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On Monday, Texas Tech became one of 81 public institutions to receive top-tier recognition. Tech earned Tier One Carnegie Designation.

The institutions achieving this status are announced every five years, according to a Tech news release. The distinction is based on a university’s research, academic scholarship and teaching

in the categories of Highest Research Activity, Higher Research Activity and Moderate Research Activity.

“Designation as a Carnegie Tier One university is not accomplished overnight,” John Opperman, Tech interim president, said in the release. “It is the culmination of years of dedication to research, teaching and learning by our administration, faculty, staff and students.”

According to the release, this status is representative

of Tech’s momentum as a university. In May 2012, Tech was the first university in Texas to earn access to the National Research University Fund.

This fund was established in House Bill 51.

Commitment to research has been enhanced by infrastructure investments, faculty retention and recruitment and workspace, according to the release.

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The Student Government Association executive candidate bloc OneTech includes presidential candidate John Michael Getz, graduate vice presidential candidate Chelsea Clark, internal vice presidential candidate Larken Lundgren and external vice presidential candidate Christopher Mitchell.

The Student Government Association executive candidate bloc Strive includes graduate vice presidential candidate Kevin Koestler, external vice presidential candidate Alex Derossi, presidential candidate Ben Sharp and internal vice presidential candidate Witt Westbrook.

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The official campaigning for the new Student Government Association executive positions begins Wednesday.

Students in two blocs, Strive and OneTech, are looking for the chance to make a difference at Tech by serving in student government positions.

John Michael Getz, OneTech presidential candidate

and a junior accounting and finance dual major from Lubbock, said OneTech encompasses the experience and variety the team has. The team wants to use its experience to work for the students and find

out what they need before they even know they need it.

“We’re running for student government but at the end of the day we’re just a larger part of a student body of 35,000 students,” Getz said. “We’re

all just one student body and that’s why we want to encompass the OneTech that we are.”

If elected, Getz said he wants to work on tax-free textbooks for students. This is already in the works in

the state legislature, he said.

Other universities have been lobbying for this as well, and other states have adopted this policy.

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Harlem Globetrotter Buckets Blake gave a presentation to students from Williams Elementary School on how to prevent and handle issues with bullying on Tuesday.

The Harlem Globetrotters started out as a team of five African-American basketball players in 1926 who played any Chicago team willing to play them. Since then, the team has expanded to 31 players who travel around the world to play in front of diverse audiences.

This diversity is also found in the team itself as the players come from all across the U.S., and

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women have donned the Globetrotter uniform since 1985.

The Globetrotters will play at 7 p.m. Sunday in the United Supermarkets Arena, and Buckets Blake, a veteran point guard for the team, visited Williams Elementary on Tuesday to talk to the kids about bullying.

He entertained the kids with basketball tricks throughout his talk, but he stressed the importance of action, bravery and compassion when dealing with a bullying situation.

The Globetrotters started the Great Assist Initiative this year, and the goal is to get 100 million smiles in the next 10 years. Fans can nominate people who are assisting in their communities in a major way, and if they are selected, the Globetrotters will do what they can to help their causes.

After speaking with the kids, Buckets took time to answer some questions about his experiences as a Globetrotter.

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The film series is titled “Sexism in Cinema” and will focus on ways in which sexism is embedded, endorsed and challenged in cinema, according to a Jan. 27 Texas Tech Today article.

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Tech has increased partnerships with corporations such as Bayer CropScience to help reach this status, according to the release.

“Texas Tech can be proud that it is now listed among the ‘highest research activity’ institutions and was one of only 15 universities to move into this category since the previous ranking in 2010,” Lawrence Schovanec, provost and senior vice president, said in the release. “The Carnegie

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Getz said. In 2004, SGA went to the Vice Chancellor of Facilities, Planning and Construction and asked to fundraise for the bricks at Memorial Circle, Getz said. The group raised several million dollars and that went to an endowment for scholarships.

Getz wants to expand on that and raise money to start an SGA scholarship endowment.

Getz said when former Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration Dean Lance Nail asked students what they wanted in the Rawls building expansion, Getz said breakfast in the Chick-Fil-A. “I just don’t think administration understands how much

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is to promote critical engagement with popular films, associate professor in the College of Human Sciences, Elizabeth Sharp, said in the article. The discussions of the film help raise awareness about representations of men, women, race/ethnicity, sexuality, class, objectification and sexual violence.

Approximately 500 people attended the film series in 2015, and the films were open to everyone, not just Tech students or faculty.

“We wanted to create a space as an opportunity at the Alamo

Drafthouse that would allow for people from the university and people from the larger community to get together and talk about gender issues in general,” Allison Whitney, associate professor in the English department, said.

The film series begins on Feb. 3 and lasts throughout the spring, with one film being shown each month.

“We try to choose films that represent different experiences, different genres.

In this case we’ve got horror science fiction, comedy, gritty realism and so forth,” Whitney said. “We’re trying to get a

mix of types of films to attract different audiences to allow people to have different sorts of discussions.”

The first film of the series will be “Winter’s Bone.” The film series will also feature “The Color Purple” on March 2, “Day of the Dead” on April 6, and it will conclude with “Bridesmaids” on May 4.

In addition to screening the films, Tech faculty members and special guest speakers will be present afterward for panels and to discuss the female protagonists featured in each film.

“One of the films, ‘Day of

The Dead,’ we’re showing this film in part because we have the opportunity to have a guest speaker. Her name is Andrea Wood,” Whitney, said.

Wood is from The Georgia Institute of Technology and is an expert on zombie films, according to her website.

She does work specifically on gender dynamics and zombie narratives.

The films will begin at 7 p.m. and will be screened at the Alamo Drafthouse. Admission is $3 and the films are open to anyone.

designation is rewarding for our faculty, who make possible a productive, researchoriented environment, while still fulfilling our fundamental obligation of providing our students with an exceptional educational experience.”

The Carnegie designation differs from the Association of American Universities’ tier-one designation, which only Rice University, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin have in Texas, according to the AAU website.

AAU invites nationally leading research universities to join, according to the website.

In addition to seeking the Carnegie designation, Tech has strived to achieve the AAU status as well, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador. Both statuses showcase a university’s quality of education.

Part of the criteria for Carnegie’s highest research activity designation is the number of doctoral degrees conferred. According to the release, Tech has been increasing that number the past five years. In 2015 Tech awarded 332 doctoral degrees.

“The attainment of the benchmarks that moved Texas

Tech into the top tier of research universities is a testament to a long history of scholarship and research by our faculty and another source of pride for our students and alumni,” Schovanec said in the release.

The University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Arlington were also given the Carnegie designation this year, according to the Carnegie website. Rice, Texas A&M, UT Austin and the University of Houston were previously the only Texas schools with Carnegie Tier One status.

According to the release, Opperman said this designa-

tion is a source of pride for Tech and an opportunity to look forward to the future.

“This is a significant milestone for Texas Tech University and its community and should be a source of pride,” Opperman said in the release.

“But we also recognize there is more to being a great public research university. We should use this opportunity to renew our historical commitment to the undergraduate education experience of our students, while continuing to expand research opportunities that will make a difference.”

students really love chicken minis,” Getz said.

Benjamin Sharp, Strive presidential candidate and a junior economics major from Borger, said Strive named their campaign so because it is about looking forward to the future of Texas Tech.

“It’s also a very Texas Tech word, it’s associated with the fight song. At the end of every game or sporting event or graduation, we all stand up and we scream ‘strive for honor,’” Sharp said. “Ultimately, that’s what this campaign is about, striving for honor.”

Sharp said the campaign is about serving every student and as Tech climbs closer to 40,000 students, Strive is looking at how to serve those students as the campus expands.

Sharp wants to create a concert series at Raidergate using funds from potential sales for every home game. This would enhance the game day experience for Tech students, he said.

Students have expressed frustrations with their advisers to Sharp before and Sharp said he wants to revamp the advising system.

“One thing I’ve noticed when I was blessed enough to become Homecoming King last year was that there wasn’t a multicultural Greek sorority or fraternity represented amongst all the candidates for Homecoming King,” Sharp said. “I think that’s something that needs to be changed.”

Sharp said he realized this was true with most of the homecoming experiences and he wants to focus on including those organizations in homecoming festivities.

The first step to this is providing those organizations with support, he said, and also giving them funds through SGA to help pay for spirit board costs or hiring a choreographer for S.O. Sing.

Strive wants to create a series of SGA town halls, so there is an open line of communication between the students and SGA, Sharp said. From there SGA can work to solve the problems students are having.

Larken Lundgren, OneTech internal vice presidential candidate and a junior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from San Antonio, said if elected, she wants to increase the funding SGA gives to student organizations.

She is currently the chair of the budget and finance committee, she said, and based on her

experience this is a practical and achievable goal.

“I know that student organizations are the heartbeat of this campus and I want to make sure that student organizations are always being put very high on the priority list,” Lundgren said.

She also wants to create a “sunset committee,” Lundgren said, and the Texas legislature has a similar committee which goes through the history of its legislation and looks at what was successful and tries to grow on those accomplishments and achieve more in the future.

Witt Westbrook, Strive internal vice presidential candidate and a junior energy commerce major from Stephenville, said transparency in leading the student senate is important to him if he is elected.

“We’re made up of students, for the students, and if we can’t be transparent then how can we expect to be transparent and see change happen?”

Westbrook said.

Westbrook also wants to help improve the game day atmosphere for students, he said, while also looking at serious game day issues.

“I look to implement alcohol being served in the student section but focusing on ending the binge drinking that occurs at tailgates,” he said. “That will also work on the student retention and bringing students to the games.”

With the money made from alcohol sales at games, Westbrook said he wants to work with Tech Athletics to improve Raidergate.

Westbrook said he also wants to work with administration to expand the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center physically and hourly. While that expansion happens, Westbrook said he will form agreements with local fitness centers so students can still work out during those expansions.

Focusing on diversity is also important to Westbrook, he said. Specifically he wants to highlight the Hispanic population at Tech. He wants to improve the Hispanic heritage football game.

Westbrook also said, if elected, he wants to have monthly town hall meetings with SGA, administration and different Hispanic groups on campus.

Christopher Mitchell, OneTech external vice presidential candidate and a junior chemical engineering major from Dallas, said he does not want

to forget what SGA is currently working on, but work to improve those initiatives.

“One of the things I want to do is be able to look into Tech buying their own buses,” Mitchell said. “That’s something that’s in the works and that’s something that would be very beneficial because it allows us more freedom with our bus routes and it’ll save us money in the future.”

Saving money on buses means Tech will be able to allocate that money elsewhere, such as an app Tech is currently working on to help navigate campus.

Caleb Fisher, the current external vice president, has been working on a student discount with Uber, Mitchell said.

He wants to continue to work toward that and take it a step further by trying to get Uber services free for students.

Mitchell wants to increase communication with the community. Fisher also started a community service initiative called Tech the Town, Mitchell said. He wants to continue to work on increasing community service between the students and the Lubbock community.

Alex Derossi, Strive external vice presidential candidate and a senior energy commerce major from Flower Mound, said he has been fortunate to have experiences through his fraternity and serving on the Greek Task Force. These experiences made him realize he wanted to make a difference at Tech.

“The first thing that encompasses the external vice president position is student safety,” Derossi said.

He wants to work with the police to increase student safety on campus, he said. This includes a way to help students get home when drunk.

Derossi said he also wants to have 15 minute parking outside all major buildings so students can run in and out quickly and not have to worry about a parking ticket.

If elected, Derossi also wants to add more bus routes during peak travel times.

Additionally, he said he wants to help the disabled student community at Tech. Derossi wants to work with Student Disability services to help make it easier and more affordable for students to be tested for ADD/ ADHD, he said. He also wants to look at the campus and make sure there is ADA access on all parts of campus.

Chelsea Clark, OneTech

graduate vice presidential candidate and a senior biology major from Round Rock, said she believes in creating a good learning environment on campus.

Her first piece of legislation as an SGA senator was to increase lab equipment for the College of Arts and Sciences for the physics, chemistry and biology departments.

“I just want to continue that legacy is bettering our learning environment,” she said. “As I’ve gotten older and I’ve been around the university longer, I’ve realized the university needs help with bettering their learning environments.”

Clark also said she wants to add a bar area in West Village Residence Hall for graduate students to hang out with their friends in their living area.

Clark wants to work to increase research funding for graduate students, especially after Tech received the Tier One Carnegie status.

Kevin Koestler, Strive graduate vice presidential candidate and a STEM business graduate student from Carrollton, said he wants affordable health care reform for international students on campus.

Koestler said many graduate students don’t have rides to school so he wants to work on developing bus routes in areas highly populated with graduate students so they can get to campus.

“I want to create a students funding students, basically a funding model,” Koestler said, “to help alleviate the cost of research and help graduate students on individual basis to help them pay for research and conference costs.”

Koestler also said he wants to work with national companies to help get more PDF versions of textbooks to lower the costs of books.

Many graduate students are international students and Koestler said he wants to develop a scholarship program to help them pay for visits back home to see their families during the breaks.

Another way Koestler wants to help international students is by providing more dining options for those with various religious dietary restrictions, such as Kosher.

Students will be able to vote for SGA candidates on the SGA website on March 8 and 9.

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he issue of immigration can be very divisive even amongst presidential candidates of the same party.

On the one hand, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, according to The New York Times article, “In Republican debate, candidates battle sharply on immigration.”

On the other hand, candidates such as Senator Marco Rubio and former Governor Jeb Bush are calling for immigration reform, including tougher screening methods for refugees fleeing Syria, according to a Nov. 16, 2015, Fortune article.

This is whilst governors in about 30 states, including Texas, have petitioned the Obama administration to stop accepting Syrian refugees, with the Texas attorney general going so far as to file a lawsuit against the federal government to prevent Syrian refugees from resettling in Texas.

Yet, in a blog entitled

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“Here’s what the refugee screening process looks like” on Whitehouse.gov, the Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson posted, “It’s important to remember, we’re focused on admitting the most vulnerable Syrians — this means mostly women, children and families. Second, anyone who applies for and is approved for refugee status in the United States, including Syrians, must first go through a rigorous security screening process.”

All the scare tactics about immigrants are political posturing to cover up a system of injustice and cruelty toward people for which that system actually depends on to fuel its economy and the lifestyles most of us enjoy.

While politicians complain about undocumented immigrants taking away

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our jobs, the International Business Times reported on Jan 14, that numerous studies show these same immigrants are actually helping to expand the U.S. economy.

U.S. Labor Department Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz said, “In the ongoing debate on immigration, there is broad agreement among academic economists that it has a small but positive impact on the wages of native-born workers overall: although new immigrant workers add to the labor supply, they also consume goods and services, which creates more jobs.”

I wonder which jobs these politicians are complaining about being taken away from us. According to the Pew Research Center on Nov. 19, 2015, unauthorized immigrants make up only 5.1 percent of the U.S. labor force.

Additionally, the Pew Research Center reported on March 16, 2015, that “unauthorized immigrant workers remain concentrated in lower skill jobs,” meaning all of the jobs that we do not want to have, like manual labor such as farm-

ing, cleaning, maintenance and construction.

In addition, undocumented immigrants are some of the most vulnerable people who are escaping dire conditions in their own countries only to be exploited when they arrive here.

All the scare tactics about immigrants are political posturing to cover up a system of injustice and cruelty toward people for which that system actually depends on to fuel its economy and the lifestyles most of us enjoy.

According to the Newsweek article, “Surge in Central American refugees head for Texas,” in October and November of last year, more than 10,500 unaccompanied children, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, entered the U.S. without documents. These were the lucky ones, as they

were able to escape with their lives, but not everyone is so lucky.

In November 2014, The Weather Channel, in partnership with Telemundo, released a documentary exposing mass graves filled with hundreds of bodies of unidentified immigrants found in the desert in Brooks County, Democracy Now reported on July 16, 2015.

Why would people leave their homelands and risk their lives to come to the U.S.? You may be thinking it is because we are the greatest country in the world. And yet, many of the conditions that cause people to flee their home countries can be traced back to U.S. intervention.

For example, military officials who have been directly linked to genocide and crimes against humanity in Central American countries were trained in the U.S. School of the Americas located in Georgia, SOA Watch reported on Jan. 18.

These countries are also rich in natural resources and have been ravished by multinational corporations that exploit people at their

government’s consent.

Europe is now facing one of the gravest humanitarian crises in the world, with more than 55,528 refugees and migrants arriving to Europe this year and 230 refugees dying while trying to reach Europe in January alone, as they try to escape war and persecution in the homelands, Al Jazeera reported in the article “Deadliest January on record for refugees raises alarm.” Decades of U.S. military intervention in the Middle East have only fueled this crisis.

Those who want to close the U.S. borders to immigrants should not be given support nor any political power because no human being is illegal. Borders are a human construct and migration is a natural phenomenon that should not be prevented.

In fact, the anti-im migrant rationale comes mostly from those whose ancestors emigrated here when the borders were still open and would have been considered illegal if it was done today. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Tech should offer Zika virus shows need for better sexual more late classes education in Texas schools, universities

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any students around campus are getting into the full swing of classes, with some classes on campus starting at 8 a.m.

Having these early classes is not only detrimental to the student, but also to the professor having to teach said class. Moving these classes to a later time might result in an increase in class participation and class attendance throughout the university.

Having classes at 8 a.m. is detrimental to students, who often have to wake up and immediately go to class. Although some students are absolutely fine with having early morning classes, it is a struggle for other students, especially those who live off campus.

Having classes later in the day would allow for students to arrive to class more prepared than having them in the morning. There is also the added benefit of a higher-class participation and attendance rate.

This would be the most ideal option for professors looking to improve their classroom’s environment.

This change would benefit both students and professors throughout Texas Tech. By allowing more time for the student to prepare for the course in question, and it allows the professor more time to prepare for the course and reply to any questions that students may have about the course.

With the added benefit of offering a course later in the day, there would also be an increased class average due to a smaller amount of students showing up to class half asleep, which would only bring the respective student’s grade down.

From personal experience, most students that go to these earlymorning classes are often drowsy and groggy, which makes the class harder to understand.

Some students might actually drop the course after realizing what it is like to try pay attention

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so early in the morning.

An ideal solution to this peculiar problem is to offer more classes that start at a later time. This would allow students to completely wake up before heading out for their chosen classes, taking away the possibility of being half asleep during a lecture, which ultimately endangers the student’s grade.

Having classes later in the day would allow for students to arrive to class more prepared than having them in the morning. There is also the added benefit of a higher class participation and attendance rate.

While an easier solution to this problem is to move the daunting earlymorning classes to a later time in the day, another option would be to move them to an online setting, allowing for a more flexible schedule. The transition to online courses has worked well for many classes offered at Tech, varying across different majors throughout the university.

Having an early morning class is not a problem for everybody, but everyone could benefit from having the option to take classes later in the day.

Students and professors would also benefit from completely transferring their courses to an online format, allowing for the most flexibility with both the students’ and professors’ schedules. bdefilippis@dailytoreador.com

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he Zika virus, only a distant problem a few weeks ago, is now with us in Texas. According to a Tuesday USA Today article, Texas health officials have confirmed the first case of the Zika virus in Dallas County, proving how real the danger of the virus is to Americans.

While the cure to the virus lies within the abilities of scientists and researchers around the globe, it is time we prepare for it in Texas by strengthening the sexual health education in public schools and universities.

I can understand why some parents want abstinence-only education taught in schools. Television and movies become more sexualized every day.

Countless parents strongly believe waiting until marriage is essential for healthy living, and other parents just don’t want their children sleeping around and getting pregnant in high school.

Yet, now that the Zika virus, a sexually transmittable disease, is in Texas, we must provide the knowledge for students to have safe sex. Abstinence

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) — Hillary Clinton emerged from Iowa with a razor-thin victory over Bernie Sanders — and a new round of nervous second-guessing from supporters.

Topping the list of concerns is Clinton’s staggering disadvantage with young voters, a crucial Democratic constituency that overwhelmingly sided with Sanders. Clinton supporters are also worried that the campaign is still struggling with a muddled message, a problem that plagued her not only in the opening months of this campaign but also in her failed 2008 White House bid.

But this time the Democratic hand-wringing is balanced by something more positive: cautious optimism

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is a great ideal we should strive for, but it is time to face the fact that a large amount of high school and college students are having sex, and we must educate them to fight the spread of sexual diseases.

As great of a state as Texas can be, it has its fair share of sexual health problems. For example, according to a July 6, 2014 report, in 2014 Texas had the fifth-highest rate of teenage births in the U.S., costing Texas $1.1 billion in health care, foster care and lost tax revenue in 2010. According to 2013 data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Texas ranked No. 11 in the country for the highest rates of reported STDs. Despite the prevalence of STDs and teenage births in the state, Texas still has some of the lowest standards when it comes to edu-

able questions.

As if chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, Scabies, Syphilis and AIDS aren’t enough, the Zika virus shows the need for our society to be aware and prepared for sexually transmittable diseases.

While contracting the Raider Rash may lead to some painful sores and rashes, the Zika virus has been linked to cases of babies being born with underdeveloped brains, according to a Monday BBC report.

The Worldwide Health Organization has declared the disease linked to the Zika virus a worldwide emergency, according to the BBC report, and it is time we started taking all the precautions we can to prevent the spread of the disease.

Most Texas residents will not be able to help research cures for the disease, nor help the infected. However, we can help prevent the spread of the disease by increasing the sexual safety of Texas residents, which means increasing standards for sexual education.

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cation about contraceptives.

According to a report titled, “Sex Education in Texas Public Schools” by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, during the 2007-2008 school year, around 94 percent of Texas districts employed a strict abstinence-only message that “omitted references to — or discouraged use of — condoms or other forms of contraception.”

While abstinence may be best for Texas students’ personal lives, it is clear Texas public schools have not made a compelling enough case to prevent them from having sex.

When these students do choose to have sex, they often do not have the knowledge or resources to have safe sex, sometimes resulting in teenage pregnancies and contracted diseases.

While colleges and universities do provide resources and services to allow students to have safe sex, it still remains important to encourage safe sex — asking “do you have any diseases?” can kill the mood pretty quickly, and college students must be encouraged to ask the uncomfort-

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that she has an organization that might overcome her weaknesses.

“Momentum was with Sanders,” said Mo Elleithee, a former Clinton campaign aide. “The organization kicked in, and she got scrappy.”

While Clinton’s votertargeting and get-out-thevote efforts may have put her over the top in Iowa — barely — the campaign underperformed by its own expectations. In the hours before the caucuses began, aides privately told supporters they expected her to win by about five points.

The final tally put Clinton ahead by less than threetenths of 1 percent.

It wasn’t much, but it may have been enough to hold off potential upheavals within the campaign.

For weeks, some Clinton allies and former staffers have floated the idea of demoting campaign manager Robby Mook, the architect of the ground operation in Iowa and beyond. But several Democrats close to the campaign said Tuesday that Mook’s standing was solid, in part because of the Iowa outcome.

The Democrats insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss internal campaign dynamics.

Even with a win in hand, big challenges await Clinton as the race moves to New Hampshire, where Sanders has led preference polls for months. While Clinton’s campaign insists he has home field advantage given that he’s from neighboring Vermont, it’s Clinton and her

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husband, former President Bill Clinton, who have deep political roots in the state.

Clinton allies are more confident she’ll thrive when the race turns to states like South Carolina and Nevada, where black and Hispanic voters are more plentiful. But they’re deeply concerned about her struggles with young people, a key part of the coalition that propelled Barack Obama to the White House — and a coalition Clinton hopes to replicate in a general election.

More than 8 in 10 caucus-goers under the age of 30 came to support Sanders, as did nearly 6 in 10 of those between 30 and 44, according to a survey conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks

by Edison Research.

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Rock band Simo stops in Lubbock on US tour

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Simo, a psychedelic rock band from Nashville, Tennessee, is making a stop in Lubbock at the Cactus Theater on its first national tour on Feb. 26.

Simo started in 2010 under the lead singer and guitarist JD Simo, and the band has released two albums. Its newest release, “Let Love Show the Way” was released on Jan. 29 on Mascot Records.

Rolling Stone said Simo combines psychedelic bluesrock with an improvisational spin like the Grateful Dead.

The Daily Toreador spoke to JD Simo about the band’s upcoming show in Lubbock and the new album: Q: How would you describe your band to someone who has not heard you before?

A: “I would describe us as a rock band that is tinged with psychedelia, kind of improvisational based. But, very much a rock band in the vein of a lot of bands from the late 60s like Cream, The Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful Dead.”

Q: Do you have a different interpretation of how you play songs live versus how they sound on the album?

A: “It’s kind of left up to the environment on any given night how much a song will morph and become something radically different. It’s something that we try very hard to do, to make every night as different as we can from a musical standpoint to try and push ourselves as musicians. If there is a tangent worth exploring, we can go off where it sounds like we are playing

something completely different and then somehow make our way back to the original composition.”

Q: How did your band make the decision to do the songs in live takes with all the instrumentation at once instead of the common way to record?

A: “Before this band, all I did was play on records here in Nashville. For me, the way that records used to be made is the way that I prefer to do things. I think that it yields better records.

You’re trying to capture a real performance. It’s as truthful as you can make a recording. For me, and for us as a group, it has more to do with that the kind of music that we enjoy, both as music fans and musicians to the kind of music we make, is an actual performance that is real, it’s not constructed in a computer.”

Q: Do you think your role as a session musician in Nashville made you more comfortable in the band setting rather than being a solo artist?

A: “When you work on other people’s records, you learn how to be a member of a team and that every team member has their strengths and when a team works well, it’s because everyone is doing what they are good at to the best of their ability as a cohesive unit. I enjoy being a member of a team because there are things that I’m good at and there’s things that I’m not good at. It’s important in anything that you do to realize what your strengths are and then try and surround yourself with people whose strengths are your weakness.”

Q: Did any modern artists

influence the construction of your record?

A: “Me and the guys are influenced by a wide pallet of things. We are mostly influenced by things that are older just because there is so much wealth of music that has existed for over 100 years. We are influenced by anything that we are exposed to. In a modern context, I got to work with Jack White recently. Jack is someone who I respect an awful lot. As a music maker, whether it is something he is making or producing, I think that he is really gifted. The records that I love the most were made 15 years ago, but I really loved the D’Angelo record. I think that he’s a really creative record maker.”

Q: How does the process start for you guys creating the new album?

A: “We are constantly writing. It’s never an instance where we are not writing music. This album was constructed naturally.

We signed our deal through Mascot and we had a whole other record ready to be released and they asked if we would record some bonus tracks. We got to record the tracks in the Allman Brothers’ old home in Georgia called ‘The Big House.’ We went there for two days to record these bonus tracks and in those two days, we cut another album and a half worth of material. When I went in to mix that stuff with the engineer, I thought that most of that stuff was better than the stuff slated to be released.”

Q: Were you inspired by the place you were in and that is why you recorded so many songs?

A: “Absolutely. It was

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Simo, a psychedelic rock band based in Nashville, Tennessee, will perform in Lubbock on Feb. 26 at the Cactus Theater. The band is on its first national tour and recently released its album “Let Love Show the Way.”

very cool to be there. It was an honor to do it. When you go in to record, you could get nothing out of it. There’s no guarantee really. We were rolling. I figured that I would figure out what to do with this material after the fact.

If you set expectations or make any plans during the recording process then you are going to be made a fool.”

Q: Where do you see the band in five years?

A: “I have no idea. We have been a band for five years and it has been a very slow build. There has been a ridiculous amount of hard work and hardship, not unlike any other group that starts at square one.

Within the last year especially, we have seen growth exponentially. We still have a lot of work that lies ahead.

I would like to think that it will continue to grow in a very organic and meaningful sense in that we go out

and we play and give a good show and people who choose to check it out and enjoy it come back.”

Q: Why did you choose Lubbock as a stop in your tour?

A: “I am looking forward to it because I played Lubbock when I was a teenager several times. I remember the first time that I played Lubbock when I was a teenager and all I wanted to do was go to the Buddy Holly Museum and look at his guitars. We have never played Lubbock before. Lubbock is in a really good spot in between New Mexico and Oklahoma and I’m really looking forward to it. As a music fan, I’m excited to go back to the Buddy Holly Center. He was very influential to me when I was a little boy. I know he’s the favorite son of the town and rightfully so.”

Q: Is there anybody in the future that you would want to collaborate with?

A: “I would love to get to jam with Wayne Shorter, a tenor sax player from the 60s. He’s a huge hero of mine. I’ve made some good friends with people in New York recently that are very close to Yoko Ono. I have made no bones about how much I would love the opportunity for her to improvise with us. There is a guitarist in the band Wilco named Nels Cline who I just adore.

I think he is one of the best improvisers in the world right now. The world is full of people that I would love to get to make music with.”

Q: How would you advertise your concert to the college kids of the town?

A: “The three of us in the band are a bunch of hippies.

We live a very hippie lifestyle. I would invite anyone and everyone to come and have a psychedelic experience with us.” @DavidGayDT

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Recyclemania competition Tech’s Moody Planetarium reopens after construction set to kick off next week For the fourth year Texas Tech will be participating in Recyclemania, an eightweek tournament that will rank universities across the country and Canada on their recycling efforts.

According to a Tech news release, the competition begins Monday. Melanie Tatum, unit assistant director in Sustainability and Warehouse Operations, said in the release that last year Tech finished 248 out of 311 universities with a rate of 4.814 pounds of recyclables per person on campus.

“We beat the University of Texas in 2014,” she said.

“For us, where we live, recycling is not a way of life. So for us to beat them, that’s a pretty big accomplishment.”

All schools will be ranked

in different categories such as per capita and waste minimization with special categories for specific recyclables, according to the release. For the specific recyclables category there will be an electronics drive to collect items from both Tech and the Lubbock community that will take place March 26.

During the course of the competition, the recycling center will have a table near the Student Union Building that will include a contest giveaway. According to the release, the first event will take place February 9 or 10.

Items that can be recycled include paper, plastic and glass, certain metals, textiles and foam. The items will be collected from

bins in the residence halls and academic buildings all across campus, according to the release.

“They don’t have to sort it,” Tatum said in the release. “We just ask that paper be bagged separate from the other items so it doesn’t get contaminated.”

Student housing sells all of the recyclable materials and puts that money into sustainability scholarships.

Over the past few years, scholarships were awarded reaching $55,000 and last year they were $30,000, according to the release.

“The more we can collect, the more money we make, which means the more scholarships we can give out,” Tatum said in the release. @MichaelCantuDT

After nearly six months of renovations, the Moody Planetarium at the Museum of Texas Tech is re-opening. The renovations were funded by a grant from the Moody Foundation, according to a Tech news release.

The grant funded a repaired laser, additional fire exits and the removal of outdated equipment, according to the release.

“More shows means visitors can come to the planetarium throughout the year and always see something new,” Jill Hoffman, the Hel-

en DeVitt Jones curator of education for the museum said in the release. “The generosity of the Moody Foundation has been essential to making the planetarium an even more popular attraction in Lubbock.”

Members of the museum administration are hoping this will expand sciencebased programming, according to the release, and attract more astronomy professors to utilize the planetarium as a tool for education.

Hoffman said in the release there is also a hope

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that the planetarium will be able to attract people from the community.

“The planetarium would be a great way to connect the knowledge and enthusiasm of the astronomy professors with a broader audience, so now that the space is a bit more lively,” Hoffman said in the release.

“I hope we can find ways for them to present talks and other ideas.”

The planetarium will also be featuring a few new shows starting at 5:30 p.m. Friday. @MichaelCantuDT

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Ethics Center recognizes acts of compassion, integrity

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

A statement of academic integrity can be found in almost every class syllabus, and Texas Tech strives to promote an ethical campus community.

The Ethics Center was established in 2009 to provide the campus with education on ethics, according to the center’s annual report, and it has hosted a variety of events on campus since it was created.

Ralph Ferguson, managing director of the Ethics Center, said the center works closely with students and helps Tech show its commitment to ethics.

“One of the things we have is our Compassion in Ethics program,” he said. “So many of our student organizations and sororities and fraternities do things with CASA and

Habitat for Humanity.”

Students can send their volunteering photos to the center and it will post them on its website and Facebook page, Ferguson said, and members of ethics councils across the world can see the pictures.

The center does a variety of student surveys, including one for incoming students, and Ferguson said these students are coming in with good ethical values based on the surveys.

“We’re all a part of a transforming world, and we can never have enough dialogue about ethics and the way we want to work with others,” he said. “It helps students and departments have codes of ethics and guiding principles.

It reaffirms the characteristics we want to carry into our professional lives.”

The Ethics Center hosted events for Global Ethics

day in November, according to the annual report, and the lectures were aimed to help students serve in a global neighborhood.

Other events the center hosts include an Ethics Lunch Series, a Responsible Conduct of Research Conference, a survey at Tech’s Arbor Day planting and discussions with student organizations.

Ethics are important for all professionals to have, Ferguson said, and it is beneficial for students to learn how to work ethically with people in a variety of disciplines.

“It’s going to be very important for us as an Ethics Center to continue our service reaching out and being partners to bring these different disciplines under one umbrella so we can talk about the different codes of ethics,” he said. @DailyToreador

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Harlem Globetrotter, Buckets Blake visited Williams Elementary School on Tuesday. He gave a presentation to the school’s students and faculty on how to prevent and handle bullying.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Here are some of his answers: Q: When you were younger, did you want to play basketball professionally one day?

A: “As a kid I always told myself I would be a professional athlete, it was never sport specific. I had a scholarship for (basketball, track and football). I decided

football practice was hot and track practice was hot, and I’m from Phoenix, Arizona, so I chose basketball.”

Q: You grew up with nine siblings. Did you enjoy growing up with such a large family?

A: “I loved it. It’s 10 of us, but there’s an older generation of five, which I’m in, and then an eight-year gap and then there’s another generation of five. It was cool to see my younger brothers and

sisters do kind of the same things we did when we were their age, like how they stuck up for each other and always had each other’s backs.”

Q: When you graduated from college, did you want to play for the Globetrotters or were you looking at joining the NBA? A: “After not getting drafted into the NBA, I got drafted into the CBA, which was kind of like minor league NBA at that time. Then I decided

to go to Europe and played there, and two days after I got back I got a random call from one of the Globetrotter scouts and here I am. It’s actually fitting for me being from a big family because now it’s just like I have more brothers and sisters.”

Q: What’s a typical day like for you as a Globetrotter?

A: “When we’re on tour, we have a tour bus. One of our sponsors is Greyhound, so they made us this cool bus that’s modified for my teammates and I, we have a little Wi-Fi and all that stuff on there. We wake up, get on the bus, drive to the next city, have a couple hours for a break, then we head to the venue where we practice for an hour and a half, go back to the locker room where we have all these meet and greets set up, play the game that night. After the game we go eat dinner, go back to the hotel, sleep and do the same thing.”

Q: What do you do when you’re not on tour?

A: “I’m at home with the fam. I do individual skills training with kids. I have a nonprofit, so I talk to kids about bullying and character, and then I train myself. And eat — I love food.”

Q: Do you like getting to do anti-bullying talks and

the other aspects of being a Globetrotter aside from playing basketball?

A: “Of course. That kind of comes with the territory, so we all look forward to doing that. I love this part of it because you’re a positive role model, kids look up to you. If out of all those kids in that gym, only four or five of them got the message, those will still be my little messengers for after I leave.”

Q: What’s one of your favorite tricks to do on the court?

A: “My underhand halfcourt shot, I’m in the Guinness Book of World Records for it, so it’s my favorite. I like to spin the ball around my head—not on my head, around my head. The guys who spin the ball on their heads are usually bald.”

Q: Do you enjoy getting to travel with the team?

A: “I love traveling all over the world. I’ve been to 79 countries, and every country brings something to the table. But we’re the home team everywhere we go.

Despite language barriers, we still draw huge crowds.

Laughter is universal.”

Q: Do you enjoy getting to go back to Phoenix where you grew up?

A: “Oh yeah, everybody loves going home. I’ve lived in

a lot of places and being able to go back home, and now still live, where I grew up is pretty awesome. It’s my city.”

Q: How would you describe the difference between playing for the Globetrotters versus playing on an NBA team to athletes looking to play basketball professionally?

A: “There’s a lot of guys who play for the NBA, but there aren’t a lot of guys who can be Globetrotters.

You have to not only be a complete player but you have to be willing to carry the torch that was lit so long ago.

The Globetrotters have been around for 20 years longer than the NBA. We’ve introduced basketball to places around the world with no running water, no electricity and still made people laugh and smile.”

Q: Do you feel like you still get new experiences from being a Globetrotter even though you’ve been on the team for so long?

A: “Of course. I just made a shot from a boat to a basket that was on Alcatraz. I’ve been to 79 countries, but I’ve been to most of them multiple times. Every time I go back, I learn something new about those places. It never gets boring.” @JenRomeroDT

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sion viewership.

An average of 10.2 million people watched the results of the year’s first presidential contest Monday on CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, the Nielsen company said. Besides Ted Cruz’s mild upset win in the Republican caucus, the Democratic contest was a nailbiter between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

That doubled the 5.1 million people who watched Iowa caucus coverage four years ago. The previous high was just under 6 million on the news networks in 2008, the last time there was no incumbent running. In 2000, a different era when broadcast networks were a bigger player in news coverage, the three news

networks had 1.5 million viewers on caucus night.

The caucus coverage also more than doubled the viewership for the three news networks during a typical weeknight in January, Nielsen said.

Fox, the longtime cable ratings leader, averaged 4.46 million viewers during the primetime hours of 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

EST. CNN had 3.73 million, and beat Fox within the 25-to54-year-old demographic that advertising sales for most news programs are based upon. MSNBC, whose coverage was anchored by Brian Williams and Rachel Maddow, had just under 2 million.

The most popular primetime program in all of television

last week was Fox News Channel’s coverage of the GOP debate before Iowa. The coverage narrowly beat Fox broadcasting’s live presentation of “Grease.”

CBS won the week in prime time, averaging 7.5 million viewers. Fox had 6.8 million, NBC had 4.9 million, ABC had 3.9 million, Univision had 1.93 million, the CW had 1.86 million, ION Television had 1.43 million and Telemundo had 1.35 million.

Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 3.18 million viewers in prime time. ESPN had 2.45 million, USA had 1.849 million, HGTV had 1.846 million and TBS had 1.61 million.

NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts

with an average of 9.6 million viewers. ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 9.2 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 8 million viewers.

For the week of Jan. 2531, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: Republican Presidential Debate, Fox News Channel, 12.47 million; “Grease: Live,” Fox, 12.21 million; “NCIS,” CBS, 11.98 million; “Scorpion,” CBS, 10.7 million; “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 10.2 million; “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 10.06 million; “The X-Files” (Monday), Fox, 9.67 million; “American Idol” (Wednesday), Fox, 9.626 million; “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 9.625 million; “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.38 million.

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Los Angeles-based AMBI Pictures headlined its press release: “Film Will Mark First Ever Big Screen Participation Role for the Leader of the Worldwide Catholic Church.”

Monsignor Dario Vigano, the head of the Vatican’s communications operation, acknowledged that he couldn’t exclude that the filmmakers got hold of some clips of the pope. But in comments broadcast on Vatican Radio on Tuesday, Vigano disputed the press release claiming that Francis would “play himself” in the film “Beyond the Sun.”

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Big 12 makes case for best conference

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Nearly a month is left before men’s collegiate basketball experiences its annual madness, but for teams in the Big 12 Conference, the madness began on opening day of conference play.

Since week four, the Big 12 has posted five teams in the AP Top 25 rankings. Iowa State, Kansas and the current No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners entered the season ranked, and Baylor and West Virginia soon cashed in on the fun.

The appearance of five Big 12 teams in the national rankings shows the talent filling Big 12 rosters. Players like Oklahoma senior guard Buddy Hield and Iowa State senior forward Georges Niang put on dominating showings on a nightly basis, and no team appears to have just one player keeping the team afloat.

Primetime matchups and experienced coaching staffs make up the Big 12, and the 2015-2016 season could finish as possibly the best season Big 12 basketball has experienced.

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Last season, the Big 12 sent five teams into the NCAA tournament, but current projections of the 2016 tournament have as many as seven bids for Big 12 teams. Coaches around the conference know the competitive equilibrium throughout the league.

After a slim 74-70 win over Texas Tech, West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said the league has an abundance of talent in all aspects of the game which makes it harder for anyone to compete.

“There’s too many good players on every team and there’s too many good coaches sitting there,” Huggins said. “You can’t outsmart anybody, I guess the people who make shots that day and play the best win.”

West Virginia’s win over the Red Raiders makes up one of many close contests of the league’s buzzer-beating contests. Of the conference’s 40 contests so far this season, 26 concluded with a team winning by 11 points or less, according to a Big 12 release.

While Tech has found itself on the losing side of

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some of these close decisions, slim victories in conference play have turned into an expectation for teams across the conference.

At the end of Baylor ’s away win over the Red Raiders in mid-January on a buzzer beating three-pointer from senior guard Lester Medford, Bears coach Scott Drew said slim margin victories have turned into typical Big 12 results.

“Well that’s a typical Big 12 game, two teams battling coming down to the final possession,” Scott said.

For the Big 12, the 20152016 season could rival the 2009-2010 season, a campaign which finished with the Big 12 owning the highest RPI and with four teams in the national rankings, according to a NCAA release.

The difference between the 2009-2010 season and this year, only 10 teams make up the Big 12 and the conference posts a steep amount of combined wins against non-conference rivals with a 105-23 record.

Tech senior guard Toddrick Gotcher said he thinks all 10 teams in the Big 12

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Texas Tech guards Jordan Jackson and Devon Thomas exchange words of encouragement during a Texas Tech free-throw break on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. should earn postseason play.

“I really think the Big 12 is by far the deepest conference,” Gotcher said.

“When you beat each other up, every game is a marquee matchup and it’s a big game. There’s no easy wins in this conference.”

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Ultimately, the status of the Big 12 as the best basketball conference in the nation falls on how the conference’s teams finish in the postseason. Big 12 teams appear primed for keeping their seasons alive in March. @DGaytan_DT

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Tennessee rallies to stun No. 20 Kentucky Tech heads to Hawaii for tournament KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kevin Punter Jr. scored 27 points and Armani Moore added 18 points and 13 rebounds Tuesday night as Tennessee erased a 21-point deficit in an 84-77 upset of No. 20 Kentucky.

Tennessee’s comeback represented a stunning turn of events for a team that had lost its last two games despite leading by at least 14 points in the second half of each. The Volunteers (1111, 4-5 Southeastern Conference) trailed 34-13 with less than 6 minutes left in the first half.

This marked the second straight defeat for Kentucky

(16-6, 6-3). The Wildcats fell 90-84 in overtime Saturday at No. 7 Kansas, which was ranked fourth at the time.

The score was tied 70-all until Robert Hubbs III made a free throw with 5:04 left to start a 7-0 run that put Tennessee ahead for good.

Kentucky couldn’t cut the margin below three points the rest of the way.

Jamal Murray scored 21 points and Tyler Ulis had 20 for Kentucky. Alex Poythress had 12 of his 14 points in the first half.

Detrick Mostella had 13 points and Admiral Schofield added 11 points and eight rebounds for

Tennessee.

Kentucky seemed on the verge of putting this game out of reach early.

The Wildcats made seven straight shots at one point as they built their 34-13 lead over a Tennessee team that looked overmatched.

Tennessee used a 10-0 run to get within striking distance and cut Kentucky’s lead to 42-36 by halftime.

Te n n e s s e e c o n t i n u e d its rally when the teams got back on the court.

Moore stripped the ball from Poythress and passed to Devon Baulkman for a dunk that opened the second-half scoring.

The Texas Tech men’s golf team will kick off its tournament schedule with the Amer Ari Invitational in Kona, Hawaii, on Feb. 4.

Tech is led by junior Hannes Ronneblad and sophomore Wes Artac, who ranked No. 8 in the NCAA last year.

T h e t e a m ’s s e a s o n ended in the third round of the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships on May 31, 2015, posting a 6- under par 282, one shot short of the fourth and final round of the tournament.

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First quarter puts team behind curve

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team failed to win two consecutive games after losing to West Virginia 69-42 Tuesday night in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The Lady Raiders are now 11-11 on the season and 2-9 in Big 12 Conference games.

In the first quarter, the Mountaineers built their lead behind 14-0 and 10-0 runs. They led 24-4 after one period.

Coach Candi Whitaker said there was no excuse for how the team started the game.

“That’s ridiculous. How do you start a game without energy? It’s ridiculous,” she said. “I was shocked at how open we were to be honest.

We didn’t remember the first call. We get the tip and don’t remember the first call. I think that pretty much sums up the first quarter.”

For the third time in four games, the Lady Raiders struggled to find the bottom of the net in the first quarter with 14.3 percent shooting.

The glass was also dominated by West Virginia. Tech was out rebounded 18-6 in the opening quarter.

“We just didn’t come out with energy, which is terrible,” freshman guard Japreece Dean said. “No one got hyped, no one was like ‘c’mon guys, pick it up.’ And we just kind of stayed stagnant with no energy for a long period of time.”

Tech cut into the lead in the second quarter with a 13-2 run.

West Virginia still led 3117 at halftime. After coming off the bench, sophomore forward Dayo Olabode led the team with six points on three out of four shooting.

West Virginia center Lanay Montgomery used her sixfoot five-inch advantage to score nine points and grab six rebounds.

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Freshman guard Japreece Dean prepares to attempt a layup during the fourth quarter of the women’s basketball game against West Virginia on Tuesday night in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Dean made one out of nine shot attempts in the half and did not get to the free throw line.

Despite the improved quarter, Olabode said the first quarter made it nearly impossible to win the game.

“Everybody needs to realize that starting off the game is most important. Once you get yourself into a hole, it is really hard to dig out,” she said.

“Everybody has to come out with mental focus, everybody has to come out with energy.”

The two teams were nearly even in the third quarter with the Mountaineers outscoring Tech 9-8 in the period.

West Virginia went on a small run at the end of the third quarter to take a 47-28 advantage.

Poor shooting in the third

RED RAIDERS MOUNTAINEERS quarter, three out of 11, put the Lady Raiders at a disadvantage again. Tech did force West Virginia to turn the ball over 16 times after three quarters, but had 13 turnovers themselves.

Dean had a strong quarter to bring her game total to nine points and two assists.

After one out of nine shooting in the first three quarters, junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor started the final period with back-toback made layups.

Dean rebounded from her slow start to end the game with 16 points, two assists and two steals.

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As the third-best scorer in the Big 12, West Virginia senior guard Bria Holmes came into the game averaging nearly 17 points per game, but was held to five points and four turnovers in the first half.

Holmes found holes in the Tech defense in the second half as she ended the game with 16 points.

“It’s Groundhog Day, correct? (For me it’s) Groundhog Day every day. When are you going to change? When are you going to learn and stop doing the same things over and over again?” Whitaker said. “There’s a bit of that

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Senior guard Ryann Bowser calls a play during the third quarter of the women’s basketball game against West Virginia on Tuesday night in the United Supermarkets Arena. with this bunch.”

The Lady Raiders will be back in action against

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