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Man charged in shooting of Lubbock officer LUBBOCK (AP) — A West Texas man remains jailed on felony charges for allegedly shooting a Lubbock police officer outside a downtown Salvation Army shelter.

Lubbock police spokesman Jason Lewis said Monday the officer, Timothy Varner, was in satisfactory condition and expected to be released from the hospital later in the day.

Thirty-two-year-old Jeremy Charles Moor of Slaton remains jailed on charges of attempted capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He has no attorney yet.

Lewis said Varner and Moor were shot multiple times after police were called Saturday night about an agitated man outside the shelter.

The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported Monday that court records show Moor pleaded guilty and was sentenced in March to eight years’ probation on a charge of a felon in possession of a firearm.

Report: NSA collecting millions of contact lists WASHINGTON (AP) — A published report says the National Security Agency has collected millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world — including those of Americans — in its effort to find links to terrorism or other criminal activity.

The Washington Post said late Monday it learned about the effort from secret documents provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden and confirmed by senior intelligence officials.

The Post says the spy agency intercepts hundreds of thousands of email address books every day from private accounts on Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail. The NSA also collects about a half-million buddy lists daily from chat services and email accounts.

A government spokesman says the agency gains intelligence on valid targets and has no interest in personal information from ordinary Americans.

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Vines, Wine Students come together for love of wine

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

A student organization seemingly made for students aged 21 and older has been rethought, reorganized and now is in the process of being revamped.

Members of the Vines and Wines Club, previously known as the Wine Club, have decided to make this year a good one for the club.

The club, based off the study of viticulture and enology, which are the studies of grape growing, wine and the winemaking process, gives students interested in the process a closer look.

Newly appointed president, senior Laney Bateman, said the members are changing the requirements to where anyone interested in the subject can join.

The horticulture and turf grass major from Marion said drinking the wine only makes up about 5 percent of what the club is about.

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TOP: DIFFERENT WINES fill shelves at McPherson Cellars winery. Members of the Texas Tech Wines and Vines Club participated in a tasting at the winery. ABOVE: CHRIS BURGER, a senior horticulture major from Lubbock, and Laney Bateman, a senior horticulture major from Marion, members of the Texas Tech Wines and Vines Club, taste different wines at McPherson Cellars winery.

Health Sciences Center Students host Senate sets enrollment record Day, kick off SGA Week

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Texas Tech Health Sciences Center may reach its 5,000 students by 2020 goal early, as HSC President Dr. Tedd Mitchell reported the school’s enrollment has reached 4,589 at the Board of Regents meeting on Friday.

The enrollment marks a record for HSC, and Mitchell said he expects HSC to reach its goal within the next few years.

Students from across the state and country are “clamoring” to be accepted into HSC, he said, and because of this the university can be selective in its admissions process.

“If we just opened up the doors, you could grow our enrollment substantially overnight,

but you got to keep the quality there,” Mitchell said. “So the thing that’s been good about our enrollment growth is as the number of students we take in has gone up, the quality of the students we take in has gone up with it.”

Because HSC is a graduate school, he said the students come to the university with an already successful academic career and many of the lowest ranked applicants are above average.

“With the students that we have, you’re already taking a good group of people, a good group of students, and we’re just trying to tweak it up and tweak it up,” Mitchell said. “The way we do that is by focusing on the programmatic offerings that we have.”

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Student Government Association kicked off Texas Tech’s first SGA Week with Senate Day. Senate Day took place outside Allen Theatre in the Student Union Building.

The event included free food, a texting while driving simulator put together by AT&T and the opportunity for students to connect with their senators.

Internal Vice President Jill Berger, a senior marketing and management major from Albuquerque, N.M., said the event proved to be successful.

“We just want to reach out to the

student body, so we created a week full of SGA events,” she said. “Each day promotes a different aspect of what we’re working on this year. For Senate Day, I wanted everyone to know who their constituents are and who represents them on the Senate.”

SGA partnered with AT&T for Senate Day to promote texting while driving awareness. Berger said SGA is working on a ban for texting while driving on Tech’s campus. The event also featured a city council representative who is attempting to get a citywide ban on texting while driving.

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Tech professors give series of lectures for Open Teaching Concept

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF history Karlos Hill speaks during his “Under the Sense of Death: How African Americans Survived Lynching” lecture Monday in Holden Hall.

The lecture was part of the Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center’s Open Teaching Concept lecture series.

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The Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center hosted the Open Teaching Concept 2013 to introduce new ideas to Texas Tech students through a series of lectures at various times and places throughout the week.

According to a news release, the program is designed to expand the minds of students and allow them to think about issues regarding race, multiculturalism, class and gender.

“Our goal with Open Teaching is to engage diversity teaching, dialogue and learning through multiple outlets to enhance and continue to advance diversity at Texas Tech,” Jobi Martinez, director of the CCAAC and codirector of the Open Teaching Concept, said.

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Before the lecture, Hill asked his students to tweet about the Open Teaching Concept and express their ideas using the social medium.

One student linked a photo of the lecture from her Instagram page to her Twitter feed, and other students were seen interacting while the professor spoke to the class.

Hill opened his lecture by recognizing Ida B. Wells and her work to transform the symbol of the noose into a message of hope and empowerment for African-Americans in the early 1900s.

“In talking about Ida B. Wells, I think we can consider her the greatest American,” he said.

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President’s Select help organize University Day

By MIKAEL GONZALES Staff Writer

Today TechAlert Emergency Communications System Test Time: 10:50 a.m.

Where: No specific location.

So, what is it?

The university will test its TechAlert! system. This is a good opportunity for staff, faculty and students to update their information on emergency.ttu.edu Learn About Meditation Time: 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

Where: English Building So, what is it?

Stop by and learn the basics of meditation for free.

Symphonic Band Concert Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, where is it?

Listen to the Syphonic Band of the School of Music.

Wednesday

Large Class Series: Working with Teaching Assistants Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: University Library So, what is it?

Interested in learning teaching strategies for large classes?

Join Ron Milam as he focuses on how to work with teaching assistants.

Laramie Inside Out Film Screening Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Talkington Hall So, where is it?

Stop by and watch a documentary based on the murder of Wyoming college student, Matthew Shepard, hosted by Texas Tech University Gay/ Straight Alliance, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and University Learning Communities. The filmmaker of the movie, Beverly Seckinger, will speak to audience via Skype after.

Texas Tech Volleyball vs.

Kansas Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: United Spirit Arena So, what is it?

Cheer on the volleyball team as they play Kansas. This will be a pink game, so make sure to wear pink. Students get in for free with a student ID.

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Senators see shutdown end in sight WASHINGTON (AP) — Racing the clock, the Senate’s Democratic and Republican leaders closed in on a deal Monday night to avoid an economymenacing Treasury default and end the two-week partial government shutdown.

“We’ve made tremendous progress,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared after an intense day of negotiations with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and other lawmakers.

“Perhaps tomorrow will be a bright day,”

he said, suggesting agreement could be announced soon after weeks of stubborn gridlock.

McConnell also voiced optimism — although not as much as Reid, D-Nev., had — and the details under discussion generated little if any satisfaction among rebellious House conservatives.

Officials said that in the discussion to date, the $16.7 trillion federal debt limit would be raised enough to permit the Treasury to borrow normally until mid-February, if not a few weeks longer.

Texas Tech President’s Select helped organize the 2013 University Day on Monday to help prospective students learn more about Tech and the resources available to them.

President’s Select, according to its website, is a group of student ambassadors chosen to help in the recruitment of new students on campus. The organization also represents many facets of Tech and its campus.

According to the University Day website, the day is part of a larger event that began last week, called the Weekend of Red and Black 2013. The weekend was full of different activities for new students on campus to get familiar with campus life and culture.

President’s Select President Barclay White, a junior agricultural economics major from Lubbock, said the student organization works to serve the office of the president, athletics and undergraduate admissions.

The students working the event, White said, were assigned to various roles on campus.

“We have about 90 (members) and all of them work (Monday),” he said. “We give tours (Monday), we help show people around, we help them check in and greet them.”

University Day is the largest recruiting event Tech does each year, White said.

“All the different student services on campus are here, every college is here,” he said. “I think every department within each college has representation here.”

Learning about degree plans, housing arrangements and campus resources are some of the things students learn from the

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THE MASKED RIDER takes photos with perspective Texas Tech students on University Day outside United Spirite Arena on Monday.

event, White said.

“There’s enough faculty and staff support here to get them the most help,” he said.

Allie Wittrock, a senior biology major from Albuquerque, N.M., and member of President’s Select, said her role in University Day was getting to know students and answering any questions they might have about the university or their majors.

Some of the most frequently asked questions, Wittrock said, involved the process of students declaring majors and the process of going through the motions of a degree plan.

“A lot of students come in really surprised,” she said. “I feel like they get here and they are just blown away.”

The students at the event had an

overall feeling of awe, Wittrock said.

“Everything we have to offer at this school, I feel like students are really impressed,” she said.

As for the rest of the day, Wittrock said the students participated in academic sessions, which allowed them to ask more in-depth questions about their majors, as well as attend housing tours of different residence halls.

Veronica Thew, a prospective student from Lubbock, said she was interested in psychology and was happy the event provided her with someone to speak to.

“We walked around and looked at some of the brochures they have and talked to some of the professors,” she said.

Another prospective student, Amy Aldana, said she was thank-

to not follow suit — a reason why students are overlooking competitors and choosing HSC. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The university’s main concern, he Those programmatic offerings, he said, always has been with the qualsaid, include keeping the faculty-to- ity of education offered rather than student ratio at one to 35. enrollment numbers.

While other universities sacrificed HSC’s other notable accomplishquality for numbers in 2011, Mitchell ments, Mitchell said, include worksaid HSC made a strategic decision ing to gain accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools for HSC at El Paso, a campus that was established by the Texas Legislature on April 30, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

The earliest HSC at El Paso can be accredited is 2017, he said, because, by design SACS, a distinction HSC already has, uses a deliberative process and requires three years of financial proof records.

Another aspect of HSC’s success, Mitchell said, is the university’s ability to offer online distance learning programs for those programs that lend themselves to that approach, such as

the School of Nursing and School of Allied Health Sciences.

Online learning, he said, is ideal for students who have completed the hands-on portion of a degree, but lack the paperwork to earn a bachelor’s degree.

For example, an HSC student who is overseas with the military could take the university’s online courses, and, by the time they finish their tour, could qualify for administrative positions because of their class work.

Dr. Michael Evans, dean of the School of Nursing, said he’s noticed the increase in students who want to attend HSC. “With the reputation of Texas Tech, it’s just very solid all over the country and I believe that’s led to some of our enrollment growth,” he said, “and the other thing I think has really led to a lot of our enrollment growth in the School of Nursing is our online degree program is a very high-quality online degree program because of lot

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ful for the information she learned about her major.

“I find it to be a very enlightening experience because you get to see not only the college you’re focusing on, but the different colleges that are here on campus,” she said. “You can kind of explore your options a bit more.”

The students, Aldana said, were given a tour of the campus Saturday.

“And then later today we’ll be going to the individual colleges that we’re interested in,” she said.

One of the things she is looking forward to, Aldana said, is becoming an official Red Raider.

“I’m a die-hard Tech fan,” she said. “So I think just having that Raider spirit is going to be one of the greatest things.” ➤➤mgonzales@dailytoreador.com

of working professionals, working registered nurses, who want to go back to for a (Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing), they’re coming to us, they’re coming to schools like us, because of the quality of our programs.”

The nursing school, whose enrollment is 1,487 this semester, has seen a 100-student increase from last year, Evans said.

This growth occurred throughout HSC’s campuses, including Amarillo, Dallas, Austin, Odessa and Abilene, which has doubled in size, he said.

A reason for HSC’s student increase, Evans said, is the university’s faculty.

“The research our education is of so high quality is because we have an outstanding faculty,” he said. “We recruit from all over the state of Texas for our faculty positions and that is our great strength. We get great students because of great faculty.”

At the Board of Regents meeting, Mitchell also highlighted his most recent hire.

Effective Dec. 1, Dr. Michael Conn will become HSC’s senior vice president for research and associate provost.

According to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, Conn is the director of research advocacy and a professor of physiology, pharmacology, obstetrics and gynecology, and cell biology and development at Oregon Health and Science University.

Mitchell said Conn was chosen for his ability to work within a broad spectrum of research.

“He’s got a strong interest in all those areas,” he said. “For us, he’s great.” ➤➤news@dailytoreador.com

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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The top diplomats of Venezuela and Guyana agreed to meet to discuss the fate of an oil research ship seized in disputed waters as the captain of the U.S.-chartered vessel was being charged Monday in Venezuela with violating its maritime economic zone.

The foreign ministers of the two countries will meet Thursday in Port of Spain, the capital Trinidad and Tobago, to “resolve diplomatically” any differences stemming from the Venezuelan navy’s seizure of the ship last week, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The ship and its 36-man international crew, including five Americans and workers from Russia, Indonesia and Brazil, has been anchored since Sunday off Venezuela’s Margarita Island in the Caribbean.

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students will see their Student Bill of Rights as well as interact with SGA’s Attorney General, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the Office of Student Conduct and The texting while driving Student Legal Services regarding simulator gave students the op- information to protect students’ portunity to see texting while rights. There also will be a voter driving’s effects. Students sat down registration drive. in front of a screen and drove with Wednesday’s event is Sustaina simulated steering wheel. The ability Research Day and will students were given a phone and take place in the SUB Red Raider asked to type while trying to drive. Lounge from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Many students struggled with Berger said students will see difthe task and were not able to drive ferent aspects of the sustainability accurately in the lanes. research Tech is doing.

Sen. Mark Khan, a sophomore She said the event will showmarketing major from Round case various organizations, hospiRock, said he saw many people tality services and some graduate crashing, so he believes it helped students to present their research. bring students awareness. Many Diversity Day will be Thursday students signed a pledge to not from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the text and drive.

SUB North Plaza. SGA’s Diversity Michael Owoc, a senior me- Director worked in collaboration chanical engineering major from with the Cross-Cultural Academic Houston, tried the simulator and Advancement Center to put tosaid it could promote awareness gether the event. about the dangers of texting while Berger said it will include difdriving. ferent multicultural organizations “It wasn’t too hard, but it felt coming together and teaching weird just because it’s a game,” he each other about their cultures as said. “When I’m driving a car, I rely well as have free food. on sounds, too, and everything. It’s She said it was a way for stukind of different, but I think it’s dents to look at the different culalso probably accurate.” tures present at Tech and celebrate The next event of SGA Week how diverse Tech is. is Know Your Rights Day. It will Friday, in the SUB North Plaza, be hosted in the Free Speech Area SGA will host Pretzels with the from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, and President. The event, from 11:30

a.m. to 1 p.m., will give students the opportunity to interact and voice any comments or concerns with SGA, Tech Administration and Tech Athletics.

“This week, students should expect visibility, easy access to talk to executive members, student body president, vice presidents, all the senators that represent them, as well as getting out their voice to the senators,” Berger said.

SGA’s goal throughout the week is to reach out to students and talk to them as much as it can.

Khan said his favorite part of working Senate Day was talking with students and hearing their concerns.

He said much of the concerns he heard throughout the day were about bicycle lanes not being respected and the Wi-Fi in the Library, which the SGA Senate passed legislation about Oct. 3.

“What I want students to take away from this event is that we have an open-door policy,” Khan said. “If they really have something wrong with the campus that they want to voice, their voice will be heard. They elected us for a reason and we’re able to follow up with their concern and to make sure they can enjoy the Texas Tech experience to the best of their ability.” ➤➤cgrunden@dailytoreador.com

POLICE BLOTTER

Officers arrest students for public intoxication, resisting arrest Friday 10:29 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer documented damaged property in the Z4P parking lot.

The right side of a vehicle was damaged.

11:04 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in Gates Residence Hall. A ceiling tile was damaged.

11:58 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for driving under the influence of alcohol by a minor, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia following a traffic stop in the Z1B parking lot. The student was transported to Lubbock County Jail. A student passenger was issued a Lubbock County citation and released for possession of alcohol in a motor vehicle.

Lubbock Wrecker Service towed the vehicle.

Saturday 4:19 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and resisting arrest, following a 911 call for assistance after a disturbance in the Chili’s parking lot at 600 University Ave. The student was transported to Lubbock County Jail.

10:03 a.m. — A Tech officer responded to a medical emergency in the C3 parking lot. A child experienced a seizure. Emergency Medical Services transported her to Covenant Hospital.

10:24 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for possession of marijuana following a traffic stop in the 1000 block of Flint Ave. The nonstudent was

transported to Lubbock County Jail.

12:35 p.m. — A Lubbock County Sheriff Department deputy arrested a student for public intoxication in Section 113 of Jones AT&T Stadium.

The student was transported to Lubbock County Jail.

12:37 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance in the C16 parking lot. He also was charged with possession of synthetic marijuana. The student was transported to Lubbock County Jail.

12:45 p.m. — A Lubbock County Sheriff Department deputy arrested a student for public intoxication at Gate 6 of Jones AT&T Stadium. The student was transported to Lubbock County Jail.

1:18 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a nonstudent a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia following a traffic stop in the 3100 block of 18th St. The nonstudent signed the citation and was released.

2:02 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a temporary student staff member for public intoxication at the School of Law building.

The staff member was transported to Lubbock County Jail.

2:07 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated counterfeit currency, which occurred at the Jones AT&T Stadium cash room.

2:11 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for one

outstanding Lubbock County warrant in the 1700 block of Akron Ave. The nonstudent was issued a criminal trespass warning for all Tech property and was transported to Lubbock County Jail.

11:09 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries in the 2900 block of 19th St. Sunday 1:14 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia in Murray Residence Hall. The student signed the citation and was released.

2:35 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries in the 1800 block of Flint Ave. A nonstudent fled the scene and was arrested for resisting arrest or detention and an outstanding warrant.

The nonstudent also was charged for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and accident involving damage more than $200. The nonstudent was charged by the Lubbock Police Department for burglary of a habitation. The nonstudent was transported to Lubbock County Jail. Lubbock Wrecker Service impounded the nonstudent’s vehicle.

3:11 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries in the 1800 block of Flint Ave. The traffic accident involved a Tech vehicle.

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

Justices consider Michigan affirmative action ban WASHINGTON (AP) — Affirmative action opponents persuaded Michigan voters to outlaw any consideration of race after the Supreme Court ruled a decade ago that race could be a factor in college admissions.

That state’s constitutional amendment is now being examined by the high court to determine whether the change the voters sought is in fact discriminatory.

It is a proposition that even the lawyer for civil rights groups in favor of affirmative action acknowledges is a tough sell, at first glance.

“How can a provision that is designed to end discrimination in fact discriminate?” said Mark Rosenbaum of the American Civil Liberties Union. Yet that is the difficult argument Rosenbaum will make on Tuesday to a court that has grown more skeptical about taking race into account in education since its Michigan decision in 2003.

A victory for Rosenbaum’s side would imperil similar voterapproved initiatives that banned

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affirmative action in education in California and Washington state.

A few other states have adopted laws or issued executive orders to bar race-conscious admissions policies.

Black and Latino enrollment at the University of Michigan has

dropped since the ban took effect.

At California’s top public universities, African-Americans are a smaller share of incoming freshmen, while Latino enrollment is up slightly, but far below the state’s growth in the percentage of Latino high school graduates.

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LORENA LAKS, A junior psychology major from El Paso, speaks with Justin Cruz, assistant director of admissions at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, during the Law School Admissions Caravan on Monday in the Student Union Ballroom.

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but across the nation.

Halfway through his lecture, Hill revealed a famous photo of CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the lynching of Jesse WashingWells, Hill said, devoted her ton, a young African-American entire life to working on uplift- male accused of raping a girl. ing the issue of race in the U.S. Wa s h i n g t o n w a s b a d l y “Between 1892 and 1910, burned, disfigured and hanged Ida B. Wells is the pre-eminent because of this accusation, he anti-lynching activist in Amer- said. ica,” he said.

Hill also distributed two This was a time in American visual representations of how history before civil rights groups lynching was viewed in the such as NAACP began working early 1900s. for equal rights for AfricanA few students said the imAmericans, he said. ages showed the victims of In 1892, Hill said more than lynching to be martyrs with 160 lynchings of African-Amer- religious connections. icans were recorded.

Teddy Obodo, a junior comThese lynchings, he said, puter science major from Mesoccurred not just in the South, quite, said he was intrigued

by the information he learned about Wells and lynching in the early 1900s.

“It is very unfortunate that our people had to live in a time that was commonplace,” he said.

The photos, Obodo said, were shown to the class before, which made it a bit less impactful this time around, but he said the photos still disgusted him.

Bringing attention to lynching in the 1900s and recognizing people, including Wells, is something Obodo said could be done to increase the popularity of events, such as the lecture, in the future to educate students about civil rights. ➤➤mgonzales@dailytoreador.com

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Hance retirement leaves big shoes to fill Andrew Gleinser ceiving ample criticism from many fans for his role in the controversial ouster of the popular football coach. Regardless of whether Leach or the Tech administration was right, the incident reflected poorly on the university and left a great many fans disenfranchised through the disappointing Tommy Tuberville era.

In spite of this, Hance made it through and managed to smooth over some of the negative feelings.

What was a fractured fan base now is mostly repaired, thanks to the hiring of former Tech quarterback Kliff Kingsbury as the new football coach.

In all, Hance’s tenure as chancellor has been mostly positive.

In searching for his replacement,

it would do good to look at what made him successful and what did not.

The first thing a chancellor needs is political connections, specifically in Austin. He needs to be able to shake the money tree and get as much funding funneled into the university as possible, and that requires navigating the choppy Austin waters and forging connections in the state capitol.

Hance’s political history, having served in the Texas Senate, U.S. House of Representatives and on the Texas Railroad Commission, benefited him in this regard. The next chancellor will need to have similar connections to be effective at raising money, because let’s face

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it: It’s politics.

While not a job requirement, a major plus would be for the next chancellor to be a Tech alumnus. Hance regularly has made it known he graduated from and loves Tech, and a chancellor with a similar connection and love for the university would go a long way.

Something I was surprised to find out is how accessible Hance is to students.

Last fall, he took time to sit down with a lowly undergraduate working on a research paper, which I would wager many other chancellors would not do. For the next chancellor, having that quality would be a great boost in establishing relationships and rapport with the student body.

Hance has been a commanding presence at the head of the Tech System since 2006.

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ove him or hate him, one thing is undeniable: Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance’s retirement leaves big shoes to fill.

Hance has been a commanding presence at the head of the Tech System since 2006. He’s been the head of the administration, both figuratively and literally, through good times and bad times. And he’s left his mark on the university in a big way.

His fundraising has been his biggest accomplishment, having helped raise a total of $1.069 billion through his campaign, Vision and Tradition: The Campaign for Tech, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador. The growth of the university and the surrounding area since I arrived in Lubbock in 2009 is incredible.

He’s also helped improve Tech’s national stature and prestige as a top-notch university.

Hance’s tenure hasn’t been devoid of controversy, however. He weathered the storm that was the firing of Mike Leach in 2009, re-

It goes without saying the chancellor must represent the university in a positive and professional manner. He also would do well to avoid major scandals such as the Leach firing if at all possible. While much of this is not foreseeable, what the Board of Regents can do is ensure it hires someone who has no baggage to begin with.

One name floating about as a possible candidate is current U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer of the Lubbock area. Neugebauer is a Tech alumnus, but was quoted in the Amarillo Globe-News as saying he had “no desire” to replace Hance, which is probably for the best anyway, as Neugebauer simply is too politically polarizing a figure at this point to lead the university.

Perhaps the leading candidate is Texas Sen. Robert Duncan, also of the Lubbock area. According to the Texas Tribune, Duncan grew up in Vernon and is a Tech alumnus, receiving his bachelor’s and law degrees from the university, and has served in the Texas

Legislature since 1992. According to his Senate website, Duncan also served as student body president while at Tech.

The Texas Tribune also notes, “Duncan has served as chairman of the Senate Committee on State Affairs” since 2004 and, “is also a member of the Committee on Finance, the Committee on Higher Education and the Committee on Education.” Clearly, Duncan has been heavily involved in fiscal and educational matters, giving him great qualifications for the job.

More candidates likely will surface in the coming weeks and months, and the Board of Regents will no doubt perform its due diligence in choosing Hance’s successor. Whoever is chosen, he will have his work cut out for him to make as big of an impact on the university as Hance has done.

Gleinser is The DT’s opinions editor and a first-year law student from Kingwood. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

Christianity tells followers Library offers students options, convenience how to deal with tragedy GUEST COLUMN

Have you been to the Library lately? Have you used the Library website, library.ttu.edu? If you haven’t, you don’t know what you are missing.

Are you getting ready for midterms? Do you study with a group? Come in and use one of our GroupWorks computers.

Plug in your laptop and load the file (Word or Web document, Power Point stack) and work on it together. Or, if your document is on Raider Drive, you can access it directly from one of our 215 networked computers — We have both PCs and Macs.

If all you need is a group study room, we’ve got those, too. In

fact, you can immediately see what’s available and reserve study space by visiting reserve. lib.ttu.edu.

If you have trouble using a particular piece of software in class or on one of the Library’s computers, Lynda.com has thousands of online tutorials right at your fingertips. If you are between classes and the battery on your phone or tablet is running low, come into the Library and use one of our two high-speed charging stations. Come in and ask for help at any of our service desks or send an email to your personal librarian.

But what if what you really

need is help finding a few scholarly papers to support your argument in a speech, essay, research paper or literature review? Don’t wait until the last minute. Don’t waste valuable time and energy spinning your wheels. Make an appointment with your personal librarian.

Each department and degree program at Texas Tech is assigned a librarian with specific knowledge in your discipline and its literature. A brief interview can show you where and how to search online to get the best material for your project, efficiently and effectively.

And if you are thinking, “Oh

no, I’ll have to spend time in the stacks,” have no fears. Hundreds of thousands of electronic journal articles and electronic books are available for you to download and read, save to a flash drive or Raider Drive, or print on the spot.

Once you know where to go, further research can be done from the Library website 24/7, 365 days a year from anywhere. After all, the Library only is open 24/5 — we close Friday and Saturday nights during the semester.

Sheila Hoover is associate dean for outreach and information services at Texas Tech University Libraries.

Obama at fault for closing national parks, causing job loss If you are looking for an example of arbitrary, vindictive, authoritarian governance, look no further than the Obama administration’s barricading (henceforward, “Barrycading”) of national parks, monuments and their shutting down of government websites. In doing so, the Obama administration has hoped to shift blame for the government shutdown to the Republicans.

Obama is obviously holding a temper tantrum over not being able to control the U.S. in the manner he desires and spend however much he wants. Apparently, since the GOP frowns upon Obama’s attempt to take over one-sixth of the economy, veterans shouldn’t be allowed to visit the World War II Memorial and elderly couple, Ralph and Joyce Spencer, should be evicted from the private home they’ve been living in for 40 years on land leased from the federal government.

The National Park Service has appointed itself chief enforcer of Obama’s shutdown. Their actions speak for them-

selves. In Yellowstone on October 1, a tour group that included senior citizens from Australia, Japan, Canada and the United States found itself being put under armed guard by the park’s geyser police.

When the bus stopped along its route, and members of the group walked out to take photos of a nearby buffalo herd, an armed ranger harassed the visitors. The ranger claimed the tour group wasn’t allowed to “recreate” and repeated himself to the tour guide before the group shuffled back onto the bus and made their way to the in-park Old Faithful Inn. The situation at this lodge was worse.

For hours, armed rangers imprisoned the tour group in the building. When they were finally released from house arrest and driven from the park, this group was barred from using the restroom at a nearby in-park dude ranch, lest its owner lose his license to operate. The National Park Service appears to have perfected the art of Zersetzung.

Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, another small business was threatened by the National Park Service. For about two hours, the owner of the privately-run Pisgah Inn, which is under a concessions

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contract with the National Park Service, was able to operate, despite a 17 percent government shutdown and the attempts of a mindless, despotic bureaucracy to destroy his business.

When the National Park Service, which now only serves vengeful politicians, Barrycaded the driveways to his inn, all 100 of his employees were left idle.

Whether there will still be a Pisgah Inn to return to after the shutdown is uncertain.

Unlike the federal government, small businesses are sensitive to the market, and a two-week-long lapse in customers is highly detrimental to their profit margin.

The shutdown of government websites appears just as heinous. The Amber Alert website was, until recently, shut down, while the site for Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign was still up. From this, we can assume that, in President Obama’s opinion, whether the public should be informed of child-abductions is debatable while his wife’s health campaign should remain up and running at any cost.

Until we receive word that speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, is Barrycading the monuments himself, there is only one person to blame for these arbitrary closures:

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Barack Obama. The Republicans of the House proposed a bill to restart funding for the national parks, as well as veterans’ affairs, but did not succeed in gaining the requisite two-thirds majority. Had it passed, the Democrats of the Senate would have voted it down. They said so themselves, describing the Republicans’ bills as “cherry-picking.”

Obama’s attempt to blame the Republicans for his expulsion of Americans from their national parks and monuments is shocking in its conspicuousness. Long gone, apparently, are the days when presidents would make substantial attempts to hide their true motives. Obama seems to have lost any interest in opaqueness.

Now, he just commits flagrant abuses of power on the world stage, points to Republicans, and says, “They did it.” If only Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton had been this unabashed.

Obama has contempt for one of the principles of our republic: that the people own the federal government, not the other way around. Did the U.S. declare its independence from and wage war against a monarchy so that, in 237 years, every American citizen would be subject to the politically fueled caprices of government bureaucrats and politicians?

By AUTUMN MUMFORD

The COllegian (kansas sTaTe U.)

Every time I’ve turned on the news this week, I’ve heard a tragic story – from the naval base shooting in Washington, D.C., to the terrorist attack on a mall in Kenya to a shooting in Old Town in Wichita, Kan. It’s very difficult to look out at the world and stomach its tragedies. It’s even more difficult to know how to handle them ourselves or what our reaction should be.

Our initial response, because of our human nature, is to get angry.

We demand answers. We demand that these criminals be brought to justice. Yet, as a Christian, I have to stop and assess these tough situations. While some acts are sinful, responding to them with wrath is sinful as well. These emotions can get in front of us and put a roadblock in our relationship with God. As the Bible tells us in James 1:20, “human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.”

Getting angry at the individuals who took part in these violent acts will not change what they did. It doesn’t reunite families, and it doesn’t bring a feeling of real justice to our hearts. In fact, all being angry does is give the enemy the upper hand in the situation. Christianity tells us that being angry merely gives Satan the upper hand; he wants to tear down as many people as he can and he knows that hate is a great fuel for the fire. The people who committed these crimes are clearly not leading righteous lives. When we get angry, neither are we.

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must pray for His will to be done, for Him to bring comfort and healing, for His divine intervention and for His unfailing love to prevail, not only in this situation, but in our hearts. Only with His intervention can we sever the hate from our hearts.

Those who commit such acts are clearly not God-fearing. Their souls are clearly not saved; they do not follow the teachings of Christ and have no sense of right and wrong. They have been misled in the same way the Romans were when they crucified Jesus. We should pray, as Jesus did, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” They are clearly not aware of how wrong and devastating their actions are.

While Jesus is perfect, and we are not, we must find it in our hearts to forgive those who commit these crimes. Hanging onto malice only poisons our own souls, and leaves the door wide open for the enemy to slither through. Our morale is weakened when tragedies strike. We see a broken world. We see a world without morals or any sense of humanity. But Jesus is not of this world. As a matter of fact, he overcame it by his crucifixion and his perfect sacrifice: as he says in John 16:33, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

When we’re facing a horrible situation, it seems like our only option is to lash out. Yet my faith has taught me that the only solution is to get on my knees and pray.

We have to pray for the families affected, for the people who are suffering, for comfort and healing.

We also have to pray for forgiveness, not only for the forgiveness of assailant, but also for forgiveness to take place within our own hearts, so that we may be part of the solution and not part of the problem.

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Ranch horse team takes class to arena

By CATHERINE MCKEE News editor

Their classroom is filled with dirt, fenced in and full of flies.

Rather than spending time at a desk with textbooks, the Texas Tech Ranch Horse team prefers a different take on learning – an approach that takes them into an arena.

The team, which was the first of its kind and founded in 2004, is made up of 15 to 20 students who work to train their horses and compete in an arena, showing judges what they and their horses can do.

The students compete in four categories: stock horse pleasure, which measures how easy a horse is to ride; stock horse trail, which is an obstacle course; reining, which shows how well a horse handles; and working cow horse, in which horses must work with cattle.

For every competition, six team members are chosen to compete based on their performance during practices.

Ranch horse team coach Cooper Cogdell was on the team for three years and graduated from Tech in 2011.

After growing up on a ranch and working with horses, Cogdell said he wanted to bring that part of his life to college with him.

“I grew up showing cut horses as well, and I just wasn’t going to be able to do that as much and

this was going to be a great opportunity to do something else,” he said.

Although Cogdell led the team to a win in the 2012 National Collegiate Championship, he said he coaches because of his love for teaching, not winning.

“I guess I just grew up with a passion for horses,” he said. “But, then I just found it as a challenge to be able to train one horse for four different events. It’s just so much of a challenge. When you get done, if you do have a horse that can do all those things, you come out in the end with a lot better horse.”

The students on the team, who meet about three times a week, spend their practices training the horses they brought from home. The goal is to make the horses better suited for ranch work.

“You know, it’s something that they’re gonna come and get on this horse that’s already been trained,” he said. “It’s something that they’ve trained themselves.

It just means a lot more to a rider and then you’ve got a horse to go on with once you graduate.”

As team members, the students receive free board for their horses at the Tech Equestrian Center, Cogdell said, because storing horses while away from home can be difficult.

With only 15 or 16 colleges in the nation competing in the National Collegiate Championship show, tryouts are becoming

more competitive, he said.

While anyone is welcome to try out, Cogdell said when he picks team members, he looks for students who have a background with horses, are willing to learn and can represent Tech.

He determines this by not only having students perform in the arena with their horse, but also complete an interview with judges, he said.

Tryouts, Cogdell said, are typically every October, and students who are interested in joining the team can attend practice with their horses all semester.

Wearing the team uniform, a white shirt with a red Double T on its back, was a dream for Beth Hughes, a senior public relations major from Abilene, when she was in junior high.

“I was like in seventh or eighth grade, and I just wanted to ride for Tech,” she said. “Everywhere they went, they had those Double Ts and I was like ‘I want one of those. I want to be one of those guys.’”

After being accepted to Tech and receiving a horse suited to ranch horse competition, Hughes tried out and made the team in 2012.

When she found out she made the team, she said she texted everyone she knew and made a photo of her wearing the Double T shirt her social media profile picture.

Since joining the team, Hughes said she and her horse,

Hollywood-style sting nabs alleged pirate kingpin BRUSSELS (AP) — The alleged pirate kingpin thought he was going work in the movies.

Instead he landed in jail.

In a sting operation worthy of Hollywood, Mohamed Abdi Hassan was lured from Somalia to Belgium with promises of work on a documentary about high-seas crime that would “mirror his life as a pirate,” federal prosecutor Johan Delmulle said Monday.

But rather than being behind the camera as an expert adviser, Abdi Hassan ended up behind bars, nabbed as he landed Saturday at Brussels airport. “(He’s) one of the most important and infamous kingpin pirate leaders, responsible for the hijacking of dozens of commercial vessels from 2008 to 2013,” Delmulle said.

Abdi Hassan — whose nickname, Afweyne, means “Big Mouth” — was charged with hijacking the Belgian dredger Pompei and kidnapping its nine-member crew in 2009, Delmulle said.

The Pompei’s crew was released after 10 weeks in captiv-

ity when the ship’s owner paid a reported $3 million ransom.

Belgium caught two pirates involved in the hijacking, convicted them and sentenced them to nine and 10 years in prison.

But prosecutors still wanted the ringleaders.

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document from the Somali transitional government let him slip back home, according to a U.N. report last year that called him “one of the most notorious and influential” leaders of a piracy ring that has netted millions in ransom.

So Belgian authorities decided to go undercover to get him, because they knew he traveled very little and that an international arrest warrant would produce no results in unstable Somalia.

They approached an accomplice known as Tiiceey, dangling a fake job as an adviser to a fake movie about piracy, Delmulle said.

The two men took the bait. Tiiceey was also arrested Saturday.

The prosecutor refused to divulge any more details of the sting. The two Somalis were to appear in court Tuesday in Brugge.

(He’s) one of the most important and infamous kingpin pirate leaders, responsible for the hijacking of dozens of commercial vessels from 2008 to 2013.

“Too often, these people remain beyond reach while they let others do the dirty work,” Delmulle told reporters.

Malaysian authorities almost captured the reclusive Adbi Hassan in April 2012, but a

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BETH HUGHES, A senior public relations major from Abilene, takes her horse, Millie, for a lap around the main arena during her class Monday at the Texas Tech Equestrian Center.

Millie “Miss Thang,” have learned together, and Millie, who once was difficult to work with, has made a 180-degree turnaround.

For students who want to try out for the team, she said the best advice is to not be nervous because it may affect the horse.

Justin Stanton, a junior agricultural leadership major from Idalou, planned to try out for the team in October.

Stanton, who began riding horses at 8 years old, said he de-

cided he wanted to be part of the team in high school.

When he graduates from Tech, Stanton said he plans to become a horse trainer, so the ranch horse team experience will help him with his goal.

“I like it a lot. I’m learning a lot and what I’m really excited about is the opportunity to meet a lot of people in the industry,” he said. “That’s probably what I’m most excited about — just broaden my horizons.”

Because the team is complete-

ly funded by outside sponsors, the team members have the chance to meet with potential employers, Cogdell said.

A few students, he said, have received jobs through their membership with the team and have gone on to work at places such as 6666 Ranch.

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Powell, Motown Records’ chief of charm, dies at 98 DETROIT (AP) — Maxine Powell, who was responsible for developing the charm, grace and style of Motown Records’ artists during the Detroit label’s 1960s heyday, died Monday at age 98.

Motown Historical Museum CEO Allen Rawls said Powell died of natural causes at a hospital in Southfield, Mich.

She didn’t sing or write songs, but those associated with Motown say Powell was as essential to the label’s operations as any performer or producer.

She directed the label’s Artists Development Department, also known as “Motown’s Finishing School.” Through it, she emphasized to many artists — including Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Jackson Five and the Supremes — how they should carry themselves, treat people and dress.

Motown founder Berry Gordy said the training school was the only one of its kind offered at any record label.

“She brought something to Motown that no other record company had,” Gordy said in a statement Monday. “She was a star in her own right — an original. She will always be remembered for her style and class, and she instilled that into the Motown artists by teaching them how to walk, talk and even think with class.”

Powell’s passing comes less than two months after she was honored at the museum by Robinson and others.

“She was such an important, integral part of what we were doing

here at Motown,” Robinson said at the Aug. 26 event held at the famed Hitsville, U.S.A, building.

“It didn’t matter who you became during the course of your career — how many hits you had, how well your name was known around the world,” he said. “Two days a week when you were back in Detroit you had to go to artists’ development. It was mandatory.”

Gordy paid tribute to Powell via videotape during the celebration, joking that he still remembered many of Powell’s sayings, such as “Do not protrude the buttocks,” and “Do not confuse me with your parents — they’re stuck with you.

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STEPHANIE NORDLUND, A senior art education major from Plano, creates an on-site installment out of paper birds Monday in the Art building.

Portly Taft helped usher in modern obesity care WASHINGTON (AP) — Way before Weight Watchers or “The Biggest Loser,” a president known for his girth was helping to usher in a modern approach to treating obesity.

Got a nagging doctor? The 27th president, William H. Taft did, way back in the early 1900s.

A medical historian has analyzed letters between the two, complete with food diaries and daily weighins surely recognizable to many of today’s dieters.

Have a problem with yo-yo dieting and weight gain? Yep, Taft did, too.

Monday’s report offers a rare peek at the history of obesity, through the experiences of one of the first American public figures to struggle openly with weight — and

how a doctor aided in an era when physician treatment of obesity was just emerging.

Taft’s “rise to political power coincided with this change in medical thinking, which led to the first celebrity weight loss patient,” said Deborah Levine, an assistant professor at Rhode Island’s Providence College. Her report, part of research for a book about the course of obesity in the U.S., appears Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

Sports fans might recognize Taft as the latest addition to the Washington Nationals’ racing presidents. History buffs know he’s the only president-turned-Supreme Court chief justice. But he’s also remembered as the president whose weight, at times well over 300

pounds, made headlines.

Taft hired British dieting expert Nathaniel Yorke-Davies in 1905, four years before becoming president. Then 314 pounds, Taft was worried about heartburn and other health problems — he was famously fatigued, presumably from obesity-caused sleep apnea — and possibly also about his career, Levine wrote.

The candid exchanges between doctor and patient highlight the ups and down of weight loss.

“I feel in excellent condition.

I used to suffer from acidity of stomach, and I suppose that was due to overloading it,” Taft wrote at one point.

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century problem, said Dr. Scott Kahan of George Washington University and the STOP Obesity Alliance.

Yes, obesity rates have surged to epidemic levels over the past few decades. But waistlines actually began to expand in the mid-19th century, as food became easier to cultivate and distribute, Kahan said. Diet books and pamphlets began flourishing. Where women’s corsets offered some tightening, Levine says obesity belts were developed for men.

Even then it was clear there was no quick fix. And if you think high-calorie restaurant food is only a recent problem, well, Taft wrote a relative that all the formal dinners required in politics sabotaged his efforts.

PODAMPETTA, India (AP) — Agya Amma’s house in this seaside village was flattened by the cyclone that roared in from the Bay of Bengal with torrential rains and winds topping 200 kilometers (131 miles) per hour. But the fact that she was still here on Monday, surveying the pile of twisted wood and shredded thatch that had been her home, was proof that this was a different kind of disaster for India.

Unlike past storms that have lashed India’s eastern coast, Cyclone Phailin did not extract a heavy human toll, thanks to a massive and improbable evacuation effort that effectively moved nearly 1 million residents of one of India’s poorest regions out of the storm’s path and into government shelters.

By Monday, only 25 people had been reported killed, even though tens of thousands of homes were destroyed. The successful evacuation effort was earning rare praise for a country known for large-scale disasters that have caused high death tolls. In 1999, a cyclone that struck the same coast killed about 10,000 people, while more than 6,000 were killed in June by flooding and mudslides in another Indian state, Uttarakhand.

“If we had stayed here, everyone in the village would be dead,” said Amma, a 55-year-old fisherwoman. “I consider myself lucky to be alive.”

Despite the comparatively low number of deaths, Phailin still dealt its share of misery, as hundreds of thousands of coastal residents found themselves huddling in shelters, their homes flattened and crops destroyed by the most powerful storm to hit India in more than a decade.

At least four days before the cyclone hit, police in the coastal states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh began traveling through villages to warn residents of the coming storm and urge them to go to government shelters set up in schools and other concrete buildings.

While a few chose to ignore the

warnings or stay home to guard their belongings, many had lived through the cyclone 14 years ago that killed 10,000.

By Friday, the day before the cyclone hit land, hundreds of thousands of people had moved inland.

Amma and others from her tiny village of Podampetta walked 1.5 kilometers (a mile) to the nearest shelter and spent two nights waiting out the storm.

On Monday, residents ventured out to see the destruction, and many of them learned that they had lost everything.

“There is nothing to eat, no place for me to stay,” said Buchi Amma, 50, another Podampetta villager not related to Agya Amma.

She said she had no idea how she and her husband would be able to buy food.

“I only want life to get back to normal,” she said, standing atop the concrete slabs of her shattered home.

A lake the size of a football field, formed when sea water surged ashore, cut across the main road out of Podampetta.

For the tens of thousands made homeless, authorities were distributing tarps so people could build makeshift shelters, state police official M.N. Rao said.

“Relief centers have been opened, and food is being supplied to the people, both dry rations as well as cooked food when possible,” he said.

Officials worked Monday to clear roads and restore communications. Train services were being restarted.

The death toll of 25 was expected to rise as officials reach isolated areas along the cyclone-battered coast, and parts of Orissa were still facing massive flooding after heavy rains brought by the cyclone caused rivers to overflow.

Hundreds of thousands of people were marooned Monday in the district of Balasore, where the situation “is critical,” according to P.K. Mohapatra, the state’s head of relief operations.

Church, state deny Rome funeral for Nazi ROME (AP) — What to do with the body of a Nazi war criminal no one wants?

Rome’s mayor, police chief and the pope’s right-hand man have all refused to grant former SS captain Erich Priebke a church funeral in the city where he participated in one of the worst massacres in German-occupied Italy.

Now there’s the added question of where to bury him, since Rome, his adopted homeland of Argentina, and his hometown in Germany won’t take him.

Priebke spent nearly 50 years as a fugitive before being extradited to Italy from Argentina in 1995 to stand trial for the 1944 massacre at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome, in which 335 civilians were killed. He died Friday at age 100 in the Rome home of his lawyer, Paolo Giachini, where he had been serving his life term under house arrest.

His death has raised a torrent of emotions over how best to lay to rest someone who perpetrated war crimes and denied the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews. It has tested the church’s capacity for mercy and forgiveness and its need to prevent public scandal. There is a seemingly intractable conflict between respect for the dead and

that owed to the millions of victims of the Holocaust.

Rome’s archdiocese said Monday it had told Giachini to have the funeral at home “in strict privacy” and that Pope Francis’ vicar for Rome, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, had prohibited any Rome church from celebrating it.

But Giachini refused, pressing instead for a private church Mass. The archdiocese responded by reminding all Roman priests that they must abide by Vallini’s decision.

Separately, Rome’s police chief and the government prefect for the capital announced they would prohibit “any form of solemn or public celebration” for Priebke because of public security concerns.

Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino said the city would accept neither a church funeral nor a burial for him.

It was a rebuke by both church and state that was greatly appreciated by Rome’s Jewish community, which has long resented having Priebke living in its midst, particularly after he was granted small freedoms from his house arrest like going to church.

“Any demonstration of honor — civil or religious — would be an intolerable affront to the memory of those who fell in the fight for

freedom of Nazism and fascism,” said the head of Italy’s Jewish communities, Renzo Gattegna.

During his trial, Priebke admitted shooting two people and rounding up victims in retaliation for an attack by resistance fighters that killed 33 members of a Nazi military police unit. He insisted he was only following orders.

In his final interview released upon his death, he denied the Nazis gassed Jews during the Holocaust and accused the West of inventing such crimes to cover up atrocities committed by the Allies during World War II. Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici, chief rabbi of Rome’s Jewish community, suggested Priebke be cremated and his ashes dispersed in the air “like those of our grandparents,” the ANSA news agency reported.

“He would be cremated while dead, unlike the millions of children who went into the ovens and for whom Priebke never had pity.”

In a telephone interview, Priebke’s lawyer said he never intended to make a political or public event out of the funeral, but said that as a practicing Catholic, Priebke deserved a Catholic funeral and burial.

“It’s a question of a right to religious liberty,” he said.

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club for viticulture and enology students gives them a place where they belong.

The senior viticulture and enology major from Cedar City, Utah, said becoming involved in a club gives students ownership of their college.

“I didn’t really get involved in anything the first three years here. I didn’t really get involved in anything,” Ricks said. “Now that I’m involved in this, I kind of have more allegiance to Texas Tech. I feel proud that I’m in this program.”

Bateman said she wanted to be in Wine Club because as a viticulture and enology major it’s a neat club to be involved in as not a lot of people know about the topic.

They thought starting this club, she said, would be a great idea to understand what they do and let other people know how interesting it is.

“That’s part of the reason I joined Wine Club,” Bateman said.

“The other reason is because I’m very interested in it. I actually work at a winery. I kind of want to go into that field of business.”

Because she graduates in December, Bateman said she would like to see other people interested in the club picking it up and taking over.

The goal, she said, is to give outside sources and information to students and interested people rather than just sitting in a classroom learning about it.

“We want to see what it’s like in real life and how it gets handled, get that hands-on experience,” Bateman said.

The club officers said the first general meeting open to students will be hosted Nov. 7.

“We want it to be very hands on,” she said. “We want guest speakers, tours, things like that, to see every aspect of winemaking and what goes into it, from vineyard all the way to production and then into marketing.”

Kyle Johnston, a senior viticulture and horticulture major from Galveston, said the interest to revamp the club was always there, but the club hasn’t had the leadership or the departmental and faculty support.

He said it has those things now.

“It’s just another way for us to share the passion we all have and learn more about it and teach other people about it,” Johnston said.

Michael Ricks said having a

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Winning always nice substitute for Shulenberger

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury has shown there is no need for a grace period to achieve immediate success as a coach, and Tech soccer’s associate head coach Todd Shulenberger has, too.

Shulenberger may not have the flash or cool, but the Red Raiders are winning just the same.

Oddly enough, Shulenberger had the tougher task on his hands. Kingsbury was not expected to have the football team 6-0 in his first season.

Shulenberger, however, entered with expectations to maintain the level the soccer team had achieved and help it push further.

Replacing coaches has the potential to be a bumpy situation for teams looking to carry momentum from season to season, especially when former coaches so integral to the culture, such as Aaron and Ashley Gordon, leave a program.

Shulenberger, though, has fit like a glove for this Tech squad.

Tech coach Tom Stone said he appreciates what his friend of 10 years, Aaron Gordon and his wife, Ashley, have meant to Tech soccer and knows it was time to let them move on.

It is important, however, for a program replacing two great coaches

to have the ability to recruit other great coaches so there is no drop off, Stone said.

“When those two got an opportunity,” he said, “we were able to recruit Bri (Young), Molly (Franklin) and Todd which have done an unbelievable job keeping this thing moving forward.”

Shulenberger said the relationship he built with coach Stone prior to arriving in Lubbock is what brought him here and allowed for such a smooth transition. The two coaches became friends during their times coaching at the club level in Atlanta.

Even with their close relationship, Tech could not excel like it has this season without the culture Stone and the Gordons cultivated in the seven previous seasons, Shulenberger said. “(Aaron and Ashley Gordon) have done a tremendous job here with Tom building this program,” he said. “So it was a transition based on what Aaron, Ashley and coach Tom (Stone) did to make this work for me.”

Shulenberger not only developed ties to Stone while in Atlanta, he said.

All four — the Gordons, Stone and he — became close during that moment in their lives.

This provided Shulenberger with easy lines of communication with the Gordons, he said. While he was coming to Tech and the Gordons were moving

on to coach at Mississippi State, he was able to talk to them about what he needed to do to have success with the women on the team.

The players on the team made it so there was not much to do but implement his philosophies, Shulenberger said. “(Having talented players already in position) helps a lot,” he said. ”Again, those girls go back to what Tom and the staff have built that has allowed this process to move along, and it’s a great group of girls. No. 1, they work extremely hard. They are very competitive, and they want to get better every day. They are conditioned to get better.”

Senior goalkeeper Victoria Esson said Shulenberger began working with the team in the spring and that there were a few weeks of adjusting to the new dynamic on both sides. The players had to wear names so he could learn them and also had to adapt to his coaching.

Shulenberger did not overhaul everything the players knew, Esson said. He fit rather nicely with the team chemistry and has made the team better.

“He’s great,” she said. “He has been working a lot with the defense and everyone loves him. He’s got some really good drills, and he is really making us

a better defensive unit from the strikers right back to the goalkeepers. So we’re very grateful to have him here.”

On defense, Shulenberger said he brings a philosophy focused on minimizing solid shots on goal from corner kicks for opponents. He also wants his defense to deny any crosses or shots around the box, along with good heading and clearing.

“If you can do those things,” Shulenberger said, “and we’re already gifted in the back, you can make the pieces there hopefully something really special to happen.”

He might already have something special on his hands. The Red Raiders are 13-1-2 overall, and 7-0-2 away from John Walker Soccer Complex. The defense has recorded 11 shutouts up to this point in the season.

The excellence Shulenberger has with the team’s defense along with the success of the other coaches is a tribute to Tech, Stone said. The program has been able to maintain a high level of play because the atmosphere at Tech is so attractive to great coaches.

Shulenberger might not have the cool or flash like Kingsbury, but he might have something in common with him in the near future if his defense keeps shutting out teams — head coach Todd Shulenberger. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH Todd Shulenberger has focused the Texas Tech soccer team's defense, which has notched 11 shutouts this season.

Big 12 Conference set for wide-open race with early surprises (AP) — There are some early surprises in the Big 12 Conference, which is still setting up as the expected wide-open race.

The league’s only undefeated teams are 12th-ranked Baylor (50, 2-0 Big 12) and No. 16 Texas Tech (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) with new coach and former quarterback Kliff Kingsbury.

And Texas, after going 1-2 in nonconference games with big losses to BYU and Mississippi, is 3-0 in the Big 12 after a seasonshifting victory over Oklahoma last weekend in the Red River Rivalry that the Sooners had dominated recently.

“We’re so fortunate to be in a conference,” Longhorns coach Mack Brown said. “Teams that are independent, after they have some problems early don’t have a chance to rebound and still save

their season and have something to play for.”

With eight weeks left in the regular season, the top five teams in the league standings still have to play each other, except for that 36-20 win by Texas (4-2) over the 18th-ranked Sooners (5-1, 2-1).

“Our league is exciting this year because there is not ‘A’ team that everybody can pick,” Brown said. “It’s already changed two or three times.”

Meanwhile, defending Big 12 champion Kansas State is 0-3 in conference play going into an open date.

“It’s a strong belief of ours that anybody can defeat anyone else on any given day,” coach Bill Snyder said. “I think that’s proving out right now.”

When Big 12 coaches submit-

ted their preseason ballots back in July, six different teams got first-place votes. Texas Tech wasn’t one of them, and was picked to finish seventh.

“I think it’s the same way if we had looked at it in August, you look at it and say it’s a wideopen race,” Baylor coach Art Briles said during the weekly teleconference with Big 12 coaches. “Nothing has changed as we’re into October. I don’t think it’s a surprise to anybody.”

Except maybe the early order of the teams.

Baylor, which averaged more than 70 points is first four games, survived its first road test. They Bears won 35-25 Saturday at Kansas State, which was intent of avenging the lopsided loss from last season when the Wildcats got to Waco as the No. 1

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Webb earns honor following performance

By MICHAEL DUPONT II SportS Editor

After securing its sixthstraight victory and achieving bowl-eligible status, No. 16 Texas Tech (6-0, 3-0) received its second Big 12 Conference Offensive Player of the Week award.

Freshman quarterback Davis Webb was awarded the honor for his performance in a 42-35 victory against Iowa State (1-4, 0-2).

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said seeing Webb flourish excites him because of the work his quarterbacks have been putting in.

“It’s fun to see,” he said. “He was disappointed earlier in the year, obviously, at not being named the starter, but never blinked an eye. (Webb) kept working and kept getting better, and he’s progressed and progressed and progressed and really played well and made some big-time throws. I’m excited to see him have that success, and I’m sure he’s going to keep getting better.”

Webb passed for 415 yards while completing 35 of his 56 attempts, including three touchdowns and an interception.

Following the victory, Webb became the third quarterback in the Big 12 to pass for 400 yards (freshman Baker Mayfield, junior Blake Bell).

Co-offensive coordinator Sonny Cumbie said the statistics and accolades show the Red Raiders are fortunate to have multiple quarterbacks who aren’t blinded by inexperience and an experienced support group to assist them along the way.

“That’s pretty remarkable,” he said. “When we heard about that this morning, we, as a staff, just kind of laughed because it’s just a testament of the type of players that they are and the type of players that they have around them. They prepare really well, they’re obviously really talented to be freshmen and doing what they’re doing, but they’ve got a lot of good players around them.”

Webb was sacked twice during the performance. According to the Big 12 website, Tech surrendered an average of two

sacks per game through its first six games.

Kingsbury said the offensive line continues to find ways to sustain its energy throughout the entire game.

“I think their getting in shape is the No. 1 thing,” he said. “You can see more effort throughout all four quarters. Playing at the tempo we want to play at, playing at the speed we want to play at, and then the hustle has really picked up, so that’s encouraging.

That solves a lot of problems when they’re playing that hard.”

The Red Raiders rank first in the conference for opponent third-down conversions. Tech is keeping opponents to a 28 percent conversion rate on third downs.

Defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt said the defensive success on third downs allows the Red Raiders more opportunities on offense.

“If you can win the third down battle and get off the field, give the ball back to our offense, good things are going to happen,” he said.

Kingsbury said he had not

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TEXAS TECH QUARTERBACK Davis Webb winds up to pass the ball during the Red Raiders’ 42-35 win against Iowa State on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Webb had 415 passing yards.

received an update on Mayfield’s status at the time, but he expects to know by the end of the week.

Cumbie said Tech is lucky to be in a situation where each quarterback has experience

winning football games in the conference.

“We’re very fortunate to have the situation we got,” he said, “where we really have three guys that can win us ball games in the

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Trial starts in slaying of Washington Redskins’ Sean Taylor MIAMI (AP) — Nearly six years ago, All-Pro safety Sean Taylor was at home nursing an injury instead of taking the field with his Washington Redskins teammates for a road game at Tampa. Unfortunately, a group of young men from southwest Florida apparently didn’t know that.

Prosecutors say the suspects drove across the state intending to burglarize Taylor’s Miami-area home, confident he wouldn’t be there. When the 6-foot-2, 230-pound player — well known as a ferocious hitter — confronted them with a machete early on Nov. 26, 2007, Eric Rivera Jr. allegedly fired two shots. One missed.

The other hit Taylor in the upper leg, causing massive blood loss that led to

his death a day later at age 24.

Finally, after numerous delays, jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday for Rivera’s first-degree murder trial. Because Rivera, now 23, was only 17 at the time of the crime, he faces life in prison instead of the death penalty if convicted. Jury selection is expected to take about four days.

Four other people were also charged in the case. One of them, Venjah Hunte, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and burglary charges and is expected to testify against Rivera. The other three are scheduled to go to trial later on lesser charges. Hunte’s plea deal calls for a 29-year prison term instead of life.

Although Taylor had some run-ins

with the law and been fined several times by the NFL for various rules violations, his future seemed extremely bright before he was killed. The son of Florida City Police Chief Pedro Taylor and an All-American player at the University of Miami, the Redskins drafted Taylor with the fifth overall pick in the 2004 draft and he signed an $18 million contract.

Taylor quickly became a starter and was nicknamed “Meast” by teammates — a combination of man and beast — because of his hard-hitting style. He was named to the Pro Bowl after the 2006 season and was also very popular among Redskins players and fans. One of his best friends, wide receiver Santana Moss, said he still

says “a little prayer” for Taylor every time he takes the field.

“I have a few people that have passed away in my life as friends that have meant something to me, and I’m always constantly speaking to them.

That’s just something I do. He’s one of those guys,” Moss said.

The Redskins contributed $500,000 to a fund for Taylor’s young daughter after he died and, in the first game after his slaying, the team’s defense took the field against Buffalo with only 10 players on the first play — leaving Taylor’s free safety position vacant to honor him. Fans at that game got towels bearing his number, 21.

To many fans, players and oth-

ers connected with both the Redskins and the “U’’ at Miami, it was heartbreaking to see such a talented player’s life and career cut short so brutally.

“He was a young man who was learning quickly how to be a great human being, and, to me, he was the best football player I’ve ever seen in person,” said former Redskins tight end Chris Cooley, a nine-year veteran who now does broadcasts for the team.

“He was the most physical, the most gifted, the hardest-working guy that I’ve been around, and it was such an unfortunate thing.”

Former Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, now a NASCAR racing team owner, said Taylor began to mature and take

a leadership role on the team after the birth of his daughter.

“It wound up being a true tragedy and it had a huge effect on all of us,” Gibbs said of Taylor’s killing. “He was one of those guys that with the way he played and his persona the way he was, he was a natural leader. You could see guys look to him from a leadership standpoint.”

The fatal attempted burglary was not the first time there was a break-in at Taylor’s home.

Police say someone pried open a window a few days earlier, on Nov. 17, and rifled through a desk and other belongings. No one was home that time, and it’s not clear exactly what, if anything, was taken.