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Forecasts call for another arctic blast over Texas DALLAS (AP) — Another blast of frigid air is bringing with it hazardous weather for much of Texas along with warnings about slick roads and rain extending into midweek.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for North Texas on Sunday as day-time temperatures dip into the 30s. Forecasts call for freezing rain and sleet that could make driving hazardous.

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reports more than 270 canceled departures due to the storm.

Parts of West Texas saw lows Sunday night into the teens as a wintry mix moves into the region.

Central and South Texas will see more moderate temperatures but chances of showers are forecast through Wednesday. Thunderstorms are likely for greater Austin and Houston.

19 arrested during Texas Mardi Gras celebration GALVESTON (AP) — Nineteen people have been arrested in Galveston as police officers dodging glass bottles used pepper spray to disperse late-night Mardi Gras revelers.

Police were attempting to move the crowd out of downtown early Sunday to bring the celebration to a close. But some in the crowd had moved barriers into a street and they began throwing bottles when police tried to push aside the fencing, which was used to line a parade route.

Police say two canisters of pepper spray were used to break up the crowd. They say a gang member was a primary cause of the disturbance.

There were no injuries reported and no significant property damage.

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SGA election results announced

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Results for Texas Tech’s Student Government Association executive candidate elections were announced at 6 p.m. Friday at the Student Union building’s courtyard.

This year’s SGA elections had the highest voter turnout with more than 20 percent of students voting.

Runoff elections were announced to take place March 5 and 6 for SGA executive positions of internal vice president, external vice president and president.

Experience Where it Counts graduate vice-presidential candidate Pradeep Attaluri was elected into office with 57 percent of votes. Connect Tech graduate vicepresidential candidate Florencio Aranda III attained 40 percent of votes.

Attaluri, a science graduate student from Fort Worth, said he plans to talk with current Graduate Vice President Daniel Yates in order to gain insight into student issues he hopes to solve.

“I have already been setting up about the health care plan in public institutions in Texas, and I think I’m going to continue

to be doing that,” he said. “There’s a collection of things I’m going to be working on.”

For the internal vice president position, Jameson Tomlin, member of the Connect Tech candidate bloc, earned 24 percent of votes, One Tech executive candidate member BaLeigh Waldrop attained 35 percent of votes and Experience Where it Counts executive candidate member Taylor Shackelford received 40 percent of votes.

Shackelford, a sophomore agricultural communications and international business major from Prosper, said to be part of the runoff is incredible.

“I’m happy to be in the runoff,” Shackelford said. “With three candidates in the race, we knew there was going to be a runoff.”

Candidates for the external vice president position were Connect Tech’s executive candidate member Ashley Brannan, who gained 27 percent of votes, One Tech’s executive candidate member Stetson Whetstone, who received 35 percent of votes, and Experience Where it Counts executive candidate member Peter Brady, who received 37 percent of votes.

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Tax Season

Texas Tech tax experts explain importance of filing process

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ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

Many students cringe at the prospect of it, while professionals spend the larger part of a year dedicating their time to it.

Filing taxes is a process every citizen has to endure, but with so many rules and regulations, it can quickly overwhelm students.

“I would guess that the reason a lot of students don’t file would be just because they don’t know what they’re doing, and so it’s just sort of an avoidance thing,” Robert Ricketts, director for the School of Accounting and the Frank M. Burke chair in taxation, said.

The process has become much easier recently, Ricketts said, and besides possibly receiving a refund from the process, students can also receive other benefits.

Ricketts said one good thing about the income tax system is how it forces students and others to go back and account for how much money was made and spent.

“Most of us don’t really do that very well,”

he said. “Another thing is that it kind of gets you in the habit, because once you graduate you’re going to be filing these every year, and the penalties for not filing them at that point are pretty significant.”

Stephen Black, visiting professor of law, said the filing process becomes overwhelming due to the complexity of the rules.

The tax code has to be fair for more than 300 million Americans, Black said, so as a result we have rules that are complicated but trying to be fair.

“Because it produces anxiety, we have to try to figure out which rules apply to us and how those rules work,” Black said.

By filing their taxes during college, Ricketts said, students become more comfortable with the process before it becomes more complicated.

Ricketts said taxation is a huge issue within our political system in every election, including offices that do not have anything to do with the tax system.

“So if you’re familiar with the filing process (and) you’re kind of familiar with

what all the rules are, you can make a more responsible choice or at least know what you’re talking about when you weigh this into your political views,” Ricketts said.

For students, the first step is collecting all of their 1099s, W-2s and other tax forms, including tuition statements, Ricketts said.

Students will also need to gather receipts for their textbooks and other supplies, he said.

“There are several ways you can go about (filing your taxes),” Ricketts said, bringing up the International Revenue Services website on his computer. “If you go to www.irs.gov, you can either do free file or e-file.”

Ricketts said if an income is below $58,000, students have the option of filing for free using several different vendors, some of which are on the IRS website.

The website also includes a tutorial video for students, Ricketts said.

“You can start a free return if you are between the ages of 17 and 75 with $58,000 or less in income, and (Texas citizens) don’t have to do a state tax return, although some

(out-of-state) students may, and then it’ll walk you through the steps,” Ricketts said.

Besides TurboTax and other online tax programs, students have other resources available to them such as Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, a federal program run throughout the city of Lubbock, Bryan Camp, Tech professor of law, said.

Although the process has become much simpler with most students only having to input answers into the tax program’s set of questions, there are some parts of the tax system students should be aware of.

Assistant professor of finance, Michael Eriksen, said students should be aware of tax credits and deductions they may qualify for.

“So what a tax credit is, is a dollar-fordollar reduction of your tax liability,” Eriksen said. “So if I give you $1,000 of tax credits that means it’s $1,000 off your taxes owed.”

Eriksen said while tax credits can lower a student’s tax liability, a tax deduction lowers a student’s taxable income.

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Former Texas Tech student on trial for sexual assault

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

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On May 6, 2012, a female student called 911 saying, “Hi. I’m at someone’s house and I’ve been assaulted.”

From this 911 call and the investigation that followed, David Watson, a 23-year-old former Tech student, has been accused with aggravated sexual assault of an adult, aggravated kidnapping, possession of child pornography, improper photography and retaliation in connection with the above encounter, according to a police report.

“The two students knew each other, sat next to each other in class and were friends with benefits,” Chuck Laneheart, Watson’s attorney, said.

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The alleged victim, who will remain nameless, told police Watson raped her, according to the report, and recorded video of the event while holding her against her will.

WATSON When she took the stand, she told jurors the two had known each other and sat next to each other, according to the trial report.

“We went on a few dates and had some sexual contact,” she said, “but it was nothing serious.”

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changed when he texted her telling her she needed to go to his house, according to the trial report.

She told jurors she went because Watson had told her he had images and video of her carrying out sexual acts and would post them on the Internet and send them to her family if she refused to comply.

“That is when he sexually assaulted me,” she said. “At one point I was scared for my life because he had a knife.”

A video was played for the jurors Tuesday afternoon, according to the report, that showed Watson recording himself and the alleged victim engaging in sexual activity while the alleged victim cried out for him to stop.

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were consensual because of their past relationship.

“In the past she would ask Watson to be more aggressive,” Laneheart said. “He was only complying with her requests in this video.”

Jurors were given a text message dialogue Thursday, according to the report, in which Watson describes to a friend his plan to ruin a woman’s reputation because he felt snubbed by her.

Along with the dialogue, Cpl. Joe Moudy of Lubbock Police Department testified and explained the text slang and the plan to the jury.

“These exchanges involved Watson and the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in May 2012,” he said, “and described a plan called Death Con.”

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POLICE BLOTTER Thursday 8:36 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident with minor injuries, which occurred in the C11 parking lot. A pedestrian was stuck by a motor vehicle.

The pedestrian went to University Medical Center emergency room, by private vehicle.

10:03 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, which occurred at 10th street and Texas Tech Parkway.

12:23 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a medical emergency that occurred at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Medical Pavilion Orthopedics. A non-student male passed out and was transported to the University Medical Center Emergency Room for evaluation.

4:05 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft of an unsecured backpack at the Media and Communication Building.

4:05 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, and failure to report an accident involving damage to a vehicle, in the C11 parking lot.

6:21 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft, which occurred at Talkington Residence Hall. An unsecured pair of shoes was taken.

Friday 1:35 a.m. — A Tech officer charged and released a student for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, following a traffic stop in the 3000 block of 18th Street. The student signed the citation and was released.

4:04 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication, following a welfare check on an unconscious person inside of vehicle in the Z1B parking lot. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was left legally parked. 10:37 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication, after observing him running into traffic at the intersection of Glenna Goodacre Boulevard and Avenue X. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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These messages, according to the report, show that Watson was not happy that the alleged victim CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 was dating someone else, but the The goal for the plan was to woman was attempting to stay make the pictures and video of the friends with Watson. alleged victim “go viral” and was “You can date other people and what Watson used to threaten the do other things,” Watson said in alleged victim into coming to his the text message, “As long as you house, according to the trial report. do what I tell you.”

Also included in the plan, acIn addition to the information cording to the report, was an idea from Moudy, Kendra Thompson, to hack into the Tech email system the forensic nurse who examined and send the pictures and video to the alleged victim, was called to the witness stand. every student at the university.

Thompson told jurors the only The plan is signed “Sgt. Flammable” and he said to “make sure physical injury she found were three the plan is carried out, this may very abrasions on her neck and saw no well be the last will and testament other indications that the woman had been forced to have sex. of this writer.”

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Greg Abbott appeals federal judge’s decision to lift ban on gay marriage

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled against Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday.

The decision corresponded with recent rulings in five other states, also overruling previous bans.

The judge ruled the ban on gay marriage, which has been in effect for more than seven years, is unconstitutional.

“Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution,” Garcia said in his ruling. “These Texas laws deny plaintiffs access to the institution of marriage and its numerous rights, privileges and responsibilities for the sole reason that plaintiffs wish to be married to a person of the same sex.”

Texas created laws in 1997 and 2003 against gay marriage.

In November 2005, Texans voted in favor of Proposition 2, which

defined marriage as between a man and a woman, and became the 19th state at the time to do so, according to a The New York Times article. Approximately 76 percent of voters supported the ban on gay marriage.

“Texans spoke loud and clear by overwhelmingly voting to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman in our Constitution,” Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement, “and it is not the role of the federal government to overturn the will of our citizens.”

Texas had not allowed same-sex unions previously, so the amendment to the state’s constitution served as a buffer against future rulings, according to the article.

In Utah, Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma and Kentucky, judges have overruled bans on same-sex marriage, according to an Associated Press article.

“It’s important to note that its immediate impact is nothing,” Andrew Loewy, George Killam professor of criminal law at Tech

School of Law, said. “The decision was stayed.”

By staying the decision, Garcia has provided time for the ruling to be appealed to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In the other cases across the nation, a total of four Circuit Courts of Appeals will hear cases.

Loewy said at least one of these cases would likely reach the Supreme Court.

Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a statement Wednesday he planned to file paperwork to challenge Garcia’s ruling.

“The Texas Constitution defines marriage as between one man and one woman,” Abbott said in a statement. “If the Fifth Circuit honors those precedents, then today’s decision should be overturned and the Texas Constitution will be upheld.”

On Thursday, Abbott appealed the decision.

Wendy Davis, the Democrat front-runner in the campaign for state governor, said in a statement

she supports gay marriage.

“It’s my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other,” Davis said, “that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation.”

The ruling has sparked discussion in the state and across the nation, both in support and in disapproval.

Daniel Davis, a sophomore biology major from Round Rock, said his personal views on same-sex marriage do not affect his opinion on the ruling itself.

“The most important thing to do is to look towards the constitution,” Davis said. “Whatever ruling is closest to what the constitution says is what matters, and if a federal judge says our law is unconstitutional, we have to respect that.”

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leaders in our community and in our school for taking that step forward trying to make a CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 difference for this university,” Experience Where it Counts Chavira said.

One Tech presidential canexternal vice presidential candidate Peter Brady, a junior didate Hayden Hatch, a junior finance major from Plymouth, political science major from Minn., said he was not surprised Lubbock, said One Tech is by the result of a runoff election looking forward to next week’s because of the great efforts by all runoff elections.

“We are really excited with of the candidate blocs.

“We are ready for one more these results. We are looking forweek, get out there and work ward to another week of getting hard and just keep getting our the word out on our platforms,” Hatch said. message out “We hope for to the stuanother high dents,” he voter turnout, said. “I think and we wish the greatest the other team thing that luck.” came out of Experithese elecence Where it tions was the HAYDEN HATCH Counts presihigh turnONE TECH PRESIDENTIAL dential candiout.”

CANDIDATE date Tyler FreB r a d y vert, a junior headed to finance major Washington D.C to lobby for improvements form Dallas, said he was pleased in higher education Saturday by his team’s hard work throughand will return to campaign for out the campaign. “ We a r e r e a l l y p r o u d o f SGA elections Wednesday.

Candidates for the presiden- them,” he said. “We are really tial executive position were Ex- glad we got some of our guys perience Where it Counts candi- in, and we are really looking date Tyler Frevert who gained 35 forward to next week.”

Results regarding the referenpercent of votes, Connect Tech candidate Gustavo Chavira who dums placed on this year’s SGA received 22 percent of votes and ballot were also announced.

All results regarding the One Tech candidate Hayden Hatch who received 42 percent referendums are unofficial until approved by the SGA senate. of votes.

The referendum asking stuConnect Tech presidential candidate Gustavo Chavira, a dents for their opinions regardsenior international business ing a $25 increase on the current major from El Paso, said he was Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreproud of his team’s efforts and ation Center fee to create new hard work despite the results of turf fields on campus reported 53 percent of students in support of the election.

“We are really proud of our the increased fee and creation of team of individuals that are the fields.

Although more than half the votes were in favor of the creation of turf fields, a two-thirds vote was needed in order for the SGA to present the result of the referendum to the Board of Regents.

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PRADEEP ATTALURI, A science graduate student from Fort Worth, is congratulated by peers for his position as graduate vice president of Student Government Association on Friday in the Student Union Building.

The referendum regarding student opinion on the possible implementation of a fall break to the academic calendar reported 68 percent of votes in support of the addition of a fall break.

Lobbying efforts will be necessary for the addition of the fall break.

Another referendum questioned students on their opinions on Tech limiting cell phone usage while operating a vehicle on campus reported 53 percent of votes in favor of initiative and 40 percent of votes opposed to Tech limiting cell phone usage.

The referendum also asked students their opinions regarding an outright ban on cell phone usage while operating a

vehicle. A 43 percent vote in support of the ban was reported by the referendum and a 43 percent vote opposed to the ban was reported.

Shackelford said he was involved in the creation of the referendum asking for student opinion on cell phone usage while operating a vehicle.

“Most students are for a control of some sort but not for total bans,” Shackelford said. “I think that information is going to be really helpful for the (Lubbock) City Council on deciding what the next step is.”

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Spring approaching, winter weather not over

By KAYLIN MCDERMETT Staff Writer

Students awoke Sunday morning to freezing temperatures and icy conditions after a cold front swept through the area Saturday evening.

The high on Saturday reached the lower 80s, while the Sunday high was forecasted in the lower twenties.

The cold front arrived at midnight and brought freezing temperatures with it.

Joe Jurecka with the National

Weather Service said the front blew in from the North Plains, but it almost disappeared by Sunday afternoon.

“Well the front is pretty well dissipated,” he said. “Most of the air filtered in from the South Plains to the north. We call it a back door front and it has some of the coldest air.”

Although thin layers of ice covered most of Lubbock, counties to the north received the bulk of the front with several inches of sleet and snow accumulating, according to the

National Weather Service.

Students had varying opinions about the cold with some complaining and expressing their hatred for the cold, while others embraced the freezing temperatures.

Jordan Darling, a freshman accounting major from Midland, said the cold is a welcome experience for him, and he actually enjoys spending time outside.

“I guess the biggest thing is that I actually kind of like walking in the cold,” he said. “It’s my thinking time

and it helps clear my mind.”

Austin Schoepf, a freshman mechanical engineering major from Lubbock, said although this weather is somewhat rough now, he hopes it will be warm for spring break in a couple of weeks.

“I mean, it’s not really that bad,” he said. “We just really hope for warm weather for spring break coming up.”

Linzey Noble, a freshman petroleum engineering major from Houston, said waking up to the cold

reminded her of how unpredictable Lubbock weather could be and made her miss the warmth of Houston.

“This weather is Bipolar,” she said. “I miss Houston, and this weather just really isn’t fun.”

Jurecka said although spring is approaching, the cold weather isn’t quite over.

“Well this is not quite done yet,” he said. “We have stuff exiting the Rolling Plains. There’s another batch coming from eastern New Mexico that will

probably affect the area.”

He said the forecast for the week will begin chilly, but there will be a warm-up later in the week.

“Once that front passes, it’s just going to be bitter cold with lows in the single digits,” he said. “Wind chills probably to zero and negative 5 (Sunday). Monday warms up to almost freezing, and then there we will substantially warm up to 60 on Tuesday, and it should get up to 70 later in the week.” ➤➤kmcdermett@dailytoreador.com

World scrambles as Russia tightens grip on Crimea PEREVALNE, Ukraine (AP) — Warning that it was “on the brink of disaster,” Ukraine put its military on high alert Sunday and appealed for international help to avoid what it feared was the possibility of an invasion by Russia.

Outrage over Russia’s tactics mounted in world capitals, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calling on President Vladimir Putin to pull back from “an incredible act of aggression.”

Fearing that Europe’s borders were being rewritten by force, world leaders rushed to find a diplomatic solution to the dispute. But there was no denying what had already happened on the ground: Russia captured the Black Sea peninsula on Saturday without firing a shot.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said there was no reason for Russia to invade Ukraine and warned that “we are on the brink of disaster.”

“We believe that our western partners and the entire global community will support the territorial integrity and unity of Ukraine,” he said Sunday in Kiev.

NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels, Britain’s foreign minister flew to Kiev to support its new government and the U.S., France and Britain debated the possibility of boycotting the next Group of Eight economic summit, being held in June

at Sochi, the host of Russia’s successful Winter Olympics.

In Kiev, Moscow and other cities, thousands of protesters took to the streets to either decry the Russian occupation or celebrate Crimea’s return to its former ruler.

“Support us, America!” a handful of protesters chanted outside the U.S. Embassy in Kiev. One young girl held up a placard reading: “No Russian aggression!”

“Russia! Russia!” the crowd chanted in Moscow.

Kerry, interviewed Sunday on U.S. television news shows, talked about boycotting the G-8 summit, as well as possible visa bans, asset freezes and trade and investment penalties against Russia. Kerry said all the foreign ministers he had talked to were prepared “to go to the hilt” to isolate Russia.

Still, politicians were treading carefully, knowing it was a delicate time for Europe.

“We are on a very dangerous track of increasing tensions,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. “(But) it is still possible to turn around. A new division of Europe can still be prevented.”

So far, however, Ukraine’s new government and other countries have been powerless to counter Russia’s tactics. Armed men in uniforms without insignia have moved freely about Crimea for days, occupying airports,

smashing equipment at an air base and besieging a Ukrainian infantry base.

Putin has defied calls from the West to pull back his troops, insisting that Russia has a right to protect its interests and those of Russian-speakers in Crimea and elsewhere in Ukraine. His confidence is matched by the knowledge that Ukraine’s 46 million people have divided loyalties. While much of western Ukraine wants closer ties with the 28-nation European Union, its eastern and southern regions like Crimea look to Russia for support.

Russia has long wanted to reclaim the lush Crimean Peninsula, part of its territory until 1954. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet pays Ukraine millions every year to be stationed at the Crimean port of Sevastopol and nearly 60 percent of Crimea’s residents identify themselves as Russian.

During a phone conversation Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin “directed her attention to the unrelenting threat of violence from ultranationalist forces (in Ukraine) that endangered the life and legal interests of Russian citizens,” according to a Kremlin statement.

The statement also said “the measures taken by Russia are fully adequate with regard to the current extraordinary situation.”

Ukraine’s new government came to power last week following months of pro-democracy protests against

Primary poses test for Texas Democrats’ strategy AUSTIN (AP) — Battleground Texas, the major Democratic effort aimed at turning one of the reddest states blue, celebrated its first birthday this week with cocktails at a swank Austin bar, hosting one last party before the project’s first significant test in Tuesday’s primary election.

The initiative organized by Jeremy Bird, President Barack Obama’s former field organizer, has raised more than $3 million, signed up 12,000 volunteers and attempted more than 370,000 phone calls and door-knocks to boost the Democratic Party, according to the organizing group’s executive director, Jenn Brown. The group hopes to take advantage of the state’s changing demographics to increase the Democratic vote, using a neighborhood mobilizing model that produced results in Obama’s presidential campaigns.

The March 4 Democratic primary will reveal how much the group has accomplished on the road to the general election in November.

Democrats hope to make Texas a battleground state by 2016 to, at the very least, force the GOP to divert resources to preserving their hold on the second largest number of electoral college seats in the country. If Democrats could routinely win in Texas, along with their strongholds in California and New York, they could hold the White House for years to come.

But no Democrat has won a statewide election since 1994, and participation in the primary, as a percentage of the state’s population, has steadily dropped to 590,000 in 2012. The one exception was the 2008 primary, in which Obama faced off against Hillary Clinton, a race that brought out a record 2.8 million voters.

“It gives you a sense of what is possible if you have very competitive mobilization efforts going on,” said James Henson, a political scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, an expert on voter behavior in Texas.

“There’s a chicken and egg question, do you get people mobilized and then you get more competitive races?

Or do you get more competitive races, and then that helps mobilize people?”

Republicans say that registering more voters in the fast-growing state won’t necessarily help Democrats because Texas residents, including many Hispanics, tend to be conservative.

“The center-right is the vast ma- Texas Senate last year that temporarily jority in this state, so you can register blocked a new abortion measure. Her all the voters you want,” said Republi- personal story of being a divorced can Party Chairman Steve Munisteri. teenage mother who went on earn a Enthusiasm for Democratic guber- law degree and win elective office has natorial candidate Wendy Davis has added to her celebrity. sped up the organizing group’s timeline Until Davis’ emergence, Demofor making Texas a battleground state, crats’ hopes of breaking through had said Brown. Davis, 50, became a hero originally centered on 2020, when to abortion rights advocates when she Hispanics will become the majority FOR RELEASE 1, 2014 conducted an 11-hour filibuster in the MARCH in Texas.

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a pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and his decision to turn Ukraine toward Russia instead of the EU. Yanukovych fled to Russia after more than 80 people were killed in the protests. He insists he’s still president.

Ukraine’s acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, put Ukraine’s armed forces on alert, calling up reserves and stepping up security at nuclear power plants, airports and other strategic locations.

Turchynov also appointed 18 new regional governors, including two oligarchs in the eastern cities of Dneprotrovsk and Donetsk, as big business and the new Ukrainian government united against Russia.

Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, urged business, ordinary people and the government to join together, saying Sunday that the use of force and “illegal action from outside” were “impermissible.”

Russian troops, meanwhile, pulled up to the Ukrainian military base at Perevalne on the Crimean Peninsula in a convoy Sunday that included at least 13 trucks and four armored vehicles with mounted machine guns.

The trucks carried 30 soldiers each and had Russian license plates.

In response, a dozen Ukrainian soldiers, some with clips in their rifles, placed a tank at the base’s gate, leaving the two sides in a tense standoff.

It appeared to be the first known case

of outmatched Ukrainians standing up to Russian military might.

Later in the afternoon, civilians backing both Ukraine and Russia walked over to view the standoff at Perevalne, some shaking their heads in amazement in the geo-political developments right in their own town.

Unidentified soldiers were also seen cutting power to the headquarters of the Ukrainian Naval forces in Crimea — whose own commander defected later Sunday and pledged his allegiance to “the people of Crimea.”

In Kiev, a Ukrainian security official said the head of the Ukrainian Navy — Adm. Denis Berezovsky — had been dismissed and faces a treason investigation after declaring his allegiance to the pro-Russian government of the Crimea region.

The speaker of Crimea’s legislature, Vladimir Konstantinov, was quoted as saying local authorities do not recognize the new government in Kiev. He said a planned referendum on March 30 would ask voters about the region’s future status.

A convoy of hundreds of Russian troops was also seen heading toward Simferopol, the regional capital of Crimea. Armed men in military uniforms without markings strolled around Simferopol’s central plaza, Lenin Square, outside its Council of Ministers building.

In Brussels, NATO’s secretary

general said Russia had violated the U.N. charter with its military action in Ukraine, and he urged Moscow to “de-escalate the tensions.”

Ukraine is not a NATO member, meaning the U.S. and Europe are not obligated to come to its defense. But Ukraine has taken part in some alliance military exercises.

“It is very important that we all do everything we can to calm tensions,” said British Foreign Minister William Hague, who flew to Kiev on Sunday.

He said he has urged Russian officials to “speak directly to the Ukrainians” but so far they had not.

President Barack Obama talked with Putin by telephone for 90 minutes Saturday and expressed his “deep concern” about “Russia’s clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.”

Obama warned that Russia’s “continued violation of international law will lead to greater political and economic isolation.”

In Moscow, at least 10,000 people bearing Russian flags marched freely through the city Sunday, while a few dozen demonstrating on Red Square against the invasion of Ukraine were quickly detained by Russian riot police.

“We understand that the West wants to attack us and seize this territory. It (the West) is dangerous to us,” said Victor Sidelin, a Moscow resident at the march.

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People should appreciate life, focus on being happy Francis Cobbinah his way to the top when all the odds were against him. As he read the news with his rich baritone voice, infectious personality and professional excellence, he also inspired millions of upcoming journalists across the globe.

Unfortunately as life may tell its story, his life was sadly cut off at the age of 41. His demise came as a “world shocker” as influential personalities paid tribute to this “young soldier.” This sad occurrence only goes to ratify the fact that life is sadly unpredictable and madly impassive.

Our very own Paul Walker’s name also surfaces anytime young people who died during their peak is mentioned. Those who knew Walker described him as a selfless and munificent gentleman who tried to change the world through his work and his private deeds.

He is said to have paid for the engagement ring of a lovely couple when he barely knew them.

It was therefore no surprise that the whole world wept in solidarity with Walker’s family when news of his demise came

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about. This gentleman was obviously loved by all who had seen him and even those who didn’t know him.

As I mentioned earlier, the list goes on and on. There are thousands of people like Dumor and Walker whose lives have been abruptly cut short when they were in their peak, some known and some unknown.

Although all these instances were painful moments, the only questions that continue to linger in the corners of my mind when

We strive so hard to garner wealth and fame and yet we fail to appreciate the little things about life ...

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ife as often intimated by socialists and philosophers is an unpredictable journey that can be likened to the Lubbock weather. For this reason, it is imperative for humans to take each day as it comes and to make the most out of it.

In recent times, I have observed with keen interest the number of people who have weathered the storm in an attempt to impart their generation and the ones yet unborn only for them to die at their apex.

The list is unending, but as an African, I would like to buttress my point with the story of an outspoken and eloquent African gentleman who was until his unexpected demise a month ago, a celebrated and an award-winning news anchor for the BBC. Komla Dumor’s biography tells of a young man who fought

I hear about such sad stories is if they lived a happy life before they died and if they enjoyed each day as it came.

Since we all sing “God Be with You till We Meet Again” during funerals, I guess I have to hold my peace until I meet both of them again so I can ask them if they lived happy lives.

For most of us, we fail to recognize that life is indeed short.

We strive so hard to garner wealth and fame and yet we fail to appreciate the little things about life, such as the fresh air, good food and priceless friends we hang out with.

These little things we often fail to acknowledge are the very things that make life a whole big adventure. Every ex-convict grows to appreciate the chance to wake up in the morning and take a walk down the road with-

out any restrictions.

I perfectly understand that everyone has something to do; bills to pay, targets to meet, children to care for and standards to live up to. Nevertheless, we must not forget that the very essence of life is ingrained on our own happiness.

John Lennon sums all my thoughts up when he said, “When I was 5 years old, my mother told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They said I didn’t understand the assignment and I said they didn’t understand life.”

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Facebook relationship Late musician Pete Seeger a prophet in his own land data may not be right

By DANIEL J. SOLOMON

the harvarD CrimSoN (harvarD U.)

Daily Forty-NiNer (CaliForNia State U. loNg BeaCh)

Facebook has the data capabilities to tell me who will be the next person I’m going to date. Well, that’s a relief.

“Relationships start with a period of courtship: on Facebook, messages are exchanged, profiles are visited, posts are shared on each other’s timelines,” according to Facebook Data Scientist Carlos Greg Diuk.

Right before Valentine’s Day, the Facebook data team posted a six-series installment that shows a number of statistical graphs projecting the probabilities of a lasting relationship.

Each installment featured different sets of relationships, such as marriage, young love and soonto-expire dating patterns among Facebook users.

To sum it up, Facebook data tracks people who went from “single” to “in a relationship” and vice versa.

The Facebook trackers keep tabs on Facebook users who are at least 23 years old and whose status says, “in a relationship” for at least three months.

Through the power of Facebook tracking, Facebook data finds a trend in the courtship and relationship patterns to predict the months in which they are likely to end.

Did your loving Facebook relationship expire, just like the chart projected it would? Facebook can tell you who your next compatible suitor will be … even though they have yet to tell me.

Apparently, a Facebook data scientist can take a scroll through your timeline posts and judge whom you’re interested in and who is interested in you.

“During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple,” Diuk’s said in a post.

It’s a good sign when the timeline posts begin to slow down after the first 100 days before the “in a relationship” status is made public, according to Diuk’s data.

In theory, this is because after the first 100 days of a relationship, a couple is spending more physical time together and less time corresponding through Facebook.

Facebook can also predict when the relationship might be nearing its end date based on the increase of moral support from Facebook friends on the wall. These messages can be vague but a high volume of prebreakup correspondence is compared against the decreasing Facebook interaction between you and your soon-to-be ex-partner.

What I find amusing is that I’m only 24 years old and I don’t recall using Facebook as a means to define my past relationships. Is Facebook not taking into account those who don’t post a relationship status?

There were definitely a few relationships I shared on Facebook that bordered on the lines of “in a relationship” and “single” … and then, “in a relationship” again.

Ever since then, however, I have chosen to keep my relationship status completely hidden. I guess many of my fellow 23-year-old friends agree since they have followed suit.

I’m curious to know who exactly makes up the Facebook demographic the data team is following? Has there been any success in trending relationships through Facebook posts? Did these relationships ever materialize?

Although the data team may have some evidence that highlights the success and failures of relationships, I have a hard time believing this method applies to the general Facebook demographic, seeing as many people, in a relationship or not, leave their relationship status blank.

I also don’t message anyone that I’m dating on Facebook and they don’t message me.

Additionally, I did date someone for three years and we stopped being friends on Facebook after the first year of the relationship. Did that determine the demise, even though the break-up came two years later?

So tell me Facebook, am I going to be forever alone? According to these graphs, I just might be.

Let us know what you think.

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No matter Pete Seeger’s radical associations—the folk-singer was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA and a backer of Henry Wallace’s 1948 presidential run—his life and music exemplify the sturdiest JudeoChristian universalism. Starting out his career in the ‘30s, he sang workers’ anthems that demanded a revolution in material conditions. While Seeger’s commitment to left-wing causes never faltered, its expression morphed as his voice assumed a paternal timbre and his repertoire took an existential turn.

If “Solidarity Forever” had imagined the final victory of those who “built the cities where they trade,” “Oh, Had I A Golden Thread” offered a spiritual, and surprisingly mundane, vision of utopia.

Penned in 1958, the song replaced the social-realist builder with the brave woman in labor, the pugilistic union member with the innocent toddler.

Behind the domestic theme lies a deep skepticism of modernity. Seeger’s privileging of life-cycle events over political ones bespoke a challenge to Marxist, and also Enlightenment, notions of history: in this case, a linear progression and the overcoming of the past. In his work, we measure time by milestones in the life of the family and the individual.

Most of us will raise children. Each

Aunt Rhodie” describes the death of a prized goose. Unsurprisingly, many pieces also address the state’s disruptive effect on family life. In “Mrs. McGrath,” the mother of a maimed Irish soldier condemns the monarchs of Europe: “By the heavens I’ll make ’em rue the time they struck the leg from a child of mine.” In “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?,” husbands, torn from their wives, are killed in battle.

Prior to an ethos, Seeger had a pathos.

That sympathetic quality allowed him to relate events, large and small, relevant and obscure, near and far, to his listeners.

Pathos could come at the expense of depth; reaction could go to excess.

On one recording of “Careless Love,” Seeger mused, “Think of all those scientists and inventors who thought their invention was going to save the world, cure all the ills, and somehow, it just didn’t turn out right.” In a 1995 interview with the New York Times, he intimated, “I’m more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.”

If his solution was wrong, the sense of crisis he felt after the Holocaust and during the bleakest years of the Cold War was palpable. In the “Origins of Totalitarianism,” Hannah Arendt had theorized, “We can no longer afford ...

to discard the bad and simply think it of as a dead-load. ... The subterranean stream of Western history has finally come to the surface and usurped the dignity of our tradition.” Seeger lamented this dissonance in “Bach at Treblinka,” recalling how the Baroque composer’s work had greeted Hitler’s victims on their arrival at the camps.

Arendt had called “for a new law on earth,” which would remain limited, even as it “comprehend[ed] the whole of humanity.” Seeger’s laws were timeless. Like the lyrics to “Turn, Turn, Turn,” they were borrowed from yesteryear. He was a cataloger of man’s experience, and from that arose his fight for universal dignity.

Seeger crooned for Okies. Seeger agitated for unions. Seeger stood up to McCarthyism. Seeger campaigned and raised money for civil rights. Seeger cleaned up the Hudson River. He recycled and rewrote songs from one movement to the next, as much for convenience as in recognition of intersectionality.

Subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955, he was told to identify himself in a photo taken at a Communist rally. “It is like Jesus Christ when asked by Pontius Pilate, ‘Are you king of the Jews?’” he replied.

Last month Pete Seeger died at the age of 94. He was a prophet in his own land.

E-cigarette advertising legislation too broad to enforce

By YASMEEN SERHAN

Daily trojaN (U. SoUtherN Cal)

On Wednesday, a group of senators led by Sen. Barbara Boxer introduced the Protecting Children from Electronic Cigarette Advertising Act to prohibit the marketing of e-cigarettes to children. Such a bill would give the Federal Trade Commission the power to determine what constitutes inappropriate marketing to children, which would then be translated into a ban enforced by the FTC and states’ attorneys general.

Despite the bill’s good intentions, its overly broad restrictions and sweeping assumptions over the influence of these e-cigarettes on the nation’s youth must be addressed.

The electronic cigarette, otherwise known as an e-cigarette, is a batterypowered device intended to imitate

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By JOANN ROW

of us will pass away. An awareness of death and recurrence lurks in Seeger’s oeuvre, and this comes through most powerfully in “Turn, Turn, Turn.” Its lyrics cribbed from the Book of Ecclesiastes, the song reminds us that to everything there is a season: “A time to gain, a time to lose, a time to rend, a time to sew, a time for love, a time for hate.”

That could be seen as an invitation to nihilism, but Ecclesiastes’ message is fundamentally life-affirming: “A man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?”

Seeger’s home-in on the hearth also functioned as an attack on the state, particularly the totalitarian state. Much of this was thanks to the folk genre itself. From its distinctive song-writing process to its emphasis on audience participation, folk embraces an egalitarian approach to hierarchy and a pre-commercial mode of cultural transmission. It refuses to allow the individual or family to be lost to the anonymity of the masses.

Seeger followed those imperatives to a tee. At one 1963 concert, he brought to the stage at Carnegie Hall the despair of a coal-miner’s wife, the joy of a newborn, the pity of Marilyn Monroe’s demise, and the elation of an emancipated slave. Little was outside his ken. “This Old Car” recounts the story of a vehicle’s break-down on New York’s West Side Highway. “Go Tell

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the experience of smoking without the harmful health effects. For habitual smokers, e-cigarettes both look and work like normal cigarettes. Unlike cigarettes made with tobacco leaves, however, e-cigarette users inhale and exhale liquid nicotine in the form of vapor, thereby avoiding both the harmful carcinogens and second-hand smoke of traditional cigarettes.

This safer nicotine fix, marketed as a healthier alternative for habitual smokers who wish to quit smoking cigarettes, has come with scrutiny. Proponents of the bill proposed by Sen. Boxer and others have attacked e-cigarette companies’ marketing tactics, which include celebrity advertisements and the marketing of fruity flavors, which they consider to be too appealing to youths.

“It is troubling that manufacturers of e-cigarettes — some of whom also make

traditional cigarettes — are attempting to establish a new generation of nicotine addicts through aggressive marketing that often uses cartoons and sponsorship of music festivals and sporting events,” Sen. Tom Harkin said in a statement.

Though concerns regarding the health of the nation’s youth are valid, the proposed legislation doesn’t properly address these issues. Rather than calling for traditional restrictions imposed on other addictive substances such as tobacco and alcohol, the bill instead calls for manipulating the ways in which these products are marketed.

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denouncing e-cigarette advertisements for marketing different flavors, hiring celebrities and using cartoons is absurd, and such limitations would be too broad to ever be truly enforced.

Like any other product that deals with serious substances such as caffeine and alcohol, consumers should be advised of the consequences associated with nicotine. But to impose advertising restrictions banning the use of cartoons and varied nicotine flavors out of fear that it will sway the impressionable younger generation is absurd. Advertisers utilize different flavors and celebrity cameos to market products proven to be more dangerous, including alcohol and tobacco. To attempt to impose these unenforceable limitations on e-cigarettes doesn’t solve the problem these senators seek to address — it just creates additional ones.

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Tech Gymnastics Club focuses on teamwork

By HANNAH HIPP Staff Writer

Determination was on the faces of the members of the Texas Tech Gymnastics Club as they flipped and tumbled during the gymnastics meet Saturday.

The meet, which took place at Rock Solid Athletics, was hosted

by Tech and was one of several competitions the club competes in every year.

“Usually we have six competitions in each season,” Kaylyn Smith, a freshman journalism major from Houston, said. “A&M is a big meet, and nationals this year is in Tennessee.”

Smith has been a member of the team since her first semester last fall,

she said. At the meet she participated in floor, beam and vault.

She has been a gymnast since she was 8 years old, but said the club does not have any requirements and no previous experience is necessary to join — they only ask that members work hard and make progress.

“You have to put in work and effort,” Smith said. “If you’re not going to try to be better you’re not going to be able to compete.”

One of the team’s main focuses is teamwork, Smith said.

The team tries to get together outside of the gym as well as for its practices and meets, she said. It’s not so much about how the individual performs or how he or she gets better on his or her own.

“The Tech club is really about

D.C., said he was looking for a new experience when he first got to college.

“I saw a gymnastics stand at orientation and thought it looked like something different,” he said.

The club members mostly teach each other, he said, although sometimes alumni or workers at Rock Solid will help the members out with special skills.

Grannan’s role as president includes organizing meets and making sure everyone is doing what they should be, he said.

“I make sure that we’re in contact with the Rec Center and that all of the forms are on file and everyone’s where they should be and has everything they need and that we’re not breaking any rules,”

how the team works together,” Smith said. “It’s a lot of teamwork in and outside of the gym, and you have to be selfless and sacrifice a lot for other people.”

The club is open to undergraduate and graduate students.

However, the club receives no funding from the university, Smith said.

“We have to raise our own money,” Smith said. “We do flips for tips, we do car washes and try to get sponsored by businesses and stuff like that.”

The president of the team, junior Brian Grannan, has been with the club for three years.

Despite having no previous experience, the communications studies major from Washington,

Grannan said.

Matthew Amodeo, a former member of the club and current graduate student at the University of North Texas, was at the meet supporting his old teammates.

Amodeo was a member of the club all four years he was at Tech, and said he still keeps in contact with the club.

“I try to keep in as much contact as I can and keep in contact with the officers,” Amodeo said. “If they need anything they can come to me.”

The club basically defined Amodeo’s experience as an undergraduate student, he said. It was his first circle of friends he made and was his first shot at having real responsibility.

One of Amodeo’s favorite

memories was going to nationals in Salt Lake City, Utah two years ago, he said.

“Our competition is pretty intense,” Amodeo said “but at the national level even with the club teams, the intensity gets a lot higher.

It’s an experience to take in.”

Students interested in joining should be serious about the club, he said, but should also have a desire to have fun.

They should have a genuine interest in the sport and want to get better, Amodeo said.

“If you’re too business-minded about this whole thing then it’s not even worth it,” Amodeo said. “We make sure to have a fun environment.” ➤➤hhipp@dailytoreador.com

Jimmy Fallon, Chicago Rap disrespect of black icons raises concerns mayor take a chilly dip CHICAGO (AP) — Comedian Jimmy Fallon took a quick but icy dip in Lake Michigan — dressed in a full suit and tie — eyes bulging as he darted out of the slushy water and headed straight for a pile of dry towels.

“The Tonight Show” host made good on his promise to make Sunday morning’s “Polar Plunge” with Mayor Rahm Emanuel as a condition for the mayor appearing on Fallon’s show in New York, following an exchange of tweets and challenges.

“If you hear a scream like a little girl’s ... know that Jimmy Fallon is swimming in Lake Michigan,” Fallon told the crowd shortly before running in.

Emanuel, wearing a green Chicago Public Library T-shirt and shorts, went first, with Fallon just after. Both were soaked as they fled the water to cheers from a large crowd. A group of bagpipers, wearing yellow rain boots and traditional kilts, provided the soundtrack for their rapid dash into the 32-degree lake.

The annual event draws several thousand hearty plungers to raise money for Special Olympics Chicago.

Scores of people dressed in parkas and polar bear outfits, some carrying signs, gathered along the lakefront early, hoping to catch a glimpse of Fallon. It was 10 degrees during the plunge, and Chicago firefighters in red wetsuits waded in before the waves of brave souls, throwing chunks of ice out of the area.

S e v e n t e e n - y e a r- o l d h i g h school senior Marilyn Lamanna

and a friend got up at 5 a.m. to snag a spot where they hoped to watch the feat unfold.

With them was a large, cardboard cutout of Fallon’s head, which caught his eye. He gave the shrieking girls brief hugs before darting off to take the plunge, telling them, “I’ve got to go meet the mayor.”

“Between Jimmy Fallon and the Special Olympics, it doesn’t get much better than that, even though it’s super cold,” Lamanna said.

Emanuel said last summer that if city’s children read 2 million books as part of a Chicago Public Library program called “Rahm’s Readers,” he’d jump in the lake.

An hour before the plunge, Emanuel was dressed in sweats and sipping coffee. He got emotional as he talked to reporters about meeting the mother of a special needs child in a Chicago grocery store on Saturday, saying she was grateful for his participation in the event. He said they cried and hugged.

“There are parents out there, there are children out there who have something they can give,” he said.

Emanuel was flanked by Detroit Lions defensive lineman and former Bears player Israel Idonije and Chicago Public Library Commissioner Brian Bannon.

Special Olympics Chicago President Jen Kramer credits Fallon and Emanuel with attracting more than 3,000 people for the run into the lake from the city’s North Avenue beach. That’s more than ever; last year 2,300 people did it.

Storm leaves mud across California cities LOS ANGELES (AP) — A thunderstorm that brought sorelyneeded rain to California is winding down after sending mudslides down foothill communities, flooding roadways and opening up sinkholes.

Evacuation orders remained in effect for hundreds of homes in Los Angeles County foothill communities where fires have burned away vegetation that holds soil in place, and bursts of rain caused the mountains to belch occasional debris flows.

The storm marked a sharp departure from many months of drought that has grown to crisis proportions for the state’s vast farming industry.

However, such storms would have to become common to make serious inroads against the drought, weather forecasters have said.

The heavy band of rain drenched parts of the state throughout Saturday before tapering off by nighttime. While the danger of mudslides was subsiding, officials urged residents who left their homes as much as three days earlier to stay away until Sunday morning.

“The good news is that it looks like the storm will pass ... but we still need to evaluate the safety of the area” before people can return home, Assistant Chief Steve Martin of the Los Angeles County Fire Department told a webcast news conference.

The National Weather Service said the storm is forecast to move east over the Rockies and into the Plains and Mississippi Valley through Sunday, bringing a hodgepodge of precipitation. Colorado’s ski resorts could see up to 6 inches of fresh snow. A mixture of sleet and snow in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois will eventually change over to all snow — with up to 8 inches forecast for Kansas City and the St. Louis area — while northern Arkansas will see freezing rain. The system also has its sights set on the Appalachians and the East Coast into Monday.

The storm’s eastward move on Saturday finally broke a 70-day streak without precipitation in the Phoenix area. An 85-day spell of no measureable rainfall in Las Vegas ended Friday. Rain and snow also finally came to drought-stricken New Mexico. In Denver, a highway pileup involving more than 100 vehicles killed one person and injured 30 others as heavy snow fell Saturday, authorities said.

In California, about 1,200 houses in the adjacent cities of Azusa and Glendora as well as nearby Monrovia were under evacuation orders because of the possibility of destructive flows from the San Gabriel Mountains, a rugged range largely covered by the Angeles National Forest.

(AP) — Malcolm X and rap music have always fit together like a needle in the groove, connected by struggle, strength and defiance. But three recent episodes involving the use or misuse of Malcolm and other black icons have raised the question: Has rap lost touch with black history?

Chart-topping rapstress Nicki

Minaj provoked widespread outrage with an Instagram post featuring one of black history’s most poignant images: Malcolm X peering out the window of his home, rifle in hand, trying to defend his wife and children from firebombs while under surveillance by federal agents.

Superimposed on the photo: the title of Minaj’s new song, which

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denigrates certain black men and repeats the N-word 42 times.

That came after Minaj’s mentor Lil Wayne recorded a verse last year using the civil rights martyr Emmett Till in a sexual metaphor, and the hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons posted a Harriet Tubman “sex tape” video on his comedy channel.

What is happening to main-

stream rap music, which was launched by Simmons and is now ruled by the likes of Minaj and Wayne?

“I don’t want to say today’s rappers are not educated about black history, but they don’t seem as aware as rap generations before them,” said Jermaine Hall, editor-in-chief of Vibe, the hip-hop magazine and website.

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hile you were sleeping late Saturday, I woke up early to join about 20 other people for a Concealed Handgun License class hosted by Tech Gun Club.

The day before the class, I traveled to the booming city of Seminole to borrow a gun from my dad for the shooting portion of the test. My dad, a sergeant at the sheriff’s office, made me practice the correct stance, how to hold the gun and how to load and unload it before I left.

When I still lived at home, I went with him several times to the gun range in my hometown and learned how to shoot several different guns. Mind you, this was at least four or five years ago.

I got to campus Saturday morning and made my way to the classroom for the six-hour course. I sat down with my laptop, which I thought I

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would need because I didn’t print out a copy of the Texas Concealed Handgun Laws. Lucky for me, I was the only nerd there with my laptop and I think people were laughing at me, but I don’t blame them.

The instructor, Matthew Benoit, said it was his first time to teach the class and assured us it would be awkward for everyone.

He started off the class with a YouTube video of people handling guns like idiots, and it was hilarious.

Good job, Matthew. You weren’t awkward at all.

Not long after the course started, the president of Tech Gun Club, Mohan Birbal, brought doughnuts.

But, no one got up.

I silently hated everyone in the room until we were released for a short break, so I could get a doughnut. I wasn’t about to be the first to grab one.

During the four-hour lecture, Matthew explained the different laws pertaining to having a concealed handgun, how to store them and what not to do with them.

I really appreciated the emphasis he put on keeping guns out of the reach of children and anyone else you do not want to have access to the weapon.

Other than the part where he compared kids to dogs who eventually learn to speak, which I thought was hilarious, I thought it was really important to keep in mind that you

need to take care of and store your weapon properly.

Although parts of the class were boring, I learned a lot about what having a concealed handgun license means.

After we finished the lecture, it was time for the test.

I was nervous and dozed off twice.

The material was pretty basic and our instructor made everything easy to understand, but what if I was that one person who couldn’t pass this test?

Fortunately, I did pass and the gentleman in front of me said, “It was as easy as a med school exam.”

I’m sorry. What?

Anyway, we all passed and now it was time to head to the gun range in Slaton. I only got lost once on the way there and twice on the way back.

I watched the first and second group of people shoot 50 rounds from

No longer loyal to Scouts, boys join Trail Life NORTH RICHLAND HILLS (AP) — Chatting in the living room one night, Ron Orr gave his 15-year-old son Andrew a choice: He could stick with the Boy Scouts of America and his mission to become an Eagle Scout, or he could join Trail Life USA — the new Christian-based alternative that excludes openly gay boys.

This was no small decision. Four generations of Orr men had been Eagles, including Ron and Andrew’s older brother. Andrew had spent years working toward Scouting’s highest rank, and was just months from reaching it.

But the Boy Scouts had decided to admit gays, and Ron Orr, a tall, softspoken man with a firm handshake, is clear about his Christian faith and what it says about homosexuality: It is a sin that cannot be tolerated.

His son agreed. He would forgo the century-old BSA for Trail Life, which officially launched just last month.

“It felt like I’d be hitting something higher than Eagle in terms of achievement,” Andrew said, in an interview.

So Orr and his son left BSA and set out with other families to build a new organization based on what they believe to be Christian values. Orr is a regional organizer who speaks to churches and groups about Trail Life. His son now aspires to achieve a Freedom Award, the new group’s highest rank.

The Orrs and others in Trail Life say they are fighting for the traditional values of Christianity and of Scouting, which includes a command in the Scout Oath to be “morally straight” — even as a changing America grows more accepting of gays and gay marriage. They are leaving an organization central to many of their upbringings with heavy

hearts, but also with the belief that the Scouting they knew no longer exists.

“As Christians from a scriptural basis, we love all folks, but the Scripture is very clear that being homosexual is a sin,” Ron Orr said in an interview.

“We’ve got to be able to hold a strong line and set a consistent example for our young men.” ___ Trail Life has established units in more than 40 states, mostly from Boy Scouts and parents who feel their old organization has lost its way. It has about 600 units up and running or in the process of registration, executive director Rob Green said. As many as half of those who have expressed interest were not affiliated with the Boy Scouts beforehand, Green said.

It is still a tiny movement compared to Scouting, which has nearly 2.5 million youth members and remains a powerful force in American life, even with a 6 percent drop in membership last year.

Trail Life promotes itself on its website as the “premier national character development organization for young men which produces Godly and responsible husbands, fathers and citizens.”

Its official membership standards policy welcomes all boys, but adds, “We grant membership to adults and youth who do not engage in or promote sexual immorality of any kind, or engage in behavior that would become a distraction to the mission of the program.”

For over a century, Scouting banned openly gay youth and leaders, fighting all the way to the Supreme Court to defend its right to do so. Leaders who were revealed to be gay were excluded, and some boys were denied Eagle Scout

awards by regional councils that were notified of their sexual orientation.

But the Scouts eventually began to face pressure from sponsors and CEOs who serve in Scouting leadership but lead companies with anti-discrimination policies. BSA surveys also showed that youths and parents of Scouting-age children were supportive of allowing openly gay Scouts.

Scouting leadership proposed a compromise: Accept openly gay youth, but exclude gay adult volunteers. BSA’s National Council voted in May to enact it.

There are signs that the change worked. One of the gay Scouts who rallied for the change, Pascal Tessier of Maryland, has since received his Eagle award. And threats of massive departures from Scouting ranks have not materialized. Early reports suggest a small percentage of Scouts left BSA due to the policy — far less than even what Scouting leaders were led to expect by surveys conducted before the vote.

“Ultimately, Scouting voted in favor of a new policy that allows us to serve more kids,” said Deron Smith, BSA’s national spokesman, in an email.

“That said, we’re pleased that the strong majority of our Scouting family remains committed to Scouting.”

But the vote also angered many people affiliated with Scouting, particularly in more conservative parts of the country. Many of them have stayed with Scouting so far. Others have sought alternatives, from Trail Life to other youth groups sponsored by churches.

“We’re trying to learn from the mistakes of the Boy Scouts,” said John Stemberger, an Orlando, Fla., lawyer who led the opposition to BSA’s May vote and went on to found Trail Life.

Stemberger accused BSA of imposing “an artificial political and social agenda” on its national membership at the expense of its rank-and-file members and churches. He says he’s heard from people still in Scouting who are quietly dissatisfied, but staying put for now.

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Eriksen said for qualified education expenses such as books and tuition, not including optional expenses such as room and board, a student can claim a deduction worth up to $4,000.

“Let’s just say you’re a student and your marginal tax rate is 10 percent,” he said. “What this does is if you earned $10,000, you would owe $1,000 in taxes. What tax deductions do is lower your taxable income from $10,000 to $6,000 so then you would only have to pay $600 in taxes.”

Another important aspect of the filing process for students is coordination with parents.

By coordinating and communicating with parents, students can

their guns from three, seven and 15 yards out.

Then it was my turn. I soon started panicking about whether I remembered all the mechanics of the gun. Remember, it had been a while since I shot a gun, and this was for a test.

I was determined to not bring shame to all the law enforcement officers in my family, meaning my dad and big brother.

My dad had given me a .45, whatever that means, and I was ready to show that target who was boss. As it turned out, it was more difficult than I thought, especially when I was next to the guy who shot what seemed like 50 bullets through one hole. Thanks for that, dude. Really helped my confidence.

The target also had the silhouette of a person, and although I was aimed at the middle of the target,

I shot the silhouette in the family jewels a few times.

At one point, the instructor informed other members of the Tech Gun Club they could correct any of us who they thought needed it.

That comment was meant for me. I can accept it and hold my head high.

I wasn’t great, but I tried and I passed.

After calling my dad and informing him of the mistakes I made, I’m being forced to go home and take a few lessons from the man who thinks he is John Wayne.

Moral of the story, this class was great and I learned a lot about the laws and how to not be an idiot with a gun.

Ketron is The DT’s editor-in-chief and a senior public relations major from Seminole. ➤➤ editor@dailytoreador.com

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ensure they are not preventing them from claiming something, Ricketts said.

“Usually there’s about a twoyear cycle before the IRS pulls your return up for an audit,” Ricketts said.

“If you’ve claimed something and they’ve claimed the same thing on their return, two years from now the IRS will match that up.

“They’ll send your parents a notice and there will penalties and interest and it gets a lot more expensive so you want to make sure that someone is claiming these expenses but not both of you.”

Although the process has become much simpler for most students, he said international students are subject to much more complex rules.

His advice for them would be to not use the free online filing pro-

grams, with emphasis on the not, he said.

“I have worked with several international students who filed tax returns for residents or for citizens and non-residents are not entitled to many of the tax benefits that citizens and residents get,” Ricketts said. “We had a student here at Tech not that long ago that owed thousands of dollars because he had gone down to H&R Block and had his tax return filed, and they didn’t recognize that he was a non-resident and therefore his tax burden was much heavier.”

After gathering documents, deciding on how to file taxes, and figuring out what credits and deductions are available, students now have to decide how to receive their tax refund.

Students have the option of filing

their taxes electronically or on paper and the same applies for receiving their refund, if they qualify to receive one, Ricketts said.

“Once you file you can come in shortly thereafter and click on this ‘Where’s My Refund?’ link to see where your refund is 24 hours after you’ve filed your e-file return or four weeks after you’ve filed a paper return,” Ricketts said.

The first deadline for filing is April 15, Camp said, although they do have the opportunity for two extensions, with the first extending the deadline until August and the second extending it until October.

Ricketts said his advice for students would be to file as soon as possible, however.

“The odds are you are going to get a refund, so why wait?” Ricketts said. ➤➤awillingham@dailytoreador.com

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Softball win three out of four games in Tech Invitational

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

After losing its season home opener, the Texas Tech softball team won its final three games of the Texas Tech Invitational.

The Red Raiders started the tournament on Friday with a 2-0 loss to Sam Houston State but quickly followed it up with a 5-0 win against Rhode Island behind six shutout innings by junior pitcher Cara Custer.

Tech coach Shanon Hays said he enjoyed seeing his team adjust in the second game of the day.

“It was a nice to come back and get a win in that second game,” Hays said. “We had good pitching all day really, and we finally were able to string together a couple hits against Rhode Island. Ashley Fultz gave us a nice boost with her home run which was something we needed today.”

On Saturday, the Red Raiders defeated Rhode Island 12-1 in five innings on a runrule. Freshman utility player Cassie McClure had two home runs in the first inning, including a grand slam, giving her seven RBIs. It was the most runs the team has scored in a single inning in exactly one year, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

McClure said she thought about what pitches Rhode Island would likely throw and guessed right on her back-to-back home runs.

“I didn’t expect to have a seven-RBI game,” McClure said. “I just go up there and take a deep breath, and if I see the pitch, I’m going to hit it. I just saw a big, fat juicy ball. Just swinging hard, and I said ‘this is my chance.’”

The Red Raiders got revenge on Sam Houston State in the second game Saturday claiming a 4-2 victory. McClure led the team offensively again going 2-3 at the plate with an RBI and a walk. Sunday’s game was cancelled due to weather.

Following the final game of the tournament, Hays said the team can take away many positives from the weekend.

“The best thing we’ve had this weekend is pitching,” he said. “It’s nice, the first game today, to get it going offensively and have a little fun and get a lot of girls some at-bats.

“Yesterday, we weren’t very good offensively, but that’s kind of been our team here, lately. You have a really good day and then not so good and then a really good day. We are trying to level it out and be more consistent.”

After Sunday’s cancellation, Tech

ended its fourth tournament with a 13-6 overall record.

Custer pitched in three games in the tournament and combined for 13 and onethird innings pitched while allowing only one run. She earned a win in two of three Tech victories.

Custer said she thought she and her teammates performed well all weekend.

“I felt like (pitching) helped us out a lot,” she said. “It helped that our hitters got a lot of good hits. I felt like I helped out our team by getting ahead (in the count), besides a walk. But I felt like I did good for our team.”

Freshman outfielder Sydni Emanuel now has 14 stolen bases this season and reached base safely in the last 16 games.

She is hitting .393 on the season.

Senior pitcher Brittany Talley was the starting pitcher in both games Saturday and now has a 1.27 ERA for the year. She picked up her 40th career win, which ranks fifth all-time at Tech, according to a Tech athletics news release.

The Red Raiders host the fourth annual Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic next weekend with five games throughout the tournament. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

PHOTO BY DANIELLE ZARAGOZA/The Daily Toreador TEXAS TECH SECOND baseman Lea Hopson throws the ball to first base in an attempt to get an out during the Red Raiders’ 5-0 win against Rhode Island on Friday at the Rocky Johnson Softball Field.

Texas Tech track and field falls short Marcus Smart leads Oklahoma State in Big 12 Conference championship in victory against No. 5 Kansas, 72-65

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

Texas Tech track and field traveled to Ames, Iowa, last weekend to compete in the Big 12 Conference championship and fell short of coach Wes Kittley’s expectations.

Kittley predicted for the Red Raiders and Lady Raiders to finish third and fourth respectively at minimum, if they could not come away with the team title.

The prediction never occurred, however. The Red Raiders concluded the conference three points shy of third place with a final score of 92, while the Lady Raiders could only gather 70.5 points.

Iowa State occupied fourth place for the women with 96 points.

Kittley said he left Ames disappointed because he believed Tech had a solid chance to win the overall meet, but the competition was the best he has seen in his 15 years of coaching, especially on the men’s side.

“When you have (112.5 points) win first place,” he said, “and then fourth place is 92 points or whatever we had, and all of them were 10 to 12 points from each other, which is the closest competition I have ever had.”

Sophomore hurdler/jumper Le’Tristan

Pledger is sixth in the nation for the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.09 seconds. However, Pledger could not match her best, finishing with a time of 8.56 giving her sixth in conference.

Nervousness plagued a few of the athletes, Kittley said.

“But I think the difference in us not winning was just four or five things that just not go our way,” Kittley said.

However, some athletes had successful individual performances.

Junior sprinter Cierra White, senior sprinter Amoy Blake, junior sprinter Christen Rivers and junior sprinter Montenae Roye-Speight came away with first place in the women’s 4x400 relays finishing in 3:34.90.

Junior jumper Jacorian Duffield no longer holds the school-record high jump alone, as he and sophomore jumper Bradley Adkins tied the clearance of 7 feet 3.75 inches.

Iowa State junior jumper Cameron Ostrowski cleared the height as well and was able to secure first place, despite the three-way tie, because he recorded the least amount of faults on the final jump and the preceding jump.

“Any day you come in and tie your personal record is still a decent day,”

Duffield said.

Plus, the competition between the three jumpers sweetened the experience, Duffield said. Neither of them wanted to give in, which pushed all of them to improve.

Tech gathered the most points in the men’s high jump event, as Duffield and Adkins were joined by freshman jumper Dayton Fisher in the top five to pick up a total of 18 points.

In addition, Duffield and Adkins became the first Red Raiders to occupy two of the top three spots in the high jump, according to Tech Athletics.

Cierra White arrived to conference as the No. 1 sprinter in the 200-meter dash, but finished third in the race with a time of 23.66.

White said ending up with third still hurts, but the disappointment is subdued by knowing there is still outdoor season to right the wrong in her mind.

“I’m a better outdoor runner than indoor runner,” White said, “so I will just use that to give me more reason to go faster in outdoor.”

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“What’s frustrating to me is we had the game where we wanted it and then we didn’t make competitive plays down the stretch to give us the best chance to win,” he said.

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Ford knew Smart was capable of turning things around.

“After the game, I told him he’s a piece of work,” Ford said. “You have to stick with him, because he’s going to make plays. He’s a competitor. That’s what he did. He was huge down the stretch.”

Markel Brown scored 21 points and Le’Bryan Nash added 16 for Oklahoma State (19-10, 7-9 Big 12), which overcame a 10-point deficit in the second half. The Cowboys improved to 3-0 since Smart returned from a three-game suspension for shoving a Texas Tech fan.

Andrew Wiggins scored 15 points, Embiid had 13 points and 13 rebounds, and Wayne Selden added 13 points for Kansas (22-7, 13-3), which already had clinched the Big 12 title outright before tipoff because Texas and Iowa State lost earlier.

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MARCH 3, 2014

SPORTS

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Lady Raiders defeated on Senior Day

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

In a game with 14 lead changes and three ties, the Texas Tech women’s basketball team lost 67-64 to Texas in the season home finale Saturday afternoon in the United Spirit Arena.

Coach Candi Whitaker said the team played well, but the size of Texas proved to be the difference.

“I thought we did a lot of good things,” Whitaker said. “We defended their actions well but didn’t finish plays with rebounds.

(Texas is) very, very good on the boards.

They’re strong. They’re big. I think that impacted the game greatly.”

Senior forward Haley Schneider made her fourth start of her career and led the team with a career-high 14 points in her final home game. She also added seven blocks and five rebounds.

Schneider said she was excited to get the chance to start and took advantage of it.

“This game was going to be bittersweet, regardless, just because it’s my last home game,” she said. “I really wish we could have gotten a win but it’s nice that me and (Shauntal Nobles) were both able to go out with a good performance.”

The loss extended the Lady Raiders’ losing streak to 18 games and moved their overall record to 6-22 including 0-17 in the Big 12 Conference.

A 10-2 run late in the second half, brought Tech within one point of Texas at 63-62 with 1:58 left in the game. Texas made clutch shots in the final minutes to keep Tech from completing the comeback.

After the game, an emotional Shauntal Nobles said it will be hard for her the move on from her team.

“Like (Schneider) said it’s really bittersweet,” Nobles said. “I didn’t think I was going to feel (emotions) this hard. I had five years here, four years playing, and I loved it. I’m leaving a lot behind, and that’s the toughest thing.”

Nobles scored five points and grabbed four rebounds.

Whitaker said she could not be more proud of how the seniors played in their home finale.

“I think these two seniors (Haley Schneider and Shauntal Nobles) played outstanding, on both ends of the floor.

They had their hands full with (Texas’) inside game and they guarded (Texas) really well,” she said. “I’m really proud of what both of our seniors were able to do

PHOTO BY JOHN CARROLL/The Daily Toreador

LADY RAIDER GUARD Amber Battle tries to get past Texas forward Nneka Enemkpali during Texas Tech’s 64-67 loss against the Longhorns on Saturday in the United Spirit Arena.

today. I wish they would have gotten win of their last home game but they both played really well.”

Schneider and Nobles were honored in a ceremony after the game as the team’s only two seniors.

Former Lady Raider Carolyn Thompson was honored before the game for being inducted in the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame. Thompson is the career leader in points for women’s or men’s basketball players at Tech with 2,655 points, according to a Tech athletics news release.

Tech’s leading scorer, junior guard Amber Battle, played through an injury and ended up with 14 points, seven rebounds and 5 assists.

Freshman guard Ivonne CookTaylor also scored 14 points, her third straight game in double-digit scoring.

Junior forward Nneka Enemkpali, who

had 19 points and nine rebounds, and sophomore center Imani Stafford-McGee, who put up 18 points, led the Longhorns.

Whitaker said she told the players to believe in themselves when the score was close late in the game. “(I told Tech) that we can do this, that we can finish this” she said. “Every possession is important, every defensive stand is important and that every block out is important. We needed to tighten up that much more and be as mistake free as possible.

“There’s been a couple of games that we’ve been close and the look in their eye hasn’t been what it should. And today I believed that they could go get it done.”

The Lady Raiders’ final regular season game will be against Oklahoma at 7 p.m.

Monday in Norman, Okla. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com