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Spring time change for Texas Tech leisure pool The Texas Tech leisure pool is set to open Friday and will be operating under new hours.

The pool will now be open 6–8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday and 12–6 p.m. Sunday, according to the Tech Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center website.

The hours have changed, according to the website, to better accommodate students and allow them increased access to the pool.

The leisure pool is the largest collegiate pool of its kind and is included in all students’ Rec Center fees.

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Iconic comedian to come to Texas Tech banquet Mentor Tech will feature comic icon Bill Cosby at its annual banquet at 7 p.m. April 22 in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Banquet Hall, according to a Texas Tech release.

Mentor Tech is an organization whose mission is to provide an enhanced educational experience to Tech students who come from an underrepresented population.

Tech faculty and staff members work to help students adjust to the social, academic and cultural changes a student will experience at Tech, according to the release.

Tickets for the banquet are priced at $125 each, according to the release. VIP tickets for the banquet will cost $140.

Individuals who purchase VIP tickets will be provided with premium seating at the banquet and admittance to a VIP reception in which VIP ticket holders will have the opportunity to have a picture taken with Cosby, according to the release.

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KARMA D’ANGELO, A sophomore business major at South Plains College from Rolla, Kan., gets his makeup done by Taylor Reynolds, a junior dance major from Plainview, before the Drag Show hosted by Residence Hall Association on Wednesday in the Frazier Alumni Pavilion.

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The music was loud and heels high as the drag show took place Wednesday at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion.

Men and women dressed as the opposite gender strutted down the runway, dancing and lip synching for the audience of gay and straight members of the Lubbock community.

“It’s a really goo d time,” said Katie Miller, the president of the Texas Tech Gay Straight Alliance.

“It helps raise awareness for the gay community.”

The show consisted of amateur performers who were Tech and South Plains College students, and also featured professional drag queens and kings from Lubbock.

The GSA joined with the Lubbock chapter of Parents, Families

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ANITA TEQUILA, A senior mechanical engineering major from Galveston, dances during the Drag Show on Wednesday in the Frazier Alumni Pavilion. The event was hosted by the Residence Hall Association and raised money for the Lubbock chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

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and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and also the Residence Hall Association to put on the show for the fifth year in a row, said Miller, a sophomore nutrition major from Dallas.

“It’s good for the gay and straight communities to intermingle,” she said, “to show that we’re not selective. It’s OK to be gay in West Texas.”

The president of PFLAG, Tony Thornton, used to be a professional drag performer.

The occupation was fun, Thornton said, and was a way to express himself in what, he thought, he wanted to do.

“The majority of people in their normal lives do not see a drag show,” he said. “This gives straight people, as well as bisexuals or whoever, an opportunity to see a drag show in a safe place.”

Texas Tech will be hosting the International Arts and Culture Symposium Thursday for the second consecutive year.

Sowoon Arts and Heritage and the Museum of Texas Tech will sponsor the event at 6 p.m. in the Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium and Sculpture Court of the Museum.

Kyungah Nam, president of Sowoon Arts and Heritage, played a role in organizing the event.

“We will have two performers from South Korea,” Nam said. “One is a musician, and one is a dancer.”

Jaehwa Lee, the musician and a professor at the University of South Korea, is the holder of Important Intangible Cul-

tural Property Number 16 of South Korea.

“The dancer, Dr. Sung Ok Yang, is the bearer of Important Intangible Cultural Property Number 92 of South Korea,” Nam said. “He will be performing Taepyeongmu, which is a Korean dance with the function of wishing great peace for the country.”

Heather Norville, a director and board member of Sowoon Arts and Heritage, also played an important role in organizing the event.

“Dr. Christopher Smith is lecturing about Irish music and dance and will be bringing in a dancer to do a demonstration,” Norville said. “Also, Dr. Jaehwa Lee will be playing the geomungo, a Korean string instrument.”

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Heads Up Display, a student-run publication, has found a creative way to raise funds for a charitable cause.

Members of the Heads Up Display team will live stream a 24-hour gaming marathon to raise funds for the Child’s Play charity.

Eric Van Allen, a senior electronic media and communication major from Cedar Park and the organizer of the marathon, said the Heads Up Display team decided on hosting a 24-hour live-streaming gaming marathon because of its previous experience hosting a similar event for the Child’s Play charity.

“We wanted to have another live streaming because we had so much fun

raising money and playing games last year,” he said. “We really like the Child’s Play charity and we wanted to raise awareness for our upcoming tournament that we are doing that is also for Child’s Play.”

The Child’s Play organization is a national organization that provides children in hospitals video games and video game consoles, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Van Allen said the marathon will be streamed from his living room, webcams will be set up and multiple consoles and televisions will be set up.

“It’s going to be a bunch of us crammed into a room, playing games and trying to stay up for 24 hours,” he said. “People will come and go. I’ll be on there for sure for all 24 hours.”

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Texas Tech professor weighs in on Houston oil spill

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The Houston Ship Channel fully reopened Wednesday for the first time since Saturday’s oil spill when a barge collided with a ship.

A possible 170,000 gallons of crude oil may have spilled into the channel, according to an Associated Press article.

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210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

However, Allison Pease, a Texas Tech assistant professor in the Natural Resources Management Department, said this type of ecosystem is sensitive.

“I’m concerned with what’s going on,” Pease said. “As a fish biologist, anytime we see problems like this in estuaries, where freshwater and marine systems meet up, there’s cause for concern.”

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the gulf, according to the U.S. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. When a bird becomes coated in oil, it can result in death by hypothermia or drowning.

An oil spill continues to affect wildlife for months after a spill, according to the center.

“For fish, these are not organisms you can pick up out of the water and clean,” Pease said. “The birds are certainly damaged by the oil, but some of that can be corrected by cleaning them. However, it’s still difficult to fix.”

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from the media, she said sensitive plants, shrimp and other organisms also call the gulf coast home.

Contamination in the gulf may mean a problem down the line for humans, she said.

“Estuaries are important for a lot of services we depend on,” Pease said. “Water processing and the seafood industry both depend on these waters. An oil spill could damage human operations if we’re not careful with our conservation of the estuary ecosystem.”

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Study shows majority of young Republicans support gay marriage

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TREES BLOOM ON Texas Tech’s campus in front of the east tower of the Administration building on Wednesday.

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Duty and some indie games,” Allen said.

“We will probably pop in some Nintendo 64 too at some point.”

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The video game marathon will begin Carmen Askerneese II, a senior elec- at 6 p.m. Friday and will end at 6 p.m. tronic media and communications major Saturday. from Dallas and creator of Heads Up The marathon will be streamed at Display, said the Heads Up Display team twith.tv/headsupdisplayshow, and a link enjoys collaborating with the Child’s Play will be provided to donate through the charity because of the freedom the team Child’s Play charity Paypal account. has in organizing events.

“Tune in, even if you don’t want “A lot of organizations have kind of to donate,” Allen said. “We get viewer specific programs and events they want numbers back, and it shows to Child’s to be hosted for their charity, which Play we are dedicated and it shows to is understandable,” he said. “I like the the Lubbock community that there are freedom that they give us and we can do people that want to support this kind a variety of events.” of giving.”

Heads Up Display members will be The Heads Up Display team will playing a variety of games throughout the continue their efforts to raise money for the Child’s Play charity through the video gaming marathon.

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POLICE BLOTTER Tuesday 11:36 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Clement Residence Hall. A shower stall wall was damaged.

2:01 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a medical emergency in the Education building. A staff member fell and Emergency Medical Services transported them to University Medical Center Emergency Room.

4:35 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated an accident in the C11 park-

Young people from both sides of the political spectrum may be shifting towards a more socially liberal stance on same-sex marriage.

Approximately 61 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning individuals who are under 30 years old approve of gay marriage, according to a new Pew Research Center study.

Tech College Republicans president Abigayle Spencer, a junior political science major from Broomfield, Colorado, said she has noticed a rise in young adults who support gay marriage, but she thinks it shows the progression of the party.

Spencer said she considers same-sex marriage as a generational issue.

“The times and issues and changing as well as the information that is being presented,” she said. “These numbers are changing because the issues are developing and so is the youth within the Republican Party. It’s our party and as Republicans and conservatives, we stick with our ideologies, but we are transforming our party as well.”

Tech Student Democrats president Lauren Roblez, a senior political science

News poll believe the U.S. Constitution grants gays and lesbians the right to marry, regardless of their preference on the issue.

Brenda Cruz, a senior political science major from Laredo, said the media and the controversial nature of television have partially caused transition towards accepting same-sex marriage.

“As time has evolved, the media, magazines, TV shows and music changed,” Cruz said. “Things aren’t as conservative as they used to be, which I think opened the way for people in society to just be more open with who they were. You grew up with thinking being gay is not something to be afraid of or outraged by.”

As social issues become more prevalent, Cruz said the divisive lines between parties on gay marriage have blurred.

For the younger generation, she said she does not think a party’s stance on gay marriage affects one’s decision when choosing a political party.

“I think it’s a human thing, a societal thing,” Cruz said. “I don’t necessarily think it’s a party issue anymore, at least for the younger generation. If you go back to older elected representatives or older party members, they

major from Midland, said she believes the GOP would vote against legalizing gay marriage because its stance has not changed much through the years.

However, social justice issues are prevalent, regardless of political party affiliation, she said.

“It comes with evolving as a society and thinking more progressively,” Roblez said. “We’re college students. We tend to be more liberal in the ways we think.”

Spencer said she does not think students are becoming less conservative but more informed.

Students encounter more social issues than any other political topic, Spencer said. Young people are rarely questioned about foreign relations or fiscal issues, so she said there is not an accurate depiction of students’ political alignments.

“I wouldn’t say that students are becoming liberal,” she said. “I have noticed a rise in students becoming more politically aware of social issues. However, a lot of the political issues students are faced with are geared towards social issues.”

The transition towards acceptance of gay marriage was inevitable and bound to happen, Roblez said.

Approximately 50 percent of participants in a recent Washington Post-ABC

might see it differently.”

For young Democrats and Democrat leaning independents, 77 percent support gay marriage, just 16 percentage points higher than conservatives under age 30.

However, only 27 percent of Republicans over age 50 approve of gay unions versus 65 percent of Democrats in the same demographic, according to the Pew Research Center study.

Jesus Ramirez, a junior history and theatre dual major from El Paso, said in 2014, the world has become even more of a melting pot, and the acceptance of same sex marriage is due to increased interactions with a variety of people.

“I think as you get to know and associate with more gay people,” he said, “you get to know where they’re coming from. You understand they’re human rather than something else. As a gay person myself, I am able to tell people there’s nothing wrong with me.”

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Lawsuit seeks to ID source of Texas execution drug HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for two Texas inmates facing execution next month with a new batch of pentobarbital obtained by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice filed a lawsuit Wednesday demanding the prison agency disclose the identity of the new supplier.

The petition filed in state court in Austin also sought an emergency order requiring state authorities to identify when the drug was obtained

and any results of tests on its potency and purity.

The attorneys represent convicted killers Tommy Lynn Sells, set to die April 3, and Ramiro HernandezLlanas, scheduled for April 9.

The current supply of pentobarbital used for lethal injections in Texas expires April 1. Prison officials said last week they have a new supply but cited security reasons for declining to name the provider.

The state attorney general’s office previously has said the information should be public and is waiting for arguments from the agency on why the policy should be changed.

“We are not disclosing the identity of the pharmacy because of previous, specific threats of serious physical harm made against businesses and their employees that have provided drugs used in the lethal injection process,” Texas De-

partment of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said last week.

Told of the lawsuit Wednesday, Clark said the agency “doesn’t comment on pending litigation.”

Lauren Bean, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Greg Abbott, said his office would represent the prison agency at a hearing on the suit set for Thursday before State District Judge Tim Sulak. She had no other comment on the filing.

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“The Korean performers don’t speak much English, but we have a translator that can translate anything you might want to ask,” Norville said.

The symposium is free of charge and will be open to the public.

“Dr. Lee and Dr. Yang are some of the most renowned performers so it is very

hard to have them together,” Nam said.

“It is also a rare opportunity to have them in Lubbock. That is why we are encouraging students to attend our symposium.”

According to a Sowoon Arts and Heritage news release, the Symposium’s lecture and performing arts series brings scholars from Korea and Texas Tech to

deepen the understanding of the cultural heritage of both Korea and the U.S. “These are world class people and they have performed around the world,” Norville said. “Dr. Lee says this is her last time coming here, and Lubbock is truly lucky to have them.”

curred almost to the anniversary of the Alaskan Exxon Valdez oil spill, which happened March 24, 1989, according to the NOAA website. In that incident, an oil tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil across 1,300 miles.

“Companies should just be more careful,” Andrea Cazares,

a junior petroleum engineering major from Seagraves, said.

“They should inspect equipment more properly and double check for errors to prevent spills from happening to begin with.”

Containment of the leak happens first after a spill is reported, according to the Environmental

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ing lot where an unattended vehicle was hit.

5:03 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in Horn Residence Hall.

A white iPhone 4S was taken.

5:43 p.m. — A Tech Officer documented a medical emergency at Holden Hall. A student drank an unknown substance that caused him to feel ill.

The student refused treatment from Emergency Medical Services.

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After the performance, there will be a reception open to the public. At this time, the audience may ask questions to the performers.

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“To prevent this from happening in the future,” Pease said, “I think it’s just going to require increasing safety regulations while moving hazardous materials through these ecosystems. They’re economically important, but we have to be more careful.”

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Professor studies how sitcoms affect gender roles

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

In the ‘60s sitcom “I Dream of Genie,” Jeannie could nod her head and anything she needed would be granted to her.

However, she never used her powers to carry out housework for her master, a fact Kristi Humphreys, assistant professor of critical studies and artistic practice, has based her research around.

Humphreys is currently writing a book explaining her research surrounding the “feminine mystique” or the idea that over the course of 60 years, women’s role in society has increased, but housework has remained an activity almost exclusively carried out by women.

“Over a year ago I was asked to write a chapter about ‘60s television: looking at how these magical sitcoms like “Bewitched,” “I Dream of Jeannie” and “The Addams Family” reflected the sexual energy of women in the decade,” she said. “I wrote that chapter and have now started to develop my book that takes that issue and looks at it over the course of 60 years.”

Humphreys said she has been working on this research for a year now and will be done with the book by November.

There has been a shift in men’s roles within family life, she said, but domestic chores still continue to be portrayed as primarily feminine tasks.

“We presently see dads being depicted in visual culture as more helpful and involved in general,” she said. “They aren’t portrayed as doofus dads any longer and actually have emotional connections with their children in both commercials and sitcoms. Women and men are pretty much splitting parenting and working down the middle but still aren’t splitting the housework. That’s what got me interested in this.”

Beth Olson and William Douglas, professors at the University of Houston, carried these findings out a different way and analyzed the positive and negative portrayals of women’s feelings about their duties by testing consumers, according to their study, titled “The Family on Television: Evaluation of Gender Roles in Situation Comedy.”

Olson and Douglas found that watchers are less likely to imitate family situations that cause negative relationships between members, according to the study, but many households where women are the primary ones doing housework are portrayed happily and more functional

than those that do not.

“Programs that attack traditional values and conservative views are often considered unacceptable and few people watch them,” Douglas said. “This impacts the continuation of gender roles in society as portrayed in situation comedies that people in society watch.”

Humphreys said she hopes her research and book will draw attention to the lack of equality in terms of domestic chores and cause a shift in society that shows men do just as many chores as women do.

However, there is a negative connotation associated with feminism and feminist research, she said, and hopes that both men and women alike can remain open to her research.

“If we can actually say ‘hey, men aren’t doing a lot of housework,’ then maybe,” she said, “in a couple of decades, we’ll see more men doing housework in their actual domestic spheres.”

While Humphreys said she does experience the controversy often associated with feminism, there are also rewards to her research and findings as well.

While her husband does a lot of work around the house, she said, she still finds it rewarding to see other men follow suit

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Red to Black event teaches students to manage money Worker describes escape from burning building

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Being in a foreign country can be exciting and expensive, and the Texas Tech Department of International Affairs in conjunction with the Red to Black organization is hosting Red to Black to help students think about problems before they arise, Kenny Shatley, an adviser with the office of international affairs, said.

Red to Black is an event that details both the process to apply for study abroad scholarships, as well as tips to save money abroad, according to TechAnnounce.

“We finally had a chance to talk to Angela Mazzolini, the program director for Red to Black, about a problem students have after coming back from spending a semester abroad,” he said. “Between all the costs, it’s easy to get lost in the moment. It’s one of the most memorable experiences of your life, but if

you’re not careful, you can make it one of the most expensive.”

Shatley said that oftentimes when students travel abroad they meet new friends and get caught up in the activities they can participate in and don’t think a lot about the money they’re spending.

The organizers of the event, he said, want to help students to take control of their spending to better manage their money.

“We want students to realize the long-term effects of small consistent payments,” Shatley said. “That $2 espresso twice a day can end up eating $500 in a semester. We want to see students make decisions now about spending habits.”

He said the organizers also want students to be able to use what they learn abroad instead of only concentrating on their bank account or how much debt they have to pay back.

These issues arise while in the U.S. too, Shatley said, but it’s harder

while abroad to ask your parents for money or get a job to make more.

“The skills to spending well and budgeting well are aligned,” he said, “but there are things that a study abroad student needs to think about as opposed to a student in a regular semester on campus. That’s why the event is important.”

The event will be hosted in the Lubbock room of the Student Union Building from 2:30–3:30 p.m., according to TechAnnounce.

The program is also sponsored by the Red to Black department, which assists students who may be going through financial problems while attending Tech, according to the Red to Black website.

“Red to Black utilizes a peerto-peer model,” Mazzolini, unit assistant director and program director for Red to Black, said. “Our financial coaches are personal financial planning majors and like to help students with their financial situations.”

HOUSTON (AP) — Trapped on a balcony by smoke and flames, construction supervisor Curtis Reissig knew he had to take action to stay ahead of the blaze that was quickly consuming the Houston apartment complex he had helped build.

“The flames were getting closer and hotter. I knew I had to do something. So I swung down to the lower floor,” he said.

Reissig’s daring leap bought him enough time to let a fire truck ladder get close enough for him to then jump onto it. Fire Capt. Brad Hawthorne, who was perched near the end of the ladder, helped bring Reissig to safety. The dramatic escape was all captured on video.

Reissig, 56, suffered minor burns to his face and hand in Tuesday’s fire, which destroyed the planned $50 million luxury apartment complex. There were

no other reported injuries.

The cause of the fire was still unknown Wednesday, but witnesses said it might have been caused by workers who were welding on the roof.

Reissig, who works for JLB Partners, had been eating lunch at a trailer on the construction site around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when someone reported a fire. He grabbed an extinguisher and went up to the roof, where he put out some of the flames. But strong winds quickly spread the fire across the roof, so Reissig made his way to the fifth floor.

“At that point I saw a lot of smoke. ... It started burning my eyes, my throat. I couldn’t breathe,” he said.

Reissig found a window but couldn’t open it. He said he thought he was going to die. But then he saw a door to one of the building’s units

and went onto its balcony.

“I thought, ‘Ah, fresh air.’ And then I look up and I see to my right all the flames on the building were that close. It was just amazing it had gone up that fast,” he said.

Meanwhile, Karen Jones, who works in a nearby building, had come back to her fourth-floor office after picking up lunch when she found co-workers gathered at a window, watching the blaze. Jones, who captured Reissig’s dramatic rescue on cellphone video (http://bit. ly/1izztmd), said when she and her co-workers saw Reissig come onto the balcony, they started to worry.

“We were terrified for him,” Jones said.

On the video, someone can be heard exclaiming, “Oh my God,” when Reissig appeared on the balcony and the flames from the roof started to get closer to him.

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currently facing in the U.S. Part of his argument is that some salaried employees are being paid less than minimum wage in correlation to the amount of weekly hours they’re putting in.

Perhaps it is his lack of business experience, but the president doesn’t seem to fully grasp what duties many salaried employees perform, nor is he aware of the benefits salaried managers have over those employees who earn their wage hourly.

Some of the benefits these salaried employees have include possibility for promotion to executive positions as well as the possibility of receiving large bonuses the other “crew-level” employees aren’t eligible for.

Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, which is the parent company of Carl’s Jr. and other chains, wrote about the issue in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. He said his management-level salary starts

at around $36,000 and can be as high as $65,000.

His managers also receive other benefits, such as 401k and stock options, and they are capable of being rewarded up to 28 percent of their salary in bonuses based on their performance.

Unfortunately, this increase of the minimum salary threshold to $50,000 to be exempt from receiving overtime pay will most likely result in Puzder restructuring the company so his store managers lose the above listed benefits and earn their wages hourly.

P u z d e r wrote, “Overtime pay has to come from somewhere, most likely from reduced hours, reduced salaries or reduced bonuses. It’s easy to attack businesses when they employ these cost-cutting measures. But, unlike government, businesses must generate profits to grow.”

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What the Obama administration seems to be missing is that those in charge of running large businesses are going to do whatever they can to not only survive, but to flourish. That is, after all, the American way; we’re not satisfied with settling for mediocrity and instead should pursue greatness.

Paul Christiansen of the Fox Small Business Center explains how the minimum wage and salary requirement increases are bad for companies who want to grow. He said, “In many cases, it has become too onerous, dangerous and expensive for businesses to hire people they need to get the job done.”

Put simply, these new costs on hiring more employees that the Obama administration is introducing are forcing companies to downsize instead.

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arlier this month, President Barack Obama signed an order prompting the Labor Department to expand the classification of employees entitled to overtime pay.

The president wants to increase the number of Americans who work more than 40 hours per week and are eligible for overtime pay by millions. If the order stands, it will not bode well for those currently in supervising or managerial positions.

As the law stands right now, if a salaried employee makes more than $24,000 per year, he or she is exempt from receiving overtime pay. The president wants to raise this salary threshold to perhaps as high as $50,000.

This wouldn’t achieve anything other than forcing employers to reward time spent rather than time well spent.

While this increase in pay certainly sounds good to salaried managers who think they’re about to receive a huge government-mandated increase in pay, the employers themselves have other prospects in mind.

Obama wants to pass this new law, along with others such as a huge increase in minimum wage, in order to help close the income-inequality gap we’re

Speaker of the House John Boehner doesn’t much like the president’s new overreaching policies either. “The president’s policies are making it difficult for employers to expand employment,” he said, “and until the president’s policies get out of the way, employers are going to continue to sit on their hands.”

These changes have an even more profound impact on small or medium-sized businesses.

Successful small-business owners don’t sit in a fancy office all day smoking cigars and drinking expensive cognac, but are actually working on the same level as their managers and employees.

They have an immediate interest to continually increase their business’ profitability and growth, so most are willing to “fight in the trenches” with their entry-level employees. It is these blooming start-ups that will be forced to decrease employment and incentives to their managers in order to absorb the new labor costs proposed by the Obama administration.

Do salaried managers want to keep their current salaries and incentive compensation or, in exchange for this overtime “opportunity,” go back to receiving hourly wages without bonus

potential or equity incentives? I believe anyone with a desire to further his or her career would choose the former.

I know personally a small business owner who has about 75 employees and eight general managers, and this person just recently put all of the business’ managers on salary pay. However, none of these managers make above that new possible threshold of $50,000 annually.

Therefore, instead of increasing these managers’ pay to meet the government’s new requirements, they will simply be reverted back to receiving their wages hourly. Unfortunately for these managers, they will essentially be demoted to glorified crewmembers because they will no longer have incentive to get results and will instead only have the incentive to log more hours.

If the president and his administration spent some time consulting with businesses and their employees, they may learn that this change to overtime pay requirements may not be such a good idea for anyone involved.

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

Media perpetuates gender inequality Fats generally helpful in moderation The Daily Cougar (u. housTon)

The media has failed women through a lack of positive representation, in turn perpetuating centuriesold patriarchal standards and forcing women to work twice as hard for less acknowledgment.

Our gender-biased society portrays the ideal woman — who is generally oversexualized — in a non-leadership role to fulfill the requirements of conventional attractiveness. These standards set forth negative self-images and a constant strive for acceptance and equality.

There is a need for more female representation and for media to change the way females are presented.

Gender disparity is most prevalent in the film industry, where, according to the Celluloid Ceiling Report, in 2013 only 16 percent of directors, producers, writers, cinematographers and editors were women — which is a 1 percent decline from 1998.

According to “It’s A Man’s (Celluloid) World,” a mere 13 percent of the top 100 films of 2013 contained an equal or greater number of major female than male characters.

The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film reported that in 2013 only 30 percent of major speaking film characters were women.

When women do receive representation, they tend to be hypersexualized. Stacy L. Smith of USC Annenberg found 56.6 percent of female teenage characters were shown wearing revealing clothing in 2012.

“The last few years have seen a wealth of great advocacy for more women on screen. Unfortunately, that investment has not yet paid off with an increase in female characters or a decrease in their hypersexualization,” Smith said.

Despite the overall lack of non-

sexualized female characters, the Motion Picture Association of America reported that in 2011, women made up 51 percent of moviegoers. Even so, the industry seems to cater to only the male audience.

The film industry also appears to acknowledge the achievements only of men. Only four women in Academy Award history have been nominated for Best Director, and only one has won.

With the media’s amount of influence, it is imperative that it begin to showcase gender equality.

The media’s coverage of women in the news also fails to acknowledge the accomplishments of successful women.

Women are generally referred to in reference to their male counterpart, such as in the reporting of fashion designer and stylist L’Wren Scott’s death on March 17.

The Associated Press headlined their story “(Mick) Jagger’s Girlfriend Found Dead in NYC.” M a r g a r e t Wa p p l e r, w r i t e r for Dame Magazine, found the media coverage of this tragedy to be shameful.

“Just what every successful woman wants chiseled on her gravestone: ‘Herein lies the girlfriend of a man more famous than she,’” Wappler said.

Media sources missed the opportunity to celebrate Scott’s life and personal achievements by instead shifting the focus to Jagger. This continues the cultural paradigm that a woman is nothing without a man, which is a negative message to send to the population, especially students.

This unfortunate gender bias has been common for centuries.

Women are still being treated as the lesser gender in almost every respect. Men’s desires tend to be considered more important, while women are still viewed as simple

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objects of the male gaze.

This especially extends to the music industry, which has consistently objectified women, a prime example being Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” Despite the blatantly sexist lyrics and music video, the song grew in popularity.

The controversy over the content and questions about the song’s sexist nature further boosted its attention in the media, creating a vicious cycle. Regardless of the feminist opposition to the song, the maledominated industry nominated it for two Grammy Awards.

A lack of positive representation of women in the media and gender imbalance only leads to the normalization of sexual harassment.

Laura Bates, creator of the Everyday Sexism Project, has found that women in male-dominated industries compete with an objectifying media that focuses more on their clothing rather than issues at hand.

“The treatment of women in one sphere has a clear knock-on effect on behavior towards them in other area,” Bates said.

She argues that sexism and sexual violence comprise a human rights issue that all people should take notice of, and describing it simply as a women’s issue “sidelines and reduces them.”

Most instances of sexual harassment have become so commonplace that women do not tend to protest them. Women are harassed on a daily basis, and the only way to combat this issue is to place it at the forefront and create an environment of equality.

The media is the main source of the underrepresentation and therefore normalized oppression in today’s society. It continuously allows misogyny and undermines feminism.

This young generation needs media that showcase equality and discourage the negativity that has been prevalent for so long.

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If you are confused on whether dietary fat is good or bad, the internet makes it more confusing unless you know what to look for. If you open a search browser you will likely find misleading headlines such as “Reducing fat melts away unwanted pounds!” and “Low-fat diet no boon to health” or ones like “Eat all the fried chicken you want!” and “Don’t fear the fat.”

So, where do we stand on fat?

Can we really eat all the fried chicken we want and disregard “healthy” fats like avocados and olive oil? Well, despite the confusing titles, the one discouraging fear of fat may be onto something — if it is understood correctly. People need to put aside the fear that fat is bad for you and realize that ‘fat,’ as a general term, is not the enemy.

Fat is required for important body processes but it depends on the type. The issue that gets us into trouble is that Americans like the wrong kinds of fats. People need to banish the fat phobia and become more educated on the different fats and to understand why some are better than others.

Now, differentiating dietary fats can get confusing. Trans fats and saturated fats get a lot of attention among consumers because of studies and links with cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, and other health complications. These “bad fats” are getting most of the attention but the “good fats” should really get just as much for the benefits they promote.

Fats are first separated into two groups, saturated and unsaturated.

Chemically, saturated fats have no double bonds and all of their carbons are linked with hydrogens.

They are straight molecules that pack easily together, which ex-

plains why they are generally solid at room temperature. Unsaturated fats are named for their chemical structure which has one or more double bonds, which takes away a hydrogen and thus make the structure unsaturated or “not full”.

These molecules generally bend due to their double bond(s) and cannot pack together easily which explains why they are generally liquid at room temperature.

Unsaturated fats are further subdivided to mono and polyunsaturated fats, categorized by whether they have only one double bond (mono) or more than two double bonds (poly). The ever praised omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids fall into the polyunsaturated fat category and are named for which carbon the first double bond is located: three, the third from the end and six, the sixth from the end.

Trans fats are generally man-made by manipulation of the structure, hydrogenation and they have properties of both saturated and unsaturated fats.

There are a couple of dangers we face with misunderstanding the role of fat including missing out on the benefits of good fat, the dietary risks when we avoid fat and developing chronic conditions when we eat too much of the wrong fats. The understanding of fat is a delicate balance between not eating too much of the wrong stuff, getting enough of the “right” stuff and dispelling the long held fear of fat.

Conventional wisdom and common belief says that it is best just to avoid fat all together. This is an uninformed view of how to regulate fat in the diet. Eating fat does not make you fat and is necessary to carry out important body functions. So the first problem with this view is that those who cut out fat are robbing their bodies of an Copyright © 2014 Texas Tech University Student Media/The Daily Toreador. All DT articles, photographs and artwork are the property of The DT and Student Media and may not be reproduced or published without permission.

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important macronutrient.

The next issue with this belief are the dietary choices that come along with it. When you cut out fat, you have to replace it and in America it is usually replaced with refined carbs and sugar. This gives no real health benefit at all. So in attempt to be healthy by cutting out fat, a plan nutritionally backfires when you add excess carbohydrates and sugars to your diet.

A third related issue with fearing fat and trying to cut it out of the diet is the tendency for consumers to eat more when they choose lowfat, no-fat or reduced-fat products.

Numerous studies have shown that when consumers consciously choose these products in effort to reduce fat in the diet, they actually end up eating more because they assume that lower fat means calorie free.

Related to the three previous points, it is worth clarifying that the fats consumed should be from healthy sources, not trans fat and saturated fat foods. There is no need for to be afraid of fat when you are eating monounsaturated fats from nuts, olive oil and avocado or polyunsaturated fats from salmon, walnuts and canola oil. These fats offer the health benefits of cardiovascular disease prevention and of lowering bad cholesterol.

As Americans, it is going to take some time to train our taste buds to enjoy healthy fat foods and limit the bad ones from fried foods, cakes, cookies and other “junk” foods. But I think that we can do it and head toward a more healthy relationship with fat by balancing our dietary choices. It is going to come down to the population’s willingness to accept the critical role of fat and choosing the kinds that are beneficial to health. Don’t cut out fat, just enjoy the good ones.

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Law professor re-elected president of Faculty Athletics Association

By TAYLOR PEACE Staff Writer

Brian Shannon, Thornton Professor of Law at Texas Tech School of Law, has been re-elected as President of the 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives association. The 1A FAR is an organization of faculty representatives of the Football Bowl Subdivision in the NCAA Division 1.

The mission of the 1A FAR is to advocate for effective interaction, academic and fiscal balance between an institution’s academic mission and its intercollegiate program, according to the 1A FAR website.

Shannon said their main goal is to help assure student athletes’ focus isn’t just on the field or the court, but in the classroom as well.

“We are talking about students’ academics too,” he said. “We try to assist and assure they are able to pursue their academic successes along with their athletic abilities.”

Shannon was appointed by one

out of four of the Tech presidents to become the campus representative in the 1A FAR and also holds a national representative position in the Big 12 Conference.

He said he is more than thankful he has been given the chance to be part of the faculty athletics for the last six years and is joyful he has the opportunity to teach and be on these associate teams.

“What I try to focus most on is commitment,” Shannon said. “We want to best position ourselves for our student athletes so they can be successful in both sports and in the classroom.”

Leslie Cranford, senior staff writer of the department of communications and marketing, said in a news release that Shannon has been a popular classroom teacher at Tech and has won many teaching awards, including the 2013 Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teach Award.

He is also an elected member of the American Law Institute and was the

2008-2009 president of the Lubbock Area Bar Association, she said.

Cranford said President M. Duane Nellis, was “proud of Brian, not only for his service to Texas Tech University, but to intercollegiate athletics as a whole.”

Kirby Hocutt, Tech athletic director, said he has worked with Shannon on a daily basis for three years.

He said Shannon is a strong advocate for the academic success of Tech’s student-athletes.

“He is equally passionate that we succeed athletically by following the rules and doing the right thing as well,” Hocutt said.

He said Shannon is a tremendous leader within higher education at Tech.

Shannon is also a very respected leader nationally in Intercollegiate Athletics.

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BRIAN SHANNON, A professor at the Texas Tech School of Law, was re-elected to serve a second term as president of the 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives association.

Drug companies to phase out animal antibiotics Speed up to 94 singled out in actor’s crash WASHINGTON (AP) — Twentyfive pharmaceutical companies are voluntarily phasing out the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals processed for meat, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.

Citing a potential threat to public health, the agency in December asked 26 companies to voluntarily stop labeling drugs important for treating human infection as acceptable for animal growth promotion. The FDA did not name the one company that has not agreed to withdraw or revise its drugs.

The companies will either withdraw the drugs from animal use completely or revise them so they would only be able to be used with a veterinarian’s prescription.

Many cattle, hog and poultry producers give their animals antibiotics regularly to make the animals grow faster and en-

sure that they are healthy.

Withdrawing the animal drugs is designed to limit antibiotic-resistant diseases in humans as that resistance has become a growing public health problem.

Repeated exposure to antibiotics can lead germs to become resistant to the drug so that it is no longer effective in treating a particular illness.

In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released estimates that more than 23,000 people a year are dying from drug-resistant infections.

The biggest risk is from germs spread in hospitals, and it’s not clear how much of the problem is related to the use of drugs in animals that become meat. But the FDA has said this is one step toward addressing the problem.

FDA said it was working with industry

on the issue because it was an easier and faster route than the protracted regulatory process. Two of the leading manufacturers of animal antibiotics, Zoetis and Elanco, said they would comply.

The FDA said the 25 companies represent 99.6 percent of the supply the agency is targeting.

Consumers increasingly have clamored for antibiotic-free meat. McDonald’s, among other companies, has moved to limit the drugs in the animals that supply their meat, pushing many animal producers to go along.

Some advocacy groups said the FDA needs to go even further to curb animal antibiotics, including limiting companies who use them for disease prevention when holding animals in crowded conditions. The current guidelines address antibiotic use for growth promotion.

German collector to return 1st looted artwork BERLIN (AP) — A recluse who hoarded a priceless art collection at his homes in Germany and Austria — including works possibly looted from Jewish owners by the Nazis — has for the first time agreed to hand back a piece of art, his representatives said Wednesday.

The unidentified artwork belonged to a trove of some 1,400

works that German police discovered at Cornelius Gurlitt’s home in the Munich borough of Schwabing two years ago.

The announcement came as further works of art were discovered hidden at a house belonging to Gurlitt in Salzburg — a trove that Austrian television said included a long-lost painting by Claude Monet.

“We are about to return a work from the Schwabing portion of the collection that is justifiably suspected of being looted art,” Christoph Edel, a court-appointed lawyer for the 81-year-old collector, said in a statement. “Discussions with other claimants have been constructive as well, and we expect to be returning additional works in the coming weeks.”

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Straight men are scared of the appearance it gives off when they attend drag events, Thornton said, but the events are fun and free of judgment.

Kat Cade, a junior geography major from Lubbock, is the president of the Lubbock Gay Pride Festival.

This was Cade’s third year attending, she said, and she has enjoyed each year greatly.

“It’s about diversity,” Cade said. “Everybody is welcome.

That’s the great thing about GSA — we welcome and love everybody.”

The room was packed with people using standing room only in the back after all the seats had been filled.

All of the proceeds collected during the event go to PFLAG for their scholarship for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of Tech.

“Whether Lubbock is aware of it or not,” Cade said, “the gay community is a really big community. We need to be recognized.”

The GSA is welcome to all students, she said, and is judgment free.

The hope is that more people will attend GSA meetings after seeing the event, and that the straight population of Lubbock will be more aware.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker and friend Roger Rodas were going up to 94 mph in a 45 mph zone in a Porsche with two 9-year-old tires when they lost control, hit a light pole and died immediately when the car burst into flames, according to a new investigation of the November accident.

Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol concluded that unsafe speed, not mechanical problems, caused the Nov. 30 crash, the sheriff’s department said Tuesday.

Based on post-crash calculations, accident reconstruction specialists with the Highway

Patrol believe Rodas was driving his 2005 Porsche Carrera GT between 81 mph and 94 mph, according to their investigative report. The CHP declined to comment.

The Associated Press reported in December that investigators had found no evidence that the car had mechanical problems and had ruled out debris or other roadway conditions.

Subsequently, Porsche sent engineers to California to review the rare car’s wreckage. Though it was badly mangled and burned, the engineers were able to do a thorough analysis. They found no problems with the car’s electrical systems, brakes, throttle, fuel system, steering, suspension or

other systems.

“The results of the investigation show that, according to all the available evidence, this crash was caused by dangerous driving at speeds much too high for the road in question,” Porsche said in a written statement. “We stand by our Carrera GT and by the investigation.”

The conclusion about the speed was based on a “yaw” mark that one of the car’s tires left on the road in an area of industrial office parks in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Witnesses told a sheriff’s deputy that they thought the car could have been traveling in excess of 100 mph.

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More domestic violence shelters are taking in victims’ family animals help from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and a Purina PetCare Co. donation for the dog run.

Animal welfare and domestic violence groups have found common cause in recent years amid growing interest in connections between animal cruelty and family abuse. Those links have spurred about two dozen states to start letting pets be included in protective orders since 2006; others are considering it, including New Hampshire and Ohio.

Studies have found about 70 percent of domestic violence survivors say their batterers also threatened, injured or killed their pets, and 25 to 50 percent say they delayed fleeing out of fear of what would happen to animals left behind, said psychologist Randall Lockwood, an ASPCA senior vice president.

“The pets that are normally a source of comfort in families can become targeted, particularly if the abuser sees that as a way to get the power or control they’re looking for without inflicting harm directly on the child or spouse,” he said.

Pamela Isaac knows that firsthand.

Her drug-using boyfriend in the late 1990s beat her and used to dangle her cherished cat out the window to scare her into doing whatever he wanted, she said. When she ran to a neighbor’s apartment to escape his choking her, she said, he set her apartment ablaze with the cat inside.

The animal died from its injuries.

She shied from dating until 2012 and found herself with a man whose initial kindness disintegrated into drug-fueled abuse, she said.

She decided to flee last fall with her three cats.

Now she, Lucy, Rikki and Gizmo live in a compact one-bedroom apartment at the Urban Resource Institute shelter; she authorized the use of her name. Taking care of them gives her a sense of purpose in moments of doubt, she said.

“That’s very healing for me,” said Isaac, 58, an art teacher. “We take care of each other.”

Around the country, pet friendly shelters are as varied as the Women’s Center of Mid-Minnesota, which has housed dozens of cats and dogs over decades in a six-bedroom house in Brainerd, and 5-year-old Littlegrass Ranch, which finds short-term safe houses for abused women and their horses in the Texas hill country.

Founder Christie Kitchens says when she was thinking about what she needed to take with her when leaving an abusive relationship long ago, “everything else was optional but the horse.”

Other organizations house pets or arrange foster homes while domestic violence survivors stay elsewhere. In Los Angeles, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ Animal Safety Net program has housed more than 330 such pets since 1998, some from as far as Florida.

Pet friendly shelters have faced questions about whether animals are taking some focus and resources from abused people, though advocates say they’re only responding to the priority some clients place on their pets.

For Peppah’s owner, nothing can top having her three children and the dog together again.

“The kids — when finally we got here, they didn’t even want to go to school that day,” she said. “They just wanted to stay home and be with her.”

Hit-and-run alerts become law in Colorado DENVER (AP) — Colo rado will be the first state to issue statewide roadside and broadcast alerts for hit-and-run crashes under a bill signed into law Tuesday.

The law creates an Amber Alert-style notification system when authorities are looking for vehicles involved in serious hit-and-run crashes. The system includes quickly alerting the media and issuing bulletins on electronic highway signs that describe the fleeing vehicles. It

will be implemented next year.

“It allows us to push back against hit and run,” Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper said.

“And I think people feel that they get away with this, and as we do a better job of apprehending them, that will change.”

The notifications will be called “Medina Alerts,” after 21-year-old valet worker Jose Medina, who was killed by a hit-andrun driver in Denver three years ago. When Medina was struck by a car, a Metro Taxi driver fol-

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NEW YORK (AP) — When her abusive husband left for work last fall, she grabbed her kids, her dog and her bags, only to run up against a heart-wrenching obstacle: None of the city’s more than 50 domestic violence shelters would accept the pet.

“Should I still leave?” the 34-year-old woman asked herself before fleeing and ultimately finding a foster home for her Chihuahua.

Now, after months apart, the family and Peppah the Chihuahua recently moved into the city’s first pet friendly domestic violence shelter, one of a growing number across the country that address a common reason victims are reluctant to leave — they don’t want to leave their pets behind.

Ranging from urban apartments to Western ranches, their numbers have shot up from four in 2008 to at least 73 now, with 15 more planned, according to Allie Phillips, a former Michigan prosecutor who has become a leading advocate for such shelters.

Behind the nondescript walls of a New York City building that quietly harbors about 120 adults and children, “pet-friendly apartment” signs mark units outfitted with such special features, such as a dog run built in a side alley, intended to keep residents from having to walk their pets on local streets, lest their batterers learn where they are.

Because of safety concerns, The Associated Press is withholding residents’ identities, except for information they agreed could be used.

The shelter, run by the Urban Resource Institute, began allowing cats and pocket pets like gerbils and hamsters in June and dogs last month, with veterinary and other

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lowed the vehicle, wrote down its license plate number and helped authorities locate the driver.

M edin a’s moth er, L in da, wiped away tears during Tuesday’s signing ceremony as she stood next to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who put his arm around her to comfort her.

WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — Young adults born in the early 1980s held an average of just over six jobs each from ages 18 through 26, a Labor Department survey showed Wednesday.

Since 1997, the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has been keeping tabs on about 9,000 young men and women born in the early 1980s, surveying their educational and workplace progress. The latest survey is from interviews conducted in 2011-2012.

According to the survey, more than two-thirds of the jobs held by high-school dropouts lasted less than a year.

Women in the study group overall were more educated than the men. Thirty-two percent of the women earned a bachelor’s degree, compared with 24 percent of the male participants. Overall, 70 percent of the women had either some college or received a bachelor’s degree, compared to 61 percent of the men.

In the survey, young adults born from 1980 to 1984 held an average of 6.2 jobs from ages 18 to 27 — 6.0 jobs for men and 6.3 for women.

The number of jobs held varied

by educational levels more for women than for men. For men it ranged from 5.9 jobs for those with less than a high-school diploma to 6.0 jobs for those with a college bachelor’s degree or higher. For women, those with less than a high-school diploma held 4.9 jobs over the period while women with a bachelor’s degree or higher held 6.9 jobs.

Joe Fuller, a Harvard Business School professor and contributing faculty member to the U.S. Competitiveness Project, said the report contained no big surprises, but “what this data really says is, if you have less educational attainment, you’re more likely to be unemployed. Or if you’re an ethnic minority. ... There’s nothing new there. But it’s got good data and it updates it.”

The study included the period of the recession that ended in 2009. During that period, jobs across all age groups were lost and overall unemployment soared to 10 percent. It was 6.7 percent in February.

Some of the other findings in the report: —Men were one-fourth less likely to have earned a bachelor’s degree than women. By age 27, some 32

percent of the women had received a bachelor’s degree, compared with 24 percent of the men.

— Non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics were more likely than whites not to have obtained a high school diploma. Whites were more than twice as likely as blacks or Hispanics to have received their bachelor’s degree by this age.

—Thirty-four percent of the young adults were married at age 27, while 20 percent were living with partners and 47 percent were still single. Young adults with more education were more likely to be married and less likely to be cohabiting.

—Nearly 41 percent of the study group had either their own or a partner’s child in the household at age 27. Sixty-five percent of married individuals had at least one child in the home, compared with 21 percent of single individuals and 48 percent of those who were cohabiting.

—By their 27th birthday, nearly 34 percent of young adults had held at least one job since age 18. Of the jobs held by 18 to 26 year old workers, 57 percent ended in one year or less, and another 14 percent ended in less than two years.

World Vision reverses decision to hire gays NEW YORK (AP) — Facing a firestorm of protest, the prominent Christian relief agency World Vision on Wednesday dropped a two-dayold policy that would have allowed the charity to hire Christians in same-sex marriages.

The aid group told supporters in a letter that the board had made a mistake and was returning to its policy requiring celibacy outside of marriage “and faithfulness within the Bible covenant of marriage between a man and a woman.”

“We have listened to you and want to say thank you and to humbly ask for your forgiveness,” the agency said in the letter, signed by World Vision president Richard Stearns and board chairman Jim Bere.

Based in Federal Way, Wash., and started by evangelicals, World Vision has an international operating budget of nearly $1 billion and conducts economic development and emergency relief projects. In a conference call with reporters, Stearns said World Vision had not consulted enough with its partners before announcing the initial policy change. Since Monday, Stearns said the board had heard from major evangelical groups and leaders who had told them they had strayed from their core beliefs.

“We shouldn’t have been surprised but we were a bit,” Stearns said of the backlash. “Again, I

think it goes back to we hadn’t done enough consultation on this. We hadn’t vetted this issue with people who could have given us really valuable input in the beginning. In retrospect, I can see why this was so controversial and troubling for many of our partners and supporters.”

The agency had announced Monday that its board had prayed for years about whether to hire Christians in same-sex marriages as churches took different stands on recognizing gay relationships. World Vision says its staff members come from dozens of denominations with varied views on the issue.

The board had said World Vision would still require celibacy outside of marriage and would require employees to affirm a statement of faith that they follow Christ, but would change policy in the U.S. as a way to avoid the divisive debates that have torn apart churches.

But the change drew widespread condemnation, with many donors posting on the agency’s Facebook page that they would no longer fund the sponsor-a-child programs that are central to World Vision’s fundraising and education.

Darrell Bock, a New Testament scholar at Dallas Theological Seminary, wrote on his blog that the new hiring

policy was “a betrayal of the nature of the Christian community” and “a denial of how Jesus defined marriage as between a man and a woman when he was asked about divorce.” The Assemblies of God, a major Pentecostal denomination, had released a statement urging members to shift support away from World Vision to other charities.

Evangelical supporters of hiring Christians with same-sex spouses also rallied, increasing their donations and urging others to do the same.

However, in a meeting Wednesday, Stearns said the board unanimously voted to reverse course and “stand on the traditional belief on the authority of Scripture.” Stearns said he didn’t know how much money World Vision had lost or gained over the two days.

A few other conservative religious charities have tried to change hiring policies to recognize gay relationships, prompting controversy and a drop in donations, but World Vision was the largest and most prominent by far to take the step. Rachel Held Evans, a Christian blogger and author who had been urging readers to increase donations in support of the policy change, wrote Wednesday, “This whole situation has left me feeling frustrated, heartbroken, and lost.”

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Texas Tech volleyball player makes US team Staff Writer

Texas Tech volleyball player Breeann David is one of 12 players selected by the U.S. Collegiate National Team and will represent USA Volleyball on its European Tour this summer.

David said she is excited for the opportunity and knows she wouldn’t be where she is today without learning the value of a good work ethic at a young age.

“It’s a really big honor because there are so many good players out there,” she said. “At the tryouts, I was so impressed with everyone and I’m honored that I was chosen.

I grew up only knowing how to work hard. I guess I didn’t know going half speed. Everything I did, I’ve always given 100 percent and I think that that’s paid off for me now. I don’t know how to not go hard, that’s just not how I was raised.”

The tryouts for the national team took place from Feb. 21 to 23 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., and the European Tour will run July 8 to 19 with visits to Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.

Although she will be playing volleyball in multiple countries, David, a native of nearby Denver City,

expressed the importance of family have gotten over the years pay off to her and said she hopes to take the and hopefully get us to the NCAA experience from the U.S. National tournament.”

Team as well as experience from her The Red Raiders only lost one first three years at Tech to propel senior from last year’s team and have the Red Raiders for the upcoming five returning seniors to the squad. season.

David has “I’m a huge been plagued homebody,” she with injuries said. “I love my throughout family. Being her three-year close to home career at Tech, and them being but has proven able to come to be an elite up to my games player when and just be there healthy. whenever I need “If you them, that’s big look at the to me.” people Bree David said was selected DON FLORA she hopes to with, a numTEXAS TECH VOLLEYBALL take the experiber of those COACH ence from the were AllU.S. National Americans,” Team as well as experience from her Tech coach Don Flora said. “She first three years at Tech to propel had that type of year last year the Red Raiders for the upcoming before she was hurt. If she would season. have stayed healthy, I think we’re “I’m looking forward to seeing a different team and she’s at a difthe experience pay off,” she said. ferent level.”

“We’ve been a young team for as Flora is entering his fourth sealong as I can remember. We had son as head volleyball coach and two seniors my freshman year, two said David being selected to the seniors my sophomore year and just national team is huge for the proone last year. I’m looking forward gram and shows a promising future. to seeing all the experience we “She was not a comfortable

“

I think she does a great job of lifting up what we want to be in the Red Raider way.

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Toronto Raptors edge closer to playoffs, beat Boston Celtics BOSTON (AP) — DeMar DeRozan understands that a playoff berth for the Raptors has meaning beyond Toronto’s locker room.

Terrence Ross scored 24 points, Kyle Lowry 23 and the Raptors edged closer to their first playoff spot since 2008 with a 99-90 win over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night.

“Not just the franchise, the whole city of Toronto and Canada,” said DeRozan, sitting at his locker with his left foot in a bucket of ice. “I’ve been here five years and see how passionate the fans are. It definitely means a lot.

We feed off them, the energy they bring every single night. That would be great for the city and we have to take advantage of the opportunity.”

DeRozan added 20 points for

Toronto, which increased its Atlantic Division lead to 2 1/2 games over Brooklyn. The Raptors can clinch a playoff spot if the New York Knicks lose at Sacramento later Wednesday.

It was Lowry’s eighth straight game of 20 or more points and helped the Raptors snap an 11-game losing streak in Boston.

“I’m not going to lie,” Lowry said.

“I think everybody tonight is rooting for that Western Conference team over there.”

The Raptors are also chasing a division title. They face Boston in the back end of a home and home on Friday.

“We can’t be satisfied just making the playoffs,” DeRozan said. “We could go out there and play four

games and be home. We’ve worked too hard to get to this point just to slow down and pace ourselves. We’ve got a long, long way to go.”

Jared Sullinger led Boston with 26 points, going 4 of 6 from 3-point range, and Avery Bradley scored 16.

Boston lost for the seventh time in eight games.

“Sully got hot and I thought even though we were really undersized we played pretty well in that time,” Boston coach Brad Stevens said.

Toronto captured its 19th road win, one off the club record set 2000-01.

Boston guard Rajon Rondo was cut on the forehead midway into the third quarter and received nine stitches. He returned to the bench early in the fourth quarter with a bandage that ran from the bridge of his nose straight up to his forehead and he re-entered the game with 8:05 to play. He finished with 15 assists and nine points.

sixth-rotation outside hitter when she arrived at Texas Tech, and now she’s very comfortable in her role with passing, defending, serving, attacking and hitting,” he said. “I think that’s a sign that this program can develop and teach how to become a sixth-rotation left side and I think it’s a sign that there are good things to come.”

Although David chose to continue her career with volleyball after high school, volleyball was not always her favorite sport.

“I actually thought that I would play basketball,” she said with a smile. “Up until about eighth grade was when I really started taking an interest in volleyball. I guess it’s just frustrating when you’re little and you can’t hit the ball over the net.”

Flora said David is an ideal player on and off the court for the Tech volleyball program.

“She’s a role model for any human being in the world,” he said. “Her caring concerns for her friends and her caring concerns for her family, I think she does a great job of lifting up what we want to be in the Red Raider way. One of the things we talk about is it’s our time.

I think it’s Bree’s time. That will be fun for her because it’s pretty much her time to shine.” ➤➤rrose@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH SENIOR volleyball player Breeann David will represent team USA Volleyball on its European Tour this summer.

Dragic, Bledsoe help Suns top Wizards 99-93 WASHINGTON (AP) — After letting a 25-point lead dwindle to three, Suns guards Goran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe got back to business Wednesday night, combining to finish with 48 points, 13 assists and 13 rebounds, helping Phoenix beat the Washington Wizards 99-93 for its fifth consecutive victory.

The Suns moved into a tie with the Dallas Mavericks for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

Both clubs are 43-29 with 10 games remaining.

The Suns have won seven of their last eight, coinciding with Bledsoe’s return to the starting lineup after missing 2½ months because of knee surgery. He had 23 points, seven assists and six rebounds, and Dragic wound up with 25 points, six assists and seven rebounds.

John Wall led Washington with 29 points and six assists.

The Wizards, sixth in the Eastern Conference, lost for the fourth time in five games.

Phoenix led by as much

as 75-50 in the third quarter, but Washington kept chipping away at that, getting as close as 83-79 on Wall’s three-point play with a little more than 8 minutes remaining. But an 8-0 run by Phoenix that closed with Dragic’s 3-pointer, then reverse layup gave the Suns some breathing room.

Washington again cut into the lead, though, and when Wall made consecutive driving layups, it was 93-90 with 1½ minutes left. Sure enough, Dragic and Bledsoe again responded. Bledsoe hit a 3 off Dragic’s assist, and then Dragic fed Gerald Green, who was fouled and made two free throws.

And that was pretty m u c h t ha t .

With a little under 3 minutes left in the first half, Wizards shooting guard Beal walked toward Washington’s locker room, resting his left hand on his right side after colliding with a Suns player.

The second-year guard, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2012

draft, is averaging 17.2 points and 3.3 assists this season, second on the team to Wall in both categories. Beal had eight points, four assists and three rebounds when he left.

The Suns led the Wizards 5444 at halftime, led by 14 points from Dragic, and 12 from Green.

Phoenix made 55 percent of its shot attempts in the first half — and somehow managed to improve that in the early part of the third quarter.

The Suns went 7 for 9 during a 17-4 run that began the second half, moving out to a 23-point lead — at 71-48, with a little more than 5 minutes elapsed — when Bledsoe made a 3-pointer, followed by a fast-break layup.

Wittman called timeout and there were some boos in the arena.

Phoenix went up by as many as 25 points, before Wall’s pair of 3s capped a 17-2 run for Washington to make things more competitive. Still, the Suns were ahead 79-69 entering the fourth quarter.

Women’s golf wins tournament The Texas Tech women’s golf team won the Briar’s Creek Invitational on Tuesday in John’s Island, S.C., with sophomore Kimmy Hill tying a course record, according to a news release from Tech Athletics.

Hill tied the course record with a 5-under par 67 in the final round, according to the release.

The Lady Raiders finished above six top-50 teams and won by four strokes over second place Penn State, according to the release.

“I think they really showed this week that they are ready to put in the hard work, and now they see the results of how they can win against some of the best teams when they put three solid rounds together,” Tech coach JoJo Robertson said in the release.

This is the second tournament win for the Lady Raiders this season and the first in the spring, according to the release.

Hill went bogey free in the final round and finished the day with 13 pars and five birdies.

“That’s just Kimmy,” Robertson said in the release. “She wasn’t pleased with the second round yesterday. But she’s so good about coming back out after a bad round and playing well the next day. She played well in Palm Springs and then came right back out and did it again here.”

The Lady Raiders will be traveling for their next tournament to play in the Dallas Athletic Club Invitational on April 4, according to the release. ➤➤tdorner@dailytoreador.com

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By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

The start of the outdoor season went well for Texas Tech track with the men and women earning top-two finishes in their respective standings at the UT San Antonio Texas Challenge Invitational.

Tech coach Wes Kittley said, however, the invitational is in the past for the team. The sole focus for all the Tech athletes is the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.

The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s preseason computer rankings placing the Red Raiders at No. 14 and No. 16 for the Lady Raiders following the UTSA invitation helps their morale, Kittley said. However, he said the Texas Relays sets the tone for the current outdoor season and the future of the Red Raiders and Lady Raiders.

“We want to do well in front of (the high school track teams in attendance). I think it really helps our program being seen there, and I think that is really immense in recruiting,” he said.

The high schools are in abundance

at the relays because it serves as a high school track meet as well as a collegiate meet, according to Texas Athletics.

“But, I also think it just helps you line up against some of the very best in the country,” Kittley said.

This provides the team and him an idea of where they stand as they approach the rest of the season, Kittley said.

As Tech readies itself to measure up against the competition, the team returns the presence of an individual who has only lost one race in his entire career at Tech, senior distance runner Kennedy Kithuka. He ran unattached to the team for all the events he could participate in during the indoor season, since his eligibility to run in the collegiate indoor season was exhausted.

Kithuka said he is excited to run with Tech once again as a Red Raider, and he is proud of the accomplishments the team achieved throughout the indoor season.

In his return to team competition, Kithuka is scheduled to compete in the distance medley relay.

The distance medley relay is a fa-

vorite of his because it is the one event he can race in with his team, Kithuka said. What makes the experience of the distance medley race even more enjoyable is that he is participating in the event at this particular meet.

“The Texas Relays are a very big, competitive event,” he said. “We have a lot of great distance runners there from the high schools, colleges and universities. It’s a very good place to go there and compete and represent Tech there.”

The quick turnaround from indoor to outdoor season is not only beneficial to Kithuka. Jumping right into outdoor season helped sophomore hurdler/jumper Le’Tristan Pledger too, Pledger said.

Pledger said the indoor season ended unpleasantly for her. She did not perform at the 2014 NCAA Indoor National Championships like she wanted to.

However with the outdoor season beginning the following weekend with the UTSA Invitational and now the Texas Relays, Pledger has to turn her attention to the outdoor season, she said.

“That was a really good transition

for me,” Pledger said, “so I can’t just sit back and all the way look on indoor nationals and be sad about it because there is more to come.”

What is coming for her next is a competitive field featuring pros, Pledger said. Pledger was placed in the 100-meter hurdles with hurdlers who were invited to the meet.

That is all she knows about her competition, Pledger said. There is no idea who her pro competitors may include, so her main focus is to keep up and try her best.

Pledger would prefer her best to record faster than 13 seconds, she said. To achieve this goal, Pledger has learned in her short career that focus is the key.

“Focus carries in a big way,” Pledger said. “Especially when it comes to big meets. People begin to lose focus and begin to get nervous and anxiety hits.”

If she and the team can remain focused through all the noise of the relays, she expects positive results from everyone on the team, Pledger said.

Tech is scheduled to compete in the Texas Relays from Thursday to Saturday in Austin. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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Darvish has no damage SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — The Texas Rangers say ace Yu Darvish has no structural damage in his stiff neck but will likely begin the season on the disabled list.

Darvish was examined Wednesday by Dr. Keith Meister in Dallas.

The right-hander will start a throwing program this weekend and won’t need any injections.

Rangers general manager Jon Daniels says he expects Darvish will be put on the 15-day DL. The Rangers open Monday at home against Philadelphia.

“I would think so, yes,” Daniels said. “That’s kind of where it’s headed. We’re looking at 10 days already. He will play catch Saturday and if he continues to improve, then we’ll put a plan together from there.”

“That’s going to be two weeks.

He’s not going to ready to break. It’s a relief that’s it’s positive news from the exam,” he said.

Darvish led the majors in strikeouts last year. With him out, Tanner Scheppers will start the season opener. Scheppers will be making his first big league start after 115 relief appearances.

“Scheppers is making his first big

league start on opening day,” Rangers manager Ron Washington said. “He’s profiled as a No. 1 kind of guy. The innings he pitched last year were under a lot of pressure and I think he can handle the pressure that goes along with opening day.”

The Rangers said Nick Martinez will be their No. 5 starter to begin the season. He has pitched in just five games above Class A. Martin Perez will start the second game and Robbie Ross the third and Joe Saunders the fourth, giving the Rangers four left-handers to start the season. None of the five was in the Texas rotation to start last year.

Martinez, a right-hander, was not even in the big league camp. He finished last season 2-0 with a 1.13 ERA with Double-A Frisco. He was 12-7 with a 2.50 ERA last year between Myrtle Beach and Frisco.

“Martinez gives us an opportunity,” Washington said. “He has the stuff to pitch at the major league level. I think it’s on us to make certain to keep him in the mental state that he needs to be in. I think he can go out there and hold that spot down until we get Colby (Lewis) and Harry (Matt Harrison) back.”

Tech forward Tolbert to transfer Softball pitcher earns award The Texas Tech Athletic Department confirmed Wednesday that Red Raider junior forward Jordan Tolbert has asked for his release from the program and will be allowed to transfer to any school outside of the Big 12 Conference.

Tolbert scored the second most overall points on last year’s team and has one year of eligibility left as a collegiate athlete.

The 6-foot-7-inch forward started in every game last year, averaged 10.7 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, and was second on the team with a 54.8 percent field goal percentage while playing 26.3 minutes per game.

Tolbert was second on the team in rebounds and blocks last season, grabbing 186 boards and 23 blocked shots on the year.

According to a tweet from

Chris Level at RedRaiderSports.com, Tolbert, the Fort Worth native, wants to move closer to home.

TOLBERT The news of Tolbert’s departure marks the second player who will transfer from the program this week, Sophomore guard Dusty Hannahs was granted his release from the team Monday.

With Tolbert and Hannahs leaving the program, Tech will be without four of its top five scorers from the 2013-14 season after losing seniors Dejan Kravic and leading scorer Jaye Crockett to eligibility. ➤➤rrose@dailytoreador.com

Texas Tech sophomore pitcher Gretchen Aucoin earned Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Week honors Tuesday after strong performances last week against North Texas and Texas State.

Aucoin is second in the Big 12 with 1.18 ERA and is 8-3 on the season. She went 1-0 with a .93 ERA in 15 innings in last week’s two series while striking out 26 hitters in that span.

Her 13 strikeouts were not only a career high but also marked the most strikeouts for a Tech pitcher since Amanda Renfro had a school record 15 during the 2001 season.

Aucoin earned two saves last week as well. She broke both the Red Raider single-season and career records with the saves as she currently is leading the nation with five saves this season and seven for her career.

The utility player also made an impact outside the circle as she had a .706 on-base percentage while going 4-9 at the plate AUCOIN with seven RBIs. She hit her first career grand slam, which proved to be the difference in a 5-3 victory in the series finale against Texas State.

Aucoin is the second Red Raider to receive the Pitcher of the Week award this season along with senior southpaw Brittany Talley.

The Tech softball team returns to Rocky Johnson Field this weekend to begin Big 12 Conference play against No. 12 Baylor. First pitch is at 7 p.m. Friday. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

Gee pitches 6 no-hit innings for New York Mets in 9-6 loss to Houston KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Dillon Gee pitched six-innings of no-hit ball Wednesday night in is final tuneup before opening day, but the Houston Astros rallied for a 9-6 victory over the

New York Mets.

Carlos Corporan, L.J. Hoes and Matt Dominguez hit consecutive doubles off Mets relievers Gonzalez Germen and Carlos Torres to drive in the first five

runs in the Astros’ seven-run seventh.

Hoes drove in three runs for Houston.

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For the fastest and easiest service, place and pay for your ad online! Click on the “Classifieds” link on our Web site to get started!

E-mail: dawn.zuerker@ttu.edu Remember to include a contact number!

Phone: 806.742.3384

Call us to place your ad by credit card.

Fax: 806.742.2434

Call and confirm pricing and payment.

UNFURNISHED 4314 43RD Large 3BR/2BA Wood Floors, Two Living Areas, Central H&A, W/D Conn., Fenced Yard. Must See to Believe! $1095 Castle Prop‑ erty Mgmt. 783‑3040

for scalping and mowing yards. Job starts March 1st. Can include spring, summer, and fall or all.

Call James and leave message 745.1614.

CLOSE TO CAMPUS two bedroom homes for July 15th. 2208 Elgin $800. 2620 21st $900.

2306 21st $800. Call 806‑795‑2011.

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CLOSE TO campus: We have some wonderful 1,2,3 bedroom homes for lease. Call Ann or BJ at 795‑2011 or come by 4211 34th for info and pic‑ tures. Monday‑Saturday: 1‑5 afternoons.

1802 AVE W $495 Bills paid. Studio. Near Tech.

Nice. Quiet. Clean. One person. No pets. 765‑ 7182.

CUTE REAR apartment. 1 bedroom. Private yard.

2204 29th rear. $400/month. Water paid.

806.535.1905.

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EFFICIENCY APARTMENT near Tech. Private yard. $300/month. 2204 29th. 806‑535‑1905.

1, 2 & 3 BEDROOM HOUSES TECH TERRACE * PRE‑LEASING ‑ TTUrental.com

HOUSE FOR sale: 2108 26th St. * $59,950 * 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom * 988 sq ft * Large back‑ yard. Contact Jan Alexander, Realtor, RE/MAX Lubbock at (806)789‑9325.

2/2 DUPLEX All bills & cable paid! 2315 25th. http://merlinspetshop.com/tech‑area‑rentals.html $850/mo call/text 806.438.8746

NEAR TECH 2/1. Hardwood floors. Central heat and air. W/D hookups. Water paid. $700/month.

2205 26th. 806.535.1905.

2323 MAIN. 1 month free. 2 bedroom 1 & 1/2 bath in four‑plex. Refrigerator, stove, dish washer, W/D hookups. $700 +bills. John Nelson Realtors. 794‑7471.

NEWLY REMODELED 1, 2, 3, & 5 bedroom homes. Convenient to Tech. 771‑1890. www.lubbockleasehomes.com.

1 PRIVATE bedroom large historic spanish colo‑ nial home. Near Tech. 2201 16th st. House mates are 3 older women students. $600. No pets. 765‑7182.

3/1 & 1/2 Two story house http://merlinspetshop.com/tech‑area‑rentals.html central h/a, security system, pet friendly, lots of space. Over 2,200 sq ft! Available July 1st Call/‑ text 806‑438‑8746 3/2 HARDWOOD FLOORS, central heat/air, wash‑ er/dryer hook up. $900 monthly. 806‑535‑1905.

2305 29th.

3/2/2 NEAR Covenant/Tech available now. Hard‑ wood floors, newer HVAC. Pets w/dep. $900‑‑ Call 806‑620‑6475 to see.

EFFICIENCY FOR 1 near Lowe’s on 26th & Boston. $325 includes water/elec.

Email jjwillis412@gmail.com.

NEWLY REMODELED near Tech. 3/2 central heat and air, W/D hookups, hardwood floors. $1050/month + bills. Available June 1.

806.535.1905.

NICE 3/2. With large detached party room. W/D hookups. Central H/A. Dishwasher. $1125/month.

5004 43rd. 806‑535‑1905.

ONE BEDROOM APARTMENTS and HOUSES ½ Block from Tech. On 14th and 15th Streets. Save time and money by walking to class. Reasonable and Close – Can’t Beat It! 762‑1263

PRE‑LEASING

3505 26TH Newly Remodeled 3BR/2BA Close to TTU! Hardwood Floors, Central H&A, W/D Conn., Lg. Fenced Yard w/Storage! $1195 Castle Prop‑ erty Mgmt. 783‑3040

http://merlinspetshop.com/tech‑area‑rentals.html 4/2, Security System, wood floors, central h/a, space & extra rooms. Call/text Kathleen 806‑438‑ 8746. $1540/mo, $385/person.

4003 32ND Avail. May 1st! Near TTU! 3BR/2BA Immaculate! Two Living Areas, Central H&A, W/D Conn., Large Kitchen! $995 Castle Property Mgmt. 783‑3040

PRE‑LEASING: Houses & duplexes. Summer & Fall 2014. 806‑795‑0611 Pat Garrett Realtors. www.garrettrealtors.com

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SUBLETTING‑ONE bedroom apartment $560 per month, Oakridge apartments. Call (806)632‑0692 for more info.

CLOTHING/JEWELRY TEXAS TECH Officially licensed rings. Men’s from $895.

Women’s from $595. Varsity Jewelers.

1311 University.

ROOMMATES 2 ROOMMATES wanted to share 3 / 2 home. $395.00 per month plus utilities .

Available Aug.1st.

Text Nathan @ 210‑364‑7678.

SERVICES

$5,500‑$10,000 PAID EGG DONORS for up to 6 donations. All races needed. N/Smokers, ages 18‑ 27, SAT>1100/ACT>24/GPA>3.0 Reply to: in‑ fo@eggdonorcenter.com if qualified.

AFFORDABLE MOVING

Quick, easy professional moving. Reasonable prices. Local or long distance. Boxes, supplies, paper, etc. Serving all Texas cities. Free estimate on the phone. 4211 34th Call 806‑799‑4033.

ALLAMERICANSTORAGE.COM

Rent online 24/7. Free truck. 24/7 Rental station.

Clean. 5839‑49th 792‑6464.

EZ DEFENSIVE DRIVING.

New Location RIVER SMITHS Free Food Included :) Cell 781‑2931.

More Information www.LubbockClass.com

NEED CASH Buying any gold/silver jewelry. Any condition.

Avery and others. Varsity Jewelers 1311 University.

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