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AA reports increase in traffic, revenue figure FORT WORTH (AP) — American Airlines said Monday that passenger traffic and a key revenue figure rose in August compared with last summer in a sign of continuing solid demand for air travel. American said that passenger revenue for every seat flown one mile rose 3 percent compared with August 2012. That figure rises if airlines sell more tickets at high prices and fewer at discounted sale fares. The American increase, which also included the American Eagle regional carrier, was slightly below increases at United, Delta, Southwest and US Airways but still set a company record for the month of August. American and Eagle reported that traffic rose 3.2 percent, as passengers flew 12.75 billion miles last month, up from 12.36 billion in August 2012. International traffic rose 6.7 percent as more people flew to Asia and Latin America, while traffic within the U.S. grew just 0.8 percent.
Stocks rise on mergers, homebuilder outlook (AP) — The stock market got a boost on Monday from mergers, homes, and phones. Stocks posted their biggest gains in almost two months. Two big deals suggested growing confidence in the economy: Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus was sold for $6 billion, and Koch Industries bought electronics component maker Molex for $7.2 billion. Homebuilding stocks were some of the biggest gainers in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index after Hovnavian Enterprises said home prices are rising and its backlog jumped almost 27 percent from a year earlier. Hovnanian rose 11 cents, or 2.2 percent, to close at $5.15. PulteGroup, D.R. Horton and Lennar also gained. Homebuilder MDC Holdings rose $1.72, or 6.2 percent, to $29.37 after an upgrade from a Citi analyst.
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Tech hosts service for Jan Tillery By CARSON WILSON Staff Writer
A celebration of life for former Texas Tech first lady Jan Tillery was hosted Monday at Kent R. Hance Chapel. Her surviving husband is former Tech president Guy Bailey. Bailey was the president from 2008 until 2012 before resigning to take the president position at the University of Alabama. After a few months at the University of Alabama, Bailey stepped down because of his wife’s illness. “Although she was dealing with her illness,” Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said. “As always, she was strong and extremely hospitable.” Tillery died Sept. 1 at Trinity Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., after battling cancer. She battled cancer twice and won, but the fight proved to be too much for Tillery. “Jan Tillery was a great special person,” Chancellor Kent Hance said. “She was a
joy to be around.” She was born July 7, 1950, in Slaton as an only child to two Tech alumni, according to her eulogy. After graduating from Monterey High School, Tillery went on to receive her bachelor’s degree in journalism and English at Tech. She earned her master’s degree in English at Texas A&M and a doctoral degree in English linguistics from Oklahoma State. She first taught in a high school then worked her way up to a college professor, according to a news release. Tillery retired from teaching in 2008 for health reasons. Hance said her teaching reputation was beloved and inspiring. Throughout her career Tillery published and presented research papers on more than 70 occasions, according to the release. Her research in linguistics was featured in The New York Times in 2003. During the service Hocutt said Tillery was Tech’s biggest fan on and off the field. SERVICE continued on Page 2 ➤➤
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PASTOR CORY S. Powell of the New Dimensions Tabernacle gives his remarks at the memorial for Jan Tillery, graduate of Texas Tech and wife of former Tech president Guy Bailey, on Monday at the Kent R. Hance Chapel.
Cigarette Study Researchers see rise in young adult e-Cig usage
Before the first home football game of the season, AT&T installed more than 300 antennas to help boost cellphone signal at Jones AT&T Stadium. However, fan feedback wasn’t as positive as was expected with the new technology. According to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, fans showed a primarily negative response to the cellphone reception in the stadium, many of them saying they either had few or no signal bars and could not access the Internet. In response to the feedback of fans, Blayne Beal, associate athletics director for Texas Tech Athletics, said the system is fairly new and AT&T is still working to improve the situation involving cellphone service in the stadium. “AT&T is working very hard to make improvements,” he said. “We’re hoping that by Thursday we have significant improvements from last week and by our next home game be more improvements at that.” Beal said AT&T is working closely with Tech Athletics to continue tweaking the new technology. “AT&T is on site,” he said. “They’re going to be on site for the next couple of games fine-tuning it and getting it as good as it possibly can.” Beal said another reason fans aren’t receiving great service in the stadium may be because there are so many people in attendance. According to Tech Athletics, Tech had more than 54,000 fans in the stadium. Students comprised more than 14,000 of those in attendance. “You do have 60,000 people in the stadium so it’s not going to be perfect,” Beal said. “But they are working to make improvements.”
By BEHDAD JAFFRI Staff Writer
Walking around campus and seeing water vapor coming out of a cigarette would have been uncommon years ago, but these days it’s a social norm for young-adult smokers. Electronic cigarettes are battery-powered devices that supply vaporized nicotine, which forms into an aerosol mist, according to the Janty website, an electronic cigarette company. When a user draws a breath from the device, as they would a normal cigarette, an atomizer within the cigarette vaporizes the nicotine and converts it into a smoke-like vapor a user would inhale. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, a 2012 survey showed about 1.8 million young smokers reported using an electronic cigarette. However, according to an article in The New York Times, Murray S. Kessler, the chairman, president and chief executive of Lorillard, a tobacco company that owns Blu e-Cig, said the rise in youth usage was unacceptable and the company was looking for a way to restrict youth access while still supporting a healthier form of smoking. Electronic cigarettes advertise the vapor in their products as being safe for smokers’ health as opposed to the nicotine smoke produced by regular cigarettes, and they use that upper hand to market their products to young adults, according to the Janty and Blu e-Cig websites. Electronic cigarettes also come in flavors, which give them an advantage when marketing because traditional cigarettes were banned from using flavors in 2009 when federal health officials said the flavors would appeal to young users, according to the article. Blu e-Cigs advertises its cigarettes on its website as supplying its buyers with the “freedom to have a cigarette without the guilt.” Kelsey Koym, a sophomore media strategies major from Canton, said electronic cigarettes are environmentally healthy and the social acceptability of an electronic cigarette as opposed to a regular cigarette appeals young smokers to the electronic products. “They are really friendly for the people you interact with,” she said. “They are healthier for you and the people around you. They are also a really smooth smoke.” The healthiness of an electronic cigarette may be a common misconception among users of the products. CDC researchers concluded from a 2012 study that the health effects are not yet clear, and users must be careful when using electronic cigarettes ADVERTISING: 806-742-3384
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On-campus bike rules change By BEHDAD JAFFRI Staff Writer
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ACCORDING TO A 2012 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, electronic cigarettes have many of the same health effects of regular cigarettes.
as an alternative to regular cigarettes. Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, said in a New York Times article that the study shows the adolescent brain to be more susceptible to nicotine, and the rise in numbers among young people who use electronic cigarettes can move them into more harmful products such as conventional cigarettes. Adrian Arroniz, a senior mathematics and Spanish major from Torreon, Mexico, said he is not surprised by the recent research about
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electronic cigarettes. “I’m not surprised at all,” he said. “From what I know, e-Cigs contain the same amount of nicotine as cigarettes, maybe a bit less, but you’re still inhaling that nicotine.” The Food and Drug Administration does not yet regulate electronic cigarettes, but according to a statement about the cigarettes from the FDA, analysts expect the agency to start regulation soon.
On-campus bike rules have changed for the 2013-2014 academic school year. Texas Tech Transportation and Parking Services made some changes to improve customer service and travel for students who ride bicycles. According to a university-wide email, instead of having paper citations such as in previous years, Transportation and Parking Services will notify students of violations through eCitations. The new process supports Tech’s commitment to environmental sustainability and helps Tech to become a “green” campus.
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