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Student Senate criticized for inactivity

By MATT DOTRAY STAFF WRITER

Texas Tech’s Student Senate was accused of being absent and unproductive during its meeting Thursday.

Stuart Williams, a senior history major from Lubbock, is a former senator and former chief justice of the Supreme Court at Tech. Williams spoke to the senators during open forum at the 10th meeting of Senate’s 48th session.

Most of the work has been coming from the executive branch of student government, he said.

In reference to last week’s meeting, Williams said he could not believe the

senators spent more than 20 minutes debating the question of whether or not to put the issue of tobacco and firearms on campus up for a vote during the student elections.

“I don’t understand,” he said to the senators. “Then, they have (Student Government Association) vote against it. You’re the senate voting against putting something on the ballot to ask people a question and then people stand up and say, ‘Well, I want to see how they feel, but I don’t want to ask them a question.’ I don’t understand it.”

The purpose of having a student government is to address the concerns of the students, he said, and arguing

Facebook graph search could disrupt user privacy settings

By SCOTT MACWATTERS STAFF WRITER

Facebook has become one of the standard social networking tools for people around the world. With their new graph search feature, Facebook hopes to continue to connect people, according to its website.

Facebook started in February 2004, and has amassed more than a billion users as of 2012, according to its website.

Facebook graph search is a new feature for Facebook currently being tested by users who request it. The feature will replace the current title bar with a larger search box, according to the website.

In the search box, users will be able to search for things like, “my friends who go to Texas Tech University in computer science,” or even “movies

liked by people who are film directors.” According to Facebook, when these terms are typed in the search box, Facebook will give a list of results based on information that has been shared with the user who searched for it.

Allison Matherly, the coordinator for digital engagement at Tech, said she is currently testing out the graph search feature on her Facebook profile.

She said her first impression of the feature was that it is creepy.

“It’s really making all the data that you’re putting out there to everyone even more accessible than it was before,” Matherly said. “Before graph search, you could set your Facebook profile to where you weren’t searchable, and that’s now been done away with.”

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against having students vote to answer those concerns does not make sense.

Apart from a few brief resolutions, Williams said the attitude of the senators has been to put their heads down and coast until the summer.

“We’re no going to talk about academics,” Williams said. “We’re not going to talk about infrastructure. We’re not going to talk about the fact that we have nowhere to put freshmen in the fall. We’ll have to keep building and building. We’re not going to talk about that at all. We’re not going to talk about any of the issues. We’re just going to plow ahead and do nothing.”

With the elections later this month,

Williams said senators who are not passionate and committed should not run for re-election.

At the meeting, Tech’s Senate passed a resolution, Senate Resolution 48.59, with 98 percent of the votes.

According to the resolution, Tech’s senate recommends the construction of a shared path for students walking and biking between the Engineering Key and Murray Hall.

Luke Cotton, an energy commerce major from League City, and a senator from the College of Business and the vice chairman for the committee on campus infrastructure, introduced the resolution.

There is not an easy access for bikers between the two buildings, he said, and the path would be safe and inexpensive, he said.

“We had a meeting last night with campus infrastructure, and this was brought up as a meaningful expense coming from the Engineering Key to Murray Hall,” Cotton said. “We have not discussed it budgeting wise, but it won’t really cost that much. You’re just basically painting the areas for people to ride through the key.”

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African Ancestry TV host, scholar gives lecture on AfricanAmerican ancestry

By EMILY GARDNER STAFF WRITER

Students, faculty and staff learned about ancestry at the inaugural AfricanAmerican History Month Lecture Series on Thursday night in the Student Union Allen Theatre.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, spoke at the event hosted by the Department of History.

The event, created by assistant history professor Karlos Hill, consisted of speeches from Hill, Texas Tech’s Interim President Lawrence Schovanec, a clip from Gates’ Public Broadcasting Service show, “Finding Your Roots,” and a question-and-answer session with Gates.

“The aim of the African-American History Month Lecture series is to highlight and raise awareness about the contributions that African-Americans have made to U.S. society, but also to the world beyond the U.S.,” Hill said.

The lecture series was designed to bring a distinguished scholar in African-American history to speak each year, he said, for the Tech and Lubbock communities.

Jacynda Ammons, an AfricanAmerican history doctoral student from Bismarck, Ark., said the lecture was a big event for the history department to get a well-known scholar to participate.

“We really wanted to draw attention to the fact that we are lucky enough to have such a well-known scholar come to campus,” she said, “and try to maybe get some support to maybe do more events next year to try to do more of a month long celebration.”

Ammons said she credits Hill with getting Gates to speak. Hill first mentioned the idea a year ago.

Gates said he first became interested in ancestry in 1960 after his grandfather’s funeral.

In 2000, he said he received a letter from a black geneticist at Howard University about a perfected method that allows a person’s ancestry to be traced by analyzing mitochondrial DNA. “Using this genetic fingerprint,”

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HENRY LOUIS GATES, Jr., host of the Public Broadcasting Service series, “Finding Your Roots,” talks about his studies in his own lineage and his studies in other iconic figures ancestry during the African-American History Month Lecture Series on Thursday in the Student Union Allen Theater.

Gates said, “they could trace what tribe or ethnic group a black person was from.”

After receiving his results, he said he woke up with an idea to combine his passion for genealogy with the science of ancestry tracing through genetics to trace African-American ancestry back to the tribe they originally descended from.

The result of this, Gates said, was “African American Lives,” a documentary, which traced the ancestry of African-Americans including Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Chris Tucker.

“We didn’t know what we were doing,” he said. “We didn’t know if anybody would watch, and 8.6 million people, ladies and gentlemen, watched

‘African-American Lives.’”

Because of the documentary’s popularity, PBS asked Gates to do a sequel.

The result was “African-American Lives 2,” which Gates said featured Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman and Tina Turner and received more than 8 million views.

Gates said he also made a documentary called “Faces of America” featuring Malcolm Gladwell and Kristi Yamaguchi, and now has a series titled “Finding Your Roots” with PBS. Jobi Martinez, director of Cross Cultural Academic Advancement Center, said she came to the event because she had followed Gates’ work and wanted to hear him speak.

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Special Vision and Tradition Campaign Announcement Time: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

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Presidential Lecture and Performance Series Presents Peter Buffett Time: 7 p.m.

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Valentines Celebration at The Museum Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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“I know that the purpose of this event was to highlight African-American studies, highlight the diversity of African-Americans and just populations in general, “ she said, “and I think that the speaker, in general, did a really great job.”

Gates also talked about his own family tree and said the reason he is participating in ancestry research is because it is fun, but also there is a crisis in the African-American community.

“When I was growing up, the blackest thing you could be was

an educated man or an educated woman,” Gates said. “And today far too many of our children believe that succeeding in the school system is white, or suffer from structural causes that prevent them from having positive experiences.”

Gates said he and his colleagues want to develop a curriculum that addresses these issues by changing how inner city black children learn social studies and science.

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California seeks to adopt nation’s toughest gun laws SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Weeks after New York enacted the nation’s toughest gun laws, California lawmakers said Thursday they want their state to do even more in response to recent mass shootings, particularly the Connecticut school massacre.

Democrats who control the state Legislature revealed 10 proposals that they said would make California the most restrictive state for possessing firearms.

They were joined at a Capitol news conference by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, along with several police chiefs.

“California has always been a leader on the issue of gun safety,” Villaraigosa said. “New York has stepped up and stepped forward. California needs to answer the call.”

Among the measures is one that would outlaw the future sale of semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines. The restriction would prevent quick reloading by requiring bullets to be loaded one at a time.

Lawmakers also want to make some prohibitions apply to current gun owners, not just to people who buy weapons in the future.

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would require background checks for buying ammunition and would add to the list of prohibited weapons.

Those buying ammunition would have to pay a fee and undergo an initial background check by the state Department of Justice, similar to what is required now before buyers can purchase a weapon. Subsequent background checks would be done instantly by an ammunition seller checking the Justice Department’s records.

The legislation also would ban possession of magazines holding more than 10 bullets, even by those who now own them legally. All weapons would have to be registered.

Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, promised that gun proponents will fight the measures in court if they become law.

“It strikes me as if these folks are playing some sort of game of oneupsmanship with New York at the expense of law-abiding citizens, and that’s just unconscionable,” he said about lawmakers.

Three bills have been introduced, with others to come before this month’s deadline for submitting legislation.

The measures are the most stringent to date among numerous proposals introduced this year to strengthen California’s firearm regulations.

Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said he is confident Democrats can use their majorities in the Assembly and Senate to send the measures to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown this year.

Senate working to renew Violence Against Women Act WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — Senators tussled Thursday over whether Indian authorities should be able to prosecute non-Indians in domestic abuse cases, an issue that has delayed passage of legislation to renew the federal government’s main law in the fight against domestic violence.

A final vote on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act is now scheduled for Monday.

The 1994 act expired in 2011, but reauthorization was blocked last year by differences between the Democratic-led Senate, which is seeking to extend new protections for gays, lesbians, immigrants and Native American women, and the Republicans in the House, who said the Senate bill goes too far.

Advocates of the act have been more optimistic this year because Republicans trying to shore up their losses among female voters in the November election say they are eager to pass a bill.

The Senate had hoped to pass its bill on Thursday, but a final vote was put off so that it could debate, and defeat, a substitute by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that would have altered the provision on tribal courts. Grassley, saying subjecting non-Indians to Indian courts would raise significant constitutional problems, instead proposed that more federal prosecutors and magistrates be placed in Indian country for domestic violence and sexual assault cases. He would also have allowed tribes to petition a federal court for protection orders to exclude an abuser from Indian land.

How to deal with the alarming level of violence against women on tribal lands, often perpetrated by non-Indian partners, was also a major sticking point last year when the Senate and House passed different bills.

The Senate bill would recognize tribal authority to prosecute nonIndians who commit domestic violence against their Indian spouses or partners.

Indian women often live hours and hours away from the nearest federal prosecutor, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a key supporter, and for those abusing women in these isolated places that “equates to nothing short of a safe haven for them.”

The National Congress of American Indians says that 39 percent of Indian and Alaska Native women will be subject to violence by an intimate partner in their lifetimes, well above rates for other races. It says U.S. attorneys declined to prosecute half of violent crimes in Indian country, and two-thirds of those cases involved sexual abuse.

“Let’s not undercut the provisions to help protect Indian woman,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. “The best legal views of which I am aware believe these provisions are both constructive and constitutional.”

Grassley’s amendment, which would also have taken steps to reduce fraud and overspending

in programs covered by the Violence Against Women Act and tighten rules that govern immigrants subject to domestic abuse, was defeated 65-34.

The House last year took a similar approach to the Grassley amendment and also removed language specifying that lesbians, gays and bisexual and transgender victims should have equal access to VAWA-funded services.

A possible solution to the Indian court issue has been offered

by Republican Reps. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, one of three House members of Indian heritage, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif. They have proposed giving non-Indians the right to request that their case be moved to a federal court if they feel they are not receiving a fair trial.

Cole, in an interview, said he was meeting with House Majority Leader Cantor, R-Va., and others involved on the issue and there was a “genuine effort to find common ground.” He said that one in three Native American women is subject to sexual assault in her lifetime, often by a non-Indian, and that federal authorities often are too far away to help. Cole called it “bizarre” that tribal leaders were unable to pursue cases.

Cantor, the lead player in crafting the House bill, said Wednesday he had been having daily meetings on how best to move the bill forward, and had been in touch with the office of Vice President Joe Biden, who as a senator was a lead sponsor of the original 1994 bill.

Speaking on the House floor, Cantor said that “while we want to protect the women who are subject to abuse on tribal lands,” the bill had been “complicated” by other issues. “I hope to be able to deal with this, bring it up in an expeditious manner.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Thursday urged Republicans to act quickly, saying that every minute Congress delays another 24 Americans become victims of domestic violence.

Under the existing law, the federal government provides grants to states and local governments for services such as transitional housing, legal assistance and law enforcement training. This has helped increase rates of prosecution and conviction of offenders by helping communities develop dedicated law enforcement units for domestic violence.

VAWA’s National Domestic Violence Hotline receives more than 22,000 calls a month. The law also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the Justice Department.

The Senate bill would authorize $659 million over five years for the programs, down 17 percent from the last reauthorization in 2005.

The bill also gives more emphasis to sexual assault prevention and takes steps to reduce the rape kit backlog.

It removes a provision that Republicans objected to last year that would have increased visas for immigrant victims of domestic violence.

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Tech Polo Club competes against other universities

By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER

Daniel Syptak, a senior political science major from Carrollton, had never ridden a horse when he came to Texas Tech.

“I always wanted to ride horses,” he said. “I grew up with cowboy movies, so it’s kind of what I always wanted to do.”

Now, he rides one every week.

As he takes riding lessons from the Tech Polo Club, Syptak is training to compete on one of the club’s competitive teams.

“It’s a really high-speed, intensive game, I guess,” Syptak said, “and I’m excited about actually getting to play.”

The Tech Polo Club averages about 40 members and 30 donated horses, Clyde Waddell, club coach, said. The club’s facility is located on Farm Road 1585, and includes a barn and arena in which the members practice and compete.

“This is a very nice club,” he said.

“The horse brings a focus of effort no other club can.”

Polo is a unique game because there are few sports where horses get to be athletic, said Taylor Chew, a junior marketing major from Austin and vice president of the club.

The club has four different teams: men’s varsity, women’s varsity, men’s junior varsity and a club members’ team.

The next home game is scheduled against University of Texas on Feb. 16.

“We encourage everyone on campus to come out,” Waddell said. “The more support, the better.”

In 2006, the men’s varsity team defeated Texas A&M for the club’s first national title.

“That’s one thing Marsha Sharp and I have in common,” Waddell said. “We both have coached national championship teams.”

Dues for club members are $350 a semester and $450 for team members, Chew said.

“It’s an expensive game,” he said, “and our dues are pretty darn cheap.”

Club members meet at 8 p.m. every Monday in Room 101 in the Animal Sciences building. This is not the only time they see each other, though. The horses are each member’s responsibility.

“We take care of the horses pretty much all by ourselves,” said Samantha Huffman, a junior animal science major from Carrollton. “We feed, we water, we groom, we ride, we wash. We do pretty much everything except shoeing the horses.”

The team members practice one to two times a week to prepare for their collegiate competitions against teams from Texas State, Oklahoma State, New Mexico State, Texas A&M, University of Texas, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University

and Colorado State University. The games, which are played in a threeon-three format, take place in indoor arenas with two mounted umpires, said Will Flanders, men’s varsity team captain and sophomore with no declared major from Houston.

“It’s a blast,” he said. “It’s the only sport that you’re really playing on horseback. You get to see awesome animals going balls-out all the time. It’s a great group of people to come hang out with, and an interesting sport to check out.”

Michael Marzak, a senior architecture major from Gainesville, Fla., has played on the club team for two years.

He describes polo as playing golf in the middle of a tornado.

“It’s a total adrenaline rush the entire time,” he said. “You have to control a 1,200-pound animal going 20 to 25 miles an hour with a mind of its own, and you have to try to hit a little ball about the size of a softball.”

Marzak has come to love the sport and said he usually spends about four to five hours a week at the club barn and arena.

“It’s a great sport,” he said. “It’s the most fun sport I’ve ever played. It’s martial arts on horseback.”

Although it may not look like there is much going on during a polo game, Camron Adams, a sophomore restaurant hotel and institutional management major from Roswell, N.M., said

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New York City expanding nation’s biggest transit hub for more space NEW YORK (AP) — Sixteen stories below Grand Central Terminal, an army of workers is blasting through bedrock to create a new commuter rail concourse with more floor space than New Orleans’ Superdome, just one of three audacious projects going on beneath New York City’s streets to expand what’s already the nation’s biggest mass transit system.

But even with blasting and machinery grinding through the rock day and night, most New Yorkers are

blithely unaware of the construction or the eerie underworld that includes a massive, eight-story cavern, miles of tunnels and watery, gravel-filled pits.

“I look at it and I’m in wonder, I’m in awe,” says engineer Michael Horodniceanu, president of capital construction for the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “I feel like when I went to Rome and entered St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time. ... I looked at it and said, ‘Wow, how did they do that?’”

In New York, they hauled out enough rocky debris from under Grand Central to cover Central Park almost a foot deep, Horodniceanu says.

Together, the three projects will cost an estimated $15 billion. And when they’re all completed, tentatively in 2019, they will bring subway and commuter rail service to vast, underserved stretches of the city, particularly the far East and West sides of Manhattan.

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“It’s pretty much a team thing,” he said, “so you got to have a lot of communication and know your team.”

The commodity of the polo team and the horses are what has kept Huffman playing on the women’s varsity team for two years. ““It really builds your self-esteem and self-confidence when you can take the ball down the field playing along with the guys,” she said. “It really builds a good self-image.”

Any level of rider can join the polo club, said Megan Bradford, a junior advertising major from Carrollton.

“We have riding lessons, which will lead up to hitting lessons,” she said, “and then you’ll eventually learn how to play the game itself, and we have weekly club matches.”

The Tech Polo Club is the best student organization at Tech, Marzak said, and he encourages any interested students to attend the next weekly meeting or visit www.freeteams.net/ techpoloclub.

“Polo club is a great thing to put on your resume,” he said. “Very few people get to say they’ve played polo, especially in college. Everyone out here is like a family, and all the other teams around the state that we get to play, we get to know each other and have a great time.” ➤➤atubbs@dailytoreador.com

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MICHAEL MARZAK, A senior architecture major from Gainesville, Fla., practices in the Texas Tech Polo Club arena Wednesday.

Afghan boys to walk red carpet KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a trip down the red carpet at the Oscars.

It also will be his first time out of the

country and his first time on a plane.

Mohammadi was plucked from the dingy streets of the Afghan capital to be one of the main stars of “Buzkashi Boys,” a coming-of-age movie filmed entirely in a war zone and nominated in the Best Live Action Short Film category.

The movie is about two penniless

young boys — a street urchin and a blacksmith’s son — who are best friends and dream of becoming professional players of buzkashi, a particularly rough and dangerous game that somewhat resembles polo: Horseback riders wrangle to get a headless goat carcass into a circular goal at one end of the field.

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Music world helps Newtown heal following massacre HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — When 6-year-old Dylan Hockley was memorialized at a service following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, his parents were especially moved by one song.

A writer, Dushyanthi Satchi, had reworked the lyrics to the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah,” from Dylan’s favorite movie, “Shrek.”

“Dylan’s Hallelujah” begins, “It’s calm, it’s clear, it’s a peaceful day, walking through the heavenly gates, hand in hand with teachers and my friends.”

“That one thing — that song — has been quite healing for us,” Nicole Hockley, Dylan’s mother, said Thursday.

There have been many musical tributes to the victims of the Dec. 14 tragedy, some put on by world famous performers, others by local musicians and many involving the children of Newtown.

Professional football players were on the verge of tears when a group of 26 children who escaped the Newtown shooting, including Dylan’s older brother, Jake, joined Jennifer Hudson at the Super Bowl to sing “America the Beautiful.” Another group of Newtown children will perform before the Grammy Awards this weekend.

“Humans have used music in healing forever,” said Jane Matson, the choral director at Newtown High School. “It expresses our feelings and gets emotion out in a way that’s constructive and beautiful. So I don’t think it’s any surprise that in trying to heal here, we would turn to music.”

Members of Matson’s chamber choir were among about 80 Newtown

of Broadway stars including Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christine Ebersole and even Monkees frontman Micky Dolenz at a benefit show in Waterbury.

The event “From Broadway with Love” was put on by Broadway producer Van Dean, who lives in nearby Trumbull and composer Brett Boles, who grew up in Newtown.

The choir joined star Michael Cerveris to sing “Sunday,” a song from “Sunday in the Park with George” about finding the calm after chaos.

They also sang “Somewhere” from West Side Story.

That show, whose audience included first responders and the parents of Sandy Hook victims, also featured

the choir from Sandy Hook Elementary, on video, singing their school song.

“The idea was to have as many children as possible be a part of it, to give them something to get excited about,” Dean said.

High school choir member Kyle Watkins said it was a chance for him and other Newtown kids to experience something positive, to express themselves and to feel like they were helping.

“Newtown is my home and the people are kind of like my family,” he said. “A lot of us wanted to do something, but didn’t know how to help. So for the choir, our way was singing. It was a miraculous experience.”

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Dunham must embrace critics to improve storytelling I

hope Lena Dunham, the writer and director of the HBO show “Girls”, is not the voice of my generation, as her character, Hannah, aspires to be.

Dunham is a talented writer.

Talentless writers don’t get signed

by HBO at the age of 26. Though, I doubt Vogue’s and The New York Post’s surprisingly genuine Woody Allen comparisons are fair yet.

She is breaking the mold by putting her plus-sized frame on full display weekly. This is a welcome change from television, which reinforces the standards that women are valued by men and in society for their sex appeal, and that sex appeal wears smaller dresses.

However, the shock value of this only lasts for a few episodes before we want more. She has plenty of material, the struggles of women in their 20s dealing with emerging adulthood is a relevant issue.

If there is an issue with her writing, it seems to stem from her inability to take criticism. When critics like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or James Franco express their problems with the show, Dunham dismisses them without countering their points. Dunham expressed to E!

Jordan Sigler Online she has a policy of not reading mixed reviews.

Dunham is young and opinionated. Her video about voting for Obama her “first time” showed that.

Her current technique has brought about success; she seems satisfied with her technique and does not seem interested in improving her writing.

And why should she? She has a $3.5 million book deal, a successful HBO show and is currently working on another HBO show. Hopefully, she will come to value art over complacency.

The problems with her writing might catch up to her if she isn’t willing to improve her weaknesses.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was absolutely right in his Huffington Post critique of “Girls”: The show is racist in that, while living in diverse New York City, we see mostly white characters on screen. And the guys

on the show are more interesting than the girls.

If she wanted to, those elements easily could be fixed. Throwing Donald Glover in two episodes is not going to fix the race problem, and ironically enough, having three physically attractive women that are stereotypical characters isn’t much different than most shows on TV. Dunham’s biggest challenge in improving her voice will be how she articulates it. The technique Dunham uses to write is extremely sound. When you look at her writing, it’s hard to see gaping flaws with the story because it is so sound, it feels manufactured. This can be a problem.

She is the product of Oberlin College where she received a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing. David Foster Wallace, best known as the author of “Infinite Jest”, writes about how he is suspicious of the collegiate creative writing system in his essay, “Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young”. Because creative writing professors are also writing their own fiction, they struggle with and often resent the class-

room, which takes time away from their art. He worries that teachers look for technical quality over understanding what the young writer is actually trying to sculpt.

Wallace’s fear for the future of writing was this: “Envision if you dare a careful, accomplished, national literature, mistake free, seamless as fine as linoleum, fiction preoccupied with norm as value instead of value’s servant.”

“Girls” does not struggle in the way of good technical writing, but the stories become boring due to the way in which they are told. “Girls” suffers from what I call “character writing.” This is where too much emphasis is put on dealing with characters and their transformations. The characters have unique traits, often too unsubtle, and then go on very exciting adventures which are also not subtle. In the process we forget about the larger world and a larger context.

Instead of having a complex story that reflects the complexity we, the audience, see in our own lives, we see easily explained character transformations that don’t challenge us to think. In others words, the characters stick out of the

fictional world like a sore thumb.

For instance, in episode 13 of “Girls”, Hannah, the main character, takes cocaine for an article she wants to write. She buys the cocaine from a very interesting exdrug addict who follows her around to make she sure she is fine. Hannah, high on cocaine, goes clubbing with her ex-boyfriend. Although Dunham, if she didn’t want to be like William S. Burroughs and try cocaine herself, could have at least attempted to Google the effects of cocaine so her characters would not look like they were on another type of drug.

What happens in the episode?

Two characters do something adventurous like cocaine, and use a slip of the tongue while on the drug to create non-cocaine-related drama.

A show that followed the episode of “Girls” on HBO called “Enlightened” used cocaine in a much better way in the episode “Higher Power.” At a rehab place in Hawaii, Luke, a recurring character, lets his sobriety lapse one night and goes partying with a few of the rehab patients. They use cocaine and drink excessively because they have

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addiction problems, and we find out why as they’re trying to sober up before the morning. We learn they have psychological issues they need to address originating from complex problems in their lives.

These characters’ actions make sense because it fits in the real, complex world in which we live.

The problem with Dunham’s writing, and why she isn’t the voice of her generation, is her inability to provide a larger context with her themes. She is not writing in a greater sense about anything.

Rather, she uses great technique and characters who experience epiphanies.

Writers who were voices of their generations incorporated great characters with profound transformations, but they also captured an era and made a point about that era.

Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and J.D. Salinger are good examples of that type of writing. Let’s hope the voice of future generations doesn’t become like Dunham’s — a wellstructured box of empty banality.

Sigler is a junior journalism major from Goshen, Ind. ➤➤ jsigler@dailytoreador.com

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Women in combat should be tested under same standards as men I Rocio Rodriguez

women have the necessary stamina or strength for certain jobs, and whether their presence might hurt unit cohesion.

With sexual assault rising as a prevalent issue within the military, the raising of this combat ban may help. According to the Huffington Post, top military officers believe the rise of sexual assault within the military system is linked to the length of which the ban has been in effect. With the elimination of

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this ban, we should witness the end of distinguishing the male warriors from the rest of the armed forces members.

I run in feminist circles, and I have strong opinions on different topics with regard to equality. However, when I read about the training standards being placed on women, I recoiled a bit. They seemed a bit extreme, in my opinion, and with a mind trained on primordial evolution and sexual dimorphism, meaning the difference in morphology between men and women, men are built to more of an extreme than women. So when reading about two women who volunteered to go through the Marine Corps infantry course and failed to complete the course, I was upset because the standards were set for a man.

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just found out women in the military are not allowed to enter combat, although the issue is looking to change because the Pentagon has decided it is going to enter equality standards of the 21st century.

As a huge proponent of gender equality, I was beyond delighted to hear this. Women are no longer considered gentle objects of childbearing necessities. And in reality, we are as emotionally and physically capable to handle the stresses of war as men are. They would not be there if they did not think they could.

An Associated Press article in the Washington Post poses the questions those dissenting have about putting women in combat, questions regarding whether

However, while I kept reading, I was forced to take a step back and change my point of view of what equality may mean in this context.

It would make sense to have different standards because of physical constraints, in order to make it equal across the boards. Aside from physical capabilities, people in combat do have to meet certain mandatory physical requirements.

For example, they should be able to throw a live grenade 15 meters, anything less than that will risk death or mutilation. Therefore, some of these strength standards aren’t as much of an issue with the gender as they have to do with safety and efficiency in times of combat.

As I kept reading, other opinions forced me to take a new look into my own. John Soltz served two

Army tours in Iraq and is the chairman of the VoteVets.org veterans group. Soltz acknowledged that while not all women are interested in pursuing some of the more intense combat jobs, there are still some who are and are the best of the best and can fill those spots. Despite the lack of possessing certain physical capabilities, there are some women who can meet the current standards and therefore, deserve the right to compete.

Despite the filter and lopsided ratio of men to women who would fulfill the standards, I was mentally put in place by Captain Ann G. Fox, a Marine Reserve officer who said during her interview with the New York Times she believes a required eight pull-ups for women isn’t a very high bar. Fox also said

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the “test should be the same as the men 20 pull-ups.” She brought up a very good point right after by saying “people train to what they’re tested on.”

My ideal of valuing women at a different standard than men is the very place I will willingly admit my mistake. This is the part when I realize that women empowerment has been received poorly by me. Fox’s comment has now transformed me into an avid supporter of the equal standards imposed on both men and women for combat purposes, simply because she is right: people train to what they’re tested on, and if that is what they want, they will do it.

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Brianna Lutz, a sophomore mathematics major from Hondo, said she doesn’t use Facebook as much as Twitter, but still uses it to keep in contact with family. Lutz said she doesn’t worry much about privacy on Facebook.

“I do have it set to private because a while back, there were a lot of weird people that were asking everyone to be their friend,” Lutz said. “So I set my profile to private, but I’m not really concerned about security.”

Alexander Douglas, a freshman foundational engineering major from Kingwood, said he uses Facebook to keep up with events and friends in his fraternity.

“I use it probably about two hours a day,” Douglas said. “My fraternity, we have something where we can post stuff, like, ‘Hey, he’s going to

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LA VIDA play basketball,’ ‘Someone’s going to Buffalo Wild Wings.’ … If you have to send out an update, you can send out an update quick on Facebook, and you’ll know everyone will get it.”

Douglas said he’s blocked all of the information on his Facebook from everybody except for his friends, but if there were a way around his privacy settings, he wouldn’t worry.

“I just set it to where only my friends can see everything,” he said. “I have everything blocked from everything. If something were to happen and get anything from my Facebook, I wouldn’t really stress about it because I don’t really post anything I would be ashamed of on Facebook.”

The best way to protect information is to not put things on Facebook that you wouldn’t want to be shared with everybody, Matherly said.

“A good rule of thumb is, ‘If you don’t want it known to the world, don’t put it online,’” Matherly said.

“Facebook’s been known to have

glitches from time to time where messages, maybe, were not so private anymore. Facebook is a company at heart, and that’s something you always have to remember that you’re giving them data to sell to advertisers.”

Despite the privacy concerns that go along with Facebook and the new graph search feature, Matherly said it’s a powerful tool that can be used effectively by students to connect with others like them.

“It’s a very powerful tool if you’re looking to make connections with people in ways that you haven’t thought before,” Matherly said. “I think there’s a lot of opportunities to connect with other people in your majors or your concentrations. …

You can really find people who maybe you haven’t met in class personally, but you can maybe connect with them and say, ‘Hey, I missed class on Tuesday, can I get those class notes?’”

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Experts warn of long recovery for boy in bunker BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The boy who was freed from an underground bunker is acting like a typical 5-year-old by all accounts, playing with toys and running around, but psychology experts and a woman who suffered through a similar ordeal warn there could be long-term emotional scars.

Ethan, the boy whom law enforcement officials have identified only by his first name, was rescued Monday when the FBI stormed the shelter and killed his kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, in a shootout. Ethan, who was not physically harmed, was taken to a hospital and reunited with family.

He had his sixth birthday Wednesday.

“He’s old enough that he will remember this. If he were 2 or 3, it might be another matter. But if you think of something really bad that happened when you were 5 or 6, you can remember those things,” said Nadine Kaslow, a family therapist and psychiatry professor at Emory University in Atlanta.

She said he will need to be evaluated for nightmares and lingering signs of fear or trauma, like aggression.

“The most important thing for him is going to be to connect with the

therapist and have a safe place to go,” said Kaslow, the president-elect of the American Psychological Association.

Katie Beers was kidnapped in 1992 as a 9-year-old and kept in an underground bunker in suburban New York for 17 days before her captor surrendered and showed police where she was hidden.

She credited her foster family with giving her a loving home life and structure, noting the best decision they made was to keep her out of the public spotlight.

“In my experience, not being in the public eye helped out tremendously,” she said.

Beers ended 20 years of silence last month, when she released a book co-written a television reporter who covered her kidnapping: “Buried Memories: Katie Beers’ Story” The boy’s aunt and grandmother — with whom Ethan and his mother have lived — said they are intent on protecting him from the media spotlight and helping him return to as normal a life as possible.

“I just want him to be all right,” aunt Debra Cook told The Associated Press in an interview this week.

Kaslow, the psychiatrist, said family support and friendship will be key.

Authorities have said boy has Asperger’s syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Ethan’s medical condition and any past difficulties in his short life could make recovery from the hostage ordeal even tougher, said Dr. Niranjan Karnik, an assistant psychiatry professor at the University of Chicago.

“This incident has probably put him at more risk for having difficulties later on,” he said. “He could be more susceptible to depressive episodes ... and anxiety.”

But young children often can recover from traumatic episodes faster than adults, he said.

“Kids in this age range typically do remarkably well ... in the face of a terrible thing. In a way, kids have more of that bounce-back that adults do. Things don’t gel as hard in kids as they do in adults,” said Karnik.

While only a town of 2,300 people, Midland City is less than 10 miles away from Dothan, which has the largest medical infrastructure in southeast Alabama. Aside from two hospitals in the city, patients also can receive treatment through a state-affiliated mental health center in Dothan, said Alabama Mental Health Commissioner Jim Reddoch.

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By PAIGE SKINNER LA VIDA EDITOR

With one week remaining before the season opener, the Texas Tech baseball team is running out of time to set the starting lineup.

Tech began practice Jan. 25 and is preparing for its first game of the season against Northern Illinois next week.

Coach Tim Tadlock said he has eight to nine players prepared to play outfield, with about four to five specifically prepared for center field. While he said spots for the infield are thin, he said there is depth in the players.

“We’ve got enough depth in guys that can play,” Tadlock said. “We ought to be able to use more than just one guy at each spot.”

Tadlock said he likes what he sees in the team.

“Right now, I just like their work ethic,” he said. “I like the optimism, I like them coming out and (being) ready to go every day. I like the competition.

I like our pitching. I think we’ve got a young bunch, which I like. Not much I don’t like right now; I like all three phases.”

Tech is predicted to finish sixth in the Big 12 Conference, according to Baseball America. While Tadlock said the players read those kinds of websites, he is not concerned about the prediction.

“I hadn’t had really any thoughts on it,” he said. “I mean, nobody really

knows. The whole reason we line up and play is because you line up, you got to play the games, and so, the simplest thing to say on that is nobody determines the order of the finish by what they say right now. We’re going to determine it by what we do on the field.”

Andre Wheeler, a junior lefthanded pitcher who relief pitched and played outfield last season, said he is prepared to just pitch this season.

“I think it’s going to be good for me,” he said, “just going to get to focus on just pitching. I’ll get to get my reps in, and I think it’s going to help me out a lot this season.”

Blake Bass, a sophomore infielder, said he has prepared for an expanded role this season by spending more time in the batting cages and taking more ground balls.

He had 23 at-bats and a .174 batting average for the 2012 season.

“I’ve prepared all summer and all fall to come here and get a position,” Bass said. “I feel like I’m ready to take on that role.”

Tech has nine returning players from last season, but Bass said the new players are connecting well with everyone.

“It’s good,” Bass said about the vibe in the clubhouse. “We’re all connecting. We’re all together now, we’re all one team, and we pick each other up.

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TEXAS TECH PITCHER Dominic Moreno throws the ball during the top of the sixth inning of the Alumni Game on Jan. 26 at Rip Griffin Park at Dan Law Field.

Lance Armstrong sued by Dallas company for $12 million AUSTIN (AP) — A Dallas promotions company sued Lance Armstrong on Thursday, demanding he repay $12 million in bonuses and fees it paid him for winning the Tour de France.

SCA Promotions had tried in a 2005 legal dispute over the bonuses to prove Armstrong cheated to win before it ultimately settled and paid him.

Armstrong recently acknowledged using performance-enhancing drugs after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in 2012 detailed a sophisticated doping program by his Armstrong’s teams. Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France victories and given a lifetime ban from sports.

Now, the company contends

in its lawsuit, Armstrong and agent Bill Stapleton lied and conspired to cheat SCA out of millions. The lawsuit notes that Armstrong repeatedly testifi ed under oath in the 2005 dispute that he did not use steroids, other drugs or blood doping methods to win, all of which he now admits to doing.

“It is time now for Mr. Armstrong to face the consequences of his actions,” said the lawsuit, which demands a jury trial. “He admits he doped; he admits he bullied people; he admits he lied.”

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attempt to set aside” the agreement, which is “fully and forever binding.”

SCA counters that the case can be reopened because Armstrong’s repeated lies under oath prevented it from proving he doped.

“Had SCA — or the Arbitration Panel — known the truth, the arbitration award and settlement never would have occurred,” the lawsuit said.

According to the lawsuit, Stapleton and Herman both said in the original dispute that if Armstrong was to be stripped of his titles by official action, SCA would have no obligation to pay or could come after its money.

The 35-page filing also goes after Armstrong’s televised in-

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — A rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rural Maine yard sale has been auctioned for $92,000.

The card depicting the Brooklyn Atlantics amateur baseball club was sold by Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford Wednesday night and it drew plenty of interest.

Bidding started at $10,000 and quickly rose to the final

$92,000, which included an 18-percent premium.

Winning bidder Jason LeBlanc of Newburyport, Mass., said he bought the card as an investment for his young son in the hope of selling it for a higher price when his son gets older. If the price had gone up one more time, he said he would have dropped out of the bidding.

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terview with Oprah Winfrey last month in which he tearfully recounted having to tell his 13-year-old son the doping allegations were true.

In 2006, Armstrong told the arbitration panel that he didn’t dope because he wouldn’t want his son to someday follow him into a dirty sport.

“So how could I put my son into this completely dark, dirty underworld of deceit and deception would make no sense to me. I would never do that,” Armstrong said, according to the lawsuit.

Separately, USADA chief executive Travis Tygart said Wednesday the agency has been in contact with him Armstrong and is giving him more time to decide if he wants to cooperate

with its investigators and tell more about what he knows of doping in cycling.

USADA extended its original Wednesday deadline to Feb. 20 to work out an interview with investigators under oath.

Just two weeks ago, Herman had strongly suggested Armstrong would not be interested in talking with USADA investigators. Tygart said it was Armstrong who asked for more time.

“We understand that he does want to be part of the solution and assist in the effort to clean up the sport of cycling,” Tygart said in a statement. “We have agreed to his request for an additional two weeks to work on details to hopefully allow for this to happen.”

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2002-2004 and another $2.5 million paid to Armstrong for other costs and fees.

The lawsuit names Armstrong, Stapleton and Tailwind Sports, Inc., the team’s management entity, as defendants.

Tim Herman, an attorney for Armstrong and Stapleton, did not immediately return telephone messages. Herman has previously noted that SCA previously settled its case with Armstrong and said it should not be allowed to reopen the matter.

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found the card inside an old photo album he bought while antique picking in the small town of Baileyville on the Canadian border. The man bought the photo album, old CocaCola bottles and a couple of oak chairs together in a single purchase for less than $100, said Troy Thibodeau, manager and auctioneer at Saco River Auction.

The card isn’t the same as a modern-day baseball card, which became common in the 1880s.

Rather, it’s an original photograph from 1865 mounted on a card, showing nine players and a manager.

The Library of Congress said last month it was aware of only two copies of the photo. The other is in the institution’s collection.

In its book “Baseball Americana,” the Library of Congress calls the item the first dated baseball card, handed out to supporters and opposing teams in a gesture of bravado from the brash Brooklynites, who were dominant and won their league championships in 1861, 1864 and 1865.

It was impossible to predict what kind of price the card would fetch because of its rarity, Thibodeau said, but he guessed before the auction that the winning bid would fall somewhere between $50,000 and $500,000.

The priciest baseball card ever is a 1909 Honus Wagner card, which sold for $2.8 million in 2007.

Tom Bartsch, editor of Sports Collectors Digest, said $92,000 is a good price for a pre-war card without a Hall of Famer’s picture.

“There are very few artifacts around from the 1860s,” he said.

“Baseball was near its infancy in that time.”

Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions for Heritage Auctions, said there’s also only a small pool of buyers for such an esoteric item.

Both said the story of the card’s discovery remarkable is a reminder to collectors of all kinds that a rare find can easily be missed among otherwise unremarkable items.

“It’s what keeps those treasure hunters out there going,” Ivy said.

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Track and field set for Tyson Invitational

By ELLEN CHAPPELL STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech track and field team left Thursday to participate in its next meet in Fayetteville, Ark. at the Tyson Invitational this weekend.

The meet will begin Feb. 8 and continue all day Saturday.

The team will compete together in Arkansas rather than split into different meets as was the case last weekend, with some athletes in New York and some competing at home. The team will be up against a selection of its important competition for the national championships coming up at the end of the semester.

“I think that it’s going to be an opportunity for most everybody to be put in the fire again, and that’s good for our team,” Tech coach Wes Kittley said. “A lot of teams are going to be there. In fact, most teams will be there that will be competing

for the national championship, so it’s a big meet.”

The meet in Arkansas will give the athletes a chance to gauge the competition they will have later in the season during the Big 12 and in the NCAA Championships.

The athletes have confidence from their coach as well as in themselves to get comfortable with their environment, Tech senior hurdler Katie Grimes said.

“It’s going to be good,” she said.

“I’m mostly excited about getting on that track, I haven’t run there since I was a sophomore, so it’ll be good just to get that under our feet, and see some people who are going to be there and get used to it.”

With the season being a few weeks started, the team is looking forward to the weekend in Arkansas for more exposure to the competition, but for Tech senior jumper Bryce Lamb, it will be the first competition he has seen this season.

Lamb was out because of a

strained hamstring, but during the Tyson Invitational, he will begin his senior season with high expectations from his coach.

“I’m most excited to see Bryce Lamb get to open up his senior season and have an opportunity to compete,” Kittley said. “ We’re hoping to take a few jumps in the long jump, and a few jumps in the triple, but mainly get him back in the groove and get him in the runway.”

The athletes are looking forward to showing off their track and field talent this weekend in Arkansas despite the pressure of the higher competition.

“I’m always ready to get out there and jump and show everybody what I can do,” Lamb said. “I think (the competition) helps. I’ve always done well under the pressure. I’ve had some falls under it, but for the most part, I can always get out there and handle it, and get out there — hopefully do what I need to.” ➤➤echappell@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH HURDLER Katie Grimes jumps over a hurdle during the 55m hurdles at the Masked Rider Open hosted by the Tech track and field program inside the Athletic Training Center on Saturday.

Texas athletics mired in difficult times AUSTIN (AP) — Texas, the behemoth of the Big 12, is in a serious funk.

The wealthiest athletic program in the country, the one with its own television network and some of the finest facilities around, has struggled on the field and been embarrassed by recent revelations of coaches having inappropriate relationships with students. Fans are calling for changes on the sideline and in the administration.

Even Red McCombs, the billionaire donor whose name is on the north end of the football stadium, said Texas seems to be stumbling along.

“I think it has been hospitalized,” McCombs said. “But it has been released and we are on the mend. It might take another year, but we are on our way.”

The “getting better” message is echoed by athletic director DeLoss Dodds, who remains steadfast in his support of longtime football and basketball coaches Mack Brown and Rick Barnes.

“It’s patience and doing the right things. Keep people in place who are good at what they do and that’s what we’ve done,” Dodds said.

“You go through these times and if you’ve got good people they make it work. Good things will happen ...

Continuity is huge. Having a person who does it the right way is huge.

Having a person who cares about kids is huge.”

There have been a few bright spots. The volleyball and men’s golf teams won the 2012 national championships.

But lighting the campus tower orange to celebrate those accomplishments does little to offset the frustration brewing over the underachieving football and basketball teams.

The football program has struggled since the first quarter of the

2010 BCS national championship game when Heisman Trophy finalist Colt McCoy was injured on the first drive and Texas went on to lose to Alabama.

Texas is just 22-16 overall and 11-15 in the Big 12 the last three seasons. Consecutive blowout losses to rival Oklahoma fanned the flames of discontent. Brown, who won the 2005 national championship and was chasing two more in 2008-2009, now faces an irritable fan base.

“Football is fine,” Dodds said, calling last season’s 9-4 finish “the end of the world to some folks but it’s not the end of the world. You’ve got to go through some downs to enjoy the ups. Now, we don’t want to have a lot of them. But 9-4 is pretty good, about where I thought we’d be. I think next year looks a lot better ... back to our standards.”

And what is that standard?

“In football, you want to win them all,” Dodds said. “In basketball, you want to go deep in the (NCAA) tournament.”

Pleas for patience wear thin for fans like Marion Trapolino, a Texas graduate who’s had football season tickets for nearly 10 years and donates more than $1,000 annually to the Longhorn Foundation.

“I know how much money the Texas program has, the kind of facilities it has and the quality of recruits we get,” Trapolino said.

“There’s something else that’s missing. And the only other thing you can think of is coaching.”

Dodds cautioned those who want coaches fired with the example of Tennessee, which won the 1998 football national championship. Since firing Philip Fulmer in 2008, the Volunteers are on their third head coach and the program is swimming in debt reported to be at $200 million.

“People think we only care

about the money. Of course we care about money. Look at Tennessee,” Dodds said.

According to figures released by the university, Longhorn Foundation donations have gone up every year since 2007, with more than $36 million last year.

But frustrating Texas fans further was the rise of longtime rival Texas A&M to national prominence in its first year in the SEC. The Aggies, who many assumed would struggle to make the transition to college football’s premiere conference, nearly turned the league upside down behind quarterback Johnny Manziel, the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy.

That Texas tried to recruit Manziel to play safety is just another burr in the backside for Longhorns fans who have watched quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert, David Ash and Case McCoy struggle the last three seasons.

Even McCombs brought up Manziel as a misfire.

“I’m sure they would like to have some choices to make over again,” McCombs said. “We’ve got good players, they just weren’t good enough.”

Texas’ struggles on the field may be hurting recruiting. The Longhorns signed 15 players Wednesday, but this year’s class was notable because national recruiting experts didn’t rate it among the best in the country.

Brown, long considered a dominant recruiter, was burned by several players who committed to Texas only to change their mind.

Most notable was the 11th-hour defection of top-rated defensive lineman A’shawn Robinson to Alabama.

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James Harden’s All-Star tips for NBA visitors HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden is ready. For the music, the weather, the restaurants.

And, yes, he’ll work in some basketball as well.

“Houston is a beautiful city,” he says.

Harden will be making his NBA All-Star debut when the game and its weekend of festivities come to Houston Feb. 15-17.

In his first season with the Houston Rockets after an October trade from Oklahoma City, Harden has taken to the nation’s fourth-largest city. And for those planning a trip to the game, he’s set to play travel agent — where to stay, what to eat, things to do.

“There’s so much you can do, so if you come it should be a good time,” he tells The Associated Press. “There’s just so much variety.”

And with temperatures expected to be in the high 60s, a visit would be a welcome respite for fans from colder climates.

“That’s another reason why Houston is beautiful,” he said. “The weather is always nice for the most part.”

There’s also the throngs of rappers who will descend on the city for a week-

end that has become known as much for big-name rap shows and parties as it is for basketball.

“I’m looking forward to seeing everybody from the legends like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Rick Ross, to the newer, young guys like Meek Mill and Wiz Khalifa and even Trinidad James,” he said.

The Sunday night game at the Toyota Center ends a weekend of events on the court, including the Rising Stars Challenge for first- and second-year players, slam dunk and 3-point contests and a celebrity basketball game.

“I’m excited to be a first-time AllStar and my first time being in Houston just made it more special,” said Harden, who’s in his fourth season. “Just to see all the newer guys like myself and all the other first-time All-Stars should be really fun.”

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The men’s and women’s basketball programs are struggling through their own downturns.

The men are just 10-12 in coach Rick Barnes 15th season and are floundering near the bottom of the Big 12. Unless the Longhorns stage a huge turnaround over the final month of the season, they appear likely to miss the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1998.

The same goes for the women, who are 9-12 in a rough first season for coach Karen Aston.

While the losing irritates fans, university regents were embarrassed by revelations that two of its most prominent coaches had inappropriate relationships with students.

In October, a former women’s track athlete told school officials she had a relationship with track coach Bev Kearney in 2002. Kearney, who won six national championships with the Longhorns, was suspended in November while the claim was being investigated and resigned on Jan. 5. The school has said it was in the process of firing Kearney when she resigned.

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