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Tech preparing for reaffirmation process

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

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pliance Certification Report that demonstrates the university has complied with each of the core requirements, comprehensive standards and federal regulations, according to the website.

Six months later, a group of professional peers from universities of SACSCOC will visit Tech to assess educational strengths and weaknesses of the university, according to the website.

The visiting committee sends a report back to SACSCOC, and the responses from the visit and the Compliance Certification Report are sent to and reviewed by the Committee on Compliance and Reports, which is a standing committee of the Commission, according to the release. The committee then sends a recommendation for affirmation to the Executive Council

of the Commission. Finally, the Executive Council recommends action to the Commission on Colleges, which make the final decision.

Tech Health Sciences Center and San Angelo State, both individual institutions, are separately accredited even though they are a part of the Tech System, Jennifer Hughes, director of the Office of Planning and Assessment, said.

If standards are not met, the university will receive a focus report, where Tech will be asked to provide more evidence on the area of concern, Hughes said. Then more data will be provided to support evidence that the area of weakness is being strengthened.

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Networking is important online, in person

By TAYLOR PEACE Staff Writer

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: all forms of networking frequently used instead of faceto-face interactions.

With social media on the rise and the highly competitive career fields following college, networking is becoming more important than ever before.

Michael Bodwell, an accountant for Whitley Penn, said he believes a person’s network, or circle of influence, may be one of the most critical factors in determining someone’s path and the decisions they make in life.

“I know that seems like a stretch,” Bodwell said, “but many parents try to ensure when their kids are young that they hang around the ‘right’ kids.”

Bodwell said he thinks parents know early on that kids and their peers will have a dramatic impact on their child’s choices in life.

A person’s circle of influence, as they get older, helps connect them to the opportunities they want to pursue, Bodwell said, or may even help drop an unsolicited opportunity onto their lap.

“Networking is good because it expands your opportunities,” Bodwell said, “and your circle of influence can be a better cheerleader for you than you ever could be for yourself.”

Bodwell said someone in a network could be a gateway into an opportunity just by saying good things about you and why you would be fit for the position.

“If someone trusts a person in your circle of influence and they don’t know you,” Bodwell said, “but you are asking for a job, this person can help get you the opportunity just by saying how good and trustworthy you are.”

In order to be good at networking, there are many things one needs to consider, Bodwell said.

Amy Bafford, associate director for the University Career Center, said making connections is very important because employment is so competitive.

“It helps you rise above the crowd by making these connections,” Bafford said. “This makes it easier for them to see how you operate, see who you are and possibly heighten their interest in hiring you.”

Bafford said according the Department of Labor statistics, 80 percent of people get jobs through networking.

Bafford said mentors are helpful because they might be able to help the mentee connect with someone in their field.

“A mentor can help the mentee develop professionally how to carry themselves,” Bafford said. “They can also help them with how to talk to

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Because of Luke Bryan’s concert Thursday, a portion of the Commuter West parking lot will be closed.

Concert crews will use lot C11, north of the United Spirit Arena, for the concert, according to an email from Texas Tech Transportation and Parking Services.

A portion of C11 will not be a v a i l a b l e t o d a y, a c c o r d i n g t o the email.

No additional vehicles will be allowed to enter the parking lot beginning at 1 p.m., according to the email.

Additional parking will be available for Commuter West permit holders in the parking lots west of Indiana Avenue, according to the email.

Permit holders may also park in any other commuter parking lots beginning at 2:30 p.m., according to the release.

Employee parking lots become available after 5:30 p.m., according to the email.

Luke Bryan’s concert is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.

Every 10 years, Texas Tech undergoes an accreditation process by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).

The Office of Planning and Assessment is responsible for creating documentation to send to SACSCOC in order to be accredited.

Catherine Parsoneault, associate vice provost for planning and assessment, acts as the liaison for the university and SACSCOC. “The goal of accreditation is for institutions of higher education to meet a standard of quality and to demonstrate continuous improvement,” she said.

There are six regional accreditors

that split the U.S. All Texas public universities and community colleges are accredited through SACSCOC, Parsoneault said. There are 803 members across 11 states.

The SACSCOC is a peer review process, according to SACSCOC’s website, meaning universities within SACSCOC’s region accredit each other.

“Altogether the institutions are t h e a c c r e d i t i n g b o d y, ” s h e s a i d , “and the representatives then help determine the high standards of performance for every aspect of the academic programs, the operations, the procedures of each member institutions and those are captured in 95 different standards that address every aspect of the university’s operation.”

Each institution must send a Com-

others and build a stronger professional bond with that relationship.”

Networking is a two-way street, Bafford said, and just like any other relationship, it’s not all about the person trying to get the job.

Bafford said just like any other relationship, one needs to look out for the mentor’s best

intentions as well.

“You need to be interested in them and make yourself open to helping them out,” Bafford said.

“That way, later on, they will want to help you out if you need it in the future.”

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White House plans to fight against student sexual assault, rape

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

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An estimated one in five women has been sexually assaulted while in college, according to the White House Council on Women and Girls’ latest report.

In his weekly address, President Barack Obama issued a new Presidential Memorandum to establish a taskforce to combat growing sexual assault statistics, according to a White House blog post.

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The taskforce, which was named the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, will implement its mission by communicating with sexual assault survivors and increasing the power of the criminal justice system, according to a White House press release.

The mission of the taskforce is to create a federal response to sexual assaults on college campuses, according to the memorandum.

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cator and volunteer coordinator for Lubbock Rape Crisis Center Voice of Hope, said she believes this will have a positive impact on survivors.

“I think anything that raises awareness of sexual assault on college campuses is a step in the right direction,” Timmons said. “This really validates victims of sexual assaults who haven’t yet reported their assaults.”

The taskforce will provide colleges with information on the best ways to prevent, respond to and treat rape and sexual assault allegations, according to the report.

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Sexual assault survivors on college campuses are prone to abuse drugs and suffer from mental health issues. College students are also less likely to report an attack, according to the report.

“In general, the humiliation and embarrassment often keep survivors from reporting,” Timmons said. “It’s also in the way colleges usually handle these cases and want to cover them up.

They don’t want to bring light to that subject because it’s never good PR for a campus to have.”

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College returns post-baccalaureate certification

By TAYLOR LYNN Staff Writer

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Today Study Abroad Week When: All day Where: SUB West Plaza So, what is it? Want to take course abroad? Get your information about different countries and enjoy free food.

Chili Cook Off at The Commons When: Thursday 11:00 AM 1:00 p.m.

Where: The Commons by United Supermarkets, 18th and Boston So, what is it? Hospitality Services is hosting Super Bowl of Chili, the first ever chili cook off. Enjoy a hot bowl of chili for only $6.

Thursday Night Movies: Captain Phillips When: Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Where: Escondido Theatre, Student Union Building So, what is it? Student Union and Activities is hosting a

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Where: International Culture Center SO, what is it? Sample Vietnamese food and learn more about Vietnamese culture and heritage.

Introduction to Peking Opera and its Characters When: 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Where: Human Science 169 So, what is it? In this workshop, learn the four types of Peking Opera characters.

Attendees will be able to practice acting techniques and learn Chinese stories.

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Jesus Tattoo files lawsuit against LISD The Jesus Tattoo organization has filed a lawsuit against the Lubbock Independent School District after they refused to let the company advertise on the screen at Lowery Field.

Little Pencil is the corporation that financed the advertisements last year showing pictures of Jesus with tattoos all over his body.

On the video on the Jesus Tattoo website, Jesus is shown taking away the tattoos of people, transforming them into good and transferring the tattoos to himself.

The tattoos are not the main point of the campaign, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, but it is supposed to be edgy so it will make people think.

The company has 59 billboards around the Lubbock area, according to the article, which is the largest advertising campaign in the history of the city.

A nondenominational ministry sponsors the billboards through the support of unnamed benefactors according to the article.

David Miller, founder and manager of Little Pencil, said the company wanted to use the same tattooed Jesus concept from the billboard campaign, according to the lawsuit, but was turned down by the district due to a policy against tattoos.

In the suit, Little Pencil asserts the district has no policy against tattoos and the company removed the tattoos from Jesus’ body and resubmitted but was again rejected.

LISD issued a written statement Tuesday evening saying the district had not received notification of or been served with a lawsuit, but they knew about the press release sent out by the plaintiff’s attorneys.

There was no further comment from the district.

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If we don’t rectify (areas of concern), then we go into what’s called a monitoring period, and I think that’s unlikely to happen,”

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teacher and co-planning lessons.”

The program lasts three semesters and can be done over the fall, spring and one summer session, Hamman said. At the end of the program, students will be able to apply for their teacher certification as well as other benefits, he said.

“Students get their certification, which any school can do for you,” he said. “But I think they leave with a greater degree of confidence, the experience of being in the schools for an entire year, so that they are better prepared to get a job.”

The post-bac program offers certifications in all of the secondary content areas at this time, he said. These content areas include math, science, social studies and English language arts. At this

time, the post-bac certification is not offered in middle or elementary levels, he said.

“We are trying to respond to the needs in the region for math and science teachers,” he said.

“We have received special grant money for students looking into these content areas.”

Students are placed with a mentor teacher throughout the entire school year, he said. The College of Education tries to place students into particular districts if they prefer.

“The partnerships we have in the districts allow us to identify the best mentor teachers,” he said. “If a student is working in a district all year and that school has a teaching vacancy, they are a great candidate.”

Hughes said. “It could effect our institutions academic reputation, and that can have some really serious effects for faculty and students if we lose our accreditation.”

However, not only reputation can be lost, federal financial aid money for students could potentially be lost as well if the

university is not accredited.

Craig Morton, associate director for planning and assessment, said he believes this is unlikely to happen.

“Rarely does a school get to that level,” he said.

Morton said the onsite visit will take place in February, and

the Compliance Certification Report will be sent in September.

By 2015, the university will be announced accredited or not.

“An institution doesn’t have to be perfect to be reaffirmed,” Parsoneault said. “We have to show improvement.”

that he observed a person fueling a Tech owned ve hicle and then fueling what appeared to be a privately owned vehicle from the same transaction.

3:17 p.m. - A Tech officer arrested a student for driving with an invalid license, which occurred following a traffic stop in the 800 block of Akron Ave. The student was

transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was released to a family member.

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‘Going local’ challenges chefs, farmers Mom’s trial in daughter’s death opens HOUSTON (AP) — A handful of Houston restaurants are “going local,” serving up menus sourced entirely from small farms and ranches in the area, or as close to Houston as the chefs can find.

But that can turn a modestly priced meal into a credit-card stretcher, adding 50 percent or more to the tab. The question then becomes: How much can a restaurant charge customers for local food without chasing them off?

Increasingly, restaurateurs here and elsewhere are facing the same kinds of choices as diners express growing concern about the origins of their food.

“The bar has been raised where people want local, fresh and seasonal,” said Jodie Eisenhardt, co-host of a radio show that covers local restaurants, adding that she feels demand for locally sourced food is becoming mainstream.

With that in mind, chefs and farmers got together recently to discuss the challenges in the local-food

movement at an event sponsored by Houston Food Policy Workgroup, an offshoot of Houston Tomorrow, which champions local quality-oflife issues.

The working group met at Hay Merchant, a Montrose-area craft beer bar and restaurant. Hay Merchant managing partner Kevin Floyd created a menu for the event to show the cost differences for dishes depending on the source of the food.

The seared chicken breast meal, for example, would be $24 if locally sourced, compared with $13 if purchased through a major commodity supplier. The price tag on the seared flank steak was $22 local and $15 otherwise.

Floyd said that, like other restaurants, Hay Merchant doesn’t have the luxury of offering local ingredients exclusively because prices would be perceived as too high.

So he uses a combination of massmarket and locally sourced foods.

Going local is also more work for a restaurant.

ABILENE (AP) — Witnesses testified Wednesday about squalid conditions in the home of a West Texas woman who’s accused in the death of her 22-month-old daughter.

The trial for Tiffany Klapheke, who is charged with injury to a child in the August 2012 death of Tamryn Klapheke, started Wednedsay. The child was found dead of malnutrition and dehydration in Klapheke’s Abilene home.

Prosecutors said Klapheke, now 23, had kept the child locked in a room for four days before she found her dead in her crib and called 911.

Investigators told the Taylor County jury of a stench of urine and feces that prevailed in the Klapheke home when they arrived. And Abilene police Detective Earnest Moscarelli said some rooms in the house were covered in feces.

Matthew Jones, a retired Air Force master sergeant, was a

Dyess Air Force Base security officer in August 2012 and the first investigator to arrive at the Klapheke home after the woman had called 911.

He said the smell of urine and feces in the house “hit you in the face like a tennis racket.” Jones said he could not wash the stench from his uniform afterward and had to discard it.

Klapheke had told investigators that the overseas deployment of her husband, an airman at the nearby Air Force base, left her too stressed to care for their three children.

In opening statements, defense attorney George Parnham spoke of sexual abuse and neglect that Klapheke suffered growing up in foster homes. He also said she suffers from reactive attachment disorder, which is usually found in children who cannot form health attachments with parents or caregivers because of past neglect or abuse.

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The College of Education is bringing back the Post-Baccalaureate certification program, according to the college’s website.

The program requires students to hold a bachelor’s degree and have a 2.75 GPA in their undergraduate work, according to a newsletter from the college.

Also, students wanting to begin the program must pass a stateadministered Pre-Admissions Content Exam.

Doug Hamman, director of teacher education and associate professor, said the college had the post-bac program three years ago, but when the economy slowed down, the numbers dwindled.

The old program was offered as a

graduate program, he said.

“Now we are re-opening the program, but we are reopening it as an undergraduate certification,” he said. “This benefits students because it is ultimately cheaper paying for undergraduate courses instead of graduate courses.”

The post-bac certification is part of the College of Education’s TechTeach program. Hamman said he believes this benefits students because it gives them more hands-on experience in a partner school district.

“We revamped the program to make it competency based, clinically intensive and focused on student achievement,” he said.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of Atlanta students stranded all night long in their schools were reunited with their parents Wednesday, while rescuers rushed to deliver blankets, food, gas and a ride home to countless shivering motorists stopped cold by a storm that paralyzed the business capital of the South with less than 3 inches of snow.

As National Guardsmen and state troopers fanned out, Mayor Kasim Reed and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal found themselves

on the defensive, acknowledging the storm preparations could have been better. But Deal also blamed forecasters, saying he was led to believe it wouldn’t be so bad.

The icy weather wreaked similar havoc across much of the South, closing schools and highways, grounding flights and contributing to at least a dozen deaths from traffic accidents and a mobile home fire.

Yet it was Atlanta, home to major corporations and the world’s busiest airport, that was

Exhibit A for how a Southern city could be sent reeling by winter weather that, in the North, might be no more than an inconvenience.

The mayor admitted the city could have directed schools, businesses and government offices to stagger their closings on Tuesday afternoon, as the storm began, rather than dismissing everyone at the same time.

The result was gridlock on freeways that are jammed even on normal days. Countless ve-

hicles were stranded and many of them abandoned.

Georgia State Patrol officials said two traffic fatalities had been reported in counties outside of Atlanta. State troopers also responded to more than 1,460 crashes between Tuesday morning and Wednesday evening and said more than 175 injuries had been reported.

Officials said 239 children spent Tuesday night aboard school buses; thousands of others stayed overnight in their schools.

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College of business introduces STEM MBA

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

The Rawls College of Business Administration introduced a new science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) masters program in business Dec. 4, according to a Texas Tech news release.

The program was designed to help STEM students increase their marketability in the fields they enter into, according to the release.

The program is meant to take those with an undergraduate degree in the STEM areas and give them a business degree, William Pasewark, associate dean of graduate programs and research in the

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Timmons said hopefully these changes in policy will encourage more victims to report and go to a hospital, get an exam and take their attackers to trial.

The taskforce plans to organize with federal agencies to ensure schools that do not try to combat sexual assault will be held accountable, according to the report.

“A really important thing about this is that Obama is trying to shift the blame from the victim to the assailant,” Timmons said.

Rawls College of Business, said.

“We’re not looking to take those people and change them PASEWARK into business majors,” he said. “We expect them to take professions that are in that area that they love, and that’s why they went into it for an undergrad, so they’re going to have that core of technology background, and we’re going to give them a shell on the outside of business experience so they can take what they love doing and make money at it.”

The program brings the busi-

ness masters program back to its original roots, he said.

“MBAs weren’t originally for business majors,” he said. “It was meant to be for people outside of business who needed a business background, so they could operationalize what they do have a degree in in the real world.”

The project is aimed both to help the graduates become toplevel executives in their companies, he said, as well as able to start their own company.

“This program is designed to start right after their undergrad, so they don’t have to take time off from their job they’re doing really well at,” he said, “and it’s designed to only take one year on campus.”

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“You always see that the victim is blamed because they were drinking or something, but this blaming of the survivor especially happens on college campuses.”

By April 22, 90 days after the memorandum’s issuance, the task force must submit proposals and recommendations to the president, according to the memorandum.

These suggestions must address new protocols and policies for educational institutions and monitor the success rates of these institutions.

Additionally, the federal government must make “its enforce-

ment activities transparent and accessible to students and prospective students nationwide,” according to memorandum.

Almost 22 million women and 1.6 million men have been raped in their lifetimes, according to the report. With the creation of this taskforce, Timmons said she thinks greater awareness of sexual violence will arise from Obama’s plans.

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semester in half, so students are taking two classes the first half and two the second half, adding up to 12 hours a semester, Mary Frances Weatherly, director of graduate and professional programs at the Rawls College of Business, said.

“The schedule is really nice,” she said. “It’s set up for them instead of needing to piece together their classes.”

There will also be six hours of online learning students can take before, during or after the on-campus one-year program, Pasewark said.

“The students have been really excited about this program,” Weatherly said. “They know they’re going to need a way to

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Board of Ed votes again to drop algebra II AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Education on Wednesday voted again to drop algebra II as a requirement for high school graduation as the members began to finalize an academic curriculum overhaul that could reshape public classrooms statewide.

Eliminating the algebra II mandate for many students was part of a sweeping law approved overwhelmingly in May by the state Legislature that scrapped many course requirements in advanced math and science while cutting the number of standardized tests high schoolers must pass from 15 to five.

The changes were meant to give students more flexibility to focus on career and vocational training — not just college prep courses — but critics accuse Texas of dumbing-down its graduation standards.

The board’s 10 Republicans and five Democrats cast a similar vote in November and must still provide final approval to the new curriculum standards on Friday. Discussions on last-minute changes will continue until then, and large modifications are still possible.

The new graduation rules take effect in September.

Just eight years ago, Texas became the first state to require that most of its high school students pass algebra II, and nearly 20 states have since followed suit. Now Texas is bucking the trend it started.

Board member Ken Mercer, RSan Antonio, said in an interview that the skills learned in algebra II are vital for the SAT and ACT college entry exams.

He said he hoped to include an “applied algebra” course among those classes that students pursuing a variety of high school diploma plans could take, suggesting it would teach

algebra skills in real-world situations such as accounting.

“I don’t want to water down the curriculum. I want there to be rigor there,” Mercer said. “But I want it to have things (students) can use.”

The board’s latest vote didn’t include an applied algebra course, but its members delayed action on key portions of the new curriculum, meaning there is still time to include it before final approval Friday.

Many experts say algebra II is a key prerequisite for success both in college and life beyond. But supporters of the new law noted that even the curriculum standards being replaced had allowed students to forgo the current requirement by earning a high school diploma on the minimum plan — and about 20 percent of young Texans did so.

Meanwhile, a coalition of in-

dustry and trade groups argued that plenty of high-paying jobs are available without a college degree, but that algebra II is so difficult that it was forcing many students to drop out before finishing high school.

Algebra II would still be required of students who want “distinguished” high school diplomas that allow them to qualify for automatic admission to any state public university in Texas. It will also be mandated for those who choose coursework focusing on science, technology, engineering and math.

But the algebra II requirement would no longer exist for students who choose diploma paths focusing on arts and humanities, business and industry, multidisciplinary studies or public service, unless a change Friday means it lives on in a hybrid course such as the one backed by Mercer.

they can get started.

“We hope that getting this STEM MBA will increase the trajectory of these students’ careers,” she said.

The dean of the Rawls College of Business came in with the idea to further expand the college with innovative new programs, Pasewark said.

“We have a relatively new dean,” he said, “and he came in with this idea and he pointed at me and said ‘let’s make it work,’ and that’s what happened.”

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EPA, Texas reach deal on clean air plan DALLAS (AP) — Federal and state environmental officials said Wednesday that they’ve reached an agreement on portions of the Texas clean air plan that for years have been points of contention.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the conditional agreement on state permits will allow some operating flexibility to major air-pollution sources, such as oil refineries.

“We are pleased that the

TCEQ and EPA have been able to reach an agreement for EPA to propose conditional approval of the Texas flexible permit program, and that the EPA now understands why the program is legal and effective,” TCEQ Chairman Bryan Shaw said in a statement.

The deal comes after years of bitter bickering between the federal and state agencies over environmental regulations. The disagreement peaked almost four years ago when the EPA

overturned a long-term flexible permitting program, saying it did not meet federal clean air rules.

The move forced more than 100 industries, including some of the nation’s largest refineries, to work directly with the EPA to get new operating papers.

The Texas agency challenged in court the EPA’s 2010 decision to overturn the state program, which also allowed plants to operate under an emissions “umbrella” but did not separately detail pollution from different sources.

Tech law wins 31st National Advocacy Championship The Texas Tech School of Law earned its 31st national advocacy championship at the American Bar Association in Chicago Wednesday.

Members of the team included second-year law students Drew Thomas from Madison Wis., Delaney Crocker from Lubbock, Taylor Stoehner from Flower Mound and Caleb Miller from Fresno, Calif., according to a Tech law release.

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get their foot in the door and this program will help them.”

There are multiple classes outside of the core MBA requirements targeted directly to the STEM part of the student’s schooling, Pasewark said.

“We have many different elective classes,” Weatherly said. “Law of science and technology, technology commercialization, STEM theories to business practice and managerial communications.”

The first correspondence to STEM students went out about Thanksgiving, she said, and around 30 of those students have set up appointments to meet about this program and see how it can be used in their life and how

“The competing teams in the national round were equally matched in terms of intelligence,” Thomas said in the release. “We just outworked them.”

The team’s win gives the law school four total national titles for this competition since 2007, according to the release.

Coaches for the team included Sherry Kime-Goodwin and Dick Baker, according to

the release.

“Though the team and our coaches sacrificed precious free time for preparation, including weekends and holidays, it all became worth it the moment the ABA announced our names as the national champions,” Miller said in the release. “It was an emotional experience for all of us that I would not trade for the world.” ➤➤news@dailytoreador.com

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Different, flawed role models provide valuable lessons Lauren Gudgel I write this column every week, is always in the back of my mind. Her book, “Emily Post: Etiquette,” sits on the piano in my home, always reminding me to bite my tongue when I want to reply to that “you’re too skinny” Facebook comment, or when I get unpleasant service at a local boutique. She’s the reason I berate my readers on dressing properly for class and to respect one another.

It’s what your mother should have told you and then some.

Every day on the bus when I see a young, freezing girl step on and look around for a seat, and not one young “gentleman” stands up allowing her his seat, I cringe inside because I know Post would have shaken her head at him and then put him in his

place for not being the gentleman his father should have been an example of.

Rowling constantly reminds me to be creative during my darkest times. Whether it be painting, playing dress up in my closet or letting my creative juices flow to write this column every week, I’m always able to keep going. Rowling fought her way through depression with a pencil and cocktail napkin at the Elephant Room in Scotland, where she famously wrote the first chapter of “Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone.”

Von Teese is a little more interesting. Very few people, especially people from around here, would ever consider her a

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role model. However, I find her story quite inspiring.

Born and raised in a tiny town in Michigan with the name Heather Renee Sweet, she saw a niche in the market of dancing for a girl like her. While the other women were blonde, tan and emblazoned in neon b i k i n i s , Vo n Teese considered that some people (men in general) would rather watch a woman with raven black hair and a style more 40s vintage than 90s rock and roll.

Instead of conforming or, even worse, just giving up because she didn’t “fit in,” Von Teese embraced her own sense of beauty and has become wildly famous for it.

What I find most interesting

I chose my role models because, while they have no similarities to each other, I admire their greatest attributes.

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have three role models when it comes to how I presume to live my life: Emily Post (the goddess of all things etiquette), J.K. Rowling (The author of the Harry Potter novels, and probably the most creative person to ever walk the earth), and Dita Von Teese (Queen of Burlesque, who shows that one can be classy and still wildly sexy).

Nearly every day, I obsessively research these three women on their characteristics, lifestyles and where they were before they became rich, powerful and famous.

I don’t do this because I’m an oddball, but because I desire to be the best of these three women — polite, creative and true to whom I desire to be. Granted, Post suffered from OCD, Rowling from depression and Von Teese is technically a glorified stripper, so obviously these women are far from perfect. It’s a comfort, really, to know that even my greatest role models are flawed.

Emily Post, the very reason

about Von Teese is that while feminists around the world are shouting about natural beauty and being loved for who you were born as, Von Teese embraces the exact opposite. She’s completely man made. She’s quoted as saying, “I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.”

Reading this quote by Von Teese, I’m always transferred back to one of my favorite quotes by Coco Chanel: “I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little — if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”

If I can put Chanel, the classiest and most influential woman in fashion history, with the most risqué and elevated woman in today’s society in the same sentence, then I think I have the right way of thinking.

You see, it’s not about elevating yourself to a standard

you’ll never actually achieve, and therefore feeling disheartened by the entire ordeal. I chose my role models because, while they have no similarities to each other, I admire their greatest attributes.

They’re all flawed, and so am I in many ways — too many ways to count — but I also am a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the rules of modern-day etiquette. I’m creative (albeit often times lost in my own head) and I also believe in not conforming, allowing myself the glamour of makeup, dressing up and carrying myself with dignity, regardless of what others think of me.

These women remind me daily to be the best possible me but also that it’s okay if I slip up, yell at the girl who cut me off without a blinker, let sadness overwhelm me on occasion and if some days I just want to wear yoga pants. You can call me Lauren Post-RowlingVon Teese.

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General education requirements waste students’ time United States in need of new election method

By JAIME WANDSCHNEIDER iOwa STaTe Daily (iOwa STaTe U.)

We come to college in search of one thing: knowledge in our chosen program of study. Getting a college degree is supposed to help us easily find an entry-level job after graduation. Eagerly, we follow our designated four-year plans to a tee, in the hope of achieving the most out of our education.

There is a flaw in this system. In reality, students are being cheated out of valuable course hours by taking classes that will never be of much use in their future careers. These precious hours are wasted on what are known as general education requirements.

From the start of our first semester, general education classes fill the credit count towards our graduation. These courses are supposed to turn young, fresh college students into well-rounded adults.

Each college at Iowa State requires a certain number of credit hours in the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and mathematics.

Each of those categories carries valuable knowledge to offer the

students attending Iowa State, but students are required to take a ridiculous amount of these filler classes before graduation.

As a journalism major in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, I am obligated to take: 10 humanities credits, eight natural science credits, nine social science credits and three mathematics credits in statistics. It is not the courses that are bothersome; it is the amount of credits needed in each subject.

This past semester, I decided to take an entry-level astronomy class to satisfy three of my eight required natural science credits. Granted, I did learn a lot, but most of the time I kept asking myself why I needed to take a science course and how am I ever going to use this in my professional career. Honestly, I will likely never use the information I learned that semester.

Now, I am stressing over what science credits I should enroll in to complete the natural science requirement.

Like many students in my situation, this subject is not a strength, so it is difficult to find courses that will fill the requirement yet allow me to succeed.

Students from every program of study are dealing with what they feel is a burdensome amount of general education requirements.

Marco Del Rosario Rivera, a freshman in pre-architecture, was required to take ECON 101. When asked how he felt about taking the course, he stated, “I won’t use any of the stuff taught in ECON 101 in my future career, but I had to take it.”

Those three credit hours could have been used toward a class that could have gotten Rivera one step closer to his final career goal.

In the College of Engineering, there is not as strong of a focus on the humanities and social sciences, but students are still required to take a variety of math and science classes.

Natalie Hanson, a sophomore in bio-systems engineering, explained that they only have a general education requirement of 15 credits, unlike the 32 credits most LAS students have to take. “We don’t have as many general education classes as liberal arts students do, but sometimes the basic classes, like science, seem redundant.”

By taking a large amount of courses that are either unneeded or

redundant, students are losing out on opportunities to improve themselves in their path of study. Whether students search for an internship or that first job, employers only worry about one thing: How well can you perform the tasks assigned to you?

It won’t matter that you took organic chemistry as a political science major or that you can recite the life cycle of a high mass star. Now, colleges should not get rid of general education requirements completely, but lessening the amount would be a good start.

In doing so, students are able to take the maximum amount of courses in their actual field. As a result, we will have gained an exceptional amount of knowledge that will allow us to have all of the marketable skills needed in today’s job market.

College should be the training facility for the future of our local, national and global economy. If our colleges want to produce the best and the brightest in their field, there should be more of a focus on the courses that will be applicable in our professional career, not the courses that have nothing to do with our future careers.

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Let’s play a game of “Would You Rather.” Would you rather a major news outlet, say CNN or MSNBC, broadcast a special on the newest Miley Cyrus scandal or deliver a report on the state of the U.S. economy?

Although it’s tempting to choose our favorite tongue wagging, scantily-clad singer, news channels are not the appropriate venues for such coverage. We believe pop culture stories should be left to entertainment outlets and toyed with on social media, not bandied about on major news networks as if they were

hard-hitting exposes.

Of course, diversity is good in all aspects of life, including news organizations. It’s fine to pepper in a little banter about celebrity gossip or awards shows drama as long as it doesn’t outweigh true news stories, like those about the recent protests in Kiev or terrorist threats against the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

As college students, it is our duty to be informed citizens of the world.

Even if it’s “boring,” it will make you a more well-rounded person to at least read the headlines of news stories. We promise that future employers will be much more impressed that you can speak intelligently about the widening income divide in the U.S.

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rather than recite every winner from this year’s Grammy Awards.

But there’s a reason we are seeing more and more pop culture stories creep into news broadcasts. There’s a reason CNN chose to devote a segment of its show “OutFront” to discussing Justin Bieber’s recent DUI this week, and that’s because it matters to you. News outlets must give viewers, readers and clickers what they want in order to stay viable, and American news consumers love pop culture.

The line between pop culture and hard news has become increasingly fine with the introduction of social media, especially sites like Twitter that are ever-boiling cauldrons of public interest and opinion.

Think of your clicks on news websites or retweets on Twitter as

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a form of currency and the Internet as a marketplace. When you click on and view stories about pop stars going to rehab or socialite cat fights, you are telling news analysts you want to see more content like that.

Our virtual traffic directs the information that is given to us.

If you, like us, are sick of seeing pop culture stories show up on MSNBC as “breaking news” rather than on MTV, stop giving your clicks to those stories. Go to news outlets for news and entertainment outlets for entertainment, and the content will be reformatted accordingly.

We all like a juicy Hollywood cat-fight now and then, but it is essential to maintain balance in our news organizations between what we want to know and what we need to know.

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Voting.

Many Americans consider it the centerpiece of democracy and rightly so.

The relationship between the American public and its democratic government is one of the greatest social contracts ever constructed, and unfortunately the electoral system is becoming increasingly biased and broken.

Most Americans agree this is the case, and that is generally where the discussion ends. Rather than offering viable solutions to the problem, we instead flush constructive conversation and possible courses of action down the drain in mutual frustration. I will offer a solution, but first allow me to discuss the problem in greater detail.

The voting system currently used in the United States is called “plurality voting,” which legally permits eligible voters to cast a single vote for a single candidate.

Such a system causes several problems, the first of which is polarization.

Plurality voting not only forces the voters to pick a side and throw in with the least unacceptable candidate, but it demands that each of the candidates engage in pandering to various groups.

Between the primary and general elections, a candidate is forced to change his views to appeal to a larger base.

Americans see the dishonesty in this, but they place most of the responsibility on the candidates rather than the electoral system itself. If a candidate wants to get elected, then he has to play the game — a game everyone considers to be corrupt and broken. Why not change it?

Perhaps a more serious problem is that plurality voting allows for the distinct possibility that the candidate who is the least acceptable or qualified in the minds of the electorate may be elected.

This is often the case when two similar candidates split the majority vote and allow a more polarized candidate to take the election with what would have been the minority of votes.

When this happens with three distinct parties, the minor party’s candidate is often labeled as a “spoiler,” which can Copyright © 2014 Texas Tech University Student Media/The Daily Toreador. All DT articles, photographs and artwork are the property of The DT and Student Media and may not be reproduced or published without permission.

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often be mathematically disproven. Additionally, such a label creates a stigma about the viability of third parties, perpetuating the broken two-party system for which compromise is an increasingly foreign concept.

Now, a solution, one which demands respect for the popular vote and rejects the frivolously formidable Electoral College, would be approval voting.

Approval voting allows voters to vote for as many candidates as they deem acceptable. A moderate or independent voter can vote for both a desired minorparty candidate and a more electable major-party candidate without fear that their vote will be wasted if they vote honestly — as in voting for a candidate instead of against his opponent.

Plurality voting permits strategic voting, in which a voter may insincerely vote for a candidate of a different party to give his preferred candidate an edge.

By not requiring voters to vote A or B, perhaps even arbitrarily, there is a strong likelihood of increased voter turnout, which will quash the rampant disproportionate representation of extremely polar views.

By allowing multiple votes on a single ballot, approval voting permits minor-parties to gain a much more accurate sense of their support both in terms of numbers and geographic distribution. As this information becomes available, individuals will recognize the viability of minor-parties, and our political system will begin to move out of gridlock as these minorparty candidates begin winning elections and forcing real compromise.

For those who think the prospect of adopting this system is just a pipe dream, remember that our first four presidential elections were decided using approval voting.

Fortunately, each state legislature has the power the pass an enabling act affecting election reform. State-level success will provide the credibility required to adopt approval voting nationwide.

Election reform is paramount in resuscitating our struggling democracy. What state wouldn’t want to spearhead such an effort?

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Vegetarianism: 10 years, counting W

h e n f i r s t h e a ring the words, “I haven’t eaten any meat in roughly 10 years,” most people give a confused face of absolute shock. People are completely flabbergasted at the idea of going that long without eating a particular food group, especially one more commonly eaten than not.

I’ve been a vegetarian since the end of fifth grade, not eating any kinds of meat starting when I was just 10 years old. While that seems like too young of an age to understand what kind of diet one should be eating, I was, and still am, completely aware of my reasons.

It was a Sunday afternoon when I went over to a friend’s house after church one day.

There were several other boys there and then little ole’ me.

The owner of the house recently went on a hunting trip and felt obliged to show the other boys what he had hunted. Being naïve and wanting to fit in, I wandered into the room where the boys had a video on.

The first thing I noticed as I walked through the door was a video of my friend skinning and gutting a full-grown deer. Having never been exposed to anything like this, I stood by the doorway,

Liana Solis stunned by the images running across the screen.

Without a warning of any sort, my stomach practically exploded.

I sprinted to the bathroom and unfortunately lost my lunch. I hadn’t realized the images had affected me so much.

After the incident, just looking at any food that had meat in it made me sick to my stomach.

I couldn’t look at it thinking about the kinds of things done to animals after, and even before, they’re slaughtered.

So I made a vow right then to no longer consume any type of meat products. Anything from chicken and beef to fish and crustaceans, I was done with it all.

My parents were a bit confused when I told them I had decided to become a vegetarian.

They decided to go along with my decision, thinking this was just a phase and I would eventually go back to eating meat.

They started preparing more vegetarian-friendly meals so I

could get the proper nutrients I needed. Even from a young age, I fell in love with vegetarian-style meals. Veggie burgers, tofu fried rice and vegetarian chili — I loved it all.

After a while, my parents realized that this was definitely not just phase. They still accepted me just as they always had, they just realized they were going to have to make sure I got the proper protein and nutrients I so desperately needed.

One of the hardest things about having a vegetarian diet for me wasn’t actually sticking to it; it was staying healthy and making sure my newfound diet didn’t make me sick.

I had a friend who tried being vegetarian for several months, but was forced to go back to her regular diet after becoming anemic. I didn’t want this to happen to me, so I had to get my protein by eating lots of rice and beans along with other protein-filled products.

There are many people who decide to go vegetarian because they want to eat healthier, which is definitely how I have felt. I felt so much better and more filled with energy after I stopped eating meat. It was just a better way of living for me.

That being said, someone

can’t just say they want to become a vegetarian and then just eat a bunch of junk food; that’s not how it works. To stay healthy without eating meat takes work and a conscious effort to make sure the body gets exactly what it needs to function correctly.

There are many, many recipes that are vegetarian friendly.

There are websites, cookbooks and even television shows dedicated to the veggie lifestyle. As long as someone is safe about keeping themselves healthy, anyone can do it.

For the amount of time I’ve gone not consuming meat products, I don’t plan on changing anytime soon. There’s no telling if I’ll go the rest of my life being a vegetarian, but I can sure try.

I don’t try to advocate everyone going vegetarian; everyone has eating habits, and I have mine. I want people to respect my lifestyle, so I respect theirs as well.

For me personally, I just feel better and comfortable with the diet I have now. It’s not for everyone, but definitely worth a shot for those who think it might be.

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Wage hike for federal contract workers limited WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s plan to raise the minimum wage for federally contracted workers is winning praise from unions and labor activists, but it could take a year or more before any hikes take place and the impact may not be as widespread as some advocates had hoped.

Obama announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday that he will sign an executive order setting the minimum wage for workers covered by new federal contracts at $10.10 an hour, a hefty increase over the current federal minimum of $7.25.

“I think it’s a huge step forward in that every action headed in the direction of lifting wages puts pressure on Congress to act,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, which has spent millions to help federally contracted workers and fast-food employees organize protests and strikes to demand higher wages.

But the increase is only expected to cover about 10 percent of the 2.2 million federal contract workers overall, since most of those employees already make more than $10.10. It won’t take effect until 2015 at the earliest and doesn’t affect existing federal contracts, only new ones.

Another wrinkle: The order won’t affect contract renewals unless other terms of the agreement change, such as the type of work or number of employees needed, according to White House officials.

That caveat is raising concerns for Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who has spent months urging Obama to increase wages for contractors. While Ellison called the announcement “a great first step,” he said he wants to make sure it’s implemented the right way.

“If you renew a contract, we expect everyone to make $10.10,” Ellison said.

Ellison said White House officials have estimated that about 200,000 low-wage workers would be affected by the order, including food service workers in federal buildings, security guards, cleaners and groundskeepers.

The White House has not said whether the wage increase will be indexed to go up as inflation rises, but that is also something Ellison would like to see once the executive order is drafted.

Obama hopes his order will pressure Congress “to get on board” and pass legislation increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 for all employees. He also urged cities and states around the country to pass their own minimum wage increases.

“To every mayor, governor, state legislator in America, I say, you don’t have to wait for Congress to act; Americans will support you if you take this on,” Obama said.

The move is sure to add to the growing debate about whether workers in low-wage industries like retail and fast-food should be paid more.

And it is winning wide praise from Democratic lawmakers who want to pass a wage increase this year.

Last year, the president used his State of the Union address to call for a $9 minimum wage. But months later, he threw his support behind Democratic lawmakers calling for a hike to $10.10.

Obama’s announcement was a victory for labor unions who have stepped up public pressure on Obama to help raise wages. Government contract workers — with the backing of unions and other worker advocacy groups — have held protests seven times since last May to protest low pay for those working at landmark government buildings, including the Pentagon, the Smithsonian museums and Union Station. Those protesters have specifically called on Obama to raise their wages through

an executive order.

A recent survey by the National Employment Law Project found that 77 percent of government contract employees who work in food service, retail or janitorial service earn less than $10 per hour. About 4 in 10 of those workers depend on public assistance programs such as food stamps and Medicaid, the study by the worker advocacy group found.

Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, said raising the minimum wage would place a new burden on employers and hinder job creation.

“It’s simple math — if the cost of hiring goes up, hiring goes down,” Shay said.

Over at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, senior vice president Randy Johnson said the order appears to be very limited, but he’s waiting to see the fine print. Johnson also questioned whether Obama has legal authority to issue an order that conflicts with current federal minimum

wage legislation passed by Congress.

House Speaker John Boehner warned that Obama “must understand his power is limited by our constitution, and the authority he does have doesn’t add up to much for those without opportunity in this economy.”

The latest Associated PressGfK poll found that 55 percent of Americans back an increase in the minimum wage, while 21 percent oppose it and 23 percent are neutral. Most, 52 percent, say an increase in the minimum wage would do more to help than hurt the economy, while 27 percent feel it would do more harm than good.

One in 5 thinks it wouldn’t have much impact on the economy.

Among Democrats, 77 percent favor an increase and 10 percent oppose it. Among Republicans, only 32 percent support an increase, 39 percent are opposed and 29 percent are neutral. The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.

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NY-NJ security tight in Super Bowl run-upcounting NEW YORK (AP) — Despite no specific terror threats against the Super Bowl, federal and local authorities have heightened security and studied intelligence about recent attacks on mass transit in Russia, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

“Certainly, we’re keeping an eye on activities around the world, but as of this time, there are no threats directed against this event that we’re aware of,” New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said a security briefing in Manhattan.

Because this year’s Super Bowl has the distinction of relying on mass transit to take up to 30,000 fans to the game, the deadly bombings in the southern Russian city of Volograd have raised worries here, said Col. Rick Fuentes, head of the New Jersey State Police. The suicide attacks on a trolleybus and a train station that killed more than 30 people within weeks of the Winter Olympics also prompted a series of meetings among the planners for Super Bowl security, he said.

Local officials are counting on the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security “to keep an eye on and brief us on those events,” Fuentes said. “There is a concern with mass transit and we’ve prepared ourselves for it.”

Trains, buses and cars taking fans from New York and parts of New Jersey to the stadium and back again “are going to be scanned, they’re going to be checked, they’re going to be swept,” he said.

In Manhattan, the NYPD is drawing on its experience securing the annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, the New York City Marathon, the U.N. General Assembly and other high-profile events to secure “Super Bowl Boulevard,” a 13-block street fair on Broadway.

The department has deployed hundreds of extra uniformed and plainclothes police officers to the area. It’s also relying on bomb-sniffing dogs, portable radiation detectors and a vast network of surveillance cameras to detect trouble.

In the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, the NYPD rehearsed its response to a variety of potential threats, including “the backpack left unsecured scenario,” Bratton said.

“We are very, very well-prepared.”

The state police plan to assign up to 700 troopers at the stadium on Sunday, Fuentes said. A security center has been set up in a hollowed-out building across a highway from the stadium that’s slated to become a mammoth retail and entertainment complex.

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Group aims to improve food at Pa. corner stores PHILADELPHIA (AP) — From the outside, Carmen Medina’s convenience store appears to be an oasis in the food desert of gritty north Philadelphia, from its bright yellow-and-white striped awnings to the fake palm tree sculptures on the sidewalk.

A glimpse inside proves the image is no mirage. The Indiana Food Market is part of the Healthy Corner Stores Network, which aims teach residents about nutritious eating through grocery promotions and outreach efforts like cooking demonstrations.

Customers were recently offered slices of pizza made on site with store-bought ingredients: whole-wheat tortillas, tomato sauce, part-skim mozzarella cheese and diced green peppers and onions.

“We try to get people to try a sample, and in that process we talk to them about eating whole grains, and trying out new things, and

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Bafford said in order to keep a strong relationship with connections, it is important to show appreciation formally and informally.

“It will help them remember you favorably when you show your appreciation in return,” Bafford said.

Besides developing a relationship with a mentor, it is important to take interest in others in the same career field, Bodwell said.

“Seek out getting to know others in general,” Bodwell said.

“Most importantly, the people you network with need to trust you, so be sincere and trustworthy.”

Bodwell said another key factor is to always try to find a way to help other people first before asking for help.

“If your next door neighbor owns an advertising agency and is looking to hire, and your friend is looking for a job, help them both out,” Bodwell said.

By helping others out first, they will be more willing to help you out when you are in need of their help, Bodwell said.

Trust and sincerity are the keys in networking with other people, Bodwell said.

“I believe a good deed done will always come back to you,” Bodwell said. “I would sum it up as this: make friends with good people, be sincere, try to figure out how you can help others and success will find you.”

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showing them where healthy items are in their corner store,” said program educator Maria Vanegas.

Led by the Philadelphia health department and The Food Trust, the corner store initiative has enlisted about 650 of the city’s 2,000 or so corner stores to broaden their inventory of fresh produce, whole grains and low-fat dairy.

The healthy products appear to be selling. Data collected by The Food Trust, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to ensuring access to healthy affordable food, indicates store owners have reported profits on those items and expanded their supply.

Corner groceries are a critical source of food in many poor urban neighborhoods without full-service supermarkets. About 21 percent of Philadelphians have limited supermarket access, compared with 8 percent of the U.S. population overall, according to a 2012 study by The Reinvestment said the best time for students to start networking is as soon as possible.

“If you start right off the bat, you will have people that can help you along the road and make it easier for you,” White said. “That way there won’t be so much weight on your shoulders when you are seeking for a job or opportunity.”

White said people should put themselves out there and try to meet as many people as possible.

“It’s good to know many people, especially people in your profession and your professors,” White said. “It comes with many opportunities, such as good references from your teachers.”

Andy King, assistant professor of public relations, said networking enables one to be better prepared for things such as internships and interviews.

King said networking gives students more access to opportunities, not just when they graduate, but starting right now.

“Knowing someone in the field that you are striving for can help you come better prepared for that internship or interview,” King said. “Networking allows you to know more opportunities to pursue.”

King said even with the rise of social media, face-to-face contact is still crucial when getting to know and trust someone.

King said to make sure you are active and careful when using social media as a networking outlet.

“I feel that you need a mixture of both to gain that trust,” King said. “You don’t want to misrepresent yourself or seem out of

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Experts say many purchases made in corner stores — like chips, candy and soda — are calorie-rich and nutrient-poor, contributing to higher rates of obesity and related chronic diseases among low-income residents.

Yet people’s food choices are influenced by what is available, said Dr. Giridhar Mallya, the health department’s director of policy and planning. What if stores carried healthier options?

The Food Trust began working with the city in 2010 to find corner store owners willing to sell more wholesome fare. Some feared they’d end up losing money on unsold, spoiled produce; others said they wanted to offer better food but didn’t know where to start, said program senior associate Brianna Almaguer Sandoval.

The corner store initiative of-

fers four levels of participation.

At the lowest tier, a store owner could get a $100 incentive to introduce four healthy items and receive training on how to buy, price and promote fresh produce.

Higher-level stores get free minirefrigeration units, special shelving and signage.

Last summer, Indiana Food Market became one of five stores at the top tier. Medina, the manager, got the colorful new exterior awnings, an eye-catching refrigerated produce case and a special display for whole grains. English and Spanish signs steer the mostly Latino clientele to healthier choices. And the market got a “Fresh Corner” kiosk for pamphlets, recipe cards and cooking demonstrations, where Vanegas made pizza in a toaster oven.

The program has been well received by customers, Medina said, noting they often ask when the food lessons are scheduled. Oat-

meal, fruit and whole-grain rice have become big sellers, she added.

“People have started to buy new things and healthy things, and it’s really great,” Medina said in Spanish, according to a translation by Vanegas.

Shopper Sarita Falu said it’s important for the market to sell fruits and vegetables, since many residents don’t have the means to get to a supermarket regularly. But she didn’t expect Medina to have people like Vanegas interacting personally with customers.

“I was very surprised that she’d actually have somebody here giving us that knowledge of nutrition,” Falu said.

Mallya cautioned that it’s too early to know whether the marketing effort is affecting consumer buying habits. But early data from two top-tier stores shows produce sales up 50 percent and bottled water sales up 76 percent compared with lower-level stores, according

to The Food Trust.

The city has invested about $1.5 million in the program since 2010. The Food Trust could not provide exact numbers on its budget; several foundations and government agencies have paid for various aspects of the initiative, which has expanded to Camden, N.J., and the Philadelphia suburbs of Norristown and Chester.

Similar, smaller-scale interventions at corner stores in Baltimore have been studied by Johns Hopkins University nutrition professor Joel Gittelsohn, who found significant increases in the purchase of healthy foods.

He said the ideal solution would be to put more supermarkets in these communities, which are sometimes referred to as food deserts.

“But we’re a long away off from that,” Gittelsohn said. “Why not work with the existing infrastructure and improve it?”

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touch, so make sure what you put up is reliable, appropriate and up to date.”

Dylan Echols, a senior public relations major from Kingwood, vice president of Tech PR and director of Raidercomm, said networking has taught him more about the industry than a classroom.

Echols said in order to be successful you need to show that you are willing to invest yourself into something or someone.

“These professionals have gone down similar paths and know more about it, which gives you more of an insight rather than if you aren’t networking,” Echols said. “If you are not investing yourself into something, then they’re not going to invest in you.”

Echols said networking is not what people make it out to be.

Students shouldn’t just ask them about their profession, Echols said, but dig further and get to know them on a personal level.

“It is not just about knowing people; it’s about truly getting to know these people,” Echols said.

“Professionalism is tied to someone’s life, and when you get to know about someone’s life, you tie in that profession and get a clearer view of who they truly are.”

Echols said once you get to know these people, you can figure out ways to benefit each other.

“It’s not just them teaching us and us following their lead,” Echols said. “Its both sides helping each other out and strengthening one another — That’s what leads to success.” ➤➤tpeace@dailytoreador.com

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PARKER SIMMONS, A junior painting and creative writing major from Farmersville, works on a black and white sketch based on the poem “Bodies of Water”Wednesday in the Art building.

Study finds why some supplements might be risky WASHINGTON (AP) — Antioxidant vitamins are widely assumed to be cancer fighters even though research in smokers has found high doses may actually raise their risk of tumors.

Now a new study may help explain the paradox.

Swedish scientists gave antioxidants to mice that had early-stage lung cancer, and watched the tumors multiply and become aggressive enough that the animals died twice as fast as untreated mice.

The reason: The extra vitamins apparently blocked one of the body’s key cancer-fighting mechanisms, the researchers reported Wednesday.

The scientists stressed that they can’t make general health recommendations based on studies in mice, but said their work backs up existing cautions about

antioxidant use.

“You can walk around with an undiagnosed lung tumor for a long time,” said study co-author Martin Bergo of the University of Gothenburg. For someone at high risk, such as a former smoker, taking extra antioxidants “could speed up the growth of that tumor.”

Antioxidants are compounds that help protect cells from certain types of damage, and antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables certainly are healthy.

The question is the health effect of extra-high doses in pill form.

Studies in people have shown mixed results but haven’t proven that vitamin supplements prevent cancer, and a few have suggested the possibility of harm. One study in the 1990s found beta-carotene increased the risk of lung cancer

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in smokers. Nor are smokers the only concern: A 2011 study found Vitamin E supplements increased men’s risk of prostate cancer.

As for people who already have cancer, the National Cancer Institute says: “Until more is known about the effects of antioxidant supplements in cancer patients, these supplements should be used with caution.”

But biologically, scientists couldn’t explain why antioxidants might harm. Wednesday’s report in the journal Science Translational Medicine is a first step to do so.

The research doesn’t examine whether antioxidants might help prevent tumors from forming in the first place — only what happens if cancer already has begun.

The researchers gave Vitamin E, in a range of supplement doses, or an antioxidant drug named Nacetylcysteine to mice engineered to have lung cancer.

The antioxidants did prevent some cell damage. But doing so prevented a well-known tumor-suppressing gene named p53 from getting the signal to do its job, explained study coauthor and Gothenburg biologist Per Lindahl.

The antioxidants “allow the cancer cells to escape their own defense system,” he said.

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Track teams set on defending home turf

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech track team returns to Lubbock for competition this weekend as it hosts the second home meet of the season, the Masked Rider Open.

The Masked Rider Open is a two-day event hosted by Tech this Friday and Saturday in the Athletic Training Center.

Last weekend Tech track participated in the Texas A&M Triangular.

The Red Raiders placed third in the three-team meet behind No. 26 Louisiana State and No. 5 Texas A&M. The Lady Raiders found themselves in the same position with No. 3 Texas A&M and No. 8 LSU claiming the top-two spots.

Despite the final standings, coach Wes Kittley said he was pleased in how the team competed in last weekend’s meet.

A team featuring 30 freshmen needed to experience a road meet against LSU and Texas A&M, Kittley said. The experience allows the freshmen to settle down when competing against top-level talent in the future.

“They learned that competition

helped them rise to another (level),” he said.

Kittley just wants that attitude to carry over to the open and hopefully throughout the season, he said, especially since this meet is expected to have about 1,000 spectators and a more competitive field.

This field of competitors has many of the same schools from the Red Raider Open plus the smaller Division I universities, such North Texas, Sam Houston State and Southern Methodist, Kittley said.

“I am really anxious to see the improvement (in the meet), I keep coming back to the kids that are new,” Kittley said. “They have to start adapting to indoors.”

Visible improvements are important because the younger athletes are the individuals who will determine how well the team performs this season, Kittley said.

Kittley has not had to worry about the mindset or work ethic his upperclassmen have displayed yet.

In the Triangular, junior sprinter Cierra White set a season-best in the 200-meter run with time of 23.53, while junior thrower Kole Weldon won the shot put with a meet-record

throw of 18.81 meters. Junior jumper JaCorian Duffield continues to make jumps over seven feet.

White might have set a new season-best, but said she is still looking to improve her performance as much as she can.

There are a few tendencies White is working to minimize, she said.

One of the tendencies White feels is hindering her times is this rocking motion she has when running, she said. White has been working on this detail throughout the week, and hopes the work she has put in takes care of the extra motion.

Besides working on those minute details, White is just worried about running her own race and not getting caught up in the competition around her, she said.

“I run the ‘200’ again, so we’ll see how it goes,” she said. “I hope I can go faster. I definitely would like to get the meet record.”

The Masked Rider record in the women’s 200-meter is 23.10.

Similar to White, Weldon said he is not settling even though he has a solid start to the season with meet and personal records.

Weldon said his performance at College Station was nice to have, since he felt off for that meet.

“My coach describes (the track season) perfectly,” Weldon said.

“Track season is a marathon, not a, you know, have to do your best this week type of thing. Especially with how hard we’re training and throwing every week.”

Weldon’s eye is set on nationals, so he is working on weight throw as much as he works on shot put, he said. Weldon actually appreciates the lull in his performance because it gives him aspects of his techniques he can work on until conference and hopefully nationals.

Kittley understands the field at the Open is difficult to compete against, but this is the team’s home turf to defend, he said.

“I just told the kids on the team this is our home and our house,” Kittley said, “and some of you ran better the first week (at home) than you did the second week. You’re comfortable here. You can be relaxed here.You know how to warm up here.”

A Tech track victory is fully expected, Kittley said. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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HIGH JUMPER JACORIAN Duffield successfully flips over the 6-foot11-inch bar on Jan. 17 at the Texas Tech Open.

Thunder dominate Heat 112-95 A&M loses to South Carolina80-52 MIAMI (AP) — Down by 18 points midway through the opening quarter, Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder looked well on their way to witnessing a rout.

That’s exactly what happened.

And they enjoyed every momnt.

Durant remained sizzling with 33 points, Serge Ibaka added 22 and the Thunder roared back from an abysmal start — they trailed 22-4 early — to embarrass the Miami Heat 112-95 on Wednesday night, erasing that big deficit out of the gate by outscoring the two-time defending champions by 43 points over a 33-minute span.

“They were ready for us to come in and play,” Durant said. “They hit some tough shots early on, a few 3’s, and we didn’t panic. We just tried to stay together and that’s what we did. Our bench was great in getting us back in that game.”

The Thunder led by as many as 25, and shot 16 for 27 from 3-point range. Miami was 3 for 19 from beyond the arc.

Durant has now scored at least 30 points in 12 straight games, matching the league’s longest such streak since Tracy McGrady did it in 14 consecutive outings in the 200203 season. The Thunder extended

their winning streak to nine, inching them closer to Indiana in the race for the league’s best record. And the Oklahoma City bench outscored Miami’s reserves 39-21, with Jeremy Lamb scoring 18 and Derek Fisher going 5 for 5 from 3-point range for his 15 points.

“There’s no running away from it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

“Other than the first eight minutes of the game they outclassed us tonight. They absolutely deserved this win.”

LeBron James scored 34 points for Miami, his 1-on-1 duel with Durant not really amounting to much on a night where the Heat allowed 25 points off turnovers and blew an 18-point lead for just the fourth time since he, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh became teammates nearly four years ago.

Bosh scored 18 points and Wade added 15 for Miami.

“We played well to start the game,” James said. “We played well all the way until like the second quarter. From that point on they did what they want to do.”

Much of the buzz going into the night was about the MVP race, and how this might be the season that Durant finally catches James for the

league’s top individual award.

Head-to-head, they weren’t separated by much. But for just the fourth time in 17 meetings between their teams, Durant came out on top.

“It would have been fun to clear the court and watch them go 1-on-1,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said.

Ibaka opened the scoring with a jumper, and the Heat answered with an immediate 18-0 run, not even needing 5 minutes to get what appeared to be complete control. With 6:20 left in the opening quarter, Bosh made a pair of free throws to make it 22-4.

By the end of the first, the Thunder were within nine. Lamb scored 13 in the second quarter alone, helping Oklahoma City take a 55-50 lead into the break, with the Thunder already having scored 19 points off turnovers.

The third quarter, Durant and the Thunder put it away.

Durant and James seemed to be playing a little game of ‘Can you top this?’ in that period, both finishing with 12 points in the 12 minutes.

The difference was, Durant was getting plenty of help, and James wasn’t getting much.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s Duane Notice is steadily gaining attention for his skills at the point. Then again, the freshman had little choice with the problems that developed at that spot.

Notice, the 6-foot-2 freshman, has filled in nicely in place of injured Tyrone Johnson and off-to-the-NFL Bruce Ellington.

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Notice was as vocal and focused as he’d been all year in practice this week, the coach said. “He played like a point guard tonight,” Martin said.

The Gamecocks came into this one struggling at nearly all aspects of the game. They were last in SEC rebounding and near the bottom in league offense and defense. They had tied the school worst with an 0-6 start and the six-game losing streak matched the longest ever in Martin’s seven seasons.

Texas A&M started the second half with a 13-5 run to cut the Gamecocks’ 20-point halftime lead to 46-34. It had the chance to cut further into the lead, but Shawn Smith missed a layup and Notice followed with a three-point play. The Aggies made it 50-37 on Fabyon Harris’ 3-pointer, then Notice connected on a second threepoint play as part of a 17-4 South Carolina run over the next seven minutes that locked up the game.

“That was the story of the game, really,” Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy said.

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Australian golfer joins Lady Raiders Lady Raiders losing streak continues A new golfer, Lauren Mason, joined the Texas Tech women’s golf team in January for the 2014 roster, according to a Tech news release.

The Australia native had to travel 8,433 miles to become the seventh member of the team.

However, Mason is not allowed to compete for the spring semester.

She will only have the opportunity to practice with the team.

Competition is not foreign to Mason because she started her career at a young age.

At the age of 13, Ma-

son was chosen for consecutive Queensland Girls Teams after recovering from hip surgery and completing rehab. The Queensland Girls Teams and Mason then went on to earn a title over Western Australia.

Mason did not stop with the single accomplishment. As Mason continued to play, she continued to progress. This progress led to more success, like the Sunshine Coast Ladies Open Amateur Championship in 2011.

Mason won the 54-hole tournament when she was 15, and

defended the title for the next two years.

Mason said she is closer to achieving her dream of playing in the Ladies Professional Golf Association with this opportunity to participate in Division 1 golf at Tech.

“I am so thankful for the opportunity to play at Texas Tech,” Mason said, according to the news release. “This is an incredible place to go to school and have the chance to play collegiate golf at the highest level.” ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team was defeated by the No. 9 Baylor Bears by a score of 92-43 Wednesday night at the Ferrell Center in Waco.

Baylor has now won 16 of the last 17 game against Tech.

The loss drops the Lady Raiders record to 6-14 including 0-9 in the Big 12 Conference. They have lost 10 games in a row.

Baylor improves their record to 17-3 overall and 7-1 in the conference. They remain in first place in the Big 12.

The Bears started the game

on a 19-0 run and never looked b a c k . Te c h w o u l d t r a i l t he entire game.

Junior guard Amber Battle led the Lady Raiders in scoring and rebounding with 11 points and seven rebounds. It was her 18th game in double digit scoring, according to a Tech athletics press release. Battle remains fourth in the Big 12 in scoring with her performance.

Freshman guard Minta Spears was two out of six from threepoint range, making it the 10th time this season she hit multiple

three-pointers.

Baylor senior guard Odyssey Sims scored 25 points in 26 minutes and added 6 assists. Sims is leading the Big 12 in scoring and is second in the nation with 29.5 points per game.

Wednesday’s game was the last of four straight games against ranked opponents for the Lady Raiders.

Te c h ’s n e x t g a m e w i l l be against Kansas at 4 p.m. o n S a t u r d a y i n t he U n i t e d Spirit Arena. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

Ginobili out 3-4 weeks with hamstring strain

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(AP) — Those 36-year-old legs of Manu Ginobili’s have been feeling pretty spry this season. That spring in his step that had been missing for so much of last season was back, helping the Argentine magician become a game-changer again for the San Antonio Spurs.

So when the lane opened up in the third quarter Tuesday night against the Houston Rockets, Ginobili decided to go for it. He rose up, cradled the ball in his left hand and threw down a solid, one-handed dunk. And with that, Ginobili joined the growing list of injured Spurs.

The team said Wednesday that Ginobili strained his left hamstring on the dunk and will miss the next three to four weeks.

Ginobili joins Danny Green (broken finger), Kawhi Leonard (broken left hand) and Tiago Splitter (sprained right shoulder) on the team’s injured list, a run of bad luck

that has decimated the team’s depth, particularly on the wing.

The team is hopeful Splitter, who hasn’t played since Jan. 4, will return in time for the team’s annual rodeo road trip, a 10-game stint that begins Monday in New Orleans. That would help out Tim Duncan and the big men up front, but the problems on the perimeter remain.

After struggling for much of last season, Ginobili signed a two-year contract to remain in San Antonio.

He has rebounded this season to resume his role as the Spurs’ playmaker off the bench, averaging 12.1 points, 4.5 assists and shooting 52 percent on his 2-point shots. During a month-long stretch from the middle of December to the middle of January, Ginobili scored at least 20 points five times in a 16-game span to help the Spurs once again establish themselves among the NBA’s elite teams.

He’s been pretty healthy as well,

missing two games earlier in January because of a sore left hamstring before injuring it more severely on Tuesday night. Ginobili, who has long been the emotional center of this closeknit team, was dejected as he limped off the court.

His injury puts even more responsibility on the shoulders of veteran Marco Belinelli, who has been a reliable shooter in a supporting role after coming over in free agency from the Chicago Bulls. Belinelli is averaging 10.9 points and shooting 46.7 percent from 3-point range for the Spurs.

With the injuries to Leonard and Green, Belinelli had become a starter on the wing and seen his playing time steadily increase.

Belinelli played 38 minutes in the loss to Houston, and the Spurs recently signed NBDL standout Othyus Jeffers to a 10-day contract to give them another warm body on the perimeter.

For Putin, Sochi Olympics carry big risks, rewards

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WILL WESTERMAN, A sophomore agricultural economics major from San Antonio, attempts to take a shot at the hoop while playing intramural basketball with other members of his agricultural fraternity, Alpha Gamma Rho, Wednesday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

MOSCOW (AP) — For Vladimir Putin, the Winter Olympics he brought to Sochi have always been about far more than sports.

The benefits the Russian president expects from holding the games range from improving Russia’s international standing and instilling a sense of national pride to turning around the country’s demographic decline. And of course Putin wants to be seen, at home and abroad, as the man who made this all possible.

That’s a tall order for an international sports event.

And what if terrorists strike the Olympics, which are taking place Feb. 7-23 just a few hundred miles (kilometers) west of a region where Islamic insurgents carry out bombings and other attacks almost daily? Or if a winter storm rips through the Black Sea resort, knocking out its hastily finished electric grid? Or even if Russian athletes in Sochi repeat their dismal

performance of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games?

If — for one reason or another — Sochi is deemed to be a disaster, the $51 billion spent on Putin’s games may suddenly seem like a colossal waste of money. That amount dwarfs the spending of any other Olympics, winter or summer.

“Has Putin over-invested in these games?” Stephen Sestanovich, a Columbia University professor and Russia scholar, asked rhetorically. “Almost surely. And I think the disproportion of the investment will be clearer if the Russians don’t bring home a trove of gold medals and if the security situation goes badly.”

Putin has made the 2014 Winter Games his personal project from the very beginning, directing an ambitious undertaking to transform Sochi, a once-tacky Soviet-era summer resort, into a world-class winter sports center.

Along the way, the games took on

a state propaganda aspect that one of Putin’s former advisers says has not been seen since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which the Nazis used to promote their concept of racial supremacy.

Andrei Illarionov, Putin’s economic adviser from 2000 to 2005, says the Sochi Games have become a celebration of the “cult of strength” for Russia’s muscle-flexing leader, a demonstration of his and Russia’s physical, intellectual and economic might.

In a recent interview with Russian and foreign TV stations, Putin said the Sochi Olympics should be seen as proof of Russia’s economic resurgence during his 14 years in power. He also hoped the games would lead people “to take an unbiased and fresh look” at what he called the new Russia.

“I am sure that this will happen, that it will ... help to build Russia’s relations with its partners around the world,” he said in the Jan. 19 broadcast.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Colleges and universities are struggling with sex assaults on campus, even as they spend more time and money to comply with stricter enforcement of gender discrimination laws.

But the case of a University of Missouri swimmer, who said she was raped in an episode her parents say led her to suicide, presents a challenge: How do schools balance protecting their student populations with the needs of victims like Sasha Menu Courey, who chose not to go to police?

A police investigation is now underway, but Menu Courey’s parents say the university and its athletics department should have already investigated their daughter’s alleged off-campus rape by as many as three football players in February 2010.

University leaders said they didn’t learn about the purported attack until after Menu Courey committed suicide 16 months later.

They said they followed the law and didn’t have specific knowledge of the incident or a victim to interview.

President Barack Obama last week announced a new task force on college sex assault, citing statistics showing that 1 in 5 females are assaulted while in college but only 1 in 8 report attacks. The White House called it a public health epidemic.

At least 50 schools have bolstered their efforts in recent years.

Complaints of Title IX violations related to sexual violence are also increasing, a sign that Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education, attributes to new vigilance on campus.