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Counselor, students offer tips on finals preparation

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

As the semester draws to a close and students prepare for finals, some feel nervous while others are just glad to see summer approaching.

Most students are taking their finals between today and May 14, but some, like personal financial planning graduate student Daquan Daniels, took theirs earlier this week.

Daniels, from Washington, N.C., said he has two finals left, but is not too nervous about studying.

“I’ve been studying over the whole semester,” he said. “I make sure I study ahead of time so I don’t really have to cram for the last week of exams.”

Unlike Daniels, Montse Guardiola, a sociology major from Laredo, said she has not started studying yet for her three finals Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Last week I didn’t really do much studying,” she said. “I guess it still hasn’t hit me that it’s finals week yet. But I’m pretty sure after maybe tomorrow I’ll start going to the library and studying.

I know yesterday we got together, some group of friends and I, and started studying for our chemistry exam, which is one of the ones I’m most worried about.”

However, if a student wants to perform well on an exam, the best times to study would be every day this week from Monday through Sunday, an hour to two hours a night, said Stacy Elliott, a senior counselor and learning specialist at the Support Operations for Academic Retention program.

But even if time is running short, students should not pull an all-nighter to study for a final, she said, no matter what.

“You know when you’ve been really tired and up all night,” Elliott said, “you don’t think clearly, you don’t process information well. Emotionally, you don’t handle things well. It’s the worst thing you can do, is to stay up the night before the exam — worst. I tell students, just don’t even do anything. Don’t even

study at all, and get a good night sleep.”

Instead of hitting the books, she said students should get eight to nine hours of sleep, wake up at least an hour before the exam and eat a breakfast full of protein, stay away from sugars in foods such as cereals and muffins, and do not overdo it on caffeine.

Guardiola said she attempts all-nighters when she has to, but usually does not make it through the night.

“I try,” she said, “but I can only stay up until 2 in the morning, max. And that’s it. And then my brain just gets goopy and I can’t retain anything.”

Samantha Mendez, an environmental engineer from Austin said she would much rather sleep than stretch herself too thin by studying for her three finals.

“That’s so unhealthy for you,” she said. “Like, if you need to pull an all-nighter then you’re not studying proficiently and that’s like, I don’t want to do that. I like sleeping.”

Another basic Elliott said she stresses to students is knowing the final exam’s format. Students should ask their professors what format the exam is in — essay, multiple choice or short answer.

They also should ask what materials to bring and which class materials to study from, whether those are personal notes, PowerPoints or test reviews. Figure out if it is cumulative or not, she said, and do not forget one vital aspect – what percentage of the final class grade the exam will be.

“I’m always amazed at how many students do not know what percentage the final exam is for their grade,” she said.

It is all part of being a wellprepared, well-informed student, Elliott said.

“A good student is a good businessperson,” she said. “I want to know how I’m being evaluated, I want to know what my pay raise is going to look like, I want to know what my job description is. It’s the same thing when you’re looking at the partnership of you as a student.”

Finals day jitters also are common, Elliott said, though most test anxiety is caused by a

student’s lack of confidence in their knowledge.

“Every once in a while I work with a student that truly, truly has test anxiety by just the idea of the test itself,” she said. “But 90 percent of the time when I work with students who have testing anxiety, it’s because they’re going into the test with the lack of self-confidence that, ‘I know the material.’”

Test anxiety is generally caused by mental self-talk, when a student essentially psyches themselves out because of a test, Elliot said. A student might tell themselves they will fail the exam or even the course and think of all the negative consequences possible, she said.

“They make this piece of paper with ink on it have so much power that it’s crippling,” she said. “So the first concept is you create the stress. If you tell your body that this is going to hurt you, your body doesn’t have a choice but to respond as if this were a rattlesnake.”

The body’s fight or flight reflex kicks in, Elliott said, and processes unnecessary for immediate survival shut down.

Adrenaline pumps, the blood vessels in the brain constrict, creating headaches, digestion shuts down causing nausea, and hands start to sweat and muscles start shaking nervously.

“That’s why when people get up and walk out, away from the ‘rattlesnake,’” she said, “then all of a sudden they go, ‘Oh, I knew that answer,’ because all of a sudden now, the blood vessels in the brain are dilating and allowing oxygenated blood to flow.”

To prevent this fight or flight response, Elliott suggests students think positive, encouraging things to themselves, take deep breaths and stretch their muscles.

Preparation is the key to being ready for finals, preventing test anxiety and to learning in general, she said. If a student wants to do well, they have to learn the material, not just memorize it. That starts with being ready before lectures even begin.

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“What most people do is they go to lecture with nothing, blank slates,” Elliott said.

“And then you sit and you try to write down everything that’s said because you have no idea what they’re talking about. And then you go home after and you try to figure out what it is that they were talking about. In doing that, you just missed the test review. Lecture is the test review. It’s the test.”

A student should learn the material so well that they can teach the day’s lecture, she said. A student should read the textbook, write notes and be prepared before they even walk through the door.

Another good way to learn is to join a study group and work with other students or tutors, she said.

“Working with a fellow stu-

dent or a tutor,” Elliott said, “to go through information, you putting information in your own words and teaching it to somebody else and having this exchange, means that you have now learned the information as opposed to memorized.”

Christopher Valenzuela, a mechanical engineering major from Alpine, said he has been studying with his friends and using free tutoring programs for his four finals.

“I’m studying with friends,” he said. “We meet up in the dorm lobbies and we just all get together and we cover the sessions. I’ve been going to essay sessions, too, which helps a lot.”

When it comes to actually taking the final, Elliott suggested a few tips to working through the questions quickly and thoroughly.

“The first question or two that you read,” she said, “you’ll never know the answer.”

Students should not panic,

Elliott said, but instead, skim the rest of the test. Familiar concepts will pop up, she said, making a student feel more comfortable with the test content, and making those first few questions easier to answer.

Students should read questions twice, she said, breaking it up into segments the second time. They should then answer the question in their head before looking at the answer choices.

“Professors are really good at making the choices confusing,” Elliott said. “That’s where the puzzle is, is in the choices. It’s not in the question.”

If the answer is not clear, students should skip it and come back once they have finished the test. If they are still not sure, she said, then just guess.

“Statistically,” she said, “your highest percentages are B and C, if you’re just totally guessing.”

For true-false test questions, separate the question into segments and look for qualifiers

such as all, none, most and sometimes, Elliott said, which generally point to a false statement.

If a test calls for essays, she said to be sure and manage the time well. Students should make an outline first before writing the essay, get to the point quickly and write legibly.

Above all, Elliott said do not cheat.

Once finals are finished, many students like Daniels and Valenzuela plan on working summer jobs and interning, or going home to visit family.

No matter what the plans, summer is a time to relax, and Guardiola said she plans on doing just that.

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Gay rights plan seen as threat to immigration bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Religious leaders said Wednesday that adding a gay rights proposal to immigration legislation could risk their support for the bill, setting up a potential Senate showdown.

“We’re extremely hopeful that this bill will remain an immigration bill and not get tangled up with the issue of gay rights,” said Richard Land, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention.

“But if it did, if it did, the Southern Baptist Convention would not be able to support the bill.”

Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has prepared amendments that would allow gay Americans or U.S. residents to sponsor their partners for U.S. residence like other married Americans can.

Leahy, D-Vt., has not committed to offering either during his committee’s voting session Thursday, but is under pressure from gay rights groups.

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Land on a conference call with have my support,” Sen. Marco reporters echoed Land’s warnings. Rubio, R-Fla., said last week in Leith Anderson, president an interview with conservative of the National Association of radio host Hugh Hewitt.

Evangelicals, labeled the gay If Leahy were to offer a gay m a r r i a g e rights provision “a divisive distracamendment, attention tion that must not would turn to derail immigration reform.”

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The eight senators have coma provision could cost their support and kill the bill. mitted to sticking together to “If that issue is injected into defeat amendments from either this bill, this bill will fail. It will side that could derail the bill. not have the support. It will not Schumer and Durbin have ex-

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In fact, a strong and diverse majority of Americans support equality.

Feds reach deal with online cigarette company LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have reached a $3.1 million settlement with the owners of an online cigarette dealership over taxes owed on the smokes, just days after one of the owners pleaded guilty to taking part in a scheme to avoid paying the tariffs.

The agreement released Wednesday requires 48-year-old Israel Chavez of Louisville and his ex-wife, Pam Chavez, to turn over the contents of 12 financial accounts, as well as more than 10 million assorted tobacco products and a variety of warehouse equipment.

Israel Chavez pleaded guilty last month to buying cigarettes from another Kentucky dealer and falsifying invoices through an outof-state company. Prosecutors say the invoices were an attempt to avoid more than $2 million in excise taxes. Israel and Pam Chavez owned two companies, Chavez, Inc., and Cigarettes Direct to You. The case is linked to the ongoing criminal proceedings against

a Florida businessman, who has been in the crosshairs of federal investigators for more than a decade, and two others who have pleaded not guilty to taking part in the alleged tax avoidance scheme.

Prosecutors have said that Chavez did business with 43-yearold Pedro “Peter” Bello of Miami and his business, GT Northeast of St. Louis. Bello, his sister, Caridad Bello, and her husband, Juan Hernandez, both of St. Louis, have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. The case against them is pending.

Chavez’s sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 7 and prosecutors are recommending 33 months.

Pam Chavez, who lives in California, was not criminally charged.

Bello’s criminal trial is set for June 3 in Louisville. Bello’s attorney, Kent Westberry of Louisville, declined to comment on Chavez’s plea and settlement.

Federal investigators have been tracking Bello since at least 2002,

when prosecutors in Texas sought to secretly listen to cellphone conversations involving him. He was linked to several large-scale investigations and named in a civil lawsuit brought by the city of New York over untaxed cigarettes. Chavez’s plea agreement and financial settlement with prosecutors specifically spells out that Chavez and his ex-wife deny any wrongdoing in New York.

Authorities say Bello bought massive amounts of cigarettes in Kentucky but used invoices written by GT Northeast. He then sold the cigarettes around the country while pocketing bigger profits by avoiding the Kentucky tax.

The federal government has cracked down in recent years on contraband cigarettes — sold by people and businesses through illegitimate channels to avoid paying taxes. The Department of Justice estimates that federal, state and local governments lose out on $5 billion annually in tax revenue from the cigarette schemes.

pressed support for Leahy’s goals, but have not said how they would vote.

Gay rights groups are lobbying aggressively for the gay marriage language to be included and they dispute suggestions that it would jeopardize the bill.

“It’s pretty dated to consider LGBT equality as a controversial, hot-button issue like these senators are portraying it to be,” the Human Rights Campaign said in a statement this week. “In fact, a strong and diverse majority of Americans support equality.

These senators are towing a tired line that no longer represents mainstream opinion, and they’re throwing same-sex couples under the bus in the process.”

President Barack Obama included a provision recognizing gay partnerships in his own immigration bill, but has made it clear in recent comments that the Senate measure meets his criteria for an immigration overhaul, even without the provision.

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By ADAM MEHRING

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Does Dartmouth have a problem? The fact that opinions vary so wildly on this issue surely constitutes a problem itself.

How is it that certain groups or individuals feel so adamantly one way, and others just as strongly in the opposite direction? How estranged from one another must we be that such passionately diametric opinions could divide our half square mile campus?

One sentiment I have repeatedly encountered following our recent day of reflection is a newfound empathy — a realization that one’s own Dartmouth experience may not, in fact, exemplify an experience for all.

I was heartened to see so many

in our community take the time to listen, and to consider the experiences of all students on this campus.

Yet what does it say about Dartmouth that it required the full cessation of normal activity for this sort of breakthrough to occur? That so many are only now tuned in to the fact that some in our community are struggling?

Our campus is severely fragmented. The notion of a singular “Dartmouth community” is truly an Admissions Office publicity pipe dream. One need only to glance in FoCo during dinner hours to witness the striking segregation that runs like a current through our school: from our classrooms to our social spaces, to our locker rooms, residences and dining halls, di-

viding us so often along gender, race, orientation and class. It is not a perfect segregation, but it is readily apparent to any who dare notice.

Many have addressed the self-segregation that seems to occur at Dartmouth. Fewer have given thought as to why such a phenomenon might occur in the first place.

For me, the chore of defending my right as a gay man to basic human dignities — the freedom from unprovoked ridicule or subjection to dehumanizing slurs, for instance — has simply proven too exhausting within specific circles.

But far more often, the sense of alienation is more subtle: the implicit assumption of heterosexuality and the reflexive pairing up of fraternities and

sororities in our dominant campus social culture; the Greek system’s inherent tendency to divide us by gender and reinforce antiquated gender norms; the heartbreaking regularity with which Dartmouth men and women feel compelled to remain “in the closet.” (You’ll have to trust me on that last one.)

I cannot attest to anyone else’s experience, but I know from conversations with my peers — black and white, straight and gay, mainstream and marginalized — that I am not alone in feeling this way.

Sometimes, segregating yourself with people who actually give a damn feels like the only way to stay sane.

But then I wonder, am I any better than those whom I feel have pushed me here? I decry

a culture of insularity only to establish one of my own. I can do better than this. I think we all can do better than this.

We will continue to grapple with these same problems, hurt each other and then fail to understand why the other is hurting, until we stop treating each other like strangers and start treating each other like the classmates, colleagues and community members that we are.

If you are a student at Dartmouth, then you deserve the love and loyalty of this entire school, not just the members of your friend group, or your immutable affinities or your “brother-” or “sisterhood.”

I challenge us to live up to the notion of a cohesive community, and that inherently means opening ourselves up to people

and experiences that differ from our own.

Take a look around you. Who are the people shaping your time at this school? Are they teaching you new things? Are they challenging you to think differently, to question what you know, to explore new ideas? Or do you find yourself, as I know I sometimes do, trapped in an echo chamber, where everything you believe is validated by and reflected in the person sitting across from you?

I do not deny that administrative or institutional changes may be warranted in some capacity, nor that I myself tend to be especially critical of particular campus institutions. But the onus is on each of us as individual students to make this a college for all of us.

Ineffective, unproductive minimum wage laws must abolish I recently returned from an incredible semester spent in America’s distant, more attractive sibling: Australia. My experiences there gave me a new perspective on – among other things – minimum wage laws.

While studying at the University of Canberra, I worked part-time at a college pub near the school. Although this meant passing a bartending certification exam, it basically required knowing that alcohol poisoning is bad.

Moreover, thanks to Australia’s obscenely high minimum wage, the job paid an impressivesounding $23 an hour.

Because our dollar is currently worth less than Australia’s, this ended up being a fantastic salary when I got back to the US. It was considerably less remarkable, however, when I was actually in Australia.

Unfortunately, it turns out that doubling everyone’s wages doesn’t make everyone twice as rich, it just makes everything twice as expensive. Vending

machines, for example, charge $4.50 per drink, and I couldn’t find a barbershop that charged less than $35 for a buzz cut.

I learned more about minimum wage laws while traveling around New South Wales. I met two young Germans who had come to Australia through an amazing program called WWOOF, or Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms.

In exchange for helping out on a small farm, travelers who sign up with WWOOF can obtain free room and board all over the world and learn how to grow food in the process. However, because the work is unpaid, minimum wage advocates are less than thrilled about the idea and are working to shut the program down.

According to a May 7, 2011, Redding article, Allan Griggs, a California farmer who participates in the program, is now “forced to pay his WWOOFers the minimum wage of $8 an hour if they work more than four hours a day,” which “may make it economically impractical for him to use them in the future.”

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exist to improve existing opportunities. When it comes to WWOOF, however, the laws are simply taking opportunities away.

If this sounds like the exception to the rule, consider that, according to the US Small Business Administration, “Small businesses employ about half of U.S. workers.” Like the Griggs family farm, these firms do not have secret pits of money that they delight in withholding from their employees.

Whenever the minimum wage is increased, these businesses may simply have to employ fewer people, ironically leaving the most downtrodden workers jobless and thus worse off than they were before.

Unsurprisingly, there is a wealth of research linking minimum wage with unemployment.

A 1981 National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Charles Brown et al. found that teenage employment reliably drops whenever the minimum wage is raised by a certain amount.

In January 2011, a joint study by economists from the universities of Pennsylvania and Chile titled “The Labor Impact of

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Minimum Wages” found that minimum wage increases have “a significant negative effect on the probability of staying employed.”

Conversely, the data that minimum wage advocates have to offer is less than compelling and, frankly, suspicious. A 2006 Show-Me Institute Paper by Dave Neumark says the study “cited most frequently by minimum wage advocates” is a 1994 phone survey of New Jersey restaurants by David Card and Alan Krueger.

Sure enough, the Economic Policy Institute — a think tank on the frontlines of the minimum wage cause — has cited this “landmark New Jersey study” as recently as July 2012.

However, in 1996, a different

think tank — the Employment Policy Institute — thought to obtain the actual payroll data from these restaurants. In a blistering 16-page paper titled “The Crippling Flaws in the New Jersey Fast Food Study,” it was found that Card and Krueger’s numbers bore “no relation to numbers drawn from the payroll records of the restaurants the New Jersey study claims to cover.” Tellingly, even the most credible minimum wage advocates have continued to recycle this discredited study for 16 years.

The repetition, apparently, isn’t working. Even the U.S. Department of Labor now seems to be aware of the damage these obstructive laws can do. According to the DOL website, exceptions

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to the minimum wage are now sometimes allowed for “workers with disabilities, full-time students” and “youth under age 20.”

If the minimum wage benefits the least productive workers, why on earth would those very workers seek to be exempt from it?

Likewise, if raising the minimum wage helps the poor, why don’t we raise it by hundreds of dollars instead of a petty few?

The answer, of course, is that anyone who subjects these laws to common sense can see that they make none.

The minimum wage exists only because it’s been imposed on us by utopians who cared more about whether the policy sounded nice than how it would actually work.

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LONDON (AP) — British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June, citing his belief that he should respect a Palestinian call to boycott contacts with Israeli academics.

The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he would not be attending “based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott.”

University officials said earlier in the day they had “previously understood” that Hawking’s decision was based solely on health concerns — he is 71 and has severe disabilities — but had now been told otherwise

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The decision means that one of the world’s most famous scientists has joined a boycott organized to protest Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. He is one of the most prominent figures to endorse the strategy, designed to bring pressure on the Israeli government.

The scientist had earlier agreed to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference, hosted by President

Shimon Peres, in late June, but has cited the boycott when informing now changed his mind. The theme organizers that he would not attend. of the meeting is “Facing TomorThe Israeli Presidential Conferrow 2013.” ence, now in its fifth year, brings Tim Holt, acting communica- together statesmen and leading tions director at the University of experts in various disciplines to Cambridge, said early in the day discuss ways to address the world’s that Hawking’s problems. The decision was goal, organizers based strictly say, is to idenon health contify challenges cerns. Hawkand propose ing suffers from solutions. amyotrophic Hawking’s lateral scleroendorsement sis, also known of the boycott as Lou Gehrig’s prompted an disease. angry response “For health from organizreasons, his e r s . C o n f e rISRAEL MAIMON doctors said ence Chairman CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN he should not Israel Maimon be flying at the said Hawking’s moment so he’s decision was decided not to attend,” said Holt. “unjustifiable and wrong.”

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He noted that former world leaders including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Tony Blair plan to attend the three-day meeting that begins on June 18.

The boycott campaign is led

by Palestinians, Israeli leftists and other supporters who oppose Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians and are attuned to the power of celebrity in this age.

It has had some success, deterring a string of famous entertainers from performing. Elvis Costello and the Pixies canceled concerts, as well as the British dance band Klaxon and the Gorillaz Sound System.

Israel has also faced occasional boycotts of its academics, unions and in some cases commercial products.

Hawking’s decision was hailed by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine as support for its goal of severing academics’ connections with Israel.

“This is his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there,” the committee said on its website.

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Jurors reach verdict in Jodi Arias trial in Ariz.

PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors reached a verdict Wednesday in the trial of Jodi Arias, who is accused of murdering her one-time boyfriend in Arizona.

Arias is charged with firstdegree murder in the June 2008 death of Travis Alexander, a motivational speaker and salesman, at his suburban Phoenix home.

Authorities said she planned the attack in a jealous rage after being rejected by the victim while he pursued other women.

Arias initially denied involve-

ment and later blamed the killing on masked intruders. Two years after her arrest, she said she killed Alexander in self-defense.

Jurors got the case Friday afternoon. They reached a decision late Wednesday morning. It was scheduled to be announced at 1:30 p.m.

Testimony in the trial began in early January, with Arias later spending 18 days on the witness stand. The trial quickly snowballed into a made-for-the-tabloids drama, garnering daily coverage from cable news networks, and spawn-

ing a virtual cottage industry for talk shows, legal experts and even Arias, who used her notoriety to sell artwork she made in jail.

Alexander suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, was shot in the forehead and had his throat slit before Arias dragged his body into his shower. He was found by friends about five days later.

Arias said she recalled Alexander attacking her in a fury after a day of sex. She said Alexander came at her “like a linebacker,” body-slamming her to the tile

floor. She managed to wriggle free and ran into his closet to retrieve a gun he kept on a shelf. She said she fired in self-defense but had no memory of stabbing him.

Arias acknowledged trying to clean the scene of the killing, dumping the gun in the desert and working on an alibi to avoid suspicion. She said she was too scared and ashamed to tell the truth.

As deliberations drag on, dozens of people gather daily on the courthouse steps waiting for a verdict.

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Study habits to help during finals week

By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER

This week, thousands of Texas Tech students will study for their last tests in their spring semester classes.

Places such as the Library, bookstores and coffee shops become lined with students studying from their laptops, books and notecards.

Although many students already have their own methods of studying, the website how-to-study.com has compiled a list titled “The 10 Study Habits of Successful Students” that consists of 10 suggestions that apply to those preparing for finals.

The first suggestion on the list is to try not to do too much studying at one time because it is tiresome and ineffective. Students are encouraged

to take short breaks and spread their studying out during a period of time.

One student who practices this method is Kimberly Miller, a sophomore psychology major from Canyon.

“Don’t wait until finals to start studying,” she said. “Start studying for every test early on in the semester, that way finals aren’t so severe.”

The second habit is to plan specific times for studying, and the third item on the list suggests students should attempt to study at the same time each day. This helps students become more mentally prepared to begin studying, the list states.

Miller plans to study places other than where she lives.

“I usually go to the Library usually because it’s more of a quiet place to study,” she said. “I live at the dorms, so

it’s kind of impractical to study there.”

She also studies at Starbucks.

“I’m kind of a coffee addict,” she said. “I drink coffee all the time.”

Ashley Booher, a senior anthropology major from McKinney, said she sometimes studies in an office at University Trails because it is quieter than her apartment and the Library. She uses flashcards to prepare for her tests.

“It’s just easier for me to remember with flashcards,” she said, “and I remember things for what they are, not the order they come in.”

Blaine Calame, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Graham, said he can study effectively in the stacks of the Library or at his apartment.

“I find when I go to the floors in the Library were there are a lot of

people, I usually end up socializing,” he said, “so I usually just stay at my apartment.”

The fourth item on the list suggests students should set goals during their study times because it will help them maintain focus and monitor their progress.

The fifth suggestion is to study when planned and to avoid procrastination. Waiting to study until the last minute can result in sloppy work and careless errors in assignments. Social media also can become a tempting distraction, so students are encouraged to log out until their studying goals are achieved.

Miller began studying last Tuesday for her three finals. She has a specific study method she uses.

“I just write things over and over,”

she said, “until it’s practically encrypted in my head.”

Instead of avoiding the most difficult assignments, students are encouraged to work on the most challenging projects first because that is when they have the most mental energy.

The seventh suggestion reminds students to review their notes before starting an assignment because notes typically contain helpful information students may have forgotten.

The eighth suggestion deals with another distraction: cellphones. Students are encouraged to turn off their phones when attempting to study to avoid excessive interruptions.

Calame usually tries to turn off his phone and log out of social media when he studies.

“I just try to take it out of my

room,” he said. “I can only study for about 20 minutes and then I get distracted.”

When students encounter a difficult part of an assignment, the ninth point on the list suggests they call another classmate to acquire help.

Although weekends typically serve as a break for students, they are still encouraged to review study material and not to procrastinate too much.

As a senior, Booher agrees with this advice because of the many finals she has taken.

“Don’t wait to start studying until the last minute,” she said, “because freshmen have a lot more finals than seniors do, so it’s better to study consistently instead of cram because that is not going to help.” ➤➤atubbs@dailytoreador.com

Worcester police: Get suspect’s body out of city BOSTON (AP) — The dispute over where to bury suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev escalated Wednesday as a Massachusetts police chief urged someone to step forward with a cemetery plot, saying: “We are not barbarians. We bury the dead.”

Worcester police Chief Gary Gemme’s plea came a day after he said that a deal struck Monday to bury the 26-year-old’s remains at a state prison site dissolved, with state officials no longer offering cooperation Tuesday.

State corrections officials didn’t immediately return a phone message Wednesday.

Police said it’s costing the department tens of thousands of dollars to provide security at the funeral home that is holding Tsarnaev’s body, and

officer details are wasting precious resources.

Gemme said sending the body to Russia is “not an option” because of the wishes of Tsarnaev’s uncle, who has taken responsibility for burying him. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino on Tuesday suggested returning the suspect’s remains to Russia, when he also said through an aide that he didn’t want the bombing suspect buried in Boston.

Worcester funeral home director Peter Stefan has said none of the 120 offers of graves from the U.S. and Canada have worked out because officials in those cities and towns don’t want the body.

At the same time, U.S. law enforcement officials have been trying to determine whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev was indoctrinated or

trained by militants during a 2012 visit to Dagestan, a Caspian Sea province that has become the center of a simmering Islamic insurgency.

On Tuesday, FBI director Robert Mueller discussed the bombing investigation with his Russian counterparts during a trip to Moscow. The U.S. and Russia have been collaborating on a criminal investigation into the late 26-year-old and his brother, 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Authorities allege the two brothers carried out the April 15 bombings near the race’s finish line, using pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards. The attack killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

Tamerlan died following a gun-

battle with police, and authorities captured Dzhokhar after a massive manhunt following his escape from the same encounter. The younger brother is now in a prison hospital, facing charges that could bring the death penalty.

On Tuesday, the father of a student charged with conspiracy in the Boston Marathon bombing case said his son believes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is “not a human” if he’s responsible for the attacks.

Amir Ismagulov, the father of Azamat Tazhayakov, also insisted during an Associated Press interview that his son is not a terrorist.

He said he has visited his son once in prison since arriving in the United States from Kazakhstan more than a week ago. He said he left flowers several times at a memorial near

the Boston Marathon finish line at the 19-year-old’s request.

“Azamat loves the United States and the people of the United States,” Ismagulov said as Arkady Bukh, his son’s new Russian-speaking lawyer, translated for him. “He is not aggressive. He is not a terrorist. He is a simple boy.”

Tazhayakov is in a federal prison on charges that he conspired to destroy, conceal and cover up objects belonging to Tsarnaev, a college friend from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if found guilty.

Ismagulov, 46, who works in the oil field business in Kazakhstan, described his son as an engineering student who was “happy in life” before “in one day, his life was shattered.”

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He said Tazhayakov told him “it took days to get out of the shock because of the accusations” against him.

Bukh, a New York City lawyer from the former Soviet Union, said Tazhayakov’s family is “absolutely devastated” over the bombings.

He stressed that Tazhayakov was cooperating with the government before his arrest last week.

The lawyer said his client helped hand over Tsarnaev’s laptop to the FBI on April 19 after he and friend Dias Kadyrbayev learned that federal agents were looking for them. Kadyrbayev also is charged with obstruction of justice in the bombing case.

A third college friend, Robel Phillipos, got out of federal lockup on $100,000 bond Monday while awaiting trial for allegedly lying to federal investigators.

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Finals week horrible, yet somewhat enjoyable A guide to NJ Gov. Christie’s weight-loss surgery F.I.N.A.L.S.- F**k, I never actually learned sh*t.

Who knows who coined the acronym first, but it couldn’t ring truer. And you’re not alone because if you haven’t Googled, “how to write a research paper” yet, then congratulations — you’re one step ahead of 50 percent of your peers. Statistics brought to you by my brain.

But cramming for 24 hours before the semester’s biggest test is part of the college experience.

As much as college students complain about the dreaded finals week, we get a tiny bit of joy out of it. Gathering with friends and classmates while

Paige Skinner drinking coffee and Red Bull is what makes us college students.

We like to talk about all the things on our to-do list, instead of just doing it. We stress about our doomed future, but then immediately dream about filling in the last bubble on the Scantron, so we can trot down Broadway Avenue and drown our sorrows in a beer. That’s the college kid’s

way of celebrating the end of hell week.

And that’s where we are — hell week or more commonly known as finals week.

You’re almost done with this school year. You’ve survived 8 a.m. classes, monotone professors, countless weekends of the Broadway shuffle, numerous Texas Tech coaching changes, dust storms, and now, hopefully finals. And if Lindsay Lohan can survive her lesbian/drugged out/ drunk/blonde/probation phase and make it to rehab, then you can get through finals week and make it to your rehab — Chimy’s.

No one knows why professors insist on testing you on everything you’ve learned throughout the semester. Most of us can’t remember to brush our hair in the morning, let alone the information on the class’s very first homework assignment. Just like you’ve waited until the very last moment to study for a cumulative final you’ve known about all semester, professors are doing the same thing with grading.

They’re pissed off in their offices about your crappy writing skills and even more pissed off they’ve waited until the last second to begin grading. There isn’t a single happy person on campus

during finals week — except for the education major next to you in the Library finishing up projects, Facebooking in between color sessions — she’s just there to enjoy seeing the engineering majors in pain.

B u t d o n ’t s t r e s s b e c a u s e you’re above finals week. You attend the best university in the world and finals week is just to weed out the weak students. But clearly, you’re not weak because you’ve made this far into this column. Again, you’re already ahead of 50 percent of your classmates.

So just breathe in and out and make studying enjoyable. Every

time you learn one new thing, reward yourself with 15 minutes of Facebook stalking your ex.

And then every time you know more than the person you’re studying with, reward yourself with a delicious smoothie from the Student Union Building’s Cold Corner. You see how fun finals week is becoming?

Keep calm and study on. Or whatever the saying is — just do it.

See what I did there?

OK, good luck.

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Tied-up couple to get most of $1 million Dorner reward LOS ANGELES (AP) — A panel of three judges has decided that the vast majority of the $1 million reward offered in the manhunt for rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner will go to a couple he tied up in their Southern California mountain cabin.

The Los Angeles Police Department posted a document on its website Tuesday detailing the payouts for the much-sought reward, and it said about $800,000 will go to James and Karen Reynolds.

The judges wrote that they awarded the money according to the “comparative value of the information provided and

how directly it causally led to Dorner’s capture.”

Daniel McGowan, who found Dorner’s burning truck in the Big Bear area where he eventually was discovered, will get $150,000, and $50,000 will go to tow truck driver R.L. McDaniel, who reported spotting Dorner at a gas station earlier in the manhunt.

Dorner had vowed warfare on LAPD officers and their families for what he called an unfair firing. He killed four people, including two law enforcement officers, during his nearly oneweek run from authorities that ended with his death on Feb. 12.

The reward, gathered through dozens of law enforcement and other organizations, was announced by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck during Dorner’s rampage, but details on the payout were murky, leading to months of competing legal claims and controversy.

A dozen parties came forward claiming they provided the key tip that ultimately led Dorner to hole up in a vacant mountain cabin where he apparently took his own life after a shootout with deputies.

The manhunt was under way Feb. 7 when McDaniel spotted

Dorner at a gas station in Corona. He was about to call police when he spotted an LAPD squad car and alerted the officers.

“As the officers interviewed Mr. McDaniel, Dorner’s vehicle turned back,” the judges wrote.

“Mr. McDaniel positively identified the truck,” and officers gave chase immediately.

That chase led to two shootouts between Dorner and police that left an officer dead.

Dorner then escaped 50 miles northeast to Big Bear, but that wouldn’t be known until the next breakthrough in the investigation, the document said.

McGowan, who works for

the Snow Summit ski resort in Big Bear Lake, called authorities Feb. 7 after he spotted a burning truck on the side of a rarely used, unpaved fire route. He called authorities, who discovered the truck belonged to Dorner.

That information initiated an intense, focused search for Dorner. Officers went door-todoor in the following days, but it wasn’t until Feb. 12 that they received their next fruitful tip.

Karen Reynolds called authorities to say Dorner had held her and her husband at gunpoint and tied them up before stealing their purple Nissan SUV to escape.

Karen Reynolds identified Dorner, gave the location of the cabin and the Nissan’s description. Less than half an hour later, he was spotted by Fish and Wildlife wardens and a chase ensued.

Dorner then crashed the Reynolds’ vehicle and carjacked camp ranger Rick Heltebrake, and it was his vehicle that was tracked to a cabin where Dorner later died.

Heltebrake filed a lawsuit last week seeking the $1 million reward but did not submit a claim under the reward’s process, according to the document.

A message seeking comment was left for Heltebrake’s lawyer.

New York City set to pass sick days plan, seen as key step NEW YORK (AP) — A national push for paid sick days is poised to score a significant victory, with lawmakers in the nation’s largest city set to vote on requiring businesses to provide the benefit to an estimated 1 million workers who don’t have it now.

The City Council was expected to OK that Wednesday, while also approving unpaid sick time for another roughly 300,000 workers. A mayoral veto is expected, but so is an override.

Advocates see the measure as a watershed, although it has some significant limits and con-

ditions. The city would be the most populous place to approve such a law during a campaign that has scored several victories but also a number of defeats.

“It’s very important that it’s happening in the biggest city,” said Ellen Bravo, executive director of Family Values at Work, which promotes paid sick time initiatives around the country.

Supporters see paid sick time as a basic matter of working conditions, akin to a minimum wage, and a way to stop germs from spreading from coughing, sneezing employees to their colleagues and customers. The

New York measure’s sponsor, Councilwoman Gale Brewer, says it’s about “a workplace that is safe, fair, and respectful of the lives of workers.”

Critics say some small enterprises can’t afford the benefit, and government should let bosses and employees work out sick time arrangements on their own.

It will “hurt small businesses and stifle job creation,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement in March, when advocates reached an agreement on the measure with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. She had declined for three years to

bring the proposal to a vote.

Employees of businesses with 20 or more workers would get up to five paid sick days a year beginning in April 2014; the benefit would kick in by October 2015 at enterprises with 15 to 19 workers. All others would have to provide five unpaid sick days per year, meaning that workers couldn’t get fired for using those days.

Some advocates have pushed for having all the workers get paid leave.

Workers could choose to work extra hours instead of taking sick time. That provision that

could be attractive to those who would rather swap shifts than call in sick — like restaurant servers, who might not want to forgo tips.

Paid sick time measures have been approved in Portland, Ore.; San Francisco; Seattle; Washington, D.C., and the state of Connecticut.

But the Wisconsin Legislature blocked a voter-approved Milwaukee paid sick time requirement, Denver voters rejected one, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter vetoed one last month; an override attempt failed.

Block where women found a friendly, careful place

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CLEVELAND (AP) — The block where horror happened has many faces.

On one end, magnificent stainedglass windows rise two stories up a handsome brick church. At the other end, truck bays open into a bleak warehouse. In between are about 20 houses, some tidy, some with boards or broken glass instead of windows. Back yards melt into a block-long cemetery filled with long grass and crooked tombstones.

In the middle of the Seymour Avenue block stands the home where, authorities say, three young women who vanished a decade ago or more were held captive by a school bus driver and his two brothers.

What kind of place could hide such a terrible secret for so long? And how?

On Tuesday, neighborhood residents described a compact world, friendly but cautious, where people keep their heads down and police don’t always protect or serve.

The three women disappeared near this block, which locals call simply “Seymour.” It’s considered a decent place to live in this poor, largely Puerto Rican section of Cleveland’s west side, where stores sell used computers, furniture is rentable, tattoos adorn everyone from teens to grandmas, and you might encounter a pig in a backyard or two.

Police have chased most of the drugs and prostitution away from Seymour, residents say. Neighbors know each other, talk on front porches, share laughs and drinks.

“It’s pretty nice. At night it changes, but that’s everywhere you go. It could be better,” said Richard DeJesus,

who lives nearby and whose mother lived on Seymour for years.

It’s also a place where folks don’t pry, because, well — you never know.

“This is Seymour,” DeJesus said.

“It used to be a drug-infested area. You talk, you can get hurt up. They’ll come burn your house down. So people will watch, but they’re scared to watch at the same time.”

“We know everyone but still keep to ourselves,” said Juan Perez, who has lived two doors down from the house where the women were found since he was 5 years old. “We stick to family.

There are some shady people you don’t know about.”

“We keep to ourselves,” echoed Alexis Lipscomb, who moved onto the block six months ago with her fiancée, whose mother has lived there for years.

Now that Seymour’s secret has been revealed, “I don’t trust anybody, even on my own block,” she said. “It’s creepy,

crazy, amazing.”

In some ways, residents say, the bad things were hiding in plain sight.

The owner of the house, Ariel Castro, has been a friendly presence in the neighborhood. He played bass in a salsa and merengue band, was often seen at the park with a little girl, drank with neighbors and gave kids rides on his motorcycle and ATV. “He was an excellent guy,” said Perez. “If a kid needed a role model, he was the man.”

Castro even helped search for one of the girls after she vanished, said Khalid Samad, a friend of the girl’s family and community activist.

As a bus driver, Castro probably had one of the better jobs on the block, Samad said. And even though the windows of his house were always covered with plastic, that was not an unusual sight amid the abandoned buildings on Seymour.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican who is seen as a possible presidential candidate for 2016, said Tuesday that he underwent a procedure in February to have a band implanted around his stomach in February in an effort to lose weight.

A look at the procedure, his decision, and what it might mean: ___ THE SURGERY Christie says he decided around the time he turned 50 on Sept. 6 that he wanted to have the procedure. It was originally scheduled for November but pushed back to February after Superstorm Sandy hit his state.

The procedure is the least invasive of the major weight-loss surgeries, and it’s reversible. An

adjustable band is placed around the stomach to restrict how much food someone can eat at once.

Compared to other procedures, weight loss is relatively slow — no more than 1 or 2 pounds per week. Patients still have to eat healthy foods and get exercise for the procedure to be successful, doctors say.

Christie says he underwent the 40-minute procedure on Feb. 16, went home later that day and was back at work after two more days of rest. ___ THE REASON Christie has struggled with his weight throughout his adult life, though he has never said publicly how much he weighs. He says that he has no other major health

problems but knows that obesity is a risk for a variety of conditions.

“It’s not a career issue for me.

It’s a long-term health issue for me. That’s the basis on which I made the decision.”

He said he wants to make sure he’s there for his family and denied that he decided to have the surgery to advance his re-election campaign this year or a future run for president, if he decides to embark on one.

He said he presented the idea of the surgery to his wife and four children and they encouraged him to do it. ___ THE SECRECY Christie says he told only a few staff members about the operation and did not intend to make

a public announcement. “It’s not anybody else’s business but mine,” he said.

But when he was asked directly by a New York Post reporter on Monday, he said he decided to acknowledge he had had the operation. He said the revelation was news to practically everybody, including his communications office and campaign staff. ___ THE TIMING Though Christie says he intended to keep his procedure a personal matter, The Post’s article came out the same day as MSNBC personality Mika Brzezinski’s book, “Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction — And My Own,” was released. The book features an interview with Christie about

his struggles with his weight. It’s a topic he has discussed in many national television interviews with questioners from Oprah Winfrey to David Letterman, and for years he has both joked about his size and said it’s a serious problem that he’s been working on. ___ THE POLITICS While Christie says the surgery was a personal decision about his health — something he called “a hell of a lot more important to me than running for president,” there could be political implications.

Some critics have suggested that Christie’s weight could be a political hindrance.

“Gov. Christie’s weight is an issue the same way that any

candidate or official’s health is an issue,” said Michael Dennehy, a New Hampshire-based Republican strategist and veteran of presidential politics. “Anyone running for president will need to comfort Americans with an overall healthy picture for their future.” ___ THE ROUTINE Christie says he’s been working with a personal trainer four times a week for years, and is continuing now.

He says he has not been as hungry since the surgery and has eaten less.

While he appears to be a bit thinner, Christie would not say Thursday how much weight he as lost.

In rural southern West Virginia, schools rethink their role WAR, W.Va. (AP) — When school started here in the fall, 1 out of 7 classrooms was without a teacher; leaders couldn’t recruit enough educators to this sparsely populated rural area at the southern tip of West Virginia.

When officials turned on the mandatory security cameras at one elementary school, the rest of the building lost its Internet connection; the buildings weren’t wired for this century.

And when parent-teacher conferences came around, fewer than half of the biological parents got invitations; the others were long gone, in jail or dead.

This is the reality facing students in McDowell County, a place perpetually ranked among the worst in

the state by almost every measure.

Twelve people a month die from drug overdoses here, while more than 100 people are on a waiting list to talk to rehab counselors via Skype. Threequarters of all students live in a home where parents can’t find work in this one-time coal hub that has slowed.

The county leads the state in teenage pregnancies.

With this as the backdrop, the West Virginia Board of Education on Wednesday was set to formally alter the scope of these schools. The state took over the schools more than a decade ago and its leaders no longer will limit their mission to the traditional school day. The officials are going to try to turn the schools into a base, not just for the students but for all of those who live around

here in small towns with names such as Cucumber and Johnnycake, where storefronts are boarded up and homes abandoned.

Adult literacy, drug rehabilitation programs and basic medical care all will take place under the roofs of these schools. And in many cases, they’re already under way even before the state approves the final deal that expands the schools’ ambitions in exchange for some relaxed oversight.

“In addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, we’re also acting as their parents,” principal Florisha Christian McGuire said as she walked through the halls in War’s Southside School.

Classes had dismissed for the day but dozens of students stayed for

after-school programs that include dinner.

“You look into their eyes and they have the eyes of someone much older. They’ve seen so much,” McGuire said. “So my role switched from being a principal to social worker.”

The American Federation of Teachers-guided effort is called Reconnecting McDowell, and leaders hope it will stem decades of suffering, both physical and economic.

The effort started out as a conversation between then-West Virginia first lady Gayle Manchin and AFT President Randi Weingarten. During the past 18 months, the two high-energy women called allies and pulled together more than 120 partners.

Communications firms replaced dialup Internet service with high-speed

upgrades, VH1 donated instruments for the bands, and volunteer firefighters are serving as mentors.

If successful and sustainable, this model could help despairing rural schools elsewhere. It has no less a champion that Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

“I think the lessons are not just for this county or for this state, but across this country, that this community effort, this collective endeavor can be as successful as we all hope and think it can be,” Duncan said during a visit here. “The implications are truly national.”

He knows. Before joining President Barack Obama’s Cabinet, Duncan ran Chicago’s public schools and oversaw a shift to such a community-focused model in many of those

places of learning.

But that’s not to say it will work here. Previous attempts at economic development in this southernmost corner of West Virginia have come in fits and starts, only to fizzle when well-intentioned visitors grew frustrated, bored or broke.

And similar attempts have fallen short in far more populous places where the challenges weren’t as great.

“It would be a real mystery to me how to do that in a rural area,” said Paul Heckman, an associate dean at the University of California, Davis, School of Education.

Heckman helped schools in Tucson, Ariz., set up a similar community-based program. But there he had a more densely populated area.

State media say Internet service restored in Syria BEIRUT (AP) — Internet service was restored in Syria on Wednesday, after a countrywide outage cut off the country from the rest of the world for nearly 20 hours, state media said.

The state news agency SANA said a problem with a fiber optics cable was to blame for the second nationwide outage since a two-day blackout in November.

There had been speculation that the regime pulled the plug, possibly as a cover for military actions in the deadly conflict, now in its third year. But no large-scale military offensives were reported Wednesday, and there were no immediate allegations of sabotage by the opposition.

In the past, President Bashar Assad’s government halted Internet service in selected areas during government offensives to disrupt communication among rebel fighters trying to oust him. The last nationwide outage coincided with a major military operation in areas around the capital and near Damascus International Airport.

The current outage began when Internet service abruptly stopped at about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday. It was restored sometime after 5 p.m.

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Also on Wednesday, the international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, welcomed a new RussianU.S. initiative to negotiate an end the Syrian conflict, which so far has claimed the lives of more than 70,000 people, according to the United Nations. A decision to convene an international conference later this month to build on a transition plan for Syria is “the first hopeful news” concerning Syria “in a very long time,” Brahimi said.

The goal of the plan, set out in Geneva last year, is to bring the Assad regime and representatives from the opposition together for talks on an interim government.

Each side would be allowed to veto candidates it finds unacceptable.

The proposal also calls for an openended cease-fire and the formation of a transitional government to run the country until new elections can be held and a new constitution drafted.

Brahimi has repeatedly expressed frustrations over the failure to find a political solution in Syria, and has lamented the divisions on the U.N. Security Council that have prevented any international action from being taken.

Iran, one of Assad’s strongest allies, also said it is ready to help any attempt to end Syria’s crisis.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi wrote in an opinion piece that it is up to the Syrian people to choose their political system and president, suggesting Tehran is not wedded to Assad’s continued rule.

“Iran is ready to make successful any fair initiative that guarantees the interests of the Syrian people and restores stability to this country,” he wrote in the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar.

The main opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said Wednesday it welcomed efforts to reach a political solution, but reiterated that any transition must begin with the departure of Assad and officials in his regime.

Syrian officials have said that Assad will stay in his post until his seven-year term ends next year and he will run again. The Syrian opposition says it will not accept anything less than Assad’s departure.

In fighting in Syria on Wednesday, government troops pushed into a strategic town along the highway leading to the Jordanian border.

The regime’s advance into

Khirbet Ghazaleh, a town south of Damascus along a key artery to the border, came after weeks of fighting and government attempts to secure the highway.

The push was part of a wider offensive against rebels in which Assad’s troops have regained some areas around Damascus, in the central province of Homs near the Lebanese border and in the region of Aleppo to the north.

Meanwhile, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and another activist group,

the Aleppo Media Center, said opposition fighters shot down a fighter jet that was bombing rebel positions in the battle for the Mannagh air base near the border with Turkey.

Rebels stormed the besieged air base on Sunday and the fighting was reported on Wednesday inside the sprawling facility, the activists said. Also on Sunday, the rebels downed a military helicopter in the eastern Deir el-Zour region, killing eight government troops who were aboard.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teen accused of punching a soccer referee who later died was charged Wednesday with homicide by assault, a count issued when an attack unintentionally causes death.

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced the charges, saying he will seek to try the teen as an adult.

A homicide by assault charge is less serious than manslaughter. It carries up to five years in prison for adults, but penalties can be less for juveniles.

Gill said it became clear in looking at the facts that the teenager’s actions didn’t warrant murder or manslaughter.

“We did not believe we could demonstrate the premeditation or intent to justify those charges,” Gill told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “Those other charges require another type of mental state. We did not believe that type of mental state

was present.”

The 17-year-old has been in juvenile detention since April 27 when the incident occurred at a recreational-league soccer match in a Salt Lake City suburb.

Authorities say the teenager was playing goalie when 46-yearold Ricardo Portillo called a penalty on him for pushing an opposing player. The teenager began arguing with Portillo and then struck him in the head.

Charging documents show witnesses say the teenager threw one punch, hitting him in the rear jaw area with a closed fist.

Another witness said Portillo was writing notes on his notepad when he was hit.

Portillo was taken to the hospital in fair condition. Hours later, he went into a coma. He never regained consciousness and died Saturday.

Police say hospital staff told them Portillo had hemorrhaging and a traumatic brain injury.

The fact that the teenager is five months away from turning 18, combined with the seriousness of what happened, led Gill to push to have him tried as an adult. A juvenile court judge will ultimately rule on that request.

The chance of the teen’s rehabilitation is minimal, prosecutors said in court documents.

League officials say they hadn’t had any problems with the teenager prior to this incident.

Funeral services are being held Wednesday in Salt Lake City for Portillo, who leaves behind three daughters and four grandchildren.

A wake is scheduled to run from 1 to 7 p.m., followed by a religious service. Both are open to the public.

After the funeral, Portillo’s remains will be returned to his hometown of Guadalajara, Mexico. He moved to Utah from there 17 years ago.

Family members said Portillo loved soccer, and had been working as a referee in different leagues for eight years. His oldest daughter, Johana Portillo, said he had been attacked before by players, even having his legs and ribs broken. Though his daughters begged him to quit, he said he couldn’t give up his passion.

Portillo was a longtime referee, be he was not licensed by the Utah Soccer Referee Committee.

The incident occurred in a game held by La Liga Continental de Futbol, an unaffiliated soccer league created in 2009.

The league holds games for children ages 4 to 17 each Saturday at a junior high school field in Taylorsville.

The league president, Mario Vasquez, said earlier this week that the league will hold an adult, co-ed soccer tournament in Portillo’s honor May 25-26.

The funds will go to his family.

Miscues doom Rangers in 6-3 loss to Brewers MILWAUKEE (AP) — A couple of catchable balls in the first inning led to a rare losing streak for Texas.

Yuniesky Betancourt’s eighth homer of the season capped a five-run first inning Tuesday night and the Milwaukee Brewers snapped a season-high fivegame losing streak with a 6-3 victory over the Rangers.

Aramis Ramirez also homered for the first time this year and NL batting leader Carlos Gomez added a two-run double for Milwaukee, which rebounded from a four-game sweep by visiting St. Louis last weekend.

“We really shouldn’t have been in that (5-0) hole,” Texas manager Ron Washington said.

Mitch Moreland homered for the Rangers, who lost consecutive games for the third time this year. They also lost their seasonhigh fourth straight on the road.

Justin Grimm (2-2) gave up five earned runs on eight hits in five innings after entering the game with a total of six earned runs allowed this year. The right-hander struck out seven and walked three. “(The first inning) was long.

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After back-to-back singles by Norichika Aoki and Jean Segura in the first, Ryan Braun drove in Milwaukee’s first run with a single over the head of Nelson Cruz in right field.

“Cruz thought he was closer to the wall,” Texas manager Ron Washington said. “He jumped a little too soon and didn’t come up with the ball.”

But because Segura thought Cruz was going to catch the ball near the warning track, he was headed back to first when he saw Braun rounding the base for what turned out to be a long single.

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“I lost it,” Murphy said. “I don’t know exactly what I lost it in. I tried to change direction just because I was unsure where the ball was. I slipped. I picked it up again. I went after it, and then I lost it again in the window or whatever that is up above the seats (behind home plate). It was an unfortunate play.”

Betancourt followed with his two-run homer, also to left-center, to give Milwaukee a 5-0 lead.

He leads the Brewers with eight homers after hitting seven last season.

“Leave the ball on home plate and I swing,” the Milwaukee first baseman said.

Milwaukee’s Wily Peralta (3-2) gave up three runs - two earned - and five hits in six innings. The right-hander, who turns 24 on Wednesday, struck out two and did not walk a batter.

“Great sinker, great fastball,” Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said. “Had a good changeup and got some outs on it. His slider was a little inconsistent

but this was a great game for him. This is a good lineup to go through and I really thought he made some great pitches when he needed to.”

Three relievers followed with an inning each for the Brewers, including Jim Henderson in the ninth for his seventh save.

“After a rough five games, it was a good start,” said Gomez, who is hitting .449 during his career-high 13-game hitting streak. “It brought the energy back to the team.”

Texas got its first run in the second when Moreland hit his fifth homer, a solo shot to leftcenter. It was the only hit for the Rangers in the first four innings.

In the sixth, Texas added two more runs. Adrian Beltre hit a grounder to Ramirez at third that bounced off his glove and allowed Jeff Baker to score from third. Cruz’s sacrifice fly scored Elvis Andrus and cut Milwaukee’s lead to 5-3.

Ramirez made it 6-3 with his homer to left off reliever Jason Frasor.

Milwaukee’s Tom Gorzelanny pitched the seventh and Brandon Kintzler the eighth.

Knicks use huge run to even series with Pacers NEW YORK (AP) — Carmelo Anthony’s shooting woes vanished as quickly as Indiana’s lead.

Once the NBA’s scoring leader got in a rhythm, not even one of the league’s best defenses could knock him out of it.

Anthony scored 32 points, 16 during a 30-2 New York onslaught in the second half, and the Knicks

beat the Pacers 105-79 on Tuesday night to even the Eastern Conference semifinals at one game apiece.

Mired in a 35-for-110 slump over the previous four games, Anthony made six of his last eight Tuesday, including both 3-pointers in the fourth quarter.

“He is just a beast of an offensive player and a competitor on the defensive end. He was great tonight,” Indiana coach Frank Vogel said.

Iman Shumpert added 15 points, including a sensational follow dunk in the first half, and Raymond Felton scored 14 as the Knicks turned a close game into a blowout over the final 15 minutes.

Paul George scored 20 points for the Pacers, who had a two-point lead and momentum when Vogel called timeout with a little more than 3 minutes left in the third quarter.

By the time the Pacers got on the board in the final period, the Knicks had opened a 26-point advantage.

“The fourth quarter, we just defensively, we picked up,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. “We kept getting stop after stop and then we would rebound the ball and get it up and our offense began to flow like old times. It was kind of nice to see.”

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tony Allen thought it might have been out of desperation that he ended up guarding Kevin Durant in crunch time.

Whatever it was, it worked out perfectly for the Memphis Grizzlies.

Mike Conley scored 26 points and fueled a late Memphis run while Allen was harassing Durant, and the Grizzlies beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 9993 on Tuesday night to tie the Western Conference semifinals at one.

Conley hit a 3-pointer from the left wing with 1:58 left to put the Grizzlies ahead, and Allen made it stick with his defense on the three-time scoring champion who had made back-to-back baskets in the final minute to put Oklahoma City on top to stay in Game 1.

This time, Durant missed his final three shots and fell to the floor while committing a turnover against Allen as Memphis reeled off 10 straight points to claim home-court advantage in the series.

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“He’s a prolific scorer. He’s the best

scorer in the league, but the thing I can do out there is probably just cause havoc out there the best that I can,” Allen said.

He certainly did that.

After Conley’s go-ahead 3, Allen went flying to try and block a 3-point response by Durant. It forced Durant to hesitate before he fired an off-target shot, and Conley was able to tack on an 18-foot jumper for a 94-90 Memphis lead with 1:04 to play.

A double-team forced Durant to give the ball up on the next possession, but the Thunder got another chance after rebounding Reggie Jackson’s missed 3-pointer. Durant then went to back in from the left wing against Allen, who pulled away and allowed Durant to fall down. Allen tipped the ball to Marc Gasol for another stop.

“Once he got it, I knew he was going to try to get some contact. The first thing I didn’t want to do was get a foul, so I backed back, he kind of lost his footing and fell and I was able to just run toward the ball and get a deflection,” said Allen, a member of Boston’s NBA

title team in 2009.

“You’ve just got to be ready for those types of situations.”

Maybe as a decoy, coach Lionel Hollins had said after Game 1 that he wouldn’t deploy Allen against the taller Durant because the match-up hadn’t gone well during the regular season. Another defensive whiz, Tayshaun Prince, got the primary assignment guarding Durant, along with Quincy Pondexter.

But it was Allen who got the key stops.

“I assume we just got desperate. We just tried some new things on him, put fresher bodies on him,” Allen said.

Durant still ended up with 36 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists. In six games since fellow All-Star Russell Westbrook was lost for the playoffs because of knee surgery, Durant is averaging 35.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 6.3 assists.

“I can carry as much as coach needs me to carry,” Durant said. “I made those shots last game. I missed them this game.

I’m just going to continue to keep tak-

ing them.”

Durant also missed a 3-pointer with 15 seconds left and Oklahoma City down by five, and — after a pair of Zach Randolph free throws — Allen stepped in front of Durant to steal a pass and provide the finishing touches with a dunk.

Derek Fisher hit a 3-pointer at the final buzzer for Oklahoma City, ending a string of five straight empty possessions.

“After they scored, there was such little time on the clock, we were just trying to get a quick basket,” Durant said, “and it didn’t go so well for us.”

Conley, who outdueled All-Star Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round, also had 10 rebounds and nine assists.

“Mike Conley is now one of the top five point guards in the league, whether anybody likes it or not,” Allen said. “I know a lot of people have got their favorites on who they think it should be, but Mike Conley is in that conversation now, being able to do these types of things on the court night in and night out.”

Fleury struggles in Penguins’ 6-4 loss to Isles UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Marc-Andre Fleury sat with his head in hands for several minutes before taking questions in the cramped Pittsburgh Penguins dressing room.

After struggling in a disappointing 6-4 loss to the New York Islanders on Tuesday night, Fleury needed time to gather himself enough to discuss his difficult outing.

“I’m not happy, that’s for sure,” Fleury said softly. “It’s frustrating.”

It could soon be worse for Fleury, who might be the backup goalie when the Penguins host the Islanders in Game 5 of the first-round series on

Thursday night in Pittsburgh.

Veteran Tomas Vokoun was signed by the Penguins as an insurance policy just in case a replacement for Fleury was needed.

Fleury has started all 78 playoff games the Penguins have played since 2007, but Vokoun has had success against the Islanders. He went 3-0 against New York this season in four outings and posted a 0.90 goals-against average — stopping 98 of 101 shots.

Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma spoke glowingly about Vokoun after the Game 4 loss, but stopped short of saying a change would occur.

“He has had success and won hockey games against this team and has been successful this year,” Bylsma said. “We’re going to regroup and come back and come out for Game 5 with a new focus.

“One of the reasons we wanted Tomas Vokoun was to play hockey games and win hockey games for us. MarcAndre Fleury is our starting goaltender and started this series and won us some hockey games, made a lot of saves for us, but we’re not going to talk about our starting goaltender for Game 5.”

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$425. PRIVATE Bedroom. Free Utilities, Internet, HBO. One block to Tech. Nice female home. Parking. Washer/Dryer. 2321 13th. Available June 1 & July 31st. No pets. 765-7182.

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New York Islanders and Pittsburgh.

Suddenly, neither are the top-seeded Penguins.

Through four games of the bestof-seven series, both teams have two wins. The latest big momentum shift has swung sharply in the direction of the No. 8 Islanders.

John Tavares scored with 9:49 left, and the Islanders beat the Penguins to get even in the series.

“We found a way today. Another roller coaster ride,” Tavares said. “We learned from those games when we gave up leads — a lot of us said that one bounce can change a season.”

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Delivery Drivers & Front Counter Customer Service Staff. Evening and Weekend Shifts Available Full Time & Part Time Positions Available Come to work with us and you could win a HOT TUB!! Apply In Person only at Spoil Me Rotten Party Rentals, 124 E Broadway in Lubbock.

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10 MONTH LEASES

AT THE AVENUE! Or lease for 12 months and get $500!! Lease and get $500! Save $525 upfront! Refer 3 friends and get $300! Call 806 744 0443 for details! Avelubbock.com 1BEDROOM-$495-2418 30th#R 2BedroomHome-$650-2316 15th#R 2BedroomHome-$750-2020 17th 3BedroomHomes-$1200-2312 18th,2217 30th 4BedroomHomes-$1800-2124 16th,2432 22nd NO DOGS,Owner/Realtor email: SheriGallo@Austin.RR.com 2 BEDROOM/ 2 bath Mobile. Stove, refrigerator, washer/dryer, central heat & air, fenced yard. 701 CR 7200 ( 98th & Short Road) Controlled access.

Available July 1. $600/month plus electricity. 806786-9193 or 806-799-8894.

2/2 ALL Bills & Cable Paid! Close to Tech, pet friendly, updates, 2315 25th $900/mo, call/text 806.441.0611 http://merlinspetshop.com/tech-arearentals.html 2119 17TH remodeled 3 bed 2 bath, hardwood floors, washer, dryer, central heat and air, fireplace, fenced yard, close to Tech, $950 call 806543-4223 2218 15TH #A, 2 bed, 2 bath, central heat and air, washer, dryer, fenced yard, close to Tech, $750, call 806-543-4223 2223 15TH, 1 bed, 1 bath, spacious, hardwood floors, close to Tech, $395, call 806-543-4223 2305 29TH. 3/2. Hardwood Floors, Central H/A. Washer/dryer provided. $900/month + bills. 806535-1905.

2404 26TH efficiency. $395/mo. $250 deposit.

Please call 806-773-5249 or 806-543-8568. *Don’t forget to ask about our move-in special!

3705 30TH B. 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. $895/mo. $700 deposit. Please call 806-773-5249 or 806543-8568. *Don’t forget to ask about our move-in special!

4/2 UPDATED, close to Tech, security system, pet friendly, 2415 25th $1540/mo, http://merlinspetshop.com/tech-area-rentals.html call/text 806.441.0611 806.438.8746 4613 BELTON C. 2 bedroom, 1 bath home. $550/mo. $300 deposit. Please call 806-773-5249 or 806-543-8568. *Don’t forget to ask about our move-in special!

AVAILABLE AUGUST. Lease Today. 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath. Three blocks off campus. W/D. Refigerator, Oven. Large Private Yard. Pet Considered. $799.

2321 21st. Call Ann or BJ 806-795-201.

AVAILABLE NOW

All sizes! Houses and duplexes. WestMark Leasing. Visit www.lubbock4rent.com. Call 776-4217.

BACKYARD APARTMENT near Tech. Resonable rent. No pets. Quiet neighborhood. 741-1800.

CAMPUS EDGE

has over 20 properties ranging from efficiencies to 5 bedrooms all within walking distance to Tech.

Please call 806-438-5964 to schedule an appointment or go to campusedgeproperties.com

CLOSE TO CAMPUS.

2 bedroom/ 3 Bath available August 1st. Near Tech Terrace. Corner lot. Large fenced yard. $1200. Call Ann or BJ 806-795-2011.

CLOSE TO CAMPUS.

Nice one bedroom backhouse. May 15th. $399.

2300 block of 21st. Appliances. W/D. Fenced. Call Ann or BJ 806-795-2011.

CLOSE TO Campus. One bedroom backhouse.

Ally Entrance. Washer/Dryer, refrigerator, stove.

Two car parking. $500 for one person. 2620 21st.

Call Ann or BJ 806-795-2011.

For the fastest and easiest service, place and pay for your ad online! Click on the “Classifieds” link on our Web site to get started!

E-mail: dawn.zuerker@ttu.edu Remember to include a contact number!

Phone: 806.742.3384

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Fax: 806.742.2434

Call and confirm pricing and payment.

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CUTE 2/1 Tech Terrace, updated, security system, pet friendly, 2811 24th $900, call/text 806.441.0611 806.438.8746 http://merlinspetshop.com/tech-area-rentals.html EFFICIENCY ALL bills & cable paid!

2315 25th $425/mo call/text 806.441.0611 http://merlinspetshop.com/tech-area-rentals.html

FOR RENT: 3/2/1 3811 26th St., central A/H, all appliances included, $500/deposit, $990/per month, available 8/1/13 (806) 798-3716 HOUSE FOR lease 3/1, located at 2222 27th st rent is $950.00 and deposit $500.00. Close to Texas Tech University. Please call REMCO for more information @ (806) 792-3094.

JULY 15TH. Lease Today. One bedroom garage apartment. Appliances. Refrigerator, oven. New carpet. Large private fenced yard. Pet welcome with pet fee. Four blocks off campus. 2200 block of 21st. $499. Call Ann or BJ 806-795-2011.

10% OFF TO ALL TECH STUDENTS!

Eyebrow Threading ($8), Facials, Pedicure, Manicure, Nails & Haircut. Om Threading, Nails & Spa. 4505 34th St. (806)771-0160.

AFFORDABLE MOVING

Quick, easy professional moving. Reasonable prices. Local or long distance. Boxes, supplies, paper, etc. Serving all Texas cities. Free estimate on the phone. 4211 34th Call 806-799-4033.

ATTENTION STUDENTS Summer storage available at 3 convenient Storage Zone locations. Reserve online at www.storagezone.com or call 806-747-8673.

YOUR GIFT MEANS THE WORLD

Consider donating your eggs to help other women.

Your time is worth $3500. The Centre for Reproductive Medicine. 806-788-1212

LARGE 3 BR, 2 bathroom, 2 car garage. Very nice area near 19th and Slide. Central Heat and A/C. Fenced. Super clean. No pets. $900 per month.

790-5347 or 792-5347.

LET US help you find your perfect home. 1,2 and 3 bedroom apartment homes available for immediate move-in. GMI Apartment Locators. 806-7732495. gmiproperties.net.

NEAR TECH, 2/1 central heat/air, W/D hookup, $700/month 2205-26th 806-535-1905.

NEW STUDENT Apartments - Newly Renovated From $350 per room for 2 Bedroom - OSixty Court and Lofts - Call 806-778-4368 to schedule a tour.

NEWLY REMODELED 2, 3, 4 & 6 bedroom homes. Convenient to Tech. 771-1890. www.lubbockleasehomes.com.

NICE 1, 2 & 3 bedroom houses near campus. All have range and fridge. Most have washer and dryer. See them all at toadstoolproperties.com. For additional information call 796-0774.

PRELEASING PROPERTIES for August 2013 Call 806-241-2227 for more information. 1914 25th Front, available August 1, 2430 sq. ft. 4/2 house, rent $1600. deposit $800.

PRELEASING PROPERTIES for August 2013 Call 806-241-2227 for more information. 1914 25th Rear available August 1, 500 sq. ft. 1/1 house.

Rent $400, deposit $250.

PRELEASING PROPERTIES for August 2013 Call 806-241-2227 for more information. 4214 46th available August 1, 2067 sq. ft. 3/2/2 house, Rent $1200, deposit $800.

SEE NOW

1901 25th Front, 2-1-1, $800, 1 June; 2415 30th New 2-1 plus sunroom, 1 June $1100; 2418 31st, New 3-2-1, 1 June $1500. 777-3993

TECH TERRACE HOUSES

Go to Tech Terrace leasing office at 26th/Boston.

TechTerrace.com

FOR SALE

THREE PIECE 4’ x 8’ slate pool table. Will deliver locally Asking $800 - make offer. Perfect for summer with the roomates! Call or text: 806-543-4091.

CLOTHING/JEWELRY NEED CASH

Buying any gold/silver jewelry. Any condition.

Avery and others. Varsity Jewelers 1311 University.

TEXAS TECH

Officially licensed rings. Men’s from $845.

Women’s from $495. Varsity Jewelers.

1311 University.

ROOMMATES $425. PRIVATE Bedroom. Free Utilities, Internet, HBO. One block to Tech. Nice female home. Parking. Washer/Dryer. 2321 13th. Available June 1 & July 31st. No pets. 765-7182.

LOOKING FOR a roomate to live in a 2 bedroom 2 bath house in Tech Terrace on 29th st, great location! Pets allowed, 713-628-5227

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Rates $10 and up. Free truck. 24/7 Rental station.

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MATTRESS SALE

Mattress, Furniture. Huge discounts. 5127 34th Street (34th & Slide). 785-7253.

RED & BLACK BOOKSTORE

buys back textbooks everyday. The most money for your books guaranteed. 6th & University (behind chili’s). 806-368-7637.

STRESSED WITH FINALS?

Relaxing facials and Massages. Lindsey’s Medical Day Spa. 1120 West Loop 289. 806.687.5757

SUMMER STORAGE SPECIAL

10x10. Shadow Hills Storage 307 Frankford Avenue. $90.00 one time payment for storage thru August 31st. 806.548.2005.

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