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AUSTIN (AP) — Oil and gas production is up, construction is on the rise and unemployment is low. The Texas economy is strong with no trouble in sight, economists say.

Texans of a certain age have seen this before, and they know what usually happens next. Bust.

The question facing all Texans, then, is where might the next bust come from, and how can the state mitigate against it.

In the last 40 years, busts hit when oil prices collapsed in 1982 and when savings and loans collapsed four years later. Most recently, it was the Great Recession in 2007 that cost 400,000 Texans their jobs.

Galveston Bay oil spill could have lasting effect GALVESTON (AP) — Some ecological experts fear the 168,000 gallons of oil spilled a week ago in Galveston Bay and now drifting south in the Gulf of Mexico could have lasting effects on the undersea ecosystem.

Antionetta Quigg, a marine biology professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston, said based on previous studies, the oil has been found to be toxic.

“Given that plankton is food for high-traffic levels of fish, we think that they then become toxic, too,” she told The Galveston County Daily News for a story published Sunday.

And that means fish in the polluted water get a “double hit” from oil both in their physical environment and food sources.

The oil from a barge was released into the water March 22 when the barge and a ship collided in the Houston Ship Channel.

While cleanup efforts have been continuing since then, some of the oil picking up sediment could have sunk to the seabed and could smother or poison animals like shrimp or crabs.

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TOP: STUDENTS THROW powder paint during Texas Tech’s annual Holi: Festival of Colors at Urbanovsky Park on Saturday. ABOVE LEFT: TECH Kahaani performs during Texas Tech’s annual Holi: Festival of Colors at Urbanovsky Park on Saturday. ABOVE RIGHT: A puppy is covered with paint during Texas Tech’s annual Holi: Festival of Colors at Urbanovsky Park on Saturday.

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

Vibrant colors flew through the air as hundreds of Texas Tech students and Lubbock residents participated in this year’s Holi: Festival of Colors. The holiday celebration took place at 4 p.m. on Saturday outside of the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

Currently in their seventh year hosting the event at Tech, the

Cross Cultural Academic Advancement Center and the South Asian Student Association provided 800 free T-shirts, free ethnic food and free packets of colored powder to attendees.

White T-shirts did not stay clean for long once the celebration began. During Holi, participants throw colored powder at one another, covering friends and strangers in paint.

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By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

In a fundraiser to support special needs athletes, a Texas Tech student interest group hosted the first Queue for a Cause event at the CapRock Winery on Friday evening.

Sam Debold, a second year medical student from Phoenix, organized the event and said she has worked with special needs children for more than six years. She started the Interest Group for Special Needs to provide special op-

portunities for special needs children, she said.

“Because of that, we wanted to have a fundraising event where we could have different people get together for a cause,” she said. “We wanted a variety of people to all come together as a community and support these athletes.”

In particular, the organization aims to raise money to benefit a Lubbock soccer program, according to a Health Sciences Center news release.

Guests participated in an optional wine tasting and registered for the event,

Debold said. Throughout the evening, attendees could participate in a silent auction and enter a raffle. Items included a one-night stay at the Overton Hotel, a safari in Africa and Tech football gear.

After a banquet-style dinner, the live quarter auction began.

“Since it’s a quarter auction, we wanted to incorporate the letter Q,” Debold said. “Queue means to line up, so it’s like having people line up together for a cause.”

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A native West Texas bird species has recently been added to the list of threatened animals because of a sharp population decrease.

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Since 1998, the bird has been considered a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act as the population has been steadily declining.

The final decision came after the bird’s population declined to fewer than 18,000 birds across the five states, which is nearly 50 percent lower than in 2012, according to Fox News.

Thursday marked an important day for both pro-life and pro-choice supporters alike, as a federal appeals court upheld Texas’ abortion restrictions.

These restrictions, according to an Associated Press article, caused the closure of 20 clinics across the state of Texas, require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and limit the prescription of pills that induce abortions.

According to the court records, the appeals court found “the evidence presented to the district court demonstrates that if the admitting-privileges regulation burdens abortion access by diminishing the number of doctors who will perform abortions and requiring women to travel farther, the burden does not fall on the vast majority of Texas women seeking abortions.”

This point is argued by executives with Planned Parenthood, Whole Women’s Health and other organizations committed to women’s health in the state.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Votes, said in a press release that the laws are not keeping women safe and instead causing more of a possibility for harm.

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A group of Texas Tech students were recently announced as finalists in the National Innovative Agriculture Contest for their work on sustainable agriculture projects.

Daniel Cunningham, a plant and soil sciences graduate student from Richardson, said the need for the project is because of a group of people living in northern Kenya and their current agricultural hardships.

“There were some folks in the northern part of Kenya,” he said.

“They were formerly nomadic goat herders. They’re trying to grow their own food, but they

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Each person received a paddle with a number matching a chip. If a person wanted a particular prize, he or she could raise a paddle and be entered. If a paddle was down, another chip would be chosen.

Katie Butler, a first year medical student from Garland, assisted Debold with the quarter auction and will be next year’s president of the organization.

“Our organization provides first aid at special needs tournaments,” she said, “and we also raise money to benefit children with special needs.

It’s really important to let people know that that can do something

don’t know how. They wanted someone to teach them, so they reached out to a connection to the university.”

Tech’s team consists of four graduate students and includes Cunningham and Kyle Tenger, a plant and soil sciences graduate student from Schertz.

The other two team members are doctorial candidates Teresia Mbogori, a nutritional science student from Nyeri, Kenya and Michael Kanyi, an agriculture education student from Nakuru, Kenya.

The goal of the project is to improve food security in one of the driest, most remote parts of northern Kenya, Turkana, according to the Turkana Project’s to help.”

Erika Bahamon, a first year medical student from Corpus Christi, said she expects Queue for a Cause to become an annual event.

“It’s been really well organized,” she said. “People have been really receptive. It’s for a good cause that no one really has any issue with, so it was really easy to try and get support from the community.”

Planning began in September, Debold said. A team of six medical students, with some help from a similar interest group at the School of Law, organized the event, she said.

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Members of the research team are self-funding graduate research to live and work in the small village of Nadapal, Kenya. All funds will go to the implementation of a sustainable demonstration farm to empower the Turkana people to grow their own food, according to the Facebook page.

Long periods of overgrazing caused by nomadic goat production, severe long-term drought and worsening geo-political issues have raised food security levels in the region to emergency status, according to the project submission on iStart’s website for new business ideas.

To date, the team has conducted a critical needs analysis

to ensure inclusion of the most essential plant materials to fulfill community nutrition needs.

The return on investment is the human capital achieved when diet and nutrition improves the health of the community, according to the submission on iStart.

Cunningham said the overall goal is simply to help with the extreme living conditions the Turkana people are facing.

“The goal is just to help the people in that region with extreme drought conditions,” he said. “People are starving, and the infant mortality rate is just so high. What we’re doing is trying to help them grow their own food sustainability and harvest rainwater to help. We hold every

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Texas Tech students have multiple opinions on the issue and are taking action in different ways.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Lauren Roblez, a senior Spanish and “The latest restrictions in Texas will political science major from Midland, said force women to have abortions later in she believes the Texas laws are restrictive pregnancy,” she said, “if they are able to to women who want the right to choose. get a doctor at all.”

“I believe the restrictive laws not only Planned Parenthood executives have put a woman’s life in danger, but also takes decided to sue the state, according to the away rights women should be able to have,” she said. “I feel like it’s regressive.” article, to block the restrictions.

Others advocate the restrictions Wendy Davis, state senator and because they believe they will protect, gubernatorial candidate, fought for these not harm women, according to the article. rights during her 11-hour filibuster in June, Greg Abbott, Texas gubernatorial according to the article. candidate and Attorney General, said “This appeal just shows us there is a in a press release, “This unanimous fight and we have to continue fighting,” decision is a vindication of the careful Roblez said, “Texas is a non-voting state so deliberation by the Texas Legislature it’s really just about us going out and letting to craft a law to protect the health and citizens know what we think is right and rallying their support. We are shown every safety of Texas women.”

drop of water and use it to grow the crops.”

The team was announced as one of the 30 finalists out of 250 university entries and is presenting the project at the “Agriculture Innovations Prize” in Wisconsin to possibly receive a prize up to $15,000 to continue its research and funding.

The final six teams will present their projects to a panel of judges as well as the public. The top team will receive $100,000 from the Howard G. Buffet foundation to support further research and continue their business idea.

As a “proof of concept” for the project in Kenya, the group is attempting a similar strategy at the South Plains Food Bank’s

GRUB farm, which provides outreach and teaches farm skills to at-risk youth.

The team will be competing for the “People’s Choice” award to gain $15,000 worth of funding.

Cunningham said he is hopeful the Tech student body will help the group out by voting for the team.

“We have moved up from last (30th) place to eighth and gained some momentum with the Facebook voting,” he said. “With our school’s awesome student body and its rich history in agriculture, I think we really have a chance!

Just like the (Agricultural Innovation Prize) page, and vote for us.”

day that there are a lot of Texans who do support a woman’s right to choose.”

While the Planned Parenthood clinic in Lubbock was one of the 20 clinics closed after these laws went into effect, Lubbock citizens do have other options to get help if faced with a situation that may cause them to want to terminate their pregnancy, Kim Stark, executive director for Voice of Hope, the Lubbock rape crisis center, said.

The center is not a clinic that performs abortions, she said, but it does offer services such as a 24-hour crisis hotline, counseling services, law enforcement accompaniment and community education and prevention to help those who may have ended up with a pregnancy as a result of rape.

“Voice of Hope commits to offering help, hope and healing to all persons af-

fected by sexual violence,” she said, “and exists to provide victims of sexual abuse and assault with free, confidential crisis assistance, advocacy and support.”

The closest Planned Parenthood clinic to the Lubbock area is in Fort Worth, according to the Planned Parenthood website.

More restrictions begin in September and were not included in the trial, according to the article. It is unclear if these restrictions will be challenged as well.

Stephen Breyer, a Supreme Court justice, said in a news release it is likely this case will end up before the Supreme Court and they will have the final ruling.

“It is a question, I believe,” he said, “that at least four members of this court will wish to consider irrespective of the Fifth Circuit’s ultimate decision.”

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Richardson said some of the reason for decline is the Prairie Chicken’s extreme sensitivity to many man-made projects.

“They’re very sensitive,” he said. “The chicken is bothered by everything from vertical structures to noises to highways. They won’t nest within these areas, and therefore they just all left.”

The Endangered Species Act was introduced in the 1970s to combat the threat of extinction due to continued urbanization and economic expansion. The act prohibits any actions that would drastically affect the habitat of a threatened or endangered species.

The new listing could end up causing controversy as it could affect oil and gas drilling, wind farms and other activities that could possibly interfere with the Prairie Chicken’s natural habitat, according to Texas Monthly Magazine’s website.

Richardson said only time will tell what activities will end up being restricted under the Endangered Species Act, but it could potentially affect the major industries in Texas, specifically oil and gas.

“There’s certain areas where just a whole lot of pump jacks and oil wells have gone in,” he said.

“There’s no chickens in those areas anymore. They’ve been driven out, and that habitat has been lost.

There are also a lot of new vehicles.

You deal with not only the location itself, really you have to draw a buffer around that up to 400 yards.”

Texas Parks and Wildlife and other state fish and wildlife agencies included in the Lesser Prairie Chicken Interstate Working Group are developing a rangewide management plan for the species for further conservation of the species, according to the Parks and Wildlife website.

Richardson said the plan will include several tactics including offering cheaper rates for companies that drill on land which is not prime habitat for the Prairie Chicken, and he hopes to see a population rebound in the next few years.

“What we are doing is trying to encourage the oil and gas industry to drill in places that are not the best quality habitat,” he said. “They pay higher rates for high quality habitats and little to no rate for areas that are already affected and have lost the chickens.”

Richardson said those prices paid by drilling companies will go to help conservation efforts.

“That money goes to farmers to benefit conservation efforts to benefit the chicken,” he said. “For every one acre used, two acres of conservation goes in to benefit the chicken. We need to build habitat and build numbers.” ➤➤kmcdermett@dailytoreador.com

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5k Color Run

TOP LEFT: RUNNERS begin at the starting line at the Color Run 5K on Saturday at MacKenzie Park.

TOP RIGHT: THE Color Run returned to Lubbock for the second year and at MacKenzie Park on Saturday.

BELOW: A RUNNER is coated with paint during the Lubbock Color Run on Saturday morning at MacKenzie Park.

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PARTICIPANTS THROW PAINT in the air during the Lubbock Color Run on Saturday morning at MacKenzie Park.

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“When everyone was throwing colors, I couldn’t see anything,” Ryan Southwick, a junior civil engineering major from Lewisville, said, “and it was awesome. It was cool to see a different culture’s celebration and learn the reasons behind it.”

In the Hindu month of Phalguna, the Holi festival takes place the day after the full moon, according to an event handout.

Originally, farmers celebrated the arrival of spring through the holiday, also known as

Holaka or Phagwa.

Tech Kahaani, the university’s only Bollywood dance team, performed to traditional Indian music during the festival.

Additionally, volunteers served Indian food to participants after the colorful festivities concluded.

Love Patel, a junior biology major from Lubbock, said the festival indicates the coming of spring and promotes unity.

“When everyone sprays color everywhere,” Dhruv Bhakta, a senior biochemistry major from Houston, said, “it’s like we’re all one. Overall, it’s a day of good and merry times.”

The organizations strive to include more than just Tech students in the celebration, Bhakta said, and aim to promote unity amongst all cultures. He anticipated more than 700 students to partake in this year’s festival, he said.

Javier Lazalde, a freshman mechanical engineering major from El Paso, and Sajal Patel, a freshman pre-physician’s assistant student from Friona, said they felt like they were making friends with strangers as the paint flew.

“I can’t really do something like this where I’m from because it’s such a small town,” Patel said. “I loved it because it

was so much fun. It felt like I’m a part of this community.”

Holi unites individuals of various classes and allows people to see past skin color and other cultural boundaries, according to the Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India’s website.

The holiday and its fun nature showcase what Tech is truly about, Bhakta said. ➤➤acunningham@dailytoreador.com

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Gun control will not solve gun violence Andrew Gleinser fruition, most law-abiding citizens wouldn’t cooperate anyway.

There has already been strong resistance and outright refusal to comply with Connecticut’s law requiring registration of certain assault weapons.

But let’s say, hypothetically speaking, that peaceful gun owners surrendered their weapons, which is what gun control advocates like Morgan dreams about.

Wo u l d t h e U.S. suddenly be a utopian society where no innocent lives are taken before their time?

In f a c t, i t would be much different than that. Law-abiding gun owners would no longer have guns, but criminals would still have them.

People still made moonshine in their basements during the prohibition era, after all.

By definition, criminals pay little attention to laws, so another law saying they can’t have guns isn’t going to have much of an effect. All it will do is turn law-abiding citizens into easy targets for the criminals who will still have guns. Peaceful citizens will have no legitimate means of defending themselves.

But beyond the commonsense aspect, there are political

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reasons why gun control is a bad idea. If we as a population surrender our right to bear arms, we would essentially be placing our safety entirely in the hands of the government.

Being a student of history, I’m well aware that governments don’t exactly have a perfect track record when it comes to taking care of their citizens. I certainly don’t feel comfortable knowing that if someone breaks into my home, my only option is to call the police and pray they show up before the intruder finds me.

And that someone doesn’t necessarily have to be your run-of-themill burglar. It could be the government itself, in which case the police would be of no help at all.

A National Review article outlines the history of gun control in preWorld War II Germany.

Prior to Adolf Hitler gaining control of the government, the Weimar Republic ordered gun registration.

Once the Nazis came into power, they had access to the gun registration records, which they used to disarm political opponents.

Eventually, the Gestapo disarmed Jewish citizens leading up to Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, which was “allegedly conducted as a search for weapons, (and) entailed the ransacking of homes and businesses, and the arson of synagogues,” according to the article.

Kristallnacht, and the eventual forced movement of Jewish

... governments don’t exactly have a perfect track record when it comes to taking care of their citizens.

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i e r s M o r g a n ’s f i n a l edition of “Piers Morgan Live” on CNN aired Friday night, and America breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Few are shedding tears over M o r g a n ’s d e p a r t u r e , w h i c h comes following lackluster and declining ratings. The British journalist managed to irritate a large segment of the American population with his overstated pro-gun control stance. In fact, he dedicated his final few minutes on air to the issue.

Morgan chided the National Rifle Association and the progun lobby, saying it has “bullied this nation’s politicians into cowardly, supine silence. Even when 20 young children are blown away in their classrooms.”

Like many gun control advocates, Morgan used the tragic Sandy Hook and Aurora, Colo. shootings as ammunition for his argument that more guns lead to more death. He portrayed himself as a beacon of reason in a bloody and violent society where senseless mass murders are a daily occurrence.

While it’s certainly reasonable to want to eliminate such tragedies, as everyone on both sides of the issue does, the gun control argument has one major flaw: It won’t work. If I could write that in all caps and follow it with ten exclamation points to drive it home, I would.

Banning ordinary citizens from owning guns will not solve the problem. Citizens aren’t legally allowed to possess marijuana in most states, and look how well that’s going. Prohibition didn’t work either.

If Morgan’s idea of gun control — that guns belong “on a military battlefield … not in the hands of civilians” — comes to

citizens into concentration camps, went so smoothly for the Nazis because their targets had no means of resistance.

“Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it” might be a cliché, but a truer cliché cannot be found. I’m not suggesting that the current U.S. government would do things to American citizens similar to what Nazis did, but in the 1920s, German citizens didn’t think their government would do such things either.

The Second Amendment was written not to protect state militias, as gun control advocates tend to suggest, but to allow citizens to fight back against drastic usurpations of power by their government. If we submit ourselves to the total protection of the government, we lose the ability to fight back if the government’s actions warrant it.

This is what Morgan and other gun control advocates fail to understand. Americans take pride in the fact that our ancestors fought for independence from a tyrannical British government, and we reserve the right to do so against our own government if the situation calls for it.

Morgan, perhaps because he is from Britain, fails to grasp this important part of the American psyche, which would explain why American audiences never accepted him and his intolerable gun control rants.

Wanting to curb senseless gun violence is certainly a worthwhile endeavor, but gun control would create more problems than it would solve.

Gleinser is The DT’s opinions editor and a first-year law student from Kingwood. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

College athletes should be paid for full-time work The National Labor Relations Board ruled March 26 that members of the Northwestern University football team who receive scholarships have the right to unionize.

This decision is a win for the football players and for unions in general. Unions allow people with little influence or power to have a say in matters that affect their lives.

Student athletes will hopefully be able to improve their college experience through deals made via collective bargaining.

According to a recent CNN article, football players at Northwestern are seeking better medical care, concussion testing and even the possibility of getting paid. So far it appears that unionization is the only way to make their voices heard on the major issues that players face.

One might think that football players in college are first and foremost students and therefore should not be paid. However, given how much time per week that the athletes put into their sport, participating in college athletics is essentially a full-time

job. Many of the players on the Northwestern team claim that they felt they needed to prioritize football above school.

If a player is attending college on a sports scholarship, why wouldn’t he or she prioritize sports over school? The student must keep up their performance on the court or field in order to maintain his or her scholarship. Good grades are simply not what pay the bills in that situation.

Personally, I only work a parttime job where I stand around for six hours at a time, and I still find it hard to manage school, social life and extra-curricular activities.

I cannot imagine spending 40-plus hours every week dedicated to a sport while maintaining a social life and still achieving spectacular grades. It’s not impossible, but it is much more difficult.

Given their time commitment, professional and collegiate football players are not too dissimilar. Both put in many hours a week practicing the sport and both generate millions of dollars in revenue as a result of the games they play.

The main difference is that professional football players make a profit from their time on the field. The minimum yearly salary

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for a first year professional football player is $375,000. The most any college football player can hope for is to break even after four years with a full ride scholarship.

The reason that universities give out scholarships to football players is that by giving a more highly valued scholarship, they will be getting better players. By getting better players, a school will make its team more successful. If the team is successful, the university will make more money from ticket sales and through other forms of revenue.

Since universities give out scholarships with the intention to make money from having successful teams, it is only fair that the players receive some of this money. As the system is currently set up, they are being exploited.

Professional football players, like other athletes, are paid because they provide a service. They play football once a week and are paid for doing so because others enjoy watching them play. This is not a difficult concept — the players provide a service for which they are compensated.

College football players do not necessarily need to be making hundreds of thousands of dollars the way professional athletes do, but they should be compensated much more than they currently

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are. Universities benefit directly from the players’ presence on their teams, and the players’ compensation should be proportional.

Another way to look at this issue is that top NCAA coaches earn salaries similar to that of professional coaches, yet college players only break even with their scholarships. If NCAA coaches are receiving compensation similar to a professional level, it does not seem too far-fetched that NCAA players should receive more reasonable compensation.

One argument for the lack of payment to players is that the profits from football and basketball are needed to support other less popular sports at universities.

However, some sports economists, such as Leo Kahane, have recently challenged this line of thought showing that revenue generated from sports like hockey are able to easily cover the scholarships for top players in the sport.

Even if the more popular sports supported all other athletics at a university, players would still deserve some compensation. The bottom line is that universities make more money off of having sports teams than they would if they had no athletics. To not compensate players for this gained value is, quite simply, exploitation.

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Religion, science should be kept separate, distinct

By MATT JOHNSON

Iowa State DaIly (Iowa State U.)

In a talk to his constituents at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman’s Banquet in September of 2012, Paul Broun, U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 10th District said many things. He stated “that talk about evolution, embryology, and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell…the Earth is but about 9,000 years old.” And Rep. Broun is not alone.

In the 2012 Republican primaries for the Republican nomination for the President of the United States, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota’s 6th District and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas’ 14th District all agreed that intelligent design was the preferred mode of science education for American children and that biological evolution was just a theory.

Biological evolution is not just a theory. It is a scientific theory that is supported by experiments, facts, observations and mathematics. Intelligent design, on the other hand, is not supported by any scientifically validated procedure.

Applying such public policy as intelligent design could have devastating results.

Americans ought to be concerned with the policy decisions of their U.S. representatives, senators and state governors. In the same way, Americans should be concerned if their representative is applying his or her respective religious beliefs to science and public policy. Such a religious belief system is currently being utilized by Rep. Broun, who sits on the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight.

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representatives who share a similar paradigm to that of Rep. Broun. This particular type of fundamentalist point of view is dangerous. It is the main culprit targeting biological evolution and its supportive scientific, engineering and mathematical disciplines and applications.

Rep. Broun and his type of thinking are an example of the necessity of the separation of church and state.

What these types of politicians tend to do is muddy the waters with nonsensical details.

If one says it enough, it must be true, “Evolution is just a theory.” This type of thinking, lack of scientific understanding and ignorance in scientific literacy could potentially, if not already, create dire consequences on American science policy and America’s scientific future and competitiveness.

If America continues to fall behind in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) literacy and fails to properly educate its future workforce, unemployment could rise, trade could decrease, Fortune 500 companies like Apple, ExxonMobil, General Motors and General Dynamics could theoretically leave the American shores, and American pride and exceptionalism could fade away into the sea of history, never to return.

This is not an implication or demonization of religion or religious beliefs. In fact, religious beliefs are as much the fabric of the United States as bottled Coke and cheese burgers, or going to the moon. Rather it is discourse in support of a system that has been built on the technological foundations from the mathematical and scientific discoveries of the past 400 years — a system in which measurable facts and evidences are engineered to improve the lives of all Americans, including those of faith.

We a r e a s o c i e t y w h e r e Americans are free to express their opinions, but are also free to take advantage of scientific literacy while discovering the competitive edge that Lady Liberty provides for her children. That is what drives the audaciousness of American exceptionalism and innovation.

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Red Raiders lose to Texas Longhorns in extra innings

By EVERETT CORDER SportS editor

Te x a s s o p h o m o r e r e l i e f pitcher John Curtiss had a one-run lead with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and was starting his windup when sophomore outfielder Zach Davis took off from third.

Davis stole home.

Although the Red Raiders were able to come back and tie game three of the series against the Longhorns in dramatic fashion, they would go on to lose that final game, 5-3, and lose their first home Big 12 Conference series two games to one.

Tech sophomore outfielder Alec Humphreys said it was a tough loss, but the team will put it behind them and come out ready for its next game.

“Yeah, it was tough on us,” Humphreys said. “But, tomorrow’s a new day. It’s baseball, so there’s a lot of a games.

Yeah, it was a tough loss, but it’s just a loss. We can bounce back from anything.”

The Red Raiders jumped out to an early lead in the first game, scoring one run in the first, but that was the only run they would get all game.

The Longhorns tied the game back up on a home run by junior infielder Brooks Marlow, who went 4-for-6 in the game, and was just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle.

Texas took over in the fifth inning of the game scoring four runs on four hits, and continued to extend its lead throughout the game, eventually winning 11-1.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said his team struggled at minimizing damage in the fifth, and Texas pitcher Parker French performed very well on the mound.

“We didn’t really have a lot to show offensively anyway,” Tadlock said. “It was a rough

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TEXAS TECH CATCHER Hunter Redman tags out Texas outfielder Ben Johnson during the Red Raiders’ 11-1 loss Friday night at Rip Griffin Park.

night from the start.”

On Saturday, the Red Raiders were able to even the series, winning the game 8-4.

Tech junior Bryant Burleson said Tadlock stresses the point of moving on from losses and focusing on the next game, and that is what the team was able to do.

“Tadlock’s real big about flushing games that we lose,” he said, “and just forget about them and move onto the next one.”

The starting pitcher for Tech in game two of the series was Cameron Smith, but he was pulled after one inning, and senior pitcher Johnny Drozd threw a season-high 98 pitches throughout seven innings in relief.

Drozd said his opportunity to pitch six innings of relief last week against Texas Christian ended up being a blessing in disguise because it helped him prepare for the seven innings against the Longhorns.

Junior Longhorn pitcher

Dillon Peters started the game for Texas, but was pulled after giving up a career-high five runs in his three and one third innings pitched.

Getting to Peters early in the game was key to the win, Tech junior infielder Bryant Burleson said.

Tadlock said the response from the players after the game one loss was fantastic, and he was happy to see them come out focused and ready to win.

In game three, Tech was losing for the first eight innings, until Tadlock’s bold call to have Davis steal home.

The Red Raiders had the momentum heading into extra innings, but they were unable to capitalize, Tadlock said.

“I don’t think (this series) defines our season by any stretch of imagination,” he said.

“I think it’s going to be decided by what we do at the end of the season, I think we’re going to continue to try and get better.

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Tennis Team Remains Unbeaten in March

By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer

The Texas Tech men’s tennis team extended its unbeaten streak in March, beating the University of Denver 6-1 Saturday at the Don and Ethel McLeod Center.

Coming into the match with a five-game winning s t r e a k , Te c h c a p t u r e d t h e doubles point and went on to win five of the six singles matches to extend the winning streak to six.

“This match, even though we won 6-1, certainly could have been a lot closer,” head coach Tim Siegel said. “This just shows the depth of college tennis.”

I n N o . 1 d o u b l e s , Te c h sophomores Felipe Soares and Hugo Dojas jumped out to an early lead on the Pioneers No. 42-ranked doubles pair of sophomore Henry Craig and freshman Alex Gasson. After going up 5-2, Soares and Dojas went on to win the match 8-5.

The doubles point would come down to the wire and Siegel said the team was fortunate to win the point.

Te c h f r e s h m a n M a x i m e Hinnisdaels and sophomore Francisco Zambon sealed the point by edging out a win 8-7

against Denver freshmen Eric Marbach and Yannik James.

With the doubles point already clinched, the remaining doubles match would end unfinished as the Tech pair of sophomore Carlos DiLaura and freshman Johann Willems were tied at 7-7 with Denver’s freshman Diogo Rocha and senior Fabio Biasion.

The singles portion went smoother for Tech as they won five of the six matches.

Siegel said he was pleased with the play of Dojas, the 95th-ranked player in the nation, who won his match 6-3, 6-4. He also noted the play of Red Raider freshman Jolan Cailleau, and said he has been a rock in the No. 6 position all year.

“I’m pleased with the win,” Siegel said. “We’ve got to get better in certain areas and we will.”

Soares battled back and forth with Craig in the first set of his singles match, but closed the set winning 7-6. He said the wind was a major factor and it affected everyone’s play.

The first set opened the door for Soares who won the second set 6-1. He said the first set decided the match and if he lost it, the match could have gone a different way.

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“Once I won the first set things started going better,” Soares said.

Despite winning on the day 6-1, Siegel said the match was closer than the score indicated, and his team’s energy level was lower than usual.

He said the match could have gone either way and the effort would have to get better before conference play starts April 5 against Baylor.

“We had to fight very hard to win this match,” Siegel said.

“There were a lot of things I didn’t like about the way we played and our energy level.

We have to get better than what we showed today and we will.”

He said most of the year the team has brought great energy and he expects it to come back.

Soares said the team is ready for conference play and they’re ready for the challenge of the three top teams, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 6 Baylor and No. 11 Texas.

Denver fell to 6-9 on the season with the loss, and Tech improved to 11-5.

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Baylor spoils conference opener for Tech

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

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TEXAS TECH INFIELDER Samantha Camello hits the ball during the Lady Raiders’ 2-0 loss to Baylor on Sunday at Rocky Johnson Field.

The Texas Tech softball team had its 13-game home winning streak snapped as No. 12 Baylor swept them in the Big 12 Conference season opener.

On Friday, the Bears connected on five homeruns while beating Tech 14-1 in a six-inning run rule.

Coach Shanon Hays said all of his players had an off game against a very good team.

“It just wasn’t our night,” Hays said.

“Baylor has a good ball club and they hit the ball hard all night. We could just never get out of an inning tonight. The good part is that we have two more games in the series.”

Baylor’s First Team All-Big 12 southpaw Whitney Canion got her 15th win of the season allowing only one hit in five innings pitched. Sophomore shortstop Samantha Camello hit a double to drive in Tech’s lone run of the game.

On Saturday afternoon, Baylor scored six runs on the first three innings en route to a series-winning 6-4 victory over the Red Raiders. It was the first time Tech had lost back-to-back games at Rocky Johnson Field.

Hays said giving up that many runs early in the game makes it difficult to

recover from.

“We gave Baylor too many free opportunities with walks and such today,” he said in a Tech Athletics news release.

“I was glad to see us hit the ball better today, but you just can’t fall into that big of a hole early against a good team like that.”

Freshman centerfielder Sydni Emanuel went 2-for-4 and stole her Big 12-leading 29th base. Senior southpaw Brittany Talley pitched three innings of relief while allowing one hit.

The third and final game of the series was Sunday. Once again Baylor southpaw Whitney Canion dominated as she threw a complete game shutout and allowed only one hit in a 2-0 victory for the Bears.

Sophomore pitcher Gretchen Aucoin also threw a complete game on 107 pitches but allowed two runs on five hits while striking out nine batters.

The loss marked the first time in school history that Tech has been swept in a three-game series against Baylor, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Red Raiders are now 27-12 overall and 0-3 in the Big 12. They fall to sixth place in the conference with the sweep.

Tech’s next matchup will be a threegame series against Texas starting at 4:30 p.m. Friday in Austin. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

UConn upsets Michigan St 60-54, back to Final Four NEW YORK (AP) — Shabazz Napier scored 17 of his 25 points in the second half, and UConn beat Michigan State 60-54 to return to the Final Four a year after the Huskies were barred from the NCAA tournament.

Napier, the East Regional’s most outstanding player, hit three huge free throws with 37.6 seconds left at Madison Square Garden to carry UConn to the Final Four just as Kemba Walker did in Napier’s freshman year.

The Huskies (30-8) rallied from a nine-point second-half deficit to become the first No. 7 seed to

reach the Final Four since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

Fourth-seeded Michigan State’s seniors become the first four-year players recruited by Tom Izzo to fail to reach the Final Four. Gary Harris led the Spartans (29-9) with 22 points.

The undersized Huskies matched Michigan State’s physical play box-out for box-out, holding the Spartans to just six offensive rebounds and six points in the paint.

UConn dared Michigan State to shoot 3-pointers, and the Spartans nearly made enough, going 11 for

29 from behind the arc.

Trailing 51-49 with more than two minutes left, Michigan State had a chance to tie or take the lead. But Adreian Payne fumbled the ball away, and Napier drilled a jumper on the other end.

After Payne hit a pair of free throws to pull the Spartans back within two, Keith Appling was called for a foul on Napier’s 3-point attempt. The senior extended the lead to 56-51, and after Travis Trice missed a 3, Michigan State couldn’t get to UConn to foul.

Phillip Nolan slipped free for a dunk that clinched the victory and

had thousands of Huskies fans in the Garden leaping up and down.

UConn won its third national title in 2011, but the Huskies were ineligible for last year’s tournament because of previous low scores on the NCAA’s academic progress measure.

Ryan Boatright made four steals as UConn used its quickness to force 16 turnovers. DeAndre Daniels shut down Branden Dawson, who scored 24 points in Michigan State’s Sweet 16 win over topseeded Virginia. Dawson attempted just three field goals, making one, to finish with five points.

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Records fall at Texas Relays

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

When the Texas Tech track and field team reached the last two days of competition at the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, the records began to tumble.

This onslaught carried out against the Tech record books started and ended with the field athletes.

Redshirt sophomore thrower Hannah Carson did not waste any time and broke the record in the 9:30 a.m. Friday event, the javelin.

Carson pushed the distance on the school record to 177 feet 3 inches.

Carson said this is the third time she has set a new mark in javelin. The first just happened to occur at last year’s relays with a throw of 171 feet 1 inch, and she pushed the record farther again to 174 feet 4 inches at the previous meet, UT San Antonio’s Texas Challenge Invitational.

“I am just trying to consistently try to work on my run-up plan,” Carson said, “and I have also been more healthy so I’ve gotten into my lifting regimen, some weight, and I have just gotten stronger altogether.”

However, unlike the recordsetting performance she had at UTSA, Carson did not win the event. The American record holder Kara Patterson and Florida sophomore thrower Marija Vucenovic bested Carson leaving her third overall.

The final result provided her no worry, she said. Carson knows it is still early on in the outdoor season and there is plenty of work to be done before the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Plus, she said she simply enjoyed competing against Patterson, who has also returned from a knee injury.

Carson would not keep the luxury of remaining the only Tech athlete to set a new record Friday.

Junior thrower Kole Weldon joined her.

The record would not come easy, though. Former Red Raider thrower Harrison Benjamin had his five-year-old school record in the outdoor shot put stay alive until Weldon’s fifth attempt.

The throw inched out Benjamin’s record by 2.75 inches to measure 64 feet 6.5 inches.

That distance may have given Weldon the record, but it was not enough to win the event.

Weldon was kept from first place by a single thrower, Texas sophomore Ryan Crouser. The conference rival and friend defeated Weldon with a throw amounting to 69 feet 9.5 inches.

Following the record-breaking performances of Carson and Weldon, one more record waited to

be broken.

The record would wait until Saturday afternoon for junior jumper JaCorian Duffield.

Once Duffield finished competition in the high jump, he broke a 30-year-old school record, again.

He accomplished the feat, much like he did when he was faced with another 30-year-old record in indoor competition, with a jump reaching 7 feet 3.75 inches.

Duffield said that height is becoming a common expectation for him to clear because the amount of times he has faced it. The bar almost seems to become shorter every time he must clear it.

Although Duffield has now unseated two 30-year-old records, he is solely focused on continuing to improve in the event, he said.

“In the end when it is all said and done, and I’m done high jumping, I’ll realize (the significance of my accomplishment),” Duffield said. “Right now, my goal is to jump big and better, and I feel like as a group we’re on the edge of being an elite group.”

This record and its significance did not award Duffield first place either, as he finished third.

The sole Tech athlete to secure a first-place finish in the Texas Relays was sophomore hurdler/ jumper Le’Tristan Pledger in the 100-meter hurdles.

In the wind-aided race, all to separate her from her closest competitor was one-tenth of a second as she clocked 13.14 seconds.

Coach Wes Kittley said the athletes to make the headlines at the relays, either with their personal bests or records, tend to be Tech’s top individuals.

“I don’t think it really matters if you (participate in field events or track events),” Kittley said.

“Those guys, they know how to compete, and they are going to then step up when they need to.”

Kittley is glad these relays gave the Red Raiders and Lady Raiders on the team work against exemplary competition, he said.

For the athletes who performed well and those who did not, they understand what is needed in similar meets to come in the outdoor season.

The primary objective for him after the relays is to take advantage of the next two weeks, since the next meets allow for the team to cool off, he said. This cooling period is needed because there is a few veterans who need nagging injuries worked on before the next big meet, Mt. Sac Relays, April 17-19.

In the meantime, the cooling period begins for Tech this week leading up to the competition at the Stanford Invitational all day Friday and Saturday in Palo Alto, Calif. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Boston Bruins beat Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 for 9th straight road win PHILADELPHIA (AP) — There is no secret to Boston’s road success.

The Bruins play their system and play it well no matter where they plays.

Patrice Bergeron scored the goahead goal in the second period and also tallied in the shootout to help Boston to a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.

The Bruins have won nine straight road games, a single-season club record.

“Just being smart, playing the system and not forcing plays,” Bergeron said. “Every time we take what’s there, we have success.”

Reilly Smith, the fifth Boston shooter, clinched the victory in the shootout for the Bruins, who ended March 15-1-1.

“That’s pretty impressive,” Bruins coach Claude Julien said. “They’ve stayed focused, they’ve stayed humble, they’ve stayed determined. I’m very proud of the way we’ve handled this month.”

Vincent Lecavalier scored twice for the Flyers, including the gametying goal with 25 seconds left in regulation. Lecavalier’s first goal was the 400th of his career.