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Ximena Bernal, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, was awarded $508,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how a parasite in the rainforest uses sound to find its host.

The blood-sucking midge uses sound to find its food, frogs. Frogs in Panama make a noise during the rainy season to signal they are ready for mating, according to a news release.

Understanding the midge’s tiny ear could help scientists further develop hearing aid technologies for people, Bernal, who also is a research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, said in the release. ➤➤kmckee@dailytoreador.com

Counseling staff offers sexual assault awareness events A group of Texas Tech Student Counseling Center staff met to discuss sexual assault awareness at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Human Sciences building.

The event was canceled, however, because of the small attendance.

The talk show was hosted to raise awareness about rape myths, prevent sexual assault and inform people about the potential consequences, he said.

Nancy Robinson, a psychologist, said rape myths include the ideas that the way a woman dresses makes her a target and consuming alcohol means she wants to have sex.

Despite the small attendance, psychologist Mike Iezzi said students are invited to a sexual awareness event called Take Back the Night on April 20 starting at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Student Center parking lot and ending at Memorial Circle. ➤➤rdavis@dailytoreador.com

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‘Dancing Ginger’ reveals motivation

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Some may know him as “The Dancing Ginger” because of his red hair and eye-catching dance movies, but Austin McNabb is more than that.

A simple Google or Twitter search of “The Dancing Ginger” will result in dozens of videos, tweets and articles about the junior journalism major from Irving, dancing at Texas Tech sporting events.

One game stands out to McNabb, though.

Toward the end of the 2011 football season, Tech was trailing Oklahoma State University 63-6. McNabb said the fans were beginning to leave the game and no one seemed interested.

However, McNabb didn’t care.

“I’m like, ‘You know what, forget about the scoreboard,’” he said. “I got the joy of the Lord, that’s beyond anything else in this world, so I just went up there and just killed it.”

After the game, McNabb was seen dancing on TV screens across the nation on ESPN and SportsCenter.

With about 70 points scored in that game, McNabb said the TV stations could have shown a number of highlights. However, “The Dancing Ginger” received about five seconds of fame of an already short segment.

After all the attention, McNabb talked to his mother. She suggested he could be like professional athletes Josh Hamilton and Tim Tebow and use the

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attention as a ministry.

And McNabb agreed.

“Man, what if I turn this into like a ministry and did it for the Lord and really did it for my faith and the joy for the Lord I have,” he said.

That’s when McNabb began wearing eyeblack with printed Bible verses and painting his chest with sayings such as, “Know Jesus, know peace.”

Like Hamilton speaks about in his testimony, McNabb also had a dream about his faith and the faith of his peers.

“I had a dream that God gave me in August,” he said. “It wasn’t so much condemning like most people would think, but Tech students were just chilling in this hot river and, like, metaphor for they’re on their way to hell, but I’m not there to condemn them. God’s not there to condemn them. I just want to show them the love of Christ and show them that they need that love more than anything else, and so I just went off from there, just really got into it.”

McNabb said he has received positive feedback, including supporters, recognition and even some people offering to buy his meal.

But with the supporters, come the haters.

McNabb recalled one tweet from a local media person. Aaron Dickens, managing editor of Red Raider Sports, tweeted, “The Dancing Ginger shoots the basketball about as well as he dances… #woof.”

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Texas Tech HSC hosts 4th annual Poverty Banquet

By MIKAEL GONZALES STAFF WRITER

Flags of various countries and posters of children in poverty lined the hallway of the Legacy Event Center at 6 p.m. Monday.

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center International Medicine Club hosted its fourth annual Poverty Banquet on Monday to help bring attention to poverty around the world and in the United States.

Sati Patel, a first-year medical student from Lubbock, said the Poverty Banquet is an educational dinner, which allows the community to interact with the idea of poverty in a controlled setting.

According to a flier at the event, participants were given five tickets at the beginning of the banquet and were encouraged to visit stations to gain more tickets to be able to afford other commodities, such as more food, drinks, which cost two tickets, desserts, bread and even chairs, which cost five tickets.

The purpose of the rules was to encourage

people to earn tickets, exchange and donate tickets with other participants.

At the beginning of the event, participants paid $10 and were given five tickets to begin the banquet. Then they were given the choice to either continue to the next room to earn more tickets or settle for what five tickets could get them. Most people continued to the ballroom where stations were set up. The participants were able to get two tickets at each station as long as they interacted with the volunteers and learned about the impoverished countries. A lot of people shared tickets with each other, but had to fill out cards to be able to do so.

The money raised at the event, Patel said, was being donated to a nonprofit organization.

“The money is all being raised to go towards Breedlove,” she said. “It’s a local nonprofit, and they make dehydrated meals that they distribute to over 80 countries.”

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YAZAN ALHASAN, A first year medical student from Austin, describes the crippling effects of Khat, a plant with amphetamine-like qualities, at the Yemen table during the International Poverty Banquet on Monday in the Legacy Event Center. Participants were given a brief speech on each country of interest before having to answer questions for tickets with which they could purchase food or other basic dining necessities.

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Juan Trejo was having dinner with his girlfriend at a steakhouse in San Antonio.

About halfway through his dinner, he said he started to hear commotion near the register. He did not think twice about it until the men making the noise approached his booth.

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A man gathered all the customers into a corner, while the other robbers tried to open the register, Trejo said.

The situation did not scare him at the time, he said, but it was something that led him to his profession.

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On Monday, more than 15 years after the incident at the restaurant, Trejo, the senior technician for crime prevention for the Texas Tech Police Department, spoke at the Crime Prevention Seminar at Tech on Monday.

The seminar focused on a number of topics, including robbery and theft prevention, driving and texting, storm ready and personal safety.

In terms of robbery, Trejo said the most

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important way to prevent it is to be aware of the surroundings.

“Nowadays, people are so into texting, MP3 players and smartphones that they really don’t pay attention to their surroundings,” he said, “not that being aware is going to keep you safe. There is no 100 percent guarantee that anything can keep you safe because anything can happen anytime to anybody.”

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Students arrested for intoxication, invalid license Today Tuesday Debate on the Future of the Welfare State Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Where: Rawls College of Business Administration So, what is it?

Come listen to Dr. Peter H. Lindert, author of “Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth” speak.

“Standing on My Sister’s Shoulders” film screening Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building, Escondido Theatre So, what is it?

Come enjoy this documentary film series featuring, “Standing on My Sister’s Shoulders.”

Celebrity Luncheon Time: 10:30 a.m. to noon Where: Overton Hotel and Conference Center So, what is it?

Come join the Association for

Women in Communications for the 2013 Celebrity Luncheon.

Tuesday Movies@The Museum: Presidential Series“Kissinger and Nixon” (1995) Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free movie.

Movies@The Museum: Presidential Series- “Frost/ Nixon” (2009) Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free movie.

TAB Presents: Free Movie Night Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Where: Allen Theatre So, what is it?

Check www.tab.ttu.edu for the movie title.

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Friday 9:09 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer documented damaged property to a vehicle parked in the Flint Avenue parking garage. The vehicle’s right front quarter panel was damaged at an unknown location.

12:36 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief, which occurred in the Zone 3-F parking lot. The rear windshield of a vehicle was shattered.

3:40 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency,

which occurred in Sneed Hall.

A student fell out of his bed and hurt his arm. Emergency Medical Services transported the student to the University Medical Center Emergency Room.

11:13 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief, which occurred on the fifth floor of J.T. and Margaret Talkington Residence Hall. A wall near Room 530 was damaged. A hand sanitizer and room number signs also were pulled off a wall.

Saturday 1:46 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication, which occurred on the eighth floor of Weymouth Residence Hall.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

7:04 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving while license invalid, following a traffic stop in the 700 block of University Ave. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail and Lubbock Wrecker

impounded the vehicle.

Sunday 2:57 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in Murdough Residence Hall. Six ceiling tiles were damaged.

Monday 1:47 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated graffiti at Coleman Residence Hall. A face was drawn on the elevator door with an indelible marker.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

Former British prime minister divides world opinion (AP) — Combative and determined to get her way, Margaret Thatcher divided opinion down the middle in life — and in death.

Many leaders lauded Thatcher for her steely determination to modernize Britain’s industrial landscape, even at the cost of strikes and riots, and to stand beside the United States as the west triumphed in the Cold War versus the Soviet Union. Others saw a pitiless tyrant who preferred conflict to compromise.

British Prime Minister David Cameron lauded his 1980s predecessor as “a great Briton,” but others — particularly Europe’s socialists who often clashed with her — were less enamored in their reactions to the death

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It is good to take advantage of technology advancements, Trejo said, but potential robbers are good at taking advantage of people who are vulnerable, so it is important to know who and what is around in every setting.

There are three elements to a crime, he said. They are desire, ability and opportunity.

“The desire, we have no control over it because if somebody wants

Monday of the conservative icon.

Flags at Buckingham Palace, Parliament and across the United Kingdom were lowered to half-staff. Buckingham Palace said Queen Elizabeth II would send a private message of sympathy to the Thatcher family. Government officials began preparations for a London funeral with military honors at St. Paul’s Cathedral next week, followed by a private cremation.

“As our first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher succeeded against all the odds,” Cameron said in Madrid.

He cut short his trip to Spain and canceled a visit to France to return to London for the funeral preparations.

“The real thing about Margaret Thatcher is that she didn’t just lead

our country. She saved our country,” Cameron said, “and I believe she’ll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime minister.”

In Washington, President Barack Obama said many Americans “will never forget her standing shoulder to shoulder with President (Ronald) Reagan, reminding the world that we are not simply carried along by the currents of history. We can shape them with moral conviction, unyielding courage and iron will.”

And former first lady Nancy Reagan said her husband and Thatcher “enjoyed a very special relationship” driven by a common hatred of Communism. “Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates,” she said in a

statement that lauded Thatcher’s “clear vision and strong determination to stand up for her beliefs at a time when so many were afraid to rock the boat.”

In Poland, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said his country should erect a statue of the British leader.

In a tweet he praised Thatcher as “a fearless champion of liberty, stood up for captive nations, helped free world win the Cold War.” Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who ousted the Conservative Party from power seven years after Thatcher’s resignation, conceded that Thatcher had been right to challenge labor union power — the traditional bedrock for Blair’s own Labour Party.

to commit a crime, they’re going to commit a crime,” Trejo said. “We can’t stop them. So the desire is there for people to commit a crime.”

The ability to commit a crime also is present. With the right tools, he said it is easy to steal things or break into people’s houses.

The opportunity is where the individuals come into play, Trejo said.

Even if it is something as simple as stealing a bicycle, everyone can buy strong locks to prevent the opportunity of it getting stolen.

“There’s a lot of distractions that keeps us away from being aware of

certain things that we are able to do for ourselves,” he said. “If they’re going to steal something, make them work for it.”

Trejo said theft is the most committed crime in the nation.

Jack Floyd, crime prevention coordinator for Tech PD discussed texting while driving.

“I consider (texting) as the same thing as a DWI,” he said. “You know, because it’s distracting attention and the cognitive thinking. With one hand on the wheel and one hand texting, you can’t really multitask. Your full attention must be on driving.”

Texting cannot only harm the driver doing the texting, but it also has the potential to harm other people on the road, Floyd said. A law should be made to prevent texting while driving, but until then, it is up to each individual to act morally and be aware of the dangers.

Despite the growing number of students on campus, he said the amount of crime has not increased since he has worked at Tech. However, he said is important for students to know how they can be safe and avoid harm. ➤➤mdotray@dailytoreador.com

Texas AG: Cancer agency owes state $327K AUSTIN (AP) — Scrutiny surrounding a nonprofit that served Texas’ troubled cancerfighting agency escalated Monday when prosecutors determined that $100,000 more in privately raised money is owed to the state than the shuttering foundation told lawmakers.

As the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas,

known as CPRIT, tries recovering from the crippling fallout wrought by questionable spending of taxpayer dollars, attention has shifted to a nonprofit that was created to support the agency but is now going out of business.

The CPRIT Foundation raised nearly $4 million for efforts that included supplementing the salaries of top public officials at

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CPRIT. Leaders of the nonprofit told lawmakers last week that the agency’s recent woes were too much to overcome, and reported that about $221,000 in unspent donations would be given to CPRIT after expenses were paid.

But in a letter sent to the CPRIT Foundation on Monday, the Texas attorney general’s office said a review of financial records suggests the amount owed to the state is closer to $328,000.

The CPRIT Foundation decided in late March to rebrand as the Texas Cancer Coalition and sever ties with CPRIT. State prosecutors say that means nearly $150,000 in expenses claimed by the foundation should be disallowed because those costs were incurred after the change in mission.

Marc Palazzo, a spokesman for the foundation, said a meeting has been requested with the attorney general’s office to discuss the letter.

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Patel said volunteers from HSC handed out food and drinks while members of the Tech Bernard Harris Pre-Medical Society spent time educating participants about countries that experience poverty.

Jeffrey Chen, a senior biology major from Houston, said he wanted the event to focus on the poverty children in the U.S. experience.

Participants, he said, had the opportunity to learn about countries such as Bolivia, Ethiopia, Germany, Haiti and Sierra Leone.

“As they go through the tables,” Chen said, “they get to learn about different countries and cultures.”

The event helps the community have more knowledge and awareness of the poverty in other countries as well as in the U.S., he said.

The main guest for the event was speaker Dr. Mohamed Bailor Barrie.

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Tech graduate student wins Stanford Fellowship

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

It was early morning when his phone rang, a few hours before he and a friend were supposed to leave to go watch a ball game, he said.

Too tired to answer, he let it go to voicemail, thinking it was only his friend calling to check in.

When he woke up an hour later and checked his messages, he expected to his hear his friend’s voice, but said he was floored when instead he heard the voice of Eavan Boland, the director of the Creative Writing Program for Stanford University.

Michael Shewmaker, a Texas Tech English graduate student, was chosen out of more than 1,760 candidates nationwide to win Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner Fellowship scholarship.

“I was stunned,” he said. “I still am. It still doesn’t feel real to me.

I don’t think it will until my wife and I load up the truck and drive across the United States. I mean, it just feels very dreamlike to me.”

The 2013-2015 scholarship is given to 10 candidates, Shewmaker said, who demonstrate their capabilities in creative writing. Five of those are in fiction and five are in poetry.

Shewmaker submitted 15 pages of poetry to Stanford to be judged, and when he got the call during spring break, he said he could hardly believe it.

As a Stegner Fellow, he said he has the opportunity to go to Stanford for two years to pursue his writing career. The only requirement is that he lives near Stanford, Shewmaker said, and that he attends a three-hour workshop once a week with other Fellows and Stanford faculty.

He also has the option to audit classes and tutor undergraduate students at Stanford, he said, something he plans on taking advantage of.

The Stegner scholarship includes a living stipend of $26,000, and tuition and health insurance are paid for by Stanford’s Creative Writing Program, according to the program’s website.

Shewmaker chose to submit 15 pages of poetry before the deadline of Dec. 1, he said. He pulled the poems from his portfolio, some being 3 to 4 years old, while others were new works, he said.

“I like to try to trick myself by just focusing on each poem individually and trying to write the best poem that I can,” he said. “And then when opportunities like this come up, I can just comb through what I have and choose what I think is my best work.”

Because each poem was written at a different time, Shewmaker said there is no intentional theme to the collection.

“I didn’t write them with the intentional purpose of having a

theme run through them,” he said, “but, I mean, every writer has their own obsession, so I definitely think that’s there.”

Shewmaker’s writing obsession, he said, is faith and doubt, and life and death.

He said he plans to finish up the last of his coursework at Tech before moving to Stanford. Shewmaker also will finish his dissertation and exams through Tech while at Stanford. He is a doctoral candidate and wants to get a doctoral degree in creative writing.

Though he is excited about the opportunity, Shewmaker said he will miss the connections he has made during his two years at Tech.

“My wife and I have made lovely friends here, and we’ve learned to love Lubbock quite a bit too,” he said. “I mean, we’re excited to move, but we’re going to miss being here at Tech and being in Lubbock and missing our friends.”

Looking back at his experience with Tech, Shewmaker said the support of the creative writing faculty was essential to his success as a writer.

“I know for a fact that many of the poems that were in the packet that was accepted for the fellowship wouldn’t exist,” he said, “or at the very least wouldn’t have been as compelling if I hadn’t been in those workshops with the faculty. I know the poems are stronger for it. I’m extremely grateful to them for that.”

John Poch, a Department of English professor, said he and the rest of the faculty are proud of Shewmaker’s accomplishments.

“It is one of the most prestigious awards offered to a poet who has not yet published a book,” he said. “It is usually a signal that book publication is just around the corner, so we are all very proud of him. He is also publishing in some of the very best journals in the country.”

Poch said he is the chairman of Shewmaker’s dissertation committee, and has assisted him with his poems. He and Shewmaker work off of each other, he said, pushing each other to become better writers and improve their work.

Through the academic and financial support of the department and faculty, Shewmaker used his experience and knowledge to his advantage — something Poch said he is proud of.

“Through the generosity and support of the English department, the graduate school, the provost’s office and the Office of the (Vice President for Research), Michael has gotten some decent financial support to be able to focus on his work,” Poch said. “He also has acquired some good teaching experience here. But more important than this is the education and encouragement he has gotten from our excellent literature and creative writing professors.” ➤➤check@dailytoreador.com

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MICHAEL SHEWMAKER, A doctoral poetry student from Texarkana, was selected for Standford’s Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Each year Standford offer’s 10 fellowships, five of which are poetry.

Texas lawmakers consider adding legal protection for gay teens AUSTIN (AP) — In Texas, where attempts to expand gay rights have run into strong opposition from Republican leaders, state lawmakers are considering new legal protections for sexually active gay teens.

Sexual contact with minors under the age of 17 is a crime of indecency under Texas law. But a “Romeo and Juliet” defense protects teen couples from prosecution as long as they are in a consensual relationship, both over 14 and within three years of age of each other.

But the law specifically states that this protection is available only to

couples of the opposite sex.

Bills scheduled for public hearings Tuesday in House and Senate committees remove that language to give same-sex teen couples the same protection as their heterosexual peers.

Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat and longtime chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice committee, said he filed his bill out of a “sense of fairness.” If a couple meets the age and consent criteria, there should be no difference in the law based on their sexual orientation, he said.

Rep. Mary Gonzalez, an El Paso Democrat, is the author of the House bill.

“In this day and time, I recognize that people of the same sex become partners,” Whitmire said. “I think there’s a recognition nationally that we could do better (in) how we treat people that have same-sex relationships.”

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, many states have provisions in their sex offender laws allowing some leeway in prosecuting teenage relationships.

They range from exceptions to pros-

ecution and sex offender registration to reduced levels of crimes.

But Texas appears to be a rarity in its “opposite sex” requirement.

Equality Texas, a gay rights group, is working with Gonzalez and Whitmire to change the law.

Equality Texas Executive Director Chuck Smith said he doesn’t know of any cases in which gay teenage couples have been prosecuted, but called the distinction that favors heterosexual couples unfair and

said it should be removed.

“Law enforcement does not get involved in instances like this if they are of opposite sex,” Smith said. “It should be no different” if the couple is gay.

Jonathan Saenz, president of the conservative group Texas Values, which recently staged a rally against gay rights at the state Capitol, questioned whether the bills are a way for “more kids that are under 18 (to) have sex?”

Saenz called the bills “part of the gay community’s agenda,” but declined further comment.

Gay teens who contract a sexually transmitted disease may be deterred from seeking treatment under the law as it stands, for fear of their partner being prosecuted and forced to register as a sex offender, Smith said.

“We are not advocating teen sex. No one is advocating teen sex,” Smith said.

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New state abortion laws attack on women’s rights Jakob Reynolds seven weeks into pregnancy.

This law appears to be modeled after a law banning abortion beyond 12 weeks, which was passed earlier in March by Arkansas legislators after overriding Gov. Mike Beebe’s (D) veto.

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, a Republican, also signed two other bills along with the six-week bill banning abortion based on genetic defects and requiring doctors who offer the procedure to have privileges at a North Dakotaarea hospital.

Similar legislation has been cropping up in several other

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states across the country while abortion rights activists have struggled to keep up.

Ohio’s state legislature hosted hearings on its own six-week bill in which two pregnant women underwent ultrasounds so lawmakers could hear the fetal heartbeat, according to an article in the Huffington Post.

Kansas lawmakers passed a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Similar proposals are pending in Idaho, Alabama and Oklahoma.

Fortunately, these bans are not expected to survive in the federal court battles for which their state legislatures are putting money aside. Roe v. Wade protects a woman’s right to an abortion until the fetus is viable outside its mother’s womb, typically 24-28 weeks into pregnancy, which is blatantly contradicted by fetal heartbeat laws similar to North Dakota’s.

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n recent months, several conservative states have launched new legislation to circumvent women’s rights to abortion outlined in Roe v.

Wade.

North Dakota, Mississippi and Kansas have made waves in the national headlines with their new laws that don’t ban abortion outright, but make acquiring one all but impossible. Alabama and Indiana are expected to unveil their contributions to the ongoing campaign by social conservatives to regulate women’s reproductive rights.

In case you missed it, North Dakota passed a law in its state legislature effectively banning most abortions last month. The law, considered by many to be one of the toughest state antiabortion measures, prohibits the abortion of a fetus once a fetal heartbeat can be monitored, which is usually about six or

However, some states have opted to use other tactics. South Dakota has chosen to caution women choosing to get an abortion in a bill its governor signed requiring a three-day waiting period for women to get the procedure after their doctor’s appointment.

Alabama went a step further in its new legislation and required any pregnant girl younger than 16 years old to identify the baby’s father and report both of them to the police if he is older than 17.

Alabama’s new legislation also attacks abortion clinics, requiring them to meet the standards of an “ambulatory surgery center,” requiring the state’s abortion clinics to undergo costly and unnecessary renovations.

Lawmakers in more than 20 other states have introduced bills restricting health insur-

ance providers from covering abortion procedures.

Looking at these new widespread assaults on women’s reproductive rights, one cannot help but wonder how exactly the GOP justifies their new campaign. For a group of people that espouses vehement advocacy for small government and individual liberty, they certainly have no problem with big brother government stepping in and regulating women’s reproductive liberties or business practices of health care institutions or providers.

Moreover, the legal battles in which these states are going to be embroiled are likely going to cost their taxpayers hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that could be better spent on educating their constituents on healthy and safe sexual practices, which would cut down significantly on the demand for abortion. Good

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luck getting any conservative politician to support that, though.

Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard said Alabama’s new bill “safeguards the health and safety of Alabama women,” and “Republicans boldly defended the rights of the unborn.” How many women would qualify all but denying their access to reproductive health care, be it by state-sanctioned intimidation or outright denial of control over their own body, as a “safeguard” is up to debate.

Regardless, the GOP’s new campaign against abortion show women across the country that if they want control over their bodies and sexuality, they will have to fight the GOP to get it.

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Student places top 10 in film competition

By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER

Erika Laffin understands relationships have their ups and downs.

That is the basic concept she used for her video submission in the fourth annual TXU Energy Light Up the Red Carpet Student Film Contest.

Laffin’s submission, titled “Thoughts on Fire,” passed through five phases in the contest, beginning last November, into the final voting round in February. She was selected as a top 10 finalist in the competition in phase five.

“I’m a sucker for cheesy, romantic stuff,” said Katie Cornblath, an actress in the video, “and I thought it was a creative way to incorporate use of energy and energy conservation and make it into a love story.”

First place, grand prize and community voting winners of the competition will accept their awards after walking the red carpet at the 2013 Dallas Film Society Honors on April 12.

Although Laffin was not selected as the recipient for any of these awards, she said the competition allowed her to have her first experience as a director and producer.

“I wrote the script, I did all the preproduction stuff for it and the location scouting throughout Lubbock,” she said. “I saw filming through all the way and did postproduction with a whole bunch of people as well.”

Laffin, a senior visual communications major from Great Falls, Mont., first discovered the competition when she attended the Orlando Film Festival last October. She decided to enter it after Todd Chambers, Tech’s electronic media and communication department chair, emailed her the

application link.

“It sounded really easy because all you had to do was submit an idea about energy conservation,” she said, “which I think it’s easier to submit ideas than actual full projects.”

Laffin’s initial idea was about the evolution of energy and how people utilize and conserve it in creative ways.

“I went ahead and submitted it,” she said, “and not too long later, I found they really liked my idea and I made it to the semifinalist round.”

To be selected as top 10 out of 17 semifinalists, Laffin had to pass through a phase of online voting last year by registered Flockstar users, who voted for their favorite concept.

When she discovered she passed this phase, she realized she did not have a story for her concept.

“I went back a couple weeks before filming it and rewrote script to have it as an evolution of an relationship paralleled with the evolution of energy,” she said, “and how a relationship will have its ups and downs, and at the down moment they decided to change the type of energy they were using to the more conservative, friendly type energy, it made things better.”

Laffin spent two weeks filming her project in February with the help of members in the Tech Association of Student Electronic Media.

“Pretty much the entire cast and crew consisted of people from TASEM,” she said, “and I’m the secretary of TASEM, so I took advantage of that.”

Cornblath, a senior media strategies major from Pearland, is one TASEM member who played a leading role in the video.

“It was really fun and enjoyable working with a bunch of my friends,” she said. “It was kind of stressful, but it’s always stressful when you’re

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ERIKA LAFFIN A, senior visual communications major from Great Falls, Mont., was selected as a top 10 finalist for the TXU Energy Light Up the Red Carpet Student Film Contest.

making a movie.”

Cornblath said her favorite part of the video is when she playfully duels against TASEM member Ben Jarvis.

“It was so much fun,” she said.

“Erika literally told me to just start attacking him with the sparkler.”

Jarvis, a junior electronic media and communication major from McKinney, and president of TASEM, played the part of Cornblath’s boyfriend, fiancé and husband in the video.

“It was great being able to see other students from TASEM step up,” he said, “and take the lead on producing, editing and directing their own short film.”

One of the reasons Laffin’s video did not advance is from lack of community voting, Cornblath said.

“That was a good chunk of choosing for it,” she said. “It wasn’t all about the panel. But making it to the final was really good.”

Laffin’s experience producing her film for the competition made

her question whether she wants to continue pursing a career in screenwriting and directing.

“It was a little more stressful than I thought it was going to be,” she said, “but I learned what to do and what not to do.”

Laffin said she will continue using a camera, though, to make a feature film with Cornblath next semester for a senior project titled “Sorority Lumberjacks.”

“It’s going to be a pretty funny film I think,” she said, “but it will

be the first feature we’re going to make together.”

Laffin encourages students to consider entering the TXU Energy Light Up the Red Carpet Student Film Contest next year for a chance to gain experience and receive cash prizes for themselves and Tech.

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New Mexico was expected to start feeling the impact late Monday and in Colorado, the blustery system was expected to bring up to 2 feet of snow.

Northern California was first to feel the lashing blasts, which spread to the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.

At least a dozen trees came down in San Francisco, police officer John Tozzini told KGO-TV, which reported that more than 20,000 utility customers lost power in the region. A swath of electrical outages occurred across the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the Sacramento Bee reported.

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The tweet was in reference to McNabb’s participation in a basketball-shooting contest.

“It was really funny,” McNabb said, “I just laughed along with it.”

When asked via Twitter if Dickens wanted to comment on his tweet, he replied, “Nope.”

While McNabb said he is aware of the negative attention, it doesn’t seem to bother him.

“Well, a lot of people are like, ‘You got a lot of balls,’ or whatever,” he said. “But I know I’m an entertainer. I didn’t say I was a good dancer. People like it. If people didn’t love it, then I would

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An expert witness testified Monday that average lead levels in baby foods fall below the threshold for warning labels mandated under a California reporting standard.

Barbara Petersen, a food safety scientist, was the first witness in the civil trial involving a lawsuit filed by an environmental group against the nation’s largest baby food makers aimed at forcing the companies to alert consumers that some products contain low amounts of lead.

The trial will help determine if the products must carry warning labels in California.

Gerber Products Co., Del Monte Foods, Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. and many other makers of baby foods and juices are selling products containing lead at levels that require warning labels under California Proposition 65,

the Environmental Law Foundation asserts in the suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland.

The plaintiffs countered that Petersen’s analysis was misleading because it averaged the lead level in the entirety of the companies’ products — rather than looking at each individually.

“Under their argument you could consume the entire (legal limit) of lead in one day, so as long as you didn’t eat any more of it over the rest of the month,” Jim Wheaton, an attorney for the foundation, said after the proceedings ended for the day.

There is no jury in the trial. Instead, Judge Steven Brick will hear testimony from about a dozen lead and toxicology experts before issuing his ruling.

Lawyers for the food companies say the U.S. Food and Drug Administra-

tion tested products targeted in the lawsuit and decided levels were below the federal standards that require a warning.

FDA tests on products named in the lawsuit also found lead levels “below FDA’s current tolerable intake levels for lead.”

But both sides in the case agree on one fact: Baby foods containing carrots, peaches, pears and sweet potatoes have some lead. Also covered by the suit are grape juice and fruit cocktail.

Lead exposure can damage a child’s developing brain and lead to a lower IQ. Overall, lead poisoning in the U.S. has declined significantly since it was removed from paints and gasoline formulas.

Still, more than 500,000 U.S. children are believed to have lead poisoning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

hear about it and I would quit, whatever. It doesn’t matter— haters going to hate, whatever they want to say, but I’m just there doing my thing and showing the joy of the Lord and I always have that style, it’s not like I just dance and that’s the only thing I have.”

One person who loves it is Ann Rodriguez, director of media strategies in the College of Media and Communication.

While she wasn’t aware of McNabb’s nickname — which McNabb refers to as legit — she said she enjoys watching “The Dancing Ginger” at different Tech games.

“Particularly, when you’re going through a season when the teams aren’t winning as much or as well as you would hope,” she said, “I

think it’s wonderful to have fan support like that that’s constant and engaged and excited, and it makes other people want to be the same.”

Daria McNabb, “The Dancing Ginger’s” mother, said she thinks her son’s campus-wide attention is interesting.

“The rest of our family is really not like that at all,” she said. “We kind of find out about these things … It’s fine as long as people kind of know why he’s doing it, and I think a lot of people do know now why he’s doing it.”

Morgan Cook, a junior accounting major from Midland, recorded Austin McNabb dancing at a football game and then uploaded it to YouTube.

The video has 181 views, and

Cook also thinks his dancing is interesting.

“I thought it was more funny than anything,” he said.

While Cook doesn’t know Austin McNabb’s specific religious beliefs, he said he is aware of his faith.

“I actually think it’s kind of cool just because practicing your (First) Amendment rights,” he said.

But, Austin McNabb wants people to know everything he does is for the Lord.

“It’s about him and the short lifetime doing everything for him,” he said. “My favorite verse is John 14:6.

Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,’ and, like, that’s what I’m all about.” ➤➤pskinner@dailytoreador.com

Mickey Mouse Club Mousketeer Annette Funicello dies at 70 NEW YORK (AP) — She was the first crush for a generation of boys, the perfect playmate for a generation of girls.

Annette Funicello, who became a child star as a cute-as-a-button Mouseketeer on “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s, ruled among baby boomers, who tuned in every weekday afternoon to watch her on their flickering black-and-white television sets.

Then they shed their mouse ears, as Annette did when she teamed up with Frankie Avalon during the ‘60s in a string of frothy, fun-in-thesun movies with titles like “Beach Blanket Bingo” and “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.”

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she had multiple sclerosis and began grappling with the slow, degenerative effects with remarkably good cheer and faith.

Funicello died on Monday at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., of complications from MS, the Walt Disney Co. said. She was 70 and had dropped from public view years ago.

“She really had a tough existence,” Avalon told The Associated Press. “It’s like losing a family member. I’m devastated but I’m not surprised.”

Avalon said that when they were working together, she never realized how beloved she was. “She would say, ‘Really?’ She was so bashful about it.

She was an amazing girl,” he recalled.

The pretty, dark-haired Funicello was 13 when she gained fame on “The

Mickey Mouse Club,” a kids’ variety show that consisted of stories, songs and dance routines. It ran on ABC from 1955 to 1959.

Cast after Walt Disney saw her at a dance recital, she appeared in the Mouseketeer uniform of mouse ears, a pleated skirt and a turtleneck sweater emblazoned with her first name, and captivated young viewers with her wholesome, girl-next-door appeal.

She became the most popular Mouseketeer, receiving 8,000 fan letters a month, 10 times more than any of the 23 other young performers.

“It was a happy time. They were wonderful times,” she recalled in a TV interview as an adult — and she might just as well have been speaking for her “Mickey Mouse Club” audience.

Singer and composer Paul Anka,

the one-time teen idol who briefly dated Funicello when they were on the concert circuit in the late 1950s, said that like seemingly every young American male of the time, he was in love with her.

“She was just the girl next door and they were drawn just to her,” Anka said. “She had that thing. She had the it, and there was just no stopping it.”

They eventually drifted apart, but during the time they were together, he said, Disney tried to end their relationship, resulting in one of Anka’s biggest hits, “Puppy Love.”

“The Disney crowd, and understandably so, didn’t want her too involved at too young an age,” Anka told the AP. “We had our professional careers and what have you, and they continued to tell her it was a puppy love, and marriage should not be in question. And I wrote about it.”

When “The Mickey Mouse Club” ended, Funicello was the only cast member to remain under contract to the studio. She appeared in such Disney movies as “Johnny Tremain,” ‘’The Shaggy Dog,” ‘’The Horsemasters,” ‘’Babes in Toyland,” ‘’The Misadventures of Merlin Jones” and “The Monkey’s Uncle.”

She also became a recording star, singing on 15 albums and hit singles such as “Tall Paul” and “Pineapple Princess.”

Outgrowing the kid roles by the early ‘60s, Annette teamed with Avalon in a series of movies for American-International, the first film company to exploit the burgeoning teen market.

The filmmakers weren’t aiming for art, and never stumbled across it. As Halliwell’s Film Guide says of “Beach Party”: “Quite tolerable in itself, it started an excruciating trend.”

The films had songs, cameos by older stars and some laughs. The 1965 “Beach Blanket Bingo,” for example, featured subplots involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don Rickles, and comic touches by silent film star Buster Keaton.

Among the other titles: “Muscle Beach Party,” ‘’Bikini Beach,” ‘’How to Stuff a Wild Bikini” and “Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.”

The beach films featured ample youthful skin. But not Funicello’s.

She remembered in 1987: “Mr. Disney said to me one day, ‘Annette, I have a favor to ask of you. I know all the girls are wearing bikinis, but you have an image to uphold. I would appreciate it if you would wear a one-piece suit.’ I did, and I never regretted it.”

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Louisville tops Michigan 82-76 to win NCAA title ATLANTA (AP) — Luke Hancock made all five of his 3-pointers and led Louisville to its first NCAA men’s basketball championship since 1986 with an 82-76 victory over Michigan on Monday night.

Coach Rick Pitino added this title to the one he won at Kentucky in 1996 and is the first coach to win a championship at two schools.

Earlier in the day, Pitino was elected to the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.

Hancock scored 22 points and Peyton Siva had 18 for the Cardinals (35-5), who trailed by 12 late in the first half before rallying for the school’s third

national title.

Trey Burke had 24 points for Michigan (31-8), which was in the final for the first time since the Fab Five led the Wolverines there in 1993. Little-used freshman Spike Albrecht added 17 points.

But the celebration belonged to the Cardinals, who added this to a Sugar Bowl victory this year and also have their women’s team in Tuesday’s national final against Connecticut.

Chane Behanan scored nine quick points early in the second half to help Louisville take the lead after trailing by double digits.

Behanan finished with 15

points and 13 rebounds, including eight on the offensive glass.

Albrecht came in for Burke and made his first four 3-point attempts, scoring all his points in the opening half.

Albrecht finally missed with a little more than 11 minutes left; he was still 9 for 10 from long range for the tournament.

Hancock made all four of his 3-pointers to start a 14-1 run for Louisville that briefly gave the Cardinals a one-point lead late in the first half after they trailed by 12.

Michigan’s Glenn Robinson III made two free throws with 2 seconds left to give the Wolverines the lead at the half but

Louisville led by as many as five early in the second.

The Cardinals came in having won six games this season after trailing by 10 or more, including Saturday night’s semifinals, when they beat Wichita State 72-68 after also falling behind by 12.

It was a scintillating final act of a season that has been more of a grind, with scoring at its lowest (67.49 points per team) since 1951-52 and shooting at its worst (43.3 percent) since 1964-65.

The 131.2-points-per-game average during March Madness is the lowest since the 3-point line was brought to the game

in 1987, though the teams had surpassed that with 5:30 left.

Sitting on the bench with the Cardinals was sophomore guard Kevin Ware, the team’s inspiration since snapping his tibia in the regional final last weekend.

Needing a pickup without Ware, Hancock led the scoring against Wichita State.

And rarely used walk-on Tim Henderson made two key 3-pointers during the comeback.

Pitino, meanwhile, was working the sideline hours after being chosen for the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.

Russ Smith, the Louisville team leader who Pitino has

nicknamed “Russdiculous” for some of his wild — and wildly effective — antics on the court, finished with nine points on 3-of-16 shooting.

Michigan topped Syracuse 61-56 on Saturday despite an off night from Burke, who finished with only seven points on 1-for8 shooting.

Burke, a sophomore, seriously considered leaving for the NBA after last season but decided he had unfinished business left in Ann Arbor.

He picked up the AP Player of the Year award, among others, and is now one victory away from the ultimate prize in college hoops.

Nava, Buchholz lead Boston Red Sox over Baltimore Orioles 3-1 BOSTON (AP) — Daniel Nava hit a three-run homer, Clay Buchholz pitched seven shutout innings and the surprising Boston Red Sox won their ninth straight home opener, 3-1 over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday.

Nava broke open a scoreless duel between Buchholz (2-0) and Wei-Yin Chen (0-1) in the seventh inning with his second homer in two days. He hit a shot over the Green Monster in left after Dustin Pedroia singled and took third on a double by Mike Napoli.

The Red Sox are off to a

strong start at 5-2 under new manager John Farrell. They finished last in the AL East last season with a 69-93 record under Bobby Valentine, who was fired after one season.

Buchholz gave up three hits and three walks and struck out eight. Last Wednesday he allowed one run in seven innings in a 7-4 win over the New York Yankees.

Andrew Bailey blanked the Orioles in the eighth before Joel Hanrahan allowed a solo homer

by Adam Jones, his first, in the ninth, but got his third save.

Buchholz allowed the first bat-

ter to reach base in four innings but only one runner advanced to second.

The Orioles put the leadoff runners at first in the first two innings, Nate McLouth with a single and Chris Davis with a walk, but neither moved up.

With two outs in the third, singles by Manny Machado and Nick Markakis put runners at first and second before Jones took a third strike.

Davis led off the fourth with a walk but was forced out at second on a grounder by Matt Wieters.

J.J. Hardy then grounded into a

double play, ending the inning.

In the fifth, McLouth drew a two-out walk, but Machado flied out to right fielder Shane Victorino. Buchholz finally pitched a perfect inning in the sixth when Markakis grounded to first, Jones flied to right and Davis struck out looking. Buchholz walked Wieters leading off the seventh then

retired the next three batters, striking out two and completing an impressive 113-pitch performance.

The Red Sox managed just four runners in the first six innings on two singles and two walks but none got past first base.

Nava walked with two outs in the second before Johnny Gomes

popped out to second baseman Ryan Flaherty. Victorino started the fourth with a single but was caught stealing. Pedroia then walked before Napoli grounded into a double play.

Nava then singled with one out in the fifth, but Chen struck out Gomes and got David Ross to ground out to Flaherty.

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Excellent pay, flexible hours. Apply in person 3400 Mesa Rd. 762-0414.

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TECH TERRACE*Pre-Lease for June 1 *Monitored Security*Lawns Maintained*Updated Homes*Owned & Managed by TTUrental.com

4 Bedrooms, unique 2 story houses 2004 17th, 2309 17th 806-441-0611/806-438-8746 More info: http://merlinspetshop.com/tech-arearentals.html

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2 BEDROOM/1 Bath/Garage. Appliances included plus security. Central Heat/Air. No Pets. $950.

2809 32nd Street. 806-781-7505.

3/2, 3603-42nd Street, central H/A, refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, w/d connections, hardwood/carpet floors, large backyard. $575 deposit, $975 per month. 806-543-5688 or 806-543-6764.

1 BEDROOM home-$495;2 bedroom homes-$750;3 bedroom homes-$1200;4 bedroom homes-$1800. All close to Tech. No dogs.Owner/Realtor SheriGallo@Austin.RR.com

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CLOTHING/JEWELRY NEED CASH

Buying any gold/silver jewelry. Any condition.

Avery and others. Varsity Jewelers 1311 University.

BEDROOM & BATH with kitchenette. Four blocks off campus. $299. Call Ann at 795-2011.

Officially licensed rings. Men’s from $845.

Women’s from $495. Varsity Jewelers.

1311 University.

CAMPUS EDGE

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has over 20 properties ranging from efficiencies to 5 bedrooms all within walking distance to Tech.

Please call 806-438-5964 to schedule an appointment or go to campusedgeproperties.com

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$2300. 3 blocks from Tech Awesome. 4/4/2. 2201 16th. Lawn kept. No Pets. 806.765.7182. Photos on Craigslist.

TECH AREA HOUSES

2/1, 3010-29th Street, central H/A, refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, washer/dryer, large backyard. $500 deposit, $750 per month. 806-543-5688 or 806-543-6764.

LEASE TODAY for May 15th. Short Lease. Lovely 2 bedroom house. Hardwood. Appliances. Security system. Large fenced yard. Garage. W/D. Call 7952011. Will be shown Tuesday 4:00. $725/month.

$1500. TECH Terrace. 2911 Canton. 3/2/1.Quality home. Hardwood. Washer/Dryer furnished. 1750 feet. Central AC. Yard kept. Available August 1st or June 1st. No pets. $1000 deposit.

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Now Hiring all positions. Contact Adam: 806-7811204

BACKYARD APARTMENT near Tech. Resonable rent. No pets. Quiet neighborhood. 741-1800.

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

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

NEWLY REMODELED efficiencies,1, 2, 3 & 4 bedroom homes. Convenient to Tech. 771-1890. www.lubbockleasehomes.com.

NICE 1, 2 & 3 bedroom houses near campus. All have range and fridge. Most have washer and dryer. See them all at toadstoolproperties.com. For additional information call 796-0774.

ONE BLOCK FROM TECH. $495. Water paid. 1 bedroom house. 2319 13th rear. Available July 15th. Spotless, quiet, private parking, appliances, lawn kept. Can show. 765-7182 TECH AREA Houses, all updated, all include yard & are pet friendly. 4/2 2415 25th, 3/2 3312 27th, 2/2 all bills paid 2315 25th, 2/1 2811 24th, all bills efficiencies, more info: http://merlinspetshop.com/tech-area-rentals.html Text/call 806-4410611/806-438-8746

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High security, great location. Units from $20 and up. Reserve online today. www.AffordableStorageOfLubbock.com or call Travis @ 791-1166

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$1000 for information leading to arrest and conviction of individual(s) responsible for vandalizing a red Ford in Horn-Knapp parking lot. Contact TTU Police 806-742-3931

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Women’s tennis scores first win in Austin

By JORDON LEGENDRE STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech women’s tennis team defeated Texas 4-3 on Saturday in Austin to remain perfect in Big 12 Conference play.

The Lady Raiders, ranked No. 15 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings, defeated No. 24 Texas fo the second time in program history. The win was the first for the team in Austin. The Lady Raiders are now 5-0 in conference, tied at the top with TCU. Tech coach Todd Petty said the victory is one of the biggest in Tech’s history.

“I thought they played really poised,” he said of his team’s performance. “We played from behind the whole day, so to see them keep scraping and keep clawing back, I was proud of the heart and the passion they played with.”

The No. 27 doubles team of Samantha Adams and Kenna Kilgo

opened play for the Lady Raiders with an 8-3 victory against No. 16 Breaunna Addison and Noel Scott.

Caroline Starck and Elizabeth Ullathorne defeated Texas’ Lina Padegimaite and Annat Rabinovich 8-6 to secure the doubles point for Tech. Rashmi Teltumbde and Nikki Sanders completed the doubles sweep for the Lady Raiders with an 8-5 victory.

Texas responded in singles play.

Addison defeated Kilgo 6-1, 6-0 to tie the match. A 6-3, 6-1 victory for Texas’ Aeriel Ellis against Adams gave the Longhorns the lead.

Ullathorne fell to Elizabeth Begley 6-3, 6-1. With the Longhorns up 3-1, the Lady Raiders began their comeback.

Tech’s Sanders defeated Padegimaite 6-3, 6-3, and Teltumbde’s 6-3, 7-5 victory against Texas’ Scott tied the match, 3-3.

Lana Groenvynvck defeated Starck, 6-3, in the first set of their match. The second set was decided by a tiebreaker, which Starck took 7-1. Starck’s strong play continued as she took the final set and the match 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-3.

“It’s hard to describe,” Starck said of her emotions after the match. “Texas has obviously always been our biggest rivals, and to be able to get the win on their courts my senior year felt really good.”

Starck said she enjoys playing in high-pressure situations.

“I feel like, over the years, I’ve learned to actually enjoy that moment,” she said. “We work so hard.

I guess that’s the type of situation you want to be able to have the opportunity to be in.”

Petty said Starck is a gifted player.

“We always talk about how special a player she is,” he said.

“She just has that ‘it’ factor. When all the girls came over after it was

FILE PHOTO/The Daily Toreador

TEXAS TECH JUNIOR Nikki Sanders won her match 6-3, 6-3 against Texas’ Lina Padegimaite on Saturday, playing a role in the Lady Raiders victory against the Longhorns. Tech remains undefeated in conference play.

tied three-all, they all looked up and said, ‘There’s nobody else we want on the court right now.’”

Sanders said the team is proud of Starck’s play.

“Caroline’s effort on the court, every time she steps on the court in practice and in matches, is just amazing,” she said. “She’s a bulldog on the court.”

Tech travels to Wamego, Kan. for its next conference match against Kansas State at 1 p.m. on Friday. ➤➤jlegendre@dailytoreador.com

National Football League, ex-players prep for battle over concussions PHILADELPHIA (AP) — With perhaps billions of dollars at stake, a hearing Tuesday over concussion litigation filed against the NFL promises to be a contest between legal lions.

About 4,200 former players have sued the league. Some suffer from dementia, depression, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological problems. Others simply want their health monitored.

And a small number, including Ray Easterling and 12-time Pro Bowler Junior Seau, committed suicide after long downward spirals.

The players’ lawyers accuse the NFL of promoting violence in the game and concealing known cognitive risks from concussions and other blows to the head.

They hope to keep the litigation in federal court so they can use the discovery process to access

NFL fi les — and see what the league knew when.

“The NFL failed to live up to its responsibility: it negligently heightened players’ exposure to repeated head trauma and fraudulently concealed the chronic brain injuries that resulted,” the players’ lawyers wrote in their latest brief, filed in January.

The NFL, with $9.2 billion in annual revenues, argues that the complaints belong in arbitration under terms of the collective bargaining agreement. The league insists it has always followed the best available science and made player safety a top priority.

“The rule in our league is simple: Medical decisions override everything else,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a speech last month at the University of North Carolina.

The NFL will be represented Tuesday by Paul Clement, a for-

mer U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush who has fought gay marriage, guncontrol measures and President Barack Obama’s state health care mandates before the Supreme Court.

Players’ lawyer David Frederick, an Obama ally, has taken consumer protection fights over investor fees and prescription drug warnings to the high court.

“They spend most of their time, Paul Clement and David Frederick, at the Supreme Court,” said Paul Anderson, a Missouri lawyer who tracks the NFL litigation on his website, nflconcussionlitigation.com.

“This is really a multibilliondollar issue. That’s why both parties went out and hired the best of the best.”

Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody of Philadelphia will hear the case and decide

whether the lawsuits stay in federal court or are “pre-empted” by the collective bargaining agreements. Scores of related lawsuits around the country have been steered to her because she had been assigned the 2011 Easterling suit, the first to be filed.

If Brody sides with the players, she would then rule on some broader issues, which are expected to include hard-fought battles over the science of concussions and brain injuries, along with the players’ claims of fraud and negligence. The cases would then be returned to their home states to resolve individual damage claims, based on each player’s history.

If the NFL prevails, the players must seek individual arbitration awards. But no money is expected to change hands for years while the case plays out.

Brody’s ruling, which could take

months, is likely to be appealed by the losing side.

Alternatively, she could issue a mixed ruling because of a sixyear “gap,” from 1987 to 1993, when there was no collective bargaining agreement in place.

The NFL, eager to avoid discovery, has argued that those players were bound by previous contracts or contracts in effect when they later collected pensions.

Similarly, the league had no union contracts in place before 1968, but Anderson and others question whether those players have much of a case, since most of the scientific findings linking concussions to possible brain injuries emerged in the 1990s and later.

Goodell, in his UNC speech, called concussions “a global issue, not just a football issue.”

He said the league has pledged $30 million to the National In-

stitutes of Health for broad-based research on the brain, which he said affects tens of millions of people. And he said the latest players’ contract sets aside another $100 million for research over the next decade.

The latest concussion study at the Boston University School of Medicine, released in January, looked at the donated brains of 85 people who had suffered head trauma in football, hockey, boxing or military combat. The study found 68 had evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease also found in Seau’s brain after the popular player shot himself in May. “This success comes at a price to the players who make the game great,” Seau’s parents said in their lawsuit, which was consolidated with the other Brody cases last month.