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Body in Texas believed to be missing Colo. woman SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Police say they believe a body found in suburban San Antonio is that of a Colorado woman missing nearly four weeks.

The San Antonio Express-News reports Garden Ridge police believe the body found Thursday is that of 33-yearold Leanne Bearden.

Police say Bearden’s ID and jewelry were found with the body. Few other details were released.

An autopsy was planned.

Bearden and her husband, Josh, are from the Denver area and had been staying at his parents’ home in Garden Ridge.

She was last seen Jan. 17 when she left her in-laws’ home for a walk. The body was found in a wooded area less than a mile from where she was last seen.

One love

‘Each relationship is different, but the love is the same.’

By CARSON WILSON News editor

Relationships are different. Some couples start off rocky, while others begin with smooth sailing. Some couples fight separation, and some fight for equality. Some face cultural contrasts, and others face the test of time.

Each relationship is different, but the love is the same.

Texas governor candidate Davis backs gay marriage SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor, said Thursday that she supports gay marriage and called on Attorney General Greg Abbott to stop defending the Texas Constitution’s definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.

Davis told the San Antonio ExpressNews editorial board that two people who want to marry should be allowed to do so regardless of their sexual orientation. She said if elected she would support the repeal of the voter-approved constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage.

She spoke the day after a federal judge in San Antonio heard arguments that the ban on gay marriage violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Same-sex marriage is legal in 17 states and federal lawsuits have been filed in 24 states.

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Different backgrounds • Before he moved to the U.S. at age 2, Angel Borja was born in Mexico, was raised in a devout Catholic household and attended private schools.

In middle school, Chase Barnes and his puppy love were having trouble. After the breakup, fellow middle schooler, Merideth Rollans, was there to ease the pain.

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In French class, Sarah McDonald, a sophomore anthropology major from Dallas, eyed Sydney Riley, a sophomore communications studies major from Houston, from across the room.

About 350 miles of Texas stand between Miranda Wallace and her boyfriend, Japhen Lott.

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PETA event gets mixed reviews

By KAYLIN MCDERMETT Staff Writer

Today Chocolate Fondue for Two Time: 11:00 a.m.

Where: The Market at Stangel/ Murdough So, what is it?

Enjoy dipping delicious treats into a chocolate fountain with your sweetheart.

Parsons Dance Performs in the Presidential Lecture and Performance Series Time: 7:00 p.m.

Where: Allen Theatre in the Student Union Building So, what is it?

Purchase tickets to see world renowned dance company perform right here at Tech on Valentine’s Day. The Love Below - Spoken Word Performance Time: 8:30 p.m.

Where: Human Sciences building

So, what is it?

Set in honor of Black history month and for women everywhere, come listen to these speeches about ending violence against women.

One Billion Rising Time: 1:00 p.m.

Where: Memorial Circle So, what is it?

Rally set in Memorial Circle for the support in ending violence against women and girls. Wear a white shirt and an accessory of your favorite color.

Sunday School of Music Staff Recital & Art Exhibit Time: 8:00 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Enjoy free music performed by the Texas Tech School of Music staff.

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Court revives widow’s legal fight HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned a judge’s ruling that had voided the marriage of a transgender widow whose firefighter husband died battling a blaze.

The 13th Texas Court of Appeals sent the case of Nikki Araguz back to the lower court, saying “there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding (Araguz’s) sex and whether the marriage was a same sex marriage.”

In 2011, state District Judge Randy Clapp in Wharton County ruled that the marriage between Nikki Araguz and her husband Thomas Araguz was “void as a matter of law.”

Thomas Araguz’s mother and his first wife had challenged the marriage’s validity, arguing the fallen firefighter’s estate should go to his two sons because Nikki Araguz was born a man and Texas does not recognize same-sex marriage.

Nikki Araguz, 38, had argued in court she had done everything medically and legally possible to show she is female and was legally married under Texas law and that she’s entitled to widow’s benefits.

Kent Rutter, Nikki Araguz’s attorney, said his client was very pleased by Thursday’s ruling.

“This decision recognizes that transgender Texans have the right to marry the person that they love,” he said.

Attorneys for Simona Longoria, Thomas Araguz’s mother, and Heather Delgado, his ex-wife, did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.

Longoria and her family have said Thomas Araguz learned of his wife’s gender history just before his death and had planned to end the marriage.

But Nikki Araguz, who remarried in 2013, has insisted Thomas Araguz fully supported her through the surgical process to become a woman. She underwent surgery two months after they were married in 2008. Thomas Araguz died July 2010 while fighting a fire at an egg farm near Wharton, located 60 miles southwest of Houston. He was 30.

In its 26-page ruling, the threejudge panel of the Corpus Christi-based appeals court wrote that Clapp erred by essentially saying in his ruling that Nikki Araguz was a man at the time of her husband’s death.

Attorneys for Longoria and Delgado had argued Nikki Araguz was born with male sex organs and had such organs at the time of her marriage, making it invalid.

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AUSTIN HOEFLER TALKS to Blake Babcok, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Aledo, and Rachel Dziuk, a junior biology major from San Antonio, about animal treatment at factory farms while giving a tour in PETA’s Glass Walls Exhibit on Thursday outside the Student Union Building.

walk through the interactive tent with students and inform them of the issues plaguing the U.S. meat-producing industry.

Sweet said students are oblivious when it comes to the conditions animals are raised and processed in. He said he is excited for the reaction the exposition is receiving on campus.

“The goal is to lift the curtain on factory farming,” he said.

“We are here to encourage and educate students on the cruelty these animals face. There have been several students that have signed up for animal rights groups. We are really excited about the experience.”

The activity received mixed reviews from students who walked through Thursday.

Several students spent time discussing their own personal beliefs about the commercial animal processing industry to the staff, some staying an hour or longer.

Emily Jackson, a senior animal science major from rural Central Texas, was one of the students.

“I’m from a dairy farm in central Texas, and this is my family’s living,” she said. “I feel like this is an isolated case.”

Kevin Murnin, a senior animal science major from Montana, said the experience was interesting, but said he believes only isolated incidents of cruelty are being shown.

Murnin said he believes what is being shown is not the truth for all animal-processing operations.

“They are portraying neglect,”

he said. “I feel like it’s just completely isolated and not the reality. I feel like that’s not what’s going on.”

Kenneth Cassady, a graduate student studying geology from Grapevine, stood in the tent and talked to a member of the staff for more than an hour discussing his beliefs and asking for clarification on the group’s ideals.

“It was a very interesting perspective,” he said. “I don’t see the gain of having a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle like they are promoting. I feel like it’s just part of natural selection for humans to consume meat. We didn’t evolve not to eat meat, but everyone needs to know where their food is coming from.” ➤➤kmcdermett@dailytoreador.com

Texas Tech hosts teaching conference

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Texas teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching students that do not speak, write or understand the English language.

Texas Tech is hosting a conference Saturday at the Region 17 Education Service Center, according to a Tech news release.

The conference will have a $25 fee and will teach educators methods and skills to enhance their abilities in teaching math and science to students with little to no prior knowledge of the English language.

The conference is open to anyone that would like to attend, but the event is intended for future and current educators looking to teach first through sixth-grade students.

Sharon Parrott, a research associate at the Tech College of Education, said the conference is aimed at students looking to teach and teachers that will be teaching English language learners in their classrooms.

“Our goals are to advance their ability to teach English and for them to learn the strategy that will reach the English language learner in math and science,” Parrott said.

Parrott said she thinks English learners need prior knowledge to fully understand the concepts involved in math and science.

“Much of our learning is based off of something we should have come to that class with,” Parrott said.

Educating English learners in the state of Texas is made more difficult by the lack of course work educators are taught in the state of Texas, she said.

“In the education classes we take to become certified teachers, there is nothing taught to us about the English language learner,” Parrott said.

“It is just geared strictly at the English language of the English-learned students and no one else.”

The conference will teach educators hands-on and interactive activities that will promote skills and abilities future and current educators will need in order to teach English learners.

Cecilia Pincock, program coordinator for Proyecto EL SMED grant and research associate at Tech, said the activities taught will be for the enhancement of educators and English learners and to enforce engagement in the classroom.

“It’s trying to give teachers a really good idea on the foundations

of science and math education,” Pincock said. “You have more engaging activities geared more to a hands-on and interactive type of learning where students can use their own knowledge base.”

Sylvia Celedon-Pattichis, associate professor at the University of New Mexico and Joanne Olson, associate professor at Iowa State University and president-elect of the Association for Science Teacher Education, will speak at the conference, according to the news release.

“Sometimes people don’t have the time to come up with the ideas and activities or they don’t have the resources,” Pincock said. “They are going to be here presenting activities that we can do in the classroom.

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Texas Tech students had the opportunity to take a glimpse into the world of commercial food production through PETA2’s two-day event, Glass Walls.

The event aims to educate students about where food comes from and how it goes from farm to plates.

Members of PETA2, the youth oriented branch of PETA, travel the nation to inform students about factory farms, where most of the meat in the nation is produced, and explain the benefits of converting to a vegan lifestyle.

Madison Weinhoffer, a junior anthropology and theater major from Houston, said the goal of the event is to reach out to students and reveal the truth about where burgers are coming from, and she believes the organization saw an impressive turnout Thursday.

“It’s an exhibit on factory farming, and we’ve seen almost 300 students today,” she said.

“You walk through and it breaks it all down. There’s a lot of people that don’t know about where their food comes from.”

The large tent is filled with posters of facts and pictures depicting the cruelty suffered by animals before they are processed for meat or utilized for other purposes like producing milk. There is a small cage full of stuffed chickens to represent how they are packed and stored before being slaughtered and a video narrated by Paul McCartney showcasing actual scenes from inside several slaughterhouses across the U.S. Sacha Sweet, a member of PETA2, said he is in charge of the exposition at Tech. Sweet and his co-workers, Brian Lutz, Austin Hoefler and Dave Gunn,

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Yet another storm paralyzed the Northeast with heavy snow and sleet Thursday, giving the winter-weary that oh-nonot-again feeling, while hundreds of thousands across the ice-encrusted

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The sloppy mix of snow and face-stinging sleet grounded more than 6,500 flights and closed schools and businesses as it made its way up the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor, where shoveling out has become a weekly — sometimes twice-weekly — chore.

“Snow has become a four-letter word,” lamented Tom McGarrigle, a politician in suburban Philadelphia.

About 1.2 million homes and businesses lost power as the storm moved from the South through the Northeast.

By Thursday evening, about 550,000 customers remained in the dark, mostly in South Carolina and Georgia.

Baltimore awoke to 15 inches of snow. Washington, D.C., had at least 8, and federal offices and the city’s two main airports were closed. The Virginia-West Virginia state line got more than a foot.

Philadelphia had nearly 9 inches, its fourth 6-inch snowstorm of the season — the first time that has happened in the city since record-keeping began in the late 1800s. New York City received nearly 10 inches, and parts of New Jersey had more than 11.

The Boston area was expecting 4 to 6, while inland Connecticut and Massachusetts were looking at a foot or more.

In some places, the snow and freezing rain eased up during the day, but a second wave was expected overnight into Friday.

“It’s like a dog chasing its tail all

day,” said Pat O’Pake, a plow operator in Pennsylvania.

In New Cumberland, Pa., which had about 10 inches of snow by midafternoon, Randal DeIvernois had to shovel after his snow blower conked out.

“Every time it snows, it’s like, oh, not again,” he said. “I didn’t get this much snow when I lived in Colorado.

It’s warmer at the Olympics than it is here. That’s ridiculous.”

In New York, Min Lin died after she was struck by a utility vehicle with a snowplow attached to it as it backed up outside a shopping center in Brooklyn. Her nearly full-term baby was delivered in critical condition via cesarean section.

No charges were brought against the snowplow operator in what appears to have been an accident, police said.

Across the South, the storm left in its wake a world of ice-encrusted trees and driveways and snapped branches and power lines.

In Bonneau, S.C., Jimmy Ward and his wife, Cherie Ward, lost power and spent Wednesday night in their home, warming themselves in front of a gas log fire.

But after running low on propane, they headed Thursday night for a hotel, where it was expected to be cozier but a lot less exciting than the night before.

“From 2 o’clock yesterday until this morning, it just sounded like gunfire — all the trees popping and falling,” Cherie Ward said.

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It’s so perfect, and it makes me happy. I want other people to experience a relationship like I do. I CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 want everybody to have this love Five years, numerous text mes- that we have.” sages and one graduation later, the couple’s friendship blossomed into love, and it’s still going strong through college.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “I’m glad to be with her. I Over Thanksgiving break, Walwouldn’t not want to be with her,” lace, a sophomore marketing and Barnes said. management major from Rowlett, After high school graduation, volunteered to work Black Friday at Barnes, a pre-vet major from Al- American Eagle Outfitters in Dallas. len, had a plan to attend Texas There she met the merchandising A&M University to become a lead, and her future boyfriend. veterinarian. However, fate had During Black Friday, each emother plans. ployee has a specific number for “Tech called me and said they work. Lott asked for Wallace’s, but had a pre-vet program here, and I she mistakenly gave him her phone didn’t know about it,” he said. “She number instead. was going to Tech already, so it was “Even if she didn’t accidently give a win win.” her number out, I would have still As years pass, relationships dis- asked for it,” Lott said. solve or grow stronger. Rollans, a Both knew if the relationship sophomore communications design was going to last past Thanksmajor from Allen, said their long giving break, it was going to be relationship has lasted through life long distance. transitions because the couple has “We literally started out with changed and grown together. straight long distance from the beginFinding a balance, she said, is ning,” she said. “It was nice because I key to a successful relationship. knew what I was getting into.”

“Time’s gone by so fast,” she Lott, who is studying for his CPA said, “but nothing has been bad. I exam at the University of Texas at have nothing to complain about. Dallas, said he spends his day study-

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ing and working.

Trying to find a balance between responsibilities and relationship, he said, is the hardest part of a longdistance relationship.

“We’re both busy with our schedules and stuff, and it’s allowing us to focus on what we need to focus on, and we’ll have plenty of time to hang out later,” he said. “It’s about sacrifices. It’s more than you; it’s about us.”

It’s been a month and a half since the two have seen each other, and next week Lott plans on visiting.

“To me, if you’re going to do a long-distance relationship you need to make sure it is worth it because it’s going to be hard and you’re going to miss them everyday,” Wallace said.

Even though distance separates the two, both agree it is worth it.

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Hawkins has trouble with technology, and when Miller offered to help, the two met in the library.

“I was all nervous when we met at the library, I couldn’t type my name,” Hawkins said.

Miller said she took a chance and asked Hawkins to go bowling. Even though the lanes were closed, the pool

tables weren’t. After a night of arcade games and billiards, the date night evolved into a relationship.

But with every relationship there are hardships. Miller and Hawkins said they aren’t strangers to stares.

“It happens a lot, everywhere we go,” Miller said. “We get avoided or ignored.

It’s weird to feel so isolated.”

While they table booths for GSA, passerbys will slip handouts asking them to repent.

“They’re trying to get used to change, but we don’t want to. We’re perfectly happy as we are,” Hawkins said. “We’re just normal people. We’re not doing anything crazy. We’re holding hands like any other couple.”

However, the two agree that Texas Tech is shedding more light on the gay community as time goes by.

“Don’t be ashamed,” Miller said. “A lot of it is shaming, and people will talk down on you anywhere you go, but the more we show people we are here the less it’s kind of a taboo.”

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The two usually sat directly across from one another as their professor lectured. After an exam, Riley introduced himself.

“I was so excited,” McDonald said.

Early on in their relationship the two discussed religion, and their beliefs differed.

Riley was raised in a household of Church of Christ members, and McDonald has chosen not to participate in any organized religion.

“I’ve grown up around a lot of different religions, and they just never really fit me. I believe in fate,” she said.

At the beginning of their relationship, McDonald and Riley were worried the difference would be a deal breaker.

The couple said they were both concerned that their different views would cause each to change their own beliefs.

“It’s not important to me what the person believes more so as are they going to respect me for what I believe,” Riley said. “We had that conversation right off the bat.”

Being open-minded and being focused on the person themselves is the basis for a healthy relationship, he said.

“You don’t necessarily have to believe the exact same thing as long as you’re respectful to the other person,” McDonald said.

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The two were brought up differently and have conflicting views. The first conversation they had turned into an argument.

“I actually didn’t like him at first,” Vaughan said. “We got into an argument over, like, morals, and that’s how we met.”

Two wwweeks later, the two faced each other, but this time the conversation was not as controversial. After one date and a rocky start, arguments became infrequent and the two different people became a couple, she said.

The couple said even after putting aside their personal disagreements, both found differences in their cultural background.

When Vaughan’s English speaking father met Borja’s Spanish speaking father, the two were unable to communicate.

“We were all at a steak house, and I had to be the main translator between her dad and mine,” Borja said.

Despite contrasting backgrounds, Borja and Vaughan both said they agree their differences make their relationship stronger.

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Stocks rise as investors assess earnings Facebook offers new gender options for users NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market rose for the fifth time in six days Thursday as higher earnings from several big U.S. companies helped investors shrug off discouraging news about jobs and retail spending.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber surged to its highest level in almost six years after the company’s earnings beat analysts’ forecasts. CBS also jumped after the broadcaster beat Wall Street’s profit expectations and speed up its stock buyback program.

Investors’ focus has returned to company earnings after concerns about growth in emerging markets and the health of the U.S. economy pushed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to its lowest level in more than three months at the start of February. Analysts at S&P Capital IQ expect that earnings at companies in the index increased last quarter at the fastest pace in a year.

“The momentum from earnings

continues,” said Andres Garcia-Amaya, a global market strategist at JPMorgan Funds.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 10.57 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,829.83. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 63.65 points, or 0.4 percent, to 16,027.59. The Nasdaq composite rose 39.38 points, or 0.9 percent, to 4,240.67.

Stocks also got a lift from deal news.

Time Warner Cable surged $9.50, or 7 percent, to $144.81 after the company agreed to be acquired by rival Comcast for $45.2 billion in stock. The deal would combine the top two cable TV companies in the United States. Comcast fell $2.27, or 4.1 percent, to $52.97.

The biggest gains in the S&P 500 were posted by utility companies. Gains in these stocks suggest investors are looking to play it safe. Utilities don’t have the best growth prospects, but

they pay steady dividends and operate in stable industries.

Stocks opened lower Thursday following lackluster reports on the U.S. job market and retail sales.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose 8,000 last week to 339,000, the Labor Department said. Economist had forecast claims of just 330,000.

A separate report showed that cold weather caused U.S. retail sales to drop in January as Americans spent less on autos and clothing and at restaurants during a brutally cold month. The Commerce Department says retail sales fell 0.4 percent last month, the second straight decline after a 0.1 percent drop in December.

The stock market inched higher throughout the morning. Major indexes turned positive by late morning as investors assessed a handful of encourage corporate earnings reports.

Impacts of historic drought stays strong in Texas HOUSTON (AP) — Almost three years have passed since the rains returned and Texas emerged from a historic drought. Yet there still isn’t enough water.

The impact of record-breaking heat and years of little or no rainfall can be felt long after a dry spell passes, and Texas is now struggling with the brunt of a historic yearlong drought that crippled the state’s lakes, agriculture and water supplies.

“It’s been a doozy of a drought,” said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. “It’s cumulative so that system has not recovered.”

Officially, the drought that parched Texas starting in 2011 and its lingering effects are not as severe as the yearslong, record-making “drought of record” that stretched through the 1950s. That drought has since been the foundation of all water planning in the state.

But a combination of factors — including a rapidly expanding population, more upstream diversions to meet those growing needs

and years without a major tropical system — have in some ways made this dry spell worse.

“More people, more straws in the drink, so you don’t necessarily need a drought as in the ‘50s to see impacts worse than in the ‘50s. So that’s what we’re seeing,” Svoboda said.

As a result, local authorities have lakes that have little to no water.

That is forcing officials to prioritize how to distribute the dwindling water supplies while rushing to find new resources and rapidly building the necessary infrastructure in time for the next big drought, which climatologists say will become more of a norm due to global warming.

The Texas legislature, and then voters, approved taking $2 billion from a rainy day fund to pay for water infrastructure projects to help deal with any future droughts. More than 50 percent of Texas is still in some level of drought.

The situation is especially dire in the Highland Lakes. The series of Central Texas reservoirs supply water to Austin and its suburbs, while also providing important freshwater

supplies to bays on the Gulf Coast and irrigation for rice farmers. In the 1950s, a few flood events helped replenish the lake to some degree.

This time, there have been no floods. Two significant lakes, Buchanan and Travis, are only 38 percent full, and water flowing into the reservoirs is at a record low.

And for the third consecutive year it is likely no water will be released downstream for farmers.

The authority that oversees the lakes, the Lower Colorado River Authority, prioritizes its users. The most important being communities and industrial customers, such as power plants that need water to make electricity, and pay more for their water so they can’t be cutoff during a drought. Downstream rice farmers who need the water for irrigation pay less for their water and can be cut off during a drought, as has happened since 2012.

The salty Gulf Coast bays that need freshwater to maintain healthy ecosystems have not been cutoff, but less water has flowed downstream since the drought.

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — You don’t have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore. The social media giant has added a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them.

Facebook said the changes, shared with The Associated Press before the launch on Thursday, initially cover the company’s 159 million monthly users in the U.S. and are aimed at giving people more choices in how they describe themselves, such as androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.

“There’s going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world,” said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison, who worked on the project and is herself undergoing gender transformation,

from male to female. On Thursday, while watchdogging the software for any problems, she said she was also changing her Facebook identity from Female to TransWoman.

“All too often transgender people like myself and other gender nonconforming people are given this binary option, do you want to be male or female? What is your gender? And it’s kind of disheartening because none of those let us tell others who we really are,” she said. “This really changes that, and for the first time I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what my gender is.”

Facebook, which has 1.23 billion active monthly users around the world, also allows them to keep their gender identity private and will continue to do so.

The Williams Institute, a think tank based at the University of California, Los Angeles, estimates there

are at least 700,000 individuals in the U.S. who identify as transgender, an umbrella term that includes people who live as a gender different from the one assigned to them at birth.

The change at Facebook drew dozens of appreciative postings on the company’s diversity website, although there were some pointing out the need to change relationships beyond son and daughter, or asking for sexual orientation options.

The move by Facebook represents a basic and a yet significant form of recognition of the nation’s growing transgender rights movement, which has been spurred by veteran activists and young people who identify as transgender at younger ages. The Human Rights Campaign last year found that 10 percent of the 10,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender youths it surveyed used “other” or wrote in their own gender terms.

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Republicans wrong to cave on debt ceiling Andrew Gleinser think a little drama would have done some good.

The Republicans allowed the debt ceiling bill to pass without getting anything in return. For a party that’s supposed to be against increasing the debt, this is a monumental failure.

The debt ceiling was going to be raised regardless. Even if the deadline passed and the country defaulted, the ceiling still would have been raised eventually.

That, however, is no excuse to roll over and give the Democrats what they want.

CNN reported that House Republicans first looked to attach spending cuts to the bill in exchange for raising the debt ceil-

ing. Later, they also considered adding a measure to repeal cuts in military benefits that were part of the Democrats’ budget. Eventually they scrapped both ideas.

Once again, President Barack Obama and top Democrats refused to negotiate on raising the debt ceiling, as has been their strategy in most political issues. It’s their way or the highway, and that’s consistently been their attitude.

I’m not naïve enough to think Republicans wouldn’t have taken a great deal of criticism if they held up raising the debt ceiling until Democrats were willing to negotiate. They would likely have taken the brunt of the backlash for it.

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If the Republicans refuse to fight, they don’t deserve to win re-election or control of the Senate.

Abortion pill safe, should not be banned

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After a legislative panel approved a measure that banned abortion pills went into play Feb. 5, women are no longer allowed to have access to the abortion pill. While I am pro-life, I do think that if women are going to terminate their pregnancies, it should happen at the earliest stage possible. The abortion pill should not be taken away.

Banning abortion has been tested in the past, and women would most likely go back to the way they did things before it was legalized for doctors. They tried to do it themselves. When it comes to the level of danger for the mother, I would think that a pill would be safer than a woman attempting to abort a child without a doctor.

The abortion pill gives women the option to terminate pregnancy at an early stage. The way that it has been decided in past circumstances is by a video chat with doctors to decide whether or not the pill form of abortion is right for that specific woman. Making the decision to end a life should take more than just a video chat with your doctor. If you are planning on having an abortion, you should have to take the drive to see a doctor.

It was suggested that doing the videos with the doctor to make this tough decision would be easier in Iowa because there are so many towns and farms that are too far out in the country to be able to come in to make a doctor’s appointment.

Personally, I do not think that if you are going to abort a child you should be able to make that decision via video. If you cannot make the trip in to see a doctor, you cannot terminate the pregnancy.

Once in the doctor’s office, deciding to end the pregnancy at an early stage with a pill sounds like it would be better than waiting for the baby to be further along. A fetus can feel pain at twentythree weeks, so the pill form abortion would mean terminating a pregnancy before fetus would feel any pain.

The determining factor in deciding against the pill was that it would give women a longer time to decide if they wanted to keep the baby. In a story from the Des Moines Register, Dr. Windschitl said, “I’m not trying to take away a right that the Supreme Court found in 1973.

There’s no way that you can fully legislate away abortion, and I fully respect that.

It’s about changing hearts and minds.”

Clearly, Dr. Windschitl is optimistic about women changing their minds when it comes to abortion, but what are

Amanda Knox was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison after her second conviction in Italy in the stabbing of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, when they were students in 2007. It remains to be seen whether the Italian government will seek the extradition of Knox from the United States.

Kercher’s body was found in her apartment, which she shared with Knox in November 2007 in Perugia, Italy. Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were arrested in connection with the murder. Another suspect, Rudy Guede, was extradited from Germany in connection with Kercher’s murder and remains the only person in jail. However, aspects of the crime remain unaccounted for.

The trial began in 2009 in Perugia.

The DNA evidence used in the prosecution of Knox and Raffaele Sollecito was deemed unreliable by an independent report requested by Italy’s appeals court in Jun. 29, 2011.

Knox and Sollecito were released from jail in October, after the appeals court overturned their murder convictions. Knox returned to her hometown in Seattle four years after her arrest.

In March 2013, Italy’s highest criminal court ordered a retrial for Knox and Sollecito after reversing the appeals court’s reversal of their convictions.

Having already spent four years in Italian prison after the first murder conviction, Knox said she would never willingly return to Italy. The Italian courts would have to rule an appeal before they can seek to

extradite Knox.

A portion of the Italian population was upset at the fact that Knox refused to return for the latest trial when Sollecito returned to Italy to fight his new murder conviction.

The bigger question isn’t whether Knox is guilty. If this case played out in an American court with an American jury, the results would likely be different. Questions were brought up about the DNA evidence.

Judge Alessandro Nencini, the judge who declared Knox and Sollecito guilty in the murder of Kercher, is being investigated for ethical violations in relation to the trial. The investigation called into question his ability to be unbiased.

Nencini spoke out to the media, saying the motive for the crime was because Knox is a “she-devil.”

Nencini later apologized for speaking out, but typically in the Italian judicial code of ethics, it is prohibited to comment from the bench for weeks after following a verdict.

The most current copy of the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Italy does not list double jeopardy within the requesting country as a viable cause to deny extradition.

American lawyers can claim that the extradition of Knox would be unconstitutional, but a requesting country reserves acquittal and enters a judgment of conviction.

The majority of Italians believe Knox is guilty, so it would be difficult to be granted an intercession by the U.S. Secretary of State. It would be an incredible risk to protect an American citizen from a prison sentence set abroad.

In 2003, the Italian court convicted 23 CIA operatives of kidnap-

ping in absentia. However, Italy never formally sought the extradition of these operatives because of pressure from the American government.

The United States government seeks the extradition of more people than any other country in the world.

If the U.S. decides to deny Knox’s extradition, other countries might use the decision against future requests in the extradition of American citizens.

If anything is to come out of this long process in the courts, it will be the final outcome that sets an example for similar court cases in the future. While Knox waits for everything to play out, this case demonstrates how the judicial system can react to any error. The last thing anyone would want is to put away someone who is innocent; the same goes for letting someone guilty walk free.

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and negotiate. This is how politics works.

Two opposing sides sit down and work out a deal in which each side gives something up in order to make the deal happen.

That’s how it’s supposed to be done. The Democrats refuse to do it.

Shame on the Republicans who voted to pass the bill without any concessions. It’s as if they gave up. They’re so worried about looking good for the November elections that they’ve decided not to do their jobs so as to avoid any negative press.

Guys like Boehner, Cornyn and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell need to grow some stones and do what they were elected to do: make a positive difference in Congress and do what’s right for America. Letting the Democrats get whatever they want without any compromises is not right.

Neither side should be able to do that. If the Republicans were

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If the Republicans refuse to fight, they don’t deserve to win re-election or control of the Senate. Cornyn is up for re-election this year and is facing a challenge in the primary, and this vote likely isn’t going to sit well with many conservative voters.

The Democrats have most of the power, so the Republicans need to use whatever leverage they have to get some things done. This was a big opportunity to get cuts in entitlement spending or a reinstatement of lost military benefits, but it turned into a miserable failure.

If some Republicans aren’t careful, they could find themselves out of a job next year.

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the odds that these women actually will change their minds?

Chances are that women who plan on having an abortion are not going to change their minds because they are starting to show signs of pregnancy physically. For some women, actually seeing their body change may change their mind and make them feel more compelled to keep the baby, but it is also a possibility that it will make women want to get an abortion more and they may look for alternative, unhealthy ways to abort the child.

A fetus is a life. Although a mother has not birthed it yet, it is still a human and should be treated as such. If a mother is going to choose to abort her child, it is safer for both the mother and the baby to do it at an early stage in the pregnancy.

If women are considering abortion, they should get into the doctor’s office to get a second opinion.

If I were to get an abortion a simple video chat with my doctor would not be enough to make a decision. It is understandable that not everyone has access to a doctor’s office, but we are not talking about getting rid of the common cold with some medicine sent after a video chat. We are talking about deciding whether or not to take a life.

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Maybe they figured it wasn’t a fight they could win, so why even try?

To quote Martin Sheen in “The American President,” “you fight the fights that need fighting.”

This is a fight that needed to be fought. If the Republicans don’t stand up to the Democrats, if they allow the uncontrolled government spending to continue unopposed, the debt will soon get to the point where it can no longer be fixed.

Getting some sort of concession from the Democrats, like a cut in entitlement spending, would have been a victory for the Republicans.

Force the Democrats to sit down

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et again, traditional Washington interests have triumphed over what actually needs to be done.

Congress passed a measure this week to raise the nation’s debt ceiling again, though this time there was little drama. The House of Representatives passed a clean bill — a bill with no amendments or add-ons — on Tuesday, and the Senate followed suit on Wednesday.

Twenty-eight House Republicans, including Speaker John Boehner, broke ranks and voted with the Democrats to pass the bill. In the Senate, 12 Republicans voted with Democrats to bypass a filibuster attempt by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, according to a CNN article. Cruz’s fellow senator from Texas, John Cornyn, was one of the 12.

Many are hailing this capitulation by the turncoat Republicans as a victory, allowing America to avoid the drama from last year’s debt ceiling debate. Personally, I

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Being healthy more important than being skinny

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We’ve all heard the expressions “freshman 15” and “sophomore 20” to describe the weight gain that many students experience in college. And we laugh because it’s painfully true, but for some students it’s not so much a joke as it is a nightmare.

Body image is an issue that plagues college students across the U.S. every year. In a survey of 185 female students on a college campus, 58 percent felt pressure to be a certain weight and 83 percent diet for weight loss.

And the problem isn’t exclusive to girls; if anything, it’s worse among males because men with eating

disorders are less likely to seek treatment because of the perception that eating disorders are “women’s diseases.” Regardless of how sexist that may sound, it’s a sad reality.

As college students, we are consumed with body image. Every advertisement shows skinny, happy people. We go to a party and see men and women who are just so “hot,” and a large component of that attractiveness is attributed to being skinny.

As human beings, we constantly compare ourselves to others. We set unrealistic expectations for ourselves, so that if we fail, we just give up and start adopting bad eating habits and stop exercising.

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thinness over healthiness. People — especially college students — place too much value on the idea of being skinny. People think that if they’re skinny, all their problems will go away and all will be right in the world. Setting a goal to be skinny instead of healthy can create significant problems and the reason is twofold.

First, if someone fail to reach that goal, not only will he or she lower their sense of self-worth exponentially but will end up even more unhealthy.

Second, even if someone does reach a goal of being skinny, he or she probably still won’t be satisfied.

Life will be a constant struggle of trying to maintain this ideal weight and that can’t be a pleasant way to live.

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Valentine’s Day not just for couples

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

Valentine’s Day, a day filled with couples of every gender, race and background proudly announcing their love for one another, is no longer just a day for couples.

Sophomores Ruby Arredondo and Analee Reyes have turned the “couples-only” day into a time to celebrate with friends.

“We’re actually going to celebrate Saturday,” Arredondo, a human development and family studies major from San Antonio, said.

The girls and 10 of their friends picked each other’s names, Reyes, a sophomore exercise sport sciences major from Brownsville, said.

It’s a secret Valentine’s Day gift exchange, Arredondo said, because last year the group was unable to exchange gifts for Christmas, so they decided to wait until February.

“We were all broke for Christmas so we just said ‘Why not have a secret valentine?’” Arredondo said.

The girls’ group decided upon a $25 budget for the Valentine’s Day gift exchange, Arredondo said.

Everyone in the group then

wrote down their name, favorite color, flowe r, c a n d y and three things they would like to receive, Arredondo and Reyes REYES said.

“We switch gifts in the afternoon and then we’re going to go to dinner at Olive Garden, because we’re cute and lonely,” Arredondo said.

Despite a budget being placed, Arredondo said everyone always goes overboard with their gifts.

Everyone in the group tries to see who got the best gift, Arredondo said.

“Everyone is just really generous,” Arredondo said.

Arredondo was looking forward to finding out who got her as her secret valentine, she said.

The pair has been trying to figure out for the past two weeks who had who, Arredondo said.

“Last year we knew everybody’s after the first week,” Arredondo said. “This year though, everyone isn’t saying anything.”

Arredondo and Reyes aren’t the only ones who are celebrating with friends this year.

M i k e Cooke, a junior mechanical e n g i n e e ring major from Pearland, said h e ’s g o i n g to celebrate ARREDONDO Valentine’s Day by spending time with his friends, reading the Bible, playing board games and eating foo d, but unlike Arredondo and Reyes, Valentine’s Day is just another day for him.

“I feel like Valentine’s Day is probably the most cynic holiday there is,” Cooke said.

Valentine’s Day is a day somebody decided people should show fake, materialistic expressions of affection toward people, Cooke said.

It replaces the genuine real love people should express every day towards strangers and loved ones, Cooke said.

“I think people should show genuine love to each other every day,” Cooke said. “You let people know they’re appreciated and show them respect and courtesy.

You do things out of good will and love for somebody and not out of expecting a return for it.”

Cooke said he could go on about what he dislikes about Valentine’s Day. If being honest though, he said he hates standing behind s o m e b o d y a t t h e Wa l - M a r t check out line when they have a 40-pound teddy bear in their basket.

“It’s just irritating,” Cooke said. “I don’t know, man. That’s 39 pounds too many of fuzziness.”

Couples at Texas Tech are still celebrating the holiday, but not everyone is choosing to go the giant teddy bear, dinner and a movie route.

Freshman journalism major Emory Bratton and sophomore business major Dylan Jewett, a couple from Boerne, said they’re going to be celebrating by attending Jewett’s fraternity’s party and grabbing dinner beforehand.

“Valentine’s Day has never been huge for us,” Bratton said.

After four and a half years of dating, Jewett said this is their third Valentine’s Day celebrated together.

There’s more pressure for a couple’s first Valentine’s Day together, Bratton said.

“It was the biggest milestone of that first year before the first year anniversary,” Bratton said.

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“The advice I give mothers is to have conversations with your babies,” said Erika Hoff, a psychology professor at Florida Atlantic University. “Children can hear lots of talk that goes over their head in terms of the meaning, and they still benefit from it.”

The research, presented Thursday and Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, comes amid a growing push for universal preschool, to help disadvantaged youngsters catch up.

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“Well, my boyfriend and I are long distance, so I would want him to surprise me and then take me out to a nice dinner and then watch Disney movies all night long.

“Just hanging out with friends or my significant others. Maybe getting some flowers.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sooner you start explaining the world to your baby, the better.

That doesn’t mean flash cards for tots, or merely pointing out objects: “Here’s an orange.

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New research shows that both how much and how well parents talk with babies and toddlers help to tune the youngsters’ brains in ways that build crucial language and vocabulary skills — a key to fighting the infamous “word gap” that puts poor children at a disadvantage at an even younger age than once thought.

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Texas Tech junior pitcher Dominic Moreno will take the mound at 2 p.m. today when the Red Raider baseball team begins its 2014 season at Dan Law Field.

Moreno started on opening day last year as well, accordi n g t o Te c h a t h l e t i c s , a n d is just the fifth Red Raider pitcher in the last 27 years to start back-to-back opening games.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said he likes the experience his starters have, and there are many younger players ready to get out and prove themselves. “ I t h i n k D o m ’s g o t t h e year experience of pitching on Friday night,” Tadlock said. “(Sophomore pitcher Matt Withrow) pitched quite a bit on the weekend last year. I mean, those guys got really good stuff and can go out and c o m p e t e e v e r y d a y, a n d a t the same time there’s a lot of guys biting at the bit trying to get in.”

Although most of the starting pitchers have a year of

experience, Tadlock said the “Yesterday I kind of felt a Red Raider bullpen is just as vibe that everybody was ready strong. to go,” Tadlock said. “Guys “You could flip our starters b o u n c e d a r o u n d w e l l , a n d a n d o u r r e l i e v e r s , o u r f i r s t I think they’re ready to see three guys out of the (bullpen) somebody new.”

For the Red Raiders to comand our first three starters,” Tadlock said, “and maybe get pete in the conference this year, they will the same type of reneed a signifisults.” cant contribution from some T h e Red Raidyounger players. Although ers will be fac19 players are ing No. returning from last year’s team, 3 Indiana in their there are also 16 newcomers opening day game, and one redmarking shirt returner.

Withrow the first time Tech named several MATT WITHROW young players has faced SOPHOMORE PITCHER a top-10 he thinks will TECH BASEBALL opponent make an impact, like freshfor its first game man pitcher Ryan Mosely, this season and since 1989.

Ta d l o c k s a i d d u r i n g t h e said his main advice to them beginning of the week he was is to not try to do too much.

“You’ve got to go out there not completely confident that h i s t e a m w a s r e a d y, b u t i n and know that you’re goo d Wednesday’s practice he got enough to be in that situation a different feel from his team. and trust yourself,” Withrow

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Offensively, Tadlock said he has mainly stressed the need for hitters to not get behind in the count and finish at-bats.

Sophomore utility player Eric Gutierrez said the hitters have taken that advice and are more patient at the plate this season.

“I think we’re going to be better at finishing at-bats,” Gutierrez said. “Last year we struggled with that, but this year I think we’re going to be better.”

Tadlock stressed that this is just the opening series, so he will still have to make some adjustments and move players around once the Red Raiders get further into the season. “ Yo u d o n ’t w a k e u p a n d say ‘we’re going to go to (the C o l l e g e Wo r l d S e r i e s i n ) Omaha,’” Tadlock said. “It’s a long process. It’s a lot of grind every day — blood, sweat and t e a r s . We b y n o m e a n s a r e claiming we’re ready, but you can dang sure bet when we wake up every morning we’re trying.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

PHOTO BY JOHN CARROLL/The Daily Toreador

FRESHMAN OUTFIELDER ANTHONY Lyons throws during practice at Dan Law Field on Thursday.

Red Raider track, field face pivotal weekend at three meets

By DAWIT HAILE Staff WritEr

As the season inches closer to conference and nationals, each meet is increasing in importance.

To maximize resources, coach Wes Kittley is splitting up the Texas Tech track and field team among three meets this weekend.

Kittley said the team is split amongst the three meets because he needs to

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prepare all the athletes properly so that conference and nationals go well later in the season.

Last weekend, Tech was represented in the Boston University Valentine Invitational and the New Mexico Track and Field Classic.

Tech is making a return trip to New Mexico for the New Mexico Don Kirby Collegiate Elite. The remainder of the athletes will compete in Arkansas for the Tyson Invitational and at home for another installment of the Red Raider Open.

“We’re sending our high jumpers and throwers back to New Mexico because

they are already qualified for nationals, and I want them to get really used to that facility,” Kittley said.

Junior thrower Kole Weldon said he is looking forward to returning to New Mexico.

Along with an electric atmosphere, Weldon said he has enjoyed success there. The most recent success at New Mexico dates back to last weekend with a school-record throw in the shot put of 20.11 meters.

“I plan on going out there and bombing some more big throws,” Weldon said.

Peaking too early is not a worry for him, Weldon said. He had a practice

throw during the week that could have possibly been his biggest throw during this season. His hopes are to recreate the throw at New Mexico.

Tech’s best runners are competing at the Arkansas invitational because Kittley wants them surrounded by the best competition, Kittley said.

Kittley believes the Randal Tyson Track Center in Arkansas has the fastest track in the nation contrary to what other people believe, he said.

This sets up an environment where Tech can run on what is possibly the fastest track in the nation against athletes from Texas, Florida State and last year’s national champions, Florida. “(Tyson Invitational) puts you in an environment that is like a Big 12 championship and like a national championship,” Kittley said, “and we have to keep putting our kids in those situations.”

Sophomore hurdler Le’Tristan Pledger said she knows this meet will host the best of the best.

“It’s who brings their ‘A’ game,” Pledger said. “You run your best or you get left.”

All she can do is give it her all,

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Pledger said, but she will not let herself get caught up in what her opponents are doing.

Pledger is only focused on the goals she has set for herself prior to this invitational, she said. Before every meet Pledger establishes goals to accomplish and she has accomplished all those goals so far this season. She does not want to stop now.

The goal for her this week is to clock 7.9 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles, Pledger said.

The importance of the meets in New Mexico and Arkansas are not overstated, but the home meet contains its own level of significance that deserves respect.

The meet in Lubbock holds weight for the athletes on the team Kittley likes to call his “point-getters” at the Big 12 Conference meet, he said.

“This is an important meet for them to keep getting better,” Kittley said, “and get a better mark, better lane at Big 12 and have a better seed at Big 12.”

At the conclusion of the one-day home meet, he wants to see the freshmen and sophomores continuing to progress, Kittley said. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com