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Interim president begins tenure Friday John Opperman will take over as the interim president for Texas Tech on Friday after M. Duane Nellis’ resignation is effective beginning at 5 p.m.

Nellis resigned on Jan. 8 in order to pursue other leadership options in his career, according to an email he sent

to students, faculty and staff. Nellis has been at Tech for two and a half years.

OPPERMAN On Jan. 14, the Board of Regents

named John Opperman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, as the interim president. He has worked in higher education for two decades.

According to an email sent to faculty and staff, Tim Lancaster, regent and president and CEO of Hendrick Health

System, will lead a committee in charge of finding a new president.

NELLIS “Ruthie and I have truly appreciated

the last two and a half years at Texas Tech University and being part of the Red Raider family,” Nellis said in the email. “We have also appreciated the opportunity to have worked with so many of you to advance this excellent institution to new

levels of success.”

Nellis will continue as a tenured professor in the Honors College, according to a Tech news release. He will also help Chancellor Robert Duncan develop the Honors College. @KristenBartonDT

NATIONAL

Fundraiser started for family of Braden Joplin Texas Tech student died Tuesday while volunteering for campaign in Iowa

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Braden Joplin, right, shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson. Joplin, a Texas Tech student, died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a car crash while volunteering for Carson’s campaign in Iowa.

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A fellow supporter of Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson started a GoFundMe page for the family of Texas Tech student Braden Joplin, already raising more than $12,000 as of

press time.

Joplin died around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday after a car accident in Iowa while the 25-year-old was campaigning for Carson, according to a statement from the Carson campaign.

As of 8 p.m. Wednesday, more than 270 people have

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The Texas Tech flag was lowered Wednesday in memory of Braden Joplin, a student who died in Iowa while campaigning for Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson. A GoFundMe page is more than halfway to its goal of $20,000 as of 8 p.m. Wednesday. donated to the fundraiser to cover medical and funeral expenses for the family, according to the page.

“Braden was special,” according to the page bio. “He had something special about him that made everyone like

him instantly. First, he never met a stranger. He was warm and welcoming to anyone he met. He had a way of talking

to people that made them feel comfortable right away.”

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Lady Raiders stumble on road at OU

James Taylor to perform in Lubbock

Coming off its first Big 12 Conference win of the season, the Texas Tech women’s basketball team lost 92-53 to No. 19 Oklahoma on Wednesday in Norman, Oklahoma.

Coach Candi Whitaker said Oklahoma simply outplayed Tech.

“You have to give Oklahoma credit,” she said in a Tech Athletics news release. “They played well, they shot the ball extremely well and played with a lot of energy. They really beat us in every aspect.”

The Sooners went on a 20-0 run from the first to second quarter to take a 32-6 lead.

They never lost the lead from that point on. The Lady Raiders cut the lead down to 17 points, but never got closer than that, according to the release.

The 92 points allowed were the most since allowing 92 in January of 2014, according to the release.

Tech also struggled to protect the ball as they had 20 turnovers, compared to 10 turnovers for Oklahoma.

Junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor highlighted the team’s offense with 20 points on eight of eight shooting from the freethrow line.

“I liked Ivonne today,” Whitaker said in the release. “I liked her voice. She was

James Taylor and his AllStar Band will kick off their U.S. Tour on April 13 in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Taylor has been performing for more than 40 years, according to an arena news release, and he has sold more than 100 million albums during his career.

Taylor has won awards for many of his singles, including “Sweet Baby James” in 1970 and “October Road” in 2002, according to the release, and he has won five Grammy awards.

Taylor released his most recent album “Before This World” in 2015, according to the release, and it de-

buted on the Billboard 200 at No. 1 and is nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy awards.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Jan. 29, according to the release, and can be bought through Select-ASeat Lubbock. @JenRomeroDT

SPORTS

Mahomes decides not to play baseball FILE PHOTO/The Daily Toreador

Texas Tech center Ionna McKenzie fights for the ball on Nov. 21, 2015 in the United Supermarkets Arena against Southeastern Louisiana. constantly talking, whether she was on the floor or on the bench. I thought she stepped up and made some plays for us.” @JeremyK_DT

After playing both football and baseball during his freshman year, Texas Tech sophomore quarterback Patrick Mahomes II has decided not to be a part of the baseball team this season.

Mahomes will focus solely on football spring practices, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

“Moving forward, after

speaking with my family following the bowl game, I feel it is in my best interest to concentrate solely on football and academics this spring,” Mahomes said in the release.

“I know great things await the baseball program this season and I will be rooting them on every chance I get.”

Mahomes made two appearances at the plate and

one pitching appearance for the baseball team last season, according to the Tech Athletics website.

This football season, Mahomes took over the starting quarterback position and became the 13th quarterback in FBS history to record more than 5,000 offensive yards.

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SGA president discusses campus carry On Aug. 1, campus carry will take effect at Texas public universities. Texas Tech has created a task force that will send recommendations to the president.

Holton Westbrook, Student Government president, represents students on the campus carry task force.

Westbrook said there is a difference between campus carry and open carry of which students should be aware.

“The main difference we have to realize is that, number one, open carry is where your WESTBROOK gun can be revealed like on your hip or wherever you may hold it.

It can be revealed in a restaurant, a grocery store or a gas station,” he said. “You can carry it around in the community across Texas.”

This will not be the policy on campus, Westbrook said. Campus carry will be concealed.

This means if someone is carrying a gun on campus, it cannot be visible, he said.

“That includes a gun bulge under a jacket or shirt, it has to be completely concealed,” Westbrook said.

“You have to hide it the second you step onto campus, and it cannot be seen by any citizen or student, faculty

or staff.”

When someone carrying a gun steps off campus, such as on 19th street or University Avenue, the Texas law automatically applies, he said. So a licensed gun can be carried openly in the community.

The committee has discussed some areas guns will not be allowed at all on campus, Westbrook said.

These are places that are widely accepted across the

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Police investigate stolen bikes Wednesday 12:52 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a theft at Talkington Residence Hall.

A secured bicycle and lock were taken.

1:12 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at Holden Hall. A secured bicycle and lock were taken.

4:25 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at Gordon Residence Hall.

A secured bicycle and lock were taken.

7:37 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license after an observed traffic violation in the 1500 block of Flint Avenue. The

non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

7:57 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for drunken driving after an observed traffic violation in the 1200 block of Indiana Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

8 : 0 8 p . m . — A Te c h officer documented a request for medical services at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. A student dislocated his or her knee and was transported to University Medical Center by Emergency Medical Services.

11:16 p.m. — A T e c h

officer charged and released five students for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in Gates Residence Hall.

12:07 a.m. — A T e c h officer issued two students Lubbock County citations for possession of alcohol by a minor at the Z4-R parking lot. Both students signed the citations and were released.

1:58 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to damaged property in Clement Residence Hall. A wet-floor sign was damaged.

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by B.J. Watson of the Tech Police Department.

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‘Affluenza’ teen to return to Texas FORT WORTH (AP) — A teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck will return to Texas from Mexico within weeks, and his case will likely be transferred from the juvenile to the adult system, his attorneys said in a statement Wednesday.

Ethan Couch has been challenging his deportation, but paperwork was filed to “terminate the ongoing immigration proceedings,” attorneys Scott Brown and Reagan Wynn said in the statement.

A Mexican federal judicial official told The Associated Press that Couch’s attorney in Mexico filed a document

on Sunday seeking to lift the injunction that has kept the 18-year-old in that country.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak on the matter publicly.

Authorities allege Couch and his mom crossed into Mexico in December, as Texas prosecutors investigated whether Couch violated his probation after an online video surfaced that appeared to show him at a party where people were drinking.

Couch was given 10 years’ probation for the 2013 drunken-driving wreck that killed four, and the terms of the probation prohibit him from

drinking. The case was handled in juvenile court.

Couch is expected to attend a hearing Feb. 19 on whether to transfer his case to the adult system, which his attorneys anticipate will occur when he turns 19 in April.

“It’s not a foregone conclusion that this will happen, but we certainly hope it does,” said Tarrant County district attorney spokeswoman Samantha Jordan.

He would then finish out his 10-year probation under the supervision of an adult court. If he were to violate his probation, he could face up to 10 years in prison per death.

state and will, hopefully, be widely accepted across campus, he said.

Some of the places include athletic facilities, health care facilities and anywhere with counseling services, he said. Health facilities do not allow open or concealed carry across the state.

“Being aware of this process as we move forward and being educated on it as we head into the summer

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Money donated through GoFundMe will go to Joplin’s family, according to the page, and his brother, Bailey Joplin, will be in charge of withdrawing funds.

None of the funds donated will go to the Carson campaign or to a political action committee, according to the page. The page has a listed goal of $20,000.

Carson resumes his campaign today after taking two days off the campaign trail because of Joplin’s death, according to Carson’s Facebook page.

“With a heavy heart, I will resume my campaign (today),” according to the Facebook page. “I do so filled with the inspiration of Braden’s life story. He poured his heart into this campaign knowing this election is about something bigger than ourselves — it’s about returning this country back into the hands of We the People and He who guides our path.”

The Carson campaign chartered a private jet to fly Joplin’s family from Lubbock to the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s trauma center in Omaha, Nebraska, where Joplin was taken Tuesday, according to The Des Moines Register. The family arrived at the hospital around 5 p.m., which was after Joplin’s death.

Joplin took the semester off from school to volunteer for Carson’s campaign, according to the GoFundMe page. He was

is important,” Westbrook said. “Whatever the Board of Regents and president deem worthy of having areas across campus allowing carry, (concealed handgun license) holders will be allowed to carry on campus.”

Students need to be educated and know where those areas are, Westbrook said.

They should be following the process and what the Board of Regents decides. @KristenBartonDT

an agricultural economics major from Midland.

The Tech flag was lowered at Memorial Circle on Wednesday in memory of Joplin.

Chris Cook, managing director of the Tech Office of Communications and Marketing, provided a statement from the university.

“The loss of life, especially one of our own, is always tragic,” according to the statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Braden during this difficult time.”

According to the Iowa State Patrol crash report, a campaign van hit ice and flipped onto its side near Atlantic, Iowa. Another vehicle then hit the van carrying three campaign volunteers and one campaign employee, including Joplin.

The other campaign workers involved in the Iowa accident were treated and released from the hospital Wednesday, according to Carson’s statement.

Joplin joined Carson’s campaign in early January, according to The Des Moines Register.

“One of the precious few joys of campaigning is the privilege of meeting bright young men and women who are so enthusiastic about their country that they will freely give of their time and energy to work on its behalf,” Carson’s statement reads. “America lost one of those bright young men today. I had the privilege of knowing Braden Joplin personally, and am filled with a deep and profound sadness at his passing.” @DailyToreador

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Texas executes its first inmate of 2016 after late appeals HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A Texas man put to death Wednesday for a killing 15

years ago became the state’s first prisoner executed in 2016.

Richard Masterson, 43, was pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m. after a lethal injection in the nation’s busiest death penalty state. Texas carried out

13 lethal injections in 2015, accounting for nearly half of the 28 executions nationwide.

Masterson had claimed the January 2001 strangulation of Darin Shane Honeycutt was accidental and had

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several appeals before the courts, including at four with the U.S. Supreme Court. His last-day efforts to stop his execution were rejected.

He had testified at his trial that the death of the 35-yearold Honeycutt in Houston happened accidentally during a chokehold that was part of a sex act. The two had met at a bar and then went to Honeycutt’s apartment.

Honeycutt was an entertainer who performed dressed as a woman. Honeycutt’s stage name was Brandi Houston.

Court records showed Masterson confessed to police, told others about the killing and acknowledged Honeycutt was slain on purpose in a letter to the Texas attorney general in 2012.

“I meant to kill him,” Masterson wrote to thenAttorney General Greg Abbott, who is now the state’s governor. “It was no accident.”

Evidence showed Masterson stole Honeycutt’s car, dumped it in Georgia, and was arrested at a Florida mobile home park more than a week later with another stolen car. That car belonged to a Tampa, Florida, man who testified he was robbed

by Masterson but survived a similar sex episode where he was choked.

Masterson’s attorneys argued Honeycutt’s death was accidental or the result of a heart attack, that a Harris County medical examiner whose credentials have been questioned was wrong to tell jurors it was a strangulation, that Masterson’s earlier lawyers were deficient and that his prolonged drug use and then withdrawal while in jail contributed to his “suicide by confession” when he spoke to police and in the letter to Abbott.

Lawyers also contended trial jurors were given an incomplete instruction before their deliberations and that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Masterson his rights to due process and access to the courts by refusing their challenge to a new state law that keeps secret the identity of the provider of pentobarbital that Texas prison officials use for lethal injections.

State lawyers argued that Masterson’s attorneys offered no scientific evidence about Honeycutt’s death that hadn’t been previously raised and rejected, including by jurors at Masterson’s 2002 trial. Federal courts had no jurisdiction in the execution drug secrecy because it was a state matter, they contended.

Masterson had a long drug history and criminal record beginning at age 15.

Court documents showed he ignored advice from lawyers at his trial for the killing and insisted on telling jurors he met Honeycutt at a bar and they went to Honeycutt’s Houston apartment where Masterson said the chokehold was part of an autoerotic sex act.

Honeycutt’s body was found Jan. 27, 2001, after friends became worried when he failed to show up for work.

Masterson also told jurors he was a future danger — an element they had to agree with in order to decide a death sentence was appropriate.

Masterson’s case recently drew the attention of Pope Francis, who has reinforced the Catholic Church’s opposition to capital punishment.

At least eight other Texas death row inmates have executions scheduled for the coming months, including one set for next week.

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Texas convicted killer to be executed Palin joins Trump with endorsement HUNTSVILLE (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused to stop the execution Wednesday of a Texas inmate for a slaying 15 years ago that the man claimed was accidental.

Richard Masterson, 43, lost appeals before that high court, clearing the way for him to become the first inmate put to death this year in the nation’s busiest death penalty state, where 13 lethal injections in 2015 accounted for nearly half of the 28 executions nationwide.

Masterson was sentenced to death for the January 2001 strangulation of Darin Shane Honeycutt, 35, a female impersonator he’d

met at a bar. He testified at his Houston trial that Honeycutt’s death was the result of an accidental asphyxiation during sex and not an intentional murder.

Evidence showed Masterson stole Honeycutt’s car, dumped it in Georgia, and was arrested at a Florida mobile home park more than a week later with another stolen car.

That car belonged to a Tampa, Florida, man who testified that he was robbed

by Masterson but survived a similar sex episode where he was choked.

Four appeals on Masterson’s behalf were before the Supreme Court.

His attorneys argued that Honeycutt’s death was

accidental or the result of a heart attack, that a Harris County medical examiner whose credentials have been questioned was wrong to tell jurors it was a strangulation, that Masterson’s earlier lawyers were deficient for failing to discover that information and that his prolonged drug use and then withdrawal while in jail contributed to his “suicide by confession” when he spoke to police about the slaying.

“Mr. Masterson’s case presents a perfect storm of attorney incompetence and neglect combined with a severely mentally ill, suicidal defendant who did not kill anyone,” attorney Gregory Gardner said in a filing to the high court.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Conservative firebrand Sarah Palin joined Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Oklahoma Wednesday as part of her endorsement pledge in the increasingly intense race for the GOP nomination.

“Are you all ready to work to make America great again?” Palin asked a crowd of thousands packed into an arena at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, echoing Trump’s campaign mantra.

Palin, who was absent from Trump’s Wednesday morning event in Norwalk, Iowa, despite an expected appearance, rejoined the Trump campaign in Tulsa, warming up the crowd

ahead of the candidate’s speech. But Palin also struck a personal tone, alluding to problems her son and other returning military vets endure when returning to civilian life and suggesting that President Barack Obama’s lack of support for veterans was related.

“It’s kind of the elephant in the room,” she began, addressing her family’s struggle.

Palin’s oldest son, Track, was arrested earlier this week in a domestic violence case in which his girlfriend told police she was afraid he would shoot himself with a rifle. Track Palin was charged with assault, interfering with the report

of a domestic violence crime and possessing a weapon while intoxicated in connection with the incident at Palin’s home. Track Palin enlisted in the Army on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and spent a year deployed in Iraq.

“My son, like so many others, they come back a bit different, they come back hardened,” said Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee. “They come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military so sacrificially have given to this country. And that starts from the top.”

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Students should demand better education, not better amenities

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ven in the gray skies of winter, it is easy to see how beautiful the Texas Tech campus has become. The dairy barn has transformed from a dusty lot into an expansive courtyard. Urbanovsky Park has drastically improved, and the main entrance off Broadway and University Avenue looks better than ever.

H o w e v e r, w h i l e t h e campus amenities continue to improve, students must remember quality of education is the most vital key to the university’s success, and it is the students’ responsibility to hold the university to improving it.

Unlike campus amenities, a university’s quality of education is much harder to understand, as well as to compare to other universities. While I would love to know what other campuses are like, I have never taken classes at the University of Texas in Austin, and I

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

have never taken classes at Yale. Sure, I can see videos of their campuses and the amenities they offer, but I can never feel the differences in our campus communities nor understand the differences of professors.

In understanding the differences in education different campuses offer, it is useful to look at how colleges are rated and ranked. For example, in a U.S. News article titled, “How U.S. News Calculated the 2016 Best Colleges Rankings,” there are several indicators of a university’s quality of education, including student retention rate, faculty resources, financial resources, graduation rate

performance and assessment by administrators at peer institutions.

Among these indicators, the most important to U.S. News are a university’s undergraduate academic reputations (assessed via a survey given to the top academics of peer universities, according to the U.S. News articles), firstyear student retention, faculty resources (which includes classroom sizes and faculty salary), as well as the ACT scores and SAT scores of the university’s students. Other ranking services have slightly different formulas, but these general ranking criteria remain consistent.

As to how Tech is rated, U.S. News currently ranks Tech No. 168 in the National Universities Ranking, tied with the University of Central Florida. According to the a r t i c l e , Te c h h a s a 3 3 percent four-year graduation rate, and has a 22:1 student-to-faculty ratio.

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The article also states that 25 percent of classes have fewer than 20 students, 54.8 percent of classes contain between 20 and 49 students, and only 20.2 percent of classes have more than 50 students.

I suppose the importance of these rankings is arguable and the methods and weight of its ranking are subject to scrutiny.

However, the criterion in which it judges schools is useful in determining how Tech can improve.

For example, while Tech has 25 percent of classes consisting of fewer than 20 students, the University of Texas in Austin has 36.5 percent. According to a Chronicle of Higher Education report, Tech paid its professors in the 2014-15 school year an average of $115,965, while Texas A&M University at College Station averaged around $129,348 and the University of Texas at Austin averaged $140,877.

It is obvious how these

differences can affect the quality of education in a college campus. A higher-paying university will have a greater choice of professors, and smaller classrooms will increase students’ exposure to the professors.

Of course, it is unreasonable to assume Tech can afford to instantly increase professor salaries several thousand dollars to match the salaries of UT in Austin. Likewise, it is unreasonable to assume Tech can instantly hire enough faculties to lower the student-faculty ratio.

However, like the steady additions of campus amenities, students should hold the university accountable for gradually improving the faculty resources on campus. The Student Leisure Pool and increased Citibus accessibility on campus are two great amenities students have won our university, but it is also important we as students focus on the strengthening of academic quality.

While it is important for students to hold their administration accountable, we as students also have some responsibility for improving the campus environment. While Tech can build large amenities, only we can make the student community great on campus. Not only is a healthier student community incredibly fun, but also it is incredibly beneficial for Tech’s reputation and standing: fewer students may leave after the first year, and a healthier community would improve campus reputation.

The Tech administration is actively working toward the betterment of our campus, and as the semester begins, we as students should be aware of what quality of education our university gives us in relation to other colleges, and how we as students can help improve the university. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

Public breastfeeding Penn-Guzmán interview contains important unfairly stigmatized message, undermined by timid journalism ven though breastfeeding is as natural and sometimes necessary as any other bodily function, it has become quite clear that many people find breastfeeding in public very inappropriate and offensive. However, it isn’t frowned upon because of the amount of cleavage that is shown, but, according to the society we live in today, it’s because women’s breasts are being shown in the “wrong way.”

Scrolling through my Facebook I came across a video by vlogger Joey Salads entitled, “BreastFeeding in Public (Social Experiment)” and watched it to see if people were actually as fired up about this as I had been led to believe. In this YouTube video a woman would sit on a bench and take her breast out to feed her child while viewers would wait to see how people reacted.

Out of the people shown in the video, half of them had something very negative to say, calling the mom disgusting and telling her to go home. The other half were understanding and didn’t take offense to the mom feeding her baby at all.

I was surprised to see how offended some people would get, and even more surprised when they would approach the mom in such a rude way. In Sociology. about.com’s article, “Why Women Breastfeeding in Public is Taboo,” written by Nicki Lisa Cole, Cole addresses how a woman’s body has been sexualized over the years. Cole states, “from a sociological standpoint, this underlying notion tells us a lot about how people see and understand women and their breasts as sex objects.”

In another YouTube video, Salads goes into the sexuality of why people are uncomfortable with breastfeeding in public. The video is entitled “Sexy vs BreastFeeding in Public (Social Experiment).”

In this video there were two main characters, the same woman breastfeeding from before performing the same role and then another woman, a model, with an extremely low cut shirt showing off her breasts.

Cole’s idea of women being seen as sex objects can be backed up from this second video. At first the

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

model was seen sitting on a bench and no one confronted her about her exposed cleavage, and she didn’t seem to get any dirty looks or frowns. But once the two woman were sitting side by side people came up to the breastfeeding woman and would voice their complaints to her about her breasts being out.

At the end of this second video a man comes up to tell the mom that what she’s doing is disgusting and a third party, Joey Salads, asks the man why it’s so wrong. The man replies “because that’s hot,” while pointing at the model, “and that’s disgusting” while pointing at the mom. Salads then asks him “So that’s OK because it’s hot and this isn’t OK because it’s something natural?” and the other man agrees.

In CNN’s 2014 article, “Why are we still so squeamish about breastfeeding?” reporter Kelly Wallace interviews breastfeeding mother Raivon Lee to explain why the controversy exists. Lee comments, “many times you will see more ‘cleavage’ in the name of fashion than you ever would from a mom feeding her child.”

This proves some people in society don’t see breasts as the source of food, but as an accessory of a woman’s body to be worshipped, only as long as the breasts aren’t being used to actually feed the woman’s child.

A woman’s body isn’t meant to be objectified, including her breasts. If a woman has her breasts out to feed her child it isn’t wrong, even though that is what society is trying to lead people to believe. The message coming across is that if a woman is using her breasts to feed her child instead of attracting sexually positive attention, she is using them the wrong way, which is definitely the wrong message to be sending to society. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

e’s got one hell of a wristwatch.”

Interesting observation, Sean Penn. The he Sean Penn is referring to is Alfredo Guzmán, the son of Joaquin Guzmán — better known as El Chapo.

Having received the consent of Rolling Stone magazine, Penn pursued one of Mexico’s most powerful drug traffickers, Guzmán, with the persistence of a Nicholas Spark protagonist. And I’m sure that’s exactly the rosy perception with which he envisioned the world responding to his controversial article. Instead, we have overwhelmingly scrutinized Penn for his willingness to fraternize with a convicted drug lord. In the face of this criticism, Penn’s important message was lost: Guzmán, while criminal, is still only a man. The true problem does not lie solely with Guzmán, but is instead much larger and problematic.

However, Sean Penn did not make it hard for us to draw criticism against his article. Repeatedly throughout Penn’s report of the time he spent preparing and participating in getting close to Guzmán, he seems to slip into a sort of childlike admiration. Not admiring the blood spilled from countless executions or the gravity of Guzmán’s expansive drug empire, of course, but rather for his grace in the midst of it all — the grander of his operations and the precision

S I O U X C I T Y, I o w a (AP) — Bernie Sanders was halfway through his opening statement — a stern, 45-minute lecture on domestic policy leavened with a dash of political pep talk — when he realized the crowd had missed one of his rare attempts at humor.

“That was a joke!” he bellowed. Laughter briefly rippled through the audience as the Vermont senator returned to his statistic-rich pitch for increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and breaking up big Wall Street banks.

Sanders’ down-to-

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Penn does not attempt to conceal his wide-eyed observations with forced scrutiny. Instead, he admits Guzmán “does not initially strike (him) as the big bad wolf of lore.” In fact, Penn even lays out the struggle he grappled through when trying to search Guzmán for the “soullessness” that we all crave to find in such villains.

“Soullessness ... wasn’t it soullessness that I must perceive in him for myself to be perceived here as other than a Pollyanna? An apologist? I tried hard, folks. I really did. And reminded myself over and over of the incredible life loss, the devastation existing in all corners of the narco world,” Penn wrote in the article.

His whole article is starting to sound like an argument hoping to serve the purpose of illuminating the world’s perspective of Guzmán, to soften it and quell our fire of insatiable determination to bring Guzmán to justice. The assumption must have been made that pulling one man out of a treacherous and deeply seeded institution’s framework would somehow

With a government that is essentially facilitating a vicious network of domestic and international drug trade, it seems hard to believe Guzmán was ever even captured at all. Perhaps the issue even larger than that, though, is that Mexico is simultaneously destroyed and sustained by illicit drugs.

And that is, while rather unwarranted, the point Sean Penn tried to make by writing this explosive article: we cannot point all of our fingers at one man and expect his erasure to level this colossal industry. We cannot simplify something so nebulous down to being the result of a single man and his actions.

After watching the majority of the world cheer as Guzmán was captured, he found it to be, “an affirmation of the dumb-show of the demonization that has demanded such an extraordinary focus of assets towards the capture or killing of any one individual black hat.”

We are still fighting a War on Terror, long after the death of Osama Bin Laden. We will continue to fight a war on drugs long after Guzmán is good and gone. One person is not the problem, the problem is the system supporting it, which is quite a bit harder to defeat.

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cause it to crumble to the ground. Or cause it to slowly rot away, taking every other supportive, corrupt soul along with it.

However, we forget to notice that without demand for the “marijuana and poppy” Guzmán built his empire on, he would have remained an impoverished man in the middle of a corrupt country.

Granted, drugs do not sell themselves, but they do not buy themselves either.

And we might need to step further back on this issue and acknowledge the fact that the Mexican government has been essentially turning a blind eye as Guzmán and many others line the streets of their country with poison.

“Talking about politicians, I keep my opinion to myself.

They go do their thing and I do mine.” This was the response Penn recorded when Guzmán was asked about his “dynamic with the Mexican government.”

Sometime before that comment was made and before Mexican officials w a i v e d G u z m á n ’s m e n through a military checkpoint, Penn had recorded Guzmán’s son, Alfredo, assuring them of the discreteness of their meeting.

He offered the explanation, “that they have an inside man who provides notifications when the military’s high-altitude surveillance plane has been deployed.”

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business demeanor on the campaign trail belies the youthful enthusiasm that’s accompanied his unexpected rise in the Democratic race for president. With less than two weeks until voting begins, the 74-year-old socialist could win both Iowa and New Hampshire, a once unthinkable outcome in a primary campaign that was supposed to be tailormade for Hillary Clinton.

“Today the inevitable candidate doesn’t look quite so inevitable,” Sanders told voters who braved icy roads and single-digit temperatures to see him speak Tuesday morning in

Fort Dodge.

While Sanders first garnered attention for the overflow crowds he drew around the country last summer, he’s making more intimate appeals to voters in the final few days before Iowa’s Feb. 1 caucuses. On Tuesday, he slipped into a luxury bus (“You can walk around, it’s got comfortable seats,” he said of his new ride) for a day of smaller town hall meetings across central and northwest Iowa.

As voters filed into the events, a campaign soundtrack played a heavy rotation of songs touting revolution, a

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nod to Sanders’ call for a “political revolution” in America. Singer Tracy Chapman’s “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution” is a favorite, as is the band Flogging Molly’s “Revolution.”

Young people with nose rings, green and purple tinted hair, and an array of hoodies, filled the seats directly behind the candidate, though the rest of the audience skewed older. A campaign supporter in Carroll used a Robert Frost poem to introduce the senator, urging supporters to make sure Sanders’ road “less traveled” takes him to the White House.

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Local shelters house lost pets after blizzard

By MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

Following Winter Storm Goliath, which hit Lubbock and surrounding cities after Christmas, local animal shelters and rescue organizations received an astonishing amount of displaced pets.

Sallie Morris, co-founder of the Morris Safe House dog rescue, said she began getting calls concerning lost dogs after the blizzard hit.

“The first thing I asked them was, ‘Do you have a snow bank over your fence?’” she said. “That’s how the dogs are getting out.”

Goliath hit the south plains area from Dec. 26 through Dec. 28, according to the Weather Channel website, and Lubbock received 11.2 inches of snowfall during the three days.

Winds were blowing during the storm at speeds between 40 and 80 miles per hour, and snowdrifts of 10 feet were reported in some West Texas counties.

Many Lubbock residents who lost pets during the

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During Winter Storm Goliath, some Lubbock residents lost their pets and local shelters like the Morris Safe House fostered animals brought to them after the storm. The Morris Safe House has adoptable dogs that are fully vaccinated and have ID chips, including Spurs the Dachshund.

storm posted on Facebook pages such as Lost and Found Pets of Lubbock, TX, and some videos of owners being reunited with their pets through the page have gone viral.

Nearly a month after

Goliath, Morris still has a number of rescued dogs in the shelter’s possession, but she said she is not sure if they are the same displaced dogs from the blizzard.

“We get so many calls every day,” she said. “I’ve

turned down 17 dogs today that people have found walking down the street or dogs that have wandered into their garage. There are so many ways that these dogs are getting out, so I really don’t have a way of knowing if they were displaced by the storm. It is normal to get this many calls in a day.”

Morris gave advice to pet owners about how to prevent their pets from getting out if a storm like Goliath happens again. “(Your pets) just don’t need to be out in it,” Morris said. “They need to have protection, and watch to see if it builds up across the fences.”

The Morris Safe House is the only true no-kill shelter in Lubbock, and Morris said she wants to give each animal the chance to find a loving home — whether rescuing them off the streets or placing lost pets back into the arms of their loving owners.

While the Morris Safe House did shelter more lost pets after Goliath, the Lubbock Animal Services

did not see an influx of lost pets into its shelter following the blizzard.

Kia Riemath, assistant director of Lubbock Animal Services, said the goal of LAS is to prevent the spread of rabies, and picking up stray, sick or injured animals are courtesies they extend.

While LAS did not see an influx of displaced pets after the snowstorm in particular, they will perform certain procedures after taking in a dog or cat to either find the owner or determine whether the pet is a candidate for adoption.

“If a person brings an animal in, we get a lot of information: where it was found or where they live,” Riemath said. “We get the history of it and scan for a microchip to see if it has tags. Then we do an assessment to see whether it has any injuries and whether it is sociable.”

If the dog is identified to be someone’s pet, LAS holds the pet for a maximum of 10 days and does everything possible to find the owner.

If no one claims the dog

after 10 days, the dog legally belongs to Lubbock Animal Services, Riemath said, and if the pet passes the LAS assessment, it is then vetted and put out for adoption.

Jace Morsh, a kennel officer at LAS, helps take care of the animals.

“We make sure they are healthy getting them in from the public,” he said, “and for the ones that are too far gone, we are the ones that have to put them down.”

Morsh said his advice to pet owners is to keep their pets inside as much as possible.

“Keep them inside or keep them in a shelter outside that has at least four sides to it, according to the codes,” he said. “It must have four sides, food and water and some form of heat — whether it be a space heater or heat lamp.”

For Lubbock pet owners still missing pets after Goliath, they can contact local animal shelters or use online resources like Lost and Found Pets of Lubbock, TX. @MalBarnettDT

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Volunteer opportunities available for students

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Many students make their New Year ’s resolutions and plan to keep them during the whole year, but for some, when they get to campus, the resolutions are long forgotten.

According to Time Magazine, volunteering is one of the top 10 commonly broken resolutions. Through different programs in Lubbock, students can keep their volunteering resolutions throughout the spring semester.

Students are active in volunteering for different nonprofits during the year, CiCi Nunez, service coordinator for Volunteer Lubbock, said.

According to a news release from the Corporation for National and Community Service, 62.8 million adults volunteered through an organization last year in the U.S.

There is a spike of interest in volunteering when the holidays are over, Tiphanie Chanel, volunteer coordinator for Habitat for Humanity Lubbock, said.

There are many nonprofit organizations students can be involved with throughout the spring semester, Nunez said.

Habitat for Humanity Lubbock has many opportunities for students to volunteer, Chanel said.

Many students think the Habitat for Humanity is only involved with construction, she said, which is not the case.

“We have opportunities in our ReStore, which is sometimes overlooked,” Chanel said. “The proceeds from there go toward our building projects.”

ReStore is a project organized by Habitat that is dedicated to recycling new and used building materials, furniture and appliances, according to

the Habitat website, and volunteers are needed for donation pickups, pricing, cleaning, customer service, answering phone calls and light paperwork.

The Boys and Girls Club of Lubbock is also looking for student volunteers to interact with their kids, volunteer coordinator Julie Lackey said.

After a background check is completed, students can choose what activities they want to volunteer with, Lackey said. Activities include tutoring, playing sports in the gym or the Pitch, Hit and Run program.

“I like for the Tech kids to come in and share one of their activities and hobbies with the kids,” Lackey said.

It is important for the kids to have mentors who are good examples for them, she said.

“I believe that I see the need for these kids that don’t have the background

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or the blessings that other kids may have,” Lackey said. “There is a need for students to reach out to these kids.”

The Volunteer Center of Lubbock partners with many nonprofit organizations throughout the area, Nunez said. It recruits students through its website and through presentations

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Calls for boycott throw Oscars into turmoil NEW YORK (AP) — Growing calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over the lack of diversity among this year ’s Oscar nominees are forcing stars to choose sides and threatening to throw the movie industry’s biggest night of the year into turmoil.

The backlash over the second straight year of all-white acting nominees is also putting heavy pressure on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and

Sciences to diversify its overwhelmingly white male membership.

The furor grew on Tuesday when the Rev. Al Sharpton said he would lead a campaign encouraging people not to watch the Feb. 28 telecast. On Monday, Spike Lee, this year’s Oscar honoree for lifetime achievement, and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they will boycott the ceremony in protest.

Academy president

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who has led efforts to diversify the academy, responded late Monday evening with a forceful statement saying that those previous measures weren’t enough.

Isaacs, the academy’s first African American president, said that “it’s time for big changes” and that she will review membership recruiting to bring about “much-need diversity” in the academy’s ranks.

organizations they can join at Texas Tech as well.

“Our purpose at the Volunteer Center is to inspire a more engaged community by helping people find their purpose and act on it,” Nunez said. “We want everyone to know that when you are volunteering, you are making an impact.” @DavidGayDT

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Jamie Foxx rescues driver from vehicle THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx has played super villains and antiheroes on screen. The role of super hero he apparently saved for real life.

Foxx and the victim’s father, who met and talked Tuesday, said that Foxx and one other person pulled a man from his burning truck moments before it became engulfed in

Elena Sokolich, a freshman marketing major from Sugar Land, and Katherine Haley, a freshman political science major from Sugar Land, study a jeopardy question during the women’s history jeopardy game night.

The event was hosted by the Texas Tech Female Majority Leadership Alliance in honor of Raider Welcome Week on Wednesday night in the Student Union Building.

it gives in certain colleges.

“We try to develop relationships with different colleges on campus and different professors,” Nunez said. “We let different classes know how they can get involved.”

There are a variety of organizations for students to volunteer for, she said, and there are multiple service

flames near Foxx’s Southern California home.

The California Highway Patrol said the pickup went off the road in unincorporated Ventura County then went into a ditch, rolling over multiple times and becoming engulfed in flames with a male driver trapped inside.

Foxx said he heard the crash from his house, called 911, and ran to the scene.

He said another man, an off-duty paramedic who was driving by, had large EMT scissors that the two used to break the truck’s window, cut the man’s seatbelt and pull him out.

Foxx said “within five seconds” the truck went up in flames.

Foxx said he told the man, “You’ve got to help me get you out, because I don’t want to have to leave you.

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Felipe Soares prepares to return a powerful forehand during a long rally in his first singles match of the day against Arizona on Monday at McLeod Tennis Center.

By BRANDON SOLIZ SportS Editor

This past Friday, the then No. 17 Texas Tech men’s tennis team began its campaign for the 2016 season after seniors Felipe Soares and Hugo Dojas captured a national title in the Indoor National Championships on Nov. 15.

Up first for the Red Raiders was a matchup with the

Arizona Wildcats.

Tech took care of the Wildcats with a 5-0 victory after the final two matches finished simultaneously.

Sophomore Alex Sendegeya and his partner, freshman Bjorn Thomson, along with Dojas and Soares grabbed the first point for Tech with the doubles victory.

Junior Jolan Cailleau, sophomore Connor Curry, Thomson

and Dojas each claimed their matches to give Tech the win.

Following Tech’s match with Arizona was a game with the Pacific Tigers.

The Red Raiders showed struggle early on with a loss in the doubles matchups.

H o w e v e r, C u r r y a n d Thomson led the charge as Tech took a 2-1 lead over Pacific with wins in singles play.

Pacific then tied the game

at 2-2, but the Red Raiders went on to finish out two courts with victories.

Cailleau claimed point three for Tech after 7-5 and 6-0 victories. Soares struggled with his opponent but came out on top in set one with a 7-6 victory then put the match away with a 6-2 win in set two. The Red Raiders finished day one 2-0 and continued play on Saturday.

The Red Raiders picked up where they left off and recorded two more wins in their doubleheader on Saturday.

Tech began the day by clinching the doubles point after victories by Sendegeya and Thomson on court one and on court two with the duo of Cailleau and Curry.

Sendegeya and Cailleau continued bringing victories for the Red Raiders by winning their matches in singles play.

Freshman Augusto Stodart joined in on the action with a 6-3 and 6-2 win in two sets to clinch the match for the Red Raiders.

Later that day, Tech took on Pacific and began with a win by Thomson.

Cailleau and Curry then claimed the next two points for Tech, but Stodart fell in

his match.

With the Tech lead at 3-1, Sendegeya forced set three after losing his first set and winning his second. He won the third set 6-1 and gave the Red Raiders the win.

On Monday, the team rounded out its four-day span of doubleheaders.

In singles, Tech easily clinched three courts by not allowing the Wildcats to surpass two games in all of the sets won.

Cailleau won his first set by a score of 6-2 and then pulled through and won his match with a final set score of 7-6.

Meanwhile on the opposite courts, New Mexico and Pacific played through the cold in the morning until two courts were deemed as unplayable and the match had to wait to be played.

The two matchups then resumed play when Tech and Arizona concluded, which resulted in an estimated 2-hour setback.

Tech and New Mexico began at approximately 4:00 p.m. once everything was cleared.

Tech began with a surge against New Mexico, with five out of the six courts having a Tech lead.

Soares claimed point number one for Tech after

he came back in set one after being down 4-1. Soares had five consecutive unanswered games on his way to a 6-4 victory in set one. He then won set two 6-3, giving Tech the 1-0 advantage.

Following Soares were two wins by two sophomores Curry and Sendegeya.

Curry won his contest 6-2 and 6-1, while Sendegeya won both sets 6-2.

Tech coach Brett Masi said he was impressed with the play of the younger guys on the lower courts.

“I think the bottom of our lineup, (courts) 4, 5 and 6 was just super consistent,” Masi said. “Bjorn, (Cailleau) and (Curry had) each match won in straight sets. I think that will be a strong suit of ours.”

Tech clinched its sixth victory on the young season with a 6-3 and 6-4 win by Thomson.

According to a Wednesday Tech Athletics news release, the Red Raiders moved up two spots to No. 15 in the nation.

The now No. 15 Red Raiders travel to Austin on Saturday to take part in the ITA Kick-Off Weekend where they look to improve their undefeated record by first taking on Ole Miss at 1 p.m. @BSoliz_DT

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Tech makes changes to coaching staff over break

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff WritEr

The Texas Tech coaching staff will have multiple new members for the upcoming offseason. The program dismissed three defensive coaches, the strength and conditioning coach and lost its running backs coach and outside receivers/special teams coach at the end of the 2015 season.

Coach Kliff Kingsbury filled some of the open positions over the winter break.

Kingsbury began with the hiring of Joe Robinson to take over special teams.

“We are extremely excited to add coach Robinson to our staff,” Kingsbury said in a Tech Athletics news release. “Every year, his special teams are among the best in the nation. He will provide invaluable expertise to not only our special teams but our overall team.”

Robinson has coached spe-

cial teams at South Carolina for the past four seasons.

During his time coaching the GamePATRICK cocks, his special teams units have ranked in the top 30 in the country in multiple categories.

He has also spent time coaching at North Carolina, Louisiana State, Arizona, Central Florida, Houston, Louisiana Tech and Southern Mississippi, according to the release.

In 2010, Robinson was named the Special Teams Coordinator of the Year while coaching at LSU. Tech also promoted Emmett Jones from director of player development to an assistant offensive coach.

Before joining the Tech program in February 2015, Jones had been coaching various Dallas-area high schools.

Kingsbury said Jones

will be a valuable part of the coaching staff in his new position.

“Coach Jones is an ROBINSON extremely hardworking individual and already an integral part of our staff,” he said in the release.

“He will be a great addition to our offensive unit and the relationships he’s built around the state will be invaluable moving forward.”

Kingsbury then hired Rusty Whitt as the new strength and conditioning coach, according to the Lafayette Advertiser. Chad Dennis had worked as the strength and conditioning coach for the previous three seasons but resigned over the break.

Whitt has worked in a similar coaching position at Louisiana-Lafayette since 2010. Before his time as a Ragin’ Cajun, Whitt served in the United States Army Special

Forces from 2003 to 2009, according to the LouisianaLafayette Athletics website.

He received WHITT multiple medals for his service.

In 2013, Whitt was named the most intimidating strength and conditioning coach in America by lostletterman.com.

Whitt has also spent time coaching at Rice, Midwestern State and Texas.

Tech filled its opening at defensive line with the hiring with Kevin Patrick, according to his Twitter account. On January 12, Patrick tweeted “#GunsUp” after being hired.

Patrick was an All-American defensive lineman at Miami from 1989 to 1993. He won two National Championships during his collegiate career.

According to the Miami Athletics website, Patrick graduated with 174 tackles and 23 sacks, which is the fifth

most in school history.

Patrick coached the defensive line at North Texas for the last two seasons. In 2014, his defensive line recorded 33 sacks, which is the fifth most in program history, according to the UNT Athletics website.

Before UNT, Patrick coached at USF for six seasons and produced numerous NFL draft picks.

The final hire for Kingsbury was Jabbar Juluke as the running backs coach, according to his Twitter account and a Tech Athletics news release.

Mike Jinks was the previous running backs coach but was hired as the Bowling Green head coach.

“We are extremely excited to add both Coach Patrick and Coach Juluke to our staff,” Kingsbury said in the release.

“Coach Patrick has coached and developed some of the best defensive linemen in college football. He brings a wealth of experience and will be a great addition to our program. With

Coach Juluke’s recruiting ties, energy and coaching experience, he is also a valuable addition to our program.”

Juluke has worked as the running backs coach at Louisiana Tech for the last three seasons.

Last season, his running backs gained 2,075 yards on the ground and scored 27 times, according to the Louisiana Tech Athletics website, the fifth-most rushing touchdowns in program history. The Bulldogs also topped 2,000 rushing yards in 2014 and more than 1,900 in Juluke’s first season at Louisiana Tech.

Juluke also coached in three consecutive high school state championships with Edna Karr High School and won seven district titles, according to the website.

Kingsbury is still expected to make at least one more hire as the Red Raiders still do not have a secondary coach after dismissing Kevin Curtis. @JeremyK_DT

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Athletic Training Center bubble collapses On New Year’s Eve, the roof of the Texas Tech Athletic Training Center collapsed because of the near 12 inches of snow Lubbock received throughout the week. No injuries were reported from the incident.

Tech Athletics Director Kirby Hocutt released a statement regarding the deflation of what is known as “the bubble”.

“Our foremost concern is the safety of our student athletes and staff who utilize the facility,” Hocutt said. “We will conduct a structural study to explore the extent of the damage

and then decide on the feasibility of repairing it.”

In the release, Tech officials said that a large tear on the south side of the roof caused the collapse.

Before the collapse, the Athletic Training Center was already scheduled to be torn down and replaced by a new Sports Performance Center, an indoor complex with a football practice field and a new indoor track.

Tech was scheduled to host three indoor meets along with high school meets in the facility, but Tech track coach Wes Kittley said in a release that those meets have been cancelled.

Tech traveled to Fayetteville, Arkansas, for its first meet of the season on Jan. 15, which was added to make up for the canceled meets.

Along with the Arkansas Invitational, Tech added the New Mexico Team Invitational to the schedule, which takes place on Jan. 30.

“Most importantly, we are thankful there were no injuries after the deflation of the roof of the Athletic Training Center,” Kittley said in the release. “The ATC has been a fantastic facility for our program and we are disappointed we will not be able to host meets this indoor season.

At the same time, we are excited for what lies ahead for our program, not only this season, but also with the Sports Performance Center and returning to host events in the future.”

Construction on the new Sports Performance Center is set to begin some time

this spring.

The facility will feature a 200-meter indoor track with seating for more than 2,000 people. Also to be featured is a new indoor football practice field.

The center will house a strength and conditioning center, a sports and nutrition center and new equipment facilities within the entire center, according to a previous Tech Athletics release.

Tech also said in the release it looks to continue to add more local high school track meets once the Sports Performance Center is completed, as well as hosting championshiplevel NCAA track meets such as the Indoor Track and Field Big 12 Conference Championships.

MAHOMES

“I am extremely grateful for the great opportunity that (Tech baseball) coach (Tim) Tadlock and his staff provided me,” he said in the release. “Not many college athletes have the privilege to play multiple sports at this level, so I’d like to thank coach Tadlock, his staff as well as my teammates on the baseball team for allowing

me that opportunity.”

Tadlock said he wanted Mahomes to make the best decision that was best for himself.

“When you have been a two- or three-sport guy your whole life, it is not easy to give one up,” Tadlock said in the release. “We will do everything possible to continue to help him develop the best we can.”

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 He also finished with 36 passing touchdowns and 10 rushing touchdowns en route to earning All-Big 12 Conference honorable mention.

Mahomes said he is thankful for the opportunity to work with the baseball program last spring.

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Team misses chances for upsets

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

An 85-70 win against Richmond closed out the Texas Tech men’s basketball non-conference portion with a 10-1 record, with its sole loss coming against a then ranked No. 16 Utah Utes team. During the break, the Red Raiders won two of their six Big 12 games. Here’s a recap of Tech’s journey so far in the Big 12.

Texas: Jan. 2 To open the Big 12, the Red Raiders defeated the Texas Longhorns 82-74 at home. A strong defensive first half by the Red Raiders kept the Longhorns shooting percentage to just 28.6 percent to finish the opening 20 minutes with a 35-24 lead. Texas reduced the Red Raiders’ lead to as few as six points at 67-61 with 4:11 remaining, but several trips to the line combined with perfect 10-10 shooting kept the game out of reach for the Longhorns.

Although junior guard Isaiah Taylor dazzled with 35 points, only one other Texas starting player finished with double digits.

Of Tech’s starting five, four finished with doubledigit scoring with senior guard Devaugntah Williams leading the team with 23 points.

Iowa State: Jan. 6 A 76-69 loss to a then ranked No. 13 Iowa State team snapped a 10-game winning streak for the Red Raiders in their first Big 12 road game in the Hilton Coliseum. Tech led the game for only a few seconds as the Cyclones controlled the first half and led by as many as 18 points. A 7-2 run by the Red Raiders opened the second half and a jumper by Williams brought Tech within two at 52-50 with nearly nine minutes left in the game.

Iowa State, however, forced a 9-2 run to prevent Tech from taking the lead.

Tech outscored the Cy clones 8-2 following Iowa State’s run, but Iowa State allowed just two more field goals in the closing minutes. Sophomore guard Justin Gray led the Red Raiders in scoring with 14 points and in rebounds with nine.

Kansas: Jan. 9 In its third game against a ranked opponent, the then No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks ended the Red Raiders’ eight-game winning streak at home with a 6959 win. Kansas and the Red Raiders played a nearly evenly matched game as the lead changed six times.

Outside shots late in the game kept the Jayhawks ahead of Tech after gaining

a 46-44 lead with almost 10 minutes left in the game.

Although Tech forced 15 Jayhawk turnovers, Kansas controlled the boards with 42 rebounds compared to Tech’s 26 and made nine 3-pointers compared to Tech’s four. Sophomore guard Norense Odiase finished the game as the leading scorer with 14 points.

Kansas State: Jan. 12 Te c h l o s t i t s t h i r d straight Big 12 matchup against Kansas State 83-70 on the road game in Fred Bramlage Coliseum. Tech’s 13-point loss marked its largest loss margin of the season. A 16-5 run in the first half set the Red Raiders behind 39-22 with 5:05 left in the half. At the end of the first, Tech trailed 4731. Tech reduced its deficit to 57-52 with a layup from sophomore guard Keenan Evans but the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run to lead 70-54 with 7:30 left.

Following the layup by Evans and Kansas State’s offensive run, Tech had a double-digit deficit for the remainder of the game.

Gray finished with 23 points to lead the Tech offense in scoring while junior forward Aaron Ross followed with 11.

Baylor: Jan. 16 Tech nearly ended its three-game losing streak and picked up its first win

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Texas Tech guard Toddrick Gotcher dribbles around Kansas guard Devonte’ Graham during the second half of Tech’s 69-59 loss to the Jayhawks on Jan. 9 in the United Supermarkets Arena. over a ranked opponent, but a last-second shot at the top of the key from senior guard Lester Medford gave the then No. 22 Baylor Bears a 63-60 win in Tech’s home court.

The Red Raider defense played well throughout the game, but an open Medford shaved all 24 remaining seconds off the play clock and then drained his only 3-pointer of the game. Tech defensively outrebounded and recorded more assists

than Baylor, which led the Big 12 in both categories heading into the game, according to a Big 12 news release. Williams finished the game as Tech’s top scorer with 16 points.

TCU: Jan. 18 The Red Raiders’ fourgame losing streak came to an end with a 83-70 win over the Texas Christian Horned Frogs on the road in Ed & Rae Schollmaier Arena. Tech’s bench lifted the Red Raiders past

TCU, scoring 48 of the team’s 83 points.

Sophomore guard Norense Odiase left the first half of the game with an apparent foot injury. In his place, junior forward Aaron Ross and junior walk-on forward Matt Temple recorded minutes versus TCU. Temple scored eight points and brought in four rebounds, and Ross led Tech in scoring with 16 points and hauled in four rebounds. @DGaytanDT

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Raiders begin losing streak during break

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

During the Texas Tech winter break, the women’s basketball team played 11 games and finished with a 4-7 record.

The Lady Raiders overall record is now 10-7, but their 1-5 Big 12 Conference record puts them in ninth place in the conference.

The winter break began with a 75-70 loss to Santa Clara.

The Lady Raiders were down by double digits in the first half but made multiple runs in the second half. Santa Clara’s 60 percent shooting from long-range proved to be too much to overcome as Tech fell by five points.

Tech responded two days later with a 70-55 victory over Incarnate Word for its sixth straight home win.

With two minutes left in the third quarter, the Lady Raiders lead was cut to 40-38. They then went on a 13-0 run, according to a Tech Athletics news release, and put the game out of reach.

Tech head coach Candi Whitaker said in the release that her team did not play hard enough for a majority of the game.

“Obviously I want to win every game and I care if we win, but I also care how we play,” she said. “The energy we play with, the effort we play with, execution and that we’re playing and

doing things the way we are taught. I definitely did not see that tonight.”

Junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor led the team with 20 points and nine rebounds.

After the winter break, she is the team’s leading scoring and eighth best scorer in the Big 12 with 14.2 points per game, according to the conference website.

The Lady Raiders improved to 7-0 at home with another 70-55 win against Grambling State.

Once again, the victory was fueled by a long run from the Tech offense. In the second quarter, Grambling State was held scoreless for almost the entire period while the Lady Raiders went on a 17-0 run, the longest run of the season according to the release.

Freshman guard Japreece Dean scored a team-high 20 points on eight of 13 shooting.

It marked her second 20-point game of the season, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Because of Dean’s strong offensive performance, she was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week.

“They were pressuring me a lot,” Dean said in the release. “So that just allowed me to go by.”

In the final non-conference game of the season, Tech defeated Arkansas-Pine Bluff 84-40 to finish with a 9-2

nonconference record.

Sophomore forward Brielle Blaire scored a career-high 19 points on eight of 10 shooting, including two made 3-pointers.

“The main thing is just calming down and letting the game come to me, because before now I was rushing a lot of stuff,” she said in the release. “It was fun.”

After a 10-day break, the Lady Raiders had their threegame winning streak snapped in the Big 12 season opener against Texas Christian.

Tech was leading 54-39 in the third period but the Horned Frogs went on a 30-5 run to build a 69-59 lead late in the fourth quarter, according to the release. Their lead was then cut down to three with less than a minute to go, but Tech could not overcome it in the 79-69 loss.

Dean hit three shots from behind the arc to score 22 points.

Whitaker said her team was close to a victory, but missed makeable shots down the stretch.

“We got a pretty good lead and then missed a lot of easy shots around the rim,” Whitaker said in the release. “We weren’t able to convert and then fell apart in transition defense, and TCU was making layup after layup.”

Next, Tech lost to Texas in Austin 86-62. Dean led the team in scoring with 21 points and won Big 12 Freshman of the

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Back in Lubbock, Oklahoma State scored 43 points in the second half to defeat Tech 69-46. The Lady Raiders were held to less than 33 percent shooting for the game, according to the release.

CookTaylor’s 20 points were not enough in the following game as Tech was defeated by West Virginia 79-57. The offense struggled again as the team was held to 32 percent shooting.

TCU got revenge in the next game as they pushed Tech’s losing streak to five games with a 69-48 victory.

The game marked the second time this season the Lady Raiders were kept to less than 50 points, according to the release.

“I felt like we were getting good looks at times,” Whitaker said in the release. “But we just couldn’t get them to go.”

On Sunday, the Lady Raiders got their first Big 12 win of the season with a 69-66 overtime win over Iowa State.

CookTaylor would not be denied as she led the team in overtime and finished the game with 21 points and 12 rebounds, her second doubledouble of the season.

The game marked the first time all season the team won a game decided by five points or less, according to the release.

After the game, Dean won

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