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Society hands out bananas to celebrate Darwin’s birthday

A college-aged male in a monkey suit — a child’s monkey suit — braved the near-freezing weather to hand out bananas Tuesday.

Tuesday marked Charles Darwin’s 204th birthday, and the Secular Stu-dent Society of Texas Tech wanted to celebrate in a unique way.

Jason Landrum, a junior English ma-jor from Katy, was the chosen member to wear a monkey costume and pass out bananas in the Free Speech Area.

EMMETT BUHMANN, THE master electrician and set shop foreman, works on welding to create a dolly for a fog machine needed for the upcoming play “The Seagull” on Monday in the Charles E. Jr. Maedgen Theatre. “The Seagull” will be presented from Feb. 28 through March 3 in the Maedgen Theatre.

PHOTO BY EMILY MCCARTHY/The Daily Toreador

MAEDGEN MASTERStudent explains how Hope Chest program helped him

Ste’Vaughn Williams was adopted, but looked like the man he called father.

This eventually became a problem. After his adoptive parents’ divorce

when he was 5 years old, Williams’ mother began to change.

“Slowly but surely,” Williams said, “she started taking it out on me.”

On Jan. 1, 2007, this tension reached a peak. Shortly before he turned 17, Wil-liams’ mother tried to drown him.

“After that I went into (Child Protec-tive Services) and stayed in an emergency shelter for two months before moving to an actual home,” he said. “After about eight months they finally relinquished her rights, and I technically became a ward of the state.”

Williams did not let his troubles stop him from finishing his education, though. He moved in with a friend from high school and became part of his fam-ily. Now, he is a senior interdisciplinary studies major from Los Angeles, looking forward to his college graduation.

“I’ve always wanted to go to college,” he said. “I’ve always been told, ‘You need to do better.’”

College was not easy for Williams at first. He said he struggled.

“It was just an adjustment coming from the situation I came from,” he said. “I had to sit out a year because of my grades.”

With help from employees of Buckner Children & Family Services of Lubbock, Williams was able to get back on track again through a program titled Hope Chest.

“I kind of lost that motivation, and they helped — basically they set me straight by sitting me down and telling me I was messing up a great opportunity I have,” Williams said. “It helped me turn everything around academically and what was going on with me psychologically and emotionally. I got everything back together with the support they offered, even when I didn’t want it.”

Buckner International is a Dallas-based Christian ministry that is dedicated to strengthening at-risk children and families and has served Lubbock and sur-rounding counties since 1958. Its After-Care program helps former foster youth, such as Williams, transition from the state’s care into self-sufficient adulthood.

N. Korea brandishing nukes to get US to talk peace

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The way North Korea sees it, only bigger weapons and more threatening provocations will force Washington to come to the table to discuss what Pyongyang says it really wants: peace.

It’s no coincidence that North Korea’s third underground nuclear test — and by all indications so far its most powerful yet — took place Tuesday on the eve of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.

As perplexing as the tactic may seem to the outside world, it serves as an attention-getting reminder to the world that North Korea may be poor but has the power to upset regional security and stability.

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Obama delivers State of the Union addressWASHINGTON (AP) — Uncompro-

mising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use gov-ernment money to create jobs and strengthen the nation’s middle class. He declared Republi-can ideas for reducing the defi cit “even worse” than the unpalatable deals Washington had to stomach during his fi rst term.

In his first State of the Union address since winning re-election, Obama conceded economic revival is an “unfi nished task,” but he claimed clear progress and said he prepared to build on it as he embarks on four more years in offi ce.

“We have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed confi dence that the state of our union is strong,” Obama said in an hour-long address to a joint session of Congress and a television audience of millions.

Yet with unemployment persistently high and consumer confi dence falling, the economy

remains a vulner-ability for Obama and could disrupt his plans for pursuing a broader agenda, in-cluding immigration overhaul, stricter gun laws and climate change legislation.

Obama also an-nounced new steps to reduce the U.S. military footprint abroad, with 34,000 Ameri-can troops withdrawing from Afghanistan within a year. And he had a sharp rebuke for North Korea, which launched a nuclear test just hours before his remarks, saying, “Provo-cations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further.”

In specifi c proposals for shoring up the economy in his second term, an assertive Obama called for increased federal spending

to fi x the nation’s roads and bridges, the fi rst increase in the minimum wage in six years and expansion of early education to every Ameri-can 4-year-old. Seeking to appeal for support from Republicans, he promised that none of his proposals would increase the defi cit “by a single dime” although he didn’t explain how he would pay for his programs or how much they would cost.

In the Republican response to Obama’s ad-dress, rising GOP star Marco Rubio of Florida came right back at the president, saying his solution “to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend more.”

Sen. Rubio, in prepared remarks, said presidents of both parties have recognized that the free enterprise system brings middle-class prosperity.

“But President Obama?” Rubio said. “He believes it’s the cause of our problems.”

Still, throughout the House chamber there

were symbolic displays of bipartisanship. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., arrived early and sat with Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., just returned in January nearly a year after suffering a debilitat-ing stroke. As a captain in the National Guard, Duckworth lost both her legs while serving in Iraq in 2004.

A few aisles away, the top two tax writers in Congress, Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., sat together.

But as a sign that divisions still remain, three of the most conservative Supreme Court justices skipped Obama’s speech. Six of the nine attended. Missing were Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito.

Jobs and growth dominated Obama’s ad-dress. Many elements of his economic blue-print were repacked proposals from his fi rst term that failed to gain traction on Capitol Hill.

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TOBECHI OLERU, A freshman pre-physical therapy major from McKinney, reaches for various jewels to decorate his masquerade mask during a Mardi Gras party Tuesday inside the Wall Residence Hall study lounge.

Mardi Gras feathers into Wall/Gates Residence HallFeathers, beads and masks were the

key decorating tools Tuesday night as the Wall Gates complex council hosted their mask decorating pizza party to kick of the Mardi Gras celebration.

“This event came to be because we made an executive decision to gather people around the campus and have a social gathering,” Tanner Morgan, Wall fifth floor representative said.

Students from across the campus joined together in the study lounge to join in the celebration, including fresh-man Juanita Lopez.

“I heard about this event from my C.A. and the signs that were posted in the lobby because I live in Gates,” Lopez said. “I’m making a mask right now. I put a lot of feathers on it.”

Mardi Gras comes from the French terms meaning “Fat Tuesday,” a reli-gious holiday marking the night before Ash Wednesday. Traditionally, it’s the last night of eating fatty foods before beginning the season of Lent.

“People are eating lots of pizza, get-

ting beads, making masks and celebrat-ing Mardi Gras,” Morgan said.

Mardi Gras is widely celebrated around the world, most notably in the form of the Brazilian Carnaval, a week-long celebration including elaborate costumes, dancing and parties. The largest Mardi Gras celebration in the United States is in New Orleans, due to the large French presence.

“It’s super fun,” Morgan said. “It’s really cool and I like socializing. I like meeting other people. I love pizza and making masks and crafts and stuff.”

According to the Residence Hall As-sociation’s website, each complex has a complex council, which is a branch of the RHA. They determine the rules for each individual residence hall and they have leaders who work in the dorms to assist the students living there.

“I got involved because I realized people were making decisions about the complex I lived in and wanted to be involved in, so I just decided to come join and here I am,” Morgan said.

According to their website, RHA invites any student interested in being involved in planning campus events to

attend their meetings. “I plan to get more involved and

meet new people,” Lopez said. “I want to come to more events like these.”

Upcoming events include the Marc Grecco Basketball Tournament, a drag show, a Wounded Warrior Project ben-

efit concert and a drunken dodgeball tournament, according to the RHA calendar.

RHA meets at 7 pm every Tuesday in the Leadership Development Center at Carpenter-Wells Complex.

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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 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? Come enjoy a performance from Texas Tech’s own improv troupe.

One Billion RisingTime: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.Where: Memorial CircleSo, what is it? Come to Memorial Circle to join activists to end violence against women and girl.

Dancing with Mr. Darcy: A Jane Austen Evening with the TTU Vernacular MusicTime: 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.Where: Museum of Texas TechSo, what is it? Tickets are $20 per person, $35 per pair. All tickets must be purchased in advance.

WWJS ToastmastersTime: 7 p.m.Where: Mardel’sSo, what is it? Come join the members of “What Would Jesus Say” Toastmasters Club as they try to enhance your ability to express their faith while maturing and becoming more like Christ.

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Second-year medical student Justin Berk received the Ameri-can Medical Association Founda-tion’s National Leadership Award Monday at AMA’s 10th annual Excellence in Medicine Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

According to the event pro-gram, the award is presented to early-career physicians, medical students, residents and fellows who exhibit leadership qualities in community service, education organized medicine or public health.

Berk, an MD/MBA student from Amarillo, said 20 people received the leadership award.

“It’s the only AMA foundation award that recognizes students,” he said. “There is a similar or equivalent award for medical residents, for physicians, but this was the only student award that AMA foundation provides.”

The award was presented at the AMA National Advocacy Conference, Berk said, where the recipients participated in leader-ship training.

The par-ticipants, he said, devel-oped ski l l s i n v o l v i n g topics rang-i n g f r o m advocacy to communica-tion.

“There’s over 350 medical stu-dents that are coming just to learn about advocacy, just to check out the conference,” Berk said, “and then it culminates at the end of the conference where physicians and students will actually go to the Capitol and lobby for the AMA agenda.”

Berk said he found out about the award from AMA emails, and applied by submitting an applica-tion and resume and answering short answer questions.

Berk was notifi ed by email of his receipt of the award, and he said he is honored to have the opportunity to receive the award and attend the conference.

“The award’s great,” he said, “but also just the opportunity to just enjoy the conference, to meet other people, to meet leaders in

the health care fi eld and to receive some advocacy training is a pretty big deal. It’s pretty awesome.”

Dr. Tedd Mitchell, president of Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, said the award looked at the best up-and-coming medical students in the country and is more holistic because it looks at the future of medicine.

“For Justin, it’s obviously a huge accolade and something that will follow him for the rest of his medical career,” he said. “As he’s applying for residency programs, it will stand out. As he’s applying for any fellowship program, it will stand out as he’s applying for positions.”

Mitchell said the award gives the university the opportunity to showcase the success of students and allow others to take notice of the program.

Berk, he said, was admitted to several big medical schools and chose to come back to West Texas for school instead.

Mitchell said Berk has re-mained active with his academics and service since coming to medi-cal school.

Berk said he is the student

director of the Lubbock Impact/HSC Free Clinic, social chair of his class and vice president of the student AMA and Texas Medical Association chapter at Tech.

Berk graduated from Yale University with an undergradu-ate degree in political science, he said. He also received a master’s degree in public health from Yale School of Public Health before attending medical school.

Berk said he chose to pursue a master’s degree in public health because he was passionate about the topic and the idea of provid-ing health care by improving health and the quality of life of people on a large scale like physi-cians do.

“I feel like anyone who’s ever seen a sick person, you know, that’s when people’s quality of life is lower than normal and you’re able to offer a lending hand,” Berk said.

After Berk graduates from medical school, he said he wants to participate in internal or fam-ily medicine where he can see patients, do clinical work and focus on public health.

Medical student receives leadership awardBy EMILY GARDNER

STAFF WRITER

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Birthday ↵CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1The society handed out 68 bananas

in about 20 minutes.Alain Arduain, a senior com-

puter science major from Lubbock, said monkeys and bananas usually are associated with evolution.

The bananas featured strips of

paper with quotes about evolution and secularism, Arduain said.

“We were just giving them out saying, ‘Have a good day, here’s a banana,’” he said with a laugh.

James Casey-Snyder, secretary of the society, said Darwin is an impor-tant name in science.

“He came up with the theory of evolution,” said the electrical engineering graduate student from

Cleburne, “and as the founder of such a big thought — that’s a weird way to say it — but it’s important to remem-ber those people. The ideas and what he actually went through when he thought it up. I mean, it was a fringe idea when he came up with it, and now it’s — scientifi cally, it’s a sound theory. There’s no real debate about it in the science community.”

While most of the members of the

society are agnostic or atheist, Arduain said the society wanted to show reli-gion can be a part of evolution.

“We don’t want it to mean you can’t be religious,” he said, “but we’re just saying evolution and religion can work together — or not if you don’t want to be religious or anything. But evolution is kind of a separate thing, and we wanted to show that.”➤➤pskinner@dailytoreador.com

BIG BEAR, Calif. (AP) — The extraordinary manhunt for the former Los Angeles police offi cer suspected of three murders converged Tuesday on a mountain cabin where authorities believe he barricaded himself inside, engaged in a shootout that killed a deputy and then never emerged as the home went up in fl ames.

A single gunshot was heard from within, and a charred body was found inside.

If the man inside proves to be Chris-topher Dorner, as authorities suspect, the search for the most wanted man in America over the last week would have ended the way he had expected — death, with the police pursuing him.

Thousands of offi cers had been on the hunt for the former Navy reservist since police said he launched a campaign to exact revenge against the Los Angeles Police Department for his fi ring. They

say he threatened to bring “warfare” to offi cers and their families, spreading fear and setting off a search for him across the Southwest and Mexico.

“Enough is enough. It’s time for you to turn yourself in. It’s time to stop the bloodshed,” LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said at a news conference held outside police headquarters in Los An-geles, a starkly different atmosphere than last week when offi cials briefed the news media under tight security with Dorner on the loose.

A short time after Smith spoke Tuesday, smoke began to rise from the cabin in the snow-covered woods near Big Bear Lake, a resort town about 80 miles east of Los Angeles. Flames then engulfed the building — images that were broadcast on live television around the world. TV helicopters showed the fi re burning freely with no apparent effort to extinguish it.

Address ↵CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1Standing in Obama’s way now

is a Congress that remains nearly as divided as it was during the fi nal years of his fi rst term, when Washington lurched from one crisis to another.

The president implored lawmak-ers to break through partisan logjams, asserting that “the greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manu-factured crisis to the next.”

“Americans don’t expect govern-ment to solve every problem,” he said. “They do expect us to forge rea-sonable compromise where we can.”

Yet Obama offered few signs of being willing to compromise himself, instead doubling down on his calls to create jobs by spending more govern-ment money and insisting that law-makers pay down the defi cit through a combination of targeted spending cuts and tax increases. But he offered few specifi cs on what he wanted to see cut, focusing instead on the need to protect programs that help the middle class, elderly and poor.

He did reiterate his willingness to tackle entitlement changes, par-

ticularly on Medicare, though he has ruled out increasing the eligibility age for the popular benefi t program for seniors.

Republicans are ardently opposed to Obama’s calls for legislating more tax revenue to reduce the defi cit and offset broad the automatic spending cuts — known as the sequester — that are to take effect March 1. The president accused GOP lawmakers of shifting the cuts from defense to programs that would help the middle class and elderly, as well as those sup-porting education and job training.

“That idea is even worse,” he said.Obama broke little new ground

on two agenda items he has pushed vigorously since winning re-election: overhauling the nation’s fractured immigration laws and enacting tougher gun control measures in the wake of the horrifi c massacre of school children in Newtown, Conn. Yet he pressed for urgency on both, calling on Congress to send him an immigration bill “in the next few months” and insisting lawmakers hold votes on his gun proposals.

“Each of these proposals deserves a vote in Congress,” he said. “If you want to vote no, that’s your choice.”

Numerous lawmakers wore green lapel ribbons in memory of those killed in the December shootings in Connecticut. Among those watching in the House gallery: the parents of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, shot and killed recently in a park just a mile from the president’s home in Chicago, as well as other victims of gun violence.

On the economy, Obama called for raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 by 2015. The mini-mum wage has been stagnant since 2007, and administration offi cials

said the increase would strengthen purchasing power. The president also wants Congress to approve automatic increases in the wage to keep pace with infl ation.

Looking for common ground any-where he could fi nd it, Obama framed his proposal to boost the minimum wage by pointing out that even his GOP presidential rival liked the idea. He said, “Here’s an idea that Gov. Romney and I actually agreed on last year: Let’s tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it fi nally becomes a wage you can live on.”

Obama also renewed his calls for infrastructure spending, invest-ments he sought repeatedly during his fi rst term with little support from Republicans. He pressed lawmakers to approve a $50 billion “fi x it fi rst” program that would address the most urgent infrastructure needs.

Education also fi gures in Obama’s plans to boost American com-petitiveness in the global economy. Under his proposal, the federal government would help states pro-vide pre-school for all 4-year-olds. Offi cials did not provide a cost for the pre-school programs but said the government would provide fi nancial incentives to help states.

Among the other initiatives Obama is proposing:

— A $1 billion plan to create 15 “manufacturing institutes” that would bring together businesses, universities and the government. If Congress opposes the initiative, Obama plans to use his presidential powers to create three institutes on his own.

— Creation of an “energy security trust” that would use revenue from federal oil and gas leases to sup-port development of clean energy

technologies such as biofuels and natural gas

— Doubling of renewable energy in the U.S. from wind, solar and geothermal sources by 2020.

Tuesday night’s address marked Obama’s most expansive remarks on the economy since the November election. Since securing a second term, the president has focused more heavily on new domestic policy proposals, including immigration changes and preventing gun vio-lence following the horrifi c shoot-ing of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn.

Obama also called on Congress to tackle the threat of climate change, another issue that eluded him in his fi rst term. The president pledged to work with lawmakers to seek biparti-san solutions but said if Capitol Hill doesn’t act, he’ll order his Cabinet to seek steps he can take using his presidential powers.

Taking a swipe at those who question the threat of global warm-ing, Obama said, “We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfi res some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judg-ment of science - and act before it’s too late.”

Obama also called on Congress to pass legislation giving the govern-ment more power to combat the rap-idly growing threat of cyberattacks. And, as a down payment on that, the president announced that he has signed an executive order to fi ght electronic espionage through the de-velopment of voluntary standards to protect networks and computer sys-tems that run critical infrastructure.

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Another major Dell shareholder opposes $24.4B saleSAN FRANCISCO (AP) —

A shareholder rebellion against Dell’s proposed $24.4 billion sale to its founder and other investors is gaining more support, fueling a belief that the struggling per-sonal computer maker will have to wrangle a higher price to get the deal done.

Mutual fund firm T. Rowe Price joined the opposit ion Tuesday. T. Rowe Price and an-other shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management, believe that founder and CEO Michael Dell and the investment firm Silver Lake are being allowed to seize control and end Dell Inc.’s 25-year history as a publicly held company for too little money.

“We believe the proposed buyout does not reflect the value of Dell, and we do not intend to support the offer as put forward,” T. Rowe Price Chairman Brian Rogers said in a statement.

Balt imore-based T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and South-eastern are the two largest inde-pendent shareholders and own nearly 13 percent of the company combined. Michael Dell has committed his 14 percent stake toward the deal, but he is the only investor to own more stock than either of the two.

Although Dell remains one of the world’s largest technol-ogy companies, with about $57 billion in annual revenue, it has

become less attractive to inves-tors as smartphones and tablet computers siphon sales away from PCs. To make matters worse, Dell has been losing market share to its rivals. The company once was the world’s largest PC maker, but now ranks third behind Hewlett-Packard Co. and Lenovo Group.

Michael Dell believes it will be easier to accelerate Dell’s expansion into more lucrative areas such as technology consult-ing and business software if the company doesn’t have to cater to Wall Street’s fixation on whether profits are rising from one quarter to the next.

The company, which is based in Round Rock, Texas, said it re-

mains convinced that it is selling at a fair price, which represents a 25 percent premium from where the stock stood before word of the buyout negotiations leaked last month. During the talks, Dell’s board said it also considered a wide range of other alternatives. The proposed price of $13.65 is more than 40 per-cent below Dell’s stock price of roughly $24 six years ago when Dell returned for a second stint as CEO.

Southeastern, which came out against the proposed deal last week, argues that Dell is worth $23.72 per share, or about $42 billion. T. Rowe Price didn’t provide an estimate of what it

believes Dell is worth.It’s still unclear how other

large Dell shareholders feel about the deal, but the opinions of Southeastern and T. Rowe Price seem likely to embolden others to join the resistance. Southeast-ern owns an 8.4 percent stake in Dell, according to a Tuesday regulatory filing that revised the size of its stake from 8.5 percent in documents submitted last week. T. Rowe Price owns a 4.4 percent stake in Dell, according to FactSet.

Michael Dell is contributing his holdings to the proposed sale, along with cash that will bring his total financial commitment to about $4.5 billion. The rest

of the proposed deal’s financing is being provided by Silver Lake and loans from Microsoft Corp. and an array of banks.

In a Tuesday research note, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek predicted the current offer will have to be sweetened to $15 per share, or nearly $27 billion, to placate riled shareholders.

Dell’s stock is now trading above the current offer, a sign that more investors are becoming convinced the bid will be raised. Dells shares gained 9 cents to close at $13.79 Tuesday.

The door remains open for another suitor to emerge. Dell said it will accept other bids until late March.

Texas Senate starts work on $2B water fund

AUSTIN (AP) — The part-time board that oversees Texas water proj-ects has been ineffective and should be replaced by a full-time board with more funding and accountability, a state senator told colleagues Tuesday in asking for $2 billion to pay for future water needs.

Sen. Troy Fraser, chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, blasted the Texas Water Development Board for failing to set priorities. He said he asked the board more than two years ago to give him a list of the 50 most important water projects in the state and that he’s still waiting for an answer.

Often, he said, it’s diffi cult to get the six part-time board members on the phone to discussion the state’s water issues.

“Every time you ask them a ques-tion, they give you a non-answer and that’s part of the frustration I’m hav-ing,” the Marble Falls Republican told his committee. “Every group believes their project is the most important and the competition between the 16 (water planning groups) at times has been problematic.”

Fraser is the lead sponsor of a plan to overhaul the water board and tak-ing $2 billion from the state’s Rainy Day Fund to create a new water de-velopment fund. He wants to create a full-time, three-member board that will use the fund to fi nance some of the 562 proposed water projects across the state.

In 2011, Texas underwent the

worst one-year drought in the state’s history and still has not fully recov-ered. The State Water Plan says the state needs to spend $53 billion over the next 50 years in order to meet the growing water demand.

The Legislative Budget Board told lawmakers that the new fund could leverage enough bond money to cover those costs. Other alternatives included creating or increasing water-related taxes and fees to cover the costs of new water projects.

Fraser’s Senate Bill 4 would allocate money for water projects so that 10 percent goes to rural infrastructure and 10 percent goes for conservation. But he was quick to add that he wants to give the public and other lawmakers plenty of time to comment on and help shape the bill over the next few weeks.

“I am throwing this out for discus-sion ... to fi nd out the direction the Legislature wants to go,” Fraser said. “This is one we’re going to work on for a while.”

Besides concentrating the board and creating a State Water Fund of Texas, the bill would create a nine-member advisory panel that would review projects put forward by regional water planning committees. The panel would then prioritize water projects and recommend them to the board for fi nancing.

On Tuesday, the committee only heard invited testimony in support of the bill. Fraser promised public testi-mony would come later.

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PHOTO BY LAUREN PAPE/The Daily Toreador

REID PRATHER, A freshman at Coronado High School, plays trombone with the Coronado High School Jazz Band on Tuesday in the Student Union Building during the Tech Activities Board’s Cajun Culture Celebration. The celebration included Cajun food, games and mask decorating.

Sandy was 2nd-costliest hurricane in US

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Superstorm Sandy was the deadliest hurricane in the northeastern U.S. in 40 years and the second-costliest in the nation’s history, according to a report released Tuesday.

The storm’s effects reached far and wide, according to the National Hur-ricane Center report. While Sandy visited devastation on the East Coast, principally New Jersey and New York, it created wind gusts as far west as Wis-consin and as far north as Canada and caused water levels to rise from Florida to Maine, the center found.

The hurricane center attributed 72 U.S. deaths directly to Sandy, from Maryland to New Hampshire. That is more than any hurricane to affect the northeastern U.S. since Hurricane Ag-nes killed 122 people in 1972, according to the center’s records covering 1851 to 2010. The report counted at least 87 other deaths that were indirectly tied to Sandy, from causes such as hypothermia due to power outages, carbon monoxide poisoning and accidents during cleanup efforts.

The deadliest hurricane in U.S. his-tory hit Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed 8,000 to 12,000 people.

Tuesday’s report estimated damage caused by Sandy at $50 billion, greater than any U.S. hurricane except Katrina, which in 2005 caused $108 billion in damage, or $128 billion adjusted to 2012 dollars. Hurricane Andrew in 1992 caused $26.5 billion in damage in Florida, or the equivalent of $44 billion today.

The damage and fatality estimates are in line with previous fi gures compiled by states and the federal government.

The report describes Sandy’s begin-nings as a tropical wave off the coast of Africa on Oct. 11 that initially produced a wide area of showers and thunder-storms in the eastern Atlantic. It reached the Caribbean on Oct. 18 and gradually strengthened into a hurricane by Oct. 24. The storm grew signifi cantly as it passed through the Bahamas on Oct. 25 and 26, so that by the time it reached landfall in southern New Jersey its diameter was 870 nautical miles, or about 1,000 miles.

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vice president. The SGA website describes for what each of these positions is responsible. Student body president, Alex Alston, is the spokesman for students to the Board of Regents, administra-tion, and national organizations. He also is responsible for ap-pointing more than 130 students to committees and councils.

Reed Young, external vice president, is the liaison between students and the city of Lubbock. Noelle Trotter, internal vice president, serves as the president of the senate. Essentially, she supervises the entire legislative branch.

Student government does a lot for the student body. It is important for us to realize we have a voice in choosing these higher-ups.

At the January 31 Senate meeting, the Senate voted in favor of adding two polls to this year’s election ballot. First, they will ask students’ opinions on whether or not Tech should become a smoke and tobacco-free campus. The other poll is to ask whether or not students are in favor of being able to carry a concealed weapon on campus.

This is the best way to get the opinions of the student body, which is a little hard to do when the voters do not accurately represent the amount of people on campus.

It truly baffles me how people get upset and complain about issues on our campus without actually wanting to do anything about it. It is our duty, as the student body, to make major

decisions. We seem to forget that we are a self-governing body in many respects. We choose our executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Each of these branches has access to immense power. It is our duty to give that power to the right person.

Do you hold a concealed handgun license? If you do and you believe you should be al-lowed to carry it concealed on your college campus, then you should vote. Do you smoke be-tween classes? If so, you should vote. These polls are preliminary, but their results could affect our future on this campus. Depend-ing on the final tally about concealed carrying, the student senate could submit legislation to the Texas Legislation. Depending on the tally about a smoke and

tobacco-free campus, there may be changes on our campus soon.

So i f you can ’t make i t through every school day with-out a cigarette, vote. Your anger at not being able to indulge in daily nicotine while walking on campus will be unwarranted if you elect not to vote. Your op-portunity to do something on our campus is here. Take it. If you are an underclassman, I strongly encourage you to run for office next year. Be involved. Make a difference on your campus. We are all given this opportunity to do so. If you choose to let it slip, it will be your own fault.

By NICKY GUERREIROHARVARD POLITICAL REVIEW (HARVARD U.)

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“You can’t complain if you don’t vote.”

This common phrase holds so much truth. It is equally as true on the Texas Tech campus.

Tech’s Student Government Association hosts general elec-tions every year and it appears the student body fails to realize just how much power SGA has.

The legislative branch con-sists of the Student Senate. Student Senate meetings ad-dress legislation much like other governmental bodies under the guidelines of parliamentary pro-cedure, according to the SGA website. The legislation writ-ten by the senate ranges from whether to put a poll on the election ballot to changing the constitution.

The judicial branch is vested in a Supreme court. The court upholds SGA constitutional law. If students feel a bill or resolution passed by the senate is unconsti-tutional or violates their rights, the Supreme Court can handle it. All anyone would have to do is submit a petition to review to the court, and the court would look into it.

The executive branch consists of the president, the external vice president and the internal

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Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement Monday, becoming the fi rst Pope in nearly 600 years to take such a step. The announce-ment was met with widespread and wide-ranging emotions across the US, with virtually every news outlet providing a story on the event. As the news cyclone swirled Monday, facts forwarded and ex-planations grasped at, I couldn’t help but become utterly stuck to one simple question that seemed to sink like a stone amongst a sea of more complex and elaborate queries: Why?

Why does this matter? Why does it matter that a Pope whose most notable steps have been the further alienation of an already alienated, archaic religion is step-ping down? Indeed, when all is said and done, I do believe Pope Bene-dict’s most notable action in his eight year Papal tenure will be his termination of that tenure. That statement’s meant as a backhanded slap, to be sure, but also as a serious critique of a man who, among other things, ignored increasing cries to allow women into the priesthood, accept gay Catholics into the church, and unite more closely and harmoniously with other world religions. Given these actions, I believe Benedict XVI will go down as a weak Pope. However, this does not mean, unfortunately, that I hold any great hope for Benedict’s successor.

The antiquated and immovable moral foundations of the Catholic Church — and all world religions for that matter — are increasingly at odds with the largely secular moral framework of our country. An example of this would be the great strides our country has taken in the areas of gay rights and gender equality, the biggest obstacles to which have come from organized religion, both in the Catholic Church and various fundamentalist Protestant sects.

The heyday of Catholicism, and of Christian religion in America, is dwindling. Polls and statistics

show that increasingly younger generations are abandoning the religions in which they were raised. If they are anything like me, they are doing this not as a matter of theological objection or a rejec-tion of the sense of community the church provides, but from an awareness of the ever-widening gap between their own ideals and the Church’s. Catholicism’s failure to adapt and solve — or at the very least hear out — issues concerning gay rights, contraception and gen-der equality may be winning them points with the older, conservative generations. But these are not the people the Catholic Church must win over if it wishes to survive in the U.S. and globally. The church must win a young following, and to do this they will likely have to do something very diffi cult for an organization founded on the teach-ings of historical fi gures: They will have to look to uncharted territory.

I write this column not as a mili-tant atheist. I was raised Catholic and am no longer. I have doubts, certainly, about the absolute guar-antee of a greater power beyond that which I can see and hear myself, just as I have doubts about most things that are told to me in black and white and with absolute conviction. I am, however, open to the possibility of a God. Heck, I may even want one. If I am to become a religious adherent in my adult life, however, the Church is going to have to meet me half way. They are also going to have to admit, hard as it may be for them, that there are some things they are not sure about, theologically, mor-ally and socially. As it stands now, the Church equates all uncertainty with weakness, and anything less than iron conviction with fallacy. This may have worked for our parents’ generation, serving a rock on which to lean, but we are the generation of uncertainty, and we do not mind if our leaders show themselves to be human.

I mentioned before that I hold no great hope for the next Pope. Indeed, I am a cynic, and it may be hard to fully please me unless the next Pope is Barack Obama.

Retired Pope XVI, brighter future

Are you there God? It’s me, common sense

President Obama had the mis-fortune of the entire nation see-ing his face become more and more pinched and constipated-looking during Dr. Benjamin Carson’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast this past week.

Carson, a neurosurgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, took the stage Thursday morning with a speech that critiqued the tax system, Obamacare and political correctness — all while referencing Jesus. It was beautiful and it made me wish C-SPAN was a more watched channel.

While Carson’s speech began innocent enough, quoting verses from the Bible such as “‘With his mouth the Godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowl-edge the righteous escapes, ’” the rest of the speech drifted far from anything Obama expected.

Carson first ripped apart the entire idea of political correct-ness (thank the Lord — wait am I allowed to say that, or will too many people be offended?). He condemned it as something that “muffl es” American citizens. Needless to say, his speech cer-

tainly was not deterred by any such muzzle — though I’m sure Obama would have appreciated that.

On the subject of taxes, Carson made not only his case plain and simple but also plan plain and simple.

“When I pick up my Bible” he said, “I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, and He’s given us a system. It’s called tithe.”

For non-religious folk out there, tithing is the act of giving God 10 percent of your income through the means of the church. Wealthy Christians don’t give more than poor Christians. It’s always 10 percent.

Basically what Carson suggests is all Americans, no matter their income, give the same percentage of their income in taxes, just as all Christians give 10 percent to the church. Honestly, if it’s good enough for God, surely it should be good enough for the government.

Now I — nor Carson I’m sure — am not implying that every-one’s Christian or everyone in the government should do it this way because the Bible says so. That would be silly and infringe upon separation of church and state. The government should do it the way Carson describes because it just bloody makes more sense for all Americans to have

to give the same percentage.Carson then went on to men-

tion Obamacare, despite being two seats away from Obama himself. I don’t pretend to understand all the mechanics of the healthcare policy he suggested, but the word “efficient” was used: a word that is disturbingly lacking from the vocabulary of our policymakers.

Carson suggested that a citizen should have a “health savings ac-count to which money can be attributed pre-tax from the time you’re born until the time you die. When you die you can pass it on to your family members so that when you’re 85 years old and you’ve got six diseases, you’re not trying to spend up everything, you’re happy to pass it on and there’s no-body talking about death panels.”

After that statement, Obama switched his attention to the ground.

The idea of being able to pass on your healthcare to loved ones especially makes Carson’s plan stand out. Especially in a world in which little is legally allowed to pass on from parent to child — our own iTunes libraries don’t even actually belong to us (sorry future daughter, I guess my hardy collecting of Taylor Swift songs has been in vain). If I can give whatever amount of healthcare

money I failed to use to my chil-dren, that will almost make up for them missing out on hours upon hours of Taylor Swift enjoyment.

Although it was obvious how un-comfortable Obama was throughout the speech, Carson still managed to be one of the few to stand up and speak out about the government’s inefficiency — an action other citizens would do well to follow.

Carson embodies everything that’s needed in a leader. Not only did he point out problems with the government, but he also offered common sense solutions, the latter of which many politicians seem to be lacking lately. Maybe we need a change from politicians in the White House. Maybe it’s time for just an average Joe, or even a neu-rosurgeon to lead our country in the right direction (no pun intended).

I’d like to hope that before the country’s next presidential election, our current president would learn from Carson. I’d like to hope Obama will take all the wonderful points from Carson’s speech and try to in-corporate a few into his own plans, or even for Vice President Joe Biden to have taken something to heart.

Then again, I’m also hopeful that reporters will start being fair and bal-anced — so I shouldn’t hold my breath.

A call for capital gains tax reformDespite our 2012 presidential

debates devolving into mud-slinging over the intricacies of each candidate’s tax plan, the conversation stemming from the election did little to advance tax policy in the United States. Namely, for all of the discussion of closing tax loopholes, both candidates failed to significantly address the source of one of our most significant tax inefficien-cies: the flawed definition of what constitutes capital gains.

A capital gains tax is a special tax paid on, unsurprisingly, gains from capital investment. The problem, however, stems from the fact that under the current tax code, people who make their

money through the management of capital, instead of through its investment, are also taxed at the flat capital gains tax rate of 15%, rather than through the progres-sive income tax. While this may seem like semantic quibbling more suited for an accountant’s office than the Oval, this policy leads to significant losses in government revenue.

The problem arises from the difficulty in defining the income of capital managers. Hedge fund and private equity managers, including venture capitalists, are compensated based partly on a management fee (usually between two percent and three percent of fund size) as well as a performance-based fee (usually around 20 percent of the gains from investment.)

The argument in favor of the existing policy goes as fol-lows: since fund managers are paid based at least partly on the performance of their funds, their earnings represent capital gains and should be taxed as such.

The logic behind the capital gains tax being lower than all but two of the marginal income tax rates (historically 15 per-cent, though raised to 20 percent in the January 2013 fiscal cliff compromise) is that the money invested was initially taxed as someone’s income, and it would be unfair to tax that income twice at the same rate.

While this argument holds water for wage-earning Ameri-cans who choose to invest the fruits of their labor, it does not for those fund managers whose

primary income is from capital gains. While fund managers’ in-come may be performance-based (and in that no different from salesmen who work on commis-sion), it is no more capital gains than any other form of income. Working to maximize others’ capital gains is not capital gains itself.

In the context of our cur-rent political budget mania, it is strange that such an obvious loophole should exist, let alone go largely unacknowledged.

A quick look at the campaign contributions made to various members of congressional lead-ership, however, quickly makes the reason plain. Key leaders in Congress on both sides of the aisle are major recipients of hedge fund money.

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Program ↵CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1“One of the main reasons why

I was able to go back to school and be as successful as I was,” he said, “was because I had the backing and the support from Buckner, and they wouldn’t let me go down the same path I was on.”

Cassie Thomas, the After-Care coordinator at Buckner, has worked with the program for about four and a half years. As she continues working with these 17 to 21 year olds who need assistance, she is request-ing help with Buckner’s largest event of the year.

Hope Chest, a graduation celebration for foster care youth, is an annual event hosted by Buckner.

“Basically, it’s a luncheon and a party because they don’t come from a normal two-parent family where you would have a gradu-ation party and get all these gifts, gift cards and money to go to school,” Thomas said. “They don’t have that. They don’t have that support system.”

During the luncheon, a guest speaker, which is usually a for-mer foster care youth, presents a program. Afterward, the After-Care recipients receive an ulti-mate gift: going shopping with mentors to spend $500 on neces-sary household, school supplies and hygiene items for college.

“For them, it’s the most spe-cial day of the year,” Thomas said. “They have never seen that amount of money or spent that amount of money.”

Last year, Thomas said the event honored about 20 youth. Although fundraisers through-out the year help raise money for this cause, she said Hope Chest is based on donations, which are needed to make this year’s seventh annual event a success.

“Yes, we need money to sus-tain the program,” she said, “but it’s not about the money. It’s about the people and the relationships.”

Hope Chest is vital for After-Care recipients, Thomas said, because most youth leave foster care with only their clothes and a few personal items. She encourages people to consider volunteering their time by help-ing serve at the event, or become a mentor for the shoppers. Those interested can email her at ctho-mas@buckner.org or call her at 806-795-7151.

Although a specific date has not been confirmed yet for the event, it is usually hosted the last week of May or the first week of June.

“It’s so special to see the impact we can make as a com-munity,” Thomas said. “This is a way as a community for us to show our support that they are loved and cared about, and we want them to succeed and go off to college to find jobs with

whatever it is they want to do.”Another After-Care recipi-

ent who enjoyed the benefits of Hope Chest is Krishna Patel, a sophomore nutrition major from Philadelphia.

“Hope Chest is an awesome program,” she said. “Not only does it help all the kids, but also takes the time to make it an ex-clusive, unique experience and a big event. I have had a great experience being a part of it. It surely brightens and expands the smile on each and every kid.”

Patel hopes people will do-nate to the cause, she said, to help many of the bright chil-dren in foster care who need assistance.

“Go spend the day with the kids and build a bond with them,” she said, “because hon-estly, the kids wouldn’t ask for anything better. Your donations will definitely be put towards a very good use.”

Without help from Buckner and Hope Chest, Williams said he would not be where he is today.

“People don’t understand how hard it is to be successful coming from that,” he said. “They helped me turn my whole situation around and stop blam-ing it on who I am and where I was, and so I decided to do something better. Having people around helping you and encour-aging you does wonders for kids in our situation.”

Young Afghan musicians in NY for date at CarnegieSCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP)

— For these young people from Afghanistan, it’s the perfect trip to America. They get to scarf down New York pizza, go ice skating — and take the stage at Carnegie Hall.

The Afghan Youth Orchestra, many of whose members are not far removed from eking out a living on the streets of Kabul, is on the New York leg of a U.S. tour that melds Western classics with traditional Afghan music.

About 50 players held a joint rehearsal Monday with 25 members of the Scarsdale High School orchestra, which meant that young musicians from a war-torn country where music was banned for several years by the Taliban were playing alongside those from one of New York’s toniest suburbs.

“This is all providing a model for the future of Afghanistan,” said William Harvey, the Afghan orchestra’s American conductor and arranger. “The recomposed music, taking the best from both worlds, and the cooperation be-tween the Afghan kids and the Scarsdale kids, shows what has to happen for Afghanistan.”

Among the pieces rehearsed in advance of Tuesday night’s Carnegie program were adapta-tions of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and Ravel’s “Bolero,” both in-corporating Afghan instruments and rhythms.

A handful of people in the Scarsdale auditorium got to hear familiar melodies perked up with such instruments as the sitar, dilruba and ghichak. Some of the Afghan musicians were barefoot.

“I love the ‘Bolero,’” said

Milad Yousofi, 18, a pianist from Kabul who, like the rest of the orchestra, attends the Afghani-stan National Institute of Music, which was founded just three years ago.

Yousofi is hoping the orches-tra’s U.S. visit — it played in Washington last week and is headed for Boston — will help him find a way to continue his musical education in America.

“I’m very excited and amazed that we are going to Carnegie Hall,” he said. “New York is my dream city. I want to come here as soon as possible. But then I want to go back to Afghanistan and teach.”

Hojat Hameed, 21, a violinist who also plays electric guitar in a rock band, said he became in-terested in music when he heard a Celine Dion recording.

MECHANICAL MILLING

LAB PARTNERS CHRISTIAN Shi, a mechanical engineering doctoral student from Shenyang, China, and Sourav Barman, a mechanical engineering doctoral student from Bhaka, Bangladesh, discuss milling techniques to be used on a bracket for a rheometer Tuesday in the Mechanical Engineering workshop.

PHOTO BY WILLIAM ROBIN/The Daily Toreador

Raindrops, gloomy skies can’t stop Mardi GrasNEW ORLEANS (AP) — De-

spite threatening skies, the Mardi Gras party carried on as thousands of costumed revelers cheered glitzy fl oats with make-believe monarchs in an all-out bash before Lent. In the French Quarter, as usual, Fat Tuesday played out with all its fl esh and raunchiness.

Crowds were a little smaller than recent years, perhaps infl uenced by the forecast of rain. Still, parades went off as scheduled even as a fog settled over the riverfront and downtown areas.

Police, who had to deal with massive waves of visitors — first for Super Bowl and then for Mardi Gras — reported no major problems other than Saturday night when four people were shot on Bourbon Street. A suspect has been arrested.

There was a heavy police pres-ence in the tourist-fi lled Quarter, where crowds began to swell in the early afternoon and would be burst-ing at the seams by the time police on horseback declared the party over at midnight.

The family side of Mardi Gras unfolded along stately St. Charles

Avenue, where some groups camped out overnight to stake out prime spots for parade-viewing. A brief rain shower as the fi nal fl oat in the Krewe of Rex parade passed by didn’t dampen the enthusiasm there.

Cliff Kenwood and his wife, Jen-nie, of New Orleans, brought their two children — 8-year-old Ivy and 6-year-old Jack — to the festivities. Each was dressed as a skeleton and Cliff Kenwood wore a banner around his hat referencing the recent pub-lishing changes to the city’s newspa-per — The Times-Picayune.

The costumes poked fun at the paper’s decision to cut back from a daily publishing schedule to three days a week. “We’re black, white and dead all over,” Jennie Kenwood said laughing.

She said their family kept their subscription even though they thought about canceling. “We can’t do it to them. We don’t want them to die,” she said.

Rain or shine, it was a last chance to soak in some fun during the Carni-val season, which ends with the start of Lent on Wednesday.

The Krewe of Zulu led the festivi-

ties from city neighborhoods to the business district, followed by the parade of Rex, King of Carnival, and hundreds of truck fl oats decorated by families and social groups.

In the French Quarter, many revelers had drinks in hand before sunrise. Some donned tutus, beads and boas. Some hadn’t been to bed since Monday’s Lundi Gras celebra-tions.

“We’ll be in the French Quarter all day,” said Bobbie Meir, of Gretna, La., with feathers in her hair and fi n-gernails painted purple. “The sights today are jaw-dropping. It’s a ton of fun and the best party in the world. Nobody does Mardi Gras like we do.”

On Bourbon Street, women wore bustiers, fishnet stockings, bikini bottoms and little else. Some fl ashed fl esh to attract the attention of peo-ple throwing beads from balconies.

“We’re a fl ock of peacocks,” said Laura Komarek, a recent New Or-leans transplant from Minneapolis who moved to the Big Easy for a teaching job. Komarek and a group of friends walked Bourbon Street wearing leotards and large colorful feathers on their bottoms.

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After this weekend, the Texas Tech track and fi eld team is gaining national attention, with the men’s team sitting just outside of the top fi ve in the country.

The Tech men’s team jumped 28 spots in its national standing last week, from 34th in the nation to inside the top 10 at No. 6 in the nation, according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Coun-try Coaches Association’s latest poll.

“I’m excited for our team,” Tech track and fi eld coach Wes Kittley said. “We gained a lot of momentum with a great meet this weekend and are now looking for an even better performance at the Big 12 Indoor Championships next week.”

At week four, Tech has a total of eight athletes and two relay teams in both the men and women’s divisions placed in the top fi ve in their events, and the Tech men and women’s teams are fi rst place in the nation in six events. Both teams’ divisions earned second place in three events.

The Lady Raider track and fi eld team stands right outside of the national top 20 at 26th in the nation behind its Big 12 competition, Kansas, Iowa State, Texas and Baylor. Overall, the women’s divi-sion at Tech has two athletes in the top 20 national listing.

“Big 12-wise, (Baylor junior sprinter and hurdler) Tiffani McReynolds from Baylor, her and (Texas sophomore sprinter and jumper) Morgan Snow from UT are my biggest competition in Big 12,” Tech senior hurdler Katie Grimes said. “They’re all great athletes, they’re

Tech track team tops national rankingsBy ELLEN CHAPPELL

STAFF WRITER

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Self was the fi rst to acknowledge that folks around Kansas had grown spoiled.

It’s only natural when one of the marquee programs in college basketball, one built upon iconic names such as James Naismith and Phog Allen, rattles off eight con-secutive conference championships and throws in another national title along the way.

So when the Jayhawks scuffl ed to three straight losses, including an embarrassing defeat at TCU, it seemed as if the world was col-lapsing around the walls of Allen Fieldhouse.

“I think we just got spoiled, just like everyone around here does, that this can’t happen to us,” Self said matter-of-factly, “and we just let it happen.”

On Monday night, they fi nally put an end to it.

Ben McLemore scored 30 points on his 20th birthday, Jeff Withey dominated in the paint and the No. 14 Jayhawks routed No. 10 Kansas State 83-62 to forge a tie for fi rst place in the Big 12 between the bitter in-state rivals.

“I think it’ll help us down the road, which is obviously the most important,” Self said of the morass, which in reality had extended all the way back to the start of confer-ence play. “We still control our own destiny, even though it will be

diffi cult, without question.”One thing the Jayhawks (20-4,

8-3) have to their advantage is two wins over the Wildcats (19-5, 8-3), who had used a four-game winning streak to take over fi rst place.

Rodney McGruder had 20 points and Angel Rodriguez added 17 for the Wildcats on Monday night, but they never seemed to be in the game despite entering the Phog as the higher-ranked team for the fi rst time since Feb. 20, 1982.

The Jayhawks used two big runs in the fi rst half to take a 47-29 lead at the break, and then thwarted ev-ery rally that the veteran Wildcats tried to muster down the stretch.

The result has become predict-able: Kansas won for the 11th time in the last 12 games between the rivals, and for the 46th time in their last 49 meetings, prompting the student section to chant “This is our state!” once again in the clos-ing minutes.

“Last week is over. We’re going to learn from that,” Withey said. “We met so many times and we talked about that so many times, and it’s not going to happen again.”

Most of the Jayhawks’ struggles the past two weeks have centered on their offense, which had pro-duced just 13 points in the fi rst half in that loss to TCU last Wednesday night.

That wasn’t much of a problem against the Wildcats.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings.

The vote Tuesday by the IOC’s executive board stunned the world’s wrestlers, who see their sport as popu-lar in many countries and steeped in history as old as the Olympics themselves.

While wrestling will be included at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, it was cut from the games in 2020, which have yet to be awarded to a host city.

2004 Olympic Greco-Roman champion Khasan Baroev of Russia called the decision “mind-boggling.”

“I just can’t believe it. And what sport will then be added to the Olym-pic program? What sport is worthy of replacing ours?” Baroev told the ITAR-Tass news agency. “Wrestling is popular in many countries — just see how the medals were distributed at the last Olympics.”

American Rulan Gardner, who upset three-time Russian Olympic champion Alexander Karelin at the Sydney Games in an epic gold-medal bout known as the “Miracle on the Mat,” was saddened by the decision to drop what he called “a beloved sport.”

“It’s the IOC trying to change

the Olympics to make it more main-stream and more viewer-friendly in-stead of sticking to what they founded the Olympics on,” Gardner told The Associated Press in a telephone in-terview from Logan, Utah.

The executive board of the In-ternational Olympic Committee reviewed the 26 sports on its summer program in order to remove one of them so it could add one later this year. It decided to cut wrestling and keep modern pentathlon — a sport that combines fencing, horse riding, swimming, running and shooting — and was considered to be the most likely to be dropped.

The board voted after review-ing a report by the IOC program commission report that analyzed 39 criteria, including TV ratings, ticket sales, anti-doping policy and global participation and popularity. With no offi cial rankings or recommendations contained in the report, the final decision by the 15-member board was also subject to political, emotional and sentimental factors.

“This is a process of renewing and renovating the program for the Olympics,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. “In the view of the executive board, this was the best program for the Olympic Games in

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2020. It’s not a case of what’s wrong with wrestling; it is what’s right with the 25 core sports.”

According to IOC documents obtained by the AP, wrestling ranked “low” in several of the technical cri-teria, including popularity with the public at the London Games — just below 5 on a scale of 10. Wrestling sold 113,851 tickets in London out of 116,854 available.

Wrestling also ranked “low” in global TV audience with a maxi-mum of 58.5 million viewers and an average of 23 million, the documents show. Internet hits and press coverage were also ranked as low.

The IOC also noted that FILA — the international wrestling fed-eration — has no athletes on its decision-making bodies, no women’s commission, no ethics rules for tech-nical offi cials and no medical offi cial on its executive board.

Modern pentathlon also ranked low in general popularity in London, with 5.2 out of 10. The sport also ranked low in all TV categories, with maximum viewership of 33.5 million and an average of 12.5 million.

FILA has 177 member nations, compared to 108 for modern pen-tathlon.

Modern pentathlon, which has been on the Olympic program since the 1912 Stockholm Games, was created by French baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement.

It also benefi ted from the work of Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr., the son

of the former IOC president who is a UIPM vice president and member of the IOC board.

“We were considered weak in some of the scores in the program commission report but strong in others,” Samaranch told the AP. “We played our cards to the best of our ability and stressed the positives.”

Klaus Schormann, president of governing body UIPM, lobbied hard to protect his sport’s Olympic status and it paid off in the end.

“We have promised things and we have delivered,” he said after Tuesday’s decision. “That gives me a great feeling. It also gives me new energy to develop our sport further and never give up.”

The IOC executive board will meet in May in St. Petersburg, Rus-sia, to decide which sport or sports to propose for 2020 inclusion. The fi nal vote will be made at the IOC session, or general assembly, in September in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Wrestling will now join seven other sports in applying for 2020, but it is extremely unlikely that it would be voted back in so soon after being removed by the executive board.

The other sports vying for a single opening in 2020 are a combined bid from baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu, a martial art.

“Today’s decision is not final,” Adams said. “The session is sovereign and the session will make the fi nal decision.”

TEXAS TECH'S KENNEDY Kithuka runs the fi nal leg of the men’s 8K cross country event during the Red Raider Open on Friday at Meadowbrook Golf Course. Kithuka's time of 23:34.44 broke the previous course record.

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all fast, and I just have to keep running fast to stick with them.”

Meanwhile, the Tech men’s indoor team stands behind one other Big 12 team, Oklahoma State. The Cowboys, coached by Dave Smith, are currently ranked third in the nation. The team

jumped 20 spots from its national rank last week at 23. Tech’s men’s division has fi ve athletes in the top 20 national listing.

Tech’s nationally ranked athletes and relay teams have a little more than a week to practice and push their ways

to the top. The 2013 Big 12 Champion-ships will kick-off at 10 a.m. February 22, continue all day, and begin again at 11 a.m. February 23 at Iowa State in the Lied Recreational Center in Ames, Iowa.➤➤echappell@dailytoreador.com

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DALLAS (AP) — The former fi nancial adviser for ex-NFL quar-terback Vince Young said under oath that he arranged a high-interest, seven-fi gure loan for Young during the 2011 lockout because the player wanted to throw himself a $300,000 birthday party even though he was running low on funds.

Ronnie Peoples, president and CEO of Peoples Financial Service Inc. in Raleigh, N.C., said during a videotaped deposition last month that he contacted New York-based

Pro Player Funding LLC about the loan after being informed that Young had already paid for the party.

“I think we still would have been OK to go ahead and survive until the next season, but he had a birthday event coming up that he paid 300 and some thousand dollars for,” Peoples testifi ed. “That’s what prompted that call.”

A transcript of Peoples’ deposi-tion, taken Jan. 16 in Raleigh, was obtained by The Associated Press.

Young’s attorney, Trey Dolezal,

said Peoples’ account contains nu-merous inaccuracies, including the statement regarding the birthday celebration.

“I have no idea what he’s talking about with the birthday party and neither does Vince,” Dolezal said.

Young is challenging a $1.7 mil-lion judgment obtained against him in New York last July by Pro Player. The sum represents the balance of $1.9 million borrowed at 20 percent interest in the former University of Texas star’s name in May 2011.

AUSTIN (AP) — After his team dropped yet another frustrating and ugly game, Texas coach Rick Barnes had a puzzled look on his face when asked to explain what’s going on with the Longhorns.

“Baffled,” Barnes said. “I can’t explain it.”

Barnes has seldom been in a situation like this. In 26 years as a head coach, he has had only one losing season, back in 1991-92 at Providence. His teams have set the bar for success at Texas with

14 consecutive NCAA tourna-ment appearances, five trips to the Sweet Sixteen and a Final Four in 2003. Former Longhorns players Kevin Durant and LaMarcus Al-dridge are two of the best players in the NBA.

Yet none of that can help his current ragtag team that seems to be falling apart at the seams. The Longhorns are just 10-13 overall and 2-8 in the Big 12. They are desperately hoping the Wednesday night return of starting

point guard Myck Kabongo from a 23-game NCAA suspension will give them a lift against Iowa State (16-7, 6-4).

Barnes has already promised that Kabongo will start instead of freshman Javan Felix, who has struggled to lead the team in Kabongo’s absence. Texas also was hit with a key injury when top rebounder Jonathan Holmes broke a bone in his right hand and hasn’t played since Jan. 22 in a loss at Oklahoma.

Having lost eight of its previ-ous nine games, the Texas Tech men’s basketball team (9-12, 2-8) will look to rebound from its current losing streak when it hosts Oklahoma State for a Big 12 matchup at 6 p.m. Wednesday in United Spirit Arena.

Oklahoma State (17-5, 7-3) will enter Lubbock on a much different streak than Tech, as the Cowboys have won five straight, with one of their previous wins against No. 2 Kansas.

“They have gotten into a groove and they have gotten really comfortable,” Tech coach Chris Walker said. “They won some key games that they have not won before.”

In the two teams’ last confer-ence matchup, Oklahoma State was able to hold Tech to 28 per-cent shooting from the field and 18 percent from behind the line when the Cowboys beat the Red Raiders 79-45.

Despite losing the last match-up and coming off a string of losses, Walker said the Red Raid-ers must leave everything behind and treat Wednesday’s game as a new beginning.

“Every game is different and we are going to approach this game like we are 0-0,” Walker

said, “and it does not matter what Oklahoma State has done before this game, and it does not matter what we have done before this game.”

On Saturday, the Red Raiders were once again limited to poor shooting as they shot 17 of 59 from the field, while all Tech players were held to single-digit scoring.

Coming into Wednesday’s matchup, Oklahoma State has four players who are averag-ing double-digit scoring on the season.

Tech’s style of play utilizes its entire roster, with one of its main contributors coming off the bench. Tech junior forward Jaye Crockett averages double-digit figures in scoring.

Walker said Tech must keep its margin of error at a minimum and consistently play hard on offense and defense, because play on one side of the ball dictates play on the other side.

“I think what is characteristic of an inexperienced team and a young team is that when you cannot score on offense, they get their head down,” Walker said. “It is like the Charlie Brown syndrome and then they cannot defend, and unfortunately their offense affects their defense.”

The Red Raiders will hope to take advantage of playing in front

of a home crowd, as they often play much closer games when in USA.

Of the previous two games at home, the Red Raiders have lost by a margin of 12.5 points. Mean-while, in the two previous games on the road, the Red Raiders have suffered a much larger margin of defeat, losing by an average of 21.5 points.

“I think it is a sense of pride,” Tech sophomore forward Jordan Tolbert said. “You do not want to get beat up or embarrassed at home. It brings out the best in us.”

Monday night, Walker visited Greek Circle hoping to entice Tech students to come out to Wednesday’s game and get the Red Raider fan base more involved in Tech sporting events.

Much like Walker, Crockett said he is reluctant to give up on the season.

“We just have to fight, just have to keep playing until that last game because we could make a run in the tournament or win out right now,” Crockett said. “Anything is possible.”

Following Wednesday’s game against Oklahoma State, Tech will have a limited amount of time to prepare for its next game, which will be played on the road against West Virginia at 3 p.m. Saturday in Morgantown.

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HIDALGO (AP) — Royce White says he is ready to focus on basketball.

The 6-foot-8 White, the 16th overall pick last summer, will play for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in Tuesday’s game against Maine, one day after report-ing to the Houston Rockets’ developmental league affiliate. He has been away from the Rockets since early November after requesting an arrangement to help him properly treat his diagnosed anxiety disorder while balancing the demands of the NBA schedule.

“It was tough not being able to play, but it was necessary,” White said. “I feel like I’ve been right on the verge of com-ing back the whole time. I’ve

kind of been just waiting right on the edge of my seat to come back. I’m not really nervous or anything. I’m just ready to get back out there.”

The Rockets chose White in the first round after one spec-tacular season at Iowa State, where he led the Cyclones in scoring (13.4 points a game), rebounds (9.3), assists (5.0), steals (1.2) and blocks (0.9). White missed the first week of training camp after sensing that his mental illness would become more difficult to manage if he didn’t ask for certain condi-tions. He and the team agreed to allow him to travel by bus to some games while he confronted his fear of flying and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

White soon stopped par-ticipating in team activities and said on Twitter that dealing with h i s m e n -ta l hea l th took prece-dence over h i s N B A career. He refused an assignment t o t h e D -L e a g u e i n late Decem-ber, and was s u s p e n d e d w i t h o u t pay on Jan. 6. White and the Rockets reached an agreement on Jan.

26, and he was reinstated.“I think it’s all been real

p o s i t i v e , ” White said of the ordeal. “I f e e l b l e s s e d and honored to be part of what has taken place the last t w o m o n t h s d e s p i t e h o w t u m u l t u o u s it might have seemed, it was a very progres-s ive k ind o f th ing and i t needed to be done.”

White has been outspoken on Twitter throughout the process,

and he criticized the Rockets at one point for putting out “extremely misleading” and “a lot of times totally inaccurate” information. He’s drawn sup-porters and detractors , and acknowledged that he’s even received death threats.

“I expected a negative reac-tion, for sure, just because I’m aware of the stigma that’s rep-resented with mental health” he said. “But as far as how hateful it got, you know death threats and things like that are way out of line, I think, for sporting types of interactions. It suggests a lot about mental health.”

White often publicly dis-played the harshest messages he received on his Twitter account.

“A lot of the people who ac-

tually said really hateful things have now come back and apolo-gized and admitted they deal with mental health issues,” he said. “I think there’s a lot of dynamic to what we saw as far as reaction.”

After Tuesday’s shootaround, White boarded a customized bus and drove off. The Vipers are flying to the Dallas area to play in Frisco on Wednesday and White says he’ll ride the bus to the game.

“I appreciate the Rockets and the NBA being patient with such a new topic like mental health,” he said. “Now, I’m mov-ing forward and this isn’t the end or the beginning. It’s just another piece and we’ll just try to do the best we can with it.”

Power forward Royce White practicing with D-League team

WACO (AP) — Brittney Griner had 10 points and 11 rebounds for her 54th career double-double and the top-ranked Baylor Lady Bears moved closer to another Big 12 title with their 52nd consecutive home game, 89-47 over Texas Tech on Tuesday night.

Griner, the two-time All-Amer-ican senior, also had seven blocked shots and fi ve assists while leading four players scoring in double fi gures for Baylor.

Along with their nation’s best

home winning streak have several other impressive winning streaks, the Lady Bears have won 21 games in a row overall and 35 consecutive Big 12 regular-season games.

Odyssey Sims had 18 points, six steals and fi ve assists for Baylor. Brooklyn Pope had 17 points while Kimetria Hayden had 10 points and seven assists.

Chynna Brown had 15 points to lead Texas Tech (18-7, 8-5), and Casey Morris had 10.

The Lady Raiders, who lost by 30

at home to Baylor only two weeks earlier, scored the fi rst four points in the rematch. The Lady Bears went nearly 2½ minutes before Jordan Madden’s 3-pointer, and went ahead to stay when Griner had a rebound that led to her jumper that made it 5-4.

When Madden made her second 3-pointer, only 2 minutes after the fi rst, it was already 11-6.

The Lady Bears, going for their third consecutive regular-season conference title, have a four-game

lead over 22nd-ranked Oklahoma with fi ve league games left. Their only remaining non-conference game in the regular season is Monday night’s showdown at third-ranked Connecticut.

Texas Tech also scored fi rst after halftime, but Kelsi Baker’s two free throws in the fi rst minute only cut the gap to 46-28.

Sims responded with a 3-pointer to start a 17-0 run that she capped with a jumper 3½ minutes later for a 65-28 lead. Pope’s eight points in the

spurt included consecutive layups, the second on an assist by Sims.

Monique Smalls hit a jumper nearly 5 minutes after halftime for Tech’s fi rst fi eld goal of the second half.

Unlike last season, the Lady Raiders haven’t been close this year against Baylor. Then again, nobody has with the Lady Bears winning by an average margin of 28 points (26 in Big 12 games) before the latest lopsided victory.

When Baylor had the NCAA’s

fi rst 40-win season with an unde-feated national championship a year ago, the Lady Raiders twice lost by eight points or less. The only other teams that fi nished within 10 points were Connecticut and Texas A&M.

The 6-foot-8 Griner played her 136th career game, and has scored in double figures in all but three of them. Already the Big 12 career scoring leader, she is 47 shy of 3,000 points. She extended her NCAA record for blocks — for men or women — to 693.

Griner, No. 1 Baylor women beat Tech 89-47

““I appreciate the Rockets and NBA being patient with such a new topic

like mental health.ROYCE WHITE

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A member of the University of Penn-sylvania’s 1979 Final Four team was fatally stabbed by his wife, who told police she had caught him looking at child pornography, according to court documents.

Matthew White was found stabbed in the neck around 12:45 p.m. Monday in bed at his home, police said, and was pronounced dead a short time later. An offi cer responding to the home for a report

of a stabbing found White’s wife, Maria Rey Garcia-Pellon, as she pulled into the driveway, authori-ties said. As she was being taken into custody, according to a police affidavit, she said, “I caught him looking at pornography, young girls. I love kids. I had to do it.”

White was the starting center on the Penn team that went to the 1979 semifi nals before losing 101-67 to eventual national champion Michigan State, led by Magic John-

son. White went on to be drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers and also played in Europe.

Garcia-Pellon, 52, was in cus-tody, and a telephone message left at her home was not immediately returned. It could not immediately be determined if she had an attorney.

Investigators said they inter-viewed a friend of Garcia-Pellon, who told them she had come to her house Monday afternoon and said she had stabbed her 53-year-old

husband after catching him view-ing pornography — possibly child pornography — on the computer. The friend called police.

While being interviewed by po-lice, authorities said, Garcia-Pellon said that between midnight and 1 a.m. Monday she went to the kitch-en, had a glass of water and grabbed two knives before returning to the couple’s bedroom and concealing the knives under her side of the bed.

After her husband had fallen

asleep, police said, she grabbed a knife and stabbed him in the neck. When he awoke, the two struggled, and the victim collapsed on the bed after saying “I’m dying, I’m dying,” police said. Garcia-Pellon then al-legedly changed her clothing and left the home.

White remains Penn’s all-time leader in fi eld goal percentage for players with a minimum of 200 made baskets, shooting 59.1 percent from 1977-1979.

“We are greatly saddened to hear about the death of Matt White, and shocked by the details emerging about his death,” Penn athletic director Steve Bilsky said in a statement. “For Penn fans, Matt is a reminder of some of the greatest days of our historic men’s basketball program, the 1979 run to the NCAA Tournament Final Four, and he was a beloved member of the Penn men’s basketball family right up until his death.”

Police: Wife fatally stabs member of 1979 Pennsylvania Final Four team

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Scottie Wilbekin had 14 points and eight assists, Pat Young recorded his sixth double-double of the season and No. 7 Florida handled No. 25 Kentucky 69-52 on Tuesday night.

The Gators (20-3, 10-1 South-eastern Conference) snapped a fi ve-game losing streak in the series, and coach Billy Donovan improved to 2-7 against Kentucky’s John Calipari.

This one solidifi ed Florida’s spot atop the league standings.

The Wildcats (17-7, 8-3) lost for the fi rst time in six games, and it may have been costly.

Nerlens Noel, the nation’s lead-ing shot-blocker, injured his left knee

in the second half and did not return.Noel, a freshman who averages

10.6 points, 9.6 rebounds and 4.5 blocks a game for the defending na-tional champions, landed awkwardly on his leg with about 8 minutes to play. He screamed in pain as trainers rushed to his side. Teammates carried him to the locker room for tests.

Florida had a comfortable lead before the injury.

The Gators opened a double-digit lead, 31-19, in the first half on consecutive 3-pointers by Wil-bekin, Mike Rosario and Kenny Boynton.

Young and fellow big man Erik Murphy, who was in early

foul trouble, carried the load in the second half.

Young made a basket with a nifty, up-and-under move, had a reverse layup and added a sweet, left-handed hook. He fi nished with 12 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks.

The Gators knew he had to have a big game considering they played a second game without forward Will Yeguete and were undersized against the Wildcats.

But the difference was guard play.Wilbekin sliced through the

lane at will, creating open shots for teammates and getting Kentucky’s players out of position. Noel, Ar-chie Goodwin and Willie Cauley-

No. 7 Florida Gators handle No. 25 Kentucky WildcatsStein spent time on the bench in foul trouble.

Rosario fi nished with 12 points for Florida, which has won every confer-ence game by double digits. Murphy chipped in 10 points, and Casey Prather added 12 points and two blocks and took several charges, proving again to be a capable replacement for Yeguete.

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