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reshman guard Japreece Dean stands at 5-feet 6-inches, making her the shortest player on the Texas Tech women’s basketball team roster. Despite her small stature, Dean has no shortage of awards this season.

Dean has won Big 12 Conference Freshman of the Week four times this season, setting a school record, and there are four weeks remaining in the regular season.

The four-time award winner said she is thankful for the chance to play for Tech and make an impact during her first year on campus.

“It felt really good for the first (award). I just felt blessed honestly,” she said.

“Not everyone gets this opportunity and not everyone gets the opportunity to be one of the best freshmen in the Big 12. I worked for this, so I just feel really blessed.”

With four weekly awards already this season, Dean is a strong candidate to make the All-Big 12 Freshman First Team or even Big 12 Freshman of the Year.

While Dean has found

success as a freshman, the beginning of the season was not easy for her. She said she had to make numerous difficult adjustments from playing in high school to now playing in college.

“The shot clock, obviously (was a change), knowing when to go fast and when to go slow,” Dean said. “So, that was a big adjustment for me.”

Dean was not named a starter at season’s tipoff.

Eight games into the season, she got her first collegiate start against Idaho.

She took advantage of the start and had a career game by scoring 23 points, grabbing six rebounds and dishing out four assists.

According to a Tech Athletics news release, Dean had not made a 3-pointer all season, but she nailed four shots from behind the arc in the game.

“I was really nervous at the beginning of the season,” Dean said in the release.

“After that I started to adapt and get used to everything. I understood what (Tech coach Candi Whitaker) wanted me to do, play harder, lead and talk, so that’s what I tried to do, and I earned the spot.”

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Health Sciences Center partners up to break world record Police discuss

By MICHAEL CANTU crime rates Staff Writer

In an effort to educate the public on what can be a seemingly frightening process, the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center is participating in a massive statewide CPR training effort Saturday.

The concept began with a medical consulting firm, MaverX, which was founded

by Tech alumna Angela Siler Fisher, and has been in the works since April, she said.

The event is called the Texas Two Step: How to Save a Life Campaign, and it will be hosted in 43 sites in 10 different cities across the state, she said.

Numerous medical as-

sociations such as the Texas College of Emergency Physicians, Texas Medical Association, HealthCorps and the American College of Emergency Physicians have supported the event, Siler Fisher said. The event is not only a way to promote a safe exercise in CPR and training, but to also open up to the community. “(We want to) engage students in community activism early in their careers,” she said.

The unique part of this activity is that it is the first time ever that medical students in Texas have led an effort this large, Siler Fisher said, and the goal is to attract near or more than 20,000 people, which

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towns with medical schools in them.

Lubbock has the secondhighest violent crime rate in Texas, according to FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports from 2013.

There are 658 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in the Lubbock area, according to the 2013 statistics.

“Most crimes that occur on campus tend to be crimes of opportunity,” Tech Police Department Captain Stephen Hinkle said. “Most cars broken into are smash-and-grabs. I know from experience It only takes a burglar half of a second to break a window and grab valuables.”

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would break a Guinness world record.

Because medical students are hosting the event,

it will include all nine medical schools in Texas including sites in Austin, Dallas, College Station and other

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 In the residence halls, often reports of stolen property result from people not taking ownership over their property and locking their doors, Hinkle said.

“Someone wanders in and takes a laptop or something else that’s valuable,” he said.

The Uniform Crime Reports reflect the statistics from the initial reports of a crime, Lubbock Police Lt. Ray Mendoza said. A crime may change from the type initially reported to something not reflected in the FBI’s statistics.

If a burglary was initially reported and the officer discovered it was actually a domestic issue where a person involved was recovering his or her property, the FBI statistic would still be affected even though the Lubbock Police records would change to reflect what occurred, Mendoza said.

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Although some crimes, such as murder, tend to not have this issue, many of the other types of crime have Lubbock police looking for an alternate way to explain the numbers they are seeing, so they can then deal with the existing crime more effectively and efficiently, Mendoza said.

These situations have led Lubbock police to review cases to ensure the accuracy of their own records, and to have a better idea of what overall crime is actually occurring in Lubbock, Mendoza said. There is currently no way to correct reports sent to the FBI that form these statistics, and software to correct them is lacking.

By reviewing cases, they can look at each one and say whether or not it actually was a burglary or some other crime, Mendoza said.

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POLICE BLOTTER

Exit signs stolen in residence halls Friday 1:22 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer responded to a medical emergency in the Biology building. A student was having a headache, numbness, cramps and tingling in the legs. Emergency Medical Services transported the student to University Medical Center.

3:29 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a medical emergency in the Student Wellness Center. A student was possibly having a panic attack. EMS transported the student to University Medical Center for further evaluation.

3:54 p.m. — A Tech officer documented that a vehicle reported stolen earlier was not stolen but was repossessed.

5:52 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft in the laundry room of Murdough Hall. A student left his laundry unattended in the dryer.

6:51 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a burglary of a habitation in a common room in Talkington Hall. An Xbox 360 game system and a game were taken.

9:01 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a medical emergency in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

A student injured his arm while playing basketball.

EMS transported the student to University Medical Center.

11:08 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in the Z1B parking lot after investigating suspicious activity inside a vehicle. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:27 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of a controlled substance (Vyvanse), possession of dangerous drug (Strattera), possession of marijuana and issued a Lubbock county citation for possession of drug paraphernalia in Murray Hall after an investigation of suspicious activity in the room. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

12:01 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication at the west entrance doors to the Student Union Building after a call for a suspicious person.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

12:52 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in the Z1B parking lot after observing the student fall down and other suspicious behavior.

The student was transported

to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:07 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in Weymouth Hall. Four exit signs were taken.

4:57 a.m. — A Tech officer responded to a medical emergency in Wall Residence Hall.

A student was complaining of congestion because of a cold.

The student was transported to Covenant Medical Center Emergency Room for further medical treatment.

Saturday 10:46 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to damaged property in Sneed and Bledsoe Residence Halls. Ceiling tiles were damaged.

12:19 p.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to a 911 medical emergency in the Recreational Aquatic Center.

A non-student was playing rugby and injured his left ankle. EMS transported the non-student to Covenant Emergency Room.

2:52 p.m. — A Tech officer documented damaged property in Weymouth Residence Hall. Unknown persons damaged an exit sign.

12:32 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and evading arrest after observing

suspicious behavior in the C2 parking lot. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

12:49 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to damaged property in Weymouth Residence Hall. Two exit signs were damaged.

1:54 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in Weymouth Residence Hall. The student was observed unconscious in the men’s bathroom. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:24 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated in the 2500 block of 17th Street. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail, and the vehicle was impounded.

3:18 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to damaged property in Chitwood Residence Hall. One exit sign and a light fixture were damaged.

3:41 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in the 1300 block of Flint Avenue. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

4:14 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ted Cruz, the self-proclaimed outsider and tea party champion, was warmly embraced by conservative Iowa Republicans, whose historic turnout sealed his victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday.

The win in the first Republican contest injected Cruz’s campaign with an adrenaline that will make him a dominant presence as the presidential race hurtles forward. The first-term Texas senator now heads to New Hampshire with clear support from a base of diehard conserva-

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were locked in an extremely tight duel in Iowa’s leadoff presidential caucuses Monday as the two rivals offered Americans a stark choice between political pragmatism and revolution.

Deep into the vote count, Clinton appeared before voters to declare she was “breathing a big sigh of relief.” But she refrained from claiming victory and declared herself ready to

public intoxication at the Carpenter/Wells Residence Complex. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Sunday 9:02 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by a minor in the 1800 block of Flint Avenue after an observed traffic violation. The student disposed of the alcoholic beverage and was released after signing the citation.

1:52 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft outside Gordon Residence Hall. A Huffy bicycle and lock were taken.

4:21 p.m. — A Tech officer documented information regarding damage property in the Z4M parking lot. A vehicle’s headlight was damaged.

2:52 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in the Z3L parking lot after the investigation of suspicious activity inside the vehicle. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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Cruz wins in Iowa’s Clinton, Sanders locked in Republican caucuses extremely tight duel for Iowa tives, a position of strength for drawing in evangelical voters and others who define this election as the opportunity to make an abrupt break with President Barack Obama’s policies and legacy.

Cruz greeted his supporters in triumph at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

“You want to know what scares the Washington cartel,” Cruz asked. The crowd shouted back, “You!” But Cruz said: “What scares them is the old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.

press forward in “a real contest of ideas.”

Sanders, for his part, said the outcome looked like “a virtual tie.” And he held out the tight margin as a strong message from Iowans that “it is just too late for establishment politics and establishment economics.”

Even a narrow victory for Clinton over an avowed socialist could complicate her quest for the nomination. But Clinton has deep ties throughout the party’s

establishment and a strong following among a more diverse electorate that will play a larger role in primary contests beyond New Hampshire, where Sanders is favored.

Clinton, who entered the race as the heavily favored front-runner, was hoping to banish the possibility of dual losses in Iowa and in New Hampshire. Two straight defeats could set off alarms within the party and throw into question her ability to defeat a Republican.

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PEGASUS prepares for lecture series

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

The PEGASUS program, which stands for Pioneers in Education: Generations Achieving Scholarship and Unprecedented Success, is a group of 22 mentors and more than 900 members that lends support to students who are first generation college students.

One upcoming way in which the organization is aiding its students is through the “Conversa-

tions with the Next Generation” speaker series.

This event is comprised of Texas Tech alumni, professionals and students.

“Conversations with Next Generation is a speaker series that features first generation college students that have unique backgrounds, passions and stories,” Mariah Williams, unit coordinator for the PEGASUS department said. “So the purpose of this series is to have our speakers encourage Tech FGC students and serve as real and

relatable examples of what success despite hardships can look like.”

The setting is made as approachable as possible in order to encourage students to speak up and ask questions during the presentation, to encourage the speakers to feed off of student responses and to make the series more of a series of conversations rather than a line of speeches, Williams said. The backdrop of the venue is designed to look like a coffee shop.

“So (the students) can be encouraged by somebody that is real in front of them ... Because they may not get that support from home, so we are providing the support they need,” she said.

Junior and PEGASUS mentor Amanda Garcia encourages her mentees through the use of incentives — the most popular of which is free food — and by catering to the specific case of her mentees. Garcia said she understands the importance of listen-

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ing to such presentations.

“I think of one (presentation) my freshman year. Just seeing how (the speaker) was a first generation student and seeing his story and him sharing that,” Garcia said. “It kind of made it a reality that I could be there one day.”

One final goal of this series is to encourage new first generation college students to join PEGASUS so that they have a support system, but also so that they may be presented with additional

Wildfire destroys 7 West Texas homes

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A copy of The Daily Toreador blows against a bicycle rack outside the Media and Communication building Monday afternoon. The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory until 8 p.m. Monday, and today’s weather will also be windy with a west wind of 15 to 25 mph, according to the NWS website.

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AG Paxton denied OK to use donors barred from tapping his campaign account.

Entirely appointed by state Republican leaders, the ethics board had drafted a lengthy opinion that would have sanctioned Paxton using out-of-state doors but came up a vote shy of approval.

“The opinion invited an indicted, cash-strapped attorney general to put a ‘For Sale’ sign on his office.

At the end of the day, the Ethics Commission simply refused to write an ethical blank check to Ken Paxton,” said Craig McDonald, director of the left-leaning watchdog group Texans for Public Justice.

McDonald was the only person to testify to the commission Monday. His group has long caused trouble for Texas Republicans in the past, most notably former Gov. Rick Perry, against whom they

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France calls on US to lift economic embargo on Cuba PARIS (AP) — France called on the U.S. to lift the economic embargo against Cuba during a historic state visit Monday by the Caribbean island’s president aimed at boosting economic relations between Havana and Paris.

Raul Castro’s trip comes after a breakthrough deal was reached in the French capital in December to lighten Cuba’s foreign debt.

French President Francois Hollande, the former leader of France’s Socialist party, greeted Castro on Monday with a warm hug in the courtyard of the Elysee presidential palace, and then started the meeting saying “Vive Cuba!” (“Long live Cuba!”)

Both presidents vowed to develop economic, political and cultural ties during a joint news appearance.

The U.S. announced a normalization of relations with Cuba in December 2014, but it still maintains an economic embargo on the island.

Hollande told journalists that “President (Barack) Obama ... must now follow

through and allow this vestige of the Cold War to end.”

France has called for the lifting of the U.S. embargo since 1991.

“We appreciate France’s traditional position in favor of the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial embargo from the United States against Cuba, which is the main obstacle to the development of our country,” Castro said.

Cuba wants “to diversify the bilateral relation with France in all its dimensions: political, economic, business, financial, academic and cultural cooperation,” he said.

The Cuban president was to attend a state dinner in his honor later Monday.

Castro, 84, is on his first state visit to Europe since taking over from his elder brother Fidel in 2006. The Cuban president briefly stopped in Rome last year to meet with Pope Francis.

Hollande was the first French leader to visit Cuba in a half-century when he went in May seeking to boost trade.

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EULA (AP) — A wildfire destroyed seven homes in a rural area near the West Texas town of Eula. Meanwhile, a wildfire burned almost 3 square miles of ranchland north of Amarillo.

The fires, which both started Saturday, came after experts had warned of an increased threat in some areas because of warmer temperatures, moderate winds and low relative humidity. The threat was expected to lessen by Wednesday.

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AUSTIN (AP) — State ethics regulators denied Texas’ attorney general their blessing Monday to let political donors pay his criminal defense, a surprise decision that could intensify pressure on the state’s top prosecutor.

Republican Ken Paxton could still try to use wealthy supporters to cover his legal bills connected to felony charges of defrauding investors, but he risks doing so without a key sealof-approval from the Texas Ethics Commission, which declined to interpret such donations as legal.

Paxton, who says he won’t resign despite charges of securities fraud and a separate investigation into a profitable land deal, has not said how he is paying for his high-powered defense team. He is prohibited from using taxpayer dollars and is also

scholarship opportunities to aid in their success.

“So basically our goal is to have each FGC student walk out of our event with more hope, knowledge and passion than when they walked in,” Williams said.

“Since they are the first in their family to obtain a bachelor’s degree, we know that it can be difficult, but we believe that we can give them community support and give them valuable resources to help prepare them to succeed.”

filed the original complaint that led to the former 2016 presidential candidate being indicted.

Three members of Paxton’s defense team issued a statement saying they are not “troubled” by Paxton’s ability to pay them.

“We assumed responsibility in his case because we believe in his defense. This ruling doesn’t change our commitment,” the statement read.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have previously declined to comment over whether they would be OK with Paxton tapping donors to pay for his defense. Neither has publicly pressured Paxton since he was indicted in July, but they also haven’t enthusiastically come to his defense.

Before the vote, the ethics board appeared troubled that an anonymous person

with unknown ties had asked whether giving financial gifts to the attorney general would be legal.

“Bribery is the elephant in the attic,” board commissioner Paul Hobby said.

Financial gifts to politicians are generally prohibited, and some board members wondered how giving Paxton permission to take donor dollars would be OK even under his own agency’s rules, which are designed to safeguard against corruption and undue influence.

“I was prohibited by policy from buying a Subway sandwich,” said commissioner Jim Clancy, recalling a lunch he once had with two prosecutors in the attorney general’s office. “I wonder how it’s possible that this opinion could not already be prohibited by the attorney generals’ own practices if I could not buy someone a $6 sandwich.”

Service spokesman Phillip Truitt says the fire near Eula, which burned 1 square mile, was contained by Sunday evening. Evacuated residents were able to return

by Saturday night. Two of the destroyed homes had been unoccupied.

Te x a s A & M F o r e s t Service spokesman Troy Ducheneaux says the wildfire near Amarillo was 95 percent contained Monday. It didn’t burn any structures.

Causes haven’t been determined.

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Sandra Bland lawyers press court for files HOUSTON (AP) — Sandra Bland’s family is asking a judge to reject arguments from Texas that state Department of Public Safety reports related to the black woman’s arrest, jailing and death last summer should be withheld from them.

Texas says it has immunity from damages sought in a lawsuit Bland’s family filed after she died in a county jail three days after a contentious traffic stop.

The state’s lawyers also

contend police records can be withheld under a “law enforcement privilege” that protects files in an ongoing investigation.

The latest motion was filed Friday.

The trooper who arrested the Chicago-area woman is charged with perjury for allegedly lying when he claimed in an affidavit that Bland was “combative and uncooperative” after he pulled her over.

A medical examiner ruled Bland’s death a suicide.

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Twitter shows how rap has changed

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appers have been beefing (otherwise called fighting) with other rappers pretty much since the beginning of rap.

The biggest difference between then and now is that in the past, the bigger artists had much more than their careers at stake.

Perhaps the best-known rap beef of all time is the story between Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, two of the biggest names in rap during the 90s. Taking shots at each other through one’s songs is not just accepted in the rap culture but is often promoted. It is a big part of hip-hop and always has been. According to a Rolling Stone article titled, “The 10 Wildest Rap Beefs of All Time” by Jeff Rosenthal, the two artists were good friends until “inclique rumors and media frenzy ruined a good thing.”

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Religious motto on police vehicles bad for all

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erving in the police force is a difficult job, a job full of difficult decisions and tough confrontations. While the men and women serving in the police force are usually doing their best to serve the community, the nature of the job often requires them to be in situations full of anger, sadness and rage.

Because of this, I don’t understand how anyone, including Christians, support the idea of having the police force put the phrase, “In God We Trust” on the back of their cars.

According to a Friday article by the Odessa American, the Ector County Sheriff’s Department has placed decals reading “In God We Trust” on 30 of their marked patrol cars. The Ector County patrol force has joined a growing number of Texas policemen who sport the motto on their vehicles, saying the motto is a patriotic display.

Sure, the majority of Americans are Christians, and people like to show it. I get it. But the phrase “there is no such thing as bad publicity” does not work for religion. Converting someone into any religion takes time and care — believers must show others that their religion is as peaceful and accepting as they profess.

As good as most police officers are, it is no mystery that a

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large amount of the Texas public doesn’t trust the police force. In a Jan. 19 interview with the Texas Tribune, Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said, “We have a racial profiling problem, because perception is reality…We’ve got members who are highly regarded in the Texas Legislature who worry about their kids and their grandkids being threatened by law enforcement more than criminals.”

McCraw said police are working toward restoring public trust, and I am sure they are, but that does not change the fact that many people are afraid of the police and feel they must change.

After all, it is simply too easy to watch YouTube videos of police brutality, such as the recent video of the officer tossing around unarmed teenagers in McKinney.

Even if people see videos of officers in other states, such as the officers who choked Eric Garner to death in New York City or the

officer who unexpectedly shot Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati, they are usually angered at all police, not just the New York Police Department or University of Cincinnati Police Department.

While most police try and prevent such violent actions from happening, they still must enforce the law, a duty that is never fun nor happy.

They ticket drivers for driving too fast, bust college students for carrying marijuana and are generally a pain in the rear for many citizens. Their job is not a fun job. Why people would want these officers to be affiliated with a religion of peace and love is beyond me.

Even if Texas police officers were to gain the affection with the Texas population, even then they should not represent any religion. The government and its divisions may be comprised of Christian members, but the services they offer are by no means Christian.

President Barack Obama may identify as a Christian, but as president, he has authorized drone strikes that have killed countless innocent civilians, according to the Washington Times article, “Obama-led drone strikes kill innocents 90 percent of the time: report.” In the state of Texas, courts may still swear

in witnesses using a Bible, yet they arguably ignore the message of its New Testament when they sentence men and women to death. A government institution can be full of religious workers, but their practices are clearly secular. There is no benefit for religious communities to be represented by these government institutions.

Last October, Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, expressed his support for police officers to use this motto, according to an Oct. 12, 2015, Texas Tribune article. One organization called the Original Motto Project has offered to replace the stickers with the original motto of the U.S., “E Pluribus Unum” (meaning “Out of Many, One”), according to an Aug. 5, 2015, Washington Post article, though no police department has yet taken them up on their offer.

There are many religious groups in the U.S. that are justified to be angered by Texas Police Force’s affiliation with the Christian faith, and Christians should join in their criticism.

The separation of church and state does not only help the state remain unbiased to all religions, but also helps the church keep its credibility and dignity. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

It doesn’t take drastic actions to make a point for everyone to see, all one has to do is simply tweet about somebody else to get people talking.

Kanye West tweeted insults towards Wiz Khalifa recently, and the Internet community was talking about it within minutes.

Both Tupac and Biggie died within a year of each other, and their murders are still unsolved. It is hard to believe their lives wouldn’t have ended so abruptly had there never been a beef between them.

It’s also hard to believe anything like that would happen in current times — with current rapper feuds never escalating past Twitter arguments and diss tracks, it is obvious modern rappers just aren’t seen in the same way as older ones.

These days, rappers will take shots at each other through their lyrics, but then go and confront each other through social media sites such as Twitter. Back then, the artists would rap at each other, but then things could get more drastic and lead to someone’s death or put someone’s career on a major hold, if not end it. Even though

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

the media is still influential on pretty much everything, sites like Twitter have changed the way these beefs are handled.

In Ice Cube’s interview on The Breakfast Club radio show, he mentions how he loves the battling of young rappers with each other, specifically Meek Mill and Drake. Cube says he loves the battles but that “once it goes to the streets it goes to the streets; it ain’t hiphop no more.” When artists rap about each other, and toward each other it can create some very good entertainment because then fans feel like they are a part of it and can judge the rappers on their lyrics and music in that way.

Twitter has become such a big part of the communication between individuals that the streets don’t really seem necessary anymore. It doesn’t take drastic actions to make a point for everyone to see, all one has to do is simply tweet about somebody else to get people talking. Kanye West tweeted insults toward Wiz Khalifa recently, and the majority of the Internet community was talking about it within minutes. This type of exposure is great for artists to get their names out there or their upcoming albums.

Not only has Twitter become a useful tool for rap artists to beef at each other but also has tremendously aided Twitter. According to Richard Lawler’s article, “Twitter’s week of beef is something we need more of” in Engadget Magazine, this type of interaction on Twitter is “better and more interactive than any TV show.”

Promoting one’s music can be done in any way or fashion. Rap beefs, although dramatic, can do wonders to promote an artist, as when someone produces a diss track, people will be excited to see how the receiving rapper counters, and so on and so forth. Twitter and social media itself has become a powerful tool in the music industry and it won’t go away any time soon. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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Barbie dolls made for dreaming, should not have to be politically correct

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ince Mattel introduced us to their new physically diversified Barbies only a few days ago, I have found myself slowly sinking back into the insecurities I had only recently escaped. With new “Tall,” “Petite” and “Curvy” dolls, I am left worrying which category I would have fallen into as a little girl.

I loved Barbies. I would spend whole days in my room mentally crafting an entire world for my Barbies to exist in.

I would clear off my shelves to make them into apartment complexes or lace a pink and purple plastic town around my bedroom, praying nobody knocked any of it over when tucking me in at night. Most of the time, I would leave my Barbie games set up for days, dedicating entire weekends to Velcro dresses and fuchsia convertibles.

My friends and I would haul our favorite Barbies and their accessories from house to house and ‘play Barbies’ for hours.

Avery Aiken is a freshman communications studies major from The Woodlands.

Sometimes, the day would end in a sleepover simply because we were right in the middle of our game. Someone’s Barbie had just gotten engaged or their fashion show hadn’t happened yet or, more often than not, we had spent so much time setting it all up and deciding what our Barbies’ names would be that we hadn’t even started playing by nightfall.

However, we never once thought our Barbies were supposed to look like us. Our American Girl dolls looked a little bit like us, but that was their whole mission. They had a doll specifically called the “Just Like Me” doll. But Barbies are Barbies. They are blonde and blue eyed and they have perfect

makeup and perky breasts and long, slender legs. Barbie never tried to look like us, and we didn’t want her to.

We wanted our Barbies to be animal rescuers or secret princesses or capable moms whose husbands work a lot (because our proportion of Ken dolls to Barbies was always a wee bit uneven), but we never thought they should have freckles or blue hair or bigger rear ends.

Not one of my friends seemed to mind Barbie’s lack of resemblance to them.

My friend Coleen, with her red hair and slender frame, never cared about Barbie’s bust size. My friend Kyra, whose thick, near-black hair reached her butt, never mentioned Barbie’s blondness.

In fact, I even remember one day when Coleen and I had recently gotten “Barbie Fashionista” dolls. Those were the best ones because their hands and legs bent easily, and we found ourselves laughing at how un-

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realistically small Barbie’s legs and knees were becoming with each new doll. As a group of tweens, we unanimously agreed it was absurd, but never took it to mean our knees should be the same width as our elbows.

So, why Mattel thought that emphasizing physical appearances was the right way to empower girls, I don’t know, but now I am wondering if I would have been the curvy Barbie. Her larger feet would have matched mine. I could have pretended she loves M&Ms as passionately as I do.

When I read about Time magazine’s Eliana Dockerman visiting Mattel’s headquarters and trying, to no avail, to stuff the new “Curvy” doll into a cute, original Barbie-sized dress, I flashed back to myself in a dimly lit dressing room trying to wiggle into an unforgiving Anthropologie dress about a month ago. “Her plump bottom gets stuck in the same spot,” Dockerman sadly conceded

after trying to wedge the dress on her new Barbie a few different ways. Same, Barbie. Same.

But I don’t want my dear Barbie to have to worry about dress sizes and smoothing herself out with Spanx. I want Barbie to confidently walk her dog in heels and some outrageously glamorous outfit and live in a pastel colored mansion.

Next, are we going to abandon that stuff — the unrealistic houses and clothes and cars — in order to make her more representative of every socioeconomic situation? Wouldn’t that take all the fun away?

Playing with dolls is playing pretend. It’s living out dreams and creating them all at the same time.

In real, grown-up life, we probably won’t drive pink cars and get to live in a fantastic “Dream House,” but at least we can when we’re children.

And we won’t ever have a size negative two body like Barbie’s but at least we can put her in

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strapless gowns and not worry about how toned her arms are, because we’ll have to worry about that plenty when we’re in high school.

The beautiful thing about Barbie is, regardless of who I am, my Barbie could be anything. She could be any age, any profession, any personality. I didn’t need one with less makeup to feel like I didn’t need makeup. I didn’t wear makeup because my mom said I was beautiful without it. I didn’t need a Barbie with big feet to feel OK about my size 10 shoes. My dad always told me that I had pretty and proportional feet.

Besides, no one’s feet look like Barbie’s and no one’s body looks like Barbie’s. She’s a doll. So, let’s let Barbie be a doll and stop allowing our desperation for political correctness dictate the dimensions of a piece of plastic. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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Chess team prepares for national championship

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Chess Team has a longstanding tradition of national excellence, and it has won the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship once and qualified for the Final Four three consecutive times.

The Pan-Am took place in Cleveland in December, and Tech took three teams to the competition, an A, B and C team, which were based on the ranks of the players.

The Pan-Am is a competition in which colleges from North, Central and South America send a team, or several teams, of four players and two alternates to compete for the title of top university team in Pan-America.

The competition is a six round four-person team event in which each win is a calculated as a point and the team with the most overall points at the end of the all matches is the winner.

Haraldur R. Karlsson, the faculty adviser for the Chess Team, said chess is a game full of strategy, and the coach and players have to work together closely to succeed.

“In chess, you’re not watching game film like

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The event will be open to the public from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday, Varghese said.

“Anyone can walk in and sign up,” she said.

The students are expecting 500 to 600 people at each location, and Varghese said she has recruited the help of the Lubbock Fire Department, University Medical Center EMS and nurses

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Chinese artist imitates Syrian toddler photo NEW DELHI (AP) — Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the famous image of a 3-year-old Syrian child who drowned in Turkey last year by staging a photo of himself lying face down on a beach in Greece.

The photograph last year of the child lying on a Turkish beach triggered international outrage as people saw the helpless toddler as the devastating human face of the refugee crisis in Europe.

Ai posed last week on a pebbly beach on Lesbos island for the picture for one of India’s largest Englishlanguage news magazines, India Today.

Rohit Chawla, the magazine’s photographer and visual director, traveled to Lesbos to take the picture.

The photograph was displayed at an art fair in New Delhi over the weekend and many visitors took pictures of it.

Ai has set up a studio on Lesbos where he is working on several projects with refugee-related themes. Lesbos is the main entry point for refugees seeking a better life in Europe.

you do with football or basketball, you study your opponents’ games,” he said.

“They are online, and so there is already a trail of games that you can go in and watch, and it’s the coaches’ job to find a weakness in the players.”

Tech was leading with the top score after three games. After some switching around between teams for top spot, in the sixth round Webster University and the University of Texas Rio Grande were placed in two of the final four spots.

Tech was up against UT Dallas and could not draw or they would fall below the top four. However, Tech was able to come back with the win against UT Dallas and took first place on tiebreakers, which meant they had the best game point score.

Karlsson said factors such as mental and physical health, rest and even weather can determine whether or not students can even get to the tournament.

Some matches can take up to six hours and so each student must be well rested and focused the entire time.

Alex Onischuk, the coach for the chess team, said it is difficult to find time to sit down and coach

his players when they are also busy with schoolwork.

“I try to work with everybody individually, and if not improve, help them maintain their level of play,” he said. “On the A team we have two Ph.D. students, so they are super busy with school. Many of the top players used to work a lot on chess, like three or four hours a day every day, and now they simply don’t have this opportunity or time.”

Onischuk also said the club will have to start moving players up and improve their skill level because some A team players will graduate soon. “ Yo u g o t s o m e g r e a t player and then he graduates and you have to replace him with someone, and you may not have recruited someone that semester to replace him,” he said. “Players on the B team take over and that’s why we work with everyone, and we have several strong guys on the B team.”

Elshan Moradi Abadi, a Ph.D. candidate in management information systems and one of the A team’s top players, said he has learned an important attribute from playing chess.

“I’ve learned to accept my mistakes,” he said. “I can’t live in my mistake

as well as people from South Plains College’s nursing and fire department.

The people training at all three locations are all certified to maximize efficiency in public training, she said. As for the Lubbock branch, the planning has been tended to punctiliously since April.

According to the CPR and the First Aid Emergency Cardiovascular Care website, nearly 70 percent of people are helpless when it comes to performing CPR in emergency situations.

Calling 911 and performing CPR are to be the main takeaways from this training, Varghese said, which are the two steps the event title implies. Learning CPR can possibly triple the chance of survival, she said, which would have the potential to save as many lives as possible.

“The prime goal is to train the public,” Varghese said, “to get as many people as possible trained

in CPR.” Large amounts of research show there are many unnecessary deaths from people’s lack of knowledge when it comes to CPR, Siler Fisher said. So for the purpose of retention, Siler Fisher has included a research element into the entirety of the event, and she will contact participants and check in regularly to see if the training stuck with them, she said.

This research aspect will also help for the future, she said, as it will get feedback from participants and help in simplifying the issue to gain more retention whenever the time comes around for the next event.

This would help to winnow down information into simpler terms, she said, which can keep people both interested and learning.

“Many times (medical students) take for granted the education they know and have,” Siler Fish-

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Yaroslav Zherebukh and Elshan Moradi Abadi, a Ph.D. management information systems student, compete in the Pan-American Intercollegiate competition in December in Cleveland. The Texas Tech team competed against teams from North, Central and South America to advance to the Final Four, and it will compete in the Final Four competition in April.

because chess is too complicated and you make mistakes, sometimes you just have to go with your gut and you learn to accept your errors to commit less errors.”

Moradi Abadi said because he is a full-time student, he does not have time to play chess every day and train like a professional, so he keeps his mind sharp by doing small puzzles before going to bed or when he has er said. “This way they would have a better feel for the community.”

With an event as widespread as this, she said there is a hope that next year the event could be hosted on a national level.

Because there are already two national associations that are involved in this effort, Siler Fisher said there is already some interest streaming into the event.

The event is also a way to promote teamwork and community skills that medical students might not otherwise have received, she said. It hammers in a way to utilize a team of medically trained individuals and increase problemsolving skills by thinking out of the box and bouncing ideas off of each other.

“This puts medicals students as leaders in the community,” she said, “with the support and resources to pull (information) all together.” @MichaelCantuDT

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He is the team’s postman and so his job is always to win, he said, and his teammates count on him to show up to a chess match and dominate. Although chess has been a big part of his life, he said he has other interests in life and he does not wish to play professionally but to keep it as just a hobby.

The Tech Chess Team will compete at the Final

Four competition in April.

“I would like to congratulate my team and my coach and everybody who supported us,” Moradi Abadi said. “This was a great achievement and I am glad I was there to be part of a team and contribute my best. I hope that we get to be our best at Final Four and get a bit lucky because you always need luck to win.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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job back after tweet uproar JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A comment by a judge in South Africa’s “Idols” television show stirred a national conversation, and it had nothing to do with music.

South African television network M-Net dropped Gareth Cliff from its judging panel for the reality singing competition after a tweet that some South Africans thought was racist.

Cliff, who said his tweet was not racist and was instead a defense of free speech, then won a court case against M-Net and was reinstated on Idols South Africa.

Cliff, who is white, said Saturday that South Africa, which emerged from

white minority rule in 1994, should continue a civil discussion about race.

The judge on the 12th season of South Africa’s version of the international franchise also said: “The show will go on.”

The uproar over Cliff began after a South African white woman, Penny Sparrow, said in a Facebook post that black beachgoers celebrating the new year were making a mess and described them as “monkeys.”

Many South Africans were outraged by the remarks and there were calls to prosecute Sparrow and introduce a new law that would criminalize comments deemed to be racist.

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Kappa Delta hosts Girl Scout cookie sale

By MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

The Kappa Delta sorority hosted its annual Girl Scout cookie sale Monday afternoon to help young girls with their confidence and relationship building.

Nicole Polito, a sophomore marketing major and vice president of community service for the sorority, said the Girl Scouts are part of Kappa Delta’s national philanthropy.

“We have a troop that comes and meets up with our chapter, and we basically help them sell around 400 boxes of cookies,” she said. “(The event) raises $1,600 for their troop, and the reason we do it with the Girl Scouts is because they are a part of our confidence philanthropy.”

Polito also said the sorority aims to help young women with their confidence.

“Our confidence statement is that we want to

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Crowds lined up at the Kappa Delta house to buy Girl Scout cookies Monday evening. The sorority partnered with a local Girl Scout troop as a philanthropy event to help the young women with their confidence.

instill confidence in young women,” she said, “and that’s why we work with the Girl Scouts.”

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Jury hears details of forgery scandal NEW YORK (AP) — In the latest chapter of a scandal that’s jolted New York’s art world, a federal jury is hearing about a Chinese immigrant who forged fakes of modern masters such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in his garage, a once-reputable Manhattan gallery that sold them and the wealthy buyers who paid millions for the knockoffs.

“I got a fake painting for $8.3 million and they don’t want to give my money back to me,” Domenico De Sole, the chairman of the board at Sotheby’s auction house and a former Gucci CEO, groused from the witness stand last week at a highstakes civil trial that continues Monday.

His wife Eleanore — testifying with the faux color-block Rothko called “Untitled, 1956” unceremoniously propped up on an easel next to the witness stand — told jurors she “went into a shaking frenzy” when she first learned of suspicions about it.

The couple sued the Knoedler & Company gallery and its former director, Ann Freedman, in

2013 after federal prosecutors brought a separate criminal case against Long Island dealer Glafira Rosales, who admitted in a guilty plea that she sold or consigned 40 fakes to the gallery before it closed in 2011 after more than a century. The De Soles are seeking $25 million in damages, claiming Freedman should have known the painting was a forgery.

The defense has portrayed Freedman, who wasn’t charged in the criminal fraud, as a victim as well. It also contends the evidence will show that the forgeries were so good — and such a surprise — even respected art experts lost their bearings.

“This is the art world equivalent of finding dinosaur bones,” Freedman’s attorney, Luke Nikas, said in opening statements.

“This was an important discovery. Ann believed in it and the art world believed in it.”

The fraud dates to the 1990s, when Rosales, her partner and her boyfriend discovered future forger Pei-Shen Qian painting portraits on the streets of lower Manhattan.

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sale is hosted every year, and Polito said it always has a great turnout.

“It’s really awesome,” she said. “Normally we sell

all of the boxes every single year. It’s just really great having all the girls here because I was a Girl Scout, and it’s a great feeling when

you can leave and not have any more cookies to sell.”

The sorority helped the troop set up a table for the cookies outside of the Kappa Delta lodge, and the Girl Scouts competed against each other to sell the most cookies.

“All of the groups are trying to compete with each other in healthy competition, and it’s also really cool that they get to come to the lodge and be around these college students,” Polito said.

Elaina Frechette, a sophomore public relations major and vice president of public relations for the sorority, said she enjoys the fact that this event is not simply a cookie sale, but it has turned into a fun-filled experience for the girls because it also has music and dancing.

“It was really cool because last year we had a lot of music playing and the girls were dancing with us,” she said. “Just getting

to know them was a really good experience.”

Palak Ghetiya, the vice president of member education, said she appreciates that the Girl Scouts are not the only ones participating in this event.

“We have other fraternities and sororities come by to buy cookies and show their love and support,” she said.

Polito said she wants to help the Girl Scouts feel confident about themselves and who they want to become with this event.

“We try to be as involved as we can with the Girl Scouts because we want to instill confidence in them and let them know that they can do whatever they want to do and be whoever they want to be,” she said.

“We want them to be themselves, which is also what the Girl Scouts supports, so that’s why we support them so much.” @MalBarnettDT

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David Young, assistant director at the Outdoor Pursuit Center, and Kevin Hoffman, coordinator at the OPC, prepare the rock wall for a climbing competition at the Student Recreation Center on Monday morning. The competition is a part of the Collegiate Climbing Series and will bring in competitors from across the state.

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Old South Ball in Georgetown draws about 100 protesters GEORGETOWN (AP) — About 100 people protested as a Civil War dance was held inside the Williamson County Courthouse in Georgetown.

The Austin AmericanStatesman reports that the protest on Saturday

night of the sold-out fundraiser for the nonprofit Williamson Museum was peaceful. Phrases on protesters’ signs included: “History not Hatred.”

Most protesters had signed a petition saying the Old South Ball was racist and

evoked memories of slavery.

Protester Rob Redick from Georgetown said the costume ball was “just not right,” and adding, “hatred is not something you celebrate.”

Mickie Ross, the museum’s director, has said

they weren’t promoting slavery but were “just telling the story of the people who lived here during the Civil War.” Dance attendee Jim Rice said he was a “history buff” who saw it as an educational opportunity.

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Cosby calls himself mentor, more to accuser in criminal case PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby’s attraction to Andrea Constand began the moment he spied her across a Temple University gym in about 2002. The flirting — some would say grooming — began almost immediately.

When Constand, a Temple women’s basketball staffer, mentioned that her back was bothering her, the 66-year-old comedian offered his “layman’s” fix in the women’s locker room.

“It’s one where she gets on my back with her back and her arms come under mine and I grab her and I say, ‘Now you relax,’” Cosby said in a 2005 deposition. “I go up and I come down and I give that jolt and it’s supposed to line the vertebrae.”

The friendship that followed between Temple’s most famous booster and the then-31-year-old employee colors the sexassault prosecution that starts in earnest Tuesday, when Cosby’s lawyers will ask a judge to throw out charges stemming from a 2004 encounter at his suburban Philadelphia home.

In Cosby’s mind, Con-

stand had reacted “very, very favorably” to him the day they met at Temple’s arena.

A university trustee, he began inviting her to dinner at his home, at first with others but later alone. Cosby was both a sounding board and someone who could open doors for a woman considering a career change.

In November 2003, he summoned Constand to the Foxwoods casino in Connecticut, where he was performing, and arranged for her to have dinner with a casino executive in his suite. But he voiced frustration when she failed to follow through on his job leads.

“Here’s a mentor, Bill Cosby, who is in the business — Bill Cosby, who happens to know something about what to do — and Andrea is not picking up on it,” Cosby said in the deposition, part of the sexassault lawsuit Constand filed in 2005.

In the deposition, Cosby paints himself as Constand’s friend, mentor and occasional partner in sex “play” that stopped short of intercourse, lest she fall

in love with him.

C o n s t a n d ’s l a w y e r s have since pointed out that she is gay and was dating a woman at the time.

Basketball, a common bond between them, had taken Constand from a standout high school career in Toronto to a 1996 NIT championship with the University of Arizona to semi-pro ball in Europe and finally a job with Temple women’s basketball program.

By her third season, though, Constand was restless, wondering if this was the end of the road for her life in basketball. She spoke frequently about it to Cosby, during phone calls, at social events and during the approximately half-dozen visits she made to his Cheltenham home.

Cosby, in the deposition, described at least two separate nights when they engaged in sex play there — the first time, after she had four drinks, and the second time, after he gave her unidentified pills. (Cosby said he never drank or did illegal drugs, although he acknowledged getting quaaludes in the 1970s to use on women he

hoped to seduce.)

The criminal case involves the second night, in January 2004.

Cosby said: “Andrea came to the house. ... We talked about Temple University. We talked about her position. And then I went upstairs and I got three pills ... because she was talking about stress. ... We sat for 15 or 20 minutes talking. I then said, ‘Let’s go into the living room.’ ... I asked her to have a sit down on the sofa. We were still talking.

But then we began to neck and we began to touch and we began to feel and kiss and kiss back.”

Cosby described the “digital penetration” that followed as something of a favor, to help her unwind.

“I was hoping (it) had been a sort of a contribution to happiness, friendship, a moment that we shared,” Cosby said.

Constand later said she was too drugged to remember it clearly.

Cosby, in a taped phone call with Constand and her distraught mother a year later, confirmed that he gave her pills and described the sex act.

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Lady Raiders seeking second-straight win

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

When No. 24 West Virginia takes the court at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the United Supermarkets Arena, the Texas Tech women’s basketball team will be seeking its second-straight Big 12 Conference win.

The Lady Raiders have protected their court with a 10-3 record at home, but have not won backto-back conference games this season.

West Virginia is in fifth place in the Big 12 with a 16-6 overall record, but has lost its last two matchups.

Coach Candi Whitaker said they have multiple players that are capable of giving opponents issues on defense.

“I think they’re in the top three of this league, as far as their ability to make plays,” she said. “They’ve got great athletes. They can shoot it well. I think that’s where they are much improved from last year.”

Improved shooting from the field and from the free-throw line led the Lady Raiders to a win this past Saturday.

Tech made 85 percent of its attempted free throws, led by 11 out of 12 from freshman guard Japreece Dean. She ended the last game with 21 points and a career-high eight rebounds.

The leading scorer for the season, junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor, added 16 points in the winning effort. She ranks in the top 10 scorers in the conference with 14.1 points per game, according to the Big 12 website.

“I feel like we have a little momentum going (against) West Virginia,” Dean said. “We are just trying to take that and carry over what we have been learning in practice.”

CookTaylor fueled the offense in the first meeting between the two teams with 20 points, but the Mountaineers defeated the Lady Raiders 79-57 on Jan. 9.

Tech will be faced with the challenge of stop-

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Lady Raider coach Candi Whitaker honors the flag during the National Anthem on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena before their win against the Kansas Jayhawks. ping Mountaineers senior guard Bria Holmes. The three-time All-Big 12 player is third in the conference with 16.8 points per game.

Holmes has been efficient

on the offensive end of the floor as she also ranks in the top 15 in the Big 12 in shooting percentage and assists, according to the Big 12 website. Holmes leads

the third-best scoring and overall shooting team in the conference but West Virginia is nearly last in 3-point shooting percentage. As a team, they have shot just

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more than 30 percent from behind the arc.

Whitaker said Holmes cannot be shut down for an entire game, but the key to limiting her is not letting her run the floor.

“Bria is tremendous in transition. So first and foremost, you have to do anything you can to keep her out of the open court,” she said. “When she’s in the open court it’s two points. She has improved her depth and consistency at the 3-point line.” @JeremyK_DT

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UConn, South Carolina, Notre Dame and Baylor are the four No. 1 seeds right now according to the NCAA women’s basketball selection committee.

Taking a page from the college football playoffs, the NCAA decided this year to release the top 10 women’s teams three times in February to help build a buzz for the tournament in March.

The first list came out Monday night.

“I think the committee constantly is looking for ways to create interest in women’s basketball and create some conversation about it,” chair of the women’s basketball committee Chris Dawson said.

The top four teams mirrored The Associated Press women’s basketball poll that was released earlier Monday.

Texas was fifth, followed by

Ohio State, Arizona State, Oregon State, Maryland and UCLA on the NCAA’s list.

The Bruins are ranked 14th in the current poll.

“There’s a top group of teams that most people are pretty sure about,” Dawson said. “There are a whole lot of teams up next.”

Florida State, Louisville, Mississippi State and Texas A&M also were receiving consideration from the committee. Those four teams were released in alphabetical order.

“There was discussion about what’s a number that works,” Dawson said on the choice of revealing 10 teams.

“There was a discussion if we could do 16. Should we do them in groups of four because of seed lines? Could we do 16 because those are the teams that could host first and second rounds.”

“I think we landed at 10 in part because we think over the next month of the season there are a lot of games with amazing implications left,” he said.

The NCAA will release the top 10 teams twice more on Feb. 15 and Feb. 29. The NCAA Tournament field will be revealed on March 14.

The top 16 teams will host the opening two rounds of the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year.

Last season was the first time since 2003 that the women’s tournament had the top teams host the opening two rounds.

Last year, the NCAA announced the Top 20 teams a month before the tournament began in alphabetical order.

They also gave the four No. 1 seeds. All of the top 16 seeds came from that group of 20 last season.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Floating on an inflatable swan was one thing. Being hunted by a police helicopter was too much.

Johnny Manziel’s hijinks have driven some fans of the Cleveland Browns to the edge, and they are sacking the headline-grabbing quarterback for a month — or maybe longer.

Tired of Manziel’s off-field transgressions, the latest being a possible assault of his ex-girlfriend over the weekend in Texas, fans have started a “Johnny Free February” movement on Twitter.

“I’m done with him,” said Chris McNeil, a diehard Browns fan whose 8-year-old daughter, Riley, came up with the idea for a social media boycott after hearing about more bad news involving Manziel.

“She asked me what we discuss on Twitter and I

told her Johnny Manziel,” he said. “She rolled her eyes and said, ‘Why don’t you take the month off?’ Out of the mouths of babes.”

McNeil kicked off the campaign on Saturday night “not to tweet, retweet, or mention Johnny Manziel on Twitter in February or until he is no longer a Cleveland Brown.” As of Monday morning, McNeil said more than 1,000 people have signed up with some using the hashtag #JohnnyFreeFebruary.

“It didn’t take very long for it to take off,” McNeil said.

The tipping point for McNeil and others was the latest news concerning the 23-year-old player, who arrived in Cleveland with a party-boy reputation — he was photographed swigging champagne while sprawled across the swan in an Austin, Texas, nightclub — and

has had two turbulent seasons with the Browns.

On Saturday, police in Fort Worth, Texas, were called to an apartment complex where an unidentified woman said she was involved in a disturbance with Manziel, who was not at the scene. She told the officers she had concerns about his “well-being.”

Police attempted to call Manziel and searched for him with assistance from the department’s helicopter, Air One Unit. Manziel was later found to be safe and in no danger.

“You just get tired of it,” McNeil said of the constant drama around Manziel. “You can’t make up helicopters. There are 32 quarterbacks in the league and ours is being searched for by a helicopter. That’s a Saturday night. It’s gotten to the point where it’s cliche. We’ve had enough.”

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WACO (AP) — Three students at Baylor University say the school failed to act on their allegations that they were sexually assaulted by a former football player later convicted in one of those cases, ESPN reports.

The sports media outlet’s program “Outside The Lines” reported that an administrator told one of the students that Baylor had received multiple complaints against Tevin Elliott, who earned a Big 12 honorable men-

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Alexis Peterson scored 10 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter and Syracuse beat No. 16 Miami 57-51 on Monday night for the Orange’s first road win against a ranked opponent since the 201314 season.

Peterson had four of the Orange’s 13 steals and Miami turned it over 26 times, which led to 15 points on the other end.

Laura Cornelius hit two free throws for Miami to tie the game at 49-all

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Damion Lee scored 24 points, including two free throws with 8.3 seconds remaining, to help No. 19 Louisville upset No. 2 North Carolina 71-65 on Monday night, ending the Tar Heels’ 12-game winning streak.

After scoring just six points in Saturday’s loss to then-No. 11 Virginia, Lee lifted the Cardinals to a hard-fought victory over the first-place Tar Heels by making 8 of 12 shots, including consecutive 3-pointers that helped provide a 55-50 lead with 9:35 remaining.

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ESPN did not identify the three women. One of them told Waco police in 2012 that she was assaulted twice at a party when she was a freshman. Elliott was charged and in 2014 convicted of two counts of sexual assault and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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The 2015-2016 season reaches the halfway mark for the Texas Tech men’s basketball team against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena, which is also Star Wars Night.

Students who attend the game will have the option to grab free food in the student lounge, as well as receive a free T-shirt and compete in a costume competition.

A three-game losing streak follows the Red Raiders after dropping another near victory versus the Arkansas Razorbacks in overtime.

Since winning its home opener against the Texas Longhorns in early January, Tech has won just one of its last seven games. Of its seven losses, five games finished with a loss or margin of 10 or lower.

Prior to the Arkansas game, assistant coach Pooh Williamson said Tech coach Tubby Smith said he has emphasized the team’s need to focus on the games in front of them, not the ones after.

“We got to get better today,” Williamson said. “We’re not worried about three, four, five, six, seven games from now. We got to get better today and be better and get ready to win the next game you play. That’s the focus they have to have.”

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Dean has not looked back since that game as she has started all 14 games after that.

Whitaker said after earning her first start, Dean has been impossible to take out of the starting lineup because of how productive she has been.

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Oklahoma State, familiar to Big 12 losses with an 11-10 overall and 2-6 conference record, seeks a win in Lubbock after two seasons of losing to the Red Raiders on their home court.

At home last season, now senior guard Devaugntah Williams sunk a 3-pointer with 10 seconds left for a 6362 Tech victory.

Life on the road has battered the Cowboys, as Oklahoma State has no wins over a Big 12 opponent in an away environment. Oklahoma State, however, posts one lone away win after a 74-63 win over the Auburn Tigers.

Since losing starting senior guard Phil Forte because of an elbow injury, Oklahoma State has lacked an offensive spark. In a season without the help of Forte on the court, the Cowboys average the second lowest points per game at 71 points.

W h i l e Te c h f a c e s a stricken Cowboys squad, overcoming second half scoring droughts has kept the Red Raiders from building extended leads to put games away.

Although the Red Raiders made one more shot in the second half than in the first half against Arkansas, they made zero of their three outside shot attempts before sending the game into overtime tied at 60 each.

In overtime, the Red Raiders only nailed one of their five shot attempts and allowed the Razor-

backs to bank four of their six shot attempts.

Looking ahead, Tech matches up well with the Oklahoma State front court as the Cowboys possess less height over the Red Raiders like other Big 12 lineups.

After a team-leading 19 points against Arkansas, sophomore starting forward Zach Smith could see his scoring numbers increase versus Oklahoma State as he faces mismatches at the post.

While Smith’s presence at the rim gives Tech scoring and defensive support, the Red Raiders must improve their assist numbers against the Cowboys.

In two wins against Big 12 opponents, Tech posted assists totals higher than 10.

During its three-game losing stretch, Tech did not record more than 10 total assists, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

After losing to Arkansas, according to a Tech Athletics release, Smith said Tech’s ball movement suffered near the end of the game and the

Razorbacks took advantage of it.

“I want them to do what we tell them to do, like pick the ball up and don’t try to

dribble it,” Smith said. “Like box out and rebound. Like guard the three. Like they have been taught. That’s what I want them to do.”

A win over Oklahoma State improves the Red Raiders overall record to 13-8 and conference record 3-7.

“She has a burning desire to be great, and that’s what fuels her,” she said in the release. “She is always working to be the best she can be.

She wants to learn so much about the game, take in as much information as possible and continue to grow, which I love.”

On the season, Dean is averaging 12.4 points per game and is in the top 15 in the conference with 71 assists.

Since Big 12 games began, Dean has been even better with 13.9 points per game, which is tied for the team lead. Also, she has been the best shooter in the Big 12 from the free throw line making 87.9 percent of her attempts in conference play.

Dean took over in the fourth quarter against Kansas this past Saturday and led the team to a win with her shooting at the line. She

made 11 out of 12 attempts.

As a freshman, Dean has nearly matched her scoring numbers from her high school career when she averaged 17 points per game, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Coming out of high school, Dean received offers from Utah, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and West Virginia as well as Tech, according to the website.

In high school and when she first arrived at Tech, Dean said she used her lack of height as added motivation to show she can be successful at the college level.

“When I had to work to get offers from big-time schools, it did (add motivation),” Dean said. “But now, I feel like I’m like everybody else out there.”

Now that Dean has proved herself, many of her

teammates have pointed to her as already being a vocal leader in addition to being a leader on the box score.

Dean said Whitaker has pushed her to be a vocal leader and Dean has embraced that role.

“Just listening to Coach Whitaker,” she said. “(Whitaker) wants me to talk, so I have to talk. I usually do everything she asks me to do.”

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Who: Tech (12-8), (2-6 Big 12) vs.

Oklahoma St. (11-10), (2-6 Big 12) When: 8 p.m.

Wednesday Where: United Supermarkets Arena TV: ESPNU Radio: 97.3 FM

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Texas Tech guard Toddrick Gotcher shoots a three-pointer over a West Virginia defender on Jan. 23 in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Red Raiders will look to snap their three-game losing streak against Oklahoma State on Wednesday.

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