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Winter Raider Welcome kicks off semester.

Big 12 athletes declaring for draft changes 2019 outlook.

Column: Breaking down the fallacies of Trump’s border wall solution.

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Big 12 basketball race remains tight

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Sophomore guard Jarrett Culver advances toward the basket during Texas Tech’s game against Oklahoma on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in the United Supermarkets Arena. The No. 8 Red Raiders are the only Big 12 team still undefeated in conference play. CIARA PEROZZI/The Daily Toreador

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he Big 12 Conference has three of its teams in the Associated Press Top 25 poll and all its teams in the Top 100.

With No. 8 Tech just beginning Big 12 play, the Red Raiders will have to take on each of these teams twice before the postseason begins.

Kansas leads the Big 12 in the AP Top 25 poll at the No. 7 spot but is second in the conference after losing to Iowa State, 77-60, on Saturday, Jan. 5, according to sportsreference.com.

The Jayhawks have scored the third highest points in the Big 12, shooting 78.8 points per game.

Junior forward Dedric Lawson is second in the conference with 19.2 points per game and first with 10.6 rebounds per game, according to big12statistics.com.

Tech remains at No. 8 in the AP Top 25 poll and is in first place in the Big 12 after defeating No. 20 Oklahoma on Tuesday, Jan. 8, and Texas on Saturday, Jan. 12.

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Professionals share advice on keeping resolutions

Parking impacted by campus construction

By AKHILA REDDY

The aspirations people center their resolutions around usually begin as relatively abstract dreams, At the beginning of every new Trey Gardenhire, senior analyst in year, many students take advan- the Texas Tech Human Resources tage of the fresh start by partici- department, said. The first step in pating in a time-honored tradition: making those dreams a reality are making New Year’s resolutions. breaking them down.

Amidst the many academic and Gardenhire, who led a workshop social commitments students face on setting New Year’s resolutions as the semester begins, however, in the fall, instructs his clients to these New Year’s resolutions are physically map out their dream and often times quickly develop clear goals, left behind, with he said. approximately 80 “When you can percent of all resokind of make it tanlutions failing by When you can kind gible and real you February, according kind of make it of make it tangible can to a U.S. News & more possible,” Garand real you can World report. denhire said. “So it’s Despite their rep- kind of make it important for people utation, New Year’s to have that sense of more possible. resolutions have tangibility, like it’s value when done TREY GARDENHIRE good to have those correctly, Jessica TECH HUMAN RESOURCES dreams but when Alquist, assistant you can have a little professor in the psystructure to them, a chological sciences department, said. little bit more of like ‘here’s what I Alquist studies self-control, a key actually need to do,’ then you can component of achieving resolutions. have something to work with.”

If people want to make changes The goals that are set should in their life, that process begins easily translate into human behavwith self-reflection and setting ior that can be scheduled or mearesolutions, she said. sured, Alquist said, so individuals “In general if people don’t have have a clear direction of what to do. an idea of what they want to do, “The research shows that it’s they’re not going to do it, so it’s really critical to keep track of good for people to assess what they your progress towards your goal,” want to do differently because oth- she said. erwise they are unlikely to change,” Alquist said.

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As construction begins on the Dustin R. Womble Basketball Center, part of the Commuter West parking lot will no longer be available for students to park in.

The facility is located in the C13 lot of Commuter West, which is located at the intersection of Texas Tech Parkway and Indiana Avenue, according to a memo emailed to members of the Tech community from Transportation & Parking Services. Bus routes to and around Commuter West should not be impacted by construction or the facility.

Approval for the budget and construction was approved in the December Texas Tech System Board of Regents meeting. When the project was presented to regents by Vice Chancellor of Facilities, Planning and Construction Billy Breedlove and Tech Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt, part of the plan overview included replacement parking, according to the Facilities Committee presentation given on Dec. 13.

Despite the loss of spaces in Commuter West, the lot was not oversold, according to the memo. Rather, the possibility of construction start-

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ing during the academic year was considered when deciding how many permits to sell, as well as the number of waitlist spots available.

Once construction is finished on the new basketball center, the C13 portion of the lot will not return to Commuter West parking lot, according to the memo. However, Transportation & Parking Services is working to find an area to replace the lost parking.

New ADA spots will be located to the north of the KTTZ-TV station, according to the memo.

The expected completion date of the facility is Summer 2020, according to Scott Lacefield, the senior director for communications and marketing of the Tech System.

For more information about parking on campus, visit http:// www.depts.ttu.edu/parking/ or call 806-742-PARK.

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Spring semester presents changes, obstacles for incoming students

By ADÁN RUBIO News Editor

As the spring semester commences, life at Texas Tech can be challenging for incoming students.

Whether it be the stress of moving back to college, the changes made to the Tech environment or the experience of attending college for the first time, new and current students can face different hardships when attending Tech in the spring. With the new semester, students may also notice changes to the Tech community.

Regardless of one’s time spent at Tech, multiple changes will be made to the look of the campus.

During a Tech Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 13, the regents discussed construction projects that will be taking place on campus.

Currently, construction on the new Experimental Sciences Building II and the Theatre and Dance Complex addition to the Maedgen Theatre both are taking place.

Budget approval for the Weeks Hall renovation also was discussed along with the budgets for future projects.

The construction of the Dustin R. Womble Basketball Center, which will be located

west of the United Spirits Arena, and the demolition of the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium and Coliseum is set for this spring semester.

It was also announced that the Cash Family Sports Nutrition Center is in its planning stages.

In addition to the construction on campus, incoming new students may experience other changes exclusive to this spring semester. With approval from the Board of Regents, the sale of alcohol began at home sporting events.

Along with the amount of changes set for this spring, incoming students also could face some obstacles.

As people are transitioning into this new semester at Tech, challenges could arise when adjusting to the college environment.

Megan Ohlmann, assistant director of Tech Transition and Engagement, said the spring students who attend orientation a few days before the first day of the school tend to have a difficult time adjusting to the campus.

“They have to focus on getting registered for classes,” she said. “Even more so than it is for fall students.”

Along with the need to register for classes quickly, incoming students in the spring may also have issues

with interacting with others.

Compared to the beginning of the fall semester, Ohlmann said connecting with other incoming students is a secondary concern for people.

“Winter Raider Welcome has continued to grow as well,” she said regarding the welcome events offered to improve this connection between incoming spring students. “It’s got a wide variety of events, whether it’s from academic departments on campus or transfer support services.”

Regardless of the number of new students, Ohlmann said current students also could take advantage of the events offered at the start of the semester.

Connecting students to the campus through these events could be a step in the transition process some students do not consider.

“These students still need to get connected and find student organizations,” Ohlmann said.

The transition into the fall semester and the spring could differ in a variety of ways. With the start of this new semester at Tech, the number of incoming students also could also vary.

Nicole Terrell, program manager of Transition and Engagement, said transfer

students make up the majority of the incoming spring students. With this start in the spring, she said transfer students, whether they be students leaving their previous institution, non-traditional students or military veterans, can face difficulties.

“They sometimes have a bigger struggle,” she said.

“They’re coming in at an odd time, while most people on campus have the hang of it.”

During orientation, Terrell said a little over 700 students are present and most of those students are transfer students. Regardless of the number of students starting in the spring, she said the department tries to accommodate all students.

“With spring being a smaller number than fall, we don’t do as many welcome events,” Terrell said regarding one difficulty of the spring. “We also have a smaller staff to help.”

With the short amount of time between the fall and spring semester and the number of students who join the Tech community after winter break, obstacles could be inevitable for certain students.

With the need to get the best classes during orientation or the push for schedule changes during the first week of

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Parents and students wait in line for the elevators at Chitwood Hall on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2017. As students start a new semester on campus, they will see new construction projects taking place. school, advisers and students also can face some challenges.

Julia Heard Witt, senior director of advising and recruiting, said there is not a lot of time between the end of the fall semester and the beginning of the spring.

“Between fall and spring, it’s more trying to catch students who struggled in fall,” she said. “We’re working with those new students. I think our main focus is working with those students who struggled in the fall and then have come back in the spring.”

Even after orientation, Witt said advisers can face challenges on the first week of school, as students want

to change their schedule last minute.

“With any semester, our busiest time will be that first week,” Witt said. “It’s really hectic the first week of school.”

Regardless of the difficulties advisers can experience with incoming spring students, Witt said she works to help students with their scheduling issues.

“When anything is last minute, there’s always a level of anxiety with the student,” she said. “It’s just getting students registered and getting a schedule that works for them.” @AdanRubioDT

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Federal workers take on New migrant caravan sets odd jobs to make ends meet out from Honduras for US PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When her paychecks dried up because of the partial government shutdown, Cheryl Inzunza Blum sought out a side job that has become a popular option in the current economy: She rented out a room on Airbnb.

Other government workers are driving for Uber, relying on word-of-mouth and social networks to find handyman work and looking for traditional temp gigs to help pay the bills during the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

The hundreds of thousands of out-of-work government employees have more options than in past shutdowns given the rise of the so-called “gig economy” that has made an entire workforce out of people doing home vacation rentals and driving for companies like Uber, Lyft and Postmates.

Blum decided to capitalize on

the busy winter travel season in Arizona to help make ends meet after she stopped getting paid for her government contract work as a lawyer in immigration court in Tucson. She says she has no choice but to continue to work unpaid because she has clients who are depending on her, some of whom are detained or have court hearings.

But she also has bills: her Arizona state bar dues, malpractice insurance and a more than $500 phone bill for the past two months because she uses her phone so heavily for work.

Blum has been tapping every source she can to keep herself afloat — even her high schooland college-aged children — and is even thinking about driving for Uber and Lyft as well.

“So after working in court all day I’m going to go home and get the room super clean because they’re arriving this evening,” she said of her Airbnb renters.

“I have a young man who’s visiting town to do some biking, and he’s going to come tomorrow and stay a week,” she added. “I’m thrilled because that means immediate money. Once they check in, the next day there’s some money in my account.”

The shutdown is occurring against the backdrop of a strong economy that has millions of open jobs, along with ample opportunities to pick up Uber and Lyft shifts.

The Labor Department reported that employers posted 6.9 million jobs in November, the latest figures available. That’s not far from the record high of 7.3 million reached in August.

Roughly 8,700 Uber driver positions are advertised nationwide on the SnagAJob website, while Lyft advertises about 3,000.

But the gig economy doesn’t pay all that well — something the furloughed government workers are finding out.

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Hundreds of Hondurans trekked out of a violent northern city Tuesday, part of a new caravan of migrants hoping to reach the United States or Mexico, following in the path of another group last year that U.S. President Donald Trump turned into a hot political issue during the U.S. midterm elections.

The first groups of migrants left San Pedro Sula’s bus station Monday night, with many women and children boarding buses bound for the Guatemalan border while others started walking and hitchhiking under a steady rain.

Others departed Tuesday morning trying to catch up. Some pushed toddlers in strollers or walked holding older children’s hands.

More people continued to arrive at the bus station, making it likely the caravan’s numbers could grow.

Honduran media reported

that the country’s authorities had reinforced the border with Guatemala to make sure everyone had proper documentation. Children must carry passports and written parental authorization to leave the country, and parents could face up to three years in prison if found to be taking a child without the right documents, Security Minister Julian Pacheco was quoted as saying.

Jenny Arguello, a migrant rights’ activist who was with the caravan, said police patrols were not blocking them but were checking IDs. The latest caravan comes as Trump has been working to convince the American public that there is a “crisis” at the southern border to justify construction of his long-promised border wall. Trump’s demand for billions of dollars to build the wall has resulted in a standoff with Congress that has forced a partial government shutdown.

“A big new Caravan is heading up to our Southern Border from Honduras. Tell Nancy and Chuck that a drone flying around will not

stop them. Only a Wall will work,” Trump tweeted Tuesday, referring to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer.

It’s not the first time Trump has seized on migrant caravans to make a political point. In the lead-up to last fall’s elections, Trump frequently referenced several larger groups that had formed at the time, warning that they posed a national security risk and deploying active-duty troops to the border in anticipation of their arrival. Opponents criticized the move as an abuse of presidential power.

In the last caravan, about 6,000 Central Americans ultimately arrived in the northwestern Mexican city of Tijuana, across from San Diego, an area where there is already extensive border fencing. With U.S. authorities only processing several dozen asylum claims each day, migrants added their names to an already long list and faced monthslong wait times.

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Students risk health, wellness with new semester

By ADÁN RUBIO News Editor

With the start of the spring semester, students are not the only organisms spreading across the Texas Tech campus.

Whether it be the stress of moving back to college, living in a different environment or settling into the dorms, different illnesses, such as the common cold or the flu, could strike students anytime during the first weeks of school.

Dr. Felix Morales, associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, said students can come in with different upper respiratory issues around the beginning of school.

“At that point you are going to be exposed to all sorts of different viruses,” he said regarding students starting the new college semester.

“But more specifically, the flu virus is what I would be most concerned about.”

Getting vaccinated for the fl u i s o n e m e a s u r e Morales said he suggests people should take, as it can help lessen the severity of the virus.

In addition to being vaccinated, Morales said he suggests students seek professional advice to know the best

course of action when wanting to remain safe from the flu and other common illnesses.

“If there are any kind of questions or concerns regarding your current health status, it’s always a good idea to want to establish yourself with a physician,” he said. “At that point, you can determine your overall state of wellness.”

Even if one takes measures to maintain good health, there are different factors that could affect how a student is susceptible to illness.

Regarding the stress a student may endure during the first weeks of the spring semester, Morales said there can be other causes of illness that do not necessarily relate to one’s overall mindset.

“A virus doesn’t discriminate between someone who’s more stressed, someone who’s not stressed,” he said.

“The susceptibility comes from, more so, the close quarters and contact.”

Depending on a student’s living situation at Tech, one’s health could be affected through different circumstances.

Dr. Joshua Thomas, physician at Tech Student Health Services, said there are several reasons why a student can be prone to illness after going back to college.

“One of them is that they’re migrating back into Lubbock with the rest of the college

population,” he said regarding how students pack themselves in their dormitories and apartment complexes. “Those type of situations just are prone to transmitting viral illness.”

Respiratory viral illnesses, such as adenovirus and rhinovirus, that can cause the common cold and the flu are the most common viruses students can encounter, Thomas said.

“Lack of sleep, due to classes and stress,” he said regarding other causes of a student’s lack of immunity to illnesses. “Sometimes when we’re starting back to school our nutrition habits start to take a plunge. All of those things can have some interplay.”

Despite the different factors of spring illnesses, the number of sick students could vary depending on the time of year.

At the beginning of the spring semester, Thomas said the clinic tends to see the most students.

“Obviously, we are less busy during the breaks when the students are out of session,” he said. “Our busiest times in clinic tend to be during flu season and during the viral respiratory season.”

From January to April, Thomas said the flu virus and others are more likely to be an issue with incoming spring students.

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Staff members of the Texas Tech student clinic are available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Student Wellness Center. The Wellness Center is located at the corner of Flint Avenue and Main Street on campus.

For students who want to remain healthy during these first months of the spring semester, a variety of techniques could be utilized.

Allison Kerin, direc tor of the Employee Wellness and Recognition Programs at the Health Sciences Center, said getting enough sleep and utilizing good hygiene practices can be the first steps in working to prevent illness.

“Make sure that you are washing your hands, you’re using hand sanitizer, you’re sneezing in

your sleeve,” she said. “All of those things we were taught in kindergarten.”

Whether it be at public places or in one’s living area, Kerin said germs can be anywhere from someone’s phone to the handlebars on a supermarket shopping cart. In addition to being vigilant of germ-infested items, she said good nutrition also can help strengthen their overall wellness.

“If you eat a balanced diet, not only will you get all the nutrients you need, but

it also gives you energy,” Kerin said. “When you eat junk, you feel like junk.”

Along with proper nutrition and using disinfectant whenever possible, Kerin said being cognizant of one’s environment is also important.

“Really making a conscious effort to maintain good hygiene practices,” she said. “Being able to identify when others aren’t practicing good hygiene practices would be a good idea as well.” @AdanRubioDT

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Trump birth control coverage rules blocked nationwide

Tech professor receives 2nd Global Thinker recognition

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday put a nationwide hold on Trump administration rules that allow more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control.

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia agreed with a lawsuit originally filed by Pennsylvania, citing the potential harm to states should the rules be enforced.

Numerous citizens could lose contraceptive coverage, Beetlestone wrote, resulting in the increased use of statefunded contraceptive services, as well as increased costs to state services from unintended pregnancies.

The rules, scheduled to take effect Monday, would change a mandate under 2010’s Affordable Care Act by allowing more employers, including publicly traded companies, to opt out of providing no-cost contraceptive coverage to women by claiming religious objections. Some private employers could also now object on moral grounds.

Pennsylvania’s attorney general, Josh Shapiro,

called the court ruling a “victory for the health and economic independence of women” and the rejection of a Trump administration move to violate a federal law that requires insurers to cover the services.

“Congress hasn’t changed that law, and the president can’t simply ignore it with an illegal rule,” Shapiro said.

New Jersey later joined Pennsylvania in suing.

In issuing the injunction, Beetlestone wrote in her opinion that the states were likely to win their lawsuit’s claims that Trump’s administration violated procedural requirements for how regulations must be created and that the rules exceed the scope of authority under the Affordable Care Act. The Department of Justice did not say whether it would appeal, saying only that it will “continue to vigorously defend religious liberty.” The Department of Health and Human Services said the rules affirm the administration’s commitment to upholding constitutional freedoms.

Along with a variety of achievements, one Texas Tech professor has been recognized for her work once again.

Katharine Hayhoe, professor in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Texas Tech Climate Science Center, was named a Global Thinker, which is an honor mentioned in an annual list published in Foreign Policy Magazine, according to a Texas Tech news release. This

naming as a Global Thinker is an honor she has now consecutively received twice.

Foreign Policy Magazine, as stated on its website, is a publication that works to “give a voice” for people who have views on foreign policy in the United States.

Hayhoe works to communicate the relevance of climate change in today’s society, according to the release. Whether it be through engaging with stakeholders in agriculture, public health or energy, she works to

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Hayhoe, who is also considered a leading expert on climate science in the world, was awarded the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication this year and named one of the 50 World’s Greatest Leaders in Fortune Magazine in 2017, according to the release.

Hayhoe participated in

the first and second volumes of the Fourth U.S. National Climate Assessment, the Nobel Peace Prize forum and a TED Talk discussing climate solutions in 2017 and 2018, according to the release.

Additionally, she participates in a PBS Digital Short S e r i e s “ G l o b a l Weirding” to reach people on a global scale. @AdanRubioDT

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Breaking down the fallacies of Trump’s border wall solution

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ince his candidacy President Donald Trump has portrayed a crisis at the southern border.

He calls it a crisis of illegal immigration bringing drugs, crime, rapists and … some good people.

The Trump administration has been focused on deterrence methods of immigration, beginning with the Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements executive order signed Jan. 25, 2017, just five days after his inauguration.

The executive order had numerous demands, including the allocation of funds for the construction of a wall along the Mexico–United States border, expanding the use and capacity of immigra-

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tion detention facilities, increasing the use of expedited removal of immigrants–in which noncitizens can be deported without appearing before an immigration judge–and authorizing law enforcement to interview individuals to determine their immigration status.

Tuesday marked day 25 of a partial government shutdown and this Sunday, Jan. 20, will mark the beginning of President Trump’s third year in office. President Trump has taken on and off responsibility for the shutdown, either taking pride or blaming Democrats for it.

What remains the same is President Trump’s need to fulfill his campaign promise to build a “big, beautiful wall” to fix the border crisis.

Building a wall along the southern border, however, will not solve the “crisis” President Trump describes at the border, and his policies and negotiation tactics have only made the state of the border even more precarious.

The first issue with this idea is that legal immigra-

tion is a bigger issue than illegal. Legal immigrants who overstay their visas have outnumbered illegal border crossings since 2007, according to the Center for Migration Studies.

Legal immigration issues also come from asylum seekers who flee their countries due to violence, wars or political repression. The U.N. Refugee Agency has documented a 1,185 percent increase from 2008 to 2014 in the number of asylum applications from citizens of Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Belize.

And the number of children migrating from these countries has doubled each year since 2011.

The asylum process itself is two-pronged. The first pushes asylum seekers to points of entries to apply, and the second regulates the number of asylum seekers processed at each port of entry.

In December 2018, the Trump Administration furthered their deterrence first policy, changing border policy to discourage asylumseekers, now having them return and wait in Mexico when considering their asylum claim.

Rather than be a deterrence to immigration, the move lowers the cost and increases the benefit of illegally

entering the U.S., rather than legally applying. This lower cost, increased benefit and demand for smugglers will occur as asylum seekers are transported to U.S. ports of entry after applying, placed back in Mexico while the U.S. considers their claim, granting them accessibility to the location and resources needed to illegally cross the border.

Something like a 30-foot tall wall built 6 feet deep may seem like a challenge for a single person, but when the cost to legally immigrate into the U.S. becomes as high as losing your life, the demand for smugglers increases. People find a way – according to the Brookings Institution, between 1990 and 2016, 224 tunnels were discovered between the U.S. – Mexico border, some of which reached a depth of 70 feet.

Along with drug trade, many argue for a wall to prevent crime and “carnage” throughout the U.S. as President Trump puts it. However, statistics tell a different side of the story, a story in which the U.S. is the source to its own crime.

Most drugs smuggled are not brought by the individuals who crossed illegally.

According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, most of the smuggled marijuana as well as co-

caine, heroin and methamphetamines comes through the 52 legal ports of entry on the border.

According to the Brooking Institute, many officials fighting the drug war on the ground in Mexico complain of violence and corruption coming from the U.S. rather than Mexico, and around 70 percent of firearms seized in Mexico originate from the U.S. While quantitative research consistently shows being foreign-born is negatively associated with crime overall, it is not significantly associated with committing violent or property crime. If an undocumented immigrant is criminally arrested, it tends to be for a misdemeanor. So as an undocumented migrant, it would be in your best interest to avoid committing a crime and risk deportation.

While visiting McAllen, President Trump did not speak about the truth behind crime and immigrants nor how McAllen is experiencing a 30-year low in crime rates, instead he insisted a wall will work just like wheels work for the Secret Service.

Finally, the everlasting argument for decreasing immigration by building a wall is that immigrants take U.S. workers jobs. However, low-skilled jobs are in high

demand in the U.S. right now, and Central American immigrants are highly beneficial to the economy for this reason. They do the lowest jobs on the economic ladder, opening opportunities for higher opportunities for native-born Americans.

President Trump’s arguments for the wall are not going to be solved by changing deterrence policy, building a wall or by instilling fear in U.S. citizens about a “crisis” at the border. Research shows the border can be improved without building a 2,00 mile concrete structure, but instead by adding new Border Patrol Agents, continuous training of agents, upgrades to ports of entry and by better utilizing technology in operations.

The real crisis is when a sitting president and the party behind him ignore 800,000 federal employees, a third of which are military veterans, the 22 people who have died in the past two years in detention centers, the 60 percent of Americans opposed to building a wall and the environmental impacts of a shutdown from food not being screened by the Food and Drug Administration, and to the destruction of Joshua Trees in Joshua Tree National Park. @DailyToreador

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New year, new semester brings major, minor changes

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our favorite Commuter West C13 parking lot is gone and it’s never coming back.

The “front row” of parking for Commuter West pass holders still walking, shuttling and now scootering the rest of the way to class has been taken for the construction of the new Dustin R. Womble Basketball Practice Center to be built within the next few years. Your favorite parking exchanged for a modern, cutting-edge college basketball practice facility and athletic dining hall.

Is the loss of a parking lot worth the expansion to support our men’s and women’s basketball team, as well as a dining hall seating 220, serving 400 athletes, featuring an educational kitchen?

Absolutely.

Can we still gripe? Of course. Today might be the

Robert Avila is a third-year law student from San Antonio.

first day you learn the lot you once used is now becoming in-part an educational kitchen. It’s an immediate inconvenient for an area you expected to be able to park last semester when you paid hundreds of dollars for a pass; complaints can be made. And you can both complain today about the lot for yourself and be excited tomorrow about the facility for the university’s basketball teams.

Everything changes over time. Some changes are small inconveniences, like a small loss of section in a parking lot. Most things change

gradually without thought, and by the time we do notice change, it may not always be easy to accept or understand.

Certainly, if you watch cable news, you may constantly be asking yourself if anything is changing for the better.

As I write this, our government has now reached the longest government shutdown in U.S. history at more than three weeks. Recent reports on global climate change have oceans warming faster than previously thought hurting marine ecosystems and making hurricanes more destructive.

The NCAA football champion Clemson Tigers were served McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King and pizza on silver platters in the historic State Dining Room.

Did anything really change with this news? We’ve ridden the partisan divide for years,

we’ve known about global warming for as long as most of us can remember, and while surprising for 44 other presidents (particularly the ones before fast-food even existed), our 45th’s known love of fast food rings true to their administration’s presidential decorum.

A gradual change from yesterday’s 24th day of shutdown is today’s 25th. Another tiniest percentage of Antarctic ice broken off. Another drop in a sea of near-satirical Trump stories.

Do you even pay attention to these changes? An endless wave of the same extreme thing most of us aren’t directly affected by becomes the unnoticed minor change we stop paying attention to. And the unnoticed minor changes we keep looking away from become the dangers we eventually are “surprised by” when cable

news stories that feel so far away suddenly become a part of our daily lives.

And here we are. It’s 2019 and some things are continuing to change in minor and major ways.

An inconvenient parking lot loss paves the way for an amazing new basketball practice facility. A long-standing partisan divide placing party control over country starting slowly with Newt Gingrich in the 90’s now a major issue we finally feel the need to address.

To a slow raise in temperature trudging along slowly, changes we can see and study but not large enough for our nation to look to accept, understand and address.

It’s 2019 and everything changes over time. It’s 2019 and people remain the same. @DailyToreador

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Furthermore, when setting or adjusting goals, it is important to have a realistic perspective, Gardenhire said. Most people tend to vastly underestimate the amount of time required to make progress.

“There’s this thing called ‘planning fallacy’ where they actually studied students trying to write theses, and most people said it would take X number of weeks and they found that most people, it actually took double the time to do that,” Gardenhire said.

People expect results from their efforts to achieve a goal too quickly, Allison Childress, registered dietician and assistant professor in nutritional sciences, said.

When those results aren’t visible, people often times give up on their resolutions.

“You have to realize that consistency is key, and it’s the things that you do every day and add up that build towards that goal over time,” Childress said.

People may also attempt to make too many changes at once, Alquist said, requiring a high level of self-control.

“There’s some research that shows self-control is kind of limited,” Alquist said. “Where if you’ve just exercised self-control you’re more likely to fail on a sec-

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ond thing requiring self-control, and so that can be one way, one reason that people fail.”

People exercising high levels of self-control in one domain of their lives, such as academics, might find they have trouble in other areas of life, such as personal relations, because they are spending all their mental energy, she said.

Taking on goals is a tradeoff, Gardenhire said. When making goals, people should consider other things they might potentially devote less time or effort towards.

“If you’re going to pursue this goal, you’re going to have to not do other things,” he said.

People should protect their mental energy, Alquist said.

Decision making takes up mental energy that goes toward self-control, so individuals should spend less time deliberating on things such as meal or clothing choices.

Doing activities repeatedly and forming habits is also key, Alquist said. Habits require less mental energy and resources than tasks that are sporadically pursued without a schedule.

“Try to spend your energy on things that are really important to you,” Alquist said.

Forming habits and keeping a goal at the forefront of the mind leads to success, Childress said. She advises her clients to set notifications on their phones reminding them of their tasks

every day, such as a notification to go to the gym.

When thinking about goals, a finding has shown there are two different approaches depending on the level of commitment an individual has, Alquist said.

“If you’re not very committed then it’s better to think about what you’ve already done, how much progress you’ve already made on that goal, because that’ll help remind you that you are committed to something for yourself,” Alquist said. “But if you are committed it’s better to focus on what you have left to do because even though that doesn’t feel good, it typically motivates you to do something about it.”

Regardless of the level of enthusiasm, individuals have to be disciplined to stay committed to goals, Childress said.

“Try to throw the word motivation out the window because we’re not always motivated, but what we can always be is disciplined,” Childress said. “We can make a decision to get up every day and work towards that goal, even when we don’t want to.”

Although discipline is key, it is also important for people to allow themselves some breathing room, Childress said. Failure can be part of achieving a goal, and while that does not mean people should set themselves up for failure, they should learn to

move past it without giving up on their goal.

People should avoid the mentality of either being on or off when it comes to a goal, she said. One mistake should not result in a complete change in mindset.

“Allow yourself some grace and realize that just because you’ve lost a little battle does not mean you’ve lost the whole war,” Childress said.

People often times spiral downward when they make a misstep in regards to their goal, Alquist said.

“There’s an effect called the ‘what the hell effect,’ and this is the idea that one you’ve kind of messed up on a goal, you view it as ‘oh well it’s over,’ and then you do even worse,” she said.

In a study done illustrating the effect, dieters were given either one or two milkshakes along with some snacks, Alquist said. The dieters who had both milkshakes, and were therefore very full, actually ate more snacks than the dieters who only had one milkshake.

“The way that they interpreted this was that they felt like ‘my diet’s already blown, I already had two milkshakes I might as well eat as many snacks as I want’ whereas if they were listening to how full they were they probably wouldn’t eat any snacks,” Alquist said.

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New Year’s resolutions, Gardenhire said. To avoid that, when failures do happen, people have to own their actions and then take small, tangible steps to get back in the right direction.

Moreover, they should understand the actual end point of the goal itself is less important than the fact they are working to make a positive change, he said.

“It’s going to be hard,” Gardenhire said. “Anytime you’re making a change, it takes a lot of willpower. If you’re tired, it’s OK to pause if the goal feels too overwhelming, just reevaluate it. The goal can be changed. What matters is you’re actively working towards it.” @AkhilaReddyDT

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Winter Raider Welcome kicks off semester

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As students begin their first week back on the Texas Tech campus after the winter break, Winter Raider Welcome offers new and returning students opportunities to learn about university resources, connect with peers, pick up free food and engage with the community.

Winter Raider Welcome runs from Jan. 13 to Jan. 19 and consists of over 40 free events, according to the Student Engagement website. A full schedule of events is available on the website at www.raiderwelcome.ttu.edu.

The events are organized into six different tracks, Rachel Jackson, associate director of transition and engagement, said. Students should make decisions on which events to attend based on the tracks.

The six tracks are Academic Success, Wellness & Recreation, Social Connections, Culture & Diversity, Community Involvement and Tech Traditions.

“Are you looking to find ways to make social connections?,” Jackson said. “Then find those events that are categorized as social track.”

The events are hosted by various student organizations, departments around campus and more, Jackson said.

Keri Shiplet, assistant director at the Center for Campus Life, helped organize the Student Organization Fair taking place as part of Winter Raider Welcome. The organization fair will be hosted from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m on Jan. 17 in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

“For this year’s student org fair, so far we have around 60-65 student organizations,” Shiplet said.

At the event, all the organizations will be organized by category, she said. Students will be given postcards with different colored balloons representing

different categories and can use that to locate the specific organizations they are interested in.

The event is a way for new and returning students to get involved, Shiplet said. Extracurricular activities are a key part of student life, and the opportunity for students to meet representatives face-to-face can spark interest in a way that emails or a website cannot.

“Whether they’re a freshman or they’re an upperclassman, if they still need an opportunity to get involved, this is a way for them to meet student organizations face-to-face which makes it a lot easier to learn what the organizations are about and how to join,” Shiplet said.

Along with the Student Organization Fair, Winter Raider Welcome as a whole is for returning students as well as new students, Jackson said.

There are some events geared specifically to new and transfer students, she said, but other events where students can learn about student organizations or intramural sports and more are useful even for upperclassmen who might not have not been involved in the past.

“It’s not just if you’re new to Texas Tech,” Jackson said. “It’s if you’re new to these programs and new to these opportunities.”

Tania Mireles, a senior nutritional sciences major, helped host a Welcome Week event Tuesday morning in the library representing Unidos por un Mismo Idioma, a student organization promoting the Spanish language and culture.

Winter Raider Welcome is a good way to reach out to old and new students, Mireles said.

“I think because a lot of them also are transfer students and even though they might not be like freshmen, they’re still new to Texas Tech, and I feel like they also need to be welcomed,” Mireles said.

About 20-30 students stopped

by and heard about the organization, she said. It is important for them to spread the word about their organization because of its mission to promote culture.

“This is also a way to promote diversity and culture,” she said. “It’s not just a frat or a sorority, we’re promoting something a little different.”

Students, especially those returning upperclassmen, may feel that they don’t need to attend events, Shiplet said, but they should still go and see if there is anything they can learn. Furthermore, the events are fun and often have free food and T-shirts.

“I always say to students, if you attend all the events you’ll have a whole new wardrobe

of T-shirts,” Shiplet said. “But honestly, being a student is more than just going to class. It’s about learning about the resources on campus. It’s about enjoying yourself and getting involved.”

Once students graduate, hearing speakers, seeing movies and many other events come at a cost. On campus, however, students have the chance to do so for free through the many events hosted on campus during Winter Raider Welcome and even afterwards throughout the semester, Shiplet said.

“You might as well take advantage of that and have a very well-rounded, enjoyable life,” Shiplet said. @AkhilaReddyDT

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s you probably know by now, former Texas Tech Football head coach, Kliff Kingsbury, recently accepted the head coaching position with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. This move happened within weeks of Kingsbury accepting a role to become the offensive coordinator for the University of Southern California Trojans.

The Trojans hired Kingsbury in hopes he would put the much-needed boost into a USC offense that ranked last in the Pac-12 in 2018 while also acting as a mentor for the incoming quarterbacks. Within days of the hiring by USC, there were confirmed reports the Los Angeles Rams, among other NFL teams, had expressed interest in bringing Kingsbury on as an offensive coordinator as well, according to Sports Illustrated.

Kingsbury made it known he would only consider offers for the NFL if they were for the job he actually desired which was to be a head coach. When rumors began to circulate that teams, such as the Cardinals and New York Jets, were hinting at bringing Kingsbury on in the head coaching role, USC was swift and intent on their decision to block him from entertaining any offers.

This led to Kingsbury re-

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signing and requesting a buyout from USC, which then allowed him to respond to any inquiries made by NFL teams.

One reason the Cardinals were so adamant to give Kingsbury a shot is because they are in the middle of the developing stage for their “project” quarterback, 2018 first-round pick, Josh Rosen.

The Cardinals are aware that Kingsbury is somewhat of a QB “guru,” and hope he can maximize some of Rosen’s untapped potential.

Kingsbury has been a mentor, developer and coach for several well-known college and professional quarterbacks over the years — players like Patrick Mahomes, Johnny Manziel and more.

In 2009, it was Kingsbury’s second year as a coach. He was an offensive assistant at the University of Houston and was working with current UH and future professional quarterback, Case Keenum.

Kingsbury has been credited as one of the main reasons Keenum was able to set several of his own NCAA Division I passing records that year.

His coaching performance at UH led him to a similar posi-

tion at Texas A&M where he helped Johnny Manziel claim the Heisman Trophy in 2012.

But Kingsbury isn’t known only as a quarterback-developer. For Houston in 2011 he was named Offensive Coordinator of the Year, totaling an average of 50 points and almost 600-yards per game, according to Houston Athletics’ website.

In Kingsbury’s sole season as A&M’s offensive coordinator, he led the Aggies to top-15 placements in passing, rushing, total offense and scoring offense, where they were the only offense in the nation to do so.

Following Kingsbury’s stints at Houston and Texas A&M, in 2013, he returned to his alma mater, Texas Tech, as the newest head coach. He mentored and coached several successful quarterbacks throughout his time at Tech, including the aforementioned Mahomes as well as Baker Mayfield and Davis Webb, all of whom have spent time at the professional level.

While Kingsbury does have a bright mind and a great sense of the offensive side of the ball, they aren’t the only things needed to be a skillful head coach.

Kingsbury finished three of his six seasons at Tech inside the top-20 in scoring offense, with two of those seasons crack-

ing the top five, according to Tech Athletics. But on the defensive side of the ball, he was only able to break inside the top-100 in scoring defense three times, with the top-ranked defense during his tenure placing at 87th in the nation.

Having defensive rankings that are as poorly consistent as Kingsbury’s is almost unacceptable for any head coach of a D1 school, and keep in mind this is the same head coach about to lead an NFL team into the charge.

During Kingsbury’s six years as head coach for Tech, he garnered an overall record of 35-40, a Big 12 record of 1935 and made three bowl game appearances, winning one, according to Tech Athletics.

His best season record came during year one in 2013, where he went 8-5 overall and took home his lone bowl game victory. He never finished better than a tie for fifth in the Big 12 standings, which happened in 2015 with a record of 4-5 in conference play.

I would consider Kingsbury’s head coaching career so far to be below average if it wasn’t for his ability to understand the offensive side of the football. While I do think it was a bit of a quick decision on the Cardinals part to hire Kingsbury like they did, I can

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Former Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury leads the Red Raiders onto the field on Saturday, Nov. 10, at Jones AT&T Stadium. Kingsbury was hired by the Arizona Cardinals as the team’s next head coach. understand why they did so.

If the NFL really is leaning toward a more “pass dominant” play style, then Kingsbury could possibly adapt to the toughness of the NFL rather easily and lead the Cardinals to wins.

It would’ve been a more sensible route for Kingsbury if he would have taken a job as an offensive coordina-

tor in the NFL first to help him learn the professional ropes instead of transitioning straight from college coaching to the big leagues.

It’ll be a process for sure, but I think under the right circumstances Kingsbury could flourish in his new position. @SamMedlinTTU

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hosts the 2019 Super Bowl.

The ongoing partial government shutdown is “uncharted territory” amid planning for one of the world’s biggest sporting events, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Tuesday.

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“Obviously, we are in uncharted territory with the shutdown that’s gone on this long, and we are preparing as best we can from our vantage point,” Bottoms said.

The mayor and others at

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By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor

Following a strong overall season in the Big 12, with conference champion Oklahoma making the College Football Playoff and second place Texas upsetting Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, several underclassmen have declared for the draft and forgone their college eligibility, vastly changing the Big 12 landscape for 2019.

Due to the rules on how declaring for the draft works, once a player declares to enter the NFL Draft, they forgo all their remaining college eligibility and may not return to play football for their college, even if the player is not drafted during the NFL Draft.

With the release of the “official” list from the NFL pending, most, if not all, the players who have declared for the 2019 NFL Draft are already known, with a record 133 known prospects forgoing their college eligibility for a shot at jump starting their pro-careers, according to The Athletic’s underclassmen tracker.

Of all the schools in the Big 12, Oklahoma is suffering the most losses, with Heisman quarterback Kyler Murray declaring for the draft, with a decision yet to come of whether the breakout star will decide to pursue a major league baseball or NFL career.

Murray was drafted ninth overall by the Oakland Athletics, but negotiated

with the team to return to Oklahoma and play out his junior season.

Stepping into the shoes of departing Heisman quarterback Baker Mayfield, expectations were high for the dual-sport Murray, but he exceeded most of those expectations by winning the Heisman and leading Oklahoma to the College Football Playoffs, which suddenly reopened his chances of making it to the NFL, leading to the current deadlock between Murray and the Athletics of whether he will pursue a career in the MLB or NFL. Other stars departing early for the Sooners include wide receiver Marquise Brown, running back Rodney Anderson, defensive end Amani Bledsoe, offensive tackle Cody Ford and OT Bobby Evans. Brown led the Sooners in receiving yards and is seen as one of the top receivers available in this year’s class.

Ford and Evans, key parts of Oklahoma’s offensive line who won the Joe Moore award for best offensive line in the league, are expected to be among the top offensive linemen in this class. Anderson showed flash early in the season, but a season-ending injury took away his shot at helping Oklahoma to a National Championship.

Despite the injury, Anderson projects as one of the better running backs in the class and should get drafted earlier rather than later if his medicals check out.

The Longhorns, who fell in the Big 12 Conference

Championship to the Sooners, are losing star wide receiver Lil’Jordan Humphrey, who led the team in receptions, yards and receiving touchdowns. Fellow Texas receiver Collin Johnson surprised many when he announced he would stay for his senior season despite projecting as one of the top wide recievers in this class, but he is now expected to be the top threat for the Longhorns next season with Humphrey declaring.

Kansas State had just one player declare early, and that was bell-cow back Alex Barnes, the team leader in rushing yards and touchdowns. A mid-round talent, Barnes will have a strong shot of getting drafted, but with former coach Bill Snyder retiring, it makes sense for Barnes to pursue a pro-career with his draft stock high.

The other star Big 12 running back headed to the draft is David Montgomery of Iowa State. As the lead back for the Cyclones, Montgomery wore down defenses with his physical running style between the tackles and will be valued as a more-conventional running back. Several draft analysts, such as ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay, have Montgomery among their top five running backs in this class.

Montgomery’s teammate Hakeem Butler has also declared for the draft following a breakout season and will look to the combine to separate himself from similar WR prospects in this year’s draft.

Texas Tech’s lone junior

declaring for the draft is wide receiver Antoine Wesley, whose highlight-reel big play ability and explosive reach quickly became a fan favorite.

Despite starting just one season at Tech, Wesley finished third all-time in single season receiving yards, hauling in 88 receptions for 1,410 yards and nine touchdowns, with his 88 catches the most among Big 12 receivers this year, according to Tech Athletics.

Despite having just one season to evaluate him on, Wesley should land in the first few rounds as one of the more intriguing wide reciever prospects with his 6-foot-5-inch frame.

Oklahoma State had three players declare early for the draft, including defensive end Jordan Brailford, running back Justice Hill and wide reciever Tyron Johnson. Johnson, the second threat in Oklahoma State’s passing attack, proved himself as a red zone threat, scoring seven touchdowns to go along with his 845 yards. Hill was the top running back in a two-back system and was utilized as a runner more than his freshman counterpart Chuba Hubbard.

For the Mountaineers, West Virginia LB David Long Jr. is the sole junior who has declared early for the draft.

Long led the team in tackles, tackles for loss and sacks during his junior season, which

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Texas Tech junior defensive back Desmon Smith blocks a pass from junior Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray during the Red Raiders’ game against the Sooners Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, at Jones AT&T Stadium. Murray, who was drafted in the MLB FirstYear Player Draft by the Oakland A’s, declared for the NFL Draft on Monday, Jan. 14. culminated in Long being selected as the 2018 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.

Kansas, Texas Christian and Baylor were the only Big 12 schools without an underclassman to declare early. Overall, 15 players

have declared early for the draft from the Big 12, out of a total of 133 players declaring this season, a sharp increase from last season’s record 119 declarations, according to Dane Brugler via Twitter. @AustinWattsDT

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MLS announces 2021 Austin expansion team AUSTIN (AP) — After a long and often rocky courtship, Austin and Major League Soccer became a match.

The league formally welcomed Austin as its 27th franchise with a raucous downtown party Tuesday full of chanting and flag-waving, and Commissioner Don Garber calling the Texas capital a "perfect fit."

MLS said Austin will begin play in the 2021 season.

"We think of us being a league for a new America," Garber said. "Austin is diverse.

It has enormous energy. It has people who really believe in the city. ... We need to be here."

The move has been long expected as Austin became the target destination for efforts last year to move the Columbus Crew. The Crew instead will stay in Ohio under a new ownership group.

Austin recently signed a lease with Austin majority owner Anthony Precourt, a California-based investor, to provide land for a privatelyfunded $225 million stadium.

The Austin venue will be an open-air facility with a grass playing field on land that has been vacant for 25 years.

"We're going to unite this city. We're going to fight for

this city. We're going to make you proud," Precourt said.

Precourt's attempts to move the Crew, a bedrock MLS franchise, drew fierce resistance in Columbus as fans rallied to save their team and state and local officials filed lawsuits attempting to block the move.

In Austin, a divided city council argued for months over the stadium deal before it was approved on a narrow vote.

Instead of moving the Crew, MLS and Precourt agreed that team would be placed under a new ownership group that includes Cleveland Browns Dee and Jimmy Haslem.

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Wells’ staff taking shape following recent string of hires

By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor

After being hired as the 16th head coach in program history of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, Tech coach Matt Wells filled out most of his coaching staff over the break, hiring several positional coaches and operational staff alike.

For his coordinators, both his offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator came with Wells from Utah State and were covered in depth prior to the break. Extensive breakdowns on both David Yost, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and Keith Patterson, defensive coordinator, can be found on The DT’s website, along with quotes from both coaches.

In the first week of December, Tech Athletics announced the hire of six positional coaches, all accompanying Matt Wells from Utah State, including Jovon Bouknight as outside receivers coach, Luke Wells as tight end and inside receivers coach, Dave Scholz as the strength and conditioning coach, DeAndre Smith as running backs coach, Steve Farmer as the offensive line coach

BIG 12

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Sophomore guard Jarrett Culver is third in the conference in shooting with 18.7 points per game, while graduate student Tariq Owens is first with 2.6 blocks per game, according to big12statistics. com. The Red Raiders are sixth in the conference earning 72.7 points per game and shooting .870 from the field.

After defeating Kansas, the Iowa State Cyclones are ranked No. 17 in the AP Top 25 poll and third in the Big 12 conference.

The Cyclones are silently climbing to the top of the Big 12, leading the conference in scoring with 79.5 points per game and have two players at the top of the charts in two dif-

and Julius Brown as the defensive backs coach.

Over the first half of January, Tech Athletics announced the hire of three more coaches, completing Wells’ inaugural staff. The first coach announced was defensive line coach Paul Randolph, Joe Lorig as the special teams coordinator and a yet to be announced defensive role, with safety coach Kerry Cooks completing Wells’ staff.

Bouknight enters as one of the most familiar coaches with Wells, having been a part of Utah State’s coaching staff for the past 10 seasons, including two seasons as outside receivers coach, according to Tech Athletics.

Prior to joining the staff at Utah State, Bouknight was a graduate assistant for a year at Wyoming, where he also holds the school record for all-purpose yards from his four seasons as a receiver and returner.

Luke Wells is another coach accompanying Matt Wells from Utah State, having spent the last six years as a mix of co-offensive coordinator, recruiting coordinator, tight ends coach and quarterbacks coach, according to Tech Athletics.

During his tenure at Utah State, Luke Wells was in charge of recruiting in the state of Texas and is expected to bring experience doing so in his role at Tech.

Scholz spent the previous six years at Utah State as the strength and conditioning coach for the Aggies and will fill the same role at Tech.

Smith spent the 2018 season at Utah State as the running back coach for the Aggies and will fill the same role at Tech. With over two decades of experience as a coach, Smith has coached four All-Americans, with nine 1,000 yard seasons by running backs under his tutelage, according to Tech Athletics. Prior to coaching, Smith played quarterback for four years at Southwest Missouri State.

Farmer had one of the more prolific seasons last year at Utah State as offensive line coach, with four of his linemen receiving 2018 All-Mountain West honors. Before he spent three years at Utah State, Farmer served as a coach at Louisiana-Monroe for 11 years, with a stop at Illinois State for a year in between his two stretches at ULM, according to Tech Athletics.

Brown spent the last two seasons as defensive backs coach at Utah State, with the year prior as the Aggies’ cornerbacks coach.

In Brown’s three seasons at Utah State, Aggie defensive backs have helped Utah State finish as one of the top teams in the country in interceptions forced, according to Tech Athletics.

With 20 years of experience, Randolph has served as a defensive line coach for over 15 years, with stops at Memphis, Arizona State, Pittsburgh, Tulsa, Rice, Alabama, West Virginia, Toledo, Illinois State, Valdosta State and UT Martin, according to Tech Athletics. Falling in line with Patterson’s coaching system, Randolph’s defenses over the past two decades have had a knack for forcing turnovers, which is the bread-and-butter of Patterson’s defense.

Lorig worked previously at Utah State under Matt Wells, but he has spent the past three seasons at Memphis with Randolph as the Tigers’ special team coordinator and outside linebacker coach. With 22 years of experience, Lorig has coached up several NFL defensive linemen, including former

ferent categories. Senior guard Marial Shayok leads the Big 12 with an average 19.5 points per game, and Tyrese Haiburton leads with a .475 three-point percentage, according to big12statistics.com.

Even though No. 20 Oklahoma lost to a top-10 Tech on Jan. 8, the Sooners moved up three spots in the AP Top 25 poll and are tied with Iowa State in the Big 12, according to sportsreference.com.

Oklahoma has one player in the top five of two categories — senior guard Christian James in fourth with 16.8 points per game and fifth with 7.7 rebounds, according to big12statistics.com. The Sooners are fifth in the conference by averaging 74.4 points per game and first with an average 42.7 rebounds per game.

The final team to round out the Big 12 in the AP Top 25 poll is Texas Christian University. The Horned Frogs are ranked in the No. 23 spot nationally but are ninth in the conference, according to sportsreference.com.

Although TCU is close to the bottom in the conference after losing to Kansas and Oklahoma, the team is second in scoring by averaging 79.3 points per game. Freshman center Kevin Samuel is ranked third by shooting .704 from the field, according to big12statstics.com.

While not in the Top 25, Texas is ranked No. 32 in the Top 100 after having a 10-7 record on the year and a 2-3 record in conference. The Longhorns are also seventh in the conference, according to sportsreference.com.

Senior forward Dylan Osetkowski is third in the Big 12 with 8.1 rebounds per game while freshman forward Jaxon Hayes is ranked first for shooting .750 from the field, according to big12statstics.com.

The Longhorns are eighth for averaging 71.5 points per game and shooting .329 from the field.

Kansas State is 20 spots behind Texas at No. 52 in the Top 100 with a 10-2 record in non-conference play and 2-2 in conference, according to sportsreference.com. Senior guard Barry Brown is fifth in the conference by averaging 15.2 points per game while senior forward Dean Wade is fourth with 7.9 rebounds per game, according to big12statistics.com.

Baylor has landed in the No. 54 spot in the Top 100 and is third in the con-

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New head coach of Texas Tech Football, Matt Wells, points into the crowd as he speaks during his welcoming press conference Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. Wells completed his inaugural Tech staff during the winter break.

Vikings, Chiefs, Bears and Panthers standout defensive end Jared Allen.

Under Lorig at Memphis, the Tigers’ return game reached new heights, with top five kick return units for his first two seasons, according to Tech Athletics. In three seasons at Memphis, the Tigers did not allow a single return touchdown on either kickoff or punt returns.

To complete his coaching staff, Matt Wells went after tenured Oklahoma defensive backs coach Cooks, who spent four years at OU and the five before at Notre Dame. In 15

seasons as a coach, Cooks has been a part of a staff that coached in a bowl game for 14 of his last 15 seasons, according to Tech Athletics. While at OU, Cooks was also the assistant defensive coordinator for the last three years.

One theme common amongst Wells’ staff is experience, as the vast majority of Wells’ staff has at least a decade of coaching experience on their résumés, with many having held positions under Wells at some point in his head coaching career.

ference with a 2-2 record, according to sportsreference.com. The Bears have sophomore forward Tristan Clark in second for shooting .745 from the field, and the team itself is seventh in the conference for averaging 71.9 points per game, according to big12statistics.com.

T h e We s t Vi r g i n i a Mountaineers are 0-4 in conference play and in last place, but they come in at No. 66 in the Top 100, according to sportsreference.com. Despite not winning any conference games, West Virginia is fourth in scoring by averaging 75.7 points per game and second in averaging 41.4 rebounds per game, according to big12statistics.com.

The final Big 12 team in the Top 100 at No. 72 is Oklahoma State who

is 2-3 in conference play and seventh the Big 12, according to sportsreference.com. Junior forward Cameron McGriff is second by averaging 8.2 rebounds per game, according to big12statistics. com. Junior guard Lindy Waters is third in shooting .449 in three-point percentage, and junior guard Thomas Dziagwa is fourth with shooting .448 in three-point percentage.

The Red Raiders will continue Big 12 play at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16 against Iowa State at home in the United Supermarkets Arena before going on the road to face Baylor at 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, in Waco, then heading to Kansas to face Kansas State at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Manhattan, Kansas.

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Chargers, Cowboys coaching staffs to lead Pro Bowl teams The coaching staffs of the Los Angeles Chargers and Dallas Cowboys have been selected to lead the Pro Bowl teams.

Anthony Lynn and his Chargers’ staff will coach the AFC team while Jason Garrett and his Cowboys’ staff coach the NFC team.

The Chargers finished 12-4 in the regular season and lost to the Patriots 41-28 in the divisional round on Sunday. The NFC East champion Cowboys were 10-6 in the regular season and were defeated 30-22 by the Rams on Saturday night.