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Texas Tech law grad runs for district judge Billy Eichman, a Lubbock attorney, announced his candidacy for District Judge 364th Court at the Lubbock County Courthouse north front lawn on Tuesday.

Eichman graduated from Texas Tech School of Law in 1994, according to a news release. He served two years as assistant district attorney in the Lubbock County District Attorney’s office, and then went into private practice for 16 years.

Eichman has been named a top young attorney in Texas twice by Texas Monthly magazine, according to the release.

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Fight over abortion law enters 2nd day in trial AUSTIN (AP) — An abortion clinic operator told a federal court Tuesday that she already has difficulty finding enough doctors to work in her clinics and that a new requirement that they have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital will force her to start closing facilities.

Amy Hagstrom Miller said that since the new law passed she has been unable to find a single new doctor to provide abortions at the Whole Woman’s Health clinics she operates, because many doctors have contracts with hospitals that prohibit them from providing elective abortions.

“Physicians are also afraid of being targeted in their communities, or their spouses or children being targeted, and endangering their regular practices,” Miller told federal District Judge Lee Yeakel.

Miller said of the 11 doctors who currently provide services, only two have admitting privileges in Austin and Beaumont. She said Whole Woman’s Health would close clinics in Fort Worth, McAllen and San Antonio for lack of a doctor with admitting privileges.

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The return of fall also brings the return of flu season, and pharmacies everywhere are beginning to advertise and administer flu vaccinations in preparation for the annual outbreak of influenza.

“I strongly agree that they’re necessary, especially for the elderly and the children. I think it does give them quite a bit of protection,” said Jigna Patel, a pharmacist at Twin Oaks Pharmacy in Lubbock.

Patel said the peak season for flu is between November and February.

“I don’t believe that people should get their shots way too early ‘cause the flu does last all the way up until March, April sometimes,” she said. “I always recommend to get flu shots starting in October, even though lots of pharmacies start advertising them in September.

This way, the shot will last the entire season.”

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October raises awareness for all ages of bullying

By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer

No, students aren’t taking other students’ Batman lunchboxes at lunchtime, but bullying is still a problem that exists in college and the workplace.

Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, which occurs in October, works to raise awareness about bullying — a form harassment that can occur at any age, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

George Comiskey, associate director for the Center of the Study of Addiction and Recovery and who mostly works with bullying in kindergarten through 12th grade, said where there is power available, bullying occurs.

“Because of the culture of public education and schools, when kids are put in situations where they are forced to be with one another then power happens,” he said.

Students take power over their peers by excluding someone and putting them down, which makes the bully feel empowered, he said.

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Sexism, racism and bias are a few of the many concepts of oppression people face in everyday societies, even across college campuses.

Texas Tech hosted the first day of its ninth annual Tunnel of Oppression Tuesday in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

Morgan Bradford, a graduate hall coordinator, helped organize the event for the second year in a row.

Bradford said the Tunnel of Oppression is an immersive experience where students receive a first person point of view of different oppressive scenarios.

“Students are taken through each section of the ballroom, which is set up to portray different kinds of oppression,” she said. “Each curtain set up divides one example of oppression from another.”

The tunnel portrayed different kinds of scenes that address issues of body image, suicide, sexual assault and more.

Bradford said different actors and actresses played out each scene to portray the scenarios.

“The section on racism is the only one that uses a video to portray the scene instead of actors,” she said. “All the stories used in the scenes were taken by real experiences from faculty, staff and students here on the Tech campus.”

This is the ninth year Tech organized the Tunnel of Oppression, and it became an annual event when it became popular on campus.

According to the Tunnel of Oppression Web page on the University Student Housing website, the original idea started at Western Illinois University in 1993.

“By engaging the emotions of the participants, it allows for the accounts expressed in the program to be truly effective,” according to the website.

“People may have never been placed in these types of situations, and they obtain a sense of what it actually feels like to be oppressed or discriminated against.”

The Tunnel of Oppression is an annual event hosted by student housing and the Social Justice Education Committee.

Bradford said they take the feedback they get from students every year and use it to improve the tunnel for next year.

“Because of feedback we have gotten, for instance, this year we added a transgender and an ethnocentrism scene to the tunnel,” Bradford said. “Students and staff benefit from their experiences every year.”

After the 20-minute walk students take through the different oppressive scenes, they are taken to a debriefing room and given the opportunity to talk about what they just experienced.

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KIANA ROBERSON, A freshman molecular biology major from Houston, performs a skit about abuse on Tuesday during the Tunnel of Oppression in the Student Union Building.

Isaiah Thacker, a freshman electrical engineering major from Lubbock, went to the Tunnel of Oppression as a requirement for a class and said it sounded interesting and he found the experience informative.

“I’m usually not impacted as much by things that I know are staged,” he said. “But I was very impressed with what some of the scenes portrayed. It really amazes me what some people do to other people.”

The Tunnel not only included what many people may expect, such as racism and sexism, but also gave students an idea of what it was like to be in a domestically violent relationship or to be faced with the problem of low income.

Thacker said he was really surprised by some of the examples of oppression used that he didn’t think would be included.

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me, “ he said. “It was such a simple scenario of a girl who couldn’t get up the stairs because of her wheelchair. With how many physically disabled people I see, I never really thought about what it must be like for them.”

The event continues all day today and will take up to an hour for anyone who wants to participate.

Bradford said they take reservations and walk-ins and encouraged all students and staff to participate to educate and challenge themselves about what they really know or don’t know about oppression.

“It was interesting learning about all the different issues and getting a broad look at troublesome issues that many people aren’t aware of,” Thacker said. “Seeing all the different perspectives of what many people may not consider to be part of a college campus made it worth it.”

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TRACEY DUKE, A Cariant Health Partners division manager from Omaha, Neb., talks about career opportunities with Emily Moreau and Emily Privett, speech therapy students from Lubbock, during the Health Sciences Center Career Fair on Tuesday in the Academic Classroom building Lobby. The career fair was host to 41 vendors offering potential career options to health sciences students.

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The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Allied Health Sciences hosted the ninth annual Allied Sciences Job Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Academic Classroom building in the first and second floor lobbies.

The job fair featured more than 40 vendors from the U.S. and Texas who were recruiting students and graduates for internships, externships and potential future jobs.

Nathan Burgess, the director of clinical education, said the job fair brought students and clinicians together and allowed the students to make connections while allowing clinics the opportunity to market themselves.

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marketplace and what type of companies there are,” he said.

Burgess said many of the companies represented at the job fair were larger companies with clinics across the U.S. and Texas. He said smaller companies were there as well.

“We have not had grads that have not been able to find a job,” Burgess said. “What this allows them to do is cherry pick a little bit — to kind of see where they want to go and who has clinics in that area, where do they want to be located and really start making these contacts.”

Shelby Winn, a first-year speech-language pathology student from Seymour, said she came to the job fair to look for places she could externship during the coming summer.

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Students have options with jury duty summons

By LYNSEY MEHARG Staff Writer

Though the jury process may seem intimidating, students may have a break when it comes to serving jury duty.

Full-time students who can prove jury duty would interfere with class can be excused, said Erica Harbour, jury manager of Lubbock County.

“They have to be actively attending class and not just a student,” Barbara Sucsy, district clerk of Lubbock County, said. “If you receive a summons in July and you’re not in school until the end of August, you don’t get out of jury duty.”

In addition, students taking online classes also are not excused unless they have a meeting for their class at the time the jury meets, Harbour said.

The process behind being excused for classes is simple, she said.

“They can either sign the back of the summons — circle the exemption and sign it — or they can go online,” Harbour said. “A lot of students choose to go online.”

Students do not need to offer any proof of jury duty interfering with their classes other than signing or submitting an exemption online.

Claiming an exemption is proof under perjury of law that students are attending class full-time, Harbour said.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees every person — regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin or economic status — the basic right to be tried by an impartial jury. However noble serving as a juror might be, the process behind that service can be frustrating. That annoyance may soon be calmed by a new system introduced in Lubbock County — electronic jury summons.

Currently, according to the Lubbock County website, jurors are summoned by mail. With the new system, a jury summons will still

be mailed, but recipients could then submit their exemption or qualification issues electronically.

In addition, jurors would be notified by email or text if chosen, Sucsy said.

According to the Lubbock County website, jurors are selected at random from a list of citizen’s with Lubbock County addresses.

One thousand jurors are contacted for Monday, while 600 jurors are chosen for Wednesday, Harbour said.

Potential jurors must fit a list of criteria including being a U.S. citizen and a Texas citizen, be at least 18 years of age, a resident of Lubbock County, able to read and write, and be of sound mind.

Anyone who has been convicted of a felony or any type of theft, is on probation or deferred adjudication for a felony or any type of theft, or is under indictment for a felony or are now under criminal charges for any type of theft is ineligible to serve, according to the website.

Due to a reconstitution of the jury bill, students who have moved to Lubbock during the past year will not be included in the jury pool until December 2014 and won’t be called upon until at least January 2015, Sucsy said.

If jury duty won’t interfere with class schedules, jurors can expect to be paid $6 for the first day of jury service, and $40 per day for every day they serve as a juror thereafter. Another important thing to remember is that employers are not required to pay employees who are serving as jurors. However, employers are prohibited by law from firing an employee for serving as a juror, according to the website.

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China tourism pitch misfires amid smog BEIJING (AP) — Forget all the headlines about eye-watering pollution in Beijing and Shanghai — the Middle Kingdom’s latest tourism slogan invites visitors to “Beautiful China.”

Adorning buses and trains in cities such as London, the marketing effort has been derided as particularly inept at a time when record-busting smog has drawn attention to the environmental and health costs of China’s unfettered industrialization.

Like this year’s typically clunky theme for visitors “China Ocean Tour-

ism Year,” the slogan highlights the tin ear of an industry that has ridden the coattails of China’s rapid economic growth and increased global prominence but failed to keep up with international travel trends.

“Beauty can be looked at in many different ways, but when you have all the stories about the pollution, and the air pollution in particular, people are not going to buy the fact that China is 100 percent beautiful,” said Alastair Morrison, a Beijing-based expert in tourism destination marketing and development.

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Patel said sometimes the vaccines protect against all strains of the flu throughout the entire season, even as the virus mutates.

She said the virus sometimes randomly mutates midway through the season, although it is rare.

“Anybody that’s going to be in large crowds or enclosed areas, you know, they’re more susceptible to getting the virus,” Patel said.

She said she encouraged people looking to get vaccinated to weigh the benefits and risks of getting vaccinated, especially those with an egg allergy or people who have had bad reac-

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According to stopbullying.gov, bullying is an unwelcomed behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance and has the potential to be repeated.

Bullying usually starts in late elementary school, peaks by middle school and continues into high school, Comiskey said.

Because of the amount of freedom students have with choosing social groups, Comiskey said he hasn’t heard of many people who said their experience in college was filled with bullying.

“I think the transition to college provides opportunities for people to grow out of bullying,” he said.

However, students can become bullies when they begin college if they feel threatened with the new environment, he said.

Katie Hosie, a freshman with no undeclared major from Katy, said she assumes bullying occurs in college,

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“It’s really a great opportunity to see what places offer multidisciplinary so we can work with OTs and PTs, that sort of thing,” Winn said, referring to occupational therapists and physical therapists, which are two other allied health fields.

She said the School of Allied Health Sciences emphasizes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary practices.

Winn said she plans on working in hospitals after she graduates from Tech.

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9:30 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated arson at the Architecture building. A trashcan was set on fire.

11:56 a.m. — A Tech officer detained a nonstudent at the 1400 block of Flint Ave. following a traffic stop. The nonstudent was charged

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tions to flu shots in the past.

Patel said people with egg allergies may have a reaction to flu shots because the vaccines may contain egg proteins.

She said the nasal spray isn’t any different than the shot, except the spray is slightly more expensive and mainly is used on young children.

The Texas Department of State Health Services also listed vaccination as its No. 1 step in preventing the spread of the flu.

Washing hands, staying home if sick and covering sneezes and coughs were the other preventative steps, according to the website.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website features key flu facts, including the window for contagiousness

and possible complications from the flu.

According to the CDC, a person can infect others one day before showing symptoms and up to seven days after becoming sick.

There are several flu vaccines available for the fall flu season, including one that protects against four strains of the flu, although the CDC does not recommend one vaccine instead another, but instead encourages people to get vaccinated every year.

Nathan Fox, a freshman marketing major from McKinney, said he isn’t worried about getting the flu and has never had the flu before.

Fox said he is generally very sanitary and is good at remember-

ing to wash his hands and shower frequently.

“Really Tech campus is really sanitary, I feel,” he said, explaining how he believes this makes him less prone to catching the flu.

Fox said he is on the drum line and, although he doesn’t get sick frequently, the flu still impacts his life because when other members of the drum line are ill, it makes it harder to perform as a unit.

The Texas Department of State Health Services website has a flu vaccine locator that uses a ZIP code to locate the nearest vaccine retailer. The website also has symptoms lists and tips for caring for those who have contracted the flu.

but she has not seen it.

She said people seem at lot less petty in college and the ability to do things independently eliminates bullying.

Hosie said she did see bullying throughout high school although it never happened to her.

“We had a kid commit suicide over bullying at my high school,” she said.

A.J. Burts, a junior petroleum engineering major from League City, said he also has not experienced much bullying on a college campus because the majority of people matured and figured out what was right and wrong.

“I’m sure there is bullying, but I’ve never been a part of it or been around it,” he said.

Comiskey said student organizations are the one area where he feels bullying could take place in college.

“Where it could happen would be among student organizations, fraternities, sororities,” he said.

Student organizations have all the requirements to be a place where

bullying could occur, especially with hazing, Comiskey said.

Bullying occurs when there is a power struggle or a physiological belief that if one doesn’t keep doing what they’re doing their power will be lost, he said. Both of these things occur in student organizations where there is room for advancement to a position of power within the group.

“A lot of times it comes out of sense of fear of losing control,” Comiskey said.

Bullying also could take place between an instructor and a student, but also from a student to an instructor by arguing for a better grade or threatening to talk to someone higher up, he said.

Smaller universities might have more bullying because with fewer people there are fewer outlets to get out of bad group or situation, he said.

There also is another kind of bullying that has come with the modern age: cyberbullying.

“Cyberbullying is a faceless crime,” Comiskey said.

According to stopbullying.gov,

cyberbullying is type of bullying that takes place using electronic technology, such as text messages, emails and social media posts.

People do things they would normally not do if they were face to face with someone, he said, and it can do damage to someone’s reputation and to them personally.

Pictures and words used for bullying spread all across the Web, but are most prevalent on social media websites, including Facebook, Twitter and blogs, he said.

Comiskey said bullying might be a tricky issue, but the solution to solving it on a college campus is not.

“Go and talk to a counselor,” he said.

There are many avenues students can explore to get help, including student services and campus life, he said.

“I hope that people who are in a situation where they’re bullied don’t get to where it’s an extreme situation and they take their own life,” he said.

and occupational therapists and physical therapists in the district, so we’re always looking for highquality students,” Carla Mayhan, a representative for Lubbock Independent School District, said.

Mayhan said she believes the allied health program at HSC is a good program and has had good luck with working with HSC graduates in the past.

She said Lubbock ISD offers externships for allied health students in local public schools.

Amy McNeill, a Tech alumna and representative for Encompass Home Health Pediatric Services, said she was trying to recruit local therapists.

“Even the first-year grad stu-

dents have come up and said ‘You know, I’ve thought about working with kids, I’m glad to know that this is an option,’ so it just puts it in the back of their mind even as they’re going through school,” she said. “And for those graduating in May, it lays out even more options on the table.”

She said the job fair works out well for both students and companies because they are both able to form connections.

“It gives both sides — the employers and the students — an opportunity to start the process of getting to know each other, and figuring out what’s out there and what opportunities are there,” John Lowe, the director of Physi-

cal Medicine and Rehabilitation, said.

Getting to know multiple organizations and comparing them is beneficial for students, he said.

“Choosing a place to work is a big decision, and choosing someone who can work for you is a big decision, so those things shouldn’t be entered into too lightly, and things like this start laying the groundwork to the next conversations that lead to interviews and the hiring process,” Lowe said.

It is important, he said, for allied health students to assimilate information early on because there are multiple settings students can go into in the future.

with driving while license invalid and was then released to a family member.

12:24 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for three outstanding Lubbock County warrants following a traffic stop in the 3600 block of Fifth St. The nonstudent was transported to Lubbock County Detention Center. The vehicle was released to a responsible person.

12:32 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a burglary of a vehicle in the

Z4R parking lot. A calculator and CDs were taken from an unsecured vehicle.

1:30 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at Knapp Residence Hall. A secured Diamondback bicycle was taken.

1:52 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at Gates Residence Hall. A secured specialized bicycle was taken.

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

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Boy describes terror of Nevada schoolyard shooting SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Students cowered in fear and pleaded for their lives as a 12-year-old Nevada boy went on a schoolyard rampage with a handgun he brought from home, waving the weapon at frightened classmates and shooting a math teacher in the chest on a basketball court.

The boy opened fire Monday morning on the Sparks Middle School campus, wounding two boys and killing the teacher before he turned the gun on himself.

Washoe County School District police revealed Tuesday that the seventh-grader brought the 9 mm semi-automatic Ruger handgun from his home, but authorities were still working to determine how he obtained it. The student’s parents were cooperating with authorities and could face charges in the case, police said.

Eighth-grader Angelo Ferro recalled burying his face in his hands as the boy waved the gun and threatened to shoot. Another seventhgrader and Ferro’s math teacher, Michael Landsberry, lay gunned down nearby.

“The whole time I was hoping Mr. L was OK, we’d all get through it, it was a bad dream,” Ferro told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

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Texas Tech student wins on game show

By ASHLYN TUBBS Staff Writer

Ellen McCarthy and Ali Cisewski have known each other since high school.

They became best friends their junior year of high school while swimming together on a club team.

On June 13, they shared a moment they now describe to others as a unique experience.

“It’s crazy,” McCarthy said. “I definitely have the best interesting fact about myself now at the beginning of the semester when everyone in the class is trying to get to know each other.”

They were both cash winners on the CBS TV game show titled “Let’s Make a Deal.” The episode of the day they won aired Tuesday for the first time. Unfortunately, to their disappointment, the particular segment featuring them winning was not included in the program.

“It was really upsetting watching the show and thinking ‘We’re on next’ and then never being on,” Cisewski said. “I called the station and thankfully we still get our prizes, but the thing I was most looking forward to was obviously being on TV with (the host) Wayne Brady and on one of my favorite shows. This is a big disappointment.”

McCarthy, a junior nursing major from Big Spring, said she initially worried about what she would look like on the show.

“I’m kind of embarrassed because I know I’m really exaggerated in my facial expressions even in just day-to-day life, so I know seeing myself on camera would be kind of embarrassing,” McCarthy said, “and I’m just kind of in shock

when he calls out my name, so I have no idea what I looked like when that happened.”

Cisewski, a junior kinesiology major at Texas A&M University from Austin, and McCarthy found themselves on the set of the game show when they took a road trip together with two other friends to California during the summer.

Since they are split in distance by attending Texas State University, Texas A&M or Texas Tech, they decided to spend time together by meeting in San Diego and Los Angeles.

The day before they attended the taping of “Let’s Make a Deal,” the friends attended a taping of the TV show, “Conan.”

“That wasn’t very fun,” Cisewski said, “and then we were like, ‘We can go to “Let’s Make A Deal” and make some costumes.”

None of the friends had packed any costumes for their vacation.

However, they found a way to make what they had work.

“We all actually brought our Texas flag shorts,” McCarthy said, “so we wore those with like these really sparkly cowboy hats. It was pretty funny.”

When they arrived to the location of the show in downtown Los Angeles, the friends were waiting outside the building when interns with the program came around to speak with them. McCarthy said they told them to make sure to be excited during the screening process so they could get picked for the show.

“So we went up to the first set of producers and they kind of asked where we were from and what we did,” McCarthy said, “and they asked who was the craziest of the four of us, and all my friends pointed at me and said

‘She is really loud and wild.’”

That particular set of producers was impressed by McCarthy and her friends, she said. The next set of producers was a different story, though.

“They didn’t seem interested at all,” she said, “so that was kind of weird.”

Once they found their seats for the show, the friends immediately realized their luck.

“They sat us right up front,” McCarthy said, “the camera was like, right there.”

The friends did not think they would be selected to be on the show, Cisewski said, and were not prepared for what happened next.

“When Wayne Brady said ‘We need two best friends,’ it was a fantastic moment,” she said. “It was a lot of fun to be able to do it with her and my other two best friends there.”

McCarthy and Cisewski were ecstatic to meet Brady, they said, because they both grew up watching him perform on the TV show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Cisewski said meeting him was her favorite part of the show.

“The best part was when he made a joke about his ex-wife stealing all his money,” Cisewski said. “This wasn’t on camera, but when the announcer said he was single he said ‘Yeah, because I don’t like women taking all my money,’ and I thought that was the funniest part of the whole show because he was so serious.”

One thing Cisewski thought was interesting was how different the show looks in reality.

“It’s pretty funny because the set is really nice, but it was tiny,” she said. “The stage looked so much bigger on television and it was actually much more small

Romanians admit stealing art works in Netherlands BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Three Romanians have pleaded guilty to stealing seven paintings, including works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse, from a Dutch museum in a daring nighttime raid that shocked the art world.

Radu Dogaru, Alexandru Bitu and Eugen Darie, told a Bucharest court on Tuesday that they took the multimillion-dollar paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in October 2012. They were charged with the theft and of bringing the paintings into Romania.

The works have never been found, and may have been burned.

In their depositions to prosecutors, the suspects, who were arrested in January, said they brought the paintings to Romania, tried to sell them on the black market, then left them with Dogaru’s mother, Olga Dogaru.

Chief suspect Radu Dogaru told the court Tuesday that when he stole the paintings on the night of Oct. 15-16, he thought they were fakes. “I could not believe you could enter as easily as that,” he said. “The security was practically inexistent. The door was closed but not blocked. I entered practically just with a screwdriver.”

He told the court that the paintings were handed over to a Russian

Ukrainian man whom he identified and wrote the man’s address on a piece of paper for the court. The name was not publicly confirmed.

He also claimed that at one point he had told a Dutch prosecutor that he would return five of the paintings to Dutch authorities, but that they declined the offer, asking for all seven.

Dogaru denied the paintings had been burned in his mother’s stove.

He said that remains of paint, canvas and nails identified in the ash by a Romanian museum could have been from a fence with handmade nails or from 19th-century icons that were in the family home.

and compact.”

Although McCarthy did not anticipate their entire segment to be cut out of the show, she knew a few parts would be edited.

For example, she described their introduction to Brady as awkward. For starters, the friends had all written “Texas” on their arms with face paint, which came off on Brady’s jacket when he hugged them. McCarthy said that was the most embarrassing moment.

“They had like a meltdown because he only had that jacket and they had to switch out jackets in the middle of the show,” McCarthy said, “and they didn’t have the same exact jacket, they just had one that looked similar. We felt so bad and we had to redo it again so he wouldn’t have that awkward ‘Oh, I think you got paint on me’ moment.”

After that, Brady proceeded to say something to McCarthy and Cisewski they were not expecting.

“We were like ‘These are our other best friends, you should come hang out with us,’ obviously joking around,” she said, “and he was like, ‘Yeah, I think I would get in a lot of trouble if I was hanging out with the four of you guys.’ And things got really awkward, and they had to stop and tell him we should start that over again. So we had to rerecord meeting him.

It was kind of funny.”

Then, the games began. McCarthy and Cisewski each had to choose between an envelope worth at least $5 and three doors, the second door being worth at least $50 and the third door at least $500.

Cisewski just wanted a cash prize, so she chose the envelope.

“She kind of let me have the

better deal,” McCarthy said.

Brady offered Cisewski $50 for the envelope, which she rejected. Then he offered her $500, which she accepted. McCarthy said Cisewski definitely made the right deal.

“She opened it,” she said, “and it ended up being like only $250 worth of airfare.”

McCarthy always has loved the number three. She switched to become contestant 103, and this prompted her to choose the third door. Brady offered her $1,000 for it, but she declined. She accepted his next offer of $2,100 though, and when the door opened she realized she could have won a hot tub.

“Which was a good deal,” she said, “because I cant really put a hot tub anywhere.”

Cisewski plans to take a ski trip this winter with her cash prize and pay for her college book fees. She said her money will arrive in about

90 days from when the show aired.

McCarthy also has developed a plan for her prize money.

“My big in my sorority is teaching English in Brussels, Belgium, this year,” she said, “so over Christmas break I’m going to fly over to see her and then we’re going to Paris for New Year’s Eve. It’s pretty crazy.”

Although they did not get to be on the actual show, McCarthy said it is still one of her top five favorite memories.

“It was just really fun getting to experience it with my best friends,” she said.

“I suggest everyone go to a game show. They say “The Price is Right” is coming to Lubbock, and I actually can’t go on another game show for a full year so I can’t go, but everyone should definitely go even if you don’t get on or are not expecting to, it’s still so much fun and everyone is so positive.” ➤➤atubbs@dailytoreador.com

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American, Orwellian societies share similarities Andrew Gleinser in the vernacular. “OMG” and “LOL” are much more commonly used than complete, well-written sentences and strong vocabulary.

Additionally, society is seemingly restricting speech with the prevalence of political correctness.

Words, phrases and terms deemed offensive have now become taboo and while this is beneficial in some circumstances, it often goes too far and restricts free speech too much these days.

In “1984,” Orwell’s society consists of three classes of citizens: the Inner Party, the Outer Party and the Proletariat, or Proles. The Inner Party consists of the men at the top, the ones in charge of the Party.

The Outer Party consists of lesser Party members who are somewhat akin to worker bees. The Proles are the masses who make up about 85 percent of the total population.

The Proles are uneducated, uninformed and very much looked down upon by members of the Party. Every once in a while, they are worked into a frenzy of patriotism, but for the most part go about their daily lives paying little attention to the world around them.

I can see a striking similarity to our current society, with politicians being the Inner Party, lobbyists and special interest groups being the Outer Party, and the rest of us being the Proles.

In many ways, we are uneducated, uninformed and looked down upon by Party members. For the most part, we go about our daily lives paying little attention to the world around us.

But every once in a while, we are driven into a frenzy of patriotism, such as following the

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death of Osama bin Laden. The Party manipulates and controls the Proles, and it can be argued the government does the same to us.

On that note, it’s also interesting that in the novel, the state was constantly at war, though nothing was actually accomplished in that sense. War was simply a means of destroying excess resources, thereby allowing the Party to keep producing materials, which kept the people working.

Today, we find ourselves, in a sense, still at war with our involvement in Afghanistan, having been so for more than a d e c a d e . We seemingly have succeeded in doing very little during that time, other than killing bin Laden and chasing al-Qaida around the Middle East and North Africa. Despite regime changes in the White House, the

For the most part, we go about our daily lives paying little attention to the world around us.

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he year 1984 has long passed, but George Orwell’s “1984” continues to be a terrifying tale of a dystopian future. Written in 1949, it describes a world where freedom has become a thing of the past, and the state — or rather the ruling party — is all-powerful. The individual ceased to exist.

It’s easy to wonder if we as a society are moving closer to Orwell’s vision. How close are we, and will we eventually get there?

The first similarity I can’t help but notice is that of language.

In the novel, Orwell describes “Newspeak,” which essentially is a watered-down version of Standard English. Words that the Party deems to be unnecessary, irrelevant or dangerous are simply removed, thereby restricting the ability of people to have dangerous thoughts.

In modern society, Standard English also is under attack, though not from any direct government-sanctioned program. So many youth in America simply do not know how to correctly use the English language with “Textspeak,” if you will, taking its place

fighting goes on.

Recently, yet another issue has raised itself. The revelation that National Security Agency is monitoring Americans’ phone calls has presented the country with the dilemma of choosing between security and privacy. Whether such security is achievable is up for debate, but what is not debatable is the fact that our personal privacy has taken quite a hit.

In Orwell’s dystopian society, privacy is but an antiquated notion. All the actions and conversations of the citizens are directly monitored by the government. Anyone caught doing something of which the Party does not approve is whisked away by the Thought Police, never to be heard from again.

The U.S. government has sought NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden since he exposed the government’s spying program, with the government charging him with treason and declaring him a traitor. He’s essentially been branded an enemy of the state and we’ve been told he’s dangerous and has caused irreparable harm to the nation’s security.

Orwell’s society has a similar character, but on a larger scale.

Emmanuel Goldstein, the alleged leader of the Party’s enemies, is hated and reviled by the citizenry at the directive of the Party. He is said to be behind every attempt to undermine the Party, though whether he actually exists is unknown.

We as freedom-loving people would generally agree that someone working against an oppressive government would be viewed in a positive light. Yet the government is vilifying Snowden, just as Goldstein was in “1984.”

Are we on the path to becoming an Orwellian society? Perhaps, though we still have a long way to go. It’s tough to ignore the striking similarities, however, as some in the government seem eager to get us there. Though “1984” may be a work of fiction, we should all recognize and put a stop to policies that move us closer to such a hopeless and oppressive society.

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Walking improves health No Child Left Behind leads to record falsifying iOwa STaTe daily (iOwa STaTe U.)

Doctors are constantly advising us to walk at least 30 minutes a day. They suggest this simple exercise builds the foundation on which a healthy lifestyle can be laid, but many patients take this commandment of well-being for granted.

Chances are that while reading this you are sitting or will sit in the near future, then continue to sit for the majority of the day — whether it is in a car, at a desk or on a couch. What you may not realize is that this excessive couch potato lifestyle can be extremely detrimental to your health.

With sitting, it is not what you are doing, but instead what you are not doing that is slowly killing you. The activity of physical inactivity raises your risk for heart disease, diabetes and some forms of cancer. The very moment you let your rear rest, you put yourself in harm’s way, for your calorie-burning rate drops to one calorie per minute and all electric activity within your muscles slows down.

It is not impossible to thwart these consequences — or at least delay them.

Through simple activities like standing up once an hour, a person can begin a pattern against the effects of prolonged sitting. Ideally, one would take it a step further by setting aside a time every day to go for a brisk, 30 minute walk. A half hour can seem like a lofty commitment when our schedules are already filled to the brim, but the magic of this 30 minutes is how it can be spliced up to produce the same results.

While sitting at your desk, get up to get something to drink instead of having the beverage at an arm’s reach. Right there is a minute. Moreover, instead of having a texting conversation with your friend just around the block, take five minutes to walk and talk to them face-to-face. All of the minutes from these short jaunts will add up, and with little effort, you will reach a total time of 30 minutes. However, the most effective way to go about these walks is not in a periodic fashion, but in a sustained style that requires a level of endurance.

The time in between classes or activities is often filled with buses and cars due to the flexibility they allow and the little use of human energy needed, but this transition between locations is a perfect opportunity for us to stand up and walk. If time and impatience is an issue, then walk a little faster, and once you reach your destination by foot, you may feel a new sense of accomplishment.

The physical attributions of these walks can add up to create life-altering benefits, such as reducing risk for heart disease and reducing risk of colon and breast cancer. Walking can add years to your life.

If the rewards of good physical welfare doesn’t sway the chair-dwellers of the world, then maybe the improvement of one’s mental welfare can. Regular walking improves quality of sleep, and the release of natural pain-killing endorphins, which in some cases, work faster than anti-depressants to lift one’s mood.

Also, when your brain feels like it has been pushed to its limits, go outside and be mobile, as fresh air leads to fresh thinking. Sporadic walking while working can actually increase productivity, because it gives the mind time to rest and reflect.

The most polarizing characteristic of walking is how “boring” it can be. People will argue it takes a long time, it requires work and not much happens on foot. As a result, many will resort to plugging their headphones in and letting their music distract them from the “nothingness” of nature, which is a decent alternative, as long as it keeps you active. But drowning yourself in the music and leaving the world outside high and dry, robs you of the dozens of gifts Mother Nature is just begging to give you. The songs of the birds or the percussive drip-drop of the rain prove that when fully embraced and appreciated, nature (and walking) is anything but boring.

The earth will thank you if you choose foot over machine, thus lowering your carbon footprint and increasing your love for all it has to offer. Your mind will thank you with clarity, and your body will thank you with energy.

Let us know what you think.

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Last month, Texas received a No Child Left Behind waiver. Signed into federal law in 2002, the bill established a baseline for every student in the nation, promising to penalize states that couldn’t push students to the standard.

As the fall comes to a close, that standard’s been thrown a bone: only the worst-scoring institutions will find themselves punished.

The Houston Press’ Margaret Downing saw a case of clear intentions.

“Originally, the idea of No Child Left Behind was that by using standardized testing, the weak areas in a student’s education could be discovered and rectified. Like a diagnostic test on a car’s engine, problems would be identified and repaired. Teachers would be retrained to become better educators. No child, especially no minority child, would be overlooked, and because of that, minority leaders bought into the change big time,” Downing said.

It wasn’t rocket science. Every student would, or should, have passed the respective territory’s standardized exams; TAKS, in Texas’ case, until it was replaced by STAAR. Neither test was particularly difficult for better-off districts, but these weren’t exactly the

districts the bill had been drafted for.

The rift between “good” and “bad” was so great that the state all but dissolved entire junctures for its inability to improve its respective situations.

When the grades came back, there was no median. Pulling positive results in Katy ISD was one thing, but the further officials delved into the Interstate 610 loop, the quicker the figures began to decline.

At some point, the numbers themselves turned abruptly — a story-book improvement. Areas infamous for inner school debauchery turned clean comparatively overnight. Schools with a large amount of immigrant, single parent and previously incarcerated enrollments shed the connotations those environments entailed, turning out test results rivaling cleaner-cut ends of the city.

Clear Lake was as fluent as Brazos.

The Third Ward rivaled the Fourth.

Our national dropout rate in this country hangs between 20 and 40 percent at any given time, and, in the early 2000s, several schools in Houston reported no dropouts.

Former President Bush called it “The Texas Miracle.”

Our city served as the sterling example of mind over sociological displacement over matter. HISD Superintendent Rod Paige was given credit for the city’s

success. Once Bush took office, Paige rode the wave of encouragement into a position as Secretary of Education.

Texas — or, more specifically, Houston — became a face in the nation’s education conversation. Like most things too good to be true, it eventually turned up rotten.

Sharpstown High School Assistant Principal Robert Kimball watched the ascent. His own institution sat in one of Houston’s rougher patches, but it seemed to have found a position in the upheaval.

It just looked strange.

So he plugged the numbers, pulled records and did some sleuthing of his own.

“A fantasy land,” Kimball said to the New York Times. “They want the data to look wonderful and exciting. They don’t tell you how to do it; they just say, ‘do it.’”

Three years after the heralding, with Kimball’s assistance, KHOU popped the bubble. Sharpstown High had falsified its dropout data. The Texas Miracle was about as fantastical as it’d sounded.

The news break led to an audit of the area, and after evaluating more than 16 schools, investigators found that of 5,500 teenagers surveyed who had “left” school, 3,000 should have been counted as dropouts but were not.

In early August, the state appointed a monitor to oversee the district’s data collection and downgraded 14 audited

schools to the state’s lowest rating. The “miracle” state had once again become the model for disengagement.

The bust instigated more frequent audits, which incited more revelations, which weren’t at all comely.

Over time, the city developed a skin for it: an expectation that certain schools simply just weren’t getting better, ever, and there was nothing we could do about it.

As of Sept. 30, only the bottom 15 percent under NCLB’s criteria will suffer, which is good news and bad.

Houstonians should be glad that their educators no longer have to falsify records to put food on the table, but the federal intervention should make us more wary of the circumstances these kids are coming from and the measures being taken to circumvent them.

Every kid learns differently, and setting a standard’s difficult to begin with.

What’s more incredulous is disregarding their ability to achieve entirely.

Less than any sort of reprieve, the bill’s repeal is more akin to a concession.

If it’s only temporary, the state and the city of Houston have conceded that their economic and social circumstances simply aren’t on par with the nation’s.

We cried “bloody murder” once, and the pleas were heeded. The next one is on us.

Congress should start lowering debt ceiling, fixing problems

By JAMES BAKER

The Oracle (U. SOUTh FlOrida)

Now that the debt ceiling has been raised, Congress has permission to spend more money than they actually have.

Although raising the debt ceiling was necessary to reopen the government, Congress needs to start looking at ways to slowly start finding solutions to its problems.

The national debt is increasing and at faster speeds than ever. The current national debt is just above $17 trillion.

According to CBS News, in president Barack Obama’s first term, the national debt increaded by $4.9 trillion and since

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increaded by ore than $2 trillion in his second term which isn’t even over yet.

The debt problem needs to be solved, but Congress needs to start now.

Waiting until the next deadline will only result in more chaos. By combing through spending, cutting waste and finding ways to save money, Congress could start a slow turn-around process that could possibly begin to lower our debt. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Congress is heading anywhere near that direction.

In fact, a New York Times article predicted the debt ceiling will be raised again in December when a new budget must be decided for the next decade.

The bill that brought the govern-

ment back into operation was filled with deceitful legislation, and add-ons to a bill that generally fund projects or agencies unrelated to the actual purpose of the bill.

In the bill, $2.2 billion was given to a Kentucky river project that will help in the production of a dam, according to CNN. This project shouldn’t have been paid by the federal government, but by the state.

This is just a minor example of ways the government needs to shape up its spending habits. Congress attempts to cut spending, but they are making the wrong cuts by tapping into what they call discretionary spending, which consists of things like education and transportation.

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Instead, there should be more regulation on welfare, where Congress could possibly find saving opportunities.

It’s getting out of hand. To ignore the debt problem is just stubborn, and as Congress begins to draft immigration reform bills and continue to debate over the initiation of Obamacare, the American economy is crippled and the national debt is skyrocketing.

Within the month and a half that Congress has to figure out a budget, they should be finding ways that the debt ceiling could be lowered. It’s almost pointless to call it a ceiling if it’s constantly readjusted to make room for the extra debt that the government “needs.”

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Obstacle allows students to experience alcohol effects

By NIKKI CULVER Staff Writer

National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness week is taking place during the week of Oct. 20 to 26. The Texas Tech Pan-Hellenic Council hosted a Drunk Goggles Obstacle Course to give students the chance to experience the effects of alcohol without having to drink.

Students were instructed to wear drunken goggles, which impair the vision of the wearer, and then attempt to walk a straight line or work through an inflatable obstacle course.

“The drunk goggles make you extremely dizzy,” Anna Lofye, a senior exercise and sport sciences major from Plano, said. “You see double and it’s really strange. It’s kind of hard to explain. It’s really fun to put on, but some people can’t even walk in them, so it’s really hilarious to watch them go through a blow-up obstacle course.”

After completing the obstacle course, students were given a cup containing information about alcohol awareness and drunken driving statistics.

Currently, Tech does not allow alcohol on campus by students or faculty.

According to information published by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, about 5,000 people under the age of 21 die each year from injuries as a result of underage drinking.

Aaron Esslinger, a sophomore exercise and sport sciences major from Fort Worth, put the goggles on and attempted to walk a straight line.

“I put the goggles on and it was extremely hard,” he said. “My feet were to the left, like they were way over there.

The line was moving, I swear. Like, someone was moving the line. It’s some kind of magic line.”

According to TABC, the consequences of driving drunk can include being charged with driving under the influence, driving while intoxicated, intoxication assault and intoxication manslaughter.

Intoxication manslaughter occurs when a person commits an offense of the person, by accident or mistake, while driving under the influence or other reason caused by intoxication, caused the death of another person, according to TABC. Intoxication manslaughter is considered a second-degree felony and can result in two to 20 years in jail for

each count and a fine up to $10,000 for each account.

Those under the legal drinking age who attempt to purchase alcohol can face a Class C misdemeanor with a fine up to $500, an alcohol awareness class, eight to 40 hours of community service and 30 to 180 days loss or denial of their driver’s license, according to TABC. Even students who are of legal drinking age can be held accountable for the minors they purchase alcohol for.

According to TABC, it is a Class A misdemeanor to purchase alcohol or otherwise make alcohol available for a minor. Those charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor can be charged with a fine up to $4,000, up to one year in jail, and automatic suspensions of their driver’s license for 180 days upon conviction.

Jason Berry, a sophomore electrical engineering major from Crofton, Md., took on the inflatable obstacle course with the impairment of a pair of drunken goggles.

“The drunk goggles were really weird,” he said. “My head is still fuzzy.

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MARISA RUIZ, A junior biology major from Slaton, reaches to feel what is ahead of her while participating in the National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week: Drunk Goggles Obstacle Course Tuesday outside the Student Union Building.

Holocaust survivor to make symphony debut with Yo-Yo Ma For jobless people older than 50, BOSTON (AP) — A 90-yearold Holocaust survivor will make his orchestral debut with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Tuesday to benefit a foundation dedicated to preserving the work of artists and musicians killed by the Nazis.

Ma and George Horner, a retired doctor who lives near Philadelphia, embraced warmly in a small room at Boston’s Symphony Hall on Tuesday afternoon before a brief rehearsal.

Ma thanked Horner for helping the Terezin Music Foundation, named for the town of Terezin, site of an unusual Jewish ghetto in what was then German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Even amid death and hard labor, Nazi soldiers there allowed prisoners to stage performances.

On Tuesday night, they will play music composed 70 years ago when Horner was incarcerated.

“It’s an extraordinary link to the past,” said concert organizer

Mark Ludwig, who leads the foundation.

Horner played piano and accordion in the Terezin cabarets, including tunes written by fellow inmate Karel Svenk. On Tuesday, Horner will play two of Svenk’s works solo — a march and a lullaby — and then team up with Ma for a third piece called “How Come the Black Man Sits in the Back of the Bus?” Svenk did not survive the genocide. But his musical legacy has, due in part to a chance meeting of Ludwig, a scholar of Terezin composers, and Horner, who never forgot the songs that were written and played in captivity.

Still, Ludwig found it hard to ask Horner to perform pieces laden with such difficult memories.

“To ask somebody who ... played this in the camps, that’s asking a lot,” said Ludwig.

Yet Horner readily agreed to what he described as a “noble” mission. It didn’t hurt that he

would be sharing the stage with Ma — even if he thought Ludwig was joking at first.

“I told him, ‘Do you want me to swallow that one?’” Horner recalled with a laugh. “I couldn’t believe it because it’s a fantastic thing for me.”

Ma said before the performance that he hoped it will inspire people to a better future.

“I grew up with the words, ‘never again,’” said Ma, who was born 10 years after the end of World War II revealed the scope of the Holocaust. “It is kind of inconceivable that there are people who say the Holocaust didn’t exist. George Horner is a living contradiction of what those people are saying.”

He said Horner was able to survive “because he had music, because he had friends, because the power of music could fill in the empty spaces.”

“To me George Horner is a huge hero, and is a huge inspiration,” Ma said. “He is a witness

to a window, and to a slice of history, that we never want to see again, and yet we keep seeing versions of that all over the world. I hope we are inspired by that and we keep that memory forever.”

The program features additional performances by Ma and the Hawthorne String Quartet.

In a statement, Ma said he’s glad the foundation is “giving voice through music to those whose voices have been tragically silenced.”

Horner was 21 when he was freed by Allied soldiers in 1945 after serving time at Terezin, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

His parents and sister perished in the camps.

And though his back still bears the scars of a Nazi beating, he remains spry and seems much younger than his 90 years.

When Horner found out about the duet with Ma, Ludwig said, “He was so excited, to me he sounded like a teenager.”

Leaving the driving to a computer can have big benefits WASHINGTON (AP) — In some ways, computers make ideal drivers: They don’t drink and then climb behind the wheel. They don’t do drugs, get distracted, fall asleep, run red lights or tailgate. And their reaction times are quicker.

They do such a good job, in fact, that a new study says self-driving cars and trucks hold the potential to transform driving by eliminating the majority of traffic deaths, significantly reducing congestion and providing tens of billions of dollars in economic benefits.

But significant hurdles to widespread use of self-driving cars remain, the most important of which is likely to be cost. Added sensors, software, engineering and power and computing requirements currently tally over $100,000 per vehicle, clearly unaffordable for most people, the study said. But large-scale production “promises greater affordability over time,” it concluded.

Questions also remain about public acceptance, liability in event of an accident, and the ability of automakers to prevent car computers from being hacked.

Nevertheless, the advantages of self-driving cars are such that if only 10 percent of cars and trucks on the road were self-driving, they could reduce traffic deaths by 1,000 per year and produce nearly $38 billion in economic and other savings, said the study by the Eno Center for Transportation, a foundation dedicated to improving transportation.

If 90 percent of vehicles were self-driving, as many as 21,700 lives per year could be saved, and economic and other benefits could reach a staggering $447 billion, said the study, a copy of which was provided to The Associated Press.

“There will be many steps before we get to that, but it does feel like there is a whole new world that completely changes everything in terms of our perspective on driving that could emerge eventually,” said Joshua Schank,

Eno’s president and CEO. For example, the passenger compartment may be transformed as former drivers safely work on laptops, eat meals, read books, watch movies and call friends.

And cars that can be programmed to pick up people, drive them to their destination and then park by themselves may change the lives of the elderly and disabled by providing critical mobility.

Once a critical mass of selfdriving cars is on the road, they can start “platooning” — driving closely together but keeping a steady distance between each other without the fuel-burning, time-wasting, stop-and-go typical of traffic congestion. That could smooth traffic flows, reduce commute times and increase highway capacity.

Government research indicates driver error is likely the main reason behind over 90 percent of all crashes. Over 40 percent of fatal traffic crashes involve alcohol, distraction, drugs or fatigue. But self-driven vehicles wouldn’t fall prey to such human failings, suggesting the potential for at least a 40 percent reduction in fatal crashes, the study said.

Crashes can also be due to speeding, aggressive driving, overcompensation, inexperience, slow reaction times, inattention and various other human driver shortcomings, the report noted, suggesting that computers could also reduce those.

But Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the consumer advocacy group Center for Auto Safety, cautioned that while self-driving cars hold great promise for reducing accidents caused by driver error, much will depend upon the safety standards the government sets for the vehicles and how well manufacturers make them.

Otherwise, he said, “you could be substituting computer errors for human errors.”

Spurred by what some see as the future direction of the auto

industry, carmakers are stepping up their research. General Motor and Nissan are furthest along, but Audi, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo have also begun testing driverless systems. Google’s self-driving cars have clocked over 400,000 miles on California public roads.

Many of the features that go into creating a self-driving car are already available, especially in high-end cars. Adaptive cruise control adjusts speed faster or slower in response to traffic. Lane departure systems warn drivers when they’re drifting out of their lane, and some can even automatically steer the car back. Collision avoidance systems automatically brake to prevent front-to-rear crashes. And parking assist systems range from rearview cameras that show drivers what is behind them

to vehicles that can actually park themselves.

The hardest part will likely be making self-driving cars “cost effective to the point where this is not just a gadget that some people enjoy, but becomes mainstream,” Schank said.

For example, hybrid and electric vehicles still haven’t overcome their price gap with conventional vehicles, and so remain at a smaller share of the auto market than people had anticipated they would be at this point, he said.

States are already seeking to prepare the way for self-driving cars to join other vehicles on the road. California, Florida and Nevada have passed laws to regulate the licensing and operation of self-driving cars. California has directed that licensing requirements be ready by 2015.

a challenging search for work

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — When Charlie Worboys lost his job, he feared searching for a new one at his age might be tough. Six years later, at 65, he’s still looking.

Luanne Lynch, 57, was laid off three times in the past decade and previous layoffs brought jobs with a lower salary; this time she can’t even get that.

They’re not alone. A new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds many people over 50 reporting great difficulty finding work and feeling that their age is a factor.

After Worboys was laid off and his hunt for another teaching job was fruitless, he sought counseling positions. When those leads dried up, he applied for jobs in juvenile detention centers, in sales and elsewhere. He finally settled for part-time work, all the while still scouring online listings and sending out applications each week.

“They’re looking for the younger person,” he said. “They look at the number 65 and they don’t bother to look behind it.”

The AP-NORC Center poll found 55 percent of those 50 and older who have sought a job in the past five years characterized their search as difficult, and 43 percent thought employers were concerned about their age. Further, most in the poll reported finding

few available jobs (69 percent), few that paid well (63 percent) or that offered adequate benefits (53 percent). About a third were told they were overqualified.

Still, some companies are welcoming older workers, and 43 percent of job seekers surveyed found a high demand for their skills and 31 percent said there was a high demand for their experience. Once on the job, older workers were far more likely to report benefits related to their age — 60 percent said colleagues had come to them for advice more often and 42 percent said they felt as if they were receiving more respect in the company.

People of all ages have been frustrated by the job market and the unemployment rate for those 55 and older was 5.3 percent in September, lower than the 7.2 percent rate among all ages. By comparison, unemployment among those 20-24 was 12.9 percent, and among those 25-54, 6.2 percent.

But long-term unemployment has been rampant among the oldest job seekers. Unemployed people aged 45 to 54 were out of work 45 weeks on average, those 55 to 64 were jobless for 57 weeks and those 65 and older average 51 weeks.

Younger workers were unemployed for shorter periods of time.

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20-point run in the middle of the game was pass interference calls, especially on senior defensive back Olaoluwa Falemi.

Senior defensive back Bruce Jones said he doesn’t expect that to be a problem in future games and he thinks it was just a mental mistake on Falemi’s part.

“That whole situation could go either way anytime,” Jones said. “It was just one of those things where his confidence started getting low, and he stopped looking back for the ball. We just work that every day; turn around and take a peak, and those calls are nonexistent.”

Once the fourth quarter started, however, the Red Raiders didn’t allow a score.

Hyder said the defense was upset West Virginia was able to move the ball against it so easily, so it joined together and started making plays.

“It really goes to the defense,” Hyder said. “We understood we weren’t playing well up to that point and something needed to change. We brought the guys

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Texas Tech (7-0, 4-0) now has played more than half of its games this season. Through those first seven games, the Red Raiders are ranked No. 6 in the nation in total offense and No. 30 in total defense, leading them to a No. 10 ranking in The Associated Press poll.

Tech senior defensive lineman Kerry Hyder said the team isn’t satisfied yet.

“We haven’t reached our goal yet,” he said. “7-0 is not our goal. Our goal is to win a Big 12 Championship, whenever we get that done, that’s when we’ll relax.”

While the defense still is ranked No. 16 in the nation in points allowed with an average of 18.7, it gave up 27 points in Saturday’s game at West Virginia, including a streak of five Mountaineer drives in which they scored.

One of the big problems the Red Raiders had while the Mountaineers went on a

up and let them know this is not championship defense. If we want to be a championship defense, we’ve got to be able to make plays like this. We’ve got to win games in these type of environments.”

Co-defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt said listening to the seniors is important to their staff when the defense gets in a rut like it did in the game against West Virginia.

“You always gotta ride, especially your seniors, with feedback,” Wallerstedt said. “They’re the guys that wear the hats, they know our scheme, and they’re playing hard for us.”

The fact that West Virginia utilized the rushing game extensively helped the team in its preparation for this week’s game against Oklahoma, Hyder said.

The Sooners’ defense is ranked No. 17 in the nation in rushing yards, and Hyder said the battle upfront is one of the keys to the game for the Red Raiders.

“As a defense we’ve got to control the line of scrimmage.

Dallas Mavs’ Carlisle all about defense in 2013-14

DALLAS (AP) — Ask Rick Carlisle about another new set of scoring partners for Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas coach will bring up defense.

Ask him about the offensive potential of the Mavericks and Carlisle will talk about defense.

Ask the coach about getting back to the playoffs after a 12-year postseason streak in Dallas ended and he’ll go on about, yes, defense.

To say Carlisle is emphasizing defense is like saying Nowitzki didn’t enjoy a second straight year without a playoff win after leading the franchise to its first championship in 2011.

“This is going to come down to defense,” Carlisle said. “It’s going to come down to our ability to stop, to rebound and to keep people off the free-throw line.”

Carlisle is preaching defense to a mostly new audience for the second year in a row. There are nine newcomers on the Dallas roster a year after Carlisle had to incorporate eight new faces.

But there’s a big difference this time.

The Mavericks responded to Dwight Howard’s rejection in free agency by signing guards Monta Ellis and Jose Calderon to multi-year deals. Last year

was all about one-year contracts, and some might say that played a role in a 41-41 record that kept Dallas home for the first time since Nowitzki’s second season in 1999-2000.

Others might say it was because Nowitzki missed the first 27 games after knee surgery. The idea behind a bunch of one-year contracts was maybe the 7-foot German could bring the group along and make the playoffs. They didn’t stand much of a chance without the 2007 MVP. In Calderon and Ellis, the Mavericks might have a point guard and a scorer for when Nowitzki isn’t around anymore, as hard as that is to imagine.

“I really like what we’ve done,” Nowitzki said. “I think Calderon should help us in crunch time with his playmaking and his shot-making. I think I’ve never played with an explosive guy like Monta who can get in the lane whenever he wants. I think that we should play off each other really well.”

Five things to consider as the Mavericks head into the season opener Oct. 30 at home against Atlanta: ABOUT THAT DEFENSE: The Mavericks were among the worst in the league in points allowed, but part of that

was their pace. The stat that bothered Carlisle more was being second-to-last in free throws made by opponents. In Carlisle’s eyes, that means Dallas wasn’t sound enough defensively to keep teams off the foul line. Chris Kaman never established himself as the starting center because he didn’t play enough defense.

Now Dallas signed a defense-first center in Samuel Dalembert. “This doesn’t fall on one guy’s shoulders,” Carlisle said.

“And we have to establish a covenant that it’s going to be important and I’ve got to have the stomach to make sure that the guys are doing the things to sacrifice to put us in a position to be a lot better than we were last year.”

ELLIS’ EFFICIENCY: Ellis was the worst 3-point shooter in the league last year. His shooting percentages have been in sharp decline the past two seasons — since he had the second of back-to-back standout scoring seasons for Golden State. If he can get back to his career shooting percentage of 45 percent, he has a better chance at the scoring averages of 25.5 and 24.1 he posted with the Warriors. Carlisle believes Ellis’ efficiency will improve simply by being around Nowitzki and Calderon. Ellis scoffs at questions about his efficiency.

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(AP) — Texas high school coach Tim Buchanan benched his starters after only 21 plays, kept to a conservative ground game and even allowed the clock to run uninterrupted after halftime to hasten the final whistle. Still, his Bearcats won 91-0.

Now the coach is facing formal accusations of bullying.

The impressive victory for undefeated Aledo High School, a football powerhouse in suburban Fort Worth that has put up similar numbers against other schools, has forced an investigation after a parent from the opposing team filed a bullying complaint. The complaint, which must be investigated under state law, says Buchanan should have done more to prevent the lopsided score.

“It wasn’t good for anybody,” Buchanan said of the Friday win over Western Hills in a Class 4A matchup. “I’ve sat and gone over and over and over it on what we could have done differently. The score could have very easily been 150 to nothing.”

Western Hills coach John Naylor told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that he disagreed with the bullying allegation, which Buchanan said suggested his coaches “should have made their payers ease up and quit playing that hard.” Naylor did not

immediately return a call from The Associated Press seeking comment Tuesday.

Under state law, Aledo’s principal must investigate the complaint and prepare a report. The complaint was filed with the school district, which the law requires to provide bullying complaint forms on its websites.

The University Interscholastic League, the governing body for high school sports in Texas, only has a mercy rule for six-man football that ends a game when one team gets ahead by 45 points by halftime or later. There is no mercy rule for 11-man football, though coaches can agree to end a game early, UIL spokeswoman Kate Hector said.

Buchanan said Tuesday he wasn’t aware of that option.

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Buchanan’s team, which is averaging 69.3 points a game with a 7-0 record, ran just 32 plays but scored on about every third one during Friday’s game. Aledo rushed for 391 yards. It scored eight touchdowns on the ground, two each on passes and punt returns, and one on a fumble recovery.

“It certainly didn’t seem like they were trying to run up the score in this case,” Hector said.

Western Hills had 79 yards rushing and 67 yards passing.

Aledo Principal Dan Peterson said his report on the bullying complaint should be completed this week. It will be given to the father who filed the complaint and the staff at Western Hills, which is in the Fort Worth school district. Aledo is in the its own school district.

Hector said anyone can submit a proposal for a rule change which could then be considered by the UIL’s legislative council.

Buchanan said his school, winner of four state titles since 1998, and district are very supportive of the football program. The same, he said, cannot be said of Western Hills.

“It’s not so much money as it is lack of emphasis,” he said. “If you’re going to have a program, support it.”

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The Red Raider volleyball team takes a break from Big 12 Conference play tonight as Texas Tech hosts New Mexico at 6 p.m. in United Spirit Arena.

Tech enters the week 8-14 overall and 1-6 in conference play after dropping a pair of matches last week to Kansas and Kansas State.

New Mexico has an impressive resume after starting the year with a 15-4 overall record and a 6-3 record in Mountain West Conference action.

Junior libero Rachel Brummitt said the team is approaching the game like it’s a Big 12 matchup.

“We are preparing for it the same way,” she said. “We’re going to hopefully get this win, get the confidence out of it and come out strong in our game against Baylor on Saturday.”

Tech and New Mexico last faced each other midway through the 2011 season in Albuquerque, N.M., where the Red Raiders overcame a 2-1 deficit to eventually come away with a five-set victory, according to a news release.

There are only three players by Jeff Nelson, who led the Red left on the roster who played Raiders from 1995-2002 and was against the Lobos in 2011: Breann 166-96 overall. His 0.634 winDavid, Nicole Hragyil and Mikia ning percentage at Tech marks the second-highest all time for a Mills, according to the release.

Sophovolleyball coach, more setter Emily Rutrailing etter said only Mike Jones’ the game provides a 0 . 6 7 4 percentgood chance for the team age from to put a “W” 1990-94, in the win according column. to the release.

“It’s a good opporTe c h c o a c h tunity for us to be able Don Floto get a win, ra said play hard the match SOPHOMORE and work on brings a SETTER things that good opwe’ve been portunity for the working on just like every other game,” she Red Raiders to land future playsaid. “We’re going to treat it just ers. like a Big 12 Conference game, so “They’re a regional battle,” it’s going to be a good opportunity he said. “We recruit some of the same athletes and there’s some for us.”

Tech fans will see a familiar history there. Two years ago, we face partaking in the match beat up on them at their place because New Mexico is coached and it’s time to play them again.

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They’re a top 60 RPI team with quality athletes. It’s good for us to get a little chance to step outside of conference in the middle of the season.”

The Red Raiders look to protect their home floor tonight because Tech is 9-2 all time under Flora against nonconference opponents in the USA. Ruetter said Flora is doing a nice job keeping the team motivated after letting some early games slip away this season.

“He’s keeping us more confident than what we could be considering the losses we’ve taken,” she said. “Focusing on little things we can do better and little things we’ve already done well is keeping us going with a great mindset.”

Brummitt also gives Flora credit on keeping the team together.

“The way he coaches is always motivating,” she said. “He’s always trying to make us better and trying to get us to motivate ourselves.”

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Family carries on after snowmobile death Texas Tech soccer remains at No. 18 (AP) — The revving of the snowmobile engine instantly sent his heart racing.

It was a haunting sound Wade Moore hadn’t heard since that night when he hiked down a hill to check on his son, Caleb, who crashed during the Winter X Games competition and had the 450-pound sled roll over the top of him.

On that January evening, Wade held the arm of his son as they walked to the medical tent for treatment, his son telling him how good of a run he had going and how he couldn’t wait to take another turn.

Those were some of the last words he heard from Caleb. His son died a week later from internal injuries he suffered in the crash, the first fatality in X Games history.

Three months ago in Texas, there was that unmistakable noise again: The wailing of a snowmobile’s engine as his younger son, Colten, practiced flips into a custom-built foam pit outside their home in Krum.

At first, the father’s heart skipped.

After two jumps, he felt at ease.

He missed this sound. He misses his son.

“Caleb was just a happy-go-lucky kid living his dream and getting to do the thing that he loved to do basically as his job,” his father said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.

“I always gave him a hard time, saying, ‘You don’t have a job, you are just playing.’ He just laughed and said, ‘We can’t help it if our job is playing.’”

The outpouring of support has astonished the Moore family, with let-

ters and pictures arriving almost every day. Caleb’s Facebook page still receives well wishes from fans, with posts such as, “We miss watching ya Man!!” and “Caleb, you are not forgotten. You are my hero.”

“I never knew how many people knew about Caleb and had been affected by him,” said his mom, Michele, who delivered a stirring eulogy at the funeral.

Since the crash, Wade and Colten have watched the video a few times, hoping to see what went wrong.

They can’t detect anything.

Caleb was attempting a backflip in the freestyle event in Aspen, Colo., when the skis on his snowmobile caught the lip of the landing area, sending him flying over the handlebars. The 25-yearold landed face first in the snow with his

Tech soccer stays put at No.18 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings, according to the NSCAA website This is the first week the Red Raiders have not dropped in the rankings in the four weeks. The previous three weeks they fell steadily despite going 4-0-2.

Other rankings placed the Red Raiders in similar spot unlike

in earlier weeks in the season.

Top Drawer Soccer gave Tech the same ranking as NSCAA at No. 18, and Soccer America and Soccer Times were not too far off from that ranking either.

Soccer Times had the Red Raiders at No. 17, while Soccer America positioned them higher than any of the other rankings.

The Red Raiders was ranked No. 16 by Soccer America.

Even though the Red Raiders are placed in a range of No. 16 to No. 18 in these rankings they are currently defending a 12-game unbeaten streak.

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Dallas Cowboys official expects 80k-plus for Final Four KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials from the Big 12 and the Cowboys expect a record crowd of more than 80,000 people will attend the Final Four when it’s

played at AT&T Stadium in suburban Dallas.

Commissioner Bob Bowlsby and Cowboys vice president Charlotte Anderson said at the Big 12’s an-

nual media day Tuesday that they anticipate breaking the mark for a national semifinal of 75,421 set during the 2011 Final Four in Houston.