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City Council to vote on banning synthetic marijuana

By MATT DOTRAY STAFF WRITER

After months of research and discussion, members of Lubbock’s City Council will vote on whether or not to ban synthetic marijuana at its meeting today.

The Council was first approached about the legal simulation of marijuana during a meeting in November and has since been working with the Board of Health on appropriate actions.

Todd Klein, councilman for District 3, said during the past few months, he

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This isn’t marijuana. It’s something much more potent and really appears to affect people differently.”

has talked to the Board of Health, which is comprised of doctors and practitioners who have looked at synthetic marijuana in terms of public health, and people in his Todd Klein district to get a Councilman, good understandDistrict 3 ing of the effects.

Although he was hesitant to speak for other people, Klein

said members of Lubbock’s City Council have had enough time and discussions to make an informed vote.

“This isn’t marijuana,” Klein said. “It’s something much more potent and really appears to affect people differently.”

According to a Dec. 4 article in The Daily Toreador, the side effects of the substance include vomiting, chills, sweating, hallucinations and paranoia.

Synthetic marijuana is 10 times more potent and addictive than the natural drug, according to the article, and is sold in about 30 smoke shops in Lubbock.

Klein said among the people he talked to was a person who smoked synthetic marijuana at a party, assuming it would be similar to normal marijuana. After smoking, Klein said the person spoke about having the worst four days of his life, consisting of vomiting and headaches.

Another man, Klein said, approached him while he was in his car. The man told him that his son had been destroyed because of addiction and adverse health effects.

Despite the known effects, he said other people in his district say it is not the government’s place to enact a ban on a

substance that does not violate any previous regulations.

“No doubt, I think the majority of folks that I’ve spoken to overwhelmingly want to see something done,” Klein said. “But, I think some people either (operate) from a libertarian principle of government who believe government shouldn’t get involved in this, to, ‘Hey, I’m doing it.’”

Klein said one of his major concerns is the substance’s availability to minors. A lot of the advertising, he said, is geared toward minors.

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Tech student asks for help raising awareness for sister’s disorder

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A BURNT FACE remains in the ceiling tiles Wednesday on the seventh floor of Weymouth Residence Hall. Erik Rueda, a freshman finance major from Round Rock, put out the alleged fire.

Study abroad fair offers Tech students information, options

By EMILY GARDNER

ciology, said they expect seven to eight people on average to apply for their program as a result of the fair.

“They’re generally helpful because even The Texas Tech Study Abroad program hosted a study abroad fair for students Wednes- though a student may stop and talk to me and day in the Student Union Building Ballroom. not sign up for my course,” she said, “they learn The fair consisted of 36 tables, including a lot about just doing it in general, and then they organizations such as can figure out which the Consortium Insticourse fits what they need because ultimately, tute of Management Business Analysis in it’s got to be a course that’s going to meet Italy, the Peace Corps and faculty programs, credit for their degree Elizabeth McDaniel, plan.”

Shabnam Maredia, deputy director of study abroad, said. a senior international “We invite reprebusiness and marketing MARTHA SMITHEY sentatives from all of major from Sugar Land, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR the faculty-led programs said she came to the fair SOCIOLOGY to get information about that Texas Tech faculty the program she is using will be taking students on,” she said. “We also invite representatives of to study abroad. our other programs so that they can talk about Stephanie Grebe, assistant director of recruiting with the CIMBA Italy program, said apthose programs to interested students.”

The Tech center in Seville, Spain, was rep- proximately five to 10 Tech students participate resented, along with financial aid and exchange in their program every year as a result of the fair. programs, McDaniel said.

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Claudia Tristán is asking for help.

This senior journalism and business marketing major from Austin is not only a full-time student, but also a big sister — a concerned one.

Tristán’s 15-year-old sister, Alejandra Tristán, has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, an inherited group of disorders that cause extremely loose joints.

Since age 6, Alejandra Tristán has experienced joints dislocation continuously, her shoulder dislocating almost daily.

“Basically, she could be walking, and at any moment her knee will pop out, so she will have to put it back in,” Claudia Tristán said, “but you can imagine how painful that is.”

On Jan. 24, Claudia Tristán discovered a White House petition that will create awareness of EDS and recognition of the disease as a disability so those affected can receive adequate treatment and care. This is only if it reaches 25,000 signatures.

Claudia Tristán created a public Facebook event the next morning entitled “Raise Awareness of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome,” and is urging family, friends and anyone willing to help improve her sister’s health. By press deadline, the petition had 1,331 signatures.

“I guess we all have siblings,” Claudia Tristán said, wiping her tears. “None of us as an older sibling want to see our younger siblings suffering.”

Alejandra Tristán wears knee braces at all times and also wrist and elbow braces to secure her joints.

“She has popped her knee out almost every year since she was 6,” Claudia Tristán said. “No one knew what it was.”

After spending two months in a Houston hospital last summer, Alejandra Tristán finally received her EDS diagnosis.

“Doctors want to assume it is a general disease and forget about EDS,” Claudia Tristán said. “There is very little awareness of it, but a lot of people

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CLAUDIA TRISTÁN, A senior journalism and business marketing major from Austin, displays a logo designed to raise awareness of her little sister’s disease, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

have it. The problem is doctors keep misdiagnosing it.”

While some days Alejandra Tristán can walk, other days she is in a wheelchair.

“It’s kind of a rollercoaster,” Claudia Tristán said. “But, overall, it’s getting worse.”

At one point during winter break last year, Alejandra Tristán began dancing with Claudia Tristán. Her joyful movements did not last long, though.

The following week, Alejandra Tristá

dislocated her back.

“Her muscles were the only thing that were holding her spine together,” Claudia Tristán said. “She was in bed for about a week.”

During Claudia Tristán’s last week of winter break, her sister hurt her back again, and has moved very little since.

“She’s been in bed since I left home,” Claudia Tristán said. “It’s been about four weeks now.”

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School of Nursing ranked in top 3rd of online graduate nursing programs

By EMILY GARDNER

Today Know Your Rights Week — Police Encounters Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building Courtyard So, what is it?

Come learn about your personal rights during police encounters.

Free TAB Movie — “Looper” Time: 4 p.m.

Where: Allen Theatre So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free TAB event.

Stand-Up for Diversity Comedy Night Time: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Where: Frazier Pavilion So, what is it?

Come enjoy this comedy night featuring Viet Huyhn. Admission is free.

WWJS Toastmasters Time: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: Mardel’s So, what is it?

Come join the members of “What Would Jesus Say” Toastmasters and enhance your ability to express your faith while becoming more like Christ.

Friday

Estate Planning Basics: Are you and your family prepared?

Time: Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: Human Sciences Building So, what is it?

Texas Tech Human Resources and the Department of Personal Financial Planning is hosting a series of sessions titled “Estate Planning Basics: Are you and your family prepared?”

School of Art presents “It’s Not Pink; It’s California Coral!”

Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: CASP Studios So, what is it?

Come join this First Friday Art Trail exhibition by doctoral student Jason Derouin.

Brian Ganz Guest Artist Piano Recital Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free concert.

Dancing at the Crossroads Time: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Christine DeVitt Icehouse So, what is it?

Lubbock Moonlight Musicals presents “Dancing at the Crossroads,” a show about Britain’s traveling people.

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The best of the best in online graduate nursing programs was determined in U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking.

Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Nursing’s online nursing program was ranked No. 30 in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Graduate Nursing Programs.

The program was ranked out of 101 programs, Dr. Michael Evans, dean of the School of Nursing, said.

“We’re just very gratified that we are in the top third of the country in

the online graduate education because that is the wave of the future,” he said.

Tech’s nursing school was one of the first in the country to offer entire graduate courses online, Evans said.

All of their master’s programs are offered online.

A total of 471 schools in the country offer graduate degrees for nursing programs, he said, and about half of that number offer online courses. There are 101 programs that offer entire graduate courses online.

According to U.S. News & World Report’s website, questionnaires were sent to 471 schools that offered accredited graduate programs in nursing

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With the start of a new year came a change in the Texas Tech Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering.

Marshall Watson was named chair of the Department of Petroleum Engineering on Jan. 1.

Watson replaced Mohamed Soliman, who was the previous department chair.

Watson said the decision to replace Soliman came from the dean.

“The dean’s decision was based on his desire to take the undergraduate program to an elite status amongst all the other universities,” he said.

An East Texas native, Watson received his degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University.

Watson received his master’s degree in 2005 and his doctorate degree in 2008 from Tech, both degrees in petroleum engineering.

Watson said he came into the department having worked more than 30 years in the industry and has the tools students need to know to get started.

“I have a genuine desire and concern for my undergraduates to be the best they can be,” Watson said.

Some industry experience Watson has is working for Shell Oil Company and Harken Energy.

Watson teaches undergraduate courses, such as Property Evaluation and Natural Gas Engineering, and graduate courses, such as Unconventional Reservoirs, Water Flooding Techniques and Advanced Property Evaluation.

Revamping the curriculum, Watson said, is something on which he is working.

Watson said the 132 required hours petroleum engineers need to receive a degree is a difficult task on faculty.

“Instead of having a set of given courses,” he said, “I am going to make it where during (the students’) senior year, they can start taking electives or they can go into a concentration.”

Another aspect of the department Watson said he wants to change is the ratio of students to faculty by recruiting faculty from the industry and academia.

“We have to get the petroleum engineers from theory to practice in school, as opposed to getting the practice in after school,” Watson said.

With the construction of a new petroleum engineering building, Watson said he wants to include conference rooms in the new building to give students the opportunity to interact with one another.

Watson said one of his goals is to turn out true engineers who are able to see something and adapt to the problem.

“If all (the students) are doing is memorizing equations and pages out of a book, then as soon as they take that exam, they will forget it,” he said.

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Rick Perry gave his public blessing this week to use billions from the state’s emergency piggybank to build roads and secure water.

Left unsaid was his belief that spending from the Rainy Day Fund shouldn’t stop there.

During his State of the State address Tuesday, Perry called for spending $3.7 billion from the politically thorny fund for one-time infrastructure projects. Not announced to a packed House chamber was that in his budget proposal sent to lawmakers that same day,

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MARSHALL WATSON WAS appointed as department chair of the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering in January. Watson has taught undergraduate and graduate petroleum engineering courses at Texas Tech since 2006 and worked for Shell, Harken Energy and Act Operating Company prior to being at Tech.

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acceptance rate; and student services and technology, worth 20 percent and included the categories of technologies accessible to students and services available to students, according to the website.

Evans said five Texas schools were ranked in the top 50. Tech was ranked fourth out of these five.

Online course delivery is still new, he said, and they are improving their program every year.

“We’re competitive,” he said. “We want to be ranked in the top 10 the next time this ranking comes about. We want to offer the very best.”

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and asked if these institutions would offer online courses for nursing graduate degree programs.

The data collection started in July 2012 and ended in Fall 2012 with 280 responses to the survey, the website stated.

The 101 schools were ranked based on student engagement, worth 35 percent and which included categories such as graduation rate, class size and one-year retention rate; faculty credentials and training, worth 25 percent, which included types of faculty, hours of faculty training and peer review; admissions selectivity, which was worth 20 percent and included GPA scores and

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Perry suggests using nearly another $1 billion from the fund in tax relief.

That Perry is loosening the lid on the Rainy Day Fund at all is noteworthy, following years of caution against using the stockpile of reserve of excess oil and gas revenue.

If left untouched, state officials say the fund balance would balloon to $11.8 billion by the end of 2015.

“I think it’s a really important message to send out not just across the state, but across the country , that this is a state that’s not going to spend all the at it brings in, that it actually is going to do some tax relief,” Perry said Wednesday.

“Hopefully the Legislature is going to agree that we can change the

constitution to allow us to rebate some fees and taxes and such in the future.”

Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst was noncommittal Wednesday about using the fund for tax relief. He said he would review Perry’s budget but pointed out how the fund was traditionally used for one-time expenses.

Perry’s protection of the Rainy Day Fund in previous years — despite hefty balances — has bewildered Democrats and those wanting to raid the fund to blunt deep state spending cuts.

Now Perry has giving his blessing to use $4.7 billion of the fund — about 40 percent of its balance.

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“From what I’ve seen, they appear more akin to a children’s cereal box,” he said. “So, I’ve got some serious concerns based on health and safety.”

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse website, synthetic marijuana, also called spice, is a variety of herbal mixtures that produce a sensation similar to marijuana.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has named five frequently used ingredients for synthetic marijuana, or spice, as Schedule 1 controlled substances, the website read, so manufacturers are forced to

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“It’s really a nice place for freshmen to come to get an idea where they want to go,” she said, “where they can go, and start planning further down the line.”

Scott Darvey is an exchange student from the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, United Kingdom, and said he enrolled at Tech in January and decided to partake in the exchange pro-

use different chemicals in their mixtures.

Because the DEA continues to monitor the chemicals used, Allie Watkins, who is an employee at Dirt City, a smoke shop in Lubbock, said manufacturers are forced to create new products with new chemicals in order to stay ahead.

“That’s a very ambiguous question,” Watkins said while trying to explain what is in the product. “When companies send it out, they’re required to send you a lab report. On the lab report, it says everything that is not in it. So you have no idea what is in it.”

Unlike most smoke shops, Dirt City stopped selling synthetic marijuana when reports

started to leak about the effects.

“First and foremost, it’s terrible for you,” she said. “They have 100 percent linked it to a lot of different things. First being, it produces liquid resin, so it shoots straight to the back of your throat and you inhale it. It collects in your esophagus and your stomach lining. So people are getting cancer from it.”

Among other effects, Watkins said people have experienced seizures and minors have been placed into mental hospitals because of hallucinations.

One of the reasons people continue to use this product, she said, is because it continues to be legal.

“Some people do believe

that because it’s legal, it should be OK for them to smoke,” Watkins said. “They think they’re doing the right thing by getting their hands on that.

But I know that in Dallas, it’s been a huge issue with minors.”

Because of the large amount of revenue smoke shops make in selling synthetic marijuana, she said most of them are unwilling to discontinue the products. Watkins said she believes people have the right to make their own decisions, but the fact of the matter is that the product is harmful.

The Lubbock City Council meeting begins at 6:15 p.m.

The bill will require four votes out of seven to pass.

gram because it was the best program he could find for what he was studying.

Darvey said he thinks the program is good for students because it allows them to travel by themselves and immerse themselves in a different culture.

“It helps you grow as a person more than anything else,” Darvey said.

The fair is hosted twice a year, McDaniel said, in early fall and again in January.

The fair has been hosted for more than six years, she said.

“Generally speaking, spring (at-

tendance) is lower than fall because students are coming in for the fall,” McDaniel said, “they’re all excited for being on campus, but I think it’s been very steady.”

Five hundred to 700 students generally attend the fair, she said.

There are four programs students choose from when studying abroad, including exchange programs, affiliate programs, faculty-led programs and the center in Seville, McDaniel said.

Tech offers students the ability to study abroad in 75 countries, she said.

The programs are offered in almost every field of study available at Tech.

“We think it’s a good idea for students to be able to (be) coming in and just go from table to table and collect brochures, and do a little bit of research on what we have,” McDaniel said.

She said the program encourages students to attend information sessions and meet with an adviser for the geographic location in which they want to study after the fair.

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Police: 1 dead in Ariz. shooting, suspect on loose PHOENIX (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a Phoenix office complex on Wednesday, killing one person, wounding two others and setting off a manhunt. Police warned the public that

he was “armed and dangerous.”

Authorities identified the suspect as 70-year-old Arthur Douglas Harmon, who they said opened fire at the end of a mediation session. They identified a man

who died hours after the late morning shooting as 48-year-old Steve Singer.

Police said a 43-year-old man was listed in critical condition and a 32-year-old woman suffered non-life

threatening injuries.

“We believe the two men were the targets. It was not a random shooting,” said Sgt. Tommy Thompson, a Phoenix police spokesman.

Early morning power outage affects more than 800 homes Between 800 and 1,600 homes and businesses were left without power when a red Ford Ranger struck a pole in the 3400 block of 38th Street, knocking down electrical wires.

The outage was reported at 2:52 a.m. and affected the area between Flint Avenue and Quaker Avenue and 34th St. and 50th

Street, Lubbock Power and Light Public Information Officer Chris Sims said.

Power was returned to homes in the affected area by 9 a.m., he said.

Sims said he encourages Lubbock residents to call LP&L when they have an issue receiving electricity.

“We don’t know … if our cus-

tomers have electricity in Lubbock unless they call us or once a month when we read the meter,” he said, “s o it’s important for customers to call us if they have a power outage.”

Along with a pole, the driver in the Ford Ranger also hit a stop sign and a fire hydrant, according to the police report.

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Tech officer investigates iPhone theft Monday 9:53 a.m.— A Texas Tech officer responded to a medical emergency, which occurred in Coleman Residence Hall. A student dislocated his shoulder, which had been injured in a previous incident. Emergency Medical Services transported the student to University Medical Center Emergency Room.

10:06 a.m.— A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, which occurred in the R31 parking lot.

11:21 a.m.— A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, in which an unattended vehicle was stricken, which occurred in the Health Sciences Center C-1 parking lot.

12:03 p.m.— A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief, which occurred in the A-1 parking lot area of the Health Sciences Center. A vehicle was scratched with an unknown object.

4:10 p.m.— A Tech officer documented damaged property at the Preston Smith Library dock. A trashcan caught on fire.

Tuesday 9:58 a.m.— A Tech officer investigated a theft, which occurred at the Library. An unsecured Apple iPhone was taken.

10:07 a.m.— A Tech officer investigated a theft, which occurred at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. A secured Phat brand bicycle and bike lock was taken.

2:56 p.m.— A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, in which an unattended vehicle was stricken, which occurred in the R25 parking lot.

Wednesday 1:42 a.m.— A Tech officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated, following a traffic stop in the north parking lot of the J.T. and Margaret Talkington Residence Hall. A student passenger was arrested for public intoxication and

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another student passenger was cited and released for consumption of alcohol by a minor.

The driver and passenger were both transported to the Lubbock County Jail. Lubbock Wrecker Service impounded the vehicle.

1:45 a.m.— A Tech officer arrested two students for pos-

session of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, which occurred in Murdough Residence Hall. Both students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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The cost of damage to the wooden light pole, wires and cross beams, according to the report, totaled $100,000 while the cost of damage for the stop sign was $350.

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HOW SHOULD CITY COUNCIL VOTE ON BANNING SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA? “I am a constitutionalist. I view that they shouldn’t ban it and that they shouldn’t make it illegal. I mean sure, it would work out, but still, you’re inhibiting peoples’ freedom at the same time, you know? What is this country founded on? Individual freedom — freedom to do what you want. If you want to smoke that fake stuff, then go ahead. It’s your conscious decision that you make. If you smoke it you have to suffer the consequences.”

Jason Woody sophomore journalism major from Sugar Land

“I would have to know more about how dangerous the side effects actually are, how constant they are and cases of abuse with them.”

- Tatyana Branham - education graduate student from Ohio

“I know it’s a big deal here at Tech.

A lot of people do it, I’m sure, especially for the younger kids that have access to it, but its legal right now, so younger people may have access to it, and I believe that the right decision for the City Council is to vote against it.”

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“If there are all these negative side effects, then why should it be legal?”

- Tasmia Shawkat - sophomore exercise and sport sciences major from Plano

“If we’re going to vote on something, we should just maybe raise the age to get it, but I don’t think that banning it or anything like that is going to solve the problem. I think it might aggravate and create more problems to where it might even be more harmful than what it already is.”

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Armstrong, Te’o, Beyoncé: Month of hoaxes A

s the past month indicates, 2013 might go down as ‘The Year of the Hoax.’ This month included the following controversies: Lance Armstrong finally admitted he had used performance enhancing drugs during the time he won in the Tour de France; Manti Te’o, a Notre Dame football player, had to explain a non-existent girlfriend who he said died on the same day as his grandmother earlier in the fall; Beyoncé, at the Obama inauguration, lip-synced the national anthem.

But what of these alleged hoaxes? Are they actually cause for public alarm? Some of the controversy may stem from a country that has nothing better to do than nit-pick at trivial social goings-on.

Beyoncé’s lip-syncing is something the public should want to have happen at prestigious events such as an inauguration. The inauguration is about having the president sworn in. A mistake during the National Anthem would be an embarrassment to the artist and the country. The inauguration is not a time for mistakes.

Jordan Sigler After two flubbed oaths (the second swearing was technically hosted on Sunday privately) in a row, I wouldn’t mind if the President and the Chief Justice of the United States lip-sync the lines to the oath of office. Teleprompters would be better replaced by a pre-recorded speech. Living in a society portrayed as being more perfect than it truly is might not be such terrible idea sometimes.

However, some parts of living in a gilded society can cause problems at a fundamental level.

It didn’t come as a surprise when Lance Armstrong admitted to Oprah he had been doping during the peak of his prominence.

This type of a hoax is problematic because of the rules set in place by the sport in which he was competing. Armstrong let down his fans

and the sport of cycling. (Though to be fair, many cyclists at the time also were doping.)

Many athletes attempting to increase their chances of winning take substances and consequently deceive public perception of the human body’s capabilities by means of performance-enhancing drugs. I don’t have a problem with that type of hoax. The athlete should be able to choose how far they want to go to compete at the highest possible level. Watching the event is more exciting when athletes are taking these measures.

The hoax involving Manti Te’o is a hoax on which many can and should reflect. It highlights how our society is becoming more and more fake. What exactly happened is bizarre and completely unclear. Apparently, Te’o met a woman online named Lennay Kekua and started a relationship that spanned the course of two years. After falling in love with her, he learned she had cancer.

As call records show, they talked for numerous hours. Later, he received a call from a made-up

family member of the nonexistent girlfriend informing Te’o that Kekua had died.

Te’o didn’t learn until December that the person he thought was his girlfriend was actually a hoax played by Ronaiah Tuiasosopo and his female cousin who impersonated Kekua. This phenomenon is called “catfishing,” and involves a person baiting another person online and duping them into a faux relationship that ends usually in staged death of the made-up person.

This type of a hoax is interesting on a few levels. First, why do people in our culture have long relationships with people they have never met in person? Here’s a quick, painfully obvious tip: Don’t have a meaningful cyberrelationship with someone you have not met.

Secondly, what is the nature of a relationship? In a sense, if Te’o is being honest about the story, the damage this faux relationship caused is twofold. He feels the pain of his presumably existent girlfriend. Then he finds out — to his shock, pain and embarrass-

ment — that she never existed.

Even worse, he then discovers some creep and his suspicious accomplices were the perpetrators of this elaborate ruse.

Is it possible to have a relationship with someone who never existed? Yes, evidently it is. The human is a capricious beast; even fake online girlfriends have the power to elicit real, powerful emotions.

Te’o was distraught when his non-existent girlfriend told him she had cancer. When she died, he understandably mourned the loss of someone we now know was merely a fictitious character, and his story made many feel sympathy for Te’o. Now that the hoax has been uncovered, we have many people upset that a girl who never existed isn’t actually dead.

These types of false relationships can happen to anyone who plays online games and has friendships in the cyber world.

Just as people can have real emotional responses to all-buttheoretical relationships, so too can they have emotional responses based on false pretenses in honest-

to-goodness, face-to-face relationships.

And even these relationships can be shrouded in untruths. People often fabricate their attributes in order to make themselves more appealing. Many times, we go along with these hoaxes because, well — we’d rather see the hoax.

Living with others’ deceitful and delusional facades is often easier than confronting reality, warts and all. Sometimes people can “catfish” themselves by living in state of denial about a relationship’s actualities.

Relationships are inherently subjective. One’s intentions cannot be made clear, and the way we perceive them makes no difference. When involving yourself with another person, it’s best to proceed with as much caution as possible, knowing that whether or not the intentions of the other person are honest, the subsequent psychological responses they evoke are real.

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President Obama addresses issue of safety in football

By SEAN FRYE

KANSAS STATE COLLEGIAN (KANSAS STATE U.)

Last week, I ran a column about the state of the NFL and how changes need to be made to get America’s most popular sport back on solid ground with the public. On Sunday, the President of the United States pointed out many of the issues I had previously brought up.

In an interview with The New Republic, President Barack Obama said that organizations like the NCAA and NFL need to make changes in football to improve player safety, and that fans may have to compromise some of the excitement they get

while watching a game to do so.

“Those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence,” Obama said.

One of the points Obama asserted was that the focus of most of his efforts lie with the NCAA. He said that while players in the NFL are well-compensated for the risk they take and the toll taken on their bodies, NCAA players take the same risk without the financial backing.

“You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and

so forth and then have nothing to fall back on,” Obama said.

“That’s something that I’d like to see the NCAA think about.”

While Obama primarily kept his interview with The New Republic professional, he veered off a little bit and gave probably his most poignant comment of the entire interview.

Obama, who has two daughters but no son, said that if he did have a son, he would have to give serious thought as to whether or not he would let him play tackle football.

“I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football,”

Obama said.

Opinions on Obama’s political stances vary dramatically across the country. While Obama handily won the Electoral College this past election, 49.4 percent of voters did not vote for Obama. And neither did I. I am a registered independent in the state of Kansas who voted for Mitt Romney last November.

However, as a sportswriter by trade, ever since Obama was elected in 2008, I have agreed with his hard stance regarding issues in sports and his take on the safety issues in football are right on the mark.

As fans, we often put too much focus on winning and the

excitement of the game. Bonecrushing hits often flood the SportsCenter Top 10 even while issues of concussions and other injuries become more and more prevalent.

In the column I ran last week, I mentioned the tragedy of Junior Seau’s suicide. One thing I failed to mention, but that Obama indirectly touched on, was the effect that this game is having on players’ families.

The saddest part of the Seau tragedy was not that the world lost one of the game’s greatest linebackers or that the city of San Diego lost one of its favorite players. The saddest part was that a mother had to bury her

son. Seau’s mother’s agony was on full display during a press conference, when she could not contain her grief and openly wept at the loss of her son.

Obama’s comments were not poignant simply because of the fact that a high-profile world leader addressed a controversial issue in sports. They were poignant because the comments put the issue into perspective. Too many parents are losing their children to this game.

Football will have to change to become safer. Hopefully Obama’s comments on this issue will help push safety in football to the front of the priority list in the NCAA and the NFL.

Legislation for term limits must receive strong consideration Rare is the elected official who maintains his or her support for term limits after actually winning the job, a fact evidenced by the paltry number of co-sponsors on the amendment introduced

by Pat J. Toomey at the beginning of this Congress.

To the surprise of no one, these advocates are (almost) all newly elected Republicans, the demographic in the Senate with the least to lose from imposing limitations that would most immediately affect their more senior colleagues (perhaps putting some Democratic-held seats in play).

While it is easy to mask political expediency sub specie boni, politicians of all stripes should embrace the principle of term limits, regardless of its impact on their career intentions.

The argument against term

limits is so well known that it has become axiomatic. Such restrictions on the membership of legislative bodies, it is insisted, would eliminate officials just as they’ve grown knowledgeable about key issues and influential among their peers.

Term limits also would be anathema to democracy, as they necessarily restrict the choices present to voters. “We already have term limits,” opponents assert, dutifully providing a civics lesson to the 75 percent of Americans that support curbing the amount of time their leaders can spend living off their dime.

“They’re called elections!”

Anyone who makes this latter argument has either a jejune understanding of political science or, more plausibly, is an elected official himself. Only a starryeyed tyro to the workings of the world could possibly contend with a straight face that elections currently provide citizens

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with the unrestrained ability to choose new representatives.

After all, the advantage of incumbency is well documented throughout American history.

To see it, one need look no further than the past election, when over three-fourths of those in Congress were reelected, despite the body’s 9 percent approval rating—a figure making it less popular than colonoscopies, used car salesmen, and lice.

As it turns out, it is a lot easier to run for office when your living expenses are already footed by Uncle Sam. The other argument in opposition to term limits is more difficult to discredit. The notion that a politician gets better at his job the longer he does it is intuitive—that’s true of every professional.

However, one has to remember that public service is not just any profession but rather the embodiment of governing principles.

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By JOHN F.M. KOCSIS

HARVARD CRIMSON (HARVARD U.)

Term limits would downplay the role of individuals’ influence in the legislative bodies. Do we really want our laws to be determined by which states have delegations most likely to be found in a Georgetown geriatric ward?

For years, Hawaii held outsize sway in the Senate due to the high positions held by superannuated veterans Daniel K. Akaka and Daniel K. Inouye, the latter of which had represented the islands since they achieved statehood in 1959.

While citizens of the 11thleast populous state did not bemoan the importance of influence in Congress at any point during the last half-century, the simultaneity of Inouye’s death and Akaka’s retirement has put them in the precarious position in which no one in their entire Congressional delegation has served for longer than two years.

This could pose a bit of an issue for the state that currently

receives the fourth-most taxpayer dollars.

Opponents of term limits often paint the picture of a hapless naïf with big dreams walking into Congress unable to deal with the diversity and subtlety of issues that the experienced professionals have spent years learning.

Again this viewpoint is both too idealistic and fundamentally dishonest about the realworld apparatus of the legislative branch of the United States government.

Members of Congress do not live in some cloistered world, à la the Supreme Court, in which the ideas manifest in their policy proposals are purely their own.

Rather, they turn to staff lawyers to craft bills on issues they want to support. Most don’t even read the bills they are supposed to be making informed decisions on.

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congressional tenderfoots, but rather because the current proceedings do not provide enough time to carefully examine the thousands of bills introduced each year.

The reason that term limit legislation continually dies in Congress is obvious. It is poison hemlock, and, unfortunately, so few of our elected officials are veritable Socratics.

Too many politicians look at Congress as a way to increase their statuses and pad their pocketbooks. The argument that the Methuselahs of D.C. are the only ones who can tackle the nation’s problems is a sophomoric one.

We manage to find a new and capable president every eight years; there is no reason we can’t find fresh blood from each state to protect the nation’s interests.

Besides, it’s not like there isn’t already a professional government class in the district ready to help the newbies out.

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Student-run company looking to expand across Texas

By SCOTT MACWATTERS STAFF WRITER

Many Texas Tech students aim to find a job after they graduate, but for Taylor Fisher and Ben Hawkins, things are different.

Fisher and Hawkins have created their own jobs.

In August 2010, Fisher, a senior business management major from Syracuse N.Y., created College Student Apartments, a company that provides a place for people to list and find subleases for apartments.

Though technically the system can be used by anybody, Fisher says the company markets primarily to students.

Fisher said he first came up with the idea of listing subleases for students in May 2010, when he worked at University Courtyards during his sophomore year.

“As a leasing assistant, I helped kids sign new leases and deal with things on the property,” Fisher said.

“I saw a lot of the services out there that maybe could be done better, and a lot of kids were coming to me and telling me, ‘I really need to get my place subleased for the summer,’ and I had nothing to tell them.”

Later on, Fisher said he was talking with his roommate, and he had the idea to create Lease and Sublease LBK, the initial form of what is now College Student Apartments.

“From there I just went out, found a website designer and started doing it,” Fisher said. “This is the

third year of operations in the company.”

Throughout the first year of the company, Fisher said there was a large demand for the service in Lubbock.

“The first year, we had over 800 paid subleases on the website,” Fisher said. “The next year, there was the same amount of subleases — maybe around 50 to 60 more. The numbers have always been great.”

Fisher said he realized in July 2012 that his business had a lot of potential to expand to help students in other cities dealing with the same issues. Fisher decided to expand the business from just Lubbock to include Wichita Falls and Abilene.

“It was doing so well, and clients liked it, and students were getting their subleases,” he said. “So it’s been in a process of expanding since July of 2012.”

During the Fall 2012 semester, Fisher said he decided to take technology commercialization, a class taught by Ronald Mitchell, a professor of entrepreneurship at Rawls College of Business and Administration, which accepts students of all majors and classifications from around the university system, including the Health Sciences Center and Angelo State University.

“We call it the ‘commercialization class’,” Mitchell said. “The commercialization class has been started as a magnet class to bring together everybody at the TTU system.”

Mitchell said the class allows students to work together in hypothetical companies, working on real ideas to possibly create real companies after the semester is done, if the students and investors are interested.

During the class, Hawkins, a junior computer science major from Keller, decided to join the project.

Hawkins said he initially picked a different hypothetical company in the class, but after seeing what Fisher had done, he decided to switch.

“When I had seen what Taylor did, I was, like, ‘That’s the company I want to be part of,’” Hawkins said. “‘That seems like the winning team.’”

Though the students in the class gain the knowledge about forming a company and pitching ideas to investors, Mitchell said students are fully responsible for the initial and long-term success of the company that began in the class.

“On the day the grade is posted, the class is over, and the students who have persuaded Mr. Gunderson, the content specialist (for the course), that they are ready to go get all expenses paid to fly to Fort Worth,” Mitchell said.

Though most students don’t come into the class with a developed company, Mitchell said Fisher and Hawkins put in a lot of work to enhance their project.

“Taylor’s one of those people who was very aware of the remarkable nature the opportunity that this

Lindsay Lohan appears in court, trial delayed LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan briefly appeared in court Wednesday for the first time in nearly a year and left with a new attorney, new trial date and new judge.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner shook her head when she saw Lohan seated with her attorney, just months after the judge had warned the “Liz and Dick” star to grow up and stay out of trouble.

The actress was required to attend the pretrial hearing involving three misdemeanor counts filed after a car crash last summer. Lohan has pleaded not guilty to lying to police, reckless driving and obstructing officers from performing their duties.

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They were the ones in this business that wanted to continue.”

Following the class, Fisher, now the chief executive officer of College Student Apartments, and Hawkins, the chief technology officer, flew to meet with investors, where Fisher said they received funding to help them expand across Texas throughout 2013 and then nationally.

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Lady Raiders lose to Baylor in 30-point deficit

By ALEX TORREZ STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team fell to No.1 Baylor 90-60 in United Spirit Arena, ending the Lady Raiders four-game winning streak.

Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said she hoped to see No.1 Baylor (19-1, 9-0) continue its winning streak against the Lady Raiders.

“You first hope for a win,” Mulkey said. “If you can play well, and everyone can play, and everyone can have success on the floor, but you don’t ever expect that.”

Early on in the first half, the Lady Raiders caused some foul trouble, and Mulkey said she felt her Lady Bears used this to their advantage.

“I thought we got to the foul line early, and set the tone,” Mulkey said. “Our seniors just set the tone for our game. I thought that when Tech made runs we matched their runs.”

Mulkey said she noticed how the Lady Raiders have improved from last year and knows that they have adjusted in the game.

“They have three good guards,” Mulkey said. “Kristy is going to prepare when they play us.”

Mulkey said she is proud of Baylor junior forward Brittney Griner, who scored 40 points — nearly half of the team’s total points.

“I wouldn’t know how to attack her,” she said. “She is blocking a lot of shots right now because people are really challenging her.”

The Lady Raiders came out aggressively in the second half, pushing the ball up the floor and knocking down 3-point shots.

“You have to understand that you really have to try and create some space,” Tech coach Kristy Curry said. “Obviously Kelsi got some great looks there early. You can’t be hesitant. I thought our kids gave everything they had.”

Curry said she understood the difficulty of facing topranked Baylor and 6’8” forward Brittney Griner, but was not upset Griner was able to get the ball all night.

“What makes them so much better is obviously Odyssey’s maturity,” she said. “Not only

was Brittney (Griner) scoring, but I thought they made great decisions off of her as well.”

Tech senior guard Casey Morris said she saw the pressure from Baylor early on, but knew that the tenacity of the team would push them to get open at the top of the key.

“We played defense like we should have,” Morris said. “We just have to work hard to get open when we have open shots take them, and when we don’t just be patient with it and let the game come to us.”

The Lady Raiders 17-4 (6-3) look to bounce back from this loss when they head to Ames, Iowa, to face Iowa State on Saturday. Curry said she expects the Lady Raiders to handle the game.

“Every day in life winning matters, and losing matters and it’s all in how you handle the wins, and it’s all in how you handle the losses every single day,” Curry said. “It’s going to matter how we handle. It is important that we do the same thing that we do all year in short term memory.” ➤➤atorrez@dailytoreador.com

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BAYLOR CENTER BRITTNEY Griner scores on a layup during Texas Tech’s 90-60 loss against the Bears on Wednesday in United Spirit Arena. Griner scored 40 points during the match.

Raves-49ers: Which brother wins? Armstrong: Truth & reconciliation is ‘only way’ NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers never have tasted defeat in a Super Bowl, going 5-0. It’s the most impressive mark for any franchise in the big game.

Baltimore also is undefeated, with the Ravens winning their only appearance, in 2001.

Someone will have the Super Bowl blahs for the first time after Sunday’s title game in the Superdome.

The Ravens (13-6), who are 3½ -point underdogs, are on one of those runs reminiscent of recent NFL champions. Indeed, the New York Giants reached the Super Bowl a year ago in a similar manner, winning a wild-card game at home, then two playoffs on the road, including an overtime thriller.

The Giants got healthy down the stretch, something the Ravens have replicated, particularly on defense where star linebackers Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs are giving vintage performances following injury-shortened seasons.

“I believe we have found a way to

believe in each other, and nothing else matters,” said Lewis, who will retire after the game. “That is one thing about our sideline. When we are on our sideline, there is only one thing that matters, when this game ends, we will be victorious, and everybody believes the same thing. That’s what’s been our road, no matter who’s been up, who’s been down, who’s been hurt, who’s been injured. We found a way to pick each other up.”

Baltimore’s path to New Orleans led through New England, where the Ravens fell to the Patriots in last year’s AFC title game. But they outscored the Patriots 21-0 in the second half to earn their spot in the Super Bowl.

San Francisco (13-4-1) also came up one win short a year ago, losing to the Giants for the NFC championship. That defeat has driven the 49ers just as much as the Ravens’ failure in 2011 lifted them.

These Niners are built around a physical, stingy defense — that also has been the Ravens’ persona for years, although not as much in 2012 as in Lewis’

other 17 pro seasons. Linebacker Patrick Willis, who like Lewis wears No. 52 and is a perennial All-Pro, is the anchor.

“As a kid, you grew up watching,” Willis said. “Just to have the opportunity to be able to play in this game given my first four years (out of the playoffs), we were at home at this time watching other teams play. Last year we were one game away. To be able to be here, is truly special.”

To make it extra special, San Francisco’s offense will need to outdo Baltimore’s. The Ravens have scored 90 points in three games, and the Niners have 73 in two.

Baltimore’s defense has made big plays against Andrew Luck, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Now it gets an entirely different type of quarterback, Colin Kaepernick. His combination of running skill, powerful arm and surprising cool for a second-year pro makes him particularly dangerous against the Ravens. Baltimore does not have the fastest defense in the league.

LONDON (AP) — A truth and reconciliation program is the “only way” to rid cycling of performanceenhancing drugs, and the sport’s governing body should have no role in the process, Lance Armstrong said in an interview with a British publication.

Cyclingnews on Wednesday published questions and answers it exchanged with Armstrong through emails and texts. In an interview two weeks ago with Oprah Winfrey, the cyclist acknowledged for the first time that he doped to win a record seven Tour de France titles.

Armstrong said no generation was ever “clean,” and the best way forward is a truth and reconciliation process offering amnesty to riders and officials who detail doping in the sport.

“It’s not the best way, it’s the only way,” he said. “As much as I’m the eye of the storm this is not about one man, one team, one director. This is about cycling and to be frank it’s about all endurance sports.

“Publicly lynching one man and his team will not solve this problem.”

Asked if he felt like a fall guy, Armstrong said: “Actually, yes I do.

But I understand why. We all make the beds we sleep in.”

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Armstrong said he would be willing to take part in any truth and reconciliation process.

He told Cyclingnews the program should be run by the World Anti-Doping Agency and not the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the body which produced a scathing report detailing systematic doping by Armstrong and his teams. The USADA report led to Armstrong being stripped of his seven Tour titles and banned from elite sport for life.

Asked why he would not speak to USADA, Armstrong said: “No brainer. This is a global sport not an American one.”

He also insisted that international cycling body UCI and its president, Pat McQuaid, should not be involved.

“The UCI has no place at the table,” Armstrong said.

He called McQuaid “pathetic” and said he was only interested in protecting himself.

“When I was on speaking terms with ol’ Pat McQuaid many, many months ago I said, ‘Pat, you better think bold here. A full-blown, global, TRC is our sport’s best solution,’” Armstrong said. “He wanted to hear nothing of it.”

The UCI and WADA have been engaged in a war of words over how to deal with the fallout from the Armstrong scandal. WADA called the UCI “deceitful” Tuesday for shutting down its independent doping panel and said it won’t participate in an amnesty commission set up by the cycling body.

The UCI independent panel was created to look into claims in the USADA report that cycling leaders helped cover up Armstrong’s suspicious doping tests and improperly accepted $125,000 in donations from him.

In the Cyclingnews interview, Armstrong said a truth and reconciliation commission should provide a complete amnesty.

“Of course, otherwise no one will show up,” he said. “No one.”

Asked if he hopes to get his life ban reduced if he testifies to WADA, Armstrong said that was irrelevant.

“What is relevant is that everyone is treated equally and fairly,” he said.

“We all made the mess, let’s all fix the mess, and let’s all be punished equally.”

Armstrong was asked about USADA chief executive Travis Tygart’s statements that the rider was only hoping to restore his eligibility.

“That was Travis’ stunt to make me look self-serving,” Armstrong said, reiterating his claim that it was unfair that riders who testified against him received reduced sanctions while he was given a life ban.

“Letting some race the season, then giving minor off-seasons sanctions versus the death penalty isn’t fair and isn’t about ‘cleaning up cycling,’” he said. “It’s about getting your man.”

Armstrong was asked whether he protected Italian doctor Michele Ferrari in his confession. Ferrari, who has been accused of masterminding Armstrong’s doping regimen, has also been banned for life from the sport.

“I wasn’t ‘protecting’ anyone,” Armstrong said. “I was there to speak about myself, my experiences, and my mistakes. No one else. I know that goes against what we have grown used to in the last few years in cycling but I’m only interested in owning up to my mistakes. I’m a big boy and I’m not in the blame game.”

Asked when he realized that doping was rife in cycling, Armstrong said his generation was no different than any others.

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Tech track and field hopeful for another record-setting weekend

By MICHAEL SUNIGA STAFF WRITER

Coming off a record-setting performance last week, the Texas Tech track and field team will hope to keep momentum going into the weekend when the Red Raiders participate at three different meets.

Tech track and field members will compete in various competitions across the nation with events taking place in New York, Notre Dame, Ind., and Lubbock.

At the previous meet in College Station, the Red Raiders had three players who broke school records and several more placed in their events.

Tech senior runner Kennedy Kithuka set a school record in recording the fastest mile time in Tech history, running the race at the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge in fewer than four minutes.

Saturday, Kithuka will travel to Notre Dame, Ind. to compete in the Meyo Invitational where he will run the 3,000-meter race.

Although Kithuka will not run the same competition he did the previous week, he is only running one race, placing all his focus on the 3,000-meter race.

“He’s just phenomenal,” Tech coach Wes Kittley said. “First Texas Tech athlete ever in history to run (the mile) under four minutes.”

Kithuka said he and his coach are confident he will do well. He said he plans to break another record going into Saturday’s meet.

“Kennedy’s going to go run

the 3,000 at Notre Dame, and we really feel confident he’ll qualify for the NCAA,” Kittley said.

“That’s where the competition is for him. There’s just none here for him.”

Tech senior Candace Jackson, another school recordbreaker, will look to continue her undefeated streak when she travels to New York to compete in the Armory Collegiate Invitational.

When Jackson travels to New York, she is set to meet stiff

competition, as she will match up against No. 1 Clemson.

“I’m very excited,” she said.

“This year hopefully I can make it to nationals indoor and outdoor.”

Unlike previous meets, Tech will focus on individual accolades, rather than the team competitions.

“Now we need to do what’s best for the top individuals,” Kittley said.

Despite breaking records on a weekly basis, Kittley said he

believes there is still more room for improvement, and the Red Raiders have yet to reach their pinnacle.

“We’re not near in the top shape that we’re going to be by the end of the year,” Kittley said.

After the Red Raiders return from competition, they will have less than a week to prepare for the next meet when they travel to Fayetteville, Ark. for the Tyson Invitational, which will begin Feb. 8. ➤➤msuniga@dailytoreador.com

New Orleans challenge: policing 2 huge parties Pa. judge nixes Sandusky’s bid for new abuse trial NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans police force famed for its crowd control prowess is getting help from state and federal authorities as the city hosts an estimated 150,000 Super Bowl fans while preparing for the raucous buildup to Mardi Gras, which also draws thousands to the historic French Quarter and its restaurants, bars and strip clubs.

The security challenges began in earnest Friday night with the first of the city’s major float-filled Mardi Gras season parades. This week, the parade schedule is on hold while the Super Bowl takes center stage. Mardi Gras preparations resume once Sunday’s game is over, and the parades roll again starting Wednesday.

The city’s police force of 1,200 officers is bolstered this week by more than 200 Louisiana State Police troopers and hundreds of federal authorities from several agencies.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was in town for a Wednesday news conference outlining security precautions, including Immigrations and Customs Enforcement scans of cargo shipped to the game site and Coast Guard work to assure maritime safety and security along the Mississippi River.

Game-day plans will include flight restrictions in the airspace near the Superdome, pat-down searches of ticket holders and the use of dogs to sniff out contraband.

Michael Anderson, head of the FBI’s New Orleans office, said no credible terrorism threats have arisen.

“This week, there is no safer place to be than the city of New Orleans,” added Raymond Parmer, a special agent with ICE. Even with all the help, the combination of Super Bowl and Mardi Gras season means New Orleans Police Department officers are working more than three weeks’ worth of 12-hour days, on the lookout for everything from petty crime and public drunkenness to random gunfire and the threat of terrorism. It will be an exhausting stretch that city officials say will cost the city several million dollars in

police overtime.

“If we can, we’d like to give them some time down,” said police chief Ronal Serpas. “But if we can’t, they know it and they’ll stand up for it.”

It’s also a unique chance for Serpas to show off one of the strengths of a department beset by scandals involving brutality and mismanagement. City officials have carried out numerous reforms aimed at cleaning up the department, which has seen five officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina.

For years, though, crowd control has been the department’s bright spot, especially during Mardi Gras revelry on the narrow streets of the nearly 300-year-old French Quarter, home to fancy restaurants and art galleries as well as sleazy bars and strip joints.

“I think the NOPD does take a particular pride in its long-standing history and long-standing demonstration that managing large crowds is something we do very well,” said Serpas, who is in his third year running the department.

Shoulder-to-shoulder, alcoholfueled crowds often spill over into the neighboring Faubourg Marigny, an increasingly popular area of music clubs and restaurants. A 15-block-long stretch of Poydras Street, linking the Superdome to the Mississippi River and the massive Harrah’s Casino, is seeing increased foot traffic during sports events with the opening of more bars and restaurants in recent years. And, outside the Quarter, lavish Carnival season parades draw tens of thousands to the miles-long routes.

During the final weekend of Mardi Gras, streets of the metro area can be packed with more than a million people, and more than a few will be overdoing it.

“The thing about Mardi Gras crowds is, we get this impression that some of the people may have been drinking,” Serpas deadpanned.

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Sandusky is serving a 30- to 60year state prison sentence for the sexual abuse of 10 boys, including violent attacks inside Penn State athletics facilities.

Sandusky lawyer Norris Gelman said Wednesday that while he had not read the decision, Cleland’s ruling means an appeal will be filed to the mid-level Superior Court within the next 30 days.

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