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Campus carry recommendations released

By KRISTEN BARTON News editor

On Tuesday afternoon, John Opperman, interim president of Texas Tech, released the campus carry final recommendations in an email to students, faculty and staff.

Opperman approved the report and will submit it for implementation of Senate Bill 11, according to the email.

“These recommendations represent our best efforts to follow the law, conform to System guidelines where appropriate, and address concerns unique to this campus,” Opperman said in the email. “As required by the law, the Board of Regents must review these recommendations before they can be implemented.”

The recommendations will be passed from Opperman to the Tech University System Board of Regents, which will meet in April, for final approval.

According to the recommendations from the Campus Carry Task Force, the recommendations have been established after input from faculty, staff and students at Tech.

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wear marked uniforms and helmets, according to the release, and all LPD vehicles, including motorcycles, also have distinctive marks.

According to the release, the message claims a short, stocky, white male, who goes

by Officer Henshaw, has pulled over three women and obtained their home addresses through their driver’s licenses.

While LPD believes this is a hoax, anyone with direct knowledge of the alleged incidents should contact LPD at (806) 775-2865, according to the release. @DailyToreador

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Elevated fire risk expected A red flag warning is in effect for the Lubbock area from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today as dry, windy conditions bring an elevated fire risk.

A red flag warning is issued when critical fire weather conditions are already occurring or are imminent, according to the National Weather Service. Winds are forecast to be 25 to 30 mph today with gusts up to 40 mph along with 10 to 15 percent humidity.

Outdoor burning is discouraged as any fire can

including anywhere a sporting event is being hosted, anywhere a University Interscholastic League competition is taking place, any Board of Regents meeting, Student Judicial Services and any place hosting a governmental meeting or polling location.

Additionally, the task force recommended specific places on campus to prohibit concealed handguns, according to the report. Those places are the Kent R. Hance Chapel, anywhere counseling services are provided, anywhere with minors, research labs, anywhere alcohol is being served under Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission regulations, performance venues and some residence halls.

According to the report, residence halls with individually assigned rooms will allow CHL holders to have a handgun. The residence halls include Carpenter Wells, Murray, Talkington and West Village. The guns in these rooms will have to be stored in a gun safe approved by the university in the student’s room.

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LPD addresses police impersonator hoax The Lubbock Police Department learned Tuesday of a text message hoax about a police impersonator.

An inaccurate text message and Facebook post has circulated about a police officer on a motorcycle who is targeting and attacking women in South Lubbock, according to a LPD news release.

However, LPD has not heard from any victims about a police impersonator, according to the release, and it does not have an active investigation open as the hoax claims.

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The task force was chaired by Lawrence Schovanec, provost and senior vice president, and included representatives from around campus.

The task force used a survey, town hall event, five meetings with focus groups and input from the Student Government Association Student Task Force to compile these recommendations. According to the report, the survey was online and sent to 12,790 faculty, staff and graduate students, with 29 percent responding.

In December 2015, a draft was prepared and sent to the president of the university, according to the report.

On Aug. 1, 2016, SB 11 will be implemented and any person with a Texas Concealed Handgun License will be allowed to carry a handgun on grounds and in buildings of a college or university.

According to the report, the bill allows presidents of public universities to enact rules regarding campus carry on their campuses.

There is currently a Texas statute that bans concealed carry on parts of campuses,

spread rapidly, according to the NWS. The winds could also cause blowing dust this afternoon between 1 and 8 p.m., according to the NWS. The winds are expected to decrease overnight and remain light throughout the day Thursday.

The forecasted high temperature for today is 78 degrees, but drops to 69 degrees on Thursday and 59 degrees on Friday before a warming trend begins through the weekend. @DailyToreador

Brother Jed, ministry visit Tech

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Brother Jed Smock, Sister Kirsten and the Campus Ministry USA, a traveling evangelist group, made their annual stop in Lubbock on Tuesday in the Free Speech Area outside the Student Union Building.

“I have been involved in campus evangelism for over 40 years,” Smock said. “I have been coming to Lubbock annually for the past 10 years, and it is my mission to teach to college students that they must turn away from all sin and follow Jesus Christ.”

The group drew a large crowd of students as they preached their evangelical beliefs. Shani Jorden, a freshman environmental engineering major from Grand Prairie, said she began listening to the group as she was leaving class and passing the SUB. Jorden said she decided to speak up and interact with the group because they were spreading hate.

“They were insulting me as a black human, a woman and insulting me on many levels,” she said.

Jorden said although she is not religious, she is still spiritual and believes they should be able to see the worth in other religions and not only their own.

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Students gather around Sister Kirsten, a traveling evangelist, to listen and speak with her about her religious views on Tuesday in the Free Speech Area. Along with Brother Jed, Sister Kirsten will be on campus all week.

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Christians discuss Easter Pakistan bombing

By JOHN BOWLES Staff Writer

On Sunday in the city of Lahore, Pakistan, citizens were celebrating Easter in a park with their families when their celebration was attacked.

A spokesman for an offshoot of the Pakistani Ta l i b a n , t h e m i l i t a n t group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the attack, according to an article in the Washington Post. Christians were deliberately targeted.

The spokesman also said attacks would continue until Sharia law was the law of Pakistan, according to the Washington Post.

Investigation of the attack found ball bearings, often used to maximize casualties, and that the attacker detonated the suicide vest near an area marked for women, according to the Washington Post.

Many children were killed.

An attack on a Christian community of Lahore

also occurred in March of 2015, which the Pakistani Taliban also claimed responsibility for, according to an article on CNN. Katie Welch is a staff member with the Texas Tech branch of the international ministry Cru, which is an organization involved in missionary work around the world.

“As Christians we will be persecuted because of what we believe. It’s not a surprise based on what the Bible talks about,” Welch said. “That’s the reality of our world.”

Welch said people may believe differently from her and may be angry at Christians for a variety of reasons. Some may even believe attacks such as these are justified, and she said she would not be surprised to see them happen in America.

Welch said it is human nature to be selfish and mean, because we are flawed and imperfect.

“People empathize, b u t t h e y d o n ’t a l w a y s

think that there’s anything they can do about it,” Jeremy Frisa, a junior mechanical engineering major from Austin, said.

People may publicly empathize on social media, he said, but often do not personally invest themselves in fixing or mitigating the problem.

“I think news channels are doing a good job of reporting on it in recent times, actually telling about events,” Frisa said.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever read of any relief or any sort of counter news to those events.”

Ashley Edling, a senior biology major from Austin, said any attack such as this on any religion is an awful event and the perpetrators were obviously trying to make a point.

Logan Wilson, a senior kinesiology major from Frisco, said he feels sadness about the attack, the lives lost and the people who are hurting. “ I d o n ’t k n o w w h a t

can be done. I think, on the part of the Christian community, we just need to reach out and care for those who have been hurt, however we can because I am sure there weren’t just Christians hurt by this,” Wilson said. “We need to show something different and not respond in kind.”

P o l i t i c a l l y, h e d o e s not know what can be done, but that it is up to Pakistan to decide its response, Wilson said, but Christians need to rally around the victims.

Christians outside America frequently get targeted in terror attacks, Dane Codispoti, a

mechanical engineering major from Green, Ohio, said.

“As a Christian, I don’t feel hate toward them.

I feel kind of sad for them,” he said, “because, to be honest, they really don’t know what they’re doing.”

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The task force did not reach a unanimous decision about guns in the classroom, according to the report, but the majority decision was that Te c h c a n n o t b a n C H L holders from guns in the classroom in compliance with SB11.

The task force also ap-

proved licensed handguns in faculty, staff and student offices, according to the report. However, the task force recommends there be a space for those who are uncomfortable to consult with students.

In the Fall 2016 semester, students, faculty and staff will go through an

educational program, according to the report. Mandatory active shooter training will also take place.

According to the report, additional police should be hired in gun-free zones.

“These recommendations satisfy the requirements of SB 11, meet legal scrutiny and provide flex-

ibility to address a myriad of situations that could not all be addressed through an OP (operating policy),” Opperman said in the email. “It is an evolutionary policy that will change as needed based on court decisions, legislative action or campus experience.”

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If a student feels unsafe or concerned living in a room with a CHL holder and a gun, according to the report, they may request a transfer to another room.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 William Chong, a freshman biochemistry major from El Paso, said he felt disgusted by what was being preached.

“It is disgusting that they call themselves Christian and that they go around preaching heresy according to certain doctrines of the Bible,” Chong said. “I had to prove to them that the way they were preaching is wrong.”

The Bible preaches that there is love and compassion, he said.

The whole point of evangelizing, according to Chong, is not to preach hatred toward people.

“It is to preach that there is a God, that the God loves us, that God did so many things for us and that we have to, as they (Jed and Kirsten) say, fall on our knees and repent, but not the way they’re asking us to,” Chong said.

Students argued with both Jed and Kirsten as they took breaks preaching in the Free Speech Area.

Sister Kirsten argued with students as they presented

their views and beliefs.

“I am trying to preach to them about the death of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, they are heading for hell if they are in sin and need to get right with God,” Kirsten said. “A lot of them do not want God, a lot of them think that they are already saved and they are living like hypocrites.”

Smock said it is important for him to come to Lubbock and preach to the future leaders of America and the world on Tech’s campus.

The negative responses from students are encouraging, Smock said, because it shows what they say bothers the students.

“That demonstrates to me that down deep in their conscience, they are thinking they ought not to be living the way are,” he said.

The group refuses to see the differences between cultures, Chong said, and the different ways people have to interact and instead are just preaching hatred toward everybody. @DailyToreador

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HSC releases campus carry report On Tuesday the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center released its Operating Policy and Procedure for concealed carry.

According to the OP, it was designed to set the standards of concealed carry for Concealed Handgun License holders.

The chief of police and

executive vice president for Finance and Administration will review the policy on Oct. 1 of every odd-numbered year. After the review, the policy will be submitted with revisions to the president.

Areas restricted are designated medical service areas

and designated research laboratories, according to the policy.

According to the report, the president of HSC, currently Dr. Tedd Mitchell, is the only person allowed to declare a part of campus as an exclusionary zone. @KristenBartonDT

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Trump campaign manager charged with battery FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Police charged Donald Trump’s campaign manager with simple battery Tuesday as a videotaped altercation with a reporter transformed what was another messy campaign sideshow into a criminal court summons. Trump decried the charges.

Jupiter, Florida, police determined that probable cause existed to file a criminal complaint against the Republican front-runner’s most trusted political adviser, Corey Lewandowski,

for an altercation that took place after a campaign appearance earlier in the month. Police on Tuesday morning issued Lewandowski a notice to appear before a judge on May 4 for the misdemeanor charge, which carries up to a year in jail.

The unexpected development injects a court battle into an already contentious Republican primary season just a week before a high-stakes election in Wisconsin. It came on a day that all five presidential contenders

campaigned in the state, overshadowing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ’s endorsement of Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders’ push to narrow Hillary Clinton’s delegate lead.

Speaking to reporters on his airplane in Wisconsin on Tuesday, Trump vowed to stand by his campaign manager and lashed out at the young female reporter who conveyed the incident to police.

“How do you know those bruises weren’t there before?” the New York businessman charged.

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City of Dallas deals with massive surge in violent crime, killings DALLAS (AP) — Dallas is dealing with a surge in violent crime this year that has reversed a decade-

long decrease in killings and prompted friction between the city’s police chief and rank-and-file officers on how

to combat the issue.

Dallas police reported this week a 75 percent jump in the number of homicides

over the same period last year, according to the Dallas Morning News. The increase has prompted a broad debate on how best to allocate the department’s officers and has caught the attention of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has offered unspecified state resources to help.

Police Chief David Brown has suggested several potential factors in the spike in violence, from fewer officers to an unusually mild winter.

“There’s a seasonal connection to crime,” Brown said Monday, according to the newspaper. “When it’s warm, like the summer months, people are in the entertainment districts, they walk around more outside, they’re at the parks, they’re on the trails, they’re likely to be out much later.”

The rise in killings includes at least 17 so far this month; there were five killings last March. The number of aggravated assaults and robberies also are up.

Brown told a City Council committee Monday hundreds of Dallas officers would be reassigned to target highcrime neighborhoods and bulk up staffing on a 4 p.m.

to midnight shift — a time when police commanders say a majority of violent crime occurs. Others would be placed on task forces concentrating on areas such as serving domestic violence warrants, Brown said, and more officers, including top commanders, would be assigned to foot patrols.

But officers complained the changes would disrupt their personal lives, and at least one police union called on Brown to resign. Three of the other leading police unions also complained about the sweeping changes.

Brown and City Manager A.C. Gonzalez released a joint statement Tuesday saying Brown “has heard his officers’ concerns.” The plan presented Monday to the council panel “was not sustainable over a long period of time and it would put a tremendous strain on our police force,” Brown said.

Instead, Brown is calling for a “study on staffing models, internal communications, response times and best practices,” and promised it will include feedback from many on a force that has more than 3,500 officers.

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icrosoft has decided to pull back its first publicly available artificial intelligence (AI) robot, after a horrible test run. Earlier this week, Microsoft released an artificial intelligence named Tay, who ran through an official Twitter Account, @Tayandyou.

Within 24 hours of Microsoft releasing the AI on Twitter, Tay was shut down

by Microsoft because of the offensive subject matter the bot was tweeting out.

In a CNN Money Article

by Hope King titled “After racist tweets, Microsoft muzzles teen chat bot Tay,” a comment was made by Microsoft on the incident.

“Microsoft blamed Tay’s behavior on online trolls,” according to the article, “saying in a statement that there was a coordinated effort to trick the program’s commenting skills.”

The article continues, saying “As a result, we have taken Tay offline and are making adjustments… is as much a social and cultural experiment as it is technical.”

In short, when Tay went online, people were able to

Brian DeFilippis is a sophomore electronic media and communications major from Flower Mound.

tweet at her. Because of these tweets, Tay learned how to communicate from these people. Some of these people, however, weren’t the best people to listen to.

Because of the troll’s actions, Tay was left spouting obscenities, whether it be attacking the Black Lives Matter Movement, or praising the works of Adolf Hitler.

It was a good idea for Microsoft to upload its AI to the Internet for a couple of reasons.

For instance, by putting this bot out there, Microsoft was able to dodge a lot of research and development by seeing how the bot would behave in a normal environment.

Through doing this, Microsoft will be able to edit the robot’s security settings, possibly putting a whitelist of words the bot will not use.

Although this is the case, this little experiment earlier this week ended up in a complete loss of trust for any future AI that will go on the market.

We have now learned the actions of a small group of people can turn an AI like Tay into an extremely racist hate machine.

Imagine what would happen if these AIs ended up getting influenced

by ISIS or other terrorists halfway around the world? These badly coded AIs might end up leading to the next terrorist threat against the United States.

These AIs need to be handled and coded with a main focus on security and user-friendliness. Through this poor example, the public has witnessed the actions of a poorly made AI who was spouting racist tweets left and right before Microsoft ended up pulling the plug.

Although this robot was only able to spout hate for less than 24 hours, imagine what would happen if this were linked up to other means of communication — the results would be catastrophic.

Although an initial failure, it was a good thing that Tay was released. Microsoft was doing a public test, and some of the Internet responded with the worst it could offer.

Although they gave their worst to the bot, Tay can only excel from here.

Although Tay will require some time in research and development, I’m sure Microsoft will have Tay show her face again later this year.

Even though Microsoft might reinstate the bot, it has proved that its bots have deficiencies and imperfections, which could lead to unwanted hijackings of its software.

I have lost all faith in the AI Microsoft has produced for public use, since anyone can message and manipulate the software to produce what they want to be broadcast.

While the oppressors were immature children on the Internet, this time, the next time a robot gets taken over by outside influences it could threaten the U.S. and its allies. bdefilippis@dailytoreador.

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Cruz backed by Wisconsin’s Walker; Trump manager charged

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Donald Trump tried Tuesday to focus on Wisconsin, where he was making his first visit ahead of its key primary as controversy cast yet another shadow over his campaign.

Trump told supporters at a rally that “if we win Wisconsin, it’s pretty much over,” noting his significant delegate lead over rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

Trump held the rally in Janesville, Wisconsin, hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan — who last week called for more civility in politics even as the Republican presidential race grew more personal and nasty.

Trump arrived in Wisconsin fending off another controversy that eclipsed his message and well as those of his rivals, all of whom converged on the state a week from the pivotal vote.

Trump’s campaign manager was charged with mis-

demeanor battery in Florida on Tuesday over an altercation with a reporter earlier this month, prompting Cruz to accuse the billionaire front-runner of fostering a culture of “abusive behavior.”

The news overshadowed Trump’s efforts to make gains in Wisconsin ahead of its April 5 primary as Cruz lured support from some of the state’s most influential voices. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a former GOP presidential contender, endorsed Cruz Tuesday, saying he believes the Texas senator is best positioned to win the GOP nomination and defeat presumed general election rival Hillary Clinton.

In an interview on Milwaukee’s WTMJ radio, Walker noted Cruz’s fights in Congress with both Republicans and Democrats. “This is a guy who has been consistent in his positions and, when push comes to shove, will stand up for the people he

represents over the interests in Washington,” Walker said.

Cruz called Walker a “strong, principled conservative” and praised his “heroic” efforts to all but end collective bargaining rights for public workers. Cruz also noted that Walker won three elections over four years. Walker was the first governor to defeat a recall in 2012, an election spurred by his anti-union push.

The Wisconsin primary could be pivotal in the Republican contest. Trump leads Cruz in the delegate chase, where Kasich lags in a distant third place.

Should Cruz win, it would narrow Trump’s already tight path to the nomination and raise the prospect of a contested Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July.

Also campaigning in Milwaukee was Clinton, who vowed to curb gun violence.

Clinton’s campaign forum

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grew emotional as family members spoke of losing children. The Democratic presidential candidate said she will “keep talking about this throughout this campaign” and will “keep talking about it and acting on it” if she wins the White House.

Clinton also lashed out at Trump over the controversy surrounding his campaign manager, saying that “ultimately the responsibility is Mr. Trump’s.”

Her rival, Bernie Sanders, zeroed in on voter identification laws at a town hall in Appleton, Wisconsin. Wisconsin’s voter ID law, which went into effect this year, is one of the most restrictive in the country.

Supporters say it helps guard against election fraud.

All three Republicans were participating in an event in Milwaukee Tuesday evening billed as a town hallstyle meeting, sponsored by CNN.

ecently the presidential election has slightly elevated to a cartoonish type of ugly on the Republican side.

Politics have always been known to get a little ugly and personal, but not in the way it has been lately.

It’s no surprise that politicians have resorted to dirty tricks and slander the year Donald Trump is running.

Trump has taken what is, as Paul Waldman of the Washington Post puts it, “ordinarily implied in politics” literal. In his column “Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are fighting over their wives. This was inevitable,” and it doesn’t look good.

People can tell who someone is by the way they present themselves and Trump doesn’t present himself in a professional or even civil way sometimes.

In fact, in Waldman’s column, it’s obvious Trump encourages and praises unprofessional behavior where we can see he “retweeted a picture of Melania (Trump) looking like the professional model she was, next to a particularly unflattering photo of Heidi (Cruz).”

It also appears that Trump’s attacks on Cruz and his wife may have been a tactic of revenge after an “anti-Trump super PAC” posted an inappropriate picture of Trump’s wife to sway people away from voting for Trump that Waldman describes in his column.

According to David Weigel’s article, “Cruz: National Enquirer story is ‘garbage’ from ‘Donald Trump and his henchmen,’” Cruz blames Trump for the rumors about these alleged affairs in a National Enquirer article.

In Weigel’s article he points out that the Washington Post cannot confirm these allegations and then Weigel talks about an interaction between a Trump supporter and Amanda Carpenter, who was accused of being one of the five affairs. Carpenter responded: “What’s out there is tabloid trash… You should be ashamed for spreading this kind of smut.”

It’s disgraceful how childish the campaign has become.

Toward the end of Weigel’s article, he talks about when Cruz opened up the floor for questions at a rally, and one reporter asked if Cruz believed that “both he and Trump were ‘childish’ and degrading the tone of the campaign.”

Honestly, as I read through Weigel’s article I couldn’t help but wonder the same question.

However, Cruz’s response gave an insightful perspective.

Cruz told the reporter that only Trump has been childish and Cruz has never disrespected Melania Trump as Trump’s wife or as a woman.

Cruz goes on to tell the reporter, “’I’m sorry, sir, if you believe that defending your wife and defending your family is childish. But it is not.’”

Dealing with someone like Trump, someone who will do anything to get under people’s skin, even if that means attacking their family/loved ones, has to be beyond frustrating.

Being raised in Texas and having the privilege to travel around the U.S. as well as the world, it can be easily argued that people here in the southern U.S. do sustain a sort of southern charm.

I’ve been raised to try and be someone who is slow to anger and to think before I act/react, but sometimes the situations people are put in are just not that easy.

If someone disrespected my family or someone whom I love it would be very hard to turn the other cheek, even though sometimes that is the best option.

It cannot be denied that Cruz has done a good job of restraining himself from doing anything rash or dramatic.

In both Weigel’s article and Waldman’s column, there are parts where Trump is described as a man going on the offensive in a personal way when he gets scared or nervous.

Waldman talks largely about Trump and his sexist view of women, giving examples from his marital situations to the “misogynistic comments directed at women who cross him.”

I’m certain that given Trump’s history he will eventually go too far. When that will be, however, I can’t imagine since it hasn’t happened yet.

This bashing between candidates will definitely be remembered, but hindsight is always 20-20 on the bulk of the situation. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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Soros inaccurately seen as Kasich backer in Cruz ad WASHINGTON (AP) — Is Democratic billionaire donor George Soros dabbling in the Republican presidential primary?

Soros is named in $500,000 worth of advertising in next-to-vote Wisconsin, with allies of GOP candidate Ted Cruz charging that he’s linked to rival John Kasich.

The ad hit the airwaves Tuesday and continues through the state’s election next week.

Soros has given tens of millions of dollars to liberal causes and is a strong backer of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton. That’s why the idea that he’s funding a Republican candidate could alarm conservatives.

“Hundreds of thousands of dollars from George Soros,” reads the text of a new ad by Trusted Leadership, a super PAC backing Cruz.

The commercial’s narrator offers more nuance in

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the accompanying audio: “Millionaires working side by side with George Soros are bankrolling his super PAC.” There’s some truth to what the narrator says, but none to the ad’s claim Soros himself is giving, campaign finance records show.

Scott Bessent, who was chief investment officer at Soros Fund Management until the end of last year, gave $200,000 to the proKasich super PAC New Day for America. One contribution arrived in October and another in December.

In addition, former Soros investment manager Stanley Druckenmiller has contributed $450,000, an amount that includes two checks just last month. Druckenmiller last managed investments for Soros in 2000.

The pro-Kasich super PAC raised about $10 million from more than 200 donors through the end of February.

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Air Force offers free medical school for service

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Air Force is offering a Health Professions Scholarship Program to pay for students’ entire medical school expenses in exchange for service in the Air Force.

The HPSP is a program that helps students get the education they need for medical school without having them suffer from debt once their training is complete.

“We’re going to pay for full tuition to a medical school of their choice,” Tech. Sgt. James Mikus, the health professions recruiter for the United States Air Force, said. “We cannot only pay for their tuition, but also their lab fees and any additional cost that comes with going to school.”

On top of a student having medical school paid for, they will also receive a monthly stipend of around $2,200. The program will pay for the costs of any medical school the students get accepted to.

Students can choose from a two, three or fouryear pathway through medical school, Mikus said.

How many years a stu-

dent spends in medical school is a determinant to how long he or she will have to serve in the Air Force, he said, with the exception of the two-year program, which still requires a minimum of a three-year service.

While in medical school, students will be commissioned second lieutenants, and once their schooling is complete they will be commissioned as captains.

In order to apply for this program, students first need to get in touch with Mikus, letting him know they are interested in the program.

Students first go t h r o u g h s e v e r a l i n t e rviews and apply to a medical school, he said. Students also need to have good MCAT scores, pass a medical physical at a local military entrance processing station, have a good GPA and transcripts, three letters of recommendation and fill out a twopage questionnaire as to why they wish to join this program.

This program is an opportunity for medical students to get their schooling paid for and be able to work in very different

work environments than they would in a regular hospital, Mikus said.

“You’re not just treating military members and their families, but also the fact that when they’re dealing with a patient in the military and they need to do a procedure that costs a lot of money or require a test like a CAT scan, we don’t have to deal with the insurance companies,” he said. “So whatever the patient needs, whatever they are diagnosed, what the patient needs is what the patient gets.”

These students will be given the opportunity to go into their practices as soon as they graduate from medical school, he said.

Each location within the Air Force that these students will be placed in, depending on their practices, will be a different experience for them and they will have unlimited access to other doctors and leaders who can teach them more through experience.

“They need qualified medical professionals in the Air Force, so one of the purposes is to find people who want to be in the Air Force and also people who want to be doctors, because there is a need for doctors

in the Air Force,” Ryan Scheckel, assistant director for pre-professional health careers at Texas Tech, said.

It is good that Tech is offering this program to its students who want to serve their country and want to become doctors, Scheckel said.

“I think it’s a big deal.

Obviously we are a military friendly school. The Air Force ROTC program on campus has had a long history of blending those interests of being a Red Raider and being in the Air Force,” he said. “I think we’re a good school and

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a good institution to find like-minded individuals interested in the program.”

There is a high success rate for these students graduating medical school and finishing their terms with the Air Force and going on to become doctors in society, Mikus said.

Oftentimes some choose to stay in the Air Force and continue their practices there.

“We need medical professionals in this country, there are public service elements to everything that our students in preprofessional health careers go on to do. Yes, it’s about

the individual and their career outcomes and getting into the highly competitive health care profession schools and programs, but you’re talking about the number of people that a medical professional will help over the course of their career is pretty significant,” he said. “I think the main outcome is that more people who may not have as easily been able to afford the cost to go on to medical school can now.”

Anyone interested in the program can contact Mikus at james.mikus@us.af.mail or at (303)366-6764. @RyanOrtegonDT

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Obama criticizes 2016 presidential campaign coverage Elton John being sued by NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama’s turn as a media critic this week may not have thrilled many journalists, but it has forced a new look at how a media-saturated presidential campaign is being covered.

O b a m a ’s c h a l l e n g e to reporters to be more probing comes at a time the media is facing two seemingly contradictory strains of criticism for its treatment of Republican front-runner Donald Trump: that it has covered him too much, or not done enough to look into his background and promises.

Obama, speaking Monday night at a Syracuse

University awards ceremony honoring the late political journalist Robin Toner, said he’s not the only one dismayed by the tone of the campaign to succeed him. “I was going to call it a ‘carnival atmosphere,’ but that implies fun,” he said. He said he always believed there was a price to pay if a politician said one thing and did another and wondered “in the current atmosphere, is that still true?”

For reporters, he said “a job well done is about more than just handing someone a microphone.” The billions of dollars in free media should come with “serious accountability, especially

when politicians issue unworkable plans or make promises they can’t keep,” he said.

Steve Capus, executive producer of the “CBS Evening News” and a former NBC News president, said Tuesday that he’s wary of politicians who become media critics. Lumping all of the media together is neither fair nor accurate, he said.

“When he calls for holding people accountable and talks about the role of the press in a free society, we would agree,” Capus said.

“I kind of think that’s part of our marching orders on a daily basis.”

Obama’s criticism fell

flat on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Host Joe Scarborough and Politico founder Jim VandeHei said that while Obama is urging the press to do better, he’s had his own challenges running an open government.

Much of the criticism seems directed at cable news networks, which have been covering the campaign virtually nonstop for the past several months. They’ve been rewarded financially: Fox News Channel reported Tuesday that it will finish the first three months as the top-rated network in all of cable TV, the first such quarterly victory in the network’s history.

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Ex-conjunto musician enjoys life in Texas with archery SEBASTIAN, Texas (AP) — Rudy Garza has a thing about strings, and they weave their way through his life.

The Valley Morning Star reports Garza, 85, was a musician playing the 12-string bajo sexto with the father of Tex-Mex conjunto, Narciso Martinez, and other top performers.

In fact, he says, perhaps the pinnacle of his music career was being invited to play at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., to showcase conjunto music, the toe-tapping, accordion-driven sound that was born in north Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley.

“They didn’t know what a bajo sexto was,” Garza re-

cently recalled at his shop, Eagles Nest Archery. “It looks like a guitar, but it’s two instruments in one. It’s a guitar and a bass in one.

“We had a guy from Japan over here. He came down and wanted to know about it,” Garza recalled.

“I explained this to him, and that, and he said ‘there are too many strings’ and he left.”

Like that Japanese visitor, Garza also said goodbye to 12 strings.

Now he obsesses on just one string, and its sharp “thwickk!” as it powers an arrow downrange.

“My dad was an avid hunter, but with a rifle. We went hunting, but I got to the point that you don’t feel

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Dickinson vs. Cosby can proceed LOS ANGELES (AP) — Janice Dickinson’s defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby should move forward, a judge ruled Tuesday, saying a trial can determine the truthfulness of the model’s claims that the comedian raped her in 1982.

A jury can decide the credibility of Dickinson’s allegations and whether a statement by Cosby’s former lawyer branding her a liar was defamatory, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debre Katz Weintraub said.

The judge said in her

ruling that she was not assessing the credibility of either Dickinson or Cosby. It also allows for the possibility that Dickinson could recoup punitive damages if she wins the case.

Dickinson sued Cosby in May after he denied her claims that he drugged and raped her in Lake Tahoe in 1982.

She says she tried to include the story in a 2002 memoir, “No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel,” but her publisher refused.

the excitement to take an animal at 200 to 300 yards,” Garza said.

As a younger man, he had a little recurve bow he practiced with. One day, his brother-in-law told him, “’Hey Rudy, there’s gonna be a demonstration in Mercedes. Wanna go?’” he recalled.

“Yeah, I wanna go!”

Garza said the bowman from Donna had a fancy bow with a sight. (“At that time I didn’t know anything about bows,” he says.)

“He was hitting that little dot at close range, but to me, it was excitement. I say, ‘Hey, he’s good.

He’s good!’”

Inspired, Garza said he returned home, filled up

a gallon water jug, and commenced to firing in the backyard.

“I used to shoot at it, 10 arrows, and I hardly hit one out of 10,” he said. “But I was determined to learn.”

Then in the mid-1980s, Garza said he lost his job with a drug company. He couldn’t find another one.

He had been working on the side with a local archer and helping him with his arrows and other equipment, said his wife, Mary.

That’s when the idea of opening their own archery shop came to them.

“So he kept saying, shall we open it? Shall we open it?” she recalled. “I told him, if you don’t open it, you’ll never find out.”

off-duty police captain

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A decorated Los Angeles police captain has sued Elton John, claiming he was repeatedly groped by the singer while he was working off-duty on the Grammy winner’s security detail.

The lawsuit filed Monday by Capt. Jeffrey Wenninger alleges the groping and sexually suggestive comments by John occurred in early 2014.

Orin Snyder, an attorney for John’s Rocket Entertainment Group, denied the allegations.

“This baseless lawsuit is brought by a disgruntled former security officer seeking to extract an undeserved payment,”

Snyder said in a statement. “These claims are patently untrue and contradicted by numerous previous statements made by this plaintiff.”

Wenninger was employed off-duty through a private company that he also is suing, alleging he was improperly removed from working with John in September 2014.

That lawsuit states that Wenninger found out about the change after he requested to work with the singer.

Wenninger’s attorney Marla A. Brown refused to address why her client would be seeking work after the alleged incidents occurred.

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Tech faces ACU before Big 12 opener

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The Abilene Christian Wildcats host the Texas Tech Red Raider softball team Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Poly Wells Field for the final game of Tech’s non-conference schedule.

Leading up to the midweek games against the Wildcats, Tech grinded out a loaded schedule featuring eight ranked opponents and 15 ranked games. From the beginning of the season, Tech coach Adrian Gregory intended the nonconference portion of the year to prepare the team for the Big 12 rivals it will face.

As the Red Raiders host the Oklahoma State Cowgirls on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Gregory said Tech has met expectations but still has room to improve.

“Almost all ranked teams we’ve played are ranked higher

than Big 12 teams that we will face, which is what we needed,” Gregory said. “We can tell our kids you’ve seen it all, you’ve competed against the best, you’ve had chances to win and you have won.”

In its last series, Tech dropped three games against a then No. 22 Arizona State, with two defeats coming at a margin of fewer than three runs, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

“I thought last week we needed to find out where our hearts and guts were, but I think this weekend we found it,” Gregory said. “We worked hard over the week in practice, and we came out exactly where we needed to be heading into conference play next weekend.”

Currently, the Red Raiders amass a 14-19 overall record while ACU posts a 12-14 record.

Although their record stands below the .500

mark, the Wildcats played close games against Big 12 opponents Oklahoma State and Texas.

In its two games against Big 12 opponents, ACU stayed within range but ultimately fell short of a rally against Oklahoma State in a 3-2 loss and dropped a 2-2 tie to Texas in a 3-2 loss.

At the top of the batting order, four of ACU’s batters list a batting average above .300.

Leading the Tech offense, senior center fielder Jordan Bettiol leads the team in hits and batting average with a .349 average and 38 hits.

Junior left fielder Kierra Miles follows Bettiol in batting average at .337 and leads the Big 12 in home runs with 10.

At the plate, Miles said, Gregory expects the team to show aggressiveness and not take a passive approach.

“We have to take it to the

field,” Miles said. “I feel like we all know what she wants, but

I feel like we have to actually take it to the field and just

trust what we’re doing.” @DGaytanDT

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Tech ranks in top 15 in ITA Rankings According to a Texas Te c h A t h l e t i c s n e w s release, the Tech women’s tennis team is ranked as the No. 13 team in the nation in this week’s O r a c l e / I TA C o l l e g i a t e Tennis Rankings, while the men’s tennis team ranks at No. 12.

The Lady Raiders are 15-2 on the season, which is the program’s second-best start through 17 matches since 1987, according to the release.

The Lady Raiders have won 11 of its last 12 matches and has been ranked in the ITA’s top 15 for eight consecutive polls.

The No. 17 Oklahoma State Cowgirls are the only other Big 12 Conference school ranked in the top 20 this week.

The Red Raiders are

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Texas Tech and McNeese State practice a hand and knee clap sequence before the game on March 5 at Rocky Johnson Field.

21-3 on the season and are coming off of a 4-3 loss against Rice.

The Red Raiders were also chosen to finish third in the Big 12, according to a release from Big 12 coaches.

Te c h i s o n e o f s i x programs to have both its women and men’s tennis teams in the top 15 in the ITA rankings, according to the release.

The current rankings will stand until April 5, when the poll will be updated, according to the ITA website.

The Lady Raiders host Kansas State at 5 p.m.

F r i d a y, f o l l o w e d b y a noon matchup with No. 30 Kansas on Sunday, both at the McLeod Tennis Center. @BSoliz_DT

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Rangers release OF Stubbs SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Ve t e r a n o u t f i e l d e r Drew Stubbs has been granted his release by the Texas Rangers.

Stubbs opted out of his minor league contract Tuesday in hopes of finding a ma-

jor league job. He had finished last season in Texas, and re-signed with the team early in spring training.

The Rangers also Tuesday optioned right-hander Nick Martinez to Triple-A Round Rock.

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Houston no longer has problem Tiger Woods has never played the week before the Masters, and it’s hard to argue with the results. He has won it four times.

Then again, he was better than everyone else.

Phil Mickelson is the opposite. He prefers to play the week before the Masters to get into a competitive spirit, and it has worked out pretty well for him, too. Along with his three green jackets, Lefty has six other finishes in the top three.

There is no magic formula for getting ready for Augusta National.

Steve Timms was aware of that 10 years ago when the Shell Houston Open was offered the chance to move away from its late April date and take the week before the Masters. Timms is the tournament director. For him, the tradition unlike any other was getting asked by local media if Woods was coming to Houston.

Move to the week before the Masters, and the answer

would be pretty clear.

And that’s what they did.

“We had the date two weeks after the Masters, and we had some indifferent field qualities,” Timms said Tuesday, finding a gracious way of saying that fans needed the pairing sheet to figure out who was coming up the fairway. “It’s ‘no man’s land’ after Augusta.

So whenever we were approached, we felt like that gave us a fighting chance to be a week before Augusta.

Some guys like to play their way in. We were thinking specifically about Phil.

“Tiger and Phil, those were the needle movers.”

I t ’s w o r k o u t w e l l .

Generations change, and so do playing habits. Woods still doesn’t play the week before the Masters. Right now, he’s not playing at all. Mickelson, who won the Houston Open in 2011, is 45 and still going strong. He already has a trio of top 5s this year and

remains wildly popular.

But it’s no longer just about Mickelson.

Also playing at the Golf Club of Houston this week is Jordan Spieth, no longer No. 1 in the world but still recognized as the 22-yearold Texan who is the reigning Masters and U.S. Open champion. The field also includes Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson.

Playing the week before worked out well for Spieth in 2015. He lost in a three-man playoff at Houston, then went to Augusta National and was so dominant in his wire-towire win that he became the first player in more than 60 years to never let anyone closer than three shots after the opening round.

For the Houston Open, however, it was more than just a change in dates.

Timms got together with agronomists and the PGA Tour staff to try to create something unique, with

Augusta National in mind.

No one will ever confuse Golf Club of Houston with Augusta National (one serves brisket, the other pimiento cheese). But there were enough characteristics to make it an ideal place for those who wanted to compete.

The banks and mounds around the greens were closely mown. The rough was shaved down. The fairways were mown from the green to the tee so that the grain is into the player, just like at Augusta. The greens are firm (weather permitting) and fast, estimated at 12 on the Stimpmeter.

“Now it’s become our identity,” Timms said. “And we’ve had the good fortune of having a number of players that have played here and won the next week.”

Angel Cabrera (2009), Mickelson (2010), Charl Schwartzel (2011) and Spieth (2015) all played Houston the week before slipping into a green jacket.

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Defensive line looks to improve

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

As a position, the defensive line is one of the youngest overall positions on the Texas Tech football team.

Losing some veterans last year makes this position one of the most competitive battles this spring.

Overall, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury has been impressed with the work the defensive line has put into the practices so far, he said.

“The D-line has been good so far,” Kingsbury said. “You can see Ondre Pipkins and Kolin Hill getting more comfortable with the system and knocking some rust off. Gary Moore and Zach Barnes have also done well at the rush. It’s a group that hasn’t played a ton but has a bunch of ability. We just have to get them more reps to see what they can do.”

Sophomore linebacker Dakota Allen said he hopes the defensive line can stop the run this year. If it can do that, he said, the defense will be much better.

Under first-year defensive line coach Kevin Patrick, sophomore Breiden Fehoko said each player on the defensive line has bought into his coaching. Because coach Patrick brings his all every day, it encourages the players on the defensive line to give their all at every practice.

Many of the new players have impressed Fehoko, he said. One returnee has really

impressed Fehoko as he has gone through spring practice.

“Gary Moore has stood out a lot to me this spring,” Fehoko said. “He has had a smooth transition into his role this year playing rush.”

The defensive line as a whole has transitioned its mentality toward playing for each of the team members rather than playing as individuals, Fehoko said.

Fehoko, as a returnee, said he is starting to understand defensive coordinator David Gibbs’ defensive scheme more and more as practice goes on.

“You start to see what coach Gibbs sees,” Fehoko said. “I’m not going to make any guarantees but I think that we are going to have a good defense this year.”

Fehoko looked at his freshman year as a learning experience, he said. Coming out of high school, he was not used to the no huddle offenses and the overall high speed of Big 12 Conference football games. There were aspects he took in the offseason to improve that aspect of his game.

“The game is starting to slow down,” Fehoko said.

“I need to understand what the offense is doing before the snap. In the offseason, I made sure that I was in the film room and made sure that I was going to run extra.”

The defense as a whole has moved faster this year, Fehoko said. Because of the younger guys returning,

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Texas Tech linebacker Malik Jenkins tackles the UTEP running back during the second quarter of Tech's 69-20 victory over UTEP on Sept. 12 at Jones AT&T Stadium. Tech will host its first spring scrimmage in Midland on Saturday. improvement has come a lot faster than the year before.

The defense is not going through the motions this spring, compared to last year’s offseason, he said.

One player Kingsbury is focusing on through this spring is Pipkins, he said.

Kingsbury said Pipkins’ strong body is one that could be seen in the National Football League.

“Pipkins will be a real force this season,” Kingsbury said.

The defensive line is the position Kingsbury is keeping his eye on, he said.

“It’s a more explosive group this year,” Kingsbury said.

Fehoko said this statement motivates the defensive line as a whole. It brings a whole new level of competition to the defensive line.

“With coach Kingsbury

making a statement like that, as a returnee on the D-line, it keeps me on my toes so that I can keep other guys on their toes,” Fehoko said. “You never want to relax because then that’s when you get passed up. Kingsbury does such a good job focusing on us. The offense is going to score 50-60 points a game, no doubt about it. As for us, doing our job, he focuses on

us doing our job every day.”

Fehoko said the defensive line is a good group this year but it is not where it needs to be yet.

“Our group has a lot of talent and a lot of potential,” Fehoko said. “We are not where we need to be yet. I feel, for us, we could step up a little more in the last half of the spring practices.” @DavidGayDT

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Linebackers showing noticeable improvement

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Texas Tech defenders move to recover a loose ball during the second half of Tech’s 70-53 loss to Oklahoma State on Oct. 31 at Jones AT&T Stadium. Tech will look to young players for leadership.

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

A few weeks into spring football, Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury named the line-

backers as the most impressive position group on defense.

The group has lost former linebacker Micah Awe, who led the Big 12 Conference with 126 total tackles last

season, but Kingsbury has found players to step up in Awe’s absence.

“Linebackers have a chance to be (the best position group),” Kingsbury

said. “When you talk about D’Vonta (Hinton), Dakota (Allen), Malik (Jenkins), as far as experience, guys that have played.”

As a freshman linebacker last season, Dakota Allen was leading the conference in tackles for a majority of the season before suffering a minor injury. Over 12 games, he finished the season with 87 total tackles, six tackles for loss and two interceptions, according to the Tech Athletics website.

This offseason, Allen is competing to be an every down player next season.

“I’m hoping to see, obviously, great improvement from last year,” he said. “Being a defensive player, I hope defensive-wise we can stop the run and cover passes.”

Malik Jenkins was named a starting linebacker as a junior last year. While he played

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Jenkins has been one of the players Kingsbury has mentioned numerous times this offseason as a defensive player who has shown noticeable improvement.

Jenkins finished the 2015 season with 52 tackles, four of which resulted in loss of yards, and lost his starting job to Allen over some of the last games of the season.

Despite Allen and Jenkins competing for the same position last season, they remain close.

“I definitely look up to Malik. He is actually older than me,” Allen said. “I know me and him played the same position, but he’s definitely getting better. He’s getting stronger. We are going to need him this year.”

The two players may not be fighting over the same position in the upcoming

season because Jenkins is learning to play all three linebacker spots.

“Learning all three positions, we’ve been asking him to play Sam, Will, Mike, and he’s picked it up and transitioned easily from practice to practice,” Kingsbury said.

“That wasn’t something he was able to do last year.”

During the previous offseason, the Red Raiders were attempting to rebound from a 4-8 season.

After improving its regular season record to 7-5 in 2015, Allen said the team is even more motivated now compared to a year ago.

“We are definitely more fired up this offseason just because we know the potential that we have this year,” he said. “We all believe in (defensive coordinator David Gibbs’) scheme.” @JeremyK_DT

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YWCA after school teachers. 3p.m‑6 p.m M‑F. Apply at 35th & Flint, or call Carolyn at 806‑792‑2723, ext. 3217.

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SOCCER REFEREES

The Soccer Box is currently looking for new referees for our indoor facility. If you have ever thought of refereeing we are having a U.S. Indoor Referee Certification clinic on April 2nd at 11:00 am. Call 806‑790‑0878 for more information and to register.

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Clean, quiet and reasonable. No pets. Call 741‑1800.

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We have some wonderful 1,2,3 bedroom homes. Near campus at reasonable prices. Appliances. Private yards. Some within walking distance to Tech. Come by 4211‑34th or call Ann or BJ 795‑2011.

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facility is accepting teams for the Spring Season (April 4th to May 30th). We have men’s teams, women’s teams and co‑ed teams. Go to www.soccerbox.club for more information and to register. Registration Deadline is April 1st.

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BASEBALL

Tech splits series against UNLV

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech baseball team split its series against the University of Nevada at Las Vegas at Earl E. Wilson Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, on Monday and Tuesday.

Tech had previously won eight of its past nine games against UNLV until the 8-5 loss on Monday, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

According to the release, Monday’s loss was the second in the six midweek games Tech has played so far and snapped Tech’s five-game winning streak, including the sweep of Oklahoma the weekend before.

Freshman pitcher Ryan Shetter got the loss for Tech after pitching four innings in relief. Shetter, according to the release, surrendered four runs off of five hits in the final four innings of the game.

Starting the game for Tech, freshman Erikson Lanning

lasted four innings and gave up eight hits and four runs. According to the release, Lanning struck out four UNLV batters.

Tech scored three of its seven runs in the second inning, according to the release.

Senior outfielder Tyler Neslony hit an RBI double to bring in senior utility player Cory Raley for the first run of the game.

After the second inning, Tech only scored two more runs with a RBI single from junior infielder Ryan Long and sacrifice fly from Neslony, according to the release.

This was Neslony’s fifth multi-RBI game of the season and Long’s seventh, according to the release.

According to the release, UNLV sophomore Corey Wilson got the victory after giving up three hits and striking out four over 3.1 innings.

Tech bounced back in the second and final game of the series with a 14-6 win over UNLV on Tuesday.

With a six-run sixth in-

ning, Tech increased the lead after leading UNLV 5-3 after five innings. Raley’s two-run single in the sixth as well as a two-run single from sophomore infielder Michael Davis helped Tech widen the lead.

Raley led Tech’s offense, going 4-5 with a home run and bringing in four RBIs. Junior Ty Damron got the win for Tech after pitching five innings and giving up three runs. Damron walked five and struck out six UNLV batters.

Junior Robert Dugger came in to relieve Damron. Through three innings, Dugger gave up three runs off of four hits. Dugger also struck out five batters.

It took eight pitchers from UNLV to get through Tech’s lineup. UNLV’s pitchers combined to give up 13 hits and 14 runs through the game.

Tech will open a series against Kansas State at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Dan Law Field. @DavidGayDT

ELISE BRESSLER/The Daily Toreador

Ryan Long lays his bat down for a bunt during the Red Raiders’ baseball game against Oklahoma on Saturday at Rip Griffin Park. Texas Tech split a series Monday and Tuesday with the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Monday’s loss snapped Tech’s five-game winning streak, including Tech’s sweep of Oklahoma.

BASEBALL

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tech scheduled to take on Florida State Sale helps White Sox

Texas Tech baseball coach Tim Tadlock announced changes to the 2016 schedule Tuesday afternoon, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Red Raiders added a two-game series on April 5-6 at No. 8 Florida State University.

Tech was scheduled to face Abilene Christian University next Tuesday

at Security Bank Ballpark in Midland, but will travel to Florida to take on the Seminoles.

Tech and ACU agreed to move the contest to April 27 in Midland, according to the release. “ We a p p r e c i a t e t h e understanding of Abilene Christian and the Midland RockHounds as we worked to take advantage

of this unique opportunity to play a highly ranked nonconference opponent,” Tadlock said in the release. “We are looking forward to the challenge going on the road to face a top 10 team.”

According to the release, Tech and ACU will still meet on April 26 in Abilene for a regular season road game for the

Red Raiders.

The trip to Tallahassee, Florida, will mark the first meeting between Tech and FSU. Before the visit to Florida, the Red Raiders will play a three-game Big 12 Conference home series against the Kansas State Wildcats beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friday. @BSoliz_DT

win during training

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Chris Sale pitched into the sixth inning, Todd Frazier homered and the Chicago White Sox beat the Texas Rangers 6-2 at spring training on Tuesday.

Chicago catcher Alex Avila got just his second hit of the spring, a two-run single in the fourth that ended A.J. Griffin’s day. The former Oakland A’s pitcher, trying to win a spot in Texas’ rotation, was charged with five runs and seven hits in 3 2-3 innings.

Adam Eaton also connected for the White Sox in the seventh. Chicago has a baseball-high 48 homers this spring.

Sale allowed one run on Hanser Alberto’s homer and six hits in 5 1-3 innings. The left-hander struck out five and walked none.

“It was nice. It was cool enough to stay loose,” Sale said.

Sale’s next outing is opening day against Sonny Gray and the Athletics on Monday night in Oakland.

“It’s great to come down here and get your bearings but we’re all ready to start the race,” Sale said.

Josh Altmann homered for Texas against Jake Petricka in the seventh.

Rangers: Griffin continues his return from Tommy John surgery, performed in April 2014.

“I thought Griffin threw the ball well,” Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. “I liked what we saw.”

Griffin, 28, had a 3.60 ERA over two seasons with Oakland from 2012-13, and appears to have the inside track on a rotation spot in Texas, though Banister wouldn’t commit to him after Tuesday’s game.

“That fastball-curveball mix, saw the changeup today,” Banister said. “He battled against Frazier, eightpitch at-bat I believe and Frazier finally got him but I felt like he made some quality pitches.”

White Sox: Sale finished with two walks and 13 strikeouts in 16 2-3 spring innings.

He did all of his work on the side in minor-league games until March 19, with the White Sox keeping him away from teams he would see in the first two weeks of the season.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Arrieta prepares for opener with 5 innings MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Jake Arrieta prepared for his start on opening day, overcoming a 28-pitch first inning Tuesday as the Chicago Cubs beat the Oakland Athletics 9-5.

Arrieta went five innings, allowing one run and two hits. The NL Cy Young Award winner struck out five and walked two. The Cubs open Monday at the Los Angeles Angels.

“I got to throw all my stuff,” Arrieta said. “I got to pitch through some struggles with command.”

As for his opening-day start, Arrieta said, “To be the guy on the mound for the first one is something special. But it’s short-lived. Once that’s over, it’s back to business.”

“We’re excited that camp’s winding down. Everybody is fairly healthy, strong and ready to go. That’s the most important thing,” he said.

Kyle Schwarber homered on the first pitch from A’s starter Sonny Gray.

Addison Russell hit a two-run shot off Gray in the fourth. Later, Munenori Kawasaki hit a three-run homer, Matt Szczur had a two-run shot and David Ross hit a solo drive for the Cubs.

Billy Butler and Andrew Lambo had two hits and Josh Phegley homered for the A’s.

Kawasaki was sent down as the Cubs made roster moves before the game. He was in camp on a minor league contract and manager

Joe Maddon said Kawasaki “couldn’t have had a better spring training.”

Maddon said Kawasaki likely will be called up at some point, “and he’s going to be one of the most popular athletes ever to play in Chicago when he finally arrives.”

In fact, the sellout crowd chanted Kawasaki’s name after he homered.

Jesse Hahn, once projected as a member of the Oakland rotation, has been optioned to Triple-A Nashville after he put up an 11.15 ERA in the spring.

“It’s a tough one,” manager Bob Melvin said. “I’d be shocked if he wasn’t back.”

“At this point, he knows he needs to get the ball down.

He was great about it. He knows to pitch a little better. But we know he has the ability to do that, as does he,” he said. “If we’re going to have the type of year that we envision having, he’s going to need to be a part of it.

But right now, he just needs to iron some things out.”

Also, Felix Doubront will be the team’s fifth starter, Melvin announced.

Athletics: Gray gave up three runs and eight hits in five innings.

Melvin judged that Gray had a good start, saying, “he gave up some hits but only two were hit hard, and both of them left the ballpark.

You got to give the hitters some credit.”