WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 VOLUME 91 ■ ISSUE 103
TRANSFER OF REINS
PG. 3
FOOTBALL
INDEX
WORD ON THE STREET
PG. 5
ONLINE
LA VIDA OPINIONS SPORTS CROSSWORD CLASSIFIEDS SUDOKU
CAMPUS
WOMEN'S GOLF
By JACK DENSMORE
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BARKER GROWS, BUILDS ON SUCCESS
Staff Writer
homas Edison once said, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” This quote is a favorite of Lady Raider Gabby Barker, a member of the Texas Tech women’s golf team. Barker ’s competitiveness and passion for golf, which brought her to Tech, drives her further in her journey to the professional level. As a Native American, Barker said she is proud of her heritage and wants to continue dreaming big. “I just really feel like I have the competitive spirit to play professional golf,” Barker said. “Another thing that I really take to the heart would be that I’m Native American and being able to send the youth an image of, ‘You don’t just have to be on a reservation. You can go out and inspire to be anything.’” Her love of golf started with her father, who played golf with his friends as a hobby. She said she was not highly invested in golf when she was younger and preferred to play basketball and soccer, instead. When Barker was in high school, she played volleyball, basketball and golf. She was a three-time letterman from 2011-2013 for volleyball and a two-time letterman in basketball from 2011-2012, according to Tech Athletics. In 2012, she also helped both the volleyball and basketball teams earn district championships. In addition to these achievements, Barker stood out and found even more success with golf. While playing golf her senior year, she averaged 70 strokes per round and won the state championship for Vallivue High School. She hit 26 strokes and had a 14-under par total to win the championship. She was also the 2012 and 2014 individual District Champion and helped her high school team earn the 2013 District Championship, according to Tech Athletics.
SEE BARKER, PG.5
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Tech student orgs to host Alcohol, Drug Awareness seminar By MARISA POJTINGER Staff Writer
A group of student organizations on campus, including Student Government Association and Fraternity and Sorority Life, will present the first Alcohol & Drug Awareness seminar, named A Few Too Many: Tech Stands Up. The lecture will be hosted at 7 pm. today in the Lubbock Municipal Auditorium and will feature Lori Hart as the keynote speaker, who is an avid participant in the fraternity and sorority community. Admission to the seminar is free for all students. Student IDs will be checked at the door for entrance to the seminar. Tailored for students at Texas Tech, the event will be geared toward building good friendships, awareness and prevention, according to the event’s Facebook page. The purpose is to come together, to tackle the issues at hand within the college community and create a safe environment for all students. Clayton Law, a junior business management major from Austin and
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president of Delta Tau Delta, said the Tech campus has the resources and abilities to help tackle the issues of drug and alcohol abuse head-on. Landon Currier, the president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, came to him a few months ago with the idea and wanted to know if Delta Tau Delta would be interested in co-sponsoring the event, Law said. “Since our individual chapter has recently dealt with drug and alcohol abuse, I thought it would be a great opportunity for our chapter to get on board,” Law said. “We believe that Dr. Lori Hart’s message can positively affect not only our chapter, the Greek community, but Texas Tech students as a whole.” Moving forward after the seminar, Law said change has to start with the internal issues because students have had first-hand experience with these issues. “We know there is a problem in the Texas Tech community the same as many other college communities across the nation. However, we cannot act like our campus is better than others and not facing these pressing
issues of our times,” Law said. “We want to be proactive in recognizing that this is a continuing concern that is not going to be fixed easily.” Currier, a junior public relations major from Brawley, California,
said this event is about educating students on having difficult conversations with their friends who are abusing substances.
SEE SEMINAR, PG.2
Lecture Series performance to focus on American Southwest MOMIX, an internationally renowned dance company, is this year ’s final installment in the Presidential Lecture & Performance Series. MOMIX will perform at 7 p.m. Friday in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union Building. Tickets are $18 per person and are available at any Selecta-Seat location. Tech Students can receive one free ticket in the Allen Theatre Information Desk by presenting their University ID cards, according to a Texas Tech news release. According to the website, MOMIX will perform “Opus Cactus,” a dynamic journey into the hidden landscape of the American Southwest. In this performance, dancers will represent cactuses, lizards and other members of the desert world. Moses Pendleton, founder and artistic director of MOMIX, said the company has been around for 37 years. While the members of MOMIX dance, that is not all they do. “In the name MIX, it’s kind of a mix of acrobatics, circus techniques, and physical and visual theater,” Pendleton said. “We use props, costumes, light and shadow. We use highly trained human bodies to convey, in this particular show, explore the magic of the American Southwest desert.” Pendleton said “Opus Cactus” is unique. This show, and all the other shows by MOMIX, deals with taking the human form and relating it to the non-human forms, including plants, animals and minerals. “Opus Cactus” does not have a story, per se, Pendleton said. The show relies on its images and hopes to spark the imagination of the audience. “It’s very theatrical and humorous,” Pendleton said. “It doesn’t really say how the world is but how it might be in a fantasy.” The music in the show is a collection of Native American, aboriginal and Arabic sounds, Pendleton said. To the viewers, this presents an atmosphere of deserts worldwide. “We can’t bring the audience to the desert,” Pendleton said. “But, we can bring the experiences of the desert to the audience.” He hopes that students, faculty and staff along with the Lubbock community members will be inspired by the physical virtuosity of the performance, Pendleton said. It is a celebration of the body. But, there are other aspects of the show that will also draw viewers in, Pendleton said. “I think that the imagination and the creativity in the show and the fun of it (stands out about it),” Pendleton said. “Some of the magic and the energy of the world that is translated through dancers and into the audience is kind of what we are doing.” @DavidGayDT