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President Schovanec says budget cuts will not impact students’ experiences

By MICHAEL CANTU Opinions Editor

More than a week after a finalized state budget of $217 billion was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Tech is forced to deal with the final set of numbers.

Anticipating there would be no changes after the state legislature sent of the budget near the last days of the recent legislative session over Memorial Day weekend, Tech administration was willing to face a reduction in funds head on.

This became apparent after Tech President Lawrence Schovanec sent out a letter on May 30, informing administrators, faculty and staff they would have to reduce spending by one percent within each college on the Tech campus.

But if there is one message Schovanec wants to convey it is this: students should not be affected by the reduction in the budget.

“We don’t think students should be affected at all,” Schovanec said.

“We’ve asked (administrators) to look primarily at areas of travel, entertainment and food, and take the cuts out of those expenses.”

The letter states that the university as a whole, for a two-year period known as a biennium, will have a reduction in the amount of state appropriated funds, something to the sum of 3.8 percent.

That number though, is split in half for each year of the biennium, so

realistically the university is looking at an annual cut of somewhere near 1.9 percent, Schovanec said.

To the academics of the university there should be minimal costs to student’s education. What has been impacted more so are special items the university is considering.

As stated in the letter, special line item will see a reduction somewhere between 30 to 50 percent.

“It is our intention to try and identify resources to reduce the impact of those cuts,” Schovanec said. “But they will probably feel a greater impact from this budget than any other units on campus.”

The letter by Schovanec also states there will be no new commitments requested from the College Budget Hearing, something that was started when he was first provost after December 2013, he said. This was basically a way for colleges to make requests for resources that may have been out of the base budget.

“This year we are not going to be able to respond to some of these ‘above base budget’ requests,” Schovanec said.

But coming off of a cooling Texas economy that has not been as productive as it was in years past, Tech administration was a bit apprehensive going into this legislative session. The money in the overall budget was not there for the spending the state has seen in years past.

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Incoming Texas Tech University students and family members attend the opening session of Red Raider Orientation in the Allen Theater on Sunday. After the Tech budget was cut 3.8 percent for the biennium by the state legislature, President Lawrence Schovanec said students will not be affected.

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The Texas Tech Friends of the Library organization is hosting “Did Quanah Parker Lie?” a presentation by Paul H. Carlson today.

The historian will speak at 5:30 p.m. in the Croslin Room of the Tech University Library, according to a Tech news release.

Carlson, a historian and professor emeritus, will speak about Native-American leader Quanah

Parker and his life, according to the release. Carlson will also discuss accusations against Parker from other scholars.

The Friends of the Library organization helps serve and support the University Libraries, according to its Facebook page, and sponsors programs for the Lubbock community to enjoy. @DailyToreador

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David Weindorf, a professor in Texas Tech’s department of Plant and Soil Science, was named a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America.

The fellowship is the highest honor the SSSA can bestow.

Weindorf has studied soil science for most of his life, including while getting his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees at Tech. He said soil science itself is an underdog discipline but needs to be studied.

“When I was in middle school, my school didn’t have FFA, or anything agricultural to join,” Weindorf said. “I had to go to another school district in order to join FFA, because I really wanted to study agriculture. It’s a career we should really revere.”

Weindorf has been a member of the SSSA for 23 years, serving on panels and making contributions to the field of soil science. He is currently in Romania conducting research with Tech and local Romanian universities, translating the pedology of their soil classifications to the American system.

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David Weindorf, professor in Texas Tech’s Plant and Soil Science department, studies the soil in Romania. Weindorf, who is currently working with Tech and local universities in Romania to conduct pedology research, was named a fellow of the Soil Science Society of America.

“In the U.S., we have one system that classifies every type of soil found there,” Weindorf said. “In Romania and the rest of Europe, each country has its own system of classification. What we’re looking at is how to classify the heavy metals found in the soil, the environmental pollution, and how to classify that into one system everyone can use.”

On top of his research, Weindorf has also dabbled in documentary work. “Between Earth and Sky: Climate Change on the Last Frontier,” was produced by KTTZ-TV and TTU Public Media, in partnership with the SSSA and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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Numerous campus construction projects underway

By MARYBETH HOLM Staff Writer

Texas Tech is continuing construction on new structures during the summer semesters with plans to finish at least two by early Fall 2017.

The Sports Performance Center broke ground on Feb. 24 and has been under construction throughout the spring semester. The project costs an estimated $48 million to build. Despite a fire at the construction site on March 22 and labor dispute in late April, Michael Molina, vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction, expects it to be finished before the end of summer.

Molina has been in office since 2010 and is spearheading the Sports Performance Center, Honors Residence Hall and Experimental Sciences construction projects.

He said his goal for the Sports Performance Center is to be substantially complete

by Sept. 1.

“To be substantially complete means that the building is usable,” Molina said. “After that, we’ll have some typical punch list items, tweaking here and there, and people moving in.”

Molina also said both the

Sports Performance Center and the new Honors Residence Hall will follow the Facilities Planning and Construction’s master plan of how the campus is designed, making sure the buildings maintain the Spanish-Renaissance style like the other buildings on campus.

“Everything we do from back-of-curb-in is always done with an aesthetic touch to make sure that it embodies the spirit and harmony of architecture,” Molina said.

The new performance center will positively impact both Tech and Lubbock community, Molina said. The venue will allow Tech to host sporting events at both the collegiate and high school level.

“At the end of the day, it solves a lot of issues in relation to equipment distribution for all the sports, as well as events, like utilization of the track for big events, like UIL for the high school level or NCAA for the collegiate level,” Molina said.

Molina said his goal for the Honor’s Residence Hall is to be substantially complete before the first week of school in August. The project, which broke ground on Feb. 9, has a budget of about $30 mil-

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House Dems question Flynn travel disclosures WASHINGTON (AP) — Two top House Democrats are questioning whether Michael Flynn failed to report a 2015 trip to the Middle East to federal security clearance investigators, a potential omission that could add to the legal jeopardy President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser faces over the truthfulness of his statements to authorities and on government documents.

The lawmakers — Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Rep. Eliot Engel, DN.Y. — said in a letter released Monday that they believe Flynn may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the trip and any foreign contacts he had during another 2015 trip to the Middle East, which they believe involved a proposal to develop nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia.

The letter from Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, and Engel, the ranking Democrat on the House foreign affairs com-

mittee, is the latest to call attention to potential problems with what Flynn reported to the U.S. government about his foreign travel, contacts and business after he left the Defense Intelligence Agency in August 2014.

Federal and congressional probes have been looking closely at Flynn’s foreign travel and contacts as part of investigations into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election and any possible collusion with associates of Trump or his campaign.

Separately, federal investigators have been scrutinizing Flynn’s work for a Turkish businessman and the Defense Department’s inspector general has been looking into whether Flynn failed to get U.S. government permission to receive foreign payments. Among those payments was more than $33,000 he received from RT, the Russian state-sponsored television network that U.S. intelligence officials have branded as a propaganda arm of the Kremlin.

lion and will be located near the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

“The facility is in the heart of the north side of side of campus and it embodies down to some beautiful details,” Molina said, “(including) the Spanish Renaissance style and will also include a park space on the inside space.”

Molina said the Honors Residence Hall will impact campus by recruiting honor students and keep up with President Lawrence Schovanec’s goals for the university.

“One of the ways to augment (Schovanec’s goals) and recruit top students is having a class A place to live together,” Molina said. “The impact is another amenity for our honors students.”

Another project in construction is the second Experimental Sciences building, which will be completed

by June 2019. Some students have expressed disdain for the fences surrounding Carpenter Wells and the Biology building on campus, but Molina said they are there for the safety of the students.

“Of course in any construction situation,” Molina said.

“There will be some inconveniences because you do have

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 This was a worry from officials as they visited the Texas capitol in March for Texas Tech System Day, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador. There was going to be a bit of an arm wrestle for funding for items that were need and funding that was wanted.

Serving as a former chancellor for the Tech system, Kent Hance saw, personally, how hard it was to get the funding that would have been wanted when the state was going through hard times.

There were also some hints that special items were in trouble at the begin of the session, because the Senate had hardly any funding set aside for special items.

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Top: The new Honors Residence Hall is still under construction but is expected to be open for the Fall 2017 semester.

The residence hall, located just west of Murray Hall, can house 313 students and will feature pod-style rooms. Right: The Sports Performance Center is scheduled to open in September and is located next to Jones AT&T Stadium. The venue will be open for all Tech athletes to use, and will feature an indoor football field and track area. to block off for safety and procuring access for materials.”

Despite possible delays for students, Molina said the new walkway, which

will range from the Engineering Key to Carpenter Wells, will benefit students on the north and west sides of campus.

“Any bicycle or pedestrian pathways will be better than what they were before they started,” Molina said.

to final appropriations bills, Hance said.

“The important thing is that you’ve got someone that is a friend,” Hance said. “The relationship that (Chancellor Robert) Duncan built from 1992 until 2014 paid big dividends.”

Duncan’s networking helped get the funds Tech received, but that did not come without much of a fight from Abbott. In the final version of the proposed budget Abbott wrote that when it comes to university systems around the state, funding usually does not maximize outcomes to students.

Funding that goes to systems further contributes to a type of bureaucracy, according to Abbott’s document. “ T h e s t a t e ’s l i m i t e d higher education resources should fund students and research – not bureaucrats,” Abbott wrote.

That is going to be the plan from now on, though, Schovanec said. Focusing on how far the university can

stretch the students’ dollar is administration’s No. 1 priority.

With that being said, it does serve the university well that undergraduate enrollment is up, Schovanec said. In fact, when it comes to legislative matters that is what the legislature favors, Hance said.

But there will be a lot of effort in trying to save any special items that are directly relation to students from massive cuts, Schovanec said.

“When we received our cuts to the special items I sat down with the (chief financial officer) and we prioritized those items,” Schovanec said. “Some had cuts of 54 percent, some 33.

We thought, ‘What would be our willingness to alleviate some of the impact?’ Some of those are going to see a greater cut than others.”

What will mainly take hits are some items related to small business development around the city,

he said. Other items like institutional enhancement relating to student’s academic advising, Tech is prepared to cover that via other means.

But in the current outlook, Schovanec said, Tech made out rather easy and the cuts will hopefully not cause too many headaches.

This will give more of an opportunity to scrutinize extra, possibly unneeded, spending around the campus.

There is still a few opportunities to cover some cost with grants and endowments, he said.

This does not necessarily mean that Tech can do without state appropriated funds, he said. This just means the university will still be able to make progress even with a lesser amount of money.

“In terms of the academic programs and the instructional mission of the university, we think the cost will be minimal,” Schovanec said.

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UK moves to ease tensions after attack on London Muslims LONDON (AP) — British authorities and Islamic leaders moved swiftly to ease concerns in the Muslim community after a man plowed a large van into a crowd of worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring at least nine people.

British media named the suspect as Darren Osborne, 47-year-old father of four who was living in Cardiff, Wales.

British Security Minister Ben Wallace said authorities were aware of rising far-right activity but the suspect was not known to them prior to the attack.

Police are treating the incident as a terror attack.

One man died at the scene, although he had been receiving first aid at the time and it wasn’t clear if he died as a result of the attack or from

something else.

The chaos outside the Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park follows three Islamist-inspired attacks over the past three months that have triggered a surge in hate crimes around Britain.

The Metropolitan Police Service, already stretched by its investigations of the earlier attacks and a highrise apartment fire that is believed to have killed 79 people, immediately announced it was putting extra patrols on the streets to protect the public.

Police will assess the security of mosques and provide any additional resources needed ahead of celebrations marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Prime Minister Theresa May announced.

“This was an attack on

Muslims near their place of worship,” she said in a televised address. “And like all terrorism, in whatever form, it shares the same fundamental goal. It seeks to drive us apart — and to break the precious bonds of solidarity and citizenship that we share in this country. We will not let this happen.”

The attack occurred about 12:20 a.m. when a speeding van swerved into worshippers who were giving first aid to a man outside the mosque. That man later died.

Police said the attacker who drove the van has been arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism, including murder and attempted murder. A mob surrounded him and wit-

nesses said the crowd began attacking him. A local imam, Mohammed Mahmoud, said he organized a group of people and shielded the man until police could take him away.

“By God’s grace, we were able to protect him from harm,” he said.

Toufik Kacimi, chief executive of the Muslim Welfare House, told Sky News the attack clearly targeted Muslims leaving evening prayers during Ramadan.

“We have a witness saying that the guy who did what he did, the driver of the van, said ‘I did my bit,’ which means he’s not mentally ill,” Kacimi said.

“This person was conscious.

He did what he did deliberately to hit and kill as many Muslims as possible, so he is a terrorist.”

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Cuba rejects new US policy, saying pressure will not work HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s foreign minister rejected President Donald Trump’s new policy toward the island, saying Monday that “we will never negotiate under pressure or under threat” and refusing to return U.S. fugitives who have received asylum in Cuba.

In a hard-edged response to the policy announced Friday, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said from Vienna that Trump’s restrictions on transactions with the Cuban military

would not achieve their objective of weakening the government.

He said they would instead create unity behind the communist leadership.

He described fugitives such as Joanne Chesimard, a black militant convicted in 1977 of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper, as political refugees who had received asylum from the Cuban government and would not be returned because the U.S. has no “legal or moral basis” to demand their return.

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‘Wonder Woman’ challenges gender roles in film

By KRISTYN EDWARDS Staff Writer

The character of “Wonder Woman” was in its first feature film in 75 years. Not only did this movie making millions of dollars within weeks, the movie is also challenging gender norms in the film industry.

Patty Jenkins, the director of “Wonder Woman,” is the first woman to direct a superhero movie. According to

Deadline, Jenkins is making history for female directors with a 93 percent approval rating for the movie. The movie also broke box office records by making $223 million in the month of June.

The “Wonder Woman” character sparked conversation about her outfits. According to Scientific American, “Wonder Woman” was sexualized through her outfits which put her in the gender stereotype that women have

to be sexy to hold power.

Despite the many negative remarks about “Wonder Woman’s” wardrobe choices, Patricia Earl, unit supervisor and undergraduate supervisor for the Women’s Studies Program at Texas Tech, explains that “Wonder Woman” is staying true to the history of her character and how she was originally made.

“If people are against the costume that she is wearing, it is because they do not

know the history of ‘Wonder Woman,’” Earl said.

Earl said equality is about having the choice to wear what you like and not be criticized for that.

The end goal for “Wonder Woman” is truth and justice, just the same as any male superhero and that is all that should matter.

Allison Whitney, who specializes in film technology and genre cinema, said “Wonder Woman” is challenging

the view that female characters have to be objectified. “ ‘ Wo n d e r Wo m a n ’ i s strong, powerful, independent, beautiful and refuses to be objectified by the world around her. Her body is her own and she will save the world regardless of what she looks like,” Whitney said.

Wonder Woman is played by 32-year-old Gal Gadot who is a former soldier in the Israeli military and former Miss Israel. Gadot

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had several smaller roles in television and film before landing her biggest role as Wonder Woman.

“Wonder Woman” has brought female empowerment to the big screen, Earl said, which is part of why it is so successful.

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The documentary has been screened at the Colorado Environmental Film Festival, the Environmental Film Festival in Washington D.C., and will be shown at the Soil Science Society of America’s National Meeting in Tampa in October, where professor Weindorf will be ceremonially inducted as a fellow.

As Weindorf continues his studies and film work, he said he hopes he will be able to continue to tell the story that is buried in the soils of the world.

“One of the things I always tell my students is to touch the land lightly,” he said. “We don’t give the land the appreciation it needs, and often times in society we ignore what the land does for us. We need to till the land less, to keep it alive for future generations. So, touch the land lightly.”

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The film documents the effects of global warming in Alaska, and serves as a window to the struggles of the Alaskan people as the permafrost melts under their feet.

Weindorf served as an executive producer, and said it was hard to travel to locations due to the melting ice and snow.

“It was difficult to line up interviews and some of the locations were almost impossible to get to at some points,” Weindorf said. “We had to charter helicopters and small planes to go to the islands, and we were at the mercy of the weather. If we ran out of AA batteries, we couldn’t just head down the road to get more. We had to have all bases covered.”

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Jurors deliberated more than 52 hours over six days before telling a judge they couldn’t break their deadlock.

The jurors’ names haven’t been made public and the split on the vote hasn’t been disclosed, shrouding the case in mystery.

Prosecutors are fighting to keep the jurors’ identities a secret, arguing in court documents Monday that releasing them would result in a “publicity onslaught” and make picking a jury for the second trial more difficult. Media organizations including The Associated Press urged a judge to release them, saying the public has an interest in “confirming that the outcome of the first trial was the result of an impartial process.”

Pennsylvania law allows the public release of jurors’ names, but judges have dis-

cretion to keep them a secret under certain conditions.

Judge Steven O’Neill, who presided over the Cosby trial, will hold a hearing Tuesday on the release of the names.

He advised jurors when the trial ended Saturday that they didn’t need to discuss the case.

“It can never be clearer that if you speak up, you could be chilling the justice system in the future if jurors are needed in this case,” O’Neill told them.

Cosby, the actor and comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” was charged with three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault stemming from Andrea Constand’s allegations that he drugged and violated her at his suburban Philadelphia home. He said the encounter was consensual.

It is not yet clear why jurors could not reach a verdict, or how close they came.

“We get 12 people to agree on sex assault cases all the time, but this is not any case.

It’s an old case, it’s a controversial case, it’s a case that involves questions of consent,” said Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson.

In a retrial, District Attorney Kevin Steele could ask the judge to allow testimony from more of Cosby’s 60 accusers, or to disclose to jurors that Constand is gay.

That never came up in her seven hours of testimony. The defense had hoped, if it did, to introduce evidence she had previously dated a man.

“The key to retrying a case is to do it differently the second time because the defense expects you to do it the same way,” said Constand’s lawyer, Dolores Troiani.

Cosby remains free on $1 million bail in the criminal case. O’Neill could schedule the retrial within weeks.

The entertainer is also battling sexual battery or defamation cases still pending by 10 women in California and Massachusetts. Several of them attended the criminal trial with their lawyers.

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A mistrial was declared Saturday after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. Prosecutors plan to retry the 79-year-old star on charges he drugged and molested a woman in 2004.

As an alternate, Mike McCloskey heard all the testimony but didn’t participate in deliberations.

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“It was the craziest, eeriest bus ride I’ve ever taken,” said McCloskey, 43.

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Gingery becomes Tech’s first unanimous All-American Sophomore left-handed pitcher Steven Gingery is the first player in Texas Tech baseball history to become a unanimous First Team All-American.

Gingery earned the distinction after he was named a Rawlings First Team AllAmerican on Saturday, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Gingery is the sixth Red Raider to earn six All-American honors. Former Red Raiders Josh Bard, Keith Ginter and Shane Wright all have the most with seven, according to the release.

However, Gingery is the first Tech player to receive six first team honors in a single season. His accolade was also the 102nd overall in team history.

In the past three weeks, Gingery received All-American honors from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, Baseball America, Perfect Game, NCBWA, D1 Baseball and Rawlings, according to the release.

Senior Hunter Hargrove received third team honors from CBN and both Josh Jung and Grant Little were given freshman team honors with Jung getting hon-

ors from CBN and Rawlings and Little receiving honors from NCBWA. Gingery became the first Red Raider to be named the National Pitcher of the Year by the College Baseball Foundation, according to the release, after receiving the award on Wednesday.

He finished the 2017 season with a 10-1 record in 15 starts and 91.1 innings played. He allowed 21 runs with 16 of them being earned and had an ERA of 1.58, according to the release. He also had the team best in strikeouts with 107 on the

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With his 10 wins, the Red Raiders have had back-toback seasons with a pitcher reaching a double digit win total. Former Red Raider Davis Martin was the last to reach double digit wins for Tech, according to the release. Gingery’s win total was also the 10th best in the NCAA and tied for ninth alltime in team history.

Gingery had the lowest ERA since former Red Raider Corey Taylor had his NCAA-best of 0.31 in 2015.

Gingery’s ERA was the sixthlowest in team history in a single season and is eighth in the nation, according to the release.

He was able to reach 107 strikeouts against Sam Houston State after he threw eight strikeouts in the game.

Former Red Raider Chad Bettis was the last to get over the 100-strikeout mark in 2010 when he threw 102, according to the release.

Former Red Raider Monty Ward is the only Tech player to have more strikeouts in a single season than Gingery with 151 in the 1998 season.

Gingery will spend him summer playing for USA Baseball’s 2017 collegiate National Team. @JackDensmore_DT

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Texas Tech sophomore pitcher Steven Gingery throws to a Sam Houston State batter during the NCAA Lubbock Regional on June 3. Gingery became the first unanimous first-team All American in Tech baseball history after the 2017 season.

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Justices say law on offensive trademarks unconstitutional

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WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law that bans offensive trademarks, ruling in favor of an Asian-American rock band called the Slants and giving a major boost to the Washington Redskins in their separate legal fight over the team name.

The justices were unanimous in saying that the 71-year-old trademark law barring disparaging terms infringes free speech rights.

“It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend,” Justice Samuel Alito said in his opinion for the court.

Slants founder Simon Tam tried to trademark the band name in 2011, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied the request on the ground that it disparages Asians. A federal appeals court in Washington later said the law barring offensive trademarks is unconstitutional.

The Redskins made similar arguments after the trademark office ruled in 2014 that the name offends American Indians and canceled the team’s trademark.

A federal appeals court in Richmond put the team’s case on hold while waiting for the Supreme Court to rule in the Slants case.

Tam insisted he was not trying to be offensive, but wanted to transform a derisive term into a statement of pride. The Redskins also contend their name honors American Indians, but the team has faced decades of legal challenges from Indian groups that say the name is racist.

Despite intense public pressure to change the name, Redskins owner Dan Snyder has refused, saying in the past that it “represents honor, respect and pride” for Native Americans. Snyder issued a quick response to the decision on Monday: “I am THRILLED. Hail to the Redskins.”

Redskins attorney Lisa Blatt said the court’s decision effectively resolves the Redskins’ longstanding dispute with the government.

“The Supreme Court vindicated the team’s position that the First Amendment blocks the government from denying or cancelling a trademark registration based on the government’s opinion,”

Blatt said.

Tr a d e m a r k o f f i c e spokesman Paul Fucito said officials are reviewing the court’s ruling and plan to issue further guidance on how they will review trademark applications going forward.

While the justices all agreed on the outcome, they split in their rationale for the decision. Alito rejected arguments that the government has an interest in preventing speech that is offensive to certain groups.

“Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express the thought we hate,” Alito said in a part of his opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer.

Writing separately, Justice Anthony Kennedy said ban on disparaging trademarks was a clear form of viewpoint discrimination that is forbidden under the First Amendment.

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