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Austin shooter had extremist views

AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas man who shot up downtown Austin buildings and tried to the burn the Mexican Consulate before he was gunned down by police harbored extremist rightwing views and appeared to be planning a broader attack against churches and government facilities, law enforcement officials said Monday.

Larry McQuilliams had multiple weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a water supply and a map of 34 downtown buildings that likely were potential targets in his pre-dawn rampage the day after Thanksgiving, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said.

McQuilliams, 49, started his attack on the consulate building and a federal courthouse. He was killed with by a single shot to the chest from a police officer as he shot at police headquarters, Acevedo said. McQuilliams fired about 200 rounds, but no one else was killed or injured.

“The one mistake he made was he came to the Austin police station and we were able to take him out pretty quickly,” Acevedo said, describing McQuilliams, a convicted felon, as a “homegrown, American extremist” and “terrorist.”

McQuilliams’ had rented a van that was parked outside the police station and was loaded with ammunition and propone fuel canisters typically used for camping. McQuilliams tried to use fireworks with the canisters to make crude but ineffective bombs and used some at the Mexican Consulate, causing a fire that was quickly extinguished.

The Associated Press observed investigators removing dozens more fuel canisters from McQuilliams’ apartment the day after the shooting.

City that banned fracking pushes back in court DENTON (AP) — The city of Denton has pushed back against lawsuits filed by oil interests and the Texas General Land Office against the fracking ban its voters approved last month.

Lawyers for the North Texas city filed a motion Monday to move the Land Office’s lawsuit from Austin district court to Denton. The Land Office has alleged the ban violates its rights as the statewide manager of mineral interests.

Denton also argued against a separate lawsuit filed by the Texas Oil and Gas Association, saying the group has not made clear its arguments that existing state authorities pre-empt any local attempts to regulate oil production.

The city says it will argue fracking has caused “heavy truck traffic, liquid spills, vibrations and other offensive results.”

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MEMBERS OF THE Black Student Association and Alpha Phi Alpha hosted a rally Monday beginning at Avenue X and Broadway. The individuals held signs in protest of the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown.

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

On Aug. 9, Michael Brown died from wounds caused by gunshots fired by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.

Wilson faced possible charges after Brown’s death, but the grand jury decided not to indict him on Nov. 24.

The Texas Tech Black Student Association and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity hosted Justice for Mike Brown, a rally to protest the grand jury’s decision, at 5 p.m. on Monday, starting at the intersection of Avenue X and Broadway.

Robyn Adams, a junior media strategies major from Houston, said the groups wanted to raise awareness in a peaceful way through the rally.

“We put it together to show awareness of the topic,” Adams said. “There is injustice going on out there with officers not only overusing their power but not being given the consequences they deserve.”

The jury’s decision sparked protests across the country, according to an article by The Associated Press, and many people raised their hands to symbolize the conflicting accounts of Brown having his hands raised when he was shot.

Some protests have been violent, including those in Ferguson, Missouri, and Adams said the Tech

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organizations did not want to be confused as hosting a violent display.

“We wanted to do something that was very peaceful, not to be confused with any violence,” she said.

“That’s not our initiative. Our initiative is to show awareness and to show that if as people we come together we can stand together.”

Wilson said he shot Brown in self-defense when he addressed the grand jury, according to an article by The Associated Press, and witness accounts contained many variations as to whether Brown had his hands raised.

Helen Hailu, a senior public relations major from Dallas and president of the Black Student Association, said she felt the killing of black Americans by law enforcement is a problem in the U.S. “Even though I am emotionally attached to this problem, I don’t think the continuance of disturbing this city would help anyone take this seriously,” she said. “I want people to take this seriously, so I wanted it to be a rally. I wanted people to come out and voice their opinions and learn. I wanted it to be a diverse group.”

A group of students and community members participated in the event, and the group marched down Broadway onto the Tech campus and ended in the Free Speech Area.

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Annual run takes place Sunday Mahomes earns Big 12 award Participants in the third annual Carol of Lights Run will run past more than 25,000 lights illuminating the Texas Tech campus when the run begins at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

There will be a one-mile, family-friendly course, according to a West Texas Endurance news release, and a 5K run for participants who want to run through Jones AT&T Stadium.

Registration will be open through the day of the race, according to the release. Individuals can sign up from 5 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the northeast corner of the Chemistry building.

Those who have already registered can pick up race packets on Friday at Cardinal’s Sport Center from 4 to 6 p.m. or on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m.

Participants can donate toys that will benefit the Rainbow Room, a center for Child Protective Services caseworkers to select donated items and give them to children and families they work with.

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Texas Tech true freshman quarterback Patrick Mahomes was named the Big 12 Conference Offensive Player of the Week Monday, according to a news release from the conference.

Mahomes was named the award-winner after completing 30-of-56 pass attempts for 598 yards, according to the release, in the Red Raiders’ 48-46 loss to Baylor on Saturday.

The 598 passing yards were the most ever recorded by a freshman in the Big 12, according to the release, breaking the record Tech sophomore quarterback Davis Webb set

against West Virginia last year.

Although it is a conference record for a freshman, Mahomes’ performance ranks fourth all-time at Tech, according to the release, and was the most passing yards by a Red Raider quarterback since Graham Harrell threw for 646 yards against Oklahoma State in 2007.

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Tech organizations celebrate Las Posadas

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MEMBERS OF THE community participate in Las Posadas, a reenactment of the Holy Family looking for a place to stay in Bethlehem, on Monday in the Health Sciences Center.

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On the evening of Dec. 1, the Health Sciences Center was filled with carols, tradition and hot chocolate as the Latino and Hispanic Faculty and Staff Association and the Cross Cultural Academic Advancement Center hosted Las Posadas.

Las Posadas is a nine day reenactment of the Biblical story of the Holy Family, Mary and Joseph, searching for a place to stay for Mary to have her baby, Beatrice Perez, a member of the Latino and Hispanic Faculty and Staff Association said.

“Las Posadas is a reenactment of the Holy Family in Bethlehem, so we’ll do a procession.

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We have stations we walk to and a narrator,” Perez said. “At the end, we’ll have carols and we’re going to enjoy some music from the Tech mariachi group.”

Traditionally in Mexico and other Hispanic cultures, Las Posadas lasts at least a week or longer, Perez said. In the past, Perez said, the event has been hosted outside on campus, but this year they chose to host at HSC. The tradition of Las Posadas is that a family procession goes door-to-door in a neighborhood and houses will host them every night, Perez said, and the week will end with carols and food.

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Texas Tech department members to retire

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ager and the interim director.

Each job gave him a different perspective of the university, he said, and he enjoyed increased responsibility with a higher title.

“I had some good mentors along the way and some good bosses along the way,” Harris said, “so all in all it was a good (experience).”

Harris graduated from Texas State Technical Institute, now Texas State Technical College in Waco, and the people at Tech were the first to contact him with a job opening.

Getting a job right out of school was the thing that drew Harris to Tech, he said, but Lubbock was a different environment than the Waco weather he was used to.

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After working for Texas Tech for a combined 47 years, Cliff Harris and Richard Whitehead, both in the Department of Environmental Health and Safety, are retiring.

The two men will be honored during a reception Wednesday in the Experimental Sciences building for their time and work at Tech, according to an email sent to students.

Harris has been a part of the Environmental Health and Safety Department at Tech for almost 22 years as the associate director.

During his time at Tech, Harris also worked as an occupational safety specialist, occupational man-

“The day I came out here to interview, we had a dust storm,” Harris said. “Me and my wife were sitting there looking at each other wondering ‘Do we want to move up here?’ but we did, and we’ve been here ever since.”

Before coming to Tech, Harris was a part of the oil business, but he switched to the safety field once he was injured on the job.

While working for a university was a culture shock at first and there was much to learn, Harris said the job has been rewarding along the way.

“I created a lot of allies along the way in order to accomplish (being a director),” he said. “At a university, you have to have allies or you’re out

of luck.”

Whitehead, the hazardous waste specialist on campus, was hired as a safety officer three days after he retired from the Air Force and then went on to work as the hazardous waste specialist for 23 years.

He was transferred to Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, and said that made accepting the job an easy decision.

“When I retired, the job was here so I just went straight from one to the other. There wasn’t a big change,” he said.

Whitehead is responsible for anything having to do with hazardous materials on campus, according to the Department of Environmental Health and Safety website, and

Working in the Department of Environmental Health and Safety is a never-ending job, Whitehead said, as the job has changed significantly over the years with the amount of waste the university collects.

“I figured after 45 years of working, I think it’s time to enjoy it all and spend some time with the grandkids and stuff like that,” Whitehead said. “It’s time to go.”

Both Whitehead and Harris said the people in their department and around the campus are the best parts of working for Tech.

Whitehead hopes, he said, that whoever takes over for him enjoys the job as much as he has.

“This group of people makes the job,” Whitehead said. “We’ve got

a crazy crew and it helps. We just have a good time, that’s the biggest thing.”

After working a total of 52 years, Harris said he believed he was at the age where he could enjoy retirement.

His plans once he leaves, he said, are to work around the house, hunt and fish more and chase his grandchildren.

“I have no reservations on leaving, it’s going to continue on whether I’m here or not and it’s got some good leadership now,” Harris said. “The department will be here and the university, I think it will continue to grow, and when it grows we need to grow.” ➤➤mmorris@dailytoreador.com

University leads others in nanoscale engineering research

By JONATHAN LAUREL

is important to engineers and in engineering, he said.

If an engineer does not take the properties at different temperatures into account it can lead to major disasters in the work field.

An example often used for this is the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, in which case the rubber O-ring failed, leading to the death of seven astronauts.

As technology advances machines get smaller and knowing characteristics of the technologies can make a huge engineering difference, McKenna said.

“The problem is known properties of a material can drasti-

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Texas Tech is leading the way in nanoscale research engineering.

Researchers titled the McKenna Group have recently developed a method for indicating the surface properties of certain materials at temperatures on the smallest of scales, nanoscale.

Leading the team of researchers is Greg McKenna, a professor of chemical engineering and the John R. Bradford Endowed Chair in Engineering.

Knowing the properties of materials at particular temperatures

POLICE BLOTTER Saturday 11:43 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer arrested a non-student for the possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after a traffic stop in the 1100 block of Flint Avenue.

The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Sunday 3:57 p.m. — A Tech officer

investigated an accident in the R7 parking lot. An unattended vehicle was hit.

11:43 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Wall Residence Hall. A ceiling tile was taken.

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

Man pleads guilty to selling fake Pollock works NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man has pleaded guilty to selling fake works by artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning in a scheme that cost art buyers about $2.5 million.

John Re, of East Hampton, pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud in Manhattan federal court.

Prosecutors said over the course of nine years he lied about the authenticity of dozens of paint-

ings, sketches and pastels. They say American artists Pollock and De Kooning were among names Re used to entice buyers.

The government says the 54-yearold Re then bought a submarine, the “U.S.S. Deep Quest.” Purchased in Texas, the submarine’s potential sale is now blocked by the court to satisfy a $2.5 million forfeiture order.

He could face up to four years in prison at an April 10 sentencing.

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cally change at the nanoscale,” McKenna said.

The nanoscale, he said, is about 1/1,000 of the diameter of a human’s hair follicle.

“The nanoscale is a funny range of sizes where materials have properties that are not what we expect, even at a step up at the microscale,” he said. “We are developing methods to characterize surface properties and relate them to nanoscale behavior using a nanoindenter and other nanomechanical measurement methods.”

McKenna and his group have looked at many polymers and explosive materials to see exactly

how surface properties varied on the nanoscale, he said, and how the surface impacts the properties on the scale.

Nanoindentation allows researchers such as McKenna to investigate how materials spring back when pushed and how the materials flow, McKenna said.

The McKenna Group’s method is called the “multi-curve method.”

It was recently published in the Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics.

Nanoindentation is becoming an important technique for characterization of material properties, especially at small sizes and for small

quantities of material. However, the time-dependent characteristics of viscoelastic materials make the application of indentation on materials, according to an excerpt from the published journal.

“With smaller machines getting smaller and smaller, knowing this information could be invaluable to engineers in the future,” McKenna said. “As people are doing more and more work with nanoelectronics progress will continue to increase in this area.”

Funding for the nanoindentation project came from The Office of Naval Research along with the McKenna Group funding given

by the National Science Foundation and the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund.

Meiyu Zhai, a Tech graduate student, was also included in the research.

According to an article from The Associated Press, nanotechnology is the next big topic being studied by researchers.

Robert Geer, senior vice president and chief operation officer of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, said nanotechnology is present in almost every device used on a daily basis, including cell phones and computers.

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no one wants to talk about,” Adams said. “It’s something that we want to bring awareness to, not only that we won’t be quiet in the face of injustice but we will also stand up.”

The White House responded to the Brown case by saying having body cameras on law enforcement officers could bridge the mistrust of officers by the public, according to an article by the Associated

Press, and President Barack Obama proposed a three-year $263 million spending package for the cameras.

The rally ended with individuals lying on the ground for four and a half minutes to symbolize the four and a half hours Brown lay dead where he was shot.

Adams said she wanted to participate in the event because the Brown case reminds her of other social issues of the past, and

she wants to say she stood up and participated.

“One of the most unfortunate things is that we will only hear one side,” Adams said. “That affects the case the most. There are no two sides of this story. Everyone says there are three sides to every story: the two people and the truth.

We won’t get the opportunity to know that.”

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Participants carried signs with sayings such as “Black is Beautiful” and walked with raised hands, and Adams said it is important for Tech to be involved as a campus community to protest issues.

“With us being in West Texas, the racial topic is a big topic that

AUSTIN (AP) — A panel of Texas lawmakers on Monday unanimously authorized spending another $86 million on the state’s law enforcement surge at the Mexico border, a move that will allow National Guard units to be gradually replaced by state troopers and surveillance technology.

The 10 Senate and House members of the bipartisan Legislative Budget Board approved the extra funding, despite Democrats’ concerns during the hearing about a “militarized” border. Some Republicans, meanwhile, worried that the National Guard may be needed for longer than planned if President Barack Obama’s recent executive action on immigration sparks a new surge of people pouring into Texas illegally.

Gov. Rick Perry ordered up to 1,000 guardsmen to the Rio Grande Valley in July amid an unprecedented wave of illegal border crossings that has since slowed, claiming at the time the influx of immigrants had made it easier for drug and criminal games to

operate. All guardsmen are set to head home by April.

The board’s vote takes funding from other, mostly unrelated parts of the state budget, including money left over after other agencies paid down outstanding debts. It means the surge is now financed through August.

The extra funding covers overtime payments that will mean the equivalent of 640 additional state troopers and other police personnel, Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said. He said that, unlike guardsman who couldn’t make arrests, troopers can stop illegal activity, moving the state “from defense to offense.”

McCraw said “saturating” the border had squeezed drug cartels operating there.

“We’ve hurt them,” he said. “We need to hurt them more.”

The number of unaccompanied minors — which accounted for much of the immigration influx — apprehended in South Texas dropped by 42 percent in October 2014 compared

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And Texas Department of Public Safety statistics using Border Patrol data show that, during the first week of the state’s Operation Strong Safety in late June, 6,606 people were apprehended where state forces were deployed. That number fell to 1,521 in the week ending Nov. 1.

Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, a McAllen Democrat, voted in favor of the new funding because he said he supported the Department of Public Safety. But he added that deploying guardsman militarized the border, hurting tourism and economic growth.

“It sends the wrong message,” Hinojosa said.

Houston Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner wondered how much money would ultimately be needed to secure the border, saying “there’s no money-making machine” inside the Legislature.

“I just don’t know if the emergency that existed, that was in effect

in June of this year, is still viewed as an emergency today,” Turner said, referring to the influx of immigrants.

But Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who was defeated in the Republican primary in March, said “the emergency continues.”

And if Texas allows the surge to expire, “The next day, it’s business as usual for the cartels,” said Dewhurst, who serves on the budget board along with House Speaker Joe Straus.

No one on the panel mentioned Obama’s move last month shielding 4 million immigrants in the U.S. from deportation. But Republican Rep. Matt Krause waited to address it as an ordinary member of the public — warning that, when the National Guard is sent home, the border could be vulnerable to another spike of immigrants crossing illegally.

“Maybe we’ve had, because of the president’s executive order, a significant uptick after Christmas,” Krause speculated. “Maybe events turn and the numbers come back up.”

Trial begins in Texas prosecutors’ deaths ROCKWALL (AP) — A former justice of the peace accused of killing a North Texas district attorney and his wife had a “treasure trove” of evidence in a storage shed, prosecutors said during opening statements Monday.

Eric Williams faces a possible death sentence for the 2013 slayings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and the prosecutor’s wife, Cynthia, at their home in Forney, just east of Dallas. Williams also is charged with fatally shooting assistant prosecutor Mark Hasse two months earlier.

Prosecutor Bill Wirskye told jurors that the storage shed’s contents pointed to Williams being the alleged gunman. Wirskye also said 20 rounds were fired inside the McLellands’ home in less than two minutes. An investigator provided early testimony on what authorities discovered at the home, where the couple was dead and dressed in their nightwear.

Authorities contend Williams was upset because the prosecutors’ office had pursued charges against

him in 2012, saying he stole county-owned computer equipment. His subsequent conviction cost him his law license and job.

Williams’ estranged wife, Kim, is accused of helping him carry out the slayings and is expected to testify against him.

Defense attorney Matthew Seymour waived his opening statement. Williams’ lawyers can give a statement later in the trial.

Jurors heard from Dallas police officer Charles Tomlinson, who discovered the McLellands shot dead in their home, and saw photos and video of the crime scene that day.

The trial was moved from Kaufman County to nearby Rockwall County, where a visiting judge from Dallas is hearing the case. Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood told The Dallas Morning News that residents were “anxiously awaiting” the case.

“People are ready to let justice prevail, so we have put this behind us,” he said. “Not that we’ll forget.”

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Free Market Institute launches pilot program

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

The McLane Company is sponsoring the McLane Teammates Reading Program at Texas Tech for the spring semester.

The Free Market Institute is in charge of the program, according to its website, and the theme for the Spring 2015 program is Freedom and Entrepreneurship.

Benjamin Powell, the director of the FMI, said the institute’s purpose is to promote free market economics.

“Intensive reading groups like this with elite undergraduates is a great way to do that,” he said.

“The program is open to any undergraduate student at Tech with an interest in the importance of political econPOWELL omy and the relationship between freedom, entrepreneurship and public policy.”

The McLane Scholars will be chosen through an application process, and interested students can apply on the FMI website until Dec. 23.

Participants are responsible for reading classic works in po-

litical economy by authors such as Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes, according to the FMI website, and the group will meet from 5 until 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the FMI Conference Room for discussion.

“We’ll study great figures in political economy from the past 200 years,” Powell said. “We examine topics related to business cycles, the culture of innovation, competition in the market place and how freedom of entrepreneurship interrelate.”

The scholars will discuss approximately 125 pages in every group meeting, according to the FMI website, and other discussion

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topics include socialist calculation, property rights and economic development, and rent seeking and stagnation.

Adam Martin, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, will lead most of the discussion seminars.

“The discussions are run like a Socratic seminar,” he said. “Essentially my role is just to ask questions about the readings and to prod them on any arguments they make regarding the readings or their implications. I’m there strictly to facilitate the discussion, and it’s mostly between the students themselves.”

Similar programs are also be-

ing launched at Southern Methodist and Baylor, and Martin said the Tech participants will interact with students in the other programs online.

Tech will also host a summit on freedom, entrepreneurship and innovation from March 6 through March 8, according to the FMI website, and a student seminar will coincide with the summit for students of all three programs.

“These texts are interesting in their own right academically,” Martin said. “They also address the vital questions about the relationships between the government and the economy that everyone should be concerned

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“The tradition is that a neighborhood hosts and the family stays in a different CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 house each night,” she said.

At the end of the evening, “We have people holding staattendants sang carols such as tions and a holy family going “Silent Night” and “Joy to the to each innkeeper.”

According to the story in the World.” The Tech Mariachi performed for an hour to conclude Bible, Mary and Joseph knocked the event. on doors in Bethlehem and were Organizers of the event denied a place to stay until the provided hot chocolate, cof- end of the night when they were fee and Christmas cookies given a stable to stay in. Accordfor attendants. ing to the Bible, that was the Felix Perez, a senior at Fren- night Jesus was born. ship High School, was the narLas Posadas is a religious rator of the event. tradition based on this story After his narration, the at- commonly celebrated in Latino tendants had a scripted response. and Hispanic cultures. Marilu

with as concerned citizens.”

The point of the program is the reading and discussion of the works, and Martin said the institute feels the readings are rich in insight.

Although the reading group is a non-credit program, Powell said, each scholar will receive a $1,000 stipend upon completion of the program at the end of the semester.

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Varela, President of Tech Unidos por un Mismo Idioma, volunteered at Las Posadas for the first time.

“In America, you do carols,” Varela said. “When you get to the Hispanic side, you have different kind of stories related to the culture and religion.”

The UMI adviser, Esther De León, invited members of UMI to volunteer at the event, Varela said.

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STUDENTS STUDY IN the library before the start of finals Monday inside the Library. Finals begin for undergraduates Friday.

TAB to host Rest, Relaxation Night To help students prepare for final exams, the Texas Tech Activities Board will host its bi-annual Rest and Relaxation Night from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Red Raider Lounge of the Student Union building.

Jameson Nogowski, a TAB graduate assistant and a higher education graduate student from Twin Valley, Minnesota, said TAB hosts this event every semester to help students relieve stress.

“It’s a place for students to recharge and take the focus off their stress for a while,” Nogowski said. “We set up a nice

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Free blue books and scantrons will be given out, Nogowski said, and the event is free for students.

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Girl Scouts byting into digital for cookie sales NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out world, the Girl Scouts are going digital to sell you cookies.

For the first time since sales began nearly 100 years, Girl Scouts of the USA will allow its young go-getters to push their wares using a mobile app or personalized websites.

But only if their scout councils and guardians say OK. “Girls have been telling us that they want to go into this space,” said Sarah Angel-Johnson, chief digital cookie executive for the organization covering about 2 million girls.

“Online is where entrepreneurship is going.”

And the best news for these digital natives: They can have cookies shipped directly to your doorstep.

More than 1 million scouts, from kindergarten-age Daisies to teens, were expected to opt in as cookieselling season cranks up this month and the scouting organization gets digital sales underway. But the tactic is intended to enhance, not replace, the paper spreadsheets used to generate an estimated $800 million in cookie sales a year — at anywhere from $3.50 to $5 a box, depending on scout council.

There are important e-lessons here, scout officials said, such as better articulating and tracking goals, learning to handle customers and money in a new way, and more efficiently processing credit card information.

‘What took you so long to get online?’

We spend a lot of time thinking how do we make this safe, scalable and smart,” Kelly M. Parisi, chief communications executive for Girl Scouts of the USA, said at a recent demonstration for select media.

Councils were offered one of the two platforms but not both. For webbased sales, scouts customize their pages, using their first names only, and email prospective customers with links to click on for orders. They can also put up videos explaining who they are and what they plan to do with their proceeds.

The mobile platform offers tabs for tracking sales and allows for the sale of bundles of different kinds of cookies.

It can be used on a phone or tablet.

“They can get them quicker than waiting for me to deliver them because sometimes it takes me a long time to deliver,” offered 11-year-old Priscilla at the preview. The adults at the event asked that only first names of scouts be used.

Added 7-year-old Anna: “My favorite part is that now I can sell more Girl Scout Cookies.” She pulled down about 200 boxes last year and has upped her goal to 600.

Girl Scouts use their cookie money to pay for community service work or troop activities such as camping and other trips.

The websites will not be accessible without an email invitation, requir-

personal information is as protected as any digits out there, for both the scouts and customers, using encryption in some cases.

Much of the responsibility to limit identifying details about scouts online falls on parents.

Troop Leader Karen Porcher of the Bronx has an 11-year-old scout and is particularly psyched about the digital options. They live in a house rather than an apartment, and she and her husband work at home, eliminating at-office cookie and neighborly building sales.

“During cookie season my daughter is wearing her (scout) vest on the subway and people are so excited to see a Girl Scout,” Porcher explained.

“Strangers actually will buy a case of cookies and wait for her to call.

This is going to be amazing because now she can just say ‘Give me your business card,’ or ‘I’ll take your email address,’ send the email and they can be delivered. This is gonna be sweet.”

Porcher also sees word-ofmouth value in getting cookies delivered quickly.

“People are going to be walking around with cookies and others are going to say, ‘Whoa, how did you get those already?’”

Zack Bennett of Manhattan has a 9-year-old scout who sold more than 1,000 boxes last year. She hopes to increase her goal to 1,500 this season and went through training to learn

WASHINGTON (AP) — The No Child Left Behind education law could be making a political comeback.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who is the incoming chairman of the Senate committee overseeing education, says his top education priority is fixing the landmark Bush-era law. His goal? Get a bill signed

by President Barack Obama early next year.

Doing so will require bipartisanship that’s been elusive since the law, primarily designed to help minority and poor children, came up for renewal in 2007.

The law requires schools to show annual growth in student achievement or face consequences, with all students expected to be proficient in reading and math this year. It has been credited with shining a light on how schools handle minority, low-income, English learners and special needs students, but led to complaints that teachers were teaching to standardized tests and that mandates were unrealistic and penalties ineffective.

Obama since 2012 has allowed states to get a waiver from some of the more stringent requirements of the law, but they had to agree

to requirements such as adopting college and career ready standards — like Common Core — and implementing teacher evaluation systems with teeth. More than 40 states have a waiver.

The waivers left alone a federal requirement of annual standardized testing in grades three to eight and testing once in high school.

The testing provisions are likely to be part of the debate.

Alexander, a pragmatic lawmaker, is no stranger to education policy. He served as education secretary under George H.W. Bush, as president of the University of Tennessee and as Tennessee governor.

Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University board PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby stepped down as a trustee of his beloved Temple University following renewed accusations that he had drugged and sexually assaulted a string of women over many years.

The 77-year-old entertainer has been a high-profile booster for his alma mater in Philadelphia and a board member since 1982.

“I have always been proud of my association with Temple University. I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students.

As a result, I have tendered my resignation,” Cosby said in a state-

ment released by the university.

Board chairman Patrick O’Connor told The Associated Press that the comedian does not want to be a distraction.

“The Board of Trustees accepts Dr. Cosby’s resignation ... and thanks him for his service,” the university said in its release.

O’Connor had defended Cosby in a 2005 civil suit filed by a former Temple basketball employee who accused Cosby of drugging and molesting her at his suburban Philadelphia mansion a year earlier. Cosby, who said he gave the woman only Benadryl, later settled the lawsuit for un-

disclosed terms.

More than a dozen other women have come forward since the lawsuit was filed to make similar claims, including several who have gone public this month.

Some said they passed out after taking a drink or pill from him, and woke up with their clothes askew, and, in some cases, in physical pain.

Cosby has strongly denied wrongdoing and has never been criminally charged. A suburban Philadelphia prosecutor declined to file charges in the 2005 case, and most of the other women came forward too late.

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Shift to online learning beneficial Materialism taking in online education — online enrollment hit an all-time high in 2010 with more than 6.1 million students — but a lack of direct oversight can make it easy for them to fall behind,” according to a U.S. News article.

Many can agree that enrolling in school and committing to the demands that follow such a decision will present many challenges, with tests being one. Moving on to the next level is impossible unless adequacy is demonstrated on a piece of paper.

F o r m a n y, anxiety and nervousness are emotional impediments barring one from performing exceptionally on an exam. This factor, embedded with the pressures of performing amongst others, can be reflected in the pass/fail rates.

Interestingly enough, those who perform in virtual environments can utilize the circumstances in a positive way.

According to an article in The New York Times, “The analysis for the Department of Educa-

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Online learning technology presents opportunity for positioning and growth for competing nations today.

cally attend classes for health or other reasons.”

Even more grandiose is envisioning the impact online learning can have on those who may not be directly affected. While only a small percentile of those who are in education make up the world, the globe is a host to over seven billion individuals.

Online learning technology presents opportunity for positioning and growth for competing nations today. According to an article by The Huffington Post, “America’s lack of innovation in the classroom is to blame for this nation’s students’ underperformance in comparison with other countries’ students.

The fix? Customized learning through technological innovation.”

I myself was skeptical at one point in time of choosing whether or not to embark on the online learning train. Like many, I have learned that fear is the enemy of progress and expansion within oneself. Carrying a restrained life, vacant of risk and discovery, is indeed no way to enjoy the ride.

It is with this philosophy that one can only hope that many become daring when traversing through the years of education that are necessitated in order to attain a degree.

With the arrival of Webbased video, instant messaging and collaboration tools, online learning poses a future of possibility and efficiency.

Gonzalez is a junior public relations major from Amarillo. ➤➤ lgonzalez@dailytoreador.com

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great man once said, “Success comes to the people who work hard and have a positive mind. Always focus on your goals. One day you will reach your goals, and then all of the hard work will pay off.”

Indeed, hard work is a virtue that is stressed by many when attempting to encourage others or inspire them for success. It is therefore no surprise that Albert Einstein said, “Genius is one percent talent and 99 percent hard work.”

Certainly, it is good to work hard.

Nevertheless, success is not a direct end product of hard work. On the other end, it is the blessing of the Lord that guarantees one’s success.

In order to prevent confusion and to ensure clarity, I will limit the definition of success to the modern day societal definition simply meaning being rich or having enough to care for oneself and family.

Hard work in itself is a good virtue to possess which is why parents strive to inculcate it in their children from a very tender age.

Phrases like “push yourself more,” and “work hard, achieve more,” are all incorporated in songs we heard our parents sing to us growing up in their attempt to get us to work hard.

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go for hard-working employees due to the mistaken societal belief that hard work alone is what guarantees success.

It is this fallacy that has blinded humanity from the tried and tested source of success, which is the grace of God. This fallacy is strengthened further by several seemingly successful and prominent members of society who have from time immemorial attributed their success to their hard work.

The truth is, it is absolutely impossible to be successful with hard work alone and without the blessing of the Lord. This oftenneglected fact explains why people ostensibly work really hard and still have nothing to show for it and yet others appear to not work hard at all and are still doing well for themselves and their families.

If hard work were to be an inevitable prerequisite for success or for being rich, then incontrovertibly, the cleaners at Wal-Mart who work overtime or the farm hands spread across the nation who try to withstand inclement weather and whose hard work, work that the term “hard work” itself cannot

qualify, should be some of the richest people in the world. In fact, far richer than the CEOs who jet from state to state or country to country conducting high profiled meetings and sitting in fully air-conditioned rooms, but that is not the case. This is a practical example that hard work alone is not enough.

The Bible says in Proverbs 10:22, “It is the blessing of the Lord that maketh rich and he added no sorrows to it.” This message explains why it is impossible to become rich or successful on one’s own accord. It is about time humanity begins to recognize that only God can make them successful and start appreciating how good God has been to them.

This world works in a way where a higher celestial power rules over the affairs of men and is responsible for their daily lives. According to the Bible, in Daniel 4:28, a King named Nebuchadnezzar walked into his temple palace and said “Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?”

The Bible then says that “while the words were in the King’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven saying O King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee and they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field until thou know that the

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most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and in the same hour, he was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen.”

According to biblical scholars, this is an example of a person who failed to recognize that the Lord rules in man’s daily duties. This is why after this scenario, I find it fascinating when people say they are “self-made” and their successes are as a result of their own hard work and their efforts.

James 1:17 also says, “Do not be deceived for every good and perfect gift comes from above.” Certainly, there is a deception that people become successful through their own efforts, which is never true.

Hard work, dedication, commitment and a positive attitude are all good virtues but they can only do so much without the grace of God. I am not advocating for people to be lazy. I am simply saying that hard work alone is not enough.

When Ben Carson, an American author and former neurosurgeon, said, “Through hard work, determination and faith in God, you can live your dreams,” I believe he summarized the key ingredients that are needed for success which can never be complete without the blessing and the grace of God.

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over holiday season Kendra W Kimberlin

here did Thanksgiving go? Lost in the midst of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Americans have given up on the Thanksgiving holiday in pursuit of sales and the accumulation of material goods.

Thanksgiving is the one day of the year when the U.S. is supposed to stop and contemplate what we are thankful for, whether it’s a personal or collective thought, making the focus on being content with our situation and enjoying time with family the priority. It’s more than just a football game or sales ads where marketing has a grasp on the consumer culture — it’s about investing in others as the original Thanksgiving holiday was intended.

This year, Black Friday has seeped into Thanksgiving Day even earlier, literally taki n g i t o v e r.

How much of an advantage are corporations gaining by doing this, let alone the consumers?

Not enough to make family members desperate for the promised time and a half gain in wages.

Not stopping there, stores have made it into a four-day event ending with Cyber Monday, breaking out different stages of sales in order to maximize profits.

While it does help their stocks, and Wall Street in general is welcoming this trend with open arms, does that mean it should be the rule to follow?

The origin of Black Friday is commonly associated with accounting and financial terms as getting out of the red ink negative numbers into a black ink state of making money. Merchants aim to get into the black as soon as possible, but stepping into an ordained national holiday should not be permissible.

According to Bob Greene of CNN, “Black Friday appears to be triumphant, and it has taken on the characteristics of the holidays it mimics. Like real holidays, it occurs on a predesignated day each year. People anticipate it and mark the date.

Across the breadth of the nation they are absent from work to observe it. And when the day arrives, they congregate like ... well, like congregations.”

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It’s interesting that the only thing Black Friday is missing to be classified as an official holiday is the government stamp of approval.

While common as it is that holidays are being exploited in order to benefit the corporate culture and bottom line, can you remember every gift you’ve gotten in the last year? Most of the time that answer is no, so why put as much time and effort to give generic gifts?

The most valued gifts are often not in a shiny package wrapped neatly with a bow, but instead are memories of loved ones.

Americans should not aspire to become a culture that truly believes “you are what you consume.”

Louis Rene Beres of U.S. News writes, “ To A m e r i cans, the traditionally favored path to any such society has been selected not according to what Ralph Waldo Emerson had once called “high thinking,” but, instead, by the commonly desperate citizen search for higher net worth… Every day in America, but especially on Black Friday, the libraries are empty, but the stores are overflowing.”

How true is that — the first thing that comes to mind when applying to any job is not the lasting impact the work will actually have, but rather it’s the salary and benefits of personal gain.

If America is to be looked up to as a leader of economic, ethical and intellectual aspects, then the emphasis needs to shift from branding and consumption of temporarily used goods back to the belief people are the most valuable assets and investing in those people will have a lasting impact. This may ultimately spark a chain reaction for others to follow.

The most valued gifts are often not in a shiny package wrapped neatly with a bow, but instead are memories of loved ones. Americans should not aspire to become a culture that truly believes ‘you are what you consume.’

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Laura Gonzalez

tion found that, on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th percentile in tested performance, compared with the average classroom student scoring in the 50th percentile.

That is a modest but statistically meaningful difference.”

Students are not the only audience affected by online learning. Teachers are also beneficiaries from all that online classroom settings present. However, it is school districts that gain the most from these special learning environments in cases when Mother Nature is disruptive during ongoing school sessions.

Weather conditions have proved to be unpre dictable and severe at times, resulting in the cancellation of school days in various parts of the country.

Schools in the northeast have started to turn excessive snow days into online school days.

This move has been sufficiently beneficial and positive for teachers, students and parents.

According to an EdTech article, “Such programs offer numerous benefits. Districts don’t have to make up for lost time by adding more school days at the end of the school year. They allow students to stay on track academically if they can’t physi-

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hether you’ve weathered the demands of the classroom physically or virtually, adjusting to what best suits your unique learning process can be a challenging task. As more students venture to the online experience, many are discovering the benefits and advantages this avenue poses.

Traditions are long lasting, rooted deeply into the lives and hearts of many. Skepticism is one of the many barriers an innovator will undoubtedly face when attempting to instill change among a public. Those that carry an open mind are becoming more accepting of the virtual learning phenomenon, leading one to question the future of the classrooms.

According to a Wired article, “With the easy access to top quality lecturers online — in some cases even being able to interact with those lecturers in real time through two-way video connections, what difference does a degree make any longer, as long as you’re getting the knowledge?”

Such rationale leads to the question — if the educational content is the same, why should the medium through which that information is disseminated matter?

Classrooms have seen an increase among the range of age groups forming part of the core of learning environments today.

Flexibility is an essential aspect for older age groups that carry integral responsibilities outside of school. “A need for flexibility is one factor fueling the growth

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Red Raider seniors leave lasting legacy behind

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

After the Texas Tech football team played its final game of the season on Saturday afternoon, the Red Raider seniors walked off the field in scarlet and black for the final time.

Many of the key senior players, such as Bradley Marquez, have important decisions to make about their future.

Before coming to Tech to play football, Marquez was drafted out of high school by the New York Mets and has played baseball during three of his four summers as a Red Raider.

“I think now time has definitely come for me to sit down with coach, my mom, my family, and make the best decision for me and my career moving forward,” Marquez said. “I will graduate this next month, so I’m definitely going to be excited to get that degree, and then whether it is football, baseball or both, I’ll just weigh those options with my family and coaches and see where it leads me.”

Marquez finished the season with 65 total receptions for 821 yards and 10 touchdowns. All

three stats are career highs for the four-year wide receiver.

Despite the Red Raider wide receivers losing their position leaders and a team captain, many of the young receivers are poised to step up and try to fill Marquez’s shoes, he said.

Junior wide receiver Jakeem Grant said losing a player like Marquez is difficult but the receivers are going to use every day of the offseason to improve.

“He means a lot to this program. The leadership and just — I will tell you the big brother role, because I always look up to Bradley,” he said. “Bradley is the type of guy that does everything right.”

In the second half of the season, sophomore wide receiver Devin Lauderdale emerged as a deep threat and finished the year with seven touchdown catches.

Tech coaches have also talked about the improvement they have seen from freshman wide receiver Ian Sadler throughout the season.

Sadler finished the year with 23 receptions for 336 yards.

Sadler will be called upon to have a larger role in the offense next season as he and Marquez play the same wide receiver position.

After switching between

offense and defense in his senior year, senior running back/ linebacker Kenny Williams ended the season with a rushing touchdown and two long receiving touchdowns.

Williams also added 22 tackles and made multiple plays on special teams, which Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said is Williams’ biggest strength as a player.

The senior captain said while he has helped out some of the young running backs over the years, the position is still going to be a force without him.

“The future for Texas Tech in their running backs looks great,” he said. “We have Justin Stockton, who is one of the fastest guys on the team. DeAndre Washington is coming back for another year, a returning 1,000 yard rusher. We have (DeMarcus) Felton, who has some swift moves and is going to surprise some people.”

After being one of the coaching staff ’s favorite players in his four years as a Red Raider, Williams said he does not need attention for what he achieved at Tech, but wants people to know he came to work all the time.

“I’m just a team player,” Williams said, “that likes to work hard every day and have fun with his teammates.”

The third team captain playing in his final collegiate game on Saturday was senior linebacker Sam Eguavoen.

Eguavoen played in every game in his first three years at Tech before missing two games this season with an injury.

Saturday was his 37th career start, the most among active defensive players, according to a Tech Athletics press release.

Eguavoen recorded 226 tackles including 14.5 for a loss in his college career.

Junior linebacker Micah Aw e c o u l d l i k e l y s t e p i n t o Eguavoen’s starting role next season, as Awe did during the two games he missed this year.

“Just never giving up, never quitting, staying locked in (is what I have learned at Tech),” Eguavoen said. “New DCs come in. You know, they are going to try and play the players they want by me. Just being locked in, focusing, and just being resilient. I’m just proud of this university and everything.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH WIDE receiver Bradley Marquez catches the ball for a touchdown over Baylor cornerback Xavien Howard. Tech lost to Baylor 48-46. The game was Marquez’s last game as a Red Raider.

Volleyball players earn Big 12 honors Petty expects to play for Baylor Saturday Texas Tech volleyball sophomore middle blocker Lauren Douglass, senior outside hitter Breeann David and senior libero Rachel Brummitt made the AllBig 12 Honorable Mention list, according to a Monday Big 12 release.

Tech’s three players on the All-Big 12 Honorable Mention list mark the most selections in Tech history, according to the release, and the most since the Red Raiders joined the conference in 1996.

Brummitt finished her senior season as the all-time digs leader in Tech history with 1,624 and finished third in the Big 12 in total digs for the season with 510.

David closed out her senior season as eighth in the Big 12 for points per set with 3.58 and kills per set with 3.06.

David passed the 1,000 kill milestone during her senior season and finished with 1,011 career kills.

After transferring from Ole Miss, Douglass began her first season as a Red

Raider by earning the first Offensive Player of the Week award in the month of September, making her the first player in Tech history to earn the award.

Douglass finished her first season at Tech with 272 kills and ranked ninth in hitting percentage at .303 in the Big 12.

David, Douglass and Brummitt were also nominated to the American Volleyball Coaches Association AllRegion Awards. ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

Conference announces student-athlete incentives letes with the maximum amount of athletic aid allowed by NCAA bylaws, according to the release, grant student athletes with multi-year scholarships throughout the entirety of their eligibility and award former student athletes with athletic aid if they leave their respective school before they meet their degree requirements.

Commissioner of the Big 12 Conference Bob Bowlsby said the initiatives will further enhance the conference’s

The Big 12 Conference announced on Monday a list of student athlete initiatives it plans to enact by Aug. 1, 2015, according to a conference news release.

The new initiatives will benefit Big 12 student athletes with athletic aid to cover the full cost of attendance, provide multi-year grants, and encourage former student athletes to continue their education by providing athletic aid.

The conference will need its ten member schools to present their ath-

relationship with student athletes.

“Enacting these measures is an important step in the process of implementing a 21st century model that is responsive to the needs of our studentathletes,” Bowlsby said. “The Big 12 Conference will continue to be at the forefront of being a change agent in college athletics.”

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WACO (AP) — Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty plans to play Saturday night with another Big 12 title on the line, even while still experiencing some concussion-related symptoms.

Petty said he felt great even after waking up with a headache Monday, two days after getting knocked out of the fifth-ranked Bears’ 48-46 win over Texas Tech with what the team called a mild concussion. “(The headache) is kind of off and on, and it’s starting to get shorter on and longer off,” Petty said. “And then when it is hurting a little bit, it’s a lot lighter than it used to be.”

Petty hopes to practice, but on Monday had not yet gone through any concussion testing that would determine if he is clear to do that.

The fifth-year senior didn’t anticipate any tests until being free of symptoms after what he said was his first concussion at Baylor.

“I’ll be fine. I think it’s more exercise-induced kind of stuff, go through things, make sure everything’s OK,”

he said. “But as far as practice schedule, I should be able to go.”

Baylor (10-1, 7-1 Big 12), which didn’t practice Monday, plays No. 9 Kansas State (9-2, 7-1) with the winner of the regular-season finale guaranteed at least a share of the Big 12 title. If No. 5 TCU loses earlier Saturday to last-place Iowa State, they would be playing for the outright title.

The Bears are the defending Big 12 champions, having clinched the 2013 title outright with a home win over Texas in the regularseason finale.

Coach Art Briles does expect to have Petty back against the Wildcats.

“He was here (Sunday) and was feeling pretty good. He actually felt pretty good at the end of the game the other day,” Briles said. “Of course he took a hard shot, clean shot. But I just saw him 10 minutes ago and he’s fine. Smile on his face and determination in his heart.”

Petty threw for 210 yards and two touchdowns against the Red

Raiders before taking a high hit from linebacker Sam Eguavoen, who was penalized for a personal foul. Petty walked slowly to the sideline and then to the locker room, but wa back on the sideline before the end of the game without shoulder pads or his helmet.

“I’m in good hands and we’l make sure that everything is 100 percent,” Petty said. “I know for a fact I will be ready to go.”

Petty missed Baylor’s second game of the season Sept. 6 against FCS team Northwestern State because of two small cracked bones in his back. He got hurt in the first hal of the season opener the previous week, and didn’t play after halftime in that game. He threw for 416 yards and four touchdowns in his return a 63-21 win at Buffalo on Sept. 12.

In 10 games this season, Petty has 2,893 yards passing with 25 touchdowns and five interceptions He had 4,200 yards with 32 TDs and three interceptions in 13 games last season.

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Coaches use offseason to improve team Staff WriterS

While the Texas Tech football team has completed all 12 of its games this season, the coaches’ work is not over.

Now that the Red Raiders have played their last game, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury and athletic director Kirby Hocutt will have to make a decision about who will be defensive coordinator moving forward.

Mike Smith moved from being a linebacker coach and stepped into an interim defensive coordinator position after Matt Wallerstedt resigned in the week following the loss to Arkansas.

Kingsbury said he has not made a decision yet but thinks Smith did a great job after he was put into a tough position. “(Smith) has done a good job keeping those guys energized, enthusiastic. It wasn’t an easy situation he walked into and I applaud his effort,” Kingsbury said. “He showed up early every day and stayed late and gave it everything he had.”

Along with being asked to take over the position right before Big

12 Conference play began, Smith “He loves us. It is just in that hudhad to change plays late in the dle, I can just feel like the whole year as opponents allegedly passed defense, we’re all just one heartbeat out there around Tech’s and he’s the defensive signals during main heart the season. right there.

Although We just all no decision listen to him has been made when times are going bad yet, Kingsbury or good.” said he would Along like to anwith staff denounce who cisions, Tech the defensive coordinator coaches will will be as soon be traveling as possible for and calling the sake of rerecruits all cruits and curthroughout the offseason. rent players on ERIC MORRIS Offensive the defensive coordinator side of the ball.

OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR Eric Morris Defensive TEXAS TECH said the recaptain and senior linebacker cruiting proSam Eguavoen has been through cess begins almost immediately after multiple defensive coordinators in the final game of the season.

“We’ll get in some kids’ homes his time as a Red Raider, but said it and sit down and visit with is great playing for Smith.

“I got a lot of respect for that them,” Morris said. “The recepman. I love him,” Eguavoen said. tion has been good to this point,

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... we have to do a good job closing out and fixing some spots that we need some depth and replacements immediately.

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By JEREMY KRAKOSKY

Ryan Fitzpatrick looks to continue success against Jags HOUSTON (AP) — Ryan Fitzpatrick had one of the best games of his career in Houston’s win this weekend after two weeks on the bench.

Now coach Bill O’Brien wants to see if the quarterback and his team can build on the victory on Sunday against the Jaguars.

“The trick is can we do it again,” O’Brien said.

Fitzpatrick threw a career-high and franchise-record six touchdown passes to help Houston score the most points in team history in a 4521 win over the Titans. The veteran returned to the lineup after being benched in favor of Ryan Mallett, who suffered a season-ending chest injury a week before.

“Maybe it helped Fitz to take a step back,” O’Brien said. “You never want to see anybody get hurt like Mallett did, but maybe it helped Fitz to see how the offense was operated and he went in there and did a good job.”

Fitzpatrick had his first 300-yard passing game of the year with a season-high 358 yards passing on Sunday. His six touchdowns against Tennessee tied the number he threw in his previous five games combined.

The team went 1-4 in those games and he had three interceptions to

open the door for Mallett to take over.

He agreed with his coach that his time out of the lineup helped him handle running O’Brien’s complicated offense much better.

“I think that being able to look at it at a different perspective, take a step back, and see it from a different view, I do think it helped a little bit,” Fitzpatrick said. “I think that and me going back and evaluating myself I think those were two factors that helped me out.”

A seventh-round pick out of Harvard, the 32-year-old Fitzpatrick has alternated between starting and being a backup often during a 10-year NFL career spent with five different teams.

He said another key to his successful return was not getting down when he lost the starting job.

“To be a successful quarterback in this league, it’s all about self-confidence,” he said. “Never losing that belief in yourself and that’s something that I will never lose.”

Fitzpatrick was sacked nine times combined in the two games before his benching and admitted that he was holding the ball too long at times. He wasn’t taken down once on Sunday behind a line that O’Brien said has been playing well in the last three games.

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so we have to do a good job closing out and fixing some spots that we need some depth and replacements immediately.”

One of the biggest decisions facing the Tech staff next semester will deal with the quarterback position.

Sophomore Davis Webb, freshman Patrick Mahomes and incoming quarterback Jarrett Stidham will likely all be competing for the starting role in the spring, Kingsbury said.

Webb and Mahomes started games for Red Raiders throughout the season, but both will undergo surgeries this week to repair injures suffered late in the season, according to Tech Athletics.

After breaking his hand earlier this season, Stidham has returned for his team and posted 16 touchdowns in his previous two playoff games.

Kingsbury said having three quarterbacks capable of starting should bring out the best in each player. “(I expect it) to be a really good one,” he said. “Get Jarrett (Stidham) in there and have three really, really good players going at it.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

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KLIFF KINGSBURY YELLS from the sideline during the game against West Virginia on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Kingsbury, along with the other Tech coaches, began recruiting new players on Sunday.

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VICTORIO PEREZ, A sophomore political science major from Lubbock, plays billiards on Monday inside the Student Union building.

Coroner: Exam will look at brain of Ohio St player COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A neuropathologist will look for signs of traumatic brain injury in an Ohio State athlete who was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound and had a reported history of concussions, a coroner said Monday.

The examination, not normally part of the autopsy process, is being done on Kosta Karageorge because of that history, said Dr. Anahi Ortiz, the Franklin County coroner.

The pathologist “may or may not be able to determine any sort of abnormality or defect from traumatic brain injury,” Ortiz said.

Preliminary results from a Monday morning autopsy confirmed that Karageorge died of a gunshot wound, Ortiz said. She hasn’t yet definitively ruled it a suicide.

Columbus police said Sunday that Karageorge died of an apparent self-

inflicted gunshot wound. A handgun was found in a trash bin with him, police spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner said.

His mother, Susan Karageorge, told police her son had had several concussions and a few spells of being extremely confused.

Karageorge, 22, was a Buckeyes wrestler for three years, and the senior defensive tackle joined the football team as a walk-on this season. Although earlier reports said Karageorge played in one game, Ohio State spokesman Jerry Emig corrected that Monday, saying Karageorge had not played in any games.

A woman and her son looking for items in a trash bin Sunday found the body of Karageorge, who disappeared four days earlier after sending his parents a text message.

The message said, “I am sorry if I am an embarrassment but these concussions have my head all f----- up.”

Police reports released Monday indicated a man looking for food in the trash bin earlier in the day may have found Karageorge’s body, but he didn’t report it and instead told other people who called police.

After Karageorge went missing, the football team’s physician, Dr. Jim Borchers, said he could not comment on the medical care of student athletes.

But, he said, “We are confident in our medical procedures and policies to return athletes to participation following injury or illness.”

Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer said Monday he’d been instructed not to talk about medical issues surrounding Karageorge.

“I can say this: This is the best group of medical people I’ve ever been around, the way they handle their business and the attention to detail,” Meyer said.

Wrestling coach Tom Ryan told The

Columbus Dispatch that Karageorge did not have documented concussions as a wrestler.

Brain injuries seem to increase people’s risk for depression, though most studies on that have been with people who had severe head injuries, said Dr. Tom McAllister, chairman of psychiatry at Indiana University, who has studied concussions in college athletes.

If the person had depression or an anxiety disorder in the past, “it often is the case that the concussion seems to exacerbate it,” he said. “These injuries don’t occur in a vacuum. People bring their own past history ... into the injury.”

Police found Karageorge’s body within a couple hundred yards of his home and about a half-block from High Street, the main artery of the campus.

Karageorge had last been seen at his Columbus apartment, when roommates said he left for a walk.

Brown trying to restore Troy to former heights TROY, Ala. (AP) — Neal Brown was a 20-something assistant during much of Troy’s most successful run at the major college level.

Now, the Trojans’ 34-year-old head coach is trying to get them back to that kind of success.

“We’ve got to get back to playing with that edge that got us five conference championships and three bowl games,” Brown said Monday at his introductory news conference.

“We’re going to play fast, play hard and play physical.”

The former Texas Tech and Kentucky offensive coordinator received a four-year deal worth $660,000 annu-

ally — with a rollover for a fifth year.

Brown replaces Larry Blakeney, who retired after 24 seasons and gave his successor his shot as a 25-year-old assistant who later became the youngest offensive coordinator in Football Bowl Subdivision.

Now, Brown is major college football’s second youngest head coach.

He was a Troy assistant from 2006-09, serving as offensive coordinator for the final two seasons. Troy won four Sun Belt Conference titles during that span within its five-year reign over the league, and finished third nationally in total offense in his final season.