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George P. Bush plans office reorganization AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Land Commissioner-elect George P. Bush plans to consolidate three of the agency’s previous divisions into a new entity in charge of generating energy-related revenue — a move that will mean staff cuts.

Bush transition team spokesman JR Hernandez said late Monday that the number of position reductions is “to be determined,” but that most would come via attrition.

In a statement, Bush said he was creating the new Permanent School Fund Income Division to “increase efficiencies and reduce administrative redundancies.”

The division combines the Energy Resources Division with the Asset Management and Asset Inspection Divisions.

The previous divisions had fed the Permanent School Fund, which uses revenue from oil and gas interests on state-owned land to help pay for Texas public education.

Bush takes office Jan. 2.

Judge sentences cartel lieutenant to 22 years CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. judge sentenced a reputed lieutenant of captured Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to 22 years in prison Monday for his role in a $1 billion trafficking conspiracy, saying the stiff sentence should send a message to traffickers everywhere.

Alfredo Vasquez-Hernandez, 59, stood unmoving in a Chicago courtroom, listening through a Spanish-speaking interpreter as Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo’s tone became more stern.

“I tell you on behalf of all citizens of Chicago ... we are tired of this drug trafficking,” he said.

The case is regarded as one of the U.S. government’s most important against Mexican cartels. Guzman remains jailed in Mexico and Mexican authorities haven’t said if they might extradite him to Chicago.

Minutes before the sentence was imposed, a deferential Hernandez said he wanted to apologize.

“I ask you for forgiveness and for you to have pity on me,” he told the judge.

Defense attorney Paul Brayman had asked that Castillo impose no more than the mandatory minimum 10-year sentence, saying “anything more ... is a death sentence” for his client.

Hernandez pleaded guilty this year to possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to distribute.

After the hearing, Hernandez’s 43-year-old son, Gabriel Vasquez, told reporters the punishment was too harsh.

“He’s not the monster that everyone says he is,” an emotional Vasquez said. “He’s a family man.”

Early at Monday’s hearing, Castillo repeatedly asked the question: “Who is this defendant?”

Prosecutors relied on two Sinaloa cartel associates-turned-government witnesses, Pedro and Margarito Flores, to paint Hernandez as a close friend of Guzman who used his logistical skills to ship tons of drugs by train from Mexico to Chicago concealed amid furniture cargo.

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Grand jury won’t indict Ferguson cop FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — A grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting sparked weeks of sometimes-violent protests.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced the decision Monday evening. A grand jury of nine whites and three blacks had been meeting weekly since Aug. 20 to consider evidence.

The panel met for 70 hours and heard from 60 witnesses.

McCulloch stressed that the grand jurors were “the only people who heard every witness ... and every piece of evidence.” He said many witness presented conflicting statements that ultimately were inconsistent

with the physical evidence.

“These grand jurors poured their hearts and soul into this process,” he said.

As McCulloch was reading his statement, a crowd gathered around a car from which it was being broadcast on a stereo.

When the decision was announced, Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, who was sitting atop the car, burst into tears and began screaming before being whisked away by supporters.

The crowd erupted in anger, converging on the barricade where police in riot gear were standing. They pushed down the barricade and began pelting police with items, including a bullhorn. Police stood their ground.

At least nine votes would have been

required to indict Wilson. The panel met in secret, a standard practice for such proceedings.

The Justice Department is conducting a separate investigation into possible civil rights violations that could result in federal charges. The department also has launched a broad probe into the Ferguson Police Department, looking for patterns of discrimination.

The Aug. 9 shooting inflamed tensions in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb that is patrolled by an overwhelmingly white police force. As Brown’s body lay for hours in the center of a residential street, an angry crowd of onlookers gathered. Rioting and looting occurred the following night, and police responded

with armored vehicles and tear gas.

Protests continued for weeks — often peacefully, but sometimes turning violent, with demonstrators throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails and police firing smoke canisters, tear gas and rubber bullets. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to briefly summon the National Guard.

Hours before the announcement, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon urged people to remain peaceful as he appeared at a news conference with the state’s public safety director and the leaders of St. Louis city and county.

“Our shared hope and expectation is that regardless of the decision, people on all sides show tolerance, mutual respect and restraint,” Nixon said.

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Consumers, retailers prepare for holiday shopping

By KRISTEN BARTON Staff Writer

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when stores have some of their largest sales of the year, started because it was the day retailers switched their books from red to black, Deborah Fowler, associate professor in the College of Human Sciences, said.

“Retail years run different, the last three months of a retail year are November, December and January,” Fowler said.

“It’s super important they have really high sales during that last quarter.”

Fowler has conducted Black Friday forecasts for a long time, she said.

Every year, retailers and agencies look forward to the forecasts to determine how much merchandise and how many employees stores will need, she said.

“There are a lot of factors that go into forecasts, and one of them is that gas prices are so low, so people have more disposable income. I think consumers are very optimistic,” Fowler said. “Also, Thanksgiving is a week later this year than it normally is, so that means it’s truly crunch time for procrastinators.”’

The forecasts are important as far as retailers are concerned, she said, and they are positive for this year.

Last year, Megan McDonald, a sophomore accounting major from San Antonio, participated in Black Friday for the first time with her mom.

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Ulta, and that was fine. It wasn’t as crazy as I expected,” she said. “I went to JC Penney, and there was a lot of people there and it was scary, so I left.”

McDonald and her mom shopped for

themselves and friends, she said, and it was a good bonding experience for the pair.

Not only are Black Friday sales predicted to be high, but mobile sales are predicted to be $1.6 billion on Thanksgiv-

ing, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to the Adobe 2014 Digital Index Online Shopping Forecast.

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Local groups help less fortunate Stidham surprises Tech coaches during Thanksgiving holiday ITEMS TO DONATE

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

With Thanksgiving coming up, local shelters are organizing events to benefit those in need.

Les Burrus, executive director of Link Ministries, said the organization manages the Tent City in Lubbock, which is a shelter for the homeless.

“We have all kinds of stuff where (people) can volunteer,” he said. “If they want to donate their time, we have a lot of donations like clothes that we need to get processed. If they want to do a drive for clothes, we can always use the heavy-duty blankets, long underwear and really long winter socks.”

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Texas Tech offensive coordinator Eric Morris said although he stays in close contact with five-star Tech commit Jarrett Stidham, he was never informed the quarterback would be playing in Stephenville’s playoff game Friday night against Estacado.

Morris said he talks to Stidham, who will be at Tech in the spring, three to four times a week, but he did not find out about Stidham playing until a friend texted him Friday night.

“That’s what type of kid he is,” Morris said. “He definitely went kind of gangster on us, not telling us. He knew we probably would say ‘hey, you probably should sit this one out,’ and he didn’t want to do that. Kid that wanted to play for Stephenville where it means a lot to him. You know, play for all his friends.”

On Oct. 24, Stidham broke his right hand during a game and underwent surgery a few days later. Coaches expected him to not play for about six weeks, if his team were still playing by that time.

Stidham returned four weeks after the injury.

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“More impressive to us,” Morris said, “it just shows what kind of competitor he is. He’s a tough kid that wants to be out there and loves playing football.”

Stephenville, Stidham’s team, went on to win the game 69-60.

In the game Stidham suffered the broken hand, Stephenville lost to Big Spring 64-57.

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RESEARCHERS FOUND THOSE with a higher unemployment rate tweeted more during the morning and early afternoon. They were also found to be tweeting more about jobs than others.

By NICOLAS LOPEZ Staff Writer

Social media technology is changing as researchers have found a link between Twitter use and unemployment levels in an area.

Researchers at the Autonomous University of Madrid released a report showing a connection between unemployment and use of the social media site Twitter.

According to the report, human behavior is very closely linked to citizens’ social and economic status and the use of social media is directly affected by those socioeconomic factors.

“From our movements around the city, to our daily schedules, to the communication with others, humans perform different actions along the day that reflect and impact their economical situation,” according to the report.

By tracking Twitter, researchers found that people who live in areas in Spain with higher levels of unemployed individuals tweet more often and during the morning hours than those in areas with less unemployment. The tweeting unemployed also are more likely to men-

New Jersey looks at ‘yes means yes’ policies TRENTON (AP) — You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things to the next level. She seems to be throwing all the right signals.

But if things turn sexual, are you sure that will hold up under legal scrutiny?

That’s a question at the center of a national debate surrounding “yes means yes” — more accurately called affirmative consent — the policy that requires conscious, voluntary agreement between partners to have sex.

A new proposal in New Jersey makes it the latest state moving to require college campuses to define when “yes means yes” in an effort to stem the tide of sexual assaults.

Whether the policy will reduce assaults remains unclear, but states and universities across the U.S. are under pressure to change how they handle rape allegations.

California adopted a similar measure in August, and New York’s governor directed the State University of New York system to implement a similar standard.

New Hampshire lawmakers are also considering it.

Supporters and critics agree the measure could encourage students to talk openly and clearly about sex and that a culture of “yes means yes” — an affirmative agreement compared with the

“no means no” refrain of previous decades — could help address the issue of campus sex assaults.

Laura Dunn, executive director of the sexual assault survivors’ organization SurvJustice, said she was raped as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin in 2004, after a night of drinking at a party by two men and fellow members of the crew team. She agreed to be identified by The Associated Press.

Dunn believes such a standard could have helped her case during campus judicial proceedings, which failed to find wrongdoing.

Her experience led her to become an advocate for sexual assault survivors, she said.

“Had they had an affirmative consent standard they would have realized I would never have consented,” she said.

But skeptics of the policy raise questions — many of which have yet to be settled because the standard is new and it is unclear how many cases have been subjected to the standard— about whether it offers enough protections to the accuser and accused alike.

Affirmative consent standards could unfairly shift the burden of proof to the accused, critics say, pointing out that any sexual contact could then be ruled inappropriate absent some proof of consent.

Some critics also say they could prove to be unfair to victims, who may themselves facing a heavier burden during campus tribunals under Title IX — widely known as the law governing the role of men and women in athletics, but which also aims to protect students from sexual discrimination — which currently defines the standard as “unwelcome and offensive touching.”

Yes means yes “sounds so darn good,” said Wendy Murphy, an adjunct professor at New England Law and an attorney handling sex assault cases. “(But) it doesn’t get better than ‘unwelcome and offensive.’”

Some students, though, express skepticism over the “unwelcome and offensive” standard, saying it fails to convey the seriousness of sexual assault. Student groups at Harvard started a petition last month to get their university to adopt affirmative consent language.

“We certainly agree with the university’s desire to address a wide range of behaviors through their policy,” said Jessica Fournier, a member of Our Harvard Can Do Better, one of the groups organizing the petition. “However, we believe referring to these acts simply as ‘unwelcome’ does not encapsulate the severity of these actions.”

Nationally, reports of forcible sexual offenses on campus rose from 3,443 in 2011 to 4,062, according to the Education Department. In New Jersey, the figure rose from 78 in 2011 to 83 in 2012, the most recent year available. That’s because of increased reporting of crimes due to a culture change and greater support for victims, said Paul Shelly of the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities. Indeed, only 13 percent of forcible sexual assault victims reported the crime to police or campus authorities, according to a 2007 National Institute of Justice study.

What changed, experts said, are students’ attitudes.

“It’s great that it’s receiving this attention, but it’s not a new issue. I think what’s fueling it are student protests about how their institutions have mishandled cases,” said Sarah McMahon, the co-director of Rutgers’ Center on Violence Against Women and Children.

In New Jersey, state Sen. Jim Beach introduced legislation since the debate was making waves nationally. The bill that would withhold state funds from colleges and universities unless they adopt an affirmative consent standard is still waiting for its day in committee.

tion jobs in their tweets and more likely to make spelling mistakes.

Trent Seltzer, Texas Tech department of public relations chairperson and Outpost faculty lead, said social media is commonly used to find employment in the world today.

The Outpost is Tech’s social media lab used to research trends in the media, according to The Outpost website.

“It kind of makes sense that if they’re using it to try to actively seek jobs, that makes sense,” he said. “It makes sense that they’re more likely to be using it to kind of pass time if they are not actually at work, that would make sense as well.”

The study analyzed 19.6 million geo-located tweets made in Spain from Nov. 29, 2012 until June 30, 2013.

According to the study, there are some areas where there is less Twitter usage that contradicts the findings, but the volume of information collected and analyzed shows that there is a connection between socioeconomic status and social media usage.

William Tauber, a senior crop and soil science major from The Colony, said he does use social media because between the demands of school, work

and involvement in research he does not find a lot of time to use it.

“I spend like an hour a week on Facebook,” he said. “Usually I don’t check my Facebook for four or more days at a time and then I’ll just get on there, and often times I won’t even write back if someone writes me a message because I really, I don’t have it for that purpose.”

Raymond Compton, a freshman theater arts major from Pearland, said he uses Twitter more often during his free time than if he is actually engaged with a task or schoolwork.

“If I am actually doing something, you know like having fun with friends, I won’t really look at it as much,” he said.

According to MIT Technology Review, Alejandro Llorente, Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento at the Autonomous University of Madrid, said social media can be used to analyze multiple factors in people’s everyday lives.

“The immediacy of social media may also allow governments to better measure and understand the effect of policies, social changes, natural or manmade disasters in the economical status of cities in almost real time,” he said. ➤➤nlopez@dailytoreador.com

STRESS TEST

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RAY HENRY, A sophomore physics major from Waco, makes a stress ball Monday in the Student Union Building. The Tech Activities Board hosted the MYO Stress Ball event.

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Monday’s Puzzle Solved

FORT WORTH (AP) — Federal regulators said Monday that the largest coal-fired power plants in Texas should invest more than $2 billion in new technology to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions, but the state’s coal regulator said the plan would increase costs for consumers while doing little for the environment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a report rejecting most of a 2009 plan from the state to reduce haze in national parks and other federally protected land. The state had proposed retrofitting some plants with air-filtering equipment, work that has since been done, and extending a timeline to

return parks to their natural state.

But the EPA said that wasn’t enough in Texas, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and industrial pollution in the nation.

“Our proposed action would almost double the visibility improvements over Texas’ proposed action,” EPA spokesman David Gray told The Associated Press on Monday.

Under the EPA’s 260-page plan, 15 boilers at eight coal-fired plants would be retrofitted with high-tech filtering machinery known as scrubbers. The EPA said that would help clear the air near parks and refuges in Texas and Oklahoma, and annually cut

about 230,000 tons of sulfur dioxide emissions. Sulfur dioxide is a toxic gas that is a primary cause of acid rain and linked to adverse effects on the human respiratory system, according to the EPA. The plants would have five years to reach pollution reduction targets.

Half of the plants are operated

by Luminant, Texas’ largest electric utility and the biggest coal miner in the state. According to the EPA’s cost analysis, Luminant would need to spend more than $1 billion in upgrades to retrofit its coal plants.

Luminant spokesman Brad Watson said Monday that the company was “reviewing and

analyzing” how the ruling would affect its plants.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which compiled the state’s original sulfur dioxide plan, also is grappling with another EPA mandate to slash carbon emissions.

Under that plan, unveiled in June, Texas would need to cut carbon emissions by 39 percent.

The EPA’s broader plan calls for a 30 percent nationwide reduction by 2030. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the electric distribution grid operator for most of the state, said earlier this month that the carbon-emissions mandate would shut down half the state’s coal-fired power plants.

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FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — A crowd gathered in Ferguson erupted in anger, throwing things at police and knocking down a barricade as a county prosecutor announced that police Officer Darren Wilson will not face charges in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

As St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch read his statement on the decision Monday night, a crowd gathered around a car from which his news conference was be-

ing broadcast on a stereo. Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, sat atop the vehicle.

When the decision was announced, McSpadden burst into tears and began screaming before being whisked away by supporters.

The crowd converged on a barricade where police in riot gear stood along the street. They pushed the barricade down and began pelting police with items, including a bullhorn.

Officers stood their ground.

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HSC recognized as top online college

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news release, t h e s c h o o l ’s administration works to ensure that the quality of education is the same in the online proSATTERWHITE grams offered as it is in HSC’s face-to-face classes.

“As a result, they continue to grow in popularity and related enrollment,” he said. “We are proud of our faculty, support staff and students within our various online programs.”

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Texas Tech University’s Health Sciences Center was recently ranked in Edudemic’s list of the Top 25 Online Colleges in the state of Texas.

Tech’s Health Sciences Center ranked number 24 out of 25 on the list.

It was the only health science center to be recognized in the whole list.

Robin Satterwhite, dean of the HSC School of Allied Health Sciences, said, according to a Tech

The HSC was recognized for its efforts in diverse online education options and student support offered in the programs, according to the list.

There were 488 schools evaluated in order to identify, interview and decide which is the best online program in Texas, according to the release.

According to Edudemic the list was decided after looking at the cost of tuition, academic support, retention of information, graduation rates, program offerings and course diversity for each course examined, according

to the release.

HSC currently offers nine programs that students can complete online and do not have to be on location to participate in, according to the release.

These programs include clinical services, managements and registered nurse courses to clinical laboratory sciences for bachelor’s degrees, according to the Tech HSC website.

The online service also includes master’s programs, which vary from science clinical practice management, nursing education, nursing administration and reha-

bilitation counseling, according to the website.

Jessica Bagwell, senior editor of the HSC Office of Communications and Marketing, said it is important to the school that they are the only health sciences center on the list.

“We are the only health sciences center on the list, which means we are a top choice for prospective students seeking a health care education, graduate or bachelor’s degree without the traditional classroom,” she said.

According to the Edudemic’s list, the survey was conducted

so schools that offer opportunities like online bachelor degree programs could be recognized, according to the list.

The prospective students for these programs are not looking for on-campus visits, late nights at the library and no lines at the bookstore, according to the Edudemic website.

Other schools listed included West Texas A&M, No. 1; Angelo State, No. 2; and Remington College-Dallas Campus, No. 2, according to the list. Tech’s main online program was ranked no. 8. ➤➤jlaurel@dailytoreador.com

Man confesses to killing women

FLYING DISCS

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CARSON WILDER, A freshman exercise and sport sciences major from Houston, throws a flying disc Monday night outside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

SANTA ANA (AP) — Steven Dean Gordon spent hours methodically telling a police detective how he and an accomplice randomly chose five women to rape, strangle and throw into trash bins.

He grew agitated when the detective failed to ask about the women in the order in which they were killed, according to a grand jury transcript unsealed Monday.

During the 13 1/2 hours of interrogation, Gordon told Anaheim police Detective Julissa Trapp that there was one victim that she didn’t know about. He also referred to a newspaper article about a string of missing women who included several of the victims, Trapp told the grand jury.

“He would actually stop me and tell me he wanted to talk about them in order,” Trapp said. “I mean, he had actually rearranged the photographs I had shown him and put them in order.”

The grand jury returned four murder and rape indictments against Gordon, 45, and codefendant Frank Cano, 28. The fifth victim described by Gordon has never been identified.

The crimes, carried out in Orange County during a fivemonth period ending in March,

attracted widespread attention when it was revealed that the suspects, both convicted sex offenders who were homeless, were wearing electronic tracking anklets.

Gordon at first sought to protect Cano in his account of the crimes. But when Trapp told Gordon that Cano didn’t want to talk to him, Gordon seemed upset and changed his story to implicate Cano in much greater detail, Trapp said.

He told police he picked up the women in his car while Cano hid in the back seat and overpowered them when they got in.

The women were raped behind an Anaheim paint and body shop where Gordon and Cano camped.

Cano strangled the women and Gordon punched them in the stomach “to get the air out faster,” Trapp told the grand jury.

At one point, he grew enraged when one of the victims noticed his electronic anklet, she said.

“He ultimately made a statement that once he started, he couldn’t stop,” Trapp said.

Gordon and Cano have pleaded not guilty. Cano’s attorney, Houman Fakhimi, and Gordon’s attorney, Denise Gragg, did not return calls and emails.

Gordon told Trapp that he didn’t want to kill Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, the last woman to

die, because she was beautiful, but when she refused to stay with them, he decided that she had to be killed, too.

She fought back and sprayed them with mace.

Even then, Gordon said, he tried to kiss her after she was unconscious and when Cano was looking away.

“This infuriated Cano and he told me that Cano proceeded to stomp on her neck several times to kill her, and then they discarded her in the trash can,” Trapp told the grand jury.

Estepp’s naked body was found on a conveyor belt at a recycling plant — a discovery that would lead police to link her death to the disappearance of three other women in nearby Santa Ana and ultimately help them solve all four cases.

Police used a tattoo of Estepp’s mother’s name on the back of her neck to identify her.

Fingerprints and addresses on trash found with Estepp’s body allowed police to pinpoint the trash bin her body had been in.

Detectives then searched a database of sex offenders wearing tracking devices and found that Cano had been at the locations where all four women disappeared at the times they vanished and also near the trash bin shortly thereafter.

POLICE BLOTTER

Officer investigates theft of alcohol from United Supermarkets Arena

Friday 11:57 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated theft at an unknown location on campus. An unsecured wallet was taken.

12:06 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Holden Hall.

An unsecured black Ozone bicycle was taken.

1:45 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Chemistry building. $100 in US currency was taken from an unsecured wallet.

1:58 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the Z4R parking lot. An unattended vehicle was hit.

2:26 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Talkington Residence Hall. An unsecured wallet was taken.

10:10 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for outstanding Lubbock Police Department warrants

in the 2700 block of 4th Street. The non-student was charged and released for driving with an invalid license.

The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The nonstudent’s vehicle was released to a family member.

10:12 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for the possession of alcohol by a minor in Weymouth Residence Hall.

The student signed the citation and was released.

10:26 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a false alarm or report at Weymouth Residence Hall. The fire alarm pull station was activated.

10:50 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication at Weymouth Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:09 p.m. — A Tech officer

charged and released a non-student for public intoxication in Chitwood Residence Hall. The non-student was extremely intoxicated and was transported to University Medical Center Emergency Room by Emergency Medical Services.

1:18 p.m. — A Tech officer charged and released a non-student for theft at the United Supermarkets Arena.

The non-student consumed numerous bottles of alcohol from various suites inside the arena.

1:33 p.m. — A Tech officer issued six students Lubbock County citations for possession of alcohol by a minor in Murdough Residence Hall. The six students signed the citations and were released.

2:36 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in Murdough Residence Hall. One exit sign was damaged.

Saturday 9:32 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the Grounds Maintenance Storage Yard located at 10th and Texas Tech Parkway. A Honda lawnmower and a trailer hitch ball were taken.

10:39 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Sneed Residence Hall.

Toilet paper rolls were taken.

3:02 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated burglary of a habitation at Chitwood Residence Hall. A student reported an unsecured MacBook computer taken from her room.

3:17 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Z3G parking lot. The roof and hood of a vehicle was damaged.

4:40 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Z4P parking lot. A vehicle’s front windshield was shattered and the rear

passenger window was scratched.

5:57 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the R16 parking lot. An unattended vehicle was hit.

7:41 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Weymouth Residence Hall. A red T-shirt was taken.

10:41 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, in the C2 parking lot. A stop sign was struck by a vehicle, which left the scene.

11:58 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for the consumption of alcohol by a minor in Weymouth Residence Hall.

12:37 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in Chitwood Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:35 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for the consumption

of alcohol by a minor in Weymouth Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The student was also charged and released for criminal mischief. The student kicked the water fountain off of the wall in the Weymouth Residence Hall lobby.

Sunday 3:15 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated the burglary of a building in the Tech library. The window to the door was removed and a secured Toshiba laptop computer was taken.

8:02 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in an unknown location.

A student’s charm bracelet was taken.

1:26 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Murdough Residence Hall. An exit sign was damaged.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Tech Police Department.

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Big 12 should expand to 12 teams Kyle T Jacobson he Big 12 conference is one of five so-called “power conferences” along with the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big Ten, the Southeastern Conference and the Pacific 12. However, the Big 12 is (quite ironically) the only conference that doesn’t have at least 12 teams.

There are 14 members in the ACC, Big Ten and SEC, while there are 12 members in the Pac-12.

This is an important difference, because a conference must have at least 12 teams in order to be split into divisions and have a championship football game at the end of the season between the two division leaders within the conference. With 10 teams, the Big 12 plays a “round robin” schedule, meaning each team plays one another during the regular season and a champion is determined at the end of the year.

This format is problematic for a couple of reasons.

First, it is very possible for there to be a tie among two or even three teams at the top of the standings when all is said and done. Second, with the new college football playoff, lacking a championship game could be the difference between the Big 12 being represented in the final four or not.

This scenario could even happen as early as this year. Baylor and Texas Christian could both finish the season 11-1, which is a very good record. However, teams like Ohio State, UCLA and Georgia could potentially be playing in a conference championship game on the last week of the season. If any one of these teams were to defeat a top five opponent on the last week of the season, the playoff selection committee could easily look past the Big 12 and insert one of the aforementioned teams instead.

Many fans wonder why the Big 12 is behind the other power five conferences in this regard. The answer is simple: money. A 10team conference splits bowl game and television revenues 10 ways.

Contrast that to the ACC, SEC and Big Ten, who split the pie 14 ways.

This is a sad truth given that the conference would benefit from having 12 teams in so many ways other than money. Being left out of the playoff could be just what the

Big 12 commissioner and athletic directors need to spark an expansion to 12 teams.

If the conference were to expand west, the two most obvious options to add to the conference would be Boise State in Idaho and Brigham Young in Utah. Both football programs are very solid despite not playing in power five conferences. There are two issues with this, however.

First, the media market in Boise (109th largest in the country according to Nielsen rankings) doesn’t help. This wouldn’t add enough revenue and the conference won’t add one western university without another to compliment it. While both Boise State and BYU are decent regional fits and competitive programs, they would not contribute nearly as much as other major media markets within the conference such as Dallas (5th), Austin (39th), Oklahoma City (44th) and Kansas City (31st).

The other glaring problem with the westward expansion idea is the “island” of West Virginia. With four schools in Texas, two in Oklahoma and two in Kansas, most of the conference members are all pretty close to one another.

In-state foes Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are 84 miles apart.

Texas, Baylor and TCU are all within a stretch of 186 miles of each other on Interstate 35. West Virginia’s three closest conference opponents are Iowa State, Kansas and Kansas State at 859, 901 and 981 miles away, respectively. Adding schools from Idaho and Utah would only exacerbate this problem. The Big 12 must expand eastward in order to help out West Virginia a little bit and diminish the “island” effect.

The University of Cincinnati seems like the most obvious choice for the Big 12’s 11th member. They are currently not in a power five conference, so adding them would be relatively easy. Successful in both football and basketball on a regular basis and in a solid media market

(36th), Cincinnati would not only enhance the competition of the conference but also bring in its fair share of revenue.

A little bonus for Cincinnati is that it is 306 miles from West Virginia’s campus in Morgantown.

While not exactly next-door neighbors, I’m sure West Virginia players would prefer traveling to Cincinnati more so than their potential 2,189mile trip to Boise, Idaho or 1,910mile trip to Provo, Utah.

The University of Central Florida is an often talked about potential member for the Big 12. I disagree.

Its media market potential is great, with Orlando being 18th in the country according to the Nielsen rankings. Central Florida, though east of all the current Big 12 schools, would not really help with the West Virginia island problem, as the two campuses are 899 miles apart. All this would do is create a second island for the other Big 12 members.

The 12th member of the conference should be the University of Memphis. This seems like a total wild card, but it actually makes a lot of sense. The logistics are there; Memphis is a decent sized media market (50th) and is another university closer to West Virginia than any other current members at 743 miles, which isn’t much, but it’s an improvement nonetheless.

Memphis wouldn’t add a whole lot to the conference immediately from a football standpoint, but it would expand the Big 12’s presence into SEC territory, which is important for recruiting high school athletes to play in the conference.

Memphis would be a great basketball addition to the conference, as its program obtains consistent success.

With the added revenue of a conference championship game and the potential added revenue and prestige that come with making the college football playoff, the Big 12 would be foolish to not add two teams. Given their location, media markets and athletic contributions, Cincinnati and Memphis should be added to the Big 12 sooner rather than later.

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

Black Friday shows materialism, detracts from holiday

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lack Friday kicks off the holiday shopping season and occurs the day after Thanksgiving. Many stores will open up around midnight to facilitate the amount of shoppers and their craze to save some dollars.

The National Retail Federation releases figures for each season and estimated the average shopper last Black Friday spent $413, meaning a total of $61 billion exchanged hands on that day.

As we have all heard and are aware of, Black Friday does not come and go without fists flying, people being trampled and sometimes losing their lives.

According to an article in The Los Angeles Times, police officers responded to a shooting in a Wal-Mart parking lot that started with a dispute over a parking space. Both were arguing over the same spot before shots rang out, fortunately leaving neither with life threatening injuries.

From the same article, in 2012, on a “Friday morning in Texas, two customers inside a Sears got into a confrontation, with one man throwing a punch and the other pulling a gun, sparking a stampede that injured a third customer.”

It’s ironic to think in the spirit of shopping for loved ones, beating people over the head or literally running over people’s bodies to get that special gift has become commonplace for our society on this embarrassing showcase of our holiday spirit.

Fantastic — you got your son the Xbox after killing someone else’s parent en route to get their child a gift, a shameful act emerging from the holiday hustle and bustle.

In order to combat some of the madness, Wal-Mart released plans a couple of weeks ago including a preBlack Friday Wal-Mart sale, which offers hundreds of items on sale for 10 days up to Black Friday and

Nick Smith also separated their different times to list items on sale instead of the traditional Thanksgiving midnight rampage.

Further things stores do involve listing their floor plans and dividing up sections as to navigate the stampede so that shoppers may take the most concise route and may plan their route while shopping around everyone else.

While this is all great, it seems to mask the real problem that people have become grossly obsessed with saving a few bucks and expanding their right to property by purchasing a bunch of junk to keep up with the Jones’ and harming everyone else along the way.

The holidays are supposed to be a

time to spend with family and enjoy the company of loved ones, not to buy them hordes of junk at a cheap price which will be in the trash in a few years or broken in a week.

People’s obsession with obtaining property and material goods takes away from the real satisfaction of the holiday season — finding time to relax and have fun with loved ones.

No matter how much more convenient stores make it to buy stuff at a discounted price around the busy shopping season, people will continue to harm others and act barbarically at the possibility of saving a few extra bucks acquiring material possessions.

More thought should be given to our actions and the true satisfaction of the holiday season.

To all of those going shopping over the break, stay safe and enjoy the company of your loved ones.

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Rape jokes indicative of casual rape discourse I remember when I heard my first rape joke. I was seven years old, sitting at the breakfast table with my friend Brian and his sister Christina (who was a few years older than us).

We were eating Grape-Nuts cereal.

Brian put his hand over the “G” on the front of the cereal box and snickered.

I knew virtually nothing about rape; I don’t remember whether I laughed. I do remember that Christina was angry; she yelled at her brother — she may even have hit him. She left the table and went off to find her parents. I remember that morning vividly. Brian had somehow already learned, at an alarmingly precocious age, how provocative the very word “rape” can be, and he used it to get a rise out of his sister. For an annoying little brother, this counted as a win.

The very word ‘rape’ has a visceral power that seems to bypass our ears and goes right into our guts. For many popular writers and performers, joking about rape is an easy way to be edgy and provocative. Aristophanes, the Greek comic playwright, joked about a man raping his wife because he knew his (all male) audience would find it entertaining.

Almost three thousand years later, a similar principle holds: Rape jokes are all over comedy clubs, major movies and national television (as a starting point, search ‘Simpsons/Family Guy rape joke’ for the latest prime-time example). The “no means yes, yes means anal” slogan put up by Phi Delta Theta brothers at a recent party has been looked on by many people in our community as “just a joke.” As in the broader American culture, so in the culture on Texas Tech campus: Men make rape jokes as way to be funny, get attention and be provocative.

While rape jokes can be provocative, they are also, paradoxically,

invisible. We’ve all heard the word “rape” used in casual, out-of-context ways to describe something much less serious than sexual assault, like getting “raped” by an exam. A few weeks ago I was at dinner with two other Tech faculty members, one of whom made a passing reference to someone getting (metaphorically) “prison raped.”

In a powerful April 2014 piece

by The Huffington Post, Amelia Shroyer, herself a survivor of multiple rapes, plead with her readership to stop making these kinds of off-hand, casual references to rape and sexual assault. “I’m speaking up,” she wrote, “because we live in a society that systematically desensitizes people to the severity of sexual violence through their language, the way victims are treated publicly, and the ways in which media repeatedly depict sexual violence in a graphic manner.”

The casual invisibility of rape jokes mirrors the tragic invisibility of many victims of sexual assault, which is one of the most under-reported crimes, according to the Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey: 2008-2012.

The statistics are worth pondering: while 1 in 6 women in America and 1 in 33 men will be the victim of an attempted or completed rape, roughly 60 percent of all sexual assaults will not be reported to police.

Why would this be?

One particularly disturbing recent study by Heather Hlavka at Marquette University shows that the tendency of young women not to report incidents of sexual violence is due in part to the fact that this violence has become normalized; in other words, young women see sexual violence as a normal (though still traumatizing) part of day-to-day life. This is just one facet.

In her opinion piece in a recent edition of The Daily Toreador, Profes-

sor Dana Weiser laid out other important facts about under-reporting, like common tendency to blame women for their own assaults (by wearing the wrong thing, having too many drinks, walking alone late at night, and on and on).

The statistics on under-reporting should make us think twice about the impact of rape jokes and outof-context rape discourse, both in mainstream American entertainment and in our day-to-day lives. To quote Amelia Shoyer again, “When I hear the word ‘rape,’ especially when it is used out of context, it makes me extremely uncomfortable.

Often, it can be a trigger, causing fragments of my assaults to come flooding back.”

We need to stop thinking about rape jokes and casual rape discourse from the speaker’s perspective and start thinking about it from the perspective of our audience, many of whom — on Tech campus and beyond — are privately dealing with the trauma of sexual assaults which they are not comfortable bringing out into the open.

In her book “Transforming a Rape Culture,” Emilie Buchwald wrote that “boys take in misogyny with their breakfast cereal.” My own experience suggests how early rape jokes and casual rape discourse becomes part of our habits of mind — it is both unremarkable and remarkable that a 7-year old can make a rape joke in an ordinary context over a morning meal.

It is encouraging that there is a strong movement right now to be more conscious of how our discourse can impact us. By being more conscious, we can work together to dismantle the insidious rape culture.

Corby Kelly Assistant Professor of Classics Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures

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Relax over break but do not forget school F

or some students, the first thing that comes to mind when they think of a break is complete freedom from the responsibilities of schoolwork and academics.

For others, they cannot help but continuously stress over the holidays and spend the whole time preparing for those dreaded finals.

There is a fine line between too much time relaxing during the break and not enough time. After all, it is called a break, so you have time to do both.

Some schools, not including Texas Tech, have finals before the Thanksgiving break so students

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Liana Solis do not spend the break stressing and worrying.

Because of the way our system is set up, however, students get a five-day break to go home to spend Thanksgiving with their families as well as have some extra time to prepare for finals.

Although we still have a few class days when we return, as well as

a dead day completely dedicated to giving students a break to study, it is smart to start looking over those notes from class or get a head start on that paper that is due by the end of the semester.

Many students wait until dead day or the day before a final to start studying, which may work for some, but it is not recommended for most students.

Students may look at a piece of information and think they know it, according to an article

by BBC America, but recognizing something is not the same thing as recalling it.

Cramming for a test is not the

uses volunteers, and, according to for single mothers, the elderly, those its website, individuals can organize with disabilities and the homeless, a food drive or register to volunteer according to its website, and they for a special event. included vouchers for turkey and Lauren Hamilton, a senior ag- other canned items. ricultural and applied economics Donations give hope to the remajor from Shepherd, said the Texas cipients and help them feel normal, Tech Agricultural Council is cur- Burrus said, and he tries to ensure rently collecting cans to donate to they are grateful for the donations the SPFB U Can Share Food Drive without expecting to receive them. running from Dec. 1-6.

“We’re helping people who are “We try to help the food bank homeless and are hard down on their whenever they have a food drive,” luck,” he said. “It helps them have she said. “We advertise the drive to hope when they see people be part all the organizations within the agri- of their life. It helps them get back cultural college, and we tend to raise on their feet in a permanent way. a large amount of cans for them.”

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If people want to help by giving hot meals, Burrus said they can call ahead and arrange to work preparing meals for the homeless.

“This is a big season for giving,” he said. “We take anything we can get. While it’s great to be donating, we try to get people’s mindset to give during other times, like in April, as well.”

The Salvation Army also provides meals during Thanksgiving, according to its website, and it serves more than 300 meals during the holiday.

The South Plains Food Bank also

right way to go about studying for it, therefore, it is better to start studying earlier.

However, the break is indeed a break, and should be treated as such.

Thanksgiving is a time to be spent with family, and it is a holiday for family members to swee each other when they may not get to very often, especially for college students who do not live close to their family.

Although not everyone celebrates Thanksgiving, it is still nice for students to have this time to spend with family or to just unwind from the stresses of school.

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Cyber Monday is a fairly recent, interesting phenomenon that takes place the Monday following Thanksgiving, Fowler said.

More people are shopping online for their holiday gifts because of its ease, she said.

“Cyber Monday is interesting. It really began probably about ten years ago with an advent of faster internet and people willing to buy stuff online” Fowler said. “The percentage of sales each year has increased, so it’s been very effective.”

There are going to be some people who think they have to spend their entire break studying for finals and will not have time for anything else — this is not true.

While it is smart to devote some time to preparing for after the break, it is not necessary to shove aside all free time and sacrifice precious time with family and friends.

This break is an important time to relax before the hard week of finals ahead. It is one of the only chances there will be to wind down before the week begins.

Many families look forward to having their college kids home for Thanksgiving and having the op-

portunity to see them for a few days.

Besides, nothing sounds better than relaxing a little and eating a lot of free food.

Basically, it is OK to devote time over the break to studying. In fact, it is encouraged to devote at least some time to preparing for finals.

However, make sure there is at least part of the break set aside to spending time with the family and taking some well-needed rest and relaxation.

Last year, consumers used their phones during shopping to compare prices and features while shopping, according to the forecast, and mobile devices are expected to be used this year to make purchases as well.

“ADI’s findings clearly indicate that mobile can no longer sit on the side as a separate marketing strategy,” Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst at ADI, said in the report.

According to the forecast, Thanksgiving Day will experience higher numbers of mobile sales this year than Black Friday.

Mobile will account for 31 percent of total online sales

Thanksgiving Day, hitting $418 million, which is an 88 percent increase from last year, according to the report.

Online shopping will be at the highest on Thanksgiving evening and Cyber Monday, according to the forecast.

While people shop during the holidays, Jason Bunch, a senior general studies major from Hereford, said he will not be shopping.

“I don’t want to wake up early. I like to sleep, and the stuff I want to buy I probably wouldn’t save very much on,” he said. “If I do any shopping, it’s probably online.”

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Veteran returns favor to dog Swiss museum gets art trove SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Former Sgt. William Cole’s 29 months as a special operations soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan took its toll, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and memories of a lost buddy he befriended in Ranger school.

Therapy and medicine weren’t enough to help counter his nightmares and depression, but things turned around overnight after Cole adopted Hank, a Labrador retriever.

The dog, he says, saved his life.

So when Hank was given a 50-50 chance of survival after being hit by a car, there was just one thing to do: Save him at all costs.

The bill from Texas A&M’s Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital is more than $11,200 and likely will grow. Cole has made a $1,800 down payment. He began a fundraising account called the Hank Fund

in gofundme.com ? but has yet to receive a donation.

“I would much rather have to pay an expensive bill every month than be without him,” said Cole, 27, of San Antonio. “I didn’t think it would be this high.”

Hank, in the meantime, is limping and still in pain. Cole carries him and spent $200 for a pet ramp.

They’re living in an apartment with Cole’s mother and getting by on his $1,508-a-month disability check.

Cole and Hank had lived in College Station. One day, Hank went into the back yard and got though a gate left open by a yard man. He was hit by a car on a nearby highway.

The driver took the dog to Texas A&M’s hospital and called Cole.

The dog’s injuries were severe.

Both shoulder blades were broken, a pair of ribs were fractured, a bone in his spine was broken and his lungs were taking on fluid.

“He was having a hard time breathing,” Cole told the San Antonio Express-News. “They wouldn’t let me see him right away, but the next day, when he was hooked up to the vacuum, he was pretty sad. He had fluid coming out though tubes, he was in a lot of pain, he was yelping and crying.

You could tell he was not OK.” Doctors used methadone to relieve Hank’s pain, ran an ultrasound, pumped fluids and took X-rays.

Cole had struck up a friendship with Cpl. Benjamin Kopp while they were in Ranger school in 2008. Cole then deployed to Iraq with the 75th Ranger Regiment, while Kopp served in Afghanistan.

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Gurlitt died in May at age 81, designating Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Bern as his sole heir.

A special German government task force that was already looking into the provenance of the Gurlitt art will now work closely with the Kunstmuseum Bern to return any looted art as quickly as possible, Gruetters said. The agency is checking about 240 art works in the Munich trove that may have been looted by the Nazis.

“As part of our special German responsibility toward the victims of the Nazi dictatorship, we want to ensure justice is done not only in the legal framing of the agreement, but also morally,” Gruetters said.

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Tech RB Washington runs past milestone

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

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Texas Tech running back DeAndre Washington outruns Kansas defenders during the second half of Tech’s 34-21 victory over Kansas on Oct. 18. Washington surpassed 1,000 yards rushing Saturday against Iowa State.

Junior running back DeAndre Washington needed 121 rushing yards in the last two games of the season to achieve a mark that had not been reached by a Red Raider running back since 1998.

Turns out Washington needed only one more game to reach a 1,000yard rushing season as he gained a career-high 186 yards on the ground in Saturday’s game against Iowa State.

His historic year is due to a solid offensive line leading the way, Washington said, and they were more excited about the achievement than he was.

“It’s huge. I talked about it a little bit after the game. It feels good when something hasn’t been done for a while but more so for the big guys up front,” he said. “They were more looking forward to it than I was, so I’m glad I was able to get it done for them.”

Following the win over Iowa State and reaching the mark, Washington said the he had a little celebration with the offensive line.

While this season has not gone

as planned for the Red Raiders, the junior running back has been the most consistent offensive force on the team.

Junior wide receiver Jakeem Grant said Washington has without a doubt been the most valuable player for the entire team and is one of the best running backs in the nation.

“Most definitely. When we couldn’t throw the ball, he always helped us out with the run game.

Now opponents have to play his runs like they play our passes in previous seasons,” Grant said. “DeAndre (Washington) has come out and had good looks for us and got the receivers open because DeAndre is a threat in the run game.”

After playing behind senior running back/linebacker Kenny Williams in previous seasons, Washington has handled the bulk of the carries while remaining healthy.

Williams said he could not be more proud of his teammate because he has seen how much Washington has grown through the years.

“Knowing how hard DeAndre (Washington) worked throughout the offseason and summer workouts,

it’s not surprising that he got 1,000 yards,” Williams said. “I’m extremely proud of him. I know how hard he works and how much he wanted it, and he got it.”

Now with 1,065 yards on 173 carries through 11 games, Washington has a chance to add to his total against Baylor on Saturday.

His total this season already ranks as 10th on the all-time single-season yardage leaders. He is 30 yards away from moving into ninth place.

Washington has had four games with more than 100 rushing yards this season, which leads the Big 12 Conference.

The task of running the ball effectively against Baylor won’t be easy as they lead the conference in run defense.

Washington said while the Bears defense is talented, he is confident in his ability to still help out his team.

“They’re really fast,” he said.

“Their defensive coordinator has been known to have a lot of exotic looks, so we’ll be prepared for it, and make sure we do what needs to be done this week to be prepared for that.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

Odiase earns Big 12 Conference award Robertson leads lackluster defense Texas Tech freshman forward Norense Odiase earned the Big 12 Conference Newcomer of the Week honors, according to a Big 12 news release Monday.

Odiase received the award along with West Virginia junior forward Johnathan Holton.

The last time a member of the Tech men’s basketball squad earned a Rookie of the Week award came Feb. 25, 2013 when former Red Raider Josh Gray won the award.

Odiase’s Big 12 award comes

time a member of the Tech squad after his two has earned the award. performances against the Odiase currently leads the Tech Louisiana State squad in minutes per game with an Tigers and the average of 28.7, points per game Missouri State with an average of 14, rebounds per game with eight and field goal Bears. In those percentage (.636). two games, ODIASE Odiase averOdiase and the Red Raiders aged 13 points next game will take place at 7 and seven rebounds. p.m. Tuesday night in the United Since the formation of the Big Supermarkets Arena against North12 in 1994, Odiase’s Newcomer of western State. the Week award marks the ninth ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

By EVERETT CORDER SportS editor

The Texas Tech football team is currently ranked No. 10, last place, in the Big 12 Conference in total defense.

Tech senior linebacker Pete Robertson, however, has been a bright spot on the defense, coordinator Mike Smith said, ranking second in the conference in sacks.

Robertson said the only reason the sacks are important to him is because it helps the defense get off the field faster.

“It means a lot just because it helps our team a lot more in those situations in games where I got us off the field,” he said. “Things to help with B-Jack (Branden Jackson) and J.J. Gaines and Sam Eguavoen, they help me hold off the receivers a lot so I can get out there and get a pass rush. So it means a lot to the team getting 10 sacks.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said the biggest way he has seen Robertson step up this year is in

his leadership ability.

“He’s done a great job stepping up not only his play but his leadership,” Kingsbury said. “He’s a guy guys look to because he’s played so well for us this year in those tough moments. When we need somebody to step up, be a leader and make plays, he’s taken that role on the defensive side of the ball. So I’m proud of the way he’s stepped up and embraced that role.”

Robertson, along with fellow senior Branden Jackson and Jackson Richards, has been seeing a significant amount of playing time this season, Smith said, due to a lack of depth in the defense.

In last Saturday’s game against Iowa State, safety Dorian Crawford was injured, leaving the Red Raiders with and an all-freshman secondary and no backup safeties.

Robertson said the injuries throughout the season have increased his need to step up and make big plays.

“I was putting pressure on myself because it shouldn’t have gotten to a point where they had

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to throw their bodies out of line to stop the receivers down the field,” Robertson said. “Me and Branden Jackson should have been back there and slowed the quarterback down plenty of times.”

“We tried to get back as quick as possible because they’ve got guys on the inside and outside that made plays,” he said. “The only thing to do was just throw it up there and make the play. We are going to strive to get back there every single chance we get.”

Robertson will play in his last game as a Red Raider at 2:30 this Saturday in AT&T Stadium, and although he would not comment on a future in the NFL, he said he wants to leave the school with a win.

“It would mean a lot to the team,” Robertson said. “We haven’t had a good season going on this whole season, so just winning this game against Baylor, I’d really appreciate it for our seniors, like Kenny and Bradley, and the rest of those guys.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

Perine performance surpasses OU greats NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Gloria Perine almost missed her son’s historic game.

Bad weather and illness nearly prevented her from making the trip from central Texas last Saturday when Oklahoma running back Samaje Perine set a new major college rushing record with 427 yards against Kansas.

“I would have been so upset with myself had I not gone,” she said Monday. “I knew I was going to rain.

I wasn’t feeling well, and I had a sore throat, and I had been sick. It actually crossed my mind that this was going to be the first game that I miss. But then I was like, ‘No way. I’m just going to fight through it. I’ll never miss a game.’”

Her son showed similar toughness in a performance for the ages.

He didn’t enjoy the conditions that nearly kept his mother at home during Oklahoma’s 44-7 win.

“That was horrible,” he said. “I hate rain. I would have much rather played in snow, just because my feet wouldn’t be soaked, and it wouldn’t feel like an extra 50 pounds that I’ve had on me. But you have to play through whatever weather it is, so it was a great opportunity for me to establish myself even more, and I think I did a pretty good job.”

None of Oklahoma’s great running backs ever performed like Perine did last Saturday.

Not Heisman Trophy winners Billy Vessels, Steve Owens or Billy Sims, Heisman runner-ups Adrian Peterson and Greg Pruitt, two-time Heisman finalist Joe Washington or all-time Sooner touchdown leader DeMarco Murray.