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BP, feds offer dueling Gulf spill estimates NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With a high-stakes trial set to resume in less than a month, BP and the federal government on Thursday offered conflicting estimates of how much oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after the blowout of the company’s Macondo well triggered a deadly explosion.

In a court filing, BP urges U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to use an estimate of 2.45 million barrels, or nearly 103 million gallons, in calculating any Clean Water Act fines.

Justice Department experts estimate that around 4.2 million barrels, or approximately 176 million gallons, spilled into the water before BP sealed its well 86 days after the April 20, 2010, blowout.

Cartel leader’s brother gets 20 years in prison AUSTIN (AP) — The brother of two Mexican cartel leaders was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for running a money laundering operation from a sprawling horse ranch in Oklahoma.

A federal judge in Texas sentenced Jose Trevino Morales, who was found guilty of investing $16 million of drug money in the buying, training and racing of horses across the Southwest. His brothers, Miguel Angel and Oscar Omar Trevino Morales, are believed to lead the Zetas cartel, which has expanded beyond the drug trade to become the biggest criminal group in Mexico.

Mexican authorities arrested Miguel Angel Trevino Morales in July. A New York indictment against him estimates he received $10 million per month in income from cocaine sales alone, not to mention the money brought in by the cartel’s myriad illicit activities, including kidnapping, extortion, migrant trafficking, weapons trafficking, even theft of oil from state pipelines.

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Students bring horses to college

By BLAINE HILL Staff Writer

Agriculture pursuits always have been a large part of the Texas Tech culture and history.

There are various agriculture events, teams and departments at Tech including an active equestrian center.

Many students at Tech not only own horses but also have brought them to Lubbock. Most of the people who bring their horses, choose to bring them for companionship and stability while pursuing their education.

“I was here for a week without my horses and I felt awful, so I drove home one weekend and picked them up,” Audra Hodgson, a freshman agricultural economics and business administration major, said.

“I couldn’t stand it.”

Hodgson goes to a stable outside of town at least five times per week to ride her horses, Shorty and Deuce.

Tyler O’Neal, a senior agricultural communications major, also has one of her horses with her in Lubbock and said she enjoys having her horse so close.

“It was after a month I was so homesick,” she said, “and I didn’t have anything to do that I finally talked my mom into letting me bring her down here.”

She goes to the Tech equestrian center every day to feed her horse and said she rides her horse at least five times per week.

O’Neal participates in the Tech Ranch Horse Team, which travels to shows once per month. She said she even gets to use her own horse in ranch team competitions.

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AUDRA HODGSON, A freshman agricultural and applied economics and business administration major from Azle, rides her horse Shorty around a barrel at a stable Tuesday southwest of Lubbock. Hodgson is one of many Texas Tech students who have brought horses to Lubbock.

The opportunity to have horses around while growing up is an unusual idea for many students at Tech, and O’Neal said she feels blessed to have had that opportunity.

“See, I always felt real lucky being able to have and grow up around horses,” she said. “I always felt real lucky because I know a bunch of kids didn’t have the opportunity to have horses like I did.”

Like most kids who grow up around horses, O’Neal learned to ride at a young age.

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Students network during President, others launch Rawls College Super Day website for student safety

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Wearing a top hat, wig and dreadlocks were only a few of the gestures he made to interact with students, all while laughing and networking within his position.

Dean of Texas Tech’s Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, Lance Nail, wasn’t all about business at the Rawls Super Day on Thursday. The dean participated in food, music and conversation with his faculty and students.

Students seemed happy with the presence of Nail at the event and were taking pictures with the dean and going into photo booths with him.

“We just wanted everybody to get out and have a good time and get to know each other better between our faculty and staff and our students,” Nail said.

Rawls College organized the event for students, faculty and staff to take a short break from their academic day and to have some time to eat and network with other members of the college.

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JEREMY KRAKOSKY, A sophomore marketing major from Red Oak, puts a hamburger in a bun during the Super Rawls Day on Thursday at Rawls College of Business Courtyard.

In celebration of September being Safety Month for Texas Tech, the Office of the Vice President for Research, Office of the Provost and Office of the President combined forces to launch Safety@TTU. Safety@TTU is a website that will provide information and various tips regarding safety on campus. Information will be posted every weekday in September and varied times throughout the rest of the year.

“The idea came from Sally Post,” Associate Vice President for Research Alice Young said. “She has a team that’s interested in how you effectively talk about research, how you effectively communicate research findings and interesting stories about research. We had been talking for several years about how to increase awareness on safety across campus. Sally said we should do a Safety@TTU campaign.”

The website aims to promote safety in all aspects, both inside and outside the academic field. Both Young and Interim

Vice President for Research Michael San Francisco said they encouraged students to have situational awareness.

Although Safety@TTU has featured safety in a school aspect, the website also will encourage safety throughout everyday life.

Safety is used as a blanket term to cover a variety of safe practices including proper laboratory dress code to the dangers of texting and driving to preparations needed when doing field research.

“It’s about situational awareness; about what might happen here,” Young said. “I think because we’re starting a new school year, lots of new people on campus, lots of new faculty, it’s a good time to highlight being situationally aware.”

Videos will be published regularly, featuring people from many departments illuminating the safety precautions in the respective field. One video already posted on the website features President M. Duane Nellis explaining how safety is important throughout the Tech campus.

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Health Sciences Center SGA works to better student life

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Through technological and social advances, members of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Student Government Association plan to restore interdisciplinary camaraderie.

Serving as representatives for HSC students is the main goal, HSC SGA President Hunter Atkins said.

The third-year medical student from Coppell said his role as president is to voice the opinions of HSC students to school administration.

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M. Duane Nellis and Dr. Tedd Mitchell, also attend quarterly Tech Foundation meetings,” he said.

“Really acting as the students’ voice is our main goal.”

HSC SGA Vice President of Communication Dalan ATKINS Gore said his role has more to do with HSC administration and voicing HSC SGA opinions to it.

He said his job entails more work with faculty at HSC and dealing with the public relations side of HSC SGA.

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“A lot of the stuff that I deal with is making sure that our administration knows what’s going on with the SGA,” the speech-language pathology graduate student from Tulia, said.

The HSC SGA GORE also represents its constituents through senators from each discipline in the school, Morgan Schmeits said.

The occupational therapy graduate student from Mansfield said representation from the senators is based on the enrollment from

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each area of study.

The group gets one senator for every 25 students enrolled.

“We require our senators to go out and do community service and raise awareness of the Senate to all of our students,” Schmeits SCHMEITS said.

As the vice president of finance, she said she helps deal with the more than $125,000 budget HSC SGA is responsible for.

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Students react to colleges banning cellphones

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Adrenaline City Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Bodyworks on 4th So, what is it?

Come and enjoy playing laser tag for free with a student ID

Today RaiderGate Pass Distribution Time: 7 a.m Where: Student Union Building West Basement So, what is it?

RaiderGate passes will be distributed to students and student organization

Texas Tech Soccer vs. Cal State Fullerton Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: John Walker Soccer Complex So, what is it?

Come and watch Texas Tech soccer for free with a student ID.

Multicultural Fall Festival: World-Wide Traditions Time: 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Special Collections Building in the Formby Room So, what is it?

Come learn about fall traditions celebrated around the world

Saturday

RaiderGate Time: 2 p.m.

Where: R1 parking lot So, what is it?

Come and watch band The Joey Green Band.

Friday

First Friday Art Trail at the Museum of TTU Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come out and take advantage the exhibits avaliable for everyone. Tickets are required.

Texas Tech Football vs. Stephen F. Austin Time: 6 p.m.

Where: Jones AT&T Stadium So, what is it?

Come and watch the first home game of the season.

Free with a student ID.

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

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

POLICE BLOTTER Wednesday 11:53 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, which occurred in the C15 parking lot.

4:12 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft of vacuum cleaner from the Math building.

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

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Young said discussions of safety in Tech classrooms have increased CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 in recent years. She said these Young said there would be dis- broader safety precautions enable cussions of safety in the classroom, the university to do more interestin laboratories, in studios, in field ing research that also could be riskier. trips and many other topics.

“Safety@TTU is important “Safety Month means safety in all aspects of your world at the uni- because we want to be an example versity,” San Francisco said. “Our of how to do things the right way, world here is not just lab safety not an example of how things may or just safety in the workplace; not go well,” San Francisco said. it could be safety while you’re “That is a perception we need to eating, safety in an environment change. When parents send their where someone is threatened by children here, they need to also something. [This can range] from know that even though they are a football game with food safety several hours away, they are in a all the way to a lab that is doing safe environment in all aspects of nuclear radiation work all the way their day.” to an art studio making some won- ➤➤cgrunden@dailytoreador.com

Students use their phones for contacting others, taking notes, taking pictures and research.

Classrooms use social media for projects and Twitter for classroom discussions. At Texas Tech, students have the opportunity to practice the freedom of having a cellphone with them at all times.

However, that’s starting to not be the case for many students across the country.

Colleges across America have begun to ban cellphones so students will be disconnected from their technological lives and focus more on themselves during the academic year.

One college that has administered the ban heavily upon its students is Wyoming Catholic College.

Not only are the students banned from cellphones but also television, and most websites are banned in residence hall rooms, according to the college’s website.

Before the start of the school year, all students at Wyoming Catholic were asked to give up their phones to student leaders. Students are allowed to check the phones out for emergencies, or if they have to leave campus to travel, according to the website.

Tech students seem to share a different outlook on technology bans.

Tina Welch, a sophomore business finance major from Lubbock, said she believes that cellphone bans, if not administered correctly, could lead to invasion of privacy.

“I don’t think a cellphone ban would be effective at Texas Tech,” she said. “I don’t see how they

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Schmeits said her position requires her to ensure distributed funds are being spent properly.

“I help distribute funds to all of the organizations, as well as I help them with budgets,” she said. “I make sure they’re spending their money in educational ways.”

HSC SGA also has Eric Edwards as the vice president of operations.

According to a news release, HSC SGA has many goals for the semester, many of which will try to bring technological advances to the school.

SGA’s future projects include a wireless printing system

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COLLEGES SUCH AS Wyoming Catholic College have banned cellphone use in residence halls and classrooms to promote student academic success. Texas Tech students, faculty and staff, however, said they see the need for technology in the classroom.

would categorize and organize so many phones. Of course, there’s so much sensitive information such as emails, bank accounts and everything. If you don’t have passcodes, then someone could bypass that. I wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving my phone somewhere all day.”

Other students believe the system would be flawed and could be used for unauthorized ways of obtaining money.

Harmen Schroots, a freshman mechanical engineering major from El Paso, said he would feel very uneasy with his phone being in the hands of someone else during the school year.

“Someone can go through the

phones and, if they don’t have a code, someone could get into their phone and obtain information and then sell the information,” he said. “Also, if our phones weren’t held in a location near us, then we’d have to walk and waste extra time just to get our phones, and college students need as much time as they can get to study.”

Many classrooms at Tech use technology in their everyday curriculum.

College of Media and Communication public relations adviser, Miranda Russell, said she sees both sides to the argument, but believes technology is vital in a classroom for both the student and teacher.

“I think it’s a double-edged sword. I personally use a laptop to take notes in the classroom, but I do agree that people, with laptops for example, use their technology to go on Facebook and Twitter,” Russell said. “On the opposite side, we are a school that promotes social media. Sometimes, our professors are saying ‘Let’s tweet this’ in class. For instance, my class now watches clips of different videos and we’re asked to tweet about it.

Social media is a part of our class.

In terms of academics, I can see how it would be beneficial to ban them. However, at the same time, technology is a vital tool.”

throughout the school, according to the release. This will allow students to print documents wherever they are.

HSC SGA members also plan to bring a media site to HSC that will record lectures on the Internet for students to watch, according to the release.

In an attempt to improve safety on campus, HSC SGA members want to improve police department video surveillance and implement the new HSC SGA Tech Messages, according to the release.

The Tech Messages will deliver messages to students, from HSC SGA, which will range from information on HSC SGA to opportunities for scholarships.

“The concept behind the project was to establish lines

of communication by accessing what students already use,” Gore said in the release. “In other words, we wanted a way for students to receive messages directly to their cellphones or tablets.”

HSC SGA members also want to improve the social aspects of HSC, Atkins said.

Intermingling of students from different areas of study is one of their main concerns.

Gore said the students at HSC are primarily interested in the medical field, so they have to learn to work with professionals from all different fields.

“Since we’re a medically oriented institution, bringing the concept of interdisciplinary collaboration together, the best way to proceed with working in a medical environment is

for everyone to work together, rather than separate,” he said.

Not only are HSC SGA members working to bring interdisciplinary camaraderie to the social forefront, but they have been working to bring that same mind set into the classroom, Gore said.

HSC SGA has worked to enroll students in classes where they will work alongside students from other disciplines.

Atkins said in the releasae that through the advances he and the rest of HSC SGA plan to bring, he hopes to raise the spirits of students on campus.

“One of our overall goals is to increase campus morale with all students and for all students to feel like they are involved in the university,” he said.

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is very optimistic about the academic networking I gain here from my peers year at Rawls. is probably what’s going to facilitate “Our expectations continue to go changes,” Ford said. “As far as expectaCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 up for our students tions, I expect Students were able to line up for and our faculty,” to learn.” burgers, visit student organization Nail said. “EveryCourtney booths and enjoy music playing on a thing is on a posiHall, a sophospeaker in the courtyard. tive trajectory.” more with no Nail had a constant smile on his Dillon Ford, a declared major face throughout Super Day and said he business graduate from Austin, student from Rio said she is lookRanch, N.M., set ing forward to learning from up a photo booth in the courtyard her professors.

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get out of college.”

Assistant professor Stephanie Thomas said the Super Day benefits students by allowing them to make new friends in the college and increasing their expectations for what they will take away from Rawls once they leave.

“I think it’s to get the students involved and excited about their classes and to get excited about Rawls itself,” Thomas said. “They’re going to get excited about what they can do after they leave Tech, and once they leave here as a representative of Rawls College.”

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President hosts annual Presidential Picnic

By LIANA SOLIS Staff Writer

Students lined up outside the Student Union Building waiting for their turn to receive free food and an opportunity to talk to university administration.

The President’s Office of Texas Tech hosted its annual Presidential Picnic from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Thursday outside the SUB. Sarah Barron, the coordinator of presidential services and communications, said this event has been occurring since 2008.

“It started when President (Guy) Bailey came up with the idea and has become an annual event since then,” she said. “It’s just a nice way the president likes to give back to the students.”

Although the event occurs every year, Barron said this year’s picnic was the first one in a while to introduce a new president.

“This is President Nellis’ first picnic so it is an especially big year for him,” she said.

Along with the president, several other Tech administration

members made appearances at the picnic in 30-minute increments, Barron said.

Richard Lucio, a graduate architecture and business student from Ackerly, said he had never heard of the event before this year.

“I got the email about the event and thought it would be something cool to go to,” he said. “I guess it’s just because I have also been so busy doing everything else, but I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it before this year.”

Lucio said he thinks that although students of all ages attended the event, the younger students would more likely stay to talk to the administration.

“Many of them haven’t been here as long and are more connected to the campus life than older students are,” he said. “For students like me who live off campus, we usually don’t have as many issues that we want to work out.”

The administration hosts this event every year to give the students a chance to mix and mingle not only with the administration, but with other

students, Barron said.

Anelisse Elias, an architecture and business graduate student from Houston, said she thinks this is a great idea for the president’s office to host.

“It gives the students of campus a better idea of who they can talk to when they have questions,” she said, “because not a lot of students know exactly who works in that office or even what they look like.”

Elias said another main reason she came was because of the free food.

“With college students, it’s hard to put on events like this and not give out free food,” she said. “The food is what gets people interested and more willing to show up.”

The picnic is a popular event every year, Barron said, and also is a nice chance for the president’s staff to get out of the office.

“I think it’s really cool that the president chooses to do this every year,” Lucio said. “It shows how personable he is, and that he really is willing to talk to students and listen to their opinions.” ➤➤lsolis@dailytoreador.com

Rockin’ Raider Retro 5K Run kicks off Sunday night

By BLAINE HILL Staff Writer

There’s a new run in town and it’s called the Rockin’ Raider Retro Run. The Retro Run is not an average 5K. Lubbock has not seen a run as jam-packed with activities as the Retro Run, said Ainsley Nelson, from West Texas Endurance.

“There hasn’t been one like that here in town,” she said, “and we’re the ones to do it.”

Retro Run runners will be taken through five different decades, Nelson said. Each decade will have a different decade-themed event, ranging from a 9-foot jukebox in the 50s section to a graffiti wall and dance team in the 90s section.

The Retro Run has something for every runner or walker, she said.

Everyone is welcome to join the Retro Run. “We’ve worked closely with the RHA to make sure the look and feel of the event is fun, will be attractive to the students, and they’ll have a good time running through the zones,” Nelson said.

Residence Halls Association and West Texas Endurance have joined

together to make this race possible, she said.

“Your residence hall has worked really hard to promote the race and get the word out to all the residence halls,” Nelson said.

RHA also has provided an access code for students who live on campus that gives them a discount on the race, she said. The access code is located on a poster in each residence hall.

The different decade zones are not the only thing different about the Retro Run, Nelson said. The Retro Run is taking a 5K course through Lubbock no run has taken before. The course starts at United Spirit Arena, goes down Texas Tech Parkway and circles around Greek Circle, she said.

Each half mile finds a new decade to run through, Nelson said. Runners are encouraged to stop at these events and take pictures or join in with the fun of the decade.

“We wanted to create fun areas that represent each decade,” she said.

Besides the jukebox and graffiti wall there will be an Elvis impersonator, disco balls, a band rocking out to 70s music and a giant Rubik’s Cube, Nelson said. There are many

activities for runners and walkers to participate in.

Courtney Pham, the vice president of campus traditions and leadership development, said they could not pick one decade for the run.

“We couldn’t decide on what one decade would be retro, since retro is kind of different for everyone, depending on how old they are,” she said. “We decided going through the years would a little fun, cool thing, kind of like a blast from the past.”

Participants will be running from the 50s through the 90s, Nelson said.

Running or walking through the course will not be the only thing happening during the Retro Run, she said. Before the race, runners can participate in the costume contest. Everyone is encouraged to dress in their best retro attire to impress the judges.

The Retro Run will be hostedat 7 p.m. Sunday and will begin at the United Spirit Arena parking lot.

Nelson said she believes students will have a great time at the event.

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State asks high court to block rape hearing BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s attorney general on Thursday asked the state Supreme Court to block a judge’s attempt to resentence a former Montana teacher convicted of raping a student.

The Attorney General’s Office said District Judge G. Todd Baugh lacks the authority to change the 30-day prison sentence he gave to defendant Stacey Rambold last month for the 2007 rape of a 14-year-old student at Billings Senior High School.

Baugh’s office said late Thursday he intends to proceed with Friday’s resentencing. The 71-year-old judge has faced intense public criticism over the original sentence and for suggesting the 14-year-old victim had as much control over the relationship as Rambold.

The girl committed suicide in 2010 while the case was pending.

The judge has since called his comments “stupid” and said the sentence might have been illegal. But an appeal of his sentence already is pending, and both prosecutors and the defense say only the Montana Supreme Court has the power to fix any mistakes Baugh made at the sentencing.

Thursday’s emergency petition from the Montana Attorney General’s Office asked justices to block a hearing that state attorneys said would “cause a gross injustice.”

“The September 6 hearing, if permitted to be conducted, will undermine the state’s appeal and otherwise frustrate the just and orderly adminis-

tration of ordinary appeal processes,” the petition said.

Prosecutors have said that under state law Rambold should serve at least two years. Rambold’s attorney agrees the judge lacks authority to amend the sentence, but contends 30 days in prison was appropriate.

Almost 15 years of additional prison time for Rambold were suspended but could be reinstated if he violates his sentence’s probationary terms.

Baugh was first elected to the bench in 1984 and has been re-elected

every six years since without an opponent. He’s up for re-election in 2014.

Baugh has said it was appropriate for Rambold to receive the minimum sentence required. He has described the former teacher as a low-risk offender with no prior record who spent more than two years in a sex-offender treatment program.

Rambold entered that program in 2010, after Moralez’s suicide left prosecutors without their main witness in the case shortly before it was scheduled to go to trial.

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PRESIDENT M. DUANE Nellis hands a hotdog bun to Dustin Salmon, a sophomore natural resources management major from Shallowater, during the Picnic with the President event on Thursday outside the Student Union Building. The picnic allowed students to meet university administration.

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Riding all the time then walk,” O’Neal said.

Knowing how to ride before abruptly stopping was something learning how to walk is quite she said she was not interested an accomplishment that O’Neal in. shares with other students, inThere are opportunities at Tech for students interested in cluding Hodgson.

Hodgson also grew up around teams involving horses, such horses. When she was little she as the Tech Equestrian Team. said she used to watch her dad Laurie Tolboom, a freshman at rodeos and naturally began agricultural communications to compete. Her parents wanted major, said she is trying out for

the equestrian team.

She brought one of her horses to Lubbock and goes out to the Tech Equestrian Center every day to feed her horse and rides it five times a week.

“Horses have always been a part of my life, I always wanted a horse in college,” Tolboom said.

Tolboom succeeded in bringing her horse to college with her.

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Davis should run for Texas governor Apple event may Jordan have large impact O Sigler The controversial House Bill 2 was signed by Perry in July, and has since received national scrutiny and hilariously spawned the free web video game “Choice: Texas,” where players can choose a female character, and the level of difficulty is how hard it is to get an abortion. This bill will come back to haunt the Republican Party for a couple of reasons, both long term and short term, and thus help the Democratic Party and Davis thanks to her efforts with respect to the bill.

Obviously, the short-term effects will be women flocking to the ballot box to vote for Democrats who will ease abortion restrictions, as abortion is relatively impossible because women cannot undergo an abortion

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after 20 weeks or before two earlier visits to the abortion clinic.

Only about five clinics are still open, and it will be hard to fit in the sheer volume of women who will want the procedure. This will certainly get college students, particularly college women, to vote liberal — even if in secret — because, believe it or not, they’re having sex, which can lead to pregnancy.

The long-term consequence is that unplanned children — the ones not aborted unsafely and illegally in back alleys — birthed by parents who are not economically ready for child rearing will be at a financial disadvantage, and this demographic tends to vote Democrat.

The shortterm problem could help swing a substantial number of voters toward Davis, but there’s more good news for her possible campaign. Her fevered effort in the filibuster gained her national recognition, to the point where people outside Texas are willing to donate to her campaign.

Change in the way of a young, earnest Davis might just be the perfect fit.

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ne of the highlights of this summer was watching the “Stand for Wendy” campaign that blew up Twitter while Texas Senator Wendy Davis deliberated in her pink shoes for more than 11 hours.

Davis led the charge for the filibuster of a bill that would outlaw abortion past 20 weeks and require safety standards that would shut down all but five abortion clinics in Texas.

She could have stood for even longer, but was called three times for digressing from a germane topic, which is the maximum number of digressions allowed, although how sonograms and Roe v. Wade are not germane to the abortion bill is still beyond my comprehension.

The clock ran out and the bill did not pass in the Senate because of a group of unruly women, angry at the Republican war on their reproductive organs. While the bill would ultimately pass, as Gov. Rick Perry would order in another session, support for Davis hasn’t wavered. Here’s hoping she runs for governor.

The time for Davis couldn’t be better. Perry has decided he will not seek re-election in 2014, and none of the rumored prospective Republican candidates seem to be anything the party is fired up about.

According to an article on Politco’s website, Davis has raised $1.2 million since the epic filibuster, some of which has come from a fundraiser in Washington. This type of support will be crucial if Davis is to have a shot, as the amount of advertisements and the type of campaign a Democrat would need to win would be prodigious.

It’s not just money Davis needs to win. Bloggers and news websites have been in love with the Davis story, and the more publicity — and in the case of most bloggers, positive publicity — she has spotlighted on her, the better.

This positive publicity has rejuvenated the Democratic base, and for the first time in years, the Democratic Party has someone to be excited about, instead of having a figurehead who only runs for party recognition, while not really expecting to win.

If Texas is truly tired of the stale, old way Perry has run the state, and if the current prospective Republicans continue not to look enticing, then change in the way of a young, earnest Davis might just be the perfect fit.

It’s about time we had a new governor to look forward to.

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Drones changing nature of modern warfare Eighteen months.

Eighteen months passed between the presidential authorization of a strike on an American citizen without judicial approval and the public admission of the massive civil rights violation. The act: an administration-sanctioned drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son that, two weeks ago, rose back to national consciousness when a federal judge began to question the legality of President Obama’s extrajudicial executions.

The case illuminates the perils of drone warfare, which epitomizes the complicated moral calculus that America has faced since Iraqi rebel retaliation, has prompted decentralized warfare across the Middle East.

Drones were first used near the turn of the century for reconnaissance both in Desert Storm and Kosovo. In 2002, the government had 167 drones that it used for intelligence on state enemies—in particular, Saddam Hussein. The unmanned aerial vehicles offer many benefits to commanders. Not only do they remove soldiers from the field of combat, but they also allow the military to strategically deploy resources without worries of being stretched as thin. At the time of its invention, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that it, along with quickly developing cyber warfare, would revolutionize the way combat was fought in the 21st century.

Across the Middle East—Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.—American military forces have utilized guerilla warfare tactics on their enemies, fighting in a region where friends and foes are not easily distinguishable. Nationless terrorist groups aren’t contained by geographic boundaries and

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ment and the guarantees of due process and a right to life that it guarantees. Taking the lives of innocents—which drone strikes do with regularity—without soliciting the opinion from an independent judiciary is easily immoral.

Circuiting the War Powers Act by using combat devices without officially declaring war shortcircuits the separation of powers process and allows the executive branch to claim previously unexplored powers. Abroad, the killing of innocents helps to create anti-American sentiment in popular drone locations like Yemen, where Friedersdorf argues that the strikes serve as an inadvertent al-Qaeda recruiting tool.

By no means can I sanction the extrajudicial killings that our presidents have launched, but their position—which must be explored in an age of increasingly decentralized warfare—involves a unique set of moral obligations. Friedersdorf’s concerns about liberty and the deaths of innocents abroad presumes that every life abroad is viewed the same as an American one. This idea isn’t reconcilable with the role presidents have in protecting the safety of the nation.

Commanders-in-chief weigh the lives of American citizens differently and cannot ignore threats on the health of their constituency, no matter how tenuous. Drone strikes offer an easy reconciliation of the problem for presidents, with American lives saved at home and American interests protected

For a man whose elected duty it is to protect his country, operating by whatever means necessary has become part of the job description.

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cannot be overcome by invasion.

Additionally, unfamiliarity with a hostile region further complicates the difficult situation soldiers face abroad.

Enter drones.

The drone program has increased almost 40-fold since being first used in the “war on terror” by Bush in Pakistan. Since the count in 2002, the program has expanded to 7,500 drones in 2010, with the CIA—an intelligence agency with no combat fleet—acquiring 35 of their own.

The growing motivation behind all of this? To keep America safe from those who would threaten her citizens without risking the lives of her residents: in short, preventing another 9/11 while keeping soldiers safely at home.

The burden for this, the responsibility for the safety of a nation, rests squarely on the shoulders of the commander-in-chief, the country’s political and military leader. Having the onus of protecting a nation of 300 million is a unique curse, however, and Bush and Obama have taken it upon themselves to fulfill this sacred duty by whatever means necessary.

The libertarian argument against drones is easy to understand. It’s easy to see the expansion of the drone program in the eyes of libertarians. Columnists Glenn Greenwald and Conor Friedersdorf contend that the extrajudicial killings amount to a metaphorical middle finger to the Fifth Amend-

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abroad. Is this right? No. Is it convenient? Yes. Under conventional morality, there are a host of problems with drones. The actions of the past two administrations have licensed a president to be judge, jury, and executioner. By many accounts, Anwar al-Awlaki was not the al-Qaeda operative he was suspected to be—although he had connections to the Fort Hood shootings, malicious intent has not yet been proven. His innocent son perished in the bombings, his life snuffed out without a trial or even a defense.

However, the responsibilities of the president involve a very different moral calculus. A commanderin-chief has his first, second, and third obligations to the people who elected him to protect them.

One cannot tackle this problem without acknowledging the president’s dual role as the military’s leader; presidents are in charge of the nation’s safety as much as they are the economy.

Drones are only the beginning in an army of technological advances (cyber warfare, nanorobots, etc.) that will enable a president to keep America safe with soldiers safely at home. Already drones have been involved in the pursuit and assassination of Osama bin Laden, with cyber warfare used to retard Iranian efforts to develop nuclear technology. They are a symbol of expanded executive power but more than that, of a unique set of logic. Obama must weigh every innocent life taken in a drone strike against those of soldiers he has taken out of the danger zone. He is responsible for the safety of 300 million persons, not seven billion. The expansion of the self-preservation instinct isn’t moral in conventional terms, but for a man whose elected duty it is to protect his country, operating by whatever means necessary has become part of the job description.

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hile Apple stock continuously flirts with $500 per share, the company’s widely publicized Sept. 10 release date may finally help it get back to its once-remarkable $700 per share. This event reportedly will showcase the new gold iPhone 5s, the affordable iPhone 5c (color) and the newly redesigned iOS 7.

Accompanying this event, Apple began its first ever iPhone trade-in program this past Friday. This program gives iPhone owners the opportunity to trade in their used iPhone in exchange for a credit of up to $250 toward a new device.

The only stipulation is there must be no water damage and you must walk out with a newly contracted iPhone.

This new option gives us college students the chance not only to get a new iPhone, but also to save a couple bucks.

I personally would recommend waiting until Sept. 10 for the long-awaited arrival of the new iPhone.

While there have been photo leaks of the alleged new gold iPhone 5s along with the newer and cheaper iPhone 5c, both phones are anticipated to have major upgrades. As the iPhone 5s will be the same style and material as the iPhone 5, it will have a new processor, new camera and the long-awaited fingerprint scanner.

This fingerprint scanner, which will be housed in the home button, is perhaps the most anticipated new feature of the iPhone 5s. The scanner will greatly increase the security for Apple’s latest technology and help keep users’ information secure. The iPhone 5c is expected to be a hot, new commodity as it will be a lower-cost iPhone with a thick plastic back. The 5c reportedly will come in five different, bright colors.

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Both of these new iPhones will contain the latest and greatest operating system — the iOS 7. This new system is getting Apple back to its minimalistic roots as it beautifully showcases a cleaner and simpler design.

When Jony Ive, senior vice president of design at Apple, debuted the software, he proudly boasted that “true simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absences of clutter or ornamentation. It’s about bringing order to complexity.”

This software is expected to be released during Apple’s Sept.

10 event.

Assuming the new iPhones are revealed Sept. 10, it is reported that you can have your new phone by Sept. 20. This report comes from the fact that T-Mobile will have a vacation blackout from Sept. 20-22, and AT&T employees are not allowed vacation requests for the end of September. This would ensure there is enough staff available to handle the number of people waiting to receive a new iPhone.

Whether or not you are an iPhone user or fan, Apple’s Sept. 10 event is bound to make waves through the Internet as well as the stock market. It is believed Apple has lost a step in the smartphone world, but this event could easily make or break the idea Apple still has ingenuity and vision along with the idea that it can succeed without the late, great Steve Jobs.

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Conflict desensitizes people

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We all remember where we were the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when four airplanes went down, strategically killing 3,000 Americans and other global citizens. Much of Iowa State’s student body was still on the better half of a decade old but without a doubt the national sentiment was to go and find out who would commit such an atrocity and then go and imprison them, if not kill them.

Americans are now tired of war; as we approach the 12th anniversary to the attack on our soil, Americans have been largely separated from the battles our soldiers have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, including any conflict in other places of political and civil unrest. Of course, we are aware of the war through what the media tells us and what our soldiers tell us when they come home, but largely, we are disconnected.

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need to worry about a draft via the selective service registration that all men ages 18 to 25 are required to sign. With plenty of brave men and women willing to volunteer their lives for the safety and freedom of the United States, most American citizens can have the luxury of not worrying whether or not they’re going to be bombed today or tomorrow.

War lingo — KIA, MIA, POW, death toll, casualties and injured — becomes unfortunate numbers on screens, letters on paper and conversations in coffee shops. After many exhausting years of conflict overseas, having seen or participated in none of it, Americans have become desensitized.

Syria has been in civil war since 2011 when President Bashar al-Assad ordered the quelling of protesters by use of deadly force. In July 2013, the United Nations reported that the Syrian death toll had surpassed 100,000 with over half of those being civilian.

Again, these are just numbers to us — but that would be equivalent to leveling half of Des Moines.

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Study abroad students connect to foreign countries Staff Writer

Senior Bethany Kuwitzky returned from her year abroad with the knowledge of what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.

The geophysics and geology major said her first time abroad she did a semester at sea which traveled around Central America, and then the second time she went to Iceland.

Kuwitzky said the trips were so different she can’t compare them.

“Central America was on a ship, so there was a lot of American students and that was cool in its own situation,” she said, “but Iceland was cool in the sense that it was so different and I got to work with what I love, which is glaciers.”

Kuwitzky said working with

the glaciers was one of her lectures she had.

She said the coolest thing she got to do was fly to a small island while she was in Iceland.

“I was in Iceland for a year, so I wasn’t going to do recreational stuff very much,” she said. “I was really studying.”

Kuwitzky said there were hard moments where she missed Texas things, but she would study abroad again.

“I actually had my mom send me some packets of ranch because I was missing ranch so much,” she said. “My dad sent me dried jalapenos because they don’t know what spicy food is there.”

Kuwitzky said she learned how to be independent, especially when she went to Iceland completely by herself.

“I ended up having to learn the language, learn the money,

learn everything by myself,” she said.

Deputy director of study abroad Elizabeth McDaniel said she thinks students can learn a lot from studying abroad.

She said students don’t necessarily realize they are gaining the skills they are.

S o m e include the same set of skills employers, graduate schools and others are looking for.

“It makes your life richer,” she said. “It makes you more of

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a well-rounded person because you have a different perspective.”

Sophomore Jay Pecheux said he knew he was meant to travel to Seville, Spain, after getting to see the place his mother had studied abroad more than 30 years ago.

“It was just too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence,” the mechanical engineering major from Sugar Land said.

Pecheux said his mother sent him her address when he was there.

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where she stayed for a year 30 years ago and it was cool.

“It was really like, ‘I was supposed to be here’ kind of thing,” Pechuex said.

Spain, he said, is where engineers go for the study abroad program at Tech.

“Or you can go to Germany, but I don’t speak German,” Pechuex said. “I speak Spanish.”

He said he took seven hours of class per day, five hours of thermodynamics and two hours of introduction to theater.

“On nights when I wasn’t exhausted, you’d just go and see the sights or do the touristy things that a lot of people think are kind of corny, but are actually a lot of fun,” Pecheux said.

He said his favorite part of the experience was the nightlife.

Pecheux said it wasn’t anything like it is here.

“It was just very casual, like

there’s no bouncers or anything,” he said. “You just walk in, grab a drink and walk out.”

Pecheux, who spent a month in Seville, said students interested in studying abroad should go into it thinking not as they are taking a class, but as an experience they are never going to experience again.

He said it’s worth staying up extra hours and not getting as much sleep to do something students likely will never be able to do again.

When asked how his trip was Pecheux said it’s something he doesn’t know how to explain.

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Google argues for right to continue scanning Gmail Counties ask NM high court to decide gay marriage SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Google’s attorneys say their longrunning practice of electronically scanning the contents of people’s Gmail accounts to help sell ads is legal, and have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to stop the practice.

In a federal court hearing Thursday in San Jose, Google argued that “all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing.”

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 10 individuals, is expected to be certified as a class action and is widely seen as a precedent-setting case for other email providers.

The plaintiffs say Google “unlawfully opens up, reads, and acquires the content of people’s private email messages” in violation of California’s privacy laws and federal wiretapping statutes. The lawsuit notes that the company even scans messages sent to any of the 425 million active Gmail users from non-Gmail users who never

agreed to the company’s terms.

“This company reads, on a daily basis, every email that’s submitted, and when I say read, I mean looking at every word to determine meaning,” said Texas attorney Sean Rommel, who is co-counsel suing Google.

And Rommel said “the data that’s being amassed by this company” could be used for more than just targeting advertising, although the parts of the lawsuit discussing what more Google might be doing with private information is currently under seal.

“The injury is two-fold: the privacy invasion and the loss of property.

Google is taking people’s property because they can get it for free as opposed to paying for it,” said Rommel.

Judge Lucy Koh said she would consider Google’s request to terminate the case, but she said she is also interested in scheduling a trial for next year, indicating she is unlikely to dismiss. She did not say when she would decide.

Scrutinizing Google’s privacy pol-

icy, Koh noted that it doesn’t specify that Google is scanning Gmail when it describes the type of information it’s collecting.

“Why wouldn’t you just say ‘the content of your emails?’” she asked.

Google attorney Whitty Somvichian said that the company is attempting to have a single privacy policy for all of its services, meaning it didn’t separately reference every single product.

But he said it’s “inconceivable” that someone using a Gmail account would not be aware that the information in their email would be known to Google.

Google has repeatedly described how it targets its advertising based on words that show up in Gmail messages. For example, the company says if someone has received a lot of messages about photography or cameras then it might display an advertisement from a local camera store. Google says the process is fully automated, “and no humans read your email...”

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s 33 counties asked the state’s highest court Thursday to decide whether gay marriage is legal in the state and to stop the spread of lawsuits that have forced some county officials to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The New Mexico Association of Counties and clerks statewide filed a petition seeking clarity in a legal dispute that has changed rapidly in the past two weeks since a southern New Mexico clerk independently began issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.

Since then, seven other counties followed — some because of court orders in response to lawsuits by same-sex couples.

More than 900 marriage licenses have been granted to gay and lesbian couples in the state, according to the lawsuit.

It remains uncertain whether the Supreme Court will accept

the case.

“The bottom line is we’re looking for a uniform answer,” said Steve Kopelman, general counsel for the county group. “There’s a controversy here. This is not a simple issue legally. But we’re not weighing in on the moral issue.

We’re weighing in on the law.”

New Mexico law doesn’t explicitly prohibit or authorize gay marriage. However, the marriage laws — unchanged since 1961 — contain a marriage license application with sections for male and female applications. There also are references to “husband” and “wife.”

The current and previous state attorneys general have said the law effectively prohibits gay marriage, although current Attorney General Gary King also has said he believes such a prohibition is unconstitutional.

A state district court judge in Albuquerque last week ruled it

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is a violation of New Mexico’s constitution to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The judge based his decision on a 1972 constitutional amendment adopted by voters that prohibits discrimination “on account of the sex of any person.”

Two county clerks that were defendants in that case decided not to directly appeal the judge’s ruling. However, the county association and the state’s 31 other county clerks — including several already issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples — joined the lawsuit to provide a way to quickly move the gay marriage question to the Supreme Court.

The five justices previously turned down efforts by gay rights advocates to get a ruling on the marriage issue. The advocates had attempted to get a decision by filing lawsuits directly with the Supreme Court rather than through an appeal of a lower court decision.

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National Zoo: 2-week-old panda cub is female WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a girl!

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced Thursday that its 2-week-old giant panda cub is female and her father is National Zoo panda Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN).

Panda mother Mei Xiang (may-SHONG) was artificially inseminated with sperm from Tian Tian, as well as a panda named Gao Gao at the San Diego Zoo. It takes time to determine a cub’s gender, and a DNA sample was collected to determine the paternity of the cub born Aug. 23.

A second stillborn cub delivered a day later was also female and sired by Tian Tian, officials said. The cubs were fraternal twins.

Keepers performed a den check Thursday morning and all the signs show the mother and cub continue to be healthy, Senior

Curator Brandie Smith said. The cub also is starting to develop dark markings in her fur around the eyes, ears and back.

“It’s got a fat little belly. It’s very active. It’s very vocal,” Smith said. “If it needs anything, it definitely lets Mei Xiang and the rest of us know that it needs something.”

Zookeepers were able to perform one quick physical examination of the cub when it was 2 days old. Since then, Mei Xiang has become more protective and hasn’t allowed humans to grab her cub again.

The 10-day mark was critical for survival, Smith said. At that point, keepers started to gain more confidence about the cub’s health.

“We watch her grow stronger and healthier every single day,” Smith said. “So we’re finally starting to really celebrate.”

The cub will make her public

debut in about four months.

China owns the pandas at the National Zoo. The cub is expected to stay with her mother for a little more than two years until she is weaned and will stay at the zoo for about four years. Mei Xiang’s only other surviving cub, a male named Tai Shan, was born in 2005 and was returned to China in 2010.

Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub last year after several years of failed breeding, but the cub died after six days. Its lungs hadn’t fully developed and likely weren’t sending enough oxygen to its liver.

Having a successful panda birth now, after years when Mei Xiang and Tian Tian failed to reproduce, has already given zoo scientists new confidence in the Washington pandas’ reproductive health. The zoo had considered swapping out one or both of the pandas for a more viable pair.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two years after resigning from Congress amid an ethics probe involving his affair with a former campaign staffer, former U.S. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada is opening a luxury animal hospital in Las Vegas.

Ensign, who was a veterinarian before he became a politician, is launching the Boca Park Animal Hospital on Friday.

His website touts his history of fighting animal cruelty and supporting the Humane Society in Congress.

The 10-year congressman opened two Las Vegas animal hospitals before entering the Senate in 2001.

He says he spent the six months after his resignation getting up to speed on current veterinary practices and volunteering with Heaven Can Wait Animal Society, a Las Vegas nonprofit that offers a low-cost spay and neuter clinic.

“I studied literally every single day for hours and hours, kind of like when I was back in vet school,” he said.

For the past year and a half, he has been working full-time at another veterinary practice.

Patients often ask the former politician to pose for pictures with their animals.

The two-term Republican senator resigned from office in

May 2011 as the Senate Ethics Committee was finalizing a report that said there was evidence he had broken laws. The investigation stemmed from Ensign’s eightmonth extramarital affair with his campaign treasurer Cynthia Hampton, and from his effort to set up her husband Doug, who also was Ensign’s top aide and a close friend, as a lobbyist.

In 2010, after a yearlong investigation, the Justice Department notified Ensign’s attorneys it would not pursue criminal charges against him. Questions about why the senator was not prosecuted escalated when federal prosecutors brought charges against Doug Hampton on alleged violations of lobbying law.

Last month, a U.S. district judge gave the Department of Justice 60 days to describe documents it is withholding in the Ensign case and explain why they shouldn’t be made public. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Ensign declined to discuss the scandal in his interview with The Associated Press.

Ensign said he wanted to set up his nine-person practice so that he can do things his own way.

He said he sold his last practice in 2002 after he found out that congressional ethics rules barred

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him from keeping it.

“They made me sell it, and I lost a lot of money, but you had to comply with the rules. It was an unpleasant surprise to me,” he said.

He told the Las Vegas ReviewJournal this week the he didn’t want to hire more than 50 employees, a reference to a federal health care overhaul insurance mandate that exempts small employers.

The hospital will be in keeping with the Sin City aesthetic, with luxury suites for pets and treadmills for hefty canines.

“We want to combine the practice with a pet resort, where your dog or cat can be pampered like they’re in a four or five star resort,” Ensign said.

The hospital will feature flat screen televisions set to a channel geared at dogs. Owners will be able to pull up a live stream of their animals on their cellphones.

Ensign said he has been surprised at the amount of regulation involved in setting up the hospital, including regular inspections and increased standards of access for disabled people.

“There’s so much more regulation today than there has been in the past. Every time you turn around there’s something new.

It’s really remarkable the amount of things you need to comply with now that didn’t used to be there,” he said.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A driver has confessed in a video posted online that he’s to blame for a wrong-way car crash stemming from a night of heavy drinking that killed another man and says he’s willing to take “full responsibility.”

The 3 1/2-minute video, posted on at least two websites on Tuesday, shows 22-year-old Matthew Cordle describing what led to the accident in which he killed the man three months ago.

“My name is Matthew Cordle, and on June 22nd, 2013, I hit and killed Vincent Canzani,” he says somberly. “This video will act as my confession.”

Cordle says in the video he “made a mistake” when he decided to drive his truck home after “drinking heavily” and hit the other car, killing the 61-year-old Canzani, of suburban Columbus.

The video begins with Cordle’s face blurred as he describes how he has struggled with depression and was simply trying to have a good time with friends going “from bar to bar” the night of the accident. He then describes how he ended up driving into oncoming traffic on a highway.

Cordle’s face becomes clear as he reveals his name and confesses to killing Canzani.

“When I get charged I’ll plead guilty and take full responsibility for everything I’ve done to Vincent and his family,” Cordle says.

Later, he says he understands that by releasing the video he’s giving prosecutors “everything they need to put me away for a very long time.”

Franklin County prosecutor Ron O’Brien on Thursday said Cordle was a suspect in the deadly crash but hadn’t been charged. O’Brien said he saw the video on Wednesday and downloaded a copy onto a CD as evidence.

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Esson, goalkeeper from New Zealand

By SCOTT FISHER

Stone attributes some of this competitiveness to Esson’s play with the U-17 and U-20 New Zealand National Team.

“She has been with her New Zealand National Team for three World Cups (two U-20, one U-17) and so she has a wealth of experience,” Stone said. “To have that national team experience just sets her apart in terms of professionalism and the way she approaches practice.”

This work ethic helped boost Esson to fifth in the Tech record book for all-time career saves after two full seasons with one more to go.

Senior captain Hayley Haagsma said team members can tell Esson has a will to win through her actions in games, at practice and in the locker room.

“I know she comes out here every morning to get better,” Haagsma said, “and it’s just an inspiration to everyone else because it pushes us to want to get better when we see her out here 30 or 45 minutes before every practice.”

This commitment on the field has led to other players seeing

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Senior Goalie Victoria Esson wasn’t born or raised in the United States, but she has quickly found a home in Lubbock on the Texas Tech soccer team.

The veteran keeper transferred to Tech for her sophomore season, after spending a season playing at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand.

Esson said the transition to the U.S. was difficult and that things operate differently in the U.S. than in New Zealand.

“It was a lot different in terms of the colleges in America are bigger and there is a lot more of them,” she said. “We don’t have college sports so the whole competitiveness of football, soccer and baseball, it’s good, it’s really cool, but it’s a lot different than back home.”

Even though she might not be accustomed to the competitiveness of college sports in the U.S., Tech coach Tom Stone said Esson arrived at Tech with her own competitive edge.

Esson as someone they can look up to.

Haagsma said Esson is a player the whole defense can count on.

“I just know that if myself or the other center back with me messes up or something, she is going to bust out the best save ever and I know she has our back,” she said.

Haagsma said she has no doubts about Esson’s defensive abilities.

“Having her behind me, I have nothing but confidence in her and in the way she has become so vocal as a keeper, which is necessary,” she said.

On the field, Esson likes to work hard and approaches the game with a sense of professionalism. Off the field, the New Zealand native is laid back and fun to be around, according to her teammates.

“Vic (Victoria) is awesome off the field, and we definitely have become friends since she came here my sophomore year,” Haagsma said.

Even while off the field, the goalkeeper likes to stay active.

Esson said she really enjoys

wakeboarding back home in New Zealand and is always looking for times to get out on the water.

“Yes (wakeboarding) is quite common,” she said. “I do it with my family and friends a lot back home. I think there is a few more lakes and rivers in New Zealand, and the ocean is a little bit closer than it is here in the states so it’s a bit easier.”

Esson said she has not been able to go wakeboarding while in the U.S. due to the geography of Lubbock.

Esson said she would like the opportunity to wakeboard more, but is sure Coach Stone wants her to stay off the board.

“I haven’t done it since I’ve been here,” Esson said. “So I’ve just been doing it at Christmas when I go home, to Tom’s disgust I think. He just tells me ‘Don’t get hurt.’”

Esson has started the first four games of the 2013 season and has allowed two goals thus far.

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Red Raiders look to avoid FCS woes

By EVERETT CORDER

“You get worn down with the tempo and speed of the game,” he said. “In games like these you can’t turn the ball over and let them have big plays. It’s a tough deal, but hopefully we’ll learn from it and go out there and compete to win a football game.”

The speed and tempo of the game was a major part of the offense for the Red Raiders in their game against the Mustangs last week.

The Tech offense was going so fast in fact, that even some of the officials were caught off guard, Kingsbury said.

“We were doing some things personnel-wise where it looked like we were in two backs and then we go into 10 personnel, and they were just confused,” Kingsbury said. “We weren’t subbing, and it appeared to them we were. So they kept holding it, and I had to explain to them we’re not subbing personnel, you can’t hold the ball. We got it straightened out by the second half.”

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When Texas Tech faces Stephen F. Austin this Saturday, they will try to avoid becoming the eighth Football Bowl Subdivsion team to lose to a Football Championship Subdivision team during this college football season.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said he thinks the playing field is a little more level than before because of all the great training players get in high school and the use of the spread offense he also uses.

“I think the spread offense is a great equalizer,” Kingsbury said. “If you get some good skill, you can go in there and surprise people. When you look at SFA, they have great skill.

They can play anywhere.”

Lumberjacks coach J.C. Harper said there is a big difference in tempo when playing an FBS school, but his team is excited to come play in a different atmosphere.

Part of the reason the Red Raider offense was able to move so quickly was because of the performance of walk-on true freshman quarterback Baker Mayfield. Mayfield completed 43 of his 60 passes and scored five touchdowns in the game against SMU. “We really liked Baker, and we went after him pretty hard but he had his mind set on going to an FBS school,” Harper said. “The guy is a great competitor. Look what he did in the first game. Throws for four touchdowns and one rushing.”

Kingsbury said Mayfield will start Saturday against SFA. Harper said he thinks the Lumberjack secondary will face a tough challenge when they come to Lubbock because they are so young.

The Red Raider defense will have their hands full as well, as the Lumberjacks run a spread offense very similar to Tech’s.

SFA quarterback Brad Attaway finished last week’s game 37-62 with

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“Yeah, they run a spread offense similar to ours,” Kingsbury said.

“Last week, the quarterback threw 450 yards and all sorts of touchdowns and scored 40 points. You’ve got to come in and take care of your business.”

Saturday’s game will be the second time the two teams have faced each other, with the Red Raiders winning the first meeting 58-3, according to a news release. The game will begin at 6 p.m. at Jones AT&T Stadium.

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The signing of 36-year-old Brian Waters this week means the Dallas quarterback is no longer the oldest player on the roster.

“I didn’t know that but now I do and I am glad he’s here,” Romo said, smiling.

Oh, there are still plenty of signs that Romo is an elder statesman at 33 as he gets set for the opener of his seventh full season as the starter Sunday night against the New York Giants.

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Volleyball team travels to Washington The Texas Tech volleyball team heads to Pullman, Wash., this weekend to compete in the Cougar Challenge hosted by Washington State.

The Red Raiders open the tournament at 12:30 p.m. CT this afternoon against Montana. They also play host Washington State at 10 p.m. tonight, before finishing the tournament Saturday against South Dakota State and Eastern Washington.

Tech’s tournament opener against Montana will be the first of two matches played against the Grizzlies this year. Montana, which fell to Tech in four sets last year, will travel to Lubbock next weekend for the Lone Star Showdown hosted by Tech in United Spirit Arena.

Tech will face a Pac-12 Conference member in a nonconference match for the first time since 2008

in their second game of the tournament. The Red Raiders have only played three Pac-12 schools in nonconference action during the Big 12 Conference era, going 1-2 in those matches, according to a news release.

The Red Raiders are coming off a three-set sweep of Abilene Christian Tuesday, which improved Tech to 31-7 all-time in home openers.

This was the third straight season for coach Don Flora to lead the team to a home-opening victory.

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Tech soccer looks to recover from loss

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

Last Sunday’s loss was a new experience for the 2013 Texas Tech women’s soccer team and coach Tom Stone.

The team was on a dominant fourgame win streak, and only allowed eight shots before its game against Long Beach State. When the game concluded, the Red Raiders had allowed five shots, surrendered three goals and lost a winnable game.

However, Stone said the Red Raiders have responded well to their first loss of the season.

“They did not like [the loss],” he said. “There is no question about it. They were ornery for a good 48 hours, and I like seeing that from them. There was a lot of people taking

ownership, including the coaching staff.

We’re all in this together, and I think the response this week has been really, really strong.”

There were discussions on what the team needed, Stone said. Some discussions were heated. Others were not so much. This has resulted in the players’ best week of practice.

Paige Strahan, junior midfielder from Odessa, said the team has practiced with plenty of intensity this week after Sunday’s loss.

“Every day this week,” Strahan said, “everyone has been out 30 minutes early to practice working on something individually that they could contribute better to the team.”

This will set the tone and get the Red Raiders ready for today and Sunday, she said.

More than anything, Stone said, the 49ers reminded the Red Raiders how difficult it is to win games.

“This isn’t a team with short expectations, you know,” he said. “We’ve got big ones, so we don’t want to let games get away from us.”

Stone said the team has recovered from the loss and has been focused on today and Sunday ever since.

California continues its extended stay in Lubbock this weekend with California State Fullerton today, and California State Northridge on Sunday.

These two teams were at the top of the Big West Conference last year, according to the conference website. Ful-

lerton was the regular season champion, while Northridge won the conference tournament and earned the NCAA automatic berth to the Division 1 Women’s Soccer Tournament.

Fullerton has a 2-1-1 record this year. Their only loss so far has been a 3-1 defeat to Brigham Young. The loss is nothing to sneeze about, since BYU was a No. 1 seed in last year’s NCAA tournament and lost to the eventual 2012 national champions, North Carolina.

Northridge has not been as lucky.

They are still winless through four games.

In each of their losses, Northridge has allowed multiple goals. The schedule has proven tough with three Pac-12 Conference opponents. Two of the three, Arizona State and UCLA, competed in the 2012 NCAA tournament.

Northridge’s record is a result of their schedule, Stone said, and he is concerned they might be more hungry because they are looking for their first win.

He said he looks forward to matchups with California teams because they enjoy passing the ball like the Red Raiders.

“It’s a big test of who can possess [the ball] and kind of trade possessions in these games,” Stone said. “And, a lot of times it will come down to just one of your special players getting the ball at the right time of the game at the right part of the field, or does one of theirs.”

Tech has enough special players, he said, and it is just a matter of getting the ball to those players in the right

scenarios.

Tech can handle Fullerton and Northridge’s passing, Strahan said, because they are all great passers and have to practice with each other. Plus, the Red Raiders have watched film and discussed how to stop their passing.

“Our mentality right now is going to be what really sets us over the edge,” she said. “Like I said we’re a great passing team. Individually, we have great players, like we can finish. We can do all that.

But, I think our mentality is what is going to really set us over the edge.”

Stone said Fullerton and Northridge worry him because of their attacking personalities. The depth these teams possess, unlike previous Tech opponents, pose a concern as well, but he sees this weekend as an opportunity to prepare for the Big 12 Conference.

The biggest advantage Tech has is playing at home where they are 9-2 in the last 11 home games, he said.

“This will probably be the first real spirited Friday-night crowd we’ll have because everyone is back in town for football,” he said. “You know, we’re cranking it up here, so I think being at home certainly gives us an edge. And, you know, maybe we’ve got a little of an edge based on not liking how it felt last Sunday night.”

The Red Raiders complete their five-match home stand at 7 p.m. today and 1 p.m. Sunday at John Walker Soccer Complex.

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