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THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 2013 VOLUME 88 ■ ISSUE 53
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2 killed, 7 hurt in Detroit shooting DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say gunfire broke out at a barbershop known for gambling activity, leaving at least two people dead. Police say the shootings happened Wednesday evening at Rockies barbershop. Spokeswoman Kelly Miner says nine people were shot and two of them are confirmed dead. Police had initially said three people were dead, but later revised that number. It’s not clear how many people may have opened fire. Police Chief James Craig told reporters that “suspects engaged a couple of victims” and that “several shots were fired.” He wasn’t sure if any victims fired back. The barbershop is in a strip mall along a major road on Detroit’s east side.
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Texas: Obama offers health care pep talk DALLAS (AP) — Beset by hard-to-keep promises and a massive website failure, President Barack Obama traveled to the heart of the “Obamacare” opposition Wednesday to give a pep talk to the law’s supporters. Ad-libbing at a synagogue in Dallas, Obama said he was the first to admit he was unhappy with the rocky first month since new insurance exchanges went live. He implored volunteers and guides who are working to help consumers to stick with it, casting it as an effort that would, eventually, be well worth the trouble. “As challenging as this may seem sometimes, as frustrating as healthcare.gov may be sometimes, we are going to get his done,” Obama said. “And when we do — when we do, not if — when we do, you’re going to have families all across this great state of Texas who are going to have the security and the wellbeing of high-quality, affordable health insurance,” he added.
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Tech students go grizzly to support a cause for No-Shave November By CALLIE POINDEXTER Staff Writer
Things may get hairy on Texas Tech’s campus this month. Hundreds of students will grow out their beards, mustaches and even leg hair along with thousands of people across the globe as part of No-Shave November. No-Shave started in 2009 as a Webbased movement dedicated to raising cancer awareness and supportive funds, according
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Tech students fight spring break schedule By CARSON WILSON Staff Writer
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to the American Cancer Society’s No-Shave November website. The goal of the movement is to embrace the hair many cancer patients lose and take the money participants would have spent on grooming, waxing and shaving and put it toward cancer research. Tyler McKinley, a junior landscape architecture major from Big Spring, said this year is his third year participating in No-Shave. “I had to get used to it at first,” McKinley said, “because at first it’s itchy, a little scratchy,
Spring break is a time college students looks forward to. However, some Texas Tech students are feeling less enthused about the time off. Spring break for the university is March 15-23, during the third week of the month instead of the usual second week. Because of these new dates, some students are demanding change. Jeannette Towle, a junior marketing major from Houston, started a petition to move the spring dates to the second week in March and said the current spring break dates do not coordinate with other
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major universities within the state. “With our spring break being the week after practically every other school in the state of Texas,” Towle said in the petition, “this will make it impossible to celebrate this time with friends.” Towle created the online petition Tuesday night. After a couple of hours, the petition received more than 250 signatures, and the number has continued to rise. Many students have posted comments on the petition. Most are concerned about not being able to spend times with friends and family during the same week. PETITION continued on Page 2 ➤➤
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but after it got longer I got over it. I had to keep it clean, scrub it out, all that stuff.” When he began participating in NoShave, he was attracted to the idea of letting go and not having to shave and said he feels manly with a beard. However, McKinley said he had no idea the movement was to promote cancer research. “I think a lot of people just do it to not shave,” he said. “I don’t know how many people really know about that part of it.”
Andrew Crean knows the meaning behind No-Shave, however, because he and his family have been directly impacted by cancer. The sophomore history major from Houston said his dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2010. “It was kind of scary,” Crean said. “The year before that I lost one of my uncles to cancer and about two years before that I lost another one to cancer.” NO-SHAVE continued on Page 3 ➤➤
Fake, borrowed IDs churn out hefty fines for underage students By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer
While using a fictitious ID or a friend’s ID may seem like an easy way to access alcohol, the action can rack up a $500 to $4,000 fine and jail time. Fake IDs can be used for a number of reasons, but are commonly used for the purchase of alcohol or to enter bars for people younger than the age of 21. Benjamin Terry, a senior music major from Lubbock, said from his understanding, most people don’t receive fake IDs from sketchy websites. Instead they use a friend’s old ID, who recently turned 21 and got a new one. People also will use friend’s passports to purchase alcohol or enter bars. “I knew a girl, who was not a student here, but she had a friend’s passport and the picture
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of the friend was when the friend was like 5 years old, but they would accept that because it was a valid passport and she would go into most bars she wanted to go to,” he said. Because of his appearance, Terry said he has never used a fake ID because not many people look like him. However, he knows of about two to three people who use fake IDs, but said most of the time people are not looking to get one and instead stumble upon it. “I don’t think any of my friends were looking to find a fake ID, but generally it comes around,” he said. Todd Sons, the chief operations officer at Red Raider Liquors, said they do not see fake IDs often, but when they do, they’re fairly obvious.
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