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Haboob hits Lubbock Dust, high winds engulf city, campus

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THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING is barely visible through the cloud of dust that swept campus Monday.

Residents of the South Plains experienced a weather phenomenon called a “haboob” late Monday after a cold front caused the city and its surrounding areas to be engulfed in dust and high winds.

“It’s basically a giant wall of dirt,” said Andrew Pritchett, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

At the height of the storm, the area experienced 50-70 mph winds, with the highest recorded at 74 mph, Pritchett said.

The haboob, Pritchett said, was caused by a cold front plunging southward at 55 mph. He said recent weather conditions also contributed to the severity of the storm.

“Since it’s been so dry, it was able to pick up a

big wall of dust,” Pritchett said.

During the haboob, visibility was reduced to about 100 feet and the NWS received reports of damage to power lines, which in some cases caused wildfires.

He said the city was well-prepared and the NWS was in close contact with emergency services.

“We knew the front was coming and we were able to kind of pick up on the cloud as it headed toward the city,” Pritchett said.

As the cold front brings cooler air to the region, Lubbock will be colder in the coming days than in the last week or so. Pritchett said the NWS forecasts a high temperature of 65 degrees today. The high Monday was

measured to be 91 degrees. He also said temperatures are expected to rise slightly into the 70s by midweek.

Pictures of the storm were posted on to Facebook like live coverage, said Katie Villarreal, a sophomore education major from San Angelo.

“I went outside to see what everyone was talking about, and then I saw the sky go from blue to brown. My roommates and I immediately panicked,” said Villarreal.

“It made me more conscience about weather conditions in Lubbock, because they are drastically different from my hometown.” ➤➤kcullen@dailytoreador.com ➤➤sdouglas@dailytoreador.com

R I G H T : DUST FILLS the sky as a haboob blows across Lubbock on Monday at about 5:30 p.m.

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L E F T: S T U DENTS TRY to walk upwind outside Holden Hall during a haboob Monday. The National Weather Service recorded winds up to 74 mph.

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Community Calendar TODAY Tech Share the Warmth Coat Drive Time: All day Where: Drop off locations are in the Student Union Building, Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center and the Child Development Research Center.

So, what is it?

Donate old coats and warm clothing to TAB’s Tech Share the Warmth Coat Drive.

“Thriller” Flash Mob Time: Noon to 12:30 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building So, what is it?

Student Health Services will kick off Alcohol Awareness Week between the SUB and the library with a dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

College Planning Workshop Time: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: Science Spectrum Museum So, what is it?

Learn how to save money on college costs.

Concert Band Concert Time: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Enjoy this concert hosted by the School of Music.

WEDNESDAY Texas Tech Volleyball vs.

Texas A&M Time: 6:30 p.m.

Where: United Spirit Arena So, what is it?

Support the Red Raiders as they compete against the Aggies.

Artist’s Talk: Constance Lowe Time: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: John Walker Soccer Complex So, what is it?

The School of Art is hosting a lecture presented by Constance Lowe, a professor of art and art history at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The Black Dahlia Murder Time: 8 p.m.

Where: Jake’s So, what is it?

Enjoy a live performance by this metal band.

Road to Nowhere Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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

Enjoy this independent movie presented by Tech Activities Board.

The Black Matches Time: 10 p.m.

Where: Blue Light Live So, what is it?

Enjoy a live performance by this country music band.

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TAYLOR DAWSON, A freshman apparel design and manufacturing major from McKinney, sketches on an easel during a drawing class in the Architecture building on Monday.

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Occupy Wall Street effort shows muscle, raises $300K NEW YORK (AP) — The Occupy Wall Street movement has close to $300,000, as well as storage space loaded with donated supplies in lower Manhattan. It stared down city officials to hang on to its makeshift headquarters, showed its muscle Saturday with a big Times Square demonstration and found legions of activists demonstrating in solidarity across the country and around the world.

Could this be the peak for loosely organized protesters, united less by a common cause than by revulsion to what they consider unbridled corporate greed? Or are they just getting started?

There are signs of confidence, but also signs of tension among the

demonstrators at Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the movement that began a month ago Monday.

They have trouble agreeing on things like whether someone can bring in a sleeping bag, and show little sign of uniting on any policy issues. Some protesters eventually want the movement to rally around a goal, while others insist that isn’t the point.

“We’re moving fast, without a hierarchical structure and lots of gears turning,” said Justin Strekal, a college student and political organizer who traveled from Cleveland to New York to help. “... Egos are clashing, but this is participatory democracy in a little park.”

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Perry slashed environmental enforcement in Texas AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry likes to say the best way to promote economic growth is to reduce regulation.

When it comes to the environment, Perry has made Texas one of the most industry-friendly states in the nation.

Perry has cut funding for clean air programs and sued the Environmental Protection Agency to avoid enforcing laws to make the air cleaner. As part of his Republican presidential campaign, he routinely blasts the White House for tightening environmental standards.

“As president, I would roll back the radical agenda of President Obama’s job-killing Environmental Protection Agency,” Perry wrote recently in an op-ed for the New Hampshire UnionLeader. “Our nation does not need costly new federal restrictions, especially during our present economic crisis.”

Those positions get big applause at Republican debates and fundraisers, and also provide insight into how he would govern if elected, particularly when it comes to the EPA. In Texas, Perry signed a state budget that slashes funding for the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality from $833.3 million to $565.5 million over the next two years. In his budget proposal, Perry had provided even less: $552.5 million. Texas boasts the second largest environmental agency in the world, behind only the EPA; the state agency had requested $882.6 million just to maintain current programs.

The cuts were part of the governor’s plan to slash $15 billion in state spending to cope with revenue shortfalls in the sagging economy. Environmentalists complained that the cuts will hurt the most effective clean air programs in the state, including ones that were helping to reduce auto emissions.

Perry used the EPA as his punching

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bag during his 2010 gubernatorial campaign, and he is using the federal agency as a foil again in the presidential race Executives in the state’s oil and gas industry, the nation’s largest, say they have enjoyed a cooperative relationship with the Texas’ environmental agency, despite tougher federal rules.

“Texas always has been, and has continued to be under Governor Perry, one of the states where it’s a more friendly regulatory environment,” said David Blackmon, director of government relations for Houston-based El Paso Corp. The national natural gas company operates the nation’s largest interstate pipeline system, which runs through 29 states.

Federal regulations have increased under Perry’s tenure, but Texas has implemented fewer new rules than most other states. Blackmon said the real difference between states is the administrative costs of obtaining permits.

He said the Texas agency has “reached out to business and found solutions that not only cleaned up the air, but did it in a way that has a minimal impact on our ability to do business.”

Until recently, emissions from Texas refineries were aggregated across an entire facility, rather than having each smokestack inspected and rated individually to see if it complied with federal law. The Obama administration determined that the aggregated calculation allowed refineries to violate the Clean Air Act and ordered an end to the practice. Perry condemned the decision and the state filed suit.

Businesses frequently complain about regulation, but there is little evidence that it is any worse now than in the past or that it is costing significant numbers of jobs. Most economists believe there is a simpler explanation:

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It is also one of the three public universities in the state of Texas to earn this distinction, alongside the University of Houston Law Center and the University of Texas School of Law. “Even though our tuition isn’t as high as some other institutions, I feel that we have professors who are always willing to

Companies aren’t hiring because there isn’t enough consumer demand.

Larry Soward, a Perry-appointed member of the Texas agency’s threemember ruling commission from 2001 to 2007, said the environmental agency’s stance reflects the state’s political culture.

“The oil and gas industry is the biggest of those industries and has a stature that gives them a lot more respect and influence than the public or the environmentalists,” said Soward, who is now a critic of the agency.

Soward said that even though air quality in Texas has improved during Perry’s tenure, the credit goes to increasing federal regulations, not state initiatives.

With the budget cuts, the agency “simply won’t have the resources, budgetary or staff-wise, to really provide a rigorous scrutiny over air quality permits or more rigorous inspections or enforcement,” he said.

The final budget reduced the number of assessments and inspections from 146,534 to 130,140 authorized, or 11 percent less than the commission recommended.

Andrea Morrow, a spokeswoman for the Texas environmental agency, said the commission will try to meet its original goals on air pollution, but assessing waterways may be more difficult.

The commission will also have to cut back on programs that promote cleaner motor vehicles by reducing the emissions from diesel engines and older cars and trucks, she said.

The reduced funding, as well as other legislative changes made to the incentive programs will result in fewer grants and emissions reductions, Morrow wrote in an email.

Cyrus Reed, the Texas legislative

director for the Sierra Club, said the state may lose the progress it’s made toward cleaner air.

“We’ve had to come forward with citizen suits to get the law enforced,” Reed said. “It’s not our job to launch citizen suits, but we’ve had to do it in Texas.”

Another new measure made tightening air quality permits on the oil and gas industry more difficult. That law, which Perry signed in June, requires the Texas environmental agency to analyze the effect of new regulation on the economy — including how it might hurt a company — before implementation.

The economic impact could override the environmental benefit of the new regulation.

The new law reflects Perry’s contention that global warming is a questionable theory and that regulation always creates an adverse business climate.

During an August campaign swing through New Hampshire, Perry said of climate change, “I don’t think, from my perspective, that I want to be engaged in spending that much money on still a scientific theory that has not been proven, and from my perspective, is more and more being put into question.”

Texas releases more heat-trapping carbon dioxide — the chief gas in the greenhouse effect — than any other state, according to government data.

In February 2010, Texas became the first state to sue the EPA for declaring that greenhouse gases are dangerous and subject to federal regulation.

A few months later, the EPA became so frustrated with how Texas was enforcing air quality laws that it took away the commission’s authority to grant air pollution permits to some refineries.

The state has filed suit to go back to the old rules.

help their students,” Retana said. “The open door policy is a big motivator for students to seek out their professors.”

Public law schools that provide high quality educations at reasonable costs are categorized for being best value schools.

The rankings are calculated in two ways: By the yearly average of students passing the state bar exam, which is a mandatory test provided by each state to determine if graduates can practice law; and by the percent of students employed

nine months after graduation.

PreLaw Magazine is not the only publication to recognize Tech Law School.

According to Law.com, Tech has had the highest bar-passage rate in Texas for two consecutive years.

“Texas has so many schools, and to know that Tech has the highest bar-passage rate just proves that I picked the right school,” said Vanessa Lopez, a second-year law school student from San Antonio.

Stephen Perez, assistant academic dean of the Tech Law School, said being named a Top 20 Best Value School has a great impact on admissions.

“On the admissions end, it just reiterates to students that they are receiving great educations without getting into so much debt,” he said. “It’s been said that, in the future, there will be a decline in applications for all law schools. But, because Tech is a best value school, the drop in applications might not affect us as much as other schools,” Perez said. “Although there is no direct correlation between the increase of students applying and the ranking, there is still some influence.”

Students who graduate from Tech Law School in three years pay a total cost of $64,002 as compared to $88,584 at the University of Texas School of Law and $78,468 at the University of Houston Law Center.

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A national effort to put abortion bans into state constitutions is looking for its first victory next month in Mississippi, where voters are being asked to approve an amendment declaring that life begins when a human egg is fertilized.

Supporters hope the so-called personhood initiative will succeed in a Bible Belt state that already has some of the nation’s toughest abortion regulations and only a single clinic where the procedures are performed.

The initiative is endorsed by both candidates in a governor’s race that’s being decided the same day. While Mississippi is the only state with such an amendment on the ballot this fall, efforts are under way to put the question to voters in at least four other states in 2012.

Any victory at the state level would likely be short-lived since a life-atfertilization amendment would conflict with the U.S. Constitution. Leaders of the movement say their ultimate goal is to provoke a court fight to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a legal right to abortion.

Opponents say defining life as beginning at fertilization could block some common forms of birth control and deter Mississippi physicians from performing in vitro fertilization because they’d fear criminal charges if an embryo doesn’t survive. They also say supporters of the amendment are trying to impose their religious beliefs on others to force women to carry unwanted pregnancies, including those caused by rape or incest.

Those campaigning for the Mississippi initiative — including the Tupelobased American Family Association — are using glowing images of babies in utero or chubby-cheeked newborns, and say they’re trying to end a sin that blights America.

The proposal being decided Nov. 8 has divided the medical community and bewildered some physicians.

“We feel like the docs and the patients are getting caught in the middle of a war between the anti-abortion folks and the pro-choice folks,” said Dr. Wayne Slocum of Tupelo, head of the Mississippi section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a group that opposes the initiative.

George Cochran, a University of Mississippi constitutional law professor, said even if Mississippi voters adopt the initiative, he believes it’s unlikely to ever be enforced because it’s certain to be challenged and overturned in court.

“Suits are brought, they have it declared unconstitutional,” Cochran said. “It’s not very difficult.”

Cochran said there’s a 5-4 majority

on the U.S. Supreme Court now to uphold Roe v. Wade. That and other Supreme Court rulings have required states to allow abortions up to the point that a fetus could survive outside of the womb — approximately 24 weeks.

Still, a win at the ballot box “will send shockwaves around this country, then around the world,” predicted Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA, the Colorado group that’s pushing the petition drives around the country.

Mason’s group eventually wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to say life begins at fertilization, and he hopes the push for state constitutional amendments will create momentum.

Similar “human life” amendments have been introduced on the federal level repeatedly over the past 30 years and have failed.

Thad Hall, a University of Utah professor who has written a book about abortion politics, said people who want to outlaw abortion are seeking stateby-state changes that often put the question to voters, rather than federal changes.

“What you see here is a kind of difference between slowness and difficulty in policy changes on federal level ... and the ease with which states can change public policy,” Hall said.

People are gathering signatures in Florida, Montana, Ohio and Oregon to try to put personhood initiatives on ballots starting in 2012, Mason said.

He said similar efforts will begin soon in eight other states.

Personhood Ohio said Friday that it had reached its first threshold toward the 2012 ballot by gathering more than 1,000 signatures, allowing it to start knocking on doors to gather the rest of the 385,000 signatures it needs.

Previously, Mason’s group got amendments on Colorado ballots in 2008 and 2010, but they were rejected.

Some groups that oppose abortion, including Eagle Forum, opposed the Colorado efforts, saying the ballot initiatives only enriched Planned Parenthood and other groups that support abortion rights.

In Mississippi, the state’s largest Christian denomination, the Mississippi Baptist Convention, is backing the personhood proposal through its lobbying arm, the Christian Action Commission. “The Lord expects us to value life, even as he does,” the commission’s executive director, Jimmy Porter, says in a video.

The state already has several laws regulating abortions, including parental or judicial consent for any minor to get an abortion and mandatory in-person counseling and a 24-hour wait before any woman can terminate a pregnancy.

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it’s hard for underdeveloped families, so I want to do my part and give as much as possible.”

Flores said although many students have busy schedules, there should always be enough time to give back to the community.

“With the Christmas season approaching soon, the time for giving will be all around us,” he said. “It only takes a fraction of our time and greatly helps other families in need.”

TAB is also planning other public events for the near future, Figueroa said.

“We are sponsoring the Tech Can Share Food Drive for a whole week in November,” Figueroa said. “Students and faculty members will have the chance to donate cans for the South Plains Food Bank.”

For Hejny, working on community activities like this is what it’s all about.

“It’s great to be part of a community that actually cares about its individuals,” he said. “The fact that the Lubbock community is willing to help all types of underprivileged people is very heartwarming.”

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Figueroa said she understands the importance of running a coat drive like this.

“In Lubbock, we do have cold winters and everyone out there isn’t fortunate enough to have coats,” Figueroa said. “We think, by hosting this event, we can help support our community by providing to the less fortunate.”

Vanessa Diamos, another TAB coordinator, said receiving children’s coats are one of the main focuses of this year’s drive.

“We sometimes don’t receive enough clothes for kids,” Diamos said.

“So, it’s important that we try to emphasize the beneficial impact of donating smaller clothes as well.”

Joshua Flores, an English major from Lubbock, said he has been looking forward to the event for quite some time.

“I missed the event last year, so I’ve been gathering different clothes from my friends and family for this year’s donation,” Flores said. “I understand

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SAMANTHA YIANITSAS, A sophomore human development and family studies and music performance major from Industry, practices her trombone outside the Music building Monday.

BlackBerry maker tries to soothe angry customers TORONTO (AP) — The maker of the struggling BlackBerry tried to soothe tens of millions of frustrated customers Monday, offering more than $100 worth of free software to each one and giving some a month of technical support as compensation for last week’s massive outage.

But some BlackBerry users and experts cast doubt on whether the freebies from Research In Motion would be enough to keep people from abandoning the tarnished brand in favor of more popular smartphones.

“Most of the people that use BlackBerrys are business people and all they

care about is: ‘Does it work?’” said Chris Allen, a cable technician in Fall River, Mass.

The free software will be made available over the coming weeks on BlackBerry App World. The premium apps, which typically cost $5 to $15 each, include programs such as iSpeech Translator and the games “Bejeweled” and “Texas Hold’em Poker 2.”

The offer runs until the end of the year. The free technical support will be available to corporate customers.

The blackout began when a crucial traffic-routing computer failed in Europe. A backup also failed, causing a

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redesign of the business college’s website and its doctoral program’s brochure. He also designed wine marketing publications for the Lubbock area.

“His enthusiasm and effective presentation style spawns student interest in the latest social media outlets like I’ve never seen in students,” said Shannon Rinaldo, a consumer behavior professor in the business college.

Humphrey, who received both his graduate and undergraduate degrees at Tech, said he chose Tech because of the area and the quality of its business program.

Humphrey is a founder and consultant for Shiny Object Social, a digital media marketing firm.

Bijou Salon, which has been in business in Lubbock since 1987, had never spent a dime on marketing until Humphrey created its Facebook page.

Richard Eric Renteria of Etiquette Vintage Designs contacted Humphrey for social media marketing aid as well.

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Humphrey, a Lubbock native, specializes in digital media marketing and has been a part of its growing market since the beginning. He has directed social media projects for local and global companies, and did so all while furthering his education.

“I thought it was just a fad,” Humphrey said of the emergence of social media marketing. “In 2008, it was really just exploding.”

Humphrey found his first success with Carnival Cruise Lines when he headed a project for interactive mall kiosks that won a retail design award.

Later, he moved on to social media marketing, targeting consumer behaviors and connecting businesses with potential buyers.

He also works as a graduate assistant for the senior associate dean’s office in the Rawls College of Business.

He has participated in the

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cascade of problems all over the world that interrupted email and Internet services for many, if not most, of the company’s 70 million users for three days.

The disruption could not have come at a worse time for RIM as it struggles to compete with Apple’s iPhone and with smartphones running the Android system from Google Inc. Apple Inc. released a new iPhone model Friday, quickly selling 4 million of the devices — more than the average number of BlackBerrys RIM sells per month.

RIM is also in the process of tran-

sitioning to a new operating system, a major undertaking that introduces even more uncertainty.

Jim Balsillie, one of the company’s co-CEOs, acknowledged Monday that the manufacturer is under intense pressure. But he defended the handling of its worst-ever outage and noted that RIM has survived rough times before.

“This is something we would like to offer as our form of thanks,” Balsillie said.

Balsillie and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis did not comment publicly until Thursday morning, four days after the interruption began.

“Lin really is the reason for my Internet success and my ability to get my company seen by so many people around the world,” Renteria said.

Humphrey said he believes social media marketing is crucial for small businesses because of the high volume of people using sites like Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare.

He also said social media is important for students because it provides a venue for students to market themselves.

“The monster is dead,” Humphrey said of the job market. “It used to be that you could graduate and get a job. It’s not like that anymore.”

He warns students about the consequences not locking their Facebook pages and misusing Twitter.

In his presentations to students, Humphrey said 70 percent of employers have rejected a job candidate based on online reputation and 85 percent have considered doing so, but only 7 percent of jobseekers

believe their online presences affect whether or not they will be hired.

“Facebook is a private club for your friends, but Twitter is a cocktail party where you can sit in the corner or choose to participate,” Humphrey said. “It’s so easy to find information about people. You have to choose what you want them to see.”

Currently, Humphrey is working with Debra Laverie, the senior associate dean of the Rawls College of Business, on digital media and marketing papers. The fast-paced environment, however, makes it difficult to submit up-to-date information.

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Occupy Wall Street thoughtful, misguided Chris Leal that deserve credibility in terms of the long-term health of our country. They are also largely intertwined.

For the nearly three decades following World War II, median households saw their incomes increase roughly 98 percent (adjusted for inflation) as the top fifth of households realized an 86 percent increase in income — a growth happening even in a time where the top tax bracket paid 91 percent of incomes out in taxes.

Over the previous three decades, the median United States household has seen incomes (after-tax and adjusted for inflation) increase by a total of 12 percent. Over the same time period, the top fifth of households saw their incomes increase 27 percent, out of which the top one percent of American households have seen their total

incomes increase roughly 175 percent. Here, we see income growth significantly decline in all brackets — with the exception of the top 1 percent — even in a period where government was dramatically reducing tax rates and regulations that were supposed to create more wealth.

N o w, n o person of credibility has argued for or even hinted at total income equality. Such a system would not allow for the efficient allocation of labor and capital in our economy. In order to incentivize growth, talented and opportunistic people have to be allowed to earn higher wages than citizens who wish to contribute less.

People who get their ideas on economics from fictional novels and subscribe to the idea that all of these structural problems are fixed by simply “working hard-

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er” would generally advocate, to no surprise, working harder.

But, has the general population decreased the amount of effort they put towards work while only a small minority — 1 percent, to be precise — is working nearly three times as hard as they were nearly 30 years ago?

Obviously, the answer is no.

This is where the two main grievances of the Occupy Wall Street protesters meet and, i r o n i c a l l y, where the movement loses touch with the real problem.

J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs are not the reasons these inefficiencies in our system have occurred. Rather, the cause is regulatory, and specifically in the co-mingling of capitalism and democracy. Once you make successful political elections a function of money, you then introduce perverse incentives

... the cause is regulatory, and specifically in the co-mingling of capitalism and democracy.

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s a student of finance and economics and a near-graduate interviewing with “Wall Street” investment banks, I, understandably, largely wrote off the Occupy Wall Street protests and discredited them as being misguided and thoughtful at best.

To a large extent, I still agree with the majority of this sentiment.

While the protests themselves were organized well in a functional sense — each having structured communication networks and medical and legal teams — they seemed to lack a focused message stating clearly and specifically their desired outcomes.

I n i t i a l l y, t h e m o v e m e n t fiercely denied these claims of ambiguity while still not elucidating any details. Then, the protesters began to rally around two central themes: wealth inequality, or specifically the lopsided accumulation of prosperity for the top 1 percent of our population; and a general despair about the financialization of our cherished democratic processes.

These are two grievances

into our politics and allow pools of capital to become better represented in the legislative process. If these protesters are to gather anywhere, it should be outside of the Capitol, the White House and the Supreme Court, not Zuccotti Park.

The perversions of our political system have skewed the representation in our democracy from the long-term health of our country and the wellbeing of its citizens toward whatever the deepest pockets decide they want out of the next electoral candidate. This fact creates the angst fueling the metamovement behind the Wall Street protesters, despite how misguided or contradictory their efforts of expression may seem.

It’s no coincidence that wealth inequality is the highest it’s been since before the Great Depression. A financial economy is best understood when compared to the economy of your biological processes. Circulation of money throughout an economy based 70 percent on consumption is analogous to the blood circulating through your heart. If you don’t regulate circulation properly, you will

have frictions and clots will arise. These blockages, if unchecked and extreme enough, can lead to heart attacks or strokes, or, to extend the metaphor, to great depressions, recessions and civil unrest.

These relationships exist whether you choose to believe in them or not. Regardless of whether your ideology tells you we need tons of governmental regulation or none at all, the truth is that there is a healthy balance between the two. Judging by the last few decades of heavy deregulation, the reduction of taxes in the brackets which need them least and the current state of our economy, I would go out on a limb and suggest we could afford to move in the opposite direction just a bit.

The sooner the Occupy Wall Street protesters realize the true source of their woes and better organize a movement aimed at legislative reform, the sooner our economy will take a few steps in the right direction.  Leal is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior finance and economics major from Dallas. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

Elect representatives on credentials, not gossip or biases Zach Morrison

When you think about it, very little of what you hear actually has to do with the qualifications and political histories of individuals or the ideals they stand for. On the other hand, however, we hear plenty about their genders and their religious, ethnic and family backgrounds.

Before we elected President Barack Obama, you probably can recall the non-stop talk about him being African-American and how he was born in Hawaii. There were even some not-so-shortlived rumors that the man was Muslim. We even questioned his status as a United States citizen.

Now, on the flip side, there

was some coverage of his political positions, but the problem was America was simply not interested. We were more interested in misplacing our attention on his race and the rootless — not to mention irrelevant — allegations surrounding factors like his religion. The public did the same thing with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well. It was not an election based on policies, but rather an election based on gender and race.

Now, it is understandable how many Americans consider these factors to be valid markers of the

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values and habits one may uphold in office. The point, however, is we cannot continue to allow these non-political factors to overshadow the truly and irrefutably relevant information, namely the actual political policies of our candidates.

The fact a particular individual is nonChristian or non-white has nothing to do with the intelligence they are capable of backing their prospective positions with. These facts are also not valid indicators of the integrity or political aptitude of any given individual.

The factors that should matter

Running for public office should not only be unbiased, but ... motivations for candidates should be virtuous ones.

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recently had a conversation about politics with my Canadian relatives. The topic came around to the recent election in Calgary, Alberta, Canada of its first Muslim mayor.

The newspapers and informative programming all over Canada proceeded to go nuts, praising Calgary for its “forward thinking” and tolerance.

Though all this press was meant as a compliment, the Canadians I know reacted with surprise. It wasn’t even a factor that the man was Muslim or nonwhite. He was elected based on his superior qualifications and his alignment with the wishes of the voting majority.

All of this got me to thinking about our last presidential election and the general things one hears about a candidate or official whose political office is in question, whether it is an election or some sort of disciplinary issue.

most to voters — and therefore to the press coverage of political events — should be things like party affiliations, education levels, political stances on current issues and how they carry themselves in public appearances like debates.

On a related but slightly different note, due to the abundance of interconnected media and the limitless availability of information, politics has changed in another fundamental, yet detrimental, way.

Politicians spend more time putting down their fellow candidates than they do trying to win legitimately by presenting their positive aspects. In recent years, elections seem to be less about political positions and more about a combination of overinterest in irrelevant factors and the insistence of candidates on turning elections into put-down competitions.

Whatever happened to honestly competing for votes? Our leaders and potential leaders have lost sight of the fact that if they don’t win, it’s not a tragedy. It is rather simply an indication that the American public believes another political path holds more promise.

Running for public office should not only be unbiased, but the running motivations for candidates should be virtuous ones.

Running for office should be a selfless act aimed at bettering our nation’s integrity and its people.

Above all else, voters should be provided with the honest coverage needed to form unbiased, non-racially based and secular opinions of the candidates in question.  Morrison is a junior geography major from The Woodlands. ➤➤ zmorrison@dailytoreador.com

For Occupy movement, who really makes up 99 percent of population Jeff R Frazier

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ecently, my friends and I decided to take a break from our busy schedules and have dinner together at Pizza Hut. It had been years since I had actually entered a pizzeria and eaten inside rather than pick up a pizza at the drive-through window or have it delivered to my door.

The experience was quite disappointing, given my memories of great times after baseball games and class trips. The service was about as poor as I’ve ever had, with the waiter getting everyone’s orders wrong and then delivering the poorly made pizzas to the wrong people.

After inquiring about why the service was so poor, we discovered the

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pizzeria was having a training night.

New employees were working who were trying to learn their new jobs.

This sparked a marked change in the tone of discussion, as we had driven past the Occupy Lubbock protest on the way to dinner. The comparison was quite stark.

On the corner of 19th Street and University Avenue, there were dozens of unemployed college students who,

upon looking at their lives of privilege and seeing they were not going to be handed cushy jobs with large sums of money without working particularly hard, took to the streets in protest.

On the corner of 82nd Street and Indiana Avenue, however, there were people who did not have the luxury of taking to the streets. They had bills to pay, no parents to support them and several had people who depended on them for support. They did not have the luxury of expecting the world to be handed to them on silver platters.

They had to learn new skills and work hard to earn their livings.

The crowd on 19th Street and University Avenue stood out on the corner to protest the power of corpo-

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rate America at a rally they organized on Facebook and coordinated on their iPhones as they stayed dry in tents made by North Face. While standing in $100-plus Nike shoes and wearing Tommy Hilfiger shirts and Dockers pants, they complain about America’s place in the world economy and its lack of jobs.

As you drive further and further away from the shielded bubble of campus, you begin to see more and more of the real world and how it works.

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ers — and myself — have done before.

The Occupy movement, which is now officially endorsed by the American Nazi Party, the American Communist party and winked to by President Barack Obama, may love to quote the works of Karl Marx, but when they do, they always seem to forget the term he used to describe people exactly like them: “useful Idiots.”

These protestors claim to be the 99 percent. While they may not be part of the top 1 percent, these crowds of hyper-privileged children — who have no responsibilities or jobs and live off the student loans they demand to not have to repay — do not represent the entire 99 percent.

These protestors live in an entirely

different reality from the people who go out every day and work their fingers to the bone in hot kitchens, out in fields searching for water in a desert or in those manufacturing jobs the protestors want so badly for America to have but would never take themselves.

The Occupy movement’s claim that they represent everyone in America who is not in the top 1 percent only demonstrates how Marx was right about at least one thing: The protestors are very useful, and they are definitely idiots.  Frazier is a communications studies graduate student from West Columbia. ➤➤ jfrazier@dailytoreador.com

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Paul McCartney letter offers drummer tryout LONDON (AP) — Somewhere, an aging drummer (identity unknown) is probably still kicking himself.

A newly discovered letter found folded in a book at a Liverpool yard sale has shed new light on the Beatles’ early days, revealing that Paul McCartney offered an audition to a mystery drummer in 1960, just a few days before the band left for a formative two-month gig in Hamburg, Germany.

The letter, to be auctioned next month by Christie’s, has surprised Beatles scholars. It was written two years before the band bounced drummer Pete Best in favor of Ringo Starr, who arrived just in time to help the Beatles’ conquer first England and then the world, earning untold millions along the way.

The Aug. 12, 1960 letter handwritten by McCartney offers an audition to someone who had advertised their availability in the Liverpool Echo newspaper four days earlier.

The unsigned ad said simply: “Drummer_Young_Free.”

McCartney, who was then playing guitar in the band while the late Stuart Sutcliffe handled bass guitar, offered the drummer an audition with the caveat that if he joins the band he must be ready to travel almost immediately to Hamburg. The Beatles honed their musical chops playing at low-rent clubs in the German’s city’s famed red-light district.

“Expenses paid 18 pounds per week (approx) for two months,” McCartney writes. “If interested ring Jacaranda club.”

The letter is signed, “Yours sincerely, Paul McCartney of the BEATLES.” It is not known if the drummer came for an audition, and failed to impress McCartney and the others, or if he simply didn’t follow up. McCartney addressed the letter “Dear

Sir,” assuming the drummer was a young man, as there were very few female drummers on the Liverpool rock scene at the time.

Bruce Spizer, author of “Beatles For Sale” and other books about the band, said the Beatles were desperately looking for a drummer to take to Hamburg and eventually chose Best, in part because Best “had a drum kit” and because his mother ran a nightclub where the group had played.

“This shows that Pete wasn’t the only person they were interested in,” Spizer said. “They needed a drummer and Pete was convenient.

It makes sense that they would have responded to some drummer in Liverpool looking for work. My speculation is that two months in Hamburg intimidated him, maybe he didn’t want to go and never replied. If he had responded, and if he was good, it might have changed everything.”

Christie’s spokeswoman Leonie Pitts said the auction house’s Beatles experts are certain that the letter was not an early feeler to Starr, who was a successful drummer with a rival Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, before he joined the Beatles.

She said auctioneers had not contacted McCartney to ask if he knew anything about the drummer who had placed the ad.

“We think he’s on his honeymoon,” she said. McCartney married U.S. heiress Nancy Shevell eight days ago. His representatives did not immediately return a request for comment.

Christie’s auction house said Monday the letter would likely draw more than 7,000 pounds ($11,000) when it is sold Nov. 15 along with other pop memorabilia.

The letter was discovered by a man from Liverpool who has asked to remain anonymous. The auction house said he is a devoted collector of antique coins who regularly checks yard sales.

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Accused Halle Berry stalker ordered to stand trial LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge ruled Monday that a man charged with stalking Halle Berry should stand trial on two charges filed after he was repeatedly seen on the actress’ property earlier this year.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Melissa Widdifield issued her ruling after hearing from two witnesses called during a preliminary hearing to show some of evidence against Richard A. Franco, who has pleaded not guilty to burglary and stalking charges.

He was charged after police

Michael Jackson doctor’s trial to resume Wednesday after new testing conducted LOS ANGLES (AP) — A judge delayed resumption of the trial of the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death until Wednesday to give defense attorneys time to analyze new testing that coroner’s officials recently conducted.

Testimony had been canceled on Monday so that the prosecution’s final witness, Dr. Steven Shafer, could deal with family affairs after his father died last week.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor agreed to delay the case against Dr. Conrad Murray for another day after defense attorneys said they needed time to prepare for how to deal with testing the coroner’s office conducted last week on the level of the sedative lorazepam in

Jackson’s system.

Murray’s attorneys have suggested that authorities ignored the effects lorazapam may have had on the pop superstar and said their own testing suggested Jackson had taken eight pills before his death.

Coroner’s officials determined Jackson died from a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol. Authorities contend Murray gave Jackson the fatal dose and other sedatives in the singer’s bedroom to try to help him sleep. Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Deputy District Attorney David Walgren said the defense lab’s results combine two numbers to make it seem like there was more lorazepam in Jackson’s system than may have been present. He said the coroner’s tests show a

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much smaller amount was actually in Jackson’s system and are inconsistent with the theory that he swallowed several pills.

Lead defense attorney Ed Chernoff said he had numerous questions about the coroner’s testing and had asked the agency to conduct the same test before the trial began but was told it couldn’t be done. He said he didn’t yet know what impact it will have on how Murray’s defense case is presented.

Defense attorneys are expected to begin calling their own witnesses, including experts, later this week.

Pastor agreed it was an issue that defense attorneys needed time to address. He ordered attorneys to give him an update at a hearing Tuesday afternoon.

arrested him outside Berry’s home in July after he was seen on the property three times in three days.

Los Angeles police Detective John Gregozek testified that when Franco was caught, he was carrying a key to Berry’s guesthouse, where the Oscar-winning actress has her beauty salon and some of her wardrobe.

Gregozek said Franco apparently obtained the key on July 10, when he entered the house for about 20 seconds after Berry left the salon area to go to her kitchen.

Franco was standing outside her

kitchen door when Berry spotted him and locked the door and called police.

Berry did not attend the hearing, but Gregozek told the judge the actress is still afraid of Franco.

The following night, after Berry had hired private security, Franco was seen climbing over the actress’ gate and coming onto her property. Joseph Vach, a retired California Highway Patrol officer, was working as private security and helped detain Franco.

The man was carrying a notebook that included references to Berry

and entering her home, Vach testified.

Franco, who was dressed in a jail jumpsuit, will remain jailed on $150,000 bail, Widdifield ruled.

He returns to court on Oct. 31 for arraignment.

Berry obtained a civil restraining order against Franco after his arrest. “This person has invaded and trampled upon the most fundamental sense of security I have, and I am extremely frightened of him and what he might do to me or those I love,” she wrote in her July petition.

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Notebook: Tidbits from Tuberville, Texas Rangers have to win Series this year Doege during Monday’s luncheon

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Ryan Broyles, the senior from MANAGING EDITOR Norman, is the nation’s second Six wins could become a dif- leading wideout in receiving yards ficult number to reach for Texas at 135.8 per game.

Tech considering the strength of Broyles also is No. 2 in the the Big 12 Conference right now. country in receptions per contest, After all, a team needs six averaging 10 grabs every time the wins to become eligible for a Sooners play. Broyles leads all Oklahoma receivers with nine bowl game.

Tech’s remaining schedule touchdowns.

Opposite of Broyles is returnconsists of games at Oklahoma, Iowa State, at Texas, Oklahoma ing Freshman All-American State, at Missouri and a neutral- Kenny Stills. The sophomore site meeting with Baylor, in that reeled in 61 passes for 786 yards order. and five touchdowns as a freshNone of the Red Raiders’ re- man last season en route to several maining foes have losing records. accolades.

Missouri and Iowa State are the Stills, however, has already closest, with each owning a 3-3 matched his scoring output record. from last Tech enters year — five t h i s w e e k ’s touchdowns game against — through six No. 3 Oklagames in 2011.

Stills, homa in Northough he has man, Okla., as a 28.5-point the secondunderdog. Satmost recepurday will be tions on the Tech’s third team, has been consecutive outgained by game against O k l a h o m a ’s a ranked opthird deep ponent and threat: Jaz begins the Reynolds. second half of Reynolds season. has 363 reSETH DOEGE The difceiving yards QUARTERBACK ficulty of the thus far comTEXAS TECH Big 12 will put pared to Stills’ Tech’s current 330. Reynolds run of 18-consecutive bowl eli- leads the Sooners in yards per gible seasons in jeopardy. The catch with a 19.1-yard average.

Red Raiders have played in a bowl Oklahoma’s aerial attack has game for 11 straight years. been the key to Dom Whaley’s Tech coach Tommy Tuberville success in the Oklahoma backsaid the thought of not reaching field. Whaley, averaging 104.5 bowl eligibility has yet to be dis- rushing yards a game, is a former cussed among the team. walk-on.

“No, if we were down to a Only one opposing defense couple of games, it would be dif- has limited Oklahoma’s offense ferent,” Tuberville said. “There to less than 30 points, namely a is a lot of water underneath the then-fifth-ranked Florida State bridge.” squad that lost to the Sooners in Tallahassee, Fla. Problems presented by OklaTuberville said the reason the homa wide receivers Sooners’ offense is so productive One big-time threat at wide is because of the multiple threats receiver often would be enough opponents have to account for. for most offenses.

“Their receiving corps? It’s The Sooners, instead, have speed, quickness,” Tuberville said. two of the best receivers in the “They’ve got a very good running

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I kind of visualize going through my plays before a game or something. I visualize celebrating with my teammates.

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TEXAS TECH HEAD coach Tommy Tuberville glances down the field as Kansas State carries the ball during the 41-34 loss against the Wildcats on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

game to go along with it, because it makes it even tougher because you can’t stress one or the other on defense.”

Sooners’ home-fi eld advantage Many stadiums may provide a hostile environment, but none other has been as difficult to play in recently than Oklahoma’s Gaylord Family–Memorial Stadium.

The Sooners are riding a 39game home winning streak, the longest in the nation, entering Saturday’s game against the Red Raiders.

Norman has not been particularly kind to Tech in the past couple of years. Tech has been outscored 110-28 in its last two trips to Norman.

Tech quarterback Seth Doege, though, envisions good outcomes no matter the opponent prior to taking the field every Saturday.

An upset of the Sooners would only make those visions sweeter.

“I kind of visualize going through my plays before a game or something,” Doege said. “I visualize celebrating with my teammates. I visualize something positive. That’s something that you visualize that if that happens, it would be special.”

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On Sunday, Tuberville is likely to been seen at the Tech football facility or even Jones AT&T Stadium commandeering practice for the Red Raiders.

On Monday, Tuberville took the time to share his thoughts on a subject of controversy that took place on Sunday in, of all places, the National Football League.

The location was Detroit, Mich., following a 25-19 victory for the San Francisco 49ers against the previously unbeaten Detroit Lions.

In celebration of his team’s victory, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh gave Lions coach Jim Schwartz a quick, slap-like handshake followed by a backslap that Schwartz took offense to immediately after.

Schwartz proceeded to go after Harbaugh seconds later, prompting players from both sides to engage in pushing and shoving as the coaches had to be held back from each other.

Tuberville said such an incident sheds a negative light on football as a whole.

“I think what we saw yesterday was not good for our sport, even though it was in pro football, which is a lot different from high school and college, but it’s still about sportsmanship.” ➤➤jrodriguez@dailytoreador.com

The Texas Rangers are making their second straight appearance in the World Series, which is a delight for Rangers fans. Many experts and I said the Rangers wouldn’t have enough pitching to repeat. The team proved us wrong, and it heads back to try to win its first title in franchise history. This time it is different, though.

The Rangers have to win the World Series this year.

There is still an underdog feel to the Rangers, but they are a clear favorite in this match-up against the Cardinals. The team has to get this win because the road is going to be much more difficult next year. There will probably be more playoff teams and people will know what to expect from the Rangers.

Another failed run at the title could lead to a panic move that is uncharacteristic of this Rangers organization. If the Rangers’ starters failed to bridge the gap to the stellar bullpen, would the panic button be hit in the form of CC Sabathia? It wouldn’t hurt, but it isn’t how this team runs now. If the bats fell silent, they might try to go after Prince Fielder, who is going to be a free agent next year.

It would be unwanted pressure to fail for a second straight year.

While this isn’t comparable to the Buffalo Bills’ stint of football failures, considering the parity in baseball, it would be even tougher for the Rangers to work their magic again next year.

They do have some great magicians.

After the offseason last year when Cliff Lee broke the hearts of many T-shirt Rangers fans, it seemed like punching a repeat ticket to the October Classic would be nearly impossible. The Rangers are far from being the little engine that could, but they have earned even more respect.

The job Mike Maddux has done with this pitching staff is phenomenal. He has zero stars taking the mound for him and yet the Rangers managed to produce double-digit wins from their five most contributive starters. The bullpen was shaky at times, but in the playoffs it has been one of the best to ever make a playoff appearance.

Jon Daniels is the best general manager in baseball right now —

Cody Stoots there’s no doubt about it. He came into a situation and made some questionable moves. He essentially moved Alfonso Soriano, Adrian Gonzalez and John Danks for nothing in his early years, but he has worked plenty of moves that put the Rangers where they are now.

He robbed Atlanta for Matt Harrison, Elvis Andrus and Neftali Feliz, and he scored Nelson Cruz for next to nothing. He took a chance on Josh Hamilton, which worked out well. He replaces role players and it works, especially in the case of Mike Napoli, who was a steal.

The Rangers are aware of how well their style of baseball works. If the Rangers win the series, which I think they will, nothing needs to change. The faith of the team should stay in Jon Daniels’ style.

A loss means this style isn’t conducive to getting over the hill.

A loss is where the snap judgments happen, where bad contracts are signed and where trades are made carelessly. A loss in the series doesn’t mean the style should be abandoned, but it will mean some tweaking is needed.

The old saying is dance with who brought you. Well, the Rangers need to hope they can two-step themselves into a championship this year. Fans, management and players won’t settle for second place again.

The team can’t allow a culture to develop where they can’t get over the big hump.

All the pieces are in place. I think the Rangers’ hitting is superior to the Cardinals, except Albert Pujols is the best hitter in the series.

The pitching is far deeper than the Red Birds. It’s all ready for the Rangers to have their moment or to fail again. The outcome of this series will impact the team for the next six years.  Stoots is a senior broadcast journalism major from Houston. ➤➤cody.stoots@ttu.edu

Iowa State quarterback competition heating up AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State’s quarterback competition could be heating up after redshirt freshman Jared Barnett replaced struggling starter Steele Jantz in the Cyclones’ last game.

Coach Paul Rhoads said he hasn’t lost confidence in Jantz, who has thrown eight interceptions and lost four fumbles. But he indicated Barnett would get a closer look this week as the Cyclones (3-3, 0-3 Big 12) prepare for Saturday’s home game with No. 17 Texas A&M (4-2, 2-1).

“I think we’re going to practice through and see by the end of the week who we think has the best chance to lead our football team to victory versus Texas A&M,” Rhoads said Monday.

A month ago, the prospect of anyone challenging Jantz for the starting job seemed far fetched.

The transfer from City College of San Francisco made several big plays in leading the Cyclones to come-from-behind victories in their first three games, often on plays he kept alive by avoiding the pass rush.

But the Cyclones have lost their last three games, all to Big 12 opponents, and the offense was particularly ineffective in last Saturday’s 52-17 thumping at Missouri. Barnett replaced Jantz on Iowa State’s first possession of the fourth quarter, and though he threw an interception on his very first play, he later led the Cyclones to their only offensive touchdown.

Barnett said it took him a few snaps to get used to the speed of the game.

“It was much faster than I thought it was going to be,” he said.

“But I feel like I was able to pick up my play to that speed and play along with the speed of the game.

And then it kind of slowed down to my speed after I was in there a couple of times.

“After getting that experience, I think it will be easier for me to take control of the game.”

He might have to take control if the offense falters again. Barnett said he’ll do the same things he always does to get ready for a game, but he also knows the reward this week might be greater.

“I do feel like my chances (of playing) are higher,” he said. “Right now, my role is still the backup quarterback. Every week I always build myself up like I’m going to start, like I’m going to play. So I have to build myself up like that this week.”

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Texas scaling back high school two-a-day workouts AUSTIN (AP) — Texas public high school football players will likely have far fewer two-a-day practices starting in 2012 under rules approved Monday that would give the state some of the strongest guidelines in the country to protect athletes from heat-related injuries.

Texas recently finished the hottest summer on record and the rules approved by the University Interscholastic League would ban the traditional two-a-day practices in the first four days of training camp, a time that athletic trainers consider critical for allowing athletes to adjust to working out in the summer heat.

Teams could still have a second “walk-through” practice that does not include contact or conditioning during those first four days.

“It could be in a classroom or on the field,” UIL Athletic Director Mark Cousins said. “No conditioning.”

Other changes approved by the UIL’s Legislative Council include banning teams from holding two-aday practices on consecutive days.

And on days when teams practice twice, players must be given at least a two-hour break between workouts.

Current rules require only one hour.

The changes must still be given

final approval by state Education Commissioner Robert Scott, but he is expected to accept the UIL’s recommendations.

The NFL recently banned twoa-day practices under its new collective bargaining agreement and many colleges have scaled back multiplepractice days in recent years.

Mike Carroll, head athletic trainer and assistant athletic director at Stephenville High School and a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association, said the changes will give Texas some of the strongest policies in the country regarding athlete safety and heat conditioning.

Research shows most heat-related injuries happen in the first week of practice during the second workout of the day, Carroll said. By limiting twoa-day practices and forcing players to sit out at least two hours between workouts gives their bodies time to recover, Carroll said “It provides a safe method for kids to get used to the heat,” Carroll said.

Allowing the second “walk through” workouts where players can wear helmets but not pads was important for schools in the smaller classifications, said D.W. Rutledge, executive director of the Texas High School Coaches Association.

Texans skidding after strong start HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans seem to have a host of issues.

Mario Williams is out for the year, quarterback Matt Schaub is hurting, and the running game is sputtering.

Most significantly, the Texans (3-3) have lost two in a row heading into a pivotal divisional matchup in Tennessee (3-2) this week.

Houston faltered in the fourth quarter for the second straight game on Sunday, losing 29-14 in Baltimore.

“We’ve been in two very tough games, and haven’t gotten it done,” coach Gary Kubiak said Monday.

“But we come in here, we make our corrections, we’ve got to juggle some guys around because of some of the nicks we’ve got going on.

“We’re going to Tennessee to play in a huge game, for the division lead,” he said. “We’re getting over the disappointment of (Sunday) really fast, and we’re getting excited about playing this weekend.”

But the Texans are still four games from their bye week, and the health concerns seem to be mounting.

Schaub underwent an MRI exam on Monday, and Kubiak says he has a bruised chest and sore hip. Schaub was already playing with a sore throwing shoulder after taking some hard hits in Houston’s 25-20 loss to Oakland the previous week.

Kubiak says Schaub is “just banged up” and will likely sit out Wednesday’s practice.

“We need him on the field,” Kubiak said. “There’s not a break in sight right now, it’s a month away.

We’ve just got to be smart with him.

Throughout the week, if I’ve got to give him a break, a day a week, or two days a week. Matt can play without the practice. I’ve just got to be smart with him, but he is just very banged up right now, after six weeks.”

Kubiak is hoping Andre Johnson can return this week after missing two games with a right hamstring injury. Johnson’s workload will increase this week, Kubiak said, and his status for Sunday’s game will be determined later.

Johnson was injured in Houston’s 17-10 win over Pittsburgh in Week 4, and underwent a minor procedure to repair the hamstring.

“He made a lot of improvement last week,” Kubiak said. “I had a long talk with him on Saturday night. He’s feeling very, very good. I have a hard time saying (if he’ll play Sunday). Maybe there’s a chance he sees the practice field before the end of the week. If that’s the case, there’s always a chance. But we’ll have to wait and see.”

The Texans haven’t yet found a way to make up for Johnson’s absence.

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After a demoralizing 3-1 loss to Kansas on Friday, the Texas Tech soccer team was looking for answers.

The Red Raiders found them in dramatic fashion, defeating Texas 3-2 in double overtime.

The game-winning goal was put home by Jessica Fuston after Tiffini Smith sent a right-footed blast across the box. It was the second time in her career the sophomore had a game-winning goal in overtime.

Even though she had a clincher against Iowa State in 2010, the emotion of the goal was still overwhelming.

“It’s indescribable how the team comes together and we just put it in to finish,” Fuston said.

It was the Cedar Park native’s team-high eighth goal of the season.

“Fuston did what goal scorers do,” head coach Tom Stone said.

“They just go find the ball in the box and she tucked it away. Jess is the one you want on that scenario to get on the end of that.”

Tech was up 2-1 in the second half and had a chance to win it in regulation, but Texas goalkeeper Alexa Gaul nixed that chance, knocking in a free kick to tie it up.

“Their keeper is like a center forward,” Stone said. “She strikes such a good ball. They ran a great set piece and got back in it.”

Although not as unusual as the keeper scoring, Tech defender Casey McCall notched her second goal of the weekend on a header she beat Gaul in

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Big 12 Conference sporting trio of unbeatens at midway mark (AP) — The conference that keeps getting put down, the one supposedly in turmoil with an interim commissioner trying his best to hold things together, has more unbeaten football teams than any other in the country.

Third-ranked Oklahoma was expected to be there. No. 6 Oklahoma State has the kind of high-powered offense that could give anybody fits.

But the surprise is No. 12 Kansas State, which gives the Big 12 three teams at the midway point in the season that have yet to taste defeat.

“Any way you can find a way to win is good,” said Cowboys coach Mike Gundy, whose team faces Missouri on Saturday. “We just have to continue to find a way to win.”

That goes for the other unbeatens, too.

The Sooners have perhaps the stiff-

est test this week when they welcome Texas Tech, which had Texas A&M and Kansas State on the ropes in its only two losses. The Wildcats get instate rival Kansas.

There’s a good chance all three will still be undefeated a week from now.

“It is what it is,” said Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, whose spunky Wildcats are off to their best start since 2000 despite getting out-gained just about every time they step on the field.

“We’re fortunate to be where we are right now, I understand that. I can appreciate that,” Snyder said. “But our thinking is about working on Monday, and tomorrow we’ll try Tuesday and so on down the road. There’s not a great deal of thought given to what’s happened the first six ball games.”

Most of the Big 12 conversations this season have been about whether it

will survive. Nebraska is already gone to the Big Ten, Colorado is playing in the Pac-12 and the Aggies are SECbound. Missouri is trying to figure out whether it wants to stay or go, and TCU is getting ready to join the fold.

Rather than talk about what interim commissioner Chuck Neinas is trying to accomplish in holding all the pieces together, though, maybe the conversation should be about what Gundy, Snyder and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops have done in making the conference one of the toughest in the country.

The SEC is the only other league that has two undefeated teams, Alabama and LSU. Stanford is still without a loss in the Pac-12, Clemson is perfect in the ACC, Wisconsin is unblemished in the Big Ten, and Boise State and Houston are both undefeated through their first six games.

Hey, stranger! Rangers, Cards meet in World Series (AP) — Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton in a matchup of MVP sluggers. Nelson Cruz and David Freese becoming bigger names with each home run swing. Pitching staffs full of shaky starters and shutdown relievers.

Plus a Rally Squirrel and the Claw.

The Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals, with a lot of symmetry, are all set to get acquainted in the World Series.

Leave it to ol’ Arthur Rhodes to make the introductions. The 41-yearold lefty specialist began the year with Texas, wound up in St. Louis and is likely to get a ring either way.

Besides, it takes someone who’s been around a bit to remember the last time these teams played.

It was 2004, in a three-game set in Texas. Even in this era of interleague play, that’s the only time the Cardinals and Rangers have met when it meant something. According to STATS LLC, that matches the fewest games between a pair of opponents in the majors, tying Mets-White Sox. Game 1 is Wednesday night in St.

Louis, with aces Chris Carpenter of the Cardinals and C.J. Wilson set to start. The opening odds see Texas as a small favorite.

“The Rangers are scary. They’re a scary team,” said Freese, the NLCS MVP. “You look at that lineup, you look at that staff. It’s going to be a battle.”

“I think we’re a team that can match up with them a little bit. And they’re confident, we’re confident. It’s been a tough road. I’ve definitely been watching the ALCS for sure. That’s some good ball over there,” he said.

Consider this an old-school World Series: top names on both sides, many of them facing each other for the first time — the way it was before AL and NL clubs began playing each other all through the summer.

Think of Ted Williams vs. Stan Musial, maybe.

Musial, in fact, might even be at the ballpark next week. The 90year Hall of Famer who helped the Cardinals win three World Series crowns was at Busch Stadium during

the playoffs for pregame ceremonies.

Stan the Man and the Cardinals beat Williams and the Red Sox in the 1946 Series. More than a quartercentury later, Williams became the first manager in Texas history after the franchise moved from Washington.

It took a lot longer for Texas to finally reach the Series. Hamilton, Cruz, Michael Young and the Rangers made their first appearance last year, only to get shut down by San Francisco’s pitching in a five-game wipeout.

“We weren’t very happy with the results, and we certainly knew that we were a better team than we showed,” manager Ron Washington said.

The Series shifts to Arlington for Game 3 next Saturday. The next day, there will be a doubleheader in Texas, of sorts — St. Louis Rams at Dallas Cowboys, then Cardinals at Rangers.

St. Louis has won 10 Series titles, second most to the New York Yankees’ 27. Manager Tony La Russa, Pujols and the Cardinals last took it in 2006, helped by Series MVP David Eckstein.