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Brian Shannon, the Thornton Professor of Law at Texas Tech School of Law, was re-elected as president of the 1-A Faculty Athletics Representatives, according to a Tech news release.

This will be Shannon’s second two-year term as president.

Shannon has been a professor at Tech School of Law since 1998 and served as the 2008 to 2009 president of the Lubbock Area Bar Association, according to the release.

As president of the 1-A Faculty Athletics Representatives, Shannon will promote for an effective balance among a university’s academic and athletic programs.

Shannon has been a faculty athletics representative at Tech since 2008, according to the news release.

Shannon will continue to serve as president until September 2016, according to the release.

Tech ranked No. 20 for best value

By TAYLOR PEACE Staff Writer

Texas Tech was recently listed in Kiplinger Personal Finance’s “25 Best College Values Under $30,000/Year” as one of the top universities to have the best value for the lowest tuition rate and debt in the country.

Callie Jones, senior editor of communications and marketing, said in a news release that Tech is the only Texas school on the list, coming in No. 20.

The news release said Kiplinger also named Tech as the 11th-best value for a public college because it had one of the least average debt rates among its graduating students.

Kiplinger’s new college finder tool complements the magazine’s college features and reveals the best college values in each region, according to the news release. It also states the best values among different-sized campuses and best values under $30,000 a year.

Chris Cook, managing director of the

Office of Communications and Marketing, said Tech has always taken pride in having one of the best education systems with low tuition fees compared to its peers.

Cook said university administration has worked very hard in the past and continues to work hard to minimize the burden that exists when it comes to costs and attending college.

“I think this is a pretty good deal,” he said. “We have worked hard to maintain where we stand.”

Cook said Tech implemented freeze

tuition in the year of 2006, where tuition fees stayed the exact same.

Tech was the only university in the country to freeze tuition, Cook said.

“From one year to the next, we did not raise tuition but instead, kept them flat,” he said. “I think it was a good move on our part in order to keep everything aligned.”

Cook said the low costs have helped the university bring in large amounts of students.

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SGA hosts fourth senate meeting of spring semester The Student Government Association hosted its fourth senate meeting of the spring semester.

At the meeting, a new resolution was presented.

Senate Resolution 49.91 addressed the sentiments of SGA regarding the implementation of new initiatives that could be implemented by Texas Tech Parking Services, according to an SGA senate agenda.

The SGA senate supports the revival of a program which would allow students to volunteer and participate in community service to work off parking tickets, according to the agenda The implementation of this program is considered to be tentatively feasible, according to the agenda.

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Preparedness is valuable asset for students living in Lubbock

By HANNAH HIPP Staff Writer

Spring is just around the corner, and for Texas Tech students, this means the opportunity to get frostbite, sunburned and windburned all in the same week.

This also means there will be a heightened chance for severe weather.

Brian Ancell, assistant professor of atmospheric science, is no stranger to the

inconsistent Lubbock weather.

“If you ask me, it’s the craziest weather in the country,” Ancell said. “We’ll get a snowstorm one day, and it might be 80 degrees two days later.”

On Saturday, the Tech student chapter of the American Meteorology Society, along with KCBD-TV, the American Red Cross and others, will host a Severe Weather Awareness Day at the Lubbock Science Spectrum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Matthew Mahalik, a teaching assistant in the department of geosciences, is one of two presidents of the chapter and coordinator of the event.

“It is a way to take things we know as meteorologists and convey that knowledge to the general public,” Mahalik said. “We want to educate everybody about different types of severe weather and what to do to prepare.”

One of the target audiences, he said, is the Tech student body.

Most students live in dorms and apartments but are unaware of what to do should they get caught in a severe storm, Mahalik said.

“I think it’s important to talk with the campus administrators and RAs just to understand what the plan is in case of an emergency,” he said. “The TechAlert system plays a big role in that too.”

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Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush, visited Lubbock to speak at the Women’s Club Thursday.

She spoke at the event, according to a Lubbock Women’s Club news release, as part of its distinguished speakers series.

“I’m so thrilled to be at the Woman’s Club at Lubbock,” Hager said, “and will be speaking about the importance of this place that empowers women and brings them together.”

The series was established to promote and support the common good and social welfare of the Lubbock Community and has featured many influential women as speakers, according to the Lubbock Women’s Club website.

Hager is a contributing correspondent on NBC’s Today show, editor-atlarge of Southern Living magazine and is the author of The New York Times Best Seller “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope,” according to the release.

“I worked with UNICEF, an organization that works to prevent childhood deaths, in Latin America,” Hager said.

“I now work with them in the United States and started UNICEF’s next generation called 40 under 40. It is an organization of 40 women, including myself, who are trying to make a difference in the United States.”

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She said education has always been an important issue to her and she believes all students deserve the same level of education.

The students she has taught and the areas she has lived in inspired her to work with UNICEF and tell about her experiences when back in the U.S., she said.

“When I was a teacher, I taught in inner-city Washington, D.C., and West Baltimore,” Hager said. “A lot of the kids I had been teaching were from different parts of the world and really didn’t know how lucky they were to be living in the United States. I wanted them to hear my stories so they really know how lucky they are.”

The same drive to spread her stories inspired her to write “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope.”

She said when she met Ana, she was inspired that she was living a productive life.

“Ana was 17 when I met her and had lived a very hard life,” Hager said. “She was born with HIV/AIDS, lost both of her parents at an early age and really dealt with everything UNICEF kind of tries to help with. She was able to forgive everyone that had wronged her. Her story represents a lot of the kids that live around the world and have experienced injustice and hard times.”

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SGA Returns from Washington

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Today

Saturday

(Her)story is History Time: 12:00 p.m.

Where: TLPD, University Library So, what is it?

Next free event as part of the brown bag lunch series hosted by the Women’s Studies Program.

Lunafest 2014 - Film Festival Time: 3:00 p.m.

Where: Off-campus locations So, what is it?

Traveling film festival showing award-winning films, hosted by the Women’s Studies Program.

Gregory Brookes Faculty Voice Recital Time: 8:00 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Free concert showcasing the voice of faculty member Gregory Brookes.

CANCELED: Battle of the Bands Time: 8:00 p.m.

Where: Matador Room, Student Union Building So, what is it?

Battle of the Bands event will no longer be happening Friday.

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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.

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POLICE BLOTTER Wednesday 3:08 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the C1 parking lot where an unattended vehicle was struck.

11:25 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested four students for public intoxication on the southwest side of

Murdough Residence Hall. One of the four students was also arrested for possession of a fictitious license.

The four students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

Texas man to be tried in childhood crime CONROE (AP) — In the years that followed the 1998 attack that horribly burned her then-8-year-old son, Colleen Middleton felt fear and frustration over the possibility that the person she believed was responsible would never be taken to trial.

That fear and frustration was replaced by relief Thursday as a judge ruled that a Texas man accused of dousing the boy with gasoline and setting him on fire when he was a teenager can be tried as an adult for murder after the victim died from his burns 13 years later.

Don Willburn Collins was 13 when authorities allege he attacked Robert Middleton on his eighth birthday near the younger boy’s home in Splendora, about 35 miles northeast of Houston. Middleton was burned across 99 percent of his body and endured years of physical therapy before he died in 2011 from skin cancer blamed on his burns.

Colleen Middleton said she is happy her son will finally get his day in court. “’’When Robert died we were

A group of Texas Tech’s Student Government Association members returned from Washington D.C. on Wednesday after lobbying for higher education.

SGA members promoted higher education programs to United States legislatures and presented issues students in the Big 12 Conference and in the nation are concerned about.

Daniel Yates, current graduate vice president, said he attended the trip to D.C. to be the face of Tech graduate students and let legislatures know how some of the issues in higher education affected graduate students.

“One of the things we talked about was reducing the loan rates for graduate students which right now are capped at 9.5 percent,” he said. “We think that is a little

thinking maybe nothing will ever happen, maybe someone is just going to get away with what they did to him,” she said. “It’s been a long road.”

Robert Middleton named Collins as his attacker and the older boy was arrested in 1998. Collins spent several months in juvenile detention but was released after prosecutors said they didn’t have enough evidence to pursue the case.

Shortly before he died, Middleton gave a videotaped deposition in which he accused Collins for the first time of sexually assaulting him two weeks before the attack. The sexual assault allegation prompted investigators to reopen the case. Prosecutors charged the now 28-year-old Collins with murder last year, but they needed to move the case from juvenile to adult court to take him to trial.

After a three-day hearing on the issue this week, state District Judge Kathleen Hamilton ruled that Collins could be tried for murder by an adult court.

With emphasis on building a great education system, having low tuition is definitely beneficial for everyone, Cook said.

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Hager said she now spends her time working, taking care of her family and sharing her stories with other people around the country.

She said all of her speeches condense the stories that other

too high for graduate students and kind of discourages going into graduate programs.”

The reduction of research funding also was one of the issues Yates said he spoke to U.S. legislatures about.

“One of the other things we talked about was how sequestration reduced research funding,” Yates said. “By reducing that research funding, it pushed a lot of graduate students over into those loan programs.”

Sequestration is a federal mandatory across-the-board budget reduction, according to an Associated Press news release.

The reduction in the research funding led to teaching assistants being assigned heavier workloads, Yates said.

“To make up for that loss, some departments are having to have their graduate students teach more than they would,” he said.

SGA members also met with members from other Big 12 schools as part of the Big 12 on the Hill conference.

Current SGA Internal Vice President Jill Berger said she was part of a delegate group that interacted with SGA members of other universities.

“It was fun getting to talk with other Big 12 schools about their student government and how they have the same issues with us,” Berger said.

At the conference, SGA members of different schools collaborated and presented different aspects of SGA at their universities, Berger said.

“One thing I was talking to TCU about was that they don’t have their elections until April,” she said. “I think that it is a good idea to have elections later on in the year so that it doesn’t affect our current session so much.”

Peyton Craig, current external vice president, said although legislatures did not show immediate support for the issues Tech SGA members presented, it could influence their decisions regarding higher education.

“I think it was extremely important for us to put a face to the issues,” Craig said. “When (legislatures) vote on bills that affect education or the reauthorization of the higher education act, they won’t just think of students with empty faces, they’ll see Texas Tech.”

SGA members also met with Tech interns part of the President’s Congressional Internship Program.

“Texas Tech has about 25 interns on the Hill and about five of those people end up staying in D.C. every semester,” Berger said.

“Texas Tech has a huge presence on the Hill.”

“One thing we have been able to do is maintain a high quality of students that attend here,” he said.

“It feels good to know you are able to make college available to students by having these lower costs.”

Shelby Johnson, a senior media strategies major from Weatherford,

said she isn’t surprised to see Tech ranked as one of the top 25 best value colleges.

Johnson said with all of the facilities and amenities the students have, the tuition fees are great compared to other colleges around the nation.

“Tech spends so much of it’s money on anything they can provide for it’s students,” Johnson said.

“So when you see something like that in the paper, it makes you feel good to know your school isn’t taking your money for selfish reasons.”

people around the world have told her about their lives.

“Many of the people I’ve met have stories that are really inspiring. People love hearing about other people and they can imagine themselves in the same situation,” she said.

“People like people and that’s why I love to speak.”

To make a difference, she said,

a large life-changing event, such as a move to Latin America, isn’t a requirement.

She said everyone can make a big difference with a small act and she encourages students to use their passions to make a difference.

“I went to University of Texas,” she said, “and majored in English and creative writing. People

constantly asked me what I was going to do with an English degree but I did it anyway. I knew that no matter what I was going to use my degree. Life is about learning and you will continue to change.

I think students should just allow themselves to do what they love, pursue their passions and that will help them make their way.”

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GOP presidential hopefuls vie for clout with base OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Republicans vying for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 auditioned Thursday before some of the nation’s most ardent conservative leaders, calling for the party to unite behind a clear agenda and draw contrasts with Democrats.

The contestants ranged from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a tea party champion, to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a favorite of the GOP establishment.

“If you want to lose elections, stand for nothing,” said Cruz, who referred as examples to the unsuccessful presidential bids of Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney. “When you don’t stand and draw a clear distinction, when

you don’t stand for principle, Democrats celebrate.”

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference offered an early tryout of sorts for a halfdozen Republican officials eager to win over the GOP’s most passionate voters. At stake this year is the Senate majority, currently held by senators in President Barack Obama’s party. But for all, the midterm elections could serve as a springboard for the next presidential contest.

Republicans have much to mend before 2016, starting with a stark ideological divide between the party’s establishment and the super-conservatives who rose to power in the tea party-fueled 2010 elections that delivered a

Republican House majority. Fiscal crises, compromises and a war of words have separated the factions from the top down despite widespread agreement that Obama’s signature health care law should be overturned.

More than two years out from the election to succeed Obama, there’s no clear front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. But Republicans interested in the job are filing across the CPAC stage at a hotel complex just down the Potomac River from Washington — bashing the media, criticizing Obama and making a case for being the candidate who can win the White House.

“Most people are realizing that it’s cool to be selecting the

most conservative in the race, but there’s an additional caveat that needs to be added, and that’s who can win in the general election,” said American Conservative Union Chairman Al Cardenas.

For Christie, the event was the first major step back into the national spotlight and a chance to revive his image from a political retribution scandal in which his aides ordered the closing of lanes near New Jersey’s George Washington Bridge. Federal authorities also are investigating allegations that two members of Christie’s Cabinet threatened to withhold storm recovery funds from heavily flooded Hoboken if the city’s mayor didn’t approve a favored redevelopment project.

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Obama: West won’t let Kremlin carve up Ukraine

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ordered the West’s first sanctions in response to Russia’s military takeover of Crimea on Thursday, declaring his determination not to let the Kremlin carve up Ukraine. He asserted that a hastily scheduled referendum on Crimea seceding and becoming part of Russia would violate international law.

European leaders announced their own measures but split over how forcefully to follow America’s lead. Obama threatened further steps if Russia persists.

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After announcing his sanctions at midday, Obama emphasized his resolve in a personal telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin later Thursday, the White House said. In a one-hour discussion, Obama affirmed his contention that Russia’s actions violate Ukraine’s sovereignty.

The U.S. president told Putin there was still a way to resolve the dispute diplomatically, the White House said — with Russian forces moving back to their base in Crimea, the governments of

Ukraine and Russia holding direct talks and international monitors arriving.

The U.S. is also calling on Russia to recognize the legitimacy of Ukrainian plans for elections in May, not the Crimean referendum a week from Sunday.

In all, signs still pointed to a continuing diplomatic battle over Ukraine and what could prove a broader fault line in Europe’s post-Cold War order.

While East and West no longer threaten nuclear war and have vastly expanded commercial ties, Russia is determined to dominate the future of the former Soviet republics along its borders. Washington, its NATO partners and others across the continent are striving to pull these nations out of Moscow’s orbit.

Underscoring his position, Obama issued an executive action slapping new visa restrictions on Russian and other opponents of Ukraine’s government in Kiev and authorizing wider financial penalties against those involved in the military intervention or in stealing state assets. None of the measures appeared aimed at the Russian president personally.

“Today the world can see that the United States is united with our allies

and partners in upholding international law and pursuing a just outcome that advances global security and the future that the Ukrainian people deserve,” Obama said at the White House. “That’s what we’re going to continue to do in the days to come until we have seen a resolution to this crisis.”

Obama hailed U.S. cooperation with the European Union, which imposed its own sanctions on Russia on Thursday. In an emergency meeting in Brussels, EU leaders decided to suspend talks with Putin’s government on a wide-ranging economic agreement and on granting Russian citizens visa-free travel within the 28-nation bloc — a long-standing Russian objective. Yet at the same time, Europe’s presidents and prime ministers were divided on more drastic steps such as freezing assets and issuing travel bans on Russian officials.

European hesitancy reflected the reality that targeting influential Russian businessmen or major Russian companies would also harm Europe’s economic interests. Russian investors hold assets worth billions in European banks, particularly in Britain and Cyprus, and major exporters such as Germany and the Netherlands have far more at stake than the United States in Russia’s consumer economy. Many other European countries depend on Russia for oil and gas supplies.

Russian troops have seized control of much of Crimea, where ethnic Russians are the majority. Moscow doesn’t recognize the Ukrainian government that came to power after protesters ousted the country’s pro-Russian president last month. Putin and other officials have cited strategic interests as well as the protection of ethnic Russians in making the case for intervention. Russia leases a major navy base there.

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HSC hosts Research Week for students

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

Students in the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences organized the 26th Annual Student Research Week March 5 through 7. In addition to a poster competition and other activities, the Graduate Student Association hosted a banquet Thursday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center and featured a Nobel Laureate and a Harvard associate professor.

The Student Research Week Committee chose a theme of Molecular Imaging: Advancing Diagnostics to encompass all the schools within HSC, Student Research Week director Swapneeta Date said.

During the first two days of research week, students can participate in a poster competition, Date said. The students present their abstracts to faculty, peers and to the community.

“The main purpose is to know what research is going on,” Date said.

“We know what the neighboring lab is doing, but we don’t know in detail how exactly we can collaborate with them. The purpose is to enhance the interdisciplinary action.”

The poster feedback is a reward in itself, Date said, even if a student does not win.

Nirupama Nishtala, a fourth year graduate student from Hyderabad, India, organized the poster competition as SRW vice director of judging.

The poster presentation cannot exceed 10 minutes and teaches

students how to speak concisely yet thoroughly, Nishtala said.

The week is entirely organized by graduate students, Brandt Schneider, dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, said.

Students from campuses of the Tech health sciences system in Lubbock, Amarillo, El Paso and Abilene attended and competed the week’s activities, he said.

“For the last three years, each year has been the biggest research week,” Schneider said. “We’ve had 40 percent more people presenting abstracts this year than last year.

We’ve managed to pull off growing, which is really cool.”

This year, students presented 260 posters. The posters serve as snapshots of what students have accomplished so far and provide an opportunity for students to teach what they have already learned, Schneider said.

“It’s really easy for us to get caught up in jargon of diseases and technology,” he said. “I think sometimes we forget it loses its meaning a little bit. This makes them stop, think about it and then present. It helps them gain insight as to where to go next.”

GSA president Dhyanash Patel, a fourth year graduate student from Sangli, India, said this is the first year the research week has included a banquet.

GSA vice president Ashish Chougule, a fifth year graduate student from Kohlapur, India, said the students chose the banquet’s theme, Benefit for Hope, to honor Harry Weitlauf, former chair of the HSC Department of Cell Biology and

Biochemistry, who died in 2012.

Weitlauf was one of the major advocates in opening the Lubbock Hope Lodge, Patel said.

The Hope Lodge, the first to open in Texas, provides overnight lodging and support for patients undergoing cancer treatment, all for free, according to the American Cancer Society’s website.

“Since he passed away, we wanted to honor him and his efforts,” Patel said. “That’s why we are doing this as a fundraiser, out of respect to Dr. Weitlauf, so all of the funds will go to the Hope Lodge.”

GSA already raised $500 to $600 prior to the banquet, Patel said. He said the organization hoped to raise more than $2,000.

At the banquet, Schneider served as emcee for the night and introduced various speakers.

Thomas Tenner, associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Development, introduced the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award, Sasanka Ramanadham, a professor at the University of Alabama.

Tenner served as Ramanadham’s mentor while he completed graduate work at HSC. The keynote speakers discussed stories of their own graduate work to which current students could relate.

Lee Josephson, an associate professor in the department of radiology at Harvard Medical School, said he learned through his graduate studies to use logic, to not ignore discrepancies in his research and to not pursue all inconsistencies in data.

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Tech LGBT talks community

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The events that have transpired in the first months of 2014 have become important for members of the LGBT community.

Mitchell Gross, a junior accounting major from Burleson and treasurer of the Texas Tech Gay Straight Alliance, said the recent events are a big step forward.

“We are kind of making progress in places we’d never think we’d make progress in,” he said. “There are people who still to this day that thought there never would be, in our generation, that Texas would even begin to think about unbanning (gay marriage).”

The sexual orientation of any individual does not set limits on what one can or can’t do, Gross said.

“Anyone who is gay or LGBT can make it anywhere they want to,” he said.

A federal judge ruled the same

sex marriage ban in Texas as unconstitutional, according to an Associated Press article, and athletes such Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins and former Missouri defense end Michael Sam have come out as openly gay.

Athletes such as Collins and Sam have proven that members of the gay community can accomplish anything they want regardless of their sexual orientation, Gross said.

“We are treated a lot like we aren’t the same, we can’t do what anyone else can do and I feel like the last few months has definitely changed that outlook,” Gross said.

Katie Miller, a sophomore nutrition major from Dallas and vice president of the TTUGSA, said sports teams are starting to become more accepting toward gay athletes.

“People started getting scared of being watched by the gay person or not, but I feel that it’s becoming so much of a norm and people are becoming more accepting,” she said.

Summer Hawkins, a graduate

counseling psychology student from Wimberley and secretary of TTUGSA, said she thinks the U.S. is becoming more accepting of members of the gay community.

“I think that we are slowly progressing in America, but it’s a good slow progress,” she said. “I think there is definitely hope and each day seems to be getting better and better.”

Tech has also been welcoming of TTUGSA, Miller said.

“We are considered diverse now, we have some fraternities that are willing to work for us, and we are not seen as gross taboo,” she said.

“We still get stared at but not nearly as bad.”

Tech is a fairly conservative place, but people on campus and the university are accepting toward the gay community, Hawkins said.

“I think they are trying to get more diversity on campus,” H a w k i n s s a i d . “ I t h i n k i t ’s pretty hopeful.”

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MARTIN CHALFIE, A 2008 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, speaks about his graduate student experience Thursday during the Health Sciences Center’s Research Week banquet in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

Laureate in Chemistry and professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, said a failed summer of research during his undergraduate years discouraged him enough to not pursue further education.

After working odd jobs for three years, he said he decided to return to school because he published his first paper during a research laboratory opportunity at Yale University.

“We get out of science what we

put into science,” Chalfie said.

Today, Chalfie and Josephson will speak at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. respectively, according to a schedule of events. Following their keynote speeches, an award ceremony will be hosted. Coffee with the Speakers will allow students to interact with the speakers and provides a valuable learning and networking opportunity, Date said.

Schneider said the overall goal is

to allow students to reflect on their accomplishments.

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New Texas abortion law closes 2 more clinics AUSTIN (AP) — The last abortion clinic in the vast, impoverished Rio Grande Valley closed Thursday, along with the sole remaining clinic in the 100-mile stretch between Houston and the Louisiana border, posing a tall obstacle to women seeking to end pregnancies across a wide swath of the nation’s second-largest state.

The closures in McAllen and Beaumont bring to 19 the number of clinics that have shut down since

Texas lawmakers adopted tough new abortion restrictions last summer.

Twenty-four clinics remain to serve a population of 26 million people, and more closures could happen after additional restrictions take effect later this year.

Lawmakers required all abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, all abortions to take place in a surgical facility and all women seeking abortion-inducing

medications to make four clinical visits. Those rules made it impossible for the clinics in Beaumont and McAllen to stay open, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of Whole Woman’s Health.

Anti-abortion lawmakers said the regulations are necessary to protect women’s health, but abortion-rights groups have sued the state claiming the restrictions are medically unnecessary and intended to shut down all Texas clinics that offer abortion services.

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Senate blocks change to military sex assault cases WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing to the Pentagon, the Senate agreed after impassioned debate Thursday to leave the authority to prosecute rapes and other serious crimes with military commanders in a struggle that highlighted the growing role of women in Congress.

The vote was 55-45 in favor of stripping commanders of that authority, but that was short of the 60 necessary to move ahead on the legislation sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Her bill would have given the decision to take serious crimes to courts-martial to seasoned military trial lawyers, independent of the chain of command.

The debate and vote were the culmination of a nearly yearlong campaign to curb sexual assault in the ranks, led by female senators who have questioned whether the military’s mostly male leadership understands differences between relatively minor sexual offenses and serious crimes that deserve swift and decisive justice.

Thursday’s rejection is unlikely to be the final word. Defeated but unyielding, Gillibrand and her allies vowed to seize the next opportunity to force another vote, probably in the spring when the Senate starts work on a sweeping defense policy bill for the 2015 fiscal year.

“Many people said to me, ‘Kirsten, I’m going to watch this, and if it doesn’t get better in the next six months, I’m with you next time,’” she said at a news conference.

“We will not be stopped. Look,

I’ve been here long enough to see how sometimes change is painful and slow. But it happens. I’ve seen it.

And we will see it again,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

Pentagon leaders vigorously opposed the measure, as did former prosecutors and military veterans in the Senate who argued that commanders should have more responsibility, not less, for the conduct of the men and women they lead in war and peacetime.

“We can’t let the commanders walk away,” insisted Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, who be-

moaned the tenor of a policy debate that pitted her against fellow Democrat Gillibrand.

Backers of the measure insisted that piecemeal reforms have had only a limited impact on a problem that even the military has called an epidemic. Survey results have suggested that some 26,000 women may have been sexually assaulted in the most recent accounting with thousands unwilling to come forward for fear of inaction or retribution.

“The people who don’t trust the chain of the command are the victims,” Gillibrand said.

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US should discontinue foreign aid, use money at home former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul said, “Foreign aid can best be described as taking money from the poor in a rich country and giving it to the rich and powerful in a poor country. Unchecked, it assures that both the donor and recipient countries become poorer in the end.”

The donor country, in this case the U.S., becomes poorer from this because money we send to other countries is money that isn’t spent here at home. This is taxpayer money, or borrowed

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We don’t have the money to give away to other countries, and we shouldn’t be doing that anyway.

US should stay out of Ukraine dispute

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As tensions in Ukraine continue to rise and the threat of a full-blown Russian invasion continues, global powers are in the wings ready to jump at the slightest notion of war. Because of blatant international law violations, the U.S. is particularly interested in this conflict.

In accordance with the United Nations Charter — of which Russia is a veto member — members “shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”

According to The New York Times, President Barack Obama said he sees Russia’s involvement as a “breach of international law” and a “clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.”

While Obama’s statement upholds the UN Charter’s guidelines, it’s baffling that he seems to be able to decide what is right for “Ukrainian sovereignty” when he does not live there.

With Obama’s words comes the potential for U.S. entanglement. This could create the biggest political confrontation between Russia and the U.S. since the Cold War. Te n s i o n s remained high between the U.S. and the Soviet Union a f t e r Wo r l d War II, while peace existed in most parts of the world. U.S. foreign policy began to center on containing communism.

In the 1950s, the U.S. entered the Korean conflict. Korea was split between communism in the north and a republic in the south. The U.S. feared that the Soviet Union would attempt to convert every country into a communist nation, so it pushed to ensure republican ideals were spread as well. The U.S. repeated this policy again in the 1960s when Vietnam also dealt with a standoff between communism and republicanism in the north and south, respectively.

During the Vietnam War, millions of U.S. citizens protested against it. They believed the war to be invalid and thought the U.S. should have separated from the conflict in general.

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The U.S. has set a historical pattern of intervening in the fate of a country’s political systems without first analyzing its own and ensuring its own prosperity.

Even so, the U.S. remains obsessed with the idea that everyone should have a republic as its government, when it is not even certain that this form of government would be socially and culturally acceptable for the people actually living there. Because of this pattern, I do not think the U.S. has the right to force an entire upheaval of a country’s political systems, particularly because it has typically been met with only greater tension and economic instability.

It does not matter what system of government another country adopts or how another country conducts its business. The U.S. needs to break this problem of systematic intervention into nations that do not reflect the same political ideologies and instead focus on domestic issues.

The conflict involving Russia appears to exist as another excuse for the U.S. to display its seemingly superior structure of government. It seems arrogant for the U.S. to try to force a certain political ideology onto a turbulent nation with its form of government when it is the same one causing poor economic conditions and great debt domestically.

With a crippled economy, domestic issues must come to the forefront and take precedence. I would not be opposed to the U.S. taking a more isolationist approach to foreign policy.

Many UH students also agree with the idea of leaning toward non-interventionist and isolationist ideas.

“It’s not the U.S.’s fault. We cannot continue to get involved in every world affair because we are expected to,” said mechanical engineering freshman Chris Pinto. “We need to fix ourselves first, especially economically and even more importantly as one political unit, before we can go about getting influencing other nations on how they should govern themselves.”

The crux of the issue is whether the U.S. should continue its cultural paradigm of intervening

In order for true sovereignty to exist within Ukraine, it is imperative that it be given the opportunity to ask for help before it is given ...

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in charge of how it will be spent.”

Oftentimes, corrupt governments receive the money and use it to strengthen their own political power instead of giving it to the people.

Paul also noted the U.S. government spends roughly $50 billion per year on foreign aid, some of which goes to countries that are not our allies.

According to ABC News, Pakistan received more than $2.1 billion from the U.S. in 2012. That same year, Egypt received more than $1.5 billion. I wouldn’t say these

in the political issues of foreign nations that do not directly affect the U.S. or its citizens.

On the other hand, according to The New York Times, British Foreign Secretary William Hague opposes the non-interventionist ideology and is pushing for more countries to get involved. He also strongly advised Russia to step back.

“The world cannot just allow this to happen,” Hague said.

“The world cannot say it’s OK in effect to violate the sovereignty of another nation in this way.”

Intervention by other world powers has the potential to be highly counterpro ductive if handled poorly. If the U.S. or any other major world power engages in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it could possibly ignite another world war.

While other countries should be aware of “violat(ions) of sovereignty,” it is not anyone’s responsibility to stand up for a country that is capable of making its own political decisions.

Additionally, war comes at a high cost not only to citizens but to the economy, a cost that the U.S. cannot afford, especially with the national debt standing at more than $17 trillion, according to the US Debt Clock.

If the U.S. implements an isolationist foreign policy, it can avoid becoming entangled in foreign conflicts and spending excess money that it is not in the position to spend.

There is greater utility in allowing countries to decide their policies and fight their battles rather than having every decision made for them. Taking control of a situation that does not explicitly involve the U.S. will lead to greater resentment in the future should another conflict arise.

History has shown that the U.S. agenda of pushing its own form of government in foreign countries is juxtaposed with Russia’s preference for communist and authoritative regimes.

I worry that the historically passive-aggressive battle of government structures could turn violent.

It is counterproductive to use force to counteract force. In order for true sovereignty to exist within Ukraine, it is imperative that it be given the opportunity to ask for help before it is given and decide for itself the system of government it prefers.

Until the U.S. is able to effectively help other nations and fix its own problems domestically, it needs to stay out of extraneous affairs and narrow its focus to internal issues.

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countries even remotely deserve our money.

Even though we’re militarily pulling out of Afghanistan and have already done so in Iraq, we’re still paying for it. Afghanistan received more than $2.3 billion in aid in 2012, while Iraq received more than $1.6 billion. Haven’t we spent enough money in these countries already?

What we need to do is quit wasting money abroad and keep it here at home, especially when we’re in such a financial crisis.

With the national debt sitting at more than $17 trillion, the last thing we need to be doing is wasting money.

Politicians who actually pretend to care about the budget deficit proclaim to want to cut “unnecessary” spending, but what they classify as unnecessary isn’t enough. There is no valid argu-

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ment for foreign aid being necessary, especially when we need to be slashing budgets to keep the nation fiscally afloat.

So when I see the House of Representatives, which is supposed to be more fiscally responsible than the Democraticallycontrolled Senate, guarantee private loans to Ukraine, I can only shake my head in disappointment.

We don’t have the money to give away to other countries, and we shouldn’t be doing that anyway.

It’s time to put a stop to foreign aid and keep our tax dollars in this country. Let’s spend our money on our citizens instead of giving it to foreign and sometimes hostile governments.

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By Luke Watson

Vetoes hinder progress for UN council

By ISD EDITORIAL BOARD Iowa State DaIly (Iowa State U.)

The charter of the United Nations points to four main purposes which the intergovernmental organization was created to achieve and maintain.

The first such purpose states that the UN was founded “To maintain international peace and security.” The remaining purposes work to support this original premise.

Currently, the UN has peacekeeping missions in several countries around the world, including Syria. When it comes to the UN’s action plan on mounting issues in the Ukraine surrounding Crimea and Russian forces, however, the peacekeeping organization remains in deadlock.

It is not difficult to see what causes this gridlock. The UN’s Security Council, made up of five permanent members and 10 non-permanent member states, is charged with recognizing when there is an international threat to peace or to the security of a UN member country.

The five permanent members of the Security Council — the United States, United Kingdom, China, France and Russia — all have the power to veto any proposal that goes through the council. Even if a proposal receives the required nine votes of approval, one veto from a permanent member means the proposal will fail. Article 27 of the UN’s charter, which defines the rules of voting in the Security •Publishing information Periodical Postage paid by The Daily Toreador, Media and Communication building, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409. Publication number: 766480. The DT is a student newspaper published Monday through Friday, September through May; Tuesdays and Fridays June through August, except during university examination and vacation periods. The DT is funded primarily through advertising revenues generated by the student sales staff with free campus distribution resulting from student service fees.

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Council, effectively renders the council incapable of a response in scenarios that involve a permanent member’s aggressive actions.

In the case of Ukraine, that member is Russia. As the Security Council discusses the unfolding problems in Ukraine, Russia will be a major aspect of the conversation.

If the Security Council were to decide that UN forces need to intervene, it would be practically assured that Russia would veto any proposal.

The UN was first established in 1945, back when only 51 member states were involved and the greatest perceived threats were another German or Japanese war effort. The UN has grown considerably since that time with 193 member states, and the sources of global unrest have likewise shifted. With these developments, it would only be beneficial for the UN to consider changing its rules involving permanent Security Council members and their veto powers.

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Unfortunately, there looks to be little possibility of these rules ever changing. Since any permanent member could veto the proposal, there is realistically no way to change the current structure. This means that as the world puts its trust in the UN to provide essential peacekeeping missions, the organization will continue to fail time and time again if one of the five veto powers has their own agenda.

Even with little hope of meaningful reform in the UN, there are other potential sources of change. Regional alliances, such as the Organization of American States or the European Union could expand their purview, eventually rivaling the UN for global legitimacy.

This may seem unlikely, but as the UN continues to show an outdated leadership structure that gets in the way of its founding goals, seemingly unrealistic options may begin to look more and more appealing to a weary international community.

Even if a proposal receives the required nine votes of approval, one veto from a permanent member means the proposal will fail.

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money that we can’t afford to keep borrowing, that does not improve the lives of U.S. citizens in the slightest.

W h a t ’s worse, the money the U.S. government sends rarely gets used for its publically stated purpose, which is not always the same as its actual intended purpose.

Paul noted, “The decisions as to who will receive the money are political at both ends. Our politicians make decisions on where the money is to go and the politicians in the other countries are

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he House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would permit the U.S. government to guarantee $1 billion in private sector loans to Ukraine, according to a Bloomberg news article.

In other words, if these private sector loans to Ukraine default, the government will pay them.

While it’s unlikely the full $1 billion will be spent, it brings up an interesting question. Should the U.S. government be providing money to foreign countries?

Pro-foreign aid politicians make a moral argument for its continuance, saying it’s a humanitarian cause we’re supporting. Poor people in third-world countries need that money to have food, clothing, shelter and clean water. But is that really how it gets used?

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Tech trap, skeet club aims to compete

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

While Texas Tech has had firearm clubs such as the Tech Gun Club, it previously has had no campus organization for trap and skeet shooting.

Savannah Thode, a junior political science major from Dilley, said she founded the Tech Trap and Skeet Club last fall because trap and skeet shooting has always been a family sport for her.

“There were so many people wanting to do trap and skeet shooting, but Tech only had a gun club,” she said. “So many other colleges like Texas A&M and Baylor have trap and skeet teams. Why shouldn’t Tech compete with them?”

The club practices shooting at the South Plains Gun Range, Thode said, and the owners allow the club more access to the range than the general public.

Once a semester, the club holds a meeting over gun safety where police officers train new members.

“We’re really big on gun safety,” Thode said. “If members haven’t taken the gun safety class before, they just have to take a quick quiz afterwards and they either pass or fail.”

The club is open to anyone, she said, even if they have had no prior gun experience.

Colton Borg, a sophomore computer science major from Lubbock, is one of the members who has more experience with trap and skeet shooting.

“I’ve been shooting since I was 10,” Borg said. “I started shooting with my dad, and I joined 4-H when I was younger. I wanted to get involved with the Tech club.”

Thode said the club cannot currently compete as an official sports team for Tech because it has not been a registered organization for an entire year.

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ment, is ideal. If not, get to the lowest floor of the building, he said.

“Underground, almost without exception, is the best place to go,” Divine said. “If possible you want to get under a sturdy table or cover yourself with a mattress if you have time.”

When preparing for severe weather, Divine said the most important thing is to be prepared and aware.

While severe weather events do not occur frequently, he said, having a plan could make all the difference.

“Homes don’t have fires every day, but we have smoke detectors there just in case,” Divine said. “In the same way, forecasts and weather radios should be utilized out of precaution for weather that could occur at any time.”

Divine said paying attention to forecasts, weather radios and TV sta-

tions are all good ways to stay on top of the weather.

The weathermen try to get the warnings out in advance, he said, but there will not always be a warning.

“Once a storm or tornado is underway it’s too late to figure out what to do,” Divine said. “That’s why it’s such a good idea to know in advance what to do.”

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“The most dangerous aspect tends to be the debris,” he said. “The winds are CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 still strong and you can still get things Spring is also the peak time for severe flying. Putting walls between you and thunderstorms, Ancell said. the outside is the best idea.”

A severe thunderstorm is a storm Steve Divine, weather anchor for with the threat of hail, strong winds and KCBD, said in the case of severe weather, tornadoes, he said, that often includes it is best to be as far inside as possible. lightning, too.

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“Listen, films are big business,” says Steven Kraftchick, professor at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. “They’re probably not going to cast Jonah Hill as Jesus.”

Not that Hill wouldn’t provide an interesting spin. But the producers of “Son of God,” Roma Downey (who also plays Jesus’ mother Mary) and her husband Mark Burnett, were clearly going for something different when they chose the strapping, 6-foot 3-inch Diogo Morgado, a Portuguese actor who’s dabbled in modeling, for “The Bible,” their History channel miniseries. (“Son of God” is culled from footage shot for the series).

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Borg said the club provides support for new shooters as well because more experienced members can help teach them how to shoot and eventually watch them improve.

Thode said trap and skeet shooting is a unique sport because it is well mannered.

“There is an etiquette to it,” she said.

“Every shooter shoots for a score, but no one bashes on another shooter. It’s an Olympic sport now, and it’s great for people to know what’s going on with it.”

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But in the popular new film “Son of God,” Jesus is so, well, easy on the eyes that some are revisiting an age-old question that has vexed scholars for centuries: Did Jesus really look like Brad Pitt, only slightly better?

OK, that exact question hasn’t vexed scholars for centuries. But those who study religion as portrayed in popular culture do note that depicting Jesus on the screen has always been a tricky business, one that balances weighty theological concerns — how divine to make the son of God, and how

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back to the community.

“The gun club and the local community have both helped us get started,” she said. “We don’t just want to compete as a team, we want to give back as a team.”

This year has been focused on getting the club funded and organizing practices, Thode said.

The club currently has 30 members, and Borg said next year he hopes the team will be able to show Lubbock has competitive shooters.

“I like the competition within the club,” he said. “It provides me people close to my skill level to compete against

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The club has a competitive team, and Thode said it qualified for the Collegiate Nationals this year.

Cade Hord, a junior energy commerce major from Kerrville, is the coach for the competitive team.

“To qualify for the team, a member has to shoot 92 percent in each discipline,” Hord said. “From there, we decide what shoots each person will do.”

On April 5, the club will host a shoot to raise money for Ronald McDonald House.

Thode said the club wanted to host a philanthropic shoot to give

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Sports

Lady Raiders travel to Big 12 tournament Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team will be the No. 10 seed in the Big 12 Conference Championship and take on No. 7 Texas Christian at 8:30 today at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.

Tech coach Candi Whitaker said all the Big 12 teams start the tournament with no record and anything can happen.

“We have a chance. We drew TCU and if we can handle their 2-3 zone and make some shots, we should be able to be in the ball game and it should be competitive and we’ll have a chance to win,” Whita-

ker said. “This team needs another opportunity and a clean slate going into the conference tournament.”

On Thursday, the Big 12 announced Tech junior guard Amber Battle was awarded All-Big 12 second team honors.

Battle said she was humbled when she heard about her accomplishment.

“It’s a good feeling, but I owe it all to my coaches and my teammates for putting me in good positions all season,” she said. “I’m just blessed to have this opportunity to be mentioned.”

Battle has led the team offensively all year and averages 16.2 points per game, sixth in the Big 12. She

is also the team leader in rebounds Whitaker said. “Amber’s had a great with 7.5 per season. I thought game. She is the (Battle) stepped only guard in up and took on a the conference completely different role from her to rank in the top 10 in both previous seasons scoring and rehere at Tech. She embraced that and bounding.

Whitaker the pressure that comes with being said the team is proud of their a go-to player and leader and will made a lot of plays look to her in for us.”

AMBER BATTLE the tournaThe Lady RaidTEXAS TECH JUNIOR ment. ers will enter the GUARD “I’m really tournament with a 6-23 record includproud of Amber (Battle) and our program,” ing 0-18 in conference play.

“

I just need to be that leader for my team and step up and make big plays on offense and defense

Red Raider assists US national team The U.S. U-23 women’s national team won the Six Nations Tournament in Manga, Spain, Wednesday against Norway with a 2-1 victory, according to a news release from Tech athletics.

The success the national team experienced did not come without contributions from Texas Tech.

Those contributions came from junior defender and All-American Jaelene Hinkle.

In the three victories for the

United States, Hinkle started in two of the games. She helped the team offensively with an assist to West Virginia senior forward Frances Silva in Monday’s game against Sweden.

The assist allowed the United States to take a 2-0 lead against Sweden in the 31st minute and win the match 2-1.

Her third honor came as a result of starting in 17 of the 23 matches. In those 23 matches, Hinkle played more than 1,500 minutes on the backline.

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By JEREMY KRAKOSKY

Tech will be seeking its first tournament win since defeating Texas in the first round in 2012. It has an all-time record of 15-15 in the tournament, according to a Tech athletics news release.

Whitaker said the team will be motivated to play better away from their home court.

“We need to play (well) on the road. We have shown that we can compete with these teams at home, but we haven’t shown up on the road,” she said. “As a young, inexperienced team, you have to show progress in that area and we haven’t been able to do that. So it’s an opportunity for them to learn and to hopefully make a change here.”

TCU will enter with a 17-13 overall record and 8-10 in conference play. They beat the Lady Raiders in both of the matchups this season.

The Horned Frogs are led by sophomore guard Zahna Medley with 16.4 points per game and 3.73 assists per game.

Battle said Tech is going to bring energy, and hopefully the third time is the charm against TCU. “For me, I just need to be that leader for my team and step up and make big plays on offense and defense,” Battle said. “Just get everyone on the same page and make sure we have a lot of energy.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

THROWBACK THURSDAY

She did not, however, let playing on the backline keep her from contributing to the offense with a team-leading six assists during the season.

All these contributions from Hinkle helped Tech extend its season to the second round of the NCAA Women’s Division I Tournament for the second-straight season.

Through Hinkle’s three seasons as a Red Raider, she has had 15 assists, putting her fourth in program history. ➤➤dhaiile@dailytoreador.com

PHOTO BY EMILY DESANTOS/The Daily Toreador

TEXAS TECH THIRD baseman Jake Barrios throws to first base during Tech's 5-3 win against New Mexico State on Thursday at Dan Law Field. The Red Raiders wore throwback jerseys for the game.

Stars set to retire Mike Modano’s No. 9 DALLAS (AP) — Even if the next face of the franchise is in the building when the Dallas Stars retire Mike Modano’s No. 9, any comparison will fall short.

This is the guy who made hockey cool in Dallas as many fans were just trying to figure out what they watching. This is the guy who knew how

daunting the task was the moment he arrived from puck-mad Minnesota two decades ago.

Sure, Jamie Benn or Tyler Seguin could be the one leading the Stars back to championship contention one of these days. But after Saturday, any return to glory will come under Modano’s number hanging

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in the rafters.

“The only difference is I was 22, 23 coming into a town that didn’t know anything about hockey,” Modano told The Associated Press.

“So I grew up with this town, with the sport, so people couldn’t relate to the sport without relating to a few of us in the same sense.”