WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2021 VOLUME 95 ■ ISSUE 30
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Dean retires after 54 years at Tech
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Associate Professor of Public Relations Bill Dean laughs at a student’s story about him during the 2020 Texas Tech PR Showdown event at noon, Sunday, March 1, 2020, in the College of Media & Communication. Dean’s retirement from full-time teaching in the college became effective on June 1, 2021.
By MALLORY ROSETTA Editor-In-Chief
Students in the Texas Tech College of Media & Communication have come and gone throughout the years, but they mostly have one thing in common: They have taken Foundations of Media and Communications, MCOM 1300, with Bill Dean. Dean has been an associate professor of mass communications in the College of Media & Communication for 54 years. He has taught MCOM 1300 for as long as he has been here and has had around 40,000 to 50,000 students filter through his class. However, his career at Tech began long before he was an associate professor. “I attended Texas Tech on a baseball scholarship and a journalism scholarship. I ended up majoring in marketing and graduated in 1961,” Dean said. Dean was involved on campus during his time at Tech. He said
he was the student government president in 1961 and involved in his fraternity. After he graduated, he went into the service for six months of active duty with a fiveor six-year obligation. Once his active duty was complete, Dean said he got a job at his alma mater, Lubbock High School, teaching journalism and serving as the director of student publications. He was excited about this opportunity considering he had been involved in the high school’s newspaper and had gone to Tech on a journalism scholarship. In 1966, Dean said he was contacted by Howard Price, his former principal at Lubbock High, and was offered a job as the director of student activities at the new high school, Coronado. Although the job required a good amount of dedication, Dean said he enjoyed the job. “When you’re in that kind of a job where you are responsible for the newspaper and the yearbook, you spent a heck of a lot of time at school,” he said. “But, I loved every
minute of (the job); it was some of the happiest days I’ve ever had. I had great students. Thoroughly enjoyed the job at Coronado.” In January of 1967, Dean was contacted by Tech and offered the job of director of student publications. Dean started the position in February of 1967 and was in charge of La Ventana yearbook and The Daily Toreador for 11 years. He also began teaching MCOM 1300. After that, Dean was offered a position as the executive director of the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association, currently known as the Alumni Association, which he did for 40 years before retiring in 2018. He continued to teach and decided to retire from this position effective June 1, 2021. Ultimately, Dean said he retired because of how COVID-19 has affected the way classes in the 202021 school year were set up. “This COVID thing has been a pain. They moved me over to the Allen Theater in the (Student Union Building) to teach so they
can enroll more students, but it was not a really good situation,” he said. “I could tell by the emails I was getting that they were not listening, they were not paying attention, you know, and I tried my best to accommodate that. But the strain of that plus, you know … (teaching) requires a lot of preparation. It takes a lot of time and effort. But I think just a combination of things.” The dean of the College of Media & Communication and Dean decided together that Dean only would teach one course in the fall 2021 semester, MCOM 1300. Besides that, Dean said he is going to look for some volunteer opportunities around Lubbock to get involved with. Some things Dean said he is looking forward to post-retirement are not having to deal with the pressure of teaching four classes, not having to be organized all the time and not having to be places at a certain time. Dean said he thinks Tech is
a great institution and the best place for someone to get an undergraduate degree. Although the last 54 years have had their ups and downs, he has loved every minute of it. Faith plays a role in Dean’s life, and he said it has helped him get through tough spots and stay positive throughout his years at Tech. “I always thought I might want to teach. Now my degree was in marketing, but … towards the end I thought, you know, ‘I’m going to take some education courses.’ And I had an education professor, his name was Dr. Kerry Southall …. He said, and I remember this, to this day, he said, ‘Just remember, if you’re a teacher and you start teaching, just remember, you’re teaching students, not just subjects,” he said. That’s pretty good advice. And I’ve tried to keep that in mind. So, I think the experience has been a very good one, and a very satisfying one, and I feel good about it.” @MRosettaDT
CITY OF LUBBOCK
Lubbock to be a sanctuary city for the unborn By MATEO ROSILES
Managing & News Editors Lubbock is set to become a sanctuary city for the unborn on June 1 and with the recent lawsuit from Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas being filed on May 17, Lubbock has come a long way with this ordinance. Sen. Charles Perry of District 28 announced in August that he wanted to make Lubbock a sanctuary city for the unborn. On Sept. 9, 2020, Perry hosted a news conference in Lubbock at a local church. During the conference, Perry said abortion is still defined as murder. “If this ordinance were passed today, how is it taking away, how’s it creating an undue burden for women seeking abortions when there’s zero abortions happening here right
now,” said Mark Lee Dickson, author of the ordinance. For context, Planned Parenthood closed in Lubbock in 2013 and announced in August 2020 it would reopen later in the year. The Ordinance The ordinance is broken up into several sections with the first being the findings of the ordinance. The first finding of the ordinance states that Texas never got rid of its statues about abortion that were in place before Roe v. Wade. The ordinance states that in Texas, abortion is still a criminal offense. “The Supreme Court’s pronouncements in Roe v. Wade and subsequent cases may limit the ability of State officials to impose penalties on those who violate the Texas abortion statutes, but they do not veto or erase
the statutes themselves, which continue to exist as the law of Texas until they are repealed by the legislature that enacted them,” the ordinance states. The ordinance also states that abortion is defined as murder due to abortion not being deemed as a “lawful medical procedure” under Texas law unless the life of the mother is in danger. The ordinance then goes on to declare Lubbock as a sanctuary city for the unborn and that abortion be declared as murder. Opposing Legal Opinion Before the ordinance could be brought to the Lubbock City Council to be voted on, a petition with 25 percent of registered voters in the city, per the Lubbock City Charter, must be obtained.
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On Nov. 17, 2020, demonstrators gather outside the Citizens Tower, located on 1314 Avenue K, to voice their opinions on Lubbock voting to become a sanctuary city for the unborn. The city council unanimously voted against the ordinance later that night; however, the citizens voted to adopt the ordinance on May 1, 2021, in a city wide election.
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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The Lubbock City Council also received a legal brief from Olson & Olson, LLP regarding the validity of the proposed ordinance. The legal brief states that the abortion statutes cited in the ordinance were nullified after the legislature recodified the statutes. The legal brief further cites John Hill, former attorney general of Texas, saying that the former abortion statutes were no longer valid. In his Aug. 13, 1974, opinion to a criminal district attorney, Hill says that Roe v. Wade declared Texas’s abortion statues unconstitutional. “Articles 1191, 1192, 1193, 1194 and 1196, Texas ’ Penal Code, have been held unconstitutional and are no longer of any effect. Article 1195 is still a valid statute but applies only to those situations in which the victim is in the process of being born. Therefore, there are now no laws in this state regulating abortion, per se,” Hill said. In closing his opinion, Hill states that proposed legislation “must conform to the guidelines” set forth by the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v.. Wade. The legal brief further states that the ordinance is inconsistent with the Con-
stitution of the United States and Texas’s Constitution. Even though the Texas Legislature did not explicitly repeal the statutes that were cited in the ordinance still makes it inconsistent with present laws in Texas. “The Proposed Ordinance cannot be interpreted in a way that harmonizes it with Texas law and it is, therefore, void,” according to the legal brief. City Council The ordinance received enough signatures to be brought to the city council for a vote. On Nov. 17, 2020 at 5:05 p.m. the Lubbock City Council convened for their regularly-scheduled meeting to vote on the Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance at Citizens Tower, on 1314 Avenue K, in downtown Lubbock. The council heard over five hours of public comments during the public hearing portion of the meeting pertaining to the ordinance from both that opposed or supported the ordinance. After hearing citizen’s comments, council members responded. Councilwoman for District 6, Latrell Joy spoke on how the ordinance was a political stunt for Sen. Perry and that the ordinance was unconstitutional. Several of the there council member spoke on how they felt about the ordinance while also
NEWS thanking for the citizens voicing their opinions Mayor Dan Pope called a vote at the end of the meeting. The ordinance failed with a 0-7 vote in favor of the ordinance. With the vote failing, the committee that obtained the signatures requested that the citizens be able to vote on the ordinance. May 1 Election After obtaining the necessary signatures, the ordinance was put on the ballot of the May 1 election. There were a total of 34,301 votes cast during the election, according to the city resolution certifying the elections. 21,427 votes were cast in favor of the ordinance and 12,874 were cast in opposition. Mayor Dan Pope released a statement that night saying he and the city council will do their duty as elected officials and that the ordinance would go into effect as early as June 1. “Over the course of several months, Lubbock citizens who support the ordinance and those opposed have expressed their thoughts in public forums and engaged in passionate debate on this sensitive issue. Today, voters made it clear that Lubbock will become the next sanctuary city for the unborn. I am encouraged by the significant voter turnout,” said Pope, according to the statement released by the City of Lubbock. Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, Inc. released a statement on May 3 saying it is reviewing the ordinance to see the impact it has on abortion services in the City of Lubbock. It also states that Planned Parenthood will remain open in Lubbock for patients seeking care for sexually transmitted infections and teen pregnancy. “For more than 85 years Texans have trusted Planned Parenthood for affordable, expert healthcare services including breast and cervical cancer screenings; HIV tests; testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection; PrEP and PEP medication to prevent HIV transmission; all FDA-approved birth control (including IUDs and implants); treatment for urinary tract and vaginal infections; annual well visits; HPV vaccines, flu vaccines and other essential healthcare services,” according to Planned Parenthood’s statement. The Lawsuit Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services and Dr. G. Sealy Massingill, M.D. filed a lawsuit on May 17 in the Lubbock Division of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Dr. Massingill is the chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of Great Texas and serves in the Lubbock office, according to the lawsuit. The City of Lubbock re-
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TOP: Demonstrators gather outside of the Citizens Tower, located on 1314 Avenue K, to voice their opinions on Lubbock voting to become a sanctuary city for the unborn to the city council on Nov. 17, 2020. Lubbock Division of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas will have a hearing on June 4 to hear the lawsuite filed by Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Surgical Health Services and Dr. G. Sealy Massingill, M.D. BOTTOM: High schoolers Mikel Graham and Clarissa Morales voice their support for Planned Parenthood outside the Citizens Tower on Nov. 17, 2020. leased a statement on May 17 saying that Heather Hacker and Andrew Stephens of Hacker Stephens LLP of Austin and Fernando Bustos of Bustos Law Firm, P.C., Lubbock will represent the city. “The city will vigorously defend this ordinance and looks forward to presenting that defense in court,” according to the statement. According to the lawsuit, there is not a medical provider that provides abortion services within 300 miles of the City of Lubbock. It further states that the ordinance infringes on “the constitutional right to abortion.” The lawsuit contains three claims within it. 1. Due Process Clause — “The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to abortion before viability. Binding precedent of the Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit establishes that laws banning previability abortion are categorically unconstitutional,”
according to the lawsuit. 2. State Law - Ultra Vires — Texas laws do not allow cities the power to make civil liability between private parties. The ordinance, in doing so, acts outside its legal authority. 3. State Law - Preemption — The ordinance is inconsistent with laws set forth by the state legislature. The ordinance violates that two-year statute of limitation and the narrow class of plaintiffs, subjecting those who help with abortions to criminal penalties, Texas’s health code allowing licensed physicians to perform abortions and Texas’s homicide and wrongful death statues. Planned Parenthood of Great Texas is asking for the courts to declare the ordinance invalid under the Fourteenth Amendment and Texas law, stopping the city from enacting and enforcing the ordinance, pay for the attorney’s fees and any other relief the court sees fit to award. The court set a hearing date for Friday, June 4 with
U.S. Judge James Hendrix presiding. On May 31, a letter from the Attorney General of Texas office was sent to Judge Hendrix in saying the courts “should abstain from exercising jurisdiction.” @MateoRosilesDT
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Nov. 1, 2020 — City of Lubbock’s city council vote’s no on the purposed ordinance. May 1, 2021— City of Lubbock’s citizens vote in favor of to approve the ordinanace. May 15, 2021 — Planned Parenthood files lawsuite against the city. June 1, 2021 — City becomes a sancturary city for the unborn and abortions are banned within the city limits. June 4, 2021 — Court to have a hearing on the lawsuit.
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Students reach Sevilla after COVID-19 closures By ARIANNA FLORES Copy Editor
COVID-19 has canceled a year’s worth of study abroad trips but on May 18, the Study Abroad program sent the first group of students since the pandemic began to the Texas Tech University Center in Sevilla to complete their coursework. The three summer programs in Spain are engineering, sociology and global terrorism and Spanish. Senior Study Abroad counselor Lanna Sheldon said the students have explored the City of Sevilla and completed orientations for their particular programs. “This is the first group of students that Tech has sent out [abroad] and the study abroad office as well as the students who have pursued these opportunities for several semesters have put in a lot of effort, work and organization into their semesters abroad,” Sheldon said. “[Students] are very happy to finally be there and we [the study abroad office] are equally happy to support them as they travel abroad.” No one abroad is required to have the COVID-19 vaccine; however, all students and faculty on the international trip are required to follow all Spanish laws including the guidelines regarding the global pandemic. “What we are seeing is that the countries and locations that students have chosen for their study abroad programs often times have stricter COVID protocols, policies and procedures than what we are currently expe-
riencing here on campus or in the state of Texas in general,” said Whitney Longnecker, director of Study Abroad. The Spanish protocols include a nation-wide mask mandate for both indoor and outdoor public spaces, social distancing among groups and a limited capacity in events.
This is something that Texas Tech University takes very seriously; the health and safety of our students is our utmost concern.
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Katherine Mote, a chemical engineering major from Andrews, is one of the students in the engineering study abroad group. Mote said she and her fellow students wear masks everywhere except their host families’ home. Exploring a big city is a surprise to her. “It’s really interesting [to see Spain] since I have never lived in a big city and also a city like this is very compact, very vertical; like there are no house it’s all apartments and buildings,” Mote said. “Everyone walks everywhere and it’s just really interesting living in such a compact space.” One impact COVID-19 has had on the program is the amount of tourism within Sevilla has been
limited, meaning students can avoid crowds. “The city itself is usually full of tourist and right now our students are able to go out and about freely and enjoy the city without all the crowds,” Sheldon said. “Things are still open, like museums and monuments and [students] are able to have a really wonderful experience that no other student group has ever had just because there are not as many of tourists in the city.” Some courses in Sevilla are offered through a hybrid model to help accommodate social distancing guidelines and allow students to see what Spain has to offer. “Other than a much lighter course load [while abroad], the classes and the professors are really geared towards your experience here in Spain,” Mote said. “The professors understand that you need to go out and explore. The professors have also been here multiple summers so they can tell you places to go and sights to see.” For students who wish to study abroad, Long necker said the study abroad decision-making process takes about a year in advance to plan out; therefore, those interested should reach out to a study abroad counselor for information on future travels. “We definitely recognize that there could be some anxiety or hesitation over international travel at this time because of the on-going pandemic,” Longnecker said. “To students, families and others who may be supporting their study abroad jour-
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Men’s golf team eliminated in NCAA Championship By NICO SANCHEZ Sports Editor
The Red Raider men’s golf team was eliminated from the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship tournament after the team finished in 11th place on Monday in Scottsdale, Arizona. Only the top eight finishers at the event moved on to the quarterfinals round. This was Tech’s 13th tournament appearance, according to Tech Athletics. They made it this season after a their time on the course at the Regional Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tech was leading the tournament at the conclusion of the first day. After day one, all five Red Raider participants were ranked in the top-50 individually. They were the only team in the tournament to reach that mark that early. Swedish sophomore Ludvig Aberg led the Red Raiders after day one, finishing two-under par. To that point in the tournament, Aberg was in fifth place individually. His teammates, freshman Baard Skogen and senior Andy Lopez, were just behind Aberg after
day one with scores of oneunder par. Senior Kyle Hogan, who individually won the first career collegiate tournament victory of his career this season at the Maridoe Collegiate Invitational in Carrollton, shot even par on day one. Hogan later would be subbed out for freshman J.P. Roller on the final day of the tournament. In his one day of action, Roller shot 14-over par. He had been serving as an alternate for the first few rounds of the tournament. In the end, Aberg finished his time in Scottsdale having shot one-under par, which earned him an eighth-place individual finish. He was the only Red Raider to finish under par. Behind Aberg, sophomore Garrett Martin finished the tournament with a final score of six-over par, and Lopez finished 13-over par. Each golfer played 72 holes in Scottsdale. The Red Raiders tied with the Arkansas Razorbacks for an 11th overall finish after the team as a whole shot 5-over par on the final day. Their overall score was 33-over par across their four rounds of competition.
Aberg’s best day of the tournament was his final day. On Monday, he shot four-under par to finish the day at his, aforementioned, one-under score for the entire tournament. His final scorecard was 68-76-69-66 – 279. Following his playoff performance, Aberg was named a PING First Team All-American by the Golf Coaches Association of America for his outstanding and consistent play over the course of the year. Over the course of the 2020-2021 season, Aberg notched nine different top10 finishes in just 11 total events. He is now the fourth Red Raider ever to be named to the First Team, and his selection is the sixth ever. Former Red Raider Oscar Floren was named to the team three consecutive seasons from 2004-2006. That is why Aberg’s selection is sixth all-time. This award will add to Aberg’s already established resume of being a Ben Hogan Award semifinalist and having an individual win at the 2021 Jones Cup Invitational. Besides Aberg, Oklahoma State’s Eugenio Chacarra and Texas’ Pierceson Coody were the other two
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all, they were eliminated from the rest of the tournament, as only the top-eight finishers would move on to the next round. Of the eight teams that advanced to the quarterfinals, two of them are from the Big 12. The Oklahoma State Cowboys have entered the next round as a No. 2 seed and the Oklahoma Sooners will enter as a No. 4 seed. Besides those two schools, the Vanderbilt Commodores, Pepperdine Waves,
Florida State Seminoles, North Carolina Tar Heels, Arizona State Sun Devils and Illinois Fighting Illini all round out the top eight. Tech will head into the summer having finished in the top half of its tournaments and finished fifth in the Big 12 Tournament. Most of the current roster is expected to return next season. Most of the current roster is expected to return next season @NicoSanchezDT
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Japan’s vaccine push ahead of summer 2021 Olympics looks to be too late It may be too little, too late. That's the realization sinking in as Japan scrambles to catch up on a frustratingly slow vaccination drive less than two months before the Summer Olympics, delayed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, are scheduled to start. The Olympics risk becoming an incubator for “a Tokyo
variant,” as 15,000 foreign athletes and tens of thousands officials, sponsors and journalists from about 200 countries descend on — and potentially mix with — a largely unvaccinated Japanese population, said Dr. Naoto Ueyama, a physician, head of the Japan Doctors Union. With infections in Tokyo and other heavily populated
areas currently at high levels and hospitals already under strain treating serious cases despite a state of emergency, experts have warned there is little slack in the system. Even if the country succeeds in meeting its goal of fully vaccinating all 36 million elderly by the end of July — already a week into the Games — about 70% of
the population would not be inoculated. And many have dismissed the target as overly optimistic anyway. To meet it, Japan is vowing to soon start administering 1 million doses daily. It currently is only giving 500,000 per day, already a big improvement after Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on military doctors and nurses
and started making legal exceptions to recruit other vaccinators in order to boost the drive. “Vaccinations under the current pace are not going to help prevent infections during the Olympics,” Tokyo Medical Association Chairman Haruo Ozaki said. “The Olympics can trigger a global spread of different variants of the virus.”
The International Olympic Committee says more than 80% of athletes and staff staying in the Olympic Village on Tokyo Bay will be vaccinated — and they are expected to remain largely in a bubble at the village and venues. On Tuesday, Japan started vaccinating athletes who will go to the Games, the Japanese Olympic Committee said.