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Search committee for next chancellor named The Texas Tech System Board of Regents designated a committee to search for the next chancellor Wednesday, according to a news release.

Members of the meeting included Board members Debbie Montford, Nancy Neal, John Walker and Larry Anders, who is vice chairman of the Board and committee chairman, according to the release.

“The search committee for our next chancellor is an outstanding group of individuals,” Chairman of the Board Mickey Long said in the release. “I am confident they will help identify top candidates to be the next leader of our system of universities.”

The search committee will help identify potential candidates, assist with screening and report its recommendations to the full Board, according to the release.

In October, Chancellor Kent Hance announced his plans to retire in 2014.

After he retires, Hance will be named chancellor emeritus and said he still plans on being involved with Tech. ➤➤cwilson@dailytoreador.com

Tech to partner with national university Texas Tech President M. Duane Nellis signed a letter of intent to establish a future relationship between Equatorial Guinea’s National University and Tech, according to a news release.

“This agreement presents Texas Tech with excellent opportunities for our university to partner with Equatorial Guinea’s National University,” Nellis said in the release. “We look forward to a productive collaboration that will undoubtedly benefit both institutions in various ways.”

Equatorial Guinea is an emerging energy power in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the release. It is Africa’s third-largest producer of oil.

The country is seeking U.S. partners for developing its engineering, agricultural and tourism-related sectors, Vice Provost for International Affairs Tibor Nagy said in the release.

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Tech wins national championship Livestock Judging Team earns another title

By CHELSEA GRUNDEN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Livestock Judging Team finished its season as Reserve National Champions on Tuesday at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Ky. The competition has been hosted since 1900, where university teams from across the nation compete for the title, according to a news release. This year’s competition hosted 31 universities and tested its team members with

competition of cattle, sheep and swine and their oral reasons.

The team received second place in cattle, third place in sheep and swine, and fourth in oral reasons, according to the release.

“We judge three different species of livestock. We judge cattle, sheep and swine, and we have several different individual classes,” Valerie Manning, a senior animal science production

major from Mabank, said. “We evaluate animals and we place them in an order that we think is the best one, and then we have to defend why we did that and give a set of oral reasons.”

Texas A&M University received first place overall in the competition. Kansas State University received third, Oklahoma State University received fourth, and Iowa State University received fifth.

Freshman cheerleader juggles cheer, school schedule

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

Two hours of practice, three times a week, plus another hour spent working out three times, all on top of a 15-hour class schedule.

That is just an overview of how freshman Taylor Altom’s week is as a cheerleader for the All-Girls Squad.

For Altom, an exercise and sport sciences major from Houston, her love of the sport is worth the hard work and hectic schedule all Texas Tech cheerleaders deal with.

Waking up at 8 or 8:30 in the morning, depending on the day, Altom said every weekday she has a 9 a.m. or 9:30 a.m. class.

Normally, she said, her stuff for her classes the next day is packed the night before, so she can just wake up and go through her morning faster.

“I normally grab a granola bar or a banana, something fast, for breakfast,” Altom said.

On Tuesdays, she said, she has a 9:30 a.m. political science class that ends at about 10:45 a.m. most days.

From there, she said, she has yoga at 11 a.m. in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

“After, I come straight back to my dorm and eat lunch at about 12:15,” Altom said.

After lunch, she said, she normally has some free time until practice at 6 p.m.

However, even her free time isn’t spent on things most students consider fun.

Altom said she normally spends that time doing homework, tanning, running errands or anything else she needs to complete.

It’s normally homework that gets done, she said, because that is really her only free day.

“And then I get ready for cheer practice,” Altom said.

Mondays and Wednesdays are normally her busiest days, she said, while Tuesdays are normally her least busy.

Her Monday schedule allows even less free time than her Tuesday schedule.

She has a 9 a.m. psychology class, she said, that ends at 9:50 a.m.

Then she has to arrive at the United Spirit Arena by 10:15 a.m., Altom said, where she works out from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., after which she walks back to her residence hall.

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LEFT: TAYLOR ALTOM, a freshman exercise and sport sciences major from Houston, helps hold up the flyer during cheer practice Tuesday at the practice court in the United Spirit Arena. ABOVE: TEXAS TECH cheerleaders get the crowd involved during the game against Kansas State on Nov. 9 at Jones AT&T Stadium.

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Individual participants who placed in the top 10 overall were Lane Halfmann, a senior from Garden City, who was high individual overall; Emily Jackson, a senior from Waco, who finished ninth; and Nick Rieke, a senior from LaOtto, Ind., who finished 10th, according to the release.

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GLENN CUMMINS, ASSISTANT professor and associate dean for research, explains the method of Dial Testing to students and faculty during Global Entrepreneurship Week on Wednesday in the Media and Communication building.

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To celebrate and participate in Global Entrepreneurship Week, events were hosted across the Texas Tech campus from Monday to Wednesday.

Global Entrepreneurship Week, which was started by the Kauffman Foundation, was a way to have every community start thinking about entrepreneurship and the resources available around them, Ryan Reber, the intellectual property manager for the Office of Technology Commercialization, said.

There was a creativity challenge Monday where students learned how to create product concepts and about pitching them to an audience in the Rawls College of Business, he said.

An open house event was hosted Tuesday, Reber said. Students could go and network with other entrepreneurs and ask questions to those in attendance.

“We hope they just learn about some of the resources that are available to them on campus,” Reber said.

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About $20 million worth of bicycles are stolen annually, according to the National Bike Registry. Most bicycle thefts occur in cities that have universities.

Most bicycle thefts, Texas Tech Police Department Administrative Captain Stephen Hinkle said, are due to students not having a lock on their bicycles.

“The amount of bikes reported stolen fluctuates a lot,” Hinkle said. “Some weeks we get only one and others we get up to five. In May, a total of 19 bikes were reported stolen.”

However, even if a bicycle is locked, an experienced thief can steal it in about 20-30 seconds, according to bicycleuniverse.com.

U-locks are safer and harder to break, according to the website, in comparison to chains and cables, which a bolt cutter can easily break.

“I use two different types of chains to secure my bike,” Chris Garcia, a junior civil engineering major from New Braunfels, said.

When a bicycle is reported stolen, Hinkle said, the police department gathers information about it, such as the brand, color, serial number and any specialized features.

Then the information is submitted to the Texas Crime Information Center, so if anyone tries to sell or pawn it, the center will show the bicycle was reported stolen.

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A stolen bicycle only is worth about 5 to 10 percent of its actual value, according to the registry. A new bicycle that cost $150 only would be worth about $15 in resale value.

Hinkle said Tech PD investigators check eBay and flea markets to see if stolen bicycles appear in popular resale places.

“I know of one person who has had their bike stolen, and it sucks for her since that is how she got to class,” Jess James, a sophomore biology major from Fort Worth, said. “Also that puts them out about $200, which also isn’t cool.”

Last week, the League of American Bicyclists recognized Tech as a bronze-level bicycle friendly university, according to a news release.

The university has bicycle racks for 8,000 bicycles, according to the Tech website, which are available at all residence halls and nearly all of the academic buildings on campus.

Tech has a bicycle shop that offers many services to help owners with problems that may arise. Services, such as chain repair, tube replacement and tuneups, are available, according to the Tech recreational sports website.

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By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer

Today Thursday Night Movie - Elysium When:10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building So, what is it?

Free movie showing will be provided in the SUB. Free snacks and games provided. Use your Tech student ID for free admission.

Hydraulic Fracturing Symposium When: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Where: Escondido Theatre, Student Union Building So, what is it?

Guest speaker, George E. King will cover topics over shale evaluation, horizontal well positioning, fracture spacing, fracture application, flowback concerns and water sustainability.

Western Civilization Lecture Series: Dr. John Fonte When: 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Where: Escondido Theatre, Student Union Building So, what is it?

Dr. John Fonte will present a public lecture titled “Global Governance vs. the Liberal Democratic Nation-State.”

Fonte is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for American Common Culture at the Hudson Institute.

Monologue Auditions Session II When: 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Where: Doak Hall So, what is it?

Tech Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance will host auditions for the Vagina Monologues.

Female faculty and staff are all encouraged to audition, no preparation necessary.

Vietnam Center and Archive Guest Lecture Series Presents Astronaut Mike Mullane When: 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Where: Lanier Auditorium, School of Law So, what is it?

Before retiring in 1990, astronaut Mike Mullane completed 3 space missions and logged 356 hours in space. This lecture is the last in the Vietnam Center and Archive Guest Lecture Series.

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Those applying for military and veterans benefits can receive two types of benefits, but may have to complete a lengthy paperwork process to receive them.

A veteran can receive state benefits, called Hazelwood, and can receive federal benefits, said Ryan Van Dusen, the director of Military and Veterans Programs.

Hazelwood gives a veteran a fee waiver on tuition for no more than 150 credit hours.

There is a long list of requirements to receive Hazelwood, Van Dusen said, but the biggest one is a veteran must have entered the military from Texas.

The federal benefit is called a GI bill and comes in many forms, he said. The most common are called post 9/11 GI bills, which wave tuition and fees plus cut

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Tuesday 10:42 a.m. — A Texas Te c h o f f i c e r d o c u m e n t e d information regarding credit card abuse in the United Spirit Arena.

1:41 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at Coleman Residence Hall. A bicycle tire was taken from a bicycle.

3:55 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for three outstanding Lubbock County Sheriff Department warrants following a traffic stop in the C-1 parking lot. The nonstudent was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was released to the regis-

costs on housing and books.

“Any student that requests benefits through Texas Tech has to certify it through our office,” Van Dusen said.

State benefits have no money behind them, it is just a waiver that drops the fee, Van Dusen said. It is state law that the money is waived for any state university.

Drew Defendorf, a freshman civil engineering major from Boerne, said his dad was in the military and has a post 9/11 GI bill. He split the benefits between Defendorf and his two siblings.

Defendorf receives 12 months of benefits that pay for full tuition.

Defendorf said the process can involve a lot of paperwork, but is fairly simple.

“There’s a lot of steps to it so it can be complicated,” he said, “but if you talk to the right people it’s easy enough.”

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11:15 p.m. — A Tech officer detained a student for possession of drug paraphernalia following a report of an odor of marijuana in Coleman Residence Hall. The student was issued a Lubbock County citation and was released.

Wednesday 12:22 a.m. — A Tech officer detained a student for possession of drug paraphernalia following a report of an odor of marijuana in Coleman Residence Hall. The student was issued a Lubbock County citation and was released.

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

With 1,700 students there can be some hiccups along the way, Van Dusen said. The biggest problems occur from students not turning in paperwork on time.

He said if any student has an issue and they bring it up to the military and veterans office it will be dealt with right away. Any new student looking to receive benefits would need to go to the office located in Drane Hall or visit the website.

Veteran T.J. Giles, a junior mathematics major from Rockwall and an administrative assistant in the military and veteran’s office, said the first semester of applying for benefits is more difficult because there is more paperwork.

Each semester after the first is simpler because only one form needs to be filled out, he said.

The process only takes about 10 minutes per person.

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The week was designed to help people explore ideas as innovators and self-starters, according to Global Entrepreneurship Week’s website.

R e b e r s a i d he ho p e s t he events during the week raised awareness and let students know entrepreneurship overlaps with every discipline and is important in any job.

T h e O f f i c e o f Te c h n o l ogy Commercialization helps those who are trying to create a start-up company, he said.

Sierra Nelson, a junior accounting major from Coppell, said she had no idea what the Office of Technology Com-

Giles said he thinks Tech has done a good job being military and veteran friendly.

“I think Texas Tech is recognized as one of the most veteranfriendly schools in Texas,” he said, “and Texas is one of the most veteran-friendly states in America.”

The process can become hard if students wait too long to sign up, he said. For the first semester of benefits he suggested signing up at least two months in advance so everything is sorted out by the time classes start.

There are about 1,100 Hazelwood students and 780 federal benefit students, Van Dusen said.

Students must reapply for their benefits each semester.

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mercialization did prior to this week.

Nelson learned more about what the Office of Technology Commercialization is and what to do with an entrepreneurial idea this week, she said.

Entrepreneurship has a powerful impact on society, Reber said. Those involved in the week wanted students to learn about the initiatives of entrepreneurship and wanted it to be more of a focus on campus. “ We ’ r e j u s t e x c i t e d t o make entrepreneurship more of a focus at the university and really grow the reach that entrepreneurship has across the campus,” he said.

Jourdan Scruggs, a senior electronic media and communications major from Houston, said she attended the event Wednesday where students watched clips about possible mascots for the Rawls College of Business and rated them on their effectiveness.

Scruggs said the event will help with school because she is enrolled in a television class where students make a pitch for a series.

This is the first time Tech was involved in the Global E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p We e k , which has been happening for a number of years, Reber said. Tech is excited to see what type of responses it receives from the event and also is looking to possibly do more events next year.

“The coolest part about this week is it really is a global group, you have people all over the world who are promoting entrepreneurship,” he said. ➤➤jsosa@dailytoreador.com

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YAN GAO, A graduate analytical chemistry student from Nanjing, China, uses a spin coater to deposit a UV sensitive film on a silicon wafer while working on a lab Wednesday in the Chemistry building.

Evolution edits unlikely in Texas science books AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A small number of social conservatives on Wednesday urged the Texas board of education to approve new science books that deemphasize lessons on evolution and climate change, but the edits they seek may not have enough support to succeed.

The board’s 10 Republicans and five Democrats will vote later this week on new textbooks and e-books in math, science and technology that could be used starting next fall by most of the state’s five-plus million public school students.

Textbook and classroom curriculum battles have long raged in Texas pitting creationists — those who see God’s hand in the creation of the universe — against academics who worry about religious and political ideology trumping scientific fact. At issue this time are proposed high school biology books that could be used across the state at least through 2022.

State law approved two years ago means school districts can now choose their own books and don’t have to adhere to a list recommended by the board of education — but most have continued to use approved books.

The debate is important nationally since Texas is so large that many books prepared for publication in the state also are marketed elsewhere around the country.

Publishers have submitted proposed books, but this summer, committees of Texas volunteer

reviewers — some nominated by socially conservative current and former board of education members — raised objections. One argued that creationism based on biblical texts should be taught in science classes, while others objected that climate change wasn’t as settled a scientific matter as some of the proposed books state.

Many major publishers have since proved unwilling to make suggested major changes, however, and some board members suggested Tuesday that there were enough votes to approve the proposed books without significant editing.

“I would be surprised if there weren’t the votes,” said Thomas Ratliff, a Mount Pleasant Republican who is the board’s vice chairman.

The board will vote on the proposed books on Thursday, with final approval coming the following day.

Ratliff, a moderate conservative, said some technical or wording changes were likely to the proposed books. But when it comes to major editing of scientific content he said, “I haven’t heard a board member yet say, ‘Yeah, that needs to be in there.’”

Such a vote would be a break from years past, when a bloc of social conservatives on the board insisted that Texas students be taught “all sides” of evolution, and pressured textbook publishers to insert a healthy dose of skepticism over global warming.

Indeed, as recently as a Septem-

ber public hearing, more than 60 activists and experts on both sides of the hotly debated issue signed up to testify before the board. But on Wednesday, only 18 Texans signed up to address its members — and many planned to oppose any proposed major edits.

Among the evolution skeptics was Don McLeroy, a dentist from Bryan who is a former board of education chairman who lost his reelection bid to Ratliff in 2010. Even McLeroy has called for adopting the books without major modifications, though, because he says they will “strike the final blow to the teaching of evolution.”

He waited for hours but finally submitted written testimony, because the board hadn’t gotten to discussing books by Wednesday evening.

“Even though these books are full of unsubstantiated dogma proclaiming evolution, the evidence they present clearly demonstrates evolution’s inability to explain the development of life from a common ancestor,” McLeroy wrote. “I believe the Bible — that all life was created by God.” He attached a picture of a once splendid house decaying with time next to a grinning baby panda bear, saying that showed the difference between “unguided natural process” and what an “intelligent designer can do.”

“Our children know the difference!” McLeroy wrote. “You know the difference!”

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about the agricultural industry. It’s a very, very neat thing to make friendships with people who you will know

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Jackson, along with teammate Dan Crownover, a senior from Italy, Texas, was selected to be part of the All-American Team. The two members received the honor based upon their scholastic achievements, community service and contest performance, according to the release.

Livestock judging was an incredibly rewarding experience, Jackson said in the release. It has helped her gain friendships and expand her livestock knowledge. Jackson said she will cherish the memories made with the team and that they are proud of each other’s accomplishments.

Coach Ryan Rathmann, the John W. and Doris Jones Endowed professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences, and graduate student Brady Ragland led the team to its second place overall ranking.

“I am really proud of all of the students on the team,” Rathmann said in the release. “They set their goals high this year and pursued their objective with a relentless work ethic that is rare. They are high-quality people, and I know this experience will go a long way in shaping their futures.”

The team had a great day at the competition, Manning said. They did what they wanted to do and everyone carried their own weight.

She said she is proud of the team and the accomplishments it made throughout the year.

As a senior on the team, this is Manning’s last year to compete.

“It’s very rewarding to be a part of a successful team, not only in livestock judging, but life itself,” she said. “They are people that want to strive to do better in all aspects of life. Throughout the years, it’s overwhelming the amount of friendships, the amount of memories, the amount of knowledge you gain

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Feminism, gender roles can be successfully merged Lauren Gudgel sorbed with the Internet, TV and trying to look like the models I see in my far-too-expensive magazines, I couldn’t see my entire life falling apart around me. I was sick with obsession. My poor dog — my entire world — was deprived of my attention, and my husband was lost in his own endeavors. We forgot to live as a family.

Sure, we’re young and still college students. I was married three days after my 20th birthday, but I’ve always tried to be a traditional housewife.

I was shocked back to my “old soul values” when I read a

single quote on Hubpages.com: “A lady who moves with grace and elegance is a woman of poise and beauty. But such a woman is not too common these days, and lucky you are if you hold one of the most cherished, graceful manners of traditional women.”

I know it seems like I’m taking a huge step back from all the good the feminist movement has done for our g e n d e r, b u t I feel we as women have lost sight of our femininity. Yes, I‘m talking about gender roles here.

Don’t get me wrong, I am profusely proud to be a strong and semi-independent woman in today’s society. What our

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foremothers have done for us is almost unfathomable, and I fully take every opportunity to show my appreciation.

I do, however, feel as though the feminism movement has killed, flattened and desecrated male chivalry.

Without male chivalry, traditional values d o n ’t s t a n d a chance.

When I say “traditional values,” I do not mean “one woman and one man.” I mean expecting the best from a partner, friend or family member, and to give your best in return.

Men don’t know how to “man up” because women don’t let them.

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Men don’t know how to ‘man up’ because women don’t let them.

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won’t ever apologize for my loving enthusiasm regarding beauty and peace.

I have to keep myself from jumping with joy when I hear the first Christmas song of the season, and a vase of flowers next to my bed sets my entire day off right.

Often I get made fun of by my friends for being an “old soul.” It’s true, if I’m not in bed by 10:30 p.m. every night I get quite grouchy, and I don’t have a Facebook app on my phone, so if you’d like to get ahold of me you would have to directly call me.

I could go on and on about my nostalgic ways: Handwritten thank you notes, disconnecting from the Internet as often as I can and making a homemade meal for my husband every chance I get (I haven’t set the house on fire in more than a year). I’m here to tell you it’s not a bad way to live.

About a year ago, I was so ab-

conduct myself with grace, but I absolutely love the role of wife and woman of the house. I clean, I cook (sort of) and I manage to finish my homework. I do it all except the dishes — I don’t do those.

Too many young women these days are trying to get ahead and push on to the next man, obliterating a man’s masculinity and confidence. Somewhere along the way we forgot to learn how to be young ladies.

We forget to be appreciative of what is done for us — even the simple things, such as thanking the bus driver for his hard work (after all, they don’t all hit bicyclists) and putting down our phones to place a lunch order in the Student Union Building. We forget to present ourselves with grace and femininity.

I’m certainly not telling you that college is all about finding

a husband, having a family and immediately taking on the role of a wife and mother. I do think, though, that while you’re attempting to take on the world in your corporate suit, maybe you should remember and appreciate those who changed your world by wearing simple clothes and driving a soccer-mom van.

Regardless of your career ambitions — mine is being a good mother to my future children while others want to run the free world — simply conduct yourself with social graces. A woman cannot be stopped when her head, heart and manners are on track.

As Beyoncé once sang, “Who Runs the World? Girls!” It’s up to us as to where the world transitions next.

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Obama’s broken promises unsurprising Students should exercise

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The Obama administration has recently been under heavy fire from seemingly all sides for the debacle that the Affordable Care Act rollout has become. One of the more piercing commentaries on how the president and his office have mishandled the health insurance reform is his famous promise that “If you like your insurance plan, you can keep it.” This is contrasted sharply with the multitudes of Americans who are now being notified that they cannot, in fact, keep their insurance plans.

This turn of events should not have come as a surprise to anyone.

That is not to say that a president’s promises are not be trusted in general.

Instead, the nature of this specific promise is what makes it inherently subject to increased scrutiny.

The problem from which the president’s pledge intrinsically stemmed was that the government is not the only actor with the power to cancel insurance plans. The insurance providers themselves are absolutely relevant in these discussions, and Obama should never have made a promise that could so easily be broken by those who have so little sympathy for him and his promises.

When the president said that people could keep their plans and their doctors, what he meant was that

current plans will be “grandfathered” into the new health insurance system.

However, if an insurance company makes certain changes to a policy, it will no longer be considered the same plan and will be subject to the new regulations of the Affordable Care Act. In order to be treated as an identical coverage, an insurance plan was originally not allowed to undergo “substantial” changes. Some of those “substantial” changes included a $5 — plus the cost of medical inflation since March 2010 — alteration to copay, a 5 percent decrease in an employer’s contribution since March 2010 and a variety of other really notso-substantial changes.

The reasoning for such low thresholds in treating a plan as grandfathered are fairly clear. The health insurance reforms were intended to prevent current practices from continuing. Even if an insurer raised insurance costs to their policyholders, many would likely not even consider seeking new coverage.

Maybe this is because so many Americans absolutely loved their health insurance — even when its costs go up — or maybe this is because many have been told that they will, without exception, be paying more for new plans that offer “cadillac” suites of coverage.

Some of those so-called cadillac features include maternity care insur-

ance, coverage of lab tests, and preventative care treatments like vaccines.

To be fair, many health insurance plans do not currently cover some of these requirements and their consumers may be just fine with this. One of the more ridiculous-sounding “Obamacare mandates” is that all insurance plans — even those bought by biological males — have to provide maternity coverage. This is touted as a criticism of the new regulations despite the fact that offering maternity insurance to men amounts to a whopping zero total cost for insurance companies.

What is more of an issue to insurance companies and those who wish to buy less than stellar health insurance policies are the required caveats like preventative care, substance abuse care, and pediatric care.

Unfortunately, these kinds of increased coverages are the direct necessity of the insurance mandate our Congress and president chose as the basis for their reform. The individual mandate was likely not many legislators’ — nor Obama’s — first choice, but that is the option that could be passed through both houses of Congress, and that is what we as a nation now have.

If we are going to have an individual mandate on health insurance, which is intended to draw younger and healthier people into the insurance pool, we simply have to have fairly high minimums on the coverages they

can purchase.

It would be completely useless to make everyone buy insurance if, for example, someone could go out and get a $5-a-year plan that only provided coverage in the event that one was punched in the face by Mike Tyson or for any other comically implausible shenanigans.

Ultimately, the minimum requirements could be subverted if an insurance company continued to offer the same plan. The problem with this, from the perspective of the Obama administration, is that the insurance companies are not going to do him any favors.

After extensive reforms that promise to undercut their most sure-fire ways to increase profits, it should not be a shock to anyone that insurance companies would deliberately change their plans enough so that they can no longer be accepted. When this happens, the insurance company has every right to send their policyholders a wonderful notification telling them that their coverage will be canceled, and conveniently add that it is all thanks to President Obama.

That blame may be more than a little manufactured, but it certainly shouldn’t be surprising. All in all, President Obama should never have made a promise that he couldn’t keep, at least not without the help of the same companies on whom his signature legislation increased regulations.

Citizens righteously disapprove of US government The oraCle (U. soUTh FloriDa)

It only took a government shutdown and a consecutive string of government failures, but it seems Americans have finally figured it out.

U.S. citizens have a constitutional right to choose who gets put in office and, according to the Los Angeles Times, recent polls bring bad news for almost everyone in office.

It seems Americans are coming around to the idea they have control over who represents them in the government.

The voters have voiced the resounding message through a poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News that they do not approve of what President Barack Obama has done and they’re not sold on Republican alternatives either.

According to the results released Tuesday, 55 percent of respondents disapprove of Obama’s handling of his job as president. This is not surprising at all considering the numerous problems with the new health care law. In the poll, 57 percent of respondents disapprove of the changes in the health care system specifically.

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It is exceptionally discouraging that in the poll, 50 percent of respondents said they did not think the president was honest and trustworthy.

If a country cannot trust its president, then it becomes difficult to support the government’s decisions at all.

Those who responded to the poll conveyed the right message. Other than increasing the debt ceiling, the U.S. government has yet to make any productive progress pertaining to major national issues since the shutdown.

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down, immigration reform is at a standstill, leaving broken promises for the U.S. population without proper documentation, Obamacare is a complete disaster leaving the public very confused and little to no action has been done about the Syria conflict that arose before the shutdown.

In light of all of the disappointing actions in the U.S. government, or lack thereof, hopefully it has created a strong enough impact to remind voters who they elect for president and congressional leaders really does make a difference. Citizens can’t rely on an unlikely epiphany in Congress, but it does appear that they are finally realizing it’s up to their votes to make a change.

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Social media offers citizens, corporations and organization enormous benefits. Accounts such as Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest and Twitter offer a crucial marketing strategy for large companies as well the common individual: free advertising.

The biggest-name celebrity can make significant donations to charities of their choice by requesting a simple re-tweet from their followers. Companies use public relations experts to present a carefully crafted imaged to the public.

Many tweets and status updates that are posted every day can be innocent expressions of individuality, ways to blow off some steam, or just for fun. The best part of social media is that it is all free and available to anyone that can type and access the Internet. It is the personal brand one wishes to present to the public that is portrayed through social media.

Though it is important for mediacentered public figures like celebrities, large companies and politicians to keep a clean-cut image, these social media accounts allow us to share information at such a rapid pace that sensitive posts have become as commonplace as they are devastating.

Recall the public backlash University of Kansas professor David Guth received after tweeting, “#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you.” Although his opinion was protected by free speech, the content of the tweet was what challenged his professional responsibility. And as the university came under fire for Guth’s tweet, he was put on administrative leave as those who supported and opposed him argued on free speech. Nothing in Guth’s situation was anything new in a world that has become so obsessed with social media.

However, whether it is a heat-of-themoment post, a clear mistake, or actually meaningful, the public must be aware that their posts to social media can come with consequences – just as Guth’s did.

But be weary about potential damages that can accompany posting.

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under constant surveillance, but also everyone who has access to post, tweet and share. Even if the consequences of using your own social media haphazardly may not be as severe as work leave, there is always someone that might take things the wrong way. There is always going to be someone who is sensitive towards virtually any subject.

As students, we are all under watch by future employers who may want access to your social media accounts, so they can take a personal look into our backgrounds and thoughts. Whether in a simple post to encourage followers throughout their day, or publicly humiliating other accounts, our words and posts may forever be engraved on the Internet.

Even if one might regret a certain tweet and is quick to delete it, someone, somewhere might already have a screenshot or shared the post. The most important part is to be aware of the dangers. This doesn’t mean that social media, even in its meanest form, can’t be used for something positive. Sometimes the consequences may reveal themselves as an opportunity for others.

In his 2012 season, television host Jimmy Kimmel added a new segment to his show where celebrities read off rude tweets posted by people who never thought their comment would be seen.

In the segment, now called “Mean Tweets” Kimmel gives a humorous spin to the public’s view of some of the world’s most famous celebrities.

In his most recent musical edition of “Mean Tweets,” Kimmel brought musician John Mayer to read off a vulgar tweet directed at him, reading, “John Mayer looks like a booze-socked turd wrapped in a Dumb and Dumber tux.”

With his segment, Kimmel demonstrated that there are ways to twist a tweet or post into a means for some good fun.

Another example of this is spoof accounts. There are countless of these social media accounts that, under the guise of fictional representation, amuse the public with the simplest post.

Regardless of the user’s purpose or a post’s intent, responsibility and awareness are the best assets one can take when venturing into social media.

Young professionals can use social media to their advantage in representing the values and characteristics future employers are looking for.

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By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

What began as a piece of paper has turned into what senior Carmen Askerneese hopes to be a new Texas Tech tradition.

The Winter Raider Showcase, originally created by the electronic media and communications major from Dallas, will be hosted for the first time at 6 p.m. Friday at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion.

The showcase, sponsored by the Residence Halls Association,

KTXT-FM radio and Gordon/ Bledsoe/Sneed Residence Complex, features eight local bands and is free to all Tech students.

Askerneese said the event is one of the only events that has multiple organizations working together on campus.

Most of the events are just KTXT events or just RHA events, he said, but this one incorporates more than one organization.

“It also showcases students in local bands,” Askerneese said, “which really doesn’t happen.”

Askerneese said he got in

touch with the Middle Child Records operations organizer, Tyler Hardy, to see which bands would be interested in the showcase.

Hardy, from Mansfield, said KTXT’s music director, Matt Smith, originally contacted him about a month ago to see if Middle Child Records had any bands that would like to be showcased at the event.

He said three of the bands already were chosen when he was first approached.

“I tried to book the bands that are very active relative to

promotion, have a really good live show and that generally are really supportive of other local musicians,” Hardy said.

Smith, a senior psychology major from Greenwich, Conn., said the concert is supposed to showcase the Lubbock music scene.

A lot of people, he said, just assume that Lubbock, because it’s a small town in West Texas, doesn’t have the most eclectic music scene.

“On the contrary, there is a ton of great music coming out of

Lubbock and people just don’t necessarily where to go to find it and where to go to listen to shows,” Smith said.

The bands, he said, cover genres such as pop-punk, hip-hop and dirt surf.

The event covers all spectrums of music, Smith said.

The lineup for the night are Jenna & Matt, Hip, Scotty No, Maria & the Gypsyhouse, Lenora Sol, Thrift Store Cowboys, Veda Moon and Dry Heeves.

The group didn’t work to just find a variety of genres, though.

Askerneese said there is no alcohol allowed at the event so students of any age can attend.

He said he knows not everyone is into the bar scene, so the event is a good way to go out and have fun without going to the bar.

“And like I said it’s free, so you can’t really beat that,” Askerneese said.

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Rehab: Brown threw rock through mom’s car window LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge ordered Chris Brown on Wednesday to spend three months in rehab after reading a report that said a facility discharged the R&B singer because he threw a rock through his mother’s car window.

Superior Court Judge James Brandlin also added additional rules for Brown in the coming months, requiring him to perform at least 24 hours of community labor a week and to submit to drug testing as he deals with anger management issues.

Brown and his attorney agreed

to the terms, which were suggested by probation officials who are overseeing Brown’s sentence for his 2009 beating of thengirlfriend Rihanna.

The Grammy winner threw a rock through his mother’s car window Nov. 10 after a joint counseling session in which she suggested the singer remain in treatment, according to a letter submitted by the rehab facility.

The facility’s name was not included in court filings.

“Mr. Brown proceeded to walk outside and pick up a rock and threw it through his mother’s car

window and it shattered,” the letter states. Brown was discharged because he had signed a contract agreeing to refrain from violence while in treatment.

The singer voluntarily checked into rehab for anger management treatment Oct. 29, just days after he was arrested in Washington, D.C., after a man accused Brown of punching him after he tried to get in a photo with the singer.

The incident and the resulting misdemeanor assault charge could still trigger a probation violation that could lead to more sanctions

against Brown.

Brandlin ordered probation officials to collect more details on the Washington arrest and report back to him before a Dec. 16 hearing. A prosecutor did not seek any revocation of Brown’s probation at Wednesday’s hearing but said she was awaiting more details.

Brown is due to appear in a Washington, D.C., court Monday. Brandlin allowed the singer to travel for the hearing, but his ruling makes clear that the expectation for the singer for the next few months is to receive treat-

ment and perform community labor such as graffiti removal or roadside cleanup.

Brown’s probation report states the singer has said he wants treatment for his anger management issues. He reported being depressed after being ordered to re-do 1,000 hours of community service earlier this year after a hit-and-run incident.

Prosecutors had raised questions about whether he performed his sentence as instructed.

Brown has performed 20 hours so far, according to the report. An officer expressed concern that

the singer wouldn’t complete his assignment if Brown was not required to perform at least 25 hours of work per week.

The singer appeared in court Wednesday with his girlfriend Karrueche Tran and only spoke once to acknowledge he agreed to the terms imposed by the judge.

His mother, who has attended many of her son’s court hearings, did not attend Wednesday’s proceedings.

At the request of Brown’s attorney, Mark Geragos, Brown was also ordered to take any medications his doctor prescribed.

Harvard study ties eating nuts to lower cancer, heart death risk DALLAS (AP) — Help yourself to some nuts this holiday season: Regular nut eaters were less likely to die of cancer or heart disease — in fact, were less likely to die of any cause — during a 30-year Harvard study.

Nuts have long been called heart-healthy, and the study is the largest ever done on whether eating them affects mortality.

Researchers tracked 119,000 men and women and found that those who ate nuts roughly every day were 20 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who never ate nuts. Eating nuts less often also appeared to lower the death risk, in direct proportion to consumption.

The risk of dying of heart disease dropped 29 percent and the risk of dying of cancer fell 11 percent among those who had nuts seven or more times a week compared with people who never ate them.

The benefits were seen from peanuts as well as from pistachios, almonds, walnuts and other tree nuts. The researchers did not look at how the nuts were prepared — oiled or salted, raw or roasted.

A bonus: Nut eaters stayed slimmer.

“There’s a general perception that if you eat more nuts you’re going to get fat. Our results show the opposite,” said Dr. Ying Bao of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

She led the study, published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine. The National Institutes of Health and the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation sponsored the study, but the nut group had no role in designing it or reporting the results.

Researchers don’t know why nuts may boost health. It could be that their unsaturated fatty acids, minerals and other nutrients lower cholesterol and inflammation and reduce other problems, as earlier studies seemed to show.

Observational studies like this one can’t prove cause and effect, only suggest a connection. Research on diets is especially tough, because it can be difficult to single out the effects of any one food.

People who eat more nuts may eat them on salads, for example, and some of the benefit may come from the leafy greens, said Dr. Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Ralph Sacco, a University

of Miami neurologist who also is a former heart association president, agreed.

“Sometimes when you eat nuts you eat less of something else like potato chips,” so the benefit may come from avoiding an unhealthy food, Sacco said.

The Harvard group has long been known for solid science on diets. Its findings build on a major study earlier this year — a rigorous experiment that found a Mediterranean-style diet supplemented with nuts cuts the chance of heartrelated problems, especially strokes, in older people at high risk of them.

Many previous studies tie nut consumption to lower risks of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer and other maladies.

In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration said a fistful of nuts

a day as part of a low-fat diet may reduce the risk of heart disease. The heart association recommends four servings of unsalted, unoiled nuts a week and warns against eating too many, since they are dense in calories.

The new research combines two studies that started in the 1980s on 76,464 female nurses and 42,498 male health professionals. They filled out surveys on food and lifestyle habits every two to four years, including how often they ate a serving (1 ounce) of nuts.

Study participants who often ate nuts were healthier — they weighed less, exercised more and were less likely to smoke, among other things. After taking these and other things into account, researchers still saw a strong benefit from nuts.

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Compared with people who never ate nuts, those who had them less than once a week reduced their risk of death 7 percent; once a

week, 11 percent; two to four times a week, 13 percent; and seven or more times a week, 20 percent.

“I’m very confident” the obser-

vations reflect a true benefit, Bao said. “We did so many analyses, very sophisticated ones,” to eliminate other possible explanations.

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“It’s all the little things that junior Taran Hulsey, junior Carli Hinkle and senior Jessica Castro, the judges will look at come comCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 but she said the groups differentiate petition time,” Bills said.

Besides all the chaos her daily “I have to go to Human Sci- depending on the night. ences for a 1 o’clock,” she said, During the practice, cheer and schedule brings, Altom and the “Then I have to haul booty to mascot squad Bruce Bills goes rest of the cheer squad also isrethe (Media and Communications around the gym, critiquing the quired to make appearances and attend sporting building) for math.” cheerleaders. events.

After her math class ends at What he The time2:50 p.m., Altom said she must looks at, he management run back to her residence hall, said, is the skills demanded where she has an hour of free time c h e e r l e a d to be a cheerbefore she has to get ready for cheer ers’ body poleader at Tech is practice. sitions. not something She finishes cheer practice at “I look at HALEY SMITH that is easily about 8 p.m., she said, and returns e a c h s t u n t FRESHMAN grasped. to her residence hall to work on like it’s a picCHEERLEADER Altom said homework and eat dinner. ture frame,” the cheerlead“Literally, I do not have a single Bills said. “I break,” she said. go through all of it in my mind ers are required to take a timeDuring her practice, the cheer- and imagine where their hands management course during summer break, along with etiquette leaders begin by rolling out their need to be.” mats.

Bills said he also watches to classes, to prepare them for their After, they start practice by see what the cheerleaders have a chaotic semesters.

To make it through her days, forming a circle, stretching and tendency to do. beginning their warm-ups.

They have to use their body she said she has to push herself to stay positive.

Their warm-ups, Altom said, control, he said.

“I just get shit done,” Altom normally consist of standing back“Maybe the flyer is leaning over flips, jumps to backflips, and a jump instead of pulling up center,” Bills said.

In a Raider Ready class, which to a standing backflip. said. “These are all the things you is required for all cheerleaders, From there, the cheerleaders look for.” begin working on their group and Even if the cheerleaders hit a she said she learned from the partner stunts, she said. stunt, he said they could work to class that she had to get her stuff together and keep it together.

“We work on more elite stunts, hit it more solid.

Her professor said the cheerlike full-ups, rewinds, sequences Bills isn’t the only one who and stunt inversions,” Altom said. looks for areas the cheerleaders can leaders had to learn the system of college, Altom said.

During practice, Altom said she improve in, though.

“Cheer really keeps you on practices as a side base, which holds Bills said he has an assistant the center girl or flyer’s shoe as she coach who also walks around your game, especially with a performs the stunts. watching the squads during prac- coach like ours,” she said.

Altom’s friend and fellow The flyer depends on the bases, tice, but said he also likes for she said. the squad members to help one freshman cheerleader, Haley Smith, a biology major from “There’s three bases in groups,” another.

Altom said. “There’s two side bases He may see something and Philadelphia, said the coach is and one main base.” not say anything, he said, but hard on the cheerleaders about Altom’s group during her Tues- instead lets the members self- studying.

Grades come first, she said.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is awash in animal-related protests over its floats, with controversies involving the unlikely pairing of rocker Joan Jett and Shamu the killer whale.

Activists plan to line the route of next week’s parade to protest a SeaWorld float over accusations in a new documentary that the theme parks treat whales badly.

And ranchers succeeded in getting Jett pulled off the South Dakota tourism float after they questioned why the vegetarian and animalrights ally was representing their beef-loving state.

The float flaps threaten to shake Macy’s traditional position of staying out of politics and soaring silently above the fray, like the massive balloons of Snoopy, Kermit the Frog and SpongeBob SquarePants.

“The parade has never taken on, promoted or otherwise engaged in social commentary, political debate or other forms of advocacy,” Cincinnati-based Macy’s Inc. said in a statement this week.

It was in that spirit that parade executive producer Amy Kule said Tuesday that the SeaWorld float is staying.

“There is no controversy,” she said. “Our goal is to entertain, and that is their goal, as well.”

The SeaWorld float, which depicts rolling waves, tropical fish, penguins and Shamu, comes

“I think what I loved about The Shaggs when I heard it 15 years ago was that it sounded like these emotional aliens playing these love songs, but it didn’t sound like love songs, and it didn’t sound like jazz, and it didn’t sound like prog rock ... it was cooler,” said Krakow, who has a tattoo depicting the Shaggs’ family cat from the band’s brainsearing classic “My Pal Foot Foot.”

“I just became so fascinated by their voices, and how out of tune certain things were, but how precise they were,” Krakow said.

“I really became obsessed with the album — I decoded the language of The Shaggs.”

The Shaggs were three sisters whose father — determined to fulfill a fortune teller’s prediction

— pulled them out of high school and put them in a band. They played weekly gigs at the Fremont Town Hall and recorded one album, but only a few copies made it into circulation. When their father died in 1975, they abandoned the band and went on with their lives.

The album lived on, however, attracting attention from the likes of Frank Zappa, who was quoted in Playboy as calling The Shaggs “better than The Beatles,” and Rolling Stone magazine, which named it one of the 100 “most influential alternative releases of all time.”

Semprini and one of her sisters performed with the band NRBQ in 1999, and a musical based on their story opened in Los Angeles in 2003 and in New York last year.

EPPING, N.H. (AP) — Not many rock groups get discovered years after they disband. Even fewer stage comebacks spread over more than three decades. Yet that’s the story of The Shaggs, which started as an obscure girl band in New Hampshire in the 1960s, broke up in the ‘70s, became a cult favorite in the ‘80s and inspired a musical that enjoyed an off-Broadway run last year.

And now? Dot Semprini, the lead singer of the famously discordant group, is striking out on her own at age 65 with a solo album featuring songs written and performed with Jesse Krakow, a New York musician who has long considered The Shaggs personal heroes.

months after the release of the documentary “Blackfish,” which contends that SeaWorld’s poor treatment of its killer whales contributed to the aggression of a whale involved in a trainer’s death.

SeaWorld says the accusations have “absolutely no basis” and that “the men and women who care for these animals at SeaWorld are dedicated in every respect to their health and well-being.”

Activists, including members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, say they plan to stage a protest somewhere along the route during next week’s parade.

And the group says it has sent Macy’s more than 80,000 emails from animal lovers demanding that the store drop the float.

Among those joining were actor Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, who wrote last week that SeaWorld was a “cruel prison for whales” and that the parks “should not be celebrated with a giant Shamu float parading down 34th Street.”

Kenneth Sherrill, professor emeritus of political science at Manhattan’s Hunter College and a longtime parade watcher, says the SeaWorld controversy puts Macy’s in a tough spot.

“It’s damned if they do, damned if they don’t,” Sherrill said. “Macy’s is making a statement. If there’s a political conflict, saying ‘I’m not getting involved’ means you’re sup-

porting the status quo.”

PETA also is connected to the float controversy involving Jett, an animal-rights vegetarian who works with the organization.

She was scheduled to sing atop South Dakota’s tourism float until an outcry from the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association, which said it made no sense to feature an artist who is critical of the state’s top economic sector.

Macy’s found a solution: The “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” singer and her Blackhearts band are being moved to a different float as yet to be announced. A parade spokesman said it made the move so attention isn’t diverted from the “entertainment mission” of the event, which also features Carrie Underwood, Jimmy Fallon, the Radio City Rockettes and the cast members of the reality show “Duck Dynasty.”

The parade has gone on through previous controversies.

In 2011, Tim Burton’s “B. Boy” balloon took flight despite critics labeling it “creepy” for its depiction of a snaggle-toothed boy made out of old party balloons.

And last year, Elmo’s appearance followed sexual abuse charges against longtime puppeteer Kevin Clash, whose recorded voice was heard on a float. That parade also included confetti made from shredded New York City police documents.

Man who sold fake Chihuly gets 5 months SEATTLE (AP) — Jim Coombes was trying to surprise his wife by amassing a collection of works by famed American glass artist Dale Chihuly to donate to Gonzaga University in Spokane, where they’ve worked for decades.

They both ended up surprised: It turned out he spent $25,000 on about 100 counterfeit pieces.

He bought them from Michael Little, a Renton man who provided him with fabricated documents attesting to their authenticity.

With Little being sentenced in federal court Wednesday, the 74-yearold Coombes said he has learned and

moved on. He’s still collecting Chihuly art — the real stuff, this time — for the university’s Jundt Art Museum.

“I knew I’d been taken, but you get over it and get on with your life,” Coombes told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik sentenced Little to five months in prison, followed by five months at a halfway house and three years of supervised release, for his guilty plea to wire fraud. The case involved two dozen victims, including Coombes, though the others lost less money.

Lasnik ordered Little to repay the victims a total of more than $75,000, including legal fees for Chihuly’s organization.

The judge said he would have preferred to send Little to basic training in the Army, if he had the authority.

Citing a doctor’s report to the court, Lasnik noted that Little sleeps until 10 a.m. every day, takes an afternoon nap and spends much of the rest of the time on his computer.

The 35-year-old lives with his parents. His father attended the sentencing, but his mother forgot to bring

identification to enter the courthouse and awaited her son’s fate at a Starbucks across the street.

Matt Diggs, an assistant U.S. attorney, asked for a 15-month prison term. Little’s attorney, Dennis Carroll, sought probation.

The judge said prison might do Little some good.

“This is a guy who needs to get out of the house,” Lasnik said.

Little obtained the generic glass art on eBay and elsewhere, then sold it — mostly through eBay — as bona fide Chihuly, a renowned artist whose sculptures and installations have been displayed all over the world. His customers all told investigators they thought the works they received were real.

Chihuly is from Tacoma, where he helped launch the Museum of Glass. A new Chihuly exhibit space and garden opened recently under Seattle’s Space Needle.

According to his plea agreement, Little told some prospective buyers his family bought the works after winning the lottery. As early as 2011, some of Little’s online postings were removed because of a fraud alert, but he persisted.

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Kithuka runs for second NCAA Cross-Country Championship

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

The NCAA Cross-Country Championship will be hosted Saturday at Lavern Gibson Championship Course in Terre Haute, Ind. The men’s championship race is a 10,000-meter run.

Texas Tech senior runner Kennedy Kithuka, the 2012 NCAA Cross-Country Champion, is seeking back-to-back titles.

Kithuka has not lost a race during his career at Tech, with a streak of 14-straight victories.

During the 2013 season, he won by an average margin of 36 seconds, according to a news release.

Kithuka said his unbeaten record could be attributed to the way he trains every day.

“It’s tied to my training with Coach (Jon Murray) and the way I do my training on the track,” he said. “I have to keep my sprints, I have to know where I am on the course, so when I go to the race, I can do the same thing there. I’m going to use the same tactics. I’m going to control the pace.”

Kithuka recently became the backto-back Big 12 Conference individual champion — the first athlete to accomplish this since 2005.

Murray said Kithuka surpassed everyone’s expectations.

“When Kennedy (Kithuka) went to the (championship) last year, he wasn’t really expected to win,” he said. “They thought he might be top 10. He hadn’t been beaten all last year, but I guess the rankers didn’t think (Kithuka) had been tested. This year it’s very different. There are very few people thinking that he won’t win. It’s going to be an interesting experience.”

Not only did Kithuka win the championship last year, he finished with a time of 28:31.3 — the fastest 10,000-meter time at an NCAA championship in 33 years, according to the release.

Murray said the average margin of victory for Kithuka, which is 36 seconds, is something that is extremely rare in the sport of cross-country.

“Over a quality field like this, that’s a

big deal,” Murray said. “For someone to beat the whole field by 20 or 30 seconds, that is very dominant. This is like a Michael Jordan-type performance that just elevates the whole team and is a difference maker. He’s one of those, he’s a difference maker.”

The Lavern Gibson Course was the course during the NCAA Pre-Nationals, an event Kithuka won by more than 25 seconds.

Murray said he knows how difficult it will be to repeat as national champion.

“It’s really hard,” he said. “It’s one thing to go out there and do it the first time, but then all that expectation and pressure is there. I’ve seen a lot of people that couldn’t do it, even the first time. So for him to be able to do it once and try to do it again, it’s going to be a great challenge for him.”

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TEXAS TECH SENIOR runner Kennedy Kithuka won the NCAA Pre-Nationals race in Terre Houte, Ind., on Oct. 19 and will return Nov. 23 to compete in the NCAA Cross-Country Championships.

Brummitt’s ties Texas Tech school record with 36 digs in loss to Oklahoma

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TEXAS TECH SENIOR runner Kennedy Kithuka won the NCAA Pre-Nationals race in Terre Houte, Ind., on Oct. 19 and will return Nov. 23 to compete in the NCAA Cross-Country Championships.

Portland beats Milwaukee 91-82, Trail Blazers win 8th straight MILWAUKEE (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge scored 21 points, Damian Lillard added 17 and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 91-82 Wednesday night for their eighth straight win.

We s l e y M a t t h e w s h a d 1 5 points, all in the first half, to help Portland complete a sweep of a

four-game Eastern Conference road trip. The Trail Blazers have won 10 of 12 to start the season.

Luke Ridnour scored 13 points to lead the Bucks, who lost their sixth in row and eight of 10 on the season. They last won on Nov. 6 against Cleveland.

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Rivalry or not, dogfight will commence

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Entering the second round of the NCAA Division I women’s soccer tournament, Texas Tech meets with a familiar foe, Texas A&M. Two years have past since the two teams met, which resulted in a 2-0 loss for Tech.

The Red Raiders did not go down without a fight, though.

They matched the Aggies almost shot for shot, with the Aggies retaining a 12-10 advantage.

Despite all those shots, junior goalkeeper Jordan Day, who was a member of the 2011 Texas A&M women’s soccer team, was not required to save a single shot from the Red Raiders.

Senior goalkeeper Victoria

Esson was not so lucky. Esson had to come up with three saves and was only able to save one.

Coach Tom Stone said there is not much rivalry between the two teams anymore because Texas A&M moved to the Southeastern Conference.

“They don’t play any of our teams,” Stone said. “They’re not in our forefront. They’re not on the radar. They don’t play in Dallas. We don’t read much about them anymore like we used to.”

Along with Texas A&M’s move to another conference, the lull in the rivalry occurred because most of the Tech players on the team never played Texas A&M, Stone said.

It is a shame because when the rivalry was alive it produced some great battles, he said.

Junior defender Jaelene Hinkle said the rivalry is not on life support — It still means a lot to Tech.

There is plenty of excitement going into this matchup, and Hinkle feels Tech is as prepared as it was the entire season, she said.

“We want revenge from when we were able to play them my freshman year,” she said, “and just who doesn’t want to beat A&M?” No matter if the rivalry is present, this is a difficult secondround matchup for the Red Raiders.

The edge when it comes to shots and goals was there for the Red Raiders during every game this season except against the Mountaineers. They must

Tigers, Rangers to swap Prince Fielder, Ian Kinsler DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Tigers and Texas agreed to a blockbuster trade Wednesday night that would send slugger Prince Fielder to the Rangers for second baseman Ian Kinsler, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.

Fielder signed a $214 million, nine-year contract with the Tigers before the 2012 season that includes a limited no-trade provision, and the big first baseman was set to approve the deal.

Kinsler just finished the first season of a $75 million, fiveyear contract.

The deal was first reported

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It’s the first headline-grab-

bing move of baseball’s offseason, and it involves two of the American League’s top teams. Detroit has won three consecutive AL Central titles and reached the World Series in 2012, while Texas won the AL pennant in 2010 and 2011.

But neither team was about to stand pat. With stars like F i e l d e r, J u s t i n Ve r l a n d e r, Miguel Cabrera and Anibal Sanchez in the fold, Detroit’s payroll had become one of the game’s biggest, and although Fielder hit 55 home runs over the last two years for the Tigers, his numbers dipped this season and he struggled in the playoffs when Detroit lost to Boston in the AL championship series.

The trade could give Detroit more financial flexibility, with Cy Young Award winner

Max Scherzer a year from free agency.

Fielder, however, is still only 29, and the Rangers would be adding a big bat to the middle of their lineup while also resolving a logjam in the middle of their infield. Jurickson Profar, a highly touted 20-year-old prospect, appeared to be blocked

by Kinsler and shortstop Elvis Andrus. Now Profar should have a chance to play regularly.

The Tigers signed Fielder to a huge contract shortly before spring training in 2012 — after designated hitter Victor Martinez injured his knee. Martinez came back in 2013. With Fielder gone, Cabrera may move from third base back to first.

Kinsler fills a need at second base for Detroit after Omar Infante became a free agent.

overcome this task again as they face the Aggies.

The Aggies piled up 131 more shots than the Red Raiders this season with a total of 503 shots.

The discrepancy between the two teams is not as large in the matter of goals scored.

Texas A&M leads Tech in this category by eight goals.

However, Tech only possesses two players with five or more goals during the season, sophomore forward Janine Beckie (11) and sophomore midfielder Alli Murphy (five). While, the Aggies carry four players on their roster who accomplished the same feat: junior forward Shea Groom (13), freshman forward Liz Keester (10), junior forward/midfielder Allie Bailey (nine) and junior forward Kelley

Monogue (six).

E s s o n s a i d Te x a s A & M ’s roster is loaded with skilled dribblers and shooters, so Tech needs to cut off Texas A&M as it brings the ball down the field and not allow any shots from middle distance.

Even though Texas A&M has four potent goal-scorers, Esson is not preparing to focus her attention on them particularly, she said. Whichever Texas A&M player has the ball will receive her attention.

On the opposite side of the ball the tables turn. With Hinkle and Esson leading the Tech defense, 18 opponents were shutout with only seven goals allowed.

Texas A&M has not had the same luck defending opposing teams this season. Its defense

permitted opponents to shoot 62 more shots than Tech. The extra shots opponents have fired led Day to give up three times as many goals as Esson.

The matchup is pretty even, Stone said. Texas A&M has as much team speed as anyone Tech has faced this season and is on the level of West Virginia.

“There is going to be plenty of opportunities where an outstanding attacker for A&M is going to be going against an outstanding defender for Texas Tech,” Stone said, “and the winners of those individual battles could definitely tip it one way or the other.”

The reunion for Tech and Texas A&M begins at 2:30 p.m.

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Lance Armstrong settles $3M lawsuit AUSTIN (AP) — A day before he was scheduled to give sworn testimony about his use of performance-enhancing drugs, Lance Armstrong reached a settlement Wednesday with an insurance company that was seeking $3 million in performance bonuses it paid him from 1999 to 2001.

Nebraska-based Acceptance Insurance sued Armstrong in Texas earlier this year after he admitted he doped during a career in which he won the Tour de France seven times.

Acceptance attorney Mark Kincaid and Armstrong attorney Tim Herman declined to disclose details of the settlement, but both said the case was “resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties.”

The settlement means Armstrong will not need to show up for a Thursday deposition in Austin, where he was expected to be asked to detail drug use throughout his career. Although Armstrong has acknowledged drug use in interviews with Oprah Winfrey and

other media, he has yet to provide sworn testimony.

In an interview published by Britain’s Daily Mail earlier this week, Armstrong said former International Cycling Union president Hein Verbruggen helped him cover up doping at the 1999 Tour de France, a charge Verbruggen dismissed as a “ridiculous story.”

Armstrong’s statements have otherwise lacked many details anti-doping authorities want to hear. Armstrong has said he would consider taking part in international efforts to address drug use, and International Cycling Union President Brian Cookson has said he’ll be invited to a joint investigation between UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Armstrong has so far refused to provide sworn testimony to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. It was USADA’s detailed report in 2012 of drug use by Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service team that led to him being stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won from 1999 to 2005.

The agency, which also banned Armstrong from Olympic sports for life, has said the only chance to lessen the penalty is to answer questions under oath.

Betsy Andreu, a key witness against Armstrong and the wife of former Armstrong teammate Frankie Andreu, was frustrated that Armstrong avoided Thursday’s deposition.

“This gets him out of doing what he fears the most, which is going under oath,” Betsy Andreu said.

“He has never answered the questions in depth. He’s always skirted.”

Acceptance had wanted Armstrong to detail his doping back to the 1995, including who was paid for delivering performanceenhancing drugs, who determined what amount to use and administered them, and who was aware of his drug use. The insurance company also wanted information on when and how Armstrong’s closest friends, advisers, ex-wife Kristin Armstrong and his business partners learned of his doping.

Mayfield in top five of Burlsworth Trophy fan vote Freshman quarterback Baker Mayfield was named a semifinalist for the MAYFIELD Burlsworth Trophy after walking on at Texas Tech and becoming the first walk-on to start at quarterback for a Bowl Championship Series school.

The selection committee also added a fan vote during each round,

which could assist the potential winner of the award.

Fans can vote online once every 24 hours for whom they think is most deserving of the honor given to the most outstanding player in college football who began his career as a walk-on.

Mayfield is among the semifinalists for the award and has thrown for 2,078 yards and 12 touchdowns while completing 65.5 percent of his passes.

Mayfield currently ranks fifth in fan voting behind Missouri senior guard Max Copeland, Kansas State

junior defensive end Ryan Mueller, East Carolina junior wide receiver Justin Hardy and Virginia Tech senior linebacker Jack Tyler.

The fan vote counts as 5 percent during each round of the voting, according to burlsworthtrophy.com, the results are then combined with the votes from the selection committee.

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