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in shape.OPINIONS, Pg. 3

Daytime Dash

DUNTE HECTOR, A mechanical engineering major from Harker Heights, fi nishes the run during the Splash & Dash event at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center Saturday morning.

PHOTO BY SCOTT MACWATTERS/The Daily Toreador

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of gay couples dressed in formal suits and striped trousers, gowns and T-shirts recited vows in emotion-choked voices and triumphantly hoisted their long-awaited marriage certifi cates on Sunday as New York became the sixth and largest state to recognize same-sex weddings.

Couples began saying “I do” at midnight from Niagara Falls to Long Island, though New York City became the sometimes raucous cen-ter of action by daybreak Sunday as couples waited on a sweltering day for the chance to exchange vows at the city clerk’s offi ce.

Thousands of protesters rallied in several cities around the state, a signal that the long fi ght for recogni-tion may not be over just yet.

State Sen. Ruben Diaz, a min-ister who was the sole Democrat to vote against gay marriage when the Legislature approved it, told a crowd near the United Nations that he and other opponents would try to get Sunday’s marriages annulled, saying judges broke the law by waiving the 24-hour waiting period without a good reason.

“We’re going to show them next week that everything they did today was illegal,” he said, speaking in Spanish. “Today we start the battle! Today we start the war!”

But a party atmosphere reigned in the lobby of the Manhattan clerk’s offi ce, with cheers and ap-plause breaking out whenever a couple was handed their white-and-blue wedding certifi cate. Balloons

fl oated overhead. One couple wore matching kilts; another wore spar-kly crowns. Children scurried up and down the lobby; workers with bullhorns called out the numbers of each couple.

Poignant signs of pent-up emo-tion were common from couples who had in some cases waited for years to wed. Couples cried and voices qua-vered. Newlywed Douglas Robinson exclaimed, “You bet your life I do!” when asked if he would take Michael Elsasser as his spouse.

The first couple to marry in Manhattan were Phyllis Siegel, 77, and Connie Kopelov, 85, who have been together for 23 years. Kopelov arrived in a wheelchair and stood with the assistance of a walker. Dur-ing the service, Siegel wrapped her

hand in Kopelov’s hand and they both grasped the walker.

Witnesses cheered and wiped away tears after the two women vowed to honor and cherish each other as spouses and then kissed.

“I am breathless. I almost couldn’t breathe,” Siegel said after the cer-emony. “It’s mind-boggling. The fact that it’s happening to us — that we are fi nally legal and can do this like everyone else.”

Outside afterward, Siegel raised her arms exultantly as Kopelov, in the wheelchair, held out a marriage certifi cate.

New York’s adoption of legal same-sex marriage is viewed as a pivotal moment in the national gay rights movement and was expected to galvanize supporters and oppo-

nents alike. The state joined Con-necticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, along with Washington, D.C., when it voted last month to legalize gay marriage.

Protest rallies were carried out in Manhattan, Buffalo, Rochester and Albany on Sunday afternoon. Gay marriage opponents unhappy that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmak-ers legalized same-sex marriage last month are calling for a statewide referendum on the issue.

Several hundred people crowded into the street across from Cuomo’s Manhattan offi ce to protest the new law. They waved signs saying “Ex-communicate Cuomo” and chanted “Let the people vote!”

“I’m here for God’s sake,” said Steve Rosner, 65, of the Lower East

Side. “To sanctify same-sex mar-riage is an abomination. It’s beyond belief.”

Hundreds more protested on the steps of Buffalo’s City Hall and at the state Capitol in Albany. Outside the Capitol where a month before jubilant gay couples celebrated the watershed vote, about 400 people gathered in a park in a protest they said was political, but had a strong religious thread.

Tre’ Staton, pastor at the Em-pire Christian Center in suburban Colonie and an organizer of the protest, said he lobbied lawmakers in the run-up to the New York Senate vote and was frustrated they passed a law he doesn’t believe many people support, particularly in the black community.

Couples wed on 1st day gay marriage is legal in New York

GRAND PRAIRIE (AP) — As music blared from Fo-rum Roller World’s loudspeak-ers, children skated and adults mingled at an 11-year-old Texas boy’s birthday party — until his father suddenly pulled out a gun.

Shouting at kids to leave the snack area, 35-year-old Tan Do opened fire on his estranged wife and her fam-ily — killing her, her teenage sister and three other adults before fatally shooting himself in a rampage that lasted just a few terrifying moments.

“Kids were having fun and all of a sudden: ‘Bang! Bang! Bang!’” said Walt Hedrick, owner the Grand Prairie roller rink about 20 miles west of Dallas. “It was out of the clear blue. ... I didn’t know what was going on.”

Hedrick, who was about

Texas man kills 5, himself in roller rink rampage

40 feet away when the shooting began Saturday night, pushed some youngsters down and ush-ered them and employees into an offi ce to hide.

“There was nothing anyone could do,” Hedrick said Sunday.

Offi cers arrived quickly after the 7 p.m. shooting, ordering everyone to remain on the ground and shouting for someone to turn off the music.

“I didn’t realize it was playing,” Hedrick said.

Police said Do, of Grand Prai-rie, and his wife were estranged after ongoing marital problems and may have argued before the shooting. A public records search showed no criminal record for Do.

Police identifi ed those killed as his wife Trini Do, 29, of Grand Prairie; her sisters Lynn Ta, 16, and Michelle Ta, 28; her brother, Hien Ta, 21; and her sister-in-law, Thuy Nguyen, 25.

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Anders Behring Breivik said he was a boy when his life’s path began to turn. It was during the fi rst Gulf War, when a Muslim friend cheered at reports of missile attacks against American forces.

“I was completely ignorant at the time and apolitical but his total lack of respect for my culture (and Western culture in general) actually sparked my interest and passion for it,” the suspect in Norway’s bombing and mass shooting wrote in his 1,500-page manifesto.

The 32-year-old Norwegian said it was the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 that “tipped the scales” for him because he sympathized with Serbia’s

crackdown on ethnic Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. A year later he said he real-ized that what he called the “Islamiza-tion of Europe” couldn’t be stopped by peaceful means.

Police and Breivik’s lawyer says he confessed to, but denied criminal responsibility for, Friday’s bombing at government headquarters in Oslo and the mass shooting later that day at an island summer camp organized by the youth wing of the ruling Labor Party. At least 93 people were killed in the attacks.

Breivik’s manifesto chronicled events that deepened his contempt for Muslims and “Marxists” he blamed for making Europe multicultural. He

suggested his friends didn’t even know what he was up to, and comments from several people who had contact with the quiet blond man indicate he was right.

Jack Levin, a professor at North-eastern University who has written a number of books on mass murderers, said the manifesto helps Breivik show himself as more human.

“It makes the killer look like a victim rather than a villain,” Levin said.

From September 2009 through October 2010, Breivik posted more than 70 times on Dokument.no, a Nor-wegian site with critical views on Islam and immigration. In one comment, he entertained the idea of a European Tea

Party movement.In December of 2009, Breivik

showed up at a meeting organized by the website’s staff.

“He was a bit strange. As one could see from his postings, he had obviously read a lot but not really digesting it,” said Hans Rustad, the editor of the website.

But Rustad said he “hadn’t the faintest idea” about Breivik’s murder-ous plans.

“Other people have the same views on the Net and they don’t go out and become mass murderers. So how can you tell?” Rustad told The Associated Press.

In the document Breivik styles himself as a Christian conservative,

patriot and nationalist. He looks down on neo-Nazis as “underprivileged racist skinheads with a short temper.”

Part of Breivik’s manifesto was taken almost word for word from the fi rst few pages of the anti-technology manifesto written by “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, who is in federal prison for mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others across the U.S. from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Breivik did not cite Kaczynski, though he did for many other people whose writings he used.

Breivik changed a Kaczynski screed on leftism and what he considered to be leftists’ “feelings of inferiority” — mainly

by substituting the words “multicultural-ism” or “cultural Marxism” for “leftism.”

For instance, Kaczynski wrote: “One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of left-ism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general.”

Breivik’s manifesto reads: “One of the most widespread manifesta-tions of the craziness of our world is multiculturalism, so a discussion of the psychology of multiculturalists can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of Western Europe in general.”

Norway suspect: Serbia bombing ‘tipped the scales’

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Don’t just go to the gym; stay in shapePaigeSkinner

I am no workout queen. I cringe at the thought

of putting on my Nike shorts to actually do something athletic.

My roommate could not be more different. She’s Miss Work-out, the girl who can easily master any athletic sport you ask her to.

I, however, sit on the couch watching her grunt, sweat and take orders from Tony. This, of course, is all from her taking on the extremely challenging work-out of P90x; get your head out of the gutter.

But, more than working out, I hate just purely going to gym. Are people re-a l ly there to just work on their fitness or to work on their f i t n e s s w i t h that cute guy as their witness?

The gym has plenty of ste-reotypes lurk-ing in eve ry sweaty corner and observing them has to be the only reason I even step foot near a fitness center.

Even though I often eat Sheri-dan’s frozen custard in the Body-works parking lot on any given weeknight, I don’t think that really counts.

The first and most evident ste-

reotypical person at your average gym is the “meathead.”

You know, the guys who have more muscles than they know what to do with.

Also, the guy your mother tells you to date so he can protect you if you were ever caught in the middle of a violent on-campus

fight, in which, you needed your super muscular b o y f r i e n d t o protect you.

T h o s e a r e the guys who are watching them-se lve s in the mirror, l i fting all that weight, just waiting to catch someone looking at them.

The second most common person you are likely to see hitting up an on-campus gym is the beer belly.

OK, technically not an actual person, but the beer belly carries on a personality of its own. We all know the girls who work out like its their religion and who refuse

to eat that extra slice of pizza, but for some reason when the weekend rolls around, they have no problem hanging with the guys and chugging that Keystone.

They have indeed gained the freshmen 15 and can be seen at the gym running on the treadmill with headphones in, lip-syncing Lady Gaga lyrics.

And finally, there are posers like me, or maybe I’m the only one. I sit on the bike, barely peddling, while watching a re-peat of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

I go to the gym, mainly be-cause my roommate asks me to, and of course, getting fit is a nice plus.

After all my hours on the bike and elliptical, I can now successfully power-walk from

the Exercise Sciences building to the English building in ten minutes. I, of course, then take the elevator up to the third floor in the English building, because walking up those stairs is like walking to your death.

If you’ve ever had a class on the third or fourth floor in that building, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Classmates walk into class completely out of breath and hoping no one notices it.

But, we all do.The point is: don’t be lazy and

go to the gym. Keep your body vicious and work on your fitness, just like Fergie.

““� e second most common person

you are likely to see hitting up an on

campus gym is the beer belly.

BY WILLIAM JAMES GERLICHDAILY TEXAN

(U. TEXAS)

Lesser known GOP candidates show off moderate platforms

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachman, R-Minn., and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney have monopolized the media’s attention with controversial ideologies, but some of the 12 GOP contenders have more moderate tendencies that would appeal to the mainstream if they could get the public to pay attention.

Due to the political and economic climate, politicians that are not already famous are less likely to make the news because of cutbacks many media outlets are facing, resulting in a focus on Bach-mann and Romney, said UT law professor Sanford Levinson.

“In earlier days, a young rookie reporter would cover a less-known presi-dential candidate, like the initial coverage of President Barack Obama,” Levinson said. “Under the current economic crisis, newspapers and television stations have had to cut the rookie, so unless they are a very rich media outlet, they cannot afford to follow all of these candidates.”

The Daily Texan takes a look at three Republican presidential candidates that could appeal to more Americans, if only their names were more recognized.

Former governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson

Although Johnson is not ranked in

any presidential polls released thus far, he has won the hearts of some conserva-tives around the nation because of his small-government mentality and his outspoken criticism of the war on drugs.

As the former governor of New Mexico, Johnson follows the traditional conservative ideology of keeping taxes low and government small. During his time as governor from 1993-2003, he vetoed over 750 spending bills and left New Mexico with a $1 billion surplus.

Running on the platform “Toler-ance is American,” Johnson appeals to some Democrats with his liberal attitudes on social issues such as gay marriage, abortion rights and immigra-tion reform.

“It’s not American to give rights to certain groups of people and not oth-ers,” Johnson said on his website. “It’s not American to stir up irrational fears about other Americans’ religious beliefs and it’s not American to discriminate against others.”

Former governor of Utah and former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr.

Huntsman, a moderate, has been considered one of the most dangerous dark horses in the GOP race, and some political analysts say he could be the only candidate capable of unseating Obama because of the new brand of Republicanism Huntsman stands for.

Skinner is a junior public relations major from Garland.➤➤ paige.skinner@ttu.edu

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It isn’t a fun time to be a fan of the Houston Astros. I can’t imagine how much it must stink being a pretty good ballplayer stuck on this junky, last-place baseball club.

The Astros should trade their only consistently good player. Hunter Pence should not be wearing an As-tros uniform by this time next week.

This team is in utter disarray. Car-los Lee’s bloated contract still looms large, as does Brett Myers’ stupidly over-paid deal. The minor league system is a joke. The new ownership will likely perform a clean sweep of management. It will be tasked with cleaning up one of the worst run franchises in sports.

Pence is in the middle of one of his most impressive seasons as a professional. He is hitting similar to his rookie campaign. He still has a little pop in his bat and is driving in an impressive amount of runs to be wallowing in the fi lth of a last place team.

He needs to be shipped for the best available package of players.

The Astros shouldn’t sit on Pence. If his skills can bring back any players of worth, then the Astros need to seriously consider taking advantage of the interest in Pence.

There isn’t a huge market for an average offensive outfi elder, but the Astros need to explore every single piece of whatever market truly exists for Pence. Pence is 28, and still has two years of team control before he heads for free-agency.

Holding onto Pence makes little to no sense. The Astros are years away from competing again. Even if they were competing again in fi ve or six years, Pence would be almost 35 and be in a big contract. There isn’t really

a ton of room for improvement on Pence’s game, so he needs to be dealt.

There won’t be a better opportu-nity for the Astros to deal their only player with true value. With 16 teams either in fi rst place or within 6 games of fi rst, the Astros need to exploit anyone they can.

The Astros need to make sure they are greedy, but smart.

Pence’s value shouldn’t be overblown. The Astros should ask for the whole farm and settle for a good cow. They need to make sure Pence is used to replenish a poorly stocked minor league system. With the lack of talent at Oklahoma City and Corpus Christi, the Astros

should look for quantity. Just don’t sacrifi ce quality. Young players should be the tar-

get, no more reclamation projects. Even if the player is a few years away, the Astros should be willing to accept them.

Change needs to start from ground up. The poor trade deals and drafting have left the Astros with the worst team in baseball and the worst minor league system in baseball. The dealing of Pence would signify times have truly changed.

Good teams home groom their talent in the minor leagues and combine those prospects with smart free agent signings to become win-

ning teams. That is the formula, it seems simple, but the Astros make it look so hard.

Pence’s donning of a new jersey would allow the Astros to hopefully have a player or two to groom in their minor leagues. With the track record this management has in trade situations though, it is scary to think another trade could yield terrible results.

Just have faith Astros fans. No-body is bad forever. Just ask the Pirates, sometimes it takes 19 years to fi x things.

Astros should deal Pence, look toward futureCody Stoots

Stoots is a senior broadcast journalism major from Houston.➤➤cody.stoots@ttu.edu

WASHINGTON (AP) — Base-ball star Roger Clemens’ battle against perjury charges likely is far from over and probably will be the subject of a second trial, according to many legal experts.

Experts say Roger Clemens likely to go on trial again Clemens would have to convince

the judge that prosecutors intention-ally provoked him into asking for a mistrial by showing jurors evidence that had been ruled inadmissible because the government suspected

it was losing, the experts said.But the experts point out that

there’s no indication prosecutors would have wanted to start their case over so soon after it started because they only had spent a few hours pre-

senting evidence to the jury.Still, U.S. District Judge Reggie

Walton is considering the possibil-ity that putting Clemens on trial again would subject him to double jeopardy.

Walton, who declared a mistrial on July 14, has ordered both sides to submit their arguments in writing and has scheduled a Sept. 2 hearing.

Attorneys and scholars who have reviewed case transcripts provided by The Associated Press say a sec-ond trial seems likely under rules established by the Supreme Court.

“It is one thing when something like this happens three weeks into a month-long trial where the defense has poked big holes in the govern-ment’s case and effectively crossed

main witnesses,” said Andrew Wise, an attorney with the Washington fi rm Miller & Chevalier who special-izes in white-collar criminal trials. “But when you are on day two of a month-long trial, it is harder to argue that the government was throwing in the towel and goading the defense into seeking a mistrial so they could have a fresh start.”

Protection against double jeop-ardy is guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which says in part, “nor shall any person be subject for the same of-fense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.”

The Supreme Court has ruled that a defendant is considered to be in jeopardy once a jury is sworn in,

so Clemens had been in jeopardy for just over one day. But the question is whether the jeopardy ended with Walton’s declaration of a mistrial.

At least one prominent expert disagrees with the chorus of his col-leagues who are predicting a second trial. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said there’s no innocent explanation for why prosecutors put inadmissible evidence in front of the jury.

“The government constantly does this because they think they can get away with it,” Dershowitz said. “When you are preparing a case for so long, you don’t make errors like this. I have a high level of confi dence that a good lawyer could keep this case from being retried.”

PARIS (AP) — Cadel Evan’s history-making Tour de France victory is as much a testament to patience as it is to endurance.

At 34, the soft-spoken Austra-lian rider put aside the disappoint-ment of two runner-up fi nishes to fi nally stand atop the podium on the Champs Elysees on Sunday as champion of cycling’s great race.

In a meticulous race, run with a strategy of almost military precision, Evans won only the fourth of 21 stages on this year’s Tour, but always remained within striking distance.

It was only on the last com-petitive leg — the individual time trial — that Evans claimed his fi rst

Cadel Evans claims historic Tour de France title leader’s Yellow Jersey from nearest rival Andy Schleck and the ulti-mate prize after 20 years of cycling.

Wrapped in the national flag and with tears in his eyes, Evans listened as French-based Austra-lian singer Tina Arena sang their national anthem after he became the fi rst Australian, the oldest rider since World War II, and the fi rst man outside Europe or the United States to win the most prestigious race in cycling.

“I couldn’t be any happier. A few people always believed in me. I always believed in me. And we did it,” Evans said.

He celebrated after crossing

the fi nish line in the pack on the Champs-Elysee, embracing riders from different teams as the massive crowd on France’s most famous thoroughfare cheered wildly.

Evans bounded up the steps onto the podium, taking deep breaths, then appeared at the top looking calm and waved the bouquet he received in the air.

“Thank you to everyone. It’s re-ally incredible,” he told the crowd.

Evans was joined on the podium by the Schleck brothers of Luxem-bourg — Andy, who fi nished second overall for the third straight year, and Frank. Andy fi nished 1 minute, 34 seconds behind Evans in the fi nal standings.

Evans’ Italian wife, Chiara, stood at his side after the presenta-tion ceremony.

“I think he’s worked very hard,” she said.

Evans is the third non-European to win the Tour since it started in 1903. Greg LeMond broke the European dominance in 1986 with the fi rst of his three wins, and fellow American Lance Armstrong won seven straight starting in 1999.

It’s been a long wait for Evans, who fi rst showed himself as a chal-lenger for major races in 2002, and fi nished second in the Tour in 2007 and 2008.

Evans is the oldest winner of the Tour’s postwar period, narrowly eclipsing Gino Bartali of Italy — who was also 34 but slightly younger when he won in 1948. The age record was set by 36-year-old Firmin Lambot of Belgium in 1922.

“Cadel was the best of the Tour and he deserved to win,” said 26-year-old Andy Schleck. “Second isn’t bad, and my brother was on the podium, too. I’ll be back to win this Tour. We have a date for next year.”

This year was a far cry from the Tours of many recent years that were dominated almost from the start by Armstrong or, later, Alberto Contador. This was a race that defi ed predictions and was still hanging in the balance on the fi nal weekend.

Evans rarely made his presence obvious, but he was always there. Up every mountain he was never more than one bicycle length be-hind his rivals. He knew he didn’t need to attack to win.

Still, when Andy Schleck broke away from the fi eld on the climb of the Galibier pass on Thursday, observers thought Evans’ BMC team had made a critical mistake. But Evans remained calm.

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