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Knight Raiders address rumors, issues regarding move to Webster Univ.

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Texas Tech plans to keep chess team strong

By NICOLE MOLTER STAFF WRITER

Nine of the current Knight Raiders will transfer to Webster University in St. Louis with Susan Polgar, director of Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, and Paul Truong, director of marketing for SPICE, in June.

The players staying behind said they are sad to see these members go, but are optimistic about the future of chess at Texas Tech.

“I’ve spoken to the group on several occasions,” said Juan Muñoz, vice provost for undergraduate education. “I’ve assured them that chess is going to continue at Texas Tech. We plan to hire very, very highly accomplished people, and we plan to be competitive. We plan to continue to recruit students to play and to attend Texas Tech and to be exceptional students and equally accomplished players.”

There has been some confusion about the continuation of the chess at Tech and funds

available to the program, said Brett James, a junior from Richmond with a concentration in pre-med.

“A lot of the papers that have been coming out lately – it got picked up by over 500 ones across the U.S., like ESPN, Yahoo, Associated Press, MPR News, New York Times, Wall Street (Journal), all these big newspaper articles, some even foreign – basically they’re saying the wrong thing,” James said.

There will be a team for the fall, he said. More than half of the current team is staying. A new director, coach and outreach coordinator will be hired.

An outreach coordinator is a full-time position the team has never had before.

“I have formed a search committee,” Muñoz said, “which is comprised of staff and students.

It’s chaired by our vice provost, former U.S. ambassador, Tibor Nagy. They’ve been meeting for weeks and have already identified three finalists (for coach).”

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51st Masked Rider named

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loved all the people — they were really friendly.”

There was a specific moment Her family bought a house Wenzel decided she wanted to with land just so she could have tryout for Masked Rider, she said. space to ride her horse.

Talking to Christi Chadwell, a While, she’s the only rider in former Masked Rider, Wenzel her family, she knew at her fresh- became attracted to one day fillmen orientation that, one day, ing her position. she wanted to be Texas Tech’s “She was telling me about it Masked Rider. and I really got interested at that Ashley Wenzel, a sophomore point,” she said. “And then, from education major from Friend- there I just was waiting, looking at swood, was announced as the a bunch of stats because you can’t 51st Masked Rider on Friday at tryout until you have so many the Passing hours and a of the Guns certain classiceremony. fication and so We n z e l I was just kind said she of waiting unfound her til that point love for when I could horse riding tryout.” as a child.

The tryouts “ I ’ v e consisted of an been riding application, since I was written test, about five riding test and years old,” a driving test.

ASHLEY WENZEL she said. “I “I prayed SOPHOMORE started out a lot,” Wen51st MASKED RIDER Western zel said about and then preparing for probably tryouts. “And about 12 years old, I started rid- then, there was a written test. You ing English and jumping. Then, in had to know certain things about high school, I rode rodeo.” the horse, those kinds of things.

Wenzel didn’t think about I went online, read books — just attending Tech until one of her made sure I was up-to-date on all friends encouraged her to visit my knowledge.” the university, she said.

She said she read a lot about “It’s about a 10-hour drive Tech’s traditions and history, and from Friendswood,” she said. “So, talked to other people about all it was just kind of out of my radar. things Tech.

Then, a friend told me to come Once the tests were completed check it out and I loved campus, and the interviews wrapped up, STAFF WRITER

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ASHLEY WENZEL, A sophomore education major from Friendswood, was named the 51st Masked Rider on Friday at the Passing of the Guns ceremony.

Wenzel said she got a call from spirit program director, Stephanie Rhode, to ask if Wenzel would accept the position of the new Masked Rider.

Wenzel said she screamed with excitement when she heard the news and then immediately called her mother, Theresa Wenzel, to tell her.

“On the day of the actual riding and driving test, I was at my mom’s house,” Theresa Wenzel said. “We had lots of prayer warriors for her.”

Theresa Wenzel said there were also screams and squeals on her end of the phone.

“It was one of those things,” she said. “She had been riding since she was five and had always done lots of neat stuff.

“And then, when she came for her freshmen orientation here at Tech, I was with her and she met the Masked Rider and she said, ‘This is what I want to do.’ So, just watching her go through those steps and try to achieve that was

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awesome. Then when she finally did, we were just amazed at what it took to do it and then to follow through with it all.”

Even with the long drive and a son playing high school football on Friday nights, Theresa Wenzel said the family plans on attending most of the football games to watch Ashley Wenzel as the Masked Rider.

Ashley Wenzel will be required to attend all home Tech football games and many other Tech and community events.

But, what she is most looking forward to is getting the chance to speak to younger students.

“I really want to get the opportunity to talk to younger kids about coming to Tech,” she said, “or even if it’s not Tech, continuing their education because I feel like that’s really important these days.

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Community Calendar TODAY Strive for Honor Week Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building So, what is it?

Join the TTU Senate Staff and celebrate Strive for Honor week and pick up a Strive for Honor T-Shirt and make your own value board with a list of your values.

Artist’s Talk: Catherine Lee Time: 5 p.m.

Where: School of Art, Room B01 So, what is it?

Artist Catherine Lee has had works of painting, sculpture and ceramics exhibited and collected internationally since the 1980s.

Shane Windmeyer: Stand Up for Campus Pride Time: 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building So, what is it?

Shane Windmeyer is the founder and executive director of Campus Pride, which is a national organization for student leaders and campus groups working to create a safer college environment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender students.

TUESDAY Sexual Assault Awareness Month: 13th Annual Denim Day Time: All day Where: None So, what is it?

Denim Day has been internationally celebrated since 1999 in protest of an Italian High Court ruling, which overturned a rape conviction because the victim was wearing denim jeans.

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Thursday 10:22 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated the theft of two memory sticks in United Spirit Arena.

10:30 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated harassment in Murray Residence Hall. A student received several offensive emails.

12:09 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at the Texas Tech Library. An unsecured mountain bike was taken.

1:03 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the F3 parking lot of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. A vehicle was scratched.

2:05 p.m. — A Tech officer documented information concerning the odor of marijuana at Stangel Residence Hall.

5:10 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the Human Sciences building. A wallet and its contents were taken from an unsecured backpack.

6:22 p.m. — A Tech officer issued two students Lubbock County citations for possession

Surviving and Thriving: Art and Open Mic Night Time: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building, Matador Room So, what is it?

Enjoy a night of poetry reading and art or submit your poetry and art.

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.

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Feces thrown at door in Weymouth Residence Hall

Crush ‘em Tech Recycling Event Time: Noon Where: Student Union Building So, what is it?

The Department of Hospitality Services, University Housing and The Physical Plant would like to bring awareness to the campus’ recycling efforts by encouraging people to bring two plastic bottles to recycle and trade them for a free T-shirt.

Tuba Euphonium Ensemble Time: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Enjoy this tuba euphonium ensemble performance presented by the School of Music.

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ture protested the decision by wearing jeans to work.

Dining in the Dark Buffet Time: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Where: Hulen/Clement, Horn/Knapp and Bledsoe/ Gordon So, what is it?

Join Hospitality Services for its first “Sustainability” Buffet and enjoy food, games and learn more about green efforts on campus.

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of alcohol by a minor, following a traffic stop in the Z5C parking lot. The students signed the citations and were released.

6:40 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, in the Z5B parking lot.

7:25 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for possession of marijuana, in the 2500 block of 6th Street. The non-student was issued a criminal trespass warning letter and was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Friday 1:32 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student at Sam’s Place West for public intoxication and possession of a fictitious driver’s license. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

9:57 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information at the Student Union Building in reference to someone receiving unwanted emails.

12:59 p.m. — A Tech officer

investigated a traffic accident, with minor injuries, in the R10 parking lot.

3:16 p.m. — A Tech officer documented information on an incident with a student in Coleman Residence Hall. A non-student called a student and threatened him.

3:16 p.m. — A Tech officer detained two students in Coleman Residence Hall. Both students were issued Lubbock County citations for possession of drug paraphernalia. One of the students was released pending the filing of charges for possession of marijuana. Both students signed the citations and were released.

5 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, in the B3 parking lot of the Health Sciences Center.

11:16 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a person evading arrest by detention in a motor vehicle and possession of methamphetamine in the 500 block

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DAVID PAIN, A sophomore business major from Bulverde, reaches to try to catch a football on the practice fields near the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center on Monday. Pain is preparing for four on four flag football intramurals.

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The team will have more scholarship funds than ever before, Muñoz said. A recent private pledge of approximately $280,000 will be divided during the course of four years. The program also has about $50,000 in annual permanent institutional dollars for scholarships.

The team has a separate operational budget he said, which will be used for transportation, food and hotel expenses.

“The money we have right now is good enough to fill the team that has already won the title twice,” James said. “It’s just not enough for maybe twice the size and more Grandmasters to keep coming, like the team was becoming. So Webster wants to have that, and that’s great but, you know, they’re a private school. They can have a little bit more money than Tech can, but Tech definitely has enough support here to have a championship team just like they did the last two years.”

Trey Modlin, a freshman undeclared major from Shaker Heights, Ohio, is confident

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EIGHT MEMBERS OF the Texas Tech Knight Raiders "A" team will be leaving to Webster University in the fall. This change will leave the remaining members of the Knight Raiders to defend Tech's two consecutive national championships.

about the Knight Raiders growing as a team. People are attracted to the school as much as they are to the chess program, he said.

Mo dlin visited the campus and the chess team before making the decision to come

to Tech.

“I didn’t feel overwhelmed by being there,” he said, “and (the chess team) even let me get in on some training, so I wasn’t just being an observer.”

The interest in the chess program is growing in schools, James said. The Knight Raiders hosted the fifth annual Lubbock Open at the Science Spectrum in January.

“We used rooms that we’ve never had before with like 100 students in there by itself,” he said. “All the tournaments are over 100 students now. When I first got here there were like 70 to 80.”

The team may not be as competitive with the loss of the top players, James said.

“It’s definitely going to be a transition year,” he said, “kind of

like the football team where we switched from Mike Leach. Now we have (head football coach Tommy) Tuberville.”

Replacing such a good coach is hard, James said. A lot of people are doubtful right now, but the team has a lot to look forward to in the next year starting with our practices in early September. “(Susan) has incredible knowledge of chess,” he said.

“She’s a good coach, but everybody has their own perspective.

There’s all kinds of great coaches out there. We’re going to have another strong coach in the fall and we plan to keep winning titles, too. Basically, we want the campus to be confident and support us, just realize that we’re here.” ➤➤nmolter@dailytoreador.com

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Bond denied for nurse accused in baby kidnapping CONROE (AP) — Bloody jeans and a handgun believed to be the murder weapon were found in the apartment of a Texas woman accused of kidnapping a newborn boy after fatally shooting his mother, authorities said at a Monday hearing.

Verna McClain, who is accused of shooting Kala Golden outside a suburban Houston pediatric center last week and abducting her 3-day-old son, will remain jailed after a judge denied her bond at the hearing. The boy was later found safe. Investigators believe McClain was desperate for a baby after suffering a miscarriage, and her attorneys have said they planned to review her mental state.

“This was a cold calculated murder, not only meant to deprive Kala Golden of her life but to abduct her child,” Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon said during the 1½ hour bond hearing.

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MICHAEL NICHOLS, A freshman civil engineering major from El Paso and research assistant, solders together wires for a grid of strain gauges in the Civil Engineering building Monday. The strain gauges will be used for an experiment for the Texas Department of Transportation.

Supreme court to hear Arizona illegal immigration dispute WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will referee another major clash between the Obama administration and the states, this one over Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. The case could add fuel to the partisan split over tough state immigration laws backed

by Republicans but challenged by the administration.

Like last month’s arguments over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the immigration case is expected to be decided at the end of June.

Wednesday’s arguments will focus on whether states can adopt their own immigration measures to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, or whether the federal government has almost exclusive authority in the area of immigration.

Arizona was the first of a halfdozen states to enact laws intended to drive illegal immigrants elsewhere, a policy known as “attrition by enforcement.” Even where blocked by courts, these laws have already had an impact on farm fields and school classrooms as fewer immigrants showed up.

“If the federal government had been doing and would continue to do its job in securing the border here in southern Arizona, this would not be an issue. Unfortunately, they failed to do that so Arizona stepped up and said, ‘We want to be partners.

Here’s a role we think we can play,’” said Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, which shares an 83.5-mile border with Mexico in the state’s southeastern corner.

of Indiana Avenue.

11:58 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief to an emergency exit sign in Weymouth Residence Hall.

Saturday 1:16 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief to a door in Weymouth Residence Hall.

1:38 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief to several ceiling tiles in Sneed Residence Hall.

1:46 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a code of student conduct violation and criminal mischief in Weymouth Residence Hall. Feces had been thrown on a door.

1:57 a.m. — A Tech officer detained a student for an emergency detention in the Weymouth Residence Hall.

The student was transported by Emergency Medical Services to 11:10 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student in Coleman Residence Hall for possession of marijuana and possession of drug

paraphernalia. The student was transported to Lubbock County Jail.

3:05 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in the Livestock Arena.

A non-student fainted. She was evaluated by EMS and was not transported to the hospital.

4:44 p.m. — A Tech officer detained a student for an emergency detention in Carpenter Wells Residence Hall. The student was transported by EMS to Covenant Hospital Emergency Room.

6:15 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated and two student passengers for public intoxication, following traffic stop on 4th Street and Indiana Avenue. All three males were transported to Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded

by Lubbock Wrecker Services.

11:53 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in Horn Residence Hall. A student was suffering from stom-

ach pains. She was transported to University Medical Center Emergency Room by EMS. Sunday 12:55 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, on the west side of the Human Sciences building.

The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:43 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for possession of more than one valid driver license at the east side of Coleman Residence Hall.

Another student was released pending the filing of charges for possession of marijuana. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

10:49 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Gates Residence Hall. A bulletin board was taken from the wall.

Information provided by Kathryn Kelch Black and B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

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Cultural overlap of sports, politics Hasan Masood ahead of the Florida Republican primary.

Since many have accused him of being out of touch, Romney made his appearance to connect with the average American. But his verbal gaffe in which Romney stated, “I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners,” seemed to contradict the point he was attempting to make with his visit.

Athletes and others involved in sports have also linked themselves with political issues, whether voluntarily or involuntarily. Recently, Ozzie Guillén, manager of the Miami Marlins baseball team, alienated many Cuban-Americans. In an in-

terview with Time magazine, Guillén discussed his admiration for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro when he stated, “I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherf----- is still there.” For many CubanAmericans, this was the equivalent of someone stating, “You know, I respect Hitler.He made the trains run on time!”

Earlier this y e a r, B o s t o n Bruins goalie Tim Thomas also involved himself in politics, albeit much more directly. Championship winning teams make visits to

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the White House and are honored by the President. But Tim Thomas opted to skip out on the Stanley Cup-winning Bruins meet and greet with President Obama — the only active Bruin to do so — as a result of his opposition to where he felt was the federal government was heading.

Despite stating, “This was not about politics,” Thomas put himself in the political spotlight and took away the spotlight from the achievements of his teammates.

Besides just having a tinge of politics, sports have the power to enact powerful political change.

Since the beginning of civilization, man has engaged in games ... with tinges of political influence.

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n its purest form, the world of sports is supposed to be one of the few places free of politics. Athletes are supposed to compete for the glory of victory, without the specter of political hand-wringing looming over them.

But for better or for worse, this has never been the case and never will be the case. Since the beginning of civilization, man has engaged in games and athletic competitions with tinges of political influence. Recently, the mixing of sports and political issues has been making headlines both in the United States and around the world.

Many American politicians, especially during an election cycle, will make appearances at different sporting events as a way to appeal to voters. In February, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made an appearance at the Daytona 500 NASCAR’s marquee race,

South Africa is quite familiar with the power of sports to bring about such change.

Many saw the 1995 Rugby World Cup, dramatized in the film “Invictus,” as a moment to heal a divided nation in the wake of apartheid. This event saw the previously unthinkable image of the white South African rugby captain shaking hands and receiving the trophy from South African President Nelson Mandela.

However, sports have also been used as politically oppressive tool.

This was very clearly seen in Bahrain recently. For the past year, Bahrain has seen large-scale protests in the spirit of the Arab Spring against the oppressive regime that rules over the small Arab nation. Bahrain also annually holds the Bahrain Grand Prix, a racing event that is part of the international motorsport series Formula One.

Many human-rights advocates had pushed for Formula One to cancel the race, citing that no changes have been made by the Bahraini royal family. However, the race went ahead as scheduled. The Bahraini royal family made claims the race would unite the country, even making billboards around the capital that said “UniF1ed.” Despite these claims, the rulers used the race as nothing more than an opportunity to legitimize themselves in the face of heavy protests.

Sports are an integral part of modern society. Consequently, many other parts of society will permeate it, including politics.

This has been the case for thousands of years and will be the case for many years to come.

Masood is a senior history major from Plano. ➤➤ hmasood@dailytoreador.com

Politics of student debt forgiveness Math doesn’t have

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and take out loans all on the belief that they will be successful in the world and will be able to pay them off. This is a false belief and one we should stop selling to people.

It almost seems unethical to continue telling people that college is a smart choice, given the massive amounts of debt many will have to accumulate in order to attend. It’s a symptom of a society that values the wrong things.

Our society props up the great American dream, while simultaneously shouldering future generations with so much debt that it almost doesn ’t matter if there’s a dream.

I’m happy to see HR 4170 because it forgives debt while still holding the debtors accountable. This marriage of responsibilities, the government’s to protect the future of its citizens and the citizens’ to their loans, seems too good to be true. The resolution will allow those with student loans to be free of them after 10 years.

There are too many people, from undergraduates to doctorallevel students, who will accumulate enough debt to keep them paying into their AARP years.

How is this acceptable? It’s acceptable because education is a highly personal venture, and as such, it is often thought of as something separate from the community.

This, however, is ridiculous. Education is only possible through the act of the individual within a community of support.

It’s amazing how many with student loans or who know others with student loans want things to change. Currently, as I write this column, there are over 865,000 signatures on an online petition

There are too many people ... who will accumulate enough debt to keep them paying into their AARP years.

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Last month, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 (HR 4170) was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Hansen Clarke, a Democrat from Michigan.

The discussion of student loan forgiveness has reached a point where politicians are finally taking notice. Though, in some conversations, it seems that many are confused about what exactly will be forgiven if HR 4170 passes.

The resolution will not just wipe out all student debt. It is a structured program that will allow students and former students to reach a point where they no longer need to pay.

Basically, if students make loan payments equal to 10 percent of their discretionary income for 10 years, their remaining federal student loan debt will be forgiven.

Needless to say, this resolution will have profound implications for many in the United States.

Our society values a college education, or that’s what we’re supposed to believe. For many students, the drive to attend college is ingrained in them as children.

Their parents encourage and, many times, decide their children will go to college. Often, these

decisions are regardless of what their children want, yet the belief that children should be better off than their parents is strong.

There was never any doubt that I would attend college. I always knew I would, and though my parents usually demanded I do so, I always wanted to go anyway.

It’s safe to assume that my life would be dramatically different had I not attended college.

N o w, a s a teacher and doctoral candidate, I understand the profound impact a college education can have on someone.

However, I also understand that college isn’t for everyone. The drive to send everyone to college may be partly to blame for the current crisis higher education finds itself in.

Indeed, that drive is responsible for the outrageous loan debt many students have accumulated.

We tell children that they must go to college in order to be successful in the world, and then we make college almost completely unaffordable. So, students go to college

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urging Congress to pass HR 4170.

That’s a huge number, and it’s only rising. This is a real concern for many Americans, and it shows by the number of people who’ve signed the petition and by the amount of press student loan debt gets in the media.

While a delicate political issue, student loan debt can no longer be ignored. The cost of college is rising. The interest rates on student loans are rising. Everything is becoming more expensive yet reduced in value. This is unacceptable in the 21st century, and those in power must address it.

However, it’s just not enough to pass HR 4170. We need to start thinking about college in a different way.

College works for some and not for others, but society is too focused on sending every child to college when that’s an unrealistic and damning goal. If everyone goes to college, the value of the experience is diminished. This can already be seen in many fields that require a Bachelor of Arts degree. It seems the Master of Arts degree is becoming the new B.A. degree. Why? Saturation.

I would never want to tell someone not to go to college if that was their life-path. However, it should be noted that college is not the only path that leads to success in life. Instead, we should work toward understanding how society depends on many different paths of success. Everyone deserves to be happy, pursue their own destiny and not be burdened with debt they can never escape.

HR 4170 is a start, and it will go a long way to ensuring an economically secure future for many students. If we can learn that college isn’t the only path to success and encourage children to pursue their own passions, then we may be able to alleviate some of the pressures put on higher education, students, teachers and anyone beginning their journey into the world.

By NOEL MADORE

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Mitt Romney pays a much lower tax rate than people who earn about as much as he does in one hour, without even having a job.

Fox News and its pundits have recently cried “class warfare” in response to calls addressing the historically low tax rate for the uber rich as a means to fix the country’s growing debt and deficit, despite the fact that the tax system is skewing income distribution upward.

One of the richest men in the country, Warren Buffett, has very publicly created the “Buffett rule” to help out the little guys and gals.

In an August 2011 op-ed in The New York Times, Buffett wrote that he thinks it’s unfair for his secretary to be taxed at a much higher rate than himself because “while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks … my friends have been coddled enough.”

Thus, he is demanding the return of the tax rate system that was in place during the 1990s and an end to tax loopholes that allow corporations to avoid paying taxes.

As President Barack Obama has repeatedly said, “It’s not class warfare — it’s math.”

Many conservatives have called for the poorer half of citizens to be squeezed even more, instead of addressing our economic dire, which caused the World Economic Forum to rank the United States as 45th in the world when it comes to income equality.

Yet rightward sources still insist lower-class citizens are the ones who should be paying more in taxes to keep the country afloat.

According to a conservative estimate made by the 2010 census, 46 million Americans live in poverty.

The declining prosperity of the poorest citizens seems even more desolate, given that 45 percent of citizens in the richest country in the world don’t have economic security.

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Residence Halls battle for supremacy by donations

By MICHAEL DUPONT II STAFF WRITER

There is a battle taking place on the Texas Tech campus this week — a battle to help save lives.

The first campus-wide blood drive competition pits residence hall against residence hall in the quest to see who can donate the most blood.

Each residence hall has a designated day in the week when there will be a United Blood Services representative, along with medical professionals, in the residence halls collecting blood donations.

Bethany Gaylor, a sophomore psychology major from Fort Stockton, said this was not her first time to donate blood.

“I’ve donated blood three times before, and I just like to donate,” she said. “It’s a nice thing to do and I do it because it saves lives.”

Tyson Slate, a junior industrial engineering major from Bangs, said as a part of the Tech staff he felt obligated to demonstrate the selflessness it takes to donate blood as an example

for others.

“I’m a community adviser here on campus, and I wanted to be a good influence for everyone to donate more blood,” he said.

Slate said donating blood offers a sense of worth.

“It enables people to save lives,” he said “It makes you feel like you’ve accomplished something and gives you a sense of worth to help somebody else out.”

Jennifer Seals, a donor recruitment representative, said the residence hall battle going on throughout the week is a first-time event for Tech.

“What we’re doing is a competition between each residence hall and the hall with the most percentage of donors wins at the end of the week,” she said.

“This is something we have going on at some of our other campuses, but we’ve never done it at Tech.”

The residence hall with the highest percentage of donors at the end of the week will win a pool party at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center Leisure Pool.

“The pool party will have

food catered in, a plaque of course and bragging rights,” she said. “Each donor gets a T-shirt and a coupon for free Chick-fil-A.” Seals said blood is needed every two seconds, meaning every two seconds there is someone in need of a blood transfusion.

“We can’t make blood,” she said. “The only way we can get blood is from our donors.”

As a receiver of a blood transfusion, Seals has seen the importance of blood donation firsthand.

“I’m a blood recipient, I had to have five-and-a-half pints of blood three years ago, so I know the importance of it,” she said.

“I had transfusions and I’ve gotten better since then, but if the blood is not on the shelves at the time they need it, a lot of things can go wrong.”

Marenda Natera, a freshman music major from Fort Stockton, said donating blood can offer students a feeling of euphoria.

“It’s really awesome to donate blood and to know that you’re helping someone potentially live,” she said. “It makes

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TYSON SLATE, A junior industrial engineering major from Bangs, closes his eyes as Debbie Rugas, a United Blood Services donor care specialist, sticks him with a needle so he can begin giving blood Monday in the lobby of the Hulen/Clement Residence Hall.

you feel good.”

Natera thinks students have become selfish with their time and participating in the battle of the residence halls could help

alleviate that selfishness.

“I think that a lot of students, especially now in our generation, have become very selfish,” she said. “To donate

blood takes up your time, you have to be willing to give up your own time, so I think it teaches good morals.” ➤➤mdupont@dailytoreador.com

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This means nearly half of our citizens live practically, day-to-day, with the whole of their income going to pay for the necessities — food, transportation, housing and medical care — and are unable to save for the future, including for unexpected emergencies, like when a family member gets sick or another loses their job.

The tax system has seemingly been engineered to allow the rich to accumulate more wealth at the expense of the 99 percent. The working man doesn’t have the ability to hire lobbyists or accountants to find ways around paying taxes.

The tax rate for the rich is the lowest it has been since 1950, which has contributed greatly to our country’s deficit.

According to Business Insider, under President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, the top-bracket rate was a staggering 90 percent and we had a period of strong growth.

Growth increased after President Bill Clinton raised taxes in 1993 and declined after the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. When Bush and many Republicans talked about tax relief for American citizens, their policy was to give tax breaks to the top 1 percent.

It’s no wonder the United States is in debt after entering two wars without raising revenue to pay for them.

“You have to acknowledge that part of our deficit problem was the huge Bush tax cuts in the early part of the decade,” Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida said on CBS’ Face the Nation.

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In a recent debate, the Bangor Daily News reported that Maine state Sen. Jonathan Courtney, R-Springvale, said Democrats are playing “class warfare” with the Republicans’ recent bill to give further tax breaks to the top rates, while imposing a TABOR-like vice that has been voted down twice in a popular vote.

Decide for yourself if talking math is class warfare.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The house is like many others nearby. Blinded by boards over windows after witnessing the worst kind of violence, the white two-story house, its paint chipped and its front steps crumbling, sits vacant behind a rusty iron fence that separates an overgrown yard from the cracked sidewalk.

About the only difference between it and thousands of boarded-up buildings in Chicago’s most notorious neighborhood is that Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson grew up here — and her mother, brother and nephew died here, allegedly gunned down by Hudson’s brother-in-law, a known gang member. That and the shrine of teddy bears, candles and flowers was bigger than others that sprout up on these blocks when life ends violently.

When the trial of William Balfour begins Monday in the 2008 killings, it will be an all-too-familiar story of death and violence in Englewood on the city’s South Side.

At a time when cities across the country have seen the number of homicides fall, sometimes dramatically, Chicago’s jumped by a whopping 60 percent the first three months of the year, and Englewood’s violence was a big reason why. The 15 slayings there in 2012 are nearly double the number reported during the same period a

year ago.

Last year, not only did the number jump to 60 from 40 the previous year, but the total number of homicides reported in this roughly 20-by-20 block community was more than half as many reported for the entire city of Washington, D.C. and a little less than a third of Houston’s total for the year.

“It happens here all the time,” said Jean Carter-Hill, a community activist whose group helps children and families. “I can’t even run to all these funerals, it’s just too many, looking at all these dead people in caskets all the time.”

In Chicago, Englewood has become synonymous with street crime. Since he took office last May, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has used the word “Englewood” as almost shorthand for gangs, guns and the dangers facing the city’s children. But the deteriorating neighborhood has presented him with one of his biggest challenges, becoming a focus for his promise to deploy more police officers to the street while cracking down on Englewood’s gangs.

“The mayor says very publicly that a murder in Englewood is a murder in the city of Chicago (and) just because it happened there it is not OK,” said Police Supt. Garry McCarthy, in an interview with The Associated Press.

“People feel abandoned in those neighborhoods and we are saying you are not abandoned.”

Residents say they’ve seen police commanders and anti-gang initiatives come and go over the years, and the neighborhood just gets more violent and the criminals more brazen. Just as in years past when public housing residents slept in their bathtubs to protect them from the bullets that pierced their walls, residents say the fear of gun battles has pushed some of them deep into their homes and away from their windows where they could be hit by stray bullets.

“People don’t give a damn, they just shoot you across the street, they come into your house and shoot you,” said 80-year-old Homer Wright, who made headlines this month after shooting a teenager who allegedly broke into his tavern, where he’d taken to sleeping to prevent break-ins. The authorities dropped charges against Wright but confiscated the handgun he owned illegally for self-protection.

There are a host of reasons for Englewood’s downward spiral. But they mostly boil down to an exodus of families from an area that was predominantly single-family homes, resulting in an explosion in the number of abandoned buildings, and an influx of gang members.

Home to 100,000 residents in 1960, Englewood’s population has dwindled.

It had dropped to about 40,000 in 2000 and to 30,000 just 10 years later. Part of

the reason, Carter-Hill and others say, is that families moved out to safer places and others lost their homes when they lost jobs during the recession.

According to the police department, there are more than 4,100 abandoned buildings in Englewood, nearly 600 of them vacated in just the last 15 months. One study found more vacant homes in Englewood and the community to the immediate west than anywhere in Chicago.

It all has created an atmosphere ripe for a category of people nobody wanted to see: Gang members who left the city’s torn-down public housing high rises and found the abandoned houses magnets for crime.

“We’ve seen gangs come in, run cords from the house next door for electrical service and make it look like a regular house and they’re using it as a gang house,” said Leo Schmitz, commander of Englewood’s police district.

Moore said the Hudson family still owns their now-empty house, but they’ve apparently stopped trying to remodel it after vandals broke in at least twice to steal construction materials. He

sees Hudson’s sister come by once in a while, but hasn’t seen Jennifer Hudson, who even after she became famous came by to talk with people and even jump rope with kids outside.

But he does see gangbangers on the street all day, every day.

Among those, authorities say, was Balfour, the suspect in the Hudson family slayings. While prosecutors say the killings had a domestic motive, tied to his deteriorating marriage to the singer’s sister, his life story is a familiar one in Englewood.

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Doctor: Bee Gees star Robin Gibb has colorectal cancer

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ALEX ROBLES, A junior psychology major from San Angelo, hands Anna Moore, a freshman nutrition major from Houston, a free Strive for Honor T-Shirt in the Student Union Building on Monday as part of Strive for Honor Week.

LONDON (AP) — Bee Gees star Robin Gibb has advanced colorectal cancer and remains in intensive care after waking from a coma, his doctor said Sund a y. T h e s t a t e m e n t c o n firmed the exact nature of the illness afflicting the artist.

Dr. Andrew Thillainayagam said Gibb had recently caught pneumonia because he was weakened from chemotherapy and two operations.

T h e 6 2 - y e a r- o l d s i n g e r fell into a coma last week after contracting the pneumonia. Thillainayagam said that three days ago he had warned Gibb’s family that he may not wake up. Instead,

Gibb is now fully conscious and able to speak.

Thillainayagam said Gibb is still in intensive care and is “exhausted, extremely weak and malnourished.” He is breathing with the help of an oxygen mask and needs intravenous feeding and antibiotics.

“It is testament to Robin’s extraordinary courage, iron will and deep reserves of physical strength that he has overcome quite incredible odds to get where he is now,” Thillainayagam said in a statement.

He added: “Robin’s wife, Dwina and son, Robin-John, his son Spencer and daughter Melissa have been at his bedside every day, talking

to him and playing his favorite music to him. They have been tireless in their determination never to give up on him.”

Gibb has been ill for several months and he cancelled multiple public appearances last year. He has said on his website last year that he had been seriously ill but did not give more details. He did tell the BBC he had a growth on his colon that was removed.

Several media outlets have reported he has cancer.

The Bee Gees — British-born, Australia-raised brothers Robin, Barry and Maurice Gibb — had a string of disco-era hits including “How Deep is Your Love” and “Stayin’ Alive.”

‘Hunger Games’ fever makes archery cool NEW YORK (AP) — In schools and backyards, for their birthdays and out with their dads, kids are gaga for archery four weeks into the box office run of “The Hunger Games” and less than 100 days before the London Olympics.

“All of a sudden sales of bows have, like, tripled,” said Paul Haines, a salesman at the Ramsey Outdoor store in Paramus, N.J. A manager there made a sign for the hunting department: “Quality bows for serious archers and girls who saw the movie,” he said.

Archery ranges around the country have enjoyed a steady uptick among kids of both sexes since the movie began cleaning up at the box office March 23, though heroine Katniss — a deadly shot with an arrow — seems to resonate more with girls.

“Katniss is so inspiring,” said Gabby Lee, who asked for archery lessons for her 12th birthday in

February after reading the wildly popular book trilogy by Suzanne Collins.

“I’m not very sportsy,” she offers, but now she belongs to a youth archery league near her Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., home. “It feels really good because I’m usually the girl who sits and reads.”

While some young archers have been doing it for years, motivated by generations of hunters in their families, the parents of others love it for its focus, independence and because they, too, have kids not drawn to more typical team or contact sports.

At 7, Christa Mattessich is too young for the gruesome dystopian world that thrusts 16-year-old Katniss and her fellow child tributes into the arena for a battle to the death, a battle Katniss wins thanks to the archery skills she honed while hunting game in the woods of her native District 12.

But Christa loves archery just

as much and has been shooting for about two years at the same range as Gabby, Targeteers Archery in Saddle Brook, N.J., said dad Anthony Mattessich in Oakland.

“I’m an avid bow hunter,” he said. “At her age, with other sports, they’re just running with each other and chasing a ball, then the ice cream truck comes and that’s that.

For archery, they’re a little bit more dedicated.”

Abbey Fitzpatrick in Sandy Creek, N.Y., turned 11 on April 10. She also asked for and received her own bow and arrows for her birthday. “It’s black. It really looks like Katniss’s bow,” Abbey said.

“She was so brave and very heroic in the games.”

Like more than 2 million kids in nearly every state and several other countries, Abbey did archery in gym class this year as part of the decade-old National Archery in the Schools Program that trains teachers

in the sport and offers discounts on equipment.

“There’s a lot of buzz among young people about archery right now. They want to shoot bows and arrows so badly they’re willing to follow the rules,” said Roy Grimes, the organization’s president.

In Hartland, Mich., enthusiast Robert Jellison teaches seventhgrade science and has incorporated archery through NASP into his lessons on kinetic and potential energy, eye-hand coordination and the properties of pulleys and levers.

Jellison was invited in March with some of his students to perform a demonstration at the local library as part of a “Hunger Games” reading.

“Some of the kids there went out that day and signed up for archery,” he said. “A lot of people look at archery as, ‘Oh, you know, is it a real sport?’ All of a sudden there’s all this excitement.”

NYC photo exhibit captures Warhol as young artist NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Warhol once predicted 15 minutes of fame for everyone.

But 25 years after his death, the pop artist’s reputation and impact on the contemporary art world show no signs of fading. His iconic images of everyday consumer objects and celebrities consistently command high prices and draw enthusiastic crowds to museum and gallery shows.

But before he catapulted onto the world stage, the young artist was already producing some of his most iconic pieces. In a new exhibition, Warhol is captured in photographs at the very cusp of the pop art movement.

“Before They Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy,” at the Site/109 gallery in lower Manhattan, features rare shots of Warhol and artist Robert Indiana posing together with what were soon to become their most celebrated works — Warhol’s “Marilyn” and Indiana’s “LOVE” logo.

Kennedy, a freelance photographer when the photos were taken, had nearly forgotten about them and

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only rediscovered the images several years ago in a “beat-up cardboard box” while sorting through his archive, he said.

He took them when Warhol “was a known entity but had not yet exploded on the scene,” said Eric Shiner, director of the Warhol Museum, located in Warhol’s hometown of Pittsburgh. “They capture Andy both in production mode and also having fun mode.”

The 82-year-old photographer, who lives in Miami Beach, Fla., said he set out to record “the rising stars of the new movement in pop art.”

He sensed immediately that Warhol would become “a giant in the industry” but said he “was amazed to meet this very withdrawn and taciturn man.”

Among his favorite photographs is one of the pop icon working at his Manhattan studio, The Factory.

“Piled up in the corner were 50-75 sheets of acetate. Andy said ‘Those are proofs of my work,’” Kennedy recalled. As he unrolled one, “there’s this huge face of Marilyn Monroe — a transparent proof of his silkscreens.”

He had Warhol hold it up in front of him, creating a portrait within a portrait.

In another image, the photographer posed Warhol with one of his early flower paintings standing in a field of black-eyed Susans, located in a most unlikely spot — an industrial section of the Flushing neighborhood in New York City’s Queens borough.

These and about 50 other silver gelatin prints of Warhol and some 30 of Indiana capture the artists in their studios, relaxing, editing, painting and chatting on the phone. The works — presented by the Miami-based publishing house Kiwi Arts Group — are shown alongside some of the artists’ originals works.

Kennedy shot hundreds of images of the artists; 100 will be placed in the permanent collection of the Warhol Museum.

The exhibition, which runs through May 29, also includes a 40-minute documentary film featuring people still living who were involved with Warhol, including such Warhol superstars as Ultra Violet and Taylor Mead.

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Big 12 coaches using spring to fix issues DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New Kansas coach Charlie Weis isn’t exaggerating when he repeats the coaching mantra that spring practice shows how far his team is from actual games.

Weis took over in the offseason after the Jayhawks fell to 2-10 under departed coach Turner Gill, and it didn’t take long for him to see why Kansas had a coaching vacancy to begin with.

The Jayhawks have issues on both sides of the ball — including the nation’s worst defense at nearly 44 points allowed per game in 2011. Weis took spring ball as an opportunity to start fixing what’s wrong.

“My whole mentality is you have to come into a program that’s won two this year and didn’t win any in the conference and try and get these guys headed in the right direction, where that’s just not acceptable on either end. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done,” Weis said Monday in a league-wide teleconference with reporters.

Not all the coaches in the Big 12 have as much work ahead of them. But their programs all have areas that need to be addressed before the players depart for the summer.

It’s no surprise that quarterback tops a lot of those to-do lists.

Baylor has perhaps the biggest hole

of any team in the country to fill behind center, as Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III departs for the NFL. The Bears will likely fill his spot with senior Nick Florence, who started seven games in 2009 as a freshman when Griffin was hurt.

Though Florence hasn’t seen the field much since, Baylor coach Art Briles isn’t concerned because of his maturity.

“He’s already graduated from college.

He’s already married,” Briles said. “He’s got a good grasp of what’s expected of that position from playing it, from watching (Griffin).”

At Iowa State and Oklahoma State, quarterback battles have dominated the headlines this spring. But coaches Paul Rhoads and Mike Gundy have very different approaches on how they’re handling them.

Rhoads has no problem letting the battle between senior Steele Jantz and sophomore Jared Barnett stew all the way to September. Gundy will likely pick junior Clint Chelf, redshirt freshman J.W. Walsh or freshman Wes Lunt as the starter by the end of the week, allowing the program to move forward with clarity at the game’s most important spot.

“I’m not a fan of going through the summer and preseason camp with a quarterback controversy,” Gundy said.

Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones chose to return for his senior year after a disappointing 2011 season for the Sooners, who were No. 1 in the preseason but finished 10-3 and slipped all the way down to the Insight Bowl.

Coach Bob Stoops says he’s pleased with how Jones, whose touchdown passes dropped from 38 in 2010 to 29 a year ago, has gone about trying to improve all aspects of his play.

“He’s just working for improvement in every part of his game, and that’s positive. Not unlike Sam Bradford or any of the other guys we’ve had here of working hard to continue to polish all his fundamentals,” Stoops said.

At Texas Tech, finding a quarterback to put up big numbers in its pass-heavy system isn’t usually a problem.

But defense was a year ago under coach Tommy Tuberville, who said the main focus of spring practice in Lubbock was to fix a unit that was nearly as bad as Kansas’.

The Red Raiders lost their final five games, allowing at least 52 points in three of their last four. Tuberville said inexperience and a lack of speed doomed Tech’s defense a year ago, but he’s hopeful that an infusion of freshman and junior college talent will bolster the returning cast under new coordinator

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TOMMY TUBERVILLE LOOKS on during last season’s 66-42 loss against Baylor in Cowboys Stadium. The Red Raiders wrapped up spring practices with their spring game March 24.

Art Kaufman.

“We’ve made some strides and we

needed to. We weren’t very good,” Tuberville said. “We will be much bet-

ter (overall). But it all depends on our defense.”

The Larry Brown era at Southern Methodist begins DALLAS (AP) — Larry Brown has returned to college coaching.

Brown was formally introduced Monday as the men’s basketball coach at SMU, his first college job in nearly a quarter century.

The 71-year-old Hall of Famer joked about his age and said he looked forward to coaching “quality basketball with quality studentathletes” at a school that has long struggled to be relevant in Dallas and nationally. SMU has not won an NCAA tournament game since

1988 — the same year Brown won a national title at Kansas in his last season in college.

Brown brushed off questions about how long he would stay at SMU, saying he thought the Mustangs had the resources to compete in the Big East when it joins the conference in 2013.

“When I look in the mirror, I get kind of scared,” Brown said. “But inside, I feel like I can do this forever.”

Brown is the only coach to win both an NCAA championship and

an NBA title. He hasn’t coached since leaving the Charlotte Bobcats in December 2010.

Brown is taking over a program that has revamped its facilities and has lots of top high school talent nearby. Standing outside the halfcentury-old Moody Coliseum, which is set to undergo $40 million in renovations, Brown said he saw the arena as “the same kind of facility” as Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke’s home court.

“Walking around this campus, if

we can get a kid to visit here, I can’t imagine him going anywhere else,” Brown said.

Brown replaces Matt Doherty, who was fired after six seasons.

Doherty attended the news conference at Brown’s invitation, as did Kansas coach Bill Self. Brown and Doherty — both of whom have ties to North Carolina and legendary coach Dean Smith — met the team together after the hiring.

“My biggest concern in this process was that they hire a good

coach and a good person for my players and my recruits, because I care about those kids,” Doherty said.

“And they did it.”

Brown embraced the generations separating him and his players, saying he long ago wanted to coach basketball at a strong academic school.

He told his players about two Hall of Fame coaches, Frank McGuire and Henry Iba. When the players didn’t know who either man was, Brown joked that he didn’t want to ask about James Naismith,

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who invented basketball more than a century ago.

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“Larry Brown, he has a lot of history under his belt,” Giles said afterward. “We’re eager to learn from him.”

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Ivan Rodriguez back in Texas, this time to retire ARLINGTON (AP) — Ivan Rodriguez was back in Texas again. This time, the 14-time All-Star catcher said he has played his last game.

Calling it a very hard day after a great run, his eyes glistened and Rodriguez spoke slowly at first Monday as he announced his retirement. It came nearly 21 years after the fan favorite known as Pudge made his major league debut as a 19-year-old with the Rangers before later playing with five other teams.

Rodriguez was surrounded at the podium by his wife and his three children, including his 19-year-old son who is a prospect in the Minnesota Twins organization. He thanked his parents and brother who sat in the front row for supporting him since he started playing baseball at age 5 in Puerto Rico.

Rodriguez said he planned to remain in baseball in some capacity.

Rangers president Nolan Ryan said there have already had some preliminary discussions with him about what that might be in the organization.

“I’m always going to be in base-

ball the rest of my life,” Rodriguez said. “I’ll be in baseball, and I’ll be active and I’ll be doing things, you’ll definitely see me around.”

Rodriguez caught a major league record 2,427 games, surpassing Carlton Fisk’s record of 2,226 during a game for the Houston Astros three years ago at Rangers Ballpark. It was later that season that Pudge returned briefly to the Rangers, the team he played for the first 12 of his 21 seasons.

“It was interesting to have witnessed Pudge’s career and be involved in it at the start and see the player that he grew to be and the impact that he had on our organization,” said Ryan, the Hall of Fame pitcher who was still playing when Rodriguez made his major league debut on June 20, 1991.

Rodriguez hit .296 with 311 home runs and 1,332 RBIs in 2,543 games overall with Texas (1991-2002, 2009), Florida (2003), Detroit (200408), the Yankees (2008), Houston (2009), and Washington (2010-11).

His 13 Gold Gloves were the most

for a catcher.

“The first time I threw to Pudge and saw him, I really thought he was going to be a good receiver, and he had a great arm, we all knew that,” Ryan said. “I never anticipated or expected, I don’t think, for him to have the career that he had and have the impact on the organization that he had. It was really exciting and fun to watch.”

Rodriguez, who didn’t take questions during the news conference, was part of the Rangers’ first three AL West titles in a four-year span in the late 1990s. He later appeared in two World Series, with the champion Florida Marlins in 2003 and Detroit in 2006.

Texas won its first three AL West titles in a four-year span in the late 1990s, but didn’t win a playoff series then. Rodriguez hit .332 with 35 home runs and 113 RBIs in 1999, when he was the American League MVP. The two-time defending AL champion Rangers have no immediate plans to retire his No. 7 jersey, but have discussed the possibility.

Prosecutor: Roger Clemens told ‘lies to cover up lies’ WASHINGTON (AP) — The complexity of the Roger Clemens perjury retrial showed itself in many ways Monday — before a jury that knows little about baseball.

The prosecutor’s hour-long opening statement was a rambling hodgepodge of dates and anecdotes that attempted to portray the seven-time Cy Young Award winner as a man who told lies and “other lies to cover up lies.” A ruling was issued about Clemens’ former teammate Andy Pettitte: He can testify about taking human growth hormone, but can’t say where he got it from.

In between, there were numerous motions as attorneys for both sides fussed over which words and facts can be used and which ones can’t.

Finally, as the clock passed 5 p.m., an

impatient U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton admonished both sides for making their cases too complicated for a jury to understand.

“Keep it simple. ... Boom! Move on,” said Walton, who then declared the slow-moving trial adjourned for the day as he abruptly left the bench.

The opening defense statement was put off until Tuesday.

On the fifth day of the trial, the court finally seated 12 jurors and four alternates. The 10 women and six men mostly said they didn’t follow baseball or know much about Clemens. In fact, seven said they’d never heard of him.

Their first task was to try to digest prosecutor Steven Durham’s description of Clemens’ 10-year relationship with strength trainer Brian McNamee, which Durham said became a “story of

deceit and dishonesty and betrayal” because Clemens wouldn’t acknowledge using steroids and human growth hormone.

“The end will show that he made his choice,” Durham said, “and he was going to lie.”

Clemens is accused of lying — when he said he never used steroids or HGH during his 24-season career — at a 2008 congressional hearing and at a deposition that preceded it.

Last year’s mistrial was called after the government showed the jury a portion of videotaped evidence that had been ruled inadmissible. The costly process of bringing the case back to court has drawn criticism from those who regard it as a waste of government money — a point raised last week by some prospective jurors.