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Texas House approves $2B state water fund AUSTIN (AP) — In an overwhelming display of bipartisanship, the Texas House voted to create state water fund using money from the Rainy Day Fund to meet the needs of the rapidly growing state.

The State Water Development Board would use what is expected to be a $2 billion fund set up in House Bill 4 to leverage $27 billion over the next 50 years to build new reservoirs, improved pipelines and increase water conservation. The measure passed 146-2, with only two tea party members opposing the measure.

The plan would take the money from the state’s Rainy Day Fund and create the State Water Infrastructure Fund of Texas, intended to leverage bond financing for new reservoirs, pipelines, desalination plants and conservation projects. The water needs to add about 8.3 million acrefeet of supply to meet the forecast population growth in Texas.

Obama: Immigration bill could pass by this summer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed for swift action on a sweeping immigration bill Wednesday, saying lastminute obstacles are “resolvable” and predicting Congress could pass historic legislation by the end of the summer.

In back-to-back interviews with Spanish-language television networks, Obama repeatedly voiced confidence in a bipartisan Senate group that appears to be on the cusp of unveiling a draft bill. And he said that while he is still prepared to step in with his own bill if talks break down, he doesn’t expect that step to be necessary.

“If we have a bill introduced at the beginning of next month as these senators indicate it will be, then I’m confident that we can get it done certainly before the end of the summer,” Obama told Telemundo.

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Supreme Court hears DOMA Justices remain divided after 2nd day of oral arguments, may decide they have no authority

By RAECHEL DAVIS STAFF WRITER

When she got engaged in 2011, she knew marriage was not possible in Texas because of the state’s constitutional ban.

If the Supreme Court decides to vote on the constitutionality of banning gay marriage, everything could change for the fine arts graduate student.

Now, Katy Ballard said she is afraid the Court will uphold the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8.

Nine Supreme Court justices began hearing the arguments for Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor, concerning California legislation Proposition 8 and the federal DOMA on Tuesday, according to the Supreme Court’s website.

These cases have the potential to change marriage rights in the U.S. Dennis Hollingsworth, California state senator, is supporting Prop 8, the California ban on gay marriage, which passed in 2008 shortly after gay couples were given the right, according to the argument heard in the Supreme Court.

Lawyers for Kristin Perry, a party of the lawsuit, defend that marriage is a fundamental right of all people.

Perry has four children with her partner, but was not allowed a license to marry her, according to a transcription of the Supreme Court argument on Wednesday.

Many same-sex couples have faced similar issues to Perry and her partners.

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Edith “Edie” Windsor, an 83-year-old woman, spent 44 years with her partner Thea Spyer. The couple was married in Canada and New York, but it was not recognized by the government, according to American Civil Liberties Union website.

Windsor could not claim estate tax marital deductions because of DOMA, which states that a federal refund for estate tax marital deduction is applicable only to straight spouses.

Former President Bill Clinton, who said he no longer supports the bill according to National Public Radio, signed DOMA in 1996.

According to DOMA, marriage and spouse are defined as a legal union between a man and a woman.

In October 2011, according to the President Barack Obama Administration website, it was ruled that DOMA violates the Constitution’s equal protection clause because it denies gay couples the same legal protection and rights as straight couples.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in the court hearing that DOMA creates two types of marriages. Unions in states that allow same-sex marriage are like skim milk, she said.

“Skim milk” describes the two-tier system that allows a “full marriage” at the state level, but a lesser recognition by the federal government.

Policy decisions are handled by Congress, and the Supreme Court is meant to interpret the Constitution according to ushistory.org.

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THE HUMAN RIGHTS Campaign offered its logo, which was created in 1995, as the official symbol of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and reflects equality.

“Chances are that the Supreme Court doesn’t want to make a decision,” associate professor in the School of Art Edward Check said.

The courts think that the case is coming too fast and that the issue is too new, he said.

“They may just give a very narrow deci-

sion and send it back to the court,” Check said.

Check grew up in Wisconsin and said he was the subject of discrimination because of his sexual orientation.

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Students find opportunities through career fair

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

Hundreds of students explored career and internship opportunities with both nationwide and local companies at the University Career Center’s Spring Career Connections Fair on Wednesday.

Kristen Seidman, assistant director of the University Career Center and coordinator of the event, said 54 companies were represented at the fair with various booths and recruiters.

There were opportunities for nearly every major in the university, she said, including restaurant, hotel and institutional manage-

ment, business and agriculture. Some of the companies included AT&T, Whataburger, Enterprise, Convergys, Academy and Northwest Mutual.

The career fair, which lasted from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Frazier Alumni Pavilion, was open to all students on campus who are looking for opportunities or who are curious to see what careers are out there.

“We are the University Career Center,” Seidman said, “so we serve any students. So any major, any age, you can come look.”

Initially, the career center provided fairs in the fall, she said. There have not been any spring career fairs in six to seven years, until they decided the need was great

enough to put one in place.

“The response has been great, so we’re probably going to have one next spring as well,” Seidman said.

Michael Fisher, a managing partner with New York Life Insurance Company and representative for Northwest Mutual, said he recently moved from Boston, Mass., where he recruited hundreds of students and workers a day, to work in Lubbock and recruit through Texas Tech.

Fisher said he looked for ambitious, driven and hardworking attributes during recruitment, and although he is not overly familiar with Tech culture yet, there was promise in the university’s students.

“I haven’t met enough yet,” he said.

“They’re all very bright and dressed well, though.”

Mika Wyatt, a business manager with AgriLife Research through Texas A&M, said his company’s unique relationship with Tech has helped him find good students to work with.

“We have a unique relationship with Texas Tech,” he said. “We have 13 researchers that go to school through Texas Tech, so we always enjoy the good relationship we have with the student workers coming out, working and doing student research out there.”

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Tech men’s tennis tame Fresno State Bulldogs, land 10th victory

By JORDON LEGENDRE STAFF WRITER

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The Texas Tech men’s tennis team defeated the Fresno State Bulldogs 7-0 on Wednesday at the McLeod Tennis Center to achieve its 10th victory in the team’s last 12 matches.

The Red Raiders, ranked No. 39 in the latest Intercollegiate Tennis Association collegiate rankings, are now 13-5 for the season with a 7-1 record in home matches.

“I thought we had some good performances,” Tech coach Tim Siegel said.

The No. 69 doubles team of Gabriel Dias and Vitor Manzini won the opening doubles match, 8-3. Jeff Bryan and Felipe Soares won the second match, 8-3, to secure the doubles point for Tech.

“They’ve played well,” Siegel said of Dias and Manzini. “They’ve had some opportunities to even play better. I thought today they were a little flat early, but fortunately, our opponents didn’t play particularly well.”

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send the set to a tiebreaker, which Manzini won, 7-2, to take the set.

“I always believed that I could win,” Manzini said, “but, especially, I think when I was down 5-2, I saved a couple of match points and then he started getting a little nervous, and then I felt that it was real that I could come back.”

Fritz took control of the tiebreaker to determine the match winner, taking an 8-4 lead. Manzini responded with six straight points, including four on Fritz’s server, to win the super tiebreaker 10-8 and the match 5-7, 7-6 (2), 1-0.

“It feels really good to come back in a match like that and win,” Manzini said. “It’s going to give me a lot of confidence to play on Saturday.”

Gabriel Dias, playing in the No. 2 position for Tech, won 7-5, 6-3, while Felipe Soares defeated Fresno’s Nikolas Papic 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 3 spot.

Red Raiders Raphael Pfister, Francisco Zambon and Hugo Dojas won the three remaining matches to give Tech its second consecutive perfect match after a 7-0 victory against New Mexico State.

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Today Conference Volunteer Training Session I Time: Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: TLPD, University Library So, what is it?

If you need volunteer hours, the Women’s Studies Conference needs your help.

Volunteers are needed to assist with a variety of activities April 5 in the Student Union Building.

2013 Length of Service Awards Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: International Cultural Center So, what is it?

Come as Texas Tech recognizes staff from across campus at important milestones in their career.

“The Rise of China: Implications for U.S.-China Relations” Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Where: International Cultural Center, Hall of Nations So, what is it?

Come listen to Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch, the first Asian-American in the U.S. history to hold a rank of ambassador, speak.

Speaker Series: Mayim Bialik

Time: 8 p.m.

Where: Allen Theatre So, what is it?

Come listen to Mayim Bialik from “Big Bang Theory” speak about some of her life stories.

Friday Conference Volunteer Training Session I Time: Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: TLPD, University Library So, what is it?

If you need volunteer hours, the Women’s Studies Conference needs your help.

Volunteers are needed to assist with a variety of activities April 5 in the Student Union Building.

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He said many people are not open about their sexual orientation because of the fear of discrimination, such as what he experienced.

“There are good reasons why people are afraid,” Check said.

Discrimination still exists, he said, but there have been significant social changes since the 1980s.

Check said the support of the gay movement has come a long way.

“There are gays and lesbians everywhere,” he said. “You are going to have colleagues

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students, principals and friends that are, weather you do agree or don’t agree on the lifestyle, is doesn’t matter because it exists.”

Ballard, who got engaged to her partner on Halloween in 2011, can relate to Check’s story. She and her partner have kept their engagement from her partner’s parents because the couple knew they would not accept the union.

Ballard said marriage is a fundamental right given in 14th Amendment, and it is unconstitutional for the Supreme Court to keep people from getting married because of their sexual orientation.

The Texas Constitution states in the Family Code: Chapter

2, The Marriage Relationship, Section 2.001, a marriage license may not be issued to persons of the same sex.

“The case had to go to the Supreme Court,” Ballard said.

“To be taken care of and ruled on.”

Ballard said she feels Prop 8 set the country back, and is a blow to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

“I think it would just tell us that that we’re not equal to have them confirm saying that we do not have the same rights as heterosexuals,” she said.

The Human Rights Campaign raised awareness of the case on Facebook by encouraging users to use the gay marriage equality

box as their profile picture in support of the cause.

Both court cases trended on Twitter because of the popularity of the discussion.

Project Marriage, according to its website, is a coalition of California residents who support traditional marriage — between a man and woman.

The organization created the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund as a proponent of the legislation and argues the purpose of marriage is to procreate, which can only be achieved by a male and a female.

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Senate considers trimming powers of regents AUSTIN (AP) — Texas lawmakers continued Wednesday to question the actions of University of Texas System regents and their pressure on flagship campus President Bill Powers as the Senate considers a bill that would roll back some regents voting authority.

Powers, president of the University of Texas at Austin, is believed to be fighting for his job with regents appointed by Gov. Rick Perry in an academic showdown that has grabbed the attention of the Legislature.

Powers has drawn public support

from the state House and Senate, and the Senate Committee on Higher Education held an initial hearing on a bill that bars regents from voting on personnel and budget matters until they have received training on those issues and been confirmed by the Senate.

Such a move would step on the governor’s ability to make socalled “recess” appointments when the Senate is not in session. Texas lawmakers only meet for 140 days every other year.

“This bill is not about empowerment,” said committee chairman

Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, author of the bill, which was left pending without a vote until next week. “It’s about propriety.”

Powers has clashed with the regents for more than two years over tuition, the roles of research and teaching at universities, and other issues. He was believed to have held only a slim majority of support among the nine members, all Perry appointees.

Regent Wallace Hall recently ordered the university to give him copies of all the results of open records requests made to UT-Austin

over the past two years. Hall and Regent Brenda Pejovich pushed for a fourth review of a now-defunct law school loan program that was started when Powers was dean.

That program came under scrutiny when Powers’ successor received a $500,000 forgivable loan.

An investigation by the system recommended abolishing the program but cleared Powers of wrongdoing.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst also has defended Powers, who he has denounced what he called “character assassination” of Powers and his family.

Records provide new look at Ariz. shooting spree PHOENIX (AP) — Almost everyone who crossed paths with Jared Loughner in the year before he shot former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords described a man who was becoming more unhinged and delusional by the day.

He got fired from a clothing store and thrown out of college, shaved his head and got tattoos of bullets on his shoulder. He showed up at the apartment of a friend with a Glock 9 mm pistol, saying he needed it for “home protection.” He made dark comments about the government, and, according to one acquaintance, appeared suicidal.

Loughner’s spiral into madness hit bottom on Jan. 8, 2011. He broke down in tears when a wildlife agent pulled him over for a traffic stop. He went to a gas station and asked the clerk to call a cab as he paced nervously around the store. Gazing up at the clock, he said, “Nine twenty-five.

I still got time.”

About 45 minutes later, Giffords lay bleeding on a Tucson sidewalk along with 11 others who were wounded. Six people were dead.

The information about Loughner’s mental state — and the fact that no one did much to get him help — emerged as a key theme in roughly 2,700 pages of investigative papers released Wednesday. Still, there was nothing to indicate exactly why he targeted Giffords.

The files also provided the first glimpse into Loughner’s family and a look at parents dealing with a son who had grown nearly impossible to communicate with.

“I tried to talk to him. But you can’t,” his father, Randy Loughner, told police. “Lost, lost and just didn’t want to communicate with me no more.”

His mother, Amy Loughner, recalled hearing her son alone in his room “having conversations” as if someone else were there.

Despite recommendations from Pima Community College that Loughner undergo a mental evaluation after the school expelled him, his parents never followed up.

In a statement released by the gun control advocacy group she started with her husband, Giffords said that “no one piece of legislation” would have prevented the shooting.

“However, I hope that commonsense policies like universal background checks become part of our history, just like the Tucson shootings are — our communities will be safer because of it.”

While such checks may keep those with mental illnesses from obtaining guns, the 24-year-old Loughner had never been diagnosed with any conditions, meaning it’s doubtful much would have stopped him from legally purchasing a weapon.

Friends and family interviewed by law enforcement after the shooting painted a picture of a young man who was deeply troubled in the weeks

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Loughner visited Anthony George Kuck, who had known him since preschool. Kuck said he was alarmed to find he had shaved his head and was armed.

“I kicked him out of my house because he showed me his gun,” Kuck said.

Kuck told police he had seen Loughner’s mental state deteriorate over time, starting with drinking problems in high school, trouble with authorities and being kicked out of college.

“I know he has some crazy thoughts where he ... just believes the government is corrupt, and he has all these assumptions on things, that he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about,” Kuck told investigators.

While he never heard him mention Giffords “he just seemed to have some kind of ... hate for government,” Kuck added.

Kuck’s roommate, Derek Andrew Heintz, who has known Loughner since he was about 12, said he was cooking when Loughner showed up with a gun and removed it from his belt. It was loaded with 32 rounds.

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Wyatt said he prefers students with strong agricultural backgrounds who are not afraid to get their hands dirty and are familiar with gathering and assimilating data and information into reports.

AgriLife Research has two positions open, he said, one of which is for cotton etymology. Seasonal and yearlong positions are applicable.

Micah Pearce, a mathematics graduate student from Lubbock, said he is interested in something geared toward analysis. He said he spoke with GEICO during his last career fair and is ready to turn in an application.

“I have a graduate’s degree in mathematics,” he said, “and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to find what I want here.”

Rather than giving him cold feet, walking the stage is something Pearce said he is eager to do.

“I’m way excited,” he said. “I’m ready to go out and work. I’ve been in school for about six years and I’m ready to get out. I’ve been through undergraduate and graduate and I’m ready to move on and start a living.”

At 1 p.m., the pavilion was filled with approximately 100 students, Seidman said. Members of the University Career Center estimated that the fair would see more than 500 students by the end of the day, she said.

Seidman said she encourages more students to seek out and go to career fairs because they are a valuable resource.

“You know, looking for a job can be really scary,” she said. “And so, when a career fair is on campus like this and you know that they’re looking for Tech students, it’s kind of like that warm welcome that students are looking for because it’s not necessarily that they have to go track down the company. The company is here, and they’re looking for students.” ➤➤check@dailytoreador.com

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Hunters seek to boycott over gun laws

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

(AP) — Hunters across the country say they are boycotting Colorado because of recent legislation meant to curtail gun violence.

Colorado last week became the first Western state to ratchet back gun rights in response to mass shootings at a suburban Denver movie theater and an elementary school in Connecticut. Opponents warned that the gun controls would hurt hunters, especially an expansion of background-check requirements to apply to personal and online gun sales.

Republican opponents of the new background-check law said it would make criminals of hunters lending each other weapons for weekend hunting trips. In response, Democrats changed the bill to

give people a 72-hour grace period to share guns without triggering background-check requirements.

Republicans then said the bill would imperil weeklong hunting trips.

Gun rights advocates who said hunters would boycott Colorado in protest say they are following through on their threats.

Michael Bane, a freelance producer for The Outdoor Channel, announced he will no longer film his four shows in Colorado.

Hunting outfitters say people began canceling trips after the legislation passed, The Gazette of Colorado Springs reported (http:// tinyurl.com/cfbquoy ).

Northwest Colorado hunting guide Chris Jurney expects more state defections in a major tourism industry. Out-of-state hunters ac-

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JENNIFER MARTIN, AN animal science doctoral candidate from Sidney, observes meat that was marinated in blue food-grade dye to determine if the E. Coli bacteria that settles on the surface of meat, soaks into the center of meat along with the marinade Wednesday in the Food Technology building.

Fine whine? Billionaire cries foul in sale NEW YORK (AP) — As experts can testify, super sleuths in the wine business must study the cork, glass, sediment, wrapping, labels and how full a bottle of wine is to ascertain whether it’s the real deal. And as two uber-wealthy wine collectors can tell you as they square off in federal court over some questionable bottles, even that sometimes is not enough.

Testimony began Wednesday in a civil trial six years after Florida energy maven William Koch, a yachtsman and collector, sued onetime-billionaire California businessman Eric Greenberg in U.S. District Court in Manhattan over $320,000 he spent in 2005 on two dozen bottles of wine that turned out to be duds.

The trial threatens to pop the cork on the dirty secrets of the wine auction world, which like the art market has been stung in recent years by a proliferation of fakes.

At the opening, there was plenty of talk of how difficult it is to be sure a bottle is real and how good a fake can be. It’s heartbreaking for a true collector to learn that wine is inauthentic because it’s more than just a bottle and a flavor, Koch’s attorney John Hueston said.

“Koch will say these are links to history,” he said, adding that great wines transport people to another era. “It’s not just the juice in the package.”

Greenberg — a former billionaire who built two Internet consulting companies before the 2000 collapse of those stocks reportedly reduced his net worth by as much as 90 percent — asserted his innocence as he took the stand as one of the trial’s first witnesses.

“I wouldn’t sell a fake wine,” he said. “I’ve never intentionally sold fake wine in my life.”

Koch, the brother of famous industrialists and conservative political supporters David and Charles Koch, is seeking compensation for the $320,000, along with unspecified damages. The trial may yet end in a settlement.

Greenberg years ago capitalized on the growing interest in the sale of alcohol for investment purposes, becoming one of the world’s top owners of vintage wine, with a collection of more than 70,000 bottles.

According to court documents, Greenberg earned about $9 million when he sold 17,000 bottles of wine at the sale where Koch made his purchases, reducing his collection by about a quarter.

Koch was duped by an auction brochure that promised buyers the “greatest wines of all time” and “extremely rare” bottles dating to the early 1800s, Hueston said.

Koch paid as much as $30,000

for some bottles, including several purported to be from the 1800s.

Those included a $22,542 bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild from 1805, a $29,172 bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild from 1811 and a $33,150 magnum of Chateau Lafite Rothschild from 1870. The oldest bottles are no longer part of the court case.

Unscrupulous wine dealers have been known to put fine-vintage labels on cheaper bottles and try to pass them off as the real thing. Greenberg is not alleged to have done that himself, but Koch’s lawyers say he should have known something was amiss.

An investigation revealed that Greenberg had been warned by experts that bottles in his collection were not authentic and decided to push them on unwitting buyers at his auction rather than toss them, Hueston said.

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NEW YORK (AP) — No “downward-facing dog” is required.

Lululemon said Wednesday that no demonstrations of yoga or any other positions are needed to return the pricey black yoga pants that the company pulled from shelves last week after finding that they were too sheer.

“We do not require guests to demonstrate the sheerness of their bottoms,” said Sari Martin, who works for communications firm ICR and spoke on behalf of Lululemon.

The Vancouver-based yoga gear maker’s statement comes a day after a New York Post report that was widely circulated by the media recounted one woman’s tale of being asked by sales

staff to bend over to prove that the yoga pants she was trying to return were sheer.

Martin would not comment on the specific instance recounted by the Post, but said Wednesday that this is not standard policy for Lululemon staffers.

To the contrary, she said that people who bought the black “Luon” yoga pants, which cost $72 to $98, since March 1, either online or in store, can return them for a full refund, “no questions asked.”

The hubbub comes a week after Lululemon said it was recalling its black “Luon” yoga pants, which account for about 17 percent of all women’s pants in its stores, because their material was too sheer. The pants are made from a combination of nylon and Lycra fibers.

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counted for 15 percent of hunting licenses last year, 86,000, compared with 489,000 for residents.

“There’s a united front of sportsmen that are tired of having their freedoms and liberties and fundamental rights taken away from them,” said Jurney, vice president of the Colorado Outfitters Association. “That kind of unity among sportsmen is going to be big, and unfortunately for those of us who live here, we’re going to suffer the consequences of this misguided legislation.”

Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton said his agency has asked the state attorney general’s office for advice on impacts to hunters. While legal possession of high-capacity magazines is grandfathered in, officials want to make sure

they are still legal to use.

“We believe there’s the potential for impact. That’s out of our control,” he said. “Hunting is a tool to manage wildlife populations, and we do not believe the impacts will affect that part of our mission.”

Jurney said he expects the actual impact of gun regulations on Colorado hunters will be small. Varmint hunters tend to use high-capacity magazines, so they might be limited.

The head of the Colorado Tourism Office, which tracks travel spending in Colorado, told The Associated Press there was no immediate data showing any impact from a hunting boycott. Al White said Colorado has the region’s friendliest licensure process for outof-state hunters and a waiting list for big-game licenses.

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Carrey’s gun control video message fails C

omedian and actor Jim Carrey made a short music parody of the discontinued countrythemed show “Hee Haw.” The “Mr. Poppers Penguins” star mocked gun owners by singing the owners possess guns to compensate for their small “gland” if you catch Carrey’s drift. The band was made of Lonesome Earl and the Clutterbusters, with Earl being Carrey, the Clutterbusters being made up of John Lennon, Mohandas Gandhi and President Abraham Lincoln, all of whom were killed by people who used guns in their murders.

Charlton Heston, the late actor known for his evangelical Christian beliefs and political activism, is shown to be visibly upset as Lonesome Earl continues to reference Heston and degrade his values in the video. Carrey jabs Heston by saying his movies “are no longer in demand.”

Jordan Sigler But let’s give Heston a little slack. His acting potential has taken a slight hit since he has been under the ground for nearly five years. What’s Carrey’s excuse?

His entire career has teetered between bad, mediocre and a few great comedies. He’s closing in on a decade since his last great film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”

“The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” the critically panned and box-office flop, is his last production since 2011’s Penguins movie.

He then decided to channel his efforts to a short video spreading more negligence on

the gun control issue.

The video started out funny, Carrey’s facial features were perfectly on cue, as always, and the music was catchy. But like a typical Carrey film, the humor becomes repetitive and turns sour, and the feature winds up being too long.

Reaction was mixed. Radio host Laura Ingraham on “Fox & Friends” said the spoof was “not funny and embarrassing for Jim Carrey.” (Though to be fair, most pundits on Fox won’t laugh at anything they don’t politically agree with and are sympathetic to poor comedy they do agree with politically.)

The controversy and useless attempt to gain public attention was Carrey’s goal of the video and it worked. On Twitter, he said it was for gun owners, calling them heartless people. He continued to state they are unwilling to bend for the safety of children.

The overused generalization

of ignorant gun owners he made fun of in the video is the reason the humor came off bland, and the reason it won’t have any progressive social change.

The song’s title is “Cold Dead Hands,” which is in reference to Heston’s quote he would only surrender his gun rights to the then-Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore, “from my cold, dead hands.” Carrey even mocks when Heston died, “The angels wouldn’t take him up to heaven like he planned, because they couldn’t pry that gun from his cold, dead hand.”

The cold, dead hand argument causes a lot of misunderstanding. Any reasonable gun owner knows they and fellow National Rifle Association members are not going to defeat the U.S. and probably U.N. army, not even with AR-15’s, which is why nobody needs an AR-15.

(They pay an exorbitant amount of taxes to ensure this.)

The idea is symbolic; it would not be efficient for the government to mow down a high percentage of citizens by taking away their guns and following the history of fascist countries.

Maybe Carrey would like a tour such as when the Dixie Chicks visited the soldiers, or visiting Holocaust survivors whose guns were confiscated from them. He could look at the former Nazi Karabiner 98K’s now in possession of the Israeli army, where Jewish symbols cover the Nazi symbols of the weapons used to torture Jews.

The gun owners he parodied in the video are not the people shooting up children in schools.

Those who commit these atrocities tend to be mentally ill and can acquire weapons illegally.

Need Carrey be reminded of the October 2012 story of Kendra St. Clair? According to newsfeed.time.com, the 12-year-old Oklahoma native protected

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herself by shooting the home intruder. Although this case is more of an anomaly, these things happen.

Carrey would have more helpful insight to the discussion by trying to make a point we should come to a reasonable solution.

To do this, he would have to be a little more creative than his quick, easy and overdone stereotype he released. He would have to learn both sides of the debate and mock the extremities of each or at least relate the content to the average citizen who supports the Second Amendment.

Or he could try to work on his craft of being a good comedy actor instead of pulling cheap stunts for publicity because March’s release of “Wonderstone” proves Jim Carrey movies are no longer in high demand.

Sigler is a junior journalism major from Goshen, Ind. ➤➤ jsigler@dailytoreador.com

By Andrea Farkas

Minimum wage laws unproductive, should be abolished I recently returned from an incredible semester spent in America’s distant, more attractive sibling: Australia. My experiences there gave me a new perspective on – among other things – minimum wage laws.

While studying at the University of Canberra, I worked part-time at a college pub near the school. Although this meant passing a bartending certification exam, it basically required knowing that alcohol poisoning is bad.

Moreover, thanks to Australia’s obscenely high minimum wage, the job paid an impressive-sounding $23 an hour.

Because our dollar is currently worth less than Australia’s, this ended up being a fantastic salary

when I got back to the US. It was considerably less remarkable, however, when I was actually in Australia.

Unfortunately, it turns out that doubling everyone’s wages doesn’t make everyone twice as rich, it just makes everything twice as expensive. Vending machines, for example, charge $4.50 per drink, and I couldn’t find a barbershop that charged less than $35 for a buzz cut.

I learned more about minimum wage laws while traveling around New South Wales. I met two young Germans who had come to Australia through an amazing program called WWOOF, or Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms.

In exchange for helping out on a small farm, travelers who sign up with WWOOF can obtain free room and board all over the world

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and learn how to grow food in the process. However, because the work is unpaid, minimum wage advocates are less than thrilled about the idea and are working to shut the program down.

According to a May 7, 2011, Redding article, Allan Griggs, a California farmer who participates in the program, is now “forced to pay his WWOOFers the minimum wage of $8 an hour if they work more than four hours a day,” which “may make it economically impractical for him to use them in the future.” Minimum wage laws ostensibly exist to improve existing opportunities. When it comes to WWOOF, however, the laws are simply taking opportunities away.

If this sounds like the exception to the rule, consider that, according to the US Small Business Administration, “Small businesses

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employ about half of U.S. workers.” Like the Griggs family farm, these firms do not have secret pits of money that they delight in withholding from their employees.

Whenever the minimum wage is increased, these businesses may simply have to employ fewer people, ironically leaving the most downtrodden workers jobless and thus worse off than they were before.

Unsurprisingly, there is a wealth of research linking minimum wage with unemployment.

A 1981 National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Charles Brown et al. found that teenage employment reliably drops whenever the minimum wage is raised by a certain amount.

In January 2011, a joint study by economists from the universities of Pennsylvania and Chile

titled “The Labor Impact of Minimum Wages” found that minimum wage increases have “a significant negative effect on the probability of staying employed.”

Conversely, the data that minimum wage advocates have to offer is less than compelling and, frankly, suspicious. A 2006 Show-Me Institute Paper by Dave Neumark says the study “cited most frequently by minimum wage advocates” is a 1994 phone survey of New Jersey restaurants

by David Card and Alan Krueger.

Sure enough, the Economic Policy Institute — a think tank on the frontlines of the minimum wage cause — has cited this “landmark New Jersey study” as recently as July 2012.

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obtain the actual payroll data from these restaurants. In a blistering 16-page paper titled “The Crippling Flaws in the New Jersey Fast Food Study,” it was found that Card and Krueger’s numbers bore “no relation to numbers drawn from the payroll records of the restaurants the New Jersey study claims to cover.” Tellingly, even the most credible minimum wage advocates have continued to recycle this discredited study for 16 years.

The repetition, apparently, isn’t working. Even the U.S. Department of Labor now seems to be aware of the damage these obstructive laws can do. According to the DOL website, exceptions to the minimum wage are now sometimes allowed for “workers with disabilities, full-time students” and “youth under age 20.”

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MARCH 28, 2013

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Workout, diet trends affect local residents

By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER

As society increasingly changes, so is the way people are maintaining fitness.

Compared to 10 years ago, Bodyworks personal trainer Denise Rose said people no longer have one to two hours several times a week to work out. They are too busy.

A popular method of fitness now is metabolic training, which is 45 minutes of hard workouts, she said.

“We’re not a very focused society lately because we have constant feedback with tweets, Facebook and emails,” she said, “so it seems to just be fitting our society the way we’re moving as a group of people and really what fits our schedules.”

Metabolic is high in intensity, Rose said.

“You’re spent,” she said.

“You’re dripping sweat and you can’t do anything more.”

A metabolic training workout consists of 20 or 30 second sets of intense work combined with 10 to 15 second rests repeated four times with a minute break before rotating stations.

“It’s a very high calorie burn,” Rose said. “You can burn, like, nine times more fat than a steady state cardio and treadmill. That’s very popular right now with training protocols.”

This method of exercise is all over the Internet, she said. The workout utilizes more than one muscle and raises heart rates, which uses many calories and much energy to complete.

“The science supports it, so the results are there,” Rose said.

“People change quickly and once they see results, they tell their friends so word of mouth gets a lot of people there.”

Metabolic training is especially effective for a certain group of people, she said.

“Intense workouts for short periods of time even affects

the brain that has to deal with ADHD,” Rose said, “or college kids who don’t like studying.”

Wi t h i n t h e s e s s i o n s s h e teaches, she said no one wants to actually get bigger. Even men are trying to obtain an athletic look rather than gaining bulk.

“People want that athletic look, which is conducive to a faster tempo and bigger strength training moves,” Rose said, “just those same metabolic training.”

One Texas Tech student who is utilizing a form of metabolic training is Lauren Stolen, a junior psychology major from The Woodlands. She has been involved in CrossFit for about 11 months, beginning when she grew tired of her normal gym routine. She is now a certified CrossFit trainer.

“I love it because it is never boring,” she said. “It shows me my weaknesses in the gym and outside of the gym and it is true grit. There is always something you can get better at.”

CrossFit has changed her life, Stolen said.

“You will be able to do things you couldn’t do last year,” she said, “last month or even yesterday.”

Exercise is not the only area of fitness that has trends. Methods of popular dieting also are constantly changing, Rose said.

One diet people are questioning her about recently is the shredder diet, which is set up how a diabetic should eat with equal protein, fat and carbs.

Another form of dieting people are trying is fasting, sometimes up to 14 days, she said.

“Those can be tempting because you lose weight quickly, but within two or three days you have no energy to even carry out your exercise routine,” Rose said, “so it’s a little counter-intuitive because you want to lose weight quickly, but then you no longer have the energy because a fast or cleanse is minimal food

or no food at all, or just fruits and vegetables.”

Rose does not recommend any of these methods. She said to advocate cleaner eating by consuming foods closest to its original state and avoiding processed foods; omitting alcohol, sugar and bread from meals; and eating plenty of fruits, vegetables and lean proteins.

“The less processed food, the less fast food someone eats, the better your body can process it and digest it and have less cellulite and less extra water weight,” she said. “You just look better almost immediately when you get rid of those things from your diet.”

Zach Morrow is another Bodyworks trainer who recommends no particular diet.

“Just stick to whole foods, lean meats, complex carbohydrates and healthy fats,” he said, “such as olive oil, avocadoes and lots of fruits and vegetables.”

A new way to track calories are phone apps, Rose said, such as iFit. This app even connects to treadmills at Bodyworks and sends records of workouts directly to the user. She encourages people interested in losing weight to utilize such apps and to exercise more and eat less.

“There’s always going to be a fad diet,” she said, “and when you talk to people who have successively lost weight and have kept it off, it’s always going to come back to they watched what they ate and they added activity to their life, however it may be.”

Stolen does not recommend using cleanses or diets pills either. Dieting and exercising should be viewed as a lifestyle change, she said, and require patience and no cheating.

“Progression is the key,” Stolen said. “Take your time, do your research and find what works for you.” ➤➤atubbs@dailytoreador.com

Actress Ashley Judd won’t run for Senate FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Actress Ashley Judd announced Wednesday she won’t run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, saying she had given serious thought to a campaign but decided her responsibilities and energy need to be focused on her family.

The former Kentucky resident tweeted her decision.

“Regretfully, I am currently unable to consider a campaign for the Senate.

I have spoken to so many Kentuckians over these last few months who expressed their desire for a fighter for the people & new leader,” Judd wrote.

“While that won’t be me at this time, I will continue to work as hard as I can to ensure the needs of Kentucky families are met by returning this Senate seat to whom it rightfully belongs: the people & their needs, dreams, and great potential. Thanks for even considering me as that person & know how much I love our Commonwealth.

Thank you!”

Her publicist Cara Tripicchio confirmed Judd’s decision.

The 44-year-old Judd had hinted last week that she was nearing a decision about the race.

Now living in suburban Nashville, Tenn., Judd has said little publicly about her intentions. However, she has been meeting with several Democratic leaders, including Gov. Steve Beshear, to discuss a possible run.

Defeating McConnell would be the Democrats’ biggest prize of the 2014 election. His seat is one of 14 that Republicans are defending while Democrats try to hold onto 21, hoping to retain or add to their 55-45 edge.

The star of such films as “Double Jeopardy” and “Kiss the Girls” is known for her liberal political views and she would have been running in a largely conservative state where Republicans hold both Senate seats and five of the six seats in the U.S. House.

Former State Treasurer Jonathan Miller, a Judd supporter, said she would have been a strong candidate.

“As a Kentuckian and someone who was really enthusiastic about her as a candidate, this wasn’t the news I was hoping for,” Miller said. “But as her friend, from the first time we talked about the race last summer, I was very candid about the grueling nature of politics. It’s become a very unpleasant business and running

against Mitch McConnell would be an extraordinarily difficult and grueling experience.”

McConnell, who spent some $20 million on his last election and who has already raised $10 million for the next one, had already been taunting would-be Democratic challengers in a comical online video intended to raise second thoughts about taking

on a politician known as brawler. The video plays on the fact that Judd lives in Tennessee.

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Tech track and field heads to Texas Relays in Austin

By ELLEN CHAPPELL STAFF WRITER

Texas Tech track and field will take the best of its teams to Austin this weekend to compete in the Texas Relays.

The Texas Relays have become more focused on the high school track performance, but the professionals and high performance athletes at the collegiate level will compete this weekend. Tech will send a handful of athletes from both its men’s and women’s teams and are hoping for good results.

“They (Texas Relays) have limited fields,” Tech coach Wes Kittley said They are hosting the NCAA first round, so all the Minnesotas and the UCLA, the whole West Coast is coming, they have limited entry so a lot of our kids didn’t get in. So, we are mostly taking the people that have the best marks and have an opportunity to score. I think we have about 14 guys and we have about 15 girls, so it’s a pretty even score.”

While some athletes leave to compete in Austin, the others will be stay to gain their strengths back and get in another day of practice.

“It’s an opportunity to train here and to gain an extra day

of training and to take care of injuries and also just to rest,” Kittley said. “We’ve been going, going, going and this is an opportunity for a lot of kids to just utilize the next two or three weeks to get ahead.”

The excitement seems to be spreading throughout the team.

Sophomore sprinter Cierra White said her past experience with the meet has been pleasant and she hopes to have another good meet this year.

Kittley said athletes will be up against some tough competition with the limited entry but White has the confidence to repeat her good performance last year.

“It actually motivates me, it just makes me want to go out there and do better and try my best and possibly win,” White said. “My coach, too, he has faith in me and knowing that just makes me feel better.”

With competition coming from the west coast comes former Tech athlete, Julian Wr u c k , w h o w i l l c o m p e t e against Tech’s leading shot putter sophomore Kole Weldon.

Weldon said he and Wruck remain friends and he is excited to see what he brings to the competition at the Texas Relays.

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TEXAS TECH’S KATIE Grimes and Precious Nwokey leap over a hurdle in the 100-meter hurdles race during the Red Raider Open on Saturday at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track and Field Complex. Grimes and Nwokey finished in second and first place respectively.

“It’s going to be fun to see how he’s doing but also I do have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder,” he said, “when he was here he was the big dog so I would like to give him a run for his money.”

The Texas Relays’ start week is early this year and Kittley said though he is trying to keep his excitement down about it and he expects it to give his athletes an insight to where they stand among the other

athletes along with a great experience.

“It’s always a fun time — Texas Relays,” he said. “It’s the first kind of big meet of the year, and you get to go see all the Texas high schools. It’s

a huge high school meet along with the best in the country as the nation goes. I’m excited for the men and the women to be there and to see kind of how we stack up early in the year.” ➤➤echappell@dailytoreador.com

Houston Texans continue free agent signing spree, acquire FB Greg Jones needed since Vonta Leach left for Baltimore after the 2010 season.

Jones said he was drawn to the Texans after studying their roster and offensive scheme.

“It looked like it would be a good fit for me, because they have an excellent run game and they use the fullback,” Jones said in a conference call.

“Other teams that I was looking at and talking to throughout the process, they didn’t really use the fullback as much as Houston did. I think it is a good situation for me to come in and be another piece of the puzzle.”

The Jaguars drafted Jones in the second round in 2004, and he helped Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew to a total

for Arian Foster, the NFL’s of five 1,000-yard seasons. leading rushHe’s given a lot of er in 2010, thought to and Ben Tate, who ran for playing for 942 yards in another team 2011. for the first time in his “They are NFL career. two phenom“It’s going enal runners,” Jones to be differsaid. “I just ent, but it’s a looked back new chapter at the last in my life, it’s the next couple of years and stage in my what they’ve life and it’s GREG JONES been able to something I FULLBACK do together. chose to do,” HOUSTON TEXANS he said. “I Even though they’re both think I made the right decision.” great runners, they’re not the Now, Jones will get to block same. I’m just coming in to just

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It looked like it would be a good fit for me, because they have an excellent run game ...

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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans continued their rally in free agency Wednesday, signing fullback Greg Jones.

The 6-foot-1 Jones is the third free agent to sign with Houston since Friday, joining safety Ed Reed and punter Shane Lechler.

The Texans needed a fullback after James Casey signed with Philadelphia after free agency opened.

Houston also cut receiver Kevin Walter and lost outside linebacker Connor Barwin (Philadelphia) and safety Glover Quin (Detroit).

Jones is not a perennial Pro Bowl player like Reed and Lechler, but he’s a sturdy, dependable blocker Houston has

pave the way for them so they can help me look good at the end of the day.”

Jones said the Texans’ recent success was a factor in his decision. Jacksonville hasn’t had a winning season since 2007, while Houston has won the last two AFC South titles.

The Texans openly spoke about Super Bowl aspirations before last season, but they lost in the divisional playoffs for the second straight year.

“That was one of my main reasons for coming here,” Jones said. “I’ve got more years behind me than in front of me.

My window of opportunity is getting slimmer and slimmer every year, so that was one of my main reasons. I’m just trying to help them get to the

next level and just help to get there.”

Jones, who turns 32 next Thursday, ran for a career-high 575 yards and four touchdowns in 2005. He missed the 2006 season with a torn left anterior cruciate ligament, then played in all 16 games in 2007.

He gradually moved from running back to fullback and credits former Jacksonville running backs coach Kennedy Pola with helping him make the transition.

“Without him, I wouldn’t be playing fullback the way I am today,” he said. “He laid a good foundation for me and taught me some of the good techniques. It is what it is. I’ve been trying to take it to the next level.”

Tweet from Griner at half: ‘Need two more dunks’ WACO (AP) — Brittney Griner had enough time at intermission of her final home game for Baylor to do a bit of tweeting.

Griner became the first woman with three dunks in a game in Baylor’s 85-47 victory over Florida State in the NCAA tournament Tuesday night. She had one before

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halftime, when the 6-foot-8 star apparently tweeted that she wanted two more in her last home game for the Lady Bears.

“Need two more dunks on home court for the best crowd ever! (hash)BaylorNation” read a tweet posted from Griner’s account, (at) Brittney4Griner. The timeline would

match when Baylor was at halftime, leading the Seminoles 51-20.

Griner then had two more dunks in a 79-second span after the break. The last was a reverse one-handed slam after grabbing a rebound between three Seminoles not long before she came out of the game for good.

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Tech will return to the courts to take on Louisville at 1 p.m. Sunday in Kentucky.

“Louisville is a team that’s very similar to us in the rankings and somebody that we’ve had some great battle with,” Siegel said, “so we know we’re going to have to play well, especially on the road.”

“Hugo and Fran played well at five and six,” Siegel said.

“Felipe’s continued to play well at 3, and I like the fact that Diaz had a battle at two, so this was a good match against a team that’s been struggling.”

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Astros face tough road ahead HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros and their staff think they’ll be much better than they were last season.

They’re about the only ones with that opinion.

Prognosticators and pundits across the country don’t see any way the Astros can avoid finishing last in the majors for the third straight year.

The odds are stacked against a Houston team that has just five players on the 40-man roster with more than two years of major league experience and the league’s lowest payroll. Add to that the move from the NL Central to the powerful AL West and things look even more daunting.

It will be tough, most figure, for this team to avoid becoming the first to lose at least 106 games in three straight seasons since the expansion Mets did it from 1962-65.

First-year manager Bo Porter, the former Nationals third base coach, has worked to instill a winning attitude in the Astros all spring, and has implored them not to listen to the critics.

“Ignore the noise,” he said he tells the players. “It doesn’t matter what anybody has to say — at the end of the day, on March 31, it’s the Houston Astros vs. the Texas Rangers. It’s us against the other team. All the predictions and other things go

out the window.”

Still, it’s difficult to envision this team being competitive with a payroll of $25.9 million, and that figure includes the $4.5 million Houston will pay Pittsburgh as part of the deal that sent pitcher Wandy Rodriguez there last season. Without that $4.5 million, the entire team will make about $6.5 million less than Alex Rodriguez alone will earn this season.

“The one thing that you can never account for in competitive sports is what lies inside of a man,” said Porter, who was part of the recent turnaround in Washington.

“We’ve all seen enough baseball and we’ve seen enough competition to know that a lot of times that will and that desire and that passion — a lot of times it wins out.”

“Now, is that going to translate over a 162-game season? Nobody has the answer to that,” he said.

“None of us has a crystal ball. We don’t know.”

Opening day starter Bud Norris is the highest-paid player on the team with a salary of $3 million. He’ll try to bounce back from a tough 2012 season where he went 7-13 with a 4.65 ERA. Following him in the rotation will be Lucas Harrell, who was Houston’s most successful starter last season with an 11-11 record and 3.76 ERA.

The Astros added Philip Humber, who threw a perfect game last season with the White Sox, to pitch third in the rotation. The perfecto was the highlight of a disappointing season overall where he went 5-5 with a 6.44 ERA. Erik Bedard will be the fifth starter and Alex White and Brad Peacock are battling to round out the rotation.

Houston’s biggest offseason acquisition was slugger Carlos Pena, who will likely be the team’s firstever designated hitter. The 34-yearold is coming off a season where he hit just .197 with a career-high 182 strikeouts.

“That’s a reason we targeted Carlos Pena — No. 1, he has experience as a DH,” Porter said. “There are some finer points to being a DH. What you don’t want is a young guy, who has never DHed before, and then you don’t have a veteran, and then all of a sudden you put them in a DH spot and it almost acts as four pinch hits.”

Pena is hoping he’ll get some work in the field instead of only at designated hitter.

“I want to play first base every single day,” he said. “I love fielding.

I love that. I want to do it as long as I possibly can. However, I’m part of this ball club and I just want to be ready for whatever our manager decides is the way to use me.”

The Astros also added Pena, who has 277 homers in his 12year career, to give their young clubhouse a veteran presence.

Another new addition to Houston’s lineup is left fielder Chris Carter. Carter came to Houston just before spring training in a trade that sent veteran shortstop Jed Lowrie to Oakland.

The Astros like the potential for power of the 26-year-old, who hit 16 homers in 67 games last season for the A’s. He and third baseman Brett Wallace could also see time at DH. After failing to see what they hoped for from either Tyler Greene or Marwin Gonzalez in spring training, the Astros recently signed veteran infielder Ronny Cedeno.

The 30-year-old Cedeno should be a good influence on promising 22-year-old second baseman Jose Altuve. Altuve was one of the only bright spots of last season for Houston when he hit .290 and made the All-Star team.

Harrell said things have already changed under the guidance of Porter this spring.

“I wouldn’t say the attitude was bad here,” he said. “It was just that it wasn’t necessarily a winning attitude ... and so that’s what we’re trying to change.”

Ogwumike makes big travel plans for after NCAAs STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — A few days after Stanford’s season ends, Chiney Ogwumike will pack her bags and leave for one of her longest and most important road trips yet.

The Pac-12 Player of the Year is headed to her parents’ native Nigeria to be an intern with the Minister of Petroleum. Yes, that’s right.

“Right after our season ends I would have a few days to pack up and head over to Nigeria and that would be for a 6- to 8-week span of time,” Ogwumike said. “I realized, ‘Hey, Chiney, it’s way more than a game, you have to start making plans for your future,’ and I had the opportunity.”

She will be a job shadow of sorts, and this all counts toward the study-abroad requirement for her international relations major.

Ogwumike also will work through the charity “Access to Success” to build a basketball court.

So, off she goes for the spring quarter.

As long as the NCAA signs off on it, that is. Ogwumike expects to

know any day whether college athletics’ governing body will accept her proposal for a leave of absence, but considering that she is ahead in her major “it’s looking good” that she’ll get the formal go-ahead.

“I fell in love with the major and I didn’t want to do any other majors,” she said. “But I knew that would be difficult because our season has the tendency of running all year long, making it hard for me to study abroad within the year.”

Ogwumike leads top-seeded Stanford (33-2) into the Spokane

Regional semifinals Saturday against No. 4 seed Georgia riding a 19-game winning streak. There’s still plenty of basketball to think about before she goes abroad.

Initially, she figured she would take the trip during the summer, “but I fell in love with the summer school system where I like to get ahead in my academics, and that was so important to me, especially this year, because I knew it would be a big year.”

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Lester, Red Sox lose to Miami FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Before taking the mound Wednesday against Miami, Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester knew he was going to be Boston’s opening day starter.

Red Sox manager John Farrell made the announcement earlier in the day and Lester then went out and threw four scoreless innings, giving up two hits with no walks with four strikeouts in a 4-1 loss to the Marlins.

“It’s been a real good spring for him,” said Farrell. “He’s been sharp. He’s been consistent. Today was no different. Multiple pitches for strikes. He’d had the benefit of pitching against this club previous so I think he had some understand-

ing of their aggressiveness.

“And once again, very much in control. Made some quality pitches on the rare occasion when he did get behind in the count. But a very good spring for Jon.” In six spring outings spanning 24 innings, Lester has allowed just two runs on eight hits and four walks with 20 strikeouts. With an ERA of 0.75, he said his spring could not have gone much better.

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Baylor women having fun pursuing 2nd title WACO (AP) — Brittney Griner stopped at the edge of the podium, pulled out her iPhone and made a goofy face.

Before taking a self-portrait in front of the NCAA tournament backdrop after her final home game for Baylor, when she became the first woman with three dunks in a game, the 6-foot-8 Griner had teammates Brooklyn Pope and Odyssey Sims join her with silly grins of their own.

When coach Kim Mulkey turned and saw what was going on behind her, she started laughing.

These Lady Bears are having fun and making the most of the time they have left together — less than two weeks now and only four wins away from a second consecutive national championship.

Baylor (34-1), in the NCAA round of 16 for the fourth year in a row, plays Louisville (26-8) on Sunday night in Oklahoma City.

Griner had a fitting farewell at the Ferrell Center with 33 points, a career-high 22 rebounds and that trio of impressive dunks. The last two slams came after a tweet at halftime of the 85-47 victory over Florida State on Tuesday night.

In describing how her team is playing right now, Mulkey said: ‘It’s scary good. And it’s not just Brittney.”

But Griner, one of five Lady Bears seniors, does create the most impressive highlights.

For her first dunk in the home finale, Griner caught a pass on the move from freshman Niya Johnson, took one more step without a dribble and went up for a one-handed slam. A tweet

posted during halftime from Griner’s account read: “Need two more dunks on home court for the best crowd ever!”

And she delivered with two slams in a 79-second span of the second half not long before she came out of the game for good.

Griner got another pass from Johnson, waited for a defender to move past and for a one-handed dunk. Soon after that, Griner grabbed the rebound of a missed 3-pointer while surrounded by three Seminoles and had a reverse slam.

After winning the Big 12 tournament championship with a 28-point victory over Kansas State, the Lady Bears opened the NCAA tourney with an 8240 win over Prairie View. The NCAA’s top overall seed then scored the game’s first 11 points and had a 31-point halftime

lead against Florida State on way to its 33rd consecutive victory overall and 57th in a row at home.

“If you look at our numbers across the board, it’s not just Brittney’s numbers,” Mulkey said. “If you look at Odyssey’s numbers, Destiny Williams’ field goal percentage, our free throw percentage.”

While Griner has averaged 33 points and 11 1/2 rebounds the past six games, Williams has made two-thirds of her field goal attempts (38 of 58) in the last eight games, even with a 2-for6 night against the Seminoles.

Sims has 41 assists with only 13 turnovers (seven coming in one game) in the same seven-game span when the Lady Bears are shooting 57 percent from the field as a team.

Baylor is 72-2 at home since

the arrival of the senior trio of Griner, Kimetria Hayden and Jordan Madden. Griner played in only one of those losses, missing the regular season finale of her freshman season, a loss to Texas.

The Lady Bears have won every home game the past three seasons since point guard Sims arrived the same year that transfers Destiny Williams and Pope, the other current seniors, were able to start playing for the team. Sims can extend the home winning streak next season, but Griner and the other Lady Bears seniors will end their careers on the road — preferably by lifting another national championship trophy in New Orleans on April 9.

The last time Baylor didn’t make it past the NCAA round of 16 was 2009, before any of the

current players, when Louisville won 56-39 in a third-round game. Now Baylor gets Louisville again.

In the other game at Oklahoma City on Sunday, Oklahoma plays Tennessee. Baylor has won six in a row against the Big 12 rival Sooners and last season beat the Lady Vols in another NCAA regional.

Mulkey said her players don’t feel any pressure in trying to repeat as national champs.

“Getting another (national title) would be icing on the cake,” Mulkey said. “If you don’t win, would you be disappointed?

Absolutely, we would be disappointed. But it won’t be because of pressure to do it again.

“Their personality, they don’t engage in pressure very much,” she said. “It’s go play, let’s go play. We know we’re good.”

Zimmerman hits 3 HRs, powers Nationals over Braves against Rodriguez, and both were ter. . It’s nice to start getting going.” on the first pitch. The second was The Nationals have one game left in Viera on Thursday against a three-run shot.

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“I hit the ball good,” Zimmer- the Nationals have pretty much man said. “I’m starting to feel bet- known what their opening day

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It’s almost the exact same as last year. It’s kind of an advantage for us because we get to use this time to get back to what we were doing last year.

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VIERA, Fla. (AP) — Ryan Zimmerman has already told Nationals manager Davey Johnson that he needs only 50 at-bats in spring training to be ready for the regular season.

Washington’s third baseman, who had 48 at-bats coming into Wednesday’s game against Atlanta, homered three times to lead a split squad of Nationals to an 11-2 win over the Braves.

“I guess as soon as Zim gets his 50 at-bats, he’s ready,” Johnson joked.

Zimmerman wasn’t the only one to go deep for the Nationals, who got a pair of home runs from catcher Wilson Ramos and another from Tyler Moore. Four of Washington’s six homers came against reliever Daniel Rodriguez, who gave up eight runs in two-plus innings.

Ramos and Zimmerman each had four RBIs. Both of Ramos’ home runs came

roster will look like.

“We’ve pretty much known all spring what our team is,” Zimmerman said. “It’s almost the exact same as last year. It’s kind of an advantage for us because we get to use this time to get back to doing what we were doing last year. .. We have a good team. We just have to keep getting better.”

Zimmerman may be on track for opening day, but Atlanta catcher Gerald Laird admittedly needed some work after being slowed earlier this spring by a calf injury.

Laird and teammate Evan Gattis hit back-to-back home runs off Washington starter Ross Detwiler in the sixth inning.

“I’m starting to feel good at the right time,” Laird said.

It was Laird’s second game in a row, but only his 12th of the spring.

He has had just 25 at-bats.

“I’m going to try to catch tomorrow, too, so I can go three in a

row,” Laird said. “It was nice to get back out there and try to get your timing going. The first day, you’re kind of excited. .. It was a good all-around day.”

Ramiro Pena had three hits for the Braves.

Moore, who followed Ramos’ first homer with one of his own, was starting in place of Bryce Harper, who did not even take batting practice to rest his injured left thumb.

Harper was jammed with a pitch in Tuesday’s game against Miami.

He had originally experienced pain and swelling in the thumb after getting jammed with a pitch March 22 against Detroit.

The left fielder, who is batting .476 this spring, has reached base in his last 10 plate appearances. He told reporters Wednesday he would have been able to play if it were a regular-season game.

As it stands, though, Harper’s status is up in the air for the final

two games — Thursday in Viera and Friday in D.C. — as a precaution before the season opener.

“Whenever you get jammed, it hurts.” Harper said. “(Tuesday), I got jammed a little bit. It hurt pretty bad. I woke up this morning and it felt fine. It’s just a matter of getting through it and playing through it. I don’t think it’s going to hold me down or anything. I have a pretty high pain tolerance.”

Harper experienced a similar situation in his first season at ClassA Hagerstown, but said this injury isn’t nearly as severe. He has been wearing a foam pad on his thumb during batting practice, and may be forced to wear it during a game.

“It feels pretty uncomfortable, but I’m going to have to get used to it because I don’t want to get jammed up and keep dealing with it,” Harper said. “We’ll see what happens, see how it feels and go from there.”