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School official: Texas student planned violence SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 17-year-old boy who hid a loaded AK-47 assault rifle in a school bathroom and two loaded handguns in his backpack intended to “commit a violent act,” a school official said, but the plan was foiled when his parents discovered the weapons missing at home and alerted school administrators.

The unidentified boy was taken into custody after he was found at Madison High School with two loaded handguns and ammunition stuffed into his backpack. North East Independent School District spokeswoman Aubrey Chancellor said the boy admitted to hiding the AK-47 in a trash can in the bathroom.

She said the assault rifle was placed in the bathroom either before school began or just as classes started, but Chancellor said it’s not clear how the boy was able to sneak the weapon into the school. He also was found with a 12-inch knife.

The school with 3,200 students was placed on lockdown shortly after 10 a.m. Monday. After the campus was searched, the lockdown ended at 11:30 a.m. There were no reports of injuries or shots being fired.

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RHA hosts event to raise awareness about less fortunate people

By TAYLOR PEACE Staff Writer

Texas Tech Residence Hall Association asked students to throw their own shoes away and participate in the TOMS Barefoot Walk for the day, enabling them to step into the minds of those less fortunate.

Dillon Quinn, diversity inclusion chair for RHA and Executive Board, said the pledge drive is for TOMS shoes in order to raise awareness about those who cannot afford to own shoes at all.

Quinn said students were given the chance to take the pledge at Talkington Hall, where they could put their handprint on the pledge form in order to show their support.

“The walk helps raise awareness for those who don’t get the opportunity to own shoes by not wearing their own for a day,” Quinn said.

Quinn said the main goal of this walk is to help support the TOMS One For One program, where TOMS gives a pair of shoes to those who need them for every pair of shoes bought.

He said this is a great opportunity for students to get involved with something fun and creative while helping out for a good cause.

“In other countries, people don’t have the type of access to footwear that some people normally get,” Quinn said. “So we want to show our support by getting rid of our own shoes for a day.”

Quinn said anyone was welcome to participate in the walk, and he hoped many students would take the pledge to go barefoot for the day.

He said this is the first time RHA has put on an event like this for TOMS, but he is happy to help raise awareness about the One For One program.

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STUDENTS COULD LEAVE a red paint handprint to pledge to support TOMS and the One Day Without Shoes event at Texas Tech during the Tech Residence Hall Association’s event Monday in Talkington Residence Hall.

JACQUELINE GUARDIOLA, A sophomore biology major from Dallas, stamps her red painted thumb onto a tree to take a pledge to support TOMS and the One Day Without Shoes event at Texas Tech on Monday in Talkington Residence Hall.

Students receive class rings at ceremony

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

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Friends and family of graduating Texas Tech juniors and seniors attended the first official ring ceremony of 2014 presented by the Tech Alumni Association Monday in the McKenzie Merket Alumni Center.

At the ceremony, Tech students were given a guided tour of the class ring.

Kara Bradshaw, a senior Spanish major from Mont Belvieu, said receiving a ring symbolizes the hard work and dedication it took to graduate.

“It’s a real honor to receive the ring because you put in a lot of work since you need so many hours,” she said. “It’s just a strong tradition at Texas Tech, and it’s really important.”

Bradshaw said she wanted to get a ring because it celebrates students’ accomplishments and because it has become a tradition in her family to receive a ring.

“I’ve been looking forward to getting a ring,” she said. “My older brother has a ring, and just the family tradition of receiving a ring from Texas Tech, it’s really significant of the hard work you put in here.”

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CHANCELLOR KENT HANCE gives a speech at the last Ring Ceremony he will attend as chancellor in front of a group of students about to receive their class ring Monday in the McKenzie Merket Alumni Center.

Ryan Pease, a senior exercise and sport sciences major from Abilene, said a class ring from Tech is something he wanted to receive

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Bailey to serve as president at new UT campus Former Texas Tech president Guy Bailey was named the sole finalist to be the first president of the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley on Monday.

The University of Texas at Brownsville and the University of Texas-Pan American merged to form the new university, according to an article in The Texas Tribune. It will begin enrollment in fall 2015 and will include a medical school.

“I view this role as the single most exciting educational opportunity in America today,” Bailey said in the article. “I look forward to working with everyone as we launch the nation’s first major public university of the 21st century. I am truly honored to be the sole finalist.”

According to the article, the University of Texas System Board of Regents selected Bailey as the first president of UT-RGV. He was chosen over UTPA’s current president, Robert Nelson.

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Affirmative action court ruling could change Texas universities admissions

By KAITLIN BAIN sentatives from Bayer Crop Sciences for a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Bayer Plant Science Building.

Today University Band Concert When: 8 – 10 a.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Join the Texas Tech band for a free concert.

Wednesday

Groundbreaking for Bayer Plant Science Building Expansion When: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Where: Bayer Plant Science Building 2709 15th Street, Lubbock, Texas So, what is it?

Join Tech officials and repre-

Return to Mogadishu: Remembering Black Hawk Down When: TBA Where: Matador Room in the Student Union building So, what is it?

The producer of the film, Return to Mogadishu, will show her film and answer questions about her experiences in Mogadishu and the Black Hawk Down mission.

To make a calendar submission email dailytoreador@ttu.edu.

Events will be published either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by 4 p.m. on the preceding publication date.

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Oct. 31, 2012. Bailey decided to leave Alabama, according to the article in The DT, in order to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 focus on the health of his wife, Bailey began his term as Jan Tillery.

She died of cancer in SeptemTech president in 2008 and resigned from the university in ber 2012, according to a previous summer 2012, according to a article in The Daily Toreador.

“Outstanding leadership is previous article in The Daily Toreador. Provost and Senior Vice crucial for any institution of President Lawrence Schovanec higher education,” Paul Foster, served as interim president for the chairman of the UT System seven months prior to President board, said in the Texas Tribune M. Duane Nellis was named to article. “UT-RGV’s unique and the position. innovative environment, which In July 2012, the Board of will integrate next-generation Regents at the University of technology and customized Alabama, Bailey’s alma mater, learning to increase access and selected Bailey as its president. affordability for all students, After approximately two calls for a visionary leader like months at the university, Bailey Dr. Bailey.” resigned from his position on ➤➤acunningham@dailytoreador.com

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“I don’t think I would have ever been elected to Congress had I not gone to Texas Tech.”

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Bill Dean, Tech Alumni As“My dad had one and he came sociation executive vice presito Tech,” he said. “As a kid, I dent, said he hopes the ring always kind of thought of it was will remind students of special one of those cool things that I experiences they had during their time at Tech. always wanted to get.”

“We hope it will bring back Pease said a class ring represents completing a long journey. very strong and fond memo“It kind of symbolizes that ries at Texas Tech University, I made it through, I’m almost memorable events, friends and done and it’s an accomplish- relationships while you’ve been here,” he said. ment,” he said.

The Tech Alumni AssociaTech System Chancellor Kent Hance spoke at the cer- tion will host its second official emony about what it meant to ring ceremony of 2014 today at graduate from Tech and present- 7 p.m. at the McKenzie Merket ed students with their class rings Alumni Center.

Monday’s ring ceremony was Hance, at the ceremony, s a i d g r a d u a t i n g f r o m Te c h the last ring ceremony in which p r e s e n t e d h i m w i t h m a n y Hance will present graduating meaningful opportunities. students with their class rings “I love Texas Tech, and it as chancelor. opened doors for me,” he said. ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

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The days that universities can pick their students based on race seem a thing of the past, but it was still the subject of a Supreme Court ruling April 22.

The ruling upheld a voterapproved change to the Michigan constitution, which forbids public colleges from using race as a factor when deciding college admissions, according to an Associated Press article.

Stephen Perez, assistant dean for admissions and financial aid at the Texas Tech School of Law, said unlike Michigan, it is it completely lawful for public schools in Texas to consider race in admissions.

“It is allowed as long as the use is narrowly tailored and the university has a compelling interest to obtaining benefits that flow from having a diverse student body,” he said.

The factors the law school uses, he said, are the required LSAT, undergraduate GPA and other factors such as work experience, leadership, volunteer service, socio-economic background

POLICE BLOTTER

Friday 12:04 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated theft at Holden Hall. A bicycle and lock were taken.

4:01 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Murdough Residence Hall. An unsecured skateboard was taken.

11:07 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated reckless damage in Weymouth Residence Hall. A student was intoxicated and smashed a fire extinguisher glass window with his fist. The student suffered a laceration on his arm. Emergency Medical Services transported the student to the University Medical Center Emergency Room.

11:52 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication in the 1200 block of

and writing ability.

The considerations do not stop there.

He said because Tech is a public school, the admissions officers feel each graduating class should represent diversity of the state and to do so, they consider things such as race, ethnicity, students from rural and urban areas and first generation college students.

“Texas does not have the same voter referendum processes that have resulted in bans on affirmative action in states like California and Washington,” he said. “In those states, though, when the laws changed, state schools saw drastic declines in the number of minority students enrolled at their public colleges and universities.”

If a decision like the one in Michigan were to take place in Texas, Perez said, students would experience less diversity on campus.

Jamie Hansard, director of recruitment and marketing, said while this is legal, she has no knowledge of race or ethnicity being used for undergraduate admissions at Tech.

“The spirit of affirmative ac-

tion provides under-represented students greater access to higher education,” she said. “When practiced correctly, a student should gain admission in light of their historically limited access, assuming they are equally qualified. If affirmative action is being practiced contrary to its intention, it could allow students of greater qualification to be passed over for admission.”

While there is a quota to have 65 percent of the population of students paying in-state tuition, Perez said, there is not a quota of which races should be attending the university.

Decisions like the one in Michigan could set a precedent for other states now, according to the article.

It is now permissible under the Supreme Court to allow the voters in a state to decide whether public schools can use race as an admission criterion, according to the article, and elections could now take place in other states to decide the fate of affirmative action.

“This doesn’t directly affect Tech now,” Perez said,” but that doesn’t mean the fight is over.

There are still many cases and legislative efforts going on all across the country. Admissions professionals just need to stay tuned and continue to try and recruit the best classes within the law as it exists now.”

William Heimbinger, sophomore computer science major from Burleson, said he both agrees and disagrees with affirmative action, depending on how it is used.

It can be a good thing, he said, when it prevents racism from being a factor when evaluating capable people who may not have had a chance to go to college previously. He said he thinks it’s a bad thing when used as a racist tool.

“It’s not fair to punish people whose only fault was not being a minority and rewarding people who would waste the resources expended on them,” he said.

“I’d probably vote for MCRI (the initiative to prohibit affirmative action in Michigan).

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Flint Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Saturday 1:40 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a terroristic threat at the Tech Police Department. It was determined that the caller was making a false report.

2:16 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for consumption of alcohol by a minor in Weymouth Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

4:38 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student in the Z4P parking lot for one Lubbock County Sheriff’s Department warrant following traffic stop. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

8:30 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested two students after a traffic stop in the 2500 block of Glenna Goodacre. One student was arrested for driving while intoxicated and the other for public intoxication. Both students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail. Lubbock Wrecker Service impounded the vehicle.

10:30 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the Tech Plaza Skyviews lobby. An Apple iPad was taken.

Sunday 12:40 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the 1200 block of University Avenue. The vehicle was towed to Lubbock Wrecker tow lot because of damage from the wreck.

1:50 a.m. — A Tech officer ar-

rested a student for driving while intoxicated in the 1800 block of Texas Tech Parkway. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. Lubbock Wrecker Service impounded the student’s vehicle.

11:27 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a report of possible drugs and arrested a student for possession of marijuana in Bledsoe Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:58 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in Bledsoe Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

Ohio to increase lethal drug doses

Deadly twister kills 15 in Arkansas

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio said Monday it’s boosting the dosages of its lethal injection drugs even as it stands by the January execution of an inmate who made snorting and gasping sounds that led to a civil rights lawsuit by his family and calls for a moratorium.

The state’s new policy considerably increases the amount of the sedative used in its two-drug combination and raises the amount of the painkiller, which are injected simultaneously, according to a court filing. The state said it was making the changes “to allay any remaining concerns” after the last execution.

The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said its review of the Jan. 16 execution of Dennis McGuire determined he was asleep and unconscious a few minutes after the drugs were administered and his execution was conducted in a constitutional manner.

“He did not experience pain, distress or air hunger after the drugs were administered or when the bodily movements and sounds occurred,” the state said.

The department said it “finds no harm in increasing the dosage

VILONIA, Ark. (AP) — The sky turned black as the funnel cloud closed in, and Maggie Caro rushed with her husband and two children to a community shelter at a Vilonia school, where they were among the last to get inside the fortified gym before the doors were shut.

“They were screaming, ‘Run! Run! It’s coming!’” Caro recalled.

And then all hell broke loose.

The half-mile-wide tornado carved an 80-mile path of destruction through the Little Rock suburbs Sunday evening, killing at least 15 people, flattening rows of homes, shredding cars along a highway and demolishing a brand-new school before it even had a chance to open.

Officials said the death toll could have been worse if residents hadn’t piled into underground storm shelters and fortified safe rooms after listening to forecasts on TV and radio, getting cellphone alerts or calls or texts from loved ones, and hearing sirens blare through their neighborhoods.

Also on people’s minds: memories of a weaker tornado that smashed through on April 25, 2011. It took nearly the same path and killed at least four people.

“You had people breaking down because they were reliving three years ago,” Kimber Standridge said of the scene inside the community shelter, which she said was packed with perhaps more than 100 people.

Standridge and a friend had gathered up seven children they were watching and sped through the streets just minutes before the twister hit.

“When they shut the doors, we knew it was on us,” Standridge said.

“Everybody hunkered down. There

levels of its drugs,” after consulting with its medical expert and examining other states’ practices, spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.

The state’s policy change comes 30 days before the next scheduled execution on May 28, when a man convicted of killing a Cleveland produce vendor in 1983 is set to die.

McGuire’s fitful 26-minute execution was the longest since Ohio resumed putting inmates to death in 1999. His adult children complained it amounted to torture, with his son saying: “Nobody deserves to go through that.”

The McGuire family’s attorney criticized the state’s report, saying it relied on a medical expert who predicted before the execution that McGuire wouldn’t experience air hunger, desperate attempts to catch one’s breath while suffocating.

“That causes some concern as to whether they looked at it from both sides,” defense attorney Jon Paul Rion said.

Lawyers challenging the c o n s t i t u t i o n a l i t y o f O h i o ’s two-drug method, the only such procedure in the country, also criticized the report.

were a lot of people doing prayer circles, holding hands and praying.”

Caro and Standridge said the shelter was so solid they barely felt or heard the tornado.

It was among a rash of twisters and violent storms across the Midwest and South that killed 17 people in all on Sunday.

With forecasters warning of more of the same Monday across the South, a large tornado damaged homes and downed trees and power lines around Tupelo, Miss. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.

Most of the dead in Arkansas were killed in their homes in and around Vilonia, population 3,800. Firefighters on Monday searched for anyone trapped amid the piles of splintered wood and belongings strewn across yards. Hospitals took in more than 100 patients.

The tornado that hit the town and nearby Mayflower was probably the nation’s strongest so far this year on the 0-to-5 EF scale, with the potential to be at least an EF3, which means winds greater than 136 mph, National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Hood said.

It wrecked cars and trucks along Interstate 40 north of Little Rock. Also among the ruins was a new $14 million intermediate school that had been set to open this fall.

“It’s amazing to me how wide it was,” Mayflower Mayor Randy Holland said. “It was the loudest grinding noise I’ve ever heard.”

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said officials didn’t yet have a count of the missing. He said the dead included a woman who was in a safe room but was hit by debris that went through the door.

“Mother nature and tornadoes, sometimes you can’t explain how that works,” Beebe said.

Three people died when the tornado tore a Paron home down to the foundation. Emily Tittle, 17, said her family took shelter under the stairs of their two-story home before the twister ripped the walls away. She said her father, Rob Tittle; 20-year-old sister Tori and 14-year-old sister Rebekah were killed, and her six other siblings were taken to hospitals.

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Habitat for Humanity ends projects for year

By KAYLIN MCDERMETT Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Chapter of Habitat for Humanity completed its service projects for the year after providing weekend builds to aid the Lubbock community.

Mislav Rac, co-president of the organization, said the group was able to participate in several weekend builds to help house the Lubbock community this year.

“We did builds almost every weekend,” he said. “A lot of what we did recently was worked on some of the roofs on houses that had been damaged by storms. We really got to do a lot.”

Tech Habitat for Humanity is a student organization that services the Lubbock community by assisting in the construction of new homes for families in need.

The families work in partnership with the organization members to build their homes, according to Tech Habitat’s website.

Volunteers with the organization receive service hours for their work on the building projects, according to the website.

Rac said the group saw many active members, but many members began to participate less as the school year progressed.

“In the fall we typically see a lot more people out with us,” he said. “As the school year

goes along, there’s a lot of other things going on. When school starts, we always have an event during Raider Welcome Week to attract incoming students, so there’s always a lot early in the year.”

The organization partners with Lubbock Habitat for Humanity on many builds and projects, including the building of the Tech Community Playground located in the Lubbock Habitat for Humanity neighborhood, according to Tech Habitat’s website.

Lubbock Habitat for Humanity has existed for 26 years and has helped provide shelter for more than 337 adults and chil-

dren, according to the Lubbock Habitat for Humanity website.

Rac said the organization also hosted other events the past year in order to give back to the community.

“Just over the Easter weekend we had an event for the poor children in the habitat neighborhood,” he said. “We had a water balloon fight and an Easter egg hunt for them. It was cool getting to kind of give back to them even more.”

In order for Tech Habitat to exist, the organization must have volunteers, he said. The organization invites all who have the spirit of caring and desire to help build a better future for

humanity to join, according to the organization’s website.

Rac said he is hoping to see even more involvement from the student body next year in order to keep Tech Habitat strong.

“Next year we want more people to come out and help us,” he said. “Of course we want more people to help out on our weekend builds and also to stay with us all year.”

Rac said also next year the organization is planning more community activities for the people in need within the habitat neighborhood.

“We are planning an event for Halloween,” he said. “We want to go to the neighborhood

school where the poor kids are and have an event with games and costumes and candy. It’s a great way to give them some fun and support.”

Treyman Swopes, a freshman mechanical engineering major from Midland, said groups like Tech Habitat are a great way to give back to the community and earn service hours.

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HSC program recognizes community advocates Toyota to move base from The Stroke Aphasia Recovery Program will host its annual luncheon to honor donors, advocates and participants from 10 a.m. to noon today in the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center’s room 2B152.

The community outreach program, operated by the School of Allied Health Sciences’ Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and the

Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic, will give awards during the luncheon, including the Life Participation Award to Luke Rogers, according to an HSC news release.

The IHOP restaurant along South Loop 289 will receive the Aphasia Friendly Award, according to the release, and other community donors will be recognized for aiding the

program as well.

Aphasia, according to the American Speech-LanguageHearing Association, is a disorder that affects language skills such as reading, writing, listening and speaking because of damage to the brain.

It is predominantly caused by strokes, according to the website. Any traumatic head injury or conditions like dementia may

result in language difficulties.

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Plant Sciences building renovations, expansion underway Changes to the Bayer Plant Sciences building will begin with a groundbreaking ceremony at 10:30 a.m. today outside the building.

In December, the Tech Board of Regents approved the $13 million project, according to a College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources news release.

The renovation and expansion will add more labs, research areas and an outdoor instructional space, according to a Tech news release.

The facility, according to

the release, will add more than 21,000 square feet of new construction and 2,440 square feet of renovation.

“It will provide a state-of-theart facility that is vital to the continued growth of our research and graduate education programs in the department,” Michael Galyean, dean of CASNR, said in the release, “and the increased space will allow for greater flexibility in meeting the needs of other departments as well.”

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Sea World trainers now using vests ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Trainers at Sea World’s marine parks began wearing inflatable safety vests Monday whenever they work near killer whales, yet another safety measure implemented after the 2010 death of a trainer who was dragged into a pool by an orca.

The five-pound nylon vests can be inflated like an airplane life jacket and have a tube connecting to a small oxygen tank that fits in a pouch in the back, said Kelly Flaherty Clark, Sea World’s curator of animal training.

The vests took more than three years to develop with input from trainers, engineers and safety experts.

On Feb. 24, 2010, trainer Dawn Brancheau was interacting with Tilikum, a killer whale, in front of visitors in a pool at Shamu Stadium in Orlando when Tilikum grabbed her and pulled her off a platform into the pool, then refused to release her. Since Brancheau’s death, trainers have been unable to get into the water with killer whales amid calls for new safety measures.

The 22 trainers who work at Shamu Stadium have been trained in the use of the vests, which could buy a trainer time to be rescued if the trainer fell into a pool.

“It’s easy to use,” Flaherty Clark said. “It’s one of many changes that Sea World has made in the last four years.”

Other changes include remotely controlled pool gates, new walkways around Shamu Stadium and an additional raised platform in an orca pool that could be used to lift a whale out of the water should a trainer fall in.

But the vests are probably the most visible change that park visitors will notice, she said.

The start of using the vests had nothing to do with an appellate court’s recent decision upholding a ruling that Sea World had violated a federal workplace safety law, Flaherty Clark added.

Earlier this month, that appellate court in Washington upheld a regulatory safety finding against Sea World by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission following an investigation into Brancheau’s drowning. The court said Sea World had exposed trainers to recognized hazards when working in close contact with killer whales during performances.

Tilikum subsequently became the focus of the 2013 documentary film “Blackfish,” which explores what may have caused Tilikum to kill Brancheau. The documentary argues that killer whales, when in captivity, become more aggressive to humans and each other. Since the documentary, several entertainers have pulled out of planned performances at SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. parks.

and staff with parking permits in the R01 lot received a memorandum to their emails Monday about a potential increase in traffic as a result of the groundbreaking ceremony.

T h o s e a t t e n d i n g t h e c e remony will be allowed to park in the R01 lot beginning at 9 a.m., resulting in the possible traffic congestion. The ceremony is anticipated to last until noon, according to the memorandum.

Stacy Moncibaiz, marketing coordinator for Transportation and

Parking Services, said the email was sent to affected students to keep them informed.

“We just wanted to give students in that lot a heads up,” she said. “There may be extra people parking and we wanted to explain why there will be an attendant out there.”

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Shuttle carrier to be in Houston museum HOUSTON (AP) — Another piece of history tied to the now retired space shuttle fleet is making its last journey.

A convoy of giant flatbed trailers Monday afternoon slowly began an eight-mile-long trip carrying the biggest disassembled pieces of the old 747 jumbo jet that for decades ferried shuttles on its back across the country.

Known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, it will be put back together, topped with a shuttle replica about 60 feet off the ground and become a museum piece scheduled to be shown next year just outside NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where center director Ellen Ochoa will see it from her office window.

“I think it will be a great landmark,” said Ochoa, who believed the display at the adjacent Space Center Houston would provide for visitors a final piece of the story about shuttle missions.

“Just being able to put the shuttle on top and show how it was ferried back and forth, it was pretty amazing when people first came up with that concept. I think the initial thought was: That’s a crazy idea. But our folks made it work, and that was part of what made the shuttle program successful, “said Ochoa, who flew on four space shuttle missions.

Houston, where Mission Control served as the center for the nation’s

manned space flights and where astronauts have trained, was left out as a retirement home for the real shuttles.

Those went to Los Angeles, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and New York City.

“This will tell the story of how it was ferried back and forth and how it landed,” Ochoa said. “For me it’s part of completing this story.”

Unlike the four other shuttles, the replica and the carrier will be open to the public, making it a “fantastic” educational experience, she said.

The modified 747 would carry the shuttle piggyback to Florida after missions where the spacecraft landed in California or New Mexico, instead of the normal, and less costly, landings at Kennedy Space Center.

This week’s procession, moving at about walking speed, was headed from Houston’s Ellington Field to Space Center Houston, a science education and space museum.

The caravan began moving Monday afternoon, crawling along roads through the former Air Force base and stopping while utility crews moved overhead lines. Once outside the airfield, it will move over two days only at night so it doesn’t too badly disrupt traffic and normal activities along its route in far south Houston.

It is scheduled to cover six miles by Tuesday morning, then finish the trek the following night.

Los Angeles to Dallas soon

TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — Toyota delivered a surprise pink slip to California on Monday, announcing the company would move its U.S. headquarters and about 3,000 jobs from the Los Angeles suburbs to the outskirts of Dallas.

The world’s largest automaker will keep a foothold in the Golden State — about 2,300 jobs will remain in California after the company settles into its new corporate campus in Plano, Texas. But the announcement is an economic and symbolic slap for California, a historic center of American car culture that has been trying to shake its reputation as a frustrating place to run a business, whether that involves shooting a film or selling a Prius.

“When you look at the whole package, it’s difficult to be a business here,” lamented Torrance Mayor Frank Scotto, whose community on the edge of the Pacific will suffer as the jobs migrate to Texas.

“If all these great, high-end jobs are leaving California, then we are going to turn into a place that’s a retirement community” with low-paying service-sector jobs, Scotto said. “We can’t have that,” he added, warning that unless the state has a change of attitude, “it’s going to be way too late.”

Toyota’s announcement comes about two months after Occidental Petroleum Corp. disclosed it was moving its headquarters to Houston from Los Angeles. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been on a publicity campaign to promote his state as a haven for busi-

nesses seeking lower taxes and eased government regulation, but Toyota didn’t mention what, if any, role Perry played in the company’s decision.

Perry, who made two visits to California to lure employers to his state, said Texas offered Toyota $40 million in incentives from the taxpayer-funded Texas Enterprise Fund. The Republican governor said Toyota is expected to invest $300 million in the new headquarters.

Republicans in California quickly blamed Sacramento for the loss, where Democrats control both chambers of the Legislature and every statewide office. A statement issued by Gov. Jerry Brown’s Office of Business and Economic Development did not mention Toyota but stressed the state’s steadied balance sheet and jobs recovered after the devastating recession.

“Ford, Volkswagen and Nissan continue to invest in California, and the Golden State remains the center of new electric, zeroemission and self-driving vehicle manufacturing and technology,” the statement said.

Toyota will break ground this year on its new environmentally friendly headquarters in Plano, about 25 miles north of Dallas.

Small groups of employees will start moving to temporary office space there this year, but most won’t move until late 2016 or early 2017 when the new headquarters is completed.

The new campus will bring together about 4,000 employees from sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing and finance.

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Michigan’s affirmative action ban step toward true equality Affirmative action protects minorities, fights discrimination

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to make up for past discrimination against certain minorities, they must discriminate in favor of them.

Thankfully, the Supreme Court is recognizing this fact. The key in last week’s case is that Michigan’s ban on affirmative action being used in college admissions was approved by the state’s voters. In the court’s majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy correctly noted that, “There is no authority in the Constitution of the United States or in this court’s precedents for the judiciary to set aside Michigan laws that commit this policy determination to the voters.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, obviously a strong supporter of affirmative action, wrote a scathing dissent in the case, which she read aloud in court, an act that is rather unusual. She argued that the Constitution does not “give the majority free rein to erect selective barriers against racial minorities.”

Sotomayor clearly fails to realize that banning affirmative action doesn’t build any barriers, but rather eliminates them altogether.

Eliminating race from consideration in the admissions process ensures students will be judged equally based on their qualifications such as test scores, grades and extracurricular activities.

Many affirmative action supporters will point to the fact that many minority students who would be helped by affirmative action programs are placed at a disadvantage without them because many of them graduate from underperforming high schools and

... an unintended consequence of affirmative action is that it perpetuates discrimination.

consequently have lower grades, which gives them an uphill battle to get into top universities.

Texas helped to remedy that situation when it instituted the rule allowing students who are in the top 10 percent of their graduating class to gain automatic acceptance into any public university in the state. This way, students can be judged based on their achievements in comparison to their peers.

By giving certain groups preference over others, affirmative action ensures that some students will be admitted to universities with lower qualifications than some of the students of other groups who are left out. This can lead to those admitted students being placed into a situation for which they are not academically ready, inevitably setting them up for failure.

Thankfully, the tide is turning away from the use of affirmative action, though it won’t go away without a fight. Many will refer to affirmative action opponents as racists, such as Shanta Driver, the attorney who unsuccessfully argued before the Supreme Court in this case to end the affirmative action ban and afterward said the court issued a “racist decision” while invoking Jim Crow references, according to a Daily Caller article.

Banning affirmative action is not racist in the slightest because it ensures race will not be an admissions factor at all. If we’re truly going to get past racial differences in this country, we need to end affirmative action and ensure students are judged solely by their merits and the content of their character.

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ast week, the United States Supreme Court upheld a law passed in Michigan banning the use of racial criteria in admissions to state-funded colleges. The vote was passed 6-2 with Justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito concluding in the majority opinion of the court that the Michigan state court did not have the authority to discard the law passed in 2006 by 58 percent of Michigan voters. The case has revisited the ongoing debate about affirmative action policies in education.

Even more i m p o r t a n t l y, however, this case has also sparked a debate about where the decisions on those policies should be made, a fact highlighted in the ruling opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Many supporters of the law and the Supreme Court’s decision claim the ruling was a victory for states’ authority, especially when it comes to making decisions regarding issues of race and ethnicity in public institutions.

However, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissenting opinion with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that the ruling weakened the federal Supreme Court’s stance on protecting historically marginalized groups in the U.S., writing, “For members of historically marginalized groups, which rely on the federal courts to protect their constitutional rights, the decision can hardly bolster hope for a vision of democracy that preserves for all the right to participate meaningfully and equally in self-government,” according to CNN.

Last week’s results: Gleinser — 60 % Corder — 40 %

The effect of the repeal of admissions policies that help applicants from ethnic minorities and otherwise marginalized communities has already shown itself to be evident. According to Bloomberg, since the 2006 ban on racially-based admissions policies at the University of Michigan, enrollment of black students fell almost 30 percent from 6.4 percent of the freshman class in 2006 to 4.6 percent in 2012. Likewise, Hispanic enrollment dropped from 5.3 percent in 2006 to 3.9 percent in 2012.

Affirmative action policies have been crucial to forming the student bodies of colleges across the nation for decades in several ways.

For one, they have ensured classrooms in institutions of higher learning, and the academic discourse therein, remain diverse in opinions and cultural experience.

Kevin Gaines, a professor of U.S. and African-American history at University of Michigan, stated in an interview with CNN, “Students deserve a robust education where a variety of viewpoints are shared and debated…[the ban] has meant less diversity in our universities, which has had a chilling effect on the quality of discourse in the classroom.”

As Sotomayor wrote in her dissent, affirmative action policies have also provided individuals from historically and current-

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ly marginalized and underserved communities of people based on their ethnicity an equal chance at advancement as their white counterparts from culturally dominant communities.

The ruling on the ban by the Supreme Court was very careful to state, albeit tenuously, that it was not intended to be a stance on either side of the debate over affirmative action policies in higher education admissions, but rather that decisions on that issue should be reserved for the ballot box.

If anything, the decision will put public universities throughout the country in a difficult spot as education funding and Pell Grants for many states dry up and university recruiters find themselves stuck between expanding aid for the poor and diversifying their classrooms through means other than ethnic profiling.

Nevertheless, the majority ruling in this case can definitely be seen as an alarming sign that the Supreme Court is distancing itself from its historical role as protector of minorities fighting for change in debates on racial discrimination in the public sphere. As other states follow Michigan’s example in discarding their racially-based admissions policies for public universities, it will be interesting to see how voters and university faculty and students react to a changing cultural and political atmosphere.

Affirmative action policies have been crucial to forming student bodies of colleges across the nation for decades in several ways.

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ast week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision to uphold Michigan’s voter-approved ban on public universities using race as an admissions factor.

Affirmative action, as the process is known, has been in effect for decades and was designed to ensure the accurate representation of minorities in university student bodies and to prevent discrimination. Unfortunately, an unintended consequence of affirmative action is that it perpetuates discrimination.

Affirmative action programs make it easier for certain minorities, namely blacks and Hispanics, to gain admission than it is for whites.

Another unintended consequence is that Asian-Americans, a minority themselves, find it even harder to gain admission thanks to their generally higher grades and test scores and universities’ fear of any racial group supposedly being overrepresented.

A Forbes article notes, “Princeton researcher Thomas Espinshade found that Asian students had to score 140 points higher on their SATs to gain admission to prestigious colleges, compared with white students, while black students had a 310-point advantage.”

In a society where people are not supposed to be judged by the color of their skin, this sounds an awful lot like discrimination.

Certain ethnic groups have to score higher to gain admission than others. It’s as if affirmative action supporters believe in order

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Scientific policy not threatened by religion in free-speech zones on college campuses Every once in a while, a student at Iowa State, or any other collegiate institution across the United States, encounters a group of local evangelical Christians in the freespeech zone in front of Parks Library, especially when it’s warm outside.

Religious conviction shines when it’s sunny and 75.

They preach fire and brimstone, Darwin is Satan’s good friend, evolution is a bunch of mumbo jumbo and “repent” now or face God’s wrath – you’re going to hell. However, it should be understood that these preachers of their particular belief system are not physically threatening. They are just expressing their First Amendment right to share and practice their faith in the public square, and for the rest of us, it is entertainment on a

nice, sunny day. But recently on the University of Connecticut campus, a group of evangelical Christians were confronted by James S. Boster, professor of anthropology and freespeech advocate.

James S. Boster, who has a B.A. in anthropology from Harvard University, an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and extensive knowledge in human evolution and human cultural understanding, not including the extensive journal publications and research experience he has amassed over the past three and half decades, entered the free-speech zone on a sunny day on the University of Connecticut campus and confronted the religious group in a boastful and unbecoming manner. He hurled imprecations, swearing and insults during the verbal altercation, and even at a couple of instances during the exchange, he made contact with

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one of the religious flock. To put this into perspective, imagine if Chester Cheetah went crazy.

Yes, that’s correct. Anthropology professors are the Chester Cheetahs of academia. They are the cool cats with the shades. There isn’t another group of professors on campus that understand human dynamics more than anthropology professors, hence, the very definition of anthropology – the study of humankind. These are the professionals that study the totality of human evolution ranging as far back as 10 million years ago. The professionals understand that human civilizations come and go. They understand that human languages come and go. They understand that human religions come and go.

In fact, and to expound on religion, anthropology has an undergraduate course that teaches students about religion, magic and witchcraft. The course teaches stu-

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dents about the traditional religions of humanity like the various forms of witchcraft and shamanism. A student learns that these ancient religions existed for thousands of years before modern times and have influenced the modern Abrahamic religions. Thus, anthropologists are extremely knowledgeable in comparative religious studies and have a great understanding of the more than 10,000 religions that have existed in all of human history – Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, the various shamanistic religions of ancient south America and Africa, etc.

To be clear, Americans experience taboos about other less understood religions, like Wicca.

Of course, other human cultures experience religious taboos as well.

This is a human phenomenon and Americans are not special in this sense. But anthropologists have the academic and technical training to

interact with different religions. In a sense, they exist beyond taboos and have embedded themselves in the rituals and daily activities of many of humanity’s oldest and most interesting cultures for more than a century.

For example, Napoleon Chagnon, an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri, lived with and studied the Yanomamo of Brazil and Venezuela for more than 3 decades. His research and his writings are quite famous and although controversial, have influenced a generation of anthropologists and their understanding of an ancient but yet, beautiful world. So there is no excuse for an anthropologist to lose his temper while in the presence of a religious group or act.

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himself, his university and his discipline. He also lacked understanding of the greater issue. American, scientific policy is under attack.

But it isn’t under attack by those free-speech zone bible-thumpers. It is under attack from a more powerful and nefarious network and that network is consisted of dominionists – fundamentalist Christians who endeavor to turn the United States into a Christian theocracy.

Dominionists exist at the local, state and federal government levels. They are the ones who wish to deprive our American brothers and sisters of their right to marry. They wish to deprive our American sisters of the right to choose, and they wish to deprive our American children of a scientific education, absent of biology and natural history. They have no need for a free-speech zone; whereas, the people in the free-speech zone have no political power. So keep your cool, Chester.

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Iron Horse Literary Review Film Festival to showcase student work The Iron Horse Literary Review will host its second annual film festival at 7 p.m. May 3 in Theater 001 in the English and Philosophy building.

The film festival will feature short films and video essays produced by students and staff of the magazine.

“It’s something we started last year,” Jill Patterson, founder and editor of the IHLR, said. “Now it’s become a tradition because so many people loved it.”

The video essays are a new form of short film, she said, that many people probably have not seen before.

They are a personal story and differ from documentaries or home movies, she said.

“They have a personal narrator,” Patterson said, “so that sets

them apart from documentaries which typically don’t.”

The event will feature laptops so those attending can research the latest short films on YouTube and Facebook, she said.

The IHLR staff wants people to see how popular some of those movies can become, Patterson said.

“These movies are invading our lives because of social media,” she said, “and we want people to be aware of that.”

The event will also have a Kindle giveaway and feature several unique snacks, Patterson said.

A favorite includes the “Chunky Monkey Popcorn,” which is peanut butter popcorn with banana and chocolate

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ally what it is like to not have shoes, but it helps keep people more aware of how blessed some people really are.”

Clayton Craig, social justice chair of the Talkington Complex Council and member of the Leadership Inclusion Team, said he has participated in A Day Without Shoes before at his high school in New Mexico, and he is grateful to be part of such a great awareness campaign.

Craig said not wearing shoes for a day really helped him experience what it was like for those who could not afford shoes or do not have the luxury like others do to have them.

“People take for granted even the smallest things,” Craig said.

“It’s an awesome experience to be part of and I am glad to help TOMS out in their mission.”

Craig oversaw the pledge table, where students came in to put their fingerprints and handprints on a tree in order

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“It really is a great thing to be part of,” Quinn said. “It opens people’s minds up to how fortunate some are for even owning a pair of shoes, when others have no access to them at all.”

According to the TOMS website, A Day Without Shoes is an international campaign aiming to raise global awareness children’s health and education.

By going barefoot, TOMS hopes to open the eyes of many communities about the struggles of children across the world and how each person’s smallest donations could help, according to the website.

“Over 100 events, 500 schools and 230 companies across the United States participated in the Day Without Shoes event,” the TOMS website stated. “Not only do people get to experience liter-

chips, or the popcorn chicken kettle corn with habanero sauce, according to TechAnnounce.

“The food is fantastic,” Patterson said, “and is just another reason people should come check it out.”

The festival is a good way for the community to be aware of the IHLR, she said.

The magazine is a national magazine, not student run, and the community does not understand that, Patterson said.

“We just want people to know that we exist,” she said, “because sometimes we hide in our little office and nobody knows that we are here.”

Tickets for the event can be purchased for $25 on the magazine’s website.

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to solidify their pledge of going barefoot for the day.

“It’s cool to see how many people take the pledge and actually follow through with it,” Craig said. “Seeing people walk around without shoes the next day shows how much support everyone has for the less fortunate and for the program itself.”

Craig said when people follow through with their pledge and go barefoot for the day, it helps open their minds up to the bigger and better picture.

It can be really hard for these people who cannot afford shoes or even the smallest things, Craig said, so to see everyone come together for such a great cause is really an enlightening experience.

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Internet CEO fired, convicted of domestic violence SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A wealthy Internet entrepreneur recently convicted of domestic violence has been terminated as CEO of a San Francisco startup online advertising company.

RadiumOne said in a statement that its board of directors decided Saturday night to fire CEO and Chairman Gurbaksh Chahal.

Chahal, 31, pleaded guilty earlier this month to battery and domestic violence battery, both misdemeanors, in the August 2013 beating of his girlfriend.

On Friday, the Democratic National Committee said it returned Chahal’s $20,000 donation in the wake of his conviction. RadiumOne made no mention of Chahal’s conviction when announcing his ouster late Saturday.

But Chahal said in a blog post Monday that he was fired when he told board members he wouldn’t resign.

“In that special board meeting,

they asked for my resignation as Chairman & CEO, when I declined to do (it), they fired me. Even though, I only accepted this misdemeanor plea under their guidance,” Chahal wrote. “Is this what venture capitalism is about?”

A RadiumOne spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Chahal also blamed social media for becoming the “court of public opinion” in his case.

The San Francisco district attorney’s office charged Chahal with 45 felonies for allegedly punching and kicking his girlfriend more than 100 times and attempting to smother her with a pillow in his penthouse after he learned she had cheated on him with a man during a trip to Las Vegas, according to court documents.

The alleged attack was caught on home-surveillance footage, authorities said. Chahal initially pleaded not guilty to all charges and posted $1 million bail. He

also hired former federal prosecutor Jim Lassart, who said prosecutors were blowing out of proportion an argument between Chahal and his girlfriend.

C h a h a l ’s g i r l f r i e n d t h e n stopped cooperating with the investigation and asked prosecutors to drop the charges. But prosecutors said they would proceed even if she wouldn’t testify.

Earlier this month, a San Francisco judge ruled the surveillance video in Chahal’s home was unlawfully seized by police, despite prosecutors’ claims that they worried the video would have been erased.

After pleading guilty to the misdemeanors, Chahal was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to take domestic-violence classes without serving any jail time.

Chahal wrote in a blog post Sunday that he lost his temper but accepted full responsibility. He apologized in the blog but added, “I didn’t hit her 117 times.”

George Clooney engaged to UK attorney, firm says LONDON (AP) — George Clooney —Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor — is getting hitched, according to a London law firm.

Leading human-rights practice Doughty Street Chambers spilled the news Monday as it congratulated one of its own attorneys: 36-year-old U.K. barrister Amal Alamuddin.

The firm said its lawyers and staff “offer their best wishes and congratulations to Ms. Amal Alamuddin ... and Mr. George Clooney on their engagement to be married.”

Clooney, 52, was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989 to 1993. He has since been romantically linked to several women, including British model Lisa Snowden, Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis and former professional wrestler Stacey Keibler.

But he has always downplayed suggestions he might marry again, telling Esquire magazine last year: “I wasn’t very good at it.”

The Beirut-born, Oxford University-educated Alamuddin is a member of Doughty Street’s international law team and has a high-profile client list. She has advised former U.N. SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan on Syria, helped ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko challenge her imprisonment and represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his fight against extradition to Sweden.

Clooney, whose recent films include “Gravity” and “The Monuments Men,” is one of Hollywood’s most powerful actors, directors and producers.

He also has a strong interest in international affairs and humanrights issues, and has campaigned for action on the humanitarian crises in Sudan and South Sudan.

Doughty Street chief executive Robin Jackson said Alamuddin had been “utterly wonderful” since she joined the firm in 2010.

“She brings a bright light to

everything she is involved in and I am so delighted at her happy news,” he said.

Clooney and Alamuddin have been photographed together several times since late 2013 and rumors of an engagement have been circulating for several days.

People Magazine reported that Alamuddin was seen sporting a large ring during dinner at a Malibu restaurant last week.

Clooney’s spokesman, Stan Rosenfield, declined to comment.

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ZACH WILSON, A senior geophysics major from Houston and Eulodie Bourobou, a senior geophysics major from Gabon, Africa perform a conductivity survey during their electrical methods lab outside of the Biology building on Monday afternoon.

Latin dancing club to host Tech Ball Bring out the dancing shoes and cocktail dresses and get ready to cha-cha.

The Tech Ballroom and Latin Dancing Club will host the Tech Ball from 7 to 10 p.m. May 4 in the Frazier Alumni Pavilion.

The event is open to the student body and is $5 per person.

“We’ve always wanted to do a big event,” Nicole Green, a senior electronic media and communications major from Abilene, said.

The group tried to do a masquerade ball during her freshman year, Green said, but was unable to put the event together.

This year, they wanted to

recreate that event but do it better, she said.

“We wanted to do another big event,” she said, “so everyone on campus who wants to dance, can.”

Dress for the event is semiformal and will feature a playlist of music from several difference dance types, ranging from the cha-cha to West Coast swing.

Nick Talavera, a senior geophysics major from Plano, is president of the TBLD. “We meet up weekly,” Talavera said, “and we hire a professional ballroom teacher to teach different types of dance. We try to alternate every two weeks.”

The group tries to switch it

up between ballroom dancing and Latin dancing, Talavera said.

They encourage everyone who has any interest in dancing or just wants to have a good time to come out to the ball, he said.

“We welcome all people,” Talavera said. “As long as you show up with $5 and a good attitude, we’ll let you in.”

No previous dancing experience is required, he said.

There is no need for a partner because everyone will be dancing and learning together, Talavera said.

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Lawsuit: new approach on gay marriage ban CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A coalition of clergy members filed a novel federal lawsuit Monday against North Carolina’s constitutional ban on gay marriage, saying it violates their religious freedom.

The clergy members said that they’d like to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies in their congregations, but that they can’t because of the “unjust law.”

Their attorney, Jake Sussman, says it’s the only case to bring the First Amendment religious freedom claims among the more than 60 marriage equality cases pending in the nation’s state and federal courts.

“North Carolina’s marriage laws are a direct affront to freedom of religion,” said the Rev. J. Bennett Guess, executive minister with the Cleveland-based United Church of Christ, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. “We feel that it is important that any person that comes into community life of a United Church of Christ congregation be afforded equal pastoral care and equal opportunity to religious services that clergy provide.”

But in North Carolina, clergy are often faced with a troubling decision: “whether to provide those services or break the law,” he said. “That’s something no clergy member should be faced with.”

Along with United Church of Christ, which has more than 1 million parishioners, a dozen clergy members and same sexcouples who want to marry were listed as plaintiffs. The defendants included North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and several county district attorneys.

Noelle Talley, a spokeswoman with the attorney general’s office, said officials there hadn’t seen the lawsuit yet.

This isn’t the first legal challenge to North Carolina’s law banning same-sex marriage, which was approved by voters in 2012.

The American Civil Liberties Union earlier this month launched a new legal assault on the state’s ban on recognizing same-sex marriage, urging a federal judge to quickly negate it to help children and gay couples suffering from

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The ACLU also filed a new lawsuit on behalf of three other lesbian couples struggling with health conditions made more difficult because they lack legal recognition of their marriages performed in other states, said ACLU staff attorney Elizabeth Gill.

The ACLU and the same-sex couples they represent argue a judge should act quickly to suspend North Carolina’s marriage ban because they are suffering immediate and irreparable harm.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the federal government must recognize marriages of same-sex couples.

Seventeen states allow gay marriage, and federal judges have struck down bans in Michigan, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia.

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Brummitt named to Collegiate National team

By REX ROSE

tional Team that will train and compete in conjunction with the USA Volleyball Girls’ JuSince arriving at Texas Tech nior National Championships as a sophomore transfer in held June 22 to July 1 in Min2012, senior volleyball player neapolis, Minn.

Rachel Brummitt has single“I’m really excited and lookhandedly rewritten the defen- ing forward to playing on the sive record book.

USA Volleyball team,” BrumBrummitt broke the sin- mitt said. “I’m so thankful for gle-season digs record in her the opportunity, and I think first year as a Red Raider, and this will help me grow and then broke her continue own record last to improve season totaling as I head 1,114 digs in into my seher two years nior season on the team. a t Te x a s Tech coach Tech.”

Don Flora said BrumB r u m m i t t ’s mitt joins ablity to break fellow seschool records nior Breeis because she ann David, understands who will RACHEL BRUMMITT what it takes also be travSENIOR LIBERO to consistently eling as part TEXAS TECH compete at a of the U.S. high level. p r o g r a m ’s “Her set of European skills allow her to be not un- tour this summer. der pressure,” he said “That’s Brummitt said she enjoyed a tribute to her hard work and meeting new people at the team her setting the tone daily for tryouts, but it was nice having herself. She is one of the most David there to make her feel consistent serve-receivers that at ease.

I’ve ever coached.

“Being with Bree at the try“She’s just very natural, very out — it was nice to have somecomfortable and that level of one to talk to in between drills consistency is very special. and to have that comfort right It’s something we don’t take there,” she said. “It’s definitely lightly. We appreciate that fun to meet new people and see about her and we let her know other people that we have both that that level of consistency known, but it was nice to have and that level of daily effort each other there for support.” and focus is big time.”

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in 2013 and earned All-Big 12 Conference second team honors as well as American Volleyball Coaches Association honorable mention AllAmerican accolades.

Flora said one of Brummitt’s biggest assets in volleyball is her ability to stay calm on the court.

“That’s a real tribute to her ability to really play the next point in front of you,” Flora said. “It seems so simple, but it’s hard to let go of something that’s just happened in the past to get your mind focused on the correct thing in front of you.

The next play, the next touches are the most important things.”

Brummitt is the only player in school history to join the 1,000 career digs club in just two seasons and enters her 2014 senior year needing 469 digs to snap the Tech career record of 1,583 that was set by Lisa Hilgers from 1995-98, according to the Tech release.

A l t h o u g h Te c h f i n i s h e d 10-22 overall last season, the Red Raiders have 13 players returning from last year, and Brummitt said expectations are high for her final season as a Red Raider. “ D e f i n i t e l y l o o k i n g f o rward to this season, I’m super excited about it,” she said.

“We’re all ready to get started training in the summer. We have a good core, a good group coming back. This group of girls, we’ve been together for about three years now. We’ve been working together for a while, and I think we’re going to be really strong.” ➤➤rrose@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH LIBERO Rachel Brummitt digs the ball during the Red Raiders’ 3-0 victory against Nevada on Friday in the United Spirit Arena. Brummit holds the Tech single-season record for digs.

Blazers learned toughness from late slump PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — After a fast start to the season, the Trail Blazers went through a lull after the All-Star break. Wins became harder to come by, and there was concern Portland might have to fight to even make the playoffs.

The team says that experience is helping Portland now in a hardfought first-round with the Houston Rockets. The Blazers are up 3-1 as the series heads back to Houston for Game 5 on Wednesday night.

Portland got off to a surprising 24-5 start this season, the best record in the NBA at the time, led

by All-Stars LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard. But they stumbled with a 4-9 late-season downturn capped by a 95-85 loss at Orlando on March 25. The Blazers regrouped with a five-game winning streak going into the postseason.

“We had a couple of team meetings and got the ship back going in the right direction,” Lillard said. “I

think that because we went through that, it made us closer as a team, made us tough as a team and prepared us for times like now.”

While Portland now has a distinct advantage in the series with Houston, it hasn’t been easy. Three of the four playoff games have gone to overtime.

Sunday night’s 123-120 OT victory by the Blazers was the first win for the home team in the series.

“We’re at our best when our backs are against the wall, have something

to prove — whatever phrase you want to use,” Blazers coach Terry Stotts said. “We have a determination to us. We know what we have to do, and most times, we do it.”

It’s Houston now that has its back to the wall.

“We’ve gotta stay positive right now,” Dwight Howard said about being on the brink of elimination.

“We can’t hang our heads and we can’t quit. We’re not going to allow negativity to seep into our minds.”

Stars reached goal of playoffs before cruel ending DALLAS (AP) — The young Dallas Stars began this season just hoping to make the playoffs and end a franchise-record postseason drought.

They can’t let the cruel collapse in a Game 6 overtime loss take away what was accomplished in their first season under coach Lindy Ruff, and what is shaping up as a promising future.

“I trusted every one of them. We have a system to play and they know

how to play it,” Ruff said. “We’ve set our bar at a certain level now. Now we have to push above that. And that takes incredible work ethic. It is hard to get in the playoffs. You know that. I know that.”

And now so do a bunch of 20-something players, including captain Jamie Benn, Cody Eakin and Alex Chiasson. Russian forward Valeri Nichushkin won’t turn 20 until late next season and Stars scoring leader Tyler Seguin, traded to

Dallas last summer after three playoff appearances and a Stanley Cup title with Boston, is only 22.

The Stars were only minutes from extending their first-round series against top-seeded Anaheim to a deciding Game 7. But the Ducks scored twice in the final 2:10 of regulation Sunday night before scoring the series-ending goal on the only shot in overtime.

“It’s a tough one to swallow,” said defenseman Trevor Daley, the only

current Stars player who was also part of their 2008 playoff team. “You think you’re going back to Anaheim.

But it’s a learning lesson. We learn from it. We learn as a team. ... There’s a lot of young guys on this team that will be back next year.”

Dallas overcame a 2-0 series deficit by winning Games 3 and 4 at home. After losing Game 5 in Anaheim, the Stars returned home and got an early breakaway goal from Daley, who had two goals and an assist in the finale.

The only time they trailed Game 6 was when Ducks forward Nick Bonino got a wrist shot past Kari Lehtonen only 2:47 into overtime — Bonino’s second and the Ducks’ third score in less than 5 minutes of ice time.

“It happened so fast, so it’s a bit of a shock, but I’m proud of our guys,” Benn said. “We battled hard all year. We battled hard to get into the playoffs and I thought we played a pretty good series against a pretty good team.”

The Stars had missed the playoffs for the fifth season in a row when Jim Nill was hired as their new general manager a year ago. Nill had spent the previous 15 years as an assistant GM with the Detroit Red Wings, who this year extended the longest playoff streak in North American pro sports to 23 seasons before losing its first-round series against Boston in five games.

Nill replaced young Glen Gulutzan with grizzled veteran Ruff. The new GM then overhauled the Stars offense with a series of moves, including the trade with Boston to get Seguin and drafting Nichushkin 10th overall with his first pick for Dallas.

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Men’s golf falls short The Texas Tech men’s golf team fell just three strokes shy of the Big 12 Championship on Sunday in Trinity, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Tech lost out on the conference title to Texas, who has now won back-to-back Big 12 Championships, according to the release.

The Red Raiders had a few bad breaks down the stretch, Tech coach Greg Sands said, but he and

his players are proud of their performance in the tournament.

“We battled all week. It’s a long week. The guys gave us all they had,” Sands said in the release.

“That’s life in golf sometimes: You do your best, and you don’t win. I’m proud of the guys. We battled, had a few bad breaks at the end but in the end, Texas was a better team today, but I do think that we hold our heads high and be proud of the

way we fought.”

Despite falling just short of the championship, this was the best finish at the conference tournament in school history, according to the release.

The Red Raiders will be making their 13th straight trip to the NCAA regionals and will find out where they will be playing Monday, according to the release. ➤➤tdorner@dailytoreador.com

Gutierrez wins conference award again Texas Tech first baseman Eric Gutierrez was named the Big 12 Conference Player of the Week for the second time this season, according to a news release from Tech Athletics.

In the Red Raiders’ weekend series against Oklahoma, Gutierrez hit his eighth, ninth and 10th home runs of the season on 6-of-12 batting, according to the release, racking up 10 RBIs in Tech’s sweep of the Sooners.

The weekend sweep was the third straight for the Red Raiders, according to the release, with two of those GUTIERREZ coming against conference opponents.

Including Tech’s two midweek games, Gutierrez batted .368

with a .435 on-base percentage and a .842 slugging percentage, according to the release.

Gutierrez leads the Big 12 in several offensive categories, according to the release, including home runs, RBIs and total bases.

The Red Raiders will play a midweek game at 6 p.m. today in Tulsa against Oral Roberts, then face Kansas in a weekend series May 2-4. ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

Lydia Ko holds off Stacy Lewis to win Swinging Skirts DALY CITY, Calif. (AP) — After a whirlwind week featuring a multitude of celebrations that included her first LPGA Tour victory as a pro, Lydia Ko planned to sleep late Monday before catching a San Francisco cable car for a little bit of sightseeing.

What a successful, memorable trip she had to the Bay Area.

Ko turned 17 and had “Happy Birthday” sung to her at the first tee box to kick off the inaugural Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic, earned a spot as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine, and captured her

first LPGA Tour title as a professional — all while playing with a fill-in caddie from the local club.

“Normally they would say sweet 16, but I would say it’s sweet 17,” Ko said. “I don’t think I could have any better birthday week.”

Poised and unflappable, Ko made the perfect pitch up to the green from the rough to birdie the final hole Sunday, holding off Stacy Lewis and Jenny Shin for her third LPGA win in all.

It went down to the final shots, and the teen made a 6-foot birdie putt moments before Lewis knocked in a 4-footer of her own

to finish one stroke back.

After beginning the day a stroke behind Lewis, Ko birdied three of her final four holes on the front nine on the way to a 3-under 69 and 12-under 276 total at Lake Merced.

Ko earned $270,000, celebrating on the 18th green three days after celebrating her birthday at the first tee box with the gallery singing “Happy Birthday.”

Ko, born in South Korea and raised in New Zealand, will move up two spots to No. 2 in the next world ranking.

Her father, G.H., got to see her

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Tech women’s golf team finishes sixth at conference tournament The Texas Tech women’s golf team finished sixth at the Big 12 Championship Sunday in Austin, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Tech junior Stephanie Betelsen finished 11th overall at five-over par, and Tech senior Hannah Arnold finished 13th at seven-over par, according to the release.

“I was really pleased with Stephanie and Hannah (Arnold),” Tech coach JoJo Robertson said in the release. “Steph

had her best week ever at Texas Tech and what a great time to do it. For her to make that last putt on the last hole was a good thing. She struggled a lot with her putter. She’s got an LPGA qualifier tomorrow (Monday) so I think she’ll go into that feeling pretty good.”

Tech sophomore Kimmy Hill finished her final round with a one-over-par 73 to finish the tournament tied for 24th, according to the release.

“My irons were definitely

a lot tighter today and I don’t think I missed one fairway so I was really pleased with that,” she said in the release. “I think we knew what we needed to improve on coming into this week and we really wanted to do well for Hannah with her being the only senior this weekend.”

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SEC sticking with 8-game league schedule BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference has decided to stick with its current football scheduling format of eight league games and a permanent nondivision rival.

The conference’s presidents and chancellors approved the socalled 6-1-1 format Sunday at a special meeting in Atlanta. SEC teams will continue to play each of their six division rivals, plus one permanent crossover rivalry game and another non-divisional opponent that will rotate.

The one change to format will affect nonconference scheduling.

Starting in 2016, all SEC teams will be required to play at least one game against a team from one of the other Big 5 conferences — the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big 12. But even that rule shouldn’t change much.

SEC schools routinely play at least one team from those conferences per season.

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ence games against another Big 5 school. Only Arkansas, Texas A&M and Kentucky did not play a Big 5 nonconference game last year. The Wildcats’ main in-state rival, Louisville, joins the ACC this season.

The SEC had been considering adding a ninth conference game and doing away with permanent inter-division opponents such as Alabama-Tennessee and LSU-Florida.

“Critical to maintaining this format is the nonconference opponent factor which gives us the added strength-of-schedule we were seeking while allowing continued scheduling flexibility for institutional preferences, and acknowledges that many of our institutions already play these opponents,” Commissioner Mike Slive said in a statement.

“The concept of strength-ofschedule is based on an entire 12-game schedule, a combination of both conference games together with nonconference games. Given the strength of our conference schedule supplemented by at least one major nonconference game, our teams will boast of a strong resume

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Alabama coach Nick Saban was one of the few vocal proponents of moving to a nine-game conference schedule, the way the Pac-12 and Big 12 have and the Big Ten is going to. Otherwise there was little support from athletic directors for adding another conference game.

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Houses near campus. See photos and descrip‑ tions at toadstoolproperties.com ONE BEDROOM APARTMENTS and HOUSES ½ Block from Tech. On 14th and 15th Streets. Save time and money by walking to class. Reasonable and Close – Can’t Beat It! 762‑1263

PRE‑LEASING

2521 24TH Walk to TTU! 3BR/2BA Central H&A, Hardwood Floors, W/D Conn., Sprinkler System, Yardcare Provided. $1260 Castle Property Man‑ agement 783‑3040

http://merlinspetshop.com/tech‑area‑rentals.html 4/2, Security System, wood floors, central h/a, space & extra rooms. Call/text Kathleen 806‑438‑ 8746. $1540/mo, $385/person.

25TH AND BOSTON:

TECH TERRACE

1 person apt, $325, all bills. 620‑6475. Rent now, 1/2 1st month.

3/1 & 1/2 Two story house http://merlinspetshop.com/tech‑area‑rentals.html central h/a, security system, pet friendly, lots of space. Over 2,200 sq ft! Available July 1st Call/‑ text 806‑438‑8746 3/1 HOUSE. Hardwood. Huge storeroom. Central heat and air. Appliances and washer/dryer con‑ nections. $675/month $675/deposit. 2202 24th.

300‑2623 or 544‑3600.

3/1 IN TECH TERRACE

3308‑28th. Spacious, updated, hardwoods and ceramic,kitchen appliances, w/d connections, se‑ curity system, lawn maintenance. $1125. Call Tommy 806‑781‑4934

Pre‑leasing 1,2,3 & 4 bedroom houses. Visit Tech Terrace leasing office at 26th & Boston or TechTerrace.com WALK TO TECH. Tech Terrace area. 2‑BR, 1‑ bath. Big yard. All apliances included. Fireplace.

Nice. $800/month. $450 deposit. Ready May 30th. On bus route. 806‑543‑6764.

WE RENT houses! Rent806.com (806) 793‑8759

CLOTHING/JEWELRY TEXAS TECH Officially licensed rings. Men’s from $895.

Women’s from $595. Varsity Jewelers.

1311 University.

$$ SAVE MONEY $$

38th & Milwaukee / A‑Plus Super Storage Best of Lubbock 14 years running Best Student Pricing in Town! www.AplusSuperStorage.com Call 785‑7555

32ND & FRANKFORD

Affordable West Storage High Security, great location.

Units from $20 and up Reserve online today… www.AffordableStorageLubbock.com Call 767‑9777

AFFORDABLE STORAGE

50TH & Ave Q (behind United Supermarket) Climate & Dust Controlled Units.

Student Discounts. Reserve online today… www.AffordableStorageLubbock.com Call 767‑9777

ROOMMATES SUB‑LEASE AT UNIVERSITY FOUNTAINS: May 20‑ July 31. $150 for May, and $450/month for June and July. All utilities paid for except over‑ ages. Females only. Call (830)‑279‑2141 for more info.

SERVICES

$5,500‑$10,000 PAID EGG DONORS for up to 6 donations. All races needed. N/Smokers, ages 18‑ 27, SAT>1100/ACT>24/GPA>3.0 Reply to: in‑ fo@eggdonorcenter.com if qualified.

4TH & FRANKFORD

Add‑A‑Closet Storage (next to Cujo’s) Great Student Discounts!!

Reserve today @ www.AddAClosetStorageLubbock.com Call 793‑5560.

AFFORDABLE MOVING

Quick, easy professional moving. Reasonable prices. Local or long distance. Boxes, supplies, paper, etc. Serving all Texas cities. Free estimate on the phone. 4211 34th Call 806‑799‑4033.

ALLAMERICANSTORAGE.COM

Rent online 24/7. Free truck. 24/7 Rental station.

Clean. 5839‑49th 792‑6464.

EZ DEFENSIVE DRIVING.

New Location RIVER SMITHS Free Food In‑ cluded :) Cell 781‑2931.

More Information www.LubbockClass.com

NEED CASH Buying any gold/silver jewelry. Any condition.

Avery and others. Varsity Jewelers 1311 University.

NEED MONEY!

Sell your books back at Red & Black College bookstore. We guarantee the most money for your books.

6th & University (Behind Chili’s)

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Make a reservation online today. $10 off 1st month with this ad! www.SelfStorageofLubbock.com

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