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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 VOLUME 87 ■ ISSUE 148
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Women’s basketball assistant coach named Texas Tech women’s basketball coach Candace Whitaker announced Damitria Buchanan as an assistant head coach Tuesday. “We are thrilled to have Damitria join the Lady Raider family,” Whitaker said in a statement. “She is an outstanding young coach and recruiter with great ties to both the Houston and Dallas regions. I look forward to working with her as we continue the great tradition of the Lady Raider program.” Her role will consist of recruiting, post play, academic liaison and scouting, according to the Tech Athletics website. Buchanan spent the last two years as an assistant coach of the Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks in Nacogdoches, Texas.In her 2011-2012 season, Buchanan helped the Ladyjacks get to the Women’s Basketball Invitational with a 23-9 record where the Ladyjacks lost to Northern Iowa in the first round. During her playing career at Texas A&M, the Aggies won three Big 12 conference titles and she had four top-25 finishes as a player, according to the Tech Athletics website. Buchanan joins Brett Schneider as an assistant coach for the 2013-2014 season. ➤➤bfox@dailytoreador.com
House rejects farm bill, 62 Republicans vote no WASHINGTON (AP) — The House rejected a five-year, halftrillion-dollar farm bill Thursday that would have cut $2 billion annually from food stamps and let states impose broad new work requirements on those who receive them. Those cuts weren’t deep enough for many Republicans who objected to the cost of the nearly $80 billiona-year food stamp program, which has doubled in the past five years. The vote was 234-195 against the bill, with 62 Republicans voting against it. The bill also suffered from lack of Democratic support necessary for the traditionally bipartisan farm bill to pass. Only 24 Democrats voted in favor of the legislation after many said the food stamp cuts could remove as many as 2 million needy recipients from the rolls. The addition of the optional state work requirements by Republican amendment just before final passage turned away many remaining Democratic votes the bill’s supporters may have had.
Council considers texting, driving ban By EMILY GARDNER Managing Editor
A 40-year-old man and three friends left to train for an Ironman Triathlon one Sunday morning — one of them never returned. The man, whose father is a friend of District 4 Councilman Jim Gerlt’s, was another casualty of distracted driving, leaving behind his two children and wife after the Amarillo accident. “They were cycling that morning,” Gerlt said, with tears in his eyes, “and a distracted driver crossed two lanes of traffic, and hit my friend’s son, and killed him.” He said Texas Rep. Tom Craddick reintroduced a bill in the Texas Legislature to create a statewide ban on texting while driving, and the Alex Brown incident is a
factor influencing the legislation. The Alex Brown Foundation website reported Brown died in a single-car accident her senior year of high school caused by texting while driving in Wellman, Texas, according to media reports. According to Texas Legislature Online, the bill was passed in the house on April 18, but did not make it out of the Senate Transportation Committee. At the June 13 Lubbock City Council meeting, a texting while driving ordinance was set to be discussed, according to the meeting agenda, but was tabled. The Texas Legislature has banned all cellphone use, including texting, for bus drivers and novice drivers as well as the use of hand-held phones in school zones, according to the official U.S. Government website for distracted driving.
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With all the various ongoing summer camps on campus, Texas Tech becomes more diversified each week. One of these camps was the Native American Summer Bridge Institute summer program, which occurred during the week of June 16 – 21. NASBI is a summer residential program for high school Native American students who are interested in obtaining a college degree, Ricky Sherfield Jr., unit coordinator, said. This is the sixth year the program has been on campus. “This is a college readiness program, so of course the students have been taking classes and participating in workshops,” he said. “We really want them to get a taste of what being a Texas Tech student is like and what college life is like.” About 35 participants from places including Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico and other regions attended the program this year, and Sherfield said many of them were returners to the camp since it is a two-year program. “The biggest thing is we’re teaching them about how to prepare for college, but I think really the students are teaching us,” he said. “We learn about their tribes and their history, and each student is different and has a different background, so it’s not exactly the same.” During the five-day program, the students resided in Stangel Residence Hall and attended leadership workshops
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JOE DUKE, ASSOCIATE director of the University Career Center, reminds campers with the Native American Summer Bridge Institute summer program how to properly eat their bread as part of an etiquette dinner they attended Wednesday evening.
and classes taught by Tech faculty. The Student Government Association led one of the workshops, and the others covered topics such as admissions review,
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SONIA PEREZ, A senior construction engineering major from Brownsville and Erick Gabel, a senior construction engineering major from Amarillo, survey a field beside the Biology building as part of their lab project for their surveying class.
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Gerlt said the ban, if passed, would be enforced in the same way as seat belt laws. Floyd Price, District 2 councilman, said police officers are trained to notice if a driver is wearing a seat belt, and if they notice a driver looking down and using one hand they can pull the driver over. “If that law passed, and it becomes a law you can’t text and drive,” he said, “and that officer sees that type of situations, that is a breach of the peace, and he or she can stop you because you got probable cause to stop, and investigate whatever the breach of peace is.” Price said the ban could produce three types of misdemeanor violations but believes it will likely be considered a Class C misdemeanor.
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Texting while driving has been banned in 41 states, the District of Columbia and Guam, according to the website. Eleven states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands prohibit all use of hand-held cellphones while driving. Gerlt said he drives a truck and is amazed by the number of drivers he sees using cellphones while driving throughout town. The ban, he said, would allow drivers to use hands-free devices such as Bluetooth and would include exceptions such as if the driver’s life were in danger. Theresa Malicki, a senior electronic media and communications major from Houston, said she would be opposed to the ban because she does not believe the law would be enforceable, and people would continue to text while driving.
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LONDON (AP) — In the first major global review of violence against women, a series of reports released Thursday found that about a third of women have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner. The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, called it “a global health problem of epidemic proportions,” and other experts said screening for domestic violence should be added to all levels of health care. Among the findings: 40 percent of women killed worldwide were slain by an intimate partner, and being assaulted by a partner was the most common kind of violence experienced by women. Researchers used a broad definition of domestic violence, and in cases where country data was incomplete, estimates were used to fill in the gaps. WHO defined physical violence as being slapped, pushed, punched, choked or attacked with a weapon. Sexual violence was defined as being physically forced to have sex, having sex for fear of what the partner might do and being
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compelled to do something sexual that was humiliating or degrading. The report also examined rates of sexual violence against women by someone other than a partner and found about 7 percent of women worldwide had previously been a victim. In conjunction with the report, WHO issued guidelines for authorities to spot problems earlier and said all health workers should be trained to recognize when women may be at risk and how to respond appropriately. Globally, the WHO review found 30 percent of women are affected by domestic or sexual violence by a partner. The report was based largely on studies from 1983 to 2010. According to the United Nations, more than 600 million women live in countries where domestic violence is not considered a crime. The rate of domestic violence against women was highest in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where 37 percent of women experienced physical or sexual violence from a partner at some point in their lifetimes.
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