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Woods and Glen Doherty — as well as herself. “I stood next to President Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped caskets off the plane at Andrews. I put my arms around the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters and the wives left alone to raise their children,” she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a packed hearing. Clearly annoyed with Republican complaints about the initial explanation for the attack, she rose to the defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who was vilified for widely debunked claims five days after the attack that protests precipitated the raid rather than terrorism. Clinton said, “People were trying in real time to get to the best information.” And she said her own focus was on looking ahead on how to improve security rather than revisiting the talking points and Rice’s comments. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pressed her on why “we were misled that there were supposedly protests and something sprang out of that, an assault sprang out of that.” “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans,” she said, her voice rising and quivering with anger as she and Johnson spoke over each other. “Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided they would go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.” CLINTON continued on Page 2 ➤➤
TTUHSC to offer Web-based degree program in Amarillo ‘‘ By EMILY GARDNER STAFF WRITER
The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Nursing will offer a Web-based Second Degree Baccalaureate Nursing Degree program in Amarillo starting Fall 2013. The program, dean of the HSC School of Nursing Michael Evans said, will appeal to students who have decided to change career paths. “It is a degree program that is aimed at attracting individuals that already have a bachelor’s degree in any field of study plus our prerequisites, which is, of course, heavy on sciences,” Evans said. The web-based degree is accelerated, he said. Students who enter into the program can complete it in 12 months. After completion, Evans said students will take the state licensing exam to become registered nurses. According to the HSC School of Nursing website, a person with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing will be prepared for the 21st-century health care environment. “The knowledge acquisition of it is all online,” Evans said, “and then there is time spent learning in a hospital type of environment.” According to a news release from HSC School of Nursing, the clinical experience — or hands-on training —
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(The purpose is) to increase the number of nursing graduates in the Amarillo region. There is a tremendous nursing shortage across the country ... ” Michael Evans
will occur at the Amarillo Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System, and Northwest Texas Hospital. The program, Evans said, was designed to combat the scarcity of Dean, HSC School nursing graduates. of Nursing “(The purpose is) to increase the number of nursing graduates in the Amarillo region,” he said. “There is a tremendous nursing shortage across the country, and all schools are trying to step up the number of graduates that they have from their programs, and since the type of program does not exist in the Amarillo area, we want to bring it to the area.” The program also is offered in Abilene, Austin, El Paso, Lubbock and the Permian Basin area, Evans said. HSC began offering the program at the Lubbock campus in 2006, he said, and programs across the country also are offering this program. According to the release, officials at the HSC School of Nursing anticipate 15 students will enroll in the degree program in Amarillo in the fall semester.
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Diverse Defense Female students practice selfdefense in more ways than one By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER
Although when walking on the Texas Tech campus, she may look like a normal sophomore exercise and sport sciences major from Fort Worth, Tori Rymer is fully equipped for an attack from any predator because she will cut them — with her switchblade. “I’ve never had to use it,” she said, “but it’s nice to know that I do have those resources in case I get in an uncomfortable situation.” As shootings and violence become increasingly common occurrences, many female students like Rymer are refusing to become future victims by taking precautions to protect themselves. These women understand the importance of self-defense, and are prepared to fight back, some with skills developed through training. “I also have taken Krav Maga classes, which is an Israeli style of fighting that is actually very convenient and it teaches you to fight in, like, actual, probable situations,” Rymer said. “And then I’m also in the military, so I have been trained in combat.” PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ASHLYN TUBBS/The Daily Toreador Barbara Stinson, a senior marketing and restaurant, hotel and institutional ASHLEY MCMAHAN, A senior advertising major from Austin, displays her Taser management major from Crandall, disguised as a cellphone. McMahan carries the Taser at all times for self-defense. said she took a concealed handgun license course during the winter break father’s handguns until she purchases believed in.” and soon will have certification to use one of her own. Before she took this course, Stinson a handgun in an emergency situation. “I believe I will carry it in a concealed said she had no way to protect herself, “You just never know what kind gun purse,” she said. “You can’t carry a unlike her friends who carry pepper of situation you’re going to get into, gun in just any purse. That’s what my spray. especially being a woman living in mom uses, and I’ll probably do the same Demi Phillips, a freshman business a college area by as her. You can keep major from Houston, received her pepper yourself, far away it in your car, but spray as a Christmas gift from her stepfrom your parents,” I haven’t decided if mother a couple of years ago and said she she said. “It’s just believes it increases her security. I’ll do that or not.” scary when you’re Stinson’s family “I’ve always just kept it in my car out late at night members each took just in case anything happens in my or anything like the concealed hand- car because in Houston, where I’m that.” g u n l i c e n s e c o u r s e from,” she said, “you’re not really walkThe two-day after turning 21 years ing around anywhere, so I don’t necescourse consisted old, she said. sarily have it on my keychain.” of a shooting test “ M y m o m c a rHowever, her thought process has and then a writr i e s , a b u n c h o f changed. ten test, Stinson my friends’ parents “Now that I’ve came to college,” she said, which is takcarry, my aunts carry, said, “I’ve thought about putting it on my en after a lecture. so a lot of the women actual keychain instead of just keeping After completing in our family carry it in my car because I’m walking more the course, she reand my older sisters than driving.” ceived paperwork carry as well,” she Although Phillips has never used the with her qualificasaid, “so it’s just kind spray before, she said it is important to tions to receive her of like I followed ev- own something that will help defend her. license. eryone else, I guess.” “Maybe even holding your keys in a “When you take Because gun con- certain way just in case someone tried the course, it goes trol has become an to come at you,” she said, “just knowthrough hours on increasing concern ing simple things to be able to protect end of preparaamong U.S. citizens, yourself.” ASHLEY MCMAHAN tion for carrying a Nina Clayton, a freshman human Stinson said she SENIOR gun and knowing wanted to receive her sciences major from Houston, said she is every rule that concealed handgun considering purchasing pepper spray after ADVERTISING goes with carrying license while she still hearing Phillips explain the benefits of a gun,” she said, could. owning a can. “like all the laws and when it’s OK to “I just feel safer with one than withShe said she would not be afraid to use it and when not.” out one,” she said. “If the option were spray it in a person’s eyes if encountered Once Stinson sends in the proper ever taken away from me, I’m glad I did with a dangerous situation. paperwork and receives her license, it now and I have it, especially since she will begin carrying one of her it’s something my parents have always SELF-DEFENSE continued on Page 5 ➤➤
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Defiant Clinton takes on lawmakers about Sept. 11 Libya attack WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, facing off with lawmakers who included potential 2016 presidential rivals. At times emotional and frequently combative, Clinton rejected GOP suggestions in two congressional hearings that the administration tried to mislead the country about the Sept. 11 attack that killed Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans. She insisted the State Department is moving swiftly and aggressively to strengthen security at diplomatic posts worldwide. In her last formal testimony before Congress as America’s top diplomat — but perhaps not her last time on the political stage — Clinton once again took responsibility for the department’s missteps and failures leading up to the assault. But she also said that requests for more security at the diplomatic mission in Benghazi didn’t reach her desk, and reminded lawmakers that they have a responsibility to fund security-related budget requests. Three weeks after her release from a New York hospital — admitted for complications after a concussion — Clinton was at times defiant, complimentary and willing to chastise lawmakers during more than 5 ½ hours of testimony before two separate committees. She tangled with some who could be rivals in 2016 if she decides to seek the presidency again. Her voice cracking at one point, Clinton said the attack and the aftermath were highly personal tragedies for the families of the victims who died — Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone
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