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or its home opener on Tuesday afternoon, the No. 11 Texas Tech baseball team defeated New Mexico State at Dan Law Field, 16-1.

Tech went 3-1 in its weekend series in Starkville, Mississippi. The Red Raiders went 1-2 against Mississippi State, but won both of their games against Western Illinois.

Tech leads the all-time series against New Mexico State, 46-18, and in Lubbock, Tech leads 38-6, according to Tech Athletics.

The Aggies came into the contest on a two-game winning streak and a record of 2-2 on the season, according to New Mexico State Athletics.

Tech ended the afternoon with 18 hits, 40 at-bats and 16 runs.

Junior shortstop Orlando Garcia was a force in the batter's box for the Red Raiders with a three-run home run and grand slam.

Garcia had four hits at five at-bats.

He also had four runs, seven RBIs and two assists.

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1. Texas Tech infielder Josh Jung hits a pitch from New Mexico for a base hit during Tuesday's home opener at Dan Law Field. 2. A Tech baseball player runs to a base during the game against New Mexico State on Tuesday. Tech won the game 16-1.

“I think you just have a plan and you stick with it,” Garcia said. “Just let the game come to you, and today is today, and tomorrow is tomorrow, and that’s all you really can control. Just putting the barrel on the bat, and that’s pretty much it.”

Tech brought in five pitchers during the game.

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February is Teen Dating Violence Month, and based on the statistics from Break the Cycle, a national nonprofit organization that provides programs for dating abuse, a change in thinking should be made.

1 in 3 high school students will experience physical or sexual violence from someone the person is dating, according to the website.

1 in 10 high school students is intentionally abused by the student’s boyfriend or girlfriend.

Rebecca Hyman, coordinator of counseling and children services at Lubbock’s Women Protective Services, wants to bring awareness to the idea. Bringing enough awareness will help with prevention, and eventually, the cycle will be broken, she said.

“A lot of times what we consider normal in dating relationships are ideas formed from either our family or our relationships beginning in high school,” Hyman said.

Beginning around the high school age, it is important for students to recognize what is healthy and unhealthy in relationships, she said.

“At that point in time, it can help form healthy expectation for their future relationships,” Hyman said.

Sophia Dominguez, community outreach and education advocate for the Women’s Protective Services and a Texas Tech alumna, teaches individuals of all ages about dating and domestic violence.

Domestic violence is a pattern of abuse through the use of power and control over another person, she said.

This can be through verbal abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse and even financial or religious abuse.

Abusers use any means to exert control over the other person, Dominguez said. Teen violence involves committing violent acts while one is a pre-teen, or a freshman or sophomore in college.

“When we’re looking at the age range, these guys and girls are trying to figure out how to navigate serious relationships,” she said. “Either they’re mimicking what’s happening at home or what their ideas are on gender stereotypes or what their position should be in the relationship.”

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Student team dominates annual Chili Cook-Off

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Members of Texas Tech Hospitality Services showed their skill and competed against each other in the fourth annual Chili Cook-Off on Tuesday in the Red Raider Ballroom of the Student Union Building.

The Sam’s Place location in the Wall/Gates Residence Complex won the Judges Choice award for “Netflix and Chili” and the Sam’s Place West location in the Wiggins Complex won the People’s Choice award with “Last Call Chili.”

Alan Cushman, manager of business development for Hospitality Services, said the event gives members of Hospitality Services the chance to come together for some healthy competition.

In the competition, 10 teams showed their unique chili recipes, whether it be inspired by an old family recipe or by culinary experience.

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ative freedom,” Cushman said.

“A lot of them have their own run at what chili they want to do and what ingredients they want to do. Traditional, nontraditional, we have a chicken chili, we have a turkey chili.

There’s a lot of different varieties represented here.”

Dewey McMurrey, executive chef for Hospitality Services, said cooking traditional Texas chili is a refined process, but it can be done in a variety of ways.

The process for the cook-off starts in December, Cushman said.

The 10 teams, one for each Hospitality Services location on campus, develop their recipes and choose what people are going to be a part of the team.

For the first time in the cookoff ’s history, one of the teams was an all-student team, Cushman said. The student workers from the Sam’s Place location in the Wall/ Gates Residence Complex came into the competition with their chili

called “Netflix and Chili.”

Nellie Arguello, a junior radiology major at South Plains College from Lubbock, works at the Sam’s Place location in the Wall/Gates Residence Complex. Arguello said she started the process of making the team for the Chili Cook-Off after she found a recipe.

“I went to my manager and said I had a recipe for the Chili CookOff,” Arguello said. “She put me in charge and told me to pick my team. I went with (two people) who would be enthusiastic about (the cook-off).”

Arguello said it was great to have a student group participating in the cook-off, competing against professional chefs. Arguello hopes more students will feel comfortable to have groups participating in the cook-off.

Cushman also said he wants more students to be involved in the cook-off.

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1. A Hospitality Services member serves a sample of chili at the annual Chili Cook-off Tuesday in the Student Union Building. Contestant had different names for their chilis such as "Brisky Business" and "Netflix and Chili.” 2. Samples of chili are laid out for event visitors to taste. Visitors could sample and judge the chili.

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3 members added to VPR Board of Regents to meet search committee Tuesday on Thursday, Friday A search committee has expanded its efforts to begin the process of finding and selecting candidates to serve as Texas Tech’s vice president of research.

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Lawrence Schovanec, the committee has added Kimberly Gramm, managing director of the Innovation Hub at Research Park; Aliza Wong, associate dean of the Honors College; and Bryce White, graduate vice president for Student Government Association.

This brings the search committee for vice president of research to a total of 15 members, according to the memo.

Other members of the committee include Al Sacco,

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Pop culture, media and peers help formulate ideology and how teens process relationships, Dominguez said.

It is important to pay attention to the influence of environmental factors in relationship development, she said.

Getting in a relationship during one’s teenage years is a trial-anderror type of experience, Dominguez said. If teens are in relationships with people who abuse them, it negatively impacts their personalities.

This is why her department at the Women’s Protective Services educates students with a program called Expect Respect, she said. The program operates in local schools and teaches elementaryaged to high school-aged students about respect, love and relationships.

Many of these students face challenges and have misconceptions and predetermined notions on how to love someone. At that age, the factors that play into this influence how they view self-worth, respect, and how to love and care for another person, Dominguez said.

Eventually, this can interconnect with other issues such as sexuality, ethnicity, religion and substance abuse, she said.

“Fifteen million U.S. children are exposed to domestic violence each year. I think it’s important when educating our teens or young adults about domestic violence,” Dominguez said. “15 million children are witnessing or experiencing domestic violence. That will shape how they feel about

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others in their community and how they feel about others who they love.”

One in 4 women experience domestic violence during their lifetime, and every nine seconds, a woman is beaten in the U.S. Women go through the cycle of violence six to eight times. This means they will be abused, leave and then go back to the person six to eight times, she said.

“Sometimes these women don’t make it to the eighth time. Sometimes, they are killed by then,” she said. “We have to understand the problem is bigger than walking away. There are a lot more things going on there.”

Most of the time, victims know they are being abused but do not know the extent of their abuse, she said.

The Women’s Protective Services’ keyword is empowerment, Dominguez said. The organization provides victims with shelter and food, and helps victims financially, so they can build their resumes and get back on their feet.

Currently, the Women’s Protective Services provides the shelter for 190 victims, including children. However, she said, it would never turn a person away.

“If a person is experiencing this and they feel alone, I want them to know there are people in their community who are willing to help, and there will be no judgment as far as the situation,” she said. “And I want them to know, there is hope.”

To learn more information about the Women’s Protective Services, visit www.wpslubbock.org. @DailyToreador

The Texas Tech System Board of Regents will meet Thursday and Friday in Lubbock. The meeting will take place in room 118 of the Student Union Building.

The Tech System consists of four universities: Tech, Health Sciences Center, Angelo State University and Health Sciences Center El Paso.

Agenda items for the meeting on Thursday include planning for updates at Angelo State and HSC. Friday’s meeting will consist of reports from Tech System

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Millions targeted for possible deportation under Trump rules WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation — including people simply arrested for traffic violations — under a sweeping rewrite of immigration enforcement policies announced Tuesday by the Trump administration.

Any immigrant who is in the country illegally and is charged or convicted of any offense, or even suspected of a crime, will now be an enforcement priority, according to Homeland Security Department memos signed

by Secretary John Kelly.

That could include people arrested for shoplifting or minor offenses — or simply having crossed the border illegally.

The Trump administration memos replace narrower guidance focusing on immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes, are considered threats to national security or are recent border crossers.

Under the Obama administration guidance, immigrants whose only violation was being in the country illegally were generally left alone. Those immigrants fall into two categories: those who crossed the border without permission and those who overstayed their visas.

Crossing the border illegally is a criminal offense, and the new memos make clear that those who have done so are included in the broad list of enforcement priorities.

Overstaying a visa is a civil, not criminal, offense.

Those who do so are not specifically included in the priority list but, under the memos, they are still more likely to face deportation than they had been before.

The new enforcement documents are the latest efforts by President Donald Trump to follow through on campaign promises to strictly enforce immigration laws. He’s also promised to build a wall at the Mexican border — he insists Mexico will eventually foot the bill — and Kelly’s memos reiterate calls for Homeland Security to start planning for the costs and construction.

Tr u m p ’s e a r l i e r i m migration orders, which temporarily banned all refugees as well as foreigners from seven Muslimmajority countries, have faced widespread criticism and legal action. A federal appeals court has upheld a temporary halt.

Kelly’s enforcement plans call for enforcing a longstanding but obscure provision of immigration law that allows the government to send some people caught illegally crossing the Mexican border back to Mexico, regardless of where they are from. Those foreigners would wait in that country for U.S. deportation proceedings to be complete. This would be used for people who aren’t considered a threat to cross the border illegally again, the memo says.

That provision is almost certain to face opposition from civil libertarians and Mexican officials, and it’s unclear whether the United States has the authority

to force Mexico to accept third-country nationals.

But the memo also calls for Homeland Security to provide an account of U.S. aid to Mexico, a possible signal that Trump plans to use that funding to get Mexico to accept the foreigners.

Historically, the U.S. has quickly repatriated Mexican nationals caught at the border but has detained immigrants from other countries pending deportation proceedings that could take years.

Mexico’s new ambassador to the U.S., Geronimo Gutierrez, called the policy changes “something very serious.” In a hearing Tuesday with Mexican senators, he said, “Obviously, they are a cause for concern for the foreign relations department, for the Mexican government, and for all Mexicans.”

The memos do not change U.S. immigration laws, but take a far harder line toward enforcement.

One example involves broader use of a program that fast-tracks deportations. It will now be applied to immigrants who cannot prove they have been in the United States longer than two years. It’s unclear how many immigrants that could include.

Since at least 2002 that fast deportation effort — which does not require a judge’s order — has been used only for immigrants caught within 100 miles of the border, within two weeks of crossing illegally.

The administration also plans to expand immigration jail capacity.

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The search to fill this position began on Feb. 16, according to a previous memo. The university has also secured the help of Isaacson Miller, a top executive search firm in the United States.

Judge blocks cutting Medicaid to Planned Parenthood AUSTIN (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas can’t cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015 that launched Republican efforts across the U.S. to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider.

An injunction issued by U.S. District Sam Sparks of Austin comes after he delayed making decision in January and essentially bought Planned Parenthood an extra month in the state’s Medicaid program.

Texas is now at least the sixth state where federal courts have kept Planned Parenthood eligible for Medicaid reimbursements for nonabortion services, although a bigger question remains over whether President Donald Trump will federally defund

the organization.

Sparks’ decision preserves what Planned Parenthood says are cancer screenings, birth control access and other health services for nearly 11,000 low-income women at 30 clinics. Texas originally intended to boot Planned Parenthood in January but Sparks told the state to wait pending his ruling. Arkansas, Alabama, Kansas, Mississippi and Louisiana have also had similar efforts blocked.

Sparks’ unsparing opinion excoriated Texas for not providing “any evidence” of Planned Parenthood wrongdoing and stalling on the ouster for nearly a year.

“A secretly recorded video, fake names, a grand jury indictment, congressional investigations — these are the building blocks of a best-selling

novel rather than a case concerning the interplay of federal and state authority through the Medicaid program,” Sparks wrote. “Yet, rather than a villain plotting to take over the world, the subject of this case is the State of Texas’s efforts to expel a group of health care providers from a social health care program for families and individuals with limited resources.”

Like in other states, Texas health officials accused Planned Parenthood officials of making misrepresentation to investigators following the release of secretly recorded and heavily edited videos by an anti-abortion group last year. Investigations by 13 states into those videos have concluded without criminal charges, and Planned Parenthood officials have denied any wrongdoing.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the state intends to appeal in a statement that repeated accusations that Planned Parenthood manipulated the timing of abortions to benefit researchers.

Planned Parenthood has denied those claims, and Sparks said there was no evidence the organization violated ethical or medical standards.

“No taxpayer in Texas should have to subsidize this repugnant and illegal conduct. We should never lose sight of the fact that, as long as abortion is legal in the United States, the potential for these types of horrors will continue,” Paxton said in a statement.

A Houston grand jury indicted two activists behind the videos over how they covertly gained access inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, but a judge later dismissed the charges.

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East Texas congressman forgoes town halls, ducks protesters TYLER (AP) — A conservative East Texas Republican congressman has chosen to forgo town hall forums before constituents for fear of drawing demonstrations by protesters of President Donald Trump.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Rep. Louie Gohmert said he was concerned that “groups from the more violent strains of the leftist ideology ... who are preying on public town halls” would “wreak havoc and threaten public safety.”

Instead, Gohmert said he is holding “telephone town halls.” He said that in the time it takes to appear live before 30 to 100 constituents, he can communicate with thousands by telephone conference with telephone company

assurance that participants are residents of his East Texas district.

Gohmert also is addressing groups such as the Tyler Young Professionals Network, which he addressed at a Tuesday luncheon.

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Students show talent at local open mic night

By KIRBY WARNER Staff Writer

There are many things people notice about The Blue Light Live right when they walk in.

Walls mostly painted blue with baseball caps hanging on one wall along the right; a boar’s head behind the bar, where people chat with a drink in hand; to the center left, in front of tables and behind a wooden dancefloor, a stage with lights that give off a blue glow with a single guitar resting in its stand.

The instrument is picked up by its owner once the clock strikes 10 p.m.

At this time, the Singer/ Songwriter Night begins.

Jerry Serrano, host of Singer/Songwriter Night, said this event has occurred every Monday night since 2009. Serrano has now been host for a little more than a year.

“It’s an open mic, but it’s only originals,” Serrano said. “So, that’s what makes it special.”

People from areas of Texas such as Stephenville, Dallas and Austin have had positive reactions to The Blue Light Live’s encouragement of artists playing and singing their original songs, Serrano said.

Some of these songwriters who perform at The Blue Light Live are students at

Texas Tech.

CW Steel, a junior natural resources management major from Big Spring, said when he arrived in Lubbock, he fell in love with the city’s music scene. Steel began participating in Singer/ Songwriter Night at the onset of 2017.

“It’s a really cool atmosphere out here,” Steel said, “real supportive, and everyone is genuinely interested in what you write, what you’re writing about and what you’re singing.”

Steel, who has written 38 songs and performed 15 of them, said he treasures the ones that are personal to him, such as a song about his grandparents.

Caleb Wilbourn, a junior university studies major from Brownwood, said when he writes songs, they are mostly about what goes on in his life. The more recent songs Wilbourn has written have more inspiration behind them and deal with a theme of isolation.

“One thing that I’ve learned about having a passion with music,” Wilbourn said, “is it definitely isolates you somewhat. Any passion does.”

When people hear one of his songs, Wilbourn said he likes to get a reaction about his writing. The audience connecting with a lyric in

the song is a special moment for him.

When it comes to the process of writing the song itself, Serrano said some songwriters are better with writing lyrics while some are better with writing melodies.

“It’s different for everybody,” Serrano said. “There’s no general ‘This is hard’ thing, you know? Some people are really good singers and have no problem with that. Some people aren’t good singers, and that makes them approach their songwriting differently.”

The Blue Light Live serves as an incubator for original music, Serrano said, and allows musicians to work their way up if people like their material.

Wilbourn said it is important to give these musicians an outlet to showcase their music.

“A year ago, I started playing open mics,” Wilbourn said, “and now I’m booking shows in Roswell, in Austin, in Dallas, in San Antonio, and it’s just crazy how much my music has taken off, and it never would have happened without the community at places like this.”

Singer/Songwriter Night is about going out there every chance one gets because anyone with connections could be listening, Wilbourn said.

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A Hospitality Services employee hands a sample of chili to an attendee Tuesday at the annual Chili Cookoff in the Student Union Building. Several competing groups had unique names like “Brisky Business” and “Netflix and Chili” people could sample and judge.

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United, American begin selling cheaper airfares DALLAS (AP) — American and United have started selling cheaper “basic economy” fares as they battle discount airlines for the most budget-conscious travelers.

American announced early Tuesday that it began selling the new fares for flights starting March 1 on 10 different routes from its hub airports in Dallas, Miami, Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina.

United followed suit later in the day, posting reduced fares on some flights from Minneapolis to seven of its hub cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles for travel starting April 18.

Basic economy fares come with severe restrictions. Buyers can’t pick a seat when they buy the ticket, they’re in the last group to board, and they can only carry a small item that fits under their seat. With a few exceptions, they must pay extra to check a wheeled bag that other economy-class travelers can put in the overhead bin.

But the fares are cheaper.

The savings over a regular economy ticket appear to range from about $24 to $40 for a round-trip ticket on American and United.

For example, on two random

early-March itineraries between Dallas and Baltimore, economy tickets were listed on American’s website at $249 and $309. Those same trips were priced at $209 and $269 on basic economy.

Even on the routes where American sells the new fares, they are usually available only on a small number of flights — sometimes one or two a day — and on some days, none at all.

Bargain hunters will see more basic-economy options when searching one-way flights, rather than round trips, because American will not allow flyers to buy a round trip that combines the new cheaper fare on one leg with a regular economy fare on the other. On one-way flights, the price break can be as little as $12.

American, the world’s biggest airline, said it will eventually add basic-economy fares on other routes.

The United offering is even more limited — it only appears on some flights between Minneapolis and seven United hubs around the country. United said it started small to ensure a smooth rollout, but plans to expand the idea to the rest of the U.S. and other areas.

“(This was an) opportunity to have a student team showcase the different things that Hospitality Services does throughout the year,” Cushman said. “I thought it was awesome for them to participate in this.”

It is important for students to experience this kind of competition because it gives them the experience to succeed in later competitions, McMurrey said, and it also helps the workers show pride for the Hospitality Services location they work for.

Cushman said he hopes the cook-off grows in years to come.

“I would like to see it get larger,” Cushman said. “We have 10 teams competing right now, and when you go and sample all 10 teams, you are pretty full when you get to the end. So, 10 to 12 teams is a good number. But, we want to see more excitement around the event.” @DailyToreador

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From 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Mondays, singer-songwriters play their original songs at The Blue Light. The Blue Light hosts open mic every single week for new artists to showcase their work and to play for the Lubbock community.

Steel said his advice for aspiring singers and songwriters would be to come to the Singer/Songwriter Night and talk to others.

“There’s people willing to help you with everything,” Steel said. “That’s something that I’ve personally experienced out here, and I’ve

only been coming out here for a month. Go for it, and see if it’s something that you want to do.” @KirbyWarner_DT

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Family, attorney denied access to hospitalized asylum seeker DALLAS (AP) — Attorneys for a Salvadoran woman who collapsed in a Texas detention center earlier this month as she seeks asylum said Tuesday that family and lawyers have been denied most contact with her as well as information about her medical condition.

Paralegal Melissa Zuniga, with the Law Office of Marcia Kasdan, has been working on the asylum case for Sara Beltran Hernandez, 26, for the last 13 months. Zuniga said another detained asylum seeker called Beltran Hernandez’s family the day after she collapsed in an Arlington, Texas, detention facility and was taken to a nearby hospital.

“The family has been

terrified ... the mother fainted upon hearing the news,” Zuniga said. “Had the friend not called, I don’t know how long it would have taken for them to realize something was wrong.

Sara called almost nightly, but it still may have taken some time.”

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a statement late Tuesday saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had contacted the family’s attorneys to explain the proper procedure to get in touch with the woman.

“Requests by family members to visit ICE detainees who have been hospitalized are permitted but must be approved in advance with

ICE and the appropriate consulate,” the agency wrote in the statement.

Local attorneys working with Kasdan’s office said Tuesday that a representative with the Salvadoran consulate of Dallas had been in touch with the family and that ICE officials had said the woman will be moved to a Dallas hospital in the coming days to receive treatment.

Zuniga said she located Beltran Hernandez at Texas Health Huguley Hospital outside Fort Worth a few days after she was admitted. She said she had a brief conversation with the woman on Feb. 13, when Beltran Hernandez said she had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and was being lined up for surgery.

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Repercussions for sexual assault should be severe

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n Tuesday, Democratic Senator Kirk Watson took legislative action against sexual assault and rape on college campuses. Five bills were filed with the intent of addressing what constitutes sexual consent, protecting victims of abuse and strengthening programs used to report abuse.

This comes as a response to a number of reports of sexual assaults and lawsuits at Baylor University, of which Watson is an alumnus.

“I love my school,” Watson said to the Dallas Morning News. “But I’ve been extraordinarily disappointed.”

We’ve all seen the chaos at Baylor unfold over the past couple of years, which ended a number of careers, including that of former university

Haley Britzky is a senior journalism major from Trophy Club.

President Ken Starr. Then, in January, a new lawsuit claimed 31 Baylor football players had committed 52 accounts of rape in three years.

Fifty-two alleged acts of rape in three years.

What I think we can all agree on is that this clearly hasn’t been and isn’t being addressed properly. It’s an on-going problem that has been treated like an isolated incident.

Baylor is not an isolated incident.

In a 2014 report analyzed

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year, there were 17 rapes reported at the University of Texas at Austin, 12 at the University of North Texas, 10 at the University of Houston, nine at Texas Christian University and eight at Rice University.

Rest assured, six universities is not the full extent of this problem. There’s plenty more where that came from.

So yes, extraordinary measures needed to be taken to stop this from happening, which is exactly what Sen. Watson did.

According to Watson’s website, the five bills he proposed on Tuesday closed loopholes in the definition of consent by establishing that consent is lacking if the other person is “incapable of appraising the nature of

the act,” and that consent is lacking if the perpetrator knows the other person has withdrawn consent.

One of the bills protects minors from being prosecuted for underage consumption of alcohol, as that has been a reoccurring theme in why victims do not report sexual assault.

Another bill requires institutions provide electronic options to report anonymously.

Sen. Watson also coauthored a bill with Sen. Joan Huffman from Houston, which would apply “some of the most stringent anti-campus rape rules in the country.”

The bill will require school employees or student leaders to report instances of “sexual harassment, sexual assault, family violence or stalking”

within 48 hours, or face criminal consequences.

It’s an on-going problem that has been treated like an isolated incident.

Baylor is not an isolated incident.

According to the Dallas Morning News, those who fail to comply can be charged with a Class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by a year in jail and up to $4,000 in fines. This would not be applicable to just school employees, but also students who are the highest-ranking members of a club, such as

student body president, if they fail to report an assault in that time frame.

The possibility of punishing those who fail to report has been criticized as “making criminals” out of them.

I, for one, think it’s a valid option we need to consider.

These are aggressively horrible crimes that must be taken seriously. Just one rape or sexual assault on campus is too many, and if enforcing criminal charges on those who fail to report said crimes is the best way to cut down on this, then so be it.

This would make Texas one of the most aggressive states against sexual assault, and I personally can’t find a single thing wrong with that. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Rhetoric essential in comprehending complete picture

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ach week, when asking myself what to write, it’s difficult not to gravitate toward our new president and his administration. Even in my law school bubble, where the only places I travel to regularly are my bedroom, the law school and the restaurant that is walking distance from my apartment, I cannot avoid hearing of a new action by the executive office.

Every day is an exciting new debate. Every day is an exhausting, unclear new issue.

For a modern administration, the ways in which the president and his staff communicate are … unorthodox. The use of Twitter, the consistent bashing of media, the often vague or lightly fact-checked statements, while not entirely unheard of for elective officials, certainly have reached alarming levels. It is as if, daily, everything the president says or communicates through his staff sets forth a broad and immediate effect on the world.

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Their communication has been exhausting to keep up with. This administration often makes it feel like everything is a battle, like so many things are wrong. The media continually reports on facts that directly contradict much of what the president says.

The result is a three-step cycle. First, the administration makes a statement.

Then, news organizations report on its accuracy. And finally, the administration directly criticizes the media for reporting. It is a tense, daily confrontation between a leader whom we are supposed to trust and the media whom we trust to report accurate facts and information.

How do we know who is right when both accuse the other of lying? It is a tension we all must live with because as citizens of this country, we

created a society that makes it important that we listen to both these positions.

We must not simply ignore the leaders of our country or the news organizations we created on a society-wide belief of truth and free speech.

But, if we are uncertain of the reliability of either of these speakers and uncertain about the contexts in which they said it, how can our country trust what either of them says?

This is the question that I cannot get out of my mind.

It is the thought that others feel just as uncertain about, or even worse, they feel the need to trust one side without question. I cannot escape my own demand for in truth above all else; anything that clouds or seeks to hide truth without justification, affects a deep-rooted part of me.

I cannot help but seek answers. When I sought to better understand how our country communicates, the only answer I could find, the only answer I think would help others as it does me, is

the study of rhetoric.

In simple terms, rhetoric is the art of how we communicate. It is the idea that all aspects of society focus on communicating with others, and in these communications, we seek to persuade our audiences based on the specific situations.

We must not simply ignore the leaders of our country or the news organizations we created on a society-wide belief of truth and free speech.

Every speech, anything written and, really, any form of communication to another person is persuasive and considered rhetoric; we all communicate with purpose, and the way we do it — our rhetorical choices — define how effective that communi-

cation will be.

The primary study of rhetoric, then, is to understand the ways in which we communicate and the effects our communications have on our audience. The most notable examples of rhetoric and the origin of its study are of political discourses and the ways in which these communications influence public opinion.

Rhetoric focuses on the how. It focuses on the methods and the means of what is being said rather than the content. It is the basic premise that how one says something conveys as much meaning as what he says.

In summary, if you’re having trouble understanding what is being said, it can be helpful to think about how someone is saying it. If you can’t trust exactly what the presidential administration is saying, try to consider the context of how the officials are saying it.

To do this, I’ve written six questions to consider when uncertain about the content

or truth of what is being said by the administration or the media, based on three encompassing terms of rhetoric: Kairos, audience and decorum. The idea behind this is that questioning more than just the context of what is said will make it easier to understand and trust what is being communicated.

Here are my questions: 1. What is the current state of world affairs? 2. Who is the speaker, and what are your feelings about him/her/ the organization?

3. Do you like/dislike the speaker because of who he is? Do you like/dislike that he affirms/disaffirms your views of the world? 4. Do you feel what he says is intended for you or another audience?

5. Considering all of this with the context of what is being said, do you think the speaker was effective in communicating his message? 6. Considering all of this, what do you think the speaker’s message was? opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Pruitt grossly unfit to head Environmental Protection Agency

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n Friday, the Senate voted to confirm Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. In other words, the death eaters have officially seized control of the Ministry.

Who is Pruitt? He is the former attorney general of Oklahoma who is regarded for making a career of suing the agency he now heads. In a laughable demonstration of irony, the executive branch and the Senate have deemed him fit for the job.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine was the only Republican to cross party lines and oppose Pruitt’s confirmation.

In her statements regarding her no-vote, the senator specifically cited Pruitt’s work undoing the mercury emission regulations that are important to her home state.

There are honest debates to be had about emissions, but mercury regulations aren’t among them. In yet another feat of irony, Pruitt’s EPA continues to maintain

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the position that exposure to mercury endangers our health with a variety of irreversible toxic effects, according to the EPA website.

Pruitt was once so bold as to promote himself on LinkedIn as a “leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.” Confirming someone this diametrically opposed to the goals of the agency should signal cause for concern to anyone who advocates for clean air and clean water.

Let’s think of it this way.

Personally, I can’t think of anything in the entire world I hate more than my internet provider. I can’t stand the way they cleverly disguise junk mail as something I need to open. I also think it’s predatory to charge a $10 monthly fee to rent a router.

Just look for one on Amazon; they’re not expensive.

Now, wouldn’t it seem nonsensical of them to offer me an administrative position in the company? I’m clearly biased and have no business making decisions on their behalf. In fact, I would probably seize the opportunity to enact my revenge for all the life I wasted on the phone trying to figure out why the bill always seems to goes up.

If we don’t actively choose to take care of the planet, the planet will eventually choose for us.

Pruitt’s confirmation is fundamentally diabolical in that same exact fashion. A greater example of letting the fox in the henhouse simply doesn’t exist. Regardless, we now have an EPA head who is philosophically unfit for

the office he occupies.

In other news, the day before Pruitt was confirmed, you might remember an Oklahoma judge ordering the release of approximately 3,000 emails between Pruitt’s office and the oil industry. Let’s hope we don’t find anything distressing in any of them, but I’m not holding my breath and neither should you.

In a sheer stroke of brilliance, Democrats responded by staging an all-night talkathon — also known as a filibuster — on the Senate floor in a Hail Mary attempt at postponing Pruitt’s confirmation vote until after the emails were released. Obviously, it was ineffective.

Despite the left throwing a fit, for reasons that escape me, it now seems the congressional Republicans are completely disinterested with emails. Who would have guessed?

Pruitt is notorious in Oklahoma for his complete lack of transparency, a stance

he seems to really cling to and probably for good reasons. An investigation by The New York Times revealed that energy firms would routinely send the then attorney general letter drafts, which he would later copy and paste onto his office’s letterhead and then send directly to the EPA. Pruitt and Oklahoma Republicans reportedly get a sizeable portion of their campaign contributions from the petroleum industry, which I’m sure has nothing to do with Pruitt’s agreeing word for word with the lobbyists.

I think all of this really calls into question whether Pruitt is even positioned to be an objective official rather than a paid agent for the petroleum industry.

It’s hard to speculate at this point with absolute certainty, but initial scans show no signs of life for the EPA’s future. Per Republicans involved in the EPA transition process, and no you can’t

make this stuff up, Pruitt is considering dismantling the EPA’s enforcement division.

For now, it appears that mother nature is on her own.

It doesn’t look like the agency is positioning itself to enforce any of its previous commitments. But still, I profoundly believe in the goodness of humanity and nature’s awesome reality.

If we don’t actively choose to take care of the planet, the planet will eventually choose for us. And if we don’t hold to our prior commitments, the rest of the world will end up pressuring us to do so. After all, we still share this blue speck of dust suspended in a sunbeam with almost 7 billion other people.

Humanity really does have a good thing going on here at Earth, and it’s everyone’s responsibility — including yours — to do your part in preserving that. Buckle up, buckaroos. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Big 12 basketball overlooked, shows promise

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n college basketball, the same dominant forces always take over the top-25 rankings, season after season.

When speaking of success on the court, the first conferences mentioned by the general public are the Big East, the SEC, the Big Ten and the ACC. But you don’t really hear much noise about the Big 12 Conference.

That is because the Big 12 is overshadowed by those other four conferences and does not get the recognition it deserves.

Let me backtrack a little.

I’m not saying the other conferences mentioned aren’t dominant; if anything, they are basketball juggernauts.

The Big Ten has No. 14 Purdue, No. 16 Wisconsin and No. 24 Maryland in the rankings.

The ACC has some of the strongest teams in the nation with No. 8 North Carolina, No. 7 Louisville,

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No. 10 Duke, No. 18 Virginia, No. 19 Florida State and No. 21 Notre Dame, according to the NCAA. The SEC shows its dominance with No. 11 Kentucky and No. 13 Florida, while the Big East has No. 2 Villanova, No. 22 Butler and No. 23 Creighton, according to the NCAA. So, yes. These conferences have proven their strength this season through the rankings, but is that what truly determines talent? The answer to that question is both yes and no.

In my opinion, talent isn’t determined by rankings alone. It consists of hard work and efficiency on the court along with a brick-wall

defense. And if there is one upside the Big 12 has, it’s a productive defense.

This season, the 10 teams in the Big 12 limit their opponents to just 69.8 points per game because of the teams’ defensive strengths.

When I played basketball — which seems like forever ago — I was taught that rebounding is key in winning games.

Grabbing boards seems to be no problem for the Big 12 as the teams combine an average of 24.6 defensive rebounds and 11.5 offensive rebounds per game, according to Big 12 sports.

Now, when talent is displayed by a team, it is usually followed by a gracious top-25 ranking. Well, the Big 12 has that notch in its belt, as well.

According to NCAA rankings, the Big 12 has three teams ranked in the top 15 nationally: No. 3 Kansas, No. 9 Baylor and No. 12 West Virginia.

I constantly witness

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Hargrove, Jung earn Big 12 honors Texas Tech senior infielder Hunter Hargrove was named Big 12 Player of the Week on Tuesday, according to a Tech Athletics news release. Freshman infielder Josh Jung was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week.

This is the first honor of the year given out by the conference, according to the release. Tech has received both the player and newcomer of the week in the same week for two consecutive years. Junior infielder/outfielder Tanner Gardner and sophomore right-handed pitcher Davis Martin received the awards last year on March 21.

Against Western Illinois, Hargrove hit 4-5 on the Opening Day. He hit a single, two doubles and a home run

in the game, according to the release. The four hits plus four RBIs was a career high for Hargrove. He was also the first Red Raider since March 14, 2015, to have four or more hits in a game.

Hargrove also leads the Big 12 with eight hits, two home runs, three doubles, 17 total bases, a .944 slugging percentage, four hits in a game, four RBIs in a game and nine total bases in a game, according to the release. The only other Red Raiders to get a hit in every game this season are Hargrove and Jung.

In the game against Western Illinois, Jung hit 2-5 with a walk and also scored one run and one RBI. During opening weekend, Jung had seven hits, two doubles, three RBIs,

four runs, nine total bases and three walks, according the release.

Jung also had three multi-hit games, leading the team this season. His batting average is .467, which also leads the team among the starting players, according to the release.

He ranks first in the Big 12 among freshmen and sixth overall in the conference, according to the release.

Jung leads the freshman class with an on-base percentage of .556, which is tied among freshmen in hits, and with 1.75 hits per game, according to the release. In the conference, Jung sits at second behind Hargrove in hits per game. @JackDensmore_DT

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Lady Raiders move to No. 5 in rankings On Tuesday afternoon, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings were released, and the Texas Tech Lady Raider tennis team jumped to No. 5 in the nation, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Lady Raiders were previously ranked at No. 7, according to Tech Athletics.

With the new ranking, the Lady Raiders tie a school record for highest ranking in women’s tennis history, which was set on March 1, according to the release.

According to the ITA rankings, the four teams ahead of the Lady Raiders are No. 4 Michigan, No. 3 North Carolina, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 1 Florida.

According to Tech Athletics, the No. 2 Tar Heels and No. 1 Gators are the two only teams that have defeated the Lady Raiders on the season.

During the ITA National Indoor Championships on Feb. 10–12, Tech defeated two top-10 teams comprised of then-ranked No. 9 Vanderbilt and No. 3 Pepperdine, according to Tech Athletics.

In singles play, junior Gabriela Talaba moved up in the rankings tying for the No. 11 spot, according to the release.

Sophomore Felicity Maltby, after defeating two top-25 opponents and being named Big 12 Conference

Player of the Week, moved up to No. 32 in the country, according to the release.

According to the release, sophomore Alex Valenstein also cracked a spot in the singles rankings.

Juniors doubles partners Sarah Dvorak and Sabrina Federici maintained their No. 23 ranking.

Valenstein went 2-1 during the indoor nationals and grabbed wins over two- top ranked opponents, according to the release.

The Lady Raiders will travel to Montgomery, Alabama, on Friday to begin play in the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic, which wraps up on Sunday.

reporters on ESPN and SportsCenter refer to conferences such as the ACC and the Big Ten when discussing college basketball.

The Big 12 is overshadowed by those other four conferences and does not get the recognition it deserves.

Well, newsflash, the Big 12 and the Big Ten have the same number of ranked teams in their conferences.

Not to mention, Big 12 teams are ranked higher than Big Ten teams. So, is success based on rankings?

Not necessarily.

Something that separates the Big 12 from any other conference is the ability to upset top-ranked opponents

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Freshman right-handed pitcher John Henry Gonzales started on the mound for the Red Raiders. Junior left-handed pitchers Parker Mushinski and Jacob Patterson and freshmen right-handed pitchers Caleb Kilian and Andrew Davis came into the game throughout the afternoon.

“For me, it all starts on the mound,” Tech coach Tim Tadlock said. “John Henry really set the tone and Parker and Patterson did the same thing. And really watch Kilian and Davis there throw the ball late. We feel like we have the ability to do that. To (have) guys go an inning at a time, two innings at a time, they can all command the fast ball. It should be a lot of fun.”

Of the five pitchers, Gonzales pitched in the longest, with 5.1 innings.

He allowed only two hits and one run. Gonzales struck out five of the 21 batters he faced.

Gonzales had a slow start during the weekend series and only made one appearance on Friday.

“That first start wasn’t what I wanted. This game really made me bounce back,” Gonzales said. “It helped a lot with the atmo-

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Even the Oklahoma Sooners — who are last in the Big 12 — have handed losses to top-ranked opponents this season.

After spending the entirety of my 20 years of life growing up in Texas, I have realized this is a football state by popular opinion, which perhaps explains why basketball isn’t highlighted as much in the Big 12.

However, the performances displayed on the court by Big 12 teams has taken me aback more so than ever. These teams have everything a basketball fan could want: heart, strength and composure.

It is time we start looking at the Big 12 not just as a football conference but as a dominant basketball conference, as well. @ABoutwellDT

after a throwing error by the shortstop to gain the lead for Tech, 2-1.

Neither team brought in a runner in the fourth inning.

In the bottom of the fifth, Garcia advanced to third and scored on a fielding error by the center fielder to extend the Red Raider lead, 3-1.

Then, Hargrove grounded out to third base for an RBI, making the Red Raider lead 4-1.

The Red Raiders held New Mexico in the top of the sixth and capitalized in the bottom of the inning with a home run over left field to bring in junior right fielder Connor Beck and Jung to extend the Tech lead to 7-1.

Tech scored once more to increase the Red Raider lead to 8-1.

The next inning, Garcia hit a grand slam to further the Red Raider lead to 15-1.

In the bottom of the eighth, freshman infielder Trevor Paradoski singled up the middle, which allowed Garcia to score and increase Tech's lead to 16-1.

The Red Raiders ended the game with a 16-1 win over the Aggies.

Tech hosts the Cal for a four-game weekend series starting at 2 p.m. Friday at Dan Law Field. @A_HernandezDT

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sphere around me. It was a good experience.”

Tadlock said the freshmen on the team are something to look out for this season.

“It’s a process for all these guys,” Tadlock said.

“Show up, get ready to play every day. Those guys like to play as most these guys do, and that shows in the way they go about their work each and every day.

They’re finding some holes right now, and they can apply some pressure with the bat and obviously with their legs a little. They’re going to be entertaining to watch.”

Freshman infielder Grant Little had three hits at four at-bats and three runs. Freshman third baseman Josh Jung had two hits at three at-bats and brought in two runs.

Jung also had four assists.

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For example, on Feb. 4, Iowa State defeated No. 3 Kansas by a comfortable margin, 92-89, and Oklahoma State upset No. 12 West Virginia that same day, 82-75.

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When the Red Raiders faced the Cowboys in the United Supermarkets Arena, they weren’t facing an easy opponent, even though Oklahoma State’s record was worse at the time.

The Cowboys overcame the Red Raiders who were predicted to win. This may not have been an upset, but it was definitely a surprise to those watching.

To f u r t h e r p r o v e m y point, Tech has a record of 17-11 on the season and 5-10 in the Big 12. Despite their bad overall performance, the Red Raiders have defeated three top-ranked teams this season.

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