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Professor finalist for environmental award A Texas Tech professor and director emeritus of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health is a finalist in the individual category of the 2013 Texas Environmental Excellence Award.

Ronald J. Kendall will be honored for being a finalist for the award, given by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Wednesday in Austin at the Texas Environmental Excellence Awards banquet, according to a news release.

According to the release, Kendall was the founding chairman of the Department of Environmental Toxicology and wrote a textbook, “Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues.”

As director of the TIEHH, which he founded, according to the release, the institute received about $60 million in grant funding for environmental toxicology research. ➤➤kmckee@dailytoreador.com

Boston suspects’ father postpones trip to US MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Sunday that he has postponed a trip from Russia to the United States because of poor health.

“I am really sick,” Anzor Tsarnaev, 46, told The Associated Press. He said his blood pressure had spiked to dangerous levels.

Tsarnaev said at a news conference Thursday that he planned to leave that day or the next for the U.S. with the hope of seeing his younger son, who is under arrest, and burying his elder son, who was killed. His family, however, indicated later Thursday that the trip could be pushed back because he was not feeling well.

Tsarnaev confirmed on Sunday that he is staying in Chechnya, a province in southern Russia, but did not specify whether he was hospitalized. He is an ethnic Chechen and has relatives in Chechnya, although he and his family spent little time in Chechnya or anywhere else in Russia before moving to the U.S. a decade ago.

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HSC SGA hosts 27th annual awards banquet

By MIKAEL GONZALES STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Student Government Association hosted its 27th annual Student Awards and Installation Banquet at 6 p.m. Friday at the Lubbock Country Club.

The banquet recognized the senators and faculty members who work all year to help create a better environment for students.

Jason Chandrapal, HSC SGA president and a senior medical student, described the event as a rewarding experience for the people involved with HSC SGA.

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“The banquet is kind of a way for us to reward our senators for all the work they’ve done for the year as well as a way for us to honor our faculty members,” he said.

Chandrapal said HSC SGA serves as communication between faculty, administration and students and works with other campuses around the state.

“We are a unique campus in that Lubbock isn’t the only campus,” he said. “We have students from regional campuses come down and basically talk to us and open a line of communication.”

He said HSC SGA hosts a wide range of events, including an HSC medical conference and a canned food drive.

Jessica Schacherer, chairwoman of

SGA’s Social Committee and a first-year medical student, said the event planning began in October and it is important for SGA to honor faculty members.

“I have 11 members on my committee that help me plan the event,” she said.

“One of the most important aspects of it is the faculty awards.”

Schacherer said she wanted to create a better event this year by using online polls for the awards rather than the usual email-style ballot.

“I did an online ballot this year to try to streamline a couple of things,” she said. “A lot of things on the social committee we try to streamline for next year’s chairman.”

Schacherer said the event guest count

was 125 and included faculty members, administrators and students.

Some of the awards given at the event included faculty member of the year, senator of the year, committee of the year, and a newly-created award that recognizes students who have shown great promise for the school.

The event concluded with the installment of the new HSC SGA offi cers.

Schacherer said it was a bittersweet moment for current officers as they ended their term as members.

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Walk for Autism

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

The Women’s Studies Program in cooperation with the Gender and Communications class hosted the last day of the 2013 Gender Fair in the Croslin Room of the Library on Friday.

The fair sought to draw attention to the influence society and media has on the construction of gender roles and equality and how messages are shaped to affect audience’s perception of what gender is and what it means.

Students presented their research on different topics such as body image, feminism, gay marriage and male privilege, and offered different ways to educate and change the inequalities shown in each.

Vanessa Miller, a junior communication studies major from Dallas, presented her topic of sexism and gender in sports.

She said her research sought to explore the differences in how male and female athletes are treated and portrayed in the media.

Miller said when doing a Google search for male athletes, the first things to appear are search results for websites that discuss the athlete’s ability and ranking as a professional. The top Google search results on female athletes are rankings of the hottest female players.

Male players are defined more by their skill and physical ability, she said, while female players are defined first by physical appearance.

“For the most part,” Miller said, “we’re just built differently, and I don’t think that’s what we’re trying to argue — just they’re equal in their playing fields and they should be represented that way.”

Equality in sports has come a long way though, she said, especially after Title IX, which protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities in school, was passed in 1972.

Before the law, there were approximately 32 women sport-affiliated groups in college. Now, there are more than 150.

“I do think that it is really important that women and men athletes — and I was an athlete myself,” she said, “maybe not now, but in high school — should be treated equally.”

Kyle Steinle, a senior mathematics major from Lubbock, also took part in the fair. His presentation was on the Defense of Marriage Act and how it influences gender equality in the government.

Congress passed DOMA on Sept. 21, 1996, he said, and determined that state governments can independently define what marriage is, and in federal documents, marriage and spouse refers to the joining of one man and one woman.

This caused a lot of problems with documentation, Steinle said, particularly in the military.

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RAIDER RED DANCES the “Gangnam Style” dance with children at the ninth annual Walk for Autism Awareness hosted by the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research on Sunday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Burkhart Center for Autism hosts Autism Awareness Walk

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

Texas Tech’s Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research hosted the ninth annual Walk for Autism Awareness on Sunday, gathering a crowd of more than 3,000 supporters.

The purpose of the walk was to raise support and gather donations for awareness and research of what is one of the most quickly growing disabilities in the nation, said Janice Magness, the director of the Burkhart Center’s transitioning academy.

New numbers from the Center for Disease Control report one in 50 people will be born with autism, she said.

“That certainly makes it the fastest growing developmental disability,” Magness said, “certainly in the United States, if not the world.”

Groups and families from the Tech and Lubbock community and as far as New Mexico came to show their support for the Burkhart Center during national Autism Awareness Month, walking from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. around the Jones AT&T Stadium football field, she said.

This is the ninth year the center has sponsored the walk, Magness said, and the fourth year the walk has been hosted in the stadium.

Last year the walk attracted about 3,000 people, she said, but this year the center met and exceeded that number.

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MEMBERS OF TEAM DJ Gabriel walk around Jones AT&T Stadium at the ninth annual Walk for Autism Awareness hosted by the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research on Sunday.

to support family and community members affected by it. There also were activities for children, including a balloon animal station and three bounce houses.

One participant, Robin Ochermann, a special education teacher in Shallowater, said she walked to show her love for her students.

“I’m actually a special education teacher,” she said, “and I’ve been teaching for 25 years, so I’ve got a lot of kids that I’m walking for, a lot of families that I’m walking for.”

Ochermann said it was her first time walking, and she was excited to see former

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students and how far they have progressed.

“I think it’s just important to put out a sense of community and support,” she said, “and it is a good time to catch up with friends that you’ve made in the past.”

South Plains College also was present at the walk, represented by the Associate of Arts and Teaching Program, said Annette Smith, coordination of the college program.

Smith brought 40 to 50 students with her, she said, and some of their children have autism.

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Tuesday Institute for the Study of Western Civilization Lecture Series: Dr. Susan Haack Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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Come listen to a lecture titled, “The Integrity of Science: What It Means, Why It Matters.”

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“This is a great cause,” she said.

“Autism is a really hard thing for parents to manage, and it’s hard on the children, and they need a lot of money to do research and find help for both the children and the parents, and the children, especially.”

Smith said she and her group also walked to support her students who attend the College of Education, which is connected to the Burkhart Center.

Businesses, such as Best Buy, also took part in the walk, said Samrie Robinson, a representative for the store and a member of Team Jessie.

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“We’re waking to raise awareness for the autism disability,” she said.

“We’re from Best Buy, so if 10 of us volunteer then we can donate $1,000 to the donation. And then I’m personally walking because my manager from my other job, her grandson is autistic.”

The walk is a good resource for a community where autism issues may not be visible, Robinson said.

“It means to me just showing support to the disability and just being there for everyone,” she said. “It’s not a highly recognized disability from what I’ve seen. A lot of people are unaware of what it really means and what autistic is.”

The walk is not the only thing the center has done during Autism

Awareness month though, Magness said. Businesses across the community have lent their support, including Dillard’s, which hosted a style show for children with autism. Restaurants also have sponsored days out of the month, donating a portion of each day’s proceeds to the Burkhart Center.

The money raised from the walk and past events are going to the new center being built on the Tech campus, she said.

“We are in the process of completing a building just for the center that will open in September or October of this year,” Magness said. “And so, a lot of the money is going to programming to help start a preschool, to enlarge the transitioning academy and to start a

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“If I was married to Bob and I was at war and I died,” he said, “the government would not notify Bob of my death. But if I had a wife, they would notify her first. But because it’s homosexual marriage and it’s not recognized by the federal government, they will now notify my parents or whatever the next descendant would be of mine because they don’t recognize it.”

A similar problem occurs with land ownership, Steinle said. In a homosexual partnership, land a partner owns will go into federal ownership or to the next of kin in the case of their death, rather than to the spouse.

This is an example of gender inequality, he said, between heterosexuals and homosexuals within the realm of the federal and state government.

“This is showing that some of the laws here in the country are going to judge people based on their gender,” Steinle said, “where heterosexuals, as you see, get all these different privileges because they’re heterosexual and married to the opposite sex, while homosexuals, they don’t get the privileges. They’re basically shoved under the bus, even though these rights shouldn’t be judged off of whether you’re homosexual, heterosexual or any other sort.”

Another topic presented was about female body image in the media and how it negatively impacts women of all ages. One in four females in college has an eating disorder, said Tory Davis, a junior communication studies major from San Marcos, which is an alarming statistic.

“Generally when you open up a magazine,” she said, “you see really skinny, tall, pretty women, and you never see normal, average-size women in there.

So this makes girls feel like the people that they see in the magazine, that’s like their ideal body weight, and they need to look like that and conform to that body type in order for men to find them appealing, or society in general to find them appealing.”

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TORY DAVIS, A junior communication studies major from San Marcos, and Grace Connor, a sophomore communication studies major from Austin, look at Glamour magazine while standing in front of their booth at the Gender Fair Friday in the Library. Davis and Connor set up a booth at the event for a project for their gender communication class.

However, Davis said 78 percent of men said they would rather date a confident plussized woman than an insecure supermodel.

Not all women’s body types are meant for that perfect supermodel ideal, she said, and too often magazines are focused on eating and exercising to reach a certain weight.

“I’m a girl and I’ve been faced with what I’ve been talking about,” Davis said. “I’ve never had an eating disorder, but I definitely feel that I have to look this way to be successful and all that.

So it definitely affects me because I somewhat try to conform to this ideal weight.”

Instead of focusing on eating and exercising for body conformity, she said, women should be focused on doing it to be healthy.

A fourth presenter, a graduate student in communication studies from San Diego, said she has a personal stake in her research on gender markers in the media.

Allison Cleary said gender markers are words used in society to define an inherent gender with certain terms, which often can lead to discrimination or inequality.

One example of gendering words is with insults, she said. Often insults toward a woman will refer negatively to her sexuality as a female, Cleary said, but when a person insults a man, they also will use the same terms toward him. This implies that femininity is inherently negative or weak, she said.

Another example is within everyday vocabulary, with words such as Congressman or statesman, terms that automatically refer to men, Cleary said, even though women can and often do fill those positions.

By gendering words, people create an inequality and dichotomy of genders, which continually perpetuates itself, she said. To break this cycle, Cleary said she thinks it has to start with educating children.

“If you look at the fairytales that children are reading and the movies they are watching,” she said, “it’s constantly that the woman is the vulnerable person that needs to be saved by the man, and they really don’t have any goals in their life other than finding their prince charming.

And the man, he’s the go-getter, he’s the one out there.”

By encouraging this, Cleary said parents are not empowering their children to reach their full potential.

This issue matters to Cleary personally because she has a five-year-old son who she said recently started going to school and has displayed changes in his preferences and activities.

“Because before he started school,” she said, “it was he liked the color pink and he would play with toys that were typically girl toys, and then all of the sudden, within a couple weeks of him starting school, it’s so deep down in him now to not accept anything other than, ‘No, no, girls play with these toys, boys play with these toys. Boys are like this, girls are like this.’”

Cleary emphasized the importance of early education of children showing that girls and boys, or women and men, are not so different, and even with their differences, they are not unequal.

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She said she encourages students to come out and support events such as these during the remainder of April and for next year, not only to support the community, but also to support fellow Tech students.

“I think it’s a great thing for Tech students to get involved,” Magness said. “Believe it or not, many Tech students come and volunteer in our center, and a lot of them have nieces, nephews and even siblings with autism. So many people are affected by autism now that it’s just something that I think is here to stay until we find a cause, and at this time there is no cure.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation’s president leaves power and could end up targeting Americans at home, lawmakers warned Sunday as they considered a U.S. response that stops short of sending military forces there.

U.S. officials last week declared that the Syrian government probably had used chemical weapons twice in March, newly provocative acts in the 2-year civil war that has killed more than 70,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. The U.S. assessment followed similar conclusions from Britain, France, Israel and Qatar — key allies eager for a more aggressive response to the Syrian conflict.

President Barack Obama has said Syria’s likely action — or the transfer of President Bashar Assad’s stockpiles to terrorists — would cross a “red line” that would compel the United States to act.

Lawmakers sought to remind viewers on Sunday news programs of Obama’s declaration while discouraging a U.S. foothold on the ground there.

“The president has laid down the line, and it can’t be a dotted line. It can’t be anything other than a red line,” said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.

“And more than just Syria, Iran is paying attention to this. North Korea is paying attention to this.”

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Students work to beautify Tech campus

By NIKKI CULVER STAFF WRITER

April showers usually bring May flowers, but some students helped the flowers on campus get started a little early this Arbor Day. Texas Tech hosted its seventh annual Arbor Day celebration Friday with the festivities beginning in Memorial Circle.

According to the event website, the Arbor Day celebrations were originally pioneered by former Tech President Bradford Knapp in 1938 as something he hoped to become a campus beautification program, which provides students, faculty and staff with the chance to join together to beautify the campus and build a sense of community across the school.

Caity Feil, a sophomore marketing major from Fort Worth, said she was participating in Arbor Day with her sorority, Delta Gamma.

“We’re planting really beautiful yellow flowers for Arbor Day,” she said.

“I saw it on the website and I thought it would be really good for the girls to come out here and do it in sisterhood.

I know that when we’re all done, the campus is going to look just completely beautiful.”

Students were invited to plant their own plants, enjoy free food and T-shirts, listen to live music performed

by This Century, and witness awards presented to various student organizations before breaking off and planting

flowers in the designated plots.

“We’re working in the first year success plot,” Hannah Vaughan, a restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Lewisville, said. “We showed up and a lot of people came between classes and now we’re just grabbing people as we see them. I hope that the Tech campus in general gets a better idea of not only environmental issues, but also the things that we take for granted, like our campus beautification. Some people don’t really recognize all of the work that goes into it. They’ll be walking across the grass where they shouldn’t be or they’re walking through the flowerbeds. They need to know that a lot of work goes into this.”

Past themes for the school’s Arbor Day events include, “Why the Tech Not,” “We Must ProTECH this Planet” and “Dig Tech, Get Dirty.”

“Today we have been planting a lot of beautiful flowers,” Cara Finstad, a senior animal science major from Hico, said. “They said that they’re actually are going to keep all the flowers and they’ll be here all season. A lot of people thought they were going to be ripped up tomorrow for graduation or something, but they’re staying here, which is really great because I hope that people become more aware of being green and helping out with our university looks to other people.

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RASHAWD SOLOMON, A junior business administration major from Dallas, plants a golden lantana outside the Agricultural Pavilion on Friday during Arbor Day.

For some students, life is a runway. For others, their time is spent designing for the runway.

The apparel design and manufacturing class of 2013, a part of the College of Human Sciences Department of Design, hosted its annual TECHStyle Fashion Show, a senior showcase in which graduating seniors display their projects for an audience.

The event was emceed by Christy Hartin of KCBD news station. Before the fashion show started, the departmental professors presented awards for various achievements throughout the year.

The show featured 17 designers, including Marie Ainsa, Kimberly Berry, Diana Deane, Tiffany Girard, Heather Hazuka, Alexis Kruse, Brittnee Lingo, Meaghan McCormack, Bonnie Pardue, Crystal Perez, Cynthia Reimer, Megahn Rizkal, Jenna Sanders, Claire Scurlock, Emily Taylor, Jocelin Villarreal and Lauryn Warren.

“After our four years of putting together all of our collections, we finally showed off all

of our clothes,” Scurlock said. self. To have this experience of “We’ve been working on this our a fashion show was a once in a whole time here with our family lifetime experience for me. It’s and friends out here to support what we’ve worked towards for us. We’ve been making them our entire college career. I was since freshman year, so any- very anxious, but very excited at thing that the same time.” we liked we Rizkal said put in the the experience show, even w a s a b i t t e rsome of the sweet moment things that for her because we’ve made it is the conrecently cluding event got used.” for her time at S o m e Texas Tech beof the defore graduation. signers said “It was a they draw burst of energy, MEGAHN RIZKAL inspiration nervousness, of SENIOR from evhappiness and APPAREL DESIGN MAJOR erywhere, of sadness knowincluding ing that this is nature, art, everything that architecture and pop culture.

I’ve been working so hard for in “A lot of my inspiration is the past four years and it’s over more like futuristic and forward because I’m about to graduate,” things because I’m a huge sci- she said. “This is just a reflection ence fiction fan,” McCormack of all of the garments that we’ve said. “It’s a really fun experience made since our freshman year to that some of us might not be our senior years. It’s a reflection able to do again in the future, of our individual personalities if you’re like me. I’m going into and our design aesthetics.” technical design, so I’d never Each of the graduating seactually produce a line for my- niors will pursue internships at

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Finals approaching, procrastination runs rampant A

student has many things they want to do while in college, and no matter what, it seems like there is not enough time in the day to do it all.

We have all seen the poster, meme or even T-shirt showing a triangle with the options: sleep, social life and studying, and in the middle it reads, “Pick two.”

As stupid as this idea sounds, the closer it gets to finals, the more the idea rings true.

Being a college student, there are millions of ways to distract or entertain oneself, depending on how a student looks at it. It almost gets to the point we all forget why we are even here, which is for that pesky thing referred to as school so we can

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We all fight this triangle, thinking, “I can be the one who does it all, I don’t need to pick two.” We fight to the point of craziness because we do not want to admit as ridiculous as that triangle may sound, it is the truth, and trying to do all three successfully will not happen.

Do not misunderstand — there are exceptions to this rule.

Everyone knows one person who seems perfect: has a 4.0 GPA,

is involved in everything and always looks like they are ready to be in a magazine. Well, that is not normal and that person is probably from another planet, so don’t let them fool you into thinking it is possible.

Because of this triangle of doom as it will from here out be referred, the biggest problem a college student faces is procrastination.

This problem affects us all: undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students alike. It’s a problem professors face regularly, even if they act like it doesn’t and are perfect at time management.

The reasons people procrastinate, especially at the college level, tend to change, but most of

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Why study for a boring subject like chemistry or write a freshman composition paper when one could be out doing something or anything, really, that would be more entertaining?

We have all had those moments where even the most mundane tasks — laundry or grocery shopping — sound better than sitting in the dorms or library and studying.

Despite the triangle, there are other reasons leading people to procrastinate. One of the biggest of those is fear.

While this one word sounds even more ludicrous than even the triangle, most secretly fear either success or failure. By

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waiting until the last minute to accomplish a task, if the outcome does not have the desired results it takes the blame off of us and places it on the fact that we didn’t have enough time.

The other reason procrastination occurs, whether people admit it, is the feeling they get when a project or assignment is turned in right under the time limit with only minutes or seconds to spare.

Although it is a girly reference, Justin Long’s character in “He’s Just Not That Into You” expresses it best when explaining that people wait until the last minute to do things because they like the drama of it. Although they have known their water bill was due for two weeks, or

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cyberwarfare systems.

It would be no stretch to say that the United States has the most to lose at the hands of these powers if our government continues to put cybersecurity on the backburner.

Though the media’s constant bombardment of the public with images of war-ravaged Afghanistan would suggest otherwise, the events in a remote desert nation do not necessarily pose a greater threat to national security than seemingly less dangerous cyberattacks.

The recent infiltrations should remind our legislators of this and prompt them to not only engage in serious discussion with other nations such as China, but also quickly pass legislation that would re-allocate substantial defense resources to building a stronger cyberdefense system.

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) spoke to the immediacy of the situation in an interview with Politico: “Foreign cyberattackers are targeting every aspect of the American economy every day and Congress needs

With the defense budget and looming sequestration cuts up for debate, Congress needs to take advantage of an opportunity for bipartisan cooperation.

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National security threats often invoke images of bombs, guns and invading military forces, but one of the most pressing threats to the United States involves none of these things. Instead, powers hostile to the United States and its interests have quietly launched domestic cyberterrorism attacks against U.S. banks and, most recently, against popular American news agencies.

Such subtle acts of espionage, and the likelihood that they will only become more damaging, translates into a dire need for Congress to quickly pass legislation that beefs up cybersecurity defenses.

The issue of cybersecurity came to the forefront of national discourse when The New York Times revealed that they had fallen victim to a four-monthlong network security breach that was reported to have originated in China.

The initial breach occurred around Oct. 25, 2012, the publication date of an article reporting on the family of the country’s prime minister. This disturbing news was followed by revelations that The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and The Washington Post experienced similar issues within their own networks.

The fact that unfriendly powers are carrying out such breaches against institutions of free speech is unsettling enough, but the threats extend beyond mere

invasions of privacy. Large attacks were leveled in September against the online systems of JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank and PNC Bank, resulting in at least daylong denials of service.

Such attacks indicate that much more is at stake, with some especially problematic areas being not only economic institutions and tech firms but also power grids for nuclear power plants and water purification systems.

“Nationstate attackers will target critical infrastructure networks such as power grids at an unprecedented scale in 2013 . . . These types of attacks could grow more sophisticated, and the slippery slope could lead to the loss of human life,” said Chiranjeev Bordoloi, CEO of security company Top Patch.

According to a CNN interview with James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, at least 12 of the world’s largest military powers are working to construct complicated

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to act with urgency to protect our national security and our economy,” he said.

With the defense budget and looming sequestration cuts up for debate, Congress needs to take advantage of an opportunity for bipartisan cooperation. Instead of continuing partisan bickering on troop withdrawals and timetables, lawmakers must work to pass serious legislation that will provide the tools necessary to combat lurking cyberthreats.

Attacks on public utilities and power plants can create not only inconvenient but dangerous situations for everyday Americans, and the crash of a bank’s computer system can wreak economic havoc. In addition, some of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence information could be discretely collected and used against us in unexpected attacks.

Aggression in cyberspace is unfortunately a product of our times, truly illustrating both the magic and terror that modern technology can bring. As such, our leaders must act so that we are prepared for whatever comes our way. Technological capacities will only continue to grow as time passes, and as nations unfriendly to the United States develop economically and politically, the possibility of more serious attacks will only increase. Constructing a stronger defense in U.S. cyberspace is of paramount importance, and waiting longer could only harm the nation — the time for action is now.

As is no surprise to any of my faithful readers, I’m rather fond of going off the beaten path when it comes to traveling.

‘Touristy’ seems like a dirty word to me, even though it doesn’t have to be a bad adjective. Highly advertised restaurants in overcrowded piazzas make me shudder, and any time I see a street performer I can only think of pickpockets.

My favorite restaurants are little holes-in-the-wall, familyowned places with more personal memorabilia on the walls than pretentious modern art, places the menu may or may not be in English, but you go with it and butcher the pronunciation anyway.

My favorite things to do are usually activities or I had no idea existed until I got there, and my favorite places to go are landmarks or monuments I wasn’t really aware of until I see them for myself.

I love things other people don’t usually do.

Luckily for me, my family loves those kinds of things as well.

When I was (finally) reunited with my mother at the Roma Tiburtina train platform, our discussion of plans for our next 24 hours in Rome went something like this: “What would you like to do while we’re here?”

“I have no idea.”

“Well, we can do some touristy things, but you’ve already seen most of them, and we weren’t really planning on doing every tourist attraction.”

“I’m good with just the highlights. And the food.”

And so, traveling through Italy with my family is far from the average Grand Tour.

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have had the whole semester to complete a semester project, people are going to wait until the last minute to do so that they get the rush and experience the drama of it all.

No matter the reason, fear or an adrenaline rush, with finals quickly approaching the epidemic of procrastination will exist upon the Texas Tech campus.

When you are thinking about this triangle, which two options are you going to choose? While two seem easier and vastly more entertaining, will you submit to the fear and the drama?

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with your rudimentary Italian and succeeding, but only to realize you can’t possibly contribute to the conversation with your rudimentary Italian.

There’s winding mountain roads that never look the same leading up and down through dozens of tile-roofed villages built long before cars, electricity, internet or telephones. There’s laundry hanging out on lines, even when it’s snowing. There’s ski schools open even in April and trips to cities turned into ghost towns by tragedy. There’s visiting castles, ruins and monuments to wars not so long ago.

There’s realizing a quarter of the town has the same last name as you because there are only about 10 names to go around.

There’s hiking and enjoying the natural beauty of a place that was fortunate enough to be declared a national park long before Big Box Stores and iPhones. There’s seeing the tallest mountains in Italy and realizing how small you really are.

There’s wandering the streets, finally being able to put places to the stories your grandparents told you of growing up in a place like this.

There’s a lot of things.

But somehow, it’s all perfect together.

My dad’s family is from a small village that clings to the Magnola Mountain in Abruzzo called Ovindoli. It’s well-known for being a giant ski resort town. Some of my family has moved far away to the United States. Others have moved to cities in Abruzzo where there is a bit more variety, and still others have moved to places like Rome where there is always an abundance of things, people and places.

After spending a few days visiting everyone respectively, I can sit on the anniversary of Liberatzione and understand why Italy was and is so important to my grandparents, my dad, and all of his relatives.

Even if we might be off the beaten path a bit, it’s still a perfect vacation from the sometimeshectic pace of daily life. And, of course, eating a great meal at all hours of the day doesn’t hurt either.

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Students dressed up in their best 1920s era attire and enjoyed a night of socializing and eating with their fellow peers.

The English Honor Society, or Sigma Tau Delta, hosted its first spring soiree Friday in the English building.

Lydia Clinkscales, a sophomore English and public relations major from Keller, helped organize the event and said having a theme playing of the book “The Great Gatsby” was not the society’s original idea.

“We originally were going to have a murder mystery mixer,” she said. “But, there were several issues and we realized we wouldn’t be able to get everything ready on time.”

The English Honor Society went through a revamping process this school year, Clinkscales said.

“We are still getting our footing, so all of our events are being held in the English building,” she said.

“We plan to keep growing and be able to reach out to more of Texas Tech as the years go by.”

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“We could have done the event closer to the opening of the new movie, but did not want to have it so close to finals,” she said. “We definitely didn’t want to ask people to get excited about our event during the busiest part of the semester.”

The event served dishes and drinks based on the characters and food in the book.

Sarah Hardey, a freshman restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Austin, planned the menu and cooked the food for the event.

“Lydia knew I was a RHIM major and that I love cooking, so she asked if I could design the menu,” she said. “I tried looking online to find 20s style foods, but couldn’t find anything that worked. So I decided to look in the book to see what types of dishes would work.”

The menu consisted of various dishes such as fettuccine alfredo, finger sandwiches, rasberry-brie phyllo cups and more, Hardey said.

“My favorite dish I came up with were the East egg and West egg deviled eggs,” she said. “The East egg

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The Marvel Studios superhero sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. got a head-start on its domestic launch next Friday with a $195.3 million opening in 42 overseas markets, distributor Disney reported Sunday.

That topped the $185.1 million start for Marvel’s “The Avengers,” which opened in 39 markets over the same weekend last year a week ahead of its record-breaking domestic debut of $207.4 million.

“You don’t know that you could ever repeat the kind of experience we had a year ago, and here the Marvel team brought together another incredible movie,” said Dave Hollis, head of distribution for Disney.

“We’ve had this as a pattern for Marvel films to kind of let momentum internationally help signal to the domestic audience that the film is coming, something big is coming.”

Director Michael Bay’s true-crime tale “Pain & Gain” muscled into first-place domestically with a $20 million debut.

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Universal’s “Oblivion” slipped to second-place with $17.4 million, raising its domestic total to $64.7 million.

Lionsgate’s all-star nuptial comedy “The Big Wedding” tanked at No. 4 with just $7.5 million. The ensemble cast includes Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams, Susan Sarandon and Katherine Heigl, but the movie was almost universally trashed by critics and held little interest for audiences.

Paramount, which distributed the earlier “Iron Man” movies and still has a financial stake in the comic-book flicks after Disney bought Marvel, had a small-scale success with “Pain & Gain.”

A passion project for Bay, who has made Paramount a fortune with his “Transformers” franchise, “Pain & Gain” was shot for a modest $26 million, spare change compared to the director’s usual budgets.

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About 30 to 40 people attended the event dressed in their interpretation of the 1920s era styles, Clinkscales said.

Sarah Daniel, a freshman education major from Humble, said she was surprised with how everyone who showed up fit the era so well.

“It was so lovely to look at everyone,” she said. “Everyone was just dressed so nice and elegantly.”

Daniel said she went to the event to be with other people who also enjoy “The Great Gatsby.”

“It was great to sit down and have a conversation with other people who know and love the book as much as you do,” she said.

Sigma Tau Delta hopes to make the spring soiree a regular event, Clinkscales said.

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“Oblivion” was down a fairly steep 53 percent from the movie’s $37.1 million domestic debut the previous weekend.

Overseas, “Oblivion” took in $12.8 million to lift its international haul to $134.1 million and worldwide total to just under $200 million.

Hollywood’s domestic downturn continued, with revenues totaling $90 million, off 18.5 percent from the same weekend last year, when “Think Like a Man” led with $17.6 million, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

Receipts have trailed 2012’s for most of the year, with 2013 domestic ticket sales running at $2.9 billion, nearly 12 percent behind last year’s.

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Softball season ends with sweep

By MICHAEL SUNIGA STAFF WRITER

Coming off a series win against Iowa State, the Texas Tech softball team played at Rocky Johnson Field for the last time of the 2013 season, hosting No. 7 Texas during the weekend.

With games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Tech chose to honor its five seniors: infielder Sandy James, infielder Adriana Perez, pitcher Ashley Brokeshoulder, outfielder Mikey Kenney and outfielder Emily Cooper on Saturday.

The Red Raiders began the series with the Longhorns on Friday, falling short to Texas senior pitcher Blaire Luna (23-3), who threw a hitless game until the fifth inning, earning the victory by a score of 8-6.

Following Friday’s loss, the Red Raiders took the field again Saturday for senior day, this time in front of a record-setting crowd of 932 — the second largest since Rocky Johnson Field’s inception.

Tech faced off against 9-0 Texas pitcher Kim Bruins who threw a

complete game, giving up four hits during the afternoon and extending her undefeated mark by defeating Tech, 4-1.

After the game, Tech coach Shanon Hays said he was disappointed in his team’s inability to take advantage of the opponent, as Tech left six total runners on base, including three in the final two innings.

“Texas gave us several opportunities today and we didn’t capitalize,” he said. “That’s kind of been our problem this year. We leave too many runners on base and don’t strike when we need to.”

Tech freshman pitcher Gretchen Aucoin (6-3) pitched five innings against the Longhorns, giving up three runs off six hits before being relieved by sophomore pitcher Cara Custer and junior pitcher Brittany Talley.

Although the Red Raiders were unable to defeat the Longhorns, Tech honored its seniors in front of the home crowd, marking their last weekend as Tech softball players in Lubbock.

After falling to Texas on Satur-

PHOTO BY EMILY MCCARTHY/The Daily Toreador

TEXAS TECH OUTFIELDER Sydnie Tapia slides safely into second base as Texas shortstop Taylor Thom tries to tag her out during the 4-1 Red Raider loss to the Longhorns on Saturday at the Rocky Johnson field.

day, Tech faced the Longhorns once again Sunday, as Texas already had the series win in hand.

The Longhorns completed the sweep Sunday afternoon with a 4-1 victory against the Red Raiders.

Texas pitcher Blaire Luna earned the win for the Longhorns, pitching a complete game while

allowing one earned run and three hits.

The Red Raiders hope to finish out the season strong when they play their last series of the regular season against Baylor in a three-game set beginning at 7 p.m.

Thursday in Waco. ➤➤msuniga@dailytoreador.com

Tech football players sign to NFL teams After three successive days of hearing former Big 12 Conference opponents’ names being called, four members of the 2012-2013 Texas Tech football team found places in the NFL after the draft occurred.

Despite finishing sixth in the Big 12 in 2012, Tech was the only Big 12 school that did not have a player selected in the draft.

Although members of the Tech football team were not selected in the draft after three successive afternoons of coverage, four Red

Raiders were selected by teams via free agency.

Tech players who were signed comprise quarterback Seth Doege (Atlanta), free safety Cody Davis (St. Louis), offensive lineman Deveric Gallington (Oakland) and offensive tackle LaAdrian Waddle (Detroit).

During the 2012 season, Doege led the Red Raiders with 39 touchdowns and 16 interceptions and a completion rate of more than 70 percent.

Although he improved his stats

in total yards and touchdowns thrown, Doege is unlikely to see time at the starting position.

However, he does have a chance at backing up the Boston College alumnus, Falcons Pro Bowl quarterback Matt Ryan, because the two other quarterbacks on the Falcons roster have yet to see playing time in their NFL careers, therefore, Doege has as much NFL playing experience as them.

Players who contributed to Doege’s stats in his time at Tech, although not receiving official

stats for it, were his offensive linemen, Waddle and Gallington, both of whom were selected via free agency.

Another Red Raider selected after the draft was Davis, who ranked fourth in the NCAA in solo tackles with 84 and seventh in solo tackles per game with 6.46.

Former Tech players will begin their pro careers with the kickoff of the season, which begins at 8:30 p.m. September 5 in Denver where the Broncos host the Ravens. ➤➤msuniga@dailytoreador.com