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The damage in the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan, which

hit land on Nov. 8, has left a great deal of people in need of help. A&M students have answered the call and are joining to collect money and provisions to send to survivors.

The Philippine Student Asso-ciation, PhilSA, donated all the money raised at its 15th annual talent show on Saturday to the Filipino humanitarian organiza-tion Gawad Kalinga.

The talent show featured per-formances from campus groups such as Fade 2 Black, Aggie Fid-dlers and PhilSA Cultural, along with performances from organi-zations at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Univer-sity of North Texas.

Liezyl Hinayon, PhilSA phi-lanthropy chair and junior his-tory major, said this event marks a shift in focus for the organization from the traditional talent show

they put on every year to a show driven by the need to help victims of the typhoon.

“Initially the main focus of our show was on the members and PhilSA organizations from other universities,” Hinayon said. “Now we are shifting our fo-cus to something bigger to help

the Filipino typhoon victims by working with Gawad Kalinga.”

Hinayon said the event touched home even though not all of the Philippines was affected by the typhoon’s 195-mile-per-hour winds and torrential down-

The wheels are turning to enact changes in Texas A&M’s off-campus bus routes in an effort to better utilize transporta-

tion resources.Transportation Services has proposed a plan

that will affect five bus routes, although the most significant changes are to Routes 31, 33 and 34. The changes, which Transportation Services said will increase efficiency on the routes and decrease the time each route takes, will take effect in Fall

2014 if approved.Route 31, Elephant Walk, is one of the routes

Transportation Services plans to adjust for next year. Southwest Parkway, the route’s main street, only services stops on one side of the road. The proposed change would add stops to the other side so students can avoid walking across four lanes of traffic to get to their stop. Low ridership has also been noted along Holleman Dr., and the change would stop service along that road, which would stop service to the Oney Hervey stop.

Route 33, Texas Aggies, is popular among

students on campus because it services a stop at the Walmart Ave. However, other stops along that route have low ridership.

The plan proposed by transportation is to combine Route 33 with Route 34, Fish Camp, which runs along similar roads as Route 33 and has shown low ridership data in certain areas. Combining the routes will result in a 15-minute round trip travel time and will allow transporta-tion to reduce the number of buses used for the

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Visitors watch cultural dances Saturday at Worldfest.

Transportation readies route

changes for Fall 2014

ROUTE REDIRECTION

The 50 culture displays grouped around Wolf Pen Creek for

Worldfest on Saturday provided a col-orful and fun way to celebrate Bryan-College Station diversity.

The booths were each decorated for a different culture group or non-profit and educated visitors about cultural customs and traditions from around the world.

Jill Palmer, sophomore internation-al studies major, said Worldfest gave her a hands-on opportunity to engage with her field of study and learn about things that interest her outside of the classroom.

“It’s neat being an international studies major and getting to hear peo-ple’s firsthand experiences and stories of other cultures,” Palmer said.

There were culture displays from all corners of the world, including Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Many of the culture displays were set up by students and displayed traditional aspects of differ-ent cultures and sold traditional foods.

The Chinese Student Association offered samples of traditional Chinese tea and other foods as well as a display of traditional Chinese culture involv-ing calligraphy and watercolor paint-ing.

Reubin Xu, civil engineering grad-uate student and association member, said the art was well received by fes-tival attendees. Xu said people were

Worldfest meshes B-CS diversity

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culture

Event featured displays from around the globe

Beginning next fall, several bus routes will see alterations in stops and direction, pending approval.

theater | 3‘Memphis: the Musical’Hosted by MSC OPAS, the musical will be performed Tuesday and Wednesday in Rudder Auditorium.

sports | 4A&M tops HoustonThe A&M women’s basketball team defeated Houston 63-51 on Sunday behind Courtney Walker’s 19 points.

religion | 5GENTS panelRepresentatives from seven different religious backgrounds will participate in a panel discussion at 7 p.m. Monday.

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See Worldfest on page 6

Philippine group aids storm-ravaged homeland

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See PhilSA on page 6

service

Talent show profits donated to typhoon relief

The Texas A&M volleyball team (16-10, 8-7 SEC) won both its weekend Reed Arena

matchups in sweeps, downing Tennessee on Fri-day before defeating Auburn, extending its win streak to five matches.

As the Aggies entered Reed on Sunday against Auburn, the momentum from Friday’s win over the Volunteers spilled over into the quick three-set victory — 25-19, 28-26, 25-17.

A&M head coach Laurie Corbelli said the key to the Aggies’ sweep was the group’s aggression throughout the match.

“We stayed the aggressor most of the time,” Corbelli said. “Our blocking was superior and I just think we’ve gotten a lot better. Those are two big advantages right there. We have a lot of room for improvement. It’s not a hard sell to work the team out and remind them of how much better they’re playing. That’s built a lot of confidence. Our senior leaders have done a bril-liant job of directing the team, and the team has followed beautifully.”

A&M never surrendered the lead during the first set and was able to surge past the Tigers to a quick 25-19 victory.

A&M surges to 5th straight win

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See Volleyball on page 4

volleyball

Aggies sweep Auburn with team defense

Senior setter Allie Sawatzky jumps for a block during a Sunday sweep of Auburn.

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PhilSA members sing the Filipino national anthem at the beginning of their talent show benefitting typhoon victims.

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buses used for the route from four to three. Madeline Dillard, associate direc-tor for Transportation Services, said the changes benefits other routes besides 33 and 34.

“The combining of Routes 33 and 34 will allow us to move a bus to Route 36 that carries far more passengers than 33 and 34 combined,” Dillard said. “This change enables us to maximize our re-sources and move a bus to help handle higher capacity of passengers.”

Autumn Graham, junior communica-tion major, rides Route 31. She said this year the bus is crowded and much less predictable than it was last year.

“Last year I rode the bus every single day, but now I try to find other ways to get to campus with friends or driving myself to campus rather than having to wait on a bus that is unpredictable, often overcrowded and hardly ever on time,” Graham said.

When Graham was told about the

plans Transportation Services has for next fall, she said the plan would have positive effects for students using the bus system.

“That would be so much safer,” Gra-ham said. “I seriously get so tired of hav-ing to cross four lanes of traffic to get to my stop that is across the street on South-west Parkway and dodging cars and hop-ing they will stop. There is no crosswalk or anything like that close to make the walk safer. Also, I think that it would defi-

nitely help speed up the route if they got rid of the Holleman stop.”

Representatives from Transportation Services spoke at last week’s Student Senate meeting to inform senators about the proposition. Peter Lange, executive director of Transportation Services, said transportation is making an effort to in-form students of the plan now before housing plans can be made for the fall.

“We held an open forum for student input last month and will be holding an-other one on Nov. 25 at 5:30 p.m. in the MSC,” Lange said. “We have signage ad-vertising the forum and the changes at the on-campus stops for the routes affected. We have presented to the Student Senate and the Transportation Services Advisory Committee, which has student represen-tation. We also will present to the Gradu-ate Student Council.”

Other changes have also been planned for Routes 35 and 36, but these changes are not expected of have a significant ef-fect on people who ride the bus to cam-pus, Transportation Services said.

TransportationContinued from page 1

This change enables us

to maximize our resources and move a bus to help handle higher capacity of passengers.”

— Madeline Dillard,

associate director for Transportation Services

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“I didn’t buy a parking pass, so [buses are] extremely useful for that so I

don’t get a [parking] ticket. A lot of the time in the morning, it’s hard to get a

bus that’s not completely packed.”Zach Adams, freshman biology major

Q:thebattasks What has been your opinion on

changes to Transportation Services?

“I really don’t have a problem with the routes. They have been really helpful for me. I wrecked my car a couple of weeks ago,

so I have been relying 100 percent on taking the bus to and from campus, and it’s been really helpful. ”

Marshall Green, freshman agribusiness major

“It’s not bad. It’s easy. It’s quick. I’ve never had a bus late.”

Nicole Bartke, freshman special education major

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“As far as timing, they are pretty good. They are actually better than everywhere else in Texas. T.u. definitely doesn’t have

anything like what A&M has. I don’t have a car, so it helps me a lot to get around and I need to be able to have access on weekends.”

Andrew Jaynes, senior civil engineering major

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There was a time when radio was the main source of music, and the kinds of music on the radio were

limited to only what certain musicians produced.“Memphis: The Musical” tells the story of one disc

jockey, Huey Calhoun, who took it upon himself to break down barriers in the ’50s and introduce “black music” to people who listened to the radio. In the face of tradition and social obstacles, he followed what he knew to be right, fell into a forbidden love, and ulti-mately changed his world.

“Apart from the quality of the Broadway musical, there are some great messages,” said Anne Black, ex-ecutive director of MSC OPAS. “It’s about the birth of rock ’n’ roll for a broad audience — a great piece about social justice at a time when there was none.”

“Memphis” swept away audiences and won the Tony in 2010 for Best Musical.

“I feel like it’s a modern musical,” said senior Kelsey Morris, geology major and manager of theatre hospi-

tality for MSC OPAS. “When most people think of musicals they think of old classics, but this is some-thing modern and fresh and exciting.”

Jacob de Jongh, freshman sociology major and MSC OPAS committee

member, will be volunteering at “Memphis” on both nights it

comes to Rudder.“Me, I enjoy the music of it,” De

Jongh said. “I’m a music lover. But the historical as-

pects of it, with the advent of the radio, are also interesting to me. I believe it’s still relevant today.”

Memphis will be at Rudder Au-ditorium at 7:30

on Tuesday and Wednesday evening.

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‘Memphis’ takes the stage

msc opas

Broadway blends music with history in Rudder Auditorium

The MSC Visual Arts Committee is showcasing comic art from Speed Bump cartoonist Dave Cov-

erly at the student-run Reynolds Student Art Gallery.Coverly combined humorous character dialogue

with watercolor and ink illustrations, writing and de-signing each comic himself. In a pamphlet produced for the exhibit, Coverly said he drew inspiration from his daily interactions.

“The characters I use are you and me and our neigh-bors, families and friends,” Coverly said. “Pretty much everyone. Even animals are fair game. We all have quirks, which can be funny, but more importantly, we have many, many things in common and it’s in our similarities that the richest veins of humor are found.”

Comic art is fairly new to the gallery because it is rarely showcased, said Sairah Zia, MSC art resource executive and senior biochemistry major.

“We wanted to do something very different and comic art hasn’t been featured,” Zia said. “Usually we’ve just done the more traditional stuff like paint-ings, print makings. This isn’t something we regularly see in exhibits.”

Eric Clausen, program coordinator and MSC Visual Arts Committee advisor, said the exhibit should attract students because of the universal appeal of Coverly’s work.

“He’s more of a commercial cartoonist and this is something that people see in the paper every day,” Clausen said. “This isn’t hyper minimalist, relational aesthetics or anything like that so it’s something that is very direct and approachable, and yet it’s still very introspective into the human condition.”

Clausen also said the exhibit is a representation of the work done for students by the MSC Visual Arts Committee.

“The purpose of the Reynolds Gallery or Visual Arts Committee, which runs the Reynolds Gallery, is to bring art to campus and have something for stu-dents to interact with,” Clausen said. “Having a stu-dent voice in what goes up and what’s displayed is pretty important. It also gives the students a lot of really good experience in art handling, arts administration, and how to put together an exhibit and events around it because it’s not just hanging stuff on a wall so people could see it.”

A comic book and zine workshop will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday. A panel discussion on comic art starts at 6 p.m. on Nov. 21. The exhibit will run through Jan. 5.

Comic exhibit showcased in MSC art gallery

reynolds gallery

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Cartoonist’s work on display through Jan. 5

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Senior computer science majors, Patrick Knauth (left) and Joshua Hanes, look at different pieces of the “Speed Bump” collection in the Reynolds art gallery at the MSC.

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“I’m just there wherever my team needs me,” Babers said. “If they need me to be bait, I’ll jump up. If Angela [Lowak] or Sierra [Patrick] gets a kill on the outside with only one blocker, I feel like it’s my point because I helped them. It’s a team sport. We had awe-some passes by the back row so I was able to get set.”

Corbelli said she has seen improve-ment from her team throughout the sea-son and is proud of the progress. After los-ing to Auburn earlier this year, Corbelli said it was important that her team was able to prove they have gotten better since the season began.

“We made fewer errors this time around,” Corbelli said. “I was really proud of the poise and composure of the team.”

Senior outside hitter Heather Reynolds’ defensive performance and leadership helped guide the A&M defense to “out-dig” the Ti-gers down the stretch.

“Before the game, I got all the back row

players together and said that we will out-dig this team,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds finished with a match-high 16 digs and the Aggies had a season-high 51 total digs. Babers led the group with 10 kills while Sullivan followed with nine of her own.

On Friday, A&M won 25-17, 25-14 and 25-10 over Tennessee. Senior Al-lie Sawatzky led the charge to earn the Ag-gies their second-highest hitting percent-age of the season, .413 to Tennessee’s .172. Sawatzky had 12 kills with a .550 hitting percentage.

“It is really fun to get everyone in and get everyone going,” Sawatzky said. “We have been working a lot of different lineups and different rotations, and everyone is doing such a great job.”

Texas A&M will play Kentucky and Geor-gia on Friday and Sunday in a pair of road matchups before closing out the regular season against South Carolina on Nov. 27 at Reed Arena.

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A&M handles Houston in road match, 63-51

Behind Courtney Walker, preseason All-SEC First Team guard, the Texas

A&M women’s basketball team defeated the Houston Cougars 63-51 on the road Sunday.

The Aggies fell behind for the first time this season early in the game, but a 16-1

run during the latter part of the first half allowed the group to retake the lead and surge to the victory. The Cougars would tighten the score to 27-23 at the half.

Head coach Gary Blair said his squad’s defensive capabilities bailed it out on a few occasions, eventually putting Houston away down the stretch.

“We’re going to take the win,” Blair said. “When they got the lead down to

three and had the ball it was getting really tight, but we got a couple of defensive stops at the end.”

Walker led both teams with a season-high 19 points. Ju-nior forward Achiri Ade add-ed 18 points and pulled down a team-high 11 rebounds, her first career double-double.

Blair compared Walker to A&M’s all-time leading scor-er Takia Starks, who played under Blair from 2005-09.

“Achiri Ade kept us in the game in the first half, and Courtney Walker was solid the whole ballgame,” Blair said. “When that jumper is going she can remind you of Takia Starks who played for us. We can run a lot of stuff for her.”

Houston-raised sopho-more guard Courtney Wil-liams grabbed 11 rebounds in front of her hometown fans, sharing the team high total with Ade.

Texas A&M (3-0, 0-0 SEC) next heads to the U.S. Virgin Islands to compete in the Paradise Jam Classic. The Aggies are slotted up against Memphis, Syracuse and Tex-as, marking the first sched-uled meeting between the two schools in any sport since A&M’s 2012 conference re-alignment.

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w. basketball

VolleyballContinued from page 1

Courtesy of The Daily Cougar

Sophomore guard Courtney Walker defends a Cougar drive during A&M’s 63-51 win over Houston on Sunday.

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An organization founded on the idea of learning more about the world

and sharing that knowledge with others is seeking to take on a topic they see as particularly relevant to campus — reli-gion.

Gentlemen Enabling Nations to Suc-ceed (GENTS) will hold a panel on re-ligion at 7 p.m. Monday in the Robert Gates Ballroom of the MSC.

“The organization generally started out as a group of people who just want-ed to learn more about the world and spread that knowledge,” said Javier San-tiago, president of GENTS and senior molecular and cell biology major. “I think [the groups origins and the panel] kind of go hand in hand.”

With seven representatives from dif-ferent religious backgrounds, including

a non-denominational representative from Grace Bible Church, event coordi-nator and senior petroleum engineering major, David Gregory, said the goal of the event is to provide an analysis on the differences and similarities among faiths in an educational setting.

The panelists will introduce the vari-ous religions they represent, discuss their religions’ response to questions regard-ing science, afterlife and current issues, and allow students to ask any religious questions they might have, Gregory said.

Santiago said the question and answer period offers students a unique oppor-tunity.

“The last part of the program is the question and answer forum, in which people can raise questions that they may have thought of during the panel, during the program, or questions that they’ve been thinking over,” Santiago said. “That part especially is really a cool op-portunity for picking [panelist’s brains].”

Santiago said part of the panel’s goal is to expose students and attendees to faiths that are not as well known.

“Most people just lack understanding

of what they are at their most basic lev-el, so giving people the opportunity to learn even just a little bit about what they are about allows for people to conduct themselves more intelligently around people of different faiths,” Santiago said.

Santiago said this event also seeks to stop any unneeded anger or distrust of people from different faiths and encour-age an evaluation of one’s own faith.

“[The panel discussion] really helps to bring about great questions that you can direct toward your own faith or find out about another faith that you may find you sort of identify more with,” San-tiago said.

Kyle Robinson, freshman agricultural sciences major, said she sees the event as an opportunity for students but hopes that the discussion won’t be spoiled by closed-mindedness.

“If they are capable and willing to educate those who are interested in the subject, why not take the opportunity?” Robinson said.

Students to host panel discussionreligions

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Group to promote understanding of different religions

A&M edges Rice at Reed, 68-65

Shelby Knowles — THE BATTALION

Senior guard Blake McDonald surveys the defense during Texas A&M’s 68-65 thriller victory over Rice on Friday night in Reed Arena, improving A&M to an undefeated 3-0 record on the season. The Aggies next take the court Tuesday against Prairie View A&M at Reed Arena.

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extremely open to learning about other cul-tures.

“People here are very friendly,” Xu said. “They are buying things and communicating with us, so we are very much enjoying the ex-perience.”

At another booth, Japan Club sold onigiri, or rice balls, which are a traditional Japanese festival food. The club also had a “Shoot the oni” game, where children could shoot a poster of a Japanese demon, and “Yukata try-ons,” in which people could try on traditional Japanese formal wear.

Randy Ricardo Castillo, Japan Club mem-ber and junior biomedical sciences major, said the club’s culture display was aimed at educat-ing many different ages of the College Station community.

“We’ve had a lot of families, a lot of students and we’ve had a lot of high school students,” Castillo said. “We had information for them on how to study abroad in Japan, so all the family

got to experience some Japanese culture here.”Castillo said Japan Club works to provide

cross-cultural experiences for members of both backgrounds.

“We try to facilitate a culture immersion,” Castillo said. “So what we’ll do is we’ll have conversations in Japanese where American stu-dents can practice their Japanese and then we’ll have social events where Japanese students can experience American social events.”

Worldfest gave the club an opportunity to share its efforts with a larger group of people and connect with the community in a new way, Castillo said.

Castillo said he appreciated the opportunity both to display a culture he loves and learn about the other cultures that are represented in the College Station community.

“I feel like it’s a very important event, not only because it’s one day where everyone can eat amazing food from every country but also because it shows the diversity we have here in College Station and I feel that’s not something that’s usually something spread and shown around,” Castillo said. “And this event brings everyone to their best and shows their pride for their country.”

What are the facts?The “Israel lobby.” There are indeed those who

claim that Israel is a liability, a burden to ourcountry. Professors from prestigious universitieswrite essays in which they aver that the UnitedStates is in thrall to the “Israel lobby.” This lobby issaid to pull the strings of American policy. Itssupposed main promoters are AIPAC (AmericanIsrael Public Affairs Committee) and the so-called“neo-cons,” some ofwhom are indeed Jewish.They are said to exert analmost magical spell overpolicy makers, includingthe leaders of Congressand the President. Someeven say that the Iraq warwas promoted by this omnipotent “Israel lobby,”that President Bush was flummoxed into declaringwar on Saddam Hussein, not in order to defend theUnited States or to promote its interests, but inorder to further the interests of Israel.

Israel is indeed a major recipient of U.S. aid.Israel receives yearly $3.0 billion, all of it inmilitary aid – nothing in economic aid. 75% of thismilitary aid must be spent with U.S. militarycontractors, making Israel a very large customer ofthose companies.

America’s staunchest ally. A good case can bemade that aid to Israel, all of it military, should bepart of the United States defense budget, ratherthan of the aid budget because Israel is, next onlyperhaps to Britain, by far the most important ally ofthe United States. Virtually without exception,Israel’s government and its people agree with andsupport the foreign policy objectives of the UnitedStates. In the United Nations, Israel’s votescoincide with those of the United States over 90%of the time. The Arabs and other Moslem countries,virtually all of them recipients of American largess,almost reflexively vote against the United States inmost instances.

Israel is the major strategic asset of the UnitedStates in an area of the world that is the cradle ofIslamo-fascism, which is dominated by tyrants andpermeated by religious obscurantism and showsalmost total disregard for human rights. Duringthe decades-long Cold War, Israel was America’sindispensable rampart against the inroads of theSoviet Union. It is now the bulwark against theaggressive intentions of Iran. During Desert Storm,

Israel providedinvaluable intelligence,an umbrella of air coverfor military cargo, andhad personnel planted inthe Iraqi deserts to pickup downed Americanpilots.

Gen. George Keagan, former head of U.S. AirForce Intelligence, stated publicly that “Israel isworth five CIAs,” with regard to intelligence passedto our country. He also stated that the yearly $3.0billion that Israel received in military assistancewas worth $50 to $60 billion in intelligence, R&Dsavings, and Soviet weapons systems captured andtransferred to the Pentagon. In contrast to ourcommitments in Korea, Japan, Germany, and otherparts, not a single American serviceperson needs tobe stationed in Israel. Considering that the cost ofone serviceperson per year – including backup andinfrastructure – is estimated to be about $200,000,and assuming a minimum contingent of 25,000troops, the cost savings to the United States on thatscore alone is on the order of $5 billion a year.

Israel effectively secures NATO’s southeasternflank. Its superb harbor, its outstanding militaryinstallations, the air and sea lift capabilities, andthe trained manpower to maintain sophisticatedequipment are readily at hand in Israel. It is theonly country that makes itself available to theUnited States in any contingency. Yes, Israel is nota burden, but a tremendous asset to the UnitedStates.

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Israel and the United StatesIs Israel an asset or a burden to our country?

The United States is without question Israel’s most important ally. Also, without question, Israel is thestaunchest and most reliable friend of the United States. But there are some who believe and vigorouslyadvocate that Israel is a burden to the United States and that, were it not for Israel, peace would prevail inthe Middle East.

Israel is indeed America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East and the indispensable defender ofAmerica’s interests in that area of the world. The people of the United States, individually and through theirCongressional representatives, overwhelmingly support Israel in its seemingly unending fight against Arabaggression and Muslim terror. But that support is not only based on the great strategic value that Israelrepresents to the United States. It is and always has been based on shared values of liberty, democracy, andhuman rights. America and Israel are aligned by their shared love of peace and democracy. Israel and theUnited States stand together in their fight against Islamo-fascist terrorism. These shared values, thesecommon ideals, will bind Israel and the United States forever.

FLAME is a tax-exempt, non-profit educational 501 (c)(3) organization.Its purpose is the research and publication of the facts regardingdevelopments in the Middle East and exposing false propaganda thatmight harm the interests of the United States and its allies in that area ofthe world. Your tax-deductible contributions are welcome. They enableus to pursue these goals and to publish these messages in nationalnewspapers and magazines. We have virtually no overhead. Almost allof our revenue pays for our educational work, for these clarifyingmessages, and for related direct mail.

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fascist terrorism. These shared values willbind Israel and the United States forever.”

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Sophomore communication major, Ileah Guajardo, looks at personalized pendants for sale at the origami owl booth Saturday at Worldfest.

pours.“I don’t know anyone

that was personally affected, but my family is from Cibu and the first week after the typhoon happened I didn’t have any contact with them, and that really scared me,” Hi-nayon said. “But finally they were able to get ahold of me and that was really relieving.”

Monet Maguyon, biologi-cal and agricultural engineer-ing graduate student, said she was relieved that none of her relatives were injured, but was remorseful that the other re-gions of her home country

were severely affected.“My family and relatives

live in the northern part of the Philippines, so fortunately they were not affected,” Ma-guyon said. “The central part of the Philippines was affect-ed the most, particularly the province of Leyte.”

In addition to PhilSA, the International Christian Fel-lowship is raising money for relief of the survivors. Tiberio Garza, fellowship president and educational psychology graduate student, said he and his organization are motivated to raise awareness and dona-tions for those hit hard by the typhoon.

“Helping those affected by the Philippines typhoon has

stirred our hearts to reach out to them,” Garza said. “As an international student com-munity, we have some insight into the regional needs and established connections with people in the Philippines. What we want to convey is that there are people here in Aggieland that care and are praying for them.”

The fellowship will host a booth from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the 12th Man Hall in the MSC to collect donations from students. Members will ac-cept contributions of money or supplies such as toiletries, soaps, sleeping gear, medicines and other provisions.

Alexander Newolet — THE BATTALION

PhilSA officers Liezyl Hinayon, Jennifer Nguyen, CJ Velasquez and Edward Jackson stand in front of the Philippines booth Saturday before the talent show.

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