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Tech faculty meet with Congress, discuss research Texas Tech System officials spoke with members of Congress in Washington about research being conducted at the university last week.

Interim President Lawrence Schovanec said Tech representatives had meetings with several of Texas’ Congress members and senators.

“We had meetings scheduled for both,” he said. “We used that as an opportunity to highlight some of our strategic research initiatives.”

The faculty, Schovanec said, also had meetings with different organizations including the Association of American Universities, Chronicle of Higher Education and National Science Foundation.

“And a common theme through all those visits was the outstanding things that are going on at Texas Tech,” he said, “and to make our case to bring more attention to the quality of research and scholarship we have here that benefits the students.”

The programs focused on in the meetings, Schovanec said, included wind energy, transportation and nanophotonics.

Tech representatives, he said, were attempting to understand how to secure additional funding for Tech’s programs and determine future projects.

“In spite of the concern with sequestration,” Schovanec said, “I think that many of those with whom we spoke were impressed by the quality and the breadth of research going on at Tech, and we’re doing research in areas that they see as strategic.”

The members of Congress, he said, expressed interest in Tech’s wind energy research, cyber security program and transportation research, especially in the ports to planes program.

Schovanec said the public officials recognize that Tech is involved in translational research bridging the gap to economic development and commercialization and are supportive.

The faculty in attendance, he said, represented the research areas being presented and represented the university well. ➤➤egardner@dailytoreador.com

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Lady Raiders make early NCAA tourney exit

By ALEX TORREZ STAFF WRITER

The No. 7 Texas Tech women’s basketball team fell to South Florida 71-70 in the first round of the 2013 NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament, giving South Florida its first win in the NCAA tournament in South Florida history.

Tech coach Kristy Curry, the staff and Lady Raider basketball team were hurt from the loss, Curry said, but Curry has a positive mentality for her team.

“It hurts to see these kids lose,” she said.

“They have given everything they have. It is a learning and growing experience.”

During the first half, the Lady Raiders were off to a great start, driving the ball down the court, and keeping the momentum high, even when South Florida would answer every 3-point shot the Lady Raiders made.

“It was difficult,” senior guard Monique Smalls said. “I am proud of my team. We never stopped fighting.”

The leading scorer for South Florida was junior forward Inga Orekhova, who would answer the 3-point play with consistency.

“I came in the game with an attitude that we have to win,” she said. “When it came down to coming off the screen, and I was about to shoot the three it had to go in. So,

By RAECHEL DAVIS STAFF WRITER

Three Texas Tech alumni were honored at the 47th Distinguished Alumni Dinner at 7 p.m. Friday in the McKenzieMerket Alumni Center.

The dinner, which was established in 1967, has recognized 173 alumni who have received awards Don R. Haragan, Tech president emeritus, said.

“It’s an honor, “ he said, “and a very special privilege we have to recognize each of them this evening as distinguished alumnus of Texas Tech University.”

He said the reputation of any great university is dependent on three things: productivity of faculty, the quality of its students and the accomplishments of its alumni.

“Certainly the accomplishments of the three individuals we honor here tonight make us all very proud,” Haragan said.

Rear Admiral John D. Alexander, Scott Pelley and Robert J. Salem were the three honorees.

Many members of the alumni association, leaders of the community and the

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I had that mentality that this has to go in.”

During the second half, senior forward Kelsi Baker fouled out of the game, but her

absence did not keep the Lady Raiders from pushing forward.

“It threw off the offense, because of

Kelsi’s rebounding,” Smalls said.

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university attended the dinner. Chancellor Kent Hance was unable to attend the event because of health issues.

Lawrence Schovanec, Tech’s interim president, spoke about traveling to Washington last week where he used the alumni as an example of the impact the school has had.

“To rise to the level of distinction that we have,” he said, “to be recognized is something really special. You are part of a very elite group.”

Schovanec thanked the honorees for their contribution to Tech’s legacy and said the event also is a glimpse to the future of students’ accomplishments.

The alumni were individually introduced by a brief presentation featuring their accomplishments and were then asked to say a few words. Concluding their speeches, the honorees were each presented with an award.

Alexander said he was proud and humbled to be in the company of the two other honorees.

“All of the good things that happened in my adult life happened here,” he said.

Alexander talked about being a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and majoring

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DON HARAGAN, THE Master of Ceremonies and President Emeritus, introduces the honorees during the Texas Tech Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Dinner on Friday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center. Recipients included Rear Adm. John D. Alexander, Scott Pelley, and Robert J. Salem.

in mechanical engineering so he could fly an aircraft for the Navy. He joined the Navy while at Tech, he said.

“I came to school here, found lifelong

friends, found a profession and found a wife,” he said, “can’t beat that.”

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PHOTO BY EMILY DE SANTOS/The Daily Toreador TEXAS TECH GUARD Monique Smalls tries to move past South Florida guard Andrell Smith during the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship on Saturday in United Spirit Arena. The Bulls won 71-70.

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The Board of Regents approved the appointment of M. Duane Nellis as the next president of Texas Tech.

The decision was made with a unanimous vote during a phone conference meeting Friday.

Nellis will begin serving as the 16th president June 15.

“I am honored to accept the position of president at Texas Tech University,” Nellis said in a statement. “The current momentum is truly impressive, and I look forward to working with our students, faculty, staff and community to continue the university’s progress and growth.”

Nellis was serving as the president of the University of Idaho and had previously served as provost and senior vice president of Kansas State University and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University.

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He earned his bachelor’s degree in earth sciences/ geography at Montana State University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in geography at Oregon State University.

Chancellor Kent Hance said Nellis had previously been named the sole finalist for the position March 1 after a nationwide search.

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Nellis’ final contract will be finalized during the next few days, Hance said, and in that time he will have meetings with faculty, students and regents.

Nellis will be introduced at a news conference at 2 p.m. today in the City Bank Room of United Spirit Arena.

“We’ll have meetings with faculty, students and regents,” Hance said. “We’ll have a whirlwind tour the next four or five days. We’re excited about having him and he’s going to be excellent.”

Nellis succeeds Lawrence Schovanec, who has served as interim president since August.

Along with his staff, Hance said Schovanec gave 100 percent in everything he did, and the school did not miss a beat”when Guy Bailey, the former president of Tech, resigned.

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“We have never had anyone work harder than Lawrence Schovanec at the job they do for the university,” he said.

“He is excellent and his leadership for Texas Tech is certainly not over. There will be other positions that he will be utilized in and I would count him as one of the top administrators that we’ve ever had.”

During the phone conference, the Board also approved the negotiation of a new contract with Dr. Tedd Mitchell, president of the Health Sciences Center.

Mitchell has not received a raise in three years and has been the second lowest paid president of any of the health and science centers or medical complexes in the state, Hance said.

In a unanimous vote, a new three-year contract for Mitchell was approved.

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Today Introduction of Texas Tech’s 16th President, M. Duane Nellis, Ph.D. Time: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Frazier Pavilion So, what is it?

Come meet the new president of Texas Tech.

Chamber Orchestra Concert Time: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free concert.

Tuesday Is Order Under An-arrgh-chy Possible? The Hidden Economics of Pirates Time: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: Rawls College of Business Administration So, what is it?

Come listen to Dr. Peter T. Leeson discuss his research on the law and economics of early 18th century piracy.

TAB Presents: TAB Free Movie Night Time: 7 p.m.

Where: Allen Theatre So, what is it?

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Symphonic Band Concert Time: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Where: Hemmle Recital Hall So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free concert.

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New pope opens Holy Week at Vatican on Palm Sunday VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated his first Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square, encouraging people to be humble and young at heart and promising to go to a youth jamboree in Brazil in July, while the faithful enthusiastically waved olive branches and braided palm fronds.

The square overflowed with a crowd estimated by the Vatican at 250,000 people. Pilgrims, tourists and Romans jostled each other in an eager effort glimpse Francis as they joined the new pope at the start of solemn Holy Week ceremonies, which lead up to Easter, Christianity’s most important day.

Keeping with his spontaneous style, the first pope from Latin America broke away several times from the text of his prepared homily to encourage the faithful to lead simple lives and resist the temptation to be sad when life’s obstacles inevitably come their way.

“Don’t let yourselves be robbed of hope! Don’t let yourselves be robbed of hope!” Francis told the crowd, in an apparent reference to the economic difficulties people are grappling with as they try to find adequate work amid a poor job market in much of the world.

At the end of the two-hour Mass, Francis took off his red vestments, and wearing his plain white cassock

and skull cap, climbed into an opentopped popemobile to circle through the excited crowd. He leaned out to shake hands, kissed and patted the heads of infants passed to him by bodyguards, and often gave children the thumbs-up sign.

His security detail seemed to be reluctantly dealing with this get-closeto-the-people pontiff, scrambling around the vehicle to pick up this child or that one. At one point, the chief bodyguard, Domenico Giani, was sent back to the mother of a child he had greeted to convey a message from the pontiff, and the ever-tense Giani broke into a smile after his mission was accomplished.

Francis even climbed down from the vehicle, kissed a woman in the crowd and chatted briefly with her, and another man in the crowd leaned over a barrier to squeeze the pontiff on a shoulder — an unheard of familiarity in the previous pontificate of the reserved Benedict XVI. In keeping with his stress on giving examples of humility, Francis kissed the hand of an elderly woman who had outstretched an arm to him.

“There is no doubt that there will be a new spring for the church, a renewal” with this pope, said Sister Emma, an Argentine nun in the crowd.

Alexander said he has been deployed nine times and everywhere he has gone, he has been proud to be a Red Raider, and found other Red Raiders in his company.

He commands the Naval aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).

Scott Pelley, anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News” and a correspondent for “60 Minutes,” began his speech by saying he thought the award might be a mistake.

“I’m a reporter,” Pelley said.

“I write about guys like these.

That is what I do.”

Pelley grew up in Lubbock, and was inspired by the visionary

people who created Tech in Lubbock and how those people grew the university through some of the toughest times in America, including the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.

Pelley said Llano Estacado was the name given to the plains by a Spanish explorer, and the Llano Estacado is 15 percent grassland and 85 percent sky.

Tech was never good at teaching the students limits, he said.

“That’s not such a bad thing,” Pelley said. “The sky is a fertile ground in which to plant our dreams.”

He said he started his career at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and the key to his success was he worked hard and never gave up on his dreams.

“We took our dreams,” Pelley said, “and we drove them in the

WWW.DAILYTOREADOR.COM plains of our imagination that was limitless to the horizon.”

Robert J. Salem, a vascular surgeon, chief medical officer emeritus of Covenant Health System, and a clinical professor of surgery at Tech Health Sciences Center, said he grew up near Lubbock.

“Growing up in the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl were not great times,” he said, “but our parents always provided us the essentials, including a college education.”

Salem said World War II had ended when he went to Tech at age 17, and there was no housing available so he hitchiked 100 miles roundtrip to school every day.

He said he eventually found a veteran with a car to ride with, who would later go on to spear-

head the bill that would create the medical school.

“There is no question in my mind that this medical school is becoming one of the most prominent in the country under the tenure of Dean (Steven) Berk,” Salem said. “It certainly has over the past eight years.”

He said it was his goal to provide physicians to the people of West Texas and the highest level of surgical care through his position at Covenant Health Hospital.

He gave a special thanks to his family, and large extended family who traveled from around the country to attend.

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Transplant guidelines too late for rabies victim (AP) — Experts say a Maryland man who died last month of rabies might have been spared under transplant recommendations that hadn’t yet been published when he got a kidney from an infected donor in 2011.

The guidance from the federally funded United Network for Organ Sharing came out in June, nine months after organs from the Florida donor went to four patients. The guidelines urge caution when considering donors with encephalitis, a brain inflammation that is one symptom of rabies. The Florida donor suffered from the condition.

The only other known U.S. case of rabies transmission through a transplant occurred in 2004 in Texas. Four organ recipients died, and the case helped stir the creation of a UNOS committee dedicated to reducing disease transmission through transplants. The Disease Transmission Advisory Committee was formed in 2006 as part of a government

agreement with the private group, based in Richmond, Va. The committee says it took so long to publish the encephalitis guidelines partly because it had to gather and analyze enough data about rare transmission events to provide a solid basis for its recommendations.

The committee also decided to address more common diseases first.

In 2010, it issued guidance on influenza, suggesting that lungs and intestines from donors infected with the H1N1 virus not be recovered for transplant. In 2011, the panel published guidance on the cancer-causing HTLV-1 virus, and last November, recommendations on tuberculosis. The group now is working on guidance for West Nile virus.

The encephalitis document urges organ banks and transplant surgeons to be cautious in considering organs from donors whose symptoms suggest a central nervous system infection, such as

rabies. It urges “extreme caution” when the encephalitis appears to be from a virus. The document lists the rabies virus as one possible cause of encephalitis.

When the donor — 20-year-old William Edward Small — died in September 2011, doctors at Sacred Hearth Heath System in Pensacola, Fla., thought his symptoms were caused by a food-borne toxin, ciguatera, carried in saltwater fish, said Kathy Giery, director of LifeQuest Organ Recovery Services, which approved his organs for transplant.

She said nobody suspected the donor had rabies until after the Maryland recipient died. If they had, the organs wouldn’t have been offered, she said.

“The guidelines from 2012 were different from what was in place in 2011, when this took place, so for our cases today and going forward, I think everyone would be looking at this through a different lens,” Giery said.

Dr. Michael Green, a University of

Pittsburgh pediatric surgeon and chairman of the Disease Transmission Advisory Committee, said a concern for rabies in potential donors would call for extreme caution. But he said every transplant carries risk.

“In every instance, the transplant team must weigh the rare risk of donor disease transmission against the possibly greater risk that a candidate will die without a transplant opportunity,” Green wrote in an email.

Compared with other diseases, rabies is rare. It kills just a handful of U.S. residents a year. Usually transmitted by a wild animal bite, it’s almost always fatal once symptoms appear. But the disease can be stopped if a bitten person gets treatment, including a series of vaccinations, soon after exposure. The people in Florida, Georgia and Illinois who also received organs from Small have shown no symptoms and are getting the vaccines.

Court: Can drug companies pay to delay generics?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are pressing the Supreme Court to stop big pharmaceutical corporations from paying generic drug competitors to delay releasing their cheaper versions of brand-name drugs.

They argue these deals deny American consumers, usually for years, steep price declines that can top 90 percent.

The Obama administration, backed by consumer groups and the American Medical Association, says these so-called “pay for delay” deals profit the drug companies but harm consumers by adding 3.5 billion annually to their drug bills.

But the pharmaceutical companies counter that they need to preserve longer the billions of dollars in revenue from their patented products

in order to recover the billions they spend developing new drugs. And both the large companies and the generic makers say the marketing of generics often is hastened by these deals.

The justices will hear the argument Monday.

Such pay-for-delay deals arise when generic companies file a challenge at the Food and Drug Administration to the patents that give brandname drugs a 20-year monopoly. The generic drugmakers aim to prove the patent is flawed or otherwise invalid, so they can launch a generic version well before the patent ends.

Brand-name drugmakers then usually sue the generic companies, which sets up what could be years of expen-

sive litigation. When the two sides aren’t certain who will win, they often reach a compromise deal that allows the generic company to sell its cheaper copycat drug in a few years — but years before the drug’s patent would expire.

Often, that settlement comes with a sizeable payment from the brand-name company to the generic drugmaker.

Numerous brand-name and generic drugmakers and their respective trade groups say the settlements protect their interests but also benefit consumers by bringing inexpensive copycat medicines to market years earlier than they would arrive in any case generic drugmakers took to trial and lost. But federal officials counter that such deals add billions to the drug bills of American patients and

taxpayers, compared to what would happen if the generic companies won the lawsuits and could begin marketing right away.

A study by RBC Capital Markets Corp. of 371 cases during 2000-2009 found brand-name companies won 89 at trial compared to 82 won by generic drugmakers. Another 175 ended in settlement deals, and 25 were dropped.

Generic drugs account for about 80 percent of all American prescriptions for medicines and vaccines, but a far smaller percentage of the $325 billion spent by U.S. consumers on drugs each year. Generics saved American patients, taxpayers and the healthcare system an estimated $193 billion in 2011 alone, according to health data firm IMS Health.

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GOP’s ‘no’ on Medicaid becomes ‘Let’s make a deal’ JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Given the choice of whether to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care law, many Republican governors and lawmakers initially responded with an emphatic “no.”

Now they are increasingly hedging their objections.

A new “no, but ...” approach is spreading among GOP states in which officials are still publicly condemning the Democratic president’s Medicaid expansion yet floating alternatives that could provide health coverage to millions of low-income adults while potentially tapping into billions of federal dollars that are to start flowing in 2014.

The Medicaid health care pro-

gram for poor, which is jointly funded by the federal and state governments, already covers about one in five people in the U.S. Expanding it was the way Obama envisioned covering many more low-income workers who don’t have insurance. The new Republican alternatives being proposed in states generally would go part of the way, but cover fewer people than Obama’s plan, guarantee less financial help or rely more on private insurers.

But so far, many of the Republican ideas are still more wistful than substantive. It’s uncertain whether they will actually pass. And even if they do, there’s no guarantee Obama’s administration will allow states to deviate too greatly from the parameters of the Affordable Care Act while still

reaping its lucrative funding. Yet a recent signal from federal officials that Arkansas might be able to use Medicaid money to buy private insurance policies has encouraged Republicans to try alternatives.

The GOP proposals could lead to another health care showdown between the White House and states, leaving millions of Americans who lack insurance waiting longer for resolution. Officials in about 30 states that are home to more than 25 million uninsured residents remain either defiant or undecided about implementing Obama’s Medicaid expansion, according to an Associated Press survey.

Supporters of the Medicaid expansion have built coalitions of

hospitals, businesses groups, religious leaders and advocates for the poor to try to persuade reluctant Republicans of the economic and moral merits of Obama’s health care plan. But some Republicans believe the pressure ultimately will fall on Obama to accept their alternatives if he wants to avoid a patchwork system for his signature accomplishment.

“If the Obama administration is serious about innovative ways to bring down the cost of health care, it’s going to cooperate with conservative ideas rather than continue down its one-size-fits-all, far-left-wing ideological path,” said Missouri Rep. Jay Barnes, a Republican from Jefferson City.

A House committee led by Barnes already has defeated Obama’s version of Medicaid expansion. It is to hear public testimony Monday on his “market-based Medicaid” alternative that would award health care contracts to competing private insurers and provide cash incentives to patients who hold down their healthcare costs. His proposal would contain costs by covering fewer children than Medicaid now does and adding fewer adults than Obama’s plan envisions.

Committees in Florida’s Republican-led Legislature also have rejected a Medicaid expansion for roughly 1 million of the state’s poorest residents, even though it is backed by GOP Gov. Rick Scott. Now Republican Sen. Joe Negron is pursuing an alternative that would use federal funds to provide vouchers for low-income residents to buy private policies. Negron said he still doesn’t believe expanding Medicaid is the right decision, but he wants to help Florida residents get health coverage.

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V-Day Lubbock Coalition hosts Vagina Monologues

By NIKKI CULVER STAFF WRITER

Anywhere from 20,000 to 70,000 women are raped annually in Europe, and 300,000 women are raped annually in the U.S. One group is standing up to end global rape.

The V-Day Lubbock Coalition hosted Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” on Friday night at the International Cultural Center. The evening consisted of actors portraying and reciting the true accounts of rape and sexual assault as told by the women who lived them.

Monologues producer Deniz Pinkerton, a second-year law student from El Paso, said she has been involved with the show since 2009.

“I produced some back in El Paso,” she said. “When I moved out here, I started looking for the feminist organization and went from there.”

The actors were Texas Tech students, faculty and staff and members of the community.

“My favorite part has been

meeting such strong and independent women,” said Marilee Power, a sophomore music education major from El Campo.

“We’re all fed up with having to deal with this stuff happening to women every day, all around the world.”

One of the performances, entitled “The Flood,” performed by McKenzie Hopson, told the story of a 72-year-old woman who shared her memories of traumatic ‘flooding’ experiences as a result of cancer with an interviewer.

“Because He Liked to Look at it,” was performed by Alex Saulnier and recounted the stories of women who had positive experiences with men in the midst of all the other stories of abuse.

The story of a young Bosnian woman was “My Vagina was my Village,” performed by Christina Sapien and McKenzie Hopson. It detailed the story of a young woman who was sexually tortured with a rifle and repeatedly raped for seven days by six soldiers.

The presenters said in the countries where female genital mutilation is practiced, three

million females annually will have their genitals cut by knives or broken glass.

The show is traditionally in an auditorium with the performers on the stage and the audience watching from below, but this rendition was in a round room, with the actors in the middle of a ring of seats.

“I like this set up a lot more,” Pinkerton said. “It allows for a lot more audience participation.”

According to the Playbill, V-Day Lubbock Coalition is part of worldwide action to stop violence against females, and it strives to be a catalyst that produces events to promote awareness, raise money and rejuvenate existing anti-violence organizations.

“I like the impact that this show makes,” Pinkerton said.

“The money we make goes to great causes. There are ‘Vagina Monologues’ held in almost every country, so it helps us feel like a part of something bigger.”

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“VAGINA WARRIOR,” AND producer Deniz Pinkerton, a Texas Tech law student from El Paso, begins her fourth year of participating in the program by reciting the monologue entitled “My Angry Vagina,” during “The Vagina Monologues” on Friday in the International Cultural Center.

Tech alumnus Pelley meets with communication students

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SCOTT PELLEY, “CBS Evening News” managing editor and “60 Minutes” correspondent, speaks with media and communication students during a question-and-answer session Friday in the Overton Hotel. Pelley was in Lubbock to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Texas Tech Alumni Association.

About 60 media and communication students gathered Friday afternoon into a room at the Overton Hotel to hear a well-established journalist — and one of their own — speak.

Jerry Hudson, dean of the College of Media and Communication, read off the speaker’s accomplishments as a two-time Peabody Award winner, lead reporter of “60 Minutes,” anchor of “CBS Evening News” and most importantly, he joked — a Texas Tech alumnus.

Scott Pelley was in Lubbock to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award on Friday night, and Hudson said he thought the established journalist could offer some advice to communication students.

Pelley described getting a job at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal as a copyboy at 15 years old. The story — which he has told on the “Late Show with David Letterman” — he lied about his age to get the job at the AJ and joked his search for the truth as a journalist began with a lie.

“It was the most exciting thing I had ever seen,” Pelley said about the AJ newsroom.

Amputee veteran helps train troops for war SAN DIEGO (AP) — The sailor had been back from war for just over a year when friends invited him to watch an unusually emotional training exercise for troops preparing to deploy.

The drill happened not on a military base but at a film studio, where Marine and Navy medics role-played wartime rescue missions with actors who had, in real-life, lost limbs in motorcycle or car accidents or to ailments such as cancer.

Those on hand weren’t sure how Joel Booth would react. The 24-yearold had been attached to a Marine battalion in Afghanistan as a naval combat medic — until he stepped on an explosive and doctors, two years ago, amputated his right leg below the knee. Since returning home he’d had to learn to adapt while also coping with the post-traumatic stress.

But Booth was transfixed as fake bombs exploded and medics practiced the type of rescue missions he’d once been on, saving the amputee actors — as he, in the end, had to be saved.

Then the young veteran did something unexpected: He asked for an audition.

Perhaps, he thought, this injury that had forever altered his life could help save someone else’s. What he didn’t know was how much reliving the horrors of war would help him, too.

“In society, amputees are seen by people on a large scale as having a disability, being weaker. But ... even someone who doesn’t have a hand can still operate a weapon to be able to defend themselves,” he said.

“It’s the same thing for me. I’m

not afraid of it just because something bad happened. For people who haven’t been in combat, it’s hard to understand.”

Producer Stu Segall, best known for the TV show “Silk Stalkings,” started Strategic Operations in 2002 shortly after the launch of the Iraq war to offer the military what it calls “hyper-realistic” training by using movie-making special effects and actors.

The group has since trained hundreds of thousands of troops in recreated scenes from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and other hotspots. The creators strive to make the re-enactments as jarring as possible so troops experience war first in a controlled environment, and learn not to be rattled by it.

Marine 2nd Lt. Duane Blank, a commander who has gone through similar training, said amputee actors add a degree of realism that no one else can.

“The visual effect is invaluable because it’s something you don’t encounter every day,” said Blank, an Iraq war veteran. “There is no way to recreate that aspect of real combat, seeing a brother hurt in that sort of way.”

Since the inception of Strategic Operations, the group’s founders had made a concerted effort not to use veterans who lost limbs in combat.

“We felt it was one of those things: Why would you ask somebody who has gone through this experience to relive it? And we had plenty of amputee actors,” said executive vice president Kit Lavell.

Lavell flew 243 missions in Vietnam as a naval aviator. He knows

how hearing screams and explosions — even on a studio lot in San Diego — can quickly bring back the stress of battle for even the most hardened soldiers.

But Booth convinced Lavell to let him join the group.

“He was so well-prepared as a corpsman,” Lavell said. “We felt: He’s the perfect one to do this.”

Booth first joined the Navy, at the age of 21, because he wanted to see combat and help save lives. The job of corpsman was perfect for him; as field medics in charge of providing emergency care to battleground troops, corpsmen often are caught in the thick of the action.

Almost a year after enlisting, he

was deployed with the Marines to the Taliban stronghold of Sangin, Afghanistan. On July 21, 2011, while out on patrol, he and a Marine volunteered to return to base to get supplies. As they were walking, an explosion catapulted Booth onto his back.

He calmly told the Marine to check behind them for more IEDs. Then he looked down at his leg. There was no blood but the pain was excruciating and Booth couldn’t stand up. His ankle bones had been crushed.

Two days later he was back in the U.S., where he underwent surgery after surgery. But Booth didn’t want to be a patient. Frustrated with each failed operation and a growing infection, he pushed his doctors to amputate.

He went on to tell the eager-eyed students about no one wanting to hire him as a journalist.

He applied for a correspondent position at CBS more than four times before finally getting the job.

He recalled borrowing money from his then girlfriend, now wife, for a new suit and briefcase for the job interview.

“Don’t take no for an answer,” he said.

Pelley opened the floor for the students to ask him questions about anything.

As he answered questions, some students — which Pelley referred to as his class — jotted down notes, while others recorded his advice on their phones or recorders.

After the hour-and-a-half presentation, Pelley stayed to take pictures and chat with the students.

Attending Coronado High School and working at the AJ, the award-winning journalist said working as a student journalist is important when developing a career in the field.

“It’s vitally important in my opinion to get that real-world experience,” Pelley said. “So much of journalism is in the doing of it. Now, where journalism school is invaluable and irreplaceable

is in teaching the student the values of journalism, the ethics of journalism, the tools of journalism, teaching them writing, so that when they go to that first job and that first application, they’re not foundering.”

He said he thinks any journalism professor would say the same thing.

Jane Boone Pelley, Scott Pelley’s wife, said she and her husband do not have a lot of time to visit Lubbock and Tech with his busy schedule.

“It’s a fun trip back when he can,” she said.

While he is now living in New York City, Scott Pelley said he misses quite a few things about his hometown.

“I miss the sky,” he said. “I miss the wide-open spaces, I miss the people who live here. I carry a lot of Lubbock with me into the CBS Evening News. There aren’t any other people in the Evening News who are from a place like this and have the kind of background I have.

They come from various walks of life, the people who work at the Evening News.

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Voting scandal devalues SGA The Trots Jordan Sigler they never expected a voter would not be robotically inclined to vote for whoever imposed on them a lime-green rectangular paper with their name on it. (I would have been more inclined to vote had I been offered candy in exchange as Raiders United is accused of.

At least, I would see something for my tuition dollars.)

Then, after first shock at my evidently unrequested response, the candidate told me they would do their best to represent students of the college. The vague answer of “representation” is not satisfactory for me, and should not be satisfactory for any vote. All colleges are represented anyway by at least two senate members so that reason is completely bunk. So I looked to see what the differences in the platforms were. (I invite you to look at http://texastechtoday.com/news/?p=9246 to look at all three platforms in the elections.)

The platforms were as plain as the responses from the candidates.

(The three platform names in no specific order are Raiders United, Raiders’ Voice and Bridge the Gap.) All platforms stated they were for more student involvement in what goes on in the SGA and the administration and to improve the activity of senators. None of the three platforms had an actual idea that was divisive enough to give cause for a thoughtful vote over another platform.

Looking at SGA’s website on what they did during the most recent 48th Session Senate Legislation didn’t give clear answers either as to what SGA does. The bills and resolutions consisted primarily on how the SGA operates, who they impeached and persons who they gave congratulations.

Most of the voting in the senate was not polemic; bills were passed or turned down with numbers in the high 80 percent to mid 90 percent of senate voter congruence. So maybe it’s important to have an SGA body in some respects, but not as important as who those people are. (Check out senate action during the 48th session here http://www.depts.ttu. edu/sga/48thSenateLegislation. php) Berea Orange’s (who is on the budget and finance commission in the SGA) column in The DT states, SGA can give supplementary funds to certain student organizations applying for funding. The SGA budget that gives to these student organizations is funded by student tuition. I’m worried about my money being

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handled by undergraduates whose only qualifications as stated in the SGA constitution, are a cumulative 2.0 GPA, have completed 12 hours, and are currently enrolled in 12 hours.

I am a member of organizations at Tech. As a member, I would rather have the money from my tuition payment go to the organization I attend by choosing organizations at the beginning of the semester. I don’t think students should pay for some organizations they don’t attend or use.

And what money the SGA does disperse to student organizations should be placed on their website for complete transparency, like the state of Texas government’s website www.texastransparency. org.

SGA does plan funding and the efficiency of the buses on campus and surrounding housing. I would rather have a fulltime member of the administration figuring out how to best use these expenditures because they could handle student ideas for how to make Tech a better university.

The town hall meeting about smoking on campus is the only interaction I’ve had with SGA. When I asked what effect they would have on a potential smoking ban, I was told by Sen. Samantha Dunkerley, SGA could pass legislation and then a decision would ultimately be made by the administration. What is the point of the senate here anyway, if the result is based on the administration’s decision? I think students should be able to vote on such issues directly and the administration can go from there.

SGA seems more like a symbolic institution and acts more like a self-serving, unfit middleman. These charlatans are no better than a high school student council; the elections mirror that type of pettiness, and wind up a pathetic popularity contest to pad a candidate’s résumé for Greek life members. In order for SGA candidates to deserve a vote, they should be required to have productive legislative ideas for the student body. As it stands, none of the SGA senators have argued adequately for why they deserve to handle my tuition money.

My suspicion is I’m not the only one who feels this way. SGA’s poor involvement with the Tech community is the reason why it opens itself up for candidates to go to illegal tactics in their campaigns because most students don’t care who wins. I know they mock the silliness of the fraud and didn’t vote in the re-election. I’m not sure why they should because they don’t care about the scandal or know what its implications will be. I don’t know either.

In order for SGA candidates to deserve a vote, they should be required to have productive legislation ideas for the student body.

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Teenagers found guilty of rape through social media D

uring winter break, my dad received an email that had a video attachment with a person with a creepy voice and mask.

This person spoke about a rape that occurred in August in a small town in Ohio, involving the town’s football team.

At the time, I thought it was just some weird video. However, information recently has surfaced suggesting that it was not just a made up story, but sadly a true one. A 16-year-old girl, whose name has not been released, was raped at a party by members of the Steubenville High School football team in August, in Steubenville, Ohio, when she was too intoxicated to not only know what was going on, but “Jane Doe,” as she is being referred to, did not actually realize what happened until the next day.

As tragic as it is that this girl was taken advantage of against her consent, the worst part of it is there were about 15 people who not only knew the act was occurring, but stood by watching and taking videos and pictures while she was being raped. These other students did nothing to help the girl or stop the acts while they were occurring. This is the problem I truly have with this horrible story. How can people sit there, knowing this is going on, and not do anything to stop it? Not only that, but to take pictures of it and then post them on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and then talk about it with their friends. There is

Makenna Lange a 12-minute video of a fellow student talking about it, as if it is the funniest thing he has ever witnessed.

It makes me worry for my little brother and sister, who are still in elementary and middle school, and what kind of people they will encounter as they get older. If my sister was being taken advantage of, would someone help her, or would they all just sit around and take pictures of it? Would my parents have to find out about it through social media like Jane Doe’s did?

Being from a small town and having family from even smaller towns, the concept of the town protecting the football team does not really surprise me. It also does not surprise me that the parents of the two boys that have been found guilty have said their sons always have been good boys and never have done anything wrong.

What did surprise me was this case was solved using social media. As an agricultural communications student, we study social media quite extensively, but the idea so many of these party-goers posted pictures, videos and made comments that the police could solve a crime, was definitely mind-boggling. There

also was a lot of evidence found through text messages.

This story also worries me because as a college student, I know how easily this could happen in the college environment, and even to one of my friends. I have seen the stupid stuff people post on their Facebook, from the pictures of people who are obviously too drunk to know what is happening to the girls that are not wearing enough clothing.

Sadly enough, if I had heard of something like this happening in a college town — Lubbock, College Station or Austin — it would not surprise me in the least.

If you learn anything from the rape in Steubenville, Ohio, I hope it is to be careful. Don’t drink so much you completely lose control of yourself and are left not knowing what is happening to you. I also hope people realize how wrong it is to just sit around and do nothing, knowing that something like this is happening, or even worse letting it happen and not trying to stop it and not reporting it.

Another lesson I think people seem to forget all the time is to be careful what they put on the Internet. Once it is there, even if they try to erase it, it is always there. In this case, at least it fell into the hands of the right people, and justice was somewhat served to a girl who was unjustifiably wronged.

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he Student Government Association has been rocked with allegations of voter violation in the executive branch this past month by members of the Raiders United platform.

The Daily Toreador has written a few articles of the allegations causing Logan Dickerson, who ran for executive vice president to be disqualified. A symbolic re-election was hosted March 21-22, for the only serious candidate Peyton Craig of the Bridge the Gap platform.

Contrary to what The Hub misreported earlier in March, the entire Raiders United platform will not be disqualified. Instead of a re-election, Luke Cotton, who ran for president, and Jan Dickerson, who ran for internal vice president, both Raiders United members, had their February election count reinstated in a 4-2 SGA Supreme Court decision.

All three of these candidates won their respective seats, but not respectable elections in the first election.

This violation brings unnecessary shame to the university’s name as other campuses may mock our student body for poor handling of our elections. The scandal also hurts the credibility of the SGA many students may already be skeptical of, or are unfamiliar with. I’m not even sure what to make of the scandal, or if I should be concerned at all.

Many of the students at Tech whom I’ve spoken with have little interaction with SGA and do not know what exactly its function is, or why it is important — I find myself siding with them. This is the reason for such a low voter turnout in this year’s election, only 14 percent of the student body voted in February’s election.

(Editor’s Note: this number was provided by Matt Dotray, The DT’s SGA beat reporter.)

I feel as an American citizen I should exercise my right to vote in city, state and national elections.

The differences between the candidates in these elections are usually clear, and I know the winner will have an impact on my life. I voted in November and watched the debates, and I researched the candidate’s histories so I could make an informed decision.

I am one of the 86 percent who did not vote in this past SGA election; and I have not cast a ballot in any before. I’m not sure what the point is of voting, or how different people in office will affect my experience at Tech. I remember seeing posters of candidates as a freshman in my residence hall, but not knowing much else about the institution. I am a first generation college student and new to the college process. I had no idea what a student body government could be in control of. I was never fully explained what the SGA’s function is in my time at Red Raider Orientation or my time at Tech.

In this election, SGA candidates did not tell me why they should be in office versus their opponents when they handed out fliers and asked for my vote. When I inquired why I should vote for them over whoever their opponent was, their perky-spurioussmile rapidly vanished, as though

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Tubbs: Color Run memorable experience During the weekend, my world became a lot more colorful.

I participated in the Happiest 5k on the Planet, known as the Color Run, which is now easily one of the best experiences of my life.

That day, I woke up highly anticipating the race to start.

After registering about two weeks prior, I begin to watch videos from previous races around the world in which thousands of participants ran through dashes of bright, multicolored powder. Never had being doused in the face looked so appealing.

At about 8:30 a.m., I parked my car within walking distance to Mackenzie Park and followed a long line of participants in matching, white Color Run T-shirts and headbands to the race. I passed women sporting rainbow tutus, men wearing Mohawk wigs and other costumes indicating the fun environment I was about to enter.

After checking in, I met up with three members of a team titled “Your Pace or Mine.” With our color packets in hand and smartphones in plastic bags, we made our way to the start line, where dance music blasted and thousands upon thousands of people were crammed.

Although participants were told to save their color packets until the end of the race, some people were eager to brighten the scene. Each time someone would throw their powder in the air, we would each move quickly to try and get as much color on us as possible. Our goal was to leave the park completely colored.

While we inched forward little by little in the line, two workers of the 5k stood on a high platform and created an enthusiastic, entertaining atmosphere by talking on a microphone and throwing free Frisbees, T-shirts, fanny packs, bracelets and other items into the crowd that people jumped frantically to catch. Unfortunately, I was not fast or tall enough to catch the fanny pack I

Ashlyn Tubbs wanted, but we would have more luck catching things later on in the event.

Before we knew it, we were the next group ready to begin the race. Once given the goahead from the announcer, the crowd burst forward with excited shouts and our group made sure to hold hands to prevent getting separated. We knew it would be almost impossible finding each other again in such frenzy.

The twisted trail was splashed with a variety of colors from participants, leading us to the first color station. Runners ran on the left side of the trail, while those walking stayed to the right.

On the way there, we stopped momentarily to listen to a group of children performing from the Lubbock School of Rock. I particularly remember a young boy singing “Eye of the Tiger,” whose voice was absolutely precious.

From a distance it was clear the first color to run through was yellow. On the sides of the trail, people would have bottles filled with yellow powder and would sling it on runners passing by. We managed to get as close as possible to these people and would twirl around in the haze, laughing and then quickly shutting our mouths.

As we continued our journey, on the left side of the separated trail were the participants nearing the finish line, and we could see all the colors that awaited us. The demographics of the participants ranged from toddlers being pushed in strollers to elderly couples holding hands. I distinctly remember one group of college-aged people who made a lasting impression, though. One male was dressed as a superhero wearing only underwear and a

cape, being pushed by his friends in a shopping cart. They were definitely the most creative runners I saw that day. Others had on gorilla costumes and other animal costumes that made them stand out, and one female student even had a fake neon moustache and goatee stuck on her face, which even received notification from one of the announcers.

After each kilometer there was a color station, so we progressively began looking like running rainbows: red, blue, pink, yellow and purple color in our hair, faces and all over our bodies. I felt like a Smurf after leaving the blue station. Some people were extreme with the coloring and would do snow angels in the powder on the ground. The more intense runners had lines of multicolored sweat running down their faces.

At this point, I was regretting not picking up a pair of the free sunglasses being handed out before the event. I had completely pink eyelashes.

When we reached the finish line, a crowd of people awaited to cheer us on and take pictures.

Our three-mile walk did not tire us enough to make us leave before the gigantic Color Festival, though. This is where my favorite part of the event began.

We made our way to the stage, on which stood Raider Red, a Unicorn mascot called Runicorn and other people pumping up the giant crowd of participants. It was like a massive dance party, playing songs like “Harlem Shake” and “Gangnam Style.” Everyone in the crowd had their color packets in hand, waiting for the moment in which everyone would simultaneously throw their packets in the air. Anticipation was at an all-time high.

At one point while we were waiting, children were invited onstage to showcase their dance moves. One small boy was a mini professional hip-hop dancer.

Crowd members roared with laughter and were so impressed by

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his skills they even videoed him.

People onstage also were constantly throwing free stuff out to the crowd, primarily color pack-

ets. Within my group, we caught about 10 extra packets. We would get so excited each time one came flying our way, and would try to

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The countdown for the big moment finally came, and crowd members had different color packets opened in their hands, ready to be thrown into the air.

I was not fully prepared for

what happened next. As the announcer reached zero, a cloud of every color imaginable floated in the sky, and we were almost immediately engulfed in primarily pink and orange. I could barely see or breathe and it smelled like baby powder, but that didn’t matter because everyone’s adrenaline was rushing, and the moment was unlike

anything I’ve ever experienced.

It was like a rainbow fell directly on us from the sky.

After a few moments, the clouds dissipated and I could barely recognize my friends.

One had hair that was completely orange, our faces were covered in colors and our palms were black from all the different pigments we had touched.

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My friends were particularly disturbed by my right ear, which had orange powder thrown all in it.

The Color Festival was so incredible we stayed for a second round. After being a part of the enormous rainbow puff again and almost suffocating this time, we decided to call it a day and headed back toward

our cars, looking back each time another round of colors blasted into the air.

Our festivities were not done yet, though. All the exercise and excitement made us hungry, but we did not want to wash off our colors just yet. We decided to eat at Picantes, hoping not to make a scene when we walked in.

To our surprise, many different groups of Color Run participants were there. Although we stood out as we ate, we didn’t mind. In fact, strangers would smile at us and ask all about our experiences.

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Art world shivers at sale of Henry Moore statue LONDON (AP) — The massive bronze sculpture is formally known as “Draped Seated Woman,” a Henry Moore creation that evoked Londoners huddled in air raid shelters during the Blitz.

To the East Enders who lived nearby, the artwork was known as “Old Flo,” a stalwart symbol of people facing oppression with dignity and grace.

But now, Old Flo may have to go.

The cash-strapped London borough of Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest communities in Britain, plans to sell the statue — estimated to be worth as much as 20 million pounds ($30 million).

Art lovers fear the sale of such a famous sculpture would set a worrisome precedent, triggering the sell-off of hundreds of lesser works housed in parks, public buildings and little local museums as communities through-

out Britain struggle to balance their budgets amid the longest and deepest economic slowdown since the Great Depression.

“If the sale of Old Flo goes through, it can open the flood gates,” said Sally Wrampling, head of policy at the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for art and one of the groups campaigning to block the sale.

The proposal embodies a dilemma faced by many struggling households: Do you sell the family silver to get through tough times?

Tower Hamlets, where a recent study found that 42 percent of children live in poverty, is 100 million pounds in the red.

The sculpture hasn’t even been in the borough for 15 years. It was moved to a sculpture park in the north of England when authorities tore down the housing project where it had

been placed. The council says just the insurance alone for the massive bronze would be a burden to taxpayers.

“We make this decision with a heavy heart,” said Rania Khan, a local councilor who focuses on culture issues. “We have to make tough decisions.”

Local authorities throughout the country are being hit by funding cuts as the central government seeks to balance the budget and reduce borrowing.

Funding for local government will fall 33 percent in real terms between April 2011 and March 2015, according to the Local Government Association.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the cuts tend to hit poor, urban areas like Tower Hamlets hardest, because their spending was higher to begin with.

Some 2,000 museums in Britain are local affairs. Bury Council sold a painting by L.S. Lowry in 2006, and

Southampton City Council backed down from plans to sell an Auguste Rodin bronze in the face of public protest. The Museums Association has advised the Northampton council to hold off on the sale of an Egyptian funerary monument estimated to be worth 2 million pounds until more consultation can be done.

The depth of the recession and the lack of hope that things will improve soon are fueling the debate.

The latest figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility, an independent agency created in 2010 to advise the government, show the economy is growing more slowly than previously forecast, reducing tax revenue and prolonging the government’s austerity program.

One thing is certain: Tower Hamlets, a community of 254,000 people, desperately needs the money.

Khan says she believes Moore, the son of a coal miner and lifelong socialist who died in 1986, would be moved by the plight of her constituents. She knows women who will be hard hit by proposed limits on benefit payments — people for whom as little as five pounds can make a huge difference — and families living in housing with mold growing on the walls.

“If he thought the sale of the sculpture would benefit the lives of thousands in Tower Hamlets ... I think he would be in favor,” Khan said.

Moore attended art school on a scholarship for ex-servicemen. He became fascinated with the human form, creating works with undulating curves that reflect rolling hills and other features of nature. His most beloved motif was the reclining female figure, like that of Old Flo. The statue features the graceful

draping that Moore traced to his observation of people huddled in the Underground during the Blitz. In a 1966 interview with the BBC, Moore talked about the fear and exhilaration of Londoners sheltering against the Nazi barrage. He had concern for those he was drawing: He never sat sketching but waited until the following day and drew from memory — rather than capturing people in their makeshift bedrooms.

Alan Wilkinson, one of the foremost Moore scholars, said the artist would have been sympathetic about the hard times in Tower Hamlets, but would want his sculptures seen the way they were intended to be seen — in public spaces.

“Public sculpture was incredibly important for him,” Wilkinson said.

“He was very fussy about where it was placed.”

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Students gathered at Memorial Circle to listen to good music, socialize with friends and to help out a good cause.

T h e i n a u g u r a l Wo u n d e d Warrior Benefit concert was from 5 p.m. Saturday, despite the harsh winds.

Brad Schniers, a junior animal science major from Miles, was the main organizer of the

event and said he wanted to do something that could really help.

“I first heard about the Wounded Warrior Project my freshman year and thought it sounded like a great cause,” he said. “I thought Tech needed a large scale event to help the cause.”

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ect is a nonprofit organization that raises money to help veterans and current military members who have been hurt or need help in any way, Schniers said.

According to The Weather Channel, the winds ranged from 20 to 30 mph during the concert.

“At first the winds were so bad that we had to just take town the tents we had up,” Evans said.

“We just wanted to try and keep going if we could, we’re just glad it’s not raining or anything.”

According to the RHA Facebook page, the event was cut short because of bad weather.

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Review: March Madness online not for cord-cutters NEW YORK (AP) — Finding March Madness basketball games online is easier this year, but watching them isn’t if you’ve ditched your cable or satellite TV service.

This is good news for most Americans — those who pay for cable or satellite service. If you already get the Turner channels — TNT, TBS and TruTV — on television, you should be able to watch live video of every game for free on computers and mobile devices.

But last year, Turner gave those who don’t have cable or satellite — the so-called cord-cutters — an option to view all 67 games online for a one-time fee of $4. So if you didn’t want to pay $70 or more each month for cable service, you could just pay $4 once for the games.

That was quite a deal. In fact, it was too good to last.

Turner says the plan all along has been to eliminate that option once people got more comfortable with signing in with their pay-TV accounts to watch online. NBC and its sister cable channels have been doing that every other year with the

Olympics. HBO, which like Turner is owned by Time Warner Inc., makes you sign in to watch its shows online.

There’s no online-only option with either.

It’s a concept the television industry calls TV Everywhere. The catch is you still need a TV subscription to watch online.

In doing so, the networks are discouraging cord-cutting, which is still uncommon, but growing fast.

Networks want to preserve the fees that cable and satellite companies pay them for every subscriber who gets those channels on television.

The good news here is that to compensate for the disappearing online-only option, Turner has made it very easy for online viewers to access live games of the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament.

That’s crucial when games are during the workday, when access to a TV is limited.

For starters, Turner and its broadcasting partner, CBS Corp., have centralized where you can find the games.

Just go to http://www.ncaa.com/

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Last year, as a Time Warner Cable subscriber, I had to first figure out which network was carrying a particular game and then go to that network’s website to enter my Time Warner password. Watching on a mobile device required yet another password after paying the $4 fee.

That made March Madness maddening.

This time, it’s one site (or app) and one password.

I expected I’d need to enter my password right away. Instead, both the website and the app let me start watching live games first.

CBS is broadcasting about a quarter of the early-round games and most of the later ones. You can watch as much as you want of those games online.

The Turner games are limited to four hours without a password. You don’t have to use that all at once.

The idea is that you’d use that time to figure out your account information.

In my case, it’s the same one I use to access cable bills online.

But unless you know you’re limited to four hours, you wouldn’t know to look for your password. In making it easy to start watching, Turner is also making it easy to overlook the limit. You’re promised warnings along the way, though I never noticed any in my multitasking.

The timer appears tied to Adobe’s video player, so clearing the cookie

data files on my browser didn’t reset it. But after my four hours ran out on a MacBook, I was still able to watch on an iMac, an iPad and an Android phone.

That’s good because my pay-TV password doesn’t work. A few months ago, I downgraded to a barebones TV service that excludes the Turner channels. Time Warner Cable knows that and won’t let me through.

Once your four-hour allotment runs out, you are still able to watch CBS games live and listen to live audio of every game. You also have access to replays on computers and recaps on mobile apps shortly after a game concludes. In addition, you get play-by-play updates and the latest stats on players and the teams. A few highlight clips are also available for free, even before the game ends.

Live video — when you do get it — is sharp. I encountered stuttering only when I tried to watch three or four streams on the same Wi-Fi network.

One drawback: You do have to watch a short ad when you start a video, on top of regular ads during breaks in game play. If the game is close, you could miss a key shot. My other complaint is the lack of controls for pausing and replaying live video. You’re stuck with the replays chosen by the networks.

I understand why Turner is requiring a pay-TV subscription, even if I don’t like it. It does need to make money. I only wish that it would offer the option to pay for just the NCAA games, as it did last year, for those who don’t want to pay for hundreds of TV channels that go unwatched.

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Tech men’s tennis shuts out New Mexico State

By MICHAEL SUNIGA

State senior Luis Ramirez.

Manzini got off to a strong start, defeating Ramirez in the first set with a score of 6-1. However, he struggled to maintain momentum, losing the second set 2-6.

“I did not play my best tennis,” Manzini said. “I knew if I played strong I could win in my third set so that is what I tried to put in my mind and I did it. I saw everyone was playing really well so that gave me more confidence.”

Following defeat in the second set, Manzini was able to rally in the third, overcoming Ramirez with a score of 6-1.

Although all of Tech’s players won their individual matches, Siegel said his team should have finished the afternoon earlier than they did.

“We did not finish the way I would have liked in some of our matches, but at the same time I am pleased,” he said. “I thought today was a good match.”

Tech freshman Gabriel Dias played at the No. 2 position defeating his opponent, New Mexico State freshman Daniel Fernandez with a score of 6-2 in both sets.

Meanwhile, Pfister played at the No. 4 position, defeating his opponent, New Mexico State junior Mark Westgate in three sets, 6-0, 4-6, 6-2.

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After moving five spots up in the ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings, the No. 42 Texas Tech men’s tennis team played host to New Mexico State on Saturday, defeating the Aggies 7-0 for a sweep in both singles play and doubles play.

Following Saturday’s match, Tech has improved to 12-5 on the season, winning nine of its last 11 matches.

Because of high winds, which were predicted to arrive later in the afternoon, the original 11 a.m. start was moved to 9 a.m.

“We changed the time of the match because it was going to be windy and it worked out well for us,” Tech senior Raphael Pfister said. “We came out strong in doubles, we came out strong in singles and that was the plan.”

Tech and New Mexico State started the afternoon off in doubles play, where the Red Raiders were victorious in all three matches.

Following doubles play, singles play began. Both teams were led by veterans at the No. 1 position, with Tech senior Vitor Manzini facing off against New Mexico

After playing the previous five games on the road, the Pfister said the team was happy to be home and playing in front of its fans.

“We like to play here in front of our crowd, and it is always nice to get a win here,” he said.

Having lost their last match to Boise State the previous week, Pfister said the Red Raiders’ match against New Mexico State was very important to the program.

“We needed that strong win today,” he said. “We wanted to come out today and play our best tennis and just get a strong win, and we did that.”

After getting the win against New Mexico State, accounting for nine wins in their last 11, Manzini said he feels the team is peaking at just the right time, before conference play begins.

“I think we are playing much better than in the beginning of the semester, especially in doubles,” he said. “We still have two more weeks, until conference play begins, and I am sure we are going to get better.”

Tech now looks to its next match against Fresno State, which will be played in front of a home crowd at 6 p.m.

Wednesday at McLeod Tennis Center.

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TEXAS TECH’S RAPHAEL Pfister returns a serve during his match against Texas—Pan American on Wednesday at Don and Ethel McLeod Tennis Center.

Siegel said he and his team have some work today before Wednes-

day’s match, but hopes to see a good turnout in one of Tech’s few night

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No. 2 Ohio State beats Iowa State 78-75 on late 3-pointer DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — With Aaron Craft’s last-second shot, No. 2 Ohio State remained the lone high seed left in the NCAA tournament’s most-busted bracket.

Craft made a 3-pointer with a half-second left, and Ohio State escaped Dayton — a place of Buckeye heartaches — with a 78-75 victory over Iowa State on Sunday.

Ohio State (28-7) needed Craft’s only 3-pointer of the game — an arching shot over 6-foot-7 defender Georges Niang from the top of the key — to avoid yet another upset in the oh-so-wild West Regional. Four of the top five seeds fell fast and hard in the first weekend.

Craft left the Buckeyes in position to fritter away a late lead, then saved them in the

final second.

“I tried to stay as poised as possible,” Craft said. “Missed a lot of shots I normally make, layups and free throws. Got a mismatch, took the ball, and it went in.”

Ohio State’s 10th straight win sent the Buckeyes into the round of 16 for the fourth straight year, a school record. They’ll play sixthseeded Arizona on Thursday in Los Angeles.

Tenth-seeded Iowa State (2312) overcame a late 13-point deficit by hitting 3s — the Cyclones’ specialty — but wound up beaten

by Craft’s lone basket from behind the arc. The plucky point guard helped Iowa State take it to the closing seconds by missing the front end of a pair of one-and-one chances.

He also missed a jumper with 30 seconds left, but the Cyclones

knocked the ball out of bounds going for the rebound. The Buckeyes spread the floor for the final play, which ended with Craft flinging it up.

Deshaun Thomas led Ohio State with 22 points, and Craft had 18. LaQuinton Ross scored 10 straight for the Buckeyes as they built that second-half lead.

Korie Lucious led Iowa State with 19 points. He didn’t come close on a final heave after Craft’s winner.

Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg was unable to make an opening comment during the postgame news conference, the pain of the defeat etched all over his face.

“We played our hearts out,” Will Clyburn said. “It was a tough game and he made a tough shot.

He made a great play.”

The Buckeyes escaped Day-

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No. 3 New Mexico, No. 4 Kansas State and No. 5 Wisconsin were knocked out right away, losing their openers. No. 1 Gonzaga joined them Saturday night, shocked by ninth-seeded Wichita State 76-76.

The Buckeyes had opened the tournament in Dayton twice previously under coach Thad Matta. Twice, his Buckeyes failed to advance even though the thousands of fans provide a home-court feeling.

It was fitting that this one was decided by a 3.

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The Texas Tech women’s tennis team capped off a weekend of strong play with a 6-0 victory against Iowa State on Sunday at the McLeod Tennis Center.

“I thought today was one of the better singles performances we’ve had,” Tech coach Todd Petty said. “We really were able to get out to some quick leads and finish.”

The Lady Raiders (13-4, 3-0) improved to 7-0 in home matches this season.

On Senior Day, seniors Sandra Dynka, Caroline Starck and Elizabeth Ullathorne all earned singles points for Tech.

Playing in the No. 3 position, Ullathorne defeated Meghan Cassens 6-1, 6-1 to earn the first point of the afternoon for the Lady Raiders.

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“I was nervous at the start,” Ullathorne said, “and I was thinking ‘What’s wrong with you?’ I got the jitters a bit but, I mean, it was good to get the win on Senior Day and getting off the court fast was nice.”

A 6-0, 6-2 victory for Samantha Adams and a 6-3, 6-1 win for Kenna Kilgo, a 3-0 lead in the match. Dynka’s 6-3, 6-4 win against Emma Waites secured the match for Tech.

“Obviously, there’s a little bit more pressure just because you want to get that win on Senior Day,” Dynka said, “but I think I played pretty well. The girl I played was pretty tough, so I’m happy with my result.”

Lady Raider Nikki Sanders defeated Ana Gasparovic 6-3, 6-1 before Starck completed the match with a 6-3, 6-3 victory against Jenna Langhorst.

“It hit me that it was really Senior Day,” Starck said of her early match

would hit adversity.”

The Lady Raiders were struggling to score, that gave South CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Florida the lead in the game and kept them in the 40s.

Baker said the play was tough, “I just came off my teammate’s but she is proud of her team. intensity,” Smith said. “I just “No one wants to foul out,” wanted to pick up my intensity for she said. “It was a tough call. I am my team. I knew I had to do what proud of my team.”

I do best, and that is to play hard.”

Curry wanted ball reversal It was gratifying for South with Baker out of the game and Florida coach Jose Fernandez to expected the Lady Raiders to get the first tournament win in step up.

South Florida history, he said, “Kelsi had a bad day,” she said. but he was proud of Curry’s team.

“I have a lot of faith in those two “First of all I want to con(Brown and Smalls). They made gratulate Coach Curry and Texas a lot of big shots.”

Tech for a wonderful year that Curry said she is proud of how her team had,” Fernandez said.

Baker has improved her game this “This game was a great game for season. women’s basketball.”

“She had to step in and play It was an emotional night for that five spot,” she said. “A post the senior Lady Raiders, taking player in a point guard body. She a loss that ended their time at has great leadership.”

Tech. Smalls said she is proud South Florida senior guard of her teammates despite losing Andrell Smith said she knew her the game. team needed every free throw as “It has,” she said. “I am thankthey stepped up to the line and ful of my teammates, and proud.” as they overcame the roaring With all the hard work put in Tech crowd. this season, the future of the Lady “Really that we have been Raiders basketball program looks here before,” Smith said. “I be- promising to Curry. lieved in myself, and my team “I feel we have a great class believed in myself. This crowd coming in,” she said. “I feel the was huge. It was very loud, but class coming in is mirroring our we knew to stay together com- senior class.” ing into this game. We knew we ➤➤atorrez@dailytoreador.com

nerves. “There’s added pressure, you want it to be not only a win but you want to play well, and you want to remember your Senior Day being a good day. Do I think I played the best tennis? Probably not, but I got the win and that’s what matters.”

The victory puts the Lady Raiders in second place in the Big 12.

Petty said the momentum the team gained from Senior Day activities helped in the victory.

“If we can continue to play with that type momentum and that type of intensity,” he said, “I think we’re going to be OK going forward.”

Sunday’s victory was the third for Tech in three days. On Friday, the Lady Raiders defeated Texas-El Paso 7-0 and West Virginia 6-1.

The Raiders continue Big 12 play against No. 28 Oklahoma State at 1 p.m.

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TEXAS TECH’S SAMANTHA Adams returns a serve during a singles tennis match against Iowa State on Sunday at McLeod Tennis Center.

Wichita State shocks No. 1 Gonzaga SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The No. 1 got taken down by a bunch of 3s.

Gonzaga is out of the NCAA tournament thanks to Wichita State, a No. 9 seed that made five straight shots from behind the arc Saturday for a 76-70 victory that sent the West Region’s top seed — and the nation’s No. 1 team during the regular season — back home.

“This is incredible for our team,” said freshman guard Ron Baker, who hit four of the Shockers’ season-high 14 3-pointers. “We came together down the stretch and pulled the upset off. This feeling is unimaginable.”

Now Wichita State doesn’t have to try and emulate fellow mid-major Gonzaga any more.

The Shockers (28-6) one-upped the Zags (32-3) on the NCAA tournament stage, and advanced to the Round of 16 for the first time since 2006. They are headed to Los Angeles to face the winner of Sunday’s game between La Salle and Ole Miss.

Gonzaga became the first top seed to be eliminated, giving all the Zags’ doubters an I-told-you-so moment.

The Zags survived a scare in the second round against Southern but couldn’t hold up against a Shockers team whose motto is “play angry.”

Call it the Marshall plan, by 50-year-old Shockers coach Gregg Marshall.

He pulled his team aside after Gonzaga had made its big second-half run to take an eight-point lead.

“You know what I asked them?

On Oct. 15, down eight with eight minutes to go, would you take it for the right to go to Los Angeles in the Sweet 16?” Marshall asked. “And they did it from there.”

Cleanthony Early and Baker scored 16 points apiece, freshman Fred VanVleet added 13, Carl Hall had 10 and Tekele Cotton eight.

Baker called it the epitome of team.

While Baker hasn’t been this deep in the tournament before, the Shockers are no stranger to the NCAAs, with Saturday’s win evening their record at 10-10. They earned a trip to the Final Four in 1965, the regional finals three times and most recently made it to the Round of 16 in 2006 before losing to George Mason.

Marshall also led Winthrop to seven NCAA tournament appearances during his nine seasons there.

Still, Wichita State hadn’t fared so well against top-ranked teams. The last time they played one, in 1967,

they lost by 34. That was UCLA, a team that went on to win its fourth of 10 titles during the Wooden era.

While Gonzaga held the top spot in the AP Top 25 over the final weeks of the season, skeptics thought of the Bulldogs as a soft No. 1 seed that benefited from a relatively easy schedule in the West Coast Conference while other top contenders were getting banged around in the power conferences.

That’s not to say the Bulldogs didn’t fight, with Kelly Olynyk scoring 26 points to lead Gonzaga, and Kevin Pangos adding 19.

Gonzaga trailed by as many as 13 in the first half, was down 36-31 at the break, but came on strong early in the second half.

Wichita State was not intimidated.

“They never quit,” Marshall said.

“You know we got the big lead, Gonzaga makes a great run as a No. 1 team in the country would, and these guys dig down.”

Shockers, for sure.

They showed their grit after Gonzaga’s 12-0 run gave the Bulldogs a 49-41 lead with 11:53 left. Back-toback 3-pointers by Kevin Pangos and Michael Hart started it, Olynyk hit

a jumper then a pair of free throws, and Pangos capped it with a steal and fast-break layup.

But Wichita State outscored the Zags 35-21 from there.

The string of five straight 3s began when Tekele Cotton spotted up with 6:05 remaining and hit a shot that cut Wichita State’s seven-point deficit to four.

It ended at the 1:28 mark when VanVleet, dribbling the ball between his legs, nearly lost it, but gathered himself and threw one up with 1 second left on the shot clock. It went in, the Shockers were ahead 70-65 and the rest of the game was a free-throwshooting contest.

“I was just disappointed that with 1 second left that we even let him get a 3 off,” Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. “That was a mental error on our part.”

The Shockers, who made just 2 of 20 3-pointers in their 18-point win over Pitt on Thursday, shot 50 percent from beyond the arc and 50 percent overall.

“They deserve a ton of credit,” Few said. “It’s the first time in a while someone made 50 percent on us, and to bang in 14 3s (overall) is pretty amazing.”