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Pi Phi to host memorial for student Thursday Texas Tech student Madison Kate Lockaby, a freshman animal and food sciences major from Tahoka and a member of Pi Beta Phi, died in a car accident Monday five miles outside her hometown.

Lacey Jo Lunsford, chapter president of Pi Beta Phi, said the sorority will host a vigil from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Circle.

Services will be hosted at 1 p.m.

Thursday at South Plains Church of Christ in Lubbock.

Monmouth, the sorority’s formal with Kappa Kappa Gamma that was originally scheduled to begin Thursday, has been postponed until further notice.

The Lockaby family and the chapter gathered in the Pi Phi lodge Tuesday night to remember Lockaby.

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With runway lights off, pilot skips planned landing DALLAS (AP) — A passenger plane trying to land at a Texas airport turned back when the pilot discovered that the runway lights had been switched off.

American Eagle Flight 2536 was scheduled to fly about 125 miles from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to Wichita Falls, Texas, on Sunday night.

The plane left nearly a half-hour late, and when it got to Wichita Falls, the pilot told passengers that the runway lights were turned off and there was nobody at the airport to turn them on, according to officials in the city of 100,000 people.

Wichita Falls officials first said that the Eagle pilot had the wrong radio frequency to turn on the lights on the main, 13,000-foot runway. Like many other small airports where control towers are not staffed around the clock, pilots in Wichita Falls can operate the runway lights with their radio system.

But on Tuesday, city aviation director John Burrus said that Sheppard Air Force Base, which shares the facility, had closed the runway and turned off the lights. Burrus said Sheppard notified pilots of the closure. He added that the American Eagle jet could have landed on an adjacent, 10,000-foot runway that was lit.

A spokesman for ExpressJet, a regional carrier that operated the flight under contract with American Airlines, said late Tuesday that the airline was still trying to determine what happened.

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Tech golfer to play in Masters Tournament

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

After nearly three months of waiting, senior Texas Tech golfer Matias Dominguez will begin play in the Masters Tournament on Thursday in Augusta, Georgia.

In his journey to the tournament, Dominguez reached landmarks both on the collegiate and national scale.

After winning the inaugural Latin America Amateur Championship hosted in Pilar, Argentina, Dominguez earned the first bid to the Masters Tournament as an active member of Tech’s golf team and is the first Chilean golfer to reach the tournament in more than 50 years.

The LAAC tournament ran for four days and consisted of 72 holes, accord-

ing to a Tech Athletics news release.

Dominguez began the tournament by shooting an even par of 72 and shot a 65 on the second day of the tournament.

DOMINGUEZ O n t h e t h i r d d a y, Dominguez shot a 69 and held the lead heading into the final day of the tournament. Dominguez finished the final round with a 7-under score of 65, his lowest singleround score since joining the Red Raider golf team in 2011.

Dominguez said ever since he won the four-day LAAC tournament, the excitement has continued to build up to his appearance at the Masters.

“It’s been really fun to share that with all

my teammates,” Dominguez said. “You hear a lot of things about how the Masters is going to be like, but nothing was even close.”

Dominguez’ win at the LAAC earned him invitations to the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur Championships.

Shortly after closing out the Aggie Invitational with the Red Raider golf team on Saturday, where Tech finished second overall, Dominguez arrived at the Augusta course on Sunday and began to take practice rounds Tuesday.

Dominguez, who has played on Augusta’s course individually and for the Tech golf team, said the course goes well with his style of play.

“It fits my golf and how I play the game really good,” Dominguez said. “The only

thing I have to change is to try to get the ball a little higher in the air so it can stop quicker on the greens.”

As he prepares for the first major tournament of the year, Dominguez said he feels calm about debuting in the Masters Tournament.

“I know down the road here in a day or two I’m going to get a little more excited,” Dominguez said. “I’m really looking forward to playing good golf because I’ve been preparing real well. I’ve been confident on what I’ve been doing.”

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Humans of Lubbock Tech alumni localize ‘Humans of’ project

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

A degree from Texas Tech can lead to a variety of career paths, and some students use their degrees to pursue less traditional paths.

Benjamin Jarvis, a Tech alumnus with a Bachelor of Arts in media strategies from McKinney, started the Humans of Lubbock website last year and it has been increasing in popularity in the past few months.

“I was inspired by the whole Humans of New York thing, and I thought, ‘Why don’t I bring Humans of Lubbock here?’” he said.

“People from Lubbock come from all over the world. If you just walk around Tech’s campus, there are people from China, people from Africa, people from Europe. Why not showcase that and break the West Texas stereotype of good ole cowboys hanging around here?”

The Humans of Lubbock website is composed of photos of everyday people along with the short stories they tell, and according to the website, Jarvis and his cofounders want to showcase how Lubbock has as much individuality as a larger city.

Abigail Arroyos, a Tech alumna, helped Jarvis launch the project last summer, but Jarvis said the project was not successful until William Kilgore joined the team as the primary

Tech to host Lubbock Lights on Thursday Texas Tech will host the inaugural Lubbock Lights: Celebrating the Musical Heritage of the South Plains events at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union building.

The event will honor Wade Bowen, Butch Hancock, Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines, who are all musicians with ties to Lubbock or Tech, according to a Tech news release.

Today, the honorees will be on campus, giving presentations to various classes between 10:30 a.m. and noon, according to the release.

The presentations will be about how the musicians built their careers and descriptions of their work, according to the release.

The musicians will be on Tech’s campus throughout the day Thursday to discuss their work and careers.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m., according to the release, and a CD signing will take place after the event.

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photographer two months ago.

“The stories we’ve been able to tell have been absolutely incredible,” Jarvis said. “A lot of that credit goes to Will. Will is super nice, super friendly and really easy to talk to.

He’s really able to get people to open up about their lives.”

The team works well because Jarvis handles the organizational aspects of running a successful business, Arroyos is the editor-in-chief and makes sure the content is grammatically correct and Kilgore submits and edits the photos.

The stories on the website come from people who the team randomly approaches, and Jarvis said Kilgore is good at walking up to people others may avoid and have conversations with them.

“We’ve been able to showcase some really heartfelt stories about struggle and triumph, or the good, bad and the ugly, as we like to say,” he said. “It’s really shown a side of Lubbock people haven’t seen before. We try to keep it a consistent split of really good stories, kind of medium stories and then the ugly stories.”

Jarvis said one of his favorite stories so far is titled “I Never Saw Her Again,” and it tells the story of a man who lost his eye when he was hit by a baseball bat for trying to free a girl he knew from human trafficking.

The Lubbock community has welcomed

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ABIGAIL ARROYOS, A Texas Tech alumna, and Benjamin Jarvis, a Tech alumnus and mass communications graduate student, started the Humans of Lubbock website. The project takes photos of unique Lubbock residents and tells their stories.

Humans of Lubbock, and Jarvis said it has received publicity from various local news stations and a positive response on social media.

“We hope that people will continue to be open to the project,” he said. “Hopefully we can move beyond Lubbock soon.”

The team released a podcast on the behind-

the-scenes aspects of the project last Friday, and Jarvis said they will be showcasing some of their favorite photographs from the project during the First Friday Art Trail in May and the public can purchase prints.

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Financial literacy serves important purpose for students

By ERIN COLLIER Staff Writer

Students do not always come to college with financial knowledge. Texas Tech has several resources and programs established to help these students handle money.

Angela Mazzolini, Red to Black program director, said it is important for students to maintain their financial responsibilities and plan for the future, even if college is the first time they have to handle their own finances.

“At home, before students come to college, parents are afraid or just don’t think about having a conversation about money,” she said.

Mazzolini said she recommends parents have a conversation with their children before or during college about when they personally made mistakes with their finances.

Using personal examples teaches students ways to fix problems, Mazzolini said.

“It depends what study you look at to determine the cause of financial literacy decreasing,” she said. “I think it is everyone, not just freshmen, who needs help sometimes. We see everyone from freshmen to doctoral students.”

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finances, Mazzolini said, and the programs also help seniors prepare to budget money when they venture into the real world.

“If students have time for a class I recommend taking it,” she said. “If not, we can help you on a more individual level here at Red to Black.”

The personal financial planning department offers various introductory courses, including online classes, for anyone interested in learning more about managing money, according to the department’s website.

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Mazzolini said.

On the Red to Black website, there is a page with estimated expenses if a student is living on campus, she said, because sometimes students do not realize how much it costs to live in residence halls.

“We host financial education week, coming up next, where we allow students to pull their credit scores for free,” Mazzolini said.

It is important for students, even those who do not have anything building credit, to still check credit reports for identity protection, she said.

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Center offers suicide-prevention training

By SHASHIDHAR SASTRY Staff Writer

Introduced to the Texas Tech campus in 2010, the Question, Persuade, Refer Program trained more than 3,000 students, faculty and staff in suicide prevention.

QPR trainees are certified as QPR gatekeepers and learn how to intervene and get help for someone in a suicidal crisis, Dr. Klint Hobbs, a licensed psychologist at the Tech Student Counseling Center, said.

“Suicide is, depending on the study we look at, either the second or the third-leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15 to 24,” Hobbs said.

Hobbs said he is responsible for conducting many of the QPR trainings at Tech.

When placed into a college environment, high school students experience more freedom, academic responsibility and more stress, Hobbs said. Additionally, there are financial

pressures because of the high costs associated with attending college.

When one takes all of these factors and combines them together, he said, students sometimes end up at a point of depression or hopelessness, which is when they begin to feel suicide is the right option.

“QPR is really a way to say, ‘We have better solutions for that. We can help you feel better, we can help you get better,’” Hobbs said.

QPR is a free training for students, faculty and staff that provides skills that do not just apply to students on campus, he said. QPR gatekeepers can use the same skills with their family and their friends they may have beyond Tech.

Bobbi Britton-Stroud, a licensed baccalaureate social worker and case manager at the Tech Student Resolution Center, is happy with the university’s decision to train all new employees in QPR. It has been extremely helpful since it was started years ago,

she said.

“In the past, there were a lot of faculty and staff members who would have interactions with co-workers and students who were feeling depressed or suicidal, and they felt at a loss of how to help them,” Britton-Stroud said. “QPR helps with all of that.”

By the time one gets to the age of 25 or 30, one would have had some sort of experience with suicide, whether it was a friend or a family member who attempted or completed suicide, Hobbs said. Suicide is something that touches everybody.

One positive aspect of QPR is, much like CPR, it pertains to everybody, Britton-Stroud said.

“People who are in distress or are feeling down, at some point, have that thought — ‘I wish I wasn’t here,’” Hobbs said. “And that, right there, is a suicidal thought. If things start getting worse, and they don’t get any help, they get to a point when they start fantasizing about

Poet to speak as part of series Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Presidential Lecture and Performance Series will host a reading by Robert Hass, a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry and U.S. Poet Laureate at 7 p.m. Friday in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union building.

Tickets are free with a Tech student ID, according to the series’ website, and general admission tickets cost $18.

The presidential lecture series began in Fall 2006 and offers presentations from musical performances to dance performances to authors and poets, Jo Moore, director of the Presidential Lecture and Performance Series, said.

“While students may not automatically gravitate toward going to a poetry reading,” she said, “I think everything you can do on campus to expand your horizons, to expose yourself to different people, events, ideas and thoughts just makes you a more rounded person.”

Robert Hass is an important poet in American history and is highly regarded by poets, writers and the general public, William Wenthe, a professor in the English department, said.

“There’s a reason there is a

Nobel Prize in liting National Poetry Month, the erature and that’s English department collaborated because literature to bring in an accomplished poet has always been who will impact the students and a way for societcommunity, Wenthe said.

Wenthe has been teaching a ies to understand themselves, to HASS class on Hass and said he found out about a year ago that Hass would see their values reflected, to see their values be part of the reading series.

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“I think it is special and iminformal Q-and-A session for students addressing the “possi- portant that Jo (Moore) and the bilities of poetry,” Wenthe said. president’s office has recognized The session takes place at 2 p.m. the importance of literature and Friday in room 201 of the Eng- writers in our culture and society,” Wenthe said. lish and Philosophy building.

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• 41,149 deaths reported in 2013 • Someone dies every 12.8 minutes of suicide • Young adults, ages 15 to 24, had a suicide rate of 10.9 percent in 2013 Information provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website said, and he is happy with the increasing success of QPR training on Tech’s campus since its introduction five years ago.

A number of students have done QPR for their friends, found out they were suicidal, and were able to get them the help they needed, he said.

After cancer and heart disease, suicide accounts for more years of life lost than any other cause of death, according to American Foundation for Suicide Prevention website. The economic cost of suicide death in the U.S. in 2010 was estimated to

be more than $44 billion annually.

“A lot of times, people think that suicide prevention falls to the professionals. But most of the professionals aren’t out on campus. We don’t get to look for those warning signs,” Hobbs said. “Thus, if we’re going to be serious about suicide prevention, everybody needs to be trained to look for such warning signs.”

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how they would actually do it.”

Some people tend to think of suicide as a one-time decision, he said.

In reality, suicidal thoughts are a part of a continuous process individuals may experience, Hobbs said.

While for some people it is a short process only taking days, it may take years and years.

Most suicidal people, at some point, have an initial thought that they wished they were dead, he said.

This marks the beginning of the first stage, Hobbs said. When things escalate, they move into the second stage, which is the planning stage. Finally, it transitions into the action stage.

“Thus, QPR is extremely helpful in that it trains people to identify where such persons are at on that process, intervene and say, ‘Wait, let’s arrest this process right now and get you the help you need,’” Hobbs said.

Every major university struggles with the problem of suicide, Hobbs

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Credit reports and student loans are a hot topic right now, she said, and Tech offers programs to help students with these issues.

Mike Viola, a freshman finance major from Houston, said parents should speak with their children about being financially responsible before they leave home for college.

“I think it’s important to be responsible when it comes to your money,” he said, “because it is kind of like getting set up in managing your finances.”

There are several aspects students need to know that they often do not even think about when heading to college, he said.

“I think that checking your bank statements regularly to see the funds you have at your disposal can go a long way in knowing what you can afford,” Viola said.

Students should check what they have spent money on, Viola said, which helps them know if they can actually afford to go out with friends or out to eat.

Financial planning is a necessary conversation for students to have, Mazzolini said.

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Professor studies BP oil spill

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

A Tech professor and a team of researchers have visited parts of Louisiana to study how the 2010 BP oil spill spill has impacted the environment.

“When the BP oil spilled occurred, BP put together quite a bit of money to have scientists go out and study the effects,” Deborah Carr, a research assistant professor in the biology department, said.

With numerous scientists from around the country putting together proposals to conduct their own research of the cleanup efforts and the spill, Carr, along with her husband James Carr and Earnest Smith, put together a proposal that would allow them to collect samples of the area.

“What we were wanting to look at was were there developmental effects occurring in killifish,” she said. “Killifish are not a super exciting target fish, they’re a feeder fish, and they’re the fish that game fish will eat.”

Looking at their short breeding cycle, the team was looking at the types of effects the crude oil had on those eggs, she said. Because of the dispersant, a type of detergent used for cleanup, the group was concerned for the fish egg membrane.

“This would be a massive failure of the food chain and commercial industry in the area,” she said, “if it was affecting some other organisms in the same ways.”

Focusing on the soil and water chemistry, Carr was looking at the concentrations of oil left in the water and other areas of the coast. Most of the funding was for a rapid response action, meaning there was enough money for

studying samples but not enough for analyzing samples long term, she said.

“So when we were in the field we prepared them in hotel CARR rooms,” she said. “We had centrifuges, we took blood samples and we put them in fixative, and we stabilized DNA and RNA samples.”

With students signing up for research hours or volunteering to analyze the samples of the area, all was eventually properly looked at, she said.

“It occurred in April, they announced it and the money came through in May,” she said. “Our first one was funded in July, and we were there a month later.”

The team was there every month for close to a week until October, driving up to Louisiana and Port Arthur, Texas. With the high intensity of the first project fresh on their minds, a new proposal is being looked at for the team to continue research, Carr said.

“It was all very positive and set the scale for long-term research,” Earnest Smith, an associate professor for the institute of environmental toxicology and fellow researcher, said.

The new proposal is targeting behavioral studies, and more research on the fish around the area, Carr said.

Noticing the ratio of male to female fish was skewed, the group hopes to conduct more research into why that could be.

“We’ve seen some liver effects, and these are at the cellular level,” she said. “So we’re trying to look at those a little harder, and relate those to specific compounds.”

Being unfamiliar with the area, the research team hired a charter fisherman to help trap Killifish, but the team was unsuccessful for the most part. Thinking it was because of the team’s lack of knowledge around the area, the group asked more locals for help only to find out people of the area were having just as much trouble, she said.

“There was a real population crash, there must’ve been reproductive issues in the eggs that were being laid that summer,” Carr said, “because the people that know this area and make their living on trapping and selling these fish as bait.”

With the environmental justice portion of the initial proposal also not being funded, the amount of social stress wasn’t well determined, but the effects were obvious, she said. The effects on the shrimp and fish populations hurt most of the people of the area economically.

“It’s a shame because nobody that I am aware of got funded to do one of those studies,” Carr said.

The oil spill occurred in 2011, and the National Smithsonian Ocean Portal estimates a loss of more than 3 million barrels of oil.

“It’s an experiment we didn’t want to do,” she said, “so we’re all still learning from it.”

With technologies of the day getting better, Carr said it is important to be very cautious of how we use it.

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Selena’s estate sues record label over digital royalties DALLAS (AP) — The estate of the late Texas pop star Selena is suing a record label it says owes it money from digital royalties.

The lawsuit was filed by Selena Quintanilla’s estate against UMG Recordings in U.S. Dis-

trict Court in New York on March 31, the 20th anniversary of the singer’s death. UMG declined comment.

The lawsuit says two 1993 agreements say the estate should get 50 percent of UMG’s net

receipts from licensing or selling her music to third-party digital content providers. The lawsuit says an audit of documents from July 2009 to present found UMG miscalculated royalties and “grossly underpaid” the estate.

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Discredited rape story test for Wenner, Rolling Stone NEW YORK (AP) — Through decades of digging into the private lives of rock stars and providing a forum for colorful writers like Hunter S. Thompson and P.J. O’Rourke, Rolling Stone magazine publisher Jann Wenner has never been afraid to push boundaries.

Now Wenner, who founded the magazine as a 20-year-old college dropout, is weathering the stiffest test of Rolling Stone’s credibility that the magazine has faced in its 48-year history.

On Sunday, the magazine retracted last November’s story on sexual assault at the University of Virginia in advance of the release of a damning Columbia University report about its reporting and editing, and on Monday, a fraternity named in the story threatened a lawsuit.

The magazine also faced criticism Monday for what some critics deemed a muted response to the problems outlined in Columbia’s exhaustive report.

The sharply funny O’Rourke, who worked at Rolling Stone from 1985 to

2000, said he found the editing and factchecking there to be as rigorous as the legendarily tough New Yorker magazine.

“When Hunter S. Thompson dies and I leave, and the factual reliability of a publication goes down, there must be something wrong with modern media,” he said.

Rolling Stone’s unique niche in magazines was an outgrowth of Wenner’s interests, a mixture of authoritative music and cultural coverage with tough investigative reporting, usually from a liberal world view. The magazine’s circulation of just under 1.5 million copies an issue has been consistent over the past three years, according to the Alliance for Audited Media.

The music coverage now bears the hallmark of a clumsy 50-year-old struggling to stay hip. Cover subjects can range wildly from Miley Cyrus and Kanye West to Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr as Rolling Stone tries to cater to all tastes.

Specialty websites like Pitchfork offer sharper music coverage. Like many media organizations founded in a different era, Rolling Stone has struggled to become an influential online presence, said veteran music writer Alan Light, a former Rolling Stone employee and still occasional contributor.

Yet the magazine has survived and thrived as once-hip competitors Spin, Vibe and Blender fell out of publishing.

The music coverage coexists with the long-form journalism, from Thompson’s drug-fueled political coverage to an investigative report that forced the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal in 2010. Rolling Stone has aggressively covered climate change and the impact of money in politics. The Virginia story had an immediate impact: Its 2.7 million online views were more than any non-celebrity story the magazine ever published.

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here are many things people associate with going to college, which are sometimes considered essential to the overall experience. One of those things is living in the dorms of a college campus.

Especially in the initial years, staying in the dorms is pretty much expected of students.

Many students have started to break this tradition by going to a university near their homes and commuting back and forth every day. According to the University of Arizona’s Commuter Student Affairs website, more than 87 percent of college students nationwide opt to stay in off-campus housing.

Many believe this large percentage of commuter students is because of rising tuition prices in an already bleak economy. Even when the price of gas to commute to a university and back is calculated in, staying at home is still cheaper than staying on campus with all of its additional accommodations.

However, promoters of the “traditional” college experience argue commuter students will miss out on campus activities, making friends and have a harder time in their academic affairs. I don’t believe this conclusion is completely valid. After all, even oncampus students don’t participate in all of these activities. Being on campus doesn’t make it impossible for students to decide to stay in their dorms all day if they want. Engagement in these activities depends on what kind of person you are and how much effort you want to

Jemima Johnson put into your social and academic life.

As a commuter, I won’t lie —being successful in college does take a bit more effort and preparation than living on campus. But residential living has its downsides, too. I don’t know how many times I have heard resident friends complain about having to do their own laundry, never really eating a decent, home-cooked meal or missing out on sleep because of an uncomfortable dorm bed or inconsiderate next door neighbors.

Many people argue staying home stunts a student’s growth and doesn’t allow them to spread their wings and be independent. However, I would argue there is a fair amount of independence required for living off campus. Students have to plan out more of their day-today activities, prepare further ahead of time and be more punctual to get through college. Resident students may have to be more responsible with the personal aspects of college living like laundry and preparing meals. However, first-year commuters have to be more responsible with budgeting their time so they can be successful academically.

Another argument against commuting is commuters tend to have

lower grades than residential students.

According to the National Survey of Student Engagement, commuter students are just as likely as other students to work harder than they thought they could to meet an instructor’s standards, work with other students on projects during class, ask questions or contribute to class discussions, discuss ideas from readings with others outside of class, write long papers and read on their own for personal enjoyment or academic enrichment.

Another argument against living off campus is these students can’t as easily take advantage of all the educational, personal and recreational services provided on campus. On the contrary, the college population as a whole doesn’t take full advantage of these opportunities. This is evidenced in the fact that, according to the U.S. Association of International Educators, only one percent of students nationwide pursue study abroad opportunities. Therefore, lack of engagement is not just a commuter problem.

While it is true it is easier for oncampus students to be more engaged in the hallmarks of the college experience, I believe engagement depends on the student and how big of a part they want these activities to play in their own personal experience.

Johnson is a freshman electronic media and communications major from Lubbock. ➤➤ jjohnson@dailytoreador.com

Nuclear Iran proving to be severe threat to world, peace

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e have probably all heard, at some point, of the ongoing diplomatic fracas over whether Iran should have nuclear weapons or not. Embedded in that discussion is the one issue few look at, many try to ignore and most wish would just go away. The crux of the issue on whether or not Iran should have nuclear weapons is whether or not Iran is a danger to the world in general.

Let’s start with the basics. While Iran does not have the most capable ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East, it does have the largest and most diverse arsenal, according to the United States Institute for Peace website. The author goes on to point out that Iran’s missiles suffer from poor accuracy, and also that though most of its missiles were acquired from foreign countries like North Korea, they are the only country to develop a 2,000 km missile without developing a weaponized nuclear capability first.

Iran also has a space program, so it’s only a matter of time before they get intermediate and intercontinental ballistic missiles. Medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM) have a range between 1,000 km and 3,500 km, while intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM) have a range of 3,500 km and 5,500 km. Of course these distances don’t mean much to most people without a point of reference, so they don’t understand the difference. Allow me to put this whole issue into perspective.

The Cuban Missile Crisis started when an American U-2 spy plane discovered Soviet-built medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, as well as nuclear capable bombers in Cuba. According to a map image on the website of the JFK Presidential Library and Museum, the MRBMs were located at San Cristobal and the IRBMs were located at Guanajay.

According to www.russianspaceweb.com, the MRBMs used were the R-12 with approximately 2,000 km of range, and the IRBMs used were the R-14 with 4,500 km of range. Both of these missiles were nuclear capable.

By using Google Maps, you can see the MRBMs could have hit Abilene, Nashville, Tennessee, or even Washington, D.C. Considering Detroit and Chicago barely fall outside the R-12 MRBM’s range, I don’t think I need to point out the range of its bigger, more accurate and higher payload brother waiting a scant 26 miles (42 km) away at its launch point.

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John Bowles Cuban Missile Crisis has to do with Iran, because Iran doesn’t even have a ballistic missile base or ballistic missiles in the Western hemisphere, and they don’t have allies in this hemisphere either.

Except that they do. They quite likely have all of these and more.

In 2010 the German national daily newspaper Die Welt reported that Iran was building MRBM launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula. To put this in perspective, if true, this means with Iran’s current MRBM Shahab-3, or the cruise missile they just finished developing, they could hit Tampa, Florida, or just about anywhere from Honduras and El Salvador to Ecuador and the northern parts of Peru and Brazil.

Of course, it also includes the Panama Canal, which is now owned

by Panama.

A good portion of Latin America would be held at virtual gunpoint, to be coerced into virtually whatever is desired. The U.S. hasn’t been looking too good at sticking up for the little guy in the world lately either.

CNN initially reported, in 2011, that the U.S. State Department, under Hillary Clinton, issued a statement that it had no evidence to support the claim and no reason to believe the article was credible.

The same CNN report stated that the same week, a Venezuelan paper, Nuevo Pais, reprinted the article, and then the government occupied and expropriated, or took ownership of, the building that housed the paper.

CNN reported as well that the original author of the German article, Clemens Wergin, claimed the sources of his information as individuals he had known for more than 10 years.

CNN also reported additional sources had confirmed his version of the story.

No one in the West, however, disputes that Iran and Venezuela are good friends and that materials, money, people and weapons move as freely as logistically feasible between them. But Venezuela is not the only country in Latin America involved with Iran. Recently, a Wall Street Journal article pointed out that Iran has developed a military presence in Bolivia and Venezuela.

Also according to security analyst

Iran has taken the place in Latin America that the Soviets had, and compounded upon it.

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Joseph Humire, Cuba has given passport information technology to Venezuela enabling them to effectively give anyone they want a new, very hard to trace, Venezuelan identity.

Two Iranian military-owned companies already have joint ventures with Venezuela’s military industry.

Of course, Cuba is happy about someone who doesn’t like the U.S. helping its buddies build up their respective militaries.

What about a country who has had ties to Iran’s nuclear program since the 1980s? This was pointed out in a Bloomberg article from July 2014, in that Argentina modified the Tehran Research reactor in 1987.

According to Linette Lopez of Business Insider, three Venezuelan government officials spoke to a Brazilian publication of an alleged deal between Iran, Venezuela and Argentina. Toby Dershowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies verified the report’s credibility.

Basically, Argentina wanted an oilfor-grain deal with Iran, but former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez brokered the deal that supposedly got cash for Argentina and cash for the current regime’s re-election as well as nuclear intelligence and the removal of names of Iranians from an Interpol list. Venezuela also bought a large number of Argentinian bonds in 2007 and 2008.

These Iranians on the Interpol list were, reportedly, connected to the bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Association. The Alberto Nisman report of 2013 on the AMIA bombing detailed, at length, the methods and processes in which Iranian-backed terrorists had infiltrated Latin America to carry out clandestine operations. In the report he also talked about the connection between this Latin-Iranian terror network and the attempted attack on the JFK International Airport in 2007. Nisman was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment with a bullet hole in his head, according to an article in The New York Times. Curious death for the top Argentinian federal prosecutor isn’t it?

Iran is a threat to the U.S. already, and will only be a larger threat after it is capable of the level of enrichment Argentina already is capable of. Iran is also a threat to any Latin American country that is not on its side. Iran has taken the place in Latin America that the Soviets had, and compounded upon it.

Iran is a danger to the U.S., and Iran can hurt us. It has more resources and a better network than al-Qaida that is closer to the U.S., and has more economical power as well. Pretending it is not a threat would be a grave and potentially very costly mistake.

Bowles is a senior pre-engineering major from Garland. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

Society should be educated about increasing productivity

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re checklists and other measurements of productivity helping or hurting overall effectiveness for completing the tasks at hand? There are plenty other issues which act as hindrances to getting a job done. These issues include clutter, unclear tasks, worry and distractions.

With the semester slowly wrapping up with the pressures of projects, homework, tests and eventually finals, we need the stamina to finish the semester well. Productivity is often depleted as the pressures of making that magic grade rise. With the incoming pressures comes the inevitable procrastination.

Checklists are often at the forefront for many, accompanied with the attractive attributes of being made easy to use and can be lengthy as needed. However, this method can also provide many with the downside of writing down all those tasks on one piece of paper and being discouraged by seeing no real end. Many write down everything possible and feel like they’ve done something by writing the list and crossing off the easy tasks first. A few things can be done to make checklists more time efficient, like shorter lists of a few key things, or listing items on the list in order of importance.

Clutter plays a bigger role in productivity than you would imagine. Clutter affects everything from the time it takes to find materials to the time it takes to create a distraction to deviate one from the task at hand. So next time you feel the urge to give up on an item on that to-do list, look around and see if maybe cleaning up your space could help not only by decluttering, but also as a break to refocus and gather your thoughts.

Unclear, ambiguous assignments are yet another hindrance to getting things done, but such a situation has one of the easiest fixes. It all starts with a conversation with whoever

Kendra Kimberlin assigned the task, to clarify and get an outline of what is expected.

Distractions like music, friends, lack of sleep and others can seriously lead to an increase of frustration and lack of sleep.

According to an article in The New York Times, “a Harvard study done estimated that sleep deprivation costs American companies $63.2 billion a year in lost productivity.”

Simply finding a quiet place to work and minimize attentiongrabbing distractions can help not only yourself and optimize the quality of work produced, but can also help save money for your company.

Getting enough sleep elevates the burden of lost funds and minimizes time lost, which cannot be given back after being wasted.

Lastly, the issue of worry leads to rabbit holes of bad thoughts, thus

impairing productivity and also how you view yourself.

Statistics done by the National Institute of Mental Health as shown on statisticbrain.com correlate just how much worry plagues all of us.

“Ninety percent of things feared are considered to be insignificant issues and sixty percent of things feared will never take place,” according to the website.

“In fact, we are so opposed to being with ourselves, in a study done by the University of Virginia, over 700 people were asked to just sit in a room alone with their thoughts for six-15 minutes, alongside a shock button, that they could press if ever they wanted out. 67 percent of men and 25 percent of women chose to shock themselves rather than sit quietly and think,” according to the Thought Catalog website.

Tranquility and quiet can help prevent the overall issues that contribute to productivity problems in our society today.

Kimberlin is a senior business management major from College Station. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Students should not forget about health The purpose of going to college is to earn a degree so you can have the career you want, but it is often easy to get too caught up in grades.

While grades are important, taking care of yourself is just as important.

When tests come around, it is common for students to stay up nearly all night studying. If they get good grades, this practice may be worth it at the time. While I have often done this, I usually try to get at least a decent amount of sleep. I always reach a point where I am just too tired to remember anything I am studying, and I go

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The success of smaller websites comes from having many photographers going out and capturing stories, and Jarvis said he wants to get more photographers involved with Humans of Lubbock to make it a community project.

Todd Chambers, associate dean for undergraduate affairs in the College of Media and Communication, said he has known Jarvis since he was a freshman.

“When I first met Ben, he was just a very enthusiastic, passionate filmmaker,” he said. “I knew that’s what he wanted to do and I knew he was going to be a success. He’s got a lot of cha-

Jennifer Romero to bed. Busy schedules can make studying for tests last minute almost inevitable at times, but there is also some choice involved. As busy as I get sometimes I still have some time when I am just watching TV and putting off homework and studying. Most professors outline risma. You just know whatever he set his mind to, he’s going to be successful.”

Jarvis has good leadership skills and brings in good people around him, and Chambers said he remembers attending an award ceremony where Jarvis received a leadership award as a freshman.

Humans of Lubbock has been successful because of the founders’ willingness to work with new people, and Chambers said he personally knows Jarvis can work with diverse groups of people and never treat anyone like a stranger.

“He’s willing to go out and dig and talk to people,” Chambers said. “I’ve been very impressed with some of the photos and their companion stories.

The whole idea of it is that we exist in a much larger world. What’s cool about

their class tests in syllabuses at the being of the semester, and we cannot simply blame teachers for having to stay up late when we did not manage our time more effectively.

Studying is hard to do, but taking more time to do it in smaller increments instead of waiting to learn it all the night before a test will help us get more sleep. At the end of the day, I think every student can benefit from having more time to sleep because it is what gives us the energy to be happy going through our busy days.

Before my parents left me at it is that it’s catching on.”

The media strategies degree at Tech helped Jarvis learn how to run a successful business, and he said his current graduate classes are helping him continue to expand his plan of action for the project.

Students who want to start their own businesses or are still trying to figure out a career path should play on their strengths, Jarvis said, and his strengths in creating content and having others help him in projects led to the creation of Humans of Lubbock.

“It completely breaks stereotypes, and that’s exactly what the project is meant to do,” Jarvis said. “I know for a fact it’s helped me grow as a person, it’s helped Abby grow as a person and it’s helped Will grow.” ➤➤@JenRomeroDT

Mayor: New sculptor will fix village’s ‘Scary Lucy’ statue ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A muchmaligned statue of Lucille Ball will get a face lift after it drew worldwide attention as “Scary Lucy,” according to the mayor of the western New York village where the 1950s sitcom actress and comedian grew up and her life-size bronze has stood since 2009.

Scott Schrecengost said Tuesday that his village will be starting a fundraising campaign on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter to collect donations to rework the Lucy statue from the shoulders up. Schrecengost said he

has spoken to a sculptor who agreed to fix the statue for less than the $8,000 to $10,000 quoted previously by the original sculptor, Dave Poulin.

“We’d like to have better representation of Lucille Ball in her hometown,” Schrecengost told The Associated Press in a phone interview from Celoron, located 60 miles south of Buffalo, New York.

The mayor’s comments came only hours after Poulin told the AP he was willing to create a new statue for free.

But after Schrecengost said he doesn’t want Poulin to redo the work, even

for free. Poulin said he was “fine” with that decision.

Celoron, a village of about 1,300 on the southeastern end of Chautauqua Lake, found itself drawing national and international attention when a 2012 statue replacement campaign launched on Facebook with the name “We Love Lucy! Get Rid of this Statue” garnered renewed interest in the wake of local media stories on the statue. Critics of the 400-pound statue dubbed it “Scary Lucy,” saying its face bears little resemblance to the “I Love Lucy” star.

the residence hall alone for my first year of college, I remember my dad constantly reminding me to eat. Even now he still asks if I am eating properly whenever we talk on the phone. It can be easy to get busy and feel you do not have time to eat, or if you do eat you feel you have to eat fast food all the time. I have a friend who has nearly fainted in the middle of a class before because she did not eat a full meal all day and did not stay hydrated. With all of the chemistry and English and math classes we are taking, it is often

easy to forget the simple needs we have. Getting an A in a class is not worth being unhealthy.

Students have a variety of different resources at Texas Tech to help with whatever problems they may be having, and most of them are included in the cost of tuition. I think many students know the steps they can take to be in better health, they just put these needs to the side because school is a large priority. School can be overwhelming, and I believe we need to focus on the simple things we need like sleep, food and relax-

ing with friends whenever all the work gets to be too much. All the organizations and volunteer work and GPAs will not amount to anything if you are unhappy. We need to put as much effort into ourselves as we do into our studies. Everything good we are able to accomplish is a direct result of us being motivated to do well and being healthy enough to do so.

Romero is a junior natural resources management major from Las Cruces, New Mexico. ➤➤@JenRomeroDT

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Tech triple jumpers build on competition

By EVERETT CORDER SportS Editor

Texas Tech sophomore jumper Paetyn Revell was a dancer growing up. When approached in middle school about competing for her school in the triple jump, she almost turned it down.

Revell has since stopped dancing, but she is still competing in the triple jump, where she is currently ranked No. 49 in the nation.

“I was like ‘ew, that’s disgusting.

With the sand and stuff, that’s not for me,’” Revell said about her first experience with the triple jump.

“But then I tried it and I was actu-

ally really good at it.”

Revell is not the only triple jumper at Tech.

Sophomore Viershanie Latham currently sits at No. 9 in the nation with a jump of 12.78m, or 41 feet and 11.25 inches, and junior Gionna Jackson is the No. 18 jumper, placing the entire trio in

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Latham also started working in the triple jump while in middle school, but Jackson had never competed in the event before coming to Tech.

Jackson said former Tech assistant coach Victor Houston saw potential in her abilities in the event and it has stuck ever since.

“The whole coaching staff saw that I was really bouncy,” she said. “They said ‘let’s just try her in the triple jump’ and I just grew from there.”

As a junior, Jackson said sometimes she becomes the de facto leader of the trio solely based on her experience, but the group usually

works together in practices.

During practices, she said, the three girls and the fourth long jumper on the team all work hard to make each other better.

“They lead just as much as I do,” she said. “We both kind of just help each other and do what we need to do to get all four of us, because we have four triple jumpers, to be in the top 50 or even the top 10.”

Revell said having both Latham and Jackson to train with makes practicing more fun and creates an atmosphere of competition every day.

“Coach (James) Thomas never lets us be like ‘oh, yeah I’ll let you win today,’” she said. “If we’re going

to go after it, we’re going to all fully compete.”

That attitude of competition was most apparent at an indoor meet in New Mexico earlier this year.

The Tech women’s triple jump record was broken that day, not by just one of the athletes, but by all three.

Jackson was the big winner on the day, and now holds the record in the event.

“It’s all competition during competition,” Jackson said. “After, we’re all fun and giggly, but we all have one goal in mind, which is to win.

It’s not any negativity or anything, it’s just we all love competition.” ➤➤@EvCorder_DT

Small plane crashes after NCAA title game, killing ISU coach BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) — A private plane returning from the NCAA basketball tournament in Indianapolis crashed in a central Illinois field on Tuesday, killing all seven people on board, including Illinois State University’s associate head basketball coach and a deputy athletics director.

Rescue personnel found no survivors at the site near the city of Bloomington, and a coroner pronounced the

seven occupants dead, McLean County Sheriff Jon Sandage said at a news conference. The plane went down in a soybean field 2 1/2 miles from the Bloomington airport.

All seven victims, who were found strapped in their seats, died from blunt force trauma resulting from the crash, said Coroner Kathleen Davis.

The journey to Monday night’s championship game began with a phone

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conversation. Scott Bittner, a 42-yearold business owner, got a call from sports bar owner Terry Stralow, 64, asking if he wanted to go to the game.

“He said he had an extra ticket and asked him to go,” said Terry Wertz, who worked alongside Bittner at a meat processing plant. Wertz said that when Bittner hung up the phone he was “really excited.”

They took off for the game in a plane that Bittner used regularly for business trips, owned by his father. It was not clear exactly how they were connected with the others on board, but local broadcasters talked about the group as if many of them were well acquainted with one another.

Bittner and Stralow were two of the seven killed.

Illinois State University President Larry Dietz confirmed in an email to students, faculty and staff that associate head basketball coach Torrey Ward, 36, and Aaron Leetch, 37, the athletic department’s deputy director for external relations, also were killed in the early-morning crash. The email was released to media.

“Words cannot fully express the grief that is felt in the wake of such a tragedy,” Dietz wrote, adding that both men were well-respected and much-loved in the athletics department. “We move between shock and profound sadness.”

Several players and staff carried through with an optional practice Tuesday afternoon at Redbird Arena.

A spokesman said they would not make players or coaches available for comment.

The Cessna 414 twin-engine aircraft took off from Indianapolis and crashed just short of the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington after midnight, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating, but there was no initial word on the cause of the crash. News photos from near the scene showed dense fog.

The airport was open and all systems, including its runway lighting, were functioning, though the tower had closed several hours earlier and handed responsibility to an air traffic control facility in Peoria. Radar contact was lost moments before the crash and a search was launched when the pilot failed to close out his flight plan. It took about three hours to find the wreckage.

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MLB needs to capitalize on Opening Day Braves chase Latos, Jeremy rout Marlins 12-2 M Krakosky

ajor League Baseball is officially underway after Monday’s Opening Day festivities, a day that many fans believe should be considered a national holiday.

For the MLB, Opening Day is arguably the biggest day surrounding the sport until the World Series in October or November.

The day is more than just the first baseball game. Opening Day marks various perks for different people, such as warmer weather or the school year coming to an end.

While the beginning of the MLB season is one of my favorite sport events every year, there are a few changes the league could benefit from.

The 162-game season is a downside of the sport for me.

While the long season does usually allow the best teams to earn a playoff spot, it causes many fans

to lose interest between Opening Day and the playoffs.

Shortening the season to, say, 100 games would put more importance on each game and in return would make fans care more about the outcome of regular season games.

This can be seen in college baseball. Last season, Texas Tech played only 24 Big 12 Conference games. Every game was heavily weighted. Losing a series or two can dramatically change a team’s standing.

Another benefit of a shorter season would be there potentially would be fewer injuries.

If fewer star players are getting hurt, there will be a higher level of play and more excitement around teams.

Throughout spring training, the MLB experimented with using a time limit on different parts of the game, for example, how long a batter can step out of the batter’s box or how long a pitcher can take between pitches.

These changes will also be positives for fans and should be introduced into regular season games. According to ESPN, the average length of a MLB game last season was more than three hours. That needs to be shortened.

Another change already naturally happening at the pro level is the lack of offense or the dominance of pitchers.

Of the 28 teams that played on Monday, half of them scored two or fewer runs.

Because of improved pitch-

ing, many teams are changing the type of players they want on the roster. With there being fewer and fewer home runs hit, teams are starting to go after more athletic and faster players.

Teams want players who can get on base and quickly advance around the bases, rather than a power hitter. This was magnified last season when the Kansas City Royals made it to the World Series.

This change can be good or bad for the sport, depending on what each fan prefers.

Whether one loves or hates the sport of baseball, it is clear the MLB could benefit from making a few minor changes so the next time many fans watch a game is sooner than October.

Krakosky is a junior marketing and management major from Red Oak. ➤➤ @JeremyK_DT

After splitting a two-game series against Oral Roberts earlier this season, the No. 23 Texas Tech baseball team lost 5-4 in a midweek game to lose the season series.

Junior outfielder/right-handed pitcher Quinn Carpenter started the game on the mound for the Red Raiders. He pitched 4.1 innings and allowed two runs on four hits while throwing a career-high 80 pitches.

Tech gave Carpenter some run support in the first inning by scoring three runs.

Junior outfielder Tyler Neslony got his first hit of the game in the inning, a RBI single, and scored the third run. He

finished 3-for-5 at the plate with the RBI. Oral Roberts responded with a single run in the third and fourth inning.

In the sixth inning, Carpenter, playing DH, hit his second home run of the season, but the Golden Eagles scored again to stay within one run.

In the eighth inning, Oral Roberts doubled, walked and doubled again to score two runs and take a 5-4 lead.

Tech could not overcome the one run lead in the final inning.

The Red Raiders are now 19-14 overall. They will attempt to get back on track in a three-game home series against Baylor this weekend. ➤➤@JeremyK_DT

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — New Alabama coach Avery Johnson wants to make the Crimson Tide “the leader of the college basketball world.”

Johnson will be introduced at a news conference on Wednesday, a day after arriving in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He said that coaching in the college ranks was “a lifelong dream” and arrived with lofty ambitions for the program.

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single by Andrelton Simmons.

Freeman, who batted .135 against Miami last year, and Simmons each had three of the Braves’ 14 hits. New outfielder Cameron Maybin added a two-run single in the ninth.

Atlanta went 9 for 16 with runners in scoring position.

The offensive outburst was a big change for the Braves, and a big surprise. They ranked nextto-last in the majors in runs in 2014 and lost Justin Upton, Jason Heyward and Evan Gattis during the offseason.

So far, they’ve hardly looked like a rebuilding team. Alex Wood (1-0) allowed two runs in five innings, and three relievers completed a five-hitter for the Braves, who have given up three runs in two games.

Tech drops third-straight Led by freshman Dvorak, midweek game on Tuesday Lady Raiders move up

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MIAMI (AP) — The Atlanta Braves scored seven runs in the first inning off Mat Latos and beat the Miami Marlins for the second day in a row to start the season, 12-2 on Tuesday night.

Latos, acquired from Cincinnati in the offseason, lasted only two-thirds of an inning in the shortest outing of his career. He was booed as he left the game, his first for his hometown team, and departed with an ERA of 94.50.

It was the shortest outing by a starting pitcher in his Marlins debut, according to STATS. Latos (0-1) failed to record a strikeout for the first time in 154 career starts.

The Braves’ big inning included RBI doubles by Freddie Freeman, Christian Bethancourt and Chris Johnson, and a two-run

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We e k a w a r d , according to the release, as she became the first freshman woman’s tennis player in DVORAK school history to be given the honor.

Dvorak has also clinched the last three games in her sets for the Lady Raiders.

The freshman pulled off an upset over No. 75 Baylor Lady Bear Kiah Generette with the game tied at 3-3.

Along with Dvorak, Kilgo was the most recent winner of the Big 12 Player of the Week award last week.

In doubles, Kilgo and her teammate, Gabriela Talaba, became nationally ranked at No. 44.

The Lady Raiders will continue play at the McLeod Tennis Center for their next two matches as they take on West Virginia at 2 p.m. on Friday and Iowa State at noon on Sunday.

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The Texas Tech Lady Raiders tennis team has improved their national ranking, according to a news release from Tech Athletics, moving from from No. 18 to No. 15 in the country.

The past two games for Tech have been against No. 7 Baylor and No. 9 Oklahoma State, with the Lady Raiders pulling out in front in both matches.

The win over No. 7 Baylor was the first time in school history that Tech beat a Top 10 team.

Tech has received as high as No. 15 in the nation once before in school history, according to the release.

Along with the Lady Raiders’ improvement as a team, Tech has seen a boost in performance from senior Kenna Kilgo.

Kilgo, along with sophomore Lynn Kiro and freshmen Sarah Dvorak, Sabrina Federici and Gabriela Talaba, have received individual national rankings.

Dvorak also was recipient of the Co-Big 12 Player of the

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