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Student finds calling in singing, songwriting

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

Growing up, Lea Fulton, a junior electronic media and communications major, lived an eventful life. With an English mother and a Texan father involved in the oil business, he never lived anywhere for more than four years.

Born in Abu Dhabi, then moving to Saudi Arabia, Louisiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Bogota, Qatar, Ho Chi Minh City and finally Lubbock, Fulton embodies the idea of a ‘Third Culture Kid.’ About a year after he and his family were evacuated to Houston from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, Fulton found his passion in the form of his first written song.

“I believe I was meant to make music and perform for people and I’ve found my creative process, which is making sure everything else in my life is completely resolved, and once I feel resolved music and lyrics just come to me and I write it down immediately,” Fulton said. “I’ll be in the shower a lot — that’s when my mind’s not busy and I’m not thinking about anything else, I’m just thinking about music.”

He said his father was an inspiration to him in a couple of ways, the first being his learning to play the guitar.

In the sixth grade, Fulton developed a talent for the acoustic guitar.

“I’m not really a lead guitarist,” Fulton said. “I kind of use the guitar to accompany

my voice, but I definitely plan on improving at guitar and I want to be able to play electric as well.”

Secondly, Fulton said he favors classic rock, and though he goes through phases of studying different artists of varying styles, his favor always returns to the musical styling of The Beatles.

Fulton’s talents and style have not been withheld. John Starrett, a junior kinesiology major and one of Fulton’s friends from the American school in Qatar, said Fulton is responsible for him learning guitar in the eighth grade, where they then joined a band together playing covers of numerous classic rock songs.

Since his junior high years, Fulton’s love of music continues to grow as he finds inspiration in professional musicians, people who are sure of themselves and of their beliefs, Fulton said, as well as himself.

“As an individual (music) is everything,” Fulton said.

“I’m completely one with myself now that I realized that I am meant to play music and share music with people, and help them find the peace that I have found.”

As a student, Fulton uses music as a way to connect with his fellow students, he said. A bond over music has the ability to lead to shared notes, study groups and other benefits in the classroom.

“Electronic media and communications is about exploring mediums and creating and storytelling,” he said, “and I feel that I’m a storyteller and

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Lea Fulton, a junior electronic media and communications major, began writing songs about a year after being evacuated from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. He hopes to one day earn a record deal and broadcast his music to a wider audience. it’ll help me in that aspect.”

Outside of the classroom, Fulton is also looking to embrace other opportunities that Texas Tech has to offer a blossoming singer/ songwriter. Fulton said he will be auditioning in the Tech Activity Board singer/ songwriter competition and will later apply to perform in the Red Raider Showcase.

“Freshman and sophomore year, music wasn’t priority number one for me

when it should have been,” Fulton said, “so I’ve had one performance for 30 or 40 minutes of a bunch of random covers, but I haven’t performed much recently, but that’s changing now.”

In order to continue his growth, Fulton is looking to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin so that he may change his major to radio, television and film with a focus in radio, he said. This move may introduce him to

new networking opportunities and individuals with whom he can collaborate musically.

“With him,” Starrett said, “I’m pretty sure music is the most important thing to him.

He wants to make a career out of it and he is very talented, so it’ll just be a matter of networking with him.”

In order to broadcast his music to a wider audience, Fulton said he hopes to one day get a record deal or something of equivalence.

“I feel like it’s very important to never stop trying to find your purpose in life,” Fulton said. “I feel that everyone is born with a path that they’re meant to follow and everyone has a gift, and once you find that gift and you realize that that’s what you’re meant to do, don’t doubt yourself and just follow your dreams, because that is when you will be at peace with yourself and the world around you.” @DTalexarosas

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Student Media Committee selects 2016-2017 editors

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Student Media Committee met at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Building Traditions Room to interview and determine who would be the editors-in-chief for both The Daily Toreador and La Ventana yearbook for the 20162017 academic year.

Four students joined the committee in the Traditions Room where they were served dinner and then interviewed individually.

Two students interviewed for The DT’s EIC position for the 2016-2017 academic year, one for The DT’s 2016 summer EIC position, and one for the La Ventana EIC position.

After the interviews and a deliberation by the committee, Amy Cunningham, a junior public relations major from Houston, was named The DT’s EIC for fall and spring, McKenzi Morris, a sophomore public relations major from Allen, was named The DT’s summer EIC, and Davian Hopkins, a junior electronic media and communications major from Lancaster, was named EIC for La Ventana for the 2016 academic year.

“A lot of our questions are focused around, ‘OK how are you going to bring the newspaper or the yearbook into this more digital era?’ Is that something that is a concern to them?” Rebecca Ortiz, an associate professor in the department of advertising and the chair of the Student Media Committee, said. “We had great candidates. Everybody was very well qualified.”

Cunningham has been working for The DT since she was a freshman, and she said getting to be EIC for The DT has been a goal of hers since she started working on staff.

“I am a very goal-oriented person and so I am hoping that The DT as a whole can get behind those goals and we can really try to make some great changes and really improve The DT and how we serve the readers,” she said. “I want to

implement a few changes to just how the production schedule of The DT works and operates CUNNINGHAM so I am very excited to see if we can make those ideas a reality.”

Morris has also worked with The DT since she was a freshman. However, during her sophomore year she switched over to the yearbook side of Student Media and joined the La Ventana staff.

“I know that a lot of students won’t be here over the s u m m e r, s o I want them to know that they can come to The Daily Toreador for any and all campus news, MORRIS information and happenings in Lubbock,” she said. “I think we will really be able to grow our staff this summer and help everyone see that if you venture out and try a little bit of everything in the newsroom, you can’t fail, and I think that people can really experience that over the summer and bring that into the fall semester.”

Hopkins is the current L a Ve n t a n a EIC and said he is glad to have been selected to conHOPKINS tinue as the EIC for the upcoming fall and spring semesters.

“I am excited to know that I’ll be able to do what I love for another year, and this year was challenging yet rewarding,” he said. “I believe I was able to grow as a person and collaborate with others on a different level compared to when I was a regular staff member and so I am hoping that having a second year under my belt will allow me to interact with others more and just produce a better yearbook.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Student interns for record label

By MICHAELA BAYSINGER Staff Writer

Lauren Purser, a sophomore public relations and electronic media and communications dual major from Garland, is juggling interning at Fearless Record Company, work and school.

Purser is in Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Phi Omega and works for Human Resources’ IT department at Texas Tech while she is interning for Fearless Records, she said.

“Lauren is in my Mass Comm 1100 class, which is success in media and communication,” Todd Chambers, associate dean for Undergraduate Affairs in Journalism and Electronic Media, said. “When I first met Lauren she told me that she was interning with a record label and I love music and that is where my passion is.”

She is a go-getter type

of student, Chambers said.

There is no doubt she is going to have a music career.

Each week he tries to check in with her and see where she is at.

She is indicative of a type of student at Tech, Chambers said. She is a hidden gem of talent here in the Tech campus and community.

“I am on (Fearless Record’s) street team so I help advertise for them. I put work out for them,” Purser said. “I help them out on letting people know when there are concerts in this area or when bands drop CDs.” Members of the street team get points built up over time with the things they do for Fearless Records, she said. These points help show the company who is active and who is not. The more active a member of the street team is, the more likely they will get to do bigger gigs.

It is easy to do the work because they are constantly sending out little missions for members of the street teams to do, Purser said.

They tell her to tweet different things that are going on, or to share those things on Facebook and Instagram, or comment on a picture or video or post a video. She then takes screenshots of her progress and sends it to the street team leader who keeps track of her progress for Fearless Records.

“I was advertising a lot and was one of their more active members, so I was approached about working Warped Tour this summer.

They gave me a free ticket and it was just so amazing,” Purser said. “I worked the one in Dallas since that is where I live and I worked the tent, posted signs everywhere, checked people in. It was hot and sweaty and it was so worth it.”

Getting to work Warped Tour was pure luck, Purser said. She had only been working for Fearless for a few months, and usually only members who have been working there for at least a year are chosen for these events.

“Getting to work with Fearless at Warped Tour helped them see who I was and made it easier for me to get my foot in the door.

I want to work for this company eventually,” she said. “I want to be able to take photos up close from the other side of the gates they put up, or representing these artists or even working for the magazine Alternative Press. Working in the music industry has always been my passion.”

Members of the street team are technically unpaid interns, Purser said. They usually get paid in merchandise of the band that they are advertising for or

merchandise from the events they work.

“I usually do most of my interning for Fearless Records in the summer, since a lot of the events take place in Dallas and around that time of the year,” she said. “This summer, however, I sadly won’t be able to since I will be studying abroad all summer.”

The internship works pretty well while being a student, Purser said. They need people right now outside of California. They also need some specifically in this area, since Lubbock is mostly country music and not the alternative rock genre Fearless Records is associated with.

They are trying to spread their sound out more into these areas, she said, especially since these bands are starting to drop more albums the closer it gets to the summer.

“My main thing is to try and spread the word about

that genre in this area,” she said. “They have a lot of different people in different states and they try and have one or two people in each big city, and I still reside in Dallas half time so they still use me for advertising and concerts, especially concerts because there are a lot of concerts that go through Dallas.”

When they send people to these concerts, they require a pre-show report and a postshow report from the people who go to them, she said.

“I found out about the street team with Fearless Records after I did a lot of research about different internships,” Purser said. “I saw that they had a street team, I knew that most bands had a street team but I didn’t know that a record label as a whole would have one as well. I signed up for it and they took me in.” @MbaysingerDT

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Hunter Hutchinson balances music, school

By EASTON WOLLNEY Staff Writer

Students who are pursuing both a musical career and an undergraduate degree can face many challenges throughout college.

Hunter Hutchinson, a senior agriculture business major from Abilene, said he has had to cancel big shows in the past because of school work.

When he graduates in December, Hutchinson said

he hopes to pursue both agricultural business and music.

“I’m going to try to do both, which is really hard,” he said, “but it’s really hard coming out of college and making a living doing music.”

His dad, who died of cancer in 2008, played the guitar and was a big influence on him, Hutchinson said, so he taught himself how to play the guitar from YouTube videos.

“My mom liked it of course, so I kept singing and writing

songs,” Hutchinson said.

He and his band’s first major show was about two years ago, Hutchinson said, and they have played at events like JAB Fest and Spring Fest in Lubbock and Tubapalooza in San Marcos.

All five band members currently live in Lubbock and go to school, he said, so it can make touring together a little easier.

“I didn’t even want to do music when I came here,”

Hutchinson said, “and The Blue Light in the Depot District kind of gave me my start and that was a huge deal for me.”

Hutchinson plans to record his second album this summer, he said, and is currently working on getting his real estate license online.

“Lubbock is just a great place to start as a musician,” Hutchinson said.

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drummer in the band, said he has known Hutchinson since he was about five years old.

It can sometimes be hard for all the band members to get together because of differing class schedules, Davis said, and he had to drop a course last semester because he did not have enough time to study while traveling.

“The toughest thing is for sure time allocation,” he said, “because, you know, when we travel on the weekends and I

have a test Monday, it’s hard to get enough time to study.”

The band has recently been picking up more shows, Davis said, and plays at a show almost every weekend.

“I think we’re pretty close and I think that helps,” Davis said about the band members. “If we are better friends, the energy on stage is better and if the energy on stage is better, the energy in the crowd is better.” @EastonWollneyDT

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US airlines vie for Cuba flights Guilty plea ends NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. airlines are looking to serve Cuba primarily from their large hub cities, with Havana being the most popular destination.

At least eight carriers submitted applications to the U.S. Department of Transportation Wednesday outlining what routes they would like to fly.

The government will spend the next few months reviewing the requests and is expected to award the contested Havana routes this summer.

Flights to smaller cities — if uncontested and lacking any contentious issues — could be approved much sooner.

Once routes are awarded, airlines will still need time to

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Texas Trooper indicted over Bland stop fired AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas trooper indicted over his arrest of a black woman who was later found dead in jail has been formally fired, three months after his bosses first announced they would do so, state officials said Wednesday.

Former Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia can still appeal the decision to fire him, which came after a grand jury indicted him on a perjury charge in December. He is accused of lying about his July 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland and their confrontational traffic stop that was caught on dashcam video.

Encinia met last month with Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw, but their conversation gave the agency leader no reason “to alter my preliminary decision,” according to a termination letter signed by Encinia on Wednesday.

Encinia’s attorney, Larkin Eakin, did not immediately return a phone message. He has previously called the indictment unjustified and said Encinia was looking out for his own safety.

develop schedules and actually sell seats on the flights.

And while the U.S. government will set the routes, airlines will also need to apply to Cuba’s civil aviation authority for a permit to operate in the country.

All flights operating between the two countries today are charters, but an agreement signed between the two nations last month allows for up to 110 additional flights — more than five times the current charter operations.

Only 20 of those flights can go to Havana, in addition to the current 10 to 15 charter flights a day. The rest would fly to other Cuban cities.

U.S. tourists still won’t le-

gally be allowed to visit Cuba but the start of commercial flights will make it much easier for those who fall into one of the authorized travel categories. Charter flights are expensive, frequently chaotic and lack many of the traditional supports of commercial aviation such as online booking and 24-hour customer service.

Most of the planes proposed by U.S. airlines would carry about 160 passengers.

Nearly 160,000 U.S. leisure travelers flew to Cuba last year, along with hundreds of thousands of CubanAmericans visiting family.

Tourism is still barred, but the number of legal reasons

to go to Cuba — from organizing professional meetings to distributing information to Cubans — has grown so large and is so loosely enforced that the distinction from tourism has blurred significantly.

American Airlines was the most-aggressive carrier in its approach, requesting more than half the possible slots to Havana plus service to five other, smaller Cuban cities.

The airline has a large hub in Miami, home to the largest Cuban-American population.

In American’s filing with the DOT, CEO Doug Parker wrote that his airline has been “the undisputed leader” in charter service, having done so since 1991.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A hospital orderly pleaded guilty Wednesday to abducting and killing two Virginia college students, wrapping up a mystery that began in 2009 when one of the women disappeared from a Metallica concert. The other young woman, 18-year-old Hannah Graham, vanished five years later under similar circumstances, after a night of partying with friends.

Along the way, investigators solved a 2005 rape case and used DNA evidence to tie all three cases to Jesse LeRoy Matthew Jr. In a plea deal, prosecutors dropped a capital murder charge that could have resulted in the death penalty and Matthew agreed to a sentence of four consecutive life terms. Those are in addition to the three life terms he was already serving for the rape.

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f all the things to talk about after Super Tuesday, and of all the things we can take away from it, my biggest takeaway is this: Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the

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She has the democratic nomination all but wrapped up after winning Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas and Arkansas, while rival Bernie Sanders won Vermont, Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota. There simply aren’t enough delegates within Sanders’ reach for him to catch up.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump appears unstoppable on his way to the Republican nomination. It is nice that Ted Cruz managed to win a few states, including Texas (at least we can say we didn’t go

for Trump), but it is not going to be enough.

The only way to stop Trump from getting the nomination at this point is through a brokered convention, but I don’t think the GOP leadership has the stones to go through with it. Unless I’m wrong about that, it will be Trump vs. Clinton.

If that is the case, there is simply no way Trump can defeat Clinton in the general election. His base may be strong enough to get him through the primary, but it won’t carry him to the White House.

Once the primary season is over, Clinton will start moving toward the center with Sanders no longer forcing her to shift farther left. All she has to do is play the gender card — she’s trying to be the first female president while Trump is a philandering misogynist

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Michael Cantu is a sophomore electronic media and communications major from New Deal.

ing in. Clinton’s southern victory has shown this past week that what she has been focusing on has paid off, but it seems she’s only focused on them and not the future.

It’s also a different type of election that everyone is playing in at the moment.

As an article from The Atlantic has explained, Sanders has pioneered a fundraising campaign that has not been seen before. He is mainly funded through small online contribution and constantly boasts about not having a super PAC. As he gains more traction, he can continue to grab those votes and the money from people who are hearing his message of income equality and social justice.

Whatever the case may be, whether Sanders swings in and steals the nomination or Clinton clings even tighter to her nomination victory, both candidates have a comfortable lead in national polls over Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

With a fractured Republican party trying to t a k e d o w n t h e Tr u m p campaign, there is always a possibility that the lead can grow larger.

The time for Sanders to bring out the big guns and overtake Clinton’s campaign is now. It is evident that as long as he has funding, he plans to stick it out until the democratic convention this summer.

At the rate he is going, his arsenal of monetary security can lift him up into the position he wants to be in.

The message is becoming clearer, though: With the current state of the Republican Party, anybody would be willing to get behind a Democrat as president. @MichaelCantuDT

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Lubbock needs more places like West End Shopping Center

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t is easy to see why nicer retailers are flocking to Lubbock’s West End Shopping Center. Take a tour on a warm day and you will see countless shoppers outside enjoying the shopping and the weather. Unlike most other shopping centers in town, there is ample space to sit and enjoy the weather, people watch and grab some food.

As many Texas Tech students will graduate and start their own businesses in Lubbock, it is important Lubbock businessmen and shoppers alike take inspiration from the new shopping center. The design of the shopping center successfully brings together the Lubbock community and serves as a shining example of how businesses can help make Lubbock a fun city to live in.

It is not clear what led to the decline of downtown Lubbock, but since its downfall, it has left a void in Lubbock’s community that has not been filled.

The downtown community used to be booming:

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a picture can be seen of Lubbock’s downtown area in the 1940s in Lawrence Graves’ 1986 book ‘Lubbock: From Town to City,’ and it looked beautiful.

The streets looked full with pedestrians, cars and buses, while families walked on streets and youth gathered outside the theaters.

While the South Plains Mall may now become the c i t y ’s p r o m i n e n t s h o p ping center, it has failed to provide a satisfying community center. The food court is depressing, everything is closed by 9 p.m., its parking services is a nightmare and, most important of all, it will never be able to mimic the open air that West Texans feel the rest of the city has.

Having an enjoyable shopping district may not

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— and she will win the independent voters who will shy away from Trump’s brashness.

It will be an incredibly ugly campaign, but Clinton will win it.

My other takeaway from Super Tuesday is that the Republican Party is now on life support. Its voter base has been decimated by Trump and it has no clear direction. Not even the party leaders know where the party will go from here.

As a registered Republican, I’ll simply offer this: I would rather vote for a pile of dog crap than vote for Donald Trump. I would even prefer to see Clinton in the White House rather than Trump, though that doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for her.

Thankfully, sane Republicans have another option: Gary Johnson 2016!

t was a tough night for Sanders on ‘Super Tuesday,’ but despite the results, the senator still has a glimmer of hope for the future.

As the month of February wrapped up, the Vermont senator racked up a monumental $42 million, according to a recent article from The New York Times. Within the last day alone, Sanders received $6 million from small donors.

Sanders’ fundraising has seen a positive rise since the beginning of his campaign, and the campaign has not held back in asking for donors to continue to contribute. His knack for gaining attention as his campaign has continued has rewarded him generously.

Wednesday, in a Huffington Post blog by Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Uygur explains Hillary Clinton has the potential to lose her current fame. He argues many people know who she is, therefore there is the potential for people to think negatively of her as the campaign season continues. This also has much to do with the mudslinging campaign tactics of the Republican Party.

The argument can be easily made that people will succumb to the smear tactics and see former Secretary of State Clinton as something negative¬ — even though there is no actual reasoning for a bad image on her side.

Clinton has now focused her attention toward the right, Uygur said. With her sights off of Sanders, there would be a small amount of bad mouthing the senator.

This can easily up an almost holy image for him and increase his significance in the race.

Sanders also had a substantial margin in both Colorado and Minnesota, which means there is a potential for his message to spread to the states bordering those two.

Sanders is at a tipping point, and it can go both ways for him. He has $40 million to play with and possibly even more if the contributions keep dump-

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be essential in a city, but it certainly can provide an economic boost by making the city more attractive and enjoyable. Students don’t just choose Tech just because of its great professors, but also because it has an active campus life, which makes the Tech campus a fun place to be.

Unfortunately, whereas Tech strives to promote pedestrian life, Lubbock’s structure and businesses make it difficult to have such thriving civilian life.

I once visited a friend in Austin in July, and when we were discussing where to eat he said, “Let’s find a place where we can sit outside. Any restaurant in Austin worth its salt has outdoor seating.” Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Lubbock.

There are only a handful of restaurants that have outdoor seating, and even if there were more, they hardly have a desirable view — just ugly parking lots, roads and no pedestrians. Streets like 34th Street may have countless great restau-

rants and stores, but Lubbock’s design and poor transportation severely hurts pedestrian life, which is why it is rare to see shoppers walking down the street.

The West End Shopping Center, on the contrary, shows how intelligent design can create an enjoyable, busy shopping area.

The center has narrow streets, which limits traffic and encourages pedestrian life. The center has a seating area and a fountain, which serves like a town square where people can gather.

As a result, the center is bustling and more business is booming. The center already has a Nike Factory, Banana Republic Factory and more, with more business expecting to arrive. Business continues to expand throughout Lubbock, such as the fast growth around 82nd and Milwaukee Avenue, but these businesses commit the same sins as before by spreading too far out and placing grand parking lots in between each other.

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It may seem trivial to be focusing on a single shopping center, but it is obvious people will not want to live in Lubbock if they do not find satisfaction in Lubbock’s city life.

Therefore, businessmen and shoppers alike should support the businesses that make living in this city enjoyable, whether it is a coffee shop that goes out of its way to provide shoppers with a nice view or a shopping center that creates an enjoyable outdoor atmosphere.

In ‘Lubbock: From Town to City,’ Graves writes, “’Cities don’t just happen; people build them.’

Nowhere is this old saying better illustrated than in the cultural life of Lubbock as its people shaped and matured it in the decades after World War II.” While Graves wrote this passage decades ago, his truth remains the same. Lubbock will only be what its residents make it to be, so we must work to make it a town we can enjoy. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Professor evolves music career over time

By HALEY DAVIS Staff Writer

From right here on U.S. soil all the way to Ireland, Roger Landes, professor of practice at the School of Music, has had a journey following his passion for music.

Professor Landes completed his master’s degree in musicology at Texas Tech and has been teaching the History of Rock ‘n’ Roll for the past seven years, he said.

Steven Stallings, a musicology graduate student from Lubbock and one of Landes’ teaching assistants, said he took Landes’ class as an undergraduate and has been his teaching assistant for four semesters.

“To me, it’s not simply the history of rock ‘n’ roll as a music form,” he said, “but a history of the things that made it possible for rock ‘n’ roll to become the phenomenon that it did.”

Originally from a rural hometown in Independence, Missouri, Landes picked up his first instrument at the age of 12.

“I started playing the guitar and became very interested in rock ‘n’ roll culture through the progressive rock bands I lis-

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Roger Landes, professor of practice for the Texas Tech School of Music, plays his English Border Bagpipes inside of the Student Union Building.

Landes has been teaching at Tech since the Fall of 2009 and has toured as a musician prior to teaching.

tened to,” Landes said. “I started playing in a garage band at a young age.”

Landes attended the University of MissouriKansas City as an English major, he said, but in the summer of 1979 he started taking classical guitar lessons and was introduced to a whole new world of music culture.

“My third year of col-

lege I was exposed to the Irish revival music in Kansas City and I loved how it sounded so ancient but also so up to date at the same time,” Landes said.

“I liked how the music was all memorized and more of an oral culture, or as we refer to today as vernacular culture.”

He walked away from college eight credit hours

away from his undergraduate degree, he said, and decided to pursue his dream as a traveling musician.

Landes then began his 30-year career as a touring performer, recording artist, bandleader and producer in the field of Irish traditional music, according to the School of Music website, and he cofounded the critically acclaimed American Celtic band “Scartaglen” in 1982, which toured throughout the U.S. and Europe for more than 10 years.

“In 1997 I recorded my first solo album called ‘Dragon Reels’ in Nashville, Tennessee,” Landes said.

“The main instrument I played on the album was the Irish bouzouki, which is pretty much a mandolin the size of a guitar.”

Landes is also the author of “The Introduction to the Irish Bouzouki” published by Hal Leonard, he said, which to his knowledge is selling successfully.

While touring with acclaimed Irish fiddler John Carty in 2007, Landes said he had a change of heart.

“Musically we were doing great, but income-wise we were significantly affected by the decline of

the U.S. economy at the time. Our travel expenses doubled and opportunities for work were dwindling,” Landes said. “I returned to the University of Missouri where I completed my Bachelor’s Degree in English and ended up in Lubbock for a Celtic Christmas show where I was intrigued

by Texas Tech University as an opportunity to start graduate school.”

He has since received the Helen DeVitt Jones Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award in 2011 and 2013, according to the School of Music website, as well as becoming the founding director of the School of Music’s Balkan Ensemble.

“Landes’ teaching style is great,” Stallings said, “because he is very approachable and welcomes discussion, input and opinion about the topics in class. Working with him is a pleasure.”

Landes is proficient in a multitude of instruments including the bouzouki, mandolin, tenor banjo and guitar, he said, but his main focus for the past five years has been the English border bagpipes.

He began playing the bagpipes through Irish

music, Landes said, and it is one of the most sophisticated instruments in the world, although difficult to play.

“You play the bagpipes sitting down and there are many parts to it,” he said.

“The bellows supply the air, your left arm regulates the pressure of the bag, you play the melody on the pipe with both hands, there’s three drones turned off and on by a switch, there’s three regulators that have keys and you use your wrist to play the chords while you’re trying to do everything else.”

Landes also organized Lubbock’s annual International Bagpipe Day, which he will be attending on March 10 in the Student Union Building to celebrate this truly multicultural event.

He is currently finishing his doctoral degree in fine arts and musicology.

“Music is the way my life is organized,” Landes said, “and I still remember the first song I ever played. It’s been an amazing evolution from being a student to a professional performer to producing and now an educator.” @DailyToreador

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USA staff discusses working games, concerts

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

When people go to the United Supermarkets Arena, they go to watch some kind of event, whether it is a concert or some kind of sporting event.

They do not think about the students who set everything in the arena up for the event, or the students who make sure they are safe during the event.

The students who make up the event staff at the USA do tasks that make the experience at events successful for the spectators, Dalton Scorgie, a freshman computer engineering major from San Diego and a USA employee, said.

The event staff works in different sections of the arena to make sure the spectators are not doing anything they are not supposed to be doing, Scorgie said.

The staff also works in the concourse area, where the concessions are, and point people in the direction they need to go, Rebekah Rudd, a freshman electronic media and communications major from Carrollton, said.

Hunter Elder, a junior sports management major from Azle, said he heard about this job through his brother and his cousin, who both had the job before him, but that was not the reason he applied.

“They told me that they were really flexible with

your schedule,” Elder said.

“I thought that was pretty cool. It was a pretty chill atmosphere. So I applied and got the job.”

Scorgie was surprised about the number of people who came to some of the events in the USA, he said.

There was not much foot traffic at the first event he covered, but he had no idea what to expect from basketball season.

“My rude awakening was when basketball was starting,” he said. “There were a lot more people at the basketball games and it was not what I was expecting.”

The big basketball games were different for Scorgie, he said, and they were something he had to get used to.

“We start to get in security mode when the students get ready to storm the court during the big games,” he said. “We have to make sure no one does anything to the visiting team. We work with the Saddle Tramps to make sure that the handshake line is protected and they can make it to the locker room safely.”

As a student manager, Elder has more responsibilities than the regular event staff, he said. It helps him more with his major and his dream job of being an event coordinator.

“We get to learn how things work and how things are set up at sporting events and at other events,” he

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TAB singer-songwriter competition this evening The Tech Activities Board is having a singer-songwriter competition at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Barnes and Noble Café in the Student Union Building.

The competition will feature six contestants who perform two songs within a time of 10 minutes. In that time, a panel of judges from different departments in the School of Music will take notes and have critiques ready for the contestants after they finish.

At the end of the competition, the judges will decide who the winner will be. The winner will have the opportunity to open the concert at Raider City Limits later in April.

“They are singer-songwriters, so they’re writing their

own songs, kind of getting feedback from judges, and maybe they don’t have the opportunity to go play at a club or something, so this competition is kind of a way to help them be more rounded of a composer,” Kenzielee Roberts, a senior art major and concert coordinator for TAB, said.

The students will perform a variety of songs from a wide variety of genres of music.

“Most of them will be singing mostly alternative type songs, some of them just have the guitar and just start going with it and some are country,” Roberts said. “Any genre of music is welcome, we even have someone who is rapping, so there is a lot of variety in the music they will perform.” @RyanOrtegonDT

said. “I think that the experience that I am having now is really getting me to where I need to be. I want to work at facilities as an event coordinator and doing all this work that no one really sees in the background will help me pursue my dreams.”

Sporting events are not the only events the event staff covers, Scorgie said.

They also cover concerts and other events in the USA. Concerts are much more stressful than sporting events, Scorgie said.

“There are a lot more people there than just students,” he said. “You are getting people from all over who come to the concerts.

There’s a lot more interactions with people and you have to look out for more.”

Elder said he would much rather work sporting events than concerts.

“Some of the fans at the concerts get wild, and when alcohol gets involved, you have to calm them down,” he said. “It’s cool to see all the performances and stuff, but the fans can get a little rowdy at times.”

One recent concert comes to mind for Scorgie, he said, because it was the longest one of his life.

“The Hillsong United concert was the longest show I have ever been to in my life,” he said. “They started talking and said that they were going to finish it up and the concert

lights went out. Everybody started to scream and I felt like it was over. Once it got to the third song, after the lights went out, and the confetti started to fly and they sang another song, it started to get frustrating.”

After each event is over, the event staff has to convert the court for the next practice or the next event, Scorgie said.

Sometimes they get to interact with the players when they are doing conversions.

“We had to set up the main court for practice after the Oklahoma game, and Toddrick (Gotcher) and other players started walking out of the locker room,” he said. “All of us working wanted to go give them a high five.”

The social aspect is the

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most important part of the job for Rudd, she said.

“Getting to meet new people is the best part of my job,” she said. “I see a lot of my sisters and friends at the game, but I also get to meet a lot of new people.”

Rudd has also developed relationships with her coworkers, she said.

“A lot of the people that work together in this job become friends,” she said, “because we are a work family.” @DavidGayDT

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Tech employee sings in rockabilly band

By MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

Jessica Robinson leads somewhat of a double life. She is the administration assistant for journalism, electronic media and communications, public relations and any other course that falls in a miscellaneous category in her day job, and she also sings in her own band named “Sugarwitch,” Lubbock’s only original rockabilly band, after hours.

Robinson said she first started her band after she and a friend had debated the topic for years.

“My bass player and I went to high school together, and we both love this genre of music.

After high school, we both went to South Plains and went through the music program.

That’s when we decided to start a rockabilly band,” she said. “We talked about it a lot, but never really got serious about it until 2012.”

Robinson was surrounded by music her entire life, she said, and her musical interest began with her mother teaching her piano and continued when she taught herself guitar in high school.

“She started me on piano when I was five, and she played guitar as well, so it was one of those things where I would see her play folk guitar and finger-pick and I really

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Jessica Robinson, a counselor in the College of Media & Communication, is in the rockabilly band from Lubbock called Sugarwitch. Robinson plays the guitar and is the lead vocalist for the band. wanted to do that,” Robinson said. “She never taught me how to play the guitar, ever.

She had me learn piano, which was great because I learned to read music when I was a kid, and that is one of those things that is invaluable. I taught myself how to play guitar in high school.”

Robinson said her father was the main influencing factor in her decision to start a rockabilly band.

“Everyone that I knew and grew up with had an influence, but my dad definitely influenced me with Johnny Cash and all those old-time country singers,” she said.

“Even though he never taught me how to play anything, it was his taste in music that really swayed my interest in the type of music that I play today.”

Robinson created the band as a result of her and her band mates’ ages, as well as a

desire for more enrichment in their lives.

“We are all getting older and had been in bands all our lives,” she said. “There’s something about playing music live on a stage in front of people that is just a rush, and we all miss that. It had been years since any of us had done that, and it came to that moment where we were all at a standstill with eight to five jobs, missing the fun in our lives.”

Robinson said she felt her most memorable experiences being in this band have been the recognition it has gotten over the years.

“It’s always special when people always come up after the show and want your autograph or a picture with you,” she said. “It’s crazy when people know you without you knowing them because they heard your song on the radio or they follow you on Facebook, or we go to play a festival in New Mexico and find out that some people have been following our music for years now.”

The band put its album out a year ago, she said, and found out that a random Internet radio station in Czechoslovakia named it album of the week.

Robinson said she came to work for the College of Media and Communication after working several coffee house jobs and working for MailTech for two years.

“I kind of decided I wanted a different job, and I met the woman who was working in the dean’s office at the time.

She knew I had been looking and recommended that I come work for mass comm, and that was it,” she said. “From there, I worked up and up and stayed within the department.

They’ve been really good to me, and it’s just a great place to work with good people.”

Sugarwitch is scheduled to

perform at the Summer Showcase at the Buddy Holly Center and the Fourth on Broadway Festival this summer.

Josh Robinson, Jessica’s older brother and the media production manager for the College of Media and Communication, said he thought Sugarwitch’s first performance at the Fourth on Broadway Festival was where the band really took off.

“They got some exposure, and the tent wasn’t extremely full, but there were people you could tell were surprised by what they saw,” he said. “There are a lot of bands in Lubbock, but they have a unique sound and I just think that when they got out there, people were able to identify those differences and get some attention.”

Josh Robinson said the “my sister is going to be famous” moment came to him when his sister invited him to an open mic night at the Texas Café.

“They got up on stage as a team with their instruments finely tuned and I thought, ‘Wow, they are really doing this for real,’” he said. “Everybody came together as a musical team, and everybody played their parts well. They had their harmonies, so it wasn’t just a mish-mash — it was a real band. It was that point that I thought to myself that she could really be successful.” @MalBarnettDT

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Mariachi Los Matadores coached by Grammy winner After being invited by Lauryn Salazar, Texas Tech’s mariachi band director, Jesus ‘Chuy’ Guzman helped coach Mariachi Los Matadores last week.

For Guzman, he said it was a pleasure to be able to share his knowledge of mariachi music he has with the students.

“They will be the next generation of mariachi,” he said.

Besides the stylistic qualities the music has, it also carries remnants of Mexican tradition and culture, Guzman said. If the music is not protected and shared, then there is the possibility of it being lost through time.

Being a part of the music and culture so long does have its rewards, he said, as he has been awarded Grammys in the past for his work in producing albums for groups like Mariachi Los Camperos.

According to the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music website, Guzman won the Grammy in 2008 for his work on the album “Amor, Dolor y Lagrimas.”

“But for this work, we need to (continue) to be working and prepare more music for the audience,” he said.

Having worked with music for nearly 47 years, he said the awards are nice to have, but ultimately it is his passion that keeps him

going. Since his childhood, Guzman has been playing mariachi music with friends and continues to do so.

As for his visit to Tech, Guzman said he is putting the accountability of keeping the tradition alive on the students he is coaching. “(These students) have the responsibility, because I’m the present and the past,” Guzman said.

“They are the present and the future.”

However, most of the times participation within mariachi music in general can be completely voluntary, and the music can get quite complex, he said. People have to continue the spirit of

the music and work through those complexities.

Guzman said the mariachi music is considered the “patrimonio nacional,” or the national heritage.

“They have the same right to learn as I learned,” he said. “Although it gets difficult to study a bit when you have no teachers. And if they don’t learn right now with the help of the school and their teachers, then that will cause the collapse of the teaching that I left and served them.”

Editor’s Note: The last quote from Guzman was translated from Spanish to English. @MichaelCantuDT

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Jesus “Chuy” Guzman, a Grammy award winning mariachi musician, conducts the Mariachi Los Matadores practice on Feb. 24 in the Music Hall.

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Court Jesters inject energy into home basketball games

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Like the score of a movie, the music of the Texas Tech indoor athletic band, the Court Jesters, reflects the events taking place on the court.

The band regularly plays a prearranged song selection at home volleyball and basketball games, but every night has something new to offer.

Inside the closed door of Tech’s home arena, the Court Jesters play their instruments freely and with the readiness of playing as loud as possible.

Shane Smith, a junior petroleum and mechanical engineering major from Katy, plays

drums at Tech’s home games and takes out his stress by smashing his drumsticks onto the drum set.

“Taking 19 hours this semester after taking 18 the last five semesters, it’s the biggest stress relief,” Smith said. “I go in there and I literally play like as hard as I can.”

Smith, one of the three drummers of the Tech ensemble, played the drums for 12 years before joining the Court Jesters his freshman year, he said. Aside from three practices in fall semester and two in the spring, Smith doesn’t practice before performing at games.

It takes one or two times for Smith to adapt to the band

around him, and as a mostly self-taught drummer, the ability to improvise his sound comes naturally.

After playing for so long, Smith said he doesn’t rely on sheet music to know what songs to play, he just needs the name of a song.

“Now that I know all 38 songs that are in the book, I kind of know when they end and whatnot,” Smith said.

“Freshman year I’m sure I went over a few times, but yeah, definitely don’t look at the music.”

Nick Garcia, a junior music education major from Mesquite, first joined the Goin’ Band and joined the

Court Jesters after his sophomore year.

Similar to Smith, playing the drum set at the games allows Garcia to free his thoughts and step into his musical sanctuary.

Although playing the kit doesn’t last longer than a minute, Garcia likes having something to do he has a passion for during timeouts and breaks.

For him, simply playing along with the band brings him joy as he grooves to a song and adds to the upbeat energy of the arena.

“This is going to be weird, but I feel kind of special and unique in a way. You’re the only person in the arena that’s playing on a drum set,” Garcia said. “It’s kind of unique but at the same time, I love playing anywhere.”

The enjoyment of the drum players and the Court Jesters shows at the games.

A relaxed atmosphere and a shared interest in playing music brings out the cheerful spirit of the ensemble.

Even though the Court Jesters split most of their time

playing for the fans at the arena, they take in a game and follow normal fan behavior, Garcia said. Keeping a respectful approach to their cheering, the Court Jesters make time to root against the visiting team.

Kyle Mackey, a junior mechanical engineering major from Arlington, trumpet player and president of the Court Jesters, said the organization presents students with a unique opportunity to keep playing music without sacrificing a significant chunk of their time.

“Say like some people get out of Goin’ Band because classes get too heavy and it’s just time consuming and they don’t want to join a concert ensemble, but they still want to play, they join Court Jesters,” Mackey said.

For Mackey, the almost always bi-weekly game schedules, especially during football season, don’t weigh down too heavily on band members, he said. As a student outside of the school of music, he thinks joining the Goin’ Band and the Court Jesters kept him involved with music.

“I probably would have stopped because I wouldn’t really have a reason to play,” Mackey said. “I do enjoy it, but if I’m not putting it toward anything, if I’m not meeting a goal, I wouldn’t be able to see why I would keep up with it.”

The Court Jesters produce more than an organized set of noise. Depending on the situation of a game, the band plays a tune to somehow add excitement as well as tension in the arena.

Bringing all the different instruments together at a game concocts a balanced mix of rifts, blasts and licks. At the games, Garcia said the sound of the band changes the mood of the arena.

“I think it adds a ton of energy if you have loud horns in your face, especially if you’re trying to get something going as far as momentum,” Garcia said. “When you play a tune, especially if you play a popular tune, we play a lot of them that are well known and the crowd gets really into it, it just hypes them out that much more.” @DGaytanDT

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Five home runs propel Tech to victory

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

The No. 23 Texas Tech baseball team split a twogame midweek series against New Mexico State by winning 14-2 on Wednesday afternoon at Rip Griffin Park.

The Red Raider offense combined for 15 hits and five home runs in the victory.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said his team’s pitching, batting and defense were all better than on Tuesday.

“The guys got off to a good start and swung the bats pretty good today and played good defense,” he said. “It was a good game in all phases.”

Both teams were held scoreless through the first inning, but the Red Raiders offense got rolling in the second inning.

Sophomore outfielder Tanner Gardner and senior outfielder Tyler Neslony hit back-to-back solo home runs over the center field wall. It marked the first time since April 2009 that two Red Raiders have knocked backto-back home runs.

Still in the second inning, sophomore infielder Michael Davis recorded a RBI double and later scored to put Tech up 4-0.

Following a solo home run

by New Mexico State in the third inning, Neslony jumped on another pitch for his second home run of the game, this time a two-run shot. The home runs in a game marked a career-high for the senior outfielder and the first time a Red Raider has hit two in a game since senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez did in May 2014.

“I thought we did a really good job of having good at bats the entire game,”Neslony said. “Yesterday, we had just one good inning and kind of fell off. I think we did a really good job for just staying solid (today).”

For the second straight game, Tech started a freshman left-handed pitcher on the mound. Steven Gingery did not disappoint as he struck out five batters in a row over the third and fourth innings and 12 for the game.

Gingery earned his first collegiate win and finished

the game after five and onethird innings, allowing four hits and two runs.

“When you have a pitcher on the mound that feels comfortable with what he has, his stuff, throwing everything, fastball, change up, curveball,” Gutierrez said. “That’s awesome for us offensively and defensively.”

In the fifth inning, Neslony got his third hit of the game with a deep double to left field. He scored on a fielder ’s choice to put Tech up 7-1.

The Aggies posted one run in the next inning on a fielder’s choice.

After an RBI single, Neslony scored again on a balk to push the lead to 9-2.

Neslony finished the game with four hits, four runs and scored four times.

“That’s baseball. Some days you go zero for four, some days you go four for four,” he said. “I was just trying to get a good pitch to hit.”

Sophomore shortstop Orlando Garcia furthered the lead with a two-run home run in the eighth inning, his

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Texas Tech left handed pitcher Steven Gingery throws to a New Mexico State batter during the first inning of their game on Wednesday at Dan Law Field. The Red Raiders won 14-2. second of the season.

Gutierrez also sent a ball over the outfield wall in the inning to extend the lead to 14-2. Tech’s five home runs were the most since they hit

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six on May 2010.

“Not only the home run, I’ve been having a good approach at the plate,” Gutierrez said. “I’m working on it still, but it felt good.”

Cal State Fullerton will travel to Lubbock this weekend for a three-game series against Tech that begins 6:30 p.m. on Friday. @JeremyK_DT

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Dean, CookTaylor place on conference team Kingsbury completes 2016 coaching staff The Big 12 Conference coaches have voted freshman guard Japreece Dean and junior guard Ivonne CookTaylor to All-Big 12 teams.

D e a n w as na m e d t o the All-Big 12 Conference Freshman team while CookTaylor was placed on the All-Big 12 Honorable Mention team. It is the

first all-conference award for both players.

Dean won Big 12 Freshman of the Week six times this year and was a candidate for freshman of the year but was beat out by Iowa State freshman Tynice Martin.

Tech’s freshman guard led conference freshmen in points per game, as-

sists, free-throw percentage and assist to turnover ratio this season. She is the second Lady Raider to be named to the All-Big Freshman team, according to a Tech Athletics release.

CookTaylor led the Lady Raiders in scoring this year with 14.2 points per game, which also ranked

in the top 10 in the conference. She was one of five guards in the conference to finish in the top 20 in points and rebounds, according to the release.

Tech will play Iowa State in the Big 12 Tournament at 6 p.m. on Friday in Oklahoma City. @JeremyK_DT

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Red Raiders fall to No. 10 West Virginia on road

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech men’s basketball team dropped its final true road game of the season, 90-68, against the No. 10 West Virginia Mountaineers Wednesday night in WVU Coliseum.

From the start, the West Virginia defense rattled the Red Raiders as it forced 11 turnovers in the first half.

West Virginia’s full court pressure throughout the game isolated and trapped Tech’s ball handlers to force the turnovers.

Adding to its strong defense, the Mountaineer offense recovered 12 offensive rebounds and created nine points from its second chance opportunities. The effectiveness of the hosting Mountaineers accumulated

toward the end of the first half and exploded for a 12-2 offensive run.

A layup from senior guard Jaysean Paige began the West Virginia run near the fiveminute mark. The Red Raiders finally placed a couple of points nearly three minutes later on a jumper from senior guard Toddrick Gotcher after the Mountaineers scored 12 straight.

The 12-2 run placed the Mountaineers in a comfortable position at halftime as Tech trailed 41-26 at the end of the first half.

Although Tech shot 55 percent in the first half, West Virginia recorded 23 more shot attempts than Tech’s 23 and combined for a 48.6 field goal percentage.

Opening the second half, Tech fell further behind as the usual Mountaineer press forced errant passes.

West Virginia pushed its lead to 21 near the 16-minute mark following a 3-pointer from Paige at the left wing and a jumper soon after.

Tech brought down the 21-point deficit by taking multiple trips to the line to make it a 55-41 deficit, but West Virginia’s defense kept disrupting the game flow of the Red Raiders.

Nearing the midpoint of the second half, however, West Virginia regained a lead near the 20-point range and solid work in transition kept the game out of reach for the Red Raiders.

West Virginia built its largest lead of the game at 76-49 with a 3-pointer from junior forward Nathan Adrian nearing the final seven minutes. The 27-point deficit set the Red Raiders far from tying the game and West Virginia handed Tech

its second-straight loss.

At the end of the game, Tech tallied 10 more turnovers than the Mountaineers as they combined for 19.

Sophomore guard Justin Gray led Tech in scoring with 15 and the duo of Paige and sophomore guard Daxter Miles matched Gray by scoring 15 points as well. Offensively, Tech made 56.1 percent of its shots from the field and the Mountaineers made half their efforts.

The loss dropped the Red Raiders to an 18-11 record and an 8-9 Big 12 record heading into their final regular season game.

Tech closes out its home schedule versus the Kansas State Wildcats and sends off its two senior guards, Gotcher and Devaugntah Williams, at 2 p.m. Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena. @DGaytanDT

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According to a Texas Tech Athletics news release, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury hired Karl Scott as the cornerbacks coach and DeShaun Foster as the running backs coach.

“We are extremely excited to add coach Scott and coach Foster to our staff,” Kingsbury said in the release. “They are both bright and energetic coaches and will be valuable additions to our program.”

Scott came to Tech from Louisiana Tech. According to the release, Scott served as the safeties coach and helped lead the team to a 9-4 finish in the west division of Conference USA. Louisiana Tech won the New Orleans Bowl against Arkansas 47-28.

Scott also served as a linebackers coach in 2012-2013 and defensive coordinator in 2014 for Southeastern Louisiana. According to the release, he also served as a recruiting coordinator, defensive backs coach and linebackers coach for Tusculum College in Greenville, Tennessee.

Born in Houston, Scott began his coaching career at Delta State University as a graduate assistant for one season in 2007. According to the news release, he

played football at McMurry University in Abilene and graduated in 2007.

Foster served as the director of player development and high school relations at UCLA, his alma mater.

Before his position at UCLA, he played seven years in the National Football League.

According to the release, Foster was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the second round of the 2002 NFL draft as a running back. Foster played for the Panthers from 2002 to 2008 and scored a touchdown in the 2004 NFC Championship Game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Foster also played in Super Bowl XXXVIII against the New England Patriots. For the 2008 season, Foster played for the San Francisco 49ers.

For UCLA, Foster was the second on the all-time touchdowns scored list with 44 and third on the all-time rushing list with 3,194 yards. According to the release, in the 2000 and 2001 seasons, he was named a first-team All-Pac 10 selection.

According to the news release, Foster’s hire is pending university approval. @DavidGayDT

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