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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 2014 VOLUME 88 ■ ISSUE 74

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Davis stakes out middle ground, shifts topic AUSTIN (AP) — Gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis promised Tuesday to veto a state income tax to pay for public schools and expand where people may carry handguns, while her campaign attempted to move past allegations she misled people while telling her life story.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the Democratic state senator from Fort Worth also reiterated her refusal to discuss the volatile end to her second marriage to Jeff Davis, which led to allegations of infidelity and a temporary restraining order against her.

“What I committed to my daughters when I started this journey was that I would not revisit a very difficult time in our life which was that period,” Davis said. “I am not going to revisit that for the purposes of this campaign, not today, not in the future of the campaign. I would just remind you that there are always two sides to every story in a divorce.”

Davis is the only credible candidate for the Democratic nomination for Texas governor in the March 4 primary. Her likely Republican opponent is Attorney General Greg Abbott, following Gov. Rick Perry’s decision to retire. No Democrat has won statewide office since 1994, but Davis gained national support following a 13-hour filibuster to block passage of new abortion restrictions.

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Used tissues are stacked high on the desks of dorm rooms as students with clogged nostrils struggle for air.

The beginning of the semester is not a time students want to get sick.

Dr. Kelly Bennett, a physician at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, strongly encourages students to get the flu shot.

“Any time you have people living in a close environment,” Bennett said, “you’re going to have a higher rate of the flu.”

Flu season is typically from around October to January, Bennett said, and it usually lasts two months from whenever it first started.

“This year, there was a spattering of the flu in November, but it didn’t really get going until December,” Bennett said. “It will probably be with us until about the end of February.”

The purpose of the flu shot is not only to protect you, but also so scientists can see what is most likely to come around next year.

Bennett said most of the time the shot is very accurate.

“We want students to get vaccinated for themselves,” Bennett said, “but also for professors and staff members on campus who maybe aren’t as young and healthy as the college students.”

If a student is already infected with the flu, there are many ways to deal with it.

Bennett said being seen by a physician within the first 48 hours of the first fever is suggested.

“If you cannot get in within that 48hour time period, there’s really nothing a doctor can do for you,” Bennett said.

“At that point, it’s just Tylenol, liquids and staying away from people.”

Bennett said when an infected person does not have a fever for 24 hours after taking Tylenol, they’re free to go back into the world.

“We will write school notes for a week out,” Bennett said. “We don’t want infected people in the classrooms.”

With about a three-week recovery period, getting to class can create a problem.

Tech’s policy on attendance comes from Operating Policy 34.04: Academic

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By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Every year the flu season arrives as usual, but the virus changes from year to year.

As Texas experiences high levels of the flu outbreak, there are certain precautions to consider in order to avoid infection.

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Texas is among the top 14 states with the most outpatient visits in hospitals for flu-like symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website.

The state of Texas has collected 3,510 voluntary reports for influenza, and more than 1,000 of the reports submitted turned out positive for influenza, according to the website.

Patricia Palmer, a registered nurse at the University Medical Center, said the best preventative against influenza is to get vaccinated.

“The best thing to do is to get the flu shot,” she said.

Every year a new vaccination is released to help prevent the spread of the flu, according to the website. Everyone older than six months should receive the flu shot.

Due to the mutations the virus goes through each year, last year’s flu vaccination does not provide as adequate protection from the flu as this year’s vaccination, according to the website.

During the first two weeks of January, there have been more than 6,000 outpatient visits for influenza-like symptoms, according to the Texas Department of State Heath Services website. Of the visits, 1,590 of those visits were from people ages five to 24.

There are three different strains of the flu virus. The different strains include influenza type A, B and C. Type A has the worst symptoms and is the most difficult to treat, Palmer said.

Another safety measure one must follow in order to avoid getting the flu virus is washing one’s hands frequently, she said.

It is important because the flu virus can be transmitted after one comes in contact with a surface containing the germs of one infected with the virus.

Michelle, who did not want to use her last name, a registered nurse at UMC, said frequent hand washing is key in preventing the spread of the virus.

“We always instruct people to have very good hand-washing skills,” she said.

Stopping the spread of the virus is difficult because the virus spreads one day before symptoms begin to develop, according to the CDC website. A person with the infection can continue to spread the virus five to seven days after being infected.

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Tech receives grant for Lady Raider basketball transportation research looks to end losing streak

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Regulations Concerning Student Performance.

According to Policy 34.04, the university reserves the right to deal with an individual’s case of absences at any time.

Texas Tech researchers at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation (TechMRT) received a $2.5 million grant to research the physical infrastructure of highways in the Southwest region, according to a news release.

Tech will receive a $222,500 share from the grant, and will be joining the Southern Plains Regional Transportation Center to study transportation systems in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico, according to the release.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration was responsible for providing the grant to the University Transportation Center that will fund the research TechMRT will be conducting, according to the release.

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department of civil and environmental engineering, said researchers will be looking into physical structures in transportation, such as highways and bridges, and examine how they withstand various types of climate conditions.

“Our objective is to research into problems involving the transportation network,” she said, “and how to make sure they are able to withstand climatic situations and adapt in the future.”

Priyantha Jayawickrama, another member of the research team and associate professor at the department of civil and environmental engineering, said TechMRT will identify research areas and submit proposals to the University Transportation Center for their research. “(The University Transport Center) will evaluate the proposals and identify which ones they want to pursue,” Jayawickrama said.

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The Texas Tech women’s basketball team will look to defend its home court against No. 18 West Virginia at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the United Spirit Arena.

Coach Candi Whitaker said the team has prepared hard in practice this week and is ready to compete.

“We‘re always looking to win and execute and play hard with a lot of energy,” Whitaker said.

“West Virginia is no different. We are going to approach it like we always do and make it about us more than anything.”

The Lady Raiders are currently on a sevengame losing streak with an overall record of 6-11 and 0-6 in the Big 12 Conference.

Whitaker said the team has practiced focusing and playing with fewer mistakes.

“We really have taken a step back and tried to really focus on ourselves,” Whitaker said. “There’s a lot of things we have to get corrected at the fundamental level. Until we can do those things, we can’t really worry a ton about an opponent.”

West Virginia will enter the game on a threegame winning streak with an overall record of

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16-2 and 5-1 in conference games. They are currently in second place in the Big 12.

Tech’s leading scorer, junior guard Amber Battle, said the team is up for the challenge of playing a ranked team.

“It’s always a challenge,” Battle said. “This is a good team that we’re going up against. We have to come out with the max amount of energy that we have and give it our all.”

Battle is averaging 18.4 points per game, which is third highest in the Big 12. She is also leading the team in rebounding with eight per game.

West Virginia’s starting guards, sophomore Bria Holmes and senior Christal Caldwell, lead the Mountaineers. Both are averaging more than 12 points per game.

Battle said it is important to her to protect the United Spirit Arena.

“We want to get on a roll and give our fans something to look forward to and just build on that,” Battle said. “This is our court, so we have to go out there, give it our all and protect our court.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

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Hospitality Services make campus changes Staff Writer

Today

Thursday

TAB Presents: Poster Sale Time: All day Where: Student Union Building Courtyard So, what is it?

Come purchase new decorations to jazz up the walls of your room.

TAB Presents: Mr. Gatti’s Night Time: 6:00 p.m.

Where: Mr. Gatti’s Pizza, 5001 50th Street So, what is it?

Come out and enjoy some pizza, arcade games and fun prizes before the semester gets too busy.

Western Civilization Lecture with Dr. Robert C. Koons Time: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Play Room in the Student Union Building So, what is it?

University of Texas at Austin Philosophy professor, Robert C. Koons, discusses Aristotle and how he affected intellectual landscape

Evoke Worship Experience Time: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Trinity Church Chapel, 7002 Canton Avenue So, what is it?

Enjoy a fun night and worship with other college-aged students Tim Buzbee & Jessica Buzbee Guest Artist Recital Time: 8:00 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Come listen to famous tuba player, Tim Buzbee, and famous trombone player, Jessica Buzbee in this special guest recital.

TAB Recruitment Social Time: 6:00 p.m.

Where: Escondido Theatre in the Student Union Building So, what is it?

Come chat with the members of TAB and find out if this organization is a good fit for you.

Hospitality Services has planned an entire semester of events, renovations and new changes to the campus dining experience.

Alan Cushman, business development unit manager of Hospitality Services, said the department tries to break up the monotony of campus eating on a regular basis. By introducing new foods and updating dining facilities, students will continue to utilize on-campus facilities, he said.

“We’re always looking to do new things,” Cushman said. “In February, we’ll do Valentine’s Day specials around campus. We like to change it up from what we traditionally do.”

Each semester, Hospitality Services also hosts dining events at locations across campus in honor of various fun-food days, such as National Tortilla Chip Day or National Chocolate Cake Day, Cushman said.

Bringing interesting and different events to campus makes on-campus dining more enjoy-

able, he said. man said.

A new Sam’s Express Kiosk “I’d like to see more options at the dining halls,” Gerry Dreher, will open in the new Petroleum a sophomore Spanish major from Engineering building, similar to Harker Heights, said. “It’d be cool the location opened in the Media for hospitality to partner with and Communication building last restaurants in the area so we can semester. use our meal plan The kiosk off campus, like will likely open later in the they do at some other schools.” semester after construction of Although n o p l a n s c u rthe building is rently exist for complete due students to use to construction dining bucks off constraints, campus, HospiCushman said. tality Services is A ribbonc u t t i n g c e rin negotiation with a national emony for the ALAN CUSHMAN opening of the brand to bring BUISINESS DEVELOPMENT the company to Petroleum EngiThe Market at UNIT MANAGER OF HOSPI- neering building TALITY SERVICES will be held on S t a n g e l - M u rdough, which Feb. 27, accordbegan construction over winter ing to the building’s website. break, according to a previous In the newly completed Burarticle in The Daily Toreador. khart Center for Autism EducaThe facility will be complete tion and Research, Hospitality by fall, according to the article. Services is still in negotiation for The location was chosen for what food service location works renovation because it’s been 16 best for students’ needs. years since major changes were “We want to make sure whatlast made to The Market, Cush- ever goes in there works for the

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area and for the students and staff,” Cushman said. “We’d like to have a venue where we can partner with them for autistic learning, where perhaps students could work and there could be an educational aspect to the facility.”

Early in the semester, The Commons will host the first campus-wide Chili Cook-Off on Jan. 30 for students to taste and judge chili creations. Culinarytrained chefs from across campus will organize teams.

This event showcases the chefs, who mostly work behind the scenes, while increasing student involvement, Cushman said.

“We want to make sure Texas Tech Hospitality Services is a progressive department,” Cushman said. “We want to see what other campuses are doing right, what they’re doing wrong and if it fits for us.”

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POLICE BLOTTER

dent with a “club” vehicle antitheft device and a tire iron. The student received minor injures (bruises) to the right side of his abdomen and upper back due to the assault, but did not require medical treatment.

2 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for driving while intoxicated, after observing a suspicious vehicle in the R-31 parking lot. The nonstudent was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was towed by Lubbock Wrecker Services to their impound lot.

2:54 a.m. — A officer investigated criminal mischief at Hulen Hall. Two ceiling tiles were damaged on the first floor south hallway of Hulen Hall.

3:04 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Weymouth Hall. A ceiling tile was damaged on the first floor.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

Friday 12:16 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated improper photography or visual recording, which occurred in the men’s restroom of Coleman Residence Hall. A student reported that he observed an unknown male recording him in the shower.

3:20 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, and duty on striking an unattended vehicle in the Zone 3-F parking lot.

7:02 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested six students for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, following a call in reference to a suspicious odor of marijuana on the first floor of Gordon Residence Hall.

All six students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Saturday 12:57 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated an aggravated assault (family violence), which occurred in the R-1 parking lot.

A student assaulted another stu-

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PEDRAM BALDARI, A graduate sculpture major from Iran, welds the beginning piece of his sculpture to fill in holes before he sands down the rough edges on Tuesday in the 3D Art Annex.

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The only way to confirm a person has the flu is by taking a test to determine if one has the virus or not, Palmer said.

Flu-like symptoms, also

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In case of an illness requiring an absence from class for more than one week, the student should notify his or her academic dean, according to the policy.

known as the fluFACTS, include fever, aches, chills, tiredness and sudden onset, according to the government flu website. Symptoms can begin to appear one to four days after the virus enters the body.

If a student has the flu or begins to experience flu-like

symptoms, they should remain isolated to avoid spreading the virus, according to the CDC website. The flu can be spread person-to-person when a person with the virus coughs, sneezes or talks causing droplets to land on the mouth or nose of another person.

“If you know your neighbor is sick,” Michelle said, “you should isolate yourself from them.”

If sick, doctors prescribe antiviral medicine to help patients recover at a faster rate, according to the CDC website.

From this point, the student’s academic dean will notify the professor through the departmental office.

According to the policy, the dean has authority on whether the absence will be excused or not.

In case of class absences be-

cause of a brief illness, the student should inform the instructor directly, according to the policy.

Students are not forced to withdraw from the course; it is dependent on if the student believes they will be able to catch up or not.

According to the policy, if

students need to withdraw from a course due to an illness, the instructor will assign a ‘W’ for the course if it’s before the 45th day of class.

If the drop occurs after this time, the student will receive an F, according to the policy.

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ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — The family of a New Mexico middle school girl shot by a fellow student on campus said the suspected shooter “is not a bad boy” and that people need to stop trying to find someone to blame.

Bert Sanders, the father of 13-year-old shooting victim Kendal, told reporters Monday he believes the boy’s family are “good people,” the Roswell Daily Record reports. He also said his daughter and the suspected shooter are friends.

Correction In Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Toreador in the story “Gunman, victims recovering at UMC,” Kaitlin Bain should be named a co-writer. The DT regrets this error.

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Housing hiring staff for fall semester

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

Texas Tech has started the hiring process for new residence hall staff for the fall.

The four student positions, which make up the Tech residence hall staff, are community advisors, student assistants, multicultural advocates, and residential tutors, according the Tech residence hall website.

Each position has a specific GPA requirement, as well as being a full time Tech student, being in good judicial standing, and a completed application, according to the website.

Not only do these positions need to be in good standing at Tech, but they also have to embody the characteristics university housing is looking for, Tawny Martinez, a graduate assistant for Recruitment and Training, said.

“We like to hire the most motivated and qualified students,” she said. “We want them to influence those who live in the residence halls to be better.”

The CA position lives in the residence hall to establish a positive environment for students who also live in the halls, according to the website.

They serve as an educator,

counselor, advisor, mentor and educational advocate for their residents, according to the website.

“They also create academic and social programing,” Martinez said. “They go on ‘daily’ to make sure everything in the residence halls are safe, and everyone is adhering to policy.

They also work the front hall offices.”

The SA position is employed

by University Student Housing, and manages the operations of the residence halls, according to the website.

“They SA works the front hall office when a CA can’t,”

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she said.

An MA does not interact directly with residents on a daily basis, but instead encourages diversity and social identity with residents, according to the website.

This position makes visuals, and runs events within the residence halls to promote these values, according to the website.

“The MA does social justice programing,” Tawny said.

“When a CA wants to do a program, they contact an MA to make the bulletin board or posters. They also have 10 hours a week that they have to come up with new ideas on how to

include justice in the residence halls.”

RT’s provide free tutoring in residence halls, she said. Big areas of focus are chemistry, math and science.

They work directly with students to assist them in their educational pursuits, and they are available for homework help and advice during the evenings, according to the website.

University housing attempts to hire students that will not only carry out their assigned tasks, but also influence the students they’re assisting to be better people, she said.

They aim to do everything

they can so that each student graduates not only with a degree from the university, but graduates a good person with significant life experience to draw from, she said.

“It’s basically education outside the classroom,” she said.

“That’s our main goal.”

Everyone at university housing cares about the success of not only the students they’re assisting, but the staff who works there as well, she said.

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(In an active shooter situation) I would probably stay where I was, and if he came near I would probably have the whole class go against him, I guess. I have crutches, I’m not afraid to use them.”

Megan Wright junior psychology major from Conifer, Colo. -

“(In an active shooter situation) I would make sure to get the heck off campus and hope there was someone else there to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

- Blake Johns - junior psychology major from St. Lewis, Mo.

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I usually sit near the door in classes, so (in an active shooter situation) if he wasn’t near me, I would just leave class and run and hide. If he was right outside the class I would stay in there and we could try to fight him.”

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“(In an active shooter situation) I would probably run away and try to hide. I would rather beat him up, but I don’t think that’s a really good idea.

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- Stephanie Burleson junior general business major from Vejle, Denmark

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If there were a shooter on the other side of campus, I would stay in my dorm and call my parents to let them know there’s a shooter on campus and I’m OK.”

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“(In an active shooter situation) I would go to the nearest enclosed area and duck behind something.

I feel like that’s all you could really do to keep yourself safe. If they want to kill you they will unless you hide.

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- Bronte Major - senior media strategies major from Modesto, Calif.

(In an active shooter situation) I would try to call or contact someone to find help and report that there was a shooter in the building, then I would get myself safe.”

Justin Branchjunior mechanical engineering major from Waco-

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BEJOY PUSHPAKARAN, A doctoral electrical engineering student from Bangalore, India, prepares to test high power silicon carbide devices while working on his research on Tuesday in the Electrical Engineering building.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A Purdue University engineering student opened fire inside a basement classroom Tuesday, killing a teaching assistant and prompting officials to put the campus on lockdown, police and the university said.

Cody Cousins, who is believed to have targeted Andrew Boldt inside the Electrical Engineering Building, surrendered to a police officer within minutes of the attack, Purdue Police Chief John Cox said.

Investigators were trying to determine a motive for the shooting,

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which happened around noon on the campus in West Lafayette, about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis.

No one else was injured.

“This appears to be an isolated and intentional act,” Cox said.

Boldt, a 21-year-old senior and teaching assistant from West Bend, Wis., died at the scene. Cousins, 23, who according to police has addresses listed both in Warsaw, Ind., and Centerville, Ohio, was being held on a preliminary charge of murder Tuesday night at the Tippecanoe County Jail.

according to another news release.

Jayawickrama also said Tech can collaborate with other universities CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 in their research and help introduce Tech will work with other various aspects of transportation universities such as the University systems to other educational inof Oklahoma, Langston Univer- stitutions. sity, the University of Arkansas, The research team is also the University of New Mexico, looking into identifying techLouisiana Tech University and nology that can help monitor the University of Texas at El Paso, and maintain the transporta-

Students described a chaotic scene on the campus. Sophomore Nick Wieland told the Journal & Courier that he was in a basement classroom adjacent to the one where the shooting occurred.

“I heard a couple (shots) and then I heard a man scream,” Wieland said. “Then the last few kind of trailed off as I got under my desk. . (I was) just very scared.

That’s what I felt the entire time.”

Julissa Martinez, a freshman in nursing, told The Associated Press that she was in a psychology class

on another part of the campus when she received the text alert from university officials telling students to seek shelter.

She said her professor briefly kept teaching, then stopped lecturing so that students could contact people to let them know they were safe.

“He tried to get everything under control because people were freaking out,” Martinez said, adding that students were nervous because there was a lot of speculation about the severity of the situation.

tion systems, she said. for when those issues arise and “One of the ideas we would like maintain highway infrastructure to propose is to evaluate technolo- under adequate conditions, Senadgies and identify which ones work heera said. best,” Jayawickrama said.

“If you want to maintain the sysTechMRT’s research will be tem,” she said, “to keep the system conducted under the theme “State under good condition, then you of Good Repair.” need to ask for money ahead of time The theme looks to identify because you can’t address an issue problems within transportation when the time that it goes wrong.” systems ahead of time, be prepared ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

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Christie scandal casts doubt on presidential prospects Jakob Reynolds political retaliation by the Christie administration against the mayor of Fort Lee, who had refused to endorse Christie for his re-election campaign last year. These allegations were strengthened when a state investigation into the matter revealed emails from Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie’s deputy chief of staff, and Wildstein, with Kelly telling Wildstein, “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” according to the CNN article.

Investigations revealed subsequent emails between the two mocking angry commuters and the mayor of Fort Lee. Christie, of course, fired the aide, stating in a public apology

for the incident that he was blindsided, shocked and dismayed by the “abject stupidity” exhibited by his administration and went on some publicly-advertised soul searching.

Wildstein refused to testify in hearings by the New Jersey General Assembly’s Transportation Committee, and he and the top official of New Jersey Port Authority have also resigned since the scandal broke out, according to the CNN article.

The real significance of this controversy is how it will impact Christie’s prospects

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for a GOP nomination for the presidential race in 2016. Christie is seen among political and media circles as a rising star in the Republican Party as it tries to reinvent itself from internal turmoil since President Barack Obama’s election in 2008.

While I don’t doubt the truth or sincerity of Governor Christie’s claim that he had no knowledge of the clandestine activities of his administration in the bridge scandal, the fact remains that his trusted, handpicked aides were able to conduct

The real significance of this controversy is how it will impact Christie’s prospects for a GOP nomination for the presidential race in 2016.

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ew Jersey governor Chris Christie has been making headlines in recent weeks on account of his administration’s involvement in a massive traffic jam scandal in his state. Back in September, the unannounced closure by New Jersey Port Authority of two of the three access lanes to the bridge from the New Jersey city of Fort Lee to the George Washington bridge was ordered by a longtime Christie friend and appointee to the Port Authority, David Wildstein, according to a Huffington Post article.

The closures, which went into effect two months before Christie’s reelection, were justified by Wildstein as part of a “traffic study,” causing massive traffic jams, car accidents and delayed firefighters and paramedics in Fort Lee, ultimately resulting in one 91-year-old Fort Lee resident’s death, according to a CNN article.

Many saw the bridge closures as

said actions with a remarkable lack of curiosity regarding their details and motivations from their boss.

If what Christie says is true and he really did have no prior knowledge of the “BridgeGate” scandal, as it’s being called by CNN and other media outlets, then he sure does run a fairly loose administrative ship, which is not exactly a winning character trait of someone running the 11th-most populous state in the United States, much less the entire country.

Moreover, however egregious the behavior of Christie’s cronies in this scandal, the now consistent behavior exhibited by Christie himself really is no more endearing. The swiftness with which he disowned his trusted aide Kelly and old high school pal Wildstein — with whom, by the way, Christie was quick to point out he was “not friends with in high school” in his press conference — when they became political baggage sends mixed signals when coupled

with the spiel he gave to the press about how much he values loyalty and transparency, as well as his track record of less-thandiplomatic handling of hecklers and constituents who publicly disagree with him.

This kind of behavior, while not unprecedented by past U.S. presidents, is also not particularly revealing of the winning character voters will be looking for to lead the free world in 2016.

Further investigations into the BridgeGate scandal should prove to uncover more interesting insights into how the Christie administration has been conducting its internal affairs. If Christie is planning on continuing his pursuit of a presidential nomination, voters shouldn’t be surprised if this incident is brought up in the near future.

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Net neutrality keeps Defense spending must be cut to save money Internet free, open

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Before Jan. 14th, millions of Americans had never heard about the concept of net neutrality.

Following a controversial court ruling last week, the concept of net neutrality could end if the Federal Communications Commission, also known as the FCC, does not appeal the ruling.

Although the laws behind ‘net neutrality’ are fairly complex, the Washington Post defines it as, “No Internet service provider (ISP) should be allowed to speed up, slow down or block Web traffic from getting to where you, the customer, want it to go.”

B a s i c a l l y, net neutrality and its proponents have prevented Internet providers from raising rates based on usage, similar to the way one is charged on water, electricity, or other utilities.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the policy of net neutrality was put in place to reduce the power of Internet providers to raise usage fees and slow Internet speeds.

The LA Times also added the decision to challenge Net Neutrality was made by a three-judge panel of U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Such a ruling could give powerful Internet providers such as Verizon or Time Warner the ability to charge sites

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like Netflix and YouTube more for giving content to consumers.

Although the concept of net neutrality may interfere with the control of Internet providers, its intentions are very clear.

The hyper-commercialization would not be good for the hundreds of millions of Americans who depend on the Internet everyday.

It is not as if major Internet providers like Verizon are hurting for an increase in profit. Charging more could just ruin a public good and hurt the companies in the long run.

According to the Washington Post, many things could occur if net neutrality is permanently thrown out.

An Internet provider could charge consumers more to use sites such as Netflix. If an Internet provider doesn’t pass down the costs directly to consumers and instead opts to charge a fee to companies like Netflix, the increase in cost could come through higher subscription rates for sites like Netflix. This may result in Netflix losing subscribers and causing a negative effect in the economy in the long run.

Balancing the rights of Internet companies to charge for their services and the integrity of the Internet is what is at stake.

Let’s hope the FCC will appeal the court’s decision and keeps the Internet from being an overpriced, hyper-commercialized industry.

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In 2001, the United States spent $287 billion on defense spending. By 2012, defense spending had skyrocketed to $689 billion. Much of the increase in spending comes from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Having spent almos $2 trillion over the past 10 years on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has more ships, more tanks, and more aircraft than any other country. The U.S. military retains better global logistics, infrastructure, communications, and intelligence than any other military. America owns the only truly global military force and no other country is even attempting to build a global force to rival that of the U.S. In the past, spending has gone down after times of war—the Pentagon’s budget decreased by 43 percent after the Korean War, by 33 percent after Vietnam, and by 36 percent after the fall of the Soviet Union. But there has been no such drawdown, even as American troops have begun returning from the Middle East.

Although sequestration originally mandated cutting the Pentagon’s budget by 10 percent, the new budget deal will reduce the cuts in half, to a more modest five percent. Altogether, defense spending

to be more flexible with its spending. The country has other problems that desperately need increased funding. Public school education in the U.S. has been lagging behind other developed countries for many years and requires widespread reforms and improvements. Transportation infrastructure also requires additional investment; there are numerous areas in need of change, ranging from increased train, tram, and bus networks to airport improvements and bridge maintenance.

Cutting defense spending would free up funds to spend in these areas.

Opponents of cuts to the defense budget argue that such cuts will limit the country’s military capabilities. But this belief is misguided. Defense spending can be reduced without threatening the military’s power. Eliminating some of the many bureaucratic problems within the Department of Defense could save billions of dollars, without limiting our ability to defend the nation’s borders.

One issue is that the Department of Defense ovelaps the work of other government departments. The Pentagon spends about $600 million per year on research focused on non-military related diseases also combatted by the National Institutes of Health.

The biggest wastes of duplication,

though, can be seen in the Pentagon’s massive back-office, which contains 800,000 civil servants, 536,000 active duty military personnel who are never deployed, and 700,000 contractors. This leads to overhead costs that accounted for 42 percent of the defense budget as of 2008. Cutting the overhead costs for defense to a rather reasonable 25 percent (an average from 25 major industries) would save $80 billion a year.

Other issues, primarily surrounding contractors and weapons manufacturers, exist as well. A report in 2011 suggested that defense firms have swindled $1.1 trillion from the Pentagon over the past decade. Moreover, Congressional interference drives up the cost of manufacturing weapons, leading to $18,000 oil pans and $300 million fighter jets.

All of these factors suggest that defense spending can easily be cut by sizable amounts without ever comprising the military’s ability to defend the nation.

Eliminating some of the inefficiencies within the Pentagon can save tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollar each year, helping to reduce the debt and allowing more of the government budget to be spent in other problem areas.

For the sake of the nation, defense spending must be cut.

Keeping whales in captivity amounts to animal cruelty

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SeaWorld is easily one of the coolest places I have ever visited. Watching a diver train and swim with a killer whale is a breathtaking experience. Wanting to learn more, I researched what it took to be able to train a killer whale — or any wild animal — and what I found was appalling. The hidden histories of the animals and the injuries that went unrecorded were bad, but the worst of it was learning the terrible things the whales have to go through in order to make people happy.

To become a killer whale trainer at SeaWorld you do not really need to have any sort of background with animals. People from all over the country can be trainers at SeaWorld with just a little more training than a lifeguard.

Swimming and being underwater for an extensive amount of time are nearly the

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by the United States will still constitute about 40 percent of the world’s total.

But instead of cutting defense spending, the budget deal has shifted the cuts from the Pentagon to military and federal workers’ pensions; this will greatly harm both veterans and civilians in their later years. The new budget deal also comes at the expense of federal research in a number of key areas, such as work being done on fossil fuels. It is clear then that the current levels of defense spending are harming the government’s ability to properly appropriate funds for its other responsibilities.

We are faced today with the issues of a gaping deficit, a burdensome debt, and the lingering effects of a severe recession.

According to Admiral Mike Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “The single, biggest threat to our national security is our debt”—more than military dangers from any nation or terrorist group.

The national debt represents a burden, a liability, and a problem that has the potential to crash the global financial system. To reduce the threat of defaulting on the debt, the U.S. government must reduce its budget deficit. And that entails cutting defense spending.

Reducing the funds given to the Pentagon will also allow the government

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only prerequisites of becoming a trainer.

Jumping in the water with an animal that is large enough to swallow you whole would be intimidating enough, but add the fact that you don’t know the hidden background of the animal and jumping in the water suddenly becomes a life or death situation.

The movie “Blackfish” goes into detail about SeaWorld hiding information from their trainers in order to keep sales high. A popular case from the movie was the death of three different individuals by a male killer whale named Tilikum.

Tilikum was captured by whale hunters hired by SeaWorld near Iceland. In order to catch the whales near Iceland, the hunters must first separate the whale babies from their mothers.

Because the mothers are so large, only the babies are taken into captivity.

Whales travel in pods and they stay in the same pod for their entire

lives. When a baby whale is separated from its mother it reacts similarly to how a human child would react were it separated from its mother. Because whale families are so similar to ours, the detachment issues they acquire can even cause the mothers to attempt to beach themselves.

At SeaWorld the babies are separated from their mothers at a very young age and the mother will send out sound waves to try to contact the baby. If that does not work she may even separate herself from her pod. This goes to show that the “happy” killer whales that you are seeing at SeaWorld are really anything but happy.

Imagine how scared you would be if you were separated from your mother at such a young age. Whales are very smart; they have the brain capacity to register the loss of familiar whales. A mother can even mourn for her baby.

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the movie “Blackfish,” use many fake facts to cover up the fact that keeping these great animals in captivity is really harmful to them. The average killer whale lives to be nearly 100 years old, while in captivity that age is closer to thirty or forty.

Tilikum’s dorsal fin has also become bent after his time in isolation.

SeaWorld says that this is common among the orcas when in reality this only happens to roughly one percent of the killer whales in the wild, while it happens to nearly 99 percent of whales that live in captivity. It is safe to say that the orcas are definitely not benefitting from being in captivity.

Next time you are thinking about attending a SeaWorld performance think about the dangers those divers are putting themselves through to put on a good show, but also think about the danger and conditions that the killer whales are living though every day.

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Meditation society offers multiple benefits

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

Every week, students and faculty gather in the Mezzanine Conference room at the Texas Tech University Library to practice various forms of meditation.

Brian Quinn, Tech Meditation Society founder and Tech librarian, said the Meditation Society is a group of people who are interested in learning about meditation and want to participate with others who are also interested.

Meditation is a state of awareness, and profound, deep peace occurs when the mind is calm and silent, yet completely alert, according to an article on the Free Meditation website.

Meditation offers more than just a deep peace for people who choose to practice on a regular basis.

The Free Meditation website reported a number of researchers have indicated meditation is potentially one of the most effective forms of stress reduction.

Meditation has many benefits, Quinn said.

It is great physically, he said,

and has a number of health and psychological benefits.

“It has all kinds of practical applications in the real world,” he said. “There’s a body of research that says if you meditate on a daily basis, it can help improve your grades.”

It also makes the meditator feel good, he said.

Generally, members of the group say after they are finished practicing and are leaving, they feel refreshed, Quinn said.

“They feel rested and energized,” he said. “They feel really good and ready to face the afternoon.”

He said the Meditation Society tries to meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays around lunchtime.

“There are a group of regulars who are dedicated and show up regularly,” Quinn said. “We all sort of know each other by now.”

The group has only been in existence since October, he said, so they are only about three months into meeting.

Because many of the same people come every week, Quinn said, they get to know each other.

“It’s nice,” he said. “It’s like a little family.”

Quinn began the group because there didn’t seem to be any other resources available in Lubbock offering training in a variety of meditative experiences, he said There are groups offering training in specific types of meditation or meditation traditions, he said.

“There wasn’t any group or resource someone could turn to that gave an overview of the variety of approaches to meditation,” he said.

Each week, the group tries to do a different practice of meditation, he said.

It is not as easy as it might sound, Quinn said, because before being brought to the group, he must research and study every practice.

“There’s quite a bit of prep time involved,” he said. “That’s the goal, is to try a different form of meditation every week and, more or less, so far, we’ve been able to pretty much keep to that.”

According to the Free Meditation article, there are three notable examples of meditation, including Sahaja Yoga Medita-

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SCOTT SCHREIBER, A senior mechanical engineering major from Wichita Falls, looks through posters at the poster sale on Tuesday in the Student Union Building.

Tech students participate in Red Raider Welcome Week volleyball tournament “There were 16 teams total that played in the tournament, and each team was guaranteed to play at least twice,” Jackson said.

It was the first time to partner with TAB to host the tournament, Jackson said.

“Partnering with TAB was great,” he said, “It worked out very well.”

Because it was such a success, Jackson said he hopes to make it happen every semester.

Out of the 16 teams that played, team “Vertically Challenged” was victorious against team “Back Dat Pass Up” in the

THE MEDIATATION SOCIETY participates in different forms of meditation on campus in the Mezzanin Conference Room at the Texas Tech Library.

tion, Transcendental Meditation and Mindfulness, although there are several more besides those three.

Quinn said he normally begins the meetings with a short

introduction to the meditation practice.

He said he talks about the philosophy and the psychology of the practice, as well as explanations as to how it works and what

it’s supposed to do.

“This way,” Quinn said, “they understand a little bit about it before they actually do the practice.” ➤➤awillingham@dailytoreador.com

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Madura blames television soap operas for crime

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Students joined together to participate in an indoor volleyball tournament at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center on Friday.

The Rec Center and Tech Activities Board worked together to put on their first four-on-four indoor volleyball tournament specifically for “Welcome Week.”

Brett Jackson, the assistant director for intramural sports at the Rec Center, said it was an open league with no specific division. Each team was promised a fair opportunity to play.

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final round.

Jackson said even though the tournament itself was put together for students to have fun, it is also a way for students to get creative.

“The students come up with some clever team names,” Jackson said. “It was pretty entertaining.” ➤➤tpeace@dailytoreador.com

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolas Maduro has a new villain as he campaigns to bring down Venezuela’s spiraling crime: TV soap operas. He accuses them of spreading “anti-values” to young people by glamorizing violence, guns and drugs.

The criticism follows attacks last year by Maduro on violent video games and the Hollywood movie “Spider-Man.” On Monday night, his vice president, Jorge Arreaza, met with broadcast and pay TV operators to review the prime-time lineup, warning that they could be in violation of a 2004 law mandating “socially responsible” programming. The two sides will meet in a week with the aim of drafting an agreement on meeting those obligations.

It’s unclear whether the government will take steps to restrict programming or impose harsher rules on the soap operas known as telenovelas, which are hugely popular across Latin America.

Analysts say arm-twisting is unlikely to reduce Venezuela’s high homicide rate, which the United Nations ranks as the fifth worst globally, and they warn that Maduro’s campaign could be used as an excuse to further gag media criticism of the government.

“It’s a smoke screen to distract attention away from the real causes” of violence and crime, said Roberto Briceno Leon of the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, which estimates the coun-

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try’s murder rate has quadrupled in 15 years of socialist rule.

Pressure on the government to crack down on crime heated up this month after former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and her ex-husband were shot to death by robbers, with their 5-year-old daughter looking on.

The double slaying shocked even Venezuelans hardened by rampant bloodshed and put the government on the defensive on an issue that surveys say is the biggest concern among voters.

In his state of the union speech last week, Maduro took aim at a popular soap opera, “De todas maneras Rosa,” produced by Venevision.

He accused the nation’s biggest broadcaster of profiting from violence by celebrating the crimes of one of the melodrama’s lead characters, Andreina Vallejo, a

psychopathic former beauty queen who fatally poisons her own mother to hide the paternity of her son.

“Mama, everybody in the world knows that the relationship between parents and their children is completely accidental,” a smiling Vallejo says as her mother gasps for breath in her daughter’s arms.

Alberto Barrera Tyszka, the creator of several soap operas, said television only reflects the alarming levels of violence present in society and is already tightly regulated for content deemed unsuitable for minors. He said Maduro should turn his attention to the root causes of crime instead.

“It’s ridiculous to blame the violence on what’s seen for one or two hours a night on television” said Barrera Tyszka, who also wrote a biography of Maduro’s predecessor and mentor, the late Hugo Chavez.

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By REX ROSE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech basketball team takes the court against the West Virginia Mountaineers at 7 p.m.

Wednesday in Morgantown, W.Va. The match marks the second straight Big 12 Conference road game for the Red Raiders, as they defeated Texas Christian 60-49 Saturday in Fort Worth.

Tech can earn its third straight conference victory with a win over West Virginia, although the Mountaineers beat the Red Raiders 89-86 in an overtime game when the two teams first met Jan. 6.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said his team needs to play better than it did Saturday if they want to win.

“It’s in Morgantown, they have a great fan base and they’re pretty intense there,” he said. “We have to play a lot better than we did against TCU; do a better job of taking care of the ball and passing the ball. I didn’t think we passed the ball well in the game against TCU, and it showed with only seven assists and 15 turnovers. You can’t do that and expect to win. We had a lot of Texas Tech fans in Fort Worth the other day. That won’t be the case in West Virginia.”

When the two schools met earlier this season, junior guard Juwan Staten led West Virginia with 25 points and shot 10-12 from the field.

Staten is averaging more than 17 points per game and Smith said stopping him and believing his team can win is a top priority.

“The first thing we got to do is keep Staton in check,” he said. “He’s really a one-man wrecking crew. He really gave us all kinds of problems here. It starts with him but they’ve got a good front line that can bang you. They’ve got a lot of weapons.

“I know they’ve struggled lately losing two games at home. Since they’ve beaten us once, I’m sure they feel they can beat us again. We’ve got to believe that we were in the ballgame and that we can beat West Virginia.” ➤➤rrose@dailytoreador.com

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

The National Women’s Soccer League College Draft was hosted in Philadelphia, Pa., last Friday, and a Red Raider, senior defender Hayley Haagsma, was among those selected.

Sky Blue FC selected Haagsma 15th overall with the club’s second round pick, according to a news release.

“I see a lot of upside in her,” Sky Blue coach and technical director Jim Gabarra said, according to the news release. “She is a quality defensive player. Her trajectory is very good. We were fortunate to pick her before someone else did.”

This is not the first time Sky Blue FC has added a player from Texas Tech. The team currently has former Tech midfielder Taylor Lytle.

Haagsma was not only given the honor of being selected in the NWSL College Draft. She was the first of two Big 12 Conference players picked in the draft.

Through Haagma’s career at Tech, she established herself as one of the top defenders in school history. This development into a top-

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TEXAS TECH GUARD Toddrick Gotcher jumps up to make a basket during the game against Baylor on Jan. 15 in the United Spirit Arena. The Red Raiders defeated the Bears 82-72.

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ningest manager with 611 victories over his seven seasons. He took Texas to its only two World Series in 2010 and 2011.

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extremely well. But on the other hand, the president (Rousseff) also made it clear that time is key and we don’t have any day to lose.”

Bach is making his first visit to Brazil since being elected president of the International Olympic Committee in September.

“I came here in full confidence that these Olympic Games will be exciting and brilliant Olympic Games,” Bach said. “After this meeting I can inform you that my confidence is even stronger now because I’m really greatly impressed by the strong commitment of the president to these games and by the leadership she’s showing.”

The German was upbeat after meeting with Rousseff and said the Olympics would make Rio an even better city.

“I’m sure that after these Olympic Games the people of Rio and the people of Brazil will say — like for instance the people of Barcelona or the people of Munich.”

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The Rangers have averaged more than 91 wins over the last five seasons. They won 91 games last season, but missed the playoffs for the first time in four years after losing the AL wild-card tiebreaker game to Tampa Bay.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — IOC President Thomas Bach met Tuesday with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and said he feels “very confident” in the preparations for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

But Bach acknowledged once again that Brazil has no time to lose and must speed up work for the first Olympics in South America.

Rio’s preparations have been plagued by delays, the late approval of an operating budget and concerns about water pollution in Olympic venues for sailing, canoeing, rowing, and distance swimming.

IOC members have talked openly about their worries and have constantly urged Rio organizers to move faster.

“We are very confident,” Bach said after talks with Rousseff in Brasilia. “We’ve seen great progress in the last couple of months. The organizing committee has worked

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Rangers’ manager Washington not worried about contract expiration ARLINGTON (AP) — Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington says he isn’t concerned that his contract hasn’t been extended past the upcoming season.

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level defender in the Big 12 helped her lead Tech to backto-back appearances in the NCAA womHAAGSMA en’s Division 1 tournament.

“We are extremely proud of Hayley,” Tech coach Tom Stone said, according to the news release.

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We are anxious to see what she can do at the next level.”

Haagsma concluded her final season with four goals from the center-back position, while appearing in 18 matches with 15 starts.

Her performance assisted Tech in a school record of 18 wins and in making it to the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The excellence Haagsma exhibited on the field also earned her All-Big 12 honors, but she did not only perform on the field. She also succeeded in the classroom, which gave her the honor of becoming an Academic All-American.

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