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SGA debates Pulitzer Prize winner speaks at Tech freshmen role Alumnus returns to Tech for lecture By KASSIDY KETRON

by trying to make himself a person of intrigue and passing intelligence to the Lebanese government, leading to his kidnapping by Hezbollah militiamen. This was just one of Robberson’s examples of how not to win a Pulitzer Prize at the annual Buesseler Lectureship on Thursday evening in the Merket Alumni Center.

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SGA passes parking bill By STEPHEN GIPSON STAFF WRITER

Members of Texas Tech’s Student Government Association met Thursday to discuss freshmen involvement within the senate as well as parking issues for residence halls. Stuart Williams, SGA senator and author of a bill proposing freshmen representation within the senate, said freshmen do not have a voice within the senate.

The legislation proposes that the members of the Freshman Council choose two elected representatives. Williams said he believes the Freshman Council currently in place does not sufficiently represent Tech’s freshmen class. Williams said he sees the council as a yearlong, senate-sponsored grooming of students to become senators. SGA continued on Page 2 ➤➤

Community Day creates new opportunity to serve By TRAVIS BURKETT STAFF WRITER

This weekend, Texas Tech students will have a new opportunity to serve the Lubbock community. The Salvation Army and the Tech Student Government

Association put together Tech Lubbock Community Day, an event bringing Tech students and Salvation Army staff together to complete many community service projects.

Tod Robberson said he deserved to be kidnapped. After all, he said, he violated everything he knew about journalistic ethics. When working for the Arab News in the mid 1980s, Robberson said he inadvertently turned himself into a spy

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2010 PULITZER PRIZE winner and Texas Tech Alumnus Tod Robberson speaks Thursday at the 2011 Buesseler Lectureship series. Robberson currently works for the Dallas Morning News.

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DWIGHT HILL, A chef at the Horn-Knapp dining hall, plates his entrees during the Tech Iron Chef competition Tuesday in the Student Union Ballroom.

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BOB SMITH, PROVOST and senior vice president, thanks Linda Owens, with Facilities Planning & Construction, for her 15 years of service during the annual service awards Wednesday in the Student Union Ballroom.

Ceremony honors length of time spent working at Tech By ROCIO RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER

Texas Tech honored 250 employees Thursday afternoon for their service to the university at the annual TTU Length of Service Awards Ceremony. “I think this is just a neat

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DREW LATHAM, A chef at The Market, plates his final entrees during the Tech Iron Chef competition on Wednesday in the Student Union Ballroom.

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Ashlie Haas clicked the timer button, and the race began. In one hour, two of Texas Tech’s top chefs had to complete an appetizer and an entrée as part of the annual Tech Iron Chef Culinary Cuisine Showcase on Wednesday in the Student Union Ballroom. The chefs, Drew Latham, from the Market in Stangel/Murdough residence halls, and Dwight Hill, from Horn/Knapp, had to use chicken — the “secret” ingredient. Haas, a senior electronic media and communications major from Deer Park, said the Tech Activities

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Board wanted to be as true to the Food Network’s “Iron Chef” show as possible. The audience watched as the two cooked and eventually got to sample the dishes after the hour was finished. “It’s interesting,” said junior Brittany Bymnu, an early childhood education major from Abilene. “I like seeing their creations.” These creations included Hill’s chicken frittata — angel hair pasta and crusted chicken with a lemon butter sauce — and Latham’s polenta dish — chicken and polenta with a wild mushroom sauce. CHEF continued on Page 3 ➤➤

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Community Calendar TODAY Holi Festival of Colors Time: Noon Where: SUB, Red Raider Lounge So, what is it? The Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center and the South Asian Student Association present the fourth Annual Holi Festival of Colors. On Friday, SASA will host the opening ceremony, allowing members to discuss the rich history and traditions of Holi. a sampling of Indian cuisine will be offered. Free QPR Training Time: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Student Wellness Center, Room 100 So, what is it? QPR stands for Question, Persuade and Refer, and using QPR skills will provide hope to those in crisis. The Student Counseling Center is currently offering free official QPR training. Trainees will be certified as QPR Gatekeepers and will learn how to intervene and get help for someone in a suicidal crisis. Texas Tech Baseball Time: 6:30 p.m. Where: Dan Law Field So, what is it? Root for the Red Raiders as they take on the Nebraska Huskers. Bernstein’s “Candide” Time: 7 p.m. Where: Allen Theatre So, what is it? The comedy tells the story of a young man on a quest to find the

truth — or at least a coping mechanism. His instructor has gone to great lengths to educate him on the best of all possible worlds. This work is based on the existential musings of the French philosopher Voltaire. The show continues at 7 p.m. Saturday.

SATURDAY Texas Tech Football Spring Game Time: 1 p.m. Where: Jones AT&T Stadium So, what is it? Watch the Red Raiders in their final tune-up for the spring. Holi Festival of Colors Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Student Rec Fields So, what is it? The Cross-Cultural Center presents the Holi Festival of Colors, featuring live cultural performances, free food and a festival of colors. Free T-shirts will be provided to the first 250 participants. Texas Tech Softball Time: 2 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday Where: Rocky Johnson Field So, what is it? Cheer on the Red Raiders as they play a series against the No. 16 Missouri Tigers. Texas Tech Baseball Time: 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday Where: Dan Law Field So, what is it? Root for the Red Raiders as they take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a series.

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Physics Club recognized with awards By PRESTON REDDEN STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech chapter of the Society of Physics Students has been given two awards by the American Institute of Physics. Daniel Dominguez, president of the society, said the awards have given the club freedom to potentially pursue more endeavors within the physics department. The club was named an Outstanding Chapter for the 2009-10 academic year by the American Institute of Physics. The club also won the Marsh W. White Outreach award for the second consecutive year. Sung-Won Lee, assistant physics professor and faculty adviser, said the chapter is proud to have received these awards. Lee said it is nice to see the hard work of the club members

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“The only thing they do on the council is train people to help with senate functions and plan parties,” Williams said. “They do not even talk about ideas or parliamentary procedure. They come to senate meetings once a month and they observe. If it was a council that was an advisory body and had real solutions and had real honest debates and then went to their adviser and gave them ideas then that would be fine with me.” The senate did not pass the bill. Several senators voiced their concern, saying freshmen are still learning how Tech works as a university and would not be experienced enough with SGA to be effective senators. SGA senator Blake Bradley said allowing freshmen in the senate could further the immaturity that already exists in the senate. “I’ll be honest, this place kind of turns into a Mickey Mouse Club sometimes without a bunch of 18 year olds. Imagine if we start getting 18 year olds involved,” Bradley said. Williams said he believes freshmen are ready to be more involved

recognized. There are 700 Society of Physics Students chapters in the United States, he said, and only 50 schools were recognized as outstanding chapters. Dominguez, a senior physics major from Houston, said the Marsh W. White Outreach award will allow the club to participate in an outreach program. “I would like to use our outreach money to spend time with kids K-12,” Dominguez said. “We could teach them about physics and maybe influence their decision to attend Texas Tech.” Lee said the awards are a great achievement for the club, and Tech was one of the largest schools in the area to receive the Outstanding Chapter award. Neither Texas A&M University nor the University of Texas received the award, he said. Roger Lichti, physics chair, said he is proud of the club and the recognition the club has brought to Tech and the physics department. Lichti also said Dominguez with SGA, but SGA is preventing their participation. In other legislation, the senate passed a bill to help students in Zlot residence hall parking keep their spots during events on campus. According to the bill, residence hall parking lots are only reserved for permit holders on weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The bill proposes the residence hall parking lots be reserved 24 hours per day every day for permit holders. Matt Pippen, SGA senator and author of the bill, said a concert and a “Beauty and the Beast” play prevented permit holders from parking in their spaces. The spaces were taken by non-permit holders’ vehicles and buses leaving students with no parking and encouraging students to park illegally to get to their dorm rooms. He said many family members and friends of the students within the dorms use the parking lot when visiting. Those interests still will be addressed. Pippen said he sees this bill as the first step in discussions with University Parking Services and the Residence Hall Association to alleviate problems students have with the residence hall lots. ➤➤sgipson@dailytoreador.com

was awarded a leadership award for his leadership in the Tech chapter. “The Society of Physics Students is a great club to have in the physics department,” Lichti said. “The organization is a big help in keeping students as physics majors.” Lee said the selection process involves sending the American Institute of Physics an annual report about what is going on in the local chapter. He said the report includes what the chapter has been doing for the past year, including outreach programs and volunteering. Dominguez said the club also is trying to reinstate the physics honor society at Tech, Sigma Pi Sigma, which has not been on the Tech campus for about 10 years. Graduate students would also be able to join the Society of Physics Students through Sigma Pi Sigma, he said. Lee said the club is involved in multiple philanthropies and volunteer op-

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Robberson, the speaker for the lecture, is a 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner in editorial writing, a Texas Tech alumnus and a former reporter for the University Daily, now The Daily Toreador. Now Robberson works as an editorial writer with the Dallas Morning News, a job he has had since 1997. The piece for which Robberson said he received the Pulitzer Prize is a project he had launched to attempt to bridge the gap between north and south Dallas, which is still largely racially segregated. The project, Robberson said, presented statistics about the fact that the southern part of Dallas is composed of poor African American inhabitants, whereas the north is dominated by rich Caucasians. “We needed to be able to show statistically to our readers, to our business community, and to the city council that this is an urgent problem and something needs to be done to change it,” he said. Robberson said his advice on how to win a Pulitzer Prize would be to follow the direction he and his coworkers at the Dallas newspaper took. However, he said, if journalists do not want to win the coveted award, they could follow the same path he did in

portunities, including Race for the Cure and “star parties.” At a star party, Lee said, students can come out to the observatory to look at the stars and enjoy barbecue. Lichti said the success of the club largely is because of the students in the club. He said the student members come up with the ideas of what the club should do and where the money they have been awarded should go. It is always good to see students take a leadership role and do something great with the club, he said. Lee said the fact the club received these two awards is no small feat. He said the Tech chapter is one of the few big universities as well as one of the few universities with a large graduate program selected. “Tech has a very large graduate physics program,” Lee said. “Tech is more of a research-based university, and it is great that we are getting this kind of recognition.” ➤➤predden@dailytoreador.com

1980 when he accepted an internship as the sports economy editor of Arab News and spent the duration of the internship in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. During his time at the Arab News, Robberson was given the task to edit a news release and turn it into a news story. The news release, Robberson said, was from the Embassy of the Republic of China, also known as Taiwan, but in his edits Robberson unknowingly replaced every reference with the People’s Republic of China. “It literally caused an international incident,” he said. “The government of Taiwan formally protested to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and they accused me of being a spy for the People’s Republic.” Sara Krueger, a sophomore public relations major from Fort Worth, said the fact that Robberson is a successful Tech alumnus and has won a Pulitzer Prize gives her hope for her career. The message she said she was able to take from the lecture was that it is important for journalists to control their egos when they begin to succeed. “I really thought it was important what he said about how he focused on all the negative things, and I’m not a journalism major,” Krueger said, “but I still think it’s important to make sure that you’re always looking at things objectively.” ➤➤kketron@dailytoreador.com

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The ceremony took place in the Red Raider Ballroom and was presented by the Human Resources Department. The Length of Service Awards Ceremony is a long-standing tradition at Tech that began more than 20 years ago. Those honored were presented with a service pin commemorating their 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 or 40 years of service to Tech. “I have always been struck with how the faculty and the staff at Texas Tech are so dedicated to our students and our research and our mission,” Clark said. “I’ve never really found a group of employees or a work force that’s more dedicated to their organization.” Chancellor Kent Hance opened the ceremony with encouraging words to honorees and guests. “We’re doing a good job under the (financial) circumstances,” Hance said. “I believe that no matter where you go, you can be proud to say you worked at Texas Tech.” Hance received a service pin for his 10 years of service at Tech. Grace Hernandez, chief of staff in the President’s Office and overseer of Human Resources administration, said when a person has worked in one place for so long and may feel underappreciated, letting employees know the administration recognizes their hard work is important.

La Vida “I think that it is something special and necessary to let staff know that we feel that their years of service is something that is very important to us,” Hernandez said. “This is just a small way for us to thank our employees and acknowledge them and let them know that we know why we are where we are as far as the successes that we have, and it’s because of them.” Provost Bob Smith presented the honored employees with the pins and individualized introductions to the audience. Juan Muñoz, vice provost for Undergraduate Education and vice president for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Com munity Engagement, closed the ceremony. The honorees were from various different positions, departments, programs and services, from research services to grounds maintenance to University Student Housing. Deborah Finlayson, one of the 20-year honorees, said the key to a successful business is to distinguish the employees for their hard work and to let them know their time and effort is necessary to make a business run. “I thought it was very cool to see all these people get recognized,” said Finlayson, senior director of Annual Giving Programs. “It’s a nice way to recognize everyone for their hard work, and I think the provost did a really job of recognizing every individual person.” ➤➤rrodriguez@dailytoreador.com

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Three judges scored the meals on taste, texture and presentation. Latham won the appetizer category with a blackened chicken salad, and Hill won the entrée category with his chicken frittata. Alan Cushman, the administrator of business development with Hospitality Services said the department was on hand to offer information about the program, and to show off their chefs. “We pride ourselves on the quality of food we put out there every day,” he said. “This shows the university we do have quality people involved.” Both Latham and Hill are professional chefs, and Cushman said many of the chefs on campus attended the prestigious Culinary Institute of America. “Students are here to achieve their academic goals,” Cushman said, “and feeding them is a part of that.” Each dining location on campus has a professional chef working with the location involved in meal planning, preparation, cooking and supervising all food safety at the location. “It’s reassuring that at Tech, they are concerned with the quality we receive,” said freshman ASL and elementary education major Sarah Forehand. Forehand said she cheered for Hill in the competition because he had such a great personality. The chefs interacted with the hosts during the event. Sophomore Luke Horton volunteered to host as an opportunity to get on a microphone, he said. Calling himself a big fan of culinary competition, the accounting major from Fort Stockton narrated the show and talked to the chefs about the dishes, their favorite foods and cooking tips like any good Food Network host. “This isn’t as exciting; there’s no Hollywood effect,” he said, “But the smell is real, and that’s an upgrade from TV.” Many agreed the food was the best part. While Latham and Hill cooked on propane burners in the front of the room, other chefs worked in the back making miniature versions of Hill’s and Latham’s dishes for the audience members. All of the judges agreed the food was great, as did the audience, and Horton called it fantastic. “We’re all college students,” Haas said. “We love free things, and we love free food.”

The event is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lubbock Salvation Army on 16th Street. According to a memo released by the Salvation Army, 150 Tech students, along with Salvation Army staff and volunteers, are expected take part in the community service. Melody Paton, a communityrelations associate for the Salvation Army, said while college students may be strapped for cash, they can contribute to their community in other ways. “Being a college student, you don’t have a lot of money to give, but something that you can give is time, and that is just as important to us as any other kind of donation,” she said. Tyler Patton, SGA president-

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Exhibit displays India’s culture through student photos, journals By ROCIO RODRIGUEZ STAFF WRITER

With a culture of modern and ancient lifestyles, India is an open source of study and research, an opportunity the “India — An Architectural Point of View” course gladly took advantage of. “The students got to see a variety of different kinds of buildings they wouldn’t have experienced in this country,” said architecture professor Joseph Aranha. “They saw Hindu temples, they saw Muslim mosques, they saw fortresses, they saw palaces, unique buildings, and they got to see rural life.” The students took the course during the fall semester at Texas Tech during which they learned about Indian architecture and the different cultures they were going to see represented in New Delhi, Jaipur and Agra, Aranha said. They visited the areas from Dec. 28 to Jan. 8. The class, an honors seminar course that gave students a multicultural credit, was provided with free transportation and accommodation through an agreement with the Rai Foundation in India, a non-governmental organization concerned with the socio-culture of India and its people, Aranha said. “The whole idea of the class and elect, said students were excited at the chance to put in some work to better the community. He said of the 150 students who signed up for the event, 50 signed up in the first two days of registration alone. In the past, Tech has put together similar community projects, but this will be the first time in the past few years such an event will occur. Several MBA students thought of the new community service idea almost a year ago, Patton said. The event includes painting the shelter’s dining room and offices, repainting the basketball court, making repairs to a volleyball court and a shed, staining a play set, and weeding and planting flowers around the premises.

of the trip was to convey the diversity of India — the contrast, the variety,” Aranha said. “And hopefully this exhibit conveys that.” The exhibit currently is on display in the architecture library, located in the Architecture building, giving viewers a chance to see where the students went and what they saw. Photographs accompany journals, posters and personal statements of the students. Bradon Loya, a senior physics major from Plains, said it is difficult describing the different people and experiences he had in India except that it was unpredictable. “There were times when I was cold, when I was hot, when I was miserable — but then at the same extreme, there were times when I felt it was the neatest place in the world,” he said. “I saw things that took my breath away.” Loya said the extremes of the places he saw and the constant change really showed him what it meant to be American. “I had times when I thought I was in a horrible place, and it didn’t have necessaries that we have here in the United States,” Loya said. “(But) it was exciting. It was a constant change.” The students were required to do research on a specific topic about India and present a poster to their peers to get background knowledge before going, Aranha said.

“Unlike most countries, India has so much diversity, so much contrast, that going there without knowing anything about the place can be too much to understand, too much to try to focus on,” he said. “Many of them describe the experience as a sensory overload.” Brandon Reeves, an animal science and political science major from Mount Solon, Va., said the experience of learning about a different culture was not only enriching, but helped him build confidence and understand more about who he is. “It was definitely what I would call an eye-opening experience,” the junior said. “It’s one thing to read about differ-

ent countries and to learn about them, but until you are actually over there immersed in it and experiencing it, it’s just a whole different level of understanding and experience.” The architecture was not only stunning, but the contrast of rich and poor was something that caught his attention, Reeves said. “To just see how people live without the necessities of life and how they interact with each other and are still such a happy society and get along well so well, that’s one thing that really stuck with me,” Reeves said.

Also, student volunteers will do demolition work to prepare a building for renovations. “They’ve got a facility where they can house families temporarily, and they have just acquired some space that they are going to use to expand the facility,” Patton said. Patton said the event will help the Salvation Army accomplish some of the

things it has not had the time or resources to do yet. Paton said the student volunteers will help in doing things the Salvation Army ordinarily cannot do on its own. “They will be doing a lot of landscaping for us, which we are just not able to do normally,” she said. Bringing together a large group of students will allow a lot of progress to be

made, Patton said. “It’s an opportunity to help them tackle their biggest laundry list of projects at once,” he said. “It’s not every day that you’ve got 150 bodies to work on the things you need to get done. “I really think that we are going to have a chance to benefit a lot of people out of this.”

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PHOTOS FROM THE College of Architecture exhibit “India — An Architectural Point of View” hang in the architecture library Thursday in the Architecture building.

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any of us are the cliché broke college student. While having little to no money may be our current situation, it should not be a reason or an excuse not to date. We are often under the impression a date equals spending money. Perhaps we are just not exploring all of our possibilities. The typical date would be dinner and a movie, but that can get

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doesn’t cost much money. The reason for this is because it shows the other individual listens and actually cares about the things we say and feel. Why don’t we think the same applies to dating? We all have to eat. In an effort to save money, maybe you could cook your date’s favorite dish right at home. This would save money, and it would also give your date a chance to help. The situation is now not only you two having dinner, but both of you cooking dinner together. Interesting things could happen in the process. Museums, parks and bookstores are all places we can enjoy for free. The museum allows you to do something you probably don’t do very often. You and your date could walk around and talk about the art. If you choose to take a date to the park, this can actually be a rather romantic setting depending on what time of day it is. You can have intimate conversations while walking around. You can even feed the ducks. Going to the bookstore can be a fun date. The two of you can pick up a book that interests you and maybe even discuss it. If both of you are a little silly, you can find funny books and laugh together. You can invite your date over to paint or write. All that matters is there is an interest in what is about to happen, or at least your date is open to it. If you know the individual you are dating likes coffee, maybe you both go to Starbucks for a cup of coffee. If he or she likes poetry, take him or her to a poetry slam. Take an interest in what interests that individual.

There are many free events that take place on the Tech campus. We should all take advantage of these events, especially those of interest to us. While attending these free events, we can also take someone along with us. There are free movies, concerts, plays, etc. If you chose to not do anything, it is not because of lack of accessibility; it is because you simply don’t want to. Let’s not blame our lack of money for us not dating, or better yet not dating properly. I say many of us are not dating properly because hanging out at someone’s house is not a date. Many of us have begun thinking hanging out at someone’s house is proper and is OK. It shouldn’t be acceptable. Are we all aware of our options but instead opting to be lazy and just invite people over to watch television? Do we really think if we add food into the equation it is now a date? Perhaps we are just aware the person in front of us is not who we will marry and in turn feel there is no need to do anything out of the ordinary. The facts are right here. Money isn’t a factor; it is just an excuse. An excuse only some will fall for, while others will just go find someone else. The next time you say you can’t go on a date because you don’t have any money, maybe you should ask yourself how much you like that individual. It probably isn’t that much.  Keys is a senior sociology major from Houston. ➤➤jaira.keys@ttu.edu

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Jeff Frazier tempt to justify their actions. Contrast this arrogant assumption of authority with the actions of Calvin Coolidge, president of the United States from 1923-1929. Coolidge found racism and its inherent violence as fundamentally inconsistent with the values of freedom and equality, and as such he wished to see a law in place at the federal level banning the practice of lynching. African-Americans in the South were brutally murdered by hanging, and Coolidge stated in 1923, “Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crimes of lynching.” Before Coolidge began this quest, however, he looked first to the authority granted to and restrictions placed on both himself and Congress by the Constitution. This lead to an impasse, as the police power exists exclusively with the states, and as such a national law to criminalize any act outside of those powers exclusively granted to Congress (such as copyright, interfering with federal currency and treason) would be an action taken outside of the authority granted to Washington by the Constitution. As such, Coolidge, despite his deep personal convictions, was unable to enact the legislation and resorted to arguing for states to take action themselves. Coolidge provides a model of a person who believed in the Constitution. Coolidge held to the oath he took to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, so help me God,” even when it cost him the enactment of the legislation he most desired. BYU provides a modern example with their action in the current NCAA tournament, removing its star basketball player due to his breaching their honor code, despite the chance it will cost them the national championship they so desire. Conversely, Obama, Pelosi and the vast majority of Washington (including many, many Republicans) demonstrate they have no respect for the Constitution, choosing not only to ignore its restrictions, but also to neglect to even consult it to determine if they possess the proper authority in the first place. They come to the defense of the Constitution only when presented with a threat to their own power or pet projects. Members of the same political party placed in different branches of government will attack one another when their branch’s power faces a threat to its authority, yet they remain silent when their branch oversteps its own boundaries. In order for American government to continue to function, this fundamental disrespect of the supreme authority of the Constitution must end. Politicians must understand the rights of the people come from God and the powers of government come from the Constitution, not the other way around.

... for American government to continue to function, this fundamental disrespect of the supreme authority of the Constitution must end.

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During the indoor season, the sophomore cleared 14’-5.25”, improving on her previous personal best of 14’-2.75” last year at the Big 12 Championships. Sophomore Julian Wruck is going to compete in discus and shot put, while Bryce Brown is running the 400-meter hurdles. Llyod and Osaghae are competing in the same events they dominated last weekend. Osaghae is running the 110 hurdles, while Lloyd runs the 100 hurdles. Despite recording quality times and breaking records, Osaghae said they look to keep improving at UTEP. “We had a lot of good marks put in, so I’m expecting to take what we did in Fort

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season recording 43 tackles and grabbing three interceptions, said the defense is improved. “The defense is great. I feel like everybody feels comfortable with it or feels comfortable playing it,” Johnson said. “People still have to get comfortable with the scheme and everything, but as a coach he expects the best out of everybody.” Injuries, on the other hand, have not been as big an issue this year as they were last year. Tuberville said the players this year are a lot further along than last year’s squad. “We got a lot more guys this year ready to play than we did this time last year,” Tuberville said. “Doesn’t mean we’re ready to go, but we got a lot more guys we think are capable of playing in terms of depth.” ➤➤jkoch@dailytoreador.com

Worth and build off of that and be able to not only duplicate that, but run a little bit better,” Osaghae said. “Even though we ran pretty good, we all knew we had things we needed to fix.” This is the second to last meet before the team travels to Austin for the Texas Relays from April 6 through April 9. Kittley said this weekend gives him the chance to put more athletes on the field to keep improving for the Texas Relays. “Well, we’re gonna get to run our relays again, and we’re also going to get to work kids, like I said, in events; all of them didn’t get to go to TCU, so we’re gonna have a lot of people open up this weekend,” Kittley said. “And then we’re also going to have kids that I think are going to get personal bests.” ➤➤jkoch@dailytoreador.com

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Tech pitcher Kermitria Ward said she is ready to start playing against some of the better competition in the country. “We know what we got; I’m just ready to go out and show it to everyone,” Ward said before practice Thursday. “We just need people to come out and support us this weekend.” Ward said the Big 12 this season is extremely competitive, and she believes the Red Raiders can compete with every team in the conference. Tech coach Shanon Hays said the series against Missouri is a huge challenge for the beginning of the conference schedule, but his girls are ready and excited for the test. “Usually in great pitching versus great hitting matchups, the pitcher can nullify the lineup,” Hays said of this weekend’s matchup. “But I think if we limit our mistakes, we can catch up to their pitching. That’s why I say this is a great challenge for us.” The Red Raiders have dominated their early season tournaments, currently boasting a one-loss record and the most wins in the nation. Hays said he believes their early season success has prepared his team for the Big 12 season, but nothing truly can prepare the team to go through such a tough schedule. Hays said the most dangerous aspect of Missouri’s team is

their experience from last season’s World Series run. He said they returned most of their starters and brought back their most dominant pitcher, Chelsea Thomas, whom they lost to injury last year. Hays said Thomas brings a new dynamic the Tigers did not have last year. “I expect them to pitch Thomas for both games,” Hays said. “We just have to wait for mistakes and take what she gives us.” Tech infielder Emily Bledsoe said she has been waiting to hit against Thomas since last season. “It is going to be so much fun,” Bledsoe said of hitting against Thomas. “They are a good team, and she is a great pitcher; I’ve been looking forward to this since last year.” Because the Red Raiders are playing against much better competition, Bledsoe said the team’s true colors will come out against the better talent. She said she is looking forward to playing with teams that are more at Tech’s skill level. “I don’t want to say the teams we have been playing are bad,” Bledsoe said. “I just have more of a sense of belonging when we play in the Big 12 — it’s like I’m at home.” Hays said the team does not focus on winning when it comes to these games — they just focus on playing hard and playing to win. “If we just play tough and go out and play the way we know how to, I have no doubt the team will rise to the challenge,” he said. ➤➤tcompton@dailytoreador.com

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KELSEY DENNIS PITCHES against New Mexico earlier this month at Rocky Johnson Field. The Red Raiders begin Big 12 Conference play this weekend against Missouri.

“I think in the long run, I mean, it’s gonna hurt,” Tech coach Dan Spencer said. “You lose a guy who you thought was gonna be your Friday night guy and a legitimate guy that can strike people out, which we don’t have a lot of.” Coulombe, a junior transfer, was injured for the majority of his tenure at South Mountain Community College, limiting him to one total appearance. Prior to that, Coulombe pitched at Southern Cal, where he made just four appearances.

The news may be the last thing the Red Raiders (15-7, 2-1 in Big 12 Conference play) wanted to hear following arguably their biggest week of play to this point in the year. Tech started Big 12 Conference play by doing something it had not accomplished since 2001 — winning a series against Baylor in Waco. Keeping things rolling, Tech outlasted Dallas Baptist on Tuesday, winning 7-6 despite trailing 5-0 after six innings. The Red Raiders initiated and finished the road comeback by accumulating seven runs in the final three innings of the game. Without Coulombe, main-

taining a top standing in Big 12 play becomes more of a daunting task, but Tech shortstop Kelby Tomlinson said the team has enough pitchers at its disposal to be able to overcome such a predicament. “It doesn’t matter who we put out there,” Tomlinson said, “we’re going to come and just try to compete as hard as we can, you know … the more good arms you have, the better.” Te c h ’s n e x t c h a l l e n g e , though, may be more of a test for the Red Raider bats. Nebraska (16-7, 0-1) visits Tech for a three-game series beginning at 6:30 p.m. today at Dan Law Field.

The Cornhuskers arrive in Lubbock boasting one of the conference’s most potent pitching rotations, led by senior righty Matt Freeman and his 0.63 ERA. Nebraska pitching has allowed double-digit runs just once this season. But Tomlinson said he and his teammates do not get caught up in an opposing pitching staff’s numbers. “We face really good pitchers; I don’t think there’s one pitcher out there that we’re like, ‘Man, we can’t score off him,’” Tomlinson said. “We know that any pitcher can shut us down if we don’t come ready to play, and we know that we can hit off any pitcher if we do come ready

to play. “We’re not too worried about individual pitchers.” But if the Red Raiders’ bats do happened to be silenced, even more pressure will be bestowed upon Tech pitchers as they move forward without Coulombe’s presence. Starter Trey Masek, a former middle reliever, said one key for Tech’s pitching will be keeping emotions in check. “Just kind of opened my eyes,” Masek said of his start at Baylor. “You got to take a deep breath … you can’t just go out there all amped up and juiced up. You gotta just take a step back and see the guy in the bat-

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ter’s box and make your pitches.” Spencer said the Baylor series is a perfect example of the difficulty his players will encounter week in and week out throughout the remainder of the year. More importantly, it is a perfect example of just how big a loss Coulombe’s arm in the rotation could turn out to be. “The difference in winning and losing is small … we could’ve won all three of those games at Baylor, and on the other side, we could’ve lost all three of them,” Spencer said. “So, they’re going to be tight, that’s how we do it in this league; it’s a very competitive league.” ➤➤jrodriguez@dailytoreador.com

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Dating on tight budget not so impossible Jaira M Keys

he Constitution of the United States, the foundational document from which all other laws in the United States derive their authority, provides a strict basis from which those it tasks with making and enforcing those laws may act. Recently, President Obama’s decision to take action in Libya brought scorn upon him from his fellow Democrats in Congress as he took such action without an approval from Congress. Though Obama’s actions in Libya almost certainly comply with the requirements placed on him by the War Powers Act, those in Congress upset by this action make the claim that the president of the United States must ask permission from Congress to take any military action as the authority to declare war rests with Congress, and Congress alone. This claim of a standard of strict constitutional adherence demanded by those in Congress comes at an interesting time, as it coincides with the one-year anniversary of the passing of 2010’s controversial health care legislation, colloquially known as Obamacare. In August 2009, citizens across the United States packed out town hall meetings usually accustomed to no more than a few dozen or so, all to take their representatives to task on the legislation, especially on the question of its constitutionality. Then, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, when asked where she found Congress’s authority to impose a federal government mandate on U.S. citizens to purchase health insurance from non-governmental entities, simply stared blankly and said, “Are you kidding me?” Both of these actions, the health care debate from 20092010 and the criticism of Obama’s military action in Libya serve to exemplify the current attitude of the United States federal government towards the Constitution and to illustrate the fundamental schism that exists between limited government and “big” government. In both situations, the government officials started with the idea and began implementation with no regard to their actual constitutional authority in the matters in which they made their decisions, as if they possessed absolute and unrestrained authority to do anything they wished. Only after decisions had been made and policy set in place did those government officials go back to the Constitution to at-

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Sports

Pitcher Coulombe out; Tech continues conference action

SPRING TO ACTION Tuberville, Doege set for

annual Tech spring game By JOSHUA KOCH STAFF WRITER

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TEXAS TECH'S HAYDEN Holub pitches against UNLV earlier this season at Dan Law Field.

By JOSE RODRIGUEZ SPORTS EDITOR

Texas Tech baseball announced Tuesday that Daniel Coulombe would miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn ulnar

collateral ligament in his pitching elbow against Iowa on March 11. Coulombe, unfortunately for the Red Raiders, is more than just an average starting pitcher. BASEBALL continued on Page 5 ➤➤

Softball begins Big 12 play By THORN COMPTON STAFF WRITER

Texas Tech softball begins Big 12 Conference play this weekend ranked in the top 25 after its bestever nonconference record. However, seven other top-25 schools await the Red Raiders in conference play, beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday against No. 16 Missouri at

Rocky Johnson Field. Tech (35-1) also faces the Tigers at noon Sunday. The matchup features the No. 1 pitching attack in the Big 12 in Missouri against the Red Raider’s No. 1 offense in the Big 12. The No. 20 Red Raiders also rank first nationally in team batting average and fourth in runs scored. SOFTBALL continued on Page 5 ➤➤

With the final practice of spring football completed, Tommy Tuberville and the Red Raiders have one more item to check off of their to-do list before they can break for the summer — the spring game. There will be a lot going on Saturday, Tuberville said, but the one thing he wants to take away from the game is a clearer picture of the quarterback situation. “Consistency out of the quarterbacks; we’re going to run a lot of things on defense, and we’re going to give all the quarterbacks a look,” Tuberville said. “We got to find two guys coming out of spring ball at quarterback that we feel good about.” The game kicks off at 1 p.m. Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium; gates open at 11 a.m. After the game, fans will have the chance to meet their favorite players and coaches in a one-hour autograph session. Before the fans get to do that, they will get to take in the Red Raiders’ final tuneup of the semester. The biggest difference this year is Seth Doege and Jacob Karam will not be playing just for positioning on the depth chart, but rather the starting job. Because Taylor Potts and Steven Sheffield were both sidelined last year, Doege and Karam got quality playing time in the spring game. Karam and Doege together threw for 485 yards and 10 touchdowns last year — Doege produced 301 of those yards. Getting to play in last year’s game was helpful, Doege said, but the spring game is just another opportunity for the Red Raiders to get better as a team. “Well, I know what to expect, and I played in a regular season game, too,” Doege said. “The spring game is just another practice with people out here, so it’s not a lot of pressure or anything. It’s just come out here and get some work in and get better.” Not only will the quarterbacks be watched closely, but the rest of the offensive unit will as well. Coming out of the spring practices, a few players have made their cases for a starting job come fall. Sophomore wide receiver Dar-

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ren Moore and freshman running back Ronnie Daniels have been among the crop of younger players opening critics’ eyes this spring. The spring game will be just another chance for these players and others to reinforce their case for a spot on the team. Not only these players, but the entire offense has been making improvements this spring, too. Doege said the final product is far from finished, but the team is ready

to show the fans what they have been working on come Saturday. “I feel pretty confident that we’re going to have a good showing; there’s still a lot of improvement that we’ve got to work on through the rest of the spring and summer to be where we want to be on game one,” Doege said. “But overall in the spring, I feel pretty good about where we’re at, and I think we’re going to put on a good show.” SPRING continued on Page 5 ➤➤

Tech track set for UTEP Invitational By JOSHUA KOCH STAFF WRITER

After running away with school records at the TCU Invitational on March 18, seniors Omo Osaghae and Kelsey Lloyd did the same thing with the Big 12 Conference weekly accolades. Osaghae and Lloyd were named the Big 12 Track & Field Athletes of the Week on Tuesday for their performances at the TCU Invitational in Fort Worth. “We’re always excited when we have some of our kids get Big 12 Player of the Week or Runner of the Week,” Texas Tech coach Wes Kittley said. “Couldn’t have happened to two better kids … two seniors, been in the program a long time, real proud of them.” The No. 3 Red Raiders and No. 12 Lady Raiders get another chance to break more records t hi s w e e k e nd a t t he U T EP Springtime Invitational on Saturday in El Paso. Field events begin at 10 a.m., followed by running events at 3 p.m. Along with Osaghae and Lloyd, a few players will get their first shot at competing in their events this weekend. One of those athletes is Shade Weygandt. She will be making her outdoor debut in the pole vault event.