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Stork’s Nest baby shower celebrates 10 years of giving back to community

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School of Nursing raises more than $100,000 for prenatal care

By NICOLE MOLTER STAFF WRITER

Linda Brice, an associate professor in the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center’s School of Nursing, organized the first Stork’s Nest program in Lubbock 10 years ago.

The Stork’s Baby Shower, meant to raise money for prenatal care for pregnant teenagers and women in Lubbock, was hosted Friday at the International Cultural Center and raised more than $100,000.

The Stork’s Nest is a national project by March of Dimes and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. The Larry Combest Community Health and Wellness Center, a nonprofit nurse-managed primary health care

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BABY ITEMS WERE on display in the International Cultural Center on Friday during the Stork’s Nest Baby Shower event. The Stork’s Nest program provides an incentive for prenatal care for expecting mothers by giving them baby goods for proper care.

Class hosted as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month

By PAIGE SKINNER STAFF WRITER

Riding on the bus while wearing headphones may seem normal and relatively safe, but a recent self-defense class warns against doing so.

The Student Counseling Center and the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center hosted a self-defense class Saturday to teach participants self-defense knowledge and to bring awareness to Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Tom Glasscock, a group fitness instructor for the Rec Center, taught the class to four female participants.

He began by explaining he would focus more on scenarios rather than just self-defense moves.

He said it is not that he thinks

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young men today cannot defend the women around them, he just does not know if they would.

“We live in an increasingly deteriorating society,” Glasscock said. “No longer can a woman rely on the men around her to aid her, so she needs to learn how to extract herself from difficult situations.”

Glasscock showed the participants several moves to perform to remove themselves from a situation, both on the ground and standing up.

Glasscock has worked in bars for several years and said he has seen situations of someone being backed into a corner. He showed the participants how to effectively remove themselves from a corner.

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Tech cheer wins third place at national event The Texas Tech Cheer Squad placed third this weekend at the 2012 National Cheerleaders Association and National Dance Association Collegiate Cheer and Dance Competition.

The competition, hosted in Daytona Beach, Fla., was comprised of more than 250 squads across the United States, as well as Canada, Costa Rica and Japan.

According to a news release, the Tech cheerleading team left Nationals with a final score of 9.303, behind Oklahoma State University and the University of Louisville.

center operated by the School of Nursing, is also a part of the program.

“The goal for the Stork’s Nest is to try and have every baby born in Lubbock a healthy term baby,” Brice said. “We know that a lot of moms do not start prenatal care until later in their pregnancy — and especially our teens.”

The Stork’s Nest program provides prenatal care beginning in early pregnancy and obstetric care for women who are likely to deliver pre-term or low birth weight babies where the baby or the mother may have complications, Brice said.

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TOP: CANCER SURVIVORS walk around Memorial Circle during the first lap of the Relay For Life on Saturday. ABOVE: Arie Head, a Tech alumna, speaks at the opening ceremony of the American Cancer Society’s annual Relay for Life on Saturday at Memorial Circle. Head has battled cancer for most of her life after first being diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 14.

Tech community joins together for Relay for Life

By HALLIE DAVIS STAFF WRITER

Golf-ball-sized hail was not enough to deter Mimi Medrano from walking around Memorial Circle for 12 hours Saturday.

Texas Tech hosted its ninth annual Relay for Life Saturday night, raising money and awareness for the American Cancer Society.

Medrano, a freshman biochemistry major from Mansfield, was walking with Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi. When the hail hit, the group took cover, but returned to relaying as soon as possible. She said the two groups were walking for survivor Connor Davis and they would continue into the morning.

“It’s a great way to give back,” said Misti Welch, the committee manager of development for the ACS. As manager of the many volunteers, Welch said, this year’s event garnered a lot of excitement. Not only were there more groups involved than last year’s, but it was hosted in Memorial Circle for the first time.

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home, was larger, Welch said, Memorial Circle had always been a goal since it is in the heart of campus.

Groups and organizations set up tents, chairs and even couches around the circle, ready for a long night.

“It’s overnight, because cancer never sleeps,” said volunteer Holly Wright, a freshman marketing major from Corpus Christi.

Activities were conducted through the night, she said, to keep people fresh and awake.

“As a committee, that’s what we’re trying to do,” said volunteer Andrew Maxwell, while wearing a bright purple Relay for Life bodysuit. “We want to keep people energetic all night.”

The volunteers hosted live music, said Maxwell, a senior university studies major from Richmond, Va., and a “Miss Relay” pageant, a combination of a beauty pageant and drag show.

Many groups on the circle had fundraisers set up, Welch said, to add to the $50,000 already raised.

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Five alumni of the Texas Tech Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering were presented with the 2012 Distinguished Engineer Award on April 13, as recognition for the most prestigious graduates of the college.

Capt. John Alexander, Elizabeth Holland, James Lowder, Alan Smith and Karan Watson joined 207 of their fellow alumni who have received the award since its inception in 1996, according to a news release.

“The Distinguished Engineer Award is an opportunity for the Whitacre College of Engineering to recognize our exceptional alumni,” said Al Sacco Jr., dean of the College of Engineering, in a statement. “Our entire scholarly community is proud of the accomplishments of our latest group of alumni to earn the title Distinguished Engineer. These individuals have set themselves apart in various and unique ways as outstanding engineers and business leaders and are a testimony to the exceptional education provided by our faculty and staff to all our students: past, present and future.” ➤➤news@dailytoreador.com

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“It’s been really neat how many people have been willing to give to it, whether it’s donations or money,” said CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Caitlin Blair, a senior nursing student The goal of the annual Stork’s Nest from Abilene. “The community is reBaby Shower is to collect brand-new ally involved.” baby items and raise enough money to Kmart, My Cup of Tea and Holbuy bigger baby items, such as car seats lyhocks were some local business who and mattresses, donated to the as well as to conbaby shower, tinue the Stork’s Brice said. First Nest incentive Capital Bank, program all year the co-sponsor long, Brice said. for the event, “The points raised more that the moms than $24,000 earn by going to for the prothe doctor, by gram. More taking classes, than 11,000 getting the baby’s letters were well-baby checkalso sent out to ups and immuask community nizations,” Brice businesses, orsaid, “they can ganizations and CAITLIN BLAIR trade them in for SENIOR NURSING STUDENT individuals for brand-new baby help. items.”

“Kmart There were an estimated 30 moms, played a huge part in it,” Mullin said. either expecting or with newborns, “They donated, like, $30,000 just by who attended the baby shower, said themselves in baby items, but other Lindsey Mullin, a senior nursing stu- little baby shops donate stuff like just dent from Farwell. clothes, blankets. There’s big items

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It’s been really neat how many people have been willing to give to it, whether it’s donations or money.

like cribs, and car seats, and mattresses and things like that, too.”

The program has grown every year since Brice started the baby shower to benefit the Stork’s Nest program, said Amy Johnson-Rubio, director of program services for March of Dimes in Lubbock.

“We do have a storefront that looks like a baby boutique,” she said, “and it’s also where we teach our classes, so (the moms) come there to get the items. Really, our interest is just in women getting the prenatal care they need and the education they need to have the healthiest baby possible.”

The Stork’s Nest Baby Shower received between $105,000 and $110,000 in donations this year, Brice said. After 10 years of having the event, the program is within $20,000 of donating half a million dollars’ worth of baby items back to the community.

“I think it just shows giving back to the community,” Blair said. “Dr. Brice is amazing about getting involved; she’s got more projects going at once.

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Tech students, JumpStart prepare preschoolers for kindergarten

By PAIGE SKINNER STAFF WRITER

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ERIN WELKER, A senior nursing student from Garland, bids on a basket in a silent auction at the Storks Nest Baby Shower event Friday in the International Cultural Center. Proceeds from the live and silent auctions will go to the Storks Nest program in Lubbock, which incentivizes prenatal care for expecting mothers.

Home-buying season signaling recovery WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years after the U.S. housing bust sent sales and prices plunging, the spring home-buying season is pointing to a long-awaited recovery.

Reduced prices, record-low mortgage rates, higher rents and an improving job market appear to be emboldening many would-be buyers. Open houses are drawing crowds. A wave of foreclosures is leading investors to grab bargain-priced homes.

And many people seem to have concluded that prices won’t drop much further. In some areas, prices have begun to tick up.

Interviews with more than two dozen potential buyers, sellers, brokers, Realtors and economists suggest that confidence is up and that sales will move slowly but steadily higher.

“The biggest challenge that we’ve had over the past four years is fear — fear that the economy is collapsing, that property values are collapsing, that the world is coming to an end,” says Mark Prather, a broker at ERA Buy America Real Estate in La Palma, Calif. “The fear factor is all but gone.”

Prather says the number of prospective buyers who contacted his company last month was about 35 percent more

than a year ago.

The spring buying season got an early lift-off from an uncommonly warm January and February — a winter that was the best for sales of previously occupied homes in five years. Permits to build houses and apartments rose in February to their highest level since 2008.

“People feel much more confident,” said Steve Brown, co-owner of real estate company Irongate Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, who says sales jumped more than 16 percent for the first two months of 2012 over the same period last year.

“There’s no question there’s a good feeling in the marketplace.”

Mixed results for Obama openness with foreign foes CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — President Barack Obama’s willingness to engage with America’s adversaries comes with promise and peril, a reality hammered home by signs of progress in nuclear talks with Iran and a setback in North Korea’s provocative rocket launch.

In Colombia, where Obama is attending a summit with Latin American leaders, the president has been confronted by the stubbornly stalled U.S.-Cuba relationship, despite his offer of a “new beginning” with the communist nation.

The convergence of events focused fresh attention on a foreign policy strategy that puts a premium on keeping the door open for diplomacy, even with countries the U.S. considers “bad actors.”

Obama administration officials say the strategy has improved the U.S. standing in the world by showing that America is more willing to look outward, 10 years since President George W. Bush branded Iran, Iraq and North Korea as members of an “axis of evil.” White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes credited U.S. engagement with Iran and North Korea with allowing the U.S. to rally international support for stronger penalties when those nations proved to be defiant.

But the president’s critics say his open engagement policy is naïve and weak.

The criticism came from Obama’s fellow Democrats during the 2008 election, including from campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama’s secretary of state. Republican candidate Mitt Romney has used a similar line of attack to go after Obama’s foreign policy in this year’s presidential race.

Almost immediately after North Korea’s failed rocket launch Thursday, Romney accused Obama of trying to appease the reclusive communist country by dangling a food aid deal “that proved to be as naïve as it was short-lived.”

Romney has accused Obama of engaging in a policy of appeasement with Cuba, and giving the communistrun government “gifts” when he lifted restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba. Romney has said that if he were negotiating with Cuba as president, he would want to know what he was going to get in return before making any concessions.

With about 15 to 18 children in a preschool class, it can be difficult for them to receive one-on-one attention from an adult.

A select few Texas Tech students try to change this every week, by preparing preschoolers for kindergarten.

JumpStart is a nonprofit organization that allows college students to help out at local preschool centers and teach preschoolers the fundamentals they need for kindergarten, including reading and social skills.

Dawn Burke, the program director for JumpStart, said itsmission is to ensure the children are prepared to enter and succeed in school.

The 45 Tech JumpStart students work at five different preschool centers.

“We are based on college campuses, about 60 different campuses across the country, right now,” Burke said. “What we do is we recruit and hire college students who go out and mentor preschool children in language and literacy, social skills.”

She said there is a big gap in preschooler’s literacy skills, so the JumpStart students help the preschoolers with reading.

“We have a specific curriculum that we use in the classrooms,” Burke said, “and we really focus on

those skills so that those children are up to par with their peers when they get into the kindergarten classroom.”

JumpStart recruits students from every college at Tech, not just education majors, Burke said. If a student is eligible for work-study, they can get paid for his or her work with JumpStart.

The JumpStart students work 300 hours within a school year and then get a bonus at the end of the year for completing all their hours.

But, it doesn’t go without hard work and dedication to the preschool children.

Each session plan is revolved around a child’s storybook. After reading the book to the children, each JumpStart student is in charge of a center for the preschoolers.

The centers are books, puzzles, art or science activity and dramatic play.

But, Burke said, the best thing about having the JumpStart students help out with the preschoolers is that the children have one-on-one conversations, something most children miss out on if they’re in group care.

“Because, when you have one teacher with 15 children, it’s really hard to have individual conversations,” she said. “So, by us being able to go in and have six or seven

college students work with the little ones, they can have a lot more individual conversations and then that just goes back to them learning their vocabulary and building their knowledge base. So when they do get into kindergarten, they have that foundation there.”

Christopher Hernandez, a JumpStart group leader, said he sees a difference among the preschoolers throughout the time the JumpStart students spend with them.

“At first, whenever they get in there, they are very shy and very timid with us,” said the senior social work major from Midland, “and then about the middle of the year, they’ll talk to us, they’ll tell us stories and everything like that. And at the very end, whenever we’re about to leave, you’ll see them talking like that amongst their peers. They’re telling stories to them and using all this different language they’ve learned throughout our vocabulary, throughout the book.”

April Valdez, assistant director of Talkington Early Learning Center, said the preschool children love having the JumpStart students around and the preschool teachers consider them a big help.

“They are able to give them oneon-one time, which is something teachers can’t really do because we have classrooms,” Valdez said. “And

Artist’s works as big and unique as Texas SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A twoheaded longhorn. A pair of 40-foottall cowboy boots. A panel van riddled with shotgun holes. An entire beer joint re-created in an art gallery.

The Texana-themed art of Bob “Daddy-O” Wade is neither an exaggeration of the Lone Star State’s reputation nor a view askew of the state’s sizable sense of self-worth.

Texas really is that big, it really is unique, and Wade — who understands that better than any singer, songwriter or filmmaker in recent history — is as big and iconic as the state he chronicles.

“It’s always weird, twisted, funky stuff,” says the 69-year-old artist, Austin-based for the past 16 years.

“Some people see (my art) and think it’s over the top, but it’s not. I tell them that Texas is really like this.”

His latest public installation, for example, pays tribute to one of the more obscure cul-de-sacs of the Texas pop-culture map: Leslie’s Fried Chicken. Generations of drivers on Interstate 35, for example, gauged their progress by their proximity to Leslie’s Waco location near the interstate.

Austin’s Laguna Gloria recruited Wade and eight other artists or collectives to build “Zip-A-Tee-DooDah,” a miniature golf-course on the tree-shaded grounds of the Austin art organization. Though some played fast and loose with the concept — including messages about commercialism and impossible-to-beat loops — Wade revisited his past.

He taught community-college art in Waco. And his first exhibit at Laguna Gloria, 1975’s “Texas Formal

Garden,” features live chickens.

Wade’s contribution is a twotiered hole in which putters send the ball between the legs of a menacing, 8-foot-tall ceramic rooster. The ball rolls down several feet of PVC-pipe alley and empties onto the ground floor, where a 6-foot statue of Leslie’s famous blue-and-white chicken awaits. Live chickens, in a specially built henhouse off to the side, complete the effect.

It’s called “Chicken Ranch.”

That sort of thinking is what drew Andrea Mellard, curator of the “Art on the Green” exhibit, to recruit

Wade.

“I knew this was his aesthetic,” she said. “He has this ‘big, bold, roadside attraction’ vernacular. It’s larger than life, and Bob is a larger-than-life character.”

Wade’s last big job, before the golf course, was “Wired for Sound,” a facsimile of Lily’s, a downtown Lockhart beer joint, erected in a Texas Lutheran University art gallery last year. The exhibit’s walls were wrapped in aluminum foil, just like the original bar, and it included a Wurlitzer jukebox and mismatched chairs and tables.

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SAMANTHA MAURIN, A senior visual studies major form Arlington, reads "My Big Balloon" to a preschool class in the Erskine Early Learning Center on Thursday as a part of the Texas Tech student organization JumpStart.

having them come in and having so much of them, they get to have the kids one-on-one and read to them and talk to them and explain it to them more, so it helps that out.”

Burke said she has always en-

joyed working with children, but has recently also discovered she enjoys working with college students as well.

“It’s really neat to see the children get so excited about having a

Texas Tech JumpStart friend,” she said, “and so, I think, that encourages them to think about going to college later in their life, to have those good role models.” ➤➤pskinner@dailytoreador.com

‘Idol’ judges save finalist from elimination LOS ANGELES (AP) — The “American Idol” judges didn’t stutter: Jessica Sanchez “ain’t going home.”

The 16-year-old high school student from San Diego who powered through the Jazmine Sullivan ballad “Stuttering” on Wednesday, was revealed to have received the fewest viewer votes on Thursday, but the “Idol” judges unanimously decided to save Sanchez before she could even finish her last-

chance performance of Deborah Cox’s “Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here.”

“Give me that mic,” interrupted Jennifer Lopez. “This is crazy! Yes, we’re using the save. You ain’t going home.”

Sanchez, sometimes known as her sassy alter ego “Bebe Chez,” had been deemed one of this season’s front-runners, consistently impressing the panel with savvy-beyond-her-years takes on such tunes as Whitney Houston’s ver-

sion of “I Will Always Love You” and Beyonce’s “Sweet Dreams.”

Elise Testone, the rockin’ 28-yearold teacher from Charleston, S.C., who sizzled with Lady Gaga’s “You and I,” and 20-year-old student Joshua Ledet, of Westlake, La., who earned a standing ovation from the panel for Bruno Mars’ “Runaway Baby,” joined Sanchez as the bottom three vote-getters. It was the first time at the bottom for Sanchez.

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Women better with Obama Don’t get gassed Tony T up with fracking Cardone cut back on in order for Ann to stay at home and take care of the children, as would be required in most families.

Rather than portraying Ann as a slouch who isn’t used to work, it would have been a perfect time to attack the Republican P a r t y ’s a v e rsion to people who don’t take home a paycheck, such as stay-at-home parents, college students and jobless Americans.

These people are frequently branded as lazy, unmotivated and people who contribute to the problems in modern America.

They don’t need government assistance or tax breaks because they aren’t actively contributing to the economy.

Ann Romney shouldn’t be branded as a lazy, do-nothing citizen just because she chooses to

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stay at home and raise her family.

Neither should college students for furthering their education.

And we should especially not characterize jobless Americans as lazy, because the mere thought that living on jobless benefits is a luxurious life is delusional.

The value of an individual cannot solely be measured in terms of how much money he or she makes. This is where Republicans are weak and Rosen missed a chance to emphasize in her commentary.

Also missed was a chance to hammer home the progress Democrats have made in order to give the average American woman a fair shake in the workplace.

Showing the country that — despite the seemingly inconsequential Republican feet dragging — Democrats have been able to pass important legislation making equal pay in the workplace law.

Ann Romney might not have needed it, but her fellow females who are able to get fairly paid jobs in the private or public sector are largely thanks to

... Democrats have been able to pass important legislation making equal pay in the workplace law.

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his week, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen offhandedly remarked that Ann Romney had never worked a day in her life because she was a stay-at-home mother.

The last few days have caused her to backtrack under rightful criticism by the right and the left sides.

There are a couple of issues I have with this statement. Foremost is the most obvious; the implication that stay-at-home parenting is any easier than a full-time job.

I don’t know the circumstances at the Romney household, but being a stay-at-home parent is a full-time job. My mother was also a stay-at-home parent, and wrangling six kids into order all day is far and away more difficult than being a political commentator at CNN. Rosen was trying to make a point about the fortunate ability of the Romney family to only have one working parent, but she did so in the wrong tone.

For most families, the choice to no longer work and become a full-time caretaker isn’t one decided by wishes, but rather by financial needs.

With the wealth of the Romney family, this was almost certainly never an issue. There was never a long discussion about what the family would need to

Democrats. Most Republicans don’t know who Lily Ledbetter is, and the ones that do almost certainly do not like her.

Ann Romney might not have to worry about health care costs due to her family’s enormous wealth, but the average American woman probably does.

Women who value their right to be an equal in society will almost certainly be better off under a Democratic administration than under a Republican one. Women who want to live a healthy life without going into financial distress will be better off with a second Obama term rather than with a Romney administration.

This is the point Rosen and all Democrats need to hammer home this election season. Call out Mitt Romney and demand he point to one piece of legislation he or his yet-to-be-named running mate have authored or supported which brings equal rights for women.

And if — by some miracle, — there is one found under a bunker somewhere, challenge them to find one that supports women’s health. I am quite confident none of those exist.

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Romney panders anti-intellectualism Last Thursday, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney attributed President Barack Obama’s alleged ineptitude to his having “spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.”

If learning at this university has the potential to dull one’s faculties, Romney must be speaking from experience.

Not only has he earned more degrees than Barack Obama from Harvard, but, if he becomes president, he would be the most crimson commander-in-chief since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, class of 1902.

Romney has not one, but two advanced degrees from this institution. He graduated from the joint J.D./M.B.A. program in 1975, and from there entered the business world. While Presi-

in order to rile the Republican base.

Since he has a hard time impressing the far-right wing of the Republican Party with his pedigree, maybe Mr. Romney thinks he can fool them into only scrutinizing his opponent’s.

But serio u s l y, h e ’ d have more luck trying to convince them that he’s always been “severely conservative.”

Although Romney’s recent conversion to antiintellectualism may seem humorous, what it says about his candidacy is troubling.

Although the Republican Party styles itself as the party of m e r i t o c r a c y, their appreciation for individual achievement seems to be rather limited.

Academic and intellectual merit are regularly disparaged

by Republican party leaders, even as they routinely exalt the value of hard work. Experience in academia—a field in which so many conservative luminaries have served—is mocked as not being “a real job.” It is no wonder that there is a dearth of

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Republicans in our nation’s top universities.

In the same breath that Republicans undermine the value of academic and intellectual accomplishment, they bristle when anyone speaks against the interest of those whose accomplishments have been financial.

For example, any suggestion that those whose “real jobs” have brought them immense wealth ought to pay a more in taxes is decried as “punishing success.”

It speaks to the power of the extreme right in today’s Republican party that trash-talking academic achievement is de rigeur even for candidates who hail from Massachusetts, received two Harvard degrees, and are supposedly members of the Republican establishment.

This is not simply anti-elitism, but anti-intellectualism. In an age when the nation’s problems are increasingly complex, requiring the kind of expertise that a good education provides, we cannot afford to mock those who pursue one.

Not only has he earned more degrees than Barack Obama from Harvard ... he would be the most crimson commander-inchief since Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

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dent Obama spent three years here, Romney spent a total of four.

If Romney has indeed become aware of the deleterious effects of a Harvard education, it must have been a recent epiphany.

Three of his sons attended Harvard for their M.B.A.s, suggesting either that their presence on this campus was an act of rebellion against their reluctant father, or that Romney has only caught on to the crippling effects of a Harvard education in the past few years.

Then again, even this scenario seems doubtful. After all, Romney counts economics Professor N. Gregory Mankiw and Kennedy School Fellow Meghan O’Sullivan among his top advisers.

Most likely, Romney’s apparent change of heart towards his alma mater is an attempt to tap into anti-intellectual sentiment

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You may have already spent your lunch money on a donation toward the KONY 2012 effort, but there’s a new fundraising campaign that may actually have more impact than the leaky Invisible Children movement.

Ann and Phelim Media LLC is currently raising funds to expose the truth about “fracking” through their documentary entitled FrackNation.

While the word “fracking” may pierce the heart of any crazed environmentalist, many Americans are unfamiliar with the details of this process. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process that has been used by the oil and gas industry for decades. Engineers pump water and chemicals into shale rock to create cracks, and then harvest oil and natural gas that would otherwise remain trapped underground.

The entire process is carefully overseen and monitored with stateof-the-art technology, and it has opened up thousands of jobs. We have seen the success of fracking in North Dakota and other states where the unemployment rate has shrunken to 3 percent. Wages are so high in North Dakota that McDonald’s is actually offering $15 an hour to keep up.

Not only does fracking provide jobs, it reduces energy costs so people can afford their utilities.

For those living off small wages or miniature pensions, this could mean the difference of living in a small house or in a cramped trailer.

Critics complain about the chemicals used in the fracking process, including hydrochloric acid, diesel fuel and benzene; yet there is no proof behind accusations of water resource contamination.

And now critics have flocked behind the latest environmentalist propaganda to hit HBO. Josh Fox’s “Gasland” (2010), which relies heavily on anecdotal evidence, argues that fracking is poisoning our water supplies and making our water flammable. The trailer for this film sensationally features a man igniting the water flowing from his faucet.

Yet as filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer point out in their trailer for FrackNation, water has been flammable in

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places for centuries. This is simply the result of natural gas bubbling up through water sources, thus making it ignitable. It has occurred in states such as West Virginia, Kentucky and New York. There is actually a place in New York called Burning Springs known for its flammable water — hence the name “Burning Springs.”

Discovered in 1669, the springs were burning away well before fracking became popular.

Whether or not the burning bush that spoke to Moses was also a result of ancient fracking still remains questionable (sources say that Al Gore is flying his corporate jet into Egypt to conduct further research.)

As for the claim of water contamination, McElhinney and McAleer found this was a downright lie.

None of their interviewees reported any contaminants in their water supply. McAleer actually questioned Fox on camera about his claims regarding contamination in “Gasland,” and the footage was immediately forced off YouTube and Vimeo by Fox’s lawyers.

Can you say “suspicious?” What are they trying to hide?

Environmentalists also blame fracking for seismic disturbances. This may be true, but so does the process of obtaining geothermic power — a socalled “sustainable” source of energy.

Liberals constantly point to loopholes in federal laws that would otherwise restrict fracking, but federal bureaucrats would have already found a way to stop it if it posed any real health issues. After all, they’ve had decades to look into it.

The ugly truth: they have no proof. Rather, they have proven that it’s safe.

Lies have unfortunately infiltrated the environmentalist narrative yet again and have attracted the ears of celebrities such as Mark Ruffalo.

Why? Because scaring people about flammable gas is fun and profitable to them.

Stories about fracking are wrong and threatening their future. Cheap energy and an abundance of jobs are at stake here. Will we miss out on this opportunity because of environmentalist propaganda and its celebrity following?

For $1, you can become an executive producer of FrackNation, which is expected to be released in June. I encourage you to resist the current narrative, and visit FrackNation. com today.

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‘The Cabin in the Woods’ Couple enjoy 83 years of love refreshingly unique flick “The Cabin in the Woods” is a horror/thriller co-written and directed by Drew Goddard, Joss Whedon being the other co-writer and the producer, starring Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Kristen Connolly and Anna Hutchison.

The film follows a group of older teenagers ready to get away from the city and enjoy a weekend in the forest.

After finding their destination, “The Cabin in the Woods,” they start to explore, leading to a discovery that one can only dream of.

As the film develops, secrets about their whereabouts are uncovered and the fight for their lives begins.

Coming from the director of “Cloverfield,” this isn’t the typical teen slasher flick.

There really was something for everyone in this film because there was just enough action to keep the audience entertained, but also surprised everyone and was an outright black comedy, as well.

The cinematography contrib-

London Weldon uted to the storyline even more. It kept you captivated into the story, not wanting to look away. New secrets were spilling out and you didn’t want to miss the next piece of the puzzle. Every main character did their part on staying true to their stereotypical roles, like the jock, the slut and the nerd, but it wasn’t overdone. You can’t help but like all of them.

Without giving too much away, I would like to stress that you will not be disappointed. There are some surprises that will shock you, which makes it even more worthwhile.

The chemistry onscreen was impeccable, along with the direction of the entire film. The less you know

about this film going in, the better.

Don’t go in expecting the typical “kids in the wilderness” plot. To go into any more detail would be spoiling the movie, so with that being said, every horror fan needs to see this.

Overall, I would give this movie three-and-a-half out of five stars.

There weren’t any gimmicks or major cheesiness holding this film together, unlike every other horror movie ever made. It is a refreshingly new concept. We’ve all been complaining that they haven’t made any unique scary movies in awhile — well, here you go. Do yourself a favor, don’t watch the trailer more than once and go into this ready to be surprised with twists and turns coming from every way. If you want to be taken for an exhilarating ride, shell out the extra cash for this fun and soon-to-be-classic flick.

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Texas eatery serves $12K, 10-course Titanic meal HOUSTON (AP) — Crystal tinkles as women clad in dinner best bow their heads over champagne glasses, listening attentively to the captain’s evening address. The Armagnac they sip is circa 1900. The dishes, crystal and silverware also hark back to a bygone era — one when the Titanic sailed the high seas, destined for disaster.

On this evening, though, the captain is Ryan Roberts, executive director of Cullen’s restaurant in Houston.

“We’re here to remember the people who perished on that fateful night, so if we could just bow our heads in a moment of silence,” Roberts said, his white-gloved hands reminiscent of the opulence of the Edwardian era that birthed the lush first-class cabins and dining rooms of what was then the world’s largest ship.

It’s the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on a frigid, dark night, killing 1,514 people. And to mark the occasion, 12 people in Houston enjoyed a replica of the lavish 10-course dinner the wealthiest people aboard the ship enjoyed just before the crash.

The dinner was one of many served from New York to Memphis, Tenn., and across the oceans to Hong Kong, as chefs attempted to transport diners to a time when waiters in starched coats and napkins hanging from their arms served an upper class that was far removed from the common man, who filled the lower portions of the Titanic and went largely unnoticed by the wealthy until

they perished together in the cold sea.

At Cullen’s, Roberts and Chef Paul Lewis spent months researching the menu, the waiters’ attire, the china, silverware, crystal, wines, cognacs and Burgundies, hoping to offer their guests an experience as close to the actual event as possible. Pairing up with the Museum of Natural Science to include a tour of its Titanic exhibit, they came up with a $12,000-per-person meal that will be offered through September, when the ship’s relics will move on to a new destination.

After viewing the exhibit, diners are driven by limousine to the upscale restaurant about 20 miles south of downtown Houston, where they are seated in an exclusive dining area suspended over the main hall. There, they are treated to an array of foods from around the world prepared by cooks who have for months practiced and discussed how to interpret a menu too lavish for today’s palette.

The truffles are from France, the oysters from neighboring Louisiana, the salmon from Scotland. The portions, however, have been scaled down, and some — such as the Consommé Olga, a Russian-style meat broth — were given a more modern twist.

“We wanted to make sure there’s enough there to give you the flavor or the substance but nothing to make you hugely uncomfortable sitting there, dreading the next course,” Lewis said.

“Dinner back then was a little bit different as well. If you didn’t want a course, you just waved it off and the waiter would just skip you and go onto

the next person,” Lewis said. “Of course, we don’t want that. We want to make sure that everyone gets a little bit of everything.”

Finding the menus from the Titanic — first, second and third class — was fairly easy. They are among the artifacts that were recovered from the wreckage.

Rather, it was making sense of the scant descriptions, such as “roast duckling, apple sauce,” that was more complex, Lewis said. He cross-referenced the menu with other research, then came up with his interpretation of the meal.

But what did the waiters wear? To answer this question, Roberts went to the movie and finally dressed his waiters in white tuxedo jackets, making sure all, including himself, donned white gloves.

Unable to find a complete set of china, silverware and flatware for a 10-course meal or confirm the authenticity of HMS Titanic sets offered online, Roberts finally turned to those who have some memory of the era.

“We begged, borrowed and pleaded with a lot of grandmas to find that china,” he said, noting that diners will eat off of sets from the 1900s “that none of us have even touched and weren’t allowed to eat on,” Roberts said.

Tracking down some of the food was also a challenge, Lewis said.

Truffles, for example, are between seasons and the chef was reluctant to use a canned variety. So he called in a favor from a friend who works at a restaurant in New York and the earthy mushrooms arrived barely 48 hours before the big dinner.

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Medrano said it would take a lot more than just wind and hail to keep her from walking.

Davis, a senior music major from Plainview, continued walking as well. He said he had been participating in Relays for Life since before he was diagnosed with cancer.

“It’s … a fun night to hang out with friends,” he said, “and it’s good exercise.”

In addition to Davis, Medrano said, she also walked for two others in her family who had been diagnosed with cancer.

“It could happen to anybody,” she said.

Luminaries lined the walkway, with names of either memory or celebration. At about 11 p.m. a

ceremony was hosted to honor all of them.

Forbus said it was important to take this time to be serious and remember why Relay for Life exists. Participants and volunteers took the microphone and told their own stories, or the stories of loved ones while the remaining participants listened in complete silence.

Even during this, people walked their required laps.

Davis was one of these, surrounded by sorority and fraternity brothers and sisters in a move of unity.

“When I’m here with friends who support me,” he said, “it means a lot more.”

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The event began with opening ceremonies and then a survivors’ lap. After that, each organization sent people out to walk, so they would have someone on the sidewalk at all times.

Then the hail hit.

Many participants went into Holden Hall to wait it out, said Chris Forbus, a senior communications studies major from Littlefield; but, in light of the danger, many students left entirely.

“The entire circle was full of people,” he said, “and now we can barely fill the fountain (area).”

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PARIS, Texas (AP) — At ages 17 and 19, Eunice and Lloyd Ford were married in secret late one night by a Baptist preacher in west Paris.

Eunice, aided by her aunt, left her parent’s home under the pretense of going to a show in town, but instead met up with her love, Lloyd, and eloped.

That was the night of April 9, 1929.

Lloyd, 102, and Eunice, 100, recently celebrated their 83rd wedding anniversary.

The couple still live in their home of several decades in Rugby, with one of two children, Gary Ford, living next door.

The longtime couple still remember their younger days, when Eunice lived in Hugo and Lloyd on the property where Camp Maxey sits today near Powderly — the place they met.

Eunice’s grandparents lived near Lloyd’s family and she grew up friends with Lloyd’s sister. Both insist they “never knew the other existed” until their mid-teens. Both families were hard-working farmers.

“I didn’t know she was there,” Lloyd said. “I was just a little squirt and she was even smaller.”

“We would go down there in a wagon, work all day, come in and milk a cow, feed the hog if we had one, and just live like you want to,” Eunice said.

When Lloyd and Eunice “started

going together,” and began talking of marriage, Lloyd had a spat with Eunice’s father, and rather than Lloyd asking her father for permission, the couple decided to elope.

Lloyd’s mother took Lloyd to Cooper to get a marriage license. Eunice waited at home for their car to pass back by and listened for the horn to sound, signaling Lloyd had secured the license.

“I went way over back in the pasture to drive the cows up that evening and I heard the horn,” Eunice said.

“I went and got my suitcase ready for that night. It was dark and I carried my suitcase out to the edge of the yard where the lamp light wouldn’t shine on it. She (Eunice’s aunt) got it and put it into her car. We were going to the show that night because it was her birthday.

We never did make it to the show.”

She left a note for her father before leaving that night.

“When I lived at home, it was a habit when we washed dishes at night to turn a plate down for breakfast,” Eunice said. “I wrote a note that I was gone to get married and when he (her father) turned his plate over, he got the note. It said ‘When you read this, I’ll be Mrs. Lloyd Ford.’ I added some more to it — I added it wasn’t a ‘have to.’”

The couple resisted Eunice’s father’s wishes to have the marriage annulled,

and lived with Lloyd’s parents until a house opened up in the Ford’s Academy community.

They began making their living growing and selling tomatoes and watermelons.

After they were forced to sell their land when Camp Maxey was formed, Lloyd began running a grocery on N. Main Street in Paris.

“He gave me a dollar a day and I drove 10 miles to work every day,” Lloyd said.

Later, Lloyd and Eunice bought a grocery store in Rugby and adjacent house, and operated Ford’s Grocery for many years before transforming it into a lawn mower and chain saw repair shop.

In 1979, Lloyd retired and the couple moved to their current house, which sits on the property where the Rugby School used to be.

Until 2011, the couple maintained a one-acre garden. They attribute their long, healthy lives to eating fresh foods from their own garden, lots of hard work and good rest.

Eunice said in 83 years of marriage, they’ve never had a fight.

“We never have fought,” Eunice said. “We’ve gotten mad at one another, but we never have fought. Usually if he got on me about anything, I walked off and left him. We never did quarrel.”

or riding the bus with headphones in and not paying attention.

Yellow level was the second, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 which meant a person was cautious “Anytime you put alcohol into and aware. He advised everyone a ‘I want to have fun’ party situa- should always be at a yellow level. tion with mass groups of people of And the last two were orange different ethnic origins or mentali- and red. Orange being a person is ties, you’re going to have clashes,” in danger and there is a possible tarhe said. “And I can honestly say get, and red is a person in conflict there wasn’t a Thursday, Friday and choosing to fight to get away or Saturday night I didn’t have to from an attacker.

One participant, Lauren break up a fight when I was working Thompson, said she trained with in the bars.”

After about 45 minutes of the Federal Law Enforcement instructing self-defense moves, Center in Georgia for a Homeland Glasscock had the four participants Security internship and wanted to sit around him in a semicircle to go to the class to freshen up on discuss different levels of security. some self-defense moves.

First was white level, which The forensic science gradumeant a person was secure and not ate student from Graham said aware of any attackers. He gave the she thinks people on campus are example of walking around campus typically unaware of their sur-

roundings.

“I think so,” she said about Lubbock being a problem city of assault. “And people being unaware, especially on campus. People don’t pay attention to what they’re doing. This just mental state of just, ‘You’re going to win’ whatever situation you’re in and people need to realize that.”

Lauren Thompson brought her sister to the class, Jenny Thompson, to help her understand the basics of self-defense.

Jenny Thompson, a freshman speech pathology major from Graham, said she found the class helpful. Walking around Lubbock, she said, she would feel threatened, but now has the mentality of code yellow, always being aware of her surroundings.

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Red Raiders survive late Houston rally, win in extra innings

By MICHAEL DUPONT II STAFF WRITER

Wacky may not be the most profound way to describe the Red Raiders’ game Sunday afternoon at Rip Griffin Park, but it certainly could be the most accurate.

The Red Raiders had a commanding lead for a majority of the game before allowing Houston to score eight unanswered runs in the last two innings to tie the game at nine. However, Texas Tech was able to score two runs in the bottom half of the 12th to take a 10-9 victory.

Sunday also was Autism Awareness Day at the ballpark. Tech coach Dan Spencer spoke briefly about the importance of awareness for the disease and how autism has affected the life of his son Wade along with his family. Nine-year-old Grant Taylor, who also has autism, sang the national anthem.

The two teams finished up a three game series with Tech sweeping the series winning all three games.

Although the Red Raiders

jumped on the Cougars early — leading 9-1 going into the 8th inning — the Cougars rallied back with a three-run homerun from Casey Grayson to shorten the deficit to just two runs. Pitcher Codey Morehouse then tripled in the ninth causing two more runs to score.

The Red Raiders were able to prevail in extra innings thanks to an offensive series ending with Barrett Barnes driving in Nick Hanslik — who led the inning off with a single to get on base — to plate the winning run.

“I think that it could’ve been a deflating loss obviously to give up that many runs late,” Spencer said after his team surrendered eight runs in the 8th and 9th innings.

“Hopefully, you learn from it and understand that you can’t give people extra opportunities and that no game – especially at Rip Griffin when the wind is blowing out 40 – is safe.”

Hanslik played a key role in the Tech victory logging his first career four-hit game and also scoring the game-winning run.

“You just gotta be ready when your name is called,” Hanslik said.

“You just gotta give it everything you have. I just went out there and tried to do what I could for the Red Raiders. Luckily we got the win.”

The Red Raiders are now on a four-game winning streak heading into a midweek matchup with nonconference opponent New Mexico.

A string of wins like these could be exactly what the team needed, Barnes said.

“Whenever you can win a series at home it’s a big deal, especially to come out and sweep a team like that and then sweep the entire week like that,” Barnes said. “It just gets you back on track. I think that’s the biggest thing we did today – we got back on track, played good baseball and put up plenty of runs.”

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TEXAS TECH CENTER fielder Barrett Barnes catches a pop fly during the Red Raiders' 15-4 victory against Houston on Friday at Rip Griffin Park.

MLB honors Robinson with ballpark tributes

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ABOVE LEFT: JEFFREY Payne, a freshman undecided major from Escondido, Calif., fights Clint Baack, a freshman architecture major from Seguine, in a sumo match during RaiderFest on Friday at the rec fields.

ABOVE RIGHT: JACOB Mendoza, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Manitou Springs, Colo., performs an acoustic set with original songs during RaiderFest on Friday at the rec fields. Mendoza was the winner of the Texas Tech singer-songwriter competition.

NEW YORK (AP) — LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball.

And about what it meant when Jackie Robinson broke the game’s color barrier.

“Without Jackie, I wouldn’t be in front of you,” the Los Angeles Angels pitcher told several dozen kids at a Bronx ballfield Sunday. “Jackie’s role in my life has been tremendous.”

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Park, there were ceremonies as Major League Baseball honored Robinson and his legacy. Video tributes and on-field celebrations at every ballpark included his family, his former teammates, players from the Negro Leagues, NBA great Bill Russell and members of the Tuskegee Airmen.

Players, managers, coaches and umpires all wore No. 42 on Jackie Robinson Day to remember the 65th anniversary of the day the future Hall of Famer first took the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Markers on each base noted the occasion.

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RIGHT: GABRIEL HINOJOSA, a freshman energy commerce major from El Paso, attempts to stay balanced on a mechanical bull during RaiderFest on Friday at the rec fields.

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Track, field nabs 16 titles; Grimes sets personal record

By ANDREW NEPSUND ELECTRONIC MEDIA EDITOR

As the Texas Tech track and field team approached its first home outdoor meet of the season, indoor All-American hurdler Katie Grimes said, she was not feeling at her best.

“I didn’t feel like I was in the right mindset before the race, so I kept trying to visualize and go through my normal routine,” she said. “I felt ready enough, but I just wanted to get through the race.”

And get through the race she did.

Grimes obtained a personal best run in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.99 seconds as the wind slowed down just enough for her run to be eligible for the national rankings — which pushed her to sixth nationally.

“When I saw the time at the end, I was shocked and I was happy,” Grimes said. “I didn’t think (the time) was legal, and then they said it was and I was ecstatic.”

Caitlin Waters and Devin Bailey

each notched a first-place finish in the 800-meter and 1500-meter runs, respectively. Additionally, Tech’s women 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams continued their dominance with times of 44.46 and 3:36.19.

Because of the vigorous and relentless wind, the pole vault and high-jump competitions were conducted indoors. Shade Weygandt, 2010 Big 12 Conference pole vault champion, placed first in the pole vault as she cleared the bar at 4.21 meters.

Narrowly missing a first place finish in the 100-meters by two hundredths of a second, senior Terra Evans said, she felt she ran a good race after coming off a hamstring injury in the fall.

“This was probably my best executed race this year,” she said.

“So I’m happy about that.”

Tech head coach Wes Kittley said he was quite pleased and encouraged by the effort of the track and field team as a whole — Grimes

in particular.

“We had some really good things happen today and it started with Katie Grimes mainly with that 12.99,” he said. “That’s a phenomenal run, wind-aided or not.”

Grimes said she attributes her success this year to her growing experience and assistant coach Dion Miller.

“He’s been focusing a whole lot on me and my technique,” Grimes said. “And just put a lot of time into me.”

Kittley said the track and field team has now built a tradition and is thinking bigger things nationally.

“We’ve had a little bit of history now,” Kittley said. “The kids have really bought into that, and I think that we’ve raised the bar and I think they are starting to reach those goals.”

The No. 8 Red Raiders and No. 11 Lady Raiders will next compete in the Mt. SAC Relays from Thursday to Sunday in Walnut, Calif. ➤➤anepsund@dailytoreador.com

PHOTO BY SCOTT MACWATTERS/The Daily Toreador

TEXAS TECH’S TRAVIS Dunn leaps into the sand during the Long Jump event in the Texas Tech Open on Saturday.