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University severs ties with fraternity after racist chant NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The president of the University of Oklahoma severed the school’s ties with a national fraternity on Monday and ordered that its on-campus house be shuttered after several members took part in a racist chant caught on video.

President David Boren said he was sickened and couldn’t eat or sleep after learning about the video Sunday afternoon.

The video, which was posted online, shows several people on a bus participating in a chant that included a racial slur, referenced lynching and indicated black students would never be admitted to OU’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

The Oklahoma football team decided to protest rather than practice on Monday.

At the team’s indoor practice facility, coach Bob Stoops led the way as players, joined by athletic director Joe Castiglione, walked arm-in-arm, wearing black. Meanwhile, a top high school recruit de-committed from the university after seeing the video.

Boren attended a pre-dawn rally organized by students and lambasted those fraternity members as “disgraceful” and called their behavior “reprehensible.” He said the university was looking into a range of punishment, including expulsion.

“This is not who we are,” Boren said at a midday news conference. “I’d be glad if they left. I might even pay the bus fare for them.”

National leaders of Sigma Alpha Epsilon said late Sunday that its investigation confirmed members took part in the chant and announced it would close the local chapter. The national group said it was “embarrassed” by the “unacceptable and racist” behavior.

Boren said members have until midnight Tuesday to remove their belongings from the fraternity house. He said the fraternity was “not totally forthcoming,” and he was still trying to find out who was on the bus so the school could consider disciplinary actions.

He said the university’s legal staff was exploring whether the students who initiated and encouraged the chant may have violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination.

“We are also going to look at any individual perpetrators, particularly those that we think took a lead in this kind of activity,” Boren said.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the efforts by the university and the national fraternity to repudiate the racist comments were “an appropriate step.”

It’s unclear who recorded the video, when it was recorded and who initially posted it online. Boren suggested it was likely taken by another student who didn’t agree with what was being chanted.

OU Unheard, a black student group on campus, posted a link to the video after someone anonymously called it to the group’s attention Sunday afternoon, communications director Alexis Hall said Monday.

“We immediately needed to share that with the OU student body,” said Hall, a junior. “For students to say they’re going to lynch an entire group of people. ... It’s disgusting.”

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Regents approve honorary degree for Timothy Cole

By AMY CUNNINGHAM News editor

The Texas Tech System Board of Regents voted Friday to give an honorary degree to Timothy Cole, a Tech student who was wrongfully accused and convicted of raping another student in 1985.

Cole, who died in 1999 in prison and exonerated in 2010, will receive his posthumous degree during the 1:30 p.m., May 15 Tech School of Law graduation commencement, Cory Session, brother of Cole, said.

“We are extremely pleased. Tim went to Texas Tech and wanted one thing: to get an education,” he said.

“To have the Board of Regents bestow a posthumous diploma is justification for the education that he was denied. We’re thankful.”

My parents The Board of Regents had seven voted on Friday, Session children, and said, but he did not know all seven of the results until Monday.

Session decided to us went to email Tech President M. college. There Duane Nellis on Sunday was always night to find out if it was one diploma voted for or not, Session missing from said. Nellis responded back and said he would the wall. like to set up a conference Cory Session call Monday to discuss the Brother of Cole decision.

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GOVERNOR RICK PERRY speaks during the unveiling of the Timothy Cole statue on Sept. 17 at the Timothy Cole Memorial Park. Cole received the first posthumous pardon in 2010 after being convicted of sexual assault in 1985.

During the phone call, Nellis told Session the board had unanimously approved a posthumous degree of law

and social justice for Cole, Session said.

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BEHIND THE SCENES Grounds crew works hard to keep Tech sports teams playing

By EVERETT CORDER sports editor

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When Lubbock was hit by winter weather on Feb. 26, it caused problems for the Texas Tech baseball team, which was scheduled to play three games during the weekend.

Throughout the many schedule changes and eventual cancelations of the three games, the Tech sports ground crew had all hands on deck trying to clear and prepare the field.

Leading the group in the field preparation was Ryan Kaspitzke, the superintendent of athletic grounds for Tech Athletics.

“It worked out well. Luckily the snow wasn’t a heavy snow. It was powder so it was pretty easy to move,” Kaspitzke said. “The hardest part was the cold temperatures.”

Kaspitzke has worked in athletics field maintenance since he was 16 years old, and has worked with different sports teams all over the country before ending up at Tech.

Growing up near Toledo, Ohio, Kaspitzke did not play many organized sports, but began working for Minor League Baseball’s Toledo Mud Hens in high school, doing basic work like mowing the lawn outside of the stadium.

RYAN KAPITZKE AND members of the Texas Tech softball grounds crew water down the infield before day two of the Texas Tech Invitational on Saturday at the Rocky Johnson Softball Complex.

Tech baseball to play home midweek series

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Ring tradition continues to grow after long history

The Red Raiders now return to Rip Griffin Park and are hoping to boast their home-field advantage against New Mexico State in a two-game midweek series.

The series will start at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and conclude at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

New Mexico State enters the series with a record of 1-12. It has not played since last Wednesday after their weekend series against Northern Kentucky was canceled.

The Aggies’ offense is led by senior outfielder Quinnton Mack. Mack is hitting .319 with nine RBIs and has stolen five bases on five attempts, according to the NM State Sports website. As a team, they are hitting the ball with a .206 batting average.

After the two-game series, the Red Raiders will be back on the road for a three-game series against San Diego State in California.

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HSC hosts annual poverty awareness event

By CIARA DEVORE Staff Writer

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JOHN GEORGE, A first-year medical student from Sugar Land, speaks to other Texas Tech students about the struggles of poverty and hunger in Spain on Monday during the Health Sciences Center’s Poverty Awareness Banquet in the Legacy Event Center.

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center’s Global Health Alliance hosted its sixth annual Poverty Awareness Banquet at 6 p.m. Monday in the Legacy Event Center Ballroom.

The organization wanted to promote what poverty is and how much of the world’s population is affected by poverty, Michelle Ensminger, senior director of global health at HSC, said.

“The student organization does a lot of global things,” she said, “so they wanted to focus on poverty as a global issue.”

The banquet cost $10 to attend, Ensminger said, and it was an opportunity for students to see how people from all over the world live in different circumstances.

All profits will go toward Mision Para Cristo, which is a partner in Jinotega, Nicaragua, she said.

In addition to medical clinics, the mission also operates several schools, she said, and the Global Health Alliance will gather school supplies for those schools.

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Texas Tech officers investigate thefts on campus Friday 3:29 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a theft in Horn Residence Hall. Unsecured jewelry was taken.

7:15 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in the Student Union building. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

8:18 p.m. — A Tech officer detained a student on a traffic stop in the 2500 block of Broadway. The student was issued a Lubbock County citation for an open container and released.

12:12 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in Clement Residence Hall. The student was

transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:34 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by a minor and possession of drug paraphernalia in Bledsoe Residence Hall. A second student was issued a Lubbock County citation for consumption of alcohol by a minor. Both students signed the citations and were released. The second student was released pending the filing of charges for criminal mischief, which occurred on the 3rd floor of Bledsoe Residence Hall.

Saturday 3:13 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driv-

ing with an invalid license in the 2900 block of 18th Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded by Lubbock Wrecker Service.

8:51 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and assault on a peace officer following a report of a disturbance in the United Supermarkets Arena. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

8:51 p.m. — A Tech officer charged and released a nonstudent for driving with an invalid license in the 400 block of Indiana Avenue after a traffic stop. The vehicle was released to

a licensed driver.

8:51 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and criminal mischief following a report of a disturbance in the United Supermarkets Arena. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:14 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication in the United Supermarkets Arena. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:50 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in Bledsoe Residence Hall. Three ceiling tiles were damaged.

Sunday 11:13 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for prohibited weapons (brass knuckles) and driving with an invalid license in the C1 parking lot after a traffic stop. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

8:35 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. A student’s black leather wallet was taken.

10:36 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance (Alprazolam), possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a fictitious license and possession of alcohol by a minor in the Z4M parking lot after a traffic stop. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded by Lubbock Wrecker Service.

12:13 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the Z3L parking lot. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

School supply donations will be accepted until May 1 in the Office of Global Health, Ensminger said.

“I think it is a great opportunity to remember that not everybody in the world lives the way we do in the U.S.,” she said.

“There is a lot of people who may not ever be able to travel out of West Texas, so we try to bring that experience in an evening here and try in some way to get people to raise awareness and create empathy and understand people who don’t have the benefits that we do.”

A committee of first-year medical students in the Global Health Alliance Club planned the banquet, Christina Ruiz, a first-year medical student from Midland, said.

During the banquet, guests arrived and were given a name card to look at different simulations about countries in which poverty is prevalent, Ruiz said.

“At each station, participants will learn about what it is like to live in poverty in that particular country with an interactive activity in which they will have a fortunate or unfortunate event,”

she said. “Once the participants have reached the number of required fortunate events they will be served dinner. It is an interactive, fun way for people to learn about poverty and how it can affect your life in many ways.”

Amy Moore, guest speaker of the banquet, takes students abroad to Nicaragua for a couple of weeks, Ensminger said, and the students who attend obtain clinical course credit for the experience.

Moore helped start a cervical cancer program in Nicaragua, Ensminger said.

Along with the Poverty Awareness Banquet, the Global Health Alliance screened a film at noon Monday called “Living on One,” which is about four young college students who decided to go to Guatemala and live there for two months on a dollar a day, Ensminger said, to see what it is really like and the challenges people face.

It was a great film to show, she said, because the audience gets to see the experience and how it changed the students during their two months there.

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“Some students do not like the fact honorary degrees are given out because they think they are not earned per se,” she said. “That is actually a very flawed argument because honorary degrees are just that — they are honorary degrees, not an actual college degree. Tech has awarded more than 70 people honorary degrees since the 1930s.”

Nafees’ father is friends with Session, she said, which made Nafees feel compelled to write the legislation.

She said she played a small role in comparison to the work of attorneys, Tech faculty members and others involved in the Cole case.

“I just feel proud to be a Red Raider and know that things like this are happening here at my university,” Nafees said. “I have hope that justice will be done, even if it is years later.”

Jeff Blackburn, founder and chief counsel of the Innocence Project of Texas, worked to get Cole exonerated.

While Blackburn is happy for the family, he said there are negative effects of giving the honorary degree to Cole.

“I have mixed opinions about the honorary degree,” he said. “On the one hand, it’s a great thing for Tim’s family and it represents a terrific vindication of Tim and it’s a great honor. On the other hand, symbolic actions like this in exoneration cases can easily obscure and overshadow the real problems we have in the criminal justice system.”

Part of the significance of Cole’s case was the attention it drew to the flaws, Blackburn said, and his wrongful conviction led to multiple reforms.

Symbolic gestures, even if they mean well, make people think all problems are solved, he said.

A statue of Cole was unveiled in September, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, to pay tribute to Cole.

“When people see that statue of Tim Cole at 19th and University, what they need to think about is not the past but rather the future of criminal justice reform in the state,” Blackburn said. “We have a lot of reform we need to do.”

On Monday, hours after receiving the news from Nellis, Session wore his brother’s only Tech hat to honor Cole, Session said. His mother had kept the hat all the years he was imprisoned.

Session can feel the Red Raider spirit from 400 miles away in Fort Worth, he said.

“If I could shake every hand of every person who helped, I would just say thank you,” he said. “You all have really made this family whole.”

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“It brought tears to my eyes,” he said.

“My parents had seven children, and all seven of us went to college. There was always one diploma missing from the wall.”

The diploma completes what his family always wanted, Session said, especially the wishes of his late mother.

Obtaining the honorary degree is bittersweet, Session said, because he wishes his brother could have received it himself.

“We attempted to get it years ago and they sent certificates of completion of the courses he had completed,” he said. “My mother, that’s something she wanted. What she needed, she got before she left this life — the exoneration and the pardon. I hope that the diploma is an inspiration to students.”

A faculty member must nominate an individual in order to receive an honorary degree, according to a Tech news release.

Aliza Wong, assistant dean of the Honors College, and Ricky Sherfield, lead coordinator of the Cross Cultural Academic Advancement Center, nominated Cole last year, according to the release.

The nomination then went to Nellis, who recommended it to Chancellor Robert Duncan, who then recommended the degree to the Board of Regents, according to the release.

“Through no fault of his own, Timothy Cole did not realize the joyous moment of graduation and experience the rewards of earning a college degree,” Nellis said in the release. “In this bittersweet moment we are proud to posthumously bestow this much deserved honorary law degree on Timothy and hope it lends to the long and difficult healing process the Cole family has endured.”

The Tech Student Government Association as well as the Faculty Senate was involved in the process, Baleigh Waldrop, SGA internal vice president, said.

“We thought it was a really good idea and that it was something important to do, to give something to someone who deserved it,” she said. “I think it’s an honor for SGA to be able to pass something like this. It’s something little we can do in the whole process to bring honor to the Cole family.”

Saba Nafees, a mathematical biology graduate student from Fort Worth and Lahore, Pakistan, wrote a piece of legislation in SGA that was unanimously passed by the Student Senate.

The piece received minimal opposition, she said, with only a few students raising concerns.

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Class rings represent time at Texas Tech

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

Dating back to the early 1950s, Texas Tech has had opportunities for students to choose and receive their own class ring. However, in the late 90s, the university changed its stance, bringing uniformity to student class rings.

“It began way back in the 50s,” Mandy Wylie, director of affinity merchandise for the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center, said, “but it dwindled and was re-established in 1998.”

The ring is a meant to serve as a culmination of what a student has

been doing at the university during his or her time at Tech, Wylie said. Because all rings are made similarly, they are recognized by others as a symbol of Tech.

“It’s a great networking tool too,” she said, “because other Tech graduates will see that on a graduate’s hand and make that connection.”

A graduate can be anywhere and have people ask if they are a Texas Tech graduate, Brett Winegarner, communications coordinator for the Alumni Association, said. It is a visual representation of the university the student attended.

For a student to purchase a ring they must have completed

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75 academic hours, Winegarner said. The Alumni Association does its best to promote the rings, making sure every student has the opportunity to receive his or her ring.

“We try to promote them by sending emails, correspondence, Facebook posts,” he said. “We try to get that out and find those people that are eligible to buy those rings.”

It is a financial transaction, Brent Ross, associate vice president of the Alumni Association, said, but the Alumni Association tries to frame it as a tradition instead of a transaction.

Students are encouraged to not just go out and buy the ring,

RACHEL WHITE, A sophomore pre-nursing major from San Antonio, twirls her batons Monday at the Free Speech Area.

exas Tech is a growing university, and being a part of a large campus atmosphere can be exciting. I am a huge sports fan and going to crowded football games and other sporting events can be fun. The games are also a little crazy because I think we can all admit our fans are pretty rowdy. While Tech is not as large as some other universities and may not be as well known in all areas, I think its professors are its greatest asset.

I have always worked hard in school and I have a love of learning. When I first came to Tech I did not struggle transitioning into harder classes, but I did struggle with not having any of my professors know me. I was not the typical teacher’s pet in high school and I hardly spoke a word to most of my teachers while I was in their classes, but I did like having them know I was a good student. I did have a few teachers my junior and senior years that became mentors to me, and I appreciated having people ask for letters of recommendation and advice in general. In the general education classes I had my first

Jennifer Romero semester in college, none of my professors even knew my name, let alone how I was doing in their classes. It is hard to expect them to since the class sizes can be more than 100 students.

While this lack of a first name relationship is not the fault of the professors, I still missed having an older person to go to and ask for advice. As I have spent more time at Tech and become more involved in my department, I have slowly started to make more contacts.

There are a few professors who I am immensely grateful for because they have always given me help whenever I have asked.

I remember going into one professor’s office unannounced to ask him a question about a class I was considering taking.

I had not had him for a class at that point in time and he was not my academic adviser.

APPLE EVENT LIVE: The watch, gold MacBook, HBO on iPhone SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Make calls, read email, control music, manage Instagram photos, keep up with your workout, pay for groceries, open your hotel room door. CEO Tim Cook says you can do it all from your wrist with Apple Watch — for 18 hours a day. That’s how long the battery will last on an average day.

Pre-orders start April 10. The device costs $349 for a base model, while a luxury gold version will start at $10,000. Industry watchers are eager to see if Apple’s version will be the tipping point for the sluggish smartwatch market. There was similar skepticism when Apple released the iPad in 2010, yet the company has successfully sold millions and its popularity has shaken up the PC market.

The stakes are high for a company that just dislodged AT&T as one of the 30 stocks comprising the venerable Dow Jones industrial average. The watch is the first brand-new device Apple has launched without Steve Jobs.

Apple is entering a market in which numerous tech companies are already selling smartwatches, from the Samsung Gear and Motorola’s Moto 360 to the Pebble Steel and other models made by smaller startups. Many run on Android Wear, the software platform from Google. They range in price from $100 to $500 or more, but most don’t have as many features as the Apple Watch, and they have not been big hits with consumers.

Cook directed Apple’s big event Monday in San Francisco, unveiling a shiny, skinny and silent MacBook weighing in at just two pounds. The company says is the world’s most energy-efficient laptop. Apple also has touted growth in iPhone sales and Apple Pay adoption, and announced a set of tools called ResearchKit to help hospitals and research centers develop apps for patients.

$30 to $69 and is partnering with HBO to offer its stand-alone streaming service, HBO Now, on Apple devices in time for the “Game of Thrones” premiere April 12. It will cost $14.99 monthly.

Below is a live blog of the event.

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The event ends as Cook thanks employees who worked on Apple Watch. Dozens stand in the audience. Cook says thousands more were involved at the company’s Cupertino, California, headquarters.

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Pre-orders will begin April 10.

That’s also when people will be to check them out in retail stores.

The watch will start selling on April 24 in the U.S., Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and the United Kingdom.

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How much will these cost?

The entry-level aluminum model, called Sport, will be aimed at fitness enthusiasts. It will cost $349 for the smaller, 38-millimeter model and $399 for the larger, 42-millimeter model. There will be choices of colors and bands.

The stainless steel edition will start at $549 and go up to $1,049 for the smaller model, depending on the selection of watch band. The larger model will range from $599 to $1,099.

The Apple Watch Edition — the luxury model with 18-karat gold — will be available in limited quantities at select retail stores, for a base price of $10,000 and as much as $17,000.

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BATTERY LIFE: Apple says the watch will have 18 hours of battery life across a range of activity — which Cook describes as “all day.”

That’s so if you factor in charging it while you sleep, but you wouldn’t be able to use sleep-tracking apps overnight.

so much, we’ve given around $350,000 in scholarships.”

The amount of scholarships has increased significantly in the past six to eight years, Ross said.

“We’re in the neighborhood of about 1,500 rings a year,” Ross said. “It has been going up incrementally in the last few years.”

After purchasing a ring a student is able to take part in a ring ceremony hosted by the Alumni Association, Winegarner said.

“I think that was something that was really able to resonate in me,” he said. “That was a great thing to participate in and get that extra history and tradition behind the ring.”

The rings are bought through the Balfour company, Wylie said.

“On our ring is the Tech seal, with the Double T on top and date Texas Tech was founded,” she said. “They all say strive for honor on the inside, and each student can put their own inscription beneath that.”

Ring ceremonies take three days, presenting each student with his or her ring according to their academic college, Wylie said. The ceremonies are held during late April and November.

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but to take part in what so many have done before, Ross said. The communication and marketing pieces take the same tone.

“Each month we keep track of how many rings are purchased,” Wylie said. “Then we get a 53 percent commission that goes back to first generation scholarships given out to students.”

The fund is administered by the Office of the President, Ross said. The financial aid office will contact the alumni center, and from there the center will give out a certain amount of scholarships.

“It is usually around 50 scholarships a year,” he said. “Since the ring sales have progressed

netic charger that clicks into place when it’s near the back of the watch.

Apple also is releasing an update to its iOS software for iPhones on Monday that includes an Apple Watch app. You won’t be able to use it yet, but you can see some of the customization options and other features to come.

11:20 a.m.

More functionality: You can get reservation information for your Starwood hotel room, and unlock the room door right from the notification on the watch — bypassing the front desk. Using a service from Alarm.com, you can also open your garage door remotely.

Apple says developers have been working on thousands of apps since the company released tools in November.

11:15 a.m.

Technology VP Kevin Lynch demonstrates being able to pay for groceries and other items via Apple Pay integrated into the watch.

Lynch also demonstrates making

and receiving calls, getting a boarding pass notification and calling Uber. Lynch presses the watch’s crown to get to the home screen, chooses the Uber app and “calls” for a car.

He also shows off how to use the digital touch option to draw a flower picture for his wife as a message.

11:05 a.m.

Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns appears on stage to banter with Cook. Says she will try to beat four hours in the upcoming London Marathon.

“Apple Watch is going to help me get there,” she vows.

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Apple tapped supermodel Christy Turlington Burns to try out the Apple Watch. Apple shows video of her running a half marathon wearing the watch.

Fitness features include reminders to start moving when you’ve been sitting too long. A new Workout app will offer weekly summaries and goal suggestions for the upcoming week.

He welcomed me right away and took the time to give me his advice, which I ended up taking and it worked out well for me. When I was leaving I apologized for interrupting him, but he simply smiled and said it was nice to take a break from a budget sometimes. His kindness has always impressed me, and this story reflects how he is with all his students and how he will always stop whatever he is doing to help. Not all universities have professors who are friendly toward their students, and I love the fact that Tech is one of the universities that does.

As much as I enjoyed having a professional relationship with my high school teachers, I value my new network of professors even more. I have not liked every professor I have had at Tech, and even the ones whose classes I liked have not all become part of my network. They have allowed me to help with their research and travel for academic conferences, and they have done anything they could to help me. I value their advice because they have been where I am now. I am at the point in my undergraduate career where I

need to figure out what specific career I want to have, and they listen to me vent my concerns before giving me new options to think about.

Although not all professors will be your favorite and you may hate their classes, do not let that prevent you from starting to network. Networking is such an important part of any career, and you can sometimes get better opportunities by making the right impressions on the right people. Tech has professors who are willing to be mentors, and all you have to do is seek out their help. Making a connection with them does not cost you anything but a little bit of time, and it is well worth taking advantage of these resources while you can. You may have these contacts for the rest of your professional career, and it never hurts to have an established person dedicated to their field as someone who can vouch for you.

Romero is a junior natural resources management major from Las Cruces, New Mexico. ➤➤@JenRomeroDT

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Editorial: University of Oklahoma handles fraternity incident better than Texas Tech

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he University of Oklahoma community was rocked Sunday night by a video allegedly showing members of the university’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity partaking in a racist chant. Members stood and pumped their fists while chanting “There will never be a ni**** SAE. You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me.”

Administration officials were quick to respond. The university severed ties with the fraternity and ordered members to move out of the fraternity house within 24 hours. University President David Boren did not mince words, saying, “we have no room for racists and bigots” at Oklahoma.

This is a serious incident and Oklahoma officials should be commended for their swift and decisive response. Racism should never be tolerated in any form.

Oklahoma’s response looks even more timely and appropriate when compared to Texas Tech’s response to a similar incident that took place in September when a banner reading “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal” was displayed at an “unsanctioned” Phi Delta Theta fraternity party.

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making light of rape was essentially nonexistent. University officials formed the Task Force on Greek Organization Culture to “maintain the university’s moral and upstanding values,” Tech President M. Duane Nellis said in an email sent to students, faculty and staff in September announcing the formation of the task force.

The task force, composed primarily of Tech officials, faculty and Greek organization members, released its interim report in December — more than three months after the incident. The final report is expected to be released in May. The report listed 29 recommendations to improve Greek life, but will have no effect on eradicating sexism and rape culture at Tech. All the task force will accomplish is to make the management of Greek organizations more bureaucratic.

The Texas Epsilon chapter was sanctioned and suspended by the Phi Delta Theta international headquarters, but essentially received no punishment from the university. That is a far cry from how Oklahoma severed ties with its Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter and how it is looking into taking actions against

individual members.

Maybe racism will not completely disappear at Oklahoma, but at least Oklahoma officials have responded appropriately and have shown they take the incident seriously. Tech officials and the Student Government Association have done nothing and have nothing to show but empty words and toothless “recommendations.” It doesn’t help that SGA President Hayden Hatch is a member of Phi Delta Theta and was present at the fraternity party.

This disparity leaves many unanswered questions. Why was Tech’s reaction so delayed and uninspiring? The two incidents are similar in nature — racism and rape culture are equally deplorable and are not to be tolerated. Does this mean racism is taken more seriously than rape culture by our society, or is this simply a case of Tech officials dropping the ball and letting the offending students off the hook?

These are all questions the Tech community must ask of its leaders. If Oklahoma can respond so swiftly and decisively to such an unacceptable action by some of its students, why can’t Tech react in a similar manner? ➤➤@dailytoreador

Society should avoid practice of assumptions and biases

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n society today, assumption runs rampant. Individuals assume the worst about someone who disagrees with them.

People often assume someone hates them because others disagree with their viewpoints, or we must hate them for the same reason. Hatred over religious differences has, in the more culturally developed societies, given way to hatred over ideology.

Coincidentally, it seems like the same people running the inquisition back in the Medieval times are still alive today forcing their views on other people.

Self-bias is strong in this age of labels and political correctness. All a person has to do to make a subject off limits for general discussion is to come up with an emotion-evoking label and be a decent thespian. As Jacques Barzon once said, “Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.” So often in society you have to dance around the whole field just to get someone to see the weed they missed.

You might hurt their feelings or sensitivities otherwise. Are there subjects you shouldn’t cross the line on? Yes. Have I? Yes. Humans are fallible, so live, learn and move on.

Those who know me well have long known while I do have my own opinions on most things, I always insist people are people. I’ve never cared much about what gender, race or creed someone was as long as they could get the job done. In fact, this has led to me having quite a few friends that are the complete opposite of me.

For example, I’m not an LGBT ally, but I have a lesbian friend, let’s call her Kate for identity protection purposes, who I constantly bragged to superiors about being one of the hardest-working people I’ve ever met. Why? She deserved the praise and it had absolutely nothing to do with her gender or orientation. It’s her life to live. Did we still disagree on some issues? Of course we did.

We agreed to disagree and went on down the road. We didn’t feel we had to hate each other because we disagreed on a subject. I also made it very clear that I felt it was her life to live, and my beliefs or opinions should in no instance dictate or legislate her lifestyle.

What we’ve also seen in this age of labels and political correctness are words only one group can use, and are used as a weapon against other groups. Let’s talk about one of those infamous words I’ve had to deal with recently — sexism.

The Merriam-Webster website defines sexism as, “unfair treatment of people because of their sex.” We could argue all day over the semantics of the phrase unfair treatment, but I’ll leave it up to the

John Bowles reader to define.

By that definition, and cultural context, a guy saying that a woman should stay in the kitchen is sexist.

So is a guy saying a woman should stay in the kitchen while he cleans the dining room sexist? How many readers actually saw the last seven words of the last sentence their first time through, and how many automatically assumed, “Yes that’s sexist!”

In my family, cooking is considered a life survival skill. All members are expected to be able to cook with raw ingredients to a certain level of proficiency. As several friends can tell you, I’m not a bad cook. So is it sexist for me to expect women to know how to cook, considering that I’m a man?

What would you have thought so before you knew the context? Would you have assumed I’m being sexist?

Fortunately, this example doesn’t ever come up, but I think that is mostly because everyone is always stuffing their faces with my cooking.

Let’s take it one step beyond to get to the real meat and potatoes of the subject. Is a man blaming a woman for his individual failings sexist? I can describe several examples including a mass-shooter in California. But, for us not be sexist, we would have to also say that a woman blaming a man for her individual failings is also sexist. We would also have to even go to the point that multiple women blaming a man or multiple men blaming a woman for their individual failings is sexist as well. But how often do we see that happen, and how often do we just assume one gender or another is at fault?

So what about racism? How often does someone assume one race or an-

other is at fault or lives a certain way?

The Merriam-Webster website defines racism as, “poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race, and the belief that some races of people are better than others.”

To put it in my own words, I would say that while the melanin content of your skin decides how easily you get sunburn, it does not decide who you are as a person. You decide that. I’ve been called evil because I’m white, when I’m actually kind of a mutt. I’ve had people with more melanin look upon me as if I had the plague until an individual with more melanin who actually knew me greeted me warmly. Then suddenly, as if by magic, I did not have the evident plague of whiteness anymore.

That’s blatant racism and it’s also one of the reasons I hated living where I did in Virginia where I was stationed.

People and their assumptions.

People emotionalize words like illegal, white, black, gay, girl, chick, dude, thug and more. I even had a female once tell me the word “gal” was a racist once. Suddenly a word that was fine to say two days ago is suddenly off limits because it might offend someone or one offensive person used it in an offensive or overbearing way.

As Thomas Sowell said, “In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.” This means you have to admit there is a problem to fix. You have to bring the ugly out in the open and deal with it in honesty and truth. Or, sit there and call other people sexist, racist, heretic, denier or whatever your offensive word of the day is. Your life is your narrative. If you don’t like something, change it.

Bowles is a senior pre-engineering major from Garland. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

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City of Lubbock fails in post-storm cleanup

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exas Tech students enjoyed a “snow day” cancellation on Friday, Feb. 27. According to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, citing a national weather service database, the city received four inches of snow on Thursday night into Friday morning. Belowfreezing temperatures only served to exacerbate the winter weather.

The snowfall and ongoing freeze left Lubbock roads in terrible driving conditions. It was extremely dangerous to drive all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. On-campus roads and off-campus roads alike were covered with a thick layer of ice, meaning sharp turns and sudden braking posed a significant risk to drivers, their passengers and pedestrians. To make matters worse, the sidewalks were also caked with ice, making it nearly impossible to walk away from the slippery roads.

As far as I could tell, the city did almost nothing to ensure the safety of its residents.

For example, University Avenue, one of the most traveled and most dangerous roads leading away from campus, was packed with ice for three straight days.

The on and off ramps for Marsha Sharp Freeway were covered with ice, creating dangerous conditions on one of the high-speed roads throughout the city. These roads are often traveled by Tech students, and many of us experienced driving in these dangerous conditions last weekend.

I was shocked to learn, however, many highways outside of the city limits had been plowed in the aftermath of the storm. At least one lane had been cleared for travel, with plowed snow piled up alongside. This begs the question, why didn’t the city follow the county’s lead and clear the major roads in Lubbock? If it did attempt to clear the roads, why

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Even by just fully clearing a few major roads, such as 4th Street, University Avenue, 19th Street, 50th Street, Slide Road and Marsha Sharp Freeway, the city could have greatly improved the safety of many Tech students.

Instead, it appears as though city leaders sat idly by while many students risked their lives in the dangerous conditions. While a few snowplows were seen throughout the weekend, they seemingly had a negligible effect on road conditions. Nearly all of the major intersections, including 19th Street and University Avenue, billed as the “most dangerous intersection in Lubbock,” also lacked proper sanding to ensure that drivers could brake effectively. All in all, many students and citizens would describe the city’s road safety efforts as lackadaisical and ineffective throughout the weekend.

While it can be argued students should have stayed home as opposed to risking being involved in an accident due to the weather, city leaders must realize no matter how foolhardy it may seem, this is simply not an option for many college students. Furthermore, the city should ensure that roads are clear so businesses will be able to operate and keep the economy in Lubbock flourishing.

It is a primary responsibility of elected or appointed officials to appropriate city funds to ensure the safety and well-being of the population. Instead of running speed traps on warm August days, perhaps they should direct some funding to having enough salting, sanding and snowplowing equip-

ment and the necessary personnel to keep Lubbock’s citizens safe and keep the city moving in times of gruesome weather conditions.

It is possible the overly optimistic weather forecast was what the city used to justify its nearly nonexistent early response — Lubbock was forecast to reach above-freezing temperatures Friday afternoon or Saturday, not late Sunday (which is what actually happened). Maybe city officials planned on letting the sun do their jobs for them. If this is the case, then there are two major concerns.

First, what was the city planning to do Friday morning before the sun came out? Let the roads become a freezing, dangerous mess and hope no one decided to drive? Secondly, why didn’t they realize the forecast had been incorrect and begin plowing operations as soon as possible?

The best time to plow the roads would have been Friday morning, while the snow was still soft. To the outside observer, it almost seemed as if everyone with the power to order the necessary operations was on vacation.

For the sake of all Tech students and the rest of the Lubbock, let’s hope the next time we have a large snowstorm, city officials recall lessons from last week’s storm and are more decisive in their approach. When human lives are at stake, “lackadaisical” doesn’t cut it. Why couldn’t our local government react effectively to the most dangerous conditions of the year, especially given how foreseeable they were? Tech students and Lubbock citizens alike should demand answers to this question during the coming months.

White is a junior petroleum engineering major from Albuquerque, New Mexico. ➤➤ jwhite@dailytoreador.com

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Offense motivated by failures of last season

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

Spring football practices at Texas Tech are in full swing after finishing the 2014 season with a disappointing record.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said the team had practice during the weekend and Monday and will practice on Wednesday before the players are off for spring break.

“We got after it pretty well.

Since we put pads on, it’s been physical,” he said. “Defense is still learning, but they’ve been aggressive, so it’s been fun to watch their development so far.”

One change for the team this offseason was putting special teams coach Darrin Chiaverini’s responsibility also on the outside receivers.

Chiaverini said the shift was something he asked for and he has enjoyed splitting time between special teams and outside receivers.

“With my background, playing (receiver) and coaching the position is something that I’m comfortable with,” he said. “I thought I could bring something to the table and talked to coach Kingsbury and coach Morris. They’ve been more

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He continued working there in college while getting a degree at the University of Toledo and then earned a two-year sports turf management degree from Michigan State.

Except for a brief stint in field construction and sales, which Kaspitzke said he did not enjoy, he has spent every year since age 16 working in athletic field management.

“I went into the (Mud Hen’s) stadium. I enjoyed it and was just there year after year,” he said. “Next thing I know I find out I can make a career out of it and that’s what I’ve been doing since.”

After working with several minor league teams and professional teams like the NFL’s New England Patriots and New England Revolution of the MLS, Kaspitzke was hired at Tech in August of 2013.

Assistant Athletics Director of Event Operations Steve Maines said he was a part of Kaspitzke’s interview process, and was impressed by his extensive experience.

“He hit home with me as far as just being someone who understood the importance of grounds and grounds keeping,” Maines said. “(He) understood having the play-

than accommodating, it’s been a good transition.”

Both Chiaverini and offensive coordinator Eric Morris said Reginald Davis has been among the most impressive players this offseason.

“I’ve been really impressed with Reg Davis. His practice habits have improved, there’s no doubt about it. He’s a man on a mission as far as wanting to prove people wrong,” Chiaverini said. “He didn’t have a great year last year, had a lot of drops and things didn’t go his way but he’s fighting to be better. Ability-wise he’s as good as I’ve seen around the Big 12.”

Alongside Reginald Davis, wide receiver Jakeem Grant is entering his senior season.

Grant has gladly stepped into a more vocal leadership role for his final season. He said he enjoys leading by telling jokes to try to get everyone to relax and have fun.

“I got a joke the other day, it was like ‘man, you been here for four years and still haven’t gotten any taller,” Grant said.

Despite other offensive players attempting to take their game to a higher level in the offseason, Grant said he is still the fastest player on

the roster.

“Definitely me. I keep saying that. I tell them I’m always going to be the fastest at Texas Tech until I leave,” he said. “I’m still going to be the fastest on the team not matter what. You might tell the media that you’re the fastest, but I’m still the fastest.”

One of the young receivers that Grant said he has been helping out is sophomore wide receiver Ian Sadler.

Sadler said he wants to improve his overall game before next season, but blocking and route running are the two largest areas of concern for him.

After becoming the first Red Raider running back to run for 1,000 yards last season, senior DeAndre Washington said having almost all of the offensive line return is exciting for the whole offense.

“That was huge. I’m glad we got all those guys back,” Washington said. “It’s going to be interesting to see what we can do this year.”

After considering whether to return to Tech for his senior season or enter the draft, tackle Le’Raven Clark talked with the coaching staff and choose to return to his school.

ing conditions such that the teams can go out and compete.”

Throughout his career, Kaspitzke has worked with several different types of field surfaces and also covers all the fields, working with both grass and turf in his job at Tech.

Kaspitzke said he has three fulltime employees on his staff, two temporary employees who have been working with him less than a year and two turf science students who serve as interns.

Between the eight employees, Kaspitzke and his crew cover every sporting complex on Tech’s campus — from Jones AT&T Stadium to the McLeod Tennis Complex.

The biggest difference at Tech, he said, is the lack of a real dirt infield at Rip Griffin Park, which cuts down on the effects of weather on the field and also cuts down on the daily wear and tear on the field.

“There’s a little bit more maintenance involved and the weather plays a lot more critical role (with a natural grass field),” Kaspitzke said, “because an aesthetic field will not get a fungus compared with natural grass.”

Kaspitzke said the turf field does have its own special upkeep, however, including putting some water in the turf if the weather is especially dry.

Several machines are involved in keeping the turf clean and free

of wear, Kaspitzke said, and his crew also has to add crumb rubber, which is a combination of tire scraps and sand, to the playing surface.

“There is some maintenance involved,” he said. “Not as much as a real grass field, but there is some maintenance.”

The all-synthetic surface has been at Rip Griffin Park for about eight years, and while he himself prefers natural grass, Kaspitzke said there is a place for artificial turf.

A decision to go back to natural grass at Rip Griffin Park would come from the coaching staff, Kaspitzke said, but as of right now the turf seems to be working well.

“Here, being in Lubbock, since we’re a dry, drought area,” he said, “it would just take a lot of water to maintain a grass field.”

Kaspitzke said he has talked to some coaches on the baseball and soccer teams about transitioning from grass to turf and there has not been much concern.

He said he was surprised to find out the soccer players do no switch cleats when changing playing surfaces, but for the most part the players are unaffected.

“I think with the younger generation coming up,” Kaspitzke said, “they’ve played on both grass and synthetic, so this is nothing new to them.” ➤➤@EvCorder_DT

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Clark said going pro or staying in school was not a tough decision.

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Texans release WR Andre Johnson Andre Johnson was released by the Houston Texans, and quarterback Ryan Mallett agreed to return to the team on Monday.

A 12-year veteran, Johnson, the longest-tenured Texan, was a firstround draft pick in 2003, joining the expansion team in its second season.

The 33-year-old Johnson had 85 catches for 936 yards last season, but the Texans were beginning to see DeAndre Hopkins as their top receiving threat.

“After exhausting all options of a possible trade, we informed Andre Johnson that he would be released (Monday),” general manager Rick Smith said. “No player in the history of this franchise has represented the team, city and community in a more professional way. Andre is a Hall of Fame caliber player and we appreciate his years of service and contributions to our team.”

Johnson is a seven-time Pro Bowler with seven 1,000-yard receiving seasons and has 1,012 receptions with 13,597 yards receiving in his career.

He led the NFL in yards receiving in 2008 and 2009. His career high came in 2012 when he had 1,598 yards receiving and the Texans reached the playoffs for the

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“Andre carried himself as a true professional and did everything that we asked him to do,” coach Bill O’Brien said. “Andre will go down as one of the best receivers to every play this game. We are thankful for what he has done for our organization and wish him well on his future playing career.”

Johnson played on just four teams with winning records and went through two 2-14 seasons with the Texans. He also had more than his fair share of quarterback woes. It started with the struggles of David Carr, included Matt Schaub performing so poorly in 2013 that he was benched, and playing with four different signal callers last season alone.

But Johnson was also there for the best times of this young franchise, helping the Texans to backto-back AFC South titles and trips to the playoffs in 2011 and 2012. He had 25 receptions for 358 yards in four career playoff games.

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“I don’t want to play for nobody else ... I don’t even think it would feel right,” he said then.

But after the Texans told him recently they didn’t see him as their top receiver anymore, he’d had enough and asked to be released or traded.

The move is a blow for longtime Texans fans who have always seen Johnson as the face of the franchise, even with the emergence of star defensive end J.J. Watt. Johnson was sitting courtside at a Houston Rockets game last week when he was introduced and received a standing ovation from the sellout crowd as Whitney Houston’s song “I Will Always Love You” played and he waved to the crowd.

Johnson is second among active players and 12th all-time in career yards receiving. His 64 career touchdown receptions are 10th among active players and his 80.5 yards receiving a game are fourth among active players.

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Red Raiders to face UTEP in doubleheader

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

After opening its first home series of the season, the Texas Tech softball team will travel to El Paso to face the UTEP Miners in doubleheader action at 2 p.m. today at the Helen of Troy Field.

In the opening games at home Friday, Utah Valley and the University of Tennessee Martin spoiled Tech’s doubleheader home opener, with Utah Valley defeating Tech 6-5 and UT Martin taking a 4-3 win.

Tech’s losses to Utah Valley and UT Martin extended a four-game losing streak for Tech. The Red Raiders snapped their losing streak Saturday with a 13-9 win over Utah Valley and an 8-5 win over UT Martin in doubleheader action.

Tech capped its home slate with a 13-5 run-rule win over the University of Texas at Arlington on Sunday.

Tech coach Adrian Gregory said after the win against UT Arlington, Tech picked up the momentum it missed after its losing stretch.

“I’m excited that we’re riding a high,” Gregory said. “We feel good about it, we’re walking with a little bit of swag which is what we’ve been missing so I feel really great about how we ended.”

Tech’s three wins at the home invitational put the team at a .500 record with 12 wins and 12 losses.

After the run-rule win against UT Arlington, Gregory said she wants to see no complacency from the team in its game versus UTEP. “We played them in the fall and we handled them pretty well, but I want us to not take anything for granted,” Gregory said. “I want us to not take any steps back.”

The Red Raiders hit two grand slams in the first and fourth innings of the game against UT Arlington.

The 6-19 Miners will come into their home field following a three-

game sweep of Middle Tennessee State at home.

UTEP had previously won one game in a 15-game stretch.

Sophomore outfielder and infielder Devon Thomey, who hit her first career grand slam in the fourth inning of Tech’s game versus UT Arlington, said she hopes to see the team bring the type of intensity it brought at the plate in its last win.

“I think we’ll do a great job of hitting off of them and just being us,” Thomey said.

In its 19-road-game schedule prior to the Texas Tech Invitational, the Red Raiders won nine of their 19 games and went 3-4 playing away.

Sophomore Infielder Ashley Fultz said she saw improvement in the team’s defense in its fivegame schedule.

“To be able to play defense, play behind our pitchers, we’ve been struggling with that, but we’re coming up,” Fultz said. ➤➤@DGaytanDT

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TEXAS TECH OUTFIELDER/CATCHER Kristi Belshe gets tagged out at third by University of Texas at Arlington infielder Meagan Michele during the Texas Tech Invitational on Saturday in the Rocky Johnson Field. Texas Tech defeated UT Arlington 13-5.

Students should exercise chance to storm courts, fields

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ately there has been a high level of discussion on college campuses across the nation as to whether court and field storming needs to be changed or eliminated altogether.

The debate was sparked after a recent basketball game between Kansas State and Kansas. Wildcat fans stormed the court after the upset win, which resulted in a Jayhawks player being bumped by a fan and Jayhawks head coach Bill Self being stuck against the scores table while trying to shake hands.

This caused many people to immediately come to the conclusion that fans rushing playing fields has

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become too dangerous and should not be allowed.

How many people were actively concerned with the topic of court storming before the basketball game? Not many.

The truth is, whenever the student section of a college sporting event rushes onto the court or field,

almost everyone does it to celebrate with the players on their team.

The Kansas State-Kansas game is an example of a few students storming the court for the wrong reasons, to try to injure an opponent’s player or torment the coach.

Students or fans who come onto the court for these reasons should be dealt with accordingly. But, the students who are running on the court to celebrate a win with fellow students and players should have the right to do so.

In my two and a half years as a student at Texas Tech, rushing the football field and storming the basketball court after upset victories

with thousands of other students have been some of favorite college moments. When I have come onto the court or field, attacking the other team never crossed my mind.

Everyone in college should get the chance to experience rushing at an athletics event.

While security limiting fans from running onto the court or field for a couple seconds to let the other team exit is not a bad idea, completely eliminating the rushing event is ludicrous.

There also has been recent debate about when it is “acceptable” for students to storm after a game.

Some have tried to implement rules

on when students can rush. This also is ridiculous.

There should be one simple rule about whether fans should be allowed to storm or not, they should whenever they feel like it.

Fans should be able to storm when they want to because usually a meaningful win was in part because of the help from a rowdy crowd.

Obviously fans are not going to abuse the event and start rushing courts and fields after beating a dramatically lesser opponent. But, fans are smart to enough figure out when it is and is not appropriate to storm.

Rushing courts and fields is a part of college sports. It is what happens.

People that do not know what it is like to storm after a huge win for our school should stop trying to mediate when students should or should not run onto the field.

If security can get the losing team into the locker room and fans storm for the right reasons, there are no issues and it should not change.

As long as I am attending Tech or watching Red Raider games in the future, I expect students to be storming after huge wins.

Jeremy Krakosky is a junior marketing and manager major from Red Oak. ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

Wide open Big 12 tournament features plenty of story lines Surveillance shows Aaron Hernandez night of killing KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Perhaps the best indication of just how wide open the Big 12 tournament is this year is the fact that Texas, sitting squarely on the NCAA tournament bubble, will play Wednesday night in a game generally reserved for teams that have had poor campaigns.

After a season full of intrigue, the league that boasts the nation’s top cumulative RPI and five teams ranked in the top 20 of the latest AP poll heads to the Sprint Center for its marquee event. And helping to kick things off will be the seventh-seeded Longhorns, a team once ranked in the top five that will instead be facing

Texas Tech on the opening night.

“Every team in our league right now has a chance to play their way in with an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, so in reality, this is part of the NCAA tournament,” Texas coach Rick Barnes said. “The parity in the league is that close.”

The tournament officially begins with eighth-seeded Kansas State taking on No. 9 seed TCU, with the winner advancing to face top-seeded Kansas on Thursday. The winner of the second game between Texas and Texas Tech earns a date with secondseeded Iowa State.

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against No. 5 seed West Virginia and third-seeded Oklahoma against No. 6 seed Oklahoma State.

“You could make a case that there are seven or eight teams that could win the tournament if they get hot,” said Kansas coach Bill Self. “I don’t think there are any other tournaments in America with that type of competitive balance.”

While the Jayhawks have dominated the regular season for more than a decade, history has proven that the Big 12 tournament levels the playing field. Three different schools have captured the crown each of the past three years, including Iowa State’s title run last season.

“That’s just life in the Big 12,” Cyclones forward Jameel McKay said.

“There’s no such thing as an easy out.

You can’t hide from these guys. If you want to be the best, you’ll have to beat some of the best teams in the country.”

While just about every game figures to be a toss-up — in other words, must-see TV — here are some things to watch for as the Big 12 tournament prepares to tip off: S H O RT- H A N D E D J AYHAWKS: Leading scorer Perry Ellis has a banged-up knee, point guard Frank Mason III has a bum ankle, forward Cliff Alexander is out while the NCAA investigates allegations of improper benefits and swingman Brannen Greene is coming off a one-game suspension. That’s hardly a recipe for March success. “I’m concerned,” Self acknowledged. “I don’t see how you could be at your best unless you have your full complement of guys.”

BOOMER SOONER: Oklahoma

won three straight Big 12 tournaments when Kelvin Sampson was in charge, the last in 2003. Since then?

The Sooners haven’t even reached the final night. But after a win over the Jayhawks, coach Lon Kruger’s troops are headed to the Sprint Center on a high.

BEWARE THE FROG: After going winless in the Big 12 last season, TCU has won three league games since mid-February. The Horned Frogs have also put a scare into Iowa State and Oklahoma in recent weeks, making them a dangerous No. 9 seed.

STAR POWER: The Big 12 may not have an uber-elite prospect this season, but there are plenty of players to watch. Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield was Big 12 player of the year, and players from four other schools joined him in making up the AP’s all-conference first team: Ellis, Georges Niang of Iowa State and Juwan Staten of West Virginia and Rico Gathers of Baylor.

STYLES MAKE FIGHTS: It’s an old adage in boxing, but it’s just as applicable to the Big 12, where just about everybody does something different. Want to see a unique approach to the zone defense? Check out Baylor. Want to see someone chuck up 3s?

Iowa State is your team. Want to see some frenzied, in-your-shorts pressing?

West Virginia has you covered.

“I’ve said it many times the coaching in this league is terrific.

Everybody is so well scouted,” Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins said.

“You know, everybody knows what the other team is going to do. It comes down to a matter of can you stop them?”

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Home surveillance video played for jurors Monday in the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez shows him holding what prosecutors say is a gun and leaving his house with two codefendants hours before the killing.

Hernandez is accused of the June 17, 2013, killing of Odin Lloyd, who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee. Lloyd was found shot to death in an industrial park not far from Hernandez’s home.

The video, taken by an extensive surveillance system in and around Hernandez’s home, shows him returning home from a night out celebrating Father’s Day with his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins. They are greeted by two Hernandez friends, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, who are also charged in the murder. Both men have pleaded not guilty and will be tried separately.

Prosecutors played the video Monday during testimony by Jennifer Fortier, 28, who baby-sat for Hernandez and Jenkins’ infant daughter that night.

On one clip, Hernandez can be seen walking through the living room carrying a black object at about 12:45 a.m. Fortier, who was there at the time, testified that she didn’t see the object.

The object is difficult to make out in the video, which is taken from across the room and isn’t sharp. Hernandez’s legal team has suggested it was a remote control or other device.

The video also shows Hernandez getting into the front passenger seat of a Nissan Altima rental car and leaving at 1:09 a.m. Wallace is driving and Ortiz sits in the rear driver’s-side seat.

Surveillance video taken at a gas station south of Boston about an hour later and played earlier for the jury showed Hernandez driving the Nissan. Prosecutors have previously said they went to pick up Lloyd, then took him to the industrial park, where he was shot to death shortly before 3:30 a.m.

The Nissan was returned to the rental car agency later that day with scrapes along the driver’s side and a missing driver’s-side mirror, according to previous testimony.

Fortier also testified that she ran into Hernandez, Lloyd and another man when she was in Boston with a friend two nights before the killing.

She, Lloyd, Hernandez and her friend went back to an apartment he kept in Franklin, not far from Gillette Stadium.

Once they got there, Fortier said, Hernandez called her into a bedroom, where he kissed her. She said she kissed him back, then pushed him away.

“I told him: ‘No, I’m your nanny.

I can’t do this,’” she said.

He responded that he understood, and she and her friend left, taking a cab back to Boston, she testified.

Fortier said Lloyd was sleeping on the couch when they left, early the morning of June 15.

Mushers embark on new route across Alaska FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Iditarod mushers began their 1,000-mile trek across Alaska along a new route Monday after poor trail conditions forced organizers to push the race’s start north, bypassing a mountain range.

Canadian rookie Rob Cooke, who hails from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, was the first musher to leave Fairbanks as fans looked on from the starting gate and along the expressway.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race usually kicks off 225 miles south in Willow. But because of a lack of snow this year, officials shifted the entire route around the Alaska Range and an area that left many mushers bruised and bloodied last year.

This is only the second time Fairbanks has hosted the official start; similar low-snow conditions moved the

Iditarod there in 2003.

The finish line remains in Nome, on the state’s wind-whipped western coast.

The route change eliminates mountainous terrain and a treacherous gorge.

But the race now will be run on about 600 miles of river ice, and that can create a whole new set of obstacles.

Some mushers have hinted the new path might benefit Pete Kaiser, a young musher who recently won an all-river ice sled dog race in southwest Alaska.

Kaiser disputed that Monday.

“I don’t see it as an advantage or disadvantage for me or anyone else, really,” he said as he took a break from packing his sled before the race started.

“It’s just another trail through the state, and it’s still a thousand miles, and it’s still through some rugged country,” Kaiser said.