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No Shutdown repeat, alternative elusive WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders from both parties insist a sequel to the government shutdown must be avoided although a plan to dodge it is still elusive.

“This can never happen again,” Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said.

Added Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell: “There’ll not be another government shutdown, you can count on that.”

The 16-day partial shutdown ended last week although a possible repeat may be on the horizon. Lawmakers approved a budget that keeps the lights on through Jan. 15 and lets Treasury continue to pay its bills through Feb. 7.

That’s not to say there is a solution at hand, and no one is rushing forward with alternatives to a potential repeat of the gridlock that shuttered parts of the government and pushed the nation toward a default on its debt. The political price has been high ahead of 2014’s midterm elections, especially for Republicans.

Man accused in road rage incident with rifle AUSTIN (AP) — A Central Texas man is facing charges after authorities allege he threatened a driver with a rifle during a road rage incident and then tossed the weapon into a neighbor’s backyard.

The Austin American-Statesman reports 33-year-old Daniel Staley has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and driving while intoxicated.

According to an arrest affidavit, Staley was in his vehicle when he apparently began cursing at another driver Thursday night, pulled up next to the driver and then aimed a rifle at him.

Staley fled after the other driver called 911.

Police say a witness saw Staley go back to his neighborhood and toss an object, later identified as the rifle, into a neighbor’s backyard.

Staley is being held at the Travis County Jail on $57,000 bail.

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The Texas Tech Rodeo Team has history in Lubbock, which was validated by the team hosting the 63rd Annual Texas Tech Rodeo Oct. 17-19 at the Texas Tech Equestrian Center.

“The Tech rodeo is one of the founding members of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association,” Philip Berry, Tech rodeo coach, said. “They were a founding member and had a rodeo the first or second year that the NIRA was put together. It’s been running for a long time.”

The rodeo has a rich tradition, but it serves the purpose of teaching rodeo team members exactly what goes into organizing an event, such as the Tech rodeo.

“Ninety-five percent of this is run by students,” Berry said. “They go get the money and they produce it. This event is totally student based.”

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Tech scientists photograph supernova

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For the first time, scientists acquired images of a star going supernova only one day after its explosion on June 16.

“We got lucky,” said David Sand, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics.

The team of scientists used a spectroscopic camera developed by Sand to determine what kind of supernova it was, he said. The spectroscopic camera is a special type of camera that measures about one meter in diameter and acts like a prism by dividing the light emitted by the supernova into the colors of the rainbow.

It is those colors that allow scientists to identify the supernova into a certain group, Sand said. In this case the supernova was characterized as a type lb.

“Supernovas are super important,” Sand said, “because theoretically we are a product of a supernova.”

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TEXAS TECH TIGHT end Jace Amaro tries to push for more yards during the game against West Virginia on Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium. The Red Raiders defeated the Mountaineers 37-27.

Tech derails WVU homecoming with 37-27 victory

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A season ago, No. 5 West Virginia traveled to Lubbock during Homecoming week favored to defeat Texas Tech and win the Big 12 Conference fairly easily.

The Red Raiders sidelined those plans following a 4914 victory, which jumpstarted a downward descent for the highly-sought after Mountaineers.

An opportunity to enact revenge presented itself Saturday during West Virginia’s Homecoming, but No. 16 Tech was able to adjust and perform against adversity, first-year coach Kliff Kingsbury said.

“They need to see some adversity,” Kingsbury said. “This is the first time that a team has moved the ball that well against (Tech), but when we had to have stops they got them, so that’s a big step.”

Junior tight end Jace Amaro saw his season come to a halt last year against the Mountaineers when he suffered a ruptured spleen in the winning effort. This year, Amaro had his revenge.

True freshman quarterback Davis Webb sealed the victory for the Red Raiders late in the fourth quarter with a 10-yard pass to Amaro with one minute remaining in the game.

The late touchdown Kingsbury is confident in his offensive personnel and game planning, Amaro said.

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TAYLOR MCALPINE, A senior marketing and management major from Lubbock, puts cheese on his pretzels during the Pretzels With the President event hosted by Student Government Association on Friday in the Student Union Building outside the Allen Theatre. The event allowed students to voice their opinions or concerns with SGA, Tech Athletics or Tech Administration.

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As a finale to SGA Week, Student Government Association hosted Pretzels with the President, where students had the opportunity to enjoy free soft pretzels while they socialized with administrators, athletes and SGA representatives.

The event lasted from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday outside the Student Union Building’s Allen Theatre.

“This event is a collaboration of Texas Tech Student Government and Administration and Texas Tech Athletics programs,” SGA President Luke Cotton said. “We’re trying to bring a melting pot together at the end of SGA Week to say ‘Hey, if you have any concerns, come out, eat a delicious pretzel and get to know some of our Texas Tech administrators and athletes as well.’”

Cotton said one big initiative of SGA is to get students to attend all kinds of sporting events, especially those outside of football, which already has many attendees.

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socialize with the students they represent.

Among the student-athletes there to interact with students was Leon Mackey, a senior general studies major from Wilmington, Del., who attended the event to represent the football team.

Mackey said he enjoyed being there because it gave him the opportunity to network and socialize with Red Raiders.

He said it also was a good opportunity to talk to important people on campus, such as the administrators.

“I like the event,” Mackey said. “Playing ball all the time, I don’t usually get the chance to get around and see the different things we have. It’s good to meet people. I’m all about networking and meeting people I represent.”

Caleb Crow, a climate graduate student from Maverick, attended Pretzels with the President and said the SGA email brought him out to the event, where he enjoyed the free food provided. He took the event as an opportunity to eat pretzels and talk to the administrators and athletes.

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National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week: Crossing the Line Time: 1 p.m.

Where: SUB North Plaza So, what is it?

Come the SUB and write an alcohol related stories on a T-shirt to hang on a clothesline. If you don’t have a story of your own, stop by and read others. All stories are anonymous.

Guns and Ruses: Violence and the Everyday in Three American ‘Women’s’ Plays Time: noon to 1 p.m.

Where: University Library So, what is it?

With October recognized as Domestic Awareness Month, the Women’s Studies program is hosting a forum, the first of three this month, with the hope to have a less violent world.

This forum will focus on the production of “The Women of Troy” and its themes.

National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week: Alcohol Screenings Time: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building second floor So, where is it?

If students have any questions or concerns of their alcohol consumption, they are welcomed to fill out a confidential survey and discuss it with a certified counselor.

Tuesday

9th Annual Tunnel of Oppression Time: 8 a.m.

Where: Red Raider Ballroom, Student Union Building So, what is it?

The Tunnel of Oppression is an opportunity for students to see first-hand the various forms of oppression through interactive acting, hearing monologues and presentations.

National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week: Drunk Goggles Obstacle Course Time: noon to 3 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building So, where is it?

Stop by the SUB and see how simulated drinking alters reaction and perception by wearing drunk goggles while maneuvering in inflatables.

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

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

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Kennedy’s vision for mental health never realized PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The last piece of legislation President John F. Kennedy signed turns 50 this month: the Community Mental Health Act, which helped transform the way people with mental illness are treated and cared for in the United States.

Signed on Oct. 31, 1963, weeks before Kennedy was assassinated, the legislation aimed to build mental health centers accessible to all Americans so that those with mental illnesses could be treated while working and living

at home, rather than being kept in neglectful and often abusive state institutions, sometimes for years on end.

Kennedy said when he signed the bill that the legislation to build 1,500 centers would mean the population of those living in state mental hospitals — at that time more than 500,000 people — could be cut in half.

In a special message to Congress earlier that year, he said the idea was to successfully and quickly treat patients in their own communities and then return them to “a useful place in society.”

Recent deadly mass shootings, including at the Washington Navy Yard and a Colorado movie theater, have been perpetrated by men who were apparently not being adequately treated for serious mental illnesses. Those tragedies have focused public attention on the mental health system and made clear that Kennedy’s vision was never fully realized.

AUSTIN (AP) — Two state lawmakers on the committee investigating whether a University of Texas System regent should be impeached over his battles with popular Austin campus President Bill Powers went to the Texas-Oklahoma football game with free tickets provided by Powers’ office.

The University of Texas has long offered free football tickets to all the state’s legislators, including the annual showcase event at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. But this year’s game was played while House lawmakers are investigating whether Regent Wallace Hall abused the authority of his governor-appointed position to undermine Powers and potentially get him fired.

Although no laws were broken, Hall’s attorney questioned whether Reps. Eric Johnson and Four Price could be impartial in deciding his client’s case after accepting the tickets. Both lawmakers are among eight members of the Select Transparency in State Agency Operations Committee, which is expected to hear its first testimony in the charges against Hall this week.

If impeached, Hall could be removed from office.

“I am surprised and disappointed,” said Hall’s attorney Allan Van Fleet, adding that committee

members should make sure they can review charges against Hall “fairly and impartially.”

Johnson, a Dallas Democrat who also serves as vice chairman of a House ethics committee, declined comment. Price, a Republican from Amarillo, did not respond to several messages left at his office.

According to Powers’ office, Johnson and Price were among 19 state lawmakers who accepted free tickets to the Texas-Oklahoma game on Oct. 12, but were the only ones from the investigations panel.

Johnson, Price and committee co-chairman Rep. Dan Flynn were also on a list of 37 lawmakers who accepted an invitation to a pregame reception hosted by Powers and UT’s system chancellor, though Flynn said he decided not to go to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. It was unclear if Johnson and Price attended because Powers’ office did not track who showed up.

Powers spokesman Gary Susswein said the university, like other Texas schools, has long offered complimentary football tickets to all the regents and lawmakers.

“Some use them, some don’t,” he said.

Indeed, the practice is so common that Hall himself has frequently accepted Texas tickets, even as he

has continued to fiercely criticize the university’s president. Hall attended two Texas football games this season with tickets provided annually to the regents and chancellor by the university. Hall said he did not attend the Texas-Oklahoma game but gave his tickets to family. He declined to comment about Johnson and Price.

While accepting the free tickets is legal and a regular practice among lawmakers, Johnson and Price should have declined this year because of their positions on the investigating committee, said Tom “Smitty” Smith, Texas director of the ethics watchdog organization Public Citizen.

“It could lead to doubts about the outcome and haunt the process,” Smith said. “It’s a question of judgment.”

Flynn said the committee did not discuss whether its members should decline tickets this year.

“I trust the integrity of Four Price and Eric Johnson. I have confidence in this committee,” said Flynn, RVan, whose panel meets Tuesday and Wednesday . “A football game is a football game. ... If your district has a problem with it, deal with it.”

Other state lawmakers accepting tickets to the Texas-Oklahoma game included Rep. Dan Branch,

R-Dallas, chairman of the House Higher Education Committee, Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, chairman of the Sen. Higher Education Committee, and Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

The group also included Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.

Each guest of the president is allowed to purchase the tickets, but Seliger was the only lawmaker to pay for his this year, according to Powers’ office.

Branch, Seliger, Pitts and Dewhurst all have been vocal critics of Hall and the ongoing power struggle between Powers and several members of the university’s governing body. In February, Dewhurst accused Hall and other regents of engaging in “character assassination” against Powers. Pitts called Hall’s probes into campus business a “witch hunt” and filed the impeachment charges.

Rep. Naomi Gonzalez, D-El Paso, who also is on the committee investigating Hall, said she accepted four tickets to a Texas football game on Sept. 14, but paid $255 for them.

Gonzalez said she doesn’t accept free gifts if they are something her constituents can’t also get for free.

Gonzalez said she’s “very careful” to avoid “even the remote suspicion of impropriety.”

Group wants grass replanted in Old arson cases in Texas being Fort Bliss National Cemetery review by new panel EL PASO (AP) — A group of veterans, relatives of buried soldiers and others are continuing their efforts to convince the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to replant grass a military cemetery in West Texas.

The landscape of the Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso reflects that found in the rest of the city. As part of drastic measures to stabilize its water supply, El Paso in the last two decades has ripped up grass from many public places, installing rock and cactus gardens and encouraging residents to do the same in their homes.

The Fort Bliss National Cem-

etery in 2007 was transformed by a $4.2 million xeriscaping project, which incorporates gravel and rock designs with plants that are accustomed to the dry climate.

Earlier this year, the cemetery received the Texas Environmental Excellence Award for saving about $400,000 a year in reduced water costs, labor fertilizer and pesticides.

But the El Paso Times reported that 68-year-old veteran Frank Winslett began a campaign six weeks ago to pressure federal officials to replant grass at the cemetery.

Winslett says the cemetery

AUSTIN (AP) — A new review by the State Fire Marshal’s Office of old arson cases that might have relied on bad science has so far discovered three questionable convictions.

But the effort has also drawn criticism from a West Texas prosecutor whose office has had one of its convictions questioned. The prosecutor is now asking the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to stop the reviews.

The Austin American-Statesman reported the review of old arson cases was recommended by a 2011 Texas Forensic Science Commission report that acknowledged faulty fire science played a

role in Cameron Todd Willingham’s murder-by-arson conviction in the deaths of his three young daughters in 1991. The Corsicana man was executed in 2004.

State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy assembled a six-member panel of fire, forensic and legal experts to review old cases — identified by his staff and by the Innocence Project of Texas — that might have relied on bad science.

Connealy said the review team, dubbed the Science Advisory Workgroup, examines whether a criminal prosecution could withstand scrutiny using modern forensic fire science.

POLICE BLOTTER Thursday 10:51 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries in the Flint Avenue parking garage.

11:17 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to a medical emergency at Carpenter/Wells Residence Complex. A student was suffering from an anxiety attack. Emergency Medical Services transported the student to University Medical Center.

11:36 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident with minor injuries in the 600 block of Red Raider Ave. A vehicle struck a pedestrian. Emergency Medical Services transported the student to UMC. 12:02 p.m. — A Tech officer

arrested a nonstudent for public intoxication and an outstanding Lubbock County warrant. A second nonstudent was arrested for public intoxication at Jones AT&T Stadium. This arrest followed a dispatched call of two subjects engaged in a physical and verbal altercation on pedestrian bridge No. 1. Both nonstudents were issued a criminal warning for all Tech property. Both nonstudents were transported to the Lubbock County Detention facility.

1:20 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a burglary of a motor vehicle at Lubbock Lake Landmark.

The vehicle’s driver’s side rear window was shattered.

1:49 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries in the 800 Block of Texas

Tech Parkway.

2:34 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at the northwest bike rack at Clement Residence Hall. A secured black and gray, 21-speed, men’s Trek mountain bike was taken.

3:59 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for driving while license invalid following a traffic stop in the 3000 block of Main St. The nonstudent was transported to Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was released to a family member.

6:50 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Health Sciences Center F-2 parking lot. The driver’s side window of a vehicle was broken.

8:22 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency at

Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. A student sustained a knee injury while playing basketball.

Emergency Medical Services transported the student to the UMC Emergency Room.

Friday 1:47 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for consumption of alcohol by a minor, following the report of a disturbance by a University Housing Services staff member at Stangel Residence Hall. The nonstudent was transported to Lubbock County Jail. The nonstudent also was released and charged with criminal mischief because of being suspected of damaging a ceiling tile.

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

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Crow said he also attended SGA’s event about sustainability on Wednesday and it made him think about SGA and the possibility of joining in the future.

Cotton said he thought SGA Week was a smash hit, especially for being the first of its kind.

He said every event SGA

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Many rodeo students never see the behind-the-scenes work that goes into producing an event such as the annual rodeo, Berry said. The Tech rodeo offers them a unique opportunity to see something they may not have experienced before.

“The students get the production side of the rodeo, which is something not many people get to see,” Berry said. “It’s a timeconsuming event to put on.

When you put on a three-day event with four slacks, three performances and a short go, it’s a major production.”

Alexa Major, a sophomore agricultural communications m a j o r f r o m F o w l e r, C o l o . , said the rodeo is a learning

hosted either ran out of food completely or came very close to, meaning many students attended the events.

Cotton said with each event, there were more than enough people to talk to about what SGA represents and how Tech could improve.

He said he was happy with the way the week went and because of the week full of events’ success, it would definitely be proposed to

next year’s SGA leaders.

Cotton said the free food drew many students into their events, but the food only boosted the events’ success and acted as a catalyst for conversations.

He said his favorite part was inviting students to the event and then, while they were there, seeing them realize they had an opportunity to let their voice be heard.

“We want students to know

that we are legitimately concerned with what they have going on,” Cotton said. “If they didn’t take it from the entire week, we’ve been walking around with iPads saying, ‘Hey, submit a suggestion and we’ll get back to you as fast as we can with it.’ A lot of students may think that the administration is not truly concerned about them, but that’s not the case. We’re all here for the students.”

experience.

“We start next week to plan next year’s rodeo,” she said. “My job specifically, as secretary of the Rodeo Club, is sponsorships.

Every member is responsible for selling $300 in sponsorships.

Our sponsors are the biggest responsibility that we have. They are how we fund our program.”

Compiling programs and advertisements together, printing banners, contacting sponsors, booking a stock contractor and other logistics combine in a whirlwind for students involved in the planning, Major said.

Learning skills, such as organization, are important factors in efficiently organizing the event, she said.

“As secretary, I was in charge of the sponsorships this year,” Major said. “You come to realize how unorganized college

students are in general. Trying to herd 40 of them in the same direction gets very taxing and frustrating.”

However, rodeo team members have done an excellent job representing Tech throughout the process, she said.

“It’s interesting to see how people perceive rodeo students,” Major said. “Trying to change that image into a positive one has been a really big challenge.”

Levin Porter, a senior animal science major from Fort Stockton, said he agrees the rodeo teaches students in a hands-on way.

“Stuff that you learn from putting on a rodeo as big as this one — we’ve got 15 different colleges with 500 competitors — that’s a lot of people coming to one place,” he said. “As far as putting one on goes, you’ve defi-

nitely got to learn management: time management, human management, resource management.

You’ve got to be able to work efficiently. That just makes for a smoother process and smoother rodeo.”

Showcasing student talent during a student performance is just one way Tech benefits from the rodeo, Porter said.

“That’s what we’re here to do is put on a performance for all of our spectators and all of our sponsors,” he said. “We’re here to show off our talent and show off what we can do.”

In the future, Berry said he hopes to see the rodeo grow so the students may benefit even more from the experience.

“We’re looking at every avenue to make this a bigger, better production,” Berry said.

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Just days after the first round of global nuclear talks with Iran, a rift appears to be emerging between Israel and its closest ally, the United States.

Israel’s prime minister on Sunday called on the U.S. to step up the pressure on Iran, even as American officials hinted at the possibility of easing tough economic pressure.

Meanwhile, a leading Israeli daily reported the outlines of what could be construed in the West as genuine Iranian compromises in the talks.

The differing approaches could bode poorly for Israel as the talks between six global powers and Iran gain steam in the coming months. Negotiators were upbeat following last week’s talks, and the next round of negotiations is set to begin Nov. 7.

Convinced Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes the Iranians are trying to trick the West into easing economic sanctions while still pushing forward with their nuclear program. Iran insists

its program is for peaceful purposes.

“I think that in this situation as long as we do not see actions instead of words, the international pressure must continue to be applied and even increased,” Netanyahu told his Cabinet. “The greater the pressure, the greater the chance that there will be a genuine dismantling of the Iranian military nuclear program.”

Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran a threat to its very survival, citing Iranian references to Israel’s destruction.

Netanyahu says pressure must be maintained until Iran halts all enrichment of uranium, a key step in producing a nuclear weapon; removes its stockpile of enriched uranium from the country; closes suspicious enrichment facilities and shutters a facility that could produce plutonium, another potential gateway to nuclear arms.

Despite Netanyahu’s warnings, there are growing signs that any international deal with Iran will fall short of his demands.

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Before coming to Tech he was an Sand now is working on captur- observational and experimental ing more spectrographic images of astrophysicist, completing a postyounger supernovae, he said, and doctoral fellowship at University the younger scientists find them, of California-Santa Barbara and the better they can understand the affiliated Las Cumbres Obserthem. vatory Global Telescope Network.

Sand said he plans to achieve Sand and Tom Maccarone, an this by making the spectroscopic associate professor in the Departcamera robotic just like telescopes. ment of Physics, arrived at Tech This way, once a supernova is as a result of the expansion of found, a spectrograph image can the astrophysics research group, be taken without manually having which is a new concentration in to go and take the spectrographic astrophysics within the physics images. major, Sand said.

According to the release, there According to the Departare two FLOYDS spectrographs in ment of Physics website, various the world. One is located in Ha- astrophysics research topics will waii and the other is in Australia. be offered. Among them are: Sand said there were more than rapid responses to characterize 20 people involved in this project. supernovae, observational studies Sand is one of the newest of dynamics of dense star clusters faculty member additions to the and characterization of low surface Department of Physics. brightness dwarf galaxies.

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Next round in fight over abortion restrictions AUSTIN (AP) — The next round in the fight over Texas’ abortion restrictions begins this week, with Planned Parenthood challenging the law in federal court and a state agency transforming the law into regulations.

A judge will hear arguments Monday over whether enforcement of the law should be stopped until abortion

rights advocates have a chance to argue their case at trial. The Texas attorney general’s office will argue the law doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution and should be enforced.

The law restricts how, when and where a woman can obtain an abortion in Texas and was the subject of Fort Worth Sen. Wendy Davis’

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Betts: TV viewing more comfortable, less expensive Gleinser: Attending game provides unique experience

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game-day experience. Starting off, the weather is unpredictable. Receiving almost a second-degree sunburn or having to wear three coats just to stay warm is not what people pay for when they imagine getting to cheer for their favorite team.

Attending a game is not as easy as it always seems either.

Finding parking and using the shuttle service is something every fan has put up with during a game-day experience. It not only adds stress, but also makes your wallet much lighter.

Speaking of spending m o n e y, t h e tickets usually are ridiculously expensive.

I f y o u d o n ’t pay enough for a ticket, you will be dealing with the worst seat in the house. On the flip side, comfortable seating can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

During the game, one of the best experiences is purchasing concession-stand food. That is until you realize your Coca-Cola, hot dog and nachos will cost you about $20. When you add up

Tradition and tens of thousands of screaming fans are not always enough to suppress the negatives of attending a game in person.

parking, tickets, food and — in our case last week— aloe vera for that sunburn, it just doesn’t seem worth it.

After all this trouble, it’s no wonder that according to an nbcsports.com poll, “74 percent of football fans prefer watching (football) on TV” instead of attending the game in person. Having the ability to switch from game to game as well as catching up on football highlights at halftime is just the start of why watching the game on television is the best experience.

Being able to have your choice of food and drinks without paying the ridiculous cost allows you to save money and have your favorite choices right next to you. Having all your friends over also increases the in-home game-day experience. Being able to actually keep up a conversation and watch that replay over and over again is something that is simply not feasible in a massive stadium.

So as there are many perks to experiencing a game in person, with the amount of technology, friends, food and saved money, enjoying your favorite team from the comfort of your home is simply unmatched.

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nyone who knows me will tell you I enjoy watching a game from the comfort of my couch. The comfort and relaxation of being in your own home are simply unmatched. In spite of this, actually attending the game is a much better experience.

The best part is actually being part of a crowd. Hearing the roar of tens of thousands of fans cheering in unison when the home team scores is one of the best experiences in sports. Maybe you can yell at the top of your voice at home, but your neighbors, roommates or spouse might not appreciate it.

Dressing in the team’s colors and showing your support is a great way to energize a team. Imagine if all the fans decided they would rather watch the game at home instead of showing up in person. I can’t imagine the players would be particularly excited by that.

Being at the game also allows you to show your support for the officials as well. I readily admit to voicing my opinion to referees and umpires when I think their judgment is particularly questionable, as do many other fans.

Sometimes they just need to know they made a bad call, and they simply can’t hear you if you’re screaming at the television.

TV viewing also restricts what you can see. Arguably the best part of the Texas Tech football game-day experience is the pregame ritual, with

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Student loans create burden for graduates Iowa State DaIly (Iowa State U.)

John is a recent graduate of Iowa State. He is starting out at his new career making approximately $30,000 a year. John is beginning a new life. He has a car and a house, and wants to be able to start a family soon. John has one thing that looms over him, one thing that is going to hold back John from some of the things he wants to start his life: the heavy weight of student loans.

USA Today ranked the state of Iowa No. 6 for schools with the most student debt. At Iowa State, 72 percent of students take out student loans. The debt of the average student graduating in 2013 will pile up to nearly $30,000. Imagine — $30,000 in debt. As recent graduates just starting new jobs, how will we be able to pay off our debt?

For John to pay off his loans, it would take an entire year’s salary. He is going to have to save up and pay over a few years rather than all at once. What about the graduates who don’t

get a job right away? The poverty line in America for a one-person household is $11,490. This means that what we are paying back in student loans more than doubles what people below the poverty line have to live off of.

The poverty line in America for a family of four is $23,550.

Times are tough in America and struggling parents cannot afford to send their child to school when the amount that they will be paying in loans is higher than the amount they are bringing into the household. To think, that cost is only for one child. If both children want to attend college, the debt the parents would be facing would be nearly unmanageable; now imagine families with three, four, five children.

Let’s say, in a different case, John graduates and doesn’t start his career right away. He is working day in and day out in a local diner to pay off his student debt, but in this situation, he is living below the poverty line.

If he makes $15,000 a year and pays $100 a month, John will be paying for his student loans for

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25 years. It looks like John can kiss the new car and new house goodbye. If John chooses to start a family after graduating, his loans will take even longer to pay off. He will have to put the life he desires on hold in order to pay off his debt. What does all of this information mean for students?

Thankfully, many students are able to receive money from the FAFSA, Pell Grants and scholarships. These three things help diminish debt for many individuals. For the students who are not receiving any financial support, it would be wise to think about paying off student debt sooner rather than later.

Many loans are unsubsidized and will gain interest over time, so paying on loans now would be more beneficial than waiting and paying on them later.

Gaining a college education is important in today’s economy and in order to get ahead, we, as graduating students, may have to start out behind.

For families living below the poverty line, there are financial aid options. Students with a greater financial need can get larger amounts from their FAF-

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SA, as it is based in part off of parents’ incomes. As more and more students from low income families receive college educations, the opportunity to change meritocracy in the United States increases.

“Your future is what you make it” becomes more of a truth every day as more and more students attend college to get higher paying jobs.

Student loans do not look as though they are going to be going away any time soon for any of us. The sooner we start paying, the sooner they will disappear.

Finishing school in the allotted time you plan to attend and beginning to pay off loans before you graduate will help decrease student debt.

After graduation, when we go out and get our “big kid” jobs, it will be beneficial for us to pay ahead, or more than the minimum per month. Nobody wants to spend 25 years paying off our student loans, because, like John, we want new homes, cars and families.

What we all want is to escape the looming cloud of debt and find the sunny side of life — the sooner, the better.

Goin’ Band’s stirring rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the Masked Rider streaking across the field as the football team comes out of the tunnel.

The TV networks are a little too busy to show that.

You also don’t have the opportunity to see halftime performances or any of the other happenings that aren’t a part of the game itself. The much-beloved “Kiss Cam” also doesn’t make it to TV screens, and neither does the seventhinning stretch. You can sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” at home if you want, but just be aware someone might videotape your performance and put it on YouTube.

Watching on television also does not allow you to see everything at once.

The TV camera usually doesn’t show you how a defensive secondary is lining up or how the outfielders are positioned unless they specifically make a point to do so. Being there in person, you get to see the entire field.

But perhaps the worst part of watching a game on television is what you have to experience in addition to the game itself. Many times, I’m forced to choose between muting the TV, thereby not being able to hear the sounds of the game, and listening to some blowhard with hair plugs ramble on about “athaleticism” while reminiscing about his playing days.

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Shutdown problems not solved

By ALEX ROSENTHAL

the oracle (U. SoUth FlorIDa)

Finally, in the 11th hour, members of Congress saved the day by ending the partial government shutdown and voted to extend the nation’s debt ceiling.

Now citizens can take a sigh of relief, leave their homes without fear of anarchy and get back to their jobs from which they were furloughed for 16 days.

Well, not really.

Due to the government shutdown, the country has suffered numerous setbacks that will only fully be revealed in the weeks to come.

When Congress signed a bill to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, they only prolonged the problems and worsened America’s financial situation.

While reopening the government and allowing federal employees back to work, the bill also delayed the inevitable debt problem until Feb. 7 and allowed federal spending to resume at its normal rate until Jan. 15.

This is hardly a good thing since the initial problem was the government’s debt, which due to the shutdown, will certainly worsen between now and February.

According to CNN, Standard and Poor’s estimated the 16 days of shutdown cost the American economy $24 billion. The situation sounds kind of like a Copyright © 2013 Texas Tech University Student Media/The Daily Toreador. All DT articles, photographs and artwork are the property of The DT and Student Media and may not be reproduced or published without permission.

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mercials when watching on TV. I see enough of Flo and the Geico Gecko as it is; the last thing I need is more of them. Maybe the helmet shuffle and sausage race aren’t exactly high-quality entertainment either, but at least it’s something different.

Sure, there are some downsides to attending a game in person. The weather may cause problems if it’s an outdoor stadium, but simply checking the weather beforehand can allow you to take whatever precautions are necessary, such as applying sunscreen or bringing a heavier coat.

Besides, such experiences create memories. I remember a Tech football game a couple of years ago when a cold front blew into town during the game and brought a nice little dust storm with it, as well as rapidly dropping temperatures. That’s the only thing I remember about that game, and I was no worse for the wear afterward.

Does a boy remember the first time his father watched a baseball game on television with him, or the first time his father took him to a game? Most would say the latter. Sure, maybe it’s difficult to attend a game sometimes for various reasons, but being there in person gives you a totally different experience than watching it at home.

It’s an experience like no other, and it’s much more memorable than being a couch potato.

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The choice to attend a college football game is always a split decision. On one hand, getting to experience game day in a crowd of roaring fans and seeing the pregame/halftime performance firsthand always gives an adrenaline rush. This rush is the knowledge that as the spectator, you are partaking in a tradition that has been the same for generations.

Unfortunately, tradition and tens of thousands of screaming fans are not always enough to suppress the negatives of attending a game in person.

These negatives are felt through every football fan’s

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student maxing out his credit card and quitting his job right before rent is due at the first of the month.

It seems ironic that when faced with a massive problem of debt, the government decided to just give everyone a forced vacation.

Maybe Congress was hoping the problem would magically go away, but as employees will find when they return to work, it most certainly did not.

Employees of federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, are bound to realize the severity of the problem this morning when they see the massive backlog of research and grant applications piled on their desks.

Due to the shutdown, these agencies were forced to leave countless researchers across the country, including those at USF, without assistance in their application process and will probably now see all those researchers submit weeks worth of work at once.

This is just the tip of the unknown iceberg of problems caused by the shutdown, but one thing is for certain: the problems have not been solved.

In the upcoming months, politicians will have to give up their partisan bickering and knuckle down to come up with some joint agreement about how to finally solve the country’s problems.

If not, the past few weeks of fighting on Capitol Hill have been meaningless.

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Hi-Tech Fashion hosts first Project Ruway Challenge

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

Darlene Araiza, a senior apparel design and manufacturing major from Post, went away late Saturday with a feeling of relief, $100 in gift cards and the title of Project Runway Challenge winner.

Araiza was one of five female contestants who showed off their designs and sewing capabilities, as well as their creativity at the Hi-Tech Fashion Group’s first Project Runway Challenge.

Araiza won with a matching blue, patterned bustier and skirt with a white lace top as a cover up.

She said it was surprising when they announced she won.

“It’s been a long day, too,” she said. “So it’s just kind of a relief, too — a good relief.”

Starting at 8 a.m., all five contestants were given the challenge to design a look for a first date and had 15-20 minutes to sketch their ideas.

Each of the girls was then given 30 minutes, a $40 budget and a half-off coupon to purchase anything they needed to make their designs a reality.

Araiza said she had an idea of what she wanted to do to begin with.

But when the designers went to Jo-Ann Fabrics and Craft store, she said she had to let some things go because she had spent more than the budget she was given.

“Just there I was already like ‘Great, my idea’s already going to have to change,’” Araiza said.

“After that it was kind of just going with it and seeing what was going to happen.”

Although her idea was al-

tered because of the budget, she said she did get pretty close to her original idea.

The original idea, Araiza said, was a bustier, a skirt and the same sheer top piece, but she also wanted to do beading.

“And I didn’t get any zippers at the store,” she said, “so I had to dig through and find some here. It wasn’t too different, but the top was going to be different.”

Although some of the contestants had to deal with troubles, each of the them presented a finished garment to the judges.

Each of the girls had to present their outfits along with the story behind the outfits to the three judges.

The judges were Debbie Genraich, TART! clothing store owner; Christan Miranda, The Exchange clothing store owner; and Carol Flueckiger, a professor of art.

When they said the challenge was a first date, Araiza said she wanted something fun, but not too different.

Because Araiza had to include a backstory as to where the first date was taking place, she said she decided her fictional client’s first date was a music festival.

“I thought it was a good medium,” Araiza said, “and it seemed like it fit a hip person.”

Besides getting the title as the first Project Runway Challenge winner, Araiza also was awarded $50 to both TART! and The Exchange, as well as one year’s free subscription to a magazine of her choice.

Katelyn Ortiz, Hi-Tech Fashion group president, said the club decided to host a Project Runway challenge because each

of the members are big fans of the TV show, “Project Runway.”

The senior apparel design and manufacturing major from Lubbock said Hi-Tech Fasion members wanted the show’s premise to come to life.

“We figured we could it,” Ortiz said. “The Tech ADM have been hosting a few kind of same idea Project Runways, but we wanted to actually dub it Project Runway.”

She said the group thought of the idea during the summer and have worked hard to make sure it was brought to life.

They had to make sure there was no home game, Ortiz said, as well as if they could rent a room out.

“Asking our judges was probably our biggest preparation,” she said.

The contestants were judged in the categories of presentation, creativity and construction, and consulted with each other after each of the contestants presented the ideas behind their outfits and the outfits themselves.

Before announcing the winner, the judges spent about 10 minutes critiquing the contestants’ outfits.

The judges said every contestant was incredibly creative and that was the part in which all of the contestants did amazing.

Miranda, who was a judge in the competition along with Genraich, said Araiza won becasue of her catering to hers and Genraich’s desire for functionality as well as the style, hemming and the stitching.

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DARLENE ARAIZA, A senior apparel design and manufacturing major from Post, sews the trim on her top during Hi-Tech Fashion Group’s Project Runway Challenge on Saturday in the Human Sciences building. The competition was organized to fit the same style as the Lifetime TV show of the same name.

In life, especially death, JFK changed TV ‘Gravity’ holds atop box office for 3rd week NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a measure of how long ago President John F. Kennedy died that, at the time, television was described as a young medium. With the shooting in Dallas, TV grew up.

Coverage that November weekend 50 years ago signaled, at last, that television could fulfill its grand promise. It could be “more than wires and lights in a box,” in the words of newsman Edward R. Murrow, and not just the “vast wasteland” that Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow had branded it just two years before.

Rising to an unprecedented challenge, television could perform an incalculable public service. It could hold the country together: Americans convened in a video vigil, gathering before an electronic hearth.

Nonstop broadcasts by America’s three networks provided a sense of unity, a chance to grieve together, a startling closeness to distant events.

And television, exhaustively chronicling the murder, memorial and burial, gave viewers the final scenes of a political career ushered in almost in tandem with the video age.

In life and especially in death, John F. Kennedy changed television forever.

Back in 1956, TV in its infancy had introduced many Americans to the young politician as he made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic vice presidential nomination.

Four years later, he was running for the presidency, with TV joining him on the campaign trail.

His landmark televised debates with Republican nominee Richard Nixon helped seal the deal. Some 70 million Americans watched the first debate, with the telegenic Kennedy deemed the clear winner. Televised debates would become staples of future presidential campaigns.

Once in office, Kennedy and the growing medium of television (households owning a TV had soared to 46.9 million in 1960 from 9.8 million a decade earlier, according to Nielsen) created further indelible images.

His inaugural address in 1961 was seen by millions as he urged Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you....” He charmed viewers with his televised press conferences, which were candid, off-the-cuff

and sometimes talk-show-host witty.

Once, a newsman asked Kennedy if, given the burdens of the presidency, he enjoyed the job — and would he recommend it to others?

“The answer to the first is yes, and the second is no,” he quipped, his face crinkled in a grin. “I don’t recommend it to others — at least, for a while.”

Viewers loved his wife, Jackie, too. In February 1962, all three networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — aired her tour of the newly restored White House. More than 80 million Americans tuned in.

“Television brought John Kennedy and his family into America’s living rooms as had been the case with no president before,” sums up historian Robert Caro, whose books include a multi-volume biography of Kennedy successor Lyndon Johnson.

Then, on Nov. 22, 1963, and in the days that followed, TV devoted itself to an all-consuming national tragedy.

“Television intensified all the emotions of those four days. It intensified the shock and horror of the murder, and then the murder of the murderer,” Caro says, referring to Lee Harvey Oswald’s slaying. “It intensified the grief and the mourning and the mystery. And it intensified the healing process of the funeral ceremonies.”

But TV also assisted with a seldom-recognized part of the transition process, Caro adds: It reintroduced a man who for three years toiled in the margins — Johnson, Kennedy’s vice president — as he was summoned to command at a crisis point of trauma and alarm.

Says Caro, “You have to recognize the relationship of television not only to the dead president, but also to the new president taking over — his reassuring, calming effect on the public because of his demeanor.”

Johnson’s demeanor was first on display just hours after the assassination as he arrived from Dallas at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington on Air Force One, accompanying the casket and Mrs. Kennedy, still in her bloodstained pink suit.

Clustered nearby were some 50 members of the media, including NBC News correspondent Robert Abernethy, whose primary memory

is how “eerily quiet” it was as they waited.

“The reporters and crews, nobody said much — or could say much,” recalls Abernethy, now 85 and still busy as the host of “Religion & Ethics Newsweekly” on PBS. He and his counterparts from the other networks offered spare commentary on the sad scene as the newly-sworn-in Johnson stepped to the forest of microphones and, striking just the right blend of resolve and humility, told the nation, “I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help, and God’s.”

This was one of so many unforgettable moments that had begun, for many viewers, with the stark on-screen message “CBS News Bulletin” as the voice of anchor Walter Cronkite had cut into the lunch-hour soap “As the World Turns.”

“President Kennedy has been the victim of an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Texas,” Cronkite reported.

“It is not known as yet whether the president survived ...”

All too soon, Cronkite, by then on camera with his eyes moist and voice choking, made his memorable pronouncement that Kennedy had died.

NEW YORK (AP) — Star power and Oscar aspirations are reigning at the box office, where the space adventure “Gravity” and the Somali pirate docudrama “Captain Phillips” are holding off all comers.

With $31 million over the weekend according to studio estimates Sunday, “Gravity” topped the box office for the third straight week, cementing its status as the juggernaut of the fall movie-going season. It also took in another $33.5 million overseas.

The 3-D Warner Bros. movie, staring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, has now made more than $170 million in three weeks.

The film’s groundbreaking visuals have been particularly popular on IMAX screens, where it made an “Avatar”-like $7.4 million on the weekend.

“Captain Phillips,” starring Tom Hanks and directed by Paul Greengrass, also held in second place, taking in $17.3 million in its second week. The Sony film slid only 33 percent from its debut last weekend of $25.7 million.

The two movies and their veteran stars were able to keep three new wide releases at bay: the horror remake “Carrie” ($17 million for Sony and MGM), the Sylvester

Stallone and Arnold Schwarzeneg- (1,769 theaters). ger action flick “Escape Plan” “It’s a very strong lineup that is ($9.8 million for Lionsgate), and not budging,” said Paul Dergarabethe WikiLeaks drama “The Fifth dian, senior media analyst for boxEstate.” office tracker Rentrak, who noted The last utterly flopped — the primary family choice, “Cloudy a fate predicted by its subject, With a Chance of Meatballs 2,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is also holding steady with $10.1 — taking in a paltry $1.7 million million in its fourth week. “’Carfor Disney. It’s the worst debut this rie’ came into a very competitive 19, 2013 year for a film in such FOR wideRELEASE releaseOCTOBER marketplace.”

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advertise and raise awareness for our own organization.”

Radine’s friend, Julie Ramos, a South Despite cold winds and temperatures Plains alumna from Kress, said the event barely above freezing, about 200 people was awesome in itself. from the Lubbock community came To bring awareness against drunken driving, she together Saturday at the Walk like said, is such a MADD 5K. huge thing in the community Nicole Radine, a West Texas A&M people need to try to help University alumna from Amarillo, said change someshe works for the how.

Bair Foundation, a “Work to Christian foster care help change the world and agency, and had the JULIE RAMOS privilege of meeting little by little we SOUTH PLAINS ALUMNA will succeed,” an associate of the Mothers Against Radine said.

FROM KRESS Drunk Driving orThe walk itself, as well as ganization.

She said the associate invited her seeing and meeting everybody, was her and her friend to be a part of the event. favorite part, Ramos said.

“So we thought it would be fun to put To make a change in the community a team together and support MADD,” or in the world, she said, people have Radine said. “We also had the ability to to unite with each other, try to come Staff Writer

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Seeing everybody come together like this was just awesome.

together and try to make a change.

“Seeing everybody come together like this was just awesome,” Ramos said.

Talking to some of the people associated with MADD, Radine said, she knew last year they didn’t have as well of a turnout as one would hope for an event like this.

Her favorite part, she said, was seeing a smile on the MADD associate’s face and knowing that all these people, despite the fact that it was cold, were determined to still attend.

“This is a major thing, a reality that we deal with in our world as far as drunk driving,” Radine said. “So for those to come together and say ‘This is an issue and we’re not OK with this’ and to see the display of the truck is quite moving.”

The walk, which was hosted at Lubbock County Courthouse, had booths set up for several different organizations, as well as a trailer with a demolished truck inside that had been involved in a drunken driving accident. ➤➤awillingham@dailytoreador.com

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LUBBOCK RESIDENTS WALK their dogs during the second annual Walk like MADD 5K event on Saturday outside the Lubbock County Courthouse. The 5K was a fundraiser for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

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Wedding planning on a deadline for NJ gay couples For some Sandy victims, insurance falls short TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Activists are still working to line up judges who could waive the threeday waiting period for same-sex couples who want to exchange vows first thing Monday, when gay marriage will become legal in New Jersey.

Garden State Equality executive director Troy Stevenson said Saturday that the effort to get couples hitched without the waiting period was a “work in progress.” Under state law, couples must normally wait 72 hours after applying for a marriage license before they can tie the knot.

Stevenson didn’t have specific details on how many judges would be available to consider couples’ waivers this weekend. But he says many marriages will be held across the state as soon as possible once the new policy takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday.

The wedding frenzy started shortly after the New Jersey Supreme Court refused Friday to delay a lower-court order for the state to recognize same-sex marriages while the state appeals. The justices said they did not think the state’s arguments were likely to prevail in the end and that delaying the lower court’s order would hurt couples who would not be eligible for federal benefits until they can be married legally in New Jersey.

Officials also noted that state law says couples married legally elsewhere can wed in New Jersey without a waiting period — a provi-

sion that appears to apply to many New Jersey couples.

Meanwhile, many same-sex couples continued to scramble Saturday to plan their ceremonies.

They were reaching out to florists, photographers, catering firms, banquet halls and other weddingrelated businesses to see what was available on short notice.

“Just imagine having only three days to do three months of wedding planning,” Stevenson joked.

Justin Jordan, a photographer who shoots many weddings in southern New Jersey, said he’s heard from “numerous couples” since Friday’s decision.

“Many people have been waiting anxiously for the chance to get married, and now that they have the chance to do it, they’re jumping at the opportunity,” Jordan said Saturday. “But they’re also realizing everything that goes with a wedding, like getting a photographer or video person, buying flowers, arranging for food ... it’s a daunting task when you have months to plan, let alone a few days.”

Jordan says many callers told him they want to get married as soon as they can, while others are planning to wait.

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While same-sex couples discussed their options, officials in towns across the state were preparing for a rush of weddings.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker and David DelVecchio, mayor of the gay-friendly community of Lambertville, both plan to lead ceremonies for gay couples at 12:01 a.m. Monday. A handful of towns, including Hoboken and Collingswood, opened municipal offices Saturday to accept applications for marriage licenses from same-sex couples.

Among those seeking their licenses Saturday morning were Hoboken residents Paul Somerville and Allen Kratz, who have been together since 1985. They were previously married in Oregon in 2004, only to have the union nullified by the state’s supreme court. They also have been part of a domestic partnership in 2006 and a civil union in 2008, both through the city of Hoboken.

“It’s wonderful,” Kratz told The Jersey Journal when asked how it felt to be able to marry his longtime partner. “Civil rights always come too early for those in a comfortable position of power, and never soon enough for those who have been denied life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

The couple said they will receive their license on Tuesday, and plan to wed Thursday in a private ceremony officiated by a federal judge.

NEW YORK (AP) — Many homeowners who got slammed

by Superstorm Sandy are finding their flood insurance checks are nowhere near large enough to cover their repairs, and consumer advocates put some of the blame on errors by the multitude of adjusters who were hired in a hurry after the disaster.

They say policyholders are being shortchanged — sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars — because of adjusters’ inexperience and their overreliance on computer programs, rather than construction know-how, to estimate rebuilding costs.

Those critics point to policyholders like John Lambert and Lee Ann Newland, whose house in Neptune, N.J., is still a moldy wreck a year after Sandy filled it with 4 1/2 feet of water.

If you buy drywall, flooring or a new boiler in New Jersey, you have to pay sales tax. But when the insurance adjuster was using computer software to calculate the cost of repairing the home, he neglected to click a box adding taxes to the estimate, according to a consultant hired by the couple.

That cost the family $11,000, and they say it wasn’t the only thing left out of their claim: The adjuster failed to account for phone jacks that needed to be replaced, ceiling paint in one room, pipes that rusted because of contact with salt water, baseboard heating in places and other items.

“It was stupid things. Little things. But it added up to be a huge amount of money,” Newland said.

She is trying to get the insurance company handling her claim to add $49,000 to her settlement. “In our case, that is the difference between us rebuilding, or not.”

Another homeowner, Joanne Harrington of Tuckerton Beach, N.J., said her adjuster had her down inaccurately as having electric heat instead of forced hot water. He said she had ceramic tile, when she had more expensive porcelain.

A similar pattern has been repeated up and down the East Coast as insurance companies working with the federal government have processed nearly 144,000 claims filed with the National Flood Insurance Program after the storm.

Insurance companies dispute that large numbers of customers are being paid less than what they are owed. They say the vast majority of adjusters do a methodical, professional job, and any oversights are easily corrected if homeowners can produce proof that a covered expense has been overlooked.

“In a big event, you are going to get some people entering the industry ... and a percentage of those people are going to do great, because they are good people and they are smart, and they want to do a good job,” said Jeff Moore, vice president of claims for Wright Flood, which handled more Sandy-related flood cases than any other company. “And there will be another percentage that don’t do so well ... and those are the ones you get to write about in the paper.”

Computer technology, he added, has made it easier than ever for newcomers to write up a claim properly, even if they know nothing about construction or insurance.

“The software that they use, it’s very easy. I could take you in a day and teach you to write an estimate,” Moore said.

Some consumer advocates and homeowners don’t see it that way at all.

Immediately after the storm, insurance companies brought in an army of adjusters from all corners of the country. They arrived with varying degrees of expertise. All would have had to have passed a certification test in at least one state.

Many were veterans of past floods and hurricanes, but not all.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the flood insurance program, requires adjusters to have four years’ experience. But newcomers with no track record can start work after a brief training period under certain circumstances, if they are working for one of the major insurance carriers

that handle the bulk of flood claims.

Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, an advocacy group for insurance consumers, said that for adjusters with no background in construction, there is a tendency to rely too much on software like Simsol, Xactimate and Symbility to tell them how much a repair job is going to cost.

“Some of these guys could have been selling oranges last week at a fruit stand, and this week they are an insurance adjuster,” Bach said.

“Instead of using (the software) as a tool to check the estimates produced by the contractors, they use them as a last word. But computers don’t rebuild and repair homes. Contractors do.”

Claims software is widely used in the industry after major disasters and represents a break with the old practice of getting estimates directly from contractors. It is designed to take out the guesswork while offering a check against contractors who exaggerate the cost of a job.

The programs supply detailed prices, by ZIP code, for carpets, cabinets, light fixtures and almost every other part of a house, as well as the labor costs for tasks as simple as putting masking tape around electrical outlets before painting a room.

Using those programs properly involves entering an inventory of every piece of damage in the house, and every possible task that might be required to put the building back into its proper state. There are thousands of variables. Miss a few, and that means less money for storm victims.

Simsol’s president, John Postava, said that like any computer program, it is only as good as the data people feed into the system: “Garbage in, garbage out.”

Simsol also operates an adjusting firm and had 158 adjusters working in the Northeast on Sandy claims.

Postava said he is confident the great majority did a good job.

Two of the largest adjustment firms involved in the Sandy effort, Colonial Claims Corp. and Pilot Catastrophe Services, declined to make executives available for an interview.

Earlier this month, FEMA gave homeowners an extension until next spring to submit proof of their storm losses after lawmakers complained that thousands of constituents were still arguing with their insurance companies.

To date, insurers have approved $7.8 billion in flood program payments to policyholders. Close to 92 percent of all claimants got at least some money. The average check was for $54,754, according to FEMA. FEMA said it does not keep track of how many claims are still being disputed. But Moore estimated as many as 30 percent of Wright Flood’s customers are probably still seeking a bigger settlement a year after Sandy — an unusually high percentage, even for a major disaster.

He blamed a number of factors, including delays in having contractors start work because of uncertainty in many communities about what sorts of flood-proofing to require in rebuilt homes.

He said many homeowners are, indeed, getting stuck with repair bills significantly larger than their insurance settlements, but he blamed strict limits on what the flood program covers, not bad adjustments.

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had a couple of hits. Ryan Long had a few hits.”

Senior shortstop Jake Barrios The Red Raiders wrapped up the said the new players on the team first weekend of the Red and Black impressed him this weekend. series Sunday at Rip Griffin Park “We have some very impreswith a 10-6 win from the black team. sive freshmen and (junior college) The black team won this week- transfers,” he said. “Our team is e n d ’s s e r i e s , looking good for where we’re winning Friday 4-3, while the at, pitching and offensively red team won Saturday 15-6. and I think the A total of newcomers are six freshmen going to help us played in game out a lot come spring time.” three of the series, includThe black team had two ing designated hitter Anthony freshmen pitchLyons. ers — Sean JAKE BARRIOS Thompson and Lyons went SHORTSTOP 2-3 with a walk.

Dylan Dusek.

TECH BASEBALL Right-handed Coach Tim Tadlock said pitcher Thompson allowed five he thought the earned runs and two walks in four freshmen played well.

“They all played good,” he said. innings.

“Stephen (Smith) made a nice Tadlock noted the winning team catch there late. Anthony Lyons only walked two batters — sophoManaging Editor

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We have some very impressive freshman and (junior college) transfers.

more right fielder Zach Davis and senior infielder Mason Randolph.

Sophomore right-handed pitcher Johnathon Tripp was the red team’s opening pitcher Sunday and Tadlock said he performed better.

Tripp pitched four innings, allowing three runs total, one of which was earned.

“Tripp has struggled a little bit lately,” Tadlock said, “and I thought he was a lot better today.”

Tripp said his plan of action for Sunday’s game was to attack the hitters.

“This fall has been kind of frustrating,” he said, “but that’s just what the fall is for is to work on things and haven’t had a lot of command this fall and to go out there and be able to put the pitches where I want to and have some of the catchers’ help, Mason (Randolph) and (Tyler) Floyd did a really good job today.”

During the fourth inning, junior second baseman Bryant Burleson hit a homerun to the left field visiting bullpen. He went 2-4 with a sacrifice fly in the first inning, driving junior shortstop Tim Proudfoot home.

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TEXAS TECH CENTER fielder Adam Kirsch throws back a ball he fielded during the Red and Black series on Sunday at Rip Griffin Park.

Aside from offense, Burleson also played good defense, Tadlock said.

Tadlock said Burleson is steady after batting 6-11 for the entire series.

After freshman right-handed

pitcher Sean Thompson surrendered five earned runs in four innings, junior pitcher Nick Pettus took the mound, retiring eight consecutive hitters until infielder Randolph broke the streak with a double to

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Banged-up Cowboys beat up Eagles 17-3 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In an unexpected defensive tussle, the depleted Dallas Cowboys delivered the knockout punch.

Tony Romo threw for 317 yards and one touchdown, a banged-up defense shut down Chip Kelly’s prolific offense and the Cowboys overcame a sluggish start to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 17-3 on Sunday to take sole possession of first place in the NFC East.

At least there won’t be a quarterback controversy in Philadelphia after this one. Nick Foles was awful leaving with a head injury.

“Obviously, our defense was outstanding,” Cowboys coach Jason

Garrett said. “That offense challenges you in so many ways. They have a really good scheme. Our defense played sound, played together.

They were physical and our tackling was outstanding.”

Two teams that averaged a combined 58.2 points per game and allowed a combined 55.2 totaled 13 punts in a first half that ended with Dallas (4-3) leading 3-0. It was more two inept offenses than two dominant defenses.

A Cowboys defensive line missing three of its projected starters pressured and harassed Foles until putting him out on the final play of the third quarter. With Michael

Vick inactive because of a hamstring injury, Matt Barkley made his NFL debut and threw three interceptions in the fourth quarter.

“I was maybe a little too aggressive on some of those throws, trying to advance the ball down the field and help our team win,” Barkley said.

“I learned a lot today. I’ll learn even more watching the tape.”

The Eagles (3-4) have lost a franchise-worst nine straight games at home. Their last win at the Linc was over the New York Giants on Sept. 30, 2012.

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TEXAS TECH FORWARD Shauntal Nobles autographs a picture of herself for Rick Bouse, from Lubbock, during the Women’s Basketball Meet and Greet on Sunday in United Spirit Arena.

Folk’s 42-yard FG leads Jets past Pats 30-27 in OT EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Nick Folk missed. And then, he didn’t.

After a penalty on New England gave the New York Jets kicker another chance, Folk booted a 42-yard field goal with 5:07 left in overtime for a 30-27 victory over the Patriots on Sunday.

Folk was wide left on a 56-yarder, but the miss was negated when New England’s Chris Jones was called for unsportsmanlike conduct for pushing a teammate forward to try to block the kick. It marked the first time that new penalty has been called in an NFL game.

New York, given new life, ran the ball three times to set up Folk’s winner and send the towel-waving fans at MetLife Stadium into a frenzy.

Geno Smith threw a touchdown pass and ran for another as the Jets (4-3) topped Tom Brady and the Patriots (5-2), who tied it at 27

with 16 seconds left in regulation on Stephen Gostkowski’s 44-yard field goal.

New England had defeated New York in six straight regular-season meetings, and saw its 12-game winning streak against AFC East opponents come to an end.

Brady opened overtime with a 16-yard pass to Rob Gronkowski, making his season debut. But the Jets stopped the Patriots on the next three plays and forced New England to punt.

Gronkowski almost made a onehanded grab late in regulation when he had a clear lane into the end zone. Gronkowski, who missed the first six games after having offseason surgery on his back and broken left forearm, had eight catches for 114 yards.

Brady threw a 17-yard TD pass to Kenbrell Thompkins with 5 seconds left to beat previously unbeaten New

Orleans last week — leaving defensive coordinator Rob Ryan grimacing on the sideline. This time, Rex Ryan, Rob’s twin brother, walked off the field celebrating a win.

It was the second time in three games Brady was held without a touchdown pass, both losses. Brady finished 22 of 46 for 228 yards and had an interception returned for a touchdown by Antonio Allen.

Smith, who threw three fourthquarter interceptions in a Week 2 loss at New England, was 17 of 33 for 233 yards. He had a first-quarter interception returned 79 yards for a touchdown by rookie Logan Ryan that appeared to set the tone for an ominous afternoon for Smith.

Smith rebounded and gave the Jets a 24-21 lead in the third quarter on an 8-yard run that left the crowd chanting “GEE-NO! GEE-NO!” On third-and-14 from the 24, Smith took off left and was met by Mar-

quice Cole, who slammed into the quarterback. But Smith reached out as he was going down and got the first down.

He again had all receivers tied up when he sprinted to his right, faked out Cole with a nice shake move and dived into the corner of the end zone.

Folk kicked a 37-yard field goal late in the third quarter for a 27-21 lead. Gostkowski’s 39-yarder cut New York’s advantage to 27-24.

The Jets, in a 21-10 hole, opened the second half by immediately putting pressure on Brady and getting a score out of it.

On the first play, Quinton Coples had a strip-sack of Brady, who recovered the ball. But on the next play, Brady threw for Gronkowski and Allen stepped in front. He returned the pick 23 yards, doing a diving somersault into the end zone just 33 seconds into the third quarter.

“You know, it just shows how much trust (Kingsbury) has in our receivers and our quarterbacks and our offensive line,” he said. “(Kingsbury) knows that we have great playmakers out there and you know he saw the middle of the field was wide open and the middle linebacker tried (to play man coverage) down the middle and (Kingsbury) took advantage of it.”

Amaro caught nine passes for 136 yards and both of Tech’s passing touchdowns. He leads the Big 12 in receptions (eight) and ranks third for receiving yards per game (106).

Amaro said a large portion of the Red Raiders’ road victory could be attributed to the performance from Webb.

“He’s always very composed,” Amaro said. “He’s always been the guy that has been able to drive down the field when we really need it and that really helps us. We have a lot of confidence in him. He checks plays really well, he throws the ball really well and we’ll see how it goes from there.”

Webb passed for 462 yards while completing 36 of his 50 pass attempts for two touchdowns.

Kingsbury praised Webb’s performance, but remained noncommittal in declaring next week’s starter.

“We’ll have to look at the film,” he said. “We’ve got three guys that we think can win games, but he played really well today, I was really proud of how he handled himself in the fourth quarter and the same last week. When we had to have big drives, he’s made them.”

Kingsbury became the first football coach in Big 12 history to win his first seven games as a conference coach, as Tech (7-0, 4-0) defeated West Virginia (3-4, 1-3) 37-27 in Morgantown, W.Va. The win elevated Tech to No. 10 in the most recent Associated Press Top 25 poll, the highest ranking for the Red Raiders since 2008.

The Mountaineers entered the fourth quarter with a 27-23 lead, creating a cause for concern, Kingsbury said.

“Yeah, I was internally, but you can’t show that,” he said. “I thought we had a chance to go up to 20-3 there and then all of a sudden it just flipped and they did a good job going 99 which is what you want as an offense — to respond. We just said

it was zero (to) zero, it was the same situation last week zero (to) zero, (we said) go win this half and our guys responded.”

The Red Raiders rank 114th nationally for fewest penalties per game, according to NCAA.com, and last in the Big 12 with an average of 75 penalty yards per game according to Big12Sports.com.

The penalties nearly cost the Red Raiders with at least three occurring in third-down situations where the defense has proved effective.

Senior defensive back Bruce Jones said he sensed Tech’s defense faced some adversity early in the second half following West Virginia’s 20-0 run midway through the game, but credited the maturity of the secondary as the reason the Red Raiders still were able to prove victorious.

“You can’t always have your best game, and I sensed that was happening with (Falemi),” he said. “I was trying to switch more, but they just want me on the boundary for run support and things like that. But it just came to a point where it was enough. (The coaching staff) ended up making a switch, Derrick Mays came in, he played phenomenal when he came in. (Falemi) didn’t pout about it, he stayed ready on the sideline and he kept cheering us on so it really showed maturity in our secondary.“ The penalties may have grown excessive, but the Red Raiders must do a better job of not allowing the referees to be deciding factors, Kingsbury said.

“I couldn’t see it, I was on the whole other side,” he said. “But I’ve never seen that many pass interference, holding calls so it was tough — tough on our defense — gave (West Virginia) a bunch of first downs, but they overcame that adversity and so that was good to see, and we’ve got to clean that stuff up.”

Tech faces No. 17 Oklahoma on Saturday in Norman, Okla.

The people who continue to doubt the Red Raiders — or attribute their success to a favoring schedule — continue to provide Tech’s locker room with more inspirational material, Kingsbury said.

“That’s great, I hope they keep saying it,” he said. “I saw Gameday, Herbstreit picked against us and a couple others, so that’s good. I hope they keep giving us that locker room material.We’re still trying to prove to people that we’re not that bad, let’s put it that way.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com