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Tech named top college for community service The Corporation for National and Community Service has recognized Texas Tech as one of the top universities for community service and social impact in the nation.

In the nation, 3.1 million students are involved in community service, accumulating 118 million service hours equating to $2.5 billion of student service, according to the Corporation for National Community Service’s website.

Tech was recognized as one of the driving forces behind those numbers on the Corporation for National Community Service’s 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, according to a news release.

The honor roll recognizes universities and their students who form strong, effective ties with the local area and display commitment to community service and civic engagement, according to the release.

The recipients of the award were announced March 4 at the American Council on Education’s 95th annual meeting, according to the corporation’s website.

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UCF student who killed self was planning attack ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A University of Central Florida student planned an attack on campus but committed suicide in a dorm before carrying it out, authorities said Monday.

Materials found in his dorm room made it appear that 30-year-old James Oliver Seevakumaran planned a wider attack, authorities said a news conference.

Seevakumaran pulled a gun on another student, who then called police, said University of Central Florida Police Chief Richard Beary. He then killed himself with a shot to the head moments later as police officers were responding to the call.

“His timeline got off,” Beary said.

“We think the rapid response of law enforcement may have changed his ability to think quickly on his feet.”

UCF spokesman Grant Heston said the university was in the process of removing Seevakumaran from the dorm before Monday. Four makeshift explosive devices were found in a back pack, and Beary said he believes that Seevakumaran pulled a fire alarm in the dorm to get other students out in the open for an attack.

Seevakumaran’s roommates told detectives that he had shown anti-social behavior but had never expressed any violent tendencies, Beary said.

Tech to face USF in 1st round of NCAA tourney

By ZACH DISCHIANO SPORTS EDITOR

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team landed the No. 7 seed in the Spokane region of the 2013 NCAA women’s tournament.

The Lady Raiders will take on the No. 10 seed South Florida Bulls in the first round of the bracket.

“When you look across the country, it’s what every little girl plays for and what every coach coaches for,” Tech coach Kristy Curry said. “We are honored to be a part of it and we’ve earned it. I’m really happy for our team, our staff, everybody in our program.”

The team closed out its season with three consecutive losses, but senior guard Chynna Brown said she is not worried about Tech’s chances to win in the tournament.

“You learn from mistakes you made and you look at the good things you did in the game and just go back and watch film and try not to make those same mistakes going into the tournament,” she said.

Fans and players gathered in United Spirit Arena for a watch party, where the selection results were broadcasted on a projector. Senior guard Casey Morris said it was special seeing the Lady Raiders’ name on ESPN. “We’re so dedicated to basketball, and we love it, and it shows on the court every day,” she said. “It’s just good to see our name and show that we earned something.”

South Florida will play Tech following

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THE TEXAS TECH women’s basketball team celebrates after learning its seeding in the 2013 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament during a watch party Monday in Club Red in United Spirit Arena. The Lady Raiders received a No. 7 seed and will face the No. 10 South Florida Bulls at 5:30 p.m. in United Spirit Arena.

a single-digit loss against the No. 2 team in the country, Notre Dame. The Bulls’ two star players are sisters — Andrea and

By MATT DOTRAY STAFF WRITER

The ordinance banning the sale, use and possession of synthetic marijuana went into effect March 9, and some businesses are not complying with the change.

The ordinance, which unanimously passed Feb. 14, outlaws the possession and sale of different substances known as psychoactive designer drugs, including synthetic marijuana, also referred to as incense, spice and K-2.

District 3 Councilman Todd Klein said the sections in the ordinance identified the types of ingredients and formulations that are banned from consumption and sales.

Although this is not a perfect solution, he said business owners need to ask themselves whether or not it is morally correct to sell the product, in light of the ordinance, which forbids the substance.

Klein said the ordinance has a list of banned chemicals, but manufacturers find ways to work around them. So he said the most important impact of the ordinance will be the overall public knowledge and awareness of the potential side effects.

Although many consumers think it is not a harmful drug because it has been legal to buy, the dangers of synthetic marijuana, he said, can be severe.

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MICHAEL MILLER, A freshman exercise and sport sciences major from Odessa, and Baylee Brooks, a freshman with an undeclared major from Odessa, use models of human body parts to review for an anatomy test Monday in the Biology building.

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Lubbock ranked among the top 20 cities for college students in the American Institute for Economic Research’s College Destinations Index.

Lubbock was ranked No. 11 out of 75 cities in the 2012-2013 Small Metros category, which shows how the location of a university contributes to its college experience, according to the AIER website.

“Texas Tech University enjoys a wonderful relationship with the City of Lubbock,” Interim President Lawrence Schovanec said in a news release. “The quality of education we offer students on campus combined with the social and cultural opportunities of the city makes this a great place for those in pursuit of higher education. We often speak to graduates and they reflect fondly on the time they spent in Lubbock, and express the desire to return to Lubbock — either for work or as a place to raise their family.”

A small metro area, the website reported, is determined to be between 250,000 and one million residents.

The index compiles the top 75 cities and towns for college students in the U.S. after evaluating 227 metropolitan statistical areas with populations of at least 15,000 students, according to the website.

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The cities’ ranks, according to the website, were determined by the city or town’s performance in 12 areas including arts and leisure, degree attainment, earning potential, research capacity, student concentration and student diversity.

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Today Toddler Tuesday Time: 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come bring your toddler for stories and activities.

TAB Presents: Wax Hand Sculptures Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building So, what is it?

Come get your own wax hand sculpture.

Arizona State Sun Devils at Texas Tech Red Raiders Baseball Time: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Rip Griffin Park So, what is it?

Come support the Red Raiders as they play against the Sun Devils.

Wednesday

Studio 360: Beginning Drawing for Adults Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come take a beginning drawing class for adults. No experience required.

11th Annual Professing Excellence Ceremony Time: 3 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building Red Raider Lounge So, what is it?

Ten instructors who go above and beyond will be presented with a Professing Excellence Award.

Abbie Conant, TromboneGuest Artist Recital Time: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Where: The Legacy Event Center So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free concert featuring guest artist Abbie Conant.

Lubbock Area Autism Support Group Time: 6 p.m.

Where: Executive Suites So, what is it?

If you have an autistic child, come out and connect with other parents for support facing the challenges.

To make a calendar submission email dailytoreador@ttu.edu.

Events will be published either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by 4 p.m. on the preceding publication date.

$2,500 in Scholarships Available For Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Use Your Spring Break or Spring Semester to Earn a Scholarship!!

The Texas Tech Faculty Legal Action Association (TTFLAA) invites all currently-enrolled Texas Tech students to compete for one of two Academic Scholarships for use in Academic Year 2013-2014.

One will be worth $1,500 and the other $1,000.

The scholarships will be awarded to the currently-enrolled undergraduate or graduate student submitting the best original essays on “The Role and Importance of Academic Freedom in the University” TTFLAA was formed in 1985-1986 when then President Lauro Cavazos sought to replace the existing tenure system with a system of rollover contracts. The scholarship was created with money contributed by many faculty members to a fund that could be used to challenge the proposal in the courts. Since that proposal was later modified, and tenure and academic freedom are still protected. Interest from the fund has increased and been used to fund two scholarships.

Typed entries must be no longer than 1,000 words with a separate cover sheet that indicates the name of the student. The essay should be submitted in three double-spaced copies by Tuesday April 11, 2013.

The entries with a cover sheet that includes the name of the student should be submitted to the Campus Mail Box of Prof. William G. Hartwell III, School of Music, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tx, 79409-2033.

A faculty committee will judge the essays.

The winner will be announced by April 25, 2013.

Robert Dillard of Lubbock was a $1,500 winner in 2012 along with Semih E. Cekin of Ankara, Turkey, who was a $1,000 winner in 2012 Erin Trauth of Lubbock was the 2011 winner Zhongyi Xiao of Chong Qing, China was the 2010 winner Application forms are available online at www.scholarships.ttu.edu or apply online at the Financial Aid Office 305 West Hall, 742-3144

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council member, the ordinance can provide some tools and we hope that people will choose to be compliant CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 with those,” he said. “We hope that the next part of this effort is Klein said he has heard some continued public education and do businesses have continued to sell more to bring people’s attention to the products that have been banned, the harms and dangers of synthetic but has not contacted the vendors. marijuana.”

Most of what he has heard, he said, After the ordinance went into has been through the media. effect, Sgt. Jonathan Stewart of “As a private citizen and as a the Lubbock Police Department

said a few businesses have not been complying, including Nothin’ Butt Smokes.

“Anyone — stores included — who are in possession of (synthetic marijuana) or offering it for sale are subject to enforcement under the ordinance,” Stewart said.

The violations of the ordinance would result in a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine, Stewart said.

Shon Ross, the vice president of Nothin’ Butt Smokes, was unavailable for comment.

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Youth justice struggles to address mental health AUSTIN (AP) — Arturo Alviter Balderrama lost his focus, his grade point average and eventually his freedom. But his troubles had deeper roots.

“At 13, I found myself using lowlevel drugs for fun,” Arturo, 17, told a legislative committee last month. “After about a year I had moved on to more serious drugs and found myself running with the wrong crowd.”

In Texas, lawmakers are at the center of a national movement to reform the discipline system known as the schoolto-prison pipeline. The cause has drawn bipartisan support with tales of citations issued for truancy, gum-chewing and possession of scissors. The proposed reforms

focus on removing criminal sanctions for youthful behavior.

For kids like Arturo, though, mental health plays a complex, important and largely overlooked role in the struggle to emerge from adolescence on a solid path.

Following his brother’s example, Arturo said, he slipped into serious drug abuse.

Before reaching 10th grade this year at Del Valle High School, he spent nearly a year in jail or on probation for burglary.

Among the 1,411 inmates in the custody of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, rates of diagnosed mental illness now exceed rates of gang membership, according to records obtained by The Associated Press through the state’s

open records law. Nearly 1,100 cases involve substance abuse or dependence.

Aside from that broad category, the most prevalent single diagnosis is conduct disorder, with 770 cases.

The agency declined to specify how many diagnoses overlap. But experts say the numbers underscore a problem beyond the criminalization of horseplay.

“So many instances of misbehavior in the schools are examples of kids with diagnosed or undiagnosed forms of mental illness,” said Michele Deitch, a senior lecturer on criminal justice policy at the University of Texas. “The misbehavior is oftentimes a symptom of the mental illness.”

Nationally, the campaign to reform school discipline has united such disparate groups as the American Civil Liberties Union and the conservative Americans for Tax Reform. It gained momentum from a landmark 2011 study by the Council of State Governments.

The study, “Breaking Schools’ Rules,” focused on a million public school students in Texas, finding that a majority had been suspended or expelled at some point. Black students and students with disabilities were more likely to be removed from the classroom. And students who were expelled were more likely to end up in the criminal justice system, the study found.

POLICE BLOTTER

Officers arrest students for theft, public intoxication Saturday 3:28 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license, following a traffic stop in the 1700 block of Texas Tech Parkway. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail and his vehicle was released to a responsible party.

2:04 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, with possible injures, in the S-1 parking lot.

3:40 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for theft of a

bicycle from the east bicycle racks at the Texas Tech Library. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Sunday 2:35 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated, following an observed traffic violation at the intersection of Broadway and University Avenue. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail and his vehicle was released to a responsible party.

2:45 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft of money from a room at Weymouth Residence Hall.

8:59 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for theft of a bicycle, public intoxication and released the non-student pending the filing of charges for criminal trespass on the Marsha Sharp Freeway pedestrian bridge, following the report of an unconscious person in need of medical assistance. Emergency Medical Services personnel responded, but the non-student refused medical treatment. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The stolen bicycle was released to the owner.

11:38 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication at the intersection of 18th Street and Indiana Avenue.

The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Information provided by BJ Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

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Lindsay Lohan accepts plea deal with 90 days in rehab

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lindsay Lohan accepted a plea deal on Monday in a misdemeanor car crash case that includes 90 days in a locked-down rehabilitation facility that she won’t be able to leave.

The 26-year-old actress, who has struggled for years with legal problems, pleaded no contest to reckless driving, lying to police and obstructing officers who were investigating the accident involving the actress in June.

She was also found in violation of her probation in a 2011 necklace theft and sentenced to 180 days in jail. However, she will be able to avoid jail time if she complies with the conditions of her plea deal that also includes 30 days of community labor and 18 months of psychological therapy.

Before the “Mean Girls” actress left the courtroom, Superior Judge Superior Court Judge James R. Dabney offered her a suggestion.

“Don’t drive,” he said.

The hearing had been set to begin at 8:30 a.m., and Lohan arrived after 9 a.m. looking slightly frazzled in a cream ensemble.

Her lawyers and a prosecutor

met with the judge in chambers for more than two hours before Lohan entered the plea.

Attorney Mark Jay Heller, who represents Lohan, left the chambers several times to confer with her in a courtroom hallway.

Lohan previously pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Lohan reportedly missed her original Sunday night flight from New York to Los Angeles, instead traveling on a private plane provided by a Los Angelesbased energy drink company for which she has made promotional appearances.

“Thanks Mr. Pink for the private jet see you all in a few hours in LA,” she tweeted early Monday.

Since a pair of arrests for driving under the influence in 2007, Lohan has resolved her numerous court problems without ever going to trial.

Instead she has faced judges who have sentenced her to rehab and counseling, which even her current attorney acknowledges have not completely helped the troubled actress.

Lohan entered Monday’s hearing with a lawyer whose competence has been questioned

by a judge, and another set of attorneys waiting in the wings to take over.

She did not, however, have her longtime advocate, Shawn Holley, present. Holley left the case this year after keeping the actress out of jail for significant periods of time on probation violations and the allegations in 2011 that she took a $2,500 necklace without permission from an upscale jeweler.

The former Disney star has been under some form of probation since 2007, and her court troubles have stifled a oncepromising career.

Lohan’s return to acting last year in the Lifetime movie “Liz & Dick” was widely panned by critics and viewers. Her upcoming film by Bret Easton Ellis, “The Canyons,” co-stars porn star James Deen.

Prosecutors decided last year that Lohan would not face criminal charges after being accused of clipping a man with her car outside a Manhattan nightclub.

Prosecutors wouldn’t elaborate on their decision about the Sept. 21 episode involving Jose Rodriguez, 34, of Jersey City, N.J.

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MARK NICHOLAS, A graduate music composition major from St. Louis, Mo., practices a piece out of Hindemith Der Schwanendreher on Monday inside the Music building. Nicholas will play the piece as an accompanist during a student’s viola recital.

Woman who lost music downloading case says she can’t pay MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota woman at the center of a longrunning court fight over the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music said there’s still no way she can pay record companies the $222,000 judgment she owes after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal Monday.

The justices did not comment on their decision. Attorneys for Jammie Thomas-Rasset, of Brainerd, argued the amount was excessive.

The music industry filed thousands of lawsuits in the early to mid-2000s against people it accused of downloading music without permission and without paying for it. Almost all the cases settled for about $3,500 apiece.

Thomas-Rasset is one of only two defendants who refused to pay and went to trial. The other was former Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum, who also lost and was ordered to pay $675,000.

The industry initially sued ThomasRasset in 2006. Since then, her case has gone through three trials and several appeals. The industry presented evidence that Thomas-Rasset made available over 1,700 songs to other computer uses via the file-sharing service Kazaa,

though the lawsuit targeted only 24 songs.

“I’m assuming that since they declined to hear the case it’s probably done at this point,” she said. But she also said she needed to consult with her attorneys to determine what happens next.

Thomas-Rasset, 35, who works for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal government, maintained — as she has all along — that she can’t afford to pay.

“There’s no way that they can collect,” she said. “Right now, I get energy assistance because I have four kids. It’s just the one income. My husband isn’t working. It’s not possible for them to collect even if they wanted to. I have no assets.”

Thomas-Rasset added that she became a grandmother in June.

The Recording Industry Association of America offered to settle for $5,000 when it first sued, and offered to settle for a $25,000 donation to a charity for music industry people in need after her second trial. She refused both times.

“We appreciate the Court’s decision and are pleased that the legal case is finally over,” the trade group said in a statement. “We’ve been willing to settle this case from day one and remain will-

ing to do so.”

Thomas-Rasset’s attorney, Kiwi Camara, of Houston, expressed disappointment in the outcome but hinted in an email that the legal options may not have run out. He noted that Tenenbaum’s case remains live before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

HOUSTON (AP) — It began 10 years ago while on a quest for French chandeliers. Instead, Dorothy McFerrin bought what she believed to be an Easter egg created by the famed Russian artisan Peter Carl Faberge.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, I have no light fixtures, but I have this Easter egg,’” Dorothy McFerrin said, laughing when she recalled purchasing that first egg.

Quickly, though, she learned she had been duped. She had spent thousands of dollars on an egg covered in real gems and gold that was not the work of the Russian czar’s personal jeweler. That mistake sparked what has become nothing short of an obsession.

Today, McFerrin and her husband, Artie McFerrin, own one of the largest private collections of authentic Faberge items in the United States. Included in that collection,

now nearly all of which is on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, is one egg gifted by the Russian czar to his wife, and two others considered by experts to be among the “big ones” because they were made for the Nobel family of later prize fame and the Kelch family, affluent merchants from Moscow.

“It is interesting. It’s a good investment — the prices have just risen over the years, especially as the Russians have gotten interested,” McFerrin said, explaining the interest she and her husband have in collecting Faberge pieces. “A lot of it has gone back to Russia and will never be seen again.”

The tradition and creation of Faberge’s ornate Easter eggs began in 1885, when the Czar Alexander III gifted one to his wife, apparently to commemorate the 20th anniver-

sary of their engagement. He was so delighted by the egg and its cleverness — inside was a little bejeweled “surprise” — that he ordered one every year, a tradition continued by his son Nicholas II until 1916. Each egg took more than a year to create, and often the czar was intimately involved, whispering ideas to the artists as they worked in secrecy on the piece.

Of the 52 eggs Faberge made for the Romanov family, 42 have survived, according to the website of Faberge, a modern fashion house that makes creations under the name of the 19th century artist.

Dozens of other eggs were made for other affluent families — though only the czar’s wife could have the color mauve in a creation — and the McFerrins own between 40 and 50 of those.

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Rand Paul speech shows true colors Jakob Reynolds

the vast majority of American citizens.

But Paul’s government-hating Tea Party values seem to keep him and his supporters from entertaining the thought maybe “big government” regulating our economy isn’t the problem and maybe what we should be more concerned with is an efficient and accountable government.

Maybe I’m being too harsh on Paul. After all, he has made some good proposals on campaign reform, such as limiting the amount of campaign contribut i o n s c o rporations and organizations can make to politicians, and prohibiting government contractors from lobbying and making campaign donations. Plus, how could we forget his trademark libertarian views on state control over marijuana and same-sex marriage?

Unfortunately, Paul’s slightly progressive view on civil liberties is inconsistent. He favors overturning Roe v. Wade and letting states decide whether or not to legalize abortion, which would put a serious strain on women who need an abortion and may or may not have the funds to travel to another state if they can’t get one in their home state.

He opposes all gun control laws on the grounds the Second Amendment means you should be able to own as many and whatever guns you want. He also proposes denying citizenship to children of illegal immigrants in the United States, as established in the 14th Amendment.

Paul doesn’t strike me as one of the new, young, progressive faces of the Republican Party the mainstream media has made him out to be in recent weeks.

If anything, his recent remarks at CPAC and past legislative decisions have shown if you are not wealthy, white or totally nuts, Paul is not looking out for you.

Though he might go somewhat against both Republican and Democratic platforms on occasion, his political views are really just a slightly diluted brand of the reactionary Tea Party values held by his peers on the GOP’s fringe.

... His recent remarks at CPAC and past legislative decisions have shown if you are not wealthy, white or totally nuts, Paul is not looking out for you.

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Renewable energy essential for future

By CAITLIN ELLINGSON

IOWA STATE DAILY (IOWA STATE U.)

In a world full of technological advancements and exponentially growing populations, it’s no wonder the planet’s nonrenewable resources are being depleted at an alarming rate. This is especially true in the United States, where we consume at least 20 percent of the world’s total energy resources. Keep in mind, we only make up 5 percent of the entire world’s population, yet as a whole we use up so much more energy than necessary without thinking much about it.

To put it in a more straightforward perspective: Americans consume about four times more resources than necessary, significantly limiting the resources available to those in other countries. Several developing countries do not even have access to clean drinking water, let alone many other resources which we take for granted with our lavish lifestyles.

Fossil fuels (such as coal, oil and natural gas) are currently the most commonly used sources of energy, despite the fact that they are far more harmful to the environment than several other sources. They are a nonpoint source of pollution (run-

off that moves through the ground via rainfall and snowmelt which carries pollutants into various bodies of water) and a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

As hopefully all of you have noticed by now, there has been a significant spike in gas prices over this decade, and if we continue to rely on fossil fuels for every aspect of our energy use, the cost of gas will continue to climb. Eventually, the cost of retrieving fossil fuels will probably be too expensive for many of us to buy due to the rapid rate in which we’re using it; Provided we do not run out of these finite sources completely.

There have been success stories about vehicles powered by fuels such as water and electricity, but they are uncommon and have yet to

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be fully developed. In addition, the average American simply cannot afford to trade their current gasguzzling cars for new energy efficient ones. For now, the limited resources necessary to power our vehicles should be used wisely and for things which do not have a decent alternative source of power available.

L u c k i l y, over the years people have been coming up with new and exciting ways to harness renewable energy that is friendlier to humans and ecosystems alike.

One method, which has been a popular topic in the Iowa State U. news lately, is wind energy. As many of you have seen, a new, small wind turbine has been set up on the east side of campus. This project cost $250,000, but it can

Americans consume about four times more resources than necessary, significantly limiting the resources available to those in other countries.

create enough electricity to power buildings like Catt Hall and East Hall for an entire year. In statistical terms, it can generate up to $18,000 (.12 percent) worth of Iowa State’s electrical needs annually, which is about 183,330-kilowatt hours. Iowa State also has partial ownership of a large wind turbine farm in northern Story County.

In Iowa, wind turbine farms have been increasing in popularity over the years and produce approximately twenty percent of the state’s electricity. There are nearly 3,000 utility-scale turbines in the state; enough to power over one million homes. Iowa is also rated No. 1 in wind energy related employment in the nation by offering at least 3,000 jobs, if not more.

Best of all, aside from the start up costs, wind energy is renewable and has less hazardous effects on the environment. There are several other types of similar renewable energy resources that would be better alternatives to fossil fuels, such as solar energy, hydropower and biomass energy. In addition, there are a few energy sources that have the potential to be useful but are not very cost-effective or easily acquired right now, such as geothermal energy, hydrogen and ocean energy.

Internships rapidly growing into necessity

By THE DAILY FREE PRESS EDITORIAL BOARD THE DAILY FREE PRESS (BOSTON U.)

It’s safe to say (and The New York Times said it Wednesday) that interning has become the norm. These days, college students typically graduate with an internship or two under their belt. Not just because work experience is a good thing to have — internships can act as a crucial segue into the workplace — but because it’s expected that job applicants already have it, or they won’t get hired in today’s increasingly competitive workplace.

With that expectation, of course, has come a serious growth in the pool from which companies offering internships have to choose applicants. A larger pool means greater competition,

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and Paul has been making quite a splash in the national news.

Recently he’s been gaining a lot of attention for his 13 hour-long failed filibuster of President Barack Obama’s nomination of Tim Brennan to head the Central Intelligence Agency. I was surprised to hear him make some valid points concerning executive power to kill American citizens at home and abroad with drones, a topic on which Democrats had been relatively silent.

Any respect I had for Paul — of whom I personally had little knowledge prior to his filibuster — has shriveled up. After looking over his past policy decisions and most recent proposals, he has proven to be not much different from his fringe Tea Party members.

Take, for example, the comments he made at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Amidst almost 20 minutes of fear-mongering, Paul proposed a balanced national budget that would “create millions of jobs” by cutting taxes to corporations, instituting a flat tax, deregulating the economy and eliminating the U.S. Department of Education to a crowd that went wild with applause.

Basically: Let’s keep the poor uneducated, and let’s keep the rich unaccountable and let them run uninhibited over the economy without having to pay their fair share.

Paul must not know Louisiana is in the process of privatizing education. They all but eliminated funding for public education, opting instead to disburse vouchers to private Christian schools.

In these schools students are now learning from Bible-based textbooks such as “A Beka Book” and “Bob Jones University Press” curricula that dragons are real, dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time and the Ku Klux Klan were “helpful community organizers.”

Furthermore, Paul claims by returning to the fiscally conservative policies of smaller government and less regulation championed by Ronald Reagan, the United States will magically prosper are no truer than they are when his nostalgic party-mates make them.

The Reagan administration’s deregulation of corporate America is what set us up for the second-worst economic crisis in our country’s history. They should have proven to people like Rand Paul, who like to cite history in their speeches, that federal deregulation favors the rich and ignores the needs of

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as students are desperate to fill their resume — even if it means working for free. But after the Department of Labor declared, in 2010, that unpaid internships are illegal, according to the New York Times, companies have begun to take advantage of this high demand for work experience and avoided legal liabilities by offering work in return for college credit.

Is this fair, though? Unpaid internships seem to equip students for success in obtaining employment in the future. But as much as they provide students with the chance to enhance their resume while also making networking connections, unpaid positions also hinder a student’s ability to stand on his or her own feet sooner rather than later.

We’re forced to live at home,

or hold other paying jobs on the side.

Moreover, only students with other sources of incomes or parents to support them can accept an unpaid offer. In some ways, the unpaid system only benefits the wealthy, furthering the divide between those with privilege or a leg-up and those without.

The Times also critiqued the “academic internship,” in which colleges get tuition to not teach students but rather place them in an internship for which students will get credit.

This is what the Boston University Internship Programs abroad do, which means that tuition for an Internship Program is essentially free money for the university.

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They are paying BU to receive credit, but they’re not going to class. They are going to work.

This is almost exploitative.

On the other hand, it’s almost necessary. As more and more soon-to-be-graduates seek job experience in the form of internships, it becomes a.) more crucial that students land a position and b.) more difficult for companies to hire so many applicants.

There simply isn’t that much money to go around. Offering unpaid internships, therefore, benefits the student in that it allows them to get experience in offices where there would otherwise be no budget for them.

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Pope Francis to get simple coat of arms, ring VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is mixing his Argentine past with his Roman present to create his new papal coat of arms, while harking back to a pope associated with the Second Vatican Council for the simple ring that he will receive during Tuesday’s installation Mass.

The Vatican on Monday released details of the symbols of Francis’ pontificate, which in its inaugural days has been marked by his preference for simplicity and aversion to Holy See splendor.

The new pope chose to keep the same coat of arms he had as archbishop of Buenos Aires, and

picked the simplest ring out of several models offered him. It is fashioned in gold-plated silver and was once a gift to Pope Paul VI, who presided over the second half of Vatican II, the meetings that modernized the church.

The coat of arms has a necessary addition — the papal symbols surrounding it: a gilded miter, and crossed gold and silver keys.

The shield itself, in very simple almost modern heraldry, depicts a star, a grape-like plant, and a monogram of Christ at the center of a fiery sun. The symbols represent the three members of the Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph. In re-

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ligious writing, Mary is often referred to as a “star,” while St. Joseph is often depicted holding a nard, a Middle Eastern plant.

The monogram is the symbol of Francis’ Jesuit order.

His motto suggests even more about the root of Francis’ message: “Miserando atque eligendo,” Latin for “Having had mercy, he called him,” comes from an episode in the Gospel where Christ picks a seemingly unworthy person to follow him.

Francis has stressed the importance of mercy, saying that often people are unforgiving with one another, but that God is all-merciful. “And very

patient,” he ad-libbed from the window of his studio during his first Angelus prayer Sunday.

In a written explanation of the coat of arms, motto and ring, the Vatican said that the inspiration for the motto stems from the calling Jorge Bergoglio heard at the age of 17, when “he experienced the presence of the love of God in a very special way,” and decided to join the Jesuit order.

Francis’s official ring will look like gold, but in fact is only gold plated.

Known as the fisherman’s ring from the apostle Peter, who was a fisherman and the first pope, Francis’s version depicts St. Pe-

ter holding the keys of the Holy See. Each pope picks his own ring, which will be destroyed at the end of his papacy.

According to Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the ring was one of several offered to Francis. Fashioned in the 1960s by Italian goldsmith Enrico Manfrini, it was offered to Paul VI through his private secretary. Lombardi said it is not known if the pope ever used it.

Paul VI presided over the second half of Vatican II, the 196265 meetings that paved the way for the liturgy to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin and revolutionized the church’s relations with Jews.

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Pair accused of plotting to kill singer Joss Stone LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors say two men accused of plotting to rob and kill soul singer Joss Stone planned to decapitate her, then dump her body in a river.

The suspects, Junior Bradshaw and Kevin Liverpool, were arrested in June 2011, close to the singer’s house after suspicious neighbors reported them to police. They never reached her house.

Opening the case at Exeter Crown Court, prosecutor Simon Morgan told a jury the pair, aged 32 and 35, set off from their home in Manchester with a samurai sword, knives, a hammer, black bags and gloves for Stone’s house in Devon.

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Baylor, ND, UConn, Stanford claim top seeds (AP) — Brittney Griner and Baylor’s path to a second straight national championship will have a familiar feel.

Then again, so will the whole NCAA women’s basketball tournament. For the first time ever, the top four seeds are the same for consecutive seasons. Baylor, Connecticut, Notre Dame and Stanford all earned No. 1 spots when the field was announced Monday night.

Unlike the men’s side, where it was a topsy-turvy season with major upsets seemingly every week, women’s basketball hasn’t seen the same parity.

The top six teams in the final Associated Press poll only had two losses outside of each other, the fewest by far since writers began voting for the AP’s No. 1 in the 1994-95 season.

The women’s basketball madness gets started Saturday — the first step en route to the Final Four, which begins April 7 in New Orleans.

Baylor coach Kim Mulkey hopes to make it there with her Lady Bears, who will be trying to become the fourth different school to win consecutive national championships, joining Southern California, UConn, and Tennessee. Mulkey grew up in Louisiana.

Last season, Baylor was trying to becoming the first team to win 40 games in a season. Now they are just focused on the title.

“Nothing’s different this year,” Griner said. “Our goal is to win the six games and win the national championship.”

Standing in the way could be Tennessee. The Lady Vols, who have made every NCAA tournament since it began in 1982, are the No. 2 seed in Baylor’s region. This will be the first time that coach Pat Summitt won’t be on the sidelines. Summitt stepped down after last season because she had been afflicted with early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type.

Longtime assistant Holly Warlick took over this season and guided the Lady Vols to a SEC regular season title.

While Tennessee has set the standard in women’s basketball, Stanford has been one of the most dominant teams lately.

The Cardinal will try and reach the Final Four for a sixth straight season and end Hall of Fame coach Tara VanDerveer’s 21-year drought without a national championship.

Led by junior star Chiney Ogwumike, Stanford may already have the most impressive win this season, ending Baylor’s 42-game winning streak in November. That’s the only loss that the defending national champion Lady Bears suffered this season.

The Cardinal, who will open up against Tulsa at home on Saturday, could face No. 2 seed California in

the regional final. The Golden Bears shared the Pac-12 title with Stanford this season after ending the Cardinal’s 81-game conference winning streak in January.

Notre Dame will be trying to make it back to a third straight national championship game. The Irish, led by senior guard Skylar Diggins, have already had an incredible season losing only to Baylor. Notre Dame won its first Big East tournament championship last Tuesday and also went undefeated in the conference in the regular season.

Unlike the other three No. 1 seeds, who are playing at home, the Irish will open up on the road against Tennessee-Martin. Potentially they could face host Iowa in the second round.

The Irish swept all three meetings with Connecticut and have dominated the series recently, winning seven of the past eight meetings, including the past two in the Final Four.

To get to a third straight title game they’ll likely have to beat UConn again. The Huskies will open on Saturday against Idaho, which will be making its first trip to the NCAA tournament since 1985. It’s been a somewhat disappointing season for the Huskies, who didn’t win either the Big East conference regular season or tournament title for the first time in 19 years.

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Ohio AG could target football coach, host of party COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The head football coach at Steubenville High School and the owners of a house where an infamous 12-minute video was filmed could be investigated as Ohio prosecutors look into how adults responded to allegations of rape last year.

One day after a judge convicted two high school football players of raping the 16-year-old girl in August, Steubenville’s top official said she welcomed a new, wide-ranging probe into possible wrongdoing connected with the rape.

The announcement of the guilty verdict was barely an hour old Sunday when state Attorney General Mike DeWine said he was continuing his investiga-

tion and would consider charges against anyone who failed to speak up after the summertime attack. That group could include other teens, parents, school officials and coaches for the high school’s beloved football team, which has won nine state championships.

Authorities also said they won’t put up with people harassing the accuser and took action Monday to prove it, arresting two girls suspected of threatening her well-being in Facebook and Twitter comments Sunday.

The Jefferson County girls, ages 15 and 16, were being held in juvenile detention, Steubenville police Capt. Joel Walker said.

The older girl was charged with aggravated menacing for a

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tweet that threatened homicide and said “you ripped my family apart,” according to the attorney general’s office. A Facebook posting from the younger girl threatened the accuser with bodily harm, leading to a menacing charge, the office said.

“These arrests, I hope, will end the harassment of the victim,” DeWine said. “We are simply not going to tolerate this.

Enough is enough.”

The case brought international attention to the small city of 18,000 and led to allegations of a cover-up to protect the Steubenville High School football team.

According to trial testimony, one of the two football players said the coach knew about what happened and “took care of it.”

The video, passed around widely online, depicted a student joking about the attack.

“She is so raped right now,” the boy says.

Investigators interviewed the owners of a Steubenville house where the video was filmed, which was also the same place a photograph was taken of the girl being carried by her ankles and wrists, DeWine’s office confirmed Monday. That pic-

ture, Exhibit No. 1 at the trial, generated international outrage.

There is no phone listing for the home.

Numerous students, including defendant Trenton Mays, referred to the girl as “dead” in text messages the night of the attacks, apparently in reference to her unconscious state. The girl, who acknowledged drinking, testified she had no memory of the assaults.

A grand jury will meet in mid-April to consider evidence gathered by investigators from dozens of interviews, including with the football program’s 27 coaches, which include junior high, freshman and volunteer coaches.

Text messages introduced at trial suggested the head coach was aware of the rape allegation early on. Reno Saccoccia “took care of it,” Mays said in one text introduced by prosecutors.

DeWine said coaches are among officials required by state law to report suspected child abuse. Saccoccia has not commented.

Steubenville city manager Cathy Davison said residents want to see justice done, and the city will be better off going

forward because of the wider investigation.

“Football is important in Steubenville, but I think overall if you looked at the community in and of itself, it’s the education process, the moral fiber of our community, and the heritage of our community, that is even more important,” Davison told The Associated Press.

Steubenville schools Superintendent Mike McVey released a statement Monday reiterating his position that the district was waiting until the trial ended to take action. He declined to address the grand jury investigation.

“What we’ve heard so far is deeply disturbing,” McVey’s statement said. “At this time, we believe it is important to allow the legal process to play out in court before we as a school district make any decisions or take action against any of the individuals involved with this case.”

It’s unclear what could happen to the school’s sports programs if coaches were charged.

Sanctions against teams or programs typically involve violations of rules related to playing, such as improper recruiting of

student-athletes or playing ineligible athletes, said Tim Stried, spokesman for the Ohio High School Athletic Association.

“The incident that happened was not during a contest, was not even at school. No playing rules were violated, and it didn’t have anything to do with eligibility or recruiting,” Stried said.

Mays and Ma’Lik Richmond were charged with penetrating the West Virginia girl with their fingers, first in the back seat of a moving car after a mostly underage drinking party on Aug. 11, and then in the basement of a house.

Mays, 17, and Richmond, 16, were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison for the rapes.

Mays was ordered to serve an additional year for photographing the underage girl naked.

They can be held until they turn 21.

Special Judge Thomas Lipps recommended the boys be assigned to Lighthouse Youth Center-Paint Creek in Chillicothe. The Ohio Department of Youth Services contracts with the secure, residential center.

Lipps said it had a strong program for treating juvenile sex offenders.

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The Lady Raiders are returning to the tournament after missing out last season. Curry said she is excited for her staff and players to be back in the bracket for Tech’s 20th appearance.

“It’s special,” she said. “It’s something that you wake up and want to be about every day and we’re just proud to have this program back. I’m happy for our seniors, our entire team, staff — everybody.”

The Big 12 sent seven of its 10 teams to participate in the

tournament, more than any other conference in the country.

Curry said she is pleased to have a large representation of the conference in the field.

“Absolutely thrilled,” she said. “I mean, I’m probably as happy about that as what happened to us tonight. To see that seventh team flash up there, you know, it speaks volumes. It is the No. 1 league in the country when you can get seven out of 10 teams in, it’s immeasurable for recruiting, for a lot of reasons. I’m just happy for our

league and everyone that’s a part of it.”

Smalls said the team was busy practicing during spring break while others were enjoying their vacations.

“While everybody was at the beach, you know, celebrating, we were here practicing, every day,” she said. “Our coaches wanted to bring up our competitiveness.”

The Lady Raiders’ first game against USF will tip off at 5:30 p.m. Saturday in United Spirit Arena.

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Larranaga has Miami poised for NCAA run CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Jim Larranaga was in the Miami locker room before a game during this regular season, talking about the importance of defense, when he decided words were not going to be enough to illustrate his point.

So the 63-year-old, two-timehip-replacement-patient, whitehaired, suit-wearing man fell backward like he was taking a charge, then started shouting.

“When you see that,” said senior guard Durand Scott, “you want to run through a wall for this guy.”

The wall had no chance.

Larranaga’s team went out, fully energized, and beat North Carolina by 26.

Larranaga has taken charge of what not long ago looked like a wayward Hurricane program — leading Miami to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship, a 27-6 record, a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament and quite possibly putting a school that hadn’t been to the men’s version of the Big Dance since 2008 in position to win a national title.

Miami plays Pacific (22-12) in Austin, Texas on Friday. So on Monday, other than consenting to about a dozen media interviews, Larranaga tried to rest.

“We’ve got to turn the page,”

Larranaga said Monday. “When non-conference season was over, we turned the page. Regular season over, turn the page.

ACC tournament is over, turn the page. One does not have anything to do with the next.

They’re all separate events and we need our guys to get some rest, because it was a long, grueling tournament.”

Larranaga and the Hurricanes made getting out of that ACC tournament look easy.

Not bad for a guy who, when he decided to pursue the Miami job two years ago, was absolutely convinced he had zero chance of being hired.

“He’s a great teacher,” Miami President Donna Shalala told The Associated Press. “When you get right down to it, in higher education, there are a handful of really great teachers.

Sometimes they’re in chemistry, sometimes they’re in English, and sometimes they’re the basketball coach.

“When we heard he wanted the job, I thought this was an opportunity of a lifetime for the University of Miami.”

She might have been right.

At a time when the athletic department has been rocked by a scandal involving a former booster who prompted a long and still-unresolved NCAA in-

vestigation — over things that occurred long before Larranaga arrived — this men’s basketball season has clearly been a ray of light in Coral Gables. The Hurricanes’ arena was sold out for many games, bringing Shalala to tears at least once. A pair of ACC titles will be commemorated by banners. The team seems to be an in-vogue pick to win it all.

And whether he wants it or not, Larranaga — a likely national coach of the year candidate — is getting much of the credit.

That’s why, when the bus carrying the ACC champions arrived back on campus Sunday night, outside the on-campus arena and practice facility that Miami built a few years apart, Larranaga was the first to exit and start giving hundreds of high-fives to delirious, screaming fans. Players waited about a minute before joining the celebration.

“That was his moment,” said senior forward-center Kenny Kadji, who carried the trophy off the bus. “That was for him.”

Best known for leading George Mason to the Final Four in 2006, Larranaga was a hire at Miami that raised some eyebrows after Frank Haith left for Missouri in 2011.

He arrived with the school very much in a transitional

phase, with a change imminent in the athletic director’s office, the news of the NCAA scandal about to hit and only a few months after Al Golden was hired to lead the football program. By the time Larranaga even registered a blip on Miami’s potential-hire list, the Hurricanes had interviewed five other people and the consensus pick was that Frank Martin — a Miami native — would get the job.

Then Larranaga got a phone call, telling him that Martin would not be Miami’s guy and urging him to fly to Boston and meet with Miami’s hiring committee. Larranaga took the trip, believing Tommy Amaker would be the eventual Hurricanes coach. His interview lasted only an hour, cut short by the news that Miami had hired Shawn Eichorst as athletic director and that he would take over the lead role on the basketball search.

“I told my wife, I got a token interview,” Larranaga said.

Eichorst and Larranaga eventually spoke briefly, and even Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers called Miami to endorse Larranaga. Eight days passed before Eichorst and Larranaga spoke again — and that time, the job offer was extended.

“We’re not perfect, but he brings the best out of everybody,”

Scott said. “He’s the one that did it. He came here and told everybody their role, everybody plays their role and everybody’s fine with it. When you’re winning, everybody’s happy.”

With all his success, Larranaga has never lost sight of who he is and where he’s from.

As a kid who spent 50 cents a day on the 10 Reese’s peanut butter cups that served as his lunch, Larranaga played for the legendary Jack Curran at Archbishop Molloy High in New York. Curran died last week, just days before Miami began play in the ACC tournament. Even with a trip to the NCAAs looming — accompanied by endless hours of preparation for an opponent he and his staff knew little about when the pairings were revealed — Larranaga will fly to New York on Tuesday for the services for his mentor, then quickly return home without even interrupting the Hurricanes’ practice schedule.

“He was like my best friend throughout my life,” Larranaga said. “Losing him on Wednesday was very sad for me. But I said to him, ‘I’m going to do everything I can to help my team win this ACC tournament in your honor.’

And he helped me stay calm throughout the weekend.”

It wasn’t just that weekend.

Players have noticed it all year.

“It was very important and it trickles throughout the team,” senior Julian Gamble said. “He’s our leader. Throughout the chaos, he stayed even-keeled and told us to keep having fun. You have to control the things you can control, and truth is, there are very few of them.”

Some symmetry might be at play for Miami in this tournament. George Mason earned its Final Four ticket by winning two games at the Verizon Center in Washington. If the Hurricanes win two games in Austin, they’ll be heading to that very same arena, with a chance to get Larranaga — who still has plenty of friends and fans in that area — back to the national semifinals.

Players speak about it openly: Naturally, they want the title, but when pressed to identify a top reason why they want to win, they say for Larranaga.

“Magical seasons don’t happen very often,” Shalala said.

“The great thing about sports is you get the unexpected. You don’t get that in many other professions because you sort of build up to it and see it coming.

But in sports, on any given day, in any given year, something extraordinary can happen. And that’s what happened at the University of Miami.”

NTSB: Former Oklahoma SEC seeking answers after 3 NCAA bids QB, friend were flight crew SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — People who knew former Oklahoma quarterback Steve Davis say his passion for flying began before he arrived at the school and led the Sooners to back-toback national championships in the 1970s.

He and friend Wes Caves, a Tulsa, Okla., businessman, were the flight crew on the private jet, owned by Caves, that crashed into a northern Indiana neighborhood, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Todd Fox said Monday. Davis, 60, and Caves, 58, died. Three others were injured, including two passengers.

Fox said he had minimal information about the pilots, but said both had pilots’ certificates and both had multi-engine aircraft certificates. The voice box recorder was recovered and is being sent to Washington, D.C., for investigation, Fox said, adding that the NTSB doesn’t know why the plane was headed to South Bend.

Patsy Davis said she believed

it was possible her son would have been in the co-pilot’s seat. It wasn’t immediately clear who was at the controls when it crashed.

“He hadn’t flown for a while, but as far as we know, he was still a licensed pilot. He didn’t own a plane,” she said Monday.

“He absolutely loved getting in the air,” said Deron Spoo, pastor at First Baptist Church in Tulsa, Okla., where Davis went to church.

And former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne recalled Davis flying a small airplane to Lincoln, Neb., back in the 1970s to speak at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet.

Messages left by The Associated Press for Caves’ wife and at least two others who are believed to be his family members in Tulsa were not returned Monday.

The crash occurred after two aborted attempted landings at South Bend Regional Airport, Fox said. The plane leaked enough fuel to force the evacuation of hun-

dreds of people from surrounding homes, but most residents were allowed to return Monday morning.

“It is miraculous that there was not a greater loss of life,” South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said.

Fox said the immediate focus of investigators is removing the fuselage from one of the homes for further investigation. A total of eight homes remain under mandatory evacuation, but South Bend Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said residents of the five undamaged homes should be allowed to return after the fuselage is removed — likely Tuesday.

“I’m surprised people survived that,” said 84-year-old Frank Sojka, who lives in the first home that was struck. Sojka said he was in the front bedroom of the home he’s lived in for 55 years when he heard a loud, dull sound.

“I got up and went into the living room and I could see the sky through the ceiling and all kinds of debris in the far end of the living room,” he said.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Frustrated Southeastern Conference coaches say their league is treated more like a mid-major rather than a BCS conference.

The coaches said Monday the perception all year has been that the SEC was having a down year. The NCAA tournament selection committee apparently felt it was more than perception.

Florida, Missouri and Mississippi earned the SEC’s only three NCAA berths, the fewest of any of the six major conferences. The SEC also ranked below the Atlantic 10 and Mountain West, which earned five bids each.

The SEC also sent only three teams to the tournament in 2009.

Before then, the SEC hadn’t received as few as three bids since 1990.

One of the “things that hurt us was the impression the league’s down,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said.

“Everyone seems to say it. That’s why I tell the coaches we’ve got to brag about each other. We’ve got to set that straight.”

The three berths continue the SEC’s downward trend.

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against the Big 12, 4-13 against the Big East, 2-4 against the Big Ten, 4-5 against the Pac-12.

Some of the reasons for the SEC’s struggles were obvious.

More players were taken in the NBA draft from SEC schools than any other conference last year. Tennessee forward Jeronne Maymon, one of only two returning all-SEC players from last season, missed the entire year with a knee injury. Kentucky center Nerlens Noel was challenging for SEC player of the year honors before tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee last month. LSU, Mississippi State and South Carolina had new coaches.

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Donovan believes the league got better as the season wore on, but it couldn’t prove that because its members were facing one another instead of playing teams from other conferences.

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