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FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 2013 VOLUME 88 ■ ISSUE 44
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SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — As they try to understand what prompted a 12-year-old boy to open fire outside his school, district officials were examining an anti-bullying video that includes a dramatization of a child taking a gun on a school bus to scare aggressors and says it’s the wrong way to respond. The video was being studied as students and faculty members prepared to return to Sparks Middle School, where a boy fatally shot a teacher, wounded two classmates and killed himself on Monday. The shooter was identified on Thursday as Jose Reyes by Sparks city spokesman Adam R. Mayberry. Washoe County School District spokeswoman Victoria Campbell said school officials were examining the video but cannot comment because it’s part of the broader investigation into the shooting just outside the school building about 5 miles northeast of downtown Reno.
West Texas attorney denies money was drug-related EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A West Texas lawyer and former Carnegie Mellon University trustee on trial on charges he conspired to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money testified Thursday that he never knew the funds he handled were from illegal activity. Marco Antonio Delgado also told jurors during the fourth day of his trial that federal agents have lied and misrepresented facts or oversimplified matters in his case. Delgado took the witness stand after prosecutors rested their case earlier Thursday. He’s accused of devising a scheme to launder up to $600 million for the now disbanded Milenio cartel from 2007 to 2008. Federal agents have previously testified that after Delgado was arrested in 2007 with $1 million, he confessed and agreed to cooperate.
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Student Government senator impeached By CHELSEA GRUNDEN Staff Writer
Student Government Association Sen. Matt Pippen, president pro-tempore, was impeached from his position during Thursday night’s Senate meeting. Senate Resolution 49.26 required a
Council consider texting, driving solutions During the City Council meeting Thursday, City Council members brought to the table two issues dealing with texting and driving in Lubbock. Though both issues were discussed as one, City Council briefly discussed a campaign to raise public awareness of distracted driving, as well as a potential action on texting and driving within city limits. About 40 other states have laws banning texting and driving, according to Lubbock Chief of Police Roger Ellis. Texas had tried during the last two sessions to pass a texting and driving law, however, efforts have been unsuccessful. COUNCIL continued on Page 2 ➤➤
Illegal downloads of electronic textbooks By LYNSEY MEHARG Staff Writer
With the popularity of technology in the classroom increasing, many students have turned to using electronic textbooks as opposed to printed editions. Students cite cost as a popular reason for choosing e-books, but even with the option of renting e-books, some students still feel the price is too high. Students who download illegal texts should be aware that downloading illegal media is against the law. According to the U.S. Copyright office, copyright infringement is a crime only when it is done “willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.” According to the No Electronic Theft Act of the U.S. Copyright office, penalties for copyright infringement are determined by the extent of the crime. E-BOOKS continued on Page 2 ➤➤
Betts: Company sells stock in professional athletes
Tech basketball showcases talent with tip-off event— SPORTS, Page 5
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two-thirds majority to pass and passed with 67 percent. “Matt qualified for impeachment and the vote process came down to one single vote,” SGA Attorney General John Vance, a junior political science major from McKinney, said. According to the resolution, Pippen
failed to meet the qualifications for Student Senator as listed in Rule VII, Sections 9 and 10 and Article II, Section 3 of SGA’s Constitution. During the period in which Pippen was not in qualification of the rules, he did not resign his seat, according to the resolution.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been more embarrassed of Senate than I have been right now,” Pippen said. “I feel like we’ve had a fundamental breakdown of respect for our rules, for our due process within our constitution and our Student Bill of Rights.” SGA continued on Page 2 ➤➤
Breast cancer awareness on campus By CARSON WILSON Staff Writer
With pink overflowing the month of October, National Breast Cancer Awareness month brings the disease’s development and symptoms to the forefront of women’s minds. Dr. Candy Arentz, a breast surgical oncologist, runs the breast center at University Medical Center, which provides care throughout the patient’s illness. She said there are six different types of breast cancer, which can be treated differently. Genetics cause 3 to 5 percent of breast cancer cases, Arentz said, and 1 to 15 percent of cases are strongly family related, but the genes to identify them haven’t been identified yet. The gene, which can cause the disease, is a predisposition to developing cancer. If a patient has the gene, there is a 40 percent likelihood the patient will develop breast cancer. In 2013, 39,620 female deaths were caused by breast cancer in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society’s website. In women who are 40 or younger, 1,020 deaths were caused by breast cancer. There were 4,780 deaths of women 50 or younger. In women between the ages of 50 and 64, there were 11,970 deaths, and in women above the age of 65, breast cancer caused 22,870 deaths, according to the website. In Texas, between 2006 and 2010, 124.6 per 100,000 white women had a bout with cancer and 22 per 100,000 died from breast cancer. In African American women, 33.5 per 100,000 women died from breast cancer and 117.2 per 100,000 women experienced it. In Hispanic women, 16.7 per 100,000 died and 89.4 per 100,000 had an incidence, according to the website. Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that begins in the cells of a breast, according to the website. A malignant tumor is a group of cancer cells that can invade surrounding tissues or spread to other areas of the body. The disease predominantly is found in women, but men can
be diagnosed with breast cancer as well. She said she sees a variety of patients with any sort of breast complaint, including Texas Tech students, who go through Estimated Breast the medical center. Female Cancer She works with benign diseases as well as breast cancer, and if it’s cancer, walks the patients through their sur- Deaths gery options, such as reconstruction 1,020 and chemotherapy and radiation. Ashley Hamm, executive director of the Susan G. Komen Lubbock chapter, said the center tries to inform 50-64 women who have been diagnosed with All Ages breast cancer. 65+ The center provides women with questions to ask the doctor, different breast health resources and other materials. “We have a program where we visit newly diagnosed ladies with materials as Breast needed,” Hamm said. “We try and learn of any Cancer newly diagnosed cases in Lubbock just as soon as we can so that we can be a resource to them.” Incidence & The Lubbock chapter raises funds that Mortality are granted to the chapter’s 16 county service Rates areas for other nonprofit agencies, which by Ethnicity focus on breast cancer education,screening or treatment. White “We do not provide direct services,” she 124.6 22 said, “but we do offer some survivor Incidence Mortality groups.
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Texas Tech students raise awareness for National Food Day By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer
Texas Tech Block and Bridle members gave away brochures and free samples of smoked sausage as part of National Food Day from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at Market Street on the corner of 50th Street and Indiana Avenue. Members of the organization gathered to inform people about where their food comes from, said Emily Jackson, a senior animal science major from Waco. “We are just a bunch of farmers and ranchers that want to tell our story about where your food comes from,” she said. They were there to answer questions about where the food comes from, but also where and how the food is raised, Jackson said. Plans for the group to participate in National Food Day started about a month ago when a Facebook post got the group thinking, said Taylor Shackelford, a sophomore animal science major from Prosper. “It was all due to a spark of interest by a Facebook post,” he said. “The organization
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PETA posted some false information about the agriculture industry, and it really just got our minds thinking about how we could do our part to better educate people.” After that, the group contacted Market Street because with all the free samples the store gives out the group was more than willing to work with them, Shackelford said. Valerie Manning, a senior animal science production major from Mabank and president of Block and Bridle, said the main purpose of the day was to be “ag-vocates” and to get rid of the misconceptions about meat. “There are a lot of people who are misinformed about meat and where their meat comes from,” she said. Natural protein is what people need to survive, and the right amounts of beef and pork is really healthy, she said. Market Street provided the meat that was handed out as free samples, and the Texas Beef Council and the Texas Pork Producers provided all the brochures for the event, Jackson said. FOOD DAY continued on Page 3 ➤➤
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VALERIE MANNING, A senior animal sciences major from Mabank, and Chanie Barker, a sophomore animal sciences major from Coleman, prepare sausage samples Thursday at Market Street for National Food Day.
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