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School of art hosts portrait photography exhibition Texas Tech’s School of Art will host LINE UP: Pattern Type Taxonomy, an exhibition of portrait photography from 7-9 p.m. April 11 in the Art building foyer.

The exhibition, according to a Tech news release, features seven artists who use contemporary photography to depict taxonomic practices.

Hours for the gallery are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 12 to 4 p.m. Sunday, according to the release.

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Tech prepares for AMS Spring Sectional Meeting Texas Tech will host research mathematicians from across the nation for the American Mathematical Society’s 2014 Spring Central Sectional Meeting, according to a Tech news release.

The sectional meeting will begin April 11 and conclude April 13.

Four premiere presentations and 27 special sessions will be featured throughout the three-day event.

Presenters at the meeting will discuss topics such as a special value of representation of zeta functions, stability results of the semisum of sets in the Euclidean space of dimensions, pseudo-anosovs with small or large dilation, and sampling theorems for efficient dimensionality reductions and sparse recovery.

The AMS conducts regional meetings four times each semester, according to the news release.

Research mathematicians who attend the AMS regional meetings are able to share their research and work with other mathematicians. Those attending the event will also be able to attend social events and shop at the on site AMS bookstore.

The event is co-sponsored by Visit Lubbock and is open to the public. The Admission fee for AMS members is $54 and is $76 for non-AMS members, according to the release. ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

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New classes, new supplies, and new cute boys or girls to look at are all things to look forward to in the new semester, but the negatives follow the positives and many students struggle to find ways to buy their required textbooks without breaking the bank.

The Affordable College Textbook Act was introduced to Congress by Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois and Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, according to the Library of Congress website, on Nov. 14, 2013.

Inez Gumtang-Sering, a sophomore chemistry major from Houston, said she hopes the act passes because she doesn’t want to have to pay for her textbooks.

“I haven’t even been buying my textbooks,” she said, “because it’s too much for how much we actually use them in class.”

This bill allows the Secretary of Education, according to the bill text, to give grants to institutions to support programs that allow universities to buy the rights to printing textbooks from the publishers so they can print textbooks for students at no additional charge.

The hope for the bill, according to the website, is that it will allow students to spend less money on books so they can focus on their education as well as making an education more accessible to students that may not have been able to attend college in the past.

“If I had the option to purchase textbooks at a cheaper price — they don’t even have to be free — I for sure

would,” Gumtang-Sering said. “I’d show up to class more prepared than I have been and make better grades.”

According to the College Board, during the 2012-2013 academic year, the average student budgeted $1,200 for textbooks and supplies.

It was also found by the Government Accountability Office that new textbook prices increased 82 percent over the last decade.

“I haven’t seen a huge increase in textbook prices,” she said, “but I also haven’t even been buying my books because they’re too ridiculously expensive.”

This would reduce textbook costs by 80 to 100 percent for students, according to the bill text by making them available for free when downloaded virtually to a laptop, smart phone or tablet and $20 to $40 if students wanted to obtain a print copy.

Amani Zaier, a professor in the classical and modern languages and literatures department who teaches Arabic, said she had some problems last semester with her Arabic classes and students who wouldn’t buy the required Arabic textbook.

“Knowing the expenses and how expensive the books are, they’re usually over $100,” she said. “Not all students can afford to pay that amount, so I do think this act would make it easier for students to get the book. Then they would also do better in the class because they would have the book to study from.”

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Congressional intern meets Georgian officials

By AMY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer

In three months as an intern in Washington D.C., Devi Khajishvili has met multiple high-ranking government officials of his native country.

Khajishvili, a senior political science major from Batumi, Georgia, said his knowledge of global politics gave him the opportunity to meet leaders and other politicians of the small country in Eastern Europe.

While working in Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s office, a Georgian opposition leader, Shalva Natelashvili, visited Washington. Khajishvili said he was asked to sit in with 10 European political analysts for a Q-and-A session and general discussion.

“I was listed as a subject matter specialist,” he said. “I got to sit down among people in

charge of international affairs and listen about Georgian affairs, such as relations with Russia and other things.”

Natelashvili jokingly referred to Khajishvili as the next President of Georgia, he said.

Growing up in Georgia, he said the opposition leader had been in the Georgian political arena since Khajishvili was a child, making it a privilege to join in the discussion.

Khajishvili said he did not expect another Georgian leader to arrive in Washington, but the newly elected Prime Minister of Geogia, Irakli Garibashvili, visited President Barack Obama and several congressmen during the semester. He had to meet the prime minister, he said.

“My office made me aware he was present in our building,” Khajishvili said. “We were leaving this building for another building, so I was nervous and tweeted the

prime minister’s page.”

Because time was limited, Khajishvili said he ran downstairs and waited amongst Georgian journalists and a security team for the prime minister, who is one of the highestranking officials in the country.

In his native language, he spoke to the journalists, who did not know when the prime minister would arrive or if he was still in the building, he said.

“It took them a minute to realize someone in Congress could actually speak Georgian,” he said.

He then ran to a nearby building to find out where Garibashvili would be, he said.

However, Khajishvili said a confused worker thought he was searching for the prime minister of the state of Georgia.

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The Tech Cycling Club has paired up with the Transportation and Parking Services Department to promote safety and fun bike activities on campus.

Laura Thomas, sport club director at Tech, said Transportation and Parking Services reached out to the club in order to promote student cycling on campus.

“Transportation and Parking Services reached out to the Cycling Club,” she said. “They said ‘Hey, we’re trying to get more activity, more promotion for biking on campus.’”

The goal of the partnership is to get students involved with cycling on campus through events like bike safety workshops, bike repair clinics and also events like hosting races on campus.

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The club will receive funds from TPS and this will, in turn, help the club reach out to the community.

Thomas said funding from TPS will go toward educating students, as well as providing services for them and the cycling club.

“They’re working with the club to help them travel and get uniforms,” she said. “Then in partnership with that, the club will help with clinics and reach out to the community with elementary and middle school kids. Also, we will do bike safety clinics on campus and work with the bike shop on campus to teach safety as well as do repair clinics for how to fix your bike yourself.”

Thomas said the club participates in traveling competitions as well as community service around Lubbock.

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In fall 2013, the League of American Bicyclists recognized Tech as a Bike Friendly University.

The Bicycle Friendly University program recognizes institutions of higher education for promoting and providing a more bikefriendly campus for students, staff and visitors, according to the League of American Bicyclists’ website.

The program evaluates applicants’ effort to promote bicycling in six areas: engineering, encouragement, education, enforcement, evaluation and planning, according to the website.

To aid in the development of a new supercomputer prototype, Texas Tech researchers have received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

The project, Development of a Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Instrument for High Performance Computing, will allow users of the supercomputer to calculate data across a variety of subjects, Yong Chen, a computer science assistant professor and principal investigator of the project, said.

“We wrote a proposal that articulates new ideas to possibly build a new type of supercomputer,” Chen said. “It will specifically, at least we expect, be much more efficient and more productive.”

Supercomputers, also known as high performance computers, are traditionally designed for computing and manipulating data, he said.

The technology can be used for more than just computer science, Chen said.

“Many different disciplines use computers to do the simulations for scientific discoveries,” he said. “There are also many other applications for it in industries like Google or Facebook.”

A scientist could use the supercomputer to complete a gene sequencer or for climate modeling in a more efficient manner than what is currently available, Chen said.

Rattikorn Hewett, department chair and professor of computer science, said in a Tech news release Chen’s project will benefit those who need to use data intensively.

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Texas Tech cheer, pom team heads to Daytona

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The Texas Tech cheerleading team and pom squad will compete in the National Cheerleaders Association collegiate competition and the National Dance Association collegiate competition respectively, according to a Tech news release.

The competitions will take place April 10-12 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Tech cheerleader Alyssa Rodriguez, a senior philosophy major from San Antonio, said the cheer team has been preparing for the competition since the

beginning of the fall semester.

“September is when the choreographers first came, they kind of just give us the skeleton for (the routine),” she said. “From January to March we worked on it, and in March, we had twoa-days over spring break just drilling in the routine.”

The cheer competition will consist of preliminary rounds and a final round.

Tech cheerleading coach Bruce Bills said the team will begin the competition by being judged on a game-day routine and cheering skills.

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is we will go through a game-day chant and cheer, which is crowd interaction piece to where it’s a 45-second cheer.”

After the game day routine the cheerleaders go into their routine, which is two minutes and 15 seconds, Bills said.

“It is composed of elite tumbling, stunts, baskets and pyramids as well as a dance,” he said.

The final round of the competition will take place April 11.

“We compete just the routine in finals,” Bills said. “A portion of our game day score carries over into the final piece.”

Although the Tech cheer team is young, it are very con-

nected, Rodriguez said.

“I feel really close to everyone,” she said. “At the end of the day, we all have to feel that way about each other or else you’re not going to win.”

The team members encourage each other to improve, Bills said.

“They are very talented, just able to work together and push each other to become better and make good representation for Texas Tech,” he said. “It’s fun for these kids because it is a little bit different from game days because this is our time to shine.”

The team is optimistic about the competition, Rodriguez said.

“In finals it comes down to

who hits,” she said. “Hopefully that will be us this year.”

Tech’s pom squad placed third in the Open Dance Division 1A of the 2013 NDA Collegiate National Championship, according to a Tech news release.

Tech pom squad member Brittany Brossman, a senior human development and family studies major from Houston, said the pom squad will compete in the open division and hiphop category.

“We are doing four different dances,” she said. “We get judged on everything from how well we dance together, our performance level and how en-

tertaining the dance is.”

The atmosphere of the competition is very aggressive, Brossman said.

“You practice this whole year for a two-minute dance,” she said. “You only get one shot to make it to finals, and if you make it to finals, you do it one more time.”

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“They want to educate the “This year was the first year that we were a bike-friendly Texas Tech biking community,” campus,” she said. “It’s a national he said. “I know they’re trying to recognition, and we are trying to create awareness about bikes on continue that status.” campus and increase them. This Along with education, the is one way they want to reach out. cycling club is also using funds It helps give them a more positive from TPS to host races to com- image to students, as well. That pete against other clubs in the $30 parking ticket could go to league, including clubs from the club to host a clinic or buy Texas A&M, The University of someone a new bike chain.”

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“In computing technology, advancement in software has always lagged behind hardware,” he said in the release. “Just like having a home running an old plumbing system, sophisticated high performance computers alone can’t perform well without advanced mechanisms for data movement and data access.”

The project supports several re-

search projects, including high performance computer system design, computational chemistry, biotechnology and atmospheric science, according to the project’s website.

The grant money will be split evenly between hardware and software development. Obtaining money from federal agencies like the NSF can be difficult because of low funding and high levels of competition, Chen said.

“The grant is definitely very helpful,” he said. “The National Science Foundation really represents some of

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After applying in 2012 for a grant and not receiving an award, the multidisciplinary team achieved its goal with its 2013 application by making the plan more concrete, he said.

The NSF considered the project to be a high priority, Chen said, which led to receiving the grant.

“We will have the manpower to do the software development,” he said. “We call it a prototype because, compared to a real production of a supercomputer, this money is tiny.”

More than $200 million may be required to deploy a full-fledged supercomputer, he said.

The multidisciplinary teamwork behind the project has allowed for its success, Chen said. A team of 10 members, including computer science, geoscience, biology and chemistry professors, have worked on the project.

“I hope this opens up more crossdisciplinary efforts,” Chen said. “With this research, new efforts to do this may come from here. I really see it as a beginning to motivate such efforts.”

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There were no early reports of injuries.

Severe winds reported as an apparent tornado Thursday night tore through the town of Farmersville, 35 miles northeast of Dallas. A Collin County sheriff’s dispatcher in nearby McKinney says utility poles were toppled, roofs damaged and tree limbs downed.

Earlier, an afternoon train of severe thunderstorms pummeled the college city of Denton with grapefruit-sized hail. The National Weather Service reports hail of 3½-inch diameters and larger fell along U.S. 380 north of downtown Denton around 4 p.m. Thursday.

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Eventually, he returned to the original building right as the prime minster walked into the lobby. “l was all disappointed because I thought I missed him,” he said. “I walked back and all of a sudden a congressman’s door opens. The prime minister didn’t know who I was, so I instantly approached him.”

Although he was busy with journalists, the prime minister took time to chat with Khajishvili in Georgian, Khajishvili said.

The two exchanged contact information, which he said was

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Following the encounter, another Georgian man approached Khajishvili and handed him a business card. The man, Khajishvili said, turned out to be the Georgian ambassador to the U.S., Archil Gegeshidze.

“He said to call him later, which is such a huge thing,” Khajishvili said. “I didn’t even look at the card at first to see who it was. Afterwards, I definitely scheduled a meeting and went to the Georgian embassy in D.C.” The two spent time getting to know one another and discussed Georgian affairs, he said.

Missi Barton, Government and Public Service Internship Program coordinator, who

helped select Khajishvili for the congressional internship, said his work ethic and dedication make him a positive ambassador for the university.

“Devi has truly taken advantage of the wonderful opportunities presented to him,” she said, “during his time as an intern.

I am incredibly proud that he has had the occasion to meet, network and leave an impression on the Georgian officials.”

He is thankful for the opportunity to meet these officials, Khajishvili said. With his upcoming graduation in May, he said he values his chance to discuss his knowledge on Georgian issues with world leaders.

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TIARRE PIERCE, A junior pre-nursing major from Cedar Hill, decorates and paints a piggy bank during a Tech Activities Board event Thursday in the Student Union Building.

POLICE BLOTTER Wednesday 10:34 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a theft at the bicycle racks at the Tech library. A black Genesis bicycle was taken.

11:23 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for outstanding Lubbock County warrants after investigating a report of two people arguing in the C11 parking lot.

11:49 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the R18 parking

lot. A vehicle immobilization device was taken.

4:31 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the visitor parking lot on the north side of Talkington Residence Hall. An unattended vehicle was hit.

8:40 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after an investigation into suspicious activity at the Flint Avenue Parking Garage.

Thursday 2:25 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a report of an assault at the 3000 block of 15th Street. A male student caused bodily injury to a female student’s hand during an argument in Weymouth Residence Hall. The male student was charged and released for assault.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech police department.

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TEXAS TECH STUDENT Devi Khajishvili meets with Archil Gegeshidze, Republic of Georgia ambassador to the U.S. during his congressional internship.

Turkish government lifts Twitter ban Thousands of Turkish citizens logged back onto Twitter on Thursday as the government ban against the popular social media site was lifted.

This act, according to an Associate Press article, followed a decision by the country’s highest court Wednesday that denied the former

transport minister’s appeal to keep the site blocked.

YouTube, the other social media site blocked, continued to stay down in the country, according to the article, although many citizens are finding ways to log on via cell phones to continue posting videos.

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Argument may have preceded deadly Fort Hood attack F O RT H O O D ( A P ) — The soldier who killed three people at Fort Hood may have argued with another service member prior to the attack, and investigators believe his unstable mental health contributed to the rampage, authorities said Thursday.

The base’s senior officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, said there is a “strong possibility” that Spc. Ivan Lopez had a “verbal altercation” with another soldier or soldiers immediately before Wednesday’s shooting, which unfolded on the same Army

post that was the scene of an infamous 2009 mass shooting.

However, there’s no indication that he targeted specific soldiers, Milley said.

Lopez never saw combat during a deployment to Iraq and had shown no apparent risk of violence before the shooting, officials said.

The 34-year-old truck driver from Puerto Rico seemed to have a clean record that showed no ties to extremist groups. But the Army secretary promised that investigators would keep all avenues open

in their inquiry of the soldier whose rampage ended only after he fired a final bullet into his own head.

HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers’ demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.

Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, was the first inmate to be injected with a dose of newly replenished pentobarbital that Texas prison officials obtained to replace an expired supply of the powerful sedative.

Sells declined to give a statement. As the drug began flowing

into his arms inside the death chamber in Huntsville, Sells took a few breaths, his eyes closed and he began to snore. After less than a minute, he stopped moving. He was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m.

CDT — 13 minutes after being given the pentobarbital.

Terry Harris, whose 13-year-old daughter, Kaylene Harris, was fatally stabbed by Sells in 1999 in South Texas, watched as Sells was executed, saying the injection was “way more gentle than what he gave out.”

“What a great day!” the father said as witnesses turned to leave the death house.

Sells’ lawyers had made a plea to the Supreme Court earlier in the day after a federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed the execution to remain on schedule. A lower court had stopped the execution Wednesday, ordering the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to reveal more information about its drug supplier, but the ruling was quickly tossed on appeal.

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Houston sports television deal harmful to fans Andrew Gleinser that, “With exposure limited to only the local Comcast cable system and a few smaller systems, viewership has plummeted for Astros and Rockets games. An Astros game last September, in fact, registered zero viewers, according to the Nielsen Co.” Networks charge television carriers a predetermined rate for the right to carry their channel.

The reason for CSN Houston’s low availability in the Houston market is because the network is charging an unrealistically high rate, causing it to be “unable to arrange deals with such

major carriers as DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-verse and Suddenlink,” according to The Houston Chronicle.

The fact that the network is not carried by most major providers means it has failed to make money, which, according to The Houston Chronicle, “prevented the company from paying the bulk of the Astros’ $56.6 million rights fee for the 2013 season.”

Astros owner Jim Crane filed a lawsuit in November against Comcast, NBC Universal and

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Political parties should create policy

By RANDALL HELLMER

The Collegian (Kansas sTaTe U.)

Politics isn’t exactly fun these days.

While a scandal or gaffe occasionally provides some levity to political proceedings, everything is usually deathly serious. Politicians are reaching for every lever they can find to gain even the slightest advantage over their opponents, and policy progress often takes a backseat to scoring political points. Everybody is afraid of losing the game of government, and that’s kind of a problem.

For a political parties, the greatest fear should instead be irrelevancy. Their entire existence is built on ideas, and an idea loses its power when no one thinks about it. It makes sense, then, that politicians want to keep their names in the headlines, and their policy proposals on the tip of everyone’s tongue.

I, for one, think they are watching too many sports movies.

When was the last time that the failure of an agenda was met graciously? The ongoing political brawl over healthcare is one of the most needlessly venomous and unproductive political conflicts in recent history, and it doesn’t have to be. Granted, it is a divisive issue, but nobody even seems to want to talk about

the subject anymore because they’re too preoccupied with portraying their opponents as the “evil sports team” – the team that uses cheats and dirty tricks to beat the plucky bunch of misfits with actual heart.

Nobody wants to admit that they lost fair and square. When an agenda someone doesn’t approve of advances, or their own agenda stalls, the reaction is never, “We lost, but we’ll come back stronger next time. Time to hit the showers.” Every vote or political maneuver that blocks the progress of a political goal from either side is treated as a cheap trick by the loser, regardless of whether it’s a tactic they have in their playbook.

Because, even when they don’t win, they want it to look like they should have.

It’s hard to know when this became such a big problem. It may be the advent of the televised political commentary, which has increasingly become a spectator sport, complete with blow-by-blow analysis. Or, it could be the absurd amount of coverage modern political elections garner. Coverage that places too much emphasis on the sideline action between candidates, rather than the issues being discussed.

Regardless, the problem is the same.

Too much time and effort is being spent riding doomed efforts down in flames to

former Astros owner Drayton McLane, claiming the parties knew the network would be a bust but Crane was not informed of its problems when he purchased the team from McLane in 2011, according to The Houston Chronicle.

The legal battle is ongoing, with the network recently filing for bankruptcy to prevent the Astros from terminating the agreement.

What it boils down to, though, is that Houston sports fans don’t have the ability to watch the Astros and Rockets unless their

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ost sports fans know the frustration of wanting to watch their favorite teams but realizing they can’t find the game on television. For Houston sports fans, that frustration is a daily occurrence.

The Astros and Rockets sold their television rights to Comcast, which launched the regional network Comcast SportsNet Houston in fall 2012, according to The Houston Chronicle. Calling the deal a bust at this point would be a gross understatement.

The Houston Chronicle reported in February that CSN Houston “is available in no more than 40 percent of the area’s 2.2 million TV households.” This means more than half of the Houston market is unable to see two of its three major local sports teams.

The Chronicle also noted

games are nationally televised.

This is simply unacceptable.

This issue is about nothing more than greed. According to The Houston Chronicle, Crane’s lawsuit “alleges that McLane and Rockets owner Leslie Alexander demanded in 2010 that Comcast charge a base subscriber rate for CSN Houston … that Comcast said was too high.”

It was so high, in fact, that “Comcast feared it could not convince other distributors to carry the network,” which is exactly what has happened. It doesn’t appear there will be a resolution anytime soon either.

Astros jokes aside, it’s a shame the majority of Houston sports fans can’t watch their baseball and basketball teams. All parties involved in the situation should be ashamed of themselves.

Instead of the parties working toward a resolution, the situation

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has degenerated into a stalemate to be worked out by the court system. Meanwhile, the Astros will soon be debuting some exciting new players, and the Rockets are on a run to the postseason, but the city of Houston can’t see them.

This just proves the fans are not the No. 1 priority in sports. If that were so, this situation would have been resolved a long time ago. Both sides profess to care about the fans, yet they’ve done nothing but dig trenches in what has become a war of attrition.

Hopefully, the parties involved will come to their senses for the sake of the fans. If not, the Astros may reach the World Series before the Houston area can see their games on television.

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score points. Politicians will push bills to a vote that have no chance of being passed, solely to cast their opponents as the bad player. Meanwhile, agendas that have a real chance of advancement are being ignored to deny a win to the other side.

Usually, even when there’s a compromise, one side will “lose.” They picked the wrong fight, or they just didn’t have as much leverage as the other side, so they get comparatively less from the deal. That’s a fact of life, not just politics. However, that fact has become unacceptable for politicians, because it would mean that they lost fair and square and that’s somehow frightening. So instead, any opportunity to get something done where a player of the other team might come out ahead is ignored. Because it’s all about winning now.

Political parties don’t die when they stop winning. They die because their core message becomes irrelevant to the evolving political landscape.

That’s happening right now, because the messages of our political parties are taking a backseat to the spectacle of their conflict. While the game is fun to watch from the stands, it’s hard to care about its outcome when both sides have become the “evil sports team.”

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other mental injuries.

Walsh hopes to extend that time to 15 years, a generous extension that will certainly help those who find mental injuries later than typically expected.

The legislation also calls to institute a new review process that will address claims that the military improperly or unfairly kicks out any veterans whose service led to a mental health injury or illness. A corrected record would entitle veterans to VA mental health care that would otherwise not be provided

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due to a dishonorable discharge.

According to a press release from the VA, data on veteran suicides were only available to people who sought VA health care services. The VA hopes to better identify where veterans at risk for suicide reside and improve the d e p a r t m e n t ’s ability to target specific suicide interventions.

The 2012 Suicide Data Report found that even though the percentage of all suicides reported to be of veterans has decreased, the number of suicides has increased.

One of the bill’s objectives is to allow veterans more time to receive mental health treatment.

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According to CNN, more than 22 veterans commit suicide every day. The Department of Veteran Affairs collected comprehensive data and numbers from 21 states representing 40 percent of the U.S. population from 1999 through 2011. Sen. John Walsh of Montana introduced legislation in an effort to change that.

Walsh commanded an infantry battalion of the Montana National Guard in Iraq, but when the unit returned home, one of his soldiers committed suicide. In 2004, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America was founded as the first and largest organization for new veterans and their families. Walsh aims to get a co-sponsor for the

bill and has said he has received bipartisan support.

“We’re leaving our veterans to fight their toughest battles alone,” Walsh said. “It is our duty to come together for real solutions for our heroes.”

The bill, titled the Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, begins to target specific elements of medical care that could be more efficient. One of the bill’s objectives is to allow veterans more time to receive mental health treatment.

Often, it takes longer than five years — the allotted time service members have to receive care from the Department of Veterans Affairs — for service members and veterans to realize they’re experiencing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and

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President Barack Obama said there is a need to end the epidemic of suicide among our veterans and troops. He announced $107 million in new funding for better mental health treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries — the signature injuries of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

While the cost of the bill is still undetermined, with positive backing in support of the new legislation, the new legislature will bring much-needed aid to American war veterans. The importance of mental health is constantly being addressed, and it looks like America will be able to better serve the heroes who served.

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Dancers with Soul spread hip-hop culture

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

Texas Tech offers various opportunities for dancers including a specific degree program and multiple student organizations.

Among these organizations is Dancers with Soul: A HipHop Nation, and according to its website, it is focused on promoting hip-hop through dance by using choreography and improvisation.

Barry Horn, a senior sociology major from Houston and the president of Dancers with Soul, said he joined the team four years ago when it became a registered student organization.

“The team actually started in 2009, but it broke apart,” he said.

“That’s when Philip Wainwright decided to make it an official student organization. I was a freshman at the time, so I was excited to have the opportunity to dance on the team.”

The team performs at various events, according to the team’s website, and has performed at local bars and for halftime at Tech basketball games in the past.

Prospective members must audition for the team, Horn said, because it is important for each

member to be on a similar skill level when preparing for events.

“We usually look for the people with the most potential,” he said. “Auditions also help us learn about a person’s attitude. There are a lot of different personalities in the dance world, and we try to keep the drama at a low level within the organization.”

The audition process consists of a general application, Horn said, and a veteran member teaches the group choreography to both a slow and a fast dance.

Preston Opara, a sophomore electronic media and communications major from Sugar Land, joined the team this year because he never had the opportunity to dance on a team before college.

“I was really intimidated when I auditioned because it was my first time actually learning choreography,” he said. “I wasn’t that great at one of the choreographies, so I was nervous that I wouldn’t make it on the team. I got so much better at learning choreography, so when I go through another audition, I’ll be prepared.”

This year the group has performed at five schools within Lubbock, Horn said, and has

focused more on reaching out to the community.

The team performs for the students, Opara said, and afterwards, the members teach them dance skills.

“One time we went to a day care, and the kids were asking for autographs,” he said. “One of the kids told me I looked like Trey Songz. I know it wasn’t true, but it was nice. Performing for kids is one of the fun things about dance.”

Many of the members feared they would not be able to dance in college, Horn said, and the Dancers with Soul team gives students the opportunity to hiphop dance.

Horn said the team is currently preparing for the RaiderThon musical concert, the Relay for Life event and a visual show hosted by the College of Visual and Performing Arts this month.

“It’s pretty difficult for all the members to balance schoolwork, so I try to see who can commit to the event,” he said. “Our DJ, Trey, will mix the music for us, and from there we can set up transitions and make formations.

If someone needs extra help, they can just ask. It’s a long process, but we try to have fun.”

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PRESIDENT OF THE Dancers with Soul hip hop club, Barry Horn, a senior sociology major from Houston, practices a dance routine the group performed Tuesday at the Creative Movement Studio.

Dancers with Soul is a good organization for dancers looking to improve their dancing skills, Horn said, and many of the members want to become choreographers.

While twerking is a part of hip-hop dancing, Opara said

hip-hop includes much more than just twerking and is about moving to the beat.

“You can express yourself through dance,” he said. “Breakdancing is the coolest thing ever, and I want to be able to dance like the professionals. I think

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New book highlights work of Art Deco muralist Iranians avoid bad luck with outdoor festival NEW YORK (AP) — Hildreth Meiere was a prolific Art Deco muralist whose highly stylized figures and geometric patterns adorn New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Nebraska’s Capitol, the National Academy of Sciences and many other noted buildings.

Yet the artist remains relatively unknown.

A new book is seeking to give Meiere her due, chronicling a career that broke barriers at a time in the first half of the 20th century when few women artists were working on such a grand scale.

“She was really cutting edge,” said art historian Catherine Coleman Brawer, co-author of “The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meiere.”

‘’Her work has been enjoyed by millions of people over the last 90 years without knowing her name. That’s why we have written this book.”

Meiere, who would go on to work on about 100 projects in 15 states, came of age as an artist at a time when many leading architects turned to the muralist to embellish their buildings.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians flocked to parks rich with the smell of grilled kebabs on Wednesday to toss around Frisbees, bat badminton birdies and battle one another in chess and backgammon — all to avoid being caught inside on the unlucky 13th day of the Persian New Year.

The annual public picnic day,

called Sizdeh Bedar, which comes from the Farsi words for “thirteen” and “day out,” is a legacy from Iran’s pre-Islamic past that hard-liners in the Islamic Republic never managed to erase from calendars.

Many say it’s bad luck to stay indoors for the holiday.

“I know a family who stayed in and later in the day the leg of their

young boy was broken when he fell down the stairs.” said Tehran resident Fatemeh Moshiri, 48.

Iranian hard-liners have tried unsuccessfully for decades to stamp out the festival and other preIslamic events, which are seen as closer to Zoroastrianism, the predominant faith of Iranians before Islam.

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dents who applied early have the advantage.

It is also important, he said, that students be open to any type of part-time job.

“We do a lot of coaching on expanding horizons and being more open,” Kilough said.

The first step, he said, should be to register on RaiderJobs, an online resource for all students to browse through available internships and jobs.

According to the RaiderJobs website, there are 207 student part-time jobs and internships still available.

“All hope is not lost,” Kilough said, “but I would start

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Summer is rapidly approaching, which means thousands of Texas Tech students will be out of school and looking for a source of income.

Part-time jobs, such as lifeguarding and waiting tables, will be in high demand in the upcoming summer months.

“The most important thing for students is to start early,” Jay Kilough, director of the University Career Center, said.

Many internships and jobs were hiring as early as last fall, Kilough said, and stu -

looking right now.”

When students are too specified, he said, they can run into limited options or end up pursuing a job not offered in their area.

Keeping an open mind leaves the door open for students to gain valuable experience in their field, he said, even if it is not what they had in mind.

“If you want to be a lawyer, you don’t necessarily have to work at a law firm,” he said, “but just getting a job in a professional environment can be very beneficial.”

Rachel Halberts, the human resources coordinator for the

be hosting a job fair on May 15 where applicants can get their drug tests, paperwork and other requirements done all in one place.

“The sooner, the better because some of the jobs fill up quickly,” Halberts said. “The sooner they apply and the more jobs they apply for, the better chance they have to get hired.”

It is important for students to take care of what they can control, Kilough said, which includes things like a resume, cover letter and interviewing skills.

The career center offers coaching and practice interviews for anyone looking to be

more prepared, according to their website.

“These are things students can prepare for on their own,” Kilough said, “and it’s really up to the student as to how much responsibility they want to take.”

Utilizing RaiderJobs, a student can set up a profile, add their resume and immediately begin to apply for jobs, he said.

The link to RaiderJobs can be found on the career center’s website.

“The number of available jobs is always changing,” Kilough said, “so students need to start as soon as possible.” ➤➤hhipp@dailytoreador.com

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City of Lubbock, said the sooner students apply, the better.

The City of Lubbock hires upwards of 40 students to work its various summer positions, she said, which includes workers for summer camps with kids, lifeguards and concession workers.

“We’re looking for someone who wants to work with kids,” she said. “Someone who will show up on time and be consistent.”

Applications can be found on their website, Halberts said, and students can apply for multiple positions at once.

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I did mine through a family bracket, but I did awful. I pretty much just watched some of the bigger games and picked from there.”

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- Justin Nusser - junior electronic media and communications major from Spring

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I did terrible this year because there was a lot of upsets. When I was picking, I didn’t take much time on it. I just went through and picked which ones I would think to have the best upsets.”

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I did pretty bad. I have Florida left, but I don’t have them winning. I did my bracket with two different groups, one with friends and the Fans of Texas Tech on ESPN.”

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DEREK AKERS, A first year doctoral student majoring in horn performance from Sulphur, Ok., practices a piece on his french horn to prepare for the Mid South Horn Competition on Thursday in the Music building. The competition will take place in Austin.

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Take CNN’s latest attempt at a Spanish-language broadcast targeting U.S Latinos. The broadcaster is no newcomer to the Spanishspeaking world, for decades reaching Latin America with CNN en Espanol. But the company said it axed its CNN Latino domestic Spanish-language service after one year because it failed “to fulfill our business expectations.”

NBC’s attempt at a website called NBC Latino folded in January after 16 months, despite producing thousands of original stories. Even the much-heralded Fusion — a joint venture of Univision and ABC — is still experiencing growing pains, shedding several programs in its first year and restructuring its nightly news show from five days a week to one.

One challenge: Many in the audience today are second- and third-generation Latinos, and often they eschew a Latino-only box, even as they crave more stories that include them.

“I don’t want to be force-fed all this Latin stuff,” explained 36-yearold Alain Amejeira, an air conditioning technician in South Florida whose parents came from Cuba. “I’m Alain. I’m not Alain the Cuban guy who needs only Cuban news.”

MSNBC Executive Producer Chris Pena saw the challenges firsthand in guiding NBC Latino. From the start, he said, there was debate whether to create a stand-alone site for English-speaking Latinos.

“The idea was to provide Latinos with other types of coverage, aspirational stories that reflected the ideals of immigrants,” Pena said, adding some of the original stories produced there ended up on the main NBC news website. “If NBC Latino had not been out there reporting on some of those stories, they probably would not have been reported.”

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Survivors have emerged and show staying power, Fusion among them. Among Latino-focused websites and TV networks born in recent years, several are still standing: HuffPost Latino Voices; VOXXI’s independent news site for Latinos, Fox News Latino, focusing on the domestic English-speaking Latino market; and Mundo Fox with world news in Spanish.

Then there’s the long-running NPR program Latino USA, in its 20th year. It expanded to an hourlong magazine last year after host Maria Hinojosa decided to produce the show independently.

In recent months, the popular website Buzzfeed also has noticeably upped the caliber and number of its Hispanic-related stories. “There’s more to come. We’re still trying to figure it out,” Buzzfeed’s Adrian Carrasquillo said.

The Washington, D.C.-based

Latinum Network marketing group puts Hispanic buying power at upward of $1.2 trillion annually, based on U.S. Census and Commerce Department statistics. That complex market is only growing.

This week, more than 1,200 journalists, bloggers, filmmakers and marketers met up in Miami for the fifth annual “Hispanicize” event, focusing on just how to reach this demographic. Five years ago, the conference drew a few hundred people. There, Google announced Wednesday it will soon unveil a new domain, .soy (.I am), targeting bilingual, cultural Latinos.

And next month in Miami Beach, Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp. and the founder of Fox News, will address the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies on his conglomerate’s strategy to reach Hispanics.

But American audiences are more fragmented than ever, meaning when it comes to Latinos, media companies and their advertisers are often pursuing a slice of a market slice.

Nigella Lawson stopped from boarding plane to US LONDON (AP) — Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, who acknowledged last year that she had occasionally used cocaine, was denied permission to board a flight to the United States over the weekend, the U.S. Embassy said.

The embassy did not disclose the reason for refusing Lawson entry into the United States.

Embassy spokeswoman Lynne

Platt said Thursday that Lawson was stopped from traveling Sunday and had subsequently been invited to the embassy to apply for a visa. She said such applications were generally handled “routinely and expeditiously.”

Lawson tweeted Saturday that she was going on vacation, but she also has worked in the U.S., where she co-hosted TV cooking competition “The Taste.”

British citizens need visas to work in the U.S. but not for a vacation.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said privacy laws meant it was “not at liberty to discuss an individual’s processing.” It said U.S. authorities may refuse passengers admission for various reasons, including drug use and “moral turpitude.”

The agency said 366 people a day were refused entry to the U.S. in 2013, of almost 1 million daily travelers.

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Tech track and field returns home for meet Staff Writer

Three records fell at the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, and sophomore hurdler/jumper Le’Tristan Pledger remains undefeated in the 100-meter hurdles.

However, the outdoor season is far from over. The season continues for Texas Tech with the Stanford Invitational, the San Francisco State Distance Carnival and the Texas Tech Open.

The Tech Open is the first home meet for the Red Raiders and Lady Raiders this outdoor season. They had to wait a while to host a meet, but after seven weeks, they finally are allowed the comforts of home, according to Tech Athletics.

Coach Wes Kittley said he is looking forward to becoming the host once again because of the competition that is scheduled to be in attendance.

“This is a really good field,” Kittley said. “This is probably the best meet I have had at home in a while. We have several Division Is and some really good junior colleges, so it’s going to be really good.

I just hope the weather holds up.”

A few of the Division I teams included in the field are New Mexico State and Oral Roberts’ men and women, while Southern Methodist and New Mexico are only expected to bring their women’s teams.

Despite the competition, Kittley said his desire is to use the next couple of weeks to return the Tech veterans to health and fine tune technical issues the team is facing following the conclusion of the relays last weekend.

This does not mean less than stellar marks will be accepted, Kittley said. Every meet is important to qualify for the 2014 NCAA West Preliminaries in Fayetteville, Ark.

The premium in the amount thon Lira will run in the 5,000-meof meets afforded to Tech track to ter run, according to Tech Athqualify for the preliminaries is why letics. Senior transfer Brendan Kittley is sending four Red Raider Devlin is scheduled to compete distance runners to San Francisco, without any teammates in the he said.

1,000-meter run.

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As the single ning, it is a little bit harder here Tech athlete (in Lubbock) for there, she WES KITTLEY will represent 5,000, 10,000 TEXAS TECH TRACK AND with the winds Tech in the FIELD COACH steeplechase. and that type of thing, so we’re While those five distance runners are in just trying to get a time.”

At the distance carnival, fresh- California, junior sprinter Cierra man Seraiah Pineda, sophomore White and junior jumper JaCorian Marcos Vallejo and senior Jona- Duffield will compete against the

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Olympic athletes visit White House WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama surrounded themselves with Olympians and Paralympians Thursday, saluting their success at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, praising their perseverance and marveling at their performances.

“I don’t know how you guys do it,” the first lady said. “You guys do crazy things.”

She singled out Navy Lt. Dan Cnossen, a Navy SEAL who more than four years ago stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan and lost both of his legs above the knees. Within a few months he was seated next to the first lady at a White House dinner with military leaders.

On Thursday, he was back as a member of Team USA, a Paralympic Nordic skier joining other U.S. athletes for their moment at the

executive mansion.

The event was much like many other salutes by the president to winning teams and sports figures. But the presence of Paralympians, many of them military veterans, gave the event deeper significance that was made all the more poignant coming a day after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left four people dead.

“We join that entire community in honoring those who lost their lives,” Obama said of the Fort Hood victims at the beginning of his welcome for the athletes.

“Every single one of them was an American patriot.”

Before meeting the president and first lady, team members took an insider’s tour of the mansion and the White House grounds.

Slopestyle snowboarding gold

medalist Sage Kotsenburg wound up carrying around a bouquet of vegetables from the kitchen garden on the South Lawn, made up of broccoli and other good things. But he wasn’t quite sure what to make of that.

Women’s hockey player Julie Chu helped him out, explaining to reporters that the vegetables show the importance of healthy eating for top athletes.

It was all part of the first lady’s nutrition initiative.

“As Olympic and Paralympic athletes you also know that a big part of reaching your full potential is making sure that you’re putting the right fuel in your body,” Mrs. Obama said.

The president, meanwhile, admired the prowess of the athletes, taking special note of an intricate Olympic snowboard trick.

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field at the home meet with the rest of the team.

Duffield said he is ready to put on a show, because he tends to perform well at this home meet, and with the fans in attendance, he has to give them something good.

A letdown after breaking Tech’s 30-year-old outdoor high jump record is not high on his list of worries at competition this weekend, he said.

“My freshman and sophomore years, I felt I was kind of that person that I’d jump good, and I would be like ‘Wooo, I can relax,’” Duffield said. “Now that I’m a junior and I have years under me, it’s kind of like I jump good, give myself a day or two, and then forget about it, so by the time I get back to practice on Monday, it’s time to get better.”

Besides finishing first, Duffield is looking to clean up his form on jumps, he said. Last weekend may

have been when he broke the outdoor school record, but it did not change the fact that his form was suspect at times during the relays.

White said the 4x400 relay made up of senior sprinter Amoy Blake, junior sprinter Christen Rivers, junior sprinter Montenae Roye-Speight and herself is doing well. She just wants to continue running her best in the event while also improving.

The beginning of this outdoor season has gone better than the last year’s, much like the indoor season started for her, she said.

“I am just really proud of myself and can’t wait to see what happens next,” White said.

Tech’s distance runners will compete in Palo Alto, Calif. and San Francisco on Friday and Saturday, with the remainder of the team set to compete in Lubbock on Saturday.

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Cardinals beat Reds 7-6 in series finale to take 2 of 3 CINCINNATI (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals overcame another long delay and Todd Frazier’s two homers on Thursday, holding on to beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 and take two of three in their seasonopening series.

The first pitch was delayed 3 hours, 42 minutes because of rain.

The Cardinals then emerged from their two-game hitting slump by knocking Homer Bailey (0-1) out of the game in the fifth inning. Jhonny Peralta homered to get it going.

St. Louis pulled away with three runs in the seventh, when Matt Holliday’s single off the outfield wall was upheld by the first video review

of the series.

Lance Lynn (1-0) gave up Jay Bruce’s two-run homer and Frazier’s solo shot during five innings. Frazier added a three-run homer in the seventh that cut it to 7-6. Trevor Rosenthal got the last four outs for his second save.

The series involved nearly as much waiting as playing.

There was a 2-hour, 40-minute delay before Wednesday’s game, a 1-0 victory by Cincinnati. Along with the delay on Thursday, the teams wound up waiting 6 hours, 22 minutes to play during the two days.

As Thursday’s delay stretched on, Reds reliever Sam LeCure

tweeted: “Uncle.”

The starters had a rough time after the delay.

Lynn beat the Reds three times last season, but couldn’t get a 1-2-3 inning on Thursday. Bruce and Frazier hit back-to-back homers in the first for a 3-0 lead. Even Bailey had a single off Lynn, who gave up eight hits while throwing 107 pitches.

Peralta hit a two-run homer in the second off Bailey, and the Cardinals tied it with a breakthrough hit in the fourth. Matt Adams doubled and came around on Jon Jay’s double, the Cardinals’ first hit with a runner in scoring position this season. They had been 0 for 17.

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Texas Tech’s Eric Gutierrez hits the ball during the Red Raiders’ 3-2 win against Oral Roberts. Tech travels to play Oklahoma State this weekend.

The Texas Tech baseball team will look to get back on the winning track against Big 12 Conference opponents when it faces Oklahoma State this weekend in Stillwater, Okla.

In the Red Raiders’ most recent series against a conference opponent, they lost two of three games against the Texas Longhorns in a home series at Dan Law Field.

There was a midweek game to help the team put the series loss against Texas behind them. Tech defeated New Mexico 6-3 on Tuesday at Security Bank Ballpark in Midland in front of more than 5,000 fans.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said the players were ready to get back out on the field, and it was a really good experience for them.

“I think more than anything there was just excitement about coming back and playing on a Tuesday. Being able to come back and play a good club,” he said. “I think once the game was over, we gathered that there was 5,000 people there, and a bunch of them were Red Raiders, and we really

Sampson introduced as Houston coach HOUSTON (AP) — Houston introduced Kelvin Sampson as their men’s basketball coach on Thursday, confident that he can bring the once-proud program back to prominence and undeterred by his past improprieties with the NCAA. Sampson committed numerous NCAA violations regarding impermissible calls to recruits at both Oklahoma and Indiana, resulting in a five-year show cause order from the NCAA in 2008 which effectively barred him from coaching in college. That order expired last year.

On Thursday, Sampson vowed that NCAA compliance will be his staff’s highest priority and didn’t shy away from his checkered past when he was introduced as the successor to James Dickey, who resigned last month citing family issues.

“Mistakes were made, lessons were learned, while I don’t agree with all the conclusions that the NCAA made, I respect their decision and respect the NCAA as an institution,” Sampson said in his opening comments.

Though Sampson touched on his past troubles on Thursday, he wasn’t exactly thrilled at repeated questions about his NCAA violations.

“I’m excited about the future,” he said. “That stuff is in the past — all of it.”

He takes over a program with a rich history that has fallen on tough times in the last two decades.

The Cougars have made 19 NCAA tournaments, but just one of those appearances has come since 1992 and they finished 17-16 this season.

These Cougars are far removed from

the Phi Slama Jama teams starring Hakeem Olajuwon, Elvin Hayes and Clyde Drexler in the 1980s which made five Final Four trips, including three in a row from 1982-84.

Sampson, who has been an assistant with the Houston Rockets since 2011, coached Oklahoma from 1994-2006 and Indiana from 2006-08. He made 11 NCAA tournaments during his tenure at Oklahoma, reaching the round of 16 in 1999, the Final Four in 2002 and the round of eight in 2003.

The 58-year-old Sampson has a 500-270 in 25 seasons as a head coach with stops at Washington State and Montana Tech in addition to Oklahoma and Indiana. His success on the court is undeniable; the problems came from what happened off the court.

puts a lot of duress on himself from appreciated that.”

Tech junior pitcher Dominic a standpoint of where he knows a Moreno made a relief appearance Friday night game is going to be a in the win against the Lobos, but low scoring game.”

Tadlock said The Red Raiders brought it should not affect his abiltwo players back into the ity to start this lineup during weekend.

Moreno has last weekend’s series against been primarily used as the Texas who had spent some time Friday night out with injustart for the ries, including Red Raiders, Tech junior Tim and in his eight appearances so Proudfoot.

The infar this season, he is 1-5 with a fielder said his injury was a 3.85 ERA, acTIM PROUDFOOT cording to Tech fluke thing in TEXAS TECH JUNIOR Athletics. practice, and he INFIELDER was hit on the Tadlock said he thinks part shoulder by a of the reason the right-hander has pitch. He rehabbed the shoulder and struggled in his last few outings is the has just been trying to get his legs pressure Moreno puts on himself, and back under him over the past week.

“Just being back out there and he just needs to focus on one inning fielding ground balls and helping at a time.

“Some of it is mechanical. Some out my team, that was the best,” of it is mental,” he said. “I think he Proudfoot said.

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Just being back out there and fielding ground balls and helping out my team, that was the best.

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By EVERETT CORDER

Tech will begin the weekend series against Oklahoma State at 7 p.m. Friday night in Allie P. Rivers Stadium.

The Cowboys have faced fellow conference members Baylor and Texas Christian, two teams the Red Raiders have also played against this season, and Oklahoma State is 3-3 in those games.

Tech junior pitcher Corey Taylor said the thing he remembers most about the Cowboys is how little they strike out.

“They put contact on balls,” Taylor said. “We just need to pitch to our strengths as pitchers and focus as a group.”

Once the Red Raiders finish the series against Oklahoma State this weekend, they will have only 21 games on their schedule, according to Tech Athletics, and 14 of those are at home.

“We play pretty well at home.

We have in the past at least,” Proudfoot said. “It’s big to be playing good, at least up until we come home, that way we can have a chance to finish well.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

RUGBY RUNNER

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Wesley Otto, a sophomore nursing major from Houston, runs through defenders during a rugby game on Thursday outside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.