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Lubbock wins toughest weather city competition Lubbock was voted Toughest Weather City in The Weather Channel’s Toughest Weather Tournament 2013 on Friday.

According to The Weather Channel’s website, Lubbock received 8,672 votes against Fairbanks, Alaska’s, 4,498 votes to win.

The competition started with 64 cities March 19, according to the website, and more than a quarter million votes were cast to determine the winner.

According to a news release, Lubbock’s flat terrain in the north, its proximity to a mountain range in the west and the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast contribute to the weather the city experiences.

The region’s weather systems, according to the release, interact with the geographical features to provide Lubbock with weather extremes.

Lubbock can go from one extreme to the other quickly as a system passes through, according to the release.

“Lubbock’s location,” Brian Ancell, an assistant professor of atmospheric science, said in the release, “makes us a wacky weather goldmine.” ➤➤egardner@dailytoreador.com

Dem, GOP senators work on background check deal WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate aides say a Democratic and a Republican senator are working on a compromise expanding required federal background checks to gun shows and to online firearms sales.

If an agreement could be completed, it could represent a significant breakthrough in the effort by President Barack Obama and his allies to restrict guns in the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26 first-graders and staff last December.

The aides said the potential deal is being worked on by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.

Manchin is a moderate with an A rating from the National Rifle Association, while Toomey has solid conservative credentials.

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Rodney Carrington returns to Lubbock

By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER

When comedian Rodney Carrington returned to Lubbock to perform Friday as part of his Laughter’s Good tour, audience members prepared themselves for a vulgar show filled with profanities.

Carrington did not disappoint.

Only lacking about 50 tickets from selling out, Carrington packed City Bank Auditorium and delivered a show that caused roaring laughter.

“I was almost in tears,” said Shelby Steadman, a senior elementary education major from Fremont, Calif. “He was hilarious.”

While waiting for the show to begin, multiple video clips of Carrington were shown, some from his ABC sitcom, “Rodney,” and others from the 2008 film “Beer For My Horses.”

Drew Thomas, a professional comedian based out of Atlanta, Ga., opened for Carrington. Many of his jokes were about relationships and married couples, drug dealers and even Lubbock.

“Drew did really good,” said Aron Hunt, a sophomore graphic design major.

“I thought he was a great opening act. He made me laugh a lot.”

When Carrington first came onstage, he began to tell stories mostly about his ex-wife, joking about their divorce after 18 years of marriage.

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RODNEY CARRINGTON, COMEDIAN and country singer, performs for an almost-sold out crowd Friday night at the City Bank Auditorium.

Women’s Studies Program hosts 29th annual conference

By NIKKI CULVER STAFF WRITER

Texas Tech’s Women’s Studies Program hosted its 29th annual Conference on the Advancement of Women on Thursday and Friday in the Student Union Building.

This year’s theme was Women and Global Change: Achieving Peace Through Empowering Women.

The event consisted of a continental breakfast, a morning keynote speaker, five breakout or specialized sessions, a lunch and an afternoon keynote speaker.

“I’m pretty much helping with the registration,” Benita Dix, the administrative student assistant for the Women’s Studies Program, said. “I was the main email correspondent for those who had registered, so I would clarify stuff and send out receipts to those who needed them. Now I’m a coordinator, making sure things run smoothly.”

The morning keynote speaker was Yifat Susskind, executive director of MADRE, an

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international women’s human rights organization. According to the event program, she works with human rights activists from Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. She also has been a featured commentator on CNN, National Public Radio and BBC Radio.

“I hope that people learn that feminism isn’t really about man-hating,” Dix said.

“Anyone can be a feminist. The main goal is equality. One of the speakers mentioned trying to be able to transcend religion, culture and space as far as the countries are considered.”

The afternoon keynote speaker was Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and president of the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq.

According to the event program, OWFI, since beginning in 2003, has campaigned for women’s political, civic and human rights in Iraq by focusing on running secret women’s shelters in Baghdad and Samarra.

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PARTICIPANTS ENGAGE IN a group discussion titled, “Feminism and Psycology: Parallels and Problems” on Friday in the Student Union Building. The discussion was a part of the 29th annual Conference on the Advancement of Women, which took place Thursday and Friday.

Tech School of Law hosts 7th annual Criminal Law Symposium

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The Texas Tech Law Review Board in cooperation with the School of Law presented its seventh annual Criminal Law Symposium.

This year’s topic focused on juvenile criminal law.

Highly distinguished professors and experts flew in from around the country to attend Friday’s all-day event at the School of Law, said Arnold Loewy, the symposium’s founder and professor of criminal law at the law school.

The symposium drew 17 professionals from different schools around the nation to participate in three panel discussions on juvenile criminal law, he said.

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According to the information packet for the event, each panel took two hours and was focused around a prompt.

The prompts discussed included: when should juveniles be tried as juveniles and when as adults, whether juveniles have more, less, the same or different rights than adults, and determining the scope and limitations of judicial punishment.

Previous symposium topics include, “Citizen Ignorance, Police Deception and the Constitution,” “Convicting the Innocent” and “Criminal Law and the First Amendment,” according to the packet.

Loewy decided each topic based alternately on substantive and procedural criminal law and said this year juvenile law seemed to fit in the middle.

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CHRISTOPHER SLOBOGIN, DIRECTOR of the Criminal Justice Program at Vanderbilt, spoke as part of a panel for the Juveniles and the Criminal Law Symposium presented by the Texas Tech Law Review Board on Friday at the School of Law. The panel discussion involved the topic of when juveniles should be tried as adults in court.

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US preparing for possible further NKorea actions BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — The top U.S. military officer said Sunday the Pentagon had bolstered its missile defenses and taken other steps because he “can’t take the chance” that North Korea won’t soon engage in some military action.

Heightened tensions with North Korea led the United States to postpone congressional testimony by the chief U.S. commander in South Korea and delay an intercontinental ballistic missile test from a West Coast base.

North Korea, after weeks of war threats and other efforts to punish South Korea and the U.S. for joint military drills, has told other nations that it will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in the North’s capital beginning Wednesday.

U.S. Gen Martin Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who just wrapped up a visit to Afghanistan, was asked in an Associated Press

interview whether he foresees North Korea taking military action soon.

“No, but I can’t take the chance that it won’t,” he said, explaining why the Pentagon has strengthened missile defenses and made other decisions to combat the potential threat.

Dempsey said the U.S. has been preparing for further provocations or action, “considering the risk that they may choose to do something” on one of two nationally important anniversaries in April — the birth of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung and the creation of the North Korean army.

U.S. Gen. James Thurman, the commander of the 28,000 American troops in South Korea, will stay in Seoul as “a prudent measure” rather than travel to Washington to appear this coming week before congressional committees, Army Col. Amy Hannah said in an email Sunday to the AP.

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“It was something that hadn’t been talked about in a whole on the national stage,” he said, “and it was a topic worth talking about. It kind of transcends criminal law and criminal procedure, and I try to do both of those things. It’s something that I think needed some exploration.”

Loewy said he started the symposium in 2007 as a way to increase both the law school and the university’s publicity nationwide. It has grown throughout the years into a very successful event, one that professionals look forward to each year, he said.

“One of the things we do is send out copies of the law review from the symposium, so every criminal law professor in the country gets it,” Loewy said.

“We started out with some pretty good people, so that means other people want to come. It’s gotten to the point where people are kind of begging for the opportunity to come, which is very good news.”

Already, plans are being made for next year’s topic — homicide, he said.

“Last year was pretty purely procedural,” Loewy said, “so I thought it was time for a pure substantive topic, and homicide seemed like a good one. It readily lent itself to three panels, and I’m happy to say that its membership is almost sold out. I only have a couple spots remaining, and I have offers outstanding for those.”

The events do not happen overnight, however, he said.

They take nearly one year of planning.

Lauren Schattel, a third-year law student from Galveston ,and symposium editor on the Law Review Board, said she has been working on coordinating and planning the event since August.

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“She was talking about sex trafficking and her life back in Iraq,” Hollie Campbell, a sophomore restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Austin, said. “Things are very different here. She was just giving a comparison of what was going on between Iraq and here. She said she didn’t realize there was sex trafficking going on in places other than Iraq, and that was surprising to me because it happens everywhere, even here.”

The breakout sessions topics included, “How Social and Cul-

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CHRISTOPHER SLOBOGIN, DIRECTOR of the Criminal Justice Program at Vanderbilt, spoke as part of a panel for the Juveniles & the Criminal Law Symposium presented by the Texas Tech Law Review on Friday at the School of Law. The panel discussion involved the topic of when juveniles should be tried as adults in court.

dants’ flights and hotel rooms in advance, and picks them up at the airport, she said. The board also planned the events for the day, including the previous night’s opening dinner, Friday’s luncheon, a wine and cheese reception and a closing dinner.

Law school students attended the event as well, which Schattel said is telling of its success.

“For a Friday afternoon, you can see that the auditorium is pretty full,” she said. “For a Friday afternoon in the law school, where most people don’t have class, it’s kind of a big deal that we have a lot of students come attend.”

The number of student attendees allowed Loewy to emphasize the quality of learning at the law school to the panelists, he said.

“When the symposium ended at 5:30, and I essentially ended

it,” Loewy said, “I was able to say to the people there, ‘Take a look behind you. Look how many students are here now. It’s 5:30 on a Friday afternoon, you know how many students would be there if it were your school.

This is an indication of how seriously we take learning here at Texas Tech.’”

Ibukun Adepoju, a third-year law student from Nigeria, said she attended the event because it centers largely on what she would like to do for her career as a criminal defense lawyer.

“But when I graduate from here, what I hope to do is, if I don’t get to work with a firm that hires me and pays me good money, then I’ll have to go out there on my own,” she said.

“And I would love to be able to focus on juvenile law and misdemeanors. That’s what I’d rather start out with, so it’d be useful

tural Practices Influence Written Responses,” “Feminism and Psychology: Parallels and Problems,” “Gender Difference in Search for Financial Information,” and topics based on popular culture, including “One Day My Prince Will Come: A Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Kate Middleton” and “Playing in the Shadows: Trials and Tactics of Female Videogame Players.”

“I hope people get a better education and a better understanding of the severity of how women are treated,” Sylvia Tarango, a senior psychology major from Plains, who was assisting the registration process, said. “Especially in warridden countries and how those

women are working together to make it better for themselves and their children. I hope that people who come to this conference and go hear other speakers as well will get some insight into what women around the world are doing.”

Dix said she hopes the conference sheds light on the Women’s Studies Program and its desire to be recognized by the student population.

“I hope that people realize that this program that needs to be expanded,” she said. “There’s a reason why there’s women’s studies programs. Tech should have an undergrad degree, a master’s degree, a Ph.D. would be nice.

There are a lot of people who’ve

to learn a whole lot about it.”

Symposiums such as these are interesting and useful, Adepoju said, because students get to watch as several experts on the topic gather and debate to find middle ground on how and where the law should be applied.

Loewy said he continues to aspire to make his symposiums a drawing point for criminal lawyers and experts across the nation, so they might see the quality of the law school and the university as a whole.

“I think one of the values is one is the number of people it brings to Tech,” he said.

“Another thing is that pretty consistently, and I couldn’t tell that it was any different this year, people are more impressed with Texas Tech and Lubbock after they’ve been here than they were before they’ve been here.” ➤➤check@dailytoreador.com

come here and think we have all of these things, but no, we just have a certificate. The certificate isn’t bad, but it’s like the program has the potential to grow. It’s been here for more than 25 years, it should be bigger than what it is.

“I feel like it could help the diversity, too because there are people on campus from different cultures, different backgrounds so I think this should really help them feel somewhat at home knowing that there’s a program that talks about more than just the U.S. and North America. I really just hope people see that this is an opportunity and a jewel that the campus has.” ➤➤nculver@dailytoreador.com

US general: Taliban likely to be long-term threat BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States accepts that a diminished but resilient Taliban is likely to

remain a military threat in some parts of Afghanistan long after U.S. troops complete their combat mission next year, the top

U.S. military officer said Sunday.

In an Associated Press interview at this air field north of Kabul, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is cautiously optimistic that the Afghan army will hold its own against the insurgency as Western troops pull back and Afghans assume the lead combat role. He said that by May or June, the Afghans will be in the lead throughout the country.

Asked whether some parts of the country will remain contested by the Taliban, he replied, “Yes, of course there will be.”

“And if we were having this conversation 10 years from now, I suspect there would (still) be contested areas because the history of Afghanistan suggests that there will always be contested areas,” he said.

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Potential students attend Graduate School expo, learn options

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech Graduate School hosted its first Red Raider Graduate Expo on Saturday to educate undergraduate students and boost recruitment numbers for the college.

Shannon Samson, section coordinator for the Graduate School and coordinator of the event, said the expo aimed to help potential graduate students become acquainted with different aspects of the university.

“What we’re doing is, we’re just showing people the campus and helping them to acquaint themselves with the colleges if they haven’t already,” she said, “and helping them to get to know the program and the application requirements, things like that.”

Roughly 40 percent of the 106 people who registered were undergraduates at Tech, she said, though some attendees came from as far as Washington, D.C. Jacek Jasinski, director of graduate student life for the Graduate Student Advisory Council, said the college sent about 85,000 emails inviting potential students to come to the event in preparation for the expo.

“We basically told them,

‘Hey, come to campus, give us a chance,’” he said. “’Have an opportunity to see the place, to speak to your graduate advisers, see what programs we offer and get the insider scoop from the graduate students at the same time.’”

The event lasted from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., starting with a greeting and opening comments from Interim President Lawrence Schovanec, Graduate School Interim Dean Dominick Casadonte and Jasinski, Samson said.

The day progressed with a campus tour, exploring the different college buildings and campus facilities such as the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center and Wellness Center, she said. Following that was an academic tour and information center, as well as a resource fair.

Tech graduate students and GSAC members also attended the event to talk to students and give them the insider’s scoop on what it is really like to be a Tech student, Jasinski said.

The Graduate School based the expo on the undergraduate Red Raider Shows, Samson said, and plans on making the event a permanent occurrence.

“We are actually looking at expanding this program and doing it more frequently,” she said. “We

would like to do several events during a semester, and probably at different times of the year in order to capture more possible applicants.”

Jasinski said he thinks the expo is a great way to get more students actively interested in Tech.

“I think it’s more of an active and proactive way of recruiting,” he said, “as opposed to a passive way of recruiting when you wait for people to apply and then you take care of them. This time we actually obtain a large number of names of people we already know who will go to graduate school and we actually go and we chase them.”

The expo also is part of the larger reach for tier-one status, which involves increasing the number of students in the graduate school, Jasinski said.

“We’re really gearing up to kind of boost the population to 10,000,” he said, “and with this comes an increase in recruiting efforts.”

Samson said she encourages students interested in the Graduate School to attend events such as these to better know the process and what they are getting into.

“Most of us are first-generation graduate students,” she said.

“There’s not a lot of inherent knowledge about what a person

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SANDRA CROSIER, THE director of study abroad, talks to Katrina Cotter, a senior history and Spanish major from Socorro, N.M., about working in her previous study abroad city, Seville, Spain, during the Graduate Fair on Saturday in the Student Union Building.

has to do to go through the application process successfully. And also, the other thing is choosing a graduate program is a very personal experience, and it really helps to get to know the colleges better and get to know the programs better.”

Jasinski said he believes visiting days should almost be a re-

Francis honors John Paul II before installation ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was formally installed as bishop of Rome on Sunday in a ceremony characterized by more simplicity than the usual ritual and pomp enjoyed by papal predecessors taking up their pastoral duties.

In yet another sign that Francis sees his mission as pontiff as one of humble service, he used his arrival at St. John in Lateran Basilica to honor a past pope who remains wildly popular in Rome. Francis arrived a half-hour early to bless a plaque renaming a corner of the piazza outside the church after Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005.

Francis applauded, then gave his blessing after Rome’s mayor unveiled the simple white stone plaque marking “Giovanni Paul II Square” in a section of the vast piazza, which often hosts free rock concerts and political and labor rallies.

The pope, who has stressed the importance of simplicity, arrived for the unveiling wearing a plain white cassock, in modest contrast to the wardrobe of the Italian cardinal who welcomed him wearing a red cape.

The two-hour-long, early evening installation ceremony was a significant one for the church, since a pope is pontiff because he is elected bishop of Rome, and not vice versa. Right after his election on March 13 as the church’s first pope from Latin Ameri-

Dad says diplomat had passion for foreign affairs CHICAGO (AP) — Anne Smedinghoff had a quiet ambition and displayed a love of global affairs from an early age, joining the U.S. Foreign Service straight out of college and volunteering for missions in perilous locations worldwide.

So when the 25-year-old suburban Chicago woman was killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan — the first American diplomat to die on the job since last year’s attack in Benghazi, Libya — her family took solace in the fact that she died doing something she loved.

“It was a great adventure for her ... She loved it,” her father, Tom Smedinghoff, told The Associated Press on Sunday. “She was tailormade for this job.”

Anne Smedinghoff grew up in River Forest, Ill. — an upscale suburb about 10 miles west of Chicago — the daughter of an attorney and the second of four children.

She attended the highly selective Fenwick High School, followed by Johns Hopkins University, where she majored in international studies and became a key organizer of the university’s annual Foreign Affairs Symposium in 2008. The event draws high-profile speakers from around the world.

Those who knew Smedinghoff described her as a positive, hardworking and dependable young woman.

ca, Francis made clear he would relish his pastoral role as the city’s bishop.

Francis’ insistence on his bishop’s role “speaks to his sensibility in truly being the pastor of a church through concrete ways,” Cardinal Agostino Vallini told Vatican Radio ahead of the installation ceremony. Vallini, who is the pope’s vicar to the Rome diocese, is the prelate who greeted Francis and who, along with city hall, decided a part of St. John in Lateran Square should be named after John Paul II. The basilica is the city’s most ancient, with foundations dating back to the early 4th century. The installation ceremony held there is steeped in centuries of ritual that modern popes have updated to the times.

But while many ornately dressed pontiffs in centuries past arrived in a fancy horse-drawn carriage, Francis rolled into a side entrance of the basilica complex in an open-topped white jeep. Before going indoors, the vehicle stopped again and again so his security team, walking briskly alongside, could pass babies to him so he could kiss them, to the delight of thousands of people gathered in the area. When wind started whipping up, Francis took off his skull cap, letting the breeze tussle his hair.

Francis later donned the tall, peaked bishop’s hat, and wearing sim-

ply adorned cream-colored vestments, gently sat back in the mosaic-studded basilica chair, known as the “Cathedra Romana,” that symbolizes the post of Rome bishop.

He was handed the pastoral staff, symbolizing a bishop’s care for his flock. Barely a few minutes later, Francis was up on his feet, shaking hands with priests, nuns, and then with the parents and young children in a Rome family, chatting amiably with them. The clergy and lay people were chosen to represent his flock and pledge obedience to the pontiff.

“It is with joy that I am celebrating the Eucharist for the first time in this Lateran Basilica, the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome. I greet all of you with great affection,” Francis said in his homily.

Francis urged people to cultivate patience and love, saying that “those who love are able to understand, to hope, to inspire confidence; they do not give up, they do not burn bridges, they are able to forgive.”

Also updated in Francis’ installation as bishop were the words chosen to be recited by Cardinal Vallini when professing obedience to the pope’s teaching and leadership. While such past pledges have described the pontiff as being “in an elevated position to govern,” the one used for Francis simply described the pontiff as “presiding

over all the Churches in charity.”

That choice is seen as not only as an expression of Francis’ humility but also of his sensitivity to other religious figures, especially those who lead Orthodox Christians. The Orthodox church broke off some 1,000 years ago from Rome in part over disputes about the primacy of the pontiff.

In applauding the plaque honoring John Paul, Francis also paid tribute to a pontiff who enthusiastically embraced his role as bishop of Rome. The late pontiff would visit Rome parishes, hundreds of them, and often in poor neighborhoods on the city’s outskirts, on Sunday mornings.

quirement before accepting offers from graduate programs.

“Going to graduate school could be a life-changing decision, but it’s also a large investment of time,” he said. “So before you do something, you should perhaps have enough information at hand to make a very informed decision.

Especially meeting with your department, talking with your future adviser. It’s really important because this will be someone who you will be spending a chunk of your time for the next two to four, maybe even up to seven — like some people do — years.” ➤➤check@dailytoreador.com

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Everyday woes of the college student A

fter suffering through the tediousness that is high school, many students dream about when they are going to leave home and enter the world of college.

In their eyes, college is often what is portrayed in Hollywood movies: wild parties, sleeping until noon, no parents and no rules. And while this portrayal might be somewhat true, there is a lot students do not take into consideration when taking the step from high school to a higher education.

Students consume themselves with thoughts about all of the partying they will do in college, so much they often do not realize how much stress can — and probably will — be put on them in terms of classes. This seems to be amplified within the first two years of attendance because students do not take classes they enjoy, but classes required of

Makenna Lange them by the state — the dreaded core classes.

Core classes leave a bad impression in underclassmen’s eyes because it leads them to think the next four years are going to be boring and pointless. They feel they are not learning anything of value, start to wonder what they are doing here and if college is the right place for them. While these classes are a drag and a pain to complete, they are a necessary evil to get to the more interesting classes.

Loneliness is one problem many students face when coming to college that most do not

admit to. It can be hard for some to socialize and make friends in environments they are not used to. This occurs often to introverts who have a hard time meeting and interacting with people they do not know.

This frequently causes the feeling of loneliness. The feeling of being alone with no one to commiserate with, while at home there were people who knew them very well and understand what they are going through.

The connection to the university, the town and the people can make or break the college experience.

While the idea of sometimes being hours away from parents and their rules sound great, it is very easy for students to become homesick and miss things they were accustomed to. The feeling of being in a new place, surrounded by thousands of people one does not know can often

become overwhelming and leave students feeling miserable.

This feeling may seem even worse if the student goes to a university in a different cultural setting than they are used to: highly liberal when they are Republican, or a highly religious private school when they do not practice the religion. These types of differences can cause the process of making friends even more difficult, magnifying the feeling of homesickness.

According to GoCollege.com, homesickness ranks as the No. 1 reason students drop out of college within their first year of attendance.

An additional problem students are facing, especially in today’s economy, is the expense of attending school. While there are a large number of students who are lucky enough to have their parents pay for school and their expenses, there is an even

larger amount who are required to work at least part-time to pay their way through school.

Even with student loans and scholarships to pay for fees and tuition, other necessary costs such as rent, utilities and, most importantly, food can cause students extra stress in terms of working to obtain the money for these necessities.

Financial trouble and stress are two of the top five reasons students drop out within the first year of attendance, according to StateUniversity.com.

College can be a huge change. It will stretch not only one’s mind, but their comfort zone as well. At times, it will seem like the best thing in the world and other times it will seem like the biggest pain that has ever existed. Some professors will seem like the craziest people one has ever met and some will seem like a student’s

worst nightmare.

As cliché as it sounds, this time of experimentation and random adventures — stories to tell grandchildren — will eventually come to an end. We will be considered adults and have to insert ourselves into the real world and get a job, start a family and be responsible for ourselves.

Through all of the stress, the fun and the pain that is class, just know someday it will be worth it.

One day we will all look back at this time with fond memory and not remember any of the bad we went through. One day you will walk across that stage, shake the president’s hand and happily move on to the next adventure and large change.

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Right to life should be Young’s choice to make Jordan Sigler and fears becoming worse. He now wants to end his life — by starving himself.

As a paraplegic, he is physically unable to commit suicide another way, or even by physician-assisted dying, since he can’t give himself the medications.

If this is truly his wish, it’s a shame Young cannot be legally euthanized. A full-grown adult, who has fought for liberties sake, should be allowed to choose when he may exit the world.

He should be allowed more dignity than to die a painful death by starvation, or to have to suffer unwillingly through the duration of his paradoxically “natural” life.

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like Young should be treated as best they can by the nation they fought for with all possible options exhausted, if they then deem they do not want to go on, they should have their wish granted in a more humane way.

Euthanasia is not legal in the U.S., as it involves a third party administering the lethal dose.

There is a fear of the ethics of a person being killed by another.

However, I think the law should be changed to allow people to be euthanized who are physically incapable of performing their part in a physician assisted death.

His mother supports his decision, and his wife doesn’t understand why religious and pro-life groups are concerned with imposing morality on Young’s unique situation.

End-of-life battles are nothing new, like the seven-year case of Terri Schiavo, who was in a coma for 15 years.

The doctors said she would never leave her vegetative con-

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ot every story has a happy ending: The outcome of Tomas Young, barring a miracle, will be a sorrowful one.

The story reads as unpleasant as the tragedy of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”

On CNN’s “Outfront” show Friday, they did a piece on Young.

Young is a veteran who served in the Iraq war. He signed up for the military after 9/11, hoping to fight against the attackers in Afghanistan, but instead was shipped off to Iraq.

While serving in Iraq, Young was shot, and the injury left him paralyzed. He later became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war; he felt the effort was unnecessary.

His injury became more severe in 2008 when his brain became damaged after he had a blood clot in his lung. Since then, he takes 30 pills a day, gets nutrition through a feeding tube and uses a colostomy bag for waste.

Young said he is tired of watching his body deteriorate

dition. Schiavo’s parents wanted her to be kept on life support, and her husband, who wanted the feeding tube to be removed, fought in the courts for Schiavo’s life. The courts decided to remove her tube in 2005, according to CNN.com.

While I’m not sure what the right conclusion should have been in that case (right of life issues and consciousness are complex and better left up to doctors and neuroscientists), there is a difference here: Young has the authority to make the decision himself and Schiavo did not, although it was deemed she would

never leave her comatose state.

It’s ironic many of the conservatives who are pro-life are the same people who approved the Iraq war. What about the soldiers who died or the civilians who died, as Young now argues for no reason? Is the meaning of right to life only to be applied to birth and not taking one’s own life?

I think Young is in a better position to decide if he wants to live or not, and the decision should rest with him, not with citizens who sat at home and voted for politicians to go to the Iraq war. Though I wish there was a better alternative for Young to

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He suffered his injury because he wanted to guarantee liberty for all Americans, now as Americans, we should give him the liberty to die as he pleases. As unpopular as it may be, liberty does include the right to end one’s own life.

If Young has wrestled with Hamlet’s “to be, or not to be,” question, and would rather not “bear those ills,” he should be allowed to fly off in peace.

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Chick-fil-A employee makes ‘American Idol’

By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER

Abie Rampy will never forget the first time she saw Javonte Bibbs.

As the director of marketing for Chick-fil-A in the Lubbock area, she was watching security camera footage one night when she came across an interesting scene.

“We were watching and he was singing and dancing for all the employees here,” Rampy said, “and that was just my first sight at Javonte and what a great heart he has.”

This is not the only time Bibbs has impacted people from a TV screen, though.

He made it to Hollywood on season 12 of the reality show “American Idol,” in which he was ranked top 30 through 40 male contestants.

“I wasn’t planning on making it that far,” he said, “so that was a huge accomplishment for me.”

Bibbs’ journey to Hollywood began last July, when he auditioned and won the FOX 34 Lubbock Idol audition at Last Call Home Furnishings in Lubbock. He then gained a guaranteed audition with “American Idol” producers in Oklahoma City.

“Finally I got past Oklahoma and went to Hollywood,” he said, “so I guess it all started (in Lubbock).”

Although he began his auditions in July, the season did not air until after Christmas.

Bibbs said the entire experience including meeting the celebrities in Hollywood was a blessing.

“It was something that I never thought I would be able to do, and when it happened it was like a dream come true,” he said. “Being able to see some of your icons and

stuff like that is just mind-blowing.”

His favorite judge was Mariah Carey, who Bibbs said was a sweetheart to him.

“She loved me,” he said. “She actually saved me in one of the recruit rounds, and she kept me for another day.”

Once the show began airing, Rampy said Chick-fil-A employees were excited and recorded several episodes in hopes to watch their coworker perform.

“It has kind of just been a Chickfil-A family thing,” she said, “to root Javonte on this journey of his.”

After his week in Hollywood, Bibbs returned to Lubbock with a new prestige.

“It was crazy,” he said. “My phone was going off the hook, and I got a lot of emails on Facebook and things like that.”

Even during work at the Chickfil-A located on 82nd and Milwaukee Avenue, Bibbs has received recognition from his time on the show.

“Every now and then, I’ll be serving some customers and I’ll have a few people ask for my autograph and things like that, and a picture,” he said. “You know, it’s been really great. I never thought that this would happen to me, so it’s pretty cool “ Even while attending classes at Frenship High School, Bibbs was the center of attention, which was a good and bad thing, he said.

He has worked at Chick-fil-A for about three years now, he said, and brings his outgoing personality to the workplace.

For example, one day Bibbs was asked to wear the cow mascot suit for Chick-fil-A. When he put it on, it was too small, but he did not notice at the time. When he went into the dining room of the restaurant,

all the children began laughing at him because his sleeves were too short and they could see his skin.

“I love to entertain people,” he said. “It is one of my favorite things to do.”

Chick-fil-A is fortunate to have Bibbs as an employee, Rampy said.

“He just keeps everybody here entertained and motivated,” she said, “and that really helps customer service.”

Bibbs’ coworkers continue to support him on his journey to fame.

Rampy hopes Bibbs will achieve his dreams, but said Bibbs will be missed at the restaurant if he does.

“We’re so happy we can support him with his work schedule and let him get off and go and try something that he’s really passionate about,” she said. “That’s kind of what we’re about at Chick-fil-A, is really just to get our employees out there and give them their dreams, whether that be on a Chick-fil-A path, or another path.”

Bibbs is determined to return to “American Idol” to perform for the famous panel of judges again. He will audition again this summer, he said, and will better prepare himself, mentally and physically this time.

He said the No. 1 key factor to excel in the competition is sleep.

“After sleep, I guess it’s just remembering your lyrics and things like that,” he said, “because that was one of my downfalls this year.”

Bibbs encourages people interested in auditioning for “American Idol” or other similar shows to try out. His words of advice are to do whatever it takes to achieve a dream.

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During the second half of the show, Carrington pulled out his guitar and began to sing his famous songs, including, “Show Them To Me,” which was many of the audience members’ favorite part of the show. At one point during the song, a woman in the back of the auditorium stood up and revealed her breasts, which caused Carrington to exclaim a comment about how her boobs were so big he could see them all the way onstage.

“I loved when he sang ‘’Show Them To Me,” said Frank Navarro of Seminole.

“When the lady next to me flashed her boobs, it was great. I give her props for that.”

The show was fun and extremely entertaining, he said.

“If you want to laugh a lot, go to one of his shows,” Navarro said. “Even though you can see some of his videos on YouTube and everything, it’s not the same.”

Steadman also said “Show Them To Me” was one of her favorite parts of the show.

“I sat next to an older couple, so they did not show anything,” she said, “but bigger guys all around me were standing up and flashing everyone. It was hilarious.”

Steadman’s father gave her tickets, and she said she had listened to Carrington with him from age 10.

“I wish he could have been here tonight,” she said. “We are huge fans of him and love his work.”

Hunt received his ticket from a friend who had an extra one and said he was excited to attend the show.

“His new songs are really good,” he said. “I wish he would have sang ‘Deer Penis,’ though.”

Betty Nelson of Lubbock said she watched his performance in Lubbock a couple of years ago.

“I thought he was a lot better this time,” she said. “He has a lot of new, funny stuff.”

Nelson came with a group of 16 people, and left with Carrington DVDs, T-shirts and other merchandise.

“If he came back tomorrow,” she said, “we’d all be back here again.” ➤➤atubbs@dailytoreador.com

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‘Evil Dead’ rises again with $26M box-office stake LOS ANGELES (AP) — Resurrected demons and resurrected dinosaurs are helping to put some life back into the weekend box office.

The demonic horror remake “Evil Dead” debuted at No. 1 with $26 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

In a tight fight for second-place were two holdovers, the animated comedy “The Croods” and the action flick “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” both with an estimated $21.1 million. Final numbers Monday will sort out which movie comes out ahead.

Steven Spielberg’s 3-D debut of his dinosaur blockbuster “Jurassic Park” came in fourth with $18.2 million.

That’s on top of the $357.1 million domestic haul for “Jurassic Park” in its initial run in 1993.

Released by Sony’s TriStar Pictures, “Evil Dead” added $4.5 million in 21 overseas markets, giving it a worldwide start of $30.5 million. Shot on a modest budget of $17 million, the movie is well on its way to turning a profit.

The remake was produced by the 1983 original’s filmmakers, director Sam Raimi and producer Rob Tapert, and its star, Bruce Campbell. The new “Evil Dead” lays the gore on thickly for the story of a group of friends terrorized and possessed by demons during a trip to a cabin in the woods.

“It’s one crazy ride, that movie. I have to think Sam Raimi is so proud in remaking this film that it turned out so well,” said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. “It’s such a visceral ride, where you’re holding on to your seat or holding on to the person next to you.”

Paramount’s “G.I. Joe” sequel, which had been No. 1 the previous weekend, pushed its domestic total to $86.7 million. The movie also added $40.2 million overseas for an international haul of $145.2 million and a worldwide take of $232 million.

“The Croods,” a DreamWorks

Animation release distributed by 20th Century Fox, raised its domestic total to $125.8 million after three weekends. Overseas, the movie did an additional $34.1 million to lift its international total to $206.8 million and its worldwide receipts to $333 million.

Universal Pictures’ “Jurassic Park” reissue opened in a similar range of other recent blockbuster 3-D releases such as “Titanic” ($17.3 million) and “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” ($22.4 million).

None of the new movies or holdovers came close to the domestic business being done a year ago by “The Hunger Games,” which led over the same weekend in 2012 with $33.1 million in its third weekend. But collectively, Hollywood had a winning lineup of movies that gave revenues a lift from last year.

Domestic receipts totaled $134 million, up 8.5 percent from the first weekend of April a year ago, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

That uptick comes after three-straight weekends of declining revenue and a quiet first quarter in which domestic business has totaled $2.47 billion, down 11.4 percent from the same point in 2012.

Hollywood set a record with $10.8 billion domestically last year, and 2013’s releases so far have been unable to match up. Studios are counting on a strong start to the summer season as “Iron Man 3” arrives the first weekend in May and such sequels as “Star Trek: Into Darkness,” ‘’The Hangover Part III” and “Fast & Furious 6” quickly follow.

The dresses hung on a pipe behind her juice stand and soon outsold her drinks. The company’s dresses, developed with the help of partner Laura Robbins, a former fashion editor, soon caught on.

“Lilly has been a true inspiration to us and we will miss her,”

according to a statement on the Lilly Pulitzer brand Facebook page.

“In the days and weeks ahead we will celebrate all that Lilly meant to us. Lilly was a true original who has brought together generations through her bright and happy mark on the world.”

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Records continue to fall after Texas Tech Open

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52.15 meters in the javelin throw, home,” she said, “especially in front breaking the previous school record of my friends and family as a senior at of 49.85 meters set in 1984. With her a home meet.”

On the men’s side, the stirring performance, Carson broke the facility record and performances did not stop. Senior made it to the fourth-best in jumper Bryce school history.

Lamb, who was the indoor triple Senior hurdler Katie jump NCAA Champion this Grimes was at it again Satyear, finished first urday as she with a 15.89-meter jump pushing broke the facility and her him up to No. 10 in the national own school record in the standings.

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Lamb said. “It’s nice to come home “It means a lot to break it at and get in front of our home crowd

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It was another weekend full of record breaking for the Texas Tech track and field team as it competed in its first outdoor home meet this season at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track and Field Complex.

Tech coach Wes Kittley said the athletes were more than happy to be competing at home and, with the high performance level seen this Saturday, it was obvious they felt the support from home.

“I’m excited to be at home,” he said. “We have such great performances here. If you look at the school records and results from last year, some of the best marks are from here at home. We love running and competing at home.”

After impressing at the Texas Relays, freshman thrower Hannah Carson shined again as she threw

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I’m excited to be at home. We have such great performances here.

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TEXAS TECH’S BRYCE Lamb lands in the sandpit during the triple jump competition at the Texas Tech Open on Saturday at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track. Lamb finished first in the competition with a jump of 52-1 3/4.

where we can have people that don’t travel with us every week and see us jump and run and everything.”

Sophomore Jacorian Duffield and freshman Bradley Adkins took

first and second place in the men’s high jump Saturday. Duffield was first with a clearance of 2.11 meters, and Adkins was second with a clearance of 2.06 meters.

The track and field team will have another chance to shine when they travel to Austin to compete at the UT Invitational April 13. ➤➤echappell@dailytoreador.com

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as the game continued.

“Over the course of the 90 minutes we got better,” he said. “It was good to kick somebody else around as opposed to ourselves.”

The Lady Raiders opened the scoring mark four minutes into the game, when Tech freshman Janine Beckie finished off a cross just inside the penalty area.

Beckie led the team in goals in the 2012 campaign, netting 14 while also earning Big 12 Rookie of the Year honors, All-

STAFF WRITER

After finishing the 2012 season with a 9-1-0 home record, the Texas Tech soccer team continued its strong run of form at home, beginning the spring season by defeating West Texas A&M, 3-0, on Friday.

Tech coach Tom Stone said his team showed signs of rustiness because of the long break in which the team had not played a real game, but slowly progressed to full form

Big 12 first team honors, and was named to the second team in All-American selection.

After the opening goal, the Lady Raiders seemed content with the scoreline playing against the wind, preferring to keep possession and not allowing the Lady Buffs many touches on the ball.

Tech had a 1-0 lead against its opposition heading into the half, when it opted to use the wind to its advantage in the second half, Tech junior midfielder

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Hayley Haagsma said.

“We just had to bear with the weather,” she said. “Having the wind in the second half really helped us.”

With the wind on their side in the second half, the Lady Raiders played multiple balls down the wings, using the full width of the field, spreading out the opposition.

In the 58th minute, Tech sophomore midfielder Erin Inman powered home a shot from just outside the box to put the Lady Raiders up 2-0.

Following its second goal of the afternoon, Tech added a third goal eight minutes later when Tech freshman forward Briana Rohmer scored in the 66th minute, hitting the post twice before finally netting home.

Although West Texas A&M was able to get more possession in the second half, they were unable to do much with it when Tech held the Lady Buffs to just two shots on goal.

Throughout much of the match, Tech played with only two in the back, preferring

to push its fullbacks into attack.

Although the Lady Raiders shut out their opposition, Stone said he does not care much about the result, rather their performance, which he was pleased with.

Stone also said he plans to use the remaining spring matches to prepare the younger players for the 2013 Fall season. “ This is a time of the year for the freshmen to get their time and get their chance,” he said. “I thought they did well (today).” ➤➤msuniga@dailytoreador.com

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Men’s tennis loses both weekend games

By JORDON LEGENDRE STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech men’s tennis team was defeated by two teams ranked in the top 25 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association tennis rankings during weekend play at the McLeod Tennis Center.

The Red Raiders, ranked No. 38, fell to No. 22 Tulsa 4-3 on Friday before losing their conference opener to No. 15 Baylor 6-1 on Sunday.

“I’m proud of these guys,” Tech coach Tim Siegel said of his team’s performance. “We have a lot of young guys, and when you play the level of competition we do, it’s going to be like this every game.”

Tech began Friday’s match against Tulsa by taking the double’s point when the team of Vitor Manzini and Gabriel Dias defeated Alejandro Espejo and Clifford Marsland 9-8 (8-6).

Red Raider Hugo Dojas would open scoring in the singles competition, beating Tristan Jackson 6-1, 6-3. Playing in the No. 4 position, Raphael Pfister defeated Tulsa’s Alejandro Espejo 6-3, 6-3 to give Tech a 3-0 lead in the match.

“Even though we were up 3-0,” Sie-

gel said, “I never felt that it was a given that we would win the next match because we were down in all of them.”

Tulsa’s Grant Ive defeated Felipe Soares 6-4, 6-4 to give his team its first point of the match. In the No. 1 position, Clifford Marsland defeated Tech’s Manzini 7-5, 6-1. Red Raider Gabriel Dias could not overcome Japie De Klerk, losing 6-4, 7-5.

With the match tied 3-3, Tulsa’s No. 5 player, Carlos Bautista, defeated Francisco Zambon 7-6, 6-3 to give Tulsa the 4-3 victory.

“At no. 1, we had a set point in the first set,” Siegel said. “At No. 2, we had a set point in the second set and, at Nos. 3 and 5, we led 4-2 in both sets.

The fact that we didn’t get any of those sets killed us.”

Baylor began Sunday’s Big 12 opener with an 8-3 victory for the team of Tony Lupieri and Julian Lenz. An 8-5 win for Patrick Pradella and Roberto Maytin secured the doubles point for the Bears.

In singles play, Tech quickly tied the match with Hugo Dojas 6-2, 6-2 victory against Roberto Maytin. Baylor’s Tony Lupieri scored a 6-2, 6-2 win against Pfister. In the No. 5 position, Baylor’s

Diego Galeano defeated Francisco Zambon 7-5, 6-3, to give Baylor a 3-1 lead in the match.

Tech’s Dias lost the first set of his match with Lenz 3-6, but responded with a 6-2 victory in the second to send the match to a third set. During the third, Dias won the first two games before Lenz took control. Lenz won six consecutive games to take the set 6-2, the match 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, and give his team the victory.

“I think our youth at 2 and 3, unfortunately, came to light,” Siegel said.

“They lost focus and composure for a little bit and that’s all it takes for a team like Baylor.”

In the remaining matches, Baylor’s Lenz defeated Dias 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 and Patrick Pradella defeated Manzini 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (13-11).

“Certainly, this was a match that could have gone 4-3, 5-2,” Siegel said.

“It was much closer than the score, but Baylor deserved to win. They were the better team today.”

Siegel said his team is continuing to focus on achieving postseason play.

“We’ve got four opportunities left against OSU, OU, TCU, and Texas,” he said. “If we get two of those four,

PHOTO BY LAUREN PAPE/The Daily Toreador

FRANCISCO ZAMBON RETURNS a serve during a singles tennis match against Baylor on Sunday at the Don and Ethel McLeod Tennis Center.

we’re in the tournament, and we’ll make darn sure we’re ready for it.”

The Red Raiders return to action against Oklahoma State at 6 p.m. Friday

at the McLeod Tennis Center. ➤➤jlegendre@dailytoreador.com

Michigan downs Syracuse 61-56 in NCAA semifinal ATLANTA (AP) — Michigan is more than just five fabulous players.

No, this is quite a team — all the way down the roster.

Fearlessly attacking Syracuse’s suffocating zone in the first half, getting big contributions off the bench, and hanging on for dear life at the end, the Wolverines advanced to the national championship game with a 61-56 victory over the Orange in the Final Four on Saturday night.

So put away those comparisons to the Fab Five.

This group of young stars is determined to leave its own legacy.

“We’ve been a team all year,” said coach John Beilein, whose Wolverines were playing in the Final Four for the first time since 1993, when the

Fab Five lost for the second straight time in the national title game. “It was great.”

Michigan (31-7) will be going for its first national title since 1989 when it faces Louisville on Monday at the Georgia Dome. Syracuse (3010) failed to complete an all-Big East final in the fabled league’s last season before a major overhaul.

Louisville was established as a 4½-point title game favorite.

Don’t expect that to bother the brash young Wolverines a bit. They showed they could win even when their best weapon, Associated Press player of the year Trey Burke, was having a really ugly night.

He scored just seven points on 1-of-8 shooting.

“We know Trey is our leader, and sometimes he’s not going to have a game like he’s had all season,” said Tim Hardaway Jr., who led Michigan with 13 points. “That’s when our team stepped up.”

Trailing 58-56, the Orange had a chance to force overtime. But Brandon Triche was called for a foul when Jordan Morgan stepped in to take the charge with 19.2 seconds left.

“Jordan is our best charge-taker,” Beilein said. “He stood in there and took a good one.”

After Jon Horford made only one of two free throws, Syracuse called timeout and set up a play. Curiously, the Orange didn’t attempt a tying 3-pointer. Instead, Trevor Cooney drove the lane looking to put up an

easier shot. But the ball was swatted away, Michigan saved it from going out of bounds and Morgan wound up taking a long pass the other way.

He threw down a thunderous slam with just over a second remaining to cap the triumph.

Triche blamed himself for driving the ball recklessly into the lane when Syracuse had a chance to tie it.

“I was just trying to make a play for the team,” he said. “I probably should have made a better decision, probably should have pulled up for the jump shot. ... I did see him, but I figured, I was already in the air jumping.”

With Burke struggling to get open looks and misfiring even when he did, Michigan got an unexpected contri-

bution off the bench from freshmen Caris LeVert and Spike Albrecht.

LeVert scored eight points and Albrecht chipped in with six — all of them crucial after the Wolverines went cold in the second half and struggled to put away the Orange.

“We had a lot of guys in there,” Beilein said. “You never know who the outlier is, you never know who’s going to come in and get that done.”

Of course, there’s nothing unusual about Michigan getting big performances from first-year players. This team starts three freshmen — Glenn Robinson III, Mitch McGary and Nik Stauskas — which, of course, rekindles memories of the great Fab Five teams.

These kids want nothing to do

with the comparisons, saying they haven’t done nearly enough to be mentioned in the same breath with a team that changed the face of college basketball.

Well, if the Wolverines can win their next game, they’ll accomplish something that eluded the Fab Five: a national title.

Syracuse was looking to give 68-year-old Jim Boeheim another title, a decade after the Orange won it all in their last trip to the Final Four.

Boeheim has no plans to retire, but his quest for a championship is on hold for another year.

“I told you I’m not going to answer that question unless you ask that of every coach,” Boeheim snapped at a reporter when asked about his future.