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Gates east halls floods on 2 floors

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TEDx Texas Tech tickets now sold out Tickets to the TEDx event at Tech on Saturday are now sold out.

The conference will begin at 8 a.m. and will run until 4:30 p.m. at the Lanier Center auditorium in the Tech law school, according to the TEDx Texas Tech website.

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The Lubbock Fire Department and the Tech Police Department responded to a fire alarm at about 10:40 p.m. in Gates Residence Hall.

A resident reportedly set off the fire sprinklers in Gates Hall.

Both the residents of Gates and Wall were evacuated and then allowed to enter the Wall/ Gates lobby.

Students who lived on the third floor or above were allowed to enter one-by-one at about 11:30 p.m.

Students who reside in the east hallway of the first and second floors of Gates Hall were told to meet with officials in Sam’s Place at Wall/Gates.

Fallon Smiley, a sophomore turfgrass science

major from Kingwood, said she saw fire trucks, police officers and “angry people.”

Firefighters were working to clean the water in the rooms and also were determining which rooms were safe to re-enter.

A resident allegedly hung his shirt and a hanger on the fire sprinkler in his room, which activated the sprinkler system throughout the second floor of Gates Hall when he pulled it off, setting the fire alarm off in the complex.

Five and six rooms on the second floor of the east hall of Gates were flooded, and 11 rooms had water in them.

Katie Ericson, residence life coordinator for Wall/Gates, declined to comment on the incident until more details were available.

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STUDENTS GATHER OUTSIDE Gates Residence Hall late Monday night. A student reportedly set off the sprinkler system on the second floor.

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Spring enrollment Tech student turns breaks record again passion into table Texas Tech’s spring enrollment has topped 30,000 students for the third straight year, according to a news release.

On the 12th day of classes, 30,864 students were enrolled at Texas Tech, according to the release.

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tennis club reality

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Texas Tech has not competed in a national table tennis competition in all its history. A group of students are planning to change that.

On Jan. 27, the formation of the Texas Tech Table Tennis organization was announced.

Van Thanh Phan, an instructional technology education graduate student from Vietnam, is president of the club.

Driven by her passion for table tennis, Phan decided to create an organization promoting the sport at Tech.

“Our vision, not in the near future but in the far future, is to reach regional, national and international competitions for students and professional players,” Phan said.

The club will not only provide a competitive atmosphere for experienced table tennis players, but it will also create an opportunity for inexperienced players to learn from more experienced players.

Ashrit Idnani, a freshman biology major from Cedar Park and treasurer of the organization, wants new players to gain experience through the organization.

“I want to show them how detailed the sport can be, and then if they have an interest, then build on that with them,” Idnani said.

Lian-Jie Xue, a chemistry graduate student from China and the organization’s secretary, wants new players to join the club and enjoy table tennis.

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ASHRIT IDNANI, A freshman biology major from Cedar Park, practices with a warm up drill before playing a pick up game inside the Student Union Building Friday. Idnani is the treasurer of the Texas Tech Table Tennis organization.

“No matter whether they are good or not, I just want to play for fun,” Xue said.

Although the creation of the organization is a major step in advancing Phan’s goal, she said there are still challenges ahead for the organization.

“Even though we have sponsors, they’re willing to provide us with tables, but we don’t have space to put those tables in,” Phan said.

One way the Table Tennis organization looks to solve its problem of limited space is by becoming a sports club.

“If you are a sports club, it’s easier to prac-

tice and store your facilities,” Phan said.

Idnani encourages students to join the organization and to not expect that playing table tennis will be as simple as it seems.

“I think that the number one thing that new players should have to realize is to just be patient with the sport,” Idnani said. “If they are patient, then in the long run it will pay off.”

Phan wants potential members of the organization to witness experienced players play so they can be absorbed by the game.

“It takes time, especially in ping pong, to

get your skills to improve,” Phan said. “They can get a hook of interest if they watch good players to play.”

Phan said by watching good players play, new players will become motivated to improve their skill.

“For me, I used to watch good players play and that was what inspired me to play,” Phan said. “I want to be like them.”

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Hispanic Honor Society University Career Center receives national award to host series of events

By KAYLIN MCDERMETT Staff Writer

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Texas Tech’s Alpha Phi Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi was announced as a co-recipient of a national award this week, according to a Tech news release.

Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, was awarded this year’s Frida Kahlo Award.

The Society’s Executive Council in South Carolina presents the award annually to the Sigma Delta Pi Chapter with an outstanding, well-maintained website.

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Sigma Delta Pi nationwide. The award is named after Frida Kahlo, a famous 20th Century Mexican artist. Kahlo’s work is often described as a symbol of Mexican national and indigenous tradition. Her work mostly consisted of self-portraits and was filled with the colors and forms of Mexican folk art.

Today, her paintings are sold at some of the highest prices of any female artist in history because of her interesting and unique perception of herself and her country, according to the Tech release.

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By VICTORIA LANDERS Staff Writer

As many students prepare for graduation, thinking about life after college can be overwhelming.

The University Career Center will be hosting multiple events in the upcoming weeks for students to get ready for life after college.

Jay Killough, director of the career center, helps organize events every semester for students interested in getting help with resumes or learning about proper etiquette in a dining situation.

Killough said the career center is having

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its resume critique day today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the career center office.

“Our resume critique day is a walk-in day that requires no appointment,” Killough said. “For any student that comes in, we will have our people on hand to critique their resumes.”

Feb. 11, the career center will host a summer camp job day in the McKenzieMerket Alumni Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Killough said the purpose of the event is to recruit students to work at the summer camps in Lubbock.

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Texas Tech student to speak during TEDx conference

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

Derrick Franco, a senior computer science major from El Paso, will explain to audiences why the principles behind a technology company’s startup should be mirrored in classrooms to enhance education, according to a TEDx news release.

TEDx conferences are organized by a group unaffiliated with the TEDx corporate organization but designed under the same goal: to spread new ideas, Tim Hayes, TEDx producer, said.

“TEDx events are meant to bring together students and people from the

community so they can talk and share ideas,” he said.

The selection process for undergraduate students included two separate evaluations in which undergraduates were evaluated by their peers, Kellilynn Frias, assistant professor of marketing at Tech, said.

Franco was chosen because his peers were interested in the process behind the technology and app startups, she said.

“The students were specifically interested Franco’s backstory,” she said, “and how a student moves from an idea in their dorm room to talking to technology companies and making the

idea happen.”

Franco said his TEDx talk will focus on the principles behind the launching of a new technology company.

The ideas will be used so students can learn from their mistakes, instead of finishing with a chapter and moving on, he said.

“A lot of things in life, you make mistakes, but you always learn from them. I’ve learned a lot more from my mistakes than I ever have with my success,” he said. “In school, however, when you fail you just move on to the next chapter, and don’t learn a lot more. If you were to actually look at it, and they gave you the opportunity to go back,

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relearn it and take the test again, you would learn more than just moving on.”

Franco said he has been working with different web design companies for the past six years.

He also said he’s working on his own company called Blue Rush Media, and is starting a new company in the next couple of weeks.

“The idea behind Blue Rush Media is a simplistic Android launcher, so that anyone can use a smart phone,” he said.

“If Mom and Dad are having trouble using their smart phone, you put this on there and they won’t have trouble anymore. I’m also working with two other Tech students right now to start

a company just for Tech students that will launch in a couple weeks.”

He said he started with entrepreneurship when his uncle asked him to help with his own websites.

After helping his uncle, he said he started at the bottom at other companies to learn how they worked.

“With my uncle, I got to see how the startups actually worked, and the business side that you need,” he said. “I just kind of liked how the idea worked, because when you’re always busy, it’s easier to innovate. I just fell in love with it.”

In the future, Franco said he would like to start his own main company and work on several side startups or work in

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“It’s the educational process that comes when the students make the website,” Pratt said. “EvCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 eryone chips in. When we update The Texas Tech chapter’s web- it, we have a deadline the students site features information about the have to meet in order for what they society, its members and events. want to be put on there. It’s a really Also taken into account is the educational experience for them.” content, navigability, appearance The Alpha Phi Chapter of Sigand innovation of the website. ma Delta Pi at Tech was founded Alpha Phi Chapter leader in 1944, according to the site. The Comfort Pratt said although a society introduced performances, well-run website is nice, it isn’t showed Spanish movies and gave the actual website which she ap- awards to Spanish majors for their preciates. academic excellence.

Silicon Valley, Calif.

He said in every company he starts, his goal is to make life easier and better for the people who use the product.

“I like to encourage others to go into entrepreneurship too. A lot of people think things are a lot more impossible than they are,” he said. “To be honest with you, to go out and try it is the best way to actually do it. That’s how I got started with this, and the main reason I learned is because I went to these companies and started at the very bottom, saw how they grew, and then kept going up in it. That’s honestly one of the best ways to learn.” ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com

Pratt said she is very proud of the achievements of the Alpha Phi Chapter at Tech and said the students and faculty on campus made this award and other awards possible.

“This is our 29th award in nine years,” she said. “We have received both chapter and individual awards. The students are so hardworking and dedicated. They have good role models here at Texas Tech, and those role models are more important than words.” ➤➤kmcdermett@dailytoreador.com

Chapter traffic at Greek Circle improves

By AMY CUNNINGHAM

Peterson said. “You have 3,000 Greek members trying to get to the two entrances of Greek Circle at As the Texas Tech Greek com- once. Our main concern was the munity grows, so does Monday safety of our Greek students and night traffic along Quaker Avenue other residents of Lubbock.” between Fourth Both fraStreet and 19th ternities and Street. sororities Until this host Monsemester, sororiday evening ties and fraternichapter ties have hosted meetings. chapter meetThe Panings at 6 p.m. on hellenic orMondays. ganization, H o w e v e r, composed of beginning last 11 sororities, week, the Panbrainstormed hellenic Counseveral ideas cil implementbut decided ed changes in that staggerchapter times ing the start for sororities in BRITNIE DE LA VEGA times was the hopes of allevibest solution SORORITY MEMBER ating the traffic for everyone, TEXAS TECH situation.

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Council President Ashley PeterOf the 11 sororities, four sororison, a junior marketing major from ties now start chapter meetings at 6 Fort Worth, said in the past two p.m., another four at 6:30 p.m. and semesters, the council has noticed the remaining three at 7 p.m. a spike in the number of accidents Britnie De La Vega, a freshman and the poor overall state of traffic early childhood education major near Greek Circle. from Lubbock, said her sorority “There was a lot of mayhem,” now meets at 7 p.m. and she hates Staff Writer

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the change.

She said she noticed the traffic last semester and has nearly gotten into a car accident on the way to chapter.

“I’d rather be in a wreck than have chapter be at 7,” De La Vega said. “It sucks. It pushes everything back and I don’t have time to do anything after anymore.”

De La Vega said she would like for the houses to rotate times so her sorority’s chapter meeting would begin at 6 or 6:30 p.m. every few weeks.

Other solutions included changing sorority meetings to Tuesday instead, so only fraternities would have their meetings on Monday, Peterson said.

Some members wanted Texas Tech Police Department to increase its presence on chapter nights, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Because traffic occurs for a limited timeframe, Sgt. Jason Lewis said police did not need to direct traffic leading into Greek Circle, according to the article.

While Texas Tech Police Department does monitor the area, officers only patrol Greek Circle in particular when a call is made about an accident or other issues.

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Friday 3:42 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, which occurred in the C-11 parking lot.

7:01 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft of an unsecured laptop computer. The laptop computer was left unattended in a Citibus on Tech campus and was never located.

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the filing of charges for possession of marijuana following the report of an odor of burnt marijuana coming from a dorm room at Gates Residence Hall.

One student was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and consumption of alcohol by a minor. Another student was cited for consumption of alcohol by a minor.

12:13 a.m. — A Tech officer responded to the report by housing staff of an intoxicated student in the Chitwood Residence Hall first floor lobby. The student was arrested for public intoxication and transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

US Postal Service unable to keep up with new housing HOUSTON (AP) — Judy Paskins hasn’t had a single card or bill delivered to her new home in an upscale Katy subdivision since moving there six months ago from Michigan.

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10:01 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, following a call in reference to a suspicious odor at Hulen Residence Hall.

The student signed the citation and was released.

Saturday 11:13 p.m. — A Tech officer released three students pending

It’s not because old friends or bill collectors have forgotten her. The 62-year-old retired nurse is just one of hundreds of families in new developments surrounding Houston

being forced to wait for the U.S. Postal Service to install cluster mailboxes.

“On average, we have homeowners waiting from six to eight months for their mailboxes,” Susan Vreeland-Wendt, director of marketing for The Woodlands Development Co., told the Houston Chronicl.

The Postal Service is responsible for erecting the cluster boxes, which became mandatory for new developments in 2012 as a means to off-set some of the agency’s $40 billion debt.

A congressional committee working on postal-reform bills found that delivering to cluster mailboxes cost less than half of doorstep service — $160 per address compared to $353 an address per year, officials say.

The switch is expected to save the Postal Service around $4 billion annually.

The nationwide shortage started after the Postal Service, which had historically manufactured the locks, decided last year to outsource to a new

supplier, said Patricia Licata, a Postal Service spokeswoman in Washington, D.C. The Postal Service declined to give the manufacturer’s name or reason for the backlog, citing security concerns.

“For security reasons, the Postal Service is limited to the amount of approved vendors handling the production and installation of these locks,” said Dionne Montague, a Postal Service representative in Houston.

The Postal Service told developers in The Woodlands that the agency will be getting to everyone as soon as possible and in the order requests were made, Vreeland-Wendt said.

Frustrated homeowners are taking their anger out on developers, even though it is the Postal Service’s failure, said Ed Taravella, chairman of the Greater Houston Builder’s development council.

He understands the mail must be protected, but wonders, “What makes these locks so special ... are they magic locks?”

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Buddy Holly Center remembers singer

By TAYLOR PEACE Staff Writer

To this day, Charles Hardin Holley, better known as Buddy Holly, still has a significant impact on the music industry.

The Bud dy Holly Center hosted The Day The Music Died, three exhibits featuring the life and music of Holly, for the 55th anniversary of Holly’s death.

Vassandra Okoruwa, marketing and special events coordinator for the BHC, said she is more than happy to be able to celebrate Holly’s life at the Buddy Holly Center.

“Buddy Holly contributed so much to rock and roll,” Okoruwa said, “so it is a great honor to help everyone celebrate his life and what he did.”

The event was from 1-5 p.m. and was open to the public.

Okoruwa said there was free admission, and anyone who loved Holly was allowed to come join the festivities. “ We d o t h i s e v e r y y e a r, ” Okoruwa said. “It feels good to

be a part of this celebration and we welcome anyone and everyone to come join us.”

One of the exhibits featured a screening called “The Buddy I Knew,” put on by Larry Holley, Buddy Holly’s brother, along with a guided tour by Jacqueline Bober of the Buddy Holly Gallery.

Annaliese Bustillo, curatorial assistant for the BHC, said this is her first time working at this event and there was a wonderful turnout.

“I just started in January, so this is my first event here,” Bustillo said. “It has turned out to be great and really fun.”

Bustillo said she loves how involved Holly’s family gets with the celebration and with the Buddy Holly Center.

“It really shows their appreciation and dedication towards Buddy,” Bustillo said.

Larry Allison, master of ceremonies at West Texas and Beyond, said he and his wife had never been to the exhibit before.

“We aren’t even from here,” Allison said, “but we love Buddy

Holly so much that we decided we needed to come and check it out.”

Allison said Holly died when he was 13 years old and he remembers it quite vividly.

Allison’s sister was completely torn by the musician’s death, he said.

“My sister was 17 at the time,” Allison said, “and when she found out about Buddy Holly’s death, she cried like a baby for weeks.”

Allison did not know or listen to Holly before his death, but as he grew older, he grew to love the famous musician and believes he had some of the best works of musical art, he said.

He had been to Clovis, where Holly had recorded a few songs, and decided to come here to see even more of what he was about, he said.

Gwen Allison attended the festival and said it was great to travel to Lubbock and check out all the exhibits and the screening, and it was perfect for the remembrance of such an inspirational person.

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Larry Holley, older brother of rock ‘n’ roll artist Buddy Holly, talks to Ben Stone Monday at the Buddy Holly Center’s The Day The Music Died event to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Holly’s death.

Gwen Allison and her cousin would play the piano and sing his songs, doing duets for others.

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NYC, Calif. bills show fight to protect caregivers

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NEW YORK (AP) — If you don’t get a job because you’re a woman, or you get fired because you’re black, or you get transferred to the night shift because you’re gay, there’s a law for that. But if you’re punished at work because you need time to take your child to the doctor or talk to your confused elderly mother, you might be out of luck.

In most places around the country, there’s no specific safeguard against employment discrimination based on a worker’s status as

a caregiver. Connecticut and the District of Columbia are exceptions.

Legislation that would change that is pending in New York City and California, but business interests have objected.

At a recent hearing on the New York City bill, Dena Adams testified that she lost her job at a nonprofit organization when she was switched from a regular day shift to irregular night hours, couldn’t get nighttime child care and didn’t want to leave her 11-year-old daughter alone.

She offered to work weekends and holidays, then requested a consistent night schedule and finally asked if she could bring her 11-year-old daughter to work with her. She was turned down every time, she said, though other workers were given hours that allowed them to go to school.

“I said, ‘Oh, no, no, no, something is not right here,’” she told a City Council committee. “That’s when I realized, you know what, this is discrimination.”

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Woody Allen’s allies cast doubt on abuse claims NEW YORK (AP) — Some of Woody Allen’s allies have come to his defense, casting doubt on renewed accusations by Dylan Farrow that she was sexually assaulted by her then-adoptive father when she was 7.

Allen’s lawyer, studio and publicist weighed in on Farrow’s open letter, published online Saturday by The New York Times, in which she claimed that in 1992 at the family’s Connecticut home, Allen led her to a “dim, closet-like attic” and then sexually assaulted her. Farrow didn’t specify Allen’s actions but described other abusive behavior.

The movie director’s publicist, Leslee Dart, said in an email Sunday that Allen has read Farrow’s letter.

“Mr. Allen has read the article and found it untrue and disgraceful,” Dart said, signaling that Allen would fight the claims dating back to Allen’s tempestuous relationship with actress Mia Farrow in the early 1990s.

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Republican Party must unite to win future elections Andrew Gleinser Cruz’s surprising victory in his Senate race against Lieutenant Gov. David Dewhurst.

The infighting has put quite the stranglehold on the party’s ability to grow and appeal to independent voters unhappy with the Obama presidency. Republicans have been branded the “party of no” because of their failure to provide legitimate alternative solutions to the Obama policies they rail against. There’s no better time to change that image.

Obama and the Democrats are making a push to take control of the House of Representatives in the upcoming November elections. If successful, the Democrats would have full control over the legislative and executive branches of the government for two years, giving themselves the opportunity to pass whatever legislation their little hearts desire.

Adding insult to injury would

be the likelihood that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would return to her position as speaker. That possibility alone ought to be enough to scare voters away from Democratic candidates. Give a nut job a gavel and stuff will hit the fan.

If the Re publicans want to avoid this scenario, and perhaps have a shot at taking control of the Senate, they need to stop the bickering and start to come up with real, workable solutions to the numerous problems the country faces.

Simply saying they’re against Obama’s policies isn’t going to cut it anymore.

Obama’s policies have failed to the point that the American people are ready for new ideas. If the Republicans could sit down and work together to come up

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Drone strikes problematic, should stop

By ANTHONY BADER

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, more commonly known as drones, have been in use for years but have recently become a topic of controversy because of their increased use by the Obama administration.

The U.S. military uses drones to do surveillance in hostile areas and to conduct missile strikes on military targets. Drones are praised for being precise in their strikes, which arguably reduces civilian casualties.

Additionally, since no one is in the drones, they keep soldiers out of the line of fire.

Overall, the purpose of drones in the Middle East is to reduce the danger of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by eliminating terrorists overseas, but is this really the best solution?

When suspected militants are bombed rather than captured, a negative precedent is set. Typically when people commit crimes, they are captured and put on trial. The military and CIA use intelligence they gather in order to find suspected militants and eliminate them rather than capture them.

Even some of the most notorious Nazis were put on trial after WWII rather than being killed

immediately. Many of them were still sentenced to death, but the fact that specific charges were presented regarding a specific person meant that even among terrible war conditions, justice could be dealt evenly and openly. It shows that the world is more civil than the people carrying out these terrible, violent acts.

Conversely, our government’s use of drones is comparable to the methods of those we fight.

The way drones are being used against terrorists is, by itself, the same way planes are used during war.

In war, however, there is usually a specific enemy, and the goal is to eliminate that enemy. Our country is not at war with anyone, and no one has declared war on us. Militants are then being killed by drones simply for affiliating with terrorist organizations, and not because they have declared war.

Drone strikes in Pakistan do not even have the approval of the Pakistani government. This past year, the United Nations conducted a counter-terrorism and human rights investigation concerning drone strikes in Pakistan. It revealed that Pakistan has not consented to any drone strikes in its country. This means that the U.S. is bombing people in a sovereign nation with-

with legitimate, successful solutions and sell them to the public, they could guarantee themselves control of the House after the November elections and have a good shot at taking the Senate, while being in a good position for the 2016 presidential election.

2014 should be all about solutions for the Republicans.

The majority of America knows the Obama policies aren’t working; they don’t need to be told that incessantly. They want other options, and the Republicans are in perfect position to provide them.

2016 needs to be about finding the right candidate to bridge the gap between establishment Republicans and Tea Party types while also appealing to independent voters looking for a change. The current crop of candidates does

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ith President Barack Obama’s approval ratings falling, you’d think the Republican Party would be in prime position to take control of Congress this November and the White House in 2016. While that may be true in a sense, the Republicans are in danger of squandering a great opportunity.

The party has been stuck in what amounts to a civil war for the last few years. Since the rise of the Tea Party, establishment Republicans have fought the influence of Tea Party-backed groups and politicians like it’s a fight for their own survival, which may actually be true.

The Tea Party has turned the Republican Party inside out, demanding for politicians to stick to the conservative principles they preached to get elected, even if it comes at the cost of compromise. Establishment Republicans have tried to stifle the Tea Party’s growth and influence to little avail.

This has often resulted in tenured establishment Republicans facing primary challenges from upstart Tea Party-backed candidates, a prime example being Ted

not yield many results.

Cruz would be wildly popular among Tea Party types, but establishment Republicans and independents might be scared off.

Plus, by 2016, he still won’t have served a full term in the Senate.

Senator Mike Lee would also have similar drawbacks.

N e w J e r s e y G o v. C h r i s Christie was once considered to be a favorite, but the recent bridge scandal has definitely hurt his chances. He would’ve h a d d i f f i c u l t y w i n n i n g Te a Party support anyway.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has many establishment friends but would also have difficulty drumming up Tea Party support. I can also imagine a number of voters being scared of having another Bush in the White House.

Two candidates who could be ideal are Senators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. Paul’s filibuster in opposition to Obama’s drone program garnered him national attention. He’s a strong defender of the Constitution, which would win Tea Party support, while his libertarian influences from his father would do well with independents.

Sure Shots

Rubio seems to have gravitated closer to the establishment wing than the Tea Party wing, though he could still bridge the gap while charming independents with his willingness to work with Democrats on immigration and his story as the son of an immigrant.

A number of Republican governors could also throw their hats in the ring. As long as one of those isn’t outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the competition could be worthwhile.

The game plan is simple.

This year, the two factions of the Republican Party need to work together to find real solutions to the country’s problems and sell them to the American people.

Then they must find the perfect candidate to bridge the gap between the two sides and lead the party into 2016.

The time is ripe for the Republicans to make their move. If they keep fighting amongst themselves, they’ll be forced to watch this opportunity pass them by.

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out that country’s approval.

In many cases, innocent people are killed in drone strikes along with suspected terrorists. There have been numerous instances of civilians in Pakistan and Yemen killed by drones that were attempting to eliminate targets associated with terrorist groups. When civilians are killed in these attacks, public opinion of America plummets in those countries. This negative view towards America makes it easier for terrorist groups to recruit people in that country. Essentially, by trying to kill terrorists, we are creating more.

Does our government really think that attempting to eliminate all militants affiliated with Al Qaida and other terrorist organizations is an attainable goal? The people joining these groups are doing so because they feel an ideological obligation to join that organization’s cause. They are not going to be scared away by military force precisely because they believe their cause is worth the risk of death.

This does not mean we should make no effort to protect our country from terrorist attacks. It also does not mean we should help no other governments fight militants in their countries. It means we should change our methods.

Texas law keeping pregnant brain-dead woman on life support cruel, inhumane the oklahoma DaIly (U. oklahoma)

For the past nine weeks, a Texas law had been keeping a woman, who had been declared legally brain-dead, on life support in order to continue incubating the fetus she was carrying.

At first glance, it seems like a kindness that the state would be so keen on helping her unborn child survive, despite her death, but the situation

only appears so at first glance.

Marlise Munoz, who was fourteenweeks pregnant, was found unconscious by her husband Nov. 26, 2013.

At the hospital, the medical staff and Munoz’s family agreed that she met the criteria for being brain dead. Her family was ready to take her off life support, per her own previously spoken wishes, but officials at the hospital refused to allow them to do so.

Texas law forbids hospitals from

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removing life-sustaining treatment from pregnant women, despite the wishes of the women and their families and regardless of how far along the pregnancy may be.

Nine weeks and a difficult legal battle later, Munoz was finally allowed to pass away on the morning of Jan. 26, after doctors found that the fetus had become “distinctly abnormal,” as reported by the family’s attorneys.

This situation raises a lot of questions about the intent of the state and about how many rights the family of

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Addendums for this kind of circumstance never made it into the law itself, which requires a pregnant woman’s health to be supported until there is a viable fetus, which occurs approximately

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In the end, the law must be reworded. Though it could be used well in some cases, it could also be interpreted to cover expectant mothers who had died — a situation that, according to Mayo, the law was not meant to include.

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By CARSON WILSON News editor

John Gottsacker snuck out of his grandparents’ lake house to take a joy ride on his go-kart.

He was four years old.

His dad, Steve Gottsacker, caught him in the act.

“Most parents would be mad,” he said, “but I guess he saw it as something I really enjoyed.”

John Gottsacker won his first race at five years old.

In victory lane, he earned a trophy and a kiss from a girl.

After that, he was hooked.

“I just fell in love,” he said.

Since then, the senior energy commerce major from Dallas has won over 200 races and seven national championships. He has driven 10 types of cars on three different types of racetracks in about 30 states, from California to North Carolina.

Steve Gottsacker practiced with his son, teaching him how to drive and how to handle a car.

However, once John Gottsacker began racing nationally, there was no more time to practice. Racing became his life.

After winning a few races, both Gottsackers began traveling outside regional events.

They would spend about 40 weeks a year go-kart racing.

“We raced Tuesday nights in Charlotte and Thursday nights in Atlanta Friday and Saturday nights in East Coast locations,” Steve Gottsacker said. “When he was ages 10-15, he raced anywhere from two to four times a week for eight months to a year.”

Eventually, John Gottsacker made the transition from gokart racing to stock car racing.

He’s raced against most of the people in NASCAR, from Joey Logano to Kyle Bush.

“Once I get into whatever type of race car it is, it’s just kind riding a bike for me,” Gottsacker said. “I get in there and I know what I’m doing. It just comes naturally. God blessed me with a talent.”

He said he raced stock cars from age eight to 17.

At age 14, Gottsacker moved out to Charlotte, North Carolina during summers and lived on a couch.

“I was a racetrack rat,” he

said. “It was wild. I feel at home at the racetrack. It’s just a great place to me” However, racing became costly and expensive.

When he was 17, he was in the middle of a race when a coil broke in his stock car. He pulled into pit lane, and that was it.

“I saw my car on the Internet for sale, and that’s when I knew it was over,” Gottsacker said.

He retired from racing, and began looking towards attending college at Texas Tech.

“When we financially couldn’t afford to continue racing, college was on the horizon,” Steven Gottsacker said, “so our family made the choice to quit racing and go to school.”

After a few years, John Gottsacker had another chance to race.

His cousin asked him to race his go-kart in Daytona, Fla. over winter break. After several years without a championship, Gottsacker finished first by 20 inches and claimed a national title.

“It felt amazing,” he said. “It wasn’t just me, it was my dad, my friends and family and the crew. We’re all a team.”

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JOHN GOTTSACKER POSES with friends and family at the Daytona International Speedway. Gottsacker won the International Champion racing his go-kart.

Rodney Berryhill, crew chief at Daytona, said even after the rain, Gottsacker was a natural.

“For what he does, he’s outstanding,” he said. “Because he

PAMPA(AP) — A death-row inmate convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two sons in 1993 could have been exonerated by DNA evidence had it been stored properly by Texas investigators, an expert witness for the defense told a judge Monday.

Julie Heinig, assistant director of a private Ohio DNA lab, was among the forensic and DNA experts who testified during a hearing for Hank Skinner, whose attorneys are trying to spare him the death penalty.

Skinner was convicted of capital murder two years after Twila Jean Busby and her adult sons, Elwin Caler and Randy Busby, were found dead in their Pampa home. Prosecutors said Skinner used an ax handle to kill his 40-year-old girlfriend and stabbed her sons, who were both

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THE OUTDOOR PURSUITS Center is in the process of resetting their climbing wall for the 14th Annual Vertical Plains Climbing Competition on Saturday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Kevin Hoffman, coordinator of outdoor pursuits, said he expects 90-110 climbers from schools around the southwest this weekend.

Southwest to add routes to NY, 14 other cities wouldn’t affect earnings through The U.S. Justice Department has 2015. said that the gates shouldn’t go Wi t h t h e n e w l o n g - h a u l to so-called legacy carriers such routes, Southwest will com- as Delta and United, but Delta pete against similar service from points out that Southwest already American Airlines Group Inc. at controls 16 of the 20 gates at nearby DFW Airport.

Love Field.

SouthOn Oct. 13, w e s t ’s Southwest will toughest start flying from compeDallas to Chitition, cago; Baltimore; h o w e v e r, Denver; Las Vem i g h t gas; and Orlando, come from Fla. On Nov. 2, Delta Air it will add New Lines Inc., York’s LaGuardia which is Airport; Washalready ington’s Reagan HERB KELLER selling National Airport; SOUTHWEST AIRLINES tickets for Los Angeles, San CO-FOUNDER flights in Diego and Santa late 2014 Ana, Calif.; Atfrom Love Field to New York, Los lanta; Nashville; Fort Lauderdale Angeles, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Tampa, Fla.; and Phoenix. and Detroit.

The fight over Love Field is a There’s just one hitch: Delta big part of the history of Southdoesn’t know if it will have any west Airlines, which began as a gates at Love Field.

Texas-only carrier. Herb KelleAmerican has two gates but her, the airline’s co-founder and agreed to give them up to settle a lawyer who personally fought a government lawsuit against its some of the legal battles, attended merger with US Airways. Delta, Monday’s announcement at the which is leasing the gates, wants airport. to buy them from American, but “It just proves that being paso does Southwest, and other tient pays off,” he said. “Only had airlines could enter the bidding. to wait for 40 years.”

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DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says it will start nonstop flights from Dallas to New York, Los Angeles, Washington and 12 other cities this fall, when federal limits on the airline’s home airport end.

The new service pits the onetime scrappy underdog in head-to-head competition with American and maybe Delta for passengers traveling to and from Dallas.

Southwest announced Monday that it will fly from Love Field to five cities starting Oct. 13 and 10 more on Nov. 2.

Those routes are currently off-limits to Southwest’s Boeing 737 jets because of a 1980 law designed to protect nearby Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Under the Wright Amendment, as the law was called, planes bigger than 56 seats could only fly from Love Field to other cities in Texas and a few nearby states.

Southwest expects to add nearly 20 flights a day, to 146 daily departures in November, from Love Field, the airline’s eighth-busiest airport.

“It will mean the opportunity to grow and add airplanes and add jobs,” CEO Gary Kelly said.

He said the additional flying

doesn’t really test or practice that much. He’s one of the better ones.”

Gottsacker said he believes he will continue rac-

mentally impaired, on New Year’s Eve 1993.

Heinig, who was hired as an expert by the defense, testified that she reviewed DNA evidence recovered from the house and found them not sufficiently trustworthy to send an inmate to the Texas death chamber.

She said it had degraded because it was stored in plastic bags in an environment where temperatures weren’t properly controlled.

Defense attorneys contend that more sophisticated DNA test results collected by an independent lab raise doubts about Skinner’s guilt “too weighty” to allow his execution.

Attorneys for the state say the DNA confirms Skinner’s guilt.

The hearing is being held to hear arguments on whether to va-

cate Skinner’s death sentence. The hearing is expected to conclude on Tuesday, after which both sides will submit written arguments to the judge. It’s unclear when a ruling could be made.

The Texas attorney general’s office in November 2012 argued that new testing on 40 items “does not support Skinner’s claim that an alternative suspect is the real killer.”

Skinner has insisted he didn’t kill his girlfriend and her sons, saying he was passed out on a couch from a mix of vodka and codeine at the time of their deaths. Prosecutors say traces of his DNA were located in blood in the bedroom where Randy Busby was found stabbed to death, and that Skinner’s DNA also matched blood stains throughout the house.

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Tech Running Club strives for team atmosphere

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

Driving around campus, it is common to see many individuals out running; Groups are less common to see, however, because running is largely an individual sport.

The Tech Running Club is challenging this idea by meeting every Saturday at 10 a.m. to run together.

Kelly Martinez, a junior marketing major from the Woodlands, formed the club this year after transferring to Texas Tech.

“I was a cross country runner in high school,” she said, “and I wanted to join a running club here. Tech had so many other clubs, but no running club.”

The club officially started in late September after Martinez got the bylaws and constitution together and advertised with announcements.

One of her flyers caught the attention of Benton Adamo, a junior English major from Austin, who

had considered starting a running club before.

“I had been meaning to start a running club, but I was never motivated enough to do it,” he said.

“When I saw Kelly’s flyer, I thought it was convenient.”

The club is open to runners both experienced and beginners, Martinez said.

Rex Anne Waggoner, a senior double major in public relations and French from Kingwood, is one of the beginners who joined the club.

“I’m such a newbie to running,” she said, “and some days I can’t run because of my knees. Everyone is always supportive and just glad that I’m there.”

To meet the various training needs of the group, the members are split into two groups containing beginners and more experienced runners.

Both groups meet to stretch and talk together for 15 minutes before running different distances sepa-

rately for 30 minutes, Adamo said.

“Kelly and Benton will usually create other workouts for after we run,” Waggoner said, “because a lot of people focus just on working out their legs when you have to work out your entire body to be healthy.”

While running alone is always a possibility, the club adds the excitement of being on a team, Waggoner said.

The club members have varying majors, but their common thread is running.

“I love the environment of the club,” Martinez said, “because everyone has the same passion as me.”

The club is open to new members at any time, and no prior running training is required.

The main thing for students to ask themselves before joining is what they want to get out of the group, Waggoner said.

“Do you want the health benefits?” she said. “Do you want the camaraderie? No matter what, people

Fake painting could be burned Career↵

LONDON (AP) — When British collector Martin Lang submitted one of his paintings to a French committee, he was hoping to find out if it was an authentic work by Marc Chagall.

But not only did the Chagall Committee declare the painting a forgery, it said Lang’s painting should be burned under strict French laws that protect artists’ works.

Lang, 63, said Monday he was frustrated with the decision but he still hopes the painting will be returned to him.

Describing his shock at the ruling, Lang said: “It was just total disbelief that they would want to destroy it.”

“I’m not attacking the committee — I just want them to please reconsider. They could just mark it unoriginal and send it back,” he told The Associated Press.

The businessman bought the watercolor of a reclining nude woman for 100,000 pounds in 1992 from a London-based art consultant. The work was not authenticated, but it was believed to be a Chagall dating from around 1909 to 1910.

The painting was eventually sent to the Chagall Committee in Paris for a final ruling. The committee — run by the Russian-born artist’s grandchildren to protect his legacy — ruled it was a fake and said it would be destroyed under French law.

Lang said he did not understand

why art collectors like him should be punished for forgeries.

“It seems to be dissuading honest people from coming forward to have their art verified. It seems to be the wrong way of doing it,” Lang, a property developer from the northern city of Leeds, told the BBC. The Chagall Committee declined to discuss the case Monday.

But one expert, Francois DuretRobert, author of “The Law of the Art Market,” said that the destruction of a counterfeit painting is not only legal in France but expected.

He said an artist’s heirs have the right in France to destroy a work that is officially deemed counterfeit under what is called “the moral law of the artist.”

“You could say that a forgery is an infringement on an artist’s work,” Duret-Robert explained, adding that French law is possibly the world’s strictest when it comes to protecting the works of painters and sculptors.

A judge ruling on the case could decide upon other options, however, including clearly erasing the forged signature and marking the work as counterfeit or passing it along to a museum to help detect future forgeries.

Most committees judging artworks for authenticity ask the owner to sign a contract acknowledging they understand that their possessions could be destroyed if declared a forgery, said Pierre Valentin, a lawyer specializing in advising art collectors.

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“It’s a great opportunity for students who want to work at summer camps,” Killough said. “We have people from all kinds of camps that will be there.”

Also on Feb. 11, after the summer camp job seminar, the career center will have a seminar about how to work a job fair, in the career

ultimately make time for whatever it is that they want to do.”

The running club provides the first step to improving anyone’s running skills because it has members that are trained runners.

Both Martinez and Adamo research various topics related to running, and they are open to answering questions and helping anyone.

“You only get opportunities like

this in college, and you only get them for a short period of time,” Waggoner said. “Running is similar to graduating college because it starts with that first step.”

center Office from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Those who have never been to a career fair might be surprised, Killough said, and this is why the career center puts on this event.

“At the program, we basically make it a real-world scenario, where we put students through an experience similar to a real career fair,” Killough said. “We do this so students aren’t as anxious and stressed out about attending.”

The final event the career

center is hosting is the etiquette dinner Feb. 25 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

Obtaining a ticket in advance is required, Killough said, but the tickets are free and will be available Feb. 10 at the Career center office.

“We teach students everything there is to know about proper etiquette in a dining situation,” Killough said. “We try to have employers sitting at

the table with the student and we have a coach that will train the students on etiquette.”

This event is formal, so students attending must wear formal attire.

Students who have attended these events in the past have grown from it tremendously, Killough said.

“These are all student development programs that will prepare students for their future,” Killough said.

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Car-to-car talk: Look out for that collision WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — Your car might see a deadly crash coming even if you don’t, the government says, indicating it will require automakers to equip new vehicles with technology that lets cars warn each other if they’re plunging toward peril.

The action, still some years off, has “game-changing potential” to cut collisions, deaths and injuries, federal transportation officials said at a news conference on Monday.

A radio signal would continually transmit a vehicle’s position, heading, speed and other information.

Cars and light trucks would receive the same information back from other cars, and a vehicle’s computer would alert its driver to an impending collision. Alerts could be a flashing message, an audible warning, or a driver’s seat that rumbles. Some systems might even automatically brake to avoid an accident if manufacturers choose to include that option.

Your car would “see” when another car or truck equipped with

the same technology was about to run a red light, even if that vehicle was hidden around a corner. Your car would also know when a car several vehicles ahead in a line of traffic had made a sudden stop and alert you even before you saw brake lights The technology works up to about 300 yards.

If communities choose to invest in the technology, roadways and traffic lights could start talking to cars, too, sending warnings of traffic congestion or road hazards ahead in time for drivers to take a detour.

The technology is separate from automated safety features using sensors and radar that are already being built into some high-end vehicles today and which are seen as the basis for future self-driving cars. But government and industry officials see the two technologies as compatible.

If continuous conversations between cars make driving safer, then selfdriving cars will become safer as well.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has

been working with automakers on the technology for the past decade, estimates vehicle-to-vehicle communications could prevent up to 80 percent of accidents that don’t involve drunken drivers or mechanical failure.

Crashes involving a driver with a blood alcohol content of .08 or higher accounted for nearly a third of the 33,500 traffic fatalities in the U.S. in 2012, according to the safety agency.

The technology represents the start of a new era in automotive safety in which the focus is “to prevent crashes in the first place,” as compared with previous efforts to ensure accidents are survivable, said David Friedman, the head of the agency.

No orders to automakers are imminent, officials said.

After an agency report, the public and carmakers will have 90 days to comment, then regulators will begin drafting a proposal, and that process could take months to

years. But Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said it is his intention to issue the proposal before President Barack Obama leaves office.

“It will change driving as we know it over time,” said Scott Belcher, president and CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. “Automobile makers will rethink how they design and construct cars because they will no longer be constructing cars to survive a crash, but building them to avoid a crash.”

Government officials declined to give an estimate for how much the technology would increase the price of a new car, but the transportation society estimates it would cost about $100 to $200 per vehicle.

Automakers are enthusiastic about vehicle-to-vehicle technology but feel there are important technical, security and privacy questions that need to be worked out first, said Gloria Bergquist, vice president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.

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HOUSTON (AP) — It’s the darkest of operas, a powerful and unrelentingly grim work that dares to grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust through a musical descent into the hell that was Auschwitz.

The opera is “The Passenger,” and its composer was Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Polish Jew who as a young man fled to the Soviet Union to escape the Nazis — the only member of his family to survive.

He completed the opera in 1968 and considered it his most important work.

Yet for political reasons it had never been performed by the time Weinberg died in 1996. In the past decade, it has finally been staged in Europe — to considerable acclaim — and just had its U.S. premiere at the Houston Grand Opera.

It’s the latest coup for a company known for producing new works, including the premiere of John Adams’ “Nixon in China” in 1987, Daniel Catan’s “Florencia en el Amazonas” in 1996 and Mark Adamo’s “Little Women” in 1998.

“We’re sent a lot of scores by a lot of people,” said Patrick Summers, the company’s artistic and music director. “This is the area of the world where people wildcat things,” he added, alluding to the Texas tradition of drilling for oil in untried spots. “So we’ve done a bit of that operatically speaking.”

In this case, the sender was David Pountney, the British director who gave “The Passenger” its first staged performances at the summer festival in Bregenz, Austria. It’s Pountney’s production, using his English translation, that traveled to Houston

and will also be seen at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival this summer and at Chicago’s Lyric Opera during the 2014-15 season.

Summers said in an interview he is familiar with some symphonies and chamber music by Weinberg, a prolific composer who was a disciple of Dmitri Shostakovich.

But the score of “The Passenger” came as a revelation.

“I remember coming into the office on Monday after playing it on the piano over the weekend and saying, ‘We have to do this opera.’”

Why did it take so long for the work to have a hearing? Summers cites the opera’s focus on the persecution of Jews by the Nazis — a subject that was not welcomed in the post-war Soviet Union, where anti-Semitism was rife.

“Weinberg’s life was a perfect storm of obscurity,” Summers said.

“Given the political circumstance he fled, the political circumstance he fled to, the mentorship of an extraordinarily famous and cumbersome person in Shostakovich, and the political times in which he matured.”

The opera’s libretto by Alexander Medvedev is adapted from a Polish radio play by Zofia Posmysz, a concentration camp survivor.

Set 15 years after the war, it tells of a woman who had been a guard at Auschwitz and who thinks she recognizes a former prisoner while onboard a passenger ship. The sighting triggers her memories of the extermination camp, where much of the opera is set, with unsparing depictions of brutality and systematic murder.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tests have confirmed there was heroin in at least some of the scores of plastic packets in the New York City apartment where Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead, a law enforcement official said Monday, and authorities are working to determine whether the drug was mixed or tainted with anything else.

Medical examiners have not yet made an official determination of the cause of the 46-year-old actor’s death, but police have been investigating it as a suspected overdose.

Hoffman was found in a bathroom with a syringe in his arm, law enforcement officials have said.

A few details have begun to sketch a picture of his final day and the circumstances in which he was found in his apartment in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village on Sunday.

And questions have swirled about whether Hoffman’s death could be linked to a potent blend of heroin and synthetic morphine that has been tied to deaths elsewhere, though as yet there are no official findings pointing to that scenario.

“The direction of the investigation is going to depend, in large part, on the findings of the medical examiner and the findings of the lab tests,” chief police spokesman Stephen Davis said.

An autopsy began Monday, but results weren’t expected until at least Tuesday, the city medical examiners’ office said.

A friend had spoken to him by phone around 9 p.m. Saturday, in the last contact investigators are aware of anyone having with him, a law enforcement official said. The

official said the actor’s door was double-locked when his body was found around 11:30 a.m. the next day by the same friend and Hoffman’s assistant.

In the apartment were at least four dozen small packets variously stamped with the ace of hearts and others with the ace of spades, two law enforcement officials said Monday. Tests of samples showed heroin in each type, one of the officials said.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk about the evidence gathered.

Authorities also found unused syringes, a charred spoon and various prescription medications, including a blood-pressure drug and a muscle relaxant, one of the officials said.

Stamps are common as a form of drug-world branding, and authorities make note of the ones they encounter, though they’re hardly trademarks — different producers might use the same symbol. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the ace of hearts and ace of spades stamps could lead investigators to any clues about the source of the items found in Hoffman’s apartment.

Concern has risen around the region in recent months about fentanyl, a synthetic morphine substitute roughly 100 times more powerful than morphine, being mixed with or substituted for heroin.

In western Pennsylvania, 22 people died within a week last month from suspected overdoses of heroin and fentanyl, Attorney General Kathleen Kane said last week; at least a half-dozen suspected dealers have been charged there.

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Center travels from far away to be Red Raider

By TYLER DORNER

basketball for them, including California, Washington and Rice University in Houston, he said.

From Bosnia and Herzegovina Kravic originally committed to to Canada and finally the U.S., play at Rice where he had a close senior Dejan Kravic has been relationship with the assistant around the world and has now coach at the time. settled into his new home at A week before classes started Texas Tech playing basketball for at Rice, he received a surprising head coach Tubby Smith. phone call saying he wouldn’t be Kravic was born in Bosnia able to enroll due to an issue with and Herzegovina, which was his transcript, he said. part of Yugoslavia when he With time running out until lived there. At the age of four, the semester started, Kravic he escaped the civil war, which found himself having to find a broke apart Yugonew school slavia, and headed where he for Canada along could play with his mother, basketball. father and little The process brother, he said. was probUntil coming lematic, to the south plains because he to play basketwould have ball, most of the to sit out a seven-footer’s life year with had been spent in the NCAA’s Canada, he said. transfer regKravic played colulations, and lege basketball in he didn’t do Toronto his first the writing DEJAN KRAVIC two years before section of STARTING CENTER deciding to transthe AmeriTECH BASKETBALL fer to try out Divican College sion I basketball in Testing stanthe states. dardized test, which some schools Kravic is one of many Canadi- required, he said. ans playing in the Big 12 ConferKravic said former Texas Tech ence this year. The list includes head coach Billy Gillispie conBaylor’s Brady Heslip and Kenny tacted him saying he could help Chery, Iowa State’s Melvin Ejim him get into the school and could and Kansas freshman Andrew offer him a scholarship.

Wiggins, among others.

“That was the best choice Following his first year of of all the options I had at that playing in Toronto, people asked point,” Kravic said. “I think it him why he was still playing in was a pretty good choice.”

Canada and not in America, After sitting out one year, he said. However, Kravic felt Kravic averaged nine points and he needed one more year to be five rebounds as a junior and was ready for Division I basketball named to the Academic All-Big in the U.S. 12 First Team in 2013.

“After my first year, I didn’t Goimg into his senior year, think I was physically ready yet,” Kravic had to get acquainted he said. “After my second year, with new head coach Tubby I thought I was more ready, and Smith, something he is not unthen I decided to test the waters familiar with, he said. In his five of Division I.” years of playing college basketWhen he made the decision ball both in Canada and in the to transfer, 25 to 30 schools U.S., Kravic had five different contacted him about playing head coaches.

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After my second year, I thought I was more ready, and then I decided to test the waters of Division I.

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DEJAN KRAVIC, STARTING center for the Texas Tech basketball team was born in Bosnia & Herzegovina and moved to Canada when he was four years old.

“I wish I had all four years of college with him (Smith), because he’s one of the best,” Kravic said. “He’s a legendary coach. Playing for him has been great so far.”

Smith needed Kravic to play the role of a traditional center in his final year, which requires him to try to grab every rebound and block every shot rather than focus on scoring like in years past, Kravic said. In his best games this year, he has kept the mindset of controlling the paint throughout the game, he said.

The center scored a seasonhigh 18 points and grabbed six rebounds Saturday in the Red Raiders’ 60-54 win against Texas Christian, according to the Tech athletics website.

After the win, Smith said Kravic’s play was an integral part of the Red Raiders’ win, and he was proud of the center’s physicality.

“I thought Dejan’s play was very critical,” Smith said. “He got a couple and-ones where he got fouled in the act of shooting and scored — then he made his free throws. I think he was huge.”

Kravic is getting used to the new role and his height — in his ninth grade year, he was just 5 feet 10 inches, he said. He went up to 6 feet 5 inches his junior year and left high school at 6 feet 10 inches. Since then, he gained a few inches to be 7 feet tall.

Before every game, he tries to eat his favorite pre-game meal, which is chicken along with something Italian, and support a fellow Canadian by listening to the musician Drake, he said.

Kravic has already completed his undergraduate credits at Tech and is now working on a degree in the sports management program.

After completing the degree program, he hopes to head overseas to continue playing basketball professionally, he said. Beyond his playing career, Kravic said he hopes to do something involving helping kids and people. ➤➤tdorner@dailytoreador.com

Red Raider baseball announces 2014 Tech baseball program to introduce Texas Tech TV schedule on Fox Sports Raider Yard for Saturday home games Texas Tech baseball has announced its television schedule for the 2014 season.

The Red Raiders will play eight games on Texas Tech TV on FOX Sports in conjunction with Red Raider Sports Properties.

The home games can be seen on FOX College Sports, FOX Sports Southwest or FOX Sports Southwest Plus as apart of a third-tier rights package signed with FOX Sports in 2013.

Coach Tim Tadlock said being shown on the FOX Sports network is great not only for the

current players, but also for the alumni of the school and recruits in the region.

“It is a great opportunity to have eight of our home games televised on the FOX Sports network,” Tadlock said. “Not only is it outstanding for our current players’ families to watch us throughout the season, but it’s also a great situation for our alumni, supporters of Texas Tech University and our recruits in this region and across the country to watch Texas Tech baseball on FOX Sports.”

The first televised game for the Red Raiders will be at 6:30 p.m. Mar. 7 against New Mexico State.

Six of the televised baseball games for Tech will be against teams in the Big 12 Conference, including two games against Texas (March 28 and March 30) and two against Oklahoma (April 25 and April 27).

The Red Raider broadcast crew will be made up of play-byplay announcer Robert Giovannetti and analyst Mike Gustafson. ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

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The Texas Tech baseball program is launching “Raider Yard” for all home Saturday games during the 2014 season.

Raider Yard, which will be hosted directly next to Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park, will include family-oriented events, games, raffles, tailgating and picnics.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said he thinks every part of the idea is fantastic, and he hopes it will increase the amount of families coming to watch the team play during the weekend.

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Raider Yard and all that it presents to our loyal fans and to all the families that make Red Raider baseball a part of their weekend activities,” Tadlock said. “There is no better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than with family and friends at the ballpark.”

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“Fans can’t ask for more activities outdoors with their families,” Tadlock said. “This is an outstanding concept, and for everything to be free is just a fantastic idea all the way around.”

The Red Raiders will play 35 home games this season, which is the most since 2004. The first home game will be at 2 p.m. Feb. 14, at Dan Law Field against No. 3 Indiana. ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

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