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Tech among top on investment return Texas Tech was listed in the top schools for return on investment, according to a news release.

AffordableCollegesOnline.org ranked Tech No. 28 in the nation for Affordable Colleges with High Returns.

Out of 875 schools, Tech was ranked 28th with a 30-year return on investment calculated at $328,000.

“Texas Tech offers accessible education without sacrificing quality,” Chancellor Kent Hance said in the release.

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Bus routes on, around campus to change Bus routes will be changed for the 2013-2014 academic year.

All bus routes will no longer circle campus and off-campus bus routes will drop off students at a single location, according to a university-wide email from Student Government Association.

The Red Raider and Double T bus routes will circle campus in opposite directions, and the Masked Rider bus route will travel in a loop around campus.

Student safety has been a concern, SGA’s vice president of external affairs Peyton Craig, said, and the new change in bus routes will provide students with more safety and cause less congestion on campus streets.

“I haven’t had any negative feedback yet,” Craig said. “This is an efficient way to run buses through campus.”

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While the hottest months of the year were in full swing, the city of Lubbock and the students at Texas Tech saw more than just the temperatures rise. Electricity bills around Lubbock have increased, most of which were provided by Lubbock Power and Light.

LP&L is the sole electricity provider to most of Lubbock and to Tech. The company recently angered many of its customers with a 9.7 percent rate increase that took effect June 1.

LP&L customers usually pay an average bill of $87.47, $10 less than the Texas average, which is $99.77.

After the rate increase, that price began to rise.

Peyton Craig, a junior political science major from Spring, and Student Government Association external vice president, said he had mixed emotions about the rate increase.

“If economics needed it to go up, I’m not one to say ‘Let’s keep that price down,’” Craig said. “My problem is with the increase in price so suddenly.”

The increase in electricity rates is affecting many Tech students as they watch their bills jump.

Scott Sigmund, a management information systems graduate student from Dallas, has a house off campus and said he watched his electricity bill climb to about $350 this summer.

“I don’t know why (rates) have to increase when so many people protested it,” he said. “LP&L has a monopoly and they’re taking everyone’s money just because they can.”

The reason for the price increase, Chris Sims, an LP&L spokesman said, is more complicated.

LP&L buys all of its power wholesale from Xcel Energy. The company then distributes that electricity

to the city of Lubbock at lower, resale prices. To make up for the difference in prices, LP&L had a large reserve account it used to maintain profit levels.

The problem is that this reserve account is now empty. To maintain a steady profit margin, LP&L had to increase its rates.

Regardless of this, many Lubbock residents think LP&L needs to rescind those rates.

District 3 City Councilman Todd Klein has been leading the charge to lower electricity prices in Lubbock.

Klein said he is proposing a task force to be put in place to work with LP&L to stabilize rates and improve customer service. This task force would be made up of private citizens who have not already served on either the City Council or the LP&L board.

Klein said he wants the task force to be comprised of citizens who have both questions and concerns, but also are willing to look at the issues in a reasonable and open-minded way.

Many Lubbock residents, including Mayor Glen Robertson and LP&L Board Chairman Gail Kring, question the necessity of the proposed task force.

Klein, on the other hand, said he will continue to defend his proposal.

“I’m not asking for another board,” he said. “I’m asking for a task force, for a limited time, comprised of primarily private citizens who have lived, firsthand, through the difficulties of billing, billing arrangements and other aspects.”

This task force, Klein said, will be at the discretion of LP&L and he hopes to have it formed and meeting with LP&L within the next few weeks.

Craig said he thinks the task force is a great idea and supports to idea of citizens’ rights to check LP&L.

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Obama signs bill cutting student loan rates Tech breaks ground on new AVERAGE STUDENT residence hall

By ADAM BARENTINE Staff Writer

By CARSON WILSON Staff Writer

Because of Texas Tech’s large population growth, Tech officials started construction for a new residence hall Aug. 8.

The Board of Regents approved the $54.8 million project Dec. 8.

The location for the new residence hall will be east of Knoxville Avenue by 19th Street and Texas Tech Parkway.

According to University Student Housing’s website, the architecture for the complex will be in a Spanishrenaissance design and will be built in a village style. The new two-building and four-level hall will have spaces for 455 beds and will include approximately 234,501 square feet.

There will be 61 one-person bedrooms, 47 two-person bedrooms and 75 four-person bedrooms. All of the rooms will have full kitchens or kitchenettes.

There will be nine lounge areas, 14 study rooms, eight laundry rooms and four offices managing the complex, according to the website.

The complex also will include 5,000 square feet of food service, retail space and conference rooms for student and faculty use.

Surrounding the buildings will be green areas, courtyards and public art.

During the groundbreaking ceremony, Michael Molina, vice chancellor of Facilities Planning and Construction, said he is ready for the task.

“On behalf of the entire (Facilities Planning and Construction) design and build team,” he said, “we look forward to the challenge in creating, designing and building this graduate and upperclassmen project which will frame our west campus entry.”

The new residence hall is expected to open in August 2014 for the 2014 fall term.

Some college students across the country let out a collective sigh of relief Aug. 9, as President Barack Obama signed a bill that lowered student loan interest rates.

The Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act was passed with much applause from members of both the Democratic and Republican parties. This bill reverses another bill set in place July 1, which raised interest rates on federal subsidized and unsubsidized student loans to 6.8 percent.

According to information provided by Becky Wilson, senior managing director of Student Financial Aid at Texas Tech, the new rates for subsidized student loans will be 3.86 percent.

According to the White House website, this will save the average undergraduate student $1,500 during the life of their loans.

Cody Mitchell, a museum sciences graduate student from Hobbs, N.M., said he does not know how to feel about all the changes in interest rates.

“I’m happy it’s going down,” he said. “But I’m also unhappy about all the changes in the rates. It’s very complicated and I don’t really know what I’m going to have to pay.”

Mitchell is not alone in his confusion.

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Tech to try to minimize feral cat population

By LIANA SOLIS Staff Writer

Swarms of feral felines, big and small, are often seen wondering around many parts of the Texas Tech campus.

Recently, there has been some confusion about whether the Tech administration is trying to minimize or completely diminish the stray cat population on campus.

Chris Cook, the managing director of communications and marketing, said the administration is only trying to lessen the cat population.

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STD rates rise in Lubbock STD fact sheet website, chlamydia is the most common STD in the U.S., with 1,412,791 cases recorded in 2011.

The CDC also estimates 2.86 million cases will occur annually, according to its website.

Willer Da Silva, a freshman management information systems major from Coppell, was surprised to hear the recent statistics from the Lubbock Health Department.

“It’s alarming to hear that STD rates are increasing in spite of awareness,” Da Silva said. “I think it’s important for statistics to be revealed so that people are aware of the growth of STDs.” Swacina said the most effective ways to prevent STDs are to wear condoms, know sexual partners, get tested and practice abstinence.

Another STD spreading in Lubbock County is gonorrhea.

According to the CDC website, gonorrhea is a common infection, which affects 820,000 people in the U.S. annually.

About 570,000 of the cases were among young people aged 15-24, according to the CDC website.

In 2012, 611 cases of gonorrhea were recorded in Lubbock County, Swacina said. In January through June 2013, 386 new cases were recorded in Lubbock, showing an increase in infection rate.

Grant James, a sophomore exercise and sport sciences major from Ralls, said he was unaware of the amount of people infected in Lubbock.

“I had no idea that many people had STD’s,” he said. “I’m shocked.”

Many people are unaware having sex can be more than just penetrative sex. According to the CDC website, anal and oral sex also are

categorized as having sex.

Penetrative sex is not the only way people can contract STDs. Syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes and HIV all can be contracted from oral and anal sex.

STD testing can be done at the Lubbock Health Department, which is located at 806 18th St. Visits are made on the same day appointments are scheduled, and walk-in patients also are allowed. To contact the Lubbock Health Department, call (806) 775-2933. Hours of operation are from Monday through Friday 8a.m. to noon. and from 1p.m. to 5 p.m. The cost for an exam is $20.

Specific treatment by a physician is an additional $10.

There are other clinics throughout Lubbock that provide testing, all of which are listed on the Lubbock Health Department website.

people. It gives us some advantage over other institutions. I don’t think that’s going to change in the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B near future. This past Legislative “From visiting with deans, I Session, Tech did very well.” think they’re pretty excited about During the next biennium, the quality of people they brought the Competitive Knowledge in. I think they’re optimistic that Fund will receive $12 million in we’ve really grown the research funding and the Research Develcapacity of the university,” Inter- opment Fund will receive $1.9 im Provost Lawrence Schovanec million, which will primarily be said in a previous interview. used for research, Hance said.

The additional funds would “All of that reflects the reputation of Texas Tech, that they feel advance the research enterprise, like we’re attracting a stronger he said, which is providing the pool of candidates and we do world with much advancement have resources to invest in these across the board.

The Texas Research Incentive Program permits private contributions made to universities to be matched with funds from the state. In the upcoming biennium, thanks to fundraising, Tech will receive $29 million or 41 percent of the state-matched fund.

Hance said the money received for research makes the university look good.

One big impact the legislative session has made is the addition of a freestanding university in El Paso.

Hance said Gov. Rick Perry’s approval on Senate Bill 120 on

May 18 helped introduce the Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso as the fourth component institution in the Tech System.

“When I came to Texas Tech we were doing about $50 million a year in research and this year we’re doing around $200 million,” Hance said. “The more research you get, the more prestige you receive as far as being one of the top research universities in the nation. We have made great strides in that regard and I think that we will continue to do so.”

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“I’ve done it before, where I worked 50 hours a week to pay for it,” she said. “I don’t know if I would want to do that again. But at the same time, it is like putting off the inevitable. Sooner or later you’re going to have to pay that loan back.”

Many students are faced with a similar decision. According to a study conducted by TransUnion, the average student will end up with $23,829 in student loan debt. That number has increased 30 percent in the last five years.

“You should be motivated to go for higher education,” Moises Balbuena, a senior psychology and political science major from Kingston, N.Y., said. “But things like (higher interest rates) are not letting you pursue it because it would be more negative than positive.”

Balbuena, Samples and Mitchell, like other students who borrowed money this year, said they regard this new law as a blessing.

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Amazon at Tech Time: 10 a.m. to Tuesday at 3 p.m.

Where: Texas Tech West Plaza So, what is it?

Amazon is on campus and could walk away with free items. Free drinks and snacks will be avaliable.

Women’s Equality Day: Online Tweetchat Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Where: The Women’s Studies Program (@TTUWSP) So, what is it?

The Women’s Studies Program will host a “tweet chat” through Twitter to have a discussion on empowering women and girls via other media actions and projects.

Modern Western Square Dancing Time: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Lubbock Dance Center So, what is it?

Learn how to modern Western Square dance. Couples and singles are welcomed.

Songwriter Night hosted by Benton Leachman Time: 9 p.m.

Where: Blue Light Live

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Come and listen to original songwriting.

Tuesday Stamp-A-Ring Time: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building West Basement So, what is it?

Stop by and make your own personalized ring. Free with Student ID. All You Can Eat Pasta!

Time: 11 a.m.

Where: Johnny Carino’s So, what is it?

All you can eat pasta for $9.99 Open Jam Sessions Time: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Jack and Dianne’s So, what is it?

Come and enjoy music with friends. All levels of musicians are welcome to perform.

Randall King Band Time: 9 p.m.

Where: Blue Light Live So, what is it?

Come enjoy an evening of live entertainment with the Randall King Band.

To make a calendar submission email dailytoreador@ttu.edu.

Events will be published either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by 4 p.m. on the preceding publication date.

Lubbock County is no stranger to sexually transmitted diseases.

However, most students at Texas Tech are not aware of the ongoing problem.

Statistics from the Lubbock Health Department show that chlamydia, the No. 3 STD nationwide, affected 1,723 people in Lubbock County in 2012.

Lubbock Health Department laboratory services coordinator, Kim Swacina said in the five-month period from January to June 2013, there have been 907 new cases in Lubbock, which means in five months the chlamydia rate has passed the amount of cases recorded during the first half of 2012.

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For students who are borrowing money, this new law will require them to pay less because of lower interest rates. For future students, this may not be the case.

Starting in 2015, according to the Associated Press article, the percentage will be based on the 10-year Treasury note. With that in mind, it is projected interest

rates will be about 7 percent by 2017.

“They are trying to express to everyone that higher education is the way to go,” Taelhr Samples said. “But once you learn how expensive it is, not many people are going to go for it.”

Samples, a senior microbiology major from Tullahoma, Tenn., said she works to pay for her education and would have difficulty deciding between borrowing more in loans and working more hours to pay for school.

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Military leaders say the deci-

sion to relieve Col. David Lynch of command at Malmstrom Air Force Base stems from a loss of confidence. They say it is not the result of the failed inspection this month first reported by The Associated Press on Aug. 13.

Lynch will transition into retirement, base spokesman Sgt. Robert Biermann said Sunday.

Lynch’s command included the 341st Missile Wing, which operates land-based nuclear missiles known as 450 Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles. The unit failed a review of its adherence to rules that ensure the safety, security and control of its nuclear weapons.

This is the second time in recent months that an Air Force

nuclear commander was replaced following a high-profile security problem.

Lt. Col. Randy Olson was relieved of duty at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., in June. The AP first reported an unprecedented sidelining of 17 launch officers there in May following an exceptionally poor review in the spring.

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$1 billion campaign coordinator leaves Tech

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

Months after the university reached its $1 billion campaign goal, Kelly Overley Cronin, vice chancellor of Institutional Advancement and chief operating officer of the Texas Tech Foundation, has accepted a position within the University of Colorado system.

On Sept. 1, Cronin will officially become the vice president for advancement at the university based in Boulder, Colo., and Associate Vice Chancellor Scott Cooksey will formally begin work as interim vice chancellor.

Cronin’s departure comes one day

after the Aug. 31 official end date of Vision and Tradition: The Campaign for Texas Tech. The campaign reached its goal of $1 billion in donations on Feb. 8.

Cronin worked alongside Chancellor Kent Hance on the campaign, which is the university’s largest fundraising endeavor to date, according to the campaign’s website.

Cooksey said it saddens him to see Cronin leave her alma mater, but they will remain in constant communication during the transition process. The two have worked as colleagues in the department since 2007.

“She did a lot, she built a lot, but we have a lot more to go as well,” he said.

“We want to keep things moving in the

right direction and building on what we’ve already done come September.”

Cooksey said both he and Cronin share similar philosophies about giving and donating, as well as a passion for the university.

Cooksey works primarily with overseeing college development officers in his present role as assistant vice chancellor. When he officially begins his interim position next month, Cooksey said his responsibilities will include fundraising for all institutions in the university system.

Micah Malouf, general counsel for the Institutional Advancement department, has worked with Cooksey on a daily basis since Malouf joined the

department in March 2010.

Malouf said Cronin and Cooksey have their own respective ways of reaching a vision, but the transition will unlikely affect the goals the department accomplishes.

“We’re not going to miss a beat,” Malouf said. “Scott’s another person who’s gonna be up here working his tail off to continue the good works that Kelly led us in, and he’s gonna lead us to bigger things.”

Meanwhile, Cronin’s decision to leave the university was a surprise to some of her colleagues, development officer Alicia Knight said.

Elizabeth Haley, associate vice chancellor, said Cronin told Haley earlier

this year she considered a position at a different university but later decided against leaving. The University of Colorado president, Bruce Benson, began a search in April for a development vice president, according to the university’s website. Haley said Cronin changed her decision sometime between April and when the move was officially announced in July.

The University of Colorado most likely made an interesting and challenging offer to Cronin, Haley said, and the Board of Regents recently approved Hance’s request to search for a replacement.

“As with most positions at this level at a university, we have to do a national

search to try to find the best person,” she said. “It doesn’t mean local individuals are not good, and they can be candidates or considered as well, but it gives us more credibility if we look nationally to see who outside of Texas Tech might also bring some special talents to the system.”

Haley said Hance aims to find a new vice chancellor within 60 days.

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Princeton Review names Texas Tech as one of Best in West schools

By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer

Best in the West is another title Texas Tech can claim after the university beat out schools in 15 western states in a ranking conducted by the Princeton Review.

The Princeton Review, which has no affiliation with Princeton University, selected Tech as one of the top 124 universities in 15 western states spanning from Texas to Alaska. Aside

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“The common misunderstanding is that we are eliminating the cat population of Tech completely, which we are not,” he said. “We want to reduce the population, not completely eliminate it.”

Cook said they wanted to reduce the cats mainly from the dining areas, residence halls and the Child Development Research Center.

“The reason behind reducing the population is the health risks involved with having large numbers of feral cats on campus that carry diseases and fleas,” he said. “We have had complaints of smells due to feces and have had flea problems in buildings in the past.”

The children on campus are especially who the administration is worried about, Cook said.

“The children on campus are especially

from providing educational services to students, the Princeton Review also named the best colleges in the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast.

“We are proud of the work our faculty and staff do by educating and providing support for students,” said Chris Cook, managing director of the Office of Communications and Marketing.

Eight straight semesters of record enrollment are proof of the university’s upward trend, he said.

According to its website, the Princ-

eton Review uses two methods to help rank the colleges. The first is a panel of members who find the colleges they believe to have a very high academic standing. The next is by interviewing students to see their view of their college within a number of different categories. The categories vary from things such as academics to the college’s social scene.

“The Princeton Review is more related to student perceptions and student satisfaction and what Tech has

done there is to greatly enhance the many services we provide for student success,” said Lawrence Schovanec, interim provost and senior vice president.

“Everyone is friendly, everyone is willing to give a hand,” said Stephen Cavazos, a freshman mathematics major from Weslaco.

For Cavazos, that has made all the difference in his satisfaction with the university.

However, Schovanec said care should be taken when placing value

on rankings, such as the Best in the West title.

“I always think we should exercise some caution in how we interrupt rankings, how much weight we put on them,” he said.

The ranking, Schovanec said, is one of the indicators of Tech’s growing reputation.

Another indicator, Cook said, was that payskill.com did some research and found Tech was in the top 10 universities of mid-career earnings from

graduates.

Given the upward trend of the university, Schovanec said Tech will continue to reach for its goal of tier-one status in Texas.

“Some of the things that Texas Tech has done in recent years to enhance our reputation we’ve related to our pursuit of tier-one status in Texas so that we would receive the benefits of the national research university fund,” Schovanec said.

more susceptible to diseases and they don’t understand that it isn’t safe to go up and pet a feral cat, ” he said.

Lauren Sanderson, a senior animal sciences major from Houston, is the president of the Feral Cat Student Association at Tech and said the administration has started removing several feeding stations for cats around campus.

“The administration are slowly taking away the cats’ drinking and food areas, so eventually they won’t have anywhere else to eat,” Sanderson said.

Cook said the administration is only taking away feeding stations in the areas in which they don’t want the cats.

“We are not removing all of the feeding stations on campus,” he said. “We are only removing feeding stations from the habitats that have been sealed off to the animals such as the eating areas and residence halls.”

During the summer, the administration decided to put in metal grates over entrances to buildings so cats would not be

able to get under them, Cook said.

“There are cats getting stuck under buildings all across campus that were already under there when the metal grates were put on,” Sanderson said. “Now, they are stuck under there with no food or water and no way to get out.”

Before the grates were put up, however, Tech employes were sent under the buildings with flashlights to make sure there were no cats, Cook said.

“It is unfortunate that there were animals still trapped under there after the grates were put up,” he said. “But, the only reason we put up the metal grates was because our original grates kept getting bent back and tampered with illegally.”

Pictures of the trapped cats have circulated around social media, Sanderson said, and The Humane Society of West Texas has responded to the photos in a negative way.

“While Texas Tech claims to be humanely removing cats and kittens, there’s

no telling how many were trapped under buildings to starve to death,” the HSWT Facebook page said.

The humane society was already trying to convince the administration to go about the situation another way besides removing the cats, Sanderson said. ”The removal of the already neutered and vaccinated ferals will leave empty territories that new strays will move into,” the HSWT Facebook page said. “The new strays will not be vaccinated for rabies or neutered and will simply multiply any problems the campus is experiencing.”

After the pictures were posted, Cook said he received a phone call claiming that one of the pictures of the trapped cats was inaccurate.

“We don’t know if the person who took the picture knew this, but the building they thought the cat was trapped under actu-

ally had an opening on the other side of the building where someone had already removed one of the grates,” he said. “We know that seeing those pictures was a huge rallying point for the group though, and we understand their passion for the animals.”

The administration also wanted to make clear that they are not getting rid of the Trap-Neuter-Return program, Cook said.

“We are not eliminating the TrapNeuter-Return program, but we want to reduce the population to a more stable and manageable number,” he said. “We know it is not an easy process and we are not pretending that we can move every single cat off campus.”

Sanderson, along with the humane society, are encouraging people to contact Chancellor Kent Hance or M. Duane Nellis if they believe something should be done

about the issue.

“One alternative option to regulate the population is planting eucalyptus plants around areas they don’t want the cats around because they hate the smell,” Sanderson said. “But students need to know if they want something to be done, the best thing they can do is speak up. If officials who are higher up don’t understand the seriousness of the matter then no one will.”

Cook said any other questions or concerns on the issue can be dealt with though him.

“We all have pets and we understand the concern,” he said. “But the bottom line is that the cats are a health risk to the campus with the disease and fleas that they can carry. We are not eliminating all the cats on campus, we are just getting them to a manageable number.”

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Gleinser: Concealed carry in schools beneficial Reynolds: Arming teachers may prove harmful actually be a great asset should a threat materialize.

Something the recent string of tragic shootings have in common is there was very little, if any, armed resistance. Declaring a school to be a “gun-free zone” won’t stop a madman. He won’t see the sign and say to himself, “Well darn, I guess I can’t bring a gun in here,” and the gun won’t magically stop functioning.

It’s a sad truth that schools are sometimes targets of the deranged who wish to inflict senseless harm on others, and it’s because in most instances, there is no one there to stop them. From the gunman’s standpoint, it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel.

Twenty-six people were killed during the shooting in Newtown, Conn., while the 2007 Virginia Te c h s h o o t ing claimed 32 lives. The reason the numbers were so high is because there was no resistance. Had there been any, it is likely some of those people would still be alive today.

The gun control argument holds no water in any instance, this case included. Further restricting the right to gun ownership won’t solve this problem, nor will it solve any others. Criminals, by nature, care very little about laws. Creating more laws will make no difference to them.

Take the city of Chicago as an example. It has some of the toughest gun restrictions of any city in the nation, yet it has one of the highest murder rates. Even though they’re not allowed to purchase guns, criminals get them anyway.

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shootings of any kind.

Banning certain types of guns, such as assault rifles, as well as largecapacity magazines, will not solve the problem either. An experienced marksman can switch magazines in a matter of seconds. When there is no armed resistance to deal with, the two or three second delay matters very little.

Even if a madman cannot purchase a gun, he can still get one through non-legal means. And even if gun restrictions succeeded in preventing him from acquiring a firearm, he could very easily choose a different weapon. Then you still have a problem of a murderous psychopath and no means to stop him.

Therefore, it’s clear that having resistance in the schools is the best way to protect kids from these acts of violence. There is simply no feasible way to stop someone from entering a school with the intent and means to kill, so the only option is to allow those in the school to have means of protecting themselves.

Placing police officers, retired police officers or retired military personnel in the schools would be beneficial as well, but also would be much less cost-efficient. With school districts pinching every penny of their budgets, arming teachers makes the most sense.

Levelland ISD is taking the right approach to prevent school shootings. The addition of more guns may sound counterproductive, but makes perfect sense when you think about it. Hopefully, more school districts will adopt this approach and give teachers the ability to stop gunmen before they inflict harm.

Something the recent string of tragic shootings have in common is there was very little, if any, armed resistance.

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n the wake of the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., many schools have been looking for ways to prevent such tragedies from repeating themselves. Last week, the Levelland Independent School District school board approved a plan to allow certain teachers to carry concealed handguns on their campuses.

I know there will be people crying about the danger the presence of guns brings to the children, but let’s think about that for a moment. It’s not as if just anyone will be allowed to carry a gun in the schools.

According to the district’s superintendent, teachers must go through a six-step process to carry a weapon.

They must first get their Concealed Handgun License if they do not already have one.

Let’s not forget when the Texas Legislature was debating passage of the bill that allowed for Concealed Handgun Licenses, opponents warned about gunfights in the streets and a return to the Old West.

Obviously, none of those prognostications actually became reality.

Neither will they in this case.

The second step is a psychological evaluation. This will ensure the teachers who do carry are mentally fit to do so, thereby eliminating the possibility of a crazed teacher shooting his or her students.

Teachers also must attend a basic pistol training course, as well as courses on protection inside and outside the home. Because of this, the teachers who carry will know how to use their weapons and how to protect their students.

Finally, the teachers must undergo training for an active shooter situation. So, not only will they know how to use their weapons properly, but they also will know what to do in the event of an active shooter.

Because teachers only will be allowed to carry guns after they have completed the above steps, it is clear they will not be a danger to the students. Furthermore, they would

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fter months of deliberation, the Levelland Independent School District school board has approved a proposal to allow teachers to carry concealed handguns on campus.

Kelly Baggett, Levelland ISD superintendent, will handpick the teachers who will work with Concealed Handgun License instructors and ultimately carry firearms in the classroom. The school board decision came in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting and the approval of Senate Bill 1857 in the Texas Legislature, allowing school districts to work with CHL instructors to arm teachers.

With the rash of gun violence on school campuses nationwide in recent years, it makes sense to take precautions to prevent a tragedy such as a school shooting from happening.

However, looking at Levelland ISD’s decision, one can’t help but wonder whether it’s the best course of action to prepare for a school shooting.

If you’ve paid any attention at all to the mainstream news media for the past few years, you will have heard at least some form of debate about whether reeling back regulations on firearms will help prevent public gun violence, especially when it comes to an active shooter on a school campus. However, policies introducing more guns to the situation have not and will not solve any of the actual problems presented to the American public by the prospect of dealing with a school shooting.

Take, for example, proponents of legislation that trains and arms teachers in school districts, who often justify such policy with insufficient response times from law enforcement and claim that such action will provide an extra line of

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defense against a school shooter, increasing campus security. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard such people say something to the effect of “Criminals don’t care that it’s a crime to take a gun into a ‘gunfree zone.’”

There are numerous flaws with such policy. Unless schools that arm teachers also are willing to pay for and write in basic firearm safety education to their curricula, introducing guns to a classroom setting increases the chances that a firearm will end up in the untrained hands of a student.

Even if bringing guns into the classroom makes the few teachers who genuinely want to carry handguns in the classroom feel in some way empowered, it puts additional stress on other teachers and students as a whole and detracts from the open learning environment the public school classroom is supposed to be. Many of my peers in the Texas public education system and I who went through primary and secondary education were taught various methods and reasons to sort out our differences through nonviolent means.

While it is a fact of life that not all conflicts can be solved nonviolently, introducing guns to a classroom setting directly contradicts that message and is bound to increase the level of gun violence if not in schools, then in public when those students graduate.

Another aspect of arming teachers that its proponents seem to miss is the fact that armed civilians have stopped very few mass shootings. A study conducted by Mother Jones found that in the past 30 years, there have been 62 mass shootings — defined by the FBI as occurring

Armed civilians are less effective at handling active shooter situations and are actually likely to cause more bloodshed.

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in a public place and having four or more fatalities — of which only two were stopped by armed civilians, and of whom one was gravely injured and the other shot and killed.

In fact, most of the less lethal public shootings that were successfully stopped by armed civilians were done so by off-duty and former police officers who were trained to handle high-stress and dangerous situations.

According to Slate.com, an online news magazine, other academic studies on the effectiveness of reeling back gun regulations to prevent mass shootings have proven inconclusive at best.

Simply put, armed civilians are less effective at handling active shooter situations and are actually likely to cause more bloodshed.

Many school districts throughout the years have taken precautionary measures against school violence with metal detectors at the doors and increasing the number of campus police forces.

One thing I find interesting about the arguments I hear to train and arm classroom teachers is they often come from the very same people who are quick to cut public education funding. With public education funding shrinking every time budgets are put together, it should be interesting to see where school districts that want to train and arm teachers will get the money to do so and how many of those will be school districts in poorer areas with higher crime rates and actually in need of increased security.

If the American people are worried about public school shootings, maybe it’s time to educate children in public schools about gun safety rather than glorify guns and violence.

If not that, then maybe it’s time to increase funding for highly trained public school campus security forces.

Either way, putting guns in the hands of classroom teachers should be the last measure taken to ward off the prospect of a school shooting. It will be interesting to see how Levelland ISD’s new school board decision on this issue will pan out in the future.

Zimmerman case highlights public ignorance of rule of law The Oracle (U. SOUTh FlOrida)

Following the shooting of Trayvon Martin in a modest central Florida suburb, two cases immediately sprang to life.

The case of State of Florida v. George Zimmerman sought to prosecute Zimmerman for the second-degree murder of Martin using legal means — evidence, witness testimonies and professional analysts. The case of biased speculation v. Zimmerman, on the other hand, was a contest of gross assumptions and p a r t i a l g r a n d ilo q u e n c e

fought in Internet chat rooms and by water coolers in break rooms across the country.

Neither by legal nor ethical standards would Zimmerman be considered a victim in any of these cases — a life was lost, families were torn apart and racial tension brewed.

But it’s important to understand the underlying dichotomy of the shooting and what role it plays in shielding the required neutrality of the criminal justice system from the emotional, poignant nature of supporters on either side of the issue.

Before the 16-hour jury de-

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liberation, three weeks of court hearings and 56 witnesses, the verdict had already been reached.

Either Zimmerman was absolutely guilty of racism and murder or he was an undeniably innocent man simply defending himself within the confines of Florida law. The speculative debate supported no other alternative — a juvenile frenzy reminiscent of a “Twilight” saga campaign with each camp choosing its respective idol, boiling down to a mockery of the judicial system — Team Trayvon or Team Zimmerman?

As pertinent information permeated the airwaves, Inter-

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The theatrics of the moot court were spectacular in the worst of ways: they nearly contradicted every aspect of America’s criminal justice system and proved that justice, in the hands of ordinary citizens outside the rule of law, was not blind but possesses 20/20 vision, capable of discerning what is and isn’t right without due process. It was neither fair nor honest, gave no credence to litigious matters and made no

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In the case of biased speculation v. Zimmerman, there was only one victim — the rule of law — gutted, immolated and turned on its head months before it was allowed to proceed.

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It did so with the legal prudence of a shrewd judge and a fairly selected jury — a quality that would have withstood the likelihood of either outcome.

In this case of biased speculation, there was no respect for rule of law and no intention to reserve comment until all parties were equally represented, thus exhibiting the gaping discrepancy between public perception and legal reality.

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University in ideal situation Tech perfectly positioned for continued achievement for students to be successful

By KENT HANCE

In 1961, my mother and dad brought me to Texas Tech. They let me out at Bledsoe Residence Hall, and soon thereafter, I fell in love with this university and have loved it ever since.

Tech is the greatest university in the world, and I am reminded of that every day. I have watched this university grow tremendously over the years during my time as a student, then later as a professor and now as chancellor.

In all my history with Tech, there has never been a more exciting time for our university. The progress we have made is incredible, and our future keeps getting brighter.

On the rise over the last decade, Tech’s enrollment is rapidly approaching 35,000 students and setting records along the way. Since 2006, enrollment at Tech has increased each fall semester and grown by 16 percent. Our continued growth places the university on track to reach the goal of 40,000 students by 2020, while also remaining true to our academic quality and culture.

Earlier this year, we joined an elite group of universities after surpassing the one-billion-dollar mark in our capital campaign, Vision and Tradition: The Campaign for Texas Tech. This campaign has spurred a period of growth throughout the entire Tech University System, and its impact can be seen across campus through increased student scholarships, faculty endowments, research support and multiple new

buildings.

More than $466.5 million has been invested in construction projects at Tech since 2006. This year we welcome HANCE the video scoreboard and north end zone improvements at Jones AT&T Stadium, the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research and the Petroleum Engineering and Research Building as new additions to campus.

Tech’s research enterprise has more than doubled since 2006, investing nearly $133 million in 2012.

Significant private contributions and additional funding from the state have been vital to advancing our research endeavors, which are — among many things — providing the world with safer food products, developing wind power systems for the future and generating immeasurable economic activity in the region.

While we are excited about our recent accomplishments, Tech has its sights set on greater goals. Our university has never been in a better position, and with the new leadership of President Duane Nellis, I am confident Tech will continue to succeed.

As we begin the academic year, this marks a new chapter for not only Tech, but also many incoming and returning students. I recall my first days on campus, and it makes me want to go

back and start all over each fall. I loved everything about Tech as a student. You receive more than just a great education here. Even though I can’t enroll again, I offer two simple pieces of advice.

First, go to class. You learn a lot more when you show up for class. We have an excellent faculty who inspired me and will inspire you. When I was a professor, almost all of my students who passed my course never missed a lecture.

Second, get involved. Whether it’s performing in the band, playing intramurals or joining a social or academic organization, become involved on campus. Tech has countless organizations and clubs of various interests that will enrich your college experience. I also encourage you to attend campus and athletic events. This will help build school spirit and pride, while making lifelong memories with friends.

One of my favorite mottos is “Dream No Little Dreams.” At Tech, I want our people and students to dream big dreams. I have no doubt your time at Tech will help you achieve those goals.

Although much has changed since Tech’s beginning, one thing remains the same — the spirit of our great university. We have the best students, faculty, staff and supporters who continue to make Tech better.

Let’s make this a great year. Go Red Raiders!

Hance is the chancellor of the Texas Tech University system.

By M. DUANE NELLIS

Dear Texas Tech students, What an exciting time of year for college students! Whether you spent the summer at home, in Lubbock or studying abroad, the start of the fall semester is always special.

To those of you returning for another year, keep moving forward and continue to add to the academic and mental foundations you’ve begun building. To the first-year students stepping into a college classroom for the first time, I offer this advice: take a deep breath, relax and take advantage of the great resources and opportunities at Tech.

Explore the many academic resources right in front of you. Your professors were once where you are now, and the passion they have for learning is evident in the fact they are teaching you today. Ask questions and explore the future through their experiences. Engage in research opportunities and gain valuable hands-on experience.

Your academic achievements will not go unnoticed here. Each of you has the potential to excel in the academic areas you are passionate about, and some of you should be nominated for national scholarships, including notable awards such as Goldwater, Truman, Rhodes, Fulbright and Udall scholarships. To ensure we leave

no stone unturned in this area, one of my first hires as president this summer was the university’s first staff member whose sole NELLIS responsibility is discovering qualified student nominees for these honors.

Tech has undergone proactive and robust renovation and new construction projects to ensure a productive atmosphere is available in which you can thrive.

Many of you are aware of the state-of-the-art Talkington Residence Hall, the newest residence hall on campus, and its many amenities; and, we recently broke ground on a second, new living facility at 19th Street and Texas Tech Parkway that will be ready for Fall 2014.

New construction for the areas of autism research within the College of Education, Rawls College of Business Administration and petroleum engineering, along with recently renovated state-ofthe-art facilities for the College of Media and Communication, are enabling us to provide you a stable and comfortable learning environment.

I also encourage you to expand your college experience by participating in extracurricular

activities. Tech has more than 450 social and academic organizations on campus, which allow you to enhance yourselves personally and scholastically. Additionally, the friendships and contacts you make in college can have positive, lasting effects many years into the future.

Another exciting aspect of the fall semester is the beginning of our athletic seasons. Nothing rallies a major university, its students, faculty, staff and graduates like the start of a new athletic year. I recently attended the annual kickoff luncheon for Tech’s fall sport programs and I can tell you this will be an exciting year for Red Raider athletics.

Among the highlights for the fall are nationally ranked soccer and cross-country programs, including the NCAA men’s defending national champion, and one of the most talented volleyball teams in Tech history. Oh, yeah, a former Tech quarterback has returned to lead the Red Raiders in Jones AT&T Stadium this year, so come early, be loud and cheer the Red Raider football team to a victory!

I look forward to sharing my first fall semester as a Red Raider with you.

Guns Up!

Nellis is the president of Texas Tech University.

Recurring sexting scandals should signal end of Anthony Weiner’s political career

By NICOLAS RODRIGUEZ

The Daily ForTy-NiNer (loNg Beach STaTe U.)

In light of the new Anthony Weiner scandal, the New York City mayoral candidate continues to press his campaign forward.

In spite of multiple incidents in which Weiner was caught red-handed sexting to other women, Weiner admitted more

sexting acts could be made public in the near future.

Given his propensity for scandals, it is very unlikely that Weiner will be winning any election.

Why does Weiner continue to press on?

While there could be many plausible explanations, it is clear that Weiner feels that the scandals themselves will better

serve the ends he would like to see in becoming Mayor, rather than seeing the lack of fidelity to his wife as a hindrance to the job.

The scandal began when Anthony Weiner was still a U.S. representative serving New York’s ninth congressional district, a position he held from 1999 to 2011.

When news of sexting allegations first

came out, Weiner vehemently denied them. He even went so far as to hiring a personal investigator to find out who had been responsible for framing him and posting inappropriate images related to the sexting on his Twitter account.

After publicly announcing that he was responsible for the sexting scandal, Weiner resigned from his position as a congressional representative. Under

normal circumstances, the drama and scandals would have ended there. Unfortunately, this would not be the case for Mr. Carlos Danger.

Carlos Danger was the pseudonym that Anthony Weiner gave himself as he resumed sexting while married to his wife Huma Abedin’s, whom he married in 2009.

It was not until Weiner publicly an-

nounced his intentions to run for New York City mayor that the second round of allegations came out against the mayoral hopeful.

One can’t help but take note of such blatant debauchery in the same way that one cannot turn away from a train wreck, but what is most amazing of all is Weiner’s tough insistence to run for office again despite the numerous scandals.

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Last of 5 suspects in Mumbai gang rape arrested

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ROBERT CLIFTON, A freshman electrical engineering major from Allen, catches vouchers to collect prizes in an inflatable wind tube during the Raider Welcome Ultimate Gameday Experience event hosted Thursday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Judge dismisses Leach case involving ESPN, others Judge William Sowder dismissed Mike Leach’s defamation case against ESPN, Spaeth Communications and Craig James on Aug. 6.

Texas Tech’s former football coach sued the defendants for defamation, according to an Associated Press article.

“The lawyers I was working with and myself believed that the things that Coach Leach took issue with, the statements that were made about him, were basically true statements,” Spaeth Communications’

attorney Scott McLaughlin said. “Fundamentally, they were substantially true, so that is one of LEACH the big reasons why we argued the case should be dismissed.”

The defense, McLaughlin said, is pleased Sowder affirmed feelings that the case should be decided without going to court.

The case stemmed from an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of a concussed studentathlete, according to the article.

The student-athlete, Adam James, is the son of former ESPN analyst Craig James. Following the investigation, Leach was fired from Tech.

Leach also had made claims against Tech. Those claims were dismissed in February. Leach chose not to appeal the judgment, so no further actions are possible, accord-

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The new residence hall is expected to open in August 2014 for the 2014 fall term.

“We are well underway in putting Texas Tech students’ heads in beds in the fall 2014,” he said.

Ideally, Molina said, the hall is designed for upperclassmen and graduate students.

The contractor for the project is Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, and the design professionals are Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects and Mackey Mitchell Architects, according to the Facilities Planning and Construction website.

The complex will be Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) accredited to keep the commitment to better quality buildings, Molina said.

Because of Tech’s large population growth, there is a demand for more on campus housing facilities.

During the ceremony, President M. Duane Nellis discussed the recent update about the number of student housing applications.

“For the fall, we are actually

oversubscribed right now,” he said.

“That just shows you the need for this newest facility.”

The Facilities Planning and Construction office also is tackling two other large projects, the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research and the Petroleum Engineering and Research Building.

The Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research project began in June 2010 and is expected to be completed in October. The project’s budget is $22.8 million and includes approximately 28,458 square feet, according to the Faculties Planning and Construction website.

The $22.8 million Petroleum Engineering and Research Building began construction July 2012 and is believed to end Feb. 2014.

The two-story building will have 43,886 square feet, and the building will include offices, classrooms, conference rooms, engineering laboratories and a library, according to the website.

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There will be nine lounge areas, 14 study rooms, eight laundry rooms and four offices managing the complex, according to the website.

The complex also will include 5,000 square feet of food service, retail space and conference rooms for student and faculty use.

Surrounding the buildings will be green areas, courtyards and public art.

During the groundbreaking ceremony, Michael Molina, vice chancellor of Facilities Planning and Construction, said he is ready for the task.

“On behalf of the entire (Facilities Planning and Construction) design and build team,” he said, “we look forward to the challenge in creating, designing and building this graduate and upperclassmen project which will frame our west campus entry.”

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Leach still has the option to appeal his defamation case against ESPN, Spaeth Communications and Craig James.

McLaughlin said he expects Leach to appeal the case.

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Police on Sunday arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, and said charges would be filed soon in a case that has incensed the public and fueled debate over whether women can be safe in India.

The victim, a 22-year-old Indian woman, said she was anxious to return to work after Thursday night’s assault, in which five men repeatedly raped her while her male colleague was beaten and tied up in an abandoned textile mill in the country’s financial capital.

“Rape is not the end of life,” the woman told the Times of India. A statement from Jaslok Hospital, where she has been since the attack, said her condition was being monitored but that she was “much better” and was being visited by family. Indian law forbids identifying rape victims by name.

Police arrested the fifth suspect Sunday in New Delhi, the capital, after rounding up the other four in Mumbai.

“We will file a comprehensive charge sheet soon,” said Mumbai’s police commissioner, Satyapal Singh, assuring that police had the evidence to prosecute the suspects, including the victim’s testimony and medical samples taken at the hospital after the assault.

It is rare for rape victims to visit police or a hospital immediately after an attack in India, where an

entrenched culture of tolerance for sexual violence has led to many cases going unreported. Women are often pressed by social pressure or police to stay quiet about sexual assault, experts say, and those who do report cases are often subjected to public ridicule or social stigma.

People across India were shocked and shamed in December, however, by the brutal gang rape in New Delhi of a 23-year-old student who died two weeks later from her injuries.

Pledging to crack down, the federal government created fast-track courts for rape cases, doubled prison terms for rape, and criminalized voyeurism, stalking, acid attacks and the trafficking of women.

Under intense pressure, police have acted quickly to hunt down the five suspects in the Mumbai case.

Home Minister R. R. Patil visited investigators at a Mumbai police station Saturday night, and the government has urged the harshest punishment for those found guilty.

The five suspects — including two picked up overnight and two arrested earlier — are likely to face prosecution under a strict new law that sets the maximum prison term for rape at 20 years.

Police said the suspects targeted the photojournalist as she and the male colleague were taking pictures on a magazine assignment in a Mumbai neighborhood where luxury malls and condominiums stand alongside sprawling slums and abandoned mills.

US official: chemical weapons likely used on Syrian citizens WASHINGTON (AP) — There is “very little doubt” that a chemical weapon was used by Syria against civilians in an incident that killed at least 100 people last week, but the president has not yet decided how to respond, a senior administration official said Sunday.

The official said the U.S. intelligence community based its assessment, which was given to the White House, on “the reported number of victims, reported symptoms of those who were killed or injured” and witness accounts.

The official said the White House believes the Syrian government had denied a U.N. investigative team immediate access to the site of a reported Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs, in order to give the evidence of the attack time to degrade.

The official said the regime’s continuing shelling of the site also further corrupts any available evidence of the attack.

On Sunday morning, Syrian State TV announced Bashar Assad’s government would allow U.N. inspectors to visit the site — a statement later confirmed by the U.N. The mission “is preparing to conduct on-site factfinding activities’” on Monday, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Sunday in a statement.

But the Obama administration official said a belated decision to grant access to the U.N. team would be considered “too late to be credible.”

The official insisted on anonymity because of lack of authorization to speak publicly about the developments.

The reported Syrian assent came several days after Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, one of the highest-level contacts between the two governments since the conflict began more than two years ago.

Kerry had warned the Syrian government that it needed to give the inspectors immediate and unimpeded access to the site “rather than continuing to attack the affected area to block access and destroy evidence,” according to a senior State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak on the record.

Last Wednesday’s purported chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta has prompted U.S. naval forces to move closer to Syria.

President Barack Obama met with his national security team Saturday to assess the intelligence and consider a U.S. military response, almost a year after warning the Bashar Asad government that the use of chemical weapons

was a “red line” for the U.S. The White House had concluded previously that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons in limited incidents, but last week’s attack is suspected of being the deadliest single incident of a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people since March 2011.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday that a chemical attack “appears to be what happened.”

Republican Sen. Bob Corker called Sunday for the U.S. to respond in a “surgical and proportional way, something that gets their attention.” The Tennessee lawmaker said such a response should not involve U.S. troops on the ground, however.

“I think we have to respond...in conjunction with our NATO allies...much as we have done in Libya,” Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., added. He suggested using cruise missile strikes to destroy Syrian airport runways. “We cannot sit still. We’ve got to move and we’ve got to move quickly,” he said.

Engel and Corker spoke on “Fox News Sunday.”

The White House has approved limited lethal aid to Syrian rebels but has limited weapons to mostly small arms and training. Obama described the factors limiting greater U.S. involvement in a CNN interview.

“If the U.S. goes in and attacks another country without a U.N. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented, then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it — do we have the coalition to make it work?” Obama said in the interview broadcast Friday. “Those are considerations that we have to take into account.”

Hagel offered no hints Sunday about likely U.S. response to Syria’s purported use of chemical weapons, telling reporters traveling with him in Malaysia that the Obama administration was still assessing intelligence information about the deadly attack.

“When we have more information, that answer will become clear,” he said when a reporter asked whether it was a matter of when, not if, the U.S. will take military action against Syria.

Asked about U.S. military options on Syria, Hagel spoke in broad terms about the factors Obama is weighing.

“There are risks and consequences for any option that would be used or not used — for action or inaction,” he told reporters. “You have to come to the central point of what would be the objective if you are to pursue an action or not pursue an action. So all those assessments are being made.”

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Parking Services begins e-citations

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY

Transportation & Parking Services Box 43161 / 407 Flint Ave., Suite 145 Lubbock, TX 79409

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Parking in non-designated areas:

$25.00

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Decal not properly installed / License plate not visible:

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Parking in a fire lane:

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Failure to remove expired permit(s):

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Parking in a No Parking or Tow Away Zone:

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have the option to appeal any citations within 10 days of issuance on the parking website.

Rules for bicyclists also have changed, according to a Transportation and Parking Services memorandum.

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Tech campus is now free-range, meaning bicyclists can legally ride on sidewalks, according to the memorandum.

However, there are pedestrian-only walkways, including dismount zones,

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When walking up to their cars, students will no longer see yellow citations looming on their windshields.

Texas Tech University Parking Services began the transition to online citation notification one week before the start of the regular school year.

As of Aug. 19, parking offenders will be notified of any fines or citations via email and postal service.

Eric Crouch, managing director of University Parking Services, said the e-Citation program means the elimination of yellow envelopes and notices on windshields.

An online system allows for greater levels of efficiency, he said. With the new technology, the department can access citations to determine their accuracy.

“It’s more helpful to the customer,” Crouch said. “If we have some set of extenuating circumstances, those are some things we could look at before the citation goes out.”

There are 21 violations that can result in citations, he said, which range in cost from $25 to $200.

Some fines, such as parking in a disability zone, are determined by the Texas Higher Education Code, Crouch said.

The costs of other fines are decided by affordability, he said. Fines also serve as deterrents for future parking violations and pay for infrastructure and salaries.

“The state doesn’t really provide any funding for parking systems,” Crouch said. “It has to be a self-funded operation.

If we’re going to build or maintain parking lots, it’s going to come from permit and citation money.”

Parking enforcement manager Brian Brand said repeat offenders receive the majority of citations. The enforcement staff writes an estimated 400 citations per weekday during the regular semester, he said.

For students who receive six or more citations in a single semester, a boot may be added to the vehicle. Crouch said students with a booted vehicle must see a parking supervisor, which allows the department to discover why the student has quickly accumulated citations.

Brand said he recommends students regularly check signage before parking to best avoid citations. Students also

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‘The Butler’ stays on top raking in $17 million NEW YORK (AP) — “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” served up a second helping at the box office, topping the weekend with $17 million according to studio estimates Sunday.

That was enough to lead all films on a late August weekend known as a dumping ground for studios following their summer blockbusters and before the start of the fall movie-going season. Daniels’ historical drama about a long-serving White House butler, starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, last weekend opened with $24.6 million for the Weinstein Co. Three new releases failed to catch on. The teen fantasy “Mortal Instruments: City of Bones,” adapted from the popular young adult book series, opened tepidly in third with $9.3 million on the weekend and $14 million since opening Wednesday. With franchise hopes, Sony Screen Gems has already started production on a sequel, again starring Lily Collins as a New York teenager who discovers

she has mystical powers.

Edgar Wright’s pub-crawl-gonewrong comedy “The World’s End” opened with $8.9 million for Focus Features. That was a better start for “The World’s End,” which stars Simon Pegg, than Wright’s last film, 2007’s “Hot Fuzz.” It opened with $5.8 million. Playing in 1,549 theaters, “The World’s End” did its business in less than half the theaters of “The Butler” or “Mortal Instruments.”

Despite good reviews, Lionsgate’s home-invasion horror flick “You’re Next” opened weakly with $7.1 million.

With a cumulative total of $52.3 million, “The Butler” is headed for a domestic haul of $100 million.

It has followed the release pattern of another movie about race and domestic service: the 2011 drama “The Help,” also released in August.

The Weinstein Co. hopes that “The Butler” will similarly lead to Oscar nominations.

Farmers’ Almanac: Super Bowl may be freezing ‘Storm Bowl’ LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — The Farmers’ Almanac is using words like “piercing cold,” ‘’bitterly cold” and “biting cold” to describe the upcoming winter. And if its predictions are right, the first outdoor Super Bowl in years will be a messy “Storm Bowl.”

The 197-year-old publication that hits newsstands Monday predicts a winter storm will hit the Northeast around the time the Super Bowl is played at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. It also predicts a colder-than-normal winter for two-thirds of the country and heavy snowfall in the Midwest, Great Lakes and New England.

“We’re using a very strong fourletter word to describe this winter, which is C-O-L-D. It’s going to be very cold,” said Sandi Duncan, managing editor.

Based on planetary positions,

sunspots and lunar cycles, the almanac’s secret formula is largely unchanged since founder David Young published the first almanac in 1818.

Modern scientists don’t put much stock in sunspots or tidal action, but the almanac says its forecasts used by readers to plan weddings and plant gardens are correct about 80 percent of the time.

Last year, the forecast called for cold weather for the eastern and central U.S. with milder temperatures west of the Great Lakes. It started just the opposite but ended up that way.

Caleb Weatherbee, the publication’s elusive prognosticator, said he was off by only a couple of days on two of the season’s biggest storms: a February blizzard that paralyzed the Northeast with 3 feet of snow in some places and a sloppy storm the day before spring’s arrival that buried parts of New England.

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Tech opens recruitment center in state capital High school counselors, community college advisers, Texas Tech alumni, Austin-area businesses and colleagues at other institutes of higher education attended a celebration for the opening of the new Texas Tech Austin Recruitment Admissions Center on Aug. 16.

Julian Olivas, manager of the recruitment center, said Tech has a presence in Central Texas with a recruitment center in San Antonio.

The decision to relocate the center to Austin came as result of construction occurring at the San Antonio location.

San Antonio and Austin also are seen as growing population areas, but the state capital allows for more direct access back to Lubbock.

According to a news release, this center differs from others because it is located in a retail area. The location is predicted to bring more exposure and traffic.

The center has been operational since mid-May, Olivas said. The staff’s primary responsibility is to make Tech accessible to the students, parents and counselors of Central Texas.

“We’ve, over the summer, already

hosted several different workshops in the area,” he said. “We have held workshops for prospective students on the application process and what to expect on the way, and of course when we get to the point where we have a population of admitted students we’ll change the conversation to what is next for those students.”

Students in Central Texas want to come to Tech because they want a traditional college experience outside of San Antonio and Austin, Olivas said. Central Texas is seen as essential to the future of Tech, but the entire state and beyond is, too.

“It’s vital to our future. We want more students from all areas of the states. Not just Central Texas, but the state and the country and even abroad,” he said. “So, we’re going to be a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to our end goal. Our end goal as an institution is to be at 40,000 students by 2020. And we hope to be a small piece of that puzzle, a small piece of the work that goes into achieving that goal.” ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Insurgents in Iraq kill 23, officials say BAGHDAD (AP) — Insurgents bent on destabilizing Iraq killed at least 23 people in eight separate attacks on Sunday, including five kidnapped Iraqi soldiers and an 8-year-old child, officials said.

The boldest attack was near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where militants set up a fake security checkpoint, captured five soldiers and shot them dead, a police officer said. The soldiers were dressed in civilian clothes and returning to base in a taxi, he added.

Inside Mosul, other gunmen in a speeding car shot and killed a grocer, he said, adding that the

motive was not immediately clear.

The grocer was a member of the Shabak ethnic group, which has its own distinct language and religious beliefs.

Mosul, a former insurgent stronghold, is about 360 kilometers (220 miles) northwest of Baghdad.

Another police officer said a car bomb exploded as a judge drove past in the northern town of Balad, killing three nurses and a man who had been walking nearby.

Thirteen other people were wounded, including the judge, his brother and the driver, he added.

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Student receives $225K grant

By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer

The National Science Foundation awarded recent Texas Tech graduate Jeevan Maddala with a $225,000 grant to upstart his idea into a business.

After years of work, Maddala will get to advance his idea for software in microfluidics. The idea spans from trying to limit the expense of extensive trial and error procedures. It is the hope that soon pharmaceutical companies, among others, will be able to use this software to test on multiple samples of drugs.

“If I can take this product to market and people can use it in their regular lives,” Maddala said, “I’ll be more satisfied than anything else.”

Maddala became closer to his goal by getting help from his professors and the Office of Technology, said Ryan Reber, a technologylicensing specialist in the Office of Technology.

“Jeevan did a lot of the work, we just helped put him in touch with the right people,” Reber said.

“We helped give some advice, we helped file the patent, we helped him develop a commercial plan.”

Maddala said he also needed help with the business background of starting a company. Even with a minor in business he said he still needed some assistance with that aspect in his idea.

“I had no idea how to run a busi-

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TEXAS TECH ALUMNUS Jeevan Maddala received a $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance his idea for software in microfluidics.

ness in the United States,” he said.

Reber assisted Maddala by introducing him to the Small Business Development Center where he received more help on starting his business.

After trying for many grants, the NSF awarded Maddala the money he needed to take his idea to the next level. Part of getting the grant, he said, was just being in the right place at the right time.

Now, Maddala said he looks to

take the next steps in this process by commercializing his product and refining the process, which does not have a straightforward approach.

He said he believes with a worldly view and passion, others can follow in his footsteps.

“They should look at how they can help society with their research and when they have that goal,” Maddala said. “I think then it’s much easier.”

Reber said he agrees and believes

researchers need to have the idea and the research to back it up.

Maddala said his professor Raghunathan Rengasamy, was crucial in helping him throughout this long journey.

“He was successful in getting the grant, really, because he took such strong initiative,” Reber said.

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CSCOPE could shape 2014 GOP TYLER (AP) — Looks like CSCOPE is ready for its close up.

Many Texans still haven’t heard of the collection of controversial online lesson plans. But a raucous crowd of more than 600 filled nearly every available seat Saturday night at a University of Texas at Tyler event center, spending nearly two hours watching a debate on an issue that has now become so emotionally charged it could shape the 2014 Republican primary race for lieutenant governor.

It was a war of words Saturday between the tea party-backed Sen. Dan Patrick and Thomas Ratliff, a more moderate Republican who serves as vice chair of the State Board of Education. Patrick argued CSCOPE was created illegally and contains anti-American and anti-Christian lessons. Ratliff says the lessons aren’t biased and that small school districts across Texas need CSCOPE to ensure they adhere to strict curriculum requirements.

CSCOPE was created by the 20 state-run educational service centers, which are designed to support school districts. It offered about 1,600 model

lessons that school districts could access for a per-student fee, and was meant to be a cost-effective way to ensure teachers in 877 school districts — most of which were too small to build their own curriculums — covered all state-mandated topics.

CSCOPE users educate about 35 percent of the state’s more than 5 million public school students. But most lessons were behind a pay wall for intellectual property reasons, making them unavailable to the public. That angered some conservatives, who worried about schools spending lavishly without public oversight.

Criticism intensified when parents discovered an old CSCOPE lesson plan asking students to consider whether participants in the Boston Tea Party could be considered terrorists in some contexts. Another sample lesson asked students to design a flag for a new socialist country. Some critics also suggested that lessons on the world’s major religions contained too much material on Islam.

“Do you think it’s a good idea to plant the seed (of terrorism) in the mind of high school students?”

Patrick asked Saturday. When Ratliff tried to answer about international perspectives, hecklers shouted: “This is America!”

“Read it for yourself and see if you become a terrorist overnight,” Ratliff responded.

Patrick, a radio talk show host, heads the Senate Education Committee and has declared his candidacy for lieutenant governor; primaries are scheduled for March. The office’s longtime occupant, David Dewhurst, is running for re-election but has become embroiled in a recent scandal in which he called police in a Dallas suburb and tried to intervene when a relative was arrested.

Patrick said his debate appearance wasn’t about politics, instead maintaining that as classrooms move more toward online learning, it’s especially important for parents to have oversight of what teachers are teaching. He also noted that CSCOPE’s financial books are the subject of a state audit.

CSCOPE has dominated state politics for months. Patrick’s committee held a series of hearings on it, and he announced in May that service centers

had agreed to remove all online lesson plans by the end of this month. The Texas Legislature also passed a law mandating the State Board of Education vet CSCOPE materials.

Patrick declared CSCOPE dead.

But Ratliff raised concerns, and it turned out that the lesson plans had simply been moved into the public domain where any school district could continue to use them.

The CSCOPE battle is only the tip of the iceberg for Texans who don’t trust public school teachers and administrators, Ratliff said after the debate.

“He’s not stopping,” Ratliff said of Patrick, “And non-CSCOPE schools are next because, as soon as the tea party finds something in their curriculum they don’t like, they’re going after them.”

Last week, a group of activists filed suit against central Texas’ Llano Independent School District, claiming that by allowing teachers the option of using CSCOPE, it had violated state law because the Board of Education hasn’t yet vetted those online lesson plans.

That case was eventually thrown out.

Divide over religious exemptions on gay marriage continues to heat up (AP) — The battle over gay marriage is heating up in the states, energizing religious groups that oppose same-sex relationships — but also dividing them.

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court gave married gays and heterosexuals equal status under federal law, but did not declare a nationwide right for gays to marry, setting the stage for stateby-state decisions. So faith leaders are forming new coalitions and preparing for the legislative and courtroom battles ahead.

Yet, traditional religious leaders, their supporters and the First Amendment attorneys advising them are divided over strategy and goals, raising questions about how much they can influence the outcome: — Several religious liberty experts say conservative faith groups should take a pragmatic approach given the

advances in gay rights. Offer to stop fighting same-sex marriage laws in exchange for broad religious exemptions, these attorneys say. “If they need to get those religious accommodations, they’re going to have to move now,” said Robin Fretwell Wilson, a family law specialist at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Critics reject the idea as a premature surrender.

— Religious leaders lobbying for exemptions can’t agree how broad they should be. A major difference is over whether for-profit companies should qualify for a faith-based exception.

— Some religious liberty advocates and faith leaders are telling houses of worship they could be forced to host gay weddings, with their clergy required to officiate. The Louisiana Baptist Convention is advising congregations to rewrite their bylaws to state they only allow heterosexual

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marriage ceremonies, and the Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious liberty group that opposes same-sex marriage, is advising the same. But legal experts across a spectrum of views on gay rights say it can’t happen given strong First Amendment protections for what happens inside the sanctuary.

“A few people at both ends of the spectrum have talked about religion and religious freedom in a way that is really destructive,” said Brian Walsh, executive director of the Ethics & Public Policy’s American Religious Freedom program which has formed legislative caucuses so far in 18 states.

“I think they’ve made it polarized and difficult to understand.”

The issue of accommodating religious opponents has already been a sticking point in legislative battles. In Rhode Island and Delaware, disputes over broader religious exemptions led to the failure of some same-sex union bills. Both states went on to approve civil unions in 2011, then same-sex marriage this year. In New York, gay marriage became law only after Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state’s top two legislators struck an eleventh-hour compromise on religious exemptions.

Still, advocates for stronger religious protections haven’t won anything close to what they’ve sought in the 13 states and the District of Columbia where gay marriage has been recognized.

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City refutes claims about Lubbock water

By CHELSEA GRUNDEN Staff Writer

Lubbock was accused of being the No. 1 city in the country running out of water by a 24/7 Wall Street article, entitled “Nine Cities Running Out of Water,” published on Aug. 1.

Since the release of the story, the city of Lubbock has released statements rejecting the article’s alleged false claims as well as defending the state of

the city.

A c c o r d i n g t o 2 4 / 7 Wa l l Street’s article, Lubbock is running out of water faster than any other city because of its state of exceptional drought percentage, which is 62.8 percent.

A state of exceptional drought is characterized by crop losses, low reservoir levels and water shortage emergencies.

Although city of Lubbock officials do not reject being in exceptional drought, as

mentioned in a news release published Aug. 16, the city is not running out of water as the article suggests.

Lubbock owns more than sufficient amounts of both groundwater and surface water, totaling to over thousands of acres, according to the release.

Groundwater sources account for 80 percent of Lubbock’s water supply. As surface water levels may be low, gro un dw ater l evel s are n ot

affected by droughts.

The Ogallala Aquifer, one of Lubbock’s groundwater sources, according to the release, has water that will not evaporate and will remain in the ground until it is pumped.

According to the 24/7 Wall Street article, “in April, to encourage water conservation, the city of Lubbock changed its water rate structure to penalize heavy users.”

Although the city has tried

to conserve water, the water rate structure has not been changed since 2006 and did not attempt to charge heavy users in April, according to the release.

According to “Nine Cities Running Out of Water” the area’s water problems are illustrated by White River Lake.

The lake is 70 miles southeast of Lubbock and has maintained fairly low water levels.

While the state of the water source does affect nearly 10,000

people, it does not affect Lubbock residents. The city of Lubbock does not acquire its water from White River Lake, nor is there any relationship between the levels of White River Lake and Lubbock’s water supply, according to the release.

Lubbock implemented the recent Strategic Water Supply Plan in February. The plan’s structure means to utilize water for the next 100 years. ➤➤cgrunden@dailytoreador.com

For Obama, world looks far different than expected escalating crises in Egypt and Syria, has defended his measured approach, saying America’s ability to solve the world’s problems on its own has been “overstated.”

“Sometimes what we’ve seen is that folks will call for immediate action, jumping into stuff, that does not turn out well, gets us mired in very difficult situations,” he said. “We have to think through strategically what’s going to be in our long-term national interests.”

The strongest challenge to Obama’s philosophy on intervention has come from the deepening tumult in the Middle East and North Africa.

The president saw great promise in the region when he first took office and pledged “a new beginning” with the Arab world when he traveled to Cairo in 2009.

But the democracy protests that spread across the region quickly scrambled Obama’s efforts. While the U.S. has consistently backed the rights of people seeking democracy, the violence that followed has often left the Obama administration unsure of its next move or taking tentative steps that do little to change the situation on the ground.

In Egypt, where the country’s first democratically elected president was ousted last month, the U.S. has refused to call Mohammed Morsi’s removal a coup. The ruling military,

which the U.S. has financially backed on condition of anonymity because for decades, has largely ignored the official was not authorized to Obama’s calls to end assaults on speak publicly.

Morsi supporters. And U.S. officials Few foreign policy experts preare internally at odds over whether to dicted the Arab uprisings, and it’s cut off aid to the military. unlikely the U.S. could have — or In Syria, where more than 100,000 should have — done anything to prepeople vent the protests. have been But analysts say killed durObama misjudged ing the the movements’ two-andnext stages, includa-half year ing Assad’s ability civil war, to cling to power O b a m a ’s and the strength pledges of Islamist political t h a t parties in Egypt.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly five years into his presidency, Barack Obama confronts a world far different from what he envisioned when he first took office. U.S. influence is declining in the Middle East as violence and instability rock Arab countries.

An ambitious attempt to reset U.S. relations with Russia faltered and failed. Even in Obama-friendly Europe, there’s deep skepticism about Washington’s government surveillance programs.

In some cases, the current climate has been driven by factors outside the White House’s control. But missteps by the president also are to blame, say foreign policy analysts, including some who worked for the Obama administration.

Among them: miscalculating the fallout from the Arab Spring uprisings, publicly setting unrealistic expectations for improved ties with Russia and a reactive decision-making process that can leave the White House appearing to veer from crisis to crisis without a broader strategy.

Rosa Brooks, a former Defense Department official who left the administration in 2011, said that while the shrinking U.S. leverage overseas predates the current president, “Obama has sometimes equated ‘we have no leverage’ with ‘there’s no point to really doing anything’.”

Obama, faced most urgently with

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“The issue here is one of raised expectations, unrealistically high expectations that Obama himself deliberately stoked,” O’Hanlon said.

“He hoped that a more pragmatic, disciplined, less interventionist foreign policy would appease the Russians.”

The White House’s ties with Russia were further damaged this summer when Moscow granted temporary asylum to Edward Snowden, the former government contractor accused of leaking documents detailing secret U.S. surveillance programs. In retaliation, Obama canceled plans to meet with Putin in Moscow next month, though he will still attend the meeting of leading rich and developing nations in St. Petersburg, Russia.

But the international impact from the National Security Agency revelations has spread beyond Russia.

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“We remain the one indispensable nation,” Obama said in a CNN interview aired Friday. “There’s a reason why, when you listen to what’s happened around Egypt and Syria, that everybody asks what the U.S. is doing. It’s because the United States continues to be the one country that people expect can do more than just simply protect their borders.”

But the perception of a president lacking in international influence extends beyond the Arab world, particularly to Russia. Since reassuming the presidency last year, Vladimir Putin has blocked U.S. efforts to seek action against Syria at the United Nations and has balked at Obama’s efforts to seek new agreements on arms control.

Putin’s hard-line approach stands in stark contrast to the relationship Obama cultivated in his first term with Putin’s predecessor, Dmitri Medvedev. The two held friendly meetings in Moscow and Washington (Obama even took Medvedev out to lunch at a local burger joint) and achieved policy breakthroughs.

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NEW MEMBERS OF Pi Beta Phi exit a school bus after arriving at Greek Circle during Bid Day on Friday. During the event, existing members of each sorority waited outside their houses with signs welcoming the new members.

Casualties as Congo troops, UN forces fight rebels GOMA, Congo (AP) — Congolese soldiers and rebel forces suffered heavy casualties Sunday as they fought for a fifth day near the city of Goma in the country’s volatile east, a doctor near the front line said.

Dr. Isaac Warwanamiza told The Associated Press he had seen 82 dead since early Sunday, 23 of whom were government soldiers, the highest death toll reported since hostilities broke out last week.

Medical services were struggling to cope with the scale of the casualties among government troops and

the M23 fighters who launched their rebellion last year, Warwanamiza said.

“I’m overwhelmed by what I’ve seen: bodies blown apart, arms and feet here and there,” he said, speaking by phone from a hospital north of Goma.

Three U.N. peacekeepers were wounded Saturday in the fighting, though no injuries were immediately reported by the U.N. peacekeeping mission Sunday.

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was not authorized to speak to journalists, said that two M23 “colonels” had been killed since Wednesday, while the Congolese military had not lost any senior officers.

The front line is only 9 miles (15 kilometers) north of Goma. M23 rebels briefly overtook the city late last year, and Congolese and U.N. troops have been battling to dislodge rebels from heights overlooking the city since Wednesday.

Observers estimate that Congolese forces have advanced less than a mile (about 2 kilometers) since

Wednesday and have yet to achieve their immediate objective — cutting off M23 from a border crossing where the rebel group is believed to get supplies from neighboring Rwanda.

An army chaplain at the military hospital in Goma confirmed that Congolese troops had suffered heavy casualties Sunday. Chaplain Lea Masika said 59 wounded had been brought into the hospital since Sunday morning, bringing the total of wounded there to 720. The bodies of three Congolese officers had been buried, he said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary-Pat Hector of Atlanta operates much like a 1960s civil rights activist as she plans for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Her cell phone rings constantly as she confirms event details, tweaks the draft of the speech she’ll give at a rally, and prepares for a presentation.

Mary-Pat is 15 years old.

Just as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott at age 26, and Rep. John Lewis helped to lead freedom rides at 23, young Americans like Mary-Pat are not letting age get in the way as they seek more than a contributing role in the push for social reform.

Young people are eager to influence this year’s March on Washington, says Jessica Brown, national coordinator for the Black Youth Vote coalition, which organized several youth events around Saturday’s march to the Lincoln Memorial.

“Of course you have the seasoned people who are there, and they are always rightfully going to have their position,” Brown said. “But you’re starting to see the pickup of the youth saying, ‘This is our time, this is our moment, this is the opportunity we have to show the world and the nation, that we’re here and we’re ready to work and organize to get things done.’”

In 1963, those “seasoned people” were A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, who birthed the idea of a Washington march to appeal for jobs and justice, and ultimately attracted 250,000 people. Today, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, who were 8 and 5 years old, respectively, in 1963, are the veterans who brought thousands to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. The King Center also has organized a ceremony on Wednesday, the actual march anniversary, when

President Barack Obama will speak.

Friday night, students and young adults gathered at Howard University in Washington for a mass meeting and rally ahead of Saturday’s march — activity patterned after the student rallies that were held before major demonstrations during the civil rights movement.

Anthony Miller, president of the Howard University Student Association, said students recognize the historical significance, and some are using this moment to express their continuing anger over the shooting death of black Florida teen Trayvon Martin.

“They want to be able to do something positive and something that will uplift this situation and really bring it to light,” Miller says.

Students want “to effect a positive change and push this country in the right direction,” he said, “And I think this is an excellent opportunity.”

Janaye Ingram, who runs the Washington office of Sharpton’s National Action Network, spent hours on the phone recruiting students. “This is their moment to make a change. It’s reminiscent of what happened in the ‘60s, when the movement was led by them,” she said.

Students and other young people made significant contributions to the civil rights movement. In 1957 a group of black students, later called the Little Rock Nine, helped integrate all-white Central High School in Arkansas. The Freedom Riders challenged segregation by riding buses through the South in integrated pairs. There were numerous others who held sit-ins at restaurant counters, skipped school to participate in marches and were attacked by police dogs and water cannons during public demonstrations.

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The 83rd Legislative Session proved to be one of the most successful sessions in Texas Tech history, awarding the System with funds that will be used for expansion during the next two years.

Tech received $85 million in Formula Funding, which will show an enhancement of 12 percent in each of the institutions’ revenue funding. The university previously had to cut back research because of lack of funding in the last legislative session, so the recent session has helped fund growth and restorations of the cutbacks.

“The System at Texas Tech got $85 million more [in Formula Funding], which is huge, but also remember, we’re growing,” Chancellor Kent Hance said. “We’re a growing university, so we have to have more money. That is very important. I think that the legislature was very generous to us this time, so I’ve been pleased.”

Though the money will be put toward many different aspects, the main use of the Formula Funding will be to hire almost 300 new faculty and staff members.

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Center for Campus Life hosts student organization fair

By MIKAEL GONZALES Staff Writer

The Student Union Building was filled with students Tuesday as the Center for Campus Life hosted its first organization fair of the semester.

The fair gave Texas Tech organizations an opportunity to inform students, especially incoming freshmen, about its groups.

Will Lopez, the risk management coordinator at the Center for Campus Life, said the event allowed students to see the numerous organizations Tech has to offer.

“I really encourage people to come out to these fairs because there are a wide variety of groups,” he said. “We have over 500 organizations here at Texas Tech.”

The fair helps students find something to connect them to the campus and keep them busy, Lopez said.

“We want them to get a connection at Texas Tech,” he said. “We want them to get a connection to our community and our students, and one way to do that is by joining a student organization.”

Of the 500 organizations on campus, 70 were represented at the fair, Lopez said. Students who do not find an organization to identify with have the option of being a trailblazer, meaning they can create their own group.

“There’s so many groups here

at Texas Tech,” he said. “And if they don’t find a group that they want to join, we can work with them to create their own group here.”

Kaylene DeVries, a junior chemistry major from Bakersfield, Calif., who was helping with the Pre-Pharmacy Club booth, said the fair allowed freshmen to become more aware of campus activities.

“We just want to bring freshmen in because they’re the most ill-informed about what’s going on, especially with pre-professional health careers,” she said.

DeVries said she believes the fair this semester was smaller than previous years and wants to encourage younger students to get out of their comfort zones and become involved.

“In general, I would say sign up for everything and try everything at least once,” she said.

“Get involved in as many ways as you can.”

Lopez said he wants to remind students there are many ways to find out about organizations other than the fair.

“If people are looking for groups I really try to tell them to go to ttu.orgsync.com because they can search groups by keyword or they can search by category,” he said.

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Spirit shops forbidden to produce coach Kliff Kingsbury merchandise Red, black and Kliff Kingsbury.

As Red Raider fans searched for spirit garb for the upcoming football season, they were confronted with merchandise supporting not only the team, but also its coach.

However, that type of merchandise may soon be a collector’s item.

Spirit shops around Lubbock received an email from Collegiate Licensing Company stating that, per Kingsbury’s request, Texas Tech will no longer approve designs featuring his name or face. Although stores are allowed to sell any Kingsbury merchandise in stock, they are prohibited from producing any new merchandise of that nature.

“I think Kingsbury wanted it to be focused more around the football program rather than himself,” said Adam Weckenmann, a junior sociology major from Glen Ridge, N.J., and an employee at The Matador.

Part of his job, Weckenmann said, is informing customers that the Kingsbury merchandise is not here to stay.

“We’re kind of just explaining what the situation is,” he said. “Like they’re not printing anymore, this is what we have, what’s in stock. So if you want a shirt, now is the time to get it.”

The store has not received any

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TEXAS TECH FOOTBALL coach Kliff Kingsbury requested that merchandise centered around himself be halted in order to move the focus back to the football team. Stores including Varsity, Matador and Red Raider Outfitter will continue to sell the rest of their merchandise until it is sold out.

complaints about the change, Weckenmann said.

“I think people have been more surprised that they’re not printing anymore shirts,” he said, “but once we kind of explain the situation, they

kind of understand.”

The new policy has not made his job any more difficult, Weckenmann said, and he understands the reasoning behind it.

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Professor honored as Teacher of Year by national association Comfort Pratt, a professor of bilingual education and diversity studies at Texas Tech who teaches secondary education in the College of Education, was honored as Teacher of the Year.

Pratt said she feels honored to have won the award.

“I was so thrilled and I am very honored to have won the award,” she said. “This is the highest award a Spanish teacher can receive. It was a very long process and it is highly competitive. I feel honored because

anyone who teaches Spanish or Portuguese in the entire world could have won.”

T h e PRATT A m e r i c a n Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese presented the award to Pratt on July 10 at its 95th annual conference, which was hosted in San Antonio, according to the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Teacher of the Year award website.

The association presents awards to educators who teach either Spanish or Portuguese, and the awards are categorized into three different levels of

education: elementary, secondary and university, according to the website.

To be nominated for the award, each educator must first be nominated by four people who have seen or observed their way of educating, Pratt said.

Former dean of the College of Education Sheryl SantosHatchett, the Vice Dean of the College of Education Peggy Johnson, a former Tech student and a local middle school teacher nominated Pratt for the university level, Pratt said.

Following nominations, each educator must be endorsed by a chapter of the association.

Llano Estacado Chapter, the Lubbock chapter, endorsed Pratt after her nomination for the award, according to an email from Pratt.

The winner of the award is chosen based on their ability to work creatively with students, promote critical thinking skills and help students develop worldly understanding, according to the award website.

Pratt has participated in many national and international conferences around the world, according to the College of Education website. She also is the author of two books including El Español del Noroeste de Luisiana.

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Obama proposes new system for rating colleges BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Calling higher education an “economic imperative,” President Barack Obama is pushing for an ambitious new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on affordability and performance and ultimately determine how federal financial aid is distributed.

The rating system, which the president wants implemented before the 2015 school year, would evaluate colleges on several criteria, including average tuition and student loan debt, graduation rates, and the average earning of graduates.

Obama says he will ask Congress to link the new rating system to the way federal financial aid is disbursed, with students attending highly-rated schools receiving larger grants and

more affordable student loans.

“It’s time to stop subsidizing schools that are not producing good results and reward schools that deliver American students of our future,” Obama told a crowd of more than 7,000 at the University of Buffalo.

Obama detailed his proposal on the first stop of a two-day bus tour through New York and Pennsylvania. The tour underscores the White House’s desire to stay focused on domestic issues, even as foreign policy crises in Egypt and Syria vie for his attention.

Throughout the summer, the White House has been seeking to keep the president’s public agenda centered on middle-class economic issues as a way to rally public support

for his positions ahead of looming battles in the fall with congressional Republicans over the budget and raising the nation’s debt limit. On Thursday, he tried to draw a clear distinction with some of his Republican opponents.

“Rather than seeking, keeping focus on a growing economy that creates good middle-class jobs, you know, we’ve seen a faction of Republicans in Congress suggest that maybe America shouldn’t pay its bills that have already been run up, that we should shut down government if they can’t shut down Obamacare,” Obama said.

Obama said a big part of middleclass security includes fundamentally rethinking how to pay for higher education.

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programs to the school, such as more graduate programs.

According to the release, the school also is looking to expand from the current 116 students to 300 within the next five years, which will help aid the nursing shortage in the El Paso area.

Novotny said she has already seen a difference in the need for nurses in El Paso, and believes nursing is the career of the 21st century.

The new school will be located at the corner of Alberta Avenue and North Concepcion Street and should be completed and ready for

new students in 18 months, according to the release.

El Paso residents have shown a great community response, Novotny said, and many came to witness the groundbreaking.

She said the school has been a tribute to the El Paso community because it was named after Gayle Greve Hunt, whose husband, Woody Hunt, is a well-known businessman in the area.

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Local businesses turned out for the groundbreaking of the new Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center at El Paso on Aug. 19.

Jeanne Novotny, founding dean of the GGHSON, said the community response was fantastic.

The school has been leasing space since admitting its first students in 2010, according to a news release.

Having a nursing building, Novotny said, will add the ability to gain new programs, space for faculty offices and study areas, and take in more students and faculty members.

Novotny said she is excited for the additional space because it will open opportunities for acquiring new technology such as simulation centers, making collaboration with the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, which is located across the street from the new location, easier.

GGHSON offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, as well as a 12-month second degree BSN, according to the release.

With the new facility, Novotny said she expects to quickly add new

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Texas Tech is in the process of conducting national searches for open positions within the university.

Although Tech has hired many faculty members, Interim Provost Lawrence Schovanec said he estimates there are 40 to 50 vacancies in the university that are still unfilled.

“In terms of hiring, we’ve added a lot of faculty this year,” he said in a previous interview, “but we probably could do a better job of taking an inventory of our opportunities and strategically deciding where we’re going to invest additional resources.”

National searches will be conducted for the provost position, vice president of research position, the dean of the Graduate School and other dean positions within colleges.

Searches also will be conducted for another vice chancellor of Institutional Advancement after Kelley Overley recently resigned and took a position at the University of Colorado.

Searches for the vice president of research and the dean of the Graduate School are underway, President M. Duane Nellis said in a previous interview.

Schovanec, who is applying for the vacant provost position, said he is looking for deans who will move Tech toward

tier-one status.

“The cultures of colleges are different, and you don’t assess them all in the same way,” he said. “In spite of that, excellence is demonstrated in different ways, and at Tech there is no doubt that the bar is getting higher and higher all the time.”

Because of the 83rd Session of the Texas Legislature, Tech will receive additional funding during the next two years. Chancellor Kent Hance said some of the funds will be used to hire faculty for the university.

“We’re in the process of hiring almost 300 new faculty members,” he said. “It’ll be used for different aspects, but I think the main thing would be additional professors.”

Research also will see an increase in funding, Schovanec said, making Tech more appealing to potential professors. “(Deans) feel like we are attracting a strong pool of candidates, and we do have resources to invest in these people,” he said. “That gives us an advantage over other institutions. This past legislative session Tech did very well.”Three National Academy members are among the faculty that has been hired, Hance said, and a goal has been set to hire more.

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Innovative NY program picks up college tuition BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — When 18-year-old Cheyenne Ketter-Franklin begins classes at the University at Buffalo next week, she will be spared at least one anxiety — the prospect of being saddled with a mountain of higher-education debt.

An innovative scholarship program that offers up to full tuition to any Buffalo public or charter school graduate accepted to college is taking away that worry for Ketter-Franklin and hundreds of other students, and giving parents a powerful incentive to stay.

The Say Yes to Education program got a hoped for plug from President Barack Obama on Thursday when he spoke about college affordability

during a stop at the Buffalo campus.

The president praised “the great work that’s being done through a program called Say Yes, to make sure that no child in Buffalo has to miss out on college because they can’t pay for it.”

Buffalo’s fledgling Say Yes program already had been on the U.S. Department of Education’s radar when Obama’s visit to the city was announced, said Executive Director David Rust, who answered department questions about it a few months ago. Once the visit was confirmed, Rust secured an invitation to meet with Obama.

“We’re removing the most significant barrier, which is financial, in a region that’s struggled for decades

now,” Rust said. “And that’s right in line with what he’s talking about, and that’s affordable college for all.”

Obama’s visit to Buffalo was the first in a two-day bus tour through upstate New York and Pennsylvania to push for a new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on affordability and performance and ultimately determine how federal financial aid is distributed.

Say Yes has chapters in Buffalo, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Hartford, Conn., and New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, each offering varying degrees of academic, social and financial supports intended to increase high school and college graduation rates.

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Internships: getting them, working them Tech students work paid, unpaid internships during summer

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

Richie Osburn knew working a summer as an unpaid intern would someday help him land a career of paid work.

“It’s one summer of work for hopefully a career of paydays,” said the senior restaurant and hotel institutional management major from Denton.

Osburn, who spent his summer interning with real estate brokers at Rubicon Representation in Dallas, said he accepted the internship to gain experience and not for the money.

He said if he could make connections and hopefully build a career for himself coming out of school, the internship would pay off in the long run.

But, Osburn wasn’t the only student this summer who spent his time as an intern. Fellow senior Tara Johnson also spent her summer as an intern for The Property Shop in Dallas.

Although Johnson, a business major from Seminole, was able to receive a paycheck for her work this summer, she said taking the internship wasn’t about the money.

“I still would’ve taken it even if I wasn’t getting paid,” Johnson said.

However, she said she probably wouldn’t have been able to do the internship if it wasn’t paid because she was still paying bills in Lubbock.

“It would’ve been a lot harder for sure if I wasn’t,” she said. “I’m really grateful that I was going to be paid while I was there.”

Osburn said he was able to receive his internship after working the Byron Nelson PGA Tournament.

“I had my own suite that I was taking care of and the guy I ended up working for was in the suite,” he said. “I got to know them and talk to them a little bit about business and at the end he ended up offering me this internship.”

Osburn said the internship pretty much fell into in his lap and he couldn’t turn it down.

“I really made friends with ex-

ceptional business guys in Dallas,” he said. “Connections that even if I don’t work for them, those can lead to other jobs or they can write me letters of recommendations.”

Jay Killough, marketing director for the Texas Tech Career Center, said through his internship he learned what he did not want to do in the future.

“I got into the business and realized this is not how I want to work,” he said. “It was a great experience. I enjoyed it, but it opened up my eyes to say, ‘OK, I need to go in a different direction.’”

Killough said because of a recent lawsuit filed against the Fox Searchlight Pictures by a group of interns claiming they should have been paid for the work they did because the duties were those of regular employees, unpaid internships have become a bigger deal among students and companies.

“Our parenting organization, National Association of Colleges and Employers, because of this lawsuit came out with a statement, basically defining what an internship is and how it’s possible to still have an unpaid internship,” he said.

Killough said there are some unpaid internships that are legitimate.

“They’re not being taken advantage of,” he said. “They’re just a shadow. They’re just there to follow somebody in the business so they can get experience.”

Some employers that might give a stipend, Killough said, that may give just $500 at the end of the summer or pay for a student’s apartment while they’re there.

“There’s other benefits and ways that companies can offer compensation to a student versus just a paycheck,” he said.

All students, regardless of major, should be striving to obtain an internship at some point in their college career, Killough said.

“As long as a student is getting experience, I’m excited,” he said.

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Sixty-nine percent of large companies made full-time job offers to interns in 2012 while 39 percent of small companies made full-time job offers to interns, according to internships.com.

This is significant for students worried about employment after graduation, said Sandra Reeve, instructor and undergraduate internship coordinator. The hardest part of preparing for a future career for some students is getting past the fear of rejection from internships and where to get information on applying.

The facts show students more companies are offering internships to young professionals.

According to the website, 53 percent of companies plan to hire more interns in 2013 as compared to 2012.

While some students might admit they are terrified of the idea of having an internship, the opportunity can kick-start a student’s career.

Although the thought might seem intimidating, Reeve said they are important for students to have a higher chance of gaining a career after college.

All students, she said, should research possible internships choices.

Although some internships allow younger students to apply, Reeve said she does not recommend underclassmen take on that responsibility.

“I would say as a junior or a senior is probably the best time to do an internship,” she said.

With the many applications employers receive from students seeking internships, Reeve said they look to hire those students with more college experience and qualifications.

Summer semesters are the best time to look for an internship opportunity because students usually

do not have to worry about a full class schedule, she said.

Although internships require work outside the classroom, Reeve said they provide crucial learning opportunities for eager students.

“The advantages of doing an internship are that you get experience because once you get in there as an intern, they’ll treat you as an employee, and you will get firsthand knowledge,” she said.

While students may feel overwhelmed at the idea of an internship, Reeve said it helps them in the long run.

“As far as the intimidation factor, it is a little intimidating, but really it’s a great practice for when they start applying for jobs,” she said.

The most important piece of advice Reeve said she gives to her students is to be aggressive and persistent about contacting employers or possible internships.

“I tell my students, if you keep calling and you keep emailing and you don’t get a response in two to three days, then you go there and track that person down,” she said.

Trudy Watkins, a senior geophysics and mathematics major from Cypress, said internships are often overlooked by students but can be highly valued to employers.

She said the best thing incoming freshmen can do is become familiar with their professors.

“You can talk to your advisers or intro professors and it really helps to have that experience of having an internship because that’s a big problem employers have with hiring people is the lack of experience,” Watkins said.

Reeve said she suggests all students visit the Career Center located in the Wiggins Complex.

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Renoir’s personal items coming to NYC auction NEW YORK (AP) — Billed as the single-largest archive of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s personal property, an upcoming auction of hundreds of personal letters, photos and other memorabilia offers a candid look inside the master painter’s life as an artist, loving husband and devoted father.

The Renoir Estate Collection is set to be sold in New York on Sept. 19 as 143 lots. Heritage Auctions has estimated its value at $3 million.

In addition, the sale includes 19 original sculptural plaster models, or maquettes, created during Renoir’s twilight years between 1913 and 1918 with the help of a young assistant, Richard Guino.

A consummate artist who painted every day of his life, Renoir died in 1919.

His personal archive remained with his heirs until 2005 when his grandson Paul offered it for sale as a single lot at a Maryland auction where it was purchased by the current owner.

“It is a gold mine,” said Virginie Journiac, an art historian and former curator of the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in the south of France.

“These personal Renoir pieces will be seen for the last time as a unique collection unless a single buyer is able to purchase all the lots.”

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Hundreds of men and women gathered outside sorority and fraternity houses waiting for their turn to get a look inside.

The Texas Tech Panhellenic Council hosted its annual recruitment last week for Tech students.

Rebecca Kleeman, a junior marketing and management major from Austin, is the assistant recruitment chair for the council and said men and women go about recruitment week very differently.

“In general, the guys are just much more laid back with their rush week,” she said. “Girls have much more to do to prepare.”

The women who go through recruitment week start earlier in the morning throughout the week, Kleeman said.

“Girls just have so much more to do and so many more people to talk to than the guys do,” she said. “So, that’s why we have them start so early in the morning whereas the guys don’t start till the afternoon.”

Taylor Thennison, a junior business major from Austin, helped regulate recruitment this year and said sororities prepare for the week far more in advance than the men.

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“Girls have to sit Lauren Pape. for the guys down to prepare their to watch,” he outfits for the week, said. “Then go through their packets to choose the week of, we just talk to guys who they want to visit, make re- and make sure they are in the right sumes, get pictures taken and many place. Our main difference from more things,” Kleeman said. “The the girls is that we really are more guy recruits fill out a form, pay $50 laid back than them. The girls do so much stuff to get ready, almost too and that is pretty much it.”

There also were several changes much stuff.” made to the program this year, Mattie Olson, a freshman preThennison said, that mainly ap- physical therapy major from San plied to the women rather than Antonio, said she thinks rush week the men. is less stressful for the guys.

Katie Hannan, a junior educa“For girls it is very stressful and tion major from Houston, said one tiring,” she said. “I still enjoyed change was the limit placed on how myself, but I bet the guys’ week is they could decorate their houses way more fun. We have to worry and dress themselves. about how we present ourselves to “They made the new rule that everyone we talk to, which I don’t we call ‘no frills’ of girls not be- think they have to worry about as ing able to dress alike and having much.” limited decorations to the houses,” ➤➤lsolis@dailytoreador.com

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Students participate in welcome week

By CALLIE POINDEXTER Staff Writer

Hundreds of students, new and old, filed on campus last week lured by the promise of new friends, fun, food and, most of all, free stuff.

“Countless T-shirts,” said Olivia Strobush, a sophomore transfer student majoring in advertising from Plano, “water bottles, notepads, pens, cups, everything. Lots of good stuff.”

Texas Tech hosted its annual Raider Welcome Week Aug. 19 to 23 in hopes of bringing students together to promote community and campus involvement before the commencement of fall classes.

Strobush said free gifts were not the only advantage of welcome week, however.

“I think it’s a really good way to meet a bunch of people,” she said. “I like, again, all of the free stuff. Who doesn’t like free stuff? But I think it’s a really good way to meet new people, and get out of the dorm and do stuff that sort of gets you involved and sort of jump starts your life at Tech.”

Many campus organizations attended the events, distributing free gear and information about what they have to offer students and the university.

Olivia Itschner, a staff member for Cru, a Christian organization on campus, said welcome week has been a great way to inform students about the organization. Itschner represented Cru at “The Big Something” event in Urbanovsky Park.

“One of our main goals is to start community, like, get people connected to each other,” she said.

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STEVEN LOUTHERBACK, A sophomore Architecture major from Austin, uses a nail gun to construct the perimeter of a Texas Tech Habitat for Humanity home being built on Wednesday near Erskine and University.

“Because, especially with freshmen, we’ve already met some new people that they don’t know anyone. So just getting them involved if they want to get involved, and doing our best to reach out for them.”

G’Derrick Tabe, a freshman industrial engineering major from Fort Worth, participated in the back-tocollege shopping event at Target on Aug. 19, and said it was comparable to “Black Friday.”

“It was crazy,” he said. “Especially when it got to the end because the lines were super long, but it’s all worth it, you got good deals.”

Although fun, food and prizes

are a large part of welcome week, one event offers students a chance to volunteer their time for others.

Habitat for Humanity hosted a service project open to all students that allowed them to help build a home for a family in need.

Angie Fealy, a junior civil engineering and architecture major from Vancouver, Canada, and copresident of the organization, said although she feels the event is a great way to get involved, it does differ from other welcome week events.

“The other events are more like ‘have some free T-shirts, go get some free food, have some swag bags,’”

Fealy said. “This one is like, ‘Here’s something you can do after welcome week is finished.’”

In addition, welcome week helped to reassure some students they made the correct choice in choosing Tech.

“I love Texas Tech,” Strobush said. “The reason that I came here was because it felt very homey. It felt like home, you know? Compared to every other campus that I’ve visited.

So now that I’m here it’s starting to feel even more like home, even though I’ve been here, like, two days.” ➤➤cpoindexter@dailytoreador.com

Chess coach competes in World Cup competition

By KEELA COOPER Staff Writer

Earlier this month, Alexander Onischuk competed in the 2013 Chess World Cup in Tromso, Norway.

Al Lawrence, the Texas Tech chess program director, said the Chess World Cup is played for the world championship.

Onischuk made it to the World Cup by placing third in the recent U.S. Championship.

Saying that Onischuk was too humble to brag on himself, Lawrence said Onischuk is elite in his field.

“He’s a former U.S. (champion),” Lawrence said. “It’s a very elite title. He plays on the elite U.S. Olympia team, repeatedly.”

Onischuk played on the Olympia team five times.

Lawrence said Onischuk has been ranked in the top 100 chess players in the world for the past 17 years.

“He’s also a world famous trainer and coach, which is, of course, very important in his job here,” Lawrence said. “He’s helped to train world champions and is in big demand for all kinds of summer camps and other kinds of training.”

Onischuk said he didn’t have much time to prepare for the 2013 Chess World Cup because he was busy working chess summer camps.

“An average game takes four to five hours plus … people usually prepare for two to three hours, so it’s a full-time job,” he said.

The trip to Tromso, Norway, for the championship, Onischuk said was nice.

“All of the best chess players from all over the world were in this little town in Norway,” Lawrence said.

Onischuk was defeated in round two, match 10 of the World Cup. Lawrence and Onischuk have both worked with the Tech chess program since July 2012.

When training the chess team,

Onischuk said he gives the players different puzzles and positions to solve. He also has them study previous competitions.

“Looking at the most recent events … is just something you absolutely have to do,” he said.

Onischuk said he actually showed his chess players videos from the 2013 Chess World Cup to study for their own personal practice.

Lawrence said it also is important for competitive chess players to be in shape.

“You experience all the same stress as you would in any other sport only you can’t move, so that takes quite a toll on your physical self,” he said.

The two of them agreed that being in good physical shape is a requirement to play competitive chess.

Lawrence said the chess team club players have improved since Onischuk has been the coach, even jumping rating classes.

Onischuk said it’s fun to work with new players because the results are easier to see.

Steven Breckenridge, a Tech chess player, said he has been playing competitive chess since 2001.

The junior general studies major from Portland, Ore., said he improved since working with Onischuk.

“It is good to work with someone who’s so understanding, experienced, and dedicated to chess,” Breckenridge said.

Breckenridge said he was impressed with Onischuk for making it to the Chess World Cup. Even though Onischuk was defeated, he was beaten by one of the top players and Breckenridge said Onischuk should be proud of that.

The chess team will compete in a range of championships again this school year. Onischuk and Lawrence said they are both excited to train the new players for the competitions. ➤➤kcooper@dailytoreador.com

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NEW YORK (AP) — Al-Jazeera America signed on with a brisk hello from anchor Tony Harris before he got down to business with his network’s first stories: continued turmoil in Egypt, shots fired at an Atlanta elementary school and more wildfires in the West.

With that, the network entered the cable news fray long dominated

by CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel.

The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Media Network launched its U.S. outlet only eight months after announcing the new venture, which replaced Al Gore’s Current TV in more than 45 million TV homes Tuesday.

An hour before settling into its regular schedule at 4 p.m. Eastern

time, the network aired a prerecorded preview of its programming and goals.

“We are here to tell the story the way it happens, as it happens,” anchor Antonio Mora said as the preview began.

At the same time, the Al-Jazeera English network was suspended.

It had been available since 2006

online and in a scattering of cable systems.

Headquartered in New York, Al-Jazeera America has vowed to provide unbiased, in-depth domestic and global news.

It aims to strike a contrast to the “news talk” often favored by its Big Three competitors. (Its promotional tagline: “There’s more to it.”)

Best-selling crime author Elmore Leonard dies at 87

DETROIT (AP) — He was the master of his genre, the Dickens of Detroit, the Chaucer of Crime.

Pretty much every novel Elmore Leonard wrote from the mid-1980s on was a best-seller, and every fan of crime stories knew his name. George Clooney was an admirer. So were Quentin Tarantino, Saul Bellow and Stephen King and millions of ordinary readers.

Leonard, who died Tuesday at age 87, helped achieve for crime writing what King did for horror and Ray Bradbury for science fiction. He made it hip, and he made it respectable.

When the public flocked to watch John Travolta in the movie version of “Get Shorty” in 1995, its author became the darling of Hollywood’s hottest young directors. Book critics and literary stars, prone to dismissing crime novels as light entertainment, competed for adjectives to praise him.

Last fall, he became the first crime

writer to receive an honorary National Book Award, a prize given in the past to Philip Roth, Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller.

Few writers so memorably traveled the low road. His more than 40 novels were peopled by pathetic schemers, clever conmen and casual killers. Each was characterized by moral ambivalence about crime, black humor and wickedly acute depictions of human nature: the greedy dreams of Armand Degas in “Killshot,” the wisecracking cool of Chili Palmer in “Get Shorty,” Jack Belmont’s lust for notoriety in “The Hot Kid.” Leonard’s novels and short stories were turned into dozens of feature films, TV movies and series, including the current FX show “Justified,” which stars Timothy Olyphant as one of Leonard’s signature characters, the cool-under-pressure U.S. marshal Raylan Givens.

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Be sure to prepare with textbooks and refresh your knowledge during the summer.

It’s a long summer after high school and a lot of students just spend all their time on vacation, but should prepare. That’s just what I think.”

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The freshman 15 is the real thing.

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Get involved and don’t be afraid to talk to professors and build relationships with them.”

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As freshmen lug miniature refrigerators and twin-sized bedding up the many flights of stairs to their residence hall rooms, their new purchases are not the only thing weighing them down.

Many Texas Tech students entering their first year at the university also harbor a few initial anxieties.

“I think before I came here I was a little worried about meeting people and I just, like, think of myself as a little more different than other people,” said Nate Hall, a freshman chemical engineering major from Los Alamos, N.M. “So I was a little worried about meeting people that had similar interests and that kind of thing.”

Many students make those types of friends while living in the residence halls. The halls however, are another source of uncertainty for some students.

“I thought they were going to be louder and people weren’t going to be as friendly as they are now,” said Christopher Ware, a freshman electrical engineering major from San Antonio, “but it’s been really great.”

On top of meeting friends and adjusting to the dorms, many freshmen have additional responsibilities.

Hall is a new member of the

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MANY INCOMING FRESHMEN worry that they won’t fit in with other students and will stick out in the crowd.

Goin’ Band from Raiderland, and is experiencing the trials of band practice for the first time.

“It’s entirely different from marching band back home,” he said. “It’s entirely different marching styles and we do so much more conditioning and hard-working stuff that just wasn’t a part of our band back home, so getting used to that is pretty difficult.”

Hall said having multiple responsibilities is nothing new for him, however.

“I tend to work better when I have a ton on my plate,” he

said. “So I’m, like, intimidated by it, but I’d much rather be doing a ton of stuff than not enough stuff.”

Although beginning school is a source of excitement for many freshmen, some must decide how they will pay for it.

“I just need to make sure that I’ve got my financial stuff taken care of,” said Calyn Jackson, a freshman biology major from Princeton. “I need to grab my books, and make sure my fridge is all stocked and all that.”

Being a freshman can be intimidating for some students,

but many incoming Tech students are looking forward to new experiences.

“I’m really looking forward to signing up for all those clubs that I’ve been hearing so much about,” Jackson said, “that there are so many and you’re never bored if you sign up for at least a few of them.”

In addition, many new Red Raiders are already realizing their worries were unnecessary.

“It’s been pretty good,” Jackson said. “Everyone here’s been really friendly. I like it a lot.”

Leonard tried to keep his books under 300 pages. “This one time, The New York Times asked me if I would review a Tom Clancy book. I said, ‘How many pages is it?’ And they said, ‘Oh, it’s only 400 and some.’ I said, ‘I don’t read books with more than 300 pages.’ So I got out of that,” he told the AP in 2010.

7. A FEW DIRECTORS “GOT” LEONARD Although Leonard said most of Hollywood’s attempts to translate his prose to the big screen failed, he really enjoyed three 1990s efforts, by directors Barry Sonnenfeld (“Get Shorty”), Steven Soderbergh (“Out of Sight”) and Quentin Tarantino (“Jackie Brown”). In 2012, he told the AP that his all-time favorite adaptation was 1997’s “Jackie Brown,” which was based on the novel “Rum Punch.” When Tarantino called to ask for guidance ahead of filming, Leonard remembered saying, “Do what you want. I like your work.”

8. HE WAS A MOTOR CITY GUY His father was a General Motors employee, and Leonard himself wrote advertising copy for Chevrolet and Westerns on the side after college. As a son of the automotive industry, Leonard wrote daily in eight-hour shifts from his

home office. “Well, you’ve got to put in the time if you want to write a book,” he said in 2010.

9. HE WAS A MOTOR CITY GUY, PART II Sure, he was born elsewhere and lived in the suburbs for many years, but Leonard always considered himself a Detroiter. He set many of his novels there and remained a staunch defender of the city he lived in or near since 1934.

In an AP interview in July, only days after Detroit became the largest city in the United States to file for bankruptcy, Leonard said he believed “we’re going to get through it.”

10. LEONARD NEVER GOT TO FINISH NOVEL NO. 46 “Raylan,” which was out in 2012, now stands as his final novel. He told the AP at the end of last year that he was excited about his next work, which centered around a rogue Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and bull riding. The working title was “Blue Dreams.” Gregg Sutter, Leonard’s longtime researcher, said Tuesday the book also would have featured Raylan Givens, the Stetson-wearing U.S. marshal from “Raylan” and his short story, “Fire in the Hole” — the basis for the FX series “Justified.”

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Manage time or you will end up getting screwed.

Even I had those problems because I was new and all that.

Study, do your homework and prepare for classes. Don’t do (anything) last minute. Not studying — it can hurt you.”

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DETROIT (AP) — Ten things to know about Elmore Leonard, the acclaimed crime novelist who died Tuesday at age 87. ___ 1. HE WROTE ON PAPER Leonard wrote longhand on 63-page unlined yellow pads that were custommade for him. When a page was completed, he transferred the words onto a separate piece of paper using a typewriter.

“There’s no reason for me to have a computer. I’ve been writing in longhand for 50 years. It’s more a question of what pen do I use than it is anything else,” Leonard told The Associated Press in 2004.

2. HE HATED MANY OF THE MOVIES MADE FROM HIS WORK Not one, but two films were made from his 1969 novel, “The Big Bounce.”

The first, which starred Ryan O’Neal, “was probably the second-worst movie ever made,” Leonard said in 2004. Asked what movie was worse, he said: “I don’t know, but there must be one that was worse.”

3. HE HAD FANS IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE General readers loved Leonard’s writing, as did movie fans who found his work after seeing the many film adaptations.

His admirers included fellow writers such

as Saul Bellow and Martin Amis. George Clooney hung out at Leonard’s place while filming the big-screen adaptation of “Out of Sight,” and members of Aerosmith — in town for a concert — also visited, taking a dip in Leonard’s pool.

4. AUTHORS LOVED LEONARD’S 10 RULES FOR WRITING Often quoted by aspiring (and existing) authors, Leonard’s list of writing do’s and don’ts, which he wrote for The New York Times, included “never open a book with weather,” ‘’never use a verb other than ‘said’ to carry dialogue” and “try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.”

5. FAMILY AND FRIENDS DIDN’T CALL HIM “ELMORE” As a sophomore at University of Detroit High School, the nickname “Dutch” was pinned on Leonard. And it stuck. It’s a reference to Emil “Dutch” Leonard, a knuckleball pitcher for the Washington Senators. The ballplayer’s card sat for years in the writer’s study on one of the shelves lined with copies of his books. “It was overnight. It was almost as though a press release was sent out: ‘Start calling him Dutch.’ And it just happened,” Leonard told the AP in 2002.

6. HE BELIEVED IN WORD ECONOMY

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Rescuers try to help pets Not-so-roughing-it: Glamorous ‘camping’ in NYC who need one another LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ivan, Domino and Joshua arrived together at the animal shelter when their ailing owner could no longer care for them. To get adopted, they will need to go as one.

The shepherd-husky mix, Dalmatian mix and Benji-lookalike will stay at the New York shelter until someone will take all three because the owner took legal steps to keep his dogs together and well cared for before he entered a Texas rest home.

Despite email blasts to supporters, social media posts and a video on talk show host Howard Stern’s website, there have been no takers since they arrived June 14 at a Long Island shelter.

The plight of the threesome points to the challenge of finding homes for multiple pets that must be adopted as a package deal to honor a previous owner’s request or to keep inseparable pets together. Shelters and rescue workers have to get creative in their pitches to place multiple animals in the same home.

“They are such a dignified trio of dogs,” said Joanne Yohannan, senior vice president of operations for New York’s North Shore Animal League America, said of Ivan, Domino and Joshua. “It’s going to take a very special person, someone who has the room and will love them.”

To help with a multiple adoption, some shelters waive adoption fees

or sponsor two-for-one deals. When shelters across the county cope with an annual kitten population explosion, prices drop drastically for those who can take multiple pets. There are lots of extras thrown in too, like spaying or neutering, microchips and collars.

If a bonded pair is separated, animals could exhibit bad behavior, such as destructiveness or aggressiveness toward people, said Gail Buchwald, senior vice president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

“In these cases, it is certainly the case that two are better than one,” she said.

Two weeks after Laura Morse and her family moved from Arizona to Florida 3 1/2 years ago, their cocker spaniel died. Morse started searching for a new dog and found Thor and Zeus on a St. Louis rescue’s website. They had to be adopted together because Zeus would not eat without Thor.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ahh, the joys of roughing it in the great outdoors — champagne, high thread-count sheets, flat-screen television. Camping, New York City-style.

At least a couple of city locales are offering this unusual option — the chance to sleep outdoors, incredibly comfortably. It’s an urban take on “glamping,” where hotel comforts are taken outside.

“It’s basically being able to sleep under the stars in a luxury setting,” said Jeffrey Poirot, general manager at AKA Central Park, which offers an outdoor bedroom on its 1,000-square-foot terrace outside its 17th-floor penthouse.

For about $2,000 per night, the offering includes a bedroom setup — queen bed, fireplace, television — but also a telescope to look at the stars and the ingredients for that campfire favorite, s’mores.

AKA has been offering the option for the past few years,

Poirot said. It’s a popular option in the summer months, and has been booked more than half a dozen times this year, he said.

The idea of glamping (glamorous + camping, get it?) is a relatively recent arrival in the United States over the last decade or so but has

been popular in other parts of the world, like Africa, where wealthy visitors wanted to travel but always in comfort. There are websites dedicated to it, showcasing luxury camping sites in some of the world’s most beautiful natural environments.

On a recent night, Anita Waxman and Tom Dokton made a go of a night on the terrace. The couple, who live in San Francisco but spend time in New York City frequently in their roles producing musical theater, eagerly made use of the fire to roast some marshmallows.

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Tech students have options for textbooks

By KEELA COOPER Staff Writer

Now that classes have begun, Texas Tech students begin to think about buying textbooks.

There are several different options at Tech when it comes to getting the books needed for classes.

Students must decide whether they need new, used or e-books, and whether they want to get them online or in a store.

There are many bookstores on and around campus that offer various ways to retrieve textbooks.

Neebo bookstore is located on University Avenue and 11th Street.

Patty Baird, Neebo’s accounting specialist, said Neebo is the only store that has all of the books available for renting as well as buying.

“According to students, we have the lowest prices and highest buyback prices,” Baird said.

While Baird said Neebo has the lowest prices, Barnes and Noble Bookstore’s assistant general manager and buyer said Barnes and Noble, located in the Student Union Building, has the cheapest prices on campus.

“We also have price matching,” Monica Cowie stated.

At Neebo, Barnes and Noble and several other bookstores, including Varsity

Bookstore and Red and Black, textbooks are available for buying and renting.

Students typically decide which option is best for them by factors, including which bookstores are the cheapest, which buy the books back at the end of the year and which are the overall easiest choice for them.

Jeff Sherwood, CEO of bigwords.com, created the website to help students with textbook decisions.

“Bigwords is a search engine for textbooks that compares prices from all online sources,” he said.

This website allows students to enter all of the textbooks they need by title, author or international standard book number. The website then produces every possible combination of those books, Sherwood said.

The combinations are ordered from lowest prices to highest prices, he said.

“The prices include shipping rates and any available coupons,” Sherwood said.

The combinations may include new, used, rented or e-books. If students are not satisfied with an option, they can ignore that copy and scroll through the recommendations until they find one that suits them.

Once students are done with a textbook, they can sell it back through bigwords.com at the end of the semester.

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First Masked Rider’s legacy lives on

By MELISSA SMITH Staff Writer

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TEXAS TECH PRESIDENT Duane Nellis speaks to the Division of Undergrad Education and Student Affairs during a meet-and-greet Thursday at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

Every football game a student on a licorice-black horse stampedes across the field, leading the team in confidence.

Joe Kirk Fulton was the man who gave way to this school tradition. He was the original Masked Rider.

“I know with Kirk, he did that because he thought it would fire the team up, and the football coach at the time thought that it would be a great idea to inspire the team,” Stephanie Rhode, spirit program director, said.

“I don’t think Kirk, I know Kirk had no idea that 60 years later we would be here thinking, ‘Three weeks from now we’ll be seeing the 52nd Masked Rider lead the team out on the field with a horse.’ It’s a huge, huge deal.”

Not only has the Masked Rider become a football tradition, she said, but also one of the school’s most recognizable symbols.

Fulton started one of the most monumental traditions at Texas Tech, Rhode said, and his legacy will live on even after his death on Aug. 1.

“The (spirit) committee will definitely want to honor him in some way,” she said, “and I know at a football game something will be done in honor of him.”

The Saddle Tramps were one of the first groups on campus to take a step in recognizing Fulton, Traylor Moses, a cellular and molecular biology major from Slaton said.

The Saddle Tramps put an idea into action when they found out about Fulton’s death, he said.

“We spent four and half hours wrapping the statue of the Masked Rider in black paper streamers,” Moses said. “We started at 7 p.m. and ended at around midnight. We were trying to do the same thing that people do with Will Rogers’ statue.”

Chris Snead, the assistant vice president of the Tech Alumni Association, said the Will Rogers statue usually is wrapped in black streamers after a prominent Tech alumnus has died, but in this case it was different.

“They wrapped (the Masked Rider statue) in black streamers for two days following his passing,” he said. “Obviously, the Saddle Tramps wrap Will Rogers in red before every game and the only other times it is wrapped is in honor in someone’s passing. But, the Saddle Tramps thought it would be a

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THE SADDLES TRAMPS wrapped the Masked Rider statue to pay respect to Joe Kirk Fulton. Fulton served as the university's first Masked Rider and died Aug. 1 at age 81.

more fitting tribute for Kirk to wrap the Masked Rider statue. It has never been done before and it won’t happen again. It was only done that one time for the purpose for the Masked Rider.”

Moses said it was humbling and an honor to partake in the tribute to Fulton.

“It feels pretty amazing to have honored him in that way,” he said.

“The Masked Rider is recognized as one of the best mascots, and it has made a big impact on our school thanks to Joe.” The Tech community is thankful and is still awestruck by Fulton’s courage to begin such an important tradition, Rhode said.

It is impossible to understand what was going through Fulton’s mind when he rode onto the field, she said.

“When I put myself in his shoes, or boots, I guess,” Rhode said, “back in 1954 to be the age he was and to borrow a horse and to ride a horse onto the football field at a ball game — leading a football team.”

The spirit committee received donations in Fulton’s name, she said, and the use for the money is still up in the air.

Since the school already has a statue of him, Rhode said they are trying to think of another way to memorialize him.

“He will be honored in some permanent way I’m sure,” she said, “with either a monument or something. I don’t know if it will go towards scholarship money for the Masked Rider,

considering it has turned into such a huge job.”

Fulton will always be remembered as the man who gave the school a mascot, Snead said.

The mascot of the Masked Rider, he said, also is recognized across the country as being one of the best college mascots, which is an honor not only to the university, but to Fulton himself.

“A lot of people don’t know this, but for a long time Texas Tech was the only really big name program that didn’t have a mascot of any kind,” Snead said. “So, in 1954, at the Gator Bowl, we asked Kirk to ride a horse and to lead the team onto the field and that led to Texas Tech to make it a tradition. The Masked Rider is the official mascot at Texas Tech and leads the team onto the field, and gallops down the east and west sidelines after each touchdown.”

The Tech community will always remember Fulton, Moses said, and his legacy will continue to live on at every football game.

Fulton’s legacy will be honored every year as each Masked Rider brings something new to the program, he said. “(His legacy) lives on every time you see the Masked Rider riding across the football field,” Snead said. “It’s going to be living on as long as Texas Tech is a university. He’s immortalized by the Masked Rider statue in light of Kirk leading the team onto the field.

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Sid Bernstein, who brought Beatles to Shea Stadium, dies NEW YORK (AP) — Misty-eyed music promoter Sid Bernstein, who booked such top acts as Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland and the Rolling Stones and hit the highest heights when he masterminded the Beatles’ historic concerts at Shea Stadium and Carnegie Hall, died Wednesday at age 95.

Bernstein’s daughter, Casey Deutsch, said he died in his sleep at a hospital. She cited no illness and said he died of natural causes.

For decades, the squat, floppy-haired Bernstein excelled like few others at being everywhere and knowing everybody. He worked with Garland,

Duke Ellington and Ray Charles, promoted Dion, Bobby Darin and Chubby Checker and managed Esy Morales, the Rascals and Ornette Coleman. He was an early backer of ABBA, setting up the Swedish group’s first American appearances. He was behind one of the first rock benefit shows, the 1970 “Winter Festival for Peace” at Madison Square Garden, which featured Hendrix and Peter, Paul and Mary. And he helped revive Tony Bennett’s career with a 1962 show at Carnegie Hall.

A master of schmooze and schmaltz in an industry that never quits, Bernstein also had a studious side that led to

his biggest break. He took a course on Western civilization at the New School for Social Research that required students to read a British newspaper once a week. It was 1963, and the Beatles were just catching on in their native country.

“This was the right time to be reading an English newspaper,” he explained in a 2001 interview with the music publication NY Rock Confidential. “So here I am reading little stories about this group from Liverpool that is causing a lot of ‘hysteria.’ By the end of the course, I was so Beatle-ized by what I read, even though I did not hear a note, I said, ‘gotta get ‘em.’”

Rule Changes • Targeting with crown of helmet/targeting to head/neck area of defenseless player • Blocking below the waist • 10-second runoff for injury timeout late in the half • Minimum time for a play after spiking the ball • Assisting the ball carrier • Expand definition of unsportsmanlike conduct • Uniform numbers • Jersey numerals • Helmet off: Timeout allows player to remain in the game • Pylon markings • Allow wireless communication for officiating crew INFORMATION PROVIDED BY NCAA.ORG

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NCAA tightens rules surrounding big hits

By MIKE DUPONT II SportS Editor

The Texas Tech football season is less than a week away from kickoff, but before fans begin anticipating the exciting plays and big hits accompanying the football season, be prepared to see a lot more penalty flags.

According to NCAA.org, there are several new rules that will be enforced during the 2013 season. The NCAA Rules Committee and Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved the rule changes Feb. 13.

The first set of rules appearing on the NCAA Rules Committee’s list specifically addresses “targeting with crown of helmet” and “targeting to head/ neck area of defenseless player.”

Based on the new rule changes, the tackle made by junior defensive lineman Jadeveon Clowney against Michigan running back Vincent Smith during the 2013 Outback Bowl would fall under the “targeting with crown of helmet” infraction, and Clowney would be ejected if the incident occurs during the 2013 season.

Senior defensive back, Tre’ Porter, said he disagrees with the rule changes, but he also recognizes the importance of players’ safety.

“I don’t think you should be able to get ejected from a game because, I mean, sometimes it

just happens,” he said. “Honestly, I’ll be upset, but I’ll respect the rule because I respect players’ health.”

There also is a new rule addressing “spiking” the ball at the close of a half or game, according to the NCAA. The new rule stipulation, according to the NCAA.org website, reads if the game clock is stopped with three or more seconds remaining in the quarter and will start on the referee’s signal. The offense may reasonably expect to throw the ball directly to the ground and have enough time for another play. If there are fewer than three seconds, on the clock, there is enough time for only one play.

An example of “targeting to head/neck area of defenseless player” occurred during the first quarter of the 2013 Fiesta Bowl.

Former Florida linebacker John Bostic delivered a blow to Louisville quarterback, Theodore Bridgewater. A 15-yard penalty was assessed to Bostic after he struck Bridgewater in such an aggressive manner that the quarterback’s helmet was dislodged, but under the new rules, Bostic would be ejected from the game.

According to the Rules Committee, if any of the infractions listed occur during the first half, the wrongdoer will be subject to disqualification for the remainder of the game. If the infraction occurs during the

second half, the perpetrator will “That’s definitely going to afbe disqualified for the remainder fect the game, for one, the fans of the game and the first half of aren’t going to like it,” he said. the next game. Also, if the foul “Two, at the end of the day, it’s occurs in the second half of the football. It’s going to happen. final game of the season, players You shouldn’t eject somebody with remaining eligibility will for an accident. I could underserve the susstand if it was on pension during purpose, like, ‘Oh, the first game I see you and I’m of the next seaabout to …’ you The newly built son. know? But if it’s E a c h d i s - jumbotron displays a an accident, I feel qualification like it shouldn’t i s s u b j e c t t o countdown until the happen. It’s footreview by in- first home game of ball.” s t a n t r e p l a y, There also are a c c o r d i n g t o the season Tuesday new rules regardthe Rules Com- inside Jones AT&T ing blocking bemittee. But low the waist, acStadium. The first in situations cording to NCAA. where instant home game, on Sept.

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The Rules Committee also states players not covered inside the zone explained are allowed to block below the waist only after the ball has left the zone and the force of the initial contact is from the front. However, once the ball has left the zone, a player may not block below the waist toward his own end line.

According to the Rules Committee, another new rule change addresses injury timeouts occurring late in either half.

The new rule states, if the player injury is the only reason for stopping the clock with less than one minute in the half, the opponent has the option of a 10-second runoff. The play clock will be set to 25 seconds and if there is a 10-second runoff, the game clock will start on the snap. Teams can avoid the 10-second runoff by calling a timeout, if available. There is no option of a 10-second runoff if there are injuries to opposing players, according to NCAA. org.

The Rules Committee also has expanded the definition of unsportsmanlike conduct. According to NCAA.org, dead-ball contact fouls such as pushing, shoving and striking will be assessed as an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

If there was an instance where a player leaves the game and changes his jersey number,

he must report to the referee, who then must inform the opposing head coach and announce the change prior to the player re-entering the game.

If the player enters the game without reporting to the referee, they will be assessed a foul for unsportsmanlike conduct, according to NCAA.org.

A change has been made regarding jersey numerals and situations where an athlete’s helmet may be dislodged, as well.

According to NCAA.org, there must be one solid color that is clearly in distinct contrast with the color of the jersey, irrespective of any border around the number. Also, a player may remain in the game after losing their helmet only if his team is granted a charged timeout.

There also are rule changes effective this season addressing pylon markings and exceptions regarding wireless communication for officiating crews.

Institutional and conference logos are allowed, but only one manufacturer’s logo or trademark is permitted on each pylon and any such marking may not extend more than three inches on any side, according to NCAA.org. Also, an exception has been instituted to allow a protected wireless communication system open only to the officiating crew and conference officiating observer. ➤➤mdupont@dailytoreador.com

Experienced Tech volleyball Quarterback questions raise team anxious for new start cause for concern for Tech

By REX ROSE Staff WritEr

The Texas Tech volleyball team will be much improved this upcoming season when it comes to experienced players.

Tech is returning 12 out of 18 players, something third-year coach Don Flora is pleased about.

Flora said he now has a group of women who understand the way he wants his team to think about the game.

“One of the things we talk about is our volleyball IQ and knowledge,” he said. “The way we go about teaching, the way we go about learning, that’s a really big thing in our gym. So now, the athletes that are here believe in what we’re doing. They know what we’re doing and now they’re teaching the others around them.”

Aubree Piper, the lone senior on the team, will be a key player with the most experience returning for Tech

this season.

Flora said he believes Piper is geared to have a big season.

“Coming into her senior year, (she is) the most healthy she has ever been during my tenure here,” he said. “She ran our testing, finished it and completed it for the first time in her whole career. It’s nice to have a local athlete healthy and ready for her senior year.”

Piper said she understands the value her experience will have on this team and said she knows what needs to be done in order to have a successful season.

“Always working hard and never taking days off,” she said. “Coming in the gym all the time ready to work. I know it’s tiring, but you have to stay strong. Our summer workouts have been incredible, so I don’t think that will be a problem.”

Flora said the Red Raiders are excited about the newfound depth Tech possesses, which comes from building consecutive, talented recruit-

ing classes.

“Due to the increase in talent from these past two recruiting classes, we feel really good about our depth at every position,” he said.

The Red Raiders begin their 2013 campaign at noon Friday in Ogden, Utah. Tech will participate in the Wildcat Invitational hosted by Weber State. The Red Raiders are scheduled to face Seattle, University of California-Riverside, Grand Canyon and Weber State during the two-day period.

The Red Raiders host their first home game at 6 p.m. Sept. 3 in United Spirit Arena, playing two matches against Abilene Christian.

Flora said he expects his team to be ready to compete with any of the teams in the Big 12 Conference.

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By EVERETT CORDER Staff WritEr

The Red Raiders could end up taking the field in Kliff Kingsbury’s Texas Tech coaching debut with a true freshman starting at quarterback.

Coming into camp, Kingsbury said the position was open, and it looked like it would be a battle between true freshman Davis Webb and redshirt sophomore Michael Brewer.

“Protecting the football is first and foremost,” Kingsbury said. “But we’re really just looking at who is moving the ball around and putting it in the end zone the best.”

Brewer played sparingly last year, racking up 375 yards and four touchdowns throughout the nine games in which he appeared.

Redshirt sophomore running back DeAndre Washington said the Red Raiders are preparing as if Brewer will not be able to play in the season opener against Southern Methodist University.

“Whoever it is, we know we’re going to have a freshman in there at quarterback,” he said. “So [the running backs] are just looking to take some of the pressure off them, you know, just doing anything we can to make the transition easier for them.”

The potential loss of Brewer for the opener has shifted the focus of the quarterback battle to now include walk-on freshman Baker Mayfield, Kingsbury said.

“We recruited [Mayfield] hard when I was at Houston and he was a sophomore, and then Coach Morris made him an offer at Washington State,” he said. “He kind of got left out there at the end, but we knew he was a scholarshiptype player and we’re excited to have him here.”

Kingsbury went on to describe Mayfield as a confident guy, capable of making plays and noted his ability to move around and strong arm.

“Baker’s done a great job of stepping in and making plays,” said senior defen-

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sive lineman Kerry Hyder. “We didn’t really expect much from him, but he’s stepped in and made some big throws and played well.”

The competition between Webb and Mayfield is neck and neck according to Kingsbury, and the question of who will start is a game-time decision.

“Davis picked up right off where he left in the spring,” Kingsbury said. “He’s done a good job moving and protecting the ball, and he’s proved to us that he can lead this team.”

Webb ended last football season with 2,658 passing yards and 23 touchdowns while leading Prosper High School to a District 9-4A championship. He graduated from high school early and enrolled at Tech in January so he could work with the team throughout the spring, according to the Tech Athletics website.

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Tech coach nears 300 career victories

By EVERETT CORDER Staff Writer

With both his parents working as high school coaches, Texas Tech volleyball coach, Don Flora, was raised observing the game.

Flora followed in his parent’s footsteps, becoming a coach himself, and enters this next season just two wins away from 300 career victories.

He played the sport continuously growing up, for club teams, for his high school in Southern California and then for the University of La Verne where he eventually started his coaching career.

He started out coaching the men’s team and then took over

the women’s team in 1998.

“I think in some ways, it’s everybody’s thought, to get to coach at your alma mater,” Flora said. “It was just a really big blessing for me.”

The peak of Flora’s tenure at La Verne came in 2001 when he won the NCAA Division III women’s national championship. The championship run occurred during the second season of a nine-season streak in which La Verne won 20 or more games in every season.

“It was an amazing feeling, seeing this team you worked with become the ultimate team of that season,” Flora said.

Flora led La Verne back to the national championship in 2008, but the team wasn’t able to

win this time. The match ended up being Flora’s last with La Verne, as the coach left for the New Mexico State Aggies. He was the assistant coach there for two seasons under Coach Mike Jordan before being named the head coach at Tech in January 2011.

“It was a lot of fun working with [Don],” Jordan said. “He’s really good at paying attention to the little details and making sure players are well-rounded.”

In turn, Flora said he was able to learn a lot about the chess match of volleyball, from Jordan.

“There’s a lot of pieces with defense and offense in volleyball,” he said. “Coach Jordan was very good at looking at all

Beckie, Red Raiders gain more national attention

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TEXAS TECH FORWARD Janine Beckie kicks in the game winning goal during the Red Raiders’ 1-0 victory against Nevada on Aug. 31 at John B. Walker Soccer Complex.

By SCOTT FISHER Staff Writer

Sophomore forward Janine Beckie had a tantalizing freshman campaign in which she led the Red Raiders in goals, and was tied for the team leader in assists.

Outside of Texas Tech, Beckie was named to the U-20 National Team and was invited to play with the Seattle Sounders women’s team during the summer.

Beckie said she learned something every day from playing with the Seattle Sounders and U.S. National Teams respectively.

“It helped me so much to play against women that were bigger

and stronger than I was,” Beckie said. “I learned a lot from the players and my coaches about things like fitness and nutrition.”

Tech coach Tom Stone said he was pleased with Beckie’s accolades away from the university and thinks she will benefit from them in the upcoming 2013 NCAA season.

“Anytime you can play against women, play against players that are older than you, it helps you,” he said. “Playing with the Sounders in that women’s league really gave her a physical challenge that she doesn’t get as much in college.”

With all of the success last season and during the summer,

opposing teams are sure to have a game plan to try and contain Beckie. She enters a 2013 season in which she led the Big 12 Conference in shot attempts, shot attempts per game, points and points per game last year.

“I do feel a little bit of pressure,” Beckie said. “But it’s good pressure. I know all of my teammates want to win just like I do and we all have each other’s backs.”

Beckie said she is confident going into the 2013 season, with a revamped roster behind her and a challenging schedule in front of her.

In the Red Raiders exhibition match against Denver University, Beckie was able to send a cross into the box that was met by the head of senior Jessica Fuston for the Red Raiders’ only goal in the 1-0 shutout.

Coming off their first exhibition win, the Red Raiders are looking to follow up on their 2012 success by racking up wins early in the season.

“Everyone comes out every single day with an attitude that we want to win,” said team captain Conner Williams. “ We have a goal to win the Big 12 this year and I think it shows in our practices.”

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Obama, ‘72 Dolphins: A salute after 40 years WASHINGTON (AP) — Some were gray-headed, others a bit stooped, at least one carried a cane.

But despite age, there were still hints of the large frames that had once donned football pads and exploded countless times from lines of scrimmage during an unforgettable season.

Nearly three dozen members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins finally received their White House moment Tuesday, 40 years after they made history by winning 17 games and losing none — an undefeated achievement that no NFL team has ever matched.

President Barack Obama welcomed the former players to the East Room, a periodic occurrence at the White House these days for current sports champions.

Four decades ago, however, saluting athletes was not an established tradition. And the Watergate scandal was preoccupying President Richard Nixon back then anyway. So the men of that historic Dolphins team had

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not received their due.

“I know that some people may be asking why we are doing this after all these years,” Obama deadpanned.

“My answer is simple: I wanted to be the young guy up here for once.”

The faces were still recognizable: Hall of Famers Larry Csonka, the team’s star fullback; quarterback Bob Griese; offensive lineman Larry Little; linebacker Nick Buoniconti; and of course their leader, coach Don Shula.

“Some of them are a little harder to recognize these days,” Obama said.

“They don’t have the Afros, the mutton chops, the Fu Manchus.”

Obama, an avid sports fan and regular ESPN watcher, made clear to the Dolphins and his audience that as a Chicagoan, his football team is the Bears.

“We understand,” Shula said.

“You have to root for someone.”

Obama noted that two years ago he recognized the 1985 Bears on the

White House South Lawn. The team had not received the usual White House reception in 1986, a decision attributed to the space shuttle Challenger disaster, which occurred two days after the Bears beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.

“That day I called them the greatest team ever. But, I mean, take it with a grain of salt,” the president added sheepishly with the Dolphins clustered behind him. “The Bears lost once in their nearly perfect season.”

Then he paused for effect. “It happened to be to the Dolphins.”

Obama praised their post football careers, noting that members of the team included a minister, a mayor, a doctor, a state senator, a high school counselor and a number of successful businessmen. He singled out Buoniconti for helping found a leading spinal cord research center, the result of an injury sustained by his son on the football field.

Shula and the players gave Obama

the different situations in the game.”

During the first two seasons of Flora’s tenure, the Tech volleyball team won a total of 29 games, one fewer than the team had won throughout the previous five seasons.

“One of the biggest thing he stresses is that it’s OK to be wrong, as long as you think about it and learn from it,” senior Aubree Piper said.

The Red Raiders will host their first home game at 6 p.m., Sept. 3, in United Spirit Arena against the Abilene Christian Wildcats.

Flora said his expectations for the team are much greater than that of years past.

“I think this is the best team

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TEXAS TECH VOLLEYBALL coach Don Flora will set 300 career victories after two more victories.

we’ve had in my three seasons here,” he said. “We’re deep, we’re physical and the biggest

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Brummitt: Small athlete, big -time player

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TEXAS TECH DEFENSIVE specialist Rachel Brummitt gets ready to bump the ball during a game against The University of North Texas on Nov. 3 in the United Spirit Arena.

By REX ROSE Staff Writer

Standing just above five feet six inches tall, junior libero Rachel Brummitt, may be the shortest player on this year’s Red Raider volleyball team, but her presence is felt in a big way.

Brummitt said she is excited and ready for the year after a productive summer.

“The past spring season we really worked hard,” she said.

“But nothing has beat this summer. We’ve had an awesome summer workout-wise and practice-wise, our chemistry is good and it’s going to be a good year.”

Brummitt expects to have a big season after leading the team in multiple statistical areas during the 2012 season including aces, digs and sets played.

In only her second week playing for the Red Raiders, she broke the Tech three-set record for digs against San Jose State, recording 27 from the back row.

This record had been standing since 1990 and held by Sheila Solomon.

This wasn’t the only impresa Dolphins’ jersey with No. 72 on it.

It didn’t bear his name; instead it simply said “Undefeated.”

At least three players, including Hall of Fame center Jim Langer, did not make the trip to the White House, citing political differences with Obama.

Little and Griese, speaking to reporters afterward, said they regretted that those former teammates missed the ceremony.

sive record broken by Brummitt during her 2012 campaign. She shattered the single-season school record of digs, recording 510 for the season. This broke the previous mark set by Melissa McGehee with 448 digs in 2000.

Brummitt’s 510 digs led the team for the Red Raiders. Sophomore Emily Reutter was her closest competition, recording 234 digs during her 2012 season.

Coach Don Flora knows the impact Brummitt is capable of having on the upcoming season.

“Coming back with the dig record last year, setting a singleseason Texas Tech record, that’s huge,” he said.

Brummitt looks to help the team improve on stats from last year and take the next step forward for this program.

“We plan to increase everything we’ve been doing and get some better stats,” she said. “We look to get more wins and take that next step.”

The volleyball team had a momentum-shifting win near the end of last season against No. 20 Kansas State, something Brummitt hopes the team can build on.

“That was definitely an awesome thing and we just had so much fun with that game,” she said. “It really lit the fire for us to finish the season strong.”

Brummitt said the Red Raiders have a strong recruiting class for the upcoming season and she is eager to build a sense of cohesiveness with the newcomers. “(I’m) looking forward to see how everyone meshes together and to see what’s going to come with them,” she said. “So far all of the girls are great and the team chemistry is really there.

I’m looking forward to seeing what they can do.”

Flora said he is pleased his players are excited about the upcoming season in a different manner.

“It’s a lot more fun, they’re into it in a different way,” he said. “It’s nice to see the start of what we call the pitter pat: The heartbeat’s going, the eyes are open and let’s get after it.”

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By ALANA KIKER Staff Writer

The Texas Tech soccer team had its first practice of the year Aug. 7, after making it to the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2012.

Coach Tom Stone said the first day went smoother than ones in the past largely because they have eight returning starters who know the drills, know what to expect and can help lead the team.

Senior goalie Victoria Esson said 13 new players were added to the team, and have been working on bonding together since the start of July, when the new recruits are allowed to come out and bond with the returning players.

“There’s a good chemistry and enthusiasm within the changing room,” Esson said, “everyone is excited to be out here and ready to go for two-a-days.”

Having freshmen come in July is beneficial for team bonding, she said.

“It is really good, because it gives us a whole extra month to get used

to each other, to get to know each other and bond the freshmen into the team,” Esson said. “We do a few extra things to make sure everyone feels welcome and is feeling at home by the time we hit the preseason.”

The freshmen are not viewed as merely newcomers on the team, Fuston said.

“They are teammates, they’re not newcomers,” she said. “I feel like we have known them for a while. Once they came on the official, we have taken them under our wings, we hang out with them outside of soccer, which makes them love it here. They love the team, they love the atmosphere, and we are all just best friends.”

The Red Raiders advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2012 after defeating North Texas, but their season came to a halt after a double-overtime thriller, in which Tech lost to Florida State.

This year, Fuston said this team could go as far as they want to.

“We can be as strong as we want,” she said. “It just depends

Red Raider Club donations increase The Red Raider Club set another donations record this year, raising a total of $5.3 million for donation to the student-athlete experience.

The amount is $700,000 more than the $4.6 million the club raised last year, making it the largest increase in giving between two fiscal years in the club’s history, according to the news release. The money collected will be used for sports scholarships and to enhance the Texas Tech student-athlete experience.

Amy Heard, associate athletic director and executive director of the Red Raider Club, said in the release that she attributed the increase in donation to the recent coaching hires of Kliff Kingsbury, Tubby Smith, Tim Tadlock and Candice Whitaker.

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on how we play and how we work together. We can go all the way if we want, it just depends on our mentality and the effort we put into it.”

This senior class has come from all over, creating depth and diversity in this pool of talent, Stone said.

“I just think from a starting point to ending point this group of seniors have the best story to tell,” he said.

For example, Mallory Yacullo, from Colorado, started as a forward then transitioned to attacking midfield and finally found a home as an outside defender. Jessica Fuston was the Big 12 Conference recruit of the year her freshman year and Stone deemed senior defender, Hayley Haagsma, from Cerritos, Calif., the best center back in the Big 12.

Stone said he thinks the leadership of this team will allow the Red Raiders to control much of their own destiny this season.

“Just based on their attitude, based on the mentality of the seniors and the upperclassmen that we have, I don’t know if there is a limit to this team,” he said. ➤➤akiker@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH FORWARD Janine Beckie kicks in the game winning goal during the Red Raiders’ 1-0 victory against Nevada on Aug. 31 at John Walker Soccer Complex.

Cowboys’ Lee reaches deal on 6-year extension IRVING (AP) — Dallas Cowboys middle linebacker Sean Lee signed a six-year contract extension Wednesday, a deal that goes through the 2019 season.

A story on the team’s website Wednesday night said Lee’s deal is worth about $42 million, but could escalate as high as $51 million depending on different incentives.

The guaranteed money is around $16 million.

“I’m extremely excited. I was blessed to be able to be drafted by a great franchise,” Lee said in a video interview posted along with the story. “To have an opportunity to be here a long time and hopefully compete for a Super Bowl is fantastic.”

Lee’s agent, Mike McCartney, posted a message on his Twitter account congratulating the

linebacker.

“Congrats to SEAN LEE for agreeing to a 6 year extension with the @dallascowboys”, the agent tweeted Wednesday.

Lee is going into his fourth NFL season since being a second-round pick from Penn State in 2010.

The high-energy linebacker is a key part for the Cowboys in their switch to a 4-3 system under new defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin.

Lee played only six games last season, when he had 77 tackles before being sidelined by a torn ligament in his right big toe.

During his rookie season, Lee played 14 games behind Bradie James and Keith Brooking.

He became a full-time starter in 2011 and led the team with 131 tackles, 52 more than any other

player, despite playing the second half of the season with a broken left wrist protected by a bulky cast and missing a game because of the injury.

Without being specific, Lee said his new contract takes injuries into account.

“I’ve said I need to find a way to stay on this field, and the contract is extremely fair, where if I’m on the field the whole year I’ll be able to get paid,” he said.

“At the same point, if I do have injuries, it protects the Cowboys, and I think that’s fantastic, especially with the injuries I’ve dealt with in the past.”

Lee said his goal is to be on the field every game.

He was also hampered by injuries during his rookie camp and early in his first season, though he

played 14 games without starting.

There was also a December 2010 game at Indianapolis where Lee intercepted Peyton Manning twice. He returned one for a touchdown and set up a game-winning field goal in overtime with the other.

After signing the deal Wednesday night, Lee said he was already focused on practice the next day.

The Cowboys have two preseason games remaining, including Saturday night at home against Cincinnati, before the Sept. 8 opener at home against the New York Giants.

“It’s great to have it done,” he said. “Being able to focus on this year, focus on winning, focus on me becoming a better football player and staying on the field, making sure I’m healthy so I can help this team win.”

Beckie named 1 of 31 candidates for MAC Hermann Trophy by NSCAA Texas Tech sophomore Janine Beckie has been named as a candidate for the MAC Hermann Trophy, which was announced by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

The forward returns to the Red Raider frontline following a 2012 campaign in which she scored 14 goals, allowing her to finish third among freshmen for goals scored, while also helping the Red Raiders advance in the NCAA tournament before falling short against Florida State.

The Highlands Ranch, Colo.,

native is the first NSCAA AllAmerican in Tech history, and Top Drawer Soccer tabbed Beckie as one of the top-10 returning forwards nationally.

The MAC Hermann Trophy is the highest individual award in collegiate soccer. The 2013 women’s preseason watch list includes 31 athletes from across the country.

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Red Raiders selected to Preseason All-Conference soccer team Texas Tech soccer players Jaelene Hinkle and Janine Beckie have been named to the Preseason All-Big 12 Conference soccer team.

Hinkle was the Red Raiders’ leading assist woman in 2012 with five assists, which ranked her fifth overall in the Big 12. The junior was one of two Red Raiders to log more than 2,000 minutes.

She is no stranger to awards, as she has been named to the NCAA All-Central region team twice, according to a news release.

Beckie is looking to improve on her sensational 2012 season in which she became Tech’s first All-American

in program history.

The first-team All-Big 12 selection netted 14 goals in her freshman campaign, which ranked her first in the Big 12 among newcomers, propelling her to win Big 12 rookie of the year honors, and third in the nation, according to the release.Along with goal scoring, Beckie also tied Hinkle’s team-high mark of five assists in 2012. Top Drawer Soccer ranks both Hinkle and Beckie in the top 10 of their respective positions.

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Ex-New England Patriot Hernandez indicted on murder charge Thursday ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was indicted Thursday on first-degree murder and weapons charges in the death of a friend whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from the explayer’s home.

The six-count grand jury indictment charges Hernandez with killing 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player from Boston who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s girlfriend.

Hernandez, 23, pleaded not guilty to murder and weapons charges in June, and he is being held without bail.

He had a brief court appearance in Attleboro on Thursday afternoon. Afterward, his attorney Michael Fee said the defense was pleased to be on a path to a jury trial and was looking forward to testing the prosecution’s evidence.

“There has been an incredible rush to judgment in this case,” and the state doesn’t have enough evidence to prove the charges, he said.