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Olympian Oscar Pistorius charged with murder PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning development in the life of a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs.

Reeva Steenkamp, a model who spoke out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women, was shot four times in the predawn hours in the house, in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria, police said.

Hours later after undergoing police questioning, Pistorius left a police station accompanied by officers. He looked down as photographers snapped pictures, the hood on his gray workout jacket pulled up, covering most of his face. His court hearing was originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon but has been postponed until Friday to give forensic investigators time to carry out their work, said Medupe Simasiku, a spokesman for the prosecution.

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IRS website bombarded WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service has a message for taxpayers eager to learn the status of their tax refund: Please don’t check the IRS website every five minutes — once a day is enough.

The IRS says its “Where’s my refund?” website and smartphone app are being overwhelmed by eager taxpayers. The agency says its systems are only updated once a day, usually overnight, and the same information is available on the website, the IRS2go smartphone app and IRS toll-free phone lines.

The IRS provides three updates: when the tax return is received, when the refund is approved and when the refund is sent. To avoid delays, the agency says the best time to check on refunds is evenings and weekends.

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City Council bans synthetic marijuana

By EMILY GARDNER STAFF WRITER

In 30 days, synthetic marijuana will no longer be sold in the City of Lubbock.

The Lubbock City Council voted unanimously to ban synthetic drugs Thursday at its meeting.

Mayor Glen Robertson left after recess and did not vote on the ordinance regarding the ban synthetic drugs.

Karen Gibson, mayor pro tem and councilwoman for District 5, said the mayor did not vote not because he was against the ordinance, but because he believed there should be an age limit on the ordinance.

The ban will be published, she said, and then in 30 days, will be enacted.

The Council will bring another ordinance to the public’s attention, Gibson said, but she is not sure what it will entail.

“I just know that we’ve only started,” she said. “This is just the first step.”

The Council passed the ordinance excluding section G, which Gibson said was irrelevant.

Todd Klein, councilman for District 3, said the Council will have a strategic planning initiative or something similar presented at one of the next two City Council meetings.

Councilman for District 1 Victor Hernandez, Gibson and Klein have met with the Board of Health on issues pertaining to synthetic drugs, he said.

Board of Health members want to put a coordinator in place to educate the public, Gibson said, but she

wants someone to educate them using social media.

However, she said she is not opposed to the coordinator.

“I mean if we’re going to reach kids, social media is the way to go,” she said. “We need someone that can Twitter, we need someone that can get on Facebook, we need someone to keep Web pages up to date.”

Gibson said she would continue to research the topic and stay in contact with Gina Johnson.

Johnson, a non-traditional freshman secondary education major at Lubbock Christian University, said she is ecstatic at the ordinance’s passing, and there are 30 days until synthetic marijuana will be off the shelves of the approximately 30 shops in Lubbock which sell the substance.

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Tech student victim of assault, car theft at University Fountains

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Although she had pepper spray, a pocket knife and has taken self-defense classes, none of those helped the 20-yearold human sciences major from Wylie early Thursday morning.

Brittani Robas was assaulted at 2:05 a.m. at University Fountains apartments and her attackers stole her car.

Robas was returning home after celebrating a friend’s birthday when she encountered two males. As Robas attempted to get out of her car, a male asked her if she had a good night.

Although she said she thought it was strange, she answered, “I guess.” She said she was then punched in the face, from which she suffered a broken nose and an eye injury.

After being punched, Robas said she blacked out and woke up from her unconscious state approximately 15 minutes later.

Robas said she now questions her safety

in the dimly lit parking lot.

“The reason we chose here is because it was supposed to be safe,” she said. “You know, we do have gates. We have cops on site, like on our property, and that’s the biggest thing I have right now, is that I was down there for like 10 to 15 minutes just laying there, and you know, there’s no security courtesy officer walking around like we were told, and I’m really upset in the sense that if I wasn’t to have woken up from being unconscious, I could have just been laying there, for like ever, and no one would have known.”

During the time she was unconscious, the two males, identified as 20-year-old Joshua Martinez and a 16-year-old male, drove away with her 2005 Mercedes Mariner.

The attackers drove away with her purse and cellphone. Because she did not have her keys, Robas said she banged on her apartment door until a roommate answered.

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Gov. Rick Perry appointed three members to the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents on Thursday.

Appointees John D. Esparza and Tim Lancaster will replace John Scovell and Jerry Turner, whose terms expired Jan. 31.

L. Frederick “Rick” Francis, the chairman of the Audit Committee, was reappointed for a third term, according to a Tech news release.

“All three appointees are alumni of Texas Tech and have given back generously to their alma mater,” Chancellor Kent Hance said in a statement. “The Texas Tech University System welcomes these members to the Board of Regents and looks forward to their leadership and service as we continue to progress.”

According to a news release from the office of Perry, Esparza is the president and CEO of the Texas Motor Transportation Association. He also is a member of the College of Media and Communication National Advisory Board and president of the St. Austin Catholic School Board.

“It has been my honor to serve the state in many capacities throughout my career,” Esparza said in a statement, “but to do so for the university that is

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dear to my heart is truly humbling. I look forward to serving with my fellow regents in continuing to build upon a solid foundation.”

Furthering the legacy of hard work, he said, will ensure Tech remains a world-class institution.

Lancaster, another newly appointed member, is the president and CEO of Hendrick Health System in Abilene.

According to the release, he is the former chairman of the Texas Hospital Association and a current board member of First Financial Bank of Abilene.

“John Esparza and Tim Lancaster are great appointments to our Board of Regents,” Hance said in the statement.

“I have known both for nearly 20 years, and they will bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise from their successful careers and distinguished service to the state of Texas.”

Francis was first appointed to the Board of Regents in 2003. He also is the chairman of Bank of the West-El Paso, according to the university system’s website.

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By BETHANY CHESHIRE STAFF WRITER

One in every three women will be raped or assaulted in their lifetime.

To raise awareness of rape and assault toward women, Women Studies and Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance members hosted One Billion Rising in Memorial Circle.

“It’s called One Billion Rising, and we’re going to be gathering together in support of ending violence against women,” Dora Smith, a sophomore sociology major from Lubbock, said.

“It’s a global movement.”

During the event, monologues written by Eve Ensler, the founder of One Billion Rising, were read and then there was a Solidarity Circle formed and a moment of silence, Smith said.

Devin Saunders, a senior psychology major from San Antonio, said the moment of silence was for past victims of violence against women.

“We’re going to form a Solidarity Remembrance Circle for a moment of silence for those that have been raped or abused in the past,” Saunders said.

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Sylvia Tarango, a senior psychology major from Plains, said she thinks awareness of violence against women is important because it is so close to home.

“For me, it’s very important to, you know, promote awareness, educate people in the community — not just here on campus — about domestic violence against women,” she said.

Assault and rape can happen close to home, Saunders said, even as close as family.

“Just recently, early February, there was a TechAnnounce that came out saying that two women had been assaulted,” she said.

One in three women are raped, assaulted or abused, said Frances Martin, a senior history major from Bulverde.

She said most sexual assault and abuse victims are assaulted by people to whom they are close.

Smith has known victims of abuse, and said even just handing out flyers helps to reach out to people who may need help.

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Tech School of Law ranks 9th in nation

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

reception following in the Art building foyer.

Today Ninth Annual Advancing Teaching and Learning Conference Time: 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where: Student Union Building So, what is it?

Come hear presentations from keynote speaker Peter Felten, assistant provost and director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, and professor of history at Elon University.

Celebrating the Vietnamese Lunar New Year: Tet Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: International Cultural Center, Hall of Nations So, what is it?

Come learn about the heritage and culture of Vietnam. Feb. 10, 2013 marks the Year of the Snake, which is believed to be the year of peace and prosperity.

20th Anniversary Clay on the Wall Invitational Art Exhibition Presented at Texas Tech School of Art Time: 8 a.m.

Where: Landmark Arts at the Texas Tech School of Art So, what is it?

Come enjoy this exhibit cocurated by Glen Brown and Juan Granados with a public

Northern Illinois Huskies at Texas Tech Red Raiders Baseball Time: 6 p.m.

Where: Dan Law Field So, what is it?

Come support the Red Raiders as they compete against the Huskies.

Saturday Super Saturdays Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Texas Tech campus So, what is it?

Come bring your child so they can participate in classes that cover topics like forensics, mathematics and more.

Saturday at The Museum: Presidents of the USA Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come enjoy this free comeand-go event of activities, experiments and challenges.

Movies at The Museum: North By Northwest (1959) Time: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Museum of Texas Tech So, what is it?

Come enjoy this movie starring Cary Grant. Rated G.

To make a calendar submission email dailytoreador@ttu.edu.

Events will be published either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by 4 p.m. on the preceding publication date.

City of Lubbock reports its first case of rabies The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed Lubbock’s first case of rabies in 2013 Thursday.

According to a news release by the City of Lubbock, a striped skunk was found Feb. 4 in northeast Lubbock. It tested positive for rabies.

The release stated six cats possibly were exposed, but no humans were exposed. There were no positive cases of rabies in Lubbock in 2012.

According to the Texas Department of State Health Services website, a person can be infected with rabies if bitten by a rabid animal, or if the person comes into contact with the animal’s saliva by way of eyes, mouth, nose or open cuts on skin.

Symptoms in animals, the website stated, include changes in behavior; having a hard time eating, drinking or walking; biting or scratching old wounds until they bleed; and seeing animals in daylight that normally do not appear.

To prevent rabies, the website reported, owners must vaccinate pets, restrain them so they do not roam, avoid contact with wild animals which includes not hand-feeding them, not touching sick or injured animals and reporting them to animal control.

The release also stated to call Animal Services at 311 if an animal is acting unusual.

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The Texas Tech School of Law has been nationally recognized in the National Jurist magazine as the second best school in the nation for student satisfaction and ninth best in overall quality.

The magazine released the rankings in its February publication, reporting it had evaluated 157 law schools in categories like postgraduate success, bar exam passage statistics, student satisfaction, affordability and diversity.

Tech’s law school received an overall 3.38 GPA, a score slightly lower than schools like Stanford University, University of Alabama, Harvard and Columbia, according to the rankings.

It earned mostly Bs in post-graduate employment and bar passage, but the area it excelled in most was

student satisfaction, which takes into account affordability, diversity and student opinion on the website RateMyProfessors.com, the magazine reported.

Darby Dickerson, dean of the School of Law, said she was excited to learn of the school’s national recognition, and believes that much of the student satisfaction comes from their emphasis on an open door policy.

“I think a large part of that was accessibility of the faculty,” she said, “and we have a highly accessible faculty. There really isn’t a gatekeeper.

The faculty keep open doors, they return emails timely, they work closely with students outside of the classroom, and you don’t get that at all law schools.”

Brian Shannon has been teaching as a professor of law at Tech for 25 years, and said even when he first arrived, the focus always was on the

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“We have very good students,” she said. “We don’t often attract the top students in the pool who have the 180 LSATs and perfect 4.0 GPAs across the board, but we get really good students who want to be outstanding lawyers, and I think we can help develop them into outstanding professionals. We add value, and that’s what this ranking shows that we do.”

Dickerson said she hopes to maintain or improve the law school’s current rankings but does not want to change the methods that have been useful to her students.

“The one thing I’ve learned being a dean — as long as I’ve been a dean — is that you do what’s right for your missions and for the students’ education, and the rest will come, eventually,” she said. “You don’t play, and twist and turn your program just for the rankings.” ➤➤check@dailytoreador.com

SGA candidates begin spring campaigning

By MATT DOTRAY STAFF WRITER

Candidates running for positions in Texas Tech Student Government Association have begun campaigning for the spring general elections.

Campaigning began Tuesday and will continue until the election days, Feb. 27 and 28.

Reed Young, a senior agricultural and applied economics major from Abilene, is the current external vice president for SGA. Young said all seats in the executive and legislative branches will be up for election on the upcoming ballot.

Positions in the executive branch include the president, external and internal vice presidents and the graduate vice president, he said.

In the legislative branch, Young said seats for graduate and at-large senators, as well as senators from each college on campus, will be up for election.

The number of senators each college will receive is determined

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“One in three women will be beaten or raped in her lifetime,” she said, “and if there is seven billion people on earth, that’s at least a billion women across the globe.”

Andrew Hernandez, a junior visual studies major from Lubbock, said he feels it is important for the community to realize men are involved in the event as well.

“Rape and abuse isn’t something that only affects women,” he said.

“Men are also a part of the problem and victims of this.”

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by the total amount of students each has, he said.

“I think there is close to 60 (senators),” Young said. “We have a formula that divides it up by the population of that college and then you get representatives based on how many that is. So then you have all of you colleges, the graduate school, and then you have your senators at-large, which represent everyone.”

While campaigning, Young said candidates will ‘bloc’ together.

What that means, he said, is that a team of people running for an executive position will campaign alongside a group of candidates for a senator position.

“They are all on the same side, and they work on promotions for both groups,” he said. “Your executives are in the spotlight, but your executives also spotlight your senators and vice versa. It’s a symbiotic relationship between who is spotlighting who. It’s just a strategy.”

The ‘bloc’ that each candidate

associates with does not show up on the ballot, but they help each other during campaigns and visit organizations together, he said.

The two major ‘blocs’ are Raiders United and Bridge the Gap. According to its Facebook pages, Raiders United is made up of executive candidates Jill Berger, Luke Cotton and Logan Dickenson.

Peyton Craig, Forrest Stovall, Taylor Weeks and Daniel Yates lead Bridge the Gap. Taylor Weeks, a junior political science and economics major from Houston, and Forrest Stovall, a senior technical communication major from San Antonio, are campaigning for president and internal vice president, respectively.

In the beginning, Stovall said much of the campaign was geared toward social media.

“At first, a lot of it was social media and online stuff,” he said. ”So we made sure we got our Facebook page up and our Twitter account.

We went ahead and made a website

that has all of our platforms and brief bios about us. That was the main thing.”

Since then, Stovall said the candidates have been meeting with organizations, including Greek houses, have printed brochures to give out to students and made signs to display in the Free Speech Area next week.

Weeks said a big part of the elections is getting their names out to the students and meeting as many people as they can.

“I think the teams we’re running against have good ideas and we agree with a lot of them, and we have our own, I think, fabulous ideas,” he said. “It comes down to the students. Everyone wants to do what is best for the students and what’s best for student government.”

The executive office candidates will host an executive forum, or debate, at 5 p.m. Feb. 25 in the Escondido Theatre.

bring awareness to women’s abuse and rape in the months to come, Martin said. In March, V-day Lubbock will perform The Vagina Monologues.

“FMLA, V-day and Women Protective Services, as well as the counseling center, are going to partner together to put on Take Back the Night,” Martin said, “which is, again, about sexual assault awareness, in April.”

There are different organizations that will help victims of assault in the community, Tarango said.

“We have Women Protective Services, we have the Lubbock Rape Crisis Center,” she said. “They’re extremely confidential.”

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and some have had permanent brain damage or physical ailments including kidney damage.

Dustin Charters of Levelland compared synthetic marijuana to playing Russian roulette, and said his son died Sept. 25 because of his use of synthetic marijuana.

“He had been off of this for seven days when he took his life,” he said. “When we got the autopsy results back, the only thing that was in his system was this AM-2201, which has been banned federally since May of 2011. He got it from smoking the synthetic marijuana.”

Now that the ordinance has been enacted, Johnson said, it is a matter of educating the public about synthetic drugs.

“People need to be aware that this poison is there,” Johnson said. “It’s not going away. We are just at the very beginning of the fight, and now is when the hard work really begins.”

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“We very much believe in an open-door policy, that faculty make themselves available to students, both in person and meetings after class, and by email,” he said. “We want to see our students be successful, and a number of us went to larger law schools where the approach was very different, so I think we’re committed to being here for our students, being available and accessible.”

Bar exam passage and postgraduate employment are other areas which Dickerson said the law school tries to emphasize as well, providing measures like a bar preparation resource director and an extensive required first-year curriculum, which helps gives students an edge.

Although she said the law school does not have the best students in the nation, Dickerson said she feels they are some of the hardest working.

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In the next 30 days, she said, she will be in attendance at Board of Health meetings to help get a health education coordinator in place.

“I’ve got several meetings where I’m presenting,” Johnson said. “We’re trying to get a rally together for Austin so that we can get something going through the state legislature that will be a little more, have a little more teeth to it.”

At the Council meeting, Johnson said she was overwhelmed by the support the ordinance has received, and that she would like the council to support a health education coordinator to educate people on the effects of using synthetic marijuana.

“The effects and damages do not just stop with the first use,” she said. “I’m lucky I still have my son. I, however, know many people that have lost their children.”

Johnson said people have lost children to the substance,

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Mental illness increases at Texas youth facilities AUSTIN (AP) — Young offenders with mental illnesses now outnumber youths who are gang members at juvenile jails in Texas, according to new figures that justice officials submitted to state lawmakers Thursday.

The rate of young offenders diagnosed as being mentally ill has risen to 56 percent in 2013, compared to confirmed gang membership at the lockups, which has remained relatively steady at 54 percent. Last year, 50 percent of young offenders at the facilities had mental illnesses, and just 39 percent in 2007, according to the figures from the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

“The needs of these youth are greater now,” said Michael Griffiths, director of the Juvenile Justice Department, during testimony at a House budget subcommittee hearing Thursday.

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Robas said she would not have “I’d rather be alive with no car, no changed anything she did at the scene money, and no cellphone,” she said. “I’d because she was unsure of what the men rather be alive and have my life instead were capable of. of fight for things I can buy again. MaThe two men are in police custody terialistic things can be replaced, but, and have been charged with robbery, you know, fighting for your life to get according to a statement released by someone just because of the car... in the Lubbock Police Department Sgt. Jonaend, it all happens for a reason, I guess.” than Stewart.

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DAVID CHAMBLESS, A junior electrical engineering major from Austin, gives a hug to Martial Klie, a senior electrical engineering major from Cameroon, Thursday in the Free Speech Area. Chambless was giving out free hugs and Hershey’s kisses for Lubbock Parkour.

Tech staff member dies from unknown causes

By CATHERINE MCKEE NEWS EDITOR

Babar Khan, managing director of Payroll Services at Texas Tech, died this week from unknown causes.

The date of death has yet to be determined, but Grace Hernandez, chief of staff and assistant vice president of administration said Khan was found at his apartment Wednesday.

Hernandez said Khan, who worked for the university for six years and reported to her, had been ill, but no one knew his illness was so severe.

Hernandez said she learned of Khan’s death after he failed to show up for work Wednesday.

According to a police report, Khan’s office in Doak Hall has been sealed off so family can retrieve his belongings.

Before working at Tech, Hernandez said in a follow-up email, Khan received a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Karachi in Pakistan and a Bachelor of Business Administration and Accounting from Leicester Polytechnic in England.

Khan worked at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for about 10 years and was a certified public accountant.

Hernandez said Khan was a numbersperson who enjoyed his job.

“One of the things various people and administrators have said about him is that he was a great numbers-person,”

she said, “and that’s so important in that role because it provides more of a broadbased ability to analyze what’s going on with respect to employees and things such as salary, and all of those things.

He was always helpful to everyone across campus.”

Khan had approximately 20 employees, Hernandez said, who were loyal to Khan and will miss him.

“He’s someone who’s going to be missed a great deal not only because of his knowledge and skills,” she said, “but also because he was an extremely nice person and supervisor, and all of his staff are feeling very, very sad about this right now. He mentored all of them, and it became a better

department because of him.”

Hernandez said she spoke with one of Khan’s relatives about a possible memorial service at Tech.

“Our employees, we consider them part of the Texas Tech family,” she said, “and we want to be able to thank him and his family for sharing him with us and having him be part of our campus community, and we couldn’t have done the things that we did without Babar, so hopefully we can have (a possible memorial service) in the near future.”

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Catholic Church needs modernized message T

he Catholic Church entered the Lenten season this week with uncertainty as to who will be the future leader of the church.

Pope Benedict XVI decided to break tradition of holding the papacy until death, which has occurred for the past six centuries.

This is a welcome announcement for me, and for more than the reason that soon, there won’t be a person walking around Earth deemed to be infallible. The church will need to evaluate where they will go in the future.

Hopefully, they will break from traditions that harm their credibility as a moral institution.

Benedict’s short reign will be remembered as having been marred by his mistreatment of

Jordan Sigler sex and the church.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, in 2005, Benedict XVI used his papal immunity to get away with covering up a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit was based on a child sex abuse case involving a church official in the mid-90s.

Multiple reports from his former archdiocese and documents reported by the New York Times revealed when a clergy member would be accused of sexual assault, Benedict would transfer the member to another position

in the church.

When Benedict steps down at the end of this month and his immunity ends, he should be arrested and tried for these accusations.

He later apologized — repeatedly — for the decades of child molestation by Catholic clergy. Benedict chose this direction instead of focusing on the problem that even clergy have of possessing natural sexual urges, which he could easily alleviate by allowing them to marry.

When he traveled to Africa, Benedict saw the problems of AIDS on the continent first hand.

According to the Guardian, Benedict kept the Catholic message of abstinence in a place where it obviously is not working and is not going to work.

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He did so in opposition of condom use, which he said could make the problem worse.

Benedict claimed the only way to solve the problem of AIDS was to adhere to the rules of the church.

Even condoms, which protect against sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, are not 100 percent effective. How will Catholic rules help if a child born is with AIDS? This type of backwards thinking is not going to help strengthen the world.

The church’s continuing stance against gay marriage and abortion is controversial even among its own members.

Joe Biden is now for gay marriage, and has been prochoice for years. Brian Kelly is a Catholic football coach at Notre Dame, a Catholic school,

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and has publicly stated he is pro-choice.

The Catholic Church should be more progressive in their thinking as they choose the direction of their church.

They must consider adjusting to the culture — the only homosexual actions allowed in the church shouldn’t be between priests and altar boys.

(Disclaimer: Being a homosexual does not mean one is a child molester.)

The church needs to allow their clergy to marry. Men and women have physical and emotional needs; it is psychological torture not to act out on them.

The consequences of those energies being placed inside minors is psychologically torturing, especially to the minor.

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By MATTHEW DISLER

For the past four years, Americans have been waiting for the solution to the economy they thought would have come sooner. Four years ago, in his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said that Americans had to “answer history’s call” in the light of a potential “second depression.”

This time, as he entered the House chamber and looked in the television cameras for a fifth time, he focused on the idea that creating middle class jobs must be the “North Star that guides our (economic) efforts.”

While there are many important issues that face this country, I was pleased that the president brought up manufacturing. He said that Washington must “guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is made in America.”

With the Republicans reeling and looking to find support, Obama must strike a bipartisan agreement on the fiscal issues facing this country. Now is the time for Congress to finally make America a “magnet for jobs and manufacturing.”

Though there have been signs of erosion, the American

manufacturing industry is still one of the largest in the world.

A Jan. 2012 Congressional Research Service report found that America’s share of global manufacturing activity has decreased in recent years. China’s manufacturing sector is almost as large as in the United States, valued at $1.814 trillion and $1.756 trillion respectively. In Dec. 2012, the manufacturing sector made modest gains in manufacturing activity and factory hiring.

One of the common arguments related to manufacturing thrown around recently is that American companies are outsourcing jobs to other countries because their labor laws allow manufacturing operations to be more profitable. However, this is not as big of an issue as most Americans think it is. As the Bureau of Labor Statistics has found, the effect of outsourcing has been minimal. In the third quarter of 2012, when more than 100,000 workers were laid off, firms told BLS that less than 1 percent of these workers had their jobs moved to another country.

An article from The Atlantic reported that American companies are seeing the economic benefits of keeping

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jobs in America and have, in fact, started to “insource” jobs.

China’s Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing giant, is actually planning on increasing their operations in the United States.

American companies are realizing the benefits of keeping jobs in the U.S., which will limit the effect that outsourcing will have on the economy.

On the other hand, what’s preventing companies from producing in the United States is the attractiveness of production in other countries. Part of the issue is that the value of the dollar made producing goods in the United States less attractive than other countries with cheaper labor and production costs and lower marginal tax rates. If America wants to become more competitive in this regard, the federal government must be willing to create a plan that provides subsidies and “lowers tax rates for businesses and manufactures that (will) create jobs right here in America.” This would help reduce the costs of production in the U.S., which would make companies more willing to attract new jobs without having to reduce workers’ salaries.

One point that President Obama has been stressing is that

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increasing our focus on alternative energy will make America a stronger manufacturing country.

According the Department of Energy, in Aug. 2012 the wind sector was employing “75,000 American workers, including workers at manufacturing facilities up and down the supply chain, as well as engineers and construction workers who build and operate the wind farms.”

People are now feeling the benefits of alternative energy manufacturing. On top of providing jobs, it will help Americans save money on energy consumption.

This is the direction the manufacturing sector is going. If we fail to recognize the importance of alternative energy, America will fall behind.

Manufacturing is what has driven America over the past century. If we plan to give up on manufacturing, we are throwing the future of this country away.

But words can only go so far.

This plan will not completely revive the American car industry or the steel industry. While it’s not complete, President Obama’s plan will make American manufacturing industry more competitive than it is today so that we can be authors of the next great chapter in our American story.

While researching for her biography All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell spent months in Afghanistan with General Petraeus, then-commander of the International Security Assistance Force, to fully understand America’s most prominent general of the last decade. The now-infamous affair that ensued between Broadwell and her subject during that time shed new light on the complicated relationship between the media and the military. The scandal demonstrated how contemporary media coverage of the military may lead to the disclosure of sensitive material and also how it causes reporting bias. As the nation winds down over a decade of war, it is time to analyze the complex relationship between journalists and soldiers.

The relationship between the press and the armed forces has not always been as close as today’s.

After journalists relayed overtly negative stories to the American public during the Vietnam War, the military increasingly distanced itself from the media. Even as late as the Persian Gulf War, journalists were strictly managed and generally kept separate from American servicemen and women. This policy changed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, when the U.S. Department of Defense allowed 600 journalists to embed with the troops.

The intimacy provided certain advantages. On the one hand, the military was reported in a more favorable light, since journalists wrote about men and women they knew and interacted with on a daily basis. On the other, reporters received detailed knowledge and information about their subjects, and the public became better informed. Embedded journalists received an added benefit: protection. Of the 150 media workers killed on the job in Iraq from 2003 to 2011, only 26 were not Iraqis. Essentially all foreign journalists employ security — for those embedded, this safety is free and guaranteed.

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The close relationship, however, has several disadvantages.

First, the media may be granted too much access to the military, depending on your views regarding freedom of information.

Nonetheless, it is true, despite our opinion on the legitimacy of this freedom and whether it pertains to all state information (as Julian Assange and his followers would believe), the media may reveal information that is clearly not in the interest of the military. The 2010 Rolling Stone interview with General Stanley McChrystal, for instance, revealed serious personal divides within the defense organization. As a result of his public comments, General McChrystal was relieved of his command, and soon after the incident then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued a memo to officials urging caution in interactions with the media.

Second, when journalists act closely with troops, they tend to exhibit bias in favor of the military. (A notable counterexample to this trend is the behavior of the media during the Vietnam War, when journalists were biased against the American military.) From the two World Wars to Iraq, the closer reporters are to soldiers, the more agreeable the relationship. While the journalist-soldier embrace may be beneficial to the armed forces, it deprives the public of a truly accurate picture of the situation on the ground.

It is dubious to assert any piece written in a war zone, however, would be impartial, yet the information embedded journalists glean is unsurpassed. Biased reporting is not necessarily an evil.

Neutrality is certainly valuable, but writers and reporters should also be able to convey their perspectives. Doing so provides a more accurate picture of their experiences. If we accept the premise of biased reporting though, it is important we recognize it when we read it — something the public may not do. The problem is bias is often reported and interpreted as fact, so we believe we gain a neutral standpoint on a topic when the opposite is true.

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Mike Leach speaks about politics, football

By SCOTT MACWATTERS STAFF WRITER

At the Lubbock Area Republican Women’s annual membership drive, Mike Leach, Washington State football coach and former Texas Tech coach, used his experience coaching football to talk about his political beliefs.

Nitra Barnes, president of the Lubbock Area Republican Women, said the club hoped Leach’s appearance would help increase its membership.

“This past year, we’ve won an award for increasing our membership 140 percent over the year past,” Barnes said. “We are trying to hit super-jumbo-club status that would put us in line with Midland, and Midland’s the only other club in Texas that’s bigger than us right now, I believe. … I’m really pushing to beat Midland.”

With more members, Barnes said she hopes to bring the 2015 Texas Federation of Republican Women Convention to Lubbock.

“We’re really trying to make our mark here in town,” she said.

Leach said he chose to speak at the membership drive because he was asked to.

“Basically, Nitra Barnes and John Steinmetz got together, and I was in town for the Bobby Moegle induction to the Texas Athletics Hall of Fame,”

Leach said. “ … Anywhere where there’s a gathering of people that want to be informed and make a difference, I’m excited about that. Now, I recruit a lot of democrats, and I respect their position, and I have respect for them on the same level.”

During the meeting, nearly 100 attendees ate steak and listened to Leach talk about his political opinions through his experience on the football field.

During his speech, Leach said once or twice a year, he splits his team up into groups and has the groups decide what the team goal should be. Leach said most of the team goals can be narrowed down into three categories, which relate to politics in their own way.

“No. 1 is be a team,” Leach said.

“The most important one’s the simplest. Understand how what you do affects the team, and I think that’s the same thing in politics and doing the right thing for America. Understand that everybody’s Americans. … Be at team, get people educated, get them involved.”

Leach said the second category his teams usually decide is to be the most excited to play.

“I don’t think there’s any replacement for that, no matter what you do,” Leach said. “If you’re going to really do anything terribly effective, you have to be the most excited to play, which, to

me strikes, ‘be informed, be involved.’”

Leach said the final of the three is to be the best at doing the job.

“There’s no substitute for taking pride in your work, and being proud of what you do,” Leach said. “Your role may change, but if you want a different role, overachieve at the role that you have.”

Following his speech, Leach answered questions from the audience.

Many of the questions were about football and the future of Leach’s program at Washington State. However, a few questions referenced politics.

One questioner asked Leach if he had any suggestions to help the Republican Party succeed in the future.

“Well first of all, I think they need to unite the party,” Leach said.

“There was a time when I thought there was a big distinction between the two parties. I think it’s a narrow distinction now, and I think that’s a little unfortunate.”

Leach also said he believes the Republican Party and Democrat Party are both guilty of not cooperating with each other.

“Both parties are guilty and victimized of after elections not reaching out and cooperating with one another,” Leach said. “They’re just trying to tear each other up. So basically you have a series of political fights and nothing’s getting accomplished.”

Leach also said the Republican

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MIKE LEACH, WASHINGTON State football coach and former Texas Tech coach, spoke during the Lubbock Area Republican Women’s annual membership drive Thursday in Inside Four Bar K. Leach spoke about politics in the context in football during his address.

Party should reach out to attract more women to the party in the future.

Letha Mayfield, an attendee, said she enjoyed hearing Leach speak.

Mayfield is not a member, but said she will consider joining after the event.

“We wouldn’t have missed hearing him,” Mayfield said as her husband,

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JFK memorabilia draws hundreds to Massachusetts Town BOSTON (AP) — A preview of John F. Kennedy memorabilia including notes by his special assistant on the day the president was assassinated is drawing hundreds of people to the northern Massachusetts town of Amesbury.

David Powers, who died in 1998,

was Kennedy’s assistant and close personal friend of his and his wife, Jackie. Powers also was the first curator of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston until he retired in 1994.

Powers joined Kennedy for his first political campaign for Congress

in 1946 and was with him when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

He collected keepsakes and documents spanning his years of friendship with the Kennedy family.

On Sunday, Powers’ collection of about 2,000 photographs, documents, gifts and other JFK items will

be auctioned in 723 lots at John McInnis Auctioneers in Amesbury.

The auction house says Powers’ relatives found “an extraordinary collection” locked away last year as they prepared to sell the family home. Powers’ family is keeping some memorabilia and may give

other items to the Kennedy Library.

The collection has drawn hundreds from New York, New Jersey, New England and elsewhere to assess the items in the days leading up to the auction, said Dan Meader, an appraiser for the auction house.

The items include Powers’ copy

of the presidential itinerary on the day he was assassinated in Dallas.

The documents contain handwritten details of Kennedy’s final hours, including the time he was shot, how Powers helped carry him in a stretcher to the operating room, the time of death and the aftermath.

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Designer admits molesting wannabe model in NYC NEW YORK (AP) — A fashion designer convicted in California of molesting would-be models pleaded guilty Thursday in New York to a similar charge in a deal prosecutors said was brokered to spare victims from testifying multiple times.

Anand Jon Alexander admitted to one count of criminal sexual act and was sentenced to five years for sexually assaulting a woman he baited with the promise of modeling work.

He had initially been charged with preying on a dozen women, but the figure then dropped down to three. Prosecutors said some of the victims were minors, and some were drugged when he forced himself on them. They say he told one teenager not to report the rape to authorities.

Alexander is already serving 59 years to life in California in a similar case, where some New York victims testified, said Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal. He’s also facing similar charges in Texas, she said. Prosecutors agreed to the deal in part “to spare the victims from having to testify at multiple proceedings” and because he is already

serving substantial prison time.

Alexander, who wore a formfitting gray suit, disputed the reason for the deal in court but didn’t elaborate. The New York prison time amounts to time served, so no years will be tacked onto his California sentence, his attorney said.

Born in India, Alexander — known professionally as Anand Jon — launched a fashion line in 1999 and built it into a high-flying career.

He was featured on “America’s Next Top Model,” worked with such celebrities as Paris Hilton and Mary J. Blige and was among 20 people profiled by Newsweek in 2006 as up-and-coming players in various industries.

Then sex assault allegations against Alexander began surfacing in 2007. He was convicted in Los Angeles the next year of sexually assaulting seven women and girls, some as young as 14.

Alexander’s attorney said after the plea that he admitted to the crime so he could get evidence and materials from New York prosecutors needed to “effectively overturn his California conviction.”

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Students dance in regency ball

By NIKKI CULVER STAFF WRITER

It almost was a second British invasion Thursday night in the Helen DeVitt Jones Sculpture Center when doctoral arts administration student Abi Rhoades hosted a Jane Austen-style regency ball.

“Four years ago, when I started working for Dr. Smith, part of my job as the administrative coordinator for the Vernacular Music Center was to look at the calendar of events,” Rhoades said. “I was supposed to come up with ideas for new things, ways that we could better present our event and stuff like that.”

The ball was originally set to help balance the fundraising calendar with Vernacular Music Center’s other large event, she said.

“We had a fundraiser in the fall at Christmas called the Celtic Christmas, which a lot of people know about,” Rhoades said. “It’s in its 12th year, we just had the 11th one. But I told Chris that we really needed some kind of balancing big event in the spring that was maybe also a fundraiser. So we let it sit for maybe a week or so, and then he sent me a poster and asked me what I thought. It was basically a mock up of Jane Austen because he knew I like Jane Austen, and I was sold.”

Even former students traveled back to town to help in the event.

Lyndsy Phipps, who is now a full-time musician from Ireland, took time out of her trip back to Texas Tech to attend.

“I joined up with the Tech Step Dancers while I was still here, and now I’m a full-time musician,” Phipps said. “Now I’m basically just trying to make sure everyone gets where they need to be.”

An entire weekend was devoted to help prepare dancing skills for the event when a group traveled to Dallas to learn traditional English country dancing.

“Really, quite out of the blue, we had tried to in preparation for the event, we tried to bring in a friend of ours who teaches English

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ABI ROHOADES, AN arts administration doctoral student from Lubbock, and Elizabeth Stockton, a sophomore education major from Philadelphia, demonstrate the “Indian Queen” dance during the Dancing with Mr. Darcy event Thursday in the Museum at Texas Tech.

country dancing,” Rhoades said.

“He’s a caller and a teacher.

We were going to bring him in to do a workshop, and he suggested instead that we come up to Dallas where he was calling for a weekend. We took 16 people for this big weekend where we danced for nine or 10 hours a day. It was like two or three workshops, and a dance in the evening.”

Having many young students attending an English country dancing event was a unique situation for those who put it on, Rhoades said.

“English country dance, the primary population that does it is what we would call a graying population, they’re probably 50 or above,” Rhoades said. “So it was really a big deal to have young people there, and we brought them 20.”

While period costumes were encouraged, formal dress also was

acceptable for those attending.

“If people come in period costume, it is the Jane Austen era, I mean basically anything you’d expect to see in a BBC production,” Rhoades said. “You’ll end up seeing a whole lot of other stuff, people kind of wear whatever they want.

You’ll also see people in formal dresses because in Lubbock, people don’t really have a lot of period costumes. “ Out of the 53 attendees, the dancing seemed to be the main attraction.

“I heard about this through TechAnnounce, and I’m just really looking forward to the dancing part,” junior mathematics major from Abilene Cody Bibik said.

All of the funds from tickets help raise funds for the Vernacular Music Center.

“This event generates events for two things,” Rhoades said. “It helps us fund our guest artist series

for the following calendar year and each year we have Vernacular Music Center outreach scholars.

When we went to the weekend in Dallas, they were excited to have so many young people there. They were so excited and so impressed with everything that they put together money to send four of our students to a dance camp in Massachusetts. It runs for about 10 weeks in the summer and each week has a different focus.”

Rhoades said she hopes people enjoy the events and continue to attend them.

“I always hope that after every event that people leave happy and satisfied,” she said. “That’s the big goal. If I had my ideal way, this would grow to be a really big event that a lot of people attended.

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Miss America returning to roots in Atlantic City ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss America, Atlantic City’s prodigal pageant, is coming home, and the spectacle that became synonymous with the New Jersey seaside resort is being assured all is forgiven after a sixyear fling in Las Vegas.

The pageant will be back where it started 93 years ago and where it was a fixture until 2006, when organizers moved to Nevada in the hopes of at-

tracting a younger TV audience.

“It was always my dream that this would return here,” said Art McMaster, president and CEO of the Miss America organization. “Sadly, this organization went west for a while.

That sadness is over. We are back to the city where the Miss America pageant began, where the Miss America pageant was raised, and where the Miss America pageant belongs.”

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Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson, who worked with Gov. Chris Christie’s office to entice the pageant, said having Miss America anywhere but Atlantic City just felt wrong.

“Can anyone separate the Mummer’s Parade from Philadelphia, or the Rose Bowl from Pasadena?” he asked.

“Miss America is Atlantic City, and she’s coming home.”

New Jersey’s lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, made the official announcement Thursday morning inside Boardwalk Hall, the historic arena in which the pageant will take place during yet-undetermined dates in September. She said Atlantic City and the pageant have a handshake agreement to move back here for at least three years, but said final details have yet to be ironed out.

One thing is for sure, though: the contestants will don elaborate footwear and participate in the traditional pre-pageant Boardwalk parade, in which spectators yell out “Show us your shoes!”

The announcement came the same day that another Boardwalk icon, Trump Plaza, was sold to a California company for $20 million, the lowest price ever paid for a casino in the beleaguered resort city. Boosters spun it as a heartening sign that the city was still attractive to investors.

Guadagno said no taxpayer money was part of the incentives offered to lure Miss America back to New Jersey. Liza Cartmell, president of the Atlantic City Alliance, said her casinofunded group is among those providing financial incentives, but would not say how much it might contribute. She said individual casinos are contributing as well, and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority could use some of the funds casinos are obligated to pay to it for Miss America-related purposes.

Guadagno and Cartmell said the return of the pageant is expected to generate at least $30 million in economic activity for Atlantic City and the surrounding region. But the psychological boost, and the free publicity of having the national broadcast set in Atlantic City, is priceless, they added.

Cartmell said 6,000 to 7,000 people associated with the pageant will need hotel rooms, meals and other expenditures during their time in Atlantic City.

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Tech softball team determined to dominate

By ELLEN CHAPPELL STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech softball team will kick off a weekend full of competition at the Troy Cox Classic at the New Mexico State University Softball Complex in Las Cruces, N.M. beginning today and continuing until Sunday.

The team will be up against four other teams this weekend including Colorado State, Penn State, Missouri-Kansas City and New Mexico State University.

“New Mexico State is always really good,” Tech coach Shanon Hays said.

“But Penn State, Colorado State — they’re programs that aren’t top 20 programs, but they are going to usually be top 100 programs and they’re important for us to go and play well against to help our RPI (ratings percentage index). That’s the thing about our sport: You have to play well early because it affects your RPI all the way through, so we better be ready to play whoever we play.”

Last weekend in Las Vegas, the team came home with three wins against UCF

(12-4), Minnesota (5-3) and UNLV (10-6), and two losses against Louisville (10-6) and DePaul (5-1).

Sophomore pitcher Cara Custer said the losses have not dampened the faith the players have in themselves for this coming weekend.

“I’ve seen hard work and confidence,” she said. “Most of our freshmen right now are really picking it up and working hard for their spot and I’m really proud of them,” she said.

When the 2013 season started, the softball team had a sizable amount of new players, and Hays says he looks forward to seeing the new players get comfortable with their places in the team.

“One of the things I’m wanting to see out of this club is the chemistry, them starting to grow together as a team, and get closer and know their roles,” he said.

“It takes a while to define your roles when you have this many new kids, but seeing them grow as a team and having fun competing, that’s what you want to see every week.”

Hays said she hopes the weather this

weekend in New Mexico is warm and comfortable to play in. Last weekend in Las Vegas, the weather was not what the team expected for a smooth game of softball.

“It’s nice when the weather’s nice,” he said. “Unfortunately, when we went to Las Vegas, it was cold, when you go there to find warm weather. Hopefully, this weekend in Las Cruces, the weather will be good.” Hays said. “It’s tough when you leave here and the weather’s so pretty.

It’s part of our sport.”

Though the weather was not what the team expected last weekend, they came home with more wins than losses and gave Hays faith in what the team will accomplish this season.

“Last week was really good for us because we got to see a lot of kids in action for the first time. I was really happy with some of our freshmen,” he said. “Of course, they were a little inconsistent — I felt like we should have come home with at least four wins, but I was encouraged with what I saw.”

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SOPHOMORE PITCHER CARA Custer winds up for a pitch during a game March 4 against UT-Arlington.

The Red Raiders are 3-2 going into this weekend’s tournament in Las Cruces, N.M.

Red Raiders ready to avenge Basketball members receive academic honors loss against Mountaineers

By JORDAN LEGENDRE STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech men’s basketball team looks to end a five-game losing streak when it faces West Virginia in a Big 12 clash 3 p.m. Saturday in Morgantown.

The Red Raiders (9-13, 2-9) are searching for their second Big 12 road win this season.

The team was victorious in Fort Worth in January, but since then, it has lost four straight games by an average of 24 points.

West Virginia (12-12, 5-6) enters the game off a 20-point loss to Baylor in Waco. Coach Bob Huggins’ Mountaineers had won their three previous games before falling to the Bears.

“They’re (West Virginia) going to be hungry,” Tech coach Chris Walker said, “and I’m sure (Huggins is) going to have those guys revved up and ready to go.”

Walker said his team has to handle West Virginia’s pressure, something it failed to do in the two teams’ first meeting.

“That’s the one thing that turned that game around when we were down four with six (minutes) to go … here at Lubbock,” Walker said, “and we just have to make sure we handle their pressure.”

During the previous conference meeting between the two teams, Tech never led. Up three after the first half, a late Mountaineers’ 10-0 run sealed a 77-61 victory for the visiting team.

Senior guard Ty Nurse led the Red Raiders with 14 points.

Three other Tech players, including junior forward Jaye Crockett, scored in doubledigits. West Virginia’s freshman guard Eron Harris scored 18 for the Mountaineers.

“We know that they were aggressive when they were here,” Crockett said. “They were using their bodies, so we just have to do the same thing. We have to get some guards in there to rebound, help us rebound, because that game, we didn’t turn the ball over. I think we ended with four (turnovers), but we got killed on the boards.”

West Virginia is seventh in

the Big 12, but Crockett said Tech is not taking the Mountaineers lightly.

“Every team is tough,” Crockett said. “Every game f e e l s a b o u t t h e s a m e w a y.

They’re all out there trying to beat you up and play aggressive, and they’re fast and they’re strong. They’re going to be just as good as a K-State, or a Baylor, or an Oklahoma State.”

Crockett said Walker has helped the team stay upbeat, despite the poor results of recent games.

“Coach Walker’s been great,” he said. “I mean, he puts an emphasis on attitude. He’s led by example great, as far as keeping everyone positive and keeping a good mind set every day on and off the court.”

Walker said his team has readjusted its goals.

“What we’re playing for is to be the best team we can be by the end of the season,” Walker said.

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The 2013 Academic All-Big 12 Men’s Basketball team was announced Thursday afternoon, with Texas Tech recording a conference-high five players named to the squad.

“To qualify, student-athletes must maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher (either cumulative or the two previous semesters) and must have participated in 60 percent of their team’s scheduled contests,” according to a news release issued Wednesday.

The academic squad is split into a first team and a second team,

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