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The Daily Toreador to reduce publication days in fall Beginning Aug. 28, The Daily Toreador will reduce print publication to two days a week in the fall and spring semesters from its current four-day print publication schedule.

Print editions will be issued on Mondays and Thursdays each week, and The DT will

publish daily on its website and social media platforms.

“Reducing the print edition to two days a week will provide more time for our student employees to create digital content and give our students the digital skills and experience the job marketplace

demands,” Susan Peterson, director of Student Media, said.

La Ventana yearbook will be a year-in-review publication rather than a traditional yearbook, she said. The book will be marketed toward alumni and students.

Student Media will continue to

offer out-of-classroom experiences for students and provide the university community with news as it happens, Peterson said.

The changes to the publications were approved by the Student Media Committee, which is comprised of student

and faculty members.

“Both of these moves mirror what is happening at college student media programs across the country,” she said. “We are taking the necessary steps to advance Student Media forward.” @DailyToreador

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Texas Tech freshman infielder Grant Little hits the ball against TCU during the last game of their weekend series on Sunday at Dan Law Field. Tech run ruled TCU, 21-3, in seven innings.

By ALEXA BOUTWELL Sports Editor

fter falling in game one of the three-game home series, No. 8 Texas Tech rallied back to clinch the series over No. 5 TCU with two victories over the Horned Frogs on Sunday. This was the ninth sold-out Big 12 Conference game of the season.

Game two of the three-game series resumed at 11 a.m. while game three began at 2 p.m. at Dan Law Field. Tech defeated TCU in game two, 6-4, to even the series at 1-1.

The Red Raiders managed to clinch the series in game three after run ruling the Horned Frogs in seven innings, 21-3.

Tech now has an overall record of 36-12, a home record of 19-5 and a conference record of 11-7, according to Tech Athletics. This puts the Red Raiders on a two-game winning streak.

“I really think we need to focus on getting better each and every day,” Tech coach Tim Tadlock said. “We’ve kind of gone through a lot of stuff with Tanner (Gard-

ner) going down, Davis (Martin) going down, Michael Davis going down, and really had to pull together and fight. The guys showed a lot of resilience today.”

Game three of the series was an offensive showing by both teams, as the Red Raiders and the Horned Frogs registered multiple runs in the first inning.

Sophomore right-handed pitcher Ryan Shetter started on the mound for the Red Raiders and senior righthanded pitcher Brian Howard was the starter for the Horned Frogs.

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In the top of the first, TCU capitalized early to take the 2-0 lead. Senior infielder Cam Warner hit a sacrifice fly out to right field, which allowed the runner on third to score, 1-0. TCU continued to rally as sophomore right-handed pitcher Dalton Brown hit an RBI single to shortstop that sent junior infielder/ outfielder Connor Wanhanen home and make it a two-run lead.

In the bottom of the first, Tech capitalized on offense to take the lead over TCU, 3-2. Freshman infielder Grant Little was first to bat

and squared up at the plate for a single to right field to give Tech its first baserunner. The bases were loaded with no outs after a wild pitch on ball four allowed freshman infielder Josh Jung to move to first.

Freshman infielder Brian Klein registered the first run for Tech after hitting a sacrifice RBI, 2-1.

Tech’s momentum continued to build as junior infielder Orlando Garcia hit a two RBI single to left field to take the lead over TCU.

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Tech Burkhart Center hosts events during O’Rourke promises to unseat weekend in honor of autism awareness Cruz at Lubbock campaign stop

By KIRBY WARNER

By MICHAEL CANTU

To raise awareness for autism, the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research hosted two events over the weekend where participants get an opportunity to help the cause.

The first event was Biking for the Burkhart, a cycling class at Cyclebar Lubbock that lasted from 2:30–3:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Rebecca Beights, a graduate student from Lubbock studying special education, said she chose Cyclebar as the location for the event because she is a fan of the facility and its “cycle-giving” rides for charity organizations.

“I organized this, Biking for the Burkhart,” Beights said, “the day before our annual walk as kind of a warm-up celebration and fun event prior to our big yearly event.”

About 30 people signed up for the event, Beights said, and the money raised from Biking for the Burkhart

The crowd was squished wall to wall noon on Sunday waiting for the chance to listen to the young representative from El Paso, Beto O’Rourke, speak.

The 44-year-old Democrat is running for a United States Senate seat to take over Sen. Ted Cruz’s spot. As part of a small tour, O’Rourke is meeting with potential voters around the state, and on Sunday, he hosted a campaign stop in the Tornado Gallery at 1822 Buddy Holly Ave. On Saturday, O’Rourke was in Amarillo, and late last week, he was in the Odessa/Midland area.

The small venue was filled to the brim and once he set foot in the entrance, the crowd began applauding his arrival. To introduce O’Rourke to the venue, Stuart Williams, chair of the Lubbock County Democratic Party.

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Participants walk along the field during the Burkhart Walk for Autism Awareness on Sunday at the John Walker Soccer Complex. There was a variety of games and activities for participants to take part in. and donations from the walk will be used for clinical services and research at the Burkhart Center.

The second event, the Burkhart Center Walk for Autism Awareness, was hosted at the John Walker Soccer Complex from 2–4 p.m. on Sunday.

Janice Magness, the director of the transition academy for young adults at the Burkhart Center, said this was the 12th consecutive year the Autism Awareness walk has been hosted.

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Beto O'Rourke, U.S. Representative from El Paso, speaks to a Lubbock crowd during his campaign stop on Sunday in the Tornado Gallery.

O'Rourke is running against Ted Cruz for Texas senator in 2018.

Paso, I feel struck by how much West Texas is in him,” Williams said. “What you see is what you get, and I think that is something we are sorely missing right now.”

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Researchers create clothes for Alzheimer’s patients

By BRANDI ADDISON Staff Writer

Texas Tech researchers and students designed clothes for patients with Alzheimer’s to benefit the patients, their families and their caregivers.

The idea behind the designs was to create apparel for Alzheimer’s patients that were both easy to function and aesthetically pleasing.

Su-Jeong Hwang Shin, associate professor and program director for Apparel Design and Manufacturing, said she thought most modern clothes designed for Alzheimer’s patients looked like pajamas, and she wanted to change that.

After starting the project in 2015, Shin said she learned there are not as many studies for Alzheimer’s as there are other illnesses. “ C a n c e r, w e a l r e a d y

know things about,” Shin said. “There are so many studies out there and so many information is out SHIN there about breast cancer and other cancers. But, when I tried to read about Alzheimer’s, I found out there are unknown facts. No one knows why they have issues undressing or why they’re slowly losing their memory.”

There was a lot to find out about the disease with such little resources and information available to the public, she said.

“We tried to understand the families’ views,” Shin said. “We tried to understand the patients’ views, and we tried to understand caregivers’ views and how they look at clothing and what type of function would help caregiv-

ers to dress them easily or (how) the clothing could help the patient, themselves.”

Individuals tend to care more about people who are well-dressed, she said, and this brought up the thought of whether patients with Alzheimer’s would be treated differently if they were better dressed.

When at the assisted livings and nursing homes, she noticed the way patients dressed influenced the feelings of family members, she said. If the family saw the patient was not as welldressed, it upset the family members more.

Functionally, the clothing she created can help them in their independence, and they can dress and undress themselves. However, she said the design also helps prevent the patients from undressing themselves throughout the day.

“This type of clothing is

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Jessie Dotray, a junior plant and soil science major from Lubbock, and Grant Coffey, also a junior plant and soil science major from Lubbock, label plants at the Texas Tech Horticultural Gardens plant sale on Saturday. The next sale will be hosted from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 10.

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Former anchorman tries politics after girlfriends on-air murder BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The tipping point for Chris Hurst came last fall while reporting on a shooting at a rail car factory. When the camera turned off, he wept.

Just more than a year earlier, the 29-year-old’s reporter girlfriend was gunned down while conducting an interview on live TV. Now, Hurst was using the same truck that Alison Parker had used the last day of her life to

report live from the scene of another shooting.

Hurst realized he needed a drastic life change.

The former TV anchor is now running for political office, challenging a National Rifle Association-backed candidate for a competitive Virginia state House seat in a firearm friendly part of the state. Hurst sees it as a way to honor the memory of the woman he thought he’d

more complicated than what we normally wear,” Shin said, “because we have to know what Alzheimer’s disease is and what clothing issues they have and why this clothing is so important functionally and aesthetically.”

Leisha Womble, a junior human sciences major from Lubbock, said this study felt important to her because she knows people who have the disease.

“Part of what happens as the disease progresses, they start to have issues with their clothing,” Womble said.

“Not necessarily with what they want to wear, but they lose the ability to choose clothes that are appropriate.”

Womble said she then noticed that if the clothing made it difficult to dress or undress the patients, the caregivers tended to not help as much.

“So, I started to look for something that was really

marry and to give back to the community that helped him through his darkest days.

“When we understand that life is fragile, does that mean we give up and say life ain’t worth it? No,” Hurst said at a local Democratic committee meeting in March.

“That’s when we say it is worth it, and we do what we can when we’re here to try to help another person.”

Hurst was living with Parker when she and cameraman Adam Ward were fatally shot while reporting for WDBJ-TV in August 2015. The gunman, Vester Flanagan, posted video of the attack online and killed himself hours later.

After the shooting, Hurst became the public face of the grieving Roanoke station, bringing him national attention and a large social media following. That helped him become one of the top House candidate fundraisers last reporting period.

Williams used his speech to voice his critiques of Cruz and his lack of representation in the West Texas area. Besides the fact that O’Rourke is running as a Democrat, Williams said the Lubbock Country Democratic Party supports him because of his ability to work in a bipartisan manner.

I n e a r l y J a n u a r y, O’Rourke was also able to make a quick trip to the South Plains to visit some of the farmers, business owners and manufacturers around the area, Williams said.

“I’ve seen that no one, in frankly either party, was listening to us and paying us much mind,” Williams said.

“I’ve met a lot of people in politics, and I’ve thought seriously about it. And I knew that Beto O’Rourke was the one person who understood what people need and feel in West Texas.”

After Williams’ introduction, O’Rourke made his way to the stage and began his speech, which was centered around Cruz’s lack of leadership, and President Donald Trump’s failed policies regarding a southern border wall and health care reform.

But for this campaign, O’Rourke said he is fighting an uphill battle. Texas is a primarily Republican state and one of the last Democratic senators from Texas was Robert Krueger in the early 1990s.

However, the strong Democratic contingent O’Rourke united on Sunday has high hopes of changing that. Many of O’Rourke’s supporters are against most of Trump’s policies and are

easy for the caregivers to deal with and was attractive, so he looked nice,” Womble said. “When I took my children and grandchildren, if he had on something that looked like pajamas and like he should have been in bed, it bothered them because they didn’t understand why their papa was wearing his pajamas all day.”

Because of this, Womble said she started searching for outfits that were nicer, such as golf shirts and shorts. When this happened, she noticed the caregivers treated the patients more professionally because they were nicely dressed.

She also noticed the patients themselves were more alert and more willing to participate in activities when they were dressed up.

If they were in pajamas or a robe, they would go to sleep, she said.

The design the two

came up with is a sportswear shirt with a Tech logo on the front, sewed to a black pair of shorts that have Velcro on the sides, so the patient can put on his clothes while still wearing his shoes. A zipper was added to the back, so it would be easier for caregiver to dress and undress the patient.

Garments currently on the market cost about $100 per outfit, she said, which is why she and Shin wanted to help. They created the prototype garment and are now seeking families of Alzheimer’s patients to complete a survey for the study.

As compensation for their time, the families will receive a garment.

“It started becoming a quality-of-life thing,” Womble said. “I thought, you know, ‘This is really making a difference.’”

looking for representation in Washington, D.C. to voice their doubts and grievances.

“There was supposed to be a showdown over a border wall, and (Trump) wanted the American people to make a down payment of $1 billion on a 2,000-mile, 30-foot high, pure concrete wall from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, California,” O’Rourke said. “Two of the safest cities, with El Paso in the center, the safest city in America, according to FBI crime statistics.”

It was the cheers from the crowd that fueled O’Rourke’s points on the border wall. He went on to say it was callers from all around the country, mainly West Texas, who lodged complaints against the legislation and budget allocations that would have allowed the wall to come about.

This was the same reason many Republican politicians backed out of voting for a bill that would have replaced former President Barack Obama’s health care law, he said.

“That was 100 percent o n y o u . Yo u l i t u p t h e phones, melted down the switchboard, let your representatives, your senators at the White House know that you weren’t going to stand for that,” O’Rourke said. “You weren’t going to waste money at a time that the border has never been more secure.”

Even though those who support the campaign do so wholeheartedly, O’Rourke said it is the numbers that worries him and the people with his campaign. Getting the campaign launched was difficult, too, and there were many people close to O’Rourke and his family who advised against starting.

Several polls show

there are many Texans who are satisfied with their senators, Cruz and John Cornyn, O’Rourke said.

Results from a poll done by Texas Tech’s Earl Survey Research Lab show that support for Cruz is relatively high, and he has a 47 percent approval rating among registered voters.

“It’s been almost 30 years in the wilderness since a Democrat has been elected,” O’Rourke said. “The last time somebody from El Paso, Texas, was elected statewide was never.”

However, a recent poll from Texas Lyceum shows O’Rourke is tied with Cruz at 30 percent. So, although turnout numbers in O’Rourke’s rallies may not be anywhere near what Cruz might get, O’Rourke said there is still a strong chance his grassroots campaign can win the election.

O’Rourke also has confidence in his fundraising abilities, and he said he hopes that not taking money from political-action committees and large corporations will win him over with progressive Democrats across the state. But that does fuel the need for a large amount of donations to O’Rourke’s campaign from supporters.

Now, he is spreading out his call to action and getting rally-goers to both volunteer and register. As of now, the outlook looks bleak, but with a bit of momentum, O’Rourke said his campaign may be able to win the seat.

“In Texas, especially in rural Texas, if you can’t shake a man’s hand, if you can’t look him in the eye, you don’t know what he’s going to do,” Williams said.

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2 dead after charter bus crash DELL CITY, (AP) — Texas Department of Public Safety authorities say two people are dead after a head-on crash involv-

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ing a pickup truck and a chartered bus carrying 34 coaches and athletes from seven El Paso high schools returning home from a regional track meet in Lubbock.

El Paso Independent School District officials identified one of the victims as a coach, 48-year-old Arcadio Duran Jr., from Irvin High School. Seventeen others

aboard the bus were hospitalized with injuries considered not life threatening.

Troopers said the other person killed was the driver of the pickup truck, 51-yearold Gary Lawson, of Hobbs, New Mexico.

The collision occurred early Sunday on U.S. Highway 62/180 in Hudspeth County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of El Paso.

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FALFURRIAS, (AP) — South Texas authorities say a man on the state’s Top 10 Most Wanted list has been returned to Brooks County where he faces trial for killing his wife five years ago by beating her with a 5-pound (2.27-kilogram) dumbbell.

Eusebio Deleon was captured Friday in Monterrey, Mexico, by U.S. marshals and Mexican police and brought to Laredo. On Sunday, Fal-

furrias City Administrator David Flores says he was returned to Brooks County.

The 44-year-old Deleon has been a fugitive from Falfurrias since December 2013 when a few weeks before a court date and out on bail he cut off an ankle monitor and fled. Besides murder, he’s accused of numerous other crimes, including criminal negligent homicide, assault and terroristic threats.

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By DAVID GAY

L a VIda Editor Drum Corps International provides an opportunity for students to participate in a professional marching band, traveling around the nation and performing their strenuous shows in competitions.

Johnathan Doerr, Texas Tech alumnus, is bringing Drum Corps to the Lubbock area with the Hub City Guardians.

According to its website, the Hub City Guardians are a regional drum corps attempting to apply to participate in DCI’s open class in 2018. This is the first regional version of The Guardians Drum & Bugle Corps based out of Houston.

In DCI, there are certain brass members, a drumline, a color guard and a front ensemble, according to its website. Woodwinds

and certain brass instruments cannot participate in the activity.

Doerr, the DOERR director of The Guardians, said he came up with the idea to expand the initial drum corps regionally while he was student teaching with the band program at Lubbock-Cooper High School. Doerr saw it as an affordable opportunity to participate in the drum corps activity for students who would not have had the chance otherwise.

Doerr said he wanted to bring back regional drum corps, something that was around in the past.

“The regional drum corps, back in the day, did a whole bunch of shows in one state or some of the states close by,” Doerr said. “They would partici-

pate in, for example, the Southwestern regional, the regional held in Texas where all the world-class corps get together in Texas. That model doesn’t exist anymore because there are not enough drum corps to make that happen.”

Nicole Baxter, a Tech alumna, the director of the Hub City Guardians and the assistant band director at Lubbock-Cooper High School, said she did not have any drum corps experience before Doerr reached out to her. It was always a dream of hers to participate, but she never had the chance because of the instrument she played.

“Growing up, I always wanted to do drum corps, but money was always an issue and time commitment was always an issue,” Baxter said. “I never was going to be good enough to do it because I

am a clarinet player, and I marched French horn on the side. I was OK. I was never stellar. I just knew that it was a really cool thing and something I really liked. I felt left out as I was growing up because I knew I would never get to do it.”

Baxter said this was the perfect opportunity to get involved with drum corps, something she has wanted to do for a long time. This regional drum corps gives students like her the opportunity to participate in this activity.

The goal of this re gional drum corps, Doerr said, is to bring more drum corps shows to Texas. Through more shows, drum corps is exposed to more people, and more people can be involved in the activity.

Doerr said he wants this regional drum corps

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to be as challenging as a normal drum corps would but at an attainable level.

“For example, if we have Texas Tech students that are participating and taking summer classes, this is going to be perfect for them because there is going to only be a week of time that they have to miss,” Doerr said.

“Hopefully, it’s during the middle of the summer sessions. That is what we are working towards.”

Starting in November, the Hub City Guardians will audition students from around the Lubbock area; surrounding cities like Amarillo, Midland and Odessa; and all the way to New Mexico, Doerr said. After the auditions, the directors of the Hub City Guardians will create a marching show around the participants.

Throughout the sum-

mer before auditions begin, Doerr said he and members of the Hub City Guardians team will be recruiting for people to join.

While it will be shorter than a normal, world-class DCI show, Doerr said he wants people to know it will be as challenging as a normal show, just shorter.

“We will be trying to do some very hard stuff in a very short amount of time,” Doerr said. “It’s going to be challenging, but that’s the point of drum corps.”

Doerr said he hopes the presence of the drum corps in Lubbock will expand people’s knowledge about it.

“Our end goal is to bring the community together,” Doerr said. “The marching arts, and arts in general, are very active in Lubbock. We want to show them that we can do something incredible.” @DavidGayDT

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Tech to host panel on opinion diversity Texas Tech will host a panel discussion entitled “Speaking Freely: The Need for Opinion Diversity” at 5:30 p.m. today in room 001 of the English and Philosophy building.

The panel will be hosted by Erik Bucy, the Formby professor of strategic communication in the College of Media & Communication, according to a Tech news release. Members of the panel include Sean Cunningham, the chairman

of the Department of History; Katie Langford, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies; and Rick Rosen, the interim dean of the Tech School of Law. The members of the panel will discuss tolerance and the importance of diversity in polarized times, according to the release. This panel discussion is free and open to the public. @DavidGayDT

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Mark Eslick, a senior applied arts and sciences major from Eddy, plays jumbo Jenga with friends during the event. Arbor Day was hosted at Memorial Circle and throughout the campus on Friday. Check out The Daily Toreador’s Arbor Day coverage at dailytoreador.com.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “Its primary goal is to just get people out,” Magness said, “to be aware of autism, that it’s the fastest-growing developmental disability currently in the United States, affecting 1 in 68 people born today.”

Magness said the center wants people who come to the walk to see that people who are on the autism spectrum can also lead normal lives.

For the walk itself, teams signed in at the soccer complex’s gates with a donation box by the sheets, and then walked in a circle around the main soccer field while music played.

Wesley Dotson, the director of the Burkhart Center, said anybody can sign up as a team whether it is families, schools or community providers.

“This is one of the largest autism walks in the

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Journalists honor freedom at dinner WASHINGTON (AP) — Prominent Washington journalists, if not Hollywood stars, celebrated the First Amendment during the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, an event that lacked the glitter of past years because of the absence of the president of the United States.

President Donald Trump set his regrets for not attending.

state, even though we’re out here in West Texas,” Dotson said. “I think it always helps families to know that they’re part of a more broad community.”

Other activities were provided by multiple organizations at their tables, which were set up throughout the complex, such as

face painting by Raider Special Olympic Texas Volunteers and photo opportunities with cosplayers from Panhandle Pop Culture Ventures dressed as “Star Wars” characters and Disney princesses.

The walk and team building helps get the word out on autism and build support behind it, Magness said. “ Tw e n t y y e a r s a g o , there was not much,” Magness said. “People didn’t have much education about it. They didn’t know what it was, and basically, they were kind of afraid because they didn’t understand that autism is

not a disease.”

The most common misconception about autism is the assumption that those on the spectrum cannot function in society, Magness said.

Dotson said he hopes people leave the autism awareness walk with a feeling of community and a sense of hope for what those struggling with autism can accomplish.

“This walk comes back to community,” Dotson said, “and realizing you’re not alone and realizing just how many people there are out here, passionate and interested in this.” @KirbyWarner_DT

Hacker releases stolen copies of Netflix series SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A hacker claims to have followed through on a threat to release several episodes from the upcoming season of Netflix's hit series "Orange Is The New Black."

The hacker, who goes by the name The Dark Overlord, announced the

move on Twitter early Saturday. The post included a link to an illegal filesharing service where purportedly 10 episodes from the series' upcoming fifth season were available for download. The Associated Press could not legally confirm the authenticity of the uploaded files.

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f I started talking about House Bill 1938, would you read on and pay attention?

If I said this bill would save thousands of lives, would you listen then?

House Bill 1938 is the

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bill that deals with opting in or out of organ donation in the state of Texas.

Right now, when you go to get your driver ’s license, you can register as an organ donor.

This means when you die, the hospital can take certain organs and donate them to people waiting on the donor registry.

Currently, there are 125,000 men, women and children on the Texas Donor Registry. Sadly, 8,000 people die every year waiting for a transplant.

I have known people who have had their lives saved by a transplant.

They were given many extra years that allowed them to watch their grandchild’s birth or watch their children grow up.

With the new bill, people would automatically be organ donors rather, than the current default status of opting out.

People will be asked, as they get their license, if they would like to opt out of organ donation, making it seem counter-cultural to not participate.

Some people may choose to opt out because of cultural or religious beliefs. But, the majority of people who opt out are just uninformed about

Currently, there are 125,000 men, women and children on the Texas Donor Registry.

This is problematic because it reduces this huge life-changing choice to when you’re standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

You want to get out of there as fast as you can,

so you aren’t thinking critically about what this small question means.

And that doesn’t include all the 16- to 18-year-old people who are just getting their license. They may have no experience with what organ donation even is.

So, for those of you who may not know a lot about organ donation I have some facts from Donate Life America’s website for you.

First of all, organ donation saves lives. In fact, one person can save up to eight lives just by being an organ donor.

Second, organs, tissues and eyes can all be donated, but note that not every organ is donated.

Third, the most-needed organ is the kidney. About

80 percent of the donor registry consists of people waiting on a kidney.

Finally, nearly 8,000 deaths occur every year in the U.S. because organs are not donated in time.

Tragically, 22 people in this country die each day waiting for an organ.

To most people, organ donation just refers to a little heart-shaped symbol on their driver’s license.

However, to far too many people, it is the difference between life and death.

So, I urge you to take time to consider what this choice means to you, to your loved ones and to those waiting for a transplant. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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ensions have risen between North Korea and our beloved nation over the past month. With that, a certain feeling, one that scares me, has come to my mind: excitement.

When I turn on the television and see any sort of escalation in conflict, a fire stirs inside me.

I have been doing my best to keep these feelings at bay. And as I kept pushing them down, I realized somewhere deep in my past, I was conditioned to have these feelings.

This may not be how it is in other countries, but when I was around 10 years old, my friends and I thought war was the coolest thing out there.

Every day on the playground and in my backyard, we would play a g a m e j u v e n i l el y t i t l ed War. Conveniently, almost all of our toys were centered around combat.

We would fight each other with Nerf guns and would make G. I. Joe action figures fight each other. Even our non-war themed toys would be made to fight. I can recount many “wars” my

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friends and I would set up using nothing more than Beanie Babies.

We were hardwired for war. Nothing seemed more satisfying to my younger self than messing up the bad guys.

I recall my 10-yearold self telling my mom I couldn’t wait for World War III. T h a n k f u l l y, I w a s chided for making such a statement. But this was not the only time I uttered such a phrase.

On the playground, my friends and I made statements like this all of the time. And why would we not?

Our culture idolizes World War II as one of the greatest events in our history. Hundreds of movies and video games are made on the subject, and we don shirts that read, “Back-toback World War champs.”

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glory for themselves?

Not only do we idolize the combat soldiers in these wars by constantly imitating them, we also bask in the glory of atomic bombs.

I remember learning about hydrogen bombs and how they were hundreds of times more powerful than the bombs we dropped on Japan.

I thought that was the coolest thing ever. Excitement filled my innocent child heart as I learned about the magnitude of this bomb.

The other day, I caught myself thinking out the hypothetical of us dropping a hydrogen bomb on North Korea.

Obviously, this is not something anyone should want; it would be awful.

However, this hypothetical did excite me… for a second.

With regards to the age-old nature vs. nurture debate, I am not going to blame this all on nurture.

American culture is not solely to blame for children’s obsession with war.

It is in our human nature to become connected to a certain group and then feel the need to fight the outside groups.

I mean, this is the way gangs operate. And if anarchy broke out, rampant war is most likely what would happen. Therefore, it is somewhat natural.

Also, war has dominated the forefront of the human experience for the majority of civilization.

Children think in a more binary, black-andwhite sense.

Nothing seemed more satisfying to my younger self than messing up the bad guys.

World War II is a conducive subject for such thinking because there were clear-cut good and bad guys.

As I grew older and matured, this binary thinking dissipated. Stories and history became less black and white, focusing more on the grey.

Learning of more American wars like those in Vietnam and Iraq, the good-guy, bad-guy narrative became more di-

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luted. I am not saying I am against these wars, but I started to realize not every opponent killed therein was an evil person.

With regards to dropping nuclear weapons, I find solace in former President Harry Truman’s utilitarian justification because the bomb ultimately saved lives.

So far, I cannot see such rationale being applicable to Kim Jong Un’s pathetic regime of oppression. I do, however, hope he is handled.

Our forbearers who fought World War II — the greatest generation ever — are without a doubt amazing heroes.

They, along with all American soldiers, should be held in high esteem.

I just hope we can pay our respects to the greatest generation without conditioning our kids to love war.

Maybe, I am in the minority for having repressed thoughts of excitement when it comes to squashing North Korea and going to war.

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Tech swept by Oklahoma in series finale, 14-3

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Red Raider softball team fell to the Oklahoma Sooners, 14-3, in five innings Sunday at Rocky Johnson Field. The Sooners swept the series, with games two and three ending early because of run rules.

Tech is finished with Big 12 Conference play for the regular season. Tech is now 17-29 overall, 4-14 in conference play and 4-14 at home.

In Sunday’s game, Tech scored three runs in four hits and had two RBIs, according to Tech Athletics. Senior outfielder Kierra Miles, freshman outfielder Raina O’Neal and sophomore infielder Kiana Workman each scored a run for the Red Raiders. Senior catcher/infielder Susan Welborn also hit a double in the game.

“Anytime that you know that on your schedule, you’re going to finish your homestand with the reigning national champions, you always kind of expect it to be a challenge,” coach Adrian Gregory said. “I thought that our kids played hard, and I think that Oklahoma is an incredible ball club, and they do a lot of

things right.”

The Sooners scored 14 runs in 15 hits with 14 total RBIs. Freshman utility Nicole Mendes scored three runs in three hits, and sophomore infielder Shay Knighten also scored three runs, according to Tech Athletics.

Oklahoma started off its lead, 3-0, against Tech after scoring three runs from a single, a groundout and a fielder’s choice in the top of the first. The inning also featured Welborn attempting to tag out a Sooner, but the umpire called her safe at home plate. Gregory argued the call, but the decision stood.

Both Ramsey and Welborn were able to get on base, with Ramsey advancing to third and Welborn getting on second, but they were left stranded after Warnecke struck out, according to Tech Athletics.

“Clearly, I disagreed, but I’m not an umpire,” Gregory said. “He sees what he sees in that moment, and his opinion is the one that matters. So, I thought our kids sealed the plate off, and that is what a senior kid is supposed to do.

We had a senior make a great play, and I’m just fighting for my kids in that moment.”

The Sooners extended their lead, 5-0, in the top of the third by scoring two runs off a double. In the bottom of the third, Workman scored the first run for Tech after Ramsey hit a ground out, according to Tech Athletics.

Miles then scored a run off a Hartwell single to close the gap to 5-2 with Oklahoma still in the lead.

Knighten then hit a tworun home run in the top of the fourth to bring Sooners’ lead to 7-2. Pendley then hit her 12th home run of the season to make the score 102, according to Tech Athletics.

“I think that we attacked early, and they have a freshman pitcher that needs some experience a little bit, and I thought we took advantage of getting some pitches that we could hit,” Gregory said.

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Texas Tech sophomore outfielder Kiani Ramsey throws the ball back to the infield after picking up the grounder. Tech lost to Oklahoma, 14-3, on Sunday at Rocky Johnson Field. The Red Raiders were swept by Oklahoma in their final Big 12 Conference series of the season.

“I thought we ran the base pass pretty well. They gave us some extra bases, and we took them, and so, that is the challenge is to continue to do that and continue to look for opportunities to give yourself a chance. I thought our kids did that today.”

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Davis, who signed a contract with Atlanta Falcons, played four seasons for the Red Raiders and made appearances in 49 games, according to a Texas Tech Athletics news release. He compiled 1,301 yards in his career with 97 receptions and 18 touchdowns.

Davis also had an offensive role as one of Tech’s kick returners, where he averaged 22.7 yards per return. Possibly the most well-known play of Davis’ career came in the 2013 Holiday Bowl, when he returned a kickoff for a 90-yard touchdown in the 37-23 victory over Arizona State, according to the release.

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No. 7 Tech wins Big 12 Championship The No. 7 Texas Tech women’s tennis team defeated No. 9 Oklahoma State, 4-2, to win the Big 12 Championship on Sunday.

The win makes the Lady Raiders 24-4 overall this season, and 13-4 against nationally ranked opponents.

The championship match was played indoors, as was Tech’s semifinal match against Texas on Saturday. On Saturday, Tech and Texas started with singles play, but the championship match began with doubles.

The Lady Raiders started the day off by securing the double’s point with wins on court one and two. Juniors Sabrina Federici and Sarah Dvorak defeated senior Carla Tur Mari and junior Vladica Babic, 6-2.

The next match win came from doubles duo junior Gabriela Talaba and sophomore Felicity Maltby, 6-2, which gave Tech the 1-0 lead.

Talaba and Maltby’s win made them 18-6 overall in doubles this season.

Once single’s play started,

Tech increased its lead, 2-0, with a sweep from junior Sarah Dvorak over freshman Lena Ruppert, 6-0 and 7-5.

Tech came within one point of the win after No. 9 Talaba swept No. 7 senior Viktoriya Lushkova on court one, 6-4 and 6-4.

The win was Talaba’s 22nd win of the season, making her 22-6 overall.

Oklahoma State earned its first point of the match on court four. Oklahoma State’s Babic defeated Federici in two sets, 7-5 and 6-3, making the score 3-1.

The Cowgirls decreased the Lady Raiders’ lead, 3-2, with a three-set win from No. 70 freshman Aliona Bolsova against sophomore Alex Valenstein.

Tech wrapped up the match with a win from No. 62 Maltby against No. 49 senior Katarina Adamovic in three sets.

The 4-2 win marked the first time the Tech women’s tennis team has won the Big 12 Championship tournament, according to the Big 12 website.

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each had hits during the inning. Berglund, Little and Long each registered an RBI to take the 9-2 lead.

After shutting TCU out in the top of the fourth, sophomore left hander Dalton Horton took over for Morris on the mound.

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 After bases were loaded for the third time of the inning, the momentum was halted once a double play put three outs on the board and Tech held the one-run lead.

“It’s always fun to do that against TCU or any Big 12 school,” Garcia said. “It was a good time. The guys put together some good-quality at-bats. That’s all you can really do and the runs start piling up.”

The Red Raiders distanced themselves even further from the Horned Frogs with one run in the bottom of the second. Freshman utility player John McMillon hit a solo home run, his eighth of the season, to extend the lead, 4-2.

After putting the Horned Frogs away in the top of the third, the Red Raiders registered five runs in the bottom of the third to create a large gap between the two teams.

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It’s always fun to do that against TCU or any Big 12 school. It was a good time.

ORLANDO GARCIA JUNIOR INFIELDER Tech registered a total of seven runs at 26 at-bats during the bottom of the fourth to take a 14-run lead over TCU, 16-2. Senior infielder Hunter Hargrove, Garcia, Berglund, Farhat, Jung and Klein each registered a hit in the bottom of the inning.

Jung hit the third home run of the game followed by a triple from Klein and an RBI single from Hargrove. After the home run, Browns’ time

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Texas Tech freshman Alba Cortina-Pou hugs sophomore Alex Valenstein after the team won a share of the 2017 Big 12 title upon defeating Kansas on April 9 at McLeod Tennis Center. On Sunday, the Lady Raiders defeated the Oklahoma State Cowgirls to win the Big 12 Championship Tournament, 4-2. on the mound was done as freshman right hander Austin Boyles pitched for TCU. “I just thought we swung at good pitches and got ourselves into good counts,” Hargrove said. “Coach Tadlock always talks about quality at-bats and I don’t know how many we had today but we just squared a lot of balls up and it was good to see.”

After the Horned Frogs struggled to create offense again, Tech continued to put runs on the board and increase the lead, 19-2, in the bottom of the fifth with three runs and two home runs registered.

After pitching for five innings and striking out six batters with 99 total pitches, Shetter’s day on the mound was done and junior left hander Jacob Patterson took over on the mound for Tech.

The Horned Frogs failed to score for the fifth-consecutive inning as Tech had another chance at the plate.

TCU inserted its sixth pitcher of the game as freshman right hander Cal Coughlin stepped on the mound in the bottom of the

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Texas Tech freshman infielder Grant Little hits a line drive to Texas Christian in the last game of the weekend series. The game was hosted at 2 p.m. Sunday at Dan Law Field. Texas Tech run ruled TCU, 21-2, in seven innings. sixth. The Red Raiders tallied two more runs during their time at the plate to extend the lead to 21-2.

The Horned Frogs managed to register their first run in five innings with an RBI single from senior in-

fielder Mason Hesse to cut the deficit, 21-3. Patterson struck out two batters in the top of the seventh to close out the game with a win and a clinch of the series over TCU. “It’s baseball man,” Garcia said. “Sometimes it falls

and sometimes it doesn’t. Today it fell a little more than other days but like I said, we had a great time. Good vibes in the dugout the whole time and even in the bullpen. It was a great time.” @ABoutwellDT

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