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Wall Street movementBarrett HouseThe Battalion

Sleeping bags, plastic tarps and clothes are drying on the grass after a harsh Texas storm. A high school teacher flashes a peace sign to protestors — homeless, educated, young and old — who have set up camp on a strip of grass behind City Hall, which has become home to the movement Occupy Dallas.

As he walked to his Pontiac GTO to re-trieve donated supplies, the teacher said he makes $50,000 a year and is the wealthiest occupant protesting in City Hall Park.

Occupy Wall Street, an initially-small movement that started in Liberty Square of New York City, spread to Texas in a mat-ter of weeks. The movement has reached 82 countries worldwide and more than 100 U.S. cities, including Dallas, Austin, Hous-ton and Bryan-College Station.

The protesters supporting the Occupy movement came from various backgrounds and for different reasons.

“There’s been unions involved. People think it’s just hippies. But there are iron workers; there are a lot of ex-veterans. There is a great diversity,” said Anup Desai, senior lecturer at a Manhattan Community College and Wall Street protestor. “It’s the people who are the most downtrodden, the people who are unemployed, the people who have been forgotten by the economy.”

Kristian Cavallero, an original member of Occupy Austin, said there are students pro-testing, but it is not only students.

“The diversity is lower working class and professionals, lawyers, teachers. We’ve seen city officials, ambulance drivers, veterans, union workers, ranging from ages 20 to 50,” Cavallero said.

Members of Occupy Dallas said there is no single leader. However, there were “crews” assigned to divide the daily operations, such as sanitation, food, security and media.

“We have sanitation, the kitchen, the sustainability group, which is trying to bring the green factor,” Desai said. “There’s an art group, who make signs. There are coordina-tors of general assembly. We have an action group who organizes marches, along with press and media.”

There have been similar patterns across the country, using the successes and failures of Occupy Wall Street as a template.

Protesters said the main issues are corpo-rate greed, the inequality of wealth between the top one percent and the lower 99 percent

and how that wealth is being used.“Individuals in Congress are getting mon-

ey from big Wall Street banks and these big corporations,” Desai said. “We’re moving against everything within corporate greed, like how Wall Street execs are getting the largest bonuses ever, and people in those companies are getting laid off.”

Recently, the Occupy movement reached A&M. On Nov. 3, protesters will march from Academic Plaza to Bank of America and Chase Bank on Texas Avenue, before returning to campus. The “Occupy College Station” Facebook group had 98 “likes” as of Tuesday evening.

Paul Adamski, junior philosophy major and student organizer of the Occupy College Station movement, said Occupy is about spurring discussion at A&M, across Texas, in the U.S. and elsewhere.

“We should be aware that wages have stagnated since 1973 even though we’ve had growing productivity in the country. The relations between governance and finance has been detrimental to our democratic principles,” Adamski said. “We only protest outside of banks because they are symbols of the Wall Street financial district. These local bank branches aren’t our opponents, rather symbols.”

Justin Montgomery, Occupy organizer and senior mechanical engineering major, said a large public university is exactly the kind of place where this kind of dialogue should be happening.

“I acknowledge what some have said, that this won’t make a difference on a national scale and that there is really no ‘one percent’ in College Station,” Montgomery said, re-ferring to the wealthiest one percent of U.S. citizens. “If just one person sees our protest and it makes them think a bit more about how things are and how they should be now and in the future, then I think we’ve accom-plished what we set out to do.”

Aggies, both in College Station and New York, have varied opinions about the

See Occupy on page 4

40 Days campaign intensifies abortion debate in B-CSJustin MathersThe Battalion

U.S., China officials

discuss countries’ futures

Dignitaries and scholars from China and the U.S. gathered Monday at the George Bush Presidential Library Center to discuss the countries’ relation-ship and environmental policies, and competition between the world’s two largest economies.

The two countries — vastly different politically and ideologi-cally — have forged a relationship that balances competition and cooperation. Currently, China

is the world’s largest develop-ing economy while the U.S. is the world’s largest developed economy.

The speakers came to A&M to participate in the China-U.S. Relations Conference, held at the Annenberg Presiden-tial Conference Center at the George Bush Library and Mu-seum. Discussions followed four plenary sessions.

Grand strategy was the top-ic of the first plenary session.

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bryan-college stationcampusinsidecampus | 5ExcellenceStudents, faculty and administrators discussed students’ responsibilities and accountability at A&M in Tuesday’s campus dialogue.

voices | 6Green fundEvery student pays $3 per semester to the Aggie Green Fund. One columnist loves it, another hates it. See China on page 3 See 40 Days on page 4

From bottom: A protester stands at a downtown corner in Spokane, Wash. A graffitied trash bin proclaims an Occupy message in Oakland, Calif. Protesters in Chicago rally at night.

From bottom: A motorcycle patrolman keeps protesters on the sidewalk in New York City. A masked man gestures to the camera in London. James Rawlinson protests in Montgomery, Ala. (top center) Police enforce a barricade in Oakland, Calif.

Against a backdrop dominated by an ominous fence, peaceful protesters with heads bowed in prayer gathered outside the Bryan Planned Parenthood. Protesters have flocked here every Saturday morning since Oct. 1, trying to halt one of today’s most controversial practices.

They are the 40 Days for Life protest-ers, and their mission is to end abortion. Together with the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life, Pro-life Aggies are helping to lead the charge. Although 40 Days for Life has

insidevoices | 6Occupy Wall $treetVoices columnists Taylor Wolken and Josh Howell take a look at the movement’s composition and chances at success.

A young volunteer prays outside the Bryan Planned Parenthood facility.

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NEW YORK — The Occupy Wall Street movement will occupy MTV for an episode of its docu-mentary series “True Life.” The network says the show will follow three young people on the front lines in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. MTV embedded its cameras over a two-week period to capture protesters’ activities and explore what motivates them. Bryan joined the protest to express his disgust at the relationship that government has with big business. Kait and Caitlin are college students worried they won’t be able to find jobs when they graduate. The episode is scheduled to air Nov. 5. Occupy Wall Street began a month ago in New York. It has since grown to encompass hundreds of protests around the U.S. and the world.

Police react to Oakland protestorsOAKLAND — Hundreds of protesters in Oakland are marching toward City Hall several hours after dozens were arrested for not breaking an encampment as part of the Occupy Wall Street protest. The protesters took to the streets Tuesday evening after gathering at a downtown pub-lic library. Police officers in riot gear met them en route and several small skirmishes broke out. The march comes after police earlier swarmed into an encampment firing tear gas and rounds of bean bags before removing about 170 demonstrators who had been staying overnight on a plaza outside City Hall for more than two weeks. City officials say 85 people were arrested, mostly on suspicion of misdemeanor unlawful assembly and illegal camping.

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Andrew Card, acting dean of the Bush School, and Wang Jisi, dean of the School of Interna-tional Studies at Peking University, moderated the panel, driving discussion about how the countries are pursuing their long term visions and advancing national interests.

“China … is a country which has, in some sense, come of age and feels, as other great powers in the past have, that their power enti-tles them to certain perks and prerequisites. On the other hand, the U.S. is concerned about its position in East Asia,” said Robert Art, interna-tional relations professor at Brandeis University.

According to Art, there are three basic schools of thought regarding grand strategy ap-proaches on the relationship between the two countries.

The first perspective, “don’t worry so much,” holds that China does not want to be a liberal, open, international economic border, but that it does want more of a say in how the global economy is run. Additionally, the theory pro-vides that offshore balancing is necessary. This would allow China’s geographic neighbors to use their own resources to balance China, with no help or interference from the U.S.

The second school of thought, “gloom and doom,” offers the opposite perspective — that with power transitions come instability and cri-sis. Proponents of this strategy advocate con-taining China’s power.

The last school of thought is “optimistic-re-alist,” and provides for a balance of engagement and containment, Art said. While harmony will not be automatic, war is not inevitable. The goal is that, with policy and diplomacy, both countries can work together to be mutu-ally beneficial.

According to Chris Layne, Bush School pro-

fessor of intelligence and national security, the Dollar’s status as the reserve currency allows the U.S. to spend beyond its means. However, last summer, the International Monetary Fund predicted that the dollar will no longer be the reserve currency by 2025.

“The question is not, ‘Will China pass the U.S. in GDP?’ The question is when,” Layne said.

According to a presentation by Yan Hua, president of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, China’s most recent annual gross domestic product (GDP) totaled $4.9 trillion, while the U.S. GDP totaled $14.6 trillion.

Regarding the environmental issue, 40 per-cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from China and the U.S. In a plenary session on energy research and development, Daniel Poneman, U.S. deputy secretary of en-ergy, said both countries have a responsibility to adopt clean energy policies.

“Both of us, of course, remain highly depen-dent on coal; both of us rely heavily on foreign sources of oil to power our economies,” Pone-man said.

Established in 2009, the Clean Energy Re-source Center is a $150 million investment, equally funded by both countries. U.S. funds are used exclusively for American research in-stitutions and Chinese funds are used for Chi-nese research institutions. The goal of the Cen-ter’s research is to increase energy efficiency, clean coal technology and clean vehicles.

With the establishment of the Resource Center, 16 cooperative agreements and con-tracts totaling $20 billion were unveiled, ac-cording to Cao Jianlin, vice minister of science and technology. Jianlin also said China has set in place a five-year plan to reduce carbon emis-sions by 40-45 percent.

“The peace and the stability of the world has large measure on how the U.S. and China pursue the strategies and whether they will opt for cooperation or confrontation,” Card said.

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people here might get involved, but I don’t think it’s really going to make a difference. There are no major banks, and the gov-ernment has been the same for the last 30 years,” said Zachary Chance, senior politi-cal sciences major. “But the more people who support this movement, it makes the impression nationally.”

Chance said he wants people to real-ize that protesting is not the only way to change the government.

“People need to realize that they have the ability to vote for who they believe should be in charge, whether on the lo-cal, state or national level, and it’s the most important way to commit change,” Chance said.

Amanda Motley, class of 2004, who is a registered associate with Morgan Stan-ley Private Wealth Management, said the movement has not affected the day-to-day operations of businesses in New York.

“It’s not taking over the city. It’s con-tained. The protesters have been quaran-tined from the businesses so that they can’t harass the employees,” Motley said. “It’s kind of a side show, a distraction, but noth-ing more, at least not right now.”

Andrew Card, acting dean of the Bush School who served as White House chief of staff for George W. Bush, said freedom of speech is also the freedom to listen.

“One of my concerns over Occupy Wall Street is that they say ‘I am here be-cause the rich have too much or corpora-tions are terrible.’ I say ‘Okay, well, what do you want?’ and they say ‘We want peace and joy and love,’” Card said. “Tell us what you don’t like and tell us what the answer to the problem is.”

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now spread to nations such as Australia, England and Spain, the movement began in Bry-an-College Station; partly cre-ated by Texas A&M engineer-ing professor Michael Golla.

The vigils consist of small groups of people praying out-side of elective abortion clin-ics. “Sidewalk counselors,” extensively trained by the Co-alition for Life, stand by and actively engage women who arrive at the clinics for their procedures.

These counselors are the crux of the 40 Days mission. Their presence is intended to guide women set to proceed with their operations to have an abrupt change of heart, and to consider other options such as adoption.

According to the 40 Days for Life website, “229 babies have been saved from abortions.” One sidewalk counselor and pro-life Aggie, senior ento-mology major Elly Espinoza,

said she feels that many abor-tions are stopped because of the counselors’ passion.

“It was really scary at first,” Espinoza said. “But I’m glad that I get the chance to com-municate with real women who are making this tough decision. We get emails and letters from the women who later admit that the 40 Days vigil influenced their deci-sion to not go through with the procedure and that really keeps me motivated.”

Officials at the Planned Par-enthood in Bryan declined to comment about the 40 Days campaign. However, shortly after the protests started in 2007, a large fence was built around the complex. Pro-life Aggies praying at the Saturday vigils said Planned Parenthood employees encourage women to throw away the 40 Days materials they receive from counselors in large trash cans set up by the entrance.

There are currently no stu-dent organizations at A&M specifically dedicated to the pro-choice movement.

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Dan Moore, junior psy-chology major, said he is frustrated by the lack of pro-choice support at A&M.

“I’ve heard about what the 40 Days for Life campaign does and I don’t agree with it all; the message they bring and the way they go about it,” Moore said. “It’s basically tak-ing advantage of someone at one of the most difficult times in their lives.”

Jennifer Rumpf, president of the Pro-life Aggies, said the organization will continue strongly and successfully with or without opposition.

“Whenever they see a woman choose life because of the vigil everyone gets even more driven,” Rumph said.

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Roughly 70 students, faculty and administra-tors gathered Tuesday to discuss accountability in A&M’s educational mission.

The discussion was the seventh in a series titled “The Commitment to Excellence Dialogues”, cre-ated with the intent to bring Vision 2020 into frui-tion, increasing students’ preparedness for the job world after college.

The question raised in this particular dialogue was how to “deepen students commitment to learning” so that Texas A&M can be a top-10 pub-lic institution by the year 2020.

“We looked closely at students and how to moti-vate them to really learn,” said Karen Butler-Purry, associate provost of graduate studies and one of the dialogues’ directors. “We have grades, which is a type of measurement but it doesn’t fully mea-sure whether or not students have really learned or achieved the learning outcomes that we would like students to achieve.”

Several students expressed strong disdain for as-pects of A&M education programs, and contended that, if adjustments were made, A&M could meet the goals set in Vision 2020.

“I think most students would agree when I say

that we are OK at passing tests and doing the cur-ricular, but we really start learning material when we participate in hands-on learning formats or co-curricular activities,” said Jelesa Warren, senior management major.

Echoing a sentiment repeated in the two-hour discussion, Warren said the disconnect between students’ classroom education and extracurricular education is too large.

“Unfortunately, our grades aren’t measured by how well we lead in the organizations we are in-volved in,” Warren said.

One of the problems addressed at the dialogue was students’ lack of motivation to take education reform into their own hands.

“It’s important that students care because these are the decision makers holding these dialogues, and to be able to talk with administrators, professors and provosts and ask them to change what’s broken,” said Dilim Nwobu, senior computer engineering major and panelist for Tuesday’s discussion. “These administrators do really care about our education but a lot of times they just don’t know what to do, so they need students to tell them what we want and need. Frankly, students don’t really seem to care.”

Butler-Purry said being a public university, Tex-as A&M needs to be a good steward of state and

federal resources and provide a valuable education for students

”We are going look at how we can find mea-sures, other than grades, that show we have been good stewards.” Butler-Purry said “In essence what we as a faculty are trying to say is that the world is changing and it will be through the fact that you have this deep understanding of things and critical thinking so you will be able to constantly change yourself so that you will be able to stay functional in this ever changing society. So, five years from now when things have a changed in a particular field how can you adapt to that changing information if you don’t have those skills?”

Student involvement is critical, Butler-Purry said, because administrators cannot force students to learn. Students must have that desire on their own.

“The stuff we learn in class is so outdated, the only thing useful we are learning is how to work hard and not so much the content of our major,” Nwobu said. “Technology is changing very fast and its difficult for education to keep up. Administrators need to find a way to where education is growing with industry. How can they connect what going on in the real world with what they are teaching us in the classroom?”

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Two small planes collide in Oregon WILSONVILLE, Ore. — Two small planes collided near an Oregon state park Tuesday, sending one crashing to the ground and spreading debris across a wide area, authorities said. The second airplane managed to make an emergency landing in Champoeg State Park, about 25 miles south of Portland, and the two people inside walked away, police said. Authorities didn’t know how many people were on board the plane that crashed and disintegrated. The planes collided at about 4 p.m. over farm country along the Willamette River. Capt. Ken Summers of the Yamhill County sheriff’s offi ce said one of the planes crashed into trees and exploded on impact. Jack Crabtree, the county sheriff, told The Oregonian that the plane apparently broke up in mid-air. Debris from the demolished plane was scattered around Champoeg State Park, including upholstery and pieces of a wing, Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Douglas Brown told The Associated Press. The Oregonian quoted a resident of the area as saying the impact was so great that he thought it was an earthquake. “The whole house shook, the dishes rattled, and I thought it was the big one,” Robert Nelson told the newspaper. Witnesses said they saw a huge column of black smoke after the impact, KGW-TV reported. The location of the crash indicates the planes weren’t on a commercial or private charter fl ight pattern, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus said.

Plumber launches congressional bid TOLEDO, Ohio — Joe the Plumber is plunging into politics because he thinks it’s about time America had a few mechanics, bricklayers and, yes, plumbers in Congress. Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher was thrust into the political spotlight after questioning Barack Obama about his economic policies during the 2008 presidential campaign. He offi cially launched his campaign for Congress in Ohio on Tuesday night. Wurzelbacher said he’s running as a Republican in Ohio’s 9th U.S. House district, a seat now held by Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving Democratic woman in the House. Wurzelbacher has become an icon for many anti-establishment conservatives and has traveled the country speaking at tea party rallies and conservative gatherings since becoming a household name. “Americans deserve all kinds of people representing them,” he said. “Not just an elite, ruling class.” He said he’s seeking offi ce because he’s seen too many people forced out of their homes and leave Ohio because of the poor economy. “All I’m asking for is a fair shake,” he said. Wurzelbacher insisted that he’s not trying to capitalize on his fame. “I’ve been Joe the Plumber for three years now,” Wurzelbacher said. “I haven’t made millions of dollars off it.” Republicans who recruited him to run in what is a blue-collar district stretching from Toledo to Cleveland think his fame will help bring in enough money to mount a serious challenge. He set up a website to raise money

within the last week. Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Rob Frost, who had announced he would seek the GOP nomination, dropped out last week, clearing the way for Wurzelbacher.

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Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher suites up for a press conference to discuss his plans to run for U.S. Congress in Ohio.


Where once its members were decried as immature children, their passionate demon-strations and long-term encampments have forced media and politicians to take note.

None should be surprised that President Obama and the Democrats wish for OWS’ left-leaning endorsement. But the fact that Mitt Romney, the pro-business front-runner for the GOP Presidential-nomination, is attempting to co-opt the movement as well should give one pause.

Still, there’s a wide gulf between political legitimacy and the sweeping changes OWS seeks. In order to replicate the Tea Party’s political expediency, efficacy and longevity OWS must follow the same path their right-leaning counterpart took before them: first coagulate around some necessarily vague ideal; then fragment on the specifics. No movement worth its salt — whether political, religious, philosophical or artistic — has circumvented this two-step.

With the Tea Party and OWS, this dance has particular salience. America, often geo-graphically, culturally and politically divided, cannot stomach sweeping and detailed politi-cal mandates. The Tea Party, whose structure is more collage than monolith, is a prime example: its Congressional Caucus boasts 66 members from more than 20 states. Take a closer look, and one realizes the Tea Party’s

libertarian, traditionalist and constitutional-ist wings agree on little besides “the debt and deficit are too large!”

That vague ideal brings them together, their fragmentation broadens the base.

OWS has already begun this process. In their Declaration of the Occupation of New York City they voiced disapproval of the ille-gal foreclosures of homes, the structure of the bailouts, animal cruelty and the tendency of corporations “to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.” It is clearly an amalgamation of liberal and politically-moderate policies, but that amalgamation remains incredibly abstract.

Take their second complaint: the structure of the banking industry bailouts. Presumably OWS yearns for some form of regulation in recompense, but what kind? Into what can the government justifiably stick its nose? Prac-tically, what can Congress do without making matters worse?

These questions — and their answers — will allow OWS to break apart and then (paradoxically) flourish. And with America’s constant campaigning and frequent elections, there’s absolutely no reason it cannot quickly morph into an effective political movement.

“So comrades come rally!” Joshua Howell is a junior computer science major

and opinion columnist for The Battalion.

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Occupy Wall $treet

Taylor Wolken: Who are the 99 percent?

T he Occupy Wall Street movement found

a motto — even if it can’t quite define its

goals, much less any means of achieving

them — “We are the 99 percent.”

From a marketing standpoint it’s fantastic. Using a simple statistic, a group of Americans have implied they speak for almost every American. But who are the 99 percent and how many do they really represent?

The latest Associated Press-GfK poll says 37 percent of those surveyed support the protests now springing up across the country, most of those supporters being Democrats. This is in line with a Pew Research Center/Washington Post poll finding 40 percent of Americans support OWS with 35 percent opposing the protests.

Professor Hector Cordero-Guzman of Baruch College analyzed an online poll of 1,619 visitors to OccupyWallStreet.org and found 64 percent were under the age of 35, 26.7 percent are enrolled in school and 70 percent earn less than $50,000 a year.

What is OWS protesting? While the movement lacks an official

stance, some common themes are an ob-jection to corporate influence, greed, the distribution of wealth and the lack of new jobs in America.

While these issues have been debated for years, OWS has turned them into the barriers between America and their utopian ideology.

At the heart they are protesting the funda-mentals of capitalism and politics in America, both popular things to criticize until you start talking solutions.

Does OWS have staying power?The complexity of these issues will ulti-

mately be the downfall of OWS. There are no practical or easy solutions for

the movement and meaningless catch phrases like living wage and corporate greed can only get you so far.

While the goals of movements like the Arab Spring (democracy) and Tea Party (less spending) can be defined and sold rather simply, Occupy Wall Street’s — we want to fundamentally change American capitalism and politics — lacks clarity.

The OWS movement is fueling itself with anger but anger flames out quickly. When it does will there be any intellectual foundation to build upon? Not likely.

Once the movement pivots from agreeing they don’t like the way things are, to how to solve problems, it will fracture, crumble and return to dust.

Taylor Wolken is a senior economics major and opinion editor for The Battalion.

Joshua Howell: The key to success

may be the Tea Party

model

O ccupy Wall Street’s amorphous genesis is

strongly similar to that of the Tea Party’s.

Indeed, what began with a surplus of inspira-

tion and a dearth of clarity has now coalesced

into a movement worthy of political legitimacy.

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Naila Dhanani

The Aggie Green Fund, a student initiated and student-

controlled fund, is setting the sustainability

trend right this year. Although bewildering, it has become a conserva-

tive value to take a laissez-faire attitude toward the environment. But Texas A&M has, thank-fully, chartered a different course. And anyone invested in A&M is indebted to the Aggie Green Fund for its efforts.

Sustainability is not a liberal ideal. Instead, it is a commitment to ensure the well being of our environment and its inhabitants.

What better way to implement sustainabil-ity than a committee run by Aggie students?

The advisory board has committed fund-ing to nine projects receiving more than $270,000 in funding. These projects include a student farm that will establish an organic parcel of land for food production, education and research as well as a solar power system to provide supplemental power to the Jack E. Engineering Building.

Despite what is obviously a great idea, some students were hesitant about the Green Fund’s creation.

“I am a fiscal conservative, and philo-sophically opposed to any new, unnecessary fee,” said senior renewable resources major, Matt Cope.

However, his skepticism led him to serve as chair of the board.

“After reviewing the merits and the potential for such a small investment each semester, I decided that the Green Fund was a worthy cause.”

“By nature, many ‘green’ projects can seem very unnecessary in the short term. However, when looking at the long-term effects, one can begin to understand the necessity of a sustainable initiative.”

But Cope is quick to point out that most projects do have an immediate impact.

For example, the water bottle filling sta-tions makes clear the choice to fill up a bottle, rather than just throw it away. Al-though water fountains achieve the same goal, the filling stations allow students to gain a greater insight on environmental issues.

If you see a station, you are more likely to fill your bottle up rather than discard it.

A $3 fee is a small price to pay to ensure students walk away with a better understand-ing of the need to decrease resource — in-cluding plastic water bottles — consumption.

And the fund’s projects are quickly spreading.

The MSC will purchase the water bottle filling units in April and will not use the Green Fund’s money.

The most effective initiative is TAMU Zimride Rideshare. By coordinating carpools, more cars are taken off the road, leaving less of an environmental impact — less pollution, fewer problems.

The projects are neither new nor ground-breaking, but in a University of more than 50,000 students who have more to occupy their time with than to actively seek out ways of increasing sustainability, the Aggie Green Fund makes it easy to do the right thing for the environment.

The Aggie Green Fund isn’t composed of a bunch of tree hugging, Whole Foods loving, tie-dye wearing hippies. Instead, it’s composed of a group of students interested in instituting a series of projects to improve the A&M campus and environment and we should support them.

“The fund was designed to positively affect students, and the day that it ceases to do so is the day that it is no longer necessary. It is my hope that this will never occur, and that the positive effects of the green fund will be seen for years to come,” Cope said.

Naila Dhanani is a junior biological sciences major and opinion columnist for The Battalion.

ProWe have a

very diverse group of organizations on campus.

There are religious groups, political groups

and special interest groups, all of which make up a melting pot of

ideas. When organizations want to push their agenda they ask for donations, host bake sales, have car washes where countless students volunteer their time. The Aggie Green Fund found a better way.

As they tell it, “In the spring of 2010, a consortium of student organizations lead (sic) the charge to implement a $3.00 per fall or spring semester fee or a $1.50 summer semes-ter fee” which led to a student referendum passing with 57 percent of the vote.

This act of mob rule created The Aggie Green Fund allowing them to bypass time consuming fundraising by taking money directly from the student body, even the 42 percent against it.

What have they done with our pilfered funds?

A few weeks ago they solved the tragic problem of students having to hold their containers while refilling them at water foun-tains. How you ask? Well they added a little platform and a secondary spigot so you can set your bottle down while filling it up. This came at a tiny cost of $17,355.

Do the math and you realize that with about 50,000 students the Aggie Green Fund receives around $150,000 dollars to blow each semester.

There’s plenty more cash to burn.The Aggie E-Corps is classic crony-

ism. Rather than donating the time like an organization would, they’ve allocated $28,330 to create 24 paid positions for students to go around campus and spread the good news on recycling, sustainable energy and lowering your carbon footprint.

It makes me feel bad for Greek Life, Con-cealed Carry and the Mormon’s I see working each day without the help of student fees.

Then we have our own student organic farm. We could never produce near as much food if we went organic but it makes people FEEL healthier and FEEL like they are saving the environment. At least we get something out of it. It provides some food and is used for research and educational purposes all at the pretty price of $50,000.

And how could we forget the dream machine! It is a giant electronic recycle bin which gives rewards on a card that are re-deemable for something. It also happens to be a fantastic marketing tool for Pepsi. It’s always full and more expensive than regular contain-ers for recycled bottles but hey, it’s shiny and makes you FEEL good.

The next project is installing a 3.2 kilowatt solar panel system to help power the Jack E. Brown Engineering Building.

If this project were actually effective it wouldn’t need to be funded through a Robin Hood program like the Aggie Green Fund and these panels would be popping up on buildings across the country. That’s not hap-pening because it’s cost prohibitive and a FEEL good idea rather than a practical one.

How much does that feeling cost — $14,543.22.

This is just a few examples of what happens student fees are introduced via mob rule.

A&M has no business funding special interests and cherry picking causes better left to student organizations. The Aggie Green Fund should raise their own funds for their pet projects.

My student fees should not be used to push a special interest agenda. I want my Aggie Green Refund.

Taylor Wolken is a senior economics major and opinion editor for The Battalion.

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From Michael Alvard, associate professor of anthropologyThis letter is in regard to the Oct. 25 front page puff piece on Andrew Card, Dean of the Bush School. Dean Card is a marketing shyster. As Chief of Staff for George W. Bush, Card set up the White House Iraq Group, the marketing arm of the White House whose purpose was to sell the 2003 criminal invasion of Iraq to the public. In 2002, when asked why the administration waited until after Labor Day to try to sell the American people on military action against Iraq, Card responded, “from a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.” So much for public service.In July 2011, Dean Card was appointed to the Board of Directors of Lorillard Tobacco Company, the third largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the USA. Newport, Lorillard’s fl agship menthol-fl avored cigarette brand, is the top selling menthol and second largest selling cigarette in the USA. Dean Card now markets death to poor African American children (Henriksen et al. 2011 Targeted Advertising, Promotion, and Price For Menthol Cigarettes in California High School Neighborhoods. Oxford Journals, Nicotine and Tobacco Research). So much for public service. Thanks for nothing Dean Card.

From Victor Willson, head and professor, department of educational psychology Regarding Mr. Wolken’s Oct. 19 column, “Putting the aTm in A&M,” about faculty buyouts: my department’s state budget was cut 10 percent, two faculty retired under the plan, and the department is without those faculty lines. Any hires come from new retirements or resignations by faculty now on payroll. What part of that does Mr. Wolken not understand? Perhaps more time in the classroom to understand basic economics would be useful to him.

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