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1. Senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez slides into home plate while the Kansas State pitcher scrambles to catch the ball. The Red Raiders hosted Kansas State on Sunday at Rip Griffin Park.

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2. Freshman pitcher Ty Harpenau pitches the ball to a Kansas State batter during the Red Raiders’ baseball game on Sunday at Rip Griffin Park.

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3. Freshman right handed pitcher Davis Martin throws a strike in Game 1 against Kansas State Friday at Dan Law Field. Tech won 10-3.

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he No. 22 Texas Tech baseball team swept Kansas State over the weekend to improve its Big 12 Conference record to 8-1, which is the best in the conference, and is off to the best start in Big 12 play in school history.

Sunday also marked the first back-to-back sweeps over conference opponents since 2014.

“That’s our goal, to win the Big 12,” junior outfielder Stephen Smith said. “I think

sweeping Kansas State and then sweeping Oklahoma sets us in good position.”

The Red Raiders began the weekend with a 10-3 victory. The offensive showing got started in the second inning when Tech recorded seven hits and seven runs.

In the second inning, six straight batters recorded a hit, which was the most consecutive hits for the team since the 2004 season.

Kansas State got on the board in the sixth inning, but

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Smith immediately responded with a three RBI home run to put Tech up 10-2.

Smith went two-for-four at the plate and matched a career-high five RBIs with the homer. Every starter in the lineup knocked at least one hit for the first time since April 2015, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

“We had some quality at bats in the first game,” Smith said. “That seven-run second inning gave us a lot of confidence going in to the rest of the game.”

Freshman right-handed pitcher Davis Martin earned his fourth win of the season after tossing six innings and allowed one earned run off four hits. Martin pushed his Big 12 Conference scoreless inning streak to 17 before it was snapped in the sixth inning.

The Red Raiders finished off Saturday’s doubleheader with a 10-4 win to secure their third consecutive Big 12 series win.

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Incoming SGA executive officers Tech hosts Relay for Life, raises discuss positions, campus goals money for cancer treatment

ALEN JACOB/The Daily Toreador On May 1, the new Student Government Association officers will take office. From left to right, they are Graduate Vice president Kevin Koestler, External Vice President Alex DeRossi, Internal Vice President Witt Westbrook and Student Body President Benjamin Sharp.

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

The new executive officers of Texas Tech’s Student Government Association will take office May 1. The new team is made up of two former SGA members and two rookies who all said they are excited to serve their school.

Benjamin Sharp, a junior economics major from Borger and former senator, will serve as the president of SGA. Alex DeRossi, a senior energy commerce major from Flower Mound, is SGA’s newest external vice president.

Witt Westbrook, a junior energy commerce major from Stephenville and former senator, was elected as the new internal vice

president.

Kevin Koestler, a graduate student in the STEM MBA program from Carrollton, will take office as SGA’s graduate student vice president.

The new officers have all been actively involved across campus and all have different experiences they believe will help them succeed.

Sharp said he has been involved with student government since his freshman year. He served on the freshman council, and then served as a senator for the College of Arts and Sciences before serving as a senator at large. Sharp said he has chaired the senators at large as well as the campus infrastructure committee and president pro-tempore.

Sharp has also earned a senate high honor award.

In addition to being actively involved with student government, Sharp is also involved with the Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity, Student Alumni Board and various other campus organizations, according to his LinkedIn profile.

DeRossi said this is his first time working in student government, but he has been heavily involved with different campus organizations.

According to his LinkedIn profile, DeRossi has served as the president of his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and as an official ambassador for President’s Select.

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ALEN JACOB/The Daily Toreador Cancer survivors walk the first lap of the annual Relay for Life event hosted Saturday at the John Walker Soccer Complex. The event works as a fundraiser to help raise funds to contribute the American Cancer Society.

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Relay for Life is a national program that helps raise money for the American Cancer Society.

The Texas Tech Relay for Life was hosted at 6 p.m.

Saturday at the John Walker Soccer Complex.

The American Cancer Society provides resources for patients and families who have been affected by cancer, according to its website, and it provides supplies like equipment for treatments,

prosthetics, wigs and more.

Hundreds of people gathered at the complex to walk around the field and participate in several activities and fundraisers. The event also featured live music and had footballs, flying discs and softballs for people to play with in the middle of the field.

“I feel like it’s a great way for the community to get involved, you know you don’t really necessarily have to sign up as a team, you can just show up and support people,” Jenna Jurecky,

a sophomore biology major from El Paso and a member of the Tech Relay for Life committee, said. “It’s a great way to support the American Cancer Society but also just support college students, and just people from the public as well.”

The participants in the event consisted of several groups and organizations that set up booths in the area, offering activities or food to raise their share of money for the foundation.

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Cabinet prepares to take office May 1

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

After campaigning for the Strive bloc and sweeping the elections, SGA cabinet positions are ready to take office on May 1.

Devin DeLapp, a senior public relations major from Stinnett, will serve as the director of public relations of student government association.

Evonne Heredia, a junior sociology and criminology dual major from Hobbs, New Mexico, will serve as the new chief of staff.

Ashini Patel, a senior biology major from Wichita Falls, will serve as journal clerk for the upcoming school year.

DeLapp said organizing the campaign took time and included many different aspects.

“Before the campaign started, I worked very closely with these guys and with our campaign manager,” DeLapp said.

“We prepped a lot of their speeches, how we wanted

to outline their initiatives, how we wanted to present the bulk of their campaign to the university.”

DeLapp said they spent time figuring out how and which students would be approached through the Strive campaign.

“We wanted to appeal to a wide range of students,” she said. “We didn’t want this to be targeted to one certain demographic. We definitely wanted to make it known that Strive was for every student at Texas Tech. We did that through drafting millions of social media posts, going through them all until we found the right wording, going through days and days worth of graphics to find the right look and the right logo, that was a lot of the prep work.”

Heredia worked on the campaign and said she spent much time organizing as well.

To do this, she looked at all student organizations around campus and emailed the ones her bloc

wanted to target.

In six weeks, Strive spoke with more than 60 organizations, Heredia said.

Patel also worked on the campaign and said her job included emails and scheduling for Strive.

“We were emailing organizations all the time,” P a t e l s a i d . “ We w e r e scheduling when the guys would go and visit. We would go visit ourselves and take over responsibilities when they were at other things.”

It is rare for a single bloc to sweep the elections, DeLapp said, but each person working on the campaign had different skills that helped the bloc succeed.

DeLapp said she had prior experience that enabled her to run such a smooth, successful campaign this year.

“I have interned on two different congressional campaigns, and I was the social media intern for both of those,” DeLapp said. “I think that gave me an insight for how a larger scale campaign

is run, and I’ve gotten lots of hands-on experience in my classes here in the College of Media and Communication.”

Heredia said she decided to get involved with the campaign because she knew her organizational skills would be a benefit to it.

“Before the campaigning even started I approached Ben (Sharp) and I told him that I wanted to be more involved with SGA,” Heredia said. “I knew that I wanted to run as chief of staff because I have a desire to organize.

I knew that I was a perfect fit for Ben’s campaign.”

Patel worked on the campaign with prior knowledge of how SGA works and said she campaigned as a way to get more involved with SGA. “I was in SGA before, but Ben called me in the very beginning and asked if I wanted to work on the campaign, and of course I did because I wanted to get involved with SGA again,” Patel said. “I knew him through SGA and knew

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Devin DeLapp: Director of Public Relations Evonne Heredia: Chief of Staff Ashini Patel: Junior Clerk The cabinet will take office May 1 The cabinet helped Strive run for office The group helped organize the campaign for the Strive bloc

what he could do as president and knew that all of the people on our team would do a great job together.”

Like the executive branch, the cabinet will take office May 1.

DeLapp said once she is in office, her job will include a variety of things that will help student government succeed.

“It will include basically running social media for student government and Texas Tech,” DeLapp said, “getting publicity for any events, making sure that the senators are getting the recognition that they want once they pass big bills, I’ll be helping with polling the students as well and co-

ordinating any media interviews that these guys might have throughout the coming year.”

DeLapp said it was teamwork that caused the campaign to succeed.

She had a PR team of five people working together.

“The sleepless nights, the weeks of just emailing every possible organization, trying to get these guys to meet with different organizations and individuals,” Heredia said, “and knowing that those sleepless nights and the hard work actually paid off was really exciting. I’m excited to get into office and get to work and help make a difference.” @JessicaGuedeaDT

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The Texas Tech Women’s Studies Program will host the 32nd annual Conference on the Advancement of Women on April 14 and 15. The theme for this year’s conference is “Contesting Multiple Margins: From Local to Global and Back Again.”

The conference will kick off at 6 p.m. April 14 with a screening of the awardw i n n i n g d o c u m e n t a r y, “Get Together Girls,” in Alamo Drafthouse.

The film screening will be followed by remarks from its writer, director and producer Vanessa Crocini. “Get Together Girls” follows the story of an Italian woman who quit her job and moved to Kenya to transform the lives of former street girls.

Next day, the conference will continue with concurrent sessions from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the upper level of the Student Union Building. This year’s conference will feature more than 50 presenters and two keynote speakers — Carrie Hessler-Radelet, director of Peace Corps, and Manisha Desai, associate professor of sociology and women’s

studies at the University of Connecticut.

The title of HesslerRadelet’s speech is taken from a poem and is called, “No More a Girl for the Kitchen and a Boy for the Classroom: Opening Doors to Education for Girls around the World.”

Hessler-Radelet’s talk will be from 1 to 1:55 p.m. and Desai’s talk will be from 10 to 10:55 a.m., according to the event’s program. Both will speak in the Matador Room of the SUB. Admission is free to all.

However, those who wish to attend the luncheon must pay a fee: $25 for students and $35 for non-students, if not already registered.

Tricia Earl, unit coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program, said volunteers for the conference are still being recruited.

Volunteers not only benefit from networking and educational opportunities, but also gain valuable insight into the behind-the-scenes organization of such events.

“We are still looking for volunteers to help us out at the conference,” Earl said.

“We can work with students and staff and faculty even if they have just an hour, so they don’t have to commit to the whole day.”

Interested persons can contact Earl through email patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu.

They can also attend the training session from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday in TLPDC 152 of the University Library.

Charlotte Dunham, director of the Women’s Studies Program and associate professor of sociology, said the theme for this year ’s conference emphasizes the importance of linkages between local and global communities in the fight for

gender equity and advancement of women.

The annual Women’s Studies conference is unique, Earl said, in its variety of presenters, who range from Tech students, staff and faculty to speakers from other countries.

The conference also offers opportunities for oneon-one interaction, and this year, specifically, attendees will be able to interact with the two keynote speakers as well as the director of “Get Together Girls.”

“There will not probably ever be an event like this that anyone will be able to attend in the exact same way,” Earl said. “So, it’s very significant to utilize the access that our campus has to (speak) with these prominent movers and shakers in the community, as well as in the world, in a transnational, feminist way.”

People can join the conversation on Twitter through #TTUWSC16. @sastryshashi_DT

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Texas universities formulating rules on campus carry DALLAS (AP) — With concealed carry on campus just a few months away, Texas’ public universities have written plans with wide variations on where and

how they will allow people to carry guns.

So-called campus carry goes into effect in August after the Texas Legislature last year voted to require public

universities to allow guns carried by licensed adults.

The Dallas Morning News reports that each public university in the state can write specific rules for how con-

cealed carry will work on their campus.

The University of Texas’ plan would forbid keeping a bullet in the chamber of a semiautomatic handgun.

It would also forbid guns in dormitories. Faculty at the UT-Austin campus will be allowed to ban guns from their individual offices, but not faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Texas Woman’s University will allow guns inside family apartments at its Denton campus, but not on the playground outside.

“It doesn’t really matter what ... our opinions were, we had to comply with the law,” said Elizabeth Pauley, the police chief at Texas Woman’s.

“I heard a lot of opinions, both pro and con. Then we got down to the nitty-gritty of, ‘How do we make this work at TWU.’” One state university’s plan is opposed by state members of the group Students for Concealed Carry.

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has proposed banning guns from the entirety of any building that has labs with animals or dangerous materials. The university argues it would be onerous to ban guns on specific floors or sections.

Universities have latitude to establish some gun-free zones on campus. But the pending implementation of the law still causes alarm among some people who opposed the change.

At the University of Texas at Dallas, one longtime professor, Murray Leaf, told the newspaper he thought “the emotional impact is greater than the probable actual impact.”

But Leaf added that he didn’t like the idea of the law possibly stifling academic freedom.

“We’re training people to win debates by virtue of facts and reason, not threats,” Leaf said.

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Westbrook said he has been involved with student government since his freshman year where he worked with freshman council as a representative for the Stangel/Murdough Residence Hall Complex.

I feel very honored to have that many students put their faith in me to be a leader over the next year.

BENJAMIN SHARP 2016-17 SGA PRESIDENT He has served as a senator for the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration for the past two years and held chair positions on the student life committee and the Rawls College of Business senator committee.

Westbrook said he is currently serving as the parliamentarian.

Koestler said he recently got involved with student government after learning about it from some of his constituents and peers. His experience is predominately from Greek Life where Koestler served as the president of his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Koestler said he has also worked on entrepreneurial endeavors both on and off campus. Those endeavors included two startup companies: Nanovations and Greek Geeks, according to LinkedIn. “We have these two wonderful guys that have been in SGA and now we have Kevin and I who haven’t and I think that’s a great balance,” DeRossi said. “They know what SGA is about, we know what other things are about, so when we put those together there’s a different outlook from different angles on every single thing.

We have a graduate student, undergraduate students; two people who have been on SGA before and each of us have different areas of expertise so I think that’s what makes us a great team. We can look at an issue that all of the students have from all the particular angles and figure it out.”

The newest officers said they all decided to run for different reasons but said the feeling of getting the position they were seeking was exciting for everyone.

Sharp said he decided to run for president because the role will enable him to serve the students well.

“I have experience in administrative offices and I’ve worked for (former) President Nellis and (Interim) President Opperman, so with that I’ve gained some leadership experience and some real view for what you can do in an executive role,” Sharp said. “It also whet my appetite to have the opportunity to build a new relationship with the new president. We don’t know who it will be yet, but with him or her coming in, I think it will be a really cool opportunity to kind of establish, in the new president’s mind, what student

government can be and how we can play an even bigger role in making sure that the students are served.”

Sharp said it is exciting and humbling to be able to serve Tech.

“I feel very honored to have that many students put their faith in me to be a leader over the next year,” Sharp said. “It’s very humbling, and at the same time, definitely comes with the weight of responsibility. I have a job to do now.”

DeRossi said it was exciting to hear that he would be the external vice president.

“It was a very cool scene and kind of shocking when they started listing off everyone’s names,” DeRossi said.

“It was a surreal experience.

I’m completely honored and humbled that the students would allow me to serve them as a student administrator and be a leader for the year.”

We s t b r o o k s a i d h e planned on running for a different position, but after changing his mind and winning the election, he is sure it was the right decision.

“I was approached by Ben to run on his campaign as maybe just a senator, but I decided I would love a position on the exec,” Westbrook said. “After talking, he offered me the internal vice president position. Being a part of SGA and seeing all of the changes that it has been able to have here on campus and the way it’s affected students has really driven me to use my last year here at Texas Tech to serve the students in the upmost that I can and that’s through internal vice president.”

Westbrook said becoming the internal vice president was exciting and he is ready to begin making changes.

This summer, I’ll be here in Lubbock and so I plan to really work with administration as well as the athletic department ...

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Koestler said he decided to run because he wanted to give back to the university.

“I felt that this role was the best opportunity for me to give back to the university and best suited my capabilities that I had as an undergrad and moving forward with my graduate career,” Koestler said.

While campaigning, each candidate mentioned various initiatives. Now that they have been elected into their positions, they plan to execute those initiatives.

Once his term begins, Sharp said he wants to make sure student government provides a place where students’ voices can be heard.

“First and foremost through the creation of town halls, which is something that I talked about a lot whenever I was running,” Sharp said. “Making sure that students have an opportunity to have their voice heard. There will be administrators as well as the student government executive branch to make sure that our students don’t feel ignored or to feel like they don’t have a voice within student government, there’s

NEWS a very obvious and open place that is very safe where they can come and make known their concerns.”

Sharp said he also wants to improve the SGA ambassadors program on campus.

The program has been in existence for two years, and Sharp wants to make it more visible around campus.

DeRossi said one of his first initiatives is to build relationships, in addition to safety and efficiency on campus.

“I’ve been doing these transitional meetings,” DeRossi said. “Some of my goals, being in my position, include making sure that all students are safe on campus, we need to make sure we’re efficiently transporting everyone around and that the campus is operating at maximum efficiency.”

Westbrook said he will be working hard to not only decrease binge drinking during sporting events, but also to improve the senate of SGA. “Alcohol in the Jones and at sporting events is something that I know a lot of people believed in, as well as some people don’t because they don’t know all of the logistics of it,” Westbrook said.

“This summer I’ll be here in Lubbock and so I plan to really work with administration as well as the athletic department and build up a proposal and really look at it and start to build a foundation.”

Westbrook said he wants alcohol in the Jones in hopes of ending binge drinking at tailgates. People stay at tailgates the whole game and drink, which is unsafe.

“I’ve already done a lot of studies just dealing with other colleges who have implemented it, and their rate of social violence related to alcohol has actually gone down once you have it in that controlled facility,” he said. “I feel like this is a step that Texas Tech needs to take and I know the Big 12 is also trying to take steps in this as well. It will also be a great revenue source not only for our university, but also for some of our other initiatives that we plan on working on — dealing with a safer and more fun tailgate experience for all students at Texas Tech.”

Westbrook said he also wants to work with the Senate to make sure it is effectively serving the students.

“Another big initiative that I want to focus on, and the main thing, is having an effective and transparent senate,” he said, “making sure our senators aren’t just passing pieces of legislation that they are passionate about. Student government here at Texas Tech and our student senate, I like to think, is very successful and very well respected.”

Koestler said current graduate vice president, Saba Nafees, inspires his initiatives for the year.

“First and foremost, I just want to continue on the success that Saba has accomplished in all of her initiatives and a lot of mine are aligned with hers,” Koestler said. “My two main ones that I want to work on are assisting graduate students in raising funds for research related endeavors and creating a funding model to help them alleviate that financial burden.”

Koestler also wants to work with Academic Health Plans and student health services to advocate and educate

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Lawmaker profits off public financing work HOUSTON (AP) — For nearly three decades, a wellknown Texas state senator has also worked in public financing, profiting in many cases from deals made by agencies the Legislature regulates.

Sen. Rodney Ellis, DHouston, was elected in 1990 and is now seeking the Democratic Party endorsement for the Harris County Commissioners Court.

Outside the Senate, Ellis has worked in bond underwriting, when a firm handles the sale of government bonds to outside investors. The Houston Chronicle reported his past clients include the city of Houston, Harris County, and the Lower Colorado River Authority in Austin.

U.S. senators and House members are not allowed to work as government bond underwriters, but no such requirement exists in Texas. State lawmakers are paid $7,200 a year, and most have some form of outside employment.

Ellis hasn’t listed any government bond fees in his personal financial statement since the one covering 1994.

He said he was told in 1995 that he wasn’t required to disclose them.

“There is no connection between my votes in the Senate and any bond underwriting,” he told the Chronicle in an email. “I’m a businessman, lawyer, and African-American involved in public finance. I’m proud

of the fact that I’m one of the first to combine those four experiences and also have a successful legislative career at the same time.”

His government service and outside work have overlapped at times.

He served on the Senate Transportation Committee when his firm was involved in underwriting hundreds of millions in bonds for mass transit in the Dallas and Houston areas as well as the North Texas Tollway Authority.

Tom Smith, Texas director of the good-government advocacy group Public Citizen, lauded Ellis’ efforts on ethics reform, but also questioned his private employment.

international students on our health insurance options.

Before the new executive team takes office, they will meet with the current holders of their position. Each one has learned something, or is hoping to learn something, that will better prepare them for their job, they said.

Sharp said Holton Westbrook, current SGA president, has taught him to speak up.

“Holton’s a great leader and I’m very honored to get to follow him up and also very challenged,” Sharp said.

“Holton has challenged me to have the courage to speak up when I need to but also the wisdom to know when I don’t. That’s something that I’m nervous about as well as looking forward to.”

I’m really looking forward to establishing a great relationship with the university and with the City of Lubbock.

ALEX DEROSSI 2016-17 SGA EXTERNAL VP DeRossi said he is hoping to learn how current SGA vice president Caleb Fisher works so efficiently.

“One thing that I’ve learned from Caleb is that he does a lot and he does it very well,” DeRossi said. “That’s something I really hope I can do. I want to learn how great of a manager of time he is and be able to continue all of the stuff that he’s doing for the students. I think it’s extremely important to continue on his legacy and what he has brought in, things like Tech to Town and the Uber deal.”

Westbrook said he has received advice from current internal vice president Amber Yanez, as well as current president and older brother Holton Westbrook, which will help with his term.

“I met with Amber and talked about making sure that there is a mixture among the OneTech and

APRIL 4, 2016 Strive senators and making sure that those relationships amongst them are positive ones and that people are actually working together,” Westbrook said. “We won’t be able to be an effective and successful senate if people are holding grudges or have their views on certain things or how certain things should’ve been. The main thing that she told me was to come in with a lot of positive energy and build those relationships with each senator right from the get-go. I’ve also learned from Holton that there will be times where you may fail and you may succeed. When you succeed, you still need to work off of that success and improve it even more because there’s always room for that.”

Koestler said he is hoping to pick up on the work ethic possessed by Nafees.

“Something that I really admire about Saba is her persistence and work ethic,” Koestler said. “Like many graduate students, she’s involved in several different facets. I really want to continue her work ethic. I promise that I will work as hard as I can to make Texas Tech the greatest university.”

DeRossi said he is looking forward to establishing and continuing relationships.

“I’m really looking forward to establishing a great relationship with the university and with the City of Lubbock,” DeRossi said.

“Sometimes that relationship is kind of tested because the students are only here for four years, they come, they leave, and they don’t appreciate Lubbock. But in reality, this is our home for four years so I’m really looking forward to continuing on the great relationships formed with our city council, our police chiefs, all of these people who help run Texas Tech efficiently and work for the City of Lubbock.”

Westbrook said he is also looking forward to working on relationships but also strengthening the student senate and showing what a Red Raider is.

“I want to be able to say at the end of the year that

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we’ve passed so many pieces of legislation and that we’ve actually been able to see that change on campus,” he said.

“I’m also looking forward to proving people wrong who didn’t believe in some of our initiatives throughout the campaign, showing them that we’re here for the right reasons and we’re here to work hard for the students.”

Like the rest of the executive branch, Koestler said he is looking forward to building relationships within the grad school.

“The biggest thing that I’m looking forward to,” Koestler said, “is building relationships with the students in the grad school and advocating and informing all of the students on all of the great things that SGA can accomplish and really just being involved with all of my initiatives and accomplishing those.”

Sharp said he is looking forward to building relationships and making sure the students’ voices are heard.

The biggest thing that I’m looking forward to is building relationships with the students in the grad school and informing all of the students on all of the great things that SGA can accomplish ...

KEVIN KOESTLER 2016-17 SGA GRADUATE VP “For me, I’m really looking forward to establishing SGA’s relationship with the new president and getting to define what student government means,” Sharp said. “I think if we’re able to establish a good relationship early on with the new president then we could have a chance to do some awesome things and to really make sure that students are being heard and have more power over what goes on with the student body than we do right now.” @JessicaGuedeaDT

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Professional athletes need more discipline I ’d like to start off by saying that I do respect a lot of athletes. Most of the time, they are people who many others look up to, and most take that responsibility very seriously.

However, far too often we see in the news that athletes, mostly male, can get away with just about anything if they are a good enough asset to the team.

According to an ATTN article in late March, Alexis Jones, founder of the organization I Am That Girl, was aggressively catcalled at a stoplight while in Los Angeles.

Jones, along with her mother, noticed the young men in the vehicle next to hers were making lewd gestures and vulgar remarks.

She then decided to take pictures of the men, and posted those pictures on her Instagram page, according to the article.

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It just so happened that two of the young men in that vehicle were Los Angeles Lakers players Nick Young and Jordan Clarkson.

Once the pictures went viral and the two players were identified by the general public, Lakers spokesman John Black released a statement that just about relinquished the men of any wrongdoing. In an article in The Washington Post, Black was quoted as saying that an investigation concluded there were “different interpretations” of what happened that day.

I suppose by different interpretations, Black

meant something along the lines of, “these boys are worth too much money to be accused of any wrongdoing.” But that can’t be substantiated, though I don’t know Black personally.

However, this proves a problem that has been stamped on sports for a while now. If you are making a lot of money for the team, then there is a good chance you can get away with anything.

Now I’m not a sports guy, but I’m going to go ahead and guess that these men were doing well enough for the Lakers to have their spokesman come to their rescue.

This is the problem with sports now. The corporate greed that is associated with a team’s administration creates a problematic environment.

When the athletes do stuff like this, they aren’t pun-

ished, and in fact it is the accuser who takes on the brunt of the punishment.

It is for reasons like this that so many young women are afraid to speak out against sexual assault and sexual harassment.

So many times they are not believed, and many more times, they are seen as someone who is just trying to bring some rich man down. It is not right, and it sets a horrible precedence of what justice actually is.

In this instance, it is excruciatingly apparent that these men were in the wrong.

According to the LA Daily News, the best defense that Young could make was that Jones lied about not recognizing him.

Young reportedly said that Jones had written a profile of him in the past and should recognize him, according to the article.

That is the best he could do. There was no attempt at clarifying the situation, it was just nonsense.

It is for reasons like this that so many young women are afraid to speak out against sexual assault and harassment.

What is then created is a domino effect of sexual harassment cover-ups. This will only continue on and young men everywhere will fall into the mindset of, ‘if I’m rich enough I can get away with anything.’

This has to do with respect for an individual, and when someone takes away somebody else’s feeling of safety, they are ultimately disrespecting that individ-

ual. What usually happens is they take more and more away, which creates a violent circle; a loop of assault that one cannot get out of.

I know as a man I’m not in any place to take on the causes of women, but I do think it is my place to urge other men to always be respectful of women, and no matter how much you think you are worth or what position you hold, you should always be held to the same standard as everyone else.

Far too often athletes get away with too much.

The only thing that comforts me is the thought that athletes from Texas Tech are not as typical.

Hopefully we can take pride in the fact that we hardly hear of any sexual assault accusations against Tech’s male athletes — hopefully. @MichaelCantuDT

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Clinton stresses Democratic Brother Jed Smock’s style not fit for campus credentials in Wisconsin

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ith Brother Jed Smock and his crew occupying the Free Speech Area last week, there have been many strong arguments I have heard about issues such as feminism, abortion and religion.

The biggest issue I have with their message is they are mainly preaching hate, when instead they should be preaching love to all.

These radical preachers are openly saying that wearing certain types of clothing will condemn you to the fiery pits, which is the exact opposite thing you’d want to say when trying to convert people.

Brother Jed’s website elaborates further about their purpose of speaking at public campuses and universities.

According to the website, the Smocks’ purpose is to declare the Gospel of Christ to college and university students of the U.S. and the world.

It is a surprise that Brother Jed and his group of preachers have not decided to preach love.

It is through love and acceptance that one wins over a crowd of students, and through the examples at the Student Union Building last week, we see that more people are turned off by their hellfire and brimstone style of street preaching.

While it is good that other individuals, including students, try and debunk their hypocritical style of preaching, these individuals are only there to raise attention, giving off a ‘holier than thou’ vibe.

The problem with these preachers is that when presented with the hard facts,

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

they talk about a completely different argument.

For instance, I witnessed one of the preachers named Joshua go from telling people about the evils of feminism, to speaking about how everyone is going to hell for supporting LGBT rights, and how certain people are obviously homosexual because of a ‘homo lisp.’

While many students familiar with religious works are able to instantly debunk their invalid and hypocritical arguments and speeches, some have decided to point out that these preachers are scaring students away from organized religion because of their verbal attacks on students.

While watching this argument of religious preaching turned personal, I was afraid that things were going to turn violent because of the subject matter that Joshua, the most vocal campus preacher I’ve seen in a while, chose to speak about with the crowd.

It is Joshua’s personal decision to preach hate toward anyone who is unlucky enough to hear his filthy message.

Although this is his decision, he would be more successful in preaching about God’s love and forgiveness to everyone if he wanted to attract students to a religious lifestyle.

Apart from choosing to broadcast a message of hate to all who are around, I have also witnessed one of these preachers leave the free speech area, causing the Tech Police Department to escort him back after he decided to resume his preaching behind the library.

While I can understand these preachers getting a little overwhelmed by the negative, yet understandable responses from the students, it does not excuse how these individuals acted last week.

It is a surprise that Brother Jed and his group have not decided to preach love.

These preachers are all about inciting anger and hate in their listeners and anyone passing by, but in order to reach a bigger crowd, they should instead preach about how everyone in the world is loved, regardless of personal life choices.

To make these preachers feel loved, we should not get flustered by their harsh words.

In order to create a friendly learning environment around the SUB, the best idea is to simply ignore these preachers until they start preaching love, acceptance and friendliness to all, regardless of religion, clothing style, skin color and sexual orientation. bdefilippis@dailytoreador.com

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Cruz victory in Wisconsin can help campaign MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in his first joint appearance with former presidential rival Ted Cruz, implored hundreds of Republican Party activists and insiders on Friday to back the Texas senator, saying a win for him next week will change momentum in the race and unite the party.

Cruz, who called Walker a “rock star,” hugged the two-term governor as he took

the stage at an event just four days before Wisconsin’s primary. Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking on behalf of Donald Trump, also attended the Milwaukee County GOP dinner.

Cruz won Walker’s endorsement Monday, giving him a boost as he looks to win Wisconsin and its 42 delegates. Walker planned to campaign with Cruz across the state Sunday.

Cruz noted that Walker is one of five former Republican presidential candidates who are now backing his campaign.

The others are Rick Perry, Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham.

“That is the very real manifestation of the unity we need across this country,” he said. “If we are divided, we will lose the primary and hand the general election to Hillary Clinton.”

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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) — Locked in a tough primary fight in Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton is looking to draw a contrast with Bernie Sanders by emphasizing her Democratic bona fides.

Before 1,500 Wisconsin Democratic activists, officials and donors in a Milwaukee ballroom Saturday, the former secretary of state crowed, “I am a proud Democrat and I support Democrats up and down the ticket, always have and always will.”

It was a swipe at Sanders, a longtime independent senator from Vermont who is expected to have a strong showing in the Wi s c o n s i n p r e s i d e n t i a l primary Tuesday.

Earlier at the same event, the state Democratic Party’s Founders’ Day dinner, Sanders said: “There is one campaign that has created an enormous amount

of energy and enthusiasm.

And that is our campaign.”

Sanders was planning to continue his aggressive Wisconsin tour Sunday and Monday. Clinton was expected to return to New York, where she faces an important home-state primary later this month, while husband Bill Clinton is planning to campaign on her behalf Monday in Milwaukee.

After several primary losses and with a tough fight ahead in the April 19 New York primary, Clinton has shown some frustration with her Democratic opponent in recent days.

The tension was evident Saturday as the campaigns bickered over scheduling a possible debate before the New York contest.

Clinton did not raise that dispute in Eau Claire or Milwaukee, but toggled between contrasting her positions on key issues

with Sanders and casting herself as more electable than any of the Republicans. She argued that in a general election, she was “best able to withstand whatever the Republicans have planned.”

It’s a suggestion that Clinton’s decades of public life have been more thoroughly dissected than Sanders’ years as a far-left mayor, U.S. House member and U.S. senator.

“I think we need a nominee who has been tested and vetted,” Clinton said in Milwaukee. “For 25 years they’ve thrown everything they can at me, and I’m still standing.”

Speaking before Clinton at the banquet, Sanders suggested the more than $100 million he’s raised this year and the influx of new voters he’s attracted make him “the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump.”

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Trump calls on Kasich to quit race MILWAUKEE (AP) — Donald Trump on Sunday called for John Kasich to drop out of the Republican presidential race, arguing that the Ohio g o v e r n o r s h o u l d n ’t b e allowed to continue accumulating delegates if he has no chance of becoming the nominee.

Working to recover his edge after a difficult week, Trump said it wasn’t fair for Kasich, who has won only his home state, to continue his campaign. He suggested instead that Kasich, who has pledged to make it to the summer convention, follow the example of Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush — candidates who quit after lagging behind.

“He doesn’t have to run and take my votes,” he said.

Trump said Kasich could ask to be considered at the GOP convention in Cleveland in July even without competing in the remaining nominating contests. He added that he had relayed his concerns to Republican National Committee officials at a meeting in Washington this past week.

“I said, ‘Why is a guy allowed to run?’ All he’s doing is just he goes from place to place and loses,” Trump told reporters at Miss Katie’s Diner in Milwaukee, where

he stopped for breakfast. The state holds its presidential primaries Tuesday.

Kasich’s campaign tried to flip the script, contending that neither Trump nor Texas Sen. Ted Cruz would have enough delegates to win the nomination outright going into the Cleveland.

“Since he thinks it’s such a good idea, we look forward to Trump dropping out before the convention,” said Kasich spokesman Chris Schrimpf.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she had yet to receive a request from the FBI for an interview regarding the private email system she used as secretary of state. And during a series of stops at Brooklyn church services, she got in a dig at her Democratic opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has identified as an independent for most of his career.

“I know we have to have a Democrat succeed Barack Obama,” Clinton said.

Clinton and Sanders announced they’d agreed to a debate in New York before the consequential April 19 primary, though the timing remained unclear. Sanders fired up a crowd in Wausau, Wisconsin, hoping to continue his string of recent

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Trump’s call for Kasich to bow out came as Republican concerns grew about the prospect of convention chaos if Trump fails to lock up his party’s nomination — or even if he does.

Behind Cruz in the polls in Wisconsin, Trump faces the prospect that a loss Tuesday will raise further doubts that he can net the needed delegates, making it far easier for his party to oust him in a floor fight at the convention.

Cruz, Trump’s closest challenger, has only a small chance to overtake him in the delegate hunt before the convention. He spent his afternoon rallying supporters in Wisconsin in an event heavy with references to the state’s beloved Green Bay Packers.

Kasich has acknowledged he cannot catch up in the delegate race, leaving a contested convention his only path to victory. He has faced calls in the past to step aside, but those nudges became less frequent following his decisive victory last month in his home state.

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Walk spreads awareness about sexual assault

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The Lubbock chapter of Voice of Hope hosted its ninth annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes march on Saturday at the South Plains Mall.

According to the Voice of Hope website, the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes march is an event that gives people, especially men, the opportunity to walk a mile in four-inch stiletto heels to speak out against sexual violence.

Leslie Timmons, community educator and volunteer coordinator for the Voice of Hope Lubbock chapter, said this is its only fundraiser for the year. As well as a fundraiser, the purpose of the march is to bring awareness to sexual assault and sex trafficking in the South Plains.

This race, while open to everybody, was mainly geared toward men to find out what women go through, Timmons said.

“Around 97 percent of sexual assault perpetrators are men,” Timmons said. “We want to change that social norm and get men involved to prevent

sexual assault.”

Based on the idea that ‘you never know what a person is going through until you walk a mile in their shoes,’ this march focuses on being sympathetic and empathetic to survivors of sexual violence, Timmons said.

Vo l u n t e e r s f r o m a l l around Lubbock helped put this event together, Timmons said. Many groups contact Timmons to volunteer for this event, she said, and Tech students, including students from the law school and the graduate social work program, helped run this event.

After already completing his mandatory pro bono service work, Gregory Cotton, a first-year law student from Round Rock, said he heard about this event and wanted to help.

Cotton said that making breakfast tacos for the end of the race helped bring awareness to different people about the cause.

“I think bringing awareness to sexual violence is the biggest thing,” Cotton said. “Since it’s taking place at the mall, we have had other people not in the race come up and ask us

about it.”

Sarah Kusler, a firstyear law student from Midland, said she also thinks that sexual violence is a serious problem.

“It is something that we should not have to deal with these days,” Kusler said. “I came out to show my support.”

Timmons said it is important to have students from the university to volunteer for this event because this affects students on a regular basis. “ C a m p u s s e x u a l a ssault is a big issue,” Timmons said. “The problem is not just on Tech’s campus but on every college campus. People have to be talking about it to get anything to change.”

Sandy Magallen, a second year doctoral candidate studying audiology from McAllen, said she participated in the march because she wanted to show her support for everyone who has been sexually assaulted.

After seeing the advertisement on her Facebook page, Magallen wanted to do the march because of family members who have been through similar expe-

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Members of Voice of Hope, the Lubbock Rape Crisis Center, participated in and hosted the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes March at South Plains Mall on Saturday. The march is a mile-long walk in which men wear high heels to speak out against rape and sexual assault. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. riences, she said.

“I have friends and family members that have been sexually assaulted,” Magallen said. “They have needed temporary places to stay when they are trying to figure out their next step in life.”

To s p r e a d t h e w o r d , Magallen wants to share photos from this event

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Several fraternities and sororities, student organizations and Lubbock community groups came to show their support and offer their service to the cause.

The event lasted until midnight, as participants walked around the soccer field all night in spirit of the event’s slogan, “Cancer never sleeps and neither do we.”

“My brother had leukemia when he was eight and I was two, so once he got to college at (Texas) A&M he was involved with Relay for Life,” Lauren Moon, a senior nursing major from Austin and event leader for Relay

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Relay for Life took place Saturday at the John Walker Soccer Complex, and participants walked in the second lap of the relay to recognize them for helping nurture and care for individuals with cancer. The event was a fundraiser hosted to walk for the cure of cancer.

for Life, said, “and so it’s kind of just something I

followed in his footsteps.”

Last year, the Relay for

Life events raised $25,000, she said, and the goal this

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Lovato, Jenner receive GLAAD Media Awards LOS ANGELES (AP) — Demi Lovato and Caitlyn Jenner are among the recipients of the 27th GLAAD Media Awards.

The awards honor those w h o f u r t h e r G L A A D ’s mission of ensuring that stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are heard through media outlets.

Lovato is the recipient of the organization’s Vanguard Award, which she received from Nick

Jonas during Saturday’s ceremony in Beverly Hills.

The singer was chosen for her advocacy for acceptance of the LGBT community. Lovato has spoken about her late grandfather, who came out as gay in the 1960s, and filmed the music video for her song “Really Don’t Care” at the L.A. Pride festival.

Jenner’s E! Entertainment Television reality series “I Am Cait” was hon-

ored for outstanding reality program.

Jenner, who was born Bruce Jenner, is sharing the honor with transgender YouTube personality Jazz Jennings, who has a TLC show “I Am Jazz.”

“I Am Cait” is currently airing its second season on the E! network.

Other honorees included the film “Carol,” the Amazon Instant Video Series, “Transparent,” the HBO film “Bessie,”

which starred Queen L a t i f a h , a n d N e t f l i x ’s “Sense8,” which was cocreated by transgender director Lilly Wachowski.

Wachowski announced she was transgender last month, several years after her sister Lana Wachowski publicly revealed she was transgender. The siblings created the “Matrix” film trilogy.

Highlights of the ceremony will air on the Logo network on Monday.

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Rihanna, Rhimes, Clinton appear at Black Girls Rock!

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Pop star Rihanna and TV mogul Shonda Rhimes were among the honorees at this year ’s Black Girls Rock! event, where Hillary Clinton made an appearance and told the audience “my life has been changed by strong black women leaders.”

The Friday night event was taped at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The special will air on BET on Tuesday.

The Democratic presidential candidate earned cheers when she called black women “change makers and pathmakers and ground shakers.”

“There are still a lot of barriers holding back African Americans and black women in particular, so a gathering like this filled with so many powerful, strong women is a rebuke to every single one of those barriers,” Clinton said. “All of our kids, no matter what zip code they live in, deserve a good teacher and a good

school, a safe community and clean water to drink.”

Clinton spoke before introducing Beverly Bond, who founded Black Girls Rock! in 2006.

Another who earned loud applause was Rihanna, the final honoree of the night.

“Thank you so much for celebrating us in a world that doesn’t celebrate us enough,” she said onstage.

“The minute you learn to love yourself you will not want to be anybody else,” the Grammy-winning singer and fashion trendsetter added. “Role model is not the title they like to give me ... (but) I think I can inspire a lot of young women to be themselves and that is half the battle.”

The Barbados-born singer also thanked her mother and grandmother for being strong black women and excellent role models.

“Hopefully one day I’ll be raising my own little black girl who rocks,” she said.

Others did just that:

Rhimes, the creator behind TV hits “Grey’s Anatomy,” ‘’Scandal” and “How to Get Away with Murder,” brought her daughter to the event “to sit in a room with you and feel the energy that’s here.”

“Because she and you are the ones who count, the ones who matter,” said Rhimes.

“It’s the minute someone starts giving you awards, you are more history than future. But your slates are blank, your paths are clear and your stories are whatever you decide they’re going to be.”

Grammy-winning R&B singer Monica brought her daughter onstage at the end of her performance. Other performers include Brandy, Andra Day, Jazmine Sullivan, Marsha Ambrosius, Corinne Bailey Rae and Imani Uzuri.

Gladys Knight, who performed a medley of her hits as the audience stood up and danced, was also honored.

“It is the best award, the greatest trophy that I’ve

ever received,” she said. “ M o r e t h a n a G r a m m y.

More than so many other awards that I’ve gotten that I appreciate.”

Other honorees included Black Lives Matter founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi; “The Hunger Games” actress Amandla Stenberg, who has received praise for being vocal about cultural appropriation; and Danai Gurira, the “Walking Dead” actress and playwright behind Broadway’s “Eclipse,” starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, who also attended Black Girls Rock!

Debbie Allen, Kelly Rowland, Cissy Houston, Erykah Badu, Tatyana Ali and Teyonah Parris also attended.

Tracee Ellis Ross, star of ABC’s “black-ish,” hosted the event and kicked it off with a hilarious and impressive dance number, channeling Rihanna, Beyonce, Queen Latifah, Chaka Khan, Janet Jackson and her mother, Diana Ross.

on her Facebook page to family and friends around the country, she said. By posting these pictures, she wants people to start a conversation about sexual violence and make people more comfortable to talk about it so there are no secrets about it.

Timmons hopes that one day, sexual violence will

not be a problem any more, she said.

“Our goal for the march is that we want that social norm to be changed,” Timmons said. “All of our staff hopes that one day, we don’t have jobs. We want to work ourselves out of a job.

We want it to be eradicated one day.”

year is to not only meet but also exceed that number.

The event is something people from both the Lubbock community and Tech can participate in to help a good cause and learn something new along the way, Moon said.

“There’s a lot of cancers you can get at this age, and our speaker this year, he had testicular cancer, which is something that men usually get at a young age, so it’s really good to raise awareness about that kind of stuff, things that people our age are likely to get,” she said.

Bellen Smelser, a participant in Relay for Life from Plains, said she is a colon cancer survivor and thinks the event is a great way to spread the word about dif-

ferent types of cancer.

“I think it’s important because it affects so many people nowadays,” she said. “You hear so many different types of cancers affecting old, young, it doesn’t matter your age, so I think we just need more awareness and more money to go into research for it.”

Smelser got to participate in the first lap around the field, which was called the survivor walk, and she said she thought it was great because it was a testament to her victory in the battle against cancer.

There were also other ceremonies, including a luminaries lighting to honor those who have died because of cancer.

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Delta Gamma sorority hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at its newly constructed lodge at Greek Circle.

The Gamma Xi chapter of Delta Gamma was founded at Texas Tech in 1954, according to a Tech news release, and it built its first lodge in 1974.

Diana Hayes, an alumna of Delta Gamma and Tech, started the ceremony with an invocation.

“Delta Gamma was founded 142 years ago,” she said. “Just for a historical perspective, Jesse James was robbing trains, and trains were the main means of transportation. Today Delta Gamma has 146 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada. We’re strong and stable.”

Barbara Robertson, a Delta Gamma alumna, said the chapter has worked through every challenge since its founding, including the long process of getting its original house built after 20 years as a chapter.

The conversation of renovating the lodge has been going for about a decade, she said, when

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Delta Gamma hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new lodge at Greek Circle on Saturday morning.

The new facility was started in September 2014, and the 10,000 square-foot lodge cost approximately $2 million to build.

Delta Gamma had reached more than 200 members in total.

“About 10 or so years ago, the lodge was 30 years old, and you know we all age, she needed a little sprucing,” Robertson said. “And we thought, ‘the chapter is getting bigger, Texas Tech is ex-

ploding, how are we going to meet the needs of Delta Gamma over the next multiple decades?’”

The alumnae decided that in order to accommodate continued growth for the chapter, a new lodge was needed.

The chapter worked with a variety of experts, includ-

ing Henthorn Commercial Construction, Robertson said, to develop a plan for the new lodge to present to Happy State Bank to gain financial support.

The new 10,000 squarefoot facility cost approximately $2 million to build, and the old lodge was torn down in September 2014

after the plan was approved and construction on the new lodge began.

More than 100 people attended Saturday’s ceremony, including current Delta Gamma members, alumnae, donors and four of the original Tech charter members.

Deborah Finlayson, Delta Gamma House Corporation project chairman, recognized a variety of people in attendance.

“I just can’t believe that we’re really here,” she said. “Many hands helped build this new home for our chapter.”

The current members of Delta Gamma have handled the difficulties of transitioning lodges during the last three years, Finlayson said, and they have contributed to the project significantly.

Finlayson presented the key to the lodge to Jessica Server, current Delta Gamma president.

“I would like to thank our generous donors, we couldn’t have done it without you,” Server said. “I would like to officially accept the lodge as I accept the key today.”

Before the lodge was completed, the chapter members had to recruit

from tents and rented out FarmHouse fraternity’s lodge, Finlayson said.

Robert L. Duncan, Tech System chancellor, at tended the ceremony and said the new lodge is a beautiful facility.

“It’s really exciting to see the remodeling of our Greek system and sororities here on Greek Circle,” he said. “Hopefully in the near future we’ll have some expansion on Greek Circle for more room.”

All members of the sorority will have access to the lodge whenever they want, Finlayson said, and the lodge has multiple security cameras to help keep the members safe.

Delta Gamma is currently the largest sorority at Tech, Duncan said, and this reflects well on the qualities of the sorority and its members.

“Our Greek systems across the country are under fire,” he said. “We’re making sure here at Texas Tech University that although we have a few bumps in the road, that we are going to maintain the strength of our Greek system and make sure it has a strong future here at Texas Tech University.” @JenRomeroDT

CITY

Run honors McCool, raises money for scholarship

By ALYSSA ACOSTA Staff WritEr

At 8 a.m. Saturday, the sun had barely risen above the horizon, and the temperature was below freezing as runners and volunteers gathered at the Silent Wings Museum for the Willie McCool Memorial Run.

Willie McCool, along w i t h h i s c r e w, p a s s e d away Feb. 1, 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere above Texas, a c c o r d i n g t o t h e We s t Texas Endurance website.

McCool is survived by his family and students like him, who are interest-

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Runners had the option to participate in the half marathon, 5K or 10K at the run.

West Texas Endurance hosted the run, and the money raised from the events is donated to the Willie McCool Memorial Scholarship Fund.

“It makes you want to do the run more when it is going to a good place,” Ripley said.

The scholarship is awarded every year to a graduate of Coronado High School who shows interest in majoring in either math, science, engineering, computer science

or pre-medicine.

“I really like the scholarship fund,” Sheila Delapp, a junior mechanical engineering major from Seabrook and a volunteer at the run, said. “I think it is a good opportunity for people.”

Despite the cold, runners and volunteers alike decided to honor the memory of McCool by participating in this run. “ I t ’s r e a l l y c o l d t o day, so that wasn’t fun,” Delapp said, “but it’s really great to be a part of a group of such enthusiastic volunteers.”

Delapp and other memb e r s o f Te c h ’s c h a p t e r

of the Society of Women Engineers came out to volunteer at one of the many water stops along the race route, she said, to cheer on the runners and provide a refreshing boost.

“The people running the event (West Texas Endurance) have been really supportive and helpful, so it’s been a really positive experience,” Delapp said.

Other Tech organizations, such as Tech Quidditch and the Graduate Student Advisory Council, also came out to help at the water stops and cheer on fellow students running in the race. @DailyToreador

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ed in STEM, who benefit from the scholarship given in his name.

McCool was the pilot of the Columbia and a graduate of Coronado High School, according to the website, and loved running, hiking and camping like so many other Lubbock natives.

Kate Ripley, a freshman mechanical engineering major from Lubbock and member of the Texas Tech Triathlon team, participated in the run and said she actively runs long distances and participates in various runs.

“I do at least three (marathons) a year,” Ri-

Tupac’s stepfather up for parole in killings NEW YORK (AP) — He made the FBI’s most wanted list and was convicted of leading a revolutionary group responsible for a trail of bloodshed, including the slayings of an armed guard and two New York police officers.

But after serving half his prison sentence, Mutulu Shakur might soon be a free man.

The 65-year-old, stepfather to the late rapper Tupac Shakur, is eligible for mandatory parole after serving 30 years of the 60year sentence he was given in 1988 for masterminding a string of deadly armed robberies in New York and Connecticut committed by a militant political group known as “The Family.”

His parole hearing is to take place this week at the federal penitentiary in Victorville, California, where he is serving his sentence, according to U.S. Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr.

Although federal parole was abolished in 1987, it

is still granted for inmates convicted before then. And under the rules in place at the time of his conviction, parole is mandatory for Shakur unless a commission finds he is likely to reoffend or has frequently violated prison rules.

The possibility that Shakur could walk free has outraged Michael Paige, whose father, a Brinks security guard, was killed in a $1.6 million holdup of an armored truck at a mall in suburban Rockland County, New York, on Oct. 20, 1981.

He called it “incomprehensible” and “sickening.”

“That’s the going rate?

Thirty years for at least three lives that were taken?” he said. “I was 16 years when he was killed by these animals. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about my father.”

Less than an hour after Peter Paige was killed during the Brinks heist, two Nyack police officers, Waverly Brown and Sgt. E d w a r d O ’ G r a d y, w e r e

killed in an ambush after stopping a truck at a roadside checkpoint.

Shakur was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list after the heist.

He remained on the run until he was arrested in Los Angeles in 1986.

Shakur was also charged with aiding fellow revolutionary Joanne Chesimard’s escape from a New Jersey prison, where she was serving a sentence for killing New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster in 1973.

An admitted accomplice testified at Shakur’s trial that armed members of his revolutionary group had visited the prison, captured two guards and then drove Chesimard out in a prison van. He said Shakur was protecting the escape route.

Chesimard, who now goes by the name Assata Shakur, fled to Cuba and remains at large. She was granted asylum by Fidel Castro, but some U.S. officials have pushed for her

to be extradited to the U.S. after the countries re-established diplomatic relations.

O ’ G r a d y ’s s o n , a l s o named Edward, urged the U.S. Parole Commission to deny Shakur ’s bid for release and make sure he spends the rest of his life in prison “where terrorists like him belong.”

“I offer that the crimes Mr. Shakur was convicted of are a brand of violent extremism similar in scope, if not scale, to what we are seeing from the Islamic State and Al Qaeda before them,” wrote O’Grady, a Navy commander.

Attempts to reach Brown’s family were unsuccessful.

Shakur has maintained his innocence since his arrest. At his trial in the 1980s, his attorney argued there was no proof that his client participated in the robberies or aided in the prison escape.

Shakur has amassed a large group of supporters throughout his incarceration, many of whom believe he is a political prisoner.

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Mahomes, Duffey shine in Midland scrimmage

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

Texas Tech football coach Kliff Kingsbury put his team on display for the first time for the public Saturday afternoon for the annual Midland scrimmage.

Thousands of Red Raider fans came out for the event at Grande Communications Stadium.

Kingsbury said seeing how the young players reacted to playing in front of a crowd was one of his main takeaways from the scrimmage.

“It’s good to see who reacts in front of a crowd, who plays well, who gets nervous, has penalties, missed assignments and things of that nature,” Kingsbury said in a Tech Athletics news release. “It’s a great crowd every year we come — it exceeds our expectations and has incredible energy. It is a real honor for us to be able to come here every year.”

Different key game situations were set up and simulated during the scrimmage.

It began with eight series with the ball placed on varying yard lines.

Junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II did not play

BASEBALL CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The Wildcats got on the board first with a single run the opening inning. The Red Raiders regained the lead in the second inning with two hits and two runs.

Sophomore infielder Orlando Garcia put the team up 4-1 in the fifth inning with a solo home run.

Garcia had a career day with two home runs, a triple and three RBIs. Saturday marked his first multi-home run game of his career.

“Orlando got some pitches to hit today,” Tadlock said. “He hit them hard and happened to get elevated.”

In the seventh inning, senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez put the game out of reach with a three RBI home run. He finished the game with four RBIs and was just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle.

Garcia blasted his second home run of the game in the following inning for the Red Raiders’ ninth and 10th runs.

After pitching two score-

for long, but was efficient and tossed two touchdowns on 13 out of 20 pass attempts for 188 yards.

The second touchdown pass was to junior wide receiver Cameron Batson, who finished the day with 83 receiving yards and the touchdown, according to the release.

“I’d still be playing if I could do what (Mahomes) can do,” Kingsbury said in the release. “(Mahomes’) improvement, not playing baseball and only focusing solely on football has been incredible. It’s scary to see what he is going to do this next year but I am excited to watch him. He’s been phenomenal all spring.”

Freshman quarterback Jett Duffey saw his first public action after Mahomes’ day was done. Duffey completed seven out of 12 passes for 120 yards and two touchdowns, according to the release.

Duffey was sacked multiple times by the defense, but finished off his day with an over the shoulder pass to junior wide receiver Derrick Willies for a 48-yard score.

The defense ended the scrimmage with five credited less innings, junior southpaw Hayden Howard allowed three runs in the ninth inning.

Tadlock took the blame for the runs and said he should have changed pitchers early in the final inning.

“The guy who screwed up the most was me, leaving Hayden Howard in the game in the ninth,” he said. “So, I need to get better.”

In the third and final game of the series on Sunday afternoon, Tech defeated Kansas State 6-5 to complete its second straight sweep of a Big 12 team.

After two subpar outings, freshman right-handed pitcher Ty Harpenau had a strong start.

“He made some quality pitches. He was ahead of guys today a lot more than he has been the last couple weeks,” Tadlock said. “Big thing of him is just go pound the mitt.”

The Red Raider offense had another big inning in the third when Tech players crossed home plate four times to break a 0-0 tie. Gutierrez got the scoring started with a RBI double and Garcia later hit a two RBI double

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Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes II directs traffic down the field during the second quarter of the Texas Bowl on Dec. 30.

Mahomes takes the field at Jones AT&T Stadium on April 16 for the annual Spring Game in Lubbock. sacks, according to the release.

Junior quarterback Nic Shimonek did not play on Saturday because of an injury, but sophomore quarterback Payne Sullins played after Duffey’s day in the inning.

Both teams scored a single run in the next inning as Smith sent a ball beyond the center field wall.

Kansas State cut into the lead by scoring three runs in the fifth inning behind a two RBI single.

Smith homered for a second time in the game in the sixth inning. Sunday marked the first multi-home run game of his career.

“I was just trying to get my pitch to hit, and when I did I put a good swing on it,” he said. “I got lucky.”

Junior right-handed pitchers Robert Dugger and Ryan Moseley held the Wildcats to one run over the final four and one-third innings.

Dugger earned his first win of his Tech career while Moseley got his second save of the season.

“My job is to come in and shut the thing down, throw up zeros,” Dugger said. “In the bullpen, you never know what’s going to happen, so you always have to be ready.

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Red Raiders record personal bests at Texas Relays in Austin Members of the Texas Tech track and field team had personal best performances at the Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin this weekend.

Sophomore Trey Culver jumped a new personal best on Saturday in the men’s high jump final.

According to a Tech Athletics news release, Culver tied his personal indoor best with a height of 2.23m/7-3.75. Culver broke his personal best at a height of 2.26/7-5 on his second attempt on that height.

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and earned a personal best.

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Senior Gionna Jackson posted a season-best mark in the women’s high jump on Saturday.

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The women’s 4x400 relay came in fourth place in the final on Saturday.

Freshmen Taylor Rockwell, Sara Limp, Maygen Smith and junior Adria Parker, shaved four seconds off their preliminary time and clocked in at 3:40.69.

Earning a second place

mark in the women’s triple jump, junior Viershanie Latham’s mark of 12.99m/42-7.5 tied for third in the NCAA so far this season.

Sophomore Haley Cook also got her personal best in the women’s pole vault on Friday.

According to the release, her heights of 4.06m/133.75 and 4.16m/13-7.75 earned her fourth overall in the event.

According to the release, senior Hannah Carson’s mark of 51.23m/168-1 gave her a fourth place finish in the women’s javelin throw.

The Tech track and field team continues its outdoor season at the ACU/ Wes Kittley Invitational at Elmer Gray Stadium in Abilene on Saturday. @DavidGayDT

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Tech wins on walkoff for sweep

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball team began Big 12 competition with a closely competed three-game series sweep of the Oklahoma State Cowgirls playing at Rocky Johnson Field.

Freshman Jessica Hartwell began Big 12 action by packing a walkoff homer in a 9-7 win over Oklahoma State on Friday.

Tech coach Adrian Gregory said the teams Tech faced through the non-conference portion of its schedule prepared the team well for the situation the team found itself in opening against the Cowgirls.

“We’ve been in close games all year, and this time we finished,” Gregory said. “Close games don’t make us nervous, we just trust what we’re doing.”

Once the Cowgirls loaded the bases on a walk and a pair of singles, junior pitcher Dominique Alcocer ended her turn in the circle early with two outs after a bases-loaded walk scored the first run of the game. Sophomore pitcher Cheyene Powell checked in for Alcocer and recorded a strikeout to conclude the inning.

Tech turned the lead around in its first turn at bat. Freshman left fielder Kiani Ramsey placed the tying run by reaching on a walk, and junior right fielder Kierra Miles smacked her 12th home run of the season down right center for a 2-1 Red Raider lead.

Miles continued her offensive prowess two innings later by painting a double down the left field line for senior short stop Brooke Scott to come home from third. Junior first baseman Brittany Warnecke then completed Miles’ trip around the bases on a single down center.

After keeping Oklahoma State off the board for three innings, the Cowgirls plated two at the top of the fifth. The Cowgirls began their threat by stretching a single on an error to send a runner to third. Powell then worked two outs, but a hit by pitch and a double cut the Tech lead to 5-3.

Oklahoma State rallied back

The Texas Tech Red Raiders rush the field as freshman left fielder Kiani Ramsey scored a walkoff single Sunday to win game three against the Oklahoma State Cowgirls.

Tech won the game 9-7 and the series 3-0 to open Big 12 play. in the seventh inning by placing two runners with a pair of singles. Junior pitcher Mattison Maisel checked Powell in after throwing a ball to junior designated player Red Reasnor. Ahead in the count 1-0, Reasnor sent the ball out of the field’s confines for a 6-5 Cowgirl lead. Oklahoma then continued the inning as its next batter hit another homer to bring the inning’s run total to four.

At the bottom of the seventh, Tech set a rally of its own as senior shortstop Brooke Scott led off with a single to left center and advanced to second on a pass ball. Following two outs, Miles kept the rally alive with a single to center. Warnecke guaranteed another turn at the plate for Tech by doubling to left field for the tying run. Making use of an additional appearance, Hartwell tatted a Cowgirl pitch to left center for the defining hit of the game.

In her last at bat, Hartwell said she wanted to go down

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swinging despite not reaching base yet in the game.

“I’m never doubting myself at all,” Hartwell said. “I know I have a good swing, and I just made an adjustment from my previous at bats, and that pitch came in so fast I couldn’t just let it go.”

Tech claimed the series Saturday afternoon by surviving the hitting barrage in a 19-18 win.

In a game where three Tech players finished with four hits, Warnecke quickly erased a 1-0 deficit in the first inning by hitting a double for a 2-1 lead.

Senior second baseman Kirsten Schwirtlich then added another two runs on a triple.

The lead exchanged once again as Oklahoma State rattled off four hits for five runs. An RBI single from Ramsey cut the deficit to 6-5 before Warnecke connected for her first homer of the game, adding three runs.

After a scoreless third from the Cowgirls, Tech’s offense terrorized its opponent’s pitchers in

an eight run third.

Freshman Karli Hamilton led off with a homer, Bettiol added another run with a single and Miles added three by running her long ball total to 13.

Warnecke continued the attack by nailing her second home run and a two-run double from junior catcher Welborn wrapped up the inning.

In the fourth, Oklahoma State earned two runs and the Red Raiders added one, and while once trailing 17-8, Oklahoma State began a bid to undo the damage from the Red Raiders by outscoring Tech 10-2 in the fifth and sixth innings.

Tech’s pitching parked the Cowgirl offense and junior pitcher Mattison Maisel picked up her second save of the season.

Sunday afternoon, Tech completed the sweep in eight innings as it erased a seven-run deficit in an 8-7 victory.

A two-run shot to left field began the day for the Cowgirls, and at the end of a scoreless

second inning, Oklahoma State moved runners around to add four runs to the lead.

The hole deepened for the Red Raiders an inning later as sophomore center fielder Vanessa Shippy led off on a homer down center.

Despite going down 7-0, Gregory said the team did not doubt it could stage a comeback against its Big 12 rival.

“Our kids just don’t ever feel out of it,” Gregory said. “They just don’t give in, this group just doesn’t give in.”

Tech finally placed a run on the board by reaching home on a fielder’s choice with the bases loaded at the bottom of the fourth. Welborn broke Tech’s hitting drought after the fielder’s choice by drilling a shot to center for a three runs.

An inning later, Ramsey set up another run for the Red Raiders on a triple. A single from Miles converted a run, and a single, double and walk later, Scott cut Tech’s deficit to 7-6 as

the a pitch made contact with her for a bases loaded hit-by-pitch.

Down to the last inning, Tech knotted the game on a double from Schwirtlich, but stranded her at third after two outs at first to force extra innings.

After recording two outs, the Cowgirls threatened to plate a run on a single to right with two on, but Miles rocketed a throw to Welborn at home for the tag.

The game came to an end as Ramsey connected for a walkoff single.

The at bats to start the eighth, Ramsey said, placed her in a favorable position to record the game-winning RBI. “It was just amazing. If it wasn’t for my team and them setting the tone in the inning, I just had all the belief in the world we were going to come out with a win,” Ramsey said.

The final win of the series improved Tech to 17-19 for the season and kept its Big 12 record clean at 3-0. @DGaytanDT

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