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Today Raidergate Pass Distribution - Iowa State Game Time: 7 a.m. Where: Student Union Building West Basement So, what is it? Come pick passes for homecoming game all week. Understanding FERPA from a Faculty Perspective Time: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Where: TLPD, University Library So, what is it? Brenda Martinez, associate registrar, will answer questions regarding student privacy in the classroom and will educate faculty in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Engineering Entrepreneurs Speaker Series: A Panel Discussion of Industry Leaders Time: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Electrical and Computer Engineering Building ECE 217 (Seacat Room) So, what is it? The Engineering Dean’s Council is hosting a speaker series that will feature a discussion of industry leaders. Free pizza will be there! RENT - The Musical Time: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Where: Maedgen Laboratory
Theatre So, what is it? If you’ve seen the Broadway musical or the popular movie adaptation, RENT. The musical will cost you $18, $5 for students with a student ID.
Friday
Brown Bag Lunch: Transforming Scholarship Why W&GS Students are Changing the World Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Where: University Library So, what is it? Bring your lunch and join the Women’s Studies program for a “meeting of minds.” They request for you to register for the event, though the event is free. Kaleidoscope of Choirs Time: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it? This performance will feature the University Choir, Women’s Chorale, and the Matador Singers. RENT - The Musical Time: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Where: Maedgen Laboratory Theatre So, what is it? If you’ve seen the Broadway musical or the popular movie adaptation, RENT. The musical will cost you $18, $5 for students with a student ID.
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Correction
In Tuesday’s issue of The Daily Toreador in the article “Cyclist, bus collide on campus,” it should
have read “Clark said he saw the bicyclist.” The DT regrets this error.
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In 2011, an estimated 22.5 million Americans, ages 12 and older, used an illicit drug or abused psychotherapeutic medication such as a pain reliever, stimulant or tranquilizer during a period of one month, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse website. The most common illicit drug used by Americans is marijuana. Using drugs can negatively impact a person emotionally, mentally and physically, Comiskey said. “Our brains don’t fully develop until we’re in our mid-20s — our major organs don’t fully develop until around that time,” he said. “Any chemical we put in our body, for our bodies to be able to process it before our bod-
ies are fully ready to take that on, we’re doing major damage. We’re majorly impacting the development of the body.” In total drug law violations, Texas A&M had 56 arrests overall without any referrals. UT had a total of 149 drug law violations. Of the total, 103 were arrests and 46 were reported as referrals, according to their Jeanne Cleary Disclosure Act reports. Tech’s numbers are significantly higher and growing each year. Comiskey said he believes offering more support to students can help lessen the number. “Tech does have a lot of wonderful resources, but some things that we could do to impact those numbers is to have more resources,” he said. “I can imagine on a campus of 33,000 students we don’t have the number of resources on this campus to meet every emotional need,
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in January,” said Michael Molina, vice chancellor of facilities planning and construction. “We CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 are currently seeing what we The new building was sched- can safely open for the spring uled to open in Fall 2013, semester.” however, it didn’t meet the Erin Vaden, project manager deadline. of public art, said in an email Among the most disappoint- the new petroleum building will ed about the later completion feature a large steel sculpture date were seniors graduating called “Fountain,” and will this fall, who more than likely measure approximately 20 feet would have attended classes in tall and 20 feet in diameter. the building had it been finished The new LEED certified on time, Sanders said. building replaces the current “I’m a little jealous,” he said. 30-year-old building. The con“I won’t get to attend classes struction cost so far is $17.6 there.” million out of the $22.8 million However, those graduating total project budget. in the spring may have the “The old building will be reoption to attend classes in the purposed for something related building. to engineering, “ Molina said. “Construction is set to finish ➤➤jsosa@dailytoreador.com
Jupiter-bound craft runs into problem after flyby LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA’s Jupiter-bound spacecraft hit a snag Wednesday soon after it used Earth as a gravity slingshot to hurtle toward the outer solar system, but mission managers said it’s on course to arrive at the giant planet in 2016. Juno emerged from Earth’s shadow in safe mode, a state that spacecraft are programmed to go into when there’s some trouble. Despite the problem, “we believe we are on track as planned to Jupiter,” said project manager Rick Nybakken of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $1.1 billion mission. Engineers continued to diagnose the issue, which occurred after Juno whipped around Earth in a momentum-gathering flyby. Up until Wednesday, Juno had been in excellent health. While in safe mode, it can communicate with ground controllers, but its activities are limited.
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Previous missions to the outer solar system have used Earth as a celestial springboard since there’s no rocket powerful enough to make a direct flight. The Galileo spacecraft buzzed by Earth twice in the 1990s en route to Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet located 484 million miles from the sun. Launched in 2011, Juno flew beyond the orbit of Mars, Earth’s closest planetary neighbor, before looping back toward our home planet for a quick visit. Wednesday’s rendezvous boosted Juno’s speed from 78,000 mph relative to the sun to 87,000 mph — enough momentum to cruise past the asteroid belt to Jupiter, where it should arrive in 2016. During the swing past Earth, Juno snapped pictures. The solarpowered, windmill-shaped spacecraft slipped into Earth’s shadow as planned, but engineers were puzzled by the too little data it sent back afterward. At closest approach, it hurtled 350 miles above the ocean off the coast of South Africa. NASA said skywatchers with binoculars or a small telescope might have seen it streak across the sky, weather permitting. Ham radio operators around the globe were encouraged to say “Hi” in Morse code — a message that might be detected by Juno’s radio.
WWW.DAILYTOREADOR.COM every physiological need of every student on this campus.” The center has a steady number of students who show up regularly for meetings, Comiskey said. The program is anonymous and attendance is not taken. He said he encourages all students to take advantage of the resources on campus. “It’s not an instant fix, but it does give people some alternative ways of looking at, and maybe dealing with, the situations in their life rather than dealing with drugs, and that will bring those numbers down,” Comiskey said. Tech PD also released the number of illegal weapons possessions in the 2012 Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics report. The total number of occurrences was 15. Four of those led to arrests and 11 were reported as
referrals. Two arrests occurred on campus with one in on-campus student housing. The number of illegal weapons possessions has decreased since 2010, when the total occurrences were 21. However, Tech’s numbers are significantly higher than other universities. Texas A&M had seven illegal weapons possession occurrences, and UT reported four. Hinkle said even though he doesn’t like to see crime go up, he believes Tech PD has a job to do and so does the university population. “We do have TechAlert and the STATAlert to get the word out to everybody,” he said, “but I would like to actually see more people get involved and report more things. Especially if they know it happens.” ➤➤cwilson@dailytoreador.com
US cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Wednesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to its Mideast ally Egypt, responding to the military ouster last summer of the nation’s first democratically elected president and the crackdown on protesters that has sunk the country into violent turmoil. While the State Department did not provide a dollar amount of what was being withheld, most of it is linked to military aid. In all, the U.S. provides $1.5 billion in aid each year to Egypt. Officials said the aid being withheld included 10 Apache helicopters at a cost of more than $500 million, M1A1 tank kits and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The U.S. also is withholding $260 million in cash assistance to the government until “credible progress” is made toward an inclusive government set up through free and fair elections. The U.S. had already suspended the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets and canceled biennial U.S.-Egyptian military exercises. In Cairo, military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali declined immediate comment. Before the announcement, Gen. AbdelFattah el-Sissi, the Egyptian military leader, described his country’s relations with the United States as “strategic” and founded on mutual interests. But he told the Cairo daily, Al-Masry al-Youm, in an interview published on Wednesday that Egypt would not tolerate pressure, “whether through actions or hints.” Neighboring Israel also has indicated concern. The Israelis consider the U.S. aid to Egypt to be important support for the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. The State Department stressed that the long-standing U.S. partnership with Egypt would continue and U.S. officials made it clear that the decisions are not permanent, adding that there is no intent by the Obama administration to end any specific
programs. Still, the decision puts ties between the U.S. and Egypt at their rockiest point in more than three decades. “The United States continues to support a democratic transition and oppose violence as a means of resolving differences within Egypt,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. “We will continue to review the decisions regarding our assistance periodically and will continue to work with the interim government to help it move toward our shared goals in an atmosphere free of violence and intimidation.” The U.S. will continue to provide support for health and education and counterterrorism, spare military parts, military training and education, border security and security assistance in the Sinai Peninsula where near-daily attacks against security forces and soldiers have increasingly resembled a fullfledged insurgency. The U.S. officials providing the details did so only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment by name. Other details about what military assistance is being cut were not immediately known, and the State Department declined to give an indication of how severe the impact of the cuts in assistance might be in Egypt. Based on cost estimates, however, the M1A1 tank kits are about $10 million each, and Egypt was slated to get about four per month, officials said. The Harpoon contract was for 20 missiles, at a total cost of $145 million. It was not clear if any of those had already been delivered. F-16 fighter jets can cost more than $30 million each, but that amount could fluctuate depending on the equipment and weapons systems included. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who chairs the Senate Appropriations panel that funds U.S. assistance to Egypt, criticized the Obama administration’s action as too little.
POLICE BLOTTER Tuesday 8:01 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries in the C1 parking lot. 8:04 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident with minor injuries, along with failure to stop and render aid, at the intersection of 15th Street and Akron Avenue. 9:57 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident with minor injuries at the intersection of Indiana Avenue and Texas Tech
Parkway. 12:53 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident with minor injuries at the intersection of 15th Street and Akron Avenue. 2:11 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated an attempted burglary at the Football Training Facility. A storage shed was broken into, but no items were taken. Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.