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Bush hosts summit on veterans transition DALLAS (AP) — Efforts must be made to end the stigma attached to post-traumatic stress disorder, which can hinder military veterans’ transition into civilian life and employment, former President George W. Bush said Wednesday.

Addressing a summit at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, Bush said some veterans are reluctant to seek help and that employers often don’t realize the condition can be treated.

“As a result of public misunderstanding, employers sometimes cite it as a reason for not hiring vets,” Bush said.

“As most doctors today will tell you, post-traumatic stress is not a disorder. Post-traumatic stress or PTS is an injury that can result from the experience of war,” he said. “And like other injuries, PTS is treatable.”

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Drunk driving is danger to society Information provided by the Lubbock Police Department and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)

On average, 28 Americans die daily from drunken drivers.

In 2012, the number of people who died in drunken driving crashes was 10,322.

Lubbock ranked the 8th city in the nation for drunken driving deaths in 2011.

Of all traffic deaths, 38 percent are drunken driving fatalities.

25,671 alcohol related crashes (.01 BAC) 89,256 DUI arrests in the U.S.

Senate candidate sought bin Laden’s capture AUSTIN(AP) — A Lebanon-born Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate said Wednesday he was part of once-secret negotiations in Afghanistan, trying to persuade the Taliban to turn over Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

David Alameel, a Dallas dental mogul trying to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, had previously refused to answer questions about his role as an international negotiator in 2000, saying he thought his activities were classified.

He now confirms, however, he was “eager to do whatever I could in service to my country.”

The story was first reported by The Dallas Morning News.

Alameel is a multi-millionaire who spent $4.5 million in unsuccessfully running for Congress in 2012, and has given generously to top Democratic and Republican candidates in Texas and around the country for years. Born to a large Christian family in Lebanon, Alameel immigrated to the U.S. at age 20 and eventually built strong ties to the administration of President Bill Clinton.

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Lubbock is ranked as the number 8 city in the country for deaths related to drunken driving, which affects both students and Lubbock resident populations alike.

Jason Lewis, administrative

sergeant for the Lubbock Police Department, said he is sure people drink and drive every day.

According to the Lubbock Police Department DWI statistics, an average of 28 people die daily from drunk driving collisions.

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Local organizations work to help homeless

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A Texas Tech alumna helps her roommate fold her clothes that were donated inside Lubbock’s Salvation Army.

Resident Julianna Marriott said she had a steady job where she made enough to live comfortably.

One day she lost her job because of her company’s downsizing, she said, and after six months of looking with no luck she no longer had savings left and had to come to the Salvation Army.

“This place is an opportunity. It provided me with a place to live and to take care of myself,” she said. “I know I would have never made it on the streets.

I couldn’t defend myself. This could really happen to anyone though. I went to Tech and majored in cell and molecular biology and never thought I would end up like this.”

Many institutions in Lubbock, including the Salvation Army and Tech, are working on projects to help the homeless in Lubbock get back on their feet.

Those associated with University Student Housing and the Social Justice Education are co-hosting an event called the Hunger Banquet, Alexander Grabowska, graduate hall coordinator and event coordinator, said.

The event begins at 8 p.m. in the Wall/Gates Residence Hall Complex lobby and is intended to teach those in attendance about world hunger and the needs of the Lubbock community, according to a Tech news release.

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Engineering works to recruit more females

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paths that are designed for the intake of those who seek help, Gracie Perez, emergency director for the Salvation Army, said.

“We bring in any of the homeless that really need to come in for different reasons, like coming in from the cold,” she said. “We give them three nights and then I evaluate them to see if they can stay here longer and then set goals to see how we can help them get back on their feet.”

The transitional phase begins after being referred to the program by Perez, she said.

The Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering aims to double the amount of females within the college in five years.

The college’s goal is to increase the percentage of female students to 32 percent from its 14.9 percent in 2013, according to the college’s magazine, “Engineering Our Future.”

In 2010, 12.9 percent of engineering studies enrolled were female.

“Female students remain very underrepresented in engineering throughout the United States,” Zaida Gracia, director of special projects, said. “It’s not a local issue, but some universities do have better numbers than us. Some of the top universities that have worked their way towards increasing their numbers now have over 30 percent females.”

The national average of engineering female students is around 18 percent, Gracia said.

In January, Gracia said the dean’s office started a project called FLARE: Female Leadership, Attraction and Retention in Engineering.

The project members will work further on outreach and recruitment programs with students of all ages.

Gracia said she expects the number of female students to increase even by the fall semester as more scholarship money becomes available.

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ANGIE ROSE AND Julianna Marriott fold donated children’s clothes for Angie’s 8 month-old daughter inside their living space at the Salvation Army of Lubbock.

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“There will be a speaker from the Salvation Army talking about the prominence of homelessness,” Grabowska said, “and how you can help.”

On any given night, there are approximately 643,067 people experiencing homelessness in America, according to GreenDoors’ website.

The Salvation Army staff is working in Lubbock to help those that don’t have anywhere to go and want to get help to better their situation, Lucinda Olivarez, transitional director for the Salvation Army, said.

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Although the college does not plan to do any specific events for CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Introduce a Girl to Engineering “We’re going to provide more Day, the Tech chapter of Society scholarships to the incoming of Women Engineers will host the female students,” Gracia said. Pink Engineering Dinner tonight.

“We’re aiming to have our college The dinner celebrates the acbe more friendly to girls. Some- complishments of females in the times, a girl will go into an engi- college and creates unity within a neering class and be one of one or male-dominated field, according two females in the room. We want to the SWE website. to change that atmosphere.”

Tanja Karp, SWE faculty adEngineering has a perception viser and associate professor in problem that the profession is only the Department of Electrical and for men, Gracia said.

Computer Engineering, said the Audra Morse, professor in the organization hosts various events, Department of Civil and Environ- including outreach programs that mental Engineering and associate work with students at the middle dean for undergraduate studies, and high school levels. said men and women approach “You might not consider engiproblems differently, so increasing neering as a career unless you’re diversity in the college has a posi- made aware of it,” Karp said. “It’s tive impact. important to tell everybody what “I think it’s a worthy goal,” engineering is about, and I think Morse said. “Engineering is all it’s important to have a role model, about creating a new world. You’re a person you can relate to for conmaking a better world for people, fidence building.” and that’s something women genIn her experience, Karp erally like to do, so getting women has learned to adjust to being into engineering just helps make surrounded by male engineers, the world a better place.” she said.

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Tech LGBT examines code of conduct

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The fight for equality is not only prevalent in courts of law, but also on campuses nationwide, and this fight has many LGBT community members wondering exactly what rights they have.

Students at Texas Tech wondered about the student code of conduct, and how the LGBT community was represented within it.

“It kind of holds everybody to the same standard — sort of,” Jay Dossett, a sophomore exercise and sport sciences major from San Benito, said.

Dossett said he has many concerns about the transgender community and its rights stated in the code of conduct.

The biggest group of people affected by the code of conduct is the transgender community, he said.

Housing is one of the hardest fought issues for the transgender community at Tech, he said.

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“This situation is most common,” he said, “when people go to a friend’s house or a restaurant or bar to celebrate either a personal occasion or holiday. “ The Lubbock Police Department has, in the past two years, he said, started a new unit to combat the problem of drinking and driving in Lubbock.

He said the officers go out on duty during the hours most common for drinking and driving and know the signs to look for with an intoxicated person.

“Getting arrested for a DWI isn’t something you just move on from,”

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Those in the transitional phase is a two-year program that includes helping each person to pay all their bills and people they may owe, Olivarez said, helping them get a job and go back to school if need be.

“There isn’t really a common case we see here,” she said. “Sometimes its people that have had a steady job and just lost it and couldn’t find another one. Other times it’s people dealing with an addiction or just people who have had issues following rules in the past.”

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kind of the policy,” Dossett said.

“You’re born this gender, you live with this gender.”

Alexander Jackson, a junior philosophy major from Medford, Ore., said he believed as long as the LGBT community was not specifically included in the code of conduct, Tech had no authority to “mess with them.”

“I think bringing them in there would be detrimental to them,” Jackson said.

Luke Cotton, Student Government Association president, said he has informed the SGA’s review committee of LGBT students’ concerns.

The committee is headed by Sophia Chapman, and includes five undergraduate and graduate students, as well as staff members.

“I’ve made them aware that this is a concern, and if they feel that maybe our code of conduct does not encompass them, then they will do their best to include them more so in our code,” Cotton said.

However, most students misin-

terpret the student code of conduct, as it is a document about student conduct and misconduct, rather than a listing of students’ rights, Amy Murphy, dean of students at Tech, said.

Murphy said she hopes the code of conduct is something that fits every member of the Tech community.

“When I look at it,” she said. “I don’t necessarily see that it points to specific populations of students. I see that it defines what a student is, and I see that it defines what the Texas Tech community is.”

Murphy also encourages students who feel their rights are not equally protected in the code of conduct to speak with SGA, campus representatives or herself.

Most of the rights or protections LGBT students seek are support services or infrastructure, rather than inclusion of the code of conduct.

Murphy said she has previously worked with the counseling center to identify gender-neutral bathrooms, and the registrar on when

students can use their preferred name over their given name and how students can officially change their name in the system to be called their preferred name in classes and other situations.

“The Student Bill of Rights has an amendment within it that also protects students of all sex, race, nationality, whatever may be it,” Cotton said.

Tech has also identified the LGBT community as an officially protected class from discrimination and harassment, Murphy said.

Two of the past four Senators of the Year have been openly gay, Cotton said. “(SGA) has a long, lovely history with people of all nationalities, descents, genders or sexual orientation,” Cotton said.

Both Cotton and Murphy said they encourage students who have ideas related to including LGBT members in the Tech community to speak with them about it.

he said. “Assuming all you’re arrested for is a DWI, the punishment starts with a charge of a class B misdemeanor which is jail and a fine.”

These punishments happen to 89,256 people yearly in the state when they’re arrested for a DWI, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

The results of a drinking and driving situation can reach farther than just getting somewhere quick.

A Tech student was celebrating his birthday and as a result was severely intoxicated, Daniel Hall, a Lubbock resident, said.

The student then left the house where he was, he said, and drove home drunk.

“On his way home, he rammed a bicycle ridden by Britta Schneider, a

Tech student,” he said, “throwing her into the opposite lane and dragging the bike 150 yards before stopping.”

Schneider later died at the University Medical Center hospital.

The defendant’s jury consisted of six men and six women, he said, and took over three hours to decide their verdict for the student.

“Britta Schneider’s death angered me,” he said. “Not only her death but the decision of the gutless jury that gave (the student) a $10,000 fine and probation for intoxicated manslaughter made me mad. If appropriate punishments aren’t going to be given for drunk driving, the streets will continue to be unsafe for all. I can promise you Britta’s life was worth a whole lot more than $10,000.”

Lewis said he wants to urge people to think about the situation in broader terms than just drinking and driving.

The situation cannot only affect a nameless person also on the road, he said, but a loved one or family member.

“It’s bigger than just a drinking and driving situation. Even if you’re going to be selfish about allowing someone to get in a car intoxicated, what if the person they get into an accident with is a family member, or someone you love,” he said. “A perfect example is Tech. What if you hit your family that you don’t live with or a friend you’ve met in college. How would you deal with that?”

homeless at Lubbock shelters are reflected in the national averages which lists 12 percent as veterans, 13 percent fleeing domestic violence, 17 percent are chronically homeless and 25 percent suffer from a mental illness, according to the website.

Resident Angie Rose, Marriott’s roommate, said she believes in the opportunities the Salvation Army offers.

She said she came to the Salvation Army after trying out other rehab centers in Lubbock with no luck.

“I was struggling with an addiction. I spent two weeks living in my van at the backs of apartment complexes,” she said.

“The day after I found out I was pregnant with my daughter Sydney someone told me about the Salvation Army. I came

here and have been sober for 19 weeks and I have a job and can take care of my daughter. I’m so happy.”

Other people in America experience the same situation as Rose and her daughter. In America, 238,110 homeless people are a part of families, according to GreenDoors.

The facility is set up into three different types of dorm rooms: nine-occupant rooms, family apartments, and two-occupant rooms where Marriott and Rose live.

There are also laundry rooms, community bathrooms, a dining hall and a living room with a TV for residents to relax and pass the time Dianee Taylor, social services director for the Salvation Army, said.

“We want to give them a nice

place to live,” she said, “but they also do chores and are expected to pick up their spaces as a way to pay for them living here.”

The center also helps the residents set goals such as obtaining a savings account, looking for and keeping a job and living in such a way that will help them get back on their feet, Taylor said.

The center’s staff makes sure to never turn anyone a way at any time, she said, and really believes in second chances for everyone.

“I was in a bad place but I’m so thankful for the opportunity here,” Rose said. “I’ve learned more here than from life on life’s terms and I couldn’t be more happy.”

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that it would be a good start for the federal health care law if 5 million to 6 million people sign up by the end of March, an acknowledgement that

enrollments might fall significantly short of the Obama administration’s unofficial target of 7 million.

Biden, who was attending a private fundraiser in Minneapolis, made a brief unannounced stop at a coffee

shop and visited with a handful of women who have signed up for coverage. Open enrollment under the federal law ends on March 31, after which people without insurance are subject to federal tax penalties.

Biden acknowledged the rocky rollout of the administration’s Affordable Care Act website and the difficulty people have had in signing up. Minnesota has been among the numerous states, along with the federal Healthcare.gov site, to experience rampant technical problems that hampered enrollment.

“We didn’t want this to start off as shaky as it did,” he said.

“But it’s complicated.”

Before the exchanges launched, the Obama administration projected monthly enrollment targets based on a congressional estimate that 7 million would sign up during the six-month open enrollment period. Signing up enough individuals — especially younger, healthier people — is critical for the insurance pool at the heart of the law to function properly, keeping premiums low for everyone.

Immediately, enrollment figures starting falling behind the targets. Although the pace of signups has picked up substantially, there’s still a lot of catching up to do from the initial months. About 1 million enrolled in January — the first time the administration met its monthly target.

Biden acknowledged that “we may not get to 7 million, but if we get to 5 or 6 million that’s a hell of a start.”

In total, nearly 3.3 million had enrolled through the end of January.

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Tech alumnus takes part in local theater’s play

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

A bitter Pinky, a locked up husband and a shy kidnapper will all take center stage at the Children and Adults Theatrical Studio’s latest show.

The C.A.T.S. Theatre will premiere the play, “Pageant Play,” at 8 p.m. Friday, director Lisa Hernandez said, and tickets will be $12 for students and senior citizens and $14 for all other adults.

“We don’t recommend kids coming to the show, because there is some adult content and some strong adult language,” Hernandez said. “This show is really recommended for adults.”

Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at catsplayhouse.com.

The show lasts about an hour and a half, including a 10-minute intermission, she said.

“The play revolves around a pair of pageant moms,” Hernandez said.

“One is Pinky Corningfield, who is the mother of Chevrolet who pretty much wins every and all of the child beauty pageants.”

Then, all of a sudden, Marge comes into the picture with her daughter, Puddle, and she starts to win all the

pageants, Hernandez said.

Pinky is used to winning everything, Hernandez said, so she employs two pageant coaches, Bob and Bobby, to sabotage Marge and her daughter.

“It’s a funny take on ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’’ Honey Boo Boo, and that’s something that’s really hot right now,” Hernandez said. “It’s pretty funny.”

Zach Kocurek, a Tech theater alumnus, said he plays the role of Bob, an over-the-top pageant planner, and Gunner, the masculine husband to Pinky.

Kocurek said although he normally directs, he has really enjoyed being on the stage.

“This is my first show in a while,” he said. “So it’s nice to be on the other side for once.”

Erin Castle, a Tech alumna, said she plays the role of Pinky Corningfield, a crazy pageant mom who will stop at nothing to get her daughter the Supreme Queen crown, as well as the wife to Gunnar.

Castle said Pinky is edgy, crazy and exactly the role she wanted to play.

“It’s fun to play roles that are sort of off-the-wall like that,” she said.

After their last show, “Doubt,” a

serious drama, “Pageant Play” offers a more absurd and comedic relief, Castle said.

The piece can come off truly absurd, she said, but the crew worked to make the characters come across as real people.

“I think people who see the show will recognize people that they know in each of the characters,” Castle said.

Leading up to Friday’s performance has been an intensive process due to this year’s fast-paced season, she said.

Normally there are five to six weeks to get the show ready, Kocurek said, but for this show they only had three weeks.

“Time management has been difficult,” Castle said. “While we were rehearsing for ‘Doubt,’ we had to read through for ‘Pageant Play’ and once ‘Doubt’ opened, we started rehearsing.”

She said although there are some instances it feels like an added stress, for the most part, it is a way for her to stay grounded.

Theater has always been her form of escape, she said.

“It allows me to do something that I love,” Castle said.

Hernandez, Castle and Kocurek all said their favorite part will be

Arabic Club offers students look into culture

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

/Kifak/, /Izaiak/ and /Wsh akhbarak); all three mean hello in Arabic, but not all three will be recognized in any given Arabic speaking country.

The first, /kifak/ means hi in Syria, but in Egypt /Izaiak/ means hello, while in Saudi Arabia, it is / Wsh akhbarak).

Texas Tech’s Arabic Club gives students a chance to go beyond the classroom and take a look at the Arabic language with its many dialects and Arabic culture.

“We offer two things in the Arabic Club: You can say it’s linguistic and cultural,” Mhd Hasan Almekdash, the Arabic Club treasurer from Damascus, Syria, said.

In regards to the linguistic aspect of it, the part-time graduate Arabic instructor said the group offers students, staff and professors the opportunity to use Arabic in real-life situations.

The club teaches members how to communicate with Arabic in situations such as how to order a coffee at a coffee shop, Almekdash said.

“Culturally speaking, we introduce people to the Arabic culture, like the family traditions, like the food, ways of even saying ‘hi’ and ‘bye,’ everything that has to do with Arabic culture,” Almekdash said.

The club acts as a bridge to understanding different Arabic countries, he said.

The first thing new members are introduced to is the language, since it is a language-oriented club, Alme-

kdash said.

They are then are introduced to the basics of the culture such as socializing, ethnic foods and family customs.

“Then, ZAIER let’s say in a more advanced level, we start to talk about more advanced cultural issues, such as the Arabic philosophies, the Arabic school thoughts, Arabic history,” Almekdash said, “so it’s a little bit more advanced.”

Amani Zaier, the advisor for the Arabic club, said the club tries to hold conversations in Arabic and have discussions over the current events.

The discussions can be over politics, economics, literature, education, cultural events and anything the students wish to address, Zaier said.

“Since we teach Arabic, we try to base our meetings and the events of the Arabic Club to be about the language,” she said.

“It’s different dialects so we try to gather or have at least each meeting three or four different speakers from different dialects.”

When new people come into the group, she will try to ask them which dialect they would like to learn and what words they would like to know the meanings of, she said.

Because there are different dialects, the club members will sometimes be split up into separate groups to discuss and use the linguistic parts

of the Arabic language, Zaier said.

“The most common thing and the most common discussion we have as of late is about what’s AL-HMOUD going on in the Middle East and North Africa, about the Arab Spring,” she said. “They’re asking about the lifestyle and how things are going right now over there.”

Rula Al-Hmoud, an Arabic club member and treasurer, said the club meets twice a month on Thursdays from 4-5 p.m. in the Starbucks in the Student Union building.

The Arabic instructor said the club is important because it allows students to practice their conversation skills.

“It’s helping us talk about culture,” Al-Hmoud said. “It’s helping us talk about other issues that time does not allow us to talk about in the class.”

As of now, Zaier said the club takes part in other events on campus.

Funding is an issue for the club, Zaier said, but they are working with what resources are available to them.

“Usually, one of the problems we have is the funding and the availability of resources,” Zaier said.

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Jazz study shows link between music and language WASHINGTON (AP) — Jazz musicians are famous for their musical conversations — one improvises a few bars and another plays an answer. Now research shows some of the brain’s language regions enable that musical back-and-forth much like a spoken conversation.

It gives new meaning to the idea of music as a universal language.

The finding, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, is the latest in the growing field of musical neuroscience: Researchers are using how we play and hear music to illuminate different ways that the brain works.

And to Dr. Charles Limb, a saxophonist-turned-hearing specialist at Johns Hopkins University, the spontaneity that is a hallmark of jazz offered a rare chance to compare music and language.

“They appear to be talking to one another through their instruments,” Limb explained.

“What happens when you have a musical conversation?”

Watching brains on jazz requires getting musicians to lie flat

inside a cramped MRI scanner that measures changes in oxygen use by different parts of the brain as they play.

An MRI machine contains a giant magnet — meaning no trumpet or sax. So Limb had a special metal-free keyboard manufactured, and then recruited 11 experienced jazz pianists to play it inside the scanner. They watched their fingers through strategically placed mirrors during 10-minute music stretches.

Sometimes they played scales. Other times, they did what’s called “trading fours,” where the pianist made up four bars, and then Limb or another musician-scientist in the lab improvised four bars in return, and the pianist responded with still new notes.

That conversation-like improvisation activated brain areas that normally process the syntax of language, the way that words are put together into phrases and sentences. Even between their turns playing, the brain wasn’t resting. The musicians were processing what they were hearing to come up with new sounds that were a good fit.

At the same time, certain other regions of the brain involved with language — those that process the meaning of words — were tuned down, Limb found.

That makes sense because “the richness of the structure of music is what gives it its significance,” Limb said. “You can have substantive discourse using music, without any words, yet language areas of the brain are involved in this unique way.”

One ultimate goal of musical neuroscience is to better understand the brain’s circuitry, and how it can rewire itself, in hopes of eventually finding new treatments for neural disorders. Limb made headlines several years ago when he measured jazz musicians’ riffs — longer, solo improvisations — to study creativity in the brain.

“We know nothing about how the brain innovates,” he said.

“This is one way to learn what innovation means neurologically.”

Stay tuned: Next he hopes to study children who are just learning music, and to compare amateurs to professionals, as he explores how people become creative.

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Zachery Kocurek, a Texas Tech alumnus from Post, Reagan Sudduth, a junior at Coronado High School from Lubbock, Danielle Delisle, an actress from Lubbock, and Erin Castle, a Texas Tech alumna from Lubbock, run through a scene from the play, “Pageant Play” during dress rehearsal Wednesday at the C.A.T.S. Theatre.

opening night when they get to have an audience.

It means very little until there are

people who have not seen the play to share the experience with, Castle said.

“Opening night is going to make

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iTunes launching music festival at South by Southwest NEW YORK (AP) — iTunes is putting its stamp on South

by Southwest, piggybacking on the annual event with its own music festival.

The company said Wednesday it will debut its popular iTunes Festival, a free concert series held in London for the past seven years. While the London version is a 30-day event, the U.S. festival will feature five nights of rock, country, pop and hip-hop

at South by Southwest, an international showcase for music, film and interactive projects to be held next month in Austin, Texas.

“We’re pretty excited about doing this for the first time here in the U.S. at South by Southwest,” said top Apple executive Eddy Cue in an interview Tuesday.

“One of the cool things about trying to do the festival is that it’s all about the music, the musicians

and the fans,” Cue said. “You want it in a really close atmosphere where the fans are getting to see these musicians in places they’ll never see them again, because they play in much bigger venues.”

The iTunes festival will be held March 11-15 at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, where Austin City Limits is held. The first night will include performances by Coldplay, Imagine Dragons and London Grammar.

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Students should not let anxiety affect performance Logan Lane

pected consequences has helped the human race survive for as long as we have throughout history.

However, these instincts have taken on totally different and sometimes harmful roles as mankind has evolved. The introduction and development of social policy, as well as the exponentially rapid growth of technology, have led our bodies to respond with feelings of fear or anxiety at times when there’s no need for it.

As university students, many of us are subject to some of these unique and often unnecessary bouts of anxiety. The stress of ev-

erything that encompasses being a college student can be so severe to some that it actually handicaps their ability to perform at their full potential.

Many freshmen may encounter feelings of social anxiety, especially those that are coming to a new place where they don’t know many people.

The process of joining a fraternity, sorority or any other social club can bring about these feelings of anxiety for many.

There’s also the fact that

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they’re beginning what could be the most influential chapter of their lives. There are also those who had an easy senior year in high school, and now are nervous about getting back into the swing of studying properly for multiple classes.

It’s not just freshmen that encounter these possibly severe bouts of anxiety, either.

Many people at any age can be crippled by the stress of an upcoming exam or by making a decision that will decide what sort

Whenever we begin to feel the onset of anxiety or fear, it’s important for us to remember to take a step back and examine what’s going on.

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he feeling of anxiety brought on by stress is something shared amongst many college students.

There are even several different types of anxiety that an individual may experience depending on the circumstances.

For example, social anxiety and test anxiety can both feel very different from one another although they are both a result of the same reaction within the human mind.

Anxiety, which is oftentimes associated with fear, is a natural response of our minds when in an unfamiliar or uncomfortable situation. These uncomfortable feelings are brought on as our conscious decides whether or not to fight, flee or freeze.

Fear and anxiety are, in essence, our body’s natural alarm system. Our body’s automatic response to potential danger or a situation that may result in unex-

of path their career takes.

There’s also a completely different spectrum of social anxiety older students may experience as they close in on the possibility of getting engaged or moving to an unknown city to begin work.

Although the level at which people get these feelings of anxiety differs from one individual to another, the options for dealing with anxiety are limited. Many times individuals may be afraid to express their problems in dealing with their stress, and unfortunately this can lead to the weight of their anxiousness building onto their shoulders to the point where serious problems can start to occur.

Fortunately for us students, Texas Tech has provided services that are anonymous and open for us to use. The absolute worst thing a person can do is let their anxiety get the best of them.

When this happens, we may be more inclined to abuse alcohol or partake in illicit drugs in hopes of easing our nerves. Either one of those two routes have a strong potential to ruin any chance for us to have a positive future, so it’s better to seek alternative help.

Whenever we begin to feel the onset of anxiety or fear, it’s important for us to remember to take a step back and examine what’s going on. The good news is that while anxiety can affect our emotions, it doesn’t have any impact on our ability to progress forward.

Our behaviors are affected by anxiety and fear, so the best way of handling these uncomfortable feelings is to accept the inevitable while striving forth toward the goals we want to achieve.

Lane is a senior political science major from Wichita Falls. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

Reverse discrimination still discrimination, leads to suppression of true equality

By DANNY SCHNATHORST iowa state Daily (iowa state u.)

A hate crime, by definition, is a crime motivated by racial, sexual or other prejudice. It seems the further away that we move from inequality as a country, the more the term “hate crime” is tossed around. That seems a tad backward, don’t you think? I have never heard the word more in my entire life than I have just these past few years.

First, the big one: the President of the United States of America.

“You don’t like President Obama because he is African American.” It seems that this is a constant phrase I hear and possibly the one that gets on my nerves the most. This is said

to me and to a lot of my family and friends, it is said to news anchors and journalists, but it seems to happen most towards republicans.

If I had a nickel for every time I have heard that phrase, I would have enough to pay off this country’s debt and still buy myself a yacht. Yes, I dislike the President very much. It has nothing to do with the color of his skin, but rather the way he is ruining this great nation. This is not racist, I dislike Joe Biden as well.

Michael Sam, a defensive end for the Missouri Tigers football team, has recently come out as gay. This has become a huge deal for most of the world. Viewers can’t even turn on SportsCenter days after this has happened without hearing the name Mi-

chael Sam. Once again, people have accused me of hating Sam because of his sexuality. I can assure you, that is far from my reasoning. I simply tell them my argument and shrug it off.

He is not the greatest, but not the worst and while there are many people at his position who play much better than he does, he is better than quite a few. However, he is small for the NFL and he cannot stop the run. He is good at pressuring the quarterback, but that is about it. Sam said that he no longer wanted to fool anyone or for it to distract him come NFL combine time. My theory for Sam deciding to come out now instead of later is simply this: Why not? It’s a win-win for Sam. He either is chosen much higher than he deserves simply because an NFL

Corporate word ownership gone overboard

By CAROLINA TREVINO Daily Cougar (u. Houston)

I hope you don’t like the color magenta too much, or T-Mobile just might sue you.

That’s right, everybody. TMobile recently sued an AT&T subsidiary, Aio Wireless, for using a color that kind of looked like T-Mobile’s iconic “magenta” color. The color in question, Pantone 676C (otherwise known as “plum”) had been used

by Aio in its logo as well as other promotional items. Of course, its use of this color posed an incredible threat to the phonecompany giant, which felt the need to sue Aio. The dumbest part? T-Mobile actually won.

The Texas court that heard the case has officially demanded that Aio cease using its plum-like color in any and all promotional items.

“According to the presiding judge, T-Mobile successfully argued that letting Aio continue to use a variant of magenta would

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cause it irreparable harm,” reported The Washington Post.

It should be noted that this is not the first time someone has copyrighted something ridiculous.

The NFL owns the words “Super Bowl,” which is why any advertisers trying to appeal to consumers who will be watching the game instead use the words “the big game.”

The song “Happy Birthday to You” is also under copyright by a division of the Warner Music Group on behalf of Patty and Mildred J. Hill, who wrote the song in 1893.

This explains why restaurant servers often sing their own strange variations of the traditional birthday song; they’d have to pay quite a hefty fine just for singing “Happy Birthday” to a customer.

Similarly, Starbucks officially owns the word “Frappuccino.”

These companies don’t take these copyrights lightly; Slate reported just last year that a man who had named one of his drinks “Frappicino” received a cease and desist letter from the coffee shop chain.

Starbucks told the pub in

These companies don’t take these copyrights lightly...

Cottleville, Missouri that “Frappicino” and “Frappuccino” were too similar, and that they were concerned that the pub’s patrons might get confused and think they were in a Starbucks.

I mean, Starbucks seriously thinks that people are dumb enough to think that any place with the word “Frappuccino” on its menu is a Starbucks. That’s like me walking into a five-star restaurant, seeing curly fries on the menu, and suddenly thinking, “Did I accidentally walk into a really fancy Jack in the Box? Am I dreaming?”

When it comes down to the Aio and T-Mobile mess, however, Aio had a pretty good response.

“T-Mobile needs an art lesson.

Aio doesn’t do magenta,” a representative told The Consumerist.

Since the ruling, however, Aio has confirmed that it will no longer continue to use the controversial color in its marketing campaign.

“While we disagree with the court’s decision, it addresses advertising and store designs that we are no longer implementing. Accordingly, this decision has no effect on our advertising plans,” Aio spokeswoman Alejandra Arango told The Washington Post.

You’ve won this round, TMobile. You’ve won this round.

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franchise is too scared of the media, although franchises are hard to bully into doing anything, or he is chosen much later than he deserves and the media ridicules the NFL for being ignorant. Win-win for the LGBT community, lose-lose for the NFL. Last month in Des Moines, police stopped, searched and detained Roman Miner because officers claimed he looked like a man identified as “Derek,” a suspect in a crime.

Miner’s mother is now taking on the police, claiming that they racially profiled her son. Police officers are in a constant lose-lose battle. Since they arrested a man who looked like their suspect, the police are apparently racist. If they did not arrest Roman, people would say that they

are not doing their job correctly.

Hate crimes seem to be a neverending battle that only one side can win. People continue fighting for equality, but for what? If Miner was white in the same scenario, this would just be labeled as a mistake and not a hate crime. If Obama were white, I would no longer be racist for disliking him, I would simply oppose the other side of the political spectrum. People fight for equality, but it seems that we are becoming less equal.

If you want equality, fine. But if we talk about equality, what about scholarships aimed directly at a minority or the homosexual community?

Television stations like BET, or Black Entertainment Television, target specific racial groups. Companies

can maintain racial quotas for their employees. Schools keep track of the percentages of students of each race enrolled. When will there ever be equal ground?

When we stop caring so much about statistics and trying so desperately to be equal maybe, just maybe, we can become an equal country, otherwise, inequality will always remain.

The only thing that will change is the group having the upper hand, and these groups will trade places quite often. If we truly want racism — or any other discrimination — to cease, we need to stop spreading the idea of discrimination in the first place and just embrace the fact that we are all different, yet share more in common than we have in differences.

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Softball team heads to third tournament

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY

that we are going on,” Hays said.

“Just get rid of those bad innings in games that we have dropped.

We’ve had that one bad inning.

We’ve played well, but last week we gave up a six-run inning in a game that we were in control of.

That should never happen.”

The Red Raiders will start the tournament with a 7 p.m. first pitch against tournament host UT Arlington.

They will play a doublehead-

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The Texas Tech softball team will compete in the University of Texas at Arlington Hilton Invitational at Arlington this weekend.

Tech coach Shanon Hays said he wants the team to keep improving this weekend and finish games strong.

“I kind of want to keep going in the same direction (this weekend)

er Saturday afternoon against Creighton and University of Missouri-Kansas City and close out the tournament Sunday morning with a doubleheader against Illinois and Creighton.

Freshman outfielder/infielder Sydni Emanuel said Tech is looking to play complete games against tough competition.

“I think it’ll be good competition,” she said. “We see Illinois and UTA, both two really good

teams. We should be able to win and hold through those games.”

Through the first 10 games this season, Emanuel is leading the team with a .485 batting average and has an on-base percentage of .564.

Sophomore outfielder/infielder Sydnie Tapia said the team has come together and is only going to improve the rest of the season.

“We all played well as a team together,” Tapia said.

“We’re all really close this year, so we are going to deal with the adversity. Some good teams lose, but we do our best and we are only getting better.”

Tech enters the tournament with a 6-4 record after going 3-2 in the season’s first two tournaments.

Hays said he is excited to see what the Red Raiders can accomplish this season.

“I really like our team. I like the potential that we have,” Hays said.

Another goalkeeper joins Red Raider soccer Texas Tech soccer made a late addition to its 2014 recruiting class Wednesday with the signing of goalkeeper Marissa Torres, according to a news release from Tech athletics.

Torres’ decision to play collegiate soccer at Tech makes her the eighth student-athlete in the Red Raider signing class.

Coach Tom Stone said this addition may have been a late one, but it is great for Tech.

He came across Torres when he saw her play in a high school tournament hosted in Lubbock and pounced on the opportunity to bring Torres to Tech,

Stone said.

“She has terrific upside,” Stone said, “and we are thrilled to be able to add such a quality goalkeeper at this late stage STONE of the game.”

She is not the only goalkeeper in this recruiting class. Carissa Christensen, from Alta Loma, Calif., is the other goalkeeper Torres is arriving on campus with.

They, along with redshirt fresh-

man Lauren Watson, will return the team’s depth at the goalkeeper position to three.

Torres will compete with Christensen and Watson for the available starting goalkeeper position left by senior goalkeeper Victoria Esson. Esson only allowed nine goals throughout the season as she led the team to its secondstraight appearance in the NCAA Division I women’s soccer tournament.

Before Torres was recruited to compete for the starting spot at Tech, she built a resume as a four-year starter at Tascosa High School.

The Amarillo-native compiled

uniform, not No. 28. And he is on a new team.

“It felt good. It was a lot of fun,” Fielder said. “Nice easy day, I had a lot of fun meeting my new teammates. So yeah, I’m excited.”

Fielder joined other veteran Rangers players on the field for more than an hour Wednesday, taking grounders and some bat-

ting practice on the day before the first official full-squad workout. It was also the first day in camp for shortstop Elvis Andrus, who was also part of the session.

After cutting off his dreadlocks during the offseason and going through some mixed martial arts workouts, Fielder appears trim.

Asked he if had lost any weight,

Fielder chuckled and said he didn’t know for sure since he doesn’t allow any scales in his house.

“I feel great. Lost a couple of pounds cutting the hair, so that helps,” he said. “I just want to be athletic and not carry around so much weight. ... I have no idea what it is, but I think I lost something. I definitely lost something.”

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Her performance led Tascosa to an undefeated run on the way to a Bi-District Championship. At the conclusion of the season, Torres earned a 2013 All-District selection.

Torres played goalkeeper not only for her high school, but also two club teams, the High Plains Drifters and Amarillo Lightning.

Much has changed for Prince Fielder in first Rangers workout SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — When a grounder ricocheted off Prince Fielder’s mitt during his first workout with the Texas Rangers, he quickly held it up and proclaimed with a smile, “It’s new.”

So much is new this spring for the All-Star slugger. He’s in Arizona for spring training, not Florida. He has a No. 84 on the back of his

“We are swinging the bat pretty well. We got better this last week, as far as swinging the bat. Our defense is pretty good. Emanuel has been great at the top of the order.”

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Red Raider volleyball players Rachel Brummitt and Breann David will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo. to take part in the U.S. Women’s National Team Tryouts, according to a news release from Texas Tech athletics.

Two different Collegiate National Teams will be selected from the tryouts, according to the release, and one Women’s National Team.

One of the collegiate teams will travel to China in June for two

weeks of training and matches, according to the release, and the other one will train and compete in the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships in Minneapolis, Minn.

The tryouts begin Friday morning in the U.S. Olympic Training Center, according to the release, and will involve a record 248 athletes from 106 colleges across the country.

David recorded 282 kills in the 2013 season, according to the re-

lease, and will compete against 60 other outside hitters to make one of the teams. The senior also accounted for 50 blocks at the net, 13 of which were solo blocks.

Brummitt is Tech’s single-season digs record holder, according to the release, with 604 digs in the 2013 season. During the recordbreaking season, she averaged 5.16 digs a game, ranking second in the Big 12 Conference. ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

Texas Tech track signs two more atheletes to team Recruiting is not slowing down for Texas Tech track and field as it added two student-athletes Tuesday, according to a news release from Tech athletics.

Both the Red Raiders and the Lady Raiders are receiving the talents of a student-athlete.

Iowa Central Community College sophomore hurdler Chris Caldwell is joining the Red Raiders through a financial aid agreement, while Kami Norton, a senior at Albany High School, became a Lady Raider after signing a national letter of intent.

Caldwell ran the 60-meter hurdles in 7.68 seconds at the Tyson Invitational last weekend,

according to the news release.

This performance earned him a first-place finish in the event and the fastest time in the National Junior College Athletic Association for the 60-meter hurdles so far this season.

Last season, Caldwell competed at the 2013 NJCAA Outdoor Championships where he finished third in the 110-meter hurdles.

“He is definitely a talented hurdler,” associate head coach Dion Miller said, in the release.

“For us, he is an addition to some of the great hurdlers we have had in the past. I’m excited for him to continue that great tradition.

I think he is going to have a

great career for us here.”

Norton will come to Lubbock as the reigning Texas 1A Division I State Champion in the 100-meter dash, 300-meter hurdles and long jump, according to the release. Her proficiency in multiple events is bringing her to Tech as a combined events athlete set to compete in the pentathlon and heptathlon.

“Kami is an all-around great athlete and person,” assistant coach James Thomas said, in the release.

“Her attitude, determination and competitiveness made her a top priority for us. I look for Kami to make immediate impacts as soon as she gets on campus.” ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Boston College stuns No. 1 Syracuse Orange 62-59 in OT

PHOTO BY DUNCAN STANLEY/The Daily Toreador

CAMERON DAVIS, A freshman human sciences major from Ft. Worth, catches a pass thrown by Gabriel Cunningham, a freshman civil engineering major from Fairbanks, Alaska, while practicing for spring football tryouts.

Roger Clemens in camp to talk to young pitchers, catchers KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Roger Clemens tried to get across a sense of urgency to Houston Astros pitchers Wednesday.

“If it’s working for you, stay with it. If it’s not, you need to change something.

That’s something I said,” Clemens said.

“Obviously it’s not working for some

of you so you need to re-evaluate what you’re doing.”

In his capacity as special assistant to the general manager, Clemens addressed a group of young pitchers who were often overmatched last season.

With a staff significantly different from the one assembled this spring, the

Astros posted a 4.79 ERA while losing 111 games.

“If you need to stay and do some extra work, conditioning, whatever it might be, that will make you mentally tougher than the next guy,” Clemens said. “I think with all the conditioning I did throughout my career, that made me feel like I had an edge.”

On the eve of the team’s first fullsquad workout, the Astros brought in the 51-year-old, seven-time Cy Young Award winner for a morning pep talk.

“I think these guys have got to realize that it’s not only just about them, that everybody’s rooting hard and they want ‘em to do well,” Clemens said.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Olivier Hanlan and Patrick Heckmann hit 3-pointers in overtime, Lonnie Jackson made four straight free throws in the final 26.2 seconds, and lowly Boston College stunned top-ranked Syracuse 62-59 on Wednesday night, ending the Orange’s unbeaten season.

Boston College (7-19, 3-10 Atlantic Coast Conference), which had lost five straight, rallied from a 13-point second-half deficit to pull off the improbable upset.

Syracuse (25-1, 12-1) travels to No. 5 Duke on Saturday night.

The loss leaves No. 3 Wichita State, which was playing at Loyola of Chicago on Wednesday, as the lone unbeaten in Division I. The Eagles came to town with heavy hearts and a good dose of determination.

Longtime basketball media contact and sports information assistant Dick Kelley died last week after a two-year battle with ALS. His funeral was Tuesday and the Eagles, who often visited his apartment, were wearing “DK” patches on their uniforms.

The Eagles, whose only conference wins this season were over Virginia Tech, beat a No. 1-ranked team for the third time and first

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Syracuse, which had won its last two games by a combined three points, shot a season-low 32.2 percent from the field including going 2 of 12 from 3-point range.

Tied at 50 after two halves played at Boston College’s deliberate pace, Hanlan and Heckmann hit from long range to give BC a 56-52 lead with 2:56 left, but Tyler Ennis’s driving layup knotted the score at 56 with 2:09 to play.

A free throw by Ennis gave the Orange a one-point lead, but Heckmann’s backdoor layup put the Eagles back in front with 43.5 seconds left.

After a timeout, Ennis threw a pass toward C.J. Fair in the right corner that sailed out of bounds. After the officials initially ruled it was Syracuse’s ball a video review with 32.5 seconds left reaffirmed the call. It didn’t matter when Fair missed a drive and Jackson sealed the victory with his clutch free throws.

Hanlan finished with 20 points and Jackson had 10. Ryan Anderson had nine points and 14 rebounds, but the Eagles won it by going 11 of 22 from behind the arc. They committed 15 turnovers, three after halftime.

Fair finished with 20 points on 7-of23 shooting and had 11 rebounds. Ennis had 14 points and six assists and Jerami Grant finished with 11 points.

Syracuse won 58-56 at Pittsburgh a week ago and 56-55 over North Carolina State in the Carrier Dome on Saturday night — as the Orange had walked a tightrope much of the season.

Grant’s spinning layup on a drive through the lane gave Syracuse a 50-48

lead with 77 seconds left in regulation, but Hanlan tied it with a layup 30 seconds later.

After a timeout, Ennis missed a layup attempt but snared his own rebound and Orange coach Jim Boeheim called a timeout with 20 seconds left to set up a final shot. But Rakeem Christmas missed a hook in the lane just before the buzzer to force overtime.

BC was called for two shot-clock violations in the final 5 minutes, squandering a chance to win it in regulation.

BC figured to attack the Syracuse zone inside-out with Jackson leading the ACC in shooting at 50 percent (34 of 68) from behind the arc and Joe Rahon and Hanlan each with 21 3-pointers.

Eddie Odio averaging 42.4 percent from long range, also started.

BC trailed by eight points at halftime and by as many 13 in the second half before its outside game came alive.

Hanlan hit three from behind the arc and Rahon had two in a 7-minute span to key a 21-8 spurt, and Anderson’s layup tied it at 41-all with 8:15 left.

A 3 by Rahon from the left corner made it 46-42 with 6:09 to go. Syracuse tied it at 46 on Ennis’ driving layup with 5:09 left, but he committed a turnover on the ensuing possession and Heckmann’s layup put BC back in front 48-46 at 3:30.

The Orange tied it at 48 on a free throw by Christmas with 2:23 to play.

Syracuse started badly, missing its first seven shots and falling behind 7-2 as Jackson drained two 3s in the first 5 minutes. Fair notched the Orange’s first basket on a reverse layup at 14:19.