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Cruz, Clinton win Texas Trump, Clinton finish strong nationally AUSTIN (AP) — Ted Cruz defended his home turf, Hillary Clinton dominated and powerful members of Congress and the Legislature swatted back challengers.

Texas primary voters stuck with familiar faces over stadiumpacking and angry outsiders Tuesday, thwarting a wave of anti-establishment resentment that has upended the 2016 presidential race and already sent packing three previous White House contenders with Texas ties.

But not Cruz. His campaign now rolls Wednesday to Kansas,

which caucuses Saturday, after victories in Texas and Oklahoma delivered a crucial momentum swing and amplified his insistence that he is the GOP’s last hope of stopping Donald Trump. Marco Rubio had a disappointing Super Tuesday, only winning the Minnesota caucuses, but vowed to stay in the race.

Also not going anywhere are two of the most powerful lawmakers in Texas: U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Texas House Speaker Joe Straus. Both

toppled conservative insurgents who accused them of being too entrenched and out of touch.

Cruz asked that his rivals “prayerfully consider” whether to keep going without mentioning Rubio or Ohio Gov. John Kasich by name.

“Head to head, our campaign beats Donald Trump resoundingly,” said Cruz, firing up supporters at a victory party outside his hometown of Houston. “But for that to happen, we must come together.”

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Local Democrats host watch Lubbock County Republicans parties for Clinton, Sanders host primary watch party

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Lubbock area Hillary Clinton supporters watch Clinton speak on television at their election watch party on Tuesday at the Democratic Headquarters of Lubbock.

Lubbock locals watch Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speak on television after winning the primary races in Texas and Oklahoma on Tuesday at the Lubbock County GOP headquarters.

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Editor’s note: All results are as of midnight Wednesday.

Hillary Clinton supporters hosted a watch party Tuesday night during the primary elections at the Democratic Headquarters of Lubbock.

As of midnight Wednesday, Clinton had won seven states: Alabama, Georgia,

Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Massachusetts and Arkansas.

West Texans for Bernie Sanders hosted their watch party for the Super Tuesday coverage at Legends Pizzeria at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Families and couples came into the room, greeting each other and talking quietly about what outcomes they hoped to see. They gathered around tables in groups, watching the big screen TV tuned to MSNBC.

Christina Carrizales, an ophthalmology nurse from Lubbock, was one of the attendees at the watch party.

Carrizales said she does not let the majority party affect her decision.

“That’s what the problem is around here,” Carrizales said. “I feel everyone thinks they have to be part of the Republican Party because it is the majority.”

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Editor ’s note: All results are as of midnight Wednesday.

The Lubbock County Republicans hosted a watch party as results from Tuesday’s primaries came in.

D r. D o n a l d M a y, a congressional district 19 candidate and Ted Cruz supporter, said he would

like to see power that originally belonged to the states be returned to the individual states.

“The job of the state is to take care of the people,” May said. “The federal government’s job isn’t to take care of the people. It’s to protect the people.”

May said Cruz would crack down on border security, ISIS and keeping Middle Eastern and North African refugees

out of the U.S. until they can be properly vetted and military relations.

“A lot of the people who would normally support Cruz are still supporting Rubio and Carson and Kasich and if those three men weren’t in the race, those people would naturally gravitate toward Cruz, giving Cruz a slight advantage over Trump,” May said.

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Center hosts difficult dialogues series

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As the name suggests, the Difficult Dialogues series is an avenue for students, staff and faculty of the Texas Tech community to join together in expressing their opinions and beliefs on sensitive topics.

Hosted by the Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center, the dialogues series typically comprises five discussions each semester.

While two discussions for this semester were hosted last month, three more are upcoming. A discussion on college athletes’ compensation will be hosted at 6 p.m.

Thursday in room 001 of the Education building.

Ruben Lopez, unit coordinator for the Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center, said the discussions provide an enriched learning experience where people can feel free to express their opinions. It also provides an opportunity to examine various aspects inherent in sensitive issues.

“Recently we had the Syrian Refugee Crisis event,” Lopez said. “People came in not knowing much about it, but they knew how they felt about it.”

During the discussions, a

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Carrizales said she does not believe in voting for a candidate solely because of the

moderator directs questions toward the panelists before opening it up for general discussion with the audience.

Panelists and moderators are selected based on familiarity with the topic and willingness to engage in the discussion, Lopez said.

Often, a number of people believe in the same idea but not for the same reasons, he said. Attendees tend to change their viewpoints after listening to arguments from both sides of the issue.

“Students learn how to have these discussions, what’s a proper way to have discussions, not an argument,” Lopez said, “how to plead your case and kind of listen to people’s opinions.”

John Delony, associate dean for student life at the School of Law, moderated the discussion on campus carry hosted last week.

People from a variety of backgrounds took part in the discussion, Delony said.

Campus carry is a complex issue that encompasses numerous fields.

“It was everything from a student saying, ‘This is very important to students as citizens of the United States,’” Delony said, “and then there was law enforcement saying ‘Man, it’s a lot harder than

it looks.’”

Last semester, Delony moderated a discussion titled Future of Policing in America. From the discussion, Delony said he learned that firing a gun during a crisis is extremely difficult and unlike in the movies.

Delony said an Iraq combat veteran shared his thoughts during the event.

He said when bullets start flying, there are some who shoot back and there are others who quite simply cannot.

“I love the idea of this series, I love the nature of this series. I love how respectful the students are,” he said.

“The only way I think to really get to the heart of issues is to have people sit around a table and talk about it.”

Civility and humanity are necessary for fruitful discussions, Delony said. All day long, people watch politicians yelling back and forth on television, which blunts the importance of these issues.

Face to face conversations are crucial to grasp the inherent complexity of such difficult dialogues, he said.

“I think it’s easy to sit at home and scroll through our phones and look at news clips,” Delony said. “I think those dialogues become so important because it humanizes the dif-

ferent perspective. It’s harder to say, ‘Well, those folks’ when a kind person is sitting at the same table as you.”

Most discussion topics are decided by the Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center. However, suggestions are considered and always welcome, Lopez said. For instance, Thursday’s topic, college athletes’ compensation, was suggested by Benedict Iloanya, a senior civil engineering major from Arlington.

Iloanya said he came up with the idea of hosting this discussion while talking about the issue with JaCorian Duffield, a Tech student athlete.

Jody Roginson, assistant professor of practice in public relations, will be moderating the discussion. Roginson’s expertise is in sports media.

“It is a hot-button, passionbased issue,” Roginson said. “(For) sports fans, people who feel strongly about sports, this is one of those issues they feel strongly about.”

However, many people do not have the required amount of information to appreciate the complexity of this issue, she said. Within the athletics environment, people are typically required to attend three-day workshops before entering these discussions.

“It isn’t something that

political party they represent.

“Vote for the party that best represents your social and economic status,” Carrizales said.

“Vote for the candidate that represents your best interests.

I’m really confused why anyone

wouldn’t vote that way. Forget the label, vote for the candidate that will be best for your family and children.”

West Texans for Bernie Sanders volunteers, such as the ones at the watch party,

have been doing serious work to spread awareness of Bernie Sanders’ campaign, Jared Jones, chair of West Texans for Bernie Sanders, said.

He has been pleased about the local support and lack of

you can just read one article about and then speak with facts,” she said. “So, I love the fact that this group wants to have the dialogue. They have invited a great person in, Dr. Brian Shannon, who is the faculty athletics rep. for Texas Tech Athletics.”

The consequences of such discussions are significant, and they have a notable impact on the campus community, Roginson said. It is necessary to gain an under-

standing of the past and present regulations in order to assess the future outcomes.

All members of the Tech community are welcome to participate in the Difficult Dialogues Series, Lopez said.

“I feel like everyone has their own opinion, has their own viewpoints and experiences that make and improve these kind of events,” he said.

“The more people that show up the better.”

hostility toward Sanders’ campaign, he said.

“I really like that he’s stuck to his message for so long.

That’s been a big theme of his campaign, and a criticism of Secretary Clinton,” he said.

Though he agrees with the presidential candidate on almost all of the main issues espoused by Sanders, the issue that initially generated Jones’ interested in the campaign was campaign finance reform, Jones said.

“Campaign finance reform, it affects everything. It really does, and that’s the starting point,” he said. “A big criticism of Bernie’s campaign is that we want free stuff. We just want everybody to have a fair shot.”

Jones said he wants something to be done about the loopholes in the tax code and he wants big corporations to pay their fair share.

Bulmaro Cruz III, a junior general studies major from Laredo, was another attendee at Tuesday’s watch party. Tuesday’s primary elections were his second time voting.

“I think it’s important to vote because many college students do not realize how crucial these elections are, especially in a time where we hear candidates trying to help students, especially with student debt being such a big thing,” Cruz said. “It’s important because a lot of us, going into our first year of college, we are thrown into debt right off the bat. A lot of the time, students can’t maintain a job so it is hard to balance school, having a job and paying for loans. Obviously your parents can only help you so much.”

Cruz said he believes voting now is important if students want to have any say in their future as college students.

“The minute we decide that we aren’t going to vote or it is not important right now can be the moment that it changes our future in a negative way,” he said.

When choosing a presidential candidate, Cruz said Clinton had many qualities he was looking for.

“I look for someone who pays attention to both social and economic issues,” Cruz said. “I look at if they tend to be more liberal when it comes to social issues, if they tend to be a little bit more federal when it comes to economic issues and close issues that so many corporations in the top 1 percent tend to get away with.”

Attendees at the watch party were satisfied with the news of Clinton winning Texas’ votes.

“I am happy that Clinton won,” Cruz said. “It is reaffirming that she can win the election, although I do love Bernie Sanders. If this speaks for how the election will turn out, I feel more comfortable knowing we can keep someone like Trump out of office.”

Devin Fields, a history graduate student, said he has seen no relatively strong Sanders policy on climate change, an issue important to him, but said Sanders is more likely to actually address the issue than Clinton.

“The truth is that Bernie Sanders has some tangible programs that work to help alleviate broad swaths of economic inequality by changing the fundamental way we approach things like health care,” Fields said.

He said the group is also concerned about elections at the local level and not just the presidential election. Regardless of what the outcome of the primary is, they will continue to build Democrat support in the area.

Bernie supporters focused on their food or watched the TV without outward reaction when Hillary Clinton was announced as the winner of Texas, but began clapping when Bernie was announced as the winner of Oklahoma.

Fields said he expected good things out of Oklahoma, and the polls he viewed earlier in the day had Bernie Sanders in the lead. This caused him to expect Sanders’ win in the Sooner State, though he joined in the clapping in the room when the win was announced

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County votes for local offices On Tuesday, Lubbock County voted for several local officials as well as presidential candidates.

According to the unofficial final results from the Lubbock County Elections office, in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton won the democratic race with 5,767 votes and Ted Cruz won the GOP race with 19,163.

As of midnight Wednesday, Glen Robertson and Jodey Arrington were leading the District 19 congressional chair election, according to the office. Robertson had 12,496 votes and Arrington had 12,192 votes.

Robertson and Arrington will be in a runoff election. According to the state election code, if no

candidate in that office gets the necessary amount of votes to be elected in an office that requires a majority vote, there will be a runoff election.

According to the Vote Lubbock website, the primary runoff election will be hosted May 24, and the last day to register to vote for the runoff is April 7.

Charles Perry ran for the District 28 State Senator chair uncontested. Dustin Burrows ran uncontested for the state representative position for District 83. As of midnight Wednesday, in District 84, John Frullo got 9,872 votes and Jim Landtroop had 8,010 votes. @KristenBartonDT

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hen a video surfaced last November featuring a professor from the University of Missouri asking for “muscle” to remove a student trying to document a protest, the news

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spread from coast to coast.

While this event occurred last year, this professor, Melissa Click, only ended up being fired from her position this year.

This ex-professor should have been fired last year, in order to keep the public image of the University of Missouri in good standing.

If Click was fired last year, the event would have still been on our minds, rather than this year, with the news finally surfacing.

According to a New York Times article by Austin Huguelet and Daniel Victor titled “’I Need Some Muscle’: Missouri Activists Block Journalists,” Tim Tai, a student photographer on a freelance assignment, was trying to take photos of the area, when protesters became angry with Tai and started blocking his view.

As the video drew to a close, Tai was approached by a woman, later identified as Click, an assistant professor of mass media. She yelled, “Who wants to help me get this reporter? I need

some muscle over here.”

When this video surfaced, Click should have been fired immediately, to keep the university’s public image intact. Through not firing Click on the spot, it brings bad publicity to the university.

One of the other reasons Click should have been fired earlier is the amount of students who would transfer or drop out of the college’s communication programs because of Click’s actions.

Click’s actions have put a stain on the university’s public image.

While the previous article was written during the time Click committed the offense, an article from The Washington Post summarizes what led to Click losing her job. The article,

by Susan Svrluga and titled, “Mizzou professor who pushed reporter away from protestors is fired,” goes into further detail about how the event affected the university as a whole.

Svrluga writes, “The protests at the flagship state university over race and other bias issues had paralyzed the campus and forced the resignation of the system president and chancellor.” The article continues on, stating, “The board of curators voted Wednesday night to terminate Click.”

Svrluga says the vote was

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NY court refuses to throw out Trump lawsuit ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York court on Tuesday refused to throw out a fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump over his former school for real estate investors.

The Appellate Division unanimously rejected Trump’s request to dismiss the 2013 suit, ruling that a six-year statute of limitations applies.

The four justices also denied New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s request for an immediate judgment, saying there are material issues of fact that should be decided at trial.

Schneiderman alleges that Trump University was unlicensed since it began operat-

ing in 2005 and promised lessons with real estate experts hand-picked by Trump, only one of whom had ever met him. The attorney general said the school used “baitand-switch” tactics, inducing students to enroll in increasingly expensive seminars.

Trump, now seeking the Republican nomination for president, has denied any wrongdoing. He has said it was “a terrific school” with 98 percent approval ratings by its students. His attorney Jeffrey Goldman said the midlevel court failed to explain why it reversed previous rulings and said they intend to appeal to New

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four to two.

While these protests also caused other prominent staff at the university to retire, the focus remained on Click because of her treatment of the journalist. Even though this student was trying to do his job, Click ultimately brought the protests to light because of her treatment of the journalist.

Although the university fired Click, it should have done it closer to when this video surfaced in order to keep people’s opinions about the university in a good light. Because the university waited to fire Click, it ultimately lost many of the students’ respect by having Click remain as a professor after this incident.

Since Click used to be a mass media professor, you would think she would have a respect for other’s First Amendment rights.

From the video, however, we see Click tried to block the camera’s field of view, ultimately censoring what he would publish.

There is no excuse the university can put forward on why Click wasn’t fired sooner. In waiting to fire her, the university has earned a stain on its public image that will remain until the end of the university’s days.

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York’s highest court.

Schneiderman, a Democrat, sued Trump and the school, which changed its name to the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative before it closed in 2010, for $40 million. The lawsuit seeks restitution and damages for more than 5,000 students nationwide, including 600 New Yorkers, who paid up to $35,000 each.

“Today’s decision means our entire fraud case can move forward,” Schneiderman said.

“We look forward to demonstrating in a court of law that Donald Trump and his sham for-profit college defrauded more than 5,000 consumers out of millions of dollars.”

he drive from Lubbock to Big Bend National Park may only be a few hours long, but it is just long enough to demonstrate how the oil industry can change the Texas landscape. Lubbock has always been historically based in agriculture, which is easy to see when leaving the city.

Vast fields quickly turn into barren oilfields around the Odessa-Midland area, and for a few hours, the roadway is incredibly bleak.

Yet, once travelers get past the large oil producing areas and get to Fort Davis, Alpine or Marfa, the environment quickly turns from desolate oil fields into beautiful scenery. Whether it be the Davis Mountains or the amazing stretches of land in and around Big Bend National Park, it is clear Southwest Texas has a magical beauty to it, not quite like any other area in Texas.

For those who have taken the drive, it is evident why some Texans are currently fighting back against the Trans-Pecos Pipeline, a 143-mile-long natural gas pipeline that will be constructed through Texas’ pristine Big Bend region. For those who have not taken the drive to Big Bend or seen the area, there is plenty of reason to be interested in the pipeline. Not only will the pipeline disrupt the previously untouched area and its ecosystem, but the company building the pipeline also has the legal right to exercise the power of eminent domain, simply taking the land away from Texans who do not want to sell.

According to the National Park Service article on Big Bend National Park, the park and surrounding area holds an astonishing array of wildlife and geographic features. The park boasts countless species of native plants, reptiles, mammals, birds and insects — thousands of species that have previously remained largely undisturbed.

The Big Bend Conservation Alliance, a citizen-led coalition currently fighting the pipe construction has posted pictures of the pipeline construction, showing the 125-foot-wide corridor streak across the desert. Not only will the construction result in the new pipeline, but also countless roads and service stations along previously untouched areas. While the pipeline will bring economic benefits, it will undoubtedly damage the area’s ecosystem.

When it comes to the economic benefits of the pipeline, some Texans will greatly benefit. Though the pipeline construction will be cutting through miles of intact native grasslands, desert scrublands and displacing countless Texas residents, some people will profit greatly from the project. For example, many residents in Presidio, a small town on the border of Texas, would be benefitted greatly by the access to natural gas the pipeline would bring, thus bringing more jobs to the area, according to the Sept.

2015 Texas Monthly article, “A Pipeline in the Sand.”

“I think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread,” Brad Newton, the executive director of the Presidio Municipal Development District said, according to the Texas Monthly. Of course, the project will also greatly benefit the two energy companies, Mexico-based Carso and Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, who are responsible for constructing the pipeline, according to the May 2015 Mother

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Jones article, “The Pipeline That Texans Are Freaking Out Over.”

While the new pipeline may benefit some, it will also cause several Texas landowners much grief — because of Texas laws, ETP has the right to exercise the power of eminent domain and seize private land if an agreement isn’t reached with individual landowners, according to the Mother Jones article. The landowners may be paid market price for their land, but have little say otherwise.

Wi t h s o m u c h t o b e gained and so much to be lost, it is easy to see why the topic has become controversial with West Texans. The debate of when to limit oil-industry expansion still remains a controversial topic itself, such as this week when the federal government reinforced a plan to protect 187,000 square miles of Alaska’s northern coast for polar bears, much to the dismay of those in the oil industry, according to a Tuesday The Guardian article.

It is a difficult decision to choose when to protect the oil industry, a vital part of the Texas economy, and when to protect the Texas habitat. In the case of the Trans-Pecos pipeline, however, it is clear that citizens should fight efforts to construct the pipeline.

Considering the ETP has the power to seize Texan’s land without consequence and will build its pipeline across West Texas’ fragile ecosystem, this pipeline expansion should be fought.

Unfortunately, it seems that no matter how resilient some West Texans are in fighting the construction of the pipeline, the ETP is an unstoppable force.

Tom and Val Beard, two Texas Residents, told the Texas Monthly they caught a surveyor hired by ETP staking out their property.

Val explained to reporters, “My grandfather was an oil operator. I grew up in the oil patch. The money the industry has brought in and has done a lot of good things for the state. I’m for energy independence. But this experience has changed my attitude 180 degrees, at least in regards to the pipeline industry.”

Of course, when it comes down to the pipeline, each Texan has his or her own reason to support it or fight it. Some Texans will be benefitted by it, while others are at risk of having their land seized.

I suppose I am a little biased too. I love how the dreary oil fields of the Midland-Odessa area fade to the breathtaking views of Southwest Texas, and how that beauty continues all the way from the Davis Mountains until the Rio Grande in Big Bend. I love the way that the Marfa and Alpine residents are so proud and protective of their towns, and I love how the areas surrounding Big Bend still feel like the last Texas frontier. I hate how these things are at stake, and West Texans are powerless to stop it.

It is because of these reasons the Trans-Pecos Pipeline must be fought. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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International students discuss life in US

By MICHAELA BAYSINGER Staff Writer

In the 2014-2015 school year, approximately 974,926 international students studied at various U.S. universities and colleges, according to the Institute of International Education website.

Of those students, there were about 2,455 students who studied at Texas Tech, according to the International Student website.

“It is my job to make sure that those students who come to Texas Tech have as smooth a transition as possible. It is a part of my responsibility to make sure that they are comfortable here at Tech and the states,” Chris Lemmons, the international student life administrator at Tech, said. “What I do is try and get students in touch with other students.”

The way the Office of International Affairs does this is by creating different events to make students feel welcome and more at home, Lemmons said. Among these events are welcome events for students, where there is free food and games to help them introduce themselves, and they all go somewhere for dinner afterward as a group.

“At one of these welcome events there was a girl who was from Vietnam who came up to me. She told me that she had been here a week and she didn’t have anybody and she was so lonely, and now after coming to this

welcome event she had many friends from here,” he said.

“I saw her go back to her group of new friends who, if I remember correctly, were going to go somewhere and hang out.”

The Office of International Affairs has a cultural exchange program, Lemmons said. The students receive a Lubbock family who will meet with them at least once or twice a month and they will go out to sporting events, have coffee, eat dinner together or just hang out. They do not live with them, but the goal is to help the students feel more at home here and to help them de-stress and be more comfortable.

The Office of International Affairs continuously checks on its students throughout their entire time at Tech, Lemmons said.

“The Office of International Affairs is here to make sure we are a positive influence as these students come here to Tech,” he said.

Students like Asha Magasi, a chemical engineering major from Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and Daniela Ducon Naverro, an environmental engineering major from Colombia, both said they were initially shocked when they moved to the U.S. Here in the U.S. everybody minds their own business, Magasi said. In her home country people notice when others are new and make sure they are comfortable. They are always

getting into other people’s business, she said. It is two completely different worlds.

“In Colombia, people are so friendly, they greet each other by hugging and kissing on the cheek. They’re always just talking to each other and it’s so friendly,” Naverro said.

“Here people are always on their phones. They are never talking, they just text. It’s just a cold experience.”

Naverro has a hard time keeping up with people in

the U.S. because they talk so fast and do everyday things at such a fast pace, she said.

Often people cannot understand her, she said, and she struggles to keep up with conversations.

At first the language barrier was an issue, Magasi said. However, over time it became extremely easy for her to understand other people around her.

“It is easier for us to un-

derstand Americans than it is for them to understand us,” Magasi said.

The weather was the biggest shock, Naverro said.

In her home country there are no seasons, it is always sunny, warm, humid and nice, but here it is freezing and windy and extremely hot and extremely cold and dry.

Just the difference in the weather alone has affected her physique, Naverro said.

“The weather was defi-

nitely the biggest difference,” Magasi said. “At home in Africa it’s just hot all the time.

Here it gets so cold and I was just not used to it at all.”

The transition is definitely a hard one, Naverro said, but in the end it is so worth it.

“I remember thinking as I was getting used to the transition, oh my lord, I am in America I have to adjust,” Magasi said. @MBaysingerDT

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Experts, students react to Facebook reactions

By SHASHIDHAR SASTRY Staff Writer

For years, Facebook users craved an upgrade to the ageold “Like” button. The Like button was a one-dimensional response to a multi-dimensional world of human emotions. On Feb. 24, Facebook responded by extending the Like button and introducing its latest feature, Reactions.

Reactions was launched after more than a year of global research with focus groups. According to Facebook’s newsroom, researchers analyzed frequent comments, stickers and emojis to determine the reactions to be offered. Now, with the added feature users can react to a post by tapping Love, HaHa, Wow, Sad or Angry. The Like button survived the upgrade and is the default reaction.

Facebook’s latest upgrade brought with it a wave of mixed emotions.

“I think it’s a pretty interesting idea. You know, it’s something that adds a little more dynamic,” Jordan Vogel, a senior animal sciences major from Canyon, said. “If someone says, ‘My mother just died’ (and) you hit Like, it is kind of a weird concept.”

The new set of reactions has equipped users with a wider array of responses to choose from, Vogel said.

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Facebook has added more options besides the like button. Users can now use like, love, angry, happy, shocked and sad buttons to react to posts. man international economics major from Grapevine, said the feature could prove especially useful for celebrities. They will now know which groups of people find their posts offensive, which groups find it funny and so on.

“You can just see different perspectives on the story you are trying to share,” Magee said. “I think it’s a good addition. I really do, and I am glad that there’s no dislike button because that could hurt people’s feelings.”

The dislike button could not only hurt people’s feelings, but also potentially lower Facebook’s revenues, Allison Matherly, coordinator of digital engagement for Tech, said.

“It’s not a surprise that we have these Reactions as opposed to a dislike button,” Matherly said. “(Facebook’s) goal is to sell advertising, and knowing more reactions and

what you are thinking about content gives them more data points to sell on.”

The longer a person stays on Facebook, the more advertisements they see and accordingly, the more revenue Facebook generates, she said.

Facebook developers strive for users to stay on Facebook for as long as possible.

Facebook Reactions aid them in this profit endeavor.

A dislike button, on the other hand, is likely to elicit negative reactions from users, Matherly said, and unhappy users are more likely to stop using Facebook sooner.

“Facebook is there to serve itself. It’s a for-profit company,” she said. “That’s something that users have to remember when they are using the platform.”

However, Facebook is also the most ubiquitous of all social media platforms, Matherly

said. It is not as segmented by demographics as some of the other social media platforms such as LinkedIn or Twitter.

“If you don’t have a profile, it’s very bizarre to other people because Facebook is part of everyday life nowadays,” she said.

Roald Credo, a junior biology major from Dallas, said he has not used the Reactions feature much and remains indifferent to its addition.

“I am not fond of the updates, you could say,” Credo said. “I just thought at least they would grant a dislike instead of just the smiley face, the surprise, the wow or anger.”

Although the Reactions deliver a broader feedback from fellow users, Credo said a dislike button would be more direct to use and simple to understand.

“Internet brings about a freedom to post a lot, so that

“He is appealing because we haven’t seen people of courage come out and stand up and the American people are starved for leaders with courage and with backbone,” he said, “and Trump comes across as a man of courage and with backbone.”

Jason Corley, a candidate in the District 19 congressional race, said he supports Cruz because he is a Texas resident and, as an immigrant, has a deeper appreciation for America.

“If you want to see someone who appreciates America and how great things are here ask an immigrant,” Corley said, “they will tell you all day long.”

Corley said he wants a president who will fight for what the people want.

“He’s got a very conservative record and the thing about him we like in Texas is the guy’s willing to stand out and fight, you know,” he said, “and you don’t see that in many politicians.”

Trump is appealing to voters because many people feel fed up with the current establishment, Corley said, and his business background is also appealing to voters because he has been successful and created jobs.

Jim Baxa, a voter at the Republican watch party, said he supports Cruz be-

cause he has kept his word to voters as a senator.

Voters are supporting Trump because they feel angry at current elected officials, Baxa said.

“Rubio is struggling in Texas because he supported illegal immigrants getting amnesty. Kasich is struggling in Texas because he expanded Medicaid,” he said. “Carson is struggling in Texas because he just didn’t seem to have command in foreign policy.”

Baxa said he would like the Republican race down to two candidates including Trump and Rubio or Cruz.

resounding enough to horde all 155 of the state’s delegates to himself.

Exit polls showed that white evangelicals and hardline conservatives helped Cruz fight off a Trump upset in his backyard. Republican primary voters were also roughly split on whether they wanted a candidate with political experience or a nominee form

outside the establishment.

Kevin Stone, 53, said the country doesn’t need a politician after voting for Trump at a Baptist church in Lubbock.

“There’s an air about him, I don’t agree with everything he does, but we need a leader, someone who has authority that can walk into any government,” Stone said.

Voters craving new blood

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Students place in state DECA competition

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

DECA Tech is the Texas Tech chapter of the Distributive Education Clubs of America program, and it started last semester.

F o u n d e d b y S a r a h D avila, a freshman energy commerce major from The Woodlands, DECA Tech is a business professionals organization that prepares students for the realities of the business world.

Davila said DECA Tech takes the students’ inclass knowledge and puts it in competition settings so the students receive real-life experience.

Davila started participating in DECA her senior year of high school, she said, and at that time she was not even planning on being in business.

“I didn’t get involved in business until my senior year of high school. I was health sciences all the way,” Davila said. “Last year of high school, I joined DECA just to get something on my resume.

But I fell in love with what we were doing and getting involved and solving real life world experience scenarios.”

This love for DECA and love for business caused Davila to change her major, she said.

“I switched my major when I got here to something in business,” she said. “I wanted to bring that same passion of business and the fun club atmosphere to Texas Tech and to bring other people involved in the DECA program.”

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Sean Lewis, member of DECA Tech, James Caden, a freshman accounting major from Keller, Sarah Davila, a freshman energy commerce major from The Woodlands, and Clayton Dehaan, member of DECA, competed in the state DECA competition. Caden placed third in the accounting category and Davila placed first in the retail management category, and both will compete in the international competition in April in Washington D.C.

Barbie Chambers, assistant professor of practice for business communication, said she was not familiar with the DECA program before the organization came to Tech.

“The more I looked into the DECA program at the collegiate level, the more impressed I was for the op-

portunities it gives the students,” she said.

In DECA, there are 26 different kinds of competitions ranging from entrepreneurship to retail and hospitality management, Davila said. The different competitions have different kinds of preparations.

Davila said she partici-

pated in a role-playing event where she got a scenario and had a certain amount of time to get it done.

“My scenario was that I was the marketing manager for a brand of jeans,” she said. “I had to come up with a way to market the brand of jeans to the CEO. They give you 15 minutes to solve

the problem.”

The individual has to be well versed in the area he or she competes in, Chambers said. They have a certain amount of time to figure out how they would react in a certain situation.

The individuals competing in the DECA events learn from the judges, who have been in the situations before, and get their feedback, Davila said.

Members of the DECA team, including James Caden, a freshman accounting major from Keller, are going to the international competition in Washington, D.C., in April.

Caden placed first in the accounting section of DECA, he said, and he started participating in the DECA program in high school.

He did not know about the DECA collegiate program until he saw a flier about it, Caden said, and he placed in the state and international competitions both in high school and at the collegiate level.

“It really shows that I’m starting to know my knowledge about accounting,” he said. “In college, you are competing against people who have already hit those upper division classes. I haven’t hit those classes yet. It’s nice to know that I’ve surpassed them already.”

Sean Lewis, a freshman economics major from Virginia Beach, Virginia, said he has applied the things he has learned from DECA to his major.

“With economics, you have

to analyze different variables and different aspects of an equation,” Lewis said. “That’s similar to what I had to do with DECA. I had to come up with a business plan in the starting a business category. We had to look at the variables and the obstacles that we had to overcome with starting a business.”

Caden has had ups and downs with doing accounting in both the classroom and in DECA, he said, and DECA makes him apply the knowledge he learns in the classroom.

DECA can help all kinds of majors with real world experience, Chambers said.

“What’s special about these real world scenarios and that they get to look at it and practice it in the heat of the moment,” she said. “In the job world, this happens all the time. They may not be presenting it to a judge but they could be presenting it to a boss or sell it to a client. It helps them to get out of the book and out of the classroom to show what they can do.”

Davila is reaching out to successful DECA programs in high schools, including Frenship High School, to recruit incoming freshmen to join the program at the collegiate level, she said.

Davila said she also wants to recruit other people around campus who enjoyed doing DECA in high school.

“DECA is not just a club, it’s a community of people,” she said. “It’s the same DECA Club organization feel and the same competition feel.” @DavidGayDT

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New faculty-led trip to Mexico set for summer

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

A new study abroad program is taking place this summer in the town of San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, and it is centered on the study of music and dance as a universal language.

Chiapas is located in the southern part of Mexico, bordering the Central American country of Guatemala. The state is home to several Mayan ruins that date back to 1400 B.C. Chiapas also has the second-largest production of cacao, which is what is used to

make chocolate, according to the History Channel website, and they produce 60 percent of Mexico’s coffee output.

Although Chiapas is known for abundance in these resources, it is also known for its diverse culture and fine arts.

“San Cristobal is what the Mexican federal government calls a magic town, and what they mean is a town that is very strong for cultural tourism,” Christopher Smith, professor of musicology and director of the Vernacular Music Center, said. “It’s in beautiful 8,000-foot mountains, and the town itself was

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It has beautiful architecture and a large indigenous peoples population with a strong Native American population, he said, and it is a very culturally rich place.

Smith and Nicole Wesley, an assistant professor at Texas State University, organized the trip. The two chose San Cristobal after hearing about it from one of Smith’s graduate students, Marusia Pola, who grew up in the town.

After hearing about San Cristobal, Smith, Wesley and Pola traveled to the town last summer and were completely mesmerized by the atmosphere to which they were being exposed.

“Marusia was able to translate for us, but even more she knew just who the people we needed to talk to,” Smith said. “We met the jazz musicians, and we met the dancers, and we met the musicologist and the chefs, and it was like discovering a whole arts community in another place that you’ve never been to.”

The trip will allow students from Texas Tech and Texas State to interact with each other and students from Tecnologico de Monterrey, a college campus located in Chiapas.

Students will be able to take courses such as critical issues in the arts and culture and a course on Spanish culture in the new world taught

by Tec de Monterrey for a total of six credit hours.

In addition to earning course credit, the students will be collaborating to make and perform an extended piece composition of music and dance in a two-week period.

The courses fulfill both the multicultural and fine arts and humanities requirements for people who need a core course.

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One of the historic sites of San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, is the Museum Church and Convent of Santo Domingo. Christopher Smith, professor of musicology and director of the Vernacular Music Center at Texas Tech, and Nicole Wesley, an assistant professor at Texas State University, will be leading a study abroad trip to San Cristobal in the summer where students will have the opportunity to earn course credits.

The day-to-day activities for the course will consist of four hours a day in the rehearsal room and three hours a day in the classroom for an intensive two-week period.

Although the students will be working hard in the classroom, they will spend time being immersed in the culture of San Cristobal as well.

“Tec de Monterrey has put together a whole package of stuff for us, which includes accommodations in meals, and the second course will feature trips to Mayan presidents and exotic nature walks and stuff like that,” Smith said.

The whole goal of the trip is to encourage students to learn how music can connect them with all kinds of people, Wesley said.

“It’s about exposing our students to artistic processes to make them better artists,” she said. “A lot of times when you’re going through college, your teachers don’t always

include you in their artistic processes and so Chris and I are big believers in the kind of scholarship that includes our students, so they, too, learn to work in many different medias and many different collaborative environments.”

Smith also said the whole point of the trip is to help these students learn about the people more so than the Mexican culture.

“Rather than having it necessarily reflect the culture, I think it will be a reflection of the people involved and because well over one-third of the people involved are going to be Tec de Monterrey students and they’re going to have perspectives on what we do and they’re going to bring what they bring,” he said. “It won’t necessarily be a piece about Chiapas, it’s going to be a piece about these people and what they discover that they agree they want to express through this multimedia creation.”

The two agree that although the students will be introduced to an entirely new part of the word, there will not be sound barriers between the two groups of students. They both said students will be able to relate to each other through music and dance.

“When you get out of your comfort zone and go somewhere where you’re not familiar, you are so much more in tune and attentive and open and respected and vulnerable to experiences and also it’s not just about the individual, but it’s about bringing communities together to explore understanding and talk to one another,” Wesley said. “I think that music and dance are universal. I think that they are culturally different, but we speak the same language. They are part of the fabric of our culture and so to be able to communicate in that kind of language there is not going to be any barriers.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Winehouse’s dad says Oscar-winning doc is misleading LONDON (AP) — A documentary about singer Amy Winehouse has won an Academy Award, but her father isn’t celebrating.

Mitch Winehouse said Tuesday that it’s “fantastic” that people still love his daughter, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011

at age 27.

But he says Asif Kapadia’s film “Amy,” which won the best-documentary Oscar on Sunday, “has no bearing

on her life, apart from the fact she was born and unfortunately she passed away — everything in between is basically fabricated.”

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Tech cannot cut into Oklahoma lead

By BRANDON SOLIZ SportS editor

Tuesday evening, the Texas Tech Lady Raider basketball team took the court in the United Supermarkets Arena for the final time of the 2015-2016 season.

The Lady Raiders hosted the No. 24 Oklahoma Sooners, who previously upended Tech by a score of 92-53 on Jan. 20.

The Sooners came in to Lubbock with an overall record of 19-9 and a Big 12 Conference record of 10-7.

For the Lady Raiders, their season has seen improvement from last year, as they post an overall record of 12-16 and 3-14 in Big 12 play.

Tech won the opening tipoff, but Oklahoma was able to strike first inside the paint.

Oklahoma started the game off hot from beyond the arc, nailing four 3-pointers to

grab an early 15-6 lead over the Lady Raiders halfway into the first quarter.

Oklahoma junior guard Maddie Manning broke the doubledigit mark with two minutes remaining in the first quarter.

Oklahoma began the second quarter with the ball up 23-15, and drove into the paint to go back up by 10 points.

Tech was able to cut the lead down to five points with less than three minutes remaining in the first half, but multiple fouls on the Lady Raiders saw the Sooners’ lead jump back up to nine.

At the half, junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor led Tech with eight points, followed by senior guard Ryann Bowser with five.

Tech coach Candi Whitaker said she could see that Bowser was playing with a sense of urgency because it was her final home game of her career at Tech.

“Ryann is someone who

always gives her all,” Whitaker said. “She is shooting the ball with confidence and she’s stepping up and knocking them down and I love how she’s playing.”

Tech outshot Oklahoma at the half with a higher shooting percentage, but the Sooners connected on four of their 11 attempted shots from beyond the arc.

Tech began the second half with a 3-pointer from Bowser and then a layup by freshman guard Japreece Dean to cut the Oklahoma lead to two points.

With less than a minute remaining in the third quarter, the Lady Raiders brought the Oklahoma lead to within three, but the Sooners quickly responded with yet another bucket from beyond the arc.

At the end of the quarter, Tech was down by six

points, 39-45.

During the fourth quarter, the Sooners were able to maintain control of the game, increasing their lead back up to 10 points.

With two minutes left to play, Oklahoma converted on a 3-pointer from guard Peyton Little, but Bowser responded with a three of her own at the other end.

With a minute remaining, Tech was unable to contain the Sooners inside the paint, and the Sooners sealed the deal with a layup.

After playing the foul game for the remainder of regulation, Tech lost its final regular season game by a final score of 70-60.

Tech shot 40 percent from the field, compared to Oklahoma’s 45.3 percent.

Sanders led the team in rebounds with nine, and CookTaylor led in the points

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The Lady Raiders tip off the final game of the 2015-2016 season against the Oklahoma Sooners. Oklahoma captured the win, 70-60. category with 18.

Bowser and Dean both finished in double digits as well, Bowser with 14 and Dean with 13.

Next up for the Lady Raiders is a trip to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to play in the Big 12 Tournament.

Whitaker said that the outcome of the tournament will

fall on how the team is able to do and not all on the opponent.

“You can’t have errors and for us its about cutting down on the amount of errors that we have throughout a game that costs us,” Whitaker said.

“You got to help yourself win, and not be a part of why you are losing.” @BSoliz_DT

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Tech plays rematch against West Virginia

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The end of the season draws near for the 18-10 Texas Tech men’s basketball team.

For their final true road game, the Red Raiders can avenge an early home loss against the No. 10 West Virginia Mountaineers. Tech tips off against its Big 12 rival at 6 p.m. today in the WVU Coliseum.

Last time the teams met, a then-No. 6 West Virginia narrowly dodged a Red Raider upset bid by ending the game with eight straight points to erase a four-point deficit in a 80-76 win.

Losing to West Virginia added to a string of near wins for the Red Raiders as they had previously lost three of their last four games by a margin of no more than 10 points.

No team in the Big 12 runs full court press like the Mountaineers, but since being defeated at home, Tech gained traction and overcame its late game struggles.

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Texas Tech forward Zach Smith prepares to shoot a free-throw during the second half of the game against TCU on Feb. 23 in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Smith said Tech owes the Mountaineers a game after dropping a four-point lead.

“I think that was a turning point when we learned

the importance of finishing games,” Smith said. “I think it’s good to go out there and play them again.”

Much of West Virginia’s

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success on the defensive end traces back to the team’s use of full court pressure from the onset of a game. In its game against Tech, the Mountain-

eers put Tech’s ball movement into a tailspin as they forced 10 turnovers in the first half.

The Red Raiders did not allow their turnover tally to reach double digits in the second half, but West Virginia forced Tech to commit a season-high 17 turnovers overall, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Sophomore guard Keenan Evans said the team tries to run a defense similar to West Virginia, but limiting turnovers comes down to controlling the team’s ball movement.

“We just got to stay patient, catch the ball and square out, do the fundamentals that coach tells us to do and make crisp passes,” Evans said.

In addition to finding success against the Red Raiders, West Virginia’s 11-5 Big 12 record continues to enforce the impact of its defensive scheme. Among the other nine teams in the conference, the Mountaineers defense allows the least amount of points with an opponent average of 66.4 and a positive turnover margin of 4.28.

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Te c h t r a v e l s t o t h e Mountaineers’ home court in Morgantown after a No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks squad snapped the Red Raiders’ five-game winning streak.

Only the top two teams in the Big 12 recorded a win over a hosting West Virginia — the Oklahoma Sooners and the Jayhawks.

Tech coach Tubby Smith said in Tech’s loss to the Jayhawks, the team suffered with a lack of production from the bench.

“We really need that desperately in the West Virginia game,” Tubby Smith said. “That type of production, a lot of pressure from our starters so they can get some rest and attack and we stay fresh. We need the bench to perform well.” @DGaytanDT

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Morgan earns highest Big 12 Men’s team nationally ranked academic achievement honor No. 11, prepares for contest

Junior Andi Morgan has been awarded the 2016 Dr. Gerald Lange Academic Achievement Award.

This award is the highest academic honor for the Big 12 Conference, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Morgan is the 26th person from Tech to receive this award, according to the release.

Last weekend, according

to the news release, Morgan, who competes in combined events, got a personal record on each event of the women’s pentathlon. Her total of 3,541 points beat her personal best by nearly 100 points and got her a ninth place finish.

To be eligible for the award, Morgan had to letter at least once in her career and maintain residence at

an academic institution for at least a year, according to the news release.

A person can only get the award once and has to have at least 100 hours of course credit at the academic institution, according to the release.

The person also has to have a combined grade point average of 3.80 or better. @DavidGayDT

The Texas Tech men’s track and field team is now ranked 11th in the latest U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Association’s computer rankings, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Last weekend at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, Tech received three individual titles, accord-

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Senior Chris Caldwell took one home in the 60-meter hurdles with a final time of 7.74 seconds.

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SPORTS

MARCH 2, 2016

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BASEBALL

Tech loses game one against New Mexico State

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

In the first midweek home game of the season, the Texas Tech baseball team was defeated 7-6 in the first of two games against New Mexico State.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said the team was outplayed by the bullpen of New Mexico State.

“They just outplayed us. Tip your hat to them,” he said. “They got a new team and pitched good out of the bullpen.”

The Red Raiders immediately had to attempt a comeback after the Aggies scored three runs in the first inning.

In his second collegiate start, freshman left-handed pitcher Erikson Lanning settled down after allowing the three runs and retired the next 10 batters.

“I thought (Erikson) was better than the (statistics) looked like on paper. I thought he located really well at first,” Tad-

lock said, “and then they got guys on and he wasn’t as good after that.”

In the third inning, Tech got on the scoreboard with back-to-back RBI bunts by senior outfielder Zach Davis and junior outfielder Stephen Smith. Smith then narrowly beat a throw to home plate on a two RBI single by senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez.

Sophomore shortstop Orlando Garcia knocked a sacrifice fly to cap off the five-run inning that gave the Red Raiders a 5-3 advantage over the Aggies.

It didn’t roll our way this time but tomorrow I’m pretty sure it’s going to go our way.

ERIC GUTIERREZ SENIOR FIRST BASEMAN Lanning was pulled from the game after allowing one

run in the fifth. The Aggies scored two more runs in the inning that Lanning was responsible for while he was off the mound.

New Mexico State pushed its lead to 7-5 after scoring one more run in the top of the seventh inning.

Gutierrez cut the lead back down to one run with a RBI fielder’s choice in the bottom of the seventh.

Gutierrez finished the game with two hits and three RBIs. He is hitting .353 through nine games this season.

“Just got to keep playing,” Gutierrez said. “It didn’t roll our way this time but tomorrow I’m pretty sure it’s going to go our way.”

Sophomore left-handed pitcher Parker Mushinski pitched one and two-thirds innings in relief for the Red Raiders and kept the Aggie bats quiet with no hits and four strikeouts.

Te c h ’s p i t c h e r s c o m bined to tie a season high with 11 strikeouts.

MAKENZIE HARRISON/The Daily Toreador

Freshman pitcher Erikson Lanning pitches during Tech’s 7-6 loss against New Mexico State Tuesday evening at Rip Griffin Park.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, the Red Raiders were still trailing by one.

Davis drew his second walk of the game with one out. A throwing error moved Davis from first base to third base.

Smith hit a ball to shortstop and David attempted to tie the game on the play

but was gunned down at the plate, causing the comeback bid to fall short.

Senior infielder Cory Raley said the team needs to forget about the loss and play harder today to get a series split.

“Just need to stay on them. Just keep swinging

the bat,” he said. “Stay confident out there, that’s the biggest thing.”

The second game of the two-game series between the Red Raiders and the New Mexico State Aggies will take place at 2 p.m. today at Rip Griffin Park. @JeremyK_DT

VOLLEYBALL

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Graystone announces coaching staff

No. 6 Oklahoma defeats No. 19 Baylor

Tuesday afternoon, recently hired head volleyball coach Tony Graystone announced the completion of his staff for the upcoming 2016-2017 season, according to a Texas Tech Athletics news release.

Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt hired Graystone at the beginning of the spring semester on Jan. 21.

Graystone is bringing in Morgan Thomas, Brandy Huskey and Alyce Peters to his staff, according to the release.

Thomas was on Graystone’s staff when the two both served at the same position at Texas A&M

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Baylor nearly pulled off one of the great comebacks of the college basketball season.

The 19th-ranked Bears trailed by 26 points in the first half, rallied to take the lead late in the second half, then lost a 73-71 heartbreaker to No. 6 Oklahoma on Tuesday night.

“I was proud of our comeback,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “A lot of teams would have given up or not come back, divided. Credit our leadership, players for keeping everybody focused and keep ‘em confident. I thought it was a great team effort to come back.”

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Corpus-Christi.

Thomas will also be serving as Tech’s recruiting coordinator.

While in their final season at Texas A&M CorpusChristi, Graystone and Thomas recorded a program best 31-5 record and an undefeated record in conference play, according to the release.

The Islanders also clinched their first NCAA Tournament bid in school history.

Huskey will join the Red Raider coaching staff, after serving as an assistant coach at Houston Baptist University. She will take the same position at Tech, according to the release.

Peters was formally a volunteer assistant coach at Tech in 2015 and has now been promoted to the director of operations position.

“I’m happy to announce the completion of the volleyball staff and to have Morgan, Brandy and Alyce on board with Red Raider volleyball,” Graystone said in the release. “Each of them are very good at what they do and I’m looking forward to working with them and seeing the impact they have on the program.”

Tech volleyball begins its season during the fall semester of 2016 on Sept. 21 against TCU in Fort Worth. @BSoliz_DT

points, Ryan Spangler had 15 points and 13 rebounds, and Isaiah Cousins scored 10 points for Oklahoma (23-6, 11-6 Big 12), which broke a tie with the Bears for third place in the conference and swept the regularseason series.

Taurean Prince and King McClure scored 17 points each for Baylor (21-9, 10-7), which outscored the Sooners 46-27 in the second half. The Bears shot 67 percent in the second half and made 6 of 10 3-point attempts.

“What had gotten us the lead was transition, and we stopped pushing when we got the lead,” Drew said.

Oklahoma went on an

early 18-0 run and roared to a 26-3 lead on 9-for-13 shooting. Baylor didn’t make its second field goal until more than 9 minutes had passed in the first half.

Baylor rallied to cut Oklahoma’s lead to 32-17, but the Sooners responded with an 8-0 run to regain momentum. The Sooners led 46-25 at halftime after shooting 50 percent overall and from 3-point range. Oklahoma scored 16 points off turnovers before the break.

The Sooners began turning the ball over in the second half and allowed the Bears back into the game.

Baylor took a 68-67 lead on a layup by Al Freeman.