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Abbott reports $30M, Davis $11M in governor’s race AUSTIN (AP) — Democratic candidate for governor Wendy Davis outraised her opponent over the last 30 days, while Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott has $30 million socked away, almost three times as much as Davis, the campaigns said Monday while meeting a fundraising reporting deadline.

Davis’s campaign raised $2.85 million to Abbott’s $2.5 million between Jan. 24 and Feb. 22, according to the statements. But with only $11 million cash-on-hand, Davis remains at a disadvantage going into the general election. Early voting is underway for the March 4 primary election, where neither Davis nor Abbott face a serious challenger.

Abbott and Davis have sharpened their attacks on each other since late January over border security and Abbott’s decision to campaign with outspoken rocker Ted Nugent. The reporting period, which ended Saturday, included four days where Davis used Abbott’s appearance with Nugent to raise money.

Abbott and Davis could set records for individual contributions and donors. In his final re-election campaign, Perry raised $39 million in 2010. There are no limits on campaign donations in Texas state races.

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A TOTAL OF 12,667 fans, including 4,338 students, cheer during the final seconds of Texas Tech’s 64-63 loss to Kansas Feb.18 in the United Spirit Arena.

Red Raiders hope for record-breaking crowd against Kansas State

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The Texas Tech men’s basketball team looks to snap a three-game Big 12 Conference losing streak and break a national student attendance record as it hosts the Kansas State Wildcats at 6 p.m. today in the United Spirit Arena.

Tech sophomore Red Raider guard Dusty Hannahs said the team is ready for the opportunity to beat a good team in front of one of the top student sections in college basketball.

“It’s really exciting,” he said. “The last few home games have been a great environment — best that we’ve ever played in. I think the last game was the loudest I’ve ever played in in my life. After

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“It’s a great feeling when they’re yelling for you, not being somewhere else when they’re yelling at you. I think we’ve got one of the best student bodies in the country.”

Hannahs is averaging 10.1 points per game in Big 12 play this season and provided 14 points off the bench in Tech’s 66-58 road loss to Kansas State on Jan. 28 when the two schools first met this year.

Although Tech has struggled against Kansas State, losing eight straight to the Wildcats, Red Raider guard Robert Turner expressed the importance of winning this game and said the team feels confident it can get a win in front of a record crowd.

Texas Tech students will have the opportunity to see the executive candidates for the upcoming Student Government Association elections as they discuss their platforms and debate with other executive candidates.

An executive candidate debate will be hosted today in room 353 of the College of Media and Communication building, SGA President Luke Cotton said.

A panel of judges will be asking the executive candidates questions regarding their experience, platform and other questions regarding their candidacy. Students will have the opportunity to ask

their own questions near the end of the debate.

Current External Vice President Peyton Craig said the debate will allow students to see how the current candidates perform against other candidates.

“A lot of times you will see them at an organizational event or around campus,” he said. “Students get to ask questions as well as see a candidate in the light of another candidate.”

The current SGA executive officers will also ask one question to their potential candidates running for their position.

Current Internal Vice President Jill Berger said the debate will give students information that will ensure they choose a candidate they think is most qualified.

“I think that the best candidate really shines through at the end of the debate,” she said. “It’s really going to make the voting process for the student easier if they get to watch the debate.”

The internal vice-presidential candidates will be the first candidates to be questioned followed by the external vice-presidential candidates, vice-presidential graduate candidates and the presidential candidates.

Candidates will have a set time limit to answer the questions addressed.

Craig said he believes the debate will also showcase the candidates’ ability to defend their platforms.

“It will test the true light of their platform,” he said.

Elections for SGA executive candidates will be hosted Wednesday and Thursday. Referendums will also be placed on the general election ballot regarding student opinion on texting and driving, the implementation of a fall break on the academic calendar and an increase on the current Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center fee for the creation of turf fields and recreational maintenance.

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Tech Faculty, staff weigh in on Top Tech SGA candidates for Ukraine revolution, violence Senator of the Year announced

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Tents used as homes, crowds shouting “I Am Ukrainian” and people with injuries from police beatings have been the scenes in Kiev, Ukraine since November.

The conflict in Ukraine emphasizes a pro-Soviet and a pro-European Union side, Tyson Meredith, Texas Tech political science professor and graduate student, said.

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“It’s two sides against each other in Ukraine,” he said. “The opposition to the president was aligned with the EU proposal and the Russians in Ukraine supported the keeping with Russian ties. It’s all divided.”

Thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets in November to fight for the freedom they believe ousted President Victor Yanukovych was stealing from them, Ben Moses, producer and director of “I Am Ukrainian,” said.

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The Student Government Association has nominated three senators to be chosen as Senator of the Year for their extensive work and efforts for SGA and Texas Tech.

This year’s top three senators carry responsibilities regarding student organization budgeting and financing, on-campus and off-campus projects and voicing the concerns and opinions of the student body.

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the senators nominated for senator of the year were selected through a point system initiated this year.

“This year I came up with a point system that would make senators go above and beyond their duties,” Berger said. “I give them points for anything else that represents student government, outreaching the student body, increasing our visibility, writing effective legislation and speaking to students.”

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Texas Tech to allow alcohol in new graduate residence hall

By MORGAN SULLIVAN Staff Writer

The new West Hall opening Fall 2014 will allow Texas Tech graduate students to possess alcohol on campus, a decision that has created much discussion.

“It’s not on campus in general, it’s just in one building,” Sean Duggan, the managing director of University Student Housing, said.

Duggan said the decision was a logical one since the residence

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“Yanukovych was one of the most corrupt presidents in Ukraine’s history. The people hoped that the deal with the European Union would force him to be more democratic,” he said. “When he, at the last minute, decided not to sign it, that’s when the people said ‘That’s it, we’re done.’ They took to the streets and

hall is for students 21 years old or older.

Drinking alcohol is not illegal if you’re of age, he said, so it makes sense to have it there.

The new residence hall will include 145 beds for graduate students, and Duggan said he hoped the residence hall helps the growth of the graduate programs at Tech.

“We’ve always been very focused on the undergraduate experience, and so now we’re trying to help the institution by

having a housing option that is feasible for adults,” he said.

There will not be a limit to the amount of alcohol allowed inside a student’s room, he said.

“There would be consequences if someone’s behavior was disrupting the community,” Duggan said.

Students younger than 21 years old will be allowed to visit friends in the new West Hall.

Just because someone is in the building doesn’t mean they will be participating in the

consumption of alcohol, he said.

Many graduate students, adult students and veterans returning for degrees have already signed up to live in West Hall next year.

“I just think that this is a very minor issue,” Duggan said.

Some students on campus agree with Duggan and believe students will be responsible with their new privileges.

For students in graduate school, Devin Bullock, a Tech alumnus, said most students

will not be partying in the new residence hall.

Students do not think allowing alcohol is a big deal because it can be found on campus, even though it’s against the rules, Bullock said.

“Kids have had it ever since I was a freshman, people have it in their dorms,” he said.

Michael James, a senior psychology major from Argyle, agreed with Bullock.

James didn’t think it would be a deciding factor for stu-

dents choosing whether or not to live there because students would probably have it anyway, he said.

“I think it’s right, I think it should be allowed,” James said.

Bullock said a lot of his friends moved to apartments off campus because of the strict on-campus alcohol rules.

“I don’t think it’ll be a deciding factor,” Bullock said. “I think it’ll just be a little garnish to the whole thing.”

really made this revolution happen.”

Not only was the EU decision the spark for many protests, Frank Thames, political science associate professor and associate director of graduate studies of political science said, but the beatings of journalists and protesters by the government caused many to join who were not originally involved in the protests.

These beatings were the last straw for many Ukrainian citizens that already saw the government as

corrupt, he said.

“A lot of this has to do not only with the EU decision,” Thames said, “but with the corruption in the Ukrainian government and the negative economy.”

Friday, a truce was signed between and Yanukovych and the protestors, he said.

This truce said that Yanukovych agreed to set up a more democratic government, he would step down as president and new elections would

be hosted in December.

“The truce has changed very radically since Friday though,” Thames said. “Things have been spiraling out of control for (Yanukovych.) He has been impeached and has now disappeared. The legislation has called for new elections in March.”

This new decision not only affects Ukrainian citizens but members of the EU as well, including the U.S., Meredith said.

Ukraine is a breadbasket country,

he said, with a lot of fertile land, satellite production, an industrial sector, technology and an automobile sector.

“The U.S. is one of the key trade partners of the EU and were kind of hoping Ukraine would come more to the EU,” Meredith said. “The U.S. was supporting the European option because Ukraine would be a good trade partner.”

Two questions have arisen about the state of affairs with both Ukraine

and Russia, Thames said.

The United States has good relations with democratic governments, he said, but Russia supports the option to keep Russia-Ukraine ties strong.

“The major questions that we are left with,” Thames said, “is what Putin and Russians are going to do and how the Russian population in Ukraine will be treated. We just have to wait and see the results.”

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Tech students arrested, charged with drug paraphilia Friday 10:09 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the Z4P parking lot where an unattended vehicle was struck.

2:51 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated indecent exposure at Sneed Residence Hall. An unknown male exposed his genitals twice to a staff member.

5:55 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by a minor and possession of fictitious license after a traffic stop in the Z4M parking lot.

The student signed the citation and was released.

5:52 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the C11 parking lot.

8:32 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a non-student a criminal trespass warning for all of Tech property after investigating the report of a suspicious person at the Flint Avenue parking garage.

10:38 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student and two non-students Lubbock County citations for possession of alcohol by minor in the Z5B parking lot. All three individuals signed the citations and were released.

11:37 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by minor in the Z6A parking lot after a traffic stop.

The student signed the citation and was released.

11:51 p.m. — A Tech officer charged and released two students for possession of marijuana in Hulen Residence Hall. One of the students was also issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia.

The student signed the citation and was released.

Saturday 8:25 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief on the sixth floor of Murdough Residence Hall. The

walls and a door were scratched with an unknown object.

12:24 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by minor at the 1500 block of Flint Avenue following a traffic stop. The student signed the citation and was released.

1:31 a.m. — A Tech officer assisted another police agency in the detention of a student in the Z4P parking lot. The student was a suspect in a hit and run traffic accident at an off-campus location.

1:19 a.m. — A Tech officer issued three non-students Lubbock County citations for possession of alcohol by minor in Murdough Residence Hall.

All three non-students signed the citations and were released.

2:07 a.m. —A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in Murdough Residence Hall. The student was

transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:16 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the Z2D parking lot following the investigation of a suspicious vehicle.

The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County jail.

Sunday 3:05 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana after a check on a suspicious person in the Z3K parking lot. The student was transported to the Lubbock County jail and was issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia 4:59 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested two students for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after a traffic stop at the 2600 block of 18th Street.

The students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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she wanted to make a positive impact on Tech.

“I have always been the type of person to want to make a difference wherever I’m at,” Briley said. “I had a couple of friends at SGA, and I was told by them that I could really make a difference and that I could become a leader on campus.”

Briley is the human sciences senator and chair for SGA. She also is part of the Budget and Finance Committee and secretary of the Rules and Administration Committee.

Briley has been involved in projects for the human sciences department such as the creation of a Sam’s Place in the Human Sciences building, revamping the Dean’s Council, improving sanitation in the human sciences bathrooms, creating a brochure for the organization and was involved in the creation of “Doughnuts with the Dean.”

Briley also is working on creating a sidewalk from the Stangel Residence Hall parking lot to the Business and Administration building.

“I try to stay as active as possible,” Briley said.

Baleigh Waldrop, a junior accounting major from Hobbs, N.M. and nominee

for Senator of the Year, said her main responsibility as senator is to make sure she represents the student body.

“I really saw with my involvement in SGA what a great tool SGA can be and the things we can get done on campus,” Waldrop said.

Waldrop, an honors college senator, is part of the Intergovernmental Relations Committee and is a chair in the Sportsmanship and Traditions Committee.

Waldrop said she has also been involved in planning an SGA trip to Washington D.C, introducing a fall break as a part of Tech’s academic calendar and heads a food donation program in which leftover food from a housing complex is donated to the Lubbock Food Bank.

“I just really want students to know how influential SGA can be,” Waldrop said. “We have been responsible for a lot of cool things that have happened on campus for example, the leisure pool.

I think SGA is only a great tool if it is utilized well.”

Joseph Corcoran, a health organization management and healthcare administration graduate student from Boerne and Senator of the Year nominee, said he joined SGA because he wanted

to become a part of the university and more involved.

“My parents taught me that whatever knowledge you have is wasted if you don’t use it to be the community you’re in,” Corcoran said. “Everything I have learned and every skill I have is wasted if I only use it for myself.”

Corcoran said he became vice chair for the Rules and Administration Committee and the Budget and Finance Committee, two of the busiest committees on campus.

Corcoran also has helped in the improvement of library wireless internet enhancements, represented students in a variety of committees and has tried to create a method in which incoming students can be educated on class travel times between classes.

“I’ve always been comfortable in a supporting role,” Corcoran said. “I’m there to help any way I can.”

Berger said the candidates are all deserving of receiving recognition for their extensive efforts.

“They truly have a passion for student government and Texas Tech University,” Berger said.

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Berger said the candidates nominated for Senator of the Year exceeded expectations.

“We’ve had Senator of the Month and that just meant one or two senators stood among the rest regarding the points for the month,” Berger said. “These three senators have really gone above and beyond their duties the entire session.”

Sen. Valerie Briley, sophomore retail management and marketing major from Wall and nominee for Senator of the Year, said she joined SGA because

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tally false and we still don’t know why that explanation was given.

It’s a scandal because thenSecretary of State Hillary Clinton got off scot free in spite of the fact that she, being in charge of the State Department, was directly responsible for the lack of security.

She even went so far as to scream, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” to Congress when pressed about how and why the four Americans died in the attack.

It’s a scandal because we demand accountability from our government. At the very least, there were many mistakes. At the worst, government officials chose not to save the four Americans and then tried to cover it up.

We still don’t know for sure where on that spectrum lies the truth, so we have every right — and in fact we have a duty — to demand the truth for as long as it takes to get it.

It’s a shame that it’s been more than a year since the attack and the Obama administration still hasn’t been truthful about it. Can conservatives really be blamed for sticking with Benghazi? Because if the administration has nothing to hide, why not give us full disclosure?

This isn’t just about a lapse in security or an incredibly mistaken assertion that the attack was sparked by an amateur video.

This is about four Americans who should still be alive today.

This is about dozens of people who needlessly lost a loved one that day. This is about families of Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, all of whom are still looking for closure.

This is bigger than a traffic jam.

The Christie scandal needs answers too, but four people weren’t murdered because of that.

While we’re being honest, let’s also note that had this happened under George W. Bush’s administration, MSNBC would be giving it 24/7 coverage. The only reason liberals are so incensed about conservatives’ unwillingness to let Benghazi go is because it makes

The only reason liberals are so incensed about conservatives’ unwillingness to let Benghazi go is because it makes Obama look bad.

Obama look bad.

Fox News takes a lot of heat for offering conservative-slanted news coverage, and I don’t dispute the existence of bias there. MSNBC does the very same thing, just slanted in the other direction.

While news is supposed to be presented without bias, having these two networks can actually be a positive thing, as long as people recognize what they’re actually getting. If you want unbiased coverage, CNN is about as close as you’re going to get.

Fox News regularly takes liberals, especially Obama, to task for the things they say and do. MSNBC does the very same thing to conservatives.

In a sense, each network does its part to keep the opposing side honest.

If Fox News wasn’t around, there would be very little heat placed on the Obama administration, so it could realistically get away with just about anything.

MSNBC places similar pressure on conservatives. Each network exposes hypocrisies and ridicules those who say something stupid, which happens just a little too often these days.

If the tables were turned, the two networks would operate in the exact same manner. MSNBC would still be hammering the Republican administration for Benghazi and Fox News wouldn’t be letting up on the democratic governor of New Jersey’s bridge scandal. The two networks are essentially mirror images of each other.

So I find it rather hypocritical that liberals continually lambast conservatives for caring about Benghazi so long after the actual event, because they would be doing the exact same thing if the sides were switched.

Benghazi isn’t about conservatives hating Obama. It’s about an issue that deserves attention until we get answers. Conservatives are doing their jobs in keeping the Obama administration honest, just as liberals would be doing if a Republican were president.

It’s time to end the hypocrisy and finally get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi and why four Americans didn’t survive that night.

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epublicans just don’t know when to let their own fabricated and repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories and “scandals” rest. Even at our own newspaper, it seems like every other column I read by some of our more conservative writers are always trying to make not-so-subtle references to the September 2012 attacks on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya as a cheap means of making President Obama’s administration look incompetent.

The tragedy was dubbed “Benghazi-gate” by conservative pundits to reference the Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon’s presidency, further increasing the hype surrounding the events that took place, completely disregarding the fact that there was no scandal.

Fortunately, like all other lies promulgated by conservative media, the Benghazi “scandal” conspiracy theory crumbles rather easily when confronted with facts. So, without further ado, let’s get started analyzing some of the central GOP claims.

For weeks after the attacks, conservative talking head Sean Hannity went on his Fox News show several times saying top Obama administration officials had watched the Benghazi attacks unfold on real-time surveillance video. The implications, of course, were that the administration knew what was going on and opted to kick back and do nothing to stop the attacks.

However, this claim was debunked when several officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were asked to testify before a House of Representatives Committee investigation.

According to The Washington Post, several officials stated the Benghazi compound did have a Closed Caption Television system, though it was only linked to a security station on-site, not in Washington, as conservatives would lead you to believe.

There was also a Predator drone with video capacity in the air over the compound minutes before the compound was vacated, but it did not provide real-time footage and served little use to Washington officials other than as video footage for later analysis of the events.

Another popular conservative attack scheme that has been repeatedly used against President Obama’s image is that he had a habit of apologizing for United States exceptionalism and

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United Nations should approach China to change North Korea

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The U.N. released a new report that lists numerous human rights violations that North Korea has committed over the past several years.

The U.N. panel in charge of the report commented that the crimes are so atrocious that, “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” according to an article in Al Jazeera.

These violations, according to the 400-page U.N. report include, torture, murder, forced abortion, imprisonment, rape, persecution based on racial, political, and religious beliefs and various other transgressions, according to Al Jazeera.

In response, the U.N. plans to launch an international investigation in an attempt to gather evidence of the numerous violations.

What needs to be said about this report is that it is not breaking news. It’s general knowledge that North Korea has been committing atrocities such as these for many years. Reports from North Korean defectors have described the horrible conditions of the state, and for more than a decade, the country continues to deny these allegations, according to CBS News.

In response to these crimes against humanity, the U.N. is trying to bring the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, to trial, according to the New York Times.

However, there was no explanation as to how the U.N. will ensure that Kim Jong-un will show up at a trial.

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He may totally refuse to appear at the trial based upon his well-publicized beliefs that this is a conspiracy against North Korea.

Then what shall the U.N. do? This brings up one of the biggest problems that the U.N. faces, they lack the power to enforce the laws they pass.

Examples of the U.N.’s inability to enforce its own laws can be seen in tragedies such as the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The U.N. Security council officially admitted that it had failed in preventing the genocide of more than 800,000 people in Rwanda, and for withdrawing the 2,500 U.N. peacekeepers stationed there, according to BBC. Given the U.N.’s poor history of enforcing it’s policy, it seems the U.N. may not accomplish anything if it tries to go after Kim Jong-un directly.

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If the U.N. wants to try to change North Korea, then it may have to go after it’s biggest ally, China. China has been a huge supporter of North Korea and has been providing economic protection, food, and fuel since the Korean War, according to The Council on Foreign Relations. North Korea has become almost totally dependent on China, and it is doubtful that it would survive on its own for very long.

While China is certainly not an easy obstacle to tackle, it would certainly be wiser to approach than North Korea.

As long as China continues to back North Korea, there will be no real change. If China were to cooperate with the U.N. out of fear for economic ramifications for being allied with North Korea, then maybe real change could begin.

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foreign policy abroad. This “apology tour” diatribe was especially pushed among conservative news media and bloggers during the Romney presidential campaign.

While this claim had been repeatedly shown to be false by The Washington Post and Associated Press and described as a “ridiculous charge” by non-partisan fact-checker politifact. com, it was revived by Fox News, which used one of Obama’s early speeches given at the University of Cairo in 2009 and painted it as apologetic for American actions and behaviors toward Muslim nations.

The speech, in fact, in no way apologized for America and can be found on the White House website. If anything, the claim

by Faux News was nothing but a pathetic attempt to revisit an already completely ridiculous and debunked falsehood that contributed nothing to the public discourse over American foreign policy.

Finally, the biggest falsehood fabricated by conservative leaders in Congress and in the media regarding the Benghazi attacks is that the Obama administration tried to cover up its handling and knowledge of the attacks.

There are a wide variety of conspiracy theories that popped up across the conservative media sphere asserting that the Obama administration deliberately left Ambassador Chris Stevens and the troops of the Benghazi consulate out to dry or that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hospitalization for a blood clot in her brain directly after the attack was a ploy to keep from having to testify, and even that the President deliberately lied about having prior knowledge of the terrorist attack because he wanted to cover up for the terrorists.

Actual facts, however, reveal that perhaps the State Department did handle a chaotic situation at less-thanstellar standards. The State Department’s investigation into the incident was certainly not self-gratifying, stating, “Systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of the State Department (the “Department”) resulted in a Special Mission security posture that was inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place.”

“

The statement also stated that Ambassador Stevens had chosen to go to Benghazi independently and had not foreseen the attack and that, despite lackluster management among senior department officials, the investigative board had not found any individual department official in breach of their duty.

Statements from the Pentagon showed that, contrary to conservative media reports, officials had, in fact, OK’d deployment of Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team platoons and special operations forces to the area, according to the timeline submitted to the House Armed Services Committee of the Pentagon’s mobilization efforts.

H o w e v e r, according to a statement to the Committee by then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, they would not have made a difference given the circumstances. “Unfortunately, there was no specific intelligence or indications of an imminent attack on that — U.S. facilities in Benghazi … and there was not enough time given the speed of the attack for armed military assets to respond,” Panetta said.

Also important to consider is the U.S. intelligence community found, contrary to endless Republican claims, no al-Qaida involvement in the attack or evidence of prior planning and instead still views the attacks as opportunistic by a small group of terrorists. Moreover, the State Department, which oversaw the operations of the Benghazi consulate, had also been dealing with legitimate resource and budget shortfalls and policy changes that contributed to the situation.

There is no doubt that attacks on the Benghazi consulate and the deaths of four Americans were a tragedy.

Though there is plenty of evidence of official misjudgment of the threat and poor management of the chaotic and confusing crisis in that befell Libya Special Mission for which Ambassador Stevens was working, there is no evidence among any official statements or investigations of a cover-up by the president’s administration.

The only logical conclusion supported by factual evidence on the events that took place is that “Benghazi-gate” is a fabricated scandal that politicizes the deaths of brave Americans for the purpose of tarnishing the president.

... there is no evidence among any official statements or investigations of a cover-up...

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ast week, liberal political commentator Bill Maher chastised MSNBC’s constant coverage of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s bridge closing scandal, telling the news network on his blog, “Bridgegate has become your Benghazi.”

MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow, appearing on Maher’s talk show Friday, defended the network’s coverage, saying, “I am totally obsessed with the Christie story. Unapologetically.”

Yo u k n o w s o m e t h i n g ’s bad when Maher is criticizing MSNBC. That’s why I find it ironic that many liberals continually bash conservatives for reporting on the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, dead.

That sounds like a bit of hypocrisy to me. But liberals and hypocrisy are no stranger to each other, after all.

To be fair, the Christie scandal is a story that still needs some answers. We still don’t know for certain whether the governor was involved in the decision to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge. Sure, he denied involvement and seemed about as sincere about it as a politician can be (which isn’t that sincere), but we still don’t have a definitive answer that everyone can agree on.

The Benghazi scandal is still in need of definite answers as well.

Who was responsible for the security breakdown? Was a stand-down order given to nearby troops, and if so, by whom? Was the faux story from President Barack Obama’s administration about a spontaneous protest an attempted cover-up or utter incompetence?

Benghazi isn’t a scandal because conservatives have made it into one. It’s a scandal because four Americans died in an attack that should have been prevented or stopped in its tracks.

It’s a scandal because the Obama administration’s original explanation of the event was to-

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Texas Tech Quidditch Team continues to grow

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

Texas Tech is home to many competitive athletic teams; some recruit the best while others are open to a range of players.

One of the teams open to any Tech student is the Tech Quidditch team.

Tyler Jewell, a junior criminology major from Arlington, said the sport is based on the game from “Harry Potter,” but it is becoming more focused on the athletic aspect.

“It is an actual sport,” he said.

“I didn’t expect it to be as physically demanding as it is when I joined, but it really is.”

The team practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-7 p.m. and on Sundays from 2-5 p.m.

The players compete in the Southwest region of the International Quidditch Association, and they competed in the regional competition Saturday and Sunday in Tulsa, Okla.

Aaron Ipser, a sophomore undeclared major from Fort Worth, said the team barely fell short of qualifying for the World Cup, which is the national tournament for Quidditch.

“Our pool had a lot of evenly matched teams, and we played in close games,” Ipser said. “Our seeker just grazed the snitch in one of our games,

and we were that close to making the World Cup.” In its tournament, the winner of the game was determined by which team caught the snitch.

The team from Oklahoma Baptist University beat Tech by catching the snitch, Jewell said, which put Tech into the third alternate spot for the World Cup. “I think we did well because we stayed close with some of the better teams,” Jewell said.

“It’s an improvement from the last few years because we were slacking before.”

Many of the players are still freshmen and have time to improve in future seasons, Ipser said.

Alison Gilliland, a senior apparel design and manufacturing and international business major from Dallas, has been playing since she was a freshman.

“I joined because I wanted to be on a sports team in college, and there aren’t as many sports for girls,” she said. “Quidditch can get competitive, and I enjoy the roughage.”

The Tech team competes against college and community teams within the IQC, which contains more than 500 teams worldwide, Jewell said.

Isper said even though this is his first year on the team, he has made many friends from different colleges

Texas Tech archers compete, place at regional Seniors Taylor Fortney and Chadwick Dabbs quieted their bows, centered their minds and stared down the length of their arrows.

Fortney, an exercise and sport sciences major from Houston, said he placed sixth place in the bowhunter freestyle division of the United States Collegiate Archery Indoor Nationals competition at College Station Saturday hosted

by Texas A&M. Dabbs, a mechanical engineering major from Weatherford, said he placed fifth in the freestyle limited compound division during

the two-day event.

“We went in there pretty confident, but with school and work and everything else we didn’t practice as much as we should have,” Dabbs said. “The biggest thing we wanted to take from it, with it being our first one, (was) we wanted to learn — to see how it all went, the structure of it.”

Dabbs said he was happy with his ranking with it being his first major competition.

The pair struggled with nervousness on their first day in the competition, he said.

“We didn’t really know what to expect, so that definitely didn’t help when it came to shooting,” Dabbs said, “but on the second day we actually shot much better.”

After overcoming the first day jitters, he said the two archers were able to improve their shooting enough to jump a spot in rankings.

Fortney said he thought they both got stronger as they went along.

“I came back a lot stronger (the second day) because I was more comfortable, more relaxed and more focused on what I needed to do,” he said.

Dabbs has competed in a few tournaments before, he said, so the competition aspect of it didn’t make him nervous.

He wanted to learn, but with the competition being of a higher profile, he didn’t want to mess anything up on the official side of things, Dabbs said.

“Archery is 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical, more or less,” he said. “We felt like we were on, but we honestly didn’t know until we walked up to the line to shoot our first practice round.” ➤➤awillingham@dailytoreador.com

through the tournaments.

“Quidditch is a great way to meet people outside of Tech,” Jewell said. “I’ve been playing since my freshman year, and I probably know a player from every Quidditch team.”

The team’s co-ed environment allows the players to meet different people within the team as well, Gilliland said.

Jewell said he has made friends with many of his teammates, and he enjoys actively spending time with them on and off the pitch.

“I’ve gotten closer to some of the people on the team than I was with my football friends in high school,” Ipser said.

“One of my friends now even

went to my rival high school and now we’re best friends because of Quidditch.”

The team took 16 players to Tulsa, but each team can have a full roster of 21 players.

Some universities, such as Texas A&M University, have enough players to form two teams, Jewell said, and the Tech team would love to grow to that level.

“If you’re a ‘Harry Potter’ fan, we’ll show you how to play the ‘muggle’ version of Quidditch,” Isper said. “If you’re just a sports enthusiast, we’ll gladly teach you how to play the game competitively.” ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

Comedy figure Harold Ramis dies (AP) — “Caddyshack.” ‘’National Lampoon’s Animal House.” ‘’Ghostbusters.” ‘’Groundhog Day.” ‘’Stripes.”

Those titles are some of the most beloved and widely quoted comedy classics of the last thirty years. They’re also Harold Ramis’ filmography.

Ramis, the writer-director-actor who quietly and often off-screen created an unparalleled and hugely influential body of laughs, died Monday. He was 69.

He suffered for several years from an autoimmune disease that caused inflammation and damage to his

blood vessels, and died at his home in the Chicago suburbs, surrounded by family and friends, his talent agency said.

His rattled a modern comedy world Ramis helped build. His legacy as a father figure to generations of comedians was appropriately captured in Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up,” in which Ramis was cast as Seth Rogen’s father, he said, “because we all saw him as the dream dad.”

“Harold Ramis made almost every movie which made me want to become a comedy director,” Apatow said. “These films are the touchstones of our lives.”

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Sports

Red Raiders only lose one in homestand

By EVERETT CORDER SportS Editor

The Texas Tech baseball team has scored first in seven straight games and won every one of them, including Monday’s 4-2 defeat of Brigham Young.

The Cougars are now 1-8 on the season, including losses to Big 12 Conference teams Kansas and Texas Christian.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said BYU has played some tough teams so far this season, and they will eventually start winning some games.

“They played with great energy,

played with great passion,” Tadlock said. “They’ve got a good club. The ball’s just not bouncing their way right now, and it was a good baseball game today.”

Freshman pitcher Dylan Dusek started the game in his career debut for the Red Raiders and retired the first 11 batters he faced before finally giving up a hit.

Dusek said he did not even realize until he got into the dugout that he had thrown a perfect game for three and two-thirds innings.

“I was thinking when I was going out there, ‘just do my thing that I’ve done my whole life: throw strikes, hit my spots and carve them up’ just

like I did,” he said. “I had a great day and great defense behind me.”

The Red Raiders never trailed in the game, scoring their first run in the second inning on backto-back doubles by senior Adam Kirsch and freshman Ryan Long.

Long advanced to third on a bunt and scored on a fielder’s choice two batters later.

Kirsch is currently on a seven-game hitting streak, which is the longest streak by a newcomer since 2011.

“It helps me knowing that I am doing what I’m doing and I am performing well,” Kirsch said. “I just need to continue it and keep going.”

The Red Raiders added another run in the bottom of the third, but the Cougars brought the game back within one on a two-run home run from senior outfielder Kelton Caldwell in the bottom of the sixth.

Tadlock said it’s never easy to come out and play a game at the beginning of the week after a weekend series, and he was proud of the way his team performed. “(Our guys) like to play base-

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“It’s big,” he said. “We’re on the home stretch at the back end of the season and it’s always important to win these games, especially at home.

Everybody is intense about getting this win and snapping that three-game slid.

We should be fine.

“You really have to protect your house at all times. These are the big games. Especially at home, these are the must win games. The student body is like a sixth man. They give us a lot of energy and that’s really needed in these tough games that we’ve been playing.

ball,” Tadlock said, “and that’s one thing that makes coaching them a lot of fun.”

The Red Raiders have different players scoring runs for the team in every game, and Kirsch said it stems from how close the players are.

“I mean, this is one of the closest teams I’ve ever been apart of,” Kirsch said. “We work well with each other, we build off of each other and we push each other to get better.”

Tech will take off on its first road trip now, playing Stephen F. Austin, and then compete in the Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park.

The trip will be like a trip home for several Red Raiders, but Kirsch said it will be very different playing on the road.

“Playing on the road is going to be a lot different for us,” he said. “It’s a great environment here (in Lubbock). We’re not going to have the home crowd that we usually have. We’re just going to have to learn how to play in those conditions.”

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TEXAS TECH SHORTSTOP Ryan Long throws the ball to first base during the Red Raiders’ 4-2 victory against BYU Monday at Dan Law Field.

It’s going to be great if we can break that record.”

The Red Raiders are in search of their sixth conference win of the season, which would be the most since 2008, according to a Tech news release.

Tech forward Jordan Tolbert is coming of his sixth career double-double and has scored double-digit points in each of the last three games, but went 0-3 from the field and was held scoreless in 22 minutes of play when the two schools first met this season.

“He’s been playing well,” Tech coach Tubby Smith said. “We’ve come up with a few losses but he’s playing better and I’m glad to see that. Jordan’s biggest challenge is defensively. I think if he can

just stay within his game — get the ball inside and go up strong and get fouled.

Turner is leading the team in assists and said he will look to get the ball inside to Tolbert and the big men early.

“Coach always emphasizes on getting the ball inside,” he said. “That’s really our game; we’re real strong in the post. Playing inside out is a big strategy for us.”

Smith expressed the importance of Tech snapping its losing streak and said he is glad to be playing at home.

“Whenever you get beat, you’re eager to find out why and solve those issues that you have,” he said. “There’s always a sense of urgency, especially in our situation. We have a losing record

in the league and outside the league, so we’ve got to step it up.

“We’re back at home and we have played well here. That’s one good thing.

There is that sense of urgency that we better play with a level of intensity that we haven’t played with all year.”

Tech is 3-4 in the arena in conference games this season and will have one remaining home game on the schedule after its matchup with Kansas State.

“That’s why we really, really want to make the most of these games,” Turner said. “The crowd won’t be able to watch us after these last two, so it will be real important to give them something to cheer for two more times.” ➤➤rrose@dailytoreador.com