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Factory workers to discuss living wage

Students build machine to increase interest in STEM

Workers from the Dominican Republic will be on campus at 6:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss their lives as garment factory workers and the benefits of a living wage.

The workers sew Texas Tech apparel in a textile factory in the Dominican Republic, according to a Tech news release, where they are paid three times more than the area’s minimum wage.

The Women’s Studies Program will host the event, which will feature speakers Maritza Vargas and Sobeida Fortuna.

“We are fortunate to have Maritza Vargas and Sobeida Fortuna speak here on campus,” Tricia Earl, unit coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program, said in the release. “To hear firsthand accounts of how a living wage has impacted their lives from fueling new businesses, livable homes, nutritious food, clean drinking water and access to education, it is critical for our community to recognize the intersection between what is global, local and vice versa.”

The Alta Gracia factory, according to the release, is the sole collegiate apparel factory in the world.

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Tech dance program receives accreditation The Texas Tech dance program was approved by the National Accreditation Agency and now stands as one of the only universities in Texas to have all four of its arts programs accredited.

Accreditation is granted to schools that exhibit quality programs and is a reflection of the dedication and hard work of the students, faculty and staff at Tech, according to a Tech news release.

The National Association of Schools and Dance approved the dance program in September, according to the release, after two years of reviewing policies, assessments and curriculum approval.

Tech’s four arts programs — dance, theater, music and art — are now all accredited by the National Accreditation Agency, making the university the only school in Texas with all four programs accredited, according to the release.

National accreditation allows the school to participate in benchmark assessments, allowing the school’s arts programs to stay current, relevant and maintain the best quality possible for its students, according to the release.

Now that Tech is recognized as a member of the National Association of Schools and Dance, the school will be able to vote on policies affecting the dance curriculum of higher education institutions across the nation, according to the release.

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JOHN CALHOUN, A doctoral student from San Antonio, helped build the supercomputer Lab for the Analysis of Zombie Activity and Research into Undead Situations.

Former Texas Tech quarterback Baker Mayfield has been denied his appeal with the NCAA to be eligible to play at Oklahoma this season, according to ESPN. Mayfield, a graduate of Lake Travis High School in Austin, was basing his appeal on the fact that he walked on to the Red Raider football team, so he should not be held to the same transfer rules as player on scholarship.

Tech quarterback Davis Webb and Mayfield battled for the quarterback job throughout the 2013 season, according to the Tech Athletics website, with Mayfield making seven starts throughout the year.

The Big 12 Conference named Mayfield the Offensive Player of the Year at the end of the season, accord-

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ing to the website, and he was the first true freshman to do so since Robert Griffin III in 2008.

At the end of the season, Mayfield was one of the 10 MAYFIELD semi-finalists for the Burlsworth Trophy, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, which is given each year to the best college football player who began his career as a walk-on.

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Some students enjoy listening to music while working out or walking to class. Gabriela Longoria, a sophomore business management and marketing major from Lubbock, said she also enjoys listening to music while studying.

Depending on the assignment at hand, Longoria said, the type of music she prefers to listen to can vary.

“I like studying with it,” she said, “because it kind of gives me like, a beat to go to. Listening to classical music, I feel like helps me a lot more than listening to something with words in it.”

According to a study done by Bradley University about the relation of music and ambient noise to a student’s comprehension ability, students who listen to music more often while studying are able to condition their brains to prefer background noise while focusing on an important task.

Students were asked to read a passage and study it while listening to music of their choice.

Students who said they frequently listen to music while studying performed much better on the exam distributed afterward, according to the study.

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Analyzing zombie simulations through a supercomputer is not something typically offered to students at college campuses.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, science, technology, engineering and math students at Texas Tech have recently constructed a computer system named Lab for the Analysis of Zombie Activity and Research into Undead Situations, also known as LAZARUS. “The idea for this project started my freshman year, when a friend and I had the idea for creating zombie simulations,” John Calhoun, a mathematical graduate student from San Antonio, said. “After reaching out to one of my professors for help, he was able to get me connected with some funding and research opportunities because of his interest with the idea.”

Calhoun said the project was able to get its funding last year with the help of the National Science Foundation and other educational facilities on campus.

Building the LAZARUS supercomputer began last year and is almost complete, Calhoun said.

“This supercomputer will help provide an environment where undergrads and high school students can be exposed to this area of science,” he said. “The idea was really to have this supercomputer for undergrads to come experiment with it, regardless if their proposed program works or not.”

The lab’s efforts are currently focused on the construction of a Graphics Processing Unit Supercomputing Cluster, which is codenamed Schoenberg, according to the LAZARUS website.

The cluster has been developed to initially support the implementation of large-scale zombie outbreak simulations, according to the website.

“We are trying to demonstrate to people that are unexposed to math the empowering and approachability of math with this type of simulation,” Calhoun said.

The clusters are currently being finished built, he said.

After the clusters are built, Calhoun said, there will be a period of learning how to use it and the programs for it.

“This has allowed us to design a project that could make STEM really applicable to students in K-12,” Jessica Spott, senior program administrator in STEM, said. “So the idea is that we could do educational outreach to local students in high school and middle schools to get them actively involved in mathematical building. So these students will be able to go online and manipulate and run code that has to do with zombie modeling.”

Spott said this would allow students to be exposed to real mathematical concepts that they could see and play with.

Future potential applications for the supercomputer include broader disease modeling, social network analysis and digital image analysis applications, according to the LAZARUS website.

“The current zombie simulations will be ran by building a city and filling it with zombies,” Calhoun said. “After that we will see what happens. By doing this, we will split up different rooms with different processors doing its own calculations all while communicating with each other.”

Mayfield appeal denied Music improves student focus during study time

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Texas Tech School of Art presents “Chicanitas,” from the Cheech Marin Collection, an exhibition of small-scale Chicano and Chicana paintings.

Cheech Marin, actor, director, comedian, author and Chicano art collector, opens the series at 7 p.m. Friday in Tech’s Allen Theatre, according to a Tech news release.

Jo Moore, director of the Presidential Lecture and Performance series, said the School of Art was interested in bringing Marin to Tech because of his “Chicanitas” art collection.

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“The purpose of this series is to enhance the cultural landscape of the MOORE South Plains,” Moore said, “to bring in performers, speakers and dance companies that excel in their chosen field.”

The “Chicanitas” exhibition features 65 works by 26 painters. The paintings in the collection come from Marin’s private collection of Chicano art, according the release.

Joe Arredondo, director of landmark arts in the School of Art, said the exhibit represents the Chicana and Chicano experience through the paintings on display.

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The paintings in the exhibit will vary from photo• Series begins 7 p.m. Friday realism to abstraction, from por- • Exhibit features 65 pieces by 26 painters traiture to land- • Season tickets cost $75 scapes, according • General admission costs $18 per event to the release.

“While all the • Students receive one free ticket per event paintings are figuracording to the release, but he also has one tive in that recognizable figures are evident, there are many of the world’s finest private collections of styles of painting used and many different Chicano art.

“Cheech Marin is an iconic Hispanic acsubject matters pictured,” Arredondo said. tor and performer, and he is very well recogThe exhibition presents several subjects and technical approaches to painting by top nized,” Moore said. “What most people don’t Chicana and Chicano artists from around know about him is that he has the foremost Chicano art collection in the United States.” the U.S., he said.

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fluctuations of the count of inactive websites, the one billion mark will be confirmed in the months ahead, according to the Internet Live Stats website.

Steven Carr, owner of Your Web Pro, said he is not surprised the Internet has reached one billion websites because more businesses are venturing online and more information is being published.

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The World Wide Web has grown from one website in 1991 to more than one billion websites in 2014, according to figures updated in real time by online tracker Internet Live Stats.

The milestone was reached on Sept. 16, but given the monthly

“Well the internet has certainly become the hub of what most people do day to day,” Carr said. “Whether it’s television or news or social interactions, we really have circled our lives around the internet.”

British physicist Tim BernersLee invented the World Wide Web in March of 1989, and he also introduced the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP, and the first ver-

sion of the Hyper Text Markup Language, HTML. Phillip Anderson, a senior electronic media and communications major from Dallas, said he is currently working on his own website, a personal portfolio and blog to display his talents to potential employers.

“It’s one of those things where instead of sending employers your resume and PDFs, why not just

California gov. signs assault bill

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“I think that it is wonderful,” Roach said. “California is at least realizing that rape isn’t and should never be handled lightly and are finally trying to fix and help with the situation.”

Roach said she believes Texas campuses should take sexual assault just as seriously, especially because there are those cases that have been pushed aside if they seemed unimportant.

Kassie Flores, a senior early childhood education major from Austin, agreed with California focusing on sexual assault and how to prevent it and handle it if it happens.

“As a student, it would make me feel safe to know that my campus won’t take this situation lightly,” Flores said.

“Students’ safety should be a university’s top priority.”

The phrase “yes means yes” brings attention to the fact that an individual under the influence of drugs or alcohol may not be able to resist or say “no,” she said. Both parties must give consent verbally so no sexual act is acceptable

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Jerry Brown, Governor of California, signed a bill Sunday to create certain guidelines for colleges to follow when dealing with sexual assault cases on campus.

California is the first state to use the phrase “yes means yes,” according to an Associated Press article. The phrase is meant to define consent to sexual activity instead of thinking that because a victim never said “no,” it could be considered a “yes,” according to the article.

According to the law, silence or not fighting back is not considered consent, according to the article, and if an individual is drunk or drugged, they are considered to be unable to say “yes.”

Makenzie Roach, a sophomore business management major from Pittsburg, said she thinks the law California is making does not have to define guidelines for college campuses but agrees with campuses being strict on these cases.

toward one another, she said.

No assault cases should go unnoticed, even if it involved important people from the university, Flores said.

“I feel that many cases that may have to do with campus officials or athletes are brushed aside to avoid a bad reflection on the campus as a whole instead of that individual person,” she said. “I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily ‘common,’ but almost expected when it involves notable persons on campus.”

Rachel Alexander, a sophomore elementary education major from Plano, said “yes means yes” as well as “no means no” is beneficial if clearly defined so nothing is taken out of context.

“Sometimes, people try to say that they were unaware if someone said “no” since there are way more ways of saying no than saying yes,” Alexander said. “I think that it is cool how they used ‘yes means yes’ so that there is a clear indication of what actually means ‘yes’ and everything else would be considered ‘no.’” ➤➤dcopeland@dailytoreador.com

send them a link and everything they need to know about me is up there,” he said.

Anderson said he believes everyone should have a website, and with the Internet exceeding one billion websites, creators and owners of websites are able to cater to niche audiences.

“It has my photography, my videography, my cinematography, my blog, my writing skills and on top of that I put the website together with my own two hands,” he said.

According to Internet Live Stats, 40 percent of the world population has Internet connection and after reaching two billion users in 2010, Internet Live Stats expects the Internet to reach three billion users by the end of 2014.

Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009, an organization dedicated to making the Internet available, usable and valuable for everyone,

according to World Wide Web Foundation website.

As of 3 p.m. Tuesday, the Internet had 1,072,370,200 active websites, according to Internet Live Stats.

The website tracks a variety of internet activity such as the number of Google searches made every day, how many videos are viewed on YouTube, and the number of emails sent.

Anderson said there are many reasons to have websites and not many reasons not to. Even though he has been working on launching his website for the past two years, Anderson said the web is changing and it is becoming a personal medium.

“To a certain extent it’s like learning a new language,” Anderson said. “There are so many different tools you have at your disposal and it’s basically figuring out what’s going to work best and what you’re trying to do, what your goal is.” ➤➤jgonzales@dailytoreador.com

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SCOTT CLARKE, A senior geology major from Dallas, analyzes rocks on Monday in the Physics and Geosciences building.

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Tech officers arrest students for possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia Friday 11:37 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated an accident in the R19 parking lot of Coleman Residence Hall. An unattended vehicle was hit.

1:36 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated the theft of a Texas license plate from a vehicle in the north parking lot of Gordon Residence Hall.

2:15 p.m. — A Tech officer inves-

tigated the theft of a wallet from the Math building by an unknown person.

11:27 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication on the north side of Coleman Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of fictitious license after a traffic stop at the 3100 block of 18th Street. The student signed the citation and was released.

3:05 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of substance in penalty group three, two counts of possession of dangerous drug, possession of marijuana and a

Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia after an investigation into a suspicious odor at Hulen Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

5:15 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for pubic intoxication, four outstanding Lubbock County warrants and one outstanding

City of Lubbock warrant after an observed disturbance in the 300 block of Detroit Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

10:18 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol in a motor vehicle after a traffic stop in the 1800 block of Flint Avenue. The student

signed the citation and was released.

11:28 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and fictitious license after the report of an intoxicated individual on the north side of Chitwood Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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of Art, Moore said.

“It is a wonderful opportunity for students to learn from masters in their field,” she said. “I like to refer to it as Texas Tech’s gift to the community.”

The event launches the Tech Landmark Gallery exhibition of “Chicanitas” located in the School of Art building, Friday until Dec. 14.

According to the release, at 8 p.m. Thursday, the TTU

International Film Series, in partnership with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, will present Marin’s 1987 comedy “Born in East L.A.” The screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is before Marin’s visit to Tech on Friday as part of the Presidential Lecture and Performance Series.

All Presidential Lecture and Performance Series events will be held at the Allen Theatre

in the Student Union building.

Season tickets are $75, while general admission tickets are $18 per event, according to the release.

Tech students may receive one free ticket for each event with a valid Tech student ID that should be presented at the information desk in the Student Union building, according to the release.

spend as much time listening to music scored lower on the exam while listening to music, according to the study.

The students in the control group, students who listened to no music while studying, scored significantly higher than both boys and girls who did.

Devan Shi Patel, a freshman exercise and sport sciences major from Lubbock, said she rarely chooses to listen to music while studying. It wasn’t that music impaired her focus, Patel said, but more so that she just preferred not to listen to music when she studied.

“It doesn’t really go with me,” she said. “It’s not that I can’t focus, I mean with noises I can still study, but, I just don’t do it. I don’t really like it.”

Angela Mariani, a professor of music, said whether or not music can help improve one’s focus can vary from person to person. Musicians, for example, she said, would have a very hard time focusing since their natural tendency is to pay attention to the music.

People are conditioned to prefer ambient noise over total silence, since much of a person’s life is spent living and functioning while various noises are in the background, Mariana said, and because of this, listening to music may help students who are accustomed to a louder environment.

“There are many people who like to use music as a kind of

background sound while studying, and for some, it blocks out other distracting noises,” she said. “We are very accustomed to having a large amount of background noise in our lives. Some people even find total silence to be very disconcerting.”

Listening to different types of music, depending on the subject of the assignment a student is working on, can make studying a more enjoyable chore, Luis Gonzalez, a junior energy commerce and wind energy major from Eagle Pass, said.

Gonzalez said he enjoys listening to classical music when doing homework that requires more focus and comprehension, and alternative rock when he is doing an assignment that requires free thought and a more hands-on approach.

“It really depends what type of mood I’m in. Classical music compared to rock, you’ll be able to concentrate a lot more with classical music depending on if you’re doing math or writing an essay,” he said, “and if you’re doing art or something like that, you can listen to rock to get you in the mood and get you going.”

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Marin will discuss the current status of Chicano art in the United States, as well as his role as a Chicano art advocate, according to the release.

Marin will present a multimedia presentation of his paintings along with the presentation of the exhibit within the School

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Siblings provide lifelong support, friendship E

veryone who has at least one sibling has dealt with a little sibling rivalry or sibling problems at some point in their life. Some people are not very close with their older or younger sibling while others are practically attached at the hip — my sister and I are the latter.

Growing up, everyone we would come across thought we were twins.

I am only a year and two days older than her, and our genetics are indeed very similar. My mother acted as though we were twins, dressing us in identical clothing and sometimes even joked that we were twins.

We did absolutely everything together and almost never left each other’s side. Up until my sister entered kindergarten and first grade, I even did most of her speaking for her.

Liana Solis She was a typical shy baby, never choosing to speak with anyone and communicating mostly through me. We had this nearly perfect telepathic connection going where I almost always knew exactly what she wanted to say, so I would just talk to other people for her.

Once she got into grade school and we were separated most of the day, she was forced to make other friends and began to gain a voice of her own. Going through grade school, she still relied on me for

many things, but she started becoming her own person as well.

We have still been best friends for all of our lives. Going through the awkward stages of middle school, we were still each other’s best friends. Of course, as we got older, we started discovering differences in our personalities which caused us to argue more, but not nearly as much as other siblings.

I remember my friends would complain nonstop about one of their siblings and about how annoying they were or how they did this and that. They would look at me and ask, “Does your sister ever get on your nerves that much?”

All I could tell them was “No, not really.”

Although I could understand what they were saying, I couldn’t relate to where they were coming

from. My sister was my best friend, and we never got into any kind of huge argument. If we did argue, we might not talk to each other for all of two seconds and then we were fine again.

It always astounded me how hateful some people could be toward their own blood, especially a brother or sister. I believe siblings were given to us so we always have a friend to rely on, even when we don’t have anyone else. Why would I want to be hateful toward the best friend life had given to me from the start?

Siblings should be considered a blessing, not a burden. Sure, they may get in the way sometimes or do something to make someone angry, but in the end they are the one person who is always going to be there for you.

My sister has been there for me through thick and thin, and has never given up on me through everything life has thrown at us.

She knows more about me than anyone I know and I lean on her whenever I need help or am feeling down. That’s what siblings should do — they should be there for you when there is no one else around.

Even now with both my sister and I being more grown and going to separate colleges, we still stay close. We still text almost every day, we FaceTime or Skype whenever we can and we do everything we can to stay connected with each other.

My biggest fear is that we will both graduate from college, start our own lives with our own families and will just forget about each other. However, I know in my heart that won’t happen.

Organization promotes faculty recognition

By KAITLIN BAIN News editor

The Texas Tech chapters of Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa are conducting faculty recognition to honor deserving members of Tech faculty.

Clinton Gabel, Mortar Board Faculty Recognition Chair, said the event began in the 1940s with “Be Kind to Faculty Week.”

It later changed to the program that is conducted now, where the chosen faculty members are honored at a banquet and a home football game, he said.

In 1979, Omicron Delta Kappa partnered with Mortar Board to conduct the event.

“There will be an application process,” he said, “where any TTU student is able to nominate a professor or any member of the faculty.”

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Calhoun said those who are involved with the project all have different jobs.

Some of the jobs involved with the project include designers, engineers and mathematical coders, according to the LAZARUS website.

“So my official role is the instigator for everything,” Calhoun said. “Basically, I am responsible for designing, building

To nominate a professor, students must fill out the application page, available on Mortar Board and Omicron Delta Kappa’s Facebook pages, as well as the Mortar Board website, he said. Students will also write a 500 to 1,000 word essay explaining why the professor they nominated should earn the award.

“Mostly we look for how has this professor affected a student,” he said. “Like what are they doing? Are they just an amazing professor, very willing to listen to problems and help a student understand a topic? How is their researching impacting the community?”

A professor’s research efforts are also considered, he said.

Jordan Shelton, Omicron Delta Kappa Faculty Recognition Chair, said the program is meant to honor professors who not only

help students in the classroom, but outside as well.

“So we don’t want just professors who have been teaching in the classroom, we want people that are actively helping students outside the classroom,” he said, “actively engaging them and helping them with anything they need help with.”

Students can send in applications until Oct. 22 at midnight, Gabel said.

After the applications are submitted, the committee, comprised of seven members of Mortar Board and seven members of Omicron Delta Kappa, will review all the applications and pick five outstanding faculty members to recognize, he said.

The faculty members are then recognized at a banquet and a Tech home game, he said.

“They receive a plaque and the

and the general organization of the project.”

Spott said the grant funded by the National Science Foundation, has funded several undergraduate students to work on the project.

She said students would typically work on the project for a full academic year.

“We have had undergraduate students work on many different projects that all relate to the LAZARUS project,” Spott said.

In order to get students more involved with the project, Cal-

houn said they are trying to figure out how to offer courses and classes to students to learn how to use the program.

Calhoun said they hope to get these classes started by next fall.

“This will also hopefully provide a resource to not just the math and science community at Tech but other parts as well,” he said. “We have this computer that has almost no rules attached to it, so we want to do all the things that no other cluster gets to do, like running zombie simulations.” ➤➤aestalano@dailytoreador.com

Davis accuses Abbott of incentive fund ‘cover up’ AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney General Greg Abbott on Monday defended old rulings by his office that critics say hid problems with the Texas Enterprise Fund and more recent decisions that keep tight wraps on how Texas uses taxpayer money to woo businesses.

The criticism has the Republican, the heavy favorite to win Texas’ gubernatorial race in November, facing fresh scrutiny about transparency and oversight heading into a final debate Tuesday night against Democratic opponent Wendy Davis. An Abbott spokesman called the accusations against his office “political posturing.”

A state audit last week found that Republican Gov. Rick Perry gave roughly $172 million to private companies that never submitted applications for lucrative economic development awards. The report will likely shadow Perry if he runs again for president in 2016, but the political repercussions are also falling on Abbott.

His office has previously denied portions of open records requests related to some of the Texas Enterprise Fund recipients that never formally applied. On Monday, Davis called that part of a “cover up” that prevented troubles with the fund — which Perry created in 2004 — from being exposed years ago.

“He looked the other way as

hundreds of millions of our tax dollars were handed out without any accountability,” Davis said at a news conference in Fort Worth.

What went into recent failed efforts by Perry’s office to dole out even more money also remains withheld.

Abbott’s office last week de-

nied a July public information request from The Associated Press for records related to the state’s courtship of Tesla Motors’ $5 billion battery factory. The company, which makes electric cars, instead picked Nevada after lawmakers approved giving the company $1.1 billion in tax abatements.

People say some friendships you make will last a lifetime, whether it is with a friend from elementary school or one from college. People always seem to discount the one person who was in their life from the start, the person who life itself built in to be your lifelong best friend.

Whenever anyone asks who my best friend is, I more often than not say my sister. People will say something like, “Oh, that doesn’t count, she is your sister.” But why shouldn’t it count? There is no rule that says your sibling can’t be your best friend. If there is one, then I am clearly breaking that rule.

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co-chairs will give a speech that explains the qualities that caused this professor to be chosen by the student, and then the professor will actually receive a copy of the essay that the student wrote,” he said. “I think this year we’re going to try to invite the student who nominated the professor.”

Mortar Board is a society comprised of the top 50 seniors, chosen by the previous year’s Mortar Board, he said. Members participate in honors function and volunteering throughout the year.

Omicron Delta Kappa is the second-oldest national honor society and is open to juniors and seniors at the university, Shelton said.

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These are the questions Congress had for Holder when he appeared to testify, and instead of cooperating, he turned over thousands of fully redacted pages and was eventually held in criminal contempt of Congress.

Another of his primary failures (in which the White House likely had a hand) was in his DOJ’s overzealous pursuit of journalists. He was notably involved in incidents with Fox News’ James Rosen and The Associated Press, where the DOJ monitored email and phone correspondence of these journalists in a “massive and unprecedented intrusion,” according to AP CEO Gary Pruitt. This was a clear violation of the constitutional freedoms the media is allowed, yet Holder and the DOJ never were held accountable for this overreach.

In a further violation of our rights as citizens, Holder’s DOJ stated it would authorize drone killings of American citizens, without due process, if the government deemed them to have met some arbitrary criteria.

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Holder also refused to uphold his duty as America’s top prosecutor, to uphold the laws of the United States.

the 2009 Fort Hood shooting a terrorist act, instead calling it “workplace violence,” cheating the victims’ families out of years of financial benefits. The DOJ reports about this incident avoided mention of shooter Nidal Hasan’s jihadist tendencies, and the DOJ also purged all law enforcement training materials of references to “jihad” and its connection to “radical Islam.”

He also dropped federal charges against New Black Panther Party members who reportedly tried to intimidate white voters in Philadelphia, even though they failed to appear in their own defense.

It is remarkable that Holder, the first African-American attorney general, managed to be one of the most divisive figures to ever hold the office. Instead of recognizing what his appointment meant for America and the progress it had made in just 50 years, Holder instead used his position as a political tool and used race as a shield for stunning incompetence and/or blatant disregard for the laws of the United States.

Further, he used his stature to promote racially and politically motivated actions at the highest levels of the justice system.

So what is Eric Holder’s legacy? His six years of “activism” in charge of the DOJ have been nothing more than a step backwards for the United States, and he has no one to blame but himself.

White is a junior petroleum engineering major from Albuquerque, New Mexico. ➤➤ jwhite@dailytoreador.com

Islamic nations should not persecute for religious beliefs

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riday marked two years since American Pastor Saeed Abedini was wrongly detained in Iran.

According to Fox News, the American pastor is serving an eightyear prison sentence for refusing to recant his Christian faith.

Over the years, certain countries regarded as “Muslim countries” have taken an unfair stance against individuals because of their religious views in a way and manner which is unfair and calls for concern.

Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of Pastor Saeed, told Fox News in an interview that her husband, who is still being held in an Iranian prison, is suffering from multiple wounds due to severe beatings he received during the first few months of refusing to renounce Christianity, a stance he still maintains today.

Pastor Saeed’s unfortunate plight reminds me of Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death by hanging simply because of her Christian beliefs. Fortunately, Ibrahim escaped this death penalty due to help from the United States and intense global media outcry.

According to Amnesty.org, Ibrahim was previously convicted of “adultery” on the grounds that her marriage to a Christian man from south Sudan was considered void under Sudanese Sharia law and was thus sentenced to flogging in public, a punishment that had to wait because Ibrahim was eight months pregnant

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while on duty.

According to CBS News, McSpadden said, “It lets me know how they feel about the situation, and the wrongness that they do.”

If Jackson were really attempting to change the legal system in Ferguson and prove equality among all races, then he would have apologized when the riots first began. If he cared about the feelings of Brown’s parents, he wouldn’t have allowed police officers to wear the bracelets while on duty.

Brown’s parents are still troubled on why Jackson has not arrested Wilson, the officer who shot Brown. According to CBS News, McSpadden said, “All of our eyes see the same thing, that it was wrong, an injustice. Why wouldn’t they come back with an indictment?”

If you shoot someone you typically go to jail, but it was a police officer that claims to have been defending himself who pulled the trigger. Jackson not doing anything to the officer shows he agrees with his actions.

This case has persisted for several months now and it will continue until justice is served. Brown’s parents recently traveled to the nation’s capital to meet with Congress. They asked for a law to be passed that would require police officers to wear cameras when engaging with civilians.

This could be a way to protect not only citizens, but officers as well. If they conduct their duty the way they are supposed to, this law should present no problem, and it would prevent issues like Brown’s from happening.

Currently, Jackson has not resigned.

I feel he holds too much of a bias toward protecting his department and defending his community. To ensure balance between police and citizens during this social unrest, he should resign temporarily, until this case is resolved.

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Francis Cobbinah at the time.

Ibrahim ended up spending over six months in prison amidst a great deal of protest that even saw her deliver her second child in the confines of prison.

Per Sharia law, children are required to follow their father’s religion, while Muslim women are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims. However, Ibrahim, who was raised as a Christian by her mother after her Muslim father abandoned her family, opted to be a Christian and to also marry a Christian, which was the reason for all of her troubles.

After Ibrahim’s sentence was overturned following months of diplomatic intervention from the United States, she got the chance to travel to the U.S. with her American husband.

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Afterwards, she revealed to CNN in an interview how Muslim leaders and Imams visited her in prison and demanded she renounce Christianity.

The stories of Ibrahim and Abedini paint a vivid picture of how “certain Muslims” and “Muslim populated countries” try to use force to make people, especially Christians, convert to Islam. This is a very bad scheme that can also be seen through the activities of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria.

For the record, I am in no way against Muslims. I keep a fairly large number of Muslim friends and I regard them as my inner circle friends due to how good hearted and down to earth they are.

However, I am just unhappy about the way some Islamic countries try to force their way into the hearts of people.

Our creator left entirely to our discretion certain choices we can all make freely. These choices, regardless of what they are, must be respected.

In this day and age, one cannot expect everyone in a country

If any religion decides to seek members by means of force instead of using its core values, then obviously that religion is doing it all wrong ...

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Holder also refused to uphold his duty as America’s top prosecutor, to uphold the laws of the United States. Instead, he used his office as a political tool to promote his agenda. Most notably, Holder ordered prosecutors to disregard mandatory minimum sentences established by law for so-called “low-level” criminals, according to The New York Times.

He also expanded programs that allowed convicted felons to apply for early release. While some of these reforms may have been necessary, Holder lacks the authority to make these decisions unilaterally. The correct way to reform these programs is through the passage of new laws, perhaps even at the local level.

Holder will be most defined, however, by his racially divisive rhetoric and decision-making.

His DOJ challenged Louisiana’s school-voucher program on the grounds that it would unbalance the “racial identity” of public schools by admitting too many minority children into better schools, according to The Wall Street Journal.

He challenged perfectly reasonable and duly passed voter ID laws in a number of states, likening them to Jim Crow-era “poll taxes” designed to discriminate against minorities.

He also refused to declare

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n Thursday, Ferguson, Missouri Police Chief Thomas Jackson issued an apology to Michael Brown’s parents. Afterward, a riot broke out after Jackson attempted to join a protest demanding his resignation. To avoid any further chaos, Jackson should resign and let the Department of Justice take over this case.

According to USA Today, in his apology, Jackson said, “I’m truly sorry for the loss of your son. I’m also sorry that it took so long to remove Michael from the street.” Jackson promised Brown’s parents and protesters there would be a change in the legal system.

Brown’s parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., were untouched by Jackson’s apology. According to CBS News, Brown Sr. said, “An apology would be when Darren Wilson has handcuffs, processed and charged with murder.”

Brown’s parents have been dissatisfied with the way the Ferguson police department has handled the murder of their son. A simple apology isn’t going to gain their sympathy for the backlash Jackson has faced.

Their distrust and lost hope for the justice system was reinforced the day their son was shot. According to The Washington Post, McSpadden said, they were treated with “disrespect” and at the scene of the shooting, officers gave them “the finger.”

Ignoring the race-related issue in the case of Brown’s murder would be ignorant. The people of Ferguson have spoken out about the racism that exists in their justice system, and the community members argue Jackson has never protected them.

CNN interviewed Jackson and asked if he would resign, and Jackson said he’s not going anywhere. “This is mine, and I’m taking ownership of it,” he said.

Some believe Jackson should continue to handle the Brown case and develop peace in the community of Ferguson. This could relieve race tensions by acknowledging Jackson is trying his hardest to develop change.

Brown’s parents feel otherwise and believe nothing is being done to change the attitudes of Ferguson police officers. Evidence of this lack of change was seen recently, as officers wore “I am Darren Wilson” bracelets

.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who has served since President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, announced last week that he would be resigning as soon as his successor is confirmed. This announcement ends his six-year stint at the Department of Justice, leaving behind a legacy of divisiveness and bitter partisanship with a magnitude unprecedented among past attorneys general.

Holder, in an interview with Yahoo News upon his resignation, stated he had wanted to be “an activist attorney general,” which is an oxymoron, if not an impeachable offense. According to the DOJ website, quoting an 1870 law, the attorney general’s first mission is to “represent the United States in legal matters,” which gives the individual very little leeway for “activism.” The attorney general has a legal duty to enforce the laws of the land, not make new ones, which Holder never seemed to grasp.

Holder was also embroiled in several public scandals, including the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, which led to the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry at the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Although the DOJ ferried thousands of U.S. guns across the border, apparently attempting to track them and catch cartel criminals, Holder claimed not to be aware of this operation.

Why wasn’t he aware if he was supposed to be in charge of the department? If he was aware, as most suspect is the case, why would he have signed off on such a ridiculous plan?

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to believe or like the same thing.

This is why some people like regular Coca-Cola while others prefer Diet Coke. The same applies to life and to religion. It is all about choices and personal preference.

It is shameful and very cowardly for Iran to be holding Pastor Saeed simply because of his religious beliefs. If any religion decides to seek members by means of force instead of using its core values, then obviously that religion is doing it all wrong and not doing humanity any good. That religion is instead preaching violence and not the fundamentals of religion, which is the love for one another.

To a larger extent, no Muslim in a Christian populated country is arrested and jailed simply because he prays to “Allah.” If this is the case, why should it be any different for Christians living in Muslim-dominated countries? Religion is not only about serving God — it is also about equality, doing what is morally right and not persecuting one another because of differing opinions or beliefs.

This practice of convicting Christians simply because of their beliefs is a sign of mediocrity and weakness.

Also, not only is it a breach of one’s fundamental human rights but it is also a very inhumane act which deserves to be left to the Stone Age, the age to which it truly belongs.

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No. 6 Tech soccer returns to winning ways

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

No. 6 Texas Tech (10-1-0; 0-1) is back in the win column after a back and forth battle with UC Riverside (5-3-2) 3-2 Sunday at home in John Walker Soccer Complex.

Two goals from junior forward Janine Beckie and another from junior forward Caity Heap gave Tech enough to better Riverside’s two long-distance goals.

Heap said Riverside probably played its best game of the season so far. The team threw everything it could at Tech.

However, the ability to respond to whatever Riverside delivered motivated Tech to persevere, Heap said. There was a belief Tech could outlast Riverside from the start, and every player carried that mentality to the last second of regulation.

“Today was a just kind of a chance to redeem ourselves (after our first loss of the season against Texas),” she said, “and I thought we did that.”

Winning helped to remove the bad taste after Tech’s loss on Friday, Heap said. The team, though, is going to remember how it feels to lose, so it can progress forward through the season.

Riverside’s junior defender Briana Thomasson stunned the Tech crowd with the first goal of the game. She picked up a clear out from the Tech defense, and advanced it a few yards into Tech’s half of the field.

Then, in the eighth minute,

Thomasson ripped a shot from 30 yards out. The ball floated over the outstretched hands of sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Watson into the net to begin the scoring.

Beckie answered back in the 30th minute, and Heap put Tech ahead when the clock read 65:06.

Forty-three seconds later, Riverside redshirt sophomore defender Alina Cheatham sailed a shot over Watson into the far-left corner of the goal. Cheatham made this shot after receiving a pass just outside the goal box from junior forward Tyler Cunningham.

Once again, the score was tied, and once again, the Tech crowd was in disbelief.

The ball did not seem to want to cooperate with Tech. It was either dribbled too far ahead on advances to the goal for defenders to clear out, or shots repeatedly glanced off the crossbar.

Tech coach Tom Stone said he does not think he has ever seen his team hit the crossbar four times in one game. If the ball had not hit the crossbar so many times, more goals definitely would have rolled in.

Eventually, Beckie overcame these struggles with another goal in the 82nd minute. Senior defender Jaelene Hinkle sent a cross into the goal box that found Heap, and immediately she fed the pass on to Beckie.

Beckie then fired a shot to the far post for her eighth goal of the season, and second of the game.

Momentum flowed back and forth between Tech and Riverside,

Stone said. He never worried, however, that Tech would not be able to take control when it mattered most.

Tech possessed the calm to persevere, he said. It may have lost control at times, but he knew the team would return to a calm state of mind every time.

“The best part is that we rebounded each and every time,” Stone said. “Even though we thought we had them down twice, it took a third goal to put them away. And it’s nice when your team’s got the character to go ahead and put them away. We did not want to go to overtime, and we made sure we didn’t.”

Beckie said there are lessons to learn from this match against Riverside, but it is not like they did not expect a tough game.

Tech is No. 6 in the nation, she said. This ranking motivates every team to give its best when it faces Tech, so it took a total team effort, an effort that included the fans.

There were 1,002 fans in attendance, according to Tech Athletics.

“The amount of support we have is absolutely incredible,” Beckie said. “On a Sunday night to get that many people, it just doesn’t happen. And it is just incredible to play against those kind of fans.”

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Parsons ready to lead Mavs Cause of bus crash unknown day Monday on the eve of training camp. “Coming here, looking at the options, I loved the core that they had. I thought with that core ... I could come in and I could really help them out.”

The Mavericks were the eighth seed in the West last season after a 12-year playoff streak ended in 2013, but they took San Antonio to seven games in the first round before the top-seeded Spurs went on to their fifth title since 1999.

Led by the return of Chandler, but supplemented by the additions of Parsons, point guard Jameer Nelson and veteran swingman Richard Jefferson among others, the Mavericks believe they are the closest they’ve been to title contention since winning it all.

Parsons was easily the most expensive addition — about $6

DALLAS (AP) — Chandler Parsons avoided much of the scrutiny when the Houston Rockets lost games last season.

He is hoping for a more prominent role in Dallas, even though the locker room has strong leaders with Dirk Nowitzki entering his 17th season and Tyson Chandler rejoining the Mavericks after playing a vital role in the franchise’s only championship in 2011.

The 25-year-old Parsons says he is ready to step out of the shadow of James Harden and Dwight Howard.

That doesn’t mean he’s storming in and taking over somebody else’s team after signing a $46 million, three-year offer sheet that the Rockets declined to match.

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million more per season than the three-year deal Nowitzki signed.

He will be a small forward counted on for 3-point shooting, passing and athleticism around the rim. He will even slide into Nowitzki’s spot at power forward when the 7-foot German goes to the bench, likely to be more often than ever with Nowitzki turning 36 this past summer.

And when the games end, Parsons will be ready for the questions.

“A lot of times, Rockets win, Rockets lose, it was all on James and Dwight,” said Parsons, who averaged 14.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game in three seasons with Houston. “When I’d have a big game, they’d talk about me. I’m ready for that next step of my career.

I’m ready to come here and have a bigger role, be more of a leader and that’s why I came here.”

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Red Raiders preparing for both options at quarterback

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

In Texas Tech’s 45-35 loss to Oklahoma State on Thursday night, sophomore quarterback and team captain Davis Webb left the game early in the fourth quarter with a shoulder injury.

Webb was helped to the locker room with his arm hanging limp, but quickly reappeared and tried to return to the game. However, he was not allowed by Tech’s training and coaching staff.

On Monday, coach Kliff Kingsbury said Webb did not seem to be in a great amount of pain following the game, but he still is not sure of his quarterback’s status.

“I haven’t spoken with him today,” Kingsbury said. “Yesterday he was sore, but I haven’t spoken with him today.

So we’ll see this afternoon what he can do out there as far as practice goes.”

Before the injury, Webb was regularly finding holes in the Cowboys’ secondary while throwing for 374 yards and four touchdowns.

After leaving the game, freshman quarterback Patrick Mahomes saw his first game action as a college quarterback.

Senior wide receiver Bradley Marquez said while Webb is the clear leader of the team, they are still capable of playing well with Mahomes controlling the offense.

“(Davis is) somebody we’ve rallied behind since the job has been his. But as far as the mood, it didn’t change. We just knew we had to step up the rest of the players that had been playing in that game to do our best for Patrick and make his job as easy as possible,” he said. “But that being his first real game action, it’s to be expected that things may not run as smoothly as maybe they would with Davis. But he did a great job.”

Mahomes threw an early interception that bounced off a receiver’s and multiple defenders’ hands.

He then settled down and led a touchdown drive capped off by four-yard pass to junior wide receiver Jakeem Grant.

The freshman quarterback ended the game going two out of five with one touchdown and interception, and ran the ball eight times for a total of 10 yards.

Kingsbury said Mahomes is a different quarterback from Webb, as he is more of a dual-threat, but is a great competitor like Webb.

“I think Mahomes just has that knack (to make plays),” he said. “Anytime we put him in, it’s not always pretty, but he finds a way to move the ball down and put it in the end zone, and that’s what you want at the end of the day at that position.”

Mahomes is listed as 6’3’’, two inches shorter than Webb, but weighs

in at 215. He played for Whitehouse in high school, and as a senior threw for 4,619 yards and 50 touchdowns while running 157 times for 948 yards and 15 more touchdowns, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Marquez said the team is not stressing about which quarterback is going to play against Kansas State because of the talent that is on offense. “(Mahomes) had a ton of reps since he’s gotten here to be able to know this offense and know each receiver. He still gets reps in practice each week,” Marquez said. “It’s not something that we’re really that worried about. Whoever is going to step in there on Saturday, we’ll rally behind.

We have done it in the past. We’ll continue to operate this offense.”

Kingsbury said if Webb is out with injury, freshman quarterback Vincent Testaverde would be the backup to Mahomes.

While the Red Raiders coaching staff and players did not elaborate on the details of the shoulder injury, Kingsbury said he knows what look for in practice to decide if Webb should be cleared to play on Saturday.

“Just make sure (Webb) can protect himself, really, and operate at a level we feed him to operate,” he said. “But more than anything, that he can handle taking a hit and protect himself.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

Big 12 Conference coaches know being fired among pitfalls (AP) — Charlie Strong is less than halfway through his first season trying to re-establish Texas as a Big 12 power.

Strong got his first Big 12 victory Saturday with a 23-0 win at Kansas.

The next day, the Jayhawks fired coach Charlie Weis only four games into his third season.

“You develop a relationship with the coaches, and they become your friends, and you hate to see this happen to anyone,” Strong said Monday on the Big 12 coaches teleconference. “We’re in the busi-

ness and we understand that there can be pitfalls.”

The Jayhawks are 3-41 in conference games over a six-season span with three different coaches after going to consecutive bowl games in the 2007 and 2008 seasons. Weis was 6-22 overall.

Bill Snyder, the dean of the Big 12 coaches in his 23rd season at Kansas State, called the firing of Weis — or any coach — an unfortunate situation.

“You just trust that they do what they have to do,” Snyder said. “I’m

sure everybody feels bad it, but that’s their program and they know far more about it than I do.”

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops, in his 16th season with the Sooners, sounded a bit surprised by the timing.

“It’s really unfortunate that it’s so soon, when you’re not even halfway through the year,” Stoops said.

“You just wonder why it has to be that soon, and not giving somebody a little longer opportunity to try and get things right. But that’s just how it goes, I guess, in today’s world.”