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Students and passersby watch a demonstration of a TeleBot, right, which combines telepresence and robotics, during a demonstration at Florida International University, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 in Miami. A group of students at FIU's Discovery Lab is testing their version of a RoboCop that will allow disabled police and military personnel to serve as patrol officers. The TeleBot project began in 2012 when Jeremy Robins, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves, donated $20,000 to the Discovery Lab to develop the idea. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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The construction site where a wooly mammoth tusk was discovered is shown on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. The construction site is adjacent to the Bright Horizons Childcare and Early Learning facility in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood in the downtown core of the city. The Burke Museum confirmed that the ancient find is a mammoth tusk. (Associated Press/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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FILE - Regine Chassagne, center left, and Win Butler, center right, are joined by fellow band members of Arcade Fire to accept the award for album of the year at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on in this Feb. 13, 2011 file photo taken in Los Angeles. Arcade Fire is the top nominee for the 2014 mtvU Woodie Awards. The Montreal-based band has three nominations for the March 13, 2014 awards show celebrating music embraced by college students (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
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The construction site where a wooly mammoth tusk was discovered is shown on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. The construction site is adjacent to the Bright Horizons Childcare and Early Learning facility in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood in the downtown core of the city. The Burke Museum confirmed that the ancient find is a mammoth tusk. (Associated Press/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)
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Snow covers a car on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/The Daily Mississippian, Thomas Graning)
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Oklahoma State's Le'Bryan Nash (2) scores against Texas during the second half on an NCAA college basketball game, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Texas won 87-68. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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State Legislature interns Mahtub Zare Mochanloo, far right, and Sophanite Gedion, second row center, listen to testimony during a hearing on a bill which would allow Colorado public school teachers to carry concealed firearms during class, at the Capitol, in Denver, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. The Republican proposal has been made before without success, but the suggestion has additional relevance after last year's Arapahoe High School shootings, in which a student targeted a teacher. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Michael Eaton, Chief of Safety and Security for Denver Public Schools, gives testimony in opposition to a bill which would allow Colorado public school teachers to carry concealed firearms during class, during a hearing at the Capitol, in Denver, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. The Republican proposal has been made before without success, but the suggestion has additional relevance after last year's Arapahoe High School shootings, in which a student targeted a teacher. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In a Feb. 10, 2014 photo Rita Morrill, left, and Mary Ellen Park, relatives of Justin Morrill, are on hand with many others for the dedication of Morrill Plaza on the Michigan State University campus where Morrill Hall once stood. The hall was built in 1899 and 1900 and demolished last year. Nicknamed "The Coop," it once was a dormitory for female students and also housed home economics classrooms. The East Lansing university says the plaza honors the Morrill Act, as well as the history of women and their role in the early years of the university. (AP Photo/Lansing State Journal, Rod Sanford)
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Wake Tech Community College students wait for a bus out of campus as snow begins to fall in the late morning hours in Wake County just south of Raleigh, N.C. on Tuesday, Feb.11, 2014. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Corey Lowenstein)
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In this photo taken on Feb. 6, 2014, Red Red Wing High School social studies teacher Scott Bender poses for a photo in classroom in Red Wing, Minn. Officials in Red Wing are considering replacing Columbus Day with a new holiday to honor American Indians. The idea comes from Bender, who accuses history books and popular culture of romanticizing the story of Christopher Columbus. (AP Photo/The Rochester Post-Bulletin, Joe Michaud-Scorza)
