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RecycleMania educates students on waste reduction.

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Column: History shows human nature tends toward kindness, not violence.

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FAMILY FEELING Custodians strive to serve students, create home-like environment

By MEGAN MOSES

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n the morning when students enter the bathrooms in their residence halls, one of the first things they may notice is how clean it is.

This is due to the work and dedication of the custodial staff, whose main goal is to make Tech students feel more at home through their servitude and hard work.

Paula Hernandez, the lead custodian for Murray Hall from Mexico, said she first decided to work for Tech because a friend recommended it as a great place to work.

“I was working for this other place for 23 years,” Hernandez said.

“I was talking to one of the (people) who work here and I asked her if she knew if they were hiring (at Tech).”

Now, she said she is proud to work at Tech and enjoys her job.

Hernandez said she tries to engage with all the students she encounters on a daily basis. She knows many of the students by name, and she said most students are friendly and want to engage.

Even though some do not always

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Ana Maldonado, the lead custodian at Honors Hall, cleans tables in the Honors Hall on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. Maldonado, from Puerto Rico, is a janitor for some of the residence halls on campus. respond, she said she still makes the effort to have a conversation with them.

“I used to work in Stangel, and I had this girl, and she never answered me when I said ‘hi.’ Finally, after a while, she started saying hi to me, and that made me feel happy,” she said. “I am going to try my best to make them be nice, you know, smile or something.”

Hernandez’s purpose is not only to make the students happy, but also to keep the residence halls clean so they feel comfortable in their “home away from home,” she said.

“Make them feel like they are at their house and that they have a family. Sometimes there’s stress, they have tests and everything,” she said. “I think if we smile a lot and talk with them a little bit, they will

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calm down a little bit. Some don’t live on campus (anymore) and they are still coming by and saying hi.”

Ana Maldonado, Honors Hall lead custodian from Puerto Rico, said she has been working at Tech for three years. In Puerto Rico, she said she worked in psychological research for about 14 years.

You get used to (cleaning restrooms), and if you love your job it doesn’t matter what you do.

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Maedgen Theatre expansion brings new facilities for students, faculty

By ADÁN RUBIO Staff Writer

With the construction at the Texas Tech Charles E. Maedgen Jr. Theatre, which is located at 2812 18th St. on campus, some people may wonder what to expect after the expansion is completed.

Whether it be the facilities it may provide or the opportunities for different performances, the addition of the Theatre and Dance Complex to the Maedgen Theatre could contribute to the campus in different ways.

Despite the expected comple-

tion date for the expansion being March 11, according to the Tech System Facilities Planning and Construction website, FP&C Vice Chancellor Billy Breedlove said the actual completion of the expansion will take place later.

“It’s probably going to be midApril,” he said. “We’ve had, obviously, quite a bit of weather.

We’ve had a lot of weather in the winter months, then we had the big snow that hit and of course a lot of wind conditions.”

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With a $10 million donation from J.T and Margaret Talkington, the Charles E. Maedgen Jr. Theatre is undergoing expansion and renovations. After starting on July 31, 2017, the construction for the renovated theater is expected to be completed by March 11, 2019.

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Tech courses prepare aspiring special needs teachers

By MATT HAN Staff Writer

At Texas Tech, professors in the College of Education have several classes for students who are interested in becoming a special needs teacher.

The college’s TechTeach program places as one of the top 35 programs in the nation and transforms the way educators impact the future by incorporating video technology and applying intensive clinical experiences, according to the College of Education website.

Linnie Greenlees, assistant professor of practice of the Department of Teacher Education, is the curriculum anchor for the special education teaching program and handles undergraduate students.

In the undergraduate teaching program, students take six courses, which faculty refer to as special populations courses, Greenlees said. The special populations courses are ways to train future teachers to teach students who have a disability and require special services.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 In addition to complications, such as the weather conditions or the small construction area around the building, Breedlove said the Maedgen Theatre is a complicated building overall.

“This is a building built for the arts. This is not a standard building,” he said regarding how the building is meant for theatrical purposes. “We work closely with our contractor to try to catch up a little bit. They’re working seven days a week.”

Working on the brick and stone outside the building, cleaning around the construction site and adding in the landscaping all are objectives Breedlove said are still left to complete.

“Inside, pretty much just the finishes,” Breedlove said regarding other construction components that need to be

“The thinking behind this is about 70 percent of students that are identified, that are receiving special education services, receive all of their instructions in a general education classroom,” she said.

“Therefore, it is really important that all teachers need to understand the basics of what special education services are.”

Due to the diversity within the classroom, Greenlees said it is important for teachers to consider what special services look like, how student disabilities impact learning and what are the best strategies for second language acquisition.

The faculty at the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research aim to strengthen the value for students and teachers who participate in the Teacher Training Institute program, according to the Burkhart Center’s website.

Undergraduate and graduate students are able to volunteer at the family and community service events and serve as active members for the research team and projects.

Janna Brendle, assistant professor for the College of Education, said she works with graduate students in the field of education diagnostics. She said the students are required to have 36 hours of course credit and an internship.

Students take an administered cognitive achievement test during the internship, Brendle said. Also, students write reports on testing interpretation of the test scores and recommendation.

“They must have one in order to be certified by the Texas Education Agency,” Brendle said. “They cannot work in the public school without that.”

Stacy Carter, a professor in educational psychology and leadership, said he has worked at the College of Education for 12 years. His area of expertise is autism and developmental disabilities.

At the graduate level, Carter said he normally teaches the introductory classes involving applied behavioral analysis, which is a course designed for education majors

to understand how a special needs student thinks and behaves and how teachers can apply that knowledge into their classrooms. He said he gives the basics on terminology and concepts regarding behavioral analysis and basic definitions for understanding certain behaviors.

“We cover a lot,” Carter said. “Graduate students have additional courses that they go through, it is like a six-course sequence, in order for them to obtain a certification as a behavioral analyst.”

The internships help students gain experience and hands-on knowledge for when they take the certification exam, Greenlees said. In addition, she said the professors try to help students learn by giving the students a perspective of what it is like to be the teacher.

“One thing that is really important to me, and to our college as a whole, is that teacher retention is sort of in a crisis level around the country,” she said.

completed. “We are laying some floor coverings in there, we’re starting to paint. It’s really just wrapping that up and getting all the finishes completed.”

With the completion of the Theatre and Dance Complex addition, one aspect people may consider is how the expansion will be implemented to help Tech.

Noel Zahler, dean of the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts, said the upcoming completion date for the Maedgen Theatre expansion will mark the completion of phase one.

“Phase one is a little over 50,000 square feet of the 74,500 square feet that the entire project encompasses,” he said. “With that comes the majority of space, specifically, that students will inhabit.”

A new black box theater, studio space, rehearsal space, design laboratory and lighting laboratory all are fa-

cilities Zahler said will result from the current expansion.

“There is the director’s suite,” he said regarding other new spaces. “For the first time, all of our theater faculty will be located in one place. There’s a suite of offices just for faculty on the second floor.”

Dance Complex in May and be ready for fall 2019 classes.

Emily Wilkinson, director for public art at FPC, said a 20-foot tall piece will also be made for the expansion of the Maedgen. The piece, which is expected to be placed in March, is complete but is being kept by the artist until construction is completed.

“The artists are David Dahlquist and Matt Niebuhr from Des Moines, Iowa. They have a group called RDG studio,” she said. “The artist concept was really to make this almost like a stage, and the public art be the curtains framing the stage.”

Regarding the aesthetic of the artwork, Wilkinson said the artists wanted to display the piece as a white structure during the day and as a red LED-lit structure at night, as they wanted the piece to look good during all hours of the day.

Attracting the public to the new entrance of the expansion is one goal she said the art piece will be used to accomplish.

For the first time, all of our theater faculty will be located in one place.

NOEL ZAHLER COLLEGE OF VPA DEAN An atrium named in recognition of the Helen Jones Foundation, a kitchen for catering, updated dressing rooms and a green room for student performers to meet with audience members are other components Zahler said would be available after the completion of phase one.

He said the theater program will move into the theatre and

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“It will be a really different piece from just a traditional sculpture,” she said. “You can walk through it, under it.”

Zahler said he is grateful for the support the project has received throughout its development.

“We’re also very excited because, as of the end of this week, requests for proposals for phase two will be received

by Facilities Planning and Construction,” Zahler said.

Following the requests, which are due on Thursday, Feb. 28, Zahler said FPC will choose an architecture and construction company for phase two. Design and construction documents will be completed about six to eight months after selecting companies for the project.

With the current plans, Zahler said phase two construction should start in December.

“In phase two, we will see yet another expansion of the scene shop but also the creation of a costume shop, which will bring the present costume shop from Weeks Hall to the Theatre and Dance Complex,” he said. “So, we’re co-locating everything for theater and dance in this building.”

A dean’s suite on the second floor and a complete renovation of the Maedgen Theatre are the two main components Zahler said will result from phase two of the construction projects.

“It becomes then part of a much larger plan to create an art’s corridor on that side of campus,” he said. “We’re looking forward to building a new School of Music in the parking lot behind the library, which will face the Theatre and Dance Complex and allow us to really inhabit all of the performing arts in one area connected by a plaza.”

With the addition of the Theatre and Dance Complex underway and plans set for future construction, different people could be affected in a variety of ways.

Mark Charney, director of the Tech School of Theatre and Dance, said no classrooms, a small workshop and antiquated dressing rooms all are issues that exist due to the current state of the Maedgen Theatre.

“Just in terms of space, I can’t think of a school that has needed it more,” he said regarding the Theatre and Dance Complex addition.

“That’s not only for education, that’s for creative reasons.

With high schools having better facilities than what we have, sometimes it’s harder to attract students.”

Retaining faculty and students, recruiting, rehearsing and educating all are tasks Charney said can be accomplished due to the theater’s expansion. In addition to bringing in people, he said there are other benefits to the facilities.

“We’re going to be able to seat around 230 people, if we want, based on the configurations we have,” he said. “The classrooms are going to have sprung floors, and that means that they’re going to be very safe for dancing, rehearsing.”

Other than the facilities being utilized for performances, Charney said the expansion could be helpful in terms of bringing faculty together in one building.

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RecycleMania educates students on waste reduction

By AKHILA REDDY L a Vida Editor

In a world with dangerously rising levels of waste, recycling is more critical than ever.

To educate the Texas Tech and surrounding communities on recycling, Tech is participating in RecycleMania, an eight-week recycling competition amongst universities nationwide.

Tech participates in RecycleMania annually, Lynne Thurston, senior advisor for the Recycling Center of University Student Housing, said.

“It’s a national competition amongst colleges and universities across the country,” Thurston said, “and we try and raise awareness about recycling and create a little buzz from the competition with other schools, and we do special events on campus.”

Each university reports how much is recycled over a two-month period, and the organizers of RecycleMania determine how much each participating university recycles on a per capita basis, she said.

In 2018, Tech ranked 139 out of 228 universities in

terms of lbs. recycled per capita, according to the RecycleMania website.

The Housing department is the one to spearhead participation in and awareness of RecycleMania, Melania Tatum, assistant director for sustainability for University Student Housing, said.

“We organize multiple events and activities in the eight-week period,” Tatum said.

Events include tabling in the free speech area, exchanging trash for T-shirts, clearing up cans and bottles after the Tech versus Kansas basketball game and more, Thurston said.

Additionally, the department will host a Recycled Art Contest on Thursday, March 28, with the deadline to enter on Tuesday, March 26, she said. She encourages students to participate either by entering a submission or by voting on the submitted pieces.

“Anybody can enter and (their submission) has to be 75 percent made of recycled material,” Thurston said.

Another part of RecycleMania is a campus-wide recycling competition between departments, Valorie Duvall, administrative as-

sistant for the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology, said.

Duvall’s department won the departmental competition last year, Thurston said.

“It’s very competitive.

We’re very competitive,” Duvall said. “We have all of our staffs bring in all their stuff from home, and every day they come in, ‘Are we winning? Are we winning? Are we winning?’”

Tech will likely never win RecycleMania, Tatum said.

The university’s location in an area without the widespread recycling capabilities characteristic of bigger cities, such as Dallas, is a challenge.

Furthermore, recycling is not always a priority for people in the area, she said. Since there are vast expanses of open land, people do not necessarily perceive the significance of the issue.

“We have so much land that people don’t think they are gong to run out of room to bury trash,” she said.

Although Tech may not win the competition, RecycleMania is still ultimately a success because it raises awareness of recycling in the Tech community, Tatum said.

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“We (at the Recycling Center) see our numbers increasing during RecycleMania,” she said.

Raising awareness is particularly important in this region of Lubbock, Thurston said.

“In Texas, at least in small town Texas, it’s not easy to recycle, and so many people aren’t aware that it does happen, and so we try and get the details out to people of what we do recycle,” she said. “One of the most important things is it’s different from city to city, because we have a lot of students that come from outside of Lubbock. We educate them as to what products we can recycle here in Lubbock versus somewhere else.”

The departmental competition raises awareness and makes it easier to recycle, Duvall said.

“It just makes it so much more fun, I guess, and we really don’t think about doing it until we are in a competition,” she said.

Recycling in Lubbock can be difficult, she said. Duvall personally takes her recyclable items to United, but even then must throw things away sometimes because she cannot find a recycle bin.

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Walmart to eliminate greeters in stores As Walmart moves to phase out its familiar blue-vested “greeters” at some 1,000 stores nationwide, disabled workers who fill many of those jobs say they’re being ill-treated by a chain that styles itself as com-

munity-minded and inclusive.

Walmart told greeters around the country last week that their positions would be eliminated on April 26 in favor of an expanded, more physically demanding “customer host” role. To qualify,

they will need to be able to lift 25-pound packages, climb ladders and stand for long periods.

That came as a heavy blow to greeters with cerebral palsy, spina bifida and other physical disabilities.

Duvall said. “Don’t be so lazy because the more trash you pick up, the better for everyone.” @AkhilaReddyDT

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Transgender troops tell congress they excel SAN DIEGO (AP) — Transgender troops testifying for the first time to Congress on Wednesday said transitioning to another sex made them stronger, while Pentagon officials defended the Trump administration’s desire to bar people like them from enlisting in the future.

Army Capt. Alivia Stehlik, an infantry officer and graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. and Ranger School, told lawmakers she became a more “effective soldier” after

Sky Ranch, a summer camp located in different parts of Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma, came to the Student Union Building at Texas Tech to advertise job openings to students on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Sky Ranch provides students with the opportunity to serve in leadership roles in a camp for kids.

Students should explore their options, she said. Recycling is a way to keep Lubbock, and the world, clean.

“Find ways to recycle,”

she transitioned from male to female in 2016.

“What is the value of having transgender people in the military? Based on my experience first as a combat arms officer and medical provider, the answer is unequivocally that my transition — and so many others — has dramatically increased the readiness and lethality of every branch of the armed forces,” said Stehlik, who returned from a deployment to Afghanistan a month ago where she treated soldiers as a

physical therapist.

With the ban now blocked by lawsuits, active-duty transgender service members were invited to testify about their service at the hearing called by Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, chairwoman of the subcommittee.

Speier said the ban is “discriminatory, unconstitutional and self-defeating” and said lifting the barrier for transgender people to serve by the Obama administration in 2016 has been an “unequivocal success.”

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History shows human nature tends toward kindness, not violence

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uman history has seen much violence.

War, bloodshed, pain — these are all common points in humanity’s journey on this planet.

However, despite war and violence being frequent, albeit important, themes in the analysis of human behavior, humans have an even more incredible history toward expressing kindness and love. It is impossible to ignore the implications of kindness as a function of the human experience.

This capability for innate compassion can be seen through evidence in many fields—from history to psychology and even biology—in spite of the growing belief that cruelty is a mainstay of the human condition.

One of the most memorable examples of humanity’s tendency toward kindness and compassion amid suffering comes from the first

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World War, in what would be known as the Christmas Truce of 1914.

Imagine you are watching a battlefield—any battlefield across the Western Front—where gunfire and thunderous explosions ring through the air every moment. The men in the trenches have already become hardened veterans in the five months since the beginning of the war.

As Christmas Eve loomed, the gunfire grew still and was replaced by the melody of carols in both English and German, lasting through the night. As dawn broke on the battlefield, the singing stopped and silence fell again. Suddenly, and much

to the chagrin of their superiors, men from both trenches rose up baring no arms.

They danced, sang, played games and exchanged all kinds of gifts. For this brief moment in the war, the infamous series of unofficial ceasefires known as the Christmas Truce of 1914, these men interacted as they were inclined to.

They recognized their humanity crossed national borders and gave into the compulsion for kindness.

What is more intriguing when looking at this moment is the notion that pain and suffering often makes a human being more compassionate.

In a study conducted in 2016, researchers Daniel Lim and David DeSteno of Northeastern University found a correlation between the severity of adversity in a person’s life and their compassionate disposition and empathetic tendencies.

Lim and DeSteno utilized

both qualitative (personal questionnaire) and quantitative (how much participants opted to donate their participation fee to the Red Cross) measures for compassion and empathy, along with the participant’s level of adversity, to look at the possible link between our kindest traits and the pain we endure.

They also pointed to studies that looked at the rebound rates of neighborhoods in cities affected by natural disasters, like Hurricane Sandy, and their belief in neighbors caring for each other. Lim and DeSteno’s study and many others show how humanity can persist in kindness, despite a world that may encourage the opposite.

Biology and sociology also point to kindness as an element of human nature that remains extremely important to our existence.

Though some may argue

“survival of the fittest” creates a world where ruthlessness is wired into evolution, this is no longer considered true. The phrase itself was originally used by Herbert Spencer in his “Principles of Sociology” in 1862, and Alan Mann, a biological anthropologist at Princeton, notes “fitness” is frequently misconstrued.

In an interview with Gizmodo, Mann says fitness is rather a function of survival and thus, is referring to the likelihood and ability to continue a species’ line, not their comparative power over others in their species.

He continues, saying the compassionate behaviors humans and other mammals have developed—such as personal relationships and trust—have been more beneficial for our continued existence than any kind of predatory behavior.

The evidence is in, and

compassion continues to be revered in many perspectives as a vital and integral function of humanity.

As society continues to delve into opinions regarding the distinctive traits of human beings, we cannot forget the long history of, benefits from and capacity for growing kindness.

We must ask ourselves what narrative leads us toward progress and peace; the belief that humanity is bound to cruelty and pain or that humanity contains a penchant for deep, revolutionary compassion that can change the world around them?

The more one questions the content and purpose of their actions, especially in considering how they view the experiences and wellbeing of others, the more we recognize the immense power we hold. @DailyToreador

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Horses deserve better life than being sold abroad to slaughterhouses

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orses have always been an important part of my life. They were my escape from life when some days were harder than others.

Growing up, I spent my weekends rodeoing and just loving my horses. I was always in awe of how beautiful, powerful and majestic these animals were.

There is a quote by Sharon Ralls Lemon which I find to be beautiful. She writes, “The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.”

Growing up, I spent al-

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most every other weekend with my grandparents on their ranch. My mother has a picture of me when I was 18 months, and I was sitting in the saddle on top of this gorgeous chestnut horse. From that moment on, my love for horses began to develop more as I began spending more time with them.

By age 7, my grandparents bought me my first horse, I named Raymond. He was a retired racehorse who had a decent racing career.

My grandpa saved him from being sent to the slaughterhouse after the owner had

no use for him. I learned many things from that horse, how to ride and rodeo, how to hold on tight when he decided to shake, but most importantly, I learned how to respect that gentle giant.

As the years passed along, I grew a little bigger and decided I wanted a faster horse to rodeo on, and that’s what I got. But we never got rid of Raymond, he spent the rest of his life enjoying the green pasture down in Goldthwaite, where I got to see him whenever I wanted to.

For Raymond, he got a life of luxury and ease. But many other horses don’t get the life he did.

In 2007, the United States finally brought horse slaughterhouses in the country to an end, but that did not stop the selling of horses to either

Canada or Mexico, where they are killed, then shipped to countries like Italy, France, Belgium and Japan where horse meat is still eaten.

The Humane Society published an article over horse slaughter and found “more than 100,000 horses – pets, show and race horses, carriage horses and wild horses – end up in slaughterhouses every year.” This is also an issue for these countries that eat horse meat, they are also eating all the drugs those horses had been given during their lifetime, which can slowly be harmful for the human body.

Horses were not meant to be raised as a stock animal where they are killed off for food, they were raised to be companions who could trust mankind. In all honesty,

whenever you sell your horse, rather it’s a pet, show horse or even a wild mustang, they all run the risk of being sold to a slaughterhouse.

The Humane Society describes how the quickest way for a worker to kill the horse, is actually the most agonizing for the animal, “They are mainly stabbed in the neck with a ‘puntilla knife’ that punctures the spinal cord, causing them to become paralyzed and unable to breathe.

From there they are hoisted, bled out and cut apart, often while still conscious and able to feel everything.”

How can anyone find this humane?

Why haven’t we put a stop to this unjust act altogether? When most people drop off their horse at a sale, they don’t think about

this issue. They don’t think their precious animal would end up in this awful environment. Maybe they believe someone will purchase their horse and rescue them, just like how my grandpa rescued Raymond for me.

I was always in awe of these gentle giants growing up as a child, and even talking and explaining the awful process that happens in the slaughterhouse absolutely breaks my heart.

These majestic animals don’t deserve cruelty like that. They don’t deserve any kind of hurt, they deserve to be loved and cherished.

As humans we need to sit down and brainstorm how we can put an end to the slaughtering of horses once and for all. @DailyToreador

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Cohen threatened Trump’s schools not to share grades, scores

By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer Leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump directed his personal attorney at the time to threaten legal action against the colleges and high school he attended if they publicly released his grades or standardized test scores, the attorney, Michael Cohen, told Congress on Wednesday.

Cohen revealed details about the threats among a list of other actions he took on behalf of Trump in testimony before the House Oversight Committee. Cohen and Trump parted ways last year after Cohen implicated Trump in federal campaign finance violations.

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talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores,” he said.

In support of his testimony, Cohen provided a May 2015 letter he penned to the president of Fordham University, the New York school Trump attended for two years in the 1960s before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania.

The letter warns that media outlets had requested Trump’s records but were denied by his legal team.

Cohen reminded the school that Trump’s student records were protected by federal law, and he threatened to

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hold the school liable “to the fullest extent of the law” if the university released them.

Cohen emphasized that violating Trump’s confidentiality could result in “both criminal and civil liability and damages including, among other things, substantial fines, penalties and even the potential loss of government aid and other funding.

This criminality will lead to jail time.”

Trump’s grades and test scores have never been made public, and they are protected under federal student privacy laws.

In a statement, Fordham spokesman Bob Howe confirmed Cohen’s account. He said that while Trump was campaigning for the presi-

dential election, someone from his team called the university for assurance that it would not release any of Trump’s records. Officials confirmed they would not share the records with anyone except Trump.

Fordham later received a follow-up letter from a Trump attorney, Howe said, “summarizing the call and reminding us that they would take action against the university if we did, in fact, release Mr. Trump’s records.”

The College Board, which administers the SAT college entrance exam, declined to comment for this story, as did the University of Pennsylvania, where Trump received an economics degree.

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Screen time info empowers students to take back time

By MEGAN MOSES Staff Writer

Many students have no idea how much time they spent on their phones. Now, the iPhone has a new setting called Screen Time, which tracks and alerts people of their phone usage on a daily basis.

Amber McCord, an assistant professor of practice and visual communication at Texas Tech, said she teaches an Intro to Digital and Social Media class, in which students study how they use their screen time over a period of two days.

Through this study, McCord said students often recognize the huge amounts of screen time that dominates their days.

“Social media and digital media have created a culture of really just being absorbed in the content,” she said.

The interesting thing about this new screen time setting, McCord said, was the creators originally had user engagement in mind, but now they are pulling back.

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The new Screen Time setting on the iPhone allows users to track their phone usage on a daily basis. Having this information allows students to be more aware of how they spend their time.

“Obviously if it’s coming from the people who are designing the technology, I feel like it’s a pretty big slap in the face and our culture is saying, ‘Look up,’ really,” she said.

The addictive nature of cell phones is a result of how people get sucked

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Political outsider Lori Lightfoot, who was a federal prosecutor in northern Illinois, and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle were the top two vote-getters among 14 candidates, but neither received more than the 50 percent needed to avoid an April 2 runoff. The winner will succeed Mayor Rahm Emanuel to lead the nation’s third-largest city. Emanuel did not seek re-election.

Among those they defeated was William Daley, who has never held major elected office but featured the most famous surname in the race. His father, Richard J. Daley, and brother, Richard M. Daley, held the city’s top job for nearly 43 years of a 55-year span before Emanuel took the oath in 2011. Daley is a former U.S. Commerce secretary who, like Emanuel, served as White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama.

Emanuel ‘s decision not to seek a third term drew some of the biggest names in state and municipal government

as would-be successors, along with some political newcomers with strong support, in a transitional election for a lakefront metropolis still struggling to shed its reputation for corruption, police brutality and street violence.

“What do you think of us now?” Lightfoot said Tuesday night to a crowd of her supporters. “This is what change looks like.”

Lightfoot, the first openly gay woman to run for Chicago mayor, has been critical of efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department in the wake of the 2014 fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald by a white police officer.

Preckwinkle, who leads the county’s Democratic Party, also made a campaign issue out of McDonald’s shooting.

“We may not be at the finish line. But, we should acknowledge that history is being made,” Preckwinkle, who previously served 19 years on the City Council and was a Chicago Public Schools teacher, told her supporters.

“It’s not enough to stand at a podium and talk about what you want to see happen,” she added, taking an apparent shot at Lightfoot.

“You have to come to this job with the capacity and the capability to make your vision a reality.”

into the virtual world, McCord said.

“I think most of the time we are not aware, because it is just passing time for us,” she said. “We are constantly just scrolling and scrolling and filling every boredom every pocket of time we have doing some-

CUSTODIANS CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “I have grown a lot here. I identify a lot with the students,” Maldonado said. “I had a son, he passed away four years ago, and I see the students as (if) they were my son.

I work here for the residents, so that they feel like they are at home.”

Maldonado had a special connection with one young man because he is also from Puerto Rico.

She said he sees her as a motherly figure, and she still sees him from time to time although he no longer lives on campus.

“It’s the same thing I would do with my own son I do for the residents,” Maldonado said. “I ask, ‘How are you? How do you feel? You feel so tired, go far don’t stop.’”

Maldonado prides herself in giving the students renewed motivation each and every day and said she desires anyone who walks onto the campus to feel welcome.

“I feel pride for working at Tech, all our housekeepers are very prideful,” Maldonado said. “I continue to do this so that everybody, all the future residents and all who come to visit really feel good. This is my goal.”

Jackie Kimbler, the unit manager for Sup-

thing on our phone instead of saying, ‘hello,’ in the elevator, you’re looking down and seeing what Instagram is recent.”

Instagram has made strides toward a similar concept to the screen time setting, she said.

“Specifically, Instagram has the feature that says you’re all caught up,” she said, “and so that feature was added later because of this push to really make people more aware of how much time they are spending on their phone.”

On the opposite spectrum, she said other applications, such as Snapchat, try to engage users.

“I know there are incentives in other applications like the Snapchat streak where it actually encourages more use, and so there’s competing factors,” she said.

McCord hopes the screen time feature will continue to be emulated by other designers of applications on their main pages to encourage people to interact

with their phones less and others more, she said.

“I think the only way that it will be efficient and helpful is if people are aware of it and are willing to use it,” she said.

Amber Loya, a senior psychology major from Denver City, said she recently started using the screen time setting and has seen interesting results.

“I didn’t even know it existed until a notification started popping up on my phone saying I’ve been on my phone for over six hours in a day,” she said.

She programed the phone to shut down certain applications at nighttime to help improve sleep quality, she said. “ L a t e l y i t ’s a c t u a l l y been cutting off at like 9:30 p.m., so I can actually go to bed early and get a more restful sleep, and doing that has actually reduced my screen time by like 24 percent in the last month,” she said.

The setting is effective, Loya said, and she would

recommend it to others who are trying to stay off their phones.

Tyler Garcia, a senior natural resource management major from Albany, said he changed the settings to revolve around his nighttime routine as well.

“I have it set to dim my lights,” he said, “and also to also turn off my phone around 10 p.m. so that I can get ready for bed and be in bed by 11 p.m.”

He also utilizes the analysis aspect of the screen time setting, he said, and this helps evaluate the amount of time he spends on each application.

“I get my weekly screen reports, and I like to see what I spend most of my time doing on my phone, and its cut down a lot on the middle of the day stuff,” he said.

The screen setting is empowering and effective, Garcia said, and he would even recommend it to others as a tool to engage more in life.

port Services, oversees all the housekeepers at Tech and said her main goal is the personal connection with students.

All the staff wear nametags with their hometowns and the number of years they have been serving the students written on them. Kimbler said there was a student from Ethiopia who connected with a custodian who also came from Ethiopia, which he read on her nametag. The worker and student connected in a bathroom and both started crying, and seeing their bond was the neatest thing, she said.

“That’s another reason that we do this, again just that connection,” she said.

“He found somebody that he could really connect with, and every time we start telling the story, we start crying.”

Kimbler teaches her staff to provide a level of customer service that is outstanding, she said. The people who clean the bathrooms are hard-working people who are there to serve students, she said. The staff will always greet students and be present for them, always trying to create those “wow” moments for them.

“I don’t know how many times I get pictures, notes, whatever, cards, thank you, things plastered all over their doors on how much they appreciate them, and you know that says a lot,” she said. “If

we were just kind of stuck in a hole doing our little tasks that we have to do and not being engaged with them, I don’t know that we would have that same response or feel as good about what we do.”

Janie Gloria, the lead custodian for Knapp Hall, said she has been working for Tech for 11 years.

“I love Tech,” she said. “I go to the store and I collect any little thing from Tech: caps, shirts, everything.”

Gloria is always excited to work because she said she views the students as her own children. Each morning when she arrives for work at

around 6:30 a.m., she said she always greets the students with a smile.

She tries to be as genuine and sincere as she can with the girls, she said, and she is there to serve in any way she can. This job is unique, and Gloria said she hopes to keep it for as long as possible.

“You get used to (cleaning restrooms), and if you love your job it doesn’t matter what you do,” she said. “And I love my job.

I’m very happy right here working with Texas Tech University, and I’m very proud of the students.”

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Moretti shows improvement in second season

By ELEANOR GUINAN Staff Writer

Although sophomore guard Davide Moretti is only in his second season at Texas Tech, he has grown to be a key player for the men’s basketball team.

Moretti spent the summer in his home country of Italy to improve his game. Since the team played Arkansas on Saturday, Jan. 26, Moretti has shown improvement in his play.

Also earning the CoSIDA Academic All-District award for his performance on and off the court, the sophomore from Bologna, Italy, is averaging 10.9 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, according to sportsreference.com.

Moretti is second in the Big 12 with a .914 free-throw percentage and leads the conference with a .458 threepoint percentage, according to big12statstics.com.

Tech head coach Chris Beard said Moretti is not only exceptional on the court, but off the court as well. Along with being a leader, Moretti is also enjoying the season and all the success its bringing, Beard said.

“He’s doing great, he’s just finding again, another level of consistency. His numbers are there in terms of shooting percentage,” Beard said.

“He’s taking care of the ball and so many things the stat sheets doesn’t show — his leadership his maturity, experience. He’s one of the most popular guys in the locker room, he’s got a poise about him; He’s very, very professional in all business but he also enjoys what he does and that’s a part of our culture.”

Graduate student forward Tariq Owens said Moretti is a great asset to the team with his defense and ability to shoot. The sophomore helps his teammates with encouragement and energy in the locker room, Owens said.

“Davide has been playing great for us, I really enjoy playing with him he’s a great guard, you know, takes care of everything he looks to get us involved to get everyone involved,” Owens said. “We all know he can shoot the ball very well. That’s a part of his game, so he’s just been all around great for us.”

Graduate student guard Matt Mooney said Moretti has more experience after playing

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in the professional Italian league this past summer. The guard also has an effortless movement when he shoots three-pointers, Mooney said.

“Moro has been playing pro before he came over here, he knows how to play he’s got one of the smoothest strokes I’ve ever seen. From my perspective, I got to try get him more open shots,” Mooney said.

Consistency has been the team’s main goal for the season, and Beard said Moretti is a player always working toward becoming better and more stable. Moretti has a chance to be a notable player in the Big 12 with the hard work he puts in, Beard said.

“I think Moro would be the first to tell you he’s just striving for consistency,” Beard said. “He has proven that he can play with anybody in this league, just like I mentioned with (Cameron) McGriff’s individual season, I would tell you I think Moro is worthy of Big 12 All Conference consideration. His stats speak for himself.”

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1: Sophomore guard Davide Moretti shoots during Texas Tech’s game against Arkansas Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Red Raiders broke their three-game losing streak and defeated the Razorbacks, 67-64. 2: Moretti passes during the game against Arkansas. 3: Moretti smiles after the game against Oklahoma Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

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Red Raiders try out for USA Volleyball team Three Red Raiders will represent Tech’s volleyball team as they tryout for the U.S. Women’s National Team on March 1-3 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the Olympic Training Center.

Outside hitter Emily Hill will be making her second appearance and will be joined by fellow outside hitter Brooke Kanas and setter Alex Kirby in the tryouts, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

There will be 218 other women trying out representing 87 different colleges.

Tryouts will consist of four sessions in three days — one Friday, two Saturday and the final one on Sunday.

It will be tournament style play, and 16-18 athletes will be selected to participate in the national team’s training wrap up on Sunday, according to Tech Athletics.

Hill is an All-Big 12 Sec-

ond Teamer and has played all 30 games for the Red Raiders. She led the team with kills preset and service aces, according to Tech Athletics. She also was the leader with 12 double-doubles and was on the Academic All-Big 12 First Team and the UTRGV Tournament MVP. Kirby, a freshman, is a key reserve for Tech, finishing the season with 63 assists, according to Tech Athletics.

She has only made one start in her career in Tech’s win against Texas Southern when she had 31 assists, eight digs and three kills.

Kanas, also a freshman, was one of six freshmen to be named to the All-Big 12 Rookie Team and All-Big 12 First or Second Team. She finished the season second on the team in kills with 249, according to Tech Athletics. @JayStraderDT

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15 athletes qualify for indoor championships

By GABRIELLE TAITE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech track and field team has several Red Raiders who qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships on Friday, March 8, and Saturday, March 9, in Birmingham, Alabama.

After the Big 12 Indoor Championship last week, Tech had many world-leading times, broken records and the most dominant victory in the history of the conference, according to Tech Athletics.

On the women’s side, junior Chinne Okoronkwo became the first and only Red Raider to claim a Big 12 title on the opening day of the meet after a mark of 14’-2.5” in the pole vault. The mark was the third highest in program history and helped Tech assistant coach Tom Slagle gain his first conference title as Tech’s vault coach.

Director of track and field and cross country Wes Kittley said he is proud of Okoronkwo.

“I’m so happy for Chinne getting her Big 12 Championship,” Kittley said. “I’m so happy for Coach Slagle for getting his first Big 12 Champion. I’m really happy for him as a coach.”

On the men’s side, junior Divine Oduduru ran a 20.08 in the 60m which is the fastest indoor time in the world and second-fastest in the history of collegiate track, according to Tech Athletics.

Additionally, the mark was the best time ever run at a Big 12 Championship, at Tech and inside the Sports Performance Center.

The men’s team will enter the NCAA meet as the top men’s program in the country after winning the Big 12 Championship by 70 points, according to Tech Athletics.

This marks the largest margin of victory in the history of the conference.

The women’s side will

have three Red Raiders competing after its secondplace finish.

Kittley said he is happy with how far the women’s team has come.

“I’m really proud of our ladies and how they fought so hard,” Kittley said. “We did all we could do. No matter what anyone else did, we had a really solid day.”

The 15 Red Raiders set to travel to Alabama for the meet include Okoronkwo for the pole vault and triple jump, junior Ivy Walker for the long jump and senior Zarriea Willis for the high jump, according to Tech Athletics.

On the men’s side, seniors Vincent Crisp and Andrew Hudson, along with Oduduru and freshman Sven Cepus, will be competing in the 4x400 relay. Also competing in the 4x400 relay as alternates are juniors Tyreek Mathis and Derrius Rodgers and freshman Jonah Koech.

Hudson will also run in the 60m and 200m races as well as Oduduru. Crisp and Koech will be competing in the 800m.

Freshman Axel Hubert will compete in the heptathlon and senior Drew McMichael will compete in the pole vault.

Junior Jah-Nhai Perinchief and Odaine Lewis will compete in triple jump, while Lewis and Charles Brown will compete in long jump.

Perinchief will also compete in the high jump.

“I think the men’s team is confident just because we’ve had a good year,” Kittley said. “We’re relatively healthy and that gives us an opportunity. We just need to do what we’ve been doing we should be fine.”

The NCAA Indoor Championships are set to take place on Friday, March 8, and Saturday, March 9, in Birmingham, Alabama.

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LEFT: Senior Vincent Crisp leads the race at the Big 12 Indoor Championship on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in the Sports Performance Center. Crisp will compete in two races at the NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend — the 4x400 relay and the 800m.

RIGHT: Senior Zarriea Willis walks away after jumping at the Big 12 Championship on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in the Sports Performance Center.

Willis will compete in the high jump at nationals.

BOTTOM: Junior Divine Oduduru waves after the 200m dash at the Big 12 Championship on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in the Sports Performance Center.

He set a new record with his time in the 60m race. Oduduru qualified for nationals in the 4x400 relay as well as the 60m and 200m races.

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O’Tremba starts freshman season strong

By MAX HENGST Staff Writer

F r e s h m a n Ta n n e r O’Tremba, who plays right field for the No. 3 Texas Tech baseball team, earned the first Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week award of the season for the Red Raiders.

“It’s a neat accomplishment for him,” head coach Tim Tadlock said. “I think all these guys got to learn to deal with prosperity a little bit, and all of them have to deal with now, Tech social media. You just look on his Twitter, he gets a lot of congratulations and at some point, you have to put that device down and move on and prepare for the next game, and I felt like he had a little bit of that, early (in the game against New Mexico State).”

This is O’Tremba’s first weekly award and the first award for the Red Raiders this season, according to a Tech Athletics news release. With O’Tremba being awarded the Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week, it makes the third-straight year Tech baseball has won the award — sophomore Gabe Holt on Feb.

19, 2018, and junior Josh Jung on Feb. 21, 2017. All the awards the last three seasons have come after the first week of the season.

O’Tremba said a lot of the older players on the team have helped the him and the newcomers as they have started their collegiate careers.

“My locker sits in between Brian Klein and Josh Jung, so that’s been awesome for them to have taken me under their wing,” O’Tremba said. “They’ve just been nice to me and kind to me and really that’s all it really takes and sharing their baseball knowledge because they’re way up there. It’s been really great to have those two.”

In Tech’s three-game sweep against Kentucky, O’Tremba posted a .455 batting average and finished five for 11 at the plate, according to Tech Athletics. O’Tremba also recorded eight RBIs, seven of which came in the series finale, setting a Big 12 season high.

When the Red Raiders were tied, 2-2, in the third inning on Sunday, Feb. 24, O’Tremba hit a three-run home run to spark 10 unan-

swered runs by Tech who won the game, 19-4.

“That’s a big key, just knowing what you can hit and what you can’t,” Tadlock said regarding O’Tremba’s batting. “Sticking with our approach, sticking with the pitch to pitch, the mental side of it and not trying to do too much and staying within yourself. That’s neat to see out of a young guy.”

Starting his collegiate career as a Red Raider, O’Tremba has scored seven runs and seven hits with a .304 batting average, according to Tech Athletics. He also is tied with the most home runs after hitting two this season and is second on the team with 10 RBIs. After a seven-game home stand to open the season, the Red Raiders will head to Frisco to play in the 2019 Frisco College Baseball Classic.

The first game will be at 7 p.m. Friday, March 1, against Nebraska. The next game will be at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 2, against Mississippi State and the final game will be played at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 3, against Sam Houston State. @MaxHengstDT

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TOP: Freshman outfielder Tanner O’Tremba runs to second base during Texas Tech’s game against New Mexico State on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.

The Red Raiders defeated the Aggies, 7-0. O’Tremba was named Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week.

BOTTOM: Teammates celebrate with O’Tremba after hitting a game-tying home run during Tech’s game against Oregon Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. Texas Tech defeated Oregon, 6-4.

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Manziel released, barred from CFL teams Astros look to replace utility player

MONTREAL (AP) — Johnny Manziel’s time in the Canadian Football League is over.

The CFL terminated the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner’s contract with the Montreal Alouettes on Wednesday. The league also informed the eight other teams that it wouldn’t register a contract for Manziel if any tried to sign him.

“We advised Montreal that Johnny had violated one of the conditions we had set for him to be in our league.

And Montreal announced his release today,” CFL Commis-

sioner Randy Ambrosie said in Vancouver. “We didn’t release the terms of those conditions then and we’re not going to do that now.

“We’re trying to do what we believe is in the best interests of the entire league.

The conditions we set, we thought were the right ones.

Those conditions have been violated and we feel it’s best, and Montreal feels its best, to let Johnny move on. And we think it’s best for our league that he do the same.

And we wish him well.”

A post on Manziel’s Twitter account indicated he was

already looking for other opportunities.

“I want to thank (Alouettes coach Mike Sherman), my teammates and the CFL fans,” Manziel tweeted . “My time there re-established my love for the game of football and the work that goes into it. I look forward to exploring new options within the United States.”

One option for the former Texas A&M star and onetime Cleveland Brown could be the Alliance of American Football, which kicked off its inaugural season earlier this month.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Marwin Gonzalez was Houston’s do-everything utility player for the last few years.

Replacing him is probably going to be a team effort.

Gonzalez signed a $21 million, two-year deal with Minnesota on Monday, making official what the Astros seemed to know all offseason: they’re going to need new depth around the diamond.

Gonzalez played every position except pitcher and catcher during his seven seasons with Houston.

The player most likely

to mimic Gonzalez is 2016 All-Star Aledmys Diaz, who was acquired from Toronto in November. Houston is also hoping first baseman Yuli Gurriel can bounce around the infield a bit more.

“I want to see Diaz play all four infield positions and potentially two outfield positions on the corner,” manager AJ Hinch said. “We may not have enough time to do that as much as we want. As fun as it sounds, that’s lot to ask out of one guy, but I would like to move him around a little bit.”

Diaz has experience at

most of those positions. The 28-year-old has primarily been a shortstop with the Cardinals and Blue Jays, but he’s also comfortable at third base and has appeared at second base and in left field.

“I think it’s a challenge to play different positions every day, but at the same time, I’ve played all over the infield in the past,” he said. “So for me, I’ve never played first base at this level and only a little bit in the outfield. So that’s one thing I’m going to try to improve on and work on is in the outfield.”