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WOMEN OF TECH

Female enrollment numbers increase over time

By KENDRA HILL Staff Writer

Ninety-one years ago when the first classes opened at Texas Tech, enrollment numbers for women were much different than they are today.

Among 919 people in the original class, a mere 268 were women.

In 2015, out of 29,237 undergraduate students, 13,107 of them were women, according to the Texas Tech University Fact Book.

“When I type in ‘women enrollment at Texas Tech,’ the first thing that pops up is Human Sciences’ enrollment numbers and from training tour guides, we know that originally college of homemaking was 100 percent women here on campus,” Taylor Love, Tech admissions

counselor, said. “Starting back to our roots, 66 women were in the college of homemaking in 1925.”

Things are much different than they used to be.

Now, when students apply to Tech, they are considered based on academic history, not on gender, Love said.

I n t o d a y ’ s s o c i e t y, women have the opportunity to challenge social gender norms.

They are becoming more educated, getting into the work force and creating new opportunities for themselves, said Shannon Helm, a senior public relations major from Granbury and president of Women in Business, a student organization at Tech.

“But when you think about it, that was when women had the opportunity to go to college and that was their opportunity. And now you think

about the kind of opportunities that you have when you come to college and there are no boundaries,” Love said.

Now, the university provides welcoming environments for women through learning com-

munities for women in science and engineering and other resources that were not offered before, Love said.

“I think it’s amazing that female enrollment is increasing. Women are

striving to get a quality education, so they can challenge social norms in the work force,” Helm said.

In 2015, several colleges at Tech had higher rates of women than men such as the College of Arts and

Sciences, College of Education, Honors College, College of Human Sciences, College of Media & Communication and College of Visual & Performing Arts, according the Texas Tech University Fact Book.

“I think that a big part of it is reaching back to our admissions statement about providing access to students, one student at a time. And the things that we do to make sure that students have that access and that opportunity is a huge part of it,” Love said.

“If you ask any of the admissions counselors here, a big part of why we do what we do is either because we had someone who helped us along the way or we didn’t have someone help us along the way, and we want to be that someone for someone else.” @DailyToreador

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SGA leaders promote gender equality, provide leadership

By REECE NATIONS Staff Writer

Women play an integral part in the workplace, politics and society in general.

“It’s really important for women to give a differing point of view than their male contemporaries,” Devin DeLapp, director of public relations for the Student Government Association, said.

“In my opinion, women are vastly underrepresented in the business industry and in politics in general. Part of what we do in SGA is represent the needs and concerns of all students on campus, and you cannot do that effectively without having insight from women.”

DeLapp, a senior public relations major from Stinnett, is the former undergraduate

chair of the Women’s Leadership Institute.

The goal of the Women’s Leadership Institute is to enhance the leadership potential and skill set of undergraduate women leaders on campus, according to the Texas Tech website. The institute offers a forum for undergraduate women leaders to branch out and increase the visibility of women leaders on campus.

The institute was established as an initiative of the President’s Gender Equity Council, DeLapp said.

The administrative leaders of Tech are committed to providing and strengthening the educational, working and living environment where students, faculty and staff are free from gender discrimination or harassment of any kind.

“The Gender Equity Advisory Council was established to advise the president on gender issues at Texas Tech,” she said. “Their job is to make suggestions for changes to assure a fair and impartial environment that is inclusive for all members of the college community.”

When it comes to managing issues of gender equality and interdisciplinary relations, insight from both men and women is essential to guaranteeing objectivity and fairness, Lauren Shulman, director of ambassadors for SGA, said.

Having women in leadership positions provides a broader outlook and outreach in any organization.

As director of ambassadors, Shulman’s duties include not only recruiting ambassadors but also

providing the organization with guidance on how to best serve the student body. The role of the ambassadors is to meet with the student body, inform students on what is happening within the student government and hear about issues they want to see addressed.

“We’re here to set an example for other young women leaders to follow,” Shulman, a senior energy commerce major from Austin, said. “I think above all else, we’re here to serve the community, and that’s the precedent we want to set for other women to follow.”

Shulman, also a former member of the Women’s Leadership Institute, has been a part of the Delta Gamma Fraternity for Women, Delta Sigma Pi Professional Business

Fraternity and the Energy Commerce Association.

Shulman said she is the only cabinet member to have spent all four years as an undergraduate with SGA, spending the last two years as a senatorat-large.

SGA has strived for greater transparency in recent years, she said. The executive branch members have made efforts to show their faces more often around campus and to reach out to the student body to address any concerns.

“At the end of the day, it takes women empowering other women to stand up for equality and fairness in society,” Shulman said. “We have to provide a voice for the women of Texas Tech and make sure they get the representation they deserve.” @ReeceNationsDT

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False alert sent to students at Tech, other colleges across US An emergency text alert sent to college students across the nation Wednesday night was confirmed as not real and did not affect the Texas Tech campus, according to the Tech Police Department and the Office of Communications & Marketing.

The source of the texts seems to be the Lone Star College System in Hous-

ton, which distributed an emergency alert because of a potential gas leak at its University Park campus, according to Lone Star University Park Police.

It appears the text was sent to individuals who are or were affiliated with the Lone Star College System.

The emergency alert was issued on the Lone Star College System

campus website at 9:01 p.m. Wednesday. The text alerts were sent around 8:22 p.m. Wednesday.

Not all current or former Lone Star students received a text.

The Lone Star College Police Department said it was on scene at the University Park campus in Houston investigating the potential gas leak at

8:47 p.m. Wednesday.

At 10:10 p.m. Wednesday, the campus was given an all-clear, and classes will resume as normal Thursday, according to the Lone Star College website.

In the initial text, recipients were told to evacuate and move away from all buildings. A second text clarified the alert applied to the University Park campus.

Any official university alert will be sent as a TechAlert, according to the Tech Facebook page.

The text alert was sent to hundreds of students at different campuses, including Baylor University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Mississippi, University of Pennsylvania and others. @DailyToreador

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Defense says case ‘sad effort’ for money LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawyers for NBA star Derrick Rose and two friends accused of raping an incapacitated woman doubled down Wednesday on their assertions that the accuser willingly had sex with the trio, saying she performed sex acts on the men earlier that

night at Rose’s mansion in Beverly Hills.

In sharp contrast to the opening statement in the civil case from the woman’s lawyer who called the incident a “classic gang rape,” the defense described an August 2013 scene for jurors in Los Angeles federal court that

sounded like a porn movie.

They said the woman gave lap dances earlier under a sky full of stars by the side of Rose’s pool overlooking city lights, performed oral sex on Rose and had sex with his two friends before inviting them back to her apartment.

“There was no gang rape,” attorney Mike Monico said. “There was no rape at all.”

The woman’s lawyer said the story about her having sex earlier in the night was falsely concocted to try to show she was insatiable and wanted to have sex with the men later that night. He said the three got into her apartment in the early morning hours after she passed out from drinking and raped her while she faded in and out of consciousness.

“The plaintiff will tell you all three men were in the bedroom at the same time,” attorney Waukeen McCoy said. “Each of them took turns raping her, they don’t even know who went first.”

As the incident was graphically described and jurors looked on with pained expressions, the 30-year-old woman leaned forward so her long dark hair covered her face and dabbed at her eyes with tissues.

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WOMEN OF TECH

Four Tech buildings named after women

By LINDA HARDWICKE Staff Writer

When Texas Tech opened in 1925, it was a coed college. Male and female faculty, board members and students came together to found the university.

Four buildings on the Tech campus were named solely after women, and another was not named after a woman who had an important role in the founding and legacy of Tech, said Lynn Whitfield, associate archivist for Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library.

Elizabeth Howard West: The forgotten force behind the library Jelain Chubb, director of archives and information services for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, said Elizabeth Howard West was the Texas State Archivist and the Texas State Librarian before West came to Tech and before women had the right to vote. West became the Texas State Archivist because she was the only qualified applicant.

“Some of her greatest contributions involved the Texas Library for the Blind, starting services to the Library for the Blind which has evolved to our Talking Book Program,” she said.

“She felt very passionate that everyone should be able to read and to enjoy knowledge, and to enjoy that pastime of reading.”

While West was working at the San Antonio Public Library, she also permitted African-Americans to check out books, Chubb said. Because of segregation laws in Texas, African-Americans were not permitted to have access to public libraries.

West worked with segregated schools to get books to the children.

We s t c o u l d p o s s i b l y have been compassionate to the blind and AfricanAmericans because as a woman in the time, she knew what it was like to be treated as less than equal, Chubb said.

We s t a l s o i m p a c t e d Te x a s C o u n t y L i b r a r y program by encouraging Texas counties to establish libraries, Chubb said. West was an active member and two-time president of the Texas Library Association before women had the right to vote.

In 1918, she returned to Austin as state librarian and became the first woman in Texas to head a

department in state government, according to the Texas State Historical Association’s website. She gave the library new direction and worked for reduced political control of the library, tenure and higher salaries for library personnel.

West chose to stop working at the state level when she requested additional funds for her staff ’s salaries, Chubb said. The legislature instead created a new position in the library to someone who was related to a former politician.

“The library is important. It should be named after Elizabeth Howard West, but it isn’t, because she was the first librarian at Texas Tech, but she was also the first female department head in the state of Texas (before 1925)”, Whitfield said. “So when they got her up here at Texas Tech, it was a big deal.”

West promoted getting a new library instead of it staying in the Administration building, Chubb said. Tech could not get accredited for several years, and part of the reason it was not accredited is because the library was not a strong enough research center.

West also collected the materials that eventually became the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Whitfield said. West encouraged the idea that the library should be funded. The building that is now the mathematics and statistics building was Tech’s first stand-alone library.

“The library was named after the governor at the time, as opposed to (West).

When they got the funding for the building, she rang the victory bells, but it was named after a man, so I think that’s unfortunate.

And I think that’s because it was done in the 1930s,” she said. “She’s really important, and she’s never gotten her due.”

Chubb said she is proud to be following in West’s footsteps because of West’s lasting impact on libraries in Texas. West deserves to be remembered by those who came after her. “(West) has certainly never been recognized for her contributions to libraries in Texas, so maybe it’s time that she was, and certainly naming a building after her on the Texas Tech campus would be appropriate,” she said.

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Doak Hall.

“Doak (Hall) is named after the first Dean of Women,” Whitfield said. “(Mary Woodward Doak) pretty much had to establish what the policies would be because, you know, women were treated differently than men. So they had curfews, they couldn’t wear pants, they had to wear hose all the time and all these rules.”

B o o k l e t s c a l l e d Te c h Tips established policies regarding women’s etiquette, Whitfield said. Even though men and women kind of built the university together, there were different rules from the early days.

Mary Woodward Doak had to establish these rules.

“Mary Woodward Doak had to establish the policies (like) what happens when you break curfew,” Whitfield said. “10 female students arrived 15 minutes late from a dance, and they got put on probation.

Instead of being embarrassed about it, they got a page in the yearbook and called themselves the Probation Club.”

Doak also came up with the idea for the Museum of Texas Tech University, Whitfield said. “(Doak) was a teacher in the English department at the same time, so she was one of the original faculty,” she said. “Women’s Dormitory Number One became Doak Hall, (but) Doak wasn’t named after her until after she died.”

Margaret Watson Weeks: Weeks Hall “Weeks was the first dean of the school of home economics, so she was one of the founding faculty. The school of home economics just kept growing over time,” Whitfield said.

Doak and Weeks founded the Women’s Recognition Service Ceremony, a special ceremony that rewarded women who had academic success, did service work and had an officer position, Whitfield said.

When the ceremony took place, the girls who were honored wore white and had a page escort them to receive their awards, Whitfield said.

The ceremony had flowers grown by the Association of Women Students.

Since the 1990s, Weeks Hall has been under repair, Whitfield said. Tech hopes to reopen the entire building one day.

“When (Tech opened), many of the girls that came

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Weeks wanted the girls to stay in school and graduate, Whitfield said. When Tech was founded, many girls went to college to find someone to marry.

The ceremony and loan program both encouraged female students to stay and graduate.

Florence A. Drane: Drane Hall “When it was announced that Texas Tech was coming to Lubbock, (Florence Drane) actually wrote a letter saying that she wanted to be involved with the university,” Whitfield said.

“She was a wealthy woman

who was very involved in social and charity events.

She was the lone woman that was an original Board of Directors member.”

Drane was also Tech’s first female interim president, she said. The president had to sign the diplomas, so when the former president, Bradford Knapp, died, Drane was selected to be the interim president.

Tech has had three female interim presidents, but no female president.

“The School of Medicine was actually in Drane on one of the floors until they got the first building built,” Whitfield said.

Marsha Sharp: Marsha Sharp Center for Student Athletes Marsha Sharp is best known for coaching the 1993 National Championship-winning women’s basketball team, Whitfield said. What is less known

about Sharp is her concern that the Lady Raiders do well academically.

“She put her money and her time and her energy behind making sure that athletes graduate,” she said. “Sharp Academy is named after her, and they work with children with learning disabilities.”

Sharp still has an office on campus in the Marsha Sharp Center for Student Athletes, which provides academic help for student athletes, Whitfield said.

“I think for her, (education) is her lasting legacy,” she said. “She’s this great coach. She’ll always be remembered for that. I think her players will always remember her as someone who wanted to make sure they succeeded and do well academically, and I don’t see that part of her story shown as much.” @DT_LHard

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Black Texas prison inmate seems likely to win at Supreme Court WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court left little doubt Wednesday that it will side with a black Texas prison inmate who argues improper testimony about his race tainted his death sentence.

The justices often are divided on death penalty cases, but conservatives and liberals alike agreed that inmate Duane Buck is entitled to a new court hearing.

The only issue in arguments at the high court appeared to be whether to throw out Buck’s sentence altogether and order a new punishment hearing. The court also could merely instruct lower courts to decide whether the death sentence can stand.

Buck has been trying for years to get federal courts to look at his claim that his rights were violated when jurors were told by a defense expert witness that Buck was more likely to be dangerous in the future because he is black.

In Texas death penalty trials, one of the “special issues” jurors must consider when deciding punishment is whether the defendant they’ve convicted would be a future danger.

“What occurred at the penalty phase is indefensible,” Justice Samuel Alito

said in a comment that was widely shared by the six other justices who asked questions Wednesday. Justice Clarence Thomas asked no questions, as is his custom.

The high court appeal is not a broad challenge to the death penalty in Texas, the nation’s leader by far in carrying out 537 executions since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. Rather, it shows the justices’ heightened attention to the process in capital cases, from sentencing to execution.

This is especially true in older cases, like Buck’s, in which

the quality of defense lawyers is at issue.

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused attempts by Buck’s attorneys to reopen the case, blocking them from moving forward with an appeal contending Buck’s constitutional right to a competent lawyer was violated.

Buck’s case was among six in 2000 that then-Texas Attorney General John Cornyn in a news release said needed to be reopened because statements by the expert witness, Dr. Walter Quijano, were racially charged. In the other five cases,

new punishment hearings were held and each convict again was sentenced to death.

Cornyn, a Republican, is now the state’s senior U.S. senator.

Buck’s lawyers contended the attorney general, by then Cornyn’s successor Greg Abbott, broke a promise by contesting his case, although the 5th Circuit said while that circumstance was “odd and factually unusual,” they could find nothing in the case record to indicate the state made an error or promised not to oppose any move to reopen the case. Abbott now is the state’s governor.

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Writing has the power to change lives

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n 2013, I entered my sophomore year of high school. That school year was very strange for me because it was the worst year of my life but perhaps the most important as well.

T h a t y e a r, I g r e w deeply depressed. Every day, I woke up, looked in the mirror and hated what I saw staring back at me.

I lost the desire to do anything. Suicidal thoughts became the norm. I hated my life and wanted nothing more than for it to end.

It was during that year I began writing a book of sorts. I wrote about my experiences with depression and about certain topics I felt strongly about.

It holds the only record I have of that year because I remember next to nothing from that period of my life.

Alex Olges is a freshman journalism major from Humble.

One year later, I published the final chapter.

Titled “sadness behind the smile,” the book eventually reached nearly 4,000 reads on Wattpad.

Along the way, I received several comments from others who felt similar to me.

They ranged from supportive messages to thankful responses.

By the time I finished writing “sadness behind the smile,” my struggle with depression had reached a much more manageable state.

I could finally look in the mirror and not hate w h a t I s a w. I f i n a l l y

wanted to live.

I credit this book with saving my life. Without having it as a place to express my emotions and be able to see that I was not alone, I would likely not be able to write this c o l u m n f o r t h e Te x a s Tech community.

My point in all of this is not to receive anyone’s sympathy — I don’t want it — or to plug my book. It is to prove the point that writing can make a difference.

It can quite literally change, or save, lives.

Before I wrote “sadness behind the smile,” I wasn’t convinced writing could actually do anything or that words held any power.

It was only after I was passionately encouraged by a friend and my thengirlfriend that I began to write.

Even today I struggle with this.

When writing columns for The Daily Toreador I sometimes feel discouraged, thinking no one cares what I have to say or that no one reads the paper.

Then I think back to my experience with “sadness behind the smile” and remember writing can have a truly profound impact.

Even without fantastic writing skills, writing can still make a difference.

Referencing my book — I’m sure you’re sick of hearing about it by now — yet again, I see many grammatical and spelling errors, bad sentence structure and an allaround unrefined text.

Yet, that book was still able to help me and many others.

It isn’t so much about

how our texts look and flow. Those things can certainly help getting our point across clearly and easily, but the real importance is in our message.

It is to prove the point that writing can make a difference. It can quite literally change, or save, lives.

Wr i t i n g b r i n g s o u t something that verbal communication simply can’t. It is a journey, a time of discovery. It offers deep insights into the writer ’s mind, insights that can take even the writer by surprise.

By offering a narrative on a more personal

level, writing provides the audience with a deeper connection than any other form of communication.

It invites the readers into the writer ’s own mind, sharing with them the writer’s experiences as if they were the readers’ own.

In essence, a piece of the writer is embedded in the text he creates.

Wi t h t h e i n t e r n e t heavily ingrained in today’s society, writing is more relevant than ever.

It is an art form so prevalent in our day-to-day lives but so underappreciated and unpracticed at the same time.

Next time one feels strongly about an issue, he should give writing a shot.

It might just end up changing, or saving, lives. aolges@dailytoreador.com

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We have Freedom of Religion not from Religion

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et me begin this column by telling you that I belong to no religion and believe in many — not all — paths to god.

There is a relatively new and increasingly popular atheist movement in the United States.

It is not my intention to paint an entire group of people with a broad brush, so I will speak specifically of the sort to which I wish to address.

I believe that the demographic to which I am referring constitutes the majority of the contemporary atheist movement in the United States.

I would characterize this group as atheists of the evangelical variety.

One might wonder how

Jake Wischkaemper is a senior history major from Lubbock.

to identify an evangelical atheist. Fear not; if you encounter an atheist of this sort, they will surely let you know.

They are loud and proud in their declaration that there is no god and will boldly go so far as to insult the intelligence of anyone who believes anything contrary.

Does this sound familiar? You guessed it.

They are indeed yet another offshoot of the new left wing of the U.S. political spectrum.

Such people will drone

on and on in their characteristically condescending tone, utilizing their arsenal of rhetorical one-liners they picked up from listening to people like Bill Maher. That is, until the topic of a religion such as Islam finds its way into the conversation.

Their tone will suddenly shift from one of condescension to one of complete and utter cultural awareness and tolerance.

They are contrarians of the worst sort. They will say or do anything to ridicule and undermine the foundational principles of the great society into which they were born.

They fancy themselves open-minded and champions of diversity, but an examination of their circle

of friends and associates will reveal the opposite.

They have chosen to construct an echo-chamber by surrounding themselves with like-minded individuals who indulge in the same sort of shallow, uninformed and emotionally immature nonsense as they do.

Fear not; if you encounter an atheist of this sort, they will surely let you know.

Their mindless selfindulgence in anything and everything that supports their pre-existing

worldview is indicative of their lack of principles.

They stand only against the teachings of Christianity. In fact, they stand for nothing.

Their lack of confidence in what they believe is illustrated by the contempt they hold for those with strong beliefs and convictions which are grounded in their Christian faith.

Furthermore, while they would never dream of disclosing this ugly truth, they do a very poor job of hiding it.

Their lack of convictions, moral and otherwise, makes them susceptible to the notion that the First Amendment has granted them freedom from religion rather than freedom of religion, which

is a notion they wholeheartedly embrace.

This, in turn, has given way to a narrow-minded and false interpretation of history. The reality is while the history of organized religion — Christianity, in particular — is extremely complicated, both the teachings and the institutions of Christianity have given rise to western civilization.

The crusade against Christianity in the United States has become trendy.

I will ask you to examine the history closely. You will find, more often than not, that men and women of great achievements are also men and women of faith. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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ride. It’s a feeling and a necessity.

Contrary to what many on campus may think, Pride is about more than shoving some radical leftist agenda down one’s throat.

It’s about community and about celebration.

The modern day Pride movement originated on June 28, 1969 in New York City.

The police raid of the Stonewall Inn — a gay bar located in Greenw i c h Vi l l a g e i n M a nhattan — served as its inciting incident.

Riots ensued and the following weeks saw a number of activist groups spring up throughout the village area.

In November of that year, Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sergeant along with Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes proposed the first Pride march to be held in New York City.

Pride was to be, and still is “the annual reminder, in order to be more relevant, reach a greater number of people, and encompass the ideas and ideals of the larger struggle in which we are engaged — that of our fundamental human rights — be moved both in time and location.”

Today, Pride is much larger than it was in 1969. Cit-

Jordan Butler is a freshman arts and letters major from Lubbock.

ies across the country hold parades and celebrations commemorating the LGBT community and its history.

Simultaneously, they remind individuals of the progress that has yet to be made and of those we have lost to hate, often through the pull of a trigger.

It’s about community and about celebration.

On June 12 of this year, terrorist Omar Mateen killed 49 individuals and wounded 53 others in an attack on Pulse Nightclub, a gay club in Orlando.

A manifestation of homophobia, many politicians sought to acknowledge the horror of the situation, while simultaneously ignoring the specific community the attack was directed at.

Several of them had been in attendance at the World Congress of Families, a designated LGBT hate group.

While it’s fair to say the LGBT movement has come a long way since its beginnings, it’s ignorant

to say we have achieved our goals.

2016 has seen a record number of murders of transgender women, specifically transgender women of color.

Despite the recent progress of the LGBT community, there is still a long, long way to go on the road to total equality.

In 28 states — including Texas — it is still legal to fire people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. In all 50 states, there are people who don’t see why this is a problem.

In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality. 2016 has seen transgender issues come to the forefront of the discussion, thanks in part to North Carolina’s House Bill 2, also known as the Bathroom Bill.

But Pride is about more than just remembrance.

It’s also about community.

Pride celebrations allow lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals to celebrate their differences together and remind LBGT youth otherness does not mean inferiority or one is doomed to a future of exclusion.

Pride brings people together. jbutler@dailytoreador.com

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t seems as though problems with United States’ lack of a law insisting on paid maternity leave could have far greater consequences than regularly considered.

Now, on an emotional level, it strikes me as insensitive to demand a mother choose between nurturing her infant and maintaining her career.

My mother chose to surrender her career as a teacher when she gave birth to me.

The principal she worked for in Houston begged her to stay, but she knew firsthand the effects of a motherless infancy.

Having lost her mother at a young age, her decision to stay home was made without doubt.

Thank goodness she stayed home instead of leaving me with a nanny after two weeks of “maternity leave.”

I have continued to research the effects of developing through infancy without a consistent primary caregiver and, what do you know, it is wildly destabilizing.

Infants who develop without a mother or with a caregiver who leaves at about 5 p.m. every evening are not cognitively prepared to handle such instability.

At that state of cognitive development, an

Avery Aiken is a sophomore communication studies major from The Woodlands.

infant doesn’t quite understand the concept that someone is not gone when he is not seen.

I’m thinking about when I play Peek-A-Boo with a baby. The baby is so excited to see me again when I uncover my face. This is because situational permanence has not been established in the infant’s mind.

On top of this, the baby is unable to become securely attached to a primary caregiver because of the constant switching between a nanny, for example, and mother once she returns from work.

This insecure attachment leads to problems in the infant’s social development.

Later in life, the Victoria State Government’s Health and Human Services’ Child Protection Manual reports these developmental problems relate heavily to a gross lack of trust.

These untrusting infants were found to grow into adults who struggle to deal with conflict resolution in their marriages and, on top of that, often fail to handle stressful situations effectively.

This would mean that

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infants with insecure attachments to their primary caregivers develop into children and adults who are unable to cope with conflict and stress the way a securely attached child does.

I am concerned such difficulties could lead to a depressive or anxious disposition in such men and women.

So, if the effects of a mother not raising her child through infancy — until, at least, 1 year of age — could lead to huge social development problems in said infant and a lack of relational trust, it seems to me that this is a much bigger problem than originally assumed.

A lack of a Family and Medical Care Act clause which insists mothers receive paid or, at the very least, protected maternity leave could mean this next generation of nannied infants will struggle to develop socially.

When negotiating maternity leave, we must consider the way that first year of life will affect our children.

What affects an employer for one year or less, affects a child for his whole life. And then, when we go to employ these children, it affects us. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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First Lady Patty Schovanec reflects on early years

By MICHAEL CANTU news editor

As many other instructors and college advisers do, Patty Schovanec, undergraduate adviser and instructor at the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, spends most days on campus either in her office or inside a classroom.

However, unlike other instructors and advisers, Patty Schovanec, Texas Tech’s first lady, might have to, sometime during her day, make a public appearance along with her husband and Tech President Lawrence Schovanec.

“I’m not from Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.

I’m from Tennessee, at least that’s where I say I’m from,” she said. “My father was in the army, so we’re really not from anywhere. We moved every two years or so.”

Being a child from a military family, Patty Schovanec moved all around the country. From fourth grade until college, she lived with her family in Vietnam, where her father was stationed.

Unlike most of her family, who have some type of military connection, Patty Schovanec said she chose an alternate route and was the

first in her family to attend college. She went to Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.

During her high school years, Patty Schovanec said she found a love for athletics and tried all the sports that she could.

“Back when I played, we didn’t have all the sports that they have now,” she said. “I was pre-Title IX.” At that time, track, basketball, golf and tennis were the only sports available to her, she said. Patty Schovanec’s arrival in Tennessee coincided with the late basketball coach Pat Summitt’s rise to fame.

Summitt made an impact on Patty Schovanec because of her coaching style and the way she stood her ground. At that time, Tennessee was one of a few states that did not allow a lot of sports for women, so Summitt would not recruit from there, Patty Schovanec said.

“I graduated from Austin Peay, and I didn’t know what I was going to do. Everybody was getting married and joining the service and getting jobs,” she said. “So I was walking out of the math building one day, and I pulled a card off the board asking if I was interested in graduate school. And I filled it out and

a couple weeks later I got a call from Texas A&M, saying they wanted me to come study math.”

After graduating from Austin Peay in 1982, Patty Schovanec spent nearly 2.5 years at Texas A&M, she said. Then, in the fall of 1986 she found herself in a position at Baylor University.

H o w e v e r, w h i l e s t i l l at Texas A&M graduate school, Patty Schovanec shared nearly the same office space as some of the visiting professors to the college, specifically a young Lawrence Schovanec.

“So he and some other younger visiting professor were down there. So we kind of hob-knobbed them, and they would buy graduate students dinner every now and then. Shoot yeah, we’ll take them up on that,” she said.

Because Lawrence Schovanec was a visiting professor at the time, he was

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Patricia Shovanec, math adviser and undergraduate instructor in mathematics, is the first lady of Texas Tech. due to come back to Tech after a certain time. So, during Patty Schovanec’s time as an instructor at Baylor, Lawrence Schovanec was a faculty member at Tech, and to meet each other, they had to drive back and forth, Patty Schovanec said.

That lasted for quite a while she said.

“He said, ‘Let’s get married,’ and I said ‘OK,’” Patty Schovanec said. “Well it took us quite a while to come to that decision, about

seven years of driving back and forth.”

In 1992, Patty Schovanec joined her husband at Tech and went into the College of Education, thinking she wanted a Ph.D. in education.

However, she said she was quickly turned off by that notion after one course and went back to the mathematics department.

Working on a Ph.D. in mathematics, Patty Schovanec said she to take some time off when she had two

children, one in 1993 and another in 1995.

“And after that second one I thought, ‘I can’t do this studying stuff,’” she said. “I wanted to be more of a mom, so I kind of transitioned into being an instructor instead of working on my doctorate.”

After the two boys, Patty Schovanec had the opportunity to flex her athletic muscle again. All sports were open and fun to play, she said. Both of her boys are now in college, the elder at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the younger at Southwestern University in Georgetown, she said.

“She was very athletic with our boys,” Lawrence Schovanec said.

It is the fascination with athletics that translates into her liking of mathematics as well, she said. For her, mathematics is like working out every day, and if one does not stick to it every day, he can lose that muscle memory and not be able to proceed.

“Just watch people do math, and you’ll see that they have emotions, right.

You can’t get it, and you get frustrated and you get mad,” she said. “Or when you do get it, you just (say), ‘Yes, I just did that.’” @MichaelCantuDT

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Texas’ Secretary of State stresses importance of voting, discusses voter ID laws

By REECE NATIONS Staff Writer

Carlos Cascos, Texas’ 110th secretary of state, spoke about the importance of registering and voting in this year’s election at 4 p.m.

Wednesday in the Red Raider Ballroom of the Student Union Building.

“As his first appointment as Governor, Greg Abbott nominated Cascos to serve as the Texas Secretary of State,” Ben Sharp, president of the student government association, said while introducing Cascos. “It is truly an honor to have such a distinguished public servant on our campus today.”

Not new to public office, Cascos was elected

Cameron County judge in 2006 and was re-elected twice in 2010 and 2014, Sharp said. Cascos also previously served on the Texas Public Safety Commission from 1991 to 2002.

Cascos, who was born in Matamoros, Mexico, often does television and radio advertisements in both English and Spanish to encourage voter registration across the state, he said. Cascos immigrated legally to the U.S. during his adolescence and attended the Brownsville public school system before studying at the University of Texas at Austin.

“If you’ve been voting with a (government issued) photo ID, such as a driver’s license, handgun license or passport, you will still

REECE NATIONS/The Daily Toreador Carlos Cascos addresses students on the importance of voting Wednesday in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

be able to continue voting that way,” Cascos said.

“But people are now allowed sign a Reasonable Impediment Declaration under penalty of perjury that states they were not

able to obtain a valid ID for some reason. An example of a reasonable impediment would be a disability or lack of transportation.”

An election judge cannot challenge or question a voter ’s reasoning for reasonable impediment, Cascos said. Election judges also cannot question whether a voter who identifies himself as disabled is being truthful about his impediment or not.

“It is our duty to ensure that every Texan has the opportunity to vote,” he said. “I trust our voters and I don’t see these new voter ID laws being taken advantage of.”

Texas experienced record lows for voter turnout in the last presidential election, Cascos said. Less

than 44 percent of the state’s voter population casted ballot in 2012, despite nearly 75 percent being registered.

Lubbock has more than 163,000 registered voters as of early October, according to the Lubbock County Elections Office website.

“We’re doing our best to increase our voter turnout,” Cascos said. “Texas is number one in a lot of things, but we’re not number one in getting people to vote.”

There is no clear solution to the issue of low voter turnout, Cascos said.

Because no vote goes uncounted, there is no such thing as a wasted vote.

Having served as a member of both major

parties, Cascos discussed how crucial voting is to the political process. If voters are dissatisfied with the options at their disposal, submitting blank ballots is acceptable as well, he said.

“It makes no difference to me who you vote for,” Cascos said. “All that’s really important is that you exercise your constitutional right to participate in the election process.”

The deadline for voter registration is Oct. 11, according to www.VoteTexas.gov.

“Don’t let any political party dictate who you are or who best represents you.

That is your decision to make,” Cascos said. “Don’t let the tail wag the dog.” @ReeceNationsDT

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Matthew inches closer; many asked to leave

Clown hoaxes force police to check pranks

MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and nearly 2 million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes Wednesday, a mass exodus ahead of a major storm packing power the U.S. hasn’t seen in more than a decade.

Matthew was a dangerous and life-threatening Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 120 mph (190 kph) as it passed through the Bahamas, and it was expected to be very near Florida’s Atlantic coast by Thursday evening. At least 16 deaths in the Caribbean have been blamed on the storm, with heavy damage reported in Haiti.

The storm was forecast to scrape much of the Florida coast and any slight deviation could mean landfall or it heading farther out to sea.

Either way, it was going to be close enough to wreak havoc along the lower part of the East Coast, and many people weren’t taking any chances.

In Melbourne Beach, near the Kennedy Space Center, Carlos and April Medina moved their paddle board and kayak inside the garage and took pictures off the walls of their home about 500 feet from the coast. They moved the pool furniture inside, turned off the water, disconnected all electrical appliances and emptied

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Carrying golf clubs, shovels and hockey sticks, several hundred University of Connecticut students gathered just before midnight in a cemetery, ready to do battle with menacing clowns they had heard might be lurking among the headstones.

Police determined that Monday’s clown rumors were a hoax. But dozens of similar reports have surfaced across the country, largely on social media. And authorities are being forced to take them seriously as a potential threat to pub-

their refrigerator.

They then hopped in a truck filled with legal documents, jewelry and a decorative carved shell that had once belonged to April Medina’s great-grandfather and headed west to Orlando, where they planned to ride out the storm with their daughter’s family.

“The way we see it, if it maintains its current path, we get tropical stormstrength winds. If it makes a little shift to the left, it could be a Category 2 or 3 and I don’t want to be anywhere near it,” Carlos Medina said. “We are just being a little safe, a little bit more cautious.”

About 20 miles away in the town of Cape Canaveral, John Long said Hurricane Matthew is just hype as his neighbors in his RV park packed up and evacuated inland. Even though his 32foot RV is just feet from the Banana River and a half mile from the beach, he had no plans to leave.

Long, who owns a bike shop and has lived along the Space Coast for 30 years, said he has a generator and enough food and water for himself and his cats to last a week.

“There’s always tremendous buildup and then it’s

no stronger than an afternoon thunderstorm,” he said. “I’m not anticipating that much damage.”

In Fort Lauderdale, about 200 miles south, six employees at a seven-bedroom Mediterranean-style mansion packed up for an evacuation fearing any storm surge could flood the property.

The homeowners planned to move to another home they own in Palm Beach that’s further from the water. Two Lamborghinis and a Ferrari had been placed inside the garage, but employee Mae White wasn’t sure what they would do with a Rolls Royce, Mustang and other cars still parked in the driveway.

lic safety, particularly at schools, where principals have conducted lockdowns and canceled classes.

“There are many other emergencies and calls for

service that troopers and other first responders need to get to without being misdirected to a prank,” Connecticut state troopers said in a statement.

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Hayhoe educates public about climate change

By ALYSSA ACOSTA Staff Writer

Melting icecaps, rising temperatures and extreme weather are indicators of climate change, an issue unimportant to some. Katharine Hayhoe, however, a globally known climate scientist and director of the Texas Tech Climate Science Center, educates society on the importance of this issue.

Hayhoe’s interest in science began at a young age and blossomed as she went through college. She earned a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy from Toronto University, as well as her master’s and doctorate degrees in atmospheric sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she said.

“My dad was a science teacher, so I grew up thinking that science was the best thing you could possibly study,” Hayhoe said.

Physics was a natural fit for her, Hayhoe said. It is a fundamental science that deals with the understanding of the universe.

Toward the end of her undergraduate studies, Hayhoe took a class on climatology, which changed the course of her graduate study. Through this class, she said, she realized the importance of addressing the climate change issue. “(Climate change) is so big that we can’t fix other problems like poverty, hunger, disease and water scarcity if

we leave climate change out of the picture,” Hayhoe said.

Incidentally, Hayhoe realized she had all the makings to become a climate scientist. At this point, she said she had a decision to make between continuing to study astrophysics and switching to study climate change.

The urgency of the issue, Hayhoe said, prompted her to pursue climate change.

Hayhoe came to Tech because of her husband. At the time, Tech did not have the climate science program or the Climate Science Center, Hayhoe said.

Hayhoe is also part of the U.S. Department of Interior’s South Central Climate Science Center.

“I feel like my career has taken a completely different direction in the last 10 years,” she said. “I think most of that is because of the experiences I’ve had here at Tech.”

Hayhoe’s work has resulted in 120 peer-reviewed publications and key reports.

In addition to national climate assessments, she has led assessments in several cities across the U.S., the findings of which have been presented to Congress to aid in future planning.

Hayhoe is the author of “A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for FaithBased Decisions,” a book that addresses misconceptions related to global warming.

Hayhoe’s work has been featured in documentaries such as “Years of Living Dan-

gerously” and “The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers.”

Aaron Flores, a first-year graduate student at the Department of Geosciences from Merkel, said he first heard of Hayhoe in “Years of Living Dangerously.”

“When I saw her (Hayhoe) on such an important show, I was amazed that she was here at Tech,” Flores said.

“I started to look into her research and any opportunities I may have.”

Flores met Hayhoe for the first time through an internship with the South Central Climate Science Center. Flores said he then began working more closely with Hayhoe by interning with the Climate Science Center at Tech.

“Seeing the kind of research she does and that she is such a good climate change communicator,” Flores said.

“She just makes it easy to talk about climate change.

It’s really inspiring.”

In 2014, Hayhoe was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, and in 2015, Hayhoe was named one of The Huffington Post’s 20 Climate Champions. On

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Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Texas Tech Climate Science Center, speaks about her recent work and accomplishments in climate change. Hayhoe was named one ofTIME’s 100 Most Influential People in 2014.

Monday, Hayhoe spoke with President Barack Obama and actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio at the South by South Lawn Music Festival and Innovation Conference.

“I definitely feel kind of intimidated by (Hayhoe) because of the speeches she gives. They’re very important, especially the ones with the president and Leonardo DiCaprio,” Flores said.

Currently, Hayhoe is working on a short series with PBS Digital Studio called “Global Weirding: Climate, Politics and Religion.”

An episode is released online every other Wednesday and debunks myths people have about climate change.

Hayhoe continues to work as CEO and founder of ATMOS Research, a scientific research and consulting firm that provides analysis of climate-related data, according to its website.

However, of her many accomplishments, Hayhoe said the one she is most proud of is her son. It is always surprising to her when she is recognized for her work on big stages.

“I am always surprised,” Hayhoe said. “When I first heard about the TIME award, I got an email, and I thought it was spam, so I deleted it.”

When people think about Hayhoe, they think of one of the leading climate sci-

entists and climate science communicators in the world, but if one gets a chance to know her one can see she is a great professor, as well, Flores said.

Hayhoe said her career goal is the establishment of legally binding policies to reduce carbon emissions. If the world could put the Paris Agreement into effect and stabilize climate change, her goal would be accomplished. “(My work) it matters to people,” Hayhoe said. “(Climate change) affects us, it affects our lives, it affects our families, it affects our communities. That’s why I care about it.” @AlyssaAcostaDT

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Extracting data from recorders in train crash may take days HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Federal investigators are working to extract data from an event recorder on board a New Jersey commuter train that crashed last week, killing a woman and injuring more than 100 others, but say it may be a few days before they release the information.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators recovered the data recorder, a video recorder and the train engineer’s cellphone from the front car of the NJ Transit train on Tuesday afternoon. The equipment was sent to an agency lab in Washington for analysis, officials said.

“We are extracting the data and will be providing a characterization of the data within the next few days,” NTSB spokesman Chris O’Neil said Wednesday.

At a news briefing on Tuesday afternoon, NTSB Investigator James Southworth said he didn’t yet know whether the recorders had any useful data. A second event recorder that was retrieved from the locomotive in the rear of the train wasn’t functioning on

the day of the crash, officials have said.

The recorder that was retrieved on Tuesday appeared to be in “fairly good shape,” Southworth said.

“We expect the recorders will be able to provide the investigators with speed information, throttle positions, braking system information, and about 100 other parameters, as well as a video image of the accident,” Southworth added.

A woman standing on a platform at Hoboken Terminal was killed by debris in Thursday’s crash as the train smashed through a concrete-and-steel bumper and caused a section of the station’s roof to collapse. More than 100 people were injured.

The train’s engineer, Thomas Gallagher, told investigators that he had no memory of the crash and only remembered waking up on the floor of the engineer’s cab, but said he was operating at 10 mph as he approached the station, said T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, the NTSB’s vice chair.

A U.S. official told The Associated Press on Tues-

day that based on the damage caused to the station, investigators estimated the train was going between 20 and 30 mph — above the station’s 10 mph speed limit. The official, who was briefed on the investigation, wasn’t authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

That estimate was based on the extent of damage caused by the crash, not on information from the train’s instruments, the official said.

Last Thursday’s crash caused far more damage than a 1985 crash at the station in which a train hit an end-of-track bumper at 10 mph. That crash buckled a concrete platform and toppled a few metal gates, but the train remained within the track area, according to photos, video and witness accounts at the time. Federal investigators blamed that wreck on slippery gel left on the tracks after wheel testing.

NJ Transit has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

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‘Thriller’ songwriter dies in London LONDON (AP) — Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics “Thriller,” ‘’Rock With You” and many other hits, has died of cancer in London at 66.

His music publisher said in a statement Wednesday that Temperton had died last week of an “aggressive” cancer. No other details were provided.

Jon Platt of Warner/Chappell said Temperton was the sole writer of “Thriller,” ‘’Off the Wall,” ‘’Rock with You” and other major songs.

Temperton started his career in the disco band Heatwave and collaborated with Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Anita Baker and many others.

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Women’s roles evolve in politics, STEM

By ARIANNA AVALLE Staff Writer

As time progressed, the opportunities for women expanded. Until recently, however, their opportunities for attending universities were rather slim.

Kanika Batra, an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the English department, said in the past, a woman’s identity was assumed to be limited to being a housewife. However, while women were performing domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and taking care of children, many of them were also engaged in other activities such as agricultural and industrial works.

“It is just that this work they were taking care in the house was not recognized as work,” Batra said. “What has changed now over the past 100 years or so is that women’s work has come to be valorized and recognized as not just housework but also as work that is important in sustaining the economy.”

Industrialization and the two world wars contributed toward the change in women’s roles, she said. Because men were fighting as solders, there were suddenly a lot of jobs available in

areas which had previously been closed to women such as farming, agriculture and factory work.

“As soon as the war ended and the men came back home, obviously they needed to enter into the work force again,” Batra said. “So women, who had become used to work outside the home and in areas that were traditionally occupied by men, found themselves pushed out of the work force again.”

The 1960s and the 1970s were periods of women liberation and women rights. During that time, many women demanded reforms in the work force and domestic arenas, she said. These reforms enabled women to become equal participants in the work force and men to share household responsibilities.

Batra said women should have access to good education at all levels.

“I think that what happens with a good education is that women become more aware of their rights in the work force,” she said. “They are better qualified to enter the workplace, and they acquire the skills necessary for maintaining an independent life style if they want to.”

Valerie Gardner, a junior environmental engineering major from San Antonio,

said she decided to study engineering because of her passion for mathematics, science and problem-solving.

Gardner likes the fact that her major incorporates all of these elements to benefit society. She said she hopes to work on wastewater projects for developing countries, so people across the world have access to clean drinking water.

“I think there are certainly more challenges being a woman in engineering because there are so few of us,” Gardner said. “For example, I’ve had classmates and even some professors talk down to me and have been passed up by some job opportunities that required field work. But at the same time, there are so many amazing faculty and staff in the engineering college that are there to support and encourage you.”

Gardner said male chauvinism is seen in the engineering world, but it is mostly unintentional.

“Engineering has been a ‘man’s game’ for so long that it’s become normal to associate men and engineering together,” she said.

“Therefore, women almost have to prove themselves more, both inside and outside of the classroom, to be recognized and feel vali-

dated as an engineer. I don’t believe that it’s intentional discrimination, but rather years of stereotypes that cloud modern judgment.”

There is a need to encourage more young women to pursue careers in STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and the way to encourage them is to give them role models to look up to, Gardner said.

“There are so many incredible women who are leaders in their field of engineering, and I think it’s very important that young girls can see their success because it inspires them to pursue their dreams despite the stereotypes,” she said.

Emily Fouts, a junior agricultural communications major from Sagerton, said she wants to go into politics because she enjoys helping people and making their lives better.

Fouts said it can be hard for women to break into certain fields such as politics.

Several women are beginning to be involved in government, but the world is still behind in terms of electing equal numbers of men and women into office.

“Women are still barely scratching the ‘glass ceiling’ in politics, and I think a lot

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Women’s Studies Program promotes gender equity

By DAVID GAY L a Vida Editor

Throughout history, the roles of women have changed. In today’s age, it is common to see women as politicians or scientists, but earlier in history, women did not have those opportunities.

Through Texas Tech’s Women’s Studies Program, students learn about what women have endured throughout history and continue to endure today.

When these programs were being introduced around the country in the 1970s, women were underrepresented in traditional academic disciplines, Charlotte Dunham, director of the Women’s Studies Program, said. These programs were introduced to bring women into the academic conversation.

Tech’s Women’s Studies Program started in 1981 when two students wanted the opportunity to minor in women’s studies, Tricia Earl, unit coordinator for Women’s Studies Program, said.

Throughout time, the focus of Women’s Studies has evolved, Dunham said.

It is no longer a program that focuses only on women; it focuses on gender equality and why society

does not understand it. “ We a r e not only about women,” Dunham said. “We are EARL about gender and the understanding that gender is a social structure and a social system. It’s not a focus of what women do, it’s a focus on the system and how men and women experience that system.”

The Women’s Studies Program coordinates with campus departments that offer classes that involve women, gender and sexuality, Earl said.

Over time, more coursework has become available through the program itself, Earl said. This includes the Intro to Women’s Studies course.

There is only a small number of courses that deal with the subject of women, gender and sexuality. Earl said she would like to see more courses on these topics.

The question that is a s k e d a b o u t Wo m e n ’s Studies the most is what would a student do with a women’s studies minor, Earl said. Taking different women’s studies courses helps develop critical thinking.

Wo m e n ’s Studies can also help students in potential career paths, Dunham said.

DUNHAM “(Women’s Studies) provides an extra qualification for many other jobs,” Dunham said.

“The training in critical thinking, the training in diversity, understanding diverse experiences can be a plus when you are applying for a job in many different areas.”

W h i l e t h e Wo m e n ’s Studies Program averages about 40 minors a year, other students can benefit from taking a women’s studies course, Earl said.

Most students who come through the program have a longing to learn about women and their roles, Earl said. They have a longing to learn about women’s history and the different movements that have happened in the past and the ones that are going on right now.

“Students feel that this is not a post-feminist world we are living in,” Earl said. “So, I would say a number of students bring to the table their desires to make their lives better. It’s still needed because the students say

they need it.”

Many people still spread different stereotypes about women’s studies programs that are not true, Dunham said. These stereotypes include that women are already equal and they just sit around bashing men.

“The idea that it is social structure and not individual men that create this inequality means that men, in many respects, are disadvantaged by the same system women are,” Dunham said.

As long as the perspective of history skews to men, there is a reason to have women’s studies programs, Dunham said. “ We d o h a v e m e n ’s studies,” Earl said. “It’s 99 percent of the classes on campus. There is no worry on my end and some of the male students who are minoring in the program that men’s studies will never be nonexistent.”

Earl said it is important to understand there will be women’s studies programs until there are no more firsts for women.

“If we never know of women who came before us and what they have done, how do we know how far we can go with our careers,” Earl said.

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FMLA brings feminist voice to Tech The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance is a student organization supported by the Women’s Studies Program that helps promote gender equality through different discussions and events.

According to its website, the FMLA provides education about feminist issues and brings awareness to topics such as rape culture and intersectional feminism.

Catherine Ragsdale, a senior Spanish and marketing dual major from Austin and vice president of FMLA, said feminism is the equality of gender in social, political and economic instances.

At its meetings, FMLA helps educate students about different topics affecting feminism, she said. Its goal as an organization is to educate others and be educated from others’ opinions.

All students can attend FMLA meetings, Ragsdale said.

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Ragsdale said it is important for men to realize their role in feminism is important. Through the club, men can have a safe space to speak about things that are not always accepted in society.

FMLA brings a voice to campus by informing students about the number of sexual assaults that occur on campuses across the nation, she said.

“I think it is important for us to be on campus because right now in the United States, there is a sexual assault crisis on campuses around the nation,” Ragsdale said.

“That’s not okay. The majority of our events are based around sexual assault on campus. That’s one of the reasons why it’s important for us to have a voice on campus.”

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