The political "party" getting the most attention right now is not the Democratic or Republican Party. It is the tea party. The tea party, which stands for "Taxed Enough Already," has shaken up the political culture in America. The Democrats see it as a microcosm of how the Republicans are becoming more and more radical and out of touch with regular people. The Republican Party sees it as a fringe conservative group that could help but will probably hurt the GOP in November.

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Don Mills said the university was on heightened security alert Tuesday because of an incident at a University of Texas at Austin library.

According to a UT Austin alert update on the campus website, a suspected gunman fired shots on the UT Austin campus before he was found dead on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Mills said campus police were at a heightened awareness because of the potential for copycats, but no current threat had been identified on campus.

Senior Britanni Johnson didn't have time for a boring internship where she only shredded paper and answered phones, so she managed to acquire an internship at the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee. With past experience working a lead role in the video game Borderlands, the political science major says she is keeping her options open.

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As students started their Tuesday morning, many checked their cell phones, Twitter and Facebook accounts. What they found was news of a shooter on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.

Colton Tooley, a sophomore mathematics major, began firing an AK-47 assault rifle on the UT campus yesterday morning, according to a brief released by UT.

Students who had signed up for campus alerts received warnings of the gunman through text message, a siren and a loudspeaker system, according to the brief.

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Don Mills said the university is on a heightened security alert today because of an incident at a University of Texas at Austin library.

According to a UT-Austin alert update on the campus website, a suspected gunman fired shots on the UT-Austin campus before he was found dead on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castaneda Library from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Mills said campus police were at a heightened awareness because of the potential for copycats, but that no current threat had been identified on campus.

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It seems logical that people believe things only if the evidence tells them so. But in my experience, this is not the case. People mostly only believe what they hear on TV from wackos like Dr. Oz, old wives' tales from their moms or just talk amongst their friends. That's fine. People don't have the time to look at every single thing they hear to make sure it's true. Other times, it can create problems.

Take teachers' salaries, for instance. It's pretty much understood that teachers are underpaid and educate our children for little money. Or is it?