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Unemployment rates for US cities in the South (AP) — Unemployment rates fell in more than 80 percent of large U.S. cities in February from January, suggesting that strong hiring that month benefited the vast majority of the country.

The Labor Department says rates fell in 311 of the nation’s 372 largest metro areas. They rose in 45 and were unchanged in 16.

Nationwide, employers added 268,000 jobs in February, the most in a year.

That pushed down the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent. But hiring slowed sharply last month, when employers added only 88,000 jobs.

Man convicted in university bomb hoax HOUSTON (AP) — A federal jury in Houston has found a Bryan man guilty of threatening to bomb the Texas State University campus.

A Justice Department statement says 22-year-old Dereon Tayronne Kelley is guilty of three counts of using the Internet to make a false bomb threat.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes has scheduled sentencing for next month, when Kelley could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and fined up to $250,000.

According to trial evidence, Kelley hacked into the email account of his ex-girlfriend, who is a former Texas State University student.

He used that account to send threatening emails to the university’s admissions office.

The ex-girlfriend was initially charged with making the threats, but the case was dropped after prosecutors traced the Oct. 18 threats to Kelley.

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Lubbock temperatures hit April record low

By CATHERINE MCKEE NEWS EDITOR

When the senior public relations major from The Colony looked outside Wednesday morning and saw snow, the first thing she did was go back to bed.

When she woke up to go to class, however, Taryn Beadles saw the sun shining.

“I looked on the balcony and the whole ground was covered in snow,” she said. “I was like, this is unbelievable. I definitely didn’t want to go to class today, so I hopped back on the couch and snuggled up, but when I left to go to class, it was sunny.”

Charles Aldrich, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Lubbock, said the city hit a record low of 22 degrees, while the previous low was 26 degrees.

The low temperature, he said, was unusual for Lubbock, but the freeze was not.

Lubbock typically experiences its last freeze April 9, so the snow was one day late, Aldrich said.

“The degree of the temperature itself, how cold it was, was fairly uncommon,” he said, “especially considering it was a record. But, to get a cold front, that’s not too uncommon this time of year.”

The upper-level low brought air to the South Plains from the arctic region, including northern Canada and Alaska, which also have been experiencing below-average temperatures, Aldrich said.

The ice and snow created by the cold front made for hazardous driving conditions in Lubbock on Wednesday morning, he said.

Between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., 113 car accidents were reported, Lubbock Police Department Sgt. Jonathan Stewart said.

While the accidents reported involved only minor injuries, he said the number was abnormally high for a typical day, and the wrecks could be attributed to the weather.

Two accidents occurred on Texas Tech’s campus on the Ninth Street bridge, Stephen Hinkle, Tech Police

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Department administrative captain, said.

Both accidents involved cars sliding off the road and hitting the guardrail.

LPD, he said, responded to a fivecar pile up on I-27, a pile up on Loop 289, and a pile up on Marsha Sharp Freeway.

The reason for the lack of car accidents on Tech’s campus, Hinkle said is because the physical plant began salting the roads early in the morning.

Drivers, he said, need to slow down and be cautious when on the road.

Greg Howard, a freshman advertising major from Houston, said seeing the snow in April was a culture shock, and drivers in Lubbock need to be careful.

“I like the snow,” he said, “but I feel like more people should be informed on how to drive better in the snow rather than be uninformed.”

On Tuesday, the high temperature was 81 degrees, Aldrich said.

With Wednesday’s high temperature reaching the upper 40s and becoming sunny after the low of 22 degrees with

snow, Howard said predicting how to dress is a challenge.

“Here, you have to wear two different outfits throughout the day,” he said, “because the first half of the day will be cold and then the second half will be warm, so you go through clothes pretty quick.”

Aldrich said he believes Lubbock did not win The Weather Channel’s Toughest Weather City title because of the fast-changing temperatures.

“I think it’d be mainly the dust storms and the amount of severe weather that Lubbock can get is what got Lubbock into the toughest weather city in the U.S.,” he said.

Whether the sun is shining or the temperature is freezing, Beadles said loving Lubbock is the key to liking its weather.

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By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech Student Democrats, along with the Office of Institutional Diversity, the history department, Honors College and others, are hosting a weeklong symposium about U.S. and Latin America relations.

The symposium, called “The Puzzle of the Americas: A Week-long Journey in to the Complexity of U.S.-Latin America Relations,” began with a lecture about migration and ends with a lecture called “Free the Cuban Five.”

The program Wednesday night focused on the drug trafficking culture in Colombia and Mexico, and featured guest expert speakers Jennifer Holmes and Jorge Chabat.

Chabat, professor in the Division of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics in Mexico City, generalized his presentation on the rise of cocaine and marijuana trafficking through the 1980s and to the present.

From 2003 to 2009, drug use has risen more than 50 percent, and cocaine use has risen more than 10 percent, Chabat said.

In connection with drug use, predatory crimes such as kidnapping, murder and blackmail have risen as well, he said.

Chabat continued to speak about Mexican government in relation to the allowance of drug trafficking, and possible solutions to the problem, including the toleration of drug culture in Mexico, combating drug use through force or modifying the Mexican government’s ability to enforce the law.

Holmes, an associate professor of economics, political and policy sciences at University of Texas at Dallas, gave her presentation on the history of paramilitary and guerrilla warfare in connection to drug use.

Colombia’s crime, gang population and drug trafficking rates have decreased throughout the past decade, she said.

However, Holmes said her main concern was whether more drug pushers and gangs will move in to claim empty territory, or if the Colombian government will be able to maintain the new peace.

Alejandro Tirado, the moderator and coordinator of the symposium, said shedding light on Latin America and specific regions such as Mexico and Colombia is important to understand the culture’s diversity and foreign policy.

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SELENA MENDOZA, A freshman media strategies major from El Paso, opens the burette to mix sodium hydroxide with acid, while her lab partners Carolyn Harden, a sophomore psychology major from Rowlett, and Lauren Lantz, a sophomore communications studies major from Dallas, wait for a reaction during a chemistry lab Wednesday in the Chemistry building.

Law team wins largest moot court competition in nation

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

A team of Texas Tech law school students took home the 27th national championship for the School of Law, winning the largest moot court competition in the nation.

Third-year law students Reagan Marble, Ashirvad Parikh and Suzanne Taylor won the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition after facing off against the South Texas College of Law in the final rounds, said Robert Sherwin, director of the law school’s advocacy program and the team’s coach.

“It was an extremely competitive final round,” he said. “South Texas College of Law has one of the best moot court programs in the country.

We feel like they’re our biggest rival.

They are always very competitive.

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They are always very prepared and very polished.”

The team began practicing in November to compete in the March regional competition in Washington, Sherwin said, where the members competed against 40 other teams.

After winning regionals, he said they advanced to the ABA competition, where they went up against 225 teams from 129 law schools, making it the largest moot court competition in the country.

This is the school’s first victory in the ABA competition, Sherwin said, although they have claimed two victories in the nation’s other top competition, the National Moot Court Competition, which is the oldest one of its kind in the country.

“In the last three years, we’ve won the National Moot Court Competition twice,” he said, “and the ABA

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National Appellate Advocacy Competition once, just this last week.”

Marble, from Jourdanton, said training three to four times a week for up to two hours at a time was rigorous, but worth it.

“Balancing that with law school is very difficult, but very rewarding,” he said. “It’s nice to be in a court room eight to 10 hours a week and actually practice the skills that they’re teaching us in class.”

During the competition, Marble and his partner, Taylor, argued a civil rights case in front of a panel of seven judges, six of those being federal district judges and one being a circuit court of appeals judge. That in itself was incredible, Marble said, but competing against South Texas was even better.

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Tech English department, honor society host Read-A-Thon

By MIKAEL GONZALES STAFF WRITER

The smell of coffee and donuts was evident throughout the English building on Wednesday as the Texas Tech Department of English and Sigma Tau Delta hosted its annual Read-A-Thon.

The reading marathon was open to the community from 7 p.m. Tuesday night until 7 p.m. Wednesday night and had students and professors read for 30-minute increments out of the “Chronicles of Narnia” series.

Lydia Clinkscales, a sophomore English and public relations major from Keller and member of Sigma Tau Delta, an English honor society, said she thought Read-A-Thon was good for the community.

“It’s really fun, it’s more of a community thing,” she said. “Instead of reading for myself it’s reading for others as well.”

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“That was easily the pinnacle or the coolest moment of my law school career,” he said. “South Texas College of Law is legendary in the realm of advocacy among law schools. They have 15 of these championships, compared to our four, so they’re undoubtedly a dynasty.”

Marble won the best oral speaker in regionals, and second-best in nationals. His partner, Taylor, also earned top marks, winning the fourth-best oral speaker in the preliminary rounds and third-best oral speaker in nationals.

Parikh, from Kingwood, wrote the team’s brief, which ranked fourth in the nation.

He said he enjoyed practicing with his team, as difficult and interesting as the experience was.

“Going up against South Texas, they were a very good team,” Parikh said. “They were very tough to compete against and I think Reagan and Suzanne just did an amazing job against them.”

What set the team apart from

mittee that planned the event, said although the event was hosted throughout day, she was glad many people stopped by even for a few minutes to show their support for the English department.

“When I read earlier at 10 (a.m.,) and now it’s people’s usual class time so there haven’t been that many people,” she said, “but there have been a couple people that stop by for a few minutes and that’s pretty cool because they can learn more about the English department and know that we’re doing something really fun like this.“ Joshua Crook, a junior English major from San Bernardino, Calif., and a member of Sigma Tau Delta, also was on the committee that helped plan the event.

He said the idea for the event came from a discussion about previous events that Sigma Tau Delta had hosted in earlier years.

“In the past, they had done Read-

A-Thons,” he said. “Sigma Tau was resurrected from the ashes last semester because for a while it was sort of inactive. But it was brought back and with it we decided that this Read-A-Thon would be a great way to promote literacy and raise funds.”

Crook said reading “The Chronicles of Narnia” was an interesting way to promote literacy to younger people in a peaceful environment.

“The event is for a great cause,” he said. “It’s in a tranquil environment. It’s calm, it’s friendly and it’s a great story.

When we do these kinds of things we don’t read some off the wall story that no one wants to hear. These are classics and I think that is a very attractive feature.”

The English honor society members hoped to use the funds earned at the event for a stipend to be given out through an essay contest for seniors entering college in 2014.

the rest was their ability to be conversational in its arguments, Marble said, which allowed them to provide a strong case both in knowledge and presentation.

“Something that’s so important in moot court is when advocates are able to be conversational,” he said, “and when advocates can have a conversation with the bench rather than lecture, they’re going to succeed. My coach has taught my partner Suzanne Taylor and I to be as conversational as possible, and when you’re likeable and you can carry on a conversation, no matter what you say, juries tend to take that with some heavy weight and tend to find in your favor. So, I think that was ultimately our difference, was our conversational style.”

Sherwin said this was his first victory in the ABA competition, although he had won the two previous victories in the NMCC. “It means a lot to me because I know how important it was to the students and how important it was to the law school for us to have an advocacy program that the rest of the country looks at and envies,” he said. “It was very, very satisfy-

ing to know that for the last three years we’ve had the best, if not one of the three or five best moot court programs in the country.”

For Parikh, it was a surreal experience, he said.

“My reaction was shock and joy, really,” Parikh said. “I remember I was sitting next to our coach Rob and Suzanne, and for a second there was that two-second pause where you were just like, ‘Woah, did we just win?’”

Marble said he felt a flurry of emotions — excited, stunned, honored and relieved. For him, this experience may be the last he ever has with moot court competitions.

“My partner and I have been partners for two years now,” he said, “for our second and third years in law school, and Robert Sherwin had been our coach for two years.

It has been a long and bumpy ride. We haven’t always won, we haven’t always succeeded like we wanted to, but this is our very last competition. And we knew that morning that was the very last time we would set foot in a courtroom all together. So when we won, it was indeed the icing on the cake.”

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ALLIE CAUDILL, A senior English major from Pearland, reads out of "The Chronicles of Narnia" during the Read-A-Thon on Wednesday in the English building. The event was hosted by the English department and the English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Thousands rally across country in support of immigration bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied nationwide Wednesday in a coordinated set of protests aimed at pressing Congress to approve immigration measures that would grant 11 million immigrants living here illegally a path toward citizenship.

Organizers said demonstrations were taking place in at least 18 states and in Washington, D.C., where a large, festive crowd gathered on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon.

Many carried hand-lettered signs and chanted “Si, se puede,” Spanish for “Yes, we can.”

“We won’t win immigration reform just coming to Washington. We need to walk the streets all over the country,” said Ben Monterroso, national director of civic participation of the Service Employees International Union, which represents nurses and lowerwage employees including janitors and child care workers.

In Atlanta, more than 1,000 people marched around the Georgia Capitol Wednesday midday, calling for comprehensive changes to immigration policy and an end to deportation.

Supporters massed in several rallies in New York City, including in the Washington Heights section, as well as in Queens, Manhattan and The Bronx.

In San Francisco, demonstrators planned to build an altar at the federal building with 1,000 paper

flowers, symbolizing the number of people deported daily for immigration violations. In San Diego, about 50 demonstrators gathered on a sidewalk outside the office of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a sharp contrast to massive protests in 2006 when thousands of demonstrators shut down downtown streets to support looser immigration policies.

Senators writing a sweeping immigration bill have said they hope to finish their work this week, opening what’s sure to be a raucous public debate over measures to secure the border, allow tens of thousands of foreign workers into the country and grant eventual citizenship to the millions living illegally in the United States.

A person familiar with proposed bipartisan immigration legislation being written in the Senate said Wednesday the bill would require greatly expanded surveillance of the U.S. border with Mexico and greatly increased detention of border crossers in high-risk areas.

The person provided the information on condition of anonymity because the deliberations were private.

Groups opposed to illegal immigration say they aren’t worried that lawmakers or voters will be swayed by emotional messages, and argue that extending legal rights to immigrants living illegally in the U.S. will create financial problems for cash-starved governments and spur more illegal immigration.

“There ought to be a rally for the 20 million Americans who can’t find a full-time job,” NumbersUSA President Roy Beck, whose group advocates reductions in immigration levels, said in a statement Wednesday.

Immigration rights activists said the size of their movement would be on display at rallies around the country, including in the nation’s capital, where National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Benjamin Jealous delivered the keynote address.

Gustavo Andrade, who leads a large immigrant advocacy group in Maryland and helped organize Wednesday’s event, said about 400 buses carrying activists converged on Washington for the rally.

Several Democratic lawmakers including Sen. Bob Menendez and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, spoke briefly, as did Puerto Rican singer Olga Tanon and the Latino pop-rock group La Santa Cecilia.

The activists already claim victories nationwide, including a successful lobbying effort against a plan in North Carolina to provide driver’s licenses to immigrants with the words: “NO LAWFUL STATUS.” The immigrant activism movement gained national attention in 2007 when President George W. Bush and a bipartisan group of lawmakers unsuccessfully tried comprehensive immigration overhaul.

Some high school and college students who were brought to the U.S. as young children began living openly and holding rallies.

The movement gained new supporters in 2010, when Congress debated but did not pass the DREAM Act — legislation that would have granted legal status to young immigrants living illegally in the country.

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Obama budget: Spending cuts, higher smokers’ taxes who are in the GOP driver’s seat in Congress.

While the budget proposal will not prompt any immediate congressional action, it will probably surface this summer when Republicans are expected to demand additional reductions in the deficit in exchange for increasing the nation’s borrowing authority.

Obama claims $1.8 trillion in deficit savings over the coming decade, but the budget tables show the savings are actually $1.4 trillion.

And $1.2 trillion of that is devoted to reversing automatic, across-theboard spending cuts required because of Washington’s inability to follow up a 2011 budget pact with further deficit action.

“This is worse than a status quo budget,” said House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. He said it has about $1 trillion in new taxes, $1 trillion in new spending with deficit reduction of only $119 billion over 10 years under GOP math that sorts through questionable interpretations em-

ployed by the White House.

For instance, Obama claims $167 billion in lower war costs — money the administration never intended to spend — and uses that “savings” for road projects and other undertakings it bills as jobs initiatives.

The real cuts include $400 billion scrubbed from health care programs like Medicare over the coming decade, including cuts in payments to drug companies and higher Medicare premiums for people who are better off.

The administration would modestly cut the annual operating budgets for both the Pentagon and domestic agencies while reprising ideas like higher Transportation Security Administration fees on airline tickets, the end of Saturday mail delivery and higher pension contributions for federal workers.

“He does deserve some credit for some incremental entitlement reforms,” said Boehner, R-Ohio. “But I would hope that he would not hold hostage these modest reforms for his demand for bigger tax hikes. Listen,

why don’t we do what we can agree to do?”

That’s not the way it works, countered Gene Sperling, the director of Obama’s National Economic Council. “The offer that is there for Speaker Boehner is not an a la carte menu.”

And Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he had reservations about the White House making concessions without getting anything in return. He said, “The president will have to remain firm in his insistence that this is a package deal.”

The White House budget claims $580 billion in tax increases on the wealthy over 10 years, including a 28 percent cap on itemized deductions that’s never gotten anywhere on Capitol Hill.

The total climbs closer to $1 trillion in tax increases after adding in ideas like a 94 cents-per-pack increase in taxes on cigarettes, changes for corporate foreign earnings, slower inflation adjustments to income tax brackets, elimination of oil and gas production subsidies, an increase in

the estate tax, a new “financial crisis responsibility” fee on banks and new taxes on trading of exotic financial instruments known as derivatives.

Republicans predictably slammed Obama’s plan for its tax increases, while his Democratic allies generally held their tongues over cuts to Social Security benefits.

“It’s not the budget I would write on my own, and it includes several policies that I don’t think are the best ways to tackle the deficit and debt,” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash.

Reacting more strongly, the senior citizens advocacy group AARP said it was “deeply dismayed that President Obama would propose cutting the benefits of current and future Social Security recipients, including children, widows, veterans and people with disabilities, to reduce the deficit.” And AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, whose organization spent tens of millions of dollars helping re-elect Obama, called the cuts “wrong and indefensible.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mixing modest curbs on spending with tax increases reviled by Republicans, President Barack Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget on Wednesday that would raise taxes on smokers and wealthy Americans and trim Social Security benefits for millions.

Obama’s 2014 blueprint combines a $242 billion infusion of new spending for road and rail projects, early education and jobs initiatives — all favored by Democrats — with longer-term savings from programs including Medicare and the military.

It promises at least a start in cutting huge annual federal deficits.

The president pitched his plan as a good-faith offer to his GOP rivals since it incorporates a proposal he made to Republicans in December that wasn’t radically different from a GOP plan drafted by House Speaker John Boehner. But it follows January’s bitterly fought 10-year, $600 billion-plus tax increase that has stiffened GOP resolve against further tax hikes.

“I have already met Republi-

cans more than halfway, so in the coming days and weeks I hope that Republicans will come forward and demonstrate that they’re really as serious about the deficit and debt as they claim to be,” Obama said.

He was having a dozen Senate Republicans to the White House for dinner Wednesday evening in hopes of building a dialogue on the budget and other topics.

After four years of trillion-dollarplus deficits in his first term, Obama’s plan projects a $973 billion deficit for the current budget year and red ink of $744 billion for the 2014 fiscal year starting in October. By 2016, the deficit is seen as dropping below 3 percent of the size of the economy, a level that many economists say is manageable.

Obama cast his budget as a compromise offer that would bridge differences between Republicans and their desire for reducing government spending and Democrats who want more revenue from taxpayers. But it’s difficult to overstate the gulf between Obama and the conservatives

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AUSTIN (AP) — A contentious proposal to criminalize excessive touching by agents during airport security pat-downs returned Wednesday to the Texas Legislature, along with concerns that the federal government could ground all flights into and out of the state if it ever becomes law.

The House State Affairs Committee heard testimony on a bill by Rep. David Simpson of Longview that would make intentionally touching travelers’ private parts by security officials illegal without probable cause.

The tea party Republican introduced a much-ballyhooed measure in 2011 making it illegal for anyone conducting searches to touch travelers’ privates, even though clothing, while prohibiting searches considered offensive “to a reasonable person.”

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“There are so many stereotypes when we think of Latin America,” he said. “And these stereotypes are sometimes reinforced by the media.

And when you really go and visit these countries and you spend some time meeting the people, you just realize these stereotypes are, like, very inaccurate generalization of how things really are.”

Tirado said the symposium will continue until the end of the week, and he encourages students to attend each event.

Thursday’s event is a panel discussion on human rights at 4 p.m. in Room 214 of the Agriculture building, according to a news release.

Friday’s event is a presentation called “Free the Cuban Five” at 6 p.m. in Room 359 of the Media and Communication building.

That bill passed the full House but died after federal officials threatened to close all Texas airports amid concerns that Transportation Security Administration personnel could face criminal charges just for doing their jobs.

Simpson promised to renew his efforts when the biannual Legislature opened in January, though his new proposal is somewhat softer. It clarifies that security agents must be deliberately touching inappropriately rather than doing so incidentally during pat-downs.

Simpson said his bill was more necessary than ever because traditional metal detectors at airports have increasingly been replaced by full-body scanners that “basically allow people to be viewed naked.”

He said he and others who object to

that now often have no choice but to endure pat-downs.

“The problem is this effort at security is really treating travelers, innocent people, as criminal suspects and making them submit to unreasonable, very intrusive searches,” Simpson said. He added of security agents: “They’re violating peoples’ most sacred areas of their bodies.”

The committee could have sent the bill to the full House for consideration but instead left it pending. It also invited TSA representatives to testify, but they declined.

Simpson acknowledged that existing Texas official repression laws already prohibit groping and inappropriate touching by airport screeners or any other security official, but said it was necessary to further spell out restrictions because

abuse of power during pat-downs is so common.

He provided a packet showing security officials performing exaggerated pat-downs on travelers and noted that a wounded Texas military veteran going through airport security was recently forced to remove his prosthetic legs.

“It’s not only offensive, it’s insane,” Simpson said.

Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, a Kerrville Republican, said of the security officials in the pictures Simpson provided, “some of them seem to be enjoying the groping.”

Democratic Rep. Rene Olivera of Brownsville said this year’s version is more legally sound than Simpson’s 2011 bill because it includes language on officials intending to grope during a pat-down. But he

said it could still run afoul of federal regulations and may lead airports statewide to be shut down.

“If that happens you destroy the Texas economy, you destroy our business growth,” Olivera said. “We would be paralyzed.”

Simpson responded that “they’ve threatened to basically make a nofly zone.”

“It was just a threat,” he said. “I doubt they would do that.”

But Olivera noted that the state’s conservative elected officials often pick fights with the Obama administration and wondered if this one might go too far.

“I frankly get tired of Texas playing chicken with the federal government all the time,” he said.

“I’m not sure I want to tempt that giant beast.”

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ollege was once a place where students were challenged to explore and excel. Schedules were submitted in person rather than online. Students trekked campuses embracing their independence while actively seeking their niche in corporate America.

While the thought of patiently waiting in line and actually having to interact with another human face-to-face may be antiquated, independence is something we pay these institutions for, and it is slowly being stripped away from underneath students’ noses.

The most important thing people forget when dealing with students is: You work for us. Without students, there is no Texas Tech, or University of Texas, or any other institution for that matter. With that being said, the restrictions continually being placed on students are

Mike DuPont II hampering our creativity and doing a disservice to the exorbitant amount of money we pay to attend these great institutions.

A prime example of this is penalizing students for not attending class. I recognize there are certain classes that require attendance to fully comprehend the concepts being demonstrated in the class, but if a student pays for the class and pays the fees for the teaching assistants, along with whatever fees may be applied to the tuition and decide not to attend class then that’s their problem, not the professors’.

The main issue with penalizing students for attendance is it gives an inaccurate reflection of a student’s quality of work.

One may receive a B in a class when they were producing Alevel material simply because they missed one more class than everyone else. How can you justify penalizing a student that was obviously successful in the class because they were not in attendance? Is it because the professors are offended the student didn’t feed their over-inflated ego by clapping like walruses along with the rest of the class, obnoxiously laughing at jokes that weren’t funny?

One could pose the argument a student may have already learned the material in another manner. Maybe said student is better at the self-taught approach and they use the textbook along with online resources to learn the concepts they may have trouble digesting while

attending the class. According to an educational article on Brigham Young University’s website, research indicates that learning-oriented students “engage in more attentive behavior, use deeper learning and studying strategies, and feel better about themselves as learners.” Their goal is to learn, not just trade performance for a grade.

These concepts require professors to pass a large amount of the responsibility to the students and take a leap of faith. But, this may benefit students more than sitting in a classroom. It would force students to actually take advantage of a professor’s office hours, learn how to study effectively, seek out professionals who are active in the field and willing to help them as a mentor, and teach them how to seek and evaluate supplementary learning materials.

Is the process of penalizing students based on attendance

really better, or is it more convenient? It is convenient for a professor to simply dock a student’s grade, but how is it justifiably productive? Call me old-fashioned, but what’s wrong with fate deciding its course? If a slacker decides he wants to pay thousands of dollars to enroll in classes at an academic institution and then never show their face in said courses, what’s wrong with letting test day be the endall be-all? Let him earn his 27.

These requirements come back and harm the students at the other end of the spectrum: The students who excelled in their coursework, but not in their attendance. It’s rare to see an instance where a student rarely attends class and still manages to maintain good standing with their grades, but it is possible. What you’re telling those students, who paid tuition just like everyone else, is although they are succeeding

in their course work, they will be judged on how many lectures they sat through.

Some professors take a different approach, which I feel is much more productive. These professors give incentives and bonuses to students who did not miss classes, incentives such as opting out of final course examinations or even extra points on a final grade. This is commendable because it rewards those students who attended class without penalizing those who did not.

It is understandable professors would like to have a way to enforce attendance, and also why attendance is important, but there are other — potentially better — ways of handling issues regarding attendance. Let the student earn the grade.

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Too much pollution, raise gas prices This summer: learn to make a latte One of the greatest contributing factors to pollution in America today is the persistent struggle of multiple parties to keep gas prices as low as possible. The United States and its citizens will not change until their hands are forced, until the struggle is to raise gas prices.

Lower gas prices lead to more driving and more inefficient automobiles. If gas is cheap, the average person can afford to drive a gas-guzzling car to work, to school or to the movie theater a block away. This average person has no need to find alternative, environmentally friendly means of transportation, so the market and government have no need to provide them with effective and affordable alternatives.

In a system such as this, automobile manufacturers produce primarily fuel-inefficient cars while hybrid and electric cars remain toys for the wealthy to ease their consciences and buses are seen as tools for students and the working class. This is the current American system; gas is cheap and change is expensive, so people buy cars and the ice caps keep melting.

It is time to consider an alternative path for our society to take as more people become aware of the environment’s gradual collapse. Hybrid and electric cars are expensive because there is little incentive to buy them beyond the plight of the polar bear.

Many bus systems are stagnant or declining because our

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To ease the transition period, the government would subsidize hybrid and electric car manufacturing, thereby allaying the temporary dip in profits from car sales as well as encouraging consumers to buy new emission-free or low-emission vehicles.

Above and beyond these positive effects, the exhaust polluting the atmosphere will drop precipitously.

The results of heightened gas prices are not only environmental.

When there are fewer cars on the road, there will be fewer accidents, less need to find space to park – allowing for increased expansion – and less noise pollution.

Currently, the American system has relegated environmentalism to a buzzword, leaving it only for those who are willing to devote their entire lives to the cause or to those who have enough money to take it on as a hobby.

Relying on the good conscience of a few to save the world from the apathy and ignorance of the many is no way to live.

Until the conditions of the system change, the people will not change and the environment will continue to be paved under our indifference.

When there are fewer cars on the road, there will be fewer accidents, less need to find space to park — allowing for increased expansion — and less noise pollution.

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As it rings in its 40th year of coeducation, Dartmouth will soon welcome home its daughters. A congress of minds, Greenways is a weekend-long event beginning Friday that features panel discussions with alumnae. The conference is a community celebration of coeducation, nothing more and nothing less. Far from a feminist cult meeting, Greenways aims to engage students, faculty and alumni, regardless of sex or gender. However, though perhaps not surprisingly, registered attendees are overwhelmingly women.

Why has Greenways failed to resonate with men on campus? It is natural to assume that female students are interested in and can better relate to an all-female network.

H o w e v e r, the successes, fields and wisdom of the speakers bear their own merit and should draw any crowd. Greenways is a celebration of coeducation, not uniquely feminism; of community, not uniquely women.

Moreover, some women do not identify as feminists, whereas some men proudly carry the banner of feminism. Still, men lightly pepper the Greenways attendee list.

“Feminism” and its derivatives can be alienating terms. Broadly defined, “feminism” encompasses a spectrum of beliefs and goals, though the central tenet remains gender equality. Nevertheless, the heart of feminism is often mischaracterized or misunder-

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stood. Consequently branded a pejorative, “feminism” may produce othering effects on men, even here at Dartmouth. If Greenways is portrayed or perceived as a feminist event, men may be deterred from attending.

How can Greenways reach out to men? For starters, a fullfledged, personalized advertising campaign would help. In the weeks leading up to the conference, Greenways has been advertised via campus blitzes, notorious for their inefficacy, a mere handful of times. More targeted advertising, such as blitzes to relevant classes, fraternities and coed organizations, would be beneficial. In an inclusive fashion, Greenways suitably markets itself as a celebration of coeducation.

However, incorporating more male panelists, speakers or faculty mo derators would lend credence to the coed audience and environment Greenways hopes to attract and foster.

Because Greenways rejoices in coeducation at Dartmouth, the event should cater to and inspire an audience diverse in sex or gender. Men and women alike must contribute to the dialogue surrounding gender equality. This should not be a difficult endeavor for men, let alone anyone.

For women, participating in the conference may feel like second nature. On biological and psychological levels, female attendees and panelists may be united by shared experiences, be it balancing work and family or mastering tactics of negotiation and assertiveness.

On economic and political levels, however, the dynamic of

Because Greenways rejoices in coeducation at Dartmouth, the event should cater to and inspire an audience diverse in sex or gender.

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culture puts heavy stress on owning private cars. If gas prices for private drivers increase, however, it is very likely the U.S. will see drastic changes in its citizens’ habits.

As the free market and public policy change along with the mindset of the public, the reforms will be political, social and economic.

To describe the results of higher gas prices, I will employ two very frightening words: taxes and subsidies. If a government — local, state, or federal — were to tax gas at the pump, drivers would immediately cut down on unnecessary trips, and those who could would begin traveling by bus.

Over time, conventional car sales will drop and demand for hybrid and electric vehicles will spike. Manufacturers will devote more time to developing cheaper, sustainable vehicles to meet the new demand.

Some bus routes will be overcrowded, but proceeds from gas taxes could be used to pay for the improvement of public transportation, which would not be subject to the gas tax in order to defray costs.

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female attendees conversing with and learning from female panelists is simply not enough; the voices and mobilization of men matter just as much to sustain a healthy democracy.

Gender inequality is not solely a women’s issue. Economically, gender inequality constrains development. Politically, a lack of women in public office grossly misrepresents the demographics of the electorate and undermines our country’s democratic legitimacy. Clearly, men have a stake in the fight for gender equality, the creed of feminism. Greenways is their call to arms.

The timeliness of Greenways could not be more appropriate.

Gender equality currently permeates the national discourse, with Princeton University professor Anne-Marie Slaughter’s influential piece in The Atlantic last summer, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s recently published book “Lean In” and everything in between.

Whereas Slaughter argues for structural and institutional change as prerequisites to gender equality, Sandberg believes change must occur within individual women. In any case, both authors emphasize the versatile roles of men in securing gender equality.

Men can join women as partners who assume equal responsibility for household duties, recruiters who believe in and promote females in business and politics, legislators who mandate state-run child care and paid parental leave and watchdogs who regulate equal pay and discrimination in the workplace.

Greenways invites Dartmouth men and women to directly engage in the ongoing conversation. An investment in the sons, daughters and community members of Dartmouth, the conference can inspire attendees to help achieve equality. We students are fortunate for and must positively exploit the opportunity to make generational change. We are what feminists look like.

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Students organize High Cotton Affair event

By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER

Jade Shank and eight other marketing students are the first event planning class in the Rawls College of Business Administration to organize an entire event independently as a service learning project.

The first High Cotton Affair is a unique event, Shank said, and will hopefully raise $15,000 to $20,000 for Link Ministries’ Tent City in Lubbock.

“Tent City’s goal is to kind

of alleviate Lubbock’s homeless population and give them a place to stay, a portion of transition,” said Shank, a senior marketing and management major from Lubbock. “This is a great opportunity for our community and Lubbock. The Rawls College of Business and Texas Tech is really keen on giving back to the Lubbock community.”

The High Cotton Affair begins at 7 p.m. April 20 at the Valley of Lubbock Scottish Rite.

The theme for the event is Western Elegance and will feature

a cocktail reception, a catered meal with two separate options, a silent auction and entertainment provided by the Benton Leachman Band.

Informative presentations also will be given during the event about how donations will contribute to Tent City’s operating fund, along with a standard living set on display, which conveys Tent City’s living conditions.

Tickets, which are $150 each, $1,000 for a table and $2,000 for a platinum sponsorship table, are still on sale for the event. Shank

said those interested in purchasing tickets for the event or providing donations can contact her at jade.shank@ttu.edu.

“I understand that the price for tickets is steep,” she said, “and in that way it is kind of difficult for students to participate, but it is so important for students and our school to give back to the community since they give so much to us.”

The idea to support Tent City originated from Robert McDonald, associate professor and area coordinator for the Rawls Area

of Marketing. He participated in the Light Up Tent City event last semester and became motivated to further help the cause.

McDonald is Shank’s faculty adviser and teaches her event planning class. His personal selling class also is helping support the event.

Although Shank said planning the event has not been easy, she said it is one of the most rewarding classes she has taken at Tech and has provided many learning experiences.

“I hope I convey my excite-

ment for the event,” she said.

“The fact I can say my team and I worked to raise $15,000 to $20,000 for community involvement is huge to me.”

Because the High Cotton Affair is an inaugural event, Shank said it will provide a new, unique experience for a worthy cause.

“It’s a great opportunity, and I hope they continue to do it with other charities,” she said. “We’re really excited and we’d love to have the community support of Tech.” ➤➤atubbs@dailytoreador.com

William Faulkner heirlooms going to auction in New York JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Manuscripts and personal letters of the late William Faulkner, whose original writings are a rarity in the literary marketplace, can be viewed Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York — an event to whet the appetites of scholars ahead of a June auction.

It’s a literary treasure trove, said Justin Caldwell, a specialist in books and manuscripts at Sotheby’s.

William Faulkner’s 1950 No-

bel Prize for Literature. The Legion d’Honneur medal presented

by France to Faulkner in 1951.

Faulkner’s Nobel handwritten acceptance speech draft.

It’s an estate package that includes 26 letters and postcards sent by Faulkner, 25 leather-bound columns of the author’s work and manuscripts of “The Trapper Story,” ‘’Vision in Spring,” ‘’Mammy Callie,” and “Hog Pawn.”

Some items, such as the Nobel

medal, had been stored at the University of Mississippi. Other manuscripts came from the University of Virginia, where Faulkner was writer-in-residence in 1957-58. All the items were on loan, university officials say, and were always property of the family.

There’s also a group of letters and postcards he wrote to his family while living in Paris in the 1920s.

Caldwell said the letters include one to his mother in which he warns

her he has grown a beard.

“He drew her pictures of how he looked,” Caldwell said.

Caldwell said Sotheby’s began talks with the family after a previously unpublished and untitled 12-page, short story by Faulkner was found among literary papers at the family farm in Charlottesville, Va., last year.

Another find was an original book of poetry Faulkner wrote and bound for his wife, Estelle.

It was published in 1984 from a photocopy.

“We were thrilled. Original Faulkner material is very scarce on the market,” Caldwell said.

“This auction is for people who are serious about modern literature.

This is not something they are going to see very often ... this much Faulkner material in the same place.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When she traded in her Mousketeer ears for a surfboard and a modest one-piece bathing suit, Annette Funicello helped create a world as fanciful as Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

It was the land of perfect waves and sparkling sand, in a place where there was a beach party every night and summer never ended — at least not until the Frankie and Annette “Beach Party” movie did.

When Funicello, who died this week at age 70, climbed into a convertible with Frankie Avalon in the opening moments of 1963’s “Beach Party” and sang, “They’ll be surfin’ all day and they’ll be swingin’ all night. Vacation is here. Beach party tonight!” she helped introduce America to Southern California’s beach culture.

“In 1964, I moved here from Teaneck, New Jersey. A girl in my ninth grade class, I wish I could remember her name, said to me, ‘Wow! Now you’ll get to go surfing,’” recalled David Rensin, who lives in a home that overlooks the Pacific Ocean.

The author of more than a dozen books not only learned to surf once he got here, he went on to write the definitive biography of Miki “Da Cat” Dora, arguably the greatest outlaw surfer who ever lived and a stunt double in most of those Frankie and Annette movies.

Today, Southern California kids still go to the beach and catch waves, but there’s not nearly the freedom or the access that Funicello’s films celebrated. There are far more surfers crowding the waves, that’s true, but it’s hard to find the on-the-sand goofiness and camaraderie portrayed in “Beach Blanket Bingo” or “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.” And nobody is writing songs like “Surfin’ Safari,” ‘’Surfin USA” or “Secret Surfing Spot.”

But then it’s a different time, notes University of Southern California pop culture historian Leo Braudy.

“Certainly there are lots of surfers still around, but they’re not as fascinating as they used to be,” Braudy said. “Things move on. The culture gets fascinated by other things. People say, ‘All right, we already did the beach. Yes, we know California has a beach. Now let’s look at something else.’”

There are video games to be played, social networks to be surfed and a million of others things to do.

“It’s more defused now,” Braudy said. “What do kids think about?

What do kids on the East Coast or the West Coast do? Where do they believe their dream place is? I don’t think there’s one anymore. There might be several. But back then it was California.”

Southern California, too, has changed.

The proceeds from the June 11 auction go to the family. Sotheby’s expects the auction to bring in as much as $2 million.

In 2010, an auction of a Faulkner collection of books and personal items, including one of his most acclaimed novels, “Light in August,” brought in $833,246. The auction was handled by Christie’s in New York.

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Kappa Alpha Psi hosts Kappa Week in honor of member

By LIANA SOLIS STAFF WRITER

It’s that time of year again when events such as Relay for Life occur to raise money for foundations that help with cancer research and rehabilitation.

Kappa Alpha Psi hosted its annual Kappa Week in honor of one of its fraternity members who died of cancer a few years ago.

Elias Aragaw, a senior economics major from Dallas, said this week is big for the fraternity every year.

“We are a smaller fraternity because we only have 10 actually

active members,” he said, “but our members are committed and you never hear anyone around campus say, ‘Oh, I used to be a Kappa.’”

The week has consisted of free events such as a ‘Guy Kode’ conference for men and women to talk about the guy code, and a fundraiser event at Ruby Tequilas, which donated 15 percent of its profits to the Susan G. Komen foundation for the cure of cancer, Aragaw said.

“We wanted to do something to help give back to the organization that helped Ray out before he died,” he said.

Feelin’ queasy? More air turbulence over Atlantic

LONDON (AP) — Tourists, exchange students, masters of the financial universe and other business travelers: It’s time to buckle up.

More pollution is likely to mean bumpier flights for trans-Atlantic travelers, researchers say, predicting increased turbulence over the North Atlantic as carbon dioxide levels rise.

University of East Anglia climate expert Manoj Joshi said scientists have long studied the impact of the carbonheavy aviation industry on climate change but he took a new tack.

“We looked at the effect of climate change on aviation,” he said.

In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, Joshi and colleague Paul Williams ran a climate simulation that cranked up the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to twice its pre-industrial level — roughly 50 percent more than now. Williams said they ran a series of turbulence-predicting algorithms for the North Atlantic winter period and compared the results to pre-industrial rates.

Queasy fliers need read no further.

Williams said the results showed a 10-to-40 percent increase in the median strength of turbulence and a 40-to-170 percent increase in the frequency of

moderate-or-greater turbulence. He described the latter as shaking that is “strong enough to force the pilot to switch on the seat-belt sign, knock over drinks, and make it difficult to walk.”

The explanation is that some models predict that global warming will draw the jet stream further north, creating more of the vertical wind shear that causes turbulence.

Joshi said choppier skies might prompt pilots to reroute their flights.

But the North Atlantic is a busy place for air travel, with an average of 960 flights a day last week, according to aviation data companies masFlight and OAG. Pilots interviewed by The Associated Press said — in such a crowded air corridor — planes were just as likely to simply power through.

“You just got to grin and bear it,” said Steven Draper, a retired airline pilot and a spokesman for the British Airline Pilots Association. Although there’s no clear evidence of rougher skies just yet, Draper did say he’d seen worse weather — like storms — near the end of his career.

“My experience was that they were increasing in intensity and frequency,” he said.

Academics who weren’t involved in the research praised it.

This is the first year Kappa Week has officially been named in honor of Raymond Martin, the late Kappa, Trodarius Provo said.

Provo, a senior biology major from Houston, said Raymond played a huge role in helping the fraternity startup again.

“Ray loved this frat so much and did all he could to help get it started again,” he said. “That’s why everything we do now we do for him. One of our other brothers came up with the idea to officially honor Ray in our fundraiser this year.”

The week is set to continue Thursday with Kappa Sutra poet-

ry night and Friday with Shimmy Like a N.U.P.E., Ebenezer Oke, Kappa Alpha Psi publicity coordinator, said.

“We rescheduled the threeon-three basketball tournament we were supposed to have for Wednesday to Sunday because of the weather,” Aragaw said.

“And the poetry night is a classy event where anyone can dress up and have the opportunity to read poetry in front of a crowd.”

The event that gathers the most people every year is the Shimmy Like a N.U.P.E contest, Provo said.

“We used to have it in front

of the (Student Union Building), but have moved it because it’s gotten so big,” Aragaw said.

“It’s kind of amazing how many people show up for an event put on by a small fraternity like us.”

The final event for the week will be a Probate introducing all the new members of Kappa Alpha Psi, Oke said. The event will happen Saturday.

“This is another big thing a lot of friends and family come out for,” Aragaw said. “It’s a very different and exciting thing for anyone to get a chance to see.”

Most of the profit for the fundraiser is earned at the par-

ties hosted for the cause, he said, and a portion of all the money donated to the fraternity during the fundraiser will go to the Susan G. Komen foundation in honor of Martin.

The fraternity was shut down for a short time in 2007, Aragaw said, and was started again in 2009.

“I think if Ray were here today, he would be proud of all we’ve done,” Provo said, “especially after being inactive for three and a half years, we’ve come a long way since then and have build the frat back up.” ➤➤lsolis@dailytoreador.com

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STUDENTS HAD THE opportunity to eat lunch and talk to Interim President Lawrence Schovanec at the Lunch on the Lawn event Wednesday in the Student Union Building. The event was run by the Student Government Assocation as a part of Graduate Student Appreciation Week and was originally going to be outside the Administration building. The event was moved to the Student Union Building after it snowed on Wednesday morning.

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Malawian government harshly criticizes Madonna BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Malawi issued a scathing critique of pop diva Madonna on Wednesday, accusing her of exaggerating her contributions to the southern African country and demanding special treatment during her tour there last week.

A spokesman for the pop star denied the accusations and suggested they were prompted by the recent removal of the president’s sister as head of Madonna’s humanitarian organization there.

The singer has a long history with the country, which she first visited in 2006. She adopted two children from Malawi and runs several projects there. She was granted VIP treatment during previous visits, including when she last jetted into the country on April 1. But Madonna apparently was surprised when she learned upon leaving Malawi that she and her travelling party would have to line up with ordinary passengers and be frisked by airport security.

“There was a directive that Miss Louise Ciccone, travelling on an American passport, and her children Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, Rocco

Ritchie, Mercy James, David Banda Ciccone Ritchie should use the ordinary passenger terminal on their way to their jet,” said an aviation official who refused to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

A strongly worded statement by the president’s office accused Madonna of trying to use her fame and money to press Malawi into giving her special treatment.

“Granted, Madonna is a famed international musician. But that does not impose an injunction of obligation on any government under whose territory Madonna finds herself, including Malawi, to give her state treatment. Such treatment, even if she deserved it, is discretionary not obligatory,” the statement said.

The presidential statement also questioned Madonna’s intentions behind her humanitarian efforts in Malawi, alleging that the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude.”

“Kindness, as far as its ordinary meaning is concerned, is free and anonymous. If it can’t be free and

silent, it is not kindness; it is something else. Blackmail is the closest it becomes,” the statement said.

President Joyce Banda was reportedly angered by Madonna’s claims that she has built 10 schools in Malawi, and questioned that statement in widely quoted remarks last week.

“Where are the 10 schools she has built? She is just building school blocks at already existing schools.

In some cases she just renovated an already existing block. This is an insult to the people of Malawi. She can’t be lying to the world at our expense,” Banda said.

A spokesman for Madonna expressed surprise at the most recent criticism and called the claim that the singer had requested special treatment “nonsense.”

“Obviously these attacks are influenced by the fact that the president’s sister was removed as the head of Madonna’s organization in Malawi due to concerns about mismanagement of $3.8 million,” said Trevor Neilson, whose Global Philanthropy Group is managing Madonna’s projects in Malawi.

Ruling again delayed in Colo. Shootings case CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — The judge in the Colorado theater shootings refused again Wednesday to make a quick decision on whether to order a Fox News reporter to reveal her confidential sources for a story she wrote last year.

In the article, New York-based reporter Jana Winter cited anonymous law-enforcement sources who said shooting suspect James Holmes sent a notebook containing violent drawings to a University of Colorado, Denver psychiatrist before the attack.

Holmes, who had been a student at the university, is charged with fatally shooting 12 people and injuring 70 at a movie theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora on July 20. A judge has entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Prosecutors are

seeking the death penalty.

Holmes’ lawyers want to know the names of the officials who spoke to Winter. They argue the leak violated a gag order and could weaken the credibility of those officials if they are called to testify in a trial.

Defense attorney Rebecca Higgs suggested Wednesday that law-enforcement officers may have lied under oath when they denied speaking to Winter. That was sufficient reason to require Winter to testify, Higgs said.

Pacing and gesturing, Higgs argued the issue is whether a law enforcement officer decided to “flat-out lie.”

Judge Carlos Samour Jr. said he would not make a decision on Winter’s sources until he rules on whether the notebook will be admitted as evidence, reiterating a written order

he issued Monday.

He told Winter she would have to return for another hearing Aug. 19.

Winter argues she should not have to identify her sources under Colorado and New York shield laws that protect reporters’ sources under some circumstances.

If the judge orders her to reveal her sources and she refuses, she could be jailed.

In December, 20 law-enforcement officers testified or submitted affidavits saying they did not speak to Winter.

One of them, Aurora police Detective Alton Reed, took the stand again Wednesday and said he spoke only to an Aurora police sergeant about what he saw in the notebook. That sergeant already has testified that he did not speak to Winter.

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34 charged in probe of illegal sports betting OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses 34 people and 23 companies, many of them registered in Central America, of operating an illegal sports bookmaking business that solicited more than $1 billion in bets.

The 95-page indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Oklahoma City on March 20, accuses the defendants of operating from San Jose, Costa Rica, and Panama City to take bets almost exclusively from gamblers in the U.S. The indictment says that since 2003 the operation known as Legendz Sports used the companies to operate as payment processors, launder gambling funds and make payouts to customers. It alleges a conspiracy and accuses the defendants of violating federal racketeering and money laundering statutes as well as operating an illegal gambling business.

The indictment also accuses the defendants of violating illegal gambling statutes in several states, including Oklahoma, California, Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, New York and Texas.

“Legendz Sports solicited millions of illegal bets totaling over $1 billion on sports and sporting events from gamblers in the United States,” the indictment alleges. As part of the conspiracy, Legendz Sports operated

Internet websites and telephone gambling services from facilities located in Panama, the indictment says.

U.S. Attorney Sanford Coats of Oklahoma City said the charges culminated a multiyear investigation by the FBI and Internal Revenue Service.

“The defendants cannot hide the allegedly illegal sports gambling operation behind corporate veils or state and international boundaries,” Coats said.

The acting chief of the Justice Department’s criminal division, Mythili Raman, said the government is determined to crack down on illegal online gambling by U.S. citizens, regardless of where the business operates or where the defendants live.

“These defendants allegedly participated in an illegal sports gambling business, lining their pockets with profits from over a billion dollars in illegal gambling proceeds,” Raman said.

Among the individual defendants listed in the indictment is Bartice Alan King, 42, of Spring, Texas, who’s accused of conspiring with others to operate gambling services that took wagers almost exclusively from U.S. gamblers.

The enterprise allegedly used bookies in the U.S. to illegally solicit and accept sports wagers as well as settle gambling debts. The 34

individual defendants were allegedly employees, members and associates of the Legendz Sports enterprise, the indictment says.

Bob Troester, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oklahoma City, said King remained at large Wednesday but that 22 other defendants including King’s former wife, Serena Monique King, had been taken into custody.

If convicted, the defendants face up to 20 years in prison for racketeering, up to 20 years for conspiring to commit money laundering, up to 10 years for money laundering and up to five years for operating an illegal gambling business.

In addition, the indictment seeks forfeiture of at least $1 billion in numerous assets including real estate, bank accounts, brokerage and investment accounts, certificates of deposit, IRAs, domain names, an aircraft, a gas lease and several vehicles.

Troester said the investigation is not related to illegal gambling charges against Teddy Mitchell, 58, who is awaiting trial on a federal indictment that accuses him of making millions of dollars by hosting illegal high-stakes poker games at his Oklahoma City home and by illegally taking bets on sporting events.

“This is a completely separate case,” Troester said.

Lady Raiders finish third in Marsh Landing Invitational

By JORDON LEGENDRE STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech women’s golf team recorded a third place finish at the Marsh Landing Invitational, the team’s final event before the Big 12 Championships.

“Our third place finish in a pretty strong field is always promising going into Big 12,” junior Hannah Arnold said, “so I’m really happy about our performance.”

The Lady Raiders finished the event with a five-over-par 869 score, four strokes behind runner-up Iowa State and 12 strokes behind tournament winner Purdue.

“I think the team really did play great,” Tech coach JoJo Robertson said. “It was a good golf course — it was different from any course we’ve played this spring. It was really neat to see all of them play really well.”

Senior Gabriella Dominguez finished the competition tied for first with Purdue’s Paula Reto at four-under-par, but Reto would

prevail in a playoff to win the individual title.

Dominguez finished her first 36 holes with six birdies and one bogey, and her five-under-par score was enough to give her a one-stroke lead going into the final day. During her final round, Dominguez was one-under-par through seven holes, but she would bogey holes on nine and 10. Eight consecutive pars to end the round sent Dominguez into the playoff with Reto.

Robertson said Dominguez has struggled to play to her full potential this year after finishing last season as an All-American.

“To see her come out there and play the way we know she can,” she said, “it’s just fun to watch her when she’s got confidence, and she can play with anybody.”

Lady Raiders Kimberly Kaufman, Elin Arvidsson and Kimmy Hill all finished the event at three-over-par 219 in a tie for 11th place. Arnold completed Tech’s lineup at the event with a 10-over-par 226.

“I left a few shots out on the

course,” Arnold said. “I’m confident in my game, and I just had kind of a bad tournament, but our team played very well, and I’m excited about that.”

Tech, ranked No. 20 in the GolfWeek collegiate rankings, finished regular tournament play with five top-three finishes in six events, including victories at the Westbrook Spring Invitational and Mountain View Collegiate.

“We’ve have had a goo d spring,” Robertson said. “I think we’ve shown quite a bit of improvement. I still don’t know that we’ve played our best golf, everybody playing great on the same day, which is exciting to know tha t that’s still out there.”

The Lady Raiders will next compete in the Big 12 Championships, beginning April 19 in Rhodes, Iowa.

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Paterno’s widow: We were ignorant HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Joe Paterno’s widow said Wednesday that she and her husband were ignorant about sexual predators like Jerry Sandusky and did not realize that the former Penn State assistant football coach was abusing the boys he met through a children’s charity that he founded.

“We have been unaware of how a predator behaves,” Sue

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Paterno said at a program celebrating Child Abuse Awareness Month in Pennsylvania. “In many cases, we unknowingly helped him ‘groom’ his victims while we thought we were helping a child achieve self-esteem and find a better life.”

Mrs. Paterno said she was horrified when she learned the truth about Sandusky after his arrest in November 2011.

Her husband, a College Football Hall of Fame coach who led the Penn State’s Nittany Lions for 46 years, died in January 2012 at 85.

“The last 17 months have been filled with disbelief, horror, the pain of loss, sleepless nights, praying for the victims and for peace of mind for those who unwittingly were too naive to recognize the signs of abuse,” she said.

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ple’s five children, also spoke at the breakfast gathering sponsored by the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance.

The group’s executive director, Angela Liddle, acknowledged that some members questioned the choice of the Paternos as speakers, but she defended the decision and described the family as “good folks.”

An internal probe led by former FBI director Louis Freeh and completed in July accused Joe Paterno and three former Penn State administrators of covering up an abuse allegation about Sandusky more than a decade ago in an attempt to shield the university from bad publicity. Paterno was fired by the university trustees days after Sandusky was charged.

The Paterno family has vehemently denied that Joe Paterno had any knowledge about Sandusky’s crimes against children.

Sandusky, 69, is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence after being convicted last year of 45 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys over a period of years. He maintains his innocence and is pursuing appeals.

The Second Mile, the charity where prosecutors say Sandusky met most if not all of his victims, is still functioning but received a judge’s permission in March to sell its State College headquarters for $650,000.

A February report commissioned by the family portrayed Paterno as the victim of a “rush to injustice” spawned by the university-financed internal probe. Dick Thornburgh, the former U.S. attorney general and former Pennsylvania governor, was among the people assembled to review Freeh’s findings.

Freeh has said he stands by his report. It concluded that Paterno and the university’s former president Graham Spanier, former athletic director Tim Curley and retired vice president for business and finance Gary Schultz concealed critical information and “failed to protect against a sexual predator harming children for over a decade.”

On Tuesday, the supervising judge of the grand jury whose findings resulted in charges against Spanier, Curley and Schultz rejected their pre-trial motions, allowing their criminal cases to move forward.

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Track and field will face intrastate rival Texas

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and he’s taking that to outdoors, too,” junior pole-vaulter Kyal Myers said. “We’re just really excited to get some of our 400-meter hurdlers out that didn’t get to do indoor because there’s no 400 hurdles inside. And the girls, they’re doing real well, too.

We’ve got some good girl vaulters who are looking to make some noise in the conference, so we’re excited about the season.”

The staff made a conscious decision to compete in this weekend’s invitational to get the team ready for what they have ahead of them for the NCAA championships, Kittley said. The preliminary round of the championships will be in Austin at the same facility the team will see this weekend.

Kittley said they took the team to the Texas Relays and then again to the UT invitational to give the team a chance to get comfortable with its surroundings and to see some of the conference competition this weekend to stay comfortable for the championships.

“It’s going to be the most important day of their lives, that day, because all year long what you do doesn’t really matter until that day,” Kittley said. “You’ve got to be top 12 in your event to move onto the final round in Oregon two weeks later. It’s important — we want to get them used to it. We also have Texas there, we have Baylor there in our conference that we’ll be able to see again along with just really good competition.”

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On the road once more, the Texas Tech track and field teams will head to Austin to compete in the UT Invitational on Saturday.

Last weekend both the men’s and women’s teams made an impression as they showed off their skills in each of its events on its home track.

After the performances last weekend, the men’s and women’s teams both are standing at No. 14 in the national standings. The team has nine athletes in the top 20 nationally, seven of those being top-10 and two athletes, sophomore sprinter Cierra White and senior jumper Bryce Lamb, placed in the top 20 in two separate events.

“I’m just really proud that we have established our program, and we finished really high in the indoors with our men’s program, and our women’s program is a little bit more suited for the outdoors,” Tech coach Wes Kittley said. “I’m just excited that we gained that amount of respect and have an opportunity to finish it out right.”

With both teams sitting at No. 14 in the national standings, the athletes have confidence in the season they are taking on. The indoor season gave insight to what the athletes could do, and they are building on their talent in the outdoor season.

“The guys team, we’re real excited to be in the top 15, we had Bryce Lamb do real well indoors and Kole,

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TEXAS TECH'S BRYCE Lamb lands in the sand pit during his personal record setting triple jump during the Red Raider Open on Saturday at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track and Field Complex. Lamb's jump of 54'-4" gave him the title for the meet.

The team expressed its excitement for the season as well as this coming weekend. Its push into the top 15 has given the athletes optimism for themselves as well as their teammates.

“I feel like it feels really good because I like to have athletes that

I can cheer on and especially when they’re on your own team, you actually know them personally,” freshman javelin thrower Hannah Carson said. “I love giving kudos to people, even if they’re not on my team.” ➤➤echappell@dailytoreador.com

Rays win in coldest day game ever at Texas ARLINGTON (AP) — When Ben Zobrist caught a flyball in deep right field, Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon was more concerned about the runner who was going to third base.

Zobrist instead made a perfect throw to home plate for a double play to end the Texas eighth inning, and the Rays held on for a 2-0 victory Wednesday, winning the finale of what had been a difficult three-game series in Texas.

“Especially in a big situation, where we’re trying to prevent runs, especially going into the ninth, it felt

great,” Zobrist said. “It was exciting, and warmed me up just a little bit.”

Matt Moore (2-0) combined with four relievers on a five-hitter and the Rays got their only runs on a fielder’s choice grounder by Zobrist and a sacrifice fly by Evan Longoria to win the coldest day game ever at Rangers Ballpark.

It was only 39 degrees when the game started after a rain delay of 1 hour, 29 minutes. That was 40 degrees colder than Tuesday night.

Texas had runners at second and third with one out in the eighth when pinch-hitter Leonys Martin hit the

fly to right. Adrian Beltre tagged up from third base, and David Murphy was ready to advance from second.

“I was really surprised on Zo’s throw. I did not think he had a shot, I thought it was too deep,” Maddon said. “But he made an absolutely perfect throw and (catcher Jose Lobaton) did a nice job on the other end.”

Texas, which had won six of seven since its season-opening loss at Houston, also appeared to have a run in the sixth. Mitch Moreland, the third batter after Moore left the game, beat out an inning-ending double-play grounder.

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US judge weighs NFL concussion suits PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Senior U.S. District Judge Anita Brody has a billion-dollar problem on her hands.

Brody, of Philadelphia, heard arguments Tuesday on whether lawsuits that accuse the NFL of glorifying violence and hiding known concussion risks belong in

court or in arbitration.

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Rivera thanks the Indians employees for memories CLEVELAND (AP) — Before Mariano Rivera answered questions from Indians employees he wanted to personally thank on his last visit to Progressive Field, the greatest closer in history had a request of his own.

“Where’s the drummer?” Rivera asked.

He wanted to finally meet the man who has kept a steady sports beat in Cleveland for 40 years, the guy sitting at the top of the bleachers year after year pounding away to spark a rally.

“Right here,” John Adams said, raising one of his drum sticks so the New York legend could see him in the back of the room.

“Hey, you the man,” Rivera said.

“Being loyal, being there day in and day out. I really respect that.”

“Thank you,” Rivera said.

During his final trip around the majors, Rivera, who is retiring at the end of this, his 19th season with the Yankees, is taking time to visit with team employees who work behind the scenes. On Wednesday, Rivera met with 25 Indians employees — ushers, ticket salespersons, custodians and others — for 30 minutes before the Yankees played the Indians.

They came to say goodbye to Rivera, who answered questions, posed for pictures and handed out autographed baseballs to Clevelanders who seemed in awe of the classy gesture.