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AT 33 YEARS OLD, Texas Tech football coach Kliff Kingsbury is the youngest coach of any BCS conference team. His youth, Kingsbury said, is advantageous in relating to his players as well as recruits.

Kingsbury: The time to win is now

By ZACH DISCHIANO SPORTS EDITOR

The Red Raider football team may find its silver lining in 2013, but it’ll do so without a playbook.

Newly appointed Texas Tech football coach Kliff Kingsbury doesn’t give his offense a set of plays to take home.

“We don’t have a playbook,” the former Tech quarterback said. “We do our installs on the board. ” The unique offensive style Kingsbury uses dates back to the turn of the century, when Mike Leach was calling the shots and Kingsbury was shattering school records. After spending two years at Houston behind a high-octane passing offense and then one year at Texas A&M and an SEC-best rushing offense, Kingsbury has established himself as one of the most efficient and versatile offensive minds in the game.

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“We take a lot of pride in adapting to the personnel, so once we get out there this spring, see what we have, we can kind of evolve our offense around that and go from there,” Kingsbury said.

“But I could care less if we threw it every play or ran it every play, as long as we score points and make first downs. ” Kingsbury’s coaching style was the foundation of A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel’s success.

While Kingsbury was at the head of the Aggie offense, Manziel accounted for an SEC single-season record of 5,116 yards. The freshman Heisman Trophy winner broke former Auburn quarterback Cam Newton’s 2010 record of 4,327 yards in two fewer games — not to mention, Manziel sat out a total of nine full quarters during blowout wins.

Kingsbury said he initially did not expect Manziel to play at such a high level until he saw him in practice.

“I thought he’d be good, but I didn’t know how good until we got him out there in live action

when people were trying to tackle him and nobody could tackle him,” he said. “Then we knew we had something special.”

Despite the success he had with a rising power in the SEC, Kingsbury said he did not have trouble leaving the Aggies for a team who had a less-thanstellar season. Instead, the relationships with the other coaches and players made it difficult for him to depart.

“I don’t worry about that,” he said about leaving a top-tier team, “but just the relationships you build with the players, you know — those kids, they bought in to us and what we were selling and really played their butts off for an entire year.

It was hard to leave the relationships behind, but I’m very proud of that group and I’ll be pulling for them every week.”

The relationships with the players and coaches are the reason he got into coaching, Kingsbury said.

“That’s my favorite part about it,” he said. “I’m not married, I don’t have a family, so this is kind of my family up here, so that’s the best part to me.”

Kingsbury was with a different family two months ago when the Tech head coaching job

opened up.

“I was in New York for that Heisman presentation and I got the call, and I pretty much just spent the rest of the day in my hotel just answering calls — yeah, it was brutal,” he said, laughing.

When he heard about the Tech coaching position opening, Kingsbury said he was not expecting a call, despite his successful season behind the high-powered A&M offense.

“I didn’t really know,” he said, “and I knew as soon as it happened, a bunch of my friends were calling and texting and things of that nature, but I didn’t know what direction (Tech) wanted to go in, where they were headed with that. But when I got the call, I was ecstatic about the opportunity to come back here and coach where I played.”

Kingsbury played 43 games for the Red Raiders as quarterback, completing 65 percent of his passes for 12,429 yards with 95 touchdowns and 40 interceptions. At the time of his graduation, the San Antonio native had broken 39 school records, 16 Big 12 records and 17 NCAA records, according to the Tech website.

Kingsbury said his experience playing college

football will help him relate to the players.

“I think you can speak their language a little bit more, and you’re not far removed from being in their shoes, and so I think that goes a long way when you’re talking to the players,” he said.

Entering his first season as a head coach, Kingsbury is 33 years old — the second-youngest head coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision, and the youngest of any BCS conference. He said his youth is not necessarily a disadvantage, but rather a positive trait, especially in recruiting.

“I see it as a positive all the way around,” he said. “Having played, and played at this actual university, you can relate to the players. You have some street cred when you talk about playing and things you’ve done. So to me, it’s all positive.”

With signing day in early February, Kingsbury and his staff had little time to reach out to recruits.

The coaching staff had just more than a month to sign as many suitable players as it could, and managed to bring in 23 student-athletes during the limited amount of time.

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SGA disqualifies candidate, finds need for re-election

By MATT DOTRAY STAFF WRITER

The Student Government Association Supreme Court will hear the case of Cotton v.

Stovall on Thursday, and has prohibited students who are running for executive positions in the re-election from campaigning until Sunday.

SGA will have a re-election after its Election Commission heard complaints against Raiders United, stating that the bloc violated five sections of the election code.

The candidates of Raiders United won each seat in the executive branch they cam-

paigned for. The candidates are Luke Cotton, who ran for president, Jill Berger for internal vice president and Logan Dickenson for executive vice president.

In a news release, DICKENSON the Election Commission stated two of the complaints against Raiders United — the violations of Sections 6.08 and 7.31 of the election code — were valid.

Cotton and Berger will run for re-election while Dickenson will not.

According to the SGA Election Code, Section 6.08 states spamming in any circumstance is not allowed.

Brad Schniers, the chairman of the Election Commission, said members of the commission decided the candidates of Raiders United sent a mass email to residents of University Fountains with the intention of getting them to vote.

In an email obtained by a University Fountains resident, it states, “One of our residents, Jill Berger, is running for Internal Vice President in the Student Government Elections today.

We think it is very important that everyone vote in this election and support Jill Berger and her team.”

The Election Commission deemed the email violated the code as spam, Schniers said.

Luke Cotton, a candidate running for president within Raiders United, said in a statement he does not think this was a case of spamming.

Raiders United was more concerned about increasing the percentage of students voting, he said in the statement, regardless of whom they voted for.

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Reaching Audiences gives insight on Hispanic media research

By RAECHEL DAVIS STAFF WRITER

The College of Media and Communication began hosting a series of events focused on Hispanic media, advertising and market research Monday.

The Reaching Audiences program is a two-day collaboration of panels and discussions of experts discussing research in Hispanic-oriented media, according to a College of Media and Communication news release.

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participate by attending events and following discussions on social media with the Twitter hashtag #ReachingAudiences, according to the release.

“Social Media is a very intricate part of what we do,” said Christy Matrinez-Garcia, publisher of Latino Lubbock Magazine. “It’s a supplement to our efforts.”

Agencies have the opportunity to use social media to reach out to audiences, Martinez-Garcia said.

“You have to diversify your marketing and advertising all of the time,” she said.

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The event, according to the release, was sponsored by Institute for Hispanic and International Communication and the Center for Communication Research.

“We are bringing together experts in research and Hispanic-oriented media to talk about how those two areas articulate with each other,” said Kent Wilkinson, director of the Institute for Hispanic and International Communication and regents professor. “ And also, to talk about the possibilities of more understanding and collaboration between academic researchers and

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The discussions focus on current topics that can give students insight into what is happening in the market, he said.

“The Hispanic market is growing very quickly,” Wilkinson said. “There is a big emphasis on research now, a lot of data available from these technologies and how to interpret and make sense of that data is a really important skill that is going to be very marketable for students.”

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“We ran a fair, honest and responsible campaign and the student body recognized that and voted for Raiders United across the board,” Cotton said in the statement.

“We need leaders in the SGA that can resolve minor disputes amicably for the better good of our entire university.”

Schniers said Section 7.31 also was violated when Dickenson sent a Facebook post encouraging students who did not have time to vote to send him their eRaider information so he could vote for them.

Section 7.31 states that candidates cannot deliberately ask for other students to disclose any of their personal information. If this rule is violated, the candidate may possibly be disqualified from the race.

After hearing the argument and reading the post of Facebook, Schniers said Dickenson has been disqualified and cannot run in re-election.

“Since it had violated Texas Tech policy as well, it would result in disqualification from the race,” he said. “However, we did not feel that the post by one person should affect the entire team since they had no apparent knowledge of the incident.”

To run in election, Schniers said candidates must be in good standings with the university and be in good academic and judicial standings with SGA. Because Dickenson is no longer on good judicial standings, he will not be allowed to run for re-election.

Dickenson declined to comment.

Cotton said although one of the candidates did act on his own accord and without knowledge of the rest of the team,

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A panel of 12 guest speakers were asked to speak at events during the course of the program. This included Tech alumni, professors, researchers and owners of agencies.

“In the whole realm of Hispanic advertising or Hispanic marketing, it is always far better and far more important to be a good advertiser and marketer than it is to be a Hispanic,” said Juan Faura, an author of Hispanic marketing books.

During his presentation, Faura discussed the difficulties Hispanic agencies faced before 1994. After the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed, Hispanic consumers became more educated, he said.

By passing the legislation, he said NAFTA created an opportunity for Hispanic agencies to grow.

Faura presented the idea of a new system of agencies that incorporates 18 to 20 experienced Hispanic-market

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BRADLEY SCHNIERS, THE Election Commission chairman. announces the Student Government Association winners during SGA election results Friday in the Student Union Building courtyard.

it in no way is tied to Raiders United.

SGA Director Mike Gunn said the members of the Election Commission felt the results of the election were tainted, and the way to take action was to disqualify the candidates.

A re-election will take place because members of the executive branch are not allowed to take office without at least 50 percent of the votes, he said. Given the disqualification of one of the candidates, the two remaining candidates were left without the necessary 50 percent of votes.

Because of this, SGA has no clear winner.

Since the Election Commission’s decision, Cotton and Berger have sent a advertising professionals in creative strategy and media.

Producers embedded into an agency workflow could produce better than standard Hispanic agencies, he said.

This plan represents the growth of Hispanic media and the future of advertising agencies, Faura said.

Students who attend the events can discuss these ideas and participate in a conversation with the panel and other faculty and experts who attended to promote learning and collaboration of industry professionals and education.

Sometimes, Martinez-Garcia said, there is a gap between what students learn in school and what they face at Hispanic agencies.

“I wanted to see what the college is sharing with students,” she said. “I wanted to hear the basic philosophies are being taught.”

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Following a formal appeal, the case will be sent to the Supreme Court.

Cotton said it is in the best interest of the entire university to get the issue resolved. Raiders United was in complete compliance with the election code, he said, and the election commission agreed in most of the accounts during the hearing. He said the sanctions were harsh and not proportionate to the alleged violation.

“The student body elected us by a large margin,” Berger said in a statement,

“and should the Supreme Court want to uphold the ruling, we look forward to the student body rightfully electing us to the positions once again.”

After the appeal, Schniers said the election commission will submit all evidence and findings to the Supreme Court, who will then set the dates for hearings and subpoenas for witnesses.

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US cardinals seek answers about Vatican dysfunction VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals said Monday they want to talk to Vatican managers about allegations of corruption and cronyism within the top levels of the Catholic Church before they elect the next pope, evidence that a scandal over leaked papal documents is casting a shadow over the conclave and setting up one of the most unpredictable papal elections in recent times.

The Vatican said 107 of the 115 voting-age cardinals attended the first day of pre-conclave meetings, at which cardinals organize the election, discuss the problems of the church and get to know one another before voting.

The red-capped “princes” of the church took an oath of secrecy and decided to pen a letter of “greeting and gratitude” to Benedict XVI, whose resignation has thrown the church into turmoil amid a torrent

of scandals inside and out of the Vatican.

“I would imagine that as we move along there will be questioning of cardinals involved in the governing of the Curia to see what they think has to be changed, and in that context anything can come up,” said U.S. Cardinal Francis George.

The Holy See’s administrative shortcomings were thrust into stark relief last year with the publication of documents stolen from Benedict’s desk that exposed the petty infighting, turf battles and allegations of corruption, nepotism and cronyism in the highest echelons of the Catholic Church.

The pope’s butler was convicted of stealing the papers and leaking them to a journalist; he eventually received a papal pardon.

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Lecture kicks off law school diversity week

By CAROLYN HECK STAFF WRITER

Vaughn James walked out the front door of his home Nov. 2, 2012 after a long day helping his father move to Lubbock with his brother. James thought they would receive a warm welcome from their new Texas neighbors — but what he did not expect was to find a racial slur spraypainted on his trashcan. It was something James said he would never forget.

“My neighbors that we moved into near the first of last year, they were professionals,” he said. “These are not rascals or ruffians, these are professionals. And yet, my welcome was to have someone spray-tag my trash can.”

James, a professor at the School of Law at Texas Tech, and three others shared experiences of racial discrimination such as these at a panel lecture Monday in the Lanier Auditorium.

The lecture, called “Is There Still Racism?” is part of an ongoing series in honor of Diversity Week at the law school.

The panelists answered questions from moderator Wendy

Ross, professor of law, about the adversities and prejudices they faced in their lives and professional careers, and if such prejudices are present in today’s society.

The second panelist, Jorge Ramirez, also a law professor, said while he was raised in a primarily Hispanic neighborhood as a child, he always felt as if he were different, even if his race was not the evident cause.

“There are always instances in one’s life when you feel as if you are being treated differently,” he said, “but I’ve never had an experience where I could say that was the reason I was being treated differently, was because of my name or my ethnicity or the darker brown color of my skin. But I do think we live in a society where the blatant kind of racism that Professor James has described is less and less, and there is more racism that isn’t as blatant, but it’s difficult to identify as such.”

Eugenia Charles-Newton, an assistant librarian at the Law Library, served as the third panelist, and also shared her unique experience about moving from a Navajo reservation to Lubbock.

Charles-Newton is a Navajo

American Indian, but when she arrived in West Texas, she said the community did not recognize her as one.

“I think I experienced racism in a different way,” she said, “because when we came here, my family — my husband and my son — we were identified as being Hispanic. So we had a lot of people coming up to us speaking Spanish.”

Once Charles-Newton informed people of her heritage, she said she was confronted with people calling her racially charged names such as “gringo” and heathen, and asking if she and her family still lived in teepees.

“We had a neighbor who lived about three doors down from us,” she said, “and the only way he could associate American Indians was by calling me a squaw. So I was taken aback by that because the term ‘squaw’ is actually a negative connotation for American Indian women. So I smiled and I said, ‘No, I am not a squaw. I am Navajo,’ and I said, ‘I am American Indian.’”

Kiara Martinez, the fourth panelist and a law student, said her parents moved from the Dominican Republic to a military

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A PANEL SPEAKS about their experiences with racism and diversity as a part of Diversity Week in the Lanier Auditorium in the School of Law. The panel discussed how race and heritage can affect how others treat them.

base in Killeen, and the diverse population of the base never made her feel targeted for her race. However, once she went to college, she began to feel isolated and started questioning whom she really was.

“They had the white sororities and the black sororities,” she said, “and I struggled to find — for the first time — my identity.

I didn’t know where I belonged. I clearly didn’t look like the other girls in the black sororities or the white sororities, and they weren’t very inviting.”

Several of the panelist members said they feel like others have prejudices against them, be they students, administration, or community members.

While some people question how people who are faced with this issue deal with the ramifications and try to prevent it in the future, when confronted with racism or prejudice, CharlesNewton said she assumes it is often the result of lack of education or ignorance.

“Sometimes, I think, when you experience racism, I feel the only thing to say is OK,” she said, “because I tend to think that I give people the benefit of the doubt and just think that they are not educated enough to address someone who is diverse.”

However, ignorance is not fixable unless people put in the

time to educate themselves and those around them, she said.

It is vital for students, especially at Tech, she said, to learn how to respect diversity to create a better future for themselves.

“I think diversity is informative,” Charles-Newton said.

“We are reaching an age where technology has become a very large part of our life. We are meeting people from different parts of the world, and we are doing businesses with different countries. If we don’t promote diversity in the classroom, how are we to respect it when we get out into our profession? What do we know about diversity, what do we know about cultures and how to study and learn about them?”

It is up to each person to broaden their horizons and diversify their life, Martinez said, and it could be as simple as sitting down next to someone for lunch.

“I feel that you, as an individual, have to want to diversify yourself,” she said. “I encourage anyone to do something — even just as easy as sitting with someone you think you have nothing in common with. I guarantee you, you have something in common with that person.”

Cara Connolly, a first-year law student from Austin, said she attended the lecture series

because she feels race and ethnicity still play a big role in the job market.

“I’m in the minority population, being Hispanic,” she said.

“My mom is a lawyer, she’s Hispanic. She thinks there’s plenty of discrimination still today, I mean it’s still happening in the practice of law as well as other parts of society and the workforce.”

While she does not worry about discrimination, Connolly said she remains conscious of it and how it may affect her future career.

“The law profession is still dominated by men — white men,” she said, “and so that’s who’s going to be hiring us, that’s who we’re going to be interviewing with, that’s who we’re going to be working underneath in a majority of circumstances.”

In West Texas, Connolly said it is important to be aware of the circumstances.

“I think if you’re not at least aware of racial or ethnic discrimination,” she said, “then I think you’re missing something to think about when you’re trying to get a job.”

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United States overdue for election reform I

n the column I wrote T h u r s d a y, “ S u p r e m e Court comments should concern minority voters,” I mentioned the United States is badly overdue for an overhaul of our election system.

This is an issue that normally gets a lot of attention during campaign season and after elections when the American body politic is either tiring of hearing the same talking points incessantly or trying to explain why their candidate lost.

However, there are those who would say the playgroundesque behavior of Congressional legislators on both sides of the aisle that have kept us lurching from one fiscal crisis to another, the rampant campaign spending during the 2008 and 2012 elections, and the efforts last year

by Republicans in Congress to suppress the minority vote all highlight the need for reform in how we choose leaders of the United States.

First off, the Electoral College should be abolished. Anyone who has ever taken a history or

Jakob Reynolds government class knows that the Electoral College is one of the oldest and more obsolete institutions that our electoral process contains. Our nation’s founding fathers set up the Electoral College essentially to balance the voting powers of people living in states with populous urban areas who were generally more informed about and familiar with presidential candidates and people living in rural areas who were overall more disconnected from politics.

However, in today’s world of printed, radio, television and Internet news media, it is next to impossible to go a day without hearing about something about politics or related issues.

Moreover, a majority of states in the U.S. espouse a winner-

takes-all method of awarding electoral votes to presidential candidates. This practice takes a huge toll on voter turnout because it effectively robs the political minority in that state of their voice and leaves them without motivation to vote and less representation. The Electoral College is the root of this problem and should be dealt with accordingly.

Another part of our election process in dire need of reform is campaign finance. If we are to have truly democratic elections, corporate money should either be limited or completely removed from the electoral process. The ruling of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission states it is a violation of the First Amendment for Congress to prohibit corporations from promoting or disparaging political candidates because corporations are legally people, too.

Thus, political action committees can legally receive unlimited amounts of corporate funding.

Let’s be real, here. Corporations are business entities, not citizens of this country. The only loyalty they owe is to their shareholders, who are not necessarily United States citizens and do not necessarily have the best interest of the American people at heart.

Therefore, the fact corporations can legally play an active role in the American political process through monetary donations gives them a significant advantage over actual citizens of this country and directly undermines the integrity of the government of the United States.

Another reform the U.S. election process sorely needs is the abolishment of gerrymandering. For those who are a little rusty on what they learned in their government class, “gerrymandering” refers to the act of manipulating the boundaries of electoral districts. Incumbents use this tactic most often to give their party an edge by including or excluding certain demographics in their districts.

To visualize this practice, just take a good look at the

most recent Texas redistricting map as a perfect example. State legislators, primarily from the Republican Party, diminish the largely Democratic influence of urban areas by drawing district maps that envelope cities and snake for hundreds of miles into rural — and Republican — areas.

The obvious problem with gerrymandering is it hinders the democratic process in several ways. For one, it gives unfair advantage to incumbents by reducing the competitiveness in elections. With less competition, legislators tend to become more lax in connecting with — and representing their constituents.

Aside from that, if gerrymandering doesn’t detract from representation overall, it certainly does from demographics in gerrymandered districts whose party affiliation is being marginalized.

Some states have tried to prevent gerrymandering by taking redistricting authority away from politicians and leaving it up to non-partisan commissions. Another way to solve this problem would be to use a system similar

to the U.S. Postal Service’s system of ZIP code that would outline districts in areas of voters that share similar concerns.

In addition to the issues I’ve already described, gerrymandering and the continued use of the Electoral College both keep elections in the United States from being truly democratic by disenfranchising the growing voter base who do not totally identify with either the Republican or Democratic Party. I identify mostly with the ideals of Democratic Socialism.

However, no Socialist — or any third-party candidate for that matter — stands a chance in the current American political arena because the Electoral College essentially prevents proportional representation for third parties. Plus, the two established political parties in the U.S. have huge sums of money to communicate their platform and control electoral districts.

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ment is performing that vital function, valuing it is a matter of justice.

And a free society needs its citizens’ patriotism to protect all its citizens’ rights. In voting, in serving on juries, and in countless other ways, Americans are called upon to stand up for freedom.

That means being prepared to say no to authority figures: to incumbent presidents who trample l i b e r t y, t o prosecutors who accuse innocent people, to police officers who abuse suspects, to legislators who propose unjust laws, and so on. When neither you nor someone especially important to you is an obvious victim, it’s your patriotism, your liberty-loving patriotism, that tells you to stand up for the principles of freedom — because you count on those principles being upheld when it’s your freedom on the line.

But if you accept Charlie Rangel’s kind of patriotism, the kind that salutes even when your own freedom is taken away, you give up the kind of patriotism that won’t let anyone’s rights be trampled if it can be helped.

Which kind of patriot do you want to be?

In other words, you might go in hating what your country is doing to you, but you’ll come out honoring the government that did it.

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Charlie Rangel wants to give you a job, and he doesn’t want to let you turn it down.

Rangel, a Democratic Congressman from New York, is proposing a law that would force every young American to perform two years of national service — in many cases, military service — by the age of 25.

Unlike the Vietnam-era draft, there would be no exception for college students.

Some of the costs H.R. 747 would impose on you are obvious: It would take away two irreplaceable years of your life, spending them on purposes that may not contribute to your goals. It might cause skills you’ve developed in high school or college to waste away from lack of practice before you can bring them to the school or career where you want to build on them. And it could disrupt important relationships, sending you far from the people who are important to you.

And that’s saying nothing about the physical and psychological harms you could suffer if you’re forced to go into combat — harms Congressman Rangel, who was wounded in the Korean War, knows very well and still wants to impose upon unwilling victims. It’s saying nothing about the possibility that you might be sent to war and never come back.

But beyond all those obvious costs to you, the bill risks subtler costs we can’t afford to overlook — costs to you, costs to the country, and costs to all of us, even those (like him and me) who’d be exempted on account of age.

Rangel thinks this bill would

teach patriotism. “You may go in screaming and yelling,” he says, “but when you come out, you salute the flag.” In other words, you might go in hating what your country is doing to you, but you’ll come out honoring the government that did it — because you will have been forced into the habit of doing whatever the government tells you and, if you’re in uniform, of saluting and obeying all the vast hierarchy of officers the government placed over you.

That is the opposite of the way a free society teaches patriotism, and that is the opposite of the kind of patriotism a free society needs.

A free society earns its citizens’ patriotism by protecting their rights. More precisely, a government earns respect, affection and loyalty by making and enforcing laws under which people can live their lives, exercise their liberties, and pursue their own happiness. In such a society, you can see that your government is providing the security you count on — that it’s protecting you from criminals, from foreign enemies, and from anyone who, under the guise of government, would take over your life (see: Charlie Rangel).

When you see that your govern-

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America has been fighting against the terrorist organization al-Qaida since the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and in May 2011 Osama bin Laden, the former leader of al-Qaida, was killed by Navy SEALs while hiding in a fortress in Pakistan. Bin Laden’s predecessors, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid and Abu Hafs al-Shariri were all killed by unmanned drone air strikes while in Pakistan.

The deaths of these men — and thousands of other al-Qaida affiliates — should be commended for doing so without putting more American troops in harm’s way.

However, the practice of drone strikes becomes controversial when the target is an American citizen.

On Sept. 30, 2011 Americanborn Anwar al-Awlaki was traveling with Pakistani-born American citizen Samir Kahn in Yemen when they were both killed by a missile fired from an American drone aircraft. Both men were high-ranking al-Qaida leaders and there was significant evidence they were planning to launch attacks against Americans.

The question is whether it is lawful and ethical to kill American citizens abroad, ignoring their constitutional rights to due process — even if they are affiliated with al-Qaida. A bigger question lingers as to how much power the executive

Cancelling Saturday mail delivery is necessary

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Saturdays may have become a whole lot grimmer with the U.S. Postal Service’s calling an end to its Saturday deliveries.

The U.S. Postal Service wishes to move to a five-day-mail-delivery schedule to cut nearly $2 billion in losses. The end to the Saturday service is proposed for August.

Packages would still be delivered six days a week, but letters, bills and junk mail that we receive on the weekend will be pushed back to the following week.

The slimming down of the U.S. Postal Service has been inevitable for quite sometime. With the rise of the Internet, email and smartphones, sending messages through the mail has become the slowest form of communication and the

most expensive. That is even with stamps costing 46 cents each.

The U.S. Postal Service is funded by the government. The government, with trillions of dollars of debt, needs to make cuts somewhere. The Saturday U.S. Postal Service could be one of those cuts.

The editorial board for the Daily 49er agrees that it is a necessary evil to cut Saturday delivery.

We all occasionally use the U.S. Postal Service to mail letters to family or friends, receive the arts and crafts we buy on Etsy or pay our bills. However, eliminating Saturday service will not have a great effect on our lives. We will just have to plan accordingly so we can make sure our mail arrives on time.

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branch has to overstep the judicial system in claiming that a suspect should be a part of this special rule — a rule that until recently was confidential in its definition and description.

America has been using drone technology for surveillance purposes since the 1960s, but has only been using them for air strikes for less than 13 years. Due to the immature nature of the technology, there are few military guidelines that precede over this kind of warfare.

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service, this hopefully means the U.S. Postal Service will not have to cut as many jobs. Yes, there will be one less day available for mailmen and mailwomen to work, but at least more will be able to keep their routes during the week.

As for the rest of us, we will have to resort to emailing each other on Saturdays — but that’s not too much of a stretch. We email each other on a daily basis as it is.

It is interesting, though, to wonder if canceling the Saturday service could start a trend.

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PINK brings dance party to Tech campus

By ASHLYN TUBBS STAFF WRITER

On Monday, many students participated in what some called the biggest dance party ever.

Little did they know it would be on their way to and from class.

“We were coming from class, and we saw the big PINK letters and everything,” said Denise McCrey, a freshman finance and accounting major from Austin, “and we knew it was Victoria’s Secret.”

As part of PINK Nation’s Biggest Dance Party Ever, Victoria’s Secret PINK employees visited Texas Tech’s campus in the PINK truck near the Student Union Building, setting up a stage, inflatable bounce house and other props along with music and spring break giveaways.

“Tech was one of five schools that were selected this year to go nationwide in the PINK truck,” said Katey Elmore, PINK store manager, “giving away free stuff from the store, free coupons and everything like that to get people really excited about spring break.”

The reason PINK chose Tech is because of its school spirit, Elmore said.

“The awareness of PINK has really grown over the past few years with Texas Tech, especially within marketing and selling,” she said. “The PINK Texas Tech apparel has just really blown up, so they were just one of the lucky chosen schools this year, which is really exciting for our area.”

During this one-day event, students stood in line until reaching the dance stage, where they had to individually dance and get their picture taken to receive free PINK items.

“It will be uploaded to the PINK Nation Biggest Dance Party video that they’re doing,” Elmore said, “and then after you do the video, you get the opportunity to use a token to get a free item out of our vending machine.”

The vending machine had prizes in boxes sorted by sizes, which each contained prizes such as tank tops, bandeaus, swimwear and underwear.

“All those spring break must-haves,” Elmore said, “just everything to get people really pumped up.”

Although PINK hosted a scavenger hunt last year on Tech’s campus, Elmore said this event is the first time PINK has gotten involved with the Tech student body.

“I think it’s awesome,” she said. “I think it’s great to get awareness to bring back into our store, so it ultimately will help the store.”

In addition to the vending machine prizes, PINK also distributed promotional bracelets and sunglasses to students.

Elmore said she ran out of prizes to give away at about 4 p.m., but expected to see participants in the near future.

“Use all the great coupons we’ve been giving,” she said. “We’re excited to see everybody.”

Nicole Woodard, a junior exercise and sport sciences major from Keller, is a PINK employee and said the turnout was great.

She said they had served at least a few hundred students by noon, an hour after their arrival.

“I think it’s a one-time thing that PINK ever comes to Tech campus,” Woodard said, “and everybody dresses in PINK attire, so it’s just awesome that we get to bring the free stuff to them instead of them having to coming to us.”

For students who did not get to stand in line for the vending machine, they still had a chance to win free prizes by locating various PINK stuffed animal dogs hidden around campus.

“If you find a PINK dog, you bring it back,” Woodard said, “and there’s towels and lotion and basically everything that someone needs for spring break.”

Many students became apprehensive to dance onstage. However, this was not the case for McCrey and her friend,

who said they became excited.

“Just because we like to be silly and do whatever,” she said. “You got to dance to the music.”

Defne Comlek, a freshman communication studies major from Dallas, felt differently.

“I thought it was a little embarrassing,” she said, “but it’s good to be adventurous.”

Comlek participated in the event after seeing the bounce house, which she said attracted her.

She is traveling to Galveston for spring break, and said she had to see if she could win more PINK clothing because of her love for Victoria’s Secret.

“I think this is cool because it gets people involved and gets people to meet other people on the campus as well,” she said, “like, I’ve met a ton of people here.”

Even male students enjoyed PINK visiting the campus. Kevin Price, a senior human development and family studies major from Artesia, said the event helped bring the student body together to take their minds off studying and other pressures to focus on something positive.

“It’s kind of fun to just sit here and just kind of watch people dance and stuff,” he said. “It kind of opens them up and gets them out of their comfort zone, which is really cool.”

Emily Zionts, a freshman electronic media and communication major from Lubbock, also is an employee of PINK and said she received positive feedback from Tech students about the event.

Overall, everyone who attended seemed happy with the event, she said, and she encourages more students to participate next year.

“The community is really good,” she said. “Everybody is super fun, and everybody loves their school here. Everybody has a lot of pride, and this is such a fun campus. It’s hard not to choose Tech to bring it here.” ➤➤atubbs@dailytoreador.com

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CAROLINE ANDREWS, A sophomore business major from Tulsa, Okla., dances on the PINK stage in order to receive free merchandise for spring break as a part of the Victoria’s Secret event outside the Student Union Building.

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By BETHANY CHESHIRE STAFF WRITER

While jumping rope may have been childhood play for some people, for others, it is a competitive act.

Bailey Hamelwright, a sophomore from Euless, started jumping rope competitively in fifth grade when her elementary school teacher, who also was the coach of the jump rope team, helped her become interested in the sport.

“I cannot even imagine dropping my rope and just stopping,” she said.

“It’s just so addicting and so much fun. It keeps me in shape.”

She has been on many different teams, including the U.S. all-star team, which was comprised of about 15 people from the country. She is on the same team she was on in high school.

“I have been the second-fastest girl in the nation for two years,” Hamelwright said. “I’ve gotten a medal at a world competition.”

She placed first nationally and

internationally through Junior Olympics.

“All of our competitions are usually in the summer,” she said, “so we start training for those around October all the way until June.”

Chelsie Sandoval, a sophomore business major from Katy, and Hamelwright’s roommate, has seen Hamelwright perform some of her tricks in a show during halftime at a basketball game.

“I think she’s really good,” Sandoval said. “She is definitely talented.”

The team does more than just competitions, Hamelwright said.

They also put on performances, including one for a JC Penney corporate event.

“We usually do Jump Rope for Heart — we’ll do demonstrations for them,” she said, “as well as talent shows.”

The team also hosts workshops to help younger children build their skills and get healthy, Hamelwright said, and she has helped with these

Russian officials barge the Pussy Riot play director MOSCOW (AP) — A Swiss theater director said Monday that Russian immigration officials, Cossacks, and several police officers barged into a Moscow theater in a bungled attempt to stop his play re-enacting the trial of punk band Pussy Riot.

Milo Rau said the officials interrupted the play at the Sakharov Center on Sunday and demanded to check his documents.

They were soon followed by a group of irate Cossacks — people who claim to be descended from a once-feared Tsarist-era paramilitary group — who said they were offended by the play, and by several police officers.

The raid quickly petered out, however, when it turned out Rau’s visa was in order. The warrant they used also had a wrong address on it, Rau said.

“My impression was that they had absolutely no plan — they just wanted to interrupt it and helplessly searched for a reason,” Rau said Monday. “It was more Kafka than Stalin.”

Russian news agencies on Sunday quoted senior officials from the Federal Migration Service as saying that the point of the raid was to warn Rau that he was not allowed to work in Russia on a business visa that he

had. Officials, however, said that they were not planning to fine or prosecute the director.

Moscow police said in a statement late Sunday that police officers were at the Sakharov Center to ensure law and order but did not witness any disturbances.

Rau was directing a three-day reenactment of trials against Russian artists, including Pussy Riot, who staged an impromptu anti-Putin protest in Moscow’s main cathedral last year.

Three band members were sentenced to two years in prison for “hooliganism.” Their trial, which drew worldwide outrage and widespread condemnation from rights groups, did not allow their defense to call most of its witnesses and included medieval Orthodox Christian liturgical texts as evidence.

Yekaterina Samutsevich, a band member who was later released on appeal, participated in Sunday’s re-enactment. A court on Monday rejected a plea of another band member, Maria Alekhina, who was appealing a January court decision which turned down her application to defer her sentence until her preschool-age son becomes a teenager.

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workshops around the country.

“It’s just a lot of fun to, like, teach younger kids and build up that kind of generation of jump rope,” she said.

According to the U.S.A Jump Rope website, they host workshops throughout the country. These workshops last for a day and their purpose is to teach jump roping skills and to help the sport grow.

“Jump rope’s kind of a small sport,” Hamelwright said, “so not a lot of people know about it” She said the sport is for all ages.

The national competition has different divisions set up for different ages.

“Some of the parents start jumproping and getting into it through their kids,” she said.

Hamelwright’s favorite thing about competitively jumping rope is the friendships she forms while competing.

“I have friends from all over the world from it, like Africa, and Europe and Australia,” she said. ➤➤bcheshire@dailytoreador.com

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BAILEY HAMELWRIGHT, A sophomore with an undeclared major from Euless, jumps rope competitively and has competed in multiple national and international competitions. Hamelwright is nationally ranked and placed first national and internationally in the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games.

San Francisco’s Oakland Bay Bridge shine gets chance to shine in art SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After more than 75 years in the shadow of its glamorous cousin, San Francisco’s “other” bridge is getting a chance to shine.

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been turned into the latest — and by far the biggest — backdrop for New York artist Leo Villareal, who has individually programmed 25,000 white lights spaced a foot apart on 300 of the span’s vertical cables to create what is being billed as the world’s largest illuminated sculpture.

Villareal, 46, whose previous installations have included an underground walkway at the National Gallery of Art and the Bleecker Street subway station in Manhattan, is scheduled to flip the switch on “The Bay Lights” with a click of his laptop computer on Tuesday at 9 p.m.

Donors attending a private waterfront reception will see it set to music, but the work, which uses sequences of shifting light to produce an almost-infinite array of abstract patterns, will be visible to anyone with a view of the western half of the bridge for at least the next two years.

“People are attracted to light and they will respond in a variety of ways, even if they don’t know anything about art, programming or technology,” he said one evening late last month while

fine-tuning the shimmering display from a pier next to San Francisco’s Ferry Building. “It’s really a wonderful piece of public art.”

For Ben Davis, a San Francisco public relations and communications professional who conceived of the idea of turning the busy Bay Bridge into a 1.8-mile-long canvas, the $8 million project represents a long-overdue celebration of a conduit that has been eclipsed by the Golden Gate Bridge almost from the time its concrete set.

It opened to great acclaim in November 1936 — at the time it was the world’s longest and most expensive bridge — but lost the limelight with the opening of the majestic Golden Gate five months later.

“Those bridges are sort of like twins, one very beautiful, one very hard-working,” said Davis, whose interest in the Bay Bridge was sparked by his firm’s work promoting the soon-tobe-completed rebuilding of the bridge’s earthquake-damaged eastern span. “For 75 years, the Bay Bridge has had this pleasure of being able to see the Golden Gate Bridge. Now, we are giving its sister something really beautiful to look at for a while.”

Villareal, who studied sculpture at Yale and completed a graduate program in interactive telecommunications at New York

University’s Tisch School of the Arts, “Bay Lights” has represented a sort of homecoming.

After graduate school, he spent three years at Interval Research, a Silicon Valley think tank spearheaded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen.

But it was at Burning Man, the annual art and music festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, that the artist found his medium. In 1997, he built a light sculpture as homecoming beacon for his tribe’s camp site.

In the years since, his creations have been featured in galleries and museums around the world, although he still sits on the festival’s board and attends every summer.

“People focus a lot on the lights, but in a way the most interesting thing about his work is that it’s really dealing with algorithms, it’s really about emerging software, unpredictable software,” said Steven Johnson, author of “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” and a longtime friend of Villareal’s. “Because of technology and software really being so central to the Bay Area, to have its great epic urban art project be fundamentally all about code, it’s just pretty a much a marriage made in heaven.”

Like many artists, Villareal is hesitant to delve too deeply into

his creative process, preferring to let his audiences draw their own conclusions.

He said he drew inspiration from the bridge’s surroundings, such as the bay waters that flow under it and the birds that soar above it, as well as from mathematical formulas and physics principles.

The finished product, he said, is something like the song-shuffling program on a mp3 player, only the “songs” — his light sequences — do not begin and end at the same point every time.

“It’s been very painterly, really, a process of adding light and taking it away,” he said. “My goal is for people not to worry about what they missed, but to really be with it and experience it.”

Spectators who have seen Villareal working on the lights with his laptop in recent months already have been inspired to set their brief previews to music and post the results on YouTube.

“Bay Lights” is scheduled to be exhibited from dusk until 2 a.m. until March 2015.

Organizers say they have raised $6 million of the $8 million for the project from private funding sources.

To raise money to keep the lights on, Davis has created a program that allows people to sponsor or name a light for $50 each.

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A YouTube video shows eight miners wearing safety gear while performing the convulsive dance in the Agnew Gold Mine last week. The West Australian newspaper quoted a sacked worker who wouldn’t give his name as saying up to 15 people were fired, including some who watched the performance but did not participate.

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The letter noted that Barminco would not allow the dancing workers “to be subcontracted by Barminco at any site domestically and globally.”

It’s not clear from the video what safety issues are raised. The dancing miners wear helmets, but five are shirtless. The sacked worker told the newspaper that shirts had been removed to ensure the Barminco name did not appear in the video.

Barminco, which has operations in Africa as well as its native Australia, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.

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Women’s basketball loses to Oklahoma

By JORDAN LEGENDRE STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team fell to Oklahoma 77-73 Monday night in United Spirit Arena.

On senior night, the Lady Raiders (21-9, 11-7 in Big 12 Conference play) were looking for a victory that would secure a second-place tie in the Big 12, but the team could not overcome a Sooner team shooting 55 percent from the field with 36 points in the paint.

“They were able to make a few more easy looks down the stretch,” Tech coach Kristy Curry said of Oklahoma’s performance, “and we missed a couple and that’s the way the ball bounces sometimes.”

Tech began the game with a 10-4 run including two three-pointers for senior guard Chynna Brown. The six-point lead with 14:43 remaining was Tech’s largest lead of the game. Oklahoma would respond with three lay-ups to quickly tie the game at 10.

A 3-point play by freshman Nicole Kornet would give the Sooners a 22-17 lead with 6:10 remaining in the half. Tech senior guard Mary Bokenkamp would then hit her second three of the game to tie the contest at 24. The teams would trade baskets in the final three minutes, with OU leading 29-28 at the half.

Brown said she was proud of Bokenkamp for her performance.

“Mary came off the bench with a lot of energy,” she said. “Those two big three’s that she knocked down, as you could see from our bench, we were fired up. It was

just great minutes and just great shots.

Mary hits those in practice so when it went up, it was like we already knew it was going in.”

The Red Raiders scored 11 points off OU turnovers during the first half, but the Sooners outscored Tech 16-8 in the paint.

Tech shot 5-12 from behind the 3-pointline with Brown scoring two along with Beckenkamp. OU was a perfect 5-5 on free-throws in the first half.

The second half began much the same way the first had. A 3-point-play

by Lady Raider forward Kelsi Baker would cap a 6-0 run to give Tech a five-point lead. OU would again respond with three consecutive lay-ups, and a Morgan Hook free-throw tied the game at 36 with 16:30 remaining in the game.

“We wanted to win the first four minutes,” senior Christine Hyde said.

“We want to do that with every game.

This was the day for us to win and come out feeling good, so being aggressive is always the focal point of what we’re trying to do.”

Brown would hit her fourth three of the game and her free-throw on the following possession gave Tech a three-point lead. OU then scored 10 straight points, including two 3-pointers from forward Joanna McFarland, to take its largest lead of the night at 58-51.

Four free-throws for Hyde and a Monique Smalls lay-up off a steal put the Red Raiders back within one with 5:22 remaining in the game. The Sooners would stretch the lead up to four, but two three-pointers for Hyde and senior Casey Morris would give the Red Raiders a 69-

67 edge with 1:41 remaining.

Oklahoma guard Aaryn Ellenberg’s three with 1:16 left in the game again gave OU a one-point lead. The two teams traded lay-ups when a Hyde foul sent McFarland to the line where she converted both free-throws for a 74-71 Sooner lead.

Hyde responded with a lay-up, but Hook then made two free-throws to again give OU a three point lead.

Baker attempted a three to tie with three seconds remaining, but her shot did not fall, giving Oklahoma the 77-73 victory in a game with 17 lead changes.

Curry said that while the loss hurts, it should be kept in perspective “We’re not limping into the postseason, we’re not jogging into the postseason,” she said. “We have done a great job, so far, to this point.”

Hyde shot 50 percent from the field and led the Red Raiders with 22 points.

Brown added 21 and was 4-8 on threepointers. Tech shot 41 percent from the field and finished with 20 points off of Oklahoma turnovers.

Ellenberg led the Sooners with 25 points.

The Lady Raiders now turn their attention to the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship, beginning Friday, and possible further postseason play.

Curry said the team hopes to send its five seniors off with a win in their last game.

“We hope our crowd will continue to come out,” she said, “and get those NCAA tournament tickets cause we’re going dancing.” ➤➤jlegendre@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH GUARD Christine Hyde dribbles around Oklahoma center Nicole Griffin during the Lady Raider’s 77-73 loss against the Sooners on Monday in United Spirit Arena.

Tech baseball travels to face No. 4 Kansas beats Texas Tech 79-42 defending national champions The Texas Tech baseball team will play the defending national champions, the Arizona Wildcats, in a two-game series Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said he expects some of the players to have butterflies before the game, but once the game begins, it’s the same as others.

“It’s really going to be fun,” Tadlock said. “I think our guys are looking forward to it and we’re going to get to play a game on Tuesday night, and I think we play Wednesday afternoon and (we are) really looking forward to it. We get the chance to run a couple of guys out there again, we get to see a couple more guys

as starters and we should have a full bullpen, and it should be a really good challenge for our guys.”

While freshman pitcher Matt Withrow probably won’t pitch against the Wildcats, he said playing a high-quality team like them is how Tech can improve.

“We’re really looking forward to playing at high competition,” he said, “and (you) can never complain going to Arizona because of the great weather out there.”

Tech junior outfielder Devon Conley said he is excited to play the 10-3 team.

“It’s a good opportunity,” he said, “(they are) defending na-

tional champions and try to go in there and take a game or two or both. I’m honestly trying to take both of them, but it will be fun to see the competition and see how we are up against those players.”

The Red Raiders play the Wildcats at 7 p.m. Tuesday and 2 p.m. Wednesday in Tucson, Ariz.

Tadlock said the competition doesn’t matter.

“I want to go play every day,” he said, “whoever we play — and like I told you guys before, I want people to be excited about watching Texas Tech baseball play and not who we’re playing.

I want us to play the right way and we’re getting there.” ➤➤pskinner@dailytoreador.com

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Kevin Young had 14 points and Ben McLemore and Travis Releford added 13 apiece as the Jayhawks (26-4, 14-3 Big 12), who took a half-game lead over No. 9 Kansas State in their quest for a ninth straight conference title.

Fueled by Young and Withey, Kansas unleashed a 19-2 run and seized a 45-20 halftime lead. Withey and McLemore combined to score the first 10 points in a 16-3 run to open the second half. Elijah Johnson had 12 assists for Kansas, giving him 22 in the last two games.

Jordan Tolbert had 16 points for Texas Tech (10-18, 3-14), which lost 60-46 at home to Kansas earlier this season.

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straight for Kansas in its home finale and ensured the Jayhawks of at least 26 wins for the seventh consecutive season.

With one regular-season game left and then the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments, the four seniors — Withey, Young, Releford and Johnson — have a combined 463 victories.

Withey had baskets on Kansas’ first two possessions of the second half, then McLemore dropped in two free throws and another basket as the rout got worse and Texas Tech called a timeout in a futile try to stem the tide.

But Perry Ellis scored four quick points and Johnson dunked after Kansas stole the ball and the Jayhawks suddenly had a 61-23 lead.

Kansas scored on seven of its first nine possessions in the first half but then hit a lull and scored on only one of their next six while the Red Raiders — 23-point underdogs — crept within 13-10. Young, the most unheralded of

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To the delight of the crowd, the Red Raiders had three players put up air balls in the first half — Ty Nurse, Josh Gray and Jaye Crockett.

Texas Tech, losing to Kansas for the 24th time in 28 games, finished its conference road schedule 1-8 under first-year head coach Chris Walker.

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playing experience, he is confident his coaching staff will be able to relate to the players well.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “Almost all of them played, and five of them played here at Texas Tech’s lone four-star recruit, Devin Tech, so they should definitely relate Lauderdale from Houston, had initially to the players,” he said. “They love decommitted after the departure of being around them and I think it’ll be former Tech coach Tommy Tuber- a good group.” ville, but co-offensive coordinator With five different defensive coorand receivers coach Eric Morris was dinators in the last five seasons, the Red able to get him to stay. Lauderdale Raiders have struggled to establish a also received scholarship offers from strong core defense, but Kingsbury said Alabama, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, the hiring of former A&M linebackers Ohio State and several other power- coach Matt Wallerstedt will be good house football programs, according to for the team.

Rivals.com.

“I wanted to hire somebody that Of the 23 signees, 12 of them were I’ve seen their defense, I know what three-star recruits, including pro-style they do and I know how it affects me quarterback Davis Webb out of Pros- as a play caller, and that’s what I did per, outside linebacker Jacarthy Mack here,” Kingsbury said. from Lithonia, Ga., and defensive back An important thing to accomplish, Dee Paul out of Munday, who recorded he said, is to force more turnovers than a 40-yard dash time of 4.4 seconds. the team did last year. During the “I’m really pleased,” Kingsbury said. 2012 season, the Red Raiders forced “Late in the game like we were, I re- 11 turnovers. TCU nearly tripled that ally thought we filled some immediate number with 32, placing the Horned needs and some positions, and we got Frogs at the top of the conference in guys that can play immediately — and turnovers forced. we want to recruit guys that want to “That’s something we really have play and want to play early.” to improve upon,” he said, “but I A lot of the know Coach work done in Wallerstedt is gothe recruiting ing to bring an area was hanattacking style, dled by Kingsvery multiple, lots bury’s assistant of different looks, coaches, many and that’s what I of whom were want. I want to be former Tech an aggressive deplayers as well. fense, just like our Kingsbury said offense is going to he felt it was be aggressive.” important Last season, to bring in the Big 12 had KLIFF KINGSBURY coaches with five teams averagHEAD COACH playing expeing more than 40 TEXAS TECH FOOTBALL rience, and points per game added bonus and seven teams for knowing totaling more the culture of West Texas. than 400 yards per game.

“Positive energy-type coaches — Kingsbury said he does not mind guys that are going to know about this his defense giving up the yards as long place, that are going to know the cul- as it is not giving up points. ture of this place and be able to attack “I think in today’s college game, what our weaknesses are, the obstacles especially in the Big 12, everybody we have to overcome out here,” he said gives up yards,” he said. “You look at about what he was looking for in his as- OU, Texas, TCU — they’re all giving sistant coaches. “It’s a special place, and up yards, but you got to be good in the you kind of have to know the culture of red zone, you got to be able to turn it to really embrace it and do your best. people over, and from the stats last We’ve got guys that are familiar with it, year, Tech wasn’t very good at turning and I’m really pleased with the staff.” people over.”

Kingsbury said because of their In the SEC, only one team aver-

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I think in today’s college game, especially in the Big 12, everybody gives up yards.

aged more than 40 points per game: Kingsbury’s Aggies.

The difference between the two leagues, Kingsbury said, is a failed drive or two can lose a game for a team in the Big 12.

“In the Big 12, if you get stopped a few times, you’ll get blown out,” he said. “In the SEC, you’re still going to stick around and hang in games. So it’s just different, just a more offensive league. I’m familiar with it; I’ve played in it, been around in it, so I’m just excited to be back.”

Tech junior receiver Eric Ward and defensive tackle Kerry Hyder will both return for their senior seasons, and Kingsbury said he thinks the two will have big impacts on both sides of the ball.

“Eric Ward is a guy who came back for his senior year and (is) obviously (a) very talented wide receiver, has a chance to be really special player,” he said. “Defensively, Kerry Hyder is a guy that stands out, plays really hard up front and did a great job for them last year.”

Hyder was a force on the defensive side during 2012, racking up 55 tackles and five and a half sacks on the season.

Ward finished the year with 82 catches for 1,053 yards and 12 touchdowns, including a seven-catch, 77-yard and one-touchdown performance in the bowl game victory against Minnesota.

The Red Raiders will look to carry their momentum from the bowl win into next season and a tough conference schedule. While the Big 12 does not have the same prestige as the SEC, Kingsbury said the league is among the elite.

“I think it’ll be a very talented league as always,” he said. “I think it’s at the upper echelon each and every year, and I just think everybody’s gotten better in the league. You talk about TCU, Baylor, West Virginia — teams that come up. Just a lot of parity, but I don’t think that’s a knock on the league, I just think the other teams have kind of caught up to the guys that used to be way out in front.”

At the beginning of last season, Kingsbury said A&M was up against the odds and was strong enough to overcome them. He said he hopes Tech can emulate A&M’s attitude and success on the field.

“The expectations were very low there last year,” he said. “The kids played with a chip on their shoulders and really proved a lot of people wrong,

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TECH COACH KLIFF Kingsbury coached at two different universities before returning to Lubbock to coach the team he formerly played for. As a Red Raider, Kingsbury broke 39 school records, 17 Big 12 records and 18 NCAA records.

so hopefully we can do the same here.”

Kingsbury’s contract gives him five years to work with — to build a program, to move up in the recruiting rankings and bring the Red Raiders to the top of the conference. While some of the most legendary coaches

struggled in their first seasons — Bobby Bowden had a losing record during his first season at Florida State and Joe Paterno went 5-5 during his first year in 1966 — Kingsbury made it very clear he has no intention of settling for an average record in his inaugural season.

“We expect to win this year, that’s why I came here,” he said. “I had a great job at the other place, but this is home for me. I wouldn’t come back if I thought we couldn’t win it this year.” ➤➤zdischiano@dailytoreador.com

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