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Texas trial draws gun advocates’ attention BELTON (AP) — A soldier arrested for carrying an assault rifle told the police officer who arrested him that he had the weapon, “because he could,” the officer said Wednesday during a trial that has the attention of national gun rights advocates.

Army Master Sgt. Christopher Grisham is charged with a misdemeanor count of interfering with the duties of an officer. Temple police officer Steve Ermis, whose confrontation with Grisham was captured on cellphone video and posted online, testified Wednesday that Grisham’s behavior concerned him and that he wasn’t entirely sure why Grisham had the AR-15 rifle.

Grisham was arrested while hiking with his 15-year-old son, who was working on the requirements for a Boy Scout badge. Closing arguments are expected Thursday.

Student loan borrowers worry of repayment snags WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have received more than 3,800 complaints in the last year from borrowers of private student loans, with common problems related to payment processing and requests for loan modifications.

The complaints against lenders were documented in a report released Wednesday by the federal student loan ombudsman, Rohit Chopra, of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The complaints represent a tiny fraction of the millions of private student loans outstanding. About 13.7 million private student loans were outstanding at the end of 2011, the bureau and the Education Department estimated.

Many of the repayment problems occurred when borrowers attempted to pay off their loans early or in a certain sequence to lessen the impact of higher interest rates, Chopra said.

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Congress votes to end shutdown WASHINGTON (AP) — Up against a deadline, Congress passed and sent a waiting President Barack Obama legislation late Wednesday night to avoid a threatened national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown, the culmination of an epic political drama that placed the U.S. economy at risk.

The Senate voted first, a bipartisan 81-18 at midevening. That cleared the way for a final 285-144 vote in the Republican-controlled House about two hours later on the legislation, which hewed strictly to the terms Obama laid down when the twin crises erupted more than three weeks ago.

The legislation would permit the Treasury

Federal research may stall from shutdown

By LYNSEY MEHARG Staff Writer

When talk first began of the government shutdown, many Americans were not positive of what a government closing would mean.

While the closing of national parks and furlough of government workers were among the most noticeable effects, in the aftermath of the shutdown people have found many federally funded scientific projects also were affected.

Although the shutdown has ended, the federal research funding process will not be caught up overnight.

Michael San Francisco, vice president of research, broke the shutdown’s potential effects on Texas Tech research into three categories.

“The immediate impact is that when proposals are submitted to agencies they have to go through a specific process, and right now all those processes on the federal government’s end — the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation for example— those are being held up, so to speak,” he said. “You can put something in the pipeline, but it’s not going to go anywhere.”

A bigger issue might be some proposals with October deadlines are going to have those deadlines delayed. Payments for grants and contracts already underway were delivered, but those scheduled to come in later were delayed, San Francisco said.

Research through Tech focuses on issues that affect the population dealing with everything from technology to medicine and food science.

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to borrow normally through Feb. 7 or perhaps a month longer, and fund the government through Jan. 15. More than 2 million federal workers would be paid — those who had remained on the job and those who had been furloughed.

After the Senate approved the measure, Obama hailed the vote and said he would sign it immediately after it reached his desk.

“We’ll begin reopening our government immediately and we can begin to lift this cloud of uncertainty from our businesses and the American people.”

Later, in the House, Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said, “After two long weeks, it is time to end this government shutdown. It’s time to

take the threat of default off the table. It’s time to restore some sanity to this place.”

The stock market surged higher at the prospect of an end to the crisis that also had threatened to shake confidence in the U.S. economy overseas.

Republicans conceded defeat after a long struggle. “We fought the good fight. We just didn’t win,” conceded House Speaker John Boehner as lawmakers lined up to vote on a bill that includes nothing for GOP lawmakers who had demand to eradicate or scale back Obama’s signature health care overhaul.

“The compromise we reached will provide our economy with the stability it desperately needs,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry

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Reid, declaring that the nation “came to the brink of disaster” before sealing an agreement.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who negotiated the deal with Reid, emphasized that it preserved a round of spending cuts negotiated two years ago with Obama and Democrats. As a result, he said, “government spending has declined for two years in a row” for the first time since the Korean War. “And we’re not going back on this agreement,” he added.

Only a temporary truce, the measure set a time frame of early next winter for the next likely clash between Obama and the Republicans over spending and borrowing.

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By LIANA SOLIS Staff Writer

While diversity is prevalent and alive in some parts of the world, others are lacking.

The third annual Celebrate Diversity Awards Banquet was Wednesday at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

Juan Munoz, senior vice president, opened the ceremony by thanking the sponsors and people who came to the event.

“The turnout of this banquet is simply remarkable,” Munoz said. “The sponsors, guests and of course staff are the only reasons these events even happen.”

Munoz said Texas Tech aims to be a prime example as a school that celebrates and shows diversity.

“When you look at Texas Tech and our achievements, we are a model school for first-generation college students for example,” Munoz said. “Excellence and diversity is what Texas Tech is all about.”

This year’s keynote speaker for the banquet was award-winning broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien.

O’Brien opened the ceremony by sharing her first experience about her first job as a staple-remover.

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SOLEDAD O’BRIEN, AN award winning journalist with CNN, speaks about her experiences with diversity during the Celebrate Diversity Awards Banquet on Wednesday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

“I dropped out of Harvard to take this job as a staple-remover at this news station, which of course disappointed my parents,” O’Brien said. “I absolutely loved it though and I just loved being part of a team.”

O’Brien said it took her 26 years of bad-paying jobs to finally get to where she is today.

“It’s amazing that after 26 years I went from being the staple-remover girl to a reporter covering some of the biggest news of our time,” O’Brien said.

Especially when she first started out, she said she had a hard time landing jobs, sometimes because of discrimina-

tion problems.

“The first place I interviewed at told me they only had a position for someone who was black and that my skin was too light for what they wanted,” O’Brien said. “Then I went to another place that said they wanted me to change my name because it would be unpopular with the audience. It was very discouraging and I was left calling my mom crying after every interview.”

O’Brien said her mother encouraged her to keep trying and to go where she was appreciated.

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Student Government Association promotes sustainability on Tech campus

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In honor of the Sierra Club naming Texas Tech the top university in Texas for sustainability, Student Government Association hosted an event to display ways in which Tech leads the field.

The event, which was part of SGA Week, took place Wednesday in the Red Raider Lounge of the Student Union Building and featured booths from different organizations, showing the diversity of the sustainability programs at Tech.

Brad Johnson, sustainability coordinator, said sustainability is broken into three equal responsibilities: economic, environmental and social, to complete the umbrella term.

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directly relates to its use of resources, so his office aims to save energy and, in effect, save resources.

“What my office would like to take from this event is just for a greater awareness of what people can do on their own, the things that can be done day to day to help with sustainability on campus,” he said.

Jackie Kimbler, unit manager for University Student Housing, promoted how Housing and Hospitality Services have made an impact by recycling.

She said housing does many things with sustainability, such as green cleaning and the lighting used in residence halls, but the major thing it does is recycling.

In the last year, housing collected more than 99 tons of cardboard, 41 tons of metal, 17 tons of plastic and seven tons of paper.

Kimbler said housing works with American Fiber, who takes their plastics and papers. From there, American Fiber bales the products and sends them to a manufacturer. Housing gives the metals to CMC. SGA continued on Page 3 ➤➤

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ELIZABETH GILLUM, A senior exercise and sport sciences major from Corpus Christi, talks with Ciara Gaines, a senior electronic media and communication major from Dallas, about University Student Housing during the Sustainability Research Day luncheon hosted by the Student Government Association on Wednesday inside the Student Union Building Red Raider Lounge. The event allowed students to talk to various representatives of sustainability organizations

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When a video of its electric automobile bursting into flames hit the Internet, the company’s stock dropped 8 percent in a matter of days.

Tesla Motors’ vehicle caught fire after a metal object pierced its undercarriage damaging the battery.

Tesla Motors was one example presented to students during the Rawls College of Business Chief Executives Roundtable, featuring speaker Jonathan Copulsky on Wednesday.

During the presentations, Copulsky presented his seven tips for managing brand risk and recovery while presenting examples relevant to students and professionals,

such as the Tesla incident.

“What happens when bad things happen to good companies?” Copulsky said. “One small piece of bad news can affect a company greatly.”

One example used by the speaker was Tiger Woods’ fall from grace in 2009. After Woods’ dirty laundry was publicly aired, seven publicly traded companies he was involved with lost about $12 billion in market value. The effect on the Professional Golfers’ Association of America during Woods’ leave from the tour was a 50 percent decrease in viewers from Nov. 29 through December.

During the presentation, Copulsky said bad news can negatively impact companies on a large scale and effectively maintaining support from consumers could help

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Social media to see increase in advertisements

By JOSE SOSA Staff Writer

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Vine all have one thing in common: They are free.

However, technically they aren’t free. The companies are primarily paid by the money received through advertisements.

“No matter how much we complain about ads, advertisers use them because they work,” said Ann Rodriguez, instructor of journalism and public relations.

Lately, Facebook became a website filled with a lot of advertisements, which has driven away some Facebook users, according to a Forbes article.

However, Twitter and Instagram soon will follow in Facebook’s footsteps.

The primary reason is because those advertisements bring in the needed revenue. This year they have run up a loss of $70 million, according to Twitter’s S-1 financial forms.

However, the addition of more advertisements could backfire on the

social networking sites. Facebook has experienced plenty of criticism for overcrowding users with advertisements.

“Ads are annoying, that’s why I stopped using Facebook,” said Brenna Coffman, a freshman exercise and sport sciences major from Baird.

Instagram announced it will slowly start to integrate image and 15-second video advertisements.

Many Instagram users posted on Instagram’s blog they hate the fact they will have to go through advertisements to see content.

Instagram officials replied by reassuring users advertisements will be as natural as possible.

The top four reasons for not clicking on an advertisement are: People worry their Internet behavior will be tracked, they don’t trust advertisements, they worry about getting a virus and they are afraid of receiving spam, according to Performance Marketing Insider.

“It’s scary how well-targeted the ads are towards you — makes you real-

ize how much information you release on a daily basis,” Rodriguez said.

Many users said they would be willing to pay for an advertisement-free experience, according to Greenlight Polls.

Canadian advertising company, Vancouver Junction Creative, used the number of users and other variables to calculate the price to use social media outlets add free.

They figured it would cost 42 cents per month or $5.04 per year to have an advertisement-free experience on Facebook, and for Twitter it would cost 19 cents per month or $2.29 per year.

“I think ads are annoying, but I wouldn’t be willing to pay,” said L’Aryn Bevels, a sophomore marketing management major from Plano.

Businessmen and investors are two groups who like using advertisements in social media. Having ads helps boost profitability otherwise unachievable.

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France expels girl to Kosovo after class trip MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Leonarda Dibrani was finishing up a field trip when French police showed up at the bus, detaining the 15-year-old schoolgirl in front of her classmates before authorities expelled her to Kosovo because her family’s asylum application had been rejected.

The incident earlier this month, but which was made public this week, has sparked outrage from immigrant groups and others who say police went too far in publicly shaming the

teenager. It has also been an embarrassment for President Francois Hollande’s government, which has tried to portray a kinder France in a bid to distance itself from conservative predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, known for his tough immigration policies.

An investigation into the treatment of the girl, which also drew criticism from within the ranks of Hollande’s Socialist Party, has been launched.

Now, Dibrani says she just wants to

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“I was crying on my teacher’s lap and he was crying,” Dibrani said Wednesday, recounting her ordeal in an interview with The Associated Press. “My friends asked: ‘Did you kill someone that the police are looking for you?’ I was afraid. I felt bad and ashamed.

“My home is in France,” Dibrani said in French, dressed in jeans and a colorful paisley print tunic. “I don’t speak the language here and I don’t know anyone. I just want to go back to France and forget everything that happened.”

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But for now, government was lurching back to life. In one example, officials met to discuss plans for gearing back up at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where 307 employees remained at work during the partial shutdown and more than 8,000 were furloughed.

After weeks of gridlock, the measure had support from the White House, most if not all Democrats in Congress and many Republicans fearful of the economic impact of a default.

Boehner and the rest of the top GOP leadership told their rank and file they would vote for the measure, and there was little or no doubt it would pass both houses and reach the White House in time for Obama’s signature before the administration’s 11:59 p.m. Oct. 17 deadline.

That was when Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said the government would reach the current $16.7 trillion debt limit and could no longer borrow to meet its obligations.

Tea party-aligned lawmakers who triggered the shutdown that began on Oct. 1 said they would vote against the legislation. Significantly, though, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and others agreed not to use the Senate’s cumbersome 18thcentury rules to slow the bill’s progress.

In remarks on the Senate floor, Cruz said the measure was “a terrible deal” and criticized fellow Republicans for lining up behind it.

McConnell made no mention of the polls showing that the shutdown and flirtation with default have sent Republicans’ public approval plummeting and have left the party badly split nationally as well as in his home state of Kentucky.

He received a prompt reminder, though.

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attack, Copulsky said.

His seven tips, which may help businesses prepare for such events, include assessing internal and external brand risks, developing and deploying an early warning system, preparing to repel the inevitable attacks, leaning and adapting, measuring and tracking brand value and impact, and cultivating brand ambassadors before the next brand meltdown.

Tamuka Simango, a junior global supply chain major from Plano, felt hearing Copulsky’s story and advice would benefit Tech students.

“I think some of the reasons it was really beneficial was that to understand as business majors that business leaders have different ideas and opinions on how to achieve success,” Simango said.

the right in a 2014 election primary.

More broadly, national tea party groups and their allies underscored the internal divide. The Club for Growth urged lawmakers to vote against the congressional measure, and said it would factor in the organization’s decision when it decides which candidates to support in midterm elections next year.

“There are no significant changes to Obamacare, nothing on the other major entitlements that are racked with trillions in unfunded liabilities, and no meaningful spending cuts either. If this bill passes, Congress will kick the can down the road, yet again,” the group said.

Even so, support for Boehner appeared solid inside his fractious rank and file. “There are no plots, plans or rumblings that I know of. And I was part of one in January, so I’d probably be on the whip list for that,” said Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out in favor of the bill.

Simplicity at the end, there was next to nothing in the agreement beyond authorization for the Treasury to resume borrowing and funding for the government to reopen.

House and Senate negotiators are to meet this fall to see if progress is possible on a broad deficit-reduction compromise of the type that has proved elusive in the current era of divided government.

Additionally, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is to be required to produce a report stating that her agency is capable of verifying the incomes of individuals who apply for federal subsidies under the health care law known as Obamacare.

Obama had insisted repeatedly he would not pay “ransom” by yielding to Republican demands for significant changes to the health care overhaul in exchange for funding the government and permitting Treasury the borrowing latitude to pay the nation’s bills.

Other issues fell by the wayside in a final deal, including a Republican proposal for the suspension of a medical device tax in Obamacare and a Democratic call to delay a fee on companies for everyone who receives health coverage under an employer-sponsored plan.

The gradual withering of Republicans’ Obamacare-related demands defined the arc of the struggle that

“I think being able to hear other people’s stories and paths and how they got to where they are is a great way to form your own. I think he has some valuable words of wisdom that I definitely took to heart and hopefully I can apply them to my career.”

Stuart Biltz, a senior marketing major from San Antonio, echoed that sentiment and said the message of brand resilience was great for marketing majors.

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has occupied virtually all of Congress’ time for the past three weeks.

The shutdown began on Oct. 1 after Cruz and his tea party allies in the House demanded the defunding of the health care law as a trade for providing essential government funding.

Obama and Reid refused, then refused again and again as Boehner gradually scaled back Republican demands.

The shutdown initially idled about 800,000 workers, but that soon fell to about 350,000 after Congress agreed to let furloughed Pentagon employees return to work. While there was widespread inconvenience, the mail was delivered, Medicare continued to pay doctors who treated seniors and there was no interruption in Social Security benefits.

Still, national parks were closed to the detriment of tourists and local businesses, government research scientists were sent home and Food and Drug Administration inspectors worked only sporadically.

Obama and Boehner both came to the same conclusion — that they would allow the shutdown to persist for two weeks, until it became politically possible to reopen government and address the threat of default at the same time.

As Republican polls sank, Boehner refused to let the House vote on legislation to reopen the entire government, insisting on a piecemeal approach that the White House and Reid rejected as insufficient.

As the Oct. 17 debt-limit deadline approached, there were warnings from European officials as well as Cabinet members and bankers in this country that failure to raise the debt limit invited an economic disaster far worse than the near-meltdown of 2008.

On Tuesday, the Fitch credit rating agency said it was reviewing its AAA rating on U.S. government debt for possible downgrade.

By then, the endgame was underway.

Late last week, Obama met with Boehner and House Republicans at the White House. The session resulted in brief follow-up talks in which GOP aides suggested easing the across-the-board spending cuts in exchange for changes in benefit programs such as making Medicare more expensive for better-off beneficiaries.

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Tuesday 3:32 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a theft at Jones AT&T Stadium. An unsecured backpack and its contents were stolen.

3:39 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without

injuries in the Zone 2-B parking lot.

6:31 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Zone 3-F parking lot. A vehicle was thought to be scratched by a key.

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restaurants together to go on dates,” she said. “They weren’t even allowed to get married in Maryland, so they went to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 D.C. to get married and had to hide “Every time I would call her she their illegal marriage secretly when would just say ‘Go somewhere where they came back.” your voice is wanted,’” she said. “I had a O’Brien said her parents’ determivoice that wanted to be heard, so I did.” nation to live the way they wanted to O’Brien said she also has learned inspire her and her siblings. a lot being in the journalism field, “We understood that a life worth especially about human nature and living was something you had to decide the subject of diversity, or lack thereof. you wanted,” she said. “You have to be “The thing about human nature proud of your story and you had to want that most people don’t realize is that to share it with the world.” we all want the same thing,” she said.

This lesson also helped O’Brien “Whites, Blacks, Latinos, we all want with her work as a journalist by getting our stories to be heard. And I have those untold stories.

“We all have a story,” she said. definitely learned there are more than just two sides to a story.”

“There is no way to talk about our O’Brien shared the story of her country as a whole when you leave out parents’ struggle with discrimination an entire section. Those stories deserve when they were dating and when they to be told, too.” got married.

O’Brien said she was inspired to “Because they were an interracial listen to these unheard voices, which couple, they weren’t allowed to go into is what lead her to make her award

winning documentaries, “Black in America,” “Latino in America,” and many more.

“There are so many times that people are told, and even journalists are told, that certain stories don’t matter,” she said. “That’s a major problem with journalism today. It doesn’t tell stories about everyone. We need to open our boxes and we have more of a mix of the different things there are to tell.”

She showed a clip of one of her documentaries, “Latino in America 2,” The story of young Latino girl training to go to the 2012 Olympics for boxing.

“She had a dream and a story to tell, so we told it,” O’Brien said. “A lot of people think that people don’t want to hear their stories, when in reality they do.”

She said everyone has a story to tell, no matter their gender, race, or if people disagree or not.

“If you don’t tell your stories, then you are leaving it up to other people

to define you,” O’Brien said. “Defining yourself and surround yourself with different things in life is where you really need to be.”

After she finished speaking, the first awards given out were the 2012 Community Campion Award to David Seim, and the 2013 Community Campion Award to Quincy White.

“All these awards are given to people who are about student success and to those who reach out to those who it may not seem possible,” Jobi Martinez, the director of the CrossCultural Academic Advancement Center said.

The Inclusive Excellence Award was also given to Eric Strong and Aliza Wong.

“You have an opportunity to celebrate diversity by standing up for your story and the stories of the people around you,” O’Brien said. “Those people and those stories matter.”

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showers and riding a bike or walking when possible.

Ryan Reber, a technology licensing specialist, was at the event to promote how commercialization works with the sustainability research on campus. He said one of the main goals of the Office of Technology Commercialization is to make sure the inventions and technology Tech develops around sustainability get out into the marketplace to benefit society as well as the school.

“All kinds of innovations take place at the university and, if you don’t patent those inventions and don’t find an existing company to sell those inventions, they just stay at the university,” Reber said. “All kinds of inventions come from universities. Google came from Stanford, Gatorade came from Florida, Crest toothpaste came from Indiana.”

The Office of Technology Commercialization works with researchers in many fields of sustainability, such as wind, water, chemistry and biochemistry, to help expand its innovations to outside the university, he said.

“We’re a public institution, we have a public mission. The university exists to

advance science and advance knowledge of science,” Reber said. “We also have a mission to make sure that we’re not just advancing science in publications, but advancing technology through commercialization.”

One of the main goals the Office of Technology Commercialization had with the event was to get its name out to any researchers at the university — faculty members and graduate students alike.

Neha Maranthe, who is working on her doctoral degree in wind science and engineering, had a booth demonstrating several sustainability advancements demonstrated by Tech’s research in wind technology.

With the event, Daniel Yates, SGA’s vice president for graduate affairs and graduate student from Katy, said SGA wanted to encourage student support for sustainability.

“Essentially we’re just trying to promote sustainability to students,” he said.

“We wanted students to know what’s going on, what our university is doing in terms of sustainability and how we’re bettering the world.”

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“CMC will take our tin, our aluminum, all of our stuff that we do in construction of a building,” she said.

“Over the summer we renovated Hulen (Residence Hall) and Clement (Residence Hall), so all of the cast iron we pulled out to do the bathrooms was all recycled.”

The recycled commodities bring a profit into housing, which Kimbler said goes directly back to the students. Last year, it made about $23,000 and gave out $1,000 scholarships from that money.

She said she encourages students to take advantage of the recycling opportunities and for students who live on campus, recycling bins are on every floor of residence halls as well as all dining facilities. She also encouraged students, faculty and staff who live off campus to utilize their designated place for off-campus recycling, which is located behind their offices.

Any recyclable material, as long as it is clean, can be placed into the recycle

bins without any separation needed. The student assistants who work with housing bring all of the recycled material back to the office, where it is individually sorted.

“We want students to know that we do recycle,” Kimbler said. “We have a huge operation on campus that a lot of us just don’t even know exists. You’re helping our scholarship fund also. What you’re bringing in will go right back into the school.”

Housing and Hospitality Services encourage all students to participate in their sustainability efforts and want to educate students on the importance of making the campus more sustainable through reducing, reusing and recycling, according to their brochure, which was printed on recycled paper.

The amount of materials Tech recycles increases each year. Kimbler said they aim to come up with more efficient and productive ways for the university to recycle, which would bring the university more sustainability and more funds for scholarships.

She encourages students to promote sustainability outside of recycling, such as turning off lights, taking shorter

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Washington state approves rules for pot industry SEATTLE (AP) — Washington adopted rules Wednesday for the recreational sale of marijuana, creating what advocates hope will be a template for the drug’s legalization around the world.

Mexico, Uruguay, Poland and other countries and states already are reviewing the new regulations, which cover everything from the security at and size of licensed marijuana gardens, to how many pot stores can open in cities across the state, said Alison Holcomb, the Seattle lawyer who drafted Washington’s marijuana initiative.

Washington will tax pot highly and cap total production in the state at 80 metric tons. Sales are expected to begin by the middle of next year.

“We feel very proud of what we’re doing,” said Sharon Foster, chairwoman of the Washington Liquor Control Board, as she and her two colleagues approved the rules. “We are making history.”

Washington and Colorado last year legalized the possession of up to an ounce of pot by adults over 21, with voters deciding to set up systems of state-licensed growers, processors and sellers. The measures put state officials in the difficult position of crafting rules for a fledgling industry barred by federal law for more than seven decades.

The board devised Washington’s regulations after nearly a year of research, debate and planning, including public hearings that drew hundreds of people around the state.

Supporters hope taxed pot will bring the state tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, with much of the revenue directed to public health and drug-abuse prevention.

Colorado approved its pot industry rules last month, and sales are expected to start in some cities there at the beginning of 2014.

The two states’ laws are largely similar, although Colorado voters are considering whether to tax marijuana at a much lower rate, with no limit on total production.

Colorado also will let stores sell both recreational and medical marijuana. Both states will require such

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measures as seed-to-store tracking, background checks for license applicants, and child-resistant packaging.

Washington liquor board members said they tried to make marijuana accessible enough that legal pot would undermine the black market, but not so accessible that it would threaten public health or safety. The board hopes the sale of legal marijuana will capture about one-quarter of the state’s total pot market, for starters.

Under the rules, the board will issue licenses for up to 334 marijuana stores across the state, with 21 of them in Seattle — a figure some have questioned as too low, considering the city

estimates about 200 medical marijuana dispensaries already are operating there.

The City Council has passed zoning regulations for pot businesses that would require medical marijuana dispensaries to obtain a state license or stop doing business by 2015.

The rules limit the number of licenses that anyone can hold to three — an attempt by the board to stamp out any monopolies before they start.

They also prohibit out-of-state investment in pot businesses and require quality-control testing of marijuana by third-party labs.

Hilary Bricken, a Seattle lawyer who is advising businesses that hope

to obtain marijuana licenses, said her clients largely are content with the regulations, though some are disappointed by the three-license max and the ban on out-of-state money.

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Graysen Ortega, a senior food sci“We, as state employees at Texas ence major from Lubbock, is working Tech University, we are not negativeon a project in food science — one ly impacted right now,” he said. “We that impacts people’s quality of life. can do our work, but if I had a grant “The most meaningful part of my that was funded and I’m expecting research is that it is helping people,” a disbursement of funds for the near he said. “We are able to go to places future, that may not come by now.” that others won’t and help them get Funding is determined on a casebetter. We make the food safer, im- by-case basis, however. If the shutprove public health and help improve down continues things will become the situations for people in the area. more stringent, San Francisco said.

This project is great because I get Another concern is the future to incorporate research and serving status of federally funded research others.” through the Department of Energy, Another issue is the loss of fed- Department of Defense, Navy, Army, eral employees, San Francisco said. National Institutes of Health and Personnel for entities such as the National Science Foundation. San U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have Francisco said tens of millions of been furloughed, meaning they are dollars of research from those agenunable to work until the government cies collectively could be negatively recovers from the shutdown, he said. impacted over a period of time.

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College education too expensive, lacks value Chase Hill 72 percent at private nonprofit schools and 96 percent at private, for-profit schools.”

It is widely known student debt amounts to more than a trillion dollars and is increasing each year. That’s higher than the total amount of credit card debt in the U.S. What these statistics show is to the majority of students, even if they worked part-time all four years of college, tuition is unaffordable.

Most students believe once they graduate they will find a job to pay off the debt. This is simply a myth.

The State of Working America documents the unemployment rate for college graduates increased

from 5.7 percent to 8.8 percent since 2007, and hourly income for a college graduates has dropped from $9.68 to $9.48 since 1989.

With these numbers, it takes years for students to pay off the loans they owe.

These statistics are only an issue for the average student whose curriculum consists of beer drinking, fornication and football games. What about the child pursuing the American dream, hoping to become a big investment banker on Wall Street? Surely he can find a job that makes his college experience worthwhile and worth the cost.

Unless that child is attending

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an Ivy League school, he’s going to need to double major in physics and economics, play a sport, serve as a leader for a fraternity and earn a 4.0 GPA. That’s when he’s not spending his summer in Haiti giving water to malnourished children. He’ll need to do all this just to have a shot at competing with thousands of other students for an internship position at Goldman Sachs, where he works for free serving coffee and donuts to his fat boss in hopes of being asked to return for a similar position.

Once he gets the position, he’ll have to work 100 hours per week for three or four years if he wants a promotion. By the time he can pay

As far as I’m concerned, the only useful tool on a college campus is the library.

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o to any college town and the first thing you’ll notice is the quality of service at various local businesses. Whether you’re checking into the Holiday Inn or buying a McFlurry from the local McDonald’s, you are sure to discover a chipper college student with a big college grin on their face.

According to an article in The New York Times, “Nationally, 94 percent of students who earn a bachelor’s degree borrow to pay for higher education — up from 45 percent in 1993.” Judging by these statistics, it is safe to assume the bubbly young lad working for minimum wage and handing you a basket of french fries is not doing so for his summer spending money.

“A large majority of students from every type of school are in debt,” said Alan Nasser, a professor of political economy at Evergreen State College. “Debt is held by 62 percent of students enrolled at public colleges and universities,

off his student loans, he will have lost his soul and accepted a position from one of his cigar-smoking golfing buddies as a lobbyist working to cut government spending for education.

There’s always the option of shaving your head and joining the military, which will pay for your college. But that requires 4 to 6 years of commitment and the ability to perform a pull up. Not to mention, there’s the likelihood of being sent off to fight an unjust war, which can be a huge commitment.

You always could go to graduate school and put off 2 to 4 more years of your life for grueling study and get a job with a salary that’s decreasing annually.

As far as I’m concerned, the only useful tool on a college campus is the library. You don’t need some pompous authority figure teaching you how to read James Joyce or Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory on morality. Unless you

want to become an engineer, there is really nothing you cannot learn on your own.

But how many people choose engineering as a major because they see it has the highest salaries on mymajors.com? Probably the same amount of people who choose their school based on the nightlife rating on collegeprowler.com.

If college education was free, which it easily could be seeing how the U.S. is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and the student played more of a role in the learning process rather than being told what to study and how to think, then I would say education wasn’t a total scam in the U.S. But the fact is college education is moving in the wrong direction, and as long as we continue to accept mediocrity, it will remain a scam.

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Student punished Freedom of speech has double standard for good judgment

By DANNY SCHNATHORST iowa sTaTe Daily (iowa sTaTe U.)

The Daily Free Press (BosTon U.)

The number of drunk drivingrelated fatalities in the U.S. has declined over the past 30 years. In 2011, 9,878 people fewer than 21 years old died in alcohol induced accidents, while in 1982, 21,113 young people died, according to statistics from the Century Council. This is about organizations such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving and their extensive advertising campaigns putting faces to those affected by drunk driving. What about the overall social stigma against it? The death rates have been consistently falling over the years for all age groups and young people exposed to these campaigns in school and over the airwaves are learning how to prevent drunk driving accidents.

North Andover High School administrators, however, have penalized a student for taking the necessary precautions to make sure her inebriated friend got home from a party. Erin Cox is a senior, a fouryear member of the volleyball team and also the captain of the team. She received a call from a friend who was too drunk to drive home. When Cox arrived, police had already arrested several people for possession of alcohol and were threatening other drunken high school students with court summons.

Cox was permitted to take her friend home, but two weeks later, she was suspended from the team for her involvement in the party. Apparently preventing a drunk person from driving is aiding and abetting in the party and violates the school’s zero-tolerance alcohol policy. Cox was stripped of her captain title and suspended for five games, according to a Tuesday video on NBC News.

She was later summoned to court for underage drinking, though her attorney argues she was not drinking.

This is all because she exercised her

judgment and protected her friend.

“The school is trying to take a very serious and principled stand regarding alcohol,” said the high school’s attorney Geoffrey Bok to the Herald Friday. “And we all get that.

Teen drinking is a serious problem.”

Before we discuss how the punishments are going to affect Cox, we have to examine how poorly North Andover High School administrators handled the situation. It sets an awful example to students saying if they help out an inebriated friend, they will be punished. The administrators have effectively ensured that some of their students will now drive drunk instead of calling for a ride or staying over. This discourages people from doing what Cox did, which was the right thing.

Now Erin Cox has received international attention on ESPN and on “Good Morning America.” Her mother has been working to fight the suspension and stands by her daughter’s decision.

Let’s start looking at this from Erin’s perspective. She cannot play for five games during her last season on the team. She is no longer captain of a team she has been with for four years. She can no longer put that on her college applications. Not only is this punishment embarrassing enough, Cox is now hindered when applying to colleges because she has lost a huge leadership facet of her resume. The administrators have every right to fight for their stance on alcohol, but they cannot punish a student so severely for potentially saving her friend’s and another motorist’s lives.

This just reaffirms that students can get in trouble for even looking at alcohol. Cox was entirely separate from the party, and did not even touch a red cup. She prevented what could have led to a horrific accident and kept her friend from going to jail. Erin Cox is heroic and deserves an apology from her school’s administration.

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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The United States has followed the U.S. Constitution since 1787. With that being said, can someone please explain to me why I and so many others are constantly ridiculed for our beliefs? Does the freedom of speech not apply to me? Or does it only apply if it is what the public wants to hear?

This is a prime example of what is called a “double standard” and is currently flooding the nation and threatening people’s voices all around the globe. This country has adopted a sense of a “my way or the highway” attitude. One person can speak what is on their mind, and it will be covered by the first amendment. When that person hears something he or she does not want to hear, they might claim that what they heard is out of place and shouldn’t have been said.

This column, for starters — many will argue that I am out of place for

criminal and has it purely for harming others.

Another example of a double standard is a racially motivated one. An instance of this is the recent Paula Deen scandal. Southern cook Paula Deen admitted to using the socially forbidden “n word” years ago. Deen lost sponsors, she lost money and most importantly, she lost credibility to a lot of her fans.

Yet, idolized rap star, Lil Wayne, used the word 25 times in a song that happens to have the word in the title of said song.

The song is six minutes long and he uses the word more than four times a minute.

It was also counted that he used the word 182 times in one album. So why the big outburst when Mrs. Deen admitted to using the word years ago?

Perhaps the double standard that annoys me the most, though, is the one surrounding the subject of gay marriage.

It has become practically “against the norm” to be against gay marriage and for someone to express their belief towards gay marriage is unheard of. They are nearly always shunned by society because of it. What confuses me most is when the public asks a company, such as Chick-FilA, a controversial question.

Chick-Fil-A is a Christian food chain that is outspoken about being a family

and is also closed on Sunday’s for religious beliefs. They asked CEO Dan Cathy his views on gay marriage, although they were well aware of the answer before they even asked the question. Following this, the public acted entirely shocked, as if they were incapable of anticipating the answer of a traditional Christian.

Many people boycotted Chick-Fil-A after this was brought to the public’s eye.

However, it ultimately backfired because countless people, myself included, waited for chicken and stood up for their beliefs despite the public’s outcry of hatred towards Cathy and his company.

Chick-Fil-A isn’t the only business to have been approached with such a question. Companies such as Hobby Lobby and Salvation Army have also been asked their views, and their answers elicited a similar public response. Why is it okay for someone to agree with something so much, but not okay for someone to disagree with that belief, no matter what the majority of the public thinks?

We the people, need to come together to abolish double standards. We need to treat everyone the same. We need to not ridicule others’ beliefs. Rather, we should respect them and move on, always staying true to our own values, despite what the public says we should think.

Public obsession with celebrities obscures important events

By ELIZABETH CARLSON

The Collegian (Kansas sTaTe U.)

Right before starting this column, I found out from a graduate student in the Department of Agriculture that a blizzard in the northern part of the midwest destroyed a good chunk of the beef supply in the United States. I proceeded to pull up the Yahoo home page only to find that today’s headlines primarily consisted of “Katy Perry’s embarassing late night moment,” “Kris and Bruce Jenner reunite for a photo,” and “Jennifer Lopez: ‘I lost 90 percent belly fat.’”

Our society is horribly guilty of considering unimportant things important.

A majority of us are more fascinated with anything related to celebrities than we are with problems that are far more in need of our attention. The gassing in Syria occurred in August, and Miley Cyrus’s notorious VMA performance oc-

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talking about these subjects that so many columnists avoid. However, I can assure you that not only do I know my rights, I plan on exercising them for as long as I live.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy, who was killed by the public in an attempt to destroy his writings said, “As long as I am an American citizen and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write and to publish whatever I please, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.”

There are many things that have double standards that tag along with them. Many are often politically charged.

The fight between those who are pro-life and pro-choice has been going on for decades. I am constantly ridiculed for my beliefs. I am even called names for simply having a pin with a picture of baby feet on my lanyard, representing my pro-life beliefs. Yet, my beliefs are my beliefs. I don’t tell you that your beliefs are wrong.

Gun control is often a touchy subject for many people. If someone carries a weapon on them, it is constantly portrayed that they are some kind of killer.

There are facts on either side of the debate, but the common misconception is that every person that owns a gun is a

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curred in September. But based on what was posted on Yahoo news and Facebook alone, I knew about a performance that I hadn’t even bothered to watch before I knew about the real problems taking place and how it could potentially affect my safety as a human being. I saw more community letters addressing teenage girls to not be like Miley Cyrus than I did semi-educated opinions on how to address a crisis over chemical weapons.

Granted, a horrendous VMA performance is a much simpler topic of discussion, but I would hope a crisis regarding the abuse of chemical weapons is at least a little more disturbing than someone “twerking” with her tongue hanging out on stage.

If someone completely new to our world were to surf the Web for an hour, they would probably learn more about which celebrities recently gained a few pounds and what Kim Kardashian wore

to Starbucks that day than they would about current events that are far more, or should be far more, relevant to everyone’s everyday lives. It’s time to get our priorities in check.

Not only does the over-glorification of celebrities contribute to our unreasonably high levels of ignorance regarding current events, but it also skews our expectations of how to function as human beings. An example: celebrity mothers. Beyonce Knowles received an extremely high amount of praise from the media and from the general public for getting back to her pre-pregnancy weight within the first three months after giving birth. Meanwhile, Jessica Simpson received an enormous amount of criticism for not making weight loss her first priority when she had a newborn baby to attend to.

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able expectations, nor should they be harassed for having higher priorities than superficial ones. If anyone seriously thinks it’s so awful of a mother to not lose her pregnancy weight right away because she has more important things to think about — like making sure her new baby is healthy and loved — then that individual needs to reevaluate what they consider important.

The list of nonsense does not end here. While celebrity shenanigans are full of entertainment potential, I can only hope we can stimulate the cease of celebrity obsession. Needless to say, if Miley Cyrus’s inability to make dancing with a lolling tongue look attractive or Kim Kardashian’s unflattering ensemble at some hoity-toity event has more of an impact on your life than a crisis regarding agriculture or chemical weapons, I highly encourage you to reassess your own priorities.

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Couple works toward marijuana law reform

By CALLIE POINDEXTER Staff Writer

Lubbock residents Colt and Amanda Smith never planned on becoming marijuana activists.

However, they said they saw a need in the Lubbock community and surrounding areas for better-organized leadership of marijuana law reform advocates and decided to fill it.

Colt Smith is executive director of Hub City NORML, a regional chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and his wife, Amanda, is director of communications and outreach.

The couple said they officially founded the organization in May 2013.

In the U.S., marijuana is a scheduleone drug, along with heroin, LSD and ecstasy, which are defined as substances with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse, according the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration website.

Amanda Smith said she disagrees with this scheduling.

“The way they have it now,” she said, “they say that cocaine is more beneficial than marijuana, that marijuana has no medicinal benefit whatsoever, and we see case study after case study after case study of it alleviates nausea, it alleviates pain, it calms down seizures in a lot of victims.”

Amanda Smith said she often likes to tell the story of a little girl named Charlotte who suffers from Dravet Syndrome, a medical disorder that causes severe and frequent seizures.

She said after Charlotte’s parents began feeding her cannabis, they reduced her seizures from about 300 per week to about three per month, which ended up saving her life.

“It’s medicine,” Amanda Smith said.

“It can be used recreationally, and, yes, it is a drug, and there is a potential for abuse and misuse, as is there a potential for misuse of McDonald’s or cupcakes or

gambling. You can misuse anything, but there are so many benefits to this plant.”

Colt Smith said he knows firsthand the medical benefits of the cannabis plant.

While a resident in Washington state, Colt Smith said he was issued a medical marijuana card.

After developing a rare form of arthritis when he was 12-years-old, he said he was treated with opiate pain relievers for the majority of his life. After years of following doctors’ prescriptions, he said he became addicted to opiates.

He eventually overdosed on the drugs, Colt Smith said, and was in a coma for four days.

“That’s f— scary,” he said, “and there is an alternative that works and it doesn’t f— me up. It doesn’t have the same kind of impact on my body and on my behavior that opiates have on me. If I’m in Washington state, I’m called a patient.

If I’m in Texas, I’m called a criminal for trying to alleviate some pain.”

Because the couple feels so strongly about the benefits of marijuana, they said their main goal through Hub City NORML is to move public opinion and educate those who are in favor or opposed to marijuana law reform.

They said they love hearing people explain their opinions, whether they agree with law reform or not. However, not everyone feels comfortable expressing those opinions.

“It’s a very controversial issue,” Colt Smith said. “When you start talking about pot, a lot of people close their ears.

Many people are scared to talk about it thinking that it’s going to blacklist them.”

This, however, has not been Colt Smith’s experience, he said.

In addition to sculpting public opinion, he said the organization works to help those in need.

Colt Smith said the organization receives five free, portable vaporizers that offer a healthier way to inhale cannabis from a company called Magic Flight

every month.

“We ask our members to nominate friends, family, loved ones, who have a medical and financial need for a free vaporizer,” Colt Smith said, “and we get to put these in the hands of people who can’t afford them and need them.”

In addition to the medical benefits of the plant, he said he believes there is a significant potential economic benefit that could be capitalized upon if marijuana was made legal.

Amanda Smith said they hope to dissociate marijuana with a black-market mentality.

“We don’t want to support the people that are, you know, causing all these border wars and feed that,” she said. “When you think about it, a lot of that money goes into human trafficking. It goes into really, really evil, evil stuff. If we could get it into a regulated system we could tax that and we could educate people on what it is and how they can use it to be a benefit to them.”

Colt Smith said if legislation for the legalization of marijuana passed, he would hope the legal age for recreational use would be about 23 or 24years-old.

“I want them to have their judgment centers in place before they start altering their mind,” he said. “I would encourage that for alcohol use, for any drug. It’s a state issue. Whatever the state decides.

Whatever is reasonable, to me, is better than what we have now.”

Shawn Chandler, a senior community family addiction studies major from Irmo, S.C., said he understands why marijuana is a schedule-one drug.

“I agree with the potential for abuse,” he said. “Marijuana is a gateway drug.

The reason it’s a schedule-one drug is because in kids and adolescents today, it’s the most abundant and the most available. It’s a gateway drug.”

However, Chandler said he does believe the cannabis plant has medical benefits for alleviating symptoms, such as pain and nausea, in many patients.

Police: Worker set off LAX dry ice bombs as prank LOS ANGELES (AP) — A baggage handler arrested after dry ice bombs exploded at Los Angeles International Airport planted the devices as a prank, police said Wednesday.

The motive was disclosed a day after the arrest of Dicarlo Bennett, a 28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair.

“I think we can safely say he is not a terrorist or an organized crime boss.

He did this for his own amusement,” said Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Michael Downing, who heads the department’s counter-terrorism and special operations bureau.

No one was hurt on Sunday when two plastic bottles packed with dry ice exploded in an employee bathroom and on the airport’s tarmac.

An unexploded device was found Monday night.

As a result of the incident, airport officials plan to meet with law enforcement authorities to examine potential security enhancements at one of the nation’s busiest airports.

The meeting also will explore the handling and transport of dry ice and other hazardous materials and possible improvements to those procedures.

Arif Alikhan, deputy executive director for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement at Los Angeles World Airports, said such meetings are routine after problems.

“We’ll look at all layers of security existing at the airport, including technology, physical infrastructure, the partnership of tenants, awareness of employees to potential hazardous items like dry ice,” Alikhan said.

Workers at the airport must pass a criminal background check before they can get a security badge for access to restricted areas, LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles said.

On Tuesday, police arrested Bennett, who was booked for possession of a destructive device near an aircraft and held on $1 million bail.

It was not immediately clear whether Bennett had a lawyer. A message left on a phone number listed at an address for Bennett was not returned.

Despite the arrest, travelers saw stepped-up security patrols at all terminals as well as the airfield, Los Angeles Airport Police spokeswoman Belinda Nettles said.

Dry ice is routinely used by aircraft catering companies and restaurants to

keep perishable food safe.

Bennett took dry ice from a plane and placed a loaded bottle in an employee bathroom, according to a law

enforcement official briefed on the investigation who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and asked to remain anonymous.

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COLT SMITH, EXECUTIVE director of Hub City NORML, and Amanda Lin Smith, director of communication and outreach, take their positions at the front of the room to conduct the meeting for Hub City NORML discussing topics, such as legalization of marijuana and decriminalization Saturday at the Yoga Bean coffee shop.

He said he believes, however, the way medical marijuana is prescribed to patients could be improved.

“You have marijuana that is in the 5 percentile THC range,” Chandler said, “all the way up to the 20 percentile THC range, in terms of how potent this stuff is and how much stronger it’s gotten. I don’t necessarily agree with how they just write a card. I think it should be done different.

I think there should be a dosage, or it should be formulated in a different way.”

Hub City NORML meets at 1:30 p.m. on the second Saturday of every month at Yoga Bean coffee shop, Colt Smith said. For anyone interested in becoming a member, the basic membership fee is $10.

The couple said they welcome those who are interested in joining, are curious about the organization or are even opposed to marijuana law reform.

While welcoming all opinions, they said they hope to continue to educate

the Hub City community so responsible use of cannabis by adults, both medically and recreationally, is no longer subject to penalty.

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Tech basketball opens season with media day

By REX ROSE Staff Writer

The Red Raider basketball season is quickly approaching and highly anticipated with first-year coach Orlando ‘Tubby’ Smith at the helm.

Smith makes his way to Lubbock after six seasons in Minnesota, where he coached the Golden Gophers to three NCAA tournament appearances.

Senior forward Dejan Kravic said he is impressed by the way Smith has handled the team thus far.

“So far it’s been great,” he said.

“We’ve enjoyed practices. He’s appreciated how hard we’ve been working and we appreciate him.

He really cares about us. He’s obviously proven on the court, and he’s a great person off the court.”

It is not a surprise the Red Raiders’ expectations are high for a coach with such credibility.

Smith has been a part of 744 collegiate wins and 23 trips to the NCAA tournament since he started coaching as an assistant at Virginia Commonwealth in 1979.

He is one of seven active coaches to win 500 games and a national championship as a head coach and one of nine coaches in the country to take four different schools to the NCAA tournament.

Junior guard Luke Adams said he has the utmost confidence in Smith’s abilities. “ H e ’s r e a l f u n d a m e n t a l l y sound,” Adams said. “You can’t win without doing the little things right. Every little thing matters whether it’s getting a defensive rebound, diving for a loose ball or making the extra pass.

He does all the things to make you a real team, that’s how you beat other teams and I’m excited about that.”

Smith said he was pleased with the team from day one.

“From the first day I got here in the spring, I was really impressed with all the returning players who were eager, excited and enthusiastic,” he said. “There’s a lot of excitement around Texas Tech University.”

Although excitement swirls around the upcoming season, Smith said he knows there is plenty of work to be done with the amount of quality teams Tech faces this season.

“We’ve got a lot of things to get ready for,” he said. “Probably the toughest schedule I’ve ever been associated with. The teams that we have to compete against, they’re all tough.

“When you play teams like Alabama on the road, Arizona State on the road, Arizona on

the road, LSU and Pittsburgh in New York, it’ll be a daunting challenge for our guys, but I believe our players are ready for it and excited.”

After posting an 11-20 overall record and a 3-15 conference record last season, the Red Raiders believe they will be much improved.

Although it might be the toughest task he’s ever had as a coach, Smith said he has turned losing programs into successful teams in the past and believes he can do the same at Tech.

“I’ve done it a few times,” he said. “It’s never easy and this is probably the toughest situation I’ve come into. I believe I have the energy, and I believe we have the staff. We have the support and now we just have to get everyone enthused, our student body and the community.”

Kravic said the team expects to plays in the NCAA tournament after it finishes conference play.

“The expectations are pretty high,” he said. “We’ve got most of our players returning with a great coaching staff. Like every other team, we’re hoping to make the March Madness tournament and finish in the upper half of the Big 12 Conference.”

The team is more experienced

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COACH TUBBY SMITH speaks to the media at the Texas Tech Men’s Basketball Media Day on Wednesday in United Spirit Arena.

than in years past after losing four players, including former guard Josh Gray, but returning nine.

Adams said he also expects big things this season after finally having the right pieces to the puzzle.

“Coach Smith is a great coach and we’re learning a lot from him,” he said. “We’ve got a lot

more experience this year and I think that will help us out a lot.”

Smith said he is pleased with the university and is excited for the Red Raider community to experience basketball with him in charge.

“I can see that there’s a lot of camaraderie within the athletic department,” he said. “That

always helps. We’ve got to get people fired up like they’ve gotten people fired up for football.

“This group will play extremely hard. Trust me fans and alumni, it will be a privilege to watch these guys play because they will give it all they have, I promise you that.” ➤➤rrose@dailytoreador.com

Greinke, Dodgers beat Cardinals Mountaineers aim to bounce 6-4, extend NLCS another game back from loss against Baylor

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It took the Dodgers five games to hit a home run in the NL championship series.

Once Adrian Gonzalez powered up for the first one, their dormant offense broke loose.

Gonzalez homered twice and Zack Greinke came through with the clutch performance Los Angeles needed in a 6-4 victory over the Cardinals on Wednesday that trimmed St. Louis’ lead to 3-2 in the best-of-seven playoff.

“Guys weren’t ready to lose today,” said Carl Crawford, who also went deep to help the Dodgers save their season.

Los Angeles held on in the ninth, when St. Louis scored twice off

closer Kenley Jansen before he struck out pinch-hitter Adron Chambers with two on to end it.

The series shifts back to St. Louis for Game 6 on Friday night, with ace Clayton Kershaw scheduled to start for Los Angeles against rookie Michael Wacha.

When those two squared off in Game 2, the Cardinals won 1-0 on an unearned run.

“We’ve kind of become America’s team because everyone wants to see a seventh game,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. “Probably even the fans in St. Louis would like to see a seventh game, so I figure that everybody’s for us to win on Friday night.”

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The Cardinals also led last year’s NLCS 3-1 before losing three straight games to the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants.

“We’re looking to do the same thing,” Gonzalez said.

Desperate to avoid elimination, the Dodgers brought in some Hollywood star power for pregame introductions. Will Ferrell announced their lineup and lent a comic spin to each player’s name, capping it by introducing Greinke as “today’s winning pitcher.”

Ferrell knew what he was talking about.

Greinke got into a basesloaded jam with none out in the first but escaped with no damage.

From there, he pitched seven strong innings and even delivered an RBI single.

“That was big. I was real nervous out there with that situation,” Greinke said.

A.J. Ellis also homered at Dodger Stadium, where it is tougher to clear the fences in the heavy night air.

Helped by playing in 82-degree heat on a sunny afternoon, the Dodgers rediscovered their power stroke just in time to extend the series. They hit .274 in three games at home after batting .184 during the first two games in St. Louis.

By EVERETT CORDER Staff Writer

When No. 16 Texas Tech (6-0, 3-0) travels to Morgantown, W.Va. for its game this weekend, it will be like a trip home for redshirt sophomore defensive lineman Branden Jackson.

Jackson’s hometown, McKeesport, Pa., is just a 30-40 minute drive from where the Mountaineers play, he said, and the team recruited him coming out of high school.

“It’s nothing but a hop, skip and a drive down the road,” Jackson said. “I just heard you guys say that it’s Homecoming. That’s pretty cool because that’s my homecoming.

First time I get to play in front of my family, so I’m excited.”

Jackson said he informed his teammates what the atmosphere would be like when they arrived in Morgantown.

“I told them they’re going to smell beer from the time we get off the plane to the time we hit the stadium,” he said. “The fans are going to be loud; they’re going to be rude; they’re going to be crazy. But it’s going to make for a great atmosphere.

It’s really going to test us.”

The Mountaineers’ last game was one they probably would like to forget, losing 73-42 to Baylor two weeks ago.

West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said his staff used the bye week to evaluate what the team has done well and where it needs to improve and they also gave the players some time off to rest.

“We looked at it very closely, and we have identified as coaches what we do well and what we do not do well,” Holgorsen said. “We are not shifting guys around as we have. We do understand what our personality is offensively, and now we just have to get good at it and gain some confidence.”

The quarterbacks for West Virginia were some of the players needing the recovery time. The Mountaineers have used three different quarterbacks throughout the season, and two of them currently are dealing with some form of injury.

Holgorsen said the bye week was good for his injured quarterbacks, and the goal is to get where the playbook doesn’t have to change when signal callers do.

“There are certain things that each guy does well, and that’s going to come up,” he said. “We have to get to a point where it does not matter who the guy is, we have to be able to execute. We have three quarterbacks that we put out there and play. Regardless of which one we do it with, we have to be able

to execute plays based on what is called.”

On the defensive side of the ball, Holgorsen said the players responded well after giving up 872 total yards to Baylor last week.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said besides the game against Baylor, he is impressed by the way West Virginia’s defense has played.

“They’re playing with a lot of confidence,” he said. “I know they had a rough night in Waco, but aside from that, they’ve played really good defense. They’ve turned people over, lots of negative plays wreaking havoc. You never know where they’re going to line up.

Week in and week out they look like a completely different team as far as games go.”

The game between the Red Raiders and the Mountaineers kicks off at 11 a.m. Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium.

“We didn’t play very well in the last Big 12 game that we played,” Holgorsen said. “Good news is we get a chance to redeem ourselves against another top 20 opponent that is undefeated. The challenge is large, but I can assure you we are up for the challenge and will put our best foot forward, not only in preparation but also on game day on Saturday.” ➤➤ecorder@dailytoreador.com

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Injuries do not sidetrack Texas Tech soccer

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

Texas Tech soccer is setting new standards for its program this season, but the team is not accomplishing these new heights without its share of adversity.

Tech has dealt with the injury bug from the start of the season.

During their first game against the New Mexico Lobos, the Red Raiders played without sophomore forward Janine Beckie, senior forward Jessica Fuston and junior defender Jalene Hinkle.

Tech coach Tom Stone said matters became worse when redshirt senior midfielder Conner Whitfield went down with a serious injury in the first five minutes of the game.

According to the Tech Athletics website, Tech pulled out a 1-0 win without those four key players when senior midfielder Jessica Disabella scored a goal in the 85th minute.

The New Mexico game showcased a toughness the team had when it was not at full strength and would come out handy on the road, Stone said.

Tech has proved Stone right so far with a 7-0-2 record when playing away from John Walker Soccer Complex.

“We’ve got depth, we’ve got talent for sure,” Stone said.

“But just the attitude of ‘OK, you’re out. Sorry. OK, who’s in? Let’s roll.’ That has been

the mentality.”

There have been a number of lineups, but the team leadership is what maintains the high level of play, Stone said. A coach cannot grow the team mentality on his own.

Not to mention, a number of players on the team have stepped up, including sophomore midfielder Alli Murphy, sophomore midfielder Caity Heap and junior defender Jade Dapaah, he said.

The Red Raiders are considerably healthier since their game against the Lobos.

Beckie returned to the starting lineup in the game against Colorado State, while Hinkle did not return until the Long Beach State game on Sept. 1, where she played sparingly.

The injuries with Whitfield and Fuston were more serious.

The two seniors both dealt with knee injuries, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Fuston made her season debut two weekends ago when Tech faced TCU on Oct. 4. Whitfield returned to the field from her third significant injury for senior day on Oct. 6 against Arkansas Pine-Bluff.

Whitfield said she did not have surgery so she possibly could play against UAPB on senior day.

However, Whitfield did not participate in the games against Oklahoma and Baylor following senior day.

She still is rehabilitating for

the chance to participate in matches near the conclusion of the season, Whitfield said.

Fuston is gradually returning to the prime form she had last season, Stone said.

Fuston is reclaiming her form while participating in Big 12 Conference competition, and is helping her team, too, he said. For instance, she netted the gamewinning goal on Friday against Oklahoma.

“Fuston will be 100 percent at some point,” Stone said, “and it will definitely make us better. She has a dimension. It’s physicality, heading, defending, to be honest, and class in front of the goal we haven’t had in bulk.”

Fuston said it has been great to get back on the field.

Before the game-winning goal against Oklahoma, she scored her first goal of the season during the UAPB game.

The goal did not feel different for her because she said she accustomed herself to scoring goals during the previous three season, and she just enjoyed getting to play and help her team on the field.

She understands it will be a process to reach the fitness level she had before the injury, Fuston said.

“I felt fresh getting out there,” she said. “I’m not saying I did not need a break, but I feel good getting out there and working on stuff.”

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TEXAS TECH MIDFIELDER Paige Strahan tries to strip the ball from Cal State Fullerton midfielder Chelsey Patterson during the Sept. 6 game at John Walker Soccer Complex. The Red Raiders defeated the Titans 1-0.

Fuston might have been on the field, but senior defender Hayley Haagsma and junior midfielder Paige Strahan were not Oct. 6 for UAPB. Haagsma and Strahan both played two days before when Tech faced TCU. Haagsma had a boot on her foot throughout the duration of

the senior-day game for a precautionary reason, and Strahan was out as well because Stone wanted to give her a breather, he said.

Strahan has logged the second-most minutes this season with 1,135 minutes, and only is behind Disabella’s 1,309 minutes.

Last weekend, Haagsma did not participate in the two games.

However, Strahan’s breather ended when Tech faced Oklahoma and Baylor.

Whoever the Red Raiders do have, they will play as though they are at full strength. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Red Raiders fall to Kansas Jayhawks in annual pink match Staff Writer

Texas Tech volleyball dropped to 1-5 in the Big 12 Conference after losing (16-25, 23-25, 1625) Wednesday night to Kansas in United Spirit Arena.

After a slow in the first set, the Red Raiders established a 23-18 lead on the Jayhawks before allowing Kansas seven straight points to win the second set.

Tech coach Don Flora said he is proud of his team for fighting back in the second game and credits Kansas for the way they finished.

“We didn’t start the way we wanted to in set one and I give our team a ton of credit for answering the call. We challenged them and they stepped up,” he said. “Kansas was very effective in rallies and was very effective in transition. I have to give them credit. They put some balls away in transition and in crunch time, several things we talk about as a program. That’s an area for us to improve on.”

“Obviously we can play with The Red Raiders were led defensively by junior libero anybody,” she said. “They’re Rachel Brummit, recording a ranked (No.) 23 in the counmatch-high 24 digs, according try and we almost beat them.

Almost isn’t beating them, but to a Tech release Brummit said her teammates we know that we can play with are the reason she is able to put anybody in the country. My job as a captain up such great is to keep the numbers dehigh hopes fensively. for everybody “My teamup.” mates help P i p e r me out so also said the much,” she team can said. “They benefit from set up a great this game by block and get learning how touches on it. to win once I’m just able they put to get a hand DON FLORA themselves in on anything I TECH COACH position. can.”

“I think Senior VOLLEYBALL our biggest outside hitter thing we can Aubree Piper led tech offensively with 11 kills take away from that game is and no attacking errors, accord- learning how to finish a game,” she said. “That second game, we ing to the release.

Piper, the lone senior on the had it in the bag and shouldn’t team, said she knows her role have let them come back.”

Flora said he knows his team is to keep the team focused by is capable of playing with anybelieving and staying positive.

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Cross-country preparing for Pre-Nationals

By SCOTT FISHER Staff Writer

The Texas Tech men and women’s cross-country teams head to Terre Haute, Ind. this weekend to compete in NCAA Pre-Nationals.

The Red Raiders most recently competed in the Chile Pepper Festival in Fayetteville, Ark., where both teams took home third-place finishes.

Tech senior Kennedy Kithuka remains unbeaten on the men’s side, finishing first at the Chile Pepper Festival for a second straight year with a season-best time of 23:28:1.

Kithuka said he will use PreNationals as a way to warm up for the National meet, but also is

looking to finish on top.

“It’s a very big meet,” he said.

“It’s going to be a good experience for me because I’m ready to go to nationals. When I get to the course I’m just going to run my best and try to run fast because my performance there is going to determine how I run at Nationals.”

The Pre-Nationals meet is an 8k version of the 10k NCAA Championships, which will be hosted on the same course in late November.

Tech coach Jon Murray said he has high expectations for Kithuka and the rest of the men’s team entering the meet.

“His leadership in workouts, his leadership in winning, all that together you know he is such a

humble and kind person so he has really inspired this group of people,” Murray said. “If we can get all five of our runners or all seven of those guys running on the same day I think the men’s team could do something pretty good just because of what (Kithuka) has done.”

Kithuka earned Big 12 Conference Runner of the Week honors for the third time this year after his fourth first-place finish of the season at the Chile Pepper Festival.

Pre-Nationals will feature the top competition from across the country and Murray said he is looking forward to seeing both the men’s and women’s sides finish strong.

Jury says Mark Cuban did not commit insider trading DALLAS (AP) — Mark Cuban won a years-long fight with the federal government Wednesday as jurors decided that the billionaire basketball team owner did not commit insider-trading when he sold his stake in an Internet company in 2004.

The jury in federal district court in Dallas said that the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to prove the key elements of its case, including the claim that Cuban agreed to keep certain information confidential and not trade on it.

The nine-member jury deliberated only a few hours before reaching the verdict that ended a three-week trial and an SEC lawsuit filed in 2008.

Cuban, 55, hugged his lawyers after the verdict, then called family members. During an impromptu news conference outside the courthouse, he angrily denounced the SEC and its lead trial attorney, Jan Folena, saying that they lied about the evidence and targeted him because of his fame. He said that defendants of lesser wealth could have been bullied.

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ing attention to how the SEC does business,” Cuban said. “I’m the luckiest guy in the world. I’m glad this happened to me. I’m glad I’m able to be the person who can afford to stand up to them.”

Folena, who left the courthouse just minutes before Cuban, said, “We believe we did the best we could in this case, and things turn out the way they turn out.”

The SEC accused Cuban of using inside information to sell $7.9 million of stock in Mamma.com Inc. after he learned of a stock offering that would depress the price of shares in the search engine company. The agency wanted Cuban to repay $750,000 in losses that he avoided, plus pay a penalty. It was a civil lawsuit, so the Dallas Mavericks owner and regular on the ABC reality show “Shark Tank” didn’t face criminal charges.

The company’s CEO testified by video that Cuban, the largest shareholder, agreed during an eightminute phone call that he wouldn’t disclose what the CEO told him about the stock offering or sell his

shares on the news. He sold them a few hours later, however, before the company announced the stock offering to the public. Cuban disputed the CEO’s claims.

“This was a credibility contest and Cuban won,” said John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University.

Cuban’s lawyers attacked the credibility of the CEO, Guy Faure, and Coffee said the SEC failed to produce evidence to support Faure’s account of the phone call, which was not recorded. The verdict, he said, “tells the SEC to stay away from he-said, she-said cases.”

Jeffrey Ansley, a former SEC enforcement lawyer now in private practice in Dallas, said the jury’s fast verdict was a condemnation of the SEC’s case.

“The SEC lost every place where they could have lost, and because of that, this has to impact how the SEC staff decides which cases to bring,” Ansley said. He said the agency may become gun-shy about challenging people with the means to mount an aggressive defense, as Cuban did.

“This is one of the two big meets this weekend,” Murray said.

“There will be 75 men’s teams and I think close to 90 women’s teams.

There will be a lot of ranked teams regionally and nationally, so it’s a great time to see what each side can do against a lot of great competition across the country.”

On the women’s side, Tech looks to continue improving after finishing its last two meets in fifth and third places respectively.

The Lady Raiders added experience to the team and feel they are underrated, junior Madeline Livergood said.

“Our team is a lot better this year,” she said. “We had lots of newcomers, freshmen and transfers that really elevated our team

to the next level, and all of our returners have improved greatly and we are seeing it every race.

I’m just really looking forward to see what we can do this weekend.

At this meet we will be able to see where we are at this point in the season, and be able to show people how good we have become and where we should be in the rankings.”

The women’s team is young, totaling 13 underclassmen on a 17-person roster.

Murray said the Lady Raiders deserve more credit on a national level and expects a good showing from them.

“Everyone is running well, the practices are looking good, I’m excited about what we can do,”

he said. “I think they are probably under-ranked, but they have to show that, I mean it’s one thing for us to say, it’s another thing to get out and do on the course and this weekend is a good opportunity for them to do that, to show the rankers and those out there that the Texas Tech (women’s) team is significantly better than what other people are thinking.”

Through four meets this season, the women’s team compiled two first-place finishes, one thirdplace finish and one fifth-place finish.

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Chiefs defense on pace to set sacks record KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Texans coach Gary Kubiak felt an overwhelming sense of empathy for Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor when he watched video of him against the Kansas City Chiefs last weekend.

If Pryor turned one direction, he ran into Tamba Hali. Turn the other, Justin Houston was on top of him. Try to step up in the pocket and Derrick Johnson was waiting.

Pryor was sacked 10 times in a 24-7 victory that kept the Chiefs unbeaten.

“When you get 10 in one game, it’s kind of hard to say, ‘We have to block that guy,’” said Kubiak, who is trying to come up with a plan to slow down that pass rush Sunday.

“Andy Reid’s got such a quality team thing going on right now,” Kubiak said, “and that’s what good teams do. Production comes from everywhere, not one or two places.

You can see the energy they’re feeding off of, and the way they’re playing, pretty impressive.”

Just how impressive? Recordsetting.

The Chiefs’ second-best singlegame total left them with 31 sacks from 10 different players through their first six games, putting them on pace for 82½ sacks by the end

of the regular season. That would not only shatter the club mark of 60 set in 1990, but the NFL record of 72 set by the ‘84 Bears. The sack became an official stat recorded by the league in 1982.

Houston leads the Chiefs with 9½ sacks — his career-best of 10 was set just last year — and is tied with the Colts’ Robert Mathis for the most in the NFL. Hali is fourth with 7½ sacks.

It was Hali who terrorized Pryor last weekend. He had 3 ½ sacks to just one for teammate Houston, winning what has turned into a weekly battle.

“Justin could have gone out there and had a heck of a game,” Hali said, “but we knew about this quarterback and his scrambling ability to our left, his right, which allowed me to come off the edge and let me buy some time to get there.

“Our chemistry,” Hali said, “we definitely understand what we want to get done.”

After all, Hali has been getting it done for quite a while. He has 70 sacks since his rookie season of 2006, three shy of Art Still for third on the franchise list. The only players to have more in a Chiefs uniform were Derrick Thomas (126.5) and Neil Smith (86.5),

two of the stalwarts on that 1990 team that bullied quarterbacks in a similar fashion.

His play last season wasn’t nearly at the same level, though, at least statistically speaking, and that begs the question: What has changed this season? Most of the pass-rush pieces on what has emerged as the NFL’s stingiest defense were already in place when a new coaching staff arrived.

The credit belongs to defensive coordinator Bob Sutton, who has been dialing up aggressive game plans ever since a season-opening win over Jacksonville.

“Bob Sutton does a tremendous job along with his assistants of making everybody be aware that it’s not just going to be outside linebackers,” Hali said. “We’re all going to put pressure on the quarterback.

They do a great job with us, and we all just go out there and execute.”

The result is a sack rate of 12.1 percent — in other words, better than one in every 10 plays that an opposing offense runs results in its quarterback lying on his back.

“We’re doing our job and having our fun doing it. We know they can’t double both sides at once,” Houston said. “It’s really just a feel, we play off each other.”