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STATE SERIES he No. 14 Texas Tech baseball team will play five games this week at Rip Griffin Park.

Sam Houston State will start the week when it travels to Lubbock for a two-game series on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The two teams have played each other once this season. Tech defeated Sam Houston 11-6 in Huntsville back in late February.

“They gave us their best shot (earlier this season). They’re going to go out there and play, obviously they want to win too,” senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez said. “They’re a good team. I think they win their conference almost every year. They’re going to go there and give us their best shot.”

After losing the first five games of the season, the Bearkats have gone 12-2 over the last few weeks and are in third place in the Southland Conference with an 11-4 conference record, according to the Southland website.

The Red Raiders have also had success since the last time the teams played each other as they are off to the best start in program history in conference play.

By winning its last 10 Big 12 Conference games, the team is 11-1 in conference play and is in first place.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said the team is fired up about the first place start in the Big 12, but cannot forget about the midweek games. “(Sam Houston) is kind of a little bit of a setup for us. We need to make sure we are on top of our game, coming off the weekend,” he said. “Make sure we understand that we have to show up (on Tuesday and Wednesday).”

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fter posting 4-1 record against top-25 teams, the Texas Tech baseball team rose to No. 14 in the rankings and sits atop the Big 12 Conference.

Not only are the Red Raiders in first place with a 24-9 overall record and 11-1 in conference games, but they have done it against tough competition.

“It was a fun week. The guys really enjoyed going to Tallahassee and competing against those guys(Florida State). Our Big 12 series are always a lot of fun,” Tech coach Tim Tadlock said. “A lot of storied history in Stillwater, (Oklahoma) and Tallahassee, (Florida).”

Over five road games last week, Tech split a two-game series against No. 5 Florida State and swept No. 16 Oklahoma State. The series marked the first sweep against a ranked team since Tech swept No. 17 Baylor in 2002, according to a Tech Athletics release.

It was also the first road sweep of a ranked opponent since 1996, according to the release.

“Just playing loose (is the key), just playing the game and having fun,” senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez said. “Enjoy it. It could be No. 1 in the country, it could be the last (place) team in the country. It doesn’t matter, we are going to go out there and have fun.”

After Sunday’s run rule victory over the Cowboys, the Red Raiders improved to 8-5 against top 25 teams, and seven of the wins have come away from Rip Griffin Park.

The series split against the Seminoles improved the Red Raiders to 4-2 against top10 teams this year, according to the release.

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1. After scoring a home run for the Red Raiders, Junior right fielder Stephen Smith greets his teammates as he approaches the dugout during the game against Kansas State on April 3 at Rip Griffin Park. 2. Junior third baseman Ryan Long catches air while sliding into home plate during the Red Raiders’ game against Kansas State on April 3 at Rip Griffin Park.

3. Junior right fielder Stephen Smith swings to hit the ball while at bat for the Red Raiders during their game against Kansas State on April 3 at Rip Griffin Park. 4. Senior first basemen Eric Gutierrez slides into home plate while the Kansas State pitcher scrambles to catch the ball. The Red Raiders hosted Kansas State on April 3 at Rip Griffin Park.

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Milo Yiannopoulos lecture sparks controversy NTSB releases updated report

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Young Conservatives of Texas at Texas Tech and the Young Americans for Liberty have teamed up to host a Milo Yiannopoulos lecture from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the Red Raider Lounge in the Student Union Building.

Yiannopoulos is a man who has become known for his opinions on what some call controversial topics.

Many people have become angered or offended by what he said both on Twitter and on Breitbart, a conservative news website Yiannopoulos writes for.

He is currently on a speaking tour called the “Dangerous Faggot Tour,” where he covers topics such as gay rights, feminism and conservatism.

“I just hope that we can broaden free speech and we can talk without people getting offended,” Alec Wallace, a sophomore agriculture and

applied economics major from Lorenzo and the newly elected president of YCT, said. “Rather than looking at who he is, we YIANNOPOULOS can actually open up a conversation.”

He has become something of an online sensation with his articles on Breitbart and his growing popularity on Twitter, with his follower count at 197,000, according to an article posted by Insidehighered. com. Although he has become a big online star, he has made a substantial number of enemies, so much so that Twitter revoked his verified status because of many people’s complaints.

Everyone has a right to speak their mind, even if some people may not completely agree with what that person’s opinion is,

Wallace said.

Even if someone does not agree with Yiannopoulos’ opinions, they should go out of their way to listen to what he has to say — and that applies to any speaker, Wallace said.

Yiannopoulos’ speaking tour has been surrounded by a cloud of controversy, especially because of several protests that have taken place during his speeches.

While speaking at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, a group of students interrupted Yiannopoulos’ presentation by blaring air horns and holding up signs reading things like ‘rape culture is not a myth,’ which argues one of his beliefs.

Another outburst happened while he was speaking at Rutgers University, where several students smeared faux blood on their faces and shouted, “This man represents hatred.”

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The National Transportation Safety Board updated its report on the plane accident that led to the death of Texas Tech alumnus and local physician Dr. Michael Rice in February 2015.

Rice died Feb. 4, 2015, when his Piper PA46 500TP airplane crashed into a KCBD-TV tower and hit its guy wires near 54th Street and Avenue A, according to the updated report.

Rice’s death was the only injury or death reported from the collision, according to the report. He was flying to Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport from Carlsbad, New Mexico.

The eight-page report outlines the weather and other conditions the night Rice died.

Around 7:07 p.m., the radar controller in the Lubbock Air Traffic Control Tower told Rice to be cautious of moderate rime icing south of the Lubbock airport, according to the report.

Rice acknowledged this and said he would be looking, according to the report.

During the subsequent investigation, there was no evidence of icing on the airplane, according to the report, and none of the first responders reported signs of ice.

The official autopsy of Rice’s body showed his cause of death was “multiple blunt force traumatic injuries,” according to the report. Rice tested negative for drugs.

Rice, who worked at the University Medical Center, graduated from the Tech Health Sciences Center in 1989, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, after obtaining his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Rice logged more than 1,000 hours of flying, including 117 hours of flying at night, before his death, according to the report.

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Tech to host first lavender graduation

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

One year ago, the Risk Intervention and Safety Education office and the Tech Gay Straight Alliance lacked the employees and funds to host a Lavender Graduation Reception, but this year Texas Tech will be putting on this event for the first time.

At 7 p.m. on May 29, the Tech RISE office will be hosting the event in the Student Union Building Matador Room. The event will be open to students across the main campus as well as to students from both the law and medical schools. It is also not limited to students who are members of the GSA, but any students who identify as LGBT. The link to RSVP for this event is on the RISE webpage.

This event is a place where students from across the LGBT community can share in celebrating the accomplishments they have

made in their time at Tech with their peers as well as with their loved ones.

“As a marginalized community, we do have lower graduation rates than the general community,” Katie Miller, Gay Straight Alliance president, said.

The event will also feature guest speaker, Alex Cooper, author of the book “Saving Alex,” where she recounts her experience in conversion therapy after coming out to her parents as well as her attempts to rebuild her relationship with her parents.

“She’s going to come and talk about how being part of a community, she was also in GSA,” Kimberly Simón, RISE director said, “and talk about how being a part of that community really got her through the hard things in her life.”

In addition to Cooper’s discussion of the importance of a community, Mill-

er said this is an event put on and promoted on campus by the university, rather than the GSA. “It is important for students to see that the university supports them,” she said, “as opposed to the GSA relying on outside support and allies within the university faculty.”

While it is true Tech is not always on the forefront of inclusion, Simón said, this event is intended to be a message from the university that suggests pride as well as suggesting the university is honored that these students chose to attend this university.

Additionally, it is easy for LGBT students to feel as though they have a target on their back, she said, but this is a time where attending a school in West Texas is not a liability, but a place to revel in the support and love that is all across campus, though it may at times be

overtaken by the loud voices of hate.

“Since I am from Lubbock, it’s good to see — especially the university have an event for the LGBTQ community,” Reese Ramsey, a junior geology major, said.

While last summer the

nation saw the legalization of same sex marriages, this summer there are more negative laws that are focusing on subjects as menial as bathrooms, Simón said, which is taking away from something more positive and more important like celebrating a

community of people who have worked to overcome certain obstacles.

“This is a chance to do something positive for a community that doesn’t always feel very accepted here,” Simón said. @DTalexarosas

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Student arrested for public intoxication in Kent R. Hance Chapel Friday 5:16 p.m. — A Texas Tech police officer investigated a theft in Holden Hall. A staff member’s cell phone was taken.

7:03 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a nonstudent for burglary of a vehicle at the University Medical Center F4 parking lot. The non-student was transported to the

Lubbock County Jail.

1:01 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for disorderly conduct in the 2400 block of Main Street. A student was urinating in a public place.

The student signed the citation and was released.

1 : 3 2 a . m . — A Te c h officer arrested two students for public intoxica-

tion at the 2800 block of 18th Street. Both students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:33 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for consumption of alcohol by a minor in Sam’s West.

The student signed the citation and was released.

2:39 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student

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for public intoxication in the Kent R. Hance Chapel.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3 : 3 8 a . m . — A Te c h officer investigated theft in Weymouth Residence Hall. One exit sign was taken and four exit signs were damaged.

Saturday 1:32 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for an outstanding parole revocation warrant and was issued a criminal trespass warning after a suspicious vehicle parked in the breezeway between West Village A and B. The vehicle was released to a licensed driver.

3:53 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a report of credit card/debit card abuse at an unknown location. Numerous charges were made in Luxembourg.

5:36 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated duty on striking an unattended vehicle at the Z5C parking lot.

10:50 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested two students for possession of controlled substance (cocaine) on the 4th floor of the Flint Avenue Parking Garage after checking on a suspicious vehicle. The driver was issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and driving under the influence by a minor. Another student was issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and consumption of alcohol

by a minor. Both students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

12:27 a.m. — A T e c h officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication at the 1700 block of Boston Avenue following a welfare check. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:37 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft at Weymouth Residence Hall.

Two exit signs were taken.

3:04 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in the Weymouth Residence Hall after suspicious activity.

The student was also issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of a fictitious driver’s license.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:15 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for drunken driving at the Z1B parking lot after a traffic violation. A second student was issued a Lubbock County citation for consumption of alcohol by a minor, which the student signed and was released. The driver was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Sunday 8 : 2 2 a . m . — A Te c h officer arrested a nonstudent for a theft and was also issued a criminal trespass warning in Horn/ Knapp Residence Hall.

An unsecured bicycle was taken. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

4:41 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license and one outstanding Lubbock County warrant after a traffic stop at the 900 block of Flint Avenue. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

5:46 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at the Z5C parking lot. A vehicle was scratched.

7:54 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the sand volleyball courts of the Stangel/Murdough Residence Hall. An unsecured watch was taken.

10:06 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated an accident without injuries and duty on striking an unattended vehicle at the Z7 parking lot.

10:19 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated an accident without injuries and duty on striking an unattended vehicle at the Z4P parking lot.

12:38 a.m. — A T e c h officer investigated theft in Weymouth Residence Hall. Exit signs and ceiling tiles were taken.

12:43 a.m. — A T e c h officer documented information in reference to a welfare check on a student at the Z5B parking lot.

The student was suffering from a panic attack and depression, but refused treatment from Emergency Medical Services.

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Police: Texas teen kills mom, brother before killing himself DALLAS (AP) — In vestigators are trying to determine what led a Texas teenager to fatally stab his brother and his televisionpersonality mother before mortally wounding himself, police said Monday.

Police in the Dallas suburb of Plano said 19year old McCann Utu Jr. attacked his 45-year-old mother, Stacy Fawcett, and his 17-year-old brother early Friday before stabbing himself multiple times at the family’s home.

Authorities said he called 911 at some point and admitted to the killings.

Plano police spokesman David Tilley said a motive for the murder-suicide remains unclear, noting that there were no witnesses to the attack and that Utu didn’t leave a note. Police said they weren’t aware of any past

calls from the home.

Tilley said investigators are conducting interviews with family and friends who say Utu’s disposition dramatically changed after he suffered a concussion during a high school basketball game in the fall of 2013, and then another concussion a few months later during an altercation with another student.

Utu’s uncle, Scott Fawcett, said his nephew’s mood took a dramatic turn about a year ago, and that he was receiving psychiatric care and concussion therapy.

“He had just completely mentally dwindled away,” Fawcett told Dallas TV station WFAA, where Stacy Fawcett provided weekly segments on her favorite dishes and other foodrelated coverage.

Utu’s father, McCann

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Utu Sr., said in a statement to WFAA that “God will use my pain to help and save others that are going through mental illness and concussion.”

Sarah Stoddard, an assistant professor in the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, said an eight-year study she was involved in indicated that young people who suffered a brain injury were more likely to engage in violent behavior. Stoddard, who isn’t involved in the Utu investigation, said personality changes can result from damage to the brain’s frontal lobe.

No details have been released about the type or severity of Utu’s concussions or his medical history.

A memorial service is planned for Tuesday for the family.

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Students form, tour in hardcore band

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Judiciary, a hardcore band based out of Lubbock, is heading on tour in May and will perform in San Antonio and along the West Coast for its new EP, “The Axis of Equality,” which was released in January.

Austin Scott-Looney, a junior advertising major from Lubbock, said the band was started as a product of jamming with other people. Scott-Looney started going to shows with Jake Collinson, lead singer of Judiciary and a junior public relations major from Lubbock, when he was 15.

Scott-Looney and Collinson, as well as the other band members, started coming up with riffs and songs in Scott-Looney’s garage, he said.

The band’s style developed from a more melodic sound into something completely different, Collinson said.

“We just started jamming,” Collinson said.

“But, we didn’t think that (being melodic and pretty) was working and we started writing heavy s---.”

This was not Collinson’s first experience in a band, he said. Collinson started developing his vocal style when he was younger by

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “I feel he has very strong views that differ from mine as a fellow LBGTQ individual, but he does tend to thrive off of that shock value of having such extreme views,” Katy Miller, a senior nutrition major and the president of the Gay Straight Alliance at Tech, said. “While I do not agree with a lot of the things he talks about, I really can’t tell him that he can’t say it because that’s exactly what he argues against — freedom of speech.”

Miller said she does not plan to attend the event because from what she has seen from videos of past events of his, they tend to end in police escorts and hostility, and she feels that the LBGTQ community undergoes a lot of that already and she does not wish to put herself in that kind environment.

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Austin Scott-Looney, a junior advertising major from Lubbock, and Jake Collinson, a junior public relations major from Lubbock, started the hardcore band Judiciary. The band released its first extended play, “The Axis of Equality,” in January and will perform in San Antonio on May 13 before touring along the West Coast in June, where it make various stops including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

listening to bands he liked.

“The reason why I wanted to do vocals is because of the band Whitechapel,” Collinson said. “Their album ‘This is Exile’ is the reason why I am doing vocals today. When no one was home, I would turn up the stereo and started practicing. I started developing those vocals with practice.”

After they got the band together, they performed their first unofficial show a t a f r i e n d ’s w e d d i n g , Collinson said. Judiciary played this impromptu ulty members also signed a letter to the editor to The Daily Toreador expressing their disapproving views of the title of Yiannopoulos’ tour.

Wa l l a c e h a s h e a r d about the protests that have happened at other colleges, and he said he believes it is in someone’s right to be able to protest, to an extent. “ T h a t ’s 1 0 0 p e r c e n t within their right, but what I hate is if you just turn your mind off and don’t even listen to the guy,” he said. “Even though there is someone who opposes what you think, you should listen.”

Both Miller and Wallace encourage civility at Yiannopolous’ lecture and said they respect one another’s opinions.

“We should always be able to listen, and like I said, if you want to protest him, you disagree, that’s fine, but know why you disagree with him,” Wallace said. @RyanOrtegonDT

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Court rules against polygamy to family from ‘Sister Wives’ SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court restored Utah’s ban on polygamy Monday, handing a defeat to the family from TV’s “Sister Wives” and other polygamists who say the ruling could send plural families back into hiding out of fear of prosecution.

Others cheered the decision that they say will help authorities prosecute people for crimes tied to the practice, such as underage marriage and sexual assault.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a 2013 ruling that struck down key parts of Utah’s law against bigamy, or holding multiple marriage licenses. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups had found the state violated polygamists’ right to privacy and religious freedom.

The appeals court ruled that Waddoups should not have considered a lawsuit from Kody Brown and his four wives because they were never charged with a crime and there was little chance they would be.

The decision brings back a rule forbidding married people from living with a

second purported “spouse,” making Utah’s law stricter than those in every other state and creating a threat of arrest for plural families. Like most polygamous families in Utah, Brown is legally married to one wife and “spiritually married” to the others.

State authorities have long said they don’t go after polygamists who otherwise follow the law, and they reiterated that stance after the ruling. Officials wanted the clause kept on the books to help in criminal cases related to polygamy.

“We want them to come out of any shadows to report crimes,” Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said.

Prosecutors pointed to Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned polygamous sect leader convicted of assaulting girls he considered wives.

Authorities have recently cracked down on his sect on the Utah-Arizona border, charging leaders in a multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme. A jury in Phoenix also found the towns denied nonbelievers basic services such as police protection.

show only having three of its own songs.

After getting noticed at the wedding by some friends, Judiciary then released its first demo in May, Scott-Looney said.

This demo gave Judiciary some national notoriety.

Judiciary released its original demo through social media and through word of mouth, Scott-Looney said. Social media is how Judiciary received most of its success.

“Through word of mouth on social media,

other bands would get ahold of it and tell their fans to listen to it,” ScottLooney said. “This demo is how we started touring through Texas.”

The demo was just fun for the band, but the members’ mindsets changed when they started to get show offers and merchandise orders from around the country, Scott-Looney said.

Collinson said Judiciary’s music is different from the music he has played in the other bands he has been in.

“Judiciary’s music then was a big step up from the music I was playing in other bands,” Collinson said. “I’ve never felt more behind a band in my life.

If I was listening to it and it wasn’t my band, I would love them.”

After the original demo, Judiciary released an EP called “The Axis of Equality,” Scott-Looney said. The reaction they have gotten from this EP is 10 times more than they thought they would have.

“Every day, I get online just to see how many people have listened to it,” Scott-Looney said. “Every day, we have about 500 or so new listens. When you think about how much a mainstream song is listened to on Spotify every day, it’s not a lot, but us being from here where this scene doesn’t really exist, it’s important.”

Collinson said the goals of the lyrics the band writes, especially in the new EP, is to shed light on things people may have missed. Because hardcore is a worldwide genre, this gives people around the world an opportunity to hear what it is like to live in West Texas.

“There is a lot of ignorance that comes out of this area in terms of equality,” Collinson said. “(The lyrics

are) shedding light on an area that you might not be aware of like racism and bigotry. I’m not trying to be a politically correct preacher. I’m just saying what I feel.”

Judiciary will be performing at the Paper Tiger in San Antonio on May 13, Scott-Looney said. In June, it will perform in cities in the West including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The proudest achievement Judiciary has had is getting invited to play at the Sound and Fury Festival in June, Scott-Looney said. This Los Angeles festival is one of the largest hardcore festivals in the country.

“To get the sliver of notoriety that we have gotten, and in this area, as far as I know, it’s not common,” Scott-Looney said.

“It doesn’t happen.”

The goal for Judiciary is to tour more with bigger bands, he said.

“We want to tour more and play bigger shows with bigger bands,” Scott-Looney said. “That’s always been our goal. We want to play music. I think that it would be cool to casually tour with some of the bigger bands in hardcore right now.” @DavidGayDT

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Pay gap degrading to all women

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oday is Equal Pay Day, which is a day when we are supposed to remember and bring awareness to the pay gap between women and men.

It is honestly infuriating.

It is 2016 and there is still a gender gap in salaries in fields across the nation. I know many people believe this isn’t true and just avoid talking about it — if you are one of those people, you are part of the problem.

According to a TIME article titled “Women Can’t Wait Until 2059 For Equal Pay,” Equal Pay Day is a symbol of how far into the year women have to work to catch up to what men made in the previous year.

On average, women still make 79 cents for every dollar a man makes, according to the TIME article. There are many impacts to the pay gap that affect women.

For one, this means when women graduate college and try to start paying off their student loan debt it will harder. Women will have a more difficult time paying off debts.

This also hurts single women who are only relying on their own income. I am currently reading the book “All the Single Ladies”

by Rebecca Traister (which I strongly recommend to everyone) and in it she discusses this issue further.

As women are becoming more and more independent, their ability to live on their own financially is not increasing with that independence. In fact, as single women are still being shortchanged in income, their

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ability to live on their own and find sufficient, affordable housing remains difficult.

In her book, Traister cites a study that found in 2014 the median wealth of a single black woman was $100, a single Latina woman’s was $120 and a single white woman’s was $41,500. For married white couples that wealth jumped drastically to $167,500. So there is not only a trend in gender in wealth and income, but also race.

This is unacceptable and degrading. It shows people do not think women have the same monetary value as men.

In an effort to combat this, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team recently took action to inspire women everywhere to not accept this treatment anymore. It should be noted this is not the first time women have taken on this issue, but it is a major sports team on a national stage taking a stand.

Members of the team filed a wage discrimination claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to fight back against the pay gap. The players are referring to this movement as Equal Pay for Equal Play.

Carli Lloyd, a co-captain for the team, recently had a piece in the New York Times about this claim called “Why I’m Fighting for Equal Pay.” In it, she details the issues with the wage gap in U.S. soccer and describes the success the team has and justifies why these women deserve equal pay.

This team is the most successful team in the history of U.S. soccer. These women have won three World Cups and four Olympic gold medals. When the team was in the final game of the FIFA Women’s World Cup this summer, they drew the highest television traffic in the history of U.S. soccer. For TV coverage in that game the team generated $17.7 million for the federation.

According to the article, this team is the driving force in income for the U.S. Soccer Federation.

Despite all of this success and revenue, the top five women on the team are guaranteed $72,000 each year.

The top five players on the U.S. Men’s National Soccer team make an average of $406,000 each year.

This is interesting because we are now seeing how much this pay gap also affects athletes. In many sports, women are making less than men and drawing less of a crowd. With this people are saying they don’t care about female athletes, which isn’t fair or OK. It does not matter how much revenue women are generating for their team or company, if they are training or working just as hard as men in their field, they deserve to make the same amount.

My hope is these women will be able to inspire change in the movement for equal pay. I hope people will finally see the unfair treatment of women in the workforce when it comes to pay.

Hopefully in the near future we will no longer need an Equal Pay Day, but for now, remember how hard women work and how much they deserve to be treated equally. @KristenBartonDT

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s things sometimes go there are people in this world who do things out of your control, and once all is said and done, the only person who is embarrassed is the one who tries to stop it.

Today, two Texas Tech student organizations are hosting a character, Milo Yiannopoulos, the Tech Editor for Breitbart News, for a lecture.

Yiannopoulos, who is known for his speeches that go against liberalism, feminism, free speech, LGBT issues and the Black Lives Matter movement, is to speak at the Red Raider Lounge in the Student Union Building.

But his speeches and lectures rail extremely hard against these issues.

In fact, he crosses the line between making a point and just being extremely feebleminded. Consid ering himself a young conservative-libertarian, Yiannopoulos does what all good conservatives do and speaks without informing himself.

I’m sure the father of modern conservatism, William F. Buckley, would be ashamed of what his brand has become.

Yiannopoulos, who happens to be a gay man, constantly speaks on the reasons that people in the LGBT community should just buck up and be tougher.

Especially when it comes to safe space on campus, he gets his research wrong as to why they help people cope with inequality. Things were better in the 50s, he said — when people were abused or even killed for being gay.

“In my view anybody who asks for a trigger warning or a safe space should immediately be expelled,” Yiannopoulos said, according to The Daily Targum at Rutgers University.

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nopoulos has done is created a following base much like Donald Trump has.

He is able to gain the attention of young, rich, pretentious, uninformed, privileged people who need a reason to not tolerate indifference. It is just stubborn people who want to go out of their way to find justification for their misogyny and racism.

Leave it up to someone who writes for Breitbart News to spread misinformation.

My advice to him and his followers is to create a time machine and go in the past where that mindset belongs.

It is a different time and a different culture, no longer are women and people of color relegated to secondclass-citizenship. There is this thing called equality and I think with a bit of work we can hold that standard higher than we do now.

Aside from this column I would suggest not to give Yiannopoulos the day of light. Ignore him and he can do what all other Internet trolls do and go back to their pathetic blog cites and cry to the 17 people who are stuck in 1945.

Not only should he be ashamed of himself for promoting ignorance, but his followers and cohorts should be ashamed of themselves for thinking it is entertaining to believe him.

This man is not speaking his mind; he is throwing gas into the fire, which creates a dangerous mindset in all of society. @MichaelCantuDT

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The reason it is called a safe space is because it is supposed to be a judgmentfree zone. It is supposed to be a place where people can feel comfortable being themselves, not stressed because they feel unsafe in a hostile environment. However, I doubt Yiannopoulos and his followers have thought about that.

I do realize that the university cannot bar most types of speaker from coming in, so I realize that there is no blame to be put on the school.

However, the groups and the people involved that are hosting this should be extremely ashamed of themselves for their promotions.

As students in a university that has done extremely well at being a top university in the country, due to our recent top Carnegie ranking, we should not tolerate this.

I respect people’s right to speak on whatever topic they want, but speech becomes very dangerous when uninformed. And that is all that this man promotes — uninformed hatred.

Leave it up to someone who writes for Breitbart News to spread misinformation. And in most cases it is as if he goes out of his way to match up two things that don’t go together.

It is often that Yiannopoulos compares feminism to cancer; I need not say more. I think a man disqualifies himself from speaking on inequality when he says the gender wage gap has no evidence and the college rape crisis is something made up.

I for one do not think it is

up to a man, especially one that does not do his research, to categorize something he cannot empathize with, but that doesn’t stop him from speaking on these issue.

Especially when it comes to Black Lives Matter and feminism, Yiannopoulos gets it completely wrong.

You can even see his ignorance in his writing, especially in an August post in Breitbart where he talks about organizations that are more significant than Black Lives Matter.

He writes of the significance of a fictitious organization named Black Wives Matter, in which he writes of the importance of how there needs to be groups highlighted that concern the amount of black children without involved fathers.

What he fails to mention is that recently it was found that black children are the least likely to grow up without a father, but that would go against his own racism so he can’t proclaim such.

Yiannopoulos also speaks on his idea that free speech should be hindered, because there is a liberal politically correct mindset that stops people from speaking their mind. I must add that just by using the term politically correct he is already stepping in the red.

This term is what the far right uses to scare people into thinking their rights to saying whatever racist, misogynistic, unintelligent bologna is being trampled on.

The only time I hear the term politically correct is when I’m being given a lecture on why people can’t say things they used to be able to get away with — mostly old white guys angry that they can’t say the n-word.

It is a way to be all encompassing, not rude, but Yiannopoulos and his cult can’t register that information.

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Springsteen wrong to cancel North Carolina show

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egendary rocker Bruce Springsteen announced Friday that he was canceling his Sunday night show in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest the recently enacted North Carolina HB2, sometimes referred to as the “bathroom bill,” which restricts transgender people from using public bathrooms based on the sex with which they identify.

The bill was signed into law March 23, sparking outrage from LGBT and civil rights groups. Proponents of the bill argue it protects privacy and safety, as a male predator could technically enter a women’s bathroom or locker room without the law in place. The law’s detractors claim it’s meant to discriminate against the transgender population.

Springsteen’s announcement was likely the highestprofile act of protest yet, and reactions were mixed as to whether he was right to cancel his concert. Though

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I don’t often find reason to disagree with The Boss, for the sake of his fans, I have to on this one.

My disagreement here has nothing to do with the politics of the situation. I admire and respect Springsteen for wanting to take a stand on this issue, and I think he has every right to, in spite of what the “shut up and sing” crowd will say. (As a side note, I’ve noticed that phrase is only used when a person disagrees with what a musician says, but when they do agree, it’s perfectly fine for the artist to speak his or her mind).

I disagree here because the decision has a detrimental effect on some of Springsteen’s fans. Yes, he

is refunding ticket prices, which takes care of all the locals who were planning to attend. But that doesn’t take care of everyone.

Springsteen has a dedicated and loyal fan base, and many of those fans will travel long distances, sometimes across the country and beyond, to see his shows. When I attended Springsteen’s April 3 show in Oklahoma City, I met fans from Connecticut, Iowa, Texas, North Carolina and New York — and that’s just in the small group of people who were around me.

At any given show, hundreds of fans will have traveled from other areas, which means they have to make travel plans. Those fans who were planning on attending the Greensboro show had to make airline and hotel reservations, and those are unlikely to be refunded, especially with a last-minute cancellation. They likely saved up their vacation days from work for these trips as well.

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District fires officer who body-slammed girl SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio school officer caught on tape body-slamming a middle-school student was fired Monday by the district, which said the officer’s misstatements about what happened were revealed by the video.

Officer Joshua Kehm’s statements on the March incident were “inconsistent” with the video and his response was “absolutely unwarranted,” the San Antonio Independent School District said in a statement.

Superintendent Pedro Martinez said Kehm’s case has

been referred to the Texas Rangers, the state law enforcement agency, for possible criminal charges.

The Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas will represent Kehm and plans to appeal his firing, the group’s executive director, Charley Wilkison, said Monday.

There’s two sides to every story,” Wilkison said. “We intend to fully, fully defend this officer and make sure that all of his rights are upheld Martinez said in an interview that he didn’t find out about the incident until seeing

the video on the Internet, and that staff at Rhodes Middle School also face discipline for not immediately reporting what happened.

The video shows Kehm struggling with the 12-year-old girl before body-slamming her to the ground. He then appears to handcuff the girl before having her stand and leading her away. She had been fighting with another girl before Kehm body-slammed her.

Kehm first told the district that the girl’s fall was accidental, then that she had been fighting an arrest in some way, Martinez said.

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Remains belong to student missing since 1997 ANGLETON (AP) — Remains found in a pasture in southeast Texas with the help of a convicted kidnapper are those of a 20-year-old college student who went missing almost two decades ago, authorities said Monday.

Denton police say the remains have been identified through dental records as those of Kelli Cox, who went missing from

the North Texas town of Denton in July 1997. She attended the University of North Texas.

Authorities had announced this month that imprisoned, convicted kidnapper William Reece had led them to the remains in Brazoria County. The 56-year-old is already serving a 60-year sentence for kidnapping one woman, led Texas authorities to remains in the search

for 17-year-old Jessica Cain, also missing since 1997, has been charged in the slaying of a 19-year-old in 1997 and was a prime suspect in another killing.

A DNA analysis will also be conducted on Cox’s remains, said Denton police spokesman Officer Shane Kizer. He added that police are “looking into formal charges in the near future,” but are still investigating.

So even though they may get a refund for the cost of their tickets, the traveling fans will still have to take a loss of hundreds of dollars because of the show being canceled, and that’s entirely unfair to them. It’s not like they had anything to do with North Carolina’s law.

Plus, there are undoubtedly fans who were excited to see their first Springsteen concert and now won’t be able to, and it’s through no fault of their own. The fans are probably hurting more than anyone else because of this.

What Springsteen should have done is play the concert anyway and make his statement there. He’s done similar things in the past, which is why this decision was surprising.

I’ve been one of those traveling fans, and I once traveled in a somewhat similar situation. I flew to Tampa, Florida, to see a Springsteen show in March 2012 — less than one month after the Trayvon Martin shooting.

The Tampa show was his only stop in Florida on that leg of his tour.

If Springsteen had canceled that show in protest of the “Stand Your Ground” law, I would’ve wasted hundreds of dollars I had worked for and saved up for that trip. Instead, as his statement at the concert, he played the song “American Skin,” which he wrote after the 1999 shooting death of African immigrant Amadou Diallo at the hands of New York City police officers. The significance of that performance was not lost on anyone in the arena that night.

Now some would argue that simply performing a song or making a statement to 15,000 fans at a concert doesn’t have the same effect as canceling that concert, which is probably true. But there’s a way Springsteen could have gone a step further without hurting his fans.

In his statement, Springsteen mentioned that, “Right

now, there are many groups, businesses and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments.”

So what he could have done is donated all the profits from his Greensboro show — a significant amount, to be sure — to these groups that are fighting against the law and advocating for the rights of transgender people.

I would think that would have more of an impact than simply refusing to show up.

Again, I admire his desire to take a stand, but taking a stand should not involve dedicated fans wasting their hard-earned money on travel expenses they no longer need because of such a decision.

It’s entirely unfair to a group of people who deserve that the least.

Hopefully next time, Springsteen will take that more into consideration and find a way to make an impact without hurting his fans. editor@dailytoreador.com

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Texas attorney general charged with federal securities fraud AUSTIN (AP) — Federal securities regulators charged Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Monday with four counts of civil fraud, piling on more legal troubles for the Republican already under criminal indictment for allegations that he deceived friends and wealthy investors — at least once with highpressure tactics.

The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provoked new calls from critics that Paxton should resign but no public response from state Republican leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott.

Paxton, who has pleaded not guilty to two felony counts of securities fraud handed up by a Texas grand jury last summer, has said he won’t step down and has faced no public pressure from state leaders to do so. But questions about his private financial dealings have made for a tumultuous first 16 months on the job.

The new federal lawsuit essentially mirrors the charges in Paxton’s criminal case — that in 2011 he defrauded investors in a high-tech startup called Servergy Inc., a data server company. But a new 26-page federal court filing provides a far more detailed narrative of Paxton’s alleged misdeeds than what has previously been made public.

The SEC describes how Paxton allegedly betrayed a friend, raised $840,000 and pressured one investor to make a “hasty decision” to immediately invest, thereby increasing the value of Servergy stock that Paxton received as

commission. Paxton’s investor recruiting took when he was still a state legislator.

SEC investigators say Paxton claimed he planned to invest $100,000 of his own money into Servergy but that company founder Bill Mapp refused. The lawsuit alleges Paxton said Mapp told him, “I can’t take your money. God doesn’t want me to take your money.” Paxton claimed he accepted Servergy shares as a gift, according to the lawsuit.

But both state prosecutors and now the SEC accuse Paxton of never telling investors Servergy paid him to raise money.

The investors wouldn’t have invested had they “known Paxton was being paid to promote the company,” the lawsuit reads.

Those same allegations led to Paxton’s indictment in his hometown and facing a possible sentence of five to 99 years in prison if convicted.

By filing a civil lawsuit, federal regulators aren’t seeking prison time but instead want Paxton to pay back “any illgotten gains or unjust enrichment” and be ordered to pay additional financial penalties.

SEC investigators allege that one investor considered Paxton “a personal friend” and believed that Paxton was also investing in the company.

According to the lawsuit, that investor “grew worried” when promises about product shipment failed to materialize, and that Paxton “did nothing” to determine whether those company milestones were true.

Paxton attorney Bill Mateja said he was surprised the

SEC chose to file the charges a year after Paxton’s criminal indictment.

“Like the criminal matter, Mr. Paxton vehemently denies the allegations in the civil lawsuit and looks forward to not only all of the facts coming out, but also to establishing his innocence in both the civil and criminal matters,” Mateja said.

The Texas Democratic Party, which hasn’t won a statewide office in more than two decades, said in a statement that “enough is enough” and again called for Paxton to step down. Abbott spokesman John Wittman declined comment on the new federal fraud charges against Paxton.

Paxton took office in January 2015 with strong tea party support. A year earlier, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, now a GOP presidential candidate, called him a “tireless conservative warrior” as Paxton trounced a moderate Republican challenger on the way to becoming Texas’ top law enforcement officer.

During a heated GOP primary race in 2014, Paxton admitted to breaking state securities laws by not disclosing how he received commissions for referring his private law clients to a financial planner. He paid a $1,000 fine, downplayed it as an oversight and went on to handily beat an establishment Republican who counted former President George W. Bush as a supporter.

A Dallas state appeals court is scheduled to take up the criminal indictments next month.

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Tech Lions Club seeks to make positive impact

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The few students and advisers in the classroom stood to face the American flag in front of them, only instead of speaking the Pledge of Allegiance, they complete the pledge in sign language. This is the start to a regular meeting for the Tech Lions Club, a newly formed service organization on the Texas Tech campus.

“We are fairly new because we are just now starting to get chartered,” Michaela Glendening, a sophomore business marketing major from Little River and vice president

of TLC, said.

Although fairly new, TLC has wasted no time in starting to do good in the community, she said, from learning sign language to adopting a highway to help keep Lubbock beautiful.

“We have a two-mile stretch in Lubbock and we actually went this Saturday to go do a cleanup,” Glendening said. “We’ll be doing that six times a year.”

TLC also works closely with its parent organization, Lubbock Lions Club, she said, especially when it comes to the annual Pancake Festival.

“My club (Lubbock Lions Club) puts on the Pancake Festival every year,

and so this year we had the Tech Lions Club come over to help with that event,” Clifford Fedler, professor in the Civil, Environmental and Construction department in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering and adviser of TLC, said.

TLC worked with the Lubbock Lions Club to make this year’s Pancake Festival a real success, he said, and the members are working to make a positive impact in the community.

“It was just fascinating to see what those kids were doing,” Fedler said.

“The comments I received from not only my own Lions Club, who praised the

members of this organization (TLC), but also the people in the community.”

The members of TLC are dedicated to helping not only the local community, but also the global one, Elizabeth Eckert, a freshman physics major from Floresville and secretary/ treasurer of TLC, said.

“I want to do whatever I can to help my community,” she said. “I want to help people however I best can, and Lions Club, that’s the whole purpose of the organization.”

People who want to be a part of Lions Club can do so at any level through the high school Leo Club, the college level Lions Club or the professional level

with Lions International, Fedler said.

We do a lot for not just within our own community, but for around the state and we do international.

CLIFFORD FEDLER ORGANIZATION ADVISER “We do a lot for not just within our own community,” he said, “but for around the state and we do international.”

Lions Club has been a worldwide organization for

change since 1917, according to its website, and it has a legacy of volunteering in the community and growing as an organization.

Students interested in joining TLC can email the organization at techlionsclub@gmail.com or attend a meeting, which are hosted at 5:30 p.m. every Thursday in the Civil Engineering building room 211.

“We want people from all ages, races and genders,” Eckert said. “I don’t care who you are or what you are, if you want to help other people and are going to be dedicated to this cause, then come on in because we want you.” @DailyToreador

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Students should attend live theater for entertainment

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f the ‘dinner and a movie’ routine is getting a little bit old, and you aren’t quite ready to take your relationship to the ‘Netflix and chill’ level, you might try exploring the oldest entertainment in recorded history: live theater.

Whether you’re looking to stay on campus or branch out into the community, whether you’ve got a few dollars to spend or an empty wallet, Lubbock won’t let you down in the coming week.

Looking to impress your mate with your knowledge and sophistication? Look to C.A.T.S. Playhouse on 34th Street and its production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”

Escape the current political climate by diving into that of the past, and

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indulge in the treachery, love and passion of this age-old conspiracy play.

Doors open at C.A.T.S. at 7 p.m., for the 7:30 p.m. showings Thursday through Sunday for the next two weekends.

Shakespeare not your thing? If you need something a little more cutting edge, consider Lubbock Community Theatre’s ongoing production of “Other Desert Cities.”

A family drama much like your own holiday trips home, this play looks at inner and outer life

through a lens of humor — and don’t worry, I’ve been assured by one of the actors that the joint smoked onstage is filled with oregano.

The play closes this w e e k e n d w i t h p e r f o rmances Thursday-Sunday at 8 p.m.

Tickets cost $20 general admission with $5 student rush seats available (please arrive by 7:45 to claim student rush).

If you’d rather stay on campus for your artistic endeavors, Texas Tech has a few events of its own within the coming week.

Both are free and both occur in the Lab Theatre across from the Wall/ Gates Residence Hall Complex near 18th Street and Flint Avenue.

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The collaboration of these dedicated and talented individuals results in a beautiful evening of honest and empathic performance that has the capacity to leave you both laughing and crying.

Whether you’re looking to stay on campus or branch out into the community, whether you’ve got a few dollars to spend or an empty wallet, Lubbock won’t let you down in the coming week.

This free evening of theater begins in the Lab

Theatre at 8 p.m. Monday. So, if you’re looking for classic, contemporary, choreography or creative collaboration, the Lubbock area has got you covered this weekend.

Wait to go see “Zootopia” with your niece some other Sunday afternoon and help support local artists this weekend instead.

Plus, there are Tech students involved (through administration, design, playwriting and acting) in each of the performances listed above.

Support your fellow students, and let them entertain you for an evening.

Your significant other will be glad for the change in date night, and you may just find a new passion of your own. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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dance choreography.

If you’re lucky, maybe the talent and grace of the student performers will inspire you and your date to find a dance floor of your own after the end of the show.

This event takes place Friday evening in the Lab at 8 p.m., with no reservations necessary.

Last but not least, I have the pleasure of inviting you to a one-time-only performance put on by the BurkTech Players entitled “East Coast Stories.”

The BurkTech Players are a group of gifted performers made up of graduate and undergraduate students from the School of Theatre and Dance performing alongside students from the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research.

Prince William, wife Kate pay respect to late Gandhi in India NEW DELHI (AP) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge paid their respects to Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi on Monday and met with young entrepreneurs in India’s financial capital of Mumbai to speak with the country’s next generation of business leaders.

On the second day of their weeklong royal tour of India, Britain’s Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton, placed a wreath and bowed their heads as they stood in front of a memorial for Gandhi in New Delhi. They then toured a museum near the spot where the independence leader was assassinated in 1948.

Prior to that, William and Kate laid a wreath at a memorial to honor Indian soldiers who had died in World War I. The royal couple spent the first part of the day in Mumbai, where they met with the

young entrepreneurs and the venture capitalists likely to fund some of their enterprise ideas. Kate, dressed in a cream wool crepe outfit, smiled and waved at crowds of onlookers who had gathered outside the cafe where the meeting was held.

In the evening, the couple attended a garden party in New Delhi to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday, which is April 21. William addressed a large gathering of prominent Indians at the reception to speak about his grandmother, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

The prince said his trip to India celebrated the link between Britain and India, which was part of the British empire before gaining independence in 1947. He also read out a message from Queen Elizabeth hailing the “enduring friendship, shared culture and business opportunities between the two countries.”

William and Kate are traveling without their two children — 2 1/2-year-old Prince George and 11-monthold Princess Charlotte. They had taken George to Australia with them in 2014 on their last royal tour.

On Tuesday, the royal couple will sit down for lunch with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, before traveling to the Kaziranga National Park, home to twothirds of the world’s Indian one-horned rhinos, in the northeastern state of Assam.

They’ll also take a one-day trip to neighboring Bhutan at the invitation of the Himalayan kingdom’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema.

William and Kate will then head back to India, where they’ll wind up their tour with a visit to the Taj Mahal, retracing the steps of a 1992 visit to the monument of love by William’s mother, the late Princess Diana.

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Judge OKs ‘Stairway to Heaven’ case for trial LOS ANGELES (AP) — A trial is needed to determine if Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” copies its opening notes from a song performed by the rock band Spirit, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled Friday that lawyers for the trustee of late Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe had shown enough evidence to support a case that “Stairway to Heaven” copies music from the Spirit song “Taurus.”

“Taurus” was written by Wolfe in either 1966 or 1967, years before Led Zeppelin released “Stairway to Heaven” in 1971. Klausner wrote that while the songs have some differences, lawyers for Wolfe’s trustee may be able to prove they are substantially similar.

Led Zeppelin and Spirit performed at some concerts and festivals around the same time, but not on the same stage. Klausner wrote that the evidence presented

so far represented a circumstantial case that Led Zeppelin may have heard “Taurus” performed before “Stairway to Heaven” was created.

After-hours phone and email messages sent to Helene M. Freeman, Led Zeppelin’s attorney, were not immediately returned. Experts hired by the band contend both “Stairway to Heaven” and “Taurus” use notes that have been used in music for centuries.

Francis Alexander Malofiy, attorney for Wolfe’s trustee Michael Skidmore, praised the ruling. He said while many copyright cases are an uphill battle, Klausner’s ruling brings his client one step closer to getting Wolfe credit for helping create one of the most recognizable song introductions in rock history.

Skidmore was able to overcome statute-of-limitations hurdles to sue over “Stairway to Heaven” because the song was remastered and

re-released in 2014.

A jury trial is scheduled for May 10 in Los Angeles. Klausner’s ruling removed Zeppelin band member John Paul Jones from the case. Bandmates Robert Plant and Jimmy Page remain defendants in the case.

A trial would represent the third time in recent months that a Los Angeles federal jury has heard a copyright-infringement case involving a hit song.

In March 2015, a jury found that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had copied a Marvin Gaye song to create their 2013 hit, “Blurred Lines” and awarded Gaye’s children $7.4 million. A judge trimmed the award, and the verdict is under appeal.

Later in the year, another jury was empaneled to determine whether the Jay-Z hit “Big Pimpin’” copied the work of an Egyptian composer, but a judge ruled in the rapper’s favor before deliberations began.

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Davis wins Big 12 weekly award The Big 12 Conference announced Monday afternoon that sophomore infielder Michael Davis won the conference player of the week award.

Davis topped the conference with 11 RBI during five games last week.

The sophomore infielder finished off the week with seven RBIs in Sunday’s win over Oklahoma State. Because of his efforts, the Red Raiders run ruled the Cowboys 15-5 and swept the series. His seven RBIs were the most in program

history since 2007 and the most in a Big 12 game since 2002.

Davis is the third Red Raider to win the award this season.

Because senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez won the award last week, Tech has won the honor in back-to-back weeks for the first time since 2011, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Davis was successful throughout the Oklahoma State series as he hit .500 over the three games.

He knocked two hits on Friday, and the second hit scored the goahead run in a 5-1 victory.

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have the chance to improve on their best start ever in conference play as their next five games are against non-conference teams.

Te c h w i l l p l a y S a m Houston State in a twogame midweek series before taking on San Diego State this weekend.

Floyd said the team is not taking nonconference opponents lightly as the team wants to continue winning and stay in first place.

“We just want to keep playing well, kind of doesn’t matter who we play. I’m not going to say we are glad to have an off week from the Big 12, but I think we are just excited to keep playing right now,” he said. “Trying to stay hot.”

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“We were excited to play some good competition, good arms,” senior catcher Tyler Floyd said.

“We were happy to put some runs up on (Oklahoma State) and also those Florida State guys that threw were pretty impressive too. I’m happy with how we played for sure.”

The team also made history Sunday by sweeping three consecutive Big 12 opponents. Two of the three opponents, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, were predicted to finish better than Tech this season, according to the Big 12 preseason poll.

The Red Raiders will not

Nine of his 11 RBIs came from the weekend series, according to the release.

In 12 conference games this season, Davis is hitting .311 with an on-base percentage of .392, according to the Tech Athletics website. He also ranks second on the team with 11 RBIs in those games.

Davis and Tech will take on Sam Houston State next in a two-game series that begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Rip Griffin Park. @JeremyK_DT

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Tech has used a balanced offensive attack to go on the historic run. The .303 team batting average and .402 onbase percentage ranks second in the conference, according to the Big 12 website.

Three Red Raider hitters — Gutierrez, senior designated hitter Cory Raley and sophomore outfielder Tanner Gardner — all rank in the top 10 hitters in the conference.

The Tech offense has also gotten production from the bottom of the lineup as sophomore infielder Michael

Page 7 Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Davis had seven RBIs in the eight hole on Sunday against Oklahoma State.

One through nine, we are really putting some (at-bats) together.

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“Last year we were relying on two or three guys to get big hits and now we are getting big hits in the seven, eight hole, that maybe if the top guys aren’t hitting, which

isn’t that often,” senior catcher Tyler Floyd said. “One through nine, we are really putting some good (at-bats) together.”

Sam Houston ranks in the middle of its conference in both team batting averages and team ERA, but Tadlock said the Bearkats like to run early and often on the base paths.

“They’re a very aggressive team. They’re going to compete,” he said. “Pitched pretty well in the double midweeks when they’ve had them. They’re going to run the bases the right way for the most part. You know their guys are looking forward to coming up here.” @JeremyK_DT

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Benn leads Stars to playoffs FRISCO (AP) — Jamie Benn sat at his locker after a light practice, turned a ballcap backward and waited for reporters to start asking about what will soon be just the second trip to the playoffs for the Dallas captain.

The answers were short and delivered in a soft tone that doesn’t change much. Same old Benn, although even he is willing to acknowledge that he’s growing more comfortable with everything that accompanies wearing the “C.” It’s showing on the ice for the Stars, who enter the playoffs as the top seed in the Western Conference for the first time in 13 years,

when Mike Modano was the face of hockey in a southern city still relatively new to the sport.

Dallas opens the playoffs Thursday night against Minnesota, the original home of the Stars franchise before they left in 1993 with a young Modano in tow.

And now the Stars just might have the closest thing to a franchise leader since the highest-scoring American-born NHL player was delighting fans with his fast skating and his wide smile.

“I think it’s generally heading in that direction,” said Modano, whose last season with the Stars was Benn’s first in 2009-10.

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NCAA disapproves new bowl games for three years The NCAA is prohibiting the creation of new bowl games for the next three years after three teams with 5-7 records were needed to fill the record number of bowls last season.

The NCAA’s football oversight committee last week recommended a three-year

moratorium on sanctioning new postseason games and it was approved by the Division I Council. The oversight committee started a task force to study the Bowl Subdivision postseason after there was not enough six-win, bowleligible teams last season to fill the 40 games.

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Mahomes shows leadership in spring camp

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury sent out a tweet this past Thursday comparing some of Patrick M a h o m e s I I ’s ‘ n o - l o o k ’ passes to those of Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. According to Rodgers’ Twitter account, he liked the tweet sent out by Kingsbury.

Kingsbury said that being a big Rodgers fan, he worked with Mahomes to have the no-look passes in his game.

Kingsbury wanted to show Rodgers, and the rest of the world, what he is working on with Mahomes.

Mahomes said he takes what Rodgers does on the field into the games he plays in. There are certain aspects of the game that are similar between both of them.

“We do play differently,” Mahomes said, “but at the same time, he extends plays and makes a lot of throws across his body and on the run. That’s something that I do.”

Mahomes said that the no-look passes started with junior quarterback Nic Shimonek last year. Mahomes took that from him and tried to make it his own thing.

Kingsbury said Mahomes’ ability to extend plays is something he has developed since he has been at Tech. But this year, Mahomes is learning to use his ability to extend plays in

different situations.

“He has such an ability to extend plays and make plays,” Kingsbury said. “Sometimes he wants to do that on every play. Some plays are just dead. The defense wins and you play the next snap. That’s what we have really emphasized and he has done a good job of that.”

Senior wide receiver Reginald Davis has noticed the difference in Mahomes and how he developed the no-look pass, Davis said. It feels the same catching the ball from him, even if you do not know if he’s looking at you.

“When (Mahomes) is throwing, you would think he would be looking at you and not looking another way,” Davis said. “He is a crazy kid man. He is a freak athlete. I couldn’t do a no-look pass like that, but he can.”

Kingsbury said Mahomes has also been working on his leadership role on the team. Knowing he was the starting quarterback going into this season has helped Kingsbury and the team as a whole, he said.

Kingsbury said he can now spend less time with Mahomes because of the experience he has on the field. “(Mahomes) knows what we are trying to accomplish,” Kingsbury said. “What I see is what he sees out of the field.

After being here for three years with me, he knows what I am looking for and what I want. We can have a quick meeting and he can go and

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Junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II prepares for Saturday’s Spring Game by performing a quarterback drill with Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury Thursday at the team’s practice field. Mahomes is expected to step up as a veteran with experience under his belt. play at a high level.”

Kingsbury thinks Mahomes has taken a leadership role on the team and has stepped up his work ethic this year, he said.

This has helped Kingsbury as a head coach.

“When you know that there is just one leader, that he is the guy, it helps everywhere,” Kingsbury said. “I am, at some times, trying to stay out of his way and (trying to) not screw him up.”

Not participating in baseball this spring has helped Mahomes focus on the upcoming football season, he said. Getting the extra time to look at film and getting to see the looks over and over again has

helped Mahomes as a whole.

Mahomes and the rest of the Tech football team will participate in its next scrimmage in the annual Spring Game at noon on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. @DavidGayDT

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City mourns Saints player as questions over death remain NEW ORLEANS (AP) — People across Louisiana sought Monday to process the news that one of the Saints’ much-loved players, former defensive end Will Smith, was shot in the back Saturday night in what police called a deadly act of road rage.

Smith, 34, arrived in New Orleans in 2004 as a No. 1 draft pick and played with such passion and power that he quickly became a defensive captain. Off the field, he won hearts in his adopted city, which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and

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rejuvenated when the Saints won the Superbowl in 2009.

“I am telling you that this man loved the city of New Orleans,” said Terrell Haynes, who got to know Smith and his wife Racquel through their work with Kingsley House, an organization help-

ing underprivileged families and kids. “That’s the part that is really disheartening, that this man loved this city.”

Police said Cardell Hayes, a former semi-pro football player, rear-ended Smith’s Mercedes G63 with his Humvee H2, pushing

Smith’s big, blocky SUV into a Chevrolet Impala carrying Smith’s acquaintances, before Hayes opened fire.

A defense attorney for Hayes, John Fuller, said there’s more to the story: He said Hayes himself had been rear-ended moments earlier

by a hit-and-run driver, and called 911 to describe the car he was following before he ran into the back of Smith’s Mercedes. It remains unclear whether the car he was pursuing was the Mercedes, the Impala or some other unrelated car.

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