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Historian and archivist Monte Monroe strives to make Texas history known on campus.

Right-handed pitcher Caleb Kilian bounces back after rocky start to season.

Column: Outlook on life changes perception of time.

Texas Tech track and field hosted its first outdoor meet of the season over the weekend. Check out the sights on our website.

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58 Tech headed back to Sweet 16 with win over Buffalo

By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor

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fter a dominant second half, the 3-seed Texas Tech men’s basketball team defeated the 6-seed Buffalo Bulls, 78-58, securing the team’s backto-back trip to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

“I just want to start on behalf on everyone in our program, coaches, players, staff and just congratulate Buffalo on a great season,” Tech coach Chris Beard said following the win, according to the NCAA. “Thirty-two wins is just unbelievable at the Division I level, multiple championships, and it’s one of the toughest teams we’ve played all year.”

Up next, the Red Raiders will head to Anaheim, California, to face the 2-seed Michigan Wolverines, the runner-ups from last season’s tournament, on Thursday, March 28.

“We came to Tulsa to play 80 minutes of basketball, and

I thought we did for the most part. Now we move on to the next regional,” Beard said, according to the NCAA. “We’re a team put together to make a statement in this tournament, not just win a game or two.”

With the win, Tech’s overall record on the season is now 28-6, having won back-to-back games following the team’s unexpected loss to West Virginia in the Big 12 Tournament. For the first time in program history, Beard has led the Red Raiders to back-to-back Sweet 16 appearances, with last season’s run capped off with the first Elite Eight appearance in program history.

“Extremely proud of our guys, you know we’re not supposed to be here, (preseason polls) picked us in the bottom of the Big 12, and haven’t got much respect this year,” Beard said, according to the NCAA. “But these guys have continued to keep a chip on their shoulder and just realized that we can do a lot of things if we play as a team.”

Tech’s starting lineup for the game consisted of their regular cast, with sophomore guards Davide Moretti and Jarrett Culver, redshirt senior Norense Odiase, graduate

forward Tariq Owens and graduate guard Matt Mooney rounding out the lineup.

Early on, Tech’s attempt to control the tempo worked well for the Red Raiders, as the team jumped out to an early 10-2 lead over the Bulls. Tech’s size advantage over the Bulls went in Tech’s favor early, as the Red Raiders outrebounded Buffalo, 8-1, in the opening minutes of the game.

“Transition (defense), even though they score a lot of points, they get out and they spread, they shoot the ball well, they have great guards, great overall team, they can all shoot,” Odiase said. “We were keying in on their three-point shot mainly, transition, and just one-on-one plays like driving middle.”

A dish from Moretti to Culver for a midrange jumper put Tech up by 10, forcing a Buffalo timeout with just over 11 minutes to play in the first half. After some adjustments offensively, the Bulls went on a scoring run to cut Tech’s lead to five. A three by the Bulls gave them their first lead of the half, but a score by Owens on the ensuing possession wrested the lead back into Tech’s hands.

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Experts explain West Texas dust storms, haboobs

Tech experiences growth in spring student enrollment, diversity ADÁN RUBIO News Editor

Texas Tech student enrollment undergoes a variety of changes each year. Compared to the spring of 2018, this semester has seen growth in the student body and campus diversity.

Whether it be an increase of enrolled Latino students, female students or total students, Tech enrollment numbers this semester have shown growth since last spring.

According to the Tech Institutional Research Factbook, this semester’s total enrollment is 34,549 students, which surpasses the 34,275 total stu-

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A haboob rolls over the Texas Tech campus on October 17, 2011. The weather event is an intense wind storm and, in 2011, was caused by a cold front and strong winds moving through the Texas panhandle.

By ANN RIDLEY Staff Writer

Anyone who lives in Lubbock is well acquainted with the infamous West Texas wind that carries dust and tumbleweeds in its wake. An uncommon occurrence and an uncommon word for most, this wind storm is known as a haboob.

Eric Bruning, associate professor for atmospheric science in the Department of Geoscience and member of the Tech National Wind Institute, explained how haboobs happen and how often they can be expected to occur in West Texas.

There are two kinds of haboobs,

he said, smaller ones, which the area gets approximately once a year after a thunderstorm, and larger ones, which are caused by regional weather patterns that occur in Lubbock approximately once every 10 years. “(Smaller haboobs) happen when the rain falls below the cloud and evaporates, and you get these very strong downdraft winds when they hit the earth’s surface,” Bruning said. “Then they spread out along the surface and if the conditions are dry, and that’s a very common thing in this part of the world – we’re a semi-arid climate, and so when those winds blow along the

surface, they pick up dust. The dust is then concentrated along those gusty winds that are moving out from the thunderstorm. So those can be very localized.”

The same principle of precipitation and wind creating a dust storm also applies to large haboobs. The haboob that hit Lubbock in 2011 was driven by a cold front and strong winds moving through the panhandle, Bruning said.

“Haboobs are always associated with a wind shift and very strong winds behind that wind shift” he said.

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dents enrolled in spring 2018.

Since last spring, this semester’s number of undergraduate students enrolled increased by 216 students, graduate students enrolled increased by 82 students and law students enrolled decreased by 24 students.

Other enrollment increases from spring 2018 to spring 2019, according to the Factbook, include enrolled Asian students increasing by 180, black students, not of Hispanic origin, increasing by 193 students, Hispanic students increasing by 554 and female students increasing by 443.

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Tech educators provide insight on teacher pay raise

By EMMA SIPPLE Staff Writer

The Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 3, which will put $4 billion toward pay raises of $5,000 dollars for full-time teachers and librarians.

Charles Crews, associate professor for educational psychology and leadership at Texas Tech, said it is great teachers are getting raises.

“It’s something that I think helps with equity. Just in payment of all people,” Crews said. “If we lob teachers into public service, they’re getting paid the lowest of most public servants. So, I think this is a fantastic start to funding education a lot better.”

However, Janna Brendle, education psychology and leadership professor, said the implementation of the money is an issue.

“Of course, everyone believes teachers should have increased pay, but how much and what and where, I am not sure,” Brendle said. “To say across the board, everyone

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Ethan Logan, associate vice president of Tech Enrollment Management, said the institution is interested in the growth of enrollment.

gets $5,000 increase, I’m not sure that still is equitable. As far as superintendents go, it’s a mandate, so how long is it going to be funded? How is it going to be funded? I would say listen to the superintendents.”

The funding for other members of faculty has been left up to the school districts, according to an article by the Texas Tribune.

“So, it included lots of other educational people, but didn’t include principals,” Crews said.

“Counselors were excluded from that, which is, that’s a real sad thing because the school counselors, sure they get paid more than teachers, but now in many districts, the teachers will get paid more than school counselors when we need school counselors most.”

Due to the lack of pay for counselors, more pressure is put on teachers, who now are doing more of the counselors’ jobs, Crews said.

“Not only do they have to have their subject mastered, they also have to know about suicide, cutting, “The institution has grown in its enrollment for the last 10 years from 2008 to 2018,” he said. “Each year, we’ve added to our enrollment, and we’re approaching that 40,000 student mark, and that’s undergraduate, graduate and law school combined in terms

dating violence, all of these things that are dropout prevention,” he said.

Crews believes a possible reason behind the funding is to prevent possible teacher strikes, such as the ones recently in California, he said.

“It could’ve been a preemptive thing done that Texas did so our teachers don’t walk out like the rest of the nation, which is genius on the political end, absolutely political genius,” Crews said.

“I don’t know if that was

the case or not. I think it could trend. If it works in Texas to where teachers don’t walk out, maybe other states would do it.”

Doug Hamman, department chair for the Tech College of Education, said he believes the bill shows foresight on Texas’ end.

“The fact legislation is to be considered communicates to the public that Texas wants to get in front of the crisis in other states,” Hamman said. “They are showing

the teachers they value what they are doing and want them to be happy.”

Another issue regarding moving forward in funding educators, Crews said, is funding for education on the higher level. He said universities receive reimbursement per credit hour for whatever type of program a student is in.

“But it’s ranked on how much the state will actually reimburse. I don’t know exact numbers. I haven’t seen them in a few years. Like, pharmacy students bring in, I believe, the most money per credit hour from the state,” Crews said. “I think it’s above $1,200, something unbelievably high, and then teachers are down in like, the $30.”

With the current budgets for educators, Crews said one can barely train a teacher to do their job effectively.

“Compared to budgets of other colleges, the College of Ed, we survive by grants instead of actual funding from the state,” Crews said, “and our university does a

of our total enrollment.”

For undergraduate admissions, Logan said the department makes admission decisions based only on a student’s academic status.

“Our goal is to say, we’re going to get out into these communities and tell students the story of Texas Tech,” he said.

In addition to the increase of undergraduate students, the graduate student population is another demographic that has seen growth.

Kim Cappillino, senior director of admissions, marketing and recruitment at the Tech Graduate School, said with the increasing competitiveness, more people need graduate education.

“More and more graduate degrees are needed to be competitive and to get some of these positions as students are coming out of college,” she said.

“We’re really trying to emphasize that in our messaging.”

To bring in more students, Cappillino said the Graduate School staff utilizes email and digital marketing campaigns and recruitment fairs.

“Over the past 10 years, the national average for graduate enrollment has increased about 10 percent,” Cappillino said.

“Tech grad school enrollment has increased 25 percent, so we’re well above the national average for over the past 10 years.”

With dedication, Cappillino said the Graduate School staff is helping the enroll-

ment in the school grow.

“Not just by numbers, but also by quality,” she said regarding graduate enrollment. “Quantity isn’t always everything, quality is really good. I feel like we’ve done a very good job.”

One reason Cappillino said the increase in Graduate School enrollment is important is because of its impact on research opportunities.

“The more students you can have bringing in diverse research areas, that is going to affect, not just Texas Tech, the state of Texas, the United States, but globalization again,” Cappillino said.

“Graduate enrollment is a vital part of that.”

Along with the benefits for research on campus, Cappillino said the enrollment increase promotes diversity.

“Our diversity has gone up as well at the Graduate School level,” she said. “We find that, like I said, to be very important for cultural, for national recognition, global recognition.”

Despite the increase in undergraduate and graduate admissions, changes in diversity are other aspects one may consider regarding trends in student enrollment.

The cultivation of a diverse student population is one goal Logan said the institution is committed to achieving in undergraduate enrollment.

“Diversity is not a term that is limited to just a cul-

tural and ethnic distribution of students,” he said. “We don’t have a specific number that we need to provide of any given types of student.”

To promote diversity on campus, Logan said Undergraduate Admissions works to include an incoming class of students who are diverse.

“That’s cultural makeup, that’s gender makeup, that’s socioeconomic makeup,” Logan said. “Our goal is to try to keep that as diverse as we can. Our responsibility is the head count in terms of how many students show up to the institution.”

Logan said the goal of admitting students is not based on ethnic backgrounds, but to promote the idea to incoming students that there is cultural support available at Tech.

“We’re going to do that through a demonstration of our commitment,” he said.

“Our role is to bring the idea and the story of Texas Tech to the students who are interested in college.”

The demonstration of Tech’s culture is one factor Logan said is important in bringing in students.

Due to the need to attract potential students to Tech, there are a variety of ways in which the institution works to demonstrate the diversity aspect of the campus.

Jamie Hansard, executive director of Tech Undergraduate Admissions, said the department has accomplished

very good job supporting us though. That’s the thing that’s so beautiful about it.

But that (Classification of Instructional Programs) code thing, that’s a nightmare.”

For students wanting to pursue education, Texas offers a competitive field to join with benefits, Brendle said.

“I would say cost of living across Texas and comparable pay and benefits make it a place where say teacher retention here would be rather high,” Brendle said. “I think Texas has a lot going for it as far as teachers comparatively.

Texas is competitive, especially in the larger areas. Some of the smaller rural areas, that may be where you find more disparity between the salaries.”

For students who are not considering education, the raise would not really change their minds, Hamman said.

“I think new teachers will be excited about the raise,” he said, “and it will encourage those already becoming teachers.”

a lot to encourage different students to consider Tech as their intended institution.

“We work with a couple of different offices on campus, like Parent Family Relations,” she said. “We also work with the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.”

Hansard said the admissions department wants to be accessible for people. She said the university is working to help enrolled students.

“It’s not just one person or one office that’s doing that,” Hansard said regarding efforts to promote diversity on the Tech campus and bring in more students, “I think it’s the university as whole. I think that’s really important to recognize this synergy that is Texas Tech.”

Whether it be to increase enrollment or promote diversity on campus, Hansard said Undergraduate Admissions helps students by directing them to the best resources.

“We want to be the liaison,” she said. “And that’s not for underrepresented students, that’s for all students.”

Regardless of the increased number of students enrolled this spring and the diversity this increase brings, there could be a variety of factors that affect Tech’s trends in enrollment.

“It is our job to recruit, but it’s so much bigger than that,” Hansard said. “Everything’s going to grow.”

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Historian, archivist strives to make Texas history known

By MALLORY ROSETTA Staff Writer

Last fall, Southwest Collection and Special Collections Library archivist Monte Monroe stood in the State Capitol to be named Texas State Historian.

His journey to that moment has been one that has seen him go from a janitor paying for school, to an officiator at the Olympics, to an archivist at Texas Tech and more.

This journey began in Houston where Monroe was born.

Raised in Orange County, Monroe attended Stephen F. Austin University, where he got his undergraduate degree. He said his passion for history began at a young age, and his main influence came from his teachers and family members who possessed great storytelling abilities.

In his early years, on top of teaching history, Monroe was also the first American to officiate in the sport of Taekwondo the first time it was a demonstration sport in the 1988 Olympics. He later went on to serve again in the 1992 Olympics.

He is the only American to have officiated twice in the Olympic Games in the sport of Taekwondo. He also used to travel around the world serving as a referee through the Pan American Taekwondo Union, where he served as secretary general, he said.

After retiring from his run with Taekwondo, Monroe never planned on staying in West Texas. However, he said he and

his wife came to Lubbock the night they got married and soon after that, his wife started law school at Tech.

He and his wife thought he would go off after receiving his graduate, master’s and Ph.D. from Tech to find somewhere to teach, but that was not the case, because his wife was busy with her state-wide law firm, he said.

However, the position of Southwest Archivist came open, and Monroe said this was possibly the best thing that could have ever happened to him.

“I cannot tell you how interesting this job is that I get to do every day,” he said. “You never know who you are going to meet and what you are going to do.”

Monroe has now worked for the Southwest Collection/ Special Collections Library at Tech for almost 20 years, he said. In his position, he gets to participate in the preservation of Texas history through various archives of materials researchers can come and seek from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Archives.

Throughout his career, Monroe has accumulated many stories and events that have not only shaped him as an archivist, but also as a person and historian. Although he has many memories from his years of experience, Monroe said he simply could not pick a favorite one.

“Oh goodness,” Monroe said with a laugh, “I’d have to say that all of the stories are my favorites.”

Most archives have been lost to vermin or neglect by

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Monte Monroe , Southwest Collection and Special Collections Library archivist, speaks at the state capital in front of then Secretary of State Rolando Pablos, former Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance and his wife Laura Monroe. Monroe was named the Texas State Historian in 2018. families, Monroe said, making it difficult to preserve the history that has been made. Historians and other researchers need these documents to be able to create things just like that.

“The history we have is the history we have left,” Monroe said.

Monroe was elected to be the Texas State Historian in early 2018. Though he never sought out the opportunity to become the state historian, Monroe said he was offered the opportunity to apply for the role.

In February 2018, a colleague referred him for nomination, and he put his name into a pool of applicants. After an interview with the Texas State Historical Association, Monroe was chosen to become the next state historian and was installed in September 2018.

As Texas State Historian,

Monroe said some of his main duties include encouraging the study of Texas history in public schools, speaking on topics he is an expert in regarding Texas history and talking about preserving history through archives.

“I am very fortunate to work here in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library here at Texas Tech (because) I have gotten the great privilege of collecting many collections that are of national and international significance to researchers,” he said. “We are one of the top academic archives in the United States, and it is a great responsibility, but also a great joy.”

Robert Weaver, the manuscript archivist for the Southwest Collection portion of the library, said Monroe has served as a mentor to him throughout his career at Tech. He has been

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working with Monroe for 10 years as both an archivist and as his associate research editor when Monroe was editor of the West Texas Historical Review.

When Weaver first met Monroe, he said he never would have guessed Monroe grew up in poor conditions. He had to pay his way through school by being a part-time janitor at a jail, but Weaver said if someone did not know anything about his past, they would never be able to guess that about him.

Throughout the years, Weaver has learned how to not only become a better editor but also a better archivist. Under Monroe’s guidance, Weaver said he learned how to work with researchers and authors and how to help them with their research, as well as talking to different donors of archival material and how to preserve it as a part of history. He has also stepped up to become the editor of the West Texas Historical Review upon Monroe’s retirement as editor.

“My first impression, and the one I still hold today, is that (Monroe) is passionate about preserving the history of Texas and the United States and of the world,” Weaver said.

One of the earliest things that struck Weaver about Monroe is how passionate he is about the topics he is interested in.

Weaver said Monroe is detailoriented, which funneled into his main drive, which is to preserve history of any kind.

“There has been a lot of outreach and engagement within the Lubbock community, and in

the 10 years I’ve known (Monroe), he was doing that long before the program of outreach was even established,” Weaver said. “As Texas State Historian, it makes sense for him to go and continue to be that voice on an even bigger stage.”

Jennifer Spurrier, the associate dean of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, has known Monroe since graduate school and said there could not be a better state historian.

The good thing about Monroe is he does so much outreach and engagement throughout the state of Texas, she said. He is able to go out in the field and speak eloquently about Texas history and its significance to a variety of people, she said.

“He lives and breathes history, especially Texas history – it is his love,” Spurrier said.

Monroe is a pleasure to work with, she said, he is an overachiever and holds high expectations of others, though not those unlike the ones he would hold of himself. She said it is always a big adventure working with Monroe, and she could never learn everything he could teach her about history.

One of the main things Spurrier said Monroe has taught her is to never take any potential historical document or event for granted.

“There is always a chance there is more to the story,” Spurrier said, “and Monte really appreciates that all history matters.” @RosettaDT

Work-study students express gratitude for program

By MEGAN MOSES Staff Writer

While many college students struggle to make ends meet, the work-study program at Texas Tech strives to alleviate some of the pressure for students.

Casey Meyer, a sophomore business marketing management major from Flower Mound, works in the Tech Student Financial Aid and Scholarships office for the head of work-study. She said all the students in the financial aid office are work-study students.

Meyer said when she had a dependency change in her senior year of high school, paying for college got a bit more complicated.

“The student assistant was actually graduating that next semester,” she said. “I just talked to her and they offered me a job and it was work study, so that helped with my unmet need and my financial aid stuff.”

The best part about the job is it is on campus and

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It’s like saying water in another language. That’s just the term.”

In addition to these large dust storms, smaller ones are also problematic. During spring break, a small haboob blew through Lubbock. Claire Oldham, a graduate student in technical communication from Dallas, said the wind was so strong it was difficult to open car doors.

While driving through and out of Lubbock toward Wolfforth, Oldham said the wind got progressively more intense.

During part of the drive, she said she saw a stop sign on its

is flexible with her school schedule, she said.

“One of the great things I love working on campus work study is that this office closes at 5 p.m., so like I don’t have to work at night, and we don’t work weekends,” Meyer said.

Some of the best aspects of the job are helping others who are trying to figure out workstudy and going to class, she said.

Students must fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to help the financial aid office see if they are eligible for work-study, she said.

“Some students think that work-study goes towards their tuition and that like that reduces that, but it has nothing to do with your financial aid in that way,” she said.

“The loans you get and grants is what pays for your tuition, and so the work study just pays your paycheck.”

The financial aid office awards work study authorizations throughout the semester, and each department side rolling across the street like the many tumbleweeds that had been rolling through the roads.

“As we were driving, it was actually really hard to see because the sky was so brown with dust,” Oldham said.

The dust left behind from these storms can take hours to clear out the air, Ardon-Dryer said, and can be cleared from the air more quickly by rain.

Because the dust sits in the air after the storm, Ardon-Dryer said people should not go outside because dust particles can enter the lungs. The long-term effects of this occurrence are uncertain, but research is still being done.

Oldham said it would be best to stay indoors during a dust storm and to ensure fences are closed tightly to prevent damage.

“If you live in Lubbock and if the wind’s ever that bad then you ... kind of have to treat it like bad weather, you can’t try and have like a day out,” Oldham said. @DailyToreador

sets their own pay, she said.

Holley Browning, a sophomore biochemistry major from Boerne, said she qualified for work study her first semester but did not take advantage of work in Sam’s West in food service and the financial aid office as an assistant.

“It’s super flexible,” Browning said. “I basically get to pick whenever I come in, and I get to pick how many hours I want to work.”

Responsibility, time management, communication and independence all are skills she has gained from her workstudy jobs, she said.

Jacob Brown, a graduate student in personal financial planning from Pflugerville, said he talked with staff at the financial aid office after feeling lost, and this conversation led him to work-study.

“I was a gateway student, and I didn’t really have a way to pay for college besides loans. I didn’t really know that much, so I made an appointment,” he said.

Brown met with staff, decided with parents he needed a job and applied to work-study, he said.

“For me, working here in financial aid, its been like the biggest blessing, because just being right here I can go from class to work,” he said.

Scheduling works well too, as Brown said he has a second job at West Texan Independent Financial Services as an operations assistant.

“At least here at the financial aid office, I can’t speak for anybody else, it’s like a family, and so everybody is really here for you,” he said, “and especially as a master’s student, I also have a second job.”

The program has allowed him to be a successful student at Tech for five years, he said.

Work study is an incredible tool not many people know about, he said, and a lot more people qualify for it than they might think. @MeganMosesDT

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Outlook on life changes perception of time

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ime does not stop. No matter how hard we work against it, time keeps marching forward.

Without us realizing, years can pass by, and as we get older, sometimes we feel “stuck” in our lives. These moments of feeling stuck can make us feel as if time is passing by faster than we can fathom, constantly slipping through our fingers as we try to hold on.

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Gloria Matheson is a junior political science major from Austin.

This thought has been a source of panic in my life since as long as I can remember. I vividly remember waking up one day at four or five years old, a few days after my parents had separated, with the understanding that nothing lasts forever. My perception of life changed when my parents divorced, and there was no returning to the way I had viewed it before.

Since then, and less so than when I was younger, I have had overwhelming moments of clarity in which I have felt suffocated by the knowledge that time moves perpetually forward. I have allowed myself to be nostalgic and sad about moments that were occurring right before my eyes because I understood they could not last.

Fortunately, coming into adult life has brought responsibilities and experiences

that occupied such large portions of my day, leaving very little time to panic about mortality. I have also had to learn a universal truth— there is nothing we can do to stop the clock or hit rewind.

Along with this lesson, being an adult has also taught me that—while the intense panic about my own mortality isn’t always normal— fearing death and feeling a little trapped and stuck in life at times is. Not only is it a normal experience, it is nearly universal to the point that research is being done to understand how this feeling is associated with our perception of time.

Another stunning and humbling discovery from my young adult life — the way we interact with time is directly related to how we choose to spend it.

Dr. David Eagleman, a prominent neuroscientist and professor with the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, researches the ways in which the human brain experiences the passage of time.

His research indicates our routines cause us to perceive time as passing more slowly in the moment, yet when we recall the experience later, we perceive time as having passed quickly. This in turn is associated with the feeling of not having enough time in the day.

The irony of this is routine is often inescapable with work, and for many of us it is generally a part of getting older. While it is necessary and beneficial to the efficiency of our lives, many of us find routine comes along with the overwhelming feeling of getting stuck in a life that has become monotonous.

Not only do we allow ourselves to develop routines, but our brain forces them upon us. Most of the experiences we have daily are internalized as a part of existing patterns. Every time we drive home, we don’t have to recall our own address to get there because that would be ridiculous and exhausting.

Information can be filled in by patterns efficiently, and our brains

seek out the most efficient connections. This happens without us trying because humans are creatures of patterns and routines.

There are ways to overcome this, and as a method of combating the feeling of time passing too quickly, Dr. Eagleman suggests breaking routine by seeking out new experiences. Exposing our minds to new and novel experiences makes our own perception of time change, because we are forced into collecting new information that is not reliant on a pattern from our memory.

Breaking routine means we challenge ourselves to form new patterns and gather information in new ways, which takes more effort. This means when we recall a day that included a new experience, it will seem to have lasted longer.

This is comforting for people like me who sometimes worry excessively about running out of time. There is always a way to trick yourself into perceiving time as passing more slowly. Because of

this, I commit myself to trying new things.

Because of this simple idea, I have applied for jobs and made friends and tried terrifying things like skiing and cliff jumping. Because of this idea, I have lived my life more vividly than I would have allowing my fear of mortality and time to consume me.

If you’re feeling stuck, Eagleman’s research indicates trying something new, even something as simple as going to a new restaurant or trying a new hobby, is definitely worth a shot. Even if we are not specifically analyzing the science­—the fact that we are forming new patterns and connections every single time we make weekend plans to try something we’ve never done before­—we will perceive our days as being more full.

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US reacts to end of Mueller probe with relief, skepticism PHILADELPHIA (AP) — With the long-awaited special counsel’s investigation finished but its contents still shrouded in mystery, Americans waited for details, yawned with boredom or stayed fixed to their longcemented positions on President Donald Trump, the man at the probe’s center.

For all the expected splash of Robert Mueller’s report, it arrived with more of a thud, thanks to the secrecy surrounding it. Few saw reason to think it would sway many opinions in a divided republic.

Helen Jones, a 72-year-old retired English professor in Salt Lake City, Utah, who is Republican but despises Trump, knows whatever comes out, her relatives who strongly back the president won’t budge — just as detractors like her won’t be convinced he isn’t a crook. She sees no simple end in sight.

“I think it’s just the beginning,” said Jones, a political junkie who called the moment a historic one like Watergate.

“I hope it’s a turning point in the Trump presidency.”

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expressed relief Saturday that the investigation was finally over.

“Now maybe we can move on to better things,” said Bubba Metts, a 61-year-old conservative who is a financial adviser in Lexington, South Carolina. “Twenty million dollars spent — for nothing.”

Dajah Harris, 21, a college senior at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, is a Democrat and no fan of Trump. But she saw the investigation as a distraction from more important things like homelessness, college debt and welfare programs. The country should never have elected someone, she said, whose background raises such questions.

“I don’t feel that where the country is right now that this is something we should even be discussing,” she said.

Mueller worked in virtual silence as a stream of charges have flowed forth against 37 people and companies. From the start, with his appointment on May 17, 2017, some have framed his work as a battle of good and evil of biblical proportions.

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And on the 675th day, Mueller finished his work, and he rested. But nothing immediately changed for those who had watched with bated breath.

For Mark Itzen, a 64-yearold social worker from Levittown, Pennsylvania, it was a frustrating reality.

“The most disturbing thing for me is that we don’t know the details,” the Democrat said. “I thought we have the right to know right off the bat after all this anticipation.”

Expectations remained high for some sort of explosive revelation, but what exactly it might be remained anyone’s guess.

For liberals who welcomed the investigation with gleeful shouts of “It’s Mueller Time!” and anxiously awaited justice that aligns with their view of Trump as Antichrist, it seemed the endless billows of smoke would surely produce evidence of fire. For conservatives who subscribed to the president’s view of the probe as a witch hunt and dismissed it as the misguided tomfoolery of a bitter opposition whose search for retribution is as loopy as its

policies, it seemed certain to bring exoneration to Trump and maybe even a roadmap for future victory by him and his party.

Jason Cox, a 51-year-old farmer in Campbellsville, Kentucky, who voted for Trump in 2016 and plans to again next year, saw it the way Trump framed it — as a witch hunt.

“It didn’t turn out, it seems to me, the way Democrats wanted,” he said. “I think Pelosi and Schumer are going to just keep beating and badgering and looking for something.”

Stanley Twardy, legal adviser to Republicans for the Rule of Law, which worked to protect the Mueller investigation from political interference, said the report won’t bring a quick end to anything.

“It’s not like the report will be issued and everybody says, ‘OK, we’re done now,’” he said. “This is all part of a process. The process will work its way out. This is why our country has stood the test of time.”

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Saturday morning at the Lost Sock Laundromat in Wichita, Kansas, when the topic of Mueller was raised.

“Which one is Mueller?” asked Cindy, a 51-year-old manager at a paint company.

She doesn’t follow politics closely but liked Trump at first. The questions about Russia, though, caused the 51-year-old paint company manager to reconsider. Her 48-year-old wife Shaela, who considers herself a political independent, sees Trump as “bought and paid for” while regular people live paycheck to paycheck. She doubts Mueller’s report ultimately does anything to change that.

“I don’t feel it is over once it is released,” Shaela Buchanan said. “People any more they have suffered to the point they don’t have any power — it doesn’t matter.”

Peter Malak, a 42-yearold high school civics teacher from northeastern North Carolina, offered similar thoughts. He calls himself a swing voter who tends to lean right. While the media obsess over the Mueller report, he said, most Americans just want to pay their mortgages.

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Track off to strong start in outdoor season

By GABRIELLE TAITE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech track and field team is off to a strong start in the 2019 outdoor track season, as several Red Raiders had outstanding performances at both the ACU Invitational and the Fearless Champion Open meet.

Tech head coach Wes Kittley said he is proud of the outcomes so far this season, especially at the Fearless Champion meet.

“We’re just really excited to be at home,” Kittley said.

“We’re so comfortable here, and we love it here. It’s early in the season, so we just want to keep getting better and working on things, and that’s easy to do at home.”

At the Fearless Champion Open, Tech’s first home outdoor meet of the season, several Red Raiders responsible for Tech’s No. 1 preseason ranking performed, including junior Norman Grimes who ranks second in the country,

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “T h at ( l e a d c h a n g e ) was a big part of the game, the end of that first half was big. We talk to our guys about 10 four-minute games, and no one of those is more important than the rest,” Beard said, according to the NCAA. “Those of us in our sport, we always talk about the last four minutes of the game, but what about those other ones where you have a chance to win or lose the game.”

As time dwindled down in the first half, the Bulls’ fast-paced tempo allowed them to battle back into the game despite trailing by as much as 13 early on, but a strong close out of the half gave the Red Raiders a comfortable lead, up eight heading into half, 33-25.

“I thought we got off to a great start with emotion, we obviously had a great fan base here, Red Raider nation, some of the best

according to Tech Athletics, after winning the 400m hurdles with a time of 51.44 at the meet.

Junior Dorleta Armendariz-Lasa started the home meet on Friday with a win in the hammer throw, according to Tech Athletics.

Senior Charles Brown started the outdoor season as a three-time First Team All-American in the men’s long jump as well as second in the long-jump program standings.

As for the women, senior Ivy Walker started the outdoor season as a Second Team All-American in the long jump, while senior Alaysha Johnson starts the season off second in the nation in the 100m hurdles. Junior Damajahnee Birch starts off ranked third in the country in the 400m hurdles.

Graduate student Duke Kicinski starts the outdoor season off with a nationleading discus from last weekend’s ACU Wes Kit-

tley Invitational, which was his furthest collegiate throw in two years, according to Tech Athletics.

Sophomore Seasons Usual also starts off the field events with impressive ranks as she is 23rd in the country for the discus throw and the hammer. Over the weekend, she came close to setting a new personal record in hammer throw with a mark of 165’-7.” She also won the discus throw event.

The 4x400 continues to be a strong event for the Red Raiders, with the women’s group of seniors Tiffani Johnson and Alaysha Johnson, junior D’Jenne Egharevba and sophomore Daja Gordon taking the lead in the Big 12.

The Red Raiders hope to continue their impressive outdoor standings and improve from last outdoor season in Austin at the Texas Relays on Thursday, March 28, through Saturday, March 30.

fans in college basketball,” Beard said, according to the NCAA. “I thought we got off to an emotional, urgent beginning, and we knew Buffalo wasn’t going to quit, they’ve got too much championship DNA in them.”

Despite starting the game by making just one of their first seven shots, the Bulls ended the first half shooting .360 from the field overall. Neither team found traction from downtown early, as Buffalo’s .300 shooting from three barely bested Tech’s .222, as the teams went a combined 5-19 from outside.

Tech’s biggest strength in the first half was paint play, as the Red Raiders out-rebounded Buffalo 23 to 15 in the first half. Owens and Odiase scored six and five, respectively, in the first half, while Culver led the team with eight points.

Of Tech’s 23 first half rebounds, Odiase pulled in nine of those on his own, four more than Buffalo’s leading rebounder.

In the opening minutes

of the second half, Tech’s renewed energy allowed the Red Raiders to secure a 20-point lead with 14 minutes to play, up 4828. Mistakes by the Bulls forced Tech into the bonus within the first three minutes of the second half, and the Red Raiders took advantage of their opportunities at the free-throw line, finishing the game 19 of 25 from the charity stripe.

Despite possessing one of the highest scoring offenses in the league, Buffalo failed to ever mount a run in the second half, getting outscored 45-33 in the final 20 minutes of the game.

While Culver led the team in scoring in his usual fashion, the player of the game was Odiase, recording his first double-double of the season with 14 points and 15 rebounds.

Culver had another strong postseason game, scoring 16 to follow up his 29-point performance against Northern Kentucky in the opening round. Culver recorded a

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Junior RHP Caleb Kilian throws to a Michigan batter during Texas Tech’s second game against the Wolverines at Friday, March 22, 2019, at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. The Red Raiders defeated the Wolverines, 10-3, en route to a three-game sweep. Kilian was selected in the 2018 MLB First-Year Player Draft, but opted to return to Tech in order to continue his career as a Red Raider.

One of the starting pitcher’s for No. 19 Texas Tech baseball, junior right-handed pitcher Caleb Kilian, had a rough start to the season but has improved in his last two starts.

Last season, Kilian led the pitching staff with nine wins and a 3.24 ERA after pitching 72.1 innings, according to Tech Athletics. Kilian also played a part in four of the five Tech shutouts last season and had a big role in leading the Red Raiders to the College World Series.

His work last season did not go unnoticed, as he was named to the ABCA AllRegion first team, first team All-Big 12 and earned a First Team Academic All-Big 12 selection, according to Tech Athletics. The Major League Baseball scouts also noticed his work, as he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 20th round with the 595th pick in the 2018 MLB First-Year Player Draft.

Although Kilian was drafted, he decided to return to Lubbock to finish what he started.

“There’s a lot of reasons to come back and play,” Kilian

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Vols blow 25-point lead, top Iowa 83-77 in OT COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Admiral Schofield ran around the court in sheer joy, waving a March Madness towel after Tennessee made it back to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2016.

The rest of the Volunteers? Just trying to breathe normally again.

Tennessee avoided one of the biggest meltdowns in NCAA Tournament history Sunday, letting a 25-point lead slip away before SEC player of the year Grant Williams asserted himself in overtime for an 83-77 victory over Iowa.

None of the Volunteers

(31-5) saw that coming, not after they’d raced ahead 44-19 in a sizzling first half they dominated every which way.

The biggest NCAA Tournament comeback? BYU’s 25-point rally past Iona in the First Four in 2012.

“The way we started the game, that’s the team we win (with),” said Schofield, who had 17 of his 19 points in the opening half. “The way we finished the game, we can’t have that.”

Tenth-seeded Iowa (2312) nearly pulled off another historic comeback , sending it overtime tied

said. “I had the best time of my entire life last year, and I hope to do that again.”

In his first game of the season, Kilian pitched for 3.1 innings and gave up six earned runs to start the season with a 16.20 ERA, according to Tech Athletics.

Kilian was unable to strike any batters out in his first appearance on the mound.

Some people might have thought Kilian’s performance against Oregon was poor, but head coach Tim Tadlock said he thought differently.

“I think he was very sharp, I thought he left a lot of pitches above the plate,” Tadlock said. “I didn’t think we helped him too much.”

After appearances against Oregon, Kentucky, Mississippi State and Wichita State, Kilian posted a 6.35 ERA, according to Tech Athletics. In those four games, he struck a total of 10 batters out in 15.2 innings pitched and gave up 16 earned runs.

“I thought he was a lot better than he was (against Oregon),” Tadlock said after game two against Kentucky. “Something to build on. Each week he will continue to progress.”

Kilian looked like a new pitcher when he took the

mound in Austin against No. 9 Texas, earning him the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week honor for the first time in his career, according to Tech Athletics. Kilian pitched in a season-high seven innings and gave up no earned runs for the first time this season. He gave up one hit, which was the only hit allowed, helping the Red Raiders win, 3-0. “(Earning Big 12 Pitcher of the Week) probably gave me some more confidence,” Kilian said. “But I talked to some coaches and decided to start over after all my pretty poor performances. They told me to start the season now (before the game against Texas).”

Following his best performance of the season, Kilian struck out a season-high six batters in 6.0 innings and gave up one earned run in his game against No. 24 Michigan, according to Tech Athletics.

“There are some mechanical things that I’m thinking about, but mostly just mental,” Kilian said regarding changes to his pitching. “I’m trying to forget about what happened, flush it and I started over. It’s a new season.”

With the way he played against Texas and Michi-

gan, Kilian brought his ERA down to 5.34 after giving up 17 earned runs in 28.2 innings, according to Tech Athletics. With 10 total strikeouts against Texas and Michigan, Kilian is tied for the second most strikeouts on the team with junior LHP Dane Haveman.

The right-handed pitcher holds a 2-2 record, according to Tech Athletics. Kilian is one of six pitchers who lead the team with two wins this season.

“It seemed like (Kilian) is finding rhythm and timing each time when he goes out,” Tadlock said. “It seems like he’s staying pitch to pitch and sticking with that process. That’s really the most important thing, as he does that he’s competing good and throwing three pitches for strikes.”

Kilian’s next appearance at the pitcher’s mound will be in one of Tech’s three conference games against Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas. The series will open with a 6 p.m. game on Friday, March 29.

The Red Raiders and Wildcats will then play at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 30, and end the series with a 1 p.m. first pitch on Sunday, March 31. @MaxHengstDT

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at 71 — the first overtime game in this year’s tournament. The last time the teams played also was in the NCAA Tournament, with Tennessee rallying from a 12-point deficit to a 78-65 overtime victory in the First Four at Dayton in 2014.

The Vols’ best player made sure they wouldn’t be on the wrong end of the big comeback this time.

“Grant Williams hit some big shots,” Iowa forward Luka Garza said. “He’s a big-time player. And we defended him well.”

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Freshman infielder Zoe Jones attempts to catch an Oklahoma runner stealing and tags her out during game two of Texas Tech’s series against Oklahoma Saturday, March 23, 2019, at Rocky Johnson Field. The Red Raider were swept by the Sooners in their first Big 12 series of the season.

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UNC back in Sweet 16 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Luke Maye and Nassir Little each scored 20 points and topseeded North Carolina breezed into the Sweet 16, beating Washington 81-59 Sunday.

The Tar Heels (29-6) never trailed and moved on to face fifth-seeded Auburn on Friday in a Midwest Regional semifinal.

Last year, one season removed from its national championship, North Carolina was eliminated in the second round in a rout by Texas A&M. The Tar Heels were not going to let it happen again.

Maye added 14 rebounds for North Carolina, a No. 1 seed for a record 17th time.

The Tar Heels committed 10 turnovers in the first half, and led by eight points at the break.

But they bolted out in the second half, put together a 13-0 run over 5 minutes and pulled away.

Pac-12 player of the year Jaylen Nowell paced Washington (28-8) with 12 points.

North Carolina forward Garrison Brooks took an elbow to the mouth in the first half that knocked out one tooth, chipped another and required stitches to close his cut lip. He returned to start the second half.