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Texas Tech earns Carnegie recognition The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has reclassified Texas Tech with its 2015 Community Engagement Classification for its community service, engagement and other initiatives.

In 2006, the foundation first recognized Tech and 75 other higher education institutions, according to a Tech news release.

These campuses were the original colleges and universities to earn the classification, according to the release.

In addition to Tech, the foundation recognized 239 other campuses.

“Texas Tech continues its dedication to service learning and community outreach, and the Carnegie Foundation’s recognition underscores that commitment,” Tech President M. Duane Nellis said, according to the release. “We are honored that the Carnegie Foundation has recognized Texas Tech for its exemplary institutionalized practices of community engagement. The Community Engagement Classification is an exciting move in Carnegie’s work to extend and refine the classification of colleges and universities.”

Tech will retain its classification until 2025, according to the release.

Gas prices impact future oil jobs

By AMY CUNNINGHAM News editor

As Lubbock residents see gasoline prices as low as $1.70 per gallon at the pump, cheaper gas prices mean less profit for individuals in the oil and gas business.

The prices could ultimately impact students who want to work in the industry upon graduation, Marshall Watson, Texas Tech department chair of the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering, said.

“If these prices stay down, people are going to cut back on hiring,” he said. “The service companies could most likely start to lay people off. The students can look to a difficult job market as far as oil and gas.”

The average price of regular unleaded gas Tuesday was $2.12 in the United States, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.

A year ago, the national average was $3.31.

Lower prices create a ripple effect across the country that extends beyond the com-

panies, Watson said.

In the past, the number of students and professors within engineering has decreased when gas prices have gone down.

“Budgets are going to be cut,” h e s a i d .

“They expect a 14 percent reduction in oil tax revenues because all oil and gas operators pay a severance tax.

There’s less volume being produced toward the end of the year, then you’re going to be looking at less revenue.”

Crude oil prices are below $45 per barrel in the United States, according to

an Associated Press article. In June, each barrel cost $107, or more than twice today’s value.

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TJ VINING, A junior advertising major from Allen, recently created a Snapchat geofilter for Texas Tech students to use while on campus. His geofilter launched Jan. 5 and reads, “Long Live the Matadors.”

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The Department of Communication Studies has officially moved from the College of Arts and Sciences to the College of Media and Communication.

Media and Communication Dean David Perlmutter said the addition of the department will provide a more unified education for all students in the college.

The transition was discussed for a long time, he said, in order to assess its impact on students.

“This is a good thing for Texas Tech because it allows us to speak with a louder, clearer voice about the strength of communication,” Perlmutter said.

“The stronger we are, the more we help the general image of Texas Tech. This strengthens us, so it will ultimately strengthen Texas Tech.”

The department’s move became official Jan. 1, according to a Tech news release.

The College of Media and Communication is searching for a communication studies department chair, according to the release, and intends to hire additional professors.

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Many Texas Tech students moving back into their Lubbock residences on Monday and Tuesday were greeted with belowfreezing temperatures and light snow.

The Lubbock area experienced light snowfall Monday night and temperatures hovered around 30 degrees Fahrenheit throughout the entire day Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Lubbock.

Marilyn Mathew, a freshman cell and molecular biology major from Austin, compared Lubbock’s weather to the weather of her hometown.

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Despite the recent freezing temperatures, Mathew said she appreciates that Lubbock experiences all four seasons.

Belinda Pacheco, a junior chemistry major from Muleshoe, said she was more acclimated to the weather of West Texas.

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Social media has taken the world by storm, and Snapchat has taken the selfie game to a whole new level. The app recently added geofilters so people could include their location in their Snapchats.

TJ Vining, a junior advertising major from Allen, created the Texas Tech geofilter that reads, “Long Live the Matador” during the break.

“I was in Allen and I had friends in Dallas sending me Snapchats with random filters,” Vining said. “I thought there has to be a way to submit a filter so from there I went on Snapchat’s website.”

Geofilters are unique overlays that can only be accessed in certain locations, according to Snapchat’s website.

Anyone can, and is encouraged to, submit artwork to be used by the Snapchat community, according to its website.

The filters have to be community based and cannot cover a country, state or province, according to Snapchat’s website. When a geofilter is submitted, the artist has to draw a fence that lines out where the filter will be active and should be a public place or location where people are likely to send snaps, according to the website.

“I was actually really surprised, Snapchat’s submission guidelines are really strict,” Vining said. “It has to be your original artwork, and it pushes towards only using artwork and not for business.”

Geofilters cannot be affiliated to any sort of business or have any sort of trademark, copyrights, logos or school crests. If the submission has any, it is immediately denied, according to Snapchat’s website submission guidelines.

Vining submitted the filter thinking it would not be accepted, he said. He was notified in an email from Snapchat saying his filter was now live. Vining was in Allen at the time and could not use the filter, he said.

“It’s pretty exciting. I posted it to all my social media,” he said. “I take pride in it. It’s cool to see your own work published.”

Elizabeth Dameron, a sophomore nutritional science major from Wiley, is a friend of Vining’s and said she found out the filter was his after he sent her a Snapchat.

“I thought he was joking, it was so cool,” Dameron said. “All of my friends were using it and all of campus is using it so it was neat to know it was his.”

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Task force to meet throughout semester Members of the Texas Tech Task Force on Greek Organization Culture will continue to meet throughout the spring semester after the release of ithe task force’s interim report in December.

Although meeting dates have not yet been announced, a final report will be published by May 1, according to the task force’s website.

Juan Muñoz, senior vice president for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and vice provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs, served as chair of the task force alongside 11 other members and said they will meet before the end of January.

“The university is first and foremost concerned with their safety, well-being and success at Texas Tech,” he said. “We want students to come here, have a magnificent experience, graduate and become exceptional adults and professionals.”

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The recommendations focus on areas the task force members considered most impactful, he said.

If the recommendations are successful within the Greek community, some steps may be implemented into other student organizations that could benefit from the recommendations, Muñoz said.

“The success of the task force will be based on the support of the student and campus communities,” he said. “An office or a policy is only as effective as the willingness of the campus to embrace that office or that policy.

We are going to rely on the good will and support of the entire campus – faculty, staff and students – to help us further create a safe and successful environment for students.”

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Parking staff provides advice to avoid fines

By CIARA DEVORE Staff Writer

When it comes to transportation, Texas Tech Parking Services provides several options for students to travel efficiently to campus and to their classes.

While there have been no changes to the general parking rules this semester, students of all classifications should learn and remember parking regulations, Stacy Moncibaiz, marketing coordinator for Parking Services, said.

“There are a few things that our existing students may not know about,” she said, “or our students who are new on campus this semester.”

Students should make sure license plate numbers are updated in Tech’s system in order to connect each permit to a vehicle, Moncibaiz said.

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mented a couple of changes by expanding its park and pay areas across campus that were put in place at the beginning of the fall semester, she said. Students do not have to pay to park after 5:30 p.m. with any valid permit.

A bus will now stop at West Village Residence Hall, Moncibaiz said, so the students who live there will have transportation available to them.

“Our parking system can only handle so many cars, so to mitigate any sort of parking congestion, especially headed toward 40,000 students, ” Craig Cotton, transportation demand manager supervisor, said. “The idea is to get them there some other way, so busing, biking, walking, would all be strategies used to mitigate that parking issue.”

Moncibaiz said student parking was more open and unassigned when she was a student.

When Tech did not regulate parking, students would often be late to classes, she said.

“Having an area that you can come and you know that you’re gonna have a space you can park in every day relieves a lot of stress,” Moncibaiz said. “It’s one less thing you have to worry about ‘cause you already have a busy schedule as a student or an employee. It basically makes your mornings a little bit easier.”

Parking Services wants parking on campus to be an easy process, she said.

Students should park where their permit allows them to park to avoid citations, she said.

“We’re happy to help you.

We’d rather help you than for you to receive a ticket,” Moncibaiz said. “We give you a first citation dismissal, so you contact us by phone or email or appeals form as well. The easiest thing it to just call or email.”

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Some citations cannot be dismissed, she said, but Parking Services can help with most first-time violations.

According to the Parking Services website, students have a 10-day period in which they can appeal their violation and

must be submitted online.

Cotton said students should utilize other methods of transportation as well.

“Our capacity for bicycle parking on campus went from about 6,000 bikes to 8,000 in about the last five to six years,”

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Tech partners with, offers degrees at Dallas-area college

By KAITLIN BAIN Senior reporter

A year’s worth of work from both Texas Tech and Collin College culminated Jan. 6 when school officials named Tech as the newest partner of the Collin College Higher Education Center.

Colleen Smith, interim district president of Collin College, said the higher education program was started in the fall of 2010 as a way to improve some of the areas the college’s administration felt were lacking.

Collin College currently has four partners: Texas Women’s University, the University of Texas at Dallas, Texas A&M University-Commerce and University of North Texas, according to the Collin College

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T e c h , Smith said, will be the fifth partner.

“In discussion, we decidNELLIS ed that as our fifth partner we’d really like to have Texas Tech,” she said. “So in the spring of 2014, I made my first trip to Texas Tech and visited with your provost. That’s really when we got serious about starting a relationship with Texas Tech.”

Tech President M. Duane Nellis said the agreement includes three degree programs: a bachelor’s degree in human sciences, a general studies degree program through

and generated light wintry precipitation, including light snow and freezing drizzle, according to the National Weather CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Service Forecast Office. Wednesday has “Muleshoe is only an hour away, so I an expected high of 40 degrees. pretty much grew up with this weather,” Nitish Mittal, a freshman chemistry she said, “so I am used to it.” major from Jaipur, India, said he appreciA disturbance from the west ap- ated the difference in weather from his proached Lubbock on Monday night normally warm hometown.

arts and sciences and a university studies program.

In each of those areas, students pick concentraSMITH tions in three areas, he said.

“For example, they might pick personal financial planning and two other areas that would compliment that,” he said. “In arts and sciences, they might pick a concentration in history or psychology or sociology or one of those areas.

In university studies, they would have a broad opportunity to take classes in concentrations of communications, for example in media and communications.”

Students take their first two “In my hometown, Jaipur, the minimum temperature is only about 54 degrees, but here it goes below freezing,” he said, “so it is kind of different. It takes time to get adjusted, but I like it.”

Mittal said he had to buy some new clothing since moving from India.

Despite the recent low temperatures, the National Weather Service expects

years of course work specifically through Collin College, he said.

In the third and fourth year the students then take classes that include face-to-face instruction provided by Tech that occurs on the Collin College higher education campus in McKinney and online classes Tech will provide.

“So, they are able to complete their four-year degree program without leaving Collin County,” he said, “and the degree will say Texas Tech University.”

The addition of Tech to the partnership program was made easier, Smith said, because Tech and Collin College already have a preadmission partnership. The planning that was required to grow this partnership to offer degrees took a year and visits from administration of both temperatures to increase on Thursday and Friday. Thursday is expected to have a high of 56, and Friday is expected to have a high of 62.

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schools, she said.

“Texas Tech has been very responsive,” she said, “and like I said I made a trip out to Texas Tech and several of our colleagues at Texas Tech came to visit Collin to see what it was like here and ultimately your president and administrators came and signed the agreement.”

The strategic location of the Dallas, Fort Worth area and the number of Tech alumni and students taking classes at the college were all factors Nellis said were considered when deciding whether to pursue the partnership.

Collin County also is the largest county in Texas that does not have a four-year university, he said.

“There’s a real void there that we could help fill by offering our

programs there,” Nellis said. “So that’s kind of what happened with the evolution of this.”

Smith said Tech and the college both have something to gain through this partnership.

Collin College is rooted in an area with a college-going culture and a highly educated population, she said. It is because of this that students are highly motivated and well prepared and will contribute positively to the Tech name.

Tech also brings a tradition of excellence to the north metroplex, she said.

“We love having Texas Tech,” Smith said. “I think Tech brings excellent instruction, the Texas Tech Brand and a little of West Texas over to the north metroplex.”

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price each day.

AAA analysts estimate the price of gas will likely stay below $3 per gallon throughout 2015, he said.

“The production is increasing, and that’s why we’re having this price collapse,” Watson said.

“The number one reason is the world is producing more oil than we’re consuming. You’re going to see continued increase in supply and production but flat demand.”

Gas prices peaked at $3.70 per gallon in April 2014 – more than 40 percent higher than today’s average, according to the report.

Texans purchased gas for an average of $1.90 per gallon, according to the report.

Consumers may experience seasonal increases during the peak summer travel months, Shupe said.

Supply and demand will keep prices low throughout the year, he said.

“I think the moon and stars are aligned for prices to go down further,” Watson said. “There’s a good reason for them to go down further than to go back up.”

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Watson said he thinks it could reach $20 per barrel, but prices are unpredictable because gas is a commodity.

“It’s like slowing a freight train down. It doesn’t stop on a dime,” he said. “There’s continued drilling into 2015, although a tremendous amount of rigs have already been dropped.”

Doug Shupe, AAA Texas and New Mexico senior public affairs specialist, said the decrease in price ultimately benefits consumers.

With more money to spare, consumers can spend more money on travel, shopping and other recreational activities.

“In 2014, each household saved an average of $115 on gas compared to 2013,” he said.

“Lower prices help consumers across the country save $415 million each day compared to last year.”

The findings of the AAA Fuel Gauge Report are collected through surveys across the state and nation, Shupe said, and it is then calculated into an average

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Campus restaurant hires Burkhart students

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

Texas Tech Hospitality Services opened a new Quiznos location on Monday, and is partnering with the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research.

The ribbon cutting ceremony took place at 11:30 a.m. on Monday in front of the new Quiznos inside the Burkhart Center.

Alan Cushman, manager of business development for Hospitality Services, said the planning of the restaurant began two years ago.

“We were approached by the Burkhart Center in regards to putting a food service location over here,” he said. “We wanted to make sure it was a partnership on both ends where we could have students from the Burkhart Center working for us.”

A January opening worked well with the project timeline, and Cushman said the restaurant will be open during regular hours

starting this spring semester.

M. Duane Nellis, Tech president, attended the ribbon cutting ceremony and gave a speech to the large crowd gathered at the restaurant.

“It’s so important that we have a commitment to providing new options for our students to serve,” he said. “We’re proud of Hospitality Services and certainly the Burkhart Center in partnering to work with individuals who have autism in a real world environment.”

Janice Magness, the interim co-director of the Burkhart Center and director of the Transition Academy, said seven students on the autism spectrum work at the new Quiznos location.

“We will have job coaches here, so they will be encouraged to do everything in the restaurant,” she said. “It’s not a large restaurant, so it’s a perfect setting for them to learn to be independent and how to get a job that involves a paycheck.”

While not everyone wants to

work in food service, Magness said the manager of the Quiznos has been pleased with the work of the seven employees, who eventually want to have careers in the food industry.

Carly Watts, a graduate of the Burkhart Center program, worked in the Student Union building for seven years before agreeing to move to the new Quiznos location.

“They wanted me to come over here and try something new,” she said. “I’m excited.

I’m looking forward to helping out people.”

Hospitality Services aims to help students on campus, and Cushman said partnerships like the one with the Burkhart Center allow it to benefit more students.

Students in the Burkhart Center program also have other internship opportunities, and some are paid internships through Goodwill and the Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, Magness said.

“It’s a good idea for them to get

paid because it’s a nice incentive, however we do have some internships around campus and the city that are unpaid,” Magness said.

“Sometimes those develop into jobs, which is what happened with the Garrison Center.”

The Quiznos restaurant is a cutting edge opportunity for the Burkhart Center researchers as well, Magness said, because the students are working inside the center where their achievements and struggles can be monitored easily.

The Burkhart Center is always looking for new partnerships to help its students, and it trains them for various situations they will encounter when working a typical job, Magness said.

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FELICIA VELLA, A team member for Quiznos, helps prepare free samples for Quiznos opening in the Burkhart Center for Autism Education ans Research on Monday.

Professors offer new classes based on field research

By MORGAN NOBLE Staff Writer

Texas Tech professors are working to bring new research from their fields to their students. They are doing so by offering new classes that focus on relatively new ideas in the subjects they teach.

Stacey Jocoy, associate professor of musicology, is offering her new class, MUHL 4300 Shakespeare and Music, in which she and her students will explore the music that Shakespeare would have been familiar with.

“My first interest is trying to show students, whether they’re music students

or theatre or English or any different discipline, what kind of music Shakespeare would’ve encountered in his time,” Jocoy said. “Because that’s still really a mystery to most historians and theatre historians alike.”

Her course will cover the ways in which music changes the way Shakespeare’s work would have been perceived and understood, she said.

“What we are now understanding, I think even more as music historians, is that if you take the music out of the text, you’re losing something,” Jocoy said. “You’re losing something that con-

temporary audiences would’ve heard and would’ve understood.”

Matthew Johnson, assistant professor of history, is also offering a new course for spring 2015. His graduate course, HIST 5370 Readings in Mass Incarceration, will explore the reasons behind the number of incarcerated people and the significant increase in recent years.

“It’s just catching up on a new historiography,” Johnson said. “Because historians have just started to really write a lot about this subject.”

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Obama community college proposal not best idea Free community college tuition plan will benefit all

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he New Year has arrived and with it comes a new beginning, new courses and new government proposals from the nation’s capital. One of the more interesting proposals made thus far was the idea to make the first two years of community college free for students.

According to a U.S. News article, President Barack Obama went to Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee last Friday to formally announce “America’s College Promise” plan.

The location of the announcement was not a coincidence, seeing as the state of Tennessee has a similar practice in place called the Tennessee Promise. The program was originally put in place as part of Governor Bill Haslam’s initiative to boost the number of Tennessee residents with college degrees by 2025, according to a Times Free Press article.

“Put simply, what I’d like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody who’s willing to work for it,” Obama said in a video posted on Facebook Thursday.

In order to be eligible for this option, qualified students are expected to maintain a 2.5 GPA, attend community college at least half-time and make consistent progress toward completing their college coursework, according to The White House website.

On the other hand, community colleges are expected to offer credits that are transferable to a four-year university or occupational training programs, therefore leading to in-demand degrees and certificates. They are also required to adopt certain reforms that will best benefit the students, according to the website.

Obama’s plan states the federal

government will cover 75 percent of the costs while the state governments pick up the remainder of the bill.

According to an article by The Huffington Post, the proposal is estimated to cost the federal government around $60 billion over the course of 10 years.

According to The White House, if all 50 states are supportive in implementing this policy, it could potentially save a full-time community college student an average of $3,800 in tuition each year. In addition, the proposal could benefit about nine million students per year.

As much as I support the idea of education being available to all those that need it, I don’t think Obama’s new proposal is the best way to ensure a more accessible college education.

One of the reasons why I am hesitant to this proposal is because taking courses at a community college would only account for a small portion of the total cost of a college education. When the cost of books, housing, transportation and other various campus fees are factored in, students are still left with thousands of dollars to pay.

According to an article by The Washington Post, tuition and fees account for 21 percent of the budget for students who attend a two-year public college and pay for off-campus housing. Admittedly, the proposal will alleviate a little of the average student’s college debt but nothing too significant.

Another reason the plan isn’t the best idea is it doesn’t specifically target low-income students. Even though some aspects of the proposal are still unclear, it seems that anyone who wants to apply for the program can apply for it. This means students who are fully capable of paying for their

college education can still receive the benefits of attending their first two years free of charge.

Without a plan that directly targets students who have a heavy financial need, such as an increase in the monetary amount that is awarded in Pell grants, that aid that would be going toward Obama’s proposal will not be used to benefit these low income students.

Since a college degree is becoming somewhat of a necessity these days, one of this proposal’s goals is to make college as universal and as accessible as high school is. However, a college degree is already starting to lose some of its value in today’s job market; turning community college into another version of high school will only devalue a college degree even more.

Let’s hope the New Year also brings a better plan to make college more accessible to those who truly need it.

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he word “free” automatically gains the attention of everyone, especially when it is put beside the word “college.” Recently, President Barack Obama announced his plan to grant free tuition to students who attend two years of community college.

Obama plans to make community college as universally free as high school, which is an excellent idea.

If this plan is implemented, students will feel more encouraged to attend college because the government would now be helping those who previously could not afford it. However, not everyone believes this to be true.

According to a Forbes article, Richard Veddar, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, claims most students who attend community college come from “moderately affluent families” and adding support to their education is a “waste of resources.”

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students in the low and middle class any hope for an opportunity to take advantage of Obama’s plan for free community college. Obama plans to take everyone into account with this new plan of action, including both the poor and the rich.

The program has no limitations on income; therefore, it opens doors of opportunity to all students regardless of their socioeconomic status. Yet some individuals still see this as a problem in regard to Obama’s plan.

According to an article by The Atlantic, Donald Heller, a dean at Michigan State University, questions if “those kids” should be receiving free tuition when their families can pay. Heller is grouping students with higher income together and ostracizing them from this opportunity solely because their parents make a substantial living.

Heller fails to realize students with higher income are not always granted money from their parents to attend college. Students of the middle class and the upper class have expenses that differ from those of lower class, which can set them back when it comes to paying for college tuition.

Many students outside of the lower class, who are not offered Federal Pell Grants, are forced to pay with student loans. This new plan of free community college can help lessen the debt students are forced to be put in and give them equal balance between social class opportunities in college.

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Baseball Hall of Fame voting needs mindset change

But then I came across one such voter’s explanation, and it speaks to one of the problems with the current voting process.

Mike Berardino, Minnesota Twins beat writer for Pioneer Press, was one of the voters who made his ballot public (individual ballots are kept secret unless the voter chooses to release his or hers). On his blog, he explained his decision to leave both Johnson and Martinez off his ballot: “In attempting to wedge what I considered to be a dozen worthy National Baseball Hall of Fame candidates into the current maximum of 10 ballot slots, I had to make a difficult value judgment.”

Berardino’s decision to leave Johnson and Martinez off his ballot did not stem from a belief that they are unworthy of induction, but rather from a strategic standpoint.

He trusted that Johnson and Martinez would still be elected without his vote (which they were), so he used his 10 selections on players who needed his vote more, using Alan Trammell (25.1 percent of votes) and Larry Walker (11.8 percent of votes) as examples.

While I may not agree with his logic, Berardino illustrates one of the main shortcomings of the voting process. Limiting writers to naming only 10 players on their ballots forces voters like Berardino to leave players off their ballots who they deem worthy of induction. Whether players

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... there’s no reason for voters to have to narrow their selections based on some arbitrary limit.

like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro, whose numbers stack up next to the best who ever played, are shut out year after year. Reasons for not voting for them include that they were cheaters, had an unfair advantage, were dishonest about their steroid use (most notably Palmeiro) and other such arguments.

The BBWAA should vote on and adopt a set of guidelines regarding how to consider inducting a proven or alleged steroid user. At the very least, we’ll have uniformity in the voting process, which means guys like Bonds (36.8 percent of 2015 votes) and Clemens (37.5 percent of 2015 votes) won’t keep hanging in limbo.

In the end, the best players should be included in the Hall of Fame — all of them. If that means putting an asterisk on the plaques of known steroid users, so be it, but they are still a part of the game’s history and should not be left out.

A contingent of holier-than-thou baseball writers sitting on their high horses are threatening to leave some of the best players of their generation out of the Hall of Fame, which is sad.

Pinpointing with absolute certainty who took steroids and who didn’t just isn’t possible, so there may very well be steroid users in the Hall of Fame anyway — they just weren’t caught.

Hopefully, these issues are resolved soon and the voting process is improved. In the meantime, let’s celebrate those who’ve deservingly been voted in and hope the writers come to their senses and at least allow worthy players not legitimately tied to steroid use — guys like Jeff Bagwell, Curt Schilling, Mike Piazza, Tim Raines, Mike Mussina, Edgar Martinez and others — to take their rightful place in history among the greats.

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like Trammell and Walker are truly Hall of Fame worthy is debatable, but there’s no reason for voters to have to narrow their selections based on some arbitrary limit.

Another problem with the process is not a rule, but more of a mindset amongst some of the voters. Many feel that a player being elected in his first year of eligibility (referred to as being a “first-ballot” Hall-of-Famer) is a special honor that should only be bestowed upon the best of the best — the truly great ones. Therefore, they leave a player who they deem worthy of induction, but not worthy of being a first-ballot inductee, off their ballots for the first year or two and then vote for him later.

The problem with this is that being a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer carries no significance beyond the voting process.

Once a player is in the Hall of Fame, it doesn’t matter how long it took to get elected — it matters that he’s in there. Firstballot guys don’t have a special room or get any special recognition within the Hall of Fame, and the Hall of Fame and/or Major League Baseball need to make this point clear. If you think he’s worthy, vote for him every time. If you don’t think he’s worthy, don’t vote for him.

But the big elephant in the room, which continues to sit there with no resolution, is what to do with confirmed and suspected steroid users. Some voters vote for all of them, some vote for none of them and some consider it on a case-bycase basis. But the results are loud and clear.

Admitted, proven or widely suspected steroid users are getting left out of the Hall of Fame. Guys

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ew debates spark as much passion and animosity in today’s society as the voting for entrance into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. On Jan. 6, the 2015 inductees were announced, and there was very little debate that the four players selected for induction — Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio — are worthy of being in the Hall of Fame.

Rather, the arguments center around which players did not make the cut and why, and what the motivations of the voters were.

The voting is done by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America who have more than 10 consecutive years of service, according to the BBWAA website. A player must receive 75 percent of the possible votes to gain entry to the Hall of Fame, and a player who does not receive 75 percent can remain on the ballot for up to 10 years if he garners at least 5 percent of the votes each year. Voters can select up to 10 players on their ballots.

Players are eligible to be placed on the ballot five years after the end of their playing careers.

For the 2015 voting, Johnson received 97.3 percent of the votes, according to baseball-reference. com. Out of 549 total ballots, 534 included Johnson. While this is a tremendous achievement, I can’t help but wonder about those 15 ballots that didn’t include him.

Johnson was arguably the greatest pitcher of his generation, winning 303 games, five Cy Young awards and racking up 4,875 career strikeouts, second only to Nolan Ryan in baseball history, according to baseball-reference.com. He’s an absolute no-brainer to be included in the Hall of Fame, so why did 15 voters leave him off their ballots?

My first reaction was to suggest that those who left Johnson off their ballot should be stripped of their right to vote in future Hall of Fame elections, because anyone that stupid has no business participating in something as important as this.

thankful for, yet not everyone seems to be satisfied and others are even angered by how little this actually benefits students.

Danielle Douglas-Gabriel of The Washington Post argues this is “not nearly enough” to cover the cost of attending college. Gabriel points out various essentials that are not always covered in community college tuition, such as housing, books and transportation.

Gabriel is obviously missing the point that “a little help goes a long way.” With the aid of Obama’s free tuition plan, some students will only have to pay fees of housing, books and transportation. These essentials are still far less than tuition itself, but with student’s tuition covered, they will have one less bill to worry about.

Gabriel also points out that states have to pay a quarter of the cost for the program and sees this as an inevitable downfall to Obama’s plan. States should take advantage of this small 25 percent expense that will benefit thousands of students.

It is important to view this program from the point of view of a student. The focus of this program is to give students an opportunity to attain a future through furthering their education and Obama is making this possible by covering a portion of the expense. This plan may not be perfect, but it is a step in the right direction by giving students from various backgrounds an opportunity for a future.

We, as students, are fully aware of the costs of tuition, regardless if your parents pay for it, if you pay out of your own pockets or a federal grant pays for it. This program will benefit us all.

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TEXAS TECH CENTER for Addictions and Recovery gives members a Desire Chip, in which they keep as a token of their start to recovery.

In 1986, Dr. Carl Anderson believed young people in recovery needed a place on a major university campus for support and to create at least a minor in addiction studies.

He wanted to give the educational hours to the students and hold meetings in his office, and this spurred the creation of the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery at Texas Tech, George Comiskey, associate director at the center, said.

“Recovery changed. In the late ‘90s, we started having a lot of young people. People who came in as traditional freshmen, who already had one year, two year, three years in recovery,” he said. “We started to see a shift in the needs.”

The program, in the building that it is in today, has been on the Tech campus since 2000, thanks to the fundraising efforts of Dr. Kitty Harris. She recognized the need for an adolescent and young adult recovery program in West Texas and slowly began changing the way students handled addictions and went through recovery, Comiskey said.

“She really had a vision of what was needed here,” he said. “What was about five or six collegiate recovery programs in the nation at that time, we are at 50 solid programs. On top of that 50, there are another 30 to 50 being developed and brought on board as we speak.”

Charlie Fulk, student assistant in the program and junior social work major from Fisherville, Virginia, has been with the program for a year now.

“It is for people who either have never been to college or who have been to college and maybe because of their addiction their grades were really poor,” he said. “Say for instance you went to school and you flunked out because of addiction.

Then you get into recovery and you showed yourself to be in recovery for at least a year and you’re doing really good, the center can actually get you into Texas Tech, even if Texas Tech turns you down.”

Caleb Barnhart recently transferred to the center from East Carolina University. Barnhart had been in a few situations that hindered his applications to other colleges.

“I dropped out due to some legal issues that tend to come with addiction. I had the grades, but no school would take me because of my legal ramifications,” Barnhart said. “This

was my only shot.”

In order to become part of the center, you must have been a part of a recovery program for at least a year, Comiskey said.

“If you become a member here there are requirements everyone has to be in the center. You have to take a seminar class in addiction disorder and recovery studies,” Fulk said. “It’s just a one credit hour class that meets once a week.”

An additional requirement is a membership in the student organization Association of Students about Service that recently donated sleeping bags to Tent City, and keeping a 3.0 GPA and continuing with a program of recovery, Fulk said.

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Third-party organizations offer scholarships for Texas Tech students

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

Texas Tech awards more than $300 million in financial aid annually, according to the Tech website, which includes scholarships, grants and loans.

While many of the Tech scholarships are awarded through the university scholarship application, there are additional scholarships students can apply for.

Patricia Earl, the unit coordinator of the Women’s Studies program, said the program offers three additional scholarships outside of the Tech application.

“They’re not gender specific,” she said. “The applications are open

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Topics for this course include the war on drugs, race and incarceration, and why there was such a significant increase in people incarcerated from 1970 to the turn of the century, he said.

This is a newer field, so Johnson will be learning new information alongside his students, he said.

“This is a new turn for me,” Johnson said. “So I am definitely going to be learning with the students.”

Assistant Professor of Latina Literature, Cordelia Barrera, is offering a course to learn about Latina/o literature. Her class,

to both men and women, which may seem strange because of our program name. The scholarships are open to all disciplines, and students find the scholarship to be a real compliment to what they’re doing on campus.”

The Florence Brown En Avant Club Scholarship and the Gwen Sorell Scholarship Endowment are both only for undergraduates, but the Rae Nell Griggs Scholarship Endowment is open to both undergraduates and graduate students.

All three scholarship applications are on the Women’s Studies website, and all application materials must be turned in to Earl

by Feb. 1.

“We talk about our scholarships through the application process and

who they honored,” Earl said. “You become more aware of why these scholarships are out there and what they do cover if you look outside your own discipline.”

Aside from the additional scholarships offered by departments within Tech, there are also opportunities for students to apply for external scholarships not managed by the university.

Lynne Fallwell, the director for national and international scholarships and fellowships at Tech, said her office helps students find and apply for external scholarships.

“I have a database of about 1,200 different awards that are external,” she said. “I try to match students up with the right awards. I love to get

“I was impressed his filter was chosen,” Dameron said.

“Snapchat is huge, everyone uses it and they don’t have very many filters and they chose his.”

Vining does not know when his filter will be taken down, he said. It could last forever or a

week, but the filter is live now on the app.

“The idea is that when it goes down, I’ll make another one,” he said. “It’s fun and exciting, and as an advertising major, it’s something I can add to my portfolio.”

ENGL 3393 Latina/o Landscapes, is one that will focus on the way that setting is important to the Latino experience and culture, she said.

“We will discuss Latin Americans in film, Latin American spaces and places. We talk about immigration and border issues,” Barrera said. “Very often what I do is begin in the American southwest, where we are here, because a lot of students are from the area.”

The class will consist of reading both novels and short stories, as well as watching films, she said.

“We will read films like we read books. So we will look a lot at films and at visual images and kind of work to situate those in

particular landscapes,” Barrera said. “So how is that landscape kind of feeding these images and ideas.”

She will also focus on certain areas of the Latino culture that continues to reappear in contemporary popular culture, she said.

“These are sometimes really old forms that are being used again and again and again. And we talk a lot about how these forms kind of change through time and how they kind of reflect what we are thinking today and what is going on today,” Barrera said. “So we bring in a lot of popular culture, a lot of stuff from TV and what’s out there in the popular imagination.”

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Huckabee slams Obama for letting daughters listen to Beyoncé DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has accused President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, of double standards in parenting, saying in an interview published Tuesday that the first family shelters its daughters from some things but allows them to listen to the music of Beyoncé.

The sharp rhetoric signals that, should he run for the Republican presidential nomination, Huckabee would make cultural and social issues the cornerstones of his campaign.

While promoting his new book, the former Baptist pastor told People magazine, “I don’t understand how on one hand they can be such doting parents and so careful about the intake of everything — how much broccoli they eat and where they go to school ... and yet they don’t see anything that might not be suitable” in Beyoncé’s lyrics. He also said Beyoncé’s choreography is “best left for the privacy of her bedroom.”

In his book, Huckabee describes the Grammy Award-winning Beyoncé’s lyrics as “obnoxious and toxic mental poison.” He also accuses Beyoncé’s husband, rapper Jay-Z, of “exploiting his wife” like a “pimp.”

The first lady’s office declined to comment on Huckabee’s comments.

During a 2012, $40,000-perticket fundraiser in New York, the president thanked Beyoncé and Jay-Z for their friendship.

“Beyoncé could not be a better role model for my girls,” Obama said.

Beyoncé sang at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, as well at Mrs. Obama’s 50th birthday party at the White House.

Huckabee’s latest book, titled “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy,” is full of criticism of Washington, New York and Hollywood and serves as a

direct appeal to cultural conservatives, long part of his political base.

Huckabee’s rhetoric is likely to win him more fans among conservative activists who have tremendous sway in picking the GOP’s presidential nominees in early nominating states such as Iowa and South Carolina.

them early and sponsor them.”

Although Fallwell’s office is a part of the Honors College, she said she services the entire university and is happy to meet with any student.

In addition to matching students to scholarships, Fallwell said she also helps them through the application process.

“I help with not only how to get started on a personal statement but how you’re going to ask for letters of recommendation,” she said. “If you’re writing a research statement, I help with polishing that up. On average for really committed students, I probably see 10 to 50 drafts of their essays.”

Another focus of Fallwell’s office is to increase the number of students

applying for nationally and internationally prestigious scholarships such as the Fulbright Scholars Program and the Rhodes scholarship.

Tech has had one Fulbright scholar so far, and Fallwell said it is important for students to start planning for the application process as early as a year before they plan to apply.

“Deadlines come around sooner than expected,” she said. “It’s going to take you time to write the essays, so it’s better to write them in small bits of time over weeks.

The reason it’s better over time is that it gives you a chance to think about yourself.”

Although competitive scholarships like the nationally prestigious

ones are difficult to win, Fallwell said going through the application process makes students better prepared when applying for graduate school or a job.

Applications are open throughout the year for various scholarships, and she said students should remember that while grades are important, club and community involvement is also an important consideration.

“Keep trying because it’s free money they’re giving away,” Fallwell said. “I know it can be tough and you think you’ve done everything you can. If you could really put yourself out there, you can control how people see you and you have a better chance for those scholarships.” ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

Defiant Charlie Hebdo fronts Muhammad PARIS (AP) — In an emotional act of defiance, Charlie Hebdo resurrected its irreverent and often provocative newspaper Tuesday, featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover that drew immediate criticism and threats of more violence.

The newspaper unapologetically skewered other religions as well, and bragged that Sunday’s turnout of a million people at a march in Paris to condemn terrorism was larger “than for Mass.”

“For the past week, Charlie, an atheist newspaper, has achieved more miracles than all the saints and prophets combined,” it said in the edition’s lead editorial. “The one we are most proud of is that you have in your hands the newspaper that we always made.”

Working out of borrowed offices, surviving staff published an unprecedented print run of 3 million copies — more than 50 times the usual circulation.

It was to appear on newsstands Wednesday, one week to the day after the assault by two masked gunmen that killed 12 people, including much of the weekly’s editorial staff and two police officers. It was the beginning of three days of terror that saw 17 people killed before the three Islamic extremist attackers were gunned

Muhammad, holding a sign readdown by security forces.

Before the new edition was even ing “I am Charlie” with the words released, one of Egypt’s top Islamic “All is forgiven” above him. Zineb authorities had warned Charlie El Rhazoui, a journalist with the Hebdo against publishing more weekly, said the cover meant the cartoons of the Prophet Muham- journalists are forgiving the extremmad. Dar al-Ifta, which is in charge ists for the attack. of issuing religious edicts, called the Renald Luzier, the cartoonist planned cover an “unjustified prov- who drew the cover image under the ocation” for millions of Muslims pen name “Luz,” said it represents who respect and love their prophet “just a little guy who’s crying.” and warned the cartoon would likely Then he added, unapologetispark a new wave of hatred. cally: “Yes, it is Muhammad.”

Indeed, criticism and threats Speaking at a news conference immediately appeared on militant in which he repeatedly broke down websites, with calls for more strikes crying, Luzier described weeping against the newspaper and anony- after he drew the picture. mous threats from radicals, accord“I wrote ‘everything is pardoned’, ing to the SITE Intelligence Group, and I cried,” he said, adding that at a U.S.-based terrorism monitor. that moment the staff understood The latest cover shows a weeping the drawing FOR RELEASE JANUARY 15, 2015would be the cover.

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Men’s basketball wins five games during break

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Since students left Lubbock for Texas Tech’s winter break, the men’s basketball team has played 10 games, winning five of those contests.

Junior guard Devaugntah Williams leads the Tech offense with an average of 11.1 points per game, and freshman center Norense Odiase leads Tech defense in rebounds with 77 total rebounds at the season’s midpoint.

With a 10-6 overall record and a 0-3 conference record, Tech is currently in last place in the Big 12 Conference standings, according to a Big 12 news release.

Tech 73 Fresno State 56 Tech took down the Fresno State Bulldogs 73-56 on Dec. 10 at home in the United Supermarkets Arena, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Red Raider squad led Fresno State for the majority of the first half and went into halftime with a 34-31 lead. The Bulldogs started the second half by pulling within two points with 17:14 remaining. A 13-1 run from Tech ended the Bulldogs’ hopes of taking their first lead of the game. Tech’s offensive run gave the team the push it needed to control the rest of the game.

Tech scored 24 of its 39 secondhalf points from inside the paint, and Williams finished the game with a team-leading 17 points.

Tech 79 Prairie View A&M 51

Tech rolled to its seventh victory of the season against the Prairie View A&M Panthers with a 79-51 win on Dec. 14 at home. The Panthers kept up with the Red Raider offense and finished the first half down 3226, and with 16:22 remaining in the game, and the Panthers tied the game at 37 each. After losing its lead, Tech quickly overtook the Panthers by going on a 20-3 run in eight minutes. Tech redshirt forward Aaron Ross made his season debut and scored three points for the Red Raiders against the Panthers. After suffering a torn right ACL during the offseason, Ross came into the game with 8:40 remaining in the game. Sophomore guard Randy Onwuasor tallied a team leading 14 points.

Tech 101 South Carolina State 39 T h e R e d R a i d e r s o v e rwhelmed the South Carolina State Bulldogs by defeating the Bulldogs 101-39 on Dec. 17 at home. Tech’s 62-point victory marked its fourth largest margin of victory in program history, according to a Tech news release. The Tech offense made 22 of its 36 shots in the first half to put the bulldogs behind 53-23 at halftime. Tech continued its offensive dominance in the second half by tripling the Bulldogs’ 16 second half points.

Freshman forward Justin Gray lead the Tech squad in scoring with 18 points. Senior guard Robert Turner, freshman center Isiah Manderson and Williams tallied double-digit points in Tech’s 62-point rout. Turner

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recorded 14 points, Williams 13 and Manderson 11.

Tech 72 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 51 Tech earned its ninth straight home win of the season by beating the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions 72-51 on Dec. 19.

Tech’s match versus the Golden Lions marked the first meeting between the two teams. With a 35-26 lead at the half, Tech extended its lead over the Golden Lions by outrebounding the Lions 21-13 in the second half and making 50 percent of its shots while the Golden Lions only made 23.1 percent of their shots.

Gray led the Red Raiders with 13 points against the Golden Lions.

Loyola (Chicago) 62 Tech 44 The Loyola Chicago Ramblers halted Tech’s eight-game winning streak by defeating the Red Raiders 62-44 on Dec. 22 in the Orleans Arena. Tech jumped ahead of the Ramblers at the start of the game but with 10:37 remaining in the first half, the Ramblers grabbed the lead and finished the first half with a 28-19 lead over the Red Raiders. The Ramblers came close to giving up their lead to the Red Raiders when Tech cut down its deficit to four points with 16:28 remaining in the game, but the Ramblers responded with seven straight points to distance themselves from the Red Raiders. With the score at 44-34 and 9:59 left, the Ramblers went on a 16-4 run to put them ahead 6038 with 3:26 remaining. The Red Raider offense finished the game without making any of their 21 three point attempts.

Houston 82 Tech 69 Following their loss to the Ramblers, the Red Raiders dropped their third game of the season 82-69 versus the Houston Cougars on Dec. 23 in the Orleans Arena. Finishing the half with a 41-34 lead, the Cougars struggled at the start of the second half. With less than two minutes into the second half, the Red Raiders came within one point from tying the Cougars.

Tech kept the game close versus Houston in the second half and trailed by just five points with 4:42 remaining, but Houston

went on an 11-3 run, giving it the advantage needed to secure the win over the Red Raiders. Tech’s loss to the Cougars marked the first in the season in which a team scored 69 points or more. Williams, who led the Red Raiders in scoring with 21 points, was the only player to record more than one assist for the Red Raiders.

Tech 60 North Texas 45 Tech ended its two game losing streak by defeating the North Texas Mean Green 6045 on Dec. 29 at home for its last non-conference game of the season. Tech picked up its tenth straight home win of the season by defeating North Texas.

Odiase, Tech’s starting center, was held to just 18 minutes of playing time after getting into early foul trouble. Manderson went in for Odiase and scored 10 points for the Red Raiders and recorded five rebounds.

Tech held North Texas to just 22 points in the first half, the fewest amount of points scored by an opposing side in the first half this season.

Texas 70 Tech 61 Tech opened up the new year with conference play versus the No. 11-ranked Texas Longhorns on Jan. 3 at home. Tech dropped its first Big 12 game of the season 70-61. With a 20 point lead with 5:59 remaining in the game, Tech began to chip away at the Longhorn lead to reduce its deficit to 67-59 with 1:09 remaining. Texas held onto its lead to take its first matchup of the season against the Red Raiders. Manderson finished the game with 12 points, leading the Tech offense in scoring. Texas outrebounded Tech 41-29 and scored 26 points off of turnovers compared to Tech’s 12 points.

Texas handed Tech its first home loss of the season.

West Virginia 78 Tech 67 Tech lost its second conference game of the season against the No. 17 nationally ranked West Virginia Mountaineers 78-67 on Jan. 5 at home. Tech struggled in its inside shooting by only scoring 18 points, compared to West Virginia’s 36, and

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TEXAS TECH CENTER Norense Odiase goes for a lay up during Tech’s 78-67 loss to West Virginia on Jan. 5 in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The Red Raiders won five of their 10 games during winter break.

also struggled in its free throw shooting by making 22 of its 37 attempts. Tech threatened to overtake the Mountaineers with 16:35 left in the game, but West Virginia’s offense ignited to go on a 15-2 run to lead the Red Raiders 55-40 with 10:36 remaining. After the West Virginia run, the closest the Red Raiders got to tying up the game was within eight points with West Virginia leading 5749 with 8:43 remaining. Williams tallied 21 points versus the Mountaineers, leading the Tech offense.

Kansas 86 Tech 54 The No. 12 Kansas Jayhawks handed Tech its third consecutive conference loss of the season with an 86-54 win on Jan. 10 in the Allen Fieldhouse. In the first 15 minutes, the Jayhawks

held the Tech offense to just two field goals. Only junior forward Justin Jameson would score in the double-digits for the Tech offense as he finished with 12 points. Kansas’ 52.5 percent shooting and 43 rebounds helped it cruise to its second conference win of the season. Williams, who scored 21 points versus the Mountaineers, was held to just 3 points versus the Jayhawks.

Tech gets another shot at picking up its first conference win of the season Wednesday when it faces the Kansas State Wildcats on the road in the Bramlage Coliseum. After their game versus the Wildcats, the Red Raiders will return home to face Texas Christian, which is also looking for its first Big 12 win, at 3 p.m. Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. ➤➤@DGaytanDT

Charges dismissed against Hope Solo KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — A judge near Seattle on Tuesday dismissed domestic violence assault charges against soccer superstar Hope Solo, a week before the case was set for trial.

Solo, a goalkeeper for the U.S. women’s national soccer team and the Seattle Reign professional club, had been charged with two misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree assault stemming from an altercation with her half-sister and 17-year-old nephew at a party in June.

Kirkland Municipal Court Judge Michael Lambo dismissed the charges on Tuesday. Solo did not appear at Tuesday’s hearing. The judge had agreed to let her attend a training camp, KING-TV reported (http://is.gd/ Q6oHIZ).

“I always had faith that once the facts of the case were presented, I would be cleared of all charges and I am so happy and relieved to finally have it all behind me,” Solo said in a statement Tuesday.

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Tech coach reaches 100 career wins during break

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY

This gave the team its seventh win of the season, surpassing the win total from last season.

As a team, Tech shot 11 of 25 from three-point range. The 11 threes were the most by the women’s basketball team since 2010, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Tech 64 UTSA 48 The next day, Amber Battle carried the team with 19 of her 21 points in the second half as the Lady Raiders defeated the University of Texas at San Antonio 64-48.

Tech 60 Houston 54 Tech capped off the tournament with a 60-54 win over Houston. Battle and Spears were named to the AllTournament team after the win. Battle earned tournament MVP honors, according to the release.

Tech 60 Houston Baptist 59 The Lady Raiders remained at home after the tournament to play Houston Baptist.

Tech had a 54-39 lead with just

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After earning a 5-2 record through the first seven games of the season, the Texas Tech women’s basketball team attempted to improve on its record during Tech’s winter break.

Tech 50 Texas Pan American 42 The Lady Raiders tipped-off the break at home with a 50-42 win over Texas-Pan American. The game marked team leader Amber Battle’s second game back after serving a suspension. She scored 14 points and grabbed six rebounds.

Freshman wing Dayo Olabode scored a game-high 19 points and tied the team high with nine rebounds.

Tech 76 Nicholls 49 The following game kicked off the Athletes in Action Tournament in Lubbock. Tech opened the tournament by cruising to a 76-49 win over Nicholls. There were no lead changes or ties in the game as the Lady Raiders held the advantage the entire time.

over 10 minutes left in the game.

Houston Baptist went on a run and outscored Tech 17-4 over the next nine minutes to make the score 58-56 with just over a minute to play.

Battle hit a shot for the Lady Raiders on the ensuing possession. The Huskies quickly went back down the floor and hit a three to draw within one point with 39 seconds left.

After Tech was fouled and missed both free throws on its possession, Houston Baptist had the chance to shoot for the win. Junior forward Jamie Roe stole the ball in the final seconds as the Huskies were never able to get off a shot.

Tech 52 Texas Christian 37 The Lady Raiders’ next challenger was Texas Christian in the Big 12 season opener. TCU never led in the game as Tech claimed a 52-37 victory. After not winning a single conference game last season, the Lady Raiders snapped their 20-game Big 12 losing streak going back to Feb. 27, 2013.

Second-year coach Candi Whitaker said while the team is not satisfied

with one conference win, the team is excited to have finally ended the streak.

“I’m just so proud for (the players).

I’m proud for all of them but especially the returners that went through last season and how hard that was for them,” Whitaker said in a release. “I’m really proud for them.”

The game also marked Whitaker’s 100th win as a head coach.

Oklahoma State 66 Tech 35 The Lady Raiders then traveled to Stillwater, Oklahoma for their first Big 12 road game. The team had its seven-game winning streak snapped in a 66-35 loss.

The Lady Raiders scored a seasonlow 14 points in the first half of the game, according to a release, and were unable to mount a comeback after halftime.

Oklahoma 75 Tech 58 Tech finished the winter break on Saturday with a 75-58 loss to Oklahoma. The loss snapped the team’s 11-game winning streak at home and was the first home loss of the season,

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CANDI WHITAKER REACHED 100 career wins in the Lady Raiders’ defeat of TCU 52-37 on Jan. 4 in the United Supermarkets Arena.

according to a release.

The Lady Raiders will try to end their two-game losing streak tonight at

6 p.m. in Morgantown, West Virginia against the Mountaineers. ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

FRIGID FUN

PHOTO BY KIRBY CRUMPLER/The Daily Toreador

MICHAEL WODE, A freshman landscape architecture major from Austin, sleds at Buddy Holly park Tuesday.

Tech faces K-State seeking first Big 12 win

By DIEGO GAYTAN

to stop the bleeding some way,” Smith said. “When you’re losing, everything is magnified.”

Kansas State sophomore guard Marcus Foster currently leads the Wildcats in scoring, averaging 13.7 points per game.

Smith said the Tech defense will focus on covering Foster throughout the game to slow down the Wildcat offense.

“Marcus Foster is a guy we’ve got to pay a lot of attention to,” Smith said. “He’s their best allaround player and he’s probably leading them in three point shooting and other categories.

He’s got to be a focal point for our defense in order for us to have a chance.”

Today’s matchup versus the Wildcats marks only the third time Smith has coached against Kansas State since starting his tenure at Tech in 2013.

In the two previous meetings against Kansas State, Tech lost 68-58 in an away game and lost again in the United Supermarkets Arena 60-56.

In Smith’s second meeting

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The Texas Tech men’s basketball team travels to Manhattan, Kansas to face the Kansas State Wildcats at 7 p.m. today in the Bramlage Coliseum, looking to put a halt on its three-game losing streak.

At the start of Big 12 Conference play, Tech dropped its first conference game versus Texas 70-61, its second to West Virginia 78-67 and its third conference game to Kansas 86-54.

The 9-7 Wildcats enter the game versus the Red Raiders with a 2-1 conference record.

Kansas State lost its Big 12 opener against Oklahoma State 61-47 but followed its loss to OSU with a 58-53 win over Texas Christian and a 66-63 win over Oklahoma.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said a win versus Kansas State can help the team pick up its early season momentum after going 10-3 in nonconference play.

“When you’re 0-3 you’ve got

versus the Wildcats, Tech led Kansas State 42-34 with 9:37 remaining, but a 20-5 run by Kansas State allowed the Wildcats to surpass Tech. The Red Raiders tied the game at 54 each with 2:49 left, but the Wildcats pulled away as the game came to a close.

The loss came in front of 6,086 students, which was a new record in the Big 12.

“We thought we had them beat here last year, had a chance to put the game away and didn’t do it on the defensive end and gave up a three point play,” Smith said. “I think it gives us confidence that we can play with them, it gives me some confidence.”

Smith said he thinks veteran players like senior guard Robert Turner and redshirt junior Toddrick Gotcher can draw motivation from last year’s losses against Kansas State.

The Red Raiders’ last win against the Wildcats in the Bramlage Coliseum was in 2007. ➤➤@DGaytanDT

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