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Setting the Stage

Interim President Opperman discusses goals, campus issues

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ohn Opperman, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, will serve as the interim president for Texas Tech while the search committee finds a permanent president.

As an alumnus of Tech, he said it is an honor to be selected to serve as the interim president.

“As an alum of Texas Tech, I can tell you that I wouldn’t be standing here today if it wasn’t for the great education I got,” Opperman said.

It is not clear how long his time as interim president will last, Opperman said. The search committee is expected to meet soon and set an agenda.

His term could be three to six months on the short end, and nine to 12 months on the long end, he said. Until the committee sets its agenda and decides how to proceed, there is no way to know how long he will serve.

Part of his appointment as interim president is that he cannot fulfill the position as president. The only way he could serve as president is if the search ran into problems and did not come forward with a candidate or a strong enough candidate, Opperman said. Then, he could be considered.

If in the time he is serving as interim president the Campus Carry Task Force completes its recommendations, he will review them.

“The provost has done a good job with the campus committee in going through

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Earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Texas Tech and his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin Served as director of budget, policy and planning for the governor of Texas, budget director for the lieutenant governor of Texas and director of the Senate Finance Committee in the Texas legislature Served as vice chancellor of administration and finance and chief financial officer with the Tech University System from 1996 to 1999 Served as vice chancellor for policy and planning from 2002 to 2015 Named vice chancellor for academic affairs in June 2015 Began serving as interim president Friday

those recommendations,” Opperman said. “Right at the end of that process the Attorney General issues an opinion on many of those issues and so they’ve had to go back and look at those again based on the AG opinions.”

These issues are also being discussed with other systems and institutions, he said. The senate will have a hearing on this issue on Tuesday and what comes out of the hearing could change the committee’s recommendations.

Opperman said he has four goals for his time as interim president.

“Sometimes during transition in leadership there can be some stagnation in an organization, not just in a university but any kind of organization, because of the uncertainty that’s created by a change in leadership,” he said. “The main thing is to keep everyone working toward our goals.”

He said the first area of focus he wants to look at is enrollment. The goal was set at 40,000 enrollment by 2020. The goal will most likely be reached, with some strategic decisions.

One of these decisions is to continue to keep the campus diverse and look at state funding, he said.

The second area of focus he will look at is retention, Opperman said. There are many reasons students leave campus, and some of those things can be fixed by the university.

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Texas Tech Interim President John Opperman speaks at a news conference Monday in the Administration building. Opperman will take the place of former Tech President M. Duane Nellis while a committee searches for a permanent president.

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Clark, Washington to play in Senior Bowl Two students found dead in four days

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DeAndre Washington, Jared Kaster, Le’Raven Clark and Micah Awe walk to center field for the coin toss at Jones AT&T Stadium before Texas Tech’s 69-20 victory over UTEP on Sept. 12.

Washington and Clark will participate in the Senior Bowl on Saturday.

Texas Tech senior offensive lineman Le’Raven Clark and senior running back DeAndre Washington have been named to the 67th annual Reese’s Senior Bowl rosters.

The game will take place at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. The North and South teams will be practicing all week. The practices and game will be broadcast on NFL Network.

Clark and Washington are the 19th and 20th all-time Red Raiders to be invited to play in the game, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Gus Bradley, coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, will coach team South, which Clark and Washington will play on.

This is the Jaguars’ thirdstraight season coaching team South in the Senior Bowl. They are 1-1 in the last two games, according to the Jaguars website.

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On Monday morning police found a 21-year-old male Texas Tech student dead in his apartment at University Pointe.

According to everythinglubbock.com, police said they do not suspect foul play, but are investigating the death as an accidental overdose. This investigation is the second accidental overdose case of a Tech student in four days.

“We are deeply saddened at the loss of these students, which has cast somberness on the Red Raider community at the onset of the spring semester,” Chris Cook, managing director for Te c h C o m m u n i c a t i o n s and Marketing, said in a statement. “Our hearts and sympathies are extended to the family and

friends of each of these students and the entire Texas Tech family.”

On Monday the Dean of Students office was notified about the Texas Tech student found dead at ULofts apartments on Friday.

According to an email from the office, the student was Kacey David Callaway, who was enrolled in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering.

His parents live in Magnolia and Tech has reached out to the family to express its condolences, according to the email.

The funeral arrangements are not set.

The flags at Memorial Circle will be lowered for Callaway on Feb. 1, according to the email. @KristenBartonDT

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Museum educates, entertains public

By SHASHIDHAR SASTRY Staff Writer

Not long after Texas Tech was chartered, the Museum of Texas Tech University was founded in 1929. Then known as the West Texas Museum, its first home was what is today Holden Hall. After almost 90 years, the museum

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continues to expand even today and presently houses more than five million objects in its collection.

Museum exhibits have been popular among young and old alike. Exhibitions are one of the ways through which the museum accomplishes its mission of disseminating knowledge to the society.

“I think there is just a lot here that is really hidden and unknown,” Jill Hoffman, Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Education, said. “We have a very interesting collection.”

The museum presently houses 10 permanent exhibits along with a few temporary exhibits. Some of her favorite galleries at the museum, Hoffman said, include the Changing World gallery and the N.C. Wyeth gallery.

The Changing World gallery focuses on the three stages of the Mesozoic Era, also known as the age of the dinosaurs. It contains reproductions of the skeletons and fossils from that era.

The N.C. Wyeth gallery, on the other hand, exhibits the works of N.C. Wyeth who is considered to be one of America’s greatest illustrators, Hoffman said.

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gallery at the museum, however, is the William C. and Evelyn M. Davies Gallery of Southwest Indian Art, Hoffman said. The Davies Gallery houses the “Beyond Expressions in Clay” exhibit that focuses on works by Pueblo peoples of the Southwestern U.S. “There are just some beautiful examples in there,” she said. “I would say that if people don’t know about Native American art and culture, the Davies gallery would be a great place to start.”

In terms of the temporary exhibits, an exhibit featuring 45 quilts selected from the museum’s vast collection of clothing and textiles was opened recently. The quilts range from a signed and dated 1839 Medallion quilt of chintz to mid-20th century pieces made in West Texas.

Marian Ann Montgomery, curator of clothing and textiles for the museum, said the quilts were selected based not only on their artistic merit and quality but also on the story behind them.

For several of the quilts, the makers were discovered and their history was included alongside the quilts.

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sort from our collection,” Montgomery said. “It’s special because it shows the art form of the quilt, it shows the spectacular examples that we have in our collection and it embraces a variety of cultures.”

An exhibit featuring photographs from the wellknown photographer Rick Dingus will open on Mar. 4.

This will be a retrospective exhibit that will present an overview of Dingus’ four decades of creative life as a photographer.

Dingus is also a Tech professor at the School of Art. Peter S. Briggs, Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art, said the works on display, although dominated by

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Interim President John Opperman discusses his goals for the university.

Opperman said it is unsure how long he will serve in this position.

“The third area is research, obviously we are a research institution and we’re making an effort to become one of the top public research universities in the country,” he said.

“That does require a focus on that area. One of the strengths of Texas Tech has been its history as a good teaching institution.”

Finally, Opperman said he wants to focus on the budget. Tech will get instructions from the legislature on how to put the appropriation requests together for the next legislative session.

Part of the appropriations request will include the new veterinary school, he said. The university is in the process of establishing the Department of Veterinary Sciences, the first step of creating the

landscape photography, will also include pieces selected from several of Dingus’ other projects. “(The exhibit) is the celebration of a faculty member, an artist who has made substantial contributions throughout his career to photography,” Briggs said.

The museum has and continues to acknowledge the work of such people right here at Tech, Briggs said.

The Tech museum is one of the few museums in the country that has been accredited by the American Association of Museums, Hoffman said. Additionally, the museum offers a graduate program in museum science offered only at a handful

of institutions in the country.

The museum along with a large number of events hosted by the museum are free and open to the public, Hoffman said. It ties in with the idea making it accessible to everyone.

“We are extremely limited here in our resources.

We d o n ’t h a v e e n o u g h staff to do all the things that I think we should be doing,” she said. “To do what we do, I think, that’s an interesting fact, it’s an amazing thing.”

The museum is located at 3301 4th St. It is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. @sastryshashi_DT

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as Tech website. He has been involved in public and higher education and state budgeting for more than 20 years. @KristenBartonDT

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general named a former prosecutor on Monday to spearhead an investigation into the process that left Flint’s drinking water tainted with lead, though Democrats questioned whether the special counsel would be impartial.

Republican Bill Schuette said Todd Flood, a former assistant prosecutor for Wayne County, which includes Detroit, will lead the probe and be joined by Andy Arena, a retired head of Detroit’s FBI office.

Schuette said the two would play key roles in the investigation and prevent conflicts of interest since the attorney general’s office also defends the state. Both will report to Schuette, who promised they would provide an “experienced and independent review of all the facts and circumstances.”

He dismissed any concerns about Flood, who is now in private practice and has donated to candidates from both parties, including the maximum allowable amount to Schuette.

“I don’t care who he (Flood) has given money to, Republican (or) Democrat. It doesn’t matter,” Schuette said. “This is about conducting a thorough, exhaustive, complete investigation. That’s what we’re doing.”

It is unclear at this point if the probe could result in criminal or civil charges. The investigation could focus on whether environmental laws were broken or if there was official misconduct in the process that left Flint’s drinking water contaminated.

Flood mostly declined to discuss which laws may have been

broken, except to note there are prohibitions against misconduct by public officials. He said “a plethora of laws” potentially could be used to charge someone.

Schuette gave no timetable for the investigation.

Flint switched from Detroit’s municipal water system while under emergency state financial management and began drawing from the Flint River in 2014 to save money, but the water was not properly treated.

Residents have been urged to use bottled water and to put filters on faucets.

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HEALTH

Doctors stress flu vaccinations

By MICHAELA BAYSINGER Staff Writer

In the month of February, the threat of influenza is predicted to spike.

It is important to get vaccinated and to follow basic hygiene procedures to make sure not to get sick or to get other people sick.

D r. R i c h a r d L a m p e , professor and pediatrics department chairperson, and Dr. Fatma Levent,

associate professor, said it is important to get the influenza vaccination. There are also other steps to keep in mind while trying to keep from getting the flu.

Symptoms of the flu include a fever, coughing, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headaches

and fatigue, according to Texasflu.org.

“While the vaccine is the most important, always remember to use proper hand hygiene.

Sick people stay home, and don’t get too close to someone who is or could be sick,” Lampe said. “If someone is sick with the flu and are in the front of the bus and you are in the back it is unlikely that you will get sick. You have

to be pretty close, I believe six feet, so someone who you live with can give it to you.”

It is less likely that an area will have an outbreak from the flu if the majority of the population is immunized, Levent said. This is known as herd immunity.

“The higher the number of immunized people in the community is better protection for the com-

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munity,” she said. “Most healthy people who get the flu will be over it just like any other viral infection.

But sometimes it can be so severe it can put you in the hospital or even cause death, which is why it is such a serious infection.”

This flu season, beginning in October, has already seen 71 deaths in region one of Texas, which is the Lubbock area, according to the Texas Influ-

enza Surveillance Report, with the state as a whole losing 1,539 people.

Students can get the vaccine from the Student Health Center, Walgreens, Wa l - M a r t a n d M a r k e t Street for free, depending on their insurance. If any students do not have insurance they can go to the Lubbock Public Health Department and get their vaccine for $20. @DailyToreador

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Students arrested for possession of Faculty research drugs, paraphernalia on campus food addiction

Friday 10:08 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a striking of an unattended vehicle in the R3 parking lot.

12:32 p.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to a medical emergency in Talkington Residence Hall. The student was transported to University Medical Center for a possible ingestion of unknown medication.

3:49 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident with no injuries and a striking of an unattended vehicle in the Z4P parking lot.

4:12 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft in Gordon Residence Hall. A secured bicycle was taken.

7:33 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia in Coleman Residence Hall. The student signed the citation and was released.

9:04 p.m. — A Tech officer charged and released a student for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in Talkington Residence Hall.

9:16 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident with no injuries at the intersection of Red Raider Avenue and Drive of Champions.

11 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and evading arrest. A second student was arrested for public intoxication and resisting transportation after an officer observed the two students fall down in the Z4N parking lot. One

student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. Emergency Medical Services personnel transported the second student to the UMC Emergency Room. The second student was then transported to the Lubbock County Jail after being cleared by medical staff.

11:21 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested three students after the odor of marijuana was reported in Talkington Residence Hall. One student was arrested for possession of controlled substance, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of alcohol by a minor. A second student was arrested for possession of controlled substance, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

A third student was arrested for possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The three students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Saturday 12:11 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft of an emergency exit sign in Weymouth Residence Hall.

12:53 a.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in Gates Residence Hall. EMS transported a student to UMC Emergency Room for possible alcohol poisoning.

1:37 a.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in Hulen Residence Hall. EMS transported a student to UMC Emergency Room for possible alcohol poisoning.

2:52 a.m. — A Tech of-

ficer investigated a theft of an emergency exit sign in Weymouth Residence Hall.

2:56 a.m. — A Tech officer issued two students a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by a minor in the Z4M parking lot. The students were released.

3:21 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in Chitwood Residence Hall.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

10:51 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in Chitwood Residence Hall. A student voluntarily requested medical assistance after taking a large amount of medication in an attempt to harm themselves.

Lubbock EMS personnel arrived and transported the student to the UMC Emergency Room.

Sunday 12:21 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license after a traffic stop in the 1900 block of Boston Avenue. The nonstudent was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was released to a friend.

2:55 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated after a traffic stop in the 2400 block of Glenna Goodacre Boulevard. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded by Lubbock Wrecker Services.

6:48 a.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in Murray Residence Hall. A student was feeling depressed. EMS

transported the student to UMC Emergency Room.

11:12 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for driving with an invalid license in the 3200 block of 7th Street after a traffic stop. The nonstudent was also charged with possession of marijuana, Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and no liability insurance. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded.

1:17 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for an outstanding Lubbock County warrant in the 3300 block of 7th Street after a traffic stop. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded.

1:34 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at West Village Apartment Complex. A student’s unsecured women’s cruiser bicycle was taken.

6 : 1 2 p . m . — A Te c h officer arrested two students for possession of marijuana in the 3000 block of 18th Street after a traffic stop. Both students also received a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

The vehicle was released to the owner.

Monday 12:21 a.m. — A Tech officer documented damaged property in Gates Residence Hall. Two exit signs were damaged.

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While the addiction to food is acknowledged as a true addiction, there is no one definition to such a disorder nor is there a consistent way of treating it.

In order to gain understanding, Texas Tech assistant professor Cynthia Dsauza and nutritional science instructor Allison Childress are working with the departments of mental health and exercise and sport sciences to start a study that will work to examine biochemical markers of hunger and satiety and will eventually move to the clinical trial stage, according to a Tech news release.

“We are going to compensate people,” Dsauza said. “We are not really sure of the dollar amount, but people will definitely be compensated.”

This study will focus on a variety of interests, including the types of food that are likely to be addicting, the way food addiction

Lawyers challenge law on harboring immigrants SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Immigrant rights attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging part of a Texas border security bill they say could allow state authorities to target shelters and landlords for harboring immigrants who are in the country illegally.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund is asking a judge to find unconstitutional part of the far-reaching se-

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Some call New Mexico governor ‘anti-immigrant’ SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has urged comprehensive immigration reform and asked candidates to tone down their rhetoric amid strong anti-immigration sentiment from some fellow Republicans, but she still faces accusations of pushing an “anti-immigrant” agenda.

The nation’s only Latina governor also has denounced GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump for his remarks on Mexican immigrants, visited a federal detention center holding Central American immigrant mothers and chil-

dren, and taken official trips to Chihuahua, Mexico, to promote trade.

But advocates are criticizing Martinez’s effort to revise the state’s immigrant driver’s license law, which the former prosecutor has tried to do since taking office in 2011.

It comes as Democrats and Republicans are sparring over how to make New Mexico comply with the federal REAL ID Act. The tougher federal standards require proof of legal U.S. residency for those who want to use state identification to access certain areas of federal facilities.

wrongdoing and have said the videos were misleadingly edited.

The footage from the clinic in Houston showed people pretending to be from a company called BioMax that procures fetal tissue for research touring the facility.

Planned Parenthood has previously said that the fake company sent an agreement offering to pay the “astronomical amount” of $1,600 for organs from a fetus.

The clinic said it never entered into the agreement and ceased contact with BioMax because it was “disturbed”

by the overtures.

In a statement announcing the indictment, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson did not provide details on the charges, including what record or records were allegedly tampered with and why Daleiden faces a charge related to buying human organs. Her office said it could not disclose more information and a court spokesman said it was unclear whether copies of the indictments, which typically provide more insight, would be made public Monday.

curity bill the state passed in 2015.

The group suing includes two landlords who say they could be hurt by the law because they don’t ask the immigration status of their tenants. Also suing is Jonathan Ryan, director of a San Antonio-based immigration legal services center that also runs a shelter for migrants whose staff and volunteers, he says, could be subject to prosecution.

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Leader behind Planned Parenthood videos indicted count related to purchasing human organs. Another activist, Sandra Merritt, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

It’s the first time anyone in the group has been charged criminally since the release of the videos, which began surfacing last year and alleged that Planned Parenthood sold fetal tissue to researchers for a profit in violation of federal law. Planned Parenthood officials have denied any

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David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor

and drug addiction relate, the ways such a dependence may be recognized, the body’s reward system as it associates with cravings, and finally the relationship between obesity and food addiction.

On a more broad level, researchers are hoping to advance the most in understanding food addiction as it is linked to hormone levels, depression, hunger and satiation.

“We are not just open to Texas Tech students,” Dsauza said, “but it is definitely open to students if they qualify. We are especially looking for people with a history of struggling with weight or obesity.”

The symptoms of food addiction include, but are not limited to, overeating or eating to excessive fullness, guilt after eating, hiding the consumption of certain foods and the inability to control consumption.

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hivering outside of Houston’s Toyota Center, I was aggressively tapped on the shoulder by an overzealous security officer informing me I needed to take my backpack off so it could be searched at the main entrance. By that point, my friends and I had already been waiting in line for more than an hour while it rained and street preachers, equipped with bullhorns, verbally accosted us.

Now, while Passion 2016, the Christian conference we were attending, was so incredibly worth all of that, I need to point out that the majority of those safety measures we suffered through were essentially ineffective as more than just basic threat deterrents.

The reason for this is if anyone had seriously wanted to wreak havoc on our concentration of 10,000 Christians, they would not have attempted to pull that off by waiting in line and then walking through the metal detectors at the entrance.

Avery Aiken is a freshman communications studies major from The Woodlands.

Instead, they most likely would have constructed a much more clever and conniving plan that we might not have seen coming thanks to our preoccupation with searching bags for bombs and contraband snacks.

This issue of the “security theater,” which Wikipedia defines as “the practice of investing in countermeasures intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it,” was first introduced to me by Adam Conover on his show “Adam Ruins Everything.”

Since the beginning of our national effort to focus on enhancing security, these security theaters have become a greater problem in the U.S. as technology

progresses, but our safety precautions don’t.

For instance, look at our airport security systems.

Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, we have been working to prevent another attack of the exact same nature instead of thinking of new points of vulnerability and working to boost the security in those areas. In fact, Conover goes on to quote a Good Morning America exclusive which exposed the fact that “When Homeland Security tested (the TSA), the TSA failed to find mock weapons and explosives 95 percent of the time.”

That means the organization which we are counting on to keep us safe when we travel finds about as many safety threats as your browser’s pop-up blocker.

The bottom line is, we have implemented a great many security measures that really don’t do more than make us feel safe. Hence the term, “security theater.”

Conover also references an editorial in the Wall

Street Journal by Kip Hawley, when he answers his own question by saying, “What has stopped terrorist attacks? All of the other safety measures we’ve added since 9/11. Like reinforced cockpit blast doors.”

Another example he gives of measures that actually prevent attacks — like mass shootings or suicide bombings — is the heightened awareness of Americans.

As long as we keep one eye peeled for signs of potential threats, we’re contributing to the overall safety of ourselves and everyone around us.

But winding security lines, metal detectors, mini shampoo bottles and letting someone rifle through our personal belongings really doesn’t do a whole lot to protect us from the threats that end up making it onto our news feeds. Yes, they might prevent someone from attacking us lazily, but we can’t stop there.

Jeffrey Goldberg, an editorialist for the Atlantic, has been conducting casual

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studies on the realities of “security theater” for some time now and, in his article titled “The Things He Carried,” Goldberg shows the extent to which security agencies (particularly the TSA) are essentially useless. He wrote, “I’ve amassed an inspiring collection of al-Qaeda Tshirts, Islamic Jihad flags, Hezbollah videotapes, and inflatable Yasir Arafat dolls (really). All of these things I’ve carried with me through airports across the country.”

While that might seem like it doesn’t say much, Goldberg goes on to list the other frowned upon items he has toted through airport security: “pocketknives, matches from hotels in Beirut and Peshawar, dust masks, lengths of rope, cigarette lighters, nail clippers, eight-ounce tubes of toothpaste (in [his] front pocket), bottles of Fiji Water (which is foreign), and, of course, box cutters.”

Which can only lead you to ask, “Is he trying to get himself tackled by some hefty

TSA officer?” Yes. Yes, he is.

However, Goldberg is so confident he won’t get caught, he even flashed a bunch of “counterfeit boarding passes” in one of the most monitored airport restrooms. No, not in a stall. Right there, in the middle of the bathroom. No one even noticed.

And if you are still wondering about all of that paraphernalia he brought through security, you’ll be pleased (or horrified) to know he was only selected for secondary screening four times and “at one screening, (he) was relieved of a pair of nail clippers; during another, a can of shaving cream.”

My point with this column isn’t to generate fear.

Instead, I want to make sure that, as the mildly paranoid and sufficiently concerned citizens we are, we don’t let “security theater” distract us from actual security. When lives are on the line, we don’t want to only be defended by an airport security line. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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ollege tuition and textbook prices have become the one-two punch combos of the college world. The college tuition comes as the left lead, catching many students off balance, while the textbook prices come as a hefty right hook, knocking many of us off our feet.

Despite how heavy a punch these prices can pack, the biggest problem with textbook prices is not just the high prices, but that we as students are incapable of fighting back.

When I was buying textbooks last Friday, this was evidently clear as I waited in line. The line was long and slow, the mood like a Texas DPS office on a hot summer day. Students murmured throughout the line, yet the cashiers were apathetic to the prices we all had to pay.

Of course, they could be as apathetic as they wanted — if any one of us were upset with the prices or the service, we could go down to a different store and experience the exact same prices and quality of service.

It is obvious students are angry about outrageous textbook prices, and recent studies have made it obvious students have the right to be angry. According to an Aug. 6, 2015, NBC News report, college textbook prices have risen more than 1000 percent since 1977. To put this into perspective, the NBC report states overall inflation has only risen approximately 300 percent since 1977.

The NBC figures do not account for the prices of used or rental textbooks, yet even renting books or buying used

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

books is bittersweet. Usually, in my experience, buying used or renting textbooks is only marginally cheaper than buying new. Yet, when I try and sell my textbooks back, I get offered a laughably low buy-back offer. With more classes requiring students to have an online access code, often it is cheaper to buy the new textbook with an included access code than to buy a used book and access code separately.

Students must press their colleges to consider cheaper alternatives when selecting textbook prices, as the committees and professors are the only ones who can protect students against expensive textbooks.

While this is often frustrating for students, the most frustrating part is how we are not able to do anything about the situation. If a movie ticket is too expensive, we don’t have to buy it. If certain brands of clothes are too expensive, there are plenty other brands to choose from.

Yet, even when students are fed up with textbook prices,

they have few options other than to pay.

As college tuitions continue to rise, this monopoly comes as even a harder slap to the face. Some say this monopoly can be avoided by renting textbooks from the Tech library, but with ever-changing editions and volumes, the library often does not have the book I need. Others say students can share textbooks with friends, but it is simply extremely unlikely to have a friend in all of a student’s classes. Besides, in order to remember my lessons, I have to write notes and translations in my books, Because of this, I have to have my own copy and I have no doubt students in other majors have the same dilemma.

Despite the mumbling and muttering students do over textbook prices, there remains little incentive for publishers to lower textbook prices. College professors, committees and sometimes departments are those who decide on which textbooks to assign, so it is less urgent to them whether the textbook is $30 or $300.

Professors assigning their own textbooks remain a controversy, but will probably still continue. The American Association of University Professors, in their report, “On Professors Assigning Their Own Texts to Students,” says the right professors have to select their own teaching materials is protected under the principles of academic freedom. While the report states that professor’s profits can be marginal or even nonexistent, students are nonetheless held captive,

which can be profitable in many occasions.

With publishers who are seeking profits and professors who are indifferent, the price of textbooks is unlikely to go down anytime soon. Students must press their colleges to consider cheaper alternatives when selecting textbook prices, as the committees and professors are the only ones who can protect students against expensive textbooks.

When I was a child, I always knew I would go to college, simply based off of the wonderful things my parents would tell me about their experiences.

Yet, when they went to college, tuitions and textbook prices were cheaper, minimum wage paid better and job opportunities were more plentiful.

As I see other students struggling to pay for just a few textbooks, I wonder how our children will view college after they hear of our experiences. Will they want to come to college after they hear tales of long night shifts at work, just so we could pay tuition and our rent? Will they think college is worth it after they understand how much debt our era of students have gained?

Growing college prices, including textbooks, will only cause more pain, which is why we students must push for the universities to be aware of the fees students pay for textbooks, along with the other fees we must pay, as that is the only plausible way things will change. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Rubio’s Iowa crisscross approach bends caucus campaign norm DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Marco Rubio is all over the map in Iowa.

Quite literally.

Having spent little time in the state’s rural Christian conservative northwest, the Republican presidential candidate dropped in to Sioux County for the first time on a solo campaign trip last week, then bounced across the state two days later to speak with some of Iowa’s more fiscally conservative voters in the east.

“I’m going to trust that he knows what he’s doing,” state Rep. John Wills, who supports Rubio, said after his campaign stop at the Christian Dordt College in GOP-rich Sioux Center. “I hope he gets the chance to get up here again. Northwest Iowa is where you win.”

Rubio began an uninterrupted nine-day run Saturday ahead of Iowa’s lead-off caucuses next Monday. His itinerary includes college towns, larger cities and

rural outposts.

After months of promising that his campaign was on the verge of ramping up in earlyvoting states, Rubio appears to be following through in the Iowa homestretch.

He dismisses the notion that he’s changing in the 11th hour to play catch-up with rival Ted Cruz, who has dedicated significant time and resources toward campaigning across the state.

Rubio has focused more on Des Moines and the state’s

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Rather, “it’s an indication that the caucuses are eight days away,” Rubio said Saturday during a campaign stop in Indianola.

In the chess game of early voting, Rubio needs to finish in Iowa ahead of mainstream GOP rivals like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

If he does, undecided voters in the upcoming contests in New Hampshire and South Carolina could take notice.

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ith the scientific community reeling because of the realization that the aptly named “Planet 9” may be the next planet in the Solar System, this discovery also presents a new idea to the drafting table — is our Solar System complete?

This new discovery will hopefully lead to an increased interest in what lies in space, and because of that interest, would lead to an increase in funding for further space exploration.

There is no doubt this increase in space exploration would, hopefully, lead to further discoveries throughout space — whether it be a new planet in our Solar System or a new Earth.

With the discovery of Planet 9, scientists around the world will hopefully receive the support to explore further than before, which will give the scientific community more time to make new discoveries.

The planet’s existence is not the only thing we know about Planet 9. A CNN article by Amanda Watts titled “Ninth planet may have been discovered, researchers say,” gives a quote from Mike Brown, who is a researcher.

Brown stated, “there have only been two true planets discovered since ancient times, and this would be the third.”

This would ultimately mean there are more planets to be found in our solar system. Planet 9 is also described as having “a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther than from the sun.”

With the discovery of Planet 9, scientists around the world will hopefully receive the support to explore further than before, which will give the scientific community more time to make new discoveries.

With nothing but the future ahead of us, we should continue the push to discover a new species or even a new planet hu-

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Brian DeFilippis is a sophomore electronic media and communications major from Flower Mound.

manity could someday call home. With the multitude of scientific achievements that have occurred in the past few months, the only direction we can go is further toward discovery.

It was only in late December of 2015 that SpaceX successfully launched and landed the same rocket on a barge in the middle of the ocean.

This is the first time a rocket could be landed in one piece, with the promise that it can be used in later missions.

According to a New York Times article by Kenneth Chang titled “SpaceX Successfully Lands Rocket After Launch of Satellites Into Orbit,” if the rocket stages SpaceX made can be refurbished and relaunched, the cost of traveling to space could be reduced. This is not the first time SpaceX has decided to attempt a rocket landing.

The article continues on, saying, “SpaceX plans two launches next month: another commercial satellite and an ocean satellite for NASA.” This rocket landing sets the precedent that SpaceX can launch and land rockets, opening up the possibility for recycled rockets, much like the airplane industry today.

In short, having the ability to reuse rockets and launch stations could equate to the possibility of commercial space travel in the coming years. Another outcome of this historic landing could be the extended distance with which we can use these rockets to explore space.

The discovery of Planet 9 also poses another theory to scientists. This discovery of the ninth planet in our Solar System could lead to the discovery of other unknown planets in the near future.

Hopefully, we can use this momentum to push forward and discover more of the unknown. How knows, perhaps one day we can even find evidence of extraterrestrial life. bdefilippis@dailytoreador.com

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Exhibit allows differing viewer interpretations

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The Texas Tech Hu manities Center opened its interactive exhibit Wordscape at 2 p.m. Monday in front of the Formby Room of the Southwest Collections building.

The exhibit is housed electronically on a kiosk, and it is composed of 350 images that observers can pick from three words to caption what they think each photo represents.

Dorothy Chansky, the director of the Humanities Center, spoke to the crowd of approximately 30 people about the exhibit.

“It doesn’t tell you what to think, it sort of invites you to think about certain ideas,” she said.

This year ’s theme for the Humanities Center is “Synoptics: Epistemologies of the Observer,” according to the center ’s website. The idea behind the theme is while professors used to teach students there was one way of interpreting classical works, individuals observe the world differently based on their backgrounds and experiences.

Rich Rice, associate professor in the Department of English, and eight Ph.D. students in his media and rhetoric class designed the exhibit.

“They interviewed a

lot of different students and faculty and did a lot of usability testing,” he said. “We gathered the 350 images and created three words for each image that would elicit different types of responses.”

Users can login to the kiosk by selecting whether they are a Tech student, faculty, staff member or a member of the public, and Chansky said the designers did not ask more background questions about the user to prevent discouraging them from continuing to the images.

“We just want to raise awareness that people read both text and images differently, whether it’s who we are, faculty or staff or students, or what experiences they have,” Rice said. “Hopefully we’ll find out that faculty read certain images differently than students.”

If people know there are differences in how various groups of people see a topic, Rice said it is easier to understand the other person’s argument and communicate.

In the future, Rice said he hopes students from other majors can be involved to improve the exhibit and get more specialized data from it.

“Psychology could really correlate words to images in specific ways,” he said. “The research could

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TOP: The Texas Tech Humanities Center Director Dorothy Chansky, Provost and Senior Vice President Lawrence Schovanec and associate professor Rich Rice open the new Synoptics Wordscape Interactive Kiosk on Monday in the Southwest Collection Library. The exhibit allows people to interact with photographs while collection research for future projects. RIGHT: During the Synoptics Wordscape exhibit opening, Tech Provost and Senior Vice President Lawrence Schovanec studies the picture and chooses a single-word caption to fit the photo.

become a lot more if this was version 1.0 and it got a lot more sophisticated.”

Those who attended the opening of the exhibit had the opportunity to try the kiosk, and Lawrence Schovanec, provost and vice president of Tech, said he enjoyed going through the images.

The kiosk is designed to be user friendly because the user only has to click on the caption they choose for an image and the program will load the next image, and Chansky said the exhibit is a hands-on way for people to understand this year’s theme for the Humanities Center.

“We’re trying to gather the data as comprehensively and as clearly as we can so we can make it possible for anyone who wants this data to have it available to them,” she said. “The data can be used by more than one researcher and for more than one topic. You can think of it being like census data, different people can use the data for different needs.”

Fifty images will be available every day on the kiosk, and the images will change every day to rotate through the entire collection of 350 photos. Users do not have to stop to go

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through all 50 images, Chansky said, and people are more than welcome to go through only a few photos if they have the time.

The kiosk will stay in front of the Formby Room until Feb. 8, then it will move to the lobby of the Library until March 21, after which it will be moved into the Student Union Building.

People can also view

the exhibit in a paper version in the Museum of Texas Tech starting on Feb. 12, and they can view 30 images and choose from the captions every month for six months.

“I just hope people will stop and play with it for a little while in all three of the venues,” Chansky said. “I hope they take advantage of it.” @JenRomeroDT

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Tyler Humphreys, a freshman business major from Dallas, speaks with Eric Shafer, a senior finance major from San Antonio, at the Tech Marketing Association booth on Monday morning outside the Student Union Building. The Tech Marketing Association works to connect students with professionals in their field as well as hosts socials to build community.

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Roommates can be friends or challenges

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oommates are a huge part of college life, and the relationships we have with them are love hate at times.

No matter whom you decide to room with, they will always turn in to one of six types.

You have The Slob, The Neat Freak, The Lover, The Fighter, The Ghost or The Book Worm, and each of these roommates is terrible in their own way.

The Slob is the one roommate who always confuses the trash can with the rest of the room. This person only owns a maximum of five T-shirts and two pairs of pants, sees no use in showering more than once a week and enjoys the mystery of trying to find his or her homework in the mess of papers they call a backpack.

The Neat Freak, as you might assume, is the complete opposite of The Slob.

He or she will literally burn you alive if you don’t pick up the lone sock you just so happened to drop on the floor while doing laundry.

This roommate will not rest until his or her side of the

Ryan Ortegon is a freshman electronic media and communications major from El Paso.

room is spotless and will judge you if you do not do the same. And if you leave your dirty dishes in the sink, well then, I wish you the best of luck.

The Lover is a roommate who does not understand the concept of your time because they have their significant other over ALL THE TIME. You will leave your room for a quick shower and within the two-minute walk from the restroom back to your room because you forgot your towel, you will walk into them making out on the couch. You start to think they must have accidentally glued a sock to the door because whatever they are doing can’t be humanly possible, and their boyfriend or girlfriend will spend so much time there that you start to become part of the relationship. It only takes

two wheels to ride a bike; there is no need for a third.

The Fighter is someone whom at first you were the best of friends with, but since she joined that sorority or he made friends in that club, they slowly begin to lose focus on you and eventually begin to secretly despise you. Of course this hatred is mutual and filled with many awkward silences and glaring looks. However, next year you can just move out and find someone who appreciates your Star Wars figurine collection, so this roommate is just like a fly in the room that you can just simply ignore for the time being.

The Ghost is a pretty self-explanatory roommate, because they are never there. You met them the first day, you exchanged phone numbers and you decided what color scheme the place would be. But as time goes by you begin to see them once a week, then a month, then you begin to question whether or not to report them missing. You don’t question where they go, and you start to become

alarmed at sounds in their room because you forgot that they actually existed.

And finally, the Bookworm is the roommate that, opposite of the ghost, is ALWAYS there. They seem to live out of their textbooks and only walk out of the room to go to the restroom.

You constantly remind them that there is a world outside and ask if they’d like to join you for Canes, but they always decline the offer. This might make it hard to bring friends over in a dorm, but school is always first and so you constantly have to go to others for entertainment.

No matter how bad they get, a roommate is someone you just can’t avoid when you get to college, but my advice would be to make he best out of a bad situation. Chances are you may think your roommate is one of these six types, but then again maybe they think the same about you, so making a roommate a friend and dealing with their problems is much better than living with an enemy. @RyanOrtegonDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The national tour of the thrilling musical “Cabaret” is about to launch and it’s led by a young woman who knows it intimately.

After all, she watched it for a year on Broadway — from the stage.

Andrea Goss will play the fishnet-and-bowler hat wearing chanteuse Sally Bowles after being a member of the ensemble and an understudy for Sally. She patiently backed up Michelle Williams, Emma Stone and Sienna Miller.

“You learn from everybody you watch. You can’t ignore the incredible women who I saw do it and also the ones before,” said Goss, from Salem, Oregon, who also cited Natasha Richardson and Liza Minnelli as important Sallys. “You

have to somehow pay homage but still make it your own and bring your own to it.”

The tour, which also stars “Queer as Folk” star Randy Harrison as the slippery Emcee, kicks off in Rhode Island on Tuesday before making its way to Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Maryland, Ohio, Nevada, and California.

“Cabaret” centers on the world of the indulgent Kit Kat Klub in Berlin as it becomes intertwined with the world outside, which gets more precarious on the brink of World War II. The songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb include “Willkommen” and “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.”

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Tech prepares for matchup against No. 1 Oklahoma

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

In a conference with half of its teams ranked in the top-25, the Texas Tech men’s basketball team continues its pursuit of a win over a ranked opponent against the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners at 6 p.m. today in Lloyd Noble Center.

Since its win over the Texas Longhorns to open the Big 12, the Red Raiders lost five of their last six matchups. Four of Tech’s losses went to ranked opponents.

Tech’s Big 12 overall record falls at 12-6 and 2-5 in conference, but aside from an 83-70 loss to Kansas State, the Red Raiders displayed their ability to match up against their Big 12 counterparts up until the final closing minutes.

At home against a then ranked No. 6 West Virginia team, the Red Raiders needed to run out the final minute and 10 seconds left on the clock to finally seal a victory over a ranked opponent with a 76-72 lead. West Virginia junior guard Tarik Phillip, however, crushed Tech’s upset bid by pouring in eight consecutive points in the final minute.

For the Red Raiders, the loss to West Virginia stung as their previous game against the Baylor Bears ended with a buzzer beating 3-pointer from senior guard Lester Medford.

Coach Tubby Smith said he thinks the team has not

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fully grasped what allowed Baylor and West Virginia to pull a win in clutch time.

“We’re just not really retaining the lessons as well as I’ve hoped,” he said. “It’s really disappointing, but then again, we’re getting better, we’re getting closer to beating these top teams and the minute we cross that threshold, climb that mountain, I think you’ll see our confidence grow even more.”

The Oklahoma Sooners defend their perfect home record against Tech with senior guard Buddy Hield leading the Big 12’s highest scoring offense.

Making a case for the Wooden Award, Hield’s hothanded performances almost midway through Big 12 competition has the guard averaging 25.7 points per game and shooting .521 from the field, according to a Big 12 release. Adding to Hield’s strong offensive outputs, senior guard Isaiah Cousins handles ball distribution and junior guard Jordan Woodard adds to Oklahoma’s efficient outside shooting.

To deal with Oklahoma’s wide shooting range, Smith said Tech’s transi-

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Texas Tech forward Zach Smith drives past Kansas defender Perry Ellis during the first half of Tech’s 69-59 loss to the Jayhawks on Jan. 9 in the United Supermarkets Arena. tion defense factors immensely to stopping the Sooner’s offense.

“We really have struggled to defend the three,” Smith said. “Transition defense is going to be critical because they shoot a lot of those threes in transition off the dribble penetration.”

Oklahoma’s offensive weapons spread the floor for the Sooners, but the Red Raiders could counteract Oklahoma with another strong showing from the

bench. Leading Tech’s reserve core, sophomore guard Justin Gray posts a 10.6 scoring average coming off the bench and junior forward Aaron Ross averages 10.3 points.

Senior guard Toddrick Gotcher said Tech’s defense must play better than Tech’s offense to handle the Sooners.

“I think we win when opponents shoot less than 50 percent on us,” Gotcher said.

“I think our defense is going

to have to step it up and offense will come by using our defense getting steals and getting in the passing lanes.”

Tech’s bench increased its depth against West Virginia with redshirt sophomore Rokas Ulvydas coming in for six minutes of play against the Mountaineers in Tech’s loss. The absence of starting sophomore forward Norense Odiase influenced coach Tubby Smith’s decision to place Ulvydas on the court.

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an Evans said the team must prevent itself from losing focus for the full 40 minutes as a team like the Sooners will not miss an opportunity to take advantage of Tech’s mistakes.

“We tend to think the game is already over just because we’re up by a couple points with a minute or two left,” Evans said. “We got to play all the way through, when people lose focus it’s one of those silly turnovers.” @DGaytanDT

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Title IX lawsuit over Jameis Winston allegations settled

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ment that it has formed a Sex— Florida State University ual Assault Prevention Task has settled a Title IX lawsuit Group, hired a full-time Title IX with a former student who said coordinator, added six positions the school failed to adequately to improve campus safety and investigate allegations that required all incoming freshmen she was raped by former star to complete an online course to quarterback Jameis Winston. make “more informed choices The settlement was an- about sex and relationships.”

FSU President John nounced a day before Winston’s accuser, Erica Kinsman, had Thrasher also noted that there been scheduled to give a de- have been more than 100 trainposition in the case. As part of ing sessions conducted on camthe settlement, FSU is mak- pus dealing with sexual assault ing a five-year commitment to and how to prevent it. sexual assault awareness and The settlement also calls prevention. The university also for a $950,000 payment to has agreed to publish annual Kinsman and her attorneys. reports for the next five years A copy of the settlement says about those programs.

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bright future,” Thrasher said in the release.

Jim Ryan, a partner with Cullen and Dykman who deals in Title IX cases, said typical settlement amounts range from $250,000 to $500,000, but most are kept confidential.

Kinsman has said she was drunk at a Tallahassee bar in December 2012 when Winston and others took her to an apartment, where she says the quarterback raped her.

Winston has said the allegations are false and that he and Kinsman had consensual sex.

Prosecutors said there wasn’t enough evidence to win a conviction and that there were gaps in Kinsman’s story.

A lawsuit filed by Kinsman against Winston — and a countersuit he filed against her claiming she is trying to take advantage of his newfound wealth as the starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — are ongoing and are not affected by the settlement.

A Title IX investigation by the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Education also is ongoing. Title IX is a federal statute that bans discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. The department in 2011 warned schools of their legal responsibilities to immediately investigate allegations of sexual assault, even if

the criminal investigation has not concluded.

Baine Kerr, one of Kinsman’s attorneys, told The Associated Press that the university wanted Kinsman to withdraw her complaint, but she refused.

Kinsman will graduate this spring from another four-year university.

Melissa Ashton, who had been director of FSU’s victim advocate program until August, said in a deposition given this past summer that football players receive special treatment at the school. She said most of the estimated 20 rape victims she encountered during the past decade declined to press student conduct charges.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder wouldn’t blame the blizzard that delayed their game and kept Kevin Durant stuck in his hotel for 36 hours.

Their real problem Sunday was Brook Lopez.

Lopez scored a seasonhigh 31 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and the Brooklyn Nets snapped the Thunder’s seven-game winning streak with a 116-106 victory.

“It was a tough loss but that’s what happens in this league,” Durant said. “You come on the road and you’re not locked in from the beginning and you lose the game.”

Durant had 32 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists,

but Oklahoma City never led in the game that was delayed four hours by the blizzard that dumped more than 2 feet of snow on New York on Saturday.

The Thunder decided not to try to scramble to find a facility where they could have a morning workout Sunday and maybe that contributed to their lack of sharpness, though coach Billy Donovan credited the Nets instead.

“They dealt with the same circumstances we had to deal with,” Donovan said. “So both teams dealt with the weather, but to say that that impacted us would be making an excuse and I think it would be taking away from

how well Brooklyn played.”

Russell Westbrook finished with 27 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists as the Thunder lost for just the fifth time in 27 games.

Taking advantage of a Thunder team missing starting center Steven Adams, Lopez shot 11 for 19 from the field in bouncing back from one of his worst performances of the season.

He had been limited to just eight points Friday in a loss to Utah.

“We just weren’t happy with the way we’ve played the last however-many games.

There’s a good amount of them,” Lopez said. “Utah was kind of the capper. I know

for me personally it was just an ugly, ugly game and we wanted to come out and erase our memory of that.”

Lopez, who the Nets nearly dealt to the Thunder last season before Oklahoma City acquired Enes Kanter, averaged 28.5 points in the two meetings this season.

“Obviously being shorthanded without Steve it’s hard for us, but we would’ve liked to have done better against him for sure,” said Nick Collison, who started at center and had just three points and four rebounds.

“We weren’t able to take away anything that he wanted to do, so that was disappointing.”

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Miami hands Duke its fourth loss in five games CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Senior Angel Rodriguez shook a shooting slump by making three 3-pointers and added a career-high 11 assists to help No. 15 Miami beat No. 24 Duke 80-69 Monday night, the Blue Devils’ fourth loss in five games.

Rodriguez scored 13 points for the Hurricanes, who led for the final 24 minutes.

Sheldon McClellan scored 21 points and benefited from Rodriguez’s most spectacular assist late in the game.

Miami (16-3, 5-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) beat

a ranked team for the third time this season, and won by double digits for the 15th time.

Brandon Ingram led Duke with 19 points and 10 rebounds while Grayson Allen added 17 points but shot just 6 for 17.

Rodriguez came into the game 4 for 30 from 3-point range in league games but went 3 for 5 from beyond the arc in the first half to help Miami take the lead for good.

His best play earned a late assist. Duke (15-6, 4-4) was mounting a rally when

Rodriguez dribbled quickly through the defense in transition and tossed an alley-oop pass on the run to McClellan for a dunk and a 64-55 lead.

Rodriguez spread his arms as he ran up court, the Hurricanes flying high. They finished with 24 assists to eight for Duke and shot 51 percent.

Tonye Jekiri, Miami’s 7-foot center, contributed assists from the perimeter on consecutive possessions to keep a cushion down the stretch. McClellan scored six points in the final 2 minutes.

Duke came into the game

ranked fifth in the nation in scoring at 85.7 points but continued a recent offensive slump. They shot only 42 percent and went 6 for 20 from 3-point range.

The Blue Devils missed nine consecutive shots, including five in one possession, during an 8-1 Hurricanes run that put them ahead 45-35.

The Hurricanes’ man-toman defense didn’t let Duke get to the free throw line much, either. The Blue Devils average nearly 26 free throws a game but went just 13 for 17.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “On behalf of the Jaguars, we’re excited about the opportunity to come back to Mobile and coach the Senior Bowl,” Bradley said on the Jaguars website. “It provides our staff with a chance to work with the players and really get to know them and we’ve found that to be a very beneficial part of the draft process.”

Jason Garrett, coach of the Dallas Cowboys, will coach the North team, according to the Senior Bowl website.

Both coaches will be looking for talent to fit their teams as the Cowboys have the fourth pick in the draft while the Jaguars have the fifth pick.

After redshirting his first season on campus, Clark started all 51 games over the next four years.

Clark is a two-time AllAmerican and four-time All-Big 12 Conference player, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Clark was also named an Outland and Rotary Lombardi Award candidate three times.

Before the 2015 season, Clark decided to not declare for the NFL draft and return to the Tech football team. Clark said he did not receive a first or second round grade and wanted to improve to that during his senior season.

Washington was named a Big 12 Offensive Freshman of Year honorable mention during his first

season but suffered a season ending injury in 2012 and missed entire year.

During his junior and senior seasons, Washington took over the starting job at running back and produced back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. According to the release, he is the first Red Raider with two consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons since 1995 to 1996.

In 2014, Washington ran for 1,103 yards and four total touchdowns with a 5.9 yards per carry average. He improved on that last season with 1,492 rushing yards and 16 total touchdowns with a 6.4 yards per carry average.

He was named an AllBig 12 player both seasons, according to the

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His rushing totals in 2015 ranked him in the top-20 in the nation in

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MLB clears Yu Darvish after brother’s arrest

1,850 bets on MLB games as well as professional baseball games in Japan. His arrest came after a police investigation in Japan that lasted more than a year.

It was unclear if any bets were taken on games involving the Rangers. The Japan Times said Osaka police have not accused Yu Darvish of any wrongdoing.

Yu Darvish issued a statement last week that he understood that MLB had to look into the situation, and was confident he would be cleared.

“I am certain that they will find that I had no involvement in this matter whatsoever,” Darvish said in the statement through his representatives at the Wasserman Media Group.

Jacob Rosas, a freshman pre-engineering major from Houston, works on his overhead press in the weight room at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center on Monday.

ARLINGTON (AP) — Major League Baseball has determined Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish had no role in any of the activities that led to the arrest of his brother in Japan for allegedly running an illegal gambling ring.

MLB was looking into the October arrest of Sho Darvish as part of standard protocol and not investigating the pitcher, according to the person who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because MLB and the Rangers have not publicly released the findings.

The person said the investigation found no involvement

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Washington enters AP Top 25 Warriors, Spurs historic season Washington coach Mike Neighbors has the Huskies back in the Top 25 for the first time in nearly 13 years.

They entered The Associated Press women's basketball poll on Monday at No. 25, buoyed by a four-game winning streak.

It's the first appearance for the school in the poll since March 3, 2003.

"Ten years ago I could beat them on breaking news," Washington coach Mike Neighbors said of sharing the news. "They will probably know before I tell them. We'll talk about it, keep it in perspective, do something fun with it. We're off today but we'll have a group text message or something like that."

Washington has been o n q u i t e a r u n l a t e l y, knocking off UCLA and USC last weekend — the first sweep of ranked teams since 2001. Led

by the nation's top scorer Kelsey Plum, the Huskies are one victory short of matching last season's squad that won 16 of its first 20 games.

To achieve that mark, Washington will have to figure out a way to beat No. 16 Stanford on Friday night.

The Huskies haven't won there since 1999, one of only four victories ever on the road against the Cardinal for the school.

"They're coming off a loss and I'm sure they'll have 100 percent focus," said Neighbors, who has been the head coach for three years at Washington. "Stanford's used to playing ranked teams, it won't add anything to them that we are ranked."

After Friday's game, the Huskies will face California on Sunday. They've only swept that road trip once and that came back in 1987.

UConn remained No. 1 after two more wins by an average of 54 points.

The Huskies are followed by South Carolina, Notre Dame, Baylor and Maryland. Texas, Ohio State and Arizona State stayed in their positions as the top eight teams in the poll remained unchanged.

With Washington entering the poll, the Pac-12 conference has five teams ranked again. Arizona State leads the way at No. 8.

The Sun Devils, who are unbeaten in conference play this season, are followed by No. 9 Oregon State, No. 15 UCLA and No. 16 Stanford.

USC spent one week in the Top 25 meaning half the league has been ranked this season.

Other tidbits from the poll: STILL RANKED: There was some fear that

Tennessee could see its streak of 561 straight weeks in the poll end after a loss to Notre Dame last Monday.

T h e L a d y Vo l s r e bounded with a victory over Vanderbilt to remain among the Top 25 at No. 19. Tennessee has a tough week in front of them with games at No. 12 Kentucky and No. 13 Mississippi State.

SECOND CHANCE: Ohio State gets a shot to avenge its only loss in the Big Ten so far when it hosts Northwestern on Thursday. The Wildcats beat the Buckeyes 86-82 on Jan. 15.

GOOD BYE GATORS: Florida dropped out of the poll this week after falling to then-No. 23 Missouri.

The Gators could quickly get back into the Top 25 with their next four games coming against Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas A&M and South Carolina.

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MIAMI (AP) — There’s never been an NBA season where two teams both won at least 80 percent of their games. Golden State and San Antonio might change that.

With the season now past the midway point the Warriors are chasing a repeat title, the Spurs a r e c h a s i n g t h e Wa rriors, and they’re both chasing history.

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The Texas Tech softball team ended the 2015 season much differently than it started the season. Starting conference play, the Lady Raiders picked up a string of losses to record eight consecutive losses in a row.

Against Oklahoma at home, the Sooners terrorized Tech’s pitchers and stacked 43 runs in three games. Later in the season, following their second straight sweep in the Big 12 against the Baylor Bears, the Red Raiders went on to win nine of their last 12 games and won their final four series.

To prevent another slow start in the Big 12, coach Adrian Gregory took on an ambitious non-conference schedule for her second season as Tech’s coach.

Non-conference opponents for Tech include Washington, Minnesota, Kentucky, Ohio, UNLV,

LSU, California, Arizona State, Boise State and Gregory’s alma mater, Texas A&M. Seven freshmen along with three transfers join the Lady Raiders for the 2016 season. The non-conference schedule, Gregory said, allows the team to gain experience before facing its Big 12 rivals.

“I believe that we weren’t prepared last year going into Big 12 play and the only way that our newcomers are going to know that is if they experience it before,” Gregory said.

“We went ambitious, we’ll see how that plays out but I think right now, our heart is right.”

While she didn’t know all of Tech’s opponents when scheduling tournaments for the Lady Raiders, Gregory said the opponents on Tech’s schedule could challenge the team.

“I just felt our kids could see everything before they go to the Big 12 so we can’t

say we weren’t prepared,” she said.

Along with preparing new players and returning players, the non-conference portion of competition allows the coaching staff to evaluate the rotation and starting lineup. With just a few weeks before starting the season, Gregory said she still has not fully determined the Tech lineup.

“Right now we just have tons of kids in different positions and figuring out what will be our top 10 lineup and what is our depth,” Gregory said.

Among Tech’s freshman core, Gregory said outfielder Kiani Ramsey, who recorded a .612 batting average at Gregory-Portland High School, has impressed so far during the offseason.

“Kiani Ramsey came out from day one and set a tone — lefty, slapper, fast kid really fighting for center field,” she said. “Who knows if she’ll

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Panthers headed to Super Bowl 50 Broncos advance to Super Bowl CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — For all his daring and dabbing and Superman persona, Cam Newton quickly reminds everyone that football is all about team.

And his Carolina Panthers are headed for the big game.

"For everyone who wears the blue and black, it has been a long time coming," Newton said after another virtuoso performance Sunday with two touchdown passes and another two TD leaps — minus the Superman cape —in a 49-15 destruction of the Arizona Cardinals for the NFC championship. "It's a question you got to ask: Why not us?

"We've been dreaming about this moment since Day 1. Our pen has a lot more ink left."

The Panthers (17-1) have written quite a story so far.

They manhandled two prominent defenses in the playoffs, Seattle (at least for a half) and then Arizona (14-4). They led the league in points (500) during the regular season, and against the Cardinals' topranked offense they forced six turnovers by Carson Palmer.

So now it's on to the Bay Area to face Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos (144) in Super Bowl 50. Manning, a five-time league MVP, will play in his fourth Super Bowl and Denver in a recordtying eighth. Carolina, a loser 12 years ago to New England, gets its second trip.

"When I was growing up," said All-Pro linebacker Luke Kuechly, who had a 22-yard interception return touchdown to give Carolina

the most points in an NFC championship, "it was Peyton Manning and the Colts putting up big numbers. He was the guy and still is the guy that everyone looks at. It's going to be a lot of fun."

Some memorable things from the Panthers' romp: CAM OF STEEL: Newton's superhero image was enhanced by yet another fabulous performance. On both of his TD runs, he laid out the ball or himself to get into the end zone.

And one of his TD passes was an 86-yard catchand-run by Philly Brown, helped by Rashad Johnson's botched tackle.

Newton set an NFL mark with 45 touchdowns: 35 passes and 10 runs. On Sunday, all of those talents were on display.

DENVER (AP) — Peyton Manning is glad he doesn’t have to face Denver’s dizzying defense. Tom Brady wasn’t so lucky.

The Broncos bashed Brady throughout a 20-18 dethroning of the New England Patriots in the AFC championship Sunday that sent Denver to a record-tying eighth Super Bowl.

Von Miller’s monster performance led the way for a dominant defense that hit Brady 23 times and forced him into 29 incompletions, two fourth-down flops and two costly interceptions, one of them on a failed 2-point try that would have tied it with 12 seconds left.

“Von played phenomenal today,” safety T.J. Ward said. “I have never seen a performance like that from one player.”

Miller had 2 1/2 sacks, four quarterback hits, a pass breakup and a takeaway that turned into a touchdown.

“I tell you, I can do it all,” Miller said with a wry smile.

“I’m just playing.”

But he wasn’t kidding.

Denver’s defense is no joke.

“Defense wins championships,” Chris Harris Jr. said, repeating the mantra in case anybody still doubts Denver.

DeMarcus Ware added seven hits on Brady, including a sandwich sack with Miller, and Derek Wolfe set the early tone

with a huge, jaw-rattling hit, a batted down pass and a sack.

“He was rattled,” said Aqib Talib, whose deflected pass on Brady’s 2-point try settled into Bradley Roby’s hands. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody put that much pressure on Tom — ever. So, I think we did a hell of a job getting that pressure on him. That’s why we’re going to the ‘ship.”

Along with Manning, who was hit just four times and threw two TD passes to tight end Owen Daniels.

Manning is seeking his second ring and his third for his boss, John Elway.

“Me, personally, I think he still has it, although the critics say he doesn’t have it,” receiver Emmanuel Sanders said. “You want to talk about a guy that started the season off 7-0 and is now he is going to the Super Bowl. At age 39 or 40 or 70 or how ever old he is, no matter what, he gets the job done.”

Two months shy of 40, he’s also trying to supplant Elway as the oldest QB ever to win a Lombardi Trophy.

Standing in their way is Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers (17-1), who throttled the, Arizona Cardinals 49-15 to reach their first Super Bowl.

“I’ve enjoyed playing on the same team as that defense,” Manning said of his teammates. “I’m glad

I haven’t had to face them this season, I’ll say that.

They’ve been challenging to go against in practice.”

Brady praised not only Denver’s front seven, but its star-studded secondary.

“It was just tough for us to ever get in a rhythm,” said Brady, who fell to 11-6 in his storied rivalry with Manning, including 1-3 in conference championships.

Other takeaways from Denver’s second AFC title in three years: NOT SO AUTOMATIC: The reliable Stephen Gostkowski missed a rare extra point early in the game, one that haunted the Patriots the rest of the way.

He took it hard after the game, too.

“You want to help the team win. You don’t want to be the reason you lose,” said Gostkowski, who had made an NFL-record 523 consecutive PATs before sending fluttering one wide right in the first quarter.

“It’s not a good feeling. I deserve all the blame that I get and I’ll try to hold my head up high.”

G o s t k o w s k i ’s t e a m mates refused to blame him for failing to get Brady and Bill Belichick their 23rd playoff win.

“No one is perfect. That’s just life. We’re all going to make mistakes,” cornerback Malcolm Butler said. “We’re in this together.”

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Hamels settling in after one season GRAPEVINE (AP) — Cole Hamels is the kind of pitcher the Texas Rangers would have been trying to get this winter, had they not gotten the ace left-hander midway through last season.

Already part of an AL West title, Hamels is under contract with the Rangers for at least three more seasons.

And he is starting to get settled more in North Texas, where Friday he completed the purchase of a new home before attending the groundbreaking ceremony of the Texas Rangers MLB Urban Academy and then the team’s winter awards banquet.

“I’m really excited, been able to kind of communicate with the guys here a lot more, getting to know them a little bit better,” Hamels said. “I think we’re all pretty excited for spring training to really get back and get into the group. ... This will be fun.”

The Rangers had long coveted Hamels before finally getting him from Philadelphia in an eight-player deal announced at the non-waiver trade deadline last July 31.

That came after he threw a no-hitter in his last start for the Phillies.

Texas was eight games out of first place after Hamels made his Texas debut Aug. 1, an extra-inning loss. The Rangers also lost his second start, but then won his next

11 on way to the division title before a 6-3 loss in Game 5 of the AL Division Series at Toronto, when they had errors on three consecutive plays in that wild and decisive seventh inning.

“When you play with someone you see how they are, their preparation for the game. It’s different. I like him,” slugger Prince Fielder said. “I’m glad he’s on my team.”

Hamels said he is on his usual offseason conditioning schedule, though instead of having to throw against a wall in the basement of his Philadelphia home has been able to throw outside against a huge golf net in his back yard. “I’ve lost quite a few baseballs into the woods,” he said.

There have also been several trips to Texas for workouts. Hamels, signed through 2018 with a club option for 2019, is still doing long toss and will start getting back on a mound once February starts.

As for preparing for a full season in Texas, and the summer heat, “Training in the cold doesn’t help,” he said, laughing.

“I normally have to kick it up a notch when spring training gets here just because of the weather situation,” he said. “You can only run so much on a treadmill inside.

I’m pretty comfortable and confident that I will be where I need to be. ... April 1, I’m always good to go.”

Notes: 3B Adrian Beltre, who played much of last season with a torn ligament in his left thumb and missed two games in the ALDS, said he is feeling good while swinging a bat and throwing.

He had surgery on his thumb in October. “It’s just nice getting to a point where it’s comfortable doing everything,” he said. Beltre expects no discomfort in spring training. ...

OF Josh Hamilton took batting practice Friday for the first time since the end of the season, and a second surgery on his left knee in October.

The slugger said he had pain in his knee a couple of weeks after rehab, but feels good after a cortisone shot Thursday.

He said everything else feels good. Hamilton played only 50 games last season, when he missed spring training because of offseason shoulder surgery before being traded back to Texas from the Los Angeles Angels. ...

The Texas Rangers MLB Urban Academy is being built on a 17-acre site in West Dallas. Along with Hamels, Fielder and Rangers general manager Jon Daniels, threetime NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers attended the groundbreaking.