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Obama defends suit challenging Texas voter ID law WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is defending the Justice Department’s lawsuit over Texas’ voter ID law and says his administration will use tools available through the Voting Rights Act to keep jurisdictions from enacting laws that have the effect of preventing people from voting.

In an interview with PBS broadcast Wednesday, Obama said that while some voting restrictions may contain a racial element, the reasons for the constraints are more likely partisan.

The Supreme Court has said the Voting Rights Act needs revisions, meaning certain jurisdictions no longer need to have new voting laws reviewed ahead of time to gauge their effect on minority voters.

Merrill Lynch settles discrimination lawsuit CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyers for hundreds of black financial advisers have reached a $160 million settlement in a lawsuit accusing Wall Street brokerage giant Merrill Lynch of racial discrimination, a plaintiffs’ attorney said Wednesday.

If approved by a federal judge in Chicago, the payout by Merrill Lynch to around 1,200 plaintiffs would be one of the largest ever in a racial discrimination case, Chicago-based attorney Suzanne E. Bish said.

Speaking from his Merrill Lynch office in Dallas, one of the first plaintiffs from the earliest days of the suit, Maroc “Rocky” Howard, said he wished he and his fellow black brokers never had to resort to litigation.

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Students react to bus routes

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Riding the bus may be a different experience as compared to previous years for students who live off campus as new bus routes, created by the Student Government Association went into effect Monday.

Some students who live off campus said they are unhappy with the route change.

Sarah Jacobson, a senior special education major from Sugar Land, said she is upset with the decision SGA made.

“I live off campus and the bus route I’m on picks up four other apartments,” she said.

“It’s the second day and the bus has already been full.”

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 sent out by SGA. 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 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 in a previous interview.

“This is an efficient way to run buses through campus.”

Last year, the off-campus buses picked up apartment complexes including: University Trails, The Village at Overton Park and University Pointe. This year, the University Club complex has been added to the route pickup.

Time is another factor students must consider when using off-campus transportation.

“Last year the bus came every seven minutes,” Jacobson said. “This year it comes every nine.”

Jacobson said she understands the changes were made for safety, but she still does not completely agree with the decision made by SGA. “I didn’t think there was a safety problem beforehand,” she said, “but it’s just inconvenient.”

Nick Aja, a junior Spanish major from Flower Mound, started living off campus this year at the Suites at Overton Park.

“I walk to school right now and it’s really not that far,” he said.

Aja said he never used off-campus transportation, but this week he wanted to give it a try. The only problem, he said, was the bus routes were not easy to navigate.

“I was actually looking at the bus routes to see how to get a bus to take me to school,” he said. “It was kind of difficult to figure out.”

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SHERRY THOMAS SINGS “I Know the Plans I Have for You” after the final lines of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech were read during the 50th Anniversary March on Washington event hosted by the Texas Tech Health Science Center.

Health Sciences Center hosts MLK speech celebration

By HANNAH JACKSON Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center welcomed a room full of people Wednesday to join in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist, led a political rally known as The March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. The march showed the struggles, both socially and politically, of AfricanAmericans. It called for social justice for all Americans, regardless of their skin color.

The room in the Academic Classroom Building in which the event took place has a capacity of 100 people, and Michelle Ensminger, director of the HSC Office of Global Health, said that was the number she planned for.

She extended the invitation to HSC as well as Tech, causing both campuses to join together for the event.

Kathleen McPherson, clinic office manager in the Department of Dermatology, said the goal of the event was

for people to come to celebrate the anniversary and to get the true meaning of the event 50 years ago.

“We had people from different races to participate; different age groups, and that’s what we wanted,” she said. “You’ve got to keep the dream going. And unless people of every race of all ages know about it, how do you keep the dream alive? And I think we accomplished what we wanted.”

Students from HSC, Tech, Coronado High School and Hutchinson Middle School joined together to read segments of the famous speech and further show the changes society made during the last 50 years.

Ensminger said this was their way of showing not only current but future students the accomplishments achieved so far in carrying out King’s dream.

The reason HSC decided to host the event was to open up new ideas, especially for their students, she said, and cultural events like this show a shared humanity with people of all walks of life.

In this, students are introduced to ways of thinking that will help them with future interactions with people,

Ensminger said. This, she said, will help HSC students understand their patients in the future.

The importance of the event, Ensminger said, is recognizing the humanity of all people, as King envisioned.

The muscle behind the Civil Rights Movement was not just King and other inspirational adults, she said, but also young people.

College and high school students also made up the movement, she said, and it is important for Tech students to realize young people can have vision and drive for something big.

Although changes have been made since King’s March on Washington, Ensminger said the country has not reached King’s dream yet.

McPherson said this event means society is going to continue to move forward, even if it has to overcome struggles.

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US considers response to Syria Police officer offers safety advice

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The ongoing civil war in Syria has appeared to reach a boiling point as it is being reported the government led by Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against its own people, killing hundreds.

“It truly is heartbreaking, most of the causalities are kids,” said Aicha Fokar, a freshman biology major from Lubbock.

The attacks have caused both the U.S. and other powers to think about using military action against the al-Assad regime.

“The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity,” said Secretary of State John Kerry in an Associated Press article. “By any standard, it is inexcusable and — despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured — it is undeniable.”

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said in another AP article the U.S. is ready to go.

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an option, White House spokesman Jay Carney said in the article.

“Allowing the use of chemical weapons on a significant scale to take place without a response would present a significant challenge to, threat to the United States’ national security,” Carney said in the article.

The U.S. is waiting on the U.K. to decide how it will respond, as the prime minister will meet with parliament to discuss options, according to the article.

“I think we ought to offer as much support militarily and financially and supply-wise as we can to the Syrian rebels,” said Bill Dean, an associate professor of media and communication and vice president of the Texas Tech Alumni Association.

According to the article, the Syrian government has one major superpower that still supports the leader: Russia.

President Barack Obama may wait on making a decision on military action because he travels to Sweden and Russia on Tuesday, according to the article.

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By CHELSEA GRUNDEN Staff Writer

As the new semester brought in thousands of new students to Texas Tech, President M. Duane Nellis sent out a reminder of the various methods of safety students can use on and off campus.

The Tech Police Department has three patrol shifts covering the campus at all times. Academic guards patrol during the day and operate the Student Union Building station, Tech Police Administrative Captain Stephen Hinkle said.

Safe Ride, which can be contacted at 742-RIDE, is a free taxi service that aids students who need transportation to their place of residence between the hours of 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. This service, provided by Student Transportation Fees, will pick up Tech students who call as long as they are within Lubbock city limits and have a valid Tech ID, Hinkle said.

This free service provides transportation to students without reporting any names, he said.

Joey Kane, a freshman petroleum engineering major from Southlake, said

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there are benefits of having Safe Ride as an extra safety program on campus.

“For the people who decide to be outgoing at times, it is a really good tool to get home safely,” he said.

Another free night transportation is Night Shuttle. This service, provided

by Citibus, will take students to any oncampus location until 1:30 a.m., Hinkle said. The service can be contacted by calling 742-NITE, when arrangements of time and place will be made.

On top of the safe transportation services Tech has to offer, Blue Light Phones are set up around campus.

These precautionary devices are aimed to help students in any situation of danger, Hinkle said. Any of the phones will immediately dial the Tech Police Department.

If a student pushes one of the buttons, the call will go straight to dispatchers.

Regardless of whether they say anything on the blue phones, if a call is placed from one, an officer is automatically sent, he said.

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Students speak out on synthetic drug ban

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

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A synthetic marijuana ban has been in effect since March 9, but students do not think the ban is enough to stop young people.

Morgan Herzik, a junior animal science major from Virginia Beach, Va., said making synthetic marijuana illegal is going to create a greater demand for the substance.

“If they want to do it,” he said, “they’re going to do it.”

Chase Michael, a senior civil engineering major from Italy, Texas, said he does not know much about synthetic marijuana besides its dangerous side effects. However, Michael also thinks people who use the substance are not going to let a ban stop them.

The ban will only have a minor effect, he said.

Mayor Pro Tem Karen Gibson

said she thinks the ban is going well because it has brought awareness of synthetic marijuana to parents and other people in Lubbock.

“I think we have been able to stop a lot of the sales,” she said, “but obviously not all of them.”

Tweaks are still necessary for the ban though, Gibson said.

Updates to the list of banned substances are needed because new compounds have been introduced to the public.

Gibson said she would love to get help from the county. She knows the cities around Lubbock are enacting their own bans and she said it is helping.

“If we can just drive this stuff out of here,” Gibson said, “it is just so dangerous. If these kids could just see how dangerous it is. It is just deadly stuff. I don’t know how else to put it.”

Several people and parents she follows on social networks constantly post about the dangers of synthetic marijuana, Gibson said. But, the Board of Health has not developed a plan to educate young people through social networking.

The absence from social networks does not mean the Board has not been working on it though, she said.

Herzik said she did not see the point of using social networking to teach young people about synthetic marijuana even though she knows nothing about the substance.

“I honestly don’t think it would be that effective because people only social network with their friends and things they’re interested in,” she said. “So, if it didn’t already interest them, I don’t think they would look at it all.”

Gibson would have to present the information in a way that would be hard to ignore to teach her, Herzik said, because Herzik does not care about the subject.

Michael said he also does not know much about synthetic marijuana, but knows he is not alone.

Unlike Herzik, Michael said he thinks educating young people with social networking is a good start, but an ad campaign including television and radio could help efforts.

Gibson said she would not change anything she did relating to the ban.

“No, no,” Gibson said. “I would still go through with the ban. I would still stick with what we exactly did. I would still go with updating the list. I think we did what we could.” ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Accuser testifies in Naval Academy sex assault WASHINGTON (AP) — A midshipman testified Wednesday that she didn’t remember being sexually assaulted by three former Navy football players after a night of heavy drinking, but she said one of the men told her she had sex with him and another accused player.

The woman, who is now a senior at the U.S. Naval Academy, testified for more than two hours at the Washington Navy Yard at a hearing to determine whether the three midshipmen will face court-martial. She described a night of drinking in her room at the academy with a friend before going to the toga-themed party in April 2012 at an off-campus house in Annapolis, Md. At the crowded party, which took place in what was known as “the football house” because of its association to the team, the woman said she felt “overwhelmed” and “dizzy” from drinking too much.

“I felt like I was going to pass out,” she said, noting that she

leaned against structural beams in the basement to keep from falling over.

The Associated Press generally does not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse. Midshipmen Josh Tate, Eric Graham and Tra’ves Bush are accused of sexually assaulting her.

The woman said she spent the night at the house and woke up the next morning without her phone or purse.

“I was really confused, and I noticed my back was really sore,” she said.

She also testified that she had consensual sex that Sunday morning with a student at the house who has not been charged.

The woman described feeling troubled by not remembering what happened and asked Tate, who had initially invited her to the party, to come to her room to see what he knew.

The woman also noticed “lewd comments” on Twitter that seemed directed at her and tagged to people she had

slept with in the past. She also testified that rumors had spread rapidly that she had had sex with multiple partners at the party.

When Tate came to her room, she testified that he joked about her not remembering and suggested he refresh her memory.

“He told me that we did have sex,” she said.

The woman also said she asked Tate if she had had sex with Graham.

“He said yes, and then I was like, ‘I don’t want to hear anymore,’” she said.

The woman also described being reluctant to seek an investigation at first.

“Mainly, I was scared,” she said. “I didn’t want to anyone else to get in trouble.”

She also said she feared her mother would find out and force her to leave the academy.

The woman said she decided to cooperate after hearing rumors that other people, specifically underclassmen, could be blamed.

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For the time being, according to the article, chemical specialists are CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 investigating patients and sites around Despite the attack, some people still the capital city of Damascus to further feel military involvement would not be determine the cause and details of the the right course of action. chemical attack.

Earlier in the week the team was “Right now isn’t the time to intervene in terms of using the military but caught under sniper fire on their way maybe sending aid or any type of help,” to the city.

Fokar said.

People around the world are waiting According to the article, at least to see the response of the U.S. and other 355 civilians were killed in the attack. superpowers, as it is unclear whether a Dating back to 2011, the civil war has peaceful solution can be reached. claimed about 100,000 people. ➤➤tdorner@dailytoreador.com FOR RELEASE AUGUST 28, 2013

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Her cooperation with Navy investigators included wiretaps.

On cross-examination, Andrew Weinstein, Bush’s attorney, noted that the woman had had a previous sexual relationship with Bush. When asked by Weinstein whether she had ever considered him capable of rape, she said, “I don’t think that he would.”

She also said, “He wasn’t mean to me by any means,” during their previous sexual relationship.

The female midshipman also testified that she didn’t remember whether she had sex with Bush that night. Weinstein noted that it was Bush who told her he had told Navy investigators that the two had had sex.

Cross-examination was continuing into Wednesday night.

The case has drawn attention as the White House, Congress and the Pentagon have been focusing on the issue of sexual assault after a string of cases in the military this year.

Mont. judge apologizes for comments in rape BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge on Wednesday stood by his decision to send a former teacher to prison for 30 days for raping a 14-year-old girl who later killed herself, but said he “deserved to be chastised” for his comments about the young victim.

District Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced former Billings Senior High School teacher Stacey Rambold to 15 years, then suspended all but 31 days and gave him credit for one day already served.

In handing down the sentence Monday, Baugh said the teenage victim was “older than her chronological age” and had as much control of the situation as the teacher who raped her.

Faced with a backlash over the comments and calls for his resignation, Baugh, 71, wrote an apology in a letter to the editor of The Billings Gazette. He said his comments were demeaning of all women and not reflective of his beliefs.

Later Wednesday, the judge spoke to reporters in his office.

He said he was “fumbling around” in court trying to explain his sentence and “made some really stupid remarks.”

“I don’t know how to pass that off. I’m saying I’m sorry and it’s not who I am,” Baugh said. “I deserve to be chastised. I apologize for that.”

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“During the day I think students are fine,” Hinkle said. “If they’re going to be studying at the library until one or two in the morning, we recommend they leave with somebody.

“Not that the campus is an unsafe environment, but there is strength in numbers. Be aware of your surroundings. Use the buddy system. If they see something suspicious or out of the ordinary, report it to an officer or one of the guards and let us come check it out.”

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Republican NY mayoral hopefuls spar over police NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican candidates for New York mayor clashed frequently Wednesday in a spirited debate punctuated by testy exchanges over the best methods for maintaining the city’s record-low crime rates.

Joe Lhota, the race’s frontrunner, deemed the funding for rival John Catsimaditis’ plan to station police officers in high-crime publichousing buildings as unrealistic.

“I was budget director of the City of New York,” said Lhota, a deputy mayor in former mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s administration. “Don’t make up numbers.”

When Catsimatidis, who’s bidding to become the city’s second consecutive billionaire mayor, sharply denied that claim, Lhota exclaimed, “Why are you so angry?”

“I’m not,” Catsimatidis yelled.

The debate, the first of two in the final 13 days before the primary, included longshot candidate George McDonald, who founded a nonprofit organization to help homeless people find jobs.

All the Republican candidates defended the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practice, a defining issue in the campaign.

The tactic’s supporters, who include independent Mayor Michael Bloomberg, believe it has driven down crime. Its critics, including all the Democratic candidates for mayor, say it discriminates against blacks and Latinos. A judge has ordered a federal monitor to oversee it.

The GOP candidates, all white,

were asked what they would do if their child were stopped by police.

McDonald said his son “wouldn’t be stopped” because he lives in an affluent neighborhood. Catsimatidis said he believed the tactic would soon be replaced thanks to improvements in technology.

And Lhota said his first move would be to read his daughter the court decision that justifies stopand-frisk.

Lhota was credited with steering the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the city’s transit system, through Hurricane Sandy last fall. He immediately became the favorite — and a fundraising juggernaut — when he entered the race this year.

But Catsimatidis remains within striking distance.

In a recent Marist College survey, Catsimatidis trailed Lhota 33 percent to 22 percent, though the small sample size of 132 likely Republican primary voters produced a margin of error of 8.5 percentage points. Additionally, 30 percent were undecided.

Catsimatidis, who is worth $3 billion and owns an oil refinery and the Gristedes supermarket chain, has spent $4 million of his own money in the race and promises more. His latest ad attacks Lhota for calling Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers “mall cops.”

Catsimatidis and McDonald also had several verbal dust-ups, one of which prompted McDonald to

quote Lloyd Bentsen from his 1988 vice presidential debate with Dan Quayle.

“I know Mike Bloomberg,” McDonald said. “Mike Bloomberg is a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Mike Bloomberg.”

Catsimatidis laughed, saying, “He’s certainly worth a lot more money than I am.”

There were a few other light moments, including when the candidates were asked if they would follow Bloomberg’s lead and serve for $1.

Lhota and McDonald quickly said no. Catsimatidis said he’d serve for 99 cents “because I’m a grocer.”

The primary is Sept 10. The general election, which will also include independent Adolfo Carrion Jr., is Nov. 5.

Among Democrats, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has opened up a significant lead, according to a new poll. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and ex-comptroller Bill Thompson are fighting for second place. Former congressman Anthony Weiner, whose support collapsed amid a sexting scandal, and Comptroller John Liu are trailing.

In the Republican debate, Lhota also disparaged an Associated Press report saying the NYPD designated mosques as terrorist organizations to justify increased surveillance.

He claimed the AP reporters were “being ginned up” by people who “don’t know the law.” The report cited classified police documents.

Obama: Syrian govt carried out chemical attack WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared unequivocally that the United States has “concluded” that the Syrian government carried out a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians. Yet U.S. intelligence officials say questions remain about whether the attack could be linked to Syrian President Bashar Assad or high officials in his government.

Obama did not present any direct evidence to back up his assertion that the Syrian government bears responsibility for the attack. U.S. officials were searching for additional intelligence to bolster the case for a strike against Assad’s military infrastructure and rule out the possibility that a rogue element of the Syrian military could have used the weapons on its own authority.

While Obama said he is still evaluating possible military retaliation, he vowed that any American response would send a “strong signal” to Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“We have concluded that the Syrian government in fact carried these out,” Obama said during an interview with “NewsHour” on PBS. “And if that’s so, then there need to be international consequences.”

New hurdles emerged that appeared to slow the formation of an international coalition that could use military force to punish Syria.

Earlier Wednesday, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council failed to reach an agreement on a draft resolution from the British seeking authorization for the use of force. Russia, as expected, objected to international intervention.

Obama administration officials said they would take action against the Syrian government even without the backing of allies or the United Nations because diplomatic paralysis must not prevent a response to the alleged chemical weapons attack outside the Syrian capital last week.

British Prime Minister David Cameron promised British lawmakers he would not go to war until a U.N. chemical weapons team on the ground in Syria has a chance to report its findings, pushing the U.K.’s involvement in any potential strike until next week at the earliest. Cameron called an emergency meeting of Parliament on Thursday to vote on whether to endorse international action against Syria.

Even so, British Foreign Secretary William Hague suggested that U.S. military action need not be constrained by Britain. “The United States are able to make their own decisions,” he told reporters late Wednesday, just after speaking with Secretary of State John Kerry.

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munications discussing a chemical attack had been intercepted, they don’t specifically link the attack to an official senior enough to tie the killings to Assad himself, according to one U.S. intelligence official and two other U.S. officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the intelligence publicly.

The White House ideally wants intelligence that links the attack directly to Assad or someone in his inner circle, to rule out the possibility that a rogue element of the military acting without Assad’s authorization.

That quest for added intelligence has delayed the release of the report by the Office of the Director for National Intelligence laying out evidence against Assad. The report was promised earlier this week by administration officials.

The CIA and the Pentagon have been working to gather more human intelligence tying Assad to the attack, relying on the intelligence services of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel, the officials said. The administration was planning a teleconference briefing Thursday on Syria for leaders of the House and Senate and national security committees in both parties, U.S. officials and congressional aides said.

Both the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency have their own human sources — the rebel commanders and others who cross the border to brief CIA and defense intelligence officers at training camps in Jordan and Turkey.

But their operation is much smaller than some of the other intelligence services, and it takes longer for their contacts to make their way overland.

The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence all declined to comment on the intelligence picture, and the White

House did not respond to requests for comment.

Obama said he was not seeking a lengthy, open-ended conflict in Syria, indicating that any U.S. response would be limited in scope. But he argued that Syria’s use of chemical weapons not only violated international norms, but threatened “America’s core self-interest.”

“We do have to make sure that when countries break international norms on weapons like chemical weapons that could threaten us, that they are held accountable,” he said.

Laying out a legal justification for a U.S. response, Obama said Syria was violating the Geneva Protocols, an agreement signed in 1925 in the wake of World War I to ban the use of chemical gases. The White House has also cited the Chemical Weapons Convention, a 1992 agreement that builds on the Geneva Protocols by prohibiting the development and stockpiling of chemical weapons.

Syria is a party to the original Geneva accord, but not the latter chemical weapons agreement.

Syria, which sits on one of the world’s largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, has denied the charges.

Moreover, Syria’s U.N. ambassador, Bashar Ja’afari, is demanding that United Nations experts investigate three alleged chemical weapons attacks against Syrian soldiers. He said the attacks occurred on Aug. 22, 24 and 25 in three suburbs of the Syrian capital and dozens of soldiers are being treated for inhaling nerve gas.

Certain members of Congress are expected to get a classified U.S. intelligence report laying out the case against Assad. An unclassified version is to be made public. Officials say it won’t have any detail that would jeopardize sources and methods.

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Ackman loses half his investment in Penney sale NEW YORK (AP) — It’s official.

J.C. Penney’s biggest investor and former board member Bill Ackman is through with the retailer, selling his entire 18 percent stake to Citigroup and taking a more than $400 million bath on the deal.

In a regulatory filing Wednesday, Ackman’s disclosed that he sold 39.1 million shares to the bank for $12.60 per share or $492.3 million. That’s nearly half of the average $25 a share that he paid when he first invested in Penney in 2010.

Penney and Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, said Monday that Ackman planned to sell all of his Penney holdings and named Citigroup as the underwriter.

Until the latest filing, it wasn’t

made public what Citigroup Inc. had paid before re-offering the shares on the market for $12.90 each.

The move comes more than two weeks after Ackman resigned from Penney’s board as part of a deal to resolve an unusually public battle between the activist investor and the struggling department store operator.

J.C. Penney Co. Inc., which is based in Plano, Texas, is trying to recover from a botched transformation plan that was spearheaded by its former CEO Ron Johnson, who was ousted in April after 17 months on the job.

Ackman resigned from the board on Aug. 13 after he went public with statements saying he’d lost confidence in Penney’s board and that Chairman Thom-

as Engibous should be replaced.

Ackman and the retailer’s board also were bickering over how quickly the company should replace CEO Mike Ullman. Ullman was Johnson’s predecessor but was rehired when Johnson was fired.

Ackman joined Penney’s board in February 2011 and had pushed the board to hire Johnson, a mastermind of Apple Inc.’s successful stores.

Under Johnson’s leadership, Penney got rid of most sales in favor of everyday low prices. He also brought in hip new brands and planned to remake the store as an indoor mini mall of sorts with 100 different in-store shops in an effort to woo trendier, more affluent shoppers. But those efforts alienated Penney’s loyal customers.

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Abbott in strong position to win race for governor Jonathan Silva according to the Texas Ethics Commission, Abbott is well prepared for a statewide campaign, although it does not look like much of a contested battle for him. Tom Pauken, the only other prominent GOP contender for governor, has only managed to raise a little more than $200,000 as of June 2013, according to the Texas Ethics Commission. With such an advantage in fundraising, clearly Abbott has the advantage over Pauken.

Fundraising ability can be a determining factor in running a successful and competitive campaign, especially across the huge

state of Texas. Money talks, and when it comes to winning the votes of Texans, Abbott’s voice is loud and clear. Based on campaign funds alone, Abbott is set to win not only the primary but also the general election.

Being a conservative candidate in a red s t a t e d o e s n ’t hurt chances either. In a poll

by Public Policy Polling on July 2, when asked if the candidates for governor next year were Republican Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis, 48 percent of voters favored Abbott while only 40 percent of voters favored Davis.

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Although Davis went from unknown senator to national star in one night with her 13-hour filibuster, it seems it isn’t enough to take on Abbott. Davis still has not declared her candidacy for governor, but if she does, I’m more than willing to bet she will not win in the general election, although I have no doubt she will win the democratic primary. It will be an uphill climb for any Democratic opponents running for the open seat.

Although Abbott has similar policies to that of Perry, it is unsure if tax subsidies for companies that

Based on campaign funds alone, Abbott is set to win not only the primary but also the general election.

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exas Attorney General Greg Abbott boasted on his blog that his “job description includes getting up every morning, going to work and suing the Obama Administration to defend Texas values.” And Abbott has been doing exactly that since winning his seat back in 2002, suing the Obama Administration 27 times. With many Texans still uneasy with Obamacare right around the corner, it is comforting to know the fight will continue should Abbott win the open seat of Texas governor in 2014.

Among other things, a notable victory includes Abbott’s fight to keep the Ten Commandments displayed at the Capitol Building in Austin, which went all the way up to the Supreme Court in 2005.

With a record like this, it is clear Abbott is a quality candidate for the GOP and Texans alike.

With $18 million in the bank for his campaign as of June 2013,

bring jobs to Texas will remain.

Perry is well known as the “job creator” for Texas, using these subsidies as incentives for companies to move their headquarters and factories to Texas.

Abbott, on the other hand, has a different view on the topic.

“Government is supposed to be on your side not riding your backs,” Abbott said July 14 in a news conference in San Antonio. Rather than focusing on tax subsidies as incentives to bring businesses to Texas, Abbott is more focused on revising the tax code itself.

What exactly he wants to change and how this will affect job creation is still uncertain at this point, but he does ensure taxes won’t go up in his evaluation.

With the economy still not fully recovered, this issue on tax codes and job creation will be a major topic in debates to come.

With overwhelming support from Texans and a huge lead in

fundraising, it’s astounding to believe how much Abbott has accomplished given his disability. At age 26, Abbott was involved in an accident that left him paralyzed, but this hasn’t seemed to slow him down. In some ways, it has actually worked to his advantage as it has motivated him to accomplish more than he ever thought he would.

“I’m in a wheelchair. I understand challenges that people face every day,” Abbott said in a news conference in San Antonio. “We all face those challenges and I can relate to them and try to lift them up as they overcome adversity.”

One well-known quote by Abbott is, “Some politicians talk about having a spine of steel. I actually have one.” As funny as it sounds, it sure does speak the truth about him.

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Manning imprisoned for Corporations benefiting from pork barrel spending serving American people

By CORBIN BROWN

The OklahOma Daily (U. OklahOma)

Bradley Manning, now known as Chelsea Manning, is an inspiration. Calling her a hero might be a stretch, but she certainly has demonstrated an act of courage when she leaked the largest amount of classified files in our country’s history.

On Wednesday, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison for accusations such as violating the Espionage Act, among other things – but is this really fair?

At 25 years old, you have so much of your life ahead of you.

By the time Manning gets out of prison if she ends up serving all 35 years, she will be 60 years old.

She’s going to have to spend her thirties, forties and fifties locked up behind bars for a crime I would consider valiant. In any given situation, releasing information without the consent of the owner is a crime, though in this case the government “owned,” [or properly noted], hid secrets from the American public and the world.

I understand the principles behind keeping certain information confidential in order to protect our national security, but the legal entanglement Manning was twisted in resulted in the wrong person being punished.

Manning released evidence of crimes committed not by her, but by her government. Our Government. My question to the ideology of this sentencing called a fair trial, begins with why the classified documents existed in the first place. Our government commits a crime, sweeps the evidence under the rug, someone comes in, lifts up the rug and unfortunately gets punished for sharing the truth.

Before you accuse Manning of being a criminal, we need to reevaluate who the real enemy is here. She was standing up for

our right to know the truth and chose not to leave us ignorant of the actions those we elect in office are responsible for.

Perhaps the name Daniel Ellsberg comes to mind here.

Ellsberg was also once a U.S. military analyst who is responsible for releasing top-secret government documents known as the infamous Pentagon Papers in 1971. The Pentagon Papers were a collection of files documenting the U.S.’s politically influenced military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

Unlike Manning’s verdict, Ellsberg wasn’t convicted and never had to serve time in prison. He received the Right Livelihood Award in 2006 for his rationale to push truth above secrecy.

Previously reported by the Washington Post, Ellsberg recently told the associate press, “Manning will always be an inspiration of civil and moral courage to truth tellers.” I couldn’t agree with Ellsberg more.

All Americans deserve the right to know what militant and political actions are taking place on behalf of this country, not just the Americans who sit in the White House or Pentagon.

Of course, some things do need to stay hidden in the shadows if they potentially invite or cause harm to our communities, but what is unacceptable in this case is the fact that the government is again so quick to punish the whistleblowers before offering an explanation for the leaked information.

What is our government hoping to accomplish by imprisoning Manning for so long?

We can’t be threatened by the chance we will get punished for sharing evidence that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

My blood would have been boiling if she were convicted of aiding the enemy; she was aiding Americans.

Let us know what you think.

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On Jan. 2, 2012, Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology firm, received a belated Christmas present courtesy of the 112th United States Congress. This $500 million gift was hidden within the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, a bipartisan bill passed in order for the looming “fiscal cliff” to be avoided, or more accurately stated, delayed. This exorbitant subsidy was financed with taxpayer money and passed through the legislative process relatively unnoticed. Although Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont was quick to condemn this colossal piece of government pork, his bill to repeal the provision has yet to gain traction among any substantial number of legislators. (One could argue that it was not simply a piece, but the whole pig).

Such a blatant disregard for the principles of free enterprise, even in a Congress teeming with selfproclaimed proponents of laissezfaire economics, should come as no surprise. Corporate subsidies at the federal level reached a new high at $98 billion in 2012, a six billion dollar increase from 2006. Although subsidies created for individual companies

Loan Program was established with the goal of moving the United States “to greater energy independence.”

It is a noble program indeed, but one whose facilitators appear indiscriminate when determining which of those advanced technology vehicle manufacturers are to receive funding.

A company can easily obtain a loan, indicated by one of the program’s prerequisites: the advanced technology vehicle must be designed such that it can carry two adult passengers.

A tandem bicycle would satisfy that requirement. Since its inception in 2007, this program has loaned out over $34 billion.

Here in Oklahoma, the state’s High Cost Fund has come under scrutiny. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission established this program in 1996. It was initially conceived as a temporary program that would provide residents of rural areas with basic telephone service and assist in the transition to a competitive market for phone companies serving said areas.

Although the telecommunications industry has changed dramatically in recent years, the amount of funding that each telephone company receives remains approximately the same. Since 1996, rural telephone companies have been given an an-

nual subsidy of $37.1 million from the High Cost Fund. The money for this subsidy is derived from fees added to every minute of a long-distance call from a landline phone. A decrease in the use of landlines has shifted this burden to a much smaller group of people. The OCC has heard challenges from a number of companies including AT&T Oklahoma and Cox Oklahoma Telecom who believe this program should be replaced with a new program — the latter being financed through fees collected by the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund. The uncertainty surrounding the future of this program provides us with little hope. Those major groups contesting this program are propelled forward in their designs by the desire for a new government subsidy program, not for fiscal responsibility.

MAP, ATVM, and the High Cost Fund are but minute parts in our state and federal governments’ repatoire of corporate welfare programs. The rate this segment of the federal budget is growing suggests that calls for the decrease or elimination of corporate subsidies are falling on deaf ears.

While our politicians are busy serving thick slices of pork to corporate interests, such unresponsiveness must be expected.

Obama health care mandate delay a risky political stunt

By KONSTANTIN RAVVIN

The Oracle (U. Of SOUTh flOriDa)

The Obama administration’s abrupt announcement of a yearlong delay on a 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate, which requires businesses of 50 or more full-time employees to provide health benefits, is as unanticipated as it is politically enigmatic.

The employee benefit clause, by far the most controversial element in the groundbreaking legislation, was a key component in the U.S. Supreme Court hearing brought against the administration in the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius circa 2012.

The landmark court decision, which solidified the constitutionality of the Internal Revenue Ser-

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By ALEX NIBLETT

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are harmful, those that are intended to support entire industries are undoubtedly the most deleterious to the state of the economy.

The Department of Agriculture’s Market Access Programis one such detriment. Established under the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, this program is intended to “help U.S. producers, exporters, private companies, and other trade organizations finance promotional activities for U.S. agricultural products.” MAP has cost taxpayers over $2 billion since 1999, helping fund a number of superfluous ventures by these private companies and trade organizations.

The Wine Institute, a public policy advocacy association of California wineries and affiliated businesses, was given nearly $7 million in 2012.

This amount is dwarfed by the $20.2 million that Cotton Council International received from MAP the previous year. President Obama himself commented on the program, saying “MAP’s economic impact is unclear and it does not serve a clear need.”

Another example of industry-wide corporate welfare is the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. A relatively recent addition to the federal bureaucracy, the ATVM

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vice’s ability to monitor, regulate and enforce the mandate, played to the Obama administration’s favor prior to a tumultuously partisan presidential election. Yet somehow, it fell flat on its face in the past few weeks.

The Obama camp’s official reasoning seems arbitrary and politically calculated — businesses need more time to prepare for the looming deadline, so an additional year should suffice.

Coincidentally, the midterm Congressional elections, in which all 435 seats of the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 seats of the U.S. Senate will be up for grabs, occur in the same timespan.

After a feeble, unproductive Congressional session and a postelectoral presidential tenure fraught with scandals, Democrats face

possible elimination as the majority in the Senate and a plausible decline in an already Republicandominated House.

As a result of its debatable nature, both in public polls and courtrooms, the entire act was used as a contentious talking point against the administration.

But postponing the mandate that helped fuel, if not fully ignite, the polemical rhetoric many conservatives used to clout the Democrats is a double-edged sword, much like any decision in the electoral arena, that may end up backfiring.

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conservative criticisms against an already divisive issue.

Republican House Speaker John Boehner had already assumed the offensive position when the decision was brought into the public arena, claiming the move was evidence that the mandate was a miscalculation that would hurt small businesses, simultaneously embellishing the archetypal populist mantra: If businesses can get a break, why can’t individuals?

The mixed message seems to be that the administration cares about affordable healthcare but not enough to undermine party chances in the upcoming election. Regardless of intent, rescheduling the ACA mandate resonates weakness in policy on part of the administration and a general lack of concern about putting constituents first.

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Students target new heights with club

By CALLIE POINDEXTER Staff Writer

The Hunger Games, Brave, The Avengers.

Hollywood’s interest in archery may have recently spiked, but for Chad Dabes, it’s an interest that has been present for 13 years.

The senior mechanical engineering major from Weatherford said last semester, he decided to apply his interest in archery to create a way for other Texas Tech students to participate in the sport.

Soon after, the Red Raider Archery Club was born.

“My goal when I started it was I want archery to become bigger,” Dabes said. “It is growing, but the biggest thing is to help everybody and have people learn the sport from people who know the sport.”

Dabes said the task of founding it was not an easy one, however.

“I paid for the membership,” he said. “We’re shooting under the USCA — United States Collegiate Archery — they’re the ones who are over our competitions and in order for us to shoot in them, for one, you have to have a club within Tech, which was a long process for me since I’ve never done it.”

Because the club receives no outside funding, Dabes said the club could use assistance in the startup.

“There’s grants and stuff that are out there,” he said. “They’re just extremely hard to get. We’re also working on that. We’ve been trying to get with the higher ups, what I say are the provosts and stuff like that to see if we can’t get a range for us, or maybe help rent out a building and stuff so we can shoot.”

Ashley Herndon, a sophomore natural resource management major from Las Cruces, N.M., and treasurer of the club, said since she began the sport at age 6, archery has been a large part of her life.

“Archery is my life, honestly,” she said. “I have my bows here in Lubbock, and I had them with me last year, they go everywhere with me. It’s how I met most of my friends; it’s how I learned responsibility. It’s something that’s part of me.”

Herndon said she wants to help others experience the same joy she feels every time she hits the “X.” “We’re willing to help people,” she said. “I mean we’ve been shooting all our life, and like, our adviser, she knows a lot about archery, so if people do want to pick it up, we’re

willing to take time and show them the ropes and everything.”

Dabes said he stresses safety and proper equipment, and encourages new members to try out as many bows as possible to ensure they get the perfect fit.

“It’s something that pretty much anybody can do,” he said. “Especially nowadays, you know, you can look for bows that will fit anybody.”

However, for any freshmen members, Dabes said the club encounters another issue that could be resolved with outside financial assistance.

“Tech doesn’t allow any things that are considered weapons on campus,” he said. “With freshmen that’s the thing, we’d have to have a designated thing to store their equipment in, and that’s something we don’t have.”

The club does not have the funds to provide equipment for the members, however, Dabes said he encourages freshmen to join if they are interested.

“It’s something that brings in a new crowd,” he said. “It’s something that gets people out of their dorm.

It gets them out if they’re afraid of meeting people.”

The club will hold its first meet-

ing at 6 p.m. Sept. 5, and Dabes said he encourages anyone who is interested to message him on the club’s Facebook page for information regarding the location.

The fee is $20 for noncompeting members and those who choose to compete will be asked to pay the $35 USCA fee.

Participating in competitions has its benefits as well, he said.

“If you’re able to go to a lot of tournaments,” Dabes said, “they’re everywhere, they’re nationwide.

And another thing, it’s not NCAA sanctioned, so you can win scholarships, they have prizes like bows, cash money. Stuff that can help students in paying for books, or paying for whatever they need.”

Herndon said although the monetary incentives are great, she enjoys competition because of her fellow archers.

“Everybody wants to give you pointers,” she said. “Everybody wants to help you get to the level that you can be. That’s what’s so great about archery, it really is a family. I may not know one archer from the next, but the fact that we have this thing in common kind of bonds us.” ➤➤cpoindexter@dailytoreador.com

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CHAD DABES, A senior mechanical engineering major from Weatherford, is the president of the Red Raider Archery Club, which was established last semester.

Some Trump University students say they felt cheated NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Guillo spent almost $35,000 hoping to learn some of Donald Trump’s real estate secrets. Instead, he says, he left the sessions of Trump University cash-poor, with little more than a photo of himself next to a life-size cardboard cutout of the mogul, who never even showed up.

“They told everybody to get their

credit card limits raised to buy real estate, but the true purpose was to pay $35,000 for the next bunch of seminars,” said Guillo, of Manhasset, on Long Island.

Nora Hanna dished out about $17,000 for the Trump University program, concluding after just a few days that “what I learned there, I could read on the Internet.”

The Brooklyn woman fought for two months to get her money back as promised to those who changed their mind within three days. “They wouldn’t answer my calls or emails,” she said.

Eventually, she said, her money was returned.

Trump’s former students are coming forward to tell their stories in the wake

of a $40 million lawsuit against “The Apprentice” star and his real estate school

by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who says Trump helped run a phony university that promised to make students rich but instead steered them into expensive and largely useless seminars.

The billionaire developer says that

Schneiderman’s lawsuit is false and that his school had done a “fantastic job,” with a 98 percent approval rating among students from around the country. He called the attorney general “a political hack looking to get publicity.”

Guillo said that in the group seminars he attended in New York hotel conference rooms in 2009 and early

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2010, an instructor “was flashing his Rolex watch and wearing a very expensive suit and fancy cufflinks as he told us his rags-to-riches story.”

“We followed PowerPoint presentations, and they gave us loose-leaf manuals and websites you could pull up on your home computer. We were all scammed,” Guillo said.

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T.D. Jakes brings MegaFest to Dallas DALLAS (AP) — Megachurch pastor T.D. Jakes is bringing his MegaFest inspirational event — which features everything from a film festival to a conversation with Oprah — home to Dallas for the first time this week.

More than 50,000 people from around the world are expected to attend the three-day event, which kicks off Thursday. Bishop Jakes says the event is designed to help bring families together by helping create lifelong memories.

“It’s going to be a fun event.

We have empowerment sessions and we have spiritual sessions, but it’s also just a lot of plain old fun and family time,” said Jakes, whose nondenominational church The Potter’s House has more than 30,000 members.

The event combines Jakes’ conferences for men, women and children. Speakers will include Houston megachurch pastor Joel Osteen and his wife, Victoria.

MegaFest was first held in Atlanta in 2004. It was held there

again for the next two years before moving to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2008.

Jakes said new additions to downtown Dallas in recent years — including a performing arts center featuring an opera house, a science museum, a park created over an interstate and more hotel space — made it the perfect time to bring the festival home.

On Thursday, Oprah Winfrey will be joined by Jakes as she films a new episode of her television series “Oprah’s Lifeclass.” Jakes said their discussion will include the issue of children who are growing up without fathers in their lives.

The “Just Churchin” comedy show on Friday will be hosted by Cedric the Entertainer and Niecy Nash. The “Women of Purpose” concert on Saturday will feature women who advocate for children with autism. The concert will include performances by Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Jennifer Hudson and Brandy. Steve Harvey will host the show.

Oil lease sale: 21M acres in western Gulf of Mexico NEW ORLEANS (AP) — ConocoPhillips Co. had $50.3 million in high bids, including the day’s highest single bid of $30.5 million, in the second-smallest federal oil lease sale for tracts off the Texas coast since area-wide sales began in 1983.

Overall, a dozen companies submitted $102.4 million in high bids on 53 blocks, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said Wednesday. The record low total for high bids in the area was $30.6 million submitted in 1992.

The total of 53 high bids was also the second lowest ever for the western Gulf area. The smallest number of bids in the area was in 1986 with 41 bids, said John Rodi, the bureau’s regional director. That was the year Saudi Arabia flooded the market and

world oil prices sank to less than $9 a barrel from $27.

“The good news is that the dollar value of high bids submitted puts this sale far from the bottom,” he said.

That total was the seventh-lowest out of 30 lease sales since 1983, he said.

The last western Gulf lease sale, in November, brought $133.8 million in winning bids on 116 tracts.

ConocoPhillips made 62 of those bids, for a total of $51.7 million.

“Our belief is that there really, in the last year, has not been a large amount of new information” about that area, Rodi said. “There hasn’t been a significant number of new discoveries or successful drilling results in the western Gulf of Mexico that might increase interest in a sale.”

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MAKENZIE MILLER, A freshman biology major from Houston, floats down the lazy river with her sister Madison Miller, a junior university studies major from Houston, after classes Tuesday at the Leisure pool.

More than 300 sites ring bells for MLK speech WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — Church bells rang out Wednesday at the National Cathedral and at sites nationwide to answer a call from one of the most important civil rights speeches in history to “let freedom ring.”

Organizers said people at more than 300 locations in nearly every state were ringing their bells to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s Aug. 28, 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.

At the National Cathedral in Washington, the central bell tower played “Lift Every Voice and Sing” from the carillon, along with other hymns and spirituals. The bells rang for about 15 minutes to mark the moment when the speech was delivered.

“I remember 50 years ago: the marching, the throngs of people, the speech, the energy,” said Patty Mason, 69, of Bethesda, Md., who was one of about two dozen people who gathered outside the cathedral, gazing up at the bell tower. “It was amazing, just amazing.”

Commemorations were taking place from a mountain in Georgia carved with the likenesses of Confederate leaders to the far reaches of Alaska, where participants rang cow bells and bear bells in Juneau.

Many of the commemorations were in sync with the hour when King gave his speech, 3 p.m. EDT, though some churches planned to ring their bells at 3 p.m. local time.

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morial, he quoted from the patriotic song, “My Country ‘tis of Thee.” King implored his audience to “let freedom ring” from the hilltops and mountains of every state in the nation, some of which he cited by name in his speech.

“When we allow freedom to ring — when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last, free at last, great God almighty, we are free at last,” King said in closing.

One of the places cited in King’s speech was Georgia’s Stone Mountain, a granite outcropping east of Atlanta that includes a 17,000-squarefoot sculpture of three Confederate leaders carved into the mountainside.

The Ku Klux Klan held rallies there during the 20th century, but now it’s a favorite hiking destination for families white and black.

On Wednesday, about 30 children and adults hiked to the summit where they sang and rang bells.

One hiker, Gail Scotton Baylor, 58, recalled watching King’s speech on a black-and-white TV from her family’s home in High Point, N.C. As a child, she remembered watching white children eat ice cream in a parlor while she and other black children were served at a side door.

She remembered segregated water fountains and bathrooms and the

dejected look on her father’s face when a restaurant refused to let him buy hamburgers for his family because he was black.

“I do remember Dr. Martin Luther King saying, ‘Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I’m free at last,’ and hearing all these people yelling and screaming. And I knew, I knew this was a very important day as a little girl,” she said. “And I felt like something good was happening — that something good was going to happen for us as a people, black people. Because even as a child, I knew that something was wrong.”

David Soleil, a founder of the Sudbury School of Atlanta, brought students and parents to the hike. He read passages from King’s speech as they progressed.

“This is a place that has just had a history of racism and pain,” he said.

“But we’re here. And we’re fulfilling that dream that freedom is going to ring from Stone Mountain. Even in places that birth hate, that we can still come and birth love.”

At Lookout Mountain in Tennessee, another place King mentioned, school principal LaFrederick Thirkill of Chattanooga, Tenn., said he brought a group of fourth graders to be part of a historic moment as the nation’s progress toward full equality continues with each generation.

“You know, I don’t even know if that dream will ever be fulfilled. But I know that as long as there is work to do, we can strive to fulfill the dream,” Thirkill said.

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In Western Pennsylvania, students and professors at Allegheny College celebrated their area’s connection to the speech, which mentions “the mighty Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.”

Some at the school located in Meadville, about 90 miles north of Pittsburgh, have wondered whether the line in the speech was a way of acknowledging the college, since several Allegheny students were also active in King’s civil rights movement in the early 1960s.

Charles B. Ketcham, 87, a former professor of religion at Allegheny who corresponded with King in the early 1960s, said that might be a stretch.

“It was probably a beautiful way to get some alliteration. He was wonderful at that,” Ketcham said of King.

Ketcham didn’t go to Washington 50 years ago, but followed the speech, and those today honoring it.

“I think we have made tremendous progress. But I do think we have a long way to go,” Ketcham said, reflecting back on 1963.

While Alaska wasn’t mentioned in King’s speech, residents there found a unique way to commemorate the speech.

A small group gathered in the courthouse plaza in Juneau, Alaska, across from the state Capitol, to mark the occasion by ringing bear bells, cowbells and hand bells at the appointed time. Bear bells are used by hikers to make noise to let bears know people are around.

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hasn’t been able to seal a development deal.

For New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, such eyesores are a lingering distraction from the enormous rebuilding effort that has followed since the day the levees broke under Katrina’s fury on Aug. 29, 2005. Now optimism is rising as a rebounding city approaches the 300th anniversary of its 1718 founding.

“The city is a much better place than it was eight years ago. The biggest challenge we have is blight,” Landrieu said, adding that 10,000 blighted properties have been removed from the cityscape.

A thriving downtown and newly vibrant neighborhoods contrast starkly with the city’s appearance eight years ago. When Katrina hit, thousands of people who couldn’t escape New Orleans in time were trapped in homes as levees broke and floodwaters rose. Helicopters plucked the desperate from rooftops as chaos spread. The damaged Superdome became a refuge of misery for thousands as tempatures and tempers soared.

Days afterward then-President George W. Bush promised the nation’s full attention. But federal authorities were sharply criticized for their early response and local and state authorities as well. And though billions of federal dollars have helped to rebuild a strengthened levee system, many locals remain bitter with the Army Corps of Engineers for the failure of the levees.

Landrieu said he’s intent on moving forward.

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the other team.”

She said it is key for the team to come out of the gate looking Senior defender and team to be aggressive and get shots on captain Hayley Haagsma likes to the goal. lead both vocally and through her In terms of her leadership, actions on the field.

Haagsma said it took her awhile Only two games into the 2013 to build up the confidence needed season, the senior has already to lead a team. emerged as a threat on every part “Last year I started building of the field. the foundation and finding the The California native is com- places where I can lead,” she said. ing off her best offensive perfor- “I learned a lot from last year and mance as a Red Raider in which got a lot of good experience so this she netted two goals against Colo- year I’m a lot more confident.” rado State. Haagsma only had two Haagsma battled her way back goals in three seasons combined on the field from a knee injury, and now has a total of four. which sidelined her freshman Haagsma said season after she is consistentonly eight ly looking for matches, acways to attack cording to the net.

Texas Tech “Whether Athletics it’s on set pieces website. or taking longSenior distance shots, goalkeeper I’m an attackVictoria ing-minded deEsson said fender,” she said.

Haagsma is “I used to play a distinct attacking posileader for tions when I was the whole little.” team to look Haagsma not up to and only is a leader she enjoys HAYLEY HAAGSMA on the field but having her SENIOR DEFENDER also in the classon the back SOCCER room. Haagsma line. was named to “ W e the Academic All-Big 12 Confer- have great leaders on the team,” ence First Team during her junior Esson said, “and Hayley Haagsma campaign. is a great leader for us on the She admits scoring goals and field.” pushing forward is fun for her, Haagsma leads a Red Raider but said she would rather see the defense that is one of only two whole field from the back line and Big 12 teams not to allow a goal act as a defensive anchor. this season.

“I would say I’m more of the Tech coach Tom Stone said he anchor on the back line, hold- is confident with his experienced ing back and directing the team defense. ‘cause I can see the whole field,” “We’ve got a real mature back Haagsma said. “But when I do get line,” he said. “We’ve got two my chance to go forward and I do seniors and two juniors and they see a pocket, I’m going to take it have played a lot of minutes because I think their offense isn’t together.” expecting it as much. When you The Red Raiders are ranked get a defender coming out of the No. 23 in the National Soccer back line it’s kind of a surprise to Coaches Association of America Staff Writer

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I would say I’m more of the anchor on the back line, holding back and directing the team ‘cause I can see the whole field.

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TEXAS TECH DEFENDER Hayley Haagsma jumps up to head the ball during the Oct. 31 game against Nevada at John Walker Stadium. The Red Raiders defeated the Wolf Pack 1-0.

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When asked about the progression of his defense, Stone said Tech is striving to get even better as a unit.

“I think our defense has been really good in the past, and we thought we were building this team around defense,” he said.

“But they’ve definitely reached a new level and we are striving to get even better.”

During the 2013 season Tech is outscoring opponents 5-0 in the second half of play.

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ARLINGTON (AP) — The Houston Texans need to pick a backup for Matt Schaub. The Dallas Cowboys have to decide whether to keep a third quarterback.

Both issues should be decided when the Texans visit the Cowboys in their preseason finale Thursday night. Most or all of the starters will be sitting for both teams.

Case Keenum will start for Houston, and T.J. Yates will play the second half. Alex Tanney is likely to play most or all of the game for the Cowboys after the release this week of Nick Stephens.

Yates filled in for an injured Schaub late in 2011 and was the starter for the first playoff win in franchise history. But Keenum has been good enough this preseason to challenge him.

“Obviously they’re going to be playing with a bunch of young players, but I think it’s been extremely close,” Texans coach Gary Kubiak said. “I think this game is still important. They’ve continued to get better, each of them, and push each other. I think it’s going to be a good thing for our football team.”

Keenum was on the practice squad for the Texans last year after going undrafted despite setting an NCAA record with 19,217 yards passing and 155 touchdowns. He has completed 34 of 50 passes for a team-leading 354 yards. But he still hasn’t played in a regular-season game.

“He understands our offense and you can see that playing under center is second nature for him now, so that was a big change for him a year ago,” Kubiak said. “You see some of his athletic ability take over. He’s just come a long way as a pro and he’s very comfortable right now as a player in his own skin.”

Yates hasn’t done anything to hurt himself in the preseason, and does have the regular-season and playoff experience of two years ago, and another four games as Schaub’s backup last year.

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“They’ve both been very good and in command of what we’re doing and their growth in our offense,” Kubiak said. “I probably feel as good as I’ve felt after my starter probably in a long, long time. Like I said, it’s a nice problem to have.

We’ll see where we end up here in a week.”

The Cowboys didn’t keep a third quarterback behind Tony Romo and Kyle Orton last year, and Orton only played in one game — a blowout loss to Chicago.

Alex Tanney didn’t join the team until the start of training camp, but he was impressive enough to pass Stephens.

Tanney’s a YouTube star as well with some trick shot artistry of bouncing footballs off cross bars and throwing them through small openings at tiny Division III Monmouth College in Illinois.

That’s not to be confused with Monmouth University in New Jersey, where Cowboys receiver Miles Austin played before signing as an undrafted free agent seven years ago.

Tanney is 23 of 42 passing for 246 yards in the preseason. He probably helped himself the most when he completed his first 10 passes against Arizona and led the only scoring drive.

“It’s obviously easier when you have the whole offseason and you get a lot of reps under your belt and know the offense inside and out,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said. “But this was his opportunity. I think he’s done a lot of good things to make sure he understands our offense as quickly as he can and hopefully he can take that to the field. He’ll play some in the game Thursday night. And we’ll continue to get a chance to evaluate him.”

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I honestly thought he was going to have a bigger suspension than just the first half of a game, which is against Rice. I mean, it’s not like it’s a big SEC school where it’s really going to be a big impact.”

Keegan Pitts freshman exercise and sport sciences major from Austin -

“I don’t know a lot about football, but I agree with the fact athletes should be held to a higher standard. So I feel like if someone isn’t being honest then they don’t deserve to play.

- Jorian Stevenson - freshman biology major from Rio Ranch

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It’s awesome. I think it should be longer, that’d be good. I just don’t like him.”

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Kyle Gates freshman construction engineering major from McKinney-

“If the NCAA is going to crack down on Manziel for those autographs, they should at least have, like, a meaningful suspension, not just the first half of a game against Rice where they’re obviously going to win.

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- John Zimmerman - freshman chemical engineering major from Austin

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I think Johnny Manziel should be able to make whatever he wants on the side, away from the NCAA. It doesn’t hurt the NCAA in anyway.”

David Cabezuela freshman petroleum engineering major from Aledo -

“I feel like it’s meaningless. There’s just too much attention focused on it, since he’s the Heisman (winner), but I mean, it had to happen.

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- Jared Hinsley - freshman petroleum engineering major from Aledo

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Rangers rough up Mariners 12-4 SEATTLE (AP) — Leonys Martin homered and drove in a career-high four runs as the Texas Rangers roughed up Felix Hernandez and romped past the Seattle Mariners 12-4 Thursday.

The AL West-leading Rangers tagged Hernandez (12-8) for nine runs and 11 hits in three-plus innings. The former AL Cy Young winner’s ERA climbed from 2.63 to 2.97.

Martin Perez (8-3) limited the Mariners to two runs and five hits in six innings. The rookie won his fifth straight decision.

Adrian Beltre, who hit his 28th homer, and Elvis Andrus each got three of the Rangers’ 17 hits. Mitch Moreland also homered as every Texas starter got a hit except for Alex Rios,

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who chipped in with a walk, a stolen base and a run.

After working out of a jam in the first, it looked as if Hernandez would escape trouble yet again in the second.

Martin spoiled that notion, though, hitting a three-run homer with two outs.

The Rangers added a pair of runs in the third on a line drive by Geovany Soto that was misplayed by left fielder Raul Ibanez. The ball ended up falling in front of a sliding Ibanez for a tworun single.

It got worse for Hernandez in the fourth as he failed to record an out, giving up two doubles and a pair of singles. Beltre greeted reliever Brandon Maurer with a home run.

HOUSTON (AP) — Johnny Football’s season will start a little late.

Johnny Manziel was suspended for the first half of Texas A&M’s opening game against Rice on Saturday for what the school called an “inadvertent” violation of NCAA rules by signing autographs.

The penalty appears to have brought a quick end to an investigation that could have ruined the seventh-ranked Aggies’ upcoming season.

The school issued a statement Wednesday saying it declared the Heisman Trophy winner ineligible and that the NCAA agreed to reinstate Manziel after he sits out the first half against the underdog Owls.

“I am proud of the way both Coach Sumlin and Johnny handled this situation, with integrity and honesty,” Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp said in the statement.

“We all take the Aggie Code of Honor very seriously and there is no evidence that either the university or Johnny violated that code.”

The quarterback was being investigated by the NCAA for allegedly accepting money for signing autographs for memorabilia brokers, a violation of NCAA rules that could have led to a much longer suspension. ESPN first reported the allegations against Manziel earlier this month.

According to the statement, Texas A&M and the NCAA “confirmed there is no evidence Manziel received money in exchange for autographs based on currently available information and statements by Manziel.”

Conditions for reinstatement include Manziel discussing his actions with teammates and A&M revising how it educates student-athletes about signing autographs.

“Student-athletes are often asked for autographs from fans, but unfortunately, some individuals’ sole motivation in seeking an autograph is for resale,” said Kevin Lennon, NCAA vice president of academic and membership affairs. “It is important that schools are cognizant and educate student-athletes about situations in which there is a strong likelihood that the autograph seeker plans to resell the items.”

He likely will be replaced in the starting lineup by either junior Matt Joeckel or freshman Kenny Hill.

Joeckel has thrown only 11 passes in his college career.

The news of Manziel’s suspension was the talk of Twitter on Wednesday afternoon, with many questioning the length of the suspension. Former NFL and MLB star Deion Sanders was incredulous at the brevity of Manziel’s suspension, after Dez Bryant was suspended for an entire season while at Oklahoma State after lying about having dinner with Sanders.

“Can we investigate the investigators? @DezBryant got suspended a season 4 lying about a dinner that wasnt a violation & Manziel gets a half,” Sanders tweeted soon after the ruling was made public.

The decision also had a major impact in Las Vegas, where the odds of Manziel’s chances of repeating as a Heisman winner and Texas A&M’s chances of winning the national championship shifted dramatically on Wednesday. RJ Bell, the founder of sports betting web site Pregame. com, said that Manziel’s chances of winning the Heisman jumped from 12/1 to 6/1 on Wednesday, and the team’s shot at the title increased from 18/1 to 10/1.

The latest problem isn’t the first time off-the-field trouble has put Manziel’s career in jeopardy.

Manziel was arrested last summer after a bar fight near campus and charged with disorderly conduct, possession of the fake ID and failure to identify himself to police. It was an incident that put him in danger of being suspended from school and left him having to earn the starting job in fall camp.

Manziel admitted this June that he failed to identify himself to police following the altercation. As part of a plea deal, other charges against the 20-year-old, including disorderly conduct, were dismissed, and it looked like Manziel’s trouble was behind him before the latest problems came to light.

Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy last season, setting numerous school and Southeastern Conference records while leading Texas A&M to an 11-2 mark and a victory over No. 1 Alabama in its first season in the SEC. He followed that with a highprofile offseason of road trips to Las Vegas and the NBA Finals. Manziel got to meet Heat star LeBron James and rapper Drake, and he posted some Tweets that made headlines.

His biggest misstep, however, came during the summer when he departed early from a quarterback camp for high school players run by the Manning family in Louisiana.

Manziel said it was a mutual decision after he overslept and missed meetings and activities.

Dat Nguyen, an All-America linebacker at Texas A&M in the 1990s and former assistant coach for the Aggies, lamented Manziel’s mistakes, but noted what he’s done for the program.

“I’m a little bit disappointed with what’s going on down there,” Nguyen said recently. “Going into the season I thought this would be the year for A&M to win a national champion-

ship and this has been a distraction.

He made a bad decision and he’s just got to move on ... but overall the guy has put A&M back on the map.”

Former Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum, who is now a special adviser to Texas A&M’s president, has watched Manziel’s career with great interest and is looking forward to seeing how he’ll follow up his incredible first season.

“This young man has been in a position that no one has ever been in,” Slocum said on Wednesday before the suspension was announced.

“He’s been a freshman and a 20-yearold winner of the Heisman Trophy, and he’s done some great things with that and he’s had a few things I’m sure he’d like to have a do-over with. And if I were advising him, I might have said, ‘That’s probably not in your best interests to do that or say that or be there,’ but in terms of the upcoming season, I’m as anxious as anybody to see what happens and see what the results are.”

Manziel was the main attraction at SEC Media Days, where he was peppered with questions but answered with the same cool and calm he often shows in the face of a pass rush.

“I don’t feel like I’ve done anything that’s catastrophic,” Manziel said at the time. “Of course, I’ve made my mistakes. It’s time to grow up.”

The day before the Aggies reported for preseason practice, ESPN reported Manziel signed thousands of autographs for brokers in Texas, Florida and Connecticut, and cited unidentified sources who said Manziel was paid thousands for dollars for the signatures.

Manziel has been off-limits to the media since news broke of the NCAA investigation, but has been practicing with the Aggies.

Ratliff: 2012 groin injury causing current absence ARLINGTON (AP) — Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Jay Ratliff says there is no issue with his hamstring, meaning a setback that will cost him at least the first six games is related to a groin that was surgically repaired eight months ago.

Ratliff spoke at the team’s kickoff luncheon Wednesday, a day after being put on the physically unable to perform list. He never answered questions from reporters during training camp in Oxnard, Calif., where coach Jason Garrett said he was sidelined by a hamstring injury sustained in the pre-camp conditioning test and lingering issues

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with his groin.

The team put him on the reserve list as part of cutting the active roster to 75 players, and Ratliff can’t play until Oct. 20 at Philadelphia. He was out the first four games last year with an ankle injury and then sat the final six with the groin problem.

Ratliff, who turns 32 on Thursday, had sports hernia surgery in December.

“Absolutely I’m disappointed,” Ratliff said in a rare and brief interview. “But everyone knew what the issue was way beforehand. Everyone knew what it was since last year. I’m not going into much more detail other than that. It’s for sure it’s not a hamstring tweak. So that’s all I have to say about it.”

When asked why he didn’t do his rehabilitation at the team’s Valley Ranch headquarters, Ratliff responded, “Good question.” He wouldn’t elaborate.

“Let’s just keep the focus on these guys going out there and playing and winning games,” said Ratliff, who said he “absolutely” plans to play this season. “I’m not going to be here and be a distraction to anybody. Just stay as professional as possible about the whole situation. But everyone that is involved knows what is going on.”

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones declined to address any perceived differences with the training staff over Ratliff’s comments. He said he didn’t second-guess the decision for Ratliff to participate in the conditioning test July 20 in California because “everybody involved in that decision thought he could run it.”

Defensive end DeMarcus Ware was ready for training camp after attending rehab sessions at Valley Ranch following offseason shoulder surgery. Jones said Ratliff not doing his rehab work with the team was

“a combination of schedule. It’s a combination of preference.”

“It implies that he was not involved in supervision and he was,” Jones said. “We knew what he was doing. We did have special situations that gave us peace of mind that we were getting the work done and we were getting the injury rehabbed.”

Jones said he expects Ratliff to play this season. By the time he’s eligible to return, Ratliff will have missed 16 of the past 22 games, and he has just two sacks in the two years since he signed a $40 million extension on a contact that now runs through 2017. Ratliff didn’t have a sack in the six games he played last year.

“It is a setback,” Jones said. “We will have to adjust just as we would if it was a mid-season injury. What we’re doing there and his status is that hopefully will move the process along faster.”

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