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The Texas Tech flag in Memorial Circle will be lowered today in honor of student Pat Gilliam, who died Thursday.

Gilliam, a senior university studies major from Lubbock, was the recruiting/outreach specialist for Military and Veterans Programs, according to the MVP website.

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Texas Gov. Abbott to declare Chris Kyle Day AUSTIN (AP) — Recently sworn-in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday he intends to declare today Chris Kyle Day in Texas.

The announcement comes about less than two weeks after Abbott was inaugurated in Austin as Texas’ first new governor in 14 years.

Kyle, who was from Midlothian, served as a Navy SEAL sniper in Iraq and is considered to be the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history.

After returning home from war, he worked to improve the lives of veterans throughout Texas with non-profit foundations like the Heroes Project, which provides gym equipment and training to veterans with disabilities. He also wrote the book “American Sniper,” which was adapted as emotion picture and released nationwide Jan. 16 . The movie is nominated for six Academy Awards, but has also received national criticism for portraying a realistic look into what it takes to be an American sniper.

Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield died on Feb. 2, 2013 at a Texas gun range. Eddie Routh, the former Marine accused of killing Kyle and Littlefield, is set to go on trial on Feb. 11.

Abbott made the announcement at the end of his address to the Texans Veterans of Foreign Affairs (VFW) Mid-Winter Convention, according to the prepared remarks released by the governor’s office. Earlier in the speech, Abbott talked about his plans for veteran education, healthcare and job training changes.

“As governor, I will constantly work to find ways like these to help our veterans. It’s our duty to help those who helped make America so exceptional. And it’s our duty to honor those whose sacrifice has preserved our freedom,” Abbott said in the statement.

“Along those lines, I wanted you to be the first to know…In honor of a Texas son, a Navy SEAL and an American hero – a man who defended his brothers and sisters in arms on and off the battlefield – I am declaring Feb. 2 Chris Kyle Day in Texas. We will commemorate his passing. But more importantly, remembering his answering of the call of duty.

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Patriots defeat Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIV GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Tom Brady threw four touchdown passes, Malcolm Butler intercepted Russell Wilson in the end zone and the New England Patriots rallied from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Brady overcame two interceptions to lead the Patriots to their fourth Super Bowl championship, becoming the third quarterback along with Pittsburgh’s Terry Bradshaw and San Francisco’s Joe Montana to win four titles.

Brady, coach Bill Belichick and the Patriots needed three tries to win their fourth

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Down 10 to start the fourth, Brady rallied the Patriots with a 5-yard TD pass Danny Amendola in the back of the end zone and a 3-yarder to Julian Edelman with 2:02 left in the fourth for the go-ahead score.

With the Seahawks leading 24-14, the Patriots’ defense held as Rob Ninkovich sacked Russell Wilson to force a punt. After Brady was sacked on the first play, he drove the offense 76 yards to get New England within a field goal. Brady’s scoring strike to Amendola gave him a Super Bowl record 11 TD passes. Brady also set a Super Bowl record with 37 completions. He finished with 328 yards passing.

After Katy Perry’s colorful halftime performance, the Seahawks came out firing.

Wilson threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Doug Baldwin after Brady’s second interception of the game and the Seahawks took a 24-14 lead over the Patriots going into the fourth.

Unknown receiver Chris Matthews had a breakout game in the first three quarters, making his first four career catches for 109 yards. Matthews, a cousin of Hall of Fame defensive end Reggie White, played in just three games before he made the crucial onside kick recovery in the NFC title game against Green Bay.

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ABOVE: ALEC RODRIGUEZ, of Alec Rodriguez Tattoo, uses a photo of a statue to help him tattoo a customer’s ribs during the Inkmasters Tattoo Show on Saturday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. LEFT: CHRIS ORTIZ, from Abilene, tattoos a tattoo gun with a rose on to his customer, Nick Estrada, at the Inkmasters Tattoo Show on Saturday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.

Lubbock hosts tattoo convention

By SARAH WILSON Staff Writer

With tattoos becoming more popular in today’s culture, Mike Diaz, owner of Sunken City Ink, decided that a tattoo convention would help make tattoos less taboo and more widely accepted in the Lubbock area.

Diaz brought Inkmasters Tattoo Convention to the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center on Saturday and Sunday. There were more than 150 tattoo artists at the convention as well as other vendors, Diaz said.

“I was in the convention circuit for a

long time, and I always thought I could do a better one,” Diaz said. “It had a snowball effect and kept getting bigger.”

Diaz started planning for this convention in September 2014, he said, and he plans to start earlier for next year. Diaz said this was a learning experience, and he now knows what to do for the next convention.

“We want to let people know that this is a family environment,” Diaz said. “There are a lot of people getting tattoos. Lower class, middle class, high class, you have every race here.”

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title since 2001. They lost to the New York Giants twice before dethroning the defending champion Seahawks.

After Jermaine Kearse made a twisting, turning, tumbling catch for a 33-yard gain to the Patriots 5, Marshawn Lynch ran 4 yards to the 1. But Wilson, operating from the shotgun, was intercepted on a pass intended for Ricardo Lockette.

Brady jumped up and down on the sideline and hugged Belichick to celebrate the win. A dejected Wilson walked off the field stunned.

As the Patriots (15-4) ran out the clock, players on both sides fought and Seahawks linebacker Bruce Irvin was ejected.

Lubbock Gets Inked

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Texas Tech’s freshman enrollment is growing at record levels, but that is not stopping the university from placing an emphasis on improving upon the number of freshmen who return for their sophomore year.

A university’s retention rate is defined as the percentage of freshman students who return for their sophomore year.

In Fall 2014, 83.47 percent of Fall 2013 freshmen returned to Tech, which is the highest retention rate for Tech since 2005, according to Tech’s Institutional Research website, and set a nine-year high in its retention rate.

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Tech’s retention rate had been relatively stagnant over MUÑOZ the past decade before experiencing positive growth over the past two years, he said.

“The university was a bit flat in terms of its first-year retention rate, but in these last two years, we have improved significantly to just under 84 percent,” Muñoz said. “We are moving in the right direction to reach our goal of 90 percent.”

The university has set goals of a 90 percent retention rate and a 70 percent graduation rate, Muñoz said.

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achieve those two goals, he said.

“We have the Provost Retention Task Force, which is populated by approximately 27 members of the colleges, auxiliary units and administration support units,” he said. “We have never had a retention task force of that size and that diversity, ever.”

Muñoz said Tech is currently piloting the Student Success Collaborative, a retention application tool created by the Education Advisory Board.

The university has already seen a small uptick in retention since using the SSC, he said, and plans to fully implement the application in the summer and fall semesters of 2015.

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Patrick Hughes, associate vice provost of Undergraduate Education, said Tech will have to use a holistic approach of plans and initiatives to increase the university’s retention rate.

Most universities, including Tech, think of student retention in two main ways: high touch and high tech, he said.

“High-touch interventions are anything that puts a human being in front of a student,” Hughes said. “High-tech are these applications that try and help us organize data and find patterns so that we can better help students succeed.”

The university is able to combine both hightouch and high-tech aspects with the SCC application that will be used university-wide, he said.

Hughes expects the application to be successful in increasing Tech’s retention rate, he said.

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Registration begins for PR Showdown

By CIARA DEVORE Staff Writer

The PR Showdown competition is a weeklong event designed to test public relations majors and other students in the College of Media and Communication in a variety of areas.

The competition, which will be hosted from Feb. 23 to 27 with a final competition on March 4, is open to all students majoring in the college, Trent Seltzer, assistant professor and chairperson in the Department of Public Relations, said. At least one public relations major must be on each team.

Registration for the event ends on Feb. 20, according to the PR

Showdown website, and teams are composed of three to five members.

There are several incentives for students to participate SELTZER in the competition, Seltzer said.

“It is a team-based competition designed to help students build their portfolios, to help them network with their peers and to get them interacting with our alumni and the other judges,” he said. “We also want them just to have fun and give the students an opportunity to shine.”

The first part of the competition

consists of challenges such as writing, strategy, pitching, social media and crisis response, Seltzer said.

During the first week, an online challenge will be released daily and the assignments will be due at the end of each day at midnight, according to the PR Showdown website.

The beginning projects are like miniature challenges in which students are given job-like scenarios, he said.

Several students have already signed up to compete in the PR Showdown, including Noelle Vela, a senior public relations major from Penitas, who said she is interested in the competition for a variety of reasons.

Tech theater season underway

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the story of a married couple as well as the history of medicine.

NeWS editor Because the play takes place in the The Texas Tech College of Visual and laboratory theater, Nolen said it is imPerforming Arts, as well as the Depart- portant to reserve seats ahead of time to ment of Theatre and Dance, has a full ensure a seat in the smaller theater.

“On the Verge: Or The Geography schedule for the Spring 2015 semester of Learning” will be on the main stage of with various plays planned.

Dean Nolen, assistant professor of the Maedgen Theatre from Feb. 19 – 22, acting in the College of Visual and Per- according to the pamphlet.

Richard Privitt, audience relations forming Arts, said he is looking forward to hearing the thoughts and reactions of specialist in the Department of Theatre and Dance, said the comedic piece folthose who see the productions.

“In the Next Room,” directed by lows three female explorers and their doctoral student Kristen Rogers, is life journeys.

Following these two productions, stualso known as “The Vibrator Play” and runs from today until Sunday in dents will dance in the annual DanceTech the Maedgen Laboratory Theatre, ac- production, which will take place on the cording to a Department of Theatre main stage from March 26 – 28, he said.

“DanceTech is a recurring, annual and Dance pamphlet.

“It’s a really fresh feeling play about event in which the faculty members a very unusual time period — the dawn choreograph works,” Privitt said. “This of the electric age, literally,” Nolen said. particular year, it’s called DanceTech: “The medical issues in the play deal with Rewind, so it’s a retrospective of several what was once known as hysteria among dances we’ve choreographed in the past.”

The last production of the semeswomen in particular. For the most part, women were medically treated in a cer- ter will be “Mother Courage and Her Children,” a classic work by German tain way, and I’ll leave it at that.” playwright The play examines the beginnings of JANUARY FOR RELEASE 30, Bertolt 2015 Brecht, he said. feminism, Nolen said, and it deals with “It’s an iconic piece,” Nolen said.

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“Bertolt Brecht, of course, was a very controversial playwright, very politically in tuned. This is considered his masterpiece. This was a response to the turmoil the world was facing in that era.”

While the piece is powerful for all characters, whoever plays the character of Mother Courage will be especially challenged as an actor, he said.

The faculty makes sure the season covers a variety of themes, Nolen said, to provide diversity for the audience and the actors.

Aside from the full productions, students can showcase their original works in Raider Red’s One-Act Play Spectacular, Privitt said, which will take place from March 2 – 8 in the laboratory theater.

“It’s a collection of five plays, I believe, put together for an evening’s production,” Privitt said. “Student playwrights in our program have written and will direct, and they will also act in the program. It’s exciting to see some new talent who have just made their way into the department.”

The one-act plays combine the talents of both new and veteran actors, writers and directors, Nolen said.

Raider Red’s Awesome Dance Spectacular follows a similar theme, but it is original choreography by Tech students, he said.

Although the productions can be time consuming, Nolen said the students, staff and faculty members of the College of Visual and Performing Arts enjoy staying busy.

“There are safeguards in place to make sure the students aren’t over taxed,” Nolen said. “The work is something we enjoy so much — it’s worth it. We’d all rather be on the stage.”

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“It really would test my skills for going into the PR profession,” she said. “It puts you under that pressure because you need to do your job right.

I think we are going to meet with some alumni, and we are going to have an informal networking event.”

Vela said she is also interested in the prizes awarded, which include both daily prizes and a grand prize for the winning team.

Daily prizes will be given to the team that receives the highest score for each challenge, including sports memorabilia and small cash prizes, Seltzer said.

The following week, the three teams that accrue the highest scores will advance to a final competition

at 6 p.m. March 4 during the Tech PR meeting in the Media and Communication building, according to the website.

The winners of the PR Showdown will fly to Dallas on Southwest Airlines to stay at the Gaylord Hotel, where they will go on a guided tour, have lunch and discuss the hotel’s marketing system, Seltzer said.

The students will be honored at a PR salon dinner, he said, and will have one-on-one networking opportunities with Tech alumni.

“Getting to talk to some very prominent successful alumni is worth taking a shot to win,” Seltzer said. “The competition is designed

to be a valuable experience for anyone who enters.”

Additionally, each member of the winning team will receive an additional ticket from Southwest Airlines to fly anywhere in the U.S. the airline flies.

The competition will look good on the résumés of all students who participate in the Showdown, Seltzer said, and it will give the final team the opportunity to network with Tech alumni.

The PR Showdown will prepare students for real-world circumstances, Vela said, which is why she chose to participate in the competition.

demic or personal requirements of college.”

Nutter said academic advising can help students not only identify what obstacles are in place for them to return to school, but also help provide them with resources to overcome those obstacles.

The advisers at Tech are heavily invested in student success, she said, and are excited about Tech’s plans to increase

freshman retention.

“We have a lot of good initiatives in place and a lot of good ideas right now for improving the freshman retention rate,” Nutter said. “I think the more students know that academic advisers are really here to assist them with resources and study skills and not just be a scheduling tool, the more successful students can be.”

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“The Student Success Collaborative provides that hightech solution by taking years of student success data and making it meaningful to an adviser,” he said, “who then sits with a student and goes over the several opportunities the student has based on that data.”

Cathe Nutter, director of University Advising, said advising plays a critical role in helping freshmen return for their sophomore year.

Helping students decide the right major for themselves is arguably the most important factor, she said.

“I think the biggest issue we have from the advising standpoint is identifying the student’s best fit major,” Nutter said.

“Making certain that students are in majors that make sense with their strengths, their talents, their goals and their values does a lot for retention purposes because it keeps them motivated to want to be here.”

The SCC application has helped advisers take the initiative to reach out to students who are not performing well in their classes or are at a higher risk of dropping out, Nutter said.

Long distances from their home or a lack of overall preparedness for college are often the reasons a number of Tech first-year students do not return to school, she said.

“What we see in a lot of students that don’t return their sophomore year is that they want to transfer closer to home because Lubbock is far away from home for so many students,” Nutter said. “For others, many were not prepared for the aca-

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POLICE BLOTTER Thursday 12:21 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer charged and released two students for possession of marijuana in Drane Hall.

One of the students was also issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia.

1:55 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested two students for public intoxication in the Tech Plaza parking lot. One of the students was also arrested for possession of a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence and possession of drug paraphernalia. A non-student was also arrested for public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance. The two students and one non-student were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

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Organization hopes to inspire entrepreneurship

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

While many students aspire to earn their dream jobs with a specific company, others desire to start their own business after graduation.

Javier Martinez, a senior international business, marketing and management major from Houston and president of the Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization, said he started the club this semester to help students better prepare for their own businesses.

“I don’t want to work in corporate America, so I think entrepreneurs and small businesses are the backbone of this country,” he said. “I think entrepreneurship is very overseen, and we came across this opportunity.”

The organization had its first meeting last week, and approximately 34 people showed up, Martinez said.

Gary Cavagnaro, a freshman marketing and management double major from Dallas and vice president of marketing for CEO, said he has his own business ideas but suffered from writer’s block when trying to develop them.

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The convention had a bounce house and other activities for kids, as well as contests for customers and tattoo artists, Diaz said. The convention’s first stop of 2015 was this weekend in Lubbock, with plans to go to Odessa and South Padre, Diaz said.

Heather Fitzwater, from Lubbock, attended the convention this past weekend. Fitzwater said she has quite a few tattoos of her own, and planned to get another

“We just decided to change things up and give people a place to go to when they need help about a certain topic,” he said. “Most of us are young, and it’s about who you know and who you meet when you get older.”

In the future, Cavagnaro said he hopes members who graduate will be professional contacts for new members of the organization.

The organization will have different guest speakers attend meetings to help expand the professional network of its members.

CJ Mejia, a sophomore marketing major from Carrollton and vice president of communication for CEO, said members can develop their own ideas and get feedback through the club.

“We realize we’re on a campus with 35,000 kids, and there’s ideas flowing everywhere for businesses people want to start but maybe don’t know how to,” he said. “CEO is an organization that allows you to take that first step and helps you get your foot through the door.”

The next meeting for CEO is at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, and Martinez said Bart Reagor and Rick Dykes are scheduled to speak to the group.

After the speakers tell their stories of creating a successful business, Martinez said there will be time for members to ask their own questions.

“I encourage all our members to really speak up and ask questions,” he said. “These are challenges that all entrepreneurs go through.”

Faculty members are also going to be involved with the club, and they will lead 15-minute workshops on different topics.

CEO also wants to be involved philanthropically, Martinez said, and he wants to have members involved in Lubbock’s Lemonade Day and partner with kids from the Boys and Girls Club to run their lemonade business.

“We’ve been talking about having members sponsor a kid and help them be an entrepreneur for the day,” he said. “We’re just trying to help everyone become successful in whatever ways they want.”

The organization plans to run a business to raise money for the organization instead of simply fundraising.

The Office of the President is also sponsoring another 3 Day Startup to help teach students entrepreneurship skills from March 6 through March 8.

one at the convention.

“There are a bunch of tattoo artists from all over,” Fitzwater said. “There’s a contest for them to show off their work, to see who does better and different ones.”

Diaz said there were local tattoo artists as well as artists from Los Angeles, Florida, Texarkana and Puerto Rico. Many attended the convention to get tattoos on the spot, Diaz said.

Brianna Ortiz, sister of tattoo artist Chris Ortiz from Abilene, said they came to the convention to get her brother’s name out. Ortiz said she enjoyed

watching her brother give tattoos and that he has done a few on her.

“Today he did a really colorful tattoo with flowers on it,” Ortiz said.

“He did some script on me yesterday.

It turned out really good.”

Diaz said he was happy with the convention’s outcome and hopes more people will become accepting of tattoos.

“We want everyone to know tattoos are OK. They’re not what they used to be,” Diaz said.

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“That was probably one of the best experiences of my life,” Martinez said. “It was a lot of hard work and hours, but it was a blessing. I’ve never had the opportunity to come up with a product in three days and present it to a group of investors.”

The startup program is free, but students are required to apply because only 40 are selected to participate. The application is available online until 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

The program also helped inspire the creation of CEO, Cavagnaro said, and he hopes the organization can help its members pitch ideas to investors as well.

“I feel that we’re at a stage or point in our lives where if you want something, you really have to go get it,” Mejia said. “It’s not going to be handed to you. We want to bring in these people who have made it on their own to tell people our age that it’s possible because they did it. If we change one person’s mindset, that’s made a difference and that’s what we’re here for.” ➤➤@JenRomeroDT

Celebrities offer support for Whitney Houston’s daughter ATLANTA (AP) — Celebrities are offering their support and prayers for Whitney Houston’s daughter, who authorities say was recently found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub in a suburban Atlanta townhome.

Police said 21-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown was taken Saturday to a hospital in the northern Atlanta suburb of Roswell, Georgia.

La Toya Jackson is one of several celebrities who used Twitter to express her support Sunday.

“Let’s All Send Love Light & Prayers to Bobbi Kristina Brown!”

Jackson tweeted. “Wishing Her A Healthy & Speedy Recovery!”

Singer-songwriter Missy Elliott said on Twitter that she’s also throwing her support behind Brown. “Still Praying 4 Bobbi Kristina,” Elliott tweeted in part.

Brown is the daughter of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown.

Lindsey Harber, a spokeswoman at North Fulton Hospital, where police say Houston’s daughter was

taken, declined comment.

“I can’t confirm she’s even there,” Harber said Sunday.

Brown’s husband, Nick Gordon, along with a friend, found the woman in a bathtub on Saturday, Roswell police said in a statement. The friend called 911 while Brown’s husband performed CPR on the woman because they did not believe she was breathing nor had a pulse, said Officer Lisa Holland, a Roswell Police Department spokeswoman.

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to deliver our wants and needs?

Among those who we depend on is the United States Postal Service — a privately funded but government mandated agency. According to the USPS website, it owns 211,654 vehicles and rack up 1.2 billion miles a year. Could you begin to imagine how much the fuel bill runs for the USPS? From a “company” standpoint of view, the monetary amount of that fuel bill is enormous. Not only does the USPS have to keep its fleet driving around delivering our rented textbooks and funny T-shirts we find scrolling through a WANELO clothing website, but it has to maintain more than 31,000 retail faculties to keep nice and toasty for its employees and customers.

Another similar company that uses a great deal of fuel is Southwest Airlines.

Southwest has continued to be a very wellserviced and low-cost airline, even through the oil boom p h a s e .

Southwest has a fleet of 683 Boeing jets, according to the Southwest Airlines website.

According to the website, in June 2014, jet fuel was $2.88 a gallon and a Boeing 737-800 has a fuel capacity of 6,875 gallons.

Therefore, if one does the math, that means the cost for a full tank would be approximately $19,800. Today, jet fuel is approximately $1.50 per gallon. If Southwest were to fill up its Boe-

ing jet today, the airline would save approximately $9,487.50.

Now, I realize I’m talking about a large-scale airline company saving money, but if you are in business you want profit.

If a company is saving money on its expenses, it has more expendable income to grow the business and promote its valuable employees.

O u r l o c a l l y o w n e d b u s inesses have had to find a way to compensate for the high fuel prices too.

I used to work for a flower shop in town and a major selling point for floral shops is delivery. During the three years I spent working at this shop, the delivery charge had to go up.

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Trying to explain to a customer why their delivery fee is high regardless of where the flowers are being delivered in addition to needing to explain why that delivery fee has increased —which should make sense due to the rising gas prices — is not a fun way to exercise your patience. In such cases, people involved in such argumentative situations are those who will go to the extent to argue with a wall. When the fuel prices do drop, it is only logical that the majority of local business owners who run a delivery service have all had a small sigh of relief when coming across their monthly gas card bill, allowing them to modify their prices, thus avoiding the possibility of a situation where a customer is upset about a delivery fee.

Oil prices affect everyone from your older grandma to the CEO of American Airlines. Oil has and will continue to be a boom and bust. For all of us poor, hardworking college students, enjoy these low gas prices while you can.

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onsumers have been excited recently over the precipitous drop in prices at the pump. The national average price for a gallon of gasoline has gone from a high last year of $3.70 to around $2, according to the price-tracking website GasBuddy. This price decrease has been largely driven by the decline in the price of oil, with WTI crude falling from $100 per barrel to less than $50 per barrel in less than a year, according to the NASDAQ website.

This fuel price decrease clearly leads to some happy consumers, with more money to spend on other goods in the short term and a decrease in the prices of products that must be transported to the end user.

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harming employment opportunities, allowing the government to justify more gas taxes and negatively affecting America’s standing in the world by stifling innovation.

The energy sector creates better jobs than any other sector of our economy. The process of drilling, completing and producing an oil well and transporting and refining the resulting product creates employment opportunities in a large variety of fields. It also provides opportunities for high-paying shift jobs, which are not very common in other areas of the economy. Even without a college degree, some oilfield workers can make large salaries simply based on the physical labor required in their work. For those with a college degree, petroleum engineering and other oilfieldrelated degrees have consistently rated as among the best over the past few years.

With oil prices falling, many of these jobs will not be available as readily. The process of drilling in the U.S. will slow down if prices don’t allow projects to make economical sense. States like Louisiana, Texas and North Dakota, whose economies particularly rely on oil and gas activity, will see an increase in unemployment and a decrease in economic performance across the board.

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in gas prices has given Congress an opening to propose increased gas taxes. Even conservative Senator John Thune of South Dakota has made statements supporting a hike in gas taxes. In theory, Americans can afford an increase in gas taxes right now, simply because gas prices are lower. However, we must realize that if such an increase is approved, it won’t go away when prices go back up. This only sets the stage for even more pain at the pump later on. Using the drop in gas prices as an excuse to further burden the American people and allow more government waste is downright unpatriotic.

Finally, the precipitous drop in oil prices has shut down a variety of planned projects across the U.S. and the world. Oil is much more expensive to produce in North America, in general, compared to the Middle East (based on the properties of the oil and the reservoir rock), which is why Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) can afford to support these price decreases caused by increasing Middle East production.

OPEC hopes to squeeze the North American oil industry into submission by forcing a decreased market share; in other words, if prices do not support North American drilling, many companies will be forced to close their doors. This will result in an increased market share for OPEC countries moving forward.

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market share as an oil producer is bad for our national security. In fact, many experts believe that we must become energy independent if we are to avoid large national security problems moving forward. Unfortunately, with prices this low, the technologically advanced projects at which American companies excel are no longer economically viable, and they will not be undertaken — leaving the oil in the ground, where it can’t benefit anyone.

Like it or not, the energy sector, dominated by oil and gas, is the engine that makes our economy r u n . Wi t h o u t strong American production, our standing on the world stage, and consequentially our national security, are at risk.

Furthermore, American consumers might be harmed even further if more gas taxes are implemented.

Finally, the consequences of this oil price “bust” have yet to be felt on the nation’s unemployment rate, but they will. Oilfield jobs have been one of the few bright spots in the American economy over the past decade and unfortunately, as long as prices remain low, they are destined to become less and less readily available.

Hopefully, with careful management, most American oil companies will be able to weather this price storm and come back even stronger when fuel prices increase again.

Without strong American production, our standing on the world stage and consequentially our national security, are at risk.

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oing from about $55 to around $30 for a full tank of gas is something not many can argue against. The majority of individuals tend to feel immediate gratification from any money-saving deal that comes into effect. As a college student, I was stoked to fill up my car for less than what I usually fill up my vehicle with.

Already on a tight budget, this is a small reprieve for the average college student that is trying to make ends meet.

Currently in the petroleum oil market, the consumer is winning. I can’t even begin to describe how many Snapchats I received when gas prices began to drop. I think the majority was a little shocked as well as excited to see the prices fall drastically, which is a normal reaction in our economy.

A vast majority of the public owns a vehicle and we all need fuel to get from point A to point B. The sudden drop in gas prices has caused people all over the nation to speak about this c o n t r o v e rs i a l o c c u rrence among friends and f a m i l y. I n some cases, among that spectrum of people, are those who are strongly opposed to the fuel price drop, either complaining or fearing what they believe will result from this.

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Students represent diversity, spirit of Tech

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

When prospective students first visit Texas Tech, they are often given a tour of campus by a current Tech student who is trained about all the sites and history of the campus.

These students are members of President’s Select Ambassadors, and they directly serve the Office of the President, Office of Admissions and Texas Tech Athletics.

Sergio Molinar, a junior industrial engineering major from Hobbs, New Mexico, and president of President’s Select, said he wanted to join the organization because of a tour he took as a high school senior.

“That day coming out of the Rawls I met Tyler Enos, who was the president

of President’s Select,” he said. “I just thought what they did was the coolest thing ever. So when I got to campus as a freshman I decided to join and apply.

It’s kind of come full circle now that I’m the president.”

When new members are selected for the organization, Molinar said, they are required to shadow the tours of experienced members before leading a tour alone.

Ariana Martell, a sophomore public relations major from El Paso, said she enjoys giving tours to prospective students.

“You’re touching those people’s lives, and you’re helping them make that decision to come to Tech,” she said. “I know that’s the main reason I came to Tech because of the tour I was given.”

Aside from giving tours, the members are also active with Tech Athletics and

networking she is able to do through President’s Select.

“I’ve met potential people I could work for that could help me get in to law school,” she said. “On VIP tours, they ask you for your cell phone number and tell you, ‘Hey, I’m going to Tech.’ It’s amazing when you recruit someone and you see them playing on ESPN. Other people don’t get to experience that.”

The members are diverse in majors and backgrounds, and the only requirements are a 2.75 GPA and being able to attend mandatory trainings and events if selected.

Hannah Loftin, a junior marketing and management major from Aledo, said she almost did not apply for President’s Select because she was not sure if she would be selected for such a prestigious organization.

host visitors in the President’s Suite at football games and interact with recruits.

Ruby Grace, a senior journalism major from Laredo, said she has been a member of President’s Select for the four years she has been at Tech.

“I think it’s pretty cool that we get to go down on the field and work the President’s Suite,” she said. “I think I’ve had some of the best times working the football games, and being down on the sidelines isn’t something everyone gets to do.”

The members also travel to help recruit for Tech, and Grace said she enjoys the trips because they help keep Tech competitive in recruitment with the other Texas universities.

Evonne Heredia, a sophomore sociology major from Hobbs, New Mexico, said she has benefitted from the professional

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“I decided to do it, and I got in,” she said. “It builds you to get into other organizations, and you meet so many new people. It doesn’t hurt you to try. It’s definitely very broad.”

The application to join President’s Select is currently open through Wednesday and can be completed entirely online.

Being in the organization allows members to improve their communica-

tion skills and to grow as people, Molinar said, and the 90 members are involved all across campus.

“The thing that separates President’s Select members from other students is just their passion for the university,” he said.

“None of what we do is paid — it’s all on a voluntary basis. You do it because you love your university.” ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

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HOOKSETT, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s new scratch-and-sniff lottery ticket is off to a sizzling start.

The $1 bacon-scented tickets with a top prize of $1,000 hit the market in early January. Lottery officials went with a conservative print run just in case they were a bust but now expect the tickets to sell out within three months. Sales are far outpacing other $1 scratch tickets, some of which have been for sale for

as long as eight months.

New Hampshire isn’t the first state to have a bacon-themed lottery ticket, or the first to have a scratchand-sniff ticket. But it’s apparently the first to combine the two.

Kelley-Jaye Rosberg, games manager for the New Hampshire Lottery, said officials first settled on the idea of an “I Heart Bacon” ticket, and only later decided to add the scent. Virginia also sells an “I Heart Bacon” ticket,

but it costs $2 and is unscented.

Colorado lottery officials say their scratch-and-sniff offerings — coffee, chocolate and bouquet — from a few years ago were among their worst sellers, but Rosberg says bacon’s pop culture cachet sets it apart.

“You can’t get better than bacon.

There’s gingerbread, there’s peppermint, chocolate, coffee — different states have played with different scents but nobody had played with

bacon yet,” she said. “Everybody likes bacon, and people who don’t like bacon are almost afraid to admit it.”

The state is promoting the new tickets by bringing The Bacon Truck, a Boston-based food truck, to various locations around the state to hand out free lottery tickets and actual strips of bacon. Those who tried both at a highway rest area Friday came away pleased, whether or not their tickets were winners.

Celebrities offer support for Whitney Houston’s daughter

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JASON MILLER, A graduate student from Sugar Land, tries to defend Carson Wilder, a freshman exercise and sport science major from Katy, while the two play with a flying disc Friday outside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Both play for Tumbleweed Ultimate, which represents Texas Tech University.

ATLANTA (AP) — Celebrities are offering their support and prayers for Whitney Houston’s daughter, who authorities say was recently found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub in a suburban Atlanta townhome.

Police said 21-year-old Bobbi Kristina Brown was taken Saturday to a hospital in the northern Atlanta suburb of Roswell, Georgia.

La Toya Jackson is one of several celebrities who used Twitter to express her support Sunday.

“Let’s All Send Love Light & Prayers to Bobbi Kristina Brown!” Jackson tweeted.

“Wishing Her A Healthy & Speedy Recovery!”

Singer-songwriter Missy Elliott said on Twitter that she’s

also throwing her support behind Brown. “Still Praying 4 Bobbi Kristina,” Elliott tweeted in part.

Brown is the daughter of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown.

Lindsey Harber, a spokeswoman at North Fulton Hospital, where police say Houst o n ’s d a u g h t e r w a s t a k e n , declined comment.

“I can’t confirm she’s even there,” Harber said Sunday.

B r o w n ’s h u s b a n d , N i c k Gordon, along with a friend, found the woman in a bathtub on Saturday, Roswell police said in a statement. The friend called 911 while Brown’s husband performed CPR on the woman because they did not believe she was breathing nor

had a pulse, said Officer Lisa Holland, a Roswell Police Department spokeswoman.

Police gave Brown additional care before she was taken to the hospital, Holland said.

The townhome is in a subdivision near a bend in the Chattahoochee River, about 20 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta.

Whitney Houston was found dead in a hotel bathtub on Feb. 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills, California. The 48-year-old Houston had struggled for years with cocaine, marijuana and pills, and her behavior had become erratic. Authorities examining

Houston’s death found a dozen prescription drug bottles in the hotel suite. They concluded that Houston accidentally drowned.

Heart disease and cocaine use were listed as contributing factors in Houston’s death.

Over her career, Houston sold more than 50 million records in the United States alone. Her voice, an ideal blend of power, grace and beauty, made classics out of songs such as “Saving All My Love For You,” ‘’I Will Always Love You,” ‘’The Greatest Love of All” and “I’m Every Woman.” Her six Grammys were only a fraction of her many awards.

Sale of Deflategate chocolate football nets $20K for charity PITTSBURGH (AP) — A dented chocolate football created by a Pennsylvania candy maker to poke fun at the New England Patriots’ “Deflategate” scandal has ended up raising $20,000 for charity.

The ball created by Sarris Candies of Canonsburg was auctioned off Friday on KDKA radio to benefit the Dollar Energy Fund, which provides utility assistance for poor residents.

A local car dealer bid $5,000 for the chocolate ball, and that price was matched by candy maker Bill Sarris, whose business is about

15 miles south of Pittsburgh. The utilities that help support the Dollar Energy Fund then matched that $10,000.

“What started out as an internal little joke ended up picking up momentum and excitement,” Sarris said Friday. “It’s going to a good cause, so that’s the best thing.”

The chocolate football was molded with a dent to make it appear deflated. Sarris posted it on Facebook as a joke and initially didn’t intend to sell it.

Instead, Sarris named the ball the Bradie ball — a reference to

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady but with a different spelling to avoid legal issues. A caption on the Facebook photo was a tongue-in-cheek reference to allegations that New England cheated by using underinflated footballs in winning the AFC Championship game, which put the team in Sunday’s Super Bowl.

The picture’s caption read, “Net weight 13 lbs ... Oops! We meant 11.2 lbs.”

Actually, the chocolate ball weighed about 2.5 pounds, and Sarris sweetened the deal by including two more regular shaped chocolate

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Tech track closes second home meet

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Texas Tech’s track and field team finished its second home meet of the indoor season, the Masked Rider Open, Saturday in the Tech Athletic Training Center.

At the meet, the Tech men’s track and field team placed first in the 400M, 600M, 1,000M, mile, 55M hurdles and 60M heptathlon, as well as placing first in the pole vault, high jump, shot put and weigh throw.

On the women’s side, Tech placed first in the 55M hurdles, pentathlon, long jump, shot put, pole vault and triple jump.

Senior combined events athlete Shanice Stewart, who placed first in the women’s pentathlon, broke facility and school records. Stewart’s 4,152 total score in the competition put her in the number one ranking in the Big 12 for the event and fourth in the nation.

Stewart placed first in the 60M hurdles, shot put and long jump portions of the pentathlon.

Coming into the meet, Stewart said she made it her goal to break the school record in the pentathlon.

“My goal was to beat the school record because I always want to leave a mark wherever I go,” Stewart said.

“In high school I left a mark, my junior college, so I wanted to leave a mark here.”

Redshirt junior jumper and hurdler Le’Tristan Pledger, who placed first in the 55M hurdles, added record numbers to the women’s side.

Pledger ran a 7.58 in the semifinals of the 55M hurdles, breaking her previous school and facility record. Pledger went on to win the race with a final time of 7.63.

Tech track and field coach Wes Kittley said Pledger exemplifies what it means to perform on a consistent basis.

“She came back, bettered her school record and ran faster than the week before,” Kittley said. “She’s just really getting better and better. In the next two weeks, I think you’ll see her drop her times even better.”

For the men, junior sprinter Joseph

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Richards III placed first in the 400M and set a personal best time of 46.48.

Richards’ time in the 400M is the number three spot in the nation.

Tech men’s track and field team added another athlete to the national rankings with junior high jumper Brandon Adkins winning the high jump with a 2.25m/7-4 mark. Adkins’ high jump mark currently ranks third in the nation.

In all, Tech’s women’s and men’s teams combined for 16 first place finishes at the Masked Rider Open.

At the end of the meet, Kittley said he was pleased with how Tech competed.

“I’m really concentrated on kids getting consistent,” Kittley said. “I’m seeing kids that double and tripled like we’re going to have to do at the conference meet.”

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TEXAS TECH COMBINED events athlete Shanice Stewart runs the first leg of the 4x400 during the Masked Rider Open on Saturday in the Athletic Training Center.

Lady Raiders fall short in loss to Wildcats

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

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Coming off a career-high scoring night in her last game, Texas Tech senior guard Amber Battle scored half her team’s points, but Tech ended up losing 41-38 to Kansas State on Saturday afternoon in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Tech coach Candi Whitaker said there are no easy games in the Big 12 Conference and this one did not go her team’s way.

“Obviously not a good performance. We didn’t have the fight I thought we needed down the stretch,” she said. “Obviously had trouble getting shots to fall. No one is going to leave you Big 12 games, you got to come out and earn every possession.”

Both teams entered the matchup

in the top half of the Big 12 Conference in defense, but have the two lowest points scored per game averages.

The Lady Raiders and Wildcats limited each other’s scoring chances in the first half as Tech held on to a 24-23 lead at halftime.

Kansas State committed 11 first half turnovers, but Tech did not capitalize after shooting 31 percent from the floor.

Battle was disappointed with her team’s concentration in the first and second half. “(The poor shooting) was just a lack of focus on our part,” Battle said.

“Not shooting the ball when we are open and not really being aggressive.”

In the second half, the two teams continued to trade baskets and the game was still tied at 32 with 12:20 left in the game.

Tech struggled to shoot the ball from long range for the entire game.

With 14 missed 3-pointers in the second half, the Lady Raiders made 3 out of 27 shots from behind the arc in the game.

Battle hit her first and only three of the game with slightly more than 11 minutes left and gave Tech a 3534 lead.

Tech sophomore guard Ivonne CookTaylor gave the team energy off the bench with seven points and eight rebounds and a career-high five steals.

The teams stayed within a couple points of each other until Kansas State sophomore forward Breanna Lewis made a layup with 1:10 left to give her team a 41-37 advantage.

Despite making the clutch layup, Lewis, the 6’5’’ forward, was held to six points on 2 of 9 shooting. Lewis is

one of the top scorers in the Big 12, according to the conference website.

After senior forward Kelsi Baker split her free throws and the Lady Raiders got a stop, they got the ball back down by three points with nine seconds left to score.

Battle fired up a 3-pointer that fell short as the final buzzer sounded.

She said all she was thinking about was trying to knock in a shot.

Whitaker said ultimately the team did not get the shot she wanted.

“We ran half of (the play) well.

There was two 3-point shots available on that play,” she said. “We didn’t run the second part well.”

With the defeat, Tech falls to 13-8 overall and 3-6 in conference play. The team will now begin a two-game road trip that starts on Wednesday in Lawrence. ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

Red Raiders take road loss to Mountaineers, 77-58 The Texas Tech men’s basketball team remains without an away win in Big 12 Conference play after falling to the No. 17 West Virginia Mountaineers 77-58 Saturday afternoon in the WVU Coliseum.

Down 18-14 with eight minutes left in the first half, the Mountaineers went on a 12-2 run in three minutes, putting them up 30-16.

Freshman Red Raider center Norense Odiase was ejected following a scuffle between Odiase and West Virginia sophomore forward Brandon Watkins with

less than 6 minutes left in the first half.

Before the end of the first half, the Red Raider offense shortened Tech’s deficit by forcing a 12-4 run started by a 3-pointer from freshman guard Keenan Allen.

Tech ended the first half down 37-31.

Turner recorded a career-high number of points in the first half versus the Mountaineers with 18. Nine of Turner’s 18 points came from behind the 3-point line.

The Mountaineers took a

42-33 lead in the initial four minutes of the second half.

West Virginia then scored 11 unanswered points to extend its lead to 53-33 with less than 14 minutes left in the game.

West Virginia held on to its double digit lead and closed out the half with a 51.7 field goal percentage.

Sophomore forward Devin Williams led the West Virginia offense to its victory over Tech with 18 points.

Turner finished the game leading Tech’s offense in scoring with 18 points. After Turner had

a strong first half, West Virginia stopped him from scoring in the second half.

West Virginia’s win puts its overall record at 18-3 and its Big 12 record at 6-2. Tech’s defeat puts the Red Raiders at .500 with an 11-11 overall record and a 1-8 conference record.

Tech hosts the Kansas State Wildcats as its next opponent at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena, and the Red Raiders will be trying to break the national student attendace records during the game. ➤➤@DGaytanDT