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Resolutions: Raider Card, fall break

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The Student Government Association hosted its third senate meeting of the semester.

One of the resolutions presented at the senate meeting was to congratulate Texas Tech administration for its efforts to expand the services provided by the Raider Card.

Current Tech administrators have been

working on expanding the usage of the Raider Card to off-campus locations in Lubbock.

Sen. Drew Walston, a sophomore political science major form Forney, said that the Raider Card will add a debit account to its services.

“They are adding another account. It is essentially a debit account. You can use your Raider Card off campus, but it will not use dining bucks,” Walston said. “For instance, when a first year students comes to Tech and buys their

dining plan, they can choose if they want to tack on extra dollars they can spend on vendors across the street.”

The addition of the debit account is scheduled to be launched in the fall of 2014, Walston said. Vendors will need to apply and be approved

by Tech administration for the Tech Raider Card services before students can use their cards at their establishments.

“Several vendors, obviously ones that serve

alcohol will or sell gasoline, those won’t be approved,” Walston said. “The fact remains no dining bucks off campus. After the research we did for this piece, I don’t see us getting dining bucks off campus in the near future.”

At the meeting another resolution was passed for the addition of a referendum to be placed in this year’s SGA general election ballot.

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National leader

Occidental Petroleum Corporation executives have announced a $1.5 million gift to Texas Tech.

This donation was given to name the new Petroleum Engineering Research building on campus the Oxy Enhanced Oil Recovery Laboratory, according to a Tech news release.

In this building, according to the release, students will learn new oil recovery techniques as well as how to evaluate new technologies.

This gift will help emphasize CO2 flooding, a key skill petroleum engineers must be taught due to its prevalence in the Permian Basin and Eastern New Mexico, according to the release.

There is also an anticipated Texas Research Incentive Program donation of $750,000 in matching funds, according to the release.

This donation will help to increase Tech administration’s goals to become a national research university by 2020, according to the release. ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com

Irish band performs concert at Tech The Brock-McGuire Band will perform a concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Talkington Residence Hall’s Great Hall at The Legacy Events Center.

The Vernacular Music Center, the Roots Music Institute, the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Caprock Celtic Association sponsor this concert, according to a Texas Tech news release.

The band has performed a spring concert at Tech three previous times, according to the release, and will perform Anglo-Appalachian Breten and French-Canadian music.

The ensemble is comprised of a fiddle, a button accordion, a banjo and a pianist, according to the release. The event is free to the public. ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com

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Texas produces

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Staff Writer

Texas produces an average of

Traveling to metropolitan cities may have a higher negative impact on human health in the future because of the new greenhouse gas emissions permits being issued by the state of Texas.

Jennifer Vanos, assistant professor in the Texas Tech College of Engineering, said people living in larger Texas cities could already feel the effects of greenhouse gas emissions.

“You can feel the pollution if you try to run on more polluted days,” she said. “Here in Lubbock, we experience more particulate matter than ozone, but you feel the ozone much more in bigger cities like Houston and Dallas.”

On June 14, 2013, House Bill 788 went into effect, giving Texas the authority to authorize major sources of greenhouse gas emissions through a permitting system to continue releasing major amounts of pollutants, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Air Quality.

Texas ranks first in the nation for amount of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the TCEAQ, and produces an average of 392.7 million tons of emissions yearly, but the total grows every year because of increased resident populations.

“The more a city grows, the more pollution is going to be put into it,” Vanos said. “You see different levels of pollutants in different cities depending on the industry. In Lubbock, the permits won’t make much of a difference, but in bigger cities like Houston where there’s a poor air quality, you will see a big difference.”

These new permits, according to the TCEAQ, will allow industries that emit a large number of pollutants into the air to continue these emissions.

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392.7 million tons of greenhouse gases yearly.

Texas has

673 facilities

reporting greenhouse gas emissions

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OXY donates $1.5M to Tech engineering

Texas ranked No. 1 for amount of greenhouse gas emissions in nation

30% of US energy

is used inefficiently Texas ranks in the nation FIRST for greenhouse emissions STATS FROM TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Tech’s Early Head Start Program Texas Tech Health Sciences seeking donations after flooding Center unveils new class rings

By KAYLIN MCDERMETT Staff Writer

Texas Tech’s Early Head Start Program is seeking donations after an external water pipe ruptured and flooded the building, which caused thousands of dollars worth of damage in early December.

The federally funded program is a partnership between Tech and the Lubbock Housing Authority and helps low-income families with infants and small children gain access to diapers, bottles, clothing and other necessities, according to the program’s website.

Denise Stovall, the program director, said the staff arrived to work on Dec. 9 and saw water flooding the building. The water spread throughout the facility and ruined hundreds of donated items.

“We got to work and our building was pouring out water,” she said. “We have a closet, and we take donations throughout the year of clothing, diapers, anything the families need, and a lot of that got damaged, and we had to get rid of it.”

Families earn points throughout the year to trade for items by participating in activities, such as reading to their children at home. If families are in immediate need of help, the program will also assist

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in emergency situations, according to the program’s website.

Donations from the public are what keep the program helping families across Lubbock.

Hygiene products, clothing and monetary donations allow low-income families that are part of the program to have access to necessities they could not normally afford.

Stovall said the program readily accepts any donation at any time and every donation is important and helpful to the families.

“People donate diapers, clothes, toys, strollers and even baby bathtubs,” she said.

“Anything donated, we love. We also take monetary donations to go out and buy what we need. We take any item at any time.”

Sherry Alheyari, a family support specialist, said material donations do not cover all the program’s needs. Volunteering is also a crucial element of keeping the program running.

“We also rely on volunteers to come and help us for various things,” she said. “Sometimes volunteers might come and help us sort donations or clean around the building. If people want to come a couple of times and work around the center, that’s great. We just had a couple of people come in and organize our library for us.”

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DR. TEDD MITCHELL, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, shakes hands with Hunter Gerheart, an allied health sciences student from Rockwall, during the HSC ring ceremony Thursday in the International Cultural Center.

By MORGAN SULLIVAN Staff Writer

International Cultural Center to honor graduating students and show off its newly-specialized class rings.

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Students to be exposed to foreign films not shown locally

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Texas Tech’s launch of the International Film Series looks to provide the Tech community with screenings of films that would not regularly be shown at local movie theaters.

The International Film Series will begin with a showing of “12 Years a Slave” at 6 p.m. Feb. 24 in room 281 of the Student Union building, according to a Tech news release.

Robert Peaslee, International Film Series coordinator and assistant professor, said the International Film Series

would bring in films that will interest Tech students.

“We are working with campus partners to bring in films that are relevant to a population on campus one way or another,” he said.

The IFS is replacing the Global Lens Program, according to the Tech release.

The program, like the International Film Series, screened international and independent films.

Texas Tech Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center, department of journalism and electronic media and the Thomas Jay Harris Institute for Hispanic and International Communication are

sponsors of the IFS, according to the news release.

Kenton Wilkinson, director and regent’s professor of the Thomas Jay Harris Institute for Hispanic and International Communication, said the institute sponsored the IFS because it provided the Lubbock community the opportunity to view films that would not be distributed in mainstream movie theatres.

“I think it’s really important for members of the campus community as well as the larger community of Lubbock and the South Plains to have access to film from other parts of the world,” Wilkinson said.

“It does reflect different cultural values,

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different experiences and approaches to film making we are not used to in the United States.”

After the showing of the films there will be a Q-and-A session.

“We are going to have a panel of folks from around campus and they will each offer some comments and response, then we will open up a Q-and-A for audiences,” Peaslee said.

The inclusion of the Q-and-A will enhance the meaning of the films and the message the films attempt to create, he said.

“We have a panel or a speaker or a Qand-A to follow the film to give audiences

a little more context and to make more of an educational experience,” Peaslee said.

The films that the IFS will screen will also coincide with international celebrations occurring each month, Wilkison said.

“The idea is to have this sort of cultural programming that complements other things,” he said.

The IFS will promote students gaining cultural knowledge to benefit them in the increasingly diverse nation, Wilkinson said.

“Having cultural competence as well as media literacy is important to understand how other people think and the

different ways that we are similar as well as different,” he said. “For students in the first part of the 21st century, it’s important to know cultures other than their own.”

The IFS also hopes to establish a programming committee made up of faculty and students to evaluate proposals from the Tech community in order to provide films that will interest students, Peaslee said.

“We use film as a way to come to a greater understanding of a country or culture, a political problem or in the case of this month’s showing, an era in American history,” he said. ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

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“I think it’s good, especially since the HSC is a separate school from TTU, I think it’s good, and it really emphasizes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 our unique role both as providers and a Previously, students who attended community,” Eric Edwards, vice presiHSC received class rings that were the dent of operations for the HSC Student same as Tech students, but featured the Government Association, said.

HSC emblem on the side.

Hunter Gerhart, a junior speech This year, students were allowed language and hearing sciences major to personalize their class rings to make from Rockwall, said he was excited them specific to HSC. about the new personalized rings.

“We want them to have something “The HSC is its own institution, so that is a central symbol of the one uni- we might as well have our own ring,” versity for us,” Tedd Mitchell, president he said. of HSC, said.

This is the first year specialized rings Rings this year were personalized have been available to HSC students, to feature the students’ specific school, but the ring ceremony is a tradition whether it be the School of Medicine, started three years ago, Mitchell said.

Nursing, Allied Health Sciences, He said he would love to see more Pharmacy or the Graduate School of students attending the ring ceremony.

Biomedical Sciences, according to an “What I would like to see is that all HSC news release.

1,500 of our students that come in their If you look at symbolism in higher first year are all going to have rings,” education, Mitchell said, there’s a long Mitchell said. history of symbolism that relates back to Of 100 students that purchased class mostly academic campuses, and not re- rings, 10 attended the optional ring ally health sciences centers nationwide. ceremony, Edwards said.

“What we did this last year was we Mitchell said the ceremony is went ahead and changed the design enjoyable because it gives students’ so it was personalized to their specific families, as well as staff and the deans school,” he said. of the college, an opportunity to see the Most students receiving class rings ring before graduation. are graduate students, Mitchell said, “It was a really nice ceremony and have received their undergraduate because I didn’t know all of the backdegree from another university. ground about the rings and how intriStudents don’t want what, in their cate they were and all of the symbolmind, is an undergraduate class ring, ism,” Edwards said.

Mitchell said. ➤➤msullivan@dailytoreador.com

Panel checks women’s health programs AUSTIN, (AP) — As a top Republican lawmaker made her case Thursday that women’s health programs in Texas remain effective after the Legislature banned the use of state funding for groups such as Planned Parenthood, critics blasted the GOP majority as placing ideology over best health care practices and leaving women with few choices for routine care.

State Sen. Jane Nelson, chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee, said Texas spends more money and provides more access to women’s health programs than ever

before, even after the Republicancontrolled Legislature sacrificed federal funding in order to ban state funding of clinics associated with groups that provide abortions.

“I realize that 2011 was a difficult budget year and reductions in family planning had an impact on access to services, but we also made significant investments and significant progress since then,” she said. “I still see so much misleading data being circulated to Texas women, and one of the things I want to do today is set the record straight.”

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Sen. BaLeigh Waldrop, a junior accounting major from Hobbs, N.M., said at the senate meeting the referendum will CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 give the SGA an accurate interpretation The referendum will ask for student of student opinion regarding the addition opinion on whether they would be in of a fall break. favor of the addition of a fall break.

“This is really going to be for our The addition of the fall break would education purposes,” Waldrop said. “We result in classes beginning two days prior can this information and it will help us to the academic calendar, but a two day vote on the legislation we are going to break would be added mid semester, ac- vote on next month.” cording to the SGA senate agenda.

The SGA senate also passed a resolu-

tion that will recognize the need for the implementation of the Facilities Master Plan for the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Tech currently has a master plan that will expand the facilities of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, according to the SGA senate agenda.

Sen. Joshua Ballard, a junior music education major from Amarillo, said at the senate meeting the passage of the resolution would encourage prospective

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still have to make regulations and present them to be approved by the Environmental Protection Agency.

“It’s a program that the state will have forever as long as it operates correctly,” Curry said.

Vanos said she believes the way to combat the increased emissions starts with lowering the number of permits issued and monitoring and making people aware of the pollutants they are breathing daily.

The negative health effects for humans related to pollution include

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The Environmental Protection Agency has been issuing emissions permits to Texas since 2011 because state legislators refused to meet the 2010 federal emissions rules aimed to limit the pollutants released into the air, Ron Curry, the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator in Dallas, said.

“Texas had wanted to have a six-

month turnaround on all permits, but the EPA refused,” Curry said. “The state also wanted to include a hearing process but that was also refused.”

Texas produces 12 percent of all greenhouse gases in the United States, a fact mirrored by the large number of oil refineries in Texas, which spurred state legislators to refuse the federal emissions rules, according to an article in The Associated Press.

While Texas legislators have been given the authority to issue these permits, according to the article, they

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donors for the College of Visual and Performing Arts to support the master plan.

“We are desperately in need of these new additions,” Ballard said.

The resolution will help Visual and Performing Arts development officer Nathan Rice to get prospective donors to donate money.

“Hopefully it will open the eyes to the board of Texas Tech to really allocate more funds to this,” he said. ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

irritation to the lungs, eyes, nose and throat, she said, but each different pollutant has a different specific effect on human health.

“Lowering the number of permits is a good thing for human health,” she said. “If the monitoring of air pollution could be improved and we could have more information to tell people what they’re being exposed to, it would make a difference because the people would fight for their own air quality and resulting health.” ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com

POLICE BLOTTER Wednesday 8:54 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident at the 700 block of Indiana Avenue.

11:45 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated thefts at the Tech law school.

Several textbooks were taken.

2:32 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the Z5C parking lot. An unattended vehicle was hit.

3:18 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia after a traffic stop in the Z5C parking lot.

The student signed the citation and was released.

4:17 p.m. — A Tech officer inves-

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7:58 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for possession of cocaine, marijuana and driving while intoxicated after a traffic stop at the 1100 block of University Avenue.

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

11:23 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated at the 1800 block of Flint Avenue following a traffic stop. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

“A lot of people don’t know,” she said. “Because we are off campus, a lot of people don’t CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 know about us. We just want to Stovall said she would like help those in need in the comto see the program gain more munity, and donations from the publicity and support because public is what makes us able to many people do not even know really do that.” it exists. ➤➤kmcdermett@dailytoreador.com

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Local organization hosts Laugh For the Cure

By TAYLOR PEACE Staff Writer

Although cancer isn’t a laughing matter, family and friends joined together to laugh in cancer’s face during the Laugh For The Cure benefit hosted at 5:30 Thursday in the Civic Center.

Families and friends of breast cancer survivors were given the opportunity to join together to raise money for breast cancer research and patient care with two stand-up comedians for the guests to enjoy while participating in the event.

Ashley Hamm, executive director of Laugh for a cure, said that this was the sixth annual Laugh For The Cure and although breast cancer is not funny by any means, this gives people a chance to have a little fun while helping donate to the foundation.

“This gives people a chance to come together and have a little fun while helping others in need,” Hamm said. “Laughter helps these women get through such tough times and is good to get a little stress off their shoulders.”

Hamm said 100 percent of the funds raised at Laugh For The Cu r e w ill b e n e fit The Susan G. Komen cooperation based Lubbock.

Komen started out with 500 tickets, which were $25 each, and by Wednesday, they had sold all but 100 of them, Hamm said.

“It’s been great holding these events,” Hamm said. “It is always so much fun and I was really looking forward to it.”

Laugh For The Cure had numerous amounts of activities in order to raise these funds such as a live auction and silent auction donated from local companies and organizations around Lubbock.

Shannon Schaffner, Tech marking graduate, said this is her first year being on the committee for Komen.

Schaffner said she attended the event last year and had so much fun that she joined the Komen team so she could help.

“I love helping raise money for breast cancer research and patients,” Schaffner said.

“It’s awesome to hear all these women’s stories and how far they have come in their battles against cancer.”

She said last year’s event was so successful that they raised enough money to purchase a mobile breast cancer screening bus in Lubbock.

The mobile mammogram bus gives women the opportunity to be screened for breast cancer, Schaffner said.

“My husbands’ grandmother was a victim of breast cancer and passed away,” Schaffner said.

“So it feels good to help out in anyway I can and give these women an opportunity to have unconditional support.”

Joan O’Briant, volunteer for Komen in Lubbock, is a 3-year breast cancer survivor and said she feels it is time to pay it forward to other women who are in the shoes she was once in.

O’Briant said when she found out she had breast cancer, she felt she had nowhere to turn until she found Komen.

“I was self employed and didn’t know what to do,” O’Briant said, “until I found Komen. They have literally helped me out every step of the way.”

O’Briant’s mother was also at Laugh For The Cure and O’Briant said without her mother’s support, she does not know where she would be.

O’Briant moved back to Lubbock to help her mother, which ended up being the other way around when she was diagnosed, she said.

“She was there for me through it all,” O’Briant said. “Every appointment, everything you can imagine — She is my hero.”

O’Briant is now an active volunteer and participant in breast cancer awareness and fundraisers,

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KYNDRA SULLIVAN, A Tech alumna and volunteer for Laugh for the Cure, and Ashley Laycock a volunteer for Laugh for the Cure, look at the available prizes for a silent auction before going in to the comedy show.

Proceeds from Laugh for the Cure will benefit the Suzan G. Komen foundation.

she said.

She participated in the Breast Ride Ever event, she said, where friends and family came together to ride motorcycles across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma to raise money for the cure.

“We all got together and road around on motorcycles, it was such a fun event,” O’Briant said.

“If you are given the opportunity to have a little fun while helping out, then why not take it up and go for it?”

O’Briant said she feels she would not have made it to where she is to day without the love and support from the women at Komen.

She understands what every

woman with breast cancer is going through and wants to be there for these ladies just as all of them were there for her, she said.

“There is nothing like having that support from these people,” O’Briant said. “They are what got me through the toughest times of my life.” ➤➤tpeace@dailytoreador.com

Female student engineers raise awareness, celebrate society

By HANNAH HIPP Staff Writer

Gender differences have no effect on the ladies in the Society of

Women Engineers.

Kate Lewis, president of the society, said the group’s purpose is to unite women in engineering, since they make up such a small percentage of

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JOANNA GATLIN, A senior electrical engineering major from San Angelo, talks to Miranda Manning, a sophomore electrical engineering major from North Richland Hills, and Emily Hirsch, a sophomore engineering major from Allen, during a dinner for the Society of Women Engineers inside the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center on Thursday.

the engineering population.

“Our purpose is to unite the women in engineering,” the junior mechanical engineering major from Celina said. “We want to help girls network with other girls.”

The society is made up of about 150 students, Lewis said, and aims to reach out to the community.

The members host many events for young girls to encourage them to pursue engineering as a career, she said.

“We do a lot of outreach, that’s probably our biggest goal,” she said. “To reach out to young girls and show them what engineering is and what they can do with engineering, and that it’s okay to be a girl in engineering.”

The society hosted their first dinner Thursday for all females in the engineering field.

Lewis said the dinner was to encourage and celebrate the women and all they do.

“It’s an event where we can all get together and be girly,”

Florida judge to review Bieber video before release MIAMI (AP) — A judge said Thursday he will review police video made shortly after Justin Bieber’s recent Miami Beach arrest to determine if some portions should be withheld from the public, particularly clips depicting the singer urinating into a cup as part of a drug test.

Miami-Dade County Judge Wil-

liam Altfield said after a hearing he will privately review some of the roughly 10 hours of Miami Beach police video taken after Bieber’s Jan. 23 arrest. The Associated Press, The Miami Herald and other media organizations are seeking release of the video, arguing there is no exemption in Florida’s generous open records law

allowing it to be kept under wraps.

“The right of privacy cannot trump the right of access to public records,” said Deanna Shullman, the attorney for the AP and several other media outlets. “My clients have no interest in showing Mr. Bieber’s private parts. You have to redact that and release the rest.”

Lewis said. “It’s just a celebration of women in engineering.”

Lewis said being a female in such a male-dominated field isn’t as much of a problem as people would imagine.

Despite being the only girl in some of her classes, Lewis said she does not feel that she is lacking in advantage.

“The guys might know more about cars, but for the most part it’s pretty even,” she said.

The society is always trying to recruit more girls, Lewis said, and members reach out at events such as Red Raider Orientation and any engineering recruiting events Tech hosts.

Tanja Karp, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the society’s faculty adviser.

“This organization provides great opportunities for females within the engineering degree programs to meet for professional career development,” Karp said.

Karp loves how active the girls are

with engineering outreach activities within the community, she said.

The goal of the society is to provide a network for female engineers, she said, and to make the girls not feel alone.

“By creating that network with other women and other students from engineering majors, you get all these valuable tips, such as which professors to take or what classes are really cool, and those type of things,” Karp said.

According to the Society of Women Engineers website, females account for 18.4 percent of all engineering bachelor’s degrees earned.

Having been in the engineering field for more than half her life, Karp said she doesn’t notice the lack of women in the field.

“I feel like I am accepted for the engineering work and skills I have, and that’s what I see among many of the young women too,” she said. “It’s really neat to meet as a group among females and do some social activities, but in the classrooms you want to be accepted for your skills.”

Gabriela Mena, a junior environmental engineering major from Laredo, is the secretary of the society.

Mena’s hometown had many environmental problems, she said, and having to live with that, she thought engineering would be her best option.

“More females should be engineers,” she said. “I feel like engineering will need more of a woman’s perspective. It’s not like you’re a woman and they hire you because of that. They still look at your resume, your GPA and everything, but they do notice you more.”

One of Mena’s favorite parts of being in the society is the outreach, she said.

Talking with the young girls and helping spread awareness about engineering is a great thing, Mena said.

“It’s really rewarding” Mena said.

“Knowing that you may have made a difference in a little girl’s life and she could be an engineer because of you is a good feeling.” ➤➤hhipp@dailytoreador.com

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Bitcoin has bright future in spite of current volatility Weston Betts is a “bug in the Bitcoin software (that) makes it possible for someone to use the Bitcoin network to alter transaction details to make it seem like sending of Bitcoins to a Bitcoin wallet did not occur when in fact it did.” A summary of the problem is that there is a glitch within the system.

Since Feb. 7, other Bitcoin exchanges, BitStamp and BTC-e, are also apparently at risk from this glitch as well as at risk from hackers attempting to access their systems. Since the news of these withdrawal suspensions,

Bitcoin prices have taken a hit and fallen from around $800 to the current $630.

That is, except for Mt. Gox’s price, where the price of Bitcoin has hovered around $250 due to the skepticism of the business.

Wired.com is now reporting that Mt. Gox has “become the cheapest place in the world to buy the digital currency… because some investors think Mt. Gox is about to go bankrupt.” So if you are a betting type, this could be an easy way to make some profits, but be wary and do your research beforehand.

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Education should focus less on cursive writing The daily FOrTy-NiNer (caliFOrNia STaTe U. lONg Beach)

In elementary school, I learned to write in cursive.

Now in college, I don’t even buy pens as a school supply because I type everything. Thank goodness that’s the case or else no one would be able to read my work! But, this brings up a pretty common, though fairly useless, debate: Should students in the U.S. public elementary school system still be taught to write in cursive?

On one hand, there is merit in the belief that cursive writing is of absolutely no use in the practical world, where most tasks are completed electronically.

L o g i c a l l y, i t follows that a shift toward technological education should take precedent.

On the other hand, there are those who feel that learning to write in cursive is a major benefit to cognitive brain development in children. For instance, the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) came out with a Policy Update in September 2012, in which they presented evidence that supports the aforementioned claim.

The NASBE report opens with the explanation that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) lack guidelines for cursive handwriting. In fact, the CCSS are structured to emphasize keyboard skills instead. The CCSS are a result of an effort led by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

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gan adopting the CCSS in 2010, the debate of whether or not to include handwriting standards slowly developed among members of state education boards.

Indiana State Senator Jean Leising said to the IndyStar that she agrees with the assertion that cursive writing improves motor skills, memory and brain development.

The article implies that it is because of this reason she has successfully convinced her state’s Senate to advance a bill that requires the state’s public education system to teach students to write in cursive.

Indiana is one of a handful of states — along with California, Georgia, Alabama and Massachusetts — to be mentioned in the NASBE update. These states fought to keep handwriting standards in their education system, per the specifications of the CCSS. The CCSS Initiative webs i t e ’s h o m e page explains that the goal is to better prepare students once they enter college courses and the work force. A secondary goal is to improve the U.S.’s international standing in terms of elementary education.

I would argue that the CCSS were put together as a response to studies from several years that showed that the U.S. ranked lower and lower in terms of math, science and English education in a global comparison.

Last December, NPR ran a report that detailed the results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).

The report explained the latest assessment from 2012, which found that U.S. high school students ranked below average in

If American students are performing better in reading than they are in math, then why woud we worry about teaching them cursive?

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math, though they were close to average in reading and science.

Bringing it back to our worthless debate: If American students are performing better in reading than they are in math, then why would we worry about teaching them cursive?

Clearly math literacy is the subject that needs more attention, not literacy itself.

I think a more productive conversation would be to talk about requiring students to memorize the old-school times tables chart, something the Common Core State Standards do not even mention.

There is only a little bit of wiggle-room for states to include their own standards along with the CCSS, and it seems to me that the states reclaiming a handwriting standard for their youths are playing up the possibility of a relationship to brain development in order to justify an emotional waste of time.

For example, North Carolina’s “Back to Basics” bill, signed into law in 2013, requires all students in the state’s public education system to learn to write proficiently in cursive by the end of their fifth grade year. Why? In an article released by the Today Show, North Carolina State Rep. Patricia Hurley, who co-sponsored the bill, said she received many thank-you notes from fourth grade students printed from computers.

“It struck me as strange that they weren’t writing …

It was like these kids weren’t educated.”

In other words, her fundamental, perhaps somewhat sentimental, attachment to the old-fashioned writing style drove the state to add the cursive element to the already rigorous and complex Common Core State Standards.

Yes, I do know how to write in cursive. Yes, I use it more than I use ordinary hand-writing. But, given the choice between that and typing, for a professional document, I would choose a keyboard.

Typing is faster, cleaner, and easier to transport. Now let’s talk about math.

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about the negativity that Bitcoin has received in the past month.

In reality, there have been many more advancements and positives to the cryptocurrency.

The most recent positive news is the techcrunch. com announcement about the launch of the official first Bitcoin ATM to be opened in the U.S. Robocoin is the company that has already placed Bitcoin ATMs in Canada and has shipments to be received in Seattle and Austin.

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itcoin, the world’s most popular digital cryptocurrency, has had one heck of a year. The currency, which has been available since 2009, was at around $30 per Bitcoin this time last year.

Since then, the price of Bitcoin has seen upwards of $1,200 and was projecting a potential true currency revolution to today’s moderate price of $630, and now the potential success of Bitcoin is at a crossroads.

Some of the masses’ faith in Bitcoin has faltered, and with good reason. On Feb. 7, Wired. com reported that Mt. Gox, the largest volume-Bitcoin exchange, suspended withdrawals of Bitcoin.

This has led to a meltdown.

Mt. Gox issued a press release that used the excuse that the suspension was due to transaction malleability, basically that there

companies accepting Bitcoin.

Overstock.com’s success shows that taking the lead on accepting Bitcoin is a true stroke of marketing genius, as wired.com reports that Overstock.com did $126,000 in sales through the first day of accepting Bitcoin payments.

Another positive is the recent stable Bitcoin price. One of the largest problems that the masses have with Bitcoin is the price swings. While investors bet the price will increase, what the cryptocurrency truly needs is a stable price for an extended period of time.

While the recent show of stability is comforting, I believe the price will eventually extend back to the $1,000 coins seen just two months ago. It may just take some time to get back to that price point.

So while various Bitcoin ex-

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changes have been under attack this past month and the price has taken a hit, Overstock’s success and the launch of Bitcoin ATMs show the validity and persistence of the Bitcoin community.

As Bitcoin becomes more mainstream and eventually more regulated by various gove r nm e nt s , t he r e w i l l b e a n influx of companies that will run toward the goldmine of accepting cryptocurrencies.

While Overstock is a great addition to making Bitcoin more established in the financial market, I believe Amazon or eBay will incorporate Bitcoin into their businesses within the year. Once that is done, mass adoption of Bitcoin will truly begin.

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CVS improves business, health without cigarettes

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By the end of this year, CVS pharmacy will discontinue cigarette sales.

The company’s resolution could not only be an ethical choice, but a business savvy one.

CVS is the second largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., following Walgreens, with around 7,600 stores throughout the nation. In 2012, cigarettes sales contributed $1.5 billion to the overall revenue of $123 billion.

In other words, only 1.2 percent of CVS’ total earnings.

The lost profit could likely be replenished by other sources, but even if it couldn’t, there are worse things in life than an unhealthy stock return.

Tobacco is responsible for about 480,000 deaths a year in the U.S., according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Cigarettes and health are a contradiction and a subsequent conflict of interest for a pharmacy.

It is ludicrous for a health store to sell tobacco.

It’s the equivalent of Hertz selling liquor, Muvico selling vuvuzelas or Toys “R” Us selling grenades.

Though common sense implies tobacco is unhealthy no matter where it’s sold, it would be unwise to underestimate subconscious predisposition for association. It could be confusing for a child to see a parent buy medicine and cigarettes from the same store.

It’s easy to be cynical and call CVS’ newfound sense of corporate social responsibility a public relations stunt.

Yet, even if that’s the case, virtue out of self-interest is virtue nonetheless.

The exhaustive media coverage and subsequent positive public reaction will likely counterbalance short-term profit loss. Many health-conscious consumers these days are loyal to companies that preach well-being — health sells.

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Yet, in the long term, one may assume CVS may lose money for two reasons.

The buzz will eventually dissipate and the decision to stop at a CVS will once again depend entirely on whether a U-Turn is needed to reach a Walgreens instead.

It is also reasonable to assume fewer cigarette sales will lead to fewer sick people, which will lead to fewer people buying medicine from CVS in general.

However, there are two flaws to this: it assumes smoking is a habit of convenience and that healthcare spending is static.

According to a Bloomberg report, Healthcare spending will rise to 20 percent of the U.S. GDP within the next decade as a result of an aging population and the Affordable Care Act. As a response to doctors’ inability to meet higher demand, CVS will likely allocate its resources to open more in-store clinics to provide basic health services.

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Texas Tech student stands up for agriculture

By JESSICA ROMERO Staff Writer

Different people can often have varying opinions on the same subject, especially as larger groups of people come together within a university.

Individuals can convey their ideas to others through speaking or writing, such as a blog, and one of the latest blogs to go viral is ‘A Farm Girl’s Fight,’ by Texas Tech student Emily Jackson Jackson, a senior animal science major from Waco, started the blog last October as a way to share her views, she said.

“Honestly, I started it to tell truths about agriculture,” she said. “People have questions about what we do, and I wanted

to answer them.”

A c cording to her blog, Jackson’s family owns a dairy farm, and JACKSON she has a passion for agriculture.

Before her most recent blog involving PETA, she has written blogs of different content.

“Every Sunday I post Bible verses,” Jackson said. “I also post recipes and travel stories, and last semester I blogged more about livestock judging.”

In a recent blog post titled “To

the Man Who Knows Me Better Than I Know Me,” Jackson wrote about her experience with the PETA2 representatives who came to Texas Tech Feb. 13.

Kevin Murnin, a senior animal science major from Miles City, Mont., said he went with Jackson to the PETA2 tent to see a different view than his own.

“We’re very passionate about our agricultural work, and we want to educate people about the high-quality products made by agriculture,” he said. “We wanted to see the other views that people are passionate about.”

The PETA2 representatives presented statistics about the practices of factory farms, and Murnin and Jackson asked about the statistics presented.

After the representatives for PETA2 did not provide support for their statistics, Jackson told other students entering to talk with her if they had questions about animal agriculture because she was a farmer, according to the blog.

Dianne DeVos, an agribusiness graduate student from Plainview, attended the event separately from Jackson and Murnin but supported their stand for agriculture.

“When I found out PETA was on campus, I made it a point to go,” DeVos said. “It’s important for people to understand what goes on in farms and ranches, and I try to present my story whenever I have the opportunity.”

Throughout the blog, Jackson wrote about the questions she,

Murnin and DeVos asked the representatives and the answers they received.

The blog was posted Feb. 14 and has been viewed more than 70,000 times and has 99 comments, Jackson said.

“It’s pretty crazy how quickly the blog took off,” Murnin said.

“I’ve gotten texts from people in Montana, Colorado and Wyoming asking if I was the Kevin from the story.”

The blog’s feedback has been largely positive, Jackson said.

DeVos said Jackson is good at educating others about agriculture through her blog.

“People are so far removed from agriculture that they don’t know where their food c o m e s f r o m , ” D e Vo s s a i d .

“Learning about the industry helps bridge the gap between farmers and consumers.”

According to the blog, Jackson and DeVos both offered for the PETA2 representatives to tour their family dairy farms and both offers were declined.

While Jackson, DeVos and Murnin did not support the views of PETA2, Murnin said the most important action is to keep educating others.

“Some people won’t always see eye to eye,” Murnin said.

“In animal agriculture, it is important to show safe animal handling practices, and people will see how great and safe the industry is. You just have to keep an open mind.” ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

Globetrotters perform Pope’s style influencing cardinal fashion worldwide in United Spirit Arena

By HANNAH HIPP Staff Writer

Laughter and smiles were in high supply as the Harlem Globetrotters took over The United Spirit Arena Thursday night.

The Globetrotters, known for their crazy basketball antics, were dunking and dribbling all over the court.

Aaron Chavez, a sophomore youth and family ministries major at Lubbock Christian University from Grants, N.M., was given tickets to the game from his girlfriend for his birthday.

“I have grown up watching the Globetrotters on TV,” Chavez said, “so to be able to see them live is really exciting.”

Chavez said the dunking and dribbling tricks are his favorite.

He also said the laughter is what he looked forward to the most.

“I knew I would have a fun time, but I never expected to laugh so much,” Chavez said.

The Globetrotters’ tour features a “fans’ rule,” in which fans tweet in and vote for special rules to be applied during each quarter.

These rules included playing with fewer players on the court or wearing a special jersey that counted double points for the wearer.

“The fans’ rule was really fun,” Chavez said. “It was cool to feel involved as a fan and have some control over what they did.”

Between quarters and during timeouts, break dancers and a giant inflatable mascot kept the crowd entertained and excited.

Christian Tidmore, a sopho-

more education major from Chillicothe, was given free tickets to the game by his girlfriend’s stepfather, who is friends with the Globetrotters’ coach.

Tidmore said he had no idea what to expect from the show besides some crazy dunks and trick shots.

“I definitely wasn’t disappointed. The dunks were incredible,” Tidmore said. “Seeing (Stretch) holding the rim while standing on the ground blew my mind. I could only imagine how it would be to be that tall.”

Ryan Geisler, a sophomore animal science major from Plainview, said the inflatable mascot was his favorite part of the game.

“The players were awesome, but I think the mascot really stole the show,” Geisler said.

“When he fell over in front of the sideline, I almost died from laughter.”

The Globetrotters have been performing since the 1920’s, but are constantly changing up their show.

Geisler had never seen the Globetrotters before, he said, but had heard good things about them and loves basketball.

“I was surprised at how good they were,” he said.

“They have a ton of actual basketball talent.”

The players had microphones attached to them and provided jokes and commentary throughout the show.

The referee also had a microphone, and would argue with the players and make crazy calls.

“It caught me off guard when the referee started messing with the players,” Geisler said. “It really was hilarious.”

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Red Raiders to play in Brooks Wallace Memorial

By EVERETT CORDER SportS editor

The Texas Tech baseball team will play Oral Roberts this weekend in the memorial series for former Tech player and assistant coach Brooks Wallace.

Wallace is one of four Red Raiders to have his number retired by the team, according to a news release from Tech athletics, and died at age 27 after a battle with leukemia.

Tech junior pitcher Dominic Moreno said he has a friend who is dealing with leukemia and the after effects of it, and it will probably be an emotional weekend for him.

“You get up for morning workouts and you’re like ‘I don’t want to be here, I don’t want to do the running, I don’t want to do this,’ and he’s gone through more than any of us have,” Moreno said. “He’s kind of a guy that I use for motivation every single day.”

The Red Raiders enter the series ranked No. 28 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers poll after beating No. 3 Indiana three times in

last weekend’s four-game series.

Sophomore utility player Eric Gutierrez said the series win against Indiana was great for momentum, but the players are trying to just take it one game at a time.

“Everybody is pumped for this weekend,” Gutierrez said. “I mean, we’re just taking it day by day and we’ve been working as hard as we worked in the offseason.”

In the series against Indiana, the Red Raiders were strong offensively, scoring 23 runs in their three wins.

The one loss on opening day was the only time Tech struggled at the plate, giving Moreno zero runs in his start.

Moreno credited the Indiana pitcher in the opening game, but said he thought all of the hitters throughout the lineup stepped up in the next three games.

“No matter how good your offense is,” Moreno said, “you’re always going to run into a buzzsaw.”

The pitching staff also performed above expectations, Moreno said, giving up only eight runs in the

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The Red Raiders finished in front Tech, ranked No. 42 in the coun- of six other teams at the tournatry, cut back strokes in the final round ment including No. 22 University to finish the tournament at even par of Southern California, according to the release. and tied for fifth place.

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four-game series.

Moreno said the pitchers from last year still throw just as hard as they did before, but they are better at hitting their spots than last season.

“We definitely go out there and — I don’t want to say prove ourselves — but we definitely believe in ourselves,” Moreno said.

Tech has played 16 games all-time against Oral Roberts, according to the news release, and the Golden Eagles have won eight of those meetings in the series, which dates back to 1978.

Last weekend’s series win was an emotional high, Moreno said, but the veteran players have made sure that nobody is looking over Oral Roberts.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said after beating a highly-ranked team, it is definitely possible for this to be a letdown weekend. “(Oral Roberts) beats nationally ranked teams out there every year multiple times,” Moreno said. “I think we kept our heads level and I never got too high and I never want to get too low.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH PITCHERDominic Moreno pitches the ball during the Red Raiders’ 1-0 loss against No. 3 Indiana at Dan Law Field on Friday.

Track travels to Notre Dame

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

For most of the Tech track and field team, there is no meet scheduled to participate in this weekend.

Coach Wes Kittley said this is not the case for eight athletes on the team. They will make a trip north to Notre Dame, Ind., for the Alex Wilson Invitational.

Those eight athletes are sophomore Joseph Richards III, junior sprinter/ jumper/hurdler Shujaa Benson, junior sprinter Christen Rivers, junior sprinter Montenae Roye-Speight, senior sprinter Amoy Blake, sophomore sprinter Tiffany Tarver, junior sprinter Cierra White and sophomore jumper/ hurdler Le’Tristan Pledger.

This is the last week for athletes to qualify for nationals, so he wants to maximize the number of Tech athletes qualified for nationals, Kittley said.

“Those are kind of the people on the bubble we think,” Kittley said, “and I think we are going to see some higher marks out of them.”

Blake, Rivers, Roye-Speight and White will compete in the 4x400 relay, while Tarver comes along to serve as a possible alternate.

The 4x400 relay is not the only event Rivers and Roye-Speight will participate in. They will attempt to better their times in the 400-meter

dash, as well. Pledger is taking a break from the 60-meter hurdles to compete in the long jump.

On the men’s side, Benson is also scheduled for the long jump, while Richards will try to take care of business in the 400-meter dash.

Benson said he is hopeful for a good distance in the long jump, so he can join some of his teammates in Albuquerque, N.M., for nationals.

The problem Benson has been facing in the event is he tends to pick up fouls a little too much, he said.

Benson wants to cut down on those fouls because he knows he is not far from qualifying for nationals.

“I jumped 7.54 (meters) last week,” Benson said, “and it takes about 10 more centimeters to get into the national meet.”

He knows those 10 centimeters are not impossible to add to his jump, Benson said. He just needs to stop jumping a little early, so he does not cheat himself out of some extra centimeters on the end of his jump.

Besides dealing with the crunch to make it into nationals, Benson is glad he is jumping in this weekend’s invitational against competition because if he does what he needs to do, he can carry the momentum to conference next week, he said.

White said she looks forward to running in the invitational too, despite

how tempting a weekend without a meet sounds.

“I want to have an off week,” White said, “but I also want to go just because I haven’t ran exactly what I have wanted to run in the 4x400 relay. So I expect to do really well this weekend.”

She will not run the 200-meter dash at the invitational, White said.

Her sole focus is the 4x400 relay, so White hopes to run a good leg in the relay to earn and her teammates a spot at nationals.

Even though many of the Tech athletes are not joining White in attendance at the invitational, this does not mean they are going to do nothing for this week, Kittley said.

“Well, we’re going to have a great, hard week the rest of this week,” Kittley said, “and then we are going to back off next week.”

Nineteen athletes made improvements in last week’s meets, and he wants to continue to build upon those improvements, Kittley said. Quality practices are needed this week, since the team will face an abbreviated week next week with it traveling Wednesday for conference.

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Lady Raiders have five players recieve honor The Big 12 Conference announced five Lady Raiders were included in the student-athletes on the 2014 Academic All-Big 12 team Thursday.

“It’s great to see your players rewarded for the hard work they do both on the court and in the classroom,” Tech coach Candi Whitaker said. “These five girls put in a lot of extra time in both areas and are great representatives for Texas Tech.”

First team honors were awarded to freshman guard Minta Spears, sophomore center Kellyn Schneider, junior guard Audrisa Harrison and senior center Haley Schneider. It was the first time to earn the honor for all four players.

Senior forward Shauntal Nobles earned second team honors for the fourth consecutive year, according to a news release.

First team honors are for student athletes that have maintained at least a 3.20 GPA, while second team members hold a 3.00 to 3.19 GPA. To be eligible for Academic All-Big 12 teams, players must maintain a 3.00 GPA or higher and have played in 60 percent of their team’s games. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com