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OSHA investigates accident Equine complex collapse injures 5 workers Jessica Smarr The Battalion
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ccupational Safety and Health Administration investigations are underway to evaluate the cause of the collapse of a 300-foot-long barn under construction, which injured 5 workers, as a part of the $80 million Texas A&M University Equine Complex Project. Tom Hansen, senior vice president of Gamma Construction Company, said he and other company officials are working closely with federal investigators to provide information relevant to the collapse. Hansen said the investigation 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 Erectors 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 workers 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 condition. 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
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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. 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 families, 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 College 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 Equestrian 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 excellent 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.”
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
movie review
Monster weekend Sean Lester: Pixar’s latest coming-of-age tale isn’t just for the kids
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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 Goodman) 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
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“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.”
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1) Monsters University 2) World War Z 3) Man of Steel 4) This is the End 5) Now You See Me 6) Fast and Furious 6
$82,429,469 $66,411,834 $41,287,206 $13,290,642 $7,876,002 $4,930,685
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$82,429,469 $66,411,834 $210,078,153 $58,082,166 $94,456,978 $228,618,155
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Chartwells proposes new meal plan, dining dollar system Allison Rubenak The Battalion
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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.
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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 number of meals included in the plan and a decrease in dining dollars. The dining 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 dining 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 Director of Residence Life, Chareny Rydl, said the reaction would depend on individual 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 proposed Corps of Cadets, mandatory freshman and sophomore, and resident meal plans, only three meal trades may be used
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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 enjoyed 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
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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 Chartwells, said meal plans do not change every academic year. However, this year the plans were “driven by the University’s long-term investments and vision for dining.” Riddle described these changes as encouragement for
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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 organizations. One scene during finals depicts a monster with several arms carrying five different cups of coffee and the pot itself. Sound familiar? As you sit down to watch Disney/Pixar’s latest masterpiece 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, friendships and conversations — through Mike and Sulley is enough to make “Monsters University” one I’ll be adding to my movie collection. Sean Lester is a senior agricultural communications and journalism major, and assignments editor for The Battalion
more students to dine in the larger dining halls, like Duncan 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 Hullabaloo Hall — the underconstruction 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 sometime in August.
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While the operating system 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 functionality, aiming to make the operating system more appealing and easier to use. IOS 7 will include iCloud photo-sharing as well as collections, moments and years of organization in the Photos app. It will also include phone, FaceTime and message blocking as well as an improved Find My iPhone app, which will require an Apple ID and password to erase the device or reactivate it to help further prevent information theft. Here are some of the new features: Control Center Like Notification Center,
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quotas, which the Supreme Court previously rejected. Before using race as a factor, Texas’ student 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 admissions process achieved the diversity the university wants. More than 8 in 10 AfricanAmerican and Latino students who enrolled at the flagship campus in Austin in 2011 were automatically admitted, according to university statistics. White students constituted less than half the entering class when students with Asian backgrounds and other minorities were added 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 opportunity, 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 affected by the policy — be fully heard at any re-hearing.�
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Healthy & Non-Smoking BMI between 19 and 30 Weigh at least 110 lbs.
Wed. 10 Jul. through Mon. 15 Jul. Outpatient Visit: 19 Jul.
Men and Women 18 to 55
Up to $2000
Healthy & Non-Smoking BMI between 18 and 34 Weigh between 110 lbs.and 220 lbs.
Fri. 12 Jul. through Mon. 15 Jul. Fri. 26 Jul. through Mon. 29 Jul. Outpatient Visit: 5 Aug.
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