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Tech police discuss bomb threat protocol

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Texas Tech police officers evacuate the Media and Communication building on Friday after being notified of a bomb threat. Police searched the building and determined the threat to be false.

By MICHAELA BAYSINGER Staff WritEr

Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series about free college tuition.

Senator Bernie Sanders, candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United

States in the 2016 election, has proposed a free college reform plan to implement if he is elected.

The cost of this $75 billion a year plan is fully paid for by imposing a tax of a fraction of a percent on Wall Street speculators who nearly destroyed the economy seven years ago,

according to Sanders’ website, berniesanders.com While college being more affordable is a great concept, Cody Mayes, a freshman electrical engineering major, said, it just does not seem possible for a while at least.

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On Friday, there was a false bomb threat in the College of Media and Communication building.

The Texas Tech Police Department handled the false threat and defused the situation.

If the bomb threat is called in from a third-party source, the police department tries to get as much information as possible from the source, Tech Police Department Captain Stephen Hinkle said. It is then imperative to evacuate the students from the building and get there as soon as possible.

“If the caller calls in and they say they placed the bomb somewhere, then we have to try and keep them on the line and try to get them to tell us where it is,” Hinkle said.

“We will ask questions off of the bomb-threat questionnaire.”

The police department checks if it is a credible threat by talking to the person who reported it, talking to people around the area and checking the building, he said. It has to be done very quickly.

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Success in regular season prepares Red Raiders for Big 12 Tournament

Tech System announces consultant, website to assist in president search The Texas Tech University System officials and search party trying to replace the Tech president announced Monday that a search consultant has been chosen and a website launched to help with the search.

According to a system news release, Wheless Partners is a search firm with experience in higher education that will help find a replacement. The firm will work with the search committee to conduct a national search.

The website, www.texastech.edu/ttu-presidentsearch, is meant to provide information about the position and to seek applications, according to the release.

Tim Lancaster, a member of the Board of Regents and chairman of the search committee, said in the release the site will serve as a portal for candidates.

“Our charge is to find the best candidate to lead our flagship institution,” Lancaster said in the release.

“To do that, we must have a robust pool of superb candidates. The search committee hopes the site will encourage nominations from the public and help ensure that we cast a wide net in our efforts to identify candidates for this important position.”

According to the release, the review of applications will begin immediately. The applications should be submitted by April 5 for full consideration by the committee. @KristenBartonDT

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Texas Tech guard Devon Thomas drives during the first half of Tech’s 80-71 win over Kansas State on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

By HANNAH HIPP Copy Editor

The Texas Tech men’s basketball team finished the regular season with an overall record of 19-11, its first above-.500 record since the 2006-07 season.

The team will play in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament beginning Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri, entering as the No. 7 team in the conference.

Senior guard Toddrick Gotcher said entering the Big 12 Tournament is comparable to playing in the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament because of the level of talent

in the conference.

“It’s definitely a grind,” Gotcher said, “because there’s so many elite teams that are playing against each other.”

Should the team win against TCU, it will then face the No. 2 Big 12 team West Virginia in the second round of the tournament.

The other teams’ rankings in the tournament are No. 1 Kansas, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 4 Texas, No. 5 Baylor, No. 6 Iowa State, No. 8 Kansas State, No. 9 Oklahoma State and No. 10 Texas Christian.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said going into the tournament with a healthy team will make a difference from the injury-

plagued Red Raider team of last season.

Junior center Norense Odiase, who was injured in Tech’s first meeting against TCU earlier in the season, recorded his first minutes since the injury in Saturday’s game against Kansas State. “(Odiase) makes those hustle plays and he’s one of the most physical players in this league,” Smith said, “so that presence in itself is a real plus, and us going into this tournament with a complete squad and with Norense healthy and available makes a major difference.”

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The dumpsters behind the Chemistry building were vandalized with a political statement on Wednesday. The statement, which said “Trump Ballot Boxes,” was removed from the dumpsters Wednesday afternoon.

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Members lobby in DC with other Big 12 schools

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

Members of the Student Government Association of Texas Tech recently visited Washington, D.C. to participate in Big 12 On The Hill.

Holton Westbrook, president of SGA, Caleb Fisher, external vice president, Amber Yanez, internal vice president, Saba Nafees, graduate vice president, Emily Latham, chief of staff, Tanner Culp, deputy chief of staff and Sarah Berry, director of political affairs, represented Tech in D.C. Fisher said SGA goes on this trip once a year, and this was his first year to go.

“SGA goes in late February or early March every year, and this year we stayed for four days,” Fisher said.

For Westbrook, this year was his second time visiting D.C. with SGA, he said.

The students arrived on Monday where they attended a reception and were presented with the things they would be discussing,

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 From what he was told, the threat was on a specific floor so they cleared that one floor specifically, Hinkle said.

Normally, if they say it is on the first floor in

Yanez said. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent advocating and speaking with congressmen before they returned on Thursday.

Other Big 12 schools also attended and they all had one common goal in mind.

“The mission of the trip was to advocate for or against certain bills that were going through Congress,” Fisher said. “A lot of legislation passed through the House of Representatives and it could have an impact on college campuses across the nation, so the Big 12 schools all came together to advocate for or against certain things.”

Westbrook said he enjoyed getting to meet with students from other Big 12 schools.

“The opportunity to meet with different executives from across the Big 12 was great,” Westbrook said. “It was cool to get to know their concerns and unite.”

Yanez said they were lucky to be able to talk to 12 congressmen and their staff.

They discussed issues students deal with post-graduation and in college. Three big issues discussed were campus safety, college affordability

and mental health.

Fisher, Yanez and Westbrook said the trip was beneficial and left an impact.

“We went to meetings for four days straight with congressmen and staffers and senators,” Fisher said.

“I really think we were able to raise a lot of awareness about the fact that college students are very involved in and interested in the political process and making college campuses a better place for all students. I really think the congressmen took our wants and concerns into consideration and I think they really will change the way they advocate for certain pieces of legislation.”

Westbrook said it was a cool opportunity to voice their opinions.

Yanez knew she left an impact after one particular event, she said.

“One instance was introducing the Safe Campus Act to Judge Carter,” Yanez said. “We really made an impact because we were able to present our ideas to him about why we were opposed to something. It was a fun dialogue to engage in.”

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a three-story building then they will get the faculty and staff to clear the building.

The police department did not find any suspicious packages or backpacks in the building.

Officers and representatives looked in every room of the building to clear it,

Hinkle said. There is an emergency representative or business manager in every building, and it is their responsibility to clear the area or secure the area, which is why the police are able to get situations like this handled so quickly. @MbaysingerDT

college students’ perspectives on certain issues, Yanez said it was also a great networking opportunity.

“Tech sends 20 students to D.C. every summer, fall and spring. I loved how big of a presence Tech has there,” Yanez said. “Many of the interns return to D.C., so it was nice to see the ones that returned, see where they are now and hearing wreck ‘em when they saw us in our red and black. It was a great opportunity for those that want to return to D.C. after college.”

Westbrook also said the trip was a great opportunity to network, not only with people working in D.C., but people at other Big 12 schools.

“We had the opportunity to work with other students from Big 12 schools and it was cool being able to work together on something that big,” Westbrook said. “There was also someone working in D.C. who had been a past student body president, so it was neat to see things from their perspective, from someone who has served from our role.” @JessicaGuedeaDT

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Members of the SGA executive team recently visited D.C. to lobby for college student related issues with other Big 12 schools. The members in attendance were, from left to right, Saba Nafees, graduate vice president, Emily Latham, chief of staff, Tanner Culp, deputy chief of staff, Sarah Berry, director of political affairs, Holton Westbrook, president, Amber Yanez, internal vice president and Caleb Fisher, external vice president.

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GOP establishment fears loss of standing WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders in Washington have spent years casting tea party allies and hardliners in Congress as merely a restive

minority, a fringe element to be tolerated.

Now, with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz rising to the top of the 2016 GOP presidential primary, those party leaders are confronting the possibility that they may be the outliers.

One by one, Washington’s favored candidates have dropped out of the White House race. Those who are left — Marco Rubio and John Kasich — face long odds and sudden-death primaries in their home states next week.

In private conversations and public newspaper editorials, talk of a historic splintering of the GOP centers on the prospect of the establishment, not the insurgents, dissolving or breaking away.

“Something important is ending. It is hard to believe what replaces it will be better,” Peggy Noonan, a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, wrote in a Wall Street Journal column.

Republicans have long grappled with a divide between party leaders and grass-roots supporters. Recent presidential elections papered over

the fissures rather than resolved them, with Republicans sending centrist candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney into the general election even as the GOP electorate became more conservative.

Leaders expected the 2016 election to follow the same pattern. Money flowed toward former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the son and brother of presidents, who seemed to embody the spirit of inclusiveness GOP leaders called for after Romney’s staggering lack of success with minority voters in 2012. Even when Trump shook up the race last summer, more traditional Republicans confidently predicted his appeal would be short-lived.

But Trump has maintained his grip on the GOP field, with Cruz emerging as his strongest competitor.

As establishment favorites like Bush have dropped out, Trump and Cruz’s share of the vote has increased. In a diverse array of states, from Maine to Georgia to Nevada, they’ve carried more than 60 percent.

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Mayor Bloomberg decides against bid for White House NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that he will not run for president, citing a concern that his independent bid would hand the White House to Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.

The billionaire, who has spent months mulling a thirdparty run that would have roiled this year’s already extraordinarily unpredictable presidential campaign, made his decision official through an editorial posted on the Bloomberg View website.

Bloomberg, in ending his third and likely final flirtation with a White House run, wrote that a three-way race could lead to no one winning a majority of electoral votes, which would send the race to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives — and, therefore, to one of the GOP front-runners.

“That is not a risk I can take in good conscience,” Bloomberg wrote.

Bloomberg was blistering in his critique of Trump, currently the GOP front-runner, saying the real estate mogul has run “the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign I can remember, preying on people’s prejudices and fears.”

He was similarly critical of Cruz, saying the Texas senator’s “pandering on immigration may lack Trump’s rhetorical excess, but it is no less extreme.”

Bloomberg acknowledged that he and Trump had been on “friendly terms” and that he had twice agreed to be on Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice.” But the former mayor said Trump’s campaign “appeals to our worst impulses.”

“We cannot ‘make America great again’ by turning our backs on the values that made us the world’s greatest nation in the first place,” Bloomberg wrote. “I love our country too much to play a role in electing a candidate who would weaken our unity and darken our future — and so I will not enter the race for president of the United States.”

Bloomberg made only an oblique reference to Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and did not endorse a candidate. His aides indicated that Bloomberg may at some point offer an endorsement and use his wealth to try to influence the race, but cautioned that no decisions had been made.

The former three-term mayor — who had indicated he would spend $1 billion of his own money on the campaign — had set a midMarch deadline for his team of advisers to assess the feasibility of mounting a run, believing that waiting longer would imperil his ability to complete the petition process needed to get on the ballots in all 50 states.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “I don’t think it is possible to make college free based off just taxing the rich,” Shelby Troxell, a sophomore chemical engineering major, said. “I have read a lot of different articles over it and it just doesn’t seem practical.”

It would take more than just taking the money from the rich to pay for college — it would have to be a universal national effort, Mayes said. It is possible to make college free, but not soon, and it

would take some time and much support from both political parties.

“I have a hard time taking a stance on if college should be free. Yes, because the people that have the want to learn who can’t afford college would be given the opportunity to attend college when in a different circumstance they wouldn’t be able to,” Mayes said. “However, there are the students who wouldn’t really want to go to college who will go anyways, but they won’t take it as seriously as they should or as much as someone who really wants to be here to

further their education.”

In many European countries, college is completely paid for by the government, but many students have to take entrance exams, Troxell said.

In Germany, for example, children have to take an exam in sixth grade to determine if they are smart enough to go to college, Troxell said. It cannot be determined if someone is good enough to go to college based off who they are in the sixth grade while they are still developing.

The requirements to get into schools will go up if college is made free,

Mayes said, and there would be stricter testing.

It is a good idea, just not good in practice.

“In general it is a good idea, but getting it into place it is more complicated. I don’t know what would happen to get it to happen other than taxing the richest percent,” Troxell said. “I feel like a moderate approach would be better. Reducing the interest rates in student loans. Make it easier for people to get loans.”

If everything is accounted for, it could work, but with a Republicancontrolled Congress, it will

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Trump says US at disadvantage WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says that, as president, he would push to change laws that prohibit waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, arguing that banning them puts the U.S. at a strategic disadvantage against Islamic State militants.

During the past week, in a series of interviews and events, Trump has articulated a loose, but expansive set of principles that, if enacted, would mark a fundamental shift in the strategy the Obama administration has employed to fight violent extremism.

and learn, and to nourish young minds who want to learn who, in a different circumstance, wouldn’t be able to.”

It is a good idea because college loans are expensive, Reinhart said.

The repercussions that could occur, though, would be more people in college and college becoming more expensive in the long run.

There will be more rules and regulations on getting into college.

“I think lowering the cost for college, though, is possible and a good idea,” Reinhart said. @MbaysingerDT

Sanders: Clinton mischaracterizing stance on bailout

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Still, Rubio’s aides concede he likely cannot remain in the race without winning in Florida, where public polls show him second to Trump. Rubio says he has momentum and that “every day that goes by ... we’re going to gain votes.”

The must-win scenario is a result of Rubio’s struggle to find a reliable base in the splintering Republican electorate.

He’s largely failed to reconnect with the tea party voters who made him a favorite during their national breakthrough six years ago, instead watching them flock to presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Rubio also has not fully harnessed the financial muscle of the GOP old-guard eager to derail Trump, despite the shift in focus by many to Rubio after Bush quit the race last month.

The result is a Catch-22: He needs money to compete in Florida, while donors wait out those results for signs of his long-term viability.

“We’ll see what happens on next Tuesday in Florida,” said Ron Gidwitz, another Chicago GOP donor who turned from Bush to Rubio.

“We’ll see how real he is at that point.”

Rubio had about $5 million in available cash at the beginning of last month, less than half of what Cruz had on hand. Trump has said he can afford to finance his own

never happen, Alexander Reinhart, a sophomore mathematics major, said.

It sounds like a good program if they could convince Congress, Claire Gray, a senior computer s c i e n c e m a j o r, s a i d . I f Sanders could convince the rich to do this, it would be a great plan.

“I think it is possible but it would be difficult, because I think with the rich I do not know what other taxes they are already paying, so I do not know how they would react,” Gray said. “I think that this will help a lot of other students who want to study

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Students study together for an upcoming midterm in the MCOM building on Monday, March 7.

TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Just when Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio needs them the most, big-dollar contributors from the party’s wealthy mainstream are having second thoughts about his future in the 2016 race.

Fresh misgivings about Rubio’s path forward are the latest in a series of obstacles that threatens the Florida senator’s future in this roller-coaster Republican campaign, with a must-win March 15 primary looming in his home state.

“Super Tuesday came and Rubio didn’t do as well as some of us hoped. So people are saying, ‘Let’s see how this thing shakes out,’” said Craig Duchossois, who contributed $500,000 last year to a group that backed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

“I’m holding back,” the Chicago-based investor said of his own plans.

But the senator remains bullish on his chances.

“We’re going to win Florida,” he said Monday afternoon in Tampa, where he’s beginning a week-long focus on the winner-take-all prize of 99 delegates.

“This is going to be a very long process,” he told reporters, again suggesting that the nomination won’t be settled until almost 2,500 GOP delegates convene this summer in Cleveland for the party’s convention.

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campaign, though he has received contributions.

Rubio noted Monday how “expensive” it is to campaign in Florida, which he said is “like running in four or five different states” given the many large television markets. Already Monday, Tr u m p h a d l a u n c h e d a 60-second ad casting Rubio’s as dishonest.

Duchossois and Gidwitz were among a wave of mainstream GOP donors who moved quickly to Rubio when Bush quit the race on Feb. 20 after failing to meet expectations in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Rubio, on the other hand, finished in strong third in Iowa, rebounded from a disappointing fifth-place showing in New Hampshire to grab second place in South Carolina, feeding the GOP establishment’s hopes.

And yet Rubio’s momentum stalled again leading to his disappointing performance on March 1, when he won just one out of 11 primaries. Afterward, Rubio turned from only indirectly critiquing Trump for months to an all-out assault on the businessman’s character and ethics, as well as his appearance and manliness.

Duchossois and others who pinned their hopes to him said they were turned off by Rubio’s taunts, including calling Trump’s “the worst spray tan in America”

and equating Trump’s disproportionately small hands with his manhood.

“You just don’t do that,” said Bill Kunkler, another Chicago Republican who backed Bush but stopped short of the pivot to Rubio.

“In Rubio, I don’t see the presidential gravitas.”

Rubio said Monday he has no regrets about “standing up to a bully like Donald Trump.”

The senator ceremonially relaunched his twoweek campaign in Florida on March 1, and vowed he would never yield to pressure to step aside for Trump, especially in Florida where he was speaker of the state House before seeking the 2010 Senate seat.

Rubio insists he feels “real good about the map as we move forward,” telling The Associated Press Sunday he believes voters across the GOP spectrum want “an optimistic message of conservatism,” not just the “anger and frustration” Trump has tapped.

Heading into the week, the top Republican advertiser in Florida was Conservative Solutions PAC, a group promoting Rubio, which this month planned to spend more than $4 million attacking Trump. Three other anti-Trump groups plan to spend a combined $4 million attacking the billionaire front runner before the March 15 primary.

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(AP) — Trying to make a stand in Michigan, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that Hillary Clinton was being disingenuous when she asserted that he opposed the auto bailout that rescued carmakers General Motors and Chrysler from oblivion during the economic crisis.

Sanders sought to defend his record ahead of Tuesday’s crucial Michigan primary and blunt the former secretary of state’s momentum in the Democratic presidential contest. The bailout of the U.S. auto industry

by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama remains popular in Michigan, the home of the U.S. auto industry, and has been credited with preserving the Midwest’s manufacturing base.

“Secretary Clinton went out of her way to mischaracterize my history as it relates to the 2008 auto industry bailout,” t h e Ve r m o n t s e n a t o r said during a rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan. “Let me be as clear as I can: There was one vote in the United States Senate on whether or not to support the auto bailout and protect jobs in Michigan and around this country. I voted for the auto bailout.”

Sanders was referring to a December 2008 vote in which Michigan’s Democratic senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, pleaded with fellow lawmakers to provide a $14 billion lifeline to GM

and Chrysler, which were teetering on the brink of bankruptcy at the time.

Sanders and Clinton both voted in favor of the bill but it failed to clear the Senate, prompting Bush to announce about a week later that the federal government would step in with $17.4 billion in federal aid to help the carmakers survive and restructure.

The bailout provided $13.4 billion at the end of the Bush administration with the last $4 billion contingent on the release of the second installment of the Wall Street bailout funds.

I n S u n d a y n i g h t ’s debate, Clinton declared that Sanders “was against the auto bailout. In January of 2009, President-elect Obama asked everybody in the Congress to vote for the bailout. The money was there, and had to be released in order to save the American auto industry.”

She added: “I voted to save the auto industry. He voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry. I think that is a pretty big difference.”

Clinton’s campaign began airing a radio ad in Michigan on Monday with a similar message.

Clinton was referring to a Jan. 15, 2009, vote in which the Senate considered a motion to block the release of the second half of the $700 billion financial rescue package. Both Bush and Obama, then the presidentelect, had urged Congress to release the second $350 billion of the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds.

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t is only natural for students on a college campus to commit acts of vandalism. However,Monday there was an act that borderlines patriotism.

Dumpsters near the Chemistry building, presumably over Sunday night, were decorated with the words, ‘Trump Ballot Box.’ I think it is safe to say whoever made the statements had some strong feelings against the presidential candidate.

By no means am I condoning vandalism on campus, however an act such as this shows the political machine that has become the Donald Trump campaign has no place in today’s society.

Even though it is not unusual for people to speak out against any candidate running for an elected position, it has become commonplace for Trump’s name to come up negatively all around the country. Just recently a farmer in Ohio spelled out the candidate’s name on his plot of land using manure, and it was visible from the air.

Trump has been stirring up controversy with his antics and rhetoric since the beginning of his campaign.

It seems he has been using this as a catalyst to prop up his campaign and get free publicity.

I think it is only fitting that the man proposing Mexicans and Muslims to be banned from the country is having his name spelled in an area that he gets his ideas from.

This is also getting much local social media attention as students and other people

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on campus are snapping photos of the dumpsters and sharing it with other people.

That is the ultimate testament to how disliked a person is as a candidate, their photos keep getting shared and people do not feel bad about it.

Even though there is a sense of pride in what this person has done to these dumpsters, we must remember that vandalism is almost always an unacceptable act. But it is also worth adding that if this person did get off scot-free we probably would not mind.

It is refreshing to see that there is somebody with enough sense to speak out against Trump on campus, even though we may not all agree on the way they went about it.

It shows that there is somebody who might be passionate enough about keeping their First Amendment rights and speaking out against racism and sexism that they want other people to know. Support for Trump is not OK, and that needs to be the takeaway from this incident.

There is no room for that poisonous mindset in this community and this country. To whomever it was that committed this act I must say that I am proud of you and you have my utmost respect.

Someone has shown this campus the ultimate act of patriotism, and in a way they are, hopefully, predicting the future.

This is the turnout for Trump’s campaign that the younger vote, Hispanics and Muslims were hoping for, but did not receive. It is just a shame that those are not official ballot boxes.

If this does gain national news, like other goofy things that happen in Lubbock usually do, then we should be happy that it is not something viewed by the rest of the country as negative or embarrassing.

Unlike the mayor overreacting about a sign or the police department’s discriminatory practice against Hispanic women, this is actually something of which this town and college should be proud.

This also proves a point that most people in the United States have been trying to prove for months — the Trump campaign is garbage. @MichaelCantuDT

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Students stressed over midterm exams

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ith spring break coming up next week, many students across campus will be gearing up toward studying for their respective midterms.

What many students consider as a tougher test that marks the halfway point through the semester is often just another exam that is graded the same.

Students should not stress any more over midterms than they do for any other test. These tests are graded the same, and are most likely in the same format as the previous one.

One of the big worry points for most students is the fact that many professors choose to give these exams after spring break has concluded, putting extra stress on the students to study during their week off.

With the added stress that is put on midterms, it makes studying extremely difficult for some

Brian DeFilippis is a sophomore electronic media and communications major from Flower Mound.

students who are worried about this test. However, these tests should receive the same amount of attention as other exams.

In my opinion, students who have midterm exams right after they get back from spring break will have more time to study and prepare for it, since they will have a whole week to review their respective notes.

This would mean students should not be as stressed for the exam, although the exact opposite usually happens, with students being even more stressed than usual. This makes little to no sense, since these over-stressed students would have more time to prepare for the

midterm than any other regular exam.

All in all, these students should treat their midterm exams like any other exams.

Through this, it would help decrease the campus-wide stress fest midterms bring.

In order for students to not stress out over their midterm exams, they will have to prepare for the exams during their spring break.

Through this method of studying, students will be able to make their midterms seem like any other normal test.

In doing this, it will help students around campus who are cramming for multiple classes.

This cramming is one of the main reasons students are stressed out for these exams.

While cramming for an exam is a perfect way to get a brief overview of the content, the grades they receive may be sub-

stantially lower than if that same student spent a longer time studying.

Spring break is meant to be a refresher to students, a way to keep them relaxed and on their toes at the same time. While these students are given a whole week to relax and party, they are also expected to stay on their toes in preparation for coming back to college.

By giving the students a main thing to focus on, the professors who give midterms after spring break ensure that these students are prepared for their classes after the break is over.

While midterms can be stressful, this stressfulness can be combated with smarter planning and scheduling by the students in the form of studying over the break, and not relying on cramming for eight or more hours straight. bdefilippis@dailytoreador.com

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Idaho pastor who spoke at Cruz rally shot, wounded COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho pastor who led the prayer at a weekend campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was gunned down outside his church the following day but was expected to survive.

Altar Church pastor Tim Remington, who has counseled drug addicts and inmates in this city about 30 miles east of Spokane, Washington, was shot as many as six times Sunday, including in the head and lung, officials said.

He was listed in fair condition at Kootenai Health on Monday morning.

Outreach pastor John Padula spoke with Remington’s doctors and said the 55-year-old is “going to be fine.” Remington prayed Sat-

urday with the Texas senator in Coeur d’Alene, but officials do not know what prompted the shooting.

“We pray for his full recovery and are thankful for the efforts of law enforcement to ensure the attacker is swiftly brought to justice,” the Cruz campaign said in a statement Monday.

The Coeur d’Alene Police Department said it is looking for local resident Kyle Andrew Odom, 30, a decorated former Marine who should be considered armed and dangerous.

At a press conference Monday afternoon, Police Chief Lee White said there was no obvious motive for the shooting. White also said that Odom headed west to nearby Spokane after the shooting. Then he headed

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south and police lost his trail, White said.

White said Odom was armed when he attended services in the church earlier Sunday, and that the shooting toll could have been much worse.

Odom has no criminal record, but does have a history of mental illness, White said.

Odom served in the Marines from 2006-2010, winning an Iraq Campaign Medal and other awards, and rose to the rank of corporal.

He later graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in biochemistry.

His family issued a statement Monday saying they were praying for the pastor’s recovery.

“We are also praying for Kyles safe return and to get the help he needs,” the

Odom family wrote. “We love you Kyle!”

Padula said Odom is not a parishioner and had no known connection to the church.

Remington remained heavily sedated on Monday and was not expected to resume consciousness until Tuesday, he said.

“It looks like everything is going to be fine,” Padula said Monday. “It’s amazing considering he was shot six times with a .45 at 15 feet.”

Remington is married and has four children, Padula said.

The suspect was inside the church during morning services, said Padula, who viewed footage from a security camera that captured the shooting.

The man wandered

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around, then went outside and waited in his car for about 10 minutes before Remington left the church around 2 p.m. Sunday, Padula said.

Remington opened his car door, and the shooter walked up behind him and started shooting him in the back, he said.

Two men ran to help the pastor. Remington was shot in the lung, head, hip and shoulder, Padula said.

Remington has been threatened several times by addicts he tried to help through his faith-based recovery program, Padula said.

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Former US ambassadors speak at Tech

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Four distinguished former U.S. ambassadors from the American Academy of Diplomacy came together Monday evening at Texas Tech’s International Cultural Center to discuss the U.S.’ interests in the fragmenting Middle East.

Tech’s Office of International Affairs, the Center for Global Understanding and the CH Foundation hosted this forum.

According to the Office of International Affairs website, the panel discussion’s purpose was to provide intriguing foreign policy insight gained from more than 100 years of combined foreign service experience amongst these four ambassadors.

Joe Scarborough, president of the Center for Global Understanding, said the discussion was an important event to be able to bring to Lubbock.

“I think it is one of the best programs we have had the opportunity to bring to Lubbock,” he said. “We have a jewel here in West Texas with the Office of International Affairs — the connections and contacts are simply outstanding.”

The public had the opportunity to ask the ambassadors their own questions about foreign policy topics at the media availability event in the morning.

Robert Ford, a U.S. Ambassador to Syria from 2 0 11 - 2 0 1 4 , a n s w e r e d questions about the situation in Syria.

“It is a very hard situation in Syria,” he said.

“Let’s hope that the ceasefire between the government and the government rebels holds. The ceasefire has been challenged, but so far it’s done better than most experts, including myself, expected it to.

There are supposed to be peace talks that will start on Thursday through the United Nations in Geneva.

I can’t imagine that they will make quick progress.”

Ford also made comments on the Syrian refugee issue and said he thinks the United States should lead the situation and accept the refugees in the country.

“I’m old fashioned and I think about the message of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, ‘give me your tired and your rejected,’” Ford said. “That is something that makes America unique. If we turn our backs on these refugees, we are undermining the principles that make us Americans. We will have to take more refugees to encourage other countries to do more.”

Richard Hoagland, former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, spoke about LGBT issues in the world and how they affect foreign policy. He started the conversation about how the LGBT issues started in U.S. foreign policy.

“LGBT issues were not part of American foreign policy until this administration,” Hoagland said.

“It wasn’t really until thenSecretary of State Hillary Clinton in Geneva in 2012 said that ‘Human rights are gay rights and gay rights are human rights, period.’ By that time, the administration was ready to make this a part of our human rights globally.”

John Limbert, a former U.S. ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and a leading expert on Iranian politics and history, spoke about how he is skeptical about the presidential candidates, saying that they will ‘tear up’ the Iran Deal.

“I am not a constitutional scholar, but as I un-

derstand it, this was not a treaty that the Senate had to approve,” Limbert said.

“It’s an executive agreement. I am skeptical that the next president would reject the treaty. The issue is not the merits or demerits of the deal. By the time the next president is sworn in, the deal will have been in effect for a year. I’m assuming it would have helped so it wouldn’t be as much of an issue.”

Finally, Ronald Neumann, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, Bahrain and Algeria, spoke about the mistake of the U.S. pulling soldiers out of Afghanistan.

“Where I think that we have made a mistake is pulling out solders from Afghanistan a little too quickly,” Neumann said.

“The Afghan military has won some battles and lost some. They have not crumbled like the Iraqis did. We want to make sure that our support is there for the long term.”

During the evening panel discussion, Hoagland served as the moderator of the panel. “ We w e r e d e l i g h t e d about the turnout and we looked forward to all of the interaction with the audience,” he said.

“We were very fortunate to have four of the leading experts on the most critical area of the globe today, from the shore of the Mediterranean to North Africa and all the way to Afghanistan.”

Hoagland is also one of America’s leading diplomats on South and Central Asia, according to the Tech International Affairs website.

F o r d b e g a n t h e d i scussion by focusing on three main points: why countries in the Middle East are structurally weak from the very beginning,

how armed groups and non-government organizations like ISIS and local militias arise and where the Middle East is going from here.

“After the first world w a r, b o r d e r s w e r e drawn,” Ford said, “but they ignored the already existing divisions among ethnic and linguistic cultures within those countries. Imagine living in a country where the native language is only spoken by 25 percent of the population. It’s inherently going to be unstable.”

When there is a shock like the U.S. invasion into Iraq, cracks can open within those divisions where local inhabitants do not trust any kind of police or security forces, Ford said, and people take the opportunity to create their own.

“The Islamic State is the ultimate authority in the Middle East,” he said, “and if a new form of government is to be established, it’s going to be much more decentralized.”

Limbert is a leading expert on Iranian politics.

“The Middle East is a very dangerous and violent region,” he said. “It is two bad decisions away from complete collapse, and I’m being optimistic.”

Limbert also served in Baghdad in February 2004 with the Coalition Provisional Authority and then as Embassy Baghdad’s principal liaison with the Multinational Command.

“Historically you see two models for creating a new form of government in situations like this: the Ottoman Model and the ISIS Model,” he said. “Ottoman is what I like to call the working model. It was successful for hundreds of years until it wasn’t. The ISIS Model, on the other hand, is pretty much my way or you will be killed.

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Robert Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Syria from 2011 to 2014, answers questions from the Lubbock media about current issues in the Middle East on Monday morning. Ford and three other former U.S. ambassadors also participated in a panel discussion at 5:30 p.m.

Monday at the International Cultural Center.

Conform to our way of thinking or else. It works in the short term because it’s a scare tactic, but it is only successful in very small areas for a limited period of time.”

According to the Tech International Affairs website, Limbert was one of 52 U.S. Embassy officials held hostage for 444 days starting in 1979. He is now teaching at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Neumann served three times as an ambassador: to Algeria, Bahrain and Afghanistan from July 2005 to April 2007, according to the Tech International Affairs website.

Neumann discussed the Arab states on the foreign gulf of the peninsula, why the U.S. has interest there and how this reflects on U.S. policy.

“We have oil interests, military bases, critical allies that are worth preserving there,” he said.

“The people are not going to offer us an alternative base location so that we will go and pressure one of their own.”

He then quoted Benjamin Franklin to illustrate

the Arab perspective, “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

The region is extremely pressured by Iran, Neumann said, and the U.S. fear is caused most recently by the sudden emergence of Russian forces in the nuclear war of the Middle East because they fear that this nuclear deal with Russia will somehow unleash Iranian hostility.

“The current U.S. lack of clarity about the situation in the Middle East is a serious issue,” Neumann said, “because it has made it very difficult for us to communicate or bring anyone together on one political view.”

The mission of Tech’s Office of International Affairs is to create a welcoming and appreciative environment for all backgrounds and cultures on campus, according to its website.

“I think the U.S. should always follow the advice of Abraham Lincoln to his cabinet during the Civil War: ‘Gentleman, one war at a time,’” Neumann said. @DailyToreador

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Fake parking tickets ‘rickroll’ North Carolina motorists ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Motorists in North Carolina who tried scanning fake parking tickets ended getting “rickrolled.”

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William, Kate, kids enjoy snow in ski holiday photos LONDON (AP) — Kensington Palace has released photos of Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and their children George and Charlotte on a ski holiday in the French Alps.

The six images published Monday show William, Kate, 2 1/2-year-old George and 10-month-old Charlotte on the snowy slopes last week.

The palace says it was “their first holiday as a family of four and the first time either of the children had played in the snow.”

Two photos show the royal couple having a playful snowball fight.

The release of the pictures follows a media policy established when William and his brother Prince Harry were children: privacy in exchange for agreedupon photo opportunities at birthdays and during school holidays.

That allowed the princes to have — by royal standards — a relatively normal upbringing, something Kate and William are keen to give their own children.

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Presidential election similar to 1968 election

By MICHAEL CANTU OpiniOns EditOr

It may be wrong to say history tends to repeat itself, however when one looks at this year’s upcoming presidential election and compares it to those of past, there are quite a few similarities.

Sean Cunningham, associate professor and chair of Texas Tech’s Department of History, said history often rhymes but does not repeat. At least since the 20th century, there have been fairly consistent patterns, especially at the presidential level.

However, if people take a deep look into history, they will find many parallels from this year’s 2016 election and that of the election in 1968.

“Based on what I know about the election that this is a passionate, heated and I might even say an unstable political environment,” Cunningham said, “in which attitudes, especially anger, are really fueling a lot of the political discourse in ways that you have seen before, but 1968 would be a fantastic example.”

At the time, the Vietnam War had caused huge divisions in the social climate of the United States, and at the time, sitting president Lyndon B. Johnson was dismissing the opportunity for a second full term, Bill Dean, executive vice president of the Alumni Association and associate professor of public relations, said.

On the Democratic ticket, there was former Attorney General Robert Kennedy running as the golden boy for the party, Dean said, but he was assassinated a few months before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

In many ways, there was a fractured party because

of this, and there was also much opposition to the party’s platform because of the Vietnam War, which brought many anti-war activists to Chicago.

The fracture resembles that of today’s Republican Party, as there was not only in-party disarray but also a candidate who came in and shook up the party. George Wallace entered the race as an independent and was able to siphon away some votes from then- Democratic frontrunner Hub e r t H u m p h r e y, D e a n said. According to a PBS American Experience article, Wallace’s American Independent party was able to grab five states in the general election.

“There was a very contentious fight, and obviously the media covered all that, it was surreal almost,” Dean said, “that you were watching these confrontations between the Chicago Police Department and the demonstrators and the anti-war activists (and) whoever else.”

Similar to the campaign of Donald Trump, Wallace was the voice of the middle, working-class white populous that had grown tired of government and

society’s attack on American values, Cunningham said. Wallace was thrown into the spotlight in 1963 because of an Alabama speech he made in which he called for the continuation of segregation and white supremacy.

Many people today did not think Trump would be doing so well. However, this resembles the Wallace third-party campaign.

What is different, however, is the possibility that Trump could get the votes for the nomination of the Republican Party.

“At which point you may get a third party candidacy that’s more mainstream,” Cunningham said, “in which you can see a Republican Party that splits.”

At the time, Wallace was appealing to a similar demographic on similar issues, Cunningham said, and the only real difference between the candidates is that Trump is a New York Wall Street billionaire while Wallace was a man from rural Alabama.

Besides party infighting, there were also many similarities in the role of the media from that election to now, Dean said. At the time of the 1968 election, network news had

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come into its own and was looked on by society as the most trustworthy place to get the inside scoop.

This was all before cable news and the Internet, he said, so this was people’s main source of information and had pushed printed newspaper and radio to the side.

“I saw something where 86 percent of the American public got their news electronically, about national news, international news from the three networks,” Dean said. “Primarily at 5:30 in the afternoon — that’s all changed now.”

It is a new era for media, he said, in which the influence of network news has been replaced by the direct contact campaigns and impact candidates can make by using Twitter or Facebook. For instance, before the height of network television, media communities had both a morning and evening newspaper. That was replaced by the evening news, and newspapers took a back seat to television.

Now all forms of TV news have to take a back seat to Internet news, with its speed and mobility, Cunningham said. In the world of media today, people have the opportunity to

follow the campaigns and media outlets that follow their ideas.

“Candidates in 1968, not George Wallace but (Richard) Nixon and Humphrey in 1968, really did work their message through the media,” he said. “Today, candidates are attacking those same networks and are seeking to convince voters that they are different in some way and they don’t need the mainstream media.”

In 1968, the country also saw the rise and possibly even the height of the civil rights era, which can be compared to today’s Black Lives Matter movement, Cunningham said.

The resurgence of civil rights has also changed the viewpoint of people who are not directly involved in the movement.

There is a bit of divergence in the people who want to respect and honor law enforcement and want to protect themselves from criminal activity, Cunningham said.

“And quite frankly (there are) some people who are quick to stereotype individuals of color as being particularly prone to criminal activity,” he said. “I think there’s just a lot of fear and anger and resentment on one side of the aisle that looks at this sort of political or police-related violence and would take the side of law enforcement.”

At the same time, the current generation lives in a time where everything can be recorded, and even though police brutality is not the norm, there is a problem many individuals of color see in the current state of the U.S., he said.

Now it is easy to inflame reactions from both the left and the right.

Similar to today, the civil rights movement also started out as a peaceful movement in the South

that was working toward equality for people of color, Dean said.

With that being said, there was also support from mainstream, moderate, middle-class white folks who supported the rise of the civil rights movement, Cunningham said.

“The reason that moderate, middle-class whites stopped supporting it is because they didn’t like the militancy of the black power movement,” he said. “They didn’t like the Black Panthers, they didn’t like the style of the movement as it evolved in the late 60s. They felt like it was aggressive.”

That is similar to now, he said, and many moderate, middle-class whites believe in racial equality but would disagree with what they see as militarized ways of going about inequality.

Since the election of 1968 to now, there have been some major shifts in the polarization in the U.S., Dean said. No one who is involved in the political system sees the use of diplomacy and compromise.

Cunningham said by today’s standards, many well-respected politicians of the past would not be well liked in their parties today. Citing Ronald Reagan’s ability to go across the aisle and work deals with his Democrat cohorts, Cunningham said he would not last in the party today.

“It was certainly a turbulent time, and I think we live in a turbulent time today. The country is so divided today, diplomacy is a thing of the past in government,” Dean said. “There used to be, believe it or not, when I was (around my 20s), government functioned because you had Democrats and Republicans that understood the advantage of compromise.” @MichaelCantuDT

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Jury awards Andrews $55M Events hosted to celebrate in lawsuit over nude video Women’s History Month N A S H V I L L E , Te n n .

(AP) — A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker who bought a hotel room next to her and secretly recorded a nude video, finding that the hotel companies and the stalker shared in the blame.

After a full day of deliberations, the panel said the stalker was responsible for 51 percent of the verdict and the two hotel companies should share the rest, which is nearly $27 million.

Andrews, a Fox Sports

reporter and co-host of the TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” wept as jurors announced the verdict. She hugged her attorneys, family and several jurors after the verdict was read. She appeared to sign an autograph for at least one juror.

The jury heard directly from Andrews, who testified that she was humiliated, shamed and suffers from depression as a result of the video, which has been viewed by millions of people online. She had asked for $75 million.

Andrews’ parents described for jurors the

terror they and their daughter felt after learning of the video but not knowing who took it, where it was shot and if someone was still watching their daughter.

An FBI investigation would later reveal that Michael David Barrett shot videos in hotels in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio, and posted them online. The trial focused on the video shot in 2008 at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt.

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March was declared as Women’s History Month in 1987 by Congress, and the celebration of women’s history started with Women’s History Week in the U.S. in 1978.

Today is International Women’s Day, and Texas Tech Women’s Studies and student organizations are hosting events throughout the month to celebrate women’s history.

Women’s Studies is hosting a screening of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk “We Should all be Feminists” from noon to 1 p.m. today in room 152 of the library, Teaching, Learning and Professional Development Center, according to a Tech news release. The talk focuses on what it means to be a woman today and rallies for feminism.

The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance is

hosting a screening of the film “Girl Rising” from 6 to 8 p.m. today in the Escondido Theatre of the Student Union Building, according to the release. The film tells the stories of nine women from nine countries and is narrated by nine actresses, including Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez and Anne Hathaway.

The Girl Rising campaign is a worldwide movement to demand rights for all girls and women to receive education, according to the release.

Women’s Studies will host a screening of “Passionate Politics: The Life and Work of Charlotte Bunch” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on March 23 in room 169 of the Human Sciences building, according to the release. The film focuses on her life as a civil rights organizer and activist, and there will be a

discussion afterward.

The last screening and discussion will be for “Mom’s Apple Pie: Collective Identity Within Social Movements” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on March 30 in room 169 of the Human Sciences building.

Women’s Studies will also have two online quizzes throughout the month for people to test their knowledge of women’s history, according to the release, and will also post weekly quizzes available on TechAnnounce.

The women’s movement during the 1960s helped raise the aspirations and opportunities for women, including the number of female historians, according to the release, and the events throughout the month are intended to honor the achievements by and for women. @JenRomeroDT

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Celebs use social media to cut trolls down to size ATLANTA (AP) — When Rick Ross posted a photo of himself on Instagram posing with Diddy, a woman joked on his page about the burly, bearded rapper wearing shades inside a nightclub.

Ross noticed — and didn’t take kindly to it. In retaliation, he replied with an insult about the size of the woman’s nose.

He’s not alone in responding to unflattering comments with vitriol. From Rick Ross to Rihanna to the Kardashians, celebrities are going out of their way to “clap back” at regular folk who have the audacity to come for them on social media.

“It’s for people to say ‘Oohh and aahh,’” said the rapper, who’s had his fair share of clap back battles on

social media, mostly against 50 Cent. “Sometimes it makes you laugh at something that someone said.

Social media is an avenue to say what’s on your mind.”

Clapping back is a way for someone to instantly gain the upper hand against an adversary who disrespected them, their family members or close friends. Most use social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram to fire back at someone (it’s not clear when the phrase originated or resurfaced. In 2003, Rapper Ja Rule released the song “Clap Back,” a diss track directed toward 50 Cent and Eminem).

Chris Brown is a repeat clap back offender. Nicki Minaj cursed out an Instagram troll who criticized

the rapper’s supportive post of the N.W.A. biopic film “Straight Outta Compton.”

Kim Kardashian pointed out the poor grammar of someone who came on her page to criticize her.

It’s become such a regular occurrence that gossip outlets like The Shade Room regularly highlight the best celebrity clap backs in separate social media posts.

The woman who was the butt of Rick Ross’ insult, Holly McKelvey, said she was surprised by Ross’ unflattering response to her joke. Even though she saw a substantial increase of 1,400 followers after her spat with him, she endured enormous backlash from countless numbers of the rapper’s fans.

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Defense looks to make several adjustments

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

On Saturday, the Texas Tech football team started its spring practices. With defensive coordinator David Gibbs returning, the defense looks to improve from being ranked 126th in the NCAA last year.

Junior defensive back Keenon Ward feels good about going out on the practice field and playing football again, he said.

“We are tired of working out,” junior defensive back Justis Nelson said. “We are ready to get out on the field and start playing ball.”

With Gibbs returning, redshirt freshman linebacker Dakota Allen said he feels like he and his teammates have a good grasp of the defense this year.

“Hopefully, we can execute it better this year,” Allen said.

Because the defense is not new to members of the team, Allen said they have an advantage.

“Last year at this time, we were learning a lot of plays,” he said, “but now since we know the plays, we can go against the offense full speed.”

Coming into the second year and already knowing the defense is a good thing, Ward said it is good for the team to hone in on the defense.

“Now, we know where guys can play and we are building on last year,” Nelson said.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury hired some new defensive coaches to help Gibbs improve the defense this upcoming season.

Ward said these new coaches bring excitement and energy to the field.

“They are coaching us hard and it’s good for us because we get a fresh start,” Ward said. “None of the coaches know who we really are. That’s good because they can’t judge us from what we did last year.”

One of those coaches, defensive backs coach Karl Scott from Louisiana Tech, has already made a good impression on his players, Nelson said.

Scott is personable and drives the players hard on the field.

“Coach Scott brings a lot to the secondary,” Ward said. “He knows what he is talking about. I have been around a lot of coaches and I can say that I trust him and what he has to say. I believe in him.”

Scott came to a Tech

team with experience in the secondary. Nelson said this experience will help greatly in this position.

Along with the new defensive coaches, Kingsbury also hired a new strength and conditioning coach, U.S. Army veteran Rusty Whitt.

Whitt and his staff, in their short time this season, have made a huge impression on Ward, he said.

“It’s the most intense strength and conditioning staff that I’ve been around the past four years,” Ward said. “The tasks that I usually think are simple, Whitt makes difficult.

They are serious about what they do and I think that it will make us better in the long run.”

But with the new coaches, Gibbs has one message for the whole defense and has harped on it since the first day of practice, Ward said.

“Gibbs is focusing us on going in and making turnovers,” Ward said. “He tells us every day that we are going to lead the nation in turnovers.”

One thing Allen thinks the linebackers have to focus on this year is stopping the run, he said. The defense gets good practice by

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going against Tech’s offense.

It’s the most intense strength and conditioning staff that I’ve been around the past four years.

NIGEL BETHEL II DEFENSIVE BACK “We get used to practicing by going against our offense, the fastest offense in the country,” Allen said.

Allen is focused on stepping up as a leader this year, not only for the linebackers but for the whole defense, he said.

Today, the team starts to practice in full pads, Allen said.

“We are excited to get some hitting going on,” Allen said.

Ward is looking forward to next season as a part of the defense, he said.

“We are excited about the opportunity,” Ward said. “As a defense we are focused on getting turnovers and making some noise.” @DavidGayDT

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Texas Tech defensive back Nigel Bethel II tackles an Oklahoma State offensive player mid-air to break up a pass on Oct. 31, 2015, at Jones AT&T Stadium. Bethel and returning defensive players will look to lead the team in the fall.

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Red Raiders cancel game in Frisco KC beats Cubs in split-squad game On Monday morning, Texas Tech Athletics announced in a news release that the Tech baseball team would not travel to face Oral Roberts at Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco on Tuesday.

The game has been canceled because of inclement weather throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area.

According to the release, the game will not be rescheduled at this time.

Fans who purchased tickets to Tuesday’s game can exchange their tickets for an equal or lesser value ticket to any 2016 Frisco RoughRiders home game, according to the release.

The game scheduled against the Golden Eagles was a one-game matchup before the Red Raiders head to Berkeley, California, for a four-game series against the No. 9

California Golden Bears.

The series against California begins an eight-game road trip.

The series between the Red Raiders and the Golden Bears begins at 9 p.m. on Friday at Evans Diamond in Berkeley.

The Red Raiders are coming off of a series loss against the No. 22 Cal State Fullerton Titans. @BSoliz_DT

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Eric Hosmer hit a two-run double to help the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago Cubs 3-2 in a game between split squads Monday.

Hosmer’s double in the sixth inning was followed by an RBI single by Salvador Perez.

“As a hitter you feel better and better each day and you feel better in the box,” Hosmer said. “The first

couple of days are a little tough just getting timing down. The body feels good and everything feels good at the plate.”

Addison Russell hit his second homer this spring, a two-run shot for the Cubs.

“I took imitative in the offseason and took it pretty serious and stayed in the gym,” he said. “I listened to the body and my swing feels fine. I am not

trying to generate more power. It’s the (timing on the) kick or I am barreling the ball more often.”

Royals starter Kris Medlen pitched two innings in his spring debut, striking out three.

“All three pitches were there and worked on my fastball location, jumping ahead with first strike and just being aggressive,” Medlen said.

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College Football Playoff Committee moves semifinals to earlier kickoff time (AP) – The College Football Playoff semifinals are staying on New Year’s Eve, but the schedule is getting a tweak.

The Dec. 31 semifinals will start an hour earlier than they did last season and the Orange Bowl will now be played in prime time Friday, Dec. 30, instead of during the day on Dec. 31.

CFP executive director Bill Hancock said Monday that coverage of the first game on ESPN will start at 3 p.m.

Eastern. The second game will start at 7 p.m. ET. The semifinals will be played in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, and the Peach Bowl in Atlanta.

Which game starts first will

be determined on Dec. 4, when the semifinal matchups are set.

Last season was the first that the semifinals were played on New Year’s Eve and the television ratings were down about 35 percent for the two games compared to the season before, when both were played on Jan. 1.

That debut season of the

College Football Playoff drew record audiences for ESPN. The Orange Bowl last season between Clemson and Oklahoma, which kicked off about 4:10 p.m. EST on ESPN, drew a 9.1 television rating, a 38.5 percent drop compared to the previous year’s Rose Bowl semifinal (14.8). The number of viewers dropped 44.5 percent

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The Michigan State-Alabama Cotton Bowl drew a 9.6 rating for ESPN compared to 15.2 for Ohio State-Alabama in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 2015 — a 36.8 percent drop.

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Offense struggles in weekend series

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

In one of the Texas Tech baseball team’s toughest challenges yet of the 2016 season, it captured one victory out of three games played against No. 22 Cal State Fullerton this past weekend at Rip Griffin Park.

Cal State Fullerton entered the weekend with one of the most dominant pitching staffs in the country, but Tech was coming off a five home run game, and multiple players were in an offensive groove.

However, the Red Raider bats were knocked out of rhythm as the team hit .185 over the three games against the Titans.

After the third game and second loss of the series, Tech coach Tim Tadlock said the team knew it would not have many chances to score.

“It’s a 4-1 game, you don’t have that many opportunities in the game when the guy is limiting baserunners,” he said. “I don’t know how many guys we had in scoring position, but it wasn’t very many.”

With losses on Friday and Sunday, Tech was limited to

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Peavy throws better in loss to Rangers SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — San Francisco veteran right-hander Jake Peavy pitched much better in his second start, but the Texas Rangers rallied for a 6-5 victory Monday.

Peavy, who surrendered six runs on nine hits in 1 2-3 innings Thursday against Milwaukee, yielded two runs on five hits over three innings against the Rangers.

“I know the other day was tough results wise,” Peavy said. “Today I faced a better lineup in worse conditions. If you would have seen my ‘pen session before that last one, you would have went, ‘He’s ready.’ Then I went out there and didn’t execute a stinking pitch in a couple of innings.”

He said he threw mostly fastballs against the Brewers but broke out other pitches against the Rangers.

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Texas Tech infielder Michael Davis makes contact with the ball during the game against Cal State Fullerton on Saturday at Rip Griffin Park. Tech won the game 6-5, and the team lost the other two games in the weekend series. .182 and .138 team batting averages, respectively.

Entering the weekend, the Red Raiders were hitting .325 over 10 games and were nearly leading the Big 12 Conference in batting

average. The team’s average dropped to .296 and now ranks fourth in the conference after the home series against Cal State Fullerton.

S e n i o r c a t c h e r Ty l e r Floyd said the Titans pitch-

ing staff was one of the most aggressive staffs the Red Raiders have faced.

“Their Friday and Sunday guys really threw a lot of strikes,” Floyd said.

“They mix pretty well. We

thought they were going to attack with the fastball, which they did early in the count, but their secondary stuff was really good too.

They got good stuff.”

Cal State Fullerton low-

ered its team ERA to 2.37, one of the lowest in the country, after the weekend series.

Despite the slow offens i v e w e e k e n d f o r Te c h , senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez continued his consistent hitting to start the season. He hit .400 for the weekend and knocked the team’s only home run and his second of the season in a victory in game two.

Gutierrez is hitting .388 on the year, ranking him fifth in the Big 12, according to the conference website. He also leads the Big 12 doubles and is second in RBIs with 15.

Because of hitters like Gutierrez, Floyd is not concerned about the Red Raiders getting their bats going again.

“We got a great lineup, we didn’t really show that (on Sunday) but we had our chances in all three games,” he said. “I’m not too worried about it.”

Tech will now hit the road for an eight-game road trip that includes a four-game series against No. 9 California.

They will also begin Big 12 play against Baylor in Waco before returning to Lubbock. @JeremyK_DT

BASKETBALL heads, and they are still

not gotten to the players’

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Should Tech make it to the championship game, the team will have been in Kansas City for four days, but Smith said the team is only focused on winning one game at a time.

“It’s a one-game tournament for us,” he said, “because if you don’t win the first game, you can’t play the second game, so you have to be all in.”

Smith credited this year’s regular season success to the unselfish attitude of all the players on the team.

From senior guard Devaugntah Williams accepting the role of coming off the bench to the willingness of freshmen to sacrifice playing time for the good of the team, Smith said he has been impressed with the players’ attitudes.

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit,” he said.

Gotcher said the team’s success is due, in part, to the team’s togetherness.

Gotcher has not seen a winning season in his career at Tech until this year, he said, but stressed that the team’s success this year has

playing their same game.

“From day one we’ve just been best friends,” he said.

“Everybody has no problems this year, no distractions and everybody’s been on the same page.”

It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit.

TUBBY SMITH TECH COACH

When looking at the tournament, sophomore forward Zach Smith said the hardest part is playing teams Tech has faced multiple times before.

“By then they know most of your plays, they have a detailed scouting report on every player, they know your tendencies,” Zach Smith said. “I think a lot of it comes down to execution and just who wants it more defensively and offensively.”

Tech will face TCU in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Sprint Center. @TheDT_sports DUNCAN STANLEY/The Daily Toreador

Texas Tech guard Toddrick Gotcher drives past a Kansas State defender during Tech’s 80-71 win over the Wildcats on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

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Jury awards Andrews $55M in lawsuit over nude video

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker who bought a hotel room next to her and secretly recorded a nude video, finding that the hotel companies and the stalker shared in the blame.

After a full day of deliberations, the panel said the stalker was responsible for 51 percent of the verdict and the two hotel companies should share the rest, which is nearly $27 million.

Andrews, a Fox Sports reporter and co-host of the TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” wept as jurors announced the verdict. She hugged her attorneys, family and several jurors after the verdict was read. She appeared to sign an autograph for at least one juror.

The jury heard directly from Andrews, who testified that she was humiliated, shamed and suffers from depression as a result of the video, which has been viewed by millions of people online. She had asked for $75 million.

Andrews’ parents described for jurors the terror they and their daughter felt after learning of the video

but not knowing who took it, where it was shot and if someone was still watching their daughter.

An FBI investigation would later reveal that Michael David Barrett shot videos in hotels in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio, and posted them online. The trial focused on the video shot in 2008 at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt.

“I’ve been honored by all the support from victims around the world. Their outreach has helped me be able to stand up and hold accountable those whose job it is to protect everyone’s safety, security and privacy,” she said in a statement posted on her Twitter account.

On Friday, Davidson County Circuit Court Judge Hamilton Gayden found Barrett at fault and left it up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share any responsibility. The hotel is a franchise and Marriott was not part of the trial.

Attorneys for the companies argued that while what happened to Andrews was terrible, the stalker should be solely to blame because he was

a determined criminal. The attorneys also suggested that Andrews’ rise in her career showed she did not suffer severe and permanent distress.

After the verdict, they said they were disappointed and not sure if they would appeal. They noted their cooperation in the FBI investigation and said the case had changed the hotel industry to make rooms more secure.

Andrews said her stalker’s arrest and imprisonment did not make the nightmare go away. She broke down on the stand repeatedly, saying she continues to suffer because people are still watching the videos and taunting her about them.

“This happens every day of my life,” Andrews said tearfully. “Either I get a tweet or somebody makes a comment in the paper or somebody sends me a still video to my Twitter or someone screams it at me in the stands and I’m right back to this. I feel so embarrassed and I am so ashamed.”

Barrett pleaded guilty to stalking Andrews, altering hotel room peepholes and taking nude videos of her. He was sentenced to 2½ years in prison. He did not appear at the trial.