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Coaches, players talk Razorbacks

Coaches and players ad-dressed the media Tuesday to discuss the Aggie foot-ball team’s upcoming game against a wounded 1-3 Ar-kansas Razorbacks squad led by interim head coach John L. Smith.

The Razorbacks, ranked as high as preseason No. 8, fell out of the rankings af-ter a demoralizing loss to Sun Belt upstart Louisiana Monroe. They would then proceed to lose 52-0 to Al-abama and 35-26 to Rut-gers, hurting their hopes of competing for an SEC West title.

Still, head coach Kevin Sumlin said the Razorbacks maintain a heavy dose of talent despite their record. Among the potential of-fensive threats will be pre-season Heisman candidate

quarterback Tyler Wil-son, running back Knile Davis and wide receiver Cobi Hamilton.

“There’s a reason they were preseason No. 8. They have a lot of great skill, a big offensive line and one of the best quarterbacks in the country,” Sumlin said. “Cobi Hamilton put 300 yards on the board last week, so you know he can play. Knile Davis going back two years ago before the injuries is as a good run-ning back as there is.”

Arkansas, tradition-ally strong offensively, has bested A&M in each of the past three contests. The Aggies haven’t beaten the Razorbacks since their fi-nal contest as members of the Southwest Conference in 1991. That game would

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sports

Yom Kippur inspires reflection, forgiveness

Students around the country are in the middle of their year while others are beginning anew.

The Jewish New Year began with Rosh Hashana and is now culminating with the observance of Yom Kippur. The 10 days in between are a process, a time of forgiveness and reflection.

Cory Nagelberg, a junior agricultural eco-nomics major, described Rosh Hashanah as a celebration, and Yom Kippur as a more somber event.

“It’s all about concentrating on what you’re praying, what you’re thinking, your relation-ship with God,” Nagelberg said. “It’s the end of a whole year’s worth of good and bad things, and it’s kind of the final appeal to be judged in a good light.”

Traditionally, this has been a period of time for individuals to request forgiveness from any-one they may have wronged throughout the year. In an era of social media, this has evolved from a face-to-face exchange to a text mes-sage or Facebook status. Nagelberg said he has seen many statuses and tweets making blan-ket statements requesting forgiveness for any possible wrongs.

Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, a director of the Rohr

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religion

New policies limit tobacco use on campus

Up in smoke

Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION

Due to recent policy changes, smoking is now prohibited in vehicles, on sidewalks, parking lots, walkways and parking structures.

Texas A&M’s policy on smoking and tobacco use on-campus has been modi-fied to prohibit smoking in more areas — a policy that has not been changed since 1996.

The smoking regulations — which were officially changed on Thursday — now prohibit smoking and tobacco use in more areas than before.

“We have had a rule that dates back to 1996 on campus that prohib-its tobacco and smoking use in buildings, residence halls and vehicles,” said Jason Cook, the vice president of marketing and com-munication at A&M. “Now [it includes] side-walks, parking lots, walk-ways and parking structures immediately adjacent to these.”

The new policy also prohibits smok-ing in all vehicles owned, leased or rent-ed by the University.

Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin said in an email that the policy was changed as a more comprehensive safeguard to the health and well being of the students, faculty, staff and visitors.

“The changes are the result of a

thoughtful decision-making process based on well-documented evidence that use of tobacco products poses sig-nificant health risks,” Loftin said. “Those health risks extend to non-users of such products as well as to users.”

Included in the email to staff and fac-ulty was a compilation of resources to help tobacco users stop smoking.

Cook said that a movement outside of College Station itself motivated the University to revise their policy on to-

bacco use.“There is a movement across the country for university

campuses to move more towards being tobacco free,” Cook said. “The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Tex-

as last year announced new guidelines for tobacco use

around buildings where funded research is taking place.”

When the new guidelines were first announced in the spring, it came with the possibility of non-compliant institu-tions losing their funding from CPRIT.

Cook said the University updated the smoking regulations with the best inter-

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insidesports | 3Kyle FieldExperts discuss the economic implications of various Kyle Field renovation options.

life | 6Freshmen updateFreshmen weigh in on their university experiences thus far.

Fall elections to commence in SGAcampus

Fall elections for vacant Student Senate seats, Freshman Student Senate seats and Freshman Class President are right around the corner. According to the Election Com-mission’s reports on Tuesday, 47 students filed for the Senate elections, and 15 students filed for Freshman Class President.

Filing for elections ended Monday, Sept. 24 at 3 p.m. The filing dates were expedited in a last minute adjustment made by the Stu-dent Government Association last week be-cause of an error in the originally published

election schedule.Over the weekend, more vacancies be-

came available when senators were removed due to absences at Senate Meetings. As a result, the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Science caucuses were opened for filing.

This is the first year that vacancies in Sen-ate have been filled by student wide elec-tions. Students will vote on Oct. 2 and 3 to determine who represents them this year in their respective Senate caucuses.

Students who did not file still have the opportunity to run as a write-in candidate

in any race. Scott Bowen, the speaker of the Student

Senate, said in the case of the University Apartments, where there were not any fil-ings for the vacate Senate seats, the write-in candidates who receive the most votes will win.

Allison Krenzien, the Election Commis-sioner said if a write-in candidate wins, they must submit the required documents after the election in order to be accepted.

“Should a write-in candidate win for any race, they have 48 hours to submit a decla-

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Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff opens the ark, that holds scripture scrolls at Rohr Chabad in College Station.

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The tobacco policy change

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nationObama outlines steps to fi ght human traffi cking President Barack Obama called human traffi cking nothing more than “modern slavery,” outlining new steps Tuesday to combat the exploitation of workers and children in the United States and abroad. Obama said in an address to the Clinton Global Initiative that he was not using the term “slavery” lightly, noting that it evoked a painful past for the United States. But he said the international community needs to improve efforts to help more than 20 million victims of human traffi cking around the globe, calling it an “injustice” and an “outrage.” Human traffi cking, Obama said, “must be called by its true name: modern slavery.”

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Community leaders, students and Texas A&M officials gathered Tuesday morning as Oxford Economics announced their study results on what is shaping up to be one of the most significant topics of the fall semester: renovating Kyle Field.

The study focused on two things: what the possible economic and community im-pact would be if Texas A&M home football games were played away from College Station for one year; and on the current impact home games have on Brazos County.

The results rang deeply as Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics under the Oxford Company, laid out the facts.

“$86 million dollars in business sales will be lost in one year,” Sacks said. This would be a massive loss that cuts out almost three-fourths of the revenue that Texas A&M home football games generate.

In addition to this loss in revenue, a one-year stint spent away from Kyle Field by the Aggie team, Sacks said the loss would nega-tively affect local income and jobs.

“$21 million dollars in household income would be lost in a single year, which equates to a loss of nearly 1000 jobs,” Sacks said.

For the average student, the possible conse-quences of playing a season of Aggie football away from Kyle Field may only seem like a

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Roger Zhang — THE BATTALION

87,114 people attended the University of Florida game. Renovating Kyle Field could move home games to Houston, thus affecting the College Station economy.

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Football move means lossesOxford study explores renovation options’ impact

also be the last time the Aggies have played the Razorbacks at Kyle Field.

Senior wide receiver Ryan Swope, having not defeated Arkansas since the reinstatement of the rivalry in 2009, said the seniors are hun-gry for a win against their recent nemesis.

“I think it’s one of those games that’s re-ally personal. We haven’t beaten them in three years so it’s a big game for us. It’s something we take seriously,” Swope said. “I can tell you the seniors, talking to them, we’re hungry to win. We have to be critical with ourselves at practice and do the best that we can do.”

One exploitable flaw of the Razorbacks will be their defensive unit and lack of a run-ning threat. Ranked 108th in pass efficiency defense, Arkansas has failed to effectively slow down even average passing attacks. The run-ning game has been similarly ineffective even with Davis in the backfield, ranking 112th with 97.75 yards rushing per game.

Despite their glaring deficiencies, senior linebacker Jonathan Stewart said the Aggies will continue to play the Razorbacks as if they were the team of recent memory.

“We have to make sure we prepare as if they’re an undefeated team,” Stewart said. “Just because they lost three games in a row, we can’t think that this isn’t a traditional Ar-kansas team. We have to prepare as if they’re

a very good team.”A potential swing game for both squads, the

Razorbacks and Aggies will be vying for their first SEC win of the season when the old rivals clash at Kyle Field Saturday.

“They’re coming in here, they have a lot to prove. A wounded animal is maybe the most dangerous one. I think it applies in this case,” Sumlin said. “We’ve got a lot to play for, too. This is our second SEC game and we’re at home after losing a close one [against Florida]. I think our guys are excited to get back on the field and play somebody in our league.”

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ration of candidacy form as well as a completed expense report to the Election Commission,” Krenzien said.

According to the Election Commission’s Rules and Regulations, a write-in candidate

must abide by the same regulations as any other candidate. This includes staying below the campaign budget allowed for each race.

The budget for each candidate running for Senate is $150. The budget for each candidate

running for Freshman Class President is $400.Campaigning for elections begins on Oct. 1.

Voting starts on Oct. 2 at 9 a.m. and ends Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. at vote.tamu.edu.

Krenzien said that these students’ candida-cy is not official until they have attended the Mandatory Candidates’ Meeting on Sunday, Sept. 30 from 5 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.

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loss of tradition, but closer attention reveals a potential student job loss. The Oxford Eco-nomics study found that a significant amount of jobs that would be affected would be stu-dent jobs created from the revenue injected by home games. According to Sacks’ pre-sentation, there is a more than 60 percent increase in student employment among local businesses during football season, and 80 per-cent of (local) profits are in the last three to four months of the year.

The Oxford Economics study found that the University’s decision on whether to move Aggie football to a separate location while renovations take place would also have significant impacts on the governments and communities surrounding campus.

Sacks said almost every local industry is af-fected by Texas A&M football, from the res-taurants lining University Drive, the hotels located on almost every street and corner and the multitude of retail, clothing, and service businesses scattered throughout the Bryan/ College Station area.

On average each home game weekend rakes in about $17 million dollars, a revenue from sources as widely dispersed as specta-tors, team traveling and catering, and real estate. In a series of stakeholder focus groups that Oxford Economics put on to gather the input from local community and business leaders, a wide range of foreboding com-ments were gathered.

“Moving A&M home games would be a ‘self-induced recession,’” one business stated.

To better understand the consequences of moving A&M’s football season from the Bryan/-College Station area for at least one year, the study also presented the positive impact home football games have. The 2011 football season brought nearly $120 million into the University and local economies alone.

“The dollar just doesn’t stop once it’s spent,” Sacks said. “There is a $177 million gross im-pact in one year when you take into account the indirect and induced impacts. That equates to 2,400 jobs supported by Texas A&M home football games.”

Adding A&M’s Southeastern Conference debut, Sacks said the University’s game-day potential becomes close to perfect.

“It is projected that the SEC represents a potential 15 percent increase in spectators and 25 percent increase in spending that can be re-alized in a few years,” Sacks said.

The presentation’s conclusion echoed what many of businesses surveyed thought of the idea of Kyle Field’s potential closing.

“Texas A&M should never consider taking away its main attraction for the Bryan-College Station area: A&M football. The total com-merce is unbelievable. Don’t give it to another city for any amount of time.”

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Trevor Stevens: Health isn’t the issue in the decision to prohibit smoking

A real drag

Too bad, those freedoms are being infringed upon by an updated Univer-sity policy.

An email, sent Sept. 18 and signed by University President R. Bowen Loftin, stated A&M’s policy regard-ing tobacco use has been modified. The new rule prohibits tobacco use in all areas “immediately adjacent” to buildings and campus structures. This supposedly includes sidewalks, parking lots, walkways and attached parking structures. Previously, tobacco use was only prohibited from inside buildings on campus.

The explained reason for the change: it’s the result of a thought-ful decision-making process based on well-documented evidence that use of tobacco products poses significant health risks.

I find it frustrating when health risks are used as the argument behind pro-hibiting smoking anywhere on campus, when health is not the reason for the change. In my understanding, there are a few reasons.

First, the motivating factor is actu-ally a policy being pushed by research funding provider, Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas, upon grant recipients such as Texas A&M.

CPRIT announced a policy earlier this year that stated its grant recipients are required to implement campus policies that prohibit tobacco use in

and around buildings associated with CPRIT research financing.

Texas A&M has received more than $4 million in grant funding from CPRIT. This does not include the millions of dollars that entities within the A&M system have received. The latest grant to the A&M Health Science Center, paid March 29, was more than $1.4 million. The HSC was approved by the board of regents to fall un-der the purview of the University in August.

Now, few smokers will tell you inhaling tar-ridden smoke is good for them. But the argument (at hand) is not whether smoking is unhealthy, or even whether second-hand smoke is unhealthy. The issue for the University is found in the middle of a balancing act: comply with all of CPRIT’s rules to receive the desirable research fund-ing or protect the individual liberties of the people who live, work and learn on this public ground.

This brings us to the second reason why using people’s health as the justifi-cation for encroaching upon individual liberties is, at the very least, frustrating.

Personally, find one casual smoker near the steps of a building entrance any more harmful to one’s health than the iced mocha latte or processed potato chips ingested on your lunch break.

What was wrong with the desig-

nated smoking areas? People who want to smoke have a place to go and people who dislike smoke know where not to go.

And thirdly — just the thought of enforcing such an extensive policy gives me a headache. Aren’t the resources that would be used for such law enforcement preoccupied with other duties?

Currently, such resources are being used to facilitate the education and safety of law-abiding citizens, smok-ers and non-smokers alike. But I guess crime prevention, traffic order, state and municipal law enforcement and catching bad guys aren’t more impor-tant than Camel Carey lighting up between his economics class and chem lab.

Hyperbole aside, people have a right to voice their opinions for or against smoking. If the legitimate concern is health, lets open the decision to the people who are affected or involved with that issue as a whole. The deci-sion shouldn’t just be left up to those concerned with research finances: choosing one necessity (research fund-ing) at the compromise of another necessity (individual liberties).

Trevor Stevens is a senior English major and the editor in chief of The Battalion.

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est of students, faculty and staff in mind, while also considering visitors to the Campus.

“We want to try to make the entranc-es to our buildings a little bit friendlier to visitors,” Cook said.

Cook said that the first step in such a policy implementation is educating people of the rule and of the resources available to them.

“With any effort like this, it begins first with education — not only for stu-dents, faculty and staff on our campus but also for visitors to our campus,” Cook said. “We are looking at [putting] signage in high traffic areas and also in University vehicles.”

A&M workers replaced the signs lead-ing to a designated smoking area with ones reading instead “Please No Smok-ing,” while Brooke Trahan, a junior psy-chology major, sat nearby in this smok-ing area.

“I feel like it’s my right to smoke just like it’s other people’s right to not have

secondhand smoke,” Trahan said. “But I feel like it is going to just continue to where smoking is not allowed on the whole campus.”

Trahan said that it is not necessary to entirely forbid on-campus smoking.

“There is so much pollution from cars and other things,” Trahan said. “But with secondhand smoke, if you don’t want to breathe the smoke, you can walk around it. I don’t think it’s fair to completely ban it—you can avoid [the smoke] if you are that adamant about it.”

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Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center, said that this social media custom is not a sincere form of the task.

“Asking forgiveness on Facebook or Twitter might make the annual religious task less onerous, but that does not let you off the hook from looking someone in the eye and offering a sincere apolo-gy,” Lazaroff said. “It is about as sincere as the level that those contacts really are your ‘friends’ and ‘followers.’”

Sarah Van Dam, a sopho-more psychology major, said she does not agree with the practice of asking for for-giveness at a specific time of the year.

“I believe that if you have to say sorry for something, you don’t need to wait until Yom Kippur,” Van Dam said.

Yom Kippur is also a time to focus on community and family. Van Dam said this is the personal focus for her during the holiday and that she is attempting to return to Venezuela to see her family.

“I don’t feel that close to God,” Van Dam said. “I do feel close to my family and my community.”

Though practices may dif-fer, Yom Kippur is highly regarded as an important holiday within the Jewish community. Van Dam said it is the most respected and ob-served of the Jewish holidays.

Lazaroff explained why this is so.

“We are judged. The question is: are we going to be granted a good year? Are we going to live? The ac-tual prayer itself says we are judged as who’s going to live, who’s going to die, who’s go-ing to be rich, who’s going to be poor, who’s going to suf-

fer, who’s not,” Lazaroff said. Nagelberg said Yom Kip-

pur is a very somber holi-day, and there are religious practices performed during the day.

“We fast, we pray, there’s a part of the service that in-volves striking yourself that’s a physical representation of the anguish you should feel for the sins you’ve commit-ted,” Nagelberg said.

Though Yom Kippur is a day of judgment, it is also a day of forgiveness and re-newal.

“Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, in reality, are just the beginning,” Lazaroff said.

Spain’s government was hit hard by the country’s financial crisis on multiple fronts Tuesday as protestors enraged with austerity cut-backs and tax hikes clashed with police near Parliament, a separatist-minded region set elections seen as an in-dependence referendum and the nation’s high borrowing costs rose again

More than 1,000 riot police blocked off access to the Parliament building in the heart of Madrid, forc-ing most protesters to crowd nearby avenues and shutting

down traffic at the height of the evening rush hour.

Police used batons to push back some protesters at the front of the march at-tended by an estimated 6,000 people as tempers flared, and some demonstrators broke down barricades and threw rocks and bottles toward authorities.

Television images showed officers beating protesters in response, and an Associated Press television producer saw five people dragged away by police and two protesters bloodied. Spanish state TV

said at least 28 were injured, including two officers, and that 22 people were de-tained. Independent Spanish media reported higher num-bers that could not immedi-ately be confirmed.

The demonstration, or-ganized with an “Occupy Congress” slogan, drew protesters from all walks of life weary of nine straight months of painful economic austerity measures imposed by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his solid majority of lawmakers.

Associated Press

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Freshmen face the challenges of college, adapt accordingly

On a warm August evening, 8,000 Aggie freshmen walked their parents to the car, gave one last round of hugs and waved goodbye to the past 18 years of their lives.

A limitless horizon beckoned ahead and what each freshman did during the days and nights of Gig ‘Em Week will forever remain purposefully vague. As the weeks crunch by and the first round of college tests slam into this year’s inaugural freshman class, that sense of unbounded freedom has largely begun to fade in the face of stark reality. Contrary to high school beliefs, A&M actually includes more things besides football, Northgate and free pizza.

One aspect of college life freshmen get used to early on is waking themselves up for class in the mornings.

“I’ve woken up late and ended up missing most or all of my morning class several times already,” said Jon Bumann, freshman politi-cal science major. “Before, there was always someone prodding me to act responsibly, but here I need to learn how to do my own thing.”

Making it to class on one’s own volition is a unique experience that every freshman on campus goes through, but the classes them-selves are often the point where the first definitive line between “then” and “now” is drawn.

“College takes out all the busywork and replaces it with really big, really hard tests,” said Daniel Kauffman, freshman accounting major, as he studied for a psychology exam. “I need to really focus to motivate myself to read all the suggested homework on my own, or I’ll fail.”

The fate of Kauffman’s test grade remains

unknown, but beneath the coursework lays unexpected challenges for many who walk this campus for the first time.

“Saying goodbye to my family was re-ally tough. Besides everything else college has been a big emotional adjustment,” said Alexis Luedke, freshman microbiology major. “I was so used to seeing my mom and dad and all of a sudden they’re gone. It’s a big transition.”

After spending four high school years con-stantly looking for ways to subtly subvert parent’s rule on all social topics, parents are now the number one commodity amongst the freshman class.

“How am I supposed to pay for things?” Kauffman said. “I could always rely on my parents for cash to go out with friends, but now I have to buy every meal, pay for my own gas and really try to limit how I spend.”

Although parent visits can be cause for much groaning and spontaneous dorm clean-ing, it is the secret desire of most freshmen for mom and dad to show up and, more impor-tantly, take them out to eat or provide a much needed college stimulus packages.

“My mom sends me money every few weeks” and “the food off campus is so de-licious!” are common remarks, especially by those freshmen who are confined to the same culinary offerings on campus week after week. Add these obstacles to never-ending laundry, a massive campus and trying to avoid “pushing it” as a consequence of Aggie Tradition igno-rance adds up to hundreds of problems for the typical freshman to try to balance on any given day. Despite this daunting task, ask any mem-ber of the Class of 2016 if they’d rather be back home and the reply is always the same: Home? Definitely not. They’re just getting started.

John RangelSpecial to The Battalion

For many college freshmen, the transition from high school to a university setting can be a jarring experience, fraught with homework, tests and time management.

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