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GOP candidate Abbott fights disability lawsuits AUSTIN (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott has vigorously fought disability suits against Texas as the state’s attorney general, despite enjoying the benefits of a 1990 federal law that helps guarantee access for disabled people.

Abbott has been in a wheelchair for almost 30 years after a tree fell on him while he was jogging. The Dallas Morning News reports Sunday that Abbott has praised the Americans with Disabilities Act, which has helped provide ramps, wide doors and other accommodations that allow him to engage voters.

However, he believes it is unconstitutional to force Texas to comply. And as attorney general he has battled several suits filed by disabled people against the state, including one in which he argues a woman is not disabled because she has prosthetic legs.

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Red Raiders beat No. 3 Hoosiers in opening series

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State lawsuits become issues in governor’s race AUSTIN (AP) — Greg Abbott’s job as Texas’ top lawyer placed him in the line of fire last week when his likely Democratic opponent called on him to stop defending lawsuits over school funding and gay marriage.

State Sen. Wendy Davis said the attorney general should settle a lawsuit brought by 600-plus school districts who complain that lawmakers violated the state constitution by boosting standards while slashing per-student spending. She said Abbott was “defending the indefensible.”

Four days later, she criticized Abbott for defending the Texas ban on gay marriage, saying the law violates the U.S Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection for homosexuals.

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TEXAS TECH INFIELDER Tim Proudfoot throws to first base in an attempted double play during the third inning of Tech’s game against Indiana Sunday at Rip Griffin Park.

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TEXAS TECH UTILITY player Eric Gutierrez hits the ball during the Red Raiders’ third game of the weekend against Indiana Saturday at Rip Griffin Park. Tech won 6-2.

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The Texas Tech baseball team opened its 2014 season against the No. 3 Indiana Hoosiers this weekend and won the series 3 games to 1.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said opening the season by beating a team with that kind of talent helps with momentum and confidence moving forward.

“We felt like we could go compete with anybody,” Tadlock said. “Then again to do it, and actually win the games, it’s definitely a confidence boost. Any given day we can play pretty good baseball.”

The only game the Red Raiders lost was the first one Friday afternoon.

Tech junior pitcher Dominic Moreno started the opening game and gave up a double to the first Hoosier batter of the game, junior outfielder Will Nolden.

After a bunt to move Nolden to third, junior infielder Sam Travis hit a sacrifice fly to score the run.

The Red Raiders were held scoreless in the game, so the one run in the first inning was all the Hoosiers needed to hand Tech its first loss of the season.

Moreno said conditions were tough for the hitters in the game because of the wind and credited Nolden for being able to hit a double in the first at-bat of the season.

“That’s what good teams do,” Moreno said. “They manufacture runs when they need to and that’s the difference in the game.”

After scoring no runs in game one of the series, the Red Raiders scored a combined 16 runs on 22 hits in Saturday’s doubleheader, according to a press release from Tech athletics.

The day started strong for the Red Raiders, according to the release, with sophomore outfielder Tyler Neslony hitting his first career home run, a grand slam in the first inning.

In the second game, Tech was training 2-1 in the top of the fourth inning, according to the release, but tied the game in the bottom half with sophomore catcher Tyler Floyd’s RBI triple.

The Red Raiders added two runs in the fifth and a pair of insurance runs in the seventh to defeat the Hoosiers 6-2.

Tadlock said the Tech players were maybe a little nervous and tight on the first day, but they performed better at the plate and caught some lucky breaks in the doubleheader.

“We just had some tough at-bats and caught some breaks today,” Tadlock said.

“Good teams capitalize on (errors) and we were fortunate today.”

The Red Raiders carried their offensive success into the final game. There were only two innings in which Tech did not score at least one run, and all seven of their runs were earned.

Tech freshman starting pitcher Ty Damron only stayed in the game for one inning, but junior Cameron Smith relieved him and threw six straight innings.

The pitching staff was a large part of the win for the Red Raiders, Tadlock said, and he expects them to only get better from here.

Smith said the pitching staff will be consistent this year, and this is the kind of normal weekend to expect from it.

“That team was a really good hitting team and we shut them down,” Smith said. “To go out there and win three out of four was a big win and a big confidence booster for our pitching staff.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

Increased Rec fee proposed by Student causes fire and flooding Student Government Association at Hulen Residence Hall Friday

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff WritEr

Students will have the opportunity to change the landscape of Texas Tech’s campus in the upcoming Student Government Association election.

The SGA ballot will include a referendum regarding the addition of turf fields for recreational use.

The creation of the new turf fields will mean a $25 increase of the $75 recreational fee, according to an SGA Senate agenda. Of the $25 increase, $15 will be put towards the creation of the fields and $10 of the fee increase will towards the maintenance of the fields.

Luke Cotton, a senior global supply chain management major from League City and current SGA president, said students would not see an increase in their current recreational fee until construction of the fields is complete.

“Once it finally gets constructed and students are able to use it, then they would start paying that additional fee,” Cotton said.

The construction of the turf fields will depend on students voting in

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agreement with the construction of the fields and the board of regents approving the construction, he said.

Sen. BaLeigh Waldrop, a junior accounting major from Hobbs, N.M., said she thinks the creation of the turf fields will facilitate management of intramural sports at Tech.

“The main problem with the way we do intramurals now is that we are doing them on the grass fields and there is not a lot of room,” Waldrop said. “With turf fields, we will be able to do more intramurals.”

Waldrop said she also thinks the creation of the turf fields would be financially beneficial in the future.

“In the long run, it will be more cost effective because it will be easier to maintain the turf fields and the grass fields,” she said.

The fields will be located in proximity to the women’s soccer fields and will not take the place of the grass fields, Cotton said.

Josh Medrano, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Fort Worth, said he thinks the addition of turf fields will be great for the Tech students.

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Residents of Hulen Residence Hall experience a fire and flood Friday morning. The fire occurred on the sixth floor, and flooding from sprinklers left residents without a room for hours.

The fire alarm sounded at about 9 a.m., and residents of Hulen/ Clement Residence Complex were evacuated. Most students thought it was a drill.

John-David Roblez, a freshman natural resource management major from Stanton, said he believed the evacuation was just an annoying, unexpected part of his morning.

“I was in the shower around 9,” he said. “I thought it was a drill, but the entire first floor smelled like smoke. It was too much to process in the morning.”

Emily White, a freshman pre-nursing major from Midland, is a resident of Clement Hall. She said she arrived back to the hall and saw everyone standing outside.

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“Yeah, I got back to the dorm and they wouldn’t let anybody in,” she said. “I had an online quiz due at 10, and I couldn’t get into my room to take it. Everyone was saying it was an actual fire and some girl’s bed caught on fire.”

The cause of the fire was a hair straightener, which short-circuited overnight and ignited a student’s bed. She said she was still asleep and awoke to her bedding completely covered in flames.

The student, who did not wish to be named, told her experience with teary eyes.

“It started with a straightener,” she said. “It like short-circuited in the outlet. I turned it off the night before, but it didn’t ever cool down.”

For the student who caused the fire, her troubles may not just end at a ruined bed and a traumatic experience. Students will be charged for all damages to the residence hall when they check out for the year, according to the Student Housing Contract.

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When: 5 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Where: Rawls College of Business So, what is it?

Witness this lecture open to the public for free from Vernon L. Smith in the Grand Auditorium on the first floor of the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

Today How I Learned to Drive When: 8 p.m. - Saturday 10 p.m.

Where: Maedgen Laboratory Theatre So, what is it?

For only $10 watch this play, directed by Bruce Hermann, about a relationship with a young woman and an older man.

Ben Haugland Faculty Jazz Recital When: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Witness for free Ben Haugland Faculty Jazz Recital at Hemmle Recital Hall.

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How I Learned to Drive When: 8 p.m. – Saturday 10 p.m.

Where: Maedgen Laboratory Theatre So, what is it?

For only $10 watch this play, directed by Bruce Hermann, about a relationship with a young woman and an older man.

Public Lecture from Nobel Laureate Dr. Vernon L. Smith

Western Civilization Lecture Series: Dan Asia, Composer When: 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Where: Escondido Theatre in the Student Union building So, what is it?

Dan Asia, a composer and professor of music at the University of Arizona, will give a lecture open to the public entitled Beauty and Classical Music in the Academy for free.

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Events will be published either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by 4 p.m. on the preceding publication date.

Students are able to experience numerous events celebrating African-American history during February, Black History Month.

Many different organizations on campus such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the CrossCultural Academic Advancement Center and the library, are putting on events this month to expose students to different cultures they may not have previously had experience with, Ricky Sherfield, Jr., unit coordinator for the CrossCultural Academic Advancement Center, said.

“At the CCAAC we’re specifically hosting an event called More Than Just a Month,” he said. “This event showcases the provocative documentary about ending Black History Month. Then after the screening, we are going to hold a panel discussion to explore and discuss all heritage months and themed celebrations that limit or advance culture.”

The event held by the library takes a different spin on the month

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2 Texas Judges offer to officiate Hulen same-sex commitment ceremonies CONTINUED↵ FROM PAGE 1 AUSTIN (AP) — An offer by two Texas judges to officiate same-sex “commitment” ceremonies at an Austin courthouse on Valentine’s Day has sparked the anger of GOP politicians who noted the Lone Star State doesn’t recognize gay marriage.

The offer by County Courtat-Law Judge John Lipscombe and his wife, visiting Judge Jan Breland, a retired county court-at-law judge, was part of a 25-year tradition to hold free courthouse weddings on Valentine’s Day, the Austin American-Statesman reported Saturday. The pair issued a statement Thursday saying the event would include “free commitment ceremonies for samesex couples.”

No couples apparently took the judges up on the offer, but it still angered several Republican politicians, who said the state has a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples sponsored that constitutional amendment passed in 2005 and said, “it’s wrong for a sitting judge to hold a ceremony mocking our state constitution.”

“It is the responsibility of our judges to uphold the rule of law, and every Texan should be upset with this clear attempt to use their trusted position as a seat for activism,” said Staples, who is running for lieutenant governor.

Lipscombe and Breland performed the wedding ceremonies in a fifth-floor courtroom that was decorated with red hearts, flowers, stuffed animals and photos of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe. By late Friday afternoon, 37 couples had married, but none was gay, the newspaper said.

One same-sex couple showed up to accept the judges’ offer but quickly left, saying they didn’t like the media spotlight.

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Janie Brezik, a freshman psychology major from Houston, said the housing officials told the student who started the fire she would be charged for all damages to the hall and will also be removed from her room permanently.

“Yeah, they told her she will have to pay for all the flooding

and will be on exhibit through the man, president of the fraternity month of February, Julie Barnett, as- and senior electronic media and sistant director for communications communication major from Cedar and marketing at the library, said.

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Collegiate 100 has hosted this There is an exhibit in the special collections library, she said, with event in the past, he said, but many different historically-released Kappa Alpha Psi decided to host it s t a m p s this year and chroniis putting its own spin on cling different figures the event.

“There’s a prominent Black History Month throughout thing called black histhe black The month of February tory. caucus on “Every campus that Various locations on Texas Tech campus year the is basically U.S. Postal all of the Students celebrate black orgaService isBlack History Month sues a new nizations on with many events. campus,” he stamp celebrating s a i d . “ We black hiswere really trying to t o r y, ” s h e said. “On display at special col- push having as many events for lections library is a selection black culture in February to make of previously-released stamps sure we’re not underrepresented depicting significant black figures here on campus. The event for us is really to celebrate ethnic in various walks of life.”

The Iota Upsilon chapter of culture, remember our historical Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, In- figures and acknowledge the curcorporated, is hosting a Black rent students who are excelling.”

Excellence banquet, Adrian SpearThe event will include a pre-

sentation from the Boys and Girls Club of Lubbock, the presentation of a scholarship in honor of a Kappa Alpha Psi brother who passed away in 2010 and two keynote speakers, one of which is Bernard Harris, the first African-American to complete a spacewalk and a Tech Health Sciences Center graduate, he said.

The event is not just to remember the figures often talked about when remembering black history, he said.

It is meant to inspire the new generation to continue to strive for excellence, he said, and advance where the black society is today and in the future.

“What black history means to me is from the black excellence point of view. It’s kind of remembering all the greater strides that have been made,” he said. “It’s remembering all the people that aren’t talked about every day, the ones not always remembered and what they did for society. We’re really just trying to shed light on what it means to recognize those before us that push us today towards excellence and that we can maintain it and hopefully one day go farther.” ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com

use cleats, but that doesn’t get rid of the problem,” Medrano said. “It would be nice to have some turf where actual students could use.”

Alysa Price, a sophomore business major from Dallas,

said she is not in support of the creation of the new turf fields because of the location where the fields would be placed.

“I would never use it,” Price said.

Students can ask Tech per-

sonnel involved with the creation of the turf fields questions at the open forum hosted in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center at 6 p.m. Thursday in room 201.

damage and all the property that was ruined,” she said. “They’re also kicking her out of the hall. She’s really upset.”

Yasman Weaver, a freshman pre-nursing major from Houston, said the entire sixth floor was knocking on doors trying to alert other residents, because the alarm had not started yet.

“She woke up and the bed was on fire,” she said. “She just ran into the hall and yelled for our

CA. Then we were knocking on doors getting people out. Water was pouring out of the room from the sprinklers.”

The sprinklers not only flooded rooms on the sixth floor, but rooms on the lower floors as well.

Residents had to be escorted by an official to their rooms to retrieve valuables and electronics to save them from water damage and were not allowed to stay in their room.

Bria Lane, a freshman un-

decided major from Houston, said the community advisers and housing officials were unsure of when residents would be allowed back into the hall, but it would be several hours.

“They haven’t let us up yet,” she said. “They don’t know when they will be able to, but it probably won’t be for like six hours. They’re just letting you go get the stuff you need for class or your laptops.” ➤➤kmcdermett@dailytoreador.com

3:28 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of substance and possession of marijuana after checking a suspicious vehicle in the C-11 parking lot. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was left legally parked.

9:19 p.m. — A Tech officer documented information about a suspicious odor at Hulen

Residence Hall.

1:42 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication and issued a Lubbock County citation for a fictitious license after checking a suspicious vehicle in the Z-4R parking lot. The non-student was issued a criminal trespass warning and transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was left

legally parked. Four involved students were issued Lubbock County citations for consumption of alcohol by a minor and one of the students was also issued a citation for possessing a fictitious license. The students signed the citations and were released.

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

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POLICE BLOTTER Thursday 12:27 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the R-8 parking lot.

2:00 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a criminal trespass warning for all of Tech property and the Tech Health Sciences Center at the request of university officials after the student was suspended from the university.

Father of man who died at sea still looking for answers CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — The father of a man who died on a fishing boat still has unanswered questions about his son’s death after speaking on the phone with an El Salvadoran castaway who apparently survived the 13-month accidental journey across the Pacific Ocean.

Nicolas Cordoba Cruz, the father of 23-year-old Ezequiel Cordoba Rios, said he spoke to

Jose Salvador Alvarenga but now wants to meet him in person, the El Paso Times reported Saturday.

“Ezequiel told him (Alvarenga) to tell his brothers to look after their mother and to tell me that he was going to be fine,” Cordoba Cruz told the El Paso Times.

Cordoba Cruz was sobbing and holding the only two pictures he has of his son when he

spoke to the newspaper from Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican border town, where he lives.

Alvarenga’s small fishing boat made landfall on the Marshall Islands earlier this month, where he described a 6,500mile (10,500-kilometer) journey from Mexico across the Pacific that began when the vessel was thrown off course by bad weather.

Doctors have said he was in strikingly good physical health, though mentally frail. Alvarenga has said he survived by eating raw fish, turtles and bird blood.

Alvarenga has said his fishing companion died about a month after they went off course when he couldn’t eat the raw fish and turtles. Cordoba Cruz said Alvarenga told him he threw his son’s body overboard after he died.

Obama signs debt ceiling measure into law RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.

(AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday signed separate measures into law to lift the federal debt limit and restore benefits that had been cut for younger military retirees.

Obama signed the bills during a weekend golf vacation in Southern California.

The debt limit measure allows the government to borrow money to pay its bills, such as Social Security benefits and federal salaries.

Failure to pass the measure, which the Senate passed 67-31 earlier this week and sent to Obama for his signature, most likely would have sent the stock market into a nosedive.

The Treasury Department is now free to borrow regularly through March 15, 2015, meaning lawmakers won’t have to revisit the issue until a new Congress is sworn in after the November elections.

Separate legislation passed in December would have held annual cost-of-living increases for veterans age 62 and younger to 1 percentage point below the rate of inflation, beginning in 2015. The measure was designed to hold the line on the soaring cost of government benefit programs, which have largely es-

caped trillions of dollars in deficit cuts over the past three years.

The cuts were enacted less than two months ago, with a projected savings to the government of $7 billion over a decade. Veterans groups and some lawmakers said the cut was a mistake, and they began campaigning to have the benefits restored.

The pensions go to veterans who retire after 20 years of service, regardless of their age. Nearly 2 million retirees currently are eligible, including about 840,000 under age 62, according to the Pentagon.

For a sergeant first class who leaves the service at age 42 after two decades, the bill passed in December would have meant an estimated $72,000 in reduced pension payments.

Quick action by lawmakers on this year’s debt limit bill stands in contrast to lengthy showdowns in 2012 and last fall, when Republicans sought to use the must-pass bill as leverage to win concessions from Obama. They succeeded in 2011, winning about $2 trillion in spending cuts. But Obama has been unwilling to negotiate over the debt limit since his re-election in 2012.

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Texas Tech professor retires after 50 years Staff Writer

Texas Tech is home to many professors, and with many different colleges, it is unlikely for one professor to be known by the entire student body.

M.A.K. Lodhi, a professor in the Department of Physics who has worked at Tech for half a century, was given a symposium Friday after he announced his retirement this school year.

Various friends and colleagues attended the all-day event to discuss physics topics and speak personally about Lodhi, including President M. Duane Nellis. “ We r e c o g n i z e a d i s t i n guished career today,” Nellis said during his speech. “He has seen tremendous change, and he has been a part of building up this research institution.”

Lodhi graduated with a Ph.D. in physics in 1963 from the University of London where he worked on nuclear and nucleon structures, he said.

He then showed a single sheet of blue paper on which he had written a short resume, which earned him a professorship at Tech without having to interview for it.

“In the first graduate course

“We agreed to give him the I taught, I had no ‘A’s, two ‘B’s and the rest were ‘C’s, ‘D’s and title of research professor with ‘F’s,” Lodhi said. “Perhaps I was no salary,” Lichti said. “Howa poor teacher.” ever, the university will not He then proceeded to discuss allow us to do that. We’re workthe various research experiments ing on paperwork to give him a he has conducted while at Tech salary of between $50 and $150 including work on single par- a month, which is about enough ticle energies, relativistic heavy to pay for parking.”

His new ion collisions, and new and task will be completing renewable energy sources. unfinished research for the While he department. has worked in While he various fields has aimed at within physics, he said he tying loose strings from found his real his previous interest while research in still attending the past, this university.

“Where is has not been M.A.K LODHI completely my heart?”

Professor in the Department successful, he said. “My of Physics Lodhi said. natural taste “I have lies in nuclecreated more a r a n d p a rdangling strings,” he said, “for ticle theory.”

Roger Lichti, the chairman f u t u r e s t u d e n t s , c o l l e a g u e s of the department of physics, and myself.” said Lodhi’s interest in research Aside from his professional has not stopped because he an- achievements, attendees also nounced his formal retirement. spoke on his personal character.

While Lodhi will no longer Mark Bass, a family friend of teach, he will still work at Tech Lodhi, said his family has opened as one of the research professors. their home to the Lodhi family

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since they came to Lubbock.

“I didn’t realize it at the time, but it must have seemed weird that my parents opened their Christian home to Muslim friends,” he said. “We have always admired Dr. Lodhi’s kindness, sense of humor and humility.”

Lodhi’s humor translated to the laughing audience as he joked about his work and told stories about moving to the United States.

He also spoke about his plan to give back to the university.

“I have set aside $100,000 in Texas Tech Federal Credit Union,” he said, “as an endowment to Texas Tech University for the nuclear theory program.”

As gifts of appreciation, Lodhi received a pin from President Nellis, a flag flown over the capital on his behalf from Congressman Neugebauer and a trophy from the department of physics.

Lodhi said he was grateful to have recognition and thanked those who participated in the symposium.

“I really find no words to show my gratitude but may express thanks from the core of my heart without the help of uttering words,” he said. “Professors don’t retire — they phase out.” ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

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DR. M.A.K. LODHI, a professor of physics for the past 50 years, explains his graduate program successes and his retirement Friday in the International Cultural Center.

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Over time, the popular styles of dancing and fashion change as the opinions of the population change.

Although there are various dancing scenes available to Lubbock residents, the Vernacular Music Center showcased traditional English dancing at its annual Dancing with Darcy event at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Museum of Texas Tech University.

Abi Rhoades, the administrative coordinator for the VMC, said she started the event four years ago after brainstorming with her colleagues about hosting a spring event to raise money for scholarships.

“We decided on a Jane Austen Regency Ball because ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was popular after the newest version of the movie came out,” she said. “This is the first year that our theme was ‘Downton Abbey’ because the show has really become popular.”

The profits made from the event go towards scholarships the VMC awards to students.

According to the VMC website, there are two scholarships available to musicians and dancers.

“We have an annual VMC scholarship that is given to one student,” Rhoades said. “We also support various students through the Outreach Scholars Program. We send them to events and camps that promote vernacular dancing, and they come back to help us.”

Guests were dressed in either post-Edwardian era or 1920s style to fit the theme.

Deborah Green, an employee at Tech information systems, said the costumes were the main reason she attended the event for the first time.

“I came because of the Downton Abbey theme,” she said. “I’m attracted to the 1920s. It’s good to dress up and to see the other costumes.”

While most of the guests live in the

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LAURA HOULE, A graduate musicology major from Dallas, plays the fiddle while performing at the School of Music and Vernacular Music Center’s Dancing with Mr. Darcy at Downton Abbey event Saturday in the Museum of Texas Tech University. At the event, participants danced to live music from the Regency and post-Edwardian eras.

Lubbock area, Amelia Zuver came from Atlanta, Ga. She came for the weekend to visit her best friend at Tech, but the dance was an added bonus to the trip, she said.

“I’ve done a lot of Latin dancing before,” Zuver said, “and I thought doing a different style of dancing would be fun.”

After the guests had time to socialize, Rhoades called partners out to the dance floor to teach them various steps.

The first dance was a waltz, and the pairs were allowed to lead themselves after practicing the dance a few times.

“I think the dancing is fun even though I’m not as good at it,” Green said. “It’s good to learn new styles.

Dancing from different eras has more finesse than dances nowadays.”

In between the three sessions of dancing, the guests ate a three-course meal to make up for the calories they were burning by dancing, Rhoades said.

The event was not catered, and instead Rhoades made a majority of the food.

“I’ve done the event long enough now to know how to organize better,” she said. “It didn’t take long to plan, and I just dragged out all the cooking over four or five days.”

The last dances taught were the animal dances, which included the foxtrot and other unique dances such as the “squirrel” and the “grizzly bear.”

Rhoades received many compliments from departing guests, and she said she loves seeing people come back every year.

“We usually have between 40 and 70 guests every year,” Rhoades said. “I would love to have twice as many people, but this really is the perfect number — The room never feels empty.”

While there were not a large num-

‘Gravity’ named best British film at UK awards LONDON (AP) — Space thriller “Gravity” was named best British movie at the British Academy Film Awards Sunday, taking the first trophy of the night.

The special-effects extravaganza also scooped up early prizes for sound and music.

Made in the U.K. by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, “Gravity” has 11 nominations in all for Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, and is a favorite to take the overall best-picture prize.

David O. Russell’s con-artist caper “American Hustle” and Steve

McQueen’s unflinching “12 Years a Slave” are the other front-runners, with 10 nominations apiece.

The supporting actor prize went to Barkhad Abdi, who made an explosive screen debut as a Somali pirate in “Captain Phillips,” while Jennifer Lawrence was named best supporting actress for “American Hustle.”

“American Hustle” also won the hair and makeup prize for its spectacular 70s stylings, while the “The Great Gatsby” — little-rewarded so far this awards season — took trophies for costumes and production design.

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Gleinser: Washington’s national debt advice should be followed Lane: Reagan had best advice that government prevents liberty

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during wars, and therefore advised the nation to pay down those debts during peacetime as efficiently as possible. Obviously we’re not following that at this point.

Washington also recognized exactly why it is so important to pay down our debts, so that we are “not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.”

B a s i c a l l y, Wa s h i n g t o n knew if the generation that accumulated the debts failed to pay them off, the responsibility for paying them off would fall to the next generation, a generation that was entirely innocent in terms of racking up those debts. It’s not fair for the children to pay for the sins of the fathers.

Yet when we fail to pay off debts, that’s exactly what happens. The politicians in power refuse to do anything to pay down the debts they have accumulated. When they’re retired and living on a fat government pension, it will be our generation’s responsibility to fix their mistakes. That hardly seems fair.

And it’s not just Democrats or Republicans who are responsible for the $17 trillion deficit we face. It’s not George W. Bush’s fault and it’s not Barack Obama’s fault. It’s everyone’s fault. Every politician who’s been in office since the last time we had a balanced budget, and every single American citizen,

The politicians in power refuse to do anything to pay down the debts they have accumulated.

whether they voted for these fools or not, is at fault.

It’s our job as citizens to hold our politicians’ feet to the fire.

We should be smart enough to recognize how dangerous this enormous debt is to the future of the country. Washington realized this, saying, “The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should cooperate.”

We need to do a better job of demanding that the politicians in this country do their jobs and leave the nation in a better position than they found it. That should be their main priority.

Instead, they choose to bicker about expensive, useless programs like Obamacare and ignore the real problem, which is the fact that we can’t pay for any of this. The government spends more money than it takes in revenue, and it’s not because we’re financing a war.

It’s because we have a group of buffoons in Congress who don’t care about responsibility.

We as citizens should heed Washington’s words and demand more of our elected officials. Instead of thinking of how to better themselves and their personal financial positions, they should be thinking about how to make the country better for the next generation: our generation.

If we don’t hold them accountable, we’ll have an awful mess to clean up — one which might be beyond help when we finally get the current crop of bums out of office.

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e’re currently living in an era where numerous different government policies are changing, shifting in a different direction or disappearing altogether. Some of the more popular “hot-button” issues constantly debated on the major news outlets and at any type of social gathering include topics such as abortion, same-sex marriage rights and the Affordable Care Act. W h i l e t h e r e ’s c e r tainly plenty of discussion to be had concerning each individual topic, if we take a step back and look at the big picture, we’ll recognize that many hotly-debated issues in today’s political and social circles can be summed up to the amount of control our government has over our daily lives.

Former President Ronald Reagan recognized the multitude of problems that would come with the government becoming an increasingly influential component of the American people’s day-to-day lifestyle.

During his farewell speech in 1988, after having served two consecutive terms in office, President Reagan said, “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”

As far as presidential advice is concerned, there’s none more relevant and important to our time than these words spoken

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by President Reagan.

If there’s one thing liberals, conservatives and all the in-betweeners can agree on, it’s that the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights should continue to act as a foundation upon which our government should operate. The natural rights of man to freedom and pursuit of happiness are protected by these documents, and the government taking away those rights from us would be a treacherous act.

Unfortunately, President Barack Obama and his administration have enacted certain p o l i c i e s t ha t expand the government’s reach. Not only that, but certain government agencies — such as the IRS and NSA — have gone far over the line in their duties by essentially spying on American citizens.

The most obvious yet profound part of Reagan’s advice is the last sentence in which he explains how a larger government means fewer liberties enjoyed by all U.S. citizens. When the government intervenes in the private lives of citizens, even if it’s with the utmost best intentions, somebody is losing the freedom that should be protected by our Constitution.

For example, the Affordable Care Act – otherwise known as Obamacare – is highly controversial not because conservative Republicans don’t care about another individual’s health, but because it’s an attempt by the government to take control of

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what has and always will be a private institution.

Any sane person feels empathy toward a family that can’t afford health insurance. However, when another family’s insurance premiums begin to skyrocket as a result of the government trying to take control of healthcare, there are boundaries being crossed that our government doesn’t belong in.

The well-known political economist Adam Smith is recognized for his coining of the invisible hand theory, which serves as the basis behind capitalism. The point of the invisible hand theory is that people will do anything they can to maximize their own gains without government intervention, and by doing so, the entire general public will reap the benefits.

Opposite of the invisible hand theory are the socialist and communist policies implemented by other countries in different parts of the world, most notably the former Soviet Union. We all know how well those types of government policies work out.

Reagan is typically not very well liked by liberal Democrats, but it should be agreed upon by anyone who’s a fan of liberty and wants to retain the freedoms guaranteed by our Bill of Rights that the U.S. government needs to remain small and stop interfering with our personal lives.

If we continue to accept an expanding government, we could one day lose all of our liberties.

If we continue to accept an expanding government, we could one day lose all of our liberties.

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residents have often been looked to for sagely advice, if for no other reason than the fact that they’re presidents. Some have been better at it than others — I don’t think I’d want to hear any of the advice Bill Clinton has to offer — but none were better than the original, Mr. George Washington himself.

Washington’s farewell address is chock full of tidbits we should keep handy, perhaps most notably his warning to stay out of foreign affairs.

We h a v e n ’ t exactly followed that too well since the end of World War II. A largely forgotten piece of advice from that address, however, is something very relevant to today’s political climate. Washington, believe it or not, warned about the dangers of national debt.

At over $17 trillion and constantly growing, the national debt is out of control.

Last week’s debate-free raising of the debt ceiling clearly shows today’s politicians simply don’t care about the debt. To them, it’s just a really big number.

Washington realized the d a n g e r s o f d e b t , h o w e v e r, warning to “use it as sparingly as possible,” and, “by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned.”

To decode that statement, Washington recognized the possibility of debts racking up

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Universities should be able to pay athletes for playing sports The universities of our nation are wonderful places. They embody intellectual achievement, societal advancement and increased economic opportunity for their students. However, there is another public service for which our colleges are known, in some cases better than academics: athletics. Yes, our hallowed academic institutions also serve as focal points for fans of all sports to cheer for their school and their team.

Speaking with any athletics administrator, coach or NCAA official, it is clear, though, that such sporting events are merely sideshows to the educational function of a university. The unofficial motto of college sports, “student-athletes are students first” has been repeated so

many times that those doing the repeating might actually have started believing themselves.

Even so, there remain those of us who realize how nonsensical the statement really is.

Before going any further, let me make myself clear. The vast majority of college athletes are college students first and foremost who happen to enjoy membership on a sports team.

Very, very few of the athletes at a university are there merely for their playing abilities.

With that said, the fact remains that there do exist students who have been systematically recruited solely for their athletic prowess. We can all keep saying that every student athlete is a student first until our faces turn blue, but that does not make it true.

No matter what rules the NCAA puts in place and no matter what expec-

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tations or standards a college sets, a small number of students are recruited purely for their ability to play a sport.

Pretending these cases do not exist or drawing attention to their limited number does nothing to remove the reality that universities across the country are enrolling specific individuals only because they can bring the school success or revenue by competing in athletic contests.

Having made this clear, it is absurd to disallow these professional athletes — and they should be considered professional athletes — from being compensated in certain ways.

Yes, student-athletes can be given scholarships. They can be given money for room and board, free apparel, free travel, access to a worldclass training facility and many other scholarly benefits, but heaven forbid they be paid with currency not intended for necessities.

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The fact that some student-athletes are given an array of benefits other students may not enjoy is no reason to deny them additional payment for their impressive talents.

Who deserves what from a university is for the university alone to decide.

Likewise, the fact that studentathletes are given an education is no reason to deny them certain compensations. A college education is of high value to many people and statistically speaking increases earning potential, but to some it may not be as valuable as even a small amount of cash inhand. That judgement call is certainly not for the NCAA or anyone else to make on behalf of all student-athletes.

Of course, there are more to college athletics than economic factors. Academic institutions may rightly worry that their good names could be stained by the act of hiring professionals to compete in athletic

contests designed to match students with students. The very notion that a university would enroll a student for purposes other than academics might bother some. This loss of integrity is simply not a valid argument against a pay for play scheme, though, since it is already occurring in the absence of such a system.

It should be noted that the NCAA, effectively the “league” of collegiate sports, does have an interest in retaining what parity exists. Allowing colleges to pay untold amounts of money to their athletes would disproportionately benefit wealthy schools at the expense of smaller institutions. Luckily, professional sports have already found a way to combat this: create a salary cap for individual sports. This simple solution would allow certain high-value players to be rightfully compensated for their performance while keeping the playCopyright © 2014 Texas Tech University Student Media/The Daily Toreador. All DT articles, photographs and artwork are the property of The DT and Student Media and may not be reproduced or published without permission.

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Even with all of this, the argument can still be made that college sports are fundamentally different from professional sports, and they are. Collegiate athletics are contests between students, and they should remain that way. Each player should have to actually be a student and remain in good academic standing. Giving certain athletes payment for their skills does not magically make them no longer students; it makes them students with a fair-paying job.

When proposing drastic alterations to any status quo, it often falls on those seeking change to show why their system should be adopted. In the case of paying college athletes, however, the more appropriate question to ask is why our universities are being made to abide by a senseless ban on certain compensations for their professional student-athletes.

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No. 19 Lady Raiders beat Arizona, 6-1

By TYLER DORNER

point put the team in the right direction heading into singles where they won five of the six matches.

“We surround our program around winning the doubles point,” Kilgo said.

Senior Rashmi Teltumbde won her match after losing the first game, defeating Kim Stubbe 6-4, 6-2. She said it took her a couple of games to settle in and get the hang of her opponent, but after the first couple of games she said she was in control of the match.

Kilgo, who is ranked No. 115 in the nation, lost her match in straight sets 6-3, 6-3 to Lacey Smyth. It was the only point Tech dropped on the day.

“There wasn’t much I could do,” Kilgo said. “She just played really well.”

Kilgo said she was never able to get into the groove of the match and Smyth just came out firing.

Arizona entered the match unranked, but also unbeaten at 7-0.

Staff Writer

On a windy Valentine’s Day, the Lady Raider tennis team topped Arizona to improve to 6-1 on the season at the Don and Ethel McLeod Tennis Center.

The Wildcats were handed their first loss of the season against No. 19 Texas Tech, losing by a score of 6-1.

Tech coach Todd Petty said it may have been the Lady Raiders’ best performance of the season.

“It was by far the best performance we’ve had all year long,” he said.

Tech started the day by winning the doubles portion of the match two games to one. The 37th-ranked doubles pair of senior Samantha Adams and junior Kenna Kilgo defeated senior Lacey Smyth and sophomore Shayne Austin of Arizona 8-4.

Kilgo said winning the doubles

Petty said he expects big things out of the Wildcats this year in the Pacific-12 Conference.

“That’s not an unranked team,” he said. “They’re going to be ranked.”

Teltumbde said they played Arizona last year when the Wildcats were ranked, but this year’s unranked team is substantially better than last year’s.

She said she thinks they will be ranked once they play more matches.

Kilgo agreed, saying Arizona is a dangerous team and this will turn out to be a big win for the Lady Raiders.

To be successful, the team will need to put in this effort on a consistent basis, Petty said.

“If we can mimic this kind of effort, I think everything else will fall in place,” he said.

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SARAH TOTI RETURNS a hit during her doubles match against the University of Arizona Friday at the Don and Ethel McLeod Tennis Center. Texas Tech won its matches against Arizona with a 6-1 score.

White highlights weekend of Tech improvements

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

At the Tyson Invitational Saturday, junior sprinter Cierra White showed once again why she was on the Bowerman Watch List prior to the season.

In her premier event, the 200-meter dash, White showcased the speed she possesses, which meant another personal record for the sprinter.

White said she knew she would run fast because the race was on a fast track, but her focus was not to break her personal record. White said she just wanted to improve.

The fastest completion of the race for White before Saturday afternoon was 23.53 seconds.

On Saturday, she was a tenth of a second faster.

“I knew I would do good because of the competition,” White said, “and usually if you have someone there that is good, you do better.”

The time may have been a personal record, but it was not enough to earn her first place.

Two Southern California Trojans, redshirt sophomore Tynia Gather and senior Jessica Davis, placed ahead of White.

White’s 23.43 seconds was fast enough for the Big 12 Conference lead in the 200-meter dash.

White had no idea she secured the Big 12 lead with her performance Saturday, she said. When she learned of the news she was astonished and could only react with pleasure of not the performance she had, but instead the effort she put into the race.

Sophomore hurdler Le’Tristan

Pledger attempted to start the show early in Arkansas for Texas Tech Friday.

It looked like Pledger would do so when she clocked the fastest time in the preliminaries, 8.12 seconds.

She qualified for semifi nals, but that was as far as she would go. Pledger would clear the first three hurdles and then clip the fourth.

The clip was bad enough to stop her momentum and put her out of contention. Pledger decided to walk the remainder of the race and finished in 22.06 seconds.

Despite the hurdle clipping, there were bright spots F r i d a y. S o p h o m o r e j u m p e r Bradley Atkins gave one of those performances.

Atkins cleared 7 feet 3 inches

for the first time in the season. The clearance kept Atkins ranked at No. 6 in the nation, but he is no longer a part of the sixway tie. He is now in a two-way tie with senior Arkansas jumper Anthony May. The last time he jumped that height was during the first weekend of competition at the Red Raider Open, Atkins said.

He attempted the school-record height of 7 feet and 3 3/4 inches but failed to make it over the bar.

Seven feet 3 inches was his goal this time going into the Don Kirby Collegiate Elite, he said.

Atkins chose the height as his goal because he was no longer sure he could qualify for nationals with his previous best height of 7 feet 2 1/2 inches.

“Just being able to go in and get that half inch was such

a relief off my shoulders,” he said. “I came off excited and it felt so good.”

Atkins admits he had been struggling in practice. However, the struggling did not stop him from believing in the process.

Atkins knew his work would help him put all he had learned together, and on Friday he did.

The jump inches Atkins closer to possibly breaking the school record set by junior jumper Jacorian Duffield earlier in the season.

Tech coach Wes Kittley said he is proud of how the top athletes on the team performed against steep competition and for continuing to remain consistent, but he was impressed with the overall team performance.

“Everybody had better performances,” Kittley said. “Even not

our big guns, but our good, solid performers had a good meet.”

Many of those solid performances are credited to the freshmen and sophomores who competed at home, such as the array of underclassmen distance runners, he said.

Even though Kittley had much to applaud, there are always areas to improve, he said. The most noticeable area for improvement following the weekend of meets is with the Red Raider sprinters. Kittley said he understands the men are young, but he wants to see more consistency from them.

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Red Raiders fall to Cyclones Sims’ 34 points lead No. 7 Baylor over Longhorns 72-56

By REX ROSE

minutes of play, recording his 17th career double-double, according to a Tech news release Crockett has converted 15 straight free throws after going a perfect 8-8 from the charity stripe against Iowa State and is averaging 84.3 percent on the year, according to the Tech release.

The biggest difference in the game was the assist to turnover ratio as the Red Raiders recorded 13 turnovers and 11 assists, while the Cyclones had seven turnovers and 21 assists.

Senior guard DeAndra Kane led Iowa State with 17 points, eight rebounds and nine assists.

The Red Raiders will seek to beat USA Today Top-25 team for the fourth time this season at 7 p.m.

Tuesday as they host the No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks in the United Spirit Arena.

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The Texas Tech men’s basketball team lost to the No. 11 Iowa State Cyclones 70-64 Saturday in Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.

In a first half that had eight lead changes, Tech trailed 39-29 and Iowa State improved to 13-0 when leading at the break.

The Red Raiders went on a 29-10 run in the second half, overcoming an 18-point deficit and taking a 62-61 lead before getting outscored 9-2 in the final three minutes of the game.

Tech fell to 13-12 overall and 5-7 in the Big 12 Conference, Iowa State improved to 19-5 overall with a 7-5 record in conference play.

Tech senior forward Jaye Crockett led the game in scoring with a careerhigh 23 points and 11 rebounds in 30

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Odyssey Sims was struggling to score against Texas and showed her frustration as she watched the ball bounce off the rim time and again.

No matter. There was still a second half to go, and the way the way Baylor was playing defense, Sims and the No. 8 Lady Bears had plenty of time to find their groove.

Sims shook off her tough first half to finish with 34 points and Baylor pulled away in the second for a 72-56 victory Sunday.

“It was nothing they were doing defensively,” said Sims, the national scoring leader who averages 30 points per game. “I was getting good looks. I’m usually not that wide open coming out of screens.”

Defensively, the Lady Bears forced 26 Texas turnovers and turned them into 33 points.

Texas made just one field goal

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“We always want to make teams turn the ball over as much as we can. We play good team defense,” Sims said.

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Lady Raiders lose 15th straight

Texas Tech softball travels to New Mexico for Troy Cox Classic

The Texas Tech women’s basThere were 14 lead changes ketball team lost to Kansas State and 11 ties during the game, which 60-54 Saturday afternoon in are both season-highs for the Lady Manhattan, Kan. Raiders, according to a Tech athletThe Lady Raiders had a 54- ics news release.

48 lead with Freshman 4:12 left in the guard Minta game but failed Spears led to score for the Te c h w i t h rest of the game.

14 points Tech coach and four asCandi Whitaksists. It was er said the team her seconddid not perform straight game very well in the with 14 points clutch. and has now “I will have made a threeto go back and pointer in look at all of eight straight CANDI WHITAKER it,” she said. We games, acLADY RAIDERS’ COACH had some key cording to the turnovers late, release. missed a layup Kansas at the rim late and we did not guard State freshman guard Leticia Romevery well.” ro led her team with 19 points and The loss extends the Lady added six rebound and six assists.

Raiders’ losing streak to 15 games.

Tech’s next game will be against They now have a record of 6-19 Oklahoma State at 2 p.m. Sunday overall including 0-14 in the Big in the United Spirit Arena. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com 12 Conference.

The Red Raider softball team The walk-off hit came off of exploded offensively over the Tech junior pitcher Cara Custer weekend collecting wins in the who earned her second loss of Troy Cox Classic at New Mexico the season.

State according to a news release The third game of the tourfrom Tech athletics. nament was another close one, The first game resulted in but the Red Raiders were able Tech’s second run-rule win of the to win 2-1 against Texas A&M 2014 season. The Red Raiders Corpus Christi. scored 13 of their total 14 runs Reigning Big 12 Conference against North Dakota State in Pitcher of the Week, Brittany Talthe first three innings of the game. ley, threw five innings, allowing Three different players had only five hits and one run to score. three hits in the game, five Red Completing their first doubleRaiders drove in at least two runs header sweep of the season, the and sophomore pitcher Gretchen Red Raiders went on to beat Aucoin recorded her first win Weber State after defeating Texas of the season after coming in to A&M Corpus Christi. relieve in the fourth inning.

Tech was strong offensively In the second Friday game, the again against the Wildcats, winoffensive firepower wasn’t there ning the game 12-5. for the Red Raiders like it was in Custer got back to .500 on the first game, scoring only two the season, giving up five runs on runs on five hits. just four hits in her six innings The game ended with excite- of work. ment, however, as Weber State The Red Raiders finished out senior infielder Brooke Silva hit the tournament with a 6-4 loss a walk-off single with two outs in to New Mexico State, going 3-2 the bottom of the seventh inning for the second weekend in a row. to win the game for the Wildcats. ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

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We had some key turnovers, missed a layup at the rim late and we did not guard very well

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FRESHMAN GUARD MARINA Lizarazu drives to the basket during the Lady Raiders’ 70-62 loss to Kansas on Feb. 1 in the United Spirit Arena.

Felix leads No. 19 Texas over West Virginia, 88-71 Baylor rallies to beat Wildcats AUSTIN (AP) — West Virginia came to Texas on a roll, surging upward in the Big 12 as perhaps the most dangerous team to play over the second half of the conference season.

The Mountaineers ran into a Longhorns team that has been the surprise of the season and just now seems to be hitting its stride on both ends of the court.

Javan Felix scored 18 points and No. 19 Texas used another impressive offensive effort to roll to an 88-71 victory Saturday night, a win that kept the Longhorns within a game of Kansas for the Big 12 lead.

Five players scored in double figures for Texas (20-5, 9-3), which dominated the Mountaineers with

58 percent shooting and a 41-26 edge in rebounding. Cameron Ridley scored 17 points and was a force on defense with three of Texas’ five blocks, two in the final minute of the first half.

“It’s one of the best games we’ve had moving the ball,” said Longhorns guard Demarcus Holland, who had 11 points and a team-high seven assists as point guard Isaiah Taylor played just 25 minutes with foul trouble.

Jonathan Holmes, the Longhorns’ leading scorer, scored 11 in his return after missing a game with a knee injury.

Eron Harris scored 21 points for West Virginia (15-11, 7-6), which

had surged up the league standings to win games, not anything selfish.”

Texas shot 61 percent in the first by winning four of five.

Texas reached 20 wins for the half, and Felix and Holmes both had 14th time in 16 seasons under coach 10 points by halftime. Texas’ final Rick Barnes. This time might be the shooting mark of 58 percent was most significant, though, considering just below the school record of 59 the Longhorns’ dramatic turnaround percent for a Big 12 game. from last season’s 16-18 finish that “We couldn’t guard. Couldn’t, left Texas out of the NCAA tourna- didn’t, wouldn’t. Something,” West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said. ment for the first time in 15 years.

And by beating West Virginia, “You can’t let people shoot that they stayed just a game behind con- well, especially when you’re not ference leader Kansas, with games making shots.” against Iowa State and the Jayhawks Even with those offensive fireworks, Texas controlled the game next week.

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WACO (AP) — With Baylor needing a 3-pointer to tie and the clock about to expire, Isaiah Austin didn’t have time to consider that Brady Heslip had missed all six of his shots from beyond the arc.

Not that Austin would have cared. Hot or not, Heslip is the long-range guy for the Bears.

Heslip hit a tying 3-pointer at the buzzer in regulation, Kenny Chery used the extra time to finish off a triple-double and Baylor rallied to beat Kansas State 8773 in two overtimes Saturday night, snapping a four-game home losing streak.

“We don’t care if he’s 0 for 6 or 0 for 9,” Austin, who had 18 points and a career-high nine blocks, said of the Big 12’s leading 3-point shooter. “We tell him to shoot the ball. That’s what he does. And he made that one.”

The Bears (16-9, 4-8 Big 12) trailed by 10 with 9 minutes left before rallying to end their longest home skid in nine years.

Baylor’s Taurean Prince banked in a tiebreaking 3-pointer in the second overtime, and had a threepoint play on a dunk to put Baylor up by 11 with a minute remaining.

Prince had seven of his 12 points in the second extra period.

Nino Williams had a careerhigh 20 points for the Wildcats (17-8, 7-5), who led by 10 points in both halves but ended up losing their fifth straight on the road after consecutive wins over ranked opponents, including an upset of No. 7 Kansas, also in overtime.

“We’ve been in position to win the last four road games,” Williams said. “I think last year around this time we were winning these games and I think this year we’re losing these games.”

Chery had the sixth tripledouble in school history — and first in a conference game — with 20 points and career highs of 12 as-

sists and 10 rebounds. Baylor’s last triple-double was by Ekpe Udoh on Jan. 6, 2010.

“My teammates have been pushing me really hard in practice and that kept me in shape,” said Chery, who played a season-high 44 minutes after being limited in recent games by turf toe. “I was probably a little tired at the end of that last overtime. But my teammates kept me on my feet.”

Marcus Foster, the hot Kansas State freshman playing 200 miles from his Texas home, had 18 points and 10 assists but missed a free throw late in regulation before Heslip’s tying shot. He also missed one with the game tied in the final minute of the first overtime.

“It definitely hurts me a little when I had two chances to put the game away,” said Foster. “I’ve just got to keep getting better. I can’t get down about this.”

Heslip’s swish from well beyond the arc for a 57-all tie came after a wild sequence of three missed shots before Austin came up with a loose ball and passed to Heslip, who let the ball go with the clock inside 2 seconds.

The Bears were 2 of 20 from 3-point range before Heslip’s tying shot. He ended up 1 of 8 from long range and scored seven points.

“You’ve just got to hope and pray it bounces to you,” Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said. “If it goes out of bounds, I call timeout and we tell them to foul. But it didn’t. You’ve got to give their kids credit for having the savvy to throw it out.”

Cory Jefferson had 21 points and 11 rebounds for Baylor before fouling out on a play that led to the tying free throw from Foster in the first overtime.

The Bears held for the last shot at 68-all after Foster missed the second of two free throws, but Chery missed a jumper.

Lamar fires coach Pat Knight BEAUMONT (AP) — Lamar has fired coach Pat Knight, son of Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight, with the Cardinals having won just six games the past two seasons.

Athletic director Jason Henderson announced the move Sunday.

Lamar is 3-22 and 2-11 in the Southland Conference this season.

Knight was 29-62 overall during his three seasons with Lamar.

He guided the Cardinals to the NCAA tournament and a 23-12

record in his first season, closing the regular season with six straight victories and winning the Southland tournament title. The strong finish came after Knight called out his players in postgame rant reminiscent of his famous father, the former Indiana and Texas Tech coach.

Lamar is 6-50 the past two seasons.

Former assistant Tic Price will serve as the interim coach.