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Meat science quiz bowl team takes national title The Texas Tech Meat Science Academic Quiz Bowl team took the national title and second place at the 66th Reciprocal Meat Conference on June 19 in Auburn, Ala. The Red Raiders competed against 33 teams from 16 states.

Team coach Loni Woolley said in a news release that the group of students were deep.

“Their performance is a great reflection of our Department of Animal and Food Sciences,” she said in a release.

Of the Tech students competing, four received honors, according to the release.

Seniors Bo Hutto from Hondo and Tanner Adams from Sanger received the American Meat Science Association Scholastic Achievement Award, and senior Heather Rode and Dakotah Williams were given honorary mention.

In the Taste of the Reciprocal Meat Conference Contest, Tech received the People’s Choice Award for its Pork Wellington bites, according to a release.

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Clock ticking for Obama climate change regulations WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is running out of time to make good on his lofty vow to confront climate change head-on, and Congress is in no mood to help.

Moving ahead on his own, Obama will announce a set of actions Tuesday that will take years to implement.

The centerpiece of the plan is a push to issue new regulations that would curb greenhouse-gas emissions from new and existing power plants, according to people briefed on the plan by the administration.

Other components will include energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and help for communities preparing for the effects of climate change.

“This is a serious challenge, but it’s one uniquely suited to America’s strengths,” Obama said Saturday in a White House video announcing the speech at Georgetown University.

Astronaut gives presentation at Tech

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The Texas Tech College of Education presented two keynote speakers instead of one this year during the Fourth Annual Middle School Math Science (MS)2 Conference for Understanding

by Design, a middle school math and science scholarship master’s degree program.

Tigga Kingston, an associate professor of biological sciences at Tech and Joseph Acaba, a U.S. NASA astronaut, both delivered presentations during the conference hosted Monday afternoon at the International Cultural Center.

“Joseph Acaba as a speaker was a really nice surprise because his background in middle school teaching really helped and his informal nature of his talk was a good balance with the more traditional talk Dr. Kingston presented this morning,” said Zenaida Aguirre-Munoz, an associate professor with the College of Education. “I think both were really important and represent the full spectrum of possibility for middle school students when they have the right teachers.”

About 40 to 50 people attended the event, with about 30 of the attendants being 2013 (MS)2 graduates.

Kingston mainly talked about her experience as a central figure for the conservation of bats in Southeast Asia as the founder and director of the Southeast

Asian Bat Conservation Research Unit.

She also is the co-organizer of the first and second Southeast Asia Bat Conferences hosted in Thailand and Indonesia.

Acaba discussed his NASA and spaceflight experience.

Sharon Parrott, a (MS)2 research assistant, said she enjoyed both speakers’ presentations.

“The speakers have given the middle school teachers good stories to take back to their students,” she said. “It’s mainly giving the middle school teachers resources and stories to help them in their classroom and curriculum.”

During Acaba’s presentation, he invited audience members to ask him any questions they may have about his experiences.

One audience member inquired about Acaba having to drink water derived from his own urine and sweat while in spaceflight.

“Don’t knock it until you try it,” Acaba said. “It’s pretty tasty.”

Acaba kept audience members engaged, Parrott said.

“That’s the hardest thing,” she said.

“He’s given them some excellent stories and resources.”

The (MS)2 degree program is funded by a three-year grant given by Greater Texas Foundation that expires in October, Aguirre-Munoz said.

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JOSEPH ACABA, A U.S. NASA astronaut, delivers a presentation during the Fourth Annual Middle School Math Science Conference hosted Monday afternoon at the International Cultural Center.

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BRITTANY ARMSTRONG, A junior apparel design and manufacturing major from Houston and Whitney White, a sophomore apparel design and manufacturing major from Houston, work on sewing their dresses as part of a class project.

With a full moon in the sky, 195 Texas Tech students and Lubbock community members ran around campus at 10 p.m.

Sunday.

These people participated in 2013 Lunar Lope Fun Run hosted by Tech Recreational Sports.

Participants could choose to run in the 5K around campus, Kami WhiteWaden, assistant director for fitness and wellness at Tech Rec Sports, said, or a one-mile walk around the outdoor track.

The 5K, she said, started by the bonfire pit, and had participants run down 18th Street, around Memorial Circle and the Engineering Key, past Jones A&T Stadium, Dan Law Field and the Rawls College of Business Administration, and ended at the south entrance to the leisure pool.

“It’s just a total fun run of coming out, enjoying a beautiful night with the moon and running around campus,” WhiteWaden said, “which we couldn’t have asked for a more perfect moon.”

Paid student-staff members worked the event, she said, with the majority on the course directing the runners and the rest calling out times and handing out water and bananas to the runners after course completion.

Betty Blanton, associate director at Fit/Well, started the run about 1992, White-Waden said. The run is conducted once a year in the summer to provide an activity for students and community members.

The run is called the Lunar Lope, she said, because it is run at night during a full moon.

“It came about, basically, the fact that it’s so hot during the day here in West Texas that we wanted to do something that might be a little bit cooler,” WhiteWaden said.

This year’s run, she said, was special because the moon during the run was called the “super, supermoon,” which she said means the moon was the closest to Earth it has been and the closest it will be for five to six years.

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Graduates of Texas Tech may have higher salaries than students of universities with better reputations, according to a recent ranking.

Texas Tech was ranked the No. 6 most underrated college in Business Insider’s Top 25 Most Underrated Colleges in America list.

According to Business Insider’s website, Tech was one of two Texas institutions to be ranked on the list.

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the institution’s reputation and its salary.

U.S. News and World Report’s rankings were used to determine the institution’s reputation, and the PayScale College Salary Report was used to determine salary, according to the website.

A school was determined to be underrated if it had a negative reputation, but graduates had a high salary and overrated if the school had a better reputation but lower salary, according to the website.

The ranking, Chris Cook, managing director for the Office of Communications and Marketing, said, re-emphasizes what the administration has already known.

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what we’ve already known, is that one — Texas Tech is a great place for higher education,” he said, “and as you can see by our enrollment numbers each year, they continue to go up. We’ve had five straight years of record fall enrollment, we’ve had eight consecutive semesters of record enrollment.”

The criteria to be on the list, he said, is what the administration wants people to notice about Tech.

The list shows what Tech graduates are making midway through their career compared to the average salary in that occupation, Cook said, which shows the quality and demand of the graduate.

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The rank, according to the website, was found by multiplying the college rank by 2.75, to calculate the salary rank, and then graphed.

The most overrated and underrated colleges were then determined, where there was large difference between an institution’s college and salary ranks, according to the website.

The report also examined the difference between an instiution’s expected and actual salary rank, where the difference close to zero meant the institution was appropriately ranked.

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Tech professor visits Europe, gives economics advice

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generally have less tax and regulatory burden of their government.

The Free Market Road Show’s Texas Tech visiting economic mission, according to its website, is professor Benjamin Powell traveled to bring together leading business across eastern and southern Europe people, policy experts, elected ofin June as a guest speaker for the ficials, outstanding scholars and stu6th annual Free Market Road Show. dents, diplomats, opinion leaders and Powell, the director of the Free other interested parties from across Market Institute at Tech, visited Europe to discuss the economic crisis countries including Kosovo, Al- in the region, find out what people bania, Montenegro, Croatia, Italy, want from their governments and Bosnia and determine Herzegovisolutions. na, lecturing The purand discusspose of the ing the ecoshow is not nomic and to directly financial change the problems policies of troubling the governmany Euroment, Powpean counell said, but tries. rather to “Many influence of these the ideals of BENJAMIN POWELL countries future genDIRECTOR have made erations.

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Each year, White-Waden said the staff looks up when the full moon occurs in June or July and choose the date of the run based on that information.

“We don’t always get to choose the date that we particularly would like with as many students being around,” she said, “but we just kinda have to go with whatever the moon gives us.”

Registered runners, WhiteWaden said received a T-shirt and glow-sticks, which were provided for safety reasons so cars could see

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ell said, is many European countries have laws that make it difficult to dismiss employees, and companies are therefore less likely to hire new ones.

“It’s akin to basically going on a single date with somebody and then having to decide if you want to be married or not with no possibility of divorce,” he said.

Powell said it was exciting to see young adults he met pick up free market ideas.

“It was inspiring to meet some young intellectual entrepreneurs who were first exposed to free market ideas at this road show a few years ago,” Powell said, “and have now created think tanks in their home country to try to promote these ideas.”

The European youth are more accepting, he said, because they do not share the same ideals as the older generations.

“We now have a generation who have basically grown up since the fall of communism,” Powell said, “and doesn’t have nostalgia for that era and are looking at the West’s [economy] enviously and trying to figure out how they can get that type of prosperity and growth in their own country.”

However, Americans are not too concerned with the economic status of Europe according to a Pew Research Center article.

According to the article, last year, 17 percent of Americans said

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BENJAMIN POWELL, DIRECTOR of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech, speaks to students, faculty and policy makers at the University of Donja Gorica in Podgorica, Montenegro.

they were concerned about economic problems in Europe.

Three percent of people polled said Europe’s economic crisis was their top story of that week. By comparison, 40 percent of citizens said they tracked U.S. economic news very closely and 20 percent said they followed it more closely than any other story, according to the article.

However, Powell said people can learn from the mistakes of the countries he visited.

“Unfortunately America is not setting a particularly good example for these countries,” he said. “We have seen our economic freedom in the United States plummet over the last decade. At the absolute level we are more free than these countries I was just in, but we have been headed in the wrong direction. Most of them are trending in the right direction.”

According to the Pew Research Center, 72 percent of Americans believe reducing the national deficit should be a top priority of the Presi-

dent Barack Obama administration and Powell said he agrees.

“The crisis we see being played out in the (European Union), where member countries have had unsustainable government budget deficits that have led to a crisis, is a warning,” he said, “because the United States itself is on a similar trajectory. Government spending should be slashed, and be slashed dramatically, if we are going to avoid an economic crisis.”

During the students’ three years of course work, AguirreMunoz said their progress is observed to determine the success of the program.

“We have a lot of data that suggests they’ve improved tremendously not only in what they know,” she said, “but they are also much better teachers.”

LaEtta Akbar-Ali, a 2013 (MS)2 graduate, said the program was an amazing experience for her.

“To me, it’s all about being able to pay it forward,” she said.

“You hope you will have more impact on children.”

Aguirre-Munoz said more funding is being sought for the

program, and it also is starting a partial-pay system.

“Now that we have the data to prove this approach works, we will try to move forward,” she said. “Hopefully we’ve made better educators for middle school math and science students.”

the runners.

John Clements, a Tech alumnus from Lubbock, said he has participated in the run for three years, and that this race is the only one in the area occurring at 10 p.m.

Also a member of a running club, he said he is familiar with the races in the area, but that this race is one of his favorites.

Clements said he ran the race with Taylor Person, a Tech sophomore who he also trains.

“This race is also about the lunar lope,” he said. “It’s not timed.

It’s for fun, but a lot of people run hard, like me, I time it myself and I always try to get fast times, but it’s

a mile run and a 5K, you can take your choice, and we all just have a good time. We wear glowing sticks on us and run at night.”

Rusty Scholl, an incoming freshman from Lubbock, said the run was his first Tech event outside of attending football games and Red Raider Orientation.

Scholl, who ran the one-mile course, said he hoped to gain confidence and a steady workout routine from the event, and that he might run the 5K next year.

“Hey, supermoon, running, sounds like fun,” he said. “It will help me get ready for Quidditch.

I’m going to try to be the new snitch.”

H o l l y We l c h a n d P a u l Faulkner, Lubbock citizens and members of USA Fit Lubbock, also participated in the event with members of their running club.

Welch said it was her first time running in the race, but hopes to do it again.

Faulkner said it was his second year to participate in the run, and that it is neat to run on campus with others.

“It’s just a fun event, high energy, and it’s neat running on campus,” he said. “I just like running on campus with lots of other people. Plus you get these little glow-in-the-dark thingys.”

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University of Houston, ranked No. 15, is the other Texas school to be listed.

The ranking, Cook said, lets

the public know that the schools listed should be on the public’s radar.

“We want to be on everyone’s radar,” he said. “We think we are, but if, you know, there is someone out there who’s not

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Texas Republicans on verge of passing abortion law AUSTIN (AP) — The Republican-dominated Texas Legislature pushed Monday to enact wideranging restrictions that would effectively shut down all abortion clinics in the nation’s second most-populous state, and Democrats planned an old-fashioned

marathon filibuster to stop the final vote.

After the House easily approved it Monday morning, the wideranging package of anti-abortion measures was headed to the Senate. But with the special session scheduled to end at 11:59 p.m.

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When combined in a state 773 miles wide and 790 miles long and with 26 million people, the measures become the most stringent set of laws to impact the largest number of people in the nation.

“If this passes, abortion would be virtually banned in the state of Texas, and many women could be forced to resort to dangerous and unsafe measures,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund and daughter of the late former Texas governor Ann Richards.

Supporters, though, insist it will only raise the standard of health care for women seeking an abortion. Gov. Rick Perry added abortion to the special session’s agenda and has promised to sign the bill if it reaches his desk.

The only way Democrats could block a vote when it goes to the Senate is if one senator filibusters it by running out the clock on the special session. Under the rules, the senator would have to speak non-stop, remain standing, restrain from bathroom breaks or even lean on anything.

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US needs new policy to win war on drugs

By JONATHAN SILVA

In 2010, the U.S. federal government spent more than $15 billion dollars on the “War on Drugs,” according to Office of National Drug Control Policy. According to Jeffrey A. Miron & Kathrine Waldock in “The Budgetary Impact of Drug Prohibition,” in addition to the $25 billion state and local governments spend independently, the total price tag is at more than $40 billion these two amounts are combined. But in all this effort, only about 10 percent of illicit drugs get captured or confiscated according to Drug Enforcement Administration estimates. That’s an incredibly low success rate for that high of a budget; $40 billion for a payoff of only 10 percent is not a smart investment.

Not only that, but according to statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2.3 million drug offenders are behind bars, which gives the U.S. the largest prison population in the world. If one thought the cost of the direct war on drugs was phenomenal, consider the cost in operating the prison system that holds more than 2.3 million people. With this amount of

For the past few decades, the U.S. has been in a seemingly never-ending war on drugs. However, only recently has it gained national attention with the rise in violence in drug cartel controlled countries and in America, where the prison system is filled with more and more drug offenders.

Although this war has been waged for almost a century, the modern war began in 1971 when former President Richard Nixon officially declared war on drugs. Since then, we’ve seen an all-out offensive to eradicate drugs, but all to no avail.

Drugs still fill the streets and are easier to get, drug abusers fill the courts and prison systems, and hundreds of innocent civilians sadly fall victim to violent cartel territory disputes today.

The U.S. government continues to criminalize drug use and spends billions of dollars every year in hopes of finally eradicating drugs in America.

This focus on law enforcement to win the war, however, is counterproductive and doing more bad than good.

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people behind bars, as reported by The New York Times article “A Country of Inmates” in November 2011, it costs Americans $228 billion dollars every year to keep these folks behind bars.

The crazy part about that is about half of these prisoners are incarcerated for drug related offenses, not violence.

Imagine what we could do with half of those costs if these incarcerations didn’t exist. That’s $114 billion dollars we could put to communities, hiring teachers or strengthening our infrastructure. This is all foolish spending by the federal government, and I’m not the only one who thinks this. In a poll taken in January by the Huffington Post, 53 percent of Americans said the “War on Drugs” has not been worth the costs while 19 percent say it has been.

We are already way over our heads with more than $16 trillion of national debt reported by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as of June 2013.

We shouldn’t be carelessly throwing money into a failing war.

So why is this war on drugs going nowhere? This is due to the U.S. policy on drugs and how the federal government is fighting this war: The criminalization of drugs in the U.S. with the criminalization of drugs in the U.S., we see a chain reaction of effects that has led to this war on drugs. The biggest problem today is drug cartels’

ability to push drugs into the U.S. It’s the basics of supply and demand.

When the U.S. made drugs illegal in America, the supply of drugs in our country fell drastically because we were no longer able to produce the supply needed to satisfy the needs of its users.

With a high demand still existent, the supply had to come from somewhere else – more precisely the drug cartels south of the border. Criminalize anything and you’ll soon make a black market for it.

In the early 1920s when prohibition was in effect, the high demand for alcohol gave rise to organized crime and gangsters who were able to supply alcohol to the public. This boost was exactly what the mafia and crime lords like Al Capone needed to secure power and their abilities to operate at the scale they did. Fast forward to today and we see the exact same thing happening with the rise in drug cartel power and territory. So, if criminalizing drugs makes a high demand, then legalization should decrease the demand.

If Americans were able to grow their own marijuana here in the U.S., for example, it would curve the high demand for foreign supply coming from drug cartels abroad. That is exactly where the cartels would be hit hardest — right in the wallets. Without the high demand for their product, drug cartels could not afford to oper-

ate on the grand scale they do, and it would make the fight against them that much easier.

Imagine the Mexican government, or any government, that could now effectively fight drug cartels when they are no longer able to pay off police and bribe public officials into corruption. Legalization of marijuana in the U.S. is an option that could yield some success. I say this because marijuana is not a conventional “hard” drug. Unlike synthetic drugs such as cocaine or heroin, which can prove deadly from one use, marijuana causes lower chances of fatality as compared to other drugs and actually has some use as a medical treatment.

Dr. Stephen Sidney, an associate director of clinical research with the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan who has studied the effects of marijuana use on life span, said in an article for Medical News Today, “I don’t think it [marijuana] contributes very much to people dying. It’s not in the league of alcohol or tobacco.” Comparable to tobacco or alcohol, which are both legal, marijuana has the same potential to serve a productive role in American society if it is equally regulated and taxed like the latter two.

Other policies that don’t quite help in the war include the focus of law enforcement instead of treatment. Drugs are bad for health and lead to negative

lifestyle habits, but the consequences for having drugs does more harm to a person than the drug itself.

Former President Jimmy Carter once said in his letter to Congress Aug. 2, 1977, “Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.”

I couldn’t agree more. Propaganda from the federal government claims drugs destroy people’s lives, but what they fail to mention is that it is the justice system that destroys people’s lives.

Looking at the FBI Uniform Crime Reports from 1970-2011, 50 percent of all drug related crimes involve marijuana, and of those crimes 43 percent are for simple possession charges.

The current drug policies are too harsh and focus too much attention on the criminal standpoint. The U.S. could improve on this issue by lessening the penalties for possession charges and other drug related offenses. We can’t afford to send these people behind bars and raise the already enormous tab on operating the prison system. In fear of sending us into another war on terror failure, the U.S. needs to reconsider its current drug polices in favor of those which focus more on lessening the demand for drugs in America.

Silva is a senior political science major from Hereford.

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