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College of Education offers new options The Texas Tech College of Education is now offering three new program options that allow for a minor in coaching.

The programs, according to the College of Education website, are multidisciplinary studies math with a minor in coaching, multidisciplinary studies science with a minor in coaching and multidisciplinary science with a minor in coaching.

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Texas woman settles lawsuit over dagger HOUSTON (AP) — A former Internal Revenue Service worker in Houston has settled a federal lawsuit that alleged she was fired for insisting she be allowed to wear a three-inch ceremonial dagger sacred to her faith.

Kawaljeet Tagore began wearing a miniature blunt-edged dagger after becoming a member of the Sikh faith in 2005.

The blade, required to be worn by Sikh members, represents resistance to evil and defense of truth.

Tagore has initially worn a 9-inch blade but later began wearing a 3-inch one in an effort to address safety concerns.

Tagore, 41, was terminated from her job in 2006, after federal officials couldn’t reach a compromise with her over safety concerns they had about the blade, known as a kirpan, the Houston Chronicle reported.

The settlement, announced Thursday in the 2009 lawsuit, removes Tagore’s firing from her record. It also allows Tagore to enter federal buildings with the blade for three years. Tagore can’t seek reemployment with the IRS, but she can look for work with other federal agencies.

“Sikh Americans shouldn’t have to choose between their faith and their jobs,” said Daniel Blomberg, an attorney with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which helped Tagore.

“The government doesn’t get to say that sharp knives are OK if they are brought in to cut birthday cakes, but dull kirpans aren’t OK because they are religious items,” he said. “The settlement confirms that religious freedom is not a second-class right.”

In the settlement, the Federal Protective Services, which oversees security in federal buildings, agreed to educate its employees about the kirpan’s significance.

Earlier this year, 12 major American Sikh advocacy groups sent letters to President Barack Obama and then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calling for Tagore’s reinstatement to her IRS job.

Tagore currently works as a selfemployed tax consultant.

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Jacobson: PoliTech video speaks to student shortcomings

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LEFT: ALEX GONZALES, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Ingleside, performs a “heel hook” as he works a route last weekend with the Texas Tech Climbing Club at Milton Reimer’s Ranch. RIGHT, BOTTOM: DANIEL Frashier, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Allen, is lowered down after completing a route last weekend with the Texas Tech Climbing Club at Milton Reimer’s Ranch.

Tech climbing club offers students learning, fun

By LIANA SOLIS Staff Writer

The Lubbock area is known for being flat and not having nearby tall mountains or cliffs.

The Texas Tech climbing club offers students the chance to travel to different parts of the state and country to experience outdoor rock climbing.

Tayler Mitchell, a senior communication studies major from Argyle, said the club

Advocacy team preps for next competition The Texas Tech School of Law’s Advocacy Team will be competing in the 17th Annual Pepperdine University School of Law National Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition on Saturday and Sunday.

According to Pepperdine University School of Law’s website, 24 teams from across the country will be in Malibu, California, to compete at the moot court competition, including representatives from Arizona State, the John Marshall School of Law and Texas A&M. In 2013, Tech School of Law’s Advocacy Program took the top prize at the competition, according to the law school’s website.

During the past five years Tech law

has won 31 state, regional, national and international championships and more than 30 best brief and best advocate awards, according to the website.

The advocacy team offers students the opportunity to compete at both an intraschool and inter-school level by annually fielding 30 teams to participate in moot court, mock trial, arbitration, negotiation and client counseling, according to the website.

The contest begins Saturday with three preliminary rounds of competition followed by the announcement of brief and advocate awards, according to Pepperdine’s website.

The quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds will take place Sunday.

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FirstCare, Citibus provide free bus rides In order to honor veterans, FirstCare Health Plans and Citibus will be saluting all who serve by providing free rides for everyone on every Citibus route Tuesday, according to a news release from FirstCare Health Plans.

On Monday and Wednesday, FirstCare Health Plans will provide free full-day bus passes to the first 150 passengers on the

travels somewhere different every two or three weeks.

“The club is filled with people who love outdoor climbing and want to share that with other people,” she said. “We focus on climbing outdoor landscapes rather than indoor rock climbing walls.”

The club was established at Tech about 15 years ago, Mitchell said, and has grown in numbers since it started.

FirstCare bus. The FirstCare bus is bus number 1304, according to the release.

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TEXAS TECH MIDFIELDER Alli Murphy, coaches, family and friends watch the NCAA announcement for the women’s Division I women’s soccer tournament Monday in the Texas Tech Club.

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Tech organizes events to honor veterans

By HUNTER HOWARD Staff Writer

Today is Veteran’s Day, a day to honor those heroes who have fallen and those who are still in the United States today. Texas Tech has been ranked as an extraordinary place to be a veteran pursuing higher education.

Texas Tech’s military programs have received multiple awards as a result of the work put forth by the Military and Veteran Programs, started in 2010. During the course of four years, Texas Tech has jumped the ranks of schools best suited for veterans. Military Times ranked Tech as the 19th best school in the nation for veterans to attend. Last year, Tech was ranked 31st.

Tech is also the first university in Texas to receive the Purple Heart award, and third in the nation.

This award does not cover anything specific but is more of an overall reflection for everything that Tech does to support veterans, Ryan Van Dusen, director of the Military and

Veteran Programs and a veteran himself, said.

“All these awards are just a testament to what Texas Tech does for veterans, and we’re proud of them,” Van Dusen said. “They aren’t just here, but they are succeeding and graduating.”

Maria Flores, a veteran and senior business management major from Miami, Florida, works in the Military and Veteran Programs at Tech. Flores said the reason she chose Tech is because her husband of 15 years is on active duty as a navy recruiter.

Flores and her husband met during active service, she said.

“I can attest that the programs here help spouses and dependents of veterans,” Flores said.

Green Zone is one of the programs in place to train faculty and professors to assist and guide veterans from being active to being a college student.

With more than 600 faculty members trained in Green Zone, Tech is leading the charge in veteran accommodation, Van Dusen said.

“Recognizing the dedication of the

men and women who have faithfully devoted their lives to protecting this nation goes beyond one holiday,” he said.

This week at Tech, there are many events to commemorate what these veterans have given to America. This past weekend there was an Air Force concert hosted at the Museum of Texas Tech University and there was also the Reveille Run, a fundraising run where all the money raised went to scholarships for veterans and their families, according to a Texas Tech news release.

At 11 a.m. today the National Call of Remembrance Ceremony will take place in the Student Union Ballroom.

Originally to be hosted in Memorial Circle, the event was moved as a result of the forecasted cold weather. More than 700 names of fallen soldiers who lost their lives in the War on Terror will be read.

At 1 p.m., ceremony atendees will participate in a nationwide moment of silence.

There will also be a concert put on by the Matador Singers later Tuesday

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CARL SWANSON, A junior multidisciplinary studies major from Plano, cares for his plants Monday in the Biology Greenhouse.

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MEMBERS OF THE community watch as the Air Force Band play songs Friday at the Museum of Texas Tech University,

night at Hemmle Recital Hall and a guest speaker, Captain Jerry Coffee, in Lainer Auditorium will be speaking of

his experiences as a soldier and now a veteran, according to the release. “(Tech is) the best school that

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US bishops struggling under Francis’ pontificate (AP) — U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are gathering at a moment of turbulence for them and the American church, as Pope Francis moves toward crafting new policies for carrying out his mission of mercy — a prospect that has conservative Catholics and some bishops in an uproar.

The assembly, which starts Monday in Baltimore, comes less than a month after Francis ended a dramatic Vatican meeting on how the church can more compassionately minister to Catholic families.

The gathering in Rome was only a prelude to a larger meeting next year which will more concretely advise Francis on church practice.

Still, the open debate at the event, and the back and forth among bishops over welcoming gays and divorced Catholics who remarry, prompted stunning criticism from some U.S. bishops.

“Many of the U.S. bishops have been disoriented by what this new pope is saying and I don’t see them really as embracing the pope’s agenda,” said John Thavis, a former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service.

“To a large degree, the U.S. bishops have lost their bearings. I think up until now, they felt Rome had their back, and what they were saying — especially politically — would eventually be supported in Rome.

They can’t count on that now.”

Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former St. Louis archbishop and leading voice for conservative Catholics, said the church “is like a ship without a rudder” under Francis. Burke made the comments before the pope demoted him from his position as head of the Vatican high court, a move he had anticipated.

Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, said the debate and vote on a document summing up

the discussion in Rome, which laid bare divisions among church leaders, struck him as “rather Protestant.”

Tobin referenced a remark Francis had made to young Catholics last year that they shake up the church and make a “mess” in their dioceses.

“Pope Francis is fond of ‘creating a mess.’ Mission accomplished,” Tobin wrote.

Other American bishops said the meeting sowed confusion about church teaching, although several blamed the way information was released from the Vatican or reported by the media.

“I think confusion is of the devil.

I think the public image that came across was confusion,” said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia. Next year, Chaput will host the pontiff on his first U.S. visit for the World Meeting of Families, a Vatican-organized event that draws thousands of people.

POLICE BLOTTER

Tech officers investigate theft, damage of exit signs

Friday 7:35 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer detained two students after a welfare check in the Z3M parking lot. One student was charged and released for the possession of a controlled substance and also received a Lubbock County citation for the possession of alcohol by minor.

11:56 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated an accident in the Z4P parking lot. An unattended vehicle was hit.

2:32 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at The Commons at Talkington Residence Hall. A Tech student identification card was taken.

6:07 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Chitwood Residence Hall. An unsecured pair of blue jeans were taken.

6:32 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the Z5C parking lot. An unattended vehicle was hit.

8:39 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the Sneed Residence Hall Sam’s Place. A food item was taken.

9:31 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Weymouth Residence Hall. Two exit signs were damaged.

11:07 p.m. — A Tech officer inves-

tigated theft in Hulen Residence Hall.

A wallet was taken.

11:11 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested two students for public intoxication and one student for public intoxication and the possession of alcohol by minor in Weymouth Residence Hall. The three students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:40 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Weymouth Residence Hall. Five exit signs were damaged.

4:04 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a false alarm or report at Bledsoe Residence Hall. A fire alarm pull station was activated.

Saturday 3:44 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Weeks Residence Hall. Two windows were shattered.

9:48 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for the possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and a fictitious license in the Z4M parking lot. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:56 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle in the Z6A parking

lot. The student signed the citation and was released. A student passenger was arrested for public intoxication after exiting the vehicle and becoming argumentative. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:56 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested two students for public intoxication in the 1500 block of University Avenue.

Both students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:30 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Chitwood Residence Hall. An exterior room window was shattered.

1:49 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Weymouth Residence Hall. Two exit signs were damaged.

4:01 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Coleman Residence Hall. One exit sign was damaged.

Sunday 6:17 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident at Main Street and Indiana Avenue.

7:21 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for an outstanding Lubbock County warrant after a traffic stop in the 1100 block of University Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

12:18 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Weymouth Residence Hall. An exit sign was taken.

12:39 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for the possession of alcohol by a minor at Weymouth Residence Hall.

The student signed the citation and was released.

2:43 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving while intoxicated, evading arrest and the possession of drug paraphernalia, after attempting to conduct a traffic stop at 2500 Broadway Street and a subsequent traffic accident at 2600 Memorial Circle and 2500 15th Street. The non-student was transported to the University Medical Center by Emergency Medical Services, then later to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

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Hikers found tired, waiting in canyon

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ERIC PARR, A junior visual studies major from Kaufman, does repair work on a bike Monday in the Outdoor Pursuit Center.

until morning.”

Claudia Ortiz, who stood gingerly with one foot bandaged, appeared to have the only injury, but she said it happened during the helicopter rescue.

Altadena Mountain Rescue Team training officer James Moussally, who was part of the ground search, described the group as “canyoneers” who start high up in the canyon and work their way down by rappelling.

The group started with plenty of daylight ahead but its size likely made for slow going, Moussally said.

“It’s not something you want to rush through,” he said “There is safety involved. You want to take your time. ... I think it’s a matter of maybe they weren’t quite prepared for it to take as long as it did.”

Moussally did not know the exact location where the helicopter crew spotted the group but estimated it would have taken them a couple more hours to exit the canyon.

PASADENA, California (AP) — Fifteen hikers from a church group who failed to return from a day hike in the Southern California mountains were exhausted and losing daylight, so they decided to build a fire and wait until Monday morning, when a helicopter plucked them safely out of the wilderness.

The Los Angeles County sheriff’s helicopter rescued the hikers — 11 adults and four teens — and they were driven to a nature center to be reunited with anxious family and friends.

Hiker Nancy Picado, 22, said the group became worn out after spending Sunday rappelling down waterfalls in the Eaton Canyon Natural Area, a popular hiking spot known for rescues at the base of the rugged San Gabriel Mountains, about 15 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

“We were wet, we were tired, but we just decided that the best thing we could do is just stay there and rest,” she said.

“It was safer for us to just wait

Arizona immigration, smuggling law struck down by US District Court PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s frustrations over federal enforcement of the state’s border with Mexico spawned a movement nearly a decade ago to have local police confront illegal immigration. Now, the state’s experiment in immigration enforcement is falling apart in the courts.

A ruling Friday that struck down the state’s 2005 immigrant

smuggling law marks the latest in a string of restrictions placed by the courts on Arizona’s effort to get local police to take action on illegal immigration.

The smuggling law, like similar state statutes, was tossed because a judge concluded it conflicted with the federal government’s immigration powers.

“There may be some broad

sympathy within a constituency for these laws, but that constituency isn’t enough to overcome the problems those laws pose,” Peter Spiro, a Temple University law professor who specializes in immigration law.

For years in Arizona, many officials resisted suggestions that local and state police agencies confront illegal immigration,

long considered the sole province of the federal government.

But the notion gained political traction as voters grew frustrated over the state’s status as the nation’s then-busiest immigrant smuggling hub and over what critics said was inadequate border protection by Washington.

A small number of the state’s immigration laws have been

upheld, including a key section of Arizona’s landmark 2010 immigration enforcement law that requires police to check people’s immigration status under certain circumstances. But the courts have slowly dismantled other Arizona laws and policies.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on Friday threw out the smuggling law as part of the

Obama administration’s challenge of the state’s 2010 immigration law, which made a minor change to the 2005 statute. The dispute over the smuggling law is all that remains of the administration’s challenge of the 2010 law.

Gov. Jan Brewer’s office, the chief defender of the 2010 law, didn’t immediately respond to messages left Saturday.

GM ordered switches nearly 2 months before recall DETROIT (AP) — Emails showing that General Motors ordered a half-million replacement ignition switches nearly two months before telling the government of a safety recall will be heavily scrutinized by federal prosecutors, who are investigating GM’s conduct, according to legal experts.

The email chain, released Monday by an attorney suing GM, again raises questions about how forthcoming GM has been with safety regulators and lawmakers, as well as a GM-funded investigation into the defective switches by former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas.

The chain of emails from December through February shows that a contract employee for GM inquired about the parts on Dec. 18, 2013, and

ordered them from Delphi the following day, in preparation to replace parts on 500,000 to over 700,000 vehicles. The cost was estimated at nearly $3 million.

Yet GM did not report a safety defect to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration until 51 days later, on Feb. 7, 2014. Federal law requires automakers to tell the agency about defects within five business days of discovering them.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan is investigating potential criminal actions by GM in its handling of the recall of 2.6 million older-model small cars nationwide.

The faulty switches are responsible for at least 32 deaths and hundreds of injuries. The switches can slip out of the run position, causing

engines to stall unexpectedly and disabling air bags. GM has admitted knowing about the problem for more than a decade.

The emails muddy the timeline GM has given regarding the recall.

The part order came just after a Dec. 17 meeting of a three-executive GM panel that decides if cars should be recalled. But the Valukas report said that although the committee heard a presentation from GM investigators seeking to recall the ignition switches, no decision was made that day. GM says it didn’t determine that the cars should be recalled until Jan 31.

Also, the parts order was not mentioned when CEO Mary Barra subsequently testified before Congress. Barra has said she first found

out about the switch problem in late December and the decision to issue a recall on Jan. 31. GM says it is standing by Barra’s previous statements.

The emails also could lead to further congressional hearings on the matter with Barra being called to Washington again.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, DConn., a member of the Senate panel that has investigated GM’s handling of the faulty switches, said Monday that Barra “should be called back.”

“I believe strongly that she should be given the opportunity to explain these contradictions,” Blumenthal said in a telephone interview. The newly released emails, he said, “seriously undercut the credibility of the Valukas report and challenge the GM timeline.”

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Republicans’ win in Washington decimates Democrats’ bench LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lucy Flores was a candidate with a life story straight out of Hollywood — one of 13 children who grew up in a rough Las Vegas neighborhood, a former gang member who straightened out, went to law school, became a state legislator and now was running for lieutenant governor. She earned glowing profiles in the national press.

Last week, however, Flores was crushed in the lieutenant governor’s race, doomed by dismal Democratic turnout that also toppled many of this state’s diverse slate of rising young Democrats. They included attorney general hopeful Ross Miller, the secretary of state and son of a former governor, and Rep. Steven Horsford, one of the few AfricanAmericans in Congress whose district is not majority black.

“It was a bad environment for Democrats this year,” Flores said in an interview Friday. “I was grossly outspent. We did what we could and we were very successful with the little we had, but I was not able to respond to false attack ads.”

As Democrats lost more than 300 statehouse seats last week, they watched some of their most promising political up-and-comers go down in defeat. Republicans, meanwhile, stocked their bench with a roster of rising stars who could someday run for higher office.

“We knocked out some really golden people for the Democrats, and provided a strong platform for our candidates to cut their teeth,” said Jill Bader, spokeswoman for the Republican State Leadership Committee. “Our candidates who won are going to be in an unbelievably stronger position and have two-to-four years of

teams and staff.”

Flores left a safe assembly seat to seek the part-time lieutenant governor’s post, which could lead to the governorship if popular GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval challenges Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Harry Reid in 2016. But she was up against Sandoval’s chosen successor, state Sen. Mark Hutchison, who rode the coattails of the governor’s blowout win for re-election, and drew from his vast cash reserves.

To see how important it is to build a bench, just look at the Re-

publicans’ class of 2010. That wave election knocked out possible national Democratic figures like Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and stocked the GOP’s cabinet with possible 2016 contenders and other rising stars like Florida Sen Marco Rubio, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, New Mexico Gov. Susanna Martinez and Sandoval himself.

Republicans this year are celebrating a number of diverse new officeholders that they hope belie the image of their party as the preserve of white men — Illinois Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti, Colorado Attorney General

Cynthia Coffman, Janet Nguyen and Young Kim, who won state senate seats in Southern California. Democrats can boast of some potential rising stars too, like New Mexico’s new Attorney General Hector Balderas or Rhode Island’s next Gov., Gina Raimondo. But there are far fewer Democrats to tout.

Mo Elleithee, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, said fears of a declining Democratic bench are overblown. “We had a lot of Democratic candidates who fell just short this time who I don’t think we’ve heard the last of,” he said.

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PoliTech video speaks to student shortcomings Overly aggressive feminism may lead to reverse sexism Kyle B Jacobson Mark F Tijerina much their reactions didn’t align with mine. Rather than aiming their surprise, outrage and embarrassment at the students who failed to answer the questions correctly, they were upset with Plunk and the PoliTech organization as a whole.

I read many comments such as, “Why would she make this video to embarrass Texas Tech like this?” and “She probably just edited the video to make them look b a d . ” Tr u e , it is possible that PoliTech could have asked a much more difficult question and r e c o rd e d t h e respondents saying, “I don’t know” and then played that clip after the recording of a much easier question.

However, oftentimes in the video you can see Plunk on camera ask the question and, in one full sequence, watch the respondent either draw a blank or assert the wrong answer.

Another common remark I heard online was something along the lines of, “I bet if you interview enough people you’re

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bound to find a few who don’t know the answers to easy questions,” or “You could find people who don’t know these answers at any school.” I agree this lack of civic awareness is not exclusive to Tech, as PoliTech officials admitted in a response video, but the former sentiment holds much less water.

First off, some of the people in the video get multiple questions wrong. This shows that they weren’t one person out of a million respondents who didn’t know the answer to one trivia question. Instead, it shows they are naive in multiple instances to what should be basic knowledge.

Second, really how many people shouldn’t know who won the Civil War or who the vice president is?

Even if Plunk interviewed all 1,000 students in the free speech area, which is a number she did not come close to, why should there be 20 students who don’t know the answer?

According to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, PoliTech officials said 30 students were interviewed after filming interviews for less than an hour and only two students got all of the questions right. Those who insist that the number of students who incorrectly answered is only so high due to the number

While not knowing who the vice president is may seem harmless on the surface, it is a microcosm of the greater issue.

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y now we have probably all seen the “Politically Challenged” video in which Texas Tech student Courtney Plunk quizzes Tech students on basic history and current events in the free speech area outside of the Student Union building.

In case you haven’t seen it circulating on Facebook or YouTube, the video is pretty shocking. Plunk interviews about 20 students on camera and asks them questions such as “Who won the Civil War?” and “Who is our vice president?” The results were pretty mind-blowing, as many students weren’t even close to getting the right answer.

In regards to the Civil War question, responses included “I have no clue,” and, “Who was even in it?” or just long pauses of bewilderment. After being asked who the vice president is, students responded again by saying “I don’t know,” “Is that a trick question?” and pauses followed by, “I feel stupid.”

I know Tech students are not stupid, some of them are just unaware. Intelligence is not measured by knowledge of historical and political trivia.

With that being said, as a student body and as a generation altogether, it is important that we are more politically aware.

We are the future workforce, bureaucrats, voters, parents, etc. of the United States, and therefore have a civic responsibility to obtain a better foundational understanding of the society we live in.

After watching the video and seeing other people’s reactions online, I was surprised how

of people interviewed are turning a blind eye to the problem revealed in the PoliTech video.

Others asserted that when put on the spot it can be hard to think of simple answers under pressure. If so, then why did the same respondents answer, “What show is Snookie from?” with a quick and confident “Jersey Shore” repeatedly? If they were truly forced into answering poorly due to nerves, that would have to extend to the “Jersey Shore” question as well, right?

PoliTech was not out to embarrass people or tarnish the reputation of our university. It did a mighty fine job of pointing out something that should be addressed seriously rather than treated as taboo — our generation is politically clueless and places an emphasis on frivolous awareness at the expense of useful awareness.

This must change if we want to be a generation remembered for improving society. While not knowing who the vice president is may seem harmless on the surface, it is a microcosm of the greater issue.

A majority of Tech students would have answered all the questions correctly because they are conscious young adults. As such, when we encounter our friends, classmates, etc. who are lacking in this capacity, we should step up as leaders for our generation and assist them, rather than bark at the fact that their unawareness has been exposed.

Jacobson is a senior political science major from Austin. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Kendra Kimberlin surface — they should pull out of this in time. But what happens if they plummet like the financial crisis Greece had?

The Central Bank of Russia decided to only prop up the ruble for a set amount, and only time will tell how long that will hold.

Russia has had an interesting year with the Ukraine issue and the Olympics, so this could become yet another mistaken policy for the Russians.

As for the policy decisions, according to an article in The New Republic magazine, “What we’re seeing is a major departure from what Putin and his financial wizards usually do in times of crisis: they spend heavily from Russia’s massive reserves to prop the ruble

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up. This time, the Kremlin has decided to hold its fire, and save its bullets.

“It’s a huge policy shift,’ says Alexander Kliment, a director of Russian research at the Eurasia Group. ‘Putin’s priority is now to preserve Russia’s international reserves as much as possible because he knows he’s going to need them.’ Another priority is to prevent a budget deficit.

‘Because dependence on the outside world is a form of weakness for Putin,’ Kliment says.”

This may be a direct result of sanctions put upon Russian exchange

by Russia as well as other countries that are becoming cautious of what they put in the ironclad fists of Russian government.

While most people assume Russia is the European Union’s probl e m , i t ’s n o t just their issue. This idea of ignoring Russia until it submits is naive. Russia not only provides oil, rye and other agricultural products that are key for the United States and the world to

While most people assume Russia is the European Union’s problem, it’s not just their issue. This idea of ignoring Russia until it submits is naive.

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s we all know, having a stable economy starts with the currency that the economy is based on. In this last week, the Russian ruble has not been that driving stability for its home country.

This problem has been a long time in the making with the ruble’s torpidity. Other factors that further this weakening of currency are the sanctions and oil prices that Russia will have to deal with. How it’s affecting Russia right now is investors and businesses are not even considering going to Russia with their pocketbooks in hand, but going elsewhere.

According to Matt Phillips from Quartz Magazine, “Emerging-market currencies are tumbling, and capital is fleeing, which is why the central banks are now trying to stem the outflows by raising rates.

So will it work? That depends.

Rate hikes could help stabilize the currencies.”

“However, remember that one reason money is pouring out of these emerging markets is that their future growth prospects don’t look as good as they used to. Higher interest rates might shore up the currency in the short term, but will also act as a headwinds to growth.”

In the future, with the amount of people and land Russia controls — not to mention the minerals and oil below the

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survive, but they are a major power in politics and war.

As we saw with the Ukraine unrest that we ignored like a petulant child, eventually that child grows bitter and belligerent. Russia already has shown this through independent thoughts of making it on its own through sanctions.

According to an article in The New Republic, “This isn’t a theoretical currency game.

Much of what you see in Russia is imported, especially what the Russian middle class eats, drives and wears. And the weaker the ruble, the fewer dollardenominated iPhones you can buy with it.”

“A crashing ruble makes prices do the opposite. According to the Russian government, projected inflation will hit somewhere between nine and 9.5 percent. Last year, it was 6.5 percent. In the U.S., for comparison, inflation is just 1.7 percent.”

Staying out of Russian finances and exchanges seems like a smart move for the time being, yet in the future could be detrimental to the trend of globalization. This is due to the simple fact of the resources Russia controls.

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eminism has seemed to grow in popularity amongst women in the past five years and the increase of cries for equality has caused more separation between the sexes. Feminists love to take an aggressive approach to gaining equality, but what about reverse sexism?

Women aren’t alone in being “segregated” and criticized for their sex. Men face discrimination based on their sex too, but where are their cries for change? Feminist movements seem to overpower men when it comes to the media.

Feminists are labeled with many stereotypes, and according to an article by The Huffington Post, the mostused stereotypes to describe feminists are “man-hating” and “unhygienic.”

This is a ridiculous assumption people make about feminists due to media stereotypes, because feminists are a diverse group of people, which many times even includes men.

I don’t have an issue with feminists and even sometimes find myself adopting their ideals, but aggressive feminists seem to take an approach I highly disagree with. They target men as being the cause of the lack of equality between sexes, but that is not the case.

According to a Vanity Fair article, actress Emma Watson, who recently adopted the role of a feminist, acknowledged the term is negatively associated with “man hating” and agrees it has to stop.

Not all feminists adopt this tactic of aggression to express their ideals and beliefs, but this tactic is used enough to cause issues and larger divides between male and female equality. Their aggression and anger only reflects a bad image on the feminist community.

The aggressive tactic some choose to use caused me to question if men can also be victims of sexism. The forceful strength feminists use to call attention to their request shows they can be just as aggressive as men, which according to an article by The New York Times, is a stronger trait seen mainly in males.

So do women show more commonality with men than we think?

Most women target unequal pay, in which men seem to be favored when it comes to finances.

The idea of equal pay is a topic in which I agree with feminists, but

women have changed significantly in the work force compared to 10 years ago. According to an article by The Huffington Post, in some cases, women in the work force prefer to work with women over men.

Dr. Peggy Drexler, research psychologist and gender scholar, gives firsthand accounts of women degrading men and using hierarchy to demean them in the workforce. Drexler said, “Sexism refers to unequal treatment in relation to a person’s gender, and can happen to anyone.”

There are many cases in which women get the upper hand over men.

One case would be with child support.

According to an article by The Atlantic, 10 percent of men in divorce cases are granted custody of their children.

Men are usually the ones who have to pay fees regardless of their devotion to their children.

Is this granting feminists’ wishes by providing women with equality, or are women obtaining hierarchy over men?

This is an issue because in cases such as child support and alimony, women are normally favored to win over men, but in other cases, such as the workforce, men are arguably gaining the upper hand. What happened to obtaining equality?

Aggressive feminism calls for an exchange in power rather than a balance of power, which only adds distance to obtaining equality among the sexes. Before people try and debate how different men and women are, they should evaluate how similar they are.

Both sexes are capable of sexism, obtaining a well-paying job and even gaining custody of their children, so is the difference based on who wins?

Equality between sexes is about obtaining a balance between the roles we set for a specific sex, so I highly doubt this debate will end anytime soon.

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Baron Batch discusses life as Pittsburgh artist

By AMY CUNNINGHAM

nitely known as an artist and it’s sort of blown up with the things that we’re doing and some of the companies we’re working with,” Batch said. “I haven’t been back here very much, so here I’m still football player Baron, which is fine, it’s such a big part of what I did, but I think it’s to the point where I want to really be able to make that transition and start doing some of the things I do in

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To be an artist was the first dream of Baron Batch, former football player for Texas Tech and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Football was always second.

The two opposites logically went hand-in-hand to Batch, he said.

“That was the first thing I wanted to be when I was younger — to be an artist,” Batch said. “I remember one of my teachers in elementary school asking, ‘What do you want to do? What do you want to be?’ and I said, ‘I want to be an artist.’ She told me to pick something realistic, so I said I wanted to be a football player.”

Since that day, Batch said he has worked hard to ensure he achieved both of his dreams.

The now 26-year-old from Midland chose to play for Tech over other universities like Duke and Northwestern, according to Batch’s Tech Athletics biography, before moving on to the NFL to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

“That was the goal, and everything I did was to make that happen,” Batch said. “When I got to the NFL, my only goals were to pay off a car and pay off a house. The way I saw it, if I did those two things, that would be a 30-year head start on life since it takes most people that long to do it. I did that, got done and now I’m an artist.”

Since retiring from the Steelers in 2013, Batch said he has focused on his art and work at Studio A.M., a Pittsburgh advertising agency.

Batch visits Lubbock a couple of times a year whenever his work gives him room to breathe, he said, and he wants to show Lubbock he is no longer just a football player.

“Up in Pittsburgh, I’m defi-

Pittsburgh down here.”

Such a transition is going to take time, he said.

It is interesting to come back to West Texas, especially to Lubbock, because something different is always happening, Batch said, but this gives him the opportunity to forge a change in how the region views him.

“I never want to be forgotten for what I did here,” he said, “but for me to be able to make the impact that I want to on Lubbock, I have to make that transition.

The people here have to help let me do that, and let me scoot away from what I used to do.”

Early on in his professional football career, Batch said he

realized people loved him for the Steelers logo on his jersey.

He remained conscious of that, he said, which motivated him to continue doing something people would appreciate and follow once he left the NFL. “When I played sports, I was valuable by association,” he said.

“People cheered for me because I was a running back for Texas Tech or the Pittsburgh Steelers.

They supported me, but they supported me because they supported the Steelers. Now, when I give people art, they’re literally taking a piece of who I am and saying that they like who I am.”

Football, or the absence of it, impacted his art.

Batch tore his ACL in 2011, which he said gave him the time to paint.

“I never got to develop who I really was while I was a football player because there are so many stereotypes that come with being an athlete,” he said. “I think a lot of guys and women in sports, too, are very creative, but it takes so much time to focus on a sport.

It’s a full-time job.”

Once he stepped away from sports and into his art, Batch learned how he wanted to live his life, he said, and how he wanted people to perceive him.

Through art, Batch figured out who he was, he said, but he is the same person at his core.

“When I was playing football, I was never really in control of my life. I just wasn’t,” he said.

“It was dictated on a hierarchy of power, and I was not at the top. If I was getting cut from the team, I was getting cut from the team and I had no control over that. I could control how hard I worked, but that was about it.”

This past year was the first time in Batch’s life when he felt like he was in the driver’s seat of his life, he said.

He is more competitive now than he was when he played at

are new and have never climbed before, she said, so the club is not just for experienced climbers.

Jim Tata, a junior chemical engineering major from Austin, is the safety officer of the club and said members range from having years of experience to having never climbed before.

“Everyone in the club is nice to everyone,” he said. “We all try to make sure no one feels left out and everyone has fun.”

During the spring semester, Tata said, members compete in various competitions across the state.

According to the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center’s website, Tech hosts a climbing competition every year called the Vertical Plains Climbing Competition.

“Competitions work with a point system which gives you a certain number of points depending on the difficulty of path you take,” Tata said. “You also get points for completing a course without falling. They tally up all the points at the end and rank us based on how many points we get.”

Although competition is fun,

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There’s no way around hours of work that you put in. I think a lot of people try to cheat that, but if someone’s working, it’s going to pay off.

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ARTIST, FORMER TEXAS TECH FOOTBALL PLAYER

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Mitchell, who serves as the club president, has been a member of the club all four years she has been at Tech, she said.

“I have been climbing for more than 10 years now, so it is hard to imagine my life without it,” Mitchell said. “It was a great thing for me to come to Tech and find something like this — it helped me really find my place.”

Many members of the club

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SEAN BEAUFORD, CURATOR of Studio A.M. advertising agency, and Baron Batch, artist and forme football player for the Texas Tech Red Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers, work together to bring Batch’s art t both the Pittsburgh and Lubbock communities.

both the collegiate and professional levels because of the control he has over his life, he said.

“There’s no way around hours of work that you put in,” Batch said. “I think a lot of people try to cheat that, but if someone’s working, it’s going to pay off. They’re maximizing more opportunities.

My mentality the last couple years has been to outwork everyone in my field — to just be seen more, do more, be out there more, and it’s paid off. It’s still paying off.”

He wants his art to be lasting, positive pieces of work people will want to buy because it means something to them, Batch said, and because it is a piece of him.

Shelby Jones, a senior sports management major from Big Spring and intern for Batch, said Batch’s ability to take a simple idea and turn it into something creative has led to his success.

“He has a different outlook on things,” Jones said. “You see his

art and automatically think, ‘Oh, that’s Baron.’ It’s just positive and so different from everything that you see out there today.”

Batch welcomes new ideas, Jones said, and his art appeals to younger people because of its contemporary style.

An influx of young, working professionals into Pittsburgh allows Batch to help establish its cultural identity, he said.

“Pittsburgh is such a good dynamic right now,” Barton said.

“Pittsburgh doesn’t have an established culture to it. Pittsburgh never became identifiable like a New York, L.A. or Chicago based off the culture. I’m on the ground floor now of helping build that culture because there are so many young people.”

Lubbock has a cultural consistency that Pittsburgh lacks, he said.

Sean Beauford, curator of Studio A.M., said he puts together

art events, which helps unite th Pittsburgh culture.

“We’re making art acces sible,” he said. “Pittsburgh is place where there isn’t a lot o public art. It mostly resides in galleries and museums, but in those places, there isn’t a lot o local art.”

The pair wants to make ar available in the city, Beaufor said, because they want peopl to see what is going on in th world of art.

Batch is rarely inspired, h said, and wants those who view his art to take a step further.

“I want them to be chal lenged,” Batch said. “I think when you’re challenged, tha eats at you at the back of you mind. It works way differen from if they’re inspired. Inspira tion is one of the last things tha should happen. It’s just a proces of figuring it out.”

Mitchell said the club is not in any way focused around competing.

The atmosphere is friendly, Tata said, and even those competing from other schools show no hostility toward competitors.

“It’s different from soccer or rugby or other team sports because we don’t focus on winning and competition,” he said.

“It’s more about learning how to climb and having a good time.”

The climbing club is also affordable for students, Tata said, and is the second-cheapest club the Rec Center offers.

New members pay $35 up front and $5 for each trip, Mitchell said, and returning members pay $65.

“Another cool part is that the trip cap is $65 total, so after they pay that they don’t have to pay any more,” she said. “This way people can try it out and make sure it is something they really enjoy before paying the returning fee to be a part of the club.

Pretty much the only thing they pay for on trips out of pocket is for food and personal gear.”

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Starter still in question after bye week

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

Similar to what happened most of last season, Texas Tech fans will not know who the starting quarterback of the football team will be until close to kickoff on Saturday.

After sophomore quarterback Davis Webb went down with a leg injury against Texas Christian, freshman Patrick Mahomes suffered a concussion in the second quarter against Texas in the Red Raiders’ most recent game.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said he will not know which quarterback will be starting against Oklahoma until late in the week.

“I hope they’ll both be back,” Kingsbury said. “We’ll see how it goes this week, but I hope to have them both available for the game on Saturday.”

If neither Webb nor Mahomes can play on Saturday, freshman walk-on Vincent Testaverde will get the nod.

Testaverde filled in for the injured Mahomes against Texas and threw for 116 yards on 15 of 26 attempts with one interception.

Throughout last week’s bye, Kingsbury said Testaverde got multiple reps, including some with the starters.

“Very similar reps to the week before,” he said. “But early in the week he did get some reps with the ones.”

Both of the injured quarterbacks were also able to practice some during the bye week.

Junior running back DeAndre Washington said Webb has been working with the offense but he is not fully healthy yet. “(Webb has) been out there practicing some,” he said. “I don’t know what his status will be, but he’s been out there moving around and practicing with us.”

Washington has already set a new career-high in rushing yards this season and is averaging his highest yards per rush in his col-

lege career.

The junior running back is averaging 88.4 yards per game this season, which ranks second in the Big 12 Conference.

No matter which quarterback gets the start for the Red Raiders on Saturday, Washington said it will not affect his game because he always plays his hardest.

“At the end of the day, it’s still football. You have to go out there and do what you do,” Washington said. “So I don’t think too much changes, as far as what the running backs do. But as far as our game plan as a whole, I think it definitely has some changes.”

Besides Washington, other running backs have found a significant role in the Tech offense.

Freshman running back Justin Stockton has run the ball 41 times for 376 yards, an average of 8.9 yards per rush.

Kingsbury said all of the running backs have improved this season, led by Washington.

Tech Men’s Tennis adds international recruit The Texas Tech men’s tennis team signed international recruit Alex Sendegeya for the upcoming 2015 spring semester, according to a Tech news release.

Sendegeya, a native of Liverpool, England, has garnered success outside the United States.

Sendegeya earned the No. 1 rating from Great Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association and ranks as high as the No. 74 junior in the world.

Sendegeya is the highest ranked incoming freshman for the Tech men’s tennis team since the arrival of Raony Carvalho in 2008.

Along with his No. 1 rating, Sendegeya participated in

international contests, which include the Wimbledon Juniors, U.S. Open Juniors and Canadian Open Juniors.

In the last 12 months, Sendegeya won two of his nine International Tennis Federation Junior doubles titles.

Sendegeya chose to play for Tech over the University of Wisconsin, Boise State, San Diego State and Notre Dame.

With more than five years at the IMG Academy in the Bollettieri Tennis program, former players of the Association of Tennis Professionals Tour Jose Lambert and Martin Damm coached Sede-

geya at the IMG Academy.

Players such as Maria Sharapova, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Venus and Serena Williams and Monica Seles formerly trained at the IMG Academy.

Sendegeya joins Middle Tennessee State transfer Victor Cornea as the second newcomer to the Tech men’s tennis team for the 2015 spring semester.

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“(Washington has) done a good job this year. The last couple games the way it’s gone and gotten out of hand, we’ve gone away from the running game and that’s what’s going to happen when you get down that much early,” he said. “But, no, we’ll do what we do, just run our offense.”

Regardless of which quarterback starts against Oklahoma, they will likely begin looking to get junior wide receiver Jakeem Grant and senior wide receiver Bradley Marquez the ball.

Grant is averaging 134 allpurpose yards per game despite battling injuries the past few weeks.

With many receivers being involved each week in the offense, Kingsbury said he is looking for all of them to step up for the rest of the season and help out whichever quarterback is throwing to them.

“Marquez has been solid all year. He’s been the one constant, and the other guys have been hot

PHOTO BY DUNCAN STANLEY / File Photo

TEXAS TECH WIDE receiver Bradley Marquez avoids Texas safety Mykkele Thompson during the first half of Tech’s 34-13 loss to Texas on Nov. 1 at Jones AT&T Stadium.

and cold,” Kingsbury said. “We’ve got to get more consistency at all the other positions really. I’ve been proud of Ian Sadler’s devel-

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Even with these setbacks, Tech The players and coaches enjoyed earned a No. 3 seed, the first seeding the event with each other, family it has ever earned in the tournaand friends, but when the show ment, according to Tech Athletics.

Coach Tom Stone said to earn a began the room became silent.

Everyone was focused on the televi- seed is incredible, especially when it is earned against the most difficult sions surrounding them.

Team after team found their schedule Tech has faced during his place in the 64-team tournament. tenure as head coach.

Tech defeated two former-No. The first three brackets were called without a single mention of Tech. 11 teams, Notre Dame and CaliforThen, in the final bracket Tech was nia, on the road, Stone said. Plus, called in the fifth-to-last matchup the Big 12 Conference was ranked as the second-toughest conference of the tournament.

The room erupted into cheers, to play in this season.

Five other teams from the conand senior defender Jaelene Hinkle said the eruption of cheers came ference got a spot in the tournabecause Tech made the tournament ment, according to the NCAA. “What it does in-house,” Stone for a third-straight appearance.

“Everyone’s heart was racing a said, “is give us the confidence. Not little bit,” Hinkle said, “because only to play well at home, hopefully we’re always one of the last teams in the first round and if we’re fortunate enough to move on, to be able to show up on the screen.”

No matter when Tech is called, to go anywhere.”

Now that Tech is in the tournathe team is pumped all the same, Hinkle said. It helps that Tech earned ment, Stone wants the team to let loose and give every team all they the opportunity to play at home.

What makes it sweeter, though, can handle, he said.

That means Prairie View A&M is the journey the team took to the will be the first to deal with a postournament, she said.

Tech lost junior defender Jade sibly re-energized Tech team.

Dapaah and junior forward Briana Admittedly, Stone does not Rohmer to leg injuries in a 3-1 vic- know much about Prairie View, tory against Tulsa. The team then he said. But he had a feeling Tech

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One characteristic of Tech’s opponent became abundantly clear, Stone said. “(Prairie View) plays everybody tight,” he said. “There just haven’t been blowouts. Nothing has really gotten away from them.”

It is obvious Prairie View plays consistently good defense, Stone said.

Senior midfielder Paige Strahan said she hopes this match is not the only one Tech has the chance to play in during the tournament because each one could possibly be the last for her and the other seniors as Red Raiders.

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QB Knight’s tests negative after injury NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops says there is good news on quarterback Trevor Knight after a hit he took in Saturday’s 48-14 loss to Baylor.

Stoops says MRIs and x-rays were negative, and he’ll know more about Knight’s status for Saturday’s game at Texas Tech in the next few days. Knight won’t practice Monday.

“It’s just being able to manage,” Stoops said. “He’s pretty sore right now. We’ll just see how he continues to recover.”

Knight was sandwiched between Grant Campbell and Shawn Oakman in the fourth quarter against Baylor. He stayed on the field for several minutes before being carted off. He moved his extremities before he left the field. An Oklahoma spokesman said Knight walked out of the stadium on his own. Stoops wouldn’t specify what the injury was, but he said it wasn’t a concussion or a blow to the head.

Stoops also said receiver Sterling Shepard’s status remains unclear. Shepard suffered a groin injury on Oklahoma’s first offensive play against Iowa State, and did not return. He warmed up in uniform before the Baylor game, and the team expected him to play right up until before kickoff.

The possibility of moving forward without Knight and Shepard is daunting. Shepard averages 119.6 yards per game receiving.

Knight has an 11-3 record as a starter, and his backup, redshirt freshman Cody Thomas, has thrown just 16 passes.