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Two suspects in custody in connection with assault Two suspects are in custody after warrants were issued for their arrest in connection with the assault of a Texas Tech student.

21-year-old Brad Duru and 28-year-old Alfredo Lopez have been tied to an aggravated assault case that has left 24-yearold Tech student Gregory Avari in stable condition at University Medical Center, according to Lubbock Police Department spokesman Ray Mendoza.

LPD detectives were able to track the two suspects from witness accounts and through text messages, Mendoza said.

Avari is a security patient at UMC, and the family has not released any further updates on his condition.

“As of now, we know that he is definitely getting better, not any worse,” Mendoza said.

Initially put in serious condition after being found unresponsive at the University Trails apartment complex on July 19, Avari has been in stable condition since Wednesday, Mendoza said.

With no source of identification, it was not until Wednesday that family members were able to identify him after inquiring about his whereabouts, Mendoza added. No information has been released about Duru or Lopez, and LPD is urging anyone with any additional tips to call its crime line at (806) 741-1000 or its non-emergency hotline at (806) 775-2865. ➤➤@MichaelCantuDT

Prosecutor names committee to review Sandra Bland case HEMPSTEAD (AP) — A committee of outside attorneys will assist the Texas district attorney investigating the death of Sandra Bland, the black woman who was found dead in her jail cell three days after a controversial traffic stop by a white state trooper.

Elton Mathis, the Waller County district attorney, announced Monday that the group of lawyers would help his office make decisions in the case based on “credible evidence and not rumors.”

He did not specify how the committee would work with his office, but said he still planned to present the Bland case to a grand jury in August for possible criminal charges.

Mathis also released an initial toxicology report Monday with findings that Bland had marijuana in her system at the time of her death. He declined to comment on the report, saying a final report was still being prepared.

Bland died in the county jail after the traffic stop for failing to use a turn signal escalated into a physical confrontation. Authorities have said Bland hanged herself at the jail, a finding her family disputes.

Astros move up Taylor Swift concert for possible playoff run HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros have shaken off Taylor Swift’s original tour date at Minute Maid Park in case of a playoff run.

The Astros announced on Monday that they’d moved up the date of the Grammy Award-winning singer’s show in Houston from Oct. 13 to Sept. 9.

In the announcement the Astros said that they made the change as they “proactively prepare for potential postseason play.”

Tickets purchased for the October show will be honored on Sept. 9, but those who are unable to attend because of the change can receive a refund from Ticketmaster.

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Texas Tech student team wins Tibetan Innovation Challenge

By JARROD MILLER Staff Writer

Though India may be thousands of miles away, a team of Texas Tech students is closer than ever to implementing its business plan in India to aid Tibetan refugees. By taking first place in the Tibetan Innovation Challenge in New York earlier this month, the team will soon be given the opportunity to travel to India and see its business plan in action.

“The Texas Tech mentality of working hard and being humble led us to our victory because we presented and interacted with the judges with a different level,” Caleb Fisher, a business administration graduate student from Wichita Falls and member of the Texas Tech team, said.

The team consists of Saba Nafees, a mathematical biology doctoral student from Fort Worth and Lahore, Pakistan, Tailor Brown, a recent graduate from McKinney, Stephanie DeLeon, a recent graduate from Tahoka, Benjamin Jarvis, a mass communications graduate student from McKinney, and Fisher.

The team competed against five other teams in the Tibetan Innovation Challenge, a competition organized by the University of Rochester to improve the living conditions of Tibetan refugees in India. The purpose of the competition, Nafees said, is to develop self-sustaining and replicable business strategies for the Tibetan refugees.

The team won by crafting a proposal that would allow the Tibetan handicraft market to gain access to western countries, Nafees said.

By providing an online point-of-sales into the skilled Tibetan handicraft market, Tibetan refugees would be able to target Western consumers and revitalize their market.

Though the team’s end proposal was pol-

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STEPHANIE DELEON, A recent Texas Tech graduate from Tahoka, Benjamin Jarvis, a mass communications graduate student from McKinney, Caleb Fisher, a business administration graduate student from Wichita Falls, Leen Borno, a Lubbock entrepreneur who helped guide the Tech team, Michael Wohl, competition originator and associate director of social entrepreneurship at the University of Rochester, and the Dalai Lama pose for a photo at the Tibetan Innovation Challenge at the University of Rochester. The Tech team won the challenge after competing against five other teams to develop a plan to improve the living conditions of Tibetan refugees in India.

ished and sleek, the team members said the journey was filled with obstacles. The team was the final team to be picked, Nafees said, and was labeled the wild card team because of its unusual entry to the competition.

While other student teams were required to enter via a contest hosted by their universities, Tech did not host this contest.

After Nafees appealed to the University of Rochester, the school decided to create the

special wild card option. After having an initial video pitch approved by Rochester, the team was entered into the competition.

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Texas Tech summer camps wrapping up seasons

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

For many students, the summer season is coming to an end. Though for most this may seem like an ending to a great part of the year, it is just the beginning for some parts of Texas Tech.

All around the Tech campus, organizations have aimed at younger students from around the area and the U.S to participate in their individual camps. Lasting from one to two weeks, organizers for the camps around the school are promoting different areas of Tech, whether it is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics-based learning or fun, action-packed sports camps.

With a high retention rate and a maximum capacity of 120 students, the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center hosts a Summer Youth Sports Camp that lasts two weeks.

Students age 7 to 14 from around the area participate in the camps, getting involved in sports related activities ranging from aquatic games to field activities, Brett Jackson, camp director, said.

“Some of them are faculty and staff children, and a lot of them are just Lubbock community members,” Jackson said, “or kids that come to camp that have family that live in Lubbock, they come visit grandma and grandpa, and they send them to camp for two weeks.”

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ALI DUCK, A counselor for Texas Tech’s Band and Orchestra Camp, takes a group photo of Raider Red and camp attendees on July 8 at Urbanovsky Park. The Band and Orchestra Camp is one of several camps taking place at Tech during the summer.

Dividing the students into groups of around 30, each counselor is set with the task of leading group activities with the students, Jackson said. Only going for half a day, the end goal of the camp is to have the participating students

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Tech named one of best places to work

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Tech President M. Duane Nellis is always working on new initiatives, Billingsley said. He organizes monthly breakfast sessions for the Progress Program, hosts fireside chats with different groups of managers and supervisors and has also created the President’s Leadership Institute, a leadership and management program for Tech faculty and staff.

“What made us stand out, I think, is just a lot of the different opportunities,” Billingsley said.

Jane Bell, senior director of international operations and outreach at Tech, has been a Tech employee for more than 30 years and first started working in the English Department as a teaching assistant.

“Well, I’ve had a lovely career here and I’ve certainly met wonderful people — faculty, staff, students. I have no complaints,” Bell said.

Bell said she is able to see why so many people like working at Tech, having felt the same way over the years.

Out of the 12 recognition categories, Tech performed extremely well on job satisfaction and professional/career-development programs, Liz McMillen, editor for The Chronicle, said.

The Great Colleges to Work For survey, started by The Chronicle eight years ago, is a way to allow colleges to understand how their faculty members, administrators and

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For the second consecutive year, Texas Tech was named as a great college to work for by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Tech was recognized for Job Satisfaction and Professional/CareerDevelopment Programs in the survey conducted by The Chronicle.

“I think it’s really a great honor. It’s just good to be recognized,” Jodie Billingsley, assistant vice president for human resources and payroll at Tech, said. “We know that it’s a great place to work. So it’s nice that other people know that it’s a great place to work, too.”

With a work force of more than 4,800 full-time employees and 6,600 part-time employees, Tech hires employees ranging from grounds maintenance workers to engineers, teachers and IT service personnel.

“I think we employ (from) almost every category you can imagine,” Billingsley said.

Several departments within the university offer professional development opportunities to employees, Billingsley said. Human Resources conducts classes for intermediate managers and organizes professional development series for supervisors and managers.

The Teaching, Learning and Professional Development Center at Tech offers programs such as the Chair Academy, specifically designed for department chairs.

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THAD BROCK, A senior public relations major from Henrietta, orders a salad at Smart Choices in the Student Union building. Smart Choices is one of several places on campus students can find employment.

other employees feel about working there, McMillen said.

“It’s really kind of an employee tool to help colleges understand, ‘Here’s where we’re doing pretty good and here’s where maybe we can do better,’” McMillen said.

Tech will have access to the survey results in August, and Billingsley said the results would be insightful, helping them to focus the university’s efforts based on the needs of the employees.

“I’m very honored to be recognized, but

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Police officer investigates harassment Thursday 3:56 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, at the intersection of N. University Avenue and Clovis Highway.

7:43 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for one outstanding Lubbock County warrant after a traffic stop in the 3400 block of 10th Street. The vehicle was left legally parked.

8:48 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license and one outstanding Lubbock Police Department warrant after a traffic stop in the 3600 block of 4th Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

The vehicle was impounded.

12:21 a.m. — A Tech officer ar-

rested a non-student for three outstanding Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office warrants and one outstanding Lubbock Police Department warrant after a traffic stop in the 400 block of University Avenue.

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

Friday 4:57 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license in the 2400 block of Broadway after an observed traffic violation in the 700 block of University Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was released to her husband.

11:08 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for one outstanding Lubbock Police

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Department warrant in the 900 block of Flint Avenue after a traffic stop. A non-student passenger was also arrested for one outstanding Lubbock County Sheriff ’s Office warrant. Both non-students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail. A non-student passenger was issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle, and the non-student signed the citation and was released from the scene. The non-student’s vehicle was impounded.

11:47 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated harassment in West Village Residence Hall. A non-student threatened another non-student via telephone communication.

11:51 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license and one outstanding Lubbock Police Department warrant in the 400 block of University Avenue after a traffic stop. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The non-student’s vehicle was impounded.

5:58 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving while intoxicated in the 300 block of Slide Road while returning to campus after an in-

dividual flagged down an officer, advising of a reckless driver. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded.

Saturday 10:13 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to a medical emergency in the 1800 block of Flint Avenue. A student was nauseous and requested to be transported to University Medical Center for treatment.

12:57 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license in the 3800 block of 4th Street after a traffic stop. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded.

Sunday 8:28 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, and duty on striking structure, fixture or highway landscaping in the 2500 block of Sixth Street.

4:44 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by a minor after a traffic stop in the 300 block of University Avenue.

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Tech online program ranked No. 17 in US Texas Tech’s Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering online master’s degree program in engineering management has been ranked among the top programs in the nation.

In the Online Engineering Management Degrees rankings compiled by SuperScholar.org, Tech’s program was ranked No. 17 in the U.S., according to a Tech news release. The rankings factored in criteria such as flexibility, recognition, cost, return on investment and academic reputation.

The master’s program in systems and engineering management was cited for its understanding of financial and management issues as well as its ability to foster leadership

in its students, according to the release. The coursework is completed online with the aid of interactive video conferencing.

“Once again, I am very pleased with the continued recognition of our online programs placing us ahead of many top universities like Drexel University, Kansas State University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Oklahoma State University and University of Michigan,” Al Sacco, dean of the College of Engineering, said in the release. “This is indeed elite company and is a credit to our faculty and staff at the Whitacre College of Engineering at Texas Tech University.” ➤➤@DailyToreador

Police: Full impact of Austin’s hands-free law still unclear AUSTIN (AP) — Austin police say it’s still too early to determine the full impact the city’s ban on cellphone use while driving is having on traffic crashes.

Police Chief of Staff Brian Manley said that’s largely because it’s difficult to tell which crashes are actually caused by distracted driving.

Unless a witness or driver reports that a crash involved a cellphone, Manley said there’s no way to know whether using the

device was to blame.

The city’s hands-free law was enacted in January, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

This year has seen an increase in overall crashes during its first six months, compared to the same period in 2014, but relatively few of the wrecks so far this year were cellphone-related.

According to the Austin Police Department, only 48 crashes this year reportedly involved a cellphone.

Man with no ticket arrested after boarding plane at Dallas airport GRAPEVINE (AP) — Police have arrested a man who got through security at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and boarded a plane without a ticket.

Airport officials said Monday that a car parked curbside outside a terminal was searched and no threat was found.

Authorities say the 26-yearold man somehow got through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint Sunday night despite not having a ticket. The then man boarded a commercial flight.

An airport agent contacted law enforcement after the man boarded. He was arrested on a charge of criminal trespassing. The man’s name hasn’t been released.

The flight was delayed because of the incident. Additional details about the flight weren’t released.

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for chef camp, all students are housed in the residence halls on campus for the week they are here, she said. In putting all of the camps together, Fowler said there is always an insistence on making sure her campers are the only ones on those particular residence hall floors.

Taking some of the same precautionary measures and adding some additional requirements, one of the biggest generators of summer camps at Tech — the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement — ensures the safety of each of its students. Monitoring students while they are at camps is the main priority, as well as making sure campers are safe around their hired counselors.

“There’s several avenues we go through to have someone work for us, because we do work with minors,” Lucas Flores, assistant director for the Institute for the Development and Enrichment of Advanced Learners, said. “Those minors are supervised at all times — when they leave the dorm, when they’re at the dorm.”

IDEAL also makes it a point to run background checks on its counselors to make sure the nearly 1,000 students it houses on the campus are safe. In putting together camps that revolve around interests pertaining to STEM careers and activities,

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“We have a lot of repeat campers,” Fowler said, “and several of the campers have come to Texas Tech and majored in retail management.”

Hosting two fashion camps and a chef camp during the summer, the college aims to bring kids from around the country to be aware of what Tech has to offer, she said. Aside from planning fun activities that scratch at the interest of youth, organizers consider these camps a great recruitment activity for the school.

Named Glue, Glitter and Glamour and Tau Rho Mu, the fashion camps are designed to excel the interests of students from middle school to high school ages, and the chef camp is aimed at pushing the culinary interests for 13-16 year olds, Fowler said.

In dealing with children, Fowler said it is a must to always make the camp a safe environment and keep the students busy.

“We really take our responsibility seriously – to take care of someone else’s children,” she said, “and I think that’s why we’ve had so many campers that have come repeatedly because the parents know they’re safe here.”

Topping out at 30 students for both fashion camps and 20

finding a good counselor is important when trying to draw and keep students involved in the camp, Flores said.

“The counselors are probably the most important player on this team,” Flores added. “Because they make or break the camp, they keep the camp running, they keep the children safe, they get them to where they need to be. And I’ve always, always stressed that.”

Aside from Tech students, Flores said there is always a need for local instructors from the surrounding school districts and places from around the area. From these instructors the practicality and relevance of STEM based careers can be more relevant and visible to the campers, Flores said.

Through the real world activities conducted in the camps, the students can dig deeper into the practical side of things, he said. Giving students scenarios and goals in each camp, there is a sense of empowerment and ownership to whatever product comes as a result, not just to IDEAL, but also to all the camps around the university.

“We’re a perfect fit to get to be tier one,” Flores said, “because the more students we bring in and get college ready, the better in turn that they will enroll here.” ➤➤@MichaelCantuDT

Judge: BP payouts to local entities to start soon for spill 172 million gallons spilled into the Gulf. BP put the number much lower, closer to 100 million gallons.

July 15 was the deadline for roughly 500 local governments in five states to decide whether to accept BP’s settlement offers as part of a broader $18.7 billion agreement with the five Gulf states and the federal government over damage from the spill.

Barbier’s order says BP says most local government entities have accepted the settlement.

A handful of local governments have not accepted to settle and are continuing to fight for more funds. Among those not taking the settlement are Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana and Orange Beach

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge says BP will begin paying up to $1 billion in settlements to compensate local governments across the Gulf Coast for lost tax revenue and other economic damages they blame on the company’s 2010 oil spill.

An order issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier said all of the payments to local governments must be made within 30 days.

BP’s Macondo well blew out on April 20, 2010, leading to deadly explosions aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the nation’s largest offshore oil spill. The federal government used a team of scientists to calculate that about

in Alabama. Both locations were heavily oiled by the spill.

Plaquemines, for instance, says that the compensation offered for heavy oiling of its marshland isn’t sufficient. The parish says that about 10,000 acres of parish land was heavily oiled and that in all about 40,000 acres of coastal area was damaged by the spill.

Government entities are expected to receive varying amounts in compensation according to how much damage they suffered.

Jefferson Parish is expected to receive about $53 million for damage it suffered, the highest expected payout so far. Coastal areas in the parish, in particular Barataria Bay, suffered a lot of damage.

Keystone XL pipeline hearing before state regulators begins some landowners and environmental groups who are concerned the pipeline could contaminate water supplies and contribute to pollution.

Supporters argue that the pipeline will be a boon for the country and will create construction jobs and boost tax collections in South Dakota.

Corey Goulet, president of Keystone Projects for TransCanada, said in a Monday statement that “Keystone XL was a good project for South Dakotans in 2010 and it is an even better project today.”

William Taylor, an attorney for TransCanada, said that the project continues to meet the conditions on which the permit is based.

John Harter, a Tripp County landowner whose property is crossed by the pipeline, said the project endangers the

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The state Public Utilities Commission is considering whether to approve for the second time in just over five years construction of the South Dakota portion of the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The commission hearing process began Monday and is scheduled to stretch until Aug. 4. The state initially authorized TransCanada Corp.’s project in 2010, but permits must be revisited if construction doesn’t start within four years. The commission is now considering the firm’s guarantee that it can complete the project while meeting the conditions of the 2010 approval.

Commission Chairman Chris Nelson has said it’s unlikely the panel will come to a final decision at the hearing.

The project has prompted opposition from Native American tribes,

public for monetary gain.

“TransCanada has no answer to how they will clean up a spill into our aquifer,” Harter said. “The permitting for this route is ignorant, greed-filled and for this I hold you ... liable.”

South Dakota is one of several fronts where TransCanada is stalled in getting approval for the pipeline, which would go from Canada through Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines to carry more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day to refineries along the Gulf Coast. It could also transport some crude from the Bakken oil field.

The pipeline proposed in 2008 has not received the required approval from President Barack Obama and is also delayed by a Nebraska court case from landowners who oppose it.

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Boy Scout leaders vote on ending gay adult ban NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America’s top policy-making board planned a vote Monday on ending its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion if that accorded with their faith.

The new policy, aimed at easing a controversy that has embroiled the Boy Scouts for decades, would take effect immediately if approved by the BSA’s 80-member National Executive Board. Its members were convening for a closed-to-the-media meeting conducted by teleconference.

The stage was set for Monday’s vote on May 21, when the BSA’s president, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, told the Scouts’ annual national meeting that that the long-standing ban on participation by openly gay adults was no longer sustainable. He said the ban was likely to be targeted by lawsuits that the Scouts were apt to lose.

Two weeks ago, the new policy was approved unanimously by the BSA’s 17-member National Executive Committee. It would allow local Scout units to select adult leaders without regard to sexual orientation — a stance that several Scout councils have already adopted in defiance of the official national policy.

In 2013, after heated internal debate, the BSA decided to allow openly gay youth as scouts, but not gay adults as leaders. Several denominations that sponsor large numbers of Scout units — including the Roman Catholic church, the Mormon church and the Southern Baptist Convention — have been apprehensive about ending the ban on gay adults.

The BSA’s top leaders have pledged to defend the right of any church-sponsored units to continue excluding gays as adult volunteers.

Under the proposed new policy: —Prospective employees of the national organization could no longer be denied a staff position on the basis of sexual orientation.

He cited an announcement by the BSA’s New York City chapter in early April that it had hired Pascal Tessier, the nation’s first openly gay Eagle Scout, as a summer camp leader.

Gates also cited broader developments related to gay rights, and warned that rigidly maintaining the ban “will be the end of us as a national movement.”

The BSA faced potential lawsuits in New York and some other states if it continued to enforce its ban. And the exclusionary policy prompted numerous major corporations to suspend charitable donations to the Scouts in recent years.

Like several other major youth organizations, the Boy Scouts have experienced a membership decline in recent decades. Current membership, according to the BSA, is about 2.4 million boys and about 1 million adults.

—Gay leaders who were previously removed from Scouting because of the ban would have the opportunity to reapply for volunteer positions.

—If otherwise qualified, a gay adult would be eligible to serve as a Scoutmaster or unit leader.

—There would be no change in the long-standing requirement that youth and adult Scout members profess a “duty to God.” Gates, who became the BSA’s president in May 2014, said at the time that he personally would have favored ending the ban on gay adults, but he opposed any further debate after the Scouts’ policymaking body upheld the ban. In May, however, he said at the BSA’s annual national meeting that recent events “have confronted us with urgent challenges I did not foresee and which we cannot ignore.”

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After being accepted into the competition, the Tech team was assigned a Tibetan mentor, Tsewang Rigzin. With the help of Rigzin, a Research Fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute, the group was able to learn about complicated problems of the Tibetan Refugees.

Team members said Rigzin was detrimental in understanding Tibetan culture as well as creating a viable business solution.

“He would talk with us for hours at a time,” Brown said. “He gave a lot of his time.”

In the Tibetan House in New York City, the teams presented their business plans in front of a wide array of judges, including Jeff Hoffman, entrepreneur and founder of Priceline.com, and Kaydor Aukatsang, representative of the Dalai Lama to North America, Fisher said.

When the team won first place, the members received an opportunity to meet and take a picture with the Dalai Lama.

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go and talk to them. So it is really hard to find information about the co-ops we will be working with.”

In addition, the team will be looking to find investors and supporters to provide funding for the start up, Fisher said. While the group received its initial financial support from SGA and Tech President M. Duane Nellis, the group will need to find funding from seed investors, entrepreneurs or with the contacts the group has made, Fisher said.

While the team may have won the competition, Nafees said it is only the beginning of the journey.

While the team certainly enjoyed the experience so far, the only true victory would be providing aid to the Tibetan refugees.

“This is not about winning or losing. It is about helping a disadvantaged group of people, an amazing group of people,” Nafees said. “All our fellow competitors did an amazing job, and they all had great ideas that will all be hopefully implemented, in hopes that we can help this community move forward.”

“Everything happened so fast, I feel like. Even when we won our award with the Dalai Lama,” DeLeon said. “It felt like an out of body experience, but it was great.

Everyone was so nice.”

DeLeon said while the Tech team took first in the competition, the other teams still aspire to implement their plans in the Tibetan communities. Jarvis said some plans work better in some regions than others, so each team has an opportunity to help the Tibetan refugees by offering its plan.

The Tech team is currently planning out the implementation of its business plan in India, Jarvis said. While team members will eventually travel to India to see their plan in action, analyzing and research will take time. Brown said the Tibetan exiles have settled into many isolated villages, meaning spreading through these areas will be a challenge within itself.

“One of the biggest obstacles is just trying to get information of the area and how things work over there,” Jarvis said. “You know, they don’t have the best Internet. They don’t have the best phone lines to

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He’s a fraud for a multitude of reasons. He’s the biggest fraud because he’s getting the most attention right now.

Trump, who is running for the Republican nomination for president, is being hailed by many conservative voters as a hero. A CNN/ORC poll released Sunday saw Trump leading all other GOP contenders with 18 percent of support among Republicans, which is just absurd.

It scares me that so many voters are so easily duped just because a guy gets up and screams about illegal immigration. Regardless of what he may say, Trump is no friend to the GOP whatsoever.

First of all, he’s not really a conservative. According to a Washington Post article, Trump has donated money to many prominent Democrats over the years, including Senators Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel and Chuck Schumer, as well as current Secretary of State John Kerry.

He’s even donated money to the person he wants to run against — Hillary Clinton. She even sat front row at his 2005 wedding.

In another twist, he also donated money to Sen. John McCain, who he recently said was not a war hero because McCain was captured in Vietnam.

Doesn’t make much sense, does it?

It’s obvious he’s donated money based on his business interests, because why else would he donate to such a diverse group of candidates?

First and foremost, Trump is a businessman.

In addition to donating to Democratic candidates, he’s also espoused liberal viewpoints

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In 2011, he said he was against abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when t h e m o t h e r ’s health is at risk.

Trump previously supported assault weapons bans and longer waiting periods on gun purchases (which he now opposes), as well as a universal health care system (he now opposes Obamacare), according to another Washington Post article.

Now he’s acting like a fascist when people are critical of him.

According to a CNN article, The Des Moines Register published a highly critical editorial about Trump (in which it brilliantly and succinctly called him a “feckless blowhard”), and he responded by denying it press credentials to his campaign event in Iowa.

Sounds like Trump isn’t a big fan of the First Amendment. I

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He’s gained all this recent attention because of his loudmouthed, hardline stance on illegal immigration, where he’s said immigrants are bringing drugs and crime to the U.S., according to a CNN article. His public spectacle of a trip to Laredo was the icing on the cake.

What’s important to note about this is he hasn’t actually articulated any sort of plan to deal with illegal immigration. Of course he wants to secure the border, but how? He’s spent so much time screaming about how bad it is and so little time actually coming up with a workable solution. As the Des Moines Register editorial put it, he can “generate headlines, name recognition and polling numbers not by provoking thought, but by provoking outrage.”

The reality is Trump is nothing more than a charlatan. His supporters think he is above typical politics and special interests because he’s already wealthy, but again, he is a businessman above all else. His one true allegiance is the almighty dollar, and this presidential run is not about him wanting to serve the

Trump is especially dangerous to the GOP because Democrats are likely licking their chops watching him parade around on his ‘Vote for me because I’m angry and outspoken’ platform.

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country, but about him wanting to serve himself.

To quote the great Don Henley, “He speaks the language of a warrior, he mounts his misinformed attack, he wears the clothes of a dissenter, but there’s a logo on his back.”

Trump is especially dangerous to the GOP because Democrats are likely licking their chops watching him parade around on his “Vote for me because I’m angry and outspoken” platform.

Trump is not electable, which is why his early success is scary.

If Trump is on the ballot in November 2016, Clinton will be the next president (assuming she gets the Democratic nomination). If Trump gets the GOP nomination, Clinton wins because the nation simply won’t elect him. If he does not get the nomination but runs as a third party or independent candidate, Clinton also wins, because he’ll divide the conservative vote much like Ross Perot did in 1992. Trump’s success is a dream come true for Democrats.

And no, he won’t win the Hispanic vote because Hispanics have worked for him, no matter what his delusional ramblings may say.

So please, to anyone even thinking about supporting Trump, don’t give this buffoon a second thought — not because he looks like an oversized Oompa-Loompa, but because his campaign is a train wreck waiting to happen, and he’s more dangerous to the GOP than anyone else. He’s a fraud, and he needs to go.

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High costs plague some state-run health insurance markets WASHINGTON (AP) — Staterun health insurance markets that offer coverage under President Barack Obama’s health law are struggling with high costs and disappointing enrollment. These challenges could lead more of them to turn over operations to the federal government or join forces with other states.

Hawaii’s marketplace, the latest cautionary tale, was awarded $205 million in federal startup grants. It has spent about $139 million and enrolled 8,200 customers for individual coverage in 2015. Unable to sustain itself, the state marketplace is turning over sign-ups to the federal HealthCare. gov for 2016.

Twelve states and the District of Columbia fully control their markets. Experts estimate about half face financial difficulties. Federal taxpayers invested nearly $5 billion in startup grants to the states, expecting that state markets would become self-sustaining. Most of the federal money has been spent, and states have to face the consequences.

“The viability of state health insurance exchanges has been a challenge across the country, particularly in small states, due to insufficient numbers of uninsured residents,” said a statement from the office of Hawaii Democratic Gov. David Ige, announcing last month that his state’s sign-ups were being turned over to the federal government.

Now that the Supreme Court has

ruled the Obama administration can keep subsidizing premiums in all 50 states through HealthCare.gov, no longer is there a downside for states turning to Washington. If the decision had gone the opposite way, state exchanges would have been a leaky lifeboat for preserving a major expansion of taxpayer-subsidized coverage under the law.

With the pressure gone, “I think you are going to see much more of a hybrid across the nation,” said Peter Lee, who heads California’s state-run marketplace. Covered California fell short of its sign-up projections this year by nearly 20 percent, but Lee says it remains “a solid business proposition.”

States are “talking a lot about shared services,” Lee said. “It’s how you get economies of scale.”

States could pool resources on functions such as labor-intensive call centers or use HealthCare.gov’s technology for online enrollment. They generally want to keep control over marketing, consumer education and oversight of insurance plans.

Sustainability is the focus of the administration’s annual meeting with state exchange directors, scheduled for the end of the month in the Washington area. The two-day meeting is closed to the media.

“Each state has a different set of circumstances that informs their approach, and we will continue to support

their efforts,” said Mayra Alvarez, the federal liaison to state marketplaces.

The pendulum probably will swing toward a greater federal role in the next couple of years, said Jim Wadleigh, director of Connecticut’s Access Health.

Eventually, more states will want to take the lead, he said, because it gives them greater control over health care, particularly modernizing Medicaid programs for low-income people.

In New England, there’s talk of a regional exchange.

The insurance industry would welcome consolidation.

“Our biggest concern is that you may see many states looking to enact taxes and fees, and that makes health care less affordable,” said Justine Handelman, policy chief at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

Hawaii is the third state exchange going to the federal sign-up system, following Nevada and Oregon, which made the switch last year. Among the problems confronting states: Minnesota’s MNsure faces a murky financial future. Its budget is balanced as a result of repeated cuts when enrollment has come in below projections, a tactic that cannot work forever. Despite a slew of proposals, no concrete changes came out of the state’s most recent legislative session. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has signaled that MNsure’s fate is on the table, including the option of shifting operations to HealthCare.gov.

Former ambassadors back nuclear deal WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven former U.S. diplomats and State Department officials sent a letter Monday to leaders in Congress urging them to support the nuclear deal with Iran.

Those for and against the international agreement with Iran to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief are engaged in a verbal battle to lobby lawmakers. Congress has 60 days to review it, vote to approve or disapprove of the deal or take no action.

The views of those opposed align with statements by Iraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who staunchly opposes the deal. Iran has threatened to annihilate his nation.