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THURSDAY, JAN. 23, 2014 VOLUME 88 ■ ISSUE 75

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Drought continues to grip Lubbock

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

Search for chancellor officially underway The official launch of the search for the next Texas Tech System chancellor began Wednesday, Larry Anders, chairman of the chancellor search committee, said in a news release from the System.

Wheless Partners Executive Search, a national search firm, has been hired to help with the search, Anders said in the release.

“The search for our next chancellor is wide open and will be national in scope,” Anders said in the release. “With the help of Wheless Partners, I am confident the search committee will be able to find highly-qualified candidates to recommend to the Board of Regents.”

The search committee includes Regents Debbie Montford, Nancy Neal, John Walker and Anders.

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Lubbock and the state of Texas have been in a state of drought for the past eight years, according to the Water Data for Texas (WDT). Drought is understood to be a lack of water, but the impact can vary from region to region.

Identifying how this lack of water impacts each region requires the examination of local needs and the supply and demand of water available, according to the WDT. Researchers use multiple methods to identify drought impact, such as a drought index, which provides a number for how severe a drought is for an area and time period, or a crop-moisture index, to examine moisture supply across regions supplying a large number of crops, according to the WDT. In 2013, Lubbock received 12.61 inches of precipitation, while the average yearly precipitation was 19.12 inches, according to the Lubbock National Weather Service (LNWS).

Gary Skwira works with the Lubbock National Weather Service.

“Drought begets drought—it’s hard to get out of a drought,” he said. “When it’s hotter and drier, it gets harder to get precipitation.”

Because of this lack of rainfall, Lubbock is currently in stage one of the drought con-

tingency plan, as it has been since August 2012, when Lubbock was downgraded from stage two of the plan, according to the city of Lubbock Water Department.

Even though this change occurred, 2012 was still the driest year in Lubbock history, according to the LNWS. However, 2011 was the driest summer recorded, Skwira said.

Stage one of the drought contingency plan includes many mandates to limit the amount of water used to 90 percent of the city’s maximum daily water supply capacity, according to the department.

Ken Rainwater, a professor who works in the Texas Tech Water Resources Center, said the drought affects farmers both by limiting how they can water their crops and the moisture already in the soil.

“They no longer have to only watch out for just rain and hail,” he said.

The drought also contributes to the risks needing to be managed by farmers to ensure they still have a good harvest, he said.

“The message has been conveyed clearly that we don’t have much precipitation,” he said, “so we have less of a water supply, and that puts a strain on the Lubbock water supply.”

Personal use has been down for the city of Lubbock, he said, which helps with the growing economy and residency of Lubbock.

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South Plains SPCA chapter Raiders Helping Others prepare helps animals find homes for spring break service trips

By NICOLE BURNETT Staff Writer

South Plains Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPSPCA) is a nonprofit organization located in Lubbock that rescues dogs and cats, finds homes and fosters for animals and promotes awareness to the cruelty of animals. SPSPCA uses Facebook as its main source for keeping contact, receiving donations and promoting lost and rescued dogs and cats for the social world to see.

April Lightner, shelter coordinator of SPSPCA, keeps in contact with other shelters for dogs and cats that could be adoptable or saves some that would be euthanized.

“I enjoy helping the animals,” she said.

The organization also became a registered charity in 2013, according to the page. SPSPCA’s mission is to prevent animal cruelty and educate pet owners.

SPSPCA holds adoptions for rescued, abandoned and hurt animals that need special attention.

People who find abandoned litters or dogs and cats on the street will contact SPSPCA through Facebook or e-mail to inform them

about the rescued animals, Lightner said.

These animals are then put into the SPSPCA system for adoption.

Because so many dogs need rescuing in Lubbock, Amanda Morphew has fostered with SPSPCA before and also adopted her own dog through the organization.

“It’s so sad seeing all the dogs out there.”

Morphew said. “Being able to give a dog a home that has been abused is all worth it.”

While each animal is waiting to be adopted, fosters for animals take in the rescued dogs and cats and treat them like their own pets, Morphew said. Fosters provide food and take them to medical appointments covered

by SPSPCA. The fosters can keep each animal for as long as they are willing or when their schedule won’t allow the time for a pet anymore or the animal they are fostering is going to be adopted, Morphew said.

To be a foster, each person fills out an application from SPSPCA, Lightner said.

SPSPCA takes a picture of each dog and cat that is waiting to be adopted and posts it to Facebook and Petfinder.

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years ago RHO traveled to Joplin, Mo. to volunteer, and this year, the group is going to Moore, Okla., to help out with tornado disaster relief.

Kuehnert said that along with the trip to Orlando and Moore, the group is looking at the possibility of a third trip to Guadalupe Mountains National Park if enough students are interested. The group has reopened applications to students living on campus interested in going on a trip. Those applications are due Friday.

Haden Hunt, a freshman special education major from Austin, said he is excited to participate in the spring break trip to Orlando. He said he joined RHO because he wanted to continue volunteering in college and thought it would be a great experience.

“The purpose of Raiders Helping Others is to give back to the community,” he said. “It is a service organization. We have volunteered at the Animal Haven, Ronald McDonald House, Children’s Home of Lubbock and other Volunteer Lubbock events.”

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For the students of Raiders Helping Others, a Texas Tech volunteer organization, the beginning of the spring semester means counting down to their spring break service trips.

Craig Kuehnert, advisor for RHO, said the student organization was founded in 2010 with the purpose of volunteering in the Lubbock area, as well as taking yearly service trips over spring break.

“We did a study in 2009 to see what motivates students and found that students wanted to do large group trips to different locations like other universities do,” he said. “So we started with a small group in the fall of 2010 and took one trip to Orlando over spring break and it has grown since then.”

In the past, RHO has taken between one and two trips over spring break, Kuehnert said. One of the trips each year is to Give Kids the World, a resort for terminally-ill children located in Orlando, Fla. The second trip varies from year to year to a location in need. Two

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Texas Tech’s $2.5M Campus Beautification Project begins with trees

By NICOLE BURNETT Staff Writer

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Red flags and tree stumps are popping up around Memorial Circle and the Broadway Street entrance to Texas Tech.

The flags and tree stumps are part of the Campus Beautification Project, where some trees are being relocated, and other trees are being hemmed and replaced by new trees.

The budget for the total project is $2.5 million, Gail Darden, executive associate to the vice chancellor, said.

Tech was donated about 160 trees from an anonymous donor, Mike Quartaro, director of the grounds maintenance department, said.

The trees will be planted along the Broadway entrance beginning at University Street and ending at Pfluger Fountain.

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The trees being relocated will be transplanted along walkways in Memorial Circle and to the area around the Dairy Barn.

Because of old age, sickness and inability to withstand harsh weather, some trees were cut down.

Michael Molina, vice chancellor for the facilities planning and construction Department, said the trees were “heavily diseased.”

Molina is responsible for the overall design, master planning, budget managing and executing of the plan.

The trees that were donated include Red Oaks, Cedar Elms, Chinese Pistashe and others, Quartaro said.

“I think it would make it look a lot nicer,” Samantha Huffman, a senior animal science major, said about the upcoming new entry.

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Hospitality Services introducing food truck Today TAB Presents: Poster Sale Time: All day Where: Student Union Building Courtyard So, what is it?

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

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With the popularity of food trucks in cities like Austin and on campuses around the country, Hospitality Services has decided to pursue a dining concept for the first time on Texas Tech campus — a food truck.

The truck will be an extension of the Student Union Building dining location, StrEat, and will serve a variety of foods, Alan Cushman, business development unit manager of Hospitality Services, said.

“I am super excited about this,” Cushman said. “As far as food

trends go, food trucks are big. We are looking forward to bringing in something that is completely different to campus.”

Beginning operations in the fall, a mobile food truck will be available on campus, he said.

Chefs, led by Executive Chef Dewey McMurrey, are presently working on menus for the eatery, Cushman said. Although the menu is still in the development stages, the food served will be different from any other food location currently on campus.

StrEat serves tacos of different varieties, including Korean BBQ and South American, according to the Hospitality Services website.

“I think a food truck would be really awesome,” Darby Gonzales, a freshman animal science major from Hondo, said. “Food trucks have, like, unique cuisine and it’ll be a change from our normal oncampus food.”

Cushman said the department is in contact with a company that specifically builds and designs food trucks, meaning the vehicle will

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POLICE BLOTTER Wednesday 11:13 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a theft, which occurred at the Biology Lecture Hall. A wallet and its contents were taken.

2:31 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft of a bicycle.

A secured man’s bicycle and a cable lock were stolen from Clement Hall.

3:41 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, and duty on striking an unattended vehicle in the C11 parking lot.

3:45 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Two unsecured wallets were stolen from a backpack.

8:40 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft of an unsecured iPhone from the Rec Center.

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

Expert: Texas school funding remains inadequate AUSTIN (AP) — A top expert on Texas school finance testified Wednesday that funding for public education remains inadequate and too inefficiently distributed to meet tough curriculum standards set by Texas lawmakers, even though statewide high school graduation rates have improved.

Lynn Moak, an education analyst for nearly five decades, testified on behalf of the 600-plus school districts that have sued the state, claiming that $5.4 billion in classroom funding cuts in 2011 have left schools unable to prepare youngsters for lofty high school graduation requirements.

Judge John Dietz ruled in February that Texas’ school finance system violates the state constitution, but he’s hearing new evidence after the Legislature this summer added $3.4-plus billion in public school funding and softened curriculum requirements. The second round of proceedings is expected to last at least three weeks — and Dietz’s

final ruling will almost certainly be appealed to the state Supreme Court.

The Texas attorney general’s office maintains that the system has always been constitutional and remains that way.

Moak testified in October 2012 that test results showed 75 percent of Texas high school graduates are not ready for higher education.

He was the first witness of the trial’s second phase, this time telling Dietz that school districts statewide need at least $1,000 more per student to meet minimum standards.

“School districts have to have a certain amount of resources to meet the requirements of the state,” Moak said.

He also stood by his 2012 testimony, even after Assistant Attorney General Darren Gibson pressed him on the Legislature’s 2013 decision to reduce the number of standardized tests students must pass to graduate high school from 15 to five.

Moak said originally that more than 338,000 high school students are not on track to graduate because they failed at least one of those standardized tests. He acknowledged Wednesday, however, that his estimate did not take into account thousands of students who eventually retook some exams and passed.

“It does not change the fact that some 338,000 students did not meet the (passing) standard in the first administration of the tests,” Moak said, though he also noted that the number of students now in danger of not graduating would be less than half of all students who have been tested.

Gibson then introduced as evidence a report released Tuesday by the Texas Education Agency showing that 76 percent of juniors have now passed all the state-mandated exams they had taken.

“Does this information change your opinion on the adequacy of the school finance system?” Gibson asked. When Moak replied that it did not, Gibson shot back, “Then what will it take?” Moak didn’t answer that.

A federal 2012 report found that Texas’ four-year high school graduation rate was 86 percent for the Class of 2011 — tying the state with five others for the nation’s third-best high school graduation rate. A more-recent federal study using different criteria also showed the rate improving, but only to 78.9 percent for the 2009-2010 school year.

Gibson asked Moak whether high school graduation rates have been improving, and the witness said that they have.

But he added: “The question is how will those graduation rates be maintained in the face of the new end-of-course test requirements?”

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Brain-dead woman’s fetus ‘abnormal’ But John Peter Smith Hospital says it’s bound by state law that prohibits the withdrawal of treatment from a pregnant patient, although several experts interviewed by The Associated Press have said the hospital is misapplying the law.

Munoz’s attorneys, Heather King and Jessica Hall Janicek, issued a statement Wednesday describing the condition of the fetus, now believed to be at about 22 weeks’ gestation. King and Janicek based their statement on medical records they received from the hospital.

“According to the medical records we have been provided, the fetus is distinctly abnormal,” the attorneys said. “Even at this early stage, the lower extremities are deformed to the extent that the gender cannot be determined.”

The attorneys said the fetus also has fluid building up inside the skull and possibly has a heart problem.

“Quite sadly, this information is not surprising due to the fact that the fetus, after being deprived

of oxygen for an indeterminate length of time, is gestating within a dead and deteriorating body, as a horrified family looks on in absolute anguish, distress and sadness,” the attorneys said.

Spokeswomen for the hospital and the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office, which is representing the hospital in the lawsuit, declined to comment Wednesday.

A hearing in the case is scheduled for Friday. Munoz’s lawsuit asks a judge to order the hospital to pull life support and return Marlise Munoz’s body to her family.

Several experts have said the Texas Advance Directives Act doesn’t apply in this case because Marlise Munoz, having suffered brain death, is legally and medically dead — a key argument in Erick Munoz’s lawsuit.

Munoz previously told the AP he wasn’t confident about the health of the fetus. His wife was 14 weeks pregnant when he found her unconscious in November, possibly from a blood clot.

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Planting is expected to be finished in the middle of March, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Quartaro said. However, the Along with planting new project itself is expected to be trees, the Campus Beautification finished near summer.

Project will also include new The anonymous donor had landscaping and will renovate an interest in redoing the enthe irrigation system, lighting trance along Broadway Street, and walkways, Quartaro said.

Molina said.

After the trees are dug up or Trees from Broadway Street hemmed, grounds maintenance will be transplanted into the will begin planting trees in grassy area around the Dairy February, he said. The trees Barn, he said. Trees will be strawill be planted at the begin- tegically placed to form shaded ning of the project while they groves, to shade walkways.

A café area and extra seating will be included in the renovation, Molina said.

There will be a total of 112 trees, he said, which will be planted around the Dairy Barn.

Grounds maintenance has assembled a team and is currently working on the Campus Beautification Project, Quartaro said.

“Right now it is just sitting there,” Ashley Beyer, a senior animal science major said. “I think it’s good that they are doing something with it.”

DALLAS (AP) — The pregnant, brain-dead Texas woman being kept on life support over her family’s protests is carrying a fetus that is “distinctly abnormal,” attorneys for the woman’s husband said Wednesday.

Marlise Munoz remains hooked up to machines in a Fort Worth hospital, while her husband and the hospital are locked in a court battle about whether to retain life support.

The case has raised questions about end-of-life care and whether a pregnant woman who is considered legally and medically dead should be kept on life support for the sake of a fetus. The case has gotten the attention of groups on either side of the abortion debate, as anti-abortion groups argue Munoz’s fetus deserves a chance to be born.

Erick Munoz said his wife, a fellow paramedic, was clear with him before he found her unconscious on Nov. 26: If she ever fell into this kind of condition, pull life support.

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ed to be able to volunteer and give myself and my time to others,” she said. “The purpose of RHO is to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 help people out around Lubbock Elyse Hyatt, a sophomore com- and impact the community.” munity family and addiction Hyatt said the trip to Florida services major from La Vernia, is costs about $1,000, and the other the secretary for RHO this year trips cost around $500. She said and is going on the Give Kids the the group has spent some of their World trip. time fundraising for their trips by “I joined RHO because I want- delivering care packages to the

case was tainted because he wasn’t advised under an international agreement that he could get legal help from his home nation after his arrest in 1994. Legal assistance guaranteed under that treaty could have uncovered evidence to contest the capital murder charge or provide evidence to keep Tamayo off death row, Mexican officials have said.

Records show the consulate became involved or aware of the case just as his trial was to begin.

Secretary of State John Kerry previously asked Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to delay Tamayo’s punishment, saying it “could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries.” The State Depart-

Canadian company begins Keystone pipeline in Texas Wednesday HOUSTON (AP) — A Canadian company on Wednesday started delivering oil through the Texas portion of a proposed cross-border pipeline that has stirred controversy and tension between the United States and its northern neighbor.

TransCanada began delivering oil from a hub in Cushing, Okla., to customers in Nederland, Texas, early Wednesday, Alex Pourbaix, president of energy and oil pipelines, said at a news conference.

The company expects to complete a smaller pipeline that will transport oil from Nederland to refineries near Houston later this year.

The $2.3 billion pipeline from Cushing to Texas is the Gulf Coast — or southern portion — of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline. This shorter leg will begin transporting on average about 300,000 barrels of oil daily and should end the year at an average of about 520,000 barrels, Pourbaix said.

The longer Keystone XL, which would transport heavy tar sands crude from Canada and oil from North Dakota’s Bakken shale, requires a permit from President Barack Obama because it crosses an international border. That $5.4 billion segment has not yet been approved. Obama fast-tracked the shorter, southern portion of the pipeline with the hope of relieving

a bottleneck in Oklahoma.

The pipeline has been mired in controversy. Opponents and landowners argue that tar sands oil is heavier and dirtier than other forms of crude, meaning that any spill would be harder to clean up and that the refining process will be dirtier.

TransCanada, determined to push ahead with the larger pipeline project, touted the thousands of jobs created by the construction of the Gulf Coast portion, and countered opponents’ claims that the tar sands are dirty and could increase global greenhouse gas emissions — a concern Obama has also mentioned.

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The drought not only affects how Lubbock residents can water their plants and crops and their indoor usage, but also affects outside fires.

Forty-three Texas counties are currently under burn bans, according to the Texas Forest Service.

The bans restrict outdoor burning and are decided upon by either a county judge or commissioner, according to the service.

Burn bans can last up to 90 days.

Violating a burn ban whether intentionally or unintentionally is classified as a Class C misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine of up to $500, according to the service.

Lubbock is an arid region,

however, and already doesn’t receive much rainfall, so the city of Lubbock has rules in place to combat this lack of water, Rainwater said.

“I hope a lot of people will make the switch to less grass in their landscaping,” he said.

“This will help conserve water in Lubbock.”

Lubbock citizens can also look at their plumbing and appliances and install waterefficient counterparts, he said.

This instillation will save both money and water for the city of Lubbock.

Not only can Lubbock citizens monitor their water usage, but Tech students can help as well, Aubrey Spear, director of water resources and environmental management for the city of Lubbock, said.

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can watch their sprinklers and plant watering,” he said. “When students live on campus, there is less they can do, but they can watch their lengths of showers and make sure they’re not leaving the water running while brushing their teeth.”

However, there is a light at the end of the drought tunnel, Rainwater said.

According to the National Climactic Data Center, Lubbock needs between 3.01 and 6 inches of rain in one month to no longer be considered in a drought.

“Drought is different than water conservation,” Spear said.

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residence halls and planning a “Waffle Week” for February.

The students of RHO will be busy over the next seven weeks before spring break volunteering and fundraising for their trips.

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Court denies appeals to delay execution HUNTSVILLE(AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals Wednesday night for Mexican national Edgar Tamayo, clearing the way for the Texas death row inmate to be executed for the slaying of a Houston police officer 20 years ago.

Tamayo’s execution had been scheduled for 6 p.m. for the slaying of Officer Guy Gaddis, 24, but the death warrant remained in effect until midnight.

Texas officials have opposed appeals to stop the scheduled lethal injection, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department.

Tamayo’s attorneys and the Mexican government contend Tamayo’s

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ment repeated that stance Wednesday.

But Abbott’s office and the Harris County district attorney opposed postponing what would be the first execution this year in the nation’s most active capital punishment state, where 16 people were put to death in 2013.

The high court considered but rejected at least two appeals. One focused on the consular issue. The other was related to whether Tamayo was mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty.

Tamayo’s lawyers, Sandra L. Babcock and Maurie Levin, issued a statement after the Supreme Court’s ruling.

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APRIL LIGHTER, FOSTER coordinator at the South Plains SPCA, plays with a foster dog, Harvey, before his foster parents pick him up for the night, Wednesday at the South Plains SPCA.

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Sisters receive lung transplants from donor HOUSTON (AP) — They quibble, joke and share knowing looks, finishing each other’s thoughts and making snide comments — like many sisters. But a recent heated argument was unlike any other they’ve had, and it ended in a most surprising way.

For months, 71-year-old Irma Myers-Santana and her younger sister, Anna Williamson, 69, had been debating who more urgently needed a lung transplant, each wanting the other to go first. Earlier this month, though, the sisters ended up in the same operating room, each getting

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one lung from the same donor in what doctors at Houston Methodist Hospital say is a first for their facility.

“It’s never happened. ... We’ve transplanted siblings before, but years apart,” said Dr. Scott Scheinin, who did Myers-Santana’s transplant.

“It’s a little bit of serendipity.”

The sisters both became ill about 10 years ago with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a little-understood scarring of the lungs that often requires a transplant and kills more people than breast cancer every year, said Scheinin.

Doctors, assisted by a computer

program, look at blood type, height and severity of illness to match a donor and a transplant patient. The likelihood that Myers-Santana and Williamson would meet all three criteria at the same time was small, Scheinin said.

The sisters’ situation was further complicated because they insisted on a “bloodless transplant.” They are Jehovah’s Witnesses and do not believe in receiving blood transfusions. They live in California, but Houston Methodist Hospital is the only facility in the country that does such transplants.

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Technology overuse hurting societal values Facebook news feed counting the likes I get on my hilarious status, or pinning a new do-it-yourself project on Pinterest that I’ll never do.

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Modern day technology is killing romance and seduction.

I don’t just mean romantic relationships between two people, although it is an issue. I also refer to the seduction of the human populous.

What communication, interview or general speaking skills do you or I possess?

Sure, you can recite a 10-minute speech for a class presentation given you’re allowed a note card.

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Students need skills not learned from textbooks

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There is a reason many people remember college as “the best years of your life.” For four or so years, we escape from “real life,” living instead where everyone is about our age, where life’s challenges are finishing projects and studying for tests, and where a spring break is built in every March.

Theoretically, we are also gaining the skills we will need to be employed and have a career after graduation. We do the projects, take the tests and get the diploma that says we are educated.

But studies show that what employers are looking for most isn’t being taught in class, and most of us aren’t picking it up on our own.

According to a 2013 study conducted by Workforce Solutions Group in St. Louis, a majority of job seekers are lacking “soft skills” such as critical thinking, creativity and problem solving. And it’s becoming a problem.

They ranked a lack of communication and interpersonal skills as the most common deficit in potential employees (59 percent), followed by a poor work ethic (56 percent), and lack of critical thinking and problem solving (54 percent). “Creativity” was added to the list of lacking “soft skills” for the first time in 2013 with a response of 45.7 percent.

A study conducted by staffing company Adecco found that 92 percent of company senior executives thought that job seekers lacked seriously necessary skills. Forty-four percent of the missing skills were “soft skills,” while only 22 percent were technical skills.

Leadership (14 percent) and computer skills (12 percent) were also cited.

There isn’t one single cause to blame for this issue. Instead, it is the result of a generation surrounded and dependent on technology and instant gratification, an education system focused on test results and assessments, and a society that pulls everyone in a hundred directions at once.

In the classroom, we become pre-

occupied with fulfilling the specific requirements to get the letter grade we desire. We walk around checking Twitter between classes. The need for extensive problem solving is rare because things are so often already laid out for us. None of these things prepare us for a professional career where creativity, critical thinking and problem solving are vital.

During my summer internship, I felt I was pretty well-equipped to handle the technical demands of my job. I was less prepared for other things, like the fact that I was allowed and encouraged to be creative. I needed quick and self-reliant problem solving skills. My co-workers were in the over-22-years-old category, and saw things differently. I adapted quickly, but it was an adjustment. These are elements that life before graduation doesn’t always prepare us for, but that employers are looking for.

Not all students go through college without picking up these skills, of course. There are education and extra-curricular programs that excel at encouraging creativity and critical thinking. Those who naturally excel at these skills, or who work hard to build them, have an advantage, according to the studies. But there are too many people that miss out on these opportunities.

If our generation wants to become successful members of the work force, we aren’t doing ourselves any favors by burying our faces in our smartphones and skating by on multiple-choice tests.

We can’t forget to think. We can’t forget that we are intelligent, independent people who are capable of great things.

We can’t forget that sometimes the best things in life take work and time.

College is great. Most of us have fewer worries than we will after “real life” begins. It’s a time to have fun, figure out who we are and what we want to do, and how to do that thing. But we can’t forget to remember to look beyond the multiple-choice tests and limestonerimmed bubble of college to see what else we need to succeed after it pops.

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a Facebook campaign to begin change, such as “One million likes and this kid can have the surgery to remove his cancer.” Everyone loves a cancer-free kid, but until someone takes a stand and leaves the comfort of his or her computer, we will all keep believing there is actually a doctor ready to scrub in just waiting for that one millionth “like.”

Facebook and Twitter do raise awareness, so they’re not completely useless, and they do have several good aspects, but wouldn’t it be incredible if one single person was powerful enough in the art of communication and seduction that he or she could move the world without it? What if social

There is absolutely no reason for us, as a generation, to continue to hide behind our computers when the world is laid at our feet.

media was just a tool to enhance what that person is already trying to do?

Nelson Mandela was quoted as saying, “There is no passion to be found in playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

There is absolutely no reason for us, as a generation, to continue to hide behind our computers when the world is laid at our feet.

We are college students who have been given the opportunity to learn as much as we desire.

Education is where we start, but how can we take full advantage of what we are being taught when our phones are in our laps and we are constantly shooting anxious glances to see if we have a new text? Mandela also said, “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.”

I use Mandela as an example because, obviously unlike Hitler, he believed in the good of his country and the world. He used his story to inspire and seduce a nation to look beyond its cultural,

racial and political views for the better.

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart,” Mandela said, and he was clearly a mastermind of the concept.

The world is quickly changing into a technologically-run place that will take over generations to come. We must take a passionate stand and hold tight to what must be preserved — not as a lost art, but as a way of life.

Tweet all you want and Snapchat your silly pictures, but remember what you love, whom you love and what inspires you, and that they will only live on if you let your actual voice be heard.

Louis Schwartzberg said, “Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.”

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People, not guns, responsible for killings

By JAMIE WANDSCHNEIDER iowa STaTe Daily (iowa STaTe U.)

If we look back at our nation’s tragic events over the past year or so, public shootings have reached the top of the list.

Many innocent lives have been lost and measures are being taken to try and prevent such tragedies from happening again.

After each shooting, there is an uproar on how guns should be made illegal.

As a result, our Second Amendment right is being questioned, the amendment giving Americans the right to bear arms.

In the colonial days, guns were owned by citizens as a form of protection. There wasn’t any type of real law enforcement, so it was up to the landowner to protect their property and belongings. The Second Amendment also gave the citizens a chance to protect themselves from the government as well. In this amendment’s creation, the goal was to try and keep the government and the citizens at the same level.

If guns are banned, what will stop the government from taking advantage of the fact that citizens are unable to possess the most effective weapon?

The idea is that if people aren’t allowed to have guns, we won’t have to worry about these public killings. This thought seems pretty rational, but people often forget the reasons why these tragic events occur.

More often than not, the gun the shooter possesses, is not owned by the shooter, but is stolen from someone else.

The gun used in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting was owned by Adam Lanza’s mother, not Lanza himself. We don’t look at that fact, we just pay attention to someone that used a gun to commit a serious crime.

This strikes panic in people, which leads them to the conclusion that we need to get rid of guns so calamities like this won’t happen. In reality, most people that own a gun, or guns, are law-abiding citizens. Many people use guns to hunt or do recreational target shooting. Banning firearms will prevent people from doing a hobby they enjoy.

There are many gun control laws that are in effect today to help protect people.

In Iowa, there are laws requiring a permit to purchase or carry a handgun. In order to get such a permit, you must fill out an application to determine if you will be given a permit. There are questions that ask if you have ever committed a crime or if you have been admitted to a mental institution.

There is also a background check that is run on the permit applicant to prevent someone from purchasing a firearm in the heat of the moment. There are laws in place to make sure that the ones who own guns are law-abiding citizens.

What is often forgotten is that guns

are simply a tool like a hammer or screwdriver. All tools have a certain job that they are designed for and guns just so happen to have a lethal one. If we were to make guns illegal, there is nothing stopping others from committing the same crime, but with a different weapon.

Anything can be used in place of a gun and that object can be used to commit a crime, kill another person or threaten someone.

People could start going after others with different objects, such as: a baseball bat, knife, golf clubs or axes. Getting rid of guns doesn’t stop violence or murders; it just gets rid of an object commonly associated with violent acts.

Now, the question is, how can we fix this dilemma without violating the Second Amendment? The solution starts with society. It is not the guns that kill people. It is the person pulling the trigger.

There are many causes that can lead up to the point of violence. We live in a society where violence is an everyday norm. From violent video games, to violence in movies and images of war in our media, it is hard to escape. This can make violence seem like a shortcut to resolve disagreements or relieve frustration.

Violence is treated as the path to achievement. The object of some violent video games is to try to kill the most people to get the highest score. Many of these supposed forms of entertainment

use a gun as the way to win. The purpose of guns is treated too lightly, which prevents others from understanding the seriousness of firearms.

Not having proper facilities or professional counselors for people with poor mental health is where part of the problem lies. Not having proper funding and facilities prevents people from getting the help they need. When pushed over the edge, there is no knowing how that person will react. By not helping those who suffer from mental health issues, we are putting others and that person at risk.

Having poor mental health isn’t the only thing that can cause someone to snap and use a gun for a lethal purpose.

With more and more students being bullied, they sense a loss of control. As a result, they use a gun to regain that control, so they don’t feel powerless.

We need to stop worrying about the weapon that is being used in these shootings and focus more on the people behind it. Most shooters have been pushed to the breaking point and feel that violence is the only way out.

One of the great things about America is the rights that are granted to citizens.

The change we need is not hammering down on gun control, but re-imaging society. If we take violence more seriously and are more compassionate towards one another, in time we can make these shootings a thing of the past.

Congress must break current unproductive streak

By NATHANIEL HAAS

The Daily Trojan (U. SoUThern Cal)

In his first inaugural address, President Ronald Reagan cemented his place in the cliché hall of fame with his remark that, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

Sure, the conventional conservative wisdom holds that the government that does least does best. By that metric, the 113th Congress is on fire.

This year will be no different. Beyond a resolution to the fiscal crisis flavor of the month, no major policies will be passed.

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navigate the Mars Rover, can you move a nation solely by speaking about what inspires you?

Seduction is about adventure, taking chances and being able to change the minds of those around you.

While he is one of the world’s greatest historical villains, Adolf Hitler, is the prime example for seduction.

He didn’t need Twitter to gain followers, invade a country and effectively change the world. He spoke about what he wanted, how he thought it would make the world a better place and how he wanted to get it done. Until he was stopped, he led a nation solely by his voice.

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s I sit here in one of the lounges of the Media and Communication building, I notice people around me with their cell phones or computers — in many cases both — just inches away from their faces. Clearly the art, or should I say lost art, of communication is dead.

Once upon a time, strangers could sit in a room and get to know one another without the annoying distraction of Facebook, Snapchat or Twitter constantly blowing up their phones.

We live in a world motivated by how many likes we can get on our “duckface selfies” posted on Instagram instead of real human relationships.

Don’t get me wrong, I adore technology; it’s allowed me to instantly know how my husband was while he was deployed, easing my anxiety. My phone pings every few hours making me aware of a new, great sale on shoes, raising his anxiety.

However, I hate the way I can lose hours of my life staring at my

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But voters, particularly those concerned about the future of their political parties should pay as much — if not more — attention to this second session of the 113th Congress than they did the last one. The refiguring of the respective party identities ahead of the midterm election will serve as a barometer for the 2016 presidential election and will set the tone for the last two years of the Obama presidency.

The first two weeks of the New Year surely disappointed political optimists who thought 2014 would bring landmark legislation like comprehensive immigration reform and a raise in the

minimum wage. In addition, the nation’s congressmen voted to block extending unemployment benefits for over one million Americans. The negotiations were derailed by the ghost of the Affordable Care Act when Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) asserted that dismantling it would be a more effective economic stimulus than unemployment benefits (because if government assistance to poor people isn’t economic stimulus, what is it good for after all?).

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Red Raider trains for dream to make 2018 Olympic games

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

Ashley Cain does not lead the life of a normal teenager.

Cain, a Texas Tech University Independent School District student, trains on the ice rink every day in hopes of someday making it to the Olympics.

Darlene Cain, skating programs manager for the Dr. Pepper Star Center Euless and Ashley’s mother and coach, said her daughter has been on the national figure skating team for seven years and on Team USA for the last six years.

It is hard to think about the future, Ashley Cain said, especially as an athlete in training, because athletes are always training for their next season.

“You’re not really thinking past [the next season],” Ashley Cain said, “but right now I’m just kind of thinking as I go along and seeing where I end up by the end of next season.”

Darlene Cain said Ashley joined Team USA the first year she medaled at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Ashley has geared herself toward the 2018 Olympic Games, Darlene Cain said.

“It’s a good age and a good time in

her career,” Darlene Cain said. “She’s just starting to peak with everything so that’s our goal right now.”

Figure skating is a lot of work and a big commitment, on and off the ice, Darlene Cain said.

Her eating, physical conditioning and her whole team being on the same page are all essential parts of being a figure skater, Darlene Cain said.

“She’s on Team USA, so she goes out on different international events,” Darlene Cain said. “She’s got to make sure she gets back to Nationals each year because they rank you there.”

It is similar to a job, Darlene Cain said.

Ashley comes in at 8 a.m., Darlene Cain said; some days she does not leave until 4 p.m. and other days at five.

“Every day, she probably skates four hours a day, and then in between that, she’s doing a lot of school,” Darlene Cain said. “She skates and does school, skates and does school and then does some off-ice training.”

Being a figure skater on Team USA made going to school harder for Ashley.

Ashley is home-schooled now, Darlene Cain said, because the first year Ashley started being sent out

with Team USA to all the international events, she was supposed to miss 30 days of school.

The school told Ashley’s parents she couldn’t miss that many days or she would have to go to summer school, Darlene Cain said.

“Well, that’s our busiest training period, you know, in the summer, so she couldn’t do that,” Darlene Cain said. “[The school] thought the best option was home-schooling, so they set us up with Texas Tech University.”

According to the Texas Tech University Independent School District website, the Tech school district offers options for individual children, for a classroom or for whole school districts.

Darlene Cain said the Tech program was the best one for them because it was full-course study and Ashley could jump back into school if she ever needed to.

“It’s definitely a harder course to get through,” Darlene Cain said, “but she needs to do this one.”

Ashley is in her last year of high school in TTUISD, Darlene Cain said.

“She’s almost ready to graduate,” she said. “She’s got a few more classes and a few more exams to finish.”

Darlene Cain was once a senior

national competitor and a junior national bronze medalist in figure skating, and her husband, Peter Cain, a senior professional for Dr. Pepper Star Center Euless, was a member of the 1980 Australian Olympic Team and a four-time World Team member.

Darlene and Peter Cain were nominated for Coach of the Year in 2010, according to Ashley Cain’s website.

Peter Cain said he told Ashley that besides competing, doing well and placing, his favorite part of being on an Olympic team was traveling and seeing different places around the world.

“So now with her competing for Team USA and being able to travel overseas,” Peter Cain said, “it’s fun to see her reaction and to be able to take her to places that we had visited so she can see them.”

To have his daughter follow in his footsteps is really cool, he said.

Some people say it has to be hard teaching his daughter, Peter said, and other coaches have tried it and have not been successful.

“It’s exciting for me to see her take on something that we did,” Peter Cain said. “We tried to put her into other things, but it always came back to skating.” ➤➤awillingham@dailytoreador.com

President Obama targets college sexual assault WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama shone a light Wednesday on a college sexual assault epidemic that is often shrouded in secrecy, with victims fearing stigma, police poorly trained to investigate and universities reluctant to disclose the violence.

A White House report highlights a stunning prevalence of rape on college campuses, with 1 in 5 female students

Madonna’s pop culture collection awaits auction ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Long before Newsweek called her a “tarted-up floozy,” way before she married and had babies and adopted babies, and a lifetime before she opened an Instagram account, Madonna was a young woman in New York trying to make it big.

That ambition — and a good bit of innocence — can be seen in a collection of photos, art and drawings that are on the auction block Feb. 9 in St. Petersburg, Fla. The collection is owned by the parents of Martin Burgoyne, an artist, Studio 54 bartender and Madonna’s best friend during that time.

Burgoyne and Madonna befriended each other before she became famous. They were roommates and he played a huge role in Madonna’s early career. He managed her first tour and drew the cover image of Madonna for her 1983 ‘Burning Up’ EP album cover. They partied with artists Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and others. He was raised in England and went to New York to study art at the Pratt Institute.

Madonna and Burgoyne also supported each other emotionally and financially during hard times — after she was raped and when Burgoyne contracted AIDS. Burgoyne died in 1986 after battling that disease. He was 23.

Madonna wrote a song about him called “In This Life” that was on her 1992 album ‘Erotica.’

For decades, his parents have kept their son’s memorabilia from that era private — until now.

Mary Dowd, the co-owner of Myers Fine Art, said Burgoyne’s parents live in the Tampa Bay area and are in their 80s. They are selling the collection at an auction.

“I think they came to a point in their lives where they figured that it was time to do something with the collection,” Dowd said. “And so they phone us up and asked us if we would come take a look at it, which we did, and so we saw the breadth of the collection, it was really pretty incredible.”

assaulted while only 1 in 8 student victims report it.

“No one is more at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted than women at our nation’s colleges and universities,” said the report by the White House Council on Women and Girls.

Nearly 22 million American women and 1.6 million men have been raped in their lifetimes, according to the report. It chronicled the devas-

tating effects, including depression, substance abuse and a wide range of physical ailments such as chronic pain and diabetes.

The report said campus sexual assaults are fueled by drinking and drug use that can incapacitate victims, often at student parties at the hands of someone they know.

Perpetrators often are serial offenders. One study cited by the report found

that 7 percent of college men admitted to attempting rape, and 63 percent of those men admitted to multiple offenses, averaging six rapes each.

Obama, who has overseen a military that has grappled with its own crisis of sexual assaults, spoke out against the crime as “an affront on our basic decency and humanity.” He then signed a memorandum creating a task force to respond to campus rapes.

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ASHLEY CAIN, A senior in the Texas Tech University Independent School District, has ice skated for 15 years and placed second in the 2012 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

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Students find new way to pay for college tuition Staff Writer

Millions of students from all over the country have found a new way to pay for their college tuition and to stay debt free.

Seekingarrangements.com, a dating site founded in 2006 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Brandon Wade, gives young men and women who are struggling financially a chance to receive help from a wealthier crowd.

Leroy Velasquez, public relations manager for the website, said the site has progressed rapidly over the years, with more than 2.7 million current users.

The website was not originally intended to be a way for college students to make tuition, he said, but since the cost of college tuition is 60 percent higher than it was a decade ago, the growth of college student users has increased to more than 1 million.

“We had a 54 percent increase of college students using seekingarrangements.com from last year,” Velasquez said, “which we base off how many ‘edu’ emails are being used when people sign up.”

According to the Seeking Arrangements website, Texas colleges, such as the University of Texas and Texas State, have been ranked as the top schools with the fastest-growing membership rates.

They keep college students continuously joining by their Premium Membership offers, he said, where students receive free memberships and special discounts.

“If you can prove you are a student, then you get to have a membership for free,” Velasquez said. “If you are a ‘sugar daddy,’ then you have to pay $59.95 per month for a membership.”

He said sugar daddies, otherwise known as wealthy men and

women who want to help, find way of dating and helping one sugar babies, such as the students another out by building mutually who are seeking financial help, beneficial relationships.” by skimming Emily Ecklund, a through numerous profiles senior meand choosing dia strategies major a match for them. from Colleyville, Sugar babies also get said she has access to all mixed feelings about sugar daddy and sugar the site.

“It’s one mommy profiles to see thing if people are if there is a match, Velasdoing it for enjoyment quez said, and some critics or companLEROY VELASQUEZ believe this ionship,” PR MANAGER Ecklund seems like a SEEKING ARRANGEMENTS form of prossaid, “but it’s weird to titution.

“Taking care of other people have an angle of a relationship and being providers for a rela- based on promiscuity.”

Ecklund said she believes tionship is not a brand new concept,” he said. “It is just a modern there are other ways for students

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It is just a modern way of dating and helping one another out by building mutually beneficial relationships.

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to pay for tuition than a dating site where you don’t know the people.

“It just seems like an easy way out,” Ecklund said.

Rian Morgan, a junior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Arlington, said even though she would not make a profile for herself, the site seems like a good idea—especially for people who cannot receive the proper amount of financial aid or grants.

“As long as the site is safe and people are okay with what they are doing,” Morgan said, “then it seems like a pretty good way to help someone out.”

Velasquez said the site is safe, because they do background checks and background verifications by a third party site called TC LogiQ. “If they pass, they get a verified badge on their profile,” he said. “If they have any misdemeanors or felonies, a flag will

occur on their profile and it is looked into from there.”

If TC LogiQ finds a person not applicable because of their background check, they are allowed to suspend their account or the user is banned.

Anyone can have as many sugar daddies or sugar babies as they want, Velasquez said, it all depends on the arrangement of each relationship.

“The site is very beneficial for each person (who joins),” he said. “People have even gotten married from the site.”

Velasquez is proud to be the PR manager for this site, he said, and the main business model is focused on helping those who need it the most.

“Our main goal is to help other people find something beneficial out of this site,” he said. “It’s all about building relationships, growth and helping those in need.” ➤➤lpeace@dailytoreador.com

New organization discusses controversial topics about women

By TAYLOR PEACE Staff Writer

Women In Business, an organization for women who want to come together to discuss the importance of diversity and change in the workplace, was created in September.

Paige Lehmann, a junior business management and marketing major from Dallas, helped found and is in charge of the organization.

Lehmann said the main goal for her organization is for women and men to gain insight into the issues of

diversity and authority in an office.

“Confidence is achieved in different ways for different people,” Lehmann said. “My goal is to have opportunities for all types of student to learn to walk away with a sense of confidence and mobility.”

Lehmann said one reason she started Women In Business was because topics about diversity are difficult to talk about in such environments as a classroom.

Lehmann said she believes it is important for professors to remain professional and unbiased when

controversial topics arise.

“Being professional naturally prevents any sort of political incorrectness,” Lehmann said, “and I think that people are sensitive to any sort of comment a professor may make that doesn’t pertain to the lesson or could be tied to their beliefs.”

This organization, which meets at various times once a month, is to help those who feel topics such as discrimination are in need of bringing to light, Lehmann said.

Claudia Cogliser, co-founder and associate professor in the area

of management at Texas Tech, said there is definitely a need for change in the issues of diversity.

“I think there is a need that goes beyond just women issues, but diversity issues in general,” Cogliser said.

When Lehmann came to Cogliser with her ideas for Women In Business, Cogliser was more than happy for the opportunity to promote change in our society, Cogliser said.

“When Paige approached me, I did the happy dance,” Cogliser said. “Huge changes happen from

one small person or group, one day at a time.”

This is the perfect opportunity to create change, Cogliser said, and to help students become more confident and aware of such a controversial issue about women, men and equality in all types of environments.

“Do I think that women have more superiority than men? Heck no,” Cogliser said. “I think it has to do with the fact that some people are biased, but they don’t realize they are being that way.”

Women in Business is a way

to change the issue, Cogliser said, by helping everyone see we need diversity in every aspect of our lives and to not judge each other based on gender or race.

There are two co-advisors, Cogliser and Dr. Francisco Delgadillo, professor for the Rawls College of Business, who have helped Lehmann get the organization off the ground.

“I also want to help students gain more confidence in the working field,” Lehmann said, “despite their gender or race.” ➤➤lpeace@dailytoreador.com

LAX gunfire came while officers away Von Teese at Gaultier, Paz Vega hits Saab LOS ANGELES (AP) — Minutes before a gunman opened fire in a Los Angeles International Airport terminal last fall, killing a security screener and wounding three other people, the two armed officers assigned to the area left for breaks without informing a dispatcher as required.

The Los Angeles Airport Police Department officers were outside Terminal 3 when authorities say Paul Ciancia opened fire with an assault rifle, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

The officials requested anonymity, saying they were briefed on the shooting but were not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.

As terrified travelers dived for cover, TSA officers — who are unarmed — fled the screening area without hitting a panic button or using a landline to call for help. It

took a call from an airline contractor to a police dispatcher, who then alerted officers over the radio — a lag of nearly a minute and a half, the officials said.

Before officers could get to the scene, Ciancia fatally wounded TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez and then headed to the screening area where he shot two more agents and a traveler, authorities said.

Ciancia was subdued after being wounded by officers in the gate area of the terminal.

As part of a review prompted by the shooting, the TSA is considering allowing screeners to carry cellphones while working, according to an agency official close to the investigation who requested anonymity.

The official wasn’t authorized to speak publically about the investigation because it is ongoing.

Officials need to decide whether the ability for agents to quickly call

for help in an emergency trumps the potential distraction from the phones.

The Los Angeles shooting refocused the public’s attention on airport security. Despite many changes since the Sept. 11 attacks, it’s almost impossible to stop a gunman from simply entering a terminal.

The new details about the whereabouts of the two officers and communication issues come as authorities review the overall response, including whether emergency medical personnel were forced to wait longer than necessary to remove Hernandez so he could be taken to a hospital. The AP earlier reported that Hernandez did not receive medical care until 33 minutes after he was shot. A coroner’s release said he was likely dead within two to five minutes.

At LAX, armed police officers are assigned to each terminal and allowed to roam the vast expanses looking for suspicious people and items. When the Nov. 1 shooting started, the two law enforcement officials say one of the armed officers assigned to Terminal 3 was at or just outside an adjacent terminal.

One of the officials said the officer was on a bathroom break while the other officer was in a vehicle on the tarmac outside Terminal 3, headed for a meal break.

PARIS (AP) — Thousands of hours of fastidious couture burst out onto the catwalks for Wednesday’s dramatic Paris shows — including displays from Valentino, Elie Saab and Viktor & Rolf. The spring-summer 2014 collections provoked applause, gasps, cheers and generally so much enthusiasm that one fashion journalist even fell off the stage trying to speak to Jean Paul Gaultier. The Associated Press also caught up with a real life haute couture client who owns over 1,500 astronomically-priced gowns.

Here are the reports, tidbits and highlights from the day: DITA VON TEESE’S CAMEO Guests at the Jean Paul Gaultier show gasped when American burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese walked out for a cameo appearance at this haute couture show in a death-defying small corset.

The diminutive brunette’s body looked distorted in the tight, laced blue green bodice that cinched even her tiny 22-inch waist. The corset flourished with a butterfly embellishment that Gaultier said was inspired by seeing mounted butterflies in a shop on a recent trip to London.

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An incredible hand-painted set with butterflies and foliage met guests at Valentino’s encyclopedic couture show, thanks a to collaboration with Rome Opera House.

Valentino can always be counted on to produce the most archetypally couture show of the season.

Here, their army of indefatigable Italian seamstresses — the “petites mains” — spent sometimes up to 2,500 hours of embroidery time on just one garment. And it showed in the delicacy of the gowns.

Medieval images of fawns, mixed with youthful frothy tutus, silken cream Asian pajama suits, a bronze Celtic pattern and even a Grecian toga dress in alabaster white with an enviable cape attached to the sleeves.

If references were myriad, one thing held it all together: luxury. From dentelle lace, to natural tussah silk, feathers, pearls and crystals — this collection shimmered.

ELIE SAAB IS FIT FOR A 50s PRINCESS Elie Saab used the delicate colors of turn-of-the-century painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema as a starting point of his show.

It pushed the Lebanese designer, who’s better known for traditional red carpet trafficstoppers, to produce an unusually subtle collection.

There were, of course, the predictable bread-and-butter cinched silhouettes.

But the display achieved a rare mood which evoked the progression of day: From the blush pinks of dawn, the pure white of high noon, the purples of dusk, and then to resolution in midnight black.

There was also a nostalgia for yesteryear.

Impressive crinolines appeared on several looks, all with the traditional couture embellishments, harking back to the styles the 1950s Hollywood actresses.

Several looks would not have looked out of place on Grace Kelly.

Appropriately from the front row applauded Spanish actress Paz Vega, who stars in the upcoming biopic “Grace of Monaco.”

MEET A REAL LIFE COUTURE CLIENT Haute couture, the artisanbased method of making clothes that dates back over 150 years, is bought by a core group of no more than 100 rich women around the world for tens of thousands of dollars a piece.

One of these legendary women, Monaco-based Mouna Ayoub, sat in pride of place on the front row of the Jean Paul Gaultier show.

She told The Associated Press she’s bought over 1,500 couture gowns over 33 years.

“I wear haute couture every time I go out in public, I cannot stand ready-to-wear. Except when I go shopping where I wear jeans,” she said.

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Mountaineers give Lady Raiders 8th straight loss

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team was defeated by the No. 18 West Virginia Mountaineers by a score of 70-51 Wednesday night at the United Spirit Arena.

Tech has now lost eight games in a row and drops to 6-12 overall and 0-7 in the Big 12 Conference. West Virginia improves to 17-2 on the season and remains in second place in the conference.

West Virginia coach Mike Carey said he was impressed by the tough play by the Lady Raiders. “(Tech) played extremely hard,” he said. “(Candi Whitaker) has got them playing very hard. They attack off the dribble and they break you down defensively. I thought they did a good job, too.”

The loss marked the first game West Virginia has beaten Tech as they had previously led the all-time series 2-0.

Tech coach Candi Whitaker said she liked the team’s effort despite the loss.

“I’m proud of how we fought,” Whitaker said. “I definitely thought the game felt closer and was closer than

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TEXAS TECH GUARD Jasmine Caston looks to get past West Virginia forward Crystal Leary during the first half of the Lady Raiders’ 70-51 loss against the Mountaineers on Wednesday in the United Spirit Arena.

the ending score. I thought we guarded well, at times, and didn’t turn it over against a pressure team. There were some positives in this game.”

Junior guard Amber Battle continued to lead Tech’s offense with 19 points and four rebounds. She remains fourth in the Big 12 in scoring with her effort.

Battle said she saw the team getting better throughout the game.

“I definitely think we are improving,” Battle said. “We are taking the little things and we are growing on that.

We are putting it all together. (The score) felt closer the whole game. We just have to progress everyday and just keep working.”

West Virginia jumped out to a quick 13 point lead due to 15.4 percent shooting in the first 12 minutes of the game by Tech. The Lady Raiders fought back and brought the game back within five points near the end of the first half.

Battle said despite the loss the team took away many positives from the game.

“We definitely had a lot of energy.

I felt like our energy exceeded theirs,” Battle said. “Our rebounding was good and bad at different times. But we

Texas Tech high jumper gets award Texas Tech junior high jumper JaCorian Duffield was named Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Male Athlete of the Week this week, according to a news release.

Duffield earned the honor after breaking the Tech school indoor high jump record with a jump of 7 feet 3 3/4 inches at the Texas Tech Open last Saturday. The record was held by Roland Mitchell.

With the clearance, Duffield won the event and moved to No. 2 on the national indoor qualifying list.

Duffield now owns two of the top 10 jumps in school history after clearing 2.18 meters (7’1.75”) at the Tech Open last season.

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Red Raiders fall to West Virginia The Texas Tech men’s basketball team lost 87-81 Wednesday in a road game against the West Virginia Mountaineers.

The loss dropped the Red Raiders to 10-9 overall and 2-4 in conference play and the Mountaineers improved to 11-8 overall with a 3-3 conference record.

This was the second time for the two teams to meet this season and both games ended with the same result, a Red Raider loss.

West Virginia went up 8-0 to start the game and led 20-10 before Tech went on a 16-0 run to go up 26-20.

Senior center Dejan Kravic hit his first career 3-pointer at the first half buzzer to bring Tech within one point at the break.

Both teams shot more than 60 percent from behind the arc in the first half.

Although the outcome wasn’t in Tech’s favor, sophomore guard Dusty Hannahs had a new career high with 25 points and was the highlight for the Red Raiders offensively.

Hannahs finished the game shooting 8-9 from the field and a perfect 7-7 from 3-point land to go along with six assists.

West Virginia started the second half with a 10-2 run and Tech trailed by 13 with just under five minutes left in regulation.

The Red Raiders fought to get back in the game, but came up short in the end.

Tech will be back in action Saturday when they compete against the No. 25 Oklahoma Sooners at 3 p.m. in the United Spirit Arena.

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