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Lee Ann White, a board member on Texas Tech Health Sciences Center Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health National Advi-sory Board, will succeed founding chairwoman, Debbie Francis, as chairwoman of the board.
White said she heard about the appoint-ment two weeks ago, and her fi rst meeting as chairwoman will be April 11 in San Marcos.
White’s husband, Alan White, served on the Board of Regents at Texas Tech for 12 years, and is just as excited as she is for her to be chairwoman, she said.
Lee Ann White has served on the board two years and said she is honored to have been appointed to the position and views it as a privilege.
“I’ve gotten to know a great group of women,” she said. “I’ve been very impressed with Dr. Marjorie Jenkins, one of the top researchers at the Laura W. Bush Institute for
Women’s Health.”The research
being conducted by the institute, Lee Ann White said, was incred-ible, and there are studies on gender medic ine and women’s health.
“For instance, a baby aspirin for a man will help
prevent a heart attack,” she said. “If a woman takes a baby aspirin, it will help a woman from having a stroke. So, our bodies handle medica-tions different than a man’s body.”
The primary goal of the institute, Lee Ann White said, is to help women in gender medicine and explain the difference between women and men.
The Museum of Texas Tech opened a new exhibit Saturday in celebration of Presidents Day.
The newest exhibit, “The American Presidents: Photographs from the Archives of The Associated Press,” opened in con-junction with Saturday@The Museum, which included hands-on activities and experiments hosted by the museum on the third Saturday of each month.
Cynthia Buster, a volunteer at the event, said the photograph exhibit shows Ameri-can presidents as everyday people.
“It’s not just important for the Tech community, it’s important for Lubbock,” she said. “This gives us a glimpse, particularly the exhibit — it gives us a glimpse into the lives of the presidents. We see that they are human and a regular person, just like you and I.”
Activities at the museum, she said, are free for people of all ages.
Among others, photographs included the captioned sequence of the attempted assassination of former President Richard Nixon, former President Bill Clinton play-
ing the saxophone with Arsenio Hall in 1992, and former President Herbert Hoover fi shing in New England.
The photographs were taken from the archives of The Associated Press, and the majority of the pictures are in black and white.
“It’s important for people to come in and see that exhibit and think, ‘Wow, these people are just like me,’” Buster said. “To see that Bill Clinton played saxophone and say, ‘Well I played the fl ute,’ you know. It gives a human face to the presidents.”
According to history.com, Presidents Day was established in 1885 in recognition of former President George Washington. It was originally celebrated on Feb. 22, Wash-ington’s birthday, but was changed to the third Monday in February in an attempt to create more three-day weekends.
Presidents Day is viewed as a day to celebrate all American presidents. Along with the exhibit, Buster said Saturday@The Museum had activities like making powdered wigs, like Washington wore, former President Abraham Lincoln masks, and campaign buttons.
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MONDAY, FEB. 18, 2013VOLUME 87 � ISSUE 92
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Women’s health advisory board names new chairwoman
EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Anastasia Ledyaeva makes an honest Abe mask while wearing her handmade powdered wig during a program about American presidents hosted by the education division Saturday in The Museum of Texas Tech.
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LULAC hosts annual scholarship banquetBy EMILY GARDNER
STAFF WRITER
The League of United Latin American Citizens Council 263 hosted its 30th annual “Bring Out Your Best” Awards and Scholar-ship Banquet on Saturday at Holiday Inn.
The program consisted of a mariachi band, dinner, a keynote speaker and the presentation of awards to members of the community. Various elected offi cials for the City of Lubbock were in attendance at the event.
According to the program at the event, LULAC’s mission is to help advance aspects of the Hispanic population of the U.S., including economic condition, civil rights and educational attainment.
The purpose of the banquet, Robert Rodriguez, president of LULAC Council 263, said, is to raise scholarship money.
“LULAC has been involved in many cases in West Texas,” he said, “but right now, our No. 1 push is educating the youth.”
The LULAC Council raises money for 20 $500 scholarships to be awarded to students, said Neale Pearson, professor emeritus in political science and secretary of Council 263.
The event was $25 per person, he said, and tables were sold for $400 each and purchased by sponsors.
According to the program for the event, the sponsors included the College of Educa-
tion at Texas Tech, Lubbock City Council, Lubbock Independent School District, Lubbock Power & Light, Standard Sales/Anheuser-Busch and United Supermarkets.
After the dinner, Councilman for District 1 Victor Hernandez, delivered the proclamation.
Hernandez said he enjoys coming to LULAC banquets because he sees many young people in the audience.
“I was at a meeting just a couple of days ago with some members of the Hispanic and black community,” he said, “and I was lamenting how we’re not seeing a whole lot of young leadership coming up behind us, and so LULAC: Congratulations.”
Hernandez also presented Rodriguez with an award from Lubbock City Council commemorating LULAC week.
Hernandez said Feb. 10-16 was com-memorated as National LULAC week in Lubbock.
Abner Euresti, the master of ceremonies at the event, said Miguel Levario, an as-sistant professor of history and the keynote speaker, specializes in U.S.-Mexico Bor-derlands history, is an author and received his bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame, his master’s degree from Stanford University and his doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Lawmakers meet with Iranian exiles in Paris
PARIS (AP) — An Iranian opposition movement that the United States recently took off its list of terror organizations has hosted a U.S. congressional delegation for the fi rst time.
Mujahedeen-e-Khalq — the militant wing of a France-based Iranian opposition group — gave a raucous welcome Sunday to the four American lawmakers. The meeting comes after a Feb. 9 rocket attack at the Camp Liberty refugee camp in Iraq that houses many of its members. MEK offi cials say seven people died and dozens were wounded.
U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Califor-nia Republican, accused Iraq of breaking its promise to help protect the 3,100 refugees at the camp.
Iraq’s Shiite-led, pro-Iranian govern-ment considers MEK a terrorist group and wants the international community to speed up the resettlement of the refugees elsewhere.
2 Texas fi refi ghters stable after deadly blaze
BRYAN (AP) — Doctors are optimis-tic that two Texas fi refi ghters hospitalized Sunday will recover from serious burns suf-fered in a blaze that killed two colleagues, their chief said.
Bryan Fire Chief Randy McGregor thanked everyone for their prayers for the families of the fi refi ghters who died and for the men who were injured in the blaze that broke out Friday night at an unoccupied Knights of Columbus Hall.
Mourners left bouquets of fl owers at the burned-out structure. A prayer service was planned Sunday night at Bryan High School.
The investigation into what caused the overnight fi re that on Saturday claimed the lives of Lt. Eric Wallace, 36, and Lt. Gregory Pickard, 54, could take months, according to McGregor. He declined to speculate on what sparked the fi re.
“State fi re marshal’s offi ce is doing the investigation,” said Mary Lynne Stratta, a city spokeswoman. “Could take up to six months for their report and ruling to come out.”
Firefi ghters Ricky Mantey Jr., 30, and Mitchel Moran, 21, were in serious but stable condition Sunday at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Stratta said. McGregor did not release specifi cs on their injuries.
TEXAS TECH GUARD Chynna Brown jumps to shoot a layup during the Red Raiders’ 69-62 win against the University of Texas on Sunday in United Spirit Arena.
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Lady Raiders defeat Longhorns on 20th anniversary of title team
Twenty years ago, Feb. 17, 1993, the former returning Lady Raiders champi-onship team beat Texas in Austin for the fi rst time.
The former championship team, along with former coach Marsha Sharp, returned Sunday to celebrate the 20-year reunion and watch the Lady Raiders take on Texas.
Nine out of 13 players were from West Texas, including Sheryl Swoopes and Noel Johnson, who said she felt honored to be back and celebrate something so special.
“It is hard for me to believe that it has been 20 years,” Swoopes said. “It is such an amazing feeling to be back here today. For us to still be here, and be able to come
back and celebrate this day.”Texas Tech and Texas have been intra-
state rivals for several years, and Swoopes said she felt it was fi tting the reunion took place during the Lady Raiders-Longhorn game.
“If you came to Texas Tech, and you were a Lady Raider, your No. 1 goal was, you have to beat Texas,” she said. “It is obviously very fi tting. It is a great week-end, and celebration. I am excited about being here, and looking forward to actually getting to watch the game.”
Being on the 1993 championship team meant a lot to Swoopes and Johnson, Swoopes said, especially because the players on the team were primarily from West Texas.
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RUDY MARTINEZ, A scout leader from troop 157 in Lubbock, and Soumya Sundaram, a microbiology gradu-ate student from India, volunteering with the American Society of Microbiologists, fl ip pancakes during the 61st Annual Lubbock Lions Club Pancake Festival on Saturday in the Lubbock Civic Center. The Lubbock Lions Club raised approximately $100,000 while feeding approximately 18,000 attendees during the festival.
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Lions Club hosts 61st annual Pancake FestivalMore than 10,000 people
flocked to the Lubbock Civic Center for the 61st annual Li-ons Club Pancake Festival on Saturday, where around 40,000 pancakes were served to hungry citizens.
Kelly Zuber, a Lions Club member and co-chairman of the festival, said the fundraiser event still has its 2009 world record for most pancakes served in eight hours.
Eight hundred to 900 people volunteered to help work and coordinate the event, and took one of three different shifts throughout the day, Zuber said.
Texas Tech fraternities and sororities were among the vol-unteers, he said, which also included Boy Scout troops, a journalism group from Coronado and Lubbock citizens, filling po-sitions such as pancake flippers, sausage cookers, table organizers and table attendants.
Austin Davis, a junior elec-
tronic media and communica-tions major from Dallas, said he heard about pancake festivals in his hometown, but never went to one until this year when he volunteered for his service frater-nity, Delta Alpha Omega.
“We were just helping out passing out pancakes and sau-sage, you know, cleaning up,” he said, “stuff like that — com-munity service.”
David Samaniego, a Delta Alpha Omega fraternity member and a senior community, fam-ily and addiction services major from San Antonio, said he and Davis worked four hour shifts while others from his fraternity volunteered up to nine hours.
“We have to do a mandatory 30 (hours) per semester,” he said, “so we knocked out a quick four today.”
Between 16,000 and 18,000 people attend the event each year, Zuber said, paying $6 a ticket and collectively spending close to $100,000. The money the Lions Club makes goes to the 30 to 35 charities they raise
funds for, he said.“This event has raised close
to $100,000,” he said, “so that’s what we’re hoping for this year. We actually put it back in the community with the various charities and communities that we benefit.”
Some of the charities they support include American Red Cross, the Boys & Girls Club of Lubbock, the South Plains Food Bank, and Habitat for Human-ity, according to the Lions Club website.
The event is a coordination effort, Zuber said, requiring months of planning.
“There’s about 40 to 50 com-mittees that we put together,” he said, “and we start about in No-vember, kind of coordinating and getting everything together. It’s a four-month process to make sure we order enough stuff and get everything together for this day.”
The Lions Club puts on three fundraising events a year, Zuber said, the pancake festival being the largest one of all.
By CAROLYN HECKSTAFF WRITER
White House searches for ‘balanced way’ to budget fi x
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is concerned about the effect that looming, drastic across-the-board budget cuts will have on the middle class, his new chief of staff said Sunday. Congressional Republicans predicted the cuts would start as scheduled next month and blamed Obama not only for doing little to stop them but for the idea itself.
The cuts, called the sequester, would drain $85 billion from the government’s budget over the coming seven months. Actual cuts may be around 13 percent for defense and 9 percent for other programs because lawmakers delayed their impact, requiring savings over a shorter period of time. The White House last week let loose a list of ways Americans would feel the trims, from longer waits at airport security to as many as 13,000 teachers being laid off. Outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told a congres-sional panel the sequester would hollow the U.S. military because it would give the Pentagon little leeway in deciding how best to spend the money.
Denis McDonough, the president’s chief of staff, warned the cuts would come as the stock market is coming back, the housing market has improved and the number of jobs has grown, and urged Congress to consider a balanced ap-proach that would further strengthen the economy and, in turn, the middle class.
“This isn’t a spending fi ght for us,” McDonough told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” ‘’This is a fi ght about whether we’re going to make the investments in middle class families in this country, in education, in science and technology, in food inspection, and those kinds of things.”
Senate Democrats last week offered a plan they say is a balanced approach of more revenue and budget cuts. The White House supports the proposal, but it
drew an icy reception from Republicans, who say the president got the tax in-creases he wanted during the agreement to avoid the “fi scal cliff.”
“The question isn’t whether we’re going to insist on some position because that’s the ideologically right position,” McDonough said. “This should not be a social science experiment. This should be a question where we ask ourselves, what is most important to the economy,
what is most important to the middle class families of this country, and that’s the way the president is going to do this.”
South Carolina’s Sen. Lindsay Gra-ham was among the Republicans on Sun-day who recalled the president’s position on the sequester in the fall.
“The president promised in the campaign sequestration would not hap-pen. Now, he is allowing it to happen,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Pope blesses huge crowd in St. Peter’s SquareVATICAN CITY (AP) — His
arms outstretched in a symbolic embrace, Pope Benedict XVI blessed tens of thousands of cheering people on Sunday in one of his last appear-ances as pontiff from his window overlooking St. Peter’s Square.
Last week, 85-year-old Benedict shocked the world by announcing his resignation. He will step down on Feb. 28, planning to retreat to a life of prayer in a monastery behind the Vatican’s ancient walls.
The noontime appointment in the vast cobblestone square also served as a kind of trial run for how Rome will handle the logistics, including crowd security, as the city braces for faithful to fl ock to Rome for the election and installation of the cardinal who will succeed Benedict as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno said upward of 100,000 people turned out Sunday and that everything went smoothly. But while there was still space in St. Peter’s Square for more, many couldn’t get in — or easily out — because entrances from the main boulevard were just too narrow.
The huge crowd — including parents with babies in carriages and strollers, elderly people using canes, and the disabled in wheelchairs — tried to squeeze through two spaces police left open in the metal barri-cades edging the square. Some people panicked or called out to police to
help them get in or out of the square.Pilgrims and tourists had an easier
time if they entered through spaces in the elegant colonnade that architect Gianlorenzo Bernini designed to cra-dle the sides of the St. Peter’s Square.
Benedict seemed touched by the outpouring of affection after his deci-sion to go down in history as the fi rst pontiff in some 600 years to resign. The pontiff had told cardinals last week that he no longer has the mental and physical stamina to vigorously shepherd the church.
Looking into hazy sunshine Sun-day, he smiled shyly at the sight of the crowd below, fi lled with pilgrims waving their homelands’ fl ags and holding up banners with words of support. One group of Italians raised a banner which read: “We love you.”
Speaking in Italian, the pope told the cheering crowd: “Thanks for turnout in such numbers! This, too, is a sign of the affection and the spiri-tual closeness that you are giving me in these days.” He stretched out his arms as if to embrace the faithful from across the vast expanse of the square.
Benedict made no direct reference to his departure. But in his comments to Spanish-speaking pilgrims he asked the faithful to “continue praying for me and for the next pope.”
The traditional Sunday window appearance normally attracts a few thousand pilgrims and tourists, but this time city offi cials prepared for as many as 150,000 people seeking to
witness one of Benedict’s last oppor-tunities to connect with the masses.
Authorities also used the event as a kind of trial run for the crowds expected to fl ock to the square in the coming weeks for the next pope’s installation.
Following tradition, Benedict’s successor will make his first papal appearance by stepping onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on the square, shortly after puffs of white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney tell the world the cardinals have made their secret selection.
On Sunday, extra buses and sub-way trains ran from Rome’s train stations to near the Vatican, and free shuttle vans offered lifts to the elderly or disabled.
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Among the highly skeptical political appointments over the past month, Chuck Hagel’s appointment to the secretary of defense position has been the most controversial. Why is that?
Hagel, a former republican U.S. senator from Nebraska, is a deco-rated Vietnam War combat veteran and a recipient of two Purple Hearts.
Hagel has mostly stayed con-servative over his career in politics on issues ranging from abortion to school prayer and school vouchers.
Be that as it may, his track record on foreign policy and defense is somewhat liberal.
Hagel called on his military expe-rience on the Senate Foreign Rela-tions committee in the late 1990s to support a treaty against land mines and accused the Bush administration of a “cavalier approach” to the rest
of the world in the months leading up to the Iraq War.
The current Georgetown Uni-versity professor has long been considered an isolationist in regard to foreign policy.
In 2002, he wrote that the U.S. should be inspiring allies to work on “making a better world” as opposed to ruling by a sense of “divine mis-sion,” particularly when accusing a country of having weapons of mass destruction without clear evidence — something Hagel was clearly skeptical of.
The Senate Armed Services Committee hearing brought to-gether a shameful narrow spectrum of ideas, and here’s why: With the plethora of unique opinions Hagel has held on various issues, the most overwhelming topic of discussion wasn’t his support of chemical weapons in 1997, nor was it his op-position to 2007 surge in Iraq. No, it was Israel.
Conservatives, such as Repub-lican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Republican Sen. John McCain, stamped Hagel as the biggest threat to Israel’s national security in ages, claiming he was soft on terrorism and a modest supporter of the Israel state. Democrats bombarded Hagel with questions, using the hearing as a time to exhibit their full-fl edged support of Israel.
Hagel claimed that, above all, he was a U.S. Senator, not an Israeli senator.
This, of course, is referring to the Hagel’s controversial opinion that the infl uential “Jewish lobby” intimidates lawmakers into support-ing Israel’s foreign policy, even if it’s detrimental to U.S. interests.
Israeli lobbying has been a large part of American politics since the beginning of the 20th century.
After all, Zionist lobbying in the U.S. aided in the creation of the State of Israel in 1947-48.
Our Middle East ally has received the most U.S. foreign assistance — mostly in the form of military aid — of any other country in the world: roughly $115 billion.
This com-prises only a small percent-age of the U.S. budget every year, but when everything is on the chop-ping block — or supposed to be — it’s hard to look away from such a s u b s t a n t i a l cash fl ow.
Lobbying groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Com-
mittee and Christians United for Israel funnel millions of dollars into
A m e r i c a n c a m p a i g n s each year.
Organiza-tions such as AIPAC and CUFI spend c o u n t l e s s hours travel-ing to Con-gressional of-fices of both parties just before appro-priations take place, keep-ing checks on those who are beginning to waver their support.
The consequence of lost sup-port is a flood of donations to a candidate’s opponent in the next
election. At a time when donations and special interest have clouded honorable campaign tactics, this has simply added fuel to the fi re.
These claims simply defi ne the background of Hagel’s argument and they don’t necessarily represent my opinions.
However, Hagel does represent a new era of American defense — one that is beginning to represent our generation, one that is a bit more isolationist-friendly and one that begins to question our previous ties to other countries.
Because what’s the point of stay-ing true to traditional conformity when it’s not questioned once in a while?
If Israel needs $2-3 billion of our tax money every year to com-fortably defend our nation’s best interest, then so be it. Our mutual allegiance is an integral and strate-gically unique piece in the puzzle of world affairs.
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inspiring allies to work on “making a
better world” as opposed to ruling by a
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The Trots By Andrea Farkas
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 poison-ing is bad. Moreover, thanks to Australia’s obscenely high minimum wage, the job paid an impressive-sounding $23 an hour.
Because our dollar is current-ly worth less than Australia’s, this ended up being a fantastic salary when I got back to the US. It was considerably less re-markable, 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 ex-ample, 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 World-wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. In exchange for helping out on a small farm, travelers who sign up with WWOOF can obtain free room and board all over the world and learn how to grow food in the process. How-ever, because the work is unpaid, minimum wage advocates 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. Whenever the minimum wage is increased, these businesses may simply
have to employ fewer people, ironically leaving the most downtrodden workers jobless 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 benefits the least productive workers, why on earth would those very workers seek to be exempt from it? Likewise, if raising the mini-mum 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.
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Circus Gatti makes appearance in Hub CityPeople of all ages flooded
into City Bank Auditorium and Coliseum to see performers and entertainers perform magic, daring acrobatic tricks and tame wild animals.
The Circus Gatti came to Lubbock, hosting five shows — one on Friday and two on Saturday and Sunday.
Before each performance, people were allowed to pay for the chance to ride ponies or a full-sized 42-year-old Asian el-ephant named Patti.
Mason Ballentine came to the circus with his father, Michael Ballentine. Before the circus began, Mason Ballentine got to ride the elephant.
“I liked the elephants,” Mason Ballentine said with excitement.
Edgar Mesa, a manager of the Circus Gatti, said he was happy with how the first performance turned out Friday.
“It was very busy,” he said. “Everybody had fun last night and we’re hoping to get busier (Saturday).”
Mesa said about 1,000 people showed up for the first Saturday performance.
He said the Circus Gatti travels around North America, mainly the U.S. and Canada, between February and October.
During that time, Mesa said the circus travels about 25,000 miles a year.
“It’s hard to count (how many shows we do a year),” he said. “We open Feb. 1 to Oct. 1. With two shows a day, it can be quite a bit.”
Mesa said this year’s list of acts is different from the 2012 list of performances.
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“The 2013 show is whole a different show from last year,” he said. “We got the wheel of death, we got, of course, the elephants, we got dogs, we got the motorcycle up the wire, we got showgirls, we got clowns, jugglers, we got tons and tons of stuff, new stuff.”
The performance started with a small dance number to in-troduce the ringmaster, then continued on to individual per-formances, including a clown
making an entrance in a tiny car and some magic tricks.
A particularly awe-inspiring trick involved the wheel of death — a large metal pendulum, which a performer propeled to go a full 360 degrees at increasing speeds. At the peak of the per-formance, the performer jumped ropes on top of the pendulum as it rotated, and even rode it blindfolded.
Another part of the act had three performers take the high
wire to a new level, as they rode up the wire on a motorcycle be-fore performing different tricks including spinning the motor-cycle around the highwire.
The circus also showcased skilled acrobatics and had per-formers climbing ropes, ribbons and rings high off of the ground.
Between acts, the ringmaster and the clown took turns enter-taining the audience with magic tricks and slapstick comedy. During one of the ringmaster’s
magic tricks, he seemingly made six bottles of wine appear out of nothing.
The favorite part of the per-formance for many children was the elephant training done by John Pelton. The act had two elephants performing balancing tricks in a ring. During the act, elephants could even be seen standing on two legs.
Following the circus, people who bought meet-and-greet tick-ets were allowed to go down to
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Barbara Ramirez, who went to the circus with her family, said the circus was a great way to spend a day together.
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Climbing 53 feet in the air with only their hands and a rope may seem too scary to some peo-ple, but not for the competitors in the Vertical Plains Climbing Competition.
The competition was hosted from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.
“This is our 13th Vertical Plains competition,” Curt How-ell, assistant director for Rec
Sports, said. “We’ve been having climbing competitions at Texas Tech for about 20 years.”
Ryanna Orona, a senior gen-eral business major from Snyder, said there are 30 or more routes that are set up for the climbers to try.
“You’re given a score card and so, you just go and climb what you think you can climb,” she said. “And then, you get a certain amount of points if you climb it on your first try and then you get a lower amount if you don’t make it.”
The routes climbed deter-mine the amount of points given to the climber, and there are three categories, beginner to advanced for males and females, Howell said.
“Some routes are less points and they’re a little easier,” he said, “but the harder the route, the more points there are, and so each climber can count five routes for their total points in the event.”
The competition was divided into two different sessions, Tony Orona, a competitor in the com-
petition and Ryanna Orona’s husband, said.
“Session one is the one we competed in and there was a lot less people in session one,” Tony Orona said. “A lot more of the teams kind of showed up in session two.”
There also were other schools from out of town that came to Lubbock to compete in the Ver-tical Plains competition, David Young, Outdoor Pursuits Center Coordinator, said.
“Baylor, Texas, Houston, Commerce,” he said. “There’s
a lot of different schools repre-sented here.”
However, there also were people, like Tony and Ryanna Orona, who climbed individu-ally in the competition to test their limits.
Tony Orona said he really liked the atmosphere of cama-raderie a community of climbers brings.
He said he liked how the other climbers encouraged each other to push themselves to try new challenges and cheered each other on.
Students are encouraged to come try the sport of rock climb-ing and can try it for free the first time, said Meghan Camp-bell, a junior psychology major from McKinney. Later, students can continue to rent shoes or buy their own, but climbing is always free.
McKinney was a f ra id o f heights before her boyfriend introduced her to rock climbing.
“It’s so much fun,” she said. “It’s so much better than run-ning on the elliptical.”
Rec Center hosts 13th annual Vertical Plains Climbing CompetitionBy BETHANY CHESHIRE
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Tech breaks school records, opens up season with 4 winsThe Texas Tech baseball team opened
up its season with four wins at the Brooks Wallace Memorial Classic Tournament at Dan Law Field in Rip Griffi n Park.
During Friday’s game, sophomore right-handed pitcher Dominic Moreno pitched six innings, giving up zero runs and broke a 17-year-old Tech record with 11 strikeouts in a season opener.
Even with the shutout performance, Tech coach Tim Tadlock said Moreno per-formed better last week during practice.
“I would say he was better last week than he was tonight,” Tadlock said. “I think he’d probably tell you the same thing. He probably wasn’t as sharp to-night, at the same time, he’s got the ability to go pitch out of some jams, he’s got a little moxie about him, and we like him when he goes to the mound.”
The Red Raiders won their fi rst game of the season 8-0, with standout perfor-mances from the pitching staff, including Moreno and freshman right-hander Nathan Bauder. The two combined for a total of 17 Ks.
Northern Illinois’ senior starting right-handed pitcher Zach Badgley pitched two innings, giving up fi ve hits and six earned runs.
Badgley and Huskies junior catcher Nathan Ruzich let four wild pitches by, which helped the Red Raiders move along the bases, putting up six runs on the scoreboard in Badgley’s two innings.
The Red Raiders’ offense backed up Tech’s pitching staff, scoring runs early and often. Sophomore center fi elder Brett Bell and junior catcher Mason Randolph contributed both singles and walks to aid the Red Raiders offense.
Randolph and junior right fielder Devon Conley were the only two Red Raiders to record multiple hits during the game.
“It’s always good when your offense puts up a few runs and you can go pitch with a lead,” Moreno said. “But it felt good.”
Six Red Raiders made their fi rst Divi-sion I start during Friday’s game, while Tadlock won his fi rst game as the team’s head coach.
“It’s awesome,” Moreno said. “I’m sure (Tadlock will) never say it, but I’m sure he’s happy.”
Moreno allowed two hits during the fourth inning — the most in one inning — when he reached 50 pitches total. He gave up a single to junior right fi elder Landon Tenhagen, a double to junior designated hitter Joe Battaglia and walked freshman shortstop Brian Sisler with two outs and the bases loaded. Ruzich then hit a groundout, which let Moreno out of the inning.
“He had to pitch out of some jams,” Tadlock said about Moreno. “He did throw well, though, gave us a chance to win and pitch well and I’d like to see it again.”
Despite the shutout performance, Tadlock said he thought Northern Illinois played hard.
“They’ve been indoors, I’m sure quite a bit,” he said. “They’ll get better throughout the weekend, they’ll be a tough challenge on Sunday. I hadn’t really had time to refl ect if they gave it to us or not. I know we went out and played our game as far as that goes. We did do some things the right way.”
The Red Raiders coasted through Saturday’s games, as they played a double-header beating Northern Colorado 10-1 and then BYU 5-1.
Junior right-handed pitcher Corey Taylor made his debut for Tech, pitching six innings and recording four strikeouts.
Conley had a standout performance, tallying a hit for both of his plate appear-ances, recording four RBIs and an inside the park home run.
Junior right-handed pitcher Trey Masek started Saturday’s game against BYU, pitching six shutout innings and recorded a career-high eight strikeouts.
BYU’s junior starting pitcher Adam Miller gave up four runs on three hits. Burleson went 2-2 including two RBIs.
During Sunday’s afternoon game, the Red Raiders started the fi rst inning with a strikeout from Bell and then a base hit from Burleson. Burleson’s first-inning single marked his personal record of at least one hit in every game this season. Stepping away from fi rst, Burleson was picked off by Huskies catcher Ruzich.
“(Burleson) was just being aggres-sive,” Tadlock said. “He sees a ball in the dirt, sees a catcher’s shin guards go down. We teach them, when those shin guards go down, we’re going, and he kind of got caught in between when the guy caught the ball clean.”
Withrow allowed a double from fresh-man second baseman Tommy Hook, then hit Ruzich in the side.
Withrow got out of the jam with help from infi elders Burleson and Proudfoot, as Wells hit into a 4-6-3 double play.
To begin the third inning, sophomore shortstop Tim Proudfoot saw his fi rst pitch just long enough for his walk-up song to fi nish, when he hit a home run to left fi eld, marking Tech’s fi rst out of the park home run of the season and Proudfoot’s third career home run.
After a groundout from Bell, Burleson hit to left fi eld, sliding into second. Then, sophomore catcher Elliot Richoux hit a single to right fi eld, moving Burleson to third.
With runners on the corners, fresh-man catcher Jarrard Poteete hit a single, driving Burleson home and allowing the Red Raiders to take the 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third.
Gutierrez then hit into a groundout, driving Richoux home and allowing Poteete to advance to second.
After a walk from right-fi elder Con-ley, the Huskies catcher took a minute to talk with junior pitcher Alex Klonowski on the mound.
Junior infi elder A.J. Florence then hit a single progressing the runners, loading the bases with two outs, when junior left-fi elder Todd Ritchie hit a single driving in two runs to give the Red Raiders the 5-0 lead. The Red Raiders went through their lineup, as Proudfoot appeared for the second time during the inning and ending it by way of a popup.
Northern Illinois freshman pitcher Bobby Kuntzendorf replaced Klonowski on the mound and gave up fi ve earned runs and eight hits.
Burleson was caught stealing as Kuntzendorf threw to fi rst, then shortstop Sisler tagged him out, marking the second time Burleson was thrown out while on base during the game.
The bases were loaded with one out after a single from Poteete and walks from Conley and Florence. Then Ritchie hit a single to drive in Poteete.
After Ritchie’s single, Northern Il-linois junior pitcher Brody Justice came in to relieve sending Kuntzendorf out pitching 1.1 innings.
Tech won the game 13-0, the second time Tech shut out Northern Illinois dur-ing the tournament. Tech plays Troy next
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TOP: TEXAS TECH’S Matt Withrow throws a pitch during the Red Raiders’ 13-0 win against Northern Il-linois on Sunday at Rip Griffi n Park. ABOVE: Tech’s Eric Gutierrez slides back toward second base Sunday.
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“We all came from a small West Texas town,” she said. “It is a message that I like to share that there is great talent in West Texas. It makes it that much more special that we were all from small towns.”
Johnson said although the players were from small towns, the team pulled off big accomplishments.
“Small town kids doing big time things,” she said. “We loved the game, and believed in what we were doing.”
Sharp left an impact on Swoopes and Johnson’s lives after their time at Tech.
“Coach Sharp meant everything to me as a player when I was playing,” Swoopes said. “She still means just as much to me as far as my career goes.”
Johnson said Sharp taught her many life skills.
“Working hard, doing details, integ-rity and being consistent with your mes-sage,” she said. That is something that I got from Coach Sharp.”
Swoopes said she understands the game has evolved, but felt the 1993 championship team could take on the 2013 Lady Raider team.
“I would say yes, only because the work ethic and commitment that we made to the game back then, and every single day would give us a little bit of an edge,” Swoopes said. “We would defi -nitely be a lot smarter than the players that are playing today.”
Tech women’s basketball team de-feated Texas 69-62, repeating what the 1993 championship team did 20 years ago, and for the fi rst time since 2006.
Tech coach Kristy Curry said she was thankful for the opportunity to have the 1993 championship team in Lubbock to celebrate the reunion.
“What an amazing atmosphere, “ Curry said. “We are all just very, very hon-ored to have the opportunity to walk in their footsteps every day. I am really proud of our team fi nishing off the weekend the right way with a win.”
Texas coach Karen Aston said she was proud of the energy level her team brought to the game compared to the last game.
“I felt like we had much better energy level,” she said. “Our team played hard. It was a better performance for us tonight.”
Aston said she felt the Lady Raiders guards made a lot of plays and tough shots, along with a defensive pressure that forced several Longhorn turnovers.
“Their guards are really good,” she
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Griner, No. 1 Baylor to visit UConn(AP) — Brittney Griner vividly
remembers her last trip to Connecticut in two simple words: free throws.
As a sophomore, Griner had a miser-able time at the line, missing eight foul shots — including a few key ones down the stretch — in Baylor’s one-point loss.
The 6-foot-8 star can’t wait for Mon-day night and a chance at redemption when the top-ranked Lady Bears (24-1) visit No. 3 UConn in a late-season, nonconference clash that could be a preview of the NCAA championship game in April.
“I hope I get fouled on the fi rst play so I can shoot some free throws,” said Griner, a career 75 percent free throw shooter.
Griner got a measure of revenge last season when Baylor beat UConn 66-61 at home, rallying from an 11-point defi cit in the second half behind its All-America center. Griner is looking forward to another shot at UConn, the only team she has a losing record against.
“I’m excited. It’s a big game,” said Griner, who is 25 points short of becom-ing the eighth player to reach 3,000 in her career. “I know they’re going to have a great crowd. The last time we went up there, they had a great turnout. It’s
a great atmosphere to play a big game.”Neither coach wants to put too
much emphasis on Monday’s game, knowing there will be a lot more at stake if they meet again in the NCAA tournament.
“It’s good for women’s basketball. It’s good for television,” Baylor coach Kim Mulkey said. “I’m ready for next Saturday. I’m ready to celebrate a Big 12 championship. If we go to UConn and we win, it’s great. You’re supposed to win. You’re the No. 1 team in the country. And if you lose, what have we lost? Nothing.”
Huskies coach Geno Auriemma isn’t a big fan of the timing of the game, but knows that it can help prepare his team well for what lies ahead in the Big East and NCAA tournaments.
“It’s not ideal in the middle of Febru-ary,” Auriemma said. “I think by now you’d like to just kind of be in a rhythm. But I think it’s good for your younger guys to see this is what potentially it could look like in March. So in that respect I think it’s pretty good.
“It’s a game that really doesn’t affect your ability to win a championship. Every conference game has an impact on whether you win the Big East regular-season championship or not. This game
doesn’t. And I think any time you can do that, to just play a game that’s kind of a preview of the kind of game you hope to play in March, I think it’s always good.”
UConn (24-1) is coming off a 20-point win over Rutgers on Saturday. Playing two tough games in 48 hours will be a challenge.
“The Big East thinks we’re Super-man. We can play at Rutgers Saturday, then have to play Baylor on Monday because we’re better than everyone else, we can handle that,” Auriemma said with more than a hint of sarcasm. “That’s what happens in the NCAA tournament. You play a tough game on a Saturday or Sunday and then play another one two days later. They’ve helped us over the years and they’ll help us this year.”
Baylor also played on Saturday, blowing out TCU 78-45.
Auriemma hopes that Bria Hartley is feeling better. She played only 4 minutes against Rutgers because she was ill.
“She wasn’t healthy at practice yesterday,” Auriemma said Saturday. “She didn’t feel good last night at din-ner and she wasn’t great this morning at shootaround. So she gave it a shot, and it just didn’t work out.”
Retiring Stern made NBA All-Star game an event HOUSTON (AP) — For 30
years of options, David Stern’s answer came surprisingly quickly.
Asked his favorite All-Star mem-ory as NBA commissioner, he chose the 1992 game, when Magic Johnson returned to win MVP honors after retiring the previous fall because of the HIV virus.
“Giving sweaty Magic Johnson a big hug right after he hit the last 3 and still being able to hug him, because he’s alive every time I see him,” Stern said. “That is at the top of the list.”
Stern could have cited Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins battling in a famed dunk contest, or Larry Bird winning the fi rst 3-point shootout. Maybe it could’ve been the record crowd for a basketball game when the league staged it in a football stadium.
All those and more helped turn
what was once a minor event into a massive celebration.
“It used to be a one-day get to-gether, and it’s now not only a week-end, I mean it goes way beyond that, when you look at the host city and all the preparation that takes place,” said longtime Phoenix Suns owner and executive Jerry Colangelo.
And with Stern less than a year from retirement, it will be up to Adam Silver to continue to grow All-Star weekend when he takes over on Feb. 1, 2014.
“We’ve discussed playing inter-nationally All-Star games, I’m not sure if it will work logistically, but it’s something we’ll continue to study,” Silver said. “We’ve looked at other neutral cities. We’ve looked at refreshing All-Star Saturday night and other innovative events for the weekend, and I think we’ll continue to do that, the same way we have
under David’s leadership.”The fi rst of Stern’s 37 All-Star
games with the league was in Phila-delphia in 1976, back when the host team was responsible for putting on the game. Colangelo hosted the pre-vious year, hiring Andy Williams and Henry Mancini to perform.
Stern became commissioner on Feb. 1, 1984, and almost immediately oversaw changes that turned a game into an event.
With Denver hosting the ‘84 game, it wanted to honor its ABA roots with a dunk contest. Not want-ing to just squeeze it into halftime of the game, the NBA decided to stage it on Saturday, adding an old-timer’s game along with it so there were multiple things to see with one ticket.
That game was soon scrapped for fear of injury — the legends have a brunch now — and the 3-point contest was added in 1986.
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MARSHA SHARP, FORMER women’s basketball coach and Sheryl Swoopes, former professional basketball player and Texas Tech team member, are honored along with the rest of the 1993 Tech national championship team on Sunday during halftime of the Red Raiders’ 69-62 win against the University of Texas.
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said. “We’re really, really young. We had some players in diffi cult situations, and I think that was the bulk of our turnovers.”
Texas junior guard and leading scorer for this game Chassidy Fussell said she found the Lady Raiders defensive pressure frustrating.
“I can’t lie,” Fussell, “it’s a little frus-trating getting doubled and triple-teamed every game, but I just have to rely on the other guards to make shots.”
Aston said she feels the Lady Raiders standing in the Big 12 said a lot about the team.
“I think it says a lot fi rst of all about the tremendous job that Kristy has done,” Aston said. “The fact that she has stayed true to who she is. They have grown. They have grown up with her. They believe in her style and what she is doing. They have experience.”
The Lady Raiders continued produc-ing on the offensive side of the ball, and continued playing tough defense despite a fi rst half defi cit.
“There are moments during the game where you can just see that takeover mentality,” Curry said. “Again, I am just really pleased with our team for fi nding a way to win.”
Kelsi Baker beat the buzzer with a 3-pointer at the end of the first half,
pumping up the Lady Raiders’ bench.“Huge, and just the guts and charac-
ter and the heart that she has to shoot it,” Curry said. “Twelve points from our bench. We have challenged our bench to no end this week.”
Senior guard Chynna Brown is the second Lady Raider this season to score 1,000 points, with 16 against Texas.
“I am just honored,” Brown said. “I give all the credit to my teammates, because without them I would have never got that.”
The Lady Raiders played in the 1993 replica uniforms and senior guard Chynna Brown said she loved it.
“I love them,” Brown said. “I feel like it was cool, and just being able to play in front of them. To still go out and play hard, and represent what is across our chest.”
Curry said she feels that rivalry has not lost credibility in the Big 12.
“I don’t think that the rivalry has come down at all,” she said. “We have got more parody in women’s basketball. We are going to continue this rivalry. That is why you come to Texas Tech, to beat Texas, and everybody else.”
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