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By TOMMY MAGELSSEN NEWS EDITOR

Carol Edwards, dean of visual and performing arts at Texas Tech, said she is unsure of where the Tech dance department will conduct its studio classes during the summer and fall semesters.

On Jan. 20, the Tech Board of Regents had an impromptu meeting discussing the lack of oncampus housing for students. The board approved a new residence hall, dining facility and parking lot to be built on the corner of 19th Street and Boston Avenue — which requires the demolition of the exercise sports science building in May. Dance and ESS classes will be moved to the

vacant PrinTech building.

The PrinTech building will need close to $6 million in renovations, with the regents approving a 10,000 square-foot addition to the building and the construction of a multipurpose dance studio.

Edwards said it is her job to provide information about dance classes and the state of them, but she did not know where the classes would take place when the ESS building is demolished.

She said she trusts that other people who have the best interest of the dance program in mind are looking for appropriate spaces for the classes.

Fred Christoffel, department chairperson, said certain regulations must be followed, including the height of ceilings many of the classes require and

the amount of space required per student. He said inconvenient to her because it will be harder to he imagines the number of appropriate classrooms schedule classes because of commute time. on campus would be limited.

Edwards said having classes off campus is “improbable” but In the meantime, some dance students expressed reservation not impossible. about the lack of a place to hold Katie Cowley, a junior dance major from Perryton, said she dance classes.

Sarah Kiser, a junior dance asked about where classes will take place once the regents major from Lubbock, said she has not been told exactly what passed down the decision. is going to happen next semester Cowley said she was told the rec center is one of the more likeregarding classes, and everyone is in the speculation stage. ly scenarios, but nothing is set.

“I think, honestly, they are However, she said that when the PrinTech building is completely not very sure what’s going to KATIE COWLEY renovated, the sacrifice of taking happen,” she said. “They’re just JUNIOR trying to wait, trying to keeps classes somewhere else would be DANCE MAJOR worth it. students from worrying about it.

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Four graduate students went against dozens of other college hopefuls in this year’s iOMe Challenge, nabbing first place, $10,000 and a trip to Washington D.C. in the process.

Personal financial planning students Chris Browning, Benjamin Cummings, Tom O’Malley and Shawn Pfeiffer, with the aid of faculty adviser Michael Finke, had to answer the question about how members of the Millennial Generation plan to achieve fiscal responsibility in a world of economic uncertainty.

The team worked on the project beginning in September, after placing second in the iOMe Challenge’s first competition in 2009.

Texas Tech’s PFP program is considered one of the largest and most advanced in the country, said Finke, an associate professor, which gave the students an advantage when it came to preparing for the contest.

“We have the most students, and we have the largest faculty, so we’ve developed a reputation with our personal financial planning program,” Finke said. “We identified this particular competition as something we wanted to win when it was first developed last year.”

Browning, of Seminole, said while they believed in one other’s abilities as a team, it still was a surprise when they were declared the winners.

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by Jordan Littlejohn, a junior mechanical engineering student from Round Rock.

“It’s competitive design is what interests me, you know, putting your idea up against other people’s ideas,” Littlejohn said.

Though Littlejohn appreciates the Earth-friendly alternative solar cars offer, it is the experience gained that he tries to push, Littlejohn said during an informational meeting Monday.

“We want to stress engineering design and real-life application,” Littlejohn said.

“It is probably the best real-life experience an engineer can get.”

TECH ALUMNA CAROL Newman is fighting to retain the naming rights to Red Raider Alley near St. Pius X, a high school in Dallas where she serves as principal.

By HALLIE DAVIS STAFF WRITER

Carol Newman is one of seven children, all of whom graduated from Texas Tech. All three of her children went to Tech, as well as six of their cousins.

All of Newman’s grandchildren can do ‘Guns up’ and recognize any Tech logo.

“To say it’s in our blood is an understatement,” Newman’s daughter Carrie Long said.

After graduating in 1970 with a degree in education, Newman said, she went on to become a teacher and then principal at St. Pius X School in Dallas.

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Come see some of the best calf roping, barrels, team roping and more. Adult tickets are $12.

Silent Raiders Time: 7 p.m.

Where: foreign language building, Qualia Room So, what is it?

The Silent Raiders is a student organization dedicated to learning about the Deaf Community and learning/practicing American Sign Language. Whether you are only interested in ASL or you are a skilled interpreter, all are welcome!

Brad Ethridge Time: 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Where: The Funky Door Bistro and Wine Room So, what is it?

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DanceTech: Artistry in Motion Time: 8 p.m.

Where: Maedgen Theatre So, what is it?

An evening of original jazz, modern, ballet and hip-hop choreography created by guest artists and the Tech dance faculty, undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Theatre and Dance. Evening performances are through Saturday. Sunday performance is at 2 p.m.

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Monster trucks are roaring back into Hub City with a two-day event starting Friday. Prices range from $19.75 to $29 for adults.

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“You never know if you’re going to win or not, but we felt confident in our idea and in our discussions of how we wanted to address the question,” Browning said. “With this really being our expertise, we had just a good of a chance as anybody else. I guess when we entered we always knew there was a chance, but we never felt like it was a guarantee.”

Finke said he is proud of the team’s hard work, but he said they need to be just as diligent in their preparation for the next iOMe competition if they want to keep their winning streak.

“I think every year it gets a little bit tougher as more and more people find out about the challenge and more schools participate in it,” he said. “So we’ll make sure that we’re staying on our toes so that we can compete next year as well.”

The students had to write a 10,000-word essay and produce a short video addressing key issues such as government debt, retirement planning and monetary policy.

Cummings, of Clinton, Utah, said the project focused on the fact younger generations are less aware about the consequences of not preparing for their financial future.

“The heart of our essay and video is largely about how people of this generation don’t care about saving, but they should care,” he said. “We really targeted toward people of our generation to help them

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FOUR PERSONAL FINANCIAL planning graduate students, with the help of their adviser, won the iOMe challenge against dozens of other colleges. The team won $10,000 and a trip to washington D.C. Tech’s PFP team is considered one of the biggestand best in the nation.

and more than anything visualize the impact of the choices you make today.”

The iOMe Challenge began as a way to inspire students to have a more optimistic outlook when it comes to today’s economy. Browning said it is important for college students to learn about making the right choices when it comes to saving.

“I think it’s pretty typical for about every student that is the college age to have that negative mindset about the future of their retirement savings, and I think that’s why addressing these topics in an essay like this is so important,” he said. “A lot of our solutions are how can we guide others to making the right decisions.”

Finke said one of the benefits

of winning the contest is the positive attention it brings to the university.

“Winning national competitions like this attracts attention, and I’ve noticed every year we get better quality applicants for the Ph.D. program,” he said. “Improving the reputation of both Texas Tech and the personal financial planning program was one of the goals in the contest.”

The team travels to Washington D.C. in April to present its essay and video to policy makers and members of Congress.

Cummings said he is excited about the possibility of having their ideas formed into new legislation.

“I think that’s one of my goals, to improve public policy that will better society,” he said.

“It’s also a great opportunity to just be able to share our ideas with policy makers and take our ideas into consideration.”

Browning said while the cash prize and trip to the Capitol are gratifying, the chance to share the experience is a reward in itself.

“It’s a lot of work, and it’s a commitment, but it’s also an awesome opportunity to take what you’ve learned and share it with a ton of people,” he said.

“Being as young and as early in our careers as we are, I think that’s really the big benefit. I think if I was going to tell somebody who is going to be on the team next year why to do it, do it to share what you’ve learned, and hopefully it’ll make a difference.” ➤➤cosborn@dailytoreador.com

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Cowley also said it could affect the mindsets of potential students who visit the current ESS building expecting to dance there, only to be in a completely different place next semester.

“I think it’s really scary just thinking about that I only have basically a year, a year and a half left of school, and where I’ve grown comfortable working on is being torn down and we don’t know where it’s being moved to,” she said.

Grace Hernandez, chief of staff to the president, said she cannot give a definite answer yet because of the unique requirements of the dance program, but they are taking it “very seriously and looking to find something as quickly as possible.”

She said the rec center is being discussed, as well as potentially holding classes off campus, but that could inconvenience students too much.

In the quest for 40,000 students, Hernandez said there are a lot of changes being made on campus, which are necessary for the future, including the relocation of the dance facility.

“It’s a positive opportunity right now to do that because, as Dean Edwards tells us, the dance program is growing,” Hernandez said, “and eventually they may have outgrown their current building.”

Every year, the school has an auction to raise money, Newman said, and about eight years ago, the school auctioned off the naming rights to one of the street signs in its driveway.

Newman said she won the auction without much opposition and named it Red Raider Alley.

The sign goes up for auction every two years, and Newman has won every time.

At the last auction, a Longhorn fan tried bidding against her.

“I just said to myself, I cannot drive to work every morning down a road with something UT on it,” she said.

Her dislike for UT was the only advice she gave her children when it came time to choose colleges. She said she told them they could go anywhere but there, and she was, of course, happy when they chose Tech.

Long, who graduated in 1998, said there was never a question in her mind as to where she would go to college.

“I fell in love with the campus, the university, the city,” she said. “It’s a great place to be.”

Long said she was glad to be a part of such a legacy and that she could talk about her family’s involvement with Tech for days.

“You’d be hard pressed to find someone more crazy about Texas Tech than my mother,” she said.

Newman’s love for the college and St. Pius X has made the “street-sign war” much more intense this year.

After Newman retired last spring, an Aggie became principal, Newman said., so this year’s auction will be especially intense.

The school has started a website, where anyone can go and donate in favor of the school of their choice—Tech, UT, A&M or TCU. According to the site, Tech is currently in last place, though Newman said she’s not sure she can let that happen after all she’s been through with Tech.

From visiting most summers to buying season tickets for football games every year (until last year due to her allegiance to former head coach Mike Leach) to being one of the first Lady Raider basketball players—Newman is a dedicated Red Raider.

She was on the very first, pre-Title IX women’s basketball team. Newman said she and some friends were on a championship intramural team, and she was approached to have them become the school’s official team.

“We traveled around in an old, beatup white van,” she said. “They made the tennis coach our coach.”

Though she said she’s unsure if the team is even documented, it was just another part of her amazing experience with the university, an experience she wants to share with everyone.

“Nothing gets to me like seeing the Masked Rider run on the field. I tear up every time,” she said. “I’m a Red Raider through and through.”

Anyone can go to spxstreetsignwar. com and help Newman with the competition, and her legacy.

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Student creates revolutionary website

By SYDNEY HOLMES STAFF WRITER

It is apparent there are plenty of hunters on the Texas Tech campus.

Between the camouflage, boots and student organizations devoted solely to hunting, there is no doubt that hunting is a major part of our campus make-up.

But what happens when students come to college from out of town, have no money and are no longer near their normal hunting leases? Hunttrader.com has the answer.

Todd Truesdell, a junior public relations major from Carrollton, is the creator of hunttrader.com.

Truesdell said the website is a lot like Facebook, but solely for hunters.

“Hunttrader.com is purpose driven in the sense that it creates a community of hunters to trade hunts,” he said. “You can barter services, trade products or you can trade hunt for hunt.”

Truesdell explained exactly what bartering services and trading hunts means.

“The carpenter can build a deer blind in exchange for taking his daughter on a deer hunt,” he said.

Truesdell said that where Hunttrader is most useful is with college students.

“Where (Hunttrader) really hits its peak is with the college kids that are away from home and away from where they normally hunt,” he said. “They can hunt in college because they can help out ‘Farmer Jones’ with cotton or anything else that he needs help with.”

Hunttrader has many of the same features as Facebook does, according to Truesdell.

“You have individual profiles, and the profiles are set up as a way to market each individual’s trade ability” he said. “If I have awesome deer, I want to put that

on my profile so others can see how good my deer are so they’ll want to trade with me”.

Eddie Patino is the webmaster and director of operations for Hunttrader.

“I make sure all the social media is taken care of through Twitter and Facebook,” Patino said. “I’m also responsible for updating the website with new information.”

Patino said that Hunttrader is a revolutionary idea in that people would trade hunts within families and friends.

“Now that Hunttrader is out, you don’t have to trade hunts just with people that you’ve known. It makes trading hunts convenient,” Patino said.

Truesdell explained that, despite the help he has had, the road to this website has not been easy. The amount of time, money and patience is astounding.

“It’s been three years since I first started. I bought the domain in 2007. It’s been about $40,000 worth of money,” he said. “I pretty much stopped everything I was doing and poured my life into it.”

Hunttrader.com is the fastestgrowing website in the nation as far as the outdoor industry goes, Truesdell said.

“We have over 1,500 members within about a year,” he said.

Truesdell explained that not much money has gone into advertising.

“I don’t have advertising dollars all over the country, but it’s still blowing up,” he said. “And what’s crazy is that it’s blowing up just by word of mouth.”

The person who helps with promotions and spreading the word is Terrah Stratton.

“Whenever Hunttrader has special hunts that they want to give away, I do all the promotions,” Stratton said.

Stratton, who actually met Truesdell through his website, voiced her opinion and appreciation for Hunttrader.com.

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“I’m more of a member than anything. I believe in it, and I’m very active on it. I think there’s a great foundation and market for it,” Stratton said.

Truesdell said that he plans to incorporate Hunttrader.com into his career and public relations major. The most intriguing plan for the website’s future, and the one Truesdell said he is most excited about, is Hunttrader TV. Truesdell explained that Hunttrader TV would be a reality-based show that would take two hunters from completely different regions of the world, such as the swamps of Louisiana and the mountains of Alaska, and chronicle the differences in both of the hunts.

Hunttrader.com is both innovative and unique, and though it seems to be a complex website, Truesdell

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itness and travel are essential parts of my life. This morning, I ripped the calluses off my hands doing pull-ups, and then bled all over the bar, but I can still type.

I am a graduate student in hospitality management and a personal trainer and Raider 2X class instructor at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. I am a certified personal trainer through ISSA and a master fitness trainer through the U.S. Army. I’m writing this column in The Daily Toreador because I wanted to share my passion in these areas and inspire the students and faculty of Texas Tech.

I have only been here one semester, but I love being a Red Raider.

I remember visiting my family here as a kid and thinking there wasn’t a lot to do, but as an adult, I really appreciate Lubbock.

This column will focus on fitness and travel; specifically, exercise advice, fitness program and product reviews, and opportunities for fitness around the world and in your own backyard. Since this is the beginning of the semester, and I work at the rec center, you should know there’s a website for all the classes and programs available (http:// www.depts.ttu.edu/recsports).

The other part of good health besides fitness and exercise is good nutrition. I am not a nutrition expert, but a good reference for everyone is the USDA food pyramid website (http://www.mypyramid. gov). This webpage covers topics from food groups to menu planning.

I recently started logging everything I ate daily, and it really opened my eyes to the differences between my perceived nutritional intake and reality, causing me to alter some of my eating habits. I recommend this for my clients, and they have made similar discoveries.

Concerning the travel portion of this column, I have lived in Texas, New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and Japan. I’ve traveled to 42 states and 32 countries on six continents. I’ve found time and space to work out in all

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those places. I’ve run the streets of Sydney, Buenos Aires, New York City and Dar Es Salaam. I’ve done pull-ups in a city park in Moscow and from a tree branch in Gila National Forest. I rode my bicycle from San Diego to Austin.

No matter where you are, there is no reason you can’t find some kind of exercise for your time and place. You just need a few basic exercises to choose from, some creativity and a little determination to keep or improve your fitness level.

The first step to achieving your fitness goals is to actually write them down. Your goals should be specific and measurable, have a specific timeline and be realistic. You’ll also need a starting point on which to base your goals. This is true for weight loss or gain, lifting or speed.

The next step in goal setting is to create a timeline, which allows you to track your progress and set mini-goals to help you on your way. Sharing your goals with your social network, like posting them on Facebook, is a great way to get your friends involved in your goal achievement and could help them create goals of their own. If your friends have similar goals, work together so you can all be successful. These pointers for goal setting and achievement work for fitness and travel or any other goal you may have.

I hope over the next few months you will gain more insights into fitness and travel and can achieve your goals in both those areas. I’ll see you around the world or in the gym.

eligious radicals were back on campus Tuesday in what seems to be a cyclical appearance.

It’s almost as though when things have been a bit too boring on campus, somebody phones up a group to come and tell everyone who happens by the free-speech area how terrible students have been lately, how evil partying is and how slutty college chicks are (though many students already have been doing extensive research on that topic).

Say what you will about these people’s tactics (and believe me, I’ve said plenty), but one thing is certain: It gets reaction.

Whether or not it’s the reaction intended is incredibly debatable. I’ve spoken to many people about their experiences that led to becoming a Christian, and never have I heard one person say they had a conversion experience after being yelled at or called names. Admittedly, my sample is

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completely anecdotal, so perhaps I’m running in the wrong circle (although I already knew that thanks to Tuesday’s message).

I want to pause here and give a bit of background information. If you’ve been reading this column long, you know that I’m a Christian. I believe strongly in what I believe, which I’ve come to believe due to lots and lots of thought and examination.

Also, I have quite a bit of experience with groups claiming to be Christians that have beliefs I disagree with and evangelism strategies I detest. I grew up in Topeka, Kan., which is not exactly a hotbed of anything, much less religious fun-

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he new MTV series “Skins” is obviously trying to be controversial, and it worked, at least for some people.

Since the airing of the first episode, many large companies such as Subway, Wrigley and Taco Bell have decided to stop advertising during the show due to its high use of drug and sex content. Also, the Parents Television Council said the show was “dangerous” to teenagers watching the show and called for a federal investigation, claiming the show broke child pornography laws.

It was very clear to me in the first episode this show was trying to be edgy and somewhat controversial, starting with its TV-MA rating. It is, I believe, the first actual series, besides “Jackass” to carry a TV-MA rating on MTV.

Brett Winegarner This is pretty hard to believe with all of the shows on MTV now that display people going out and partying and hooking up with random people every night.

This is why it is so mind boggling to me that companies are dropping their ads from the time slot when “Skins” is on. They have no problem advertising during “Jersey Shore,” which depicts real people going out and drinking until they pee behind the bar or hook up with some random guy, but just because “Skins” depicts teenagers doing it, they think it is much

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For all that it has to offer people in terms of keeping in touch, Facebook sure likes to hide its true face sometimes. Throughout its expansion as one of the best social networking websites, Facebook dealt with a large amount of criticism about its online privacy issues. Just this past week, a new feature was released allowing applications on the site to ask users for access to their home addresses and phone numbers. While Facebook has disabled the feature for the time being, some feared that users would allow access to this secure data without knowing it.

That may not seem like too big of a deal, but pile that on top of countless other issues, including constant updates to the site’s almost 6,000-wordlong privacy policy, data mining of private individuals, and permanent changes to Facebook’s design and layout without any options for users.

On top of these broad issues, more “unique” concerns have been voiced after Facebook disabled the search function to find MoveOn.org’s page after it organized protests against the site, Facebook’s canceling accounts of users who uploaded breastfeeding photos, and its censorship of editorial content critical of Facebook.

This is still just the tip of the

iceberg. The recent release of the movie The Social Network has pushed Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg to the forefront of not just social networking news, but the general news of the world as well. And this newfound surge of popularity and good spirit has done a swell job distracting people from Zuckerberg’s efforts to encourage people to share more information publicly. I know it’s hard to keep up with the new features rolled out seemingly weekly when all you’re really trying to do is stay in touch with someone you went to fourth grade with. The fact is that if you are on Facebook, it is almost inevitable that you have shared information with companies and people you have never heard of.

Yet we’re all still on Facebook, along with 500 million other people across the planet. There aren’t any signs of people deleting their accounts in record numbers either; in fact, the company is stronger than ever. It took in hundreds of millions of dollars of investments this past year from Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and other investors who want to see the company, currently valued at $50 billion, move forward as quickly as possible.

So, what to do? Is there an answer to this multitude of concerns over your privacy? I’m not sure, but I do know that if Facebook had a “dislike” button, I’d be all over that like white on rice.

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type of belief, but it’s far too rare to hear students talking about religion respectfully and intelligently.

We should do something to change this. Why is the only time that students passionately raise their voices about religion when some outsiders come on campus and yell?

Let’s lower the voices and have civil conversations with each other.

People will still come to the free-speech area and hold signs and yell. Collectively, we can just ignore them and show them that’s not the way we do things around here.

We’ll have disagreements, and people will get angry, but I’m confident people on the Tech campus are smart enough to discuss religion in a civilized manner.

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damentalism. It is, however, home to the Phelps family. I hope to write more on the Phelps at a later time, but you may know them because of their decision to picket military funerals or from the documentary “The Most Hated Family in America.”

I don’t want to compare this group of malcontents who visited campus to the Phelps clan beyond the fact that I disagree with parts of what the group was saying and that I think their methods are terrible.

Yet, as reflected earlier, it makes everyone want to voice his or her opinion, often vociferously and loudly.

The problem with this is it’s the only time I hear anyone on campus engaging in discourse on religion.

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worse. It is also crazy to me that “Jersey Shore” can carry a TV-14 rating when they drop the F-bomb 100 times an episode; just because it is beeped out doesn’t mean I don’t know what they are saying.

Also, the only people who seem to find this show “highly offensive” are older people. I have talked to some fellow students who have seen “Skins,” and they didn’t find it to be extremely controversial or offensive. There were a few parts in the first episode where you could tell some things were added in just to be controversial, whether it was a mention to a lesbian girl “worshiping the coochie shrine” or a young man buying weed so he could give it to a girl so she would hook up with him. However, I have seen much worse in R-rated movies.

In today’s society, many parents let their children watch R-rated movies when they are 14 or 15 that depict very explicit sex scenes and scenes of people doing all kinds of drugs. God forbid they show this on TV — especially the very “wholesome” channel that is MTV. If any adults think the sex and drug use portrayed in “Skins” is equivalent to the true life of American teenagers, they are idiots. I mean, of course there are some kids out there who have drug problems and who have a lot of sex with different people, but for the most part the content of this show does not realistically portray what

95 percent of American teenagers really do.

To me, this show has much more value to teenagers than shows like “Jersey Shore” or “The Real World.” It actually discusses problems teenagers face. For instance, the second episode of “Skins” portrayed the life of a young teenage girl who is a lesbian.

She had a difficult time figuring out why she was the way she was and how she was supposed to deal with this. I think this is something many young teenagers who are gay go through, and it could be beneficial to them.

Another show on MTV I found to be “controversial” was “The Hard Times of RJ Berger,” which carried a TV-14 rating. No one threatened to pull their ads during this show, or file a child pornography lawsuit against it. I remember one episode in which an older woman tried to seduce RJ, who was a high school student, and no one I heard of complained about that.

So why the sudden uproar against this show?

Overall, I think there are much worse TV shows than this one that have no redeeming value whatsoever, and if parents and companies are going to label this show as “dangerous” and “offensive,” they might want to watch some of the other shows on cable TV.

‘Top Chef’ host’s ex sues for custody of her baby NEW YORK (AP) — “Top Chef” host Padma Lakshmi is steeped in a custody fight, and the ingredients are plenty complex.

Venture capitalist Adam Dell sued Wednesday for custody of Lakshmi’s 11-month-old daughter. He says a paternity test has shown he’s the infant’s father, but Lakshmi is sidelining him and trying to cast her current flame, financier Ted Forstmann, in that role.

Dell wants custody of the baby, and he’s pointing sharply to Lakshmi’s career and globetrotting lifestyle as a reason, saying she’s “either unable or

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The adviser for this organization is Changzhi Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

“It’s a team of students and faculties that design, build and test solar cars,” Li said in an e-mail response. “The activities of this team also help students to gain practical experience and find a job after graduation.”

Students of different academic backgrounds are given the opportunity to apply their study to the electrical and mechanical development of the solar car as well as the development and management of the organization, he said.

“The ultimate goal of the team is to develop an advanced solar car and win awards and national titles representing Texas Tech University,” Li said.

Though the team appears to stress knowledge of science and engineering, not all the members are concentrating in those areas at Tech.

Alli Rillon, a senior natural history and humanities major from Houston, is the team’s secretary. Rillon’s current involvement is with sending e-mails and whatever the team needs, she said.

But it’s her background in science that interested her in joining the team.

“I was a part of Science Olympiad in high school, and I was looking for a student organization since then to do something with my inner nerd,” Rillon said.

Caleb Crow is not a current member but is interested in joining the team.

A graduate student with a degree in atmospheric science and a minor in electrical engineering, Crow has worked extensively in marketing and engineering.

“I wanted to do something that combines electrical engineering with something environmental,” Crow said.

“So, I became a licensed solar installer after I graduated from undergrad.”

Crow said he started working as a

By MARCEL MORAN

“We are going to the bottom of this,” said President Obama, just hours after the tragedy in Arizona this January. He then ordered Bob Mueller, the current director of the FBI, to help coordinate the investigation of the shooting and suspect, Jared Loughner.

The intentions of the president and the government of Arizona were in the right place; this type of incident cleary mandates inquiry, but tracing through the most recent mass shootings and their subsequent investigations reveals that little is learned that is helpful in preventing future lethal episodes.

Instead, what comes out of each investigation is a collection of fateful ‘warning signs’ that were not put together by either parents, schools, or close friends leading up to the crimes.

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our ability to predict violence is extremely low.

Similar to the aftermath of Loughner’s shooting, when Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and took his own life on the campus of Virginia Tech in 2007, the Governor of Virginia ordered a full-scale investigation into the life of Cho and the incident itself. What came out of that report was evidence of a checkered personal history, inadequate communication between Cho’s therapists and teachers and the ease with which Cho was able to acquire firearms.

A few mistakes were revealed, such as how police and security personnel could have better handled the shooting while it was taking place, but regarding the signs that this man would commit such deeds, the report wrote: “Cho’s writings and videotaped pronouncements do not explain why he struck when and where he did.”

Likewise, the two high school students that killed 12 of their classmates and one teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999 provide •Publishing information Periodical Postage paid by The Daily Toreador, Student Media building, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409. Publication number: 766480. The DT is a student newspaper published Monday through Friday, September through May; Tuesdays and Fridays June through August, except during university examination and vacation periods.

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another example of how those close to the killers were unable to notice anything amiss. Investigations of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Columbine High seniors that committed the massacre, uncovered that the two had been planning such events for over or a month, but even their parents had no idea anything of that nature or scale would take place.

There are many high school students that are removed, play violent video games, and do not shoot their classmates.

Filmmaker Michael Moore titled his documentary “Bowling for Columbine” because the two boys allegedly went bowling the morning of the shooting.

Sadly, that fact accentuates the notion that people who do unthinkable things often act incredibly normally leading up to these events.

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Loughner was wearing ear plugs. But did Loughner exhibit traits that those close to him simply missed? Hardly. There are many people whose stories are quite similar to his: high school dropouts, talented musicians, marijuana smokers, and those who are mentally ill though not necessarily violent.

Our hindsight may appear 20-20 now, but these sad stories demonstrate that our foresight is close to legally blind.

Ordering investigations has not made our people any safer, but rather informs us how difficult it is to spot such tragedies before they take place.

Investigations of this sort, whether they are ordered because they are politically benign, or because they appear to be appropriate responses to such actions, do not help us from preventing future actions from taking place. What seems to elude the investigators, or does not grab as much ink as the killers’ mental faculties, is each one’s ability to possess guns. It is that act of each killer’s history that made him lethal.

solar installer and then was promoted to running a New York branch of a solar contracting company before being promoted to vice president; he also worked in consulting.

If he joins the team, he is more interested in public relations than becoming involved in the engineering part of the work, he said.

“I was hoping mainly to do PR, but I want to leave all the mechanical and electrical things to the undergrad,” Crow said.

The team plans to race their solarpowered car on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from May 2 to May 7, an exciting event since the race falls on the 100th anniversary, Littlejohn said.

“The sponsors will get a lot out of it, and the university will get great exposure,” he said.

The car will cost an estimated $131,800, including electrics, mechanics and race-related costs, according to the team’s website.

To raise funds, the team organized an Adopt a Cell program for sponsors, Littlejohn said.

“This is a program that we are trying out to get students, faculty, Lubbock residents and small Lubbock businesses to get involved with the team,” Littlejohn said, “and show their support not only for the university, but our efforts in competing with other universities.”

Phillip Scarborough is a mechanical engineering major and acts as public relations lead.

“Basically, you can donate $10 to $1,000, and it’s for students and local business,” said the junior from Plano.

“That’s why we’re looking for more business majors and other majors to get the word out.”

Those who contribute a monetary donation get a chance to interactively see their contribution by seeing their name or organization placed on a part of the car, Littlejohn said.

“That is the main goal of this,” Littlejohn said. “We want to get the community involved.”

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unwilling to moderate either her social or business travel” for the child’s sake.

A lawyer for Lakshmi, Jay D. Silverstein, called Dell’s claims “inaccurate and misleading,” and her camp blasted the public airing of her and her daughter’s personal life.

“Ms. Lakshmi’s sole interest lies in preserving the privacy and welfare of her daughter and in working out a fair and amicable agreement out of the media’s glare,” spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulos said.

Forstmann declined to comment through his office.

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The Texas Tech campus is bursting at the seams with talent.

From singers and actors to comedians and poets, Tech has a wide array of gifted students, and Tech Activities Board has come up with a way for these gifts and aptitudes to be showcased with the After Hours Open Mic Night.

Katie Farmer, a junior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Scurry, is the nightlife coordinator for TAB and was responsible for setting up Open Mic Night. Farmer explained the new format for the event.

“Usually we have sign-ups before (Open Mic Nights), and if you don’t sign up before, you can’t play,” she said. “I kind of thought that format defeated the purpose of calling it ‘Open Mic Night’ PHOTO BY LAUREN PAPE/The Daily Toreador because it’s not open. We’re kind CORBAN WILLIAMS, A freshman architecture major from Mansfield, and Jake Mendoza, a freshman arof stepping into a full-on open mic chitecture major from Manitou Springs, Colo., perform at the Open Mic Night hosted by the Tech Activities night by still having three to five Board in Barnes & Noble on Tuesday. people sign up and giving them ‘x’ amount of time, and then the rest was a newcomer to Open Mic Night. bock, then I did a show at Skooners, “Accounting is my backup plan,” of it is open.”

Fields charmed the audience with and then I started doing these open Horton joked. “It’s not my dream. I The new concept, Farmer her renditions of “Little House” by mics (through TAB).” mean, I like money, but that’s about said, has been a total success. It Amanda Seyfried and “The Way I Horton explained he’s been do- it.” has helped to bring more people Am” by Ingrid Michaelson. ing comedy for about six months.

Horton joked about the difference into the event and expand on the “I’ve played guitar for about He even admitted that sometimes between an After Hours crowd and versatility of the acts. a year now, but I’ve been singing his passion for comedy leaks into his a bar crowd. He said the variation “I think since I was lit- schoolwork. between a TAB-organized audience that just the tle-bitty,” Fields “I write jokes all day,” he said. as opposed to an audience at a bar has fact that so explained. “I “Sometimes in class. I go through taught him how to work a crowd and many stuused to sing at notepads like crazy.” gauge what everyone wants to hear. dents showed church with my Horton said that Jerry Seinfeld is Horton said Open Mic Night is up kind of mom and do tal- his biggest influence. a great opportunity to get various shows that ent shows with “Eight-hundred million dollars? voices across Tech’s campus heard. they’re really her. (Singing) is I think (Seinfeld) did it the right Horton expressed the most important interested,” my passion, and way,” he joked. thing for performers to remember: Farmer said. it’s what I want Horton confessed school takes a “Take it lightly,” he said.

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Luke Horton, a sophomore ac“I think it’s really cool that counting major from Fort Stockwe’ve seen a lot of diversity this ton, performed his comedy routine. year. We’ve had poems and raps, Horton explained his aptitude for and this is the first year that we’ve performing. had comedy acts,” Farmer said.

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Poetry Magazine editor to read original poems

By CARRIE THORNTON STAFF WRITER

What do a few Texas Tech English professors do with a little extra cash? Invite a nationally renowned poet to campus to read his original work, of course.

Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry Magazine and a Snyder native, will start off the Department of English’s Spring 2011 reading series today with a question-andanswer session at 1:30 p.m. in the English building Room 201, followed by a reading at 7:30 p.m. in Room 001. “(Wiman) can bring a lot to our students,” said Professor John Poch, who organized the visit.

“Not just his own very good poetry, but his experience as an editor …

He’s so valuable because he covers so many different areas.”

After receiving funds to recruit an additional writer to accompany the already scheduled readings from Taylor Eighmy, vice president of research at Tech, Poch said he immediately thought of Wiman because of his West Texas origins, among other things.

“He’s talking about Texas, especially West Texas, in a lot of his poems,” Poch said. “To be as important as he is in the poetry world, when he publishes poems and they’re about West Texas, (he gives) people who’ve never been out here or only pass through a different sense of West Texas — a closer look.”

Wiman, who has been to Lubbock and Tech several times, plans to read about 15 of his poems, share his experiences in the creative writing business with Red Raiders and discuss his position as editor. His job comes with certain tribulations, he said, some of which tighten any areas of free time he has to write.

“We get almost 100,000 submissions a year and publish about

300, so the work of weeding that down is intense, intellectually demanding and constant,” Wiman said via eWIMAN mail. “We also commission and edit 30 to 40 new prose pieces per year. Plus, the magazine comes out every month, so there’s never a break, which makes it difficult to get my own writing done.”

For anyone not familiar with Wiman and his work, he describes himself as a “cross between a lyric and narrative” poet. Meaning some of his poems sing, while others tell stories.

“I hope they all sing in some way or other; certainly my poems, like all poems, need to be read aloud to be fully experienced, but sometimes a story or character will tamp down my lyric impulses,” he said.

The reading is open to anyone — students, faculty and staff — who would like to come. Poch encourages the student body to attend readings to become exposed to professional writers, which will ultimately benefit them in the long run. “(Tuesday) night during Pres.

(Barack) Obama’s speech, he kept saying, ‘We’re way behind in math and science, math and science,’” he said. “The fact remains, a lot of college students can’t read very well. They don’t read books, don’t read poetry and don’t know how to connect with their own language. They’re speaking but not know how they’re speaking, and it’s a shame, and somebody like Christian Wiman can just draw attention to the fact that we need to pay closer attention to our language.” ➤➤cthornton@dailytoreador.com

Cruz and Bardem’s first child born Saturday in Los Angeles NEW YORK (AP) — Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are proud parents of a baby boy.

A spokeswoman for the actress confirmed Wednesday that Cruz gave birth to a boy last week. She says “both parents and baby are doing great.” She provided no other details.

The couple were married at the beginning of July in the Bahamas.

The 36-year-old Cruz and the 41-yearold Bardem are from Spain. They appeared together in the 2008 Woody Allen romantic comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”

Cruz won a supporting-actress Oscar for her role.

Bardem is nominated for best actor this year for his role in the Spanish “Biutiful.”

He won a supporting-actor Oscar for the 2007 thriller “No Country for Old Men.”

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From cones to couture, 35 years of Gaultier and well, he notes) is a trenchcoat and a sailor-style top.

“What struck me throughout is the evolution. He is actually very classic. He has the spirit of a punk, of a rebel, but when you see the quality of the tailoring, it’s very, very classic,” observes Loriot. “Every season, for example, is a trench or a trench dress, but it’s never boring because there’s always a new way to see it or a new way to present it.”

For example, at Wednesday’s haute couture presentation in Paris, a show dubbed “I Am an Anarchist,” the trench was done in a sleeveless dress silhouette — in hot pink.

Gaultier’s runway truly is a stage. He paired fishnets with James Bond-inspired tuxedos for last week’s men’s show, and last year, burlesque star Dita Von Teese did a mid-show strip tease down to a bustier that outlined her bones.

He might be purposely provocative, Gaultier allows, but he’s not looking to be an all-out rebel, either.

“As a designer, I have to be functional and creative. I have to reflect society,” Gaultier says in a recent phone interview. “I always have to have my eyes open.

There’s a constant evolution of fashion. I’m not like an artist, although I have to be in touch with art. But there’s also the reality of everyday life, and I have to see how it’s moving.”

Right now, as he is turning his attention to the next women’s ready-to-wear collection, Gaultier says his focus is on asking the big questions about consumers and pop culture.

“It’s a special moment right now when everything is in question. We’re wondering what we don’t need anymore. We need something solid, something basic, but some people want also what is cheap and quick,” he says. “We’re being pulled in two totally completely opposite directions, and yet Lady Gaga — when everyone is being very politically correct — is the real star.”

Gaultier has dressed Gaga, and he did the costumes for a Kylie Minogue world tour — and lest we forget: Gaultier designed Madonna’s famous cone-shaped bra tops.

“He always says he finds inspiration in people with bad taste or who have clothing accidents. He likes to see the way they are not supposed to be presented — and fix them the way he sees fit,”

Loriot says.

The multimedia Montreal exhibit, which moves on to the Dallas Museum of Art and the de Young Museum in San Francisco next year, will feature about 120 garments from 1976 to 2010.

The looks will be broken into the semi-neat categories of “Paris,” ‘’Fusions,” Multi-Gender,” ‘’Eurotrash/X-Rated” and “Metropolis.”

“Sometimes I might be inspired by a woman on the street, or an old movie — or a new movie. I have been very influenced by ‘Tron,’ the first one, not the new one,” he says. “I’ve seen the second one, but it’s not as good.”

Other favorite films of Gaultier include “Avatar,” ‘’Megamind” and Luc Besson’s “The Fifth Element,” for which he designed the costumes.

“I love to go to the cinema, in the theater when I have time, and concerts. I love to just go places. I love to be there, wherever ‘there’ is,” Gaultier says. “I like to see things all at once as they’re meant to be done. I don’t like to start and stop — like you do watching a movie at home.”

Gaultier says he’ll be there when this exhibition opens on June 17.

Motley Crue singer pleads guilty to DUI LAS VEGAS (AP) — Motley Crue singer Vince Neil avoided the media and quietly pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving drunk last summer near the Las Vegas Strip in a case that drew denials that he received preferential treatment.

A temporary judge who took the plea before reporters arrived sentenced Neil to 15 days in the Clark County jail and 15 days on house arrest under terms of an agreed-upon plea deal that spared him a trial on a misdemeanor driving under the influence charge. Neil could have faced up to six months in jail if convicted.

Court officials said the 49-yearold rocker was ordered to begin serving his sentence Feb. 15, a week after his 50th birthday.

Neil and his lawyers, Richard Schonfeld and David Chesnoff, appeared 90 minutes early before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Pro Tem Gerry Zobrist, court officers said. Media members arriving for a scheduled 9 a.m. plea learned that

Neil had come and gone.

“My understanding is he came in early and they just moved it up,” said court spokeswoman Mary Ann Price, who was in the courtroom for Neil’s appearance.

Neil said nothing more than “guilty” to the charge against him, Price said. He was also fined $585 and ordered to attend drunken driving abatement school and to view a victim impact video online.

Chesnoff told The Associated Press the case was moved up at his request because he was due in family court across town on another case.

“There is no preferential treatment,” Chesnoff said, noting that the judge — not the prosecutor — granted the time change. “I got the normal professional courtesy a lawyer gets when he has a scheduling conflict.”

The attorney also referred to a prepared statement on Neil’s behalf issued after the plea deal was reached Jan. 18. It said the rocker took responsibility for his

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(AP) - Jean Paul Gaultier isn’t done. There are more movies to be inspired by, muses to court and corsets to sew.

He’s still in the prime of his career, so even with 35 years of design under his belt, there have been no retrospectives.

But that’s about to change come June, when you’ll be able to see a best-of Gaultier exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

“I am very shocked to see it all — in a good way,” says Gaultier, who is collaborating with curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot. “I feel a little strange seeing so many things in one place because I feel I am not yet done, yet it’s flattering and exciting. ... You can see when it’s all together my obsessions: the corset, skin, the cinema, music. You can see the things I am always fascinated by.”

The most important thing he does each day is keep his eyes — and his mind — open.

“My eyes aren’t in a routine to see something. I try to see everything. I like a good visual shock,” Gaultier says.

Yet, for every cone bra top and parrot-feather bolero (the parrot from whom he borrowed feathers years ago is still alive

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actions and would learn from the experience.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger denied Neil got a break. He pointed to the sentence of 30 days of jail and home detention.

“He pled guilty to DUI,” Roger said. “The vast majority of people facing a first offense DUI in Nevada don’t face jail time.”

Judges exercise discretion in scheduling, and other cases involving other defendants and lawyers at the Clark County Regional Justice Center have been heard before or after published times.

But allegations of preferential treatment have been made before against Roger and Chesnoff.

Chesnoff is an A-list Las Vegas defense lawyer whose clients have included celebrity socialite Paris Hilton, the Hells Angel motorcycle club, boxer Mike Tyson, entertainer Bruno Mars, recording mogul Marion “Suge” Knight and other local and national notables.

Jennings is one of 16 assistant coaches left in the tournament, having not missed a single shot yet.

Jennings played for the Red Raiders under Gerald Myers in the 1980s. Jennings scored 1,727 points in his four-year career and made 84.9 percent of his free throws.

He also was a four-time AllSouthwest Conference selection as a point guard.

Additionally, he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks and played professionally in England.

Jennings said he tells his players his shooting approach is simple: It’s all mental.

“To me, the whole thing is, it’s a mental thing,” he said. “You know, you’re putting up shots, and you’re missing shots, and you just got to get in the gym and shoot, and you just got to get a lot of repetition, and you got to get it in your mind. You got to believe you’re going to make it.

“And like I tell them, ‘If you miss your last one, there’s a lot better chance you’re going to make the next one, so don’t be afraid to shoot, don’t quit shooting, shoot the ball with confidence and then you’ve got a great chance to make it.’”

Tech coach Pat Knight was in the head coaches bracket before he lost

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Peja Stojakovic isn’t enough for the Mavericks. He needs to get into basketball shape, and even then his skill level would be a mystery.

Carmelo Anthony is the biggest name on the trade block, but it seems Dallas isn’t on his radar. Mark Cuban should make the call anyway.

Rip Hamilton is a question mark in Detroit. He is obviously on the block, but does he really add a better element than what the Mavs already have? If Peja can still hit the three, I would rather have Hamilton than Jason Terry.

With the Houston Rockets and Philadelphia 76ers turning things around, it seems Kevin Martin and Andre Iguodala aren’t options anymore. Phoenix’s Steve Nash and Portland’s Andre Miller are names that are whispered in trade rumors, but neither player is going

in the second round to New Mexico coach Steve Alford, 31-26.

In order to raise money, sponsors can fill out a form online stating which coach they want to follow and how much money they want to pledge per successful basket.

Jennings’ opponent in the Sweet 16, Stony Brook assistant coach Dan Rickard, said he was taking his shots Wednesday and knew he would have to bring his A-game in order to defeat Jennings.

“I told (my team) that I did my scouting report, that he hasn’t missed one yet. But I’ve been practicing; hopefully (Wednesday’s) the day, I know it’s going to be tough,” Rickard said.

Jennings has a personal record of 306 consecutively-made free throws, but Rickard said he always has been a great free-throw shooter even though he wasn’t too fast and couldn’t jump too high.

Rickard said he hasn’t received any donations yet, but he said once the Sweet 16 rolled around he expected people to start donating for such a good cause.

“It was a great idea, I think, for a great person: Skip Prosser,” he said.

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to add anything, due to the price to get them.

The real target should be Stephen Jackson or Gerald Wallace from the Charlotte Bobcats. Wallace and Jackson would both add a new style to the team. Attacking the basket is a problem with the current team. Jackson should be the main target of the two, as he has had success as a second-fiddle player. Adding Jackson wouldn’t make the Mavs the favorites, but it would certainly help their chances.

The window is closing on Dirk and this team. The Mavs need to make winning in the immediate future a high priority. It won’t be long before Dirk can’t carry the load all by himself. He needs help now if the Mavericks want to win a championship with Dirk as their star player.

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AMES, Iowa (AP) — Mike Singletary scored a seasonhigh 33 points, D'walyn Roberts added 16 with 11 rebounds and Texas Tech knocked off Iowa State 92-83 Wednesday night for its first road win of the season.

Brad Reese had 14 for the Red Raiders (10-11, 2-4 Big 12), who have won two straight after an 0-4 start in league play.

Diante Garrett had 27 points to lead the Cyclones (14-7, 1-5), who've lost five of six and have dropped three straight for the first time this season.

Texas Tech entered play just 10th in the league in field goal percentage, but the Red Raiders sliced up Iowa State's defense for 35 baskets on 27

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Fussell’s 3-pointer would prove to be the dagger, pitting Tech down four points, 69-65, with little time remaining.

Fussell did not stop, putting the final touches on the win going 6-for-6 from the charity stripe in the final 25 seconds to seal the win.

The Lady Raiders had four players in double-digits, Casey Morris with a team-high 13 points and Kierra Mallard with 12 points. Barncastle, coming off the bench, struggled from the field all night and scored just two points — both of which were from the free throw line.

“We can’t pick and choose what night we’re going to show up, and we had some kids not show up tonight” Curry said about the team’s performance. “You don’t pick and choose, if nothing else do this for somebody

assists and shot 7 of 12 from 3-point range.

Texas Tech pushed a four-point halftime lead to 14 early in the second half. Melvin Ejim's tip-in with 51 seconds left brought Iowa State within 85-80, but David Tairu quickly fed Reese for a dunk that sealed the win.

Iowa State's Jamie Vanderbeken opened the second half with a soaring dunk from the baseline, but the Cyclones wouldn't get any closer.

The Red Raiders answered with 11 straight points, capped by a Roberts bank shot in the paint, to take their biggest lead to that point at 48-35. Texas Tech pushed it to as much as 57-43 with 13:21 left, though the Cyclones quickly pulled back within striking distance at 57-51.

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Iowa State looked flat again in the early going, committing seven turnovers in the first 10 minutes as Texas Tech jumped out to an early 20-10 lead.

Garrett and Vanderbeken got the Cyclones back into it, as Garrett scored seven quick points and Vanderbeken's hook shot got them within 27-23. But Singletary drilled a 3 that gave him 19 points and the Red Raiders a 35-27 lead with 3:44 left in the first half.

This looked to be a critical week for the Cyclones to get back in the Big 12 race with Texas Tech and Oklahoma visiting Ames, but Wednesday night's loss left them alone in last place in the league.

Jake Anderson added 15 points and 12 rebounds for Iowa State, which kept it close by shooting 23 of 25 from the line.

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“It was a little disappointing tonight as far as how we responded from last week I thought.”

The Lady Raiders travel to Nebraska on Saturday before getting next week off to prepare for No. 6 Texas A&M on Feb. 5.

It has been a downhill slide for the Lady Raiders since starting 3-0 in the Big 12, but Tech guard Casey Morris said the players just have to keep going and can’t get too down about the recent slump.

“I think we just need to stay together, stay positive in practice,” she said. “Know that this happens to every team, every once in a while. So we just have to stay positive, and stay strong as a team.”

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away, but Singletary — playing with four fouls for the final 11:24 — hit a pair of buckets in the paint as the Red Raiders took a 72-62 lead with 5:41 left.

That would be a recurring theme for Iowa State, which could never quite get close enough to make a game of it.

Texas Tech was coming off its first Big 12 win, a 72-71 thriller over Nebraska. Roberts tipped in the game-winner with 3.8 seconds left to give the Red Raiders just their fourth victory in 12 games.

Iowa State took Oklahoma State to the wire in Stillwater last week before falling in OT, 96-87.

The Cyclones then got held up by bad weather trying to get home and instead went straight to Missouri, where they got drilled 87-54 in by far their worst performance of the season.

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For a third consecutive game, Texas Tech went into the locker room with a lead. The result: another loss.

A three-minute-and-20-second stretch of scoreless basketball for the Lady Raiders to start the second half gave the Longhorns the momentum needed to battle back and clinch the 75-67 victory.

“Give Texas credit; I think you have to give them credit for being aggressive and for making plays,” Tech coach Kristy Curry said after the loss. “They were able to make some plays offensively, and we weren’t.

They were more aggressive there to start the second half, and that’s hampered us lately.”

This is the third-straight Big 12 Conference loss suffered by Tech (16-4, 3-3 in Big 12 play), while Texas (14-7, 2-4) has now won its last two conference games.

Curry made a slight change to the starting lineup replacing Jordan Barncastle with Chynna Brown, which seemed to work for a portion of the game.

But in the end, freshman phenom Chassidy Fussell paced the Longhorns, scoring 16 of her 22 points in the second half. Fussell also led the Longhorns with eight boards — Texas outrebounded Tech 43-26.

Texas’ Kathleen and Kristen Nash also had productive nights as they both recorded double-digit performances scoring 12 and 11 points, respectively.

With 3:18 left in the game the Lady Raiders had cut the lead down to three points, and the game began to show glimpses of another nail biter.

But every time Tech would come close to taking the lead in the final minutes, Texas crushed hopes of a Lady Raider comeback with several crucial shots.

With 1:04 left in the game, and the shot clock running down, Fussell was double teamed at the top of the key. As the shot clock wound down to one second, Fussell took an off balanced, no look 3-pointer that banked in off the glass.

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TEXAS TECH GUARD Casey Morris shoots the ball over Longhorn guard Ashleigh Fontenette during the Lady Raiders’ loss against Texas on Wednesday at the United Spirit Arena.

Tech basketball assistant Jennings gives new meaning to charity stripe

By TOMMY MAGELSSEN NEWS EDITOR

One of the most prolific scorers in Texas Tech basketball history is at it again.

Assistant coach Bubba Jennings is one of 128 college basketball coaches taking part in the Shots From the Heart campaign benefiting the American Heart Association. The program is specifically targeted at raising awareness about heart disease, the ailment that claimed former Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser in 2007.

There are two divisions: one for

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head coaches and one for assistant coaches. Each month, a coach will take on another in a head-to-head free-throw competition. The two coaches do not need to shoot at the same time or in the same arena, but they do need someone there to make sure they tally their shots correctly.

Each coach attempts 25 free throws in one sitting, earning one point for each of the first 20 shots.

In order to help prevent ties, shots 21 through 24 are each worth two points while the 25th shot is worth three.

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TEXAS TECH ASSISTANT Coach Bubba Jennings is in the Sweet 16 of a free-throw competition for college basketball coaches benefiting the American Heart Association.

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he Dallas Mavericks can’t win the NBA championship—not with this roster.

The Mavericks went from what looked like a sure-fire title contender to the outskirts of the championship discussion. It all happened in a matter of weeks in late December and January.

Dirk Nowitzki, one of the few players worth paying to see play basketball, went down with a knee injury for an extended period of time.

Then Caron Butler went down for the season. Then it all went to pieces for the Mavericks.

The Mavs went from right up at the top of the conference to the middle of the pack. Now they sit eight and a half games behind the Spurs in the Southwest division. The Hornets are hot on their heels. So are the Jazz, Nuggets and Thunder.

The Mavericks need help, and they need it now.

Dirk Nowitzki is one of the most under-appreciated players in the NBA. Dallas fans hold the 2006 championship collapse against Dirk.

They also hold the first-round exit against Golden State the next year against him. It really just isn’t fair.

Dirk has never had a real compliment player. He has never had a very good center.

No player in the league wins an NBA championship by himself. Dirk needs help, and he has never had it.

It looked as though Caron Butler

Cody Stoots was going to finally be the answer, but his regular season is over. Tyson Chandler has been huge for the Mavericks as well. His presence on defense makes the weak defense so much better.

Jason Terry has never turned into the second option many hoped he would. Jason Kidd, acquired in the infamous Devon Harris deal, has been a fantastic game manager, but Kidd’s triple-double days are behind him.

The bench is thin. DeShawn Stevenson and Shawn Marion provide a nice combo, but neither are huge threats. J.J. Barea, despite flashes of offensive brilliance, is a huge liability on the court.

The Mavericks are giving Dirk role players to work with, and that will not help them compete for a championship now. He doesn’t have time for the likes of Rodrigue Beaubois to get healthy. Even then, Roddy B isn’t the answer as a second option.

The Mavericks need to do everything in their power to get another premier player on their team.

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Woods looks for fresh start at Torrey Pines SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines felt like the start of any other season on the PGA Tour, except when he awoke at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday and realized he had plenty of time on his hands.

Gone was the crack-of-dawn tee time in the pro-am that had belonged to him for so many years, a product of being the No. 1 player. He was 68th on the money list last year and no longer gets first pick of the best tee times.

“I get to sleep in a little bit,” Woods said. “Got up at 3:30 this morning not knowing what to do.”

He isn’t the defending champion, even though Woods hasn’t lost at Torrey Pines since 2004. Then again, he hasn’t played since 2008 because of knee surgery, followed by an imploding personal life last year.

Woods said he is looking forward to the Farmers Insurance Open, which can be interpreted so many ways.

It’s a new year, and he would just as soon forget about the last one.

Woods failed to win anywhere in the world for the first time in his pro career while going through a divorce brought on by his extramarital affairs.

He also feels that he has restored a sense of balance to his life, and he’s eager to see how that will translate to golf.

“I think in order to play this game at a high level, it helps to have a clear mind,” Woods said before going out for his 11 a.m. pro-am time on the South Course. “I’ve played at the high levels before in the past without a clear mind, but it helps to be consistent. It helps having your life in balance. Certainly, my life is much more balanced than it was in the past. That’s exciting for me. I think it’s exciting for my kids, and we’re really looking forward to it.”

Woods and Phil Mickelson are the top attractions, as always, even though it’s odd to promote them as No. 3 and No. 5 in the world. Mickelson’s distractions last year weren’t self-inflicted. He had to cope with arthritis the second half of the season, and now can resume is workouts and other preparations.

“I’ve been antsy to get back and play,” Mickelson said. “I didn’t finish the year the way I wanted to, and I wanted to try to make 2011 the year that I thought 2010 was going to be.”

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