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School of Law ranks in top percent for transparency The Texas Tech School of Law has been named one of the top law schools in the nation for transparency by the Law School Transparency organization.

The law school was one of 47 of 199 American Bar Associationapproved law schools that met its required transparency criteria, according to a news release.

Law School Transparency considered both the availability of consumer information and voluntarily disclosed employment information in its analysis, according to the release.

According to the 2012-2013 ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools handbook, basic consumer information falls into several categories: admissions data, tuition fees, enrollment data, number of faculty and administrators, curricular offerings, facilities, placement rates and bar passage data.

According to the Law School Transparency’s Winter 2013 Transparency Index report, 78.4 percent of the analyzed law schools did not meet the transparency criteria, which ranks Tech’s law school in the top 23.6 percent.

The School of Law was found to be fully transparent in all 19 categories listed in the criteria, according to the release.

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Free Market Institute opens at Tech, receives donation

By EMILY GARDNER STAFF WRITER

Students, faculty, staff and community members attended a reception to recognize the opening of Texas Tech’s Free Market Institute at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the McCoy Atrium in the Rawls College of Business Administration.

The reception followed the first lecture the institute hosted since its recognition

by Tech in January, Benjamin Powell, director of the Free Market Institute, said.

“The Free Market Institute is going to promote the study and teaching of free market economics,” he said. “We’re going to conduct research and do public outreach to teach students here at Texas Tech, the West Texas community and people around the nation and the world about how free markets and the private enterprise system can create better standards of living for societies.”

The institute is housed in the business building, Powell said, and reports to the Interim Vice President of Research Michael San Francisco.

The institute was founded in part, he said, because of the decrease in economic freedoms the U.S. has experienced throughout the last decade.

“Much research shows,” Powell said, “that more economically free countries are more prosperous on almost every margin we care about: income, poverty, life expectancy, literacy — you name it.”

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BENJAMIN POWELL, INAUGURAL director of the Free Market Institute, discusses the benefits of free market countries during a reception celebrating the launch of the institute Wednesday in the McCoy Atrium of the Rawls College of Business Administration building. Peter Leeson, a visiting professor from George Mason, will give a lecture on “The Hidden Economics of Pirates” as part of a series of lectures beginning March 26.

The institute faculty will provide public programming, reach out to media to speak about economic issues, teach classes at Tech and conduct academic research, he said.

The institute is up and running, Powell said, but he expects it to grow by hiring

more faculty members and eventually moving to a larger space.

The institute was funded by a $4 million donation from a West Texas rancher, who wants to remain anonymous because he does not want personal accolades, Powell said.

Lance Nail, the dean of Rawls College of Business Administration, said Interim President Lawrence Schovanec played an important role in bringing the institute to Tech.

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Charles Schwab, a provider of financial services, conducted a study at Texas Tech and found students want to work in financial planning to interact with people rather than to develop products.

The personal financial planning complex in the Personal Financial Planning Department was rededicated to Charles Schwab after the company gave a three-year gift to the department.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was hosted to celebrate the opening of the renovated Charles Schwab Personal Financial Planning Technology Complex on Feb. 28 in the College of Human Sciences.

According to a Tech news release, financial professionals, students and university faculty attended the event.

The complex, according to the release, was constructed in 2009 and is used by more than 300 students, both graduate and undergraduate, in the Financial Planning Department.

According to the release, the facility is approximately 4,500 square feet and contains two state-of-the-art classrooms, a 16-unit technology lab, a high-tech conference room and a recording room.

Tech students and Schwab conducted the study to gain perspective on the financial services industry, according to the release.

Tech researcher receives $400,000 award from foundation

By RAECHEL DAVIS STAFF WRITER

A Texas Tech researcher received a $400,000 Faculty Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation.

Changzhi Li, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was given the award for his project, “Smart Radar Sensor for Pervasive Motion-Adaptive Health Applications.”

The money Li received will be used to continue making advances on the project.

“The research is mainly based on smart radar sensor,” Li said, “and we

target to use the smart radar sensor for vital sign detection.”

The radars can detect vital signs such as respiration and heartbeat, he said.

“We can use this device as a baby monitor,” Li said.

The device is very sensitive, he said, and can be used to monitor Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and sleep apnea.

“It’s a problem that during sleep the baby will stop breathing and stop heartbeat and eventually the baby will die,” Li said. “This is the third leading cause of baby death under the age of 1 year, so it’s a big problem.”

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Curry said her team needs to forget about the good and the bad of conference play and treat the tournament as Coming off two successive losses, the a new season.

Texas Tech women’s basketball team will Because of Tech’s new outlook on pretravel to Dallas to participate in the Big 12 viously played games, senior guard Casey Women’s Basketball Championship ranked Morris was upbeat on the prospect of future as the No. 4 seed. games and the possibility of getting a higher The single seed in the NCAA tournament. elimination tournament begins FriAt this point in day, with the four the season, many lower ranked teams teams will enter the set for matchups tournament with before they begin tired legs, Curry play with the other said, bringing referteams Saturday. ence to basketball’s “Win or lose — long season. you go home,” senior “This time of the guard Chynna Brown season everyone is said. “And nobody sore and everyone is wants to go home, mentally and physiso it is about going cally drained,” Curry CHYNNA BROWN out and competing said, “and we just GUARD and just playing your have to be the strongame.” ger team and know LADY RAIDERS Going into Dalthat we have to be las, the Lady Raiders able to recuperate will look to their seniors to provide poise and come out strong.” and calamity in the overcoming of their The Lady Raiders play their first game opposition. at 11 a.m. Saturday morning when they “I feel good about our leadership,” Tech meet the Oklahoma State Cowgirls. coach Kristy Curry said. “They have that BIG 12 continued on Page 6 ➤➤ senior sense of urgency.”

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potential to outperform other motionadaptive tumor tracking technology during cancer radiotherapy.

Other professionals use infrared cameras to try to locate tumors, Li said.

This is difficult because during observation the patient’s body is in motion when the person is breathing. Markers are placed on the outside of the body to represent changes in movement.

However, he said they can be inaccurate. For this reason, some doctors who have access to this technology do not use it.

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Li said he hopes this technology will make significant advances in this field, so babies will not suffer fatalities from SIDS. The smart radar sensor also can be used to find tumors.

“Eventually we are targeting tumors inside the body,” Li said.

This will be used to track tumors during radiotherapy.

“This will benefit from collaboration with Dr. Carlos Torres’ team in the TTUHSC Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center,” Li said.

This technology, he said, has the

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Today HR Retirement Series “She’s Got It: A Woman’s Guide to Saving and Investing” Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Health Sciences Center So, what is it?

Come out to this free event and learn about finances and investing skills.

TAB Presents: Open Mic Night Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Wall/Gates Residence Hall So, what is it?

Come show off your skills with the mic.

Botticelli String Quartet Recital Time: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Where: The Legacy Event Center So, what is it?

Come enjoy this concert.

Friday Bob Villa debut at Stella’s Time: 5:30 p.m.

Where: Stella’s Restaurant So, what is it?

Come watch Bob and Penny Villa’s debut at Stella’s Lounge.

The Good- The Bad- The Ugly Time: 7 p.m.

Where: The Good- The BadThe Ugly So, what is it?

Come enjoy some live country music.

Rooster’s Birthday Blowout Time: 7 p.m.

Where: Cactus Courtyard So, what is it?

Come out and see co-headliners As I Lay Dying and The Devil Wears Prada. Tickets are $25 at the door.

WWJS Toastmasters Time: 7 p.m.

Where: Mardel’s So, what is it?

Come learn how to enhance your ability of expressing your faith with the members of “What Would Jesus Say” Toastmasters Club.

Schovanec said the process began about two years ago with the submission of a proposal to house the institute while he was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Kickapoo Springs Foundation considered several proposals from locations to house the institute before Tech was selected, he said.

“The intent was to bring the institute here to sort of elevate the academic discussion around free markets to give students, faculty and the community a forum where there can be a rigorous debate about free markets,” Schovanec said.

He said he anticipates the institute to appeal to the interests of undergraduate and graduate

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Viva Aztlan Festival Time: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Lubbock Memorial Civic Center So, what is it?

Come out to this festival featuring Mexican folklorico dance competitions and a Mariachi concert. Tickets are $8 or $18 for a two-day pass.

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students, help Tech to hire new faculty members and bring another level to academic discussions about the free market.

“Already there are several departments that are interacting with the institute,” Schovanec said. “It is really meant to be a multidisciplinary collaborative endeavor.”

The institute’s lecture series is hosting events with different university organization sponsors including the Catholic Student Association and the Department of Political Science.

The event was open to the public and offered food, drinks and socialization to those in attendance before Schovanec and Powell spoke.

Carl Seaquist, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, said the people who attended the event were excited about the institute and were net-

working while there.

Seaquist said he attended the event because he was excited about the institute’s establishment, its ideas and its collaboration with other Tech departments like the Institute of Western Civilization.

“I’m excited about all of us becoming more aware of the benefits of free market and liberty in general,” he said.

Matt Swinnea, a teacher at Seminole High School, said he attended the event in response to the institute’s outreach to area high schools, which is still in infancy.

Swinnea said he expects to see invitations to lecture series and the institute’s faculty, like Powell, to be accessible to high school students.

Carl Tepper, the chairman of the Lubbock County Republican Party, said he attended the event

because he liked seeing Tech and the free market, two things he is passionate about, join together.

“It’s nice to see an institute like this one that’s continually updating and verifying that the free market really is not just for the rich, but for the nation as a whole,” he said.

Tepper said he hopes to have the opportunity to access the assets of the institute including the speakers the institute will host for party functions.

Schovanec said Tech wants to be known for offering different programs that will help students succeed at Tech and in the workforce, and recruiting top students and faculty.

“This institute is such an important asset in meeting those ambitions,” he said, “and so we’re so pleased that this is something that is going to occur at Texas Tech.”

breathing to get the high sensitivity functioning, which is required for daily use.

“The device transmits a wireless signal at 24 gigahertz ,” Li said. “When the signal reaches, it bounced back and the device catches signal and feeds it back into

a laptop for processing.”

He said the results can help doctors understand exact data that reflects breathing and heart rate.

Li said he has developed several microchips that are increasingly advanced so the technology can be placed into smartphones so it can be

used daily as a baby monitor.

National Instruments have been assisting the research with the most advanced PXI RF/microwave system and the AWR Design Environment and have invested $12,000 in donations for the project.

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Airports irked by removal of scanners BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Managers at dozens of small airports have expressed outrage at federal officials for hauling new full-body scanners away from their facilities and sending them to large hubs that haven’t yet upgraded older machines criticized for showing too much anatomy.

U.S. Transportation Security Administration contractors were threatened with arrest after officials at a Montana airport said they received no notice before the workers arrived. In North Dakota, the scanners are set to be yanked from a terminal remodeled last year with $40,000 in local funds just to fit the new machines.

“We think it’s silly to have installed the thing and then come back nine months later and take it out,” Bismarck airport manager Greg Haug said.

The L3 Millimeter Wave body scanners, which are about the size of a minivan on end and produce cartoonlike outlines of travelers, are being removed from 49 smaller airports across the country to help replace 174 full-body scanners used at larger airports. After controversy erupted over the bare images of a person’s body the full-body scanners produce, Congress set a June deadline for them to be removed or updated.

But officials at smaller airports said removing their machines will produce longer lines, increased

pat-downs, decreased security and a waste of taxpayer money.

North Dakota officials are especially critical of the swap because the state’s airline boardings are skyrocketing with booming oil development. TSA is slated to remove the newly installed scanners this week at airports in Bismarck, Grand Forks and Minot.

“It does seem like a waste of time and energy, but the biggest issue is security concerns,” state Aeronautics Commissioner Larry Taborsky said of removing the machines. “We are feeding a lot of traffic into the national system.”

“Smaller airports are being treated as less important as bigger airports in the system,” said Dave Ruppel, manager of the Yampa Valley Regional Airport in Steamboat Springs, Colo. “Any airport you go through is an entrance into the whole system.”

Ruppel’s airport lost its scanner late last month. He said the move to replace machines at big airports with scanners from smaller airports is “a political solution to a security problem.”

TSA said in a statement that it will cost about $2.5 million to remove the machines from the 49 smaller airports and reinstall them at bigger facilities. The agency would not identify the specific airports where the scanners are slated to be removed. Airport directors said the machines cost about $150,000 each.

“TSA’s deployment strategy is designed to ensure advanced imaging technology units are in place at checkpoints where they will be used a significant portion of operating hours, increasing overall use across the system,” the agency’s statement said. “TSA will continue to evaluate airport needs and will reassess its deployment strategy when additional units are procured.”

That’s little comfort for airport officials who point out the scanners were touted by TSA for being more secure, less intrusive and quicker.

At the Grand Forks airport, a bank of windows at the terminal had to be removed to place the machine, said Patrick Dame, airport director. The airport authority board in Grand Forks passed a resolution last week that prohibits the TSA from altering the terminal to remove the machine that has been in place less than a year.

“They’re free to take the equipment, but they can’t take the building apart to do so,” Dame said.

Minot’s scanning machine has been in place for only about 10 months, airport director Andy Solsvig said.

“With ours, they can disassemble it and wheel it out the door,” Solsvig said.

That’s what happened Tuesday night at the Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield, Calif., said Jack Gotcher, airport director. The airport had its new scanner for about

a year but it’s now going to Los Angeles International Airport, he said.

“We’re back to the metal detector, where we were before,” Gotcher said.

Many of the 140,000 boardings at the Bakersfield airport are oil workers heading to North Dakota’s rich oil patch in the western part of the state, he said.

The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission said 2012 was a record year at the state’s eight commercial airports with more than 1 million boardings, bolstered by big gains in the western part of the state, where booming oil development has spurred huge increases in airline activity.

Haug, Bismarck’s airport manager, said to keep the machines, an airport must have had more than 250,000 boardings annually for three consecutive years. Bismarck had 236,000 boardings last year and is projected to surpass that soon.

“It’s just a matter of time that they’ll have to come back in under mandate and reinstall them because we’ll quality as a bigger airport,” Haug said. “This is not one of TSA’s finest hours.”

Airport officials in Helena, Mont., have been more drastic in attempts to keep the machines.

Airport manager Ronald Mercer said workers under contract with TSA attempted to pull the machine at the airport last week but were told to leave the property or be arrested.

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Study says gun laws equal fewer deaths CHICAGO (AP) — States with the most gun control laws have the fewest gun-related deaths, according to a study that suggests sheer quantity of measures might make a difference.

But the research leaves many questions unanswered and won’t settle the debate over how policymakers should respond to recent high-profile acts of gun violence.

In the dozen or so states with the most gun control-related laws, far

fewer people were shot to death or killed themselves with guns than in the states with the fewest laws, the study found. Overall, states with the most laws had a 42 percent lower gun death rate than states with the least number of laws.

The results are based on an analysis of 2007-2010 gun-related homicides and suicides from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The researchers also used data on gun control measures in all 50 states compiled by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a well-known gun control advocacy group. They compared states by dividing them into four equal-sized groups according to the number of gun laws.

The results were published online Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine.

More than 30,000 people nationwide die from guns every year nationwide, and there’s evidence that gun-related violent crime rates have increased since 2008, a journal editorial noted.

During the four-years studied, there were nearly 122,000 gun deaths, 60 percent of them suicides.

“Our motivation was really to understand what are the interventions that can be done to reduce firearm mortality,” said Dr. Eric Fleegler, the study’s lead author and an emergency department pediatrician and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Honors College offers class on superheroes STAFF WRITER

It’s a bird, it’s a plane — no, it’s the Texas Tech Honors College.

Rob Weiner, associate humanities librarian, teaches an afterhours class about the superhero image in pop culture. The class is offered Monday evenings to students in the Honors College.

“What we do is we try to define what genre is and what makes the superhero and their story different from other genres,” Weiner said, “why it’s unique and what theories say give it a genre distinction.”

According to the class description, the course looks at the history of superheroes in films and the rise of its own distinct genre in modern culture.

“This class has taught me about the impact of comic book superheroes in popular culture,” Amy Gulick, a senior animal science major from Lubbock, said.

“From the creation of Superman to the present-day superheroes that light up the movie screen, these supers have had an enormous effect on society.

“It is truly fascinating to see the reflection these heroes have of the times. For example, Captain America was created just before World War II, when a strong

sense of patriotism was needed in have been a fan of comic books the country.” my whole life,” Gulick said. ”The Weiner said because of the class has offered a really interestpopularity of the superhero figure, ing perspective of American pop it would be almost impossible to culture. It is discussion-based, find someone who didn’t recog- so the environment is filled nize the iconic symbols. with energy. Mr. Weiner is a “I mean, you would be hard- wonderful instructor who knows pressed to go anywhere on this an exorbitant amount of comic planet except maybe some jun- book information, and he always gle in South leads our disAmerica to cussions with find someone thought-prowho didn’t voking quesknow a supertions.” hero,” he said.

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Iron Man movies have become so popular. This idea that you can interact with the technology and the artificial intelligence and is that a good thing and that what he created could at some point in the not too distant future be a reality.”

While some people may view superheroes as role models for children, Weiner argues they were never meant for children.

“The thing about it is, from the very beginning, superhero stories were not necessarily aimed at children,” he said. “I think part of this is to change the stigma surrounding the format of sequential art and the genre of the superhero story. There is a lot there and you’ve got characters that are complex and that have problems.”

Weiner said while the traditional superhero movie might fall into many different genres, it possesses qualities of a genre all its own.

“We’re interested in exploring the reason behind why the superhero is such a big part of our culture,” he said. “What makes it different from Sherlock Holmes or Star Wars or other types of media representation or characters? You could say a superhero film is an adventure film, or a fantasy film certainly, but it’s something else, too.” ➤➤nculver@dailytoreador.com

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ROB WEINER, ASSOCIATE humanities librarian, has been working at Texas Tech since 2008 and for the past two years has taught The Superhero in Film, Television and Popular Culture course. The course is offered to honors students as a visual and performing arts credit and focuses on what makes superhero movies different from others.

Wash. and Colo. ‘potrepreneurs’ see opportunity LACEY, Wash. (AP) — Kim Ridgway and her wife, Kimberly Bliss, can well envision the shop they plan to open — where they’ll put the accessories, the baked goods and the shelves stacked with their valuable product: jars of high-quality marijuana.

Like many so-called “potrepreneurs” throughout Washington and Colorado, they’re scrambling to get ready for the new world of regulated, taxed marijuana sales to adults over 21 — even though the states haven’t even figured out how they are going to grant licenses.

Farmers and orchardists are studying how to grow marijuana. Some medical pot dispensaries are preparing to switch to recreational sales. Labs that test the plant’s potency are trying to figure out how to meet standards the states might develop.

It’s a lot of work for something that might never happen.

“We don’t want to devote all our time and finances to building a business, only to have the feds rip it out from under us,” Bliss said. “There’s a huge financial risk, and a huge personal risk. We could end up in federal prison.”

While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, both states legalized the possession of up to an ounce of

marijuana last November and are setting up rules to govern state-licensed growers, processors and retailers.

Attorney General Eric Holder, who appeared Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the Justice Department has not yet decided whether to sue to block the measures. State laws can be trumped if they “frustrate the purpose” of federal law.

A group of former Drug Enforcement Administration heads and the United Nations drug control group this week renewed calls for the administration to sue, and some legal scholars say it’s hard to see how the schemes would survive a court challenge.

Nevertheless, tempted by dreams of changing people’s perception of pot and making some decent money, Bliss and Ridgway are meeting with lawyers, recruiting investors, sketching store plans and scoping out locations — all in the hopes of a grand opening on their first wedding anniversary.

After 28 years together, they got married in December on the first day the state’s new gay marriage law allowed it. They say they like the idea of becoming pioneers in the cannabis industry, too.

Hilary Bricken, a Seattle lawyer advising those interested in the mari-

juana industry, said she’s heard from people in many walks of life. Among them are a consulting firm that wants to help state-licensed growers make their operations environmentally friendly; a plant nursery that figures it already has the greenhouses; and a struggling chocolatier who sees financial salvation in “pot chocolate.”

“It’s super-exciting, and it’s a testament to the power of industry,” she said. “It’s a solution for many people that are hurting economically right now, and for better or worse, they’re brave.

“These are the people who are going to push the buck to change the national conversation,” Bricken said.

Her law firm, Harris and Moure, has been advising clients to write business plans that cover everything from where they’re getting their seed money and insurance to their security plans and protocols describing how they’ll treat their employees or shareholders.

Kristi Kelly, owner of the Good Meds dispensary chain in the Denver area, is shopping for real estate and lining up investors for a potentially big expansion to the recreational market while she awaits the DOJ’s decision.

She had some words of caution for green-eyed entrepreneurs looking to cash in on pot, though.

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Violence Against Women Act protects, assists victims B

oth Congress and the Senate voted in favor of reinstating an act with the abbreviated moniker of VAWA. The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is a vital and important piece of legislation designed to protect, bring justice and help rehabilitate victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Considering that statistics show that one of every three women (as well as one of every six men) will be victims of sexual violence in their lifetime, it is likely the provisions of this bill have assisted or could potentially assist someone that you know and care about.

The Violence Against Women Act was first introduced as a tagalong to a 1994 bill entitled the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Drafted by former Sen. Joe Biden, the bill passed, but was met with some significant resistance from Republican members of the House.

Though VAWA faced much opposition, even as much as to have a

Dora Smith provision overturned as a violation of states’ rights, it was renewed in both 2000 and 2005 under President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush, respectively, the latter introducing a seven-year period until renewal.

VAWA 2013 offers a few new provisions, some of which have inspired considerable amounts of outspoken opposition from politicians.

Each disagrees on behalf of their own reasoning or their constituents, but even so, I think some of the reasoning is invalid.

At its core, VAWA remains a way for the government to provide assistance with recovery and justice involving domestic and sexual vio-

lence, including stalking and dating violence. The latter, I believe, are particularly relevant to college students. According to a report from the Journal of American College Health published in 2012, at least 42 percent of college students report indicators of being stalked, even if they did not identify them as signs of the crime.

These statistics are why I believe that the Violence Against Women Act hits close to home and should be considered a matter of import by those attending Texas Tech.

The bill includes funding for many vital organizations. The funding is allocated to rape crisis centers, organizations that provide legal and housing assistance to victims of domestic violence, and those that seek to provide justice for Native women who need assistance navigating the red tape around crime and reservations, among others. In addition, it provides the renewal of the Trafficking Victims and Protection Act. One of the more controversial elements of 2013’s renewal is the

inclusion of provisions supporting non-discrimination, including offering assistance for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

While I certainly understand (but do not support or think reasonable) claims of religious grounds against the lawfulness of gay marriage or other issues, I cannot fathom any valid or substantiated reason why someone would be in opposition to providing help to LGBT victims of violence. Every human being has a right to being protected, a right to justice and a right to sustain their mental health and well-being.

Another part of VAWA addresses justice and services for Native American and Alaska Native women. Representative John Cornyn (R-TX) voted against the bill on account of this provision, citing constitutional violation regarding tribal courts. Again, everyone has the right to equal justice, and if that cannot be achieved at the hands of a Native community, then a woman (or man) should have

access to federal assistance.

The Violence Against Women Act has been plastered all over the news lately after being passed by Congress and the House, so you can imagine my surprise when I learned many of the people I knew had no idea what it was. Has something as important as combating rape and domestic assaults, as well as addressing the needs of victims, become so unimportant not even a major news story can bring our attention back to it?

Even this apathy is enough to solidify exactly why VAWA is needed.

We live in a culture that promotes violence against women by sexualizing, demeaning and dehumanizing them in various forms of media and advertising.

Certain people and organizations have little problem engaging in making the matter worse. Sure, company X may take harassment lawsuits seriously and not allow demeaning language in the office, but if they’re still paying a woman 77 cents to a man’s dollar and requiring her to

adhere to a strict, almost voyeuristic feminine dress code, does he really value her as a person?

The attitude a woman is a lesser being is a prime example of a sociological cause for violence against women. If she is viewed as little more than an object (or even just slightly less than a man), a woman is at risk. This can apply to any minority population, as well, including the LGBT community and ethnic and racial minorities.

A society that chooses when it is convenient to treat a woman as a human being is one which not only accepts, but in some instances encourages the violence this bill is dedicated to working on. It is very necessary, extremely important and not something to be looked over any longer. VAWA is a step in the right direction to repair and redeem society as it takes a small stance on violence against women.

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Make college more affordable through changes in paperwork

By IOWA STATE EDITORIAL BOARD

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Out of all the complicated forms a student can expect to fill out, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, surely ranks among the most arduous of paper journeys upon which a student will have to embark. With the recent arrival in our AccessPlus personal messages, we have been reminded that the deadline to file a FAFSA looms dead ahead.

Within the next few weeks, we will all have to sit down with our parents (if dependent) or our lonely selves (if independent) and spend perhaps hours poring over financial documents.

Although you may very well have suppressed the memory of such an event, try to recall its crux: that magic number called an Estimated Family Contribution (EFC). The linchpin of the FAFSA experience, colleges use the EFC “to calculate the amount of federal student aid you are eligible to receive.”

Although it allegedly measures “your family’s financial strength,” the EFC seems like an arbitrary number. If you have the courage to use a worksheet provided by the federal government to see how your EFC is calculated, prepare to be baffled with what looks like more arbitrary numbers and a set of forms even less comprehensible than an insurance policy, a credit card policy, a mortgage, or basically any bill that has gone through Congress in living memory.

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Barack Obama’s White House states that Obama has “set a new goal for the country: that by 2020, America would once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” That site offers four general ideas to improve access to higher education: Help middle class families afford college, keep costs down, strengthen community colleges, and improve transparency and accountability.

Simplifying the paperwork associated with getting financial aid would probably help. The cur-

rent forms are daunting to say the least, which, as we have learned from Democrats criticizing the idea that an ID to vote, limits access on its own.

And if you do manage to pass the great barrier form, you may find that your parents make “too much” money and that your EFC is too high to make you eligible for grants. In that regard, the FAFSA — and, therefore, the federal government — presume a familial relationship in which parents substantially contribute to their children’s college educa-

tion. With high debts of their own in a slow economy, however, that presumption threatens the creation of a cyclical problem.

Expecting the current college age cohort’s parents to pay for much of their costs of attendance at college, when those parents cannot, means that students are only eligible for more loans. In a few decades, then, today’s college students will be parents who are unable to pay for their children’s education because they still have loans of their own.

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Tech student competes in horse shows

By BETHANY CHESHIRE STAFF WRITER

Cheyenne Guelker, a senior animal science production option major from Colorado City, may look like an ordinary Texas Tech student, but she also shows horses.

Guelker has been showing horses since she was old enough to be qualified and has been around horses all her life, as her family owns CSC Farms, said Sue Guelker, Cheyenne Guelker’s mother.

Her mother has been showing horses since she was a child, and she helped Cheyenne Guelker get started, she said.

“She gave me the option of showing her horse first and it went from there,” Cheyenne Guelker said, “I’ve done it ever since.”

She said she has done some breeding as well.

Cheyenne Guelker said she performs her horse shows through the American Quarter Horse Association.

“This association tries to showcase the quarter horse through many competition events such as racing and showing,” she said, “the second of which is where I compete.”

There are three different events in horse show competition — halter, English saddle and western events.

“Halter, basically, it’s like a beauty contest or a body-building contest,” Cheyenne Guelker said. “It’s all about who looks the most correct, the most balanced, the most pretty for what breed type is supposed to be.”

The English saddle has jumpers, she said. The judges look for a long stride or the horse moving cross-country quickly. The Western is used most in Texas, she said.

“I do a little of the three categories with what’s called my all-around horse,” Cheyenne Guelker said. “He’s able to do all three events.”

All of the Quarter Horse shows are broken down into different groups, Sue Guelker said. The show starts with the halter division and progresses to English, western pleasure, then horsemanship and the trail. It then continues to the Western riding, roping and the working cow horse.

“The trail, which was Cheyenne’s favorite,” Sue Guelker said, “hers and Parkers, and that is the ability to negotiate the obstacles.”

She said the show starts at 8 a.m. and ends from anywhere be-

tween 5 p.m. and 3 a.m.

She also has been in The World Show in Oklahoma, she said. The American Quarter Horse Association sponsors it and anyone who qualifies is eligible to compete.

“You may have somebody next to you, you say hi and they’re German,” she said. “They can’t understand you, but it’s neat because with all our differences, we all are doing the same thing.

We’ve all trained them basically the same way, so we all can appreciate each other just because of that.”

She is passionate about what she does, she said, like anyone who is in a team sport.

“With what I do, it’s a different kind of team,” Guelker said. “He can’t talk back to me, so I have to find a way to, basically, help him understand what I want from him and when he does, then it’s able to produce something really classy.”

The highlight of the family’s year is that one of their horses qualified for the World Show, Sue Guelker said.

Her favorite part of showing the horse is meeting people and the friends she has made as a result of the show being open to so many countries.

“There are exhibitors from Italy,

the United Kingdom, Switzerland, several South American countries, Mexico, Canada,” she said.

Cheyenne Guelker has had quite a few horses, and she said they have made positive impacts on her.

Skippy, an old Palomino Gelding was the horse that, she said, taught her the ropes.

According to her Guelker’s family’s website, Skippy was a 20-year-old Palomino gelding who “had raised more kids than good vegetables, and taught them more than just show ring lessons as well.”

“He was my first show gelding, and he was quirky as all get out,” Cheyenne Guelker said, “but he taught me more than anything else I’ve ever had.”

Jose, another horse of Guelker’s, was a step up from Skippy, she said.

He was not that talented, but he made her ride hard.

She said Parker, her most recent horse, was her dream come true by winning a world title.

“He’s the one I consider the most puppy dog-like because he’ll basically just come up and lay his head on your chest and you could just pet him all over,” she said. ➤➤bcheshire@dailytoreador.com

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CHEYENNE GUELKER, A senior animal science major from Colorado City, shows horses through the American Quarter Horse Association.

Raider Special Olympics urge students to end R-word STAFF WRITER

For some people, the word may be just that — a word — but for others, it is a derogatory term for a disability.

Although the word retarded is used flippantly, at one time it referred to people with mental disabilities.

On Wednesday, the Raider Special Olympics hosted end the R-word campaign to bring awareness to the effect that the word “retard” has on people who are diagnosed with special needs.

The group had a table in the Free Speech Area and had a poster for students walking by to sign to pledge not to say the R-word.

“We’re ending the use of mentally retarded in derogatory term,” Kay Lyn Vines, a junior human development and family studies major from Dumas, said.

She said there are many other words that can be used in place of the word “retarded.”

Vines grew up with people who had special needs and worked with a young boy who has cerebral palsy and he became special to her.

Later, she came to Texas Tech and started volunteering with Raider Special Olympics.

She said it is gratifying to see mentally disabled people take pride in accomplishments, which someone without a disability

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tend to be the sweetest kids,” she said, “they love everybody. Everybody’s their best friend.”

Doran has been working with children with special needs since high school, and she said the children she works with have affected her life in many indescribable ways.

“I’m not only making a difference in them,” she said, “they’re also changing me.”

Erwin has a cousin who is blind and plays in the Special Olympics and said he loves watching her participate.

The first child he worked with was a boy named Alex who has autism, he said.

The first day he went to work with Alex, he said Alex was surprised that

he was a male because males rarely work with the children at that facility.

“I had a lot of fun with him,” he said, “he really impacted me.”

Showing acceptance for people with special needs is important, Vines said.

“You have to realize that they’re just people too,” she said.

Doran said working with people with special needs makes her want to be a better person because they show her how much they appreciate her work.

“Once you get around these kids, I can promise you they will make you feel like the most important person in the world to them,” she said. ➤➤bcheshire@dailytoreador.com

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Tech to host Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech softball team will host its second tournament in a row this weekend in the Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic. The tournament begins at 1 p.m. Friday at the Rocky Johnson Field with Tech once again up against University of Missouri-Kansas City and will continue until March 11 ending with Tech at 1:30 p.m. against Troy.

Other than its previous competition from UMKC, Tech will take on Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Troy and UT Arlington on its home field during the four-day event. “(This is a) Big weekend for us, big two weeks for us — we play a lot of ball games within the next 10 or 11 days,” Tech coach Shanon Hays said.

“We’ll get to find out a lot about our team.”

Getting more comfortable on the field and with one another with every game, junior pitcher Brittany Talley said the team has to take on the tour-

nament with the mindset that “You see a lot of teams they have tough competition this time of year that are infrom every team and to play consistent, but we’ve really each game their best. done a good job of winning “As we’ve seen in the past games, we’ve kept people from couple weekends, anybody can sneaking up on us, and we’ve done a good beat us and we can beat job of kind of a n y b o d y, ” sneaking up on teams that she said. “ We h a v e were ahead of us in the to go game by game rankings,” and know he said. “We that we have a reputahave to play tion now and the best evt h a t ’s g o o d ery game. If in some ways and it’s some not, then BRITTANY TALLEY somebody added pressure TEXAS TECH JUNIOR in some other w h o ’s n o t supposed to w a y s . We ’ r e PITCHER beat us will growing, and we’re getting come out and beat us.” better.”

With all of the new playHays said he has seen this season’s team check out after ers this season, the team has five innings, leaving some struggled to find its rapport on games as a loss that should have the field. With the repetition been victories, but the women of weekend tournaments, the have been learning the ways young players have had the opof the game to endure and be portunity to learn from the seareliable throughout the entire soned players Hays has growing confidence in the women to game.

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play well with each other.

“Right now we’re in a team that’s learned to close people out and play seven good (innings),” Hays said. “We’re growing, we’re maturing and still feel good about the talent we have and feel good about the pieces that we have, we just have to find the right way to put them together.”

Talley said the youngness of the team causes them to take the time to get used to playing together. She said the talents and pieces of the team are there, but with every tournament, they get closer to having the positive chemistry.

“You’ve seen a little bit of maturing every single weekend,” she said. “They’re going to keep getting better, they’re going to get used to being out here and realize that it’s just another game. It’s no different than playing high school ball, playing select ball except it’s a little faster, a little bit bigger girls. I think as they keep playing and keep getting those reps in they’ll get used to it and be ready to go.” ➤➤echappell@dailytoreador.com

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Hiroki Kuroda throws Berkman homers for Rangers in win 3 scoreless innings TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Robinson Cano stepped into the batter’s box in a Dominican Republic uniform instead of his usual Yankees attire and couldn’t help but flash a smile just before he faced teammate Hiroki Kuroda.

Kuroda temporarily slowed down Cano and the heavy-hitting Dominican Republic World Baseball Classic team, allowing two hits over three scoreless innings in the New York Yankees’ 8-2 loss on Wednesday.

“That was fun ... I was laughing at first,” said Cano, who played against the Yankees for the first time. “He’s got good stuff. This is a game just to have fun because it doesn’t count. Just go out there and get ready.”

Cano went 1 for 3, including an RBI single off Clay Rapada in the fifth.

He flew out facing Kuroda during the first, and had a fourth-inning grounder against Cody Eppley.

Kuroda struck out four.

“A great lineup,” Kuroda said through a translator. “All the big leaguers are superstars. So, to get a good result against them was a good feeling.”

The Dominican Republic opens WBC play Thursday night against Venezuela at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

“We just came to play,” Dominican Republic manager Tony Pena said.

“I’m glad to see our ballclub doing what they’re doing. I like the way they go at it. I like my ballclub. The effort they put into it.”

Pena, the Yankees bench coach, found himself in a strange spot, the visitor’s third-base side dugout at Steinbrenner Field.

“It feels a little weird being on this side,” Pena said. “But I told Robby, ‘Hey, let’s go.’”

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signing a minor league contract with the club.

“I’ve played baseball a long time and feel I had a successful career in Japan as well,” he said.

“I was in the same spot with the Mets, so experience will play a big part.”

With the Mets, Takahashi appeared in 53 games, including 12 starts. But he’s been strictly a reliever since, pitching in 112 games the past two seasons for the Los Angeles Angels and Pittsburgh.

Cubs manager Dale Sveum said Takahashi, should he emerge from the six-player scrum for three bullpen spots, could fill needs ranging from a left-handed specialist to long relief.

“If he makes the team he could be that guy,” Sveum said before Wednesday’s game. “He’s been very durable. If the game dictates, he can pitch one (inning) or get a left-hander out. If the game dictates the other way, he can go two or three innings.”

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That’s why he’s happy to fill any role for the Chicago Cubs.

Bidding for a spot in the bullpen, Takahashi started Wednesday and pitched three shaky innings in a 3-2 loss to the Texas Rangers.

The 37-year-old left-hander gave up three runs and five hits, including Lance Berkman’s first home run. He walked two and struck out four in his fourth appearance of the spring.

“It’s been a while since I started, maybe two or three years,” Takahashi said through a translator. “I’m happy about pitching those innings. There are areas I can fix, especially those two walks and the home run I allowed.”

Uncertainty is nothing new for Takahashi, who went to his first major league camp with the New York Mets in 2010 after

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“But it’s a thing where I have to take it a day at a time and focus on what I have to do. It’s not something I let linger in my mind. It’s something where I’m just trying to make a job wherever it is, whether as a starter or a fulltime guy.”

Rangers right-hander Alexi Ogando, the team’s projected fourth starter, allowed a run and two hits in three innings. He struck out six and walked two.

Ogando got himself in trouble in the seventh with an errant pickoff throw, putting runners on second and third with nobody out and Texas leading 3-2. But he escaped without allowing the tying run to score.

“He made some pitches,” Rangers manager Ron Washington said. “He went upstairs with some fastballs, threw some sliders, then went to his changeup and it was pretty good.”

Mitch Moreland had a runscoring single and Ian Kinsler drove in the other run with a sacrifice fly for Texas.

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Tuesday — the last game of the Big 12 regular season — Curry said she has been watching film, trying to see what they can do to be better than before.

Curry said her team must give Oklahoma State less touches in the post and not give up second or third opportunities, if they plan to be successful in the tournament.

In the previous encounters with the Cowgirls earlier this season, the Lady Raiders came out victorious, winning by single-digit margins in both matchups.

If Tech progresses to the next round, it is likely to be set for a matchup with the No. 1 team in the country, Baylor.

The Lady Bears are undefeated against all conference opponents this season, outscoring their opposition by an average of more than 26 points per game.

Although the Lady Raiders are likely to see good competition in the tournament, Curry said her team is capable of overcoming any mismatch they are set to face.

“A lot of times this year it comes down to, ‘Your will has got to be stronger than your skill,’ and we have just got to play well and give ourselves a chance to win,” she said.

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“The goal I set for myself is to be that lefty out of the bullpen and being able to pitch multiple innings,” he said.

Rangers left-hander Robbie Ross allowed a first-inning solo homer to Scott Hairston but then retired 13 of his final 15 batters, including the last nine in a row.

He gave up one run and four hits in four innings.

“That home run, I wish I could have done without that,” said Ross, competing for the last spot in the Texas rotation. “After that I settled down and just threw strikes. I guess it was just that feeling of, I didn’t want to do what I did in the first inning.”

Ross was a non-roster invitee to camp a year ago and finished the season as the team’s top lefthanded setup man. He went 6-0 with a 2.22 ERA in 65 innings over 58 appearances.

“I’d like to think I’ve been given an opportunity and have to work hard for it, Ross said.

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Tech will be familiar with all of its opponents, as it has played each team in the conference twice this season.

“Most of the teams we are playing over, so we kind of know what to expect and how to guard, and who their shooters are,” Brown said.

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Halladay outpitches Strasburg Hunter homers CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Roy Halladay says he wasn’t throwing at Tyler Moore after Stephen Strasburg hit Chase Utley with a pitch. Then again, the Phillies ace didn’t dismiss the idea of throwing a payback pitch against their new NL East rivals.

Halladay threw behind Moore’s back an inning after Strasburg hit Utley in a marquee matchup that Philadelphia won over the Washington National 6-3 Wednesday.

“It slipped,” Halladay said of the alleged retaliatory pitch. “I mean, really, I think that’s not necessarily the case but we do need to protect our guys to an extent. I’m not saying that’s

what happened. . I don’t think you want to do it but, you know, it wouldn’t have been the worst thing had it got him after getting one of our good guys.”

Strasburg, the Nationals’ 24-year-old star, said he had trouble gripping the ball on a cold, windy day, which affected his off-speed pitches. The pitch he hit Utley with, however, was a fastball.

“I don’t have any reason to throw at him, do I?” Strasburg said. “I mean, I don’t understand why they would think I was throwing at him. . It’s spring training. If you’re going to throw at someone or send a message in spring training, go ahead.”

The two teams have a bit of beanball history: Philadelphia All-Star left-hander Cole Hamels hit Washington rookie Bryce Harper with a pitch last May, and then was suspended for five games after admitting the pitch was intentional.

The Nationals went on to win their first East title last season, ending the Philadelphia’s fiveyear run atop the division.

Halladay and the Phillies were on top Wednesday, though.

The two-time Cy Young Award winner, trying to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2012 season, retired the first six batters he faced.

In his third start of the spring,

Halladay threw four shutout innings. He gave up two hits while walking one and striking out two.

After Michael Young’s runscoring single in the third, Strasburg hit Utley. Ryan Howard then drove in a run with a groundball to first.

Strasburg was charged with two runs on five hits in 3 2-3 innings. He struck out six and walked one.

“I felt pretty good,” Strasburg said. “I had a tough time getting on top of my curveball at the end. But it was tough conditions — I don’t think I’ll pitch in something like that any other time unless we’re playing in Florida.”

Gordon’s slam lifts Royals over Diamondbacks SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Alex Gordon insists his swing doesn’t feel comfortable yet.

Hard to take him seriously after Wednesday.

The Royals outfielder had three hits, including a fifth-inning grand slam, and James Shields pitched three scoreless innings to help Kansas City beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-1 and remain the only unbeaten team in spring training.

“I mean, it’s still early,” said Gordon, who also threw out a runner trying to reach third base.

“Just because you get results doesn’t mean you’re where you want to be. Results are great and get your confidence going, but I still have stuff to work on.”

Gordon signed a four-year, $37.5 million deal last season, and proceeded to hit .294 with 14 homers and 72 RBIs while winning his second consecutive Gold Glove in left field. But he said his swing had been a bit balky early this spring, and it’s only now beginning to round into shape.

“Little better, but it’s still early.

We still have a lot of time to work,” he said. “It’s feeling better, but it’s not where I want it to be.”

The Royals certainly appear to be where they want to be.

Despite losing Eric Hosmer to the U.S. team for the World Baseball Classic, the Royals still pounded out 15 hits against Trevor Cahill and the rest of the Diamondbacks pitching staff.

Alcides Esocbar had a pair of hits and drove in a run, and Jeff Francoeur and Manny Pina each coaxed a runner across as the Royals pounded out at least 10 hits for the ninth time in 12 games.

Kansas City is 11-0-1 in the Cactus League.

“Winning is contagious,” Shields said with a smile. “It makes you feel good as a player, makes you feel good as a team, that you’re playing good baseball.”

Shields, the Royals’ new ace, allowed three hits and struck out two. He didn’t allow a walk while throwing 24 of 38 pitches for strikes in his second spring start.

“Success is just being healthy and going out there and throwing your pitches, throwing your innings,” he said. “You want to have success in spring training, but the main goal is to have arms in shape for the regular season.”

Cahill had a shaky start for the

Diamondbacks, loading the bases in the first inning but limiting the damage to one run. He wound up allowing six hits in 2 2-3 innings.

“It went all right,” Cahill said.

“They just hit my mistakes, I guess.

I’m working on getting guys out.

I didn’t throw any curveballs my last time, so I made sure to throw some today. It was working in the bullpen. It seems my sinker was a little bit up.”

Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson said Cahill and reliever Pat Corbin, who served up Gordon’s grand slam, couldn’t keep the ball down in the strike zone.

“Trevor and Pat both got into deep counts, not enough strikes and they got into trouble,” he said. “Trevor’s ball was all over the place. It didn’t seem like he had his command at all.”

The Diamondbacks only run came on a single by former Royals first baseman Kila Ka’iahue.

By that point, the game was well in hand.

Escobar and Billy Butler singled with one out in the first inning, and Francoeur’s base hit gave Kansas City a 1-0 lead. The Diamondbacks tried to answer in the bottom half when Adam Eaton singled and

reached second on an error, but he got caught in a run-down between second and third.

Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas delivered the tag on Eaton, but he got popped in his upper lip in the process and had to seek help from a trainer to stop the bleeding.

Moustakas wasn’t happy about it, either.

“Just a guy who doesn’t have a feel for the game,” he said tersely.

The Royals added a run in the fourth when Gordon doubled and Escobar tripled over the head of Arizona center fielder Tony Campana. They then blew the game open in the fifth when Lorenzo Cain walked, Chris Getz and Willy Taveras singled and Gordon hit his grand slam to deep center.

Gordon said he was waiting on a fastball after working a 3-1 count with the bases loaded, and he pounded the pitch over the 410-foot sign painted on the center field wall.

“Bases loaded, you know? I’ve always been told to just step out, relax yourself and not try to do too much,” Gordon said. “Sometimes you put a good swing on it and that’s what happened.”

for Detroit Tigers, Verlander dominant

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Torii Hunter has never had a problem making friends, and he’s off to a great start with the Detroit Tigers.

Hunter hit his first home run with the Tigers, Justin Verlander pitched four scoreless innings and Detroit beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 on Wednesday.

Hunter has always been a gregarious teammate during long stints with the Minnesota Twins and Los Angeles Angels, and he said he feels he’s fit in well in the Detroit clubhouse.

“They brought me here to bat second and to be a kind of team leader here,” Hunter said. “I made sure the first day here that my teammates got to know me and I got to know them. I had other people do that for me when I first came up, so it’s my turn now.”

Hunter said he was guided through his early years in Minnesota by Twins Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett. He said a lot of the leadership lessons he has learned came from Puckett and he is trying to pass those lessons on to younger Tigers, especially center fielder Austin Jackson.

“I’m not saying I am trying to be a mentor, but I will do what I can, especially with Austin,” Hunter said. “I can teach things and try to make sure they don’t make mistakes on or off the field.

I am comfortable with that role.”

Hunter also has to get comfortable in his role as the No. 2 hitter in the Tigers order. Although he homered on Wednesday, he knows that’s not why he was brought to Detroit. His job is to move Jackson over if he gets on from his leadoff slot, and set the table for Tigers sluggers Prince Fielder, Miguel Cabrera, and Victor Martinez.

After starting the season in the heart of the Angels order for the first two months of the 2012 season, Hunter was moved into the

Masterson outpitches Ryu in Cleveland Indians’ 4-0 win GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Jason Giambi thought he would be a manager this season. Instead, he’s still playing.

Giambi drove in two runs and Justin Masterson outpitched Hyun-Jin Ryu on Wednesday, leading the Cleveland Indians to a 4-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

After interviewing for the Colorado Rockies’ managerial opening — which

went to Walt Weiss — the 42-year-old Giambi signed a minor league deal with Cleveland just ahead of the start of spring training with hopes of playing one more season in an 18-year career.

He singled and hit a sacrifice fly to pace the Indians’ offense against the Dodgers.

“Jason is not just helping the younger guys,” Indians manager Terry Francona said. “(He’s) helping the older

guys and me. I’ve already gone to him three times just with questions. He’s not a veteran. He’s THE veteran.”

Masterson had a subpar 2012 campaign after shoulder surgery in October 2011. He pitched three-hit ball with four scoreless innings. He struck out three, while inducing three double-play grounders.

“In general, I feel better than this time last year,” Masterson said. “Last

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