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“I think there is widespread agreement that No. 1, we’ve got to get serious, finally, about securing our borders,” Cruz said. “We need to put man power and technology in, and in a post 9/11 world, it doesn’t make any sense that we don’t know who’s coming into this country.”

Along with strengthening the border against illegal im-migrants, Cruz, whose father emigrated from Cuba to Texas in

1957, said, he wants to improve and celebrate legal immigration.

Samantha Cavanaugh, an intern with the Chamber for Legislative Affairs and Commu-nity R elations, and a media and communication master’s student, said she helped put together the comment cards for the audience and set up the banquet hall.

Although she said she does not side with a particular party, she was disappointed about not getting to meet Cruz.

However, Cavanaugh said she is a supporter of all politics.

“I mean, I label myself one

way or the other but I like the whole watching it come together more than actually participat-ing in it,” she said. “You know, I think he had a lot of positive things to say for West Texas.”

Johnson said the Chamber often has events such as Coffee with Cruz to promote the part-nership of businesses and elected officials.

“One of the things that the Chamber does, is we try to pro-vide access to the business com-munity to elected officials,” she said. “That is one of our major thrusts toward accomplishing our

mission so we do a lot of events with elected officials, everything from council members, county officials to federal officials like Senator Cruz.”

With the Banquet Hall com-pletely full, Johnson said she was pleased with how the event turned out.

“It was great,” she said. “We had an excellent crowd, great representation from the business community, which is what is so important to the Chamber and we’re very happy that he’s made time to be here today.”

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Women and Global Change: Achieving Peace Through Empowering Women- Part IITime: All dayWhere: Student Union Building So, what is it? Come to this two-day conference with panel sessions hosted by the Women’s Studies program.

Transgender Provider TrainingTime: All dayWhere: Student Wellness Center, Rm. 100So, what is it? Come to this one-day conference to address the issue of needs of transgender people.

Yifat Susskind speaks at Women’s Studies ConferenceTime: 9 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.Where: Student Union Building, Matador RoomSo, what is it? Come listen to the executive director of MADRE.

TAB Presents: The Amazing Race

Time: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.Where: TBASo, what is it? Come participate in Tech’s version of The Amazing Race.

Yanar Mohammed keynote speaker at Women’s Studies ConferenceTime: 1 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. Where: Student Union Building, Matador RoomSo, what is it? Come listen to the executive director of MADRE.

Red Raider Graduate ExpoTime: 8:30 a.m.Where: Student Union Building So, what is it? Come get an in-depth preview of the opportunities the Graduate School has to offer.

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The National Science Foun-dation gave Texas Tech and Angelo State University a two-year grant to host a Summer Cybersecurity Workshop.

The $385,000 grant is aimed at addressing the cybersecurity workforce needs.

“Cybersecurity, as I men-tioned, has been around for a long time,” Akbar Siami-Namin, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Sci-ence, said. “But, recently, it has become more focused because of the importance of the network-

ing and computer technology.”He said there is a large gap

between the cybereducation at big schools and smaller com-munity colleges.

In Texas, there are about 60 community colleges, Namin said, and students at these col-leges are not getting the op-portunity to study the recent advances in cybersecurity.

The Summer Cybersecurity Workshop will bring 30 faculty members from other universi-ties in Texas to Tech and where they will learn the most recent cybersecurity information.

“In turn, the community col-lege’s faculty can actually intro-

duce new courses, cybersecurity courses, to their own students,” Namin said. “We’ll see some sort of change in the flow of cyberse-curity education to all students.”

The courses will focus on six tracks of cybersecurity, includ-ing computer law, information security, software security, smart grade security and network security.

“We teach them what the basic foundation of each track,” Namin said, “and also, at the same track, we say, ‘OK, what is the recent advancements?’”

It has become important to have students in the workforce who understand and know how

to conduct cybersecurity, he said, because it has come to the point where people cannot func-tion without technology.

On a personal level, Namin said people put important in-formation on their phones and laptops. If these devices get stolen or hacked into, a lot of information can get stolen.

“Everything is relying on computer technologies and all of them are connected and they have some sort of center that monitors those,” he said. “So really, then, it becomes hard to protect the system from cyber-terror or cyberattacks.”

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“The theory says nothing about mass,” Akchurin said. “You have to calculate it. It’s up to us to con-nect all of the data.”

Students had the opportunity to ask questions during the lecture to better their understanding.

“The way that they were teach-ing seemed to take very complex things and make it to where people who may not be as edu-cated in the field would be able to

understand them,” Loy said.Lee spoke about the Alpha

Magnetic Spectrometer that is attached to the International Space Station.

The $2 billion magnetic de-tector may have recently found a hint that will lead researchers to discover more information about dark matter, Lee said.

“This research is groundbreak-ing,” Loy said. “It ’s going to change things in the future. I’d like to be involved in some of the research in the future.”

Loy said after the lecture he felt like he understood the prob-

lems of dark matter and dark energy.

Carrasco said the OLLI stu-dents were engaged and chal-lenged during the lecture and it brought back some of their physics knowledge.

OLLI is an endowed program that has been part of Tech since 2003.

“We offer non-credit education designed for adults age 50 and over,” Carrasco said.

The goal, she said, is to con-tinue intellectual stimulation without tests and textbooks.

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Not only will it get rid of the fine for riding on sidewalks, but it also will make it easier and faster for students to ride across campus.

The resolution states that Tech is pushing for 40,000 students, and more students on campus will add more difficulties for efficient transportation.

Because bicycl ing i s the cheapest and most sustainable option for Tech, making a free-

range campus will encourage more students to ride bikes and make it more efficient.

“Currently, if you ride your bike on the sidewalk, you get a $75 ticket if you get caught by the Tech PD,” Polcari said. “This will make it so that all the side-walks are basically shared use pass. Basically you can ride your bike on the sidewalk anywhere.”

During Committee Reports, Erika Allen, a senior biology major from Temple and chair-woman of the Rules and Admin-istration Committee, said her committee chose not to report the election results.

Usually, Allen said the senate ratifies the election results.

The election code states that if the senate does not act on the election results in 14 days, they will be ratified by default, which means that the Student Govern-ment Operations Director will approve them.

The committee is making a statement, she said. If the Senate disapproved the results, it would seem vindictive and add unnecessary conflict, Al-len said.

However, if they were to ap-prove the results, it would show that the senators approve the

way the elections were handled and it would tarnish the image of SGA, she said.

“By not reporting and by not bringing it to the Senate, basically what we are doing is making a statement,” Allen said. “We don’t think that a good election should ever involve cheating or scandals or anything that has happened.”

This is not being aimed at any person, she said, it is just what the Rules and Administration Committee felt was the best way for SGA to move to the new session.

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Escaped Texas inmates capturedCOOPER (AP) — A foiled try

to pawn stolen jewelry Thursday led offi cials to the hideout of two inmates who escaped from an East Texas jail, a sheriff said.

Capital murder suspect Brian Allen Tucker and convicted drug offender John Marlin King were returned Thursday to the Hopkins County Jail in Sulphur Springs after a barn where they were hiding out was raided by federal, state and local offi cers in Cooper, 20 miles northwest of Sulphur Springs.

Authorities were led to the men

after a pawn shop clerk in Cooper reported that someone had been trying to pawn jewelry left in a vehicle that had been stolen, said Sheriff Ricky Smith of Delta County, where the ar-rests took place. Investigators believed the fugitives had stolen the vehicle from a Sulphur Springs location.

Police then questioned the person with the jewelry, who revealed the fugitives were hiding, Smith said. The agents and offi cers stormed the barn and took the pair into custody without incident shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, he said.

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we get there next week.”Waits, who has cheered at

Tech for three years, said her favorite part of the competition is the strong connection shared with her teammates backstage before competing.

“We come together like a fam-ily,” she said, “and we go out there and put our heart and soul on the fl oor. It’s an awesome feeling.”

Hunter Thompson, a junior e x e r c i s e a n d sport sciences m a j o r f r o m Austin, said his favorite part of competing is the challenge.

“We’ re r e -ally excited,” he said. “We only get one shot, and we’ve been looking forward to it all year.”

J o r d a n Plunk, a junior public relations major from Rowlett, attended the teams’ showcase last year.

She said she has noticed a considerable difference in the Pom Squad and enjoyed the team’s choice of dancing to an emotional song.

“I think the new coach helps out a ton for the Pom Squad,” Plunk said. “She’s really particu-

lar, I know, and it shows. All of their moves were really together and everything looked clean.”

Jessica Thompson, a junior advertising major from Rowlett, also attended the showcase last year and said the Pom Squad’s high energy is bound to wow the judges at the competition.

She said she enjoyed watching the cheerleading routine, as well.

“The cheer one was really crowd pleasing,” Thompson said. “It made you want to get involved in the routine while they were doing it.”

Waits said she is proud of ev-eryone on her team and thanks crowd members who came to support them.

“I love Texas Tech and want to represent the university well,” she said, “so hopefully, we bring home the title.”

Alex Pulido, a sophomore psychology major from Del Rio, said she loves the adrenaline rush she gets while performing and is highly anticipating the upcoming national competition.

“I’m looking forward to us hitting our routine and bringing back that national championship to Texas,” she said, “giving Tech their fi rst national win and doing it with these people here because they’re like my family.”

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English Honor Society organize read-a-thon

Some people may not consider reading a book series for 24 hours straight fun.

The English Honor Society, also known as Sigma Tau Delta, will host a 24-hour read-a-thon Tuesday in Room 201 of the English building.

Katy Jones, a senior English and creative writing major from Odessa and vice president of the society, said she was put in charge of organizing the event this year.

“This is our fi rst year doing the event again since it was fi rst put on in 2010,” she said. “We’re not sure exactly why it fell out of practice, but we decided we wanted to bring it back this year.”

The idea was fi rst brought to Texas Tech and organized by Rich Rice, an assistant professor of English, Jones said.

“He has done them at other uni-versities before and was excited about starting it at Tech,” she said.

The event will consist of partici-pants reading in 15-minute slots and will continue all night and day until the series is fi nished, Jones said.

“Participates get pledges from oth-ers to donate money for every minute that they read,” she said. “Those who come don’t have to stay for the whole thing, but are welcome to, and we will be providing pizza at night and donuts in the morning for the fi rst people that show up.”

Series’ read in the past include Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Huckleberry Finn, Jones said.

“Reading the Harry Potter series has been our most successful read-a-thon so far,” she said. “We raised about $1,000 for that year.”

A survey was sent to participants asking which series should be read this year, Jones said, and the Chronicles of Narnia won.

The event will start at 7 p.m. Tuesday and end at 7 p.m. Wednesday, she said.

“We will also have a few short breaks in between readings to give everyone a break and will provide the Chronicles of Narnia video game for

By LIANA SOLISSTAFF WRITER

THE TEXAS TECH cheerleaders and pom squad showcase routines they will perform during the National Cheerleaders Association and National Dance Association collegiate competitions hosted April 11-12 in Daytona Beach, Fla.

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By ASHLYN TUBBSSTAFF WRITER

The Lubbock community got a taste of what might become national championship routines.

The Texas Tech Cheerleaders and Pom Squad showcased rou-tines they will perform in the Na-tional Cheerleaders Association and National Dance Association collegiate competitions on April 11-12 in Day-tona Beach, Fla.

In a news release, Tech cheer coach B r u c e B i l l s said the cheer t e a m h a s placed in the top fi ve teams in the coun-try for the past six years. The team placed second in 2011 and third last year.

“The nationals routines are unique because they highlight some of the most elite skills in cheer and dance,” Bills said in the release. “The skills you will see the squads perform are different from football and basketball game days because of the fl oor restrictions and in-game rules.”

The spirit teams began practice for the competition in September.

Regan Waits, a cheerleader and junior human development and family studies major from Hot Springs, Ark., said the teams stayed during spring break to practice the routines.

She said their best perfor-mance was during the showcase, though.

“There’s still room for im-provement,” Waits said, “so hope-fully, we will improve by the time

them to play,” Jones said. “This event is just based on a love a literature and it’s something that all kinds of people can enjoy.”

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Consider this: Can you care for that pet?KaitlynFrederick

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When my best friend asked me to go run some errands , I

never expected or intended for this to happen.

What started as an innocent trip to the pet store to pick up crickets for my friend’s lizard, ended with me holding adoption papers in one hand and an ador-able ball of fur in the other. A week, three destroyed shoes and 13 in-carpet feces stains later, I was wondering if I had made a terrible decision.

While I might not classify the idea as terrible, I would certainly caution against adopting a pet while still in college.

As any pet owner can testify, domestic animals can be time consuming to say the least. Time dedicated to feeding the pet, cleaning up after it and perform-ing general care can add up.

Add this on top of classes,

extracurricular activities, part-time jobs and weekend benders with friends, and one may find a calendar is not as welcoming to four-legged creatures.

In addition to being time consuming, pets can be ex-pensive. Purebred dogs top the charts for expensive pets, but it is not uncommon for certain spe-cies of fish and lizards to cost up to $200. It is possible one could fork out a hefty chunk of change to even take a new pal home.

To avoid paying large sums of cash, many people opt to adopt. This seems like a great deal to

many pet owners because pet owners can take a pet home for about $50. The fees usually cover shots the new pet has al-ready received and a microchip in case it gets lost.

While $50 might seem like a steal, remember to consider all of the other costs owning a pet incurs. The shopping list seems endless: vet visits, bedding, toys, food, medication, housing and pet licenses. The list only gets longer depending on the pet.

The costs can really add up over time. According to the ASPCA, it can cost up to $1,580 for the first year’s ownership of the average medium-size dog. The ASPCA also states it costs $705 for the first year of own-ing a rabbit. If I had to choose between a rabbit and $705 worth of cheeseburgers, I’d take the burgers.

The misleading part is those

numbers do not take special cir-cumstances into consideration. Molly Pattillo, a sophomore accounting student, said she was not planning on having her mini Australian Shepard, Sadie, spayed. When it became necessary, she was unpleasantly surprised that it cost more than $300 to keep her pet from re-producing with the dog next door.

Unfortunately, spaying and neutering are not the only sur-prise bills pets can produce. Take for instance when my pet rat managed to escape from her cage and run loose in my apartment for an entire weekend without being found. In this time, she managed to chew through the chord of my roommate’s lamp and snack on a pair of her Teva sandals. This resulted in me coughing up $150 for the dam-aged goods.

Although I learned my lesson and started keeping heavy books on the lid of my delinquent rat’s aquarium, I was one unhappy rat parent after forking over the cash.

Upon reading this article, one might decide adopting the adorable Mastiff on Craigslist might not be the best plan of action, yet a hole in your heart remains, which can only be filled by members of the animal kingdom. Do not be discouraged. There are still plenty of ways to get a furry fix without taking home all six kittens for sale in the Wal-Mart parking lot.

One solution is to become a pet sitter or dog walker. This option is my favorite because I can play with some adorable animals and get paid for it. If creating an animal-based small business seems too daunting, becoming a pet foster parent also

is an option. When local animal shelters

reach capacity, they often look to pet foster parents to take care of animals for certain periods of time. It is always possible to vol-unteer at a local animal shelter if becoming a pet foster parent is not an option. This allows an opportunity to give much needed interaction to animals that spend much time alone, and you can even add it to a resume.

Overall, pet ownership is a huge responsibility that can be made even more daunting while dealing with hectic collegiate schedules. Be sure to consider all of the possible consequences (and alternative options) before succumbing to any adorable furry faces.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

As a fourth-year member of the Student Government As-sociation, I am constantly disap-pointed by the lack of interest the student body has in SGA.

I will be the first to agree things need to change in SGA, including how we reach out to and involve students. However, change will never happen if the student body continues to remain apathetic to the government rep-resenting students to the Board of Regents and administration.

An opinions article was pub-lished in The Daily Toreador

Monday, March 25, which harsh-ly criticized SGA, yet the author reported facts wrong, displayed his ignorance of what SGA ac-tually does and openly admitted that he has never voted in an SGA election. If you see some-thing wrong in the government, you have every right to complain and criticize, however, if you do not participate in that govern-ment by voting, then you lose those rights.

I don’t think it is fair to com-plain about something you passed up the opportunity to affect and change in the first place. The author claims his reasoning for

not voting is SGA doesn’t affect him. I’d like to point out if he spent his time writing a 1,300-word article about SGA, then it is obviously having some affect on him.

If he can’t see that, maybe he will be affected by the near $4 million budget SGA controls, which all students contribute to via the transportation and stu-dent services fees. Or maybe he is affected by busing on campus or student seating at athletic events. If he has ever enjoyed the leisure pool or been part of a funded student organization, then I would argue SGA does

affect him. SGA does so much on this

campus students are either un-willing to recognize or simply won’t pay attention to. SGA can only do so much advertising to increase student awareness and involvement — the students need to meet it halfway.

For instance, last month dur-ing the spring general election for SGA, a candidate forum was hosted, a Facebook event was made, it was announced at the Student Organization Rep-resentative Council meeting, advertised on TechAnnounce, and an email was sent to every

student on this campus informing them of the election and provid-ing them with information about the candidates. Only 14 percent of students voted.

Fourteen percent of the stu-dents at Texas Tech decided for the entire university who would represent them to the Board of Regents, who would sit on fee committees determining tuition, who will make decisions on the busing routes for next year and so much more.

I hope next year will bring the change SGA is badly in need of, but I implore this student body to end the apathetic stance it has

taken on its university’s progress and future.

I hope students will begin to hold their representatives ac-countable by paying attention to what is happening and by voting when the opportunities arise. SGA will never change so long as the students it represents do not care, despite all SGA does for them. I would like to thank the 14 percent of students who did vote. Please continue doing so, for you are the students holding all of the power.

Allen is a senior biology major from Temple

Contraception mandates for the rest of you Kids the cause of welfare cuts?The federal government does

not have the ability to censor a newspaper or the speech of any American citizen.

The First amendment also pro-tects religious freedoms and guaran-tees religious organizations do not have to abide by legislation against the congregation’s beliefs.

Dozens of private organizations and companies have filed law-suits against a 2012 contraception mandate set forth by the Obama administration which obligates employers in a non-religious group to provide contraception benefi ts with no extra cost to employees.

Because of the First Amend-ment, the federal government cannot force churches or religious groups to provide such benefi ts.

So far, according to The Wash-ington Post, 13 attorneys general are pushing the Obama adminis-tration to widen the exemptions

to private businesses that object to contraception.

They claim the mandate tram-ples the organizations’ religious freedoms and they should be al-lowed to deny contraception to em-ployees. However, contraception is largely a matter of birth control, and birth control has been proven to help treat uterine diseases such endometriosis, according to stud-ies by the University of Illinois-Chicago and Indiana University.

By denying employees free access to birth control, one effec-tively denies them proper health benefi ts.

In present society, contracep-tion has progressed to a matter of health rather than ideology, so even if a CEO does not believe in using contraception, he or she is not the spokesperson for the beliefs of each of his or her employees.

The boss or a board of trustees cannot impose religious beliefs on their employees if the organization is not foundationally religious. The

ideology of a few, in a non-religious business, cannot dictate pious policy if others in the workplace do not share the same views.

If you start to open the door for organizations that claim to dis-agree with the mandate, businesses throughout the country might claim they object to the mandate as well.

The reasoning could in truth be fi nancial, but if the CEO makes the case, it is possible to cover that up with religious rationale. Employees will begin to lose these health benefi ts that many already cannot afford.

It is inappropriate to assume each individual in a company or or-ganization — other than churches and ideology-based groups, presum-ably — thinks similarly in regards to contraception.

If an individual does not support the use of birth control, he or she can easily opt out. This should not take away the access of others to these healthcare needs.

In the throes of rampant budget cuts throughout the na-tion, new legislation in Tennes-see, if passed, would cut welfare payments to families 20 to 25 percent.

The reason? Their children perform poorly in school. This legislation aims to put pressure on parents to stay present and active in their child’s education, but it effectively delegates the responsibility to contribute to the family’s income on the child.

Children cannot handle this amount of stress on top of social and academic pressures. Should children be penalized if these anxieties catch up to them? Should it affect their entire family?

There are numerous factors that can contribute to a child performing poorly at school, and yes, improper parenting is among them, but poor grades are not evidence of deadbeat parents. Children earn poor grades when they cannot focus on their work.

The small percentage of lazy, irresponsible parents should not be the primary focus of this legislation.

This bill comes at a time when people are struggling to maintain minimum wage jobs or find some work to provide for their families.

Low-income families do not have the flexibil-ity or finan-cial security to sustain a 25-percent blow to their welfare.

C h i l -dren already e m p a t h i z e w i t h t h e i r e x h a u s t e d parents, and tha t a lone causes them t o w o r r y w h i l e i n class.

There i s a correlation between low-income families and their children’s performance in school, but negative family val-ues or general neglect are not as common as issues such as when the family will eat a full meal or if they have the funds to send their children to enriching after-school activities.

This bill is discriminatory to those who prioritize rent and food over tutoring. Parents are responsible for the burden of stretching welfare checks. Children should worry about their next soccer game instead of feeling responsible for why their brothers, sisters and parents are hungry.

Try going through most of t h e d a y without eat-ing and try to focus on your work . R e m e m b e r grade school w i t h o u t b r e a k f a s t ? Lunch could n o t c o m e sooner, and as you day-dreamed of pizza, social studies and a r i t h m e t i c we re ove r. W i t h o u t that 25 per-

cent of the welfare check, chil-dren could be experiencing this daily.

There should be guidelines and requirements to help these families instead of damage them more. The bill offers these fami-lies a chance for those affected by a cut in their welfare checks, though.

If the child goes to summer school and successfully improves his or her grades, that 20 to 25 percent will be reinstated to the family. But a child should not have to bear the burden of knowing that if they cannot pass a summer course, their family will lose their home or go hungry.

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HILLCREST GOLF & Country Club is now hiringLifeguards and Waitstaff. Apply in person at 4011North Boston. 806-765-6601

50TH STREET CABOOSEHiring - Servers, Bartenders, Hosts. Wednesdaycollege night. $12 buckets, $3 You-call-it, freepong tournament, cash prizes, 1/2 price appetizers3-6pm Monday-Friday. 5027 50th Street 796-2240

LAWN ASSISTANT needed. MWF (fl exible). After-noons 1-5. Call Ann for info 795-2011. BUSSERS-CASHIERS-WAITSTAFF

Apply in person only. El Chico - 4301 MarshaSharp (service road).

STELLA’S Now Hiring: *Servers (1 years’ experience).*Bussers. Apply in person @ Stella’s 50th & Utica

FUN VALLEY FAMILY RESORTSouth Fork Colorado needs young adults to worksummer employment. Salary, room, board &bonus. Call 817.279.1016. email:[email protected]

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1 BEDROOM effi ciency. 3 blocks off campus.Move in today. Short term. $300+. Call 795-2011.

MATTRESS SALEMattress, Furniture. Huge discounts. 5127 34thStreet (34th & Slide). 785-7253.

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ALLAMERICANSTORAGE.COMRates $10 and up. Free truck. 24/7 Rental station.Clean. 5839-49th 792-6464

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AFFORDABLE STORAGE50th & Ave Q (behind United Supermarket)Climate & Dust Controlled Units.Student Discounts. Reserve online today…www.AffordableStorageOfLubbock.comor call Brendan @ 767-9777

$5,500-$10,000 PAID. EGG DONORS for up to 6donations. All races. N/Smokers, ages 18-27,SAT>1100/ACT>24/GPA>3.0 Reply to: [email protected] if qualifi ed.

YOUR GIFT MEANS THE WORLDConsider donating your eggs to help other women.Your time is worth $3500. The Centre for Repro-ductive Medicine. 806-788-1212

$$ SAVE MONEY $$Closest Storage Facility to Campus. Reserve on-line today…www.StorageTodayLubbock.com or call Jeff @744-3636

32ND & FRANKFORD STORAGEAffordable West Storage, convenient for students.High security, great location. Units from $20 andup. Reserve online today.www.AffordableStorageOfLubbock.comor call Travis @ 791-1166

10% OFF TO ALL TECH STUDENTS! Eyebrow Threading ($8), Facials, Pedicure, Mani-cure, Nails & Haircut. Om Threading, Nails & Spa. 4505 34th St. (806)771-0160.

NEED CASH Buying any gold/silver jewelry. Any condition. Avery and others. Varsity Jewelers 1311 University.

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MOWING YARDS spring and summer. Call James745-1614.

VIOLIN, VIOLA and PIANO lessons. Five blocksfrom Tech (888) 959-0854

STAR LANDSCAPE seeking part-time help for sea-sonal landscape maintence. Apply online at www.-lubbockstar.com

NOW TAKING applications for Otto’s retail spe-cialty store. Apply in person only. 4119 MarshaSharp (service road, next to LaQuinta).

1,2&3 BEDROOM HOUSESTECH TERRACE*Pre-Lease for June 1*Monitored Security*Lawns Maintained*UpdatedHomes*Owned & Managed by TTUrental.com

NEWLY REMODELED effi ciencies,1, 2, 3 & 4 bed-room homes. Convenient to Tech. 771-1890. www.lubbockleasehomes.com.

NICE 1, 2 & 3 bedroom houses near campus. Allhave range and fridge. Most have washer anddryer. See them all at toadstoolproperties.com. Foradditional information call 796-0774.

NEAR TECH. One bedroom. Private yard. $400per month. 2204 29th rear. 806-535-1905.

NEAR TECH, 2/1 central heat/air, W/D hookup,$700/month 2205-26th 806-535-1905.

NEAR TECH: 4 bedroom, 2 bath with large base-ment, 2 living areas, hardwood fl oors, central heat-ing and air, alarm System. $1500 per month. 230129th Street 806-535-1905

TEXAS TECH Offi cially licensed rings. Men’s from $845. Women’s from $495. Varsity Jewelers. 1311 University.

GOT HOUSE?1, 2, 3 & 4 bedroom homes. Now pre-leasing forsummer and Fall ‘13. Go to TechTerrace.com

LEASE TODAY for May 15th. Short Lease. Lovely2 bedroom house. Hardwood. Appliances. Securitysystem. Large fenced yard. Garage. W/D. Call 795-2011. Will be shown 3:30 Friday and Saturday.$725/month.

ONE BEDROOM Apartment: W/D hookup, privateyard. $400 per month. 2205 26th Street (rear) 806-535-1905.

TECH AREA Houses, all updated, all include yard& are pet friendly. 4/2 2415 25th, 3/2 3312 27th,2/2 all bills paid 2315 25th, 2/1 2811 24th, all billseffi ciencies, more info: http://merlinspetshop.-com/tech-area-rentals.html Text/call 806-441-0611/806-438-8746

PART TIME babysitter/ nanny needed. 330pm-6pm. 698-0818. 790-8446.

PRIME POOLS seeks swimming pool technicians.Pick-up truck and pool experience preferred butnot required. Call (806)773-9987 to inquire.

PART TIME helper wanted after lunch refurnishinghardwood fl oors. O.B. Mitchell Floor Sanding. CallJess 787-2613.

EVENING WAITSTAFF needed. Apply in person atLubbock Country Club 3400 Mesa Rd. Ask forShawn. 762-0414.

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1 BEDROOM house. 6 bocks off campus on 21st.Nice appliacnes W/D. Move in today. Will beshown at 4pm Friday. 2113 B-21st. $399. 806-795-2011.

1 BEDROOM apartment over garage. Near Tech.2201 16th. $595. Water paid. Washer/Dryer fur-nished. Available June 1. No pets. 795-7182.

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SUMMER HELP needed. Lubbock Country Club isseeking certifi ed lifeguards and poolside waitstaff.Excellent pay, fl exible hours. Apply in person 3400Mesa Rd. 762-0414.

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SUMMER EMPLOYMENT: agricultural fi eld techni-cians wanted. No experience necessary. Agricul-tural background is benefi cial. Starting pay $90 perday with raises and bonuses given. Potential earn-ings $5000 to $6500 are possible. Internships areavailable, receiving three to nine hours of degreecredits. Call Mark Scott Crop Consulting at 773-1444 or 745-4706.

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Singer-songwriters compete to perform at RaiderThonTech Activities Board hosted its

annual singer-songwriter competition Thursday night in the Barnes and No-ble café in the Student Union Building.

The six performers competed in hopes of winning the chance to be the opening performance for The Almost at RaiderThon 2013.

The performers included Cleto Cor-dero, Grant Hollowell, Kris Plunkett, Cody Lancaster, John Calhoun and Jacob Mendoza.

Cordero, a junior accounting major from Midland, sang three original songs entitled “Bluebonnet,” “Love Me in the Water” and “In the Pouring Rain.”

“I got emailed from one of my bud-dies who told me that I should sign up for this,” he said. “I played open mic, and they told me this was coming up.”

Cordero also said even though his

major is accounting, he plans to pursue music.

“I’m an accounting major, but I’m not going to fi nd happiness sitting at a desk doing someone else’s paperwork,” he said.

Plunkett, a junior exercise and sport sciences major from Wink, played three songs called “The Man that You’ve Become,” “Letting Go Tonight” and “Take My Hand.”

“I was a little nervous,” he said. “I guess you always are. I think everybody can agree, I mean, I know a bunch of professional guys who still get nervous. The nerves are still there, but over time you just learn how to use them.”

While most competitors chose to perform solo, Lancaster invited his friend, Suzie Scanlon, a junior psychol-ogy major from Austin, to sing a duet with him. The pair performed a song called “Wherever You Are.”

Calhoun, a senior mathematics

major from San Antonio, performed his three songs as a one-man-band. He played harmonica, guitar and a tambourine while singing his original songs, “Desert Rain” and “The Ballad of the Old Nut Slayer.” He also per-formed an instrumental piece called “Llamapalooza.”

Mendoza, a junior mechanical engineering major from Manitou Springs, Colo., sang his own songs “Julia,” “Waiting Upstream” and “All the Infi nity.”

When the judges were done de-liberating the performances, the win-ners were announced. First place was awarded to Plunkett, second place to Lancaster and third place to Mendoza.

“I was pretty excited when I won,” Plunkett said. “A lot of these guys were incredible. I’m just super humble to be able to say that I won. Everybody else was fantastic too.”

Having won the competition,

Plunkett now has the opportunity to perform a live 45-minute acoustic set as an opening show for The Almost, the main show at RaiderThon 2013 Saturday.

“Because of work and school and everything, I didn’t have too much time to prepare for this,” he said. “But thankfully I had some time on the side to write. I got a little practice in on the side, so that was good. To prepare for this weekend, I’m just going to lock myself in a room with a guitar and go over a couple of songs.”

According to its website, Raider-Thon is an eight-hour marathon in which students choose to remain awake and standing for the entire period, in honor of those who are unable to. Students will be located in and around the SUB.

By NIKKI CULVERSTAFF WRITER


PHOTO BY EMILY MCCARTHY/The Daily Toreador

SECOND PLACE WINNER, Cody Lancaster, a junior exercise and sport sciences major from May, performs his original song, “Wherever You Are,” with Suzie Scanlon, a junior psychology major from Austin, during the Singer-Songwriter Competition on Thursday in Barnes and Noble in the Student Union Building.

Ebert, nation’s best-known fi lm critic, dies at 70CHICAGO (AP) — Roger Ebert

had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood.

With a twist of his wrist, the Pu-litzer Prize-winning critic rendered decisions that infl uenced a nation of moviegoers and could sometimes make or break a fi lm.

The heavy-set writer in the horn-rimmed glasses teamed up on televi-sion with Gene Siskel to create a format for criticism that proved enormously appealing in its simplic-ity: uncomplicated reviews that were both intelligent and accessible and didn’t talk down to ordinary movie fans.

Ebert, fi lm critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, died Thursday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago as he was getting ready to go home for hospice care, his wife, Chaz, said in a statement posted on his blog Thursday. He was 70.

Two days earlier, Ebert had an-nounced he was undergoing radiation treatment for a recurrence of cancer.

“So on this day of refl ection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.” Ebert wrote Tuesday on his blog.

Despite his wide infl uence, Ebert considered himself “beneath every-thing else a fan.”

“I have seen untold numbers of movies and forgotten most of them, I hope, but I remember those worth remembering, and they are all on the same shelf in my mind,” Ebert wrote

in his 2011 memoir titled “Life Itself.”After cancer surgeries in 2006,

Ebert lost portions of his jaw and the ability to eat, drink and speak. But he went back to writing full time and eventually even returned to television. In addition to his work for the Sun-Times, he became a prolifi c user of social media, connecting with hundreds of thousands of fans on Facebook and Twitter.

Ebert’s thumb — pointing up or down — was his trademark. It was the main logo of the long-running TV shows Ebert co-hosted, fi rst with Siskel of the rival Chicago Tribune and — after Siskel’s death in 1999 — with Sun-Times colleague Richard Roeper. A “two thumbs-up” accolade was sure to fi nd its way into the ad-vertising for the movie in question.

The nation’s best-known movie reviewer “wrote with passion through a real knowledge of fi lm and fi lm his-tory, and in doing so, helped many movies fi nd their audiences,” director Steven Spielberg said. His death is “virtually the end of an era, and now the balcony is closed forever.”

In early 2011, Ebert launched a new show, “Ebert Presents At the Movies.” The show had new hosts and featured Ebert in his own seg-ment, “Roger’s Offi ce.” He used a chin prosthesis and enlisted voice-over guests or his computer to read his reviews.

Fans admired his courage, but Ebert told The Associated Press that bravery had “little to do with it.”

“You play the cards you’re dealt,” Ebert wrote in an email in January 2011. “What’s your choice? I have no pain. I enjoy life, and why should I complain?”

Always modest, Ebert had Mid-western charm but stuck strongly to his belief that critics honestly tell audiences “how better to invest two hours of their lives.”

On the air, Ebert and Siskel bickered like an old married couple and openly needled each other. To viewers who had trouble telling them apart, Ebert was known as the fat one with glasses, Siskel as the thin, bald one.

Ebert favored blue sweater vests and khakis. After his surgeries, he switched to black turtlenecks and white, fi lm director-style scarves.

Joining the Sun-Times part-time in 1966, he pursued graduate study at the University of Chicago and got the reviewing job the following year. His reviews were eventually syndicated to several hundred other newspapers, collected in books and repeated on innumerable websites, which would have made him one of the most infl u-ential fi lm critics in the nation even without his television fame.

His 1975 Pulitzer for distinguished criticism was the fi rst, and one of only three, given to a fi lm reviewer since the category was created in 1970. In 2005, he received another honor when he became the fi rst critic to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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The Texas Tech softball team’s conference play opens Friday against the Kansas Jayhawks at Rocky John-son Field.

“It’s always nice to play at home, in front of our fans and we get to have our families up here, everybody out there yelling for us, so, of course, you’re going to have a different en-ergy,” junior pitcher Brittany Talley said. “Then being a Big 12 game rather than just a tournament where you’re playing two games a day, we have one game a day so we can go out there and give everything we have for our one game and I think we’re all excited to be at home.”

In its previous matchup, against Oklahoma State, the team expected to come out with more than one win, but the disappointment from the losses has not altered their confi dence in their ability to perform well against the Jayhawks, she said.

“I know we were all kind of frus-trated coming back, just taking one from OSU because that’s defi nitely a team we know we could beat,” Talley said. “We learned a lot, we had our freshmen go out there and have their

fi rst Big 12 series that they had never experienced before. They got to see how it’s going to be and realize that it’s the same stuff that we’ve been doing all year. So they got those jitters out and now they’re ready to go for this weekend.”

Though the women were frus-trated, she said they have support from their coach, Shanon Hays, when they come up with more losses than they worked for.

“We tell our girls all the time, you look at the Yankees and when they have great teams and win a hundred games they’re still dropping 62,” Hays said. “You’ve got to be able to handle the losses and move on and spit that out of your mouth and move on to the next one.”

The team has been working out the little details that held them back with their matchup against Oklahoma State and have identifi ed what they need to do to improve the ratio of wins to losses this weekend.

“We’re defi nitely trying to work on getting those timely hits when we need them,” senior catcher and in-fi elder Sandy James said. “Whenever we have runners on base, we have to get them over somehow, some way. Whether that be put a bunt down,

hit and run, anything we have to get them moved over and be able to score them every time. We’ve left way too many runners on base the past few weeks and we’ve got to eliminate that to be able to come up with a win.”

Even with the less than perfect performance, Hays said there was still a lot to be proud of.

He said the team’s pitching and defense was up to par and the women only had one bad inning where they gave up four runs. He said if the pitching and defense stays at the level it has been, that it will give the team multiple opportunities to come out on top.

The comfort of playing at home is something that everyone affi liated with the team is looking forward to, he said.

“It’s exciting to play at home any time for us this year, we’ve been on the road a lot,” Hays said. “Of course, playing the Big 12 gives it that extra edge and our girls know the impor-tance of these games and we felt like we came back from Oklahoma State not getting done what we wanted to do as far as winning that series, and so it’s very important that we have a good series this weekend.”

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“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

~Winston Churchill

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Saturday, April 6, 2013 8 a.m. – 4p.m.

Admission is $1.00 - Cash Only Sale4009 19th Street

(former Speed’s Bar behind Subway in the Wellness Plaza off of the eastbound frontage road of Marsha Sharp and Quaker)

The sale will close between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., then reopen for a closeout brown bag sale allowing

shoppers to fill a bag of clothing they can purchase for $10 and all other merchandise will be 50% off.

Items included in the sale: furniture, 10 pool tables, household items, bedding, sporting goods, men and women’s clothing and accessories, books, electronics, children’s clothing and toys, and

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Sports Friday, April 5, 2013

Tech hosts Kansas for Big 12 home slateBy ELLEN CHAPPELL

STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech soccer team will open its 2013 spring season with matches Fri-day and Saturday at the John B. Walker Soccer Complex.

The Red Raiders host West Texas A&M at 5:30 p.m. Friday before taking on the Austin professional team, the Nationals, at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Tech coach Tom Stone said his team is eager to compete against an opponent other than themselves.

“We’ve been training since February 1,” he said, “and you can only kick each other so many times before you’re looking for someone you don’t know.”

Tech is coming off a successful 2012-2013 season, which featured 16 wins and an appearance in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The West Texas A&M Buffaloes compete in the NCAA Division II Lone Star Conference. The Buffs fi nished last season 13-7-1 and were Lone Star Con-ference champions. The team earned an invitation, as a No. 6 seed, to the Division II NCAA tournament, but was defeated 4-1 in the fi rst round.

“It’s nice to be able to play West Texas A&M,” Stone said, “because they’re up the road, a quality program, it’s easy for both of us, and we’re excited to be able to host those guys.”

The Nationals are a professional women’s soccer exhibition team based in Austin. The team is coming off a 5-1 loss to SMU on March 30.

TEXAS TECH JUNIOR pitcher Brittany Talley fi nished the 2012 season with a team-leading 2.21 ERA in 130 innings pitched. Talley earned a 12-5 record on the year and is looking to build on her previous success.

FILE PHOTO/The Daily Toreador


Soccer begins spring season on FridayBy JORDON LEGENDRE

STAFF WRITER

TECH COACH TOM Stone will be back on the sideline Friday as he and the Lady Raiders will take on West Texas A&M in the team’s fi rst game of the spring.

FILE PHOTO /The Daily Toreador

Stone said the match against the Nationals will be a big test for Tech.

“These are all women, adult players, senior players, so to speak,” he said, “that have fi nished college so that’s a real chal-lenge that will make us play faster and be physical.”

Stone said the spring games allow the team’s freshmen to get valuable minutes and are important to the team’s success in the fall.

“It’s a foundation building time of year, the spring,” he said. “We firmly believe that you make your season on how you do in the spring. The two weeks in the fall to get ready is just not enough. You basically set your course for the fall during the spring.”

Stone said he is pleased with the way the team has prepared for the upcoming matches.

“The girls, they get after it,” he said.

“The training environment is extremely competitive. They’re not even that nice to each other when they compete, which is great because they’re best friends as soon as practice ends, but they really push each other and that’s made for an exciting training environment.”

The Red Raiders continue the spring season in Houston with a match against Rice 2 p.m. April 13. ➤➤[email protected]

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