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Faculty discuss free college plan

By MICHAELA BAYSINGER Staff Writer

Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series.

For the 2015-2016 school year, the average estimated in-state cost for a four-year public university, including tuition and room and board, is $19,548, according to fastcompany.com.

During the Democratic debate on Feb. 4, Vermont senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders discussed his plan for making public college tuition free.

Sanders believes it is possible to make college tuition free at all public colleges in the U.S. Sanders’ plan will cost about $75 billion a year, a plan that will be funded by a tax on Wall Street speculators, according to berniesanders. com. Some 40 countries throughout the world have enacted a similar tax, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France and China.

Last year, Germany eliminated tuition because it believed

charging students $1,300 per year was discouraging Germans from going to college, according to Sanders’ website.

While Germany and other countries have free tuition, they also do not offer as many resources and amenities as American universities do, according to the Quartz website.

Sanders has said “fancy dormitories” and “giant football stadiums” are part of the reason tuition is as high as it is, but he believes it is only a small part of tuition increases, according to redalertpolitics.com.

“In one argument, if college were to be made free, middle class families would have more money to spend to help stimulate the economy. Be it buying shoes, going out to eat more or even being able to buy a new car,” associate professor of economics Masha Rahnama said.

“Taxes in this argument would not increase because of the increase of gross domestic product.”

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STUDENT DISABILITY SERVICES

Center helps disabled students through college

By SHASHIDHAR SASTRY Staff Writer

Essam Soomro, a senior from Nogales, Arizona, was diagnosed with profound deafness at birth. After spending almost seven years in college, he is now less than a semester away from earning his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry.

A disabled student is one who merely learns differently.

Each time a disabled student resolves to attend college, he or she agrees also to face the challenges that come with it.

Quite often, these students must confront the deficiencies of an education system that was designed for a highly general audience.

While the journey has not been easy, Soomro said he is grateful for the help and support he has received from Texas Tech.

The Tech Student Disability Services strives to enhance collegiate learning for disabled students, according to its website, by providing accommodations specifically tailored to each student’s unique educational needs.

Presently, around 2,000 students at Tech are registered with Student Disability Services, according to its website.

Tamara Mancini, senior assistant director for Student Disability Services, said the majority of student disabilities are hidden disabilities not at once apparent to their classmates.

Examples of hidden disabilities include attention deficit disorders, psychological disorders and learning disabilities.

Some common accommodations for these disabilities include supplemental note taking services, priority seating and additional time during testing.

However, accommodations are

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Smith picks up second coaching honor of week On Tuesday, Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Tubby Smith was named Sporting News’ National Coach of the Year, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Two days ago, Smith was named the Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year.

According to the release, this is Smith’s eighth National Coach of the Year award.

Smith is the second Tech basketball coach to receive a National Coach of the Year honor. Marsha Sharp was named National Coach of the Year in 1993 when the Lady Raiders won the NCAA National Championship, according to the release.

In 2003, Smith was named National Coach of the Year while serving as head coach at the University of Kentucky, and was the first coach to sweep the award since Bob Knight in 1975, ac-

cording to the release.

This season, Smith led the Red Raiders to a 19-11 record and 9-9 record in conference play. The Red Raiders faced SMITH the nation’s toughest schedule in the No. 1 RPI-rated conference, according to the release.

This season, for the first time in program history, Tech won three straight top 25 victories against then ranked No. 14 Iowa State, No. 21 Baylor and No. 3 Oklahoma, according to the release.

The Red Raiders begin the conference tournament against the TCU Horned Frogs at 8 p.m.

Wednesday in the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. @BSoliz_DT

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New exhibit premieres, honors women in Texas Tech history

tailored specifically for each student and to each class, Mancini said, because every disability is a little different. Two students with the same disability may require different accommodations.

Student Disability Services provides classroom accommodations to every student who registers with its office regardless of their disability, Mancini said.

In addition to working with students’ instructors for accommodations, Student Disability Services also offers educational resources such as computer labs and free drop-in tutoring.

“Our students can do whatever

they put their mind to. I would say most of our students are very good students academically,” she said. “They get good grades, they do everything they can. They just may learn differently.”

Unfortunately, several students fail to utilize the services offered

by Student Disability Services, Mancini said. They are either determined to be independent in college or afraid others might know of their disabilities. On the contrary, Student Disability Services is committed to ensuring confidentiality with all student information.

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Texas Tech will continue its tradition of celebrating Women’s History Month when the university premieres its third annual exhibit, “The Women Who Shaped Texas Tech,” at 3:30 p.m. today in the Library’s Croslin Room.

Since 2014, the Tech Archives has recognized significant women of Tech, according to a Tech news release, and this year, six women will be honored.

“I think it’s such a great group, and this is obviously such a great thing for the university,” Marsha Sharp, former Lady Raiders basketball coach and 2016 honoree, said in the release. “It’s really special to be honored by Texas Tech because it’s been such a huge part of my life for most of my professional life, and I’ve been so thrilled to be able to be involved in all the things I’ve had the opportunity to do.”

Other women featured in the exhibit this year include Anne Lynch, the first female Masked Rider; Maxine Fry, the first female student body pres-

ident; and Hortense Williams Dixon, the first black person to earn a Tech doctorate, according to the release.

The exhibit will run through May, according to the release, and for the first year the exhibit will be featured in both the Croslin Room and the Southwest Collection building.

Terri Duncan, wife of Tech University System Chancellor Robert Duncan, will be a speaker at the exhibit opening, according to the release.

“I think most people don’t realize how involved women were in establishing this university,” Lynn Whitfield, university archivist of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, said in the release.

“Through the diligence and dedication of the women featured in this exhibit, Texas Tech became and remains an institution dedicated to providing an excellent education and nurturing environment for women.” @DailyToreador

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College begins accreditation process

By JOHN BOWLES Staff Writer

This weekend a group of individuals arrived at Texas Tech to begin inspection of the College of Architecture.

The National Architectural Accrediting Board is a licensing and accrediting board with professional and academic representatives, Clifton Ellis, associate dean of academics for the College of Architecture, said.

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The NAAB team visiting is made up of five people chosen by the NAAB, Ellis said, including one from academia, one professional, one from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, one neutral observer and one student representative.

The board currently gives accreditations for eight years, which were previously only for five years, he said.

“All the accreditation work is through students, and if the students aren’t producing the level of quality that previous years have, the accreditation board is going to notice that,” Steven Loutherback, a senior architecture major from Austin, said.

The accreditation was previously done all in an analog method of presentation, using printouts of various documents including sections, plans, elevations and sections of wall cuts posted on the walls of the college, Ellis said. This is

the first time Tech has had digital accreditation.

The past four years leading up to this have been laying groundwork for what is currently being done, and there is about to be a shift in the way the architecture school is approached, Benjamin Dossett, a senior architecture major from Denton, said.

“Students that come have to meet the standards that previous years set and build off of that,” Loutherback said.

There is still a group of students who retain analog, or hand-drawn, quality in their work, he said, but the work used for accreditation is mostly digital. Analog work can still be scanned for submission, however.

“Sometimes digitally you lose the scale or you lose sight of the size of a project or the intensity of a project because you’re not working with it physically with your hands or drawing it physically with your hands,” Evelyn Valdez, an architecture graduate

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student from Coppell, said.

Analog is just as important, and though digital is important and has its place, those digital methods and

processes should still be taught, she said.

“You want to be able to feel and touch the architecture that you’re making. You

want to be able to see the spaces and configurations as you’re building upon this process,” Valdez said. @JBowles_DT

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A cement truck overturned Tuesday morning on the Marsha Sharp Freeway near Texas Tech Parkway. Traffic was backed up for several hours as crews cleaned up the wreckage while the driver was taken to the University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, according to the Lubbock Police Department.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Student Disability Services offers accommodation to undergraduate students, graduate students and law students, Mancini said. Additionally, Student Disability Services works closely with the Study Abroad Office at Tech and encourages its students to experience study abroad as well.

“Of course we are going to tell them to study abroad and do everything else every other student can do because they can, too,” she said. “They just learn differently, they just have to cope differently with certain things in class.”

In addition to the services offered by its main office, Student Disability Services also offers a supplemental academic enhancement program for students through the TECHniques Center.

The TECHniques Center is a fee-for-service program that provides one-on-one tutoring as well as weekly meetings with an academic counselor, according to its website.

Brandi Schreiber, program director for the TECHniques Center, said the TECHniques Center is available only to those students who are diagnosed with a learning disability, autism spectrum disorder

or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

“The overall goal of the TECHniques Center is to help these students who learn differently get the support that they need to be independent learners and self-learners,” Schreiber said. “The TECHniques Center is about to enter its 18th year at Texas Tech University. So, it’s been around for quite a while.”

The TECHniques Center has space for only 175 students each semester, she said. Approximately 90 tutors are hired for this purpose, and each student is assigned to a specific tutor. The second floor of West Hall is the designated place for tutoring, which includes study rooms, computer labs, free printing and a break room with snacks.

While some students remain enrolled in the TECHniques Center for a few semesters, others choose to stay in the program until they graduate. One of the attractions of the TECHniques Center, Schreiber said, is the one-on-one, focused tutoring it offers.

The result is a comfortable learning environment for these students.

“Another reason that students are drawn and want to be in the TECHniques Center is they are just not quite sure if they

can do it on their own yet,” she said. “So, having that tutoring, having that academic support, we hope will develop them as independent learners.”

James Whitfield, assistant director for Student Disability Services, is an interpreter coordinator who also serves as a campus liaison for the deaf and hard of hearing community.

Whitfield said he has deaf parents, a deaf sister and deaf aunts and uncles.

“The biggest challenge I would think for the students who are deaf — that are profoundly deaf — is being able to capture the information that the professor is providing them in the classroom,” he said.

Through the Student Disability Services office, Whitfield said, students receive accommodations that include note taking assistance, priority seating, sign language interpreters and use of adaptive equipment in the classroom. Presently, around 90 students who are either deaf or hard of hearing are registered with the Student Disability Services office.

Because of deafness, Soomro has faced difficulties during classroom lectures. Although sign language interpreters have been immensely helpful in most instances, they tend to be insufficient at times.

Soomro said it is often hard for sign language interpreters to translate lectures in subjects such as biology or organic chemistry.

“They don’t have knowledge about those classes. So, how do you expect them to translate it into sign language?” he said.

“So that’s what is a little bit difficult for me.”

However, Soomro said Student Disability Services provided him with real-time transcription for those classes. In real-time transcription, an offsite transcriber listens to the instructor and types the lecture in real-time. Thus, during lectures, Soomro is able to read on his laptop everything his instructor said in class.

Soomro said Student Disability Services assisted him with all the accommodations he needed, which significantly contributed to classroom success.

Although Soomro was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at birth, he said he has some hearing now owing to cochlear implants. He received the first implant for his right ear in 2001 and the second implant in 2007.

“When my dad got me cochlear implant in 2001, it was awkward because I was not experienced with those sounds before,” he said. “It was just really clear, weird.” @sastryshashi_DT

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Democrats denounce GOP ‘pinata’ comment on Supreme Court WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats accused Republicans on Tuesday of taking their cues from Donald Trump

Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court should expect to be treated like a “piñata.”

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tough people threatening to destroy the reputation of a Supreme Court nominee they haven’t even met yet.”

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, who told reporters late Monday that anyone nominated by Obama to

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ecently, I overheard a group of my classmates discussing the presidential primaries and which candidate they were going to vote for. Obviously, Texas Tech has a large population of students and faculty that identify as Republicans, this being West Texas.

However, I was surprised to hear these educated people spreading misinformation about Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, as if what they were saying was fact.

They said the majority of Sanders’ supporters were millennials, and millennials support Sanders because they are lazy, which is why they identify with a socialist candidate. The irony is that these same students were too lazy to get their facts straight, instead relying on hearsay from others.

The point is that people, in general, tend to surround themselves with others who think and feel the same way they do, so there is no one

Leila Forouhi is a mass communication graduate student from San Jose, California.

to challenge the validity of their beliefs.

The fact is many young people support Sanders because he is the only presidential candidate running in one of the major parties with any integrity.

Ever since the Supreme Court overturned campaignfinancing limits in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, special interest groups and the wealthy have been controlling elections through unlimited donations to candidates.

But according to The New York Times article on Feb. 22, “More than 88 percent of contributions to Mr. Sanders through Sept. 30 came from donations of $200 or less.”

This is while most other candidates have received millions from super PACs.

According to The New York Times article ‘Which presidential candidates are winning the money race,’ as of July 31, 2015, super political action committees and other organizations supporting the Ted Cruz campaign raised $52.7 million, the Hillary Clinton campaign raised $67.8 million and the Jeb Bush campaign raised $120 million.

The website OpenSecrets.org states that, “Technically known as independent expenditure-only committees, super PACs may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals, then spend unlimited sums to overtly advocate for or against political candidates.”

The U.S. presidential elections are the most expensive elections in the entire world, and it is astonishing to think how much money is thrown around just to elect a candidate when 46.7 million Americans live in poverty, according to 2014 U.S. Census Bureau statistic.

But this epidemic of poverty shows just how high the stakes are in this election.

Sanders seems to be the only candidate genuinely addressing this issue in his campaign.

“America now has more wealth and income inequality than any major developed country on earth, and the gap between the very rich and everyone else is wider than at any time since the 1920s,” according to his website.

The fact is many young people support Sanders because he is the only presidential candidate running in one of the major parties with any integrity.

“There is something profoundly wrong when

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we have a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires at the same time as millions of Americans work longer hours for lower wages and we have the highest childhood poverty rate of nearly any developed country on earth,” according to Sanders’ website.

The solutions his campaign proposes to close the wealth gap ring true not only for millennials but also for all sectors of the American public that are struggling in this unjust system. The first solution Sanders raises on his website is for large corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, rather than allowing for the current loopholes in the system that permit U.S. corporations to shift jobs and profits overseas to avoid paying taxes.

Sanders also proposes increasing the federal minimum wage to a living wage, from $7.25 to $15. The fact is that people can barely survive off of $7.25 an hour.

When people work for poverty wages, they become dependent on gov-

ernment and community assistance, which are paid for by taxpayers.

This is because when people work for less than a living wage, the federal government is forced to spend more to support those who cannot afford health care or who are dependent on food stamps and other assistance programs.

Yet, when people work for living wages, they will put more of their disposable income back into the economy.

Many who oppose Sanders say he is a socialist, as if this were an insult. Nowadays, it should be more insulting if someone calls you a capitalist because it shows a greedy nature and a lack of compassion for fellow humans.

Sanders is one of the most progressive candidates with a shot at the White House.

Even if he does not win, at least he is bringing progressive issues to the forefront of mainstream American politics, and progress is good. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Erin Andrews nightmare finally ends Democrats keep

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n the digital age it is often challenging for videos and pictures uploaded on the World Wide Web to ever go away.

Every phone has a camera and in this new era it is so easy to have moments captured and played over and over again.

Now this can be a good thing when it comes to police brutality, candid moments and other things that need to be caught on camera.

But when it comes to Erin Andrews’ case, this is a scary thing.

Erin Andrews has been a reporter for Fox Sports and ESPN since graduating from the University of Florida according to an article in The Huffington Post.

If you pay attention to sports, then her name might be familiar since she has worked with sports media figures like Fox Sports Florida, the Atlanta Hawks,

Jayda Ward is a sophomore public relations major from Houston.

the Atlanta Thrashers and ESPN. Andrews has also hosted ABC’s Dancing With the Stars.

When Andrews began working for ESPN she became more of a household name for families who follow sports heavily.

Erin’s face has been on television for 12 years and along the way she has picked up admirers and, unfortunately, stalkers.

In 2008, Michael David Barrett secretly filmed a naked Andrews, who was staying at the Marriott Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, through peepholes, according to an article in The

Washington Post.

On July 16, 2009, one of the videos Barrett took of Andrews was posted online and went viral within minutes.

Barrett was arrested in October of that year by the FBI for interstate stalking, and plead guilty to the charges that December.

After Barrett was arrested, investigators confiscated his computer and came across a second tape of Andrews in which she appeared nude in her room at the Radisson Airport Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Thankfully, this tape was never uploaded onto the Internet.

Unfortunately, this meant that Barrett followed Andrews closely enough that he was able to find what hotels she was staying at in different cities and what her room numbers were.

It is a pretty scary thought when you factor in that An-

drews is a reporter and not a world-renowned celebrity.

On March 15, 2010, Barrett was sentenced to 30 months in prison, three years of probation, $5,000 in fines, and $7,366 in restitutions, according to The Washington Post article. He served his sentence and was released in 2012.

Andrews sued Barrett, Marriott International, Radisson Hotels, and other multiple parties involved.

The jury awarded Andrews $55 million. Barrett was found to be 51 percent at fault and the various hotels were found to be 49 percent at fault, and both will make up the $55 million now owed to Andrews.

It is unfortunate what happened to an innocent, unsuspecting reporter, but the Erin Andrews nightmare has finally come to an end. jward@dailytoreador.com

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GOP tweet about Duckworth,veterans a mistake CHICAGO (AP) — The National Republican Senatorial Committee briefly posted a tweet Tuesday that said a Democratic candidate from

Illinois who lost both legs as an Army helicopter pilot “has a sad record of not standing up” for veterans.

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drea Bozek acknowledged the tweet about U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth was a mistake that was deleted “within minutes.”

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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democrats will keep their majority in the state House of Representatives after Republicans conceded an eastern Kentucky House seat on Tuesday.

Republican Tony Quillen conceded to Democrat Lew Nicholls shortly after 7 p.m. in a district that hinged on union politics.

The victory assures Democrats will have at least 51 members in the 100-seat House of Representatives, depending on the outcome of three other House races throughout the state.

Separately, Republicans claimed victory in Boyd and Casey counties as attorney Daniel Elliott defeated former Navy fighter pilot Bill Noelker.

Elliott has to run in the May primary for a full twoyear term, and could face off against Noelker, who has no primary opponent, in November.

Two other races remained too close to call.

Nicholls credited organized labor and public school teachers for powering him to victory in what

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he described as a rebuke of new Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s policies.

“There was a lot at stake, and these are stakeholders in our community and they got out and they worked hard,” Nicholls said.

The victory by Democrats assures they will have at least the 51 votes they need to pass a budget that will most likely roll back most of Bevin’s spending cuts. Bevin has proposed using the savings to begin to pay down the state’s multi-billion dollar pension debt.

But college and university presidents said the cuts would force them to raise tuition and could cause the elimination of some academic programs, while K-12 advocates said the cuts would hurt public preschool options.

“The Republicans are not funding education like they should in Frankfort,” said 67-year-old Janet Covington, who voted for the Democratic candidate in Scott County on Tuesday.

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System Office building under construction

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

A new System Office building is in the process of being constructed for the Texas Tech University System leadership staff and personnel at the intersection of Texas Tech Parkway and the Marsha Sharp Freeway.

The Tech System Board of Regents approved the project in May 2014, according to a Tech news release. Construction began in October 2015 and is expected to be completed in March 2017, Michael Molina, vice chancellor for Facilities, Planning and Construction, said.

The building will include a multipurpose room for meetings and other events in addition to public art in the main lobby, according to the release. It will also be home to many offices.

“The building will be a consolidation of all of the different system offices, such as the chancellor’s staff, institutional advancement, general council’s office, academic affairs and communications and marketing office, Board of Regents, Office of Audit Services, governmental relations, facilities planning and construction team,” Molina said. “All of the operation

system is directly related to supporting each component institution’s needs so it helps create an economy scale in terms of service and it also will open up academic and support services space that were being occupied by system office staff and personnel of Tech. It will consolidate approximately 215 people and it will put us all under one roof so we can work more efficiently.”

Tech System Chancellor Robert Duncan said in the release the building is a beneficial addition to Tech.

“We have been saying for some time that we are now a mature system,” Duncan said in the release. “Having our leadership team in the same building will make us more efficient and free up critical space on the Texas Tech University campus for student services, academics and research.”

Multiple institutions funded the new building, Molina said.

“The institutions and working with the systems figured out a way for each institution to help pay for the construction,” Molina said.

The building will resemble other Tech buildings.

“The new System Office building embodies the tradi-

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Construction on the new System Office building near the intersection of Texas Tech Parkway and the Marsha Sharp Freeway is underway. The building is expected to be completed in March 2017 and is projected to cost $27.5 million. tional spirit and vernacular of the Texas Tech University Spanish Renaissance design style,” Molina said. “It also contains leading-edge technology through architectural detailing, components, ma-

terials and systems integration. This building is being built with ICF, insulated concrete form, which is highly efficient building material.

We expect 20 to 30 percent reduction in energy costs.”

Molina said it is setting the standard for system effectiveness in terms of efficiency, not only as an operation, but also conceptionally as a team.

The building will be approximately 80,000 gross

square feet and three stories high, according to the release, and the total cost is projected to be $27.5 million, according to the Tech System website.

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Tech police investigate theft Monday 10:46 a.m. — A Te x a s Tech police officer investigated a theft in Murray Residence Hall. A secured bicycle was taken.

3:19 p.m. — A Tech officer documented information regarding a student who was having suicidal thoughts.

The student was deemed to be a danger to themself and was transported by Emergency Medical Services to the

University Medical Center for an emergency detention.

1:23 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for drunken driving at University Avenue after a traffic stop.

A non-student passenger was arrested for public intoxication. Both non-students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

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about making college affordable, which is a whole different issue, he said.

“I do not think it is a systematic or transparent plan.

I can’t even wrap my head around how much a certain group of Americans would have to pay to make that happen,” McKee said. “How can the top 1 percent afford the bill? What is their tax rate going to be? It’s going to be an extremely high rate. The influentials won’t agree to that. It’s absurd.”

To make this happen, government spending in a different area would have to happen, he said.

“The fact of the matter is we cannot even fund Social Security.

He is talking about another entitlement. Entitlements already consist of about two-thirds of the budget every year,” he said. “So this would be the new college entitlement program. We cannot even fund what we have and he wants to throw on top this massive entitlement.”

Other countries can fund college tuition because their tuition does not cost as much as the tuition in the U.S., McKee said.

“Those are some of the finest institutions that we have and they will want to continue to be the elite institutions,” McKee said. “I just worry about the quality of the institutions.

Anytime you try to make something free we have to ration it.

Do fewer people go to college if it is free? It is so much harder to pay for free college by bilking the rich.”

The realistic question here is how we make college more affordable so students do not come out with as much debt, McKee said. There are different ways to accomplish this, by lowering the interest rates on loans and trying to find ways to lower tuition to be more affordable.

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 For example, if the GDP is $100 and the tax rate is equal to .1 percent, then the profit from that would be $10, Rahnama said. If the GDP is $150 and the tax rate stays the same the profit would then be $15.

“According to this argument, the increase in GDP from the money that these families can now spend from free college could be used to pay for that free college,” Rahnama said.

“Based on economic arguments the tax rate should stay about the same.”

According to another argument, the tax rates would increase drastically, he said.

This argument, however, does not look too much into the increase of productivity that would occur with the more money citizens would have from free college.

“Never ever ever could college be free. It’s a nonstarter campaign promise. These things are just fantasies and basically they are similar fantasies,” Seth McKee, a political science associate professor, said. “We have a population of over 300 million people, and I don’t know how many colleges are in the United States, but there are thousands upon thousands and none of them are free, and the notion that you could in some way tax the rich even more to pay for college and still have the quality of institutions that we have I don’t think is possible. And that is just logistics.”

It is not even politically possible, McKee said. If there were a majority of Sanders supporters in Congress then it might be possible, but Sanders is an outlier and he is by himself in that issue.

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By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

A n t h o n y To r r e s , t h e admissions counselor for Job Corps for North West Outreach and Admissions program in the Lubbock office, received a first place award from Job Corps for the rate at which students enrolled and recruited by Torres stay out of trouble in the program.

Job Corps is a national program that has been around for 50 years and has helped students from across the country. It is a program that offers educational or job training for students between the ages of 16 and 24 who come from low income or homeless settings.

The program is designed to help students find their fit and be able to join the workforce in a career field that suits them. For some students, Job Corps is a back-up plan to finding that a four-year university is not for them.

Torres’ job is to recruit students who would benefit from the Job Corps program, he said, and he covers 17 counties and is constantly on the road visiting high schools to try to recruit students for the program.

The way recruiters are graded is by the rate at which their students succeed in the program and how many of them stay out

of trouble while enrolled, he said.

“It takes a lot to recruit somebody you know is going to succeed,” he said.

“We find all these kids who say they want to change their lives and want to go do something better with their lives and they’re going to stay out of trouble and they’re going to not do the same things they are doing at home then it sucks and they don’t do it.”

For some students who realize that school is not the right path for them, Job Corps gives them the opportunity to learn a vocational trade, get certified and join the workforce in half the time, he said. Instead of students doing nothing or having to work several minimum wage jobs, they can get training that will allow them to succeed without a degree.

For others, the case could be that they dropped out of high school and need to get some sort of training or education that they need in order to better themselves.

“The workforce program is backed by The Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act, and that’s what governs what we do,” Torres said. “The ultimate goal for all of us in this program is to get an individual to work.”

Students enrolled in the program can also simul-

taneously get their GEDs, if needed, while learning their vocational trade. Students under the age of 18 must get a consent form signed by their parents or legal guardians to be able to enroll in the program.

Once in the program, students will have the choice to follow a career path of their choice and they will be sent to a work force facility for their training.

Torres is responsible for the enrollment of students into the workforce schools.

The four schools that Torres works with are the North Te x a s J o b C o p s C e n t e r in McKinney, Gary Job Corps Center San Marcos, Guthrie Job Corps Center in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and Clearfield Job Corps Center in Clearfield, Utah.

However, these are not the only four schools that the students have to choose from when deciding where to get their training.

“It really depends on the school they choose,” he said. “If they want to do dental, we don’t have dental at any of those four schools, so then we are able to send them to a different school, it’s really based on the subject that they want to learn.”

It is a difficult job to be able to find people who want to strive to succeed in the program and who will make the effort to succeed,

he said.

“When they get there, sometimes it is a little bit of a rude awakening, and so I always tell mom and dad, ‘you know what mom and dad, they are going to call you the first few days and tell you every negative thing about Job Corps, and it is probably going to be exaggerated,’” Torres said.

His job requires a certain type of people skills that can be adjusted to all kinds of age groups, he said.

“It’s that kind of stuff that requires you to be able to have the skill to talk to people,” Torres said. “I talk to them exactly the way they need to be talked to, but in a manner that is not disrespecting them.”

Darryl Victor, the career transitions specialist for Job Corps in Lubbock, works very closely with Torres and said Torres has the kind of skills and qualities a job like his needs.

“Based on the fact that we are working with 16 to 24 year olds, you have to kind of be a bit of everything because of the different age groups and different mind sets and the different situations we try to pull the young people out of,” he said. “I think Anthony has been very good in the fact that if for some reason he can’t help someone, he makes sure that they get referred to people who might be able

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Anthony Torres, an admissions counselor for the American Business Corporation office in Lubbock, recently won an award for the rate of students who do not do drugs and stay out of fights during enrollment in the Job Corps program. The program helps 16 to 24 year olds with low income learn a career, earn a high school diploma or GED and find and keep a good job.

to help them.”

The award that Torres received was well deserved, Victor said, and showed he works well in the position he is in.

“He really goes out of his way to accomplish the mission that’s is described,” Victor said.

It is very gratifying for Torres to see some of the students he has recruited succeed within the program and go on to be successful in their careers, he said, and he estimates that his suc-

cess rate with students is between 60 and 70 percent.

“There is just nothing like it. For me, there are these kids that become my own personal kids. I worry about them, I wish they would call me like my own kids do,” he said. “There is such a satisfaction to see them grow up and see them go from nothing to something. It’s self-rewarding, and it lets me know that I am doing the right thing for the right people.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Spanish Club shows diverse movies in film festival

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Spanish Club is showing “The Facilitator” as the last movie of its annual Spanish Club Film Festival at 5 p.m. Wednesday in room 169 of the Human Sciences building.

The Spanish Club Film Festival started last year, Ana Rodriguez-Padial, a Spanish linguistics graduate student from Spain, said.

“We applied for a grant from an organization that promotes Hispanic films,” Rodriguez-Padial said. “This grant gave us the chance to show new films. That’s why we can show recent Hispanic movies and not only old ones.“ The fact that most of the movies are from the early 2010s to now draws the students in, Caroline Gressett, a freshman Spanish major from Muenster, said.

There are other reasons why the students come to these screenings.

“We also offer extra credit opportunities, so if students come they get extra credit in their Spanish classes,” Gressett said. “The reason why we offer extra credit is because if you hear Spanish enough, you

start to pick up on it.”

The films the club chooses for the festival come from many different countries, she said.

Gressett said it is a great way for students to be exposed to other cultures. The films come from countries including Chile and Mexico.

The films also cover a

number of diverse subjects, she said.

“These diverse topics give the viewer a wide range of different backgrounds,” Gressett said. “This is so people understand that everybody comes from a different area, and we need to understand and respect that. We also have to respect our cultural

differences. These films spark interest and realize how lucky we are.”

The first movie that was shown made a personal connection to Rodriguez-Padial, she said, because she went through a similar scenario in her own life.

“The first movie we showed was about a Chilean

guy who moves to London,” she said. “I had to come here because I could not find a job in Spain. I think that Americans are not worried to move abroad in order to find a job.

I think films like this opens their eyes. They realize that the United States is economically well placed and there is no need to find a job outside

of the country. I think that films like this are interesting because it shows different points of view.”

Marco Ortega, a senior biology major from Denver City, said he agrees that these kinds of films help students gather more of a cultural sense of the world.

“There’s a bigger world out there,” he said. “A lot of us are not going to stay in this area, or in Texas. Some of us might not stay in the U.S, we might go abroad. These films deal with different people’s lifestyles and where they live outside of the United States.”

After the films are shown, a guest speaker who relates to the movie speaks about his or her own personal experiences, Rodriguez-Padial said. There is also a reception where spectators can talk with each other about the movie.

Gressett thinks the guest speakers add a personal touch to the film, she said. They add their personal being to the film because they had some kind of experience similar to the film.

“It becomes more personable to the students and becomes something they can relate to,” she said. @DavidGayDT

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Film screening brings awareness for gender equality

By MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and the Women’s Studies Program screened “Girl Rising,” a documentary following the lives of nine girls in developing countries and the struggles they face for equality, on Tuesday in the Student Union Building’s Escondido Theater. The screening was in celebration of International Women’s Day. Katherine Haley, a freshman political science major from Sugar Land and public relations officer for FMLA, said the film highlights the situations these particular girls go through and makes Americans really think about the differences in gender equality.

“It lets us see through their eyes what they go through,” she said. “Especially being in America, we don’t face those kinds of issues. We face more social issues, but

‘Girl Rising’ definitely takes us to another place.”

Haley said she hopes this film helps bring awareness to the viewers of the issues women face in areas other than the U.S. and how to overcome them.

“I just want people to be aware of what goes on in other places,” she said. “Mostly, ‘Girl Rising’ will show that there are still things that we need to work on and girls are still struggling in other parts of the world.”

Tricia Earl, FMLA staff adviser and coordinator for the Women’s Studies Program, said she hopes ‘”Girl Rising” will make the issue of gender equality hit closer to home.

“It’s a great way to showcase what is global is also local, and what’s happening locally can affect what’s happening globally,” she said. “While we take things like education for granted, there are still girls in our community who aren’t even

encouraged to go to school for higher education, so we hope this film will bring more awareness to that.”

Earl said there will be more events this week and later in March celebrating women and their accomplishments and raising awareness for their struggles.

“This is actually Women’s History Month, and this event, along with the others we will have, are part of Women’s History Month,” Earl said. “We will have two events after Spring Break to celebrate Women’s History Month, and after that we will go into Diversity Week.”

Earl said she hopes to inspire people who attend these events to empower their communities with knowledge and motivation about how to overcome the struggles women face.

“These events bring awareness to other girls’ and women’s stories that we never really hear or that may be on the peripheral,”

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Jessica Foumena, a media and communications doctoral student from the Republic of Cameroon, speaks at the screening of “Girl Rising” on Tuesday in the Student Union Building’s Escondido Theater.

Foumena is the founder and editor-in-chief of the website and blog “Women and Africa,” a topic she plans to pursue in her dissertation research.

Earl said. “We are bringing them to the forefront with these events so people can

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Tech begins postseason play against TCU

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

A journey to a guaranteed tournament bid and a piece of hardware begins for the Texas Tech basketball team as it begins the Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Championship tournament, hosted in Kansas City, Missouri, in a first-round matchup against the Texas Christian Horned Frogs. Tech’s opening round of the conference tournament tips off at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Sprint Center.

A seven seed in the tournament, the Red Raiders finished the regular season 19-11 overall and 9-9 in the Big 12. TCU recorded an 1120 overall record and 2-16 conference finish.

Tech coach Tubby Smith’s work during Tech’s best finish since 2006-07 in the Big 12 earned Smith Big 12 Coach of the Year and a likely trip to the NCAA tournament. Smith’s award made it the first time a coach at Tech won the award.

“I’m honored to be named Big 12 Coach of the Year, certainly it’s not me, it’s about this team,” Smith said. “My coaching staff has done a fantastic job, these young men have been a fun group to coach and they’ve done the things we’ve asked them to do.”

Both of the regular season meetings against TCU ended with the Red Raiders on the

winning side, but in its first win over the Horned Frogs, Tech played the majority of the game without sophomore center Norense Odiase, who broke his foot before halftime.

Nearly six weeks later, Odiase returned to the lineup in Tech’s 80-71 home win over Kansas State. Although Odiase started all 17 games he played prior to the injury, Smith said he plans to play Odiase but on reduced minutes to preserve the sophomore center.

Odiase’s return to the lineup, Smith said, affects Tech’s defensive and offensive capabilities as the Red Raiders now post a complete team.

“When he passes the ball and plays the right way, the way we expect him to play, then he’ll have a major difference,” Smith said. “He makes those hustle plays, those 50-50 balls.

He’s one of the most physical players in this league.”

Second half play defined both of Tech’s games against the Horned Frogs as the team corrected its first half numbers.

In both games, the Red Raiders ran TCU off the 3-point line and kept their opponent’s shooting percentage to below 30 percent.

Unlike Tech, the Horned Frogs could not squeeze in a win in the last stretch of the season as they lost seven straight games.

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First time around, sophomore guard Chauncey Collins shot 7 for 15 in a 19-point performance against the Red Raiders. In his second outing against the Red Raiders he downed 29 points on 8 for 15 shooting. Collins averages 11.8 points per game and 39.4 percent shooting from 3-point range.

Senior guard Toddrick Gotcher said along with Collins, the Horned Frogs attack heightens with the presence of sophomore guard Malique Trent, TCU’s second-leading scorer who averages 11.5 points.

“He brings a lot of defense and a lot of scoring,” Gotcher said. “He brings that toughness for the team and he’s a really good team for them.”

I f Te c h d e f e a t s t h e Horned Frogs, it draws the nationally ranked No. 9 West Virginia Mountaineers as its second opponent with tipoff at 6 p.m. Thursday.

West Virginia defeated the Red Raiders both times in the regular season, and is going into the Big 12 tournament as the second-ranked team.

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Texas Tech center Norense Odiase catches a pass during the first half of Tech’s 80-71 win over Kansas State in the final regular season conference game of the season on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech begins conference tournament play at 8 p.m. today in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Sprint Center against TCU.

In the first meeting, Tech lost an eight-point lead in the final minute to lose 80-76, and in the second game, the West Virginia defense suffocated Tech possessions.

No other team in the Big 12 leads in more defensive categories or creates more turnovers than West Virginia. Playing against Tech at home, the Mountaineers forced 19 turnovers in a 90-

68 win. Although the Red Raiders shot for 50 percent from the field, West Virginia controlled the boards and recovered 17 more rebounds than the Red Raiders.

The Mountaineers possess the second-highest turnover average as they create an average of 18.1 per game and record an average of 9.84 steals.

Any team Tech faces in the tournament has al-

ready played against the squad twice, and sophomore forward Zach Smith said tournament games come down to execution and who wants it more.

“By then they know most of your plays, they got a detailed scouting report on every player, they know your tendencies and favorable ways to score,” he said. @DGaytanDT

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Tech receivers to step up play despite Grant’s absence

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

On Tuesday afternoon, the Texas Tech football team practiced with pads on for the first time in spring ball.

While there were many familiar faces behind the facemasks, there was one missing — Jakeem Grant, the all-time leading receiver in school history.

The speedster receiver was sophomore quarterback Patrick Mahomes II’s favorite target last season and the most productive receiver.

Mahomes II said Grant’s athleticism cannot be replicated, but some receivers have stepped up in Grant’s absence.

“Cameron Batson has been a great, great replacement. He’s kind of the same mold, same type of guy. He’s gotten a lot of the shorter routes down,” Mahomes II said. “Outside, Dylan

Cantrell. He played with him in high school so I have a great comfort there.”

Last spring, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury named junior wide receiver Dylan Cantrell the most impressive receiver on the team.

A nagging back injury eventually led to a redshirt season, as he never set foot on the field during a game last season.

“He hasn’t had any issues with his back at all. He’s gone full speed, got on and made some plays,” Kingsbury said. “I’d say he is 100 percent.”

Cantrell echoed Kingsbury, saying that he has not had any setbacks since the end of last season.

Landing on his back multiple times in practice leading up to the opening kickoff of the 2015 season caused his back to lock up on him. Despite the injury lasting longer than expected, Cantrell said he did

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“Tony Brown’s development, I think y’all are going to see a

different version of him,” he said. “He has gotten a lot bigger, has a lot more confidence. As a true freshman last year, had

some good moments, had some bad, but I think he’ll be a much more consistent player for us.” @JeremyK_DT

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Redshirt freshman Jakari Dillard catches a pass during Tuesday’s practice at the Tech Training Facility.

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“Everything happens for a reason, I think. I’m just going to come into it the same way, same way I always approach everything,” he said. “Just go as hard as I can and compete in everything I do.”

As for some of the young receivers, Cantrell said there are numerous freshmen that can step in and produce right away.

“De’Quan (Bowman), he’s got good hands, runs great routes,” Cantrell said. “I feel like he is very electric and can make moves, make people miss.”

Last season, wide receiver Tony Brown played in all 13 games as a freshman and recorded 14 catches for 250 yards and a touchdown in Tech’s game against Baylor.

Kingsbury was quick to name Brown as one of the play-

The Texas Tech Faculty Legal Action Association (TTFLAA) invites all Texas Tech Students to compete for two Academic Scholarships, one valued at $1,500 and the other $1,000.

The scholarships will be awarded to currently-enrolled undergraduate or graduate students submitting the best original essays on the topic “The Role and Importance of Academic Freedom in the University.” The TTFLAA was formed in 1985-1986 when then President Lauro Cavazos sought to replace the existing tenure system with a system of rollover contracts. Academic Freedom and Tenure involve the freedom of faculty and staff in higher education to continue research, create art and to make it public without being punished by the University. The Scholarship was created with money contributed by many faculty members to a fund that might have to be used to challenge the proposed policy in the courts. Since the proposal was later modified, interest from the fund has been used to fund the Scholarships. If a student is not from Texas, out of state tuition is waived so that the winner will pay only in-state tuition and fees.

Entries must be no longer than 1,000 words. They must be typed, and include a cover sheet with the submitting student’s name. Do not type your name on the essay. Students may use MLA style footnotes with a bibliography at the end.

The double-spaced pages of the essay itself-submitted in three copies by Friday, April 8, 2016.

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Send essay to: Campus Mail Box of Prof. William G. Hartwell III, School of Music, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tx, 79409-2033.

The winner will be announced by Friday, April 22, 2016 The 2015 winners: William Sinclair of Cunningham, Tennessee, was the winner of a $1,500 scholarship. Erin Grogan of Lubbock was the winner of a $1,000 scholarship. Both are Ph. D. students in the Department of Theater.

• Kayla Tindle, a Graduate Student in Education, was a winner of a $1,500 Scholarship, while Sean Webb, a Graduate Student in History, both from Lubbock, won a $1,000 Scholarship in 2014.

Application forms are available online at www.scholarships.ttu.edu or apply online at the Financial Aid Office 205 West Hall, 742-3144 For further information, you may contact Prof. Hartwell at 799-2034 or wghartwell@sbcglobal.net

According to the Tech Tennis Twitter account, the women’s tennis team is ranked seventh and the men’s tennis team is ranked 10th.

According to a Tech Athletics news release, Tech is one of four programs to have its men’s and women’s teams in the ITA top 10 rankings. This includes North Carolina, Ohio State and Oklahoma State.

The women’s team was also ranked as the preseason favorite for the Big 12 Conference, according to the account.

According to the account, this is the first time in program history they have been predicted as the favor-

ites to win the conference.

The men’s team also holds the number one doubles team in the nation.

According to the account, the ITA rankings ranked seniors Felipe Soares and Hugo Dojas first in the nation in doubles.

In their last match, Soares and Dojas were defeated by #21-ranked Skander Mansouri and Christian Seraphim from Wake Forest University.

The men’s tennis team faces Indiana in its next match on Monday in San Diego, California, at 2 p.m. and the women’s tennis team faces the University of Houston on Saturday in Houston. @DavidGayDT

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Rangers defeat A’s 10-3 MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Delino DeShields tripled, singled and drove in two runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 10-3 Tuesday.

Elvis Andrus and Michael McKenry added two hits each for Texas.

“We have a lot of discussions as an offense about being aggressive, about getting your pitch and getting good

swings at it, and I think we’ve done a good job of doing that all spring,” DeShields said.

“We take that to heart. It’s just a matter of just finding the barrel of the bat and taking good swings and taking a good approach at the plate.”

Rangers starter Derek Holland allowed two unearned runs and three hits in three innings.