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FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2013 VOLUME 87 ■ ISSUE 157

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Cowboys complex to be renamed AT&T Stadium ARLINGTON (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys say their billion-dollar complex will be renamed AT&T Stadium as part of a multi-year deal with the telecommunications giant. An emotional Jerry Jones, the team’s owner and general manager, said Thursday he wants “this building to be more familiar than the White House.” The name change for the $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium takes effect immediately. Numerous signs outside and inside the stadium will be changed to reflect the AT&T name. The company is based in nearby Dallas. Team officials declined to reveal terms of the deal, including cost and how many years are included. The team says the deal includes access to AT&T mobile technology. The arrangement will double the stadium’s wi-fi network for faster mobile access and expand the options provided by the Cowboys’ mobile app.

Health insurance shopping to rely on call centers WASHINGTON (AP) — You may have heard that shopping for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will be like using Travelocity or Amazon. But many people will end up with something more mundane than online shopping, like a call to the help desk. Struggling with a deadline crunch, some states are delaying online tools that could make it easier for consumers to find the right plan when the markets go live on Oct. 1. Ahead of open enrollment for millions of uninsured Americans, the feds and the states are investing in massive call centers. “The description that this was going to be like Travelocity was a very simplistic way of looking at it,” said Christine Ferguson, director of the Rhode Island Health Benefits Exchange. “I never bought into it.”

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Democrats challenge voter ID law By CARSON WILSON Staff WritEr

The Lubbock County Democratic Party hosted the Right to Vote Rally from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Approximately 50 people assembled in the hot July sun to demonstrate democrats’ issues with the new Texas voter ID law. “We are prepared to fight back against this discriminatory attack on democracy,” Kenny Ketner, Lubbock resident and Lubbock County Democratic Party chairman, said. Before the presidential election last year, Texas attempted to pass a law requiring voters to show a government issued ID. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 stopped the law from passing. Last month, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act by a 5-4 vote. This action allowed nine states, including Texas, to no longer get federal approval before changing voting ID laws. After the ruling, Texas spared no time implementing its voter ID law that was previously blocked by the Voting Rights Act. This swift action left many Texas democrats enraged. Lauren Roblez, president of Tech Student Democrats and a senior Spanish and political science major from Midland, was such a democrat. “It’s really important when this law goes into effect that I may not be able to exercise my right to voting simply because we are voting for a democrat,” Roblez said. “In my personal opinion, it is targeted for people voting that way.” A valid voting ID includes a Texas drivers license, Texas identification card, Texas concealed-handgun license, U.S. passport, U.S. military ID with photo or a U.S. citizenship

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LUBBOCK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC Party Chairman Kenny Ketner speaks to a crowd of approximately 50 people about the effects the new Texas voting ID law will have on Texas residents. The Right to Vote rally was hosted from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday in a parking lot on Avenue K.

An EIC is valid for six years. To qualify for an EIC one must be at least 17 years and 10 months old, a Texas resident, a U.S. citizen and must be eligible to vote in Texas, according to the website.

“It’s not right to put American citizens through extra hurdles to exercise their constitutional rights,” Ketner said.

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Whitaker hires women’s basketball associate head coach

certificate with photo. However, if someone does not have any of the forms listed, he or she may be eligible for an Election Identification Certificate (EIC) at no charge, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s website.

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simulation. Following Tejade-Martinez’s lecture, he opened the floor for audience questions and was presented with a plaque for giving the lecture. The lecture was open to Tech students, faculty and staff, but was mandatory for the students attending the institute’s summer program, Tracie McClaran, assistant managing director at NWRC, said. The program started June 5, she said, and will end August 3, while the lectures started in mid-June.

Texas Tech women’s basketball announced Matt Corkery as the associate head coach Tuesday. “I feel fortunate to bring Matt Corkery to the Lady Raider program,” coach Candace Whitaker said in a statement. “His head coaching experience is invaluable, and he has been successful at every stop in his career. Matt is a tremendous recruiter and will be an asset in all facets of the program. His West Texas ties and knowledge of the program’s tradition make him the perfect fit.” The Whitharral resident joins the Lady Raiders after spending five years in Washington as the coach of the American University Eagles. During his time at American University, Corkery was awarded the Patriot League Coach of the Year Award in 2010 and 2012, and helped the Eagles to three Patriot League regular season championships and two appearances in the Patriot League Championship game. Corkery had a 101-53 winning record during his career at American University, which is the second best all-time in conference history and a Patriot League record of 53-16, also best in the league’s history, according to the Tech Athletics website. He led the Eagles to the first 14-0 conference record in Patriot League history and ultimately to a 23-8 overall record during the 2011-12 season. The attendance record was broken twice under Corkery at Bender Arena. First on Feb. 7, 2009, with 1,177 fans and later on Feb. 13, 2010, when 1,291 fans watched the Eagles defeat Colgate, 82-47. As the assistant coach at Stephen F. Austin State University from 1999-2001, he helped the Jayhawks advance to the second round of the 2000 NCAA Division I Tournament and a 54-11 record during his tenure.

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ANDRES TEJADA-MARTINEZ, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of South Florida, gives a lecture titled “LES full depth Langmuir circulation in the coastal ocean” at the Livermore Center on Wednesday.

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The Texas Tech National Wind Resource Center hosted a lecture as part of its summer lecture series at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Livermore Center. The lecture, entitled “LES full-depth Langmuir circulation in the coastal ocean,” was given by Andres Tejade-Martinez, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of South Florida. Tejade-Martinez said his lecture focused on turbulence induced by wind-driven shear

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current, or shear turbulence, and turbulence induced by wave-current interaction, or Langmuir turbulence. “Langmuir turbulence is characterized by these so called Langmuir circulations,” he said, “which are counter-rotating vertices roughly aligned in the direction of the wind.” During the lecture, Tejade-Martinez presented a PowerPoint, which showed various diagrams and formulas, including the Spatially Filtered Craik-Leibovich equations. He also discussed the direction the research was going, which he said was toward obtaining an accurate turbulence model for the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes

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