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Taylor Johnson, a freshman business marketing major from Dallas, holds a “Not for Sale” sign in the Student Union Building. The Not for Sale campaign works to spread awareness about human trafficking by teaching that bodies are not commodities.

Lubbock resources work to combat human trafficking

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lthough the 13th Amendment constitutionally abolished slavery, it still exists in the U.S. It has just taken on a different facade.

On Feb. 3, 18-year-old Ukedrian Anderson was arrested on charge of trafficking a woman for prostitution. According to the Avalanche Journal, Anderson is not the first person to be arrested on charges of human sex trafficking in Lubbock County.

Human sex trafficking is defined as “the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of forced labor and sex trafficking,” and is the world’s fastest growing criminal industry, according to the A21 Campaign.

The A21 Campaign estimates

“there are more slaves now than at any other point in human history with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.”

Human sex trafficking is a global issue that affects people in the U.S. as well as other parts of the world, according to the A21 website.

The Polaris Project, named after the North Star that guided slaves to freedom in the U.S., says since 2007, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline has received reports of 14,588 sex trafficking cases inside the U.S. alone.

Human sex trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry that affects every major U.S. city, including those in Texas, and even right here in Lubbock. Of the 433 human trafficking cases reported in Texas in 2015, 337 of them were sex trafficking, according to the National Human Trafficking

Resource Center.

In a 2014 report published by the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force, data trends from the National Human Trafficking Resource Center dating from 20072012 found Texas had the secondhighest number of potential human trafficking reports of any state in the country.

That same report said out of the 254 counties in Texas, 25 percent of the cases for the trafficking of persons in the entire state were filed in Lubbock County.

Local groups such as South Plains Men Challenging Men, the Human Rescue Coalition, Voice of Hope and OneVo!ce are working to combat human sex trafficking and provide care for survivors.

“Our numbers just keep going up or staying the same when it comes to the cases we get,” Kenneth Castillo,

founder/director of South Plains Men Challenging Men, said. “When 95 to 98 percent of the perpetrators of violence against women are men, it’s a man’s issue. It always has been.”

The South Plains Men Challenging Men organization works to educate and empower men to help end violence against women.

Castillo is also a member and steering committee member for the Human Rescue Coalition of Lubbock. The Human Rescue Coalition is an organization made up of community members who are working against human trafficking in Lubbock.

“We started the Human Rescue Coalition to raise awareness about this issue here in Lubbock,” he said. “One of the big problems is that a lot of people think that Lubbock is this small, little town that nothing bad ever happens in, and

due to technology, sadly, you can be in Slaton and get on the Internet and have a prostitute at your door in about an hour, wherever you are. Wherever there’s a demand, they’re there.”

Castillo said contrary to the general notion, most victims of sex trafficking are from the U.S., not Mexico. Not only that, but human trafficking is not done only by cartels with hundreds of girls — it can be just one person.

Jaime Wheeler, Voice of Hope case manager/sex trafficking victim advocate, said there are a variety of ways human traffickers find their victims.

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ELECTION

Voter registration still open to students

By ALEXA ROSAS staff Writer

The deadline for early voting has passed for those who were looking to vote in the upcoming primaries. The deadline to register to vote in the general election, however, has not passed and college students have a different set of options.

Dorothy Kennedy, Lubbock County’s election administrator, said Texas Tech students have three options when it comes to registering in Lubbock rather than their home county.

First, they can actually register in Lubbock, she said. This option is unique to college students in that registration does not lead to a change of residency.

The second option is called a limited ballot, Kennedy said, which can be done only during early voting, which takes place Feb. 16-26. In this case, Texas-born students will be able to visit the Lubbock County Elections Office and cancel their home registration, and in exchange be registered in Lubbock.

This option allows a student to vote in elections that are similar to both counties. When the student goes home, they can re-register in their home county.

Finally, students are able to apply for a mail-in ballot with their home county. In this case, the students must request an application

from the county clerk or elections administrator in their home county. That application is then sent to the student via mail, Kennedy said. After the student completes the application, the clerk prepares a specific ballot for the student. The student is able to vote and then send the ballot back.

“A mail ballot can be quite cumbersome in all the back and forth things,” Kennedy said.

“So a majority of our college age students choose to register here in Lubbock, so that their whole college career they are voting on Lubbock issues and still getting presidential ballots as well as mayor, city and schools and that kind of thing.”

Though Kennedy does suggest that student interest in voting peaks in the wake of a national election, the Elections Office still finds there is a lack of students registered to vote.

“I don’t feel like I am educated on how to register and I know that there are different voting processes like early voting and primaries and things like that,” Amber Smith, a freshman from Keller, said. “The thing is that my dad gave me the voter registration card, and I was never explained how it all works.

People our age will go out and vote, but there are so many deadlines and questions that people are afraid to ask, so they just don’t vote.”

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Seminars bring outside experts to Tech

By JOHN BOWLES Staff Writer

Every school week, the Edward E. Whitacre College of Engineering hosts seminars presented by speakers from different fields, universities and backgrounds that are open to all students.

Lorenzo De Carli, a prospective faculty candidate for the University of WisconsinMadison, gave a seminar titled, “Fast and Flexible In-

trusion Detection and Traffic Analysis,” on Feb. 8.

“My broad field is network security. So what I do is to find ways to implement complex type of traffic analysis that can detect online threats such as malware or intrusions,” De Carli said.

Networks are confronted with large amounts of data every second, he said, and it is difficult to effectively and efficiently detect any threats or issues with the large amounts of traffic that must be processed, he said.

Malware and targeted attacks, where an attacker

focuses on and learns as much as possible about a system in order to breach it, are an important aspect of his research, De Carli said.

Governments and banks are common targets, he said, such as a recent hacking attack against a government agency to get sensitive and private information. Nivan Ferreira, a prospective faculty candidate for the University of Arizona, gave a seminar titled, “Interactive Visualization Techniques for Urban Data Analysis” as part of a computer science department seminar series on Thursday.

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Ferreira’s research involves multiple projects that are focused on several aspects of city planning, he said.

One project involves looking at an urban area’s skyline using taxi mounted cameras and observing the trends of taxi services in that area.

“We are using taxis to understand mobility in the city, transportation in the city,” he said.

Another project Ferreira is working on is an interactive interface that allows a user to consider the potential of replacing one building with another of a different

size or shape.

It takes into account the view between different buildings and landmarks and how a new building, a replacement building or just demolishing a building can affect the view and perceived value of a property, Ferreira said.

In the future, the methods and tools he is working on could help city planners determine the effect a specific building or building type could have on everything from crime rates to water drainage and exposure to weather events, he said.

“There’s a lot of need in

the different government agencies, so there’s a lot of opportunity for interacting with them,” Ferreira said, “and how to use them to better plan the city as a whole. We need to make cities develop sustainably in a better way.”

There are already individuals using the software in presentations to clients, he said, despite being a work in progress.

Details about upcoming seminars can be found in the engineering master calendar on the Whitacre College of Engineering website. @DailyToreador

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The flags at Memorial Circle were flown at half-staff Sunday in memory of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead on Saturday. Scalia was 79 years old and was the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court. Flags will be flown at half-staff through Saturday in his honor, according to a White House news release.

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capital, where flags flew at half-staff at the White House and Supreme Court, the political sniping soared, raising the prospect of a court shorthanded for some time.

The Senate’s Republican leader, backed largely by his party’s White House candidates, essentially told a Democratic president in his final year in office not to bother asking lawmakers to confirm a nominee for the lifetime seat.

Scalia’s colleagues praised his brilliance and grieved his death. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she and Scalia “were best buddies” for more than 30 years. Justice Clarence Thomas said, “It is hard to imagine the court without my friend.”

A procession of about 20 law enforcement officers arrived in the early hours Sunday at an El Paso, Texas, funeral home, according to Chris Lujan, a manager for Sunset Funeral

Homes. He said they had traveled more than three hours from the West Texas resort ranch where the 79-year-old Scalia was found dead in his room Saturday morning, Lujan said if an autopsy is requested by Scalia’s family or ordered by a justice of the peace, then an El Paso County medical examiner would likely perform it at the funeral home.

Kristina Mills, a history teacher at nearby Chapin High School, came to pay her respects and brought flowers.

“Recognizing his contribution to serving our country just compelled me to come,” she said. “I wanted to do yellow roses because for him dying in Texas. I didn’t want his family to have bad memories of Texas.”

Tentative plans call for Scalia’s body to be flown on Tuesday back home to his family in a northern Virginia suburb. President Barack

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Obama ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at the high court, where Scalia served for three decades, and other federal buildings throughout the nation and U.S. embassies and military installations throughout the world.

As the flags fly lower, the campaign-year political heat has risen over the vacancy on the nine-member court.

At issue is whether Obama, in his last year in office, should make a nomination and the Republican-led Senate should confirm that choice in an election year.

Obama pledges a nomination “in due time.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., thinks it should wait for the next president.

The Republican resistance to an election-year confirmation got a thorough public airing on the GOP debate stage just hours after Scalia’s companions found him dead in his room at the Cibolo Creek Ranch near Marfa.

Republicans argued that Obama, as a lame duck, should not fill the vacancy created by Scalia’s death, but leave it to the next president — which they hope will be one of them.

The Constitution gives the Senate “advice and consent” powers over a presidential nomination to the Supreme Court. Ted Cruz, one of the two GOP senators running for president, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the GOP-controlled Senate is doing its job.

“We’re advising that a lame-duck president in an election year is not going to be able to tip the balance of the Supreme Court,” Cruz said.

But the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would hold hearings on a nominee, said it would be “sheer dereliction of duty for the Senate not to have a hearing, not to have a vote.”

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy told CNN’s “State of the Union” that he believes McConnell is “making a terrible mistake. And he’s certainly ignoring the Constitution.”

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said the Senate should vote on whomever Obama nominates.

“Let’s get on with it.”

Republicans insisted that refraining from Supreme Court confirmations in election years is a longtime precedent.

In fact, Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate on Feb. 3, 1988, in the final year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, by a 97-0 vote. That was a presidential election year. Kennedy was nominated in 1987 and confirmed the next year.

Of course, Kennedy, who is still on the court, was Reagan’s third choice, and far less reliably conservative than the first two picks. The Senate rejected the nomination of Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg withdrew over reports that he used marijuana while a Harvard law professor.

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The story also should have said students are currently required to have two sophomore-level foreign language courses, and would need one sophomore-level foreign language course under the proposed changes. These changes would take effect for new incoming students in the fall of 2017. The DT regrets these errors.

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Senate passes resolution opposing campus carry

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Faculty Senate voted 29-5 in favor of a senate resolution against campus carry last Thursday.

Michael Farmer, associate professor of natural resource economics and

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“There’s a few parts of the process and one of the biggest parts is identifying vulnerable people. If it’s somebody who they can tell doesn’t feel good about themselves or is not the cool kid, they are going to go after that girl and kind of play more of the boyfriend role,” Wheeler said.

“If it’s a girl that, let’s say, doesn’t have a father figure he’s going to come in and play the father figure.

It can also be women.

Sometimes women are going to come in and play the friend role. They are going to try and figure out whatever vulnerability is going on.”

Most often people are not going to be abducted off the street, Wheeler said, as most victims are coerced

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Other than a lack of knowledge, there are certain fears that students associate with changing the county in which they are registered to vote, Smith said. Students from out of state lack a Texas form of identification, jury duty and voter’s registration, and some think their residency will change with the location of their vote.

“What students can do if they have an out-ofstate driver’s license, they can go to the DPS and ask for an Election Identification Certificate,” Kennedy said. “It’s only good for

faculty senate president, said this resolution applies to educational spaces, including classrooms, laboratories or offices belonging to faculty members.

“People are concerned a b o u t a c c e s s m o s t l y, ” F a r m e r s a i d . “ We a r e very tradition bound and through false promises and manipulation — whether it is over the course of a week or multiple months.

Despite being offered help

by Voice of Hope, Wheeler said girls and women often return to their pimps and the world of prostitution that is familiar to them.

“We can provide opportunities, but people may or may not take them,” she said.

Not all victims are kept in physical bondage, more often than not it is the psychological bonds that keep them tied to their abuser, Wheeler said.

“It’s not so easy as physically walking away. A lot of times where people are staying the doors might not be locked,” Wheeler said. “They are so mentally chained they are not going to leave, they’re terrified or they’re made to feel that elections. You can’t take it to a bank and cash a check, but I do recommend that they go to the DPS website to see what documents they can get.”

Kennedy said students have the unique opportunity to register to vote without a change of residency and jury duty only affects those with a current Texas driver’s license.

“We are college students,” Kennedy said. “We are going to school and learning new things, so our votes represent what we are being taught and where the ideas and the world are moving, so it’s just sad when you look at the fact that students just aren’t voting.” @DTalexarosas

university faculty tend to stay in their tradi tions very closely. Faculty tend to look at something brand new and how it changes the dynamic of (their) classrooms.”

In addition to a change in the norm, Farmer said an incident last year, in

they really can’t survive without that person.”

Wheeler said she has more than 50 victims from the Lubbock area she keeps up

which a former Tech professor was shot and killed in his office at Delta State University in Mississippi, suggested a further threat to faculty.

Mark Gring, associate professor of communication studies, said it is also important to note

with and checks in on as much as she can. Wheeler was hired this past year because of the serious need for someone to work specifically

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At the state level, the legislature is working to improve the state’s fight against human trafficking. Multiple human trafficking-related House and Senate bills were voted into law at the 84th legislative session in June.

Senate Bill 825 focuses on the prosecution of the offense of prostitution and contains rhetoric that will better protect victims of human trafficking, especially minors.

House Bill 416 requires that all facilities that perform abortions complete training on human trafficking.

Anyone looking for help or more information can contact the Lubbock Rape Crisis Center, which provides assistance for victims, non-offending family members and friends affected by sexual assault/sex trafficking at (806) 763-7273. @DailyToreador

Who Obama might nominate to replace Scalia WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are near-unanimous in demanding that President Barack Obama leave it to his successor to nominate a candidate to fill the Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

But the president insists he plans to come forward with a nominee — and that there’s plenty of time for the Senate to weigh in.

That sets up what could be an epic election-year clash between Obama and Republicans who say they’ll refuse to vote for his nominee, who could reshape the court for

decades to come.

So who will Obama pick?

The White House had prepared for the possibility of liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Stephen Breyer retiring — but less so for a sudden vacancy of one of the court’s staunch conservatives like Scalia, said a former administration lawyer with knowledge of current White House planning. Now the White House is scrambling to put together a “short list” of candidates to be fully vetted, said the former official, who requested anonymity to dis-

Supreme Court vacancy tangible test for 2016 candidates not just the presidency, but the Supreme Court,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in the latest GOP debate, held in South Carolina just hours after word filtered out Saturday about Scalia’s death in Texas. “If we get this wrong, if we nominate the wrong candidate, the Second Amendment, life, marriage, religious liberty, every one of those hangs in the balance.”

Democratic Hillary Clinton painted a similarly stark scenario.

“If any of us needed a reminder of just how important it is to take back the United States Senate and hold onto the White House, just look at the Supreme Court,” Clinton said.

Clinton has said she would have “a bunch of litmus tests” for potential nominees, including a belief that the Citizens United ruling clearing the way for super political action committees

on human trafficking cases.

She said she estimates in 2015 there were at least 15 reported cases of human trafficking in Lubbock.

Gring said. “There’s no evidence to show that people over the age of 21 or U.S. citizens would cause problems in the classroom. It still seems to be a fearful reaction without a whole lot of basis, a whole lot of evidence.”

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The unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — and the immediate declaration from Republicans that the next president should nominate his replacement — adds even more weight to the decision voters will make in November’s general election.

For months, the candidates have espoused theoretical, sometimes vague, policy proposals. Now, the prospect of President Barack Obama’s successor nominating a Supreme Court justice immediately after taking office offers a more tangible way for voters to evaluate the contenders.

Candidates in both parties moved quickly to reframe the election as a referendum on the high court’s future.

“Two branches of government hang in the balance,

that while the resolution did pass, the faculty as a whole is not against campus carry.

“For one, I don’t think it’s a unanimous decision that having campus carry hinders the free flow of speech or viable disagreements in class,”

and unlimited campaign contributions should be overturned. She also said the court’s makeup is crucial to preserving abortion rights and the legality of gay marriage nationwide.

Bernie Sanders, who is challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination, has raised opposition to Citizens United as a requirement for any Supreme Court nominees.

Scalia, a hero of conservatives during his nearly 30 years on the Supreme Court, was found dead Saturday at a resort ranch in Texas. The court now is divided between four liberal and four typically conservative justices, putting the ideological tilt up for grabs.

Obama pledged to nominate a replacement in “due time,” even after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said that re-

sponsibility should fall to the winner of the 2016 election.

Obama could try to ram a nominee through the Senate this year, taking a high court vacancy off the next president’s immediate todo list. Even if that were to happen, a confirmation vote probably would be months away, leaving the Supreme Court in the center of the campaign during the nomination process.

With three other justices over the age of 75, the next president could have other vacancies during his or her tenure, even if Obama fills Scalia’s seat.

It’s unclear how the new focus on the Supreme Court might affect voters’ decisions in an election that has seen surprising and unconventional candidates such as Donald Trump and Sanders challenge their parties’ establishments.

cuss private conversations.

The biggest question facing Obama: whether he and his team feel there’s any realistic chance they can persuade Republicans to allow a vote.

If the answer is yes, Obama would have to try to find a perfect candidate with enough appeal to Republicans to change

their minds. A sitting senator or someone recently confirmed might do the trick.

If the answer is no, Obama could try to use his selection to political advantage in this year’s elections by nominating someone who would spark backlash if Republicans oppose him or her.

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Is cheap college tuition in Tech’s best interest?

Fair tuition prices, admission Raised tuition may give Tech process best for Tech’s future competitive edge it needs

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exas Tech’s acceptance rate is admirable. Giving someone a chance shouldn’t be frowned upon and keeping tuition prices low should be encouraged. Getting into Tech isn’t easy for everyone, but if one can get in it means a chance for students to take their life into a positive direction — a chance not everyone has the opportunity to take.

In ensuring each individual has a chance, Tech should strive to keep its admittance procedures the same and tuition affordable.

According to the U.S. News education report on Tech, our university’s acceptance rate for 2015-16 was 66 percent. Many factors go into what makes a university a successful one, factors more than just numbers and statistics. What makes students respect a university also depends greatly on the personal perspective and goals.

Tech is one of the most consistent universities when it comes to acceptance versus graduation rates. In Reeve Hamilton’s “ F o u r Ye a r G r a d u a t i o n Rates Lag, But Do They Matter?” published on the Texas Tribune website, Tech had the fourth-highest graduation rate in 2009 at 40 percent. This proves Tech is successful in taking students in and then helping them through their college years to graduate in a timely manner.

In Hamilton’s article, the University of Texas at El Paso President Diana Natalicio said, “(graduation) rates should not be used as the primary measurement of any university’s success.” She goes on to explain that to increase the graduation rates like the private or Ivy League schools, they would have to become more selective. However, some people who may not have had the best academic work in high school can rise and soar once they attend a university.

A university only has a small idea of who one is when choosing students

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

in the application process. After all, high school grades and family wealth do not always predict who will rise to the top and who will drop out. Though universities take a gamble with each student, the high importance of a college degree should mean public universities should take the gamble.

If Tech raises tuition prices or becomes more exclusive, it will no longer have access to all of the possible diamonds in the rough. Even if one isn’t a shining, obvious diamond, they still deserve the chance to make the world a better place and become successful.

In Shaul Kuper’s article, “Is a bachelor’s degree still worthwhile?” on the Fox News website, Kuper says even though someone goes through an entire college career and learns practically every skill to excel in their desired profession, they may never get the opportunity in that profession if they remain one credit away from getting their degree. Furthermore, those who drop out of college and use their newfound knowledge to become successful would owe their knowledge to the university that took a chance on them.

If Tech raises tuition prices or becomes more exclusive, it will no longer have access to all of the possible diamonds in the rough. Even if one isn’t a shining, obvious diamond, they still deserve the chance to make the world

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No one knows what the future holds, and that is The thought of raising w h y Te c h tuition is a needs to bitter idea Last week’s poll maintain to many results its same students. acceptance I get it — Should Texas Tech fight procedures college is illicit study drug intake? a l r e a d y and tuition prices — e x p e n Yes: 60% after all, sive, and who knows although No: 40% what type college stuof perdents can son can slip through the survive with a job that is cracks and into Tech’s hardly part-time and a diet pool of potentials. It’s of Little Caesar’s $5 pizzas, through Tech’s rigorous nobody wants to pay more but accepting application for college. process, as well as its However, most Tech classes and professors, students also want our that Tech has proved it university to do the best really believes it’s not it can. We cheer for our important where students teams to win and share come from, but instead the news when our uniwho they can become. versity ranks highly in college rankings. School emartinez@dailytoreador.com spirit and determination help a college succeed, but money undoubtedly plays a larger role in the quality of education a college offers.

Just to put the difference of tuitions among TexSouth Carolina, a state where as universities in perspecthe Bush family is popular tive, in an Oct. 31, 2015, with Republicans. George article, USA Today ranked W. Bush plans to campaign Rice University as the best with his brother in Charlescollege in Texas. According ton Monday, making his first to a report on Cappex.com, public foray into the 2016 race. a college statistics website, Ohio Gov. John Kasich students can expect to pay sought to inject the elecaround $52,700 per year tion’s high stakes into the discussion in the midst of the fiery exchanges between his competitors.

“I think we’re fixing to lose the election to Hillary Clinton if we don’t stop GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) this,” Kasich said.

— John Kasich proudly cites The governor ’s warnhis efforts while in Congress ings did little to deter his to cut what he believed was feisty colleagues. wasteful defense spending.

Cruz and Sen. Marco RuBut allies for Jeb Bush, a bio also revived their fight Republican presidential rival, over immigration, with the see a potential vulnerability Texas senator haranguing for Kasich in military-minded his Florida counterpart for South Carolina and are trying sponsoring failed legislation to slow the Ohio governor’s mothat would have created a mentum after a strong showing pathway to citizenship for in New Hampshire. many of those in the United An outside group backStates illegally. Cruz also acing Bush has begun airing a cused Rubio of taking a more television ad ahead of the Feb. moderate approach when 20 primary, using Kasich’s speaking to Spanish-language own words. It’s an effort to media in an attempt to appeal undermine Kasich in a state to Hispanics. that’s home to Fort Jackson

GOP candidates joust over foreign policy Scalia’s death thrust the future of the high court into the center of a heated presidential campaign. In their debate Saturday night, the GOP candidates insisted that President Barack Obama step aside and let his successor nominate Scalia’s replacement instead, a position the White House vigorously opposed.

Among the contenders, only Jeb Bush said Obama had “every right” to nominate a justice during his final year in office. The former Florida governor said the presidency must be a strong office — though he added that he didn’t expect Obama to pick a candidate who could win consensus support.

The five other candidates on the stage urged the Republican-led Senate to block any attempts by the president to get his third nominee on the court.

“It’s up to Mitch McConnell and everybody else to stop it,” Donald Trump said. “It’s called delay, delay, delay.”

A debate that began with a moment of silence for Scalia devolved quickly into fighting

between Trump and Bush, then between Trump and Cruz. The exchanges highlighted the bad blood between the billionaire businessman and his rivals as the race turns to South Carolina, a state known for rough-andtumble politics, where the next Republican primary will take place in one week.

Trump, repeatedly interrupting his rivals, lashed out at Cruz after the Texas senator challenged his conservative credentials, calling him the “single-biggest liar” and a “nasty guy.” The real estate mogul also accused Bush of lying about Trump’s business record and said Bush’s brother — former President George W. Bush — lied to the public about the Iraq war.

Bush, who has been among the most aggressive Republican candidates in taking on Trump, said that while he didn’t mind the businessman criticizing him — “It’s blood sport for him” — he was “sick and tired of him going after my family.”

Trump was jeered lustily by the audience in Greenville,

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at Rice University. Tech’s annual cost for in-state, undergraduate students is approximately $17,000, according to a report on the same website.

USA Today ranked the University of Texas as No. 3 in best Texas schools, and their expected cost for in-state, undergraduate students is $21,910, according to Cappex.com’s report.

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by USA Today, and Cappex. com estimates their costs to be around $18,200.

School spirit and determination help a college succeed, but money undoubtedly plays a larger role in the quality of education a college offers.

Tuition prices is not a fun conversation to have, but if we wish to compete with other Texas schools, discussing tuition is a conversation we must have.

One of the great things about the Tech administration is that despite our relatively low prices, they continue to push the college to compete with other Texas universities, yet it is difficult to compete with colleges who have more financial resources.

Despite low tuition prices, Tech has just received the Tier One Carnegie Designation and will still strive to receive the Association of American Universities’ tier one designation, a designation which only Rice University, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin possess, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador. Though Tech may offer lower tuition, it is obvious the administration still wants Tech to have the equal or higher pedigree as other Texas schools.

A correlation between tuition prices and college ranking does not prove money to be the source of a college’s success, but there is little doubt it helps.

Quality research helps improve a school’s reputation and the salary in which a school can pay its profes-

sors affects the quality of professors it can hire.

The amount of money a university can put into its amenities is also a deciding factor, as the Center for Facilities Research 2006 report, “Final Report On The Impact of Facilities On The Recruitment and Retention of Students” showed that a university’s amenities and facilities is a strong influence on a student’s decision when choosing a university.

It is clear how a university’s budget can affect its reputation and enrollment rate. Higher salaries lead to better competition for teaching jobs, which leads to even better research produced. Larger faculty budgets can lead to increased faculty size, which could result in smaller classroom sizes and happier students. As shallow as it may seem, simply raising tuition would improve Tech’s reputation, as evidenced in the New York Times article, “How to Raise a University’s Profile: Pricing and Packaging.”

There is no doubt a raised Tech tuition could benefit the school tre mendously. The question is if students should support the decision to raise tuition if Tech were to consider it.

Judging by how diligently the Tech administration fights to secure tier one designation and produce acclaimed research activity, we students should accept that if the university raises tuition, it is in the university’s best interest.

If Tech raised the tuition rates to rival Texas A&M or University of Texas in Austin, Tech would have the increased reputation to maintain enrollment growth, as well as increased resources to provide educational resources.

L a s t O c t o b e r, Te c h ranked No. 13 in Business Insider ’s “The 50 most underrated colleges in America,” a fact the Tech administration was proud of, seeing as they published a Nov. 12, 2015, Texas Tech Today post about it.

Yet, I do not want to see Tech on a list of the most “underrated” colleges, I want to see Tech consistently on the list of top colleges in Texas. Tech has given me a fantastic education, one I am sure could rival any other college in Texas.

If Tech chooses to raise its tuition to match other acclaimed Texas schools, I will give my support. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Allies of Bush, Kasich spar over military funds and Parris Island, massive training installations for the Army and Marine Corps, as well as a number of air bases and a naval training school for nuclear submarine officers.

Kasich and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, winner of the state’s primary in 2012, are denouncing the broadside, but it’s clear that the rivalry between Kasich, the Ohio governor, and Bush, a former Florida governor, is intensifying.

Bush’s team sees defense spending as a key area to draw distinctions. Right to Rise, the outside group backing Bush, launched the ad

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Students take local kids to basketball game

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s basketball game against Baylor on Saturday had a few extra children visitors for the annual Take a Kid to the Game day.

Take a Kid to the Game is a national program Tech has been a part of since the 80s, and it has been responsible for about 40,000 kids attending Red Raider games through the years.

Students and organizations volunteered their time to be chaperones for children from the surrounding Lubbock area as they gathered in the United Supermarkets Arena to watch the Lady Raiders’ basketball game.

“We reach out to any schools, churches and we give them an invitation if they want to bring kids to campus and take them to the game,” Micheal Gunn, the coordinator of Take a Kid to the Game, said. “Normally it’s kids who wouldn’t be going to a Texas Tech game sporting event, and that’s who we target for these things.”

The children arrived

on campus and were gathered at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center at noon, Gunn said, where they were given free pizza and got to interact with some of the student volunteers.

After the kids have been fed, he said, a group of them are paired with students and they all walk over to the USA to watch the basketball game.

The event had about 1,000 child attendees and also several parents, teachers and counselors to watch over the kids as well, Gunn said. This experience positively impacts the children who get to attend.

“The kids in the community actually really enjoy it. It’s a chance for them to interact here on campus and be exposed to the campus in a way they normally wouldn’t be,” he said. “I think that the kids who come to these games get a lot out of them, they get a chance to meet Tech students as well as see a sporting event.”

Nicole McIntyre, a freshman English major who volunteered for the

game, said she thinks these kids will have something great to take away from this event.

“I think the best thing that is going to come out of this is the chance for them to engage with older students who are really giving them a lot of attention and support,” she said.

“They are really going to love the basketball game.

It’s super exciting and I think that this is going to give them something they can look forward to every year.”

Gunn said when he assigns the student volunteers to these children, he expects them to uphold good character as they are representing Tech to the future generation.

“I think they need someone who is serious but still likes to have fun,” Quen Dison, a freshman cell and molecular biology major, said in regard to what kind of character a good student chaperone should have when working with these kids.

Elizabeth Robertson, a counselor at Atkins Middle School, said getting these students on a college

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A group of boys in the Tomorrow’s Leaders organization throw their guns up to pose for a picture. Tomorrow’s Leaders was one of many organizations that participated in Take a Kid to the Game on Saturday where kids got to watch the Lady Raiders’ basketball game against Baylor with Texas Tech students.

campus is a great way to motivate them to strive for higher education.

“I think that a lot of these kids have either never been on the campus or have heard of Tech but not actually seen it,” she said, “so getting to come on campus and see everything, I hope will drive them to come to school here or at least just go to college.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Students prepare for emergency situations

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person’s life.

“Being a first responder type scenario is always good,” she said. “I’m pretty well rehearsed in first aid myself and I find that to be really important, so taking it the step further is always a good idea and I think this is a really good time in a person’s life to learn these skills.”

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A new club on the Texas Tech campus offers experience and knowledge on how to survive real life crisis scenarios and be prepared for what to do when they happen.

The Tech Survivalist Club is an organization that is open to all students, faculty and members from the Lubbock community who want to learn techniques on survival, preparation and risk mitigation.

“It’s happened to someone, where they’ve been in a situation where they kind of had to play hero, they saw something happening and they had to help,” Benjamin Paul, the chief of the Survivalist Club, said.

Paul said he wanted to make the club because he has met people who come from all types of environments, and he believes having the ability to take care of oneself and being self sustaining is something anyone can relate to and should be able to do.

“Bystander intervention is really big right now on our campus and throughout campuses, and it’s just something that we’re trying to build upon, not just standing by and watching bad things happen,” he said. “That doesn’t mean that you should jump into a situation if you have no idea what you’re doing, and so we’ve created an organization to help people know what they’re doing.”

The club plans on having weekly meetings in which one presenter will “take point” on teaching a new survivalist topic to the group.

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Benjamin Paul, chief of the Survivalist Club, spoke at an info session for the club in the Student Union Building Soapsuds room Thursday. The club will host meetings every week where members will talk about topics that will help students prepare to respond to emergency situations.

Paul said he plans on taking point for the first session and will teach members how to pack a proper bug-out bag, which is a bag with necessary supplies one can grab and get out of one’s house in 15 seconds in case of a fire or other disaster.

This is one of the many skills he hopes to teach the members of the club.

“I am working on setting up something with Juan Granados, professor from ceramics, to teach us how to make earthenware,” he said. “So we are going to be digging up clay and making earthen vessels so you can put water in it.”

Paul said he hopes to work with groups from the Tech campus and around the Lubbock community to give hands-on presentations about valuable skills for survival.

Bailey Warterfield, the club’s representative for the student organization representative council, said she has her own ideas on things for the club to do that give back to the university.

“We also hope to do some kind of volunteering,” she said. “We’d like to do some

group activities for volunteering because I think it brings the organization closer together and working for a better cause.”

Kate Pennington, a psychology major who attended an info session for the Survivalist Club, said she was interested in the club and thought it was a great opportunity.

“I found survivalism to be a pretty interesting topic,” she said. “I’ve always been a fan of outdoor activities and camping, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to learn more about that kind of stuff.”

Paul said if someone goes to only a few sessions with the club, they can learn a few valuable skills, and if they attend all of them, they can become an expert in a short amount of time.

Anyone can join the club through OrgSync, and the dues are $30 for the semester and $50 for the year.

The club is also looking to fill a media representative and a risk management officer position.

Pennington also said she thinks these skills could be valuable in a

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DiCaprio wins in British film awards LONDON (AP) — The U.K. film industry showered Valentine’s Day love on “The Revenant” Sunday, awarding the endurance epic five prizes, including best picture and best actor, at the British Academy Film Awards.

Leonardo DiCaprio cemented his Oscar-favorite status by taking the bestactor trophy for playing a bear-battling fur trapper in a brutally wild American West. Alejandro G. Inarritu was named best director for

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DiCaprio, who has been nominated three times before at the British awards without winning, said in his acceptance speech that he was “absolutely humbled” to beat “The Martian” star Matt Damon, “Trumbo’’’s Bryan Cranston, Michael Fassbender for “Steve Jobs,” and Eddie Redmayne for “The Danish Girl.”

He cited the influence on

his work of British actors including Tom Courtney, Peter O’Toole, Daniel Day Lewis and his “Revenant” co-star Tom Hardy, and sent thanks and greetings to his mother, whose birthday fell on Sunday.

The British awards, known as BAFTAs, are considered a portent of success at Hollywood’s Feb. 28 Academy Awards. “The Revenant” has earned DiCaprio his sixth Oscar nomination — and, many believe, his best shot at finally winning.

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Tech defeats No. 21 Baylor on road

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

For the first time in program history, the Texas Tech Red Raiders defeated a ranked opponent by double digits in an 84-66 win over the No. 21 Baylor Bears Saturday night in the Ferrell Center, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

For the Red Raiders, Saturday’s win earned them their first win over a ranked opponent on the road since defeating a thenNo. 6 Texas A&M team, 77-75.

Sophomore guard Keenan Evans continued his streak of doubledigit scoring with a career and game-high 21 points against the Bears.

From the start, Tech’s offense smothered the Bears

defense and led by as many as 10 at 14-4 in the opening half after sophomore guard Justin Gray drained a 3-pointer.

Baylor chipped at the Red Raider lead after Gray’s 3-pointer and a 7-0 run tied the game at 14 each with Baylor senior forward Taurean Prince scoring on a layup. By 8:04 left in the first half, Baylor gained its largest lead of the game at 2016. Tech, however, regained the lead and finished the half ahead by one, 33-32.

By halftime, Tech’s offense combined for 10 of 21 shooting and 5 of 9 from beyond the 3-point line.

After trading off the lead in the first three minutes of the second half, Tech dialed in its offense and 10 consecutive points brought the

Red Raiders ahead 46-36.

Baylor senior guard Lester Medford ended the scoring run

by Tech with a 3-pointer, but once Tech upped the lead back to double digits, Baylor’s offense could not near the Red Raider advantage.

Close to the five-point mark, Prince scored a three to keep a comeback alive, but a layup and outside shot from senior guard Devaugntah Williams calmed Baylor’s offense.

Once the game came to its last three minutes, Tech drained seconds off the clock and with a 12-point lead, desperation set in for the Bears.

Senior center Rico Gathers let frustration take over and committed a flagrant foul on Gray, which got the senior center ejected with less than two

minutes left.

In the second half, Tech made 16 of its 24 shots and four of its seven 3-pointers. Joining Tech in double-digit scoring, junior forward Aaron Ross scored 14, sophomore forward Zach Smith 16 and Gray 17 points.

The win over Baylor improved Tech’s overall record to 15-9 and its Big 12 record to 5-7.

Only six games remain in Tech’s regular-season schedule, meaning one more win guarantees Tech an above .500 record before the Big 12 tournament.

Continuing its round of ranked opponents, Tech awaits the No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners at its home court in a mid-week game at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. @DGaytanDT

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Oklahoma State guard Jeff Newberry drives past Texas Tech guard Devaugntah Williams during the first half of Tech’s game against the Cowboys on Feb. 3 in the United Supermarkets Arena.

SOFTBALL

Tech softball opens season 3-2 at tournament

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball team finished its tournament in the Sportco Kick Off Classic, hosted at Eller Media Stadium in Las Vegas with three wins and two losses, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

A 7-3 win over host team University of Nevada Las-Vegas Thursday night opened the season for the Red Raiders with junior Dominique Alcocer earning the win after six innings of work and three earned runs.

After three scoreless innings, Tech broke open the score in the fourth inning

with three runs and added another two with a RBI single by senior shortstop Brooke Scott and a pair of errors by UNLV. Tech scored the final two runs of the game with a home run from junior left fielder Kierra Miles.

The Red Raiders earned their second win of the season Friday afternoon with a 5-1 victory over Utah Valley.

Three of Tech’s runs came in the second inning after freshman designated player Karli Hamilton hit a home run in her first collegiate at bat.

From there, the Red Raiders kept Utah Valley quiet with only a run allowed at

the top of the third. A run in the fifth and sixth padded the lead for Tech, and freshman pitcher Cheyene Powell earned the win after allowing four hits, one earned run and six strikeouts in five and onethird innings pitched.

Shortly after their game against Utah Valley, the Red Raiders were rocked by the No. 20 Washington Cougars in a 14-5 loss.

Washington scored five runs in its first turn at bat to go up 5-1 heading into the second, and Tech did not score a run until the fourth when it scored a pair off three hits to cut the lead to 6-3.

The Red Raiders scored another pair at the top of

the fifth, but Washington plated four before putting another four on the board to end the game at the bottom of the sixth. Alcocer allowed 10 hits and eight earned runs in four and two-thirds innings pitched.

Tech scooped up a win against Long Beach in a 4-2 victory on the final day of the tournament and first game of a double header.

Powell pitched all seven innings of the contest and allowed just four hits and three walks. In four at bats, senior center fielder Jordan Bettiol gathered four hits with one going past the wall and earned two RBIs. It took until the fifth in-

ning for Tech to score but the team plated three runs and added another in the sixth inning. Long Beach looked to spark a rally with two runs at the bottom of the seventh but Powell stamped out the fire with a flyout.

Tech ended the three-day tournament with a 7-4 loss to the No. 14 Minnesota Golden Gophers.

By the fourth inning, Minnesota led 6-0 after scoring the first run of the game in the first, its second run in the inning following and four runs at the top of the third.

Tech cut the Gopher lead to as few as two after Hamilton hit a home run in the sixth inning following a run

in the fourth and a pair at the bottom of the fifth.

M i n n e s o t a , h o w e v e r, tacked on another run in the seventh to pad its lead and kept the Red Raiders from tagging home in the final inning.

Alcocer took the loss in the contest after two and one-third innings of work with eight hits allowed, six earned runs and three walks.

Tech continues its season with a trip to San Diego for the Campbell/Cartier Tournament hosted at SDSU Softball Stadium. The Red Raiders open the tournament with contest against San Diego at 1:30 p.m. Friday. @DGaytanDT

TRACK AND FIELD

Red Raiders continue to break school, personal records

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Track & Field team made a showing at both the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the Music City Challenge in Nashville, Tennessee, this weekend.

Senior Bradley Adkins continued to improve his height in the high jump at the Tyson Invitational. On one try, he sailed over the height of 2.29m/7-6, matching the school record he

set with JaCorian Duffield in the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships.

J un ior Vi er sha n ie Latham has also continued to improve her performance in the triple jump, beating the school record again with 13.31m/43-8. This performance gave her the lead in the Big 12 and gave her the No. 6 ranking in the NCAA. Other performances this weekend nearly broke school records, including the performance from the

4x400 relay team. Sophomore Steven Champlin, senior Joseph Richards III, sophomore CJ Jones and junior Kyle Collins won their second heat with a time of 3:04.98, .23 seconds from the school record.

Jones also got a personal best in the 800m with a time of 1:48.79. This time was the seventh best in school history and extended his Big 12 lead by almost two seconds.

Freshman Vincent Crisp won the 800m, taking the lead in the final lap with a

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final time of 1:50.64. This time is the sixth-fastest time in the Big 12 this season and Crisp’s personal best.

Both Richards and Champlin ran under 47 seconds in the 400m. Finishing fourth overall, Richards clocked in at 46.49 seconds, which is eighth fastest in school history. Champlin performed his seasonal best with 46.88 seconds.

In the men’s 5,000m, senior Evans Tuitoek and sophomore Miguel Bautista finished first and second

place respectively at the Music City Challenge. Tuitoek ran a time of 14:31.31 while Bautista finished at 14:38.01. Both of these times are at the top of the Big 12.

Sophomore Haley Cook won the women’s pole vault event with her performance of 4.15m/13-7.25 sealing the win for her. Cook made her personal best last weekend in New Mexico with 4.20/139.25. This score ranks fourth in the Big 12 and is tied for 19th in the NCAA. Junior Reece Timmons also

achieved a personal best in the women’s pole vault event with 4.00m/13-7.25.

Freshman Brandon Bray matched his personal best in the men’s pole vault at 5.31m/17-5. This performance gave him fourth place in the event and maintained his position at 15th in the NCAA. The team is not competing next week in preparation for the Big 12 Indoor Championships in Ames, Iowa, on Feb. 26 and 27. @DavidGayDT

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Sabres score early in 4-1 win Alston’s 26 leads No. 7 BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jack Eichel and the Sabres’ young stable of offensive stars sparked a three-goal first period.

Goalie Robin Lehner and Buffalo’s penalty-killing unit then did the rest in securing a 4-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.

“That’s obviously huge.

You get out to a lead early,” Eichel said. “It’s good to get to him early. Obviously, our team’s playing with a lot more confidence when you’re up 2-0 that soon into the game.”

Eichel opened the scoring by capping an end-to-end rush 2:02 in. The Sabres scored again on their second shot on net and chased Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov 2½ minutes later, when Evander Kane floated

in a shot from just inside the blue line.

After Sam Reinhart deflected in Ryan O’Reilly’s shot late in the first period, the Sabres leaned on Lehner to beat Colorado for the first time since Dec. 4, 2005, and snap a 0-6-4 skid.

Buffalo killed off all six Avalanche power-play chances, including a 2-minute, two-man advantage that began with 6:22 left.

“I think we played desperate there,” said Lehner, who finished with 34 saves.

“I think they missed the net about six times. They helped us out a little bit. But it was just nice to get through that and be able to come out with a win.”

Lehner bounced back after giving up 11 goals in his previous three starts, includ-

ing being pulled in a 7-4 loss to Florida on Tuesday.

Colorado closed a threegame road trip with a 2-1 record, and dropped to 2-4-1 in their past seven. The Avalanche also lost in regulation for the first time in eight trips to Buffalo. They had gone 6-0-1 at Buffalo since a 2-1 loss on Dec. 23, 1999.

The game against Buffalo was a reversal of Colorado’s 3-2 shootout win at Detroit on Friday. The Avalanche beat the Red Wings despite being outshot 45-21 and lost to the Sabres in a game they outshot Buffalo 35-21.

“It’s kind of funny because we didn’t play very well against Detroit and we (won),” coach Patrick Roy said. “And this afternoon, we had a strong game and we came up short.”

Ohio State over Penn State STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Ameryst Alston hit eight 3-pointers and finished with 26 points as No. 7 Ohio State beat Penn State 77-63 on Sunday, its ninth straight win.

Kelsey Mitchell added 17 points and Alexa Hart chipped in 12 points and 14 rebounds for the Buckeyes who remain atop the Big Ten standings with four games left.

Lindsey Spann led Penn State (9-16, 4-10) with 21 points while Brianna Banks added 14.

Teniya Page and Kaliyah Mitchell scored 11 and 10 points respectively for Penn State. But the Lady Lions’ balanced offensive approach, coupled with an aggressive second-half start, wasn’t enough to overcome the Buckeyes (21-4, 13-1) who led for

27:45 including the final 14:55.

Not used to early starts after playing its last two games late, the Buckeyes were slow to get their offense going.

Their transition game was sloppy as well. The Buckeyes committed 13 first-half turnovers and didn’t score its first points until nearly 4 minutes into the game. They recovered on the right arm of Alston.

She made three 3-pointers in the first quarter and continued to drain long shots and was most comfortable from the top of the arc.

When Alston wasn’t draining deep shots, Mitchell was. She knocked down two in the second quarter with Alston out for a breather and Ohio State took a 37-30 lead into halftime. Penn

State kept pace as Spann scored 15 first-half points.

She and Banks sparked a 12-6 run to begin the third quarter. It cut Ohio State’s lead to 45-44 before Penn State took its first lead since the end of the first on a midrange shot from Page.

But Ohio State went ahead for good moments later when Mitchell was left wide open for her third 3-pointer of the game. Ohio State attempted 34 3-pointers. Penn State kept within a point for much of the fourth quarter but Ohio State took control over the final 5:35 with and pulled away with a 17-6 run. Alston, who shot 53 percent from 3-point range, hit her final 3-pointer with 2:53 left and made two free throws to close out the game.

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MEN’S TENNIS

Team goes 2-1 at ITA Championships

By BRANDON SOLIZ SportS Editor

On Friday, the No. 14 Texas Tech men’s tennis team began its journey in the 2016 ITA Indoor National Championship in Charlottesville, Virginia, for the first time since 2011, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Red Raiders entered the contest with a 10-0 record on the year and faced off against No. 7 North Carolina to begin the tournament.

Te c h o p e n e d u p t h e match against North Carolina with a victory in the doubles portion of the competition, but could not ride the momentum into singles matches, according to the release.

Seniors Hugo Dojas and Felipe Soares began the tournament against the duo of Brett Clark and Robert Kelly. The match was a rematch of the UTSA/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championship back in November, which Dojas

and Soares won.

Once again, the two Red Raiders defeated Clark and Kelly to give Tech a quick advantage.

However, the Red Raiders went into singles and o pe n e d w i t h a l o s s o n court one with Soares losing his match.

Following a loss by freshman Bjorn Thomson, the Red Raiders then saw Dojas fall on court two.

Sophomore Connor Curry then lost his match on court five to give Tech its first loss on the year.

On Saturday, the Red Raiders then faced off against a top five opponent in No. 4 Baylor.

This time, the Red Raiders claimed a victory and defeated the Bears, 4-3.

Tech coach Brett Masi said he was proud of how his team responded after a loss to North Carolina to start the tournament.

“I’m proud of our guys for coming back strong after our doubles performance,” Masi said in the release.

“We almost shot ourselves

in the foot and we could’ve let that set the tone for our singles matches but we were able to show some fight and grit. I’m pleased with the way we turned that around.”

With the scored tied at 3-3, Soares claimed victory on court one to give the Red Raiders the win against the No. 4 team in the nation.

Next up for the Red Raiders was No. 11 Georgia.

Against the Bulldogs, Tech started off slow with a loss in doubles.

In singles, the Red Raiders claimed the first game to tie the match at 1-1 with a win by way of sophomore Alex Sendegeya.

Georgia then claimed court two to go ahead of Tech 2-1. However, the Red Raiders went on to win three straight courts to capture a 4-2 victory to finish the tournament.

Junior Jolan Cailleau led the way with a 6-1, 6-4 victory on court four, followed by two victories from Curry and Thomson on courts five and six,

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Bjorn Thomson strikes a powerful backhand return during his singles match against Arizona on Jan. 18 at McLeod Tennis Center. respectively, to secure the win for Tech.

The Red Raiders finished with a 2-1 overall record at

the tournament and return home to host a doubleheader on Saturday starting with UTSA at 10 a.m. fol-

lowed by a matchup against Utah State at 2 p.m. at the McLeod Tennis Center. @BSoliz_DT

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Lady Raiders go undefeated during weekend On Friday, the No. 10 Texas Tech women’s tennis team claimed its first victory of the weekend against Wisconsin.

It was the first time since 2013 that the Lady Raiders faced off against Wisconsin, according to a Te c h A t h l e t i c s n e w s release.

The Lady Raiders stayed in Madison, Wisconsin, after the ITA Indoor National Championships the first weekend of this month to play against the Badgers on Friday and Tulane on Saturday.

This was the first time in program history the Lady Raiders played as a top 10 team.

Tech claimed the doubles point with sophomore Sarah Dvorak and freshman Alex Valenstein claiming court two, while sophomore Sabrina Federici and freshman Felicity Maltby won their match on court three.

“I’m very proud of how emotionally invested the team was during today’s match,” Tech coach Todd Petty said in the release.

“We didn’t play the cleanest tennis, but everyone competed very well. Give credit to Wisconsin for battling us in every position, they are a very tough team

I’m very proud of how emotionally invested the team was during today’s match.

TODD PETTY TECH COACH that didn’t go away.”

Dvorak, Valenstein and Federici captured their singles matches to give Tech the 4-1 victory against Wisconsin. The following day, the Lady Raiders stayed on

Wisconsin’s campus to take on Tulane.

Federici and Maltby picked up where they left off in doubles and won court three once more to give Tech a quick advantage against Tulane. Junior Lynn Kiro and sophomore Gabriela Talaba joined in and finished the doubles portion of the competition to give Tech the 1-0 lead.

In singles, Dvorak, Federici and sophomore Katelyn Jackson won their matches, and Tech completed the weekend undefeated with a 4-0 win against Tulane.

“We are excited to end this trip on a good note,” Petty said in the release.

“We’re ready to get some rest and gear up for three tough matches this weekend at home starting with BYU on Friday.”

Tech’s next matchup will be at home against the BYU Cougars at 4 p.m. Friday at the McLeod Tennis Center.

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Alex Valenstein returns a powerful forehand during her doubles match against Fresno State on Saturday at McLeod Tennis Center.

The Lady Raiders will host the College of Wil-

liam & Mary on Sunday and then the Washington

Huskies the following day. @BSoliz_DT

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Juluke leaving program for LSU Oklahoma defeats No. 6 Texas Saturday morning, Texas Tech Athletics announced in a release that running backs coach Jabbar Juluke is leaving the program and accepting a similar position at LSU. Juluke, a native of New Orleans, joined the Red Raider coaching staff on Jan. 20 after serving as t h e L o u i s i a n a Te c h a s sistant coach and running backs coach. Juluke has over 20 years of coaching

experience, according to the release.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said he would attempt to fill the position before the March 5 spring training game.

“I’m sorry to see coach Juluke go, but this is a lifelong dream of his,” K i n gs b u ry s a i d i n t h e news release. “He’s a Louisiana guy and this is an opportunity for him to go home. I know he will be an

incredible asset for coach Miles and their program.”

Juluke will join the LSU coaching staff and inherit one of the top running backs in the nation in Leonard Fournette.

The LSU Tigers met up with the Red Raiders on Dec. 29 in the 10th annual AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl and left NRG Stadium in Houston with a 56-27 win. @BSoliz_DT

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Texas had won six in a row. It dropped one game back of No. 4 Baylor for the Big 12 lead.

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Baylor pulls away in second half

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

In the annual Play 4Kay pink game, No. 4 Baylor defeated the Texas Tech women’s basketball team 66-36 in front of 6,565 fans in attendance in the United Supermarkets Arena on Saturday afternoon.

The Lady Bears pushed their record to 25-1 while the Lady Raiders fell to 11-13.

Tech coach Candi Whitaker said her team played tight defense, but the players were against one of the best offenses in the country.

“I thought we did a lot of great things on the defensive end to start the game,” she said, “but Baylor has a lot of firepower and a lot of ability to score a lot of points.”

The two teams played a close first quarter with Baylor taking a 19-14 lead.

The Lady Bears shot nearly 20 percent better than the Lady Raiders in the opening period but were forced into seven turnovers.

Coming off the bench, sophomore forward Dayo Olabode scored five points in the first period.

In a defensive second

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Texas Tech forward Dayo Olabode dribbles the ball around a Baylor defender during the Lady Raiders’ basketball game on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. Baylor defeated Tech 66-36. q u a r t e r, t h e g a m e r e mained close with Baylor winning the quarter 8-6 to

take a 27-20 halftime lead.

Tech made just eight out of 32 shots, or 25 per-

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Texas Tech coach Candi Whitaker motions a play from the sidelines during the Lady Raiders’ basketball game against Baylor on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

cent, in the half, but kept the game close by continuing to force turnovers.

Whitaker said Tech has been shooting more and more each practice, but shots still are not falling during games.

“This team is in the gym more than any team I’ve really ever coached,” Whitaker said. “I really don’t have an answer to why or we wouldn’t be shooting this poorly still.”

Junior guard Ivonne C o o k Ta y l o r h a d e i g h t points and grabbed six rebounds in the first half to lead the offense.

The fourth-best scorer in the Big 12 Conference, Baylor’s junior forward Nina Davis, recorded seven points and seven rebounds in the half.

Baylor’s offense got rolling in the third quarter with 23 points while limiting Tech to nine points. The quarter put the game out of reach

for the Lady Raiders as the Lady Bears led 50-29 going into the fourth quarter.

CookTaylor continued to pace the offense with 12 points but turned the ball over six times.

I thought we did a lot of great things on the defensive end to start the game, but Baylor has a lot of firepower and a lot of ability to score a lot of points.

CANDI WHITAKER TECH COACH “I thought we did a good job of trying to really be aware of boxing out and putting bodies on people every possession,”

Whitaker said. “Every time we did not do that, they scored. They’re too good, they’re too big at rebounding it if you’re not extremely physical.”

The Lady Bears used their clear height advantage in the quarter. Entering the fourth quarter, Baylor had 28 points in the paint, compared to only six for Tech.

Baylor continued to expand on its lead by starting the final quarter on a 10-3 run. The team outscored Tech 16-7 in the quarter.

Davis fueled the offensive run and ended the game with 21 points on nine out of nine free throws and 12 rebounds.

As a team, Baylor made 17 out of 18 free throws.

Tech was held to 22.8 percent shooting for the game. Davis said Baylor harps on playing defense more than making shots.

“We can score. We have players have that can score,” she said. “But, defense is going to win championships. Defense is what wins games. That’s something we take pride in. Defense is nothing but effort.”

Freshman guard Japreece Dean has set a Tech record with five Big 12 Freshman of the Week awards but struggled to find her shot in the contest. She missed all nine of her shot attempts and finished with no points.

Dean did get into passing lanes and had four steals.

C o o k Ta y l o r f i n i s h e d with a team high 16 points and nine rebounds.

Baylor nearly doubled Tech on the glass and outscored them 38-6 in the paint for the game.

“We had lapses where we weren’t playing defense and they converted,” CookTaylor said. “We didn’t retaliate.”

The Lady Raiders will attempt to rebound from the loss when they play against Iowa State at 7 p.m.

Wednesday in Ames, Iowa. @JeremyK_DT

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Frerking leads Auburn women over No. 16 Florida

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Katie Frerking scored 11 of her 18 points in the fourth quarter and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Auburn to an 80-59 victory over No. 16 Florida on Sunday.

The Tigers’ fifth consecutive win vaulted Auburn (188, 8-5) past the Gators (19-6, 7-5) in the SEC standings.

The teams meet again in a regular-season finale Feb. 28.

Brandy Montgomery added 16 points, Tra’Cee Tanner 12 and Khady Dieng 10.

Florida and Auburn came in ranked fourth and fifth nationally for steals but the Tigers dominated that category Sunday, 13-5. They also turned 22 Gators turnovers into 27 points.

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After the teams combined for only 14 points in the third quarter, the Tigers outscored the Gators 23-10 in the final period. Frerking scored six straight points to give Auburn a 19-point lead with under four minutes left.

Ronni Williams scored 16 points and Carlie Needles 15 for Florida.

Langer wins Chubb Classic NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Bernhard Langer won the Chubb Classic on Sunday for his 26th PGA Champions Tour title, closing with a 1-over 73 for a three-stroke victory.

Seven strokes ahead after opening with rounds of 62 and 66, the 58-year-old German star finished at 15 under 201 at TwinEagles. He also won in 2011 and 2013, was second in 2012 and tied for second in 2014.

Fred Couples had a 66 to finish second.

Langer completed his sixth wire-to-wire triumph.

He’s second on the 50-andover tour’s victory list, behind Hale Irwin (45) and Lee Trevino (29).

Using an approach of smart-aggressive, Langer was 1 over through 10 holes before making his first birdie on No. 11.

Couples drew within two shots with a birdie on 17 and Langer’s bogey on 15. Couples had a three-putt bogey on 18, and Langer birdied 17 to push the margin to four. On 18, Langer put his second shot in the water and salvaged a bogey.

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