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THURSDAY, JAN. 18, 2018 VOLUME 92 ■ ISSUE 30

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SPORTS

Chess: The Knight Raiders place third and qualify for the Final Four

Men’s basketball: The Red Raiders’ defense remains elite.

Column: New Years’ resolutions should be more realistic

OPINIONS

ONLINE Read what Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope had to say during this year’s State of the City address.

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Medical professionals warn against continued outings with flu-like symptoms

By MICHAEL A. CANTU

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ighting off most viruses can be compared to playing a basketball game: an offense can obtain the lead against an opponent but a good defense will keep that lead.

In the case of the influenza virus, a good offense entails one getting the initial flu shot, while the defense is safe practices in sickness prevention.

An uptick in reported flu-like illnesses has been reported throughout the nation, particularly in Texas, leading to increased prevention efforts which are key to avoiding the flu.

As of now, many medical professionals are still advising the public to receive flu shots.

“Certainly, we still recommend the flu shot, it’s not quite as effective this year, but it’s still going to have some improvement in your symptoms over the shorter course,” Dr. Ronald Cook, chair of the Department of Family Medicine, said.

This year the reported ef-

ficacy of the flu vaccine has been less than average, but that may be attributed to a stronger strain of the virus, according to a January article in The New York Times.

Though that may be the case, those vaccinated who still catch the virus will be far better off than those who go without, Cook said. The vaccination will more than likely tone down the flu-like symptoms or make the virus less intense, he said.

Especially if you have a fever, you should really avoid contact with other people until you have been without a fever for 24 hours.

KATHERINE WELLS PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR “Because the world has a northern hemisphere and a southern hemisphere, in the summertime the southern hemisphere is winter,”

Dr. Richard Lampe, professor and chairman of pediatrics at the Tech Health Sciences Center, said. “So that’s where circulating influenza viruses are studied and they get what the major (viruses) are going on in the southern hemisphere.”

When companies in Aus-

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tralia begin developing their yearly influenza vaccine, they have to take into account data that was from a year ago, Lampe said.

With the various strains of the flu travelling around the world, it is difficult for scientist to develop a vaccine that will be near 100

percent effective.

“So the vaccine that I received in October with a shot was based on our best estimate of what would be circulating in the northern hemisphere, because of what was circulating in the southern hemisphere,” Lampe said.

Babies and the elderly are those most at risk from the virus, Lampe said. But with classrooms filling up with students and people coming in from various parts of the world, risk of catching the virus can go up.

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Tech works to meet need for blood Tech to add security cameras in undisclosed campus locations

By KAILIN GEORGE Staff Writer

The United Blood Services has partnered with the transition and engagement office to host a blood drive on Jan. 19 with a goal of 29 units of blood.

January is reported as a high usage month, Stephanie Pointer, a United Blood Services employee, said.

“We suffer during the summer and winter breaks by not having college stu-

dents around and currently need donors, especially O negative because of its universality,” she said.

Alexis Tiefa, a graduate assistant for transition and engagement from Albuquerque, New Mexico, said she reached out to United Blood Services to host a blood drive d u r i n g Wi n t e r R a i d e r Welcome because the time is convenient for students to participate.

Pointer said although

many drives are hosted by various organizations during each semester, the turn-out varies. United Blood Services looked at the history of sponsorships and the units of blood they averaged to determine a goal for the upcoming drive.

“This specific drive, we have a goal of 29 units because Winter Raider Welcome averages about 30 units,” she said.

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Security cameras will be installed across the Texas Tech campus as part of a larger security plan being implemented by the Tech administration, the Tech Police Department and the Student Government Association.

The cameras are being installed at undisclosed locations and will serve as a

way to increase security on the campus, according to a Tech news release. The idea behind the installations comes from a committee that is composed of Tech officials and student representatives.

This is only a small part of an initiative that will increase automated campus safety, according to the release. Future efforts

at increased security are also being discussed at this time.

“It’s part of the culture we want to create here so students would feel safe, as they go from building to building, as they cross the street at night,” Lawrence Schovanec, Tech president, said in the release. @MichaelCantuDT

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City Bank donates to Tech Athletics to cover cost of conference fine A $25,000 donation has been made from City Bank in Lubbock to cover the cost of a fine implemented by the Big 12 Conference onto Texas Tech.

The fine stemmed from a Saturday, Jan. 13, game in which the Tech Men’s Basketball team defeated West Virginia 72-71. Once the game was over, Tech fans stormed the court, which escalated to a West Virginia player striking a Tech fan.

After reviewing the incident, the Big 12 Conference issued a public reprimand for both Tech and West Virginia, according to a

previous article in The Daily Toreador. However, Tech was fined for the fans actions on the court. “(Fans’) passion is certainly noticed and felt at the games,” Kirby Hocutt, Tech athletic director said in a news release. “We admittedly did fail to meet our expectations Saturday in efforts to secure the floor and allow West Virginia to exit without incident.”

This donation, made by City Bank, is in an effort to offset the cost of the fine, according to a City Bank news release.

“While we support

Texas Tech in its efforts to make certain gameday operations provide a safe and enjoyable environment for everyone involved, we also understand the outright excitement and spontaneity that a breath-taking victory over a highly ranked team can have on a university’s students,” Cory T. Newsom, City Bank president and CEO, said in the release.

“We see it at universities across the country on a weekly basis. Supporting your team is a big part of the college experience.” @MichaelCantuDT

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Deadline coming up for SGA candidacy filing Those passionate to represent student rights and traditions with the Student Government Association have a chance to run for office this upcoming semester. The deadline to submit a statement of intent is at 5 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 26 in room 304 of the Student Union Building.

Texas Tech’s Student Government Association is organized like many governments across the world with an executive body and a legislative body. The executive body consists of the student president and any vice president positions, according to

SGA’s website. The legislative body consists of student senators from the colleges across campus and includes senators-at-large.

Candidates that are interested in running for office must be in good standing with Tech and must have every intention of fulfilling the length of the appointed term, according to the website.

Certain filing fees are required upon submission.

Fees due at the time of submission must be paid by qualified candidates to be included on the official

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Statement of intent deadline: Friday, Jan. 26 Executive candidate orientation: Tuesday, Jan. 30 in Masked Rider Room

All legislative cadidate seminar: Tuesday, Jan. 30 in Red Raider Ballroom

Senate forums: Thursday, Feb. 15 to Friday, Feb. 23

Election voting: Tuesday, March 6 to Wednesday, March 7 Runoff voting (if necessary): Tuesday, March 20 to Wednesday, March 21 Election results: Friday, March 9

ballot, according to the site.

The filing fees $20 for legis-

lative positions and $30 for executive positions. Individu-

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als interested in cross-filing are only allowed to do so for senator-at-large and executive positions; the filing fee is $35 for these candidates.

The remaining election process follows with executive candidates completing an orientation beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30, in the Masked Raider Room of the SUB. This session provides the rules and regulation of the election process.

All other legislative candidates must attend a seminar program beginning at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 30, in the Red

Raider Ballroom of the SUB. Senate forums will be hosted from Feb. 15-23 with times and locations to be determined, according to the website.

Election polling will begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 6, and close at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 with the winners being announced at 3 p.m.

Friday, March 9, in the SUB Courtyard, according to the website. If necessary, runoff election polls will open at 9 a.m. March 20 and close at 7 p.m. March 21. Results will be announced at 3 p.m. March 23 in the SUB Courtyard. @DailyToreador

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Tech partners with SPC Women’s group for pre-transfer program to host rally at Tim Cole park On Wednesday, Jan. 17, administrators from Texas Tech and South Plains College signed a memorandum of understanding, which aims to provide resources and information to pre-transfer students who begin their college careers at SPC with the goal of transferring to Tech after completing their associates degrees.

SPC and Tech agreement enhances the goals of increasing awareness of educational opportunities, encouraging students to complete their associates degree, providing pre-Tech advising to ensure their credits are all transferable and making the transfer from college to university easier, according to a Tech news release.

“In addition to this agreement, the two institutions are working on other agreements that will provide unique opportunities for students from South Plains College to transfer to Texas Tech University,” Melanie Hart, director of Academic Partnerships for eLearning & Academic Partnerships, said in the release. @DailyToreador

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Tuition to increase in 2018 school year Current and incoming students who plan to attend Texas Tech will soon be paying more in tuition and fees.

During a December 2017 meeting, the Texas Tech System Board of Regents approved a 2.4 to 2.7 percent tuition increase starting in the 2018-2019 academic year. This would be around a $110 increase each semester for a full-time student.

Gary Barnes, vice chancellor and chief financial officer, said during the meeting that despite upsetting some, this increase is going to ben-

efit students.

“Fund ing will specifically be provided for l i b r a r y s e rvices,” Barnes BARNES said. “That’s an increase in periodicals as well as the electronic subscriptions.”

Other benefits the students will gain from this tuition increase includes new technology for the classroom and labs as well as better online security, he said. The

increase will also fund the first shuttle service for Angelo State University as well as faculty and staff salary equity.

The main priority for the administration is to provide services for the students.

“It’s really important that we understand the clientele of the students, their financial needs,” Barnes said during the meeting. “While we’re third lowest, we’re proud to be able to be affordable while still also offering that level of service to the students.” @DailyToreador

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10 dead after record temperatures grip South AT L A N TA ( A P ) — Snow, ice and a recordbreaking blast of cold closed runways, highways, schools and government offices across the South and sent cars sliding off r o a d s We d n e s d a y i n a corner of the country illequipped to deal with wintry weather. At least 10 people died, including a

baby in a car that plunged off a slippery overpass into a Louisiana canal.

Icicles hung from a statue of jazz musicians in normally balmy New Orleans, and drivers unaccustomed to ice spun their wheels across Atlanta, which was brought to a near-standstill by little more than an inch of snow.

The beach in Biloxi, Mississippi, got a light coating. And the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled classes as the storm unloaded at least 8 inches of snow in Durham and Greensboro.

The storm turned the morning rush hour treacherous, though many people heeded warnings to stay off the roads.

Even the best drivers had trouble: Retired NASCAR champion Dale Earn-

hardt Jr. tweeted that he had just used his winch to help pull a car out of a ditch when he drove off the road and into a tree in North Carolina.

“NC stay off the roads today/tonight. 5 minutes after helping these folks I center punched a pine tree,” he reported. A spokesman said Earnhardt was not hurt and his pickup had only minor damage.

By midday, skies were bright and sunny in many places, but temperatures were expected to remain below freezing throughout the day in much of the region, and roads are likely to remain icy into Thursday.

“People keep asking when we will get the all-clear,” said Georgia Transportation Department spokeswoman Natalie Dale. “It will not happen today.”

Texas Democratic Women of the South Plains will be sponsoring the second Lubbock Women`s Rally — Power to the Polls on Saturday, Jan. 20.

The event will be hosted at 10 a.m. at the Tim Cole Memorial Park located near the intersection of University Avenue and 19th Street.

The men and women of the organization will congregate

at the Timothy Cole statue, according to the Facebook event page.

This event is being hosted as a way to rally for issues relating to women and encourage community members to vote during various elections throughout the year. Further updates on the rally will be posted on the rally’s Facebook event page. @DailyToreador

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Schools in Oklahoma, Texas close due to flu outbreak OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — More than a half dozen school districts in Oklahoma and one in Texas have closed for at least a day because of a flu outbreak.

In Oklahoma, the Cleveland and Union City schools both closed for a day earlier this week, while the Morris, Quinton, Swink, Hugo and Valliant districts are closed until next week.

The Bonham Independent School District in Texas is also closed until

next week.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health reports at least 22 flurelated deaths during the current season while Texas Department of State Health Services spokeswoman Lara Antone said that state has at least 1,155 deaths due to flu or pneumonia, which are counted together.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports widespread flu in 49 states.

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Corpus Christi educator uses service dog to help teach CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Skittles, a rat terrier, sits in the back of a classroom in a converted closet made to accommodate her dog bed and a blue blanket covered in white dog silhouettes.

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports the 6-yearold black, white and brown medical alert service dog lays down with her ears perched high and focuses on fifthgrade reading teacher Taylor Dearman, her human.

Dearman, 26, stands at the front of the Kostoryz Elementary School classroom, like she’s been doing since she was hired in the beginning of January, and goes over a lesson on special effects with her class.

The class of about 25 students occasionally turn to the back of the classroom to catch a glimpse of Skittles, though they know she is hard at work.

“Skittles was in all my (Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi) classes since I got her in Georgia,” Dearman said. “I took a break from school to figure out what I wanted to do and that’s when I was diagnosed with clinical depression, and I experienced seizures. But I haven’t had a seizure since I’ve had Skittles.”

It was after getting Skittles that Dearman knew she wanted to be a teacher.

Life before Skittles involved coursework for the nursing program A&M-CC, Dearman said.

“I got to teach people how having a disability can be more about than what you can see,” Dearman said. “I found my niche and just had a natural knack for wanting to teach.”

After taking a year off to take care of her health with her parents, who moved from Corpus Christi to Georgia, Dearman returned home and began coursework to became a teacher, she said.

As part of Dearman’s coursework for her Bachelor of Science degree in Interdisciplinary EC-6 Reading Generalist, she was a student teacher at Oak Park Elementary School, where Skittles remained at her side.

Since Skittles played a major role in Dearman’s education, giving her the confidence boost she needed, Skittles was allowed to walk the stage at Dearman’s commencement ceremony.

Skittles even donned a black cap and gown and the university’s traditional lei.

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Office of Provost decides against eliminating August commencements After it was expressed to the Texas Tech administration, the Office of the Provost has decided against eliminating August commencement ceremonies on the campus.

During the fall se-

mester, the office asked students to submit their opinions on the proposed modifications to Tech’s t r a d i t i o n a l c o m m e n c ement process, which would take effect December 2018.

According to an email

sent out to students from Tech Provost Michael Galyean, August ceremonies will not be eliminated and are expected to follow the single-day schedule Tech now uses.

Ceremonies will continue

as normal, according to the email. Once commencement ceremonies reach capacity, a software will be implemented to allow the use of an RSVP system to accommodate the graduate growth. @DailyToreador

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13 siblings held captive coerced to stay quiet LOS ANGELES (AP) — When a 17-year-old girl jumped out a window from the house where her parents allegedly starved and tortured their 13 children, she broke a silence that had likely lasted for years.

It’s not clear why the teenager waited so long to act, but psychiatrists say such behavior is not uncommon even in cases of extreme deprivation.

Most people would recognize milder forms of the same inaction that is a coping mechanism, whether it’s failing to speak out against offcolor jokes, enduring sexual harassment or staying in an awful marriage, said Dr. Bruce Perry.

“This happens all the time. The number of individuals who would immediately respond to an opportunity where they could get away is very small compared to the number of people who would have that paralysis and insecurity and confusion about what to do,” said Perry, a psychiatrist who is a senior fellow at the Child Trauma Academy in Houston.

Only after many missed opportunities did the teen probably work up the courage to act, Perry said. “ I t ’s p r e t t y r e m a r k able that she’d do that,” he said. “The power that

must have been exerted to keep an entire family like that for so long must have been pretty sophisticated.”

David Allen Turpin and his wife, Louise Anna Turpin, were arrested Sunday after authorities found the malnourished children in their home in suburban Perris, 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. They were jailed on $9 million bail each and are expected to appear Thursday in Riverside County Superior Court on charges that could include torture and child endangerment, authorities said.

Some siblings were shackled to furniture in the foulsmelling four-bedroom home that looked perfectly normal from the outside.

The couples’ children — ages 2 to 29 — were so emaciated the older ones still looked like children. Authorities thought the 17-year-old daughter who called 911 was only 10 when they found her.

Until the girl fled with photographic evidence, it appears no one, neither neighbors nor public officials, knew anything about what was happening inside.

The Turpins have lived in two Riverside County communities since moving to California in 2011, and

police said they were never called to either home, nor were any reports fielded by child protective services.

In Hill County, Texas, where they lived previously, the sheriff ’s office reported receiving a call from a neighbor complaining a pig that belonged to the Turpins escaped for a pen and ate 55 pounds of his dog food.

In another complaint, David Turpin reported that the family’s dog had bitten their 4-year-old daughter on the face. He told police he took the girl to a hospital for stitches and the dog to a veterinarian to be put down, according to records obtained

by The Associated Press.

It’s not clear what motivated the Turpins to live a secluded life with their large brood or what went on in the house, but parents convicted in similar cases exerted control over their children though a mix of psychological and physical coercion and frequently possessed their own belief system.

“They develop a kind of cultish doomsday type of religion where the father becomes this mythical leader and the mother and children’s duty is to serve the father,” attorney Ambrosio Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez was a longtime

Riverside County prosecutor who sent Jessica Banks, a pastor and mother, to prison for life for beating, starving and drugging her five adopted daughters, who were kept locked in her garage.

The Turpin children appeared to be cut off from the outside world, despite taking a trip to Disneyland and Las Vegas, where the parents renewed wedding vows in a service presided over by an Elvis impersonator.

“They weren’t allowed to watch TV. They weren’t allowed to have friends over — the normal things that kids do,” the children’s aunt, Teresa Robinette, told NBC’s “Today” show.

Individuals held under such conditions often become so physically and emotionally weak “that they are unable to free themselves, even if an opportunity arises,” said Dr. Allen Keller, who runs the Bellevue-NYU Center for Survivors of Torture in New York. “The abuser has basically taken complete control of them. It is a state of severe helplessness.”

The children were educated in the home. No state agency regulates or oversees private schools in California, but they are subject to an annual inspection by the state or local fire marshal.

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Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum gets Bowie knife WACO, Texas (AP) — As a fearsome weapon, the Bowie knife recently donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum speaks for itself.

The Waco Tribune-Herald reports it is 17 inches long, with a bison horn hilt and a sturdy high carbon steel blade featuring the “Texas clip” characteristic of knives made famous by James Bowie, the Alamo hero.

But a closer look at the silverwork on the knife’s scabbard gives a tantalizing sign of its true significance.

Engraved in a flowery script are the words: “R.P. Bowie to Capt. Wm. Y. Lacey.”

That would appear to be Rezin Pleasant Bowie, Jim’s big brother, who helped popularize the Bowie knife in the 1830s and was known for giving them as gifts. William Lacey, or Lacy, is obscure today but accompanied Jim Bowie in his rambles around Texas and later served as a Texas revolutionary soldier, a Texas Ranger and mayor of Palestine.

The knife and a folder full of research on it arrived at the museum in December in a FedEx box from Rudolph W. Gleichman, a Pennsylvania arms collector. Ranger museum officials want to continue researching its authenticity but say it is potentially a marquee artifact for their collection.

It will likely go on display this spring.

“It was a nice Christmas gift for Waco,” museum director Byron Johnson said.

“It would be very significant given his association with his brother and the fact that it’s inscribed to someone who was a Texas Ranger. That makes it very worthwhile for us. I would say it will be one of the treasures we have in the museum.”

Johnson said the authenticity of the knife may never be proven, but so far he sees no reason to doubt it.

Gleichman, a former insurance underwriter who served as president of the Maryland Arms Collectors Association, spent about $400 for the knife in 1982.

“I bought the thing in the

parking lot of a gun show from a picker,” Gleichman said. “I saw it for what I thought it was, an important item. I spent a year researching it. . It turned out the gentleman who owned the knife was an intimate friend of the Bowie family.

Everything seemed to fall into place.”

Gleichman collected opinions of silversmiths and knife experts and published descriptions of the knife in arms collecting publications.

Around 1988, he also showed it to Gaines DeGraffenreid, founding director of Waco’s Ranger museum, who was impressed and hinted that the museum would like to acquire it.

Now 91, Gleichman decided he was ready to part with his treasures.

“I don’t need money per se,” he said. “I just thought it would be wonderful since the gentleman who owned it was an important person who had a relationship with the Bowie family, it would be nice to give it to the museum that authenticates and collects these things. . It’s a treasure

for anyone’s collection.”

Johnson said the knife’s story may end up like a lot of forensics investigations, based on circumstantial evidence.

He said the artifact has all the marks of a Bowie knife manufactured in the 1830s, when the knife became popular across the frontier. He said the knife is undated but may precede Jim Bowie’s death at the Alamo in 1836.

Johnson said it would not be unusual to find a forged inscription on a Bowie knife, but it seems unlikely that a forger would have chosen William Lacy as the recipient.

“There’s only about half a dozen historians who have heard of William Lacy,” he said.

William Lacy, a Kentucky native, moved to San Augustine, Texas, with his father in 1830, according to the 1881 Encyclopedia of the New West.

He was about 18 in 1834, when he headed out to the Tarrant County area with Jim Bowie to prospect for gold.

By this time Bowie and

his knife were already a legend thanks to the notorious “Sandbar Fight” on Sept. 19, 1827, across the Mississippi River from Natchez, Mississippi. Bowie, who was a second to one party in a duel, ended up being attacked himself by the other party. Using a large hunting knife, he reputedly killed one opponent, badly wounded another and was hospitalized for a shot to the lung.

Bowie family lore holds that R.P. Bowie had invented the knife several years earlier on their plantation in Louisiana after Jim’s encounter with a rogue bull. The handle guard was intended to keep the blade from slipping and injuring the hand.

The knife became popular throughout the country immediately after the Sandbar fight, and R.P. Bowie had blades forged in Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Four other knives that R.P. Bowie inscribed as gifts to friends are known to exist.

Jim Bowie moved into Texas in 1830 to snap up land grants from the Mexican government and hunt for gold.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “That’s why influenza viruses, as a rule, tend to be in the winter time because people are together and it’s a respiratory virus and we catch it from people’ secretions or from their hands when they touch their mouth or nose,” Lampe said.

Health professionals encourage people to always wash their hands and cover coughs using the elbow, Katherine Wells, director of Public Health with the City of Lubbock Health Department, said. Many people can be sick with the virus for up to three weeks, which means the chances of spreading it can last for a while, she said.

“Especially if you have a fever, you should really avoid contact with other people until you have been without a fever for 24 hours,” Wells said.

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about going out when people have flu-like symptoms such as high fever or achy muscles, Cook said. If at all possible, those people should avoid places like classrooms, or even hospital emergency rooms for that matter.

Once people do catch the virus there may not be much doctors can do to treat it, he said. The symptoms can be treated but the virus itself has to be waited out.

In treating the symptoms, it is important to keep hydrated and take over-thecounter decongestants, he said. That decreases the risk of getting secondary bacterial infections.

“People that need to be in the ER are those who get dehydrated, because you have respiratory distress, in other words, you can’t breath,” Cook said. “Then those are reasons to go to the ER. You may feel very poorly but there’s not a lot an emergency room can do for you.” @MichaelCantuDT

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3 charged after Houston couple’s deaths HOUSTON (AP) — Three men have been charged with capital murder after investigators accused them of following a suburban Houston couple to their home in an upscale gated community, forcing them into their house at gunpoint, killing them, then ransacking their house.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says Aakiel Ricardo Kendrick, Khari Ty Kendrick and Erick Alfredo Peralta were arrested Wednesday. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says one of the men

confessed to killing Bao and Jenny Lam, both 61, Thursday at their Spring home.

Gonzalez says the men crawled under the gate to the community and waited for the Lams to return from dinner out Thursday night before forcing them at gunpoint to lead them into the house. Gonzalez said the Lams were killed execution style and their home ransacked for guns and jewelry.

All were denied bond and remain in Harris County Jail. None have attorneys.

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Time management proves necessary skill

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arrived in Lubbock a day late, missing the first day of my law classes. I told my friend I would meet him for lunch at 2:00 and showed up at 2:15.

I ran ten minutes late to a meeting the other day that I really needed to get to. I turned in this column well past my editor’s deadline.

I am often late. This is a quality I am known for, a quality my family and friends know of and prepare for in advance.

It is a quality often oblivious to me, but one quite obvious to the time enthusiasts I associate with, as they are often angry at me when I arrive late.

I am both grateful for,

Robert Avila is a second-year law student from San Antonio.

and in awe of, the kindness of others who still accept me as a member of their organizations, even when I have always been five minutes late to their meetings.

I have what most people would call a time-management issue. It is a trait I refer to more accurately as a time-optimism issue. This is the best way I know how to describe it.

I too often believe that life will always provide another hour, another 10 minutes,

or even another two minutes to complete whatever I am engaged in before getting to where I need to be next.

This has always been my genuine belief in life. And anyone who has ever set a date with me has timestamped text messages to prove I am the only one who believes this lie.

Despite living in a separate time frame from society, I am somehow still productive.

I make sure the things I need to do like class readings, work, or articles get done.

I make sure my cat is fed every day and that my bills are paid. I even stick to my workout plan every other day.

I just don’t do well with planning for the exact future

time that I will complete these events. I often get caught up in small moments of my life.

From objectively productive things, like reading articles for a class assignment, to subjectively important things, like trying out multiple chili recipes for my apartment complex’s chili tasting contest.

Whatever I am doing presently, I am engrossed in and excited about. Whatever I am doing at that moment will almost always supersede whatever plans I made for the future.

This is because I live with the knowledge that the world is unpredictable, even if measuring time provides a

sense of structure to it.

So, maybe it isn’t so much that I believe there will always be time for whatever I’m enjoying doing, it’s that I believe I should focus on the present moments I am experiencing.

And in that sense, a chili recipe is just as important as anything else in my life.

But, I’m smart enough to realize this may just be an excuse I’m looking for to justify my perpetually late-existence.

So, my new year’s resolution this year is to have a better relationship with time. I’d like to get to know it better. I’d like to be more consistent with where I say I will be. And I’d like to

stop walking so awkwardly into lectures that have already started.

So, I’ve bought a nice planner off Amazon. I’ve programed alarms with obnoxious ringtones for all my daily events. I’ve set all my clocks 30 minutes ahead, believing it will balance out my time with yours.

I have a genuine belief this will work. I will not be late again.

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s the new year begins, I find myself in the same situation as last year, creating resolutions.

Though I end up ignoring the majority of these resolutions in the end, the idea of starting with a proverbial blank slate is too exciting to ignore.

An 2013 article in Forbes states that only eight percent of those who make resolutions for the new year actually keep them. I happen to think it could be even lower among busy college students.

W h e t h e r i t ’s t o l o s e weight, go to the rec more, get better grades or go out

Anna Holland is a senior electronic media & communications major from New Braunfels.

less, our resolutions tend to center on the hardest habits to break since they are so deeply connected to our personalities and lifestyles.

We often expect ourselves to be able to tailor our new lifestyle to our resolutions rather than be realistic and tailor our resolutions to ourselves.

If you are an introvert and a person with no athletic background it is possible the rec may

not fit with your passions and an alternate way of working out would be more successful.

If you are a STEM major or in a highly competitive field, it is possible that your grades will be difficult to raise as your classes just get harder in the coming year.

Going out less will only work and last if your entire friend group does so as well and if you find another outlet for your extroversion and college experience.

Lastly, losing weight can sometimes be a slow and grueling process depending on a person’s body type and medical history.

If someone thinks the new year will bring big changes, they may need to readjust their expectations. This is not to say resolutions are impossible to complete, it could just mean we are unrealistic goal setters.

Of course, we should always have resolutions that inspire us to work harder than before, but if we aren’t even aware of the best ways that we work, we fall short every time.

This year, instead of just making resolutions, I may start with a simple character analysis of myself.

List weaknesses and personality traits as well

as the parts of my lifestyle that are unchangeable.

I already know that I will find procrastination and a perfectionist attitude at the top, but how these two attributes coexist is beyond me. From this information, realistic problems can be found and resolved.

We are all very different people and if we expect to work out as much as a fitness blogger while taking 16 hours and working, we will give up and blame ourselves.

Every year, college students flock to overly priced grocery stores in the hope of living off of a perfect paleo, keto or vegan diet.

More often than not, we end up seeing the price tag at the end of the trip and slowly realizing that while health is important, a college student has a small budget.

So this year, my first resolution is to better understand myself as a busy college student and not fit my expectations to an outer world that I am at times very different than.

I hope to make changes that I can actually sustain in the new year, not ones that will require a bigger budget, complete schedule overhaul or personality change. @DailyToreador

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Icicles hung from a statue of jazz musicians in normally balmy New Orleans,

and drivers unaccustomed to ice spun their wheels across Atlanta, which was brought to a near-standstill by little more than an inch of snow. The beach in Biloxi, Mississippi, got a light coating. And the University of North Carolina

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The Texas Tech Horticulture Garden includes a variety of different perennials, shrubs, annuals and flowers. Benches and pathways can be found among the garden for visitors to relax and view the garden.

It may not look like much is going on in the horticulture gardens during winter, but inside, faculty and students are busy propagating, planting and potting in preparation for another growing season.

Certain plants, like pansies, are winter blooming.

When temperatures drop below 20 degrees, however, they can suffer, Jennifer Simek, the manager of the horticultural greenhouse and gardens, said. Strollers through the garden in January may notice plastic covering over several beds. This is done to protect the plants in frigid weather.

The plants that may not be as hardy in winter months are brought inside the greenhouse. Cuttings are also taken from several plants before the first freeze in October to propagate them inside the greenhouse, Simek said.

They will be ready to plant in the spring.

“A lot of the plants in the garden are perennials so they come back every year,” she said. “We let them die to the ground and then what we usually do during the winter break is go out when everyone’s gone and start cutting them back.”

Some plants have to wait for a totally hard freeze, as dead shoots can insulate the roots. If the dead shoots are still there in the spring, they can damage new shoots coming up, she said.

The greenhouse is almost full during winter months, but inside it’s business as usual. The plants receive less water during this time because there is not much sunlight. If the plant is not photosynthesizing, it does not need much water.

“From now until spring, the greenhouse is full and they’re getting the plants

ready to go back out in the garden,” Simek said.

Gardeners around town may not have access to a greenhouse, and if plants cannot be brought in, they can suffer frost damage due to the temperature fluctuations Lubbock experiences.

“They (the plants) don’t have a chance to go fully dormant for the winter so they’ll start going dormant, then we’ll have a warm day and they’ll kind of start growing again and then we’ll have another really hard freeze and it’ll damage the new growth,” Simek said. “In fact, if it happens enough times, it eventually kills the plant.”

There are a few ways to minimize potential damage, said Simek. Covering plants with plastic, tarp, or blankets can help, as well as watering before the cold sets in and fertilizing in warmer seasons. @RyannRael_DT

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The Knight Raiders place third, qualify for chess Final Four For the fifth year in a row and eighth time overall, the award-winning Knight Raiders, Texas Tech's chess team, has been positioned to compete in the Final Four.

The competition, called the President's Cup, will be held in New York City this year. The team secured its spot when it placed third at the 2017 Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship in Columbus, Ohio over winter break from Dec. 26-30, according to a Texas Tech news release. Tech finished in third place with

five points.

“It is very hard to qualify for the Final Four, considering that it is always decided in the final round, and just one serious mistake could destroy your chances,” Tech chess coach Alex Onischuk said in the release. “We entered the tournament as slight underdogs seeded No. 5 by rating and, despite very tough competition, we have made it to the Final Four for the fifth time in a row.”

Other competitors include students from colleges such as Harvard, Princeton,

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Rebecca Oldham, a graduate assistant from Starkville, Mississippi donated for the first time in 2008. She saw a blood drive going on and stopped to give without any other external motivation than an advertisement claiming that one unit can save three lives, she said. As she donated more she better understood the donating process and how good it feels to donate.

“However, other people who are regular donors at the center here in Lubbock are people who understand the critical use of blood donations,” Oldham said.

Lubbock United Blood Services Center sends Oldham and other donors texts informing them their blood unit is being used to save a life, she said.

Knowing at that very moment while you may be out doing other things you are saving someone’s life is what makes the process exciting for her.

“Most people have blood they can donate. You can save lives and it doesn’t cost anything” Oldham said.

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Transition and Engagement serves as the primary marketing outlet for United Blood Services, Teifa said. To effectively market the event, the organization looks over post-donation surveys that participants have filled out previously to create targeted advertisements that appear around campus.

Historically, most of the donors are freshmen living in the residence halls because advertising is heavy within the halls, Tiefa said.

College students make up a large population of the donations UBS receives in Lubbock because Tech organizations promote blood drives in highly trafficked areas on campus.

United Blood Services has found that 80 percent of its donations come from females, Pointer said. The organization also found that most participants in blood drives do so because they know of someone who has needed blood in the past.

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Penn State, University of Texas and more.

“Our Texas Tech chess program continues to demonstrate excellence with their latest achievement of qualifying for the national Final Four tournament,” Elizabeth Sharp, interim vice president for the Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, said in the release. “This marks the fifth consecutive time that the Texas Tech team earned a place at this highly competitive tournament. The Red Raider

community is proud of all their accomplishments and will be rooting them on to the championship.”

The team members of the Knight Raiders this year included International Grandmasters Andrii Baryshpolets, a doctoral economics student, Pavlo Vorontsov, a computer science major, both of Kyiv, Ukraine; International Grandmasters Sergey Matensko, a graduate interdisciplinary student from Chelybinsk, Russia, and Jack Shtembuliak, a

finance major from Odessa, Ukraine.

Tech also had an allfemale team compete this year, which was the only one in the nation. The team finished 42nd and consisted of Woman International Master Iryna Andrenko, a graduate horticulture science student from Simferopol, Ukraine; Woman Grandmaster Carla Heredia Serrano, a graduate sport management student from Quito, Ecudaor; Woman Candidate Master Claudia Munoz, a mathematics ma-

jor from Witchita Falls; and Opuriche “Ify” DuruohaIhemebiri, an accounting major from Lagos, Nigeria.

“All of our students have worked very hard throughout the semester preparing for this tournament, including completing a five-day camp right before the PanAmerican,” Onishuk said in the release. “I’m glad all our efforts paid off.”

The Final Four between March 30 and April 1 at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City. @VivienHockDT

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Red Raiders’ defense remains elite

By AUSTIN WATTS Sports Editor

Following its strong start in conference play, the Texas Tech Men’s basketball team has found a rhythm with its strong defense, which leads the Big 12 and ranks near the top of the league in several categories.

After a strong start, the Red Raiders defense leads the Big 12 in several categories and by a wide margin in most. The Red Raiders are only allowing 60.8 points per game, which is five points better than the second best defense in the conference, according to ESPN.com.

In the entire league, the Red Raiders field goal defense is sixth best out of 351 total teams, with their closest Big 12 rival coming in at 26th. The Red Raiders are only allowing a field goal defense percentage of .376 to their opponents, with Michigan State leading the entire league by allowing only a .349 field goal percentage to their opponents, according to NCAA.com.

“We just want to be a team that embraces defense, we go around recruiting and see these teams that have on the back of their shorts ‘defense wins’ and then I watch a two hour practice and they don’t work on defense one time,” Beard said.

“Defense to us is more than a t-shirt, a bracelet or something on our asses on our practice shorts. It’s something that we believe in, we think you have to be a team that defends, so we start the recruiting process we tell you if you play here you are going to be coached,” Beard said, “we have a staff put together where everyone has a defensive mind led by

Coach Adams, it’s just something we believe in.”

A major factor in Tech’s strong field goal defense is its perimeter defense, where Tech is allowing only .302 shooting from the outside, which is 19th best in the league. The Red Raiders have the only three-point defense in the Big 12 that ranks in the Top 50, according to NCAA.com.

“I think three point defense is important to everyone these days,” Beard said.

“It’s really changed the last few years in college basketball, basically the three point shot is a weapon for everybody these days, so you have to figure out how to stop it.”

Wi t h Te c h ’s d e f e n s e smothering opponent’s offenses, the Red Raiders have taken advantage and caused turnovers, which has resulted in their turnover margin of +4.2 turnovers per game, which is 13th best in the league, according to NCAA.com.

Offensively, Tech is putting up 79.6 points per game, which is 65th best in the league, which is allowing them to outscore opponents by nearly 20 points per game.

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LEFT: Senior Guard Justin Gray blocks a charge during the Texas Tech Men’s Basketball game against West Virginia in the United Supermarkets Area on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018 Texas Tech won 72-71. Based on statistics, Tech has one of the strongest defenses in college basketball.

RIGHT: Senior guard Justin Gray gets knocked down during the Texas Tech Men’s Basketball game against West Virginia in the United Supermarkets Area on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018. Texas Tech defeated the Mountaineers 72-71. The team’s defense ranks near the top of the Big 12 league in several categories. scorer in Young to a seasonlow five points in the first half against Oklahoma, according to Tech Athletics.

“I think a couple things with Niem, right off the bat he’s really embraced defense,” Beard said. “As you guys know, he usually guards the teams best offensive player, he starts off both halves with that role, he’s playing better defense than I’ve ever seen him play, and I think that’s gonna translate to Niem

being an even better pro than he would have been if he wouldn’t have done this defensive concentration.”

As a team, 10 of the 13 top defensive players in the Big 12, according to defensive rating, play for Texas Tech.

Odiase leads the conference in defensive rating, as the 6-foot-9 center has found his niche in defending the rim and out-rebounding opponents. Odiase has the third-best defensive rebound percentage in the Big 12,

with the center grabbing defensive rebounds on 25.3% of opponent’s possessions, according to foxsports.com.

“Coach Adams, he gives us the game plan, he’s kind of our defensive coordinator,” Odiase said. “We just try to figure out his game plan and bring it to every game and every practice. We know that it starts with our defense first, that’s how we win games and how we’ve been winning games.” @AustinWattsDT

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Tech’s scoring margin is sixth best in the league, with 18.8 points per game more than their opponents, according to NCAA.com.

With Tech having strong numbers in all of these categories, the result has been one of the top defenses in college basketball. While Tech’s offense ranks in the middle of the pack in the Big 12, its conference-best defense is keeping Tech at the top of the Big 12.

As a team, the Red Raiders have built a roster that excels defensively. Senior guard Keenan Evans and freshman guard Jarrett Culver ranked in the Top 15 in the Big 12 in steals, while senior forward Zach Smith, junior center Norense Odiase and freshman guard Zhaire Smith all rank in the Top 20 for blocks in the Big 12, according to foxsports.com.

While not a player that will dominate stat sheets, senior guard Niem Stevenson has stepped up as Tech’s best defensive guard, as he has faced tough opposition in West Virginia’s Jevon Carter and Oklahoma’s Trae Young, while holding the league’s top

Rival Koreas agree to form first unified Olympic team SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas agreed Wednesday to form their first unified Olympic team and have their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years during the opening ceremony of next month’s Winter

Olympics in South Korea, officials said.

The agreements still require approval from the International Olympic Committee. But they are the most prominent steps toward rapprochement achieved by the Koreas

since they recently began exploring cooperation during the Olympics following a year of heightened tension over the North’s nuclear weapons program.

During their third day of talks at the border in about a week, senior officials

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Red Raiders prepare for upcoming season

By AUSTIN WATTS Sports Editor

After coming in at No. 3 on the D1 preseason rankings, the Texas Tech men’s baseball team will prepare for the season start, with non-conference play kicking off next month.

The Red Raiders finished last season with a record of 45-17, which was the fifth most wins in a single season for Tech, according to Tech Athletics.

The Red Raiders will kick off their season with a series of games against the University of Maine, with all four games being hosted at the Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.

The opening game will be held at 2 p.m. on Feb. 16, followed by a double header on Saturday, Feb. 17, at noon and 4:00 p.m.

The Red Raiders will wrap up the four game series on Sunday, Feb. 18, at 1 p.m., according to Tech Athletics.

Following their games against Maine, Tech will host New Mexico State at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at Rip Griffin Park, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech will then travel to San Antonio for a trio of games against the University of Texas San Antonio, with games at 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24, and at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 25, according to Tech Athletics.

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LEFT: Texas Tech baseball plays New Mexico State on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. Tech won, 16-1. The Red Raiders finished the season with a record of 45-17.

RIGHT: Texas Tech pitcher Parker Mushinski throws to New Mexico during Tech’s home opener.

The Red Raiders will kick off their 2018 season with a series of games against the University of Maine starting on Friday, Feb. 16, with all four games being hosted at the Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.

To wrap up February, Tech will then head to Edinburg, Texas to face the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in a single game, with the game slated to begin at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 27, according to Tech Athletics.

As the red Raiders head into March, several games stick out on Tech’s schedule, including two series against conference opponents. To start the month, Tech will

face the University of South Alabama in a four-game contest at Rip Griffin Park.

The games will run from Mar. 2, to Mar. 4, with a double-header on Mar. 3, according to Tech Athletics.

Following their fourgame stretch against South Alabama, Tech will host the University of New Mexico at 6:30 p.m. on Mar. 7, at Rip Griffin Park, in a single-game contest, according to Tech Athletics.

After facing New Mexico, Tech will hit the road for their upcoming eight games. First, Tech will head to Kentucky to face the University of Kentucky in a three-game series, before heading to Louisville for a two-game series against the University of Louisville, before finally heading back to Texas for their first conference games of the season.

Tech will wrap up the eight-game road stretch in

Waco, as the Red Raiders take on the Baylor Bears in a three-game contest before heading back to Lubbock, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech’s next series will be a four-game contest against Northwestern University, which will run from Mar. 23, to Mar. 25. Tech will then head to New Mexico for a rematch against the University of New Mexico, before wrapping up March with a trio of games against West

Virginia at Rip Griffin Park, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech’s conference schedule will kick off heavily in April, with matches against Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma and Texas Christian University.

Tech will also face a few non-conference foes, with Dallas Baptist University, New Mexico State, New Mexico and Arkansas, according to Tech Athletics. @AustinWattsDT

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Bentley’s Barbara Stevens gets 1,000th coaching win WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Barbara Stevens of Division II Bentley became the fifth women’s basketball coach to reach 1,000 victories when her Falcons defeated Adelphi 78-66 in a Northeast-10 game Wednesday night.

Stevens (1,000-275) joined

North Carolina’s Sylvia Hatchell and Connecticut’s Geno Auriemma as coaches reaching the milestone this season — with both Hatchell and Auriemma getting there on the same night.

With 17.5 seconds left in the game, the student section began a “Bar-bara

Ste-vens chant.”

When the final buzzer sounded, one of the Bentley players dumped a Gatorade bucket — filled with paper — on the coach, and Stevens received a hug from Adelphi coach Missy Travesi.

Stevens was presented with a bouquet of flowers

and posed with her team for pictures at center court. All fans in attendance received a “Stevens 1000” t-shirt.

The Falcons (17-1) had to defeat a nemesis to get Stevens to her milestone on the first try, as Adelphi (9-10) coming in with four straight wins over Bentley.

Stevens called timeout with her team down 22-13 and the Falcons responded by outscoring the Panthers 27-9, closing the first half on a 14-0 run to establish control.

Up by nine at the half, the Falcons saw a 12-point lead shaved to five but then finished the third quarter

on a 9-1 run to lead by 13 after three.

The lead was 14 before Adelphi ran off seven straight points to cut its deficit in half with 3:39 remaining.

The Panthers would get no closer as the Falcons went on a 10-0 run to put the game away.

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Texas QB Buechele to have surgery on torn hip muscle AUSTIN (AP) — Texas quarterback Shane Buechele will undergo surgery for a torn muscle in his hip and abdomen area but should return in time for spring

practice in March.

Buechele was the fulltime starter as a freshman in 2016 then split starts with freshman Shane Ehlinger in 2017.

Buechele started the Longhorns’ win over Missouri in the Texas Bowl.

Buechele played only the first half of the Texas Bowl but didn’t play in the sec-

ond. Texas officials said he tore a hip abductor in the game but the injury wasn’t announced until Wednesday night. Surgery was scheduled for Thursday.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Raiders face tough conference schedule

By AUSTIN WATTS Sports Editor

After a solid start in conference play, the Texas Tech Men’s basketball team remains at the top of the Big 12 Conference standings, with a tough conference schedule remaining for the Red Raiders.

“This is college basketball in the Big 12, you have to be consistent. You can go back and look at the most disappointing teams this school has ever had, and there will be a couple of wins on each schedule,” Beard said.

“What separates the contenders from the guys that are one-hit wonders is consistency. I think our players will be the first to tell you too, so I really don’t worry about our guys peaking early or not respecting our opponent, that’s just not who we are,” Beard said.

The Red Raiders will travel to Iowa for their first game against Iowa State this season. Iowa State ranks at the bottom in conference play, but have an overall winning record. Beating the Cyclones will be important for the Red Raiders, with conference losses being costly to Tech’s standings.

After the road game against Iowa State, the Red Raiders will face Oklahoma State in Lubbock, as the Red Raiders look to remain undefeated at home.

Coming off their trio of conference games, the Red Raiders will play the last non-conference game of the regular season, as

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LEFT: Senior guard Keenan Evans moves to get the ball back in play during the Texas Tech men’s basketball game against West Virginia in the United Supermarkets Area on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018.

Texas Tech defeated the Mountaineers 72-71.

RIGHT: Freshman guard Zhaire Smith dunks the ball during the Tech men’s basketball game against West Virginia in the United Supermarkets Area on Saturday, Jan. 13. Tech defeated the Mountaineers, 72-71.

Tech takes on South Carolina in the 2018 Big 12/ SEC Challenge, according to Tech Athletics. South Carolina will present an unfamiliar challenge for the Red Raiders.

Following their out of conference game against South Carolina, the Red Raiders will wrap up January with a rematch against Texas at 8 p.m. on Jan. 31, in the United Supermarkets Arena, according to Tech Athletics.

Texas currently has the second best defense in the conference, and will present a challenge to Tech with Tech’s lack of depth

at the forward position.

As the Red Raiders h e a d i n t o F e b r u a r y, a plethora of tough games lay ahead, as Tech will face several AP Top 25 teams in rematches. The Red Raiders start the month with a road contest against TCU, followed by a home contest against Iowa State, according to Tech Athletics.

Next, the Red Raiders will take on Kansas State, who they beat earlier this season. Tech will then face their toughest rematch of the season, as the Red Raiders host Oklahoma on Feb. 13, in the United

Supermarkets Arena, according to Tech Athletics. Oklahoma is the only team to beat Tech this season, but the Red Raiders will hold an advantage at home.

After its rematch against Oklahoma, Tech will face a pair of road games as they face Baylor followed by Oklahoma State. Tech will then host Kansas at home, who they beat on the road earlier this season for the first time in Tech’s history. Kansas has finished first or tied for first in the Big 12 conference for the last 14 seasons, and will be a

legitimate threat as conference play comes to close.

As February comes to a close, the Red Raiders will face their toughest road contest left on the schedule, as they head to Morgantown to face West Virginia once again, who they defeated by a lone point at home, according to Tech Athletics.

West Virginia has one of the most experienced and well-balanced rosters in the conference, and will provide a major challenge as the Red Raiders wrap up the regular season.

To wrap up the regular season, the Red Raiders

will host TCU, which will be Tech’s last challenge before the Big 12 Tournament.

With a tough schedule to finish up the season, the Red Raiders will have to keep winning, especially if Tech plans to make a splash in the Big 12 Tournament.

“We really realize that we haven’t done anything yet,” Beard said. “We’re just trying to win the next game on our schedule, we’re just trying to get better, we’re trying to put ourselves in a situation where we can play some meaningful games in late February and March.” @AustinWattsDT

AP

Cole excited to join Verlander, Keuchel on Astros staff HOUSTON (AP) — Gerrit Cole is joining a rotation filled with aces.

“I was just tremendously excited,” Cole said Wednesday, four days after the Houston Astros acquired him from the Pittsburgh Pirates. “I was out with some friends having a good time for my wife’s birthday weekend. So, it was a really good phone call. How you can ask for anything more than coming to the World Series champions.”

Wearing a No. 45 uniform, the 27-year-old righthander was introduced at Minute Maid Park. He was obtained for righthanded reliever Michael Feliz, right-hander Joe Musgrove, infielder Colin Moran and outfield prospect Jason Martin.

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Nationalists allowed to join German parliament’s soccer team BERLIN (AP) — A soccer team of German lawmakers has agreed to let several recently elected members of a nationalist party join its squad.

Members of FC Bundestag, the German parl i a m e n t ’s r e c r e a t i o n a l team, voted unanimously Wednesday to approve the applications of three lawmakers from the Alternative for Germany party.

German news agency dpa reports that one nationalist lawmaker ’s request was rejected, while another’s was put on hold.

The lawmaker who was rejected, Sebastian Muenzenmaier, was convicted last year of helping fans of German club Kaiserslautern attack supporters of rival team Mainz.

Muenzenmaier has appealed the verdict.