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nternational students from nine countries performed traditional music and dance at the annual Worldwide Showcase on Saturday evening in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union Building.

Hosted each year by the International Student Council, Worldwide Showcase presents an opportunity for Texas Tech students to represent their countries and showcase their cultures through performing arts such as music, dance and poetry.

Elizabeth McDaniel, senior director of International Education and Enrollment Management at Tech, gave the welcome address.

“It is really wonderful that we have so many of you who are willing to share aspects of your culture with us,” McDaniel said during her speech, “so that we can better understand the world and the parts of the world that you are coming from.”

The audience was made up of a diverse group of students, staff, faculty and Lubbock community members.

The Allen Theatre was almost full, and some audience members carried their nation’s flags to show support.

The first event was a Bollywood fusion dance from the Indian group, Tech Kahaani. The 10-member group

performed a dance that combined contemporary hip-hop and Bollywood music with Indian classical dance forms such as Bharatanatyam.

“Bollywood is very well known here in America. So, we just wanted to showcase that,” Tess George, a member of the Tech Kahaani group, said. “We have (performed) for the last three years. It’s been a lot of fun, and we just like to showcase our culture.”

George is a senior human development and family studies major from Houston, and she said her family is originally from India.

Trinh Lam, a junior chemical engineering major from Vietnam, gave one of the two solo performances during the event. Dressed in the traditional red and yellow clothing of áo dài, Lam sang a Vietnamese song, “Em Trong Mat Toi,” which roughly translates to “How beautifully I see you.”

This is a song that describes the beauty of Vietnamese women, Lam said.

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1. Members of the Filipino Student Association perform in the Worldwide Showcase on Saturday in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union Building. The group performed three different dances that originated in the province of Pangasinam in Luzon, Leyte among the Visayan Islands, and Mindoro in Mindanao. 2. Trinh Lam, a junior chemical engineering major from Vietnam, performs in the Worldwide Showcase on Saturday. Lam sang a Vietnamese song, “Em Trong Mat Toi.” 3. Texas Tech students representing Indonesia performed a traditional dance originated in the land of Dayak Ketungau in West Borneo called Tari “Buka Umbong” in the Worldwide Showcase on Saturday. 4. Faraz Harsivi from Iran played multiple instruments and songs during his performance showcasing his talents as well as respect to multiple cultures and countries promoting peace at his performance in the Worldwide Showcase on Saturday.

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Three Red Raiders picked in NFL Draft

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

Three former Texas Tech football players were selected in the 2016 NFL Draft during the weekend.

Offensive lineman Le’Raven Clark was the first Red Raider to have his named called when the Indianapolis Colts picked him with the 82nd overall pick, which was in the third round.

According to a Tech Athletics news release, Clark is the fifth Red Raider taken in the third round or higher since 2009.

The offensive lineman played and started all 51 games over his four-year collegiate career. Clark is a three-time All-Big 12 first team player and a two-time All-American.

Clark helped pave the way for the offense to have a 1,000-yard rusher in back-to-back seasons in 2014 and 2015.

Running back DeAndre Washington ran for more than 1,000 yards this past season and was the next Tech player to

be selected in the draft.

The Oakland Raiders took Washington in the fifth round with the 143rd overall pick.

“It’s huge,” Washington said in the release. “The Raiders are a rich tradition organization — tradition runs deep. I know they have some die-hard fans out there, so I’m looking forward to getting out there and competing and having some fun and doing some big things for the Raider Nation.”

Former Red Raider Michael Crabtree also plays wide receiver for Oakland.

After finishing second in the Big 12 with 1,492 rushing yards in his senior season, Washington ranks fifth all-time in school history with 3,411 rushing yards.

The running back ran for a career-high 16 touchdowns during his senior season.

Wide receiver Jakeem Grant was the final Red Raider picked when the Miami Dolphins grabbed him in the sixth round.

“I have faith in myself that I feel like once you get the ball in my hands there’s nobody that can stop me,” Grant said in the release. “I haven’t had any injuries off the field, so I’m as healthy as a horse and fast, quick. Yes, I don’t have the size, but you can’t hit what you can’t catch.”

During his senior season, Grant ranked near the top of the country in receiving yards and all-purpose yards.

He finished his Tech career as the all-time leader in career receiving yards with 3,164, according to the release, as he passed Crabtree in his final game.

“I’m confident, self-motivated and that’s the type of guy I am. I want to show people that and how I don’t wish that I’m bigger than what I am. I commend my size. I love my size,” Grant said in the release. “I feel like I’m not blessed with the height, but I’m blessed in other areas that some guys do not have.”

The 2016 draft was the first time since 2009 that Tech has had at least three players picked in a draft. @JeremyK_DT

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criminatory language in conservative West Texas, even within the confines of a university setting.

Katie Miller, a senior nutrition major from Garland, became a member of Gay Straight Alliance at Texas Tech during her first semester at Tech. Miller, now the president of Gay Straight Alliance, said campus efforts at Tech have improved significantly over the last few years.

A Lubbock youth pastor visited the Gay Straight Alliance table during Diversity Week, which was hosted in March. He had visited previously as well, during last year’s Diversity Week celebration, Miller said. “(He was) basically going from person to person telling us how we were sinful and how we were going to go to hell,” she said. “He said that he had a son that was actually gay, and that’s how he knew that it was a choice.”

The pastor stayed for about an hour and a half before he decided to leave, Miller said. Ironically, Diversity Week is dedicated to celebrating and understanding the importance of diversity.

In the same vein, when gay marriage was legalized in the U.S. last year, several churches delivered sermons

on that topic. However, most of those sermons did not support gay marriage, Miller said.

At the same time, a few churches reacted differently, she said, and some of them even contacted the Tech Gay Straight Alliance to offer support for the LGBT community.

At Tech, members of the Gay Straight Alliance confront hate speech most often in the free speech area of the Student Union Building, Miller said, where they set up tables to inform the campus community about upcoming LGBT-related events.

“People usually tell us that we are desecrating flags, that we are not really American,” she said. “So, people, I guess, feel very relaxed to be able to come up to us and just call us really, really rude things.”

The Gay Straight Alliance owns three pride flags. While one of them is a regular rainbow flag, the other two are Texan and American flags that have rainbow colors in place of red and white.

Last semester, the flags were stolen immediately after Pride Week that was hosted in October, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador. In addition to such physical displays of hatred, certain individuals

continue the discriminatory discourse on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Yik Yak, Miller said.

“I think (such attitude) comes from lack of education and fear,” she said. “From lack of education comes fear, from fear comes discrimination, from discrimination violence. So, it’s a pattern.”

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theatrical mix of modern and traditional dances.

Anne Djedje, a junior petroleum engineering major from Ivory Coast and a member of the group, said the dance narrates the story of a young girl who rejects her traditional customs for a modern lifestyle. The girl’s mother, however, guides her as she travels back to embrace her lost culture.

“We (wanted) to show a different side of our culture,” Djedje said. “I like the idea of the Worldwide S h o w c a s e b e c a u s e i t ’s meant to promote diversity at Texas Tech.”

The other world regions represented at the Worldwide Showcase were Iran, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Korea, Nepal and Indonesia.

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rated the participant groups, and the Indonesian group was announced as the winner. The Indonesian group, PERMIAS, performed a traditional dance that narrates the legend of a beautiful lady.

Mark Webb, a judge at the event and a professor of philosophy at Tech, said he liked the idea of hosting the Worldwide Showcase because students do not often realize the opportunities for cultural exchange at a university.

“This is a rare thing, that they are going to be in the same community as people from all over the world, and they have got this chance to learn about things that they wouldn’t otherwise,” Webb said. “I hope they keep doing this for a hundred years.”

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“I chose it because this is a really meaningful song to the Vietnamese women,” she said. “It is also the song about the beauty of my country.”

I like the idea of the Worldwide Showcase because it’s meant to promote diversity at Texas Tech.

ANNE DJEDJE SHOWCASE PERFORMER A group of female students from West and Central Africa performed a

I didn’t feel comfortable with my living situation, and I just didn’t know where to go. I found comfort in GSA. REESE RAMSEY GSA OFFICER Hannah Skillman, a senior honors arts and letters major from Houston, has been a member of the Gay Straight Alliance for four years.

The persons who stole the flags may have been offended by the incorporation of the pride flag with the American flag, Skillman said. However, she sees this incorporation in a different light.

“I see it as just an expression of both being an American and being LG-

BTQ,” she said.

Reese Ramsey, a junior geography major from Petersburg and an officer for the Gay Straight Alliance, said he anticipated antiLGBT sentiment before ever setting foot on campus.

A native of West Texas, Ramsey is familiar to its conservative values.

When the Gay Straight Alliance hosts events with other campus departments or organizations, Ramsey said he cautions their members to be prepared for discriminatory language or displays of anti-LGBTQ sentiment.

“I was walking through the free speech (area), and I heard someone say that they wanted to ‘take the flag and shove it through our jugular,’” he said. “We had so many issues with this one, we just decided to hang it there.”

Now, the U.S. pride flag hangs in the Gay Straight Alliance’s cubicle in the Student Union Building.

Only the Texas pride flag and the regular pride flag are used during events, Ramsey said.

After numerous homophobic experiences, Ramsey said he has now developed a “thick skin” toward homophobia, and yet, that should not be the norm for individuals of the LGBT community.

As a freshman, Ramsey said he experienced a homophobic slur in a residence hall at Tech, which led him to join the Gay Straight Alliance.

“I didn’t feel comfortable with my living situation, and I just didn’t know where to go to. I found comfort in GSA,” he said. “I don’t want that to happen to anyone else. So, that’s what kind of made me want to join and become an officer with the GSA.” Miller will join medical school at the Health Sciences Center in the fall, and Ramsey will take over as the president of the Gay Straight Alliance. Tech has made significant improvements in supporting the campus LGBT community, Ramsey said. However, students must assist the administration in these efforts by reporting incidents.

Moreover, the Risk Intervention and Safety Education office at Tech offers several resources for reporting incidents, including the Campus Climate and Incident Reporting form that allows anonymous reporting, according to the RISE website.

“If there’s any issue, no matter how small, if you feel like it threatened you, you need to report it,” Ramsey said. @sastryshashi_DT

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The West and Central Africa group took part in the annual Worldwide Showcase in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union Building on Saturday. Members performed a mix of modern and traditional dances from Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Gabon.

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SGA begins work for upcoming year

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

The newly elected Student Government Association members are officially in office for the 2016-2017 school year as of Sunday.

The executive officers are already working on their initiatives to make Texas Tech a better place, and the senators will have the first meeting of the 52nd session Thursday, where they will begin working toward changes.

Landon Currier is a sophomore public relations major from Brawley, California, who serves as a senator for the College of Media and Communication.

The upcoming school year will be his second year serving as a senator, Currier said, and he is humbled to be serving again.

“I didn’t expect it, it’s really awesome. I didn’t think I’d be able to do it because there was more competition and I wasn’t able to put myself out there as much,” he said, “but in the last couple days of the election, I was able to push myself toward being elected again.”

Currier said he spent time talking to students and plans to use their feedback to make the College of Media and Communication better.

“I stood outside and I asked people what they thought we should do to make MCOM a better college,” Currier said. “Even though I was a senator last year and some people may have known me, I still had to connect with other people asking them how they felt and what they thought and made sure they knew I’m trying to help them as much as possible to make this school a better place.”

Caleb Richardson, a sophomore energy commerce major from Ropesville, said he worked hard to be able to serve as a firsttime Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration senator during the upcoming school year.

“It was a lot of work but our campaign managers did a really good job of telling us what we needed to do and how we could get elected,” Richardson said. “Moving forward, they told us we needed to

get out there. I met with organizations within the business college and told them to support me because I’m one of them and I could represent them.”

The senators both have initiatives they believe will make Tech a better place.

I’m really excited for what we have planned. I know the people who got elected, executive wise, as well as the senators on both sides of the campaign blocs, and they really want to change and make a difference at Texas Tech.

CALEB RICHARDSON SGA SENATOR Currier said the COMC senators already worked to provide free scantrons within the college and worked to get some SGA columns in The Daily Toreador, but now he wants

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to work on his main initiatives, which are better computer hours in the Media and Communication building, more researchbased classes and better Wi-Fi in the basement.

“A lot of students aren’t able to use the labs or print something when they need to, Currier said.

“I also want to work to get more research-based classes with hands-on activities to get real-world experience. MCOM does a great job of teaching what publ ic relations, media strategies, marketing and everything else is, but I think we need more classes where we go out there and apply what we’ve learned in the classrooms, and in my opinion, they should install their own Wi-Fi system in each classroom. I think that would definitely help the Wi-Fi situation.”

One initiative Richardson said he feels passionate about is 15-minute parking in front of a student’s respective college.

“You won’t have to worry about getting a ticket when you’re just running in to turn in a paper. You

can park closer, instead of walking a mile to turn in a paper that could take a couple of minutes,” Richardson said. “We’ve talked with executive and as senators, we need to get behind them to make this happen.

We need to work together to find a solution that won’t hinder parking.”

Currier said his favorite part about being a senator is meeting different people, but the most difficult part is finding a solution that satisfies everyone.

“My favorite thing is working with everyone and meeting different people from different organizations. We’re working toward more diversity throughout campus and being able to get everyone involved in something,” he said. “The most difficult thing is that feedback isn’t always favorable but you still have to do what’s right.

We have to get the scope of what everyone in MCOM wants and get the different opinions and bring it all together to determine what’s best for everyone.”

Richardson said as a first-time senator, he is most looking forward to

meeting the other representatives that will work with him in the senate.

“We all come from different backgrounds,” Richardson said, “but it’s cool to see everyone come together toward the same goal of making Texas Tech better.”

The senators said they are excited for the upcoming year and the plans the senate has.

“Many people from last year are coming back, so I think we’ll be able to work really well together,” Currier said. “We know each other and have experience, so I think we’ll be able to make more progress on campus. I think there are also a lot of great initiatives that the senate has to offer to the students.”

Richardson said the senate and executive officers all want to make Tech a better place for the students.

“I’m really excited for what we have planned,” Richardson said. “I know the people who got elected, executive wise, as well as the senators on both sides of the campaign blocs, and they really want to change and make a difference at Texas Tech.” @JessicaGuedeaDT

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AUSTIN (AP) — Apple has created more than 2,000 new jobs in Austin since 2012 and is on track to meet the area hiring goals it promised in exchange for millions of dollars in public incentives, according to documents filed with the city.

The technology giant is set to receive $35 million in tax incentives over the next several years from the city of Austin, Travis County and the state of Texas for an expansion of its operations in central Texas, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

Under the terms of the incentives package, which was signed in March 2012, Apple Inc. agreed to create more than 3,600 new full-time jobs in Austin in 10 years while retaining at least 3,100 existing full-time jobs year over year.

According to the agreement, the average wage for those new jobs is to be $54,000 a year in the first year of the expansion and will stretch to $73,500 in the 10th year.

Apple said last year that it was well ahead of hiring

projections. A more recent report — filed in March by Terry Ryan, Apple’s senior tax manager — indicated that the company continues to outpace the requirements.

As of Dec. 31, the total number of full-time Apple jobs in Austin was 5,102, according to the company’s report. That includes 2,089 new jobs created since 2012, according to the report — an average of more than 550 a year. The agreement calls for Apple to create 300 new jobs by the end of 2016.

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Sanders comeback possible, could be near end

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oming up soon are a series of primaries and caucuses that could bring the Bernie Sanders campaign to a comfortable position.

However, looking at the map of what the rest of the campaign trail holds, there seems to only be darkness at the end of his tunnel. Recently, Sanders has had to lay off more than 200 employees from his campaign and allocate resources toward the remaining contests.

After only winning Rhode Island last week, to Hillary Clinton’s other five victories that same night, the outlook is bleak for Sanders.

Though the campaign turned one year old this Saturday, it seems like such a celebration could be the end of things he has to celebrate.

I’ll be quite honest with

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

you; I’ve had a ton of hope in the Sanders campaign since the beginning.

However, I do think most of the blame for a slow rise in the general public’s dislike for Sanders has to do with most of his supporters.

It seems that because of the all-the-way-to-theleft mentality his supporters have shown some people have seen the too radicalized actions might be a bit too much for the United States. However, there was also much confidence lost in Sanders from a recent interview with the New York Daily News.

Many people thought Sanders’ answers to the editorial board’s questions were too dodgy and went around the questions.

This tornado of unfortunate actions, combined with lack of faith, has resulted in what we are seeing now.

This scares me a bit, because it shows that even though there is a large grassroots effort being put forth, there is no room for the little guy in the world of politics. There is a fading resonance of hope that is slowly going over the hill.

As bad as it seems, I think our dear Bernie is done.

However, this is all a guess, and the foresight of the media and political analyst have been proven wrong before as Sanders has bounced up to near the same level as his counterpart Clinton.

Projections have indicated there could be some hope in Sanders winning California. However, if he did that, he would need to win the remainder or majority of the contests with a 75 percent lead over Clinton.

Anything could happen, but Holy Jesus that sounds like an incredibly difficult thing to do.

There is also more of an uphill battle for Sanders because the super delegate count is not in his favor.

According to an article from National Public Radio, Clinton has more than 90 percent of the delegates needed, including superdelegates.

According to NPR, she also has more than 300 pledged delegates.

Another indicator of Sanders having trouble is the dip in fundraising his campaign saw at the end

of April.

According to The New York Times, Sanders was down by nearly 40 percent in fundraising, tapping out around $25.8 million. To give you a little bit of insight, Sanders’ best month was $46 million.

This tornado of unfortunate actions combined with lack of faith has resulted in what we are seeing now.

I think the dream of the young and old who had faith and confidence in Sanders is slowly burning out, which confuses me, because in many national polls Sanders can hold his own with Clinton or any of

the other Republican presidential candidates.

Once again, this lack of faith in the underdog has me worried as to the future of the nation. I take this as a slap in the face.

This shows that anyone who is going against the status quo and wants to shake some things up in the government cannot have their day to shine.

My main concern is the economic and environmental health of the nation is going to be traded in for each other.

Though I do not have a completely unfavorable opinion of Clinton, I must say and will continue to say I would prefer Sanders any day of the week.

Now all we have to do is change out the spark plugs to the car and hope that is the needed fix. @MichaelCantuDT

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Eisenberg’s performance not like previous characters

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ow that everyone has had the chance to go see the new movie, “Batman vs. Superman: The Dawn of Justice,” it should be easy to form an opinion on the movie and its characters.

This isn’t only a review of the movie, don’t worry there’s no spoilers, but it’s also largely an analysis of Jesse Eisenberg’s portrayal of the character Lex Luthor.

For those who may not be familiar with Alexander “Lex” Luthor, he is Superman’s archenemy in DC Comics.

He doesn’t have any powers, and according to the DC Comics website, Luthor views Superman as a threat. Luthor is “one of the world’s most brilliant minds” but his “equally immeasurable ego” is what creates this very powerful villain.

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

Even though Luthor doesn’t have any powers, his intellect and high place in society help him achieve his dark deeds.

Because he was so determined to become successful, and also because he had not much of a conscience, Luthor did anything it took to reach his goals, such as bribery, intimidation and even murder.

However, Luthor is too smart to get caught, so people actually look up to him as a hard-working individual and role model.

The website explains that when Superman began his rise in the world, Luthor

was “driven by jealousy masked with hate over what he perceives to be his stolen place as humanity’s true savior.” Even though Luthor is so consumed with this hate, he is much too smart to let anyone see him in a position of weakness.

In the movie, Jessie Eisenberg plays an interesting Luthor. Eisenberg is a great actor, but his spastic twitches and the way he presented himself seemed more like a form of the Joker from the Batman movies and comics, rather than Luthor. Even though Eisenberg did play a very interesting villain, it didn’t reflect the true type of Luthor.

The Joker is probably one of the most favorite villains of all time, so it makes sense that when trying to identify with a

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comic book villain Eisenberg would choose him, only because he’s the most interesting. In the movie Luthor seems very nervous, no doubt a genius, but gives off the feeling that he’s up to no good.

Eisenberg played an interesting villain, even though it’s not exactly the type of Lex Luthor that’s in the comic books.

Luthor in the comic book wouldn’t be so obvious; he’s impressionable and manipulative enough to get by without causing a scene. In the movie Luthor doesn’t perform the types of crimes the Joker does, it

was simply the demeanor Eisenberg gave his character that reminded me so much of the Joker.

According to the Rotten Tomatoes website, critics gave the movie a measly 28 percent on “freshness” meaning they liked it.

However, 68 percent of the audience voters liked it, which is usually how it goes between the critics and the actual audience.

I was surprised at how harsh the critics rated the movie. It was really good, especially in setting up the foundation for more DC movies to come.

“The Dawn of Justice” in the title implies the dawn of the Justice League, which is why they use some of the most famous characters from this comic series to start off.

I can’t help but wonder how the future movies

will turn out. The movie is good, not the best but definitely worth seeing, and the characters all help to set up for future movies.

Because Batman and Superman have so many movies on their own, it was a good idea to bring them together to introduce other characters, such as Wonder Woman, in the Justice League.

Eisenberg played an interesting villain, even though it’s not exactly the type of Luthor that’s in the comic books. I wouldn’t be surprised if Luthor’s character remained this way throughout future movies because I’m sure he was a big crowd pleaser, but I can also see the character evolving into someone a little bit more like the original in some cases. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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CA convention is homecoming of Malia Obama to take gap year sorts for VP hopeful Fiorina before entering Harvard in 2017 BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — When Carly Fiorina spoke at the California Republican Party convention at a hotel outside San Francisco airport, it was a brief homecoming of sorts for the newly minted vice presidential candidate.

Fiorina grew up in the Bay Area and became chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard there before plunging into politics with an unsuccessful run against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010. But this is no usual Republican presidential primary, and Fiorina’s appearance won’t quite be the return of a favorite daughter.

She’s running on a ticket with Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s mathematically eliminated from becoming the GOP presidential nominee unless the Republican National Convention is contested. Fiorina left California for Virginia shortly after losing her Senate race and didn’t pay several California operatives for years, until she was running for president herself this winter.

Even Fiorina’s return was basically a toe-touch. She flew in after a day of stumping in must-win Indiana, gave a brief speech punctuated with digs at Trump then rushed out to fly back to Indiana. But she brought the crowd to its feet Saturday night after a series of zingers aimed at the front-runner, mocking his insistence the previous day that he essen-

tially had the nomination sewn up.

“The 30-yard-line ain’t a touchdown. The 20-yard-line ain’t a touchdown. The 5-yardline ain’t a touchdown. It ain’t a touchdown until it’s a touchdown,” Fiorina said, adding: “I’m sorry, you cannot just throw an ‘R’ on your jersey and say you believe what our party stands for.”

Fiorina’s former home state is assuming outsized importance this primary season. Normally an afterthought in the presidential nominating contest, California’s 172 delegates that are up for grabs on June 7 may decide whether Donald Trump becomes the party’s nominee or if Cruz still has a shot to take the title on a second ballot at the Republican National Convention in July. Vice presidential selections rarely move votes in a general election, but Trump opponents are hopeful Fiorina can help Cruz in the Golden State’s primary.

“She campaigned in this state very well, she won with these voters,” said Rob Stutzman, a GOP operative helping with efforts to defeat Trump in the primary, referring to the base GOP voters who backed Fiorina in 2010.

“She was a good Republican candidate here. She’s the perfect surrogate for Cruz.”

Fiorina won a bruising Republican primary in 2010, outflanking her opponents

from the right to become the party’s nominee to take on Boxer, a liberal who was viewed as vulnerable in the 2010 Republican wave. But Fiorina was trounced in the general election, losing by 1 million votes after being hammered for her stewardship of Hewlett Packard and role in outsourcing jobs overseas. Still, she won more votes in this overwhelmingly Democratic state than other Republican candidates for statewide office that year and displayed a hard-charging campaign style that endeared her to many Republicans.

State party chairman Jim Brulte said Fiorina was the first presidential candidate to respond to his invitation to appear at the state party convention that he issued to the entire presidential field in January, when she was still a contender for the top office. “That’s probably because I sent it to her personal email account,” he said.

Cruz spoke to the convention Saturday afternoon and highlighted his running mate, saying she’d be the first Californian on a national ticket since Reagan, although she lives in Virginia, home to many national political aspirants. Still, his references drew cheers and when he asked attendees if they knew why he picked Fiorina, one shouted, “Because she’s good!”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia will take a year off after graduating high school in June before enrolling at Harvard University in 2017, a year later than had been widely expected, the president and his wife said in a long-awaited announcement Sunday.

Harvard encourages admitted students to defer for one year to travel, pursue a special project or activity, work or spend time in another meaningful way. The student must not enroll in a program at another college that would grant the student a degree.

Malia, who turns 18 in July, is the elder of the Obamas’ two daughters. She is a senior at the exclusive Sidwell Friends school in the District of Columbia, which claims another first daughter, Chelsea Clinton, among its alumni.

Malia is set to graduate high school in June. Her sister, Sasha, 14, is a freshman at Sidwell.

Obama has talked about dreading the day when Malia leaves for college. Her decision to take a gap year could keep her closer to home as her family prepares for the major transition coming next year: leaving the White House and returning

to private life. Obama plans to live in Washington for a few more years so Sasha can finish high school. The president and his wife, Michelle, still own a home in Chicago.

Gap years are more common in Europe and Australia than in the U.S., according to the Portland, Oregon-based American Gap Association.

But a growing number of gap year programs suggest increasing popularity in the U.S. “It’s definitely gaining momentum,” said Ethan Knight, the association’s executive director, citing increased interest from high school students. “Students go to college more satisfied and engaged, and universities often see these students become leaders on campus.”

The first lady has said Malia wants to be a filmmaker. She has interned on the set of HBO’s “Girls” and on a now-canceled network TV sci-fi drama that starred Halle Berry. Malia has also had internships at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington.

The president turned down an invitation to speak at Malia’s Sidwell graduation, saying he would be too emotional.

“I’m going to be sitting there with dark glasses, sobbing,” he told Ellen DeGeneres during an appearance

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Obama grew up without his father, who was born in Kenya and is now deceased, and has spoken of his desire to be there for his kids. The bond between Obama and his children was readily apparent, as he often was seen holding hands with either daughter getting on or off the presidential aircraft or on the family’s walks through Lafayette Park to attend services at St. John’s Episcopal Church across from the White House.

Malia joined her father earlier this month on a three-day trip that started at the University of Chicago Law School, where he once taught constitutional law, to discuss his stalled nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court. From Chicago, they flew to Los Angeles and San Francisco, where the president attended fundraisers and played golf.

“Both of my daughters are wonderful people. Malia’s more than ready to leave but I’m not ready for her to leave,” Obama told DeGeneres. “She’s one of my best friends. It’s going to be hard for me not to have her around all the time, but she’s ready to go. She’s just a really smart, capable person, and she’s ready to make her own way.”

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Graduate students host Paw-A-Thon 5K

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The Texas Tech graduate sports event management class hosted the first Paw-A-Thon 5K race on Saturday in front of the Kinesiology and Sport Management building.

Students in the class were required to put on an event from start to finish, and they chose Paw-AThon as the event to-do.

The event was a 5K run around the Tech campus, and participants were able to either run by themselves or bring their dogs and run or walk alongside them.

The event also had several tents with face painting, free items and dog treats, an adoption tent from Haven Animal Care Shelter, a snow cone stand, Star Wars characters in costume walking around taking pictures with people and music from Yes 107.7.

“This is definitely a communitywide event,” Austin Nettleton, a graduate sport management student from Queen City, said. “We really wanted to target the Lubbock running community but add

the twist of allowing people to bring their dogs, and it’s just really cool to see all these dogs out here and all these people interacting with each other through having pets.”

Registration for the event was $30 for adults and $20 for children ages 13 through 17 and college students, with an additional $5 to bring a dog.

There was also a silent auction inside the Sport Management building that featured several items such as a football signed

by Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury, a basketball signed b y w o m e n ’s b a s k e t b a l l coach Candi Whitaker and other items.

Half of all the money made was donated to Haven, and participants could make donations directly to Haven at its tent.

“We are mainly putting on this event so we can get real-world experience for when we go off into our job fields,” Nettleton said.

“A lot of us are graduating within the next couple semesters, so this class really helps with the whole learning how to put on an event from start to finish and I think that’s what we’re trying to get the most

out of this.”

At 9 a.m., participants began to run or walk the course with either their two or four legs. Connor Black, a senior petroleum engineering major from Conroe, said he loves doing things with his dog, and he thought this was a great event to attend.

“It’s a great place to come out and meet people, and it’s just a good community experience,” he said.

“Having a dog is a good excuse to make yourself get out there and be active.”

Gateway at Lubbock apartments were one of the sponsors of the PawA-Thon, according to the apartment website, and are proud sponsors of the dog-lover community.

The apartment complex had its grand opening for its newly constructed dog park on Saturday as well, according to the Gateway website, which will serve the residents of the petfriendly apartments.

The event was an opportunity for interaction between both people and dogs from all over the Lubbock community and Tech.

“I am a really big advocate for having a dog park in Lubbock, I used to fight

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TOP: Texas Tech students in the graduate sports event management class hosted the Paw-AThon 5K Saturday morning on the Tech campus. The event included the 5K as well as tents with face painting and music. RIGHT: Runners could register to run alone or pay an additional fee to run with their dogs. Half the proceeds from the event were donated to the Haven Animal Care Shelter.

for the Tech Terrace Park to be a dog park and the city likes to fight back,” Amber Crandall, a senior psychology major from El Paso, said. “So it’s great to actually get dog-friendly events here.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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ROTC cadets volunteer at local playground

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Members of the Texas Tech Army and Air Force ROTC volunteered to help clean up the Lubbock Legacy Play Village Playground on Saturday after vandalism and different problems were discovered at the park.

The ROTC students helped put in new wood chips for the park. These wood chips protect children when they fall off the equipment to help them not be harmed.

Odes Gish, a junior university studies major from Bentonville, Arkansas, said he noticed the park needed help with the damage when his wife and his daughter came out to the park.

Gish said this was the perfect opportunity for different members of the ROTC program to help with something in the local community.

“We wanted to make a difference,” Gish said.

“I talked with the other cadets and they were all on board with helping out the community.”

Because most of the vandalism was already fixed, Martin Ramon, a junior public relations ma-

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Andre Manz, a junior mechanical engineering major from Houston, digs up barrels of mulch during a community service event at Lubbock Legacy Play Village on Saturday. ROTC members picked up trash, painted over graffiti and put fresh mulch on the ground in order to provide a safer, more comfortable environment for kids to play in.

jor from Dallas, said the ROTC students put down these wood chips to help the kids who play on the playground equipment.

Spencer McIntosh, a junior mechanical engineering major from Houston, said there are two reasons why it is important for the ROTC

students to volunteer at the Legacy Play Village.

“There are two facets to it,” McIntosh said. “The first facet is to give back to a community that’s given us so much. They are very supportive of us and our programs. The second is that we are doing it together with

the Air Force and Army, because in real operations, everything that the military does is joint. It’s a great thing at the ROTC level for the army and air force to work together.”

This project with the wood chips took a certain kind of workforce, Craig Finlayson, president of the Friends of Legacy Play Village, said.

“These younger adults, who are focused because they are in ROTC, are huge to us because we can turn them loose and they will do (the project),” Finlayson said. “We have been waiting for this perfect crew to come out and do this.”

With this project, the ROTC programs are trying to do more volunteer work out in the community, Ramon said. Volunteering is important to students wanting to go into the military. Volunteering is their way to make the citizens’ lives better.

McIntosh said he wished he had more opportunities to volunteer when he was a freshman and sophomore in the ROTC program. This service gives the freshmen and the sophomores the chance to get out, help the community and bond with the other members of the ROTC program.

Volunteering is already a focus for most of the members in the ROTC program, Gish said.

“I think what makes Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC so great is the people who are joining are already civic minded,” Gish said. “They are thinking about how they can help others in the community and in the nation.”

Ramon said it is good to let people of the Lub-

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Elephants will perform for the last time at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, as the show closes its own chapter on a controversial practice that has entertained audiences since circuses began in America two centuries ago.

Six Asian elephants will deliver their final performances in Providence, Rhode Island, and five will perform in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, during several shows on Sunday. The last Providence show will stream live on Facebook and at Ringling.com at 7:45 p.m.

Alana Feld, executive vice president of Feld Entertainment, which owns the circus, said the animals will

live at its 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in Florida. Its herd of 40 Asian elephants, the largest in North America, will continue a breeding program and be used in a pediatric cancer research project.

Elephants have been used in the circus in America for more than 200 years. In the early 1800s, Hackaliah Bailey added the elephant “Old Bet” to his circus. P.T. Barnum added the African elephant he named “Jumbo” to “The Greatest Show on Earth” in 1882.

The Humane Society says more than a dozen circuses in the United States continue to use elephants.

But none tour as widely or are as well- known as Ringling Bros.

It’s also getting more difficult for circuses to tour with elephants. Dozens of cities have banned the use of bullhooks — used to train elephants — and some states are considering such legislation.

Just as in the Disney movie “Dumbo,” elephants in the past have been dressed up as people and trained to do a range of tricks: play baseball, ride bicycles, play musical instruments, wear wedding dresses or dress in mourning clothes, said Ronald B. Tobias, author of the 2013 book “Behemoth: The History of the Elephant in America.”

The change at Ringling signifies a shift in Americans’ understanding of elephants, Tobias said. People

no longer see elephants as circus performers, he said, “but sentient animals that are capable of a full range of human emotions.”

Attitudes are shifting about other animals as well. Last month, Sea World announced it would end live orca shows and breeding. Ringling will continue to use animals including horses, lions, tigers, dogs and kangaroos in its shows, Feld said.

The Humane Society has called for an end to the breeding program and for Ringling to retire the animals to one of two accredited sanctuaries, one in California and one in Tennessee, both of which have more than 2,000 acres of land.

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bock community know the ROTC programs are able to help volunteer in places that need it.

There is a certain goal for the ROTC programs for the city of Lubbock, McIntosh said.

“The goal of (our work) is to improve Lubbock and the local community and show them that we are here and we have their back,” McIntosh said.

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Sabre Flight Drill Team guards memorial

By JENNIFER ROMERO L a Vida Editor

The Texas Tech Sabre Flight Drill Team completed a 24-hour guarding of the Lubbock Area Veterans War Memorial from 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday.

The Sabre Flight Drill Team is composed of students from the Air Force ROTC program who have completed “kNIFESHIP,” according to the drill team’s website, which is a semester where cadets are trained and tested in leadership skills, physical fitness, drill, knowledge, military bearing and teamwork.

The training is named kNIFESHIP because a smaller sabre is considered a knife, and the cadets are training to earn their sabre and spot on the team during the process.

Justin Jacobs, a junior math major from Okinawa, Japan, said he originally joined the team to improve his drill.

“Finding out what the program was about made me stick with it,” he said. “It helped me improve as a cadet and it made me more competitive for the field training selection board.”

Kyle Partin, a junior mechanical engineering major, said the Sabre Flight Drill Team prepares students to

serve in the military upon graduation better than the ROTC program alone.

The drill team serves in a variety of ceremonies, Jacobs said, including Tech’s 9/11 Memorial Ceremony, the 24hour guarding as well as the color guard at football games.

The 24-hour guarding ceremony especially honors Lubbock’s Prisoners of War and those Missing in Action, Partin said, and the ceremony is similar to that done at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider in Arlington, Virginia.

During the ceremony, the guard will walk 21 steps, stop and face the memorial for 21 seconds, then turn and walk another 21 steps. The ceremony is based off the 21-gun salute, Partin said, which is the highest honor a member of the military can receive.

“I really like to honor those who have given up the ultimate sacrifice for us, I think it’s a great way to honor that service,” Jacobs said. “It also helps others recognize (the soldier’s) efforts and the things they’ve done whenever (the public) comes out to the memorial and sees us.”

The members of the Sabre Flight Drill Team took turns guarding the memorial for 30 minutes at a time, and Jacobs said the ceremony tests the

cadets’ endurance.

The 24-hour guarding was the last step of training for the current kNIFESHIP class, Partin said, and if the cadets pass evaluation, they will receive a white cord to distinguish them from the rest of the AFROTC. “Everybody on the team is just a great cadet and a good person in general,” Jacobs said. “I trust my life with them, and I’d take a bullet for them anytime if I need to.”

The conditions for the 24-hour guarding ceremony are different every year, Jacobs said, and the team has completed the structured ceremony through hot and cold weather, dust storms and with various distractions from visiting people.

The Sabre Flight Drill Team focuses on the importance of teamwork in the military, and Partin said the cadets who complete the AFROTC program at Tech will serve at least four years of active service after graduation.

“I like (the 24-hour guarding) ceremony because it allows us to give back to the Lubbock community,” Partin said. “Lubbock has a strong veteran population, and it always supports (the ROTC program).”

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ABOVE: On Saturday, Texas Tech’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 820’s Sabre Flight Drill Team performed a 24-hour guard at the Lubbock Area Veteran’s Memorial to honor the veterans and those who died serving. LEFT: Cadet Logan Baldwin, a freshman mechanical engineering major from Weatherford, took his position as he marched performing his guard duties.

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President Obama closes out run as comedian-in-chief WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama performed his brand of sharp-tongued comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the last time — wrapping up with “Obama out” and dropping the mic while the crowd cheered.

Obama’s performance Saturday night proved he hasn’t lost a step.

“If this material works well, I’m going to use it at Goldman Sachs next year,” Obama quipped. “Earn me some serious Tubmans.”

Obama drew plenty of laughs with his barbed remarks to a ballroom filled with journalists, politicians, and movie and television stars. It was his eighth appearance at the event and his last as president and he kidded about the pains of being a lame duck.

“Last week Prince George showed up to our meeting in his bathrobe,” Obama cracked. “That was a slap in

the face.”

The president waxed nostalgic at times. “Eight years ago I said it was time to change the tone of our politics. In hindsight, I clearly should have been more specific.”

And he acknowledged that the years had taken their toll. “I’m gray, grizzled ... counting down the days to my death panel.”

On the other hand, he pointed out that his approval ratings are up. “The last time I was this high,” he said, “I was trying to decide on my major.” When he said he couldn’t explain the rise in his popularity, two photographs of scowling presidential candidates appeared on ballroom screens: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Obama took a few more swipes at the presidential race, noting that “next year at this time someone else will be standing here in this very spot, and it’s anyone’s guess who she will be.”

After calling presidential candidate Bernie Sanders the bright new face of the Democratic Party, Obama contrasted the slogan “Feel the Bern” with one he said was rival Hillary Clinton’s: “Trudge Up the Hill.”

Republicans took most o f O b a m a ’s h u m o r o u s broadsides. “Guests were asked to check whether they wanted steak or fish,” he told the diners, “and instead a whole bunch of you wrote in Paul Ryan.”

Obama said of the billionaire businessman and real estate mogul leading the GOP race: “He has spent years meeting with leaders from around the world — Miss Sweden, Miss Argentina, Miss Azerbaijan.”

He added: “And there’s one area where Donald’s experience could be invaluable, and that’s closing Guantanamo — because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.”

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Court blocks Houston from using tougher clean-air laws HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s efforts to use local clean air laws to regulate pollution in the home of the nation’s largest petrochemical complex were halted Friday by a Texas Supreme Court ruling in favor of energy and chemical companies that claimed the city had overreached.

The coalition made up of ExxonMobil Corp. and other companies with nearby refineries and plants had sued the nation’s fourthlargest city in 2008 after Houston passed ordinances that required businesses to pay registration fees based on the number and type of

pollution sources on each site. The city used the fees to investigate potential violations of air pollution laws.

The ordinances also made it unlawful to operate a facility inside Houston unless it was registered with the city. Violations of the ordinances could have been prosecuted in municipal court and were punishable with fines between $250 and $2,000 per day.

Attorneys for the city had argued in court documents the ordinances were a local expression of state laws regulating pollution, that they didn’t make an “end-run”

around state regulations and the lawsuit was hiding the real issue, “which is that industry does not want to be accountable to the people to stay within industry’s permitted levels of pollution.”

But in a 8-1 ruling against the city, the state’s all-Republican high court said the ordinances were inconsistent with the Texas Legislature’s intent that favored statewide consistency in enforcement. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the agency in charge of administering the state’s environmental laws.

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Tech defeated by TCU in finals

By ALEXA BOUTWELL Staff Writer

On Saturday in Stillwater, Oklahoma, the Texas Tech men’s tennis team edged out No. 42 Baylor in the Big 12 tournament semifinals.

The No. 8 Red Raiders had a hard fought battle, defeating the Bears, 4-3. This is the program’s first ticket to the championship match of the Big 12 tournament, according to a Tech Athletics news release. Last Sunday, the team had a 4-3 victory over Texas Christian to share the Big 12 regular season title.

The match between the two teams was ultimately decided on court two by senior Hugo Dojas. Dojas was able to dig himself out of a oneset hole going 3-6, 6-3 and 6-3 to defeat Baylor’s Max

Tchoutakian and secure the 4-3 win for the Red Raiders.

Tech coach Bret Masi was impressed with Dojas showing out against the Bears.

“Hugo won some big points in the third set,” Masi said in the release. “He served out a great final game to get to the finish line and I’m very happy for him.”

After digging a 1-0 hole from the doubles matches, Tech turned things around at the bottom three spots of the singles ledger. Freshman Bjorn Thomson cruised to a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Baylor’s Tyler Stayer to even the score to 1-1.

The Red Raiders were able to get the 2-1 advantage after junior Jolan Cailleau rose victorious over Baylor’s Jimmy Bendeck, going 6-2 and 6-1.

Sophomore Connor Curry secured another win for the Red Raiders going 6-2 and 7-5

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The Red Raiders prepare for their match against Texas Christian by doing a chant on April 24 at the McLeod Tennis Center. over his Baylor competitor, Tommy Podvinski. Curry’s strong finish gave the Red Raiders a bigger edge at 3-1.

“The bottom of the lineup has been our strength for a majority of the season,”

Masi said. “Jolan, Connor and Bjorn gave us three huge points quickly and really put the pressure on Baylor.”

Baylor was able to come back within 3-2 after senior Felipe Soares came up short

against Baylor’s Julian Lenz, going 6-3, 1-6 and 6-4.

The Bears drew even closer to the Red Raiders when Sophomore Alex Sendegeya couldn’t close the deal on Baylor’s Felipe Rios, losing 6-7, 6-1 and 6-2. After Sendegeya’s loss the score was evened up 3-3.

On courts two and three, Baylor was able to get a 1-0 edge with a pair of 6-4 doubles victories. Senior Carlos DiLaura and Dojas could not come out with the win either, falling short to Baylor’s Lenz and Stayler. During the doubles match with Sendegeya and Thomson, play was halted while the Red Raiders held the 6-5 advantage.

On Sunday, Tech was defeated by TCU, 4-2, in the Big 12 Championships in Stillwater.

Tech got off to a strong start after getting the doubles point, winning two of the three doubles matches.

Sendegaya and Thomson upset No. 60 ranked freshman Reese Stalder and junior Hudson Blake, 7-5. The other win came from Soares and Curry over sophomores Trevor Johnson and Guillermo Nuñez, 6-4.

Tech dropped four of the five singles matches to give TCU the win. Sendegeya upset No. 87 ranked Nuñez in two sets, 6-2 and 7-5.

Soares lost to sophomore No. 6 ranked Cameron Norrie in two sets, 6-2 and 6-4.

The Red Raiders will now see where they will land in the NCAA Championship in the coming days. Tech ended with a 27-4 record with a 13-0 record at home. @TheDT_sports

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Lady Raiders fall in conference championship

By ALEXA BOUTWELL and DAVID GAY the Daily toreaDor

The No. 19 Texas Tech women’s tennis team rose victorious against No. 35 Texas Christian in the Big 12 tournament semifinals at the Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

The Lady Raiders, with an overall record of 23-4, dominated TCU during Saturday’s match, finishing 4-1 against the Horned Frogs, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

“I couldn’t be any prouder of this group of young ladies,” Tech coach Todd Petty said in the release. “The grit and the

energy level that they were able to carry over and play with after a late night yesterday. They were able to build off the doubles they played with.”

The Lady Raiders started off strong in the doubles as sophomore Sabrina Federici and freshman Felicity Maltby defeated TCU’s Alexis Pereira and Aleksandra Zenovka on court two going 6-0. Sophomore Sarah Dvorak and Sophomore Katelyn Jackson rallied past a 3-2 deficit to secure a 6-4 victory over TCU’s Mia King and Olaya Garrido-Rivas.

When play was stopped during sophomore Gabriela

Talaba and freshman Alex Valenstein’s doubles match, the Lady Raiders had the 5-2 advantage over the nation’s No. 30 doubles pair Seda Arantekin and Caroline Wegner.

The Horned Frogs were able to come back after junior Lynn Kiro fell short to TCU’s Garrido-Rivas going 6-3 and 6-2. Kiro hasn’t appeared in a singles match since March, according to the release.

TCU was not able to hold the momentum for long as Maltby sprung Tech to a 2-1 lead after a 6-3 and 6-2 win over TCU’s Zenovka on court five.

The Lady Raiders lead was extended even further after Talaba took the advantage to

3-1 with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over TCU’s Marie Norris.

“This was pretty big for our team,” Talaba said. “We lost 4-0 against TCU at home earlier this season. We were motivated to beat them, we had nothing to lose.

After the strong showing

by Talaba, Valenstein secured the win for the Tech squad clinching a victory going 6-2, and 6-1 over TCU’s Wegner.

Valenstein gave the 4-1 advantage to the Lady Raiders after her strong showing.

“It’s a constant process and we’re hoping to peak at the right time during conference championship and NCAA time,” Petty said

in the release. “It looks like they’re starting to find that.”

On Sunday, No. 19 Oklahoma State defeated No. 15 Tech 4-0 in the Big 12 championship.

Oklahoma State received the doubles point after winning two of the three matches. No. 60 ranked juniors Viktoriya Lushkova and Carla Tur Mari defeated Maltby and Federici 6-2 and No. 71 ranked junior Katarina Adamovic and sophomore Vladica Babic defeated Dvorak and Jackson 7-5. The match between No. 90 ranked Talaba and Valenstein and No. 41 ranked seniors Maria Alvarez and Kelsey Laurente did not finish. Tech was leading 5-4 when they called the match.

Three of the five singles matches also went unfinished.

Oklahoma State won the other three singles matches to seal Oklahoma State’s victory.

No. 41 ranked Adamovic defeated Talaba in two sets, 6-4 and 6-0. Babic defeated Dvorak in two sets, 7-5 and 6-1, and Lushkova defeated Valenstein in two sets, 6-2 and 6-3.

Oklahoma State’s victory ended Tech’s season in the Big 12 championships. Tech finished the regular season 184. The Lady Raiders find out soon if they have earned a trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a shot in the NCAA Championships that take place on May 19-30. @TheDT_sports

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Tech wins third game, series against TCU In the rubber match of a three-game series, the No. 10 Texas Tech Red Raiders defeated No. 6 Texas Christian 3-1 to win the series.

Junior infielder Hunter Hargrove and senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez got Tech on the board in the third inning by each recording a RBI. In the fifth inning, the

Red Raiders went up 3-0 when senior designated hitter Cory Raley walked and then scored on a wild pitch.

Junior southpaw Ty Damron got the start on the mound on Sunday and gave the team another strong performance by its starting pitcher.

Damron allowed one run off a throwing error in the

sixth inning, but limited the Horned Frogs to four hits while striking out six, according to statbroadcast.com.

Junior southpaw Hayden Howard shut down TCU over the next three and two-thirds innings. The Horned Frogs managed just one hit off Howard, according to statbroadcast.com.

After walking a batter with two outs in the ninth inning, Howard was pulled out of the game. TCU knocked a doubled and had runners on second and third with two outs.

Sophomore southpaw Parker Mushinski recorded the final out with the tying run on second base

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leadoff solo shot at the top of the second, and in the third inning the Bears smacked another home run for a 7-4 lead.

Another pair of runs w e n t B a y l o r ’s w a y i n the fourth, and after two scoreless innings, Welborn ended the drought with a solo shot to right.

Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball team closed out its home schedule at Rocky Johnson Field with three consecutive losses to the Baylor Bears.

Baylor pitcher Heather Stearns held down the Red Raiders as she struck out 11 batters in a 9-2 Baylor win Friday night to start the series.

The long ball came into play throughout the game with the Bears jumping on top first as they placed two runs on the board following a home run blast from senior third baseman Sarah Smith.

Te c h r e s p o n d e d t o Smith’s homer with a homer from Jessica Hartwell to cut Tech’s deficit to 2-1.

Leading off the third, Baylor sent another ball past the outfield and scored another run on a throwing error after a single to second.

Another freshman sent out a homer for the Red Raiders as Karli Hamilton led off the home half of the third to bring Tech closer to the Bears at 4-2.

Junior pitcher Mattison Maisel went three innings without an earned run, but the Bears broke the game open by scoring five runs at the top of the seventh.

Baylor upped its lead to 5-2 in the seventh inning.

Tech earned an out with a tag at the plate to put two outs against Baylor, but sophomore first baseman Shelby Friudenberg belted a grand slam to dash Tech’s hope of a comeback.

At the plate, Tech coach Adrian Gregory said things did not go Tech’s way and allowed Baylor to take charge over the scoreboard.

“That becomes hard whenever you start getting squeezed against great hitters,” she said.

Honestly, we’re a good hitting team, and I feel like we sparked and showed a lot of good things.

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The Red Raiders pose for a group photo with the three seniors after the senior announcements on Sunday at Rocky Johnson Field.

Tech wrapped up home play with a 13-8 home record. Next for the Red Raiders is a trip to Norman, Oklahoma, for a three-game series against the Sooners this weekend.

“That becomes very difficult and you can’t go to your strengths.”

Up 9-2, Stearns closed out the game by allowing just one hit and notching up her final strikeout on Tech’s leadoff batter at the bottom of the seventh.

Baylor continued its scoring and pitching dominance as the Red Raiders matched their first game’s two runs in a 15-2 five inning loss Saturday evening.

Sophomore Kendall Potts drew the start for Baylor in the circle and after giving up Tech’s only hits and runs of the game, junior pitcher Kelsee Selman burned through the Tech lineup by allowing no hits, just one walk and striking out six of the 11 batters she faced.

Baylor scored four runs in the first on two home runs, and after tossing

three consecutive outs, a two-run shot and a sac-fly brought in a 7-0 advantage for the Bears.

It’s always hard for someone who’s dedicated their life to giving into their team.

ADRIAN GREGORY TECH COACH Junior catcher Susan Welborn cut the lead to 7-2 at the bottom of the second by homering to left field, but Baylor followed the inning with three more to end the game with a run-rule finish.

Baylor kept driving up the score in the fourth as the leadoff batter homered to left field and at the bot-

tom of the fifth, Baylor shut the lid on the Red Raiders as it loaded the bases and hit three consecutive singles for four runs.

A blowout 16-6 fiveinning win closed Tech’s home schedule and dropped its overall record to 23-27 and Big 12 record 6-7 Sunday afternoon.

As Tech hosted senior day for second baseman Kristen Schwirtlich, shortstop Brooke Scott and center fielder Jordan Bettiol, Baylor closed out the series by rocking a total of 18 hits and five homers past the Red Raider defense.

While the loss dampened the mood for Tech’s last home game, Gregory expressed her appreciation of the senior class and said the team’s three seniors gave all their effort throughout their careers at Tech.

“I think senior day is always hard. It’s always

hard for someone who’s dedicated their life to giving into their team,” Gregory said. “We gave it a go for a little bit, and we competed soundly, but Baylor just swings really well and took advantage of us there.”

Stearns started the final game of the season, but the Red Raiders ended her outing before the end of the first with three hits and four runs to make it her shortest start of the season.

After a 5-3 ground out with two on plate, junior right fielder Kierra Miles sketched a new program record, as she sent out her 17th home run of the season, the most by a Tech player in a single season. Adding to the slug fest, Schwirtlich blasted a homer to right field.

Baylor quickly regained the lead with a

A single from Hartwell with Bettiol at third inched Tech closer to the Bears at 9-6, but as it did the game before, Baylor let off a relentless attack.

A two-run homer began the inning followed by a double, two consecutive singles and a sac-fly plated four runs for the Bears.

Wi t h a n o u t o n t h e board, Baylor continued to spoil senior day festivities by senior catcher Robin Landrith sent out Baylor’s fifth homer for three runs.

Although the staggering score showed Baylor’s dominance at the plate, Bettiol said Tech took a good approach hittingwise, but the Bears jumped at every opportunity.

“Honestly, we’re a good hitting team, and I feel like we sparked and showed a lot of good things,” Bettiol said. “Unfortunately, the ball didn’t drop and they just hit the gap shots.”

Tech finishes its regular season with a three-game series against the Oklahoma Sooners starting at 6:30 p.m.

Friday at the Oklahoma Softball Complex. @DGaytanDT