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Kappa Delta hosts sale for Girl Scout cookies -- LA VIDA, Page 3

By EMILY GARDNERSTAFF WRITER

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School of Pharmacy construction complete

By ELLEN CHAPPELLSTAFF WRITER

KITHUKA

Tech track and fi eld athletes move into top 20

By BETHANY CHESHIRESTAFF WRITER

By ASHLYN TUBBSSTAFF WRITER

PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK HENDRICKS

AIDA ARFAEE, A second-year pharmacy student, washes her hands before starting lab work in the hooded work station in the new School of Pharmacy sterile laboratory.

Students in the Texas Tech Health Sci-ences Center School of Pharmacy have a new way to learn to prepare drugs, which will help them in future endeavors.

The HSC School of Pharmacy started classes in a new sterile laboratory for second-year pharmacy students in January.

The lab is used for two hours in the afternoon Monday through Friday, Thomas Thekkumkara, regional dean of the School of Pharmacy, said.

He said workers fi nished construction on the lab, located in Amarillo on Jan. 2.

“Basically, it was completed in within a month,” Thekkumkara said, “and that’s including the contractors working Saturdays, and Sundays, and holidays.”

The purpose of the sterile laboratory is to provide pharmacy students with experience mixing drugs in a sterilized environment before entering the workplace, he said, because that type of training is lacking in pharmacy schools.

“Our goal is to make sure our graduat-ing students have that training before they graduate,” Thekkumkara said.

The School of Pharmacy in Abilene also has a sterile laboratory similar to the one built in Amarillo, he said.

The current cost of the construction is $520,000, Thekkumkara said.

Mikala Conatser, assistant professor at the School of Pharmacy, said the lab consists of 13 hands-free hand washing systems and 26 sterile hood working areas so students can prepare sterile products.

Before the laboratory was built, she said the class was in an open-air lab room with fi ve hoods. Because the students had to take turns using the hoods, they only used them every few weeks, and at midterms and fi nals.

Conatser said the reason for the new lab was to provide students consistent practice with the hoods.

“We want students when they come out of our lab, to be able to properly prepare sterile products, which are like your IV medications that you would get in the hos-pital without risk of contamination to the product itself or needle sticks to themselves,” she said.

The most important benefi t of the lab, Thekkumkara said, is the training students are provided, so the employer does not need to train the graduates after they are hired.

With the use of the lab, he said, gradu-ates will have an upper hand when looking for a job.

“Because most of the places now, what they do is they hire the pharmacist and then they have to be trained on the job,” Thek-

kumkara said. “And this way, you know, they basically feel much more confi dent.”

Conatser said she had been through the program itself, and the lab will give students a better understanding of the process.

“I’m totally excited about them,” she said.

“You know, it makes it a lot more realistic for the students, and I think that that’s what it takes to make a good learning environment: the hands-on approach, being able to see ex-actly how it’s going to be in the real world.”➤➤egardner@dailytoreador.com

With the results from this weekend at the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., many Texas Tech track and field athletes have gained recognition on a national scale.

Tech now has seven athletes and two relay teams ranked in the top 20 nation-ally. This past weekend proved eventful for the qualifying athletes and record breakers.

Senior hurdler Katie Grimes broke another school record for the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.16 seconds. This is her third time to break her own record in this event. Along with Grimes, senior All-American jumper Bryce Lamb was honored

for his first out-ing of his senior season, becoming ranked top five nationally.

T h o u g h h e did not break the record , he s i t s in fifth place on the list of school r ecords in the triple jump, hav-ing jumped 16.26

meters to place fourth in the event. Lamb is now ranked third nationally in the men’s triple jump.

“It was great to see Bryce jump again,” Tech coach Wes Kittley said. “It was a strong performance and should put him

in a great position for nationals.”Senior distance runner Kennedy

Kithuka broke the school record in the 5,000-meter run this weekend at the Tyson Invitational. Junior runner Ezekiel Kissorio ran the second fastest mile for the school this season with a time of 4:03.87, which earned him second in the event.

In another record-breaking perfor-mance, the men’s distance medley relay team, comprised of Ezekiel Kissorio, Nick Rivera, Joseph Richards III and Kithuka, finished with a time of 9:40.71 and along with their new record, placed first. With that performance, the men’s distance medley relay team is now ranked eighth nationally, along with the women’s 4x400 relay squad, who are ranked eighth in the nation with their

finishing time of 3:35.44.“It was a great finish to a very positive

weekend of performances,” Tech cross-country coach Jon Murray said. “I was very proud of the way each leg of the relay competed.”

Tech continues to fill the nation’s top 20 with Tech junior All-American Kyal Meyers at 10th in the nation in the men’s pole vault with his jump of 5.41 meters, earning fourth this weekend.

The Big 12 Indoor Championships will take place in Ames, Iowa, on Feb. 22-23. The competition takes the top 16 for each event, and Kittley said he hopes for at least 10 of his athletes to qualify to represent the talent of Tech track and field at the championship.➤➤echappell@dailytoreador.com

Tech celebrates 90th birthday

PHOTO BY LAUREN PAPE/The Daily ToreadorCAKE WAS SERVED Monday in the Student Union Building to celebrate Texas Tech’s 90th anniversary. On Feb. 10, 1923, the Texas State Senate passed Texas Technological College’s charter.

Students ate cake in celebration of Texas Tech’s 90th anniversary Monday, in the Student Union Building Courtyard.

“Ninety years, yesterday Feb. 10, 1923, was the day that Governor Pat Neff signed the char-ter for Texas Technological College,” Allison Matherly, coordinator of digital engagement, said.

There were 34 applications to become the home for Texas Technological College, and the

location board that was in charge of the decision picked Lubbock, she said. In celebration of the anniversary, cake and refreshments were handed out in the SUB.

Tech made an impression on Megan Burns, a senior advertising major from Rockwall whose grandmother went to Tech.

“I just like knowing she stayed at Weeks Hall on campus,” she said. “I get to walk by that every day and just kind of make the connection.”

Former Texas Tech student makes impact at New York Fashion Week

Richard Eric Renteria knew exactly what he wanted to wear Saturday to Fashion Week New York 2013.

As the former Texas Tech student showcased his fashion line, Etiquette Vintage Design, Renteria wore his repur-posed vintage Tech letterman sweater, the clothing item he said marks a turning point in his life.

“I purposely wore my letterman sweater because I have a love for Tech,” he said. “I could’ve worn anything else, but that was the sweater that got me started.”

When Renteria made this sweater in 2010, he was an exercise and sport sciences major with no background in fashion design. His sweater came from a Tech alumnus named Jerry Stoltz, who attended Tech during the late 1940s as a member of the golf team.

“I made it just to wear it around, something that I liked,” he said, “and from there, that is how I started my line.”

Renteria said he immediately be-came recognized for his work. Now, he has repurposed about 30 of these sweaters, some even distributed in places such as Italy and Rome, and

featured in Vogue Italia.“There’s actually people in Italy

wearing Texas Tech sweaters who have probably never even heard of Tech,” he said. “They just liked them.”

Instead of those sweaters, Renteria is currently focusing on his new fashion line, which includes dresses, skirts, tops and other clothing items he person-ally designed from inspiration found in previous editions of Tech’s yearbook, La Ventana, dating from the 1920s to 1950s.

His next scheduled shows, in which the line will make appearances, are at The Junior League of Austin Derby Show and Austin Fashion Week.

“It still has that vintage feel to it,” he said. “I used a lot of vintage patterns. I just made it more modern and fitting with more modern colors.”

The Fashion Week New York 2013 showing was at Times Square in New York City, and Renteria said people from various countries attended. The show was hectic backstage, and since a blizzard was coming in at that time, Renteria said many of his personal helpers could not attend the show.

But with the help of his wife, a model, he said they pulled off the show nicely.

Pope’s bombshell sends troubled church scrambling

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI did what no pope has done in more than half a millennium, stunning the world by announc-ing his resignation Monday and leaving the already troubled Catholic Church to replace the leader of its 1 billion followers by Easter.

Not even his closest associates had ad-vance word of the news, a bombshell that he dropped during a routine meeting of Vatican cardinals. And with no clear favorites to succeed him, another surprise likely awaits when the cardinals elect Benedict’s successor next month.

“Without doubt this is a historic mo-ment,” said Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, a protege and former theology student of Benedict’s who is considered a papal con-tender. “Right now, 1.2 billion Catholics the world over are holding their breath.”

Obama to revive populist message in Tuesday speech

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reviv-ing his populist re-election message, President Barack Obama will press a politically-divided Congress to approve more tax increases and fewer spending cuts during a State of the Union address focused on stabilizing the middle class and repairing the still-wobbly economy.

The agenda Obama will outline Tuesday before a joint session of Con-gress will include more money for infra-structure, clean energy technologies and manufacturing jobs, as well as expanding access to early childhood education.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would outline “his plan to create jobs and grow the middle class” as the nation struggles with persistently high unemployment.

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Toddler Tuesday: Musical ValentinesTime: 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.Where: Museum of Texas TechSo, what is it? Come bring your children for this fun event at the Museum of Texas Tech.

TAB Presents: Cajun Culture CelebrationTime: Noon to 2 p.m.Where: Student Union Build-ingSo, what is it? Come celebrate Mardi Gras with Cajun food and more.

Conference Prep Workshop: A How-To Workshop for Submitting Your ProposalTime: Noon to 1 p.m.Where: TLPD, University LibrarySo, what is it? The Women’s Studies Pro-gram will host a workshop to help students with potential submissions to the confer-ence.

TAB Presents: Free Movie Night

Time: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.Where: Allen TheatreSo, what is it? Check tab.ttu.edu for the featured movie title.

Conference Prep Workshop: A How-To Workshop for Submitting Your ProposalTime: Noon to 1 p.m.Where: TLPD, University LibrarySo, what is it? The Women’s Studies Program will host a workshop to help students with potential sub-missions to the conference.

TAB Presents: Free Movie NightTime: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.Where: Allen TheatreSo, what is it? Check tab.ttu.edu for the featured movie title.

TAB Presents: Improv Com-edy Night featuring Alterna-tive FuelsTime: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.Where: Escondido TheatreSo, what is it? Check enjoy a performance from Texas Tech’s own improv troupe.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry brought his brash pitch for jobs to California on Monday as he sought to lure businesses to his state with the promise of lower taxes and fewer regulations.

Perry’s private meetings with busi-ness leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area weren’t his fi rst effort to tempt companies to leave the Golden State, but this three-day trip has certainly drawn more attention than previous attempts, and the failed Republican presidential candidate welcomed the spotlight.

In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, he criticized Califor-nia’s regulatory environment, and said Austin, Texas, is poised to become the “next Silicon Valley.”

“Twelve years ago, California

wasn’t looking over its shoulder,” he told the newspaper. “They’re not look-ing over their shoulder now — they’re looking at our backside.”

Perry’s offi ce said the governor will meet with leaders in the high tech, biotechnology, fi nancial, insurance and fi lm industries over the next few days. The trip, being paid for by a public-private marketing partnership called TexasOne, won’t include any public events.

The visit follows a 30-second radio ad that began airing last week in which Perry criticized California’s business climate, drawing a colorful response from Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat.

“Building a business is tough,” Perry says in the ad, which also was paid for by TexasOne. “But I hear building a business in California is

next to impossible.”He added, “There are plenty of

reasons Texas has been named the best state for doing business for eight years running.”

The spot ran on six radio stations in the San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Inland Empire and San Diego media markets.

Brown last week dismissed Perry’s $24,000 in radio ads as a cheap gim-mick. He said California has been adding more jobs than any other state. Non-farm payrolls increased by nearly 226,000 jobs in 2012.

He also wondered whether Perry might have a change of heart after arriving.

“A lot of these Texans, they come here, they don’t go back,” he told reporters. “Who would want to spend

their summers in 110-degree heat inside some kind of a fossil-fueled air conditioner? Not a smart way to go.”

Perry arrived in California just months after voters approved higher income taxes on the wealthy and a quarter-cent increase in the statewide sales tax, adding to its perception as a high-tax state. California’s complex environmental laws have been blamed for long delays in new construction projects, whereas Texas has no such laws and also no income tax.

This isn’t Perry’s fi rst such Califor-nia trip, as Brown’s 2010 Republican challenger Meg Whitman noted dur-ing the campaign, saying the Texas governor enjoyed regular hunting trips to the state and that his prey was jobs. Perry, for his part, has joked that Cali-fornia is a “target-rich environment.”

Texas Gov. Perry raids California businesses

HOUSTON (AP) — More than 80 environmental groups on Monday demanded a broad investigation into whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency behaved improperly when it abruptly dropped en-forcement actions against a gas driller it had accused of contami-nating water in Texas.

The 86 groups from 12 states sent a letter to the EPA’s inspec-tor general, Arthur Elkins, asking that he widen an existing investi-gation into the agency’s actions. They cited an Associated Press report indicating the agency had scientific evidence linking Range Resources’ drilling operations to water tainted with explosive methane and cancer-causing benzene in Weatherford, a town

west of Fort Worth.Range Resources has said the

EPA dropped its demands that the company provide affected fami-lies with clean water and locate the source of the contamination after the company threatened not to cooperate with a high-profile national study into hydraulic fracturing.

The groups, including Green-peace, the Environmental Work-ing Group and the Center for Biological Diversity, said the EPA’s actions make it “appear that the agency is abdicating its legal obligation to protect the health and environment of all Americans.”

The groups note that when the EPA dropped its enforcement actions and ended a legal battle

Groups want broad EPA probe of tainted Texas waterwith Range Resources, it did not mention an analysis done by Geoffrey Thyne, an independent scientist who was hired by the agency to analyze water samples it collected from more than 30 water wells in the Weatherford area. Thyne had concluded that the gas found in the water wells was similar to the gas Range Resources was producing from the Barnett shale rock formation.

Thyne’s document, obtained by the AP, has never been made public by the EPA. The inspector general should consider in his investigation why the EPA made no mention of that study when critics said the actions against Range Resources lacked scientific credibility, the environmental groups’ letter argued.

The EPA did not immediately comment on the letter. In the past, the agency has said drop-ping the action against Range Resources allowed it to “shift its focus in this case away from litigation and toward a joint ef-fort on the science and safety of energy extraction.”

Range Resources also did not

immediately comment on the letter. The company has denied it contaminated Texas water, saying the gas in the water was from a different rock formation and does not originate in the Barnett shale.

In the letter, the environmen-tal groups also question whether by not releasing Thyne’s report, the EPA denied the public “ac-cess to information that could be useful for preventing negative im-pacts” associated with hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking.

Fracking combined with hori-zontal drilling has allowed drillers to extract once out-of-reach gas and oil by pumping large volumes of chemical-laced water at high pressure into thick, impermeable rock formations. The process cracks the dense rock, releasing the oil and gas.

The industry contends the method is safe. Critics, however, say it contaminates water, and demand greater federal oversight.

In the case near Fort Worth, the EPA never said how the drill-ing operation contaminated the groundwater in that area.

Student found with drugs, synthetic marijuana

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities said two gang members were charged with murder Monday in the death of a 15-year-old Chicago honor student who was shot just days after return-ing from Washington, where she performed during President Barack Obama’s inauguration festivities.

Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, were charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, Chicago police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said.

The two young men were described by police as “persons of interest” when they were taken into custody early Sunday, a day after fi rst lady Michelle

Obama and other dignitaries attended the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton.

Pendleton, a popular high school majorette, was with a group of friends who took cover during a rainstorm under a canopy in a park about a mile from the Obama home on the city’s South Side. Police said a man hopped a fence, ran toward them and opened fi re with a handgun. Pendleton was struck in the back and died later that day. Two others were injured.

Police have said none of the people in Pendleton’s group were affi liated with gangs but that the gunman appar-ently mistook one for a member of a rival gang that had encroached on his gang’s turf. The men charged Monday live nearby, Stratton said.

2 charged in slaying of Chicago honor student

Friday10:39 a.m. — A Texas Tech

officer investigated credit card abuse, which occurred at an un-known location. There were two unauthorized credit card charges charged to a Tech credit card.

3:10 p.m. — A Tech offi cer ar-rested a student for possession of marijuana following a traffi c stop in the Z3K parking lot. The stu-dent was issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia, which he signed. The student also was released pending the fi ling of charges with

for possession of a dangerous drug and possession of a miscellaneous substance (synthetic marijuana). The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. Lubbock Wrecker Services impounded the vehicle.

4:20 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident, without injuries, which occurred in the 1000 block of Texas Tech Parkway.

5:29 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a report of a theft in progress at the bleachers near

basketball court No. 2 at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recre-ation Center. An iPhone 5 and case were reported stolen. A non-student suspect was located and the iPhone 5 and case were recovered. The non-student was issued a criminal trespass warning for all Texas Tech owned property and released pending the fi ling of charges for theft.

11:59 p.m. — A Tech offi cer investigated criminal mischief, which occurred in the Z4P parking lot. Both side mirrors were broken off a vehicle.

Saturday8:11 a.m. — A Tech officer

investigated criminal mischief, which occurred in Murdough Resi-dence Hall. Ceiling tiles were dam-aged on the fi rst and second fl oors.

Sunday2:34 a.m. — A Tech officer

arrested a non-student for public intoxication, which occurred in the 2500 block of Broadway Ave. The non- student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

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La Vida Page 3Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013

Kappa Delta helps Girl Scouts sell cookiesThe line for Girl Scout cookies ex-

tended out into the street at Greek Circle in front of the Kappa Delta sorority house.

Katie Cook, a junior public relations major from Bridgeport, and the vice president of public relations for Kappa Delta, said her favorite type of Girl Scout cookie is the Caramel deLites, also known as Samoas.

“This is our annual cookie sale, and it supports one the Lubbock Girl Scout troops, troop 6340,” Cook said. “The girls just come here, and they just sell their cookies, and we’ve always had great turnout for it.”

Cook said Kappa Delta members help the Girl Scouts sell their cookies to people throughout the Greek and Lub-bock community.

“Girl scouts of the U.S.A. is one of our philanthropies, and we actively support it,” she said, “and this is just one of the ways that we do it. The girls are always super excited, the Girl Scouts just as excited as us Kappa Deltas. Greeks, as well as the Lubbock Community, comes

out and just buys Girl Scout cookies because who doesn’t love Girl Scout cookies?”

The event started at 5:30 p.m., Cook said, and would last as late as 9 p.m. She said they expected to sell all of the cookies the Girl Scouts brought.

“They brought in 74 cases, so we are hoping to sell all 74 cases, if not more,” Cook said.

With 12 boxes of cookies per case, the Girl Scouts and Kappa Deltas expected to sell 888 boxes of cookies during the event.

Cook said her favorite part of the event is the faces of the Girl Scouts who participate.

“They get so excited, because they sell so many cookies,” she said. “That’s one of their jobs as a Girl Scout is to sell a certain number of cookies. Just now, a girl said something, like, ‘Y’all are so awe-some,’ and just seeing their face light up. They’re truly excited that we are actually helping them, and we love helping them just as much.”

Beth Slover, a Girl Scout from troop 6340, said this was her fi fth year participating in this event with the Kappa Deltas.

“I think it’s really good because every time we come to Kappa Delta, we sell a lot,” Slover said.

Slover said her favorite type of Girl Scout cookie is the Thin Mint, and her favorite part of the event is selling the cookies and meeting people.

“My favorite part (of the event) is just selling the cookies and meeting all the girls and guys around here,” she said.

Chloe Seay, a junior psychology major from Midland, bought two boxes of Thin Mints during the event. She said this is her fi rst time attending this event.

“I know it’s always gone on,” Seay said, “but today I was moved by the Girl Scout cookie plight, so I had to come and get some.”

Seay said the timing of the event was one of the main reasons she stopped by.

“I think it’s a really good thing,” she said. “It makes it really easy so like a whole bunch of people come, because we’re all here for Chapter and stuff. It’s nice to have some cookies and stuff on a Monday, because nobody likes Mondays. I know this just made the whole rest of my day.”

By SCOTT MACWATTERSSTAFF WRITER

➤➤smacwatters@dailytoreador.com

PHOTO BY SCOTT MACWATTERS/The Daily ToreadorGEOFFREY PEACE, LEFT, a junior mechanical engineering major from San Antonio, buys Girl Scout cookies from Kalie Santiago, center, a Girl Scout from troop 6340, and Miranda Slover, right, during the Kappa Delta Girl Scout cookie sale at Greek Circle on Monday.

RESUME READ

PHOTO BY WILLIAM ROBIN/The Daily Toreador

ALLISON MESECKE, A junior environmental engineering major from Temple, helps Andrew Neyland, a freshman computer engineering major from Spring, read and edit his resume during a job fair workshop hosted by Engineers Without Borders on Monday in the Civil Engineering building. Texas Tech will host an engineering job fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Lubbock Civic Center.

2 US adoption agencies closing, citing woes abroad

NEW YORK (AP) — The lone U.S. adoption agency accredited in Kyrgyzstan is shutting down due to fi -nancial troubles, a sudden new setback for about 15 American families bat-tling since 2008 to complete adoptions there. At the same time, another U.S. agency, which specializes in adoptions from Russia, also is closing.

“We see no other choice but to close our doors,” said Christian World Adoption, which had handled Kyrgyz adoptions, in an e-mail to the waiting families. The agency, based in Fletcher, N.C., said an array of factors, in Kyrgyzstan and elsewhere abroad, had boosted its costs and cut its income to the point where it would fi le for bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, Adoption ARK, based in Buffalo Grove, Ill., said it would shut down, blaming Russia’s recently imposed ban on adoptions by Americans. It said its program in Russia had provided more than half of its income.

The two closures highlight the challenges facing many U.S. agen-cies that specialize in international adoptions at a time when those are dwindling year after year. Americans adopted 8,668 foreign children in the 2012 fi scal year, down 62 percent from the peak of 22,884 in 2004.

Chuck Johnson, CEO of the National Council for Adoption, said he expected that many more agencies would be closing. Those with the best chance of persevering, he said, would be agencies with professional fundrais-ing operations that have lessened their reliance on client fees.

For the families trying to adopt from Kyrgyzstan, most of whom have spent many thousands of dollars on their quests, the sudden shutdown of Christian World Adoption came as a shock. The families said they had received no prior warnings before

getting an e-mail from the agency on Friday announcing that it was ending operations “effective immediately.”

There was no immediate response Monday to e-mails and phone mes-sages sent to agency offi cials seeking further comment.

A Christian World Adoption cli-ent, Shannon Fenske of Reeseville, Wis., said she and her husband, Kevin, were dismayed by this latest of many setbacks in their quest to adopt a Kyrgyz girl they were matched with in 2008.

“They did not reach out to us beforehand to allow us time to try and make any sort of arrangements,” Fen-ske said of CWA. “They just dumped it on us on Friday afternoon and ran.

We have no idea what the future holds or what our options are at this time.”

However, Fenske said she and her husband would not give up their efforts to adopt Kamila, who was af-fl icted with a severe cleft lip and palate when they were matched with her in July 2008. The Fenskes, who have four other adopted children with special needs, arranged for two operations for Kamila that improved her condition, but pain and speech problems linger.

“We are fi ghters,” Fenske said of how the waiting families would deal with the new setback. “This does not change the fact that our children continue to languish in institutions and that we continue to love them as much as we did yesterday.”

‘Bachelor’ host teases ‘combustible situation’NEW YORK (AP) — After

17 seasons on “The Bachelor” (plus eight seasons on “The Bach-elorette” and three on “Bachelor Pad”), host Chris Harrison says one thing makes Sean Lowe stand out from the others — and it’s not his washboard abs.

It’s the way Lowe makes the women on the ABC dating show feel, Harrison says. On the show, which airs Mondays (8 p.m. EST), single women live in a house to-gether and compete for the affec-tion of a single man.

Lowe “has this incredible way of making you feel like you’re the only person in the room,” Harrison said in a recent interview. “That’s a great quality, and the thing is, it’s sincere.

“It’s not an act with him, and what really makes the difference

is his sincerity. His charm and his charisma makes these women feel like, ‘This is it, like we could liter-ally stop this date and go get mar-ried.’ I don’t think I’ve ever seen a season where so many relationships are so sincere and serious and that could only lead to one thing: a very combustible situation.”

Lowe, who is from Dallas, tried to win Emily Maynard’s heart last season on “The Bachelorette.”

He ended up in third place, and although he didn’t walk away with the girl, he did leave with a friend-ship with fi nalists Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Jef Holm. Luyendyk appeared on the fi rst episode of “The Bach-elor” to give Lowe support.

Harrison says that while male contestants tend to bond, women tend to bicker and conspire against one another.

“The way they are manipula-tive and they fi ght, and they try to win — that’s them,” he said. “And when you shine a light on it maybe it’s not so pretty, but that happens in every bar and church and library in America when people are getting together and it’s just exploited to the nth degree on ‘The Bachelor.’”

But, he adds: “It’s an extraor-dinary situation, too. I mean, I’m gonna come to their defense a little bit. They’re all dating the same guy. But ... the guys seem to have this ... camaraderie, and we’re pretty simple animals. ... I think women are much too, way too dynamic and smart for this game, where guys are like, ‘Whatever, OK.’ So I think it’s geared easier for men than for women, who I think are just way too much of too many personalities piled into one house.”

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must wait for it to be approved, which can take anywhere from a week to a month depending on the mood of the SGA sena-tors assigned to represent your organization.

Another requi rement o f getting SGA funding is to at-tend the Student Organization Representative Council meet-ings. That is, of course, on the rare occasion when the SGA representative assigned to your organization communicate to you the correct dates and times of the SORC meetings 12 hours prior to the meeting.

Once it is all said and done, if by some miracle you are able to get through the red tape and spectacular lack of communica-tion wrapped up in the SGA funding-acquisition process,

you just might be able to get the menial amount of funding they allot to you.

So not only have the mem-bers of SGA amply shown an unwillingness to be professional or efficient, but they also have shown themselves to be largely disconnected from a significant number of students and student organizations at Tech.

The vast majority of senators in SGA are undergraduate stu-dents who likely do not pay for their own tuition themselves, considering their past decisions to freely tack on new fees to student tuition. If SGA really wanted to be representative the entire student body, they would be more inclusive of, say, gradu-ate students, who would likely bring a differing perspective to

the senate’s deliberations. Moreover, in the three years

I have been a student at Tech, not once have I received any notification from SGA asking for the student body’s feedback or input on the issues they are discussing. On their website, the SGA mission statement reads “representing (the student body’s) interests by developing personal relationships.” In this regard, SGA has failed.

As a former history major and current music major, I have never met or received so much as a mass email from any SGA representatives of the College of Arts & Sciences or the Col-lege of Visual and Performing Arts.

Suffice it to say, I sincerely hope Williams’ address to the

SGA was taken seriously. SGA is like any other student or-ganization in that there is no excuse for not being productive. If you do not have the time nor desire to commit to the goal of your organization, then do not join. If SGA wants to amount to anything more than a glorified social club, then its members need to wake up and be serious about being connected to the student body and tackling the issues that students have.

As Stuart said in his address, those SGA representatives who cannot serve that one purpose might as well not run in the elections this month.

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Texas Tech Student Govern-ment Association on inactiv-ity and absenteeism during its open forum Thursday. During his chastisement of the Senate, Williams expressed his concern about the governing body’s poor “coast ‘til summer” attitude and unwillingness to address mean-ingful issues that affect Tech’s student body.

It is safe to say the concerns voiced by Williams were not those of just one former student senator.

As anyone who has ever been involved in a student orga-nization will tell you, dealing in any way with Student Govern-ment Association is not exactly

the easiest thing in the world. In fact, there are a plethora of issues Williams did not bring up during the open forum.

Take, for example, the ex-tensive process you must un-dergo if you are in a registered Tech student organization and you need to request funding from SGA. You must request, fill out and submit by deadline the formidable amount of re-quired paperwork. Then you

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Minimum wage laws ineffective, should be abolished

I recently returned from an incredible semester spent in America’s distant, more at-tractive sibling: Australia. My experiences there gave me a new perspective on – among other things – minimum wage laws.

While studying at the Uni-versity of Canberra, I worked part-time at a college pub near the school. Although this meant passing a bartending certifica-tion exam, it basically required knowing that alcohol poisoning is bad. Moreover, thanks to Aus-tralia’s obscenely high minimum wage, the job paid an impressive-sounding $23 an hour.

Because our dollar is currently worth less than Australia’s, this ended up being a fantastic salary when I got back to the US. It was considerably less remarkable, however, when I was actually in Australia.

Unfortunately, it turns out that doubling everyone’s wages doesn’t make everyone twice as rich, it just makes everything twice as expensive. Vending machines, for example, charge $4.50 per drink, and I couldn’t find a barbershop that charged less than $35 for a buzz cut.

I learned more about mini-mum wage laws while traveling around New South Wales. I met two young Germans who had come to Australia through an amazing program cal led

WWOOF, or Worldwide Op-portunities on Organic Farms.

In exchange for helping out on a small farm, travelers who sign up with WWOOF can ob-tain free room and board all over the world and learn how to grow food in the process.

However, because the work is unpaid, minimum wage advo-cates are less than thrilled about the idea and are working to shut the program down.

According to a May 7, 2011, Redding article, Allan Griggs, a California farmer who par-ticipates in the program, is now “forced to pay his WWOOFers the minimum wage of $8 an hour if they work more than four hours a day,” which “may make it economically impractical for him to use them in the future.” Minimum wage laws ostensibly exist to improve existing op-portunities. When it comes to WWOOF, however, the laws are simply taking opportunities away.

If this sounds like the excep-tion to the rule, consider that, according to the US Small Business Administration, “Small businesses employ about half of U.S. workers.” Like the Griggs family farm, these firms do not have secret pits of money that they delight in withholding from their employees. When-ever the minimum wage i s increased, these businesses may simply have to employ fewer people, ironically leaving the

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most downtrodden workers job-less and thus worse off than they were before.

Unsurprisingly, there is a wealth of research linking mini-mum wage with unemployment. A 1981 National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Charles Brown et al . found that teenage employment reli-ably drops whenever the mini-mum wage is raised by a certain amount.

In January 2011, a joint study by economists from the universities of Pennsylvania and Chile titled “The Labor Impact of Minimum Wages” found that minimum wage increases have “a significant negative effect on the probability of staying employed.”

Conversely, the data that minimum wage advocates have to offer is less than compelling and, frankly, suspicious.

A 2006 Show-Me Institute Paper by Dave Neumark says the study “cited most frequently by minimum wage advocates” is a 1994 phone survey of New Jersey restaurants by David Card and Alan Krueger. Sure enough, the Economic Policy Institute — a think tank on the frontlines of the minimum wage cause — has cited this “landmark New Jersey study” as recently as July 2012.

However, in 1996, a different think tank — the Employment Policy Institute — thought to obtain the actual payroll data

from these restaurants. In a blistering 16-page paper

titled “The Crippling Flaws in the New Jersey Fast Food Study,” it was found that Card and Krueger’s numbers bore “no relation to numbers drawn from the payroll records of the restaurants the New Jersey study claims to cover.” Tellingly, even the most credible minimum wage advocates have continued to recycle this discredited study for 16 years.

The repetition, apparently, isn’t working. Even the U.S. Department of Labor now seems to be aware of the damage these obstructive laws can do.

According to the DOL web-site, exceptions to the mini-mum wage are now sometimes allowed for “workers with dis-abilities, full-time students” and “youth under age 20.”

If the minimum wage ben-efits the least productive work-ers, why on earth would those very workers seek to be exempt from it? Likewise, if raising the minimum wage helps the poor, why don’t we raise it by hundreds of dollars instead of a petty few?

The answer, of course, is that anyone who subjects these laws to common sense can see that they make none. The minimum wage exists only because it’s been imposed on us by utopians who cared more about whether the policy sounded nice than how it would actually work.

A debatable topic in re-cent news is Lubbock’s proposed ban on the

use of cellular devices while driv-ing (unless the device is rendered hands-free by modification). The city has considered following the footsteps of surrounding counties like Amarillo, which already has in-stated the law and issued a number of citations.

Both those for the ban and the opposition have strong, valid points. Many families lost their children, sisters or brothers to accidents caused by distracted driving, and their cases are mov-ing. They stand on the ground the ban of mobile devices in motor vehicles would be worth the lives it will save.

The opposition makes a valid point, however, in that there are distractions that can present themselves while driving. Radio, passengers and food are some common examples of such. Their position states if we ban the use of cellphones, how much good would come of it when there are still other things present to take a driver’s attention away from the road?

Each side presents a formi-dable argument. The decision for or against is not an easy one to make; however, I do believe that the proposed ban, overall, is a good idea.

Many people are growing leery at the prospect of being faced with that disconnection from their network. The public has grown accustomed to being a phone call or a text message away from friends and family. The idea of that access being taken away is one met with much reluctance.

Twenty-four-hour connection is a relatively new invention of the 21st century. Between social me-dia, smartphones and the plethora of cellular devices available, each bit of information and constant updates on your life is available with the click of a button.

There is a point when it be-comes careless, however. I have seen countless Instagram photo-graphs of drivers, or those same people taking photos out of the windshield to share online. The same goes for tweeting and shar-

ing photographs on Facebook. In the (too much) information age, we thrive on instant sharing and response.

The stipulation of hands-free devices is a point to keep in mind with the proposed ban. Many major cellular devices work with headsets or ear clip-ons, such as Bluetooth. This, for many, is little different from talking to the passenger at your side, but with a quick click of a button, drastically reducing the amount of time that your hands leave the steering wheel.

It would be a wonderful idea to cut down on all distractions when behind the wheel. Try not to drive home finishing that burrito from lunch. Don’t turn up the music so loud that hearing the sound of an oncoming emergency vehicle is impossible. Avoid toying with the GPS and, if possible, acquire directions before you leave your house or residence hall.

Lubbock, in comparison to met-ro areas like Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, isn’t very large. Further-more, traffic congestion has never seemed to be a large problem.

I believe those on the other end of that call or text message would rather you remain alive and safe than to get hurt because you were trying to save them the inconvenience of having to wait for a response.

The logical standpoint is sim-ply this: It can wait. The call alerting you that your son won his soccer match, the reminder you need that you need to get milk from the store or that your best friend just gave birth can wait. Is it worth it to give up the freedom of multitasking during your trip in exchange for your safety? The answer without question is a re-sounding “yes.”

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“I’ve come a long way and I’m really proud of my designs,” he said. “They were really well-received in New York, and I was really happy with my show.”

This is not the fi rst time Renteria showcased his work in a fashion show. South by Southwest featured Etiquette Vintage Design in 2011 and 2012. Producers of fashion TV shows such as Fashion Star and Project Runway also have invited him to submit his line and application as an eligible candidate.

Last October, Renteria had a four-page editorial in Playboy magazine featuring Etiquette. Publications such as Texas Monthly, Austin Monthly, D Magazine and others also have inter-viewed Renteria about his line.

Even celebrities are fond of his look, such as Donald Glover, Ashley Greene, Fein and Dandee, Pin Up supermodel Sabina Kelley, Vanessa Lake, musician Nick Waterhouse and El John of Thiev-ery Corporation all wear Etiquette.

“It’s been really, really interesting what’s happened so far, just from that one sweater there on campus to now,” Renteria said. “I never meant to start a clothing line. It just happened.”

One of Renteria’s biggest advocates is Brandi Schreiber, a unit coordinator at The TECHniques Center. She met with him on a weekly basis, and encour-aged him to pursue his fashion-designing dreams. She said she proudly wears one of his Tech vintage sweaters he gave to her.

“He worked really hard to market himself, and it’s amazing to see what

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Jazmin Aguilar, a junior mechanical engineering major from Lubbock, said her grandparents live near the 25Twenty apartments.

“Everything was Tech,” she said “Everyone’s all excited for Tech games. We’re all outside barbecuing.”

Kimberly Berry, a senior apparel design and manufacturing major from Pleasanton, Calif., said it is cool Tech has been around for 90 years. She also said she likes that Tech is rich in tradi-tion and history.

“I love hearing the Victory Bells ringing on campus,” she said. “I actually found out we won a game just by hearing

them last semester.”Texas Technological College had its

name changed to Texas Tech University between the 1960s and the 1970s, ac-cording to a news release.

Cord Scorgie, a senior mechanical engineering major from Lubbock, said he likes to know all of the traditions and history that make up Tech.

“Like, how we got the name Red Raiders,” he said, “I think it’s really interesting to see how all that stuff came together.”

Brittany Gordon, a junior music education major from Midland, said she also likes the traditions.

“My family came from Tech,” she said. “We’re all Red Raiders. So it’s fun to do the exact same things that they did when they were here.”

Gordon also loves the tradition of the hand sign Guns Up and the alma mater during the football games, she said.

“You can give the Guns Up to somebody, and they know that you’re a Tech alum,” she said. “It’s an unspoken bond that you share with somebody, so I really like that.”

Matherly said she likes the history of the buildings on campus.

“My offi ce is in the Administration building,” she said, “so I love knowing that my offi ce has been an offi ce for the last 90 years. Just knowing the university was formed in that building and it was the fi rst building on campus, and what it not only means to the institution, but to the city as a whole.”➤➤bcheshire@dailytoreador.com

KYLE DAVIS, A freshman music education major from Fort Worth, practices a piece out of Melodious Etudes for Trombones on Monday in the Music building. Davis will play the piece during a private lesson Thursday.

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TROMBONE TALENT

Column: Real or fake? It’s hard to tellWASHINGTON (AP) — A

Democratic president clashes with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill as a polarized nation debates taxes and guns, illegal immigration and gay rights, and, perpetually, the size of government. Question: Fictional Hollywood or real Washington? Answer: Both.

For seven years, from 1999 to 2006, the NBC drama “The West Wing” showed America the inner workings of President Josiah Bartlet’s made-up White House. Re-watching its episodes today, it’s difficult to ignore the parallels between the fiction of then and the reality of today. Since the show ended, the line between the authentic and the packaged in Washington seems to have grown increasingly fuzzy, not just in our politics but now, also, in governing itself.

The depiction of American poli-tics has saturated our popular culture over the past two decades, from “Spin City” and “Dave” in the 1990s to “Veep” and “Lincoln” today. The im-ages, dialogue, casting and storylines almost always play to stereotypes,

implanting notions of the American system in the minds of viewers and shaping expectations of how politics and government should look.

Our scripts, the storylines we expect, can confi ne us. But behind that notion is a deeper, more trou-bling question: Has the kind of politicking served up on the screen for so long become so ingrained that it is blowing back into the reality of governing?

More important, are expectations set by Hollywood and reinforced by Washington out of step with what it will take to govern a changing country in challenging times? Are American leaders expending too much effort trying to be and do what’s expected for their audience — primarily core supporters and special interests — rather than being and do-ing what is needed to fi x the nation’s problems? And are we, the public, equally responsible by punishing our leaders if they veer from the script?

Political theater is hardly new. Leaders have always played hard for the public’s attention and support. And our 24/7 fl ow of instantaneous

information, with the insatiable ap-petite for reality programming tacked on, is making things more intense.

Almost daily, individual congress-men and senators march to the House and Senate fl oors to passionately sup-port or oppose a certain piece of leg-islation, raising voices and pounding podiums as they preach — to mostly empty chambers, and C-SPAN view-ers taken by the ruse TV has created. Also, Republicans and Democratic leaders hold frequent news confer-ences — again, much of it for show.

Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician-turned-president, used his Hollywood-honed communication skills to get the public on his, if not the Republican Party’s, side. Barack Obama, a skillful orator operating in a new-media world, frequently lever-ages the latest technology to curry favor with Americans in hopes of pressuring GOP leaders who control the House to see it his way on any number of issues. Rare is the politi-cian who cannot, with the help of speechwriters, summon the narrative drama needed to get something done or play to an audience.

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one person can do in so short amount of time,” she said. “His designs are truly classic, and I think his designs will have a place in fashion history for a really long time.

“It’s neat to have watched him, from those early roots, do something as fabu-lous as go to New York Fashion Week.”

His Tech sweater still looks brand new, Renteria said, and he will continue to wear it to represent Tech as he contin-ues with his accomplishments.

“This is kind of my way of saying thank you to everyone at Tech,” he said. “The support has been phenomenal.”

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MODEL JENN REED poses in an original Etiquette Vintage design by Eric Renteria.

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(AP) — For the fi rst time since the Texas Rangers moved their spring training west a decade ago, Michael Young won’t be walking into their clubhouse in Arizona this week.

Neither will slugger Josh Ham-ilton, the five-time All-Star and former AL MVP. And they’re not defending an American League title either. They didn’t win a game last October following World Series ap-pearances the previous two seasons.

There are some signifi cant dif-ferences as Rangers pitchers and catchers report to Surprise, Ariz., on Tuesday, three days before the re-porting date for the rest of the squad.

“It’s defi nitely going to be a differ-ent atmosphere,” said 18-game win-ner Matt Harrison, the left-hander who got a new contract last month.

That doesn’t mean the Rangers have lowered their expectations or feel they had a bad offseason even though they failed to keep Hamilton — they wouldn’t have matched the $125 million, fi ve-year deal he got

from the AL West rival Los Angeles Angels — and missed out on signing top free-agent pitcher Zack Greinke. Young, the longest-tenured Texas player after 12 seasons, was traded to Philadelphia where he is expected to be a full-time starting third base-man again.

“I’m genuinely like our chances,” general manager Jon Daniels said. “Obviously there were a couple of guys we were interested in early on that ended elsewhere. That’s part of the deal. ... We like our club, and we like the possibilities ahead of us.”

Especially with the starting rota-tion they have in place, likely for several seasons to come after the $55 million, fi ve-year deal for 27-year-old All-Star lefty Harrison with a club option for 2018 that could become guaranteed.

Japanese ace Yu Darvish heads into the second year of a $56 mil-lion, six-year deal, though there are provisions that could allow the 26-year-old right-hander to become a free agent after a year

earlier, after the 2016 season.Derek Holland, a 26-year-old

lefty, is under contract through 2016, with club options for two ad-ditional years. And Alexi Ogando, a 13-game winner and All-Star starter in 2011 before pitching out of the bullpen last season, is back in the rotation and under team control at least four more sea-sons, including his arbitration-eligible years.

“We’ve had some great in-dividual per-formances, but to look up and have Matt and Yu and Derek and Alexi, and know that the core of the rotation is going to be here — these are ac-complished young pitchers,” Daniels said. “It is evidence that all the

efforts we’ve made on the scouting and development side to put this young rotation together, that it’s paying off.”

Remember, this is a team that used to be known primarily for its slugging.

While there will be compe-tition among several young p i t c h e r s i n spring training for the No. 5 starting spot, the Rangers an-ticipate the re-turn of veteran right-hander Colby Lewis by June or July from elbow sur-gery.

Darvish had a much more low-key arrival in Arizona on Monday than a year ago, when his every move was docu-mented by international media as he

made adjustments to a new country and a new league. He went 5-1 with a 2.35 ERA, 67 strikeouts and 15 walks over his last eight starts of the regular season.

“Compared to last year, I feel so much more at ease, after fi nishing my fi rst year getting to know all the players, the coaches, the front-offi ce personnel. ... I really feel I’m part of the team now. How I feel right now, it’s a totally different feeling,” Dar-vish said before getting to Arizona. “Last year, there was more of a rush, trying to prepare at a much quicker pace. This time, I’m going at my own pace.”

Manager Ron Washington, get-ting ready for his seventh season with the Rangers, hopes Darvish can build on the consistency he showed the second half of his All-Star debut.

“I think what he accomplished was fi nding who Yu Darvish was, the same Yu Darvish we thought we had when we got him,” Wash-ington said.

Switch-hitting designated hit-ter Lance Berkman, signed after Hamilton’s departure, is likely to take over in the No. 3 spot in the lineup. The six-time All-Star was limited to 32 games last season for St. Louis because of a strained left calf and two operations on his right knee, but the Texas native expects to be ready for the regular season.

For now, the Rangers expect Nelson Cruz to be their everyday right fi elder, though he is part of a Major League Baseball investiga-tion being among several players named in a Miami New Times story about banned growth hormones and other banned performance-enhancing substances.

Cruz, third baseman Adrian Beltre and shortstop Elvis Andrus are among Rangers players expect-ed to miss some of camp to partici-pate in the World Baseball Classic. Top prospect Jurickson Profar, who could have a chance to make the 25-man roster, also might play in that international tournament.

Big changes for Rangers going into spring

““We like our club, and we like

the possibilities ahead of us.

JON DANIELSTEXAS RANGERS

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New-look Houston Astros ready for spring training, 2013 seasonKISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — New

manager, new league, a roster full of new faces and even new uniforms.

The Houston Astros have changed about as much as a baseball team can change in the aftermath of the two worst seasons in franchise history. Whether they can start winning more games after back-to-back 100-loss seasons is now the big question.

“We’ve talked about change throughout the organization, from the time (owner) Jim Crane has taken over the ball club and all the hires he has made,” manager Bo Porter said Monday before con-

ducting an informal workout for pitchers and catchers. “This year (the uniform change) kind of sets the tone because they visually see things have changed. And when you realize that things have changed, you fi rst realize that they’re never going to be the same.

“We made these changes because we want guys to understand that we have to play with a different energy, we have to play with a dif-ferent focus, we have to prepare differently because we want different outcomes.”

After losing 106 games and then 107 last season, the Astros

will conduct their first organized spring training workout Tuesday. Rather than the familiar deep red color scheme, the Astros will have a blue-and-orange look like they had in some of their early days.

“When I heard we were chang-ing colors, I was hoping this is what we’d go back to,” said catcher Jason Castro. “It’s given us a little bit of a facelift, and it’s something new and fun for everybody.”

Philip Humber, one of the new pitchers brought in to compete for one of two open spots in the Astros rotation, appreciates the change for the sake of change.

“You come in and get to wear the new uniforms, but at the same time that’s just window dressing; it’s about what we do on the fi eld,” Humber said. “I think that’s part of it, but like the new signs you see around the clubhouse, our focus needs to be about the process. We’re reshaping this organization and we’re excited to be a part of having a chance to start a new tradition, and hopefully a win-ning one.”

That will take a lot of work, as Porter acknowledged, and it may be a long time before the Astros start making a splash in the Ameri-

can League.“It doesn’t matter if you’re in

the American League, National League, Little League, T-ball, you have to work on the fundamen-tals,” he said. “I am a fi rm believer that anything that can make you lose a baseball game is major because when it happens, they’re going to say that was the biggest play of the game.”

Right-handers Bud Norris, Lu-cas Harrell and Jordan Lyle, who started a combined 86 games for the Astros last season, are penciled into Porter’s fi rst rotation. Humber will compete with several newcom-

ers, including Alex White, Erik Bedard and John Ely, for one of the other two spots.

Bullpen spots are also open, and there will be plenty of competition all over the outfi eld and at fi rst base, shortstop and third base. Por-ter stressed that the competition will go well behind spring training. It’s all part of the new attitude.

“I wouldn’t say the attitude was bad here,” said Harrell, who earned 11 of the Astros’ 55 wins in 2012. “It was just that it wasn’t necessar-ily a winning attitude where they expected to win, and that’s what we’re trying to change.”

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team looks to con-tinue its success when it takes on the No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Waco.

The Lady Raiders enter the contest having won their two previous games. Victo-

Lady Raiders look for revenge against Bearsries against West Virginia on Wednesday and TCU on Sat-urday helped the team improve to 18-6 on the season and 8-4 in Big 12 play.

Senior guard Christine Hyde had a career-high 16 points against West Virginia, along with 10 points in the vic-tory against the Horned Frogs. Casey Morris also added 18 points in Tech’s victory against TCU. The victory was the fourth road conference win for the Lady Raiders.

Tech faces a Baylor team in winning form — the Bears have won 22 straight games and are undefeated in Big 12 play. The team has scored more than 70 points in 10 conference games and has defeated its league

opponents by an average of 26 points.

Senior center Brittany Gri-ner has led Baylor, scoring 22.5 points per game along with 8.4 rebounds and 3.8 blocks.

The Lady Raiders face the Bears for the second time in two weeks. In the first matchup, Baylor outscored Tech 41-27 in the first half en route to a 90-60 victory. Griner contributed 40 points on 68 percent shooting and 15 rebounds in the win.

During the first game, Tech shot 34 percent and went 7-25 from behind the 3-point line. Junior forward Kelsi Baker led the Lady Raiders in scoring with 12 points.

Tech is fourth in the Big 12 with six conference games remaining.

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Everything about Brandt Snedeker moves at warp speed, including his rapid rise into golf ’s elite.

He talks so fast that he always seems to be a few words short of a complete sentence. He plays fast, giving his hips a quick swivel to set his position before pulling the trigger. Even his putts go into the hole quickly, most of them struck with purpose instead of hope.

But when he reached the 18th tee box at Pebble Beach, he had to wait for the fairway to clear before taking a victory stroll up one of the prettiest closing holes in golf.

And that was OK with him.“There’s not much better

place to be on the planet with a three-shot lead on that tee box,” Snedeker said Sunday. “It felt pretty special there.”

Indeed, Snedeker is in a spe-cial place.

With his 10th consecutive round in the 60s, Snedeker finally had a trophy to show for his as-tounding start to the 2013 season. He knew the opening seven holes were critical, and he made an eagle and three birdies to build a quick lead. He realized a late birdie would give him a cushion, and he fired at the flag on the par-3 17th to 10 feet below the cup and holed the putt. He closed with a 7-under 65 for a two-shot win over Chris Kirk in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

It was the fifth win of his career, and his fourth in the last 22 months. But it’s the last six months that have really turned heads.

He captured the $10 million FedEx Cup prize with a win at the

Tour Championship, where he held off the likes of Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and Luke Donald going into the final round. He played in his first Ryder Cup. He started this year with a third-place at Kapalua, and runner-up finishes in consecutive weeks to Woods and Phil Mickelson, both of whom had big leads going into the final round.

Go back to the start of the Fe-dEx Cup playoffs last August and Snedeker now has six top 3s in his last nine starts. Since missing the cut at the PGA Championship, he has broken par in 33 out of 37 rounds. No wonder he now is No. 4 in the world, the best ranking of his career.

“Just hard to put into words, to have a stretch of golf like I had the last couple of months,” Snedeker said. “Something you dream about. Something you think that you can do, but you don’t really know until you actu-ally put it together. And I have.

“I’m really enjoying this, and hopefully can parlay this into the best year of my career.”

Snedeker set the tournament record at 19-under 267, one shot better than Mickelson (2007) and Mark O’Meara (1997), who each had a 20-under 268 when Poppy Hills (par 72) was part of the rotation. It has been replaced by Monterey Peninsula, which is a par 70.

Chris Kirk closed with a 66 to finish alone in second, though he was never closer than two shots of the lead on the back nine and fin-ished with a birdie. Kirk finished on 269, a score that would have been good enough to win all but four times at Pebble Beach since this tournament began in 1937.

“We’ve had a lot of tourna-ments like that on tour this year where somebody has really just kind of blitzed the field,” Kirk said. “I felt like I played well enough to win a golf tournament and came up a little bit short.”

Snedeker could have said the same thing — except for Woods at Torrey Pines, and Mickelson going obscenely low to win the Phoenix Open.

He wasn’t about to take a back seat to anyone at Pebble Beach.

Snedeker started the final round tied with James Hahn, a 31-year-old rookie from the Bay Area, with Kirk one shot be-hind. He set the tone early with a 4-iron into the par-5 second hole that was on the edge of the left green. It hit the collar and kicked slightly to the right, roll-ing toward the pin until it settled 4 feet behind the cup.

“Kind of lucky, but it was a good shot, and to end up where it did was a great way to start the day,” he said.

Hahn hit his approach high and pure, and it nearly hit Sne-deker’s ball before stopping 6 feet away. Hahn missed. Snedeker made. It was like that over the front nine.

Snedeker started to pull away with a 3-wood that came off the edge of the green, ran by the cup and stopped 20 feet away for a two-putt birdie. Then, he holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the seventh and was on his way.

Most impressive about Sne-deker this week was bouncing back from bogey. He made five bogeys for the entire week, and four times made birdie on the next hole. On Sunday, his lone mistake was knocking an 18-foot

birdie off the green and three-putting for bogey at No. 9.

The answer, like everything else about him, was fast and furious.

He knocked in a 25-foot birdie putt on the 10th, and then holed from 15 feet for birdie on the 12th. Right when it looked as though he would make another bogey on the par-3 12th, he made par from just short of 10 feet.

There’s a reason Snedeker led the PGA Tour in putting last year, though it’s his driving that has vastly improved. Snedeker studied some statistics last year that showed his odds of hitting the green go way up when he starts in the fairway. And once he’s on the green, he’s tough to beat.

Hahn, who shot 70 and tied for third, was looking forward to learning something from his debut in the final group, and he saw Snedeker put on a clinic.

“I learned that he is a better guy than he is a golfer. The dude is world class,” Hahn said. “He’s obviously one of the best, if not the best golfer right now, and pos-sibly for the last year. But how he conducts himself as a person on an off the golf course, that’s also world class. He deserved to win today. ... I’m sure if you ask him, it was never a doubt that he was go-ing to win the golf tournament.”

Snedeker concurred.“I definitely didn’t want to do

anything but win today,” he said. “I was out there for one purpose and one purpose only, and I was extremely focused all day. I did a great job of staying patient and I did a great job of playing the golf course the way you’re supposed to play it.”

Snedeker on the rise with Pebble win

(AP) — Indiana coach Tom Crean used an analogy to the state’s second favorite sport after the Hoo-siers remained No. 1 in The As-sociated Press’ Top 25 for a second straight week.

It had been over a month since a team managed to stay on top, and Indiana broke that trend despite los-ing a game last week, leading Crean to bring up auto racing.

“I had a good friend tell me that in-season rankings are the barometer of representing what lane you’re in and the direction and how far you are moving towards your goals,” Crean said Monday. “We want to stay in the left lane and keep working on our team and pace because we know there are quite a few others in the left lane as well.”

The Hoosiers (21-3) lost to Il-linois on a last-second basket Thurs-day but rebounded with a win at then-No.10 Ohio State on Sunday. In a week when four of the top fi ve teams and six of the top 10 lost, it was

Indiana stays at No. 1 in AP Top 25 despite loss

enough to keep the No. 1 ranking.“They were really disappointed

on Thursday night. And instead of carrying that disappointment into a ‘woe is me’ mentality, they really did trigger how to get better. And I think it was in the sense of closing games,” Crean said.

“I think there was a different lev-el, a sense of urgency because of the way we didn’t fi nish it off, combined with the fact that we knew we were playing a team that it is outstanding.”

This ends a stretch of fi ve con-secutive weeks with a new No. 1, two weeks short of the longest such stretch in 1993-94. Duke started the run followed by Louisville, Duke again, Michigan and Indiana.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Otto Porter scored 11 of his 21 points after a momentum-shifting technical foul on Marquette coach Buzz Williams, and No. 15 Georgetown won a stop-and-start game of turnovers and whistles Monday night, beating the 18th-ranked Golden Eagles 63-55 to move into a tie for second in the Big East.

Porter scored Georgetown’s next six points after Williams was whistled while arguing an out-of-bounds call along the baseline with 12:13 to play. The Golden Eagles had cut a 10-point halftime defi cit to three, but the Hoyas went on an 8-1 run immediately after the technical, and Marquette didn’t get closer than eight points the rest of the way.

Georgetown scored 24 points off Marquette’s 19 turnovers, and Markel Starks added 16 points for the Hoyas (18-4, 8-3 Big East), who won their sixth straight and avenged a 49-48 loss at Marquette on Jan. 5.

Jamil Wilson scored 13 points to lead the Golden Eagles (17-6, 8-3), who fell into a tie with Georgetown behind conference-leader Syracuse (8-2). Chris Otule scored eight of Marquette’s fi rst 11 points, but had only three the rest of the game.

Georgetown won despite going nearly 7 minutes without a fi eld goal to start the second half. The Hoyas went 9 for 24 from the fi eld in the second half, but they compensated by making 11 of 17 free throws in a half that had 24 combined fouls.

With both teams playing aggressive defense and the offi cials calling a tight game, the flow was practically non-existent. Instead of trading baskets, the Hoyas and Golden Eagles were swapping some combination of turnovers, steals and offensive fouls.

Georgetown didn’t score a fi eld goal in the second half until Jabril Trawick’s baseline layup with 13:04 to play, but the pace was so laborious that the Golden Eagles were only able to outscore the Hoyas 8-2 during that span.

Meanwhile, Williams, known for his inability to stay in front of his bench, was again pushing the envelope — twice venturing close to the midcourt circle with play under way in the fi rst half. Of-fi cials spoke to Williams at length after he ran far onto the court to call a timeout, but no technical foul was assessed, and Georgetown fans began serenading him with chants of “Off the court!” in the second half.

No. 15 Georgetown tops No. 18 Marquette 63-55

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