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UT-El Paso evacuated after bomb threat EL PASO (AP) — The University of Texas at El Paso’s campus is considered safe after officials ordered an evacuation due to a bomb threat.

UTEP ordered a campus-wide evacuation at about 2 p.m. MDT Tuesday and canceled evening classes. Students were seen hurrying away from buildings after getting a text message about a bomb threat.

UTEP Police Chief Cliff Walsh said police got a call that the campus had received a threat. He declined to explain what the threat was or say if police had any suspects, citing a pending investigation.

Walsh called the evacuation a “precautionary measure.”

Classes are expected to resume Wednesday.

El Paso is a U.S.-Mexico border city in far West Texas. UTEP has more than 22,000 students enrolled.

Senate approves drug testing for benefit AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee has approved a bill to require drug screening before receiving welfare.

The committee unanimously passed Senate Bill 11 on Tuesday. Republican Committee Chairwoman Jane Nelson authored the bill and said it will make sure recipients won’t use the assistance to buy drugs.

Texas operates a program called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families to make sure poor families can meet their basic needs. Under the bill, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission will screen applicants to determine if they are a drug risk. Those who appear to use drugs, or have been convicted of a drug offense, will have to undergo testing.

The bill includes a system to make sure children will receive benefits, even if their guardian tests positive for drugs.

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Nellis brings worldly experience to Tech

By MATT DOTRAY STAFF WRITER

He has worked in and visited Botswana, Europe, China, New Zealand and Australia, and now he is bringing five key themes to Texas Tech.

Duane Nellis has been involved with a number of universities and research projects, both as a student and faculty member.

Nellis said his priorities are very similar to Tech’s.

“The five key priorities of Texas Tech, I’m very supportive of those,” he said. “You know, I was trying to do a number of the same things at Idaho. So it’s a natural transition, I think. Try to grow enrollment. Try to do it right though, with quality students and make sure we enhance retention and graduation rates.”

Along with increasing enrollment, Nellis said a goal of his is to grow the research enterprise and help gain worldwide recognition for Tech.

The Washington State native received his bachelor’s degree in earth sciences/ geography at Montana State University.

As an undergraduate, Nellis said he was attracted to geography because of its broad discipline and its ability to take him all across the world.

“I have lots of broad interests,” he said.

“I’ve always been interested in earth processes and I also have been very interested in travel and experiencing new areas. So I’ve had had the opportunity as a geographer to travel all over the world and do

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THE DAILY TOREADOR reporter Matt Dotray speaks with Texas Tech President Duane Nellis after a news conference Monday in United Spirit Arena.

research.”

During his senior year of college, Nellis said he came to the realization that he wanted to continue to be a part of higher education.

It wasn’t only geography that he was passionate about, he said, but also taking classes

in different subjects like history and physics.

“It’s just so stimulating that I never wanted to leave that environment,” Nellis said. “So then I started thinking about it, as I became a senior, that it would be really neat to go onto graduate school and if I was fortunate enough to get my doctorate, to

By MIKAEL GONZALES STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech College of Human Sciences hosted its first Retail Symposium Tuesday at Skyviews Restaurant to engage Tech students on different topics within the retail industry.

According to a news release, the event included speed interviews and panel discussions with Donna Bender, president and CEO of The Donna Bender Company; Stacey Gorman, communications manager at the Cotton Board and Max Ludwig, senior director of prototype development for Wal-Mart U.S. Deborah Fowler, master adviser for the College of Human Sciences, created the event to allow students to network and

learn from skilled professionals in the retail industry.

“You cannot just teach a class and expect for students to gain all the skills they need,” she said. “The way I envisioned this in the beginning is an opportunity for our students just to build more and more and more skills.”

Fowler said her goals for the event were to make sure the students had plenty of hands-on experience and are prepared for potential employers.

“This is experiential learning,” she said.

“I think there are around thirty professionals in the retail world here. Some from as far as corporate Wal-Mart, to United, to Dallas with Target and then a lot of local retailers.”

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MAX LUDWIG, SENIOR director of prototype development for Wal-Mart, speaks to students about his experiences in finding jobs during the Retail Symposium hosted by the Texas Tech College of Human Sciences on Tuesday at Skyviews Restaurant.

Hance announces new engineering chairman in sustainable energy

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ERIN KITTEN, A first-year cell and molecular biology graduate student from Lubbock, talks to Courtney Hilterbrand, a sales representative for Complete Book and Media Supply, about wholesale textbooks during the TechBuy vendor fair Tuesday in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

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actually teach at a university.”

Nellis received his master’s and doctoral degrees in geography at Oregon State.

After receiving his degrees, Nellis began working for Kansas State.

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Various Texas Tech vendors lined the Student Union Building Ballroom waiting for passers-by to stop and learn about their company.

The annual TechBuy Vendor Fair was hosted from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

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Vendors ranged in subject variety from science-based vendors to furniture-based ones, Adling said.

“Every vendor that we invite are all closely linked to Texas Tech,” she said. “They are all companies the university buys from continuously or ones that we plan to work closely with.”

Each company had its own booth set up with information about what it does for Tech and what kind of deals other buyers can get with them, Adling said.

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Chancellor Kent Hance announced Chau- Chyun Chen as the new chairman of the J.F. Maddox Distinguished Engineering Chair in Sustainable Energy.

At a news conference hosted at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center, the J.F. Maddox Foundation was recognized for its work with Chen, who is a National Academy of Engineering member. National Academy member Fazle Hussain also was recognized as the President’s Distinguished Engineering Chair.

Chen was elected to the academy for his work with thermodynamics and Hussain for his work in turbulence technology, Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering Dean Al Sacco Jr. said.

Chen earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the National Taiwan University. Sacco said Chen was a student of his at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Maddox chair is a position which requires a person who wants to encompass the university and take it to the next level.

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“I appreciate the chance to partner with Texas Tech and make a difference,” Chen said.

Chen co-founded AspenTech, a software company, where he works as vice president of technology, Sacco said.

Chen said he was drawn to the university because of its enthusiasm in research.

“I am looking forward to this extraordinary opportunity,” he said.

Chen said he wants to discover and share new knowledge for the goodness of humanity.

Jim Maddox, the executive vice president of the J.F. Maddox Foundation, said the foundation looked around the world for the right person.

Interim President Lawrence Schovanec said international scholars add to Texas Tech’s status as a national research facility.

Hance said the Maddox Foundation has not only impacted the education of the university, but also the educational advancement of other colleges in Southeastern New Mexico.

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Today Movies@The Museum: Presidential Series- “Truman” (1995) Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come watch and enjoy this 135-minute movie. Rated PG. TAB Presents: TAB Free Movie Matinee Time: 4 p.m.

Where: Allen Theatre So, what is it?

Check tab.ttu.edu for the movie title.

Institute for the Study of Western Civilization Lecture Series Presents Dr. Ian Morrie Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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

Come learn why the West dominated the world for the past 200 worlds. The event is free and open to the public.

Thursday Conference Volunteer Training Session I Time: Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: TLPD, University Library So, what is it?

If you need volunteer hours, the Women’s Studies Conference needs your help.

Volunteers are needed to assist with a variety of activities April 5 in the Student Union Building.

2013 Length of Service Awards Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: International Cultural Center So, what is it?

Come as Texas Tech recognizes staff from across campus at important milestones in their career.

“The Rise of China: Implications for U.S.-China Relations” Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Where: International Cultural Center, Hall of Nations So, what is it?

Come listen to Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, the first Asian-American in the U.S. history to hold a rank of ambassador, speak.

Speaker Series: Mayim Bialik Time: 8 p.m.

Where: Allen Theatre So, what is it?

Come listen to Mayim Bialik from “Big Bang Theory” speak about some of her life stories.

To make a calendar submission email dailytoreador@ ttu.edu.

Events will be published either the day or the day before they take place.

Submissions must be sent in by 4 p.m. on the preceding publication date.

President Obama gives Secret Service its 1st female director WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday named veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the agency’s first female director, signaling his desire to change the culture at the maledominated service, which has been marred by scandal.

Pierson, who most recently served as the agency’s chief of staff, will take over from Mark Sullivan, who announced his retirement last month. The agency faced intense criticism during Sullivan’s tenure for a prostitution scandal during preparations for Obama’s trip to Cartagena, Colombia, last year.

The incident raised questions within the agency — as well as at

the White House and on Capitol Hill — about the culture, particularly during foreign travel. In addition to protecting the president, the Secret Service also investigates financial crimes.

“Over her 30 years of experience with the Secret Service, Julia has consistently exemplified the spirit and dedication the men and women of the service demonstrate every day,” Obama said in a statement announcing Pierson’s appointment, which does not require Senate confirmation.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also praised Obama’s “historic decision” to name Pierson as the service’s first female director.

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A FIRETRUCK AND two Texas Tech police cars responded to the scene of a small fire near the Media and Communication builidng at approximatly 6 p.m. Tuesday. A police officer said the cause of the fire is unknown. Justin Scott, a sophomore plant and soil science major from San Diego, said he saw the fire while walking from class and called 911.

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Nellis’ work as a professor and researcher allowed him to travel. Nellis said he did research in South Africa and Botswana, where he looked at some of the issues involving desertification caused by overgrazing along the border of the Kalahari Desert.

Nellis also worked in Northern Botswana, where they have an overabundance of elephants. Throughout his research, he said he used remote censoring techniques to assess the impact on vegetation caused by the large number of elephants.

He said he also has worked in Japan and has been to various parts of Europe, China, New Zealand and Australia.

While teaching, Nellis said his aspirations began to shift toward becoming a department head.

“Well, that happened when I was 32 years old,” he said. “So I became a department head and then it was kind of, ‘Well, what’s the next challenge?’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama’s overhaul, the nation’s leading group of financial risk analysts has estimated.

That’s likely to increase premiums for at least some Americans buying individual plans.

The report by the Society of Actuaries could turn into a big headache for the Obama administration at a time when many parts of the country remain skeptical about the Affordable Care Act. While some states will see medical claims costs per person decline, the report concluded the overwhelming majority will see double-digit increases in their individual health insurance markets, where people purchase coverage directly from insurers.

The disparities are striking. By 2017, the estimated increase would

be 62 percent for California, about 80 percent for Ohio, more than 20 percent for Florida and 67 percent for Maryland. Much of the reason for the higher claims costs is that sicker people are expected to join the pool, the report said.

The report did not make similar estimates for employer plans, the mainstay for workers and their families.

That’s because the primary impact of Obama’s law is on people who don’t have coverage through their jobs.

The administration questions the design of the study, saying it focused only on one piece of the puzzle and ignored cost relief strategies in the law such as tax credits to help people afford premiums and special payments to insurers who attract an outsize share of the sick. The study also doesn’t take into account the potential pricecutting effect of competition in new state insurance markets that will go live on Oct. 1, administration officials said.

At a White House briefing on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said some of what passes for health insurance today is so skimpy it can’t be compared to the comprehensive coverage available under the law. “Some of these folks have very high catastrophic plans that don’t pay for anything unless you get hit by a bus,” she said. “They’re really mortgage protection, not health insurance.”

A prominent national expert, recently retired Medicare chief actuary Rick Foster, said the report does “a credible job” of estimating potential enrollment and costs under the law, “without trying to tilt the answers in any particular direction.”

“Having said that,” Foster added, “actuaries tend to be financially conservative, so the various assumptions might be more inclined to consider what might go wrong than to anticipate that everything will work beautifully.”

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1929. The foundation, according to its website, was founded in 1963.

Schovanec said he appreciates the foundation’s long-term support of Tech.

By endowing these chairs, he said, the foundation has allowed

the university to recruit its most valuable resource — people.

“In adding a member of the National Academy of Engineering to our faculty, we also add to the legacy of Jack Maddox,” Schovanec said.

Jack Maddox, Hance said, was a student at Tech, the president of the Student Government Association and graduated in

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In terms of the other candidates, Nellis said he believes his role as a sitting president is what made him stand out from others.

He said he has been fortunate enough to be successful throughout his career.

“Whether I was a dean or a provost at Kansas State or president at Idaho,” Nellis said,” I think if you look at my record, I think I’m very studentcentered, but I’m also very peoplefriendly. I think people generally feel good about my leadership qualities.”

While visiting Lubbock, Nellis said he liked the friendly people and the vibrant university. Since he was in Lubbock seven years ago while provost at Kansas State, he said the developments and transformations in the city have been phenomenal, especially the developments on the west side of Lubbock.

The more he learns about Tech and Lubbock the more he gets excited, Nellis said.

Nellis is moving to Lubbock with his wife Ruthie, whom he met while at

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So I became a dean when I was 39 years old, and so I was kind of always pushing to that next level. So the opportunity to serve in greater capacity, and I felt like I could contribute back in very positive ways, too.”

At Kansas State, Nellis served as the chairman of the Department of Geography and then senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

According to the university’s website, Nellis became the provost and senior vice president at Kansas State in 2004. Prior to that, he served as dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University.

Nellis became president of the University of Idaho in 2009.

During his four years at Idaho, Nellis said he made a impact on the university. He said he helped produce a record student enrollment and gained national recognition for continuing to expand the research profile.

“Those are some of the things that I’ve provided leadership for,” Nellis said. “But certainly it’s been a team effort to make those things happen at

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Montana State and has been married to for 37 years.

“We were driving around Lubbock yesterday,” he said, “kind of looking around and my wife says, ‘Duane, this is really going to be a good move.’ I thought that was very positive.”

Along with being supportive of his career goals, Nellis said Ruthie Nellis has been active in the schools he has worked for. She was the head of the biochemistry/chemistry library at Kansas State and was the project manager for a new library at West Virginia.

He said he has two sons, Jonathan and Jason, who both graduated from West Virginia. One of his sons is a geologist that works on a natural gas development, and the other is a business investor.

Outside of work, Duane Nellis said he enjoys reading, fishing, skiing and running. He said he specifically enjoys reading history books and has been running on his treadmill almost every day for about 18 years.

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The event, which was open all day Tuesday, also included panel discussions led by students.

One of the panel discussion leaders was Mackenzie Brock, a senior retail management major from Plano.

“They critiqued us on kind of how we interviewed which was helpful for the future,” she said. “Then we had guest speakers talk about their businesses specifically.”

Brock said she believed the speed interviews were the most helpful because they allowed for the retail professionals to give feedback on presence in a professional environment.

Laura Swart, a senior retail management major from Southlake said she learned not to limit herself in her career and to be open to opportunities such as the symposium.

“I think the main thing is ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know’ is what everyone was saying tonight,” she said.

Following the day’s activities, the public was invited to attend a networking reception in honor of John B. Malouf.

“We’re calling him the pioneer because he’s such an amazing role model for any entrepreneur,” Fowler said.

According to a program given out at the event, Malouf realized he wanted to work in retail when his mother took him to buy shoes before he started at Texas Technological College, now known as Texas Tech.

Malouf was honored with the Retail Leader Award. He has been in the business for 64 years and is still active with his store location in Lubbock.

Fowler said she hopes to host the networking event next spring because students responded well.

Although she said she expected about 80 students total to attend the event, she met that goal in the morning.

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Battleground Texas visits Lubbock to sway voters

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I personally think that it should be allowed.

I think too many people look down their noses at homosexuality as an abomination, people who like to quote the Bible about it.

Honestly, in my opinion God loves all his children, no matter if they’re gay or straight.”

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“To me it’s very personal because it’s a momentous day, couple of days really, in all of human history, in all of American history, and my own personal future. So you know, this determines whether I will be able to go off someday and marry a man that I love, raise kids with him.”

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I believe that anyone that wants to get married should be able to get married.

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ALEX STEELE, BATTLEGROUND Texas field director, spoke to a crowd about the project’s effort to turn Texas blue to show the democratic representation of the state Tuesday in the Human Sciences building.

every day,” he said. ing, and what role people see for Battleground Texas is not Battleground Texas in Lubbock.

Some of the community about working from the topdown, he said, but starting with strengths written on the board were faith, Histhe grasspanic and sturoots and dent communiworking ties, as well as toward the teachers and agtop, at the ricultural workexecutive ers. level. It The role of begins with Battleground organizaTexas, the peotion buildple in attendance ing, he said, is educasaid, and its tion, bringing purpose is ALEX STEELE together differto register, FIELD DIRECTOR ent communities, persuade BATTLEGROUND TEXAS and helping othand turners come out as out votes.

Democrats.

At the “This is an incredible showmeeting, people discussed Lubbock’s community organizing ing of support,” Steele said. “You strengths, what people see as a guys are living proof that this possible roadblock to organiz- state is so ready for change.”

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More than 80 people gathered in the Human Sciences building to attend Battleground Texas’ fifth stop on its launch tour.

Battleground Texas, a state organization committed to turning Texas into a Democratic state, visited Lubbock on Tuesday to meet with local Democrats in order to discuss ideas and ways to get involved with Battleground.

Alex Steele, a field director for Battleground Texas, previously worked for President Barack Obama’s campaign during his congressional and presidential victories. He said he worked in different states, including Iowa, Nevada and Colorado, and he and his team are now focusing on Texas.

“That’s the ultimate goal,” Steele said. “Every Republican candidate and every Democratic candidate, if they want to be the next commander in chief of this country, they need to come to Texas and ask for your vote.”

One of the ways to make Texas competitive, Steele said, is to be active and register more people to vote. In an example of how more votes could change an election, he said 18 percent of Texans, who are able to vote, voted for Gov. Rick Perry in 2010.

A lot of candidates visit Texas, he said, but it is only to host fundraisers and spend the money raised in other, more competitive, states.

“Most of us know that if all Texans actually spoke up and actually went to the polls,” Steele said, “that this state would be much more competitive than it is right now. So that’s our challenge.”

He said he and his team chose Texas because of its potential.

Less than 50 percent of people vote in Texas, Steele said because they view politics as a game and not what it actually stands for.

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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Gov. Rick Perry referred to Battleground Texas as, “the biggest pipedream I have ever heard.”

Zach Rubiola, a psychology major from San Antonio and president of Tech Student Democrats, said members of the organization are excited about Battleground Texas, and are hoping to get a few people to join fellowships and become coordinators.

Rubiola said Tech Student Democrats are interested in becoming an extension of Battleground Texas on Tech’s campus.

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“I definitely don’t think it should be unconstitutional. Gay marriage, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with it. You know, the whole people in like quote the Bible all the time, what is it like Leviticus or something like that? Like man should not lie with a man like he lies with a woman. I mean, yeah, but at the same time I think one of the main guys in that book had like 700 wives or something like that. “ - Rebecca Williams - nutrition and dietetics major from Katy

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Court might sidestep major ruling on gay and lesbian marriage WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court dove into a historic debate on gay rights Tuesday that could soon lead to resumption of same-sex marriage in California, but the justices signaled they may not be ready for a major national ruling on whether America’s gays and lesbians have a right to marry.

The court’s first major examination of gay rights in 10 years continues Wednesday, when the justices will consider the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of benefits afforded straight married people.

The issue before the court on Tuesday was more fundamental:

Does the Constitution require that people be allowed to marry whom they choose, regardless of either partner’s gender? The fact that the question was in front of the Supreme Court at all was startling, given that no state recognized same-sex unions before 2003 and 40 states still don’t allow them.

There is no questioning the emotions the issue stirs. Demonstrators on both sides crowded the grounds outside the court, waving signs, sometimes chanting their feelings.

Inside, a skeptical Justice Samuel Alito cautioned against a broad ruling in favor of gay marriage precisely because the issue is so new.

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Judge not, lest ye be allergen prone, asthmatic “Allergies? Really?” was my thought as I sat on the crinkly examination paper of the doctor’s office. “I’ve never had allergies before though.” was my somewhat pathetic response.

My doctor assured me it was perfectly manageable and prescribed a light dosage of steroids to get it out of my system. My doubt consumed me. I have seen my Dad’s hay fever at its worst and trust me, there is nothing manageable about it.

The inevitable decline into my parent’s gene pool strikes again.

Thanks Mom and Dad. I kid of course. I love my parents more than anything but my fondness for them doesn’t necessarily extend to the health issues they have passed on to me.

Why exactly am I upset about this recent allergy diagnosis?

There are two reasons. The first: I have asthma. I really don’t need another medical condition interfering with my ability to gain oxygen. The second: The Color

Megan Hansen Run. Marketed as “The Happiest 5k on the Planet”, the Color Run is a Technicolor, five-kilometer race traveling around the globe.

Their motto: Be Healthy. Be Happy. Be You. Let me tell you about my running team for the Color Run. One member is one of my best friends since kindergarten, an avid runner, and always in tiptop shape. The second, her father who happened to be in town and is a five-time marathon runner.

The third, she is one of our dear friends who was a cross-country star in high school. And me. The asthmatic, allergen-prone slow poke who gets out of breath just by walking up all three flights of

stairs in the education building.

The morning of the race dawned bright and cold. I was nervous. We left at 7:30 a.m. to head over to the race site. Racers wore the required white T-shirts, often accompanied by psychedelic wigs, socks or tutus. Sunlight streamed cheerfully through the leaves rustled by the chilly breeze. David Guetta’s “Titanium” was playing over loud speakers as we walked toward the brightly colored tents.

“You shoot me down, but I won’t fall, I am titanium.” I felt more like Jell-O than titanium at that moment.

I felt silly, but I wanted my inhaler with me. Not out of fear of an asthma attack being triggered, but out of fear for people judging me for stopping and walking every now and then. It was as if my inhaler would advertise for me, “Look! She has a recognized medical condition! That’s why she’s not running right now!”

Was I seriously intimidated by how great of runners my team

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members were and how in shape the rest of the racers looked? In all honesty, yes. Was I worried about people judging me for not running the whole race? Again, yes.

Our culture is ridiculously competitive. Phrases such as only the strongest survive and if you’re not first, you’re last float around in our everyday language. Everything has become a competition: grades, looks, number of friends on Facebook, the amount of organic food we eat, how philanthropic we are, the amount hours we’re taking, how religious (or anti-religious) we are.

We constantly compare and quantify ourselves against others. Some are able to use this as a healthy motivator to do their best. Unfortunately, not many people are able to accomplish this. Many (myself included) take the competitive spirit and internalize it in an unhealthy way. We jealously hold ourselves up to others, endlessly comparing and contrasting. We then come

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to unfair, and often times untrue conclusions about those around us and ourselves.

We (myself included) have let this petty, envious way of thinking infect our minds. Everything has become a competition. But when I think about it, this is a 5k race for charity, not a lifeor-death matter or an apocalyptic wasteland. At any rate, I’m pretty sure the only people able to survive a post-apocalyptic landscape are the guys from Duck Dynasty, and the very skilled at tree climbing.

Why should I care so much about what others think about me? If someone is going to think judgmental thoughts about me for having to walk every now and then, doesn’t that reflect more on their character than it does mine?

I shook myself for being so stupid as we were shepherded into the chute to await the start of the race. While listening to the excited babble around me, I real-

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America’s veins are filled with the carbonated, sugary sweetness of Coca-Cola.

These soft drinks — the more than 650 products made by CocaCola — have become a part of the fabric of America. They are the drinks of our childhood, birthday parties, school lunches and sports games. However, these drinks and those who sell them are also slowly killing us.

American U. is a “Coke university.” Any beverage you purchase at AU is produced by, owned by and is a subsidiary of Coca-Cola. From the Eagle’s Nest to the vending machines to the Terrace Dining Room, AU supports the company behind the largest

health crisis in the U.S. Yet Coca-Cola is now urging Americans to come together to fight obesity. In a latest ad campaign entitled “Coming Together,” a soft female voice extols the efforts of Coca-Cola to be a part of the obesity solution over a slowly building piano sonata and images of school children, families, scientists and flashy graphics.

Don’t buy the deceptive concoction.

It is easy to get lulled by Coke’s coercive advertising. The commercial begins by talking about more than 125 years of Coca-Cola bringing people together and their voluntary efforts to offer low-calorie choices, smaller sizes and healthier options in schools. The narrator proudly states that “All calories count, no matter where they come from, including

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Coca-Cola and everything else with calories. And if you eat and drink more calories than you burn off, you’ll gain weight.”

Thank you, Coca-Cola, for that pearl of wisdom.

Behind the smoke and mirrors, there is a company that has created a global brand that is directly linked to higher obesity, diabetes, tooth decay and malnutrition. All calories are not created equal, and the mixture of high-fructose corn syrup, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors and caffeine that make up many of Coca-Cola’s products are a toxic combination.

I decided to call Coca-Cola to learn more about their campaign against obesity and was reassured that Coca-Cola is 80 to 90 percent water and is part of your daily fluid intake

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(but not a replacement for water).

They forgot to mention the 39 grams of sugar in a 12-ounce Coke, which far exceeds the daily requirements.

Coca-Cola’s duplicity goes beyond a marketing campaign designed to confuse and disorient Americans.

Coca-Cola, along with other members of “Big Soda,” have virulently fought efforts to limit the size of soft drinks.

Christine Quinn, a New York City mayoral candidate, has received $10,000 from Coca-Cola, as have many other New York legislators and candidates (Coca-Cola spends millions each year on lobbying as well). Coca-Cola has also brought in the NAACP to fight New York City’s soda ban, despite the fact that obesity disproportionately affects minority communities.

At the beginning of each semester, students begrudgingly trudge to the bookstore to pay an exorbitant price to purchase textbooks for their classes. Many others, looking to save money, resort to purchasing books through online retailers like Amazon, where they often revel in having saved money before realizing they somehow received the wrong book. In an age where sharing information is even easier than withholding it, students have many options to obtain course materials. Unless the textbook industry plans a significant overhaul in policy and distribution, buying a textbook may soon become obsolete.

Purchasing textbooks is traditionally seen as a necessary college expense and can be a rite of passage for first-years taking their first courses. But students in this day and age have found other, sometimes illicit, approaches to obtaining textbooks. We do not condone the illegality of these methods, but we cannot deny their existence or their appeal to students.

Rather than spending money, students can receive textbooks from a friend, borrow them “longterm” from the library, download them from the Internet, purchase international editions of textbooks that are often cheaper or even choose not to buy them at all.

We do not specifically advocate any of these options, but they are certainly more sensible to the frugal college student. This begs the question: Should textbook companies adapt to remain relevant cornerstones of our educational experiences? Are they even capable of doing so?

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ized no one cared about the race or their running time. Everyone was there to do nothing more than run around, have some color thrown at them and laugh.

We all started the Color Run the same way: bouncing around energetically in our sparkling white T-shirts.

At the end, I did end up finishing last. I didn’t mind though.

My team decided to sprint the last leg of the race. I was perfectly content to chug along at my pace and watch them dash around. My team members were gracious and loving enough to walk with me for the other times I needed to stop. Their constant encouragement kept me going the whole race.

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After all, there are formal institutions that suggest knowledge is a public good that should be accessible to all who seek it. This is why websites such as Wikipedia have been so popular not just with students, but also with the general public.

In addition, the popularity of free courseware with several top institutions such as Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attest to the belief that the more people gain knowledge, the better. We hope the textbook industry can recognize the trend toward the de-commodification of education and take appropriate and drastic measures to stay relevant in these rapidly changing times.

We understand buying textbooks is sometimes completely necessary. Many classes require course packets that can only be bought through the bookstore, and it can be difficult to obtain that specific gender studies or postmodernist Bengali poetry book from a friend or online.

But simultaneously, we want to challenge the notion that buying textbooks is the only option or even the best option. In accordance with the now-prevalent principles of open, accessible knowledge, institutions and the general public alike have already fundamentally uprooted the tenets of education. While textbooks cannot be handed out for free, it is time for the textbook industry to seriously evaluate and adapt to compete with the new, worthy competitors that have risen in its previously monopolized market in education.

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Pompeii exhibition brings doomed town to life LONDON (AP) — Pompeii is the little Roman town that became a byword for sudden, violent death.

A new exhibition at the British Museum wants it to be equally famous for raucous, exuberant life.

Most visitors will know how residents of Pompeii and its neighbor Herculaneum died — in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The volcano, long thought dormant, belched out a superheated cloud of fast-moving gas and debris that incinerated residents where they stood — and preserved the towns as museums of Roman life, frozen in time.

“Pompeii and Herculaneum were ordinary towns, but it was an extraordinary disaster,” said Vanessa Baldwin, assistant curator of the exhibition. “It was a tragedy, but it preserved them for us.”

Pompeii’s extraordinary end still fascinates, making it one of the world’s most-visited ancient sites.

“Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum,” which opens Thursday and runs to Sept. 29, looks set to be one of the museum’s biggestever hits. It has sold 50,000 advance

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The event took about three to four months to plan and organize, Adling said.

“Vendors don’t mind having to pay to participate because it’s so helpful to them,” she said.

“The hardest thing planningwise that we had to do was book the room.”

Some vendors also were giving away special discounts and door prizes for those who attended, Adling said.

“They were giving away prizes such as tablets, Kindles, iPods and other cool things,” she said.

“We were hoping something like this would also make the event a little more fun for everyone.”

The Hospitality Services catered the event for breakfast and lunch, Adling said.

“We had a special luncheon after the event ended for all the vendors that showed up,” she said. “This gave them a chance to talk about any updates their company have made and new electronics they are introducing.”

A total of 33 companies signed up for the fair, Clifford said, with only one not showing up.

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tickets, and will reach an even bigger audience when a live event in June is broadcast to hundreds of movie theaters across Britain.

It aims to un-freeze the picture, bringing to life a vibrant society completely unaware that disaster was about to strike.

Many of the 450 objects in the show have never left Italy before.

They have been loaned by Italian archaeological officials, who have themselves come under fire for the fragile state of the ancient site on the Bay of Naples.

The exhibition aims to give a vivid sense of how the towns’ ancient residents lived, through artifacts including mosaics, paintings, carbonized furniture and even the charred remains of residents’ meals.

“We want people to take a fresh look at the Romans,” Baldwin said Tuesday. “We want them to come away feeling a bit closer to them, feeling like they can relate more to them. They can go into their kitchens and recognize things that they have in their own kitchen.”

The exhibition is structured Shea Hartgrove, representatives for completebook.com, said this is the first year their company was invited to participate.

“The sole book provider of Tech invited us to the event because we have been working so closely with them in the past,” Hartgrove said.

Completebook.com is one of the few book vendors that were invited to the event, she said.

“We’re a wholesale publishing supplier that Tech has been doing business with,” Hilterbran said. “We’re kind of the one stop shop for research and text books.”

Although the event is open to everyone, more professors and graduate students showed up than any other group of people, Clifford said.

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around the rooms of a typical wealthy resident’s house, from the shops at the entrance to the atrium, bedrooms, kitchen and garden — and even the latrine. Among the items proudly displayed are the contents of a cesspit: broken jars, lamps and perfume bottles, coins and jewelry — though not, thankfully, the 700 bags of ancient excrement also found there.

Elsewhere there are sturdy cooking pots, elegant serving dishes and sleek mass-produced tableware, along with wooden items whose survival for 2,000 years — carbonized by the heat of the volcano — seems miraculous.

An elegant wooden side table and a baby’s crib are not much different from versions in use today. The heat also preserved items of food, including bread, grains, dates and pomegranates.

Then, as now, food was a key part of home life and the economy. Some merchants grew rich from fish sauce, or garum, a Roman kitchen staple made from fermented mackerel heads and guts. Both ordinary and kosher varieties were available, and several of the elegant clay jars are on display.

British Museum Director Neil MacGregor said that what has emerged from the ash at Herculaneum and Pompeii “was not at all the Rome people thought they would find. It was much more complex — a much funnier, a much livelier place to live.”

The exhibition shows that it was certainly a richly decorated, colorful world. Floors and walls were adorned with mosaics and frescoes of plants, animals and humans — the latter often in explicitly sexual poses.

Phalluses abound — on monuments, good-luck charms, even wind chimes — and there are examples of erotic art that shocked the 18thcentury Europeans who rediscovered them. A marble statue of the god Pan coupling with a nanny goat is likely to stop 21st-century visitors in their tracks, too.

For all the familiarity of this Roman world, there are surprises. The exhibition reveals that Pompeii and Herculaneum were less stereotypically “Roman” places than we might think.

Many residents were descended from Greeks or other groups, and more than half were slaves or freed slaves.

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LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man feels “pure joy” at winning a $338 million Powerball jackpot but has no idea what he will do with the money — except buy a car, to replace his feet as his primary mode of transportation, he said.

Dominican immigrant Pedro Quezada, 45, and his wife, Ines, appeared at New Jersey lottery headquarters Tuesday to officially claim the prize. Both came in jeans, accompanied by four of his eight siblings and two nephews.

The former bodega owner-operator, who came to the United States from the city of Jarabacoa 26 years ago, said his mind is not clear enough yet to figure out how he will use the money or where he might live.

He did say he could use a good car.

Asked what kind of car he has now, he said, “My feet.”

Lottery officials said Quezada had decided to accept the winnings in the form of a lump-sum payment worth $221 million, or about $152 million after taxes. It’s the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history.

He showed up Monday afternoon at the liquor store in Passaic where he purchased the ticket, not knowing if he held the winner. The ticket was validated at 4:17 p.m., giving him less than 24 hours to weigh his future as a multimillionaire before appearing at the news conference.

He was asked questions in Spanish and English and answered all the questions in Spanish, with a translator standing next to him. He was peppered with questions about he would spend the money.

“It has to change,” he said when asked about how his life would be different now. “Imagine ... so much money. But it will not change my heart.”

He said he would share his winnings with family members and would use some to help his community, though he didn’t yet know

how. He said his wife of nine years, Ines Sanchez, could have “whatever she wants.”

When he realized he had won, he said, “I felt pure joy, just happiness.”

Up until last year, Quezada had worked 15-hour days at a bodega in his adopted hometown of Passaic, in northern New Jersey. His son now runs the small grocery.

He said his bodega days are over, and given all the money he won, he doesn’t plan to let his son keep working there, either.

The bodega has been robbed in recent years, and there was a fire there.

But on Tuesday, Quezada would not talk about any of the hard times that had befallen him in the past.

“My life has changed,” he said.

When she got the call from him Monday, his wife said: “I had no words. ... My heart wanted to come out of my chest.”

“All I can say is I feel very happy that God has blessed us with this prize,” said Sanchez, who is from Tlaxcala, Mexico.

Quezada is the father of five children, ranging in age from 23 to 5. He has one grandchild.

In the Dominican Republic, Eliana Quezada, the winner’s 26-year-old niece, was thrilled by the news of her uncle’s massive windfall.

“One of my aunts called me and told me that my Uncle Pedro won the lotto, then I saw him on TV,” she said Tuesday in Jarabacoa. “I was happy, happy, so I ran into the street!”

The single mother of two children is one of the winner’s few relatives still living in the Dominican Republic.

Most migrated to the United States years ago, and she said she hadn’t seen her uncle in about 10 years.

When asked whether she had any expectations now that her lucky uncle was an incredibly wealthy man, Quezada, a manicurist, said she would love for him to bankroll a trip for her to visit the U.S. to see her many relatives.

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The Texas Tech men’s tennis team will take on the Fresno State Bulldogs at noon today at the McLeod Tennis Center.

The Red Raiders (12-5) are looking for their second consecutive win after defeating New Mexico State 7-0 on Saturday and have improved their standing in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings to No. 42.

“We played well against New Mexico State,” Tech coach Tim Siegel said. “They are a dangerous team. They’ve had a couple of good wins, but for us now, it’s about Fresno State.”

Tech also is looking for its seventh home victory this season. A 4-3 loss to No. 56 University of New Mexico is the only defeat for the Red Raiders at the McLeod Tennis Center this year.

“There’s no question this is a home-court advantage,” Siegel said. “Whether it’s a little bit of a breeze or a little bit of an altitude, I think that sometimes teams, when they come here, they don’t know what to expect.

There’s no doubt that playing at home is something our players really look forward to doing.”

He said he is happy with his team’s continued improvement.

“They’re playing much better ball the last couple of weeks,” Siegel said of his younger players. “Our doubles has been playing pretty well, and that’s very important so I’m pleased with the way we’ve played so far.”

Fresno State is 5-12 for the season and 0-2 in away matches including a 7-0 loss to No. 2 UCLA in February.

“Fresno is a goo d team,” Siegel said. “They’ve had some tough, close losses recently, but this is a match that’s very important for us.”

The Bulldogs’ most recent results include a 5-2 loss to Iowa and a 4-3 loss to No. 63 Purdue.

Siegel said the team knows how difficult the remainder of its season will be with seven matches against teams ranked inside the ITA Top 50.

“With Big 12 play coming up, a road trip to Louisville and a home match against Tulsa,” he said, “the toughest part of our season will be coming up after this match against Fresno, but our focus is tomorrow at 12.”

Siegel said the Red Raiders are focused on playing well in the Big 12 and achieving post

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TEXAS TECH’S VITOR Manzini returns a serve during his match against Prairie View A&M on Wednesday at Don and Ethel McLeod Tennis Center. Manzini defeated his opponent 6-2, 6-0.

season play. ”I know that we have to get better,” he said, “We have to improve; we have to be a better

team than we are today to be successful in the Big 12. Making the NCAA tournament is our goal. We’ve given ourselves

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McIlroy texts with Tiger after losing No. 1 world ranking says he had a “good week, a fun week” in Miami. He watched girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki play in the pro tennis event in Key Biscayne, Fla., then stopped by a municipal course on Saturday night to hit range balls in relative anonymity with Wozniacki and Novak Djokovic, currently the world’s No. 1 tennis player.

“People left me alone, it was fine,” McIlroy said. “It’s nice to just go, not just go about my business and no one cares, but you go about it and not be, I guess, the most talked about person in golf. It’s a nice thing.”

McIlroy won four times in 2012, including the PGA Championship that catapulted him to No. 1. He signed a Nike contract in the offseason, but has gotten off to a rough start this year, raising questions

about his adjustment to his new to contend at Redstone this week.

“We’re not equipment.

He missed machines, the cut at Abu we’re humans,” McIlroy said.

Dhabi, lost in “You’re going the first round to have patches of the Match Play Chamwhere you play pionship and great and have patches where then walked off you struggle the course dura little bit. I ing the second guess you’ve round of the Honda Classic, just got to take the rough and citing frustration. He finally the smooth and just try saw signs of RORY MCILROY and treat those progress when GOLFER times, sort of he shot a 65 in PGA TOUR play and be pathe final round at Doral and tient and know tied for eighth, that you’re and he’s confident that he’s ready working on the right things.”

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I didn’t think I could go into the Masters under the radar ...

So, in a way, it’s not a bad thing.

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HUMBLE (AP) — Rory McIlroy sent a text message to Tiger Woods on Tuesday, congratulating him on winning at Bay Hill and taking over the No. 1 world ranking again.

Woods responded by telling McIlroy to get going — he put it a bit more crudely than that — and win this week’s Houston Open. A victory would put McIlroy back at No. 1, a spot he held for 32 weeks before Woods’ latest win.

For now, McIlroy is fine with Woods holding the world’s top ranking, especially with the Masters coming up in two weeks.

“I didn’t think I could go into the Masters under the radar,” McIlroy said. “I can go in a little bit underneath him. So, in a way, it’s not a bad thing.”

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Maybe McIlroy can learn from Woods as he tries to dig out of his early-season slump. Woods has won three times in five starts this year, looking as dominant as ever after going through injuries, personal turmoil and a swing change.

“I’ve always said he’s been one of the greatest fighters on a golf course,” McIlroy said. “If things aren’t going his way, he’ll dig in and get whatever he can out of a round.

He can repeat day-in, day-out, that attitude and that single-mindedness or that drive or motivation, I think that’s his most impressive aspect.”

McIlroy said he’s seeing more good shots since the last round at Doral, his lowest of the season.

“The weekend at Doral was great and the way I’ve been hitting the ball recently,” he said. “I’ve just got to keep working on it and keep

working on it. I definitely feel like it’s going in the right direction.”

When he’s done in Houston, McIlroy will fly to Haiti, where he’ll meet with families affected by the 2010 earthquake there. He also made a trip to Haiti before going to the U.S. Open in 2011, and won his first major at Congressional with a record score.

McIlroy is an Ireland ambassador to UNICEF and has geared his own charity work toward children.

“The last time I went, it was a very humbling place and it was a very eye-opening experience for me,” McIlroy said. “It will be another experience to go back there and see what it’s like. It’s nice to be able to do these things and raise awareness for these causes. I feel like it’s something that has been pretty close to me since I’ve been there.”

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The Texas Tech softball team opens up conference play with a three game set against Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla. with the first game beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Softball Complex.

The Cowgirls have won 15 of their last 16 games, shutting out their opponent in eight of those games.

Going into the matchup, Tech coach Shanon Hays said Oklahoma State is going to be a tough matchup for his team, bringing reference to the Cowgirls’ pitching performances leading up to conference play.

“It is going to be a tough matchup,” he said. “They have some of the best pitching in the country. They are going to be tough.”

To counter Oklahoma State’s pitching, Hays said his team will have to pick things up in the offensive area of its game.

Tech senior Adriana Perez Sandy James begin to hit the has struggled from behind the ball well, everyone else follows plate as the Lady Raiders have suit. won one in their last four games.

“Me and AP (Adriana Perez) Perez got off to a strong start have to get hot again and this this season, hitting 12 home is the time of the year for that runs, but has failed to match her to happen,” James said. “ Once early producwe start hittion as of late. ting it is kind “She hit of contagious 12 home for our team. runs early That is really and started what we need looking at to happen this her numbers weekend.” and started Against letting her Oklahoma numbers afS t a t e , Te c h fect her swing senior Ema little bit,” ily Cooper SHANON HAYS Hays said. “It s a i d c o n f e rHEAD COACH is hard to hit ence play will SOFTBALL home runs, be a much we have tried tougher chalto readjust lenge than the her and get her back to just teams her team has faced during hitting the ball hard and driving the last few games. in runs.”

“I do not expect it to be any Hays went on to mention walk in the park,” she said. “They once Perez and Tech senior are a lot better than they were last

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They have some of the best pitching in the country.

They are going to be tough.

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year, so we have to show up and we have to play.”

Having gone 26-12 before conference play began, James said the Lady Raiders will need to step up their game to prepare for their next set of opponents.

“Now that we are starting conference we really have to step up our game, every day, every at bat, everything,” she said.

Hays said his team has not performed to the best of its ability this season, describing their play so far as average at best.

Although Hays said his team will face much tougher opponents by beginning conference play, he is looking forward to the challenge.

“We are excited to start Big 12 play because it is a great challenge,” he said. “We want to see our girls step up and have no fear and see what we can do.”

The Lady Raiders’ second game will be played at 6 p.m.

Friday, with the third game set to begin at noon Saturday. ➤➤msuniga@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH INFIELDER, Taylor Powell, catches the ball to get out a Jackson State runner during the Red Raiders 4-2 loss March 2 at Rocky Johnson Field.

Another step for Michigan Wolverines, with a chance for more ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Now that Michigan has finally made it back to the second week of the NCAA tournament, coach John Beilein will admit that, yes, this was a pretty important step for the Wolverines.

“We were really proud that we could get the team to the NCAA tournament in 2009 and get back there in ‘11. That only can go so far,” Beilein said. “You’ve got to keep getting better. To get past this point was good for our program.”

Before the tournament, Beilein said Michigan would keep progressing no matter what happened.

The Wolverines play several freshmen and have been recruiting well in recent years.

But for a team that was ranked No. 1 in the nation earlier this

season, another early exit from this tournament would have been jarring.

Instead, Michigan (28-7) is in the round of 16 for the first time since 1994, set to take on Kansas on Friday in Arlington, Texas, at the home of the Dallas Cowboys.

“We’re definitely proud, honored to be able to play in the Sweet 16,” guard Trey Burke said. “It feels so good just because last year, it was so devastating.”

Last year, the Wolverines lost their NCAA tournament opener to 13th-seeded Ohio. It was a sour way to end a season in which Michigan tied for its first Big Ten title since 1986, but when Burke decided to stay in school after considering an NBA jump, expectations were high for 2012-13.

The Wolverines earned their first No. 1 ranking since the Fab Five era, but after a 20-1 start, Michigan stumbled a bit down the stretch in an extremely competitive Big Ten. Beilein never showed any public signs of panic, stressing the fact that his team was young and needed positive reinforcement.

“I think with the makeup of our roster, it was really important to keep going in a positive direction. I think it was essential to our success,” Beilein said Tuesday.

“We had the makeup of this roster in our mind in every coaching session. What can they handle?

What is best for them? What keeps them going?”

Michigan fell all the way to a No. 4 seed, but the Wolverines

looked confident in their first two NCAA tournament games, dispatching South Dakota State 71-56 and then routing Virginia Commonwealth 78-53.

That second matchup was a true head turner. VCU won its tournament opener by 46, and its aggressive full-court press was supposed to be particularly hard to prepare for in a short period of time. Michigan barely looked bothered, playing a brilliant allaround game in front of an appreciative home-state crowd in Auburn Hills.

“We know we’ve got to be poised and we’ve got to make smart plays while we’re out there,” guard Tim Hardaway Jr. said. “But Coach Beilein always trusts us to just go out there and have fun, and

if you keep doing that, then we go a long way.”

Michigan’s ability to take care of the ball was crucial against VCU, but Kansas (31-5) doesn’t need to force a lot of turnovers to play good defense. With Jeff Withey patrolling the area around the basket for the Jayhawks, the Wolverines may need to be sharp from the perimeter.

“They defend both,” Beilein said. “You are going to get some open shots. It’s really important that you’re able to make those.

You can’t be missing layups. You can’t be missing a wide open 3 too often. You’ve got to nail those, because you’re also going to get some tough 2s. We just hope it’s not very windy in the dome down there.”

Of course, the fact that Michigan is playing in a giant venue like this is a sign that the stakes are growing. Beilein has advanced this far in the NCAA tournament before — twice with West Virginia — but this is the Wolverines’ first appearance in the regional semifinals since he took over as their coach.

“You know you’re going to have peaks and valleys, and you ride them out and stay positive,” Beilein said. “I told the team (Monday), ‘It’s month five.

There’s going to be four teams that are going to make it to the Final Four that didn’t give in to a season of hard travels and whatever. We’ve just got to keep plugging on. Four are going to do it. Why not us?’”