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After a minor explosion occurred in the Chemistry building on Monday, the four injured people were released from University Medical Center the same day.

Eric Finley, UMC spokesperson, said the patients were treated and released from the hospital Monday.

Finley could not confirm if the injured individuals were Tech students, he said.

According to the Tech police blotter, a chemical waste container exploded and injured four students at 3:12 p.m. Monday in the Chemistry building.

Classes were not canceled after the explosion, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, and only the affected lab was evacuated.

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Buddy Holly Center remembers musician’s life, legacy

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THE BUDDY HOLLY Center pays tribute to the life and death of musician and Lubbock native Buddy Holly. The center gave free tours to visitors Tuesday, and a bouquet of roses was placed at Holly’s grave in tribute.

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Texas Tech plans to have three different research building construction projects completed by this summer.

The new buildings are the Bayer Plant Science building, the Bayer Seeds Innovation Center and the Research and Technology Park.

The Research and Technology Park, an approximately $29 million initiative, is expected to be completed in June, according to Tech’s Facilities Planning and Construction website.

Michael Molina, Tech vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction, said the building signifies a part of Phase I of Tech’s Strategic Plan.

“The entire strategic plan by Texas Tech was to grow connectivity to research. The TTU Research Park represents Phase I of a potential half a million

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Feb. 3 is known as The Day The Music Died because it is the day rock ‘n’ roll legend Buddy Holly died. In Lubbock, this day is especially significant because it is the birthplace of Holly.

Charles Hardin Holley, or Buddy Holly as he was professionally known, was a rock ‘n’ roll artist in the 1950s. His short-lived career and premature death turned Holly into a legend almost overnight.

Not only is Lubbock the hometown of this local hero, but it is also the home of the Buddy Holly Center, attracting visitors each year to bear witness to the works and artifacts of Holly, especially on the day he died.

“People are just so inspired,” Vassandra Okoruwa, marketing and event coordinator for the Buddy Holly Center, said. “It makes it even more inspiring for youth because he was from Lubbock.”

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Tech expands institutional research with three new buildings square feet of facilities in the future,” Molina said. “This building is the first step toward fulfilling Tech’s Strategic Plan.”

Tech’s Strategic plan is a 10-year plan from 2010 to 2020 that outlines the framework of the university’s goals to achieve tier-one status, according to Tech’s Strategic Plan website.

The Research and Technology Park will house researchers from the private sector in hopes to elevate Tech’s standing in nationally competitive research, Molina said.

“The Research and Technology Park is lab-lease concept with the private sector of research,” he said. “The building is designed with full flexibility in terms of infrastructure. It’s a two-story facility with flex labs on its first and second floors, an auditorium, a 120-seat public room and a main lobby space.”

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On Tuesday, the staff of the center places yellow roses on Holly’s grave, Okoruwa said. The center was designed to educate people on Holly’s legacy, and it does exactly that, attracting people from Europe, Australia and numerous countries from around the world.

The Buddy Holly Center offered free entry to anyone visiting the center Tuesday, Okoruwa said, as well as a Trolley Tour that offered a one-of-a-kind look at the significant Holly sites in Lubbock.

The Buddy Holly Center events were meant to revive the local hero, and educate the upbringing of the influential artist, Okoruwa said. The museum was also offering interactive activities for children, Okoruwa said.

“People come to adore his music and songwriting skills,” Okoruwa said.

“They just love his sound and his trendsetting qualities.”

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GALVESTON (AP) — Jurors in a Houston-area man’s capital murder trial heard from a doctor Tuesday that the 8-yearold boy the man is accused of setting on fire needed daily operations for months to treat his severe burns.

Twenty-nine-year-old Don Collins was 13 when prosecutors say he doused the child with gasoline in 1998 and lit him on fire in Splendora, northeast of Houston.

Robert Middleton was burned across 99 percent of his body and endured years of physical therapy before he died in 2011 from skin cancer blamed on his burns. A judge determined in March that Collins could be tried for murder as an adult, despite being a teenager at the time.

Defense attorneys said in a Galveston County courtroom Tuesday that there were no witnesses to the attack and prosecutors are playing to the jury’s emotions.

“Do not expect the defense to bring an eyewitness to this tragedy because there is not one,” the Houston Chronicle reported attorney E. Tay Bond as telling jurors.

But prosecutors countered that witnesses will testify that Collins admitted to them that he poured gasoline on Middleton as the boy walked through woods near his home, according to the Chronicle.

“Our case is based on the testimony of adults who have come forward and can tell you what this man did when they were children,” Montgomery County prosecutor Kelly Blackburn said in his opening statement.

Middleton named Collins as his attacker and the older boy was arrested in 1998. Collins spent several months in juvenile detention but was released after prosecutors said they didn’t have enough evidence to pursue the case.

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Cait Meisenheimer, deputy press secretary for Abbott, said Abbott’s proposal came from his desire to make investments in job creation and the belief that the Texas government can do more to harness resources and elevate higher education in the state.

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LINBECK CONSTRUCTION WORKERS work on the future Plant and Soil Sciences building Tuesday. The predicted $13 million building is projected to be finished in May.

Gutierrez continues to receive preseason honors While Texas Tech baseball opening day is just more than a week away, junior first baseman Eric Gutierrez has already started winning.

Gutierrez has received four preseason AllAmerican awards plus two All-Big 12 Conference first team honors.

On Tuesday evening, it was announced the Red Raider first baseman had been selected to the preseason second team All-American and as preseason Big 12 Player of the Year, according to D1Baseball.com.

Also on Tuesday, the National College Baseball Writers’ Association named him as a preseason first team All-American.

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she said. “We’ll talk to migrant workers, border patrol agents.

We’ll actually stay in migrant housing, have meals with individuals and families and see the facilities where they work.”

The trip is about immers-

ing the students so they gain first-hand experience about the relations between the U.S. and Mexico, she said.

Je ry l me R o b i ns, C ALUE unit coordinator, said the trip provides a unique opportunity to the attendees.

“The El Paso trip kind of epitomizes the difference between just volunteering and actually serving and experiencing what it’s like to be an immigrant or migrant worker,” he said. “You’re not necessarily providing services to those workers, but you have a deeper understanding of the issue of immigration and what it means.”

The Service Breaks program was created after Tech President M. Duane Nellis suggested it, Justyna said.

The president was interested in starting further volunteer opportunities outside the classroom, Robins said.

“The Service Breaks program started in the fall,” Justyna said.

“The idea is to get students, instead of just going on vacation for spring break, to do something really meaningful within their communities or wherever we decide to go.”

The first trip was to San

Molina said it is a collaboration of public and private partnership between Tech and Bayer CropScience.

Bayer CropScience, a private, agricultural research and development company, recently partnered with Tech, Molina said.

The Bayer Plant Science building will focus on both private and public agricultural research, and Molina said it will contain a greenhouse, among other facilities and labs, for plant and soil science students to conduct research.

“It is adding research, lab and academic space for the plant soil sciences division,” Molina said.

“What is really unique about this project is there will be a courtyard that will be a living plant soil science lab so that students can integrate their research.”

The Bayer Seeds Innovation Center, another building that represents Tech’s partnership with

Bayer CropScience, is a $19.3 million project that is expected to be completed in March, according to Tech’s Facilities Planning and Construction website.

The building is across from what previously housed the University College and will focus on Bayer CropScience private sector cotton research, Molina said.

“Cotton seed, growth and germination will be studied in the Bayer CropScience Seeds Innovation Center,” he said.

“Tech has a strong agricultural background and becoming associated with Bayer CropScience is a great partnership because we are in the middle of the cotton belt.”

Michael Galyean, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, said he is excited about the recent construction and Tech’s partnership with Bayer CropScience.

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Texas Tech students have the opportunity to travel with the Center for Active Learning and Undergraduate Engagement and volunteer as a part of their Service Breaks program.

Those who participate in the program will travel to El Paso or Dallas for a week during spring break, Erin Justyna, CALUE assistant director, said.

“A lot of times, students get caught up in their studies and think they don’t have the opportunity to do stuff like this,” she said. “I think the takeaway is that they can find time to do this kind of thing, and they have skills they’ve learned in their classes that directly relate to what they can give to their communities.”

Both trips will take place March 16 – 20, according to the CALUE website, and cost $150 to attend, which goes toward offsetting the cost of the trip.

Volunteers on the Dallas trip will work with the Crossroads Community Services organization, which operates like a food bank but helps those in need obtain jobs and clothing as well, Justyna said.

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Abbott also plans to reallocate half the fund’s unexpended balances from the Higher Education Coordinating Board to the Governor’s University Research Initiative and transfer half of the fund’s unexpended balances to the Texas Enterprise Fund in an attempt to increase the state’s recruiting and retaining of businesses and job opportunities to Texas, according to the proposal.

The Texas Enterprise Fund, according to the Office of the Governor website, is a fund that operates under the governor’s office that works to recruit new employers and job opportunities in Texas. Abbott pledged to work with the legislature to improve the fund and make it more efficient and effective.

The Governor’s University Research Initiative, Meisenheimer said, funds the recruitment of researchers who are nationally rec-

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TEXAS TECH STUDENTS can volunteer during breaks through the Center for Active Learning and Undergraduate Engagement’s Service Breaks program. Volunteers worked with Habitat for Humanity in December in San Antonio during the first trip of the program.

About five people are currently signed up to volunteer in Dallas, she said, and students can sign up through Feb. 16.

The El Paso trip has reached its maximum number of volunteers.

During the El Paso trip, 12 stu-

dents will participate in the Border Awareness Experience, Justyna said.

“The idea with that trip is less of doing service in the traditional way of building homes and more about experiencing the life of the people who live on the border,”

ognized, which is believed to help Texas house five of the top 10 public universities in the United States.

David Hamilton, director of the graduate public administration program at Tech, said he sees this decision as having economic implications as well.

“Texas has been pretty good at attracting emerging technologies,” he said. “Texas has been very successful in incubating new technologies that have brought many jobs and spun off new technologies from the oil and computer industries. I am not sure if Texas will be as successful at attracting new technologies without this fund.”

With this change in Texas’s draw for new technologies, he said these new technologies may be attracted to other states without Texas’ financial incentives provided through the Emerging Technology Fund.

“In the past we have been very friendly toward new technologies and are noted nation-wide for that,” he said. “It could change

the picture without the financial incentives support.”

While there is a foreseeable impact in new technologies, Hamilton said he does not believe the oil and computer industries currently in Texas will be as affected.

The way Abbott has proposed to combat the lack of funding for new technologies at the university level, Meisenheimer said, is by focusing on the professors themselves who are teaching at a university level.

“Governor Abbott’s University Research Initiative will expand and improve upon prior programs,” she said, “by removing commercialization requirements and placing a renewed emphasis on recruiting Nobel Laureates and nationallyrenowned researchers to elevate Texas universities’ research standing, while also prioritizing transparency and oversight by housing the program at the Higher Education Coordinating Board rather than the Office of the Governor.”

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Antonio in December, she said, where attendees volunteered with Habitat for Humanity.

The goal is to expand the program to include more students and faculty members, Robins said.

“At some point, we want it to be so the application pool is definitely competitive where we have to make decisions on which students apply are better for which issues,” he said. “We also hope that at some point it will get too big for us as an office staff to manage to where we can include more faculty members and involve the university as a whole.”

CALUE faculty, staff and student assistants choose locations based on what issues prospective volunteers are interested in, Robins said.

Although there is limited time remaining to register for a spring break trip, Justyna said they have already started to plan for future trips to Tennessee in May 2016 and New Orleans in December 2015.

“We want students to understand that they’re here to get a degree,” she said, “but also learn how they can impact their society.”

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Although the building will not be a place of academic instruction for Tech students, it will serve to benefit the research efforts of the institution university-wide, Molina said.

He hopes it gives Tech research a stronger standing in national research and more research funding, he said.

“It is a research-centric building that brings private sector research into Tech,” he said.

“Hopefully it is a catalyst to put Tech faculty out on the market with experience.”

Another research building, the Bayer Plant Science building, is a $14.3 million project that is expected to be finished in July, according to Tech’s Facilities Planning and Construction website.

more than $14 million for research purposes to Tech, he said, and will work with the university’s faculty and students in a variety of capacities.

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Galyean’s goal is for Tech’s partnership with Bayer CropScience at the Bayer Plant Science building and Bayer Seeds Innovation Center to lead to future opportunities for Tech students.

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Graduate student wins design award

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~Maria Robinson

Richard Lucio, an architecture graduate student from Ackerly, was awarded the Student Design Honor Award.

The Fort Worth chapter of the American Institute of Architects honored Lucio with the award for his architecture proposal, “Reclaiming Urban Ecologies,” according to a Texas Tech news release.

“Winning a statewide design competition is an honor that extends beyond personal accomplishment,” Lucio said in the release. “Gaining recognition for Texas Tech and progressive leadership within the College of Architecture brings accolades to the potential that resides in this institution.”

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Special Collections Library gives students access to rare books

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The Texas Tech Special Collections Library houses thousands of texts for several different collections. One collection is the rare books collection, a compilation of more than 35,000 texts dating all the way back to the 1400s, Bruce Cammack, curator of the Tech Special Collections Library, said.

The collection is split up into categories, according to the Special Collections website. These categories are Koger History of Science, American and European Literature, Book History and Book Art, Classical Greek and Roman Authors, Dowsing and Coronelli 1688 Terrestrial Globe.

“One of the main subject areas is British and American Literature, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries,” Cammack said. “Joseph Conrad is our single largest collection.”

Other authors in the collection include William Shakespeare, John Milton, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and other famous names, according to the Special Collections Website. These names are ones that students might encounter in their aca-

demic career at Tech.

Cammack has been with Tech since 1987. As curator of the rare books collection, Bruce Cammack is in charge of purchasing and maintaining the collection. He logs all the books for security purposes and works with students who come in to help.

The rare books collection contains special books from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries that include original bindings, illuminations and illustrations and other elements that make them rare. The oldest book in the collection is from 1471 and it is by Roman author Suetonius, Cammack said.

“The title actually translates to The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. It is in the original Latin,” Cammack said. “It is an incredible book.”

Another book is the Liber Chronicarum from Germany, which is a history of the world 1493, Cammack said. It includes an illustrative map that is one of the last not to show the new world, he said.

Other documents students might see at the Special Collections Library include bible leafs from the Gutenberg Bible or a Missal leaf from 13th century

England. The single leafs show how the bibles were printed in the early years of the printing press.

Ryan Hackenbracht, assistant professor of English, is also familiar with working in special collections libraries. It is a valuable tool for students to have access to, he said.

“The Special Collections is a great resource because it’s a pedagogical tool. Students can go there and learn about texts that were published centuries ago, they can learn about the printing process, they can learn about physical material conditions of the books and what went into their composition,” Hackenbracht said. “It’s also really important for research, because having these ancient texts there can tell us a lot about what life was like.”

Students can use the library to conduct research for their classes. It is the job of the library to put the material in the students’ hands, Cammack said.

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TOP: BRUCE CAMMACK, the assistant librarian for rare books, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library helps oversee the activity of rare books daily.

Cammack has also added books to the collection from auctions.

RIGHT: THE SOUTHWEST Collection/Special Collections Library is home to many books, tablets and pamphlets that date back to the 1400s. Some of these items can be accessed by students at Texas Tech.

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Panel reverses, says white potatoes OK for Women, Infants, Children recipients WASHINGTON (AP) — Ostracized by health officials for several years, the white potato is back in favor.

The prestigious Institute of Medicine said Tuesday that pregnant women and moms should be allowed to buy white potatoes with subsidies from the government’s Women, Infants and Children program. An IOM panel said people aren’t getting enough starchy vegetables or potassium and fiber, nutrients that are plentiful in potatoes.

That’s a reversal of a 2006 IOM report that recommended against including white potatoes in the WIC program, saying people were eating too many of them. WIC gives pregnant women in need and mothers government-subsidized food vouchers to ensure good nutrition for their families.

What’s changed since 2006?

The government’s dietary guidelines increased the recommendation for starchy vegetables to 3.5 cups per week for children and 5 cups per week for women.

Under the newer recommendations, the panel estimates that children are consuming about 64 percent of what is recommended and women are consuming about 56 percent.

“Intakes of all vegetable subgroups should be improved, including those of starchy vegetables,” the report says. White potatoes include russet, red, yellow, fingerling, blue, and purple potatoes.

Allowing white potatoes into WIC doesn’t mean potatoes and french fries. The WIC program only allows the purchase of veg-

etables without added sugars, fats or oils. The exact requirements vary state to state, but they can be fresh, frozen or canned, as long as they don’t have the added ingredients.

The USDA uses the IOM recommendations to decide what exactly will be allowed in the WIC program.

But they also have taken on political overtones. The new recommendations are a major victory for the potato industry and lawmakers from potatogrowing states, who have lobbied for several years to include potatoes in WIC. Those lawmakers successfully added language to a massive year-end spending bill that allowed potatoes in the program for the first time.

The spending bill expires later this year, and Tuesday’s IOM recommendation likely means Congress won’t have to intervene on the issue going forward.

Officials who fought congressional efforts to intervene appeared to welcome IOM’s new advice. When the spending bill adding potatoes to WIC passed in December, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said lawmakers shouldn’t be meddling in science. USDA spokesman Cullen Schwarz said Tuesday that the department thanks the IOM for their analysis and will “continue to ensure that WIC reflects the panel’s recommendations.”

Douglas Greenaway, president of the National WIC Association, said the report proves that “science should be at the center” of decisions about foods in WIC. He said Congress making decisions on WIC “opens the doors

to special interest groups to press for their particular foods to be in the food package.”

The potato industry had another major legislative victory in 2011, when Congress voted to thwart the Agriculture Department’s recommendation that only two servings a week of potatoes and other starchy vegetables be served in federally subsidized school lunches. The USDA effort was an attempt to limit the proliferation of french fries on school lunch lines.

Nutrition advocates have been concerned that WIC recipients would use potatoes for french fries as well. The panel didn’t review how potatoes purchased on WIC were prepared at home, but doctors on the committee pointed out that people often add oils and cheese to other vegetables, besides potatoes.

“We’re not sure that potatoes are prepared in the home a whole lot differently from other vegetables,” said Dr. Susan Baker of the Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who led the congressional push to add potatoes to WIC, praised the IOM report.

She said USDA should weigh in on how potatoes are prepared.

“Instead of prohibiting the purchase of the fresh potato, USDA should encourage its healthy preparation,” Collins said.

A new version of the dietary guidelines is due later this year.

The IOM said its recommendation should be re-evaluated if the current guidelines for starchy vegetables change.

At last: Harper Lee novel to be published in July NEW YORK (AP) — “To Kill a Mockingbird” will not be Harper Lee’s only published book after all.

Publisher Harper announced Tuesday that “Go Set a Watchman,” a novel the Pulitzer Prizewinning author completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. Rediscovered last fall, “Go Set a Watchman” is essentially a sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird,” although it was finished earlier.

Reactions ranged from euphoria (Oprah Winfrey issued a statement saying, “I couldn’t be happier if my name was Scout”) to skepticism that the new book will be of the same quality as “Mockingbird.” Biographer Charles J. Shields noted that Lee was a “beginning author”

when she wrote “Watchman.”

The 304-page book will be Lee’s second, and her first new work in print in more than 50 years, among the longest gaps in

history for a major writer.

“In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called ‘Go Set a Watchman,’” the 88-year-old Lee said in a statement issued by Harper.

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people credit Holly for setting the stage for rock, Vandergriff said.

Holly’s influence even spread to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The Beatles, former band member “He laid the groundwork for Paul McCartney said during his Ocwhat rock ‘n’ roll is today. He tober 2014 concert in Lubbock. Mcwas an architect that created the Cartney stopped in Lubbock during modern day band lineup,” Ryan his “Out There” tour to pay tribute to Vandergriff, a musem visitor from Holly, according to a previous article Lubbock, said. “His music was uni- in The Daily Toreador. versal, it brought people together.”

“His roots were inside all of the Holly was the inspiration for bands after his death,” Vandergriff countless rock ‘n’ roll bands of the said. “There would have been no Britlate 1950s and early 60s, and many ish Invasion without Buddy Holly.”

Holly left a lasting impact on many people’s lives.

“It is wonderful that a 22-year-old did so much with his life,” Dorothy Goedel, a museum visitor from Lubbock, said.

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College athletes deserve to be paid for service Chris Kyle Day unfair to other U.S. veterans

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any people to day believe paying college athletes will only lead to them spending their money in ways which are not morally sound or appropriate.

“I used to argue vehemently against paying college athletes.

Tuition, room, board and books were compensation enough,” according to the ESPN website.

Although most college athletes are given free tuition, room, board and books, they should be given more. Being a college athlete is literally the same thing as any average college student with a part-time job, but even more.

As a college athlete, you must practice for hours upon hours daily, travel to games around the country and must still maintain a high enough GPA to play. Also, many academic career plans require higher than a 2.0 GPA to continue pursuing their major.

However, with all the time it takes to travel, practice and play games, college athletes often struggle to earn the grades they need.

Growing up as a kid, I’m sure many of your mothers told you, at least I know mine did, that an education is more important than playing sports. But in today’s society, if college athletes don’t play, millions of dollars are lost not only to the university, but to the TV networks and sponsorships that are associated with them.

Conrad Polkosnik So why is it fair college athletes are doing all the work, taking precious study time away from their lives to keep them from earning better than average grades and not getting some extra cash on the side? Some people argue that they have enough already, stating, “They have a place to live, get their classes and books paid for, and essentially eat for free, they don’t need any more than that.”

But this is simply unfair.

College coaches today are signing million-dollar deals with universities to bring success to their athletic programs. But does the coach really do all the work?

Is he/she specifically out there running suicides, getting buckets, scoring touchdowns and practicing every day, while struggling to make A’s in his/her classes? It is simply unfair that coaches, sponsors and TV networks make millions off some college kids playing a game while these athletes risk their lives, and gain nothing monetary in return.

The ESPN website further states, “So you know what caused me to do a 180 on the issue? That

$10.8 billion deal between the NCAA and CBS/Turner Sports for March Madness between 2011 and 2024. We’re talking $11 billion for three weekends of television per year.”

College athletes work year in and year out to put on the best athletic performance they can for the fans and still get nothing in return, while the NCAA and CBS/Turner Sports talk about billion-dollar deals and don’t give one penny to any of the athletes they broadcast on television.

The website also states, “The most distinguished professor at the University of Alabama won’t make $5.9 million in his entire tenure in Tuscaloosa; Nick Saban will make that much money this year. So I don’t want to hear that it’s ‘unfair’ to pay the quarterback of Alabama more than all the sociology students in the undergraduate college.”

If universities are willing to pay their coaching staff millions and sign million-dollar deals with sponsorships, it is only fair to pay their athletes at least a small sum of money for the hard work and time they put in that helps bring millions of dollars in profit for the universities that host them.

Polkosnik is a sophomore petroleum engineering major from Dallas. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

People should be responsible on social media

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few weeks ago, while snow covered the ground here in Lubbock, some Texas Tech students got the bright idea to build a giant snow penis, presumably because a traditional snowman just isn’t fun enough.

A very clever and creative gesture, it would have been hilarious to a group of 4th graders I’m sure.

Sadly, it was built by grown adults at our university, which quite frankly is embarrassing. Monday afternoon, KLBK News reported national outlets such as the Houston Chronicle, Cosmopolitan and MTV had picked up the story of the snow penis.

A snow penis in and of itself is not an egregious offense against humanity by any stretch. In that sense, it is harmless, for the most part, as most college students wouldn’t be offended by it.

However, as students of this university, we must remember that we share our campus with the Lubbock community. While 20-year-olds are used to crude humor, what would a parent of a young child think if a family had been on campus to play in the snow that day?

With the presence of social media, we also share our campus with the world when we post pictures and videos on the internet.

Texas Tech is in the middle of an almost decade-long process of expanding student enrollment

Kyle Jacobson to 40,000. What are high school students supposed to think about our university when we are in the national press because of shenanigans like this?

This isn’t the first time we’ve made national news this year.

We’re actually quite famous between the “no means yes” banner, the PoliTech video and the snow penis. Meanwhile, other universities are being recognized for research developments, new facilities, athletic accomplishments, etc. All of our university’s positive advancements are being overshadowed by nonsense.

All of these events came to light due to social media platforms that are relatively new to society.

The “no means yes” banner went viral after a Snapchat screenshot.

The PoliTech video was shared on many social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.

And now, the infamous snow penis has been covered by national news after Vine videos of students protesting its destruction disseminated across the web.

I don’t really care if students at Texas Tech think a penis is funny. I simply wish they would

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enjoy their sense of humor out of the public spotlight so it doesn’t embarrass our university.

The effects of social media go far beyond events such as these.

Graduate schools, potential employers, etc., search for candidates on social media. If your boss found a picture of you protesting a snow penis being taken down, what is he/she supposed to assume about you? Certainly there are many employees and potential employees who would be smarter than to build genitalia in a public space then post their handiwork for everyone to see on the Internet.

Our parents and even our older brothers and sisters who went to school 10 years ago probably did just as stupid if not even more stupid things while they were in college. Fortunately for them, their friends weren’t tweeting pictures of such matters to thousands of people.

There is another discussion to be had about the media in our country, and why they would cover a snow penis, of all things in the world. But the fact of the matter is that many news outlets will report on what gets the most views, not what’s most important.

It’s time for our generation to be more mindful of the setbacks of social media. Social media platforms certainly have their benefits — I love a Kermit the Frog meme and a Lil Terio vine just as much as the next guy. However, these online platforms can also make embarrassing things go public rapidly overnight.

Again, the issue isn’t really the snow penis. The issue is it spreads like wildfire and people all over the country now associate our university, our college degree and our current home with a snow penis.

All of us know our university is better than that, so let’s start treating it as such. You wouldn’t graffiti a penis on your parents’ home or your friend’s car. So why would you build a penis on your university’s campus?

Nothing is private anymore.

Remember this next time you or your friends think a college prank will be harmless.

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ecently, Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared Feb. 2 as Chris Kyle Day, honoring the most lethal sniper in American history. Many Texans are enthusiastic about Abbott’s decision to honor an American hero — but others, according to the Breitbart website, see this decision as “worshipping a coward.”

Many Americans have praised Kyle for serving his country.

His dedication to fighting for American’s freedom has even earned him even more fame in the recent film based on his life, “American Sniper.”

The Oscar-nominated film has reached a record-breaking box office success and has received both praise and criticism from celebrities.

According to The Daily Beast website, Jane Fonda said the movie was “powerful” and credited Bradley Cooper’s performance, calling him “sensational,” while movie actor Seth Rogen hinted at comparing Chris Kyle to the fictional Nazi war hero Fredrick Zoller from “Inglorious Basterds.”

The film should not be used as an outlet for people to attack Chris Kyle’s patriotism or American’s rights to honor him for serving his country.

“American Sniper” is not a film that praises Kyle for killing war enemies; instead, the film dives into how war can affect a man’s sanity, while still recognizing Kyle’s valor.

I felt the film was a great way of showcasing an American

Mark Tijerina legend and helped audiences understand the psychological complexities our war heroes are forced to deal with. However, Abbott’s decision to declare a day — specifically reserved for Chris Kyle — is him overselling his patriotism.

My decision to disagree with the official “Chris Kyle Day” does not mean I discredit Kyle’s “deadly reputation.” I am thankful for anyone who serves our country, but Chris Kyle does not need a special day over any other man or woman who has fought for our freedom.

According to The Washington Post website, Abbott stated all “Texans” should honor and pay tribute to Kyle, whom he called “a great Texan” and “true American hero.”

Abbott is honoring this individual war hero because he is a Texan. As a consequence, in order for the state of Texas to look good, why not throw a party one day out of the year for one of the deadliest men in history?

In fact, did I forget to mention Kyle’s from Texas?

Abbott is utilizing the film’s success and Kyle’s fame for his own selfish political gain. Republicans, especially pro-gun republicans, will eagerly eat from the palm of his hand after the

announcement of this “honorary” day.

Other native Texan war heroes deserve to be celebrated and honored for their hard work and dedication to their country as well. Just because Kyle has a movie based on his life and is considered a “lethal legend” does not mean we need to ignore the other countless men and women who have fought for our country.

Individuals who have displayed a great amount of accomplishments deserve their own special day in which they can also be honored. Chris Kyle’s greatest accomplishment was having 160 confirmed kills, according to the CNN website, which I guess according to the governor is all you need in Texas to have your very own special dedicated day.

Chris Kyle was a great hero, just like any other man or woman who serves our country. He deserves to be thanked and honored, but an entire day dedicated to one man who has killed more than a hundred people makes Texans sound like “savages.”

If Greg Abbott is so thankful and proud of Kyle he should’ve given him recognition before this Oscar-winning film was released. If Abbott were a true patriot, he would understand how showing only one soldier gratitude is ignoring the many others who have served our country.

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Nursing homes not suitable for loved ones

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ursing homes are slowly being seen as an excuse to dispose of some of the most influential people in our lives. The elders of our country need to be valued because they help teach the younger generations how to make it through life with their wise wisdom.

An example of the teachings from these influential groups could be the new health care bill that was proposed recently.

According to the Public Broadcasting Services website, “President Obama has proposed adding tens of millions of new people to a government health care plan, while cutting Medicare by over $500 billion. Meanwhile, no new doctors will be added. It is clear that as government obligations grow and resources shrink, seniors will be most harmed.”

The website further states, “Seniors are an especially informed group. Polls by Kaiser and Pew show less than 30 percent of seniors support health care reform. They ought to be listened to.”

Nursing homes should not be regarded as a place where the older generation deserves to go.

These individuals helped raise our parents and taught them valuable life lessons. The establishment of nursing homes is a relatively new idea that has become mainstream in the United States as well as other countries around the world.

The reported liabilities of these nursing homes and the health scandals that arise from these establishments are indeed detrimental to our society. Consequently, some of these health issues create lawsuits on issues such as bedsores, dietary and medication mix-ups.

Another reason why these nursing homes are detrimental to our country is the fact that families are shoving their responsibilities on strangers. In an effort to evade the responsibilities that arise from taking care of an elderly person, families would rather deal with the costs of housing their loved ones elsewhere — instead of allowing them to be at home or welcome •Publishing information Periodical Postage paid by The Daily Toreador, Media and Communication building, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409-3081. Publication number 766480. The Daily Toreador is a student newspaper published Monday through Thursday, September through May; Tuesdays and Fridays June through August, excluding November 26-27, December 4 - January 13, March 16-19 and May 6 - June 3. The Daily Toreador is funded primarily through advertising revenues generated by the student sales staff with free campus distribution resulting from student service fees.

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Kendra Kimberlin them into their own houses.

Some of the health mistakes committed at these establishments cause the residents of the communities to lose their motivation.

As a result, these people sink into depression and are unhappy.

People who are considering sending their loved ones to a nursing home should also consider the financial side of such a decision.

The amount of money that these establishments charge is depressing in the way the establishments barely cover the basic requirements a person needs in order to survive.

According to the Research Gate website, “The growing need for care of elderly persons demands research in biomedical and clinical areas, as well as health services, social science, psychology and ethics.”

The website further explains, “The long-term care setting raises specific ethical issues related to the dependency of the subjects and to the fact of institutionalization.”

Nursing homes are costly, and pose many threats to the people

we love. Further research should be conducted upon making the decision to check in a family member, or a family friend to those particular establishments. I believe there are other alternatives to nursing homes.

If a person took greater precision and time to plan out an effective strategy to take care of their loved ones, many disturbing things could potentially be avoided.

The solutions seem simple enough. All this proposal suggests is for people to take more time to wisely choose the facility that will eventually become a home for your loved ones, if a nursing home is the last resort.

However, it is important to also take into consideration the logistics, which could potentially impact one’s decision of submitting a family member into a retirement home. Or perhaps a person could also consider turning his/her home into a safety asylum for an older family member.

Choosing the safest strategy can help establish peace of mind, and potentially even help develop practical knowledge and patience to those who choose to embrace other solutions.

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Students compete in improv competition

By SARAH WILSON Staff Writer

While public speaking is not something many students feel comfortable doing, the students involved in The Flying Tortilla improv group thrive off thinking on the spot in front of others.

Justin Massengale, a freshman finance major from Montgomory, has been involved with The Flying Tortillas since last semester after finding the organization on Orgsync. Massengale said he was looking up comedy clubs at Texas Tech and wanted to give improv a try.

“Improv is performing without a script, there is nothing planned beforehand. We get a suggestion, and make a scene out of it,” Massengale said. “We make it up as we go.”

Massengale said he prefers standup comedy, and improv helps improve his stand up. He said many of the members also do stand up.

“We usually have five people, and we normally do long form. That’s when we get a one-word suggestion from someone in the crowd, and one

of us will go and give a monologue off the top of our head for two to three minutes over that suggestion,” Massengale said. “Then we make a scene from the monologue.”

Bethany White, a freshman journalism major from Peaster, joined the group last semester. White was involved in theater in high school, and knew she wanted to join an improv group when she came to college.

“Sometimes we do shows on campus for TAB,” White said. “It really helps you think on your feet. You have to trust the other person.”

Massengale said they just attended a competition in Houston this past weekend and competed against other improv groups from around the region.

Improv is subjective, which makes competitions hard, Massengale said.

“It’s usually based off of creativity, flow, character developments, comedy, acting, just really engaging the audience and each other,” Carson Bahr, a senior communication design major from McKinney and one of the troupe’s co-vice presidents, said. “It’s really a teamwork thing. It’s a lot

of practicing and getting to know each other.”

This was Massengale’s first competition, and he has gained confidence in his public speaking since joining the troupe, he said. The troupe has been on campus for around 15 years, Massengale said.

“I decided to give it a shot my junior year, and I really liked it and fit right in,” Bahr said. “We usually rehearse twice a week, for about an hour and a half to two hours. We do a few warm-ups and exercises.”

Bahr said they have about 12 members, and he encourages students to check out their club. Improv helps with teaching people to relax and with talking to others, he said.

“The root of it is talking to someone, even if some of it is made up, you get personal experiences,” Bahr said.

The group used to be called Alternative Fuels, he said, but was changed to The Flying Tortillas last year because of the confusing name.

“We have open rehearsals where anyone can show up and try it with us, no pressure,” Bahr said. “Normally we

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Rosa Parks’ archive opening to public at Library of Congress WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, reflected later on how it felt to be treated less than equal and once feistily wrote of how tired she was of being “pushed around” — parts of her history long hidden away.

Beginning Wednesday at the Library of Congress, researchers and the public will have full access to Parks’ archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs for the first time. The collection will provide what experts call a more complex view of a woman long

recalled in history for one iconic image — that of a nonviolent seamstress who inspired others to act at the dawning of the civil rights era.

A protracted legal battle between her heirs and friends had kept the collection from public view for years.

But in 2014, philanthropist Howard Buffett bought the collection and placed it on long-term loan at the national library. The Associated Press has previously reported on the legal wrangling that kept Parks’ archive warehoused for years. Until now, scholars have had very limited, if any, access to the materials.

“I think it’s one of the first times we’re actually able to read her voice, and it just totally goes against this image of the quiet seamstress,” said Margaret McAleer, an archivist at the library. “Her writings are phenomenally powerful.”

Parks, who died in 2005 at 92, is beloved in American history for her civil disobedience on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. That defining moment in 1955 triggered a yearlong bus boycott that helped dismantle a system of segregation.

“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I

couldn’t take it anymore,” she wrote.

“When I asked the policeman why we had to be pushed around, he said he didn’t know. ‘The law is the law.

You are under arrest.’ I didn’t resist.”

Parks also wrote of feeling lonely and lost living through the struggle with segregation.

After her arrest, Parks lost her job as a tailor at Montgomery’s largest department store because of her activism. Her husband, Raymond, lost his job, too, and the couple sank into deep poverty.

They moved to Detroit but continued to struggle.

She traveled with the NAACP, pressing for civil rights, and eventually landed a job at the Hampton Institute in Virginia earning $3,700 a year — enough to send some money home to her husband and mother. It wasn’t until 1965 when Parks was hired for the district office of Michigan Rep. John Conyers that she finally earned a steady, living wage, archivists said.

Parks’ archive provides scholars and the public with a fuller sense of her life and faith, her personality and her pain, said library historian Adrienne Cannon.

“It’s important because we see Rosa Parks in a kind of almost frozen, iconic image — a hero that is not really real flesh and blood,” Cannon said. “Here we get a sense of a woman that is really full flesh and blood.”

The collection may surprise people by revealing Parks had an aggressive edge and supported more radical actions seeking equality over the years, archivists said. She used her symbolic status to support Malcolm X, Black Panther gatherings and the Wilmington 10 in North Carolina.

Crumbling Brooklyn movie palace gleams after $95M renovation NEW YORK (AP) — A once gilded Brooklyn movie palace that’s been crumbling for decades, with pigeons infesting its stage, is back — again a glittering gem from the 1920s.

Diana Ross headlined Tuesday’s opening night at the 3,200-seat Kings Theatre in the Flatbush neighborhood, where a teenage Barbra Streisand spent afternoons enjoying double features.

The curtain rose to the 70-yearold Motown diva’s hard-rocking band, amplified by an impeccable sound system. Ross herself delivered a surprise entrance, walking down a

center aisle in a shimmering, teal gown and drawing a standing ovation from the roaring crowd.

The audience — a mix of races, ages and economic classes — stayed standing, dancing as she launched into some of her hit songs, including “Stop in the Name of Love.” She got spectators to sing along.

After a two-year, $95 million renovation, every detail from the theater’s jazz-age 1929 incarnation came to life amid computerized sound and LED lighting. The theater that first opened weeks before the Wall Street crash is now the largest in New York’s biggest borough.

“We don’t want to make it look brand-new; its character, its patina, is the glow and the warmth and the burnishing of the gold and the copperleaf, of the beautiful light fixtures, the seats, the carpet and the fabric — it all blends together so perfectly,” said David Anderson, president and CEO of the Houston, Texas-based ACE Theatrical Group selected to restore and operate the city-owned property.

“And yet,” he added, “if we can’t make it be a piece of successful commerce, we’ve wasted our time.”

In the next few months, programs will feature entertainers including

Gladys Knight, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Sarah McLachlan — the first of about 200 live annual events being planned.

Gone are the pigeons that left years of droppings inches deep in a space that also served as a refuge for homeless New Yorkers.

Balconies that had collapsed onto water- and mold-soaked floors are up again, complete with new red velvet seating.

The roof no longer leaks.

And the 2,000-pound Art Deco lobby chandeliers — too heavy for vandals to strip — again exude splendor above the repolished

entrance marble.

The carpeting is patterned after the original one that was destroyed — except for a tiny strip discovered under a defunct popcorn machine that served to duplicate the pattern.

The theater has a goal that reaches beyond its terra-cotta, ornamental facade: to be an economic engine for a once heavily Jewish neighborhood now home to many Caribbean immigrants. Some are struggling in a community that has survived a roller coaster of crime and decay on its way to the current real estate renewal.

Most of about 100 jobs at Kings will go to area residents, with local

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Whitney Houston’s daughter ‘fighting for her life’ ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) — Bobbi Kristina Houston wanted to sing, act and dance like her megastar parents, Whitney Houston and R&B artist Bobby Brown. Instead, she has mostly made tabloid headlines for drug use and family disputes — the same perils that derailed their careers.

Just like her mother three years ago, Bobbi Kristina was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub as the music industry prepared for the Grammy Awards.

As the pop star’s 21-year-old daughter lay hospitalized Monday, police in Roswell, Georgia, issued a very brief incident report, saying officers were called Saturday in response to her “drowning” at her home in suburban Atlanta. Her husband, Nick Gordon, was at the scene and tried to revive her while a friend called 911.

“Bobbi Kristina is fighting for her life and is surrounded by immediate family,” a Houston family statement said Monday. “We are asking you to honor our request for privacy during this difficult time.

Thank you for your prayers, well wishes, and we greatly appreciate your continued support.”

With no details forthcoming from police or family about her condition or what may have caused the tragedy, many people looked to see what she’s been posting online.

Her last tweet, from Thursday, reflected obvious frustration over her failure to break out as an entertainer: “Let’s start this career up&&moving OUT to TO YOU ALLLL quick shall we !?!???!”

The circumstances were eerily similar to those of Feb. 11, 2012,

when Houston’s assistant found the singer’s lifeless body face-down in a foot of water in her bathtub at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Authorities found prescription drugs and listed heart disease and cocaine use as contributors, but concluded that she accidentally drowned.

Bobbi Kristina, then 18, became so distraught that she needed to be hospitalized.

“She wasn’t only a mother, she was a best friend,” she told Oprah

shortly thereafter.

Bobbi Kristina identified herself on Twitter as “Daughter of Queen WH,” ‘’Entertainer/Actress” with William Morris & Co., and “LAST of a dying breed.”

But her mother was an impossible act to follow.

Houston had her first No. 1 hit at 22, and then a flurry of No. 1 songs, selling more than 50 million records in the United States alone.

Her voice, an ideal blend of power,

grace and beauty, made classics out of “Saving All My Love For You,” ‘’I Will Always Love You,” ‘’The Greatest Love of All” and “I’m Every Woman.” Her six Grammys joined many other awards.

Bobbi Kristina inherited her mother’s entire estate, but not her voice. Aside from her family’s short-lived reality TV show “The Houstons: On Our Own,” she has mostly appeared in online “selfies” and paparazzi images.

restaurants and small businesses also benefiting.

On Saturday, Kings will open its doors for free tours.

“We’ll be catering to the immediate community, presenting shows that interest New Yorkers from the Caribbean culture,” Anderson said.

To accommodate families, ticket prices for some shows will start as low as $15.

The 86-year-old venue, its decor inspired by France’s Palace of Versailles and the Paris Opera, was one of the five Loew’s “Wonder Theatres” in New York and New Jersey — sumptuous homes to a budding movie culture.

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such award, Whitaker said.

“Love that for her. She had a great week and I didn’t know if us not being able to get over the hump against Kansas State, if she would be able to get that or not with us not winning,” Whitaker said. “(I) was really happy for her.”

Battle scored a career-high 33 points, including 6-of-6 from behind the arc against West Virginia last week. Over the last seven games, she is averaging 19.6 points per game, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Lady Raiders have shot the lowest percentage in the conference for the season and have relied on Battle to be their main offensive force.

The senior guard was quick to credit the people around her for her offensive success.

“It’s an honor to be recognized as the player of the week, but I couldn’t have done it without my coaches and my teammates,” she said. “They all put me in the right positions all week long.”

Tech will once again be faced with the task of trying to slow down Kansas senior forward Chelsea Gardner.

Gardner is third in the Big 12 in scoring with 16 points per game and fifth in rebounds with eight per game, according to the conference website.

She finished with 20 points and eight boards in the teams’ last meeting.

Battle said the team knows what it did wrong against Gardner and Kansas last time but is determined to fix that tonight.

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The Texas Tech women’s basketball team will attempt to split the season series against Kansas at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas.

Kansas won the first meeting of the season 68-66 after overcoming a 17-point deficit late in the game.

Tech coach Candi Whitaker said her players are excited to have the chance to beat Kansas on the road after losing at home earlier this year.

“We are all ready to have a second opportunity at (Kansas). Got to put together two halves, especially on the road,” she said. “But Kansas is a good team. They’ve got a great inside-out attack. We’ll need to be ready.”

Having just finished a 1-1 home stand, the Lady Raiders are beginning a two-game road trip against the Jayhawks.

Both teams are 3-6 in Big 12 Conference play, along with three other teams in the conference.

Tech, with a 13 - 8overall record, is seeded two spots higher than Kansas, which sits in last place at 12-10 overall.

Whitaker said staying focused for 40 minutes is going to be the key if Tech wants to beat Kansas on the road.

After being named Big 12 Player of Week, senior guard Amber Battle continues to carry a bulk of the scoring responsibilities for the team.

All of the Tech coaches and players were glad to see Battle win her first

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Judge removes juror from Hernandez trial FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — The judge overseeing the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez removed a juror Tuesday, saying there was evidence she had previously discussed evidence in the case and had an early interest in being seated on the panel.

Later, the girlfriend of the man Hernandez is accused of killing testified that the day after he was found dead, the former NFL star tried to reassure her that the pain of losing a loved one would get better with time.

Most of Tuesday’s court session was spent on the problem with the juror, who has not been identified except by her jury number, 96. Bristol County Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh dismissed her after questioning her individually and closing the courtroom to hear evidence on the matter.

After a closed-door hearing that lasted more than 90 minutes, Garsh said there was credible evidence the juror specifically discussed an opinion about the case, including that it would be hard to convict Hernandez without the murder weapon, which has never been found. She said the juror also discussed several items of evidence that the court has ruled are inadmissible in this case.

“Over the last few years, the juror has expressed an interest in serving on this particular jury,” Garsh said. “There is credible evidence that the juror has attended more Patriots games than were disclosed on the questionnaire.”

Hernandez listened as Garsh spoke

and tapped his thigh with the palm of his hand.

“Discharge of the juror is indeed in the best interest of justice,” Garsh said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the juror issue came to light. When the 17 remaining members of the jury came back, Garsh told them that one juror had been dismissed for “purely personal reasons” unrelated to the case.

Twelve jurors will ultimately decide Hernandez’s fate. The alternates will be randomly selected from the pool of 17 immediately before deliberations begin.

The former Patriots standout is accused of the June 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, a semipro football player who was dating his fiancée’s sister. Hernandez, 25, had a $40 million contract with the Patriots when he was arrested.

Also charged with murder are Hernandez’s friends Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace. Prosecutors haven’t said who pulled the trigger but say Hernandez orchestrated the killing. They have both pleaded not guilty and will be tried separately.

Lloyd’s girlfriend, Shaneah Jenkins, took the stand for a second day Tuesday.

She is the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins. Shayanna Jenkins and Hernandez have a 2-year-old daughter together. She is charged with perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury, including when she said she could not remember what she did with a box prosecutors believe she disposed of after getting what they called a coded message from Hernandez. She has pleaded not guilty.

No. 1 Kentucky turns back Georgia Seattle fans deal with Super Bowl loss (14-7, 5-4), which outrebounded Kentucky 36-24. Maten added 13 points and nine rebounds for the Bulldogs, whose nine offensive boards helped them stay nearly even in the paint against the taller Wildcats.

But Georgia couldn’t get the rebounds it needed in the final minutes while Kentucky did. Willie Cauley-Stein came up with one leading to Harrison’s clinching foul shots, and Towns sealed the game with a block and rebound at the end.

Devin Booker had nine points and Ulis eight for Kentucky, which played its second straight game without freshman forward Trey Lyles because of an illness. While his absence hurt the Wildcats, Towns more than made up for it with two good halves after struggling to finish off strong starts.

Thornton’s second straight absence created an even bigger obstacle for Georgia after losing by 17 at South Carolina. The

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Andrew Harrison scored a seasonhigh 23 points and combined with Karl-Anthony Towns for key baskets down the stretch that helped top-ranked Kentucky stop pesky Georgia 69-58 on Tuesday night.

Twice on the verge of running away from a Georgia squad playing its second straight game without leading scorer and rebounder Marcus Thornton (concussion), the Wildcats (22-0, 9-0 Southeastern Conference) saw their margin dwindle near the end.

Harrison’s layup with 3:58 remaining provided a 62-54 lead before baskets by Yante Maten and Nemanja Djurisic pulled the Bulldogs to 63-58 with 2:06 left.

Towns’ short jumper with 1:33 left got the lead to seven, and Tyler Ulis and Harrison each added two free throws in the final minute for the Wildcats.

Towns finished with 15 with a career-high 13 rebounds.

Djurisic’s 17 points led Georgia

Bulldogs initially appeared out of sync as a result, as Djurisic lost his dribble out of bounds following Harrison’s game-opening basket.

Kentucky took advantage to lead 11-1 within four minutes thanks to four points each from Towns and Harrison, who were just getting started. The duo combined to shoot 9 of 16 from the field for 23 points, including 10 down the stretch to provide a 42-27 halftime lead just when the Bulldogs were making it competitive.

Georgia eventually trailed by 18 early in the second half before drawing to 51-42 with a 15-7 run over 4:04. The Bulldogs didn’t go away but couldn’t closer than five in the final minutes.

Georgia: Bulldogs sophomore forward Brandon Kessler made his first start this season and had seven first-half points. ... Coach Mark Fox gets another chance for his 100th victory with the program on Saturday against Tennessee.

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After losing its last two road games, the Texas Tech men’s basketball team returns home to host the Kansas State Wildcats at 8 p.m. today in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Tech’s recent 77-58 loss to the West Virginia Mountaineers in the WVU Coliseum moved the Red Raiders to an 11-11 overall record and a 1-8 Big 12 Conference record.

Tech played shorthanded against the Mountaineers in the second half of the game after freshman center Odiase was ejected from the game. Odiase received the ejection after a verbal altercation broke out between him and West Virginia sophomore forward Brandon Watkins, who made an obscene gesture toward the Red Raider players.

After the West Virginia game, Odiase said he learned an important lesson from the events that occurred on the court in Morgantown, West Virginia.

“You can’t act like that and show that emotion,” Odiase said. “I feel like I should have found a way to stay in the game, stayed composed and poised. Sometimes things happen like that, I learned from it and it shouldn’t happen again.”

Tech fell 58-51 to the Wildcats in their previous matchup as Kansas State hung on to a seven-point lead.

Odiase said to stay in the game, Tech needs to beat Kansas State to the rebound.

“Rebounding in every game is essential, but in this game they have some good rebounders,” Odiase said. “We need to be able to box out and take control of the boards.”

Like Tech, the Wildcats enter today’s game with a two-game losing streak after dropping games to West Virginia and their in-state rival, Kansas. Kansas State’s losses left them with a 12-10 overall record and a 5-4 conference record.

Tech head coach Tubby Smith said he can attribute Tech’s close games versus the Wildcats to the similar style of play they have compared to Tech.

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TEXAS TECH PITCHER Cara Custer pitches the ball during practice on Jan. 29 at Rocky Johnson Field.

The Red Raiders will travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, this weekend to compete in the Hotel Encanto Invitational.

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TEXAS TECH GUARD Keenan Evans goes up for a shot against Iowa State defenders on Jan. 29 in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech beat Iowa State 78-73, earning their first Big 12 Conference win.

“Our teams play a similar style,” Smith said. “I think they’re a team that looks to grind it out.”

The home crowd of 6,086 students at the game last season broke a Tech and Big 12 single game student attendance record.

For today’s matchup versus Kansas State, Tech plans to break the national single game student attendance record of 7,800 set by Indiana.

In a tough matchup, Smith said, the

effect of a large fan turnout clearly shows up at Tech’s home games.

“It’s very useful for our players,” Smith said. “I can see a difference in our players’ performance and play when it’s a good crowd in the arena.”

With a win today over the Wildcats, Tech would put an end to its 10-game losing streak against the Wildcats, and stay above .500 on the season. ➤➤@DGaytanDT

The Texas Tech softball team will kick off the coach Adrian Gregory era this weekend with the first games of the 2015 season.

Tech sophomore infielder Brittany Lee said the players are excited to get out of practicing against their teammates and face other teams.

“On a scale of one to 10, I’m probably (excited) at like a 49, or somewhere in there,” she said. “I think that everybody is so ready to go. We’re so tired of practicing and scrimmaging against each other that we’re ready to see other opponents.”

The Red Raiders will be playing in the Hotel Encanto Classic in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The tournament includes New Mexico State, Montana, University of Texas at Austin, Colorado State

and Nebraska.

Gregory said the tournament offers a good variety of teams, with Montana, which is starting its first year of softball, and Nebraska, who is a top-20 team in the nation.

“We’ll see pretty much all over the map,” she said. “I’m ready to see who comes to play and deals with the season pressure. There’s always a few surprises.”

The Hotel Encanto Classic kicks off more than a month full of tournaments for the Red Raiders, that includes trips to San Marcos, Arlington and Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Gregory said having so many road trips is exciting for her and the rest of the coaching staff because it helps the team connect and bond faster.

“On the road, you have more time to spend with your kids,” she said. “Coaches within our build-

ing get to hang out with our kids a little bit, but you don’t get to have that quality time. Being on the road, you’re forced to have that quality time, so I think you get to know your kids on a different level and your kids get to see a different side of you.”

The opening day lineup for the team is pretty much set, Gregory said, but she still expects it to change some throughout the season.

Since she and the other coaches are still getting to know the players’ strengths and weaknesses, it is important for her to be flexible with who plays on a day-to-day basis.

“I think it’s going to take a while to where (the coaches) feel who’s comfortable — who can flourish under pressure, and who’s going to be that clutch player,” Gregory said. ➤➤@EvCorder_DT