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Tech admits first black student in 1961, increases diversity on campus

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n 1961, Texas Tech accepted its first black student, Lucille S. Graves, which opened the door for other African-American students who wished to enroll at the university.

Lynn Whitfield, the University Archivist at Tech Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, said Graves was originally told that the school was for white students only.

According to the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library website,

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Graves came to Tech with a bachelor’s degree and wanted to get her master’s degree at Tech.

After she was denied admission, Graves then went to the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which threatened to file a lawsuit against the university, Whitfield said, so she was able to register for summer graduate glasses.

“She talks in the oral history interview that people in the classes she was in were polite,” Whitfield said, “and no one gave her any grief.”

Graves paved the way for other African-American students to enter Tech, according to the website.

Graves also opened the Mary and Mac school, Whitfield said, which was the first black private school in Lubbock.

“She has a lasting legacy beyond Texas Tech,” Whitfield said.

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Music fans remember Buddy Holly with event

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

PHOTO BY ELISE BRESSLER / The Daily Toreador The Buddy Holly Memorial Center was visited by students and tourists on Wednesday. Trolly rides were available and many crafts and activities were hosted downstairs.

The Buddy Holly Center, located on Crickets Avenue, hosted the “The Day the Music Died” event in memory of the late rock ‘n’ roll musician.

The event is hosted annually on Feb. 3, which is the day a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa, took the life of Buddy Holly.

Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock in 1936, and he continues to be an icon for the city.

Holly and his music were a influential part of early rock ‘n’ roll, and the rest of the music world.

His work has inspired musicians such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and many other artists, according to the Buddy Holly website.

The event had other activities along with the everyday museum attractions, including trolley tours that ran around the city going to iconic locations that had relevance to Holly’s life.

There were also Origami crickets, Buddy Holly glasses and an instruments petting zoo. The event allowed people from the Lubbock community to enjoy the museum and the Allison house free of charge.

Tonja Hagy-Valdine, the coordinator of marketing and social events for the Buddy Holly Center, said last year the center had visitors from all 50 states and 33 countries.

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African-American History Month has been officially recognized each year since 1976, when President Gerald R. Ford inaugurated this unique ritual. Ford recognized February as a time to honor the accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor through-

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out American history.

Every U.S. president since Ford has also designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme.

However, the story of African-American History Month does not begin in 1976. It begins much earlier, in 1915, roughly half a century after the ratification of the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery.

In September of 1915, the Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, according to the History Channel website.

ASNLH, known today as ASALH – Association for the Study of African American Life and History – sponsored a Negro History week in 1926, choosing the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

Karlos Hill, associate professor of history at Texas Tech, said the Negro History Week featured a wide variety of educational activities to inspire black youth to ap-

preciate their history.

“Between 1926 and 1965, in segregated America, there was very little taught in schools about black history, and the things that were taught about black history were typically from the perspective of whites,” Hill said.

Hence, the Negro History Week provided a means to bridge that gap by offering the African-American perspective on their own history, he said.

By the late 1960s, in part owing to the Civil Rights Movement and a growing awareness of black identity, Negro History Week evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses, according to the History Channel website. In 1976, this development culminated with President Ford officially recognizing February as Black History Month.

Today, more than 45 million African-Americans reside in the U.S., according the United States Census Bureau. Moreover, the U.S. is not the only country to celebrate Black History Month.

Canada observes it in February, while the U.K. recognizes it in October.

Victoria Larriva, a sopho-

more mathematics major from Anna, said there are remnants of racial inequalities in the American society even today.

“I don’t know that (Black History Month) has a whole lot of meaning to me personally because I’m not black,” Larriva said, “but I think it’s an important thing to recognize and be aware of.”

To resolve racial issues, it is essential to be aware of and admit to the racial problems that bedevil our society, she said, instead of sweeping them under a rug.

Despite such institutional racism, the overall quality of life for African-Americans undoubtedly has improved over the last several decades, Hill said. African-Americans now have more opportunities.

They have been incorporated into the political system and they are now wealthier and better educated than they have been at any point in American history. “(Hence,) for some people, black history has outlived its usefulness. It’s like a relic.

It’s archaic,” Hill said.

Others would argue that African-American History

Month is a useful symbol that re-instills the values and recreates the recognition that African-Americans have played a central role in American history, he said. According to them, the struggle continues in the form of educating the public about black history and its importance.

“I tend to think that it’s still useful,” Hill said. “If we didn’t have African-American History Month, I am not sure we would have that institutional impetus as a nation to have these conversations.” @sastryshashi_DT

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Study abroad fair informs students

By MICHAELA BAYSINGER Staff Writer

Each semester the Texas Tech Study Abroad department hosts its Study Abroad Fair to help inform students about the different programs the department offers. This year the fair had about 700 students attend.

There were more than 20 booths at the Study Abroad Fair Wednesday afternoon. These booths offered programs with the Tech campus in Seville, Spain, and study abroad opportunities in Italy, Belize, Africa and many more.

Study abroad offers 375 distinct programs for Tech students. There are study abroad options in more than 70 countries. However, the two most popular locations are in Spain and Italy, Elizabeth McDaniel, director of the Study Abroad department, said.

Students are highly encouraged to participate in study abroad. Engineering students are required to study abroad at one point in their time here at Tech, and there are more than plenty of programs offered for those students to participate in, Rachel Massey, senior study abroad counselor, said.

If money is the issue there is money out there for these students, she said. They just have to look and take the time and effort to apply for those opportunities.

“There were 1,354 students who were able to study abroad in 2015,” McDaniel said. “About threefourths of those students studied in the summer.”

A majority of students who study abroad are able to get some form of financial aid for their experience, Kyle Pace, senior study abroad counselor, said.

“A big myth is that study abroad isn’t afford-

able,” Nikki Nordell, student financial aid study abroad adviser, said.

There are many different resources students can utilize to help them afford study abroad. Students who qualify for the Pell Grant are eligible to apply for the Gilman International Scholarship, she said.

The Gilman Program strongly encourages applications from students from diverse ethnic backgrounds, students with disabilities and first generation college students, according to the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship flier. Students can get more information and apply for the scholarship at www.iie. org/gilman.

Tech offers the TTU Study Abroad Competitive Scholarship as well as many other scholarships.

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to receive a doctoral degree from Tech, Whitfield said, and became a professor at Texas Southern University.

“She just wanted to be able to be successful in being an educator,” Whitfield said.

Danny Hardaway was the first African-American to receive an athletic scholarship from Tech, according to the historical timeline on the Southwest collection website.

Hardaway was also a member of the univer-

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Taylor Lamb, peer adviser forTexasTech in Sevilla and Elli Runkles, administrator for Tech in Sevilla, provide students with study abroad information at the Study Abroad Fair Wednesday in the Student Union Building.

sources, Wendoli Flores, director of National and International Scholarships and Fellowships, said. Students are highly encouraged to apply for the TTU Study Abroad Competitive Scholarship.

The deadline for the scholarship for the fall and summer terms is March 4.

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partment is offering a workshop series to help students learn how to finance their study abroad experience.

There will be a Q&A session on the resources students can utilize to help fund their study abroad experience. It will take place in West Hall Room 101.

sity’s first black student organization, according to the timeline.

Bill Dean, professor and vice president of the alumni center, said he remembers when Danny Hardaway enrolled at Tech.

“Being a football player, he had some visibility,” Dean said, “and obviously he was the only black football player, so he stood out.”

Growth of African-American students has been steady at Tech, Dean said,

but not spectacular.

“It’s respectable,” Dean said about the number of black students enrolled at Tech, “but probably not where the university would like to have it.”

As of Fall 2015, Tech had 2,322 black or African-American multiracial students, according to the university fact book, including graduate school, law school and undergraduate students.

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In 1964, Whitfield said, Ophelia Powell-Malone was the first African-American to receive a bachelor’s degree at Tech. She received her degree in home economics “She was one of the few that enrolled,” Whitfield said, “and it was because of Lucille that she could go.”

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Council maintains ties to black history

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Texas Tech’s National Panhellenic Council is a body of 12 historically African-American sororities with focuses ranging from academics to community service.

There are more than 2,500 undergraduate members in the NPHC, according to its website.

The NPHC follows the same four core values of scholarship, leadership, sisterhood and philan thropy, as do all the rest of the sororities on campus, Nelda Bailey, NPHC coor-

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “We house the largest archives of Buddy Holly memorabilia in the world,” she said. “Being able to move the Allison house onto the Buddy Holly Center property has been huge because that is where he wrote ‘That’ll be the day,’ which you know was a huge hit for him.”

The event had an attendance of about 300 people throughout the day, and Hagy-Valdine said the museum does a good job of keeping the memory of Holly alive.

The Buddy Holly Center also hosts an event called the Summer Showcase concert series, which showcas-

dinator, said.

The significant difference between the NPHC and the other sororities is that NPHC is historically African-American based, Bailey said. NPHC is not selective based on race, but the history is still the major difference.

“NPHC does a lot of community service and mentoring out in the Lubbock community,” Tunde Leshi, a junior chemical engineering major from Houston and president of the organization, said. “We also work to promote a unified front and preach diversity and unity and things like that.”

Each organization has its own founding day, set of founders, colors and mottos, Leshi said. They are unique in their own way.

es local and regional bands and musicians who perform their original songs.

She said events like these help the legacy of Holly continue to inspire musicians.

“I think he continues to inspire musicians,” she said. “We hear all the time from musicians who play the Summer Showcase that not only is it an honor to play here where his archives are, but that they listen to his music and his lyrics and just the truth and the honesty inspires the way that they write.”

The title of the event, “The Day the Music Died,” came from the Don McLean song “American Pie,” which was written in memory of Holly’s death.

“That’ll Be the Day” is by far one of Holly’s most

popular songs and happens to be the favorite Holly song of Nancy Speck, an attendee of the event.

Speck said it is not only important to keep the memory of Holly’s career alive, but also to celebrate his Lubbock roots.

“I think it’s interesting that just a young man from a place like Lubbock, Texas, could influence the music world the way he did,” Speck said.

The Holly museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p . m . Tu e s d a y t h r o u g h Saturday and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

General Admission is $8 and there are discounted prices for senior citizens, children, college students and active duty military.

NPHC does a lot of community service and mentoring out in the Lubbock community.

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the m em bers com e together frequently, he said.

“We are very close with each other in the NPHC community,” Leshi said.

“We have about three to four official events that we do together each semester. We come together a lot unofficially as well.”

The NPHC uses social media to get its message out to the students on campus. Bailey said she also encourages her students to tell others about the organization.

“We wear our letters with pride,” she said.

“When you see our letters, you understand what that

vision should look like. My students are some of the most outgoing people that I have ever seen. They can go and talk to anyone about the organization.”

Most of the events the NPHC hosts bring the community together, Leshi said. The NPHC does everything from a clothing drive to an upcoming water drive for the people of Flint, Michigan.

“A lot of what NPHC does is purpose driven,” Bailey said. “If something comes up, we will try and address it. Our crisis changes per month and per week.”

During Black History Month, the NPHC tries to educate people on the importance of African-American history, Leshi said.

“We try and educate people on black history,” Leshi said. “We also highlight important people in AfricanAmerican history in each of our own organizations.”

Well-known historical figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Langston Hughes are members of the NPHC community, Bailey said.

“We feel like we have to keep their legacy going,” she said. @DavidGayDT

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Students from Highland Park High School in Amarillo made a field trip to the Buddy Holly Memorial Center to explore the history of the music of West Texas on Wednesday. The students were allowed to sing and play with instruments while they toured the museum.

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Campus chefs compete in Super Bowl of Chili

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Texas Tech Hospitality Services hosted its third annual Chili Cook-off Wednesday afternoon in the Matador Room inside the Student Union Building. Also called the Super Bowl of Chili, different hospitality outlets competed against each other to see who had the best chili.

Two c o n te s ts de termined what outlet produced the best chili, Alan Cushman, manager of business development for Hospitality Services, said. There was a people’s choice award and a judge’s choice award.

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People’s choice award winner: Dewey McMurrey, executive chef of operations Judge’s choice award winner: Marc Silvas, executive chef of Top Tier Catering

chef of Top Tier Catering, Cushman said.

The outlets used their own culinary techniques to create their chili recipes, Cushman said. Some used top secret family recipes while others made culinary recipes they use all the time.

Silvas kept with the simple style of making chili, he said.

“We kept the chili a traditional, Texas style,” Silvas said. “The only thing we changed from the previous years is that we decreased the heat level a little bit.”

Other entries, like McMurrey’s, completely revamped the traditional style of chili, he said.

“Our chili is gluten-free,” McMurrey said. “It’s also poultry, turkey, instead of beef. Instead of using flour, which will make it have glu-

ten, we used cornstarch.”

This contest gives students more variety to the options they have on daily basis on campus, Cushman said. It breaks up the styles of eating that are available on campus.

“I would say that we had the biggest crowd yet this year,” McMurrey said.

“But the first time we did it was in a small location.

We went all out this year in the Matador Room.”

Next year, the goal is to keep the participation up from all the outlets, McMurrey said. It is a break from the normal dining plans for students and it is affordable.

“It’s a fun and different thing for students to be a part of,” Cushman said. “This is just another way that Hospitality Services helps feed your inner Red Raider.” @DavidGayDT

DREW LATHAM CHEF AT THE COMMONS This brings a level of competition to the Hospitality outlets across campus, Drew Latham, chef at The Commons at Talkington Residence Hall, said.

“The winner gets a t r o p h y, ” L a t h a m s a i d .

“They also get bragging rights throughout the year. That’s what it’s all about. In the meetings we go to, the winner rubs it in to everyone.”

Admission cost $7.59 per person, and the ticket price included one tasting sample of each chili dish with cornbread, a drink, a voting ticket and a bowl of the chili.

The winner of the people’s choice award was D e w e y M c M u r r e y, e x ecutive chef of operations, and the winner of the judge’s choice award was Marc Silvas, executive

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Social, economic polarization makes change impossible

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hen Abraham Lincoln addressed the Illinois Republican State Convention on June 16, 1858, he addressed the biggest political issue of the day — slavery. Early in his speech, Lincoln quoted a passage from the Bible, a quote that is now often attributed to him: “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” Lincoln said.

Tensions were incredibly high at the time. The free northern states were pitted against slave states in the South, and the nation was very much divided against itself. About two and a half years after this speech, Lincoln was elected president of the U.S., and the Civil War soon began.

Fast forward to the present day. The U.S. is divided again, though it is far more complicated than just a north-south divide. We’re being divided along many different lines, and it’s hard to tell which one is going to break first.

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The election of President Barack Obama was supposed to be a racially uniting event, yet as we’re nearing the end of Obama’s term, race relations are worse than they were when he took office.

T h e Tr a y v o n M a r t i n shooting in 2012 ignited racial tensions, and race baiters like Al Sharpton capitalized. It was an “us versus them” mentality that Sharpton and others preached, and it’s only gotten worse.

The deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland made police the primary target of race baiters, while the lack of what protesters perceived to be justice added the entire judicial system into the mix.

N o w, t h e “ u s v e r s u s them” mentality extends not only to blacks against whites, but also blacks against police and blacks against the justice system.

Obama has done nothing to help mitigate this, and Sharpton and others have purposefully made it worse.

During the Civil War, the line was very clear. It was north versus south, slavery versus non-slavery. Now, with so many different lines, there’s no way to know which, if any, will be the one that breaks us.

Now, however, racial issues have extended further, partially thanks to Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy. Trump has built his support in part from capi-

talizing on racial tensions against Muslims, using terrorism and ISIS as an excuse for advocating a ban on all Muslim immigration.

A CNN article titled “Why I’m voting for Trump” featured a quote from one Tr u m p s u p p o r t e r w h o justified the targeting of Muslims by the fact that Japanese-American citizens were placed into internment camps during World War II. Prior to his anti-Muslim crusade, Trump was shouting about illegal immigration, fanning antiimmigrant flames as his poll numbers climbed.

Trump supporters, who are predominantly white, are being fed an “us versus them” mentality from their candidate, whether it be us against the Muslims or us against illegal immigrants.

Regardless of what any misguided, delusional Trump supporter may tell you, that’s not OK. Our division is not just limited to racial lines either. We’re being divided

along economic lines by those who pretend to be the noble Robin Hood character. It’s nothing new, but the Bernie Sanders campaign has brought it back to the forefront.

Sanders promises free healthcare, free college education and a host of other perks, and people are eating it up. He promises to pay for all these things by taxing the wealthiest Americans as well as corporations and Wall Street banks, because those are all public enemy number one in his eyes, regardless of the fact that the rich cannot be taxed enough to pay for everything.

Obama has often used the narrative of the rich not paying their fair share, and it was central to the Occupy Wall Street movement as well. It breeds resentment amongst the non-rich toward the rich, as if the reason they’re not wealthy themselves is because other people are.

All these different dividing lines in our society

are threatening to tear us apart, and it’s scary. During the Civil War, the line was very clear. It was north versus south, slavery versus non-slavery. Now, with so many different lines, there’s no way to know which, if any, will be the one that breaks us.

I’ve never been part of the Texas secession movement, but looking at how fractured our society is becoming makes me want to reconsider. I love the U.S. and everything it stands for, but I’m afraid we’re going to tear ourselves apart, assuming Sanders doesn’t bankrupt us or Trump doesn’t start World War III first.

It’s time we stop focusing on everything that divides us. American society is a melting pot, so of course we’re very different. But we also have things in common, and this house would stand much stronger if we focused on those instead. editor@dailytoreador.com

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Older generations must not forget difficulty in casting first votes

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n old, bald white man received an astounding amount of young liberal votes this week at the Iowa caucus, once again reviving the discussion on youth voting patterns in America. Newspapers run articles on why we don’t vote, and campaigns across the nation are trying to tap into the pool of young voters.

It may be easy for older crowds to criticize young voters on their apathy or inconsistency, but it is important to remember that choosing one’s first few candidates is a really difficult choice, and that we as millennials are just as intelligent as any other generation was when they were young.

Jonah Goldberg, a prominent Senior Editor at National Review, critiqued young voters in a video interview with the The Daily Caller, saying, “There is this thing in this culture where ‘Oh, young people are for it, it must be so special.’ No. I mean, the reason young people are for it is because they don’t know better.”

Likewise, in the December 2015 CNN undercard GOP debate, former Arkansas Governor Mike

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Huckabee said, “And all over America I hear young people say, would you tell me what you’re going to do? Would you give me free college? Will you make sure that I can have medical marijuana? You know what we ought to tell young people? We aren’t going to give you anything.”

I can promise Mr. Huckabee that younger generations are not only concerned with smoking marijuana and getting free education.

Despite how older generations may feel, young voters today have grown up with far more problems than expensive colleges and a lack of weed. In fact, in order to show how young Americans are conflicted and varied about the problems the country faces, it is just as important to examine why young Americans do not vote as it is to examine why they do.

According to a Bloom-

berg Politics article titled, “Millennial Voters Skewing Republican in Midterm Poll,” a poll conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics showed that among 18-29 year olds who were unlikely to vote, the strongest feelings were not knowing enough about the candidates, not being interested, not trusting or liking the candidates or politicians in general and feeling their vote doesn’t make a difference.

The feelings of not trusting candidates, not knowing enough or feeling like one’s vote doesn’t even matter are legitimate problems, and students shouldn’t be afraid to admit they feel that way.

It is easy to see why young Americans don’t trust the politicians nowadays. In a study conducted by Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University published their research article “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and average Citizens” in 2014, Gilens and Page concluded, “economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent

impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”

The feelings of not trusting candidates, not knowing enough, or feeling like one’s vote doesn’t matter are legitimate problems, and students shouldn’t be afraid to admit they feel that way.

Despite what politicians tell us, the article proves that at the end of the day, politicians listen to who has the most money, not who needs government protection the most. Given how much money has been pumped into this election, it is increasingly hard to trust the candidates who say they are fighting for us, or that our vote will even matter.

In Texas, this is extremely apparent. When the Wilks brothers, two billionaires who grew rich in the West Texas fracking boom, gave $15 million to a pro-Cruz

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Witchcraft exhibit shows interesting history

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he first exhibition entitled “Folklore, Magic and Mysteries: Modern Witchcraft and Folk Culture in Britain” will run at the Preston Manor in Brighton, UK from April to September 2016. The second exhibition “Where Witchcraft Lives” will run later on in the year with its own dedicated venue in Brighton also.

Many members of the Wiccan community respect Doreen Valiente for her influence on the modern day movement of witchcraft.

Even if you don’t believe in witchcraft, her story is pretty interesting.

When Doreen was seven years of age, she was drawn into the motion of the moon and began to study and watch it from her garden, according to Jonathan Tapsell’s book, “The Life and Times of Doreen Valiente.”

Five years later at 13, Doreen began to experiment

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with witchcraft, and continued to grow in influence as she grew older. She became a prominent member in the Wicca and wide Neopagan community and even created her own coven where she reigned as high priestess.

The exhibits in Brighton will feature a variety of interesting personal possessions that Doreen used in her everyday life, such as excerpts from her book, “Book of Shadows.”

If the term “Book of Shadows” sounds familiar to some readers, its probably because they’ve seen an episode or two of The CW Television Network’s show, “Charmed.” In “Charmed,” the “Book of Shadows” was

used as guidance for the three witch sisters and it also included many spells so that can give you an idea of the work in Doreen’s book.

Another possession of Doreen that will be up at the exhibit is a curse in a bottle. According to an article on Vice.com, John Belham-Payne, co-founder of the Centre for Pagan Studies said, “Things that will excite most people in the collection are a couple of curses, which are still alive.” Belham Payne elaborated on the curses, saying, “They’re two small round glass jars that Doreen took from the floor of two separate buildings in Brighton, said to be haunted.

They’re tightly packed with all kinds of horrible things that are meant to tie people up in knots if the cork in the bottom is taken out.

Doreen never felt the need to do this. She just blessed the houses and now they sit within the collection.”

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Not too long ago, witchcraft was a crime punishable by death. Events like the Salem witch trials killed countless people, some who actually practiced witchcraft, and others who were innocent and wrongly accused.

With shows like “The Vampire Diaries,” “Charmed,” and movies like “Harry Potter,” witchcraft has recently gained popular interest with mainstream media. Al though shows and famous movies about witchcraft have lightened some views about it there, are plenty of people who still refuse to watch it.

While witchcraft remains controversial in modern culture, it no doubt had a prominent role to play in history. The exhibition in Brighton deserves recognition, as it is a part of history often neglected. jward@dailytoreador.com

super PAC last July, it made me feel absolutely powerless. Even if I made $100,000 a year, a great yearly wage by most accounts, it would take me 150 years of giving everything just to raise that amount. This is not just a conservative problem. According to an OpenSecrets report, large banks and corporations are pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into Hillary Clinton’s campaign fund.

With that much money being used to push agendas, it is hard to see how my vote or opinion even matters.

Even if it does matter, how am I able to trust Cruz will be on the lookout for me when he has taken so much money from these businessmen? How can I trust Clinton is prioritizing the interests of working-class American’s interests? To trust that these politicians have our best interest would simply be foolish.

As for the sentiments of not knowing politicians well enough, sometimes we millennials are to blame, but often times not. In “Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72,” journalist Hunter S. Thompson wrote, “So much for Ob-

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Trump calls for Iowa election do-over, results nullified NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is accusing rival Ted Cruz of stealing the Iowa caucuses and is demanding a do-over.

“Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified,” Trump tweeted Wednesday.

“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong and why he got far more votes than anticipated,” he wrote.

The inflammatory accusation marked a reversal for Trump, who on Monday night delivered a concession speech thanking Iowans for his second-place finish and congratulating Cruz. On Tuesday night in New Hampshire, he told reporters he was “very happy with what happened in Iowa.”

But by Wednesday, Trump was laying out a list of accusations. He pointed to a mailer sent by the Cruz campaign

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Young voters who are too unsure to make a decision may not be helping solve our troubles, but they cannot be criticized.

Despite being seen in the media as a generation who is too apathetic to vote, there is a large amount of young voters who are simply trying to deal with a political body that is apathetic to them. We are not only a generation of mindless citizens, but rather a generation of Americans looking to find truth in a complicated and ever-changing environment.

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headlined “voting violation” and resembled an official notice. The mailer showed recipients their history of voting or not in past caucuses, along with the turnout record of their neighbors, and drew complaints from Iowa’s secretary of state.

Trump also called out Cruz backers for circulating a false rumor Monday night that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race as caucusing was underway.

“Many people voted for Cruz over Carson because of this Cruz fraud,” Trump wrote, suggesting the efforts may have given Cruz a winning edge.

Iowa Rep. Steve King, a national co-chairman of Cruz’s campaign, wrote on Twitter Monday evening: “Looks like (Carson) is out. ... Skipping NH & SC is the equivalent of suspending. Too bad this information won’t get to all caucus goers.” Carson has called the comments “dirty tricks.”

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FOOTBALL SIGNING DAY

Kingsbury adds 14 on defense

Tech replenishes offensive unit

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

On National Signing Day on Wednesday, the Texas Tech football program brought in 24 student-athletes, one of the 10 largest recruiting classes in the country.

Of the 24 signees, 10 are offensive players and 14 are defensive.

After the signing a high number of players, coach Kliff Kingsbury said the class is finished besides another transfer or two.

The Red Raiders finished the 2015 season with a 7-5 record and a bowl loss.

Kingsbury said the team’s weaknesses were exposed throughout the season and he thinks this class will help in those areas.

“We addressed a bunch of needs. Take seven defensive linemen, that’s an area, with some of the departures with some of the junior college linemen that we had gone,” he said. “Length at outside receiver. I think he had to get longer out there to make plays in the vertical passing game.”

The team could not find consistent starters at the outside receiver positions last season. Kingsbury signed four wide receivers this year and three out of the four are 6-foot 3-inches or taller.

Wide receiver T.J. Vasher is listed at 6-foot 5-inches, according to a Tech Athlet-

ics news release. Vasher has the size and ability to play football and basketball at Tech, Kingsbury said, but thinks Vasher’s interest is only with football.

“I’ve watched him play basketball, he’s special on the court as well, if that is something he wanted to do as well, people have done it before,” Kingsbury said. “When he gets here and just focuses on football, I really think the sky is the limit for him.”

After not signing a quarterback in the 2015 class and losing Davis Webb, Tech signed one quarterback this year, Jett Duffey.

Duffey was named the Class 5A Texas state player of the year by the Associated Press after his senior year.

Kingsbury said Duffey will have to compete against Nic Shimonek for the backup job behind Mahomes, but Duffey brings unique skills to the team.

“Pat (Mahomes II) is a bigger guy in stature, he’s about 6’3’’ 6’4’’ 230 (pounds). Jett is probably 6’1’’ 205,” Kingsbury said. “Jett is faster, just in a race. Pat is very mobile and can move around, Jett does the same stuff. But as far as arm strength, both very talented.”

If Duffey does not win the backup job, Kingsbury said he would like to redshirt Duffey.

Tech will be without three long-time starters on the offensive line next season

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Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury welcomes senior linebacker Bobby Esiaba onto the field for his last home game on Nov. 14 at Jones AT&T Stadium. Tech brought in 24 players on National Signing Day, including 14 defensive players. with Jared Kaster, Alfredo Morales and Le’Raven Clark graduating. Offensive line coach Lee Hays brought in four new linemen in the 2016 class.

“It’s a very smart group.

I think it’s the smartest offensive line group, when you talk about GPAs and test scores, that I’ve been around,” Kingsbury said.

“All of them are different.”

The largest player in the class is offensive lineman Zach Adams, standing at 6-feet 6-inches and 315 pounds, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The offensive lineman was a perfect fit for the Tech system, Kingsbury said.

“Zach is a big, physical young man,” he said. “You turn on the tape, and he is just a massive human.

Plays physical, has a nasty attitude, very disciplined young man.”

The final part of the offensive class is running back Da’Leon Ward. He will be the fifth running back on scholarship, but Kingsbury said he wants to find a way to get Ward on the field for the upcoming season. @JeremyK_DT

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Aldridge scores season-high 36, Spurs beat Pelicans SAN ANTONIO (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge had 36 points, setting his season high for the second consecutive game, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the New Orleans Pelicans 110-97 on Wednesday night to remain unbeaten at home.

San Antonio (41-8) won its 27th straight home game to open the season and 36th overall dating to last season.

Anthony Davis had 28 points and 10 rebounds for New Orleans. Jrue Holiday scored 20.

Aldridge was 12 for 20 from the field two days after scoring 28 points in a victory over Orlando.

The Spurs’ major offseason acquisition had plenty of help, especially from Kawhi Leonard. The fellow Western Conference All-Star had 26 points and five rebounds.

On consecutive possessions in the fourth quarter, Aldridge scored on putback and Leonard backed down Holiday for a short hook shot to give San Antonio a 100-89 lead with 4 1/2 minutes remaining.

The Spurs went inside after having great success from long range.

Danny Green hit three consecutive 3-pointers as San Antonio closed the first quarter on a 13-4 run to turn a rare early deficit at home into a three-point lead. Green’s second 3 came after Toney Douglas missed a fast-break layup after turning back to see how close Boris Diaw was.

Green finished with 16 points while going 4 for 8 on 3s.

Tim Duncan missed his fifth straight game with a sore right knee and Davis took advantage of his absence early.

Davis scored 12 points in the opening quarter on 5-for-7 shooting as Aldridge and David West struggled to contain New Orleans’ AllStar forward.

Manu Ginobili exited with 2 1/2 minutes remaining after being knocked down by Ryan Anderson on a drive and stepped on by Leonard. Ginobili headed for the locker room grabbing his side and holding a towel to his face.

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Pelicans: Tyreke Evans missed his fourth straight game with a sore right knee.

New Orleans is 2-2 during Evans’ absence. New Orleans is 6-4 in its past 10 games. Norris Cole had 14 points, nine assists and four rebounds.

Cole entered averaging 14.2 points, 5.8 assists and 53 percent shooting on 3-pointers in place of Eric Gordon, who has a broken right ring finger. G Bryce Dejean-Jones made his fourth start of the season two days after signing his second 10-day contract with New Orleans.

Spurs: New York Yankees general manager Brian Cash-

man visited with San Antonio this week in an exchange of ideas between the two successful franchises. Cashman sat alongside Spurs general manager R.C. Buford during the game. San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich was assessed a technical foul, much to his dismay. Popovich disputed a noncall earlier, but was standing quietly on the sideline when official Tony Brown called the technical following a 20-foot jumper by West. San Antonio matched its best start after 49 games, equaling the mark set in 2011. That team won its next three games before losing for the ninth time in 53 games.

Kliff Kingsbury signed 14 defensive players in his 2016 class on Wednesday morning.

During the 2015 season, the Red Raiders had one of the worst defenses in the country, in terms of yards allowed, and lost numerous players.

Kingsbury and the coaching staff are hoping this group of players can make an immediate impact on the defense.

“This is really (defensive coordinator David Gibbs’) first class where he’s getting to bring in his pieces,” he said.

“Knew he had to get more depth at defensive line, get longer at corner and then a physical group of three linebackers that are all really tough, strong, physical kids that we had good evaluations on early.”

Kingsbury said he is excited to finally have the same defensive coordinator for more than one season. The defensive recruiting class is going to continue to get better the longer Gibbs is at Tech, he said. “(Gibbs wants) high character, likes hard workers. Guys that when they show up on film, they’re not afraid to hit you,” Kingsbury said. “He’s big on seeing them play in person.

He likes to get live evaluations.

I couldn’t be more pleased with the guys we are bringing in.”

Seven defensive linemen makes it the largest position group in the class. Three linebackers and four defensive backs are also included on defense.

Most of the defensive linemen are expected to step in and play next season, Kingsbury said.

“We wanted to bring in guys that could hopefully play right away and push any of the return starters we have coming back based upon we weren’t as good as we need to be,” he said. “It was definitely an emphasis to go heavy on the defensive side and try to

create competition.”

According to multiple recruiting websites, Mych Thomas is the highest-rated defensive player for Tech. Thomas is listed at 6-feet 1-inch and 315 pounds.

“Mych can be a true space eater on the collegiate level.

He can get in a gap and be effective,” defensive line coach Kevin Patrick said in a Tech Athletics news release. “He is hard to move and his eyes are always in the backfield, giving him constant awareness of where to be.”

Defensive lineman Houston Miller was recruited by a long list of schools but decided to be a Red Raider.

He ended his senior season with 119 tackles, 16 tackles for loss, nine sacks and five forced fumbles, according to the release. Houston was named to the Associated Press Class 6A All-State First Team.

“Houston is a relentless pass rusher who can play outside linebacker or defensive end. He plays as physical and as tough as he can,” Patrick said in the release. “His motor is always running, loves the offseason, practices, games and has size and explosiveness.”

The group of three linebackers are Jordyn Brooks, Johnathan Picone and Brayden Stringer. All three players have won multiple district awards for their play.

Brooks and Picone are normally inside linebackers, Kingsbury said, but the coaches plan on playing them in any linebacker position to get them on the field more.

As for Stringer, Kingsbury said he is most impressed with how tough he is.

“Physical kid. He’ll stick his nose in there,” he said.

“Probably going to be an outside guy but can start all over.

Was the best special teams player they had, by far, so I expect he start there and hopefully we can work his way onto the field at linebacker.” @JeremyK_DT

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Tech looks to continue its hot streak

By BRANDON SOLIZ SportS Editor

The No. 14 Texas Tech men’s tennis team will be in action this Saturday when they play host to the visiting Abilene Christian Wildcats.

The Red Raiders are currently ranked at No. 14 in the nation and are coming off a 6-1 victory over the Clemson Tigers.

The team is also undefeated so far on the season with a record of 9-0.

The closest match the Red Raiders have faced this season was on Jan. 24 in against the No. 21

Florida Gators.

Led by senior Felipe Soares, the Red Raiders claimed a 4-3 victory on the road.

Tech has yet to lose more than two matches in the other eight games the team has played.

On the other side, the No. 17 Lady Raiders tennis team is also undefeated with a record of 4-0.

They are coming off of a 4-3 victory over No. 30 Fresno State and a 5-0 win over Abilene Christian in a doubleheader this past Saturday.

Both the men and

women have qualified for the ITA National Indoor Championships.

The men will head to Charlottesville, Virginia, on Feb. 12 and will find out who they will be playing later in the week.

The women will head to Madison, Wisconsin, this Friday to begin their run at the ITA Indoor National Championship.

They will face off against their toughest matchup of the year as they begin the tournament playing No. 2 Georgia.

The Bulldogs are coming off of a fall campaign which

resulted in five individual titles, according to a release on the Georgia website.

Also featured in the tournament are No. 1 Vanderbilt and No. 5 North Carolina.

The tournament will run until Feb. 8 and conclude with the finals portion the same day.

Following the ITA National Indoor Championships, the Lady Raiders will stay in Madison for a matchup with Wisconsin on Feb. 12 and against Tulane on Feb. 13.

They return home on Feb. 19 when the team hosts BYU at the McLeod Tennis Center.

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Doubles partners, Sabrina Federici and Felicity Maltby celebrate a victorious volley during their doubles match against Fresno State on Saturday at McLeod Tennis Center.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Tech travels to New Mexico for first two-day meet

By BRANDON SOLIZ SportS Editor

The Texas Tech track and field team will be competing in New Mexico once again at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic this weekend after placing second and third in the New Mexico Invitational on Jan. 30.

At this past meet, the men took second place and the women placed third behind Nebraska and Colorado State.

After the conclusion of the meet, the Red Raiders moved up one spot in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association rankings.

The women’s team, however, is currently ranked at No. 51.

With a low ranking out of the top 25, junior jumper Viershanie Latham broke the school record with a 13.05-meter leap, which was also ranked at No. 8 in the nation this season, accord-

ing to a news release from Tech Athletics.

Latham ranked in the top 10 in school history with previous jumps she has made but said she went to the meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the mindset to just jump.

“It was just a meet where I was just doing what my coach told me to do,” Latham said.

“Finally, everything came together and I was able to pull off one big jump.”

Along with Latham, senior Natalie Thompson also broke into the top 10 mark in school history after her attempts in the women’s high jump.

Thompson cleared the bar at 1.78-m on her third attempt to finish third in the event, according to the release.

Her jump placed her in a tie at seventh in Tech school history.

On the men’s side, senior Chris Caldwell placed first in the 60-m hurdles final giving him three straight top two finishes, according

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This weekend at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic, Caldwell will be facing off with a top competitor in the 60-m hurdles against LSU’s Jordan Moore.

Tech coach Wes Kittley said he is excited for the upcoming meet since he saw improvement in the team.

“What was good about last week was that we figured out there were 29 people that had better marks than they had the first meet or two,” Kittley said. “In other words, we had a lot of people that are improving, so that was number one.”

Kittley also said that he is excited to see Caldwell perform.

Caldwell has yet to lose in any of his events, which Kittley said makes him anxious to see how he does against a top performer.

“This is going to be a great opportunity (for Chris),” Kittley said. “He hasn’t been beaten yet and so I think this

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Texas Tech Darien Tennon, Chris Caldwell, and Tramaine Maloney run the 110 meter hurdles during the Texas Tech Open on April 14, 2015 at Terry and Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex. is going to be a good test for him. He gets a prelim run and a final run so there’s two opportunities that he gets to run this weekend,

and of course to get a better time, but I’m not as worried about the time as I am to see him compete and to see who comes out on top.”

Tech will compete in the New Mexico Collegiate Classic on Feb. 5-6 for its first twoday track meet of the season. @BSoliz_DT

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Hornets rally to Bosh’s 20 leads Heat over Mavericks beat Cavs 106-97 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jeremy Lin scored 24 points and the Charlotte Hornets rallied in the second half to beat the Eastern Conferenceleading Cleveland Cavaliers 106-97 on Wednesday night.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 11 points and 13 rebounds, and three other players finished in double figures for the Hornets, who overcame a nine-point halftime deficit to snap a four-game losing

streak against the Cavaliers.

Marvin Williams added 16 points, Frank Kaminski had 15 off the bench and Nicholas Batum scored 10 for Charlotte, which trailed 58-49 at halftime. Playing without ailing point guard Kemba Walker, the Hornets outscored Cleveland 33-17 in the third quarter to take an 82-75 lead and went on to lead by as many as 15 late in the fourth.

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Wa d e g a v e D a l l a s a chance to tie in the closing seconds when he missed the second of two free throws with 15 seconds left, but Raymond Felton missed a long 3-pointer just before the buzzer.

Hassan Whiteside had 10 points, nine rebounds and five blocks in seven minutes after missing six games with a left hip injury as the Heat won a night after a season-best fourgame winning streak ended in Houston.

Nowitzki and Wade combined for 21 points in the third quarter after the offensive stars from Miami’s NBA Finals victory a decade earlier were just 3 of 18 from the field in the first half.

But the pair of veterans made seven of their first nine attempts in the third quarter, and Nowitzki scored all 11 of his points in the first 4:15 of the quarter.

Wade scored six straight points and eight overall

when the Heat took the lead for good on a 12-0 run that put them up 67-59.

He finished 6 of 19 from the field and had eight rebounds and four assists.

Whiteside came in with 8 minutes left in the second quarter and went into halftime with eight points, three rebounds and two blocks, both easy rejections on driving attempts by the smaller J.J. Barea. His first basket was an authoritative dunk that gave Miami its first lead at 33-32.

The Dallas offense struggled to get open shots in the first half without Williams and backup guard Devin Harris, who missed his sixth straight game with a left big toe sprain.

The Mavericks shot 38 percent before halftime, and the Heat had five blocks.

Chandler Parsons scored 12 points in the first quarter but was held without a point the rest of the way, getting just five shots.

Dallas center Zaza Pa-

chulia had a career-best 22nd double-double with 10 points and 15 rebounds.

The 13-year veteran had 21 double-doubles with Atlanta in 2005-06.

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Mavericks: Justin Anderson was called for a flagrant foul for a swipe at Gerald Green’s head on a breakaway layup attempt. ... Coach Rick Carlisle got a technical for arguing after Bosh hit a fadeaway jumper to beat the shot-clock buzzer in the final seconds of the third quarter.

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Mavericks: Host San Antonio on Friday.

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DALLAS (AP) — Chris Bosh scored 20 points, Dwyane Wade bounced back with 18 after matching the worst shooting half of his career and the Miami Heat beat the Dallas Mavericks 93-90 Wednesday night.

Luol Deng finished with 15 points, including his only 3-pointer for a 92-87 lead with 1:04 remaining as the Heat improved to 9-1 against the Mavericks with their fourth sweep in five seasons since losing to Dallas in the 2011 NBA Finals.

Wade scored 16 points in the second half after going 1 of 11 before halftime, his first points coming with just 48 seconds left in the second quarter.

Dirk Nowitzki also had a rough first half, but bounced back with 20 of his 28 points after halftime to lead Dallas, which played without Deron Williams after he injured his right hip in a collision two nights earlier in Atlanta.

Top-ranked UConn overwhelms Tulane 96-38 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It took UConn star Breanna Stewart all of 11 seconds to recognize a soft spot in Tulane’s zone defense and start exploiting it to devastating effect.

“The middle was wide open and that 10- to 15-foot jump shot — I like shooting that, especially from the middle,” Stewart said. “To be able to come in and knock down those shots, if they kept giving them to me, I was going to keep shooting.”

Stewart made her first seven shots in a 20-point performance and top-ranked UConn easily remained unbeaten and won its 58th straight game, 96-38 over Tulane on Wednesday night.

Stewart moved into second in career scoring at UConn with 2,351 points, five ahead of Tina Charles, but still 685 points behind Maya Moore.

“I think I’m staying right where I’m at,” Stewart, a senior, said when asked about the possibility of passing Moore.

Moriah Jefferson scored 16 points to go with six steals. She moved into third at UConn in career steals with 315, five ahead of Moore.

Gabby Williams had 15 points and Katie Lou Samuelson, 14, for the Huskies (21-0, 11-0 American Athletic Conference), who led wire-to-wire and won by at least 40 points for the 14th time this season.

Tulane struggled to match up with the quick, lanky and accurate Stewart, whose 6-foot4 height and long arms allowed her to shoot easily over defenders.

“Stewie’s really smart. She really sees things and there was a huge gap in the middle of that zone and she found it, and she found it early and she found it often,” UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. “When Stewie can get the ball in that area, she’s about impossible to stop.”

Her first three baskets were mid-range, catch-and-shoot

jumpers on UConn’s first three possessions. She left the game in the third quarter with her team up by 55.

Leslie Vorpahl scored 11 points and Kolby Morgan, 10, for Tulane (15-7, 6-4), which shot a season-worst 28.8 percent (15 of 52) and turned the ball over 26 times, leading to 41 UConn points.

“They’re an amazing team.

They did a tremendous job tonight, especially defensively,” Tulane coach Lisa Stockton said. “They created so many turnovers and turned defense into offense.

“We could have competed better tonight. I really think we’re a better team than that,” Stockton added. “They’re a team that you really can’t take a break against.”

STEWIE’S START Stewart scored eight of UConn’s first 10 points while assisting on the Huskies’ other basket, a layup by

Morgan Tuck.

Jefferson’s steal and breakaway layup gave UConn its first double-digit lead at 12-2 and the Huskies kept piling on from there.

Before nine minutes had elapsed, Stewart had added a pair of three-point plays on layups as she was fouled, giving her 14 points and the Huskies a 25-6 lead.

“When Stewie starts a game the way she started tonight, it just gets us into a really good rhythm,” Auriemma said.

There were still eight minutes left in the first half when Jefferson’s left corner 3 gave UConn its first 30-point lead at 39-8.

Stewart scored 18 of her points in the first half, when she made all six of her shots and all six of her free throws. Playing just 24 minutes in the game, Stewart also had seven assists, four rebounds, two blocks and a steal.

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Tech pulls off last-second OT win

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

In its second overtime game of the season, the Texas Tech men’s basketball team ended a four-game losing streak with a 63-61 overtime win against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Wednesday night in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Senior guard Toddrick Gotcher said Tech put together a game going beyond the first quarter.

“We finished, finally.

I think this is the second game that we actually finished in the second half,” Gotcher said. “It’s just great to see we’re over the hump, and we got the win this time.”

In an offensively lacking first half for both teams, sophomore guard Keenan Evans placed the first points on the board, a jumper from the right baseline. On the other end, after missing their first five shot attempts from the field, the Cowboys finally scored with a pair of free throws at the 15:08 mark.

We finished finally. I think this is the second game that we actually finished in the second half.

It’s just great to see we’re over the hump, and we got the win this time.

TODDRICK GOTCHER TEXAS TECH GUARD Soon after breaking the scoreless run, Oklahoma State’s junior starting forward Leyton Hammonds bumped the field goal percentage with a pair of jumpers and a 3-pointer for a 10-6 Cowboy lead.

Leading 12-9, Oklahoma State grabbed a double-digit lead as freshman starting guard Jawun Evans went on a hot streak of eight consecutive points with just a free throw from Keenan Evans to break the scoring flow.

A 3-pointer off the bench from junior forward Aaron Ross and a jumper from Keenan Evans cut the Oklahoma State lead to 20-15, but it did not correct the Red Raider off shooting.

Despite Oklahoma State only making one more shot than the Red Raiders, Tech shot eight of 32 while the Cowboys made nine shots on 23 attempts.

At the end of the half, Oklahoma State headed to the locker room with a 31-23 lead after Tech missed a jumper before

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Texas Tech guard Toddrick Gotcher drives past Oklahoma State defenders during the second half of Tech’s 63-61 overtime victory over the Cowboys on Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. time expired.

Hammonds led the half with 12 points and Ross led Tech in scoring with eight points on six shot attempts. On the boards, Oklahoma State brought in 24 rebounds, trumping the Red Raider total of just 14.

To s t a r t t h e s e c o n d half, Tech used a full timeout after just 46 seconds of play, failing to score on its first possession.

The breather appeared to wake up the offense as the Red Raiders went on an 8-3 run after the timeout.

Junior walk-on forward Matt Temple landed in foul trouble, but Ross kept the Red Raider pressure on Oklahoma State.

Ross drew a pair of trips to the free-throw line and nailed a 3-pointer from the top of the key to place the Red Raiders behind just 42-40 with less than 10 minutes left in the game.

Senior guard Jeff Newberry made a 3-pointer on the next Oklahoma State possession and after a Red Raider turnover, Oklahoma State made it a 47-40 advantage with a couple of free throws.

He (Ross) said, ‘you better not miss.’ I just kept my eyes on the rim because we didn’t want to go into a second overtime.

DEVAUGNTAH WILLIAMS TEXAS TECH GUARD The keep up game continued for Tech, and it reduced its deficit to 4747 on a free throw from senior guard Devaugntah Williams with less than

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Texas Tech guard Devaugntah Williams drives under Oklahoma State defenders to make the game-winning layup during the final seconds of Tech’s 63-61 overtime victory over the Cowboys on Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

RED RAIDERS COWBOYS five minutes left.

Ross finally tied the game up at 47 each after a Cowboy turnover and found his sweet spot for a three.

With no fouls left to give, the Cowboys stayed ahead with trips to the free-throw line and led Tech 50-47 with 2:40 left.

Gotcher made it a onepossession game with 34 seconds left after nailing a 3-pointer to tie the game at 53 each.

On its next possession Oklahoma State did not let the ball go off in time, but the Red Raiders could not capitalize on the 3.5

seconds left and sent the game into overtime.

At the end of the half, Oklahoma State made four of its 16 three-point shots. Coach Tubby Smith said he felt the team locked down the perimeter on the Cowboys.

“That was a big improvement tonight even though we gave up some shots,” Smith said. “We look at the stats, 23 percent, that’s doing the job.”

Hammonds began overtime play with a layup for the Cowboys, but Gotcher kept his shooting hand hot and nailed another three after an Oklahoma State

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free throw to tie the game at 56 each.

After four minutes of overtime, Tech still could not take a lead over the Cowboys and with 39.8 seconds left, Gotcher once again tied the game with an ice-cold 3-pointer.

Williams finally grabbed the lead and made the game-winning shot for the Red Raiders by driving down the lane for a layup and leaving just 0.5 seconds on the clock.

Before taking the final shot, Williams said he felt he told Ross he could sink the shot if he was given the opportunity.

“He (Ross) said, ‘you better not miss,’” Williams said. “I just kept my eyes on the rim because we didn’t want to go into a second overtime.”

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Ross finished with a game-leading and career-high 22 points, and Gotcher’s clutch 3-pointers amassed the senior guard 18 points.

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Despite winning the battle at the boards with 43 rebounds over Tech’s 29, the Cowboys committed nine more turnovers than Tech at 21.

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