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LIGHTNING STRIKES IN the background of the Ranching Heritage Center Sunday. The Ranching Heritage Center is a Texas Tech museum and historical park dedicated to the preservation of the ranching culture of west Texas.

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Lubbock Rescue Mission hosts barbecue fundraiser

By TRISTIN WALKERSTAFF WRITER

The Lubbock community came together Saturday to sup-port the newly founded Lubbock Rescue Mission, an organization whose priority is to help the homeless.

Lubbock Rescue Mission is a nondenominational faith-based organization that believes in helping those who are in need.

The organization hosted a bar-becue fundraising event open to the public from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Overton Park. The event included live music and ministry, a silent auction and an opportunity for the community to make donations.

The money raised at the fund-raiser will go towards helping the mission form a shelter and a kitchen to support a 90-day faith-based recovery program targeting men and women, as well as families with children.

Pandy Bell, chairwoman of Lubbock Rescue Mission, said the organization’s mission state-ment is, “To provide a hope and a future through the gospel of Jesus Christ; to plant seeds of healing in the lives, of the broken in spirit; to provide food, shelter and other resources in order to restore stability to the homeless.”

Bell said she herself was home-less once, and she understands what those who are homeless are going through.

“I know what it’s like to feel

hopeless,” Bell said. “I know what it’s like to just feel worthless and feel that there is no way out and that you’re just sinking further and further down.”

Bell said her inspiration for creating the mission in Lubbock was to help those who feel the way she felt and offer them hope.

S h e s a i d she based the m i s s i o n i n Lubbock on a rescue mis-sion program in Colorado Springs, Colo. — where Bell said she com-mitted her life to God and was rescued from months of homeless-n e s s a f t e r s t r u g g l i n g w i t h s u b -stance abuse.

Be l l s a id h e r f u t u r e goal for the mission is to include voca-tional and educational programs and housing assistance.

Christopher Curtis, a 43-year-old Lubbock man who has been homeless for two months, at-tended the barbecue and said he enjoyed a nice hot dinner and a

feeling of welcome for which he said he had been longing.

“It feels nice to just feel wel-come somewhere and have people come up to me and just talk to me,” Curtis said with tears in his eyes. “I can’t wait to see what

this mission will be able to do for people who are in the same situation as me.”

C u r t i s said there are many people who are strug-gling in the Lubbock com-muni ty. He said there are homeless peo-ple who are in need of help and not very many people who are will-ing to lend a hand. He said he i s real ly hopeful that this mission will be able to give comfort to those who really need it.

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Hurricane watches issued in Mexico, US

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane watches were in effect Monday for a stretch of Gulf coast in southern Texas and northern Mexico as Tropical Storm Alex gained strength and appeared on track to become a Category 3 hurricane before it makes landfall later this week.

Forecasters said the storm’s path could push oil from the massive Gulf oil spill farther inland.

Alex was swirling through the Gulf of Mexico with winds of 60 mph (95 kph) on a path that would take it very near the Mexico-U.S. border sometime Thursday, said the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. The storm is expected to become a hurricane Tuesday, and could build winds as high as 120 mph (193 kilometers) by Wednesday.

Tropical storm-force winds extended up to 70 miles (110 ki-lometers) from the storm’s center Monday, and Alex was moving slowly to the northwest.

Heavy rains in the southern Gulf coast state of Tabasco forced the evacuation of about 300 families from communities near the Usumacinta river.

The hurricane watches ex-tended about 225 miles (360 kilometers) south of the U.S. border over an area of sparsely populated Mexican coast, and about 100 miles (160 kilome-ters) north along the Texas coast from the Rio Grande to just south of Baffin Bay.

The tropical storm’s center wasn’t expected to approach the area of the oil spill off Loui-siana’s coast, said Stacy Stewart, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center. But Alex’s outer wind field could push oil from the spill farther inland and hinder operations in the area, Stewart said early Monday.

Alex caused flooding and mudslides that left at least four people dead in Central America over the weekend, though Belize and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula appeared largely unscathed.

It made landfall in Belize on Saturday night as a tropical

storm and weakened into a de-pression on Sunday as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula.

Mexico’s northern Gulf coast braced for heavy rains, and forecasters said precipitation from Alex will keep falling on southern Mexico and Guatemala until Tuesday, raising the pos-sibility of life-threatening floods and mudslides.

“It is a fact we are going to get very heavy rains,” said Gov. Fidel Herrera of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

On Sunday, heavy rains prompted a landslide in north-western Guatemala that dis-lodged a large rock outcropping, killing two men who had taken shelter from the storm under-neath, according to the nation-al disaster-response agency.

In El Salvador, Civil Protec-tion chief Jorge Melendez said two people were swept away by rivers that jumped their banks. About 500 people were evacu-ated from their homes.

There were no immediate reports of damage to Mexi-co’s resort-studded Caribbean coast.

By MIGUEL HERNANDEZTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Buddy Holly statue to be cleaned, stored for potential relocation to new Lubbock park

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A statue of famed rock and roller Buddy Holly will be moved into storage while Lubbock demolishes a broken fountain and prepares for

the opening of a new city park.Officials say commemorative

plaques and the life-size bronze statue, installed 30 years ago in Holly’s hometown, will be re-located to avoid damage during the fountain work. The statue is

expected to be cleaned during the time away from public display.

City spokesman Mark Year-wood says the items could be moved to the Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Park in October or November.

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BP recovery costs reach $2.65 billion amid tropical storm, shares plummetBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN AND

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOVTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP’s mounting costs for capping and cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico spill have reached $2.65 billion, it said Monday, but the oil giant denied reports out of Russia that CEO Tony Hayward is resigning.

The company’s expenses climbed $100 million per day over the week-end, according to an SEC filing Monday, as engineers eyed a tropical storm headed for the Texas-Mexico border. It was expected to miss the oil spill area but could still generate disruptive waves and winds.

It was a rocky start to the week after BP PLC stock fell 6 percent Friday in New York to a 14-year low. BP has lost more than $100 billion in market value since the deep-water drilling platform it was

operating blew up April 20, killing 11 workers and starting the massive leak that has fouled the coastline in four states.

British-based BP rushed to deny the report by Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency, which said a senior Russian Cabinet official had said Hayward was expected to resign as chief executive.

It quoted Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, before a Moscow meet-ing with Hayward on Monday, as saying that Hayward would intro-duce his successor.

“Hayward is leaving his post, he will introduce his successor,” Sechin said, according to RIA Novosti.

BP spokeswoman Carolyn Co-pland in London said the report “is definitely not correct.” Sheila Williams, also in London, said, “Tony Hayward remains chief executive.”

“They are mistaken,” U.S.-based BP spokesman Mark Proegler said of the Russian report.

After the meeting, a spokesman for Sechin said, “The issue of Hay-ward’s resignation wasn’t discussed.” Spokesman Rustam Kozharov said topics included the Russian joint venture TNK-BP, which accounts for about a quarter of BP’s reserves and production.

BP shares gave up some ground in London after the Russian report. But they were still up a fraction at $4.61. BP’s U.S. shares gained about 2.5 percent.

Moscow-based oil analyst Kon-stantin Cherepanov from the Swiss investment bank UBS said he gave little credence to reports of Hay-ward’s resignation.

“I’m sure there has been a misun-derstanding. Hayward’s resignation at this time and in this place lacks logic,” he said.

“It would make sense that Hay-ward would finish his job tackling with the oil spill and step down afterwards so that the new CEO wouldn’t have his burden on his shoulders.”

In a filing Monday to U.S.

securities regulators, BP said the cost of its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill had reached about $2.65 billion, up from $2.35 billion as of Friday. The costs include spill response, containment, relief well drilling, grants to Gulf states, claims

paid, and federal costs, but not a $20 billion fund for Gulf damages the company created this month.

BP said it had received more than 80,000 claims and made almost 41,000 payments, totaling more than $128 million.

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12:45 p.m., accident without injuries in the C2 parking lot.

June 169:45 a.m., theft of a bicycle out-

side the Texas Tech University Library.

6:56 p.m., investigation of graffiti on a bench south of Stangel Resi-dence Hall.

June 171 p.m., accident without injuries

in the 1000 block of Texas Tech Parkway.

2:37 p.m., theft of a toolbox from a truck parked at the Livestock Arena.

2:38 p.m., theft of a cellular telephone at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

3:02 p.m., accident without in-juries at the loading dock outside Student Housing Services.

3:06 p.m., theft of a bicycle from the racks north of the United Spirit Arena.

June 1911:51 a.m., accident without inju-

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8:57 a.m., investigation of graffiti on the sidewalk near The Southwest Collection and Special Collections Library.

5:45 p.m., accident without in-juries in the parking lot of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Medical Pavilion.

June 233:41 a.m., arrest of a non-student

juvenile pending charges in the theft of a bicycle in the 2900 block of 18th Street.

June 2411:44 a.m., accident without

injuries in the R3 parking lot.12:10 p.m., theft of tools at the

Texas Tech University Health Sci-ences Center.

12:32 p.m., theft of tools at the Texas Tech University Health Sci-ences Center.

1 p.m., investigation of obscene internet instant messages at the Texas Tech University Health Sci-ences Center.

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3:06 p.m., accident without in-juries at the intersection of Glenna Goodacre Boulevard and University Avenue.

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Eight of 10 were arrested Sun-day for allegedly carrying out long-term, deep cover assignments in the United States on behalf of Russia.

Two others were arrested for allegedly participating in the same Russian intelligence program within the United States.

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Three other defendants also were being taken to federal court in Manhattan — Vicky Pelaez and a defendant known as “Juan Lazaro,” who were arrested at their residence in Yonkers, N.Y., and Anna Chap-man, who was arrested in Manhattan on Sunday.

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OpinionsPage 4Tuesday, JUNE 29, 2010

FIFA should invest in goal line judges, video technology

By CHRIS LEAL

“All credibility, all good con-science, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” — Friedrich Nietzsche.

These are wise words from an even wiser man. In this day and age, though, our senses can be lever-aged and extended with the help of technology. Today, in the context of sporting events, these technologies are utilized by almost all professional leagues.

Tennis, American football, bas-ketball, baseball — all of these sports use the either readily available video recording and motion sensor tech-nologies in order to better aid the referees and judges in their pursuit of administering fair conduct in sport. And with most of these leagues be-ing multi-million, and in some cases multi-billion dollar industries, the few thousand dollars they might invest in extra referees and/or tech-nology to ensure exactness in referee calls is relatively miniscule.

Why then, as has become pain-fully highlighted by the 2010 World Cup Championship, has the Inter-

national Federation of Association Football, or FIFA (the acronym makes sense in French), continued to strictly adhere to its policy of not using goal referees or various goal-line technologies to better promote accuracy of its calls?

Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s long-time president, has said on numerous oc-casions that the federation’s decision not to implement technology into the sport is due to its attempt to pre-serve the “universality” of the sport of association football. By “universality” FIFA means “that the game must be played in the same way no matter where you are in the world.”

This is a rather silly and arcane ideal for FIFA to attempt to adhere to. No one is calling for rules that aren’t globally uniform, simply more efficient and effective ways of deter-mining the validity of goals. And with the numerous, and obviously wrong, calls we’ve seen already in this year’s World Cup, these demands don’t seem too unreasonable.

Yet FIFA contends “Fans love to debate any given incident in a game. It is part of the human nature of our sport.” While debating is one

thing, the calls that have recently been made to the disappointment of England, Mexico, and the United States have equated not to a close call, but simply bad and inaccurate officiating.

Aside from this “universality” excuse, FIFA also points its finger at costs as a reason not to implement goal refs or equivalent technology. In a recent statement, FIFA said, “So you know, by not putting goal referees behind each net, we save upwards of $500 per game. We stand by our decision.”

Okay, $500 a game, let’s put this into context. For this 2010 World Cup FIFA has projected roughly $3.2 billion in revenues. Out of that, there are roughly $1.2 billion in costs relat-ed to operating the event. This leaves an estimated $2 billion to be retained by the Federation; and they’re wor-ried about an extra $500?

There’s virtually no chance that FIFA would make any changes in their goal-line policies during this World Cup, and the federation has consistently voiced their dislike of video replays in order to deter-mine goal validity. But I think it’s very plausible, especially with the numerous errors and disappointing officiating that has been witnessed this year that FIFA will seriously consider using goal judges in the 2014 World Cup.

Human goal judges help to keep this “universality” quality Mr. Blat-ter is attempting to preserve, and from their statement on costs of the judges, it is a fairly economical alternative to goal-line technologies. In the end, to preserve its credibility, preserve its good conscience and to be truthful, FIFA will ultimately have to come to its senses and address this situation.

UT, A&M merchandise don’t belong on campusBy THOMAS LOTT

In the few trips to Wal-Mart that I take during the year, there is some-thing that always seems to bug me. There is more merchandise for the University of Texas than for Texas Tech here in Lubbock. There might even be more for Texas A&M, too. Or at least it seems that way.

This would not be that big of a deal if no one ever bought those shirts and jerseys, but it always seems like these jerseys make their way onto campus.

This is not such of a big deal right now considering it is the summer. If someone is here for summer school, there is a possibility that they might not go to Tech and then it is under-standable. But for those fans that make their way to campus decked out in burnt orange during the school year, I have this to say to you: You go to Texas Tech University, show pride in your school.

I have seen so many of these t-shirt fans it is disgusting. The shirts always seem to get worn on campus, and quite often no one says anything about it. Well I am saying this now: get those shirts off of our campus.

When people wear these shirts,

it reinforces a stereotype about Tech that true fans do not want any part of. I have heard so many times from my friends from UT and A&M that the reason we hate those schools so much, and they are right about us hating them, is that we couldn’t get into either of them and are bitter about it.

Well I for one did not even apply to UT or A&M, and I hate that stupid stereotype. There are many other people I know at Tech that would say the same thing and these people that sport the UT and A&M colors need to put those shirts away.

Not to mention the fact that wearing UT shirts makes that person a fair-weather-fan as well. This does not apply to those of you wearing A&M shirts, A&M would have to win before someone could be a fair-weather-fan for them. These types of fans are the lowest of the low. I see it every year and not just for UT.

When Alabama started off their season so well a couple of years ago, hats started popping up everywhere with the Alabama “A” on the front. Then when Tampa Bay started play-ing well in baseball, their merchan-dise started to show up.

For those of us that are true sports

fans, nothing upsets us more than the person that comes up to us and starts talking about how good the team they are currently rooting for is. This is even worse when your team is los-ing — like Astros fans like me that cannot even make it through three innings without fighting the urge to punch a hole through my television.

This is not just a problem on Tech’s campus, though. The entire city seems to be bathing in burnt orange the second that UT plays any type of game whatsoever. What happened to this being a Texas Tech college town?

They say there is a little bit of truth to every joke, and in this situa-tion, I cannot help but think of this one: I wear a Texas Tech shirt because I went there; they wear UT shirts because they went to Wal-Mart.

We need to show some pride for the school we are attending, not one that happens to be winning ball games. And in case people didn’t notice, we have some pretty good teams here ourselves, not to mention a good education to go along with it. Let’s wear our colors, not the ones that have a convenient band-wagon to jump on.

➤➤chris.leal@ttu.edu

➤➤tlott33@yahoo.com

American pride is not just for AmericansBy SHUANGQUAN YU

GUEST COLUMNIST

It’s near the end of June and my friend mentioned that July 4 is just around the corner. Oh, I should remember the day, an important day for the United States and for Americans.

However, does it have anything to do with me — a Chinese visiting scholar at Texas Tech? The first time July 4 made any impression on me was when I saw the film “Born on the Fourth of July” 20 years ago. For the first time I felt the freedom of the country due to the fact that an anti-war film of its nature could be shown in the United States.

Before I came to the United States, I thought I knew a lot about it. It’s the most advanced country with a sound democratic system. People are rich. Cars here are like bicycles in China and almost everybody has one.

As for freedom, you can jeer at the president in the media even to the degree of insult. Government officials are real servants for the people and they have no chance to be corrupted like Chinese

officials since the whole process of admin-istrative operation is transparent and under close supervision.

The United States is a kaleidoscope; there is nothing new and strange under the sky of the United States and the only limit is your imagination. Homosexual activists hold a demonstration every year to advocate their right — same-sex marriage. Sex workers go on strike for their supposed righteous interest.

The United States is one of the coun-tries with a high crime rate. All these things pieced together a strange picture in my mind which puzzled me: whatis the United States really like?

Then I came to the United States, the country I had dreamed of visiting. When my friend asked me which city I would go to, I answered him in Chinese word by word: la-bo-ka, just like the monologue way reading “Lolita” in Nabokov’s LOLITA. Yes, Lubbock!

This is the place where I began the jour-ney to know the United States. With more American friends I made and more visits to different cities, I began to know why America is a great country and why Ameri-

cans are great people. First, religion helps the United States to become a great country (also a surprising conclusion). Specifically, religion contributes a lot to the construction of the social ethics of the United States.

The phrase “In God we trust,” printed on U.S. currency, suggests the cornerstone of American belief. Numerous churches around the country have been playing an indispens-able role in shaping American national char-acter — honesty, a sense of justice, kindness and devotion. I make such a judgment by my observation and experience.

In Lubbock, many people are Christians. They believe in God and study the Bible. What is the Bible? Before I came here, I had regarded it as nothing more than a mixture of myth and history. But they tell me it’s God’s word in human language. Well, I’m unable to say much about this within my limited ability. But one thing I know is that it’s a book of great love. God is love. Jesus is love. And Jesus is a perfect example for human beings to follow. What the Bible teaches us is to love others, to devote ourselves.

Am I in the United States? Are they Americans? I’m under the clear impression from different media that the United States is a crazy streetcar of desires and the Almighty dol-lar governs everything. However, the other day, I saw a woman park her car in front of a store named “American Council of the Blind Thrift Store”. She took a package of clothes from her car and donated them. Then I find there are a lot of organizations here that work not for money. Second, America is a great country because the founders of this country cherished a noble ideal — all men are created equal.

This thrilling sentence has been resonat-ing in the sky of the United States since its foundation. Whenever I realize that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968 and 32 years later, a black American was elected the President of the United States, I’m amazed and awed by the incredible progress! Equality and social justice are what Americans value and pursue. I strongly feel this when I get along with Americans from different walks of life. Another important factor which makes America a great country is that the founders of this country created a political system with delicate mecha-nisms of checks and balances. Owing to the best, though not perfect, game rules, democracy survives and thrives, directing the great ship of the United States on the right course.

So, on the occasion of July 4, I want to say: I love America! I love American people! God bless America!n Yu is a visiting scholar in the department of educational psy-chology from Zhejiang, China.➤➤seal55@163.com.