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Chris Beard discusses the gameplan with Texas Tech players during the 2006-07 season. Beard was an assistant coach at Tech from 2001-2011

Chris Beard (left), sits on the bench with former Texas Tech coaches Pat Knight (center) and Bob Knight (right).

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hris Beard was introduced as the new Texas Tech men’s basketball coach at a press conference hosted Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena, which was open to the public.

Beard was announced as the 17th head coach of the program on Friday and has since met with his new team.

Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt said he is excited for the opportunity to have Beard as a coach.

Beard said he has landed his dream job, which was to be a head coach at Tech.

“Our commitment is to the journey,” Hocutt said. “Chris Beard embraces that same commitment to this group of young men and to this great university that it takes to be a fearless champion.”

Hocutt said the drive and intensity Beard brings to the program will take the team to the top.

From the beginning of the conference, Beard stood behind the podium and spoke with confidence. He became emotional when he said he was happy to be back in Lubbock.

With the move back to Tech, Beard is now approximately two hours away from his three daughters who reside in Abilene, which

was a reason why he was open to the original offer.

His three daughters, Avery, Ella and Margo Beard, were in attendance on stage with their father.

During Hocutt’s opening statement, he presented gifts to Beard’s daughters.

“I saved the most important thank you for last,” Beard said, with tears in his eyes. “I’m not an emotional guy, but sometimes I try to get through this but I wanted to thank my three daughters, Avery, Ella and Margo.”

After thanking multiple people for his journey to Tech, Beard spoke about his past, including his time as an assistant coach under Bob Knight and Pat Knight, his

tenure as head coach at Angelo State University and McMurry University, then his previous season as head coach of the ArkansasLittle Rock Trojans.

Beard spent a total of 10 years as an assistant coach for the Red Raiders.

According to Beard’s profile on the Tech Athletics website, he was an assistant coach under Bob Knight for seven years, then the associate head coach under Pat Knight for three years.

In 1999, Beard accepted his first head-coaching job at Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kansas.

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Charlie Snider named new Masked Rider

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Manisha Desai speaks to a crowd during the Women’s Studies Program’s 32nd annual conference. The conference focused on the advancement of women.

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Forging local and global alliances with men as well as women feminists defines an important step toward achieving gender equity. In recognition of this important ideal, the theme for the 32nd annual Conference on the Advancement of Women hosted by the Women’s Studies Program was Contesting Multiple Margins: From Local to Global and Back Again.

The inaugural event for this year’s conference was hosted on Thursday evening

in the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. A screening of the documentary “Get Together Girls” was followed by a discussion with its Italian director, Vanessa Crocini.

“Get Together Girls” follows the story of an Italian woman who quit her job and led a community project in Kenya that transformed the lives of former street girls.

The following morning, the daylong conference began at 8:30 a.m. in the Student Union Building. There were more than 70 presenters who addressed contemporary issues in gender equity

from various perspectives, including literature, sports, engineering and law.

The keynote speaker at the event was Carrie HesslerRadelet, director of the Peace Corps. Speaking to an audience of more than 150 people, Hessler-Radelet discussed the global efforts of the Peace Corps and the importance of community-led change.

She conveyed her message by presenting anecdotes of Peace Corps volunteers, and began with the story of a woman named Alex Muñoz.

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Rachel McLelland, the Masked Rider from 20152016, transferred the reins to Charlie Snider at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center on Friday afternoon.

Stacy Stockard Moncibaiz, the Masked Rider from 20042005, opened the ceremony.

“This event is an opportunity for us to look back on the many accomplishments of this past year,” Moncibaiz said.

Christi Chadwell, the Masked Rider from 20102011, recognized multiple supporters and contributors to the Masked Rider Program, including Wells Fargo, Dollar Western Wear, Lovell Sports, the Center for Campus Life and several more.

As the official mascot since April 17, 2015, McLelland attended 305 public appearances, breaking the Texas Tech record of 275. She

also traveled about 13,000 miles all over Texas and was recognized by the Associated Press as the ninth best college mascot in the country, according to the Masked Rider Program website.

Stephanie Rhode, director of the Spirit Program, assistant director of the Center for Campus Life and member of the Masked Rider Advisory Committee, said she remembers her first impression of McLelland being that she was sweet and soft-spoken, but bold and determined at the same time.

“It’s been an incredible ride,” McLelland said. “It feels like yesterday that I stood up here shaking in my boots receiving the reins. I never thought I could be a mascot charging on a football field. It was an honor to be the face of Tech for a whole year. Thank you for trusting me with our tradition.”

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Rachel McLelland hands over the reigns to the new Masked Rider, Charlie Snider, a junior animal science major from Corinth. The ceremony was hosted at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center on Friday.

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As Texas Tech tries to reach its goal of 40,000 students, there is more that goes into enrollment than students normally see.

According to the Texas Tech University Fact Book website, in the Spring 2016 semester, 278 undergraduate students applied and 204 were admitted. There were 481 new graduate students and 965 undergraduate transfer students.

These numbers help contribute to Tech reaching its goal of 40,000 students.

“The strategic goal of enrolling 40,000 students by 2020 was established, I believe, in 2007 by the systems office under our previous chancellor, Chancellor (Kent) Hance,” Ethan Logan, director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, said. “The system put together a strategic plan, among the pieces in that strategic plan was the growth goal of 40,000 students by 2020.”

Enrollment has been increasing and will reach 40,000 students soon, Interim President John Opperman said in a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

The Office of Admissions uses outreach and marketing to get people to come to Tech, Logan said. The office reaches out to students early in their freshman year of high school to help Tech reach this goal.

The college with the most students applied and admitted was the College of Arts and Sciences, according to the fact book website. Out of the 64 students who applied, 48 were admitted.

One of the primary reasons for this is the large collection of majors the college has, Logan said. It offers the most majors in

the university.

The admittance rate for Tech is roughly 65 percent, he said.

“For 2015, we had about 24,000 applications, and we admitted about 13,000 students,” Logan said.

The Office of Admissions tries to not only bring students to Tech, but keep them here and improve graduation rates, he said.

“It’s our responsibility to make decisions about admission to the institution based upon the likelihood of persistence, of retention,” Logan said.

“We start with that on what we call an assured admission level.”

That level is based on objective data of a student’s performance in high school, he said. The office can still admit students under the assured level to Tech after further review.

The office tries to also increase diversity in admissions at Tech, Logan said. It reaches out to targeted communities with proactive outreach.

It’s our responsibility to make decisions about admission to the institution based upon the likelihood of persistence, of retention.

ETHAN LOGAN ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR “We do that by trying to make sure we’re in highly underrepresented communities in high school districts,” he said. “We make sure we’re out there providing them with accessibility to Texas Tech University as an institution.”

Juan Muñoz, senior

vice president for Institutional Diversity Equity and Community Engagement and vice provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs, said Tech tries to increase diversity in many ways.

“I think a big part of the success of the increase in diversity in enrollment at Texas Tech is what they call the Raider Road Shows,” he said. “They are recruitment events in major metropolitan areas like Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and down in the valley.”

Reaching into inherently diverse areas will attract students with different backgrounds and lifestyles to Tech, he said.

The school districts of those metropolitan areas are already a majority of multicultural students, Muñoz said. It is only a matter of time until those populations matriculate into Tech.

“The challenge is: how do you attract those students that are diverse and academically prepared for the rigor of the course work at Texas Tech,” he said, “so that when they

come here, they can be as successful as students have historically been at Texas Tech?”

The retention rate is at about 81 percent and graduation rate is at about 63 percent over six years.

Students who come to Tech do well, Muñoz said.

Texas is a top recruiter for other states such as New Mexico and Louisiana, so Tech is growing from other states, he said.

Tech has grown significantly with Hispanic and black students, he said.

According to the fact book website, this semester, 30 Hispanic students applied and 25 were admitted from high schools. One African-American multiracial student applied and was admitted from a high school in the Spring 2016 semester. There were seven black, not of Hispanic origin, students applied and admitted this semester.

Muñoz also said the Native American population at Tech is increasing.

According to the fact book, two Native American students applied and were

admitted in the Spring 2016 semester.

There is not a large Asian and Pacific Islander population at Tech, Muñoz said.

“We need to really begin to also look at the diversity of our faculty,” he said.

“They’re so important to the success of our students.

Not simply as role models, they’re also scholars and intellectuals and they encourage students to pursue certain careers.”

Muñoz said as Tech tries to reach 40,000 students, he wants to see diverse students continue to achieve a high degree of success at Tech.

Students of any background, ethnically as well as students who come from modest income, should continue to excel academically at Tech, he said.

“For me, diversity without academic excellence is missing the mark,” Muñoz said. “We want students that are here from all backgrounds and all experiences and all income levels to excel academically.

This should be the goal.” @KristenBartonDT

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Students discuss working on local campaigns

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

Editor’s Note: The Daily Toreador reached out to congressional District 19 candidate Glen Robertson for students working on his campaign. The DT was told some students did block walks but were not given contacts.

Between going to class, studying and having a social life, some students have chosen to dedicate their spare time to working on local campaigns.

Benjamin Sharp, a junior economics major from Borger, said he has spent time volunteering on a

local campaign for Jodey Arrington, congressional District 19 candidate.

For Sharp, he said this was not his first time to work with a campaign.

“I have always been interested in politics in general,” Sharp said. “I have been involved in a few congressional offices and city offices back home, too.”

Reid Stewart is a sophomore marketing major from Allen who has been working on Arrington’s campaign since the fall.

Stewart said he first got involved with the campaign because he personally knew Arrington and thought pos-

itively of his personality.

Stewart wanted to do whatever he could to help, he said.

During their time as volunteers, Sharp and Stewart said they spent much time walking blocks and going door-to-door informing the public about their candidate.

Sharp said he also attended fundraisers and worked at a call bank.

In addition to walking blocks, Stewart said he has also been responsible for meeting up with donors and supporters and providing them with large signs.

Sharp said he has really enjoyed working on a cam-

paign and would do it again in the future if there was a candidate he supported.

If this person gets elected into office and you worked on that campaign, that could help after graduation when trying to find a job.

BENJAMIN SHARP CAMPAIGN WORKER Stewart said the candidate he has worked with is

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “She is a Texas resident. Maybe she is one of your relatives. I don’t know,” Hessler-Radelet said jokingly. “She is an amazing, amazing young woman, and I met her in Quito, Ecuador.”

Muñoz was a Peace Corps environment volunteer who, at that time, was working on an assignment to improve recycling practices in Quito, Hessler-Radelet said.

Muñoz’s initial research indicated most of the recycling in the region was conducted by women who were labeled “scavengers” by their community.

These women, who worked in competition with each other, sifted through toxic substances and sharp objects in trash to find recyclable materials. They worked at night because they were ashamed of their work, Hessler-Radelet said.

After realizing the potential benefits of working as a group, Muñoz decided to bring them together.

Eventually, the women formed a formal association with a president, vice president, treasurer and other positions. They gained even recycling contracts from municipalities, HesslerRadelet said.

“Alex led them through a discovery process,” Hessler-Radelet said. “The president of the association, she said to me, ‘Before sister Alex came to us, we were just scavengers, but now we are recyclers. We are entrepreneurs. We are leaders. We are environmental promoters.’”

Peace Corps volunteers are catalysts of communityled change, Hessler-Radelet said. She spoke also about the importance of educating women and the cultural, physical and economic barriers young women face.

For instance, several high schools around the world are not equipped with bath-

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A crowd of students, faculty, staff and community members attend a lecture by Manisha Desai, associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Connecticut, during the Women’s Studies Program’s 32nd Annual Conference on the Advancement of Women in the Matador Room of the Student Union Building on Friday. rooms for girls. As a result, girls in these regions do not attend school during their menstrual periods.

The title of HesslerRadelet’s talk was taken from a poem written by a 14-year-old girl. She was an attendee of a Peace Corps GLOW camp who wanted to tell the world about the strength of her Ghanaian sisters, Hessler-Radelet said. The title was “No More a Girl for the Kitchen and a Boy for the Classroom: Opening Doors to Education for Girls around the World.”

“Peace Corps is not easy.

You think it’s going to be an easy job, it’s not going to be.

It is a hard job. Our motto used to be, ‘The toughest job you’ll ever love,’” Hessler-Radelet said. “I thank you all for having me here, and let’s change the world from Lubbock. Guns Up.” The conference included five breakout sessions comprised of individual paper presentations as well as group panel presentations.

During the third breakout session, a panel of five faculty members discussed their work in interdisciplinary feminist activism on Tech’s campus.

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Board of Regents meets today to review policies At 3 p.m. today in the Administration building, the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents will meet to review the campus carry policies.

According to a news release, the board will discuss the implementation process of Senate Bill 11. Chancellor Robert Duncan and the presidents of the component universities in the Tech system will be there to discuss their recommenda-

tions issued in late March.

S e n a t e B i l l 11 w a s passed by the Texas Legislature to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry concealed handguns on campus, according to the release. The law will go into effect on Aug. 1. The law says the Board of Regents is required to review the rules, but ultimate approval and implementation relies on the president. @KristenBartonDT

POLICE BLOTTER

Tech officer investigates theft Thursday 11:03 a.m. — A Texas Tech police officer investigated a theft at the R13 Doak parking lot. An Apple iPhone 5 was taken.

4 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated disorderly conduct in Transportation and Parking Services. The student used profane language toward a staff member.

4:13 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated forgery of a financial instrument through

Student Services in West Hall.

7:53 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a criminal trespass warning to a student on the request of library staff personnel.

1:37 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication at the Z4M parking lot. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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by B.J. Watson of the Tech Police Department.

The faculty coalition, called Fearless Faculty, emerged as a response to the Sept. 19, 2014, incident at an event hosted by the Tech chapter of Phi Delta Theta, Elizabeth Sharp, Fearless Faculty member and associate professor of human development and family studies, said. At the fraternity party, photos were taken of a banner that read “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal” and a sprinkler resembling female genitalia was present.

Peace Corps is not easy. You think it’s going to be an easy job, it’s not going to be. It is a hard job.

CARRIE HESSLER-RADELET PEACE CORPS DIRECTOR “So we thought as faculty members we should come together and have a kind of take on this,” Donald Lavigne, associate professor of classical language and literature studies, said. “We also wanted to, as faculty members, do

what we do best, which is, you know, analyze the situation and talk about it with our students.”

At another panel presentation, faculty and staff members from Tech’s Gender Equity Council and student members from Women’s Leadership Institute discussed their campus efforts during the past year.

The Gender Equity Council is one of president’s two councils, the other being the Athletic Council.

According to its website, the Gender Equity Council was established to advise the president on matters related to gender issues within the university.

The Women’s Leadership Institute is sponsored by the Gender Equity Council’s Ad-Hoc Committee on Leadership. Composed of undergraduate women, WLI is responsible for recognizing and supporting women leaders on campus, Devin DeLapp, undergraduate chair of WLI and a senior public relations major from Stinnett, said.

“This is only our second full year of actually being at the university. So, our future, just based on this past year is I think going to

a great person and working on the campaign has been a great experience.

Stewart and Sharp both said working on the campaign has provided them with skills, such as organization and communication, which will benefit them later in life.

“A big part of my job is calling people and meeting up with them,” Stewart said. “We have to make sure we’re on the same page and doing what they want us to do.”

Sharp said working on the campaign could be beneficial in the future.

“Working on the cam-

paign is a great way to build up rapport,” he said.

“If this person gets elected into office and you worked on that campaign, that could help after graduation when trying to find a job.”

Stewart said working on a campaign has been rewarding and said anyone wanting to do it should get involved.

“It’s impressive to people that college students are out working and trying to make a difference,” Stewart said. “Get involved or at least get educated on local elections because those are the people that can really make a difference.”

be really great, and we are going to give a lot of women on this campus the voice and the empowerment that they really need,” Farah Mechref, undergraduate member of WLI, said during the panel.

The guest speaker for the conference was Manisha Desai, associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Connecticut. Desai spoke about the changing dynamics of the International Women’s Human Rights Movement.

For the first 20 minutes of her 40-minute talk, Desai discussed the emergence of International Women’s Human Rights Movement in 1911 and the hundred years of history that followed.

The first International Women’s Day was celebrated in 1911 in response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City that killed 146 garment workers, mostly women. Unfortunately, soon after 1911, the International Women’s Day lost its importance, Desai said.

However, the celebration of International Wome n ’s D a y r e e m e r g e d i n 1975 during a United Nations World Conference in Mexico City, Desai said.

At that conference, U.N. declared March 8 as International Women’s Day and 1975-1985 as the Decade for Women.

Nations from all over the world gathered at that conference to share their reports on gender related issues, Desai said.

“The consensus in all of those reports was that women were second-class citizens in all those countries, and women did not enjoy the same rights as men, regardless of what country it was,” she said.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against

Women was adopted in 1979 by United Nations.

Today, CEDAW has been ratified by more than 150 nations, but the U.S. is not one of them, Desai said.

The emergence of neoliberal politics in the 1990s countered the progress toward gender equity that had been achieved over the last two decades. Neoliberal politics consists of a market driven political system. The erosion of progress that began in the 1990s continues to this day, she said.

“It’s a very unfortunate historical conjuncture that at the same that you have commitments on paper by governments around the world to women’s human rights, you also have a political and economic structure that emerges which essentially undermines those commitments,” she said.

There have been other challenges to the Women’s Human Rights Movement, as well. One of the most significant challenges is the conflict between rights, Desai said, where male elites in certain societies claim culture as a reason to deny women certain rights.

However, numerous grassroots organizations have successfully responded to many of these challenges.

Desai concluded her talk by discussing the importance of cultural transformation in addition to the establishment of legal frameworks. For instance, in less than two decades smoking went from being romanticized and idealized to being stigmatized.

“So, how can we in some ways stigmatize gender inequality or racial inequality?” Desai said. “I think it really has to be a multidimensional and multisectorial effort to kind of transform the culture.”

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Students’ attire needs improvement I

n a recent study published by Yale University professor Michael W. Kraus, it was found that people who wear clothes with higher social status show more dominance.

This, according to the Wall Street Journal, found the confidence related with people who dress nicer improved their job performance and other on-the-job tasks.

In short, people who dressed nicer worked nicer.

So for the sake of all of the job or internship interviews, it is imperative that students follow this advice.

As a disclaimer, I will go ahead and warn you that I will be primarily focusing on men’s attire.

My apologies to whom this does not apply, as I only have experience with menswear.

But walking around campus I see young men who do their best at dressing up

Michael Cantu is The DT’s opinions editor and a sophomore electronic media and communications major from New Deal.

and I can feel nothing but pure sadness. So I’m going to do us all a favor and give some pointers that can benefit everyone.

I know decent dress wear can be a bit pricey in almost all instances, so I would always recommend to save up a few bucks, go find something that fits and put it in a bag in the closet — don’t get it dirty, it’s your only good clothes, remember.

With that being said, I think in many cases people can get away with just a nice shirt and pants.

However, the cardinal rule for just a shirt and pants

is to make sure they are not the same color. It is often I see men walking around with black button-ups and black slacks — bad, that is a no-no.

I would go so far as to say to make sure both pants and shirt are two different colors. It makes for a nicer look and you look, like you can dress yourself without mother present.

On that same token, it is also important to note the fit of the clothes does much for you, too.

Many popular styles I’ve seen are slim-fit shirts and pants. No more of this nonsense puffy arm shirts — wear fitted shirts and you’ll blow someone out of the water.

No one can go wrong with khakis, so play it safe and buy yourself a pair. Also, because this is West Texas people have a weird fascination with the many varia-

tions of brown, so khakis are practically the tuxedo pants of Lubbock; these are just things I notice.

You can probably be in a good spot with just the pants and shirt, but if you want to be extra fancy, a suit jacket or blazer can get you some extra attention.

I read in a GQ article a few months ago the best investment to make is in navy blue suits or blazers. There’s pretty solid reasoning behind this too, as navy blue looks wonderful as a full suit or as separates with the khaki pants you just bought.

However, the golden rule of navy blue is to not get it confused with black. Do all that you can to separate it away from a black shirt or pants — send it off to your mom or have a lab analyze it; just make sure you don’t mix them up.

You don’t always need a

tie with a blazer either, so keep that in mind. However, it looks awful when people wear a full suit with no tie — George Clooney can pull it off, but I doubt that you can.

On that same token, try to always avoid wearing just the shirt and tie.

That’s all right if you want to look like a middleaged middle school science teacher, but let’s all be real, nobody wants that look.

My apologies to whom this does not apply, as I only have experience with menswear.

However, it is often that I see footwear is overlooked. In

my opinion, it does not matter how well the top of the ensemble looks if the bottom looks like trash.

It’s not the man who makes the shoes; it’s the shoes that make the man. So choose to look like someone who wants a job, not someone who wants a dumpster.

Nowadays there’s been this craze with Wingtip Oxford shoes, and I’m telling you folks, I love it, except when I look at the price tag.

Yes they are expensive, but it is all worth it, they’ll make a good impression.

So the whole point of dress to impress is make your potential employer mind-blown by what you’re wearing.

Look fresh and impressive enough to make them think that even if they don’t hire you, you probably have something to fall back on. @MichaelCantuDT

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Illegality of prostitution makes no sense S ex work is defined as any female, male or transgender adults who receive money or goods in exchange for consensual sexual services or erotic performances, either regularly or occasionally.

Sex work or prostitution, as many may know it by, has been a topic of discussion forever regarding whether it should be legal.

I’ve seen many documentaries that touch on the downside of prostitution, because many workers get caught up in drugs, violence and pimps.

In my opinion, I feel that sex work should be legal, because what someone chooses to do with their body is their own business as long as it is not harming anyone else

Jayda Ward is a sophomore public relations major from Houston.

in the process.

Sex work being illegal only causes more problems for the sex worker.

Defining sex work as illegal only increases violence, harassment and health issues.

Because sex work is illegal, many workers feel the need to have a pimp to protect them from police, crazy clients and the underground violence of it all.

Health issues increase, because some sex workers

are scared to carry condoms out of fear of them being used against them as evidence of prostitution.

“In some cases, sex workers have no access to condoms or are not aware of their importance. In other cases, sex workers are simply powerless to negotiate safer sex,” according to an Avert.com article. “Clients may refuse to pay for sex if they have to use a condom, and use intimidation or violence to force unprotected sex. They may also offer more money for unprotected sex — a proposal that can be hard to refuse.”

A way to solve this could be a sex workers labor union. If sex work was legal, there could be certain requirements put in place

to protect the workers.

For example, workers could have contracts with what they are and aren’t OK with doing. Instead of sex work being illegal, it should be handled.

I think a major problem with society today is people want other people to have the same views, morals and opinions as them.

A woman’s body belongs to her and nobody else. She does not owe anyone anything.

I just don’t understand

the ‘Christians’ who stand outside of abortion clinics heckling the women who come in and out.

I am a Christian myself, but I would never make someone who does actions that are against my religion feel guilty for their decisions, it just is not right.

Two consensual adults having sex, regardless if it is for money or not, is their own business.

I think sometimes the government gets involved in affairs that don’t even affect society, while ignoring things that do.

While watching documentaries about sex work on Netflix, some women may feel empowered by it.

Sex work allows some women to express their sexuality and explore

their sexual desires while also making money.

On the other hand, some people think that sex work is degrading to women, but I deduce that it is just that — work.

Society has been telling women what we should do and shouldn’t do since the day we were put on this earth.

A woman’s body be longs to her and nobody else. She does not owe anyone anything.

Her decisions are her own. Sex workers should be protected and given the same rights as any other worker.

In short, instead of sex work being illegal, it should be handled better and with the interest of the parties involved. jward@dailytoreador.com

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Trump, on Staten Island, finally gets his NYC homecoming NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s political home in his native New York City is several miles — and a ferry ride — from Trump Tower.

Staten Island, New York’s self-proclaimed “forgotten borough,” is a hidden bastion of Republicanism in one of the nation’s most liberal cities, separated from the rest of the city both geographically and politically.

A sprawling suburb of low-rise buildings that resembles the towns of neighboring New Jersey, Staten Island has long been isolated from the bustling metropolis.

It takes $16 in tolls to cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Brooklyn to Staten Island. Many tourists who ride the iconic free Staten Island ferry never

depart the terminal and simply wait for the next boat back to Manhattan.

And for decades, the island’s most recognizable landmark was a dump that took most of the city’s garbage and was once the largest landfill in the world.

The island is frequently the butt of jokes by other New Yorkers, and its voters even considered secession in 1993.

And unlike the deep blue politics that dominate the rest of New York, Staten Island’s political power structure is controlled by Republicans; while Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, captured 73 percent of the citywide vote in 2013, he lost Staten Island to a poorly funded, longshot

Republican challenger.

And when Trump, just two days before the crucial New York primary, campaigned here on Sunday, the warm reception he received stood in stark contrast to the anger of thousands of protesters who greeted him in Manhattan days earlier.

“Staten Island is a great place,” said Trump, who does not currently own property on Staten Island but recalled the four summers decades ago he worked in a development here for his father’s business. “We have safety on Staten Island. We have great police, great people on Staten Island and I know it so well.”

Trump on Sunday first received the endorsement of the New York Veteran Police Association, an obscure po-

lice organization, and then spoke to the county GOP’s annual Lincoln Day brunch, an event that normally draws 350 people and this year packed in more than 1,000.

“Mr. Trump has a wide following, we could have sold twice as many tickets as we did,” said John Antoniello, chairman of the GOP group.

“These are his people. Staten Island is a real base of support for him.”

The chanting, cheering crowd stood for Trump’s entire 25-minute speech and many in the audience said they felt grateful the celebrity businessman was spending time in an area “left behind” by the Democrats who run City Hall and the statehouse.

“People will see that we’re

really a slice of Middle America buried in a big city. We love our country, and we don’t see things like they do,” said Claire Chesnoff, a real estate agent. “We’re our own little town. We are all working people who have earned what we have.”

Hillary Clinton was also scheduled to campaign on Staten Island on Sunday, so the national spotlight was shining on the borough — home to just 470,000 of New York City’s 8.5 million residents — for the first time since Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, was placed in a fatal chokehold by a white police officer in 2014, setting off waves of protests.

Trump — who eschewed his trademark rallies in New York City, only ap-

pearing at a pair of local GOP events — was born in Queens yet lives in a Midtown skyscraper and has a glitzy image synonymous with Manhattan’s glamour.

But many of his Staten Island supporters said they felt the celebrity businessman could relate to their quiet borough that is home to scores of police officers and firefighters and lost nearly 300 people on September 11, 2001.

“Mr. Trump says what he means and means what he says. He’s not a phony,” said Mildred Amatrudo, an administrative assistant. “We have different values that the rest of the city. They don’t understand us or care about us. They’re a different city.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor George Clooney would like to get big money out of politics — so he doesn’t have to raise it.

Clooney hosted two weekend fundraisers in California on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Donations for attendees at an event in San Francisco topped out at $353,000 per couple, which Clooney acknowledges is an “obscene amount of money.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party’s rules chairman is accusing other GOP officials of “a breach of our trust” by trying to preserve the party leadership’s power to allow the nomination of a fresh candidate for president.

Bruce Ash, RNC committeeman from Arizona, wrote the harshly worded email to the other 55 members of the GOP rules committee that he chairs. The confidential email, obtained by The Associated Press on Saturday,

The event even drew pro-Bernie Sanders demonstrators, Clooney recounted in an interview airing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” When he went to talk with them, he said, they called him a corporate shill.

“That’s one of the funnier things you could say about me,” the Oscar-winner said, though he conceded that some of the protesters had a valid point regarding a different matter.

“Their T-shirts said, you know, ‘You sucked as Batman,’” said Clooney, the star of 1997’s “Batman & Robin,” one of the least memorable films in the superhero franchise. “And I was like, ‘Well, you kind of got me on that one.’”

Asked on CNN Sunday whether Clooney was siding with the wrong candidate, Sanders replied, “I think he is. “ But he praised Clooney with being honest enough to name the problem.

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Lubbock Street Gourmet provides for homeless

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

As a midsize city, people may not think Lubbock has a problem with the homeless population, but in fact, it does.

Lubbock Street Gourmet, an organization that serves food to the homeless population, hopes to end hunger in Lubbock.

Starting as three people giving grab bags to the homeless population, Lubbock Street Gourmet uses a food truck to bring food to the homeless, Cesar Hernandez, a sophomore electrical engineering major from Dallas, said.

Being big into community service in high school, Hernandez said he and the other people at Lubbock Street Gourmet saw there was a need in the homeless population to bring them supplies like water bottles, socks and granola bars.

Michael Seymour, cofounder of Lubbock Street Gourmet, said they figured out there was a need after this winter.

“It all started with the

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brutal winter,” Seymour said.

“We were handing out different supplies like hand warmers and water bottles so that they can make it to the next day. The overwhelming response we were getting is that, ‘we want hot meals,’ so we got this food truck.”

Lubbock Street Gourmet partnered with local restaurants to provide food it can serve out of its truck, Hernandez said.

Kyle Shields, a senior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Austin, said one of the goals for the truck is to eventually cook meals out of the truck and not rely on other places for food.

“We are not really, at the moment, going to cook much in here,” Shields said. “We are going to use the truck mainly as a distribution vessel, temperature control and stuff like that. We would love to be a full prep and cook kitchen eventually.”

Hernandez said for now, they will be distributing food to the homeless population on Sundays. They hope to eventually distribute twice a week.

Lubbock Street Gourmet, Hernandez said, is also trying to be self-sustainable through fundraisers. When other people come and buy a meal, Lubbock Street Gourmet is able to give a meal to a member of the homeless population.

The goal of Lubbock Street Gourmet is to end hunger in Lubbock, Seymour said. Lubbock Street Gourmet is a pivotal program to the community.

“The statistics say that there are only 300 to 400 homeless people living in Lubbock today,” Seymour said. “A lot of those people are going hungry on a regular basis. If you look at how small a population we are looking at compared to how big of a population Lubbock has, it seemed like it would be a pretty easy deal to tackle.”

There have been members of the community reaching out to the Lubbock Street Gourmet wanting to help with its cause, Seymour said.

Shields said there is a need for this kind of program in every city. What Lubbock Street Gourmet stands for is a powerful message, and

receive the Wells Fargo Masked Rider Scholarship.

“Without the support of everyone who pushed me to be better, I wouldn’t be standing here today,” Snider said. “When I came to Tech, I never thought I would be standing here three years later, and I’m honored to represent such an amazing university in this capacity.”

In August 2014, Tech

celebrated the 60-year anniversary of the Masked Rider tradition. A student named Joe Kirk Fulton was the original Masked Rider at the 1954 Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, where fans went wild for his entrance. Before Fulton, these mascots were known as “ghost riders,” and no one knew their true identities.

Since that day in 1954, Tech has also been ranked as

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The Lubbock Street Gourmet food truck was open for business at the Lubbock Arts Festival on Sunday in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The festival was a fundraising opportunity for the Lubbock Street Gourmet so it can provide free meals to the public when needed.

Shields said he wants to be a part of this project for the rest of his life.

“I think that there is a need in every city,” Shields said. “I know that a project like this in Austin, where I’m from, could really catch on and serve the community in a great way.”

Seymour said they want to expand Lubbock Street Gourmet into something more than giving food to the homeless. They want to provide more services to this population like providing mental health services, drug addiction help and job placement assistance.

Hernandez said whoever wants to help with this cause can contact Lubbock Street Gourmet on its Facebook page.

“Anybody that wants to give their time and wants to help with anything, just message us,” Hernandez said.

the eighth-best entrance of a mascot in college football, according to the Masked Rider Program website.

Tr y o u t s f o r t h i s e s teemed position are hosted during the spring semester of each year. The candidates must be enrolled as a student at Tech and have a total of 45 credit hours, according to the Masked Rider Program website.

The minimum GPA require-

ment is 2.75, and students must currently be enrolled in at least 12 semester hours. Along with years of equestrian experience, the applicants must have a commitment to the public relations activities that are expected of the Masked Rider and submit to a background check.

Each candidate was required to submit to a written exam, preliminary

screening, equestrian tryouts, a simulation and an interview process leading up to the final selection.

“What an honor to be a part of this program with 62 years of Masked Rider tradition,” Rhode said. “It truly sets Tech apart from every other university, and it’s a great leadership opportunity for students that I’m so grateful for.”

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‘Chaplin’s World’ honors ‘Jungle Book’ earns $103.6 silent film legend, his work million in North America G E N E VA ( A P ) — A s Charlie Chaplin finished out his long life on his bucolic Swiss manor, the former silent film star worried about drifting into oblivion, his connoisseurs say.

Little chance of that.

The legacy of the Hollywood legend behind “The Dictator” and “Modern Ti m e s ” l i v e s o n t o d a y in the minds of stars like Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr., in Broadway plays and in the general cultural consciousness. But he never had bricks-and-mortar museum honoring his life and achievements.

That changes Sunday with the public opening of “Chaplin’s World,” a multimillion-dollar project in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey. Its director-general says the museum is the first of its kind in the world to honor Chaplin, and has added value because it’s at a place he called home for years.

The “Manoir de Ban” is

where Chaplin lived his last 25 years raising children, writing music and movie scripts, and contemplating his legacy far from the glare of the Hollywood spotlight. Visitors can see his trademark bowler hat and cane, a replica studio, black-and-white photo graphs from his career, and the bedroom where he died at age 88 in 1977.

Working with Paris’ Grevin museum, which is known for its wax figures, managers have displayed a number of figures of Chaplin as well as friends like Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill on the green 14-hectare (35-acre) grounds along Lake Geneva, said Jean-Pierre Pigeon, the Swiss-Canadian director of Chaplin’s World.

“He was not just resting here, he was working.

He was part of the re gion,” said Pigeon. “He was able to live a normal life here. He found the right life-work balance here in Switzerland. In England,

he was really poor, in the United States, he was really successful in his career and money-wise, but his real happiness was here for 25 years.”

About two dozen of his children and grandchildren were on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremo ny Saturday, which was Chaplin’s birthday.

Organizers are hoping for more than 300,000 visits per year, Pigeon said, boosted by a nearby chocolate factory and a medieval castle.

What would the famed English-born actor and director think about “Chaplin’s World?”

“I think his first reaction would probably be ‘Oooh!’” Pigeon said with a chuckle. “But there was one thing he was scared of: being forgotten. So this is a good way to broaden his notoriety.”

“A place where people can laugh and get emotion: That’s what he would have wanted,” Pigeon said.

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UK spy agency chief apologizes for old prejudice LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s digital espionage agency has apologized for the organization’s historic prejudice against homosexuals, saying it failed to learn from the treatment of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing.

In a rare public speech, GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan told a gathering organized by the rights group Stonewall that the agency’s ban on homosexuals had caused long-lasting psychological damage to many and hurt the agency because talented people were excluded from working there.

“The fact that it was common practice for decades reflected the intolerance of the times and the pressures of the Cold War, but it does not make it any less wrong and we should apologize for it,” Hannigan said Friday at

the conference organized by Stonewall, which campaigns for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality.

The speech offered a poignant tribute to Turing, the gay computer science pioneer and architect of the effort to crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma cipher. Turing was convicted of indecency in 1952 and stripped of his security clearance. He later committed suicide.

A 2014 film about Turing, “The Imitation Game “ starring Benedict Cumberbatch, brought his story to a new generation. At GCHQ, Turing is now seen as a genius— “a problem-solver who was not afraid to think differently and radically,” Hannigan said.

It was partly to honor Turing that the agency’s headquarters was lit up during a global celebration of gender and sexual diversity last year.

“It was also kind of an act of atonement — for the lost opportunity of his early death,” Hannigan said. “Who knows what Turing would have gone on to do, where, for example, he might have taken his pioneering interest in artificial intelligence, which is the thing everyone is talking about. We will never know and should, as a society, never repeat that mistake.”

Hannigan said things are different now.

To make the point, he shared a story about an internal agency blog headlined “So it’s goodbye from him.”

Hannigan said that at first he thought it was written by someone who was leaving the agency for the private sector.

It turned out to be the story of a transgender employee — who he called Emma — who had finally decided to start the process of transition.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co.’s “The Jungle Book” opened with $103.6 million in North America, making it one of the biggest April debuts ever at the box office and continuing the studio’s streak of unearthing live-action riches buried in its animated classics.

Jon Favreau’s update of Disney’s 1967 animated version of Rudyard Kipling’s book tells the tale of Mowgli with computer-generated imagery and big-screen bombast. A sizable 42 percent of the film’s domestic sales came from 3-D and premium-format screens.

“The Jungle Book” is just the latest of Disney’s string of live-action remakes of classic cartoons (“Cinderella,” ‘’Alice in Wonderland,” ‘’Maleficent”), most of which have

fared well at the box office.

More plundering of the Disney library is in the works: “Cruella De Ville” and “Peter Pan” are in development; “Beauty and the Beast” is scheduled for next March.

“There’s some consistency that’s happened here in the last few years as we’ve really made this a priority and a strategy from a company perspective,” said Disney distribution head Dave Hollis, who credited production president Sean Bailey with overseeing the live-action adaptations.

“He’s been able to do it in a way that really makes them contemporary and, certainly in this case, fully utilizes available technology.

“We’ve got a lot more of these stories to tell.”

“The Jungle Book,” made

for about $175 million, was propelled by glowing reviews from critics. It ranks as the second biggest April opening ever, behind only “Furious 7’s” $147.2 million debut.

It also took in an estimated $136.1 million overseas that includes $20.1 million so far in India where it’s the thirdhighest grossing Hollywood release after 10 days. Ahead of the film’s big opening, Warner Bros. — sensing stiff competition — pushed the release of its own “Jungle Book” a year to October 2018.

Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Rentrak, says that the live-action remakes are proving to be another substantial engine for Disney, along with its franchise-building assets in Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm.

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Exhibit shows 40 years of Dingus photography

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Changing Places: The Photographic Artifacts of Rick Dingus exhibit is on display at the Museum of Texas Tech University, showcasing the 40-year photography work of Rick Dingus.

Dingus is a professor in the School of Art at Tech and has had a successful career as a photographer, with more than 24 solo shows and more than 100 group exhibitions since 1977.

“His photographic art is outstanding and a collective range of styles which he has refined over those four decades, and this was the first time that he’s ever had a 40-year retrospective of his art in one exhibition,” Gary Morgan, the executive director of the museum, said.

The exhibit was opened on March 4 and will run until June 12.

The Tech museum is one of the most diverse university museums in the United States, Morgan said. The museum covers a range of disciplines from history, technology, archeology and anthropology, natural sciences and many others.

The museum always attempts to have a program that covers a large variety of those topics and appeals to both the faculty and students at Tech and the Lubbock community, Morgan said.

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The Changing Places: The Photographic Artifacts of Rick Dingus exhibit is on display at the Museum of Texas Tech University until June 12. Dingus, professor in the School of Art, has had more than 24 solo shows and more 100 group exhibitions since 1977, and the Changing Places exhibit features photos from his 40-year career.

is a good example of how the museum can work with the creative people that we have here at Texas Tech,” he said.

“We see it as a very important role for the museum, that we can be a point of engagement between some of the most interesting research and creativity that’s happening here at Texas Tech, so Rick Dingus, of course, being a professor in School of Art and also a very accomplished artist over a career that goes back 40 years, was an ideal person to work with.”

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Morgan said the exhibit is a complement to the previous exhibit they had on display from August 2015 to January, which featured the works of Ansel Adams, who many refer to as the grandfather of American landscape photography.

Dingus was influenced by artists like Ansel Adams, but has evolved it further and is seen as the next generation of landscape artists in America, Morgan said, because he was one of the foundation artists in the new Ameri-

can landscape movement.

“What Rick has done is kind of been the inheritor of the Ansel Adams legacy,” Morgan said. “With the Dingus exhibit, we’ve shown how landscape photography in America has evolved on from that, so to me they are kind of like companion exhibits.”

The exhibit displays the changing styles of Dingus from his earliest images, Dingus said, as a student in his early 20s, to his most recent photographs.

“It was a chance to con-

nect to the ideas, to see what ideas related,” Dingus said. “As a result, it was a chance to kind of finish up things and put them aside and kind of turn around and move forward and think about where I want to go from here.”

He said he hopes people will be able to not only enjoy looking at the exhibit but will also be able to take time to study and interpret the images, and hopefully it will change the way that some look at the world.

“My photographs are all kind of related in a sense that there are several things involved, one is looking at the landscape not just as a pretty picture of nature but the landscape as kind of a constructed environment that poses question about the relation between people and places and culture and nature,” he said. “The way the images are made — it’s not only about the subject that you’re photographing, it’s about the photographer. But then it’s not only about the photographer, it’s about the people looking at the photographs.”

When on a shoot, Dingus spends a fair amount of time trying to determine which angle is the best to take the shot he wants, and he said the camera changes the entire perspective of what is being seen. Dingus takes up to hundreds, even thousands, of photographs in one shoot to be able to

get the image he wants.

Dingus is interested in the relation the media has with how people interpret things, and he said he thinks about how people will interpret their view of things through his photos.

Most of his photographs feature landscapes from the American West and some from the Plains, which span from Texas to the Dakotas, he said. All the places he has photographed have evidence of natural processes, such as earth formation and erosion, but also there are places that have shown evidence of people and how those habitats have manipulated and used the land to survive.

“I’m really interested in the landscape, it’s almost like a portrait of people even if people aren’t present,” he said. “Evidence of their interaction with the landscape is present, and it tells something about the people who were there and how they see their relationship with it.”

People have shown a positive reaction to the Dingus exhibit, Morgan said, and those who got to see the Ansel Adams exhibit have appreciated getting to see the change from an old way of photography to the next generation.

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Event encourages young women to pursue careers in engineering

By ALYSSA ACOSTA Staff Writer

The Night at the Science Spectrum, hosted by the Texas Tech chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, kicked off with a fiery start, as fire and liquid nitrogen were used to demonstrate the difference between a chemical change and a physical one.

“Night at the Science Spectrum is a lock-in for high school girls to gain their interest in the mathematics, science, engineering field,” Andreah Ortiz, a senior mechanical engineering major from Friendswood and the SWE member in charge of putting the event together, said.

About 70 girls packed the Science Spectrum for the night to explore the museum and participate in fun activities with SWE mentors.

“I really liked the butterfly exhibit this year, but my favorite part would have to be the girls,” Ortiz said.

Butterflies Alive! is the name of the exhibit where everyone has a chance to get up close and personal with hundreds of butter-

flies, which is back just in time for spring.

“The girls are a lot of fun, they are so young and I think they get really excited when they see the science experiments,” Ortiz said.

Aside from exploring the museum and its exhibits, the girls participated in multiple group activities about engineering with their SWE mentors.

“The activity was about coding, so the mentor will be blindfolded and they will have to follow group members’ instructions in order to make a jelly and marshmallow sandwich,” Estefani Ruiz, a freshman foundational engineering major from Houston and SWE member, said.

This is the second year SWE has hosted the Night at the Science Spectrum with Ortiz in charge, she said, and it hopes to continue the event annually for future generations.

“This year was a lot better,” Ortiz said. “(Night at the Science Spectrum) ran a lot smoother and I had a lot of help.”

The SWE volunteers were happy to help, even if

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The Texas Tech chapter of the Society of Women Engineers hosted the Night at the Science Spectrum event Friday. The event was a lock-in for about 70 local high school girls, and they participated in different engineering activities with SWE members throughout the night.

that meant sleeping on the floor with the rest of the girls, in hopes of inspiring more women engineers.

“It’s been a really good experience,” Jenny Beth Harris, a junior environmental engineering major from Rockport and SWE president, said. “I think the girls learn a lot about engineering and hopefully they’ll maybe pursue a degree in engineering one day.”

While these high school girls have a couple years

before they head off to college, Ortiz said the SWE members are eager to gain more members and see more females in their classes that are usually male dominated.

“Growing up as women engineers, there’s not a lot of us out there,” Ortiz said. “(Night at the Science Spectrum) is geared toward that and influences these girls to hopefully pursue a career in engineering.” @DailyToreador

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Hoover said that a man has been arrested and

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Red Raiders swept by Jayhawks

By DIEGO GAYTAN AND BRANDON SOLIZ The Daily ToreaDor

The Kansas Jayhawks kicked off the weekend series by keeping the Tech bats silent in a 10-0 five-inning win Friday afternoon.

All the damage executed

by Kansas came in the bottom of the fourth.

A two-run double swayed the lead over to the Jayhawks, and still with no outs, junior utility player Lily Behrmann sent a ball packing for a two-run homer.

More runs came in after sophomore pitcher Cheyene Powell checked in for junior Mattison Maisel as a single to right field brought a player around from third.

After two straight singles to load up the bases, sophomore catcher Harli Ridling unloaded the bases by hammering a grand slam out to left field.

Because the 10-run barrage came in the bottom of the fourth, Tech only had one more turn at bat to produce at least three runs to keep the game alive.

Junior designated player Sarah Weber and senior center fielder Jordan Bettiol gave the Red Raiders fight in the inning

by singling twice after a leadoff foul out, but a groundout and pop-up ended the inning.

Kansas sealed the series win on Saturday by protecting a six-run lead throughout the full seventh-inning stretch.

A double to center in the first and a homer in the second brought the Jayhawks up 2-0 heading into the fourth inning where they once again did the most damage.

With runners at the corners, a sac-bunt moved the lead up for the Jayhawks to 3-0 and a pair of hits to the left side scored a pair of runs more for the host team.

Tech cut into its deficit beginning with a pair of singles to place runners at first and second. Senior second baseman Kirsten Schwirtlich then knocked in a double.

In the next two innings, Tech only nailed one more hit and allowed Kansas to score one more run with a single to left center with runners at second and third.

Tech dropped game two by a final score of 6-2.

On Sunday, the Jayhawks completed the series sweep with a 9-1 victory, which ended in the fifth inning.

The Red Raiders recorded six hits on a team total 17 at-bats.

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Kierra Miles hits a home run during game one of the Texas Tech softball team’s three game series against Oklahoma State on April 1.

The Red Raiders are now fourth in the Big 12 Conference standings after being swept by Kansas this past weekend.

Sophomore Cheyene Powell picked up the loss on the day to fall to 7-6 on the season when on the mound.

MEN’S TENNIS

Sophomore Andie Formby improved to 16-5 with the win for the Jayhawks.

With the loss, Tech falls

to 19-24 on the season and 4-5 in Big 12 Conference play.

The Red Raiders host Abilene Christian at 6 p.m. on

Wednesday at Rocky Johnson Field, where the team has an 11-3 record this season. @TheDT_sports

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Tech falls on road to Oklahoma State Cowgirls defeat Lady Raiders, 4-0

By ALEXA BOUTWELL STaff WriTer

The Texas Tech men’s tennis team fell short last Friday while on the road against No. 14 Oklahoma State. With a 4-1 loss to the Cowboys, the Red Raiders are now 23-4 overall for the season and 1-1 in Big 12 Conference play.

The Red Raiders, having an impressive home record of 11-0, were handed their third loss of the last 16 matches since February, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

There were certain adjustments the team could have made to pull out the win, Tech coach Brett Masi said in the release.

“There were certain situations and certain points that we need to do a better job at of handling our business,”

Masi said in the release. “We need to bounce back, and we need to learn quickly from our mistakes tonight because we face a red hot Oklahoma team on Sunday.”

The Red Raiders had a rough time Friday trying to pull out some wins against Oklahoma State. Tech made a run for it in the men’s doubles and singles, but could not pull through.

In doubles action, the Red Raiders were not able to cut it against Oklahoma State with two out of the three pairs ending up with a loss.

Sophomore Alex Sendegeya and freshman Bjorn Thomson were defeated 7-6 by No. 5 doubles pair Julian Cash and Arjun Kadhe. Sophomore Connor Curry and senior Felipe Soares could not pull the win last Friday, losing 6-1.

Carlos DiLaura and senior Hugo Dojas pulled through for the men’s tennis team winning their doubles match 6-3.

The men’s singles matchups posed a problem for Tech.

Soares fell short to No. 59 Cash from Oklahoma State, going 6-3, 6-4.

Curry came up with a loss against No. 125 Jurence Mendoza, going 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1.

Despite the rough turnout, one member of Tech’s squad was able to rise over Oklahoma State.

Thomson was able to defeat his matchup going 6-3, 6-4.

The Red Raiders look to reverse last Friday’s results as they push on to face off against No. 8 Oklahoma at noon on Sunday.

For a recap of Sunday’s matchup, visit www.dailytoreador.com. @TheDT_sports

By ALEXA BOUTWELL STaff WriTer

The No. 14 Texas Tech Lady Raiders tennis team traveled to Stillwater, Oklahoma, last Friday to challenge the No. 15 Cowgirls. However, the Lady Raiders did not find success against Oklahoma State, falling 4-0 in the matchup.

Tech, now having an 18-4 overall record and 3-3 record in Big 12 Conference play, got swept for the third time this season. Oklahoma State, having the same overall record as the Lady Raiders, is now undefeated when facing Big 12 opponents, going 6-0 this season, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Tech coach Todd Petty said in the release the team needs to wrap its head around the next

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Valenstein was handed a loss by Lushkova with the match going 6-2 and 6-2 in favor of Lushkova. Vladica Babic of Oklahoma State also defeated sophomore Gabriela Talaba, going 7-5 and 6-2. Another loss for the Lady Raiders came from Maltby who could not secure a win against Kelsey Laurente going 5-7, 6-2 and 6-2.

Petty said this was a hard loss for the Lady Raiders, who plan to bounce back after the matchup.

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“We played a team in Oklahoma State that was too good today,” Petty said in the release. “We need to get refocused for another tough match Sunday at Oklahoma.”

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Another Tech doubles pair, sophomore Sarah Dvorak and freshman Felicity Maltby, came up short against OSU, losing 6-4.

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Texas Tech infielder Michael Davis swings at the ball during the Red Raiders’ baseball game against San Diego State on Sunday at Rip Griffin Park. The sweep improved Tech’s season record to 29-9.

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The No. 10 ranked Texas Tech baseball team swept San Diego State University in a three-game series over the weekend.

In game one, Tech defeated San Diego State 3-1 on Friday after a strong start from freshman pitcher Davis Martin.

Martin, getting his fifth win, went six innings after giving up one run and nine hits. Martin is now 5-0 on the year.

Junior right fielder Stephen Smith led the offense after going 2-4 and bringing in two of the game’s three runs. Sophomore second baseman Michael Davis brought in the third run with an RBI single. Davis went 1-2 in game one.

Tech shut out San Diego State 10-0 in game two on Saturday. Game two saw another strong start by a freshman pitcher.

With his first start of the year, freshman pitcher Ryan Shetter pitched 5.2 innings of shutout baseball, only surrendering three hits and striking out two.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock was impressed by the performance

Shetter gave in his first start of the year, he said.

“How about that guy,” Tadlock said. “It’s pretty neat to see a guy take the ball for his first time starting a college game. He almost went six and we probably could have left him out there through six if we wanted to. He was very efficient with his pitches. It was really impressive the way he commanded his fastball and breaking ball and the change.”

Sophomores Parker Mushinski and Jacob Patterson completed the shutout by combining for 3.1 innings of shutout ball.

Davis continued his hot streak at the plate going 4-5 with an RBI. Davis’ four hits in the game were a career high.

Davis said he has just gotten some good pitches to hit.

“I can’t complain when pitchers are throwing pitches over the plate,” Davis said.

Smith also helped the offense by driving in four RBIs in his 3-5 performance. Smith’s home run in the fifth inning was his eighth on the year and leads the team. Senior Eric Gutierrez’s home run in the fifth was his 30th career home run at Tech.

Tadlock was also impressed with the defensive performance in game two, he said, but the quality pitching and defense go hand in hand.

“When a guy is throwing first pitch strikes and working ahead of the count with good tempo and rhythm, it really makes it easier to have good defense,” Tadlock said.

“Some guys made some nice plays today. It all starts with Shetter and the guy on the mound. Tip your hat to him.

He was outstanding.”

Tech defeated San Diego State 7-2 in the final game of the series on Sunday. Sophomore Tanner Gardner led the offense going 3-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Davis also helped the offense, bringing in two RBIs and going 2-3.

Tadlock said both Davis and Gardner had good at bats during the game. “(Davis’) hit that made it 4-0 early in the game was huge at the time,” Tadlock said. “It’s neat to see those guys separate balls and strikes.”

Senior Tyler Floyd said when the middle of the lineup does not step up, there are other players in the lineup who do.

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Texas Tech pitcher Ty Harpenau pitches to a San Diego State batter during the Red Raiders’ game against San Diego State on Sunday at Rip Griffin Park. Tech has now won nine consecutive games.

“When guys are not hitting, some people have stepped up and been good,” Floyd said. “That has gotten us some wins.”

Freshman Ty Harpenau started the game and went only three innings. Harpenau gave up no hits and struck out one.

He walked three batters.

Tadlock said he was not impressed with Harpenau’s performance, but Tadlock is not worried about his future starts.

“Harpenau wasn’t very good honestly,” Tadlock said.

“You want to get a better quality start out of your Sunday guy. He will bounce back and be ready to go next week.”

The bullpen, however, came in and dominated after Harpenau left. The bullpen

combined for six innings and gave up two hits and two runs. “(Junior pitcher) Ryan (Moseley) really threw the ball well,” Tadlock said. “(Junior pitcher Robert) Dugger came in and got a big double play ball in his first inning. He struggled with command later.

It’s good to see (senior pitcher) Dalton Brown. He executed some pitches. He threw some good sliders.”

Floyd said he was really impressed with Moseley’s performance, throwing 3.1 innings of no-hit ball.

“I thought Moseley did awesome,” Floyd said. “Like Tadlock said, we can throw one pitch and win with him. It’s good to see him back.”

Even though Tech has won

nine games in a row and have swept four series in a row, Tadlock said there is still room for improvement.

“We want to play good baseball every single day,” Tadlock said. “We want to get better every single day and continue to play baseball at a high level and understand that there is room to grow every single day.”

Floyd said he agrees with Tadlock’s mindset of the team.

“I didn’t think we played great today,” Floyd said. “There is room for improvement but we will take nine in a row for sure.”

The Tech baseball team faces New Mexico at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for game one of the two-game series. @DavidGayDT

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Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes II prepares to throw the ball down the field during the open practice Friday at Jones AT&T Stadium. For the full recap, visit www.dailytoreador.com.

BEARD

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 After a year at Fort Scott, Beard moved to Oklahoma to coach at Seminole State Junior College in Seminole, Oklahoma.

After his 10-year stint at Tech, Beard made his way to the American Basketball Association to coach for the South Carolina Warriors.

Beard left the program in 2012 and accepted jobs with McMurry and then Angelo State from 2013-15.

“I learn every day,” Beard said. “There’s not one day that goes by that I don’t learn something, and I learn from different sources. Probably the main source that I’ve learned from over the years, (and) people might think it was coach Knight, which I obviously learned a lot from, (or) people might think it’s from some of the other coaches, but by far I learn more from the players each year that I coach.”

After his journey throughout the many levels of basketball, Beard made his way into the NCAA Division One level in 2015-16.

Beard led Arkansas-Little Rock to the NCAA Tournament

in his first and only season as coach of the program.

The Trojans finished the season with a 30-5 record, which was a program and Sun Belt Conference single season record, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

In the tournament, the Trojans pulled off an upset victory by defeating fifth-seeded Purdue in overtime to advance to the second round.

Beard was named the National Association of Basketball Coaches District 24 and Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year for his efforts at ArkansasLittle Rock.

Beard said the Tech men’s basketball team has a solid foundation, which is different from his previous jobs, like Arkansas-Little Rock, where he was the catalyst for the program to make a turnaround.

“This is not a rebuild,” Beard said. “These guys were in the NCAA Tournament (and) they were one of the best stories in college basketball last year. We have incredible talent on the team right now.

We have character. I think our job is to try to take this to the next level.”

Sophomore center Norense Odiase and sophomore forward

Justin Gray said they are excited to see what Beard brings to the program. Odiase said he wants to win and Beard is the right coach to join the family environment established by the team.

Odiase said the recent departure of former coach Tubby Smith has not changed the outlook of the team.

“The past is the past and we’re focused on the future here with coach Beard,” Odiase said. “We have a core here and it is very important that we stay together and build off that core, just continue success.”

Beard said he has multiple goals for this Red Raider team, which are all for the program and for the individuals on the team to grow to be champions.

He wants to make sure his players graduate with their degrees, he said, and he wants the team to make noise not only in the regular season and Big 12 Conference play but in the NCAA tournament as well.

“My vision for Texas Tech basketball is to try and win every game on the schedule,” Beard said. “I want to do what coach (Marsha) Sharp did here.

I want to take a team to the (NCAA) Final Four.” @BSoliz_DT