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Stepping Up to the Plate Freshman class pushes Red Raiders

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Before the season began for the Texas Tech softball team, coach Adrian Gregory expected her freshman class to bolster the Red Raider defense and offensive attack.

Going through the nonconference portion of the schedule, three freshmen worked their way into earning time on the field, with Kiani Ramsey at left field, Jessica Hartwell playing at third and Karli Hamilton going in as a designated player.

In Tech’s opening series in the Big 12 against the Oklahoma State Cowgirls, the

freshmen took charge when the Red Raiders needed a lift.

To earn Tech’s first conference win, Hartwell blasted a three-run homer past the right field wall with two outs on board against the Red Raiders.

Two games later, Ramsey represented the freshman class by knocking down a walkoff hit of her own. With players at first and second, Ramsey took a swing at a pitch down the middle to double for the defining run scored by Hamilton, who reached on a single at the bottom of the eighth. Ramsey’s walkoff double capped off a seven-run rally.

As the team has progressed

through the season, Gregory said the freshmen have taken advantage of the opportunities they have received.

“I’ve talked about this all year, I think our freshman class is clearly solid,” Gregory said. “I just really enjoy this class, they’re wired the right way and they’ll continue to help us as we move forward.”

Combining the offensive numbers of Tech’s three regular freshmen, Ramsey, Hartwell and Hamilton attribute a little more than a quarter of Tech’s runs with 45 of 185, 78 of Tech’s 274 hits and 11 of the 40 Red Raider home runs.

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LEFT: Texas Tech outfielder Kiani Ramsey smiles as she crosses third base during the softball team’s game against Oklahoma State on Friday. Ramsey hit a walkoff single to win Sunday’s game and help the Red Raiders finish off a sweep of the Cowgirls. RIGHT: Texas Tech infielder Jessica Hartwell prepares to swing the bat during the game against Oklahoma State on Friday. Hartwell hit a three-run homerun on Friday as the Red Raiders won the first game of the three-game series against the Cowgirls.

TECHNOLOGY

Tapingo app makes on-campus food ordering mobile

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Texas Tech campus has adopted a new app that allows students to skip the lines and get their on-campus food faster than ever.

Udi Oster and Daniel Almog saw a need for a better-structured and faster way for students on college campuses to get their food, so they launched the Tapingo app in 2012.

“In addition to the usual meal-time rush, classes tend to start and end at the same time, which results in long lines at food venues between classes,” Leanne Reis, a public relations manager for the Tapingo app, said. “Using Tapingo, students, faculty and staff have an easy and convenient way to avoid waiting in line so they can do the things that really matter, like spending time with friends or making it to class on time.”

Students who download the app can load their Raider Card, credit or debit card information into the app, and then they choose their food from the variety of dining halls and food sources available on campus.

The app sends the user a notification when his or her food is ready, and there will be a specific station located at that eatery to pick up the order.

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STUDENT MEDIA

Sheryl Swoopes inducted into Hall of Fame

Student publications win multiple awards

Former Lady Raider basketball star Sheryl Swoopes was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the NCAA Men’s Final Four in Houston on Monday morning.

Swoopes’ induction comes 23 years to the day after the Lady Raiders’ 1993 NCAA

Championship, according to a Texas Tech news release. She is the first Tech basketball player — men’s or women’s — to receive the honor.

During the championship season, Swoopes was the national player of the year and averaged 28.1 points per game, according to the release. Swoopes set 30 differ-

ent women’s records during her time at Tech, including four Final Four records, three NCAA tournament records and eight school records.

The 2016 Hall of Fame class will be enshrined during festivities in Springfield, Massachusetts, according to the release, from Sept. 8-10. @BSoliz_DT

By JENNIFER ROMERO L a Vida editor

During the 2016 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association convention from Thursday through Saturday, the Texas Tech Student Media publications earned a combined 27 awards.

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newspaper received a total of 13 awards, including an Honorable Mention in Overall Excellence.

The DT staff took first place in a variety of categories, including: Amy Cunningham, a junior public relations major from Houston, in the News Story contest; Emily de

Santos in News Photo; Duncan Stanley, de Santos and Kirby Crumpler in Photo Illustration; and Anthony Estolano, a sophomore journalism major from San Antonio, in both Page-one Design and Sports Page Design.

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Registration for Recycled Art Contest still open

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

Texas Tech students, student organizations, faculty and staff still have time to register for the Recycled Art Contest sponsored by University Student Housing, Hospitality Services, Barnes and Noble and the Student Government Association.

The contest is a chance for students to make art out of recycled products.

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Melanie Tatum, unit assistant director of Sustainability and Warehouse Operations, said the contest will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 27 in the Student Union Building Ballroom.

All entries for the contest must be made with at least 75 percent recyclable material and should not exceed 24-by-36 inches.

Registration is open until 5 p.m. April 22 and forms can be found on Housing’s website, she said.

Participants can begin dropping off their artwork at 7:30 a.m. April 27, Tatum said, but visitors cannot enter the exhibit until 9 a.m.

Participants will also need to pick up their artwork from the exhibit no later than 3 p.m. April 27, Tatum said.

Prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place winners who will be voted

bottles or wood that has been recycled,” Peña said.

“You never know what it is that can be made from something or where your mind can take you when it comes to being creative.”

Tatum said previous winners and participants include a clock made from a

bicycle tire, earrings made from soda caps, a picture frame made from a wine bottle and a zebra made from cardboard.

Decisions on winners are final and winners will be notified via email and announced on Facebook. @JessicaGuedeaDT

Organizations promote sexual assault awareness

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

April is Sexual Assault Aw a r e n e s s m o n t h , a n d the Student Counseling Center, Tech Gay-Straight Alliance, Risk Intervention and Safety Education office and the Gender Equity Council are hosting a month’s worth of events in order to promote awareness, education and enable students to be a part of the solution for sexual assault.

The purpose of this month

is to make individuals aware of what sexual assault actually is, RISE Director Kimberly Simón said, as many students have never been told how to be safe with alcohol or sex and have never discussed what consent and sexual assault mean.

“I think we make it a lot more complicated than it needs to be,” Simón said.

“I think sexual assault is pretty clearly any time both partners have not affirmed that they want to have a sexual encounter.”

Additionally, the month will also work to combat some of the myths behind sexual assault and enable students to focus on prevention rather than responding to a past act of violence, she said.

“We as a culture don’t typically talk about things until it’s too late,” Simón said. “We talk about ways that we blew it and things that we could have done differently, and instead of waiting until after and trying to fix the pieces, we want to have students thinking about what to do

before and be proactive.”

To accomplish the goals of this month, the events will be focusing on bystander intervention, she said.

“We take better care of our friends than we take care of ourselves,” Simón said, “so if everyone is trying to take better care of their friends, there’s a lot better chance that everyone is going to be protected.”

Events sponsored by the RISE office this month can be found on its website. Some of the events include Take Back

the Night and Pancakes and Chill, which is a chance to talk about consent in a casual environment, Simón said.

Not all students are in a place where they can discuss sexual assault, and the event is meant to highlight the idea that consent does not have to be a formal and drab discussion, but can be relaxed and approachable, she said.

Pancakes and Chill will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Urbanovsky Park, according to the RISE website. @DTalexarosas

POLICE BLOTTER

Six exit signs stolen from Weymouth Residence Hall Friday 2 a.m. — A Texas Tech police officer responded to a disturbance on the third floor hallway of Clement Residence Hall. A student reported they had sustained minor injuries after being assaulted. The student was arrested for public intoxication and resisting arrest, search or transportation.

The student refused med-

ical treatment and was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Saturday 11:52 p.m. — A T e c h officer arrested a non-student for drunken driving at the 400 block of University Avenue after a traffic stop. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:53 p.m. — A T e c h

officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia at the 900 block of Flint Avenue after a traffic stop. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:04 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication and possession of alcohol by a minor in Clement Resi-

dence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:03 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in Weymouth Residence Hall.

Five exit signs were taken, and two emergency lights were damaged.

Sunday 8:59 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at the Z-5C parking

lot. The driver’s side mirror of a black 2007 Dodge Charger was broken off and the vehicle had scratched on the driver’s side door.

10:57 p.m. — A T e c h officer investigated theft in Weymouth Residence Hall.

An exit sign was taken from the 11th floor.

Information provided by Kathryn Kelch Black of the Tech Police Department.

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Each visitor will be given a ballot, Tatum said. They will choose their top three pieces of art, and the winners will be selected based on the pieces with the most votes.

This is the third year the event has taken place, she said, as it has become an annual event.

“It’s the same week as Arbor Day,” Tatum said.

“We were trying to come up with something to get more people involved.”

Peña said it is a fun event to participate in because it gets students from all across campus involved.

“It’s not just art majors or architect majors, it’s all majors,” Peña said. “We thought it would be something different and some-

Monday’s Puzzle Solved

a victory Monday, upholding the state’s system of drawing legislative voting districts based on everyone who lives there — not just registered voters.

But it was liberal groups, rather than the Republicancontrolled state’s top leaders, who applauded the 8-0 ruling loudest since it likely bolsters the voting power of Texas’ booming Latino population over sparsely populated rural areas dominated by conservatives.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s office declined to comment. Attorney General Ken Paxton put out a statement saying only that his office was pleased with the decision and “committed to defending the Constitution and ensuring the state legislature, representing the citizens, continues to have the freedom to ensure voting rights consistent with the Constitution.”

Contrast that with the head of the Texas Democratic Party, which hailed the ruling as affirming the principle of “one person, one vote,” a requirement laid out by the Supreme Court in 1964.

“This is a victory for our democracy and every Texas family,” party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said in a statement.

Added American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Steven Shapiro: “The argument that states are forbidden from treating everyone equally for redistricting purposes never made any constitutional sense and was properly rejected.”

That was a far cry from the years Texas Democrats and civil liberties and Hispanic advocacy groups have spent arguing in federal court that the Republicancontrolled Legislature discriminates against minority

voters in other ways it has drawn voting maps and in its approval of one of the nation’s toughest voter ID laws.

They say that minority voters are more likely to support Democrats, but have been deliberately dispersed by many lawmaker-drawn electoral maps or are less likely to have one of seven forms of identification Texas now accepts at the polls.

Texas’ top officials have long countered that the electoral maps are fair and that its voter ID law prevents election fraud.

At issue in this case were the complaints of two Texas voters, Sue Evenwel of Mount Pleasant and Edward Pfenninger from north of Houston, who argued that their voting power was diluted because many registered voters lived in their districts.

They compared that to Texans casting ballots in

urban areas dominated by people who were too young to vote, or who aren’t American citizens.

While arguing the case before the Supreme Court in December, both sides defended the notion of one person, one vote, but differed on how to apply it.

Paxton’s office defended Texas’ current system, which has been good to Republicans. A Democrat hasn’t won statewide office in Texas since 1994 — the nation’s longest such losing streak.

But it also suggested that a ruling overturning Texas’ system would simply allow the state to determine another acceptable method.

The Supreme Court stopped short Monday of saying that states must use total population. It also didn’t rule on whether states are free to use a different measure, as Texas had asked.

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2 fired, 1 resigns after CPS accused of not preventing death DALLAS (AP) — Texas Child Protective Services has fired two workers and a third has resigned after the agency was accused of failing to prevent the beating death of a 4-year-old girl last month.

The agency, which had contact with the family of Leiliana Wright before her death, is investigating whether its staff bungled the case, spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales told The Dallas Morning News.

T h e g i r l ’ s m o t h e r, 30-year-old Jeri Quezada, and her boyfriend, 34-year-

old Charles Phifer, have been jailed on charges of injury to a child.

Authorities allege the two beat Leiliana, who lived in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, with a belt and bamboo stick because she’d been drinking her brother’s juice.

L e i l i a n a ’s p a t e r n a l grandmother, Alise Clakley, has alleged CPS did not do enough to protect the girl.

Clakley told KXAS-TV last week, “I took pictures and sent them to CPS. If we had done something sooner, I don’t know. I don’t know.”

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Raiders Against Violence training starts Tech Sexual Assault Awareness Month

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

Sexual Assault Awareness Month kicked off with Raiders Against Violence Training, which was a way for faculty and staff at Texas Tech to be better equipped to help students who are currently or have experienced sexual assault, relationship violence and things of that nature.

The sessions are also meant to connect people across campus and to make people aware of the resources offered to students within the university and the community, Kimberly Simón, director of the Risk Intervention and Safety Education office, said.

In February 2015, a National Collegiate Health Association survey of Tech found 12 percent of students have experienced a negative impact on their academic performance because of concern for a loved one who has experienced some sort of sexual violence, she said.

“We want to give you a chance to know all the re-

sources on campus,” Simón said, “talk about some of your resources, some of the things you can change for the fall and also just to connect with each other and meet some of the other people on campus who are doing what you’re doing.”

The trainings especially focus on hands-on activity and communication, Casandra Suarez, administrative business assistant for Tech Student Union and Activities, said.

They focus specifically on words of reinforcement, which show an awareness of the subject’s feelings as well as learning how to ask the right questions — questions that will elicit significant information that will allow an individual to be helped, she said.

At the start of the training, the participants are asked to share about themselves so the training may be better adapted to serve them and the students that they work with in their day to day, Simón said.

Suarez said her participation was to potentially aid the student assistants

she oversees as well as look for students who may be in distress when they enter the Student Union Building as guests.

This training has led to remarkable partnerships between faculty, staff and their selective departments, Simón said.

“We do so much interaction and we bring up questions of things that we have had come up,” Suarez said, “Things that aren’t across the board situations, so I think meeting those people and being able to recognize those faces, that was beneficial.”

At the completion of the training, the participants receive a purple sticker signifying they are prepared and willing to aid students in need, and their names and contact info will also be listed on the RISE website for easy access for students.

“I encourage people to look at their website,” Suarez said, “because the more you know, the better you are. Resources here on campus are so beneficial to students.”

RIGHT: Kimberly Simón, director of the Risk Intervention and Safety Education office, spoke at Raiders Against Violence, a training seminar for faculty and staff to aid students who have experienced domestic violence.

Participants in the seminar were trained in ways to prevent sexual assault and violence. BELOW: The Risk Intervention and Safety Education office hosted a training seminar for faculty and staff to aid students who have experienced domestic violence. The seminar was part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. RISE will host other events throughout the month to teach campus about sexual assault.

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Faculty compare, discuss architecture, civil engineering benefits

By JOHN BOWLES Staff Writer

Architecture and civil engineering can intersect in the professional world, and students may not know the post-graduation advantages of each.

H. Scott Norville, professor of Civil Engineering and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs for the College of Architecture Maria Perbellini, said each path has advantages.

“Civil engineering is the first engineering discipline and the broadest engineering discipline,” Norville said.

Civil engineers tend to start at a higher salary, have a comparatively large job market and can find jobs with both private firms and the government, he said.

“Everybody needs a civil

engineer,” Norville said, “You can’t go through the day without doing something related (to a civil engineer) in one way or the other.”

There are areas where the disciplines of civil engineering and architecture intersect, he said. There can be a conflict in the professional arena with which area of expertise has authority.

Each degree path has its purpose, Norville said.

Engineers have built many feats of engineering exhibiting very practical design, but these constructions can be less aesthetically pleasing than today’s standards. Without architects, everything might be straight edges and rectangular shapes.

Architecture has many facets and specializations

available to those who take that path, Perbellini said.

Architects can be involved in real estate, landscaping, interior design and, in general, any design-related employment.

Students studying the digital design and fabrication specialization from the Tech College of Architecture have a 100 percent employment rate out of college, she said. They are also the architecture students who receive the highest pay.

“We are responding to the demands of the profession,” Perbellini said. “The professional world is asking us to prepare our students with this set of skills.”

This is a program that allows the College of Architecture to be connected to the profession of architecture, professional voices

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and other groups across the Tech campus, she said.

It can be a long process to get fully licensed as an architect and can take six to seven years after graduation to fully fulfill the necessary requirements, Perbellini said. There are difficult exams and requirements for practical experience that must be met.

Architecture students can also apply to eventually get a job in construction management, pursue a dual architecture/engineering degree or even teach, she said.

Not all architecture students aspire to the same end goal, Perbellini said, and it is important for them to decide early on what path within the discipline of architecture they wish to explore. @JBowles_DT

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Houston economy carries on despite oil bust Senate GOP strategy for dealing with Trump HOUSTON (AP) — Amanda Salazar watched for a year as colleagues at the Houstonbased oil rig manufacturer where she worked lost jobs, victims of the latest oil bust.

She realized it was time for a change before she too got a pink slip.

So Salazar left her job as a software trainer with National Oilwell Varco for a similar position at a hospital.

Even if the oil market turned around immediately, she reasoned, it might take 18 months before the industry picked up again.

“And that’s a long time to be sitting at work wondering if you’re going to get laid off,” she said.

For generations, anyone who lived in Houston long enough was sure to feel the pain of an oil bust. But 21st century Houston isn’t like its oil-dependent predecessor.

The city now has a more diversified economy, plus help from a wave of construction at its petrochemical plants.

Even as the price of oil has plummeted, Houston has carried on, maintaining a jobless rate of 4.7 percent in February, slightly better than the national average.

“Houston in the broadest sense is going to do fine. It’s the individual stories and the individual companies that are going to hurt and suffer,” said Patrick Jankowski, regional economist for the Greater Houston Partnership, a local business group.

For the 38-year-old Salazar, her move proved prescient. Her old department was eliminated on March 11, the same day she started at

Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital. The downturn resulted in about 50,000 layoffs last year of Houstonarea oil and gas workers.

Oil is still vitally important here. The most recent boom helped create 100,000 jobs annually for several years. Many of the largest energy companies, including ConocoPhillips and Shell Oil Co., are headquartered in Houston and have gleaming buildings in the Energy Corridor, a 10-mile stretch along Interstate 10 that’s home to oil companies as well as energy-related engineering and industrial firms.

But the corridor is now dotted with “for lease” signs. Energy companies are dumping empty office space into the sublease market, which has grown to more than 8 million square feet. Another 8 million square feet of new office space that developers have under construction is set to be built this year. These were projects that were already in the pipeline before oil prices started to tumble.

The oil downturn has hit many Houston-based oil companies hard, including: ConocoPhillips, which reported in February that it lost $3.45 billion for the fourth quarter of 2015, and Marathon Oil Corp., which reported a loss of $2.2 billion for 2015 At Carmelo’s Italian Restaurant in the corridor, owner Carmelo Mauro has been forced to cut staff hours and make sure meal portions are exact because

of falling revenue.

“People are not going out or they are watching what they are spending or some don’t have a job,” he said.

The layoffs aren’t over.

Another 21,000 job losses in the oil and gas sectors are projected for this year, according to the Greater Houston Partnership.

Other problems loom, including a projected city budget shortfall of at least $140 million and a slumping commercial real estate market.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months Donald Trump has dominated the political scene like no other. But listen to endangered Senate Republicans as they campaign for re-election and you might not even know he exists.

In Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey chaired a hearing in Scranton on opioid abuse, a major issue in his state and others. In Ohio, Rob Portman delivered remarks to the City Club of Cleveland about criminal justice reform. In Wisconsin, Ron Johnson boasted of his fight against a federal

clean water rule opposed by local farmers. In each case the presidential race was an afterthought if that.

These efforts and others during the Senate’s justcompleted spring recess illustrate a strategy born of necessity as Republicans work feverishly to hang onto their narrow Senate majority in November. From Nevada to New Hampshire, GOP candidates and imperiled incumbents are blowing off questions about Trump, the presidential race and the Supreme Court as they try to

box out a national political atmosphere increasingly unfavorable to their candidacies, focusing relentlessly instead on local issues in their states.

GOP senators should campaign “like they’re running for sheriff,” said Ward Baker, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of the Senate GOP. That means that when asked about the latest eyebrow-raising pronouncement from Trump, candidates will voice their disagreement, then immediately move on.

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hroughout my days and weeks, these texts buzz comfortingly onto my phone: ‘In Chicago ... All tucked in. Call you later today. Love Dad.’ Our family group message revives every two hours, four hours, six hours as our resident pilot, also known as dad, flies from city to city.

Updates about landing and taking off and arriving and departing responded to with a chorus of “Have a safe flight” and “Love you.”

Every second he’s in the air, every second he’s in the airport, a familiar worry is nagging at our hearts.

After finally finding ourselves comfortable enough with the idea of levitating over countries and oceans in massive, winged cylinders, we were fearfully forced to retreat back to road trips after the events of Sept. 11 — trading pressurized cabins for caravans.

Risking our lives with every twist and turn of the road to avoid the threat of terrorists, we found ourselves listening to the drowsy hum of the highway instead of a Boeing 777’s mechanical roar.

In that moment of impact, the first tower disappearing in a cloud of devastating gray, it was clear that al-Qaida had not only broken our hearts, but clipped our wings — America was grounded.

Almost immediately after the attacks, according to Chicago Business Magazine, United Airlines shoved approximately 3,609 pilots out of their profession.

Thousands of others were laid off alongside those United pilots as their respective airlines found terminals quiet and ticket prices sinking.

My dad was furloughed.

As a devoted husband and young father of two small children — myself only 4 years old, my brother nearly a newborn — he had to find a way to support us.

However, jobs were not abundant for a man who had invested thousands of days and dollars training to do the very thing our shaken nation was unintentionally boycotting.

Slowly and tenaciously he worked and worked, building a life up for my family.

He found planes to fly and people to fly them for and worked with every ounce he had, praying that one day he

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Avery Aiken is a freshman communications studies major from The Woodlands.

could be free from the threat of unemployment and the risk of being in the red.

As I grew up, I watched him forge his way through a world of unwavering uncertainty, never giving anything less than his everything to make sure we were in need of nothing.

But, as he invested more and more in this industry, shoe bombs and pat downs twisted and strained flying commercially into a source of national distress.

Now, with the bomb threat assisted hijacking of an EgyptAir flight last week and Brussel’s airport departure hall being blasted to pieces, shredding apart families and cancerously spreading fear, I worry even more.

I worry every time my dad gets near the airport. I worry every time he gets on a flight.

And with TSA falling down on the job — missing nearly 95 percent of threats when recently tested by the Department of Homeland Security, according to NBC — I find it hard to silence my worry. And I know I’m not the only one worrying.

Other girls’ dads travel, mothers’ sons study abroad, sisters’ best friends fly to college. And when they do, when we do, it is hard to pretend we aren’t a little on edge.

We untie our shoes, bag our liquids and tighten our jaws with tension — watching and listening for anything alarming.

Thank God we do, because despite all organized safety efforts, the latter of those three keeps us safe more than anything else.

So, if we can start thinking proactively, we can start establishing more definitive and effective ways to better protect ourselves.

But, we have to stop being so many steps behind those out to cause us harm.

We have a nation packed with brilliant minds, not to mention the resources of many other incredibly intelligent and innovative countries at our fingertips.

This isn’t just a story on the six o’clock news. This is personal. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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or anyone unfamiliar with the United States women’s national soccer team, they’re the absolute best.

However, the large pay gap between the women’s and men’s soccer teams has been revealed, and five USWNT players are taking action.

According to the Playing for 90 article, “USWNT players sue USSF over wage-gap” by Shana Willeford, on Thursday, women’s players Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo stood up to the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and have filed suits on the grounds of wage discrimination and “regards to ancillary treatment.”

I didn’t realize how serious this discrimination was until this news came out.

I knew that the men’s soccer team was paid more than the women’s, but I had no idea by how much.

Considering the tremendous difference between both of their performance and fan base, this type of discrimina-

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

tion is grossly out of its time.

Willeford bases her article on the facts of both teams’ performances and what they are paid based on those performances.

Willeford states that the women’s team has won four Olympic gold medals and four women’s World Cup gold medals, while the men’s team has won none.

The article also talks about the women being paid four times less than the men for winning the Women’s World Cup. In other words, the men were paid more than the women just for losing, a significant amount more too.

The women were paid $2 million for winning the World Cup, whereas the men were paid $9 million for being knocked out in the 16th round.

I believe the USWNT has been a great metaphor for

women’s rights and how far we’ve come as a gender. Times have changed, and it’s time that the rules begin changing.

I played soccer from age 4 to 19, so I learned at a young age that it doesn’t matter whether you’re a boy or a girl, anything is possible and we should all be treated equally.

Now that all of this has happened, I’ve realized that, despite all of their efforts and success in becoming one of the greatest soccer teams the United States has ever seen, this group of women has been dramatically underpaid based on the one simple fact that they are not men.

Now that the generation of young girls like myself is older they have a different message to share.

Now the USWNT is teaching all young girls that we don’t deserve less just because of our gender and that it’s important to stand up for ourselves.

They are not underpaid because of their performance and they are not underpaid because they do

not generate revenue.

According to Willeford, “during the 2015 Women’s World Cup held in Canada (they) beat the record of 1,194,221 attendees from 1999 with over 1.25 million,” along with the skyrocket of viewers on television that also broke records.

Gender discrimination is the only answer to this wage-gap.

I admire and support these women just as much as ever, if not more, and I can’t wait to see them come out on top.

These women are not only taking a stand for themselves but also for women in today’s society.

It’s shocking the pay gap between men and women still exists, after all of the hard work so many other men and women have put in to prove that today’s society is beyond any kind of discrimination.

This would be a major breakthrough, not only for women’s soccer, but also for the entire gender. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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Springsteen’s concert experience unlike any other, continues rock legacy

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s a die hard Bruce Springsteen fan, I was thrilled when it was announced Springsteen and his E Street Band would be touring in support of the re-release of his 1980 double album “The River,” and even more thrilled when I realized I could make it to Sunday’s show in Oklahoma City.

After nearly three months of waiting, I was not disappointed.

It’s not often an artist plays an entire album in sequence (an album with 20 songs, no less), so the event was monumental in that regard. But even more impressive was how well the album was performed.

Unlike many of Springsteen’s previous albums, which had an overall general theme to them (1978’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town” being a prime example), “The River” is a mixed bag.

When introducing the album at Sunday’s concert, Springsteen noted how he wanted to make a big album that felt like life, or like an E Street Band show.

The album moves from

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rollicking rockers to slow, gloomy ballads and back again, which may seem odd at first, but works perfectly when performed in sequence.

The band moved from “Stolen Car,” a dark tale of love gone wrong, into the booty-shaking “Ramrod” with ease, which kept the Chesapeake Energy Arena crowd on its toes.

The band was in fine form and playing just as well as it ever has, and saxophonist Jake Clemons, stepping in for his uncle, the late Clarence “Big Man” Clemons, brought an infusion of youth and energy to the stage, in addition to nailing solo after solo throughout the night.

Springsteen simply defies nature, displaying the energy of a man half his age despite being old enough to collect retirement benefits. Not many

66-year-olds perform concerts lasting more than three hours while crowd surfing across the pit, yet he continues to elude Father Time.

The entire album was presented impeccably, but I was most impressed with some of the lesser-known songs that often get overshadowed by the more exuberant ones.

“Stolen Car” benefited from an amazingly poignant performance, while “Fade Away” was given an enormous injection of soul.

The noir-esque “Point Blank” was superb after being preceded by a hair-raising instrumental introduction.

But perhaps the best performance of the evening was “Drive All Night,” given a massive boost compared to its studio version, including allowing Clemons to play the spine-tingling saxophone solo twice. Even after listening to the album countless times, I was able to gain a new appreciation for it.

Springsteen wasn’t finished after going through “The River” in its entirety, of course, adding an additional 12 songs, including

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the encore. Fan favorites “Thunder Road,” “Born to Run,” “Dancing in the Dark” and “Badlands” helped round out a stellar set list.

As with any Springsteen show, there was no shortage of special moments.

He handed out guitar picks to a few lucky children in the pit, and he even gave one of them his harmonica.

Four lucky fans managed to get invited on stage during “Dancing in the Dark,” reminiscent of the hit single’s music video featuring a young Courteney Cox. Personally, this experience was unlike any I’ve had, even though it was my sixth time to attend a Springsteen concert.

After failing in my first attempt, I managed to get into the pit via the pit lottery, in which fans with general admission tickets are given numbered wristbands, and then a random number is drawn to decide which group of fans gets to be up front.

Somehow I ended up standing right in front of Springsteen’s microphone stand with only one person between me and the stage,

and the experience was almost indescribable.

At times, I was no more than two arm-lengths away from The Boss himself, and I even managed to touch him as he crowd-surfed right next to me. I’m still waiting for my left hand to start doing something magical.

I stood in the same place for six hours, which took its toll on me physically. I sang at the top of my lungs all night, especially during those incredible moments when Springsteen pointed the microphone in my general direction.

When it was all said and done, I could barely move my knees, I had no voice and I was probably dehydrated, but it was well worth it.

Just as amazing as the performance itself is how the Springsteen fan community is truly a community. I was lucky enough to meet other fans who stood next to me in line as well as those around me in the pit, and they all had interesting stories.

The couple in front of me was from Iowa, and the husband said he had seen more

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than 90 Springsteen shows.

The man next to me was a teacher from North Carolina who once took more than 60 of his students to a Springsteen concert and had even managed to get on stage with The Boss in the early 1990s.

The man who stood behind me in line was from upstate New York and was also getting into the pit for the first time — except this was his 15th attempt.

The community is fantastic, which made the concert experience even better than it otherwise would have been, and it’s all made possible by one of the most prolific musicians of his generation.

A Springsteen show is an event unlike any other, and I just hope it’s not my last one.

But even if it is, I was finally able to cross “being up front at a Springsteen concert” off my bucket list, and it was even better than I imagined.

Of course now that I’ve been on what I consider to be the top of the world, it’s all downhill from here. editor@dailytoreador.com

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Quidditch team prepares for nationals

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

Sean Townsend, a senior political science major from McKinney, used to play soccer for the Texas Tech men’s soccer club, he said, but then he found a sport that requires intense focus, physical agility and a broomstick.

Now he is one of the captains of the Tech Quidditch team, and he has been playing this sport for almost three years.

“I like that it is a very unique sport. I hate that a lot of people stereotype us as a bunch of nerds, just playing Harry Potter stuff.

It is not that. Quidditch is growing into a very competitive sport,” he said. ”We have regionals, we have nationals, there are more than 100 collegiate teams in the U.S. and there are also community teams, so people that have graduated from college can keep playing.”

Sean said Quidditch is a cool sport because it is like a mix of dodgeball, rugby and basketball, and

it is coed, so both men and women can play.

This past season, the team has won its first and third tournaments and placed fourth at regionals.

On April 16, the team will travel to nationals to compete against 60 teams for the national title.

The biggest challenge in this sport is the game is always changing and requires much adaptation from the players, he said.

“One day you might be playing very conservative on defense, and the next day the best tactic is to be very aggressive on offense,” Townsend said. “It really just depends also on the opposing teams and how they play. You need to find the best strategy to beat them. Some teams are bigger than you, so you need to be quicker than them. Sometimes they are quicker than you and you have to be more physically aggressive. It depends on the situation.”

Stephan Vigil, a junior finance major from Hobbs, New Mexico, has been a member of the Quidditch

team for two years. He said the aspect he likes the most about Quidditch is the sense of community and the friendly spirit of its members.

“At first I just started with friends here, but after going to a few tournament events, I met more people and now I have friends from Oklahoma and other parts of Texas,” he said. “It is awesome how we stay in touch.”

While most people choose a sport, Vigil said that Quidditch chose him.

“I was at a church event playing video games and my friend invited me to play. Honestly I thought it was a nerd sport at first, so I didn’t want to come up,” he said. “Then I decided to give it a try and here I am.”

Women particularly enjoy playing this sport, Vigil said, for the fact that it is full contact and they can be as defensive as they want.

Leena Salem, a junior finance major from Seminole, said Quidditch is physically demanding.

“For me, personally, it

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Cody Boyes, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from League City, tries to score by throwing the Quaffle into the hoop as Dilan Freeman, a sophomore university studies major, tries to defend on the rugby fields. The team practiced for hours to prepare for the World Cup in Columbia, South Carolina on April 16 and 17 and are ranked No. 17 overall in the nation against collegiate and community teams from the United States.

is very hard because of my size,” she said. “I am really short and all the other

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The DT also earned other awards aside from its first place wins: Cunningham placed second in In-Depth Reporting; Everett Corder placed third in Sports Feature Story; The DT staff placed third in both Opinion/Editorial Page Design and in Single-Subject Presentation Design; Diego Gaytan received an Honorable Mention in Sports News Story; and Nate Wells received an Honorable Mention in Editorial Cartoon.

Cunningham said she won her awards for her coverage of the grade changing allegations against former Dean of the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, Lance Nail.

“Covering the Rawls grade changing allegations was quite a bit different from covering most of the things we do day to day,” she said. “That story really started in the summer when the allegations first came out, and then

Cunningham will serve as the editor-in-chief of The DT for the 2016-2017 school year, and she said she is proud of the newspaper and its future.

“Winning these TIPA awards makes me so much more excited for next year because I know we’ve created a lot of great content this year that will definitely be placing next year,” she said. “Seeing The DT get recognized as a whole is really great because everybody knows that we’re around campus and everything, but I think it’s really important for the Texas Tech community to note that we are creating content that is impactful and newsworthy.”

The 2015 LV yearbook earned a total of 14 TIPA awarding, including a thirdplace finish in the Overall Excellence competition.

The yearbook won first in five categories including: de Santos in Sports Feature Photo, Stanley in Feature Photo, Molly Fisher in Feature/Student Life, Fisher in Organizations and Davian Hopkins

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by November they had the full report released. I was the main person covering it from the summer through the fall semester.”

Ty p i c a l l y r e p o r t e r s have certain topics they cover on campus, she said, and covering the Nail story was more exciting for her because it was indepth reporting.

The DT is entirely student-run with the advice of two faculty advisers, she said, and these advisers are the ones who select the work that is entered into competitions.

Estolano said he was proud of the work the advisers submitted for him.

“I was really proud, I wasn’t expecting to win that many,” he said. “It makes me happy that TIPA is able to determine that our work is good quality.

It’s really cool, and it’s great to know that that’s what they think.”

The awards show The DT is a high quality paper, he said, and it produces good content in everything from stories to photos to graphics.

thinking what your next step is.”

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Members of the Boys and Girls Club met with first-year medical students from the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center to learn about being healthy and to play soccer on Monday. The School of Medicine students will host the 19th Annual Lubbock City Lights Charity Gala and Casino Night on April 23 to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Lubbock, the HSC Free Clinic at Lubbock Impact, High Point Village and the Children’s Advocacy Center of the South Plains.

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players are bigger than me.

Besides that, Quidditch is very fun and is all about

in Organizations Copy.

Hopkins, a junior electronic media and communications major from Lancaster and current EIC of the yearbook, said winning an award for one of his stories increased his confidence in his writing ability.

“Initially I was really surprised because I always felt like writing wasn’t my strongest ability,” he said.

“Winning that award kind of opened my eyes and I was like, ‘Hey, maybe I am actually good at writing and maybe I should pursue this endeavor more.’”

T h e LV s t a f f a l s o earned additional TIPA awards: Kymbre Kupatt, former LV editor-in-chief, and Brooke Hurley placed second in End Sheets; Hurley placed second in Information Graphic; Jeremy Krakosky placed third in Sports Copy; Fisher received an Honorable Mention in Sports; Stanley received an Honorable Mention in Sports Action Photo; Jacob Snow received an Honorable Mention in Sports Fea-

LONDON (AP) — From their first apartment through their most recent tours, the Rolling Stones are giving fans a chance to take a deep look into their lives as the “Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World.”

Here are some key things to see at “Exhibitionism,” the British band’s massive exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery that opens Tuesday: Edith Grove Shortly after the Stones got together as a band in 1962, founding member Brian Jones moved into an apartment in west London with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and James Phelge. The apartment, at 102 Edith Grove, was notorious for being a mess, with clothes and dirty dishes strewn about the place.

The exhibition has ture Photo; Kupatt received an Honorable Mention in Academic Copy; and Hurley received an Honorable Mention in Information Graphic. “(These awards) show the Texas Tech community that we are a substantial body of work, we know what we’re doing,” Hopkins said. “It’s our job to document the lives of Texas Tech students.”

LV is currently one of the 14 finalists in the Associated Collegiate Press’s national Pacemaker yearbook competition, which is one of the nation’s top student journalism awards.

The winners of the 2015 Pacemaker competition will be announced in October at the national convention in Washington, D.C. “It’s really exciting because it really shows that what we do really does have an impact,” Hopkins said. “Being one of the 14 finalists shows that the La Ventana yearbook is worth the investment, because we try to create superior quality work for everyone.” @JenRomeroDT

recreated the scene with incredible detail, right down to the old empty beer bottles, a kitchen sink filled with pots and pans, and plenty of old Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records ready to be heard by an aspiring band that was, at the time, making only a few dollars per gig.

“The milk bottles were just growing this . stuff,” Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts says through a speaker as visitors walk through.

“It was very much like that, the kitchen particularly,” Watts said as he arrived for Monday’s opening.

Jagger and Richards shared the only bedroom with Phelge, a London club-goer who became their roommate and companion. Jones slept in the living room.

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Rolling Stones to release new album this year LONDON (AP) — The Rolling Stones are planning to release a new album, possibly this year, guitarist Ronnie Wood said Monday.

The British rockers last released a studio album in 2005, but Wood said they have been in the studio and recorded some new material and some blues covers.

“We went in to cut some new songs, which we did,” the 68-year-old Wood said.

“But we got on a blues streak. We cut 11 blues in two days.

“They are extremely great cover versions of Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walter, among other blues people. But they really sound authentic.”

When asked when the new material would be released, Wood said only: “This year.”

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Librarian helps develop e-book sharing program

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Ryan Litsey, an associate librarian who is head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery at Texas Tech, received the Library Journal’s 2016 Movers and Shakers award. This award, which was in the subcategory of technology, was given because of his work on Occam’s Reader.

Litsey said that Occam’s Reader is the first and only library-developed method to lend e-books through interlibrary loan.

Litsey and Kenny Ketner, the software development manager for the library, created the method at Tech, Litsey said, and 24 libraries across the country use Occam’s Reader after a successful pilot program.

Ketner said the award shows five years of work that got them to the point that they are at now.

Litsey said the Movers and Shakers award is one of the more prestigious awards people give out in libraries.

“The Library Journal has been giving it out since

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The app will allow students on the go to get the food they want while they are doing things like going from class to class.

The app is aimed at being simple for students to use, Reis said, and it is convenient because it uses mobile technology and is easily accessible for the on-the-go student.

David Deason, the assistant managing director of Hospitality Services, said this app is the future of on-campus food.

“We see that out in the marketplace kids are on their phones constantly and what you see particularly on Mondays and Wednesdays in our operations is big lines, and so we wanted to know how can we get some of the pressure off those lines and keep our sales g o i n g , ” h e s a i d . “ We l l Tapingo is the answer to that because kids can order food from any of our locations on the app.”

More than 125 campuses are currently using the app across the U.S., Reis said, but Tech is the first campus in Texas to use it.

“It’s a little unfortunate because you lose a little bit of that social in-

2002,” Litsey said. “In the state of Texas, only 29 other people have won it. It’s LITSEY one of the readily recognizable awards you can win in libraries.”

Once Ketner found out that Litsey had received the award, he said he was not only excited for Litsey, but was excited for the whole program.

“When we got word of Ryan getting the award,” Ketner said, “we were excited for him to receive the honor and for Occam’s Reader to be recognized as changing the library world significantly.”

Litsey got the idea for Occam’s Reader when he first came to Tech in 2010, he said.

“I had this preliminary idea as e-books become more and more prevalent in the academic library,” Litsey said. “How can we share these resources with other libraries like we are doing with other books?” teraction,” Deason said.

“Kids are walking by and going to class, and they see a big line and they think, ‘I don’t have time to wait in that,’ well now they can order ahead and walk right through, pick it up and keep going.”

The app plans to launch a delivery service in the next few weeks for students both on and off campus, Deason said.

The delivery service will offer jobs to students delivering food to people who order it from the app.

Tapingo’s services are two-fold, Reis said.

“The mobile advance ordering service is available on campus, while our delivery service provides delivery from on-campus venues to students living on and offcampus, as well as delivery from off-campus venues to students living on and off campus,” she said.

Tapingo is committed to customer feedback, Reis said, and it has developed a propriety dashboard to track metrics and students can give their feedback through the app.

The Tapingo app is currently available for download and is in use at all food locations on campus. @RyanOrtegonDT

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Nora Dethloff, assistant head of Information and Access Services at the University of Houston, said libraries needed to find a way to share e-books.

Occam’s Reader gives students, who prefer to read off an electronic format, the chance to get those e-books from other campuses.

Occam’s Reader also gives students the opportunity to get access to books they would not have access to otherwise, Litsey said. Occam’s Reader has access to collections from multiple publishers, which equals to millions of titles to choose from.

This helps students with different citations and different books they need for assignments like research papers, Litsey said.

“When students are doing their research and writing their papers and they come across a citation or want to look at a book that they want to use for a paper that we don’t have,” he said, “they can now make a request for the electronic book through the Occam’s Reader program.”

The students can access these books on their tablets or their cell phones, Litsey said.

Wi t h 2 4 u n i v e r s i t i e s involved, Occam’s Reader helps approximately 600,000 users, he said, and he wants 70 universities to join the program by the end of the year.

Ketner said the program moves the library into a more

technological direction.

“Occam’s Reader fulfills the basic role as a library in the 21st century as everything is moving more digitally,” Ketner said. “For libraries to do things that they have done for thousands of years, we had to create new tools.”

Litsey said that getting this award helps him professionally, but he gets the most

joy out of the international recognition the university gets out of the award.

“What I really like about it is that it shows Texas Tech as a cutting edge research institution,” he said.

“When you go to places, it’s not Ryan the librarian who got the award, it’s Ryan from Texas Tech University who got the award.” @DavidGayDT

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Sigma Lambda Gamma Sorority and Sigma Lambda Beta Fraternity are hosting their Founder’s Week and the first event is the Greek Stroll and Chill. The Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity performed it’s salute on Monday outside the Student Union Building.

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Panama law firm helped company tied to Mugabe MADRID (AP) — The Latest on the publication by a coalition of media outlets of an investigation into offshore financial dealings by the rich and famous (all times local): The Panamanian law firm at the center of a big document leak, Mossack Fonseca, served as an official intermediary for a company sanctioned by the U.S. government for its ties to Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, according to U.S. Treasury Department records.

In 2008, the Treasury Department barred American citizens and companies from doing business with Billy Rautenbach, a Zimbabwean businessman, and one of his companies, Ridgepoint Overseas Developments Ltd. The U.S. also sought to freeze Rautenbach’s assets because of what it said were his ties to corrupt Mugabe officials on a large-scale mining proj-

ect, according to a Treasury Department press release at the time.

According to the Treasury Department’s release, Ridgepoint listed Mossack Fonseca’s office in the British Virgin Islands as its official address. The sanctions meant the company and Rautenbach were barred from U.S. business until 2014.

Mossack Fonseca said in a statement Monday that it never knowingly worked with people with ties to Zimbabwe.

The law firm said, “If for some reason, unbeknownst to us, some company formed by us ended up in the hands of people having such relations for whatever criminal or unlawful purpose, we strongly condemned that situation and took and will continue taking any measures that are reasonably available to us,” the firm said.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri is defending the legality of an offshore company that he was named in that appeared in the leaked data from a Panama law firm.

Speaking to a local television station in Cordoba, Macri said Monday that the company was incorporated in 1998 with the intention of investing in Brazil.

However, he says the investments in Brazil never happened and by 2008 he and his business partners dissolved the enterprise.

In Macri’s words, “There is nothing strange about the operation.”

In the so-called Panama Papers leak over the weekend, Macri’s name shows up in documents of Fleg Trading Ltd. in the Bahamas.

Macri, the former mayor of Buenos Aires who assumed power in December, is the son of tycoon Francisco Macri, an Italian-born businessman

who is one of the richest people in Argentina. According to the leaked documents, Francisco, Mauricio and brother Mariano were directors of Fleg.

In the interview, Macri does not specify what Fleg invested in, nor does he address whether he received compensation. A statement put out by his office on Sunday said he was named as part of the family business and did not receive any income.

The editor in chief of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper says more than 1,000 Germans are named in the leaked Panama Papers on offshore accounts and they used all the major German banks.

Wolfgang Krach says the banks involved included Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, the Hypo Vereinsbank and the Bayrische Landesbank.

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MGM bets on live events with T-Mobile Arena, new theater LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest multi-million dollar development on the Las Vegas Strip features a leafy outdoor pedestrian area, 20,000 seat arena and small theater. It’s a move to double-down on events and live entertainment that marks yet another significant pivot away from gambling in Sin City.

This week, MGM Resorts International begins unveiling its $575 million entertainment district on the southern end of

Las Vegas Boulevard. The 22acre area is nestled between the company’s New York-New York and Monte Carlo hotel-casinos.

The Park outdoor pedestrian area with eateries, water feature, 40-foot “Bliss Dance” sculpture and spread of treeshaded seating and open space will officially welcome visitors Monday. The T-Mobile Arena, debuting Wednesday with a concert by the hometown band Killers and Mr. Las Vegas Wayne Newton, has lined up a

series of high-profile music and sports events on its calendar and hopes it can also be the home of a professional hockey team should the National Hockey League approve expansion. A 5,300-seat theater designed for headliners to play in residence at the Monte Carlo is scheduled to open by the end of the year.

Combined, the venues represent a bid by the Strip’s largest casino operator to directly compete with chief rival Caesars Entertainment Corpora-

tion and grab a larger share of the entertainment dollar.

MGM hasn’t been shy about acknowledging the Monte Carlo theater as its entry into the residency-headliner model of live shows that Caesars has made a signature offering — The Colosseum at Caesars Palace hosts top artists like Celine Dion and Mariah Carey and the Axis theater at Planet Hollywood has been successful with Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez.

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Transfer pitchers succeed out of bullpen

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

The No. 22 Texas Tech baseball team has one of the most inexperienced pitching staffs in the country, but that has not stopped it from getting off to the best start to Big 12 Conference play in school history.

While the team is starting three freshman pitchers on the weekend, two junior college transfers are dominating hitters out of the bullpen in their first seasons as Red Raiders. Right-handed pitcher Robert Dugger and southpaw Hayden Howard both have ERAs below 2.00 and rank in the top eight best ERAs in the Big 12, according to the conference website.

Dugger does not have a specific role or inning that he pitches out of the bullpen, but said his job is to always shut out the opponent.

“My job is to come in and shut things down, throw up zeros,” he said. “In the bullpen, you never know what’s going to happen so you always have to be ready. No big deal for me.”

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Texas Tech pitcher Hayden Howard pitches the ball to an Oklahoma batter during the Red Raiders’ baseball game on March 26 at Rip Griffin Park. Howard, who transferred from Cisco Junior College, leads the Big 12 with five wins and one loss.

In 13 appearances this season, the right-handed pitcher has a 1.88 ERA and a teamleading three saves. 10 outings into the season, Dugger led the

conference with a 0.90 ERA, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Dugger spent his freshman and sophomore seasons at Cisco

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Junior College. In his two seasons, he amassed an ERA of 5.40 and 4.37, but has vastly cut his ERA since coming to Lubbock.

“Everyone has to earn

their spot. I just try to work really hard to earn (it),” Dugger said. “I’m glad to have the ability and the opportunity to pitch for Texas Tech.”

Howard currently ranks seventh in the conference with a 1.93 ERA. In addition to two saves this season, Howard leads the Big 12 with five wins while losing only one game, according to the conference website.

“Just having everyone behind me (has allowed me to be successful). They’re going to make plays day in and day out,” Howard said. “That gives me a lot of confidence.

It’s good having those guys behind me.”

The two players combined to toss six and two-thirds innings this past weekend.

When Tech takes on No. 7 Florida State today and Wednesday, it will likely face the player with the lowest ERA in the country: junior relief pitcher Jim Voyles and his 0.35 ERA. Dugger said the Seminoles present an exciting challenge.

“I thought about going to Florida State when I was younger, so it’s actually kind of cool to go and see what it’s all about,” he said. “That’ll be exciting.

I’m looking forward to it.” @JeremyK_DT

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Tech moves up in recent poll Gutierrez wins weekly award The Texas Tech men’s track and field team shot up six spots to No. 12 in the most recent U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association rankings, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

At the Texas Tech Relays in Austin, sophomore Trey Culver set a new personal best record in the high jump.

Culver cleared a height of

2.26m/7-5 making this the third straight meet he has set a new personal best, according to the release.

The Red Raiders snagged multiple personal bests last weekend with Evan Tuitoek setting a personal best with his first place finish of 3:49.76. Brandon Brady matched his indoor personal best in the pole vault clearing 5.31m/17-5.

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man class has taken on the field have come from the upperclassmen’s willingness to share the experience they earned through the years, Ramsey said.

“I see that never-ending fire, we’re so competitive and our older teammates always push us,” Ramsey said. “They never let us slack just because we’re freshmen, and if we don’t know something they’re always there.”

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 While the stats show the overall performance of the freshman class, the runs produced by the first-year players have come at critical times.

In seven of Tech’s 18 wins, a freshman recorded the go-ahead RBI to capture a victory.

The advancements the fresh-

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The sprint medley relay team received a second place finish as members Andrew Hudson, Kyle Collins, Steven Champlin and C.J. Jones had a time of 3:17.86.

The Red Raiders look for more victories as they head to Abilene this Saturday for the ACU/Wes Kittley Invitational at Elmer Gray Stadium. @TheDT_sports

Senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez was named the Big 12 Conference Co-Player of the Week on Monday afternoon.

Gutierrez’s .500 batting average last week was the highest among all Big 12 players, according to the conference website, and helped lead Tech to a 4-1 record for the week. He recorded a hit in

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After the best start in Big 12 Conference play in school history, the No. 22 Texas Tech baseball team will continue to play top 25 teams in non-conference games.

The team will take on No. 9 Florida State in a midweek series on Tuesday and Wednesday in Tallahassee, Florida. The two-game series will replace the two games that were canceled against No. 11 California earlier this season.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said there were many moving parts to schedule this series, but his team could not be more excited to go to Tallahassee.

“None of (the strong scheduling) happens without your administration backing you,” he said.

“We’ve got people here that want us to pursue the highest things, that want us to be able to go Omaha, have a high RPI.” The series will be new

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Cory Raley swings to hit the ball while at bat for the Red Raiders against Kansas State on Sunday at Dan Law Field. The No. 22 Texas Tech team is off to its best Big 12 start in school history and will take on No. 9 Florida State today and Wednesday in Tallahassee, Florida. ground for the teams as the two programs have never played each other before.

The Red Raiders come into the midweek series sitting on top of the con-

ference with an 8-1 Big 12 record. This past weekend, they swept their secondstraight Big 12 opponent.

During the weekend series, they averaged nearly

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nine runs per game. The entire starting lineup produced in the three-game series and now sopho more outfielder Tanner Gardner and senior first

baseman Eric Gutierrez both rank in the top four batting averages in the Big 12, according to the conference website.

In nine Big 12 games, sophomore infielder Orlando Garcia leads the team with a .464 batting average and .559 on-base percentage in addition to making numerous defensive highlight plays.

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

Both Garcia and junior outfielder Stephen Smith had their first multi-home run games of their careers over the weekend. Smith is second in the conference with seven home runs.

Smith said the team knows what it is capable of accomplishing this season, but they are not looking past their next opponent.

“We are excited about (leading the Big 12), the whole team is excited about it, but we are taking it one game at a time,” he said. “We are getting

ready for Florida State. So we are taking it one day at a time and trying to get some (wins).”

H o w e v e r, t h e S e m i noles are off to one of the best starts in the country and are also in first place in the ACC conference.

They enter the series with a 19-6 overall record and 7-1 in Atlantic Coast Conference games, according to Florida State’s website.

Florida State has the fourth-highest team batting average in the ACC and the second-best team ERA. Junior right-handed pitcher Jim Voyles leads the nation with a 0.35 ERA in 11 relief appearances.

“Got a lot of respect for their program. It’s a great opportunity for our team to go down there at this point in the year,” Tadlock said.

“It’s a big time deal for us right now, with where they stand in the RPI, to be able to go down there and compete against them.

Really got nothing to lose going down there.” @JeremyK_DT

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Lubbock Christian completes Villanova beats buzzer, UNC perfect season with 78-73 win

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lubbock Christian’s Nicole Hampton and Kelsey Hoppel spent last season on the bench, hoping to play for a national championship this year.

The plan worked — to perfection.

Hoppel scored 27 points, Hampton nearly had a quadruple-double and the Lady Chaps beat Alaska Anchorage 78-73 on Monday for their first Division II women’s basketball title.

The seniors combined for 28 of Lubbock Christian’s 38 second-half points after they redshirted last year so they would be eligible for

the Lady Chaps’ first year of postseason NCAA eligibility.

“I’m so glad we sat out because I wouldn’t here today, we wouldn’t be here today if we hadn’t. It was such a good move by coach (Steve) Gomez,” Hampton said. “There’s no better way to end your career.”

Hampton had 22 points, 13 rebounds, nine assists and seven steals and was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. Hoppel made four 3-pointers and collected three assists and six steals on her way to the all-tournament team.

Led by its dynamic duo,

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Lubbock Christian (35-0) finished off the third perfect season ever in Division II. “We had a storybook year and to fight off a team like that for 40 minutes really makes it special,” Gomez said.

Alaska (38-3) was led by Megan Mullings, who had 23 points and 12 rebounds, and Jessica Madison, who scored 14 points. They also made the all-tourney team along with Jen Gemma of Bentley.

But after breaking the Division II single-season record for wins, the Seawolves came up one short of their ultimate goal.

HOUSTON (AP) — He shoots. He scores. And Villanova wins.

Kris Jenkins spotted up and swished a 3-pointer at the buzzer Monday night to lift Villanova to the national title with a 77-74 victory over North Carolina — one of the wildest finishes in the history of the NCAA Tournament.

Villanova worked the ball to Jenkins moments after Marcus Paige hit a double-clutch 3 with 4.3 seconds left to draw the Tar Heels even.

It’s the first title for the Wildcats (35-5) since 1985, when Rollie Massimino coaxed them to a victory over star-studded Georgetown.

This one might be even

more memorable, considering ‘Nova squandered a six-point lead with 1:52 left, only to pull out the game at the end.

Phil Booth led Villanova with 20 points. Jenkins finished with 14, Paige had 21 for the Heels (33-7) who came one shot short of giving coach Roy Williams his third national title.

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