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Tech students, Lubbock community share opinions on accessibility, use of marijuana

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Editor’s Note: Names with an asterisk next to it have been changed for privacy reasons.

Out of 107 Texas Tech students surveyed, more than half said they were only one phone call away from accessing marijuana.

Between Nov. 19, 2013, and Nov. 21, 2013, The Daily Toreador conducted an unscientific, intercept survey from the College of Media and Communication building to the Engineering Key, asking students how many phone calls away they were from gaining access to marijuana in Lubbock.

Out of the 107 students surveyed, 56 said they were one phone call away, 30 said two phone calls away, three said three phone calls away, three said four phone calls away, one said more than 10 phone calls away and 14 students had no idea.

Although students may know how to access the drug, it does not mean there are not consequences involved.

According to the information released because of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, Tech documented 261 total drug law violation occurrences in 2012, which is 114 more than the University of Texas and 196 more than Texas A&M dur-

ing that year.

During the 2013 fall semester, Tech had 7,025 of its 33,111 students living on campus (21.22 percent), Texas A&M had 7,488 of its 53,337 (14.04 percent) and Texas had 7,300 of its 52,059 students living on campus (14.02 percent).

The Clery Act, according to its website, was first enacted in 1990 and requires colleges and universities to publish an annual security report, keep a public crime log, disclose crime statistics that occur on campus and at certain non-campus facilities, and other information about each university.

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Marijuana has addictive behaviors, Local law enforcement shed light thoughts on legalization of drug on consequences of marijuana use

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Once the sweet taste of a cupcake hits one’s lips, a second bite is probably in the near future.

Colt Smith, executive director of Hub City NORML, said marijuana is as addictive as a cupcake, but less addictive than harder drugs, like cocaine.

Marijuana is often referred to as a gateway drug, leading a person to start experimenting with more addictive and harder drugs.

However, Smith described marijuana as more of an exit drug.

He spent six years of his life addicted to opium, and said pain pills consumed his life for many years.

George Comiskey, associate director for external relations for the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery, said he would not recommend using marijuana as an exit drug, but he can see how it would help some people.

“It can be kind of a replacement drug,” he said. “My concern as an alcohol and drug abuse counselor would be that you’re just going to get addicted to another chemical, and I want people to live their life fully and to have a full physical, mental, spiritual existence.”

The center Comiskey works for serves as a resource to Texas Tech students in recovery from alcohol or substance abuse, as well as offering a relapse prevention plan.

Although marijuana may be easily accessible, that does not mean it is legal.

In Texas, if an individual is caught with 2 ounces or less of marijuana, it is classified as a Class B misdemeanor and the individual could face 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine. Possession of 2 to 4 ounces is a Class A misdemeanor, one year in jail and a $4,000 fine, and 4 ounces to 5 pounds is a state jail felony, a minimum of 180 days in jail and up to two years with a $10,000 fine.

“Consequences are just going to depend, like on drug-free zones and, obviously, there are going to be a lot of drug-free zones around campuses and parks,” Sgt. Jason Lewis with the Lubbock Police Department said. “Just to start off with though, it’s a Class B misdemeanor, which is only going to go up from there, but that first time it’s going to be a Class B misdemeanor.”

The Texas Tech Police Department works with all local law enforcement agencies, including the Lubbock Police Department, to obtain the statistics that appear in the Clery Act Report each year.

The Clery Act, according to its website, was first enacted in 1990 and requires colleges and universities to publish an annual security report, keep a public crime log, disclose crime statistics that occur on campus and at certain non-campus facilities, and other information about each university.

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TOTAL OCCURRENCES: 261 ON-CAMPUS PROPERTY

ARREST: 72 REFFERAL: 167

ON-CAMPUS STUDENT HOUSING

ARREST: 38 REFFERAL: 167

ON ADJACENT PUBLIC PROPERTY

ARREST: 22 REFFERAL: 0

ON NON-CAMPUS BUILDINGS OR PROPERTY

ARREST: 0 REFFERAL: 0

POSSESSION

TOTAL OCCURRENCES: 149 ON-CAMPUS PROPERTY

ARREST: 31 REFFERAL: 15

ON-CAMPUS STUDENT HOUSING

ARREST: 15 REFFERAL: 31

ON ADJACENT PUBLIC PROPERTY

ARREST: 35 REFFERAL: 0

ON NON-CAMPUS BUILDINGS OR PROPERTY

ARREST: 22 REFFERAL: 0

TOTAL OCCURRENCES: 65 ON-CAMPUS PROPERTY

ARREST: 36 REFFERAL: 0

ON-CAMPUS STUDENT HOUSING

ARREST: 9 REFFERAL: 0

ON ADJACENT PUBLIC PROPERTY

ARREST: 0 REFFERAL: 0

ON NON-CAMPUS BUILDINGS OR PROPERTY

ARREST: 20 REFFERAL: 0

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New Tech Graduate Student Center opens

By KAYLIN MCDERMETT Staff Writer

Graduate students now have an exclusive, unique meeting and study space following the official ribbon cutting of the new Graduate Student Center on Tuesday.

Provost Lawrence Schovanec said the new center will allow graduate students and faculty to come together and continue to develop their education.

“Certainly, the faculty and graduate students want to be in an environment where they can continue to develop their aspirations, to engage in research,” he said. “What matters to them is the quality of their peers and their colleagues. Faculty want to be around other highly respected, successful faculty, and graduate students want to work with those kinds of faculty members.”

The Graduate Student Center is one of the only spaces on campus directed exclusively toward graduate students and their specific needs. The center is located in the basement of the west wing in the Administration Building.

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According to the Clery Act, a drug violation is the violation of laws prohibiting the production, distribution and/ or use of certain controlled substances, and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or use.

Although marijuana is illegal in Texas, there is one local group working to change that for the future.

Colt Smith, the executive director of Hub City NORML, a branch of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said accessing marijuana in Lubbock is not a problem.

“Access of cannabis in Lubbock is not difficult at all,” he said. “It’s easy, and that shows us that prohibition does not prevent access and it has never done that since prohibition has started — access has become easier. Marijuana has become more potent and it has become less expensive.”

He also said there is a misconception about the typical marijuana user.

“One of the major misconceptions, I believe, is that many people who are not cannabis users visualize what they consider the stereotypical cannabis user,” Smith said. “And we know what this looks like. This is a long-bearded hippie wearing tie-dye, on his couch for a number of days, living in his mom’s basement.”

However, that is not the case, he said. People from different races and demographics support legal marijuana use. *Bethany has maintained a 3.8 GPA

ity will provide graduate students with a meeting and networking location, quiet study space and professional development activities, according to the Graduate Student Advisory Council.

The GSAC has been working on the center since the fall of 2012, when the organization first acquired the space and developed the layout and design.

Jacek Jonca-Jasinski, director of graduate life, and Gloria Park, GSAC secretary and research assistant, were in charge of hiring designers, contractors and other professionals to work on the space, according to the GSAC website.

Alongside the professionals, many graduate students also helped to paint, build and decorate the space.

The opening ceremony also acknowledged notable contributions from Peggy Gordon Miller, Dominick Casadonte, Juan Sanchez Munoz and members of the GSAC. Vice-Provost and Graduate School Dean Mark Sheridan said graduate students are a large part of the university, and are directly correlated to the research taking place on campus.

“The graduate students here at Tech really do underscore the ability of this university to become a premiere university,” he said. “There is a direct relationship between the number of grad students, the size and scope of our graduate education enterprise, and our research capability.”

The ribbon cutting was the first phase of the goals of the GSAC. Meetings and workshops will move to the center and continue to educate graduate students.

Schovanec said one goal the university wants to focus on is giving graduate students an environment where they can continue to learn.

“We want to create a culture here where graduate students thrive,” he said. “Take this as a place of refuge where you can relax, but keep in mind that Texas Tech cares about you.”

President M. Duane Nellis said his congratulations to all the members and staff of GSAC who worked together to complete the Graduate Student Center.

“Congratulations to everyone that had a role to play in this important development in having this graduate student lounge,” he said.

“Thank you again for your leadership and the Graduate Student Advisory

Council and also the support that came from a lot of people to make

within her respective college during her three years as a student at Tech.

At one time, she dealt marijuana to a small group of people. Although she no longer sells marijuana, she continues to smoke the illegal drug.

“For certain people like myself,” Bethany said, “I use it for (chronic insomnia,) because I’ve tried medication.

I’ve tried everything to get sleep. And it makes you sick when you don’t get a lot of sleep and the medication they give you is so much worse for you and it makes you groggy the next day, and weed never did that for me.”

In the past, she said she would sell the drug to friends, but after disapproval from her roommates and apartment complex, she stopped.

Because of the risks associated with handling marijuana, she said she discourages students from selling marijuana. “(It’s) not exactly a smart thing,” she said. “I don’t recommend it to people because you get involved with, like, really crappy people and some people, like your typical college student, is just like, ‘Oh, yeah, everybody come over.

We’re just going to get stoned.’ And then you have those people that are, like, really greedy and, like, psychotic and they don’t share with anybody and you don’t steal from them or just dumb stuff like that.”

During the period when Bethany sold marijuana, she said she came in contact with people who were dependent on the drug, as well as other dealers, who made her feel uncomfortable.

Although she said she never smoked

marijuana on a daily basis, she continues to smoke to help her sleep occasionally.

Otherwise, she’s only able to get three to five hours per night between her anxiety and insomnia.

“I don’t think, in my opinion, because I’m a Christian, and being a Christian, I don’t think God would put something on the earth if we weren’t meant to use it,” she said. “We have all these freaking pills and we give people, like, ‘Oh, you can’t sleep? Have this. Oh, you have trouble waking up? Well, have this,’ and putting all these chemicals in our body when we have access to things like marijuana that can actually help us as opposed to other drugs.” *Derek is a former Texas Tech student who stayed fit and healthy during his time at college. He, too, smoked and continues to smoke marijuana.

The former NCAA athlete said he smoked marijuana every day while on a Tech team. He started smoking when he was 9 years old. “(I smoked) before workout,” Derek said, “before class, when I took a break from class, before practice, after practice.”

He said smoking did not hinder his abilities at practice, and he knew other athletes who smoked too.

Tech Athletics gives athletes a 24-hour notice before each drug test, Derek said.

“First (failed test), you get counseling,” he said. “Second one, you get suspended from, like, one game and third one you lose your scholarship.”

After reaching out to Tech Athletics, they declined to be interviewed for

the story.

As far as gaining access to marijuana in Lubbock, Derek said it is not a difficult task.

“It’s not hard to find drugs in Lubbock,” he said. “You just gotta know who to talk to and what questions to ask.” *Lacey is involved in several organizations on campus. She, like the others, smokes marijuana.

She said she smokes about twice per week mainly for social purposes and occasionally to help her sleep.

“Maybe after a long day or something, it’s like an alternative to alcohol for a way to just relax,” Lacey said.

As she has gotten older, going out and drinking does not appeal to her as much, so instead, she smokes when hanging out with friends.

Lacey said she believes about half of those at Tech who are as involved as she is smoke marijuana, as well.

She said she also knows some people who deal the drug.

If caught smoking or high, Lacey said she would get in trouble with her organizations, but typically, it’s hard for them to catch someone.

“I think it’s more like a, ‘Don’t do it,’” she said, “and if they find out, you’re going to be in trouble, but that’s another thing I think about smoking is, it’s not like you can really tell. It’s not like you’re drunk or totally intoxicated.” *Alex also was involved in organizations on campus during his time at Tech. He smoked and sold marijuana while in school.

When he first arrived on campus, he said the residence halls restricted him

and his friends from smoking in their rooms, so they smoked at a friend’s house off campus any chance they had.

But by his sophomore year, Alex said he was smoking every day.

That is also when he began selling.

He said because of his success selling marijuana, he did not have to work.

“It wasn’t always about the money,” Alex said. “I mean smoking for free was a big thing. Like, I never paid for weed except to buy it, but I made that back, but I don’t know. I’d save up a couple grand every now and then, but like I said it was more just for side money more than anything, smoking for free.”

He estimated he sold about 2 ounces of marijuana per week to about seven to 10 consistent customers — mostly Tech students.

Having people in and out of his home never scared him much, unless he dealt with Lubbock community members.

“College students never worried me,” Alex said. “No, not at all. Just Lubbock locals.”

He explained one close call with the law when the Drug Enforcement Administration raided the person from whom he was buying his marijuana.

They watched his dealer for more than a year, but soon everything died down, he said.

“So many other college students were dealing the same amount of weed, if not a little bit more than I was,” Alex said, “so it was just like I never felt like they’d waste their time.”

Before landing a post-graduation job, he often was required to take a drug test before being hired. Alex used a detox cleanser before the tests.

“You’re supposed to drink it a few hours before,” he said. “I drank it a few hours before I took my test, peed a couple of times, and then went and peed in a cup and passed.”

While he considered quitting smoking before graduation, Alex decided he did not need to.

“I couldn’t do that, just because, one: I don’t need six months to get clean from this,” he said. “But, every now and then in the back of my head, I always knew about detoxes, so as long as I had at least a couple of days notice, I could be OK. And so, I thought about it, but never was too worried to actually stop.”

Alex said he has made a more mindful effort to cut back, but said he still smokes about every other day.

For him, he said it is mainly habitual, not addictive.

Smith, with Hub City NORML, compared marijuana addictiveness to cupcakes or caffeine. He also described marijuana as an exit drug as opposed to a gateway drug. Marijuana helped him overcome his six-year opium addiction, he said.

According to WebMD, about 4 percent of Americans smoke marijuana at least once per year. About one in 300 of those adults deal with marijuana addiction.

However, not all people see marijuana as a good thing.

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ism major from Richland Hills, said he is against the use of marijuana.

“First of all, just smoke in the air, it’s not healthy for people, and I was raised in a household that didn’t smoke at all,” he said. “When I got to college it was the first time I was ever really exposed to smoke in the air and it really made me sick. I had to move out of one of my old apartment complexes because my roommates were smoking weed all the time and it was making me sick.”

After being exposed to the marijuana in his former apartment, McGinty said he was frequently nauseous and sick.

Although his parents, who work in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, made him aware of drugs, he said he was not expecting the number of people who use marijuana.

“I would say it’s hard to find people that don’t smoke,” McGinty said.

“People that I know for sure that do not smoke, I would say probably 7 to 8 percent of my friends. Those who do, probably like 92 percent.”

During his freshman year, he remembers several people in his residence hall getting arrested for smoking marijuana in their rooms.

But, McGinty does not think it is just a problem on Tech’s campus.

“I think it’s a problem everywhere,” he said. “I don’t think it’s just a Lubbock thing. I’m sure UT has the same problem, College Station has the same problem — I’m going to say any major university surely has that problem.”

One Tech graduate student who lived in Kansas while he was pursuing his undergraduate degree said he believes the accessibility of marijuana is the same in Lubbock.

“It goes back to understanding and knowing your surroundings,” *Mark said. “It’s about the people you know.

It’s not like it’s easily accessible, but it’s out there.”

As a graduate student and employee of the university, he said he can be subjected to drug tests at any time. He does not smoke and has never smoked.

According to Tech’s Human Resources’ operations manual, securitysensitive level II and commercial driver’s license safety-sensitive position employees can be subjected to drug testing.

However, not all employees are subjected to drug testing. *Luke, who is not a Tech employee, said he smokes about four times per week but is not worried about drug testing.

He said he works for himself, and he performs as a local musician on the side.

He believes marijuana can have positive effects on his performances.

“It actually kind of enhances your hearing in my opinion,” he said, “or maybe just your feel, the feel of the music, just kind of enhances it. And it opens up my mind to what I can do on it.”

Luke started smoking with his friends when he was 14 years old, but has taken breaks from the drug, he said.

He does not think he needs it all the time, but now smokes recreationally. He said about 20 percent of his friends also smoke and it’s not difficult to gain access to marijuana in Lubbock. He said it is easier in Lubbock than other cities he travels to for shows, but with enough time, he said he could probably find marijuana anywhere.

Mark agreed and said marijuana access is not just a problem on Tech’s campus or in Lubbock.

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Tech HSC volunteer honored at ceremony

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started in 1993, but they didn’t start counting hours until ’97, so I have about 6,000 hours total.”

Mohr was honored at the Tech Health Sciences Center for the vast amount of volunteer service hours he has accumulated throughout the years and received the President’s Volunteer Service Award for his dedication to serving the community.

Mohr was also presented with a letter from President Barack Obama congratulating him for

receiving the volunteering award.

Karon McDowell, project director of Lubbock’s Retired S e n i o r Vo l u n t e e r s P r o g r a m , presented the award to Mohr at the ceremony. “ Yo u b e l o n g t o a s p e c i a l generation of people,” she said. “ Yo u h a v e a s e r v i c e h e a r t .

You really don’t expect to be thanked or recognized.”

The Retired Senior Volunteer Program is a volunteer program for individuals 55 and older.

At the award ceremony, Mohr said he has enjoyed the time he has spent as a volunteer.

“I couldn’t have done it without my good wife,” he said. “She let me go for two days a week and now just one day a week. I think she is happy to get me out of the house.”

Dennis Lamb, senior director of patient services, said at the award presentation the amount of hours Mohr has volunteered at the science center is an amount

Clery Act were higher than Texas’ and A&M’s.

“It can be the number of students CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 that are living on campus at any parThe geographical area, as defined ticular time,” Parker said. “It can be the by the Clery Act, is any building or number of officers that are out enforcing property owned or controlled by the particular laws. I think a lot of those university used by the institution numbers that you were looking at are in direct support of, or in a manner referral numbers that are made directly related to, educational purposes. This to the dean of the students office versus also includes non-campus buildings or those that are arrests. property, which the Clery Act defines as “There’s any number of reasons that any building or property owned or con- can go in those particular factors. Also, trolled by a student organization that is you have to look at places like Austin. I officially recognized by the institution know just from personal experience, mi(for example, Greek Circle). nor possessions of marijuana are a lot of Public property in the report, as times avoided by law enforcement. It’s defined by the Clery Act, includes just not enforced because it’s Austin and thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks and it’s a little bit more liberal. It just kind parking facilities that are within the of depends on local law enforcement.” campus or immediately adjacent to and A referral, he said, is any incident accessible from the campus, but not ex- that does not result in an arrest. Unitending beyond the second sidewalk on versity Student Housing or an academic the opposing side of the public property. office can make a referral to the dean of According to the information students for a violation of the Student released because of the Jeanne Clery Code of Conduct.

Disclosure of Campus Security Policy According to Tech’s 2012 Clery and Campus Crime Statistics Act, Act report, of the 261 drug law violaTech documented 261 total drug law tions, 167 were referrals, 72 were onviolation occurrences in 2012, which campus arrests, of which 38 occurred is 114 more than The University of in student housing and 22 additional Texas and 196 more than Texas A&M arrests occurred on off-campus, adjaduring that year. cent public property.

During the 2013 fall semester, “I would think marijuana is probTech had 7,025 of its 33,111 students ably very popular with college students living on campus (21.22 percent), because that’s kind of an age where Texas A&M had 7,488 of its 53,337 that would maybe be attractive to the (14.04 percent), and Texas had 7,300 younger students,” Lewis said, “whereas, of its 52,059 students living on campus I would think methamphetamines, (14.02 percent). probably not so much because it’s kind Cpt. David Parker with Tech PD of dirty. It’s just one of those drugs that said there could be a number of reasons college students probably aren’t going why Tech’s drug law violations in the to use unless it’s in the form of prescrip-

tion, and you’ll see a lot of prescription abuse among college students.”

Marijuana’s popularity also may have something do with its availability, he said.

Individuals can grow it themselves or buy it legally in Colorado and bring it back to Texas, but once the state border is crossed, it is illegal.

“I think a lot of that’s happening, too,” Lewis said, “where people they get that misconception where they’ll go up there and buy it and they end up getting arrested when they’re coming back to Texas or somewhere with it because once they get pulled over with it, they just don’t even think about the fact that you can’t actually possess that here.”

During its first month of legalization, Colorado earned about $14 million in marijuana sales and collected $2 million in taxes, according to The Denver Post.

Lewis said he does not necessarily believe the legalization of marijuana in Colorado has had much effect on the amount of marijuana in Lubbock.

He does not believe most of the marijuana in Lubbock is grown locally, he said, but is brought in from out of state or through the Mexican cartels.

“Every once in a while we’ll get some here where guys will find a grow house and it’s a surprise when you get over there and you find enormous plants,” Lewis said, “you know, and they obviously have quite the business going, but it’s much more common that it’s brought to us.”

Drug paraphernalia also is something people need to be aware of. Possession of drug paraphernalia is a Class C misdemeanor punishable with a $500

fine. Drug paraphernalia is any type of equipment used to produce, package, store and inject, ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce drugs into the body.

Depending on the circumstance, Lewis said some people may only be issued a ticket for drug paraphernalia, but both LPD and Tech PD will arrest someone for possession of marijuana.

“We arrest,” Lewis said. “We’re going to impound your car probably, and if it’s enough, if you have little baggies, we may just keep your car. We may just seize it and we’ll just take it from it, but we’ll also do the same thing for their home. That’s actually happened with college students that were growing.

They had grow houses and they were obviously selling from their home, so we just take it from them.”

Lewis does not believe drugs are just a problem in Lubbock, but something the U.S. is experiencing nationwide.

Marijuana-related arrests, Parker said, can vary from month to month depending on different factors, but generally arrests are higher during the fall and spring semesters as opposed to the summer months and winter break.

He also does not believe it is any more of a problem than alcohol use.

“I’d say alcohol is probably much more of a problem because there’s wider use of alcohol,” he said. “I’ve been with the university now for about 15 years.

Marijuana has always been here. It’s always been kind of a recurring issue. I don’t know if I would say it’s any more of a problem today than it’s been in previous years. I think with the wider acceptance, people are more open about their use now than they used to be.”

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Being a volunteer does not have an age limit.

Paul Mohr, an 87-year-old volunteer at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, has been volunteering at the center since 1993 and has continued his volunteer service to this day.

“I started working two days a week, and now I’m working one day a week,” Mohr said. “I

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rarely seen.

“When you talk about 4,000 hours, that’s a lot of hours,“ he said. “To reach the milestone of 4,000 hours is remarkable.”

Lamb said Mohr was at HSC when Lamb arrived to work for the institution. He said Mohr was an inspiration.

“He makes our jobs much more meaningful when we watch him do it,” he said. “He’s is kind of an employee trainer. He knows every room, every nook and

cranny of the science center.”

Mohr said his time as a volunteer has a special meaning to him, and he encourages everyone to use their talents as long as they live.

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Texas pushes to keep execution drug source secret after threats HOUSTON (AP) — Two days before Texas is set to execute its first inmate with a new batch of drugs, the state prison agency remained determined Tuesday to keep its supplier a secret, citing threats of violence to pharmacies that sell drugs used in lethal injections.

Since obtaining a new supply of the drug pentobarbital two weeks ago, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice had cited unspecified security concerns in refusing to disclose the source and other details about the sedative it plans to use to put inmates to death.

But in a brief filed Tuesday with the state attorney general’s office, Patricia Fleming, an assistant general counsel for the Texas prison system, argued that a supplier in another state received a specific threat of physical violence.

“An individual threatened to blow up a truck full of fertilizer outside a pharmacy supplying substances to be used in executions,” Fleming wrote.

As such, she argued, an openrecords request filed by an attorney for a condemned inmate seeking the drug maker’s identity should not be granted.

Questions about the source of

drugs used by states to carry out lethal injections have arisen in several states in recent months as numerous drug makers — particularly in Europe, where opposition is strongest to capital punishment — have refused to sell their products if they will be used to carry out executions.

That has led several U.S. prison systems to compounding pharmacies, which are not as heavily regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as more conventional pharmacies.

A batch of pentobarbital Texas purchased from such a compounding pharmacy in suburban Houston expired at the end of March.

That pharmacy refused to sell the state any more drugs, citing threats it received after its name was made public. That led Texas to its new, undisclosed suppler.

An attorney for inmate Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, set to die later this month, had filed an open-records request with the Department of Criminal Justice March 11 seeking the name of that supplier. The agency had until March 25 to either provide the records, set a specific date to provide them or seek a decision from the attorney general’s office that would allow it to withhold the information.

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Writing marijuana story took hard work, consideration D

uring our four years in college, we’ve met and interacted with just about every kind of person. We wanted to tell the story of what the average college student knows but doesn’t talk about.

We have not done a story like this before. We’ve written informative articles about the effects of drug use and things similar to that, but we’ve never told the story of the former drug dealer or the average student who uses marijuana to sleep and so on.

The idea for “What’s your number?” stemmed from the popular theory Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which means everyone on Earth is a maximum of seven degrees removed from one another.

For instance, Kassidy’s high school golf coach’s brother met Mel Gibson, which means she is three

Kassidy Paige Ketron Skinner

degrees removed from Mel Gibson.

We w a n t e d t o k n o w h o w many phone calls away Texas Tech students were from accessing marijuana.

We thought the answer was obvious, but we decided to survey random students to see what they thought and knew.

We conducted an informal, unscientific survey asking students

how many phone calls away they were from gaining access to marijuana in Lubbock. We walked from the Media and Communications building to the Student Union building to the library to the Engineering Key and approached random students.

The answers proved telling as some gave us straightforward answers, and the question took no time at all. Some had to think about it, while others were offended, as if we were accusing them of using marijuana. One participant even told us he was zero phone calls away from marijuana because it was in his home.

More than half of the 107 students we surveyed were one phone call away.

This all started back in October 2013, and we have been working on this story continuously for six

months. Yes, it’s been a while.

The week after spring break, we finished and filled every gap in the story we could think of. We read it over and over until we agreed it was done. Every Sunday, we plan out the front page of the paper, and today happened to be the slowest news day that would allow this story to dominate the front page.

We did not choose to run this story today because Gov. Rick Perry would be on campus. If we chose to wait to run the stories, what else would come up to make us wait to run them even longer? After this realization, we had many conversations, but in the end we decided to run with it. It was now or never, and the timing was coincidental.

We have not only surveyed students on campus, but also found Tech students who were brave enough to tell us their stories.

Next, we had to verify what each person told us was true, or the source had to be thrown out of the story.

We also wanted to talk to officials who could go on the record about drug testing policies and rules, but were unable to get them on the record. We wanted to wait to get a response, and once they declined to comment, we were able to move forward.

We wanted to make sure as much as possible that we got this story right. We wanted to present both sides to everything and examine different types of people who do or do not agree with marijuana use.

It is up to the readers to decide why they think there were more drug law violation arrests on Tech’s campus in 2012 than at Texas and Texas A&M. We want the readers to decide whether or not they agree

with it and whether it’s a problem or a fact of life.

We are neither in support of nor against marijuana use. Our goal here was not to make something glamorous out of it or condemn those who choose to use it.

We wanted to point out what we thought was obvious: that gaining access to marijuana in Lubbock is not a difficult task, which was confirmed by several sources in the story.

As we said, we do not advocate nor condemn the use of marijuana, but it is here, and it is here to stay.

Ketron is The DT’s editor-in-chief and a senior public relations major from Seminole. Skinner is a Texas Tech alumna and former managing editor of The DT from Garland. ➤➤ editor@dailytoreador.com

Store owners wrong to force Athletes unionizing could have unintended effects their beliefs on employees Logan B Freedom of religion has existed as a prominent topic of debate since our nation’s beginning, and it has continued to grow into a more important issue.

This subject was pushed to the forefront after the Supreme Court heard arguments on March 25 regarding Hobby Lobby’s opposition to the coverage of contraceptives in the Affordable Care Act. The ACA, commonly known as Obamacare, mandates that employers must provide health care for their employees, including contraceptives.

Hobby Lobby has argued that this stipulation is incompatible with their religious beliefs, as it claims that certain contraceptives are a form of abortion.

Hobby Lobby has focused its opposition on Plan B contraceptives and said that “religious beliefs prohibit them from providing health coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices that end human life after conception,” according to The Guardian.

This has prompted the question of whether big businesses can have a religious preference.

According to the Business Dictionary, a corporation is defined as “an entity separate and distinct from its owners.”

Based on that definition, corporations should not be considered people by law and therefore should not have religious preferences that dictate decisions regarding health care that affect employees who may hold other beliefs. If corporations should remain truly separate from their owners, the courts would be unjustified in ruling in favor of them.

When a group of individuals form a corporation, they must recognize the laws governing corporations and look at the big picture.

The federal government has granted exceptions to the contraceptive mandate already to nonprofits and religious groups, but allowing for-profit corporations to selectively choose which laws to follow creates chaos.

Though the owners of Hobby Lobby — David and Barbara Green — claim Obamacare hinders their personal beliefs, a ruling in favor of the business will consequently impede upon the rights of their employees.

In defense of the administration, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli views the rights of the employees to be most important, according to CNN. “In the entire history of this country, there is not a single case in which a for-profit corporation was granted an exemption on religious liberty grounds when that would harm the rights of others,” Verrilli said.

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letes are not only enjoying having their tuition subsidized by the university, but they get to enjoy this privilege while enjoying a free ride on taxes. Should the student athletes at Northwestern gain status as university employees, they will face the prospect of having to pay income taxes on what they earn.

Michael Bargo Jr. of AmericanThinker.com broke down some of the costs student athletes would be required to pay if they were to become university employees in his March 29 piece. “At NU (Northwestern University) the tuition is about $65,000 per year. If the student athletes receive this as pay, then they will have to pay Federal income tax, state income tax, local income taxes, and payroll taxes; which include social security and Medicare.”

In the end, Bargo surmised that the total amount of costs paid in taxes would equal about one-third of the value of their scholarship, or about $22,000 per year. This is not the end of the list of things student athletes would be forfeiting if they were to unionize.

Many universities across the United States with big football programs also enjoy free health care provided by those university’s medical schools. It’s not only economical but also just plain good practice for these medical schools to provide health care to their student athletes, but if student athletes gain status as university employees then they will be required to pay for their own Obamacare health premiums.

Should the student athletes ... gain status as university employees, they will face the prospect of having to pay income taxes on what they earn.

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Refusing to cover certain contraceptives focuses discrimination against women and their sexual rights.

Co-president of the National Women’s Law Center Marcia Greenberger sees a strong interest in contraception coverage for women.

“Access to birth control increases women’s participation in the workforce and contributes to an increase in women’s wages,” Greenberger said, according to CBS. Gender inequality is already evident in a wage gap, and if the court rules in favor of Hobby Lobby, it will create a health care gap as well.

The entire concept of the Affordable Care Act is to ensure that health care is provided for everyone, and if a corporation is allowed to pick and choose the coverage it gives to its employees, its purpose is defeated.

This case seems like a conservative ploy to diminish the Democrats who pushed it into law.

This case is also reminiscent of Arizona’s Senate Bill 1062, which would have allowed business owners to exercise their religion by discriminating against people in the LGBT community. Courts ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby’s arguments could potentially bring that bill back onto the table.

Using religion as an argument could lead to a broad ruling that creates precedence for discrimination and oppression within businesses.

“One religious group could opt out of this, and another religious group could opt out of that, and everything would be piecemeal and nothing would be uniform,” said Justice Elena Kagan, according to Politico.

While freedom of religion is an important part of First Amendment rights, for-profit corporations using their religious principles to dictate health care impedes upon the freedom of the employee.

The religious preference of the owner of a company does not always reflect the beliefs of their employees.

Not every employee of Hobby Lobby shares the views of the Green family; therefore, it is unjust to force those beliefs through limiting health care.

It should not matter that the owners of Hobby Lobby object to contraceptives. Their beliefs should not limit the prosperity of their employees or their access to health coverage.

If corporations are allowed to have religious preference, it affects employees and obstructs their freedoms. In order to achieve true freedom of religion on a large scale, it is imperative that big businesses back off and allow the people to decide for themselves.

For a business owned by Christian conservatives, they seem pretty judgmental of their staff’s decisions.

Perhaps crafting is the new sexy.

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ack in January of this year, former Northwestern University quarterback Kain Colter led the Northwestern football team in filing a petition to unionize.

These student athletes sought recognition as university employees, and on March 26, they won their petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board.

Although these students may see this as a victory toward earning a paycheck for their participation in collegiate athletics, they may come to regret this decision.

The student athletes who are promoting the move toward unionization believe universities are exploiting them as a means of making themselves wealthy.

The athletes are portraying collegiate scholarship programs in a language similar to that commonly used against big corporations, claiming universities are manipulating them to essentially work for free.

The argument made by the students of Northwestern, which were presented to and agreed upon by a federal judge, ignores some major problems the unionization of student athletes presents.

One of these problems is that those who promote unionization don’t seem to fully understand the unique and privileged position student athletes enjoy with regard to the U.S. Tax Code.

Currently, student athletes can have their college tuition paid for in part via athletic scholarships.

These scholarships are basically used as a replacement for income granted to student athletes who substitute time non-athlete students have to work. Unlike the income a non-athlete would earn, however, these athletic scholarships are not subject to income tax regulation.

Therefore, these student ath-

Lastly, student athletes will be required to pay a union fee if they do eventually completely unionize. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation stated that Northwestern collegiate athletes’ win for the right to unionize will only impede students more as unions would impose a further monetary burden in the form of union dues.

“No matter what you think of the state of college football or college athletics as a whole, there is no scenario in which forcing players to pay dues to a union as a condition of getting a scholarship can be seen as a step in the right direction,” Patrick Semmens, vice president for public information at NRTW, told the website campusreform.org.

All these expenses will have to be paid out of the student athletes’ own pockets, which means they will have to either take out student loans or rely on their families to pay for their education expenses.

This potential amount of accumulated debt may not be a problem for the most elite of collegiate athletes who have a realistic probability of obtaining an attractive signing bonus from a professional sports organization.

However, all these unionization rules would apply to all those who don’t participate in high-dollar sports such as track, soccer, volleyball and others.

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Bob Rowley, director of media relations for Northwestern, released a statement following the successful petition for unionization.

“Northwestern considers its students who participate in NCAA Division I sports, including those who receive athletic scholarships, to be students, first and foremost,” the statement continues. “We believe that participation in athletic events is part of the overall educational experience for those students, not a separate activity.”

In the end, the idea of unionizing probably seems like a good idea to many student athletes due to the rhetoric of union leaders who are convincing these students they should be paid for their participation in an extracurricular activity that brings in so much for the university. Twenty years from now, though, these same student athletes may still be paying off their accumulated debt in loans, wondering what in the world they were thinking.

At the same time, union leaders will be enjoying their lavish offices, taking free trips to luxurious resorts and relishing free meals, all of which would be paid for by the same student athletes they’re swindling.

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Red to Black hosts Financial Education Week

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

Running out of money, not being able to pay off student loans after graduation and credit card debt are all problems some college students face, but Red to Black was established to help students with these problems.

Amanda Munoz, a junior personal financial planning major from Crosbyton, said Red to Black started Financial Education Week nine years ago to bring awareness to financial topics students don’t often think about.

“Before I got into the program, I didn’t know what a credit score was or what went into it,” she said, “but I now know that’s going to affect a lot of things in my future. A lot of students don’t know about credit card debt and how to manage things like that.”

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He explained marijuana could be a gateway drug because of the feeling of socialness and relaxation it gives a person.

“It helps them to feel different than how they feel normally,” he said, “and they like that feeling and it’s the gateway into, or the stepping stone into, a drug-seeking lifestyle because now it’s become normalized for us.”

Comiskey said marijuana is more psychologically addicting than physically.

“People who smoke marijuana tend to want it in certain situations,” he said. “They want it to just chill out. They want it to face certain situations. That when they’re not under the influence of it, they don’t feel normal. So it’s one that’s more psychological than physical. They’re not craving it physically. They’re more craving it psychologically.”

Recreational marijuana is legal in two states, Colorado and Washington, and medical marijuana is legal in 20 states, including California, New Mexico and Illinois, according to USA Today.

The organization Smith works for, Hub City NORML, works to inform and educate the public about the legalization of marijuana. He said he believes marijuana has the possibility to become legal in Texas by the 2019 legislative year.

On the other side of the spectrum, Comiskey works with students who suffer from the negative effects

The members of the program, she said, wanted to put together many different activities to put a fun spin on financial topics.

The booth is located across from Copy Mail at the entrance of the Student Union building, according to TechAnnounce, and will feature different prizes that students can win, including an iPad. “We have a big game board that we’re trying to promote.

The game board is modeled after Candy Land and we’re calling it Don’t Go For Broke,” she said.

“You draw a card and try to advance and win a prize. We also have a tram, which is our version of Cash Cab. We have financial questions that we ask students and if they answer it right, the tram will take them to class.”

Munoz said these games and questions start the conversation about financial planning with students, and she hopes

of different substances. However, from a non-counselor point of view, he said Texas might benefit from the legalization of marijuana.

“You know, maybe we ought to legalize it, just like we’ve legalized alcohol,” Comiskey said, “and monitor it. Monitor the production, distribution, the prevention of it, the treatment, the aftercare of it, so when people do have problems, because there’s going to be some people who don’t have problems with it, they will monitor their use, they will use just enough to relax, to have a good time, then they’ll quit. But there will be some people, just like with alcohol, that can’t quit.”

However, he said it is not a harmless drug. Even though it is legal in two states, it can be problematic for some people — just like alcohol and tobacco.

Both men, Smith and Comiskey, agreed marijuana is easily accessible in Lubbock. Comiskey said he has heard marijuana is as accessible as any legalized chemical, like alcohol or tobacco.

He added that he is not sure how those people find marijuana so easily, but Smith said he thinks the same number of college students and Lubbock citizens sell marijuana.

“I think anyone who is struggling for cash is going to sell weed,” Smith said. “It’s easy to purchase a little bit at a time and bring it in small bags and sell to people. Anyone who is strung for cash can do it. Is it more college students? Lubbock citizens? It’s probably a cross-section of everyone.” ➤➤editor@dailytoreador.com

World traveler set to visit Tech, lecture Karin Muller, an author, filmmaker, photographer and adventurer from Switzerland, will speak at Texas Tech at 7 p.m. Thursday, according to a Tech news release.

The Vietnam Center and Archive Guest Lecture Series will host the lecture in the Lanier Auditorium at the Tech School of Law. Muller’s work was featured on National Public Radio and her writing is featured in National Geographic and Traveler magazines, according to the release.

Muller has taken expeditions on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, the Inca Road that stretches from

Quito, Ecuador to Santiago, Chile, and Japan, according to the release.

Muller’s expedition in Vietnam resulted in a PBS television special called “Hitchhiking in Vietnam.”

A National Geographic television series named “Along the Inca Road” was created to highlight her expedition through Ecuador and Chile and her time in Japan was featured in her documentary series and book titled “Japanland: A Year in Search of War,” according to the release The event will be open to the public free of charge, according to release. ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

Magnitude-8.2 quake strikes northern Chile SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A powerful magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile’s northern coast Tuesday night, causing landslides that blocked roads and setting off a small tsunami that forced an evacuation of coastal areas, but the region apparently escaped major damage and casualties.

In the city of Arica, 86 miles (139 kilometers) from the quake’s epicenter, minor injuries were reported and some homes made of adobe were destroyed, officials said. The quake shook modern buildings in nearby Peru and in Bolivia’s high altitude capital of La Paz. The U.S. Geological Survey initially reported the quake at 8.0, but later upgraded the magnitude. It said the quake struck 61 miles (99 kilometers) northwest of the Chilean city of Iquique at 8:46 p.m., hitting a region that has been rocked by numerous quakes over the past two weeks.

Psychiatrist Ricardo Yevenes said he was with a patient in Arica when the quake hit. “It quickly began to move the entire office, things were falling,” he told local television. “Al-

most the whole city is in darkness.”

The quake was so strong that the shaking experienced in Bolivia’s capital about 290 miles (470 kilometers) away was the equivalent of a 4.5-magnitude tremor, authorities there said.

At least 10 strong aftershocks followed in the first few hours, including a 6.2 tremor. More aftershocks and even a larger quake could not be ruled out, said seismologist Mario Pardo at the University of Chile.

Some roads in northern Chile were blocked by landslides, causing traffic jams among people leaving the coast. But coastal residents remained calm as they head inland while waves measuring almost 2 meters (6 ½ feet) struck their cities.

Evacuations also were ordered in Peru, where waves 2 meters above normal forced about 200 people to leave the seaside town of Boca del Rio. But there were no injuries or major damage, said Col. Enrique Blanco, the regional police chief in Tacna, a Peruvian city of 300,000 near the Chilean border. “The lights went out briefly, but were re-established,” Blanco said.

that it will inspire them to come back to the booth and ask more questions.

The final game that will make up financial education week is called the Amazing Money Race, she said.

“It’s kind of like the Amazing Race. It’s in the SUB and we take them around to meet all our partners,” she said, “and then they can win a prize in the end.”

Angela Mazzolini, assistant director for Red to Black, said the goal of the organization is to help clients and students to make positive financial decisions to enhance every different aspect in life.

It started as a student-led organization based out of personal financial planning in the human sciences building, according to the Red to Black website, and is now a department in the Center for Campus Life.

“We do client sessions if

anyone ever wants to ask us questions,” she said. “If someone wants to come in for budgeting — any kind of financial trouble — they can, and we will help.

Financial aid also sends a lot of students over here to get help.”

Munoz said Red to Black also visits students’ classes to present presentations so students will know the organization is free to them and open to helping.

She said she has many hopes for students during financial education week.

“We hope that our students will know that we’re here to help them if they want to do a budget or talk about investments or if they want us to come look at the package for a job offer before they graduate,” she said. “We also want them to know that no situation is too small. If they just want to talk about student loans or budgeting, we’re here.”

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SERENA SAENZ, A marketing management major from Allen, talks to Jennie Spurlock, a graduate student studying personal finance and planning, at the Financial Education Week booth Tuesday in the Student Union building.

Larger areas of Texas fall into severe drought HOUSTON (AP) — Large areas of Texas have fallen into severe drought as a typically wet season remains relatively dry.

The Texas Water Development

Board says Tuesday that extremeto-exceptional conditions have spread to a quarter of the state based on the information released by the National Drought Mitigation

Center. That is almost double the area that faced those conditions last week.

Nearly the entire Texas Panhandle and a swathe of Central Texas

are in extreme drought. Pockets of the Panhandle and a chunk of north-central Texas register as “exceptional,” the worst level of drought recorded by the center.

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April marks autism awareness month Jurors shown stiletto heel in stabbing case

By TRAVIS MABRY Staff Writer

In a national attempt to raise awareness for autism, April has been declared Autism Awareness Month. Texas Tech will partake in this conquest by recognizing World Autism Awareness Day. Wesley Dotson, assistant professor and interim co-director of the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research, is helping raise awareness by hosting events for families with autistic children.

“This is our biggest month,” Dotson said. “We have our walk for Autism Awareness on April 27, which has anywhere from four to 5,000 people show up at Jones Stadium.”

Along with this event, the Burkhart Center offers services such as teaching, training and conferences designed to help those diagnosed with autism as well as parents who have an au-

tistic child.

“With the increasing prevalence in autism, there is much less reliable information out there than there is good information,” Dotson said. “I recommend that if a family has a new diagnosis that they look at the website autismspeaks.org.”

Dotson said the website has an everyday plan for families who just received a diagnosis.

Currently, Dotson has a team dedicated to research in order to simplify the lives of autistic patients as well as create awareness for the disorder.

“It is possible to diagnose a child with autism as young as 14 to 16 months,” Dotson said. “We are working on driving the age of first identification to less than 3 years old in the state of Texas.”

Toni Sim, unit supervisor for the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research, plays a key role in relaying information about events that will be held in

support of autism awareness.

Sim encouraged students to attend the Burkhart Walk for Autism Awareness, as it will be the biggest event hosted in April.

“People come and different companies donate some food,” Sim said. “It’s for all families, whether or not they have children with autism or they know someone with autism.”

The Burkhart Walk for Autism Awareness allows people to come share fun and raise awareness for autism, Sim said.

According to Texas Tech Today, the Burkhart Center has become a leader statewide and nationally, as experts are available for interviews related to Autism Awareness Month.

If someone is interested in donating to the cause of autism awareness, they can visit burkhartcenter.org or contact Jared Burgoon, coordinator of development and scholarships. ➤➤tmabry@dailytoreador.com

HOUSTON (AP) — A blue suede stiletto heel that prosecutors say a Houston woman used to fatally stab her boyfriend at least 25 times in the face and head was shown at her trial Tuesday.

The shoe — a size 9 platform pump with a 5½-inch heel — was brought out during testimony about the bloody crime scene at the trial of Ana Trujillo, who’s accused of killing 59-year-old Alf Stefan Andersson. He was a University of Houston professor and researcher.

A prosecutor later stood on top of a table in the courtroom and straddled a dummy to demonstrate for jurors how authorities believe the shoe was used as a weapon.

Authorities allege Trujillo sat on top of Andersson and struck him with the shoe during an argument at his condominium last June.

Trujillo’s attorney has told jurors his client was defending herself.

Also Tuesday, prosecutors played the 911 call Trujillo made in the early-morning hours and showed

jurors video of the crime scene, where the shoe could be seen near Andersson’s body.

On the call, Trujillo could be heard at times crying uncontrollably, telling the operator her boyfriend had “started beating me up.”

She also told the operator that Andersson is “bleeding, he’s about to die.”

It was difficult to understand Trujillo, and the 911 operator seemed to be unsure if Trujillo was reporting an assault or that someone was injured and needed medical help.

When the operator realized someone needed medical attention, she transferred the call to emergency medical services, which directed Trujillo to perform CPR on Andersson. Trujillo said she was already doing that.

Trujillo, 45, cried in court as the 911 call was played.

Houston police officer Ashton Bowie testified that when he responded to the condominium, Tru-

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jillo was “covered in blood.” Bowie said that he found Andersson lying on the ground, face up. His face was covered in blood and swollen.

“I thought his head had been blown out by a gun,” he told jurors.

Bowie also said he questioned Trujillo’s emotional response to the slaying.

“She was sobbing but no actual tears were coming down her face,” he said.

In video taken by police at the crime scene, the stiletto heel can be seen lying on the carpeted floor of Andersson’s condominium, above his head. A large pool of blood was also near his head, which was bloodied, purple and had several visible wounds.

Prosecutor John Jordan showed the shoe to jurors after the video.

Later Tuesday during testimony from Houston police officer Chris Duncan, with the crime scene unit, Jordan grabbed the shoe and pretended to strike the dummy with it.

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SARAH DANIEL, A sophomore education major from Houston, argues with Sister Pat about religion outside the Student Union Building on Tuesday. Sister Pat and Brother Jed will be on campus all week to speak to students.

TEXAS CITY (AP) — The captains of the two vessels that collided in the Houston Ship Channel were aware they were perilously close to one another but still failed to avert a spill that dumped 168,000 gallons of oil into the water, according to a U.S. Coast Guard audio recording.

The recording, obtained by the Houston Chronicle in a Freedom of Information Act request, indicates the captains spoke in a frantic radio exchange beginning about five minutes before the March 22 collision. But the exchange apparently came too late for the captains to avoid making contact in the crowded waterway, trafficked daily by massive, oceangoing container ships.

“If you keep on going, I’m going to get you,” the captain of the bulk carrier, the larger of the two vessels, says in the recording, released Monday. “Captain, I can cut her back. I can go dead slow, but that still ain’t going to stop it because I’m coming up on half a mile of you,” he added.

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Sometimes volunteering can be a drag. However, if it comes with snacks, music, free books and a chance to read to children from all over Lubbock, it is not.

Jumpstart, East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood and the Patterson Branch Library will be hosting their first Children’s Literacy Festival from 1 to 3 p.m. April 12 at the Patterson Branch Library.

Amritpaul Chatrath, volunteer coordinator for Jumpstart, said the festival is a family literacy event for families with young children to attend and have a good time while listening to stories from volunteers.

“The main goal for the festival is to promote literacy in East Lubbock,” Chatrath said. “We are hoping it will bring out a lot of parents and children.”

Chatrath said anyone is allowed to volunteer for the Children’s Literacy Festival as long as they fill out some paperwork required by Jumpstart first.

Volunteers are welcome to show up to the event as well, but Chatrath recommends they email him in advance.

“We will ask volunteers to stay from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. to help with the set up and clean up as well,” Chatrath said.

He said Jumpstart and the ELPN are in the works of having twelve different activities which center around different readings such as multiple Dr. Seuss books, “Where The Wild Things Are,” and a book based off ‘Frozen called’ “A Sister More Like Me.” There will also be many activities for children and volunteers to enjoy.

“Jumpstart Corps members and volunteers will be running all of the activity stations,” Chatrath said, “and will help the children participate in the “Cat in the Hat” ball toss, coloring in Lorax mustaches and “Horton Hears

A Who” ears as well as putting toward the day that every child together Olaf from Frozen.” in America enters kindergarten Dawn Burke, site manager ready to succeed,” Burke said. of Jumpstar, said Jumpstart was Stephanie Shine, early childformed in 1994 and has grown hood program director, said nationwide over the last 20 years. ELPN is the other organization Jumpstart’s research-based, helping out with the Children’s cost-effective program trains Literacy Festival. college students and community The ELPN is a large grant from volunteers to serve preschool- the department of education to age children Texas Tech in low-income and Lubneighborbock Inhoods, Burke dependent said.

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One part of ELPN is the chilbooths reading to children and providing materials and books dren’s early literacy that ELPN and Jumpstart work on, she said. for the event.

She said the ELPN is a naBurke said Jumpstart strives to help young children reach their tional organization that seeks to best potential when it comes to help children in early literacy to provide the best possible successes literacy and education.

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“We all come together to sponsor this literacy festival which focuses on children in the neighborhood,” Shine said.

She said it is always enjoyable participating in all the literacy events, because the children get really into it, and so do the volunteers.

The organizations are trying to promote a friendly environment where children can come and be influenced by reading, she said, and hopes this promotes literacy to families with young children and for families to read at home.

“When we get to do all these activities with the children, as well as the snacks and drinks included, it always ends up being a great time,” Shine said.

She said students should come and volunteer because it is amazing to work with these children.

To be able to brighten up their days while enjoying the activities with them is really heartwarming, Shine said.

“I would recommend this volunteer opportunity to anyone who loves children, free snacks, music and fun activities,” Shine said. “It really is an enormous amount of fun to work and read stories to these children. It really makes you feel good inside as well.”

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Photographer wants big damages in lawsuit against Justin Bieber MIAMI (AP) — A celebrity photographer sought to boost the potential damages he could win from Justin Bieber in a lawsuit that accuses the singer and a bodyguard of battery in a confrontation outside a recording studio.

The photographer’s attorney, Mark DiCowden, said at a Tuesday hearing that he has documented at least 11 similar alleged assaults against photographers over two years involving Bieber and his security personnel. DiCowden said a punitive damage award for Jeffrey Binion could deter future assaults against celebrity photographers, known as “paparazzi.”

“It’s not a financial fishing expedition,” DiCowden said in asking Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel to allow him to pursue unspecified punitive damages. “It is well known around the world that Justin Bieber does not like to be photographed in public.”

Zabel did not immediately rule. Bieber attorney Jared Lopez said there is no evidence that Binion was physically harmed in the alleged attack in June — meaning compensatory damages for the photographer might be minimal — and no proof that Bieber himself told bodyguard Hugo Hesny to go after Binion.

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Crockett to play in College All-Star Game

By REX ROSE Staff Writer

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TEXAS TECH SENIOR forward Jaye Crockett has earned a spot on the 2014 Reese’s Division I All Star Game.

Texas Tech senior forward Jaye Crockett has earned a spot on the West Squad of the 2014 Reese’s Division I All Star Game, a National Association of Basketball Coaches event that is part of Final Four Friday and will take place at 4:30 p.m. at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

Crockett is the first Red Raider to participate in the All Star Game since Andre Emmett played 10 years ago in the 2004 edition of the event.

“I feel really honored,” Crockett said. “I remember watching Andre in the dunk contest back then and just being here now — it’s crazy how fast time flies. It’s a great opportunity, it really is.”

According to a Tech news release, Crockett is one of three Big 12 Conference players selected to participate, joining Baylor’s Cory

Jefferson and Oklahoma’s Cameron Clark.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said the game is a good opportunity for Crockett to showcase his skills in order to have a better chance of playing basketball at the next level.

“I know he’ll do a good job like he did for us all year long,” he said. “I thought Jaye’s play this year was the key to us getting the 14 wins we did get. His knees midway through the season were a problem for him, but he’s gotten that corrected. A healthy Jaye, which he is now, is a very outstanding player.”

Smith said he thinks Crockett can make it at the next level, whether it is in the National Basketball Association or overseas in a foreign league.

Crockett will not know exactly what his future holds until the NBA draft June 26.

“I’d love to see him get a

shot and we’re going to do all we can to help him get that opportunity,” Smith said.

“This is a good time for him to get some exposure. I’m not sure whether NBA scouts can come to it or not, but they probably do. If they do, they’ll have a chance to evaluate him at that time.”

At the end of his career as a Red Raider, Crockett was ranked No. 24 on Tech’s alltime scoring list and is one of 20 players from across the nation selected to participate in the event.

Crockett said he is proud to be selected from Tech, a school that has not been known for its basketball program in recent years, because his selection can motivate younger players to believe they can be selected in the future.

“I think it’s great because it lets kids know you don’t have to be at the Dukes and the Kansas and the Kentuckys

to have these opportunities,” Crockett said. “I just feel blessed to have this opportunity and I think it will be great for my continued future in basketball, just to get some exposure and show some people what I can do out there.”

Although it’s been 16 years since Smith won the National Championship in his first year in charge at Kentucky in 1998, he said he believes it will be a great Final Four, but Kentucky and Florida have the best shot at winning the title because of the experience from Kentucky coach John Calipari and Florida coach Billy Donovan.

“This time of the year, I guess it’s been about 16 years ago now that we won it in ’98,” he said. “You’re in the moment so you’re so focused on getting your team ready.

Studying the opposition and trying to take advantage of any weaknesses they may

have. They have very few weaknesses, all four teams who have made it there: Wisconsin, Florida, UConn and Kentucky.”

In his final season at Tech, Crockett led the Red Raiders in scoring, earned Third Team All-Big 12 honors from the league coaches and was a Dr. Gerald Lage Award recipient, which is the highest academic honor in the Big 12, according to a Tech news release.

With the accolades re ceived after his senior year, it is clear why Crockett believes he can continue his career playing basketball.

“It will be a game where I can showcase my talent and might get more eyes opened towards me,” Crockett said.

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Tech players eager for start of football season after Midland scrimmage

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

After Saturday’s spring scrimmage at Grande Communications Stadium in Midland with over 10,000 fans in attendance, the football team resumed practice in Lubbock this week.

Senior linebacker Sam Eguavoen said it was exciting for the team to get to play in front of a crowd in a gamestyle scrimmage.

“Going out to Midland, that was really good because Midland really supports the Red Raiders a lot,” he said. “The scrimmage went pretty good. The offense, they got after us pretty bad in the first half, and the defense kind of shut them down in the second half. We got to see a lot of players and see a lot of potential

on the field. That’s going to help this spring.”

The Midland scrimmage was the first open practice for the public or media, and Tech fans could see what changes Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury is making for the 2014 season.

This was the second consecutive year that the Red Raiders have traveled to the Permian Basin and once again drew a crowd of over 10,000 people.

Sophomore wide receiver Dylan Cantrell said everyone is putting in the work to individually improve this season. “(Practice) is going real good this spring. Everyone is flying around and competing and just trying to get better for themselves. That also makes everyone else better,” Cantrell said.

“Midland, that was a fun experience having all those fans out there and just trying to put on a show for them and really get to show the public what we have been working on and how far we have come.”

This spring, Cantrell is working to earn more playing time in the upcoming season, and his talent has impressed his teammates.

Kingsbury has noted the 6-foot-2-inch, 205-pound receiver’s leaping ability. Cantrell said he is going to use all of his talents to help his quarterback.

“The highest I’ve ever had it measured is 38 (inches),” he said. “(Jumping higher than defenders) is what I did in high school a lot. I think it helps the quarterback, knowing that they can just throw the ball up

to me and I can just go up and get it.”

After earning All-Big 12 Honorable Mention last season, junior wide receiver Jakeem Grant has been called out numerous times by Kingsbury as one of the team’s offensive leaders moving forward.

Grant said he is highly motivated to embarrass other teams on the field this year.

“I got one mindset and it’s no matter who you are, you won’t tackle me in open space. One-on-one, it doesn’t matter,” Grant said. “My job is to embarrass you and make your coach get mad at you for no reason at all. I mean, you couldn’t help that you got shook. That’s my whole mentality, never let one person tackle you, even though I’m a small guy.”

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“It’s a big role (to be looked up to on defense) because before, when I was a sophomore or junior, I never really thought about leading. There have always been other guys around me leading,” he said. “It’s just, like, something just twist inside of me like now I got to go, I got to lead. I’m just seeing a whole bunch of young faces that don’t really know what they’re doing and they’re just going to follow the leader.”

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