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No bond for millionaire Durst on weapons charges NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Millionaire murder suspect Robert Durst is a flight risk and a danger to others, a judge decided Monday after considering what FBI agents found in his hotel room: an elaborate disguise and other escape tools fit for a spy movie.

Durst was arrested at the J.W. Marriott hotel in New Orleans, where he had registered under the name Everette Ward and was lying low while HBO aired the final chapters of his life story.

FBI agents recovered his passport and birth certificate, an apparently fake Texas ID, stacks of $100 bills, bags of marijuana, a .38-caliber revolver, a map folded to show Louisiana and Cuba, and a flesh-toned latex mask with salt-andpepper hair.

“This was not a mask for Halloween;” it was a disguise extending down to the chest, Assistant District Attorney Mark Burton said.

Durst stopped using his cellphone after HBO aired the next-to-last episode of the “The Jinx,” its six-part documentary about him, and bought but apparently never activated a new cellphone, Burton added.

Magistrate Harry Cantrell ordered Durst held without bond on weapons charges in Louisiana, and set a preliminary hearing for April 2, delaying his transfer to California to face murder charges.

US drillers scrambling to thwart OPEC threat NEW YORK (AP) — OPEC and lower global oil prices delivered a one-two punch to the drillers in North Dakota and Texas who brought the U.S. one of the biggest booms in the history of the global oil industry.

Now they are fighting back.

Companies are leaning on new techniques and technology to get more oil out of every well they drill, and furiously cutting costs in an effort to keep U.S. oil competitive with much lower-cost oil flowing out of the Middle East, Russia and elsewhere.

“Everybody gets a little more imaginative, because they need to,” says Hans-Christian Freitag, vice president of technology for the drilling services company Baker Hughes.

Spurred by rising global oil prices U.S. drillers learned to tap crude trapped in shale starting in the middle of last decade and brought about a surprising boom that made the U.S. the biggest oil and gas producer in the world.

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By ERIN COLLIER Staff Writer

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KHABIRAT ABIOYE, AN educational psychoogy graduate student from Houston, holds a sign that expresses her frustration when subjected to micro-aggressions on campus.

Diversity Week has officially begun as a way to kick start awareness of diversity on the Texas Tech campus.

Diversity Week takes place every year and provides opportunities for students and faculty to become more involved and aware of cultural diversity around them, according to a Tech news release.

Hundreds of students gathered to share their ideas on diversity and connect with other students, as well as enjoy free food and games with their peers at noon Monday outside the Student Union building.

“Tech’s a really diverse campus, you know,” Justin Rivas, unit coordinator at the university, said. “College in general is a place where a lot of people get introduced to different cultures.”

Hundreds of organizations connect through diversity, he said.

Rivas works with the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and said it has multiple programs emphasizing diversity.

This week puts knowledge and emphasis of a diverse campus in gear, he said.

Diversity Week is a positive way to bring diversity awareness to the forefront of people’s minds, he said. They

not only see international diversity but American diversity as well.

“It’s something that is always going on year-round, so this is kind of a way to emphasize it,” Rivas said.

Paul Frazier, assistant vice president of the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, said Diversity Week allows opportunity for the campus community to get involved.

The week recognizes the importance and opportunity of learning about different cultures, he said.

“I think it’s a chance to highlight some of the events that already take place on campus,” Frazier said, “and maybe students or faculty that haven’t been involved have an opportunity to get involved.”

This week allows everyone to learn about cultural and climate events that take place at Tech throughout the year, he said. “(Diversity Week) allows you to interact with different cultures,” Aziz Shahid, a sophomore exercise and sport sciences major from Houston, said.

“That’s the biggest thing.”

This week allows others to come together and get the chance to meet new people and share ideas about diversity, Shahid said.

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Tech baseball to play one game Define Your Line campaign launched between conference series After failing to win its first Big 12 Conference series of the season, the No. 10 Texas Tech baseball team will attempt to get back on track in a single game against New Mexico.

The two teams will play at 2 p.m. on Tuesday at Rip Griffin Park before the Red Raiders play their first conference home series of the season against Kansas this weekend.

Tech enters the midweek game with a 16-8 overall record while New Mexico is 11-10 on the year.

Junior second baseman and Big 12 Newcomer of the Week Cory Raley will look to continue to lead the Red Raider offense against the Lobos. Raley is the first player on the team to win the award this season.

He highlighted the offense last week as he hit .391 through five games with three straight three-hit days, according to a Tech Athletics news release. His average sits at .388 for the year, which ranks second in the conference.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock will continue to decide between starting Raley or senior in-

fielder Bryant Burleson at second base.

Sophomore outfielder Hunter Hargrove has hit safely in seven of his last eight games and has four multi-hit games this year, according RALEY to the release.

If the Red Raiders have to use their bullpen on Tuesday, senior right-handed pitcher Corey Taylor will likely be called in. Taylor has not allowed an earned run all season through 24.2 innings of work.

This season, New Mexico’s offense has been led by sophomore first baseman Chris DeVito with a .314 batting average. He also leads the team with 22 hits, four home runs and 20 RBIs, according to the Lobo Athletics website.

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Lubbock to experience warm temperatures Following cold temperatures and winter weather in late February and early March, warmer temperatures have greeted Texas Tech students in their return to Lubbock.

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By AMY CUNNINGHAM News editor

Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement Lisa Calvert has brought nearly 30 years of fundraising experience to the Texas Tech University System.

Calvert, who was announced in January as the newest vice chancellor, began her position on Feb. 23 and has fundraised at three universities, according to a Tech System news release.

“What brought me here to Texas Tech is the success of the system,” Calvert said. “It was very intriguing and exciting to see the growth in the system, from the number of students to the reputation of the faculty and the academic and research excellence as well as the growth in the endowment and the success of the (Visions and Traditions) campaign.”

Doug Hensley, managing director of the Tech System Office of Communications and Marketing, said Calvert has hit the ground running by attending Board of Regents meetings and more.

With a month under her belt at Tech, Calvert said she has been busy scheduling appointments with and meeting more than 200 people as part of a philanthropic impact study.

The study will optimize the philanthropic momentum of the TTU System, she said, to decide the best ways to raise money.

Amy Crumley, director of devel-

opment in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the study involves combing through the advancement database to update information, updating the capacity donors have to give and ultimately leading to the improvement of the Tech System’s fundraising efforts.

“After the study is completed within about four months, we’ll be working with the leadership of the system, meeting with all of the advancement staff on the four campuses, working with Foundation leadership and just really take a deep dive to see where we are and take a look about going forward,” Calvert said. “At the end of that study, we’ll have some big things to announce then.”

Calvert earned a degree in agriculture economics at Oklahoma State University, according to the release, and has worked at Purdue University, Creighton University and William Jewell College.

While at Purdue University as the vice president of development, Calvert doubled the amount of money fundraised by the institution, according to the release, and had the second and fourth most successful years in Purdue’s history.

“She brings nearly three decades of fundraising experience to the Texas Tech University System,” Tech System Chancellor Robert Duncan said in the release. “She has the vision and the skills to create a culture of sustained philanthropic excellence across the

$2,500 in Scholarships Available For Graduate and Undergraduate Students

The Texas Tech Faculty Legal Action Association (TTFLAA) invites all Texas Tech Students to compete for two Academic Scholarships, one valued at $1,500 and the other $1,000.

The scholarships will be awarded to currently-enrolled undergraduate or graduate students submitting the best original essays on the topic “The Role and Importance of Academic Freedom in the University.” The TTFLAA was formed in 1985-1986 when then President Lauro Cavazos sought to replace the existing tenure system with a system of rollover contracts. Academic Freedom and Tenure involve the freedom of faculty and staff in higher education to continue research, create art and to make it public without being punished by the University. The Scholarship was created with money contributed by many faculty members to a fund that might have to be used to challenge the proposed policy in the courts. Since the proposal was later modified, interest from the fund has been used to fund the Scholarships. If a student is not from Texas, out of state tuition is waived so that the winner will pay only in-state tuition and fees.

Entries must be no longer than 1,000 words. They must be typed, and include a cover sheet with the submitting student’s name. Do not type your name on the essay. Students may use MLA style footnotes with a bibliography at the end.

The double-spaced pages of the essay itself-submitted in three copies by Friday, April 10, 2015.

A faculty committee will judge the essays. The TTFLAA reserves the right to publish or otherwise use for academic purposes any essay submitted, and to publish the name and/or photograph of the recipient.

Send essay to: Campus Mail Box of Prof. William G. Hartwell III, School of Music, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tx, 79409-2033.

The winner will be announced by Friday, April 24, 2015 • Kayla Tindle, a Graduate Student in Education, was a winner of a $1,500 Scholarship, while Sean Webb, a Graduate Student in History, both from Lubbock, won a $1,000 Scholarship in 2014.

• Caleb Rogers, a Natural Resources Management Graduate Student, and Mehmaz Radmi, a Graduate Student in Media and Communications, both from Lubbock, were winners of $1,000 Scholarships in 2013.

Application forms are available online at www.scholarships.ttu.edu or apply online at the Financial Aid Office 205 West Hall, 742-3144 For further information, you may contact Prof. Hartwell at 799-2034 or wghartwell@sbcglobal.net

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Calvert’s hiring comes after Kelly Overley Cronin, who helped lead the Tech System’s $1 billion Visions and Traditions campaign, left the vice chancellor for an institutional advancement position in September 2013, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Scott Cooksey filled the interim vice chancellor position while Tech System officials conducted a nationwide search for a permanent replacement, according to the article.

“Scott Cooksey was great. He was a wonderful interim and he kept the ship moving,” Crumley said. “He was very good at communicating with us what was going on and he was always there if we needed help. I think Lisa will be the exact same. It feels like we have a very supportive family behind us, and that always makes it nice when we’re out on the road and we need something, we know they’re just a phone call away.”

Cooksey has extensive knowledge of traditions and history at Tech, Calvert said, so the pair works well together.

She said she has new ideas for institutional advancement that are welcomed by Cooksey and other longtime employees.

“He and I are joined at the hip, we really are,” she said. “When I was announced in January, Scott and I started talking immediately thereafter. Scott has done an excellent job as the interim vice chancellor and he is a real partner.”

Calvert’s 30 years of prior experience add a new facet to the institutional advancement team, Crumley said.

The university as a whole has given Calvert a warm welcome, she said.

“The advancement staff, the institutional advancement team, is absolutely wonderful,” she said. “They’re very warm, welcoming, excited and we’re all eager to look at how we can do things at a higher level of efficiency and productivity, so it’s exciting.”

Calvert has implemented smaller, more intimate meetings with the staff, Crumley said, and seems to take an authentic interest in everyone’s opinions.

While it is still too early for big goals yet, Calvert said she has plans for the future of the Tech System.

The system did not grow its fundraising programs until the 1990s, she said, so there are opportunities to further build the program.

She looks forward to working with leadership, Calvert said, and she will continue building relationships with alumni from all four campuses of the Tech System.

“I think what’s different about Texas Tech, and what also attracted me here, is one, the commitment of the alums,” she said. “The spirit, the enthusiasm of the alumni base reminds me of a private university.

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Anderson is the president CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 of Phi Beta Sigma, a fraternity “You can learn things and emphasizing the importance of culture yourself,” Rian An- different cultures, he said. derson, a senior English major “The most enjoyable thing from Dickinson, said. of Diversity Week is the aura It is much more than the it gives, a sense of home,” Anfree T-shirts and food, Ander- derson said. “You can just feel son said, but about actually more at home.” getting to know the various ➤➤@DailyToreador

Cruz aims efforts at conservatives LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Launching his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas asked Christian conservative voters to imagine a United States without the IRS, Obamacare or abortion rights — and to imagine they can make that happen by supporting him.

His aspirational appeal on Monday, aimed at America’s most conser-

vative voters, could quickly run into challenges in winning over moderate voters — and eventually deep difficulties in governing should Cruz win the White House.

But it’s a message that Cruz, the first major 2016 contender to declare himself a candidate, is expected to forcefully emphasize in the coming year before voters start to pick nominees.

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VICE CHANCELLOR FOR Institutional Advancement Lisa Calvert joined the Texas Tech System on Feb. 23. System officials conducted a nationwide search to fill the position after the previous vice chancellor departed in September 2013.

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The Define Your Line campaign was launched Monday and encourages students to open up conversations about sexual assault and consent.

Rebecca R. Ortiz, an assistant professor of advertising, and Autumn Shafer, an assistant professor of public relations, are the faculty advisers for the campaign.

The two have wanted to start a campaign like this for a long time, Ortiz said.

With sexual assault issues happening on college campuses across the U.S., now seemed like a good time.

Schafer said they tried to pull students from different majors to be involved in the campaign. Last fall, they met with students and discussed the possibility of doing a campaign focusing on consent instead of bystander intervention.

“We’ve done a lot of research in this area before we got to this point,” Ortiz said. “We’ve done two major surveys and 11 focus groups with students, and we learned there are a lot of misconceptions around sex.”

Some of these misconceptions were specifically focused around gender roles, such as what are women supposed to do and what are men supposed to do, she said.

They wanted to use the campaign to start a conversation about all the misconceptions people have. It is important to have open sexual communication with one’s partner, Ortiz said.

There are two types of events, students speaking to groups or tabling, Schafer said. At the speaking events, students involved in the campaign will talk with classes or organizations on campus.

It is important to have this conversation whether someone is having sex or not, Schafer said. Some students use Define Your Line as a way to talk to their partner about not being ready to have sex as well as setting sexual boundaries.

“We didn’t want this campaign to be something where we are telling people what to feel or telling people

what to do,” Ortiz said. “That was a big reason we wanted to have the student advisory board.”

Chris Mitchell, a sophomore chemical engineering major from Dallas, is on the promotions committee of the student advisory board.

He became involved in Define Your Line because there have been several issues related to sexual assault recently on campus. Mitchell said he wanted to have a part in alleviating those tensions and solving those problems as much as he could.

“I think it’s important because a big issue in sexual assault is people get mixed intentions and that leads to bad problems,” he said. “If the first time you meet somebody you are open about what you want to occur that night, whether it be going home and having sex or even going home and not having sex, if you make it clear what your intentions are it could stave off a large portion of the problems related to sexual assault.”

The biggest way to get involved is by going to social media accounts and defineyourline.org and giving input, he said. The website displays questions such as “how can you tell if a guy wants to have sex?” or “what are girls thinking if they are quiet during sex?” and students can anonymously submit questions and answers.

If people know more about consent and open up the conversation they are less likely to believe rape myths, Shafer said.

Rape myths are beliefs in issues like victim blaming, such as saying the victim was “dressed slutty and asking for it” or assuming rape always happens between a man and a woman, Ortiz said, and these are not true.

“Those types of attitudes can lead to an environment where sexual assault is more likely to happen,” Shafer said.

“We’re really hoping if people have a better understanding of what consent is and how communication should happen it is going to help lower those rape myth attitudes.”

In addition to support from the faculty advisers, administration has been very supportive of the campaign, Ortiz said. Reports of sexual assault on campus have been increasing across the country.

“What people think that means is that sexual assault is happening more often and in fact it means people are more comfortable in coming forward and reporting,” Ortiz said. “What we’ve seen happen when women come forward, particularly on college campuses, is they don’t get taken seriously or they get victim blamed for it. So we are going to see those numbers go up, not necessarily because there are more instances it’s because people are more comfortable coming forward.”

More open conversation about consent and sexual assault is key to decreasing it, Ortiz said. Sexual assault can be a taboo topic, but it still needs to be addressed.

“This area is very touchy to talk about,” Mitchell said. “I think the biggest thing to distinguish this campaign among others is we’re not telling people to go out and have sex, we’re not telling people to not go out and have sex, we’re telling you to do whatever you want, but make sure you’re vocal about what you want so you can take a stand.” ➤➤@KristenBartonDT

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Junction offers new experiences for students

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

Students have the opportunity to take classes during the summer, and the Texas Tech Center at Junction offers field classes during intersession and summer I. Karen Lopez, the assistant adviser of the center at Junction, said approximately 120 students enroll in the 10 courses offered during intersession, which beings on May 13 this year.

“Most of our students come from Lubbock and they can get three or four credit hours done in 15 days,” she said. “It’s really intensive.

They’re outside essentially from dawn until dusk. They only have one class, so their efforts and concentrations are solely focused on that and they do better.”

Many of the students come from the main Tech campus in Lubbock and are a mix of undergraduate and graduate stuARSUFFI dents, Lopez said, and they stay in the dorm units or cabins at the center at Junction in the heart of the Texas hill country.

Many of the courses offered are science-based courses such as mammology, field ecology and field geography, but the other classes like creative writing, photography and rhetoric in Western thought are also offered.

Tom Arsuffi, the director of the Llano River Field Station at the center at Junction, said field classes

away from Lubbock benefits students.

“The benefits are that we have a completely different type of ecosystem than you have up in the Lubbock area,” he said. “We have whole different wildlife, we have a river that bisects our campus and we have different water resources. The people that teach courses over here are able to provide students with a whole diversity of experiences that are unavailable in Lubbock.”

When applying for jobs, it is important to have a variety of skills, Arsuffi said, and taking a class at Junction allows students to develop new skills.

The environment of the Junction center allows for fun learning, and Arsuffi said students can take advantage of kayaks and having a state park located three miles from the center.

“Small class sizes allow the students to get to know each other,” Arsuffi said. “In the dining hall people with different majors share their experiences and interests.”

A majority of the professors come from the Lubbock campus, and some professors have been teaching classes at the center at Junction for more than 25 years, like Lou Densmore, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences.

Robert Stubblefield, the director of operations of the Junction center, said the classes go by quickly for the students because of the different opportunities they have.

“They’re totally engaged and they’re working alongside the faculty members 24/7,” he said.

“They’ve got hands-on type of stuff.

It’s an adventure.”

The Center at Junction is also

restructuring summer I classes to be 15 days in length, Lopez said, and the classes will model the intensive schedules of the intersession classes to allow students to get hands-on experiences in the classes.

Various classes such as plant identification and ceramics are offered during summer I starting on June 7, Lopez said, and environmental literacy is going to be a new course offering combining engineering aspects with biology.

“In some of the courses they use the field station as a center of gravity,” Arsuffi said. “Then they go and take field trips from here to pretty exotic places. We’re within a quick drive of other really unique places as well.”

The center at Junction also hosts high school students from the international schools Tech partners with, and Stubblefield said many

students from Brazil have come in the past to participate in field lessons and students from China will be integrated in 2016.

Taking classes at the Junction center during intersession or summer I can help students stay on track for their graduation dates, Stubblefield said, and he took classes at Junction during two summers while he was studying at Tech.

“Students make reference to the fact that in their career while at Texas Tech they would have felt shorted had they not had what we call the Junction experience,” Stubblefield said. “Once they’re at the field station, they complete their course and what they’ve been able to learn is probably more than what they could have learned in a whole semester on the main campus.” ➤➤@JenRomeroDT

Tech meditation society Pope gets his pizza handhelps students find peace delivered to popemobile

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The Tech Meditation Society brings healing, comfort and peace to all who are a part of the group. Meeting twice a week, the group promotes using meditation as a way of finding inner peace.

“The Tech Meditation Society is a group of people who are interested in meditation and want to learn more about it,” Brian Quinn, a personal librarian, said. “Meditation is a very rich and rewarding practice, but many people feel it is easier to do in a group.”

Meditation is a simple practice requiring focus from an individual, Quinn said.

“It’s just the process of focusing the mind on something,” he said. “Whether it’s the breath, a sound or an image, once the mind starts to focus on the object it tends to get quiet.”

Keeping focused through meditation provides benefits for any person who is willing to try it, Quinn said. Studies have shown there are many positive benefits physically and psychologically, he said. The group consists of faculty, staff and a few students.

According to the Mayo Clinic website, meditation can decrease stress and anxiety. Anyone can practice meditation and it requires no special equipment.

“There’s usually around six to 10 people,” Anita Page, research assistant for the College of Education Sowell Center, said. “But I’ve been a couple of times when it was crowded.”

The group meets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m., and members of the group suggest going out and trying the session, Page said.

“There’s a growing body of research that says meditation has many benefits,” Quinn said.

The practice does not stop at focusing, he said, it also gives a person the opportunity to reflect on his or her personal life.

“We live in a society where everyone is accustomed to reaching outside of themselves,” he said. “They look outside in the external world for things that will make them happy, but in fact what meditation teaches us is that happiness can be found by looking within.”

The practice teaches people how to put aside all the noise and stress from the external world and focus inward. It is then people realize how enjoyable a few minutes of meditation can be, Quinn said.

“It was sort of my idea to start the group,” Quinn said. “I had a long standing interest in meditation and had been studying it and reading about it for a long time.”

Quinn said his interest for meditation started during his

all types of meditation has given him an interesting way to showcase it to others. “ Ty p i c a l l y meditation is QUINN associated with one group or another,” he said, “but there isn’t a group where you can experience different kinds of meditation.”

Digging into all forms of meditation sets the Tech Meditation Society apart from many other meditation groups, he said.

“You learn the focus through experiencing it,” Page said, “and you can get up and leave if you are really uncomfortable.”

Many attending the weekly meetings find it hard to stay away, Barbara Hargrove, a senior business assistant for the College of Education Sowell Center, said.

“It’s just keeps you, and calms you down,” Hargrove said, “and we all need that in the middle of our workday.”

With the soothing voice of Quinn and subtle music in the background, attendees use the

time to find inner peace and energy, Hargrove said. The experience gives off the same feeling as a nap would.

“I’m able to look past other situations to see the core motivations of the day,” Jessica Simpson, a personal librarian for math and sciences, said. “I feel like it helps with interpersonal relationships in general.”

Comparing the mind exercise to physical exercise, many members feel physical differences if they miss sessions, Simpson said.

“It’s kind of like when you put off going to the gym,” she said. “I feel the same way about meditation. When you don’t exercise it leaves you with feeling less than your most healthy person.”

The group accepts anybody, and promotes keeping the mind healthy and peaceful. People are encouraged to join and partake in the benefits.

“A lot of problems can be solved by looking within,” Quinn said, “so I’d encourage anyone who is interested in exploring meditation to try it and experience what it is like.” ➤➤@MichaelCantuDT

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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, who recently lamented he can’t slip out and get a pizza like he used to, finally got a pie — albeit one hand-delivered to his popemobile.

Pizza maker Enzo Cacialli had a pie on hand as Francis sped by the Naples waterfront Saturday during his one-day visit to the city famous for its pizza. In a video made by a coworker at the “Don Ernesto” pizzeria, Cacialli is seen getting close enough to the popemobile to make the delivery as the crowd behind him cheers.

Cacialli, whose father made pizza for a visiting President Bill Clinton in 1994, told Naples’ Il Mattino that he used yellow tomatoes rather than red to reflect the colors of the Holy See. He said he was “full of joy that he accepted a pizza straight from my hands.”

In a recent interview with a Mexican broadcaster, Francis said what he misses most being pope is going out to get a pizza.

Now, he eats in the communal dining room of the Vatican hotel, serving himself cafeteriastyle like the rest of the guests

at dinner.

Francis also got some other treats during his visit to Naples: Some biscuits and sweets made by some cloistered nuns who literally mobbed him as he sat in the Naples’ cathedral.

The Naples’ archbishop, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, who made a special dispensation so the nuns could come out of cloister for the papal visit, admonished the nuns for their behavior. But he said their cookies are very good and that he eats them for breakfast with milk every day.

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Volunteering provides valuable experience Mandatory voting should not be enforced Jemima Johnson not the names and faces of most of the people who live there — especially in larger cities.

Volunteer work can help bring these strangers closer together working toward a common goal.

Also, having a better relationship with hometown locals is a great way to network. Even if you have interests that will lead you outside the city limits of your current residence, you never know how far the connections people around you may reach.

As unfair as it may seem, people are usually more willing to help someone they know than someone they do not — regardless of résumés and recommendation letters. So, the more connections you can make now, the better off you are likely to be in the future.

A common misconception about volunteer work is it has little to no value in the job market. In reality, nonprofit work can teach you just as much as a paid position can. Jobs and internships may be the first things students utilize to fill up their resume, but volunteer work can also be beneficial on résumés.

Nonprofit work related to your career interests not only provides you with experience in that area,

but shows how passionate and dedicated you are to the field you have chosen. Having a nonprofit on your résumé shows employers you are committed to the field and passionate about the subject matter, no matter the amount of money you stand to receive.

Fulfilling basic skills required to do a job successfully is important in every career field, but more employers are starting to focus on the character of potential employees and what the things they have done say about them as a person. A degree may get you through the door of your dream job, but these days college graduates need to have certain character traits to actually be offered the position. Work in the nonprofit sector usually implies the person is a team player, a problem solver and takes initiative in accomplishing goals.

Besides all of the benefits volunteering can provide personally and professionally, it is just a great thing to do for others. Tasks as simple as taking on a few household chores or making someone a meal can change someone’s life and help them immensely. Therefore, volunteering is not only something we can do to help ourselves, it is something we can do to help those around us.

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hat exactly is President Barack Obama recommending in policy changes for Cuba and U.S. relations?

As optimistic as Obama is that Cuba will be on good terms with Venezuela, and with the U.S. as well, it is too soon to determine the rate at which this potential change will take place. With a long line of communists in control in that area, this idea is not going to be easily relinquished.

Obama’s statement on Cuba P o l i c y Changes in December shows this optimism.

Obama stated a few of the things he hopes to pair up with Cuba to achieve, according to the White House website.

“Going forward, the U.S. will re-establish an embassy in Havana, and highranking officials will visit Cuba. Where we can advance shared interests, we will — on issues like health, migration, counterterrorism, drug

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Kendra Kimberlin trafficking and disaster response.

Third, we are taking steps to increase travel, commerce and the flow of information to and from Cuba. This is fundamentally about freedom and openness, and also expresses my belief in the power of people-topeople engagement,” according to the website.

These are great aspirations, but have serious drawbacks, considering Cuba is on the other end of this deal. As we have experienced with Russia and dealings with Ve n e z u e l a , this control leaders hold is tough to break.

Along with this is the aspect of taking advantage of any and all aid Cuba can get, which will

As optimistic as Obama is that Cuba will be on good terms with Venezuela, and with the U.S. as well, it is too soon to determine the rate at which this potential change will take place.

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only weaken this give and take relationship.

“The Cubans saw the environment changing, they knew that Venezuela wasn’t going to be able to play the bankrolling role anymore and they didn’t want the predicament again of being reliant on a failing country — as they had been on the Soviet Union — so they decided to go full bore on normalizing relations with the U.S.,” Carl Meacham, director of the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said, according to the Christian Science Monitor website.

This brings up a great point that this is not necessarily the best building block off which to base a relationship. In the meantime, Venezuela will be getting its feet back on the ground. Doing so will only allow the Cuban government the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity when it comes.

While this normalization for Cuba and America may seem like a new concept, it is not. The fact of the matter is Cuba and Fidel Castro have been on our radar due to the extremity of their politics and their close proximity to the U.S. This is one of the most common things we want to fix as a nation, as visited by several other presidents.

According to a Forbes article, 10 presidents have attempted peaceful coexistence with Cuba in the past. “The course, however, is not really new. The desired rapprochement failed mainly because the Cuban dictator would not agree to stop his subversive activities and open up the island, or offer a modicum of respect for human rights. What’s new about President Obama’s détente is that he is engaging Raúl Castro — not his ailing brother Fidel — and has not established any preconditions for normalization,” according to the article.

It will be interesting to see the future events that revolve around Raúl Castro and how his rule will be based on either the past or future for Cuba. Not much can be done at this time, but wait and let the political analysts take the case apart piece by piece. It’s time to be cautious in an effort to smooth things over with Cuba.

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hile speaking to a community organization in Cleveland, Ohio, last week, President Barack Obama raised some eyebrows by floating the idea of “mandatory voting.” Obama cited the low 37 percent turnout in the midterm elections and examples of countries that require voting, such as Australia, and claimed it would “transform” the political landscape, according to Fox News.

Obama made the comments in a lecture about ideas to lessen the influence of financial contributions in politics and stated mandatory voting would decrease the effect of campaign donations.

This is probably true given a large portion of campaign funds are spent on mobilizing voters who support the campaign’s ideas to the polls, which would not be necessary if people were required to vote. Quite frankly, I agree with Obama that the amount of money spent on political campaigns is appalling and we should be open to ideas to fix the problem, but our constitutional freedoms must not be sacrificed.

Many legal scholars have proposed the First Amendment guarantees Americans the freedom to make a “statement” by sitting out an election.

Therefore, any governmental interference with this freedom, such as a voting requirement, would be an infringement upon our constitutional rights. According to the Rutgers School of Law website, professor Frank Askin, an election law specialist, said, “People have a right to opt out of elections. [Obama’s proposal] is not happening.”

Even those who do not believe the First Amendment protects the freedom to “sit out” an election must be wary of the slippery slope this type of proposal presents.

First of all, if the government requires voting, how will this be enforced? Will there be a fine for refusing to participate?

Will police come to the homes of people who don’t vote?

Second of all, where do the requirements stop? If the government can require us to vote, a seemingly well-intentioned idea, it also has the authority to require us to exercise regularly, obtain a master’s degree or run for elected office.

As citizens, we must be careful not to be lulled to sleep simply because an official proposes a regulation or requirement that seems to be well

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John White intentioned. Every new law and regulation should be carefully examined to be sure it cannot be used as precedent for a future attack on our liberty.

Obama probably offered the statement as a hypothetical solution to solve the problem of money in politics, and did not mean it as a proposal.

Whether or not he meant it seriously, he certainly must realize it is very unlikely to be implemented during his term. However, the simple fact remains there are a great number of people (mostly liberal “academics”) who would like to see such a

If the government can require us to vote, a seemingly well-intentioned idea, it also has the authority to require us to exercise regularly, or obtain a master’s degree or run for elected office.

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hen it comes to planning for the future, many students don’t consider nonprofit work to be an essential part of the process. However, volunteer work has proven to be beneficial in both personal and professional matters.

Volunteering has always been something I have wanted to try, but it wasn’t until recently I got the opportunity to do so. During my time volunteering, I realized how easy it was to do and how helpful it can be to both the volunteer and those the volunteer work is meant to help.

Many advocates and active participants in nonprofit work boast about the positive effects it has had on the volunteer’s mental and physical state. Similarly, there are studies to support these observations.

According to the Corporation for National and Community Service website, volunteers typically have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability and lower rates of depression later in life than those who do not volunteer. In addition, volunteering is thought to reduce stress levels and improve a person’s mood.

Another good thing about volunteering is it allows the volunteer to build a better relationship with people in his or her community. After all, many people know the best dining spots in their hometown but

proposal enacted.

It is our duty as citizens and protectors of the Constitution to ensure that such a requirement is never passed into law.

Now, to Obama’s original point — there are a variety of other, more “organic” ways to dilute the effect of money in politics. If a third party candidate becomes successful through a cheaper, grassroots approach, more third party candidates will emerge in the next election cycle and eventually money behind “party-line” candidates will start to lose its effect. Additionally, if citizens become more informed about the candidates, they will be able to decide for themselves who to vote for and the effectiveness of expensive advertising will drop.

In short, Obama is correct in his assessment that a major problem in American politics today is money plays too large a role in choosing a winner.

However, abridging our fundamental liberties by requiring voter participation is not the way to solve this problem.

Citizens must take it upon themselves to not be influenced by advertising, and other political parties must emerge and be successful without the backing of major donors. This will be the task of the leaders of our generation.

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Tech hurdler Caldwell making leaps in Big 12

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of the top hurdlers in the nation with a first place finish in the Big 12 with a 7.76 time and a second place finish in the NCAA indoor championships with a 7.69 time.

To climb among the nation’s best for the 2015 indoor season in the 60m hurdles, Caldwell said he had to go through some changes to compete with the Red Raiders.

Although a noticeable increase in competition exists between NJCAA and NCAA, Caldwell said, he thinks he has adjusted well to the hike in competition.

In the hurdles, Caldwell said he has worked constantly throughout the season to improve as a sprinter to shorten his hurdle time.

“At my other college I didn’t do too much sprinting, I did strictly hurdles,” Caldwell said. “Now that I’m becoming a better sprinter, it’s making my hurdle times a lot faster and I can see the difference between this year and last year.”

Although Caldwell has grabbed a spot as one of the nation’s top competitors for the 2015 season, he said he doesn’t think much about his success at nationals or in the Big 12 Conference,

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Any serious athlete works hard to achieve success, but associate track coach Dion Miller said he would compare junior Texas Tech sprinter Chris Caldwell to a shark smelling blood in the water.

“I knew he was going to come in being one of the nation’s best as far as what he’s already ran for us time wise,” Miller said. “He’s done what we’ve asked him to do.”

Ever since joining the Tech track and field team, Caldwell has focused solely on getting the job done for the Red Raiders.

Caldwell came to Tech after two seasons at Iowa Central Community College, where as a sophomore he ran a 7.68 in the 60-meter hurdles, the top time in the NJCAA. Caldwell also placed third in the NJCAA National Championships in the 110m hurdles.

Beginning his debut indoor season as Red Raider this year, Caldwell hunted for a place among the nation’s best in the 60m hurdles.

Caldwell solidified his place as one

he only thinks about how he can contribute to the Red Raider squad.

Caldwell knows how to win, Miller said, but he also sets the example for other members of Tech’s track and field squad to follow.

“He just goes out there and gets that blue ribbon,” Miller said. “He’s kind of leading by example, coming in really showing his group, and really setting the tone. He came to Texas Tech for business.”

For Caldwell, the work never finishes to improve as a hurdler for Tech and Miller said he believes he has just started the beginning stages of his career.

When Caldwell decided to attend Tech, he said, the coaching staff showed him it could help him break through as an athlete.

As the season goes on and competitions come and go, Caldwell said, he remains motivated to compete because of his desire to become a professional athlete like his mentor Omo Osaghae, a former hurdler for Tech and 2014 indoor world champion in the 60m hurdles.

“Training with Omo is definitely what I need, he gives me that push every day,” Caldwell said. “I want to

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But it’s unclear when fans should expect to see him suit up in his new No. 13 jersey.

“We’ve had conversations all year about many different (target) dates, and it all comes down to he’s not going to play before he’s ready and Larry (Bird) will make the final call on that,” coach Frank Vogel said, referring to the Pacers president of basketball operations. “But the medical team is advising it, the coaching staff is watching how he’s playing and we’ll make a group decision.”

George was one of the league’s brightest young stars before running into a basketball stanchion during a U.S. national team scrimmage Aug. 1 in Las Vegas. He had surgery to repair the leg within hours of the injury and most expected the 24-year-old to miss the entire season.

Team doctors told the Pacers the bone should be fully healed by March 1.

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“You know if it gets to a point where I’m feeling great consistently, then yeah, I do feel comfortable and confident in my abilities now and more important playing, hopefully during the season,” George said.

That has not tamped down speculation about his return.

On Friday night, a report suggested George could have played as early as Saturday against Brooklyn and that the Pacers hoped to have him back sometime this week. George did not play against the Nets, and the Pacers have already ruled him out of Monday night’s game against Houston.

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Yes, George is eager to help give his teammates another scoring option.

“I’m competitive, I obviously want to be out there and I feel like I can help those guys now,” he said.

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With the indoor season coming to a close, Caldwell must once again adjust to the competition in the Big 12 throughout the outdoor season.

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With the outdoor season starting, Caldwell has set goals for himself he knows he can’t achieve without giving his maximum effort.

Although he competes individually, he said he knows the team counts on his performances.

In his junior year, Caldwell said he has found his place on the Red Raider squad and looks forward to what awaits Tech in the outdoor season.

“Contributing to this team is what I came here to do,” Caldwell said. “I’m honored to be a part of this team because it’s like a big family and I didn’t have that at Iowa.”

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Alex Buzelan is a freshman from Constanta, Romania, who is on the Texas Tech men’s tennis team, but has yet to crack the No. 24 Red Raiders lineup so far in his career.

H o w e v e r, w h e n B u z e l a n stepped onto the court in the United Center, where the Chicago Bulls play their home games, he made a shot from half court even Tech basketball coach

Tubby Smith would be proud of.

“Oh man, I went crazy and the crowd went crazy and the Bulls mascot, he tackled me down,” Buzelan said. “It was really exciting.”

Buzelan, along with the rest of the Red Raider tennis team, went to the Bulls game against the Indiana Pacers while on their way back from a road trip where they took on Indiana and Notre Dame.

Tech defeated the Hoosiers 4-3 and topped the Irish 4-1 and coach Tim Siegel said the half-court shot made the trip

even better.

“What a perfect ending to a very successful trip for men’s tennis,” Siegel said on Twitter. “(We) took the team to a Bulls-Pacers game and Alex Buzelan made a half-court shot.”

The game the team attended happened to be College Night in the United Center and Buzelan said he just signed up for the halfcourt shot competition.

There were several other college students in attendance, Buzelan said, so he never expected

to be chosen.

“I signed up for that because I knew it was just students who were chosen,” he said. “I was very surprised because I knew there was a very small chance.”

Buzelan said although he has always focused on tennis, he played some pickup basketball while growing up and in high school and had taken some halfcourt shots for fun before.

The hardest part of the halfcourt competition, he said, was that there were no practice shots

or warm up time.

“I knew that I could do it,” Buzelan said. “The only issue was that I had to do it on the first try.

We didn’t warm up before and it was just the one shot.”

The other problem, he said, was that the recruiter who took him down would not allow Buzelan to take his phone on the court to record the moment.

Even then, Buzelan was confident about his chances, and told the recruiter he wanted to be able to show people the video if he

made the shot. The recruiter said if he made it, the video would be posted to YouTube.

“After making the shot,” Buzelan said, “I ran by him and said ‘I told you. I told you I could make that shot.’”

Buzelan was given $1,000 for making the shot, with which he said he does not plan to do anything extravagant.

“No big plans,” he said. “I’m just going to put it in the bank and save it.” ➤➤@EvCorder_DT

Darren Sharper pleads no contest Rangers make spring roster moves LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former NFL star Darren Sharper removed all doubt Monday that he drugged and raped women, taking the first of several legal steps to own up to sex assaults in four states that will send him to federal prison for about nine years.

In two separate cases, Sharper pleaded guilty to sexual assault in Arizona and no contest in California to raping two women he knocked out with a potent sedative mixed with booze.

Sharper, 39, wearing a striped, light blue suit, said it was in his best interest to enter the pleas.

The hearings came as Los Angeles prosecutors were prepared to present evidence of Sharper’s fall from grace as a former all-pro safety who won a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints. His clean reputation took a hit when women began telling police in several cities similar stories of blacking out while drinking with him and waking up groggy to find they had been sexually abused.

Defense lawyers had previously said the sexual intercourse was consensual. One lawyer had said Sharper didn’t mix the sleepy shots of booze.

But Sharper wielded no defense in court Monday.

By not contesting the California charges, he admitted he raped two women he drugged after meeting them at a West Hollywood bar, the

first in October 2013 and the second in January 2014. The pleas have the same effect as a conviction.

Both encounters were eerily similar.

In the October instance, Sharper invited a woman and her friend that he met at Bootsy Bellows nightclub to go to a party. On the way, he said he needed to get something at his Century City hotel and invited them upstairs.

He insisted they drink a shot of alcohol and they both blacked out.

One woman awoke the next morning with Sharper on top of her having sex. Her friend woke up in an adjoining room and interrupted the act and both women left.

The women were not in court, but prosecutors said they had agreed to the plea deal.

Under the unusual deal negotiated by Shaper’s lawyers and state and federal prosecutors, Sharper will serve his sentences concurrently in a federal prison, though the full term has not yet been announced.

He was immediately sentenced to nine years in the Arizona case and will face a 20 years in the California case when sentenced July 15. However, because the crimes he committed in California require that he only serve half the prison term — and with credit for the 13 months he’s spent in jail — he’ll spend about nine more years behind bars, lawyers said.

He had faced up to 33 years in

prison if convicted of all counts against him in California, though he would probably have served half of that time.

Jeffery Rubenstein, a former Los Angeles prosecutor, said the sentence is no slap on the wrist for Sharper, but does spare him much longer, harder time, particularly if served in state prisons that are notoriously rougher than federal penitentiaries.

“This could have gotten really ugly and very likely this guy would have never seen the light of day,” Rubenstein said.

From the prosecution standpoint, they were able to spare the victims of reliving the event through testimony and having their credibility questioned by a seasoned team of defense lawyers, Rubenstein said.

Hearings will follow in Las Vegas on Tuesday and in New Orleans in the next month. In each state, he’s accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women when they were unconscious or otherwise unable to resist or consent.

Sharper’s arrest came a few years after his 14-year NFL career ended in 2011, but reverberated as the league was dealing with its offfield problems with players accused of crimes ranging from beating a spouse to murder. He was working as an analyst for the NFL network at the time.

SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — The Texas Rangers have released reliever Joe Beimel after the left-hander struggled this spring.

Also Monday, Texas optioned three players to minor league squads, and assigned four others to its minor league camp.

Beimel, who allowed 11 earned runs

in three innings over four spring appearances, gets $147,541 in termination pay.

His $600,000 non-guaranteed salary would have increased to $1.5 million if he had been on the active major league roster for only one day.

Right-hander Spencer Patton and catcher Tomas Telis were optioned to Triple-A Round Rock.

Catcher Jorge Alfaro was optioned to Double-A Frisco.

First baseman Kyle Blanks, third baseman Joey Gallo, outfielder Jared Hoying and right-hander David Martinez were assigned to minor league camp.

Texas has 34 players on its 40-man roster and 13 non-roster invitees still in camp.

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MARCO MORENO, A sophomore petroleum engineering major from Farmersville returns a volley Monday outside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

Texas begins spring drills with duel at QB AU S T I N ( A P ) — A f t e r a rough first season with the Texas Longhorns, coach Charlie Strong is still in search of a quarterback.

He hopes to find one for 2015 starting this week when spring practice begins Wednesday.

Last year’s starter, junior Tyrone Swoopes, and redshirt

freshman Jerrod Heard will be given “equal reps” in their duel for the starting job, Strong said Monday. But he also left the door open to playing both next season if they earn it.

The Longhorns open the 2015 season Sept. 5 at Notre Dame.

Strong also sent a message to Heard and anyone else try-

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ing to unseat a starter from last season: if you want a position, take it.

“Don’t ever think because a guy started last year means he can’t be unseated. If you work hard enough, you will beat him out. I don’t play favorites,” Strong said.

Swoopes started 12 games in 2014 after David Ash went down with a head injury suffered in the season opener.

But he was erratic the entire season and bore much of the criticism from fans for an offense that struggled badly all season. Swoopes finished with 2,409 yards passing with 13 touchdowns and 11 interceptions with a completion rate under 60 percent.

The worst came at the end when Swoopes had five turnovers in a crushing home loss to TCU. Then the Longhorns managed just 59 total yards in a blowout loss to Arkansas in the Texas Bowl in Houston. Strong chose not to play Heard rather than burn his redshirt season.

The two-game skid sent Texas to a 6-7 finish in Strong’s first season, the program’s second losing season in five years.

Strong met with his team Sunday night as they returned from spring break.

“When you signed on here, you signed on to win championships. That hasn’t happened,” Strong told them.

Texas hasn’t won a Big 12 title since 2009.

“We’re no longer the big dog. When will this dog rise back up?” Strong said.

While he’s trying to rebuild his players’ confidence, Strong said he’s not afraid to remind them of how bad things finished last year.

“I know (they) get tired of questions because I get tired of them. What’s wrong with the program?” Strong said. “I love to burn them with it .... We got embarrassed. That’s what burns me more than anything.”

Texas will finish spring drills with its annual intrasquad scrimmage on April 18.