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Dating violence affects college students

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

Dating violence is a common occurrence and can happen to any couple regardless of their sexual orientations.

“We have a lot of stereotypes in our country that abuse doesn’t happen to people of higher socioeconomic status or sexual minorities or college students,” Dana Weiser, an associate professor in human

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sciences, said. “We know it happens quite often, in particular at Texas Tech. A lot of the issues that come up in the Title IX office are actually issues of intimate partner violence.”

Caitlin Graves, a prevention specialist at the Risk Intervention and Safety Education office, said dating violence is an issue Tech deals with.

“Dating violence most certainly happens here, just like outside the walls of Tech,” Graves said.

Dating violence is usually seen as physical violence, however, there can be unhealthy and abusive romantic relationships that are not just physical, she said.

Other violence could be emotional abuse, gas lighting, humiliation, violation of trust, neglect and intimidation, Weiser said.

“Dating violence includes a number of psychological, emotional, as well as physical abuses,” she said. “According to the CDC, any type of intimate

resource, and students can use it after hours.

The Campus Climate Report is also available for students on the RISE office’s website. Graves said the victim can choose to

be anonymous, versus the Student Counseling Center where the student can stay entirely anonymous.

“The Campus Climate Report also has many options for how the victim

prefers for the university to respond to the situation,” Graves said, “and could be useful for anyone who doesn’t know where to go or who to talk to.” @JessicaGuedeaDT

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LGBTQ community faces dating challenges

By EASTON WOLLNEY Staff Writer

Dating in Lubbock can be challenging for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community on Texas Tech’s campus.

Mychael Solis-Wheeler, a junior molecular biology major from San Antonio, said the passing of samesex marriage in the Supreme Court last summer has made it easier to date in the LGBTQ community.

“It normalizes us and it recognizes us as equal citizens under the law and therefore is becoming less of a stigma,” Solis-Wheeler said. “But nevertheless, there’s still a lot of barri-

ers that we have to face.”

Solis-Wheeler said even though Tech protects the LGBTQ community, these people can still be fired by their employers or asked by their landlord to leave their housing because of their sexuality. “ T h a t ’s o n e o f t h e things that we still face,” Solis-Wheeler said. “That also impacts our dating scene because we can’t be open to our coworkers about who we date.”

Living in a small city in West Texas can be challenging, Solis-Wheeler said, but social applications specifically designed for the LGBTQ community are good ways to meet others who are a part of the

community in Lubbock.

“Heterosexual couples take for granted that they can kiss in public, they can hold hands in public,” SolisWheeler said. “If I was in a relationship it would be, you know, I’d probably be harassed or potentially beat up or killed if people did see any public displays of affection.”

The Gay-Straight Alliance on campus has been a great resource, Solis-Wheeler said, but he would still like to see more resources offered.

Katie Miller, a senior nutrition major from Garland and president of Tech’s Gay-Straight Alliance, said a majority of LGBTQ students on campus feel unsafe because of

previous harassment or vandalism of their property by other students.

Miller said other schools such as Texas A&M have a pride week sponsored by their school, and having an LGBTQ resource center on campus could make students feel more comfortable and safe.

“They’re afraid of if their teachers were to find out, if their grades would be altered in some way,” Miller said about challenges LGBTQ students face. “If they’re trying to rush it’s not seen as a positive light, small things like that.”

Lubbock does not have many social groups or resources for LGBTQ community members, Miller

said, and Luxor was the only gay bar in Lubbock, but rebranded this past summer.

Reese Ramsey, a junior geography major from Lubbock, said, in the past, he has been verbally harassed at South Plains Mall for holding hands with his boyfriend.

Several LGBTQ students are afraid to live off campus, Ramsey said, because the city of Lubbock does not offer the protection Tech does.

“In Lubbock you can get kicked out of an apartment, you can get fired just for being gay,” Ramsey said.

“There’s no really state protections, but the university has protections.” @EastonWollneyDT

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Justice Scalia’s death impacts US Supreme Court The death of Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will affect the Supreme Court in many ways.

Scalia died at a hunting ranch in West Texas on Saturday of natural causes, according to a

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partner violence includes certainly physical aggression, but it also includes psychological aggression, stalking, economic control, as well as reproductive control in which people control whether their partner uses condoms, are on birth control, things like that.”

When it comes to reporting the violence, We i s e r s a i d t h e r e a r e different routes a victim can take.

She said the first thing to do is find safety and then seek out professional help.

If a student is experiencing dating violence, they can go to the RISE office located in the Stud e n t We l l n e s s C e n t e r, Graves said. The RISE office serves as support coordinators for students who have experienced Title IX misconduct or domestic violence.

The Title IX office can also be used as a resource, as domestic violence is a violation of Title IX, she said.

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President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1986, where he served until his death, according to his Legal Information Institute biography. He was the longeststanding justice on the Supreme Court at the time of his death.

Scalia is being remembered as a leading conservative voice, controversial and an entertaining writer.

“His written opinions were lively, often funny and interesting to read,” Catherine Christopher, assistant professor in Texas Tech’s School of Law, said.

“When I was in law school, I was

always excited to see that my homework for the night was to read a Scalia opinion.”

Scalia played a role in pressing issues, including affirmative action, abortion rights, gun rights, campaign spending, immigration, climate policy and gay rights, according to previous articles in The Daily Toreador.

During most of Scalia’s tenure, the U.S. Supreme Court was evenly divided between liberals and conservatives.

There are nine justices on the Supreme Court. In the Court’s most recent composition prior to Scalia’s death, there were four liberal justices, four conserva-

tive justices and one moderate justice who served as the swing vote, Christopher said. Scalia’s death means there are now three conservative justices.

With the Supreme Court now having a vacant seat, and with several important issues before the court, she said, political debate is ongoing as to when the seat must be filled.

The U.S. Constitution provides that the president will nominate justices to the Supreme Court, Christopher said.

The president nominates a new justice with the advice and consent of the Senate, and the Senate then votes to confirm the

new justice.

“President Obama is planning to nominate an individual to the Supreme Court to fill Justice Scalia’s vacant seat.

The Senate Republicans are claiming that they will refuse to pick up the nominations and will not discuss whether or not that person is qualified. They are not going to vote yes or no or start that conversation,” Christopher said. “The Republicans in the Senate are very concerned that Obama might nominate someone liberal to the court and that would give the liberals on the court a majority.” @JessicaGuedeaDT

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investigation that also has ensnarled most of the council.

Crystal City Mayor Ricardo Lopez posted a $12,000 bond Wednesday afternoon and told reporters as he left the Zavala County Jail he would not attend any more

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Beyoncé is back, better than ever

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t’s no secret that Beyoncé is a profound woman who stands up for gay, women’s, and civil rights.

Beyoncé drove the Internet into frenzy with the release of her song and video “Formation” just one day before the super bowl.

“Formation” was the cause of much conversation over the past two weeks, as the song portrayed that black lives matter, black culture is a beautiful thing, and to top off the message of the song, the video itself was both vivid and political.

The video featured diversity in skin tones, body types and most important of all — a collective sense of unapologetic blackness.

The video is probably one of the most political works Beyoncé has produced so far. She addresses police brutality, the disaster (both environmental and political) of Hurricane Katrina and black financial power in just less than five minutes.

Leave it to Queen Bey to say everything some of us have been feeling with just one song. Also featured in the video was Beyoncé’s daughter, Blue Ivy, who has been the source of criticism for how she wears her Afro-textured hair. Beyoncé addresses it singing, “I like my baby hair, with baby hair and Afros.”

Ladies, puff out your Afro because black hair of all types, no matter what you choose to do to it, is beautiful. Beyoncé continues her praise of black features as she sings “I like my negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils.” It’s no secret that many of the Jacksons have under gone plastic surgery but Beyoncé particularly refers to the Jackson 5 stage of their lives when they all had the noses they were born with.

Back in those times, it was a must to fit in and appeal to white people. Perms were big back then and I remember being told a story by my mother of one of her neighbors putting a clothes pin or pinching the babies nose to shape the cartilage to appear more straight. Beyoncé making this statement is reaffirming what most of us already knew — the nose you were born with is and always was beautiful. Beyoncé continued to pay homage to her roots throughout different scenes, like riding top down in New Orleans with her braids swinging, standing fiercely in a beauty supply store, dressed elegantly in southern belle attire from the old days and many more vivid scenes.

However, the most astounding scene came toward the end of the video, when a little black boy dressed in all black with his hood on raised his hands and the police immediately raise their hands too. While this scene unfolds, the words “Stop shooting us” are written on the wall in graffiti. The video ends with Beyoncé on top of a New Orleans police cruiser as it submerges under water. All I could think while watching was how Beyoncé is back with a vengeance.

Beyoncé has never made such a huge political statement through her music as she has with “Formation,” and for some people it has been a bitter pill to swallow. From the moment she stepped into Levi’s Stadium during Super Bowl 50 to the end of her performance, American eyes were glued to their television screens, some in love and others in disgust. Beyoncé’s electri-

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fying Black Lives Matter/ Black Panther Party nod/ Michael Jackson tribute sent America into an uproar, not to mention that her dancers formed an “X,” referencing the late great Malcolm X, or so many viewers thought.

For some, it was just too much to handle. After her performance, Beyoncé announced the Formation World Tour and that some of the proceeds would go to help the victims of the Flint Water Crisis. This past weekend, Tidal announced it was giving away $1.5 million in grant money to Black Lives Matter, Hands Up United, Dream Defenders and other civil rights groups, according to a Feb. 6 Vulture article.

Beyoncé has never made such a huge political statement through her music as she has with “Formation,” and for some people it has been a bitter pill to swallow.

This isn’t the first time Beyoncé has helped the movement, as it has been rumored that Beyoncé had secretly provided Black Lives Matter protestors with bail money, as shown in a May. 18, 2015, MSNBC video.

Regardless of whether she provided bail money or not, once her Super Bowl performance was done, people began to boycott and call Beyoncé a racist.

Seeing this outrage makes me question if people forgot that Beyoncé is and always was a black woman. Also, it’s time to point out the fact black people technically can’t be racist toward white people.

Prejudice? Yes. Racist? Not exactly. Black people do not have the institutionalized power that has been established over centuries and used to impose prejudices and preferences on the majority culture. Black people can’t be racist because we will in no way benefit from such a system. We don’t live in a society where every race has equal power, opportunity or status.

Simply put, by a Aug. 26, 2015, Huffington Post article by Zeba Blay, “If you think about it, reverse racism is actually kind of great. Because if it did exist, it would mean we lived in a society in which all racial groups have an equal amount of power.” Black people just want to be treated equally and to have our differences respected.

Beyoncé has reached such a pivotal point in her career that when she speaks, everyone listens and she used that platform to answer what many of us have been thinking: “What does Bey think about all that has been going on with Black America? “ Well, we got our answer. Beyoncé let us know she didn’t forget where she came from, she’s still grounded, she’s been paying attention and yes, she’s still a little hood. jward@dailytoreador.com

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Apple correct to defy US court, students should be aware of case implications

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pple has now openly defied a U.S. court order to create an iPhone encryption backdoor, and Android and iPhone users alike should rejoice. On Tuesday, a federal judge in California ordered Apple to help the government decrypt the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, using a statute from the 18th century to decide the case, according to a Tuesday Ars Technica article.

However, Apple has announced it will fight the order to implement backdoor technology on its phones and has put out a news release that perfectly sums up the problems with the court order.

To many, the release confirms what we have been thinking all along — that the court decision will affect everyone, and that the government cannot be trusted with such power.

In the release, which can be seen on Apple’s official website, Tim Cook states, “The FBI may use different words to describe this tool, but make no mistake: Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a back door. And while the government may argue that its use would be limited to this case, there is no way to guarantee such control.”

The concept of implementing a back door in iPhones nationwide has been a slowly brewing issue, as more tech industry leaders have spoken against its implantation and more government pressure grows. Richard A. Clarke, former cyber security adviser to President George W. Bush, has spoken out against a back door implementation, saying current FBI director James Comey “is the best FBI director I’ve ever seen,” but “he’s wrong on this (issue),” according to a May 19, 2015,

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Additionally, last May, 140 tech firms, security experts and others signed a letter urging Obama to not undermine security standards by implementing back doors, according to the Washington Post article. The letter was signed by representatives from Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, HewlettPackard Company, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and countless other leaders in the technology industry.

The retaliation against this type of breach stems from two well-grounded fears; first, back doors created by technology firms for exclusive government use would also be exploitable by hackers, meaning their products are not truly secure. Second, given the U.S. government’s questionable history of violating its citizens’ privacy, we cannot trust the government to not abuse the newfound access to consumer cellphones.

In Cook’s letter, he writes, “The implications of the government’s demands are chilling. If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data. The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone’s microphone or camera

The history of U.S. privacy standards makes it clear the government should not be trusted with the back door to Americans’ cellphones, as it has shown it will abuse its power when given the chance.

While Americans have known the U.S. government is spying on them, the consequences of such low privacy standards came into fruition late last year, when the European Court of Justice rejected the ‘safe harbor’ agreement and declared the U.S. was violating the privacy of its citizens, according to an Oct. 6, 2015, Business Insider article.

The decision sent technology firms into a frenzy, citing without proper trade agreements, multinational technology firms were in great peril.

While it was ultimately the ECJ that canceled the agreement and caused such panic, it was U.S. spying which clearly set things in motion. The ECJ was stuck between allowing

the U.S. to spy on European citizens and damaging the technology economy. In the end, the ECJ chose to protect its citizens. Before the ECJ had made its final ruling, ECJ Advocate General Yves Bots put out a legal opinion, saying “The surveillance carried out by the United States intelligence services is mass, indiscriminate surveillance,” according to the Business Insider article.

The history of U.S. privacy standards makes it clear the government should not be trusted with the back door to American’s cellphones, as it has shown it will abuse its power when given the chance.

While it is important the FBI has help finding more information on the San Bernardino case, this court order will set a dangerous precedent for personal privacy.

Students at Tech should keep an eye on this conflict, as it seems far from being over.

Apple is currently ranked No. 5 on the Fortune 500, meaning one of America’s largest, most powerful companies is publicly defying its government. This is a conflict of massive proportions — it is the true Superman vs. Batman, Godzilla vs.

Mothra of the political and economic world. Not only is this an important affair, but is also a popcorn-worthy affair.

Finally, given the recent events, it is hard to believe the U.S. government cares about giving its citizens privacy.

Now it is ordering software to be put on our phones, making our data vulnerable to government and hackers alike.

It is important students pay attention to this unfolding issue, as the final results of this case will not only affect us, but generations to come. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Casual, long-term relationships have benefits

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

In a university as big as Texas Tech, students are introduced to new crowds of people, and romantic relationships often spring up.

In any new relationship, there is always the question of whether it will turn into a long-term relationship or be just casual dating.

There is often a misconception with the idea of a long-term relationship being a more emotional and stable relationship than casual dating, Jacki Fitzpatrick, associate professor of human development and family studies, said. This may be true for most cases, but there are some instances in which two partners can be involved in a long-term relationship simply because they fear change.

“We, I think, have shifted to think of that as how long someone is in a relationship only tells us about stability, but it doesn’t tell us about its quality,” Fitzpatrick said.

“It doesn’t depend on length, sometimes some of the most meaningful relationships can be short term and some of the least healthy relationships can be long term.”

Fitzpatrick gave the example of a relationship in which one partner may be leaving for a study abroad trip soon, and a long distance relationship may not be in their mind, and that relationship, however long it may be, could be just as romantic and intimate as a long-term one.

Although this may be true in some cases, there can also be benefits to both casual and long-term dating.

Sofia Ortiz, a public relations and communication studies dual major from The Woodlands, said she has been in a relationship with her

boyfriend for 10 months.

The two met in their public speaking class and continue to keep their relationship alive despite the distractions and complications that come with a college relationship.

“We never get bored of each other, so no matter what we are doing it’s always fun and exciting,” she said. “We keep the romance alive by doing all the stuff that we did at the beginning of our relationship, like going on drives, going on dates every week and still being able to have deep personal conversations with each other.”

Ortiz said communication with her boyfriend is a key element in making a

relationship work. Although the two have busy schedules this semester, they still make time to see each other three to four times a week.

Fitzpatrick also said communication is important for a relationship, but added that it is also important when the couple is apart.

“It is not only their ability to communicate with each other when they’re together, but how do they sustain that commitment for all the time they have to be apart,” she said, “and so for everything that draws them away to what extent are they still thinking about their relationship partner or working on this?”

Fitzpatrick said it takes a combination of elements to keep a relationship strong, and in her research she has found that people in long-term relationships are serious about making them work and in doing so could potentially be finding a husband or wife.

“For people who are in long-term relationships in college they tend to be taking them seriously,” she said.

“The indications of what we see as serious is how committed they are to each other, how much they invest in terms of psychological resources, the time they spend together, the sacrifices they are willing to make for each other and their willingness to work on or resolve relationship problems.”

Fitzpatrick said if college students are not in long-term relationships, that does not mean it is because they cannot handle a serious relationship.

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She said she believes people often associate casual relationships with a stereotype of being selfish or immature, but people should be looking at what their context is and what are the reasons for not wanting too big of a commitment.

“For some people who are

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in casual relationships, one of the reasons they might make that choice is that they know that they don’t have a lot of time or energy that they can commit to a relationship,” she said. “In that case, they are placing themselves and the other partner in a relationship of trust, but they are also saying up front, if you as my partner are looking for more than that, I can’t give that to you.”

Ortiz said that although she is in a long-term relationship, there are certain benefits to casual dating because someone is opening up to a wide spectrum of new people and new experiences, and with each experience is a chance to learn more about oneself.

A long-term relationship can also benefit someone in different ways that help them get a new insight as well.

Mark Albright, a senior microbiology major, said being in a three-year relationship with his girlfriend has helped him look at things differently than he would have before.

“I know I’ve matured a lot more just based off of being in a relationship and having to think for more than just myself,” he said.

Fitzpatrick said social me-

dia has been a big part of the way people casually date and also find new partners who could potentially turn into long-term significant others.

“The ability to find potential partners who might be a good fit for you has really just expanded tremendously,” she said.

Not only have social media dating sites increased the amount of people who are available to consider, but also the amount of information one can find on someone else has increased.

“What simply just used to take potentially hours of conversation to get to know someone, you can find a lot of the information that is important to you in minutes,” Fitzpatrick said.

Albright said he believes dating in college is a much more eventful experience than trying to find a significant other in a post-college experience.

“I think dating in college is potentially more awarding than the outside real world because you have a diverse group of people that you might not necessarily interact with on a daily basis,” he said. “You have people from different majors, from different countries, so you get to explore more.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Breakups cause pain, growth

By JENNIFER ROMERO L a Vida Editor

Many college students date while they are in school, and finding the right person often means going through breakups and coping with the emotions from lost relationships.

Dana Weiser, assistant professor in human development and family studies, said breakups are often complicated.

“It depends a lot on the relationship itself,” she said.

“Obviously when people have been together for a long period of time and their social networks and their families and their friends have all been integrated, it’s certainly a really rough process.”

When couples have been together for longer periods of time and then separate, Weiser said, they often have to figure out not only how to live without their significant others but also how they want to share mutual friends or if they need space away from each other.

While newer relationships are often easier to separate from because less of the partners’ networks have been integrated, she said there is still emotional pain when these relationships end.

“Why you broke up would likely play a role,” Weiser said. “There’s a difference between if you drifted apart or if one partner cheated on the other — you can imagine that would play into whether it’s a really acrimonious breakup or not.”

Weiser conducts research focused on infidelity in couples, and she said couples where a partner committed minor offenses like flirting or kissing were more likely to work through the cheating as opposed to couples where a partner had sex with someone else.

Newer technologies like texting have allowed people to be in more casual relationships where ending a relationship may simply mean not responding to a person’s texts or calls, she said, and there can still be emotions involved in these types of breakups. However, more emotions are often involved with long-term relationships that are more than just texting.

“It’s a loss, and you have to grieve the relationship,” Weiser said. “I think it’s stressful. I’ve definitely seen firsthand students who stress and have trouble concentrating when they’re going through a breakup.

I think regardless of your age, it’s certainly hard for any relationship that has been together for any portion of time.”

The emotional pain of a breakup triggers the same areas of the brain as physical pain does, according to an article by Melanie Greenburg on the Psychology Today website, and thinking about former partners influences the same areas of the brain as drugs and other addictive substances.

Different people need different amounts of time

to heal, she said, and people should honor their former relationships because they invested time and emotions into them, but people should not ruminate on them.

Nancy Robinson, a licensed psychologist at the Student Counseling Center, said college relationships can be wonderful, but there are

also many factors that can be difficult.

“Often people are going to school, they’re thinking about their future, they’re figuring out who they are and then some people are working in addition to that,” she said. “I think that can be very stressful on a relationship, especially one that might

have developed when folks weren’t in flux about who they were and where they were going.”

It can also be hard to devote enough time to a relationship, Robinson said, and students often have to balance classes and being involved in organizations.

Relationship loss is one of the big stressors, she said, and it can be hard to focus on classes and cope with the emotional loss.

“For some people, they have friends and family and other people who support them through it and they get through it without professional counseling,” Robinson said, “but one reason we’re here is to help people with that very normal transition that happens.”

If students are struggling with classes or other relationships after going through a breakup, Robinson said they should consider seeking counseling to address these red flags.

Many breakups are not clean breaks, she said, and having ambivalence about whether to end it or not can make the separation more painful.

“Couples counseling can sometimes lead people to decide it’s better for both of them not to continue the relationship,” Robinson said, “or they can decide to work through some of the things and grow in the relationship.

There’s no guarantee.”

When dealing with a breakup, it is important to focus on self-care and take

time to grieve, she said, because only the individuals in the couple know how much the relationship meant to them.

“Take really good care of yourself,” she said. “Access the other supports you have. Make sure you’re eating right and sleeping right even though that’s hard.

Realize that that painfulness is because it was an important relationship, and that doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you.”

It is hard when a person is experiencing pain to realize a breakup is just one aspect of life, Robinson said, and they can find happiness again in the things they may have sacrificed for their relationship, like spending time with friends and hobbies.

Research also shows that college students feel less distressed about a breakup 10 weeks after, according to the Psychology Today article, and long-term studies indicate that young people are resilient to breakups.

Relationships can be positive and supportive if both partners have an understanding of each other, she said, but that is not always the case.

“Sometimes ending a relationship can be a good thing,” Robinson said. “It’s very painful, I would say there’s always some loss involved.

But in the end, it can lead to a lot of personal growth and also you learn from your relationships and are better prepared for your next one.” @JenRomeroDT

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Counseling Center discusses good relationships

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff WritEr

It is not always true that the happiest of relationships are the best relationships.

Like anything, there are requirements that have to be met, and it is not always easy to fulfill them especially when they can be seen as broad.

Happiness is such a broad term in itself, Jennifer Accuardi Gay, staff counselor for the Student Counseling Center, said. It would be almost unrealistic to be happy all the time, so it should not be considered as a sign of a healthy relationship.

Rather, a healthy relationship would almost definitely be comprised of friendship.

Knowing each other in a

relationship is the best way to keep it healthy for both involved, she said.

“Being an individual inside of a relationship is super important, especially in college kids,” Accuardi Gay said. “Not being too meshed emotionally.”

However, a key point that has to be made when being involved in college relationships, she said, is that there is a difference in these relationships and being in a longterm, set-in partnership. College is a time when students are usually going through massive lifestyle changes and figuring out what it is a person wants out of life.

According to an article in USA Today, a 2011 study found the median age for

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The intent of being in a relationship ultimately will rely on the individual, Accuardi Gay said. There are many different factors that play into seriousness, and the judgment on how to develop the relationship lays solely on the person or persons involved.

“If you’re just getting out in college and you’ve never been on your own, never made a decision on your own and you’re here making decisions for the first time in your life, and then you want to get into a relationship, I don’t know that you’re stable enough to get into a relationship,” she said, “because you haven’t found yourself, you haven’t found your individual personhood.”

There always has to be a component of life stability in a relationship, and a person with a good balance of work, school, friends and other factors might have this stability in college, Accuardi Gay said. Balancing multiple tasks shows a person is capable of getting into a relationship, but they can still have a life that does not

solely revolve around being in that relationship.

There is a need for set boundaries and priorities, and the partners need to put in the time to remember to study or get other work done, she said. All too often in relationships, there is a mindset that one individual always needs the other one at his or her side, and that is a key sign of an unhealthy relationship.

Within each relationship, she said, there is usually a set of non-negotiable values or expectations one wants the other to meet. That is just the nature of relationships, and it is not always negative, but rather it points to a process that highlights mutual motivation and drive for a couple.

“I think those non-negotiables, if you don’t find them in one person — societal norms say that we’re going to be with this person for the rest of our lives,” she said, “and so I don’t think it is bad to be picky because the rest of your life is a long time to not get your non-negotiables.”

There still lies a stigma within society that looks down on people who jump in and out of relationships, Accuardi Gay said, but people need to have the confidence to say there were some people who were not able to

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imbalance in which one partner wants to spend more time with the other. This can sometimes be attributed to a sense of insecurity within one partner, Robinson said, which means there is a need to address where that feeling comes from.

“They need to address not just the time spent with each other, but their foundation and what connection they do have,” Robinson said, “and how to make sure they are together, they’re really doing a good job appreciating each other and letting each other know.”

In the end, the point of a relationship is to try and have a shared meaning in life, Accuardi Gay said. It is difficult to pinpoint why it is that there is an almost natural need to be part of a relationship, she said. It is almost like it is in human DNA to want to be with another person, and it might even add to people’s sense of belonging.

It seems that the most natural way of belonging is by partnering with someone, she said.

“Everybody partners — I mean it’s just engrained in us,” Accuardi Gay said.

“We all want to feel like we belong.”

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Most people, however, stick to the mindset of trying to relive the happier times within a relationship, which usually prompts an elongated and more damaging relationship, she said. People fall into the trap of hoping their partners will change for them, Accuardi Gay said.

“Part of the key thing is that both partners are wanting the same thing in a relationship,” Nancy Robinson, clinical psychologist at the Student Counseling Center, said, “and I think in college sometimes that doesn’t always happen.”

In a healthy relationship, there always needs to be open communication, Robinson said, and both individuals need to be comfortable openly discussing with each other what they do and do not want. Chances are, even in the healthiest of relationships, there will be disagreements and that is why it is important to be able to talk to each other.

It is up to the couple to identify what is too much work for them, she said, and if there is a feeling of an unbalanced relationship. Finding a way to talk about that can sometimes be hard.

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Students, faculty discuss date ideas

By MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

Valentine’s Day is the most infamous day for a “date night,” but relationships often thrive on shared events all throughout the year.

Texas Tech students and professors shared their ideas for the best places in Lubbock to take a date any day of the year.

Breana Cooney, a sophomore public relations major from Early, said her ideal date would be going to the classic dinner and a movie.

“I think you can always go the traditional route with a dinner and a movie,” she said. “If you want to be more creative, there’s laser tag or you could simply take someone to the park. You don’t have to do anything too fancy.”

Jake Anthony, a sophomore university studies major with a focus in advertising from Denton, said he would want to take someone to an outdoor setting perfect for a picnic and day in the sun.

“I think somewhere like

a driving range would be fun and comical even if you don’t play golf,” he said.

The movies have been the classic all-around date idea for decades, and Hailyn Chavez, a sophomore microbiology major from Houston, said she likes going to the movies with a date.

“I think the best place to take a date would be the drive-in,” she said. “It’s kind of old fashioned and you get to talk with each other in a more private setting, so you get to know the person a little bit more. You also get to see the stars, which is really cool.”

Another popular date idea in years past has been any destination that breaks free from the classic dinner and movie. Mathematics and statistics professor Sipra Eko said she is used to going on very adventurous dates with her husband of 32 years, and said those types of dates are still her favorite.

“I really like visiting a unique place like a museum,” Eko said. “Some people may think I’m crazy, but I

really like Palo Duro — just going there to spend time together with a picnic is the kind of romance I like.”

Eko moved to Lubbock after growing up in Africa, and she said her and her husband’s traditional dates in Africa were wilder than the traditional dates most couples go on.

“I think I get these unique date ideas because my husband and I went on a lot of safaris when we lived in Kenya,” she said.

West Texas is known for its quality of steak, and for some couples steak is the meal of choice when they take their special someone out.

Justin Palacios, a sophomore public relations major from Houston, and Paul Bolls, associate director for the Center of Communication Research and associate professor of public relations from Bozeman, Montana, both said steak would be on the menu if they took a date out.

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A common date idea is taking someone out to eat dinner. Lubbock offers a variety of places to take a date, and Texas Tech students and faculty have their own favorite dates depending on their interests.

and the scenery. I love how it takes you back in time, and I love how they have the older Western scenery,” Palacios said. “I also think it’s really nice that you can call and make reservations ahead of time. You can take horseback rides, which I

think really sets the mood for the evening, as well as the delicious steak you will be eating.”

This is Bolls’ first semester at Tech, but while he may be new to Lubbock, he said he is no stranger to a having good steak dinner.

“Since my wife and I both grew up in Montana, we love a good steak,” he said. “(I thought for Valentine’s Day), I want to find Lubbock’s best romantic place to get a steak and take my wife of 25 years there.” @MalBarnettDT

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Successful long distance relationships possible

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Long distance relationships are inevitable for some college students after transitioning out of high school.

Some of these relationships work and some do not, and it can be difficult for some students to make these relationships work.

“I’ve seen couples that do it and make it work,” Nancy Robinson, a psychologist at the Student Counseling Center, said. “It requires even more communication and flexibility and willingness to put the time and nurture that relationship.”

The success of the relationship depends on the type of person and how long the couple has been in a relationship, Robinson said. For some couples, long distance relationships are a necessity and pay off in the long run.

More than 14 million couples define themselves as being in a long distance relationship, according to the Center for the Study of Long Distance Relation-

ships, and 32.5 percent of these relationships are college relationships.

Technology like Skype and FaceTime has helped couples in long distance relationships, Robinson said. The couples get to see each other through a way that was not available in the past.

Ariel Platt, a junior psychology major from Hermosillo, Sonora in Mexico, said he is thankful for the technology so he can talk to his girlfriend even though he is so far away.

There are some bad

things about communicating over FaceTime and Skype, Robinson said.

“You get to see them, but you still are not spending as much time with them if you were in the same town,” she said. “They still have friends that you have still never met. There is still a feeling of separateness despite those great technologies.”

Platt and his girlfriend have the same kind of conversations on FaceTime that they do in real life, he said, but there is one major difference.

“I try and be as honest as possible in our conversations,” Platt said. “Maybe the only difference is that in person, I would be able to feel the look of her eyes. You can look at a person’s eyes in a picture or on a screen and it’s not the same as looking at her in person.”

Some might say there is a lack of intimacy with talking over the phone or through FaceTime, but Platt said he thinks that while some of the intimacy is missing, it is not all gone.

“I wouldn’t say that it is a lack of intimacy with talking on the phone or over FaceTime, there might be some intimacy missing,” she said.

“Of course, I miss holding her hand. Part of the intimacy is just saying I love you. As long as you are sincere about it, there’s the intimacy.”

Meeting someone and starting a relationship with someone online is something new students are doing now, Robinson said. There is not much research on it because it just started.

There can be both healthy and unhealthy online relationships, Robinson said.

“I worry that people present online what they want to present about themselves, and I think that it’s easier to distort reality that way,” she said. “People fall in love with the distorted reality, and when they get together in real life, it’s not the same.”

Couples who meet online have to meet outside for it to be a healthy relationship, Robinson said. There is a limit to how intimate a person can be online.

“People say things online that they wouldn’t say to each other in person and there might be a reason for that,” she said.

Platt started his relationship with his girlfriend in November when he was at Texas Tech, he said, and he does not think their relationship would have been different if they had started it in person.

“Since it was long distance, we had to get to know each other through talking on the phone and being sincere is a very important part,” he said.

Breaks are essential to maintaining the relationship, Platt said.

“I focus 100 percent on what I am doing now at school and in the Texas National Guard so I can spend all of my time with her when I see her,” he said.

Platt’s advice to students going through long distance and online relationships is to have patience for each other, he said. Couples have to give their significant others time for themselves. @DavidGayDT

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SPORTS

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TEXAS TECH 65 - NO. 3 OKLAHOMA 63

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1. Texas Tech guard Devaugntah Williams jumps up and around an Oklahoma defender for a layup during the second half of game on Wednesday. 2. Texas Tech forward Aaron Ross goes up for a right-handed, contested layup during the second half of Tech’s basketball game in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Texas Tech forward Rokas Ulvydas celebrates the Red Raiders’ 65-63 victory over Oklahoma with the crowd that rushed the court on Wednesday night in the United Supermarkets Arena.

ELISE BRESSLER / THE DAILY TOREADOR

By DIEGO GAYTAN

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Staff Writer

he Texas Tech men’s basketball team ignited its hopes for an NCAA tournament bid with a 65-63 win against the No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners Wednesday night in the United Supermarkets Arena.

For Tech, Wednesday night’s win over the Sooners earned the team its thirdconsecutive win over a ranked opponent and first of the season against a top 10 team.

Senior guard Toddrick Gotcher said the team has continued to prove it deserves a postseason bid.

“Three top 25 teams in a row, that’s big for us, Texas Tech as whole,” Gotcher said. “I think we’re getting noticed now.”

Oklahoma senior standout guard Buddy Hield began the game on a hot streak by making the first 10 points for the Sooners. The rest of the Oklahoma squad, however,

struggled to unleash its customarily dominant offense as it made only one of its 11 shots in the first nine minutes of the game.

The lack of efficiency from the Oklahoma offense allowed the Red Raiders to stay in the first half and junior forward Aaron Ross gave Tech its first lead of the game with a 3-pointer from the top of the key with a little more than eight minutes left in the half.

In the final seconds of the half, Justin Gray cut the Tech deficit to 32-31 with a free throw after Hield elbowed him in the face and was called for a flagrant 1. Sophomore forward Zach Smith gave Tech a couple of go-ahead points with a tip in after sophomore guard Keenan Evans sent up a floater.

Oklahoma attempted to regain the lead before halftime, but senior guard Isaiah Cousins missed a jumper with eight seconds left. Gotcher scooped up the rebound, drove the ball down the court and nailed a right-handed layup to send

Tech up 34-31 at halftime.

In the first half, Ross led Tech in scoring with 11 points and junior guard Jordan Woodard led the Sooners with 13.

As a team, Tech shot for a combined 48.1 percent, and the Sooners shot for 37.9 percent.

Although it made three less 3-pointers than the Sooners in the first half, Tech scored eight more points in the paint than Oklahoma with 14.

The Red Raiders bench, Tubby Smith said, gave the team a lift in gaining an edge on a strong Oklahoma side.

“Our bench has been outstanding in the last few games, not just in points but in understanding what we want done,” he said. “I think that’s been the key throughout our success.”

Opening the second half, Zach Smith gave Tech its first points with a layup after picking up his own rebound.

Oklahoma then took the lead after Smith’s layup, but junior walk-on forward Matt Temple, in a rare occurrence, took a 3-pointer from the top of the

key and regained the lead for Tech at 39-37 with 17:33 left.

Once the game hit the 14-minute mark, Oklahoma drew enough fouls and hit bonus early, and Woodard tied the game up with a couple of charity shots.

The Sooners and Tech continued to answer each other point-for-point heading late in the second half.

Evans appeared to give the Red Raiders a boost to push away with a 3-pointer, but Cousins drove a layup from down court to knot it at 52 with 6:55 remaining.

Down to the final five minutes, neither team gained a lead higher than two points until Woodard scored two free throws at the 2:45 mark to give the Sooners a 61-57 lead.

Gotcher reduced the Tech deficit to one after Woodard’s free throws with a right corner 3-pointer, and Evans gave back the lead with a steal and layup in traffic. As Tech drained the clock, Hield intentionally fouled Evans with just 30 sec-

onds left.

Looking at the time remaining in the game, Evans said he knew lockdown defense and making trips to the line would seal the victory.

“I just came in knowing we needed defensive stops,” Evans said. “Still it came in the free throws and getting to the line and it just came. I mean those free throws, I was just trying to focus on making them.”

Oklahoma called a timeout shortly following Evan’s free throws and a Woodard layup cut the Tech lead to 64-63 as the game reached its final 19 seconds. Evans once again earned a trip to the line and made it a 65-63 Tech advantage. Oklahoma failed to bank its final shot attempt and lost the scramble for the rebound to allow the Red Raiders to pick up the win.

Oklahoma, which entered the game as the best 3-point shooting team in the Big 12, made none of its nine shot attempts in the second half.

At the end of the game,

Tech finished with a combined 42.1 percent shooting from the court, and the Sooners shot for 38.2 percent. Ross finished as Tech’s leading scorer with 17 points and Evans followed with 14 points. Hield, who made Oklahoma’s first 10 points and 12 in the first half, made just four points in the second half.

Sooners coach Lon Kruger said Tech locked down Hield and forced him to take inopportune shots.

“He got a few opportunities that didn’t go and at other times he was guarded really well,” Kruger said.

“People at Tech did a good job at staying into him and staying after them.”

Tech’s win improves its overall record to 16-9 and its conference record to 6-7 with just five games remaining in its regular season schedule.

Tech continues its pursuit of a postseason tournament berth against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Gallagher-Iba Arena. @DGaytanDT