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TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 2013 VOLUME 88 ■ ISSUE 51
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Defense struggles in loosing streak By EVERETT CORDER Staff Writer
It wasn’t until the eighth game of the season that the Red Raiders were handed their first loss, but now they have two in a row and there has been a common theme to the two games. In Saturday’s loss against Oklahoma State, Texas Tech gave up 281 rushing yards, which is the most it has in a single game all season. Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said he thinks there were some missed tackles during the game and the defense needs to stop trying to always make huge plays and focus more on the basics.
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Planned Parenthood appeals ruling By CATHERINE MCKEE NeWS editor
After a third of the Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas closed because of new restrictions on abortions, the organization asked the Supreme Court to place the provisions on hold. Lubbock’s Planned Parenthood was one of those clinics forced to close Friday when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the restrictions. The case originally was tried by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel, who ruled the restrictions served no medical purpose, according to an article in The Associated Press.
House Bill 2, which was approved during the summer, granted four restrictions for abortions performed in Texas, according to the article. The first of the restrictions requires doctors to have admitting privileges at hospital within 30 miles of the clinic to perform the operation. The second bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the woman’s health is in danger. The third restriction requires a doctor to be present when a woman takes an abortioninducing pill, and the fourth mandates all abortion clinics meet the requirements of an ambulatory surgical center, according to the article.
With about 80,000 women undergoing abortions each year, according to the article, Heather Busby, executive director of nonprofit, nonpartisan NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, said the restrictions will negatively affect women in Texas. “I think that the closure of the Lubbock clinic is going to greatly affect Texas Tech students, both those that are seeking abortion or seeking family-planning care,” she said. “They’re going to have to travel long distances, they’ll have to miss classes, miss work, and I imagine that many of them won’t have the resources to be able to do that, especially if they have to go for more
Delta After Dark
WBC plans to protest before Baylor game The Westboro Baptist Church will picket before the Texas Tech vs. Baylor University football game at AT&T Stadium in Dallas on Nov. 16, according to the WBC’s website. The protest is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Based in Topeka, Kan., WBC is against homosexuality. The church compares homosexuals to Nazis and usually uses controversial signs to picket, according to the website. WBC believes both universities promote homosexuality, according to the website, and church members compared the universities to Sodom and Gomorrah. WBC is picketing to tell fans the God who destroyed ➤➤cwilson@dailytoreador.com
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Tri Delta members raise funds for St. Jude’s By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer
At one of Tri Delta’s philanthropic events, Delta After Dark, the sorority members worked to raise funds for St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital with barbecue, fire pits, members of other Greek organizations and country singer Hunter Hutchinson. The night started early with hundreds of students filing through the Tri Delta sorority’s backyard at Greek Circle on Monday night. Alexandra Perez, a junior nursing major from Austin, said this is Tri Delta’s third year hosting the event. Perez, Tri Delta’s philanthropic chairwoman, said she was in charge of organizing all the philanthropic events for Tri Delta. “Basically, what we do, is we sell Rudy’s Barbeque sandwiches,” she said. “We cook s’mores and have live Texas country music from Hunter Hutchinson.” As well as food and music, Perez said the sorority had raffles to give away $100 to Chimy’s, as well as another $100 to Southwest Airlines. Everyone comes out, she said, to have a good time, roast marshmallows and listen to country music. “The atmosphere we try to have,” Perez said, “is just a laid-back night in Texas with fire and friends, and it’s all to raise money for St. Jude.”
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THE DELTA SINGERS perform a song during Delta After Dark on Monday at Greek Circle.
Jennifer Thompson, a Tri Delta and a sophomore early childhood education major from Rowlett, said students were gathered at the event to raise money for the cancer patients at the hospital. It’s a good time, she said, not only for her and her sisters to bond, but also to raise
money for their philanthropy. “It’s so important,” Thompson said, “because first, we only have a couple of philanthropic events each year, and this is one of the biggest ones.” DELTA continued on Page 3 ➤➤
than one trip or stay overnight.” With the closing of the Lubbock Planned Parenthood, Busby said students will have to travel to San Antonio, Dallas and El Paso for abortions, and getting appointments at the remaining clinics will become more difficult. This, she said, will push women further along in their pregnancies and the law, which was instated to secure the safety of women, will work against them. Ultimately, students and women in Texas may decide to take abortions into their own hands, Busby said. RULING continued on Page 2 ➤➤
Employees donate to campaign The Oct. 31 deadline to make a pledge of donations marked the end of this year’s Texas Tech State Employee Charitable Campaign. According to an email from President M. Duane Nellis, the university set a $441,000 goal to divide among more than 500 organizations on campus. As of Monday, the campaign raised a total of $451,531.13, David Abercia, manager for the campaign, said. According to its website, the campaign is a statewide annual giving campaign Tech participates in each year, and the university raised more than $752,000 in 2012. The campaign also offered door prizes for donors based on how much was donated. Those who donated $1,000 or more were entered to win an autographed Kliff Kingsbury football, those who donated 1 percent of their annual salary were entered to win an autographed Tubby Smith basketball, and those who donated one hour’s pay were entered to win an autographed Candace Whitaker basketball. Other prizes were available based on when the donation was made. September donor Jared Burgoon won two tickets and a parking pass to the football game versus Iowa State, and September donor Isabel Williams won two tickets and a parking pass to the football game versus Oklahoma State. October donors had the chance to win two tickets and a parking pass to the president’s suite for a nonconference basketball game and two tickets and a parking pass for the football game versus Kansas State. All donors were entered to win a set of official Tech ornaments from 1997 to 2013. ➤➤nculver@dailytoreador.com
Cold front to hit Lubbock dropping nighttime temperatures to 20s By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer
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Texas Tech students, faculty and staff will bundle up as a cold front moves through Lubbock on Wednesday. “Typically that’s what we expect to see this time of year once we get later into the fall,” Brian Ancell, an associate professor in geosciences, said. The cold front is caused by a highpressure system that is building to the north where there is a ridge in the jetstream, he said. The front comes from the Rockies and will bring cold air and, most likely, the coldest overnight temperatures of the season. Matt Ziebell, a forecaster at the National Weather Service, said the service is expecting a cold front to start
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tonight that will not be all that intense and will have temperatures about 10 degrees below the normal daytime temperatures. There is a high chance of precipitation and there probably will be some showers and storms, he said. The worst of the chilly temperatures will come late Wednesday night. “Daytime will be pleasant, but certainly Wednesday night will be the coldest,” Ziebell said. Overnight Wednesday to Thursday morning will have lows in the upper 20 degrees in the city, Ancell said. Claire Criss, a freshman journalism major from Dallas, said the cold air will cause her to hide out in her residence hall room and focus on homework. “It’s kind of a good excuse to do my
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homework because I don’t really want to go out,” she said. Criss said she also will drink hot chocolate to try and stay warm and that she has three boxes of hot chocolate in her room. The freeze will take place about the average time it occurs annually, but differs from last year as it was the second-earliest freeze in Lubbock’s history and took place during the first week of October, Ziebell said. The keys to have cold air during nighttime include being dry, having no wind and no clouds, and that’s what is happening Wednesday night, Ancell said. “Simply bundle up more, make sure you at least have some proper head gear — that’s probably the biggest
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thing people don’t plan on is covering their heads up because that’s where the majority of heat is lost,” Ziebell said. Elyse Hyatt, a freshman chemistry major from Lavernia, said she will embrace the cold weather and also will drink hot chocolate to stay warm. “I think some people will choose not to go to class in the morning because it is so cold,” she said. Criss agreed that students will not be as effective and might not attend class with the cold conditions. “It makes me just want to hunker down and watch television, watch Netflix,” she said. There is a high chance of rain, but Ziebell laughed at the chance of snow coming to Lubbock anytime soon. ➤➤tdorner@dailytoreador.com
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