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JUNE 2000

Hafez al-Assad dies and is succeeded by his second son, Bashar al-Assad.

MAY 2002

U.S. officials include Syria in the list of states that make up an "axis of evil," compiled under President George Bush.

MAY 2004

U.S. imposes economic sanctions on Syria over its support of state-sponsored terrorism and failing to stop militants from entering Iraq.

MARCH 2011

Security forces shoot and kill protestors in southern city of Deraa demanding release of political prisoners, triggering violent unrest that steadily spread nationwide over the following months.

White House administration shifts view on Syria

MAY 2011

Army tanks enter Deraa, Banyas, Homs and suburbs of Damascus in an effort to crush anti-regime protests. U.S. and European Union tighten sanctions.

SEPTEMBER 2013

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n the days following the April 4 chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump reversed its stance on American involvement in Syria.

"No child of God should ever suffer such horror," Trump said during a White House news conference after an airstrike that targeted a Syrian airfield. "It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons."

The administration said the chemical attack originated at the Syrian airfield that was targeted.

The launching of 59 cruise missiles is possibly a one-time maneuver from Trump, John Barkdull, associate professor of political science, said. What will determine if there is any further action from the U.S. military is the response from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"A regime change in Syria was a major

United Nations weapon inspectors conclude chemical weapons were used in an attack on the Ghouta area of Damascus in August that killed about 300 people.

priority of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign," Barkdull said. "Trump's campaign, however, had a more anti-interventionalist foreign policy that was very popular among his supporters."

Combatting and eliminating the Islamic State group was a priority of Trump during his campaign, Barkdull said. At first, the Trump administration indicated that diplomatic cooperation with the al-Assad’s regime would be used to eliminate the Islamic State group.

However, U.S. cooperation with forces in Syria that support al-Assad seems unlikely following the chemical attacks, Barkdull said. Russia and Iran, which are al-Assad's strongest allies, have reiterated their support for the Syrian president and warned against further U.S. military involvement.

"Trump's actions have been viewed rather favorably in the media in the days following the airstrike," he said. "This is because Americans have a tendency to 'rally around the flag' during times of military action."

JUNE 2014

ISIS militants declare "caliphate" in territory from Aleppo to eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.

SEPTEMBER 2015

Russia carries out its first air strikes in Syria, saying they target the Islamic State group, but the West and Syrian opposition say it overwhelmingly targets anti-Assad rebels.

DECEMBER 2016

Government troops, backed by Russian air power and Iranian-sponsored militias, recaptures Aleppo

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President Donald Trump orders a missile attack on an airbase after Syrian government planes allegedly staged a chemical weapons attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun.

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No. 6 Red Raiders rally past Lobos, 12-4 Organizations discuss Easter

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The No. 6 Texas Tech Red Raiders defeated the New Mexico Lobos, 12-4, in a midweek game on Tuesday at Dan Law Field.

Tech came into the contest after clinching the weekend series against Baylor, 2-1. After winning the first two games against Baylor, Tech lost the final game on Sunday, 10-9.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said it was good to see the players get back into the swing of things after falling to the Bears in a close contest.

“It was awesome,” Tadlock said.

“Love every one of them. It was just good to see. It was a tough day Sunday, as you know. At the same time, these guys are a lot more resilient than we are, us older guys. You tend to remember things you do.”

With the win, the Red Raiders are 29-7 overall and 16-2 at home this season, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech ended the afternoon with 11 hits

Easter is just around the corner, and different people have different ways of celebrating the holiday depending on factors such as denomination.

Two organizations that reflect this diversity are Campus Crusade for Christ and the Catholic Student Association.

According to the Campus Crusade for Christ website, the organization’s purpose is to clear misconceptions about Christianity through student involvement and events such as retreats, Bible studies and weekly meetings.

Marissa Gutierrez, the president of Tech’s branch of Campus Crusade for Christ and a senior mathematics major from Odessa, said she was raised as a Roman Catholic but converted to non-denominational Christianity when she joined Campus Crusade for Christ.

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Freshman right hander Caleb Kilian pitches during the sixth inning of the game against New Mexico at Dan Law Field Tuesday. The Red Raiders defeated the Lobos, 12-4. at 32 at-bats and 12 runs. The Red Raiders also had a total of 10 RBIs. Freshman right-handed pitcher John Henry Gonzalez started out on the mound for the Red Raiders and

pitched for four innings and struck out four batters. He allowed nine hits and four runs, according to Tech Athletics.

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Gutierrez said the organization itself is interdenominational, which allows for diversity in how members celebrate Easter depending on the church they go to, and their traditions and backgrounds.

“We have a mixture of many churches,” Gutierrez said. “So, it’s fun to see how different people are going to celebrate it and how different people take in such a big event for our beliefs.”

Examples of diversity in celebration include some churches either coming up with a message centered directly on Easter or continuing from a pre-established series of messages, Gutierrez said.

The Catholic Student Association began as an outreach of St. Joseph Catholic Church when the university was founded in 1923. Later, it sponsored the creation of the Catholic Student Center, according to the organization’s website.

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New fraternity colonizes on campus

By MARISA POJTINGER Staff Writer

Alpha Kappa Lambda is the newest fraternity on Texas Tech’s campus. As it is beginning to make a presence on campus and build an honorable reputation, it is still in the “testing phase” of its chapter.

To become nationally recognized, a chapter must collect certain number of members and fulfill certain responsibilities. Once a certain amount of time has passed, it is established as

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an organization on campus.

Sal Fierro, one of the founding members, started the process of chartering the chapter a year and a half ago when he transferred from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he was already previously a member of Alpha Kappa Lambda.

It took a year’s worth of effort to bring his idea to fruition.

As the first step to the process, Fierro said he had to convince the people at the organization’s national headquarters.

“For a year, I was begging them to come give us a chance,” Fierro said.

“The first step was getting 13 guys, and then, once we proved ourselves, they began incrementing that number in order to let us try to grow and expand.”

The Interfraternity Council is the governing body of the fraternities at Tech and decides what fraternities are eligible for membership on campus. In the future, members of the council will also decide if Alpha Kappa Lambda can be chartered at

A team from the National Wind Institute has been chosen to compete against 11 other universities in the 2018 Collegiate Wind Competition.

Each team will design and build a model wind turbine, and develop a marketing plan for it, which will be then tested

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for effectiveness. The competition will take place during the annual WINDPOWER Conference and Exhibition from May 7–10 in Chicago, according to a Texas Tech news release.

This is the third Collegiate Wind Competition organized by the U.S. Department of Energy’s

Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, according to the release.

The 11 other schools Texas Tech will be competing against are: California State University Maritime Academy; California State University at Chico; Iowa State University; James Madison University;

pus, Carter said.

The organization will continue searching for potential new members and will continue to develop its presence on campus during its colonization period, he said.

“One of the biggest chal-

lenges I believe is getting our name out there. There are way bigger and much more known fraternities at Tech.

So, getting people to notice us is a little bit of a struggle,” Carter said. @DailyToreador

Spicer apologizes for ‘insensitive’ Holocaust reference WASHINGTON (AP) — White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized Tuesday for making an “inappropriate and insensitive” comparison to the Holocaust in earlier comments about Syrian President Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons — remarks that drew instant rebuke from Jewish groups and critics.

Spicer said in an interview with CNN that he was trying to make a point about Assad’s use of chemical weapons and gas against his people but “mistakenly made an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the

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Holocaust, for which there is no comparison. And for that I apologize. It was a mistake to do that.”

During the daily White House briefing, Spicer told reporters that Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Critics noted the remark ignored Hitler’s use of gas chambers to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust.

It was the second day in a row in which Spicer, President Donald Trump’s main spokesman, appeared to struggle to articulate the president’s foreign policy at a critical time.

The White House generated criticism at the start of the year when a statement on international Holocaust Remembrance Day did not make any reference to Jews.

In the CNN interview, Spicer said his comments did not reflect Trump’s views. “My comments today did not reflect the president’s, were a distraction from him and frankly were misstated, insensitive and wrong.” He added, “Obviously it was my blunder.”

The interview capped several attempts by the White House to clarify Spicer’s statement.

During the briefing, Spicer was asked about his initial statement but delivered a garbled defense of his remarks in which he tried to differentiate between Hitler’s actions and the gas attack on Syrian civilians last week. The attack in northern Syria left nearly 90 people dead, and Turkey’s health minister said tests show sarin gas was used.

Kansas State University; Northern Arizona University; Penn State University; Seattle University; the Universidad del Turabo in Gurabo, Puerto Rico; University of Wisconsin and Virginia Tech University.

“Being asked to compete in the Collegiate Wind Competition is an honor,”

Kyle Jay, an instructor at the National Wind Institute, said in the release.

“The competition will give the National Wind Institute and Texas Tech University students (a chance) to show our design and manufacturing prowess for a multidisciplinary competition.” @DailyToreador

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Members of the colonizing fraternity Alpha Kappa Lambda display a flag with their Greek letters on it. The fraternity is new to the Texas Tech campus and began the process more than a year ago, and members are hoping to be chartered by Tech’s Interfraternity Council.

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Alpha Kappa Lambda is dedicated to developing men of character who are committed to making a difference.

According to its website, the fraternity’s five guiding principles are scholarship, leadership, loyalty, Christian principles and self-support.

“I love my letters. We always strive to be inclusive and not exclusive, because it creates diversity and balance, and then, we’re creating gentlemen that are well-rounded, that don’t look at the world with just one perspective,” Fierro said.

Alpha Kappa Lambda does not aspire to expand greatly or be the biggest fraternity on campus. Instead, its focus is on creating true brotherhoods that last a lifetime, Fierro said.

Kye Carter, a member of Alpha Kappa Lambda, said he was interested in joining a fraternity last semester but did not fully understand fraternity life. However, when he saw an opportunity to be a part of a new fraternity at

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Members of the Texas Tech Gay Straight Alliance were awarded the Raiders Who Rock Cooperation & Communication Award at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center. The award was given to a student organization that has made a positive impact within the community.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Al-Assad's forces continued to conduct attacks from the same air base U.S. cruise missiles had struck, according to Vice News.

On Saturday, a Syrian airstrike on the rebel-controlled town of Urum al-Joz killed 19 people, including six children.

The effectiveness of the American airstrike has been brought in to question, Seth McKee, associate professor of political science, said. Opponents of U.S. involvement in Syria have called the move a "meaningless political gesture."

"I think it's hard to turn back on rhetoric," McKee said.

"Trump is not unique in failing

to keep his campaign promises, but military action in Syria this early in his presidency certainly came as a shock to many."

In the past, Trump has openly opposed intervention in Syria, particularly during the presidency of Barack Obama.

Obama has been used as his foil since Trump took office, and the strike against Syria seemingly goes against the "America First" foreign policy of the Trump administration, McKee said.

The context of Trump's actions feel like "political theater," he said. Russian forces were tipped off before the strike, who in turn warned pro-al-Assad forces of the forthcoming attack.

"It is possible that Russia's response to the bombing

was just for show," McKee said. "We don't really know for sure, but it isn't terribly surprising that Trump got support for this."

Obama's "red line" policy on Syria had been criticized by many, including Trump himself. The failure of the Obama administration to ensure the destruction of Syria's chemical weapon supply furthers Trump's justification for intervention, he said.

"The airstrike ordered

by Donald Trump seems to be more symbolic than anything," McKee said. "What was targeted was minimal.

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Munoz issues apology over United incident CHICAGO (AP) — After people were horrified by video of a passenger getting dragged off a full United Express flight by airport police, the head

of United’s parent company said the airline was reaching out to the man to “resolve this situation.”

Hours later on Monday, his tone turned defensive. He described the man as “disruptive and belligerent.”

By Tuesday afternoon,

almost two days after the Sunday evening confrontation in Chicago, CEO Oscar Munoz issued his most contrite apology yet as details emerged about the man seen on cellphone videos recorded by other passengers at O’Hare Airport.

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Social media fosters pointless controversy O n Monday night, while distracted from homework, I watched an event happen in real time on Facebook and Twitter. It happened and then was deleted.

If I had been doing my homework — or even if I had just stopped to use the bathroom for a second — I would have never known that it happened.

Nothing was gained, and there was no discernable value generated by the event.

The Daily Toreador released a brief headlined, “Tweet causes social media stir.”

The brief, no more than 200 words, reported a university-issued tweet by Texas Tech denouncing an Instagram post made by

Robert Avila is a firstyear law student from San Antonio.

@sydnieshowmaker.

The photo posted by this woman was captioned, “Lower the hoops so Laquifa can dunk on u hoeeeessss.”

The DT described this as a photo featuring a young, white woman wearing a wig and a North Carolina jersey.

At the time of the tweet, I happened to be on Twitter. Out of curiosity, disinterest in case readings and blind luck, I watched the series of very bland reactions and “without thought” responses.

All of this had no real impact on anyone involved

and only played out between a handful of people on Facebook. And from this microcosm, I learned three things.

First, when I read the comments on The DT’s Facebook post about the event, I realized just by writing the brief, it is likely some people will take that as a reflection of the newspaper’s beliefs.

Events like this that happen are only news because the university comments on them.

If events are not described or explained, it is because there are no proper sources, and briefs are only meant to make you aware of an event while it is happening.

I only say that because I know the how The DT works. Maybe such a story

from another news site would have left me weary.

Second, it is a very weird response to get instantly defensive when multiple people tell you they felt offended.

If events are not described or explained, it is because there are no proper sources, and briefs are only meant to make you aware of an event while it is happening.

This is what I saw when someone called out the user who posted the photo on Facebook be-

cause she defended herself unapologetically.

The post was deleted — along with any profile attached to @sydnieshowmaker on any social media site — but her defense was basically a shirking of blame and a rejecting of perceived intention.

It was a response that makes it seem like that person could never believe for a second that anything she did could be perceived in any other way by anyone who isn’t her.

Just because, subjectively, something is not racist to you or the people around you, does not mean it is no big deal and anyone who sees it differently is wrong.

I t i s a n e q u a l l y, i f not weirder, response to

shame someone on your own profile.

To call someone out for something and then to tag him in a post you know the people around you will comment negatively on is such a silly concept.

Strangest of all, in the blink of an eye, all of these posts have been deleted.

The only remaining evidence I can find is The DT article I first read and the column I just wrote.

If you tried to find what I just described, you would not find the post of someone arguing over something that is both really not a big deal and very much a clear issue to anyone who sees it.

Those are the three things I learned from nothing. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Loneliness lurks in US culture, communication

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s I walked along the grey path adjacent to Urbanovsky Park, my mind couldn’t help but remind me that I was completely unknown.

It was my first semester at Texas Tech, my first week on campus. No one was vying for my time. No one was asking to meet me for dinner or what my schedule looked like. No one wanted to show me a cool coffee shop or carpool to yet another student event.

I had no obligations — which is a distant dream, right now — but I also had no connections. There wasn’t a web weaving me into campus or tying me to our community.

I didn’t care if I stayed at Tech or transferred to a school closer to home. I

Avery Aiken is a sophomore communication studies major from The Woodlands.

didn’t care if I socialized or studied. I was entirely disengaged, and I didn’t know how to escape that.

After spending four years embracing my high school’s opportunities, the idea of starting that over again seemed daunting.

Did I even care to?

Well, yes, of course I did.

Here I am, now, engaged and enjoying my every minute at Tech.

But the reason I bring all of this up is because that transition period I went through was the loneliest semester of my

life. I haven’t been able to top it, thank God. Recently, when I began researching for my next class project, I found there are numerous studies being conducted on the prevalence of loneliness in Americans.

As I had expected, I found that my semester was merely a stage of loneliness, as to be anticipated with any significant life change, like going to college, getting a divorce, moving cities, the loss of a loved one, etc.

But, I also found that there are countless people in the United States and around the world who haven’t experienced loneliness as a phase but as their unrelenting reality.

According to an article from The Atlantic, which features an interview with John Cacioppo, a psycholo-

gist at the University of Chicago, loneliness is as significant of a health threat as obesity and drug abuse.

Cacioppo explains that, in order to understand the source of this chronic loneliness, we must distinguish between “objective isolation” and “perceived isolation.”

One might choose to live alone, therefore, experiencing objective isolation.

Another who lives with a family of seven, but feels ignored or alienated, experiences perceived isolation.

Clinical loneliness is able to fester in the internal environment that perceived isolation creates.

When we feel actively ignored, disregarded or alienated, loneliness overwhelms us. The opportunity for connection but failure to

make a connection is what emphasizes this loneliness.

I have been mulling over these statements in my head and believe that while I’m sure this is not a new phenomenon, it is more prevalent in our world of heavily mediated communication.

Clinical loneliness is able to fester in the internal environment that perceived isolation creates.

I’m sure you could’ve guessed, but I believe social media, texting, face-timing and so on could be heavily contributing to our culture’s epidemic of disconnection.

How can we feel known

when our only source of identity is entirely fabricated? How can we feel engaged when our only means of engagement can run out of battery? How can we feel connected when our only opportunity to connect requires a Wi-Fi connection?

We are so quick to cure our temporary loneliness with a scroll through Facebook. But, what if that supposed panacea actually just scratches salt in the wound?

Perhaps, this diagnosable loneliness has always been a side effect of the human condition, but I believe we can alleviate it by reaching out to our community and seeking real, in-person, meaningful interaction with others instead of reaching for our iPhones. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Donald Trump’s intelligence doubts parroted by Russia WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s frequent questioning about the integrity of his spy agencies is coming back to haunt him.

As his administration used U.S. intelligence to pressure Moscow over its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin p a r r o t e d b a c k Tr u m p ’s doubts about the reliability of U.S. spy agencies.

“It reminds me of the

events in 2003 when U.S. envoys to the Security Council were demonstrating what they said were chemical weapons found in Iraq,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Tuesday, in response to U.S. agencies blaming Syria’s government for using chemical weapons. “We have seen it all already.”

Trump used the same argument in December, when the intelligence community issued its official

assessment that Russia interfered with the U.S. election. Rejecting the assessment, Trump comparing the analyses to the false claims in the lead up the Iraq War. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” the Trump transition team said in a statement.

Trump has picked other fights with intelligence agencies, blaming it for

the leaks about his associates’ Russia ties. During the transition, he ripped the intelligence community for being behind the leaks and even compared them to Nazi propaganda.

Lately, he has blamed Democrats, suggesting that they were using them as an excuse for Hillary Clinton’s defeat.

“Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to “leak” into the public. One last shot at

me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?” he tweeted in January.

Those statements threaten to undermine the Trump administration’s recent effort isolate Assad, in the wake of a chemical attack that killed dozens of Syrians.

U.S. officials have accused Russia of knowing about the attack ahead of time and trying to help cover it up. Putin has called for a formal United

Nations investigation.

“Putin knows that Trump personally degraded U.S. intelligence credibility by attacking it over the Russian hacking and essentially going to war with the CIA and NSA,” said Malcolm Nance, a veteran intelligence officer.

Nance said Putin, a former director of Russian intelligence, “is now taking full advantage of the damage Trump caused with those attacks.”

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Dems unified in opposition to Trump, unsure of what is next for party ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump is a unifying force for Democrats, bringing together disparate factions in opposition to nearly every presidential move.

But solidarity — at least for now — doesn’t necessarily add up to a strategy that can help Democrats win more elections after a precipitous slide from power in Congress and around the country.

“We have been right and successful in saying ‘no’ when he wants to drive the Titanic into the iceberg,” said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. Now, Inslee said, “we have to take actions that show we can drive in forward and not in reverse.”

The biggest challenge, several party figures said in recent interviews, is translating their opposition to specific Republican policies — Trump’s immigration restrictions, nixing the Affordable Care Act, a promised tax overhaul and

any changes to Social Security and Medicare — into a coherent explanation of what Democrats want to do for voters. The list ranges from anti-Trump protesters to the white working-class voters in the Rust Belt and other presidential battlegrounds.

“Trump has already betrayed a lot of the people who voted for him,” said Rep. Tim Ryan, whose northeast Ohio congressional district is a traditionally Democratic enclave of union workers where Trump vastly outperformed recent Republican presidential nominees. “Those should be our people again.”

Losing those kinds of voters helps explain why Republicans hold a 237-193 majority House majority (241-194 before five vacancies). Republicans have a 52-48 Senate advantage, with friendly congressional lines and a Senate election slate that will force 10 Democratic senators to face re-

election in states Trump won.

And the GOP controls almost two-thirds of state legislatures and governor’s offices.

“We can’t just expect it to come to us,” Ryan said.

“We have to have an affirmative agenda.”

To be clear, many Democrats praise how party leaders, particularly House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., have managed Trump’s opening months.

“It’s inherently reactive” when Republicans set the agenda, noted Mark Longabaugh, a top adviser for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.

“The biggest thing Trump and Republicans have put on the table collapsed in flames,” Longabaugh continued, referring to Speaker Paul Ryan’s failure to win a health overhaul. “It’s hard to imagine a bigger victory for us.”

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Zac Petkanas, who recently departed from running the Democratic National Committee’s Trump war room, said the same standard applies to Democratic opposition to Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, even though it resulted in Republicans changing Senate rules to get Gorsuch confirmed.

“There is no electoral reason to give an inch,” Petkanas said. Backing a jurist “who doesn’t represent our values ... would have been a betrayal to a base that is looking to fight Donald Trump,” he added.

Still, said Longabaugh, “there are large pieces of the party that don’t get it, who don’t realize the party has to address in a large scale way the economic inequalities in this country” with “our own policies.”

The question is how best to carry that message to places Democrats have strug-

gled — basically anywhere outside large cities and in states between the East and West coasts.

In Tim Ryan’s Ohio, where Trump topped Democrat Hillary Clinton by 8 percentage points, state Democratic Chairman David Pepper agreed that Pelosi’s and Schumer’s steadfast opposition helps generate “grassroots enthusiasm” that he needs in upcoming elections.

But winning them, he said, will require Ohio candidates who can explain policies on the ground.

That means it’s not enough for new national Democratic Party Chairman Tom Perez to tell voters, as he did recently in New Jersey, that Trump and Republicans don’t care about them, or have Pelosi thank Republicans, almost sarcastically, for increasing the popularity of the Affordable Care Act by helping “people understand what it means to them

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Democratic candidates across the country, Pepper said, have to explain to communities devastated by opioid addiction what the law means for treatment eligibility, how barring limits on lifetime insurance benefits helps cancer patients with no cash reserves, and how local hospitals benefit from expanding Medicaid government insurance.

Peppers said he’s also working with Democrats in eastern Ohio to explain that Trump’s budget proposal calls for scrapping the Appalachian Regional Commission and to champion Democratic proposals to spend even more on workforce training in the region affected by the decline of coal. And he wants to link the Trump’s “trickle-down economics” to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is term-limited in 2018, and the Republicans who run the Ohio Legislature.

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Students promote multicultural environment

By KIRBY WARNER Staff Writer

Many student organizations at Texas Tech provide an out-of-class opportunity to learn about foreign language and culture in a personable environment.

Two such organizations are the Tech Italian Club and the Arabic Language Student Organization.

Francesca Mirti, the Italian Club’s on-campus advisor and a foreign language instructor, said she started the club when she came to Tech in August.

You view the world or your life, or just everything, differently when you know about other people.

REBEKAH DIMAS SOCIAL CHAIR ARABIC CLUB “The very first goal was to start with conversation,” Mirti said, “because the students need to have a place where they can use the language freely after they practice it in the classroom.”

Some of the activities hosted by the Italian Club are chiacchiere — or small chats — and Fitness Italian in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, Mirti

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Ryan Hayden, the organization’s liturgical minister and a junior electrical engineering major from Albuquerque, New Mexico, said he comes from a family with a strong faith in Catholicism, and his responsibilities include coordinating positions for Mass and assisting the priest at the altar and with communion.

One tradition for how Catholics celebrate the

said. Fitness Italian involves learning about the Italian language and culture while exercising through cycling or cardio.

Michele Moore, president of the Italian Club and a senior anthropology major from Houston, said the club provides the opportunity for students, who have an appreciation for Italy, to socialize with one another.

“Besides the social things that we do,” Moore said, “we also offer to the students that are in the Italian language program. Because we have native Italian speakers and advanced speakers, we can offer them help if they want to put together a study group.”

Because some of the club members have food handler licenses, a nice addition to the club would be a cooking workshop, Moore said.

Michele Moore’s husband Victor Moore, a senior global studies major from Houston, is the president of the Arabic Language Student Organization.

The organization was founded in spring 2016, Victor Moore said, with the purpose of exposing Tech to different aspects of Arabic culture and language, while eliminating any stigma associated with it.

“That was the original intent,” Victor said, “and that’s what we’ve tried to stay true to.”

At every meeting, the Easter holiday is the Easter Triduum, Hayden said, which starts on Holy Thursday and lasts until Easter Sunday evening. It serves as an opportunity to reflect on the time from the Last Supper to the Resurrection.

“It’s a very spiritual time,” Hayden said. “In fact, it’s the pinnacle of the Catholic faith.”

There is a service on each of the days in the Triduum, Hayden said. The Midnight Mass on Sunday is especially profound because in his hometown,

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From left: Kim Smith, a senior human development and family studies major from Post; Ataly Salas-Smith, a freshman zoology major from San Angelo; Kaylin Szymanski, a junior mechanical engineering major from Edmond, Oklahoma; and Riccardo Raciti, a senior chemistry major from Sugar Land, take notes from Serena Morelli during an Italian Club meeting on Friday. Morelli teaches different words relating to the body in Italian to members of the club. organization offers a 10- to 20-minute PowerPoint presentation in Arabic, Victor Moore said.

Activities the organization hosts include movies sponsored by the International Cultural Center, an upcoming scavenger hunt on May 8 and bowling nights with other language student organizations, Victor Moore said.

Rebekah Dimas, the orthere are trumpeters, violinists and at the end, new converts are baptized and receive confirmation into the faith.

One of the most important rules of the Catholic faith is going to Mass during Easter, Hayden said.

“For us, Easter season and the Triduum is the most important time of the year because this is the proof of our faith,” Hayden said.

Jesus Christ’s rising from the dead is what makes his miracles valid

ganization’s social chair and a senior psychology major from Alamo, said the organization is beneficial to those with or without an Arabic background because everyone is at varying levels of proficiency in the language.

Learning about different cultures and languages provides people with interesting perspectives for looking at the world around them, Dimas said. and more than just a profit, Hayden said.

Something everyone, regardless of faith and background, can find in Easter is the ability to think more deeply on life and understand the history and how this event impacted it for good as well as bad, Gutierrez said.

“Whether you believe in it or not,” Gutierrez said, “at the end of the day, I think intellectually, we all should look into the death and resurrection of Christ.” @KirbyWarner_DT

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Tech prepares for home stretch against Texas

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

After breaking its sixgame losing streak and defeating Kansas on Sunday, 9-3, the Texas Tech Red Raider softball team is set to host another Big 12 Conference team, the Texas Longhorns, at Rocky Johnson Field this weekend.

The three-game series will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday, and then continue at 4 p.m. Friday and noon on Saturday, according to Tech Athletics.

This season, the Red Raiders are 17-20 overall, 4-5 in conference play and 4-8 at home, according to Tech Athletics. Last year in Austin, the Red Raiders won the series opener against Texas, 3-2, but then fell to the Longhorns in the final two games, 2-0 and 8-4.

Texas softball team this season is 20-18 overall, 0-6 in conference play and 5-9 away. The Longhorns were swept by Oklahoma State on March 24-26 and by No.

10 Oklahoma this weekend, according to Texas Athletics. Longhorn senior shortstop/third baseman Devon Tunning leads Texas with five home runs on the season and is second in runs with 25.

Senior outfielder Stephanie Wong leads the Longhorns in runs with 27 this season. In hits and RBIs, Tunning leads the team with 42 and 20, respectively, according to Texas Athletics.

She also leads in doubles registered with eight this season. Tunning has the most at-bats for the Longhorns with a total of 116. In triples, sophomore outfielder/catcher Reagan Hathaway leads Texas with four.

Junior Longhorn righthanded pitcher Paige von Sprecken has a win-loss record of 5-3 this season, and senior left-handed pitcher/ first baseman Tiarra Davis has a record of 4-7 on the mound. Sophomore left hander Brooke Bolinger has a record of 5-2 this season, and junior right-handed

pitcher Kristen Clark is 2-0 on the mound, according to Texas Athletics.

Von Sprecken leads the Longhorns with the lowest ERA of 1.98 this season, according to Texas Athletics.

For Tech, freshman outfielder Raina O’Neal leads the team in both runs and home runs with 29 and nine, respectively. Senior outfielder Kierra Miles leads the team in hits with 37, according to Tech Athletics. In doubles registered this season, sophomore infielder Jessica Hartwell leads the Red Raiders with 11. Sophomore outfielder Kiani Ramsey is currently leading Tech with three triples this season.

O’Neal also leads in RBIs with 26, and Miles leads the team in stolen bases with 28 on the season. On the defensive side, freshman right-handed pitcher Kassidy Scott has an ERA of 3.58 and has a 9-12 win-loss record this season, according to Tech Athletics. Senior righthanded pitcher Mattison Maisel is 5-3 on the season

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Senior catcher/infielder Susan Welborn is congratulated by her teammates at home plate after hitting a solo home run in the 9-3 win against Kansas on Sunday. The Red Raiders will host the Texas Longhorns for a three-game series from Thursday to Saturday at Rocky Johnson Field. with an ERA of 4.66.

Freshman right-handed pitcher Hannah Broseman is 1-3 on the season with an ERA of 5.68, and junior right-handed pitcher Cheyene Powell is 2-2 with an ERA of 6.46, according to

TRACK AND FIELD

Red Raiders move up one spot to No. 10 After a successful performance at the Sun Angel Classic during the weekend, the Texas Tech men’s track and field team moved to No. 10 in the most recent U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association computer rankings.

This is the third consecutive week that the Red Raiders have been ranked in the top 15 in the nation, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

At the classic, sophomore sprinter Andrew Hudson ran the 200-meter dash and finished with a time of 20.43 seconds, according to the release. His time ranks fourth in the nation and first in the Big 12 Conference. This time also gives Hudson the No. 9 world mark.

Junior C.J. Jones and sophomore Vincent Crisp are both nationally ranked after their strong showing in the men’s 800-meter

run, according to the release. Jones notched a personal best of 1:46.70, while Crisp finished close behind with a time of 1:47.66.

Jones is now ranked No. 5 in the nation, while Crisp is ranked No. 10.

Jones’ finishing time at the classic also puts him at No. 9 globally and No. 1 in the Big 12, according to the release.

Along with Jones and Crisp, senior sprinter Kyle

Collins finished with a time of 45.79 seconds in the 400-meter dash, which puts him at No. 6 in the NCAA, according to the release. Senior sprinter Darien Tennon holds the No. 3 spot in the Big 12 after finishing with a time of 14.9 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles.

The Red Raiders will hit the track again on Saturday at the Horned Frog Invitational held in Fort Worth. @ABoutwellDT

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Hawks rout Hornets 103-76 for 4th straight victory ATLANTA (AP) — Dwight Howard had 19 points and 12 rebounds as the resurgent Atlanta Hawks won their fourth straight game, routing the listless Charlotte Hornets 103-76 on Tuesday night to wrap up the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference.

The Hawks will face the Washington Wizards in the opening round of the playoffs.

A week ago, Atlanta's playoff hopes were in jeopardy after a dismal stretch that included two losses to Brooklyn, the worst team in the NBA.

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including Sunday's comeback from a 26-point deficit.

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Atlanta raced out to a 6344 lead by halftime, shooting 71 percent (24 of 34) over the first two quarters.

All 13 players scored for the Hawks, who were able to rest their starters in the second half. Paul Millsap and Ersan Ilyasova added 10 points apiece.

Tech Athletics.

At the plate this season, Hartwell leads the Red Raiders with 122 at-bats, according to Tech Athletics.

After hosting the series against Texas, Tech will go back on the road to face

Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The series against the Oklahoma State will start at 6:30 p.m. on April 21 and will continue at 3 p.m. on April 22 and noon on April 23. @JackDensmore_DT

BASEBALL

New Mexico combatted Tech’s three runs with a run CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 of its own in the top of the third to get on the board, 3-1.

“We really needed John The Lobos put up two more Henry to go out and throw runs in the top of the third some pitches and give us to tie up the ballgame, 3-3, a little bit of length,” Tad- as Tech was unable to score lock said. “Everybody that in the bottom of the third. kind of followed after that, In the fourth inning, New threw the ball pretty well.” Mexico gained the lead over Red Raider senior catcher Tech after senior first baseman Kholeton Sanchez had three Jack Zoellner hit an RBI double runs during Tuesday’s game, to left field, which allowed junior according to Tech Athletics. outfielder Danny Collier to He also had two hits at three score. The Lobos were up, 4-3, at at-bats. Junior infielder Or- the end of the top of the fourth. lando Garcia and freshman In the bottom of the fourth, infielder Josh Jung each Beck squared up at the plate had two runs. Jung also had and hit an RBI single through three RBIs to assist in the the left side to allow Garcia to Red Raiders’ victory. score and tie the game, 4-4. In At the start of the the fifth inning, sophomore leftgame, neither team was handed pitcher Erikson Lanable to score a run in the ning replaced Gonzalez on the first inning. mound. Lanning pitched for one However, in the bottom inning and allowed three hits. of the second with bases Tech took back the lead loaded, junior infielder/out- after a single from Jung alfielder Tanner Gardner hit lowed Sanchez to score, 5-4. a ground ball to first base The score was increased after to allow senior infielder junior infielder Michael Davis Hunter Hargrove to score. hit a two-RBI home run to right Tech led, 1-0, after the hit. field to bring Jung and himself Tech put up another in to score and extend the lead two runs after sophomore to 7-4 at the end of the fifth. outfielder Cody Farhat “I was sitting on a slider hit a two-RBI double to my first couple at-bats, and left center, which allowed then, I just kind of stayed junior outfielder Connor with it,” Davis said. “Got it Beck and Garcia to score there, got my barrel under it, and increase Tech’s lead and got it up there. Just kind to 3-0 in the bottom of of stayed with my approach the second. the entire game. I figured they’d throw me soft. So, I just stayed with it, and it worked out today.”

In the top of the sixth, freshman right-handed pitcher Caleb Kilian took over on the mound for the Red Raiders and pitched for two innings and struck out two batters. He only allowed one hit while on the mound.

In the bottom of the sixth, Tech tallied two more runs to increase its lead, 9-4, after a throwing error by New Mexico brought Sanchez and Gardner home to score. Neither team scored a run in the seventh inning, as freshman right-handed pitcher John McMillon stepped in for Kilian in the top of the eighth. He Pitched for one inning and struck out three batters.

In the bottom of the eighth, Jung hit a two-RBI double down the right field line to allow Sanchez and Farhat to score and increase the Red Raider lead even further, 11-4.

Tech added another run to the tally after Davis hit a single up the middle for an RBI that sent Jung home to score, 12-4.

Junior left hander Dylan Dusek stepped on the mound in the ninth inning and closed out the game for the Red Raiders after throwing 14 pitches.

“I think it started with Mike (Davis’) home run. I felt like the momentum kind of really shifted there,” Garcia said. “Then, we just put some good at-bats together and tried to finish some innings. As far as winning every inning, I felt like we did a good job at that.

Other than that, I feel like if we can stay good throughout the lineup one through nine, I think we’ll be fine.” @A_HernandezDT