “Monsters Inc.”
What we didn’t have in common was I remember seeing Monsters Inc. in theaters 12 years ago. Most of the other customers in attendance weren’t even thought of 12 years ago.
“Monsters University” tells the story we didn’t know for all these years, how did Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (John Good-man) meet?
It all began at a university that churns out the best “scarers” in the industry for a land that runs on the screams of scared children.
Mike enters college as a wide-eyed freshman ready to hit the books and
become the best scarer after his four-year stay. He is quickly introduced to the equivalent of a no-brain jock in Sulley who considers himself too cool for school.
The two are more enemies than friends, as Sulley quickly becomes the big man on campus while Mike falls in as a brainiac. The two charismatic characters are only united as friends when they are dropped from the scaring program, ending any dream of someday working at Monsters Inc.
Mike joins a misfit group of monsters in the Oozma Kappa fraternity, vowing to win the annual Scare Games and win
Opening weekend by the numbers
“Monsters University” tells the story of Mike Wazowski and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan in their journey through college. The movie is a prequel to the 2001 hit “Monsters Inc.”
movie gross change total gross1) Monsters University $82,429,469 ----- $82,429,4692) World War Z $66,411,834 ----- $66,411,8343) Man of Steel $41,287,206 - 65% $210,078,1534) This is the End $13,290,642 - 36% $58,082,1665) Now You See Me $7,876,002 - 29% $94,456,9786) Fast and Furious 6 $4,930,685 - 49% $228,618,155
SOURCE: www.the-numbers.comSee Monsters on page 2
Chartwells proposes new meal plan, dining dollar systemdining services
Allison Rubenak The Battalion
Josh McKenna — THE BATTALION
David Riddle, resident district manager of Chartwells, said the new meal plan proposal acts as encouragement for students to dine in the dining halls, such as Sbisa (above) and Duncan. See Meal Plan on page 2
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per day, with only one used during each of the meal trade time zones of breakfast, lunch, dinner or late night.
The Resident District Manager of Chartwells, David Riddle, acknowledged that students have complicated schedules and said Chartwells wanted to be accommodating to students.
“We don’t have it all worked out yet,” Riddle said. “It’s important to create some flexibility on a five thousand acre campus. We’ll have a schedule published by August 1 and make it clear what the parameters are.”
Riddle, who worked for Dining Services before Texas A&M partnered with Chart-wells, said meal plans do not change every academic year. However, this year the plans were “driven by the Univer-sity’s long-term investments and vision for dining.”
Riddle described these changes as encouragement for
more students to dine in the larger dining halls, like Dun-can and Sbisa Dining Center.
Meal plans are not the only aspect of dining that will be witnessing changes in the fall. New dining venues will be added across campus, and numerous facilities are undergoing renovations and drastic overhauls with a fall finish date.
This summer, in Hul-labaloo Hall — the under-construction Northside dorm complex — a service location will be added inside to carry Starbucks coffee. The Daily Grind in Blocker will re-open as OutTakes Quick Cuisine, with added sandwich and salad selections.
“After this summer, people are going to know something is different,” Riddle said.
Rydll said Chartwells and the Department of Residence Life also “realize a need to renovate the Commons” and hope to have the capital plan for renovations presented to the Board of Regents some-time in August.
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back the trust of Dean Hardscrabble of the scaring program.
When Sulley joins the fraternity it is all hands on deck as an “Animal House” and “Old School”-esque journey ensues with both characters searching to rejoin the program.
But as the two become closer through the team events of the competition, the story becomes as much about their journey toward personal definition as it is about winning.
In a classic tale of college experiences, Disney and Pixar once again strike big with the coming-of-age tale of an unorthodox set of characters. The movie focuses around the college campus and while the younger crowd surely en-joyed the movie to the tune of an $82 million opening weekend, it was as much for our generation as it was theirs.
I remember moving into my first college room, the anticipation of meeting my roommates and trying to figure out how I’d fit in this melting pot of personalities on campus. These are the same struggles and themes seen in “Monsters University”.
Mike finds that by most people’s definition he’s not the scariest monster on campus but he has features that make him among the
greats. For Sulley, it’s a matter of dropping his pretentious personality and becoming his own person.
It’s the same struggle many students at their New Student Conference will experience this summer and beyond. College changes us but it allows us to figure out what kind of person we want to be. That’s what this movie was all about.
The movie is able to play toward the college stereotypes with fraternities and other or-ganizations. One scene during finals depicts a monster with several arms carrying five dif-ferent cups of coffee and the pot itself. Sound familiar?
As you sit down to watch Disney/Pixar’s latest master-piece don’t let the children distract you, it’s as much for us college-aged students as it is for them.
Because finding ourselves in four years of college is what it’s all been about and being able to relive those memories — parties, friend-ships and conversations — through Mike and Sulley is enough to make “Monsters University” one I’ll be adding to my movie collection.
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Meal PlanContinued from page 1
Sean Lester is a senior agricultural communications and journal-ism major, and assignments editor for The Battalion
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One year ago consumer electronics giant, Apple Inc., released iOS 6, which was promised to be a game
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While the operating sys-tem did introduce the ability to share links and photos to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, the newest operating system looks to erase the bad memories with iOS 7.
The upheaval includes a redesigned user interface and improvements to functional-ity, aiming to make the oper-ating system more appealing and easier to use.
IOS 7 will include iCloud photo-sharing as well as col-lections, moments and years of organization in the Photos app.
It will also include phone, FaceTime and message blocking as well as an im-proved Find My iPhone app, which will require an Apple ID and password to erase the device or reactivate it to help further prevent informa-tion theft.
Here are some of the new features:
Control Center
Like Notification Center,
this screen can be accessed by scrolling from the bottom of the screen and allows users to adjust settings that were pre-viously buried in the Settings app such as Airplane Mode, brightness, media controls and shortcuts to apps like a built-in flashlight, compass and camera. The Control Center aims to be the first step at Apple’s improved functionality approach.Interface
This seventh operating system will give iPhone, iPad and iPod users a different perspective on the home screen that has become so familiar. Improved colors and app cover design has allowed for the home page to really pop off the screen.
Also included is a transpar-ency aspect as well as a rede-signed weather app, which shows weather animations. AirDrop
iPhone users have found themselves in trouble at times when a document or file saved on one device or com-
Sean Lester is a senior agricul-tural communi-cations and jour-nalism major, and assignments editor for The Battalion
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puter can’t be accessed while away from home. Problem solved with AirDrop, which is similar to the popular app DropBox, allowing users to share files with other Mac supported computers and devices. iTunes Radio
Perhaps the most important news from the iOS 7 release is iTunes Radio.
With Spotify and Pandora taking attention, and money, away from iTunes, the iTunes Radio app will act as a perfect counter punch. It will be a free service with ads, but iTunes Match users will be able to enjoy it ad-free.
There is no confirmation yet whether the app will have a limited number of skips like the popular music app Pandora.
With the first major face-lift to the popular iOS operating system since the first iPhone was released in 2007, this latest rendition is sure to be the best yet. Apple appears to have an added attention to a more modern look with this latest update and it is sure to have us tapping and down-loading when it is available for devices this fall.
Apple’s release of its iOS 7 systems gives its products a different look on the home screen, among other new features.
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UT says ‘no impact’ on affirmative action policy
AUSTIN (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action in higher education will have “no impact” on the Uni-versity of Texas’ admissions policy, school president Bill Powers said Monday, noting UT will continue to use race as a factor in some cases.
The University of Texas was sued in 2008 by Abigail Fisher, who is white, for being denied admission. Instead of a landmark de-cision on affirmative action, the Supreme Court instead voted 7-1 to tell a lower ap-peals court to take another look at Fisher’s lawsuit.
Powers said he was “encouraged” by the ruling that left the use of affirmative action in admissions intact while the lower court considers the case.
Powers said the admissions policy was crafted after previous Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action, and the school would continue to defend the policy against Fisher’s lawsuit. Texas has used the race-inclusive ad-mission policy since 2005.
“Today’s ruling will have no impact on admissions decisions we have already made or any immediate impact on our holistic admis-sions policies,” Powers said.
UT admits most of its students under a state law requiring admission for students that rank among the top 8 percent in their class. For other students, race is considered among many factors, including academic record, personal essays, leadership potential, extra-curricular activities, and honors and awards.
The school says race is not used to set
quotas, which the Supreme Court previously rejected.
Before using race as a factor, Texas’ stu-dent body was 21 percent African-American and Hispanic. By 2007, African-Americans and Hispanics accounted for more than a quarter of the entering freshman class.
Fisher’s lawsuit argued the automatic ad-missions process achieved the diversity the university wants. More than 8 in 10 African-American and Latino students who enrolled at the flagship campus in Austin in 2011 were automatically admitted, according to univer-sity statistics.
White students constituted less than half the entering class when students with Asian backgrounds and other minorities were add-ed in.
Fisher has since graduated from Louisiana State University.
“I am grateful to the justices for moving the nation closer to the day when a student’s race isn’t used at all in college admissions,” Fisher said Monday in a statement issued by her attorney.
Civil rights groups that supported the university’s admission policy said they were confident it will survive further court review.
“This is a win for the principles of op-portunity, diversity, and equality,” said of Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “It will be critically important that the voices of students — those most af-fected by the policy — be fully heard at any re-hearing.”
Texas Republicans on verge of passing abortion bill
AUSTIN (AP) — The Republican-dom-inated Texas Legislature pushed Monday to enact wide-ranging restrictions that would effectively shut down all abortion clinics in the nation’s second most-populous state, and Democrats planned an old-fashioned mara-thon filibuster to stop the final vote.
After the House easily approved it Mon-day morning, the wide-ranging package of anti-abortion measures was headed to the Senate. But with the special session sched-uled to end at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, the clock presented a far bigger obstacle than the votes to win approval there.
The proposal would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hos-pitals, limit abortions to surgical centers and stipulate doctors must monitor even non-surgical abortions.
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