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Tech breaks spring enrollment record Texas Tech has surpassed its previous spring enrollment record by more than 5 percent this semester.

As of the 12th day of class on Jan. 30, 32,487 students are enrolled, according to a Tech news release.

The previous record was set in Spring 2014, according to the release, with 30,864 students enrolled in the university.

The College of Agricutural Sciences and Natural Resources, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, the College of Education, the Edward E. Whitacre College of Engineering, the College of Human Sciences and the College of Media and Communication had an increase in undergraduate students from last spring, according to the release, and 10 of 11 colleges increased graduate student enrollment.

The enrollment numbers are preliminary, according to the release.

“Our enhanced recruiting efforts combined with new retention programs have enabled us to experience these increases annually,” Tech President M. Duane Nellis said in the release. “There are many people that contribute to our growth, including the Office of Admissions and our faculty, who work diligently to educate and inspire our students.”

Angela Davis visit spurs controversy

By AMY CUNNINGHAM nEwS Editor

As a part of the third annual AfricanAmerican History Month Lecture Series this week, Texas Tech will host speaker Angela Davis at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium of the Museum of Texas Tech.

In response, the Tech College Republicans

have created an online petition against Davis speaking at Tech to prevent the university from spending $12,000 to host the speaker, Rebeca Jurado, a senior political science major from Mexico City, Mexico, and Tech College Republicans chairwoman, said.

The petition, available on change.org and the Tech College Republicans Facebook page, has a goal of 4,000 signatures. As of Sunday, the petition has 369 signatures.

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Jurado said the petition was made to let the greater Tech community know how the money is being used.

“We’re hoping to bring light to the issue that Texas Tech is spending $12,000 for Angela Davis to come speak,” she said. “We just want to bring light to the issue and have people express their thoughts and tell us why they don’t agree with this expenditure.”

Davis is a professor emerita of history

and feminist studies, according to a Tech news release.

In the 1970s, Davis was placed on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list, according to an article by The New York Times. Davis was acquitted of all three charges against her, which were murder, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy.

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Abbott announced plans last week to have his office take control of a state incentive fund that fellow Republican Rick Perry says helped bring Formula One to Austin — but which critics charge has received too little official oversight. That’s the third of three funds meant to spur economic growth and created under Perry that Abbott has promised to overhaul, if not scrap outright.

Perry is gearing up for an expected 2016 presidential run built around his Texas record. And as the state’s longest-serving governor, his 14-year footprint isn’t going away any time soon. But with Abbott making such changes a top priority, there’s likely more where that came from.

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PABLO FROELICH, A sophomore energy commerce major from Mexico City, nears the top of his chosen route at the Vertical Plains Climbing Competition on Saturday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

While Lubbock is not known for its mountains, Texas Tech makes up for its flat landscape with the largest rock wall in the Big 12.

On Feb. 7, climbers from all over the state came to Tech to compete in the 15th annual Vertical Plains Climbing Competition. The competition is the biggest event of the year hosted by the Outdoor Pursuits Center, according to the Tech website.

Vertical Plains was the second competition of the 2015 season of the Texas Region Collegiate Climbing Series, a competition that allows climbers to work their way up to nationals, Lawrence Ingerly, a graduate student studying business from Austin, said.

The Collegiate Climbing Series is an intercollegiate climbing competition circuit for students, according to the Tech website, where students compete against each other for a national title.

“Climbing is a very universal sport,” Ingerly said. “We have one of the biggest walls in the Big 12 so it’s cool to see people coming from different climbing experiences, just coming to have fun and do what we love here.”

Climbers of all skill levels can compete and earn points based on the difficulty of the route, Ingerly said. Vertical Plains draws climbers from other schools in the Big 12 such as Baylor and the University of Texas at Austin, Ingerly said.

Elizabeth Hash, a senior English, psychology and Environment and the Humanities major from Waxahachie, is the rock wall manager and oversees safety management. Outside of the competition she also mentors climbers, she said.

“I think this is my favorite time of the year because you get to see dedicated climbers, students who actually put their time into climbing and dedicate themselves to it,” she said. “You’ve got some really hard climbers and you’ve got kids who are like nine years old doing the same route as 18-year-olds.”

The competition offered three skill levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced, according to the website.

Climbers such as Jared Franco, a senior biology major from Albuquerque, New Mexico, trained for this competition for a while and were excited for the chance to prove themselves.

Tech alumnus, doctor leaves legacy in community

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At four years old, Dr. Michael Rice became a father figure to his three brothers after his own father left them. As he and his brothers grew up, this did not change as Rice became a father figure not only to his brothers, but to many others in the community.

Rice died Wednesday in a private plane crash when the plane he was flying flew into the KCBDTV tower in southeast Lubbock, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Lakeridge Chapel hosted a visitation service from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, and a service will be hosted at 10 a.m. today in Trinity Church. Both services are open to the public, according to Lakeridge Chapel.

Heidi Jeffreys, Rice’s daughter, said after being valedictorian in high school and attending the University of Texas at Arlington for his undergraduate degree, Rice graduated in 1989 from the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine after his residency and was the first student to graduate with his M.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy.

From his dissertation, he was offered teaching positions at both Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University but turned both down to stay with Tech.

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Tech sprinter records world’s fastest time While at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic, the Texas Tech men’s and women’s track teams broke several school records, including the women’s triple jump and 60-meter marks.

The most important mark recorded, however, according to a news release from Tech Athletics, was Tech senior sprinter Cierra White’s world-best time in the 200m dash set Friday night.

White broke her own school record set just two weeks ago with a new best of 22.98 seconds, according to the release, making her the only woman in the world with a mark less than 23 seconds this season.

“Going into the race I was a little nervous but I just tried to remain calm,” White said in the release. “I was focused on running a good race. As I was on the line, I just prayed. I didn’t feel my first 100 (meters) was very good, but I checked myself when I went into the second curve.

I was pleased with my time overall, but I still think I have more in me.”

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said. “It is important because it gives people the opportunity to give back to their community.”

Though he believes volunteering is important, he said not everyone takes advantage of his or her opportunities to volunteer.

According to a study conducted by volunteeringamerica. gov, the number of college students volunteering is declining in the U.S. The state of Texas ranks 39th among college students who volunteer, according to the study, with only 24.5 percent volunteering.

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Volunteering allows students of all ages to gain different perspectives, and it opens the door for personal and communal gain while broadening horizons.

For students looking for volunteer opportunities during the spring semester, research shows that volunteering may help boost academic achievement, according to The United Way website.

“Volunteering for charity and in the community in general is very important for students,” Zachary Mkhantar, philanthropy chairman for his social fraternity,

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Tech should not use public funds to host someone the community does not respect, Jurado said.

Carson Bonner, an undeclared sophomore from Houston and fundraising chairman of the Tech College Republicans, said the organization created the petition because they are against the use of Tech’s money, not Davis herself.

“It was created to prevent Texas Tech from spending $12,000 on someone who has a history of radical ideas about the Communist Party,” Bonner said, “and an anti-capitalist view of America.”

A counter petition was created for those who believe Davis should be allowed to speak, Tech Student Democrats President Cole Adams, a sophomore global studies and political science dual major from Lubbock, said.

The petition is also available on change.org and has 363 supporters as of Sunday, which is within 10 signatures of the Tech College Republicans petition.

“We were approached by the Texas Tech Feminist Majority Alliance about the Tech College Republicans’ petition,” he said. “We support freedom of speech and feel that it’s being breached by the Tech College Republicans through this petition.”

In the petition, Tech College Republicans listed Mia Love, Condoleezza Rice and Gwen Ifill as potential speakers.

Love is the first black female Republican to be elected to the U.S. Congress, according to her website, and represents the Fourth District of Utah.

Rice served as Secretary of State under former President George W. Bush, according to the U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian website, and was the first black woman in the position.

Ifill is a journalist and managing editor of Washington Week and co-anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, according to the PBS website.

“We have gotten a lot of very angry and upset comments because people who don’t agree with this lecture believe that they should bring someone else,” Jurado said. “A lot of people have recommended Mia Love, who is someone we also recommended.”

Not everyone in the Tech and Lubbock communities agrees with the views of the right-leaning speakers suggested instead, Adams said.

Davis’ speech will ultimately benefit Tech, he said, and those involved with both petitions are simply standing up for their beliefs.

“When it comes down to the money Angela Davis is being paid, she’s being paid very modestly in comparison to other speakers,” Adams said. “I think $12,000 is very reasonable within the realm of cost.

As a research institution, it’s critical we allow people of different opinions to come in and speak.”

Robyn Adams, a junior media strategies major from Houston, said

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tival hosted by the Lubbock Lions Club and RaiderThon in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, are positive opportunities for Texas Tech students to give back to their community.

The Lubbock Lions Club Pancake Festival will take place Feb. 21 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center and RaiderThon will be hosted March 28 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Rec Center, according to the event websites.

Tech uses the Volunteer Lubbock website for volunteer opportunities, according to the Tech Student Affairs website.

Students can click on the

Volunteer Lubbock link and it will redirect them to a number of volunteer opportunities.

“I think it is important for Tech students to volunteer because they now live in the Lubbock community,” Rachel Flores, director of operations for the Volunteer Center of Lubbock, said. “They should get out and experience the community they live in.”

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Obtaining a different perspective on the world is the most important aspect of volunteer work, she said.

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she was initially disappointed when she saw the Tech College Republicans petition and hopes people of all standpoints and beliefs will attend the lecture.

“I do agree everyone has a right to their own opinion,” she said. “It’s important that accurate facts are out there about Angela Davis.”

The lecture provides an opportunity to discuss society problems, she said, and should not be viewed

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M i k e R i c e a l so l o v e d to teach, she said. Any time a nurse would call him he would take the time to talk with him or her about why a patient needed the medicine or the treatment, instead of just giving the instruction and being done.

“He loved to teach people and PAs (physicians assistants) and his nurses were in his office every day because he was a great teacher and he loved it,” Sandy Rice said. “He could explain things to people who didn’t understand maybe what they had learned in a book or at school, but Mike could explain it in a way in which they could learn.”

Shantelle Greenwood, who worked with Rice for three years, said what she will remember most about Mike Rice is his kindness and willingness to teach.

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as a racial or political issue.

The issue comes down to the cost, not Davis’ history or lecture topic, Bonner said.

“Tech College Republicans are for freedom of speech, but we don’t support Angela Davis being paid,” he said. “Our goal is to stop where the money comes from.”

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opportunities and would support and back up decisions made by employees, she said.

He also rewarded his employees for working hard and did not let the work go unnoticed, she said.

As a boss, Greenwood said Rice worked hard and believed in what he was working for.

Not only did he believe in it, she said, but he was willing to teach and explain things to those who asked him questions, and did so patiently.

“I felt like he would give you the opportunity to make yourself stronger,” she said, “and better with knowledge.”

Along with his love for helping people was his love for creating successful businesses, Sandy Rice said.

Mighty Wash, one of the more than 20 businesses Mike Rice built, was one of his favorites, she said, something many people found odd.

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JONAH BOATMAN, A member of the Texas Tech Cycling Team, fixes the brakes of a member’s bike during the team’s Saturday morning ride.

thought that was kind of odd that the brilliant man he was loved the car wash business,” she said. “There are photos of him actually working at the car wash and spraying the spraying machine and washing cars. He loved it.”

With the few amounts of free time he had, she said he enjoyed baseball, putting together events for people to have fun, flying and working on his relationships.

Despite the number of people he was involved in helping, she said he was not as good at working on deeper relationships with those people. However, it was something he was working on and began to grasp toward the end of his life.

“He was a wonderful man and one thing that made him sad, if he did have a shortcoming,” she said, “it’s that he wasn’t as good at personal relationships as he was at spreadsheets, at being a brilliant man like he was, but he worked so hard at that.”

There are many who love

him, she said, something that Mike Rice did not understand.

“He would not have understood what all this fuss was about,” she said. “Sometimes there would be a Facebook picture on his Facebook page somebody would take and post when he was at an event or he had done something and he would get back like 64 comments, and he could not understand why anyone cared what he did. He didn’t understand that people wanted to know what he did.”

Flying was one of his many loves, Sandy Rice said. While he had not yet had the opportunity to visit every baseball stadium in the U.S. as was he and Sandy Rice’s goal — he had visited nine and she had visited 10 — he left a legacy behind that will be remembered for years to come.

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SpaceX calls off launch of satellite CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The SpaceX company has called off Sunday’s launch of a deep-space observatory.

The countdown was halted at the two-and-a-half-minute mark at Cape Canaveral, Florida, because of a problem with a rockettracking system. At the same time, SpaceX was dealing with a rocket issue.

SpaceX had been aiming for a launch and landing within minutes of each other. The next try could come as early as Monday.

The company’s main objective is to launch the government’s Deep Space Climate Observatory to monitor solar outbursts. The spacecraft is refashioned from the Earth-gazing satellite conceived in the late 1990s by then Vice President Al Gore. Gore was on hand for the launch attempt and said he was grateful to all those who kept his dream alive.

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Fencing Club hosts weekend tournament

By MORGAN NOBLE Staff Writer

The Double T Fencing Club hosted a fencing tournament Saturday and Sunday at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Students represented Tech in both individual events and team competitions.

The individuals competed in three events involving different weapons of fencing, which are saber, foil, and épée. The team competition was a rotation of three fencers, each fencing for up to five hits per round.

The team competition consisted of four teams. Two teams, the Twisted Arms and Double T’s Only Hope, represented Tech. Derick Nusz, a junior astrophysics major from Amarillo, said the team competition works on a rotation basis so each member fences to a certain number of points.

“It alternates. Each team has three people and everyone fences each other for nine bouts, the end score goes to 45,” Nusz said. “Each bout is five-point bouts, regardless of what the score is at the end of the three minute time period.”

Nusz represented one of the two Tech teams competing. Other teams represented at the tournament were

from Amarillo College and an independent fencing club from Amarillo.

Nusz said that he has been fencing for more than 11 years, and he attends four to five fencing tournaments for Tech each year.

“I mainly compete in épée. It’s basically the entire body is the target area,” Nusz said, “and there’s no rules on who gets the touch, it’s whoever hits first gets the touch basically.”

Brice Lostraczo, a senior mechanical engineering major from Montreal, said during the team competition the team was strictly competing in épée.

During the individual competitions there were two more events.

“There’s also foil, which has a different target area. Epée you can touch anywhere but in foil you can only touch the chest,” Lostraczo said.

“There’s also saber which allows you to slash instead of just poking.”

In order to prepare for the tournament, Lostraczo said that the team performs necessary drills and attempts to get in the right mindset for the competition.

“We usually do our basic warmup drills,” Lostraczo said. “Today we fenced ourselves for a little bit and worked on getting timing right and the feel for it and that’s the most im-

portant thing is getting the feel for it.”

The Twisted Arms team almost did not compete in the team events, Sarah Clemens, a junior mechanical engineering major from Carrollton, said. Clemens is the president of the Double T Fencing Club. Clemens said she was willing to fence, but had not planned on it.

Clemens said that while she has been fencing for nearly seven years, she didn’t start taking it seriously until college. That is when she joined the Double T fencing club.

“I specially planned on doing more bout committee things today,” Clemens said, “Coach is having some hip complications today. He woke up and he was in a lot of pain. So I think that’s why we’re called the Twisted Arms.”

During the individual competition there is a range of skill levels seen on the Tech teams, Clemens said.

The team has a variety of students.

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BRICE LOSTRACCO, A senior mechanical engineering major from Montreal, fences against Reid Hamilton, a student of Ascension Academy in Amarillo, during the final day of the fencing tournament Sunday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

Engineers for a Sustainable World prepare for competition

By SARAH WILSON Staff Writer

Sustainability engineering is becoming more prevalent in today’s society. From wind energy to green buildings, people are becoming more interested in ecofriendly resources.

Engineers for a Sustainable World at Texas Tech work on campus to promote clean energy and solve sustainability issues around Lubbock and the state of Texas.

“We’re called Engineers for a Sustainable World, and our local chapter is called ESW-TTU. We’re a part of a national organization of about 40 or so chapters, nationwide, and one in Canada,” Matt Kovalski, a junior chemical engineering major from Keller and president of ESW said. “We have a few professional chapters locally here in Texas. We work on all sorts of engineering projects that work with sustainability and energy efficiency.”

Kovalski said many of his friends were in engineering groups on campus, but he really wanted to focus on sustainability. Kovalski reached out to the national organization and decided he wanted to bring ESW to Tech, he said.

“Our first semester here, about a year ago, we worked on an after-

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Franco started climbing five years ago after one of his close friends urged him to try it, he said.

Originally he was not interested in climbing but grew to love it.

“I’m just really excited,” Franco

school program at a local private school,” Kovalski said. “We did some presentations and hands-on experiments showing sustainability projects. Anything from clean energy to water management.”

Kovalski said the afterschool program focused on how to fix issues like pollution and tie them into real life examples. The group is currently designing a solar powered light to attach to the top of a road pylon used to separate bike lanes from the road for a competition, Kovalski said.

“The project has to tackle some safety issues with transportation and a lot of cities have protected bike lanes protected by plastic pylons,” Brent Johnson, a junior industrial engineering major from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, said. “They’re used across the state at intersections, lane shifts, things like that. The reflective strips on these are supposed to help drivers in low visibility conditions to see where the bike lane is.”

The TxDOT college challenge is an annual competition held by the Texas State Department of Transportation, Johnson said. The goal is to gather a group of interdisciplinary students at colleges in Texas to try to find a solution to a sustainability transportation problem, Johnson said.

45 people died last year due to auto-on-bicycle accidents across Texas, and the numbers have not really changed since the reflective strips on the pylons have been implemented, Johnson said.

“Our solution to this problem is an LED light on a clamp or a screw that will attach to the plastic pylon and will turn on at night,” Johnson said. “It’s solar powered so you wont have to change batteries and it will alert drivers permanently, regardless if they have their headlights on or not, that there is something you probably shouldn’t cross here.”

Kovalski said this will be their first competition, and their goal is to keep bicyclists safer while putting a green twist on the project.

“We came up with a simple design that will be economical,” Kovalski said. “We have psychology majors, finance persons, many engineering majors all working on this.”

ESW has been looking into working with The National Ranching Heritage museum to see if solar powered buildings would be more economical for the museum, Kovalski said. They are hoping to gain experience with this project to be able to advise other companies, residents and groups in the area about switching over to solar energy, Kovalski said.

said, “to try our best and hang out and have fun.”

Franco does not normally go to competitions, and this was his first indoor contest, he said.

“I was doing a warm-up problem and I fell,” he said. “I was having the jitter bugs but staying focused and trying to have fun.”

When preparing for the com-

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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Philip Brooks said that all the drivers involved in Saturday’s multi-vehicle accident will likely be asked to voluntarily provide their phones so investigators can check call and text data.

Investigators could also request search warrants, if necessary.

The information gleaned from those records could help inform prosecutors, if they were to consider charges against the drivers

However, Brooks said it is difficult to determine if a driver was texting at the exact time of a collision. Investigators will look at signs of driver behavior such as multiple texts that span a period of time leading up to, or including, the crash, Brooks said.

The sheriff ’s department has custody of all the vehicles and will be inspecting them to ensure they’re mechanically sound or whether a defect prevented somebody from stopping in time.

Investigators are trying to determine who or what triggered the crash on Pacific Coast Highway.

One woman died in the crash, and seven others were injured.

The celebrity gossip website TMZ first reported that the department could issue a search warrant to determine if Jenner was texting at the time of the

The moment of impact was captured by celebrity photographers who quickly posted the images on the Internet. Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s officials said there was no indication Jenner was being chased by paparazzi at the time of the crash.

“Being a celebrity, he is often followed by paparazzi. He was aware of that, and it doesn’t appear he took any evasive action to avoid the paparazzi,” Brooks said.

Authorities said Jenner cooperated with investigators, passed a field sobriety test and voluntarily submitted a blood sample to determine whether he was intoxicated, Brooks said.

“He did not appear intoxicated or under the influence of anything at the time,” the sergeant said.

Jenner’s publicist, Alan Nierob, said Jenner wasn’t hurt, but

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Drinking age law should be lowered Lowering drinking age not best idea

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Personally, being a 20-yearold male, I still do not have a significant amount of facial hair versus friends of mine who are in high school today. Does that mean that a high school senior is more developed and “manly” than I? Why is it a so-called theory ascertaining one is too young to drink must be enacted and used as a law restricting a younger population from drinking?

There is no magical change in one’s body when turning 21 versus turning 18. For the most part, the person is fully developed and hopefully on track to go to college, like most 21-year-olds.

In retrospect, restricting drinking amongst the younger population may actually do more harm than benefit.

According to a FoxNews article, “Coll e g e p r e s idents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.” No matter how old someone is, if they want to drink they will find a way to get ahold of an alcoholic beverage and consume it.

Secondly, is it fair that an 18-year-old can buy a pack of cigarettes, or “cancer sticks,”

but cannot legally purchase an alcoholic drink? Smoking cigarettes not only harms the smoker, but can cause harm to people around them by surrounding them with secondhand smoke.

When drinking alcohol, there is no “secondhand” danger.

The substance only affects the drinker.

Thus, a person who chooses to make the decision to intake an alcoholic beverage is doing this on their own account. No other person has to suffer from that decision, but the individual who chooses to drink. If an 18-year-old can decide whether to risk his/her life for the U.S., then an 18-year-old should be able to decide whether he/she wants to intake a beverage that

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According to the Centers for Disease Control website, smoking cigarettes causes “lung diseases which include emphysema and chronic bronchitis, most cases of lung cancer, and if you have asthma, tobacco smoke can trigger an attack or make an attack worse.”

So why is it we are allowing our young and undeveloped 18-year-olds to buy such horrible “cancer sticks” but not allow them to drink a few beers?

With so much evidence of the horrific dangers that smoking cigarettes can cause, the age for buying such a product should be raised to 21 as well if the age of buying an alcoholic drink is at 21.

Many of my personal colleagues drink more than they smoke, whether they are of age or not. I took the liberty to ask a few of them why they chose to consume alcohol versus smoking a cigarette. Most of them answered, “I don’t want cancer.”

Although alcohol may be attributed to causing liver damage and heart disease, it just doesn’t make sense to keep the age limit at 21 when cigarettes are killing this nation’s youth. For that reason, it is only rational that Copyright © 2015 Texas Tech University Student Media/The Daily Toreador. All DT articles, photographs and artwork are the property of The DT and Student Media and may not be reproduced or published without permission. The Daily Toreador is a designated public forum. Student editors have the authority to make all content decisions without censorship or advance approval.

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lcohol by definition is a colorless volatile flammable liquid.

This liquid is the intoxicating constituent of wine, beer, spirits and other drinks, and is also used as an industrial solvent and as a fuel.

Alcohol is what we are putting in our bodies for a fun weekend out. As 21-year-old adults, we should be able to make that choice. However, I feel like lowering this age restraint would not do our society any good.

Given the lovely definition above, many could probably agree that it might not be the best liquid to ingest. Medically speaking, there is a warning label on all alcoholic beverages cautioning you against the dangers alcohol

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can bring. As adults, we make the choice to responsibly intake these drinks. I know that binge drinking is not good for me and ideally I should stay away from it, but it’s a slippery slope we stand on when out on the town for the night.

I trace back to when I was 18 years old and remember approximately how much I weighed and how I was built. I also know that at 18 years old, I could not handle the volume of alcohol I can today. And I’m sure most of you can relate to the first time you consumed too much alcohol and it didn’t take too much to feel its effects afterwards.

In high school, most seniors are turning 18. Most people in high school have been around alcohol whether it’s at their home, at a restaurant or at a party.

Groups of underage teenagers can throw a party with alcohol, but getting beer or liquor isn’t that easy when you’re in high school — you really have to work for it.

Therefore, one must ask, what would happen if an 18-year-old senior was able to just walk in at a store and purchase all the alcohol he/she wanted for a high school party?

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an increase of alcohol related automobile accidents as well as sexual activity.

With all the PSA’s about DUI and DWI, it is safe to ascertain making alcohol legal for 18-yearolds is a problem.

As it is, alcohol is a major problem among people who are 21 and up. As adults, we should be able to make the responsible decision of giving someone the car keys or calling a cab when one is intoxicated, but unfortunately that’s not the case.

According to the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility website, approximately 10,076 people died in drunk driving crashes in 2013. If people who are “classified” as old enough to drink can’t drink respons i b l y, w h o can possibly imagine for a second that an immature 1 8 - y e a r- o l d high school student can?

Aside from the high rise in drunken driving incidents, sexual activity would be greatly influenced among teenagers affected by alcohol. Those who have consumed alcohol know the effects of drinking as well as what it is to be sexually active, but the combination can get out of hand if not restrained.

Responsibility is an issue not

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only impairing teens to make rash decisions but also leaving them vulnerable. Many of us have heard the horrible stories of sexual assault involving drinking (not to mention the date rape drug). Adding alcohol into the mix will result in an influx of young drinkers, resulting in a rise of these tragic cases.

Even as a grown woman, I know bars and clubs are not the safest place. Although some bars do allow 18-year-olds inside, this leniency isn’t always the best idea. I know our world has changed and the way we interact is very different, but I feel we also have to acknowledge how naïve and reckless the youth of today can be.

A great example to represent this recklessness is the case of a mother who made the decision to take her 16-yearold daught e r ’s e l e c tronics away because she was handing out her cell phone number to random older males she did not personally know. I realize that such occurrences take place all the time in our society. However, it is important to note from this example teenagers and even young adults don’t always make the greatest decisions. Underage drinking should remain illegal.

As adults, we should be able to make the responsible decision of giving someone the car keys or calling a cab when one is intoxicated, but unfortunately that’s not the case.

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ave you ever wondered what it’s like for service men and women between the ages 18 and 20 who are fighting for our country day in and day out but cannot legally consume an alcoholic drink?

These men and women risk their lives every day for the sake of our freedom and are not granted the ability to legally have an alcoholic drink. This restriction is completely irrational and absurd.

The U.S. is one of four countries that have a drinking age law stating that you must be 21 in order to consume alcohol. There are many theories surrounding this law, but the most outstanding claims are the development of an 18-yearold’s bo dy is nowhere close to that of 21-year-old’s.

What true evidence is there to make such a claim?

If one is still developing at age 18, why should one be allowed to enter the service and possibly die for the country? Shouldn’t these individuals develop into a “man” or “woman” first before making the decision to enlist for our country?

I mean, we shouldn’t have these 18-year-old “children” running around shooting guns.

If many believe the drinking age should remain at 21, why not raise the age of entering the service to 21? It would only be fair when claiming such men and women aren’t fully developed.

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Tech coach closing in on 100 career wins

By EVERETT CORDER SportS Editor

Texas Tech women’s tennis coach Todd Petty entered the weekend just two wins away from 100 for his career. He had a chance to reach the milestone by Sunday, with the Lady Raiders playing matches on Friday and Sunday.

A loss Friday night to the No. 24 Ole Miss Rebels kept that from happening, but the Lady Raiders salvaged the weekend with a win against No. 32 Rice on Sunday.

Ole Miss started the Friday night matchup by winning the doubles point to take an early 1-0 lead. Tech’s only doubles pair to get a win was sophomore Lynn Kiro and freshman Sabrina Federici, who upset the Rebel’s No. 56 ranked squad.

Tech then only got two wins from the singles portion of the match with wins from Federici and freshman Sarah Dvorak, losing 4-2 overall.

Petty said Dvorak struggled in her doubles match, but he was glad she was able to come back and get a solid win in the singles portion.

“I’m really proud of Dvorak at the number two (court),” Petty said. “I was proud of the way she was able to bounce back. Obviously, she feels like that doubles was rough on her and we had that on her racket a little bit there. She was able to rebound mentally and put together a really good performance against a nationally ranked girl.

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That was probably the highlight of the day.”

The main thing Dvorak and Federici did better than their teammates, Petty said, was the amount of confidence they played with.

It was not a physical issue that caused the team to lose the match, he said, but the players needed to be more fearless in their competition.

“They’re the ones that don’t

care about the result and don’t care about the score,” he said. “They’re just going to go out there and compete no matter what the situation was, they’ve done that all year, and it was no surprise to me that they went out there and did that today.”

Against Rice, the Lady Raiders were able to take the early lead by taking the doubles point, and went on to win four straight singles matches for a 5-0 win.

Petty said in order to get wins against highly ranked opponents like Rice takes a lot of trust in between all the players.

“We were able to play fearless against Auburn and we got the win,” he said. “They see now what the result is when they don’t. I think when you have five freshmen, that’s just what you’re going to run into. They’re going to learn that.”

TEXAS TECH WOMEN’S Tennis player Hortense Boscher serves the ball during a doubles match Friday at the Don & Ehtel McLeod Tennis Center. The Texas Tech Women’s team hosted the game against Ole Miss.

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Tech’s offense did not get any help from free throws either as the Red Raiders missed all seven of their attempts from the line.

Iowa State’s win versus the Red Raiders preserved its perfect home record and extended its home winning streak to 20 games.

Tech’s loss to the Cyclones set the team’s overall record to 12-12 and its Big 12 Conference record to 2-9. Iowa State’s win gave the team an overall record of 17-5 and conference record of 7-3.

Redshirt junior To ddrick Gotcher finished the game leading the Red Raiders in scoring with 11 points.

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The Texas Tech men’s basketball team posted its second-lowest point total of the season on Saturday when the No. 11 Iowa State Cyclones defeated Tech 75-38 in the Hilton Coliseum.

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After reaching the College World Series last season with a young roster, the Texas Tech baseball team has returned a majority of its key players.

Despite all the returning players, one position that is still up for grabs is catcher.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said he does not plan on naming one player the starting catcher, but rather using several different players to fill the position.

“Tyler Floyd, Bryant Burleson and Nick Marshall,” Tadlock said. “All three of those guys will catch.”

Hunter Redman was the featured catcher on the roster last year but was drafted in the sixth round by the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to the Tech Athletics website.

The void left by Redman has given other players the chance to step into the main catcher role.

Senior infielder Bryant Burleson played most of his time as a Red Raider so far at second base, but this offseason he has mostly been working to make the transition to playing behind the plate.

Burleson said the change is something he is excited about and has been a nice change of pace.

“It’s been great. Coming up and being the same thing for

three years in a row, I wouldn’t say it gets boring, but moving to catcher quite a bit in practice, it’s been fun,” he said. “It’s a whole new experience and I’ve really enjoyed it.”

While almost all of his games in college have seen him playing in the infield, Burleson said he does have some experience playing catcher.

“I’ve played some (catcher) in summer leagues, not so much in high school ball. I played quite a bit in summer leagues and when I was younger,” he said. “My brother was a catcher at Nebraska for four years so I’ve got easy access to ask him questions.”

Last season, Burleson set career-highs with 66 games played, starting 63 of those. He will likely see starting time at catcher and at second base when other players are in at catcher.

While the transition has been fun for the infielder, he said, he never realized how much a catcher has to be aware of.

“A catcher has to be in charge of everybody on the field. He has to know what’s going on at all times on the field, not just catching the ball and throwing it back to the pitcher, or throwing somebody out at catcher,” Burleson said. “There’s so much more a catcher has to do in between pitches, in between innings and off the field with your pitchers.”

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Sisters divided in murder trial of ex-NFLer Hernandez FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — They are sisters, born just two years apart. Now they are divided by the aisle of a courtroom.

Shayanna Jenkins sits behind her fiance, Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriot on trial for murder. Shaneah Jenkins sits with the family of Odin Lloyd, her boyfriend and the man Hernandez is accused of killing on June 17, 2013.

The sisters, who introduced the men, now have a relationship that appears fractured. The rift was on full display last week as Shaneah took the stand against Hernandez while her sister sat in the front row, supporting him.

The once-close sisters, for a time, took similar paths, according to Shaneah’s testimony.

Shayanna, 25, and Shaneah, 23, grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, and both attended Bristol Central High School. Shayanna had

an on-and-off relationship with Hernandez that spanned the last two years of high school. When Hernandez went off to Florida to play football, Shayanna went to community college.

After Hernandez was drafted by the Patriots in 2010, Shayanna left college and moved with him to a Massachusetts condo. Two years later, Hernandez signed a $40 million contract and, that November, Shayanna gave birth to a daughter.

The family moved into a mansion in North Attleborough, not far from Gillette Stadium.

Shaneah, like her sister, enrolled in community college but later transferred to Central Connecticut State University. She held down several jobs while majoring in criminology: at a home care company, for a law firm and at a Comfort Suites hotel in Southington, Connecticut.

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“It’s kind of mixed feelings,

I guess,” he said. “We’ve played together there for two or three years now. It’s going to be different but it’s going to be good.” ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

At least 20 killed in Egypt soccer match riot CAIRO (AP) — A riot broke out Sunday night outside of a major soccer game in Egypt, with a stampede and fighting between police and fans killing at least 20 people, security officials said.

The riot, only three years after similar violence killed 74 people, began ahead of a match between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI at Air Defense Stadium east of Cairo. Such attacks in the past have sparked days of violent protests pitting the country’s hard-core fans against police officers in a nation already on edge after years of revolt and turmoil.

Three security officials said some people died during a stampede, while others died in clashes with police.

They spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to speak to journalists.

What caused the violence wasn’t immediately clear. Security officials said Zamalek fans tried to force their way into the match without tickets, sparking clashes. Fans have only recently been allowed back at matches and the Interior Ministry planned to only let 10,000 fans into the stadium, which has a capacity of about 30,000, the officials said.

Zamalek fans, known as “White Knights,” posted on their group’s official Facebook page that the violence began because authorities only opened one narrow, barbed-wire door to let them in. They said that sparked pushing and shoving that later saw police officers fire tear gas and birdshot.

A fan who tried to attend the game, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fear of being targeted by police, said that the stampede was caused by police who fired tear gas at the tightly packed crowd.

“Those who fell down could not get back up again,” the man said.

The Zamalek fan group later posted pictures on Facebook it claimed were of dead fans, including the names of 22 people it said had been killed. The AP could not immediately verify the images, nor their casualty count.

Egypt’s hard-core soccer fans, known as Ultras, frequently clash with police inside and outside of stadiums.

They are deeply politicized and many participated in the country’s 2011 uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak. Many consider them as one of the most organized movements in Egypt after the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which the government later outlawed as a terrorist organization following the 2013 military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The violence comes as police come under increasing scrutiny following the shooting death of a female protester in Cairo and the arrest of protesters under a law largely banning demonstrations. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has pledged bring stability to Egypt amid bombings and attacks by Islamic militants, but also has said Egypt’s emergency situation meant that some violations of human rights were inevitable, if regrettable.

Texas Tech softball opens Gregory era The Texas Tech softball team began a new era during the weekend, competing in its first five games led by new head coach Adrian Gregory.

Gregory opened her tenure with the Red Raiders with a win, according to a news release from Tech Athletics, taking a 5-3 victory against New Mexico State University on Thursday afternoon.

To get the opening game win, Tech needed at 7th inning comeback, according to the release, which culminated with a two-run single from sophomore Devon Thomey to put the Red Raiders on top.

Tech then moved on to complete a perfect opening day by defeating Montana 8-5 later Thursday night.

Thomey was the hero again in the night game, according to the release, recording three hits and driving in four runs in the win.

“I thought we showed some maturity today,” Gregory said in the release. “Neither win was pretty but we will take them. We played with grit in the first game and played with some guts in the second game to pull it out so I’m proud of our group.”

Tech was handed its first loss of the season on Friday afternoon, according to the release, taking a 13-7 defeat from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The Red Raiders took an early 2-0 lead against the Roadrunners, but were unable to keep up offensively in Gregory’s first loss as the Tech coach.

Tech took another loss in the Friday nightcap, according to the release, giving up eight runs to Colorado State.

Tech junior Jordan Bettiol had her third multi-hit game of the season against the Rams and moved her batting average to .615

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MONTANA INFIELDER/OUTFIELDER Gabby Martinez steals second while Texas Tech infielder Brooke Scott ties to catch the ball during the Hotel Encanto Invitational on Thursday at the New Mexico State softball complex. Montana defeated Tech 8-5.

on the season, according to the release, but it was not enough, and the Red Raiders fell, 8-2.

For the final matchup of the opening tournament, Tech took on No. 18 Nebraska, according to the release, and was run-ruled, 11-3.

Nebraska Junior Kiki Stokes led the Cornhuskers, according the release, with a perfect 4-for-4 day at the plate and three RBIs. Tech will return to action this weekend at the CenturyLink Classic hosted by Texas State. ➤➤@TheDT_Sports

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