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Texas Tech forward Anthony Livingston rebounds the ball Senior guard Ivonne CookTaylor dribbles past a Longhorn during Tech’s loss against Oklahoma State on Saturday player Saturday night in the United Supermarkets Arena. afternoon in the United Supermarkets Arena.

CookTaylor had three steals during Tech’s 77-57 loss.

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It was Star Wars day in the United Supermarkets Arena as the Texas Tech men’s basketball team fell short to Oklahoma State, 83-64, on Saturday.

The Red Raiders entered the game, coming off a 75-69 win over Texas Christian on Wednesday.

Tech was undefeated at home with a record of 12-0 before the Red Raiders faced the Cowboys. The Red Raiders now have a home record of 12-1. The overall season record stands at 14-5 with a Big 12 Conference record of 3-4.

Junior guard Keenan Evans led the team in points with 15. He also came up with three assists and one steal. Junior forward Zach Smith and senior guard Devon Thomas were not far behind, with 11 points each.

Texas Tech’s undefeated home streak was stopped by the Texas Lady Longhorns Saturday night in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The Lady Longhorns won the game, 77-57 and never gave up the lead. Junior Jada Terry scored 15 points in the game, the most out of both teams. She also had six rebounds and one assist.

Junior Dayo Olabode scored 10 points for the Lady Raiders in the game and also finished with four rebounds.

Junior Brooke McCarty scored 14 points for the Lady Longhorns and finished with two assists and two rebounds. Junior Ariel Atkins and freshman Joyner Holmes both scored 13 points for Texas.

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Every team has streaks during the years in which it competes. Whether it is a major losing streak or winning streak, it affects the team’s chemistry depending on the streak it is on.

The Texas Tech Chess Program has been a dominant fixture in the collegiate chess program since its start in 2003. According to the program’s website, the team has

captured more than 10 national titles in its career, including the National Collegiate Team Championship in 2011 and 2012.

In March, the A team will compete in its fourth consecutive Final Four competition.

Alex Onischuk, director and coach of the Tech Chess Program, said it is a big deal that the team has qualified for this tournament consistently.

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The Texas Tech Chess Program’s A team will compete this March in the Final Four national competition.

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weekend count of nationwide protesters was about 1.5 million, and Lubbock gave its own contribution as hundreds, possibly nearly 1,000, showed up at Timothy Cole Memorial Park on 19th Street and University Avenue as part of the Women’s March on Washington.

In a showing of solidarity, Lubbock residents came together for a peaceful protest a day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Hundreds of “sister marches” were planned in cities throughout the U.S. and internationally in conjunction with the Women’s Rights March on Washington that took place on Saturday.

Activists gathered in front of the statue of Timothy Cole and similar demonstrations were hosted in Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles and Phoenix, according to The New York Times.

“What I and many other people here are advocating for today is women’s rights,” Zoe Dumas, a Lubbock resident, said. “We want

1. Peaceful protesters gather at Timothy Cole Memorial Park on the corner of 19th Street and University Avenue on Saturday. Hundreds of Lubbock community members came to protest newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and support women’s rights. 2. Women’s rights supporters gathered at Timothy Cole Memorial Park for the “sister march” of Women’s March on Washington. Protesters held different signs in support of human rights. 3. Clay Spigle, a freshman business major from Cypress, shows his support for Trump during the protest. Spigle said it was important to have both sides represented and show Trump supporters are not accurately represented by the media.

our voices to be heard and for it to be known that we’re going to fight for equality.”

Dumas, like many protesters, carried an antiTrump sign and participated in chants as traffic passed through the intersection.

The crowded corner just across the street from the Texas Tech campus drew the attention of many passing cars.

Some honked in support, other leaned out and antagonized the raucous mob.

“Make America great again,” one man shouted out of his vehicle as he raced past the antiTrump congregation. Another passerby flew the Confederate flag in the bed of his truck.

Counter protests were met with chants and jeers from the crowd. In general, there was little opposition to the demonstration.

“I’m protesting all the hatred in our country,” Mary Windham, a freshman chemistry major from Georgetown, said. “Right now, we’re very divided as a nation, and our goal is to unite ourselves in the fight for our rights.”

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To piggyback off a North Carolina bathroom bill that requires people to use the bathroom of their biological sex, Texas lawmakers have introduced to the Senate floor a similar bill.

Introduced by Texas Senator Lois Kolkhorst and sponsored by Texas Senator Charles Perry, the bill would impose a civil penalty for entering or using changing facilities that do not align with people’s biological sex.

For Perry, the introduction of this bill means safety for any persons who might be at risk in any bathroom or changing facility they enter.

However, those who identity as transgender individuals say this bill creates more unfairness toward them.

“This issue was brought to our doorstep when the federal government threatened to cut funding for Texas schools unless they allowed boys in girls’ restrooms. The Texas Privacy Act will protect schools from lawsuits and make sure that children are not placed at risk,” Perry said in a statement provided to The Daily Toreador. “The bill also gives private businesses the right to make their own decisions and prevent cities from forcing policies on any private business owner.”

Although the bill is not as intrusive as the North Carolina law and allows for private business owners to make their own decisions regarding bathroom usage, the Texas bill would make publics schools and entities adhere to the law, according to the bill text.

Many experts see this bill as a way to put more of a target on transgender individuals, which is where most of the bill’s contention came from in

North Carolina.

The issue boils down to the part of the bill that defines biological sex as one’s physical condition of a person’s birth, Emily Skidmore, assistant professor of history, said. Though closely related, this bill has more of a focus on gender rather than sex, she said, which is where the troublesome points begin to gain better focus.

Gender is a socially constructed definition that is specific to time and place, Skidmore said.

“So, the ways in which we define gender today in 2017 in Texas or in America, more broadly, are very different from how gender was defined, say, 100 years ago,” Skidmore said. “And it is very different from how we might define gender in a different place.”

When it comes to transgender individuals, there needs to be a distinction between the sex they are assigned at birth and the gender they identify with, she said.

Though the issues of transgender individuals have been more visible in recent years, the debate surrounding them has been a long-standing issue, Skidmore said. Overall, the specific debate that surrounds the bathroom issue comes from the notion that people may be targeted by those who do not go to bathrooms of their biological sex but the bathrooms that they choose to go in and assault an individual while they are in there.

“Legislation like the Texas bill and the North Carolina bill are not really informed by any uptick in crime. I think it’s more of a reflection of anxiety,” Skidmore said.

“It’s motivated by concern that doesn’t correlate with the facts about danger.”

It is nearly a myth that transgender people go into

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bathrooms to assault people, Skidmore said, and the anxiety that is felt by legislatures comes from misinformation.

The problems that would come with the passing of such legislation would have significant effects on public universities, she said.

In a hypothetical situation, if a person who has identified as male throughout most of his life attends a university with the new law, he would have to go into a women’s bathroom, Skidmore said.

Even though he was born as a female but identifies as a male, he would be forced into an unusual situation. That has the potential to cause more problems than it solves.

However, the plausibility of such laws being set in stone at the moment seems bleak, Jared Perkins, visiting professor of political science, said. Two contrasting dynamics are coming into play on this issue because it is a priority for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick but not so much for Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus.

Both have given several speeches on the importance, or lack thereof, of the issue, Perkins said.

“I think that if you’re looking at the political dynamics of this, there’s really two things. One, the Senate has a very different dynamic than the house. There are a lot more democrats in the house right now. So, it’s a little bit more contentious,” Perkins said. “And I think Straus has other things on plate that he would like to see get done.”

But, Patrick does have significant influence in the Senate and may use his political thrust to make this happen, Perkins said, and in Perkins’ opinion, there is a possibility the law will get passed in the Senate, but it could fail to pass in the House. One caveat to that,

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Windham said she believed the protests were building toward progress rather than further division in American society.

“What I think is significant about picking Timothy Cole’s statue as our meeting place is that it says ‘Justice For All,’” Laurel Webb, a freshman apparel design major from Austin, said. “That’s what we’re protesting for ultimately: We want equal

however, is support from Gov. Greg Abbott.

The governor has been asked by both Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Patrick to publicly support the bill, Perkins said. As of now, however, Abbott has yet to support the bill, which is crucial because he has more political credibility and, more importantly, sway with voters.

This issue, particularly, has been a priority of West Texas, which may be one of the reasons Perry co-sponsored the bill, Perkins said.

In the fall, Perkins helped in a series of surveys from Tech’s political science’s Earl Survey Research Lab in which the lab surveyed Texas voters to see what legislative issues were at the top of their priority lists.

Among the top priorities

was transgender bathroom usage, Perkins said.

For Skidmore, her reading of the legislation seems to be more reactionary than anything else. The bathroom issue seems to be a way to fight back against what is unknown, she said, but it also takes away some rights of transgender individuals, or at least that what most experts in the field of gender and sexuality say.

It can be said of this issue that there is much to be confused by which makes it a contentious issue, she said.

“We see this legislation as it’s not motivated by a concern about safety,” Skidmore said. “It’s more of a reaction to the increasing visibility and increasing legitimacy that transgender individuals are being granted by our society.”

justice for all people.”

The demonstrators discussed subjects like reproductive rights, civil rights and religious freedom when expressing why they were inspired to protest.

“I think it’s important to remember that we’re not just here for women’s rights. We’re also here for the rights of minorities and the LGBTQ community,” Hallie Morton, a freshman biology major from El Paso, said. “We don’t want all the progress that’s been made up to this point to be in any way diminished by the

new administration in the White House.”

Saturday’s protests had a positive and inclusive atmosphere, Morton said.

Protesters the day before in Washington were more confrontational, inciting violent outbreaks between opposing groups and causing thousands of dollars in property damage to buildings in downtown Washington, D.C. A total of 217 people were arrested Friday in Washington with six police officers suffering injuries during the protests, according to USA Today.

“There’s much more at stake here than just women’s rights,” one protestor, who wished to be identified only as Lee, said. “People are fighting for their health care, Medicaid, social security and their basic civil rights. Of course, we’re not going away that easy.”

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Texas Tech’s School of Music hosted the Big 12 Trombone Conference from Friday evening to Sunday night with featured guest artist Joseph Alessi.

Alessi, the New York Philharmonic principal trombonist, made his solo debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1990, premiering Christopher R o u s e ’s P u l i t z e r- P r i z e w i n n i n g “ Tr o m b o n e Concerto.” According to Alessi’s website, he was awarded an International Trombone Association Award in 2002 and is currently on the faculty of The Julliard School.

James Decker, associate professor of trombone at Tech, said he has personally known Alessi for about 30 years. Decker has also studied with Alessi in the past.

“Joseph Alessi is probably the premier trombonist in all the world,” Decker said.

Dylan Moore, the president of Iota Tau Alpha, the student organization that sponsored the

conference, said Alessi’s presence led to a significant increase in attention for the conference.

This year’s conference had triple the number of attendees compared with the last 14 years it has been in existence, Moore said. The organization had to book Alessi a year in advance and adjust the conference dates to accommodate to his schedule.

“Booking him is almost bittersweet because there’s no going up from there,” he said. “He’s the biggest name right now.”

Other highlights of the conference included Alessi’s master class. Students and viewers can learn and be inspired by simply watching him, Decker said.

“It’s going to be a oncein-a-lifetime thing (because) it’s where you get to hear a musician of his caliber play,” Moore said.

All students, musicians or not, have reason to attend the events in the conference, Moore said.

“It’s a big piece of current cultural history,” he said. “We live in a generation where most kids our age don’t listen to any-

thing related to classical instruments at all, and most don’t realize there’s still entire new genres of music being created for classical instruments every day.”

The conference has also led to increased attention for Tech’s School of Music and the Trombone Studio, Moore said. The exposure the School of Music gained from this conference and Alessi’s presence will result in new opportunities in the long term.

“Just having his name next to ours already has gotten us more of a reputation,” he said.

Tracy Gonzales, a junior music education major from Pearsall, performed on Saturday night, preluding Alessi, as a part of the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Trombone Studio.

Gonzalez said the annual conference as well as the featured guests could lead to even more musical talent at Tech.

“I think that trombone students everywhere will see this conference as a window of opportunity, and it should, in my perspective, bring in some

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Joseph Alessi, a trombonist from The Julliard School, performs as a part of the Big 12 Trombone Conference at the School of Music on Saturday night. Alessi was accompanied by pianist Martha Locker. prospective students,” she said.

Oscar Diaz, trombone professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, said the conference has gained Tech’s School of Music more recognition.

“People came here from all necks of the woods,”

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “To qualify for the Final Four is pretty hard,” Onischuk said. “What is even more hard is to do it four years in a row. We are one of the favorites every year. No question about it.”

Qualifying for the Final Four is the goal every year for the team, Onischuk said.

Throughout the semester, the team prepares for the Final Four through different tournaments the team and individuals on the team participate in, like the PanAmerican Intercollegiate Chess Championship, which the team won in 2015.

Andrii Baryshpolets, a graduate student in the economics department from Ukraine, said winning the Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship was one of his greatest achievements in chess.

Competing in these tournaments, Baryshpolets said, increases his focus on the team aspect of the competition.

“It was very special for me to play for a team,” Baryshpolets said. “You have to be supportive of your teammates. It is not only pressure, but it’s more responsibility. I’m not worried only about myself but for my team.”

The team’s preparation will not change significantly while preparing for the Final Four. Onischuk said he wants the members of the team to

and you are there to help your teammates. It’s a lot to live up to, but it pushes you to be better.”

As coach of the chess program, Onischuk said he has never won a Final Four tournament. This gives the team more motivation to win.

“We are just going to prepare ourselves the best we can,” Onischuk said. “These guys are so motivated. They are trying to do their best no matter what tournament

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focus on their studies during the semester and then focus on chess during spring break, which is right before the Final Four tournament.

There are certain activities the members of the team do to practice for the tournaments, Onischuk said “Every week, we prepare in groups,” Onischuk said.

“I try and work individually with our A-team players. They play each other, we solve some problems, some puzzles. We work on the chess openings. It’s very important because it’s the start of the game.”

Baryshpolets said he spends time before the tournament studying the other teams that are participating.

“Before the tournament, you have to know your opponents, prepare specifically for those opponents,” Baryshpolets said. “We can look at their games and study their games.”

Claudia Munoz, a freshman mathematics major from Wichita Falls and a member of the chess program, said she feels amazing to be a part of such a successful team. While Munoz will not compete in the Final Four tournament, she feels proud to support her teammates who will be.

“It’s amazing to see all the teammates who are going to the Final Four,” Munoz said.

“I love Texas Tech because you have such a united team.

But, you get to learn from different people. Your teammates are there to help you

as well as himself.

“It was a kind of a oncein-a-lifetime thing for my students to experience that and be in the presence of such a prestigious artist and audience, and it happened because of this conference,” Diaz said.

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Rose Trapp, a junior music education major from Katy, records herself playing the baritone Sunday outside of the Music building. She is making a video to send to Drum Corps for its required monthly update.

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Diaz said. “You know, we came from South Texas, close to Mexico, to perform, and for us to come all the way up here, it shows that there’s a lot of exposure for the school from all areas.”

Diaz said the experience meant a lot to his students

they are in.”

Baryshpolets has confidence in his team that the members will put up a good fight in the Final Four tournament, he said.

“This final four will be tough for us because all the other teams are really well prepared,” he said. “I think we have a good chance to compete for first place. I need to do my best and support my team.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you wondered where many of Hollywood's A-list celebrities had gone during President Donald Trump's inauguration, you didn't have to wonder any longer on Saturday, when scores of them showed up at huge women's marches in Washington and other cities to send the new president a pointed message that he was in for a fight — and that, as so many signs said, women's rights are human rights.

Madonna, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson, Cher, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Emma Watson, Amy Schumer, Jake Gyllenhaal and feminist leader Gloria Steinem were just some of those at the march in Washington, where officials said the crowd could number more than half a million.

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In the capital, a sea of pink, pointy-eared "pussyhats" mocking the new president stretched far and wide as Madonna took to the stage — and, to no one's surprise, held little back.

"Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House," she said.

"But I know that this won't change anything. We cannot fall into despair." Instead, she called for a "revolution of love."

T h e p o p i c o n C h e r, speaking in an interview backstage, said she hoped people could now mobilize against Trump the way they mobilized against the Vietnam War.

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f you told me a year ago that I’d be the owner of two cats, I’d say you were crazy. If you told me a year ago, that I’d adopt two stray Siamese kittens while barhopping after a breakup, I would say that’s the dumbest thing I’d ever heard.

But, that’s what happened. This is my life. As I turn to my left right now, two cats are meowing at me in loud, haunting unison simply because I took a shredded toilet paper roll away from them.

“Meow,” they protest.

“Meow. Meow. Meow.”

If I ever do anything they dislike, they let me know immediately with cries as forceful and loud as those of a child. If my cats had a Twitter account, I imagine that every time I fed them too slowly, accidently stepped on their tail or asked them to get down from the table, a tweet something like, “Robert Avila is a loser, most overrated owner of all time #notmyowner,” would follow.

With my new kittens, I am currently watching cable news, of which the post-inauguration debates have been both strange and exciting. The first big debate of the Trump administration appears to be heavily based on the accuracy of the media’s report on the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd.

It is compelling to watch an elected president so immediately shaken by anything that looks like criticism and that he considers the size of a crowd even important. Watching an administration’s chief of staff vow to fight “tooth and nail every day and twice on Sunday” over the accurate reporting of a crowd size, is almost too outrageous to believe. It is a loud and hauntingly unified argument simply over straightforward and accurate news reporting.

If you had told me a year ago the crowd size would be the most im-

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portant post-debate controversy, I would’ve said that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. I would have closer believed that Toby Keith’s “Beer For my Horses” would be the highlight of the inauguration’s concert performance.

“Meow,” I keep hearing.

“Meow. Meow.”

If you couldn’t tell, I’m having trouble getting my cats to stop crying. Cats are smart. They know quickly what’s right or wrong. The strange thing about cats, though, is no matter how smart they are and how apparent it is that they know what you want or don’t want them to do, they will never completely listen to you.

While these small, adorable and friendly cats are pleasant and comforting to have in my house, they will always choose to do what they want over what I hope they’ll do. To a cat, an owner is a part of that cat’s environment, not its master. Cats only react and listen when you catch them doing something bad, and even then, it’s just a countdown until they believe they can do it again and not get caught.

Even if I feed, love and shelter them, our relationship is a coexistence, not one that looks to please me. So, for every time I ask the cats to get off the counter, there will be a time they knock over my Keurig. For every time I try to lock my bathroom door, they will open it and turn toilet paper into confetti. For every time I ask the cats to get off the bed, they will come back and pee on it.

“Meow,” they keep crying.

I tune out their cries and watch as Trump’s inauguration speech paints a bleak picture of American

streets, people trapped in poverty and lives swept up in crimes and gangs across the inner cities. Of course, these issues are real; these are issues our society has always faced.

But, the criminal justice major in me wants every moment of the speech to include the huge decrease in crime over decades.

That part of me wants people to know that statistically, the United States is far safer than it has been in generations. The English major in me wants to know why Trump feels

the need to use rhetoric that makes us feel unsafe, why he needs the country to feel so depleted.

In my mind, our country was asking for change, for improvement. I personally never asked for the U.S. be put first because I assumed it was a given that didn’t need to be said, and I felt the greater need to let the world know we would be there for it, as well. I personally only asked that we made sure people’s needs were met, that people felt s a f e , a n d m o s t i m p o r-

tantly, I wanted people to be honestly informed.

I didn’t want a savior; I didn’t think we needed one. I wanted a leader.

“Meow. Meow.” It’s endless.

It will come as no surprise to you then that I love my cats Stevens and Holmes — named after Supreme Court justices — more than I love President Trump. And I will be clenching my teeth as I wait on who will be nominated for former Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacant seat.

My cats don’t listen and do whatever they

feel, but it is obvious to say they love my home — their new home, which includes me and all of my belongings — and they would never do anything to harm it. However, it is an uncomfortable feeling to hope and to pray that the 45th president of the United States feels the same about our country.

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Trump deserves chance to prove himself A llow me to add — like many have so far — to our nation’s postinaugural conversation.

As women and men alike take to the streets to shout for the rights President Donald Trump’s inauguration seems to have threatened, we find ourselves wondering what else this so-declared dictatorial president will do to rob Americans of our freedom.

Now, wait. Before we continue, I think it is important to ask where exactly we have been robbed of our freedom. What exactly has changed in our personal lives — the ones we protest to protect — since Trump lifted his tired hand off that bible on Friday?

What, truly, has changed?

We l l , f o r P r e s i d e n t Donald Trump, everything has changed.

It is known that, as a young man, Trump inherited his family’s real estate business. He then devoted the next several decades — tens upon tens of years — helping to build it into the

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successful financial example we see today. Regardless of any past declaration of bankruptcy or contrived questionability, the billions of dollars he turned a mom-and-pop business into speaks volumes of his executive prowess.

Briefly, let it be noted that Carly Fiorina — a large-scale businesswoman, as well — had a far more turbulent and disreputable employment history, and yet she was protected from the same intensity of scrutiny during her campaign.

If that was because of her gender, I cannot confirm. However, with the blinkered state of our national cognition, I think the reality of that bias would surprise few.

Returning to my point, on Wednesday — two days

before chaining himself to the burden of our tumultuously united states —Trump signed over his life’s work to his two sons and chief financial advisor.

Following this, he also agreed — rather benevolently and extraordinarily patriotically — to pour any profits his hotels receive from a foreign government into the U.S. Department of the Treasury. This inciting step in his administration to decrease our national debt remains yet to be executed extensively. However, it is a thoughtful and dynamic starting point.

In addition to these financial changes, Trump’s wife and their youngest son, Barron, will soon move to Washington, D.C. with the president. Right now, however, they are remaining in New York so that Barron can finish out the school year.

I am struck with how much this reminds me of the way my loving parents remained in our crowded,

humid, expensive hometown so that I could finish my senior year of high school.

That was a priceless gift of time that I will forever be thankful for. In the same way, as Barron’s father adopts a nation’s needs, I find it touching that Trump did not forget those of his son.

On top of that, Trump’s daughter Ivanka will also bring her family to Washington D.C., as she has promised to help advise and temper her father as he serves as president.

So, two families have uprooted themselves to do a job that neither ’s careers needed.

That’s a thought that strikes me unendingly.

Trump’s career sat completely wrapped in a bow as he approached 70 years of age, far past retirement age. He should be resting in his wealth and reputation as an American Dream success-story.

Instead, he placed his n a m e , c a r e e r, w e a l t h , family, comfort, health

and life in the cruel and criticizing limelight of American politics.

The only reason Trump volunteered to be president is because the country he loves enough to have built his life in, the country he has entrusted his livelihood to, the country he pours the fruits of his labor into needed a president who didn’t need to be president.

America needs a president who isn’t serving his own agenda but instead serving the nation.

Tr u m p w a t c h e d o u r country be mismanaged, misled and mistreated by career politicians, who hoped to place a presidential cherry on top of their federally funded sundae and Trump decided he could do better.

Trump decided he was willing to go all in so that we could all live in a strong, free country.

So, I see no threat in Trump’s being president.

I see no malice intended in his comments, concerns

and conditions. I see no harm in his administration. And I see endless issue with the abundance of violence and cynicism Trump, his family and his supporters are being assaulted with.

Perhaps, I am just as biased as the lot of us.

However, I think it’s reasonable to ask we simply read a little more so that we may be informed on Trump’s policies; wait a little longer so that he may have the chance we all would hope for to prove himself competent; and think a little harder about the actions we take to exercise our constitutional freedoms, remembering how United States singularly remains a nation built on liberty and a promise that happiness may be pursued.

I’m not asking that anyone respect him, but I am asking that we act in a way that respects ourselves and our country. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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Junior Texas Tech guard Zach Smith fights for the ball under the basket during Tech’s game against Oklahoma State on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech was defeated by Oklahoma State, 64-83, ending its 12-game win streak at home.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Tech coach Candi Whitaker said she gives credit to Texas and that the Lady Longhorns can accomplish a lot if they make it to the NCAA tournament.

“There’s obviously things we’ve got to fix on our end,” Whitaker said. “Wish we could’ve shot a little better, thought we had some good looks from some really good shooters that have to go for us to upset at Texas. We have to have big nights, but obviously, we didn’t have that tonight.”

Tech finished with a 35 field-goal percentage, a 47 field-goal percentage from the 3-point line and a 47 free-throw percentage. Tech also finished with 38 total rebounds and 18 points scored from the bench.

Redshirt senior Ivonne CookTaylor scored eight total points and was followed by sophomore Recee’ Caldwell, who scored seven points.

Freshman Grayson Bright shot perfectly from the 3-point line, scoring two out of two.

“I thought we had done a better job in transition, in general,” Whitaker said. “I thought when we turned it

over, it was two points for them and had to not turn it over and did a better job in the second half about not turning it over. In transition, getting back from their place, it was just a layup after layup. So, I thought we did better defensively in transition.”

Tech trailed against Texas throughout the first half.

Terry scored eight points for the Lady Raiders and also had four rebounds. Caldwell scored six points and had two assists and two rebounds.

Tech, as a whole, had a 34.4 field goal percentage in the half, scoring 11 out of 32 shots. Tech was also two out of seven in scoring 3-pointers and scored two out of five free throws.

Freshman Brittany Brewer was the first to score for the Lady Raiders, hitting a jumper for two points, making the score 5-2 early in the game. The final score of the first half was scored by Tech from a free throw by Olabode.

Terry said she learned how to hold her composure since facing the Lady Longhorns the previous time.

“Just not losing confidence in myself and also my teammates still having confidence in me,” Terry said. “They’re still giving me

“Honestly, I don’t understand where the disconnect comes from,” Evans said.

“I just think we kind of got lazy on offense.”

The Red Raiders shot 44.4 percent from the floor, 33.3 percent from beyond the arc and 69 percent from the freethrow line.

The Cowboys put up stronger shots, going 55 percent from the floor, 68.8 percent from beyond the arc and 75.7 percent from the line.

The win over the Red Raiders was Oklahoma State’s first Big 12 win, setting its conference record at 1-6. Tech coach Chris Beard said he gave credit to the way the Cowboys played.

“Congratulations to Oklahoma State. They played great,” Beard said. “As a coach, it’s easy to step up here and say everything we did wrong, but you’ve got to give credit to them. They’re a great team. They were focused. I said many times this week that this is not a 0-6 team.” the ball, and just basically having confidence in myself, knowing that I can score.”

The Lady Longhorns were led by McCarty and Atkins, who both scored seven points in the first half. Both players also had two rebounds.

Redshirt sophomore Khaleann Caron-Goundreau and Holmes both scored six points for Texas in the first half.

Texas, as a team, had 25 rebounds in the first half and had an 85.7 free throw percentage, scoring six out of seven free throws.

In the first half, Texas scored 10 points off turnovers, while Tech scored three. The Lady Longhorns also scored 16 points off the bench.

Whitaker said Texas was a stronger team since seeing them play in Austin.

“Yeah, they are,” Whitaker said. “They’ve continued to get better. Kudos to them and the work they’ve put in, the understanding of their roles and how they’ve played together.”

In the second quarter, Texas was perfect from the free-throw line, scoring four out of four free throws. Tech scored two out of four free throws in the second quarter.

In the second half, Terry scored seven points and had two rebounds. Olabode scored

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In the first half, the Red Raiders shot 9-23 from the field for a percentage of 39.

Tech shot efficiently from the free-throw line, draining 10-13 for a percentage of 77. Junior forward Justin Gray led the team in the first half with seven points and four rebounds.

Gray said he witnessed just how dominate Oklahoma State was on the floor and said the team just could not keep up.

“They just outplayed us,” Gray said.

Oklahoma State started off strong, shooting 65 percent from the floor. Senior guard Phil Forte led the Cowboys in the first half with 16 points. Junior guard Jeffrey Carroll was not far behind with 14 points.

The Cowboys shot efficiently from beyond the arc, draining 7-8 for 88 percent.

The Red Raiders struggled from the 3-point area, shooting 9-23 for 39 percent.

Tech got off to a slow start, allowing the Cowboys to go on a 5-0 run early in the first half. Senior forward Anthony Livingston brought the team back to life as he drained a 3-pointer to close in on Oklanine points and also had two rebounds. Sophomore Zuri Sanders got five rebounds in the second half. For the team, the Lady Raiders had 43.8 field goal percentage and a 60 3-point field-goal percentage in the second half.

“At times, I thought that Ivonne (CookTaylor) took some tough ones, just got stuck in an area and used her dribble and shot it, but I thought they had some pretty good looks, and at this level, you’re not going to get much more time and space against Texas,” Whitaker said.

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homa State, 5-3. Gray came back down the court to even the score, 5-5, with a layup.

With 12 minutes left in the half, the Red Raiders needed to create momentum to take the lead. However, Oklahoma State’s Carroll hit a 3-pointer to further the Oklahoma State lead, 15-5.

The Red Raiders were down by 20 in the first half with seven minutes remaining. Gray went up for the rebound and was fouled. He shot 1-2 from the line to bring Tech within 19, 30-11.

Senior forward Aaron Ross came up with a rebound after the missed shot by junior guard Shadell Millinghaus and put it back to close the deficit, 46-28. At the end of the first half, the Red Raiders trailed the Cowboys, 46-30.

Tech got the first points on the board in the second half with the layup from Evans to bring the team within 14, 46-32.

“I thought we made a nice effort in the second half to try and get back in the game,” Beard said. “The crowd really helped us, but this game was lost in the first half.”

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range, bringing the Red Raiders within 10, 59-49, with 12 minutes remaining in the game. Oklahoma State came right back with a barrage of 3-pointers to increase its lead, 65-52.

Tech did not give up despite the deficit and yet again came back to be within 10 points, 65-55, with nine minutes remaining. After a foul called on the Cowboys, Evans was sent to the line to shoot two. He drained both of his shots to bring the team within nine, 66-57.

The Cowboys came back strong with three minutes remaining to increase the lead, 72-57. Thomas and junior guard Niem Stevenson both hit from the field to set the score, 75-61, with two minutes remaining.

The effort Tech put in was not enough to stop Oklahoma State, as the team fell short to the Cowboys, 83-64.

“I have a lot of confidence in our players,” Beard said.

“We just got outplayed by a really good team. It’s not time to panic.”

For the next game, Tech will face off against Baylor at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Waco. @ABoutwellDT

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Texas Tech sophomore guard Recee’ Caldwell looks for an open player to pass the ball to against Texas guard Brianna Taylor. The Lady Raiders lost to Texas on Saturday night in the United Supermarket Arena, 77-57. The loss was the team’s first at home this season.

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Nowitzki, Mavericks rout Lakers, 122-73

DALLAS (AP) — Justin Anderson scored 19 points and Dirk Nowitzki added 13 to help the Dallas Mavericks rout the Los Angeles Lakers 122-73 on Sunday.

It was the Mavericks’ 13th straight win over the Lakers, who have lost six of their last seven games this season.

The game was close for 10 minutes, with Dallas leading 23-22 before the Mavericks scored the next 15 straight to blow the game open. Nowitzki had seven during the run.

The Mavericks led 67-33 at the half and never looked back.

Lou Williams led the Lakers with 15.

The Mavericks both scored the most points and allowed the fewest in a half and a game this season. The 34-point halftime lead was the third-largest in franchise history.

The Lakers scored their fewest points in a quarter, a first half and a game.

All 11 Mavericks who played in the first half scored and had at least one rebound.

Dallas’ Seth Curry scored 14 points, including seven straight in the first quarter for a 13-6 lead.

The Lakers showed signs of life on a 10-5 run for a 16-15 lead with 5:50 left in the quarter.

Julius Randle scored four of the points, and Luol Deng and Nick Young each hit a 3-point shot.

The game was tied 20-20 before Devin Harris made a 3-point shot with 2:46 remaining for a lead that Dallas never lost.

Wesley Matthews and Deron Williams also had 13 points. Harris and Pierre Jackson scored 10 each.

Rookies Jackson and Nicolas Brussino (eight points) each reached career highs.

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Red Raiders blow past Wichita State, 5-2

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The No. 23 Texas Tech men’s tennis team came out with the win, 5-2, against Wichita State on Saturday night.

Leading the way for the doubles was junior Connor Curry and senior Carlos DiLaura. Curry and DiLaura had 6-2 win over Wichita State’s Murkel Dellien and Jocelyn Devilliers.

While junior Alex Sendegeya and sophomore Bjorn Thomson went head to head against Miroslav Herzan and Haru Inoue of Wichita State.

The match ultimately fell in the Red Raiders favor with a

5-4 victory over the shockers.

“Our guys came out in doubles and played really well and took care of the doubles point,” coach Brett Masi said.

The 5-4 doubles victory gave the Red Raiders a 1-0 standing, going into singles play against the Shockers.

Tech continued to stay ahead with Thomson’s securing the first two matches with a 6-3, 6-3 win. Curry had a 6-0, 6-1 win, giving the Red Raiders two points during singles play.

While on Court 2, Sendegeya lost the first match, 6-0, to the Shockers but continued to fight back during the second match at 3-3. However,

the momentum for the Red Raider fell, and the Shockers took the win for the match.

Also in singles, No. 25 ranked Jolan Cailleau fell to Wichita State, 6-4, in the first match. Cailleau gained composure during the second set, taking the lead, 4-1. Overall, Cailleau came out with the win, 6-1, 6-4, in the second and third sets.

“I was impressed with Jolan (Cailleau), who took a loss in the first set and made the adjustment right away in the second set and the third set, playing a lot more aggressive, and obviously the results showed,” Masi said.

For the Red Raiders,

Bautista sets meet record at A&M Invitational and Justin Hall finished in the No. 1 and No. 3 spot, respectively, in the men’s long jump. Brown’s jump of 7.81-meters secured him the No. 4 spot in the NCAA and tied him at No. 7 in the world.

“I feel we had a good day with a lot of our kids starting to understand how to compete against better competition,” Tech coach Wes Kittley said in the release. “Good teams here today and it was good to see us compete with some of the best in the country.”

Freshman Norman Grimes and sophomore Kaylee Hinton competed in the 60-meter hurdles and both set personal bests.

Hinton ran a time of 8.5

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Pyry Hyrkkonen gets ready to serve against Wichita State on Saturday at the Lubbock Country Club. He lost his singles match in three sets.

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TRACK AND FIELD On Saturday, the Texas Tech track and field team participated in the A&M Invitational in College Station.

The Red Raiders had 29 personal records set at the meet, including a meet record time of 8:07.70 set by junior Miguel Bautista in the 3,000-meter run.

According to a news release from Tech Athletics, Bautista improved his personal-best performance, which he did last year at the A&M Quadrangular, by 12.95 seconds at the invitational.

Among the teams competing in College Station were host Texas A&M, Georgia, TCU, Arizona State, UTSA and UT-Arlington.

According to the release, freshmen Charles Brown

sophomore Ronit Bisht also gained a 6-1, 6-3 win. This was his first singles win of the season, Masi said.

“That always weighs on your mind, to show you’re worth it as a player on the team,” he said.

Masi said going into next weekend’s matches, he wants to be better at closing out games and hopes the team keeps improving as the season continues.

The Red Raiders will host Iowa at 12 p.m. Saturday and either Florida State or Mississippi State at 12 p.m. Sunday in the ITA Kickoff Weekend at the McLeod Tennis Center.

seconds, which bested her previous personal-record of 8.51 seconds set at the Big 12 Conference Championships last season.

Grimes finished with a time of 8.0 seconds to capture a second-place finish.

In the pole vault, sophomore Drew McMichael led Tech with a personal best clear of 5.03-meters, which was good enough for fifth overall in the event.

According to the release, all participants in the women’s high jump — Hinton, Zarriea Willis, Cyre Virgo and Rose Njoku — ­set personal bests.

On Saturday, the team will participate in the Adidas Classic, which is a one-day meet, in Lincoln, Nebraska. @BSoliz_DT

No. 9 Louisville tops No. 23 South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Louisville got another stellar performance from Myisha Hines-Allen and some key play off the bench.

Hines-Allen scored 27 points and added 12 rebounds as No. 9 Louisville beat No. 23 South Florida 66-52 on Sunday.

The Cardinals outscored USF 14-2 in bench points,

with Ciera Johnson getting six, and Sam Fuehring and Kylee Shook chipping in four apiece.

"I thought our bench really came in and gave us a lift," Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. "And we're really going to need them as we continue on throughout the season because they just bring a different dimension

to us. That's one thing I like about my ball club is, that we've got a lot of different parts that we can throw out there depending on how we're being guarded."

South Florida (15-3) got 14 points from Laia Flores and Ariadna Pujol.

"Our goal is to not let the other teams' best players beat you," Walz said.

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No. 6 Notre Dame beat North Carolina 77-55 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw always wants to get Brianna Turner going inside no matter who the sixth-ranked Fighting Irish are playing.

It certainly was a priority against a North Carolina team lacking much of a post presence.

The 6-foot-3 junior had 24 points, 12 rebounds and

six blocks to help the Fighting Irish beat the Tar Heels 77-55 on Sunday, a win that gave McGraw her 750th victory at the school.

Marina Mabrey added 13 points for the Fighting Irish (18-3, 6-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who blew open a close game in the second quarter and improved to 53-2 in ACC regular-season games since

joining the league for the 2013-14 season.

But the ball kept ending up in Turn— and often the basket soon after.

“I thought I could use my size in the game today,” Turner said. “They have a lot of quick guards so I followed in transition, just trying to post their guards up would be effective for me.”

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