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New contact center to create 300 jobs in El Paso EL PASO (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry says a financial services company will receive a $1.15 million investment from the Texas Enterprise Fund to create 300 jobs at an information technology support and contact center in West Texas.

In a statement distributed Tuesday, Perry’s office says part of the deal is that the Prudential Financial will hire veterans or their relatives at the new center in El Paso.

In a separate statement, El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser says the new center will generate jobs with an average pay of $35,000 a year and that it is misleading to compare the new facility with a call center because it will require highly skilled workers.

The TEF was created in 2003 by the Legislature and has invested more than $560 million to attract 74,800 jobs.

Tech breaks ground on new project

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

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TEXAS TECH SYSTEM Chancellor Kent Hance speaks where the new Bayer Plant Sciences building Tuesday during a groundbreaking ceremony for a 21,000 square foot expansion and renovation.

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The Texas Tech College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for its new Bayer Plant Science building expansion and renovation project.

Tech System Chancellor Kent Hance, Tech President M. Duane Nellis, Dean of the College of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources Michael Galyean, Interim Vice Chancellor for Institutional Advancement Scott Cooksey, Tech Vice Chancellor of Facilities Planning and Construction Michael Molina, and Vice President for Global Breeding and Trait Development for Bayer CropScience Mike Gilbert all spoke at the event.

The project is significant because of the people who made the project possible and the architectural design behind the project, Molina said.

“It will be one of the many buildings on campus which will be reflective of William Ward Watkins’s original Spanish Renaissance design style and concepts,” he said, “which included the placement of various outdoor spaces enclosed by architectural elements.”

The project will create open labs with expanded support, graduate student spaces, an instructional lab, space for research equipment and a departmental suite, according to a Tech news release. The project will additionally create a multi-functional outdoor courtyard that can be used as an instructional space.

At the ceremony, Molina announced the project will begin mobilization in the next 30 days, and will reach completion by June 2015.

Nellis said the expansion plan for the Bayer Plant Science building will accommodate the needs of incoming students.

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Midland-based CAF moves headquarters to Dallas DALLAS (AP) — A vintage military aviation group known for its historic planes, air shows and education will move its headquarters from West Texas to Dallas.

Officials with the nonprofit Commemorative Air Force on Tuesday announced plans to relocate to cityoperated Dallas Executive Airport.

The CAF is currently based at Midland International Airport.

Organizers sought access to a larger metro area and considered airports in more than 20 cities.

What began as the Confederate Air Force was chartered in 1961 in Texas to restore and preserve World War IIera combat aircraft. The CAF in 2002 changed its name to the Commemorative Air Force, currently with about 9,000 members and a fleet of nearly 160 decommissioned military planes.

Midland Mayor Jerry Morales said Tuesday that CAF’s decision to move its operations, and in particular its annual air show, was a blow to the MidlandOdessa region.

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Nursing student experiences different culture, aids future career

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

Like many of her peers, Adrian Mulig did not know what career she wanted to pursue when she first arrived in Lubbock for her undergraduate degree.

After shadowing at a local hospital, Mulig, now a senior nursing student at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, realized emergency nursing is what she was meant to do and has since applied her medical skills outside the classroom.

“I knew I really liked science and I wanted to be in the medical field,” the Missouri City native said. “I didn’t really know what I wanted to do. I got my EMT basic license from South Plains, and that really got me into the emergency rooms in Lubbock and made me fall in love with emergency nursing.”

During nursing school, she said, students test out and experience a range of specializations.

From pediatrics to geriatrics, nothing clicked.

As a former supplemental instruction leader for anatomy courses at Tech, Mulig’s love for teaching made nursing a logical choice. She said she loves the general atmosphere of hospitals and emergency rooms in particular.

“As a nurse, one of your main roles is being a teacher,” she said. “One of the most important things you can do as an emergency room nurse is figure out where your patient is coming from and kind of see beyond just what they’re presenting with. Since I love being a teacher, it fits right in with that.”

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ADRIAN MULIG, A senior nursing student from Missouri City, traveled to Nicaragua during Winter Break for a medical mission trip. After graduating, Mulig will work as a graduate nurse in the University Medical Center.

Texas Tech experts provide WishMakers on Campus host insight into tornado safety fundraiser for World Wish Day

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The U.S. Midwest and southern areas experienced tornado outbreaks during the last part of the month of April.

Texas is part of Tornado Alley, an area in the southern plains nicknamed for its high frequency of tornadoes each year, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

Although Lubbock has not experienced an F5 tornado since 1970, the Lubbock area is still susceptible to tornado like weather.

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shelter in a low level area if a tornado occurs.

“If you have a storm shelter, obviously go there, or if you’re in a building with a basement, then probably the safest place is the basement,” he said.

“If you don’t have that, the strategy is to find the safest place within the building, and generally that would be the lowest floor on the building.”

Generally speaking, campus buildings are designed to maintain their structural integrity, Kiesling said.

“What I would expect on campus is that most of the buildings here have a rather large footprint and they have structural systems that are pretty sturdy,” he said. “I would expect the structure to generally survive.”

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By KAYLIN MCDERMETT Staff Writer

The student organization WishMakers on Campus hosted an annual fundraising event to support the Make-a-Wish Foundation on World Wish Day, the day the first wish was granted for a child with a life-threating illness.

Lauren Riddle, a junior supply chain management major from Houston, said the new organization is looking forward to meeting its goal of granting one wish for the year.

“We’ve been around about a year, and this year we’ve been working a lot on what our goal is,” she said. “Our goal for this year is to earn enough money to grant one wish, which is a thousand dollars.”

The group set up a table outside the Student Union building Tuesday afternoon to raise money and spread the word about

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another event in the evening.

They sold cookies and other baked goods for one dollar, and also accepted donations from students passing by who wanted to give.

Riddle said while fundraising in the afternoon students would walk by and give to the group without purchasing any of the items they were selling.

“It was really great because some people would come up to us and say ‘oh, I really don’t like cookies, but here’s a dollar donation anyway,’” she said. “It just shows that there are a lot of students out there that care enough to donate.”

Caitlin Kidd, a senior marketing major from Allen, is vice president of the organization, and said she was impressed with the generosity of students, even though she knows they are probably on a tight budget.

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South Korean students visit HSC, experience U.S. culture

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and Tech System officials welcomed speech-language pathology and audiology students from Hallym University, a private institution in South Korea, during an opening ceremony Tuesday in HSC room 1C100.

The international students arrived in Lubbock late Monday evening to begin their five-day trip to the center in a partnership with the Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences.

“These are the students who have speech pathology majors in Korea,” Sue Ann Lee, an assistant professor in the department, said. “They want to know what learning experiences American speech, language and pathology students have. They want to experience an American university and the American culture in general.”

Lee, who is originally from South Korea, and Rajinder Koul, professor and department chair, will serve as liaison professors during the students’ time at Tech, until their departure Friday.

Koul, Robin Satterwhite, dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences, and Joseph Rallo, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs of the Tech System, welcomed the foreign students to Texas during the opening ceremony.

Nearly 2,000 international students study in the four schools encompassed by the Tech System, Rallo said. By 2020, the goal is to have 4,700 international students.

“My goal, at the system level, is to really concentrate and focus on certain countries,” Rallo said, “particularly on countries that have excellent students and countries that those students want

to come study here. One of the top two is South Korea.”

The partnership between the two institutions was made possible through Lee’s South Korean roots and Koul’s five-week visit to South Korea last year.

Koul received a fellowship from the Fulbright Program, which offers grants for U.S. citizens to study, research and teach in foreign countries and for non-citizens to come to the U.S. for academic purposes, according to the program’s website.

Meanwhile, Lee has known Do-Heung Ko, a professor at Hallym University and president of the Korean Association of Speech-Language Pathologists, for years.

When Koul visited South Korea, Hee Jeong Shim, a doctoral student at Hallym University, said through a translator, it was her first time to learn about augmented communication devices. As a result, she wanted to learn more about the advanced technology in speech-language pathology.

Shim said she looks forward to “special lectures and auditing” classes while at HSC. The special lectures are specifically for the South Korean students.

Lee, James Dembowski and other professors will teach the students during the lectures.

Audit lectures will allow the South Korean students to see how students in the U.S. learn in a classroom setting, Lee said.

“It’s learning without borders,” Koul said. “It’s good for our program to get the international recognition and visibility. There are people from overseas who want to come and visit our program and interact and collaborate with us. That is important to us.”

Ko said he first contacted the department at the beginning of the semester.

This is the 11th time students from Hallym have visited U.S. colleges, including Washington State University and George Washington University, he said. Because of his relationship with Koul and Lee, Ko said he heard about HSC’s positive reputation and chose it as a partner school.

“We are seeking strong international relationships and collaborations,” Ko said.

“I would like to ask the university president when I meet him to send students to Korea and have a similar experience with us.”

Similarly, one of Lee’s goals is to have students from HSC visit South Korea, she said.

By hosting the students, Koul said this is an opportunity for the school to gain highly qualified graduate students from the Asian country.

“They will know about our program, our department and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center,” he said. “We could become a very recognized educational entity in South Korea. We just want to enhance our collaborative efforts with global universities.”

Additionally, HSC students will be able to interact with the South Korean students and learn more about different cultures.

Because speech-language pathologists encounter a variety of people in their profession, students learn how to interact with different cultures while at HSC. Lee said this helps them put their skills into practice.

“We are emphasizing cultural diversity in speech-language pathology,” she said. “This is a chance for our undergraduate students to actually interact with the foreign students and experience what kinds of similarities and differences there are between the two cultures.”

Shelby Winn, a speech-language pa-

thology graduate student from Seymour, serves as president of HSC’s chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association, and said the organization assisted the department in hosting the students.

Tuesday, the Hallym students had a pizza party and were paired with a Tech volunteer, who will serve as a mentor, she said.

“We’re calling them international ambassadors,” Winn said. “The ultimate goal is for our students to develop lifetime long relationships with colleagues in different countries.”

The international ambassadors will go to dinner with the students every night and participate in various team-building activities, she said. They will tour the HSC and Tech campuses, shop at clothing stores along Broadway Avenue and eat at staple Lubbock restaurants such as Blue Sky Texas and the Arrogant Texan.

Despite differences in language and culture, Winn said the students did not seem fazed. Many students have exchanged phone numbers, email addresses and Facebook information already, she said.

“I walked in and everyone was cracking up and having a great time,” she said. “You could tell the experience was effective and that they were enjoying themselves. There wasn’t really a cultural barrier at all.”

Hee Baek Shin, a doctoral student from Hallym University, said, through a translator, he wants to develop more of a relationship with American students while in Lubbock.

Even though they will stay for a short period of time, he said he and the other students want to experience the U.S. culture and lifestyle.

“The American system and the Korean system are very much similar,”

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Ko said. “They are different because of cultural differences. Even though we are trying to follow the American way of SLP (speech-language pathology) education, we have different circumstances. I want to let them experience that this is America, this is the American classroom setting.”

This is the department’s first time hosting a group of international students, Koul said.

During their time in Texas, Lee

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An area located low to the ground makes for a safe place to take shelter since wind speed varies with height, Kiesling said.

“Wind-induced pressure varies with the height,” he said. “Wind speed and the wind-induced pressure is going to be higher at the higher elevations, if structural damage is going to occur it would most like be in the upper portions of the building.”

Larry Tanner, a research assistant professor at the National Wind Institute, has researched tornado damage and debris.

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The project is funded by donations Tech has received, according to a Tech news release. Leading contributions for the project came from Bayer CropScience and Dale and Cheryl Swinburn of Tulia.

“It certainly is another step as we move forward toward being a national research public university,” he said. “It’s significant as we add additional research and classroom space to our plant soil and sciences department.”

The project also will provide upgrades to the current Bayer Plant Science building, landscape enhancements and public art, according to the release.

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“As college kids, I know there’s a tight budget,” she said. “Even though they are watching their spending, they still ended up donating a dollar or two to us. It was really awesome to see that.”

The goal of the Make-a-Wish Foundation is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy, according to the Make-a-Wish website.

World Wish Day is aimed at providing a day of fundraising and donations to pay for the wishes of the sick children.

In addition to fundraising, WishMakers on Campus also hosted a benefit dinner at Capital Pizza, where some of the proceeds of the night would go toward the group’s fundraising efforts.

said the students will acquire advanced and up-to-date knowledge in the field of speech-language pathology and will learn further about technology they do not have in their native country.

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of wind speed.

“As speed progresses, an F4 or F5 will remove your structures,” he said.

“Houses and barns are the first structures to go; 90 miles per hour to 140 miles per hour should just blow off all those kinds of structures.”

The amount of debris left behind by a tornado is extensive, Tanner said.

“Picking up debris after a tornado is an immense job,” he said “Even if you have two or three blocks, a couple of neighborhoods, the amount of debris is going to be hundreds and hundreds of cubic yards of debris.”

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Gilbert said the expansion to the current Bayer Plant Science building will allow Tech to recruit and train possible future students.

“This project will result in educational and research advances in plant science,” he said. “It will result in important collaborations, like the one we already have with Bayer CropScience.”

Tech’s Board of Regents approved the $13.6 million project in December, according to a Tech College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources news release.

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The members of the group are caring, active students, Kidd said, who are working hard to accomplish the goal of the organization.

“The girls that help us out are just volunteers,” she said. “They don’t get paid or anything, but they are always trying to help out. They are always asking what they can do to help and a lot of them were really into this fundraiser. They wanted to keep bringing in cookies and kept asking if we needed help with anything. It’s so good to see how much they really care.”

Riddle said it is a great experience knowing the money raised will go to grant the wish of a child, and she hopes to gain more members to the organization.

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POLICE BLOTTER Monday 11:40 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the R13 visitor parking lot.

2:07 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Z2C parking lot. A car was keyed.

3:35 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Z5B parking lot. A vehicle was keyed.

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Mexican drug cartels moving into Texas

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

For many years, U.S. travelers have been warned to avoid the northern border of Mexico, as well as other “hot spots” for drug cartel violence.

Those cartels and the violence that follows them have been moving north into Texas, Jason Lewis, spokesperson for the Lubbock Police Department, said.

“I know we’ve seen DPS on the news recently talking about drug trafficking and the cartel and problems that have been arising from them moving more into the U.S.,” he said. “We have to keep sharing this information

with our officers so they know what to look for.”

According to the Department of Public Safety’s 2013 Texas Public Safety Threat Overview, Mexican cartels are now the most significant organized crime threat to the U.S. Six of the eight recorded cartels currently have networks operating in the state, according to the report, and are using their position to move people, drugs, weapons and stolen merchandise.

“The cartel – like any business – operates to increase profits; they do this by expanding into new markets,” Roger Cox, special operations officer at the Lubbock Police Department, said.

According to an article by As-

sociated Press, cartel leaders have started to cut out the middleman involved in their drug trades.

While it used to be normal for U.S. traders to send people to Mexico to finish the trades, the cartel leaders have found that they can make more money if they go to the U.S. to meet with those they are trading with in person, instead of someone coming to Mexico.

“The city of Lubbock and the surrounding areas are seeing an increase in cartel activity,” Cox said. “The cartel will increase their presence wherever money can be made – including areas in the United States.”

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Pipeline supporters seek Senate vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a struggle steeped in election-year politics, supporters of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline are seeking a swift Senate vote on legislation to approve construction of the project that environmentalists oppose strongly and the Obama administration has delayed indefinitely.

Pipeline advocates in the Senate, who include several Democrats on the ballot next fall as well as Republicans, hold a clear majority. They also may command more than the 60 votes needed to overcome blocking tactics by opponents, but they appear to be short of the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override any veto

by President Barack Obama.

“I will press hard for a vote in the coming weeks to build this pipeline,” Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., the chair of the Senate Energy Committee, said this week in a statement as lawmakers returned from a two-week break. Landrieu and Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, an-

other pipeline supporter, stand accused

by Republicans of being powerless to mandate the project’s construction, given the numerous delays Obama has ordered without rendering a decision.

In addition, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., faces pressure from Republicans to permit a vote on the project, with the Senate expected to debate energy-efficiency legislation in the next few days.

Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota said he and other Republicans want the issue voted on either as a part of the energy-efficiency legislation or shortly afterward as a stand-alone bill. He said rank-and-file Republicans have “taken a very strong position” that one or the other must occur.

Aides said no decision had been made, but Reid said he had met in the last 24 hours with both Landrieu and Hoeven and left open the possibility of permitting a pipeline vote. “I’m open to anything that will move energy efficiency,” he said.

EPA rule on cross-state pollution upheld WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major anti-pollution ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday backed federally imposed limits on smokestack emissions that cross state lines and burden downwind areas with bad air from power plants they can’t control.

The 6-2 ruling was an important victory for the Obama administration in controlling emissions from power plants in 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states that contribute to soot and smog along the East Coast.

It also capped a decades-long effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that states are good neighbors and don’t contribute to pollution problems elsewhere. The rule upheld Tuesday was EPA’s third attempt to solve the problem.

The rule, challenged by industry and upwind states, had been cast by foes as an attempt by the Obama administration to step on states’ rights and to shut down aging coal-fired power plants. Opponents said the decision could embolden the agency to take the same tack later this year when it proposes rules to limit carbon pollution. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has said the agency will be flexible and work with states on the first-ever controls on power plants for the gases blamed for global warming.

On Tuesday, the court upheld a rule adopted by the EPA in 2011 that would force polluting states to

reduce smokestack emissions that contaminate the air in downwind states. Power companies and several states sued to block the rule, and a federal appeals court in Washington agreed with them in 2012.

The Supreme Court reversed that decision. Writing for the majority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledged the complexity of the problem before EPA. “In crafting a solution to the problem of interstate air pollution, regulators must account for the vagaries of the wind,” Ginsburg wrote.

The high court said the EPA, under the Clean Air Act, can implement federal plans in states that do not adequately control downwind pollution. But the court also ruled that the EPA can consider the cost of pollution controls and does not have to require states to reduce pollution by the precise amount they send to downwind states.

phetamine and heroin markets, according to the article.

These substances are being developed in smaller, cheaper labs in Mexico, according to the article, which decreases the price for U.S. consumers and increases the business these cartels are doing in the states.

“Because there are many different areas being affected, the City of Lubbock Police Department works closely with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Drug Enforcement Agency and the Lubbock County Sheriff ’s Department to investigate the criminal enterprises that have transnational operations,” he said.

Not only is the amount of drugs and violence increasing as a result of the movement of the cartels, but also the number of U.S. teens and early adults being recruited to participate in these cartels is increasing as well, Stephen McCraw, Texas Department of Public Safety director, said.

They have spent years trying to recruit kids from northern Mexico, he said, and have moved to recruiting here because they have run out of resources.

“Mexican Cartels have corrupted nearly an entire generation of youth living in northern Mexico,” he said. “They seek to corrupt our youth as well as to further their smuggling operations. These serve as expendable

labor in many different roles.”

The obvious signs that someone might be involved with the cartel, Cox said, would be high volume traffic into and out of a residence or someone without a job living very obviously above their means.

It is important for people to note, he said, that the normal signs that might be seen in crimerelated activities will not usually be the same as normal crime.

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LANCE EVANGELISTER, A sophomore pre-engineering major from New Orleans, La., clears his head by boxing on Tuesday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

US sanctions raise concerns for foreign investors LONDON (AP) — U.S. sanctions targeting the president of Russia’s largest oil company could complicate the operations of Western oil companies with important investments in Russia, such as BP and Exxon.

The sanctions target only Igor Sechin, the president of Rosneft, and not the company itself. That means BP, Exxon and others will be able to continue to work with Rosneft, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, to explore for and produce oil and gas.

For now.

Analysts are worried that the sanctions by the U.S. against Sechin are a prelude to tougher ones against Rosneft. That could force Western oil companies to abandon or suspend their partnerships and some very ambitious oil exploration plans. “(Sechin) perhaps may not be able to go shopping in Paris in the foreseeable future, but that is not the same thing as penalizing the actual company,” says Pavel Molchanov, an energy analyst at Raymond James. “That could be the next step, though.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned late Tuesday that Western companies could eventually risk being shut out of Russia’s energy sector.

Putin said he saw no reason for Russia to take retaliatory steps now against the U.S. and European Union, as he said the Russian government has proposed.

But “if something like this continues, then of course we will need to think about who works and how they

work in the Russian federation in key sectors of the Russian economy, including the energy sector,” Putin said.

BP, based in London, owns a 20 percent stake in Rosneft. ExxonMobil, based in Irving, Texas, has a broad agreement with Rosneft to explore for oil in the Russian arctic and across a wide region of western Siberia. Eni of Italy and Statoil of Norway also have deals with the Russian company.

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People should end relationships instead of cheating Francis Cobbinah ship they already have. For others, it is simply because they are not with the one they love; it is convenient to be with them for a purposeful while but they do not intend to go a further mile.

Another reason why people may cheat is because they try their best and sometimes even more than their best to save a ‘free-falling’ relationship but to no avail, however they lack the guts to call it quits because of what they might lose. Nevertheless, are all these reasons justifiable and cogent enough to cause someone to become unfaithful?

Every Casanova on learning that their partner has conde-

scended to their level and also begun cheating would become irrevocably unhappy and angry.

Of course everyone with a conscience knows good from evil and so do the Casanovas.

It is somewhat heart wrenching to know people cheat on their partners because they consciously choose deception, lust and greed over honesty, modesty and a dignified existence, and some do because they have been hurt by loved ones and as a result, decide to pass it on as an act of vengeance against humanity.

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... cheating chips away the trust in a relationship and causes untold pain for those who believed and invested so much in it.

Children rely too much on electronics

By TAYLOR FINN

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When I was little, my sister and I loved to pretend we were teachers.

Every day we would put on mom’s high heels and stomp around the house with our clipboards yelling at the make believe children to be quiet and walk in a straight line. Finally, my dad realized how much we loved to play school and hung a whiteboard in each of our rooms so we could be even better pretend teachers.

Like most of my friends, we had these vivid imaginations that could turn a bedroom into a school, hospital, grocery store, jungle or whatever location we wanted to be playing in that day. It was a skill that unfortunately many kids today just simply do not have.

I babysit frequently and have realized that many of today’s children have lost the ability to pretend and imagine.

This is most definitely to no fault of their own. Children do not have to create their own fantasy worlds because they have an iPad, a big screen TV or a Wii to do it for them. What kid wants to go through all the extra work of coming up with a make-believe scenario if they can just push a button and be put in a virtual reality that, in some cases, is better than anything they could have created with

their own imaginations? When they turn on that iPad, they get instant gratification as they can enter a world full of princesses, ninjas or soldiers. It takes little effort and is extremely pleasing.

Today’s youth is growing up in a society highly dependent on technology. We rely on our gadgets to wash our dishes, assist us with our homework, get to work in the morning, cook our meals and unfortunately for many children, technology has become something heavily relied on for entertainment and fun.

It is a shame that many children today reach for the video game controller instead of a baseball glove. It is too bad that little girls would rather play a simulated version of house on a iPad than actually grab some baby dolls and pretend. It is scary to see children move down this direction, and I fear that it could have serious implications.

If children no longer have a desire to play outside and run around in the dirt, then they have lost some of their sense of adventure and carelessness. If they no longer want to dress up and create fantasy worlds, then they have lost a bit of their creativity and imagination.

Adventure and imagination are vital parts of a person’s childhood. Once you cross the line between being a kid and an adult much of that carelessness, excitement for adventure and imagination go

To those who go around hurting genuinely loving hearts and playing with the emotional feelings of others just because they have been hurt before, does passing on this nefarious and galling act of personal revenge in any way ebb the pain? Obviously it does not help matters in any way but only changes good people to evil.

No matter how perpetrators get there or how long or briefly it lasts, cheating chips away the trust in a relationship and causes untold pain for those who believed and invested so

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n Akan proverb cautions that, “Wo de w’ani mienu hw3 toa mu a, baako bo,” literally meaning, “he who stares into a narrow bottle with both precious eyes, harms one.” While there are greater sins and crimes than finding solace in another’s arms and legs behind a spouse or lover’s back, cheating is widely known to cause more broken hearts, madness and slow deaths than any other. So why do people do it?

People cheat because they simply can. Cheating goes on because lovers momentarily find someone new, more appealing, more exciting, more readily available and more inclined with whom they can partake in extra-curricular and often closemouthed canoodling.

Cheating happens because some prefer starting a new relationship with someone whose faults they do not know to fixing the existing faults in the relation-

much in it. It invariably rips sworn lovers, happy homes, careers and the lives of innocent children apart.

Wouldn’t it be better to end an unhappy relationship than to stay in it while finding comfort elsewhere? Many cheats for years gone by have made excuses that they did not want to hurt their partner with an abrupt ending.

What we fail to realize more often than not is that we disrespect and hurt our spouses and better halves even more with cheating while pretending all is well with a failing or unfulfilling relationship.

Certainly, every old and experienced individual would strongly advise that it is better to walk out the door and close it behind you than to stand in a sworn lover’s view while even thinking of embracing someone new.

If closure can be had in a relationship that has outlived its love and respect before canoodling

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It has been many years since I first read the short story “Once Upon a Time” by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer, yet every word of the tale remains imprinted in my mind. It is a beautifully written story about a family in apartheid South Africa that tries to protect itself from the dangers outside the walls of its home but instead lose a child to those same defenses—it’s a haunting, emotional, thoughtful story.

There are many lessons that can be learned from Gordimer’s story: that we need to understand our neighbors, the environment, and the world around us. This is especially true in today’s world, in our ever changing and fully connected here and now, despite its differences from the setting of “Once Upon a Time.”

We live in a world that is faster, more connected. The family in Gordimer’s tale hears about the riots and burglaries through rumors from neighbors and vague sounds at night—there was no Internet in the story, no immediate source of information.

But today, everything happens so quickly—changes of presidencies, regimes, governments—and the news of all these things travel just as fast. Today, we have the Internet. We have access to the New York Times and the BBC. We have access to blogs, micro blogs, and other, ever-shorter media—an incessant flood of information that overwhelms us.

Given the wealth of infor-

mation within reach, we have developed a need to always be in the know, to always be aware of everything that is happening. And so we multitask constantly to satiate this desire. Our days are spent rotating between many tasks all at once; we listen to lectures and do homework and write essays while at the same time answering texts, checking email, reading the news, scrolling through Facebook, and looking at Twitter.

The ability to multitask is often considered a point of pride, a vaunted skill to show off. But this ability, this preference for doing many things at once is not all good.

In the 18th century, Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son, “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.” This advice is as today as it was back then, especially in a time when many have lost the ability to stay focused on a task for long periods of time.

Moreover, the act of multitasking is ultimately detrimental—studies suggest that people who multitask frequently show lower levels of concentration and creativity. They often fail to determine what is relevant and what is irrelevant, and are more easily distractible. Most damning of all, multitaskers struggle at switching between tasks, supposedly the biggest advantage of their skillset.

The vast amounts of information that surround us pose other dangers as well. In a lecture to the plebe class at West Point in October of 2009, William Deresiewicz

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by the wayside, and it would be a terrible thing to strip children of the opportunity to feel those things.

The saddest part of this entire epidemic is that the kids are not to blame. It is much easier to entertain a child on a long drive with an iPad or Game Boy than it would be to have them sing silly songs or make up their own games. When kids are bored on a rainy day turning on the TV is an easier solution to the problem, rather than forcing them to go design their own game to play. These electronics satisfy children and keep them calm, which is why so many parents are turning to them for assistance.

I do believe that there is one perk to having so many electronic devices.

Many games on tablets are geared toward learning and can help make children enthusiastic about school work. However, I think we should reevaluate our use of these devices and work to strike a balance. Utilize these fairly new gadgets for things like education and the occasional source of entertainment, while still stressing the importance of being a kid and using your imagination while you still have it. We need to do better as a society to encourage today’s youth to maintain active imaginations and to not depend so heavily on electronics.

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with the one who now gets our hearts yearning for more, then obviously that is the best choice to opt for. If we can bid farewell to the ones who lifted and comforted us in years gone by before giving it up for the new lady or guy we are fond of, let us take that bold step to do so before we hurt the adorable ones who cared.

Through the changing scenes of life, some sweet hearts will go sour, some “endless loves” will expire and once eager and passionate lovers will retire. It is so because the only permanent thing, apart from the Word of God, is change. And when change is imminent and we no longer feel the same way for our loved ones, let us be courageous enough to call it quits regardless of what we might lose.

said that “Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.” Yet this is exactly what we lack; by saturating our minds with information from all these sources—from the Times, the BBC, and all those blogs—we are simply taking in the opinions of other people. We are simply reading and regurgitating what other people say and think about a given issue. We let others do the thinking, but we are not thinking for ourselves, not developing our own ideas.

What we lack today are moments of solitude, moments devoid of distractions, moments of peace.

We are constantly surrounded by people and information, always rushing from place to place, moving from the completion of one class or meeting or assignment and straight onto the next without a pause.

Even outside of those environments, we are still surrounded by people, in our dorms, in our dining halls, everywhere we go.

We are surrounded by our phones, our laptops, our televisions—a constant, never-ending flow of news and opinions. We are surrounded by the noise of the world. The result is that we rarely have time in solitude, time to think and reflect without the chatter of voices or the vibration of phones.

And so we have lost something vital, for there is a deep intrinsic value in the act of solitary, isolated, single-minded work. The solitude of a woodshop, the quiet of the library, the isolation of wilderness—the very nature of these types of work allow for concentration and introspection. In Joseph

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Your own reality—for yourself, not for others.”

Marlow suggests a need for selfawareness, aware of who we are and what we think. It is an awareness that must come from within, an awareness unfiltered and unadulterated by the opinions of others.

In many respects, Gordimer writes about the same need; the tragedy of “Once Upon a Time” comes about due to the family’s lack of knowledge. Their understanding of their neighborhood is derived solely from what they hear on the news or through rumors. They lose what is most precious because they have not thought for themselves.

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Growing up in single father household no different In today’s society, it is increasingly common for marriages to end in divorce. When children are involved in a divorce, they may have to split their time between their two parents.

For other children, a divorce may mean only being raised by one parent. Single parents are often women, and it is more rare to hear of a child raised by a single father.

I am one of those rare kids.

My parents divorced when I was six, and my brother and I went through a shared-custody experience for two years.

My mom never took the time to be a responsible parent, but we still spent time with her because

Jennifer Romero the courts often grant the mother primary custody. She rarely cleaned the house, and she never cooked.

Despite our living conditions, my brother and I made the best of things because we always had each other. He is six years older than me, and had to grow up fast in order to take care of me.

We had a taste of a normal home

life when we were with our dad.

When he divorced my mom, he left the house to her and could only afford a one-bedroom apartment.

I still remember watching television in Spanish because we didn’t have cable. My brother had to sleep on the couch. We didn’t have much, but we were always loved and cared for in that little apartment.

My dad moved us into a twobedroom apartment as soon as he could afford one, but regardless we were still happy.

Things were getting worse with my mom though, and my brother understood more of what was going on than I could.

My brother started fighting with our mom more often and eventually went to live with my dad full-time.

Although it was best for him, I no longer had my best friend to protect me.

I was too young to decide with which of my parents I wanted to live, so I still had to stay with my mom.

One night, she left me all alone while she went out with her boyfriend. My distressed voicemails to my dad were enough to remove me from her care.

On the day of my custody hearing, my mom did not even show up to fight for me. The judge still allowed her the opportunity to see

my brother and me as long as a counselor supervised the visit.

That day was pivotal in my life.

It encompasses everything that is good and bad about my past.

My mother has never tried to see my brother or me. I always thought I did something wrong.

Despite this, we have always had a father who loved us as much as two parents combined could.

I now have a step-mom who loves me very much, and I have had to work to let her into my life.

My past has damaged me, but it has also made me stronger.

Being a parent is hard work, and it is easy to take parents for granted.

Growing up, I was always jealous of

Golf tournament to fundraise for veterans

The Military and Veterans Programs will host a golf tournament May 30 at Texas Tech’s Rawls Course as a scholarship fundraiser.

Ryan Van Dusen, the director of the Military and Veterans Programs, said this is the first ever scholarship fundraiser the program has done.

“The money we raise is going to our scholarships for veterans,” Dusen said. “Right now there are no scholarships specifically for our students. We want to help our students the best that we can.”

While veterans receive the G.I.

Bill, they only have 36 months of eligibility, Dusen said. After that, the veterans are on their own.

Having scholarships available will help the veterans with any remaining time they have, he said.

“We want to make sure that our students have a little more help,” Dusen said, “so they can graduate.”

The tournament is set up as a four-man scramble, and the entry fee for four-person teams is $1500, according to the Military and Veterans Programs website.

“The fee includes a cart, lunch

and golf,” Dusen said, “and participants can rent clubs if they need to.”

Prizes will be given out, he said, including an autographed Kliff Kingsbury football for the participant with the longest drive and golf gift certificates for the winning team.

The event is open to anyone who can afford it, Dusen said, with eight teams signed up so far.

“We are really excited about it,” he said. “It’s just something that we’ve been wanting to do

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assume a responsibility and do what needed to be done. We would be as efficient as possible and see as many patients as we could.”

Most of the nursing students came from different programs and worked well together overall, he said. The nursing students would take care of all issues that patients would arrive with to their mobile clinic, he said.

As the poorest country in Central America and second poorest in the Western Hemisphere, the native people of Nicaragua have limited access to healthcare, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook.

“They were so grateful to be seen by us even though they knew we were students,” Mulig said. “They would line up hours before we’d get there to make sure they’d be seen by someone.

They didn’t care how long it took.”

Each day, the students would travel to a different town, Kindler said. They took care of issues like wounds and common illnesses, but also checked for cervical cancer and human papillomavirus by performing pelvic exams.

The types of issues patients would come in with differed from issues patients have in the U.S., Mulig said.

“Certain complaints that they have all the time are simply related to their lifestyles,” she said. “For instance, in Nicaragua, coffee is their main export, so they drink coffee breakfast, lunch and dinner. They always say they’re having burning in their stomach. To us, we know that means reflux because caffeine can cause that.”

In the U.S., children are generally not carried everywhere, but Mulig said in Nicaragua, parents would complain of back pain caused by holding their children all day.

The difference in cultures along with triage work she did while abroad will aid in her career post-graduation, she said.

“Triage is vitally important in emergency nursing,” Mulig said. “You have to make sure that you understand what it is that the patient is experiencing. If you get that wrong and tell them they can sit and wait, they might be not be able to wait. You have to make sure you’re asking the right

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This past winter break, Mulig and other nursing students from across the country traveled to Jinotega, Nicaragua as part of a weeklong medical mission trip. It was an interdisciplinary effort as nursing students worked with pharmacy and medical students, she said, which made her study abroad experience unique.

“It really was an interprofessional trip,” she said. “Because interprofessionalism is so important at the Health Sciences Center, it was really cool to actually be able to apply that while in Nicaragua.”

Jacob Kindler, a senior nursing student from Carrolton, went on the trip with Mulig. Each student would complete various tasks and be assigned a different job each day during the medical mission trip, he said.

“Adrian and I were the only ones from our program,” he said. “We’re in the same class and had done clinical work together before we went. When we were down there, everyone would

for awhile.”

Registration will be open until the day of the event, according to the website.

They are looking for as many people to participate as possible, Dusen said, so they can raise as much money.

“It’s really going to depend on how much we raise,” he said, “but so far the reception has been really good. We would like to make a name for it and see it become an annual event.”

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questions, and being in that triage situation in Nicaragua was definitely beneficial for when I started triaging at the University Medical Center.”

Upon graduation, Mulig will work as a graduate nurse in the hospital’s emergency room.

She said she plans to continue her education by becoming a certified emergency nurse and eventually earning a master’s degree in nursing education in order to continue teaching beyond UMC’s emergency room.

“Within nursing itself, there are so many different things you can do,” Mulig said. “For me, in the E.R., I’ll be able to do pretty much everything. You can almost have a clinic atmosphere, treating people really fast, or you can have just one patient because they’re extremely and critically unstable.”

The variety of emergency nursing makes the career path right for her, she said.

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kids who had both their parents and still complained about them.

I am guilty of taking my dad for granted as well. However, I know that I am who I am today because of him. He is an example of what a good man encompasses, and I am so thankful for the sacrifices he has made for his kids.

As long as someone takes the time to be a parent, it doesn’t matter if they’re alone. Love is not a guarantee from anyone, and it takes a special person to give it selflessly.

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Smith plans to impact Tech basketball Red Raiders ranked

By REX ROSE Staff Writer

After the Tech basketball program lost four seniors and two transfers from the 2013-14 basketball team, Tech coach Tubby Smith said he will rely on some of his recruits to make an immediate impact on next year’s program.

One of the key players Smith is excited to announce as a Red Raider is Zach Smith from Plano East High School in Plano.

“Zach Smith is a 6-foot-8 athletic player who can do a lot of different things,” Tubby Smith said. “Especially now that we’ve got quite a few spots open. We have four seniors leaving and the two players that transferred, that opens up a lot more opportunities for players like Zach.”

According to a Tech news release, Zach Smith was named the 2013-14 District 10-5A Player of the Year and averaged 15.6 points and 12.1 rebounds per game during his senior campaign.

Zach’s high school coach, Jeff Clarkson, said he expects Zach to have a good relationship with coach Smith because of Zach’s work ethic and love for the game.

“I know just from my personal experience,” Clarkson said, “when players are willing to work hard and really enjoy the game and enjoy working hard every day, coaches usually enjoy coaching those guys and Zach is that type of guy.

“He comes to work every day and really enjoys playing the game. I think he’s going to enjoy playing for coach Smith, and I think coach Smith will really enjoy coaching Zach as well.”

According to the news release, Zach Smith chose Tech over Marquette, Nebraska, Kansas State, Texas Christian, University of Texas at El Paso and Washington State.

Zach Smith said the main reason he chose Tech was because of coach Smith and the overall feel he got while in Lubbock.

“Staying in Texas really wasn’t as important to me,” Zach Smith said.

“Anywhere I go, I know I’d be able to visit home and stay in touch with my parents and family. A lot of it was, of course, coach Tubby Smith and just the great environment overall.”

Clarkson said Zach is a great kid to coach and that he has the skill to compete immediately at the collegiate level if he tones up his offensive game before the start of the season.

“He definitely needs to polish up his offensive skills — his ball handling and just his scoring ability,” Clarkson said.

“Learning to be a little bit more aggressive off the dribble and learn how to get his shot a little bit quicker and a little bit easier. He’s got the tools; he’s just got to get a little more confidence.

“He came to practice every day and I never had to really ask him to pick it up. He was always ready to go and got after it and competed. He’s real wellliked among his teammates and he’s a great kid.”

Although Tech hasn’t had a winning season since the 2009-10 season, Zach said he is happy to be a Red Raider and knows he will have to work hard to earn his playing time.

“I’m very excited,” Zach Smith said.

“I have to prove myself as well as the

in five national polls

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BASKETBALL PLAYER ZACH Smith dunks the ball during a Plano East high school game. Smith will play for Texas Tech next year.

other class coming in. We’re going to be a pretty good class if we work hard. I think with coach Smith comes stability and hopefully a winning season.”

Zach Smith attended Tech’s last home game against the Texas Longhorns on March 8 as the Red Raiders won 59-53 and said he liked the atmosphere while attending the game and also enjoyed watching games on television.

“I thought it was great,” Zach said. “It was almost sold out that (Texas) game and I watched on TV when it was sold out against Oklahoma State and they (students) stormed the court. I thought it was a great atmosphere.”

Although Tech finished 8th in the

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Due to a medical condition, Texas Tech redshirt junior defensive back Summit Hogue announced on Facebook that he will retire, according to an article in The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

The medical condition, according to The Avalanche-Journal, is spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal.

“God closes doors to open new ones,” Hogue said in his Facebook post.

“It was a dream come true to wear the scarlet and black!”

Hogue played in eight games his

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freshman year, according to Tech Athletics, and in all 13 of the Red Raiders’ games this past season.

In his 13 games last season, Hogue recorded 10 tackles, according to Tech Athletics, with one being for a loss. He matched a career-high for tackles in the Red Raiders’ Holiday Bowl upset of Arizona State with two.

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polls in the same week.

Three more polls had the Red Raiders at No. 21. Those were the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Poll, the Collegiate Baseball Poll and the Baseball America Poll.

The poll that ranked Tech the highest is the USA Today Coaches Poll, which moved it up to the No. 19 spot, according to the release. 2005 was the last time the Red Raiders were ranked as high as No. 19 in a national poll.

Next on Tech’s schedule is a weekend series in Lawrence, Kan., against the Jayhawks.

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Big 12 and had a losing season last year, it is evident that the culture of Red Raider basketball is heading in the right direction with Tubby Smith and his recruits.

Tubby Smith said Zach Smith is the most gifted player from this recruiting class and he expects the team to be much improved from last season.

“He will be the most athletic player we signed because he can run, he can jump out the gym and he’s got great touch,” Tubby Smith said. “He can knock down the three, the open shot. I think when we bring them (recruits) in alongside guys that we have in the program, I think we’re going to be pretty good.”

The Texas Tech baseball team received a ranking from all five national college baseball polls Monday, according to a news release from Tech Athletics, after sweeping Oklahoma in its weekend series.

Coming into this week, the Red Raiders had been ranked in four of the five polls at some point throughout the season, according to the release.

After recording their third consecutive weekend sweep, the Red Raiders finally broke into the Perfect Game top-25, according to the release, at spot No. 21.

It is the first time Tech has been ranked by Perfect Game, according to the release, and the first time the Red Raiders have been ranked in all five

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Sterling statements appalling, not surprising There is no denying the private statements made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling are despicable.

Sterling spouted his hate for minorities in a discussion with his mistress, V. Stiviano. This discussion focused on his disgust for Stiviano’s willingness to publicize her association with minorities at Clippers games, even if they were as well-respected as NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson and Los Angeles Dodgers centerfielder Matt Kemp.

The archaic speech Sterling allowed to spill from his lips reminds us our society is not far removed from the injustices all minorities have had to endure through the history of this country.

Sports icons such as Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell, Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali already fought for the opportunity to allow all men and women, regardless of color, nationality, religious affiliation, etc., to be judged solely on merit.

Like past race issues, this is all about dignity.

All these athletes have deservedly earned a Clippers’ roster spot and handsome salaries with their virtuosity on the basketball court. This team is so talented, in fact, they arguably possess the best

Dawit Haile point guard in the game with Chris Paul and the third-best overall player, behind small forwards LeBron James and Kevin Durant, in power forward Blake Griffin.

Nonetheless, when Sterling said, according to Deadspin, “I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have — who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners that created the league?” it sounds similar to a plantation owner describing how thankful his slaves should be to him no matter how he treats them.

These recordings do well in displaying how ancient Sterling’s mindset is. He possesses no respect for these athletes, and looks at them as property.

Does he not understand the countless

hours these athletes put into training is making him richer by the second?

The outrage Sterling’s comments incited is extraordinary. However, placing the entire onus to protest on Clippers’ coach Doc Rivers, Paul, Griffin and the remainder of the team is unfair.

NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley said it best. When these athletes and coaches were dreaming of one day hoisting up the Larry O’Brien Championship trophy as children, Barkley said, they were not dreaming of achieving this pinnacle of excellence in basketball for an owner. They were only thinking about accomplishing this for their family, friends, teammates, coaches and most importantly, themselves.

No animosity should be directed toward these coaches and players for how they decide to carry on through the NBA playoffs.

If there is any person that deserves responsibility for this unfortunate situation, it is former commissioner David Stern.

Stern is to thank for much of the success the NBA has enjoyed through his tenure.

Stern transformed this league into a truly global entity. Last season’s NBA

finals featuring the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs were broadcast to 215 countries and territories in 47 languages, according to the Miami Herald.

The NBA also has Stern to thank for Sterling becoming the longest-tenured owner in the league. Plenty of events hinted to a situation like this ultimately arising, according a 2009 ESPN: The Magazine story by Peter Keating.

In 2003, 19 Ardmore tenants along with the nonprofit Housing Rights Center brought a discrimination lawsuit against Sterling. The suit concentrated on practices he had Ardmore employees follow to keep only “wanted tenants that fit his image.” Summer Davenport, one of Sterling’s four top property supervisors, said the image he looked to create for his tenant population featured no blacks, no Mexican-Americans, no children and no recipients of subsidized housing from the government.

In 2005, Sterling agreed on a confidential settlement with the Housing Rights Center, while also paying out $4.9 million to the plaintiffs for legal fees. That same year Davenport sued him for sexual harassment, but lost.

In Aug. 2006, Sterling received

federal housing discrimination charges from the Justice Department, which he eventually faced in 2009.

In Feb. 2009, Elgin Baylor, Clippers’ general manager from 1986 to 2008, filed an age and discrimination suit. Baylor described Sterling’s interest in constructing a team of “poor black boys from the South ... playing for a white coach.”

This is only a fraction of the sexist and discriminatory allegations to follow Sterling. Nevertheless, no punishments were given to him by the NBA. Instead, the NBA enabled his views on women and minorities, and his incompetence as an owner with a gift.

Stern redirected a trade involving Paul in December 2011, according to Sports Illustrated. The trade initially had him go from the then New Orleans Hornets to the Los Angeles Lakers. However, with the NBA controlling basketball operations for the Hornets at the time, the trade was restructured to award Paul to the Clippers.

So a franchise that still possesses the honor of the lowest win percentage in American sports (.371), according to ESPN, instantly became a championship contender.

Paul’s introduction into the Clippers’ lineup brought the win percentage to about 61 percent the following season.

Despite Stern’s inadequacies in handling Sterling, his successor, Adam Silver, righted those wrongs.

Silver approached the process responsibly providing the Clippers’ owner due process.

Once the tapes were authenticated Silver took a strong stance against these attitudes voiced by Sterling, bringing the hammer down with a lifetime ban from the NBA and a $2.5 billion dollar fine.

Now it is time for the NBA Board of Governors, compromised of the other 29 owners, to follow Silver’s lead and force Sterling to sell the Clippers because, like Silver said, “… this league is far bigger than any one owner, any one coach, any one player. This institution has been around for a long time …”

It needs to be around much longer for all men and women, no matter their race, religion or sexual orientation to enjoy, because this is one beautiful game.

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Clemens in NY court for settlement talks Aucoin wins award two straight weeks NEW YORK (AP) — Former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens and his onetime strength coach came face-toface on Tuesday in a bid to settle their long-running legal dispute, but they emerged from a closed-door meeting without a deal.

A judge had summoned Clemens and Brian McNamee to federal court in Brooklyn for settlement talks aimed at heading off a trial in the defamation case. McNamee’s lawyer emerged saying an agreement wasn’t likely.

“I think this is a case where the lines are deeply drawn in the sand,” said attorney Richard Emery. “I certainly expect there’s going to be a trial in this case.”

It was the first time Clemens and McNamee had been in a private setting opposite each other at a conference table since at least 2007, Emery said. His client, he added, has struggled

in recent years with health and financial problems.

Clemens and his attorneys left the courthouse on Tuesday without speaking to reporters.

U.S. Magistrate Cheryl Pollak ruled previously that Clemens has to turn over thousands of emails and other documents to McNamee. She agreed on Tuesday to examine the material to determine whether or not it was protected by lawyer-client privilege, as Clemens’ lawyers contend. Another hearing was set for June 10.

McNamee’s 2009 federal lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, alleges Clemens launched an “intense and coordinated public relations offensive” against McNamee after the trainer told federal investigators and Congress that he injected Clemens more than a dozen times with steroids and human growth hormone from 1998 through 2001.

The suit quotes Clemens saying in a YouTube video in 2007 that McNamee “did not inject steroids into my body either when I played in Toronto for the Blue Jays or the New York Yankees.” It also cites an interview with ESPN in May in which Clemens, when asked about McNamee, responded that it was a case of “somebody out there that is really crawling up your back to make a buck.”

In 2012, a Washington jury found Clemens not guilty of lying to Congress about steroids and human growth hormone. He had adamantly denied using either substance at a 2008 congressional hearing. The prosecution’s case relied heavily on the testimony of McNamee, who told jurors he injected Clemens with steroids and HGH many times.

Clemens is a seven-time Cy Young Award winner who also pitched for the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros.

Texas Tech sophomore pitcher/ infielder Gretchen Aucoin was named Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Week for the second consecutive week after earning a win in two games last weekend against Iowa State.

Aucoin becomes the first player in the Big 12 to be honored in backto-back weeks, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

This is the third time Aucoin has earned the award this season, which is the most in school history

for one season, according to the release.

In both of the games Aucoin pitched in last weekend, she threw fiveAUCOIN inning, complete games in run-rule victories and did not allowed an earned run. She has not allowed an earned run in her last 17.1 innings, the longest streak of

her career, according to the release.

In addition to her pitching, Aucoin made an impact at the plate, going 5-for-9 with two homeruns and five RBIs in the weekend series.

She is 14-7 on the season and has an ERA of 1.99, ranking in the top 10 in the conference.

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Parker, Nowitzki neutralized in Spurs-Mavs series SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki hasn’t had many open shots in the first-round series against San Antonio. Tony Parker usually gets chased all over the court by Dallas defensive ace Shawn Marion.

The German forward and the French point guard sure look like top priorities for the opposing defense in a series tied 2-all heading into Game 5 on Wednesday night.

And both teams are winning without dominant games from their leading scorers in the regular season.

“They have a lot of guys on their team that are first priorities,” Dallas’ Vince Carter said.

“It’s not just one. Trust me. Whoever has the ball is probably the first priority.”

Carter had a game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer in Game 3. Boris Diaw put the Spurs ahead

with a shot from long range in the final minute of a Game 4 win.

Monta Ellis has been tough for San Antonio to stop in the second half of games. Spurs reserve guard Manu Ginobili has two of the four highest-scoring games in the series.

Parker has virtually disappeared since scoring 17 points in the first half of Game 3, and now he’s dealing with a mild left ankle sprain that appeared to happen in Game 4, when he had a series-low 10 points on 5-of-14 shooting.

“He didn’t have a great game by any means, but it happens.

He’ll be fine,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said after the game. “I don’t think the same guys are going to play great every night in a series.”

Nowitzki hasn’t been shut down completely. His scoring has steadily increased in the series, topped by 19 points in Game 4.

Still, the 7-foot sharpshooter has been held under 20 points in four straight playoff games for the first time since his first postseason in 2001. And he’s not getting any freedom at the 3-point line.

He has just five attempts in four games, and has made one.

Nowitzki missed all three tries from long range in Game 4, and was short on a rare open midrange jumper with the Mavericks

up by one late.

“He’s missed some easy bunnies that I think he’s rushed because now when they’re open he’s like, ‘Oh, man I’ve got to get it up,’” Carter said. “He beats himself up over it. He’ll play through it.

He’ll be fine.”

Dallas coach Rick Carlisle is aware that the sight of Nowitzki with the ball and room to operate has been rare.

“I’m working to try to help get him more,” Carlisle said. “In the playoffs, a lot of the game comes down to playing out of flow.

When we’re doing it well, the ball moves and it moves through the hands of the best players as much as possible.”

Parker’s mid-range jumper was surprisingly off target in Game 4, and he even missed a couple of layups when trying his other specialty — getting to the rim.

Popovich said Parker was day to day with a Grade 1 sprain, the mildest. No MRI or X-rays were planned, an indication that he will be out there trying to match his Game 1 showing. He came up limping at one point Monday night but kept playing.

Parker finished with 21 points in the series opener, including the go-ahead basket on a spinning layup during a 14-0 run in the fourth quarter.