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MATCH MADNESS Medical students learn locations of residency programs

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1. Jenna Kobus pins down the location of Karl Mareth’s residency on the Match Day destinations map that was available for medical students during the Match Day Ceremony on Friday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center. Mareth’s match results showed his residency will take place in Florida at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education.

2. Tanner Evans lets his daughter show off his Match Day documents after he opened the envelope that revealed where his residency would be.

The results showed his residency will be at the University of Tennessee Saint Thomas Hospital in Rutherford, Tennessee.

3. During the Match Day ceremony, medical students had the chance to mark where their residencies were located on the Match Day destinations map.

4. Samantha Hawley and Taylor Warmoth celebrate Warmoth’s match results by embracing during the Match Day Ceremony on Friday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center. Warmoth’s results showed her residency will take place at HSC in Lubbock.

CAMPUS Genesis Guevara, Hunter Hall and Alondra Guevara, according to the A-J. “Texas Tech University extends its deepest sympathies and condolences to the family and friends of Jerry Davis and the students involved in this tragedy,” Chris Cook, Tech spokesman, said in an email. “University officials have been in touch with the families of the injured students and will remain in close contact and available, while monitoring their conditions.” @KristenBartonDT

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Flag lowered today for student death The Texas Tech flag at Memorial Circle will be lowered to half-staff today in memory of student Brayden Chase Coverdale, who died March 13.

According to a Dean of Students official death memo, Coverdale was a junior pre-law student from Shallowater and was enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Coverdale previously attended Tarleton State University and played defensive end for the football team, according to the TSU Athletics website.

riday morning, the graduates of the class of 2016 from the Texas Tech Health Sciences School of Medicine gathered at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center to find out where it is they will be going.

Since 1952 there has been a nationwide day set aside for medical students. Dubbed ‘Match Day,’ it is when medical students find out where it is they will be going for their residencies.

Steven Berk, executive vice president of the HSC, provost and dean of the School of Medicine, said this is the second step in their training as medical professionals. The students have been interviewing all year to find the residency program they want to go with and rank their positions as to where they want to go and in turn the programs rank them.

Because this is a nationwide process all students have to wait until 11 a.m. to find out where they are going. At Tech, however, they begin the event a bit earlier by calling out names randomly to hand out the envelopes with the students’ matched residencies, Berk said. With around 150 student participants in the medical school, they called out the names of all of them, and the last person to be called up was to receive a jar of money filled with donations from attendees — just a Tech tradition.

“There are (more than) 20,000 medical students around the country that opened up their envelope at exactly the same time,” Berk said, “and they found out where they were going also.”

Match Day has stuck with pretty much the same principle since its conception, he said, but what is different now is the amount of medical students who are graduating. The number of students has increased, but the amount of residency programs has stayed the same, making for a more competitive environment, he said.

For those who have scored a spot in a program, they have been given the opportunity to further their studies another three to seven years in their field: family medicine, internal studies and more, he said. For four years of medical school the students have to pay tuition, but once they start their residency programs they are paid.

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Tech student dies in crash On Sunday morning, a crash in New Mexico left a Texas Tech student dead and others injured.

According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the New Mexico State Police said the crash was on U.S. 60/84 east of Fort Sumner.

The vehicle was driven by student Jerry Davis and he lost control, according to the A-J. The vehicle then flipped several times. Davis was pronounced dead at the scene.

Passengers included Ken Choi,

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According to a FOX 10 article, Coverdale died in Orange Beach, Alabama. His death is under investigation, and alcohol was involved, according to the article.

Orange Beach police responded to a call at a home at 9 p.m. Sunday, according to the article. He was pronounced dead at 11:41 p.m. Sunday.

No charges have been filed, according to the article, and the family started a scholarship fund in Coverdale’s name. @DailyToreador

Students volunteer with CALUE on break in Texas

By RYAN ORTEGON staff WritEr

Instead of going home for spring break, several students decided to spend their break volunteering in Corpus Christi and Waco.

The Center for Active Learning and Undergraduate Engagement offers service opportunities for students while on spring, summer and winter breaks.

CALUE Service Breaks is a program that allows students at Texas Tech to spend their breaks volunteering somewhere outside of Lubbock. The program has about four trips a year all located in different areas of the country.

“We really want this to be a service trip but also, very largely, a learning experience,” Jacy Proctor, unit coordinator for CALUE, said.

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Brandy Pelliccio, Houston Beaty and Alexandria Cathey, a junior international economics major, stayed in a home built to resemble one in Nicaragua while on a CALUE Service Breaks trip. Seven students helped the World Hunger Relief in Waco.

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Current officers reflect on time in office

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

The new Student Government Association executive branch members for 2016-2017 were announced on March 11. The current executive branch of Texas Tech’s SGA took office on May 1, 2015, according to SGA’s website.

The new officers of the executive branch for 2016-2017 are President Benjamin Sharp, a junior economics major from Borger; External Vice President Alex DeRossi, a senior energy commerce major from Flower Mound; Internal Vice President Witt Westbrook, a junior energy

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“With this class over half went into primary care, and we’re very pleased about that,” Berk said, “because Texas Tech is one of the schools that really (is) trying to push p r i m a r y c a re, b e c a u s e there’s such a shortage of individuals going into primary care.”

This year the School of Medicine also graduated nearly 20 percent of its students with specialties in family medicine, he said, which is higher than most schools where the average is near 8 percent.

The school contributes this high number of family

commerce major from Stephenville; and Graduate Student Vice PresiWESTBROOK dent Kevin K o e s t l e r, a g r a d u a t e student in the STEM business program from Carrollton, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

The 2015-2016 executive branch consists of Holton Westbrook, SGA president; Caleb Fisher, external vice president; Amber Yanez, internal vice president; Saba Nafees, graduate vice president, and Emily Latham, chief of staff.

W e s t brook is a senior agriculture economics major from StephenFISHER ville. He is a member of President’s Select, Pi Kappa Alpha and served for two years in the Student Senate as a senator as well as the parliamentarian, according to SGA’s website.

Westbrook said it has been an honor to serve the students of Tech.

“I’m so grateful for the opportunity I have had to serve Tech this year,” Westbrook said. “It was always a goal of mine to represent the student

body on a higher level.

It has truly been an honor and something I will never YANEZ forget.”

Westbrook said one of his proudest accomplishments as president was developing a scholarship program for students.

“A scholarship of some sort was always one of my goals. I have siblings who are also in college,” Westbrook said. “I know how hard it can be. I wanted to find a way to help other students and we were able to do that by giving $15,000 to students through our office.”

Fisher is a business administration graduate student from Wichita Falls. He NAFEES served as the director of outreach for the cabinet before being elected into his current position.

Fisher said he wanted to get involved with SGA after noticing how much of a difference SGA can make.

“I decided to get more involved after serving in the cabinet,” he said. “I noticed that SGA really has the opportunity to make an impact with all of the students of Tech and really has the power to

make Tech a better place.”

Fisher said it has been cool to see the things they campaigned for become a reality.

According to a previous article in The Daily To r e a d o r , F i s h e r s a i d he wanted to work on replacing the SafeRide program with the Uber t a xi s e r v ic e . A l t h o u gh SafeRide has not been replaced, Fisher was able to get an Uber discount for students during the first week of school.

“From there, I worked with city council and other people to advocate to find an ordinance for city transportation that was in favor of students,” Fisher said.

medicine students to one of the HSC’s programs: FMAT, the family medicine accelerated track.

The emphasis is to push students to go into family medicine early in their academic careers and have them make that commitment rather early on, Ronald Cook, chair of Family Medicine, said.

“By doing so we put our students through a three-year curriculum,” Cook said. “Now a traditional curriculum is four years, well they get through medical school curriculum in three years, and guarantees a slot in family medicine on one of our campuses.”

Because of the need and emphasis on family

medicine in Tech’s three campuses — Permian Basin, Amarillo and Lubbock — they are able to save on tuition, he said. Since they are on an accelerated timeline, as a third-year student they are doing things sooner than their four-year colleagues.

There is a national call for people to go into primary care (obstetrics a n d g y n e c o l o g y, i n t e rnal medicine and family medicine), and because of the nature of some specialties some people do not stay in primary care.

When a student commits to family medicine, they are most likely to stay in there and are able to have a full-spectrum practice, Cook said.

“Our service area is huge for Eastern New Mexico and Western Texas, even up in Oklahoma and further south all the way down past Pecos in the Fort Davis and Big Bend area,” he said.

“We’re the docs for those areas, half of Texas is our service area.”

Ann Hughes Bass, a third-year medical student in the FMAT program from Levelland, is one of seven people who were part of the program. Before going into medical school there are many people who warn of the troubling times, Hughes Bass said, and many of them are correct in their insight of medical school.

“I don’t think anyone leaves medical school the same person as when they started,” she said. “It demands more of you academically, intellectually and even emotionally than anything else I’ve ever done in my life.”

Because of her priorities in research, teaching and service she was able to stick with the program and continue on to obtain a spot in her profession, she said.

Now that Hughes Bass, among many others, is going on her own to some place almost completely different, there is some excitable tension in where she are going, she said.

She will not have the same support she has had

at the medical school and the settings can be very different, which can be a bit scary.

H o w e v e r, s i n c e s h e and her other FMAT colleagues are fortunate enough to stay closer to the Lubbock campus, or at least in Texas, she knows she will still have support, Hughes Bass said. “(Medical school) is more information than you’ve ever been given to deal with, but I think it’s that slow acquisition of capability and realizing that you are learning these things and have these things,” she said.

“The acquisition of skill — I don’t know why we do it, honestly.”

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Man charged in slaying of mother’s boyfriend SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — San Angelo police say a 29-year-old man has been charged with murder in the death of his mother’s 58-year-old boyfriend.

Police say officers responding to a report of an assault victim at an apartment complex Saturday afternoon found Jerry Don Barr dead in an apartment. A witness who said Barr was her boyfriend said she’d seen the suspect leaving the area as she was

on her way home. Police say it was later learned that the suspect was her son.

The suspect, Thomas Gene Riddle, was taken into custody without incident.

Riddle remained in jail Sunday. Bond was not yet listed. It wasn’t immediately known whether Riddle had a lawyer. Police say the cause of death will be determined through an autopsy, but it appears to be blunt force trauma.

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Texas mother accused of putting child in oven GLEN ROSE (AP) — Officials say a Texas woman has been charged after her 2-year-old daughter suffered burns and witnesses said she told them she’d put the child in the oven.

The Somervell County Sheriff ’s Office said in a news release that deputies were called late Thursday to a home because a child had burns. The sheriff ’s office says witnesses told deputies upon arrival that 35-year-old Tasha Shontell Hatcher said she’d put

her child in the oven.

Hatcher was charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury and arraigned Saturday.

Bond was set at $300,000.

I t w a s n ’t i m m e d i a t e l y known whether Hatcher has a lawyer.

Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales says the child has been taken into their custody and will be placed in foster care when released from the hospital.

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Weather kiosk at Palo Duro seeks visitor safety AMARILLO, (AP) — Officials are hoping a kiosk that provides realtime temperature readings and weather forecast details for the floor and rim of Palo Duro Canyon will decrease the number of people experiencing heat-related issues at one of Texas’ most popular and largest state parks.

The kiosk that began operating earlier this month at the Palo Duro Canyon State Park information center is the product of about two years of work involving park officials and the National Weather Service.

More than 100 heat-related incidents, including two deaths, were recorded

at the 28,000-acre park in the Texas Panhandle between 2011 and 2014.

The kiosk displays heat threat information and forecasts from the National Weather Service office in Amarillo, about 20 miles north of the canyon.

Park Superintendent Shannon Blalock told the Amarillo Globe-News (http://bit.ly/1Uuk1fX ) that dealing with the “microenvironment” of the 120-mile-long, 800-feetdeep canyon — the nation’s second largest — can prove worrisome. The temperature difference between the canyon floor and the rim can be as much as 30 degrees.

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Program brings Tech international recognition

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Texas Tech is nationally recognized as an institution that provides a level of higher education to students after their high school experience. That same opportunity is given to students in different levels of schooling.

The Texas Tech University Independent School District is a program for students in kindergarten through 12th grade in special situations to get the same level of education that would be provided through a regular school district.

This worldwide program offers online and printbased curriculum for students in a different way than just a typical ‘brick and mortar ’ school, Sam Oswald, executive director of TTUISD, said.

“TTUISD does not start at regular semesters like other schools do, like the university does,” Jim Taliaferro, TTUISD superintendent, said. “A student can order a course, for example, on Thanksgiving Day, and they have six months to finish it.”

All courses provided through TTUISD are written by certified Texas teachers and based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, Taliaferro said. The students, like high school students in Texas, also have to take state exams.

Students in a wide range

of different situations participate in this program, Oswald said. The program includes actors, Olympic athletes and musicians.

But another group of students who participate in the program do not get the same amount of coverage.

“You hear a lot about the movie stars and the models, but the thing that catches my heart and my interest are the students that have had illnesses,” Oswald said.

“We have had students pass away while they are in the process of taking the course. The university has been very supportive, going up to the president and the provost sending condolences to the family.”

Taliaferro said he has seen firsthand the positive effect TTUISD has had on students.

“When I worked in a district three hours north of here, we had a student that needed to take a test in order for them to walk at graduation that night,” he said. “I called to Tech the day before and we got the student enrolled in the Credit by Exam. He took it, passed it and walked that night. School districts have a great respect for having a mechanism that can make good things happen for kids, and we are a part of that mechanism.”

The program has morphed into a worldwide program, Taliaferro said.

“We have had students in 58 schools in Brazil,”

Taliaferro said. “We just started work in China.

It’s a unique setup for the state of Texas, Lubbock and Texas Tech.”

Victor Santos, a sophomore computer engineering major from Brazil, went through the TTUISD program during his time in high school, he said. He went through both the Tech and Brazil curriculum at the same time.

Doing both curriculums at the same time was stressful for Santos, he said, but it prepared him for his college education.

“At that time, I had no idea what I was getting myself into,” Santos said, “but in the back of my mind, I kept telling myself that it would work out in the end, that it would pay off and it did.”

Graduating with two curriculums helped Santos stand out from other students, he said.

Toward the end of their schooling in Brazil, students get to come to Tech as part of a summer camp, Oswald said. They get to participate in courses, stay in the dorms and travel and learn about Texas History.

“This is a rich experience for the students,” Oswald said.

Participating in the summer camp is when Santos decided to come to Lubbock after high school, he said.

“I knew that I wanted to come to Lubbock in my

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Proctor has been on several of the trips herself and said they were great experiences to learn new skills and do some hard labor.

The program started in 2014 and since then there has been a total of six trips, Proctor said. The program features several students, a site leader who facilitates and helps guide the students on the trip and a trip adviser, who is the faculty member with the group.

CALUE has had programs in the past where students have traveled to New Orleans to work with Project Homecoming to build homes for victims of Hurricane Katrina, she said. There have also been trips to San Antonio, El Paso and Dallas.

This spring break, students had the option to sign up for one of two service trips: one in Waco with World Hunger Relief and one Corpus Christi at the Texas Sea Life Center, Proctor said.

The students in Corpus Christi had the opportunity to work with marine life and helped with building new cages, roofs, and anything the facility needed, she said. The students on the Waco trip stayed on site at the World Hunger Relief farm and performed several

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Seven Texas Tech students traveled to Waco to help World Hunger Relief during spring break as part of the Center for Active Learning and Undergraduate Engagement Service Breaks program. Another group of students traveled to Corpus Christi and volunteered at the Texas Sea Life Center.

chores on the farm, such as collecting eggs, gardening and milking goats.

They not only did handy work and got volunteer experience but also learned more about the goal each program is trying to accomplish, Proctor said.

“I think it’s a really great opportunity for students for them to go into different communities and get to experience the culture there and serve someone other than what they’re used to,” Proctor said. “One of our main goals is that they’re learning a lot and they’re getting to serve these communities that they might

have never gotten to serve before, but also when we come back we hope that they want to be more active in their own communities whether that’s at Texas Tech, the Lubbock community or in their hometown.”

The programs last for five to six days depending on the trip, Proctor said, and each site includes seven student participants.

Students who apply are not required to have any prior training or experience to work while on these trips, she said. The participants met three times during the semester to get information about the trip, including

senior year of high school,” Santos said. “TTUISD gave us the chance to stay here, to take some classes and travel around Texas. I saw how the classes work here and thought that I wanted to get out of my comfort zone.”

If a student completes the TTUISD program, they get a special opportunity if they want to continue their studies at Tech, Taliaferro said.

“If the students complete our full-time program where they get a diploma, we offer a scholarship to these students,” Taliaferro said. “If they meet the GPA requirement and pass the essay portion through the committee, they get $1,000 a year for their time at Tech.”

Santos thinks TTUISD is an important aspect of Tech as a whole, he said. It

gives Tech an international stage rather than just a national one.

“TTUISD is important because it shows that Tech is not only nationally recognized, it is internationally recognized,” Santos said. “A lot of people in Brazil know what Texas Tech is because of TTUISD’s partnership with different high schools.”

costs and expectations.

For the price of the trip, students are given housing, food and transportation for the entire time they are there.

After each day of work, students are asked to come together and talk about and write reflections of what they did and what they have learned from that day’s experience.

“Volunteering in Lubbock, I wasn’t exposed to the issues going on in Katrina and the issues on the border, so this experience opened up my eyes and made me look at things from a different perspective,” Lorena Posadas, a junior community, family and addiction sciences major from Lubbock, said about her previous experiences as a volunteer and a site leader on the El Paso and New Orleans trips.

Posadas is the secretary for the Raiders for Service organization, she said, which works with CALUE Service Breaks for volunteer opportunities.

Her job is to create fundraising opportunities and events that help raise money for the service break trips in order to make them more affordable for students, she said.

“The payment includes everything from transportation to meals and housing, so it includes everything,” she said. “It’s very affordable and they work with you.

If you need to make it in payments, that’s an option

as well.”

Alexandria Cathey, a junior international economics major, was the site leader for the Waco trip and said her experience was eye opening.

“Our simulation day was sort of where we all kind of had time to sit back and realize how blessed we are,” she said.

The students from Waco stayed in a home on a ranch that was built to resemble one built by Habitat for Humanity in Nicaragua, featuring concrete floors to sleep on, outside showers, compost toilets and no electricity.

The hardest day of the program was the simulation day in which each student was given only 13 pennies and the students had to conserve their money and make choices on

what to get to eat and sacrifice meals, Cathey said.

The purpose of the simulation was to teach students what it is like to live in a developing country where they would have to go without meals, work for their food and farm for sustainability.

Applications are open for future service breaks, including one this summer in Costa Rica on the CALUE website.

“It makes me want to get up and figure out what I’m going to be doing when I get back to Lubbock,” she said.

“We learned a lot, we were taught a lot and there are a lot of people here that are doing their part and it doesn’t have to be a big thing. It’s changed my perspective about how we see different things.”

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Meat industry guts federal guidelines

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very five years, the U.S. government issues dietary guidelines to inform the American public of the most up-to-date science around food and nutrition and to offer advice concerning healthful dietary choices.

The new 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were published early this year, and there has been little change since 2010.

Much of the advice given in the government’s guidelines is familiar: consume less sugar and salt, and eat more fruits and vegetables.

It is absurd to exclude the recommendation to consume less of a food we now know causes cancer, but that is precisely what the meat industry managed to accomplish.

Yet, there was one contentious recommendation that was pulled from the preliminary draft.

The panel of expert advisers assigned to write the guidelines originally insisted on advising against excessive consumption of processed and red meat.

This makes sense, especially in light of the World Health Organization’s recent classification of processed meats as certainly carcinogenic and red meats as most likely carcinogenic.

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Elham Pirayesh is a biotechnology graduate student from Tehran, Iran.

Additionally, many studies have shown that high meat consumption leads to increased risk of cardiovascular disease (the source of 30 percent of all deaths in the U.S.), type 2 diabetes, stroke and frequently a higher body mass index.

It is absurd to exclude the recommendation to consume less of a food we now know causes cancer, but that is precisely what the meat industry managed to accomplish.

The North American Meat Institute claimed the committee of scientists’ preliminary recommendations to be “nonsensical.”

They requested and won a 30-day extension on the dietary recommendations comment period, during which NAMI supplied feedback to justify its allegations.

Ultimately, the United States Department of Agriculture decided to cut out the guideline to limit meat consumption.

These guidelines could have been a critical step toward reducing cancer rates, type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Knowing that the guidelines were so deeply swayed by meat industry pressure is especially discouraging.

Food and nutrition scientists around the country are upset about the adulteration of the guidelines, particularly on the fact that the meat-reduction guideline was taken out.

The USDA should be ashamed it allowed politics to obstruct scientific evidence from reaching the public, particularly when obesity rates, diabetes and heart disease are so prevalent.

I sincerely hope that by 2020, real science will control America’s dietary guidelines rather than selfish food industry lobbyists. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Pope’s new Instagram account proves fruitful

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ince becoming the 266th pope in 2013 after Benedict XVI’s surprising resignation, Pope Francis has been trying his hardest to shine a good light on the Catholic Church and bring more people to the religion.

His goals are not any different than that of any pope in history. However, the ways he has gone about gaining international attention has been something I don’t think the world has seen before.

So it should not have been any surprise to people when Saturday morning the pope shared his first Instagram picture.

According to a CNN Money article, Pope Francis caught the attention of many, scoring more 1 million followers in less than 12 hours of his first post.

This is yet another way he has been trying to use technology to his advantage and provide a way to communicate his messages to the masses. I think it is a long overdue way to try and send out that message as well.

As a devout Catholic, I often find myself sitting at mass think-

ing how out of date the church has become. But with this, the Pope’s Twitter and the numerous other Catholic churches around the area that are starting up their own Facebook pages, I think members of these churches are better able to stay in touch with things of the modern day.

Now this is not to say that just because he has started an Instagram account all of his followers will convert to Catholicism and the world of religion will forever be happy — that is a bit too glamorous and unreal.

But it does give a sense of relatability to the younger generation of Catholics who are currently practicing the religion.

Often it is thought that the Church is for the older generation and there can be no room for change or updating, or at least

that is what I have thought. This shows that even a religion that is more than 2,000 years old can still find a place in today’s society.

This also has a way in showing the unity many Catholics can brag about having; now we are better able to stay in touch with the person who is leading us.

I cannot even imagine how people would have stuck with this religion in medieval times when people did not even know who the current pope was.

This shows how technology is changing and that everyone ought to be caught up or else they will be left in the dust. That is not to say that everyone needs to start snapping pictures and starting their own Instagram account, if that is not your thing then so be it.

Because we Catholics have the ability to regularly check up on the person that is supposed to be leading us there is more of a connection that I do not think other religions have, though I could be wrong.

With this there is no absolution to the problems the church has faced in the past, one

haunted by corruption, cases of sexual misconduct and other negative implications people put on the Church.

However, it does set a new precedence for the goals Pope Francis has for the future of the church.

I am by no means saying that the Catholic Church now has a higher stance than other churches or religions worldwide, that would be wrong to say. I am saying, though, that this may prove to be the way the Church is being more inclusive and willing to open up ways of communication to be more communicable to the common folk.

I mean for goodness sake it has only been since the mid-’60s that they stopped speaking Latin throughout the whole mass.

If anything, it is just interesting to watch and see how people begin to react to a church that is trying to stay with the times.

It also raises the question: is it wrong to be jealous of the pope because he has more Instagram followers than me? @MichaelCantuDT

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Reasons to vote Clinton need to go beyond feminism

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eminism is constantly evolving. According to recent publications there have been three waves of feminism, and the third one is where the world is currently.

The core definition of feminism is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities in the political, social and economic world.

However, according to the Washington Post article, “Betty Friedan to Beyoncé: Today’s generation embraces feminism on it’s own terms” by Dave Sheinin, Krissah Thompson, Soraya Nadia McDonald and Scott Clement, one can see the vast differences between the perspectives of different feminists.

The fact that everyone comes from a different time and/or place of the world helps to explain why feminism has become a touchy subject with more than one correct answer to the question: “What is feminism?”

Even though it is important to remember the who, when and how of the feminist movement, it is more important to take that information and use it in the formation toward the future of society.

Feminism isn’t about the dominance of one gen-

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

der over the other. It’s not about building women up so much that they tower over men so they can’t do anything about it. Feminism essentially boils down to equality.

The Washington Post article starts off describing the tense situation between a student, Madeline Budman, and professor, Elizabeth Velez.

Budman went to her professor about her thesis statement: “Feminism is not a political statement.”

Having lived through the second wave of feminism, Velez prompted Budman to reconsider her thesis statement, because Velez had witnessed feminism as a serious political issue.

According to the New York Times article, “Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright Rebuke Young Women Backing Bernie Sanders” by Alan Rappeport, the fact that Senator Bernie Sanders outdraws Hillary Clinton in the support among young women

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shows, “Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy has turned into a generational clash.”

There is no doubt that Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright are two of the most influential people in today’s society, but I can’t help but disagree with them on this stance against women.

At a rally for Clinton i n F e b r u a r y, A l b r i g h t said young women think that the “broader fight for women’s equality” is done, even though it’s not.

H o w e v e r, a c c o r d i n g to the Washington PostKaiser Family Foundation poll, the younger generation of feminists is more upbeat about feminism than others.

Albright also said, “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other,” according to the article.

Ti m e s h a v e c h a n g e d , though, and women, just like anyone else, can do their own research to decide whether or not they agree with a certain candidate.

In the last subsection of the Washington Post article, “Bridging the gap,” the authors go into more depth about the situation described in the beginning.

Velez told the Washington Post that “her activist

roots inform her teaching,” therefore she can’t help but have a perspective on feminism in her feminist theory class.

However, she doesn’t let that get in the way of her teaching.

Velez explains her main goal is to try and steer students toward deep critical thinking about the subject to promote discussions, discussions that not only the students can learn from, but herself as well.

Budman’s original thesis got both of their minds racing.

Considering the major developments in women’s rights and the way women fit into the “social norm” of today’s society pushed Budman to change her thesis into “essentially saying, feminism is not only political.”

As time goes by, feminism will change.

The first wave of feminism was during the 19th and early 20th century and was focused primarily on women’s suffrage, the right to vote.

When this was accomplished, the first wave was over and then the second wave began around the 1960s.

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from elders,” the main goal of the second wave was to achieve equality on a political level.

Times have certainly changed since the second wave ended around the 1980s, but these same beliefs reflect the beliefs of today’s new generation of feminists, just in a different way.

Clinton is no doubt an inspiration and model for anyone, not just women, who represents what hard work and determination can achieve.

As a woman, I am more than excited about the fact that a woman is running for president.

Clinton sends a strong message to all young women that anything is possible and that it doesn’t matter what gender one claims, and that’s inspiring all on its own.

However, as a voting American citizen, I will not vote for Clinton on the basis that she is a woman.

I will make my decision on who I think should run our country based on their beliefs, their accomplishments, their aspirations and whether I believe they’re the absolute best candidate for the job. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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he Aggie of the Month award is an award given by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources to students who do outstanding work within the college and their student organizations.

N a t h a n K l o e p p e r, a junior natural resource management major from Coppell, has received the Aggie of the Month award for February.

The winners for each month during the academic year are awarded a plaque and are honored at the annual Ag Honors Banquet in April.

There are several candidates who are nominated by their student organizations within CASNR, and the Agricultural Council determines the winners.

According to the CASNR website, the council is made up of two student representatives from each organization within the college.

Sinclaire Dobelbower, a senior agricultural communications major from Midlothian and president of Ag Council, said the council looks for candidates with certain out-

standing qualities when choosing a winner.

Nathan was someone who obviously had a very big passion for agriculture and he’s very involved in his club.

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AG COUNCIL PRESIDENT “They are usually looking for someone who is successful in the classroom and very dedicated and involved in their club, organization or team,” she said. “Someone who really embodies what it means to be part of agriculture and would be a great ambassador for the ideas, the goals and the missions of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.”

When nominated for the award, the candidates must give a two to threeminute speech to the Ag Council about themselves and their involvement within their clubs and organizations and why they deserve the award, Dobelbower said. They must also

have another person speak on their behalf, whether that is a professor, a member in their clubs or one of their peers.

Kloepper received the award for the month of February because the Ag Council determined him to be very humble, he said.

“I went in and I told them who I was,” he said.

“I’m nobody special, I am incredibly average academically. I work, go to school, sleep, eat and study, and I just kind of told them that I’ve been in love with the outdoors for a long time and how it’s changed me.”

The president of the Society of Conservation Biology nominated Kloepper, he said.

The award came as a surprise to him, Kloepper said, as he was asked by the president to represent the organization the day before and had shown up to his speech straight from work and was not as well prepared.

Kloepper said he was honored to be chosen for the award because he felt the other candidates who were up for the award also shared great qualities and work ethic, he said. He also believes other colleges should follow in example by honoring their members.

“People should get rec-

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Nathan Kloepper, a junior natural resources management major from Coppell, received the Aggie of the Month award for February. The Texas Tech Ag Council chooses a student every month through a voting process, and the students are honored at a banquet in April. ognized because a lot of time they feel like what they do goes unnoticed,” he said. “Awards like this give people something to strive for to try and better themselves, and then once they achieve that goal it’s something that they can

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Texas pianist finds 2 daughters dead, wife faces mental exam DALLAS (AP) — An internationally renowned concert pianist arrived at his estranged wife’s home in Texas to pick up their two daughters and found the girls slain in their beds, police said Friday.

Authorities say their Russian mother, who had suffered knife wounds, faces a mental health exam.

Va d y m K h o l o d e n k o stopped Thursday morning at the suburban Fort Worth home where he formerly lived to pick up Nika, 5, and 1-yearold Michela, Benbrook police Cmdr. David Babcock said.

The Ukrainian-born musician found his wife, Sofya Tsygankova, in an “extreme state of distress” and discovered the dead girls. The pianist then called 911, police said.

“The loss of my children will be with me forever. But I would like to say that I feel

the support of the Fort Worth community and all people who are sending me messages all over the world,” Kholodenko said in a statement released Friday evening.

Kholodenko, who won the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth in 2013, is not a suspect and is cooperating with police, Babcock said. Police said no suspects were being sought in the deaths of the girls or the stabbing of Tsygankova, who was recovering Friday at a Fort Worth hospital.

Babcock, when asked, declined to say whether police believe the stab wounds were self-inflicted. Tsygankova was being held on a mental health evaluation, Babcock said.

Asked if she was a suspect in the girls’ deaths, he declined to say.

“We are still looking at all avenues,” he said, but added that authorities don’t believe there’s any immediate risk to others in the area.

Autopsy results were pending on the children, who had no visible trauma, police said. Tsygankova’s wounds were from a knife, said Babcock. He declined to say whether a knife was recovered at the home.

Kholodenko and his family moved to Fort Worth in 2014 after he won the $50,000-prize Cliburn competition, which resulted in Kholodenko touring and playing with major orchestras.

“The Cliburn family is mourning the loss of the precious Kholodenko girls. We are heartbroken and offer our prayers to Vadym and all affected by this overwhelming tragedy,” said Maggie Estes, a

spokeswoman for the Cliburn competition.

Hospital officials declined on Friday to release a condition on Tsygankova, who was born in Russia.

The couple had married in 2010 and filed for divorce in November, according to Tarrant County court records. Babcock said police had responded twice in 2014 to disturbance calls at the suburban Fort Worth residence but would not disclose details on the nature of the visits. Kholodenko routinely picked up the children from the home in the mornings, Babcock said.

Kholodenko and his wife told the Fort Worth StarTelegram in 2014 that the decision to move from Moscow to the U.S. was a combination of spontaneity and medical problems with Nika’s skin.

show off.”

Kloepper was a great choice for the Aggie of the Month award because of the type of person he is, Dobelbower said.

“Nathan was someone who obviously had a very big passion for agriculture

and he’s very involved in his club,” she said. “You could tell that he was a very high quality student in the classroom as well as within the involvement with his organization.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Leonardo DiCaprio says China can be ‘climate change hero’ BEIJING (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio praised China’s work to combat climate change on a trip to Beijing on Sunday, and said he believes the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases could be “the hero of the environmental movement.”

The actor and environmentalist, who called for action to combat climate change during his Oscar acceptance speech last month, praised China’s shift toward renewable forms of energy to lower carbon emissions.

“As we all know, the United States and China are the two biggest contributors, and I think that China has made radical movements forward as far as alternative energy and ways to be sustainable,” he said at a news conference.

“I really think that China can be the hero of the environmental movement, they can be the hero of the climate change movement,” he said.

“They have an opportunity to change the world and I have all the confidence in the world that that is their intention.”

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Lawyer Amal Clooney talks human rights in Mideast speech SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Advocate and lawyer Amal Clooney told an audience in the Middle East on Sunday that governments around the world should be vocal, consistent, principled and transparent about human rights.

Clooney was speaking at the opening of a government communications summit in the United Arab Emirates. She was a headline speaker at the annual event, which included the ruler of the emirate of Sharjah, Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi.

“The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights,” she said.

She said Arab countries are facing “an unprecedented human rights crisis.” She urged that criticism of ruling systems be met with dialogue, not prison terms, and that protests be met with “crowd control,” not bullets.

“My advice to you is not only to be vocal and consistent, but also to be principled in communications about human rights. The fourth suggestion I have is to be quick,” she said. “Governments must be prepared to be transparent and get their message out first.”

Clooney mentioned countries such as Sudan, Iran and North Korea in her 12-minute speech, however she made no specific references to rights abuses in Gulf Arab

countries or the humanitarian toll of the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, which the UAE is taking part in.

U.N. human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein condemned the “repeated failure” of the coalition to avoid hitting civilians after more than 100 people were killed in an airstrike on a crowded market Tuesday.

The Lebanese-born British lawyer, whose maiden name is Alamuddin, is married to Hollywood actor George Clooney. Last month, the couple met German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the crisis in Syria and met with refugees in Berlin.

Amal Clooney has taken on high-profile interna-

tional cases, including representing Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohammed Fahmy, who spent more than a year imprisoned in Egypt before he and a fellow reporter from Al-Jazeera English received presidential pardons. She was also part of a legal team seeking greater recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide.

Historians estimate up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.

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Amid cycling boom, penalties for errant drivers remain light DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — When Iowa’s largest city joined the boom in urban cycling, work crews painted more bike lanes, erected traffic signals especially for cyclists and installed rental bikes at selfservice stands that catered to commuters and tourists alike.

In Des Moines and scores of other U.S. cities, the efforts drew bike riders onto busy streets that were once the sole province of

cars and trucks. The changes also heightened the risk of serious collisions like the one that threw Ken Sherman from his bicycle with such force that his body tore off the vehicle’s side mirror.

Cyclists are frustrated that the growing support for two-wheeled transportation has only rarely led to tougher penalties for drivers who hit bikes, many of whom are never ticketed or receive only minor

citations, even in accidents that permanently disable or kill cyclists. The motorist who hit Sherman was deemed to be at fault but was never charged with any wrongdoing.

“I was upset and outraged,” said Sherman, who suffered a punctured lung and broke his shoulder blade and collarbone.

“I’ve wanted to get my arms around the laws we have and how they’re being enforced.”

After his 2009 crash, he joined a bicycling association and began lobbying the Iowa Legislature for changes.

Concerns about cycling safety have risen along with ridership. Bicycle commuting nationwide climbed 62 percent from 2000 to 2013, according to a census survey. In cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, it shot up by more than 300 percent.

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Tech wins first conference series of season

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

The No. 25 Texas Tech baseball team secured its first Big 12 Conference series win of the season by defeating Baylor 6-5 on Sunday afternoon in Waco.

After losing the conference series opener the last two years, Sunday marked the team’s first Big 12 opening series win since 2013, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Red Raiders won their first Big 12 game on Friday with a 5-0 shutout.

Freshman right-handed pitcher Davis Martin kept the Bears’ bats silent through six innings and allowed only two hits. The bullpen limited Baylor to four hits in the final three innings to complete the shutout.

Martin became the first Red Raider freshman to start the Big 12 opener since AJ Ramos in 2006, according to the release.

The scoreless game marked the first time the Red Raiders have shutout Baylor since 1993, according to the release.

Sophomore outfielder Tanner Gardner knocked in the first run of the game in with a single in the fourth inning. Senior outfielder Tyler Neslony doubled Tech’s lead in the following inning with an RBI single.

Gardner and Neslony struck again in the eighth and ninth innings when they both added their second RBIs of the game and put the team up 4-0. Senior infielder Cory Raley brought in the fifth and final run of the game later in the ninth inning.

On Saturday, for the second-straight game, the Red Raiders broke a 0-0 tie in the fourth inning. According to the release, senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez took the first two pitches for balls and then sent a two-run home run over the left field wall.

The Red Raiders went up 3-0 in the seventh inning when Neslony hit a sacrifice fly. The Bears immediately responded in the bottom of the inning with four hits and three runs to tie to game, according to the release.

Baylor used walks and

one hit to across home plate and scored the go-ahead run the eighth inning. Tech managed only one hit in the ninth inning and lost 4-3. The loss ended a three-game winning streak for the Red Raiders.

Tech rebounded with a 6-5 victory on Sunday to win the series.

S e n i o r c e n t e r Ty l e r Floyd jumpstarted a fourrun second inning with a three RBI triple. Floyd scored later in the inning, according to the release, to put the team up 4-0.

The Bears cut into the lead with three runs in the third inning. Freshman right-handed pitcher Ty Harpenau was pulled from the game after getting one out in the inning.

Junior left-handed pitcher Hayden Howard came out of the bullpen and gave the Red Raiders five and one-third innings.

Tech gave Howard some run support in the fifth inning behind junior outfielder Stephen Smith’s solo home run and an RBI single from Gutierrez.

Howard allowed a run

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The Red Raiders sing the Matador Song after a 4-1 loss against Cal State Fullerton on March 6 at Rip Griffin Park. Tech will return home on Tuesday after a series win against Baylor during the weekend. in the eighth inning and an unearned run cut the Red Raiders lead to 6-5, according to the release.

Junior right-handed pitcher Robert Dugger finished off the Bears on 12

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Hield, who didn’t score for more than 10 minutes to start the game, made 9 of 12 shots in the second half after going 2 for 8 in the first. The senior guard posted at least 30 points for the 11th time this season.

Jordan Woodard scored 17 points and Isaiah Cousins added 15 for the Sooners (277), who advanced to the Sweet 16 for the second straight year.

Melvin Johnson scored 18 of his 23 points in the second half,

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The insufferable zone of Syracuse ground Middle Tennessee State’s magical March ride to a halt, and the No. 10 seed Orange beat the No. 15 seed Blue Raiders 75-50 on Sunday night to advance to the Sweet 16.

Michael Gbinije poured in 23 points, Tyler Lydon added 14 and the Orange (21-13) used a 21-2 charge midway through the second half to crack open a close game and join five other ACC schools in advancing to the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

After teetering on the bubble a week ago, they’ll play No. 11 seed Gonzaga

pitches in the final inning to earn his third save of the season, according to the release.

With four hits on Sunday, Smith is now hitting .366 for the season, according to the

Big 12 website.

Tech is 12-7 on the season and will play a midweek game against New Mexico at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Rip Griffin Park. @JeremyK_DT

Oklahoma defeats VCU Syracuse routs Middle Tennessee State, 75-50 JeQuan Lewis scored 22 points and Michael Gilmore added 12 for VCU (25-11), which was trying to reach the Sweet 16 for the first time since its Final Four run in 2011.

Oklahoma started the game on a 21-7 run despite Hield going scoreless. VCU hit three 3-pointers in a three-minute span to cut the Sooners’ lead to 30-25.

Hield sat for the final 4:25 of the first half with two fouls. The Sooners led 32-27 when he went to the bench, but they outscored the Rams 12-4 the rest of the half to lead 44-31 at the break. Hield scored seven points on 2-for-8 shooting in the first half.

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Darnell Harris led Middle Tennessee State with 11 points, while Reggie Upshaw — who scored 21 points against the Spartans — was held to two on 1-for-10 shooting.

Trevor Cooney got Syracuse off to a good start with three early 3s, but he was just as valuable alongside Gbinije at the top of its zone.

The long, athletic guards were able to cut off the Blue Raiders before they could drive to the basket, forcing them to take a series of offbalance jumpers.

Still, their trouble at the foul line allowed Middle

Tennessee State to hang in the game.

The Orange led just 3127 at halftime, and the hardscrabble Blue Raiders even managed to pull ahead when Giddy Potts followed a 3-pointer by Jaqawn Raymond with one of his own out of the break.

But after Potts, the nation’s top 3-point shooter, hit again a few minutes later, the Blue Raiders managed one more field goal over the next 11 minutes. They resorted to deep 3-pointers rather than even try to penetrate the Syracuse defense, and Lydon kept swatting away the few inside chances they had.

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The Blue Raiders (2510), who shredded so many brackets with their upset of second-seeded Michigan State, made things tough on Syracuse for a while. They led early in the second half and still trailed just 40-39 with 16:02 to go, but proceeded to make one of their next 16 field-goal attempts.

The Orange became the sixth and perhaps most unlikely of the ACC schools to advance to the Sweet 16, a record number for a single conference since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

The league went 12-1 in the opening two rounds with only

No. 5 seed Maryland beats No. 13 seed Hawaii SPOKANE (AP) — Melo Trimble scored 24 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Maryland beat Hawaii 73-60 on Sunday to advance to the round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

Diamond Stone added 14 points for fifth-seeded Maryland (27-8), which advanced to the round of 16 for the eighth time in the past 22 years.

Mike Thomas had 19 points and 11 rebounds for 13th-seeded Hawaii (28-6), which won a tournament game for the first time this season.

Maryland will play Kansas next Thursday in the round of 16.

After a sluggish first half in which Maryland led 28-27, the tempo picked up

in the second.

Hawaii went on a 10-4 run to take a 39-36 lead. Then the bottom fell out.

Trimble’s 3-pointer, the first of the game for Maryland after 15 misses, highlighted a 14-0 run that put the Terps ahead 53-41 with just over seven minutes left.

Hawaii made just 1-of-13 field goal attempts during Maryland’s run.

Hawaii pressed and tried to close the margin, but the teams traded baskets the rest of the way.

Maryland had a big advantage in free throws, making 28 of 31. Hawaii made 10 of 15.

Neither team shot well.

Maryland connected on 46 percent of its shots, but only made 1 of 18 from

3-point range. Hawaii shot 33 percent.

Maryland missed its first six shots and didn’t score a field goal until six minutes into the game, but Hawaii held only a 6-4 lead at that point. Hawaii made only five of its first 15 shots.

Hawaii built a 10-4 lead, but Diamond Stone scored four baskets as the Terps took a 14-13 lead.

The teams traded baskets as the scoring pace picked up. Maryland led 28-27 lead at halftime.

This season has been an unexpected success for Hawaii under first-year coach Eran Ganot. In December, the NCAA slapped his program with sanctions for infractions committed under former coach Gib Arnold.

The penalties include a 2016-17 postseason ban, scholarship reductions and players being allowed to transfer without having to sit out a year.

Instead of crumbling, the Warriors won the Big West Conference. They set a school record for victories in a season by beating California 77-66 in the first round of the tournament, their first win after four losses in the NCAAs. Meanwhile, Maryland hung on to beat South Dakota State 79-74 in the first round.

It’s been an up-and-down season for the Terrapins, who at one point were ranked No. 2 in the nation before losing five of their final eight games before the tournament.

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Baylor women advance to 8th straight Sweet 16 WACO (AP) — With Nina Davis open in the middle, everything went just as planned for the Baylor women — and they are going to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the eighth year in a row.

Davis scored a season high-matching 30 points and freshman post Kalani Brown had 16 points as the Lady Bears beat the Auburn press all night while avoid-

ing being trapped in an 8452 victory Sunday.

“We knew that Nina was going to be open most of the time in that middle.

We did exactly what our game plan was set for,” said Alexis Jones, who had 16 points, seven steals and six assists.

“Probably yesterday at practice,” junior forward Davis responded was asked

when she knew their plan was going to work. “It played out exactly how we played it in practice and we just kept attacking, and it kept working all night.”

The Lady Bears (35-1), the No. 1 seed in the Dallas Region and with a 22-game winning streak, advances to play Saturday at the NBA Dallas Mavericks’ home arena about 100 miles from their

campus. Baylor will take on Texas A&M or Florida State, who play Monday night.

Brandy Montgomery had 14 points and Tra’cee Tanner 13 for ninth-seeded Auburn (20-13), which was the last unranked opponent to beat the Lady Bears on their home court. That was 13 years ago in the WNIT final to end coach Kim Mulkey’s third season at Baylor.

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Tech season shows team’s potential

BY DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Although the postseason run for the Texas Tech men’s basketball team in the NCAA tournament ended early after a 71-61 first round loss to the Butler Bulldogs, the team surpassed expectations after landing in last place in multiple Big 12 preseason polls before the season.

For the first half of the season, Tech dropped just one of its 11 nonconference bouts to then-No.16 Utah Utes. Once Big 12 play began, the Red Raiders looked ready to make a leap by defeating Texas 82-74 in the conference opener.

In a conference stacked with nationally ranked talent, Tech then found itself sitting at 3-6 in Big 12 play after losing games to top 25 teams like Kansas, Iowa State, West Virginia, Baylor and Oklahoma.

The hunt for a postseason spot began for the Red Raiders after coming up with their first ranked win of the season versus then-No. 14 Iowa State.

By breaking through the late game wall, Tech failed to overcome against Iowa State.

The next two weeks for the Red Raiders turned into a resumebuilding period.

Against then-No. 21 Baylor on the road, the Red Raiders dismantled Baylor in an 84-66 win, their largest margin of victory against a ranked conference opponent on the road, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Against then-No. 3 Oklahoma, led by the Big 12 Player of the Year, senior guard Buddy

Hield, the Tech defense came through in the second half to stun Oklahoma and pick up its third-consecutive victory against a ranked opponent.

Two more wins set Tech’s conference record at 8-7, but road losses against Kansas and West Virginia turned Tech’s final home and conference game of the regular season against Kansas State as the game the team needed to win to solidify a case for a postseason bid.

For a significant portion of the game against Kansas State, the Red Raiders played catchup after falling behind by as many as 12 points. Tech’s performance in the final minutes of the first half placed the team in a comfortable position it held onto for the remainder of the game to seal the win and finish 19-11 overall and 9-9 for the season.

The game against Kansas State sealed the Red Raiders’ claim for a NCAA berth and sent out senior guard Toddrick Gotcher, the team’s leading scorer, on a high note as he pieced together a 13-point game and proposed to his girlfriend after the game’s conclusion.

Before facing Butler in Raleigh, North Carolina, to open the tournament, Gotcher said the team knew it could play above the expectations set prior to the start of Big 12 play.

“We knew in our locker room where we needed to be and what we needed to do,” Gotcher said. “Around Texas Tech, everybody knew we were better than last place.”

Facing Butler, Tech stayed within grasp of snatching the

lead from the Bulldogs, but an impressive 23-point game from Butler’s senior guard Kellen Dunham along with Butler’s ability to extend runs ended the Tech’s first tournament visit since 2007 at the round of 64.

Closing out the year, Tech saw its offensive leaders shift as sophomore forward Zach Smith and junior forward Aaron Ross found themselves averaging at least 10 points per game after averaging less than seven points in the 2014-2015 season.

Along with the increased production on the court of Smith and Ross, junior walk-on Matthew Temple played a pivotal role in keeping Tech in the chase for a tournament spot once he filled in for starting center Norense Odiase, who missed 11 of Tech’s last 12 games because of injury.

As players like Gotcher and senior guard Devaugntah Williams, who averaged 10.8 points, depart the program at the end of the season, another shot at a tournament appearance next year remains open for the team.

Tech coach Tubby Smith, who earned Big 12 Coach of the Year and Sporting News Coach of the Year nods for his work in the 2015-16 campaign, said his confidence in the team stays high after the loss to Butler, as the team now knows it can grind its way to the postseason.

“We have everybody back except for Toddrick and D-Will,” Smith said. “I think it sets up pretty good. I think the experience of being here, and that taste of losing — you don’t want to have that experience again.” @DGaytanDT

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Texas Tech forward Justin Gray attempts to block a shot from a Kansas State player during the first half of Tech’s 80-71 win over Kansas State on March 5th in the United Supermarkets Arena.

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Late tip gives Notre Dame 76- Nowitzki, Williams lead 75 win over Stephen F. Austin Mavericks past Trail Blazers NEW YORK (AP) — Notre Dame and Stephen F. Austin went shot-for-shot in an NCAA Tournament game that was about as good as it gets. The power school against the unflinching underdog. The lead never was more than seven for either team.

That it came down to the last shot was no surprise. The hero, though, might have been the most unlikely player on the floor to make a game-winner.

Rex Pflueger tapped in a rebound with 1.5 seconds left and Notre Dame survived 14th-seeded Stephen F. Austin 76-75 on Sunday to reach the NCAA round of 16 for the second consecutive season.

Down one with 17.5 seconds left, sixth-seed Notre Dame

grabbed an SFA rebound and put the ball in the hands of Demetrius Jackson. The point guard drove to the basket and missed. Zach Auguste followed for the Irish (23-11) but could not convert. The ball slipped off the rim and with one hand Pflueger flipped it in.

Not only had Pflueger not scored in the game to that point, he hadn’t had a field goal since March 5.

“I just crashed the board,” Pflueger said. “I thought Zach was going to make that last layup, but coach always emphasizes going to the board hard, especially in situations like that, and it just turned out for the best for us.”

A long heave from Stephen F. Austin (28-6) went wide and

Notre Dame celebrated by swarming Pflueger.

“Are you kidding me? Are you freakin’ kidding me? That was unbelievable,” Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said.

The Irish advance to play either Wisconsin or Xavier Friday in the East Regional at Philadelphia.

The Irish and Lumberjacks put on a show to match Beyonce at Barclays Center, with Brey’s longtime friend, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, sitting not far behind the Notre Dame bench.

“I’ve been watching them all year, and they’re very toughminded so they were going to battle right to the very end,” said Christie, whose daughter Sarah is a team manager. “But was I nervous? Yeah, absolutely.”

DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki and Deron Williams played on Sunday as if everything was on the line.

Nowitzki scored 40 points and Williams had 31 points and 16 assists, all season highs, leading the Dallas Mavericks to a 132-120 overtime win over the Portland Trail Blazers.

Williams made a tiebreaking 3-pointer in overtime before Nowitzki scored eight straight points, all on assists

by Williams.

“It’s my job as a point g u a r d , ” Wi l l i a m s s a i d .

“You’ve got to know when your good fella’s hot.”

The Mavericks moved within a half-game of the Trail Blazers for the sixth playoff position in the Western Conference.

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great rhythm today,” Nowitzki said. “Salah (Mejri) really changed the game for us today, so I think this game has a couple heroes.”

Rookie Mejri came off the bench to score 13 points with career highs of 14 rebounds, six blocked shots and 32 minutes played. He had played just 198 minutes in 23 games before Sunday.

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“We’re a team that needs all of our pieces.

“We needed some size out there. I just thought Mejri has had some good stretches for us, maybe he can give us some rim protection, some rebounding, and he came in and made a big difference.”

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Dallas has 12 games to play, and Portland 11.

The Mavericks (35-35) also gained a tiebreaker by winning the first two of three games in the season series against the Trail Blazers (36-35). The teams play again in Portland on Wednesday.

“This was the tiebreaker game,” Williams said. “We gained a full game on them, and we see them again next week.”

Williams said he needed to be more aggressive offensively because Chandler Parsons, averaging nearly 14 points per game, was out with a sore right hamstring.

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2 1. Sarah Weber and Camaury Washington finish their high five during the announcing of the Lady Raider team members before the start of the softball game against Boise State on Friday at Rocky Johnson Field.

2. Cheyene Powell pitches the ball to a Boise State batter during the Lady Raiders’ softball game on Friday, at Rocky Johnson Field.

3. Sarah Weber catches a ground ball during the Lady Raiders’ softball game against Boise State on Friday, at Rocky Johnson Field.

4. Kiani Ramsey makes contact with the ball while at bat for the Lady Raiders during the softball game against Boise State on Friday, at Rocky Johnson Field.

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h e Te x a s Tech softball team finished the fiveg a m e Jeannine McHaney Memorial Classic with a 4-1 record at Rocky Johnson Field.

Tech opened the tournament by winning the first game against the Georgia Southern Eagles by a score of 4-1 Thursday night.

Tech coach Adrian Gregory said the team came out strong against the Eagles and built on its game as the innings progressed.

“They held us at zeroes up into the fourth, but I thought we had competitive at bats,” Gregory said. “We left runners in scoring position early, but I think it’s huge for us to get this first win.”

After four scoreless innings, Tech finally placed a run at the bottom of the fifth inning.

Junior catcher Susan Welborn, the only runner on base for the inning, earned a trip to first on a hit by pitch. Junior outfielder Camaury Washington then came in to pinch run for Welborn, stole second, and made it around the bases on two sacrifice bunts.

Three runs on one hit added comfort for the Red Raiders at the bottom of the sixth. With runners at third and second, a throwing error to first by the Eagles’ second baseman cleared Tech’s runners and placed the Red Raiders up 4-0.

At the bottom of the seventh, junior pitcher Mattison Maisel, gave up the only run of the game on a long ball to center field. Maisel finished the game pitching all seven innings, allowing just four hits and recording two strikeouts.

Tech continued its win streak in the tournament by winning its first game against the Boise State Broncos 8-1 Friday night.

The first run of the game went to the Broncos on a pair of doubles at the top of the opening inning, but Boise State turned the lead over an inning later as runners at first and second made it home on a throwing error from first to second.

Three more runs came down on the Broncos at the bottom of the third. With runners at the corners, Tech converted a run on a single and loaded the bases on a walk after the RBI. Another single soon followed with two runners on to add another run, and a deep-fly to center field scored the final run of the inning.

After a low scoring game against Georgia Southern, junior right fielder Kierra Miles said the offense clicked because it followed through in its game plan.

“We were just doing our job, getting on base, moving them around, we weren’t doing too much,” Miles said.

“We were just doing our thing and trusting what we have.”

Boise State fell further behind the next inning as Miles hit her eighth home run of the season with two runners on base. The Broncos avoided a mercy-rule ending by leaving Tech runners stranded in the fifth and sixth, but the team could not produce runs in the late innings as junior Dominique Alcocer rationed one hit in her four and two third innings of relief work.

Alcocer followed her winning relief appearance by starting in Tech’s 14-5 win over the Eagles Saturday afternoon.

Senior outfielder Jordan Bettiol did damage to Georgia Southern first at the

bottom of the opening inning with a RBI single, and junior first baseman Brittany Warnecke smashed a homer to add another three runs for the Red Raiders.

In the second, Tech added a run on a home run by Miles and increased the lead to 6-0 on a bases-loaded walk. The Eagles carved out a run at the bottom of the third on a throwing error, but Tech matched the run in the next inning.

Down 7-1, Georgia Southern hit a two-run homer to draw closer to the Red Raiders, but Tech cashed in seven runs at the top of the sixth.

The first run of the inning went to Schwirtlich as she belted a ball beyond the outfield. After an RBI single and a walk to bring in the third runner, Miles stepped up to the plate to send a ball out of the field for a grand slam.

A nine-run deficit ended the game early for a mercy rule finish.

Alcocer tossed four innings in the circle recording one strikeout, three hits and two earned runs.

Saturday night, Tech completed a four-run rally to defeat the Broncos in their second meeting of the tournament.

The Broncos found themselves with a 5-1 lead with only three innings left in the game.

The Red Raiders slashed the deficit to 5-3 as freshman left fielder Kiani Ramsey hit a single to bring in junior shortstop Brooke Scott at home from second and later reached home on a throwing error.

By keeping Boise State scoreless in the sixth, Tech turned the score around by loading the bases and hitting a double for a RBI and a single for another two runs.

Alcocer, who came into the game in the fourth inning, retired three of the Broncos four runners in seventh inning to close out the rally and pick up her third win of the tournament.

Boise State took Tech’s final game of the tournament Sunday morning by keeping the Red Raiders scoreless for five innings in an 8-4 win.

Finishing the home stand, Gregory said Tech did not show the play it showed leading up to the matchup.

“We weren’t smart on the base paths, we were tentative at the plate, which is the exact opposite of what we were yesterday and we got beat,” Gregory said. “We just lulled.”

Closing out its final home tournament of the season, Tech scored three runs at the top of the first versus the Broncos on a double from Warnecke, who then advanced to third on a throwing error by the third baseman and beat the tag at home.

Boise State then scored two at the bottom of the first on a sac-fly and home run.

Tech went up 4-2 on a single after a triple from senior third baseman Ashley Futlz, but the Broncos knotted the game on a two-run shot to left field in the next inning.

Two innings later, Boise State launched another long ball for a pair of runs at the bottom of the fifth to break the 4-4 tie. The Broncos then followed up in the next inning by adding a couple of runs by hitting a single after a double to center field and another single with a runner at second.

T h e f o u r- r u n d e f i c i t stayed put for the Broncos as the team stranded runners at third and second in the seventh inning.

Sunday’s tournament finish set the Red Raiders’ overall record to one below .500 at 14-15. @DGaytanDT