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Connor Curry overcomes obstacles through tennis

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Connor Curry, a junior Tech tennis player, has been on the team since his freshman year. Curry finished the fall season with a 7-3 singles record.

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1. Protestors raise their signs as they participate in the "No Bans No Walls" protest at Tim Cole Memorial Park on Tuesday.

The protest was hosted in response to President Trump's executive order on immigration. 2. Melissa Unruh and her child, Daniel Unruh, hold up signs to protest Trump’s executive order. 3. A protester voices her concerns during the protest near the intersection of 19th Street and University Avenue on Tuesday.

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When one is hit with a family tragedy, it is easy to lie down and give up. Junior tennis player Connor Curry knows tragedy all too well. His love for tennis and ability to surmount obstacles is something to be admired.

Curry is a student athlete for the Texas Tech men’s tennis team.

He grew up in Wichita Falls and attended Rider High School.

He played tennis all through high school, except for his junior year because he spent spring 2013 on an international stage, according to Tech Athletics.

He did, however, have to spend some time off, not for the international stage, but because of obstacles in his athletic career and his personal life.

“Freshman year, I broke my ankle, and I was out for half a year, maybe a little longer, and it made

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me realize I don’t like tennis. I just wanted to quit,” Curry said. “But, when I was off for a while, it made me realize that I love playing tennis, and I love competing. It really changed my attitude, and to get a college scholarship is what I strived for, and tennis gave me that opportunity.”

Curry said he chose to come to Tech because when his brother, a former Tech tennis player, came to visit, Curry tagged along and even had tennis tournaments in Lubbock.

Tech was not the only university to offer Curry a scholarship. He chose Tech over offers from LSU and Arkansas, according to Tech Athletics.

“I don’t know if Tech was my first offer,” Curry said. “There were some other ones that I visited like LSU and some other ones. The top two were probably Tech and LSU. I didn’t have that much interest in any other school, honestly.”

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he unusually warm January night brought more than 1,000 people to what seemed like a party. In fact, there were balloons, food, costumes and even a Donald Trump-shaped piñata.

Crowds began to gather at Tim Cole Memorial Park at 19th Street and University Avenue at around 5 p.m. on Tuesday to protest an executive order signed by President Trump on Friday that bans anyone with passports from Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and Sudan from entering the United States for 90 days or longer.

The idea for the protest began with Cagri Bakirci, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who created a Facebook event on Sunday to get an idea of how the people in and around Lubbock felt

about the executive order.

Eventually, it turned into a fullblown event, and people soon began to organize the protest at Tim Cole park.

“We’re here to show our disapproval for Trump’s executive actions in his first 11 days in office,” Trevor Bohlender, Lubbock resident, said. “Specifically, his proposal to build a border wall and ban Muslim immigrants from entering the United States.”

For Bohlender, the protest was a call to action to bring a band of unity within the community. It was also a way to take a stand against the normalization of hatred and bigotry, he said.

The protest was organized to voice concerns of Trump’s fascism, Bohlender said, and it seemed like a way to call out Trump’s disdain for what he considers biased media.

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School of Music prepares for TMEA conference

By KIRBY WARNER Staff Writer

The Texas Music Educators Association will host a convention for all levels of music education in San Antonio from Feb. 8-11.

According to the TMEA website, the organization was founded in 1920 as the Texas Band Teachers Association. Today, TMEA consists of more than 12,000 educators in music, and it is divided into five divisions: Band, Orchestra, Vocal, Elementary and College.

Keith Dye, former president on the TMEA board, said the TMEA conference is hosted each February for all state orchestras, bands, choirs and jazz bands.

Dye is also the associate dean of undergraduate and curricular issues for J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts.

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1. The School of Music’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble practices inside Himmle Recital Hall Tuesday afternoon.

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform a showcase program at the TMEA convention this weekend.

“For a school-oriented conference,” Dye said, “it’s the largest thing of its kind in the world.”

As many as 35 events occur at the conferences, along with an exhibit hall with 1,100 vendors for music-education tools and fundraising, Dye said.

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DeVos steps closer to education secretary, concerns still looming

By MICHAEL CANTU News Editor

One step closer to being confirmed as the newest secretary of education for the United States, Betsy DeVos was approved by the Senate education committee on a 12-11 party line vote.

The vote, which occurred on Tuesday, does not as-

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sure that she will get the votes needed to become the next secretary of education, according to CAVAZOS U.S. News and World Report. DeVos has been one of the most contentious nomination picks because of her stance on education policy, students with disabilities and charter school funding.

Funding for the education sector in the U.S. is already tight, and trying to add on funding for charter school education may result in a challenge for both public high schools and universities, Lauro Cavazos, former secretary of education, said.

Cavazos is also a former Texas Tech president and a Tech alumnus.

“When you really get down to it in terms of an appointment of anybody to the cabinet, and I don’t want to say anything negative about Betsy DeVos,” Cavazos said. “I’m just telling you the qualifications for the job, and I don’t see them.”

Many political pundits point to DeVos’ status as an affluent citizen and a large contributor to Donald

Trump’s presidential campaign as one of the primary reasons she is being considered for the position, according to Forbes magazine.

During the campaign, she gave nearly $200 million to the Trump campaign, according to Forbes.

“It’s hardly a qualification. So, I really think that I can’t predict that she gets confirmed. It can be quite pressing there,” Cavazos said. “I was lucky in the fact that I had no problem there. I had a very modest income, and all of these education credentials.”

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need to do everything we can to protect our country’s citizens,” Vankirk said.

Overstepping the boundaries of the presidency was a hot-button issue at the protest. People against the executive order found Trump to be overstepping, and the counter-protestors found the last eight years under Obama to be tyrannical, Ann Runnels, a Lubbock resident, said.

“We stood by for eight years while Obama did whatever he pleased,” Runnels said. “Now, it’s the Republicans who are in charge, and there’s been backlash. The conservatives would never take this action against their own president.”

While people were chanting near the street, they did fall victim to some backlash from passers-by.

One protestor, Fiker Tesfaye, a sophomore sociology major from Denton, said she was hit in the face by something that was thrown from a passing vehicle.

“Someone was turning, and there was honking and yelling,” Tesfaye said. “In all the confusion, I didn’t even see what it was that hit me. After that, I just had more motivation to keep chanting and supporting this protest.”

The protest was scheduled to last until 8 p.m.

However, it was disrupted by the Lubbock Police Department a bit early. At ap-

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“When the media reports on something, it is making claims that are backed by evidence and has arguments rooted in fact,” Bohlender said. “So, discrediting the facts that don’t support your cause is a tool used by anyone seeking authoritarian control.”

However, not all the people who attended the protest were under the same mindset. On the other side of University Avenue was a small group of counterprotestors, who were hoping to have a say in their opinions of Trump.

For some, there is a lack of patience that does not give Trump a fair shot at a successful presidency, Norma Vankirk, a Lubbock resident, said. For her, there is nothing wrong with people immigrating as long as they do it legally.

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I’m just telling you the qualifications for the job, and I don’t see them.

Lauro Cavazos Former Sec. of Education Having been through the process in the late 1980s as a cabinet nominee for former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and a hold-over for George H.W. Bush, Cavazos said the process is vigorous and trying, especially for someone with known political beliefs.

Though he was confirmed unanimously, he said there is almost no way to predict what direction the Senate committee will vote when deciding on DeVos’ appointment, especially in such a contentious political climate.

“When you look at secretaries and you look at the education description on how many of our education secretaries have been K-12 teachers and how many of them have had higher-ed experience,” Valerie Paton, professor of higher education, said. “The first one is, most of them have had some high-level foundation or governing board roles or school board roles.”

Experience in both higher education and public schools from kindergarten to high school is what gives secretaries insight as to how to improve the systems, Paton said.

So, once a secretary is confirmed, his job is to appoint people to under secretary positions that have specific roles in education, she said.

That means when it comes to higher education, there is a person who is hand-picked to cover the areas of federal student aid and the Office of Civil Rights.

This would mean a department would have the

opportunity to either change rules or not enforce them, she said.

“One of the immePATON diate things that has been anticipated is the change in enforcement under Title IX rules,” Paton said. “And where the Obama administration have been aggressive on sexual assault, it’s anticipated that a new secretary of education will begin to back off.”

That could make some rules and regulations hard to interpret for many institutions of higher education around the country, she said.

In turn that would have a profound impact on pending or upcoming lawsuits because they skew the interpretations of judication and universities standards.

An issue such as that would be costly because of the extra barriers that universities would have to go through, she said. Most of the burden would land on tax-payers’ money.

“The other one that is very costly to tax-payer is the for-profit (universities) and their access to federal student aid fuds, which are

all tax-payer funded,” Paton said. “Sometimes, we talk about the federal budget. I mean, it’s all ours. We lose sight of that, we act like we don’t pay taxes every year.”

This was especially a problem under the administration of former President George W. Bush, whose distortion allowed many forprofit or private universities to access more federal funds, she said. That increased the debt of the education department and the nation.

Helping public schools is one of the more important matters an education secretary has to deal with, Cavazos said. It is important to the state of the country’s education system to keep public schools intact and well-funded.

“When you get right down to it, I guess I was bothered when people would say, ‘We’re going to create charter schools, because the public schools aren’t any good,’” Cavazos said.

“Well, why don’t you fix the public schools, why create another school system?

Basically, they are saying, ‘Let’s create something else and leave the public schools, and they’ll flounder along, and who knows what will happen to them.’” @MichaelCantuDT

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Counter protesters supporting President Donald Trump’s executive order preventing immigrants with passports to travel from several countries for 90 days, entered the crowd of No Bans No Walls protesters on Tuesday. The protest was hosted from 5-8 p.m. at Tim Cole Memorial Park. proximately 7:45 p.m., LPD had to disperse the protest because of safety concerns.

Throughout most of the evening, police officers repeatedly passed by the park to remind protestors not to walk into the street and create a safety hazard, according to an LPD news release. Numerous times, vehicles almost hit protestors because they were too close to the curb.

“One female, who was using a bullhorn, continued to enter the roadway despite multiple warnings to step back onto the curb,” the release stated.

“For her safety and the motorists’ safety, our officers made the decision to arrest the female, 20-yearold Deema Alhesan, for obstructing a highway.”

After the arrest was made, several other protestors began to yell and step into the roadway, and that was when the decision was made to disperse the crowd, according to the release.

Several officers moved in on the protesters and because of safety concerns, there were a few officers in protective gear, who moved in, as well.

For those who attended

the protest, that was only a small bump within the impact they were hoping to have. The point was to highlight issues people are having with Trump and some of the decisions he is making, Tesfaye said.

“I think we’re only spotlighting issues that have existed for a long time by protesting here,” Tesfaye said. “The only people who don’t think that banning an entire religion from a country is a shame are people who are privileged enough to have it not affect them.” @DailyToreador

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Gov Abbott implements hiring freeze to cut spending A hiring freeze for state employees, including those at Texas Tech, was enacted by Gov. Greg Abbott during Tuesday’s State of the State address.

The freeze keeps agencies from filling any open positions, as well posting new jobs, according to The

Texas Tribune.

State universities are included in the hiring freeze, but there are exceptions. Positions funded by non-state appropriated money can continue to be filled, according to The Texas Tribune.

“The state’s public institu-

tions of higher learning are included in today’s directive from the Governor,” Chris Cook, managing director of the Tech Office of Communications and Marketing, said in an emailed statement. “We are currently gathering information so we can better understand the impact on the university and

working with the Texas Tech University System to issue a coordinated response.”

The freeze was put in place to cut state spending, Abbott said in the address.

About $200 million should be freed in the budget as a result of this freeze. @McKenziMorrisDT

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Resources on campus provide app-like assistance

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a s t s e m e s t e r, I would be heading to an appointment and using every opportunity that presented itself at red lights to locate an email on my cellphone that had the address for my next destination.

Just before I was about to decide to pull off into a parking lot to make a call, I was fighting with that blessed thing and losing the conflict when a message popped that saved the day: “Download the new Tech Email app,” or some such thing.

The slogan, “There’s an app for that!” isn’t just a catchy phrase anymore but the reality of today’s mobile technology.

Tanya Jones is a senior English major from Lubbock.

Many day-to-day tasks can be accomplished with a mobile device application, also called an app.

Restaurant reservations, prepaid meal orders, grocery shopping are just a few things you can do with an app by phone or other mobile devices while waiting for a class or considering what comes next in your day.

Where games and widgets and other functions were the practical uses to which apps were applied

in past, they have now become tools that are on par with the household broom or vacuum, the pencil sharpener or even the travel mug.

There are apps for success in the university, as well. While the mobile device app facilitates efficiency in our lives, another type of application is definitely the way to accomplish something even more important. I’m speaking of personal application to ensure academic success.

Everyone wants to succeed in school. Well, almost everyone wants to succeed. Surprisingly few students know instinctively how that is done.

One thing is for sure.

Without personal application — translated to mean hard work, dedicated effort and efficient use of time — success won’t be achieved.

I was hanging out at the library a few weeks ago when I noticed a poster that read, “Study, a game changer.”

A few weeks later another poster said, “Bring your A game.” The message is that one must bring something to the playing field to win the game.

The user app you’d apply to this task isn’t as effortless as using a mobile app.

No football game is won without the locker room pep talk (support and en-

couragement), the training of muscle memory (exercise and practice) and coaching or the sharing of experience and technique.

Everyone wants to succeed in school.

Well, almost everyone wants to succeed.

Surprisingly few students know instinctively how that is done.

Texas Tech provides a plethora, literally, of resources to aid you and me in

achieving success throughout our college experience.

If you don’t take advantage of any other resources on campus, take advantage of Support Operations for Academic Retention and the University Writing Center.

Support Operations for Academic Retention is there for any student who wants to develop personal strategies and learn triedand-true techniques to become a master student.

The University Writing Center is available to students to help them develop good writing skills so they can better facilitate effective learning. tjones@dailytoreador.com

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Schovanec’s statement on executive order lacks real concern

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wanted to comment on Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec’s statement on the recent executive order by President Donald Trump.

Quite frankly, the neutrally worded statement from Schovanec was disappointing and conveyed little, if any, genuine concern for the well-being of

Howard Huynh is a graduate student studying biological sciences from Canada.

some of Tech’s international students.

I am a Canadian citizen, who decided to pursue graduate studies here in the USA. When I chose to study at Tech, I was pleasantly surprised to see how

diverse the student body is and how Tech openly acknowledges and celebrates its diversity.

In my opinion, this new executive order by Trump is an affront to the values of open-mindedness, tolerance and multiculturalism, which help make this country and many of its universities — including

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this one — great.

International students and faculty provide more than just intellectual contributions to our community; they help enrich campus life by bringing and sharing different perspectives of the world via their own cultural upbringing and practices; for example, we see this

in different foods, dances, songs, literature, spiritual beliefs and so on.

By not denouncing this executive order — which is an ill-conceived policy that is also devoid of compassion and humanity — Schovanec is sending a message that Tech will turn a blind eye toward policies that attack equali-

ty and inclusiveness. Both are values that not only uphold the foundation of this country but also form the core of academic life on university campuses.

Adopting such a stance should be the act and responsibility of a leader of an institution that embodies open-mindedness, tolerance and diversity.

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Deaths mount daily as renewed fighting hits eastern Ukraine

Army Corps of Engineers told to approve pipeline easement

AVDIIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Heavy artillery and rockets hit residential areas in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday amid a new outburst of fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens.

Salvos of heavy-caliber artillery were heard throughout the night and late morning in Avdiivka, a town on the northern outskirts of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk where residents have been without electricity for days. In Donetsk, at least one civilian was killed by shrapnel.

The U.N. Security Council called for “an immediate return to the cease-fire regime,” a call echoed by the U.N. spokesman. Council members, including Ukraine which is serving a two-year term, expressed “grave concern about the dangerous deterioration of the situation in the eastern Ukraine and its severe impact on the local civilian population.”

The council condemned

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers was ordered to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline to proceed under a disputed Missouri River crossing, North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said on Tuesday, the latest twist in a months-long legal battle over the $3.8 billion project.

The Standing Rock Sioux, whose opposition to the project attracted thousands of supporters from around the country to North Dakota, immediately vowed to again go to court to stop it.

Hoeven announced late Tuesday that the acting Secretary of the Army, Robert Speer, had directed the Army Corps of Engineers to “proceed” with an easement necessary to complete the pipeline. Hoeven said he also spoke with Vice President Mike Pence, just a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order signaling his support for the project.

A spokesman for the U.S. Army did not immediately

the use of weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements on ending the conflict and called for their implementation. Members also expressed “full support” for the “sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

Fighting around Avdiivka has cut water and power supplies for most of the town and it was left without heating in the dead of winter. Temperatures plunged to minus 18 Celsius (zero Fahrenheit) Tuesday morning.

The warring sides blamed each other for the spike in hostilities, the worst in months.

The Ukrainian government was considering evacuating 12,000 residents from Avdiivka, Pavlo Zhebrivsky, head of the administration in charge of the government-controlled parts of the Donetsk region, said on Facebook.

Wi t h n o s i g n s o f a n immediate evacuation in sight, some residents went to a local bus station, hoping to get away from the heavy shelling.

Volodymyr Bassak, 67, was waiting to catch a bus

Tuesday morning to a city some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north because of the lack of heat in his home.

“The house was shaking — (shelling) was really intense at about four in the morning,” Bassak said as he brushed tears from his eyes.

“There were flames along the front line.”

Valery Tretyakov said he was having tea at home in Donetsk when he heard a big explosion and the sound of shattered glass. He rushed into the bedroom and saw his wife bleeding from a shrapnel wound to her neck that proved fatal.

“It was impossible to stop bleeding,” Tretyakov said.

“One minute and that’s all.”

The rebels’ Donetsk News Agency also reported that four fighters died and seven were injured overnight along with three civilians.

Oleksandr Turchynov, chairman of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council, said on Tuesday that shelling around Avdiivka killed at least three government troops and injured 24 more. Another

respond to requests for comment Tuesday night.

Hoeven spokesman Don Canton says that Speer’s move means the easement “isn’t quite issued yet, but they plan to approve it” within days.

The crossing under Lake Oahe, a wide section of the Missouri River in southern North Dakota, is the final big chunk of work on the fourstate, $3.8 billion pipeline to carry North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois. President Donald Trump on Jan. 24 called on the Army Corps of Engineers to reconsider its December decision to withhold permission until more study is done on the crossing.

The pipeline has been the target of months of protests led by the Standing Rock Sioux, whose reservation lies near the pipeline’s route and who have argued that it’s a threat to water.

The tribe has vowed to challenge any granting of the easement in court, and Chairman Dave Archambault renewed that vow

Tuesday night.

“If it does become a done deal in the next few days, we’ll take it to the judicial system,” Archambault said.

He added: “This is a good indicator of what this country is going to be up against in the next four years. So America has to brace itself.”

The developer, Texasbased Energy Transfer Partners, says the pipeline would be safe.

An environmental assessment conducted last year determined the crossing would not have a significant impact on the environment. However, thenAssistant Army Secretary for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy on Dec. 4 declined to issue an easement, saying a broader environmental study was warranted in the wake of opposition by the Standing Rock Sioux.

Energy Transfer Parters called Darcy’s decision politically motivated and accused then-President Barack Obama’s administration of delaying the matter until he left office.

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Betsy DeVos may have used official’s remarks without attribution WASHINGTON (AP) — Education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos appears to have used quotes from an Obama administration official without attribution in her written responses to questions from Democrats considering her nomination.

D e Vo s ’ n o m i n a t i o n cleared the Senate Health, Education, Pensions and Labor Committee on Tuesday, despite fierce opposition from Democrats.

In response to a ques-

tion on LGBT rights, DeVos wrote to Sen. Patty Murray, the committee’s top Democrat, “Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.”

The quote appears to closely track a statement

by Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, who said in a May press release, “Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment

that allows them to thrive and grow.”

Answering a question about civil rights protections, DeVos also used a phrase that appears to copy a document on the Education Department website almost word for word.

The Washington Post was first to report on the coincidences.

“Upon initial review, many of the responses look copied and pasted from previous statements, or are simple reiterations of the

law and not true responses at all,” Murray said ahead of the committee vote.

Rob Goad, a White House official tasked with education policy, called the plagiarism allegations “character assassination.”

“The secretary-designate has long referenced the need for safe and supportive learning environments, free of discrimination, for all students, so that they can learn, achieve, thrive, grow, and lead successful productive

lives. These heartfelt words are not the domain of any one individual,” Goad said in a statement. “To level an accusation against her about these words included in responses to nearly 1,400 questions — 139 alone from the ranking member — is simply a desperate attempt to discredit Betsy DeVos, who will serve the Department of Education and our nation’s children with distinction if confirmed.”

This isn’t the first time when Trump’s team has

had to fight off plagiarism allegations. Melania Trump was accused of copying parts of Michelle Obama’s speech during her remarks at the Republican National Convention over the summer.

Also, conservative commentator Monica Crowley had been tapped to be director of strategic communications at the National Security Council but withdrew from consideration after accusations of plagiarism.

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Physics professor develops interactive classes

By AKHILA REDDY Staff Writer

Every day, students prepare to go to class and hear lectures.

However, in the physics department, new inquiry-based classes introduce a more handson, interactive approach to learning in the classroom.

The physics department has had one section of algebrabased physics class that is inquiry-based for many years, Beth Thacker, associate professor of physics, said. Thacker developed these classes, and students run experiments and reach conclusions from their own data rather than relying on textbooks or lectures.

“It’s more interactive, and you’re not just sitting and listening to a lecture,” Thacker said.

“You’re doing things all the time.”

This year, the physics department has expanded these inquiry-based classes, she said.

In past years, the class sizes have been around 24, but now the department offers two sec-

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The main features of the conference, however, are the all-state group concerts and professional teacher-development clinics occurring at all educational levels, Dye said.

“It’s very active,” Dye said, “takes up the whole San Antonio convention center, ends up booking almost every hotel room in downtown San Antonio.”

In addition to the allstate groups, Texas Tech has featured performance g r o u p s t h a t h a v e p e rformed at past conferences, Dye said. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform this year.

Sarah McKoin, the conductor and musical director of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, said the ensemble is one of three college bands in the state that the TMEA has invited to perform at the conference.

“It will be a major performing and recruiting event for us,” McKoin said, “because of all the teachers and students that will be there.”

There will be a send-off concert before the Symphonic Wind Ensemble goes to the conference at 7:30 p.m.

Friday night, McKoin said.

The send-off concert provides a look at what the ensemble will play at the concert itself, with eight faculty performers and 65 student performers, McKoin said.

“This really is a strong representation of the best artists and music making in the School of Music,” McKoin said.

Some of the pieces that

will be performed and conducted by other faculty include “Little Fugue in G Minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach, “Sinfonietta”

by Ingolf Dahl, “Mothership” by Mason Bates and a larger work for violins by Annie Chalex Boyle, a violin professor for the School of Music, McKoin said.

Matthew Crisman, a graduate student in saxophone performance from Alpharetta, Georgia, said it is amazing to be able to make music with the people of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble each day.

“It’s a huge collective effort,” Crisman said, “I think it’s going to pay off.”

Crisman said the sendoff performance begins a

tour that goes to several high schools before the conference such as Vandegrift High School, Westlake High School and Reagan High School.

Overall, the advocacy for music education is the most important part of the TMEA conference, Dye said.

“I think, done correctly,” Dye said, “it can be very stimulating in terms of intellectual development in a way other subjects can’t be.”

Music education is also a rather social aspect, as everyone can contribute, Dye said.

Crisman said music education allows for an active and engaging method of group effort that no other subject can replicate.

tions of algebra-based general physics 2, each of which can accommodate 60 students.

Thacker said the main obstacle to implementing these pilot classes was finding enough rooms to do so.

“Just recently, we’ve gotten a big enough room by knocking down the wall basically between two labs,” Thacker said.

There are many benefits to these classes, Thacker said.

Compared to students in the regular sections, students in the inquiry-based sections scored higher in critical thinking, content knowledge and lab skills in a large-scale assessment.

The skills that students gain in this class extend beyond physics and into a variety of fields, Thacker said.

“What we’ve written into the material is a critical thinking component,” Thacker said. “Not only are you learning physics but you’re learning how to think critically, so your brain is always engaged all the time and (those skills are) going to trans“I really do think music education is the most inclusive group experience a student can go through,” Crisman said.

Crisman said he hopes people walk away from the conference performance amazed with not just the music Tech produces but music itself.

McKoin said she wants her students to experience the joy and benefits that come with music making.

“Music making is a shared and passionate experience,” McKoin said, “and I want them to feel that and enjoy that.

They’ll remember this concert for the rest of their lives.”

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“It’s more interactive, and I know students like that. They tell me that, and their assessment scores also reflect it,” she said.

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McKinley said she wishes more of her classes were interactive and discussion-based.

“I think humans naturally learn better when we are using our hands and actually seeing the way things work together,” McKinley said.

The department hopes to have more inquiry-based classes, Thacker said. While some students do better with traditional styles of learning, the members of the physics department have seen so far that the majority of students perform better in the inquiry-based classes.

“This is a new style of teaching. This is what people are doing now, and I think Tech should have more of that,” Thacker said.

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Keith West, a physics instructor of the pilot classes, said it is easier for students to retain material they learn in these pilot classes as opposed to traditional lectures.

When the results are different from what was anticipated, the students are expected to deal with it and come up with an explanation, West said. Allowing students to experience this firsthand in the lab classes makes the information easier to grasp and remember.

“The experience creates more impactful learning for whatever you’re investigating,” West said.

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By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

The Lady Raiders will host the Kansas State Lady Wildcats at 6:30 p.m. today in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Texas Tech will look to redeem itself from the loss to Kansas State earlier in the season.

Tech is looking to break its four-game losing streak against Kansas State.

In the Lady Raiders’ most recent contest, Tech fell short to Kansas Jayhawks, 66-60.

The Lady Raiders are 11-9 overall, 3-6 in Big 12 Conference play and 0-8 in away games.

For the second game in a row, redshirt senior guard Ivonne CookTaylor led the team in points with 14 in Saturday’s contest against Kansas, according to the Tech Athletics website. She also had eight rebounds.

“We’ve got to play better,” Tech coach Candi Whitaker said. “There’s not a ton of secrets. You’ve got to play as hard as you can. You’ve got to play with tempo, you’ve got to execute, you’ve got to make shots, and you’ve got to have extra effort on the boards. We didn’t have that at Kansas.”

Earlier in the season, Tech lost to Kansas State on Jan.

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In Kansas State’s previous game against Oklahoma State on Saturday, the Lady Wildcats defeated the Lady Cowboys, 74-69.

Kansas State is heading into today’s game with an 16-6 overall record and 6-4 record in Big 12 play.

“We saw four different defenses last time we were there,” Whitaker said. “We’ll understand that and see that and recognize it if we see multiple defenses again.”

In previous games, like the game against Kansas, the Lady Raiders have had a slow start in the first quarter.

The team put up just 12 points during the first quarter compared to 21 in the fourth quarter against Kansas, according to Tech Athletics.

“They’ve got to be set on go. They’ve got to come out and play as hard as they can,” Whitaker said. “I do think at times, you can kind of see that, and then when they get into a rhythm and some shots go too often, our offense affects our defense. If the ball’s not going in, that’s when you have to be that much better on the defensive end. This young team hasn’t caught on to that.”

Although the ladies are

on a four-game losing streak, their most recent away game against No. 22 West Virginia showed the improvements made on the road. Tech put up 55 points in the second half of the game, but the momentum was not enough to drive the Lady Raiders ahead of the Lady Mountaineers.

Whitaker said she was impressed with how Tech played during the second half of the West Virginia game. She hopes the team can learn to maintain that momentum throughout the game as Tech heads into more conference games.

“At West Virginia, I was really proud of the second half and the response and the quick response,” Whitaker said. “To start the third quarter, the way they did tells me, why can’t you start the first quarter like that? That was by far the best we played on the road, was that second half. If we hadn’t dug quite a hole, we could have maybe upset that team, and they’re really good. I think there’s signs of how good we can be. It’s just how do we tap into that for 40 minutes.”

Senior point guard Kindred Wesemann has been a key player for Kansas State in the past couple of games.

In Kansas State’s most

recent game against the Lady Cowboys, Wesemann led the team in points with 34. She also had two rebounds and one steal, according to the Kansas State Athletics website.

“She’s really good,” Whitaker said. “A high, high motor point guard that is a senior, that’s playing like a senior.

Her team struggled against Oklahoma State at times,

and she really stepped up and made big plays, and it was a tight game and kept them in, and then won it for them. She’s definitely a kid that can get hot, and I think carried them.”

The Lady Raiders have an almost perfect record at home going 10-1.

The only team Tech has lost to at home is Texas. The Red Raider lost to the Longhorns

on Jan. 21, 77-57.

“I think we play better at home,” Whitaker said. “We haven’t had the best starts at home, but we’ve played better, we’ve shot it better, and we’ve looked more comfortable. But we’ve got to come out as hard as we can and be good on both ends. It’s just really critical that we have great defense as well.”

try and No. 2 player in Texas, according to Tech Athletics.

At Tech, Curry spent most of his freshman year at the No. 6 singles spot and went 6-9, according to Tech Athletics. Curry even spent a couple of matches

at the No. 5 spot during his freshman year and went 2-1 during that time.

“Connor Curry is another great player from Wichita Falls.

I really have just kind of told him how special he is as a

player. I’m hoping now he is starting to believe it,” coach Brett Masi said.

On top of having to deal with the wear and tear of being a student athlete, Curry said he also worries about his grades

like every other college student.

“Freshman year, I wasn’t very good on the grades, but it’s about time management, and you have to stay ahead of it. If you start out strong and have a good foundation at the

start of the year, that really sets you up for good stuff,” Curry said. “So, you just have to manage time.”

Curry also said one of his best friends plays tennis. When they are both home, they like to play together to stay in shape.

“We’ll practice and then run,” Curry said. “There’s this dirt hill, and we’ll do sprints up that. We still work hard. It’s not like the lifting and circuits we do here, but we still work hard.”

The transition from his hometown to Lubbock was simple, Curry said.

“Honestly, they are kind of similar,” he said. “Wichita Falls has a D2 school, and the population is bigger here, but the people in both cities are the same. So, it was an easy transition.”

His freshman year was anything but simple after his broken ankle. Curry and his family was hit with devastating news when his brother was in a car accident. The accident hindered his brother’s ability to continue to play tennis.

Curry said his brother’s love for tennis and recovery is something he admires to this day.

“It was kind of a rough year for us. I was pretty young at that time. So, I really didn’t know exactly what to think. When it happened, I kind of went a little quiet and really didn’t know what to do,” Curry said.

“Then, I got a little older and realized that everything kind of happens for a reason, and it gave me more motivation to do good, to come to Tech and finish what he started.”

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Junior guard Larryn Brooks goes for the layup against the Lady Longhorns on Jan. 21 were Texas Tech was defeated by Texas, 77-57. The Lady Raiders host Kansas State at 6:30 p.m. today in the United Supermarkets Arena.

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