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Women still struggling for wage, career equality in US GRAPHIC BY MICHAELA YARBROUGH/The Daily Toreador

David Ryan Watson received a 10-year sentence Tuesday after standing trial for the sexual assault of a former classmate.

According to the trial report, the jury deliberated for two hours and decided on a 10-year sentence, which was a larger sentence than the defense-argued probation and less than the prosecutor-argued 20-year sentence.

Watson was taken into custody immediately, according to the report, and was not allowed time to say his final goodbyes to family members.

The trial lasted seven days.

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Police investigate attempted burglary in residence Two male students heard a loud knock on their residence hall room door Wednesday and opened it to reveal a male who tried to force himself into their room.

The incident happened at 5:48 a.m. on the seventh floor of the Weymouth Residence Hall, according to a TechAnnounce.

The suspect, according to TechAnnounce, was wearing a long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans and a ski mask and is believed to be a white male.

The two students were able to force the suspect back outside the room, according to TechAnnounce, and lock the door, causing the suspect to leave the area.

The suspect has not been identified, according to the release, and it is not confirmed there is still a threat to students on campus.

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A typical woman who works full time will lose $431,000 throughout the course of her career because of the pay gap between genders.

In Texas, females earn a weekly average of $633 to a male’s $795, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the U.S., the average salary for women is $691.

American Association of University Women Vice President for Research Catherine Hill said this equates to women earn-

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In the State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama said the statistics ought to change.

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Student voter turnout below Spanish classes redesigned to average for primary elections increase course enrollment

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

Young adults account for 10 percent, of the American population, or 31.4 million according to the Census Bureau.

Voters between age 18 and 29 make up 21 percent of eligible voters in the U.S., according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. However, many do not cast ballots on election days.

“A lot of people, college students included, don’t really have an interest in politics,” Timothy Nokken, associate professor of political science, said. “I don’t think there’s much of a concern, if any, on the part of lawmakers to encourage young people to vote. It pops up as an issue every few years and then it goes away.”

The number of young voters decreased by more than 6 percent between the 2008 and 2012 general elections, according to the Census Bureau.

Less than half of young citizens cast ballots. In the same time frame, two-thirds of individuals age 65 or older voted, according to the Census Bureau.

Lauren Roblez, a senior Spanish and political science major from Midland, said it is imperative students take interest in issues affecting their daily lives.

“College students tend to be nonchalant about things,” she said. “It’s a matter of interest.

Not only are we the upcoming future of our state, but I feel like a lot of issues candidates are running on are relevant to students.”

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By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

When students enroll at Texas Tech, they must complete a language requirement before they can graduate if they did not take two years of a language in high school.

Tech offers classes in a variety of languages, but Liz Hildebrand, a senior adviser for the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, said Spanish is the language most students want to enroll in.

“We do our very best to meet the demands of students,” she said. “It’s difficult because juniors and seniors enroll in freshman-level classes while freshmen and sophomores struggle to get into those classes.”

Hildebrand has been with the department for

16 years and said she has seen various methods implemented which have aimed at allowing more students to enroll while keeping the quality of classes.

In previous years, students had to enroll in Spanish classes on a first-come, first-served basis, she said, and some students would come to her for an override to enroll in a class.

“In the past few years, the class size has been reduced from 30 students per class down to a maximum of 20,” she said. “This has caused a decline in the number of students able to enroll in the freshman-level course.”

Hildebrand said it is hard to have large classes to teach a language because discussions work best with fewer students.

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Tech students look at caps, gowns, rings at Graduation Fair

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Rings were chosen and gowns fitted during the Graduation Fair hosted Tuesday through today this week at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion The event is for seniors graduating in May or December, and juniors are also welcome.

“The purpose of the graduation fair is kind of a one stop shop for seniors for the spring,” Mandy Wiley, a worker for the alumni association and coordinator of the grad fair, said.

The students have many services available to them, she said, such as the career center to help with jobs or La Ventana where they can get a yearbook.

Students can also be fitted for a cap and gown, order their class ring and announcements, she said.

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“It’s nice for students to be able to get everything taken care of in one place without running all over campus,” Wiley said.

Typically about 400 to 500 students attend the grad fairs, she said.

The fair takes place twice per year, Wiley said, once in the spring and once in the fall. Juniors are welcome and eligible to purchase a class ring once they reach that classification.

“We do get a lot of juniors that just want to purchase their class ring and they don’t need any of the rest of the services,” Wiley said, “so it’s not only just for seniors.”

Sean Mahoney, a senior finance major from Plano, will graduate in May and attended the fair.

He came to get a cap and gown, invitations and class ring, and was able to get everything done, he said.

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MIA MEDINA, A senior human development and family studies major from Big Spring, is sized for a class ring at the Graduation Fair on Tuesday in the Frazier Alumni Pavilion.

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“Once clicked the link will CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 take students to the pictures “It was great having a per- plus all of the offers to purchase son at each station to help more,” he said. you through the process,” MaJaimie Moore, a senior biohoney said. “I was able to get chemistry major from Dallas, everything accomplished that I also attended the fair and said intended to.” she was looking mostly for a Brian Speers is the photogra- class ring. pher and representative for grad She was also exploring the images and provided free pictures other offers the fair had to offer, for the seniors at the grad fair. she said.

The fair will be open until 5 “It’s my first time here and p.m. Thursday, and Speers said looking at the rings,” she said. “I he will be there taking pictures just heard it was a graduation fair so I figured I should come by.” until 4 p.m.

“I can photograph in a cap Moore tried on several rings and gown, business suit or both if until she chose the one she liked, students want,” he said. “If they she said, and had the informaneed pictures for social media or tion emailed to her parents for a resume or whatever, that’s what them to pay.

I’m here for.”

Moore isn’t graduating until Speers takes pictures free of December but said she wanted to charge, he said, and then sends get a head start on getting a ring. an email to students that will “They had a lot of options,” she said, “and I ended up with link them to those pictures.

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Texas’ Davis faces big odds after primary AUSTIN (AP) — After her easy victory in the Texas Democratic primary, Wendy Davis, one of the brightest stars of the 2014 campaign, is now embarking on her mission to win the governor’s office and revive her party’s fortunes in the heart of conservative America. Already, Texas politics has never seen anyone like her: a dynamo with a trailer parkto-Harvard Law story who makes nationwide donors swoon.

But Davis’ chances in the general

election in November remain a longshot: she faces a Republican opponent, Greg Abbott, the state’s attorney general, who would be formidable even without the advantage of Texas’ solidly conservative electorate.

Davis says she’s undeterred.

“I can see and feel, every day on the campaign trail, an energy in this state around my campaign that’s hard to describe. It’s not like anything I’ve seen in Democratic politics in the last couple of decades,” Davis said this week.

Students create RaiderList website

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

Unfamiliar people, risky meeting places and rip-off items are some of the downfalls of Craigslist, so to combat these, students Katy Morris, Derrick Franco and Joseph Penate founded RaiderList.

RaiderList is a Craigslist-like website made only for Texas Tech students, Franco, a senior computer science major from El Paso, said.

“You hear the horror stories from Craigslist all the time and people don’t trust people they don’t know,” he said. “RaiderList is a place that Tech students can post things they’re selling or look for things they need and know it’s safe.”

The website was launched last week, he said, and allows students to post items they’re selling as well as advertise events happening on campus or around town and look for someone to sublease.

Penate, a junior marketing and management dual major from Pearland, said the three started the website to make it easier for students to find the things they need.

“You have all these groups on Facebook to buy and sell things,” Penate said. “You can’t check them all the time and you keep scrolling and scrolling and by that time the item you need is already sold. This website will help advertise a lot easier.”

The buying and selling process mimics the Craigslist format, he

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“Today, women make up about half our workforce,” Obama said in the January address, “but they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment.

A woman deserves equal pay for equal work.”

A female would have to work an extra three months to earn the same as a male does each year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

When President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, women earned 59 cents for every dollar earned by a male counterpart, according to the website.

“Wage gap numbers have stayed pretty flat for the past ten years,” Hill said. “If you go back to the 1950s and sixties, you see an enormous change in women’s earning.

It has plateaued, so we’re looking at why it has and how do we get to the next level.”

Numerous reasons account for the difference in incomes, she said.

For example, Hill said women are more likely to work part time and tend to work slightly fewer hours, even if they are employed

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said, but has a few unique characteristics as well.

Sellers can post an item with a picture, price and description, then add tags like on Twitter and Instagram, Penate said.

“When you start to negotiate with people is where our site is really different,” Franco said.

“The messaging system is on our site only. That way no one can see anyone’s email, just the username.

It makes it a little bit safer because you reveal yourself to them they can’t see any of your information and can’t stalk you or anything.”

Franco said they set up r e g i s t r a t i o n b a s e d o n Te c h email addresses.

In addition to using an active Tech email address, there are security guard programs to check out each person that registers as well.

“Safety is really important to us,” he said. “The site was done in January, but we took a month to make sure all the security programs were working and everything.”

The three students have known each other since before the idea for the website came up, Franco said.

The long-held relationship, he said, made it easier for them to work together on the project.

“The friendships and the fact that we each had our own piece of the website made it easier,” he said. “We were able to help each other but trusted each other enough to know that if we didn’t have time to work on something one day it’s not a big deal because

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KATY MORRIS, A junior electronic media and communication major from Glastonbury, Conn., Joseph Penate, a junior marketing major from Pearland, and Derrick Franco, a senior computer science major from El Paso, created raiderlist.com, which allows Tech students to buy and sell items online.

we know the other person took amount of user interaction.”

Penate said the team hopes care of it.”

The major factor they needed this site will make Tech a betto take care of during the process ter place for students to live was making sure the website and work. wouldn’t violate any of Tech’s To further expand the site, trademarks, Morris, a junior Franco said, they will be hosting electronic media and communi- events for students to better get cation major from Glastonbury, the word out about the website.

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“We’re hoping that it will Other aspects were hard for both help people find what them as well, they said, such as they’re looking for and find stuff the time it took to put together to do through the events part,” the website and making sure he said. “That’s everyone’s bigeverything was understandable gest complaint when they come and user-friendly. to Lubbock is that there’s noth“It’s not a lot of sleep,” Morris ing to do. We want to make life said, “but it’s rewarding to see more positive for Tech students.” this help people and see a good ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com

full time. However, she said approximately 7 percent of the wage difference could not be explained by factors like demographics and occupation.

“It does not necessarily mean discrimination,” Hill said, “but there are some things that are not explained by factors you’d expect for things to be explained.

It often takes place in an implicit bias. An employer might look at a female employee and not send her to complete expensive training because he assumes she may leave to have children, even if that isn’t the case.”

For college students, AAUW produces “Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation.” The report, which utilizes data from National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education, examines wage differences for men and women working full time after one year in the workforce, according to the AAUW website.

“We found there is already a pay gap of 82 percent one year out of college,” Hill said. “We wanted to look at when women and men are most similar to one another, those who just graduated from a four-year college and went to work

in the labor market one year after college. These people are similar, so the difference surprised us.”

What major graduates chose while in college often affected the difference, she said. Women are more likely to major in education or psychology, whereas men tend to major in engineering or sciences, she said.

The pay gap is most extreme at a typical worker’s peak earnings years, after age 35 and before retirement, Hill said. Earnings generally increase with age, but she said the pay gap does not increase.

The difference in wages varies for women of different ethnicities, according to the Department of Labor.

“I think it’s very important to pay attention to these differences,” Hill said. “It goes beyond a question of fairness. If women’s salaries were on par, more men might feel comfortable to take time off to spend time with children, for example, but they instead feel they don’t have time.”

Texas ranks 18th in the nation for median annual earnings of full-time female employees, according to AAUW. Females working in Washington, D.C., earn 90 cents for every dollar earned by a male. Wyoming has

the largest pay gap of 36 percent, according to the data. Women in Wyoming earn $33,152 to an average male’s earnings of $51,932.

Connor Disbrow, a freshman finance and accounting dual major from Denton, said factors such as hormones may affect a woman’s ability to work proficiently.

“I think women and men should get paid the same as long as women can handle the stress level,” he said.

“They need to handle the workload even though estrogen and things like that can get in the way.”

As the number of single women and female breadwinners increase, Hill said the gender wage difference is no longer a women’s issue because it affects families. Discussions with employers and knowledge of how wages are set may improve the pay gap, she said.

“We now have a choice,” Hill said. “We can continue to stagnate and have these persistent differences that predetermine or constrain how our families make choices, or we could really work to have a flexible workplace and grow strong, competent employees for a lifetime. It’s becoming a more critical issue, and it’ll be harder to ignore as people are counting on their earnings to make ends meet.”

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“It’s really important for students to vote, especially at a state university like Texas Tech,” Nokken said. “Fees, tuition and things of that sort which affect students daily are decided in large part by elected officials. In that regard, if students turn out to vote, there would be more concern amongst lawmakers.”

Politicians often define academic policies, curriculum design and funding as well, he said.

Texas has the lowest voter turnout rate in the nation at 36 percent, according to the University of Texas Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life.

Roblez said because of the scarcity of voters in general, college students should aim to improve the statistic.

“It’s an issue of responsibility,” she said. “We will graduate and enter the real world, so it’s about making your voice heard.”

Nokken said one of the best predictors of people voting is if they have voted in the past.

Many college students have not voted previously due to age and have not developed a habit of voting, he said.

“I think lawmakers are just fine with the way things are,” Nokken said. “They’re probably happy to have college kids not vote. In Texas, there have been a lot of efforts to disenfranchise college students precisely because they might not be full-time residents in the town they go to college.”

Because many students do not live in their college’s town yearround, they are often less informed about city ordinances and other topics, he said. Additionally, Texas laws require citizens to register within their respective county or need an absentee ballot.

Even if students are registered here in Lubbock, Nokken said the addresses of students change frequently, and the law forces individuals to reregister every time their home address changes.

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Nokken said he often hears complaints about the rising cost of tuition in the nation, but lawmakers lack sizable motivation to write policies to defray the cost.

A large influx of college students at the polls might influence the government’s decisions, he said.

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University Student Housing to host annnual Hunger Banquet University Student Housing will host the Hunger Banquet at 6 p.m. today in the Wall/Gates Lobby.

Morgan Bradford, graduate hall coordinator, said the banquet is hosted to raise awareness about poverty and homelessness in Lubbock.

Bradford said it is an opportunity to learn about the issues concerning the homeless and what students can do to help out.

“It’s going to be a night filled with fun, food and education about the rising problem with poverty in our community,” Bradford said.

Bradford said the banquet is a program organized by the Social Justice Education Committee and has been a success.

This will be their second year hosting the banquet, and they hope to see a similar outcome at this year’s event, she said.

“Regardless of how many people attend, we still see it as a win because we are able to bring people together to discuss such an important topic,” Bradford said. “Plus, you even get free food.”

Bradford said the committee came up with the event after seeing it at numerous colleges around the nation.

Once they saw how important homelessness and poverty was to other communities, they wanted to bring that type of awareness to Texas Tech’s home front.

“It was implemented successfully at other colleges, so we thought ‘why not give it a try?’” Bradford said. “It has turned out to be a great program at Tech ever since we started.”

At the end of the banquet, the committee attempts to get feedback from the participants in order to see what they liked and did not like about it.

She said they collected feedback last year, which helped them create a better and more fun environment for the event the next year.

“The feedback has been powerful and positive,” Bradford said, “and we expect to continue building on to that.”

She said the Hunger Banquet is a perfect opportunity for people to become aware of important topics such as poverty, homelessness, privilege and class.

Bradford said she loves it because she is able to learn from the students and what she can do to help out the community.

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TV anchorwoman criticizes Kremlin on Ukraine WASHINGTON (AP) — An anchorwoman on a Kremlin-funded TV network said Wednesday that she is standing by her criticism of Russia’s military incursion in Ukraine because she would rather risk her job and “go down on the right side of history.”

Abby Martin, a Washingtonbased newswoman for Russia Today, said the network, which is supported

by Russian public grants, has decided not to fire her for expressing her views in an on-air postscript to her show.

Martin said she would continue to speak out against Russia for sending in troops to take control of much of the Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea where Russian speakers are in the majority.

“I think that, honestly, it would look really bad if I got fired,” Martin told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “I think they probably just weighed their options and just knew that keeping me on would be best. It’s good. It’s good to show that we have dissent. It would be really, really bad if they fired me and I really hope that they don’t do that.”

During the Monday broadcast of her show, called “Breaking the Set,” Martin said she wanted to express something from her heart before she wrapped up the program. She blamed Russia for creating what she described as a “terrible situation” and pledged to keep “telling the truth as I see it” if it would prevent another Cold War. “I can’t stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation’s

affairs,” she told her viewers.

“What Russia did is wrong,” Martin said. “I will not sit here and apologize or defend military aggression.”

She said her activist background has prompted her to engage in what she calls “adversarial journalism.”

Martin said she was compelled to express her opinion on Crimea, especially since she has often spoken out against military aggression. She once protested with the 9/11 Truth movement, which alleges that U.S. government officials might have been complicit in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — a theory to which Martin says she no longer subscribes.

The Russia Today website describes “Breaking the Set” as a show that “cuts through the pre-written narrative that tries to tell you what to think, and what to care about.”

In response to Martin’s criticism, RT issued a statement to several media outlets that stated: “Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn’t beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air. This is the case with Abby’s commentary on the Ukraine. We respect her views, and the views of all our journalists, presenters and program hosts, and there will be absolutely no reprimands made against Ms. Martin.”

She said the network offered to send her to Crimea to report on the crisis, but that she declined because she feared her reporting would be vetted by the network. Martin said she told the network if it allowed

her to make her own contacts in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, she would consider going later.

“As long as Russian troops are occupying Crimea, I’m going to keep speaking out against it,” she said, adding that if the situation in Crimea is not resolved quickly she might have to reconsider working for the network.

Nina Ognianova, Europe and Central Asia program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, said that since the beginning of opposition demonstrations in Ukraine, media who have covered the events in a way that favors the protesters have been stifled or ousted.

“Just before thousands of international journalists descended on Russia to cover the Sochi Olympics, the state dismantled the 72-year-old news agency RIA Novosti, which had kept a moderate tone under its now-former management. It installed propaganda-spewing TV host Dmitry Kiselyov as the agency’s new head, and renamed it Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today),” Ognianova said.

“Bottom line: Russian authorities are unabashedly moving against even the remnants of independent media in the country in order to control the message inside the country.”

Martin said she wasn’t deterred by accounts of Russian government repression of journalists.

“It’s definitely not something to be taken lightly, and it’s definitely a lot of risk, but at the end of the day, I’d rather go down on the right side of history,” she said.

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and it surprised me that we have people waiting for classes here,” Tecedor said.

“We should have more majors and minors, but students don’t have enough information about it. It’s often too late because most of them are already seniors when they’re taking Spanish.”

Tecedor said her first change for the spring semester was creating two classes of beginning-level Spanish exclusively for freshmen.

These classes filled up quickly, and Hildebrand said the department is offering specific sections for each classification as well as an honors section next school year to meet the needs of more students.

“With sections available to incoming students, they won’t have to wait two years to where they’ve forgotten what they learned in high school,” Tecedor said. “We’re also offering more extracurricular activities to take Spanish beyond the classroom.”

The specific sections will allow

students to be in an environment with their peers, Tecedor said, but classes with students of different classifications also provide a good perspective.

Means said her class contains mostly juniors and seniors, and she is one of the few freshmen.

“Our class works well together, and there aren’t any big social problems,” Means said. “Once you’re in college, age doesn’t matter as much because everyone is on similar maturity levels. It would be a bigger deal if we were in high school.”

While students can choose to enroll in sections designated for their classification, they can still enroll in any section if it fits into their schedules better.

The department aims to accommodate students, Hildebrand said, and it listens to the needs of students.

“Students should come and take a language,” Tecedor said. “Languages are really good assets to have for jobs in the future. They will always be useful.”

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Laurie Means, a freshman history major from Dublin, is currently taking Spanish because her degree requires between 11 and 16 language credit hours depending on how many years the student completed in high school.

“Thankfully, I’m a Presidential Scholar because the Spanish classes fill up quickly,” Means said. “I got the last seat available in my class when I registered.”

It is important to have more freshmen and sophomores enrolled to fulfill language requirements faster, Hildebrand said, because this limits the students who have to take a language as juniors and seniors.

Marta Tecedor, director of Spanish lower-level courses, came to Tech last fall from the University of Iowa.

“Things are done differently here,

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STUDENTS ATTEMPT TO rescue a stuffed bear from a tree as part of a team building exercise for the hiring process of the Outdoor Pursuits Center on Wednesday outisde the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

Lupita Nyong’o and Jared Leto rock Prada’s show PARIS (AP) — Upstaging a Louis Vuitton show is hard, but somehow Miuccia Prada managed it, thanks to Lupita Nyong’o and Jared Leto.

The Oscar winning pair — whose exact relationship is the subject of speculation — were both invited by the Italian designer to attend her plastic-wrapped fall-winter Miu Miu show in Paris.

And if that wasn’t enough attention-grabbing, Nyong’o had to move seats in order to fit a tardy Rihanna in a fur leather jacket in the Miu Miu front row.

Meanwhile, former Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquiere gave an admirable debut at Louis Vuitton attended by Princess Charlene of Monaco, Catherine Deneuve and Char-

lotte Gainsbourg.

But the ghost of Marc Jacobs’ Louis Vuitton past lurked.

Here are details about the last day of the ready-to-wear shows.

Even before Jared Leto thanked “my future ex-wife Lupita” in a speech at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, there’s been speculation that he and fellow supporting role Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o have been an item.

The “12 Years a Slave” actress has laughed it off — most notably on The Ellen Show — but has not denied it.

Now, to further fan the flames, both stars were at Paris’ Miu Miu show at the same time — and both nursing jet lag.

Nyong’o, who said she “re-

ally liked the show,” looked radiant in a clean Miu Miu jacket with an off-white sparkling embroidered collar.

But Leto wore shades and admitted he was exhausted.

“But it’s the best kind of tired you could ever imagine,” he said, avoiding comment on the relationship rumors.

With a pinch of irony, Senora Prada wrapped the entire show venue — Paris’ Environmental Council — in nonbiodegradable plastic.

It was full of young, fun and colorful suggestions on how to keep warm and dry during fall and winter.

See-through pale blue PVC skirts came alongside a bright yellow raincoat with sporty tassels.

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Women have better career, success opportunities in modern society O Lauren Gudgel

ways, we need to find out what works best for us. Hillary Clinton said, “Women are the world’s most underused resource.”

Back in the day of shoulder pads, women were working against the grain of normality. Today, however, women have more resources. We have a chance because the women in shoulder pads fought to give it to us. We must never forget that we haven’t always had the freedom to make our own judgment calls.

If you simply searched “career advice for women,” Google responds with 45 pages of gold for your future career. From Forbes. com to Ellemagazine.com, there’s advice for every woman at every stage of her life and career.

There’s advice from what to ask your interviewer to how to put in a two-weeks notice.

With all this information circulating, I have to admit I see no excuses for young women to begin their professional careers and not be successful in their lifetimes.

Of course, success doesn’t come overnight; it must be earned, harvested and cared for.

Levo League is a website designed to “elevate young women in the workforce by providing career resources to achieve personal and professional success.” Personally, Levoleague.com is my favorite resource. I get daily career advice directed specifically for women. There are articles of how to overcome the male bias in the workplace and even how to balance a love life and a successful career.

Although I am still a college student with a part-time sales

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job, I have my eye on the future.

It’s important I think to begin preparing early. Recently, Levo League sent out an email titled, “What I Wish I Had Known About My Career in My Early Twenties.” Seeing as many of us are in our early twenties, I found this article interesting.

Of course, it’s not hard-hitting stuff; nothing in this article was ground breaking, Vaticancalling, miracle-happening news, but it was nice to see it all laid out and organized as a reminder not to be put in a rut.

There are four easy-toremember tips.

The first is to get involved.

During college, we’re all a part of something, so this should be an easy tip to remember. This week I volunteered at Meals On Wheels, and you can bet it’ll be something I

We must never forget that we haven’t always had the freedom to make our own judgment calls.

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nce upon a time, there weren’t many options for women in the corporate world, or in any part of the world that didn’t involve the kitchen. I’ve made clear that I hold old-fashioned values, and that at least in my home, my husband is the head, but I know that isn’t the always the case.

I know women today want to be independent. They don’t want to answer to anyone, and they want to be successful without the help of their man.

I want to talk about taking on the world as a woman — a classy, assertive but passionate woman.

Right now, most of us are in our late teens and early twenties.

It’s the time when we make those crucial decisions of what to do with the rest of our lives.

Now we will, of course, make mistakes, change our minds and change them back again. We’re still young enough to make our mistakes and learn from them, but we’ll only be young for so long until the theoretical gray hair sets in.

Women are creatures of habit, so before we become set in our

Marriage equality inevitable following Texas ruling

By GEMRICK CURTOM

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A San Antonio couple brought a suit to overturn the ban on samesex marriage in Texas. The couple argued that the state’s gay marriage ban caused them hardships that heterosexual married couples don’t face.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled the ban unconstitutional.

A preliminary injunction on the state’s ban was issued, but Garcia issued a stay on his order, which means the ban will still remain in effect pending the appeal. The ruling refers to the state’s current restrictions, which violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and are therefore unenforceable.

“The court decision is not made in defiance of the great people of Texas or the Texas Legislature,” Garcia said, “but in compliance with the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedent.”

A decision that has been left to the discretion of states in the past is

now being overturned in the fight for marriage equality.

“Regulation of marriage has traditionally been the province of the states and remains so today,” Garcia continued. “However, any state law involving marriage or any other protected interest must comply with the United States Constitution.”

As the entire country continues the movement toward supporting same-sex marriage, the end result of giving all citizens the right to marriage equality looks promising.

Cleopatra De Leon and Nicole Dimetman got married in Massachusetts in 2001 and want the state of Texas to recognize their union. Only one parent can be on the birth certificate of the child they have together.

Dimetman was not automatically considered the other parent, like on birth certificates of heterosexual couples.

Dimetman was required to follow the adoption process: hiring a lawyer and participating in home study evaluations and a criminal background check. The couple was told they could not jointly

adopt a child because Texas does not recognize the legality of their marriage.

“If our marriage was recognized, I wouldn’t have to do it,” Dimetman said.

Couple Vic Holmes and Mark Phariss have been together for more than 16 years, 11 of which were spent in a long-distance relationship while Holmes was serving in the U.S. Air Force. After 23 years of service, Holmes retired, and the couple hopes to marry in their home state of Texas.

The couples are likely to win their cases, and the ban will eventually be lifted. Garcia won’t enforce his ruling pending one by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing two other states’ cases.

“There have been 19 decisions since last summer, and all of the rulings have come down in favor of plaintiffs challenging same-sex restrictions as unconstitutional,” said Neel Lane, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Similar decisions have been made in Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia.

Including the District of Columbia, 17

states recognize gay marriage — with the inclusion of eight states where it became legal in 2013. In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that legally married same-sex couples nationwide are eligible for federal benefits, in turn striking down a central part of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. In 2005, Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage. Less than a decade later, the support for same-sex marriage has been overwhelming, and the people are singing a different tune.

The generation of our grandchildren won’t live in a society where same-sex couples are extensively discriminated against. It’s only a matter of time until all 50 states recognize gay marriage as each state follows suit.

Eventually, there won’t be a difference between straight marriage and gay marriage — it will all just be marriage. Just like how our parents and grandparents were part of the history in the movement against racial discrimination, we are part of the history moving away from sexual orientation discrimination.

Court ruling in OSU lawsuit upholds freedom of speech The fundamental First Amendment rights of students at Oklahoma State University were affirmed last week in a court settlement that involves changes to the school’s code of conduct to allow students to demonstrate on campus without official university permission.

Last January, the Oklahoma State University student organization Cowboys for Life sued university administrators after members of the group weren’t allowed to display signs of aborted fetuses or hand out pamphlets about abortion, according to a Tulsa World article. School officials also attempted to levy student conduct disciplinary charges against the students after they questioned why they were not allowed to show the signs, according to the article.

The actions of Oklahoma State University officials to refuse those students’ First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly is unacceptable.

We applaud the students for pursuing a civil rights case and gaining eventual justice. We believe no student should ever feel that they cannot express their beliefs and opinions on their own college campus.

Although we may not agree with the anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage stance of Cowboys for Life, we would fight for their right to express those beliefs. It is deeply important that people are exposed to varying viewpoints and opinions different than their own.

Free speech encourages healthy debate and contemplation, activities that are more essential than ever in our highlypolarized society. Sure, some Oklahoma State students may not have enjoyed see-

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ing posters of aborted fetuses, we’ve seen them too, but it is the right of students to show those signs and express their viewpoints to others.

Free speech matters. For example, when we trade insults with our Cowboy rivals, that’s freedom of speech.

First Amendment rights color the perception of nearly every American, they allow us to live without fear that we will be punished for expressing our beliefs. And both Oklahoma State University and our beloved OU are state-owned, public properties. It is preposterous that a public university would attempt to limit the rights of its students.

Oklahoma State students should never have needed to obtain university permission to peacefully distribute literature, oral communication or signage in the first place, and we are thankful our Cowboy neighbors no longer have to.

Fortunately, OU’s student code of conduct includes both “the right to es-

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We all know how well those rights are preserved, from the kooky preachers on the South Oval to the recent student protest of CIA director John Brennan’s presence on campus.

We are thankful that our First Amendment rights are protected at OU and that they will now be better protected at Oklahoma State University.

College is a time for exploration and learning, both of which are best achieved though the unburdened exchange of ideas. Potential future movers and shakers of the world attend OU and OSU, and it would be a shame for all involved if freedom of speech were limited for those students.

add to my resume and discuss at my next interview.

The second tip is to “Build the Brand of Me.” I’ve harped about not posting classless trash to Facebook, Twitter, blogs and whatever social media outlets we use. The author of this article agrees with me.

No matter your privacy settings, social media is not private.

Do you want to be the girl with the half naked spring break photos splashed across her Instagram account, or do you want to be the girl who read intelligent articles posted on her LinkedIn profile?

The third tip is to travel far and wide. You may consider this one a little more difficult. We’re busy college students; we have midterms, a social life and all that volunteering we need to get done so we’re more involved.

However, never lose sight of being cultured. Texas Tech offers Study Abroad fairs and interning opportunities on a regular basis.

Check TechAnnounce before you delete it today. I can almost assure you there will be some opportunity to leave Lubbock and see part of the world while still

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Bitcoin failure unsurprising

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Bitcoin, defined as a “peer-to-peer technology,” was designed in 2009 for the purpose of making digital monetary transactions without the presence of a banking authority. The open software is available to everyone, and it’s run with the use of cryptography to control the exchange of funds. But with the recent embroilment of one of the network’s central hosts, Tokyobased Mt. Gox, in a $409 million loss of investments, most economists may not want to get involved.

A “massive hack” is rumored to be the cause of customer outrage following the shutdown of Mt. Gox’s website on Feb. 25. Also at this time, the Mt. Gox Tokyo office was seemingly deserted by its employees. The following day, Mt. Gox chief executive Mark Karpeles released a statement on the site for concerned capital investors.

“I would like to use this opportunity to reassure everyone that I am still in Japan and working very hard with the support of different parties to find a solution to our recent issues,” Karpeles said.

With the inability to retrieve funds, many Mt. Gox users are left in the dark.

When the site went offline, a handful of protestors gathered outside the corporation’s Tokyo office, despite its being vacant, claiming they had suffered significant losses in their virtual wallets.

In a circulating document reported to be reflective of Mt. Gox’s real position, more than 744,000 Bitcoins were “missing” due to relentless cyber attacks over the expanse of several years.

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being a dedicated Red Raider.

The fourth tip is to feel more confident and secure. This seems easy enough for her to say. The author of the Levo League article, Kathleen Ong, has a master’s degree and is working full time at a high tech fashion company, so I would say it’s pretty easy for her to be confident and secure in her work ethic and career. It’ll take a little more work for us to get there.

This is where all of our resources come in. Everything the shoulder padclad women did for us was to help us be more confident and secure.

Resources like LeavoLeague. com, Women2.0.com, Girlsraising.com and Leanin.org are wonderful to help you get a jump start on your career, but you have to act. You have to decide now what kind of person you want to be. Don’t be deterred when you make mistakes.

Learn and move on. Be the classy, assertive and passionate women I know you can be.

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This isn’t the first scandal the Bitcoin name has faced. In January 2014, Bitcoin CEO Charlie Shrem was arrested on charges of money laundering involving the digital black market known as Silk Road. According to criminal complaints, Shrem and another conspirator are accused of having sold more than $1 million worth of Bitcoins to those participating in the market, who would then buy illicit drugs.

Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told Yahoo that Mt. Gox “is a reminder of the damage potentially ill-equipped and unregulated financial actors can wreak on unsuspecting consumers.”

Although many are infuriated by Bitcoin’s present instability, some have chalked up the downturn as just another crash, to be expected of “high-risk investments” like Mt. Gox, as Karpeles termed it in an interview with Reuters last spring. Hopefully, the standstill Mt. Gox is undergoing will foster the “solutions” it claims to be working towards.

This extensive breach should serve as a warning to those choosing to invest virtual currency, as this technological era births new loopholes for danger.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is now contemplating the establishment of rules for Bitcoin’s digital trading. The Wall Street Journal reports that federal prosecutors in New York have subpoenaed Mt. Gox. Japanese authorities are also reported to be looking into the matter, acknowledging that a court case would most likely take place in the United States. With Karpeles still under wraps, there’s no telling what will become of Mt. Gox’s future and the millions lost to its investors.

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Red Raiders begin preparing for 2014 season

By EVERETT CORDER

getting more turnovers.

“Something that coach harps on a lot is getting takeaways,” Nelson said. “Overall, just being more physical and playing full speed on every play.”

On the offensive side of the ball, sophomore quarterback Davis Webb has continued to lead the team like he did in the Holiday Bowl, senior wide receiver Bradley Marquez said.

Webb said he has been throwing with receivers after workouts every day, so even though there are new people on the team, he still feels pretty comfortable on the field.

“You don’t have Jace Amaro out there or Eric Ward, which were big leaders,” he said. “Now we’ve got Kenny Williams and Bradley Marquez out there, which were doing great today. It’s just new faces.”

The sophomore quarterback looks somewhat different now than he did after the bowl game.

Webb said he’s gained about 15 pounds with the help of the staff trainers and dietitian, and he’s also gotten a haircut.

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For the first time in five years, the Texas Tech football team will have the same defensive coordinator for two consecutive seasons.

Tech defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt and the Red Raiders began preparing for the 2014 season Wednesday with the first spring practice, and coach Kliff Kingsbury said he can already notice the difference with the team.

“I thought the defense flew around well today,” Kingsbury said.

“They seemed a lot more comfortable going into the second year with the same program that we had last year, which is a big change for that group.”

The Red Raiders struggled defensively in the second half of the season last year, giving up more than 250 rushing yards in each of their last six games.

Tech sophomore defensive back Justis Nelson said the defense needs to focus on improving its ability to stuff the run this year and

Webb said it’s a little different this spring without Michael Brewer and Baker Mayfield to compete against, but he is just focusing on getting better personally every day.

“I’m going to do the best I can every single day,” he said. “I have a competition with myself every single day. I threw a couple of incompletions today that I shouldn’t have, and I’ll go out and correct those on Friday.”

Kingsbury was able to breathe a little lighter earlier today, after the NCAA announced it was going to table the rule proposal that would make offenses wait 10 seconds between every play to allow for defensive substitutions.

The coach expressed his distaste for the rule change on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” not long ago, and he said the NCAA made the right decision with the rule.

“I thought it was the right thing to do,” Kingsbury said. “There was an outcry against it, and I think it was the right thing to do. I’m glad they got that right. I didn’t think

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Men lose sixth straight Texas beats TCU 66-54 Tech to 17-48 shooting from the field.

According to the news release, the Jayhawks notched 23 wins for the 25th-consecutive season and the 29th time in the last 30 years dating back to 1984-85.

The Red Raiders will finish ninth in the Big 12 and have one remaining game on their regular season schedule as they host the Texas Longhorns at 3 p.m. Saturday in the United Spirit Arena.

The Texas Tech men’s basketball team lost its sixth-straight Big 12 Conference game Tuesday as the Red Raiders (13-17, 5-12) fell 82–57 to the Kansas Jayhawks (22-7, 14-3) in Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. It was the last home game of the season for Kansas and the Jayhawks have now won 31 straight games on senior night, according to a Kansas news release.

Although Tech lost by one point when the two schools first met on Feb. 18, the Red Raiders trailed 39-19 at the break and were outscored 43-36 in the second half.

Senior forward Tarik Black got to start for the Jayhawks in place of injured freshman Joel Embiid, and Black made the most of his opportunity. He finished the night with a game-high 19 points shooting a perfect 9-9 from the field.

The Jayhawks defense forced 13 turnovers by the Red Raiders and held

AUSTIN (AP) — Isaiah Taylor scored 21 points and Texas beat TCU66-54 Wednesday night, pushing the Horned Frogs closer to becoming just the third team in the history of the Big 12 to go winless in the regular season in conference play.

Cameron Ridley added 14 points and 10 rebounds for Texas (22-8, 11-6), which went

8-1 at home in the Big 12 in a resurgent season for coach Rick Barnes, whose only losing season at Texas was last year. It was Ridley’s third consecutive double-double.

Kyan Anderson scored 28 for TCU (9-20, 0-17). The last Big 12 team to go winless in the league in the regular season was Texas A&M in 2003-2004.

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SPORTS

MARCH 6, 2014

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Softball ready for annual home tournament

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball team will host the fourth annual Jeannie McHaney Memorial Classic and participate in five games this weekend.

Tech associate coach Aly Sartini said the team has grown quickly already this season.

“Each weekend we have progressed quite well,” she said. “We are very young, so we are starting to see some maturity in the team.”

The Red Raiders start the tournament with a doubleheader Thursday against University of Texas at Arlington at 5:30 p.m. and Northern Colorado at 8 p.m.

On Friday, they play New Mexico State at 5:30 p.m. and finish with a doubleheader on Sunday against Northern Colorado at 12:30 p.m. and Abilene Christian at 3 p.m.

Tech senior left-handed pitcher Brittany Talley said this tournament will help Tech prepare for Big 12 Conference games.

“We have seen every (team

in the tournament) already this season,” Talley said. “So that will be nice to go out there and know what we are going to face. We know the pitchers, we know the hitters, so that will be good to see that. In conference play, we see the (same team) three times, so it’ll be good to see players make adjustments.”

Talley is ranked fourth in the Big 12 with 1.27 ERA and is 5-0 on the season.

After having a few leads disappear late in games, Sartini said the team has focused on not having one bad inning that loses the game.

“You see the immaturity every now and then on that certain one inning,” she said. “But we are starting to kind of limit that, which is good.

“We have definitely decided to take the approach that we are going to pitch by committee. Once we start to see one of our pitchers (struggle) we decide to make some changes. We’ve noticed that’s helped quite a bit.”

Tech claimed a victory over

UTA and Northern Colorado earlier this season, but will look for revenge against New Mexico State after losing 8-6 in February.

Talley said the team feeds off each other’s energy at the plate. “ We a r e s t i l l a t a p o i n t where we have a lot of momentum type innings. One person starts it and we keep r o l l i n g f r o m t h e r e , ” Ta l l e y said. “Hopefully, we will have more of those innings coming up soon. I think it is definitely possible if we just have somebody step up all the time and get on base.”

Tech freshman utility player Cassie McClure is hitting .447 with three homeruns and teamleading 17 RBIs. Freshman outfielder Syndi Emanuel is third in the Big 12 with 14 stolen bases on 15 attempts.

After going 3-1 last weekend in the season’s first home tournament, the Red Raiders enter the tournament with a 13-6 record and are tied for third place in the conference. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

PHOTO BY JOHN CARROLL/The Daily Toreador

TEXAS TECH THIRD baseman Samantha Camello tags a Bearkat baserunner during the Red Raiders’ 4-2 victory over Sam Houston State on Saturday at Rocky Johnson Field.

Texas Tech athletes qualify for indoor championships L a t e Tu e s d a y n i g h t , t h e NCAA announced the track and field athletes to qualify for the 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, N.M., according to a news release from Tech Athletics.

Texas Tech track and field had six athletes qualify for the

indoor championships. These consisted of three Lady Raiders and three Red Raiders: sophomore hurdler/jumper Le’Tristan Pledger, sophomore pentathlete Shanice Stewart, junior sprinter Cierra White, junior thrower Kole Weldon, junior jumper Jacorian Duffield and sophomore jumper

Bradley Adkins.

The Lady Raider 4X400 team also made it to nationals.

Senior sprinter Amoy Blake, junior sprinter Christen Rivers, junior sprinter Montenae RoyeSpeight and White make up the relay team, with sophomore sprinter Tiffany Tarver attending as an alternate.

The relay team is seeking AllAmerican honors for a third consecutive indoor season, according to the release. White, Rivers and Blake were a part of the team to

finish seventh at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships.

The best time the four women ran this season in the relay was a time of 3:34.08 minutes, which was clocked at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

White will also participate in her signature event, the 200-meter dash.

Pledger is taking on two events as well. Those events are the 60-meter hurdles and long jump.

The long jump is an event Pledger qualified in for the 2013 NCAA

Outdoor Championships.

Weldon goes into the indoor championships with a little more experience because this is his second-straight appearance. He finished runner-up in last season’s indoor championships.

He goes into nationals ranked No. 5 for the shot put this season with a throw of 65 feet 11.75 inches at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

Weldon is joined on the men’s team by the two high jumpers, Duffield and Adkins. Both ath-

letes qualified for last season’s outdoor championships. The outdoor competition concluded with Duffield finishing seventh, earning him All-America first team honors, while Adkins finished 20th, according to the release.

Right now, Duffield and Adkins claim ownership of the school record in the high jump.

These athletes will attempt to place Tech atop the national stage March 14 and 15 in Albuquerque for the indoor championships. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Texas Tech student athletes win academic award

Five Texas Tech student-athletes received the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award for academic excellence.

Seniors Jaye Crockett, Hayley Haagsma, Dejan Kravic, Raphael Pfister and Taylor Powell all received the honor, according to the news

release from Texas Tech athletics.

This is the fourth annual Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement award, which is given out to the highest achieving academic student-athletes in the Big 12 Conference. Throughout the Big 12, 64 student athletes were given

the award, according to the release.

The award commemorates Dr. Gerald Lage who served as the Oklahoma State faculty athletics representative until his death in 2007.

To receive the honor, studentathletes must have lettered once

in their individual sport, had at least 100 credit hours and a cumulative GPA of 3.80, according to the release.

The recipients will be honored at the Phillips 66 Big 12 Basketball Championships in Oklahoma City. ➤➤tdorner@dailytoreador.com

Saunders and Rangers finalize one-year contract SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Joe Saunders was the opposing pitcher who helped end the Texas Rangers’ last playoff appearance two seasons ago.

Now the veteran left-hander will get a chance to earn a

s p o t i n t h e Te x a s r o t a t i o n after finalizing a one-year contract that guarantees him the $500,000 minimum.

Saunders’s salary would increase to $1.5 million if he makes the team. He can earn

performance bonuses in addition to his salary under the deal completed Tuesday.

With injured lefty Derek Holland expected to be out at least half the season after knee surgery, Saunders joined the

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team in Arizona on Wednesday to provide another potential starting option.

“I feel like I’m right on track,” said Saunders, who had been throwing bullpen sessions on his own.