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New wind energy facility to be built at Tech

By CAITLAN OSBORN STAFF WRITER

Texas Tech has announced it will partner with Sandia National Laboratories and Group NIRE to build and operate a new wind energy testing facility that will be located at Reese Technology Center.

Taylor Eighmy, vice president for research, said the announcement represents the intention of the U.S. Department of Energy and Sandia National Labs to move a facility on Tech’s campus that will become a part of a very large

testing program for new turbines and how turbines interact when they are in an array.

“When this facility is eventually built and constructed and operational,” he said, “it will be a fabulous facility for research and development and wind energy.

We’re very excited about this.”

The facility is expected to be operational in the spring of 2012, Eighmy said. The facility will be made up of an initial two wind turbines and three towers, with the potential to expand to nine or more wind turbines over time.

Lubbock, Eighmy said, is an

ideal place for turbine research and development.

“West Texas is sort of the southern anchor of the national wind corridor,” he said. “It’s one of the best places for wind energy in the United States. Texas has made a very large commitment to wind energy and it really reflects our desire to play a very important role in promoting wind energy innovation over the next many years as the Department of Energy looks to an increase in our reliance of this form of honed energy.”

Reagan Hales, senior proposal administrator, said while

the parties will be spending the next few months finalizing the contract, at the moment plans are being developed for a fiveyear partnership.

However, she said, ideally the university would like to further its work with the two companies after the current contract expires.

“The partnership that we’re developing with Sandia is a very long-term research project that will advance many of the strategic goals that the university has,” Hales said, “not only to send research but also in education opportunities for students in the

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STEVEN BERK, RIGHT, the dean of Tech’s School of Medicine, shaked hands with John Watson, a new medical student, after presenting Watson and 146 other students with white coats during a ceremony Friday at the Lubbock Civic Center.

Tech School of Medicine presents white coats

By KASSIDY KETRON STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine presented the new students of the class of 2015 with their first white coats during the White Coat Ceremony at 2:30 p.m. on Friday at the Lubbock Civic Center.

Steven Berk, dean of the School of Medicine, said not only do students take an oath of professionalism at the ceremony that is written themselves, but the ceremony symbolizes that their college days are over and professional conduct is expected from them just as it is from others in the physician community.

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others’ needs before theirs,” he said.

“It’s a very important symbol,” he said. “It’s an outward symbol for the folks that you run across. It’s a symbol of authority. It allows you to interact with folks in a way that very few people can interact with in a very intimate setting in an environment that allows them to open up to you in a way that they would not open up to even family members.”

When some of the students walked across stage, Berk said, it was obvious they were “moved” and appreciated the significance of the ceremony.

“I think a lot of them appreciate the significance of this,” he said.

“Most of them are very good students

and got into medical school pretty easily, but not all of them. Some of them have tried for a very long time to get into medical school.”

John Watson, a class of 2015 medical student from Dallas, said before he came to the Tech School of Medicine, he received degrees in chemistry and physics from Harvard University.

After playing football in high school, Watson said, he tore both ACLs in his knees and, after having frequent doctor visits and learning more about what he was going through, it sparked an interest in him about the medical community.

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“First of all,” he said, “it’s a time that we get to see the class that we worked so hard to choose and develop. We get to see them as a group and appreciate the diversity of where they came from, what their skills are and all of that, but again, it’s our opportunity to make sure they understand that they’ve really moved away from college.”

During the ceremony, Tedd Mitchell, president of Tech’s Health Sciences Center, said before students knew it they would have their white coats on and begin moving through clinics and wards, doing their jobs.

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graduate program and the College of Engineering.”

Group NIRE, Eighmy said, is a technological planning and consulting service in the field of renewable energy. He said the company is focused on helping with the commercialization of the new facility, while Sandia is managed by the Department of Energy to conduct research and development on energy and environmental technologies.

The Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Hales said, is funding the facility’s construction

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Polygamist leader: God demands judge’s removal SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs made a third attempt Monday to remove the Texas judge overseeing his child sex assault case — this time based on the claim that God himself demands a change.

The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints filed a motion purporting to quote God as saying state District Judge Barbara Walther should “step away from this abuse of power against a religious and pure faith in the Lord.”

After a short recess, Walther ruled the trial would continue under new Texas Supreme Court rules that went into effect Monday.

They no longer require an immediate hearing to recuse a judge after evidence in a case has been heard. A hearing will eventually be held on Jeffs’ motion, but it’s unclear when.

The trial continued with forensic analyst Amy Smuts, of the Human Identification Center at the University of North Texas in Fort Worth, testifying that a DNA sample collected from Jeffs had 15 major markers that matched a DNA sample taken from a girl born to a 15-year-old mother.

Smuts said that made her more than 99.99 percent certain that Jeffs was the child’s father.

Jeffs is accused of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 12 and 15, he took as brides in so-called “spiritual marriages.” His church is an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism that believes polygamy brings exaltation in Heaven, and followers see Jeffs as God’s earthly spokesman.

The 55-year-old fired his attorneys last week and has been representing himself. He gave a speech defending polygamy Friday, then read a statement he said was from God. It promised “sickness and death” for all involved unless the case was halted immediately.

The charges against Jeffs stem from a massive police raid in April 2008 at Yearning For Zion, a church compound about 45 miles south of the oil and gas town of San Angelo.

Authorities moved in after receiving an anonymous call to an abuse shelter, alleging that girls on the compound were being forced into polygamist marriages. The call turned out to be a hoax, made by a woman in Colorado, and more than 400 children who had been placed in state custody were returned to their families.

But police saw underage girls at the compound who were clearly pregnant — prompting the charges against Jeffs and 11 other FLDS men.

All seven sect members who have been prosecuted so far were convicted of crimes including sexual assault and bigamy and received prison sentences of between six and 75 years.

Jeffs has repeatedly called the raid an illegal search and wants a separate hearing on whether authorities violated his First Amendment rights to freedom of religion. Walther, who has already ruled several times on the constitutionality of the raid, has refused to stop the trial for such a hearing.

The filling Jeffs submitted Monday marked the third time he has tried to recuse Walther. During his first two motions, he was represented by attorneys who argued on his behalf. His latest motion, however, was based on a revelation Jeffs said the Lord gave him Sunday and addressed Walther directly, saying, “I, your lord, say to you, I shall bring to light your evil intent now, before all people, to destroy my Church on earth.”

It ordered her to, “now sign order to rescues thyself.”

The motion included an appendix Jeffs said was a revelation from God to early Mormon church leader Joseph Smith Jr., dated July 12, 1843. Jeffs also attached what he called “Exhibit A,” consisting of 29 orders from the Lord, including one in which God sent “a crippling disease upon (Walther) which shall take her life soon.”

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Provost Bob Smith said that the announcement of the new facility also coincides with the administration’s plan to seek approval from the Board of Regents Friday for the creation of a new bachelor’s degree in wind energy.

Over the next 20 years, he said, there will be 500,000 new jobs in wind energy related activities in the U.S. and 40 percent of those new jobs will require bachelor’slevel training in that field.

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“Texas is really number one in wind energy,” Smith said, “and when you have that type of commitment already in place, it’s well to build on that and leverage that for the benefit of our students, our faculty and our university, as well as the economic development implications these activities bring to our city and our regional

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Although the ceremony also is directed toward friends and families recognizing the accomplishments of the students, he said, the white coat is a significant symbol in the medical community.

“The significance of the white

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The new degree would be interdisciplinary, he said, which means it is not based in one specific college. He said the major will be administered by the University College, which brings together faculty across disciplinary lines and helps them focus on a program that has broad implications.

“What we want to do with this program is not only cover the highly technical side of wind energy,” Smith said, “but talk about the business side, about

the natural resources side and the legal side of wind energy. In developing this whole energy sector of our economy, it requires more than just the understanding of technology and technical issues.”

If the Board of Regents approve the move, Smith said, the plan would go to the Texas Higher Education Hiring Board.

If the degree is approved by them as well, then the program in wind energy will be in place by the spring, or fall 2012 at the latest.

Overall, Eighmy said, the new facility will provide a number

of opportunities for students, faculty, Texas and the rest of the nation.

“This is actually going to become one of the best places to come and do turbine research and development and turbine array testing and modeling,” he said. “Everyone would like to see a self-sufficiency for the United States in terms of energy and anything that can advance wind energy as one source of energy is (wonderful) in the long run, and this is our contribution to that.”

coat,” Watson said, “it’s just a symbol that represents your commitment to the profession and that starts now throughout school, throughout residency and then as a physician. So, it’s just kind of the beginning of the process and makes sure everybody is in the right frame of mind and understands the responsibility of it.”

This year, Berk said, the ceremony included older students who have had previous professions

as an attorney, a NASA engineer, an IT consultant at a Fortune 500 company, a singer/songwriter and a ballerina.

There were 147 students receiving coats at the ceremony on Friday, he said, 34 of which were Tech alumni, plus 16 from the University of Texas and 12 from Texas A&M. Between them, he said, the class spoke 16 different languages, had an average GPA of 3.7, received high

MCAT scores and came from schools all around the country.

“Were excited, at least for now,” Berk said, “(that) they seem to have a lot of interest in primary care because that’s really what we’re hoping, but they can go into whatever they want. But we sure would like some of them to go into family medicine and there seems to be a lot of interest in that.”

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Gay marriage: awkward issue for some GOP hopefuls NEW YORK (AP) — Same-sex marriage might seem like a straightforward issue: You’re for it or against it. Yet for the field of Republican presidential hopefuls, it’s proving to be an awkward topic as public attitudes change and more states legalize gay unions, the latest being New York.

Numerous recent polls suggest a slim majority of Americans now back gay marriage. Support is highest among Democrats, but is growing across the

political spectrum even while religious conservatives — a key part of the GOP primary electorate — remain largely opposed.

The result, according to political analysts from both major parties, is a dilemma for the leading GOP candidates, most of whom oppose same-sex marriage but tend to avoid raising the topic unless asked.

“They see the polling — more and more Republicans are supporting gay

marriage,” said David Welch, a former research director for the Republican National Committee. “It puts them in an awkward position with the younger members of the party and also with independents whose votes you need to win.”

Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights, said the political climate has changed rapidly and dramatically as leading Democrats celebrate the advent of gay marriage in

New York and the imminent end of the ban on gays serving openly in the military under President Barack Obama.

“It’s now advantageous for Democrats to support gay rights, and a net negative for Republicans to oppose them,” Socarides said. “It’s become extremely complicated for many of the Republican candidates who are used to using anti-gay rhetoric as a way to gin up their base.”

Obama, though still not ready to endorse gay marriage, says he’s “evolving” on the issue and is supporting a bill that would extend federal recognition to same-sex couples who marry in the six states that allow it.

New Hampshire is among those six states and also home to the first Republican primary next winter. According to conservative activists in the state, none of the major GOP presidential candidates has yet taken a public position on the ongoing effort by some Republican legislators to repeal the 2009 state law legalizing same-sex marriage.

Andy Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, predicted that most of the GOP contenders would continue trying to dodge the issue because of lukewarm public support for repeal.

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Rangers get reliever Adams from SD (AP) — The AL West-leading Texas Rangers got the relief they sought before the non-waiver trade deadline.

Texas completed its second deal for a reliever in less than 18 hours with the acquisition Sunday of right-hander Mike Adams from the Padres. The Rangers sent minor league pitchers Robbie Erlin and Joe Wieland to San Diego.

The Rangers on Saturday night acquired Baltimore setup man Koji Uehara for right-hander Tommy Hunter and infielder Chris Davis.

Adams was 3-1 with a 1.13 ERA in 48 relief appearances for the Padres this season. He had 49 strikeouts and nine walks as the primary setup man for Heath Bell, the All-Star closer the Rangers had long been rumored to be seeking.

“I came in this morning, honestly

preparing to start being the closer. Obviously, that didn’t happen,” Adams said before San Diego’s home game against Colorado. “I’m still a little in shock about the whole situation.”

There had been countless reports leading up to Sunday’s deadline that Texas was in serious discussions with the Padres and close to acquiring Bell, who will be a free agent after the season.

The Rangers instead got Adams, who will be under their control through the 2012 season.

“The past couple of days so many trades went down I didn’t think I would be going anywhere. But it’s the baseball world. Things happen, things happen fast. I’m excited about it,” Adams said.

“All the talk was that Heath going somewhere for a reason. “

Texas went to its first World Series last year and has been on top of the AL West most of this season. But the Rangers’ bullpen has an AL-high 19 losses along with 15 blown saves.

Neftali Feliz has converted 21 of 26 save opportunities this season. The hard-throwing right-hander last season set a major league rookie record with 40 saves. He had only three blown chances.

Uehara had a 1.72 ERA in 43 appearances for Baltimore, including a shutout streak of 15 innings in 13 outings since June 19 at Washington. The righthander is the best among AL relievers this season with opponents hitting only .152 against him and 7.8 strikeouts for every walk.

The Rangers also likely will have him back next season. Uehara has a $4

million option for 2012 that kicks in if he pitches in 12 more games this season Adams went 7-2 with 76 holds and a 1.31 ERA in 155 relief appearances over the past three seasons with San Diego.

He held opponents to a .163 average with a .221 on-base percentage.

“He’s become one of the best relievers in the game,” Padres manager Bud Black said. “He’s put himself in a situation where he’s very valuable and I see that continuing. He has great years ahead of him.”

The 33-year-old Adams is a Texas native who played baseball and basketball at Texas A&M-Kingsville.

Originally drafted by Milwaukee, he also pitched in the New York Mets and Cleveland organizations before the Padres acquired him in July 2006.

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Small-market teams turn buyers at trade deadline

(AP) — Gone are the days when the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies poached all the available talent leading up to baseball’s trade deadline.

Some of the biggest deals this year were made by small-market teams.

Michael Bourn, Ubaldo Jimenez and Ryan Ludwick were among the key players who changed clubs Sunday at the end of a topsy-turvy weekend, when the surprising Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Arizona Diamondbacks made many of the boldest moves.

Long labeled as sellers in July, those cost-conscious squads instead

went shopping for immediate help as they recognized a rare chance to make a postseason run.

Just 2½ games behind first-place Detroit in the AL Central, the Indians completed their Saturday night deal with Colorado for Jimenez about a half-hour before the 4 p.m. EDT deadline Sunday. Until then, they were waiting for results of the pitcher’s physical.

“This was a rare and unique opportunity, especially in our market, which comes along few and far between,” said Cleveland general manager Chris Antonetti, who also pulled off a deal Thursday to obtain outfielder Kosuke Fukudome from the Chicago Cubs.

From jail to Jets, Burress finds a new NFL home NEW YORK (AP) — Stuck in prison and his NFL career derailed, Plaxico Burress insisted he’d be back one day.

Rex Ryan and the New York Jets are giving him that second chance.

“I’m just grateful,” a confident yet humble Burress said Sunday night. “I’m excited about the opportunity and I’m going to give them everything I’ve got because they put their trust in me to be able to come in and contribute and have an impact.”

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“When something’s taken away from you that you love, you know you love it more,” he said. “You learn that playing in this business is definitely a privilege. I definitely miss being away from the game

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He’ll join the recently re-signed Santonio Holmes as one of Mark Sanchez’s top receivers.

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Opinions

Please do not bash my school or town Y

ou certainly can’t beat the clear West Texas skies of Lubbock.

With the beautiful Texas Tech campus and the community that surrounds it, Lubbock is a place we, Red Raiders, call home.

Maybe I’m just a really proud Red Raider, but I cannot stand when people bash my school or my town.

Going to Tech and living in Lubbock will be the best four years of most of our lives. Or five, or six, just depending on your parents’ checkbook.

But, hearing other people, who haven’t even been here, bash this place makes me furious.

I proudly wear the Double T any-

where I go and am always armored with quick comebacks to anyone brave enough to bash my school in front of me.

College school spirit is a huge deal, and now I finally understand. I will most definitely be the old retired woman, 40 years from now, driving an on-campus bus during the week and sporting scarlet and black on the weekends at the football games.

Just like the Dixie Chicks song, you can either “Lubbock or Leave It.” Dust storms are less than pleasant when they happen, but, hey, they only happen one week out of the year and just like my dad says, “cowboy up.”

A little dust never hurt anybody.

And Broadway may not be 6 th Street, but we make do.

When Robert Pattinson comes to this one-area code town, it makes headlines and when Josh Abbott or Pat Green pay a visit home, it makes it complete.

People who haven’t lived in this town will never understand, and we shouldn’t expect them to.

Our less-than-glamorous mall and single-digit winter temperatures

Paige Skinner

are ingredients to this place we call the LBK. What would this town be without “Taco Tuesday” at Rosa’s, the prairie dog park or the statue of Will Rogers riding Soap Suds into the sunset with, of course, Soap Suds’ butt facing College Station?

Lubbock is where the people are friendly, where you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a church, and where you can’t get a table at Texas Roadhouse on any

given Saturday night.

Telling strangers about my dreams of being a journalist and having them assume I’ll be a conservative one, gives this town a unique personality.

The chill and rush I get when the Masked Rider on his black-quarter horse storms the field on game days is something that can’t be explained.

I love walking through one of the largest campuses in the nation and seeing everything it has to offer, including the medical, nursing, and law schools.

Gazing out of a window in the Foreign Languages building and knowing the barn and silo were once used is a pretty cool attribute

to our campus.

I know Disney World claims to be the happiest place on Earth, but I can’t help but think sometimes that Tech is.

Aside from the classes, lectures, and the sometimes-difficult professors, it’s an awesome place to go to school.

Take time to enjoy this wonderful place and remember to bite your tongue when you want to say something rude about that ugly longhorn or dumb dog; not everyone can be a Red Raider like us.  Skinner is a junior public relations major from Garland. ➤➤ paige.skinner@ttu.edu

Lying, exaggerating on resumes places few honest applicants at disadvantage

BY RYAN DUGGAN DAILY NEBRASKAN (U. NEBRASKA)

I want you to write down all of your most positive attributes in a single Word document. However, you cannot use all of the space — you must use bullets and spaces between all sub-points and categories in order to make the page aesthetically pleasing and easy to scan over.

I would like main points such as topic organizers and your personal information in bold, using a font size larger than the rest. Oh, and the rest has to be 12-point font and nothing smaller.

Not to make matters worse, but you will be judged entirely on this one piece of paper. The difference between possibly landing a paid internship at a renowned company and working at the local pizza joint may depend on

this resume. What I want are your life accomplishments on this paper, which very well may determine the rest of your life accomplishments.

Nervous to hand in your resume?

Not feeling adequate to compete in the ever more competitive job market?

Just lie then. Fib a little. According to careerbuilder.com, 38 percent of those who had taken a survey indicated they had exaggerated on their job responsibilities. Approximately 18 percent admitted to lying about their skill set, 10 percent about their academic degree and 5 percent said they had been untruthful about their job title. Of these groups, 36 percent were considered for hire, while 6 percent of the fibbers were

actually hired.

As college students, we are either beginning our professional resumes or fattening them up with internships and extracurricular activities. But even with the ample resume-building programs available, students are still tweaking the facts a bit.

A friend of mine — who will go unnamed — said half jokingly how he joined a biological science club, attended the first meeting or two, got on the club’s emailing list and then never bothered to show up again. But he did make sure to list the club on his resume as an extracurricular activity.

As the public relations chair of the Classical Literature Club, I witness

this occurrence first hand. Seventy students receive emails and notifications as participating members, but only a dozen are active members who show up to meetings and participate in the organization. No doubt a majority of these students have the club listed under activities on their resume, but haven’t attended even a handful of meetings.

Erin Jobman, the public relations chairwoman of the Pre-Vet Club, can attest to this. She estimates that by the spring semesters, there are around 250 members, but only 30 students are still actively involved.

Does it matter that these students say they are involved in an organization they are not? To some, probably not.

But to those who run the organizations or are involved members, it isn’t fair to see someone fatten up his or her resume by listing a club they don’t attend. The active members do all of the work maintaining and establishing the club, while the others simply take credit for being a part of it.

Not only is it unfair, but it increases the pressure on honest students. Someone who doesn’t participate in an organization, but is still a member, has a lot of time to be a member of other programs. Suddenly, this individual is a super student who is involved in all sorts of activities and still manages to keep up his grades. Whether employers would buy it or not, that I can’t say, but I feel that if even a few were to get away with it, it would put those who are honestly committed to groups at a disadvantage.

What’s worse is that those who lie on their resumes, as far as I could find, face no penalty. The only consequence they might face is the embarrassment of being caught, as well as not getting the job, which is something an honest applicant might face if his application is turned down due to an inadequate resume. The rewards for lying on a resume are a lot greater than the repercussions.

I care about this because I believe in the integrity of being an honest human being. Though I am aware that certain employers will do background checks on resumes anyway, I find it upsetting — but imminent — that people resort to lying on their resume in order to increase their chances of being selected.

What then, you might ask, constitutes someone as a member of a group and worthy to list the club on their ever important resume? I would say an attendance to group meetings that exceeds 50 percent. However, I realize that schedules don’t always line up, so the definition of a member would be left for the group to decide.