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Tech student running for Lubbock City Council

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1. Tristan Ramirez, a political science major from Karnes is running for District 1 City Council.

2. Cole Adams, a junior global studies/ political science/Spanish major from Lubbock, is Ramirez’s campaign manager. This is his second campaign.

3. Adams and Ramirez hold up campaign signs. The city council elections will take place May 7.

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n May 7, the elections for Lubbock City Council will take place, and a Texas Tech student will be on the ballot.

Tristan Ramirez, a junior political science major from Karnes City, is running for the District 1 seat in the Lubbock City Council.

Cole Adams, a junior global studies, political science and Spanish major from Lubbock, is serving as Ramirez’s campaign manager.

Both students are members of Tech Student Democrats.

While most students stress about schoolwork, projects, jobs and a social life, Ramirez and Adams are also managing a political campaign.

“It’s really hard,” Ramirez said.

“Two of my opponents are retired so they have all the time in the world.”

Adams assists with spreading the message of Ramirez’s campaign while helping with scheduling and working with volunteers.

Finding time in their schedules to run a campaign is difficult, he said, but they have had positive reception with students.

Besides time management, the campaign has dealt with financial issues, Ramirez said. The campaign gets some donations, but also does block walking to garner support. Ramirez attends forums and debates and takes advantage of opportunities to spread his message, he said.

This is not the first campaign Adams has been part of. He said he also managed a campaign in Houston.

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Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Chris Beard signed his first signee for the upcoming season, as junior guard Niem Stevenson signed a National Letter of Intent and Athletic Scholarship Agreement on Tuesday, according to a Tech Athletics release.

At his former school, Seward County Community College, Stevenson averaged 24.7 points per game, 6.9 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.6 steals. While shooting for 51 percent, Stevenson collected NJCAA All-American First-Team honors and placed as one of the top 10 scorers of the NJCAA. Because of his consistent scoring, he surpassed the 20-point mark in 24 games and the 30-point mark in seven games.

During his time at Seward County, Stevenson picked up two NJCAA All-American selections. His other achievements at Seward County include achieving a finalist spot for the Jayhawk Conference Most Valuable Player award and scoring a total of 1,345 points.

Stevenson, who chose Tech instead of Ohio State, Kansas, North Carolina State, Oregon and Texas A&M, said he felt confident in his choice.

“I feel like I have a great connection with Coach Beard and Red Raider Nation has opened their arms for me ever since I have been on their radar,” Stevenson said in the release. @DGaytanDT

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1. Texas Tech Hospitality Services members cut a ribbon at the opening ceremony for a new Sustainable Garden located at The Commons.

2. Hospitality Services hosted the ribbon cutting event for the Sustainable Garden on Tuesday inside The Commons. The produce grown in the garden will be used in dishes served at The Commons.

Texas Tech Hospitality Services opened its new Sustainable Garden with a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday on the second floor balcony of The Commons.

The garden consists of various fruits, vegetables and herbs to use in dishes served in The Commons.

Michael Betzold, assistant director for Hospitality Services, said they were looking for ways to utilize the second floor balcony in The Commons for a long time. Planning at first to have a seating area out on the balcony, Hospitality Services thought it could use this space for enforcing sustainable measures throughout the department.

Hospitality Services also received multiple student requests for them to use locally grown vegetables, Manager of Business Development for Hospitality Services Alan Cushman said.

“Lubbock does not have the agriculture to support a whole lot of that,” Cushman said. “We saw this as a small way of where we could start utilizing and start bringing in specific things we can use within our locations.”

To get this garden off the ground, members of Hospitality Services consulted with different master gardeners to see how they would work with the Lubbock climate, Betzold said.

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ones that will be able to grow successfully in Lubbock.

The garden is starting with four beds filled with various herbs, peppers and tomatoes, Betzold said. They plan on growing the garden as time progresses.

“I think the sky’s the limit for it to grow,” Cushman said. “We have a dedicated staff at The Commons that are passionate about this type of thing. It’s going to be as successful as the people supporting it.”

Drew Latham, the chef at The Commons, said the reason why he wanted a sustainable garden was to have access to certain types of herbs and vegetables at the times he wanted to.

“The goal was to generate these and have them available to me, so I can use them, and to the rest of the department,” Latham said.

Latham had experience gardening with a community garden he started, he said, when he approached Hospitality Services about the possibility of making a garden. He was already growing herbs in the kitchen using the sunlight coming in from the window. “(Latham) is passionate about this,” Betzold said.

The herbs and vegetables add different menu options and flavor variety to the assortment already offered from The Commons, Latham said.

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Arbor Day, an annual event aimed at beautifying campus and giving students, staff and faculty an opportunity to plant trees alongside each other, will take place this Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Memorial Circle. The event will also offer live music and free T-shirts and food.

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assistant director for student activities on campus, said about 2,400 people are signed up to plant on Arbor Day. All food and activities on Arbor Day are available to anyone with a Texas Tech student ID, she said.

Students can also receive a free Arbor Day T-shirt and water bottle with their student ID, Maginness said, and the water bottle will give students discounted drinks at all Hospitality Services locations on campus.

“From what I’ve heard, this is a rather large number compared to what we had been doing,” she said about the planting activity, “and somehow our amazing grounds crew finds a way to make it all work on campus with everyone planting everywhere.”

Arbor Day was originally created by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska in 1972, according to the Arbor Day Foundation website, and resulted in an estimated one million trees planted in Nebraska.

President Bradford Knapp began the tradition at Tech in 1938 after most of the school’s money was going to the buildings, Maginness said, but only lasted about 10 years until Chancellor John Montford brought Arbor Day back to Tech’s campus in the late 1990s.

“Beyond it being part of

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By ALEXA ROSAS One way graduating students are being prepared to secure jobs after leaving Texas Tech is through mock interviews offered at the Tech Career Center.

In these mock interviews, counselors tailor their questions and responses so they portray the exact employer with which the student will be interviewing.

Career or opportunity centers can be found across campus in addition to the university-wide Tech Career Center, which is open to all students. Centers are open to engineering majors and are also found in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration and the College of Media and Communication.

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so whenever they plant them it kind of just helps with keeping the environment up and helps filter out any pollution or anything like that.”

The Thursday night movie on campus will be Disney’s “Earth,” Aguirre said, which is a documentary about nature.

“In there it follows different animals and their habitats and how they’re affected by different things like climate change, you know, ice melting, things like that,” he said.

Afterward, a small panel discussion involving several student organizations on campus and Professor Carr, a professor in the biology department, will take place to discuss the film and talk about how students can make a difference, Aguirre said.

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plants is also important so students can learn to do research before planting certain plant species, Aguirre said, to help avoid planting invasive species and keeping the plants alive or avoiding plants that will use too much water in a specific region.

The grounds crew on campus has a planting list they use and will hand those out to the students planting on Arbor Day, Aguirre said.

“Planting more plants kind of helps build up a greener Earth,” he said, “and

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the Earth Day significance that’s all over the country, it’s also just part of Tech’s tradition,” Maginness said, “and to bring everyone together to just beautify campus and to really give back to our place that we have here.”

One hundred and sixty four student organizations and campus departments are signed up to help plant for Arbor Day, she said, as well as about 200 individuals who want to plant as well.

“It really is a campus effort,” Maginness said. “Everyone comes out.”

Hector Aguirre, a senior landscape architecture major from Lubbock and homecoming coordinator at Tech, said he created the first Eco Week this year to teach students about the importance of sustainability.

Several student organizations on campus came together for Eco Week and the Eco Fair on Monday, Aguirre said, to share ideas, talk to students about what their organization does and share techniques to help become more sustainable.

“Early today we had our seeds for needs event,” he said. “Students get to plant seeds or plant plants that are native to this region and so students get educated on knowing that native plants are best planted in their area.”

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“The career center encourages students to start their job search earlier,” Jay Killough, managing director of the Tech Career Center, said. “While they should finish off their college career strong, it is important that they have an idea of where they would like to work and what they would like to do.”

Students are not born with the knowledge of how to find, apply and secure jobs, Cameron Skoczlas, career counselor for the Career Center in the College of Media and Communication, said. While it is no fault of the professor, college or university, classes are highly focused on the subject matter, so oftentimes students are not taught how to present themselves for a future employer through their correspondence, cover letters, resumes and physical appearance.

Students should not put all of their energy into just a few jobs, Skoczlas said, because while there will be some jobs more alluring than others, students should apply to many jobs that may be less exciting or less known.

There are many people who are competing for jobs, so students should keep their eyes open for opportunities everywhere, whether they are smaller companies or out of state or out of the country, Skoczlas said.

Presentation is everything, Killough said, so students should pay special attention to the professionalism of their writing, and this includes writing in correspondence as well as in resumes and cover letters.

It is vital that both a student’s resume and cover letter are tailored to the company and position for which they are applying, Skoczlas said.

They should demonstrate the interviewee meets the qualifications and expectations set by the company as well as demonstrate they did their research prior to applying.

“Know that if you’re getting called into an interview, they saw something that meant something to them or clicked with them,” Skoczlas said. “So you may not know exactly what that is, but just bring your best self forward into the interview and don’t lie, but go in knowing that whatever you presented to them meant something to them, so use that to turn your nervousness into excitement.”

Company culture is a topic often discussed, as companies such as Google and Facebook are so prominent today, Skoczlas said, which may be a source of discouragement for millennials who are wondering whether or not they should strive for a more professional or a more casual look, but as

The Texas Tech Career Center is available to help students when applying for jobs. Career centers are in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration and the College of Media and Communication. first impressions are invaluable, Killough said, it is important to transfer the professionalism that was conveyed in the resume and cover letter into physical appearance.

“You can’t go and present yourself as someone who is super casual right off the getgo,” Skoczlas said, “You have to prove to them that you’re going to work hard, that you can be professional when it’s necessary — because these people are still professionals, they just have a different type of approach to things.”

Finally, post-interview correspondence is a forgotten

art, Killough said, as in the past, handwritten thank you notes were habitual; millennials have turned to emails or a disregard for the process all together.

“The number one thing is: know that you’re not guaranteed anything in life,” Skoczlas said. “You’re not guaranteed these positions. You’re not guaranteed anything when you go in for an interview.

You are going to be grateful for these opportunities that are going to get you off the ground and up in the professional world.”

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ordinances with the city.”

Ramirez said his campaign treats everyone in the district equally and spreads his message that way.

“I’ve been involved in local politics since I came here,” Ramirez said. “I graduated high school in 2013 and came here in the fall. Ever since then, I’ve been involved with Cole getting involved in local campaigns, volunteering.”

Once the vacancy was announced, Ramirez said he met with Adams to take advantage of the opportunity.

Ramirez wants to serve the community through city council while running as an independent, he said.

“I don’t think national political labels should have any place in the city council race,” he said. “As far as the makeup for the city council now goes, from what I understand there’s not really much of a partisan divide between members.”

While running as an independent, Ramirez is running with the campaign slogan “Unity.” There are a few platforms he is working on, he said.

For one, Ramirez said he wants to work on an ordinance that allows the City of Lubbock to charge a fee when someone’s car is towed on top of the towing fee. He wants this removed.

This specifically affects students because they do not have much money, he said. The city can take advantage of people with this ordinance.

He also wants to amend the brothel ordinance. According to his website, ramirezforcitycouncil.com, this would allow students in Greek life organizations to construct residential spaces.

Ramirez being a student will help increase voter turnout among students, Adams said. Students do not usually see an incentive or have an interest in local politics, but when they know a young person or student is running, they are excited.

“What we have to do is make contact with these students,” he said. “We have a rare opportunity in that this election falls on an official election right after an intense primary. There were about

900 students that voted in the primary in March and are in the books. That’s great because student registration is always a problem.”

Ramirez said he will always be involved in politics in some way but does not plan on becoming a politician.

“If I were to ever run for any other office, it would be district attorney,” he said. “I plan on going to law school, probably here, and after that, I want to be a jury advocate for either the Marine Corps or the Army.”

For Ramirez, the election is not the end goal for him, but rather students eventually having more representation in city government. He said he hopes students are more aware of this and inspired.

“No matter what happens in this election, if eventually a student gets elected into city council or to any city office, I’ll have considered this a success,” he said. “Because that’s really what it’s all about, just making sure that students are represented in city government.”

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“A local race like this is a little more manageable for someone like me who is learning and at the same time doing this,” he said. “This is an opportunity to kind of learn from your mistakes and learn a lot of new things I didn’t know previously before. It’s a place to try things I couldn’t try before in the Houston area.”

Adams said he has learned about policy and the implications of policy in his classes, but now he gets to see it in action and use those skills.

One of the challenges he has faced is prepping Ramirez for complex policy questions.

District 1 does not include the area in which campus is located, Ramirez said. The district covers most of the offcampus student housing.

“One thing about my district is a lot of people have the same story,” he said. “Everyone in my district struggles financially and has an interest in not wanting to be taken advantage of with fees and

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California astronomy professor visits Tech

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Scientists have debated for years on the subject of how the materials of human bodies came together in the beginning of time. S.R. Kulkarni, a professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology who has been heard on National Public Radio, spoke to Texas Tech students on Tuesday about how human bodies are made out of materials that come from exploding stars, or supernovas.

In a lecture entitled “Cosmic Fireworks (The Dynamic Universe),” Kulkarni spoke to students and members of the Lubbock community about his observations of supernovas using the Palomar Transient Factory, a telescope system that photographs the night sky.

Alessandra Corsi, assistant professor of physics, said it is a big deal for Kulkarni to lecture at Tech.

Being one of the biggest astronomers of the current time, this lecture was meant to increase the visibility of Tech and its students.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Sustainability is important to Hospitality Services and its customers, Betzold said. They wanted to do everything to push the department to be more sustainable.

“It’s nice, as the food industry goes, to try your best to do sustainable practices in today’s time when resources are slim,” Latham said. “It’s good to give back when you can.”

Corsi worked with Kulkarni, who was her adviser, when she was in a scholars program at the California Institute of Technology, she said. She met with him last fall when she first came to Tech, and invited him to come speak after he expressed interest in Tech.

It is important to bring in such a well-known astronomer who has made many recent discoveries in the world of astrophysics, Benjamin Owen, professor of physics, said. Kulkarni’s discoveries included the brown dwarfs that are between the planets and stars.

“His discoveries were all over the news 20 years ago and in the textbooks now,” Owen said.

Corsi said his lecture gives students a different look at what happens in the night sky.

“Every time you think of optical astronomy, you think of pretty calm objects, like how our sun is always there,” Corsi said. “He will be talking about the violent processes that go on in the sky. It is interesting to hear about all the explosions Kirk Rodriguez, director of Hospitality Services, said the overall goal is for the Sustainable Garden to be able to supply produce to all the Hospitality Services facilities on Tech’s campus. “(The Sustainable Garden is) a small step,” Rodriguez said. “We cannot produce for all of the area, but it’s a small step. We hope we will continue to grow until we can say that we use (the garden) through all of our operations.” @DavidGayDT

that happen in the sky.”

K u l k a r n i ’s l e c t u r e appealed to students who were not science majors, Corsi said. The fact Kulkarni’s subject is about supernovas and how they create the heavier elements life is made out of is interesting to most students. “(Kulkarni’s lecture is) an exploration of where we come from,” Corsi said. “He helped explain the different elements that make life.”

Caleb Tynes, a sophomore electronic media and communications major from Dallas, said he had not heard of the lecturer before but was interested in what he was talking about.

“Hopefully this lecture will touch on what we are learning in astronomy class,” Tynes said.

“Maybe I will make a few connections and learn something new.”

Matthew Streseman, an astrophysics graduate student from Portales, New Mexico, said he thinks this lecture is important for the physics department and is a good outreach program for the department.

Streseman was excited

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to hear something that ties into what he wants to do after graduate school, he said.

“It is a good chance to watch someone speak and present information that somehow ties in to what I

want to do later on,” Streseman said. “I hope to have fun and learn a couple of new things.”

Owen said he thinks it is good for people to be exposed to what is going on in the world of science.

“Supernovi, which helped make all the atoms in our body and all the elements that make up what we are, is kind of a neat thing to learn about,” Owen said. @DavidGayDT

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Prince had no known will MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince’s sister believes the superstar musician didn’t have a will and asked a Minnesota court on Tuesday to appoint a trust company to temporarily oversee his multimillion-dollar estate.

Tyka Nelson, Prince’s only full sibling, said in the court filing that immediate action was necessary to manage Prince’s busi-

ness interests following his death last week at Paisley Park, his famous home and recording studio complex located in suburban Minneapolis.

The documents don’t estimate how much his estate may be worth, but Prince made hundreds of millions of dollars for record companies, concert venues and others.

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Gender rights not debatable B esides catching up with old friends and sharing funny pictures of the Christmas party from last year, social media also has introduced to us a new way to spread hatred and fear-mongering.

Lord only knows there is nothing else to complain about, so members of the United States’ right-wing community have banded together to deny transgender people a basic service — using the restroom. In November 2015, the city of Houston overwhelmingly rejected an effort for equal bathroom rights for transgender individuals, according to an article in The Atlantic.

More recently, North Carolina has made into law rules that would make individuals use the bathrooms that correlate with their birth gender, according to Harvard Health Publications. This has stirred controversy all around the country. To set itself aside from this law, the retail store Target has made public its effort to equalize bathrooms, allowing anybody to choose the bathroom they identify with.

As if we had nothing better to fight about, people are flipping their wagons over this move. Surrounded by all of this are also a slew of celebrities and musicians calling out North Carolina on its bathroom law, which in turn is causing public outrage on both sides of the coin.

This is where social media comes into play, because to partner up with that outrage is this fragmented, scary fight against anyone who does not support North Carolina and their like-minded right-wing cohorts.

There have been many memes, videos and Facebook “rants” concerning the use of bathrooms from people who do not identify with their assigned birth gender. All this comes from people who have just about the same message: Toughen up and be normal.

This sort of one-toothed backwoods wayward way of thinking is probably the reason so many people’s depression turns them into raging alcoholics or angry people.

In Florida, which is not any of the Carolinas, mind you, a man has taken to Facebook and YouTube to show how easy it is for someone to go into any bathroom they want and do whatever.

Andy Park walked into a Target and asked someone at the register if he can use a woman’s bathroom because he “felt uncomfortable in a men’s bathroom.”

This, a straight white man who has no gender issues, is poking fun of people who have legitimate concerns and issues with their assigned gender. In fact, it is more than awful and the more than two-minute video had me cringing the whole time.

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Locke, who also is nowhere near North Carolina, filmed himself in front of a Target and gave us his opinions about this issue (or because he’s an omnipotent pastor, does that mean all of the things he says are true?)

Basically, from the video, Locke walked into the store and asked the person behind a counter about the bathroom policy. When the person told him Target allows people to use the bathroom they identify with, Locke made a face, crossed his arms, stomped his foot on the ground and walked out. I think he might’ve started crying too, I’m not sure though.

After sharing his disapproval for this country’s onset of “political correctness,” good ol’ pastor Locke gave us some insight as to why he sees this as something dumb.

“Let me tell you something and be blunt about it, before I got saved by the grace of God, I used to smoke a lot of dope,” Locke said in his video. “But I’ve never been that stupid. Are you kidding me? That bathroom that you self-identify with, that has to be one of the most ridiculous moves I’ve ever heard of in my life.”

I remember in my first semester here at Texas Tech I took a sociology class in which we learned about the difference between sex and gender and all that jazz. Being a coddled little Catholic boy from small-town West Texas I was surprised as to how uninformed I was on the subject of gender identity.

There’s more than just boy, girl, man or woman, and that’s what many of these opponents of friendly bathroom bills don’t understand.

In fact, it’s disheartening to know that people are so stuck in their ways sometimes that they refuse to have more than a narrowminded view of any issue.

I know I’m not the foremost researcher on gender identity issues, in fact I would go so far as to say I probably don’t know any more than the next guy. But I do know not everyone is for non-conformity when it comes to issues like this, and I think we should all be respectful of such.

This issue is not people trying to target others in the bathroom, because those are all unsubstantiated claims.

This issue is about being all inclusive and most of all respectful to our fellow human beings.

Isn’t that the Christian thing to do, pastor Locke?

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Reid says Bernie Sanders has no path to nomination WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he does not think Bernie Sanders has a path to winning the Democratic presidential nomination.

Responding to questions at his weekly news conference Reid declined to suggest Sanders should drop out or cede the ground to Hillary

Clinton, who’s expected to post a strong showing in primaries Tuesday in Maryland, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

The Nevada Democrat said Sanders is a good person who “has run a campaign that I think we’ve all recognized has been unique and powerful, and I think Bernie should do what he wants to do.”

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Weather events provide perspective

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t kind of seems like everyone loves thunderstorms.

We all like sunny days and rain showers and snow flurries and when the wind blows. We like the snap of lightning and the shade of storm clouds and the way the sun looks through our dashboard’s window. We like taking pictures of it, and we like talking about how much we love it.

But, why?

Photographing cool weather patterns is a profession. Apple uses snowcaps as MacBook backgrounds. My Instagram is half people, half sunset cameos.

If you talk to a girl on a rainy day, she’ll probably say these are her favorite days — perfect for snuggling up and drinking tea. Little kids think they’re scary, but that’s only what they say to excuse their squeals because thunder’s pounds are loud enough for everything else to seem OK. It puts us all in perspective. On a sunny day, we’re basking, but on a stormy day, we’re pensive. The most destructive force on earth is unrestrained water, so when a hurricane comes rolling in or a flood tears through Houston, we all realize how small we are.

I think we like that. We

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a front-runner’s rout, Republican Donald Trump roared to victory Tuesday in five contests across the Northeast, keeping the billionaire firmly on his narrow path to the GOP nomination. Hillary Clinton was dominant in a trio of Democratic races, ceding only Rhode Island to rival Bernie Sanders, with Connecticut too close to call.

Trump’s and Clinton’s wins propelled them ever closer to a general election showdown.

Still, Sanders, as well as Republicans Ted Cruz and John Kasich, have vowed to keep running, even as opportunities to topple the leaders dwindle.

“I consider myself the presumptive nominee,” Trump

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like to feel little and tucked away in the earth’s folds, swaddled in mountains and hills and forests and meadows. We see how the world bends and swirls as hurricanes spiral and how the ocean churns as tides roll in. And there is something beautiful about being in the thick of a dust storm, if you can see it through that face full of sand.

On days when the world seems to be in revolt, my life doesn’t seem to be. If an expedition-demanding problem arises, it will have to wait until the rain stops, and suddenly I realize I’m at the mercy of my environment.

My hometown was doused in buckets of rain. The streets turned stream-like, the roads into rivers. Houston has survived this before, and I know it will again. But in the midst of nature’s chaos, I realized my chaotic city was calm.

No one was worried about getting their proposal in on time or whether school was in session. We worried about

whether all of our loved ones were safe and how long they could go without venturing to the grocery store.

Do you have power?

Any water damage? How’s the roof? Do your tires get enough traction? Have you called her? Do you know if he’s OK, too?

They didn’t rush around town, but instead stopped and thought about the things they most value.

“Woah.”

“We could’ve been hit harder.”

“Thank God it didn’t rain longer.”

I watched my city prioritize its priorities. Only the most important of it all made the cut. They didn’t risk it if it wasn’t worth it.

I do the same thing when a dust storm rolls in. Driving in the middle of this wild wind doesn’t seem worth it unless a friend of mine is stranded. A run to Target, however, just seems absolutely pointless.

The night I was inducted into my sorority, a storm rolled in so fast and so hard this whole city got whiplash. Police cars directed traffic and friends called me frantic. “Will you make it? Are you coming?” they all kept asking.

As the door to Chitwood

went bursting open, the raindrop-filled wind busting in like it was wanted, we decided the voyage down Broadway was worth it.

Shoes off our feet and hair tucked into our rain jackets, we ran out to the car and prayed the storm would stop quickly. “Avoid 18th,” we had been told, so we set out toward the Marsha Sharp Freeway, and as we got closer, the tires started floating.

We turned around and headed toward the Will Rogers and Soapsuds statue. We parked next to his walkway and tiptoed all the way down Broadway.

When we got there, we realized the ceremony wasn’t what made Sigma Phi Lambda our own, but how hard we worked to join it. Running through a storm to receive a little Greek letter pendant initiated us more than when we actually got it.

I am not sure that night would have been as special or as memorable if it hadn’t been for the rain making me realize my how much I cared about it.

I guess that’s just how weather works — it makes us realize what we really think is important. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

Trump, Clinton win big in northeast primaries

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declared at his victory rally in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York.

With Clinton’s three victories, she is now has 88 percent of the delegates she needs to become the first woman nominated by a major party. Clinton kept her focus firmly on the general election as she spoke to supporters Tuesday night, urging Sanders’ loyal supporters to help her unify the Democratic Party and reaching out to GOP voters who may be unhappy with their party’s options.

“If you are a Democrat, an independent or a thoughtful Republican, you know that their approach is not going to build an America where we increase opportunity or decrease inequality,” Clinton said of the

GOP candidates. She spoke in Philadelphia, where Democrats will gather in July for their nominating convention.

Sanders, in an interview with The Associated Press, conceded that he has a “very narrow path and we’re going to have to win some big victories.”

Trump’s victories in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island padded his delegate totals, yet the Republican contest remains chaotic. The businessman is the only candidate left in the three-person race who could possibly clinch the nomination through the regular voting process, yet he could still fall short of the 1,237 delegates he needs.

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perately trying to keep Trump from that magic number and push the race to a convention fight, where complicated rules would govern the nominating process. The Texas senator and Ohio governor even took the rare step of announcing plans to coordinate in upcoming contests to try to minimize Trump’s delegate totals.

That effort did little to stop Trump from a big showing in the Northeast, where he picked up at least 82 of the 118 delegates up for grabs. Despite his solid win in Pennsylvania, the state’s primary system means 54 of the delegates elected by voters will be free agents at the GOP convention, able to vote for the candidate of their choice.

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Tech plays last nonconference series

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Starting at 1 p.m. today at Lovelace Stadium, the Red Raiders open doubleheader action against North Texas, its last nonconference opponent of the 2016 season.

Since taking one game away from the Texas Longhorns at home, the Red Raiders have gone on a five-game losing streak away from their home field.

In its last home series, Tech ended a seven-game losing streak by taking its final two games against the Iowa State Cyclones at home.

Prior to facing the C y c l o n e s , Te c h c o a c h Adrian Gregory said the team hit a mental slump after dropping a 3-1 loss to the Abilene Christian Wildcats, a first in program history.

At the beginning of the Iowa State series, Tech lost 8-6, as Iowa State

poured in six runs at the top of the sixth. Tech went on to win the series by taking the second game 5-3 and finishing out the final game with a run-rule 13-5 victory.

At the close of Tech’s last series, junior catcher Susan Welborn said the wins Tech earned to end its losing streak gave the team a boost when it needed it the most.

“It’s really important because a win is a win,” Welborn said. “You can’t argue with that, but we really needed these wins.”

Standing at a 21-26 overall record, Tech faces a North Texas team with an identical record at 21-26 and experience facing Big 12 talent.

Like Tech a few days back, North Texas finds itself in a slump, as its last seven games have gone down as losses, and during the stretch, opponents shut out North Texas on three occasions.

Despite the current state of North Texas, the team has achieved success against Big 12 competition.

At the start of the season, North Texas defeated thenranked No. 21 Baylor at Baylor’s home field.

Although the Red Raiders face an opponent at a low point of the season, winning games away from the home has challenged them. At eight wins to 21 losses away from home, Tech needs momentum in the season as its last two opponents in the Big 12 include the top two teams in the conference, Baylor and Oklahoma.

After Tech’s win over the Cyclones, Gregory said the team looked free and full of joy, something it missed during its mental slump.

“I just thought we loosened up all together and controlled what we should have controlled,” Gregory said. @DGaytanDT

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Texas Tech designated player Jessica Hartwell high fives coach Adrian Gregory as she rounds third base after hitting a home run against Iowa State on Sunday at Rocky Johnson Field. Tech run-ruled the Cyclones 13-5 in five innings to close out the series.

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Red Raiders jump in rankings Tech lands at No. 9 in rankings After taking a share of the Big 12 Conference regular season championship, the Texas Tech men’s tennis team moved up to No. 8 in this week’s Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Rankings, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Having a 26-4 overall record, the Red Raiders set a new single season mark for win totals after the team beat No. 19 Texas and No. 4

Texas Christian last weekend. Tech was able to end TCU’s winning streak and seize the No. 1 seed in the Big 12 tournament, according to the release.

The men’s tennis team has defeated four top 10 ranked teams this season, including No. 5 TCU, No. 7 Georgia, No. 9 Florida and No. 10 Oklahoma.

Tech has two singles players in individual rankings as

well. Senior Felipe Soares is ranked as the No. 18 player and senior Hugo Dojas is ranked No. 110. Soares and Dojas secured the No. 10 spot in doubles as well, according to the release.

The Red Raiders will go head to head against either No. 15 Oklahoma State or No. 42 Baylor for the semifinals round in the Big 12 tournament at noon on Saturday. @TheDT_sports

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The Texas Tech Lady Raider tennis team moved up to the No. 19 spot in this week’s rankings for the Oracle/ITA Collegiate Rankings, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Tech, going 21-4 overall for the season, matched the program best win total after sweeping Iowa State and West Virginia last weekend. After finishing the regular season in a five-way tie for second place in the Big 12 Conference, the

Lady Raiders will take the No. 3 spot at this week’s Big 12 tournament, according to the release.

This is the first time in school history the women’s tennis team has been ranked in the top 20 for the entire 2016 season. Joining Tech in the ITA’s top 25 rankings are Big 12 opponents No. 15 Oklahoma and No. 24 Texas.

Tech also has individuals in the rankings. Sophomore Sarah

Dvorak moved up 11 spots to No. 88 and sophomore Gabriela Talaba holds the No. 100 spot.

In women’s doubles, freshman Alex Valenstein is ranked No. 50 overall with junior Lynn Kiro, and No. 90 with Talaba, according to the release.

The Lady Raiders will face off against No. 24 Texas for the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 tournament at 3 p.m. on Friday. @TheDT_sports

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points and the Toronto Raptors held on for a 102-99 victory over the Indiana Pacers and a 3-2 lead in their first-round series Tuesday night when Solomon Hill’s 3-pointer was ruled after the buzzer.

The Raptors overcame 39 points from Paul George and a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter, getting 14 points from Kyle Lowry.

Bismack Biyombo had 10 points and 16 rebounds for the second-seeded Raptors, who can clinch the first seven-game playoff series victory in franchise history

by beating the Pacers in Indiana on Friday night.

George Hill had 15 points and Myles Turner 14 for the Pacers, who led by as many as 17 and never trailed through the first three quarters before coming unglued in the fourth.

Jonas Valanciunas scored 11 and rookie Norman Powell had 10 for Toronto.

The Pacers made 13 of 29 from 3-point range but struggled from all over the floor in the fourth, making four of 15 shots and scoring just nine points in the period.

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Red Raiders look to bounce back against Wildcats

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

After losing a Big 12 Conference series for the first time this season, the No. 10 Texas Tech baseball team will attempt to get back on track with a midweek game against Abilene Christian.

The game will be played at a neutral site in Midland today. Originally, the two teams were also scheduled to play in Abilene on Tuesday, but that game has been rescheduled for May 10.

Tech is coming off its worst week of the season, going 2-3.

The team split a two-game midweek series against New Mexico after losing the second game in extra innings.

Tech then allowed Texas to rally and win on Saturday, and the Red Raiders were run-ruled on Sunday, losing their first conference series all season.

“It’s definitely a learning moment. Baseball, I think this can happen,” Tech coach Tim Tadlock said. “I got no doubt the guys will respond and prepare for the next opportunity we have.”

Even with the rocky weekend, the Red Raiders

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Texas Tech infielder Cory Raley runs to first base during Tech’s 17-1 loss to Texas on Sunday at Rip Griffin Park. The team will look to bounce back against Abilene Christian today after losing its first Big 12 Conference series to Texas. remain in first place in the Big 12 with a 12-3 conference record. Texas Christian is two games behind them in second place.

Abilene Christian is 1324 overall and got swept by Sam Houston State over the weekend.

The Red Raiders and the Wildcats played each other in three separate midweek games last season, with Tech winning all three.

The first of the three meetings was a marathon game in which Tech won in the 16th inning, the longest

game in school history since 1966, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Despite the Wildcats lackluster record, senior catcher Tyler Floyd said the Wildcats always come to play against them.

“We are still in a good

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spot. We got a big week coming up,” he said. “It does suck to lose, but we still feel like we are in a good position.”

Tech posted only one run on Sunday’s series finale against Texas, but numerous Red Raiders hitters still had

productive weekends.

Sophomore outfielder Tanner Gardner hit .500 over the three game series and has reclaimed the conference’s top batting average at .397 for the season.

He has also been on base more than half the time this season with a .505 onbase percentage.

By stealing a careerhigh two bases on Saturday and three bases for the series, senior designated hitter Cory Raley is now third in the Big 12 with 12 stolen bases this season, according to the conference website.

Raley has not been caught stealing once this season.

“We worked a lot on it in the fall, just getting good reads,” he said. “We just try to press the issue a little bit.

Trying to be more aggressive and get into scoring position for other guys.”

Ta d l o c k d i d n o t a nnounce his starting pitchers against Abilene Christian, but has used freshman southpaw Erikson Lanning and junior southpaw Ty Damron over the last couple of midweek series.

Lanning is the more likely pitcher of the two because Damron threw one inning against Texas on Sunday. @JeremyK_DT

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he Dallas Mavericks failed to get out of the first round of the NBA playoffs once again when they lost in Game 5 to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night.

After the game, Dirk Nowitzki assured all Mavs Fans for Life they had not just watched his final season. In fact, the sixth all-time leader in scoring in NBA history has said that he wants to play 20 seasons, which would be two more years.

“I definitely won’t retire,” Nowitzki said on ESPN.com.

“That’s out of the question.

I felt great this year. I feel like I can still play efficient enough to be there for the team. No, retirement is no question at all.”

Nowitzki also said he wants to play for the Mavericks for the remainder of his career, as long as they are not rebuilding.

The problem with that is the Mavericks have been stuck in the middle ground

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of the NBA since winning a title in 2011. Dallas has only missed the playoffs one time since then, but has also not made it out of the first round since 2011.

Many MFFLs are tired of being a mediocre team and believe the only way for the franchise to become a contender again is to tank and rebuild with draft picks.

This has left owner Mark Cuban with an ultimatum this offseason: continue to sign aging players around Nowitzki for the two next seasons and be an average team or let Nowitzki go and tank for the foreseeable future.

For me, the answer is a no-brainer. Pay Dirk for as

long as he wants to play and put as many decent players around him that you can.

Nowitzki has done so much for the franchise and now they owe him.

He brought Dallas a championship, has led them to the playoffs nearly every year of his career and has accepted massive pay cuts to allow Cuban to attempt to land a big-name free agent.

The franchise has failed Nowitzki numerous times with the roster they have put around him and Nowitzki has always delivered for them.

Because Nowitzki is still such a productive player at his age, it would also be impossible to tank with him on the team. But forcing the Big German to retire before he is ready, or even worse, have to watch him play out his final seasons with another team, should not even be options for Cuban.

Even if it means delaying

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Complications from two back surgeries had sidelined him for the defending champions’ record start, then Kerr found his way into the huddle again on Jan. 22 after a nearly four-month leave of absence.

And on Tuesday, he earned NBA Coach of the Year honors for his Warriors’ record 73win season that topped the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls team he played for that went 72-10.

“There were moments I didn’t know if I would get back at all this season,” Kerr said as Golden State prepared for Wednesday’s playoff Game 5 against

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Philadelphia and Minnesota have been tanking for what seems like a decade and are still terrible.

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