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By CARSON WILSON News editor

Woman executed in Texas for 1998 torture killing HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A woman convicted of torturing and killing a mentally impaired man she lured to Texas with the promise of marriage was put to death Wednesday evening in a rare execution of a female prisoner.

The lethal injection of Suzanne Basso, 59, made the New York native only the 14th woman executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. Almost 1,400 men have been put to death during that time.

Before being put to death, Basso told a warden who stood near her, “No sir,” when asked to make a final statement. She appeared to be holding back tears, then smiled at two friends watching through a window.

She mouthed a brief word to them and nodded.

As the lethal dose of pentobarbital took effect, Basso, dressed in a white prison uniform, began to snore. Her deep snoring became less audible and eventually stopped.

She was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. CST, 11 minutes after the drug was administered.

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TEXAS SECRETARY OF State Nandita Berry discusses voter registration, early voting and the new photo ID requirements for voting during her visit to Lubbock on Wednesday in the Lubbock County Office of Elections. Berry is the 109th Texas Secretary of State and the first Indian American to hold office.

Before Texans head to the polls to vote on future leaders of the Lone Star State, they will need to make sure they are familiar with new voter ID laws before casting a ballot.

Nandita Berry, Texas’ 109th secretary of state, visited Lubbock Wednesday to inform citizens about the upcoming elections and the state’s new voter ID law.

“We’re on a three-week tour to every geographic corner of Texas,” she said. “We want to make sure that every voter who walks into those primaries has everything they need.”

Berry, Texas’ first Indian-American secretary of state, was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry and was sworn into office Jan. 7, according to the Texas Secretary of State website.

The early voting period for the Democratic and Republican primary election begins Feb. 18 and ends Feb. 28. Voting for the primary election starts March 4, according to the Vote Texas website.

Primary elections are the first step to determine which candidates for each party will appear on the ballot in the November elections.

Early voting for the primary run-off election will take place May 19 through 23, and the primary run-off election is scheduled for May 27, according to the website.

“We want to be sure that every eligible vote counts,” Berry said.

In 2011, Texas attempted to pass a law requiring voters to show government identification, according to a previous The Daily Toreador article. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, a federal law, blocked this law until the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the law. Texas no longer needed federal approval to change voting ID laws.

The state immediately implemented its

Early Primary Elections Feb. 18-28 Local voting centers Early elections to determine which candidates will run for each party.

voter ID law, which requires citizens to show a government ID to vote.

Raul Cevallos, vice president of Tech Student Democrats, said he is worried about the new ID law.

“I have my own concerns that a lot of uninformed voters are not going to be aware of the new laws that have been passed,” he said, “and that will be a deterrent for them to not want to vote.”

A valid government ID includes a Texas identification card, a Texas driver’s license, a Texas concealed-handgun license, U.S. password, U.S. military ID with photo or a U.S. citizenship certificate with photo, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s website.

If someone does not have any form of identification, citizens may be qualified for a free election identification certificate, according to the website. After qualifying, an EIC is valid for six years.

“We want students to go out to the polls,” Berry said. “As long as they have one of those forms of photo ID, they should be able to go vote in the polls.”

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Texas Tech students to University museum debuts showcase documentary Native American exhibit

By KAITLIN BAIN staff writer

Students will have an opportunity to see how their lives can change the world while watching the documentary “Compelled By Love” Friday from 7-9 p.m. in the Escondido Theatre of the Student Union Building.

Jill Hurley, executive director of 24/7 prayer at Tech, said the documentary is about a married couple, Rolland and Heidi Baker.

The Bakers have spent the last 20 years in Mozambique working with orphans.

“They are an American couple that were really gripped by the plight of orphans in Africa,” she said, “and decided

to do something about it.”

Hurley said she brought the documentary to Tech because she believes college students are in the perfect stage of life to make a difference in the world.

She said she wants to show students that no matter what their passions are they can make a difference and change the world for the better.

“I feel like one of the reasons I love working with college students is that college students are at a prime time in their life to really do something to affect the world,” she said. “They have the freedom and the capacity to really be passionate about justice issues, or anything.”

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By KAYLIN MCDERMETT staff writer

Texas Tech students have an opportunity to experience traditional Native American art during the Tech museum’s unveiling of the new renovation of its William C. and Evelyn M. Davies Gallery of Southwest Indian Art at 6 p.m. Friday.

The exhibit, called Beyond Expressions in Clay, focuses on works by Pueblo peoples of the Southwestern U.S., according to a Tech news release. In addition to viewing the art, the Tech Museum will be offering visitor interactions with various puzzles and books throughout the night.

Cameron Saffell, a curator at the museum, said the reopening of the gallery was a time-consuming project, but it was worth the time and effort.

“It was a six-month project, and we completely renovated the gallery,” he said. “There is new content with different focuses. Now most of the pieces are focused on the collectors and their interests. We even have a database that has all the notes they collected when they collected the pieces and when they were collected.”

The reopening will feature a completely renovated gallery offering enhanced access to the Davies Collection, according to the release. Portions of the exhibit have never displayed in the museum before. There will be award-winning art from contemporary Native American artists as well as pieces that are several centuries old. Many of the older works are clay pieces which show the artistic qualities of the Southwestern Pueblo peoples.

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Tech Activities Board, United Blood Services host biannual blood drive

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Blood donations occur across the country, helping hundreds of people with every donation.

Texas Tech Activities Board and United Blood Services are joining together today to host a blood drive in the Student Union Building from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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getting your blood taken takes about an hour, Reiter said.

“After they give blood, they get a ‘thank you’ bag from TAB with a bottle of water and some other goodies,” Reiter said.

TAB normally has a blood drive once every semester, Reiter said.

Reiter believes this is a great opportunity for students to give blood while not disrupting their busy school schedule, he said.

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Reiter said the blood drive will be today and Friday and anyone is welcome to participate.

Natalie Butler, Outreach Coordinator for TAB, said they have worked with United Blood Services in the past and enjoy joining with them.

“They are easy to work with and collaborate well with TAB each time they do a blood drive on campus with us,” Butler said.

Butler said she regularly gives blood throughout the year.

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“It is easy and there are people out there who really benefit from blood donations,” Butler said, “whether it’s life threatening or not.”

Donors go through a question process to see if they are eligible to donate, Butler said, and then are taken to the clinic that has been set up by United Blood Services for the drive.

After the donations, donors are required to remain in the area for up to 15 minutes and are provided snacks and water to make sure they do not become sick, she said.

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Erica Morin to speak at TEDx conference Staff Writer

Erica Morin, a visiting Texas Tech assistant professor, will be explaining to audiences why being “single isn’t a terminal disease” at the TEDx conference hosted

by Tech Saturday, according to a TEDx news release.

TEDx is an independently organized TED conference event, Tim Hayes, producer of the TEDx Texas Tech conference, said.

“TEDx events are meant to bring together students and people from the community so they can talk and share ideas,” he said.

Kellilynn Frias, assistant professor of marketing at Tech, said a panel of students, professors and staff at Tech reviewed each speaker candidate twice.

Morin will be talking about the continued pressure about be-

ing successful while married with kids, she said.

“Erica gives a very provocative talk about what it means to be a successful person today,” she said, “and what that means for expectations when other people believe that in order to be successful, you must be married.”

Morin said her talk will explain to audiences what it’s like to be a single, 30-year-old, educated woman in the 21st century.

She said she plans to use humor and put herself out there with her own experiences to make the audience laugh, as well as sharing some of her own wisdom.

“Basically I’m going to talk about some of the funny experiences I’ve had with dating that that some other women and men can relate to,” she said. “I’m also going to kind of offer advice to people, friends and family that

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and TV and all that, create expectations and images for men and women.”

She has had previous experience with the TEDx conferences and was invited to speak at the TEDx conference at Purdue in 2012 and really enjoyed it, she said.

When she saw the call for speaker applications in TechAnnounce, she said she was very excited and applied to speak at the Tech conference as well.

“I knew I wanted to participate, so I tried to come up with another idea that I thought would be fun and applicable and be something I had a little bit of experience with,” she said. “So I decided to pick this idea: talking about being an educated female looking for love.

Whoever was making the decisions liked it, so I get to do it again and I’m excited.”

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Tuesday 7:43 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated the burglary of a vehicle at the 1800 block of Knoxville Avenue. A tool bag and tools were taken from inside the secured vehicle.

9:20 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident at the 3200 block of Ninth Street.

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the Z4M parking lot. A vehicle’s driver-side mirror was damaged.

4:02 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident where an unattended vehicle, which was struck in the C11 parking lot.

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Evelyn M. Davies played an important role for the Tech museum. She is the director of the Diamond M Foundation and in 1996, added the Diamond M Galleries wing to the museum, according to a Tech news release.

She also established the Evelyn Davies Fund for Museum Support and the C.T. McLaughlin Endowment for the Ranching Heritage Center.

Rachael Thomas said she has been working on the new gallery for several months. She said the new gallery features the individual collections of both Evelyn Davies and her husband, Bill.

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A lot of her work involves showing all college students, no matter their background, beliefs, religion or passions, that their life is worth it and has a purpose that can help everyone.

She said she doesn’t try to give students a cause but show them their passions can help a cause.

“I think a lot of college kids feel adrift, like they don’t really know they can have a purpose or destiny.

I just radically disagree with that.

I think their life does matter,” she said. “I wanted to bring the movie that would inspire college students to believe that their life can be just as significant, and that they can make a difference in the world doing whatever they want.”

The “Compelled by Love” documentary was filmed over 20 years, 10 countries, and four continents, according to the Compelled

Preparation for a more personal TED talk is different than one more focused on technology, she said.

Although it is different, she said, she is looking forward to being able to share her life experiences to others, so they can learn from them as well.

“I think that the strength of my talk is that it is personal, and so whether it be women or men in the audience — old, young, straight, gay — everybody is going to laugh, and have a connection with it,” she said. “It might be harder for me to present in a way, because I’m putting myself out there and talking about some stuff some people might not really ever want to talk about in public, but I’m willing to do it, and I think the audience will appreciate it, enjoy it and connect with it.” ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com

“The gallery showcases objects they collected together, but mostly their own personal collections,” she said. “Bill collected most of the pottery, and Evelyn is more of the storyteller. The collection is over 400 objects, and some of them are on loan. Some pieces will be returned to them. We have pottery, textiles, baskets, paintings and Native American folk art.”

Friday night will be the museum’s First Friday Art Trail, according to the Tech museum website. There will be books and puzzles for children alongside the pieces in the gallery to educate children and adults about the Pueblo Peoples of the Southwestern United States. ➤➤kmcdermett@dailytoreador.com

by Love website.

The couple has worked in war zones, brothels and the African bush, according to the website.

“The film was made to not only tell the Baker’s story, but send a message to people of all kinds no matter their political, religious, or social preferences,” Laura Taranto, member of Heidi Baker’s publicity team, said.

Hurley said her main hope for students after watching this film is for them to realize there are people who are willing to help them reach their goals no matter what.

She believes students just need an extra push and a little bit of help to make any dream they’re passionate about come true.

“I hope students will realize that their life matters and the things they’re passionate about matter,” she said, “and there are people who are willing to support them to achieve their dreams. It really does make a difference in the world.” ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com

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Abigayle Spencer, chairwoman for Tech College Republicans, said the law will help voting in Texas.

“The people who will be voting have to show an ID so we know it will be them, versus someone pretending to be someone else,” she said.

This upcoming election will be the second election where the new voter ID law has been implemented.

The last election was a constitutional amendment in 2013, Berry said. If the results in the 2013 election are compared to the 2011 constitutional amendment election, which was before the voter ID law was implemented, there is a 66 percent increase in voters.

Berry does not know whether or not the ID law affected the 2013 election, she said.

“I don’t know about the new law, but our offices and local offices worked night and day to get the message out about the election and the fact that people needed a voter ID,” she said.

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Fencer achieves highest rating, gold medal Staff Writer

Years of hard work and dedication have paid off for one Texas Tech fencing club member.

The Double T Fencing club competed in the 34th annual Poujardieu Memorial tournament at Texas State University Jan. 25.

Derik Nusz, a sophomore electrical engineering major from Amarillo and member of the club, won a gold medal in the Mixed Epee event at the tournament.

“The winner gets the highest classification you can get in fencing,” Nusz said. “I just went down there and won.”

This was Nusz’ first time competing in this tournament, he said, and it is a high ranked event.

Nusz practices regularly with the fencing team and has been fencing for almost 11 years, he said.

“It feels pretty good to have won,” he said, “but I’d say the people around me were more excited than I was.”

The event was open to everyone, Nusz said, but consisted mostly of competitors from the Houston and Austin areas.

Fencing is a sport combining strategy and physical skill, Nusz said, and the bouts are 15-touch bouts, so every time you stab someone, you

get a “touch,” and then you reset thing you have to work at for years and go again. in the fencing community to get to.”

“Fencing is often described as The fencing club is one of 25 physical chess because you have sport clubs on campus affiliated with to plan ahead and watch out for some sort of recreational activity, your opponent planning on you,” Thomas said.

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Laura Thomas, assistant director He has known Nusz for almost 10 of sport clubs and intramurals, deals years, Clements said, starting when with the club’s budgeting and travel. Nusz came up through the Amarillo Thomas said Nusz’s achieve- College Fencing Program. ments are one of a very high level.

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Clements was not able to go to the Texas State tournament, but said he is aware of how great of an accomplishment winning was for Nusz.

Getting an A rating, he said, means a fencer is in about the top 10 percent of competitors in the U.S. “Winning a gold medal in any tournament is a good accomplishment,” Clements said, “but particularly one with the strength of the field the tournament Derik competed in.”

Nusz said he has more experience than most of the other fencers in the club because he has been practicing fencing since a young age.

He uses his experience to help other members of the club, Clements said.

“Derik has been a godsend to us because he came in with a lot of experience,” Clements said. “He has been able to help coach and pass on his skills and experience to many of our fencers.”

The fencing club is hosting a tournament on the Tech campus next weekend at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

Everyone is welcome, Nusz said, and the team hopes to perform as well as possible.

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DERIK NUSZ, A sophomore electrical engineering major from Amarillo, recently won an international open fencing tournament in San Marcos in the category of mixed epee and has been fencing for over ten years.

Real man portrayed in ‘Monuments Men’ Officials: NY suspect had Hoffman’s cell number tion. In the new movie “The Monuments Men,” Matt Damon portrays a character inspired by the real-life Rorimer, who died in 1966 at age 60.

“He was fighting for the art,” said daughter Anne Rorimer.

His contributions included helping discover works of art looted from German museums that were stored in Germany’s Heilbronn mines and helping to establish the Munich Collecting Point where works were received, processed and then restituted after the war.

The Monuments Men included architects, artists, curators and museum directors. The Harvard-educated Rorimer went on to become director of the Metropolitan Museum after the war.

Robert Edsel, the Dallas-based author who wrote the book the movie is based on, said Rorimer was “always a

whirlwind of activity.”

One of Rorimer’s major feats was gaining the trust of Rose Valland, the French art expert who had been allowed to stay behind at Paris’ Jeu de Paume after the Nazis made it the base for their looting operation.

Valland, who unbeknownst to the Nazis spoke German, managed to keep track of where the works — most stolen from Jewish families in France — were being sent.

But Valland, who inspired the character played by Cate Blanchett, was not going to easily give up her information. Living in Nazi-occupied Paris had made her wary, even of her fellow countrymen, and she wanted to know that she was giving the information to someone who would help return the works to their rightful owners.

medical advances and modern surgical techniques such as cancer treatments, organ transplants CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and open-heart surgery, due to “This blood drive is complete- the increased need for blood in ly voluntary, meaning students those fields. and other donors do not get paid “Blood donations are very imfor their donations,” Butler said.

According to the United Blood Services website, donating blood is completely safe and all materials used during the donation process are sterile and used only once, so you cannot get any infectious disease by donating blood.

“After one donates blood, you should feel fine,” According to the United Blood Services website. “The body averages 10 to 12 pints of blood, so it is easy to spare some without repercussions.”

Blood transfusions save more than 4 million lives per year, according to the website.

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portant for many types of diseases and/or accidents that occur every day which require blood,” Butler said, “and it is very important that there is enough blood available to these patients.”

DALLAS (AP) — As part of an Allied mission tasked with saving works of art during World War II, a homesick James Rorimer told his wife in a December 1944 letter from liberated Paris that he was working hard but worried about how much he was achieving.

“But I’m here to save works of art and that is what really matters,” he wrote.

Rorimer, then 39 and a curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, went on to carry out his mission successfully, helping to discover where works of art looted by the Nazis were tucked away across Europe. He was a leading figure in a group of 350 men and women from Allied countries attached to the U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Sec-

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NEW YO RK (AP) — At least one of four people taken into custody on drug charges during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor’s cellphone number, two law enforcement officials said Wednesday.

Investigators zeroed in on the four after a tipster, responding to publicity about Hoffman’s death,

told police he had seen Hoffman at the lower Manhattan apartment building where they were arrested on Tuesday and he believed that’s where Hoffman got the heroin, the officials said.

After obtaining search warrants for two apartments in the building, police found about 350 packets of heroin in one of them, the officials said. They also learned from phone records that one of the

suspects had Hoffman’s number, strengthening the theory that they may have supplied him with drugs, the officials said.

Some of the packets found in Hoffman’s apartment were variously stamped with the ace of hearts and others with the ace of spades.

Those found in the building where the arrests occurred had different brand names, including Black List and Panda, the officials said.

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Microsoft making changes, pointing to better future Weston Betts techcrunch.com, believed Gates should step down as chairman “to give Microsoft a clean slate unencumbered with legacy ideas of how it should develop.”

Mashable.com reports that while Bill Gates will not return as CEO, he will “step out from his longtime role as chairman and into a new advisory role, (one) with more active involvement in the company.” Techcrunch reports Gates’ new role as “Founder and Technology advisor” will allow him to “devote more time to the company, supporting Nadella in shaping technology and product direction.”

The selection of Nadella to become CEO, along with Gates returning to a more active role in the company, is easily one of the best steps in the right direction Microsoft has made in years. Through allowing Gates to become more involved in the daily life at Microsoft, Mashable. com reports that Gates will be spending a third of his time meeting with various product groups.

This will give Microsoft much-needed help in finding its direction in the product design sector. I believe that just as Steve Jobs reinvented Apple when he

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returned to being CEO in 2000, Gates still has plenty in the tank to help reinvent Microsoft through a slew of new products.

Not only does Microsoft get a great new CEO, but it also gets its founder back as a technology and product advisor. That’s a home run.

While the majority of people know who Gates is, I for one didn’t know who Nadella was until this announcem e n t . L e t ’s shed some light on what has been an extremely productive career thus far.

According to Microsoft.com,

Not only does Microsoft get a great new CEO, but it also gets its founder back as a technology and product advisor.

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hile Google has made major acquisitions to its company and Apple is rumored to be testing its new iWatch, Microsoft is having a regime change. On Feb. 4, Satya Nadella was appointed to be Microsoft’s newest chief executive officer.

This change should be looked at closely and not taken lightly as Microsoft, over the past 38 years, has now had only had three CEOs. This change, according to the Wall Street Journal, has been expected for the past five months as Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s previous CEO, announced his plans to retire in October.

Ballmer’s plans to retire within the year gave Microsoft ample time to fully dedicate to its CEO search. Various outlets in the media, as well as tech enthusiasts, believed Bill Gates should return to leading the company as CEO while others, according to

Nadella grew up in India where he received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. From there he attended the University of Wisconsin and received his first master’s degree in computer science, then his second master’s from the University of Chicago in business administration. Nadella sure seems to be a hyper-educated and ambitious individual.

Nadella has also shown extreme loyalty and understanding of Microsoft’s culture as he has been with the company since 1992. Before he was appointed CEO, his most recent position in the company was Microsoft’s executive vice president of cloud and enterprise. His last position is already seen incorporated into his new vision as CEO, as the latimes.com reported Nadella said the company “would focus on building … a mobile-first, cloud-first world.”

With Nadella at the helm

of Microsoft and Gates right alongside, this will be a powerful duo that could finally bring true ingenuity and innovation to a company that has been losing steam and trying to find its true brand position over the past couple of years.

As Google, Apple and now Microsoft have recently been making massive strides and waves in the technology community, it is easy to see that these companies are setting up what could be a true worldwide technology revolution.

Only time will tell if Nadella will be a fit for Microsoft, but as I leave you with my favorite quote from him, you can make your own opinion: “Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation.”

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When one thinks of CocaCola or Pepsi, images of polar bears and red-faced Santa Clauses with glass bottles of carbonated beverages come to mind. These two companies are infamous for their delicious and consistent products dating back to the 1800s.

Yet, during this year’s Super Bowl, Fox pulled an advertisement for SodaStream featuring actress Scarlett Johansson because it mentioned two major Super Bowl sponsors, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Fox assumed that Coke and Pepsi would have problems with the SodaStream advertisement because of the ad’s depiction of SodaStream as a healthier alternative to most sodas. Johansson even ends the advertisement with, “Sorry, Coke and Pepsi.”

This isn’t the first time SodaStream’s advertisement was excluded from Super Bowl coverage. Last year, their advertisement used Coke and Pepsi trucks to depict how many bottles are wasted at the hands of their competitors, causing it to be pulled yet again.

Fox shouldn’t be in the business of screening natural competition between rival companies.

To think that Coke and Pepsi, two of the United States’ most popular beverages, would suddenly become unpopular due to one competitor’s jab is completely unrealistic. Both trademarks have a history that SodaStream has yet to even possibly come close to — let alone surpass.

If anything, banning the commercial only enticed viewers to watch it online. SodaStream promoted the uncensored version online, garnering more than 10 million views. Even the hashtag #sorrycokeandpepsi circulated on the web.

Furthermore, Fox’s rationale for omitting the full version of the advertisement is misplaced.

Rather than worry about competition, it would make more sense for Fox to be concerned with advertising a company involved in human rights violations.

The Israeli-owned SodaStream recently came under fire by humanitarian organization Oxfam International and others for its controversial operation of its facility within the West Bank of the Palestinian territories.

“Oxfam believes that businesses, such as SodaStream, that operate in settlements, further the ongoing poverty and denial of rights of the Palestinian communities that we work to support.

Oxfam is opposed to all trade from Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law,” the company said in a statement regarding SodaStream’s involvement in the foreign controversy.

It makes no sense that Fox would choose to occupy itself with petty issues such as offending sponsors with a one-line zinger when there are more serious political issues surrounding these advertisements.

Regardless, censoring an advertisement for calling out its rivals isn’t just silly, but completely antithetical to the purpose of the advertisement in the first place.

Companies such as Pepsi and SodaStream don’t spend millions of dollars on an overpriced 30-second time slot to be friendly to their competitors. The point of advertisements is to highlight your product and resonate with the consumer. For what other reason would we see familiar faces such as Scarlett Johansson’s if not to convince society that we cannot live without these products?

SodaStream prides itself on being a healthier, more environmentally friendly alternative to its sugary, calorie-loaded counterparts. To discourage SodaStream from marketing its brand as such is ridiculous, and it’s not Fox’s place to tell them to market their product otherwise.

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UT had more recruits in Teach For America’s 2013 cohort than any other university in the nation. Teach For America, an organization that places high-achieving college students into low-performing schools in an effort to directly address educational inequality, appears for many UT students to be an avenue toward participating in a broader movement for social justice.

For me, a student who considered and ultimately decided not to apply to TFA, the program’s appeal had little to do with the organization’s promises that I would be a part of the “civil rights movement” of our generation. It wasn’t that I wasn’t interested in working on the problem of educational inequality. I was. But my first encounters with TFA challenged the organization’s claim that it was in fact working toward ending educational inequality and revealed the many problems with the organization. Among them: the minimal training its recruits receive before taking control of their own classrooms, its role in the casualization of the teaching profession and its unclear record of increasing student achievement.

Moreover, despite the radical rhetoric TFA often employs, it has no public record of denouncing austerity and de facto school segregation, and

TFA’s role in education “reform,” there was no way I could comfortably be associated with the organization — even if I knew privately I wasn’t drinking the Kool-Aid. TFA cannot be separated from the corporate-driven movement it is embedded in and of which its alumni have become key leaders. This movement, funded in large part by wealthy benefactors such as the Gateses and the Waltons, the families behind Microsoft and Wal-Mart, respectively, relies on applying business practices such as increasing competition, emphasizing data and evaluation and promoting efficiency in the educational sphere. Despite huge investments of both public and private funds, these strategies have done little to increase student achievement and reduce educational inequality. Disturbingly, TFA as an organization propagates the same misguided assumptions of their big-time donors, among them the idea that all students can learn despite their circumstances, an assertion that grossly underestimates the role that poverty and racism play in the lives of students.

Second, I have come to believe that despite the limits of our current model of higher education, all teachers should be extensively trained before they enter the classroom. One TFA alum quoted in a recent educational study explained why: “My students need experienced teachers who know what works and who

can implement it effectively … instead, they have me, and though I am learning quickly, I am learning on them.”

Additionally, teachers who seek placement in urban districts should be trained to build inclusive classrooms and work with curricular materials that are relevant to the demographics they are teaching, especially those recruits who are white and did not come from urban communities. One study of TFA’s training practices revealed that the conversations about the role of race in the classroom during TFA’s five-week summer training course “developed superficial racial knowhow for white students … and offered little insight to corps members of color.”

Too often, TFA preys on idealistic students who are excited by the chance of putting their ideas into action and who are largely ignorant of the broader implications and potential problems of participating in such a program. For many of those students who are aware of TFA’s many problems and still decide to participate, their reasons for doing so, a need for free advanced education, are often quite valid. But until TFA fundamentally changes its model for teacher training, it should not be “used” as an avenue to the classroom by Longhorns who are serious about achieving educational justice. The many problems of TFA are too large and myriad to be addressed by even the best of intentions.

Beatles ‘Ed Sullivan’ performance one of TV’s greatest moments

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Television as we know it has been in our lives for more than 60 years.

Since its infancy, television has informed and entertained the public. Events like 9/11 and the moon landing were brought to life through the often-polarizing medium of television.

Although there have been many important moments in television history, it’s easy to see that the Beatles playing on the Ed Sullivan Show Feb. 9, 1964 is one of the most significant.

In many ways, the Beatles performance changed how Americans perceived rock ‘n’ roll and showcased the intangible qualities that television would infuse into

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has received generous donations from conservative foundations — hardly the marks of an organization that claims to be part of a progressive revolution in educational justice.

Still, I remained interested in TFA for pragmatic reasons: I knew I wanted to be a teacher in an under-resourced district, and TFA was a way to do that while getting a master’s degree for free.

Unlike many of TFA’s recruits, I planned to be a career educator, and looked to TFA as more than just a stepping stone to adult life. For this reason, I played with the idea that I was exceptional among TFA recruits, that a handful of life experiences and political views made it OK for me, a white woman, to dive into America’s lowest-performing schools untrained.

After all, I had attended a multi-racial school in an urban setting, worked as a camp counselor throughout my college summers and had several experiences developing curriculum and lesson planning. I had critical-theory coursework and anti-racist organizing experience.

I considered that perhaps these were enough to allow me to stand in front of a class of students who more than likely would not look like me without reifying racial hierarchies.

Ultimately, my decision not to apply to TFA came down to two unresolvable issues. First, given my knowledge of

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American pop-culture.

In one fell swoop, the jawdropping performance by the Beatles reached more than 73 million Americans.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 192 million people lived in the U.S. in 1964.

Having more than 45 percent of the country watching one program showed how television could dictate the national conversation.

This reinforces the now commonly held belief that television has the ability to unite people from all backgrounds.

The event also catapulted the Beatles from another British band into a pop-culture sensation. Before Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles were seen as an exotic import from the U.K. After performing hits like “All My Loving” and “I Want

to Hold Your Hand,” the Beatles skyrocketed their brand of rock ‘n’ roll into popularity.

Sporting flashy haircuts, infectious accents and an indescribable charm, their performance showed a sample of what was to come, a level of fame that no musician except Elvis Presley had offered at that time.

Hearing the Beatles perform, though, simply wasn’t enough.

America had to see them live.

Without their appearance on American television, the Beatles would not likely have crossed over into the States.

For many of America’s great rock artists, the Beatles were often their primary source of inspiration.

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hard to measure, but rock legends agree it was a turning point.

“The Beatles came on The Ed Sullivan Show and it was like the whole world changed overnight,” rock legend Tom Petty said about the performance, according to the Telegraph.

In addition to inspiring a generation, the Beatles performance also exemplified how television could single-handedly dominate what people talked about in their lives.

Sunday will mark 50 years since the Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan show. What makes that show even more unique is how many living Americans remember watching the moment live on TV. Because of its effect on America as a whole, it’s easy to see why this moment will remain as the greatest in television history.

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The Red Raider football team signed a total of 25 athletes on National Signing Day yesterday, including a defensive lineman that can tear a

phonebook in half with his bare hands.

Rika Levi, a 6-foot-2-inch, 350-pound defensive lineman from south San Francisco according to a Tech athletics news release, is one of eight junior college players in the 2014 football recruiting class, and coach Kliff

PHOTO BY DANIELLE ZARAGOZA/The Daily Toreador FOOTBALL COACH KLIFF Kingsbury speaks at a press conference during signing day on Wednesday in the Spyke Dykes Team Meeting Room.

Kingsbury said while on his official visit, the four-star recruit demonstrated his strength by ripping phonebooks in half.

Assistant defensive line coach John Scott Jr. recruited Levi, who chose Tech over Oregon and Missouri.

“Very, very, very athletic big-man,” he said. “(Levi) has great feet and is extremely strong and very disruptive.”

Another four-star recruit the Red Raiders added is the 2013 Texas Associated Press Sports Editors High School Player of the Year, quarterback Patrick Mahomes from Whiteouse.

Mahomes played three sports during high school, and Kingsbury said once they get him focused more on football, there is no telling how good he can be. “(Mahomes is) a winner. You watch him play and he willed his team to victory over and over,” Kingsbury said.

“Really think he’s just scratched the surface with having played different sports throughout the year. When he focuses on football the majority of the time, I think you’re really going to see him take off at that position.”

One concern Kingsbury has about Mahomes is how highly sought after he is as a Major League Baseball prospect.

Mahomes’ father was a professional pitcher for some time so there is some influence there, but Mahomes wants to go to school, and Kingsbury said he would be willing to share him with the Tech baseball team as well.

“When you see (Mahomes) in person, he’s a big, impressive kid and I think he’s just gonna get bigger and stronger and faster,” Kingsbury said.

“I know he wants to come to college, but you never know how that money is gonna be.”

The Red Raiders signed one other athlete who played quarterback for his high school team, Ian Sadler, but Sadler

will most likely play wide receiver at Tech, Kingsbury said.

Sadler will most likely play immediately, Kingsbury said, and he is similar to former Tech wide receiver Wes Welker.

“He has the same elite-level soccer background that Wes had and very similar in persona and does some things that look a lot like him, so we expect him to come in and contribute right away,” Kingsbury said.

Nearly one-third of the players the Red Raiders signed play the defensive back position, and Kingsbury said the signees will not only help with depth on defense, but with special teams as well.

One of the eight defensive backs in the recruiting class is Nigel Bethel II, the No. 24 cornerback in the 2014 class according to Rivals.

Bethel was recruited by cornerbacks coach Kevin Curtis, according to the release, and chose Tech over several other schools, including Miami and Florida State.

“Very fast, explosive player that has won a state championship two years in a row, and a national championship this year,” Curtis said. “He’s played some really good competition coming from Miami.”

Kingsbury said there were not very many surprises in this year’s recruiting class, and it was easier for him and his staff because he now has a year of experience.

“I feel good about (the recruits),” Kingsbury said. “Like I said, more of the character than anything. Good kids that are gonna change the culture of this place. Play hard, do the right thing on and off the field, and that’s what we’re about here. So we’re excited about that.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

West Virginia beats No. 21 Oklahoma in OT, 91-86 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Eron Harris scored 26 of his 28 points after halftime and West Virginia outlasted No. 21 Oklahoma 91-86 in overtime Wednesday night.

Juwan Staten added 20 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for the Mountaineers (14-9, 6-4 Big 12), who won their third straight. Terry

Henderson scored 17 points.

Harris forced overtime with a 3-pointer with 20 seconds left in regulation and scored six points in the extra period.

Travel problems prohibited Oklahoma from arriving at the arena until 90 minutes before tipoff. The Sooners overcame

that and a 14-point deficit in the second half but were limited to five points in overtime in losing their second straight.

Jordan Woodward led the Sooners (17-6, 6-4) with 23 points. Tyler Neal added 16 points, Buddy Hield had 15 and Ryan Spangler 10.

After traveling 2,000 miles,

Oklahoma was sluggish on both ends of the court. The Sooners shot 41 percent (28 of 69) from the field and surrendered the second-most points they have allowed all season.

Harris hit two 3-pointers in overtime, the second putting West Virginia ahead to stay, 8784, with 2:36 left.

Spurs win 16th in row vs Wizards 2OT (AP) — Tim Duncan scored a season-high 31 points Wednesday night before fouling out in the second overtime, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Washington Wizards for an NBA-high 16th time in a row, holding on for a 125-118 victory.

Patty Mills scored 11 of his 23 points in the two overtimes for the Spurs, who haven’t lost to the Wizards since a 110-95 defeat on Nov. 12, 2005. The Spurs moved ahead of Miami’s 15-game domination of Charlotte for the longest current team-vs.-team streak in the league.

Duncan also had 11 rebounds, and Danny Green added 22 points for San Antonio, but Tony Parker left at halftime and did not return.

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The loss marks the 12th loss in a row for the Lady Raiders, making their overall record 6-16 including 0-11 in the Big 12 Conference.

The Longhorns improved their record to 15-7 overall and 6-4 in the conference.

The game was close for the first five minutes before Texas went on a 30-3 scoring run in the first half to make the score 35-9. Tech was never able to the overcome the deficit.

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Seattle turns up for Seahawks Super Bowl parade SEATTLE (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of notoriously loud Seahawks fans cranked up the volume Wednesday, cheering, chanting and going berserk during a parade and ceremony to celebrate the first Super Bowl victory in the history of the franchise.

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Texas Tech soccer replenished its roster Wednesday with seven student athletes signing to join coach Tom Stone in Lubbock, according to a Tech athletics news release.

The Red Raiders are coming off a 2013 season with a schoolrecord 18 wins.

Stone said there is plenty of anticipation for this 2014 recruiting class to arrive on campus.

“These players are not only a great fit for us on the soccer field,” Stone said, according to the news release, “but they are excellent students and will be terrific representatives of the Red Raider Nation.”

The recruiting class features a strong Texas presence with four of the seven recruits coming from the state.

Two of the remaining recruits come from California and one from Missouri.

Stone was only one recruit short from matching the seniors he lost to graduation. The seniors combined

for 55 victories in the last four years.

He understands the needs created by the departure of the seniors are daunting but feels comfortable with the ability of this incoming recruiting class to adequately fill those needs, he said.

“We obviously had some significant needs to fill with the graduation of the most successful class in program history,” Stone said, ”and we feel these needs have been met on the defensive and offensive ends of the field.”

However, the Red Raiders are not simply trying to replace the seniors in numbers, but in quality too, with senior departures including Sky Blue FC draftee Hayley Haagsma and All-Big 12 First Team goalkeeper Victoria Esson.

Goalkeeper Carissa Christensen will compete with redshirt freshman Lauren Watson for the vacancy Esson left behind.

Meanwhile, there are only two recruits who have been positioned as defenders. They will try to reduce what is lost with three defenders leaving the program.

These defenders, Cassie Conarty and Rebekah O’Brien, probably will not see their places cemented on the team as defenderS because they have shown multiple capabilities.

Conarty has played as a forward before, while O’Brien is familiar with the midfielder position. These two women are not the only individuals who can play more than one position.

Forward Haleigh Fancher joins them because she possesses the skill to be positioned as a midfielder as well.

The most pronounced characteristic evident in this recruiting class, besides the Texas flavor, is the ability to put the ball in the back of the net.

Five of the recruits have experience as forwards. Recruits Sara Summers, Natalie Schmutz and Alex Marmureanu are solely classified as forwards.

No matter their position or their classification, these recruits will try to help return the Red Raiders to the NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Tournament for a third-straight year. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Football season tickets on sale Texas Tech football fans can purchase season tickets for the 2014 season for as low as $25 per month if the tickets are purchased by Feb. 28, according to a news release from Tech athletics.

This year is the first year a seven-month payment plan is being offered for the tickets, according to the release.

“We are excited about the 2014 football season and look forward to setting yet another

attendance record at Jones AT&T Stadium,” Athletics Director Kirby Hocutt said in the release. “Season ticket sales are the life blood of our athletics program, and we encourage all Red Raider fans to act early and take advantage of the payment plans being offered.

Great things are ahead for this program and we don’t want the best fans in college football to miss a single moment.”

Fans can call the athletic ticket office or go to texastech. com to purchase season tickets, according to the release.

Season tickets are being sold for less than the price of individual tickets to the Arkansas and Texas home games combined, according to the release.

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Putin, recalling Boston bombers, wants Sochi safe PHOTO BY DUNCAN STANLEY/The Daily Toreador

AUSTIN FROST, a junior accounting major from Coppell, and other members of Sigma Nu’s intramural basketball team warm up before their game Wednesday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

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SOCHI, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin pointed Wednesday to the Boston Marathon bombings as a big reason for the intense security around the Winter Olympics that Russia is kicking off this week.

The Chechen brothers accused of the 2013 Boston attacks hailed from just a few hundred miles (kilometers) away from the Olympic sites at Sochi. This Black Sea town and neighboring Caucasus Mountains are readying to host world leaders, thousands of athletes and many more spectators at the Feb. 7-23 games.

Twin bombings in another southern Russian city in December have heightened terrorism fears around the Sochi events.

Intelligence agencies from multiple countries will be working together around the clock at a special headquarters in Sochi, Putin said while visiting Olympic sites Wednesday.

“In the U.S., people died at a marathon, during the G-8 there

were terrorist acts in the London subway,” he said, according to Russian news agencies.

Putin rose to power and popularity 15 years ago on law-and-order, hard-on-terrorism policies that critics say go too far and suppress human rights. He had long warned the West about the dangers posed by Chechen rebels, and urged closer security cooperation with Washington after the Boston Marathon attacks.

Putin has made security central to the Olympic project, in which he has taken an unusual personal interest.

Despite hang-ups and criticism and higher costs than any Olympics in history, Putin told athletes and staff Wednesday that “Russia is ready to host the games.”

The Olympic zone on the Black Sea shore still looks like a construction area. Some hotel rooms aren’t quite finished. And electricity outages occasionally disrupt the intense security measures.

Putin obliquely referred to the

unfinished nature of some sites, calling Sochi “the world’s biggest construction project.” The construction started largely from scratch, as workers filled in swamp land on the shores of the Black Sea for the skating arena, hockey stadium and other key sites, and built up ski facilities on what had been largely untapped slopes.

Putin proudly oversaw the raising of a Russian flag in front of Olympic venues, but didn’t mention other criticism he and Russia have come under about the games: corruption in building projects, pressure on environmental activists, anger over a Russian law seen as infringing on gay rights, even a campaign to shoot stray dogs in Sochi’s streets.

Humane Society International sent Putin a letter urging him to stop targeting the dogs. Calling it “not only inhuman but ineffective,” the group in a statement recommended mass sterilization and vaccination instead.

Rangers reach naming deal with Globe Life ARLINGTON (AP) — The Texas Rangers reached a 10-year deal Wednesday to immediately change the name of their 20-year-old stadium to Globe Life Park in Arlington.

Rangers Ballpark is being renamed under an agreement with Globe Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Oklahoma City. Globe Life, which began operations in 1951, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torchmark Corp. in McKinney, which is in the Dallas area.

F i n a n c i a l t e r m s w e r e n ’t disclosed.

“Globe Life is the perfect partner — a Texas-based company that has been helping families with their insurance needs for more than 60 years,” Rangers co-owners Ray Davis and Bob Simpson said in a statement. “This agreement makes us a stronger organization, on the field and in our community. It will give us increased flexibility and help us remain competitive from both short-term and long-term perspectives.”

Last July, the adjacent Dallas Cowboys’ stadium was renamed AT&T Stadium under a lucrative long-team deal with the Dallasbased telecommunications giant.

Under the agreement, Globe Life will be the official life insurance partner of the Rangers.