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Local pilot killed after plane crash

ABOVE: POLICE OFFICERS investigate a single-engine plane crash Wednesday in the area of 56th and Avenue A. The plane was traveling from Carlsbad, New Mexico, to Lubbock International Airport when it crashed into a KCBD tower.

There was one confirmed fatality. RIGHT: LUBBOCK FIRE Department spokesman Steve Holland addresses the media after a single-engine plane crashed into a KCBD TV tower Wednesday near 56th and Avenue A. The pilot, Dr. Kenneth Michael Rice, was the only confirmed fatality.

TV station evacuated, power out in east Lubbock

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A single-engine plane crashed into the KCBD television tower in southeast Lubbock around 7:25 p.m. Wednesday, killing the pilot, Dr. Kenneth Michael Rice, a doctor in Lubbock. No other fatalities or injuries have been reported. The crash caused power outages in the area, and the TV station was evacuated.

Shortly after the crash, local law enforcement and emergency personnel arrived on the scene. The six-passenger plane was found about a quarter of a mile from the KCBD station in the area of 54th and Avenue A. The station was evacuated for safety reasons, Steve Holland of the Lubbock Fire Department said.

“The remaining portion of the tower only has one of the remaining guidelines on it and the structural engineers out here looked at it and determined that it was unsafe to stay in the building because the rest of the tower could come down,” he said.

After hitting the tower, the plane struck a main Lubbock Power and Light transmission line located in close proximity, according to an LP&L news release.

About 2,500 residents were without power. LP&L crews arrived on the scene after the accident, and power was restored around midnight.

“The tail section is pretty much gone,” Holland said. “You can see a little portion of it’s crumpled. The wings are — and I haven’t spent a lot of time over there looking — but I believe one of the wings for sure was detached from the airplane.”

A cold front had just moved in Wednesday and there was “light freezing drizzle” during the night with temperatures in the upper 20s with strong winds, according to the National Weather Service. It is unclear whether these conditions caused the accident.

As of Wednesday night, Federal Aviation Administration investigators were on their way to the crash site, according to a news release from the FAA. The aircraft dropped off radar screens about 7:30 p.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board also has been notified.

“I do know that the NTSB is on their

RICE way,” Holland said. “Don’t know exactly what time we will be expecting them. Fire department is setting up mobile command operations for us and PD and the NTSB as they come in and we’ll be able to further update you as we get more information.”

Rice and Vernon Farthing II, both University Medical Center doctors, are listed as owners of Daedalus Air, LLC — the company that owned the plane.

Each piloted the plane, though Rice was piloting during this flight. According to FlightAware, the Piper Malibu plane left Carlsbad, New Mexico around 5:50 p.m.

MT and was scheduled to land at Lubbock International Airport at 7:49 p.m. local time.

Rice was an expert in diabetes treatment, according to the Physician Networks Service UMC website, and focused his doctoral research on insulin.

Rice obtained his undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington, according to the website. He attended the Health Sciences Center for medical school and completed his residency in the Department of Internal Medicine in 1997.

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Lubbock city department assists animals

By CIARA DEVORE Staff Writer

The City of Lubbock Animal Services takes in as many animals in need as possible and will soon to get a new additional facility. With a new facility, the city will be able to take in and help a much larger number of animals.

The center has only one volunteer, however, Traci Blanton, who has been working at the shelter for more than a year.

“It has changed my life. I’ve been so much happier since I started working here,” Blanton said.

Adoption coordinator Jackie Stephens said the center will soon have a second facility that has 45 additional pins, which means they will need more volunteers to help with the income of more animals.

Right now the shelter has about 60 to 65 dogs and is nearly full with both adoptable cats and feral cats.

The Animal Services shelter has different volunteer positions available, which are relatively dependent on the

interests of the volunteer, Stephens said “There are clerical volunteer opportunities, there’s dispatching, temperament testing to an extent, checking to make sure vaccines are up to date,” Stephens said, “putting microchip information into the computer, walking the animals, playing with them and grooming that volunteers can participate in.”

According to the Animal Services website, volunteers are required to be subjected to a background check and possibly drug testing in order to become a volunteer. Stephens said the shelter could especially use volunteers for paperwork, putting information into the computers and working the telephone.

For events like “Pit Stop,” the shelter partners up with Saving Grace in order to bring awareness to the Lubbock community about Pit Bulls and offer medical services for the dogs, according to the Animal Services website.

An adoption fair will be hosted at PetSmart from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Feb. 13 through Feb. 15. Usually Animal Services only needs about two volunteers for this event so as not to over-

whelm the room with too many people.

“Usually I’m overwhelmed out there.

I need at least 2 or three people taking down paper work so I can go out there and micro-chip the Pit Bulls,” Stephens said. “Sometimes it is overwhelming for the shelter because of so many calls and paperwork, and not enough people are here for me to go take care of the animals and do all the necessary paperwork,” Stephens said.

In the future the Animal Services shelter wants to hold a microchip station event on campus for Tech students to get their pets chipped, and other programs that could benefit students and help them with medical care for their animals, Stephens said. To apply as a volunteer, go to the Animal Services website.

“There’s a lot of opportunities out here, and since we are getting this addon we’re going to need help,” Stephens said. “Even for only one day a week, if you can commit for one day a week and let us know what you’re interested in that would be helpful.” ➤➤cdevore@dailytoreador.com

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TRACI BLANTON, A volunteer at the Lubbock Animal Shelter, plays with one of the shelter’s dogs on Monday. Volunteers at the shelter also contribute to the well-being of the animals.

Nonprofit courses teach management skills, encourage volunteer service

By ALEXANDER NORTON Staff Writer

Texas Tech offers a variety of courses and programs for those interested in working with nonprofit organizations.

The courses teach skills related to managing and working with nonprofits and encourage students to work with nonprofits in the local community.

Liz Gardner, an assistant professor in the College of Media and Communication, teaches a public relations course for nonprofits.

The class centers on how public relations can best use media, fundraising and volunteerism to help nonprofit organizations, she said.

“The class talks about how nonprofits can generate coverage in the news media and how they can create their own media content to put on social media or on their websites,” Gardner said. “It also talks about how you can use events to generate media coverage and identifying and working

with spokespeople.”

Money, fundraising and learning how to find and retain donors for nonprofits are other important aspect of GARDNER the course, Gardner said.

The course emphasizes volunteerism and Gardner said her section requires students to fulfill a two-hour nonprofit volunteering requirement.

“One thing that I do with the class that is a little bit nontraditional is that I require two hours of volunteerism with a nonprofit organization of their choosing,” Gardner said. “So students actually go out into the community and get the experience of spending time doing work for a nonprofit.”

The point of the requirement is to get students real-world experience working with nonprofits, Gardner said.

Some students even start to become regular volunteers for nonprofit organizations that they started volun-

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teering at through the course, she said.

“Volunteering for an organization can start to become such an important part of your life. And HAMILTON when that happens, it’s a complete bonus,” she said. “When it becomes something larger than the class, there is true added benefit there and that’s when the class becomes something more than a class.”

Tech’s Department of Political Science also offers nonprofit courses for students.

David Hamilton, director of the Master in Public Administration program at Tech, said one of the program’s three tracks is nonprofit management.

“The management of nonprofit organization course includes laws governing nonprofits, how boards of directors interrelate with the administration, volunteerism and how nonprofits are financed,” Hamilton said. “It is kind of a general approach to how nonprofit organizations work, how they survive and how they market and finance themselves.”

He said the department offers a grant writing and fundraising course for nonprofits.

As a part of the requirements for the nonprofit track, students must work on fundraising events for a nonprofit in the community and complete an internship, he said.

“Our program has an internship requirement. The students find a nonprofit organization in their area of interest,” he said. “It is a 300-hour requirement where they can get a real life, practical working experience.”

Nathaniel Wright, a professor at Tech, teaches the management of

nonprofit organizations course that is a part of the nonprofit management track.

The course requires students to create a mock nonprofit, he said.

“Each student is actually working on developing their own nonprofit from scratch,” Wright said. “So they actually fill out an IRS Form 1023, write the articles on corporation, identify potential members that will serve on their board of directors and create a management plan.”

Many students end up wanting to go out and start the nonprofit organization they created in class, Wright said.

Some students actually go into communities and start their mock nonprofit from scratch, he said.

“Some of them actually want to pursue the nonprofit they created in the class outside of the classroom,” Wright said. “I have one student who is really passionate about helping out at-risk youth. Her new nonprofit will actually service at-risk youth in Lubbock, and this is actually a nonprofit that she will start.”

The class also spends a lot of time making a case for nonprofits, Wright said, and how they can be used to benefit society.

Private sector organizations are not invested in a lot of social issues because they are not going to make a profit off of it and nonprofits are usually more concerned with meeting the needs of the underserved, he said.

“Nonprofits run the world,” Wright said. “A lot of times local government does not have the capacity to implement a lot of programs, especially social welfare programs.

Without nonprofits, a lot of communities would not see change.” ➤➤@ANorton_DT

POLICE BLOTTER Tuesday 9:10 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer arrested a student for an outstanding Lubbock County Sheriff ’s Office warrant after a traffic stop in the Z1B parking lot. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was left legally parked.

10:23 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the R1 parking lot. A vehicle’s trunk was scratched.

3:04 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated burglary of a vehicle in the Z4P parking lot. A secured green cooler was taken from the bed of a pickup.

3:32 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the C16 parking lot. A vehicle was scratched.

3:38 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in Holden Hall.

An unsecured wallet was taken.

3:46 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated disorderly conduct in the Architecture building.

An unknown person made abusive comments to a student.

3:46 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in Holden Hall.

An unsecured wallet was taken.

4:24 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the C14 parking lot. An LED light bar was taken from the grill guard of a vehicle.

8:37 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft on the east side of the Wiggins Complex.

A secured bicycle was taken.

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

Priest’s son charged in death of parents, 5-year-old boy HOUSTON (AP) — The son of an Episcopal priest has been charged in the brutal killings of his parents and his 5-year-old brother at their Houston apartment, police said Wednesday.

Israel Ahimbisibwe, 51, his wife Dorcus Ahimbisibwe, 47, and their son Israel Ahimbisibwe, Jr. were found dead in their apartment Monday morning.

Authorities arrested Ahimbisibwe’s son, Isaac Tiharihondi, about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi. The 19-yearold remained jailed in Mississippi pending extradition to Houston.

He has been charged with two counts of capital murder.

According to court documents, Tiharihondi had told his family he had joined the Marines and

was about to report to duty on Friday.

But his parents thought he was lying and had planned to confront him about this before they were killed, according to an affidavit. Police said the U.S. Marine Corps had no record of Tiharihondi ever enlisting.

Authorities allege Tiharihondi beat his parents to death with a lamp, a baseball bat and a hammer. The couple had “blunt force trauma to their heads,” according to the affidavit.

Israel Jr. was stabbed and had wounds to his neck and back. Autopsy reports have not yet been completed on the couple and their son. The couple also has a 17-year-old son who was attending boarding school in California at the time of their deaths.

Israel Ahimbisibwe, who served as Vicar at Houston’s Church of the Redeemer, was described by friends and parishioners as a humble and caring man who had come to the United States after fleeing the violence of dictator Idi Amin’s regime in his native Uganda.

“He was literally running for his life from the troops of Idi Amin,” said the Rev. Howard Castleberry, a friend of Ahimbisibwe for many years. “He was a very joyful man.”

His parishioners became worried when he and his family didn’t show up for church on Sunday.

Dick Bird, the congregation’s treasurer, said a couple of parishioners who lived near Ahimbisibwe went to his apartment on Sunday but no one answered the door. Church members waited until Monday morning and when they still couldn’t contact Ahimbisibwe, they called police.

“We’re still in shock and we still can’t believe it,” Bird said. “He really cared about his flock.”

Castleberry, who runs an Episcopal church in Nacogdoches, said he was shocked by Tiharihondi’s arrest.

Castleberry said the last time he saw Ahimbisibwe was in October at a retreat for clergy and the only thing he had mentioned about Tiharihondi was that his son was going to join the Marines.

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Bereavement Program strives to make memories

By KAITLIN BAIN Senior reporter

At only 15 weeks into her pregnancy, Kori Hitt’s water broke and ruptured one of her two baby’s sacs.

The mother of three went to Covenant Health, but was told not to worry unless the amniotic fluid completely drained and then stayed at zero for a couple of weeks.

The fluid helps keep the baby warm, provides lubrication to keep the baby’s body parts from growing together, helps the baby’s lungs develop and protects the baby from any forces that may push on the mother’s stomach.

At 21 weeks, however, Hitt reached zero fluid and stayed there until she went into labor at 28 weeks. The average pregnancy lasts 40 weeks.

“I had Maisy at 10:06 and Meadow at 10:07, and she didn’t die,” she said. “For the first couple weeks, she was doing pretty good. She was two pounds, and she was incubated. We had a little bit of hope. She fought on for quite a while.”

Hitt was not kept in a holding pattern while at the hospital during her stay in Covenant’s antepartum unit, an area where mothers go before birth if they are experiencing complications with the pregnancy, she said.

Instead, before, during and after her pregnancy, the Covenant Be-

reavement Program helped Hitt and her husband make memories with both daughters after Maisy Jo died.

The Covenant Bereavement Program is a nonprofit that works to help the grieving process for families who delivered a stillborn baby or a baby that died soon after delivery.

The program began in 1986 with Ann Smith, labor and delivery nurse manager at Covenant.

“I started here in 1985, and I actually miscarried twins in ’86,” she said. “So I went to the Resolve Through Sharing, which is actually a program to learn how to be a counselor for parents that lost a baby. My interest was sparked then to try to figure out how to talk to a parent and that’s where we were, the chaplain and I.” During that period, Smith said it was widely believed that the best way to help ease the parent’s pain when a baby is stillborn or dies soon after childbirth is to take it away as soon as possible.

After going through the Resolve Through Sharing program and listening to what the parents who had lost babies at Covenant had to say, Smith said she learned, contrary to popular belief at the time, that it is not what most parents need in order to grieve effectively.

“The parents taught us what to do,” Smith said. “Well, we learned that you can’t say goodbye until you

say hello. Sadly, we had to learn the hard way, but our whole program changed from taking the baby out of the room.”

It is important when helping the parents, she said, to treat the dead baby with the same dignity, blessing and love that is given to a baby delivered live, which is what the bereavement center sets out to do.

Lucille Neely, labor and delivery registered nurse and bereavement coordinator, said she was brought into the program in 2005 after she had started a bereavement program at a sister hospital.

When Neely started, she said, many things were added to the program, including a box that is given to each parent with items and memories that will remind them of their child.

“Healing is not in forgetting,” she said. “No matter what we heal from, it’s not from forgetting it, it’s from the memories. So the mothers need all these memories.”

Lauren Orta, service coordinator of Covenant Women’s and Children’s, said the box has books to help families through the grieving process, teddy bears and wickless candles that are broken down and smell like babies.

The goal of these boxes, she said, is to capture all the senses.

“Some of the mothers want to keep the gowns or the blankets the babies were wrapped up in so they

have them,” Neely said. “All the tangible, visible things that touched their baby go in here. So we want to do as many things as we have that she can hold onto later because they physically need that actual stuff to hold onto.”

The program continues to grow, Orta said, and is now focusing not only on things that can be given to the parents but also memories the parents will have for years to come.

“A lot of the times we know ahead of time if a mom is going to deliver demise, and if they’re here and we have time to work with them and they’re open to it we work a lot with those moms,” she said.

“Also, they have the opportunity to make things that would be buried with the baby or take a footprint or a handprint and make something for themselves.”

Some things the program has done for mothers to hold onto include taking the heartbeat of the baby before the mom delivers and put it to music with the heartbeat as the beat of the song, she said.

A creative writer worked with Hitt before Maisy Jo died and was able to write a story about the family that both serves as a memory and a way for Hitt to tell Meadow Jane, the surviving twin, the story of her twin sister.

“She (Maisy Jo) ended up living for a month,” Orta said. “In that

month we were able to create tons of memories in the NICU. We knew she probably wouldn’t make it to her first birthday, so for her month birthday, I went and bought a cake and decorated her room and went and got both of the twins a stuffed animal and a birthday hat and we had a birthday party for them because that was going to be her (Hitt’s) opportunity to remember their baby by.”

Orta said another role of the program is in helping the parents to be parents of a child who is going to die or was stillborn.

It can be hard, she said, to know how to react when handed the baby that you already love but is dead.

“I even, when I hold the baby, pat the bottom and I’ll say ‘you’re so cute look at your little nose,’ and things like that,” Orta said. “It’s kind of like training them that, ‘Oh, it’s OK for me to look at my baby and explore her hands and feet.’ Just because she’s dead doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate all the little things about her.”

Hitt said the bereavement program helped her because they facilitated her planning ahead for Maisy Jo’s funeral and putting on things like jam sessions and crafts in the antepartum unit that helped her take her mind off the situation and break up the monotony of the day.

They also offered support in the days after the delivery before Maisy Jo died, she said.

Hitt said, there was a time when the nurses put the twins into the same incubator before Maisy Jo died.

“On their monitor there’s a number and it should always be in the 90s (oxygen saturation). When Maisy started getting sicker and sicker she sat at 80 at one point and then in the 70s, but she never went to the 90s toward the end,” she said. “So we went and got Meadow and put her in Maisy’s incubator and the whole entire time Meadow was in there and she had never done that, and as soon as we took Meadow out of her incubator she went back down to the 80s. We couldn’t explain it. The nurses couldn’t explain it.”

On Nov. 6, both parents went in to see the twins, and Hitt said they could see a difference in Maisy Jo. They went into a meeting with the neonatal doctors, she said, and Hitt, her husband and the doctors all agreed it was time to take Maisy Jo off of life support.

“Me and my husband agreed because everything that was helping her now was hurting her,” she said.

“She was tired of fighting constantly, 24/7, and being poked with tubes down her throat. On Nov. 6, we got to go in and see her with nothing on her face and hold her, which we never got to see. She died an hour and 30 minutes later.” ➤➤@KaitlinBainDT

Lubbock home to efficient charities Texas executes ‘Texas 7’ prison escapee

By KAITLIN BAIN Senior reporter

According to the Center for Investigative Reporting, there are at least 50 charities in the United States that donate 10 percent or less of annual donations to direct aid.

These charities include Kids Wish Network, Cancer Fund of America and International Union of Police Associations.

According to the study, no more than 35 percent of donations should go to fundraising costs, and oftentimes it is the names similar to other more popular charities that entice a person to donate to these inefficient charities.

While Lubbock is not home to these listed charities, it is home to organizations that do the opposite and give an overwhelming majority of donations directly back to those they are serving.

Steve Warren, director of development with Texas Boys Ranch, said at least 75 percent of donations go directly to program costs as mandated by the IRS. These donations go toward making a difference in children’s lives, which is the purpose of the ranch.

“So our goal is to create a family atmosphere that’s normal,” he said.

At the ranch, kids wake up for school, eat breakfast, go to school and come home. Once home, he said they go to the education center on site and do homework with tutors, staff and house parents, and they are then allowed to go next door to the recreation center to play until it is time to help prepare dinner.

Each child helps the other seven children who live in the cottage with them and their house parents to prepare dinner, then they eat together, clean up and get ready for bed.

“What we try to do and what we’re successful at is making a regular home for each child with something they’ve never experienced before and that is security and a safe feel,” Warren said.

“A typical day is to be like any kind of child in America.”

The boys ranch was started in 1975 serving troubled boys, but now, in its 40th anniversary, it serves both boys and girls.

The program has also expanded to a

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•Texas Boys Ranch -Served more than 100 children in the past year •Big Brothers Big Sisters -73 percent of donations go directly toward programs •Women’s Protective Services - 31 employees operate facility 24/7 foster care and adoption agency, he said, and a children’s shelter downtown that has allowed the ranch to serve more than 104 children in the past year.

The funding for these programs comes from the state of Texas for taking in a child that has been placed by the state, he said, and the rest comes from private donors, donations and churches.

“It comes from the folks of Texas that say, ‘I care about kids. I care about someone I’ve never met. I know they’re out there hurting and I want to be a part of making their life better,’” he said. “So 66 cents of every dollar we spend comes from the good folks of West Texas.”

Big Brothers Big Sisters LubbockPlainview is another organization in Lubbock that gives about 73 percent of donations directly to programs for the organization, Amanda Tolley, marketing and recruitment director with Big Brothers Big Sisters Lubbock-Plainview, said.

The organization, she said, matches children in the community with volunteer mentors who will spend time with the child for about an hour each week doing activities that the pair have agreed on, such as going to a movie or working on homework.

There are currently 120 children with mentors in the program, she said, with 163 waiting to be matched. Each match requires about $1,000 to make the initial match and then keep the match going for one year.

“I think the biggest impact that this program has on children is it helps them realize their full potential and it helps them realize some of their goals just by their circumstances at home or at school,” she said. “It really gives children the opportunity to succeed.”

Women’s Protective Services in Lubbock used 100 percent of donations and fundraising, totaling $185,000, for the organization in 2013, Steven Garcia, coordinator of community education and outreach services for the organization, said. This money was only a part of the budget for last year, totaling $1,434,000.

“Women’s Protective Services is a shelter designed to assist survivors of domestic violence,” he said. “WPS provides a 24-hour crisis hotline, shelter, food, clothing, counseling, legal services, assistance with medication, job assistance, back to school programs and many other free services. WPS provides emergency shelter to female survivors and their children and provides off-site assistance to male survivors.”

The organization has 31 employees who operate the facility 24/7, he said, as well as volunteers, interns and practicum students who assist with the hotline, help survivors with food, clothing or household needs along with other activities.

The service’s biggest impact, he said, is the safe haven it provides for families to flee from violence.

“In many cases, survivors can’t run to their own families or friends and feel like they have to stay in their violent homes,” he said. “Once they are at the shelter, survivors can work on safety, healing, bettering themselves and becoming self-sufficient.”

When donating to an organization, according to the Federal Trade Commission’s website, donors should ask for detailed information about the charity, conduct some research before donating and keep record of donations. ➤➤@KaitlinBainDT

Gun rights activist: “Treason is punishable by death” AUSTIN (AP) — In an online video Wednesday, a gun rights activist pushing for legislation allowing Texans to openly carry handguns tells state legislators that “treason is punishable by death.”

Kory Watkins of Open Carry Tarrant County posted, then later pulled, the video on YouTube, but not before another user uploaded it.

The link was then shared by groups that oppose open-carry legislation.

In the 4-minute video, Watkins, 31, says, “We should be demanding these people give us our rights back, or it’s punishable by death. Treason. Do you understand how serious this is, Texas?”

The Texas constitution says that a person can be convicted of treason only for waging war or supporting enemies of the state.

“more than foots in doors,” apparently referring to a confrontation he had with Rep. Alfonso “Poncho” Nevarez at the Texas Capitol on Jan. 13 during which a gun rights activist put his foot in a

door to keep it from closing.

Watkins, 31, has been a vocal advocate of legislation that would allow open carry, something that has been prohibited in Texas almost since the Civil War.

HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A threetime convicted robber who helped engineer the biggest prison break in Texas history was executed Wednesday evening for killing a suburban Dallas police officer while the notorious gang was on the run.

Donald Newbury, 52, became the third member of the group known as the “Texas 7” executed for the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Aubrey Hawkins, an Irving officer who interrupted the fugitives’ robbery of a sporting goods store on Christmas Eve in 2000.

The slaying occurred 11 days after the convicts escaped. The gang was captured a month later in Colorado.

Asked to make a final statement,

he mumbled: “I would. That each new indignity defeats only the body.

Pampering the spirit with obscure merit. I love you all. That’s it.”

As the lethal dose of pentobarbital took effect, he closed his eyes, then took a deep breath and began snoring.

After about a dozen snores, each a bit quieter, he stopped all movement.

He was pronounced dead 11 minutes later, at 6:25 p.m.

About two dozen police officers stood at attention outside the Huntsville prison. Several supporters of the slain officer were on motorcycles outside, and as Newbury was taking his final breaths, the roar of them revving their engines could be heard inside the death chamber.

“This isn’t about Donald Newbury. This is about justice for Officer Aubrey Hawkins,” Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said after the execution. “And what you see from the Irving Police Department is to carry this through to the very end.

“This is just one episode in that chapter. ... That’s our commitment to Officer Hawkins.”

The punishment was carried out after Newbury lost a last-day appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. His attorneys had argued previous lawyers were deficient and courts did not provide adequate money for a defense expert to illustrate how Newbury’s abusive childhood influenced his violent behavior.

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Students should pursue higher education Super Bowl commercials need to be funny

to diminish the respectability of a college degree, of course),” according to the website.

Obviously, being a “poster b o y, ” a s Cody Henl e y, t h e Foundational Engineering academic adviser at Texas Tech would state, is not a bad thing to be under such label. Who wouldn’t want to learn more about what they love, earn a fancy degree and feel highly a c c o m plished.

Although it might s o u n d somewhat egocentric, the respect one earns for pursuing and working hard toward higher learning is a feeling that makes one feel superior.

Such academic status is one that many see as impressive.

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... I have met some very intelligent people here in my two years at Texas Tech and feel many of them are dedicated and intelligent enough to succeed in earning a master’s degree.

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very year, companies and businesses pay a great sum of money to have their brand advertised on Super Bowl Sunday. An estimated 114 million viewers watched this past Super Bowl, a television record according to the CBS Sports website.

Traditionally, corporations save their very best advertising material for such a widely watched occasion — usually resulting in hilarious ads. Commercials tend to become a source of entertainment for millions who are watching the Super Bowl, as opposed to the annoyance they are for many who unwillingly watch them the other 364 days of the year. In fact, many look forward to this day in hopes to become entertained during the halftime showing of this American tradition.

But in the past few years, commercials have become political, emotional and informative — they’ve become all but comedic.

It appears advertisements are making a deeper impact upon audiences by evoking a strong emotional connectivity.

A few years ago, f o r m e r Heisman Tr o p h y winning quarterb a c k Ti m Tebow and his mom starred in an ad for Focus on the Family, a pro-life organization. This ad created a huge stir, as abortion is a divisive political issue for many around the country.

Regardless of one’s thoughts on the topic, abortion isn’t typically a subject one wants to hear about during the Super Bowl. Such issue is one typically discussed during political campaigns or even among lobbyists.

Last year, the commercial that caused a great amount of controversy was Coca-Cola’s commercial with the national anthem being sung in multiple languages. While seemingly harmless, the commercial struck a nerve with some and caused a distraction of all sorts as people began debating if the ad was anti-American or even racist. In the end, the ad was widely talked about across the nation, evoking both negative and positive sentiments among individuals.

I don’t believe it was CocaCola’s intention to develop an ad that would stir the pot; however, audiences began arguing over the commercial anyway.

Some admired the work, while others were deeply offended by the content.

On Sunday evening, the instantly infamous Nationwide commercial, where a young boy dramatically exclaims that he could never ride a bike, get cooties, travel the world, etc., “because I died,” stirred a massive amount of emotions among many viewers.

While watching the ad with my friends, we were shocked and fell silent in awe for a moment, asking questions such as, “did he actually just say that?” We truly couldn’t believe what we had just viewed. I think many across the nation can agree this commercial was one whose content was powerful enough to cause jaws to drop.

The reasoning behind why companies run dramatic ads and sometimes intentionally get a huge amount of people talking

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Kyle Jacobson is obvious; it’s because of the insanely high viewership the Super Bowl attracts. The numerical amounts of people that are reached during the airing of the Super Bowl make this phenomenon desirable among business and advertising agencies.

Despite the Nationwide ad receiving widespread criticism and unfavorable reviews, one must admit that its impact and memorability worked to an extent. This is reason why many corporations pay millions of dollars to have their ad run during the halftime show.

Though the reaction was negative, Nationwide certainly achieved something by making millions of people take to Twitter and F a c e b o o k to discuss the topic of children dying from accidents.

Tw e e t s and posts flooded social media, making Nationwide a widely discussed t o p i c among people w h o were exposed to the content on Sunday.

Before investing in the high cost it takes to secure an ad spot during the Super Bowl, surely companies show the ads to focus groups to gauge the response, and there’s no way the Nationwide ad was well-received by any focus group, if the overall national reaction is any indication.

I don’t mean to take on an indifferent tone of “Who cares about dead kids? I’m trying to watch football here.”

In fact, it’s an indictment on the American electorate that causes such, as accidental children deaths don’t receive enough attention outside of Super Bowl Sunday. It is this negligence that is now causing organizations such as Nationwide to take matter into their hands.

If we as a country continue to be disinterested in any civic activity, organizations with an issue they care about such as Focus on the Family and Nationwide will take advantage of the Super Bowl Sunday platform.

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Conrad Polkosnik

Not only do you have the opportunity to show off your hard work, but you also get to be paid for your lengthy hours of study and hard work. With a master’s degree in the subject of your choice, job availability with higher pay increases in the field you are passionate about.

“Most studies show that people with advanced degrees earn more on average than people with bache l o r ’s d e grees,” according to the Quint Careers website.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau website, in 2009 the average worker with a bache l o r ’s d e gree earned $56,665, while a w o r k e r with a master’s degree e a r n e d $73,738.

This is a difference of almost $20,000!

W h o wouldn’t want to have an extra $20,000 in cash to put in their pocket?

Although the money is great, after receiving their education many students might ask, “well how am I supposed to pay for another two to four years of school — I’m already in debt enough with student loans.”

But the answer here is that at many public institutions around the country, the graduate programs are free. Many graduate programs offer stipends, effectively covering some of, all of or more than tuition costs.

Similarly, Tech’s graduate program offers many of these same stipends.

In conclusion, I urge my fellow colleagues to do their own research on the graduate program in their specific field of study. Personally, I have met some very intelligent people here in my two years at Tech and feel many of them are dedicated and intelligent enough to succeed in earning a master’s degree.

Although some people may believe they aren’t smart enough to go to graduate school, pursuing a higher degree does not necessarily mean that you have to be the smartest student in your classes.

Sometimes, success is defined as setting your heart and soul to whatever it is you want to pursue. With an exemplary work ethic, you can do anything you set your mind to. As my high school basketball coach always told me, hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

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hen visualizing their futures, thousands of college students simply plan to graduate with a degree of their choice and get a job. Many do it simply because their parents followed the same process. But why not be different? Have you ever considered the possibility of enrolling in grad school?

Have you ever wondered what the benefits are and how a master’s degree can differentiate yourself from the average college graduate?

Today, many do not believe that pursuing a higher education is anywhere close to rewarding — even though it is.

According to the Huffington Post website, “Just as extended years of exercise will improve one’s physical condition, three or four additional years spent in school will yield a more intelligent graduate.”

Needless to say, as a graduate student, one becomes more intelligent and develops a deeper understanding of the subject in which they are pursuing a master’s degree. One also develops are greater sense of maturity and an appreciation for the little things.

In addition, along with an improved understanding of the specific subject of study, as a graduate student an individual can gain a greater amount of respect from peers, family and even faculty.

“Narcissist or not, the ability to wave a fancy degree around is appealing. And let’s face it, ‘I’m a PHD’ sounds a little better than ‘I’m a college grad’ (not

Knowing that their ad would evoke feelings of discomfort, or awkwardness when it aired, Nationwide probably figured that they might as well target and capture the largest audience. In doing so and engage in a discussion about the issue they care about when the maximum amount of people would see it and partake in the dialogue.

So this issue is twofold. To the companies advertising during the Super Bowl every year, you should know that we, the viewers, mostly want humor. Many of us want to be entertained, and share laughs with friends and family. Granted, many of us can agree the bar is set very high, so an occasional cute commercial like the Budweiser dog is absolutely fine. Perhaps more corporations and advertising agencies should try to cater their commercials with a fun and soft tone such as Budweiser did this year. The commercial was engaging and positive. In fact, many around the nation have named Budweiser as this year’s number one commercial among the many that were shown at the Super Bowl event.

In general, advertising agencies and companies should stick to what traditionally makes the Super Bowl Sunday ad spots great; such ads are notorious for making audiences laugh. The public likes the Brady Bunch commercial about Snickers. We like Kim Kardashian discussing the travesty of not being able to see her selfies due to lost cell phone data. Such commercials offer content that many can familiarize with or laugh about.

And to the millions of us who didn’t like a bite of chips and queso being interrupted by a seven-year-old saying, “because I died,” then take a look in the mirror. If we as a country continue to be disinterested in any civic activity, organizations with an issue they care about such as Focus on the Family and Nationwide will take advantage of the Super Bowl Sunday platform.

The Super Bowl should stick to its tradition of running humorous ads like they have done in the past. These feel-good ads are just one piece of the puzzle, as well as the halftime show, the friends you watch it with and the food you eat while watching. All of these components perfectly compliment the traditional Super Bowl experience.

Many people are tired of these controversial advertisements. Perhaps, there needs to be something done to address the format of these advertisements.

If you want the ads to be humorous instead of serious, then help give serious issues a viable platform to be discussed outside of Super Bowl Sunday.

Jacobson is a senior political science major from Austin. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Greek life gives back through philanthropy

By MORGAN NOBLE Staff Writer

Using their popularity, resources and large group numbers, fraternities and sororities have been raising awareness and funds for philanthropies for years.

Each is associated with a national or local philanthropy in which they dedicate time to help those in need.

Pi Kappa Phi is a fraternity that supports a philanthropy they created called Ability Experience, formerly known as Push America, Andrew Koke, a sophomore marketing major from Plano and Pi Kappa Phi philanthropy chairman, said.

The philanthropy was recently changed to the Ability Experience in Fall 2014, Koke said.

“We are the only philanthropy owned by a fraternity in the country.

So apart from all the other Greek Life, we are the only ones that actually operate their own philanthropy,” Koke said. “So this gives us a lot more freedom to do things more internally.”

The Ability Experience is about help-

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MIRANDA SLOVER, GIRL Scout leader of troop 6340, sells Girl Scout cookies to Mya Risner, a sophomore early childhood development major from San Antonio, in front of the Kappa Delta house Monday at Greek Circle.

ing others who are not as capable, Koke said. It does not limit them to helping just one cause.

“Our slogan is ‘help people with disabilities,’ so that gives us a free range to help people with things like Alzheimer’s,

people with down syndrome, autism,” Koke said. “Last spring we did something with the new Burkhart Center and we also work with Raider Special Olympics.”

Delta Tau Delta supports the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation as well

as the Lubbock Boys and Girls Club.

They hold events to raise money for the Foundation, as well as donate time to spend with the children and the Boys and Girls Club, Cody Tanner, a sophomore advertising manager from El Paso and Delta Tau Delta secretary, said.

Delta Tau Delta holds many events each year, but their biggest is the Delt Dive, a volleyball tournament typically held during April, Tanner said.

“Once a year we have Delt Dive,” Tanner said. “A bunch of Greek Life or anyone who wants to put together a team can come out.”

The fraternity also spends time at the Boys and Girls Club every Tuesday, Tanner said. It is a way for them to spend time with the children and be mentors and advisers to them.

Kappa Kappa Gamma also hosts events to help raise money for their charities. The sorority supports a national charity, Reading is Fundamental, as well as a local one, Children’s Miracle Network.

There are two main events Kappa Kappa Gamma hosts each year, Lauren Parker, a freshman pre-nursing major

from Amarillo and philanthropy chairperson, said. The two events help raise money for their philanthropies.

“We have Kappa Classic, which is a golf tournament. This past year we raised $31,000 for Children’s Miracle Network with just the one tournament,” Parker said. “The other event that we have is Kappa Krawfish, and that one is just a crawfish boil. We raise money off of wrist bands and whatnot, it’s kind of like a block party.”

Kappa Delta also supports two philanthropies, Prevent Child Abuse America and Girl Scouts, Julie Williams, a sophomore animal science major from Idalou said.

It’s awesome because we have a center in Lubbock called the CAC, Lubbock Children Advocacy Center, and that’s where pretty much all of our money goes toward.

“For girl scouts, what we do is we help them sell cookies once a year. They learn their business skills,” Williams said.

“They learn how to count money and talk to people. Girl Scouts will come

up to the lodge and we have fun with them, and there’s usually an educational portion to it.”

For Prevent Child Abuse America, Kappa Delta hosts a Shamrock event, which this semester will consist of a 48hour seesaw-athon where they will find business sponsors and accept donations from people in Lubbock.

“80 percent of all the money that we raise at Shamrock will go to the CAC here in Lubbock. So 80 percent of our money that we raise will stay right here in Lubbock,” Williams said, “then 20 percent of it will go nationally to Prevent Child Abuse America.”

Other philanthropies that Greek life supports are the Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Red Cross, American Heart Association, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation, St. Jude’s and Ronald McDonald House, according to the Panhellenic and Intrafraternity Council websites associated with Tech. ➤➤@MorganNobleDT

Honors students tutor local children

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sibility, a commitment that you will show up,” she said. “If you’re not there, even though half an hour is not a huge time commitment, half an hour can mean a whole day of class for a student whose mentor doesn’t show up. That could affect their whole day.”

The students at Bayless face different problems, Conley said, and they often have to move multiple times a week to live with different relatives.

Kara Marshall, the mentor coordinator for Bayless, said the elementary school is a low socioeconomic school and not many of the students come from what is considered a normally functioning family.

“All of our kids are on free lunch, we don’t even do the reduced lunch anymore,” she said. “A lot of our kids are hungry, so we give them food bags for the weekends.”

The Honors College has also done supply drives for the kids, Conley said, and it has focused on school supplies, hygiene products and other necessities.

Twenty more students have signed up to mentor this semester, she said, and volunteers can do anything from helping a teacher with work to men-

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While Texas Tech can seem like a relatively large student community, it can be easy to forget it is also part of the larger Lubbock community.

Megan Conley, the senior academic adviser for the Honors College, said Michael San Francisco, dean of the Honors College, wanted the college to partner with Bayless Elementary School.

“We had a program called the passport program that gave students the opportunity to volunteer in the Lubbock community and write some reflection papers,” she said. “So when he came on, we transferred the program into this larger Bayless adoption. It’s been a great partnership.”

The volunteer program started in October and there are approximately 30 honors students volunteering at the school, Conley said.

Stacy Poteet, unit coordinator for the Honors College, said students need only to volunteer for 30 minutes every week because that is enough time to make a difference to a child.

“The same way half an hour can make a difference, it’s also a respon-

toring an individual student.

“I just ask the teachers to send me names of kids they feel would benefit from a special friend, those that just need the extra one-on-one attention,” Marshall said. “Some of them may be having behavior problems at school, and that links back to what’s going on at home. A lot of them just don’t get the attention they need.”

The Bayless students look forward to seeing their mentors, Conley said, and they will ask her or Marshall when they will get to see their mentors again.

Haley Ericson, a freshman industrial engineering major from Munday, said she started mentoring a thirdgrade student at Bayless in October.

“The greatest thing about working with any student is that they’re growing up in an environment that I have never in my life seen,” she said.

“Getting to be a positive person in their life, a role model, someone sitting there patting them on the back and telling them they’re going to be great and seeing their eyes light up is the greatest thing.”

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Male mentors are especially important, she said, because many students do not have a father figure to look up to.

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Many Bayless students have low math scores, Marshall said, and it is beneficial for them to have mentors to tutor them and be a role model as a person going to college.

When it comes to volunteering, San Francisco said he thinks of the response Mother Teresa gave to people writing to ask if they could help her in Calcutta.

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Gotcher makes impact outside of Lubbock

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Since arriving at Texas Tech in 2011, redshirt junior Toddrick Gotcher has grown used to playing in front of large crowds and seeing a mass of fans flood the court after Tech’s men’s basketball team defeats a ranked opponent.

Through his years as a guard for Tech, Gotcher has taken a leadership role inside the locker room and on the court.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said Gotcher, along with Tech’s veteran players, has to meet certain responsibilities as a player on a Tech squad with mostly freshmen.

“Even though we have seven new faces, five freshmen, two junior college transfers, I believe we have a good nucleus in our returning players,” Smith said. “We have some solid people and good players that are doing the things we ask them to do.”

Since the start of the 2014-2015 season, senior guard Robert Turner said he and Gotcher know what it means to bring veteran leadership to the team.

“Me and Toddrick have to step up

and fill in some big shoes,” Turner said.

“Being a senior leader, that’s what the coaches ask for.”

Last summer, Gotcher took his leadership and basketball skills outside of Tech, the Big 12 and the United States, and headed hundreds of miles away from Lubbock to play and teach basketball in the Philippines. Through the Athletes in Action program, a Christian organization which promotes athletes interacting with other athletes of different nations and cultures, Gotcher participated in a 12-day tour of the Pacific island.

Gotcher, along with other collegiate athletes from schools such as Butler, Gardner Webb, Wisconsin and Longwood organized basketball camps for children in the Philippines.

“We taught them how to shoot, dribble, just basic fundamentals of basketball,” Gotcher said. “The camps, they were great. The little kids loved us, we had little cars we gave out to them and they cherished it.”

Gotcher’s love for basketball, his desire to impact the lives of others and Lubbock’s chapter of Athletes in Action convinced Gotcher to join the group of

athletes who traveled overseas.

An ocean separates the Philippines from the U.S., but Gotcher said the people show an immense love for basketball.

“They are just in love with basketball,” Gotcher said. “When I went, there was just basketball courts everywhere, and little kids just always had a basketball around.”

During the 12-day tour of the Philippines, Gotcher and the other athletes forming the Athletes in Action team competed against collegiate and professional teams of the Philippines.

At Tech, Gotcher knows what a big-game atmosphere feels like. He knows what the crowd noise feels like at Tech’s home games, at Oklahoma State’s Gallagher-Iba Arena and Kansas’ Allen Fieldhouse.

In the Philippines, Gotcher was awed by the enthusiasm and spirit fans in the Philippines showed when they saw the heights of some of the players from the Athletes in Action squad.

Although no championship or season record was on the line when the Athletes in Action team played one of its

nine games with the professional teams of the Philippines, fans from Quenzon City packed the Smart Araneta Coliseum, the site of Muhammad Ali’s and Joe Frazier’s famous “Thrilla in Manila.”

After playing in Quenzon City, Gotcher said he thinks the Philippines will someday develop a strong basketball tradition.

“They’re going to have a tradition because we went to like a college game that would be college for us and they had 15,000 people there with two bands going at it,” Gotcher said. “It was the best environment I’ve ever been in.”

When he wasn’t competing against some of the Philippines’ professional teams, Gotcher spoke about the Christian faith and returned to the U.S. with a new outlook on life.

By simply sharing a basketball, Gotcher said he noticed how much joy the young basketball players expressed when they spoke and played with collegiate athletes.

“I came closer to God in playing basketball,” Gotcher said. “In playing basketball we can change a lot of lives and just speaking the word. It was just

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DUNCAN STANLEY/The Daily Toreador

TEXAS TECH GUARD Toddrick Gotcher traveled to the Philippines last summer on a mission trip with a group of other collegiate athletes from around the nation.

very spiritual.”

After seeing the Philippines and meeting some of its people, Gotcher said he was humbled by the experience and looks forward to giving back to others through basketball.

“I’m definitely going to keep in

contact with Athletes in Action after my career,” Gotcher said. “Giving back in that way was amazing and giving back to the people that don’t have much was a life-changing experience so I’ll definitely keep doing it.” ➤➤@DGaytan_DT

Tech uses signing day to add depth with receivers, offensive line

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

On Tuesday, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury and his coaching staff announced the Texas Tech football recruiting class of 2015.

The signings of 18 student-athletes were made official on National Signing Day yesterday, and two early enrollees brought the class total to 20.

Kingsbury said the staff is excited to bring in 20 new players that will challenge the veterans on the team to continue improving.

“We addressed some needs we felt like we had on offensive and defensive line and wide receiver with depth overall, along with, I believe, nine starters back on offense and 12 guys that have started on defense,” he said. “Lots of guys that have played are coming back, but we need some guys to come in and replace them and be ready to play immediately.”

The Red Raiders finished the 2014 season with a 4-8 overall record, their worst in recent years.

Despite the disappointing season, Kingsbury said he feels like last year’s record did not negatively impact recruiting.

“By February, a lot of kids forget about your record anyways. Obviously it doesn’t help to go 4-8. We need to show much improvement this year to take that next step,” Kingsbury said. “A lot of these kids were committed before the season started. For them to stick with us through a rough year, it meant a lot to us as a staff.”

Of the 20 signed players, six of the student-athletes were wide receivers.

After losing multiple leaders at wide receiver positions the last two seasons, the coaching staff believes many of the freshmen will be able to make an impact right away.

Offensive coordinator and inside wide receivers coach Eric Morris said the new wide receivers will bring muchneeded size and physicality to the roster.

“We’re down on numbers big time.

We got six guys on scholarship right now in the receivers room, which is crazy around these parts,” he said. “We wanted to get six (wide receiver recruits). I think we addressed every need.”

Among the offensive players, Morris was the most excited about Donta Thompson from Ennis. The wide receiver is listed at 6’4’’ and 205 pounds in a Tech Athletics news release.

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“We’re going to need two deep.

These guys need to step up and be ready for that role. We’d like not to redshirt any of them, have them playing,” he said. “We’d like to be able to get those guys some time where last year we really weren’t good enough to get any of those guys much time so we ended up redshirting guys.”

While the coaching staff was waiting to hear one more recruit’s decision after the news conference, the coaching staff mostly knew what to expect on signing day and there were almost no surprises.

Morris said the process of recruiting has dramatically changed over the years and social media has become a big part of it.

“I can shoot them a DM (direct message on Twitter). That’s the way you communicate with these kids, start building relationships with them,” Morris said. “Twitter is first, Instagram second. Facebook I hardly use at all. It’s almost extinct now to us in the recruiting thing, which is funny. I’m not on the Snapchat. I’ve heard too many horror stories from Snapchat. I’m boycotting that one.” ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

PHOTO BY EMILY DE SANTOS/The Daily Toreador

KLIFF KINGSBURY DISCUSSES the 2015 recruiting class Wednesday in the Football Training Facility. This year’s class consisted of 20 recruits.

Red Raider defense looks to improve with 2015 class

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

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“Donta Thompson will start off at Y. We kind of want to develop him into a Jace Amaro-type, big and long,” Morris said. “He’s probably 205, 210 pounds right now, but has the frame to be 230, 240.”

The 2015 class does not feature any quarterbacks, however, after five-star recruit Jarrett Stidham decommitted from Tech and committed to Baylor.

Both Kingsbury and Morris said they were not worried at all about not signing a quarterback this offseason because of quarterbacks junior Davis Webb and sophomore Patrick Mahomes.

“That’s a position I take a lot of pride in recruiting and I wanted to make sure we got it right. We’ll wait till 2016 and try to find a big-time guy then,” Kingsbury said. “You’d like to take one every class, but when it gets close to Signing Day and you don’t have a relationship anywhere else, you don’t want to screw that deal up.”

Another large portion of the 2015 class was offensive linemen. The Red Raiders have five incoming recruits on the offensive line.

Despite returning most of the offensive linemen from last season, Kingsbury said he expects to redshirt few to none of

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After allowing the most points per game in the Big 12 Conference last season, the Texas Tech football team’s new defensive coordinator David Gibbs has announced the 2015 recruiting class.

In his short time on the Red Raider staff, Gibbs said the other coaches’ recruiting abilities have blown him away.

“Relentless recruiters. These guys are phenomenal. To win four football games, put this recruiting class together, credit to coach Kingsbury and the rest of these guys,” he said. “As you know well, the recruiting game, it can be great and it can be relentless and people will say and do whatever they have to do to get players to come or to change commitments to

their school.”

Of Tech’s 20 incoming players, eight of them were signed for the defensive side of the ball.

While Gibbs did not point to any one player, he said he is ready to coach all eight of the student-athletes.

“Everybody knows who the threestar, four-star, five-star, whoever those guys are. In my mind it’s just like the NFL, you don’t know who you’re drafting. Just because a kid has four stars doesn’t mean he’s going to be the best player,” Gibbs said. “We didn’t get many on defense, but the ones we got are quality guys, quality players and we’re excited about them.”

After being extremely thin on defensive backs at the end of last season, the Red Raiders signed four players in

the secondary.

Among them is cornerback Paul Banks from Navarro Junior College.

Banks is listed at 6’2’’ according to a Tech Athletics news release and will bring length to Tech’s secondary, Gibbs said.

“Paul is a long-range cover corner who is not afraid to hit, but at the same time he’s not a killer,” he said. “One thing that happens in the recruiting process is you have a tendency to recruit speedy DBs, which they’re usually shorter guys.”

Joseph Clark, Jamile Johnson and Christian Taylor will join Paul Banks in the secondary.

“Jamile Johnson is a kid that physically he’ll be able to do it, tough player, has a nose for the football,” Kingsbury said. “I think he’ll be able to come in and compete right away for

a starting position.”

Arguably Tech’s most hyped recruit of the 2015 class is defensive lineman Breiden Fehoko from Farrington High School in Honolulu. He will bring needed size and depth to his positon as he is listed at 6’3’’ and 290 pounds on 247sports.com.

The defensive lineman graduated from high school early and is enrolled at Tech this semester.

“The one that jumps out is Breiden.

Being here in the spring really gives him a leg up. But all those guys, we recruited them all to play,” he said. “They’re all filling needs that we need right away.

Hopefully they can all come in and contribute right away. We’d love to not redshirt any of them if possible.” ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

Forte makes free throws to lift OSU over Texas

AUSTIN (AP) — Phil Forte made two free throws with 2.1 seconds left in overtime and Oklahoma State beat No. 25 Texas 6563 on Wednesday night, handing the Longhorns’ their fourth loss in a row.

Le’Bryan Nash scored 17 points for the Cowboys (15-7, 5-5 Big 12), who led most of the game, only to see Texas rally in the final minute of regulation to tie.

Isaiah Taylor scored 18 points for Texas (14-8, 3-6). He had the final six points in regulation.

Forte, an 85-percent free-throw shooter on the season had a big

miss late in regulation, but calmly made his last shots for the win.

Texas’ Connor Lammert tied it at 63 when he made one of 2 with 11.6 seconds left.

Texas had a final chance to win, but Taylor’s long, running 3-pointer at the buzzer bounced off the side of the rim.

After Lammert’s free throws, Oklahoma State got the ball to Forte, who had stuggled most of the second half to find an open shot against a stifling Texas defense. But the lane opened up and Forte drove, drawing a foul against Cam Ridley.