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Early voting begins today

Early voting for the March 1 Texas Republican and Democratic primary elections begins today and continues through Feb. 26.

Those registered to vote in Lubbock County have many polling places to choose from, including the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center at Texas Tech and many United Supermarkets locations. The Rec Center will be open for voting from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day of early voting, with the exception of Sunday, when it will be open from 1 to 6 p.m.

University Medical Center will also be an early voting location on Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The full list of voting

locations in the county and their hours of operation are available at the Lubbock County Elections Office website.

Voters must present a valid photo ID to vote in person, according to VoteTexas.gov. Acceptable forms of photo ID include a Texas driver ’s license, Texas election identification certificate, Texas personal identification card, Texas concealed handgun license, U.S. military ID containing a photograph, U.S. citizenship certificate containing a photograph and a U.S. passport.

For those registered outside Lubbock County, the last day to apply for a ballot by mail is Friday,

according to the elections office website. The application must be received by Friday and the ballot itself must be returned by March 1.

The deadline to register to vote in the primary election has already passed, but there is still time to register for a possible runoff election on May 24 as well as the November general election, according to the website. Applications can be accessed via the elections office website or picked up at county elections offices, driver’s license offices, post offices and public libraries and then mailed to the County Voter Registrar or the county elections office. @DailyToreador

BASEBALL

Gutierrez, Lyons lead young Red Raider team

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

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Texas Tech first baseman Eric Gutierrez catches the throw from pitcher Cameron Smith for an out during Tech’s 8-2 loss to Oklahoma State on April 25, 2015, at Rip Griffin Park. Gutierrez is expected to be a veteran leader in his senior season.

Senior infielder Eric Gutierrez and junior outfielder Anthony Lyons have brought a veteran presence to an overall young Texas Tech baseball team. With Gutierrez in his fourth year and Lyons in his third, they will lead the team throughout the season with their veteran experience.

During his time at Tech, Gutierrez has started every game he has been a player for, according to the Tech Athletics website. He has been solid through his first three seasons, posting a career .291 batting average through 177 total games.

In all of his four years, Gutierrez has started his season at home, he said. Opening Day is the date he is focusing on.

“We are excited about Opening Day,” Gutierrez said. “But the goal for every team, including ours, is to make it to Omaha. That’s why we are focusing on practice.”

Gutierrez does not focus on the preseason rankings that come out, he said. They do not matter to him at all.

“It doesn’t matter where you start, it matters where you end up,” Gutierrez said. “You could start last but end up number one.”

Lyons is also expecting to have a good season, he said. Lyons is making sure every player is working as a team and sticking together through the rest of the season.

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Texas Tech outfielder Anthony Lyons throws the ball back to the infield after catching a pop fly during a team scrimmage on Jan. 29 at Rip Griffin Park. Lyons is expected to bring a veteran presence to a relatively young Red Raider team.

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Artist, activist Harry Belafonte to lecture on campus

Tech announces scrimmage date

Harry Belafonte, an artist and activist, will give a lecture titled “My Life in Activism” as part of the African American History Month Lecture Series at 7 p.m. today in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union Building, according to TechAnnounce.

Belafonte was the first black performer to win an Emmy Award, according to TechAnnounce, and has served as the cultural adviser for the Peace Corps and a UNICEF

Goodwill Ambassador.

Karlos Hill, a history professor at Texas Tech, said the African American History Month Lecture Series at Tech began in February 2013.

Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and activist, will also be lecturing at Tech this month on Feb. 25.

The event is free to the public, Hill said, but those who wish to attend must have tickets.

On Monday, Texas Tech Athletics announced in a news release that the Red Raider football team will host its annual scrimmage in Midland on April 2.

The open scrimmage will be hosted at Grande Communications Stadium at the Scharbauer Sports Complex, according to the release.

This is the fourth consecutive year the event will be hosted in Midland.

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Banner with Arabic writing hung downtown

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A black banner with Arabic writing and a red heart was hung on the top of the Citizens Tower in downtown Lubbock on Monday.

The Arabic writing, according to Imam Samer Altabaa of the Islamic Center of the South Plains, reads, “Love to all.”

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Officer Ray Mendoza said the police are currently investigating and are looking for who got into the building illegally and hung the banner on the Citizens Tower.

“We got a call about the banner that was displayed on top of the old Omni building,” Mendoza said. “When we arrived, the banner was still up on display, so we worked with the city facilities people and they took it down.”

The banner was hung on the top of the Citizens Tower, also formerly known as the Omni Tower, located off 14th Street.

The purpose of the banner is still unknown, Mendoza said.

“We do not know what the purpose of it was, or what was meant by it, other than maybe just a Valentine’s display,” Mendoza said, “but our officers are still continuing

Friday 1:25 p.m. — A Texas Tech police officer documented a medical emergency in the Student Wellness Center. A student was feeling faint.

The student was transported to the University Medical Center by Emergency Medical Services.

10:20 p.m. — A Tech officer documented damaged property in Weymouth Residence Hall. A light switch was damaged.

1:31 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in Chitwood Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Saturday 9:25 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated an accident without injuries in the R31 parking lot. A university vehicle backed

into a parked vehicle.

12:08 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in Murdough Residence Hall. A student slipped in the shower and cut her forehead. The student was transported to the University Medical Center

by EMS. 2:45 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Z4P parking lot.

A vehicle was scratched and a mirror was broken.

6:17 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license after a traffic stop in the Z6A parking lot. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

6:26 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Chitwood Residence Hall.

Clothing was taken from the laundry room.

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since January, Hill said, and he would not be surprised if tickets are already sold out.

Belafonte often uses his art and entertainment as a form of advocacy and activism, Hill said, and his lecture will be electrifying and proactive.

“He’s been willing to use his celebrity on behalf of people who are less advantaged than him,” Hill said.

Belafonte met Martin Luther King Jr. and developed

“In particular, he will talk about black America and the age of Obama,” Hill said, “so he will talk about, when Barack Obama was elected, there was this hope that it would bring with it transformations in black life.”

The school has been advertising Belafonte’s lecture

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8:12 p.m. — A Tech officer issued two students Lubbock County Citations for possession of alcohol by a minor in Weymouth Residence Hall.

9:16 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency at Jones AT&T Stadium. A non-student felt faint. The non-student was transported to the Covenant Emergency Room

by EMS. 12:02 a.m. — A T e c h officer documented a medical emergency in Gates Residence Hall. A student was possibly suffering from alcohol poisoning. The student was transported to the University Medical Center

by EMS. 1:55 a.m. — A Tech officer documented a damaged fence at the 100 block of North Indiana Avenue on the east side of the Rawls Golf Course. a friendship during King’s visit to New York in the early 1950s, according to TechAnnounce, and Belafonte played a key role in the civil rights movement, including the 1963 March on Washington.

Belafonte also received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in November 2014, according to TechAnnounce. @EastonWollneyDT

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A black banner with Arabic writing was hung on top of the Citizen Tower downtown Monday. The writing reads “Love to all.”

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Regards, Glen Robertson “I disagree with Mayor Glen Robertson,” Altabaa said. “There is no need to call special authorities such as the FBI and Homeland Security when a person decides to say ‘Love to all.’”

Altabaa said the message is not threatening but that officials should still look into finding out who placed the banner on the building.

No one knows who did this, he said.

“It looks like the person who did this wanted to send a message that we (Muslims) love everyone,” Altabaa said.

“It is probably a response to what is going on in the media and how Muslims are often talked about negatively on the media.”

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to investigate it.”

Mayor Glen Robertson wrote to City Manager James Loomis about the flag, according to EverythingLubbock’s website: Mr. Loomis, It has been brought to my attention that an Arabic flag has been hung from one of the upper floors of the Omni building. I am requesting that the flag be removed immediately, that we get an accurate translation of the flag, and that Chief Stevens notify the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and our Lubbock County Sheriff ’s Department. I am also requesting that we take whatever steps are necessary to secure the building and ensure that this does not happen again. I fully understand that we must gather more facts before we make a knee jerk reaction but I am concerned on

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UTICA, Mich. (AP) — As his rivals focused on South Carolina's looming primary, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich campaigned across Michigan on Monday, plugging his bluecollar roots and warning college students that the U.S. is "not a socialist country."

The Ohio governor has visited adjacent Michigan more than any candidate from either party.

"I got to do well up here," he implored a crowd of hundreds at an evening town hall event in Utica,

in Macomb County north of Detroit.

Kasich, who enjoyed larger crowds than when he visited last year, earlier held similar events at two Michigan universities. He decried the increasingly nasty nature of the GOP race and said he would "do my level best to raise the bar in politics and my level best to make sure that not just one group in our country rises but everybody has a chance to live out their God-given potential and their purpose in life."

Lubbock Police Department responded to the scene to investigate the traffic accident.

2:29 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for a Lubbock Police Department warrant after a traffic stop in the 300 block of Detroit Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Sunday 12:51 p.m. — A Tech officer documented damaged property in Bledsoe Residence Hall. Ten ceiling tiles were damaged.

3:32 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of more than one valid driver’s license after a traffic stop in the 900 block of Flint Avenue. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

5:01 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident

without injuries at the Z2C parking lot.

12:33 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for drunken driving and being in possession of more than one identification card in the C1 parking lot after an observed traffic violation in the 2500 block of 8th Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

12:36 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) in Murray Residence Hall. The non-student was also charged for theft and issued a criminal trespass warning from all Texas Tech property.

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Obama faces puzzle in Scalia successor

WASHINGTON (AP) — For most presidents, choosing a Supreme Court nominee is a puzzle. For President Barack Obama, the chance to pick a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia is more like a Gordian Knot.

As the White House carries out a rare election-year search for a nominee, the president’s lawyers and top advisers are sorting through a tangled web of political, legal and personal factors.

A smart pick and nomination strategy could determine whether Obama gets to reshape the highest court for the next generation. The wrong pick could cede that opportunity to his successor.

Democrats view this as a moment decades in the making. Recent Republican presidents have gotten more chances to fill seats, tilting the court in to the right.

“The Supreme Court has not reflected where the American people have been on issues,” said Gregory Craig, who served as White House counsel early in Obama’s first term. “This is the first opportunity in many, many years to bring the court more in line with the American people.”

For Obama, the clock is ticking. The sooner he picks a name, the longer he has to try to force the Republican-led Senate to hold a vote.

At the heart of Obama’s dilemma is how to manage the fierce Republican opposition to his decision to name a nominee. Within hours of Scalia’s death on Saturday, Republicans began arguing Obama should let his successor fill the open seat.

Obama brushed that argument aside, but it is undoubtedly weighing on his decision.

Given the election-year timing, Obama would likely have been inclined to name the nominee most likely to appeal to Republican senators.

But if Republicans object

to Obama even trying to fill the post — and remain united in that position —the president may see little point in bending too far to appease the other party. He may feel the pull to focus more on ginning up his own party’s base.

Then key question becomes: What are the chances of getting a vote?

This wouldn’t be “the first time Republicans have come out with a lot of bluster only to have reality sink in,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Monday.

Refusing to allow a vote has consequences for the court, Shultz said, pointing to the prospects for tie votes that would allow lower court decisions to stand.

Schultz said the president will use the same criteria he used when he nominated Sonia Sotomayor, who became the first Hispanic on the court, and Elena Kagan, then-solicitor general.

In those instances, and in his appointments to lower courts, Obama has shown a desire to expand ethnic and racial diversity and to elevate more women.

His nominee would almost certainly support abortion rights, consideration of race in college admissions and other areas of public life, limits on campaign contributions and stronger rights of labor unions — all issues that have divided the court’s liberal and conservative justices on a 5-4 margin.

In all likelihood, those cases where the conservatives prevailed, with Scalia in the majority, would come out the other way if Obama gets to pick Scalia’s successor.

Obama also has prioritized young candidates — people likely to hold the seat for decades. He’s aimed for relatively uncontroversial personalities, people with views that fall into the category of mainstream liberal jurisprudence.

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HEALTH

Experts encourage alcohol safety

By MICHAELA BAYSINGER Staff Writer

Alcohol poisoning is a serious — and sometimes deadly — consequence of drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time.

Drinking too much too quickly can affect breathing, heart rate, body temperature and gag reflex and potentially lead to coma and death, according to mayoclinic.org.

AlcoholEdu is a process that was implemented in the fall of 2014 that all freshmen and transfer students must take before they are allowed to enroll into courses at Tech, George Comiskey, the instructor of addictive disorder recovery studies, said. It educates students

on the effects alcohol has on people and explains how much alcohol is in each type of beverage.

“I’m honestly not so sure what alcohol poisoning is.

I know it can cause you to die,” Mario Jimenez, a junior computer science major from Lubbock, said.

“I know that you build up a tolerance toward alcohol over time which means you have to drink more to get intoxicated, which gets you closer to the levels of intoxication that can cause you to have alcohol poisoning.”

Mina Tawfiles, a sophomore electrical engineering major from Egypt, shared a personal story of his own.

“I saw it happen to one of my friends before, I think he drank too much or was roofied. He drank

something and he didn’t know what it was and he passed out. He was at a party and I wasn’t but I went and picked him up because I called him and he didn’t answer but someone else did and said, ‘you need to get up here your friend he is passed out and he is almost dead.

He looks dead.’ I took him to the hospital,” Tawfiles said. “It was terrifying.”

Celine Fowler, a bartender at the Texas Café, said on the weekends college students are the majority of her customers and while she tries to make sure they stay in a certain limit, they do bar hop and most college students have gotten really good at faking being sober. Bartenders cannot be completely sure if they

are completely wasted or not, which increases the chances of them having alcohol poisoning.

Fowler has seen three cases of alcohol poisoning in the last two years.

It isn’t just the bartender’s responsibility but the drinker’s as well to pay attention to how much they drink.

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in the stomach and intestine continues to enter the bloodstream and circulate throughout the body.

It is dangerous to assume the person will be fine by sleeping it off, according to the website.

The recovery process is to get the alcohol out of the person as quickly as possible, so professionals will often pump the person’s stomach. It is a depressant so it can cause major organs to fail or cause a blackout, which can cause a coma or death, Comiskey said.

“Things to remember when drinking are not to make it a race, know your limit, take a break, always make sure to have a ride and think about your decisions,” Fowler said. @MBaysingerDT

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most comatose. She really looked dead,” Fowler said.

“Five girls tried to pick her up and move her out of the bathroom but couldn’t because she was just pure dead weight. She was taken out on a stretcher.”

Oftentimes bartenders can only gauge so much on how much someone drinks, Fowler said. They will go through different methods to be able to get a drink.

“It isn’t just the bartender’s responsibility but the drinker ’s as well to pay attention to how much they drink,” Fowler said.

People should know a person’s blood alcohol concentration can continue to rise even while he or she is passed out, according to collegedrinkingprevention.gov. Even after a person stops drinking, alcohol

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Texas county judge who decided no autopsy was needed following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has disclosed new details about Scalia’s health in the days before he died.

Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara told The Associated Press on Monday she spoke with Scalia’s doctor on the day he was found dead in his room at a remote Texas ranch. She said the doctor told her that Scalia had a history of heart trouble, high blood pressure and was considered too weak to undergo surgery for a recent shoulder injury.

Those details are seemingly at odds with recollections of friends who described Scalia as his usual, happy self during the days leading up to his death.

News that the 79-year-

old justice was in declining health may come as a surprise to the public, but unlike presidents, the high court’s members don’t provide regular health disclosures.

Guevara told the AP that she consulted with Scalia’s personal physician and local and federal investigators, who said there were no signs of foul play, before concluding that he had died of natural causes. She said she spoke with a “Dr. Monahan” at some point after 8 p.m. on Saturday to discuss Scalia’s health history.

Rear Adm. Brian P. Monahan is the attending physician for members of Congress and the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court spokeswoman could not immediately confirm that Monahan had examined Scalia, and Monahan did not return a phone message left for him at his Capitol office Monday.

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Cruz not standing for George W. Bush offers Trump, Rubio claims Trump criticism on trail AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz continued to joust for primacy heading into the South Carolina primary next weekend, foregoing policy differences for name-calling and insults.

Tr u m p c a l l e d C r u z “nuts,” “dishonest” and “an unstable person,” while Cruz questioned both Trump’s conservative credentials and whether he had the temperament to be president.

Cruz is trying to weaken Trump’s standing among South Carolina’s social conservatives and evangelical Christians, a key voting bloc in Saturday’s contest.

“The people of South Carolina want a consistent conservative they can trust,” Cruz told reporters before his rally in Aiken. He also released a new television ad attacking Trump, showing footage of his praising Planned Parenthood and Hillary Clinton. It ends with the line, “South Carolina cannot trust Donald Trump.”

Trump threatened to sue Cruz, challenging his eligi-

bility to serve in the White House unless he stops airing what Trump calls “false ads” and retracts what the billionaire real estate mogul called a series of lies.

Trump called Cruz “the most dishonest guy I think I’ve ever met in politics.”

“I think he’s an unstable person,” he said, later declaring: “He’s nuts.”

Speaking to hundreds of supporters, Cruz said he intends to make the presidential race a referendum on the Supreme Court and the importance of electing a president who will nominate conservatives. The issue is at the forefront of the presidential race following the sudden death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, whom Cruz praised as a “lion of the law.”

Cruz said before his rally that a vote for Trump would be a vote for doing away with Second Amendment gun rights, predicting that the billionaire businessman would appoint liberal justices to the Supreme Court. He ticked off a list of Democrats

Trump had donated to in the past, including 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry.

Cruz also blasted Trump’s sister, a federal appellate judge, calling her a “radical pro-abortion extremist” who should not be considered for the Supreme Court vacancy.

Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.

Trump has said she would make a good justice, but Cruz said she would not be a good choice, citing an opinion she wrote in 2000 that held a New Jersey law banning late-term abortions placed an “undue burden” on a woman’s constitutional right to have the procedure.

Cruz also took issue with Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Both called him a liar during Saturday’s debate. Cruz said they both “simply scream ‘Liar, liar!’” whenever their records are questioned, and that approach would not work when negotiating with the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — George W. Bush never mentioned Donald Trump. But with his folky touch, the former president unleashed a tough takedown Monday of the billionaire businessman who has upended a Republican Party his family has long led.

“I understand Americans are angry and frustrated,” Bush said during his first campaign rally for his brother, Jeb Bush. “But we do not need somebody in the Oval Office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration.”

Trump’s rise has confounded the Bush family and its allies. But despite months of predicting the brash billionaire would fade, it’s Jeb Bush whose White House hopes are in peril, particularly if he’s unable to pull out a strong showing in Saturday’s South Carolina primary.

The former president emerged from his self-imposed political hibernation to try to give Bush a boost.

He layered each validation of his younger brother with an

implicit critique of Trump.

He urged voters to back a candidate who will be “measured and thoughtful” on the world stage. A candidate whose “humility” helps him understand what he doesn’t know. A candidate who can win in November’s general election.

“All the sloganeering and all the talk doesn’t matter if we don’t win,” Bush said. “We need somebody who can take a positive message across the country.”

With his brother as a strong warm-up act, Jeb Bush delivered an impassioned version of his campaign speech, touting his experience as Florida governor and vowing he could put Republicans back in the White House for the first time in eight years.

“I can beat Hillary Clinton,” he said of the Democratic front-runner. “I can promise you that.”

The former president’s return to presidential politics has been met with blistering attacks from Trump about the unpopular Iraq war and the economic recession

that began at the end of his administration. Trump has also repeatedly reminded voters that the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks happened on Bush’s watch.

“If the ex-president is campaigning for his brother, I think he’s probably open to great scrutiny, maybe things that haven’t been thought of in the past,” Trump told reporters Monday.

Rather than gloss over 9/11, Bush leaned in. As the crowd fell into a hushed silence, he recounted in detail his whereabouts on the morning of the attacks and praised the troops that served in the two wars he started in response.

“Your most solemn job as voters is to elect a president who understands the reality of the threats we face,” he said.

As he praised South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, the daughter of Indianborn parents, Bush pointedly said, “Thank goodness our country welcomed her parents when they immigrated here in 1969.”

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ccording to the College Simply website’s “Texas Tech University Tuition & Cost Guide,” room and board alone is $8,928.

If one lives on campus, one would think it would be ideal to work on campus, but unfortunately that is not the case.

I was talking to a friend recently, complaining about going to work because, well, work is work. She suggested I should work on campus because it would be more convenient. I thought about it for maybe two seconds when I quickly realized I was barely making enough at my offcampus job to even dent my tuition, where my hours aren’t so limited and my pay is higher than minimum wage.

From my experience, I’ve learned on-campus student jobs here at Tech usually pay around the minimum wage, $7.25. According to Abby Hayes’ article on the U.S. News website, “Should You Work On or Off Campus?” most on-campus student jobs

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

have “lower rates of pay.” For someone who’s trying to pay their way through school, or at least help, these low wages are not nearly enough. Even if one factors in the help of financial aid or loans, the amount student jobs pay is still negligible.

Not to mention the fact that students working on-campus jobs are limited to how many hours a week they can put in.

In Marina Fang’s “Nearly 80% Of Students Work While In School,” Think Progress article, Fang states, “many colleges recommend or even mandate that students only work 10 to 15 hours a week.”

Even part-time jobs allow more hours than that. Working, studying, participating in extracurricular activities

(such as the school newspaper or student organizations) and having some sort of social life outside of school takes up a lot of time. Add in a job that only pays $7.25, and things quickly become stressful. Time management is a great skill to have and is learned best in this way.

Being a full-time student can be stressful in its own way, but according to “Understanding the Working College Student” by Laura W. Perna, published on the AAUP website (American Association of University Professors), “conflicting simultaneous demands of the roles of student, employee, parent and so on often creates high levels of stress and anxiety, making it less likely that students will complete their degrees.” In her article Perna discusses the importance of taking working students into account.

Working while in school can be managed and students can learn much from these types of situations, but there is a difference in working to

better oneself on a personal level and working to stay enrolled in a university. Having an on-campus student job would be more convenient for me, but money trumps convenience almost every time and the terrible pay of on-campus jobs just can’t do it with today’s high prices. Money isn’t the most important aspect when choosing a job, but it’s very often the deciding factor, especially when the goal for working while in school is to help pay for school.

It is doubtful Tech will raise its 20-hour limit, meaning increasing on-campus student job pay would be the most desirable option. The minimum wage Tech currently offers is just not enough to make it by in today’s economy, despite the convenience an on-campus job would offer.

Life would be so much easier if convenience and money went hand-in-hand with a job, instead of having to choose. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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Lack of time terrible reason for not studying abroad

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ow that I am in college, there are plenty of things I simply don’t have time to do. I don’t have time to practice guitar like I did in high school, and I have accepted my career as the next John Mayer may currently be at risk. I also don’t have time to keep up with “The Walking Dead,” the Kardashians and thank goodness I don’t have a dog, because it would probably have to hunt for its own food.

There are plenty of things college students don’t have time for, which is why one of the most prominent reasons students say they do not study abroad seems to be, “I just don’t have the time.” Yet, unlike having a dog or keeping up with a television series, studying abroad can provide incredible learning opportunities. Not having enough time is simply not a good excuse — students should make time to study abroad.

Make no mistake about it — whether studying abroad is a life-changing experience or a complete waste of time depends largely on how students challenge themselves on the trip.

Students getting wrecked at clubs each night of the trip may not gain anything other than a

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

higher alcohol tolerance. For students who genuinely want to better understand a different part of the world, however, study abroad can significantly impact how they view the world and their purpose in it.

Students who do take the time to study abroad love it so much, if there were a joke about students who study abroad, it would be this: How do you know someone studied abroad? A: Don’t worry, they will tell you. Students who study abroad tend to talk about it all the time, from the boy who starts every story with, “When I lived in Germany…” to the girl who still posts study abroad pictures on Instagram every week despite her trip being two years ago. If the BuzzFeed listicle, “21 Ways You Will Drive Your Friends Crazy After Studying Abroad” was a checklist, most students

who studied abroad have probably committed each offense on the list.

While some of this can be credited to students just wanting to gloat, much of it should be attributed to how great the experience can be. From Forbes Jan. 28 article, “How Studying Abroad Makes You A Better Leader” to New York Times Oct. 17, 2013, column, “Every Student Should Study Abroad,” there are plenty of resources showing how beneficial study abroad can be in a student’s education.

The trip can be expensive, which is a legitimate reason on why not to go. However, there are plenty of ways to make a semester abroad more affordable. By pursuing financial aid and choosing destinations off the beaten track, the ticket price of many programs can be surprisingly low. Sure, studying abroad in New Zealand may not be affordable for some students, but studying in places like Peru or Vietnam will not only be beautiful and rewarding, but much cheaper.

The argument “I don’t have the time” for study abroad seldom holds up, yet countless

advertising revenues generated by the student sales staff with free campus distribution resulting from student service fees.

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students are skipping out on the opportunity to study abroad.

Let us not forget that countless other students in other civilized countries are taking a gap year, exploring the world, meeting cute travelers and filling up their Instagram feed with impeccable pictures, while countless American students are going straight from college into their full-time jobs. Tech students should make time for study abroad while they are in college, because many of us may not have the same opportunity for a long time.

In “The Truman Show,” the 1998 film of a man who unknowingly lives his whole life on a small television set filled with hidden cameras, dreams of finally getting off his small island and travelling to Fiji. However, when asked if he is planning on going soon, Truman sighs and says, “It’s not that simple. It takes money, planning — you can’t just up and go.” It is true that study abroad, as well as traveling in general, will always take time, money and planning, but it nonetheless an endeavor worth taking. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

ometimes I really understand the allure of cutting out meat and dairy.

I’ll get grossed out thinking about eating the body of a plucky little chicken or repulsed by the idea of drinking anything that came out of an udder. But, I had separated leather, wool, down (feathers, etc.) — all of it — from the animal whose body originally bore those products. In my busy life, I seldom consider about how many lives my life costs.

Thankfully, we live in an age where it’s cool and kind of hip to be vegetarian or vegan.

When someone else decides to be vegan or vegetarian, we are all for it. But, when push comes to shove — like when in line at Torchy’s Tacos, dreaming of their queso — being vegan is just a little too hard for most of us.

Yet, the vegan lifestyle holds a special charm for me.

It’s so radical, so non-conformist. It is also incredibly high maintenance. To be honest, I’m not even sure that I could survive removing chicken noodle soup from my diet.

However, I have always had this unshakable feeling vegans might really be on to something. By cleansing their lives of products procured through suffering, many vegans stand up in a very real way against abuse.

Even though poultry farms won’t go broke without their support and the meat market won’t close down without their money, vegans are showing everyone, from their waiters to their friends and family, that the cruelty that goes into producing meat and milk isn’t worth it to them. They are showing it is not worth a burger from In-N-Out if the means of making it include murder. Refusing Chick-fil-A or In-N-Out Burger— now that’s saying something big.

If you don’t live under a rock, I am sure you’ve seen the tweets about how we are our dog’s whole life, how they only get a short time here and they trust that time to us.

Same thing for cows, chickens and pigs we raise in factories.

Unfortunately, cows, chickens and pigs don’t get seven to 12 good long years of belly rubs and dog treats. They spend their lives in cramped conditions and are usually executed at the end of their lives by inhumane methods, such as a bolt gun.

For those who don’t know, a bolt gun is a gun that shoots an actual bolt, like the kind Ikea provides for building side tables, into the head of a cow once it is no longer of use to the consumer.

Thankfully, Marisa Miller Wolfson and Chloe Davis’s documentary “Vegucated” didn’t show any footage of those executions, but it ruthlessly exposed plenty of other atrocities.

For example, they showed a toddler-sized pig, suspended by a rope tied around its ankle, being dipped into a pot of scalding water. Once cooked alive, I saw the pig’s now-charred body skinned like an apple would be peeled.

I watched as another small

spotted pig tried to run away before being hoisted up, but the rope shackle around his leg kept yanking him back.

Four surrounding pigs huddled together like a family sharing one umbrella in a storm. It was as if they were bracing themselves for their turn to be drowned — waiting for their lungs and flesh scalded in that boiling water.

Some workers conceded to having “seen hogs in the scalding tub trying to swim.”

But this didn’t even scratch the surface of all of the footage Wolfson and Davis got. Some of the worst images showed how the baby animals were treated. If you have ever read Neil Gaiman’s “Babycakes,” then I am sure you remember the way your stomach felt after reading. He wrote, “We made babies. And we used them. Some of them we ate. Baby flesh is tender and succulent.” Implying all the animals went away, Gaiman shows what it would look like to use, produce and consume our own infants the way we do animals.

H o w e v e r, w a t c h i n g tiny, petal-pink piglets being thrown haphazardly from worker to worker then chucked in a crate made me feel just as terrible. Mother cows bucked and thrashed as their newborns were torn away from them and left alone with legs hardly strong enough to stand. They teetered over like a toddler trying to walk across the carpet.

Their hooves weren’t quite flat on the ground, but more crunched underneath their wobbling legs. Blood still caked in their fur and their mother still bled.

I crippled over when they showed palm-sized, soft yellow chicks being thrown into, what looked like, a giant sideways corkscrew-shaped machine and ground up, alive, to be used as food for other animals. Their fluffy bodies were rapidly pulled toward a shredder, their little chirps unsuspecting.

All these animals, unsuspecting and unaware that the ones entrusted with their lives are going to murder, mince and mutilate them. The only life they get to live is full of terror and abuse.

I guess somewhere along the way we decided it was worth it. We decided chicken tenders and breakfast burritos and everything in between is worth destroying the existence of another creature.

In light of these atrocities, students should consider pulling contribution from this cruel economy. Not because we are against embracing the things animals produce, but because we are against the cruel system that harvests those things. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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With less than a week to go before South Carolina’s Republican primary, the GOP front-runner also reiterated that the 9/11 attacks happened during President George W. Bush’s time in office — an apparent attempt to overshadow the former president’s Monday campaign appearances on behalf of his brother, Jeb Bush.

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Rehearsals for Vagina Monologues begin

By SHASHIDHAR SASTRY Staff Writer

Lubbock’s ninth annual production of The Vagina Monologues will be hosted at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 26 and Feb. 27 in the Human Sciences building room 169.

The Vagina Monologues is a 1994 episodic play written by playwright and activist Eve Ensler.

Based on more than 200 interviews conducted

by Ensler, this play is a narration of true stories and struggles of women.

The Vagina Monologues aims not only to inspire individuals to end violence against women and girls, but also to address the social stigma and shame that frequently surrounds the word “vagina.”

Christy Norfleet, a sociology and women’s studies graduate student from Greenville and director of The Vagina Monologues, said the play is around 90 minutes long and features 18 monologues performed by 13 members of the cast.

Admission is free and open to the public, although a donation of $5 is encouraged.

Funds raised through the performances will go to the Women’s Protective Services of Lubbock, a nonprofit organization that specializes in advocacy for men, women and children who have experienced domestic violence.

Kelsey Fore, a senior history and anthropology dual major from Conroe, will be performing at The Vagina Monologues for the

first time. Her strong passion for acting and a desire to be part of something greater than herself inspired her to become a part of The Vagina Monologues, Fore said.

In several of her classes, Fore said she had come across topics such as female circumcision and rape as a part of war. After her involvement with The Vagina Monologues, she gained a whole new perspective on these issues.

“I didn’t realize that it still happens today, until I was a part of this monologue,” she said. “Every single time that I am in one of these monologues — the one that refers to rape as a part of war — I can barely stand there and speak straight without crying.”

Catherine Ragsdale, a junior marketing and Spanish dual major from Austin, is the secretary of Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, the Texas Tech student organization hosting The Vagina Monologues.

This is a play for and about women, Ragsdale said. It stimulates an open discussion about the issues women face in their day-to-day lives and exhorts citizens to confront these problems.

“I think the way it can benefit the Lubbock community positively is we can open a conversation,” she said. “I think that any conversation is a good one.”

Alex-Marie Baez, a junior forensic psychology major from Tampa, Florida, said she has been in-

volved with the production of The Vagina Monologues since her freshman year.

It is interesting to watch the audience’s reactions each year, she said. The uncomfortable laughter and the awkward feelings are quite common, which is precisely what the play targets. By the end of the play, the audience feels more comfortable discussing such issues that are often avoided in everyday discussions.

Another issue addressed by The Vagina Monologues is the common misconceptions surrounding the feminist movement, Baez said.

“It sends a clear message of what the feminist movement is really about,” she said. “It’s not really about like, ‘Women should be better than men, and men are bad.’ It’s more like everyone is a person, and as a human being, you deserve the same rights as anyone else.”

Callie Crozier, a freshman mathematics major from Tyler, has been rehearsing four monologues for her first appearance in The Vagina Monologues.

One of her pieces is titled “Hair.” It is narrated from a wife’s perspective, whose husband forces her to shave her vaginal hair. When she refuses to shave for medical reasons, he indulges in an extramarital affair.

Although sexual violence in our society is common knowledge, Crozier said specific examples from real women shine

a much brighter light on these issues.

“It just kind of shows you how big of an issue we have with sexual assault, especially like around college campuses,” she said.

Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, founded a global activist movement called V-Day to end violence against women and girls. That was on Valentine’s Day, 1998. Since then, the V-Day movement has raised more than $100 million, according to its website. The “V” in V-Day stands for victory, valentine and vagina.

V-day has a simple mission — to end violence against women and girls.

To this end, each February Ensler allows groups around the world to produce a performance of The

Vagina Monologues and use the proceeds toward ending violence against women and girls, according to its website.

It is through this subscription that Tech FMLA has hosted this play for the past eight years.

During rehearsals, instead of focusing on a vast amount of specific directions, Norfleet said she lets the performers explore their characters and discover their own ways of delivering the messages.

“You can kind of see the sense of ownership t h a t ’s c o m i n g o v e r t h e person who’s acting out the piece,” she said. “They are just able to relay these women’s messages in such a unique and amazing way that I suspect relates to something that they’ve

experienced in their past.”

Katherine Haley, FMLA’s public relations officer and a freshman political science major from Sugar Land, said The Vagina Monologues is a way to reach out to the community and shine light on women’s issues that bedevil our society even today.

Some of the monologues will be performed by a single member of the cast, while others will involve multiple members. The last piece, Norfleet said, will be collectively performed by the whole cast.

“I had not seen the show until three years ago and it was such an eye-opening, wonderful experience,” Norfleet said. “I would invite anyone else to come and experience that same feeling.” @sastryshashi_DT

MENTAL HEALTH

Students work to wreck stigma of mental illnesses

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

On Monday night, members of Wreck the Stigma, a campus suicide prevention and advocacy group for mental illness, hosted a meeting for new members to outline plans for the upcoming semester.

The group, which started last January, has been a helpful campus force in addressing the stigma that comes along with mental illness and suicide. Starting a conversation about the subjects can sometimes be hard, but it is a conversation worth starting, Mariah Williams, founder of Wreck the Stigma and unit coordinator for PEGASUS, said.

“By starting a conversation, we believe that we’re going to start tearing down the walls and even just the surface (of the issue),” Williams said.

“But we also want (our members) to start interacting with students who have mental illnesses by us doing some outreach and educating them.”

Wreck the Stigma members want to go beyond the group in their reach, she said, and start talking to people on campus.

That was also what most of the evening’s meeting was about as well, as Sasha Soto, president of

the club and a natural resources management graduate research assistant, outlined plans to start more group committees to highlight outreach, social media and creativity.

Much of the reason society is afraid to talk about the subject of suicide and mental health is more than likely because of the negative history behind them, Soto said.

“Anybody that had mental illness was automatically put in an institute,” she said. “There wasn’t a whole lot of understanding in trying to get into the research.”

Many people feel it is too personal of an issue to speak about, therefore many people either avoid it completely or dismiss it as something one should battle alone, she said. There is also a lack of knowledge behind the science of mental illnesses, and that

is something Wreck the Stigma is trying to build up in its members.

The more knowledgeable the community is on this subject, Soto said, the less stigmatized people will be when they think or talk about it.

“People don’t even see depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation as a mental illness,” Williams said.

“They just kind of think, ‘oh you’re weird, you’ve got problems, you’re crazy.’

And they use these dramatic words to describe a person that is going through something that is not in their control.”

Even the resources that those dealing with mental illnesses seek are seen as something negative, she said. That is part of the reason Wreck the Stigma has partnered with the Student Counseling Center to build a bridge between students who need

the support.

Many people also point out individuals as being overdramatic about their mental state, Soto said, which adds to the stigmatization of society.

“I’ve heard several people that actually have told somebody, ‘I feel like committing suicide,’ and they’re like, ‘you just want attention,’” Soto said. “And that’s not necessarily the way to go about it. When somebody reaches out you really need to listen, you don’t have to necessarily be the one holding their hand or anything, but you can direct them to the right resources.”

Since the conception of the group, there has been a core group of believers who have continually come to meetings, Williams said.

The group has more than 100 official members, Soto said, and hopes to continue to grow. This has also cre-

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Lamar started his performance Monday appearing beaten, in handcuffs, with chains around his hands and a bruise on his eyes. He went on to fuse rap, jazz, reggae and African sounds for a commanding performance

as he rapped “The Blacker the Berry” and the Grammynominated “Alright” passionately. He ended with a map of Africa, and the city of Compton imprinted in it.

Adele sang “All I Ask,” co-written by Bruno Mars, with a piano behind her.

But the audio sounded off and appeared to throw off her performance.

Justin Bieber started “Love Yourself” on guitar in good form, but ended with a vocal struggle. Little

Big Town and Demi Lovato, however, had shining moments during their performances, hitting impressive and smooth high notes.

The night also featured touching tributes: The Eagles’ Glenn Frey and Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire were honored by their longtime friends, while Rihanna pulled out of the awards show.

Stevie Wonder, joined with Grammy-winning a capella group Pentatonix,

sang “That’s the Way of the World” in honor of White, while members of the Eagles and Jackson Browne sang “Take It Easy” for Frey at the Staples Center.

White died on Feb. 4 and Frey died on Jan. 18. Natalie Cole will also be remembered during the telecast, while Lady Gaga is set to pay tribute to David Bowie.

Rihanna’s representative said in a statement that the singer couldn’t perform at the show due to doctor’s orders.

ated partnerships with the Risk Intervention & Safety Education office to create Tech’s first Suicide Prevention Week last year.

There is also confidence within the organization now, Soto said.

Members have gone out and shared their stories, which has led to the increase in members.

H o w e v e r, m e m b e r health is also something the group takes seriously and they continually push to keep their members comfortable, Ann Casiraghi, staff member for

the Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities and Wreck the Stigma staff adviser, said.

“It’s important to take care of yourself before you can care for others,” she said.

Once they know what they are capable of, members can then spread their agenda to others more efficiently, she said.

“Our goal is once we’re gone, like once I graduate, I hope that others will be able to continue this and build the program,” Soto said. @MichaelCantuDT

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Tech looks to shape up young pitching squad

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

As the Texas Tech baseball team prepares for its upcoming season, the team has had to overcome the loss of some of its veterans to graduation. With only a few veterans returning, including junior Ryan Mosley, the team is counting on some pitchers with little experience to get them to the postseason this year.

Ray Hayward, Tech’s pitching coach, said the rotation will be different from previous years. The team will have to rely on 12 to 14 guys on the staff this year, and seven of them will probably be freshmen.

“We are going to be doing a lot of trial and error early to see who is going to pitch at this point right now,” Hayward said.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said he has seen improve-

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ment each time the pitchers go to the mound. Their rhythm and timing are getting better in his eyes.

“All these guys have thrown well at one time or another,” Hayward said.

“That’s why we are so excited about having a 13 or 14-guy staff. At one point in time, they have all looked like they could pitch for us.

But, at some points, they have all pitched poorly.

Right now, we feel comfortable with all the guys.”

Hayward said the team needs to figure out who can handle the pressure of the Big 12 the best.

The role that each pitcher is in now, whether a starter, middle guy or a closer, is not set, he said.

It might completely change by the end of the year and that’s the luxury for this team. There are so many pitching possibilities.

“I would say that there will be a comfort level with

the guys going to the bullpen,” Tadlock said. “Those are the first guys you go to with high pitch counts early in the season. The first guy who comes out of the bullpen in a college game is pretty important.”

However, one goal for the pitching rotation is to stay competitive and go and give the team a chance to win, Hayward said. The offense and the defense are really experienced this year, like Tech’s pitching rotations from the past few years.

“The offense will take the pressure off of our pitching a little bit,” Hayward said. “We are going to score some runs. Because of our inexperienced pitching staff, we will give up a few more runs this year.”

There will be major improvement from the beginning to the end of the year for the pitching staff, he said. The pitchers will get

release. “We have always had an outstanding fan base here and are pleased to bring these events to the Permian Basin.”

Last year, the event drew more than 7,500 fans, which also included fans arriving early to tailgate, according to the release.

The event will be the first of two events hosted by

Tech Athletics, as the Red Raider baseball team will play the Abilene Christian Wildcats at Security Bank Ballpark on April 5, according to the release.

Tech opens its season on Sept. 3 at home against Stephen F. Austin at Jones AT&T Stadium. @DailyToreador

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The defending champions have been so dominant that they could already be a 50-win

team this weekend. And unless opponents start figuring out a way to slow Stephen Curry and the league’s most potent offense, they could be the best team ever by the time they’re done.

Curry and fellow All-Stars

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Texas Tech right-handed pitcher Robert Dugger goes through his pitching motion during the baseball team’s intra-squad scrimmage on Jan. 29 at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. more comfortable.

“Next year, they will be veterans,” Hayward said.

“We might be a little slow

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The team is there to hold each other up, Lyons said. It is important to be there for the team after a failure and celebrate after victories.

Gutierrez said he is impressed with the recruiting class this year.

“The freshman class brought up some pretty good pitchers that might relieve in the games,” Gutierrez said. “I really think that Ty Harpenau, Erikson Lanning, Davis Martin and Steve Gingery are going to be lights out.”

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at the start of this year, but the pitching staff will get better and better as the season goes on.”

Tech begins the 2016 season at 2 p.m. Friday at Dan Law Field.

has been emphasizing to all the players, including the new ones, to take it one pitch at a time, Lyons said.

“You can slowly see from all the players, especially the younger guys, how important each pitch is to them and how it’s affecting their overall game,” Lyons said.

Everyone on the team, even the youngest players, have an important role on the team, Lyons said. Some people do not realize it does not matter if the player is starting or on the bench, they still have an impact. It’s important to have leaders everywhere.

Even veterans, including Lyons and Gutierrez, have

new experiences they will go through this year, including playing at multiple Major League ballparks.

“I’m looking forward to playing at Minute Maid Park,” Gutierrez said. “I’m also looking forward to playing at the Rangers Ballpark. I’ve never been there, to watch a game or anything. I’m excited to see that.”

Anywhere they play is still an unbelievable experience for Lyons, he said. He appreciates playing the game he loves with his teammates.

“Every year, it’s an honor to say that I am a Red Raider,” Lyons said.

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Free throw shooting leads to victories

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Talent runs deep in Big 12 basketball, and for the Texas Tech men’s basketball team, nearly every game means guarding a potential high NBA draft pick.

Since its win over the Oklahoma State Cowboys, Tech’s schedule has increased in difficulty with a game against a then-unranked Texas, victories against No. 13 Iowa State and No. 25 Baylor, one upcoming matchup against No. 3 Oklahoma and an away game against the No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks in the near future.

These team’s rosters include three Wooden Award finalists with senior forward Georges Niang at Iowa State, senior forward Perry Ellis playing at Kansas and Oklahoma senior guard Buddy Hield. Along with the Wooden Award finalists, Iowa State senior guard Monte Morris and Kansas junior guard Wayne Selden appear on the Naismith Trophy watch list, and Texas junior guard Isaiah Taylor and Baylor se-

nior forward Taureen Prince make a case for landing in the NBA with consistent scoring numbers.

Competing in a conference with such concentrated talent means Tech’s defense must find ways to contain key players without giving the floor to its opponents other scoring threats.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said no solution exists to keep players with NBA talent from going off, but taking care of the fundamentals helps the team stay in the chase.

“There’s not much adjustment you can make, you have a philosophy of how you play and how you defend,” Smith said. “You just make the minor adjustment, there’s not a whole lot you can do when a guy is talented.”

Keeping players like Hield and Ellis quiet remains a changing challenge every game for Big 12 teams.

Although Smith does not see an easy solution to defend the Big 12’s elite talent, Tech vastly improved in one of the game’s most fundamental pieces: free throws.

Last season, the Red Raid-

ers finished with a .642 free throw shooting percentage in 32 games played. Only TCU finished with a lower free throw percentage at .615, according to a Big 12 release.

Past the midpoint of the regular season at 24 games, Tech’s free throw percentage stands as the best in the Big 12 with a .752 percentage.

Tech has accumulated the second-most trips to the freethrow line with 576 attempts.

West Virginia surpasses the Red Raiders with trips to the line with 723 attempts, but the Mountaineers muster the second-lowest shooting percentage at .661.

For Smith, Tech’s ability to take advantage of the freethrow line has heightened the growth process for the team.

“I think we’ve really improved in those areas,” he said. “I think individually guys have improved in their stats on the most part, especially our sophomores who were freshmen last year.”

Some of Tech’s players making the biggest leaps in free throw percentage include senior guards Tod-

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Senior guard Toddrick Gotcher successfully makes a free throw during the Red Raiders game against Oklahoma State on Feb. 4. Gotcher currently has a .873 free throw percentage. drick Gotcher who hiked last season’s .681 to .873 and Devaugntah Williams who heightened a .765 to a .861 percentage. Sophomore guard Justin Gray bettered last season’s .717 to .797 and sophomore guard Keenan Evans increased a .716 percentage to .780.

In its 24 games, Tech has an average of 18 made free

throws per game and with a scoring margin of a positive 3.8, every free throw in Tech’s favor counts.

Charity points shift a game but Gray said confidence in the Big 12 push the team in a rough environment.

“I’m pretty sure anyone on the team could tell you we can play with anyone in the country,” Gray said.

“I think if everyone stays confident and just has that no back down mentality, that’s the kind of mentality we have to have.”

The 15-9 Red Raiders host the No. 3 Oklahoma Sooners at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena, which is also scheduled to be a blackout game. @DGaytanDT

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UConn remains No. 1 in poll

Construction begins on the Athletics Training Center after the “bubble” collapsed during Winter Storm Goliath during the winter break.

UConn continued its dominant run through the regular season.

The Huskies remained No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll Monday for the 20th consecutive week after beating then-No. 2 South Carolina and Temple last week. The Huskies have won 61 straight games and six consecutive victories in matchups between the top two teams in the AP poll.

They play Cincinnati and East Carolina this week having won their first 24 games by an average of nearly 40 points.

The Gamecocks dropped one spot to third, switching places with Notre Dame.

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South Carolina faces No. 24 Tennessee on Monday night.

The Lady Vols won their lone game last week against Vanderbilt to stay in the Top 25 for a 565th consecutive week. They have a busy week hosting the Gamecocks and Mississippi on Thursday before visiting LSU on Sunday.

Baylor and Ohio State were fourth and fifth. Maryland, Oregon State, Texas, Arizona State and Florida State round out the first 10 teams in the Top 25.

Syracuse re-entered the poll at No. 23 after dropping out of the rankings in early December. The Orange have won a season-best six straight games to get back

into the poll.

“We’re healthy and rested and ready,” Syracuse coach Quentin Hillsman said. “As you get towards the end of the season, the kids understand what you’re trying to do. The system’s clicking a little bit and we’ve been able to keep our players on the floor. We had Notre Dame and Louisville back to back in a short turnaround. They are two of the top 10 teams in the country.”

The Orange are led by a strong group of seniors who will be playing their final home game on Thursday against No. 10 Florida State. They have the best winning percentage in school history, winning 72.4 percent of their games.

Ducks convert 3 power-play No. 3 South Carolina women outlast No. 24 Tennessee 62-56 chances in 6-4 win over Flames KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A’ja Wilson scored 25 points and had five blocks as No. 3 South Carolina beat No. 24 Tennessee 62-56 on Monday night to clinch at least a share of its third straight Southeastern Conference women’s basketball title.

South Carolina (24-1, 12-0) won the SEC regular-season championship outright in 2014 and tied Tennessee for first place last season. The Gamecocks can clinch the championship outright Thursday by beating Georgia.

Tennessee (15-10, 6-6) led 35-32 in the third quarter before South Carolina’s Tiffany Mitchell scored six straight points to help the Gamecocks take control.

After hitting a game-tying 3-pointer, Mitchell made a basket that put South Carolina ahead for good with 2:47 left in the third.

The Lady Vols were within three points with seven minutes left before South Carolina went on a 12-2 run to seal the victory.

Diamond DeShields scored

21 points and Bashaara Graves had 13 points and 10 rebounds for Tennessee.

Khadijah Sessions had 13 points and Mitchell added 12 for South Carolina South Carolina has won its last three games with Tennessee, the program that has traditionally ruled the SEC. South Carolina won the only regular-season meeting between these two teams last year in Columbia and also knocked off the Lady Volunteers in the SEC tournament championship game.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Corey Perry had a goal and an assist Monday, and the Anaheim Ducks went a perfect 3 for 3 on the power play in a 6-4 victory over the Calgary Flames.

The Flames led 3-2 after an action-packed first period, but with Johnny Gaudreau in the penalty box, Perry banged Cam Fowler’s rebound past Jonas Hiller to tie it early in the second.

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holding and needed only 11 seconds to convert, with a rebound deflecting off several players and going in off the skate of Sami Vatanen to put Anaheim into the lead for good.

Mike Santorelli, with a pair of goals, Hamphus Lindholm and Rickard Rakell also scored for Anaheim. The Ducks, 9-1-1 in their past 11 games, leapfrogged San Jose into second place in the Pacific Division.

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Hiller was pulled after Vatanen’s goal, leaving with 13 saves on 17 shots. Joni Ortio, in his first NHL action since October, didn’t fare much better. He was beaten on the second shot he faced, as Rakell’s goal put the Ducks ahead 5-3.

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