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Tech looks to overcome adversity, hosts Iowa State Cyclones today

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Texas Tech guard Niem Stevenson shoots for two points against Baylor on Feb. 13 in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech will host Iowa State at 8 p.m. today.

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Lions Club hosts annual Pancake Festival

After falling to No. 9 West Virginia in double overtime, the Red Raiders are in a tight spot to make it to the postseason.

Tech will look to get back in the win column as the team hosts Iowa State at 8 p.m. today in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The Red Raiders upset No. 4 Baylor, 84-78, on Feb. 13 to gain

momentum in conference play.

However, the momentum could not be carried into the game against the Mountaineers as Tech fell in double overtime, 83-74.

The Red Raiders’ overall record stands at 17-10 with an away record of 1-7 and a home record of 15-2, according to Tech Athletics.

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Potential use of National Guard unlawful,Tech professor says

By MICHAEL CANTU

immigrants, according to The Texas Tribune. The target area for these detainments is along the southern Talks of immigration raids have border near Texas and Mexico. been fresh on the minds of people “You notice that there are sevin the United States as President eral states that are not along the Donald Trump has used heavy- border that are identified in the handed force in promise to control memo,” Miguel Levario, associate the immigrant population in the professor of U.S. history and borUnited States. derlands studies, said. “Those are The most recent example of this states that have identified signifiwas a report by The Associated cant Latino population increases, Press that gave details of Trump’s mainly with immigrant workers, new plan to use the National whether it’s meat-packing plants, Guard to aid in farms or what detaining unhave you. Those documented imareas have had migrants in the a huge increase The number of unauthorized United States. in the Mexican immigrants in the U.S. in 2014 A memo from population.” the Trump adThis increase ministration dein Hispanic popThe number of unauthorized tails the adminulation has been immigrants in the U.S. civilian istration would mainly because workforce in 2014. Accounting for 5 use as many as of the creation 100,000 troops percent of those who were working or of various hardand send them labor jobs, Lewere unemployed/looking for work. to 11 states: vario said.

Arizona, CaliPew Research fornia, New Mexico, Arkansas, has found data that suggest the Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, Okla- hype in all of this action on immihoma, Oregon, Utah and Texas. gration may be unsubstantiated.

The early draft of the Trump From 2009 to 2014, seven states memo was leaked on Friday, and had a decrease in unauthorized the Trump administration has immigrant population, none of released statements saying this which were states mentioned in memo was an early draft of the re- the memo. lease and will not be implemented Pew also found that six states any time soon, according to the AP. had an unauthorized immigrant More recently, Secretary of population increase, but only one Homeland Security John F. Kelly of those states, Louisiana, was introduced new guidelines that give mentioned in the memo. authority to act more aggressively to detain and deport unauthorized SEE IMMIGRATION, PG. 2 News Editor

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n 1952, the Lubbock Lions Club began a charity tradition that would bring together the Lubbock community. Each year, the club hosts the philanthropic event.

This tradition is the Lubbock Lions Club Pancake Festival. This year was the festival’s 65th anniversary, and it was hosted Saturday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.

Terry Holeman, a member of the Lions Club and the co-chairman of the event, said the Pancake Festival is hosted to raise money for more than 30 local charities.

“Some of the charities we give to are CASA, Salvation Army, the Children’s Miracle Network and many more,” Holeman said.

Jennifer Trengove, a member of the Lions Club who volunteered at the event, said the organization’s goal for the event was to raise $150,000 for charity.

“After this and throughout the year,” Trengove said, “we will decide which charities to donate the money to.”

The festival has been in the making since August. A large number of people attend the event each year, Holeman said, which demands planning in advance.

“We served around 18,000 people this year,” Holeman said. “It’s between 17,000 and 18,000 people who come every year.”

The large turnout also requires many volunteers, Holeman said. Texas Tech

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1. Lubbock Lions Club members volunteer Saturday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center for the Pancake Festival. About 6,000 pounds of pancake mix were served to visitors throughout the day. 2. Pancake festival visitors walk around the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The event set a Guinness Book of World Record for the most pancakes served in an eight-hour period in 2009. students formed a majority of the approximately 700 volunteers this year.

“We get most of our volunteers from just about every student service organization on campus,” Holeman said, “from fraternities to sororities to basically any service organization there is.”

Holeman said Boy Scout Troop 157, along with many community volunteers, help out, as well.

Laurel Hoover, a sophomore accounting major from Amarillo, said she enjoyed getting to volunteer at the festival.

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Wellness Center officials stress proper hygiene, planning to avoid cold, flu

By ZACH SCHROEDER Staff Writer

Cold and flu season is well underway, and getting sick can be detrimental to students on campus, especially this far into the semester.

“Getting sick at least once during cold and flu season is almost inevitable” Dr. Eileen Sprys, assistant professor of family medicine at the Health Sciences Center, said. “To avoid general colds, hygiene is key.”

Washing hands, avoiding sick people, getting plenty of rest and maintaining a healthy diet can help prevent catching a cold, Sprys said.

When it comes to flu prevention, however, getting a flu shot is the best step one can take, Sprys said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, for the 2016-2017 season, injectable influenza vaccines should be preferred, and nasal spray flu vaccines should not be used because of ineffectiveness.

It is not too late to get a flu shot at the nearest pharmacy, Sprys said. The flu shot protects against the most common strains of the flu, and even if one gets a strain that was not covered by the shot, the sickness will be less severe.

Taking these steps will not only reduce the likelihood of getting sick but also help relieve some of the burden Student Health Services officials see during this time at the Student Wellness Center medical clinic.

“We do face access challenges during cold and flu season, as do most health clinics,” Tim Fox, a clinic manager for Students Health Services, said.

Getting an appointment at the medical center on the same day one feels sick is difficult because of the increasing demand of those students during these periods of higher illness, he said.

The medical center tries to have 25 percent of its appointments available on the same day a student calls. So, if one feels sick, it is wise to call early in the morning to get one of those appointments

booked, Fox said.

Other ways to speed up the process at the medical center and free up time for fellow students is to arrive early for an appointment, have an insurance card, and bring a list of one’s medications and medical history, Fox said. Once at the medical center, most students get done within an hour.

Student Health is there to provide high-quality health care to students, and a big part of that is communication with providers at the clinic. The providers are educators who want to partner with students in order to improve their health, Fox said.

Preventing sickness is half the battle, and dealing with sickness is just as important, Fox said.

“If you get sick, please come to the Student Wellness Center to be evaluated. Avoid going to public

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credible backlash because from seven Muslim majority fore they went off,” Nagy said. using the National Guard to countries, Office of Interna- “So, you have these people detain immigrants is a viola- tional Affairs has had to face who tend to be the best and tion of federal laws under the this problem head on, Tibor the brightest in their country.

Posse Comitatus Act, Levario Nagy, vice provost for inter- They go off and study in the said. The use of the National national affairs and former U.S., and they come back very Guard would bring the U.S. U.S. ambassador to seven pro-American.” closer to a militarized state. countries, said.

However, current diplo“When you have milimatic decisions may tary enforcing domestic change some internapolicy, and that’s explicit tional students’ views of in the act, to prevent havthe U.S., he said. ing a police or military The number of Mexicans categorized But even with the state,” Levario said. “So, illegitimacy of this law, as unauthorized immigrants in 2014. if this were to come to the Trump administraHowever, numbers have been fruition, which again, is tion still holds favorable declining in recent years. highly unlikely. But if it views because of its did you would see a backstance on undocumentlash that would possibly ed immigrants, Levario The number of states accounting for result in impeachment.” said. Immigration from For Texas Tech ofMexico to the U.S. has 59 percent of unauthorized ficials, since Trump’s been decreasing in reimmigrants in 2014. The states election, problems relatcent years. So, an act include: California, Texas, Florida, ing to immigrants and like this would not only New York, New Jersey and Illinois. immigration have been be unlawful but also a fresh on their minds. waste of funds.

In a November interThere are also nearview with Tech President ly 80 percent of border Average number of residence years Lawrence Schovanec, patrol agents along the for an unauthorized immigrant he said he was worried southern border who living in the U.S. about the state of some are trained specifically immigrant students but in detaining undocuwas going to be cautious mented immigrants about sending out statements The increase in laws and and people who may cross and memos that would speak executive orders that pertain the border illegally, he said. about his concerns. to immigrants may change “That’s not even our lon“I was somewhat reluctant some students’ opinions on gest border. So, to say that to address this topic, and how they view Tech and if we’re dealing with an open I explained as follows: We they would come to school in border, a dangerous border have received relatively few Lubbock or not, Nagy said. is completely false, considercomplaints or notices where a “We all talk to hundreds ing the fact also the largest faculty or a student have felt of international students in metropolitan area along the threatened by unacceptable our careers, and in my case, I border, which is El Paso and behavior,” Schovanec said. have never talked to one that Ciudad Juárez,” Levario said.

Since Trump issued an didn’t come back from the “El Paso is the safest largest executive order that banned U.S. with a much more posi- city in the United States.” @MichaelCantuDT entry to the U.S. for citizens tive view of America, than be-

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“What we’re seeing here is, maybe it’s similar to the ‘Muslim ban,’ in that you’re looking at states with a majority Latino population,” Levario said.

“So, I think if this comes to fruition or not, which I think it’s unlikely it will, it’s sending a message from the administration with the Mexican population in its crosshairs.”

The important aspect to highlight about the issue at hand, he said, is this order has yet to be enforced. But in the event something does come of it, the courts have a rather strong hand in ruling the order unlawful.

There would also be in-

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PRESIDIO (AP) — Two hunters accused in a shooting on a remote Texas ranch near the Mexican border had told authorities that they were attacked by immigrants who had entered the country illegally.

Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez told Odessa television KOSA that a grand jury indicted Michael Bryant and Walker Daugherty last week on charges of using deadly conduct by discharging firearms in the direction of others.

The charges stem from a Jan. 6 incident where police responding to call about a shooting on a ranch near Candelaria found Daugherty and another man in the hunting party, Edwin Roberts, with gunshot wounds.

The men were part of a group of hunters and told authorities they were attacked by people who had illegally crossed the nearby border and tried to steal an RV some of the hunters were using.

An investigation found that Daugherty shot Roberts and Bryant shot Daugherty, Dominguez said.

The hunters’ claim became fodder for a Facebook post by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.

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Families reconnect at Sibling Saturday

By AKHILA REDDY Staff Writer

Students and their siblings engulfed Texas Tech’s campus this weekend for Sibling Saturday. They participated in activities including a comedy show by The Flying Tortillas, a Lady Raider basketball game, a classroom experience and more.

Elizabeth Massengale, director of Parent and Family Relations, said one of the many events she helps coordinate is Sibling Saturday.

The event is one of the many ways Parent and Family Relations reaches out to students’ families.

“It started as an opportunity to allow younger brothers or sisters or other younger family members and friends to come and see what’s it’s like to be a Red Raider,” Massengale said.

Lauren Creger, a graduate assistant at Parent and Family Relations who helped organize the event, said Sibling Saturday offers an opportunity for Tech students to reconnect with family they might not have seen for a while.

“We think families are an

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Texas Tech’s annual Sibling Saturday was hosted this weekend.

Younger siblings of Tech students attended multiple events, such as visiting the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center and watching the Lady Raiders’ basketball game. important part of a student’s college-life experience,” Creger said. “We think they serve as a great support system for many of our students.”

The day is also a way to spread Tech’s name to younger kids and get them thinking about college, she said. Sibling Saturday gives the younger kids the chance to experience what college can be like, and they are even given mock student IDs for the day.

“I hope (the event) helps them make memories of the

time they get together with their sibling when they do live apart, and it helps really give them a good experience of what college life can be like,” Creger said.

Parent and Family Relations has received positive feedback from participants from the previous years, Massengale said. Both the younger kids and the Tech students have had favorable things to say, and some participants have come back year after year.

“It’s fun to see younger

brothers or sisters with older brothers or sisters because I don’t think the older sibling realizes how much the younger sibling looks up to them, and you can just really witness that admiration, which is a lot of fun,” Massengale said.

Jesus Guerrero, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Booker, attended the event with his younger family members. Guerrero said this was his first year attending Sibling Saturday.

His favorite part of the event was getting to see the kids have fun while learning about what he does at school, Guerrero said. It is an honor for him to be able to bring them and show them around.

“I really see this as beneficial because the student get to enjoy their family and also Texas Tech and their sibling get to enjoy Texas Tech,” Guerrero said.

Guerrero’s niece, Yenali Rosales, 9, attended the event with him. Rosales said she had a fun day with him and enjoyed the classroom experience and the comedy show.

“Sibling Saturday is fun,” Rosales said. “I liked lunch, I liked the experiments, watch-

ing them. They were cool.”

Everybody who attends leaves with a smile, Massengale said. Parent and Family Relations plans to continue hosting this event in the upcoming years and looks forward to meeting more kids

and students.

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Hungarian film ‘On Body and Soul’ wins Golden Bear BERLIN (AP) — A Hungarian love story about two slaughterhouse workers who connect in shared dreams won the top award Saturday at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

“On Body and Soul” by writer-director Ildiko Enyedi contrasts the harsh reality of the abattoir with the magical world of slumber.

Enyedi was previously best known for her 1989 debut film, “My 20th Century,” which won the Golden Camera award in Cannes that year.

The Golden Bear had been expected to go to the comedy “The Other Side of Hope,” which instead earned veteran filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki a Silver Bear for best director. The film sees a young Syrian refugee befriending a grouchy Finn, with Kaurismaki’s deadpan humor delivering poignant messages about the horrors of war and the current refugee crisis in Europe.

The jury award went to “Felicite,” a film by French-

Senegalese director Alain Gomis about a singer in a Congolese night club.

South Korea’s Kim Minhee received the best actress award for her role in “On the Beach at Night Alone,” about a woman coming to terms with the end of an affair.

Georg Friedrich from Austria was named best actor for “Bright Nights,” in which he portrays a father trying to reconnect with his teenage son.

“A Fantastic Woman” by Chilean director Sebastian

Lelio received a Silver Bear for best screenplay, shared with Gonzalo Maza. It tells the tale of a transgender woman mourning for her dead lover even as most of those around her remain unwilling to empathize.

The jury also awarded Dana Bunescu a prize for outstanding artistic contribution for her editing of “Ana, mon amour,” about a Romanian couple struggling to make their relationship work despite mental illness.

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From Parker to Gibson, Hollywood’s scale of justice NEW YORK (AP) — As the final votes pour in ahead of the Academy Awards’ Tuesday afternoon deadline, Hollywood is drawing to a close an awards season that has, from Nate Parker to Mel Gibson, often been a confounding morality play.

By even movie standards, the dramatic swings of fortune are hard to believe.

Parker, hailed as an Oscar sure-thing at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, saw his “The Birth of a Nation” torpedoed by the fallout of a tragic 18-year-old rape allegation against him. But just as Parker was disappearing, Mel Gibson, a pariah for the last decade, engineered an unexpected comeback that culminated with six nominations for his “Hacksaw Ridge,” including best picture.

Hollywood’s scales of justice, never particularly scientific, have rarely been harder to read.

The sometimes puzzling

ethical calculus has prompted many to question the standards — some amalgamation of art, fame, race, facts and rumor — used to weigh the bad behavior of stars and would-be nominees.

Some of the closest races this Oscar season — including that of Casey Affleck, one of the best-actor favorites — have been over whether a contender was nimble enough to outrun his past. Everyone agrees: such judgments are playing an increasingly significant role in awards season and show business, in general.

Gibson was one of the few to publicly defend Parker, who in 1999 was charged — along with his Penn State roommate and “Birth of a Nation” collaborator Jean Celestin — with raping another student.

Parker was acquitted, Celestin was convicted, but the charge was later overturned, and the alleged victim, whose family said she never recov-

ered from the incident, killed herself years later.

Parker has steadily maintained his innocence, but his Facebook responses and his evasion of the topic at a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival did little to stem the backlash against him. (An attorney for Parker didn’t respond to interview requests.)

“I don’t think it’s fair,” Gibson said during a Hollywood Reporter round-table interview. “He was cleared of all that stuff. And it was years ago.”

Gibson (who declined to be interviewed) has had his own scandals to overcome.

His anti-Semitic tirade in 2006, recorded while being arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, was seemingly the end to his stardom.

He later plead no contest in 2011 to domestic battery of former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. Damning audio recordings surfaced of their arguments, too.

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Student discusses benefits of sobriety R emember that song a couple of years ago: “I Love College.”

Exclude a couple of references to pizza and women, and you will soon realize the entire song concerns getting intoxi-

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Austin Martin is a graduate student studying kinesiology from Dallas.

cated and just about nothing else.

To many that is what college means: the party Olympics; the time of your life where anything goes, and you can do as you please.

This has not been my experience while at Texas Tech. I am a sober man and, under no circumstances, take a drink or become intoxicated.

This piece is not meant to condemn those who choose to party nor is it meant to glorify my choice of a sober lifestyle. I simply wish to shed light on what it is like to be sober in college.

Not being hungover is the first aspect I am going to discuss. Every morning

when I wake up, I basically feel fantastic.

None of my morning ac t i vi t i es ar e pur s ued lethargically, and I am in no way irritable. Others around me do not always feel the same way.

This piece is not meant to condemn those who choose to party nor is it meant to glorify my choice of a sober lifestyle.

On a typical weekend morning, engaging someone in a thought-provoking conversation may result in responses along the lines of, “Bro, I am dead” or, “I have a huge hangover. I can’t deal with this right now.”

I applaud these people f o r t h e i r h o n e s t y, a n d I bear them no ill will.

fun as it may have been — did not end well.

Embracing a hedonistic philosophy, I partied relentlessly and was eventually kicked off my college’s football team for excessive drug use.

After that, I became a full-time partier for a couple of more years, until landing myself in drug rehab.

Needless to say, I could not handle college life.

Fast forward a few years to now, and I am sitting around on my couch with friends discussing the importance of Charles Dickens on a Friday night.

This week we are planning to delve into the history of the Ostrogoths upon completing our schoolwork.

These are the ultimate keys to a successful, sober college life: friendship and self-improvement.

The absence of partying and hangovers are notable — and sometimes funny — facets of sober college life, but the true

substance and meat of college sobriety is found in your friends.

Our great university, like it or not, is infamous for partying.

Some friends choose to bombard you with tequila shots and talk about television. Others offer you roomtemperature Perrier while challenging you to think about the plight of President James Buchanan.

So, if you are attempting to finish college clean and sober, do not worry about the disconnect you feel with your peers. There are good people out there.

Make friends with them, and together, you can strive to capture the true essence of college: learning. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Denying evidence of climate change is foolish

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ur story begins in the most unlikely of places, the bathhouses of ancient Rome.

Not only were these elegant baths a place to go and wash, but they were also a place to socialize and talk about the news of the day.

Times were good. The wine was flowing and laughter was all that stood out from the indiscernible blabber of the crowd.

But it did not last, as an invisible menace lurked in the water, threatening the lives of rich and poor alike.

With what did the ancient Romans build their elaborate plumbing networks and line their cooking pots, you ask?

The answer may come as a surprise; it was the toxic element of lead.

Lead is a neurotoxin and a chronic insult to the human body.

It is also easy to find, mine and craft into useful objects considering its low melting point and malleability.

There is evidence to sug-

Brice Petty is a senior computer science major from Rowlett.

gest that the ancient Romans were very aware of the poisonous effects of lead and chose to ignore the risks.

To d a y, t h e m e d i c a l consensus is unanimous: there is no amount of lead that is safe for humans.

Many experts like Jerome Nriagu, a professor emeritus in the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and Research, believe that the widespread use of lead throughout Roman society played a major role in the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Lessons of the past often go forgotten, and Americans are no exception to the rule.

In 2017, it’s hard to imagine a time when lead was added to the gasoline we put in our cars.

But a quick Google search reminds us that it was hardly more than 30 years ago when that was exactly the case.

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However, I do get tired of perusing the Lubbock streets on those mornings, feeling like Will Smith in the post-apocalyptic film “I Am Legend.”

Not partying is another key facet of the sober college life. Our great university, like it or not, is infamous for partying.

When I am back home and tell someone that I attend Tech, I often get responses like, “Dude, I’ve heard they have crazy parties there.”

When stuff like this happens, I typically just nod my head and act like I know what I am agreeing with.

Other times I play along, responding enthusiastically with phrases like “Bro, you have no idea.”

You may be wondering why I choose to live a sober life in college. The truth is this is not my first stab at higher education.

My first attempt — as

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In the early 1920s, it was discovered that tetraethyl lead could be used in gasoline as an anti-knock additive.

Shortly thereafter, the Ethyl Corporation was born and millions of tons of fat-soluble poison began being mined from the Earth and dispersed into the atmosphere.

Once the research was in, scientists began raising the red flag on this serious threat to public health.

It took more than 30 years, but inevitably scientists like the late Clair Patterson, an American geochemist, began finding unnatural levels of lead in the air we breathe and the water we drink.

Once the research was in, scientists began raising the red flag on this serious

threat to public health.

To protect their business interests, the petroleum industry hired their own scientists to confuse the issue in the minds of the American electorate.

Fortunately for everyone who isn’t Exxon Mobil Corp., nature is governed by laws which can’t be repealed in any legislative body. And, unlike the American people, nature cannot be fooled.

The hydrocarbon lobby succeeded in generating enough confusion to buy itself 20 years of businessas-usual. However, slowly but surely, the scientific community coalesced.

Lead was finally banned in U.S. consumer products, and the greatest public health victory of the 20th century was won.

Today, scientists raise the red flag on an even more threatening public risk. Special interests still hire their own skeptics to raise scientific doubts about the issue.

Currently, the scientific

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If you compare the issue of climate change to another scientific principle that isn’t as controversial, say plate tectonics for example, you will find that both have a relatively similar degree of consensus from the scientists who practice in that field.

Science is our means to keep from fooling ourselves and one another.

In the end, nature does not care if we understand its workings or if we’re even aware of its existence.

If the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is not curbed soon, the delicate internal balance of the Earth’s climate will inevitably be disturbed.

This sort of irresponsible gluttony leaves the future of society to chance and the ingenuity of mankind. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Lubbock Symphony Orchestra performs film scores

By KIRBY WARNER Staff Writer

Students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center to hear the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra play scores from classic films as part of the Night at the Movies event on Friday night.

After opening with “Candide: Overture” by Leonard Bernstein, director David Cho welcomed the audience to the show.

The show continued, with the first half centered on music composed by John Williams for the films “Superman,” “E.T.,” “Harry Potter,” and “Star Wars,” with the trailers of each film playing on the screens.

Victoria Yates, a Texas Tech alumna, said the songs played were some of her favorites.

“Especially the ones by John Williams, love John Williams,” Yates said, “and so, it was really nice to get to hear it live by some of our local people here.”

The John Williams segment ended with a “Star Wars” suite, which started

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “It’s exciting to see all the families and kids come in with a smile,” Hoover said, “and you know everyone is going to be happy because everyone loves pancakes.”

The general menu at the event did not change this year, Holeman said.

“We serve all-you-can-eat pancakes, all-you-can-eat sausage, coffee, juice and milk,”

with the main theme and music from the opening scene of “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope,” before playing the closing credits theme from the film and finishing with, “The Imperial March.”

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by Aaron Copland was played after, as a preview of the second half of the show focused on “The Great Western Suite.” A brief intermission followed the performance.

The audience included music appreciators young and old. Mari Claire Deguia, a Lubbock High School senior, said film music is unique because it relates to the events and the characters of a certain film.

“It reminds you of what you felt when watching those scenes,” Deguia said.

Once the intermission was over, the show continued with a performance of Williams’ overture from “The Cowboys.” The orchestra then moved on to “The Great Western Suite,” which consisted of scores from the western

movies “The Magnificent Seven,” “How the West Was Won,” “Silverado” and “Dances with Wolves.”

The best part of the night was the pieces in “The Great Western Suite,” Yates said.

“They were so well blended, and we hear them just enough to where we forget how sweet and smooth the violin is in t h e s e We s t e r n f i l m s , ” Yates said.

“The Magnificent Seven” score was repeated to close the suite, and then the orchestra moved on to some romantic pieces from movies such as “Casablanca,” “Gone with the Wind” and the love theme from “The Godfather.”

To end the show, the theme from “Mission Impossible” was played, before another round of the “Star Wars” film score.

Hannah Porter, a Lubbock High School senior, said she liked the “Harry Potter” theme the most.

“It was just a huge part of my childhood, and I think nostalgia adds so much to music,” Porter

Holeman said, “and for a dollar token, you can purchase bacon, popcorn and cotton candy.”

Holeman said it is a nationwide tradition for all Lions Clubs to have pancake fundraisers.

“Besides, who doesn’t like pancakes?” Holeman said. “You can’t go wrong with pancakes.”

Trengove volunteered at the festival by selling balloons. She said she loved working at the event because it was family friendly

and community based.

“I like dealing with all the little kids,” Trengove said, “and seeing how happy they are by just giving them a balloon.”

Trengove said this event is a great family event because anyone can come and eat, watch the entertainment and take part in the general activities.

“If you haven’t been yet,” Trengove said, “you should try it next year.”

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The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra hosted its Night at the Movies concert Friday evening in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The event, which covered famous songs from movies like “Harry Potter” and “Star Wars,” was open to the public. said. “So, it’s always probably going to be one of the most special film scores to me.”

Music allows one to experience the telling of a story in different ways, Porter said.

Film music has changed

her perspective on classical music because people are quick to look for familiar melodies in film scores while classical pieces such as Beethoven’s hold the melody to the climax, Yates said.

“It also helps us appre-

ciate how difficult some of these pieces are to play,” Yates said.

Cho and the orchestra received a standing ovation once they were finished, and Cho thanked the audience for attending. @KirbyWarner_DT

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The Lubbock Lions Club hosted 65th annual Pancake Festival on Saturday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Live music filled the center and set the mood for the festival.

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Tech ends losing streak against Kansas, 75-60

By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

The Lady Raider basketball team hosted the Kansas Lady Jayhawks for the annual Play4Kay game on Saturday looking to end Tech's nine-game losing streak.

Tech prevailed, 75-60.

The Lady Raiders came into the game off a loss to Iowa State on Wednesday, 79-68.

Tech is now 12-14 overall and 4-11 in Big 12 Conference play.

“Really proud of our team,” coach Candi Whitaker said. “It’s a tough league, it’s a tough season, and they show up every day at practice, and they continue to battle, continue to fight and continue to get better.”

Senior guard Ivonne CookTaylor led the team in points with 21 points.

She shot 8-13 from the floor and was 100 percent in free throws, shooting 5-for-5.

“She’s a senior,” sophomore guard Recee’ Caldwell said about CookTaylor. “She just does it consistently day in and day out. She might not have the best shooting gains, but she’s consistent. We really appreciate that about her.”

Caldwell and junior guard

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 In the Big 12 Conference, Tech stands at 5-9 on the season after the loss to West Virginia. Coach Chris Beard said his team fought well but could not capitalize when the game came down to the wire.

“Life on the road in the Big 12 against a top-10 team,” Beard said in the release. “We had some guys make some plays. We’re not consistent enough, and we’re not tough enough yet to get these wins.

I’m proud of our guys. We’ll stay the course. That’s all we can do.”

Larryn Brooks followed behind CookTaylor with 12 points each.

Redshirt junior guard Jessica Washington led Kansas in points with 22 points. She shot 8-16 from the floor and shot 4-10 from behind the arc.

Tech finished the night shooting 25-53 from the floor for 47 percent. Tech had 46 rebounds and shot 5-16 from behind the arc for 31 percent.

Tech had 21 turnovers compared to Kansas’ 14. However, Tech won the points off turnovers and only gave up 14 points.

“It’s important, live ball turnovers are the ones that are usually going to hurt you the most,” Whitaker said. “We threw it out of bounds some, made some offensive fouls. And then we had some possessions where we hustled back and someone blocked a shot or made a play, and they didn’t convert.”

Junior center Jada Terry was the first to put Tech up on the board for an early lead with a layup within the first few seconds of play.

With a little more than six minutes left in the first quarter, Kansas hit two backto-back 3-pointers made by Washington to change the lead in favor of Kansas, 10-4.

Fewer than four minutes

remained in the quarter when Caldwell hit a 3-pointer to limit the Kansas lead to two, 13-11.

CookTaylor ran down the middle for a layup with 1:40 remaining in the first quarter, to make the score 18-13.

At the end of the first quarter, Kansas was leading Tech, 22-13.

The second quarter started out slow. With eight minutes remaining in the first half, junior forward Dayo Olabode hit her second 3-pointer of the night to reduce Kansas' lead to 24-16.

With five and half minutes remaining in the first half, Terry made a layup to pull within three of Kansas, 25-22.

After a Kansas foul, Brooks was sent to the freethrow line to shoot for two.

With five minutes remaining in the first half, Brooks made both to pull within one of Kansas, 25-24.

With 30 seconds remaining in the second quarter, CookTaylor made a layup to pull within five of Kansas to end the first quarter with Kansas leading Tech, 33-28.

At the end of the first half, Tech was shooting 9-21 from the floor for 42.9 percent.

Kansas was shooting 12-36 from the floor for 33.3 percent.

Tech was shooting 3-8 from behind the arc for 37.5 percent, while Kansas shot 7-18 from behind the arc for 39 percent.

Tech came out fast in the second half. Within seconds after play began, freshman guard Arella Guirantes got the rebound and made two to make the score with Kansas leading, 33-30.

Midway through the third quarter, Olabode continued the momentum when she hit a 3-pointer to tie the game, 39-39.

With 49 seconds remaining in the third quarter, Caldwell shot a jumper to increase Tech's lead to 53-47.

Washington hit a jumper early in the final quarter, but it was followed by a rebound from freshman forward Brittany Brewer to put it back up for two and push a Kansas foul to make the score 58-49.

One Red Raider Beard was referring to was junior guard Keenan Evans, who put on an offensive performance on Saturday. Evans led the team with a career high 28 points, shooting 9-16 from the field and a perfect 8-8 from the freethrow line, according to the release.

Junior guard Niem Stevenson also contributed on offense with 17 points, which he posted in the first half alone, according to the release.

West Virginia’s fullcourt press posed problems for the Red Raiders offense as they were forced into 20 turnovers, a season high for Tech, according to the release. Tech attempted to push the press back on the Mountaineers and forced West Virginia into 15 turnovers.

Off the 20 turnovers Tech allowed, West Virginia scored 17 points, according to Tech Athletics.

“That’s their identity,” Beard said in the release. “For portions of the game, I thought we did a pretty good job of battling. Four or five minutes here or two or three minutes there can really kill you. Our blocking out during the overtimes just wasn’t good enough.”

The Red Raiders will look to rally together after the recent loss to the Mountaineers when they face the Cyclones today.

Iowa State has an overall record of 17-9 with a home record of 10-3 and an away record of 4-5, according to Iowa State Athletics.

The Cyclones are on a three-game winning streak after defeating TCU at home, 84-71, on Saturday.

Iowa State is in a threeway tie for second in the Big

12 with a record of 9-5. Tied for second with the Cyclones are No. 4 Baylor and No. 9 West Virginia, according to Big 12 sports.

Tech faced Iowa State earlier this season on Dec. 30 for the first conference game of the season. The Red Raiders fell to the Cyclones, 63-56, according to Tech Athletics.

In the first matchup against Iowa State, Tech led by 10 heading into the second half, 35-25.

The Cyclones came back in the second half to shoot 46.4 percent from the field, 36.4 percent from 3-point range and 88.9 percent from the free-throw line to defeat Tech, according to Tech Athletics.

Evans led the Red Raiders during the loss to Iowa State with 15 points as well as six rebounds, three assists and one steal. Se-

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Senior guard Ivonne CookTaylor prepares to shoot the ball in the win over Kansas, 75-60, Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Kansas was on a five-minute dry spell with five minutes remaining in the final quarter.

After a Kansas foul, Brooks shot for two to make the score 71-57 with 1:22 left in the fourth quarter.

Brooks hit the last shot of the night for Tech to finish off the game with Tech winning, 75-60.

“We have a lot of focus, and everybody’s locked in, everybody’s willing to make plays, and everybody’s willing to dive on the floor,” Olabode said.

“And I believe that now that we know what we have to do, that we can all do it, that we can finish out the season very well.”

nior forward Anthony Livingston followed close behind with 13 points and six rebounds.

Two Cyclones who have capitalized on the court this season are senior guards Monte Morris and Nazareth Mitrou-Long. Morris leads the team in points per game with 16 while Mitrou-Long trails with 15.9 points per game, according to Iowa State Athletics.

Both Morris and MitrouLong posted strong numbers against Tech in the first match up. Mitrou-Long led the team in points with 19, according to Tech Athletics. Morris followed with 14 points, three rebounds and six assists to grab the win.

With a winning percentage of .630 on the season and .357 in conference play, it is hard to say if Tech will be one of the 68 teams selected to make a postseason run.

The challenges the Red Raider roster has faced shows their strength, Beard said. However, Tech needs to put the loss to West Virginia on the back burner and overcome adversity when they host Iowa State.

“It’s tough, but it starts with the character of our guys,” Beard said in the release. “We have a locker room full of guys, and no one’s had an easy life.

We don’t have McDonald’s All-Americans or those kind of guys. We have guys that have proven everyone wrong their whole careers.

This is just another example. It’s a lot like life. Adversity is going to come. It’s not a matter of when, and when it comes, you have to respond. We have a game in less than 48 hours. So, no choice but to respond.”

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