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1 of 4 VP for research candidates visits Tech Theresa Maldonado, the first candidate for the vice president for research position, introduced herself during an open forum and reception hosted Wednesday in the Human Sciences building.

Maldonado is the director of the National Science Foundation’s division of Engineering Education and Centers in the Directorate for Engineering.

Since 2003, she served in a number of leadership positions for the Texas A&M University System, according to NSF’s website. Maldonado started her career at the National Security Agency in 2011.

In her address to the audience, Maldonado spoke about Tech’s research potential.

“I am very excited for you, regardless of who gets this position,” she said. “I cannot think of a university that is in an incredible position to really make a difference in the next few years.”

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Police: Rapist has attacked 8 since June DALLAS (AP) — Investigators believe a serial rapist has attacked at least eight women in one Dallas neighborhood since June, including six in the past two weeks, police said Wednesday.

The latest victim came forward Wednesday to report she was attacked on Aug. 28 in the same area, which is near downtown Dallas and next to the southeastern edge of Fair Park, where the state fair will open later this month.

In addition to their location, the attacks share several similarities, police said in a statement. The assailant in each was a black man in his mid-20s to early 30s who was armed with a handgun. He wore shorts and a T-shirt, masked his face using various types of cloth and in some cases, had on prescription glasses. The attacker approached his victims, forced them to secluded areas nearby, and then robbed and sexually assaulted them.

The victims reported that their attacker approached them on foot, but may have driven away in either a gray four-door Honda Civic or an older-model gray four-door Volvo.

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Infected Lubbock resident recovering Doctor gives tips on preventing West Nile virus

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff WritEr

After the first West Nile virus case of the year was confirmed in Lubbock, public health coordinator Beckie Brawley said the infected individual is currently recovering.

The adult, who was not hospitalized, lives in the 79424 ZIP code within Lubbock city limits, Brawley said.

“The person went to their physician with symptomatic signs like weakness, fever and headache,” Brawley said. “The doctor drew blood, and it was confirmed and reported.”

However, she said it is unclear where

an infected mosquito bit the person as the person had traveled throughout the county.

Dr. Ron Warner, part-time faculty member and epidemiologist at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, said a type of mosquito known for being highly efficient at transmitting West Nile, is common in the South Plains area and begins feeding on humans in the middle of summer. However, he said the weather this year explains the lack of West Nile cases in comparison to previous years.

“This is a very late start historically

for human West Nile cases up here on the Caprock,” Warner said. “This has been a relatively dry year, so things didn’t get started as early as they would if we had more rain in April or May.” The disease, spread by mosquitos, can result in a variety of symptoms such as fever, nausea, rash and paralysis, according to a news release.

Brawley said state law mandates the physician who drew the blood specimen to report a West Nile infection to the public health department. After the ac-

curacy of the blood sample is determined, the department fills out a disease report that is sent to the Department of State Health Services.

According to the Tech Environmental and Health Safety website, in order to reduce chances of infection, preventing mosquito bites is key.

Warner said people need to remember the four Ds: DEET, dusk/dawn, dress and drain.

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Game-day experience improving for Tech fans

By PAIGE SKINNER Managing Editor

With a cellular provider in its name, Jones AT&T Stadium has not had the best mobile service in years past.

That has now changed.

T.J. Forner, engineering manager for Distributed Antenna System engineering at AT&T, said Texas Tech fans like to use their cellphones to share their game-day experience via social media, text messaging and more.

In an effort to meet the demand of Red Raiders fans, AT&T has worked to become the industry leader in the Distributed Antenna System, Forner said.

“A distributed antenna system is a network of antennas that’s been engineered together to provide wireless and continuous service to the fans that are at a large capacity venue,” he said. “What AT&T has done is, this year, we’re happy to take these Red Raider fans and add LTE to our network out here, so we’re going to continue to grow our data and we’re going to continue to provide our fans with more capabilities, more data and faster data rates and faster data speeds.”

There are more than 320 antennas in the stadium for cellphone service. But, Forner said to keep the stadium looking its best fans won’t be able to see a majority of the antennas.

AT&T has thought of nearly everything.

If the power at the stadium were to go out, it would not affect cellphone coverage because of the backup batteries stored in closets around the stadium.

Steve Urayasz, senior associate director

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T.J. FORNER, ENGINEERING manager for Distributed Antenna System engineering at AT&T, briefs media representatives about upgrades to Jones AT&T Stadium during a tour of the stadium Wednesday.

of Tech Athletics, said Tech fans travel with more devices than any other fans in the country.

“So we’re finding more and more, we have to do everything we can to create that

line — that line of communication,” he said.

“So that our fans can stay in touch, they can continue to do the things they need to do from Jones AT&T Stadium and create a great, great environment.”

One way fans can stay in touch and interact with each other is via the new video board.

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Fair shows students study abroad Rawls College kicks off options, financial aid opportunities Business Leadership Program

By KATY HOLLIFIELD Staff WritEr

More than 20 partner organizations participated in the annual Study Abroad Fair, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

The fair, which began more than 10 years ago, had 15 faculty-led programs present, although that was only about a quarter of all faculty-led programs Texas Tech offers, Elizabeth McDaniel, the deputy director of the Study Abroad Program, said.

McDaniel said the program offers students the chance to study in 350 programs in 70 countries. She said she also encouraged students to study abroad because it helps set them apart from other job applicants when they apply for jobs.

Studying abroad allows students to see a global perspective and gain employable skills, McDaniel said. She, like many of the representatives, has been abroad and lived in parts of Europe.

Less than 1 percent of all college students will study abroad, she said.

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TAYLOR REED, A junior anthropology major from Snyder, and Alex Hook, a junior exercise sport sciences major from Caddo Mills, listen as a representative gives information about studying abroad in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia at the Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

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TEXAS TECH PRESIDENT M. Duane Nellis discusses his plans and hopes for the future of Texas Tech during the Rawls Business Leadership Program KickOff event Wednesday in the Rawls College of Business.

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Come out for the annual start of the year picnic and meet Texas Tech’s new president.

Western Civilization Lecture Series: Dr. Denise Eileen McCoskey Time: 5 p.m to 7 p.m.

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severe for the general population.

“Most people don’t know they’re infected,” he said. “The risk is about CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 10 out of 100 infected people will “DEET is the most efficient have the fever. Neuroinvasive disrepellant that we know of,” he ease occurs in probably one in 140 said. “Mosquitos are active at to 150 infected people.”

Cases of West Nile generally times when the sun is relatively low on the horizon, so especially decrease after approximately the at dawn and dusk. The risky time third week in August, Warner said, extends from 7:30 p.m. until 9 in but can continue as rare, isolated incidents as late as October or Nothe morning.”

Covering up, Warner said, also vember. is important.

Anyone with symptoms of “You need to especially cover a mosquito-transmitted disease your skin with long sleeves and should see a primary care physician long pants,” he said. “Draining all as early as possible, he said. standing water close to your house “Just like any other disease, who eliminates the places where mosqui- knows how many cases we’ll see,” toes can lay their eggs.”

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PROFESSOR KENT WILKINSON speaks during the announcement of the name change of the Thomas Jay Harris Institute for Hispanic and International Communication during a news conference Wednesday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

By MIKAEL GONZALES Staff Writer

The College of Media and Communication hosted a news conference and reception at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the McKenzieMerket Alumni Center to honor a gift from the trust of Thomas Jay Harris.

Harris was born in Stephenville in 1918 and moved to Lubbock at a young age, according to a news release. He was then awarded a four-year scholarship in journalism to Tech and later became news editor for the Lubbock AvalancheJournal for more than 40 years.

Although Harris died in 2006, he set aside trust money to promote international education in the Lubbock area.

As the recipient of this gift, the Institute for Hispanic and International Communication, decided to rename its organization after Harris.

During the reception, President M. Duane Nellis, Chancellor Kent Hance, IHIC director Kent Wilkinson and others, gave

“I worked with Jay Harris for speeches. Also in attendance were faculty and staff members of the almost two decades on various college as well as a few graduate projects, and his passion was education,” May said. “He felt that the students in IHIC. Hance, who knew Harris per- key was education and understandsonally, said Harris had a strong ing the world and having a peropinion for spective on the world.” anyone who lisMay said tened to him. he believed “Jay was not Harris was a guy that sat one of the on the sidelines great writers and didn’t have of the 20th an opinion,” he century and said. “I mean he what he may had an opinion, not have if you wanted been known to hear it you for was bewere going to KENT HANCE ing one of hear it, and if CHANCELLOR the main adyou didn’t want TEXAS TECH SYSTEM vocates for to hear it you the Lubbock were still going Internationto hear it.” al Cultural Hance was not the only person in attendance Center.

“He put the people together, he who knew Harris on a personal level. Donald May, a blogger for got folks to go down to Austin and the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal raise the money,” May said. “He website, was a longtime colleague was the force behind that.” of Harris.

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“Since it’s inauguration in 2006, IHIC has been engaged in research, teaching and community engagement that address significant development to contemporary media and society,” Wilkinson said.

The institution will use the gift to improve teaching education as well as research and community outreach in the area.

After the event, Wilkinson gave a few more words about Harris. He said he did not know much about the longtime editor for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, but said he was working on getting to know the honoree of the reception.

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“We have academically bright students, but we are more holistic than that,” he said. “The Texas Tech ethic extends beyond the classroom. It extends to leadership, business and society and it comes back to this whole program.”

The event celebrated the inaugural class of the Business Leadership Program. The class consists of 30 students: 15 freshmen and sophomores, and 15 juniors and seniors.

Freshmen and juniors are paired together, and sophomores and seniors are paired together. Each pair of students is assigned a mentor — someone who currently teaches, works or administers in Rawls College.

“The leadership program is designed to bring together students who have high academic ability but also have leadership skills,” Nail said. “It’s designed to bring students together with mentors who have more experience to help nurture those leadership skills.”

To familiarize students and professors with each other, Nail asked everyone in the room to stand and state their title. Students said their

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Tech sends nearly 1,000 students abroad each year, Kenny Shatley, a study abroad adviser, said. He said financial fears are one of the main hesitations students have when it comes to studying abroad.

Shatley said he studied abroad in Fez, Morocco, where he studied intensive Arabic.

Financial worries were mentioned by many of the representatives as being a major worry of prospective study abroad students.

Kelsey Sheridan, a Tech Reciprocal Exchange Program representative, said the most common misconception was the unaffordability of going abroad. She said she paid about the amount she would have spent at Tech when she spent two semesters studying international business marketing in Germany.

Teresa Bellono, a representative for the Alliance for Global Education, said many programs offer need- or merit-based scholarships. She also said the U.S. government offers some scholarships to students traveling to nontraditional loca-

majors and classifications, and professors and administrators described their job title and role in Rawls.

“I’m thrilled that we are all finally bringing this together,” Nail said. “This is a program that I think is going to elevate the Rawls College of Business Administration because the students involved with this program, the faculty involved with this program and the profession mentors involved with this program have such a love for Texas Tech and Rawls College.”

According to a news release, the Business Leadership Program was created to provide Rawls students with firsthand knowledge and experiences to help them in leadership roles. The four elements of the program, according to the release, consist of experiential living and learning, real-world application, international experience and interactive personal development.

Although the program is not an independent major, the experience that comes from the program can enhance students’ learning during their tenure at Rawls. The program gives students the opportunity to experience action-based leadership, which according to the release, will be applicable to all business majors.

Nellis talked about his experi-

ence as a college student and aimed to inspire students in the room to achieve their passion in life.

“When I went to college, there were some people who tried to push me into certain types of majors that would allow me to get a well-paying job, and I had others telling me to follow my passion and I made the decision to follow my passion,” Nellis said.

However, in his current role, Nellis said the term work has a different meaning for him.

“You know, I come to work every day, but I really don’t feel like it’s coming to work,” he said.

“It’s my passion, I believe in it strongly within my eternal being, and I think that commitment and passion for what I do every day is something that carries me significantly forward.”

Nellis said he expects students to receive a positive experience while in the program. He said he believes the professors mentoring them will strengthen the students’ skills.

“This program will compliment students’ leadership experiences, and they have a chance to be mentored by graduates of Texas Tech,” he said.

Associate dean of Rawls Debbie Laverie helped with developmental

ideas for the program.

Laverie said she expects a positive experience from the Business Leadership Program this year and is excited to be a mentor in the program.

“This program idea came from Dean Nail, and I think it’s a great way to target our top leaders and give them an experience that will set them apart in the job market,” Laverie said. “I want students to pursue different career opportunities, and to get a one-on-one interaction with members of our faculty.”

Rawls students are just as optimistic as the administrators for the start of the Business Leadership Program.

Tanner Swaringen, a junior finance major from Abilene, said he hopes to gain a better understanding of business ethics and leadership.

“I expect to get a more better understanding of how to mentor others and to accept being mentored by others,” he said. “I’m very excited for this program. Not only are we involved in Rawls; we’re getting to be around all the students.

There will be some real live-andlearn experiences, and I think that we will all really benefit from this.”

tions such as China and India.

The Study Abroad Program at Tech awards more than $250,000 in scholarships each year, McDaniel said. Additionally, many student loans, grants and scholarships also apply to the costs of studying abroad. The scholarship deadline for the spring semester is Oct. 15.

Many of the representatives also encouraged students to plan their studying abroad carefully.

Michael Johnson, a unit coordinator at International Affairs told students to plan in advance. He said students cannot go abroad as a freshman or on the semester of graduation.

Study abroad sessions are hosted at 4 p.m. every weekday at the International Culture Center, he said. Johnson studied abroad in Moscow twice and encouraged his sister to go abroad as well.

“Studying abroad was everything I wanted it to be,” he said.

Johnson said he encountered some students who had fears about going abroad because they believe it isn’t safe. However, he said the study abroad programs would not let students travel to other countries if they knew it was unsafe.

“The sooner you plan to go,” Michelle

Boddy, a diplomat for the Rawls Center for Global Engagement, said, “the more opportunity you have (to study abroad).”

Boddy, who studied abroad in Spain, said studying abroad provides a lot of experience and looks great on resumes.

One unique option Tech offers is the Tech Center in Seville, Spain.

Donna K. Wright, the Seville program coordinator, said the Seville program differs from other study abroad programs because students are enrolled in Tech classes taught by Tech professors but are in Spain.

Other study abroad programs, she said, have to evaluate the credits earned at another university and then transfer them, but credits earned through the Seville program will transfer directly.

Molly Norris, a sophomore from Tyler, said she wants to study abroad in Asia or Europe because she thinks they look interesting and would rather be with a group than go abroad by herself.

Ashley Parker, a sophomore biomedical science major, said she wants to see Spain or Europe and study health care courses that would transfer for her degree.

“I just heard about (the fair) and thought it would be cool,” she said.

Parker said her biggest fear about going abroad is getting kidnapped, citing the movie “Taken” as a reason.

Spain also was a possible destination for Ibraham Allam, a sophomore petroleum engineering major. Allam said he heard Spain has a good program and that he thinks the country is beautiful.

However, he said he also might want to study in Egypt because he is Egyptian and knows people there. He said he wanted to experience different cultures and diversity and see a new way of life, but is most afraid of a language barrier.

Scott Vardeman, a sophomore environmental crop and soil sciences major, said he wants to use study abroad to return to Australia, where he lived previously.

Vardeman lived in Sydney, which he said is very multicultural. He said the people were nice, but warned potential students the cost of living in Australia is higher than in the U.S. Kat Defoe, a freshman international business major from Wichita Falls, said she wants to study abroad in Asia for her minor in Japanese. Defoe said her biggest fear of going abroad is being overwhelmed by the culture shock.

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1, virtually all Americans will be required to have coverage, or face fines. At the same time, insurance companies will no longer be able to turn away people in poor health.

The study points to the emergence of a competitive market, said lead author Caroline Pearson, a vice president of the private data analysis firm. But it’s a market with big price differences among age groups, states and even within states. A copy was

provided to The Associated Press.

The bottom line is mixed: Many consumers will like their new options, particularly if they qualify for a tax credit. But others may have to stretch to afford coverage.

“We are seeing competitive offerings in every market if you buy toward the low end of what’s available,” said Pearson, a vice president of Avalere.

However, for uninsured people who are paying nothing today “this is

Cleveland man’s suicide brings little sympathy CLEVELAND (AP) — Residents in the tough Cleveland neighborhood where three women were secretly imprisoned for a decade reacted with scorn and grim satisfaction Wednesday after Ariel Castro hanged himself in his cell barely a month into a life sentence.

Even the prosecutor joined in.

“This man couldn’t take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade,” said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty.

Castro, 53, was found hanging from a bedsheet Tuesday night at the state prison in Orient, corrections spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.

Prison medical staff performed CPR before Castro was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The coroner’s office said it was suicide.

“He took the coward’s way out,” said Elsie Cintron, who lived up the street from the former school bus driver. “We’re sad to hear that he’s dead, but at the same time, we’re happy he’s gone, and now we know he can’t ask for an appeal or try for one if he’s acting like he’s crazy.”

As the shocking news sank in, prison officials faced questions about how a high-profile inmate managed to commit suicide while in protective custody. Just a month ago, an Ohio death row inmate killed himself days before he was to be executed.

Ohio prisons director Gary Mohr announced a review of Castro’s suicide and whether he had received proper medical and mental health care. State police are also investigating.

The announcement came after the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio called for a full investigation.

“As horrifying as Mr. Castro’s

crimes may be, the state has a responsibility to ensure his safety from himself and others,” executive director Christine Link said.

Through a spokeswoman, Castro’s three victims declined to comment.

Castro was sentenced Aug. 1 to life in prison plus 1,000 years after pleading guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping and rape, in a deal to avoid the death penalty. At his sentencing, he told the judge: “I’m not a monster. I’m sick.”

Castro had been in a cell by himself in protective custody, meaning he was checked every 30 minutes, because of fears his notoriety could lead to attacks from other inmates, authorities said.

He was not on a suicide watch, which entails constant supervision, Smith said. She would not say why.

Officials would not say whether he left a suicide note.

Castro had been on a suicide watch for a few weeks in the Cuyahoga County jail, before he pleaded guilty and was turned over to state authorities, and police said after his arrest that they had found a years-old note in which he talked about suicide. But authorities at the jail dropped the suicide watch in June after concluding he was unlikely to take his own life.

Castro’s captives — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20. They were rescued from Castro’s run-down house May 6 after Berry broke through a screen door.

Elation over the women’s rescue turned to shock as details emerged about their captivity. Castro fathered a child with Berry while she was being held. The girl was 6 when she was freed.

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Consumers can get early look at health law’s premiums WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 1 question about President Barack Obama’s health care law is whether consumers will be able to afford the coverage. Now the answer is coming in.

The biggest study yet of premiums posted by states finds that the sticker price for a 21-year-old buying a midrange policy will average about $270 a month. That’s before government tax credits that act like a discount for most people, bringing down the cost based on their income.

List-price premiums for a 40-yearold buying a mid-range plan will average close to $330, the study by Avalere Health found. For a 60-yearold, they were nearly double that at $615 a month.

Starting Oct. 1, people who don’t have health care coverage on their job can go to new online insurance markets in their states to shop for a private plan and find out if they qualify for a tax credit. Come Jan.

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The Obama administration didn’t challenge the study, but Health and Human Services spokeswoman Joanne Peters said consumers will have options that are cheaper than the averages presented. “We’re consistently seeing that premiums will be lower than expected,” she added. “For the many people that qualify for a tax credit, the cost will be even lower.”

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US should not take military action in Syria Jonathan Silva deciding who to support.

So now we have to look at it from a national security perspective. Whichever regime we leave to take power should obviously pose less of a threat to the U.S. than the other, but also preferably stand as a future ally. The big question people should ask themselves is whether Assad’s regime is a legitimate threat to the U.S., or would the alQaida-backed rebels prove to be a greater threat if they were to take power?

At the same time, doing nothing might make it seem as though we indirectly support Assad’s regime, thereby putting

us into a catch-22.

This isn’t the time to step in and be the world police. If the U.S. wants to avoid war, but still maintain some role as a peacekeeper, we should follow alternate courses of action against Assad’s regime.

Instead of kicking down the door, dropping bombs and arming alQaida-backed rebels, we should support refugee camps for the Syrian people and offer nonlethal aid to rebels, such as intelligence sharing.

One option the U.S. could pursue is to patch things up with Russia. Russia is the most globally recognized ally of Syria and could prove to be very useful in

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the conflict. Assad’s view of the West has a sense of trepidation attached to it, which has proven to hinder successful diplomacy.

Russia, however, still possesses the ability to reason and negotiate with Assad. Russian support for de-escalating violence in Syria could be the most civil way of addressing the war.

The possibility of regional war comes as a consequence to western intervention in Syria. Assad said in an interview with Le Figaro on Monday that western military intervention in Syria would trigger regional war.

That part of the world is already tormented enough with war and

The possibility of regional war comes as a consequence to western intervention in Syria.

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n this conflict, there is no lesser of two evils.

On one hand we have the brutal dictatorial regime of Bashar al-Assad, and on the other there is the al-Qaidabacked rebel force. This isn’t an ultimatum where we have to choose which side to support.

From a United States perspective, we must make decisions based off national interest.

While we would rather not have either party in power, there must be at least one solid reason to support one faction and not the other. We have to ask ourselves what we can gain from having this group in power. At this point, there really isn’t much either side can offer.

Arming the rebels and lending support to them is a clear sign we do not wish to let Assad resume power. However, relations between the U.S. and al-Qaida are basically nonexistent. It’s a loselose situation when it comes to

violence.

Syria is a sovereign state and is recognized as a legitimate government on the global stage, and the U.S. needs to respect that. With allies such as Iran and Russia, escalated violence in the region could move to the global stage.

We cannot afford another war. With the economy still not fully recovered and troops still out in the desert, it’s insane to think we are in a position to start another war. A Reuters poll conducted this week found that only 20 percent of Americans think the U.S. should take action against Syria.

With citizens having such little trust in the government nowadays, sending troops out to another dead-end war isn’t the way to go about improving approval ratings. Having such low support from the people has to say something about President Barack Obama’s chances at get-

ting congressional approval to take action.

On top of that, more than $16 trillion worth of debt should be reason enough to stay put.

The cost of the Iraq/Afghani war totaled to a little more than $1.4 trillion, as released by the Department of Defense comptroller, by 2013.

Back in the 1980s, the U.S. lent aid and arms to Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to help combat the Soviet occupation.

Too focused on the Soviets and caught up in our containment tactics, we failed to see the ultimate consequences of our negligence. Let’s not make the same mistake twice.

If we do end up taking action and going into Syria, we very well may find ourselves in another version of the Iraq war.

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The first day back after summer break is one of mixed emotions as some are excited and ready to get back to work.

Others dread the first day and wish the summer would last forever.

For British Prime Minister David Cameron, the first day back went much worse than anyone would have thought.

Senior ministers are now telling him his party needs rebuilding after the first government defeat on the possible deployment of British troops in generations.

These aren’t the sort of problems anyone would want to face on their first day back.

What exactly happened to Cameron is as follows.

At the beginning of the week, President Barack Obama made a phone call to 10 Downing St. to discuss possible action in Syria, according to the BBC. Cameron’s huge fault was that he and his inner circle never stopped to think whether this topic would win a vote in parliament.

The vote went ahead with Cameron confident that it would go through without problems.

Later, Cameron was informed that the vote had not gone through, and more importantly 30 members of his own party had voted along with the Labour party to swing the vote.

The Syrian issue is leaving senior ministers proclaiming that Cameron must take a page out of the late Margaret Thatcher’s book and appoint a heavyweight party chairman to be part of his inner circle.

This chairman will give advice on serious decisions in the future and help to avoid mishaps

like this becoming a regular thing.

This whole situation is being termed a “wakeup call” for the party, which now has a sizeable group of parliament members who are willing to harm Cameron’s plans.

If Cameron doesn’t inspire confidence in his own party, then the public is going to find it hard to trust him.

What should Cameron have done?

What I’ve found is that the media often judges senior political figures without thinking about that person’s options.

Some simply sit back, expecting Cameron to find a “magic” answer and forgetting that he is, after all, a human being.

Cameron could have been stuck between his own moral conscience, the memories of Iraq and the need to protect his image as a leader.

If Cameron solely believed people in Syria were in danger, he had every right to try and use his power to intervene in the conflict.

And if atrocities continue to happen in Syria, and Cameron never tried to get this vote through parliament, the headlines could read “Cameron to blame.”

I’m not simply defending him, but I believe to get anything done, risks must be taken every so often. What has happened is the nature of the risk.

The stage is set for Cameron as I see it, with less than two years until the next general election; Cameron will either regain his party’s confidence, and with that the people’s confidence, giving him a real chance in this next coming election.

If he fails to do this, it could be the beginning of the end for Cameron.

It’s up to him now.

Let us know what you think.

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Fast food workers in more than 60 cities decided to strike on Friday.

Many corporate chains, including McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King, saw workers set up a picket line to promote a $15-anhour minimum wage as well as the right to unionize.

At a glance, it would appear the strike is a legitimate concern on behalf of the workers to push for increased wages.

However, with the looming healthcare registration, trying to raise the minimum wage would be a two-pronged blow to businesses everywhere.

With a federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, many Americans are feeling the pinch of underemployment. In short, there are too few minimum wage jobs for the amount of people applying.

Visa Inc. released a chart

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compensation package of former McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner, according to Bloomberg.

With this difference in pay scale, the argument to raise the wages earned by entry level fast food workers is compelling.

On the other hand, with the changes coming in the Affordable Care Act, the push to increase living wages comes at an awkward time as businesses frantically try to include the added costs of providing health care to its employees.

According to NBC News, Delta Airlines will pay out more than $100 million to provide health care for its employees in 2014.

As companies continue to feel

Increasing the wages when the economy is slowly returning to prerecession levels may be ill-advised.

the sluggish economic recovery, the question remains of whether the added costs to health care will break the fragile economic recovery and create another recession.

While it’s understandable that many fast food workers want to see their wages doubled, increasing the wages when the economy is slowly returning to pre-recession levels may be ill-advised.

The added burden of including comprehensive health care coverage for millions of Americans will lead to even more struggle in the economy.

Still, this doesn’t mean that the low wages fast food workers face should go unaddressed.

One area that corporations could look to to provide savings is to reduce the amount of profits earned by shareholders rather than workers.

As shareholders bear virtually no duty in the day-to-day management of running the corporation, compensation should be diverted more to workers.

US workers may benefit from state mandated vacation

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At first glance, America might seem to be a nation built around the ideals of leisure and relaxation. Celebrities whom we idolize are often pictured stretched out on beaches or lavishly dressed at grand events. In this day and age, the “American dream” means being wealthy enough to afford travel, vacation and other such luxuries.

Enclosed in our cubicles or offices, we daydream of the tropical beaches of the Caribbean, or the riverside vendors of cultured Venice. Radio competitions offer cruises and getaways as grand prizes. It seems that every other commercial on cable TV is for hotel or flight deals.

As such, many are surprised to find the U.S. is the only nation with a developed economy in the world without legally mandated vacation time for workers.

So, though in appearance we might

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designed to teach McDonald’s employees how to live on minimum wage, and the chart clearly shows the corporate disconnect from the top.

The figures provided by Visa included $600 in rent, $0 in heating costs and $20 in monthly h e a l t h i n s u rance costs.

These figures also account for the prospective worker to have a second job, which at $7.25 an hour would amount to 74 hours a week, according to the monthly total of income earned in the chart.

T h e a v e r a g e M c D o n a l d ’s worker at an entry level position would have to work approximately one million hours to match the

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seem like a country committed to the high life, we are in fact considered more work obsessed than nearly any other nation.

Canada and Japan, considered to be at the low end of legally mandated paid vacation, have 10 days of enforced paid vacation. Most European countries provide their employees with somewhere around 20 days, others have as many as 30.

Imagine having an entire month every year of paid vacation to do what you please. Americans have a reputation for being somewhat culturally ignorant; could this be a result of not having the ability to vacation around the world?

Europeans, with an average of more than 20 paid work days, are much more able to visit places around the world.

Though traveling can be very expensive, more than anything, it’s timeconsuming. And for many Americans, time is hard to find.

Even on low wages, a European worker can at least vacation in the

countryside or somewhere equally financially manageable. Even Japanese workers, with 10 days, have at least some time to let go of the everyday stresses of work.

However, nearly one in every four Americans has absolutely no paid vacation or paid holidays, meaning these individuals have to choose between much-needed relaxation and their ability to pay the bills. Some in the U.S. are able to take for granted their cozy week at home from Christmas to New Year’s. However, many workers, especially those in the service industry, don’t even get that basic luxury.

Having government-mandated paid vacation wouldn’t cost taxpayers more money, because it wouldn’t be the government dishing out salary during vacation, it would be the businesses.

If all businesses had to offer workers a base 10-day paid vacation, then added bonuses would stack on top of that, benefiting individuals with long-term loyalty to their companies.

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So, what can we do about it? Nationwide legislation isn’t written and approved every day, but the first thing we can do is show that vacation time is an issue American workers care about.

Too many U.S. workers are unaware of how America’s vacation time sizes up to other developed countries; the knowledge that our neighbors in Canada and Europe are able to kick back for nearly a month at a time is a strong motivating factor.

Vacation time may not be a hot button issue for many Americans, unlike abortion or gay rights, but it is incredibly important. Without time off, workers’ efficiency will suffer, as will their desire to return to the cubicle every Monday morning. Increased vacation time fosters a better work environment — and happier workers.

The first step to fixing this issue is to make it known. Supply will meet demand: The more U.S. workers ask for mandated vacation time, the more likely it is we’ll see success.

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Teen dead, more hurt in school stabbing SPRING (AP) — A fight inside a Houston-area high school escalated into a series of stabbings Wednesday that left a 17-year-old student dead and several others wounded, sheriff ’s officials said.

Meanwhile, Spring school district officials have canceled classes at the high school for the rest of the week.

Sheriff ’s detectives questioned a 17-year-old male who officials now consider to be the sole suspect in a stabbing rampage at a Houston-area high school, according to a Harris County Sheriff ’s Office statement. The statement

did not identify the suspect or specify if he is a student at Spring High School, where Wednesday’s attacks occurred. No charges have been filed.

“We believe a confrontation of some sort occurred ... that ultimately led into a physical confrontation that produced weapons,” Sheriff Adrian Garcia said. “There has been some information that this may have been gang related.”

Two victims were hospitalized with minor injuries. A third, identified only as a 16-year-old, was in surgery. No other information was available on the teenager who

POLICE BLOTTER Nonstudent arrested for drug possession Tuesday 11:48 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, in which an unattended vehicle was stricken, which occurred in the Wiggins Dining Complex R19 parking lot.

12:05 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft, which occurred at Clement Residence Hall. A Genesis floor bike pump was taken.

12:25 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, which occurred in the 3000 block of Main St. 12:36 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, which occurred in the Wiggins Dining Complex R19 parking lot.

1:59 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, which occurred in the C1 parking lot.

4:23 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft that occurred on the third floor Pod C of the Health Sciences Center. A purple bag and contents was taken.

5:26 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a three-vehicle traffic

accident, without injuries, which occurred in the 700 block of Indiana Ave. 9:22 p.m. — A Tech officer recovered an unoccupied stolen vehicle in the Z1B parking lot, which was originally reported to the Lubbock Police Department.

The vehicle was released to the registered owner.

Wednesday 2:29 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance, possession of alcohol by minor and possession of more than one valid driver’s license, which occurred in the R3 parking lot. The nonstudent was released pending the filing of charges for possession of miscellaneous substance. The nonstudent was transported to Lubbock County Jail. Lubbock Wrecker Service impounded the nonstudent’s vehicle.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

was killed.

Garcia said a “cutting instrument” was used in the attack but offered no details.

Some parents said the fight was the continuation of a disturbance that broke out Tuesday. Officials at the school, which has about 3,500 students, would not confirm their comments.

“Every parent sends their child to school believing school should be one of those safe haven places,” Spring Independent School District Superintendent Ralph Draper said. “This is what we spend our nights and days working toward

and what I lose sleep over.

“In my nearly 30-year career, this is the one thing you pray never to experience.”

Parent Tara Campbell said she received text messages from her daughter about the fight and that her daughter said students who witnessed the episode snapped cellphone photos of the victims as they lay on the ground.

Campbell said she intended to have her daughter home-schooled, saying she’s grown tired of fights at the school.

“Last year there were gang fights consistently,” she said. “This

is ridiculous. This is an ongoing situation.”

Lakesia Brent said her son, a sophomore at the school, sent her multiple text messages asking her to come pick him up.

“He’s just afraid,” she said, adding that fights at the school were a problem in the last academic year.

The school was placed on lockdown following the stabbings, which occurred about 7 a.m., and students were released to the care of their parents later Wednesday.

Many parents were upset that the school district did not provide them information in a

timely manner.

Draper defended the district’s actions, saying they focused on two goals — securing the school and making sure no action was taken to compromise the investigation — before communicating information to parents about what had happened. He said students were not immediately released because some of them were potential witnesses who needed to be interviewed by investigators.

“When street violence pours into the school, it compromises the safety of all our students,” Draper said.

Rec hosts sport club fair for students

By ADAM BARENTINE Staff Writer

From water skiing and inline hockey to cricket and quidditch, Texas Tech offers sport clubs for students who want to continue athletic pursuits in college.

Laura Thomas, assistant director of sport clubs and intramurals at Tech, said students do not have to let their athletic dreams die once they enter college.

“At the beginning of the year a lot of students are looking for ways to get involved,” she said. “This is a great way to give student organizations kind of a visibility throughout campus.”

She is referring to the sport club fair, which took place Wednesday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

This event hosted representatives from 24 of the sport clubs on the Tech campus. These clubs range from soccer to fencing.

Philip O’Brien, a geology graduate student from Houston, is captain of the Tech quidditch team and said he thinks the fair will help bring visibility to

his team.

“Most people think it’s a bunch of people running around on brooms, casting spells,” he said. “A fair like this can expose people who just thought it was a joke.”

The event took place during the busiest time in the Rec Center. With that in mind, Thomas said she expected about 600 to 800 people to attend the event.

Kamal Patel, a senior political science major from Lubbock, is president of the Tech cricket team and said the amount of people who attend will help his sport thrive.

“It’ll promote cricket to people on campus, even locally,” he said. “Before we even started we had two people come up to us.”

Patel said he thinks the event will help raise funds for the clubs participating. This is an everpresent concern for many of the clubs on campus, he said.

Santiago Soto, a civil engineering graduate student from Dallas, and defender for the Tech men’s soccer club. He said it is because of events like the sport club fair that his team is

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ISAAC SHERROD, A junior mechanical engineering major from Tomball, speaks with two representatives from the waterskiing organization about their program Wednesday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

growing rapidly.

“It just raises awareness,” he said. “Someone comes and plays indoors, comes to the rec to workout, maybe they don’t know about it. This is a way to show them what its about. This is the first year we actually had more than 50 people try out.”

Sport clubs also are an alternative to many campus activities.

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Stuart Freiner said students who might not be interested in fraternities and sororities, should get involved in sport clubs.

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Raider Red raises votes in mascot challenge

By NIKKI CULVER Staff Writer

Raider Red is well-known on the Texas Tech campus for having a large red mustache, a matching cowboy hat and an even larger personality to get fans excited at sporting events. Now it’s up to Tech students, faculty, staff, alumni and fans to make sure that he’s well-known across the country for the very same reasons.

Last year, Raider Red won the Capital One Mascot Challenge and a $20,000 grant to the Raider Red organization. This year, the organization is aiming to win again.

“There are other mascots in the competition that have won the competition before,” Bruce Bills, head cheer and mascot coach, said.

“Everyone is open to win every year. We just want to be the ones who win it back to back.”

Voting begins every Monday at noon and ends the following Sunday at 11:59 a.m. To vote for Raider Red, log on to capitalonebowl.com and select him from the list of mascots. The website will then bring up the current matchup. Each click of the “vote” button counts as a single point.

Votes also can be made via Twitter.

Capital One also is allowing bonus points this year.

“You can vote online,” Stephanie Rhode, spirit program director, said. “This year it’s very easy. You have infinite votes so yesterday I was on my iPad voting and watching movies. That’s one way you can vote. You can also vote on Twitter by including the hashtag #capitaloneraiderred. Those both count as one point.”

Votes equal to 25 points once challenges are released every Saturday. This week’s challenge is to come up with a cheer for

the mascot.

If one tweets the cheer or posts it on Facebook and include the hashtag, that counts as 25 points.

“You could write as many cheers as you want and post them,” Rhode said. You can even video or photograph you doing the same cheer and upload it. Videos or pictures count at 100 points.”

The competition is 12 weeks long and ends Dec. 15. Each mascot is paired against a competitor for a week where they rack up points from the different voting venues. The top eight mascots will go into a four-week process of elimination.

The spirit organization is promoting the competition by using the Raider Red Facebook page as well as the Raider Red Twitter account.

“We’re reaching out to other spirit organizations such as the High Riders and the Saddle Tramps,” Bills said. “We’re putting posters and fliers around campus.

We don’t want to get all the votes in the beginning. We want them to come in throughout the competition. We’ve also done a lot of local media and we’re going to be at the football games as well.”

Winning the competition last year has allowed the Raider Red program and image as well as the rest of the Tech community to branch out. The win not only has brought $20,000 to the program, but publicity as well, Rhode said.

“We won the competition last year, which was great not only for Raider Red but for Texas Tech,” she said. “It brought a lot of publicity to Texas Tech and now when I go into clothing shops around town. When I was at the SMU game, I saw a lot of Raider Red T-shirts. I think we’ve raised the profile of Raider Red through the contest last year. I think we’ve

raised the profile of Texas Tech, too, not to mention the $20,000 the Raider Red program got for winning. It was such a positive thing last year that we decided to do it again. Plus, the Capital One people asked us if we would consider doing it again.”

Students were not the only ones voting for Raider Red in the completion last year. A large number of alumni, fans and parents were voting as well, Rhode said.

“We also have a huge following of alumni who were voting, a huge number of people through our athletic department who voted, so we’re trying to be creative in finding a way to touch a variety of Texas Tech fans,” she said. “I would hear people in housing say ‘We have a whole group that would get together and vote’ or our spirit arena staff would say ‘We were voting’ or ‘My book club was voting.’

We had a guy who is on the radio who said every day he would go home from work and his 5-year-old little boy would ask him if he voted for Raider Red that day.”

To be considered as a finalist for the contest, applicants had to submit a video and fill out an application. The Tech spirit organization was told earlier in the summer that they had been chosen as one of the finalists and announced it to the public Aug. 31.

Raider Red is chosen among the members of the High Riders and Saddle Tramps organizations.

High Riders is the female spirit organization while the Saddle Tramps is designated for males.

Zachary Bohls, a senior public relations major from Austin, served as Raider Red for the 20122013 school year, meaning he was the one with the big red mustache in all of the promotional material for the 2012 Capital One Mascot Challenge.

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RAIDER RED WAS the winner of the Capital One Mascot Challenge in 2012, and is nominated again for the 2013 title.

“Getting the chance to be Raider Red was an incredible experience,” Bohls said. “If it wasn’t for Red, I probably would never have loved Texas Tech as much as I do now. Mascoting at this school has brought me the best of friendships and included me in most interesting traditions. Being Raider Red was like having your own Avatar and with that, you can be who you want and be applauded for it. It’s like you do the most idiotic things in character and people’s days will be made.

That right there makes our jobs as a mascot a lot easier.”

Those who take on the role as Raider Red are required to keep their identity a secret, as well as managing to balance their time between appearances, school work and free time. Bohls said his

favorite things were shooting the viral videos, since they were recognized well and the diverse group of students who helped create them.

While many students may recognize the mascots around campus, very few get the chance to don the cartoon head and funny costumes.

“Some people love to be mascots,” Rhode said. “I think it takes a special individual to do that. You have to have the kind of personality where you don’t mind losing yourself in another character and giving up your own identity. I find it fascinating that there are students out there who are willing to do that, but thank goodness there are.”

For Bohls, the realization of the previous win took a while to sink in and now he only has positive

thoughts and hopes for this year’s competition.

“I’ll say this,” he said. “It didn’t hit for a long while that we actually won. Nothing could have clicked slower than my reaction to the announcement. It was quite lifting to hear and see everyone pitch in for their school’s mustached man. My hopes, as well as everyone else that I know that are running the campaign, are to take each opponent one week at a time.

We are going to try and do it a lot like we did last year and continue building the program and focusing on making Raider Red more recognizable. All of us would like to go undefeated this year and have as much fun as we did last year but we need everyone’s help in doing so.” ➤➤nculver@dailytoreador.com

Mayor invites Illinois gay couples to wed in Minn.

CHICAGO (AP) — With all of Illinois’ financial woes, residents have grown accustomed to politicians from other states trying to raid its companies, jobs and best workers.

Now one of them is making a similar pitch to the state’s gay couples: Come north to get married, and spend lots of money.

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, who recently married 46 same-sex couples following his state’s passage of a law legalizing gay weddings, will appear in a predominantly gay Chicago neighborhood Thursday to launch a campaign called “Marry Me in Minneapolis.” He plans to follow with campaigns in Colorado and Wisconsin, two other states

that haven’t approved same-sex marriage.

Rybak is trying to convince Chicagoans that rather than take a long — and expensive — plane trip to one of the coasts, just drive six hours to his city. Recently, many gay couples in the Midwest have said their vows in Iowa — the only state directly bordering Illinois that allows same-sex weddings.

He’s trying to capitalize on disappointment among Illinois gay couples that the state, dominated by Democrats, still hasn’t approved a marriage law and likely won’t anytime soon with lawmakers on recess.

“I love Chicago and love to come spend money there, but if

people there don’t get the rights they deserve I am more than happy to have them come and spend their money in Minneapolis,” he said in a telephone interview.

Rybak figures the campaign, if successful, could be extremely lucrative for Minneapolis, profiting on everything from hotel rooms to flowers to caterers.

“Even 20 weddings would be tens of thousands of dollars, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Rybak said.

Some same-sex couples in Illinois say their first choice would be to get married locally. But they say Rybak’s offer makes some sense, particularly if lawmakers in Illinois fail to come up with anything anytime soon.

Aana Vigen, a college professor in Chicago, said that although she and her partner haven’t given a Minnesota wedding any thought, they would consider it if they thought it could benefit her family.

“I can tell you that (we) are very concerned about protecting our family... and if we can reinforce for our son that we are a family and have something that recognizes that we are a family, we might take the mayor up on his offer,” she said.

The thought of all those couples and their families hopping in the car and driving to spend their money elsewhere angers Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has spent two-plus years in office trying to generate revenue for the city.

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Students react to changes in bike rules

By CALLIE POINDEXTER Staff Writer

As student cyclists cruise to class this semester, they will do so with some added freedom.

Texas Tech officials extended bicycle zones to include sidewalks, a luxury that hadn’t been afforded to students in the past.

However, if the sidewalk is parallel to a bike lane, or if the doors to a building open directly onto the sidewalk, students still are prohibited to ride in that area.

Breezeways and the Free Speech Area in front of the Student Union Building are additional exceptions to the rule,

according to the university parking services website.

However, with freedom comes responsibility.

Tech guard Quincy Brown said many areas are still restricted and many students may be unsure of where they can and cannot ride.

“We got bike officers out there now writing tickets left and right,” he said. “Traffic and parking really needs to send out a brochure stating where they can ride their bikes and where they not ride their bikes. That would make it more clear for the students.”

Brown said bicycle citations cost students about $80 and cannot be applied to tuition.

The citations also are added to students’ driving records and, if not paid on time, can be cause for a warrant to be issued for their arrest.

Josh Ringenberger, a junior business major from Flower Mound, and cyclist, said the severity of bicycle citations confuses him.

“The fact that running a stop sign is a $75 ticket, while riding on the sidewalk for a brief second to get to your class faster is also $75 ticket, it just doesn’t make sense to me,” he said. “And the fact that a parking ticket on campus is, what, $25?”

Brown said he believes signs should be posted on campus stat-

ing where students can and cannot ride, similar to those posted for skateboarders.

He said because the university substantially increased enrollment this year, the number of students biking on campus also has increased.

Ringenberger said he noticed the increase.

“There are so many more people biking,” he said, “which is really cool. I think it’s awesome.

Which is what this whole new bus system is meant for, to kind of help people walk and bike, but sometimes it just gets really crowded around the bike racks.”

Jesus Alvarez, a senior civil engineering major from Amarillo

WASHINGTON (AP) — A later start to the school day could help teenagers get the most from their classroom time and local districts should consider delaying the first bell, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.

School districts would still be free to set their own start times, Duncan insisted in a broadcast interview, but he pointed to research that backs up his comments that rested students are ready students. Duncan said he would not be telling local school leaders when their first bells should ring and said it was up to local leaders to make the decisions on their own.

“There’s lots of research and common sense that lots of teens struggle to get up ... to get on the bus,” said Duncan, the former chief of Chicago Public Schools.

The main reason?

“Teen brains have a different biology,” said Kyla Wahlstrom, director at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research and Education Improvement.

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RACHEL PAYNE, A junior art history major from Ojai, Calif., works on ceramics Wednesday in the 3D Art Annex. Payne shaped cylinders for an Introduction to Ceramics class.

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, said although being able to ride on sidewalks may be convenient for some, he would rather bike on the a road if possible.

However, he said biking on the roads has become increasingly difficult because many students are not following proper procedure.

“To me,” Alvarez said, “what bothers me the most is that people ride their bikes on the wrong side of the road. Especially on bike lanes because you do not have enough space on a bike lane for two bikes, and if you have a bike coming towards you it gets pretty dangerous. It would be like a game of chicken.”

Alvarez said after a collision

For the last 17 years, Wahlstrom has studied teenagers’ sleep cycles, brains and learning. She has concluded that schools that want ready students must have students arrive rested. Absenteeism, tardiness, depression, obesity, drop-out rates and even auto accidents all decline when students head to school after a good night of sleep.

Schools are starting to take notice.

Take, for instance, Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools.

Most medical professionals recommend between 8.5 and 9.5 hours of sleep for students. The Fairfax district surveyed students in grades 8, 10 and 12 and found two-thirds of them were sleeping seven hours or less each school night. Among high school seniors, 84 percent routinely slept less than seven hours each night during the 2011 survey.

That prompted the school district, the 11th largest in the country, to partner with the Children’s National Medical Center’s Division of Sleep Medicine to study student’s nighttime

habits this year and to consider pushing its start time to 8 a.m. or later in coming years.

“Teens have a different body clock,” said Terra Ziporyn Snider, the co-founder of Start School Later, a grassroots advocacy group that has pushed schools for delayed bells. “You don’t run schools at a time when kids aren’t ready to learn.”

There isn’t an easy fix.

Bus schedules have been a driving factor in recent decades for when schools start their days, as are afterschool jobs for teenagers, extracurricular activities and interscholastic sports. The challenge of transporting students to these activities — as well as classes — often is cited as a reason high school days begin at dawn and end mid-afternoon.

“So often, we design school systems that work for adults and not for kids,” Duncan told NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show.”

Research backs up Duncan’s worries about student sleep patterns and academic achievement.

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NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s Corp. says a revamped version of its Dollar Menu that includes items priced at $5 could be launched nationally this year.

The world’s biggest hamburger chain says it has been testing versions of its famous value menu that’s called “Dollar Menu & More” in five markets across the country. The company noted that no official changes have yet been made to its current Dollar Menu, which was introduced more than a decade ago.

The change would come after McDonald’s unsuccessful attempt last year to get customers to switch from the Dollar Menu to a pricier “Extra Value Menu,” which features items costing closer to $2. But after sales flagged, the company went back to aggressively touting its Dollar Menu in TV ads.

If the new “Dollar Menu &

More” is rolled out, the Extra Value Menu would be retired, said Neil Golden, chief marketing officer for McDonald’s, which is based in Oak Brook, Ill. “We didn’t deliver on simplicity and clarity,” Golden said of the Extra Value Menu. He said that the company realized the “Dollar Menu” was a strong brand that McDonald’s could build on instead.

The results from the tests have been positive and the company is in the process of sharing the information with its more than 14,000 U.S. franchisees, he said. In order to be approved, at least 75 percent of the company’s 180 marketing cooperatives across the country would need to vote for it.

The Dollar Menu & More that was tested has three price points —$1, $2 and $5 or “shareable” items such as 20-piece McNuggets. Another version

that was tested has prices of $1, $1.79 and $4.99. The menu includes more chicken items, as well as versions of its burgers that come with an extra beef patty or toppings such as bacon.

Golden declined to provide specifics, but said the menu provided “a broader range of profitability” for restaurants. He said the overall percentage of sales generated by the revamped Dollar Menu in tests was “similar” to that of the Dollar Menu.

McDonald’s has said in the past that its Dollar Menu accounts for about 14 percent of sales.

The tests come as McDonald’s and other fast-food chains have been trumpeting their value menus amid increased competition and the weak economy. Some analysts have raised concerns that the strategy could eat into profit margins. Wendy’s addressed the issue earlier this year by revamping its 99-cent

menu to a “Right Price Right Size” menu, with prices ranging up to around $2.

McDonald’s, based in Oak Brook, Ill., has had to swap out items on its Dollar Menu over the years as costs for ingredients such as beef have climbed.

When it was first introduced, for example, the flagship offering on the Dollar Menu was the Big ‘N Tasty, which was made with a quarter-pound beef patty. The most substantial burger on the menu now is the McDouble, which comes with two patties and a slice of cheese. In the tests, the company said the price of the McDouble was pushed up to $1.19 in some markets.

McDonald’s conducted the Dollar Menu & More tests in Fresno, Calif.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Columbia, S.C., the combined market of Hartford, Conn., Springfield, Mass. and Memphis, Tenn.

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The agency said last week that even though the drug remains illegal under federal law, it won’t intervene to block state pot laws or prosecute as long as states create strict and effective controls that follow eight conditions.

“The DOJ is saying you guys need to color inside the lines,” said Teri Robnett, founder of the Cannabis Patients Action Network, a Westminster, Colo.-based medical marijuana advocacy group. “If you color inside the lines, we’ll let you keep your crayons.

“If you don’t, we can come in and take your crayons away,” she said.

The DOJ’s policy memo comes after voters in Colorado and Wash-

ington last fall passed first-in-thenation laws to allow recreational pot use and follows similar agency statements in recent years that helped spur the creation of medical marijuana systems across the U.S. In states like Montana and California, an explosion in the use of medical marijuana spawned a backlash, stricter laws and tougher federal enforcement.

U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner, whose office covers the Eastern District of California, said more than half of the cases his office prosecutes comply with the criteria set out by the policy memo. Wagner said the memo wasn’t so much a message to the marijuana industry but one to ensure there is better collaboration between state and federal authorities.

In California, “some cities and counties are banning (dispensaries), while others are licensing them and encouraging them,” Wagner said.

“It’s hard to see how the current

system fits the description laid out in the memo.”

With legal, recreational pot on the horizon in two states, the memo is raising questions about the future of medical marijuana not just in Washington and Colorado, but the 18 other states and Washington, D.C., that allow it.

While advocates say it’s too early to gauge the impact of the new recreational pot push, there were signs it could hurt medical marijuana.

In Washington, the governor and many lawmakers were already looking to rein in the state’s unregulated medical marijuana market because they worried its untaxed cannabis would undercut the highly taxed recreational pot.

There may be some attrition in the beginning, as bargain-hunting medical marijuana users or those wanting to avoid the government bureaucracy of state registries dabble in the recreational market, Robnett

said. But most will stay because the medical strains are tailored for their illnesses, can be more potent and don’t necessarily create a high while relieving their symptoms, she said.

The DOJ memo outlines eight areas of “marijuana-related conduct” that it won’t tolerate, from distribution to kids to use of firearms and drugged driving. Marijuana advocates say they welcome them as guidelines for medical marijuana states to tailor their laws and a way for other states to enact new laws without fear of federal reprisal.

Advocates say states with even regulations that meet or exceed regulations in those areas should not be worried about increased federal scrutiny. “It should give growers and dispensers a level of comfort that the federal government is becoming clearer in what their guidance is to U.S. attorneys,” said Roseanne Scotti, the New Jersey director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Prosecutor IDs 2nd suspect in teen’s murder MO RGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A teenage girl charged with plotting and pulling off the murder of her longtime best friend will be tried as an adult in a West Virginia court, the prosecutor in charge announced late Wednesday.

Shelia Eddy’s case was moved from juvenile to adult court in a closed-door hearing in Monongalia County Circuit Court. After months of silence and secrecy, Prosecutor Marcia Ashdown announced in a one-paragraph press release that all further proceedings will be held in open court.

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Eddy is charged along with classmate, 16-year-old Rachel Shoaf, with luring Skylar Neese out of her Star City home last summer, driving her into the Pennsylvania woods and stabbing her to death at an agreed-upon moment. The motive has never been revealed.

Shoaf has already pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is awaiting sentencing. She told police the girls no longer wanted to be friends with Skylar, but the victim’s parents believe there was more to it.

Prosecutors have said they plan to recommend a 20-year prison sentence for Shoaf and will oppose any move to have her sentenced as a juvenile. But she could get as many as 40 years under the law.

Shoaf’s family issued a public apology but has made no further statements.

Dave Neese said the public identification of Eddy, whose name has long been known in the community, brings him no relief in his daughter’s death. Nor does the prospect of sitting through a trial.

“I don’t want to hear the grisly details of how Skylar was murdered,” he said. “I don’t want to hear how she screamed and cried.

But I do want these girls to get what they deserve.”

Skylar, a University High School honors student, slipped out the window of her ground-floor bedroom last July 6 and never came home.

Surveillance video showed her getting into a car at the end of her street in a quiet residential neighborhood near West Virginia University. With no sign of fear, no money and no contact lenses, she apparently expected to return.

For nearly nine months, her parents searched for her — initially with the help of Eddy, whom they had thought of like another daughter. Mary Neese said Eddy had even helped hand out flyers in their neighborhood.

The break in the case came Jan. 3, when Shoaf finally told investigators the truth — and where to find the body.

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on the board.

“Yeah, they run a spread offense similar to ours,” Kingsbury said. “Last week, their quarterback threw for 450 yards and all sorts of touchdowns and (scored) 40 points.

They’ve got a really explosive offense with great skill.”

Along with Attaway’s 450 passing yards, SFA’s junior running back Gus Johnson ran for 110 yards and scored one touchdown, according to the website.

The Lumberjacks had two receivers who eclipsed the 100-yard mark against the Wildcats, according to the website.

Senior receiver Mike Brooks had nine receptions for 166 yards

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The Texas Tech defense will see an offense similar to the one they practice against when they face the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks on Saturday.

Last week in their game against Weber State, Lumberjack quarterback Brady Attaway completed 37 of his 62 passes and threw for four touchdowns in the 50-40 loss, according to the school’s athletics website.

Kingsbury said with the Lumberjacks running an offense similar to the one the Red Raiders use, their offense can put a lot of points

and accounted for two of the team’s touchdowns while junior wideout D.J. Ward also caught nine passes, reaching 132 total yards.

Senior defensive lineman Kerry Hyder said it will not be difficult for the Tech defense to prepare for SFA because the offense is so similar to one they practice against everyday.

“It’s good that we’re getting to (practice) against an offense that throws the ball quite a bit in practice every week, so we’ll be prepared,” he said. “We’re used to people throwing the ball around, so it shouldn’t be a big adjustment.”

The SFA defense might have to make an adjustment during practice this week to prepare for the game

against Tech. According to their athletics website, Weber State used the ground game more, rushing for 355 yards and four of their touchdowns.

The Lumberjacks may stray from the man-to-man coverage they used predominantly last week, junior tight end Jace Amaro said, but Tech’s offense plans on running their offense the way they have been.

“From what I’ve seen they play a lot of man-to-man defense, but I think they’ll change it up a little for us,” Amaro said. “I know a lot of teams lost to (Football Championship Subdivision) teams last week, so we’re not gonna take them

lightly, we’re gonna go out there and try and score as many points as we can.”

Lumberjack coach J.C. Harper said facing the Tech offense will be a huge test for his young secondary on Saturday.

Harper said one of the biggest challenges for FCS teams when facing FBS teams is the speed and tempo of the game, but he hopes his team can learn from the experience, and compete in the football game.

“Our players are looking forward to playing in that type of atmosphere,” he said. “It’s not so much about the team we’re playing, but executing our game plan and making sure we’re making smart decision

both on offense and defense.”

Amaro said he believes clearing any first-game jitters the Red Raiders may have had against Southern Methodist University has created momentum for Tech moving forward.

“The first one is always the hardest in my opinion, and things really got rolling in the second half,” Amaro said. “Now we’ve got a lot of momentum going into this game, and we’re just gonna play as hard as we can.”

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Most SEC teams face light LB Cushing signs $55M schedule during weekend extension with Texans MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — This week Southeastern Conference teams are taking a break from those stressful fall Saturdays, a sort of minivacation for a few hundred grand.

Everyone except No. 6 South Carolina, No. 11 Georgia or No. 12 Florida.

But the rest of the SEC is either taking the day off (No. 1 Alabama), facing someone from a middling conference where a win is likely but not a sure thing or playing a Football Championship Subdivision team.

Vanderbilt coach James Franklin offers no apologies for games like Saturday’s visit from FCS Austin Peay, a seemingly sure win costing a mere $300,000. He stacked the deck somewhat after doing the math when he took the job and figuring out that the Commodores had a losing record over a 10-year period in nonconference games, making bowl berths that much harder to come by.

“That should never happen when you play in the SEC,” Franklin, who has led Vandy to two straight bowls, said. “So we’ve got to be creative and we have to understand all those things and have a schedule that makes sense for Vanderbilt — nobody else, for Vanderbilt.”

Thus, nonconference games versus Austin Peay, UMass, UAB and Wake Forest. Surely there’s at least

two or three wins in there, and maybe even a watchable game or two.

Tennessee paid $450,000 for the privilege of a 45-0 opening win over Austin Peay, which had never faced an SEC team. The Governors are opening a new stadium next season so these six-figure campaign contributions will come in handy.

The only SEC matchup Saturday is a doozie: the Bulldogs vs, the Gamecocks in a pivotal Eastern Division matchup. The Gators, meanwhile, are heading south to play Miami.

The rest of the games will almost certainly include a few blowouts.

Five SEC teams are favored by at least 13 points and LSU is a 34.5-point favorite to beat UAB out of Conference USA. No odds are posted on the five games against FCS opponents.

Alabama coach Nick Saban and athletic director Bill Battle have said they favor SEC teams no longer playing FCS opponents.

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney is encouraging members to keep FCS schools from their schedules.

No. 7 Texas A&M is tuning up for the showdown with the Crimson Tide against a very good FCS team, at least. Sam Houston State has been the national runner-up each of the past two seasons.

“If you don’t come out, this team

will come out and beat you,” Aggies running back Ben Malena said. “We know that we have to prepare this week and we have to be ready for them. They have some great players, some former Division I players. They have some great talent. You can’t overlook schools. We have to prepare for them like they’re a conference opponent.”

Well, probably not.

But as Sam Houston’s Web site reports several fellow FCS contenders did beat some of the big boys last weekend. North Dakota State topped Kansas State 24-21, Eastern Washington stunned then-No. 25 Oregon State 49-46. McNeese State routed South Florida 53-21 and Cal Poly handled San Diego (38-16).

Eight FCS teams beat FBS opponents on opening weekend, all told.

That doesn’t mean Alcorn State of the Southwestern Athletic Conference has a realistic shot of beating Mississippi State, which is paying $350,000 for the game, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

Saying that publicly, of course, is against the coach’s code — and Southern manners. Plus, Alcorn State walloped some guy named Edward Waters last week.

“Obviously it will be a tough opponent,” Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said.

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Jarrod Parker, A’s rout Rangers 11-4 to even up AL West OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — There’s something about Jarrod Parker’s presence on the mound that is bringing out the best in the Oakland Athletics.

Especially against Yu Darvish and the Texas Rangers.

Parker got plenty of home-run help to pitch his way into Oakland’s record book, and the surging A’s pulled into a tie atop the AL West with Texas by overpowering the Rangers 11-4 on Wednesday.

“I’m just trying to stay in the moment,” Parker said.

Parker (11-6) allowed two runs in six innings to extend his unbeaten streak to 18 straight starts, eclipsing Catfish Hunter’s Oakland mark set from June 2-Sept. 3, 1973.

Parker struck out four and walked none.

The 24-year-old has won his

last nine decisions, the most by an A’s pitcher since Dan Haren won 10 in a row in 2007. He hasn’t lost since May 22 at Texas.

“He goes out there and shuts teams down,” right fielder Brandon Moss said. “He puts the ball in play and doesn’t walk anybody. When he gets in trouble, he finds a way to dig deep and get himself out of it. That’s what aces do.”

Moss, Daric Barton and Coco Crisp each hit two-run homers, and Josh Donaldson added a three-run drive for Oakland. The A’s handed Darvish (12-7) a loss in consecutive starts for the first time all season.

Darvish gave up five runs — matching a season high — and tied a career-worst with six walks in five-plus innings. He is 1-5 with a 4.82 ERA against Oakland.

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KEAGAN WILLIAMS, A senior computer engineering major from Abilene, utilizes the pull-up bars Wednesday outside of the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

Nyad isn’t planning to slow down after Cuba swim KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Diana Nyad may have finally completed her long-held dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida, but even at an age where many people are thinking about retirement, she isn’t planning to slow down.

The 64-year-old Nyad plans to swim for 48 hours straight next month, accompanied by celebrities swimming laps alongside her, in a specially designed swimming pool that will be erected in New York City to raise money for Hurricane Sandy survivors.

Although the swimmer insists she isn’t trying to prove anything — “I didn’t do this because I was in my 60s.

I just happened to be in my 60s,” she says — she acknowledges that her success is having an impact, “not just on people of my generation but on younger people.”

“I have a godson who’s 14 and he texted me yesterday and said, ‘I’m never in my life again going to call

someone in their 60s old. It’s over. You just proved that youth doesn’t have anything to do with age.’”

And at one point during an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, the bronzed, muscular athlete couldn’t resist sharing a message of encouragement and solidarity with those of her generation: “Baby Boomer power!” she declared, with a triumphant fist pump.

On her fifth try, Nyad finished the 110-mile swim from Havana to Key West on Monday in 53 hours, becoming the first to do it without a shark cage. She said that while she is slower than she was back in her 20s when she first gained national attention for swimming around Manhattan and from the Bahamas to Florida, she feels she is actually stronger.

“Now I’m more like a Clydesdale: I’m a little thicker and stronger — literally stronger, I can lift more weights,” Nyad told the AP.

“I feel like I could walk through a brick wall. ... I think I’m truly dead center in the prime of my life at 64.”

Nyad isn’t alone among aging athletes who are dominating their sports.

Earlier this year, 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins became the oldest boxer to win a major title, scoring a 12-round unanimous decision over Tavoris Cloud to claim the IBF light heavyweight championship.

Tennis player Martina Navratilova won a mixed doubles title at the U.S. Open in 2006, just before turning 50, and decades ago hockey legend Gordie Howe played professional hockey into his early 50s. Golfer Tom Watson was nearly 60 when he fell just short of winning the British Open in 2009.

Last year, baseball’s Jamie Moyer was 49 when he became the oldest starting pitcher to record a major-league win.

Thousands of U.S. athletes, including 60-year-old Kay Glynn, also compete during the Senior Olympics.

Glynn, of Hastings, Iowa, has won six gold medals in pole vaulting at the Senior Olympics and set a new pole vaulting world record for her age in the 2011 National Senior Games.

Older athletes tend to find more success in endurance events than in power events such as sprinting and other sports that rely on “fast- twitch” muscle fibers, which are more difficult to preserve later in life, noted Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, a physiologist at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign.

But just because Nyad was swimming rather than pounding her joints against the concrete doesn’t mean she didn’t achieve a remarkable feat, Chodzko-Zajko said.

“This ultra, super-length swimming is brutal regardless,” he said, adding that another reason athletes are able to endure is because they often train smarter and have a mental concentration that is well-honed over decades.