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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — It may be called weed, but marijuana is legendarily hard to grow.

Now that the drug has been made legal in Washington and Colorado, growers face a dilemma. State-sanctioned gardening coaches can help folks cultivate tomatoes or zucchini, but both states have instructed them not to show people the best way to grow marijuana.

The situation is similar in more than a dozen additional states that allow people to grow the drug with medical permission.

That’s leaving some would-be marijuana gardeners looking to the private sector for help raising the temperamental plant.

“We can’t go there,” said Brian Clark, a spokesman for Washington State University in Pullman, which runs the state’s extension services for gardening and agriculture. “It violates federal law, and we are a federally funded organization.”

THE RESET: Obama counts down to gov’t budget cuts (AP) — Four days and counting. But who’s counting? President Barack Obama for one.

That’s how long before government-wide budget cuts begin to hit home that will slash spending by roughly $85 billion over the next seven months.

And more are on the way if Congress and the president can’t figure out how to replace Friday’s indiscriminate autopilot cuts — called a “sequester” in government jargon — with more targeted measures.

Obama told the nation’s governors on Monday, “Unfortunately, in just four days Congress is poised to allow serious and arbitrary automatic budget cuts to kick in that will slow our economy, eliminate good jobs and leave a lot of folks who are already pretty thinly stretched scrambling to figure out what to do.”

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SNOW COATED THE ground Monday outside the Administration building. An estimated two to four inches of snow fell over Lubbock with wind gusts reaching up to 40 mph.

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Texas Tech students, staff and faculty experienced blizzard conditions Monday causing the cancellation of classes.

Classes will resume today at 11 a.m., and buses will run at approximately 10 a.m., according to a Tech emergency alert.

Lighter snowfall started early Monday morning, meteorologist for Lubbock National Weather Service Steve Cobb said, while heavier snow began to fall at 5 a.m., along with strong

winds. The snowfall accumulated to four inches.

“It’s actually qualified as a blizzard because the low visibility,” he said, “the heavy snow and the strong winds combined is causing blizzard or whiteout conditions.”

To be considered a blizzard, Cobb said visibility must be at a quarter mile or less, which determines whiteout conditions, heavy snowfall and wind speeds or gusts of 35 mph or greater.

Meteorologists began tracking the storm that began in the Pacific last week as it moved to the Southern Rockies, he said, and monitored the

storm even more as it began to move more toward Lubbock and the South Plains region.

“Generally, with these winter storms, the heaviest snowfall is along to the north of that track,” Cobb said, “which is what we’re seeing to the north of the Panhandle where they’re seeing well over a foot of snow in many locations from Amarillo all across the Panhandle.”

Roads also were affected by the weather, Cobb said. Main roads were wet and slushy, and side roads were snow-packed and icy.

“When the worst snowfall looks

to be over and the winds start to taper off,” he said, “things will still be treacherous out on the roadways, and even out on sidewalks.”

Normal foot traffic, Cobb said, will be hazardous until the majority of ice and snow can be melted, which may not be until Wednesday.

Snow storms of this magnitude have not occurred in recent years, Donald Haragan, professor of atmospheric science at Tech, said, but in the past the area has received blizzards worse than the one Monday.

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Barraza, Cotton, Stovall campaign for SGA presidency

By MATT DOTRAY STAFF WRITER

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Elections for Texas Tech Student Government Association begin Wednesday and seats in both the legislative and executive branches will be up for election.

According to the SGA website, the president of SGA is the spokesman for students to the Board of Regents, administration and national organizations. The president appoints students to committees and councils, and manages the funding for campus organizations.

The following three students, in alphabetical order, are candidates for the 2013 president of SGA: Jose Barraza Barraza is a junior political science major from Houston. He is running independently within the Raider’s Voice campaign, which emphasizes health and security issues, as well as multiculturalism.

Barraza has not been in SGA, but said that

would help him be a more effective president.

“I feel like there is not a big connection right now between the students and the student government,” he said, “and the reason why I am running BARRAZA is because I want to change that. I am an outsider to student government. I have not worked in student government before. That’s why I am not subject to the same biases as my opponents are.”

If elected, he said he has three major goals while in office. The first issue he would like to solve, he said, is promoting diversity.

“I feel like Texas Tech has a lot of diversity, but we haven’t used that as well as we should,” Barraza said. “For a lot of time, only a few have been in charge of student government, and it is time for

the rest of us to step in.”

There are a lot of diverse students on campus, he said, and they all have different issues and different ways of thinking. As president, he said he will reach out to those students and represent them.

COTTON Barraza said he also would try to make public transportation easier by pushing an idea to have public bikes that students can ride to class and then leave for other students to use.

He said SGA spends a lot of money on Safe Ride, but not many students use (its services). If elected, he said he would promote safe driving by asking local bars to incentivize the use of designated drivers by offering free non-alcoholic drinks to designated drivers.

“I’m not here to represent myself,” Barraza

said at news conference.

“I’m here to represent the students of Texas Tech.

Luke Cotton Cotton, an energy commerce major from League City, is campaigning within Raiders United. Prior to runSTOVALL ning for president, Cotton said he has spent a year as a senator for the Rawls College of Business Administration, and was the vice-chairman of infrastructure.

While he was on the committee of infrastructure, he said they were the most productive committee in the Senate. During his first year, Cotton said he wrote three resolutions, which all passed, and he is working on a fourth.

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James Wetherbe, a professor at the Rawls College of Business Administration, filed a federal lawsuit against Provost Bob Smith, claiming Smith blocked him from two promotions because of his opposition to tenure.

Wetherbe, a distinguished alumnus of Texas Tech, had voluntarily resigned tenure while at the University of Minnesota, and declined the offer when he began working at Tech in 2000.

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When he began teaching at Tech, Wetherbe said he had a written agreement with John Burns, the provost James Wetherbe at the time, which alProfessor, lowed him to serve as Rawls CoBA a professor without tenure.

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protects subpar, complacent performances from a minority of professors.

There are 280,000 professors with tenure in the country, he said, and every year, about 15 to 75 of them lose their positions.

“If you ran a business and you could only eliminate .01 percent of your employees,” he said, “it would be very hard to perform and be competitive if it was that hard to get rid of people.”

Wetherbe did not accept the tenure offer because of personal and philosophical beliefs, he said.

Most people who receive tenure do an outstanding job, Wetherbe said, but it is the minority that makes the majority look bad.

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put out the same effort and productivity,” he said. “That’s why I take issue with it. When I work with business people, they resent a great deal, a lot of them do, that (other people) have tenure.”

Instead of protecting academic freedom, he said tenure has become more about job security.

In an online survey by the Wall Street Journal, three out of four people believe tenure should be abolished.

The lawsuit came about, Wetherbe said, when he was one of four finalists to become the dean of the Rawls College of Business Administration and a faculty honor called the Horn Professorship.

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If elected president, Cotton said his major goal would be getting students more involved in student government.

“A lot of groups say that, but they don’t really have a plan of action on how to get more student involvement,” he said. “With myself, I would like to go out and actually talk to students, hear their complaints and (tackle) any concerns they might be having.”

As a way to get more students involved, Cotton said he would create ‘Pizza with the President,’ a monthly meet-and-greet event where SGA representatives meet with the student body and ask them how they can be of service to them.

Cotton said he and the other members of “Raiders United” also have plans for creating mobile offices, where SGA representatives regularly set up a booth in their respective colleges, so students can get to know their representatives and vice versa.

“I think if we actually go out and meet (students) in their environment where they are all hanging out at,” he

said, “I think that would be much more beneficial than sitting in the office all day, waiting for them to come to us.”

Cotton said a strong work ethic had been instilled in him when he was young, working on a ranch.

“I’m more of a person that’s going to be walking instead of just talking to everyone,” he said. “Saying I’m going to do something and then not doing it is not something I do.”

Forrest Stovall Stovall, a senior senior technical communication major from San Antonio, is campaigning within “Bridge the Gap,” and has been in SGA for the past two years.

If elected president, he said he has three main goals. The first goal is to bridge the gap between students at Tech and SGA. “I want to make sure that the students feel confident and assured that when they approach SGA, when they come up to our office, we will take action on their ideas,” he said. “We will take their ideas seriously, and we will contact administration and do whatever we have to do.”

Stovall said the best way to get students in SGA is to target freshmen. If elected, he said he would make student government more involved in freshmen

orientation and let incoming freshmen know that SGA is there to serve them.

Another goal Stovall said he has is to push administrators to increase student scholarships. The Vision and Tradition Campaign raised more than $1 billion, he said, and he would like to make sure that students, through scholarships, receive as much of that as possible.

Lastly, Stovall said, he would help change Tech’s mindset on sustainability.

This does not involve just recycling, he said, but also involves making sure hospitality services buy more local food, building more energy-friendly buildings and taking advantage of wind energy.

If elected, Stovall said he would like to begin meeting with administration that week.

“I really want to work with administration on any current initiatives that they have and any current ideas that they have to see how student government can aid in those issues and how we can work together as a team,” he said, “because we are one institution. We are one university, and I want to do our best to promote that university as well as we can.”

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Stocks drop as Italy heads for political disarray NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are having a bad flashback to last spring, when fears about the European debt crisis sent the market spiraling lower.

On Monday, election results in Italy showed a race too close to call, leaving investors fearful that the country will struggle to form a government that can move forward with reforms to revive the economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average posted its worst drop in more than three months. The Standard & Poor’s 500, which had its first weekly decline of the year last week, piled on more losses Monday.

The Dow fell 216.40 points, or 1.6

percent, to 13,784.17, its biggest drop since Nov. 7. The S&P 500 fell 27.75 points, or 1.8 percent, to 1,487.85, falling below 1,500 for the first time in three weeks. The Nasdaq composite dropped 45.57 points, or 1.4 percent, to 3,116.25.

Investors worry about the outcome of Italy’s election because it could set off another crisis of confidence in the region’s shared currency, the euro.

The Dow started the day gaining as much as 81 points on early optimism that Italian elections would produce a government willing to stay the course with reforms. The index drifted lower and then slumped, giving up about

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“This is what markets feared,” says Jim Russell, a senior equity strategist at US Bank Wealth Management.

“Stability in Europe is paramount to the markets.”

Italy has the eighth largest economy in the world and the market for Italian government bonds ranks as the third largest, behind Japan and the U.S. Last spring, investors fretted over the outcome of Greek elections that had the potential to pull the euro currency bloc apart. By the start of June, U.S. stocks had given up the year’s gains after a strong start.

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“What we’re looking at is not an unprecedented storm,” he said. “It’s something that we’ve seen in past years, but certainly we haven’t seen it in the last few years. In fact, we haven’t seen a lot of snow in this area in the past few years, so for a lot of folks who have been here for a short period of time, this is certainly a major event.”

Haragan said the snow was fairly wet, so it could do some damage to trees, but he does not foresee damage being anything major.

The reason Lubbock received as much snow as it did, he said, was

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Although the positions did not require tenure, Wetherbe said he was dropped from consideration for these positions because he had previously refused tenure.

“When asked, ‘Do Dr. Wetherbe’s views on tenure make him unfit to be Horn Professor?,’ (Smith) said, ‘Yes,’” Wetherbe said. “Do his views on tenure make him unfit to be a dean, (Smith) answered, ‘Yes.’” The lawsuit is based on Wetherbe’s claims that the school violated his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

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WWW.DAILYTOREADOR.COM because the storm moved south more than was predicted, and the storm moved slower.

Haragan said he thought the numerical models being used to predict storm tracks did a good job tracking the storm.

“I think they predicted this one very well,” he said. “They had it, most of the model had it, passing a little bit further north of us, but you never know, those things can change very quickly and the storm passed a little further south than they had originally predicted.”

Katelyn Littleton, a freshman animal science major from Los Alamos, N.M., said Monday was a good day to do homework, but she did not think the blizzard was a big deal and was surprised Tech canceled classes.

“It snows this much where I’m

from and they don’t do anything,” she said.

Kitt Crabb, a freshman civil engineering major from College Station, said it never snows where she is from, and she planned on taking pictures and building a snowball on her day off.

Freshman chemical engineering major from Fincastle, Va., Lauren Clements, said she took pictures of the snow as well.

“Taking pictures and everything — it’s been amazing,” she said, “especially seeing this much snow here in Texas. I was kind of worried that when I came down here I wouldn’t get to see stuff like this anymore.”

The last time a blizzard of this magnitude occurred in Lubbock was in the 1950s, Cobb said.

ic freedom,” he said. “Tenure gives you job security, and so, if this lawsuit can establish that I have the right to speak out against the most sacred thing to a lot of people — tenure — then it kind of takes a lot of wind out of the sail that you have tenure in order to have academic freedom.”

Chris Cook, managing director of the Office of Communications and Marketing, said Smith is going to file a motion to dismiss the case.

The purpose of tenure, he said, is to protect academic freedom and express the truth as the professors find it.

According to the Tech’s policies and procedures, tenure is designed to assure faculty freedom in teaching and research.

With tenure, professors are able

to better advance knowledge and educate students.

Without trying to be disrespectful, Cook said the reason Wetherbe was not hired as the dean of the business college was because Lance Nail, the appointed dean, was better fit for the position.

“Here is what you need to know about the position. We hired the best candidate for the position,” Cook said. “Lance Nail was the best hire for that position. We’re very confident in that hire, and that has nothing to do with anything except the fact that he was the best candidate.”

Wetherbe said if he receives any money in the lawsuit he will give it back to the university for student scholarships.

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Senate panel likely to vote this week on CIA pick WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House commitment to provide lawmakers with additional information about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, may have cleared the way for a vote later this week on President Barack Obama’s nominee for CIA director, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday.

Republicans had demanded the records as a condition of moving forward with John Brennan’s confirmation.

“The administration has agreed to provide the material, (and) some of it is going to be provided tomorrow,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. “It is my hope that that is sufficient and we will be able to schedule the nomination for a vote on Thursday.”

But Feinstein also said the Obama administration has not yet responded to the committee’s request for more details about the classified Justice Department legal opinions that justify using unmanned spy planes to kill al-Qaida suspects overseas, including American citizens.

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sult with the committee’s vice chairman, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., on the date for the vote on Brennan’s nomination.

She declined to specify what information on Benghazi the White House will be giving the committee.

A congressional aide said last week that the documents include emails between top national security officials showing the debate within the administration over how to describe the attack and other documents the committee had previously requested. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

While the nomination appears to be headed for a committee vote, several senators said Monday they still have lingering questions and concerns about the lethal drone strikes and Brennan’s knowledge about the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques during the Bush administration.

Brennan, 57, is a veteran of more than three decades in intelligence work.

He withdrew his name from nomination to head the CIA at the start of Obama’s first term amid questions about the role he played at the spy agency when the Bush administration approved waterboarding and other forms of “enhanced interrogation” of suspected terrorists.

“We need any and all legal opinions pertaining to the targeted killings, and we have not gotten that,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Intelligence Committee. “We need those documents in order to carry out our obligation to do vigilant oversight.”

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine., said she is inclined to support Brennan’s

nomination but agreed the Justice Department opinions should be disclosed to the committee along with the Benghazi information. “It’s my understanding that we’re making some progress on that latter issue but not any on the former,” she said.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has threatened to put a hold on Brennan’s nomination unless the Benghazi information is delivered. He also has said that Brennan’s positions on waterboarding and torture are inconsistent because Brennan has said he’s opposed to such methods while also arguing they saved lives.

“We have a number of questions that need to be answered,” McCain said.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said last week he will filibuster Brennan’s nomination unless his concerns over the legality of using drone strikes inside the U.S. are answered. Paul said he has written to Brennan three times about the extent of the government’s drone authority, most recently on Feb. 21.

Brennan has told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the Obama administration has not carried out drone strikes on U.S. soil and has no intention of doing so.

But Paul said that answer is insufficient. “The question that I and many others have asked is not whether the administration has or intends to carry out drone strikes inside the United States, but whether it believes it has the authority to do so,” Paul wrote. “This is an important distinction that should not be ignored.”

Moira Bagley, Paul’s spokeswoman, said Monday the senator has not received a response from Brennan.

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able to bring in volunteers, the South Plains has been able to incorporate more events for people with special needs.

“The South Plains has been able The Raider Special Olympics is a Texas Tech student organization that to add a couple more sports and events volunteers with the Special Olympics because of that,” Jones said, “so that’s and other opportunities for people with something we’re really proud of.” special needs in the Lubbock and South The Raider Special Olympics is inPlains area, said volved in difAmanda Jones, ferent events a junior nursand sports for ing major from people with Round Rock special needs, and president of such as basketRaider Special ball, bowling Olympics. and track and “Our biggest field, Jones thing is we volsaid. unteer for the “We’re area-wide Special involved with Olympics tourthe theranament,” Jones peutic riding KAYLA ELLIS said. center with JUNIOR The Raider all the hippoFAMILY CONSUMER Special Olymtherapy,” she SCIENCE EDUCATIONS pics started out said.

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“We also have mentorship around my freshman year and there was probably 15 people at the most in this the Lubbock community with the loorganization,” said Kayla Ellis, a junior cal middle schools and high schools, family consumer science education a couple of them,” Jones said, “and we major and vice president of the Raider go during the lunch period and kind of Special Olympics. “And now it has sit and interact with the special needs grown — There is, like, 150 members kids there.”

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SHOW BITS: A bump in the night for Kim K. (AP) — PARTY TIME FOR PREGNANT KIM KARDASHIAN Kim Kardashian didn’t just step out at the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Oscar after-party in West Hollywood dressed to impress. She rocked her pregnancy bump like a glam accessory.

The reality TV starlet wore a white, cleavage-baring Donna Karan dress that showed off every curve without self-consciousness.

Kardashian and her sister Khloe, both without their respective loves, Kanye West, and Lamar Odom, chatted up party guest Chris Brown, who was at the party without his girlfriend, Rihanna.

Kim Kardashian added she was also looking forward to catching the show by the night’s featured performer, soulful Scottish singer Emeli Sande.

“I love her!” she exclaimed.

Asked how late she would stay up celebrating, given her pregnancy, Kardashian considered the question for a moment.

“I don’t know, hmmm,” she told The Associated Press.

Then she added, “I always end up going to bed early!”

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“You trading that in?”, lead actress winner Jennifer Lawrence asked Ben Affleck when she saw him show up with his best picture statuette.

“What can I get for this award?”, Affleck joked.

Anne Hathaway arrived with her Oscar in one hand and a glass of champagne in the other.

She covered her mouth in awe when the engraver showed her the nameplate, then helped attach it to her trophy’s base. Her husband, Adam Shulman, recorded the moment for posterity on his iPhone.

After spending a moment checking out his Oscar, Affleck stood up to a round of applause from those in the room.

“Thank you! I love it,” he said.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian officials on Monday dismissed the Oscar-winning film “Argo” as pro-CIA, anti-Iran propaganda, but some young, moderate Iranians welcomed it as a fresh view of recent history.

The movie, based on the escape of six American hostages from the besieged U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979, has not been screened in any Iranian theaters.

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TRISTAN CURRENS, A junior computer science major from Flower Mound, hands out a medal to a participant of the Special Olympics Saturday at Frenship High School. Currens was volunteering with Raider Special Olympics Texas.

and they are hosting a basketball tournament Saturday, Ellis said.

They also are hosting the End of the R-Word event, a nationwide event that will help educate people about the impact the “R” word has on people with special needs, Jones said.

Ellis said she became involved with the Raider Special Olympics at Tech because of an advertisement on TechAnnounce asking for volunteers.

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We’re there for them. We’re cheering for them.”

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But many Iranians have seen it nevertheless. In downtown Tehran, bootleg DVDs of “Argo” sell for about 30,000 rials, or less than $1.

The movie has set off a spirited debate that exposed a generational divide.

Iranians who took part in the 1979 Islamic Revolution picked apart the portrayals of Tehran at the time. But those too young to recall the events had a different view.

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f you have been following news media in any way for the past couple of weeks, chances are good you have heard the term “sequester” floating around.

Chances also are pretty good you have heard a lot of partisan bickering over the sequester and how it came into existence. However, if you’re like most people, you might be a little confused as to what exactly the sequester is and what Congressional party leaders are doing — or not doing — to avoid it.

The budget sequester is essentially an enforcement mechanism set up by the Republican Party and Democratic Party in Congress during the debt limit negotiations to assure deficit reduction if an agreement could not be made. So far, the only agreement by all parties involved in the negotiations on how to avoid the sequester is that the sequester is a terrible policy.

As it stands now, the budget sequester entails $85 billion in spending cuts for all federal programs during the next seven months.

According to the Office of Management and Budget’s Danny Werfel, this will mean a reduction of 9 percent for non-defense programs and 13 percent in cuts for defense programs.

To give a little real-world per-

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the man behind the voice of Elmo was accused of sexual misconduct, “When you help construct a statue it comes almost as a surprise to discover the feet are still made of clay.” We thrive on building myths around human beings, as well as participating in their destruction at the first whiff of scandal, hungrily consuming the tabloid stories that result.

This cycle has been repeated ceaselessly for promising politicians — Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Mark Sanford and Anthony Weiner — as well as for sports stars and celebrities. Knowing the pervasiveness of the phenomenon, getting caught with your pants down on the Internet — sometimes even literally — seems incomprehensibly insane.

Perhaps that is the point. When people are the subject of media profiles that make them appear more than human, the hagiography engenders judgmentally-focused expectations from the public. The only question left to ask, then, is why we should even

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Women of America, relax. There’s no need to carry a gun for self-defense, not when you can vomit on your attacker. Vomiting on command not a skill you’ve cultivated? Never fear, just proceed to the nearest rape-free zone at the boundary of which your attacker will be forced to meekly retreat. If there’s no rape-free zone in your immediate vicinity, maybe passive resistance is your best option. Or, have you considered that you might be imagining the whole thing?

Is the above absurdly satirical? Well, yes and no. Apparently, if you’re a male Democratic politician in Colorado, this is perfectly sound logic.

This week, Colorado Democratic Congressman Joe Salazar suggested that women don’t need guns for selfdefense. They may willy nilly shoot someone because their intuition can’t discern between a member of normal pedestrian traffic and a stalker. Instead, he argues, women should rest easy knowing that there are call boxes, rape whistles and safe zones. His colleague Paul Rosenthal suggested that instead

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participate in the media circus in the first place.

When we create these superhuman personas — whether athletes, musicians or the like — we lose sight of the realities of being a person with both strengths and flaws. Achievement is certainly inspirational, and admiration of those who have reached outstanding levels of success is understandable. However, it often leads to disappointment, which in turn leads to cynicism. Instead of idolizing those who are prominently accomplished, we would all be better off recognizing the humanity of those who seem so perfect.

When we put people on pedestals, we are asking for them to fall.

We have a tendency to create idealized figures that seem so perfect they cannot help but let us down in some way when they reveal their humanness — but we do not have to end celebrity as a concept. There is a way to look up to people without deifying them — to pay respect while critically engaging and questioning them.

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by various allegations. This past week, celebrity South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius was arrested after being accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Though Pistorius has been released on bail and has yet to go on trial, this instance was one of several disquieting incidents where riches turned into rags. We all know what happened to Lance Armstrong, the former seven-time Tour de France winner-turned-America’s-scoundrel.

And just this academic year, along with the cyclist’s admission of using performance-enhancing drugs, General David Petraeus was felled by a sex scandal, the details of which shocked the country. But was our shock justified? As this kind of fall from grace happens, we must ask ourselves if we, as a society, hold a degree of responsibility for such repeated occurrences.

We can only be disappointed by the demise of these larger-than-life figures because we are their creators. As the Washington Post noted the week after news of the Petraeus affair broke and

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spective, this would mean that not only would supplementary programs like Head-Start and the National Science Foundation take a severe blow to grants and research, but the Food and Drug Administration would have to cut back on food inspection and the FBI would have to reduce its law enforcement capacity.

For the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, the upside to the budget sequester is they can feel good about themselves in that they didn’t take back their antitax oath. They have been insisting, albeit selfishly and hopelessly, that the Democratic Party accept a cutsonly alternative to the sequester.

Other than that, the GOP has spent most of its time throughout the past few weeks fabricating a fight about who’s responsible for the sequester’s existence in the news media, pushing blame for the sequester’s existence on the White House. This has served as a distraction from the fact that they’ve done

about the issue, “[sequestration] was intended to drive both democrats and Republicans in Congress to compromise.”

Accordingly, Obama has expressed interest in going back to the failed offer he gave House Speaker John Boehner, which involved $900 billion in spending cuts and $1.2 trillion in new revenues. Obama said he would agree to the same deal with half of the new revenues to replace the entire sequester.

The sequester will hit in full on March 1 and spell economic disaster for the entire country. It would seem to me that if the GOP in Congress was serious about reducing the deficit and paying off our national debt, they would realize that spending cuts alone only hurt the poor and middle class, which in turn has a negative impact on the economy.

The president’s offer of a balanced and sensible mix of spending cuts and new tax revenues is the best alternative Congress has to the harmful cuts that sequestration will bring. With any luck, Congress will accept it before the ticking bomb that is the budget sequester explodes.

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nothing to seriously negotiate a solution to the budget impasse our government is currently facing.

The Democratic Party has remained largely open to suggestions for alternatives to the sequester on the condition that any policy include raising tax revenues. The proposals submitted by the party has been similar in that they cut agriculture subsidies and raise the tax rate on those who make more than $1 million of income to 30 percent. These proposals, however, did not survive the Republican Party filibuster because they involve raising more than zero dollars in tax revenue.

The upside to the sequester for the Democratic Party is that it pits the scissor-happy libertarian bloc of the GOP that vowed not to raise a penny of revenue against the war hawks taking money from military contractors. The obvious downside is that it will have egregious consequences for domestic government programs that benefit the poor and middle class.

So what is President Barack Obama doing about all this, you may ask? After all, he’s the one who signed it into law after Congressional Republicans voted overwhelmingly for it. Werfel stated during the White House news conference

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of carrying a gun, women should rely on the buddy system for safety.

As if this weren’t asinine enough, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs released a list of tips for rape prevention that included vomiting or urinating on the attacker. They also suggested that passive resistance, i.e., submitting, might be the best option.

The list has since been scrubbed from their website with the excuse that it was taken out of context by popular media.

Then there’s the dazzling intellect of our honorable vice president and formerly unbeknownst firearms connoisseur Joe Biden, who informed the media this week that women shouldn’t use semi-automatic weapons like an AR-15 for defense because they’re too difficult for women to shoot. Instead, he suggested they arm themselves with double barrel shotguns and if threatened, fire warning shots out the front door.

Hey, Joe — your argument is malarkey.

First of all, randomly firing a gun on your property is illegal. The Castle Doctrine, which allows an individual to use deadly force in their home, is only applicable if there’s demonstrable evidence that someone is breaking in. It does not give the right to shoot haphazardly at noises in the night.

Secondly, firing both rounds of a double barrel shotgun leaves that person utterly defenseless until they reload, and as the federal government has urgently been churning out propaganda to demonstrate, that’s the perfect time to take down a gunman. Obviously, semi-automatic rifles, which are more accurate and don’t have to be manually reloaded, are more effective defensive weapons.

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Track and field breaks records at Big 12 Championship

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The Big 12 Championship wrapped up Sunday after being postponed an entire day because of inclement weather.

The meet was up and running Saturday morning and continued all day Sunday. Opening day, the team arrived to try and win the conference title.

From the preliminaries, the Red Raiders had a strong presence in advancing to the final rounds in various events, but there was one who stood out.

Texas Tech senior distance runner Kennedy Kithuka competed in the 5,000-meter race and ran with the distance medley relay team as well. The distance medley relay team was comprised of Tech junior Ezekiel Kissorio, freshman Nick Rivera and freshman Joseph Richards III. The team placed third overall in the distance medley finals with a time of 9:43.89, just missing the first place mark taken by Oklahoma at 9:42.37.

“A lot of people are doubling here so

you have to try and get as many points for the team as possible, but there’s a few who have not doubled so there’s going to be some fresh competition, and just handling that and running a good time and winning,” Tech cross-country coach Jon Murray said.

This was not the first time Kithuka placed high. His reputation from this season marks him as a record breaker.

To begin the season, he broke the school record in the mile, Jan. 26 at the Texas A&M Challenge with a time of 3:59.53. On Feb. 2, he broke the school record in the 3,000-meter at the Meyo Invitational with a time of 7:50.26.

At the Tyson Invitational on Feb. 8, he broke the school record in the 5,000-meter with a time of 13:26.65.

Kithuka went on to break not only the school record but the meet record at the Big 12 Championships in Ames, Iowa, with a running time of 13:41.01.

He received first place in each event in which he broke these records.

“Kennedy is such a great competitor

and he handled the competition well,” Murray said. “He did a good job running the race. Basically, he was trying to win the race with as little energy as possible being used and he did a great job with that and he set a new conference record so he put his name in the books and it will be there for a while.”

Kithuka was not the only one experiencing success on the opening day of the meet. Tech sophomore Cierra White finished the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.42 and the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.62 and with that qualified for both final rounds instantly.

“It was a special performance from Kennedy today,” Tech coach Wes Kittley said. “I’m proud of the way several of our athletes competed, and I’m looking forward to several more in finals.”

The 400-meter dash was full of Tech athletes. Four Red Raiders in the men and women’s division advanced to the final round in the 400-meter dash, Isaiah Gill and Joseph Richard III in the men’s division and Christen Rivers and Amoy

Blake in the women’s.

“Coming here and doing this, there was a few people who hadn’t run the race that were fresh and that adds little wrinkle in the competition. We just handled all the competition well did a great job,” Murray said.

The Red Raider track and field team is fourth overall behind Arkansas, Florida and Texas A&M, according to the USTFCCCA rankings.

Tech will go on to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships starting on March 8 and continuing March 9.

The team will have two weeks before the national championship. The Red Raiders will be training throughout the small break to keep their points up and it is expected that Kithuka will continue to succeed.

“He’s in a great position right now,” Murray said. “Everything’s been going well, his racing has been going well. I expect some great competition there, we’ll just see how he handles it.” ➤➤echappell@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH’S KENNEDY Kithuka runs the final leg of the Men’s 8K cross-country event during the Red Raider Open on Friday at Meadowbrook Golf Course. Kithuka’s time of 23:34.44 broke the previous course record.

Tech freshman Gray earns Big 12 Rookie of the Week honors Texas Tech freshman guard Josh Gray received Big 12 Rookie of the Week honors, according to a news release issued Monday.

Gray’s award marks only the second Big 12 basketball award issued to the Tech men’s basketball program this season. Tech junior forward Jaye Crockett received an award for

Player of the Week on December 31.

During his last two games, Gray has averaged 23 points, four and a half assists, three rebounds, and three steals per game.

Despite leading all scorers in his previous two games, Gray has been unable to lead his team to victory in either conference matchup.

After playing Oklahoma, Sooners coach Lon Kruger had high praise for the guard, calling him a terrific player.

Crockett, a teammate of Gray’s, had high praise for him after their loss to Oklahoma, saying he has improved since the summer, and he is trying to get better each day.

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“I think he is doing great,” he said. “He came a long way from the summer. He has been learning every day. He is just trying to get better as a player and a person. I am real proud of him.”

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LOOKING FOR a roomate to live in a 2 bedroom 2 bath house in Tech Terrace on 29th st, great location! Pets allowed, 713-628-5227

COME TO RUNWAY FASHION EXCHANGE for our annual grab bag sale! Stuff all the clearance you can in a bag for only $10! Plus take an additional 50-70% off brands like Polo, Miss Me, BKE, and Coach. Two day sale March 1st and 2nd.

Doors open 10am. Be there early. Located on 60th and Slide by Pier1 Imports.

WANTED FEMALE ROOMMATE for adorable 3 bedroom house. Pets okay. One bedroom sublease through end of July. If interested call 214-801-0609

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THE GAS LIGHT & THE LANTERN TAVERN Wait staff needed. Call 785-1720 or 785-2280 after 4pm or apply in person at 5212 57th Street or 3502 Slide Road.

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MATTRESS SALE

Mattress, Furniture. Huge discounts. 5127 34th Street (34th & Slide). 785-7253.

LEGAL NOTICES REFERENDUMS AND Polling Questions for the Spring General Election Ballot Referendums: 1. Senate Concurrent Resolution 48.07: “The Third Amendment of the Student Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the Student Government Association of Texas Tech University prohibits policies or rules that would establish or contribute to discrimination against the University community.

Currently, the language in the Third Amendment only covers the areas of race, color, creed, and sex. This policy is now obsolete when compared to the non-discrimination policies of Texas Tech University, admission for any of the Texas institutions of higher education, federal government, state government, and local governments. If approved, this referendum will allow students to extend protections to match these existing policies in the following areas: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, creed, marital/familial status, and citizenship.”

“Yes, I approve of the changes to the Third Amendment.”

“No, I do not approve of the changes to the Third Amendment.”

2. Senate Concurrent Resolution 48.09: “Currently, representatives in the Student Senate of the Texas Tech University Student Government Association are required to have a 2.0 grade point average. Executive Officers (President, External and Internal Vice Presidents) are only required to have a 2.25 grade point average. It is the opinion of the Student Senate that the grade point average requirements need to be changed from a 2.0 to a 2.5 for the Student Senate, and from a 2.25 to a 2.75 for the Executive Officers. Through this referendum students are being given the opportunity to enhance the standards of the Student Government Association and improve its current constitution.”

“Yes, I approve of the changes to the SGA Constitution which will change the current grade point average requirements.”

“No, I do not approve of the changes to the SGA Constitution which will leave the grade point averages as they are currently written.”

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