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Lubbock County experiences syphilis increase Officials warn public about syphilis danger

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

The Texas Department of State Health Services has seen an increase in the number of syphilis cases in Lubbock County in the last three months, Katherine Wells, director of public health for the city of Lubbock, said, than they did at the same time last year.

As a response, Wells said, the Lubbock Health Department began to reach out to physicians across Lubbock to warn them of the rise in syphilis cases.

Syphilis is a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease, especially when the patient has a chancre or a painless sore, typically on the genitals. Contact with the sore is the way syphilis is spread. Once spread, Wells said, the symptoms of the STD include: rash on the bottoms of the feet or on the palms, a body rash — typically on the torso, hair loss and mucus patches on the mouth.

If the disease is active it is treated with penicillin shots, and if the disease is inactive the patient will be given penicillin pills to take, she said. If the disease is left untreated it may cause complications in the future.

“Exposure to syphilis is highly correlated to becoming HIV infected,” Wells said. “We see a lot of people that end up with syphilis and HIV — we can treat syphilis and cure you, but we can’t cure you of HIV.” In addition to its links to HIV, Wells said, syphilis can cause birth defects in infants if the mother is not treated for the STD and the disease can be passed on to the baby. Also, if left untreated, syphilis can lead to neurological and cardiovascular issues.

She said the Lubbock Department of Health, located at 806 18th Street, offers confidential screenings for the four major STDs: syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV and chlamydia.

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Syphilis treatable, can be difficult to detect

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are at highest risk for STDs,” Wells said. “So it’s really important that if people are having unprotected sex to make

sure that their partner and themselves are both tested for all STDs.” @DTalexarosas

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transmitted disease that can have very serious complications when left untreated, Colmer-Hammood said, but can be easily cured with penicillin.

“In women, it is often invisible because it is internal,” Colmer-Hammood said. “Even untreated, the lesion heals in three to six weeks and the organism continues to spread throughout the body.”

Syphilis can also be known as “the great imitator” because of the wide array of symptoms that can masquerade as other kinds of diseases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There are three stages of infection: the primary stage in which there is a noticeable sore, the secondary stage in which rashes develop and the latent stage where the syphilis causes difficulty in muscle movements, paralysis, numbness, blindness, dementia and even damage to internal organs, according to the CDC website.

Lubbock County has seen a significant increase in syphilis cases with more than double the number of reported cases of last year.

According to the Texas Department of State and Health Services, there have been 24 cases of the disease so far this year compared to just eight during the same period last year.

Jane Colmer-Hamood, associate professor for the Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, said the increased cases of syphilis indicate that people are having more unprotected sex.

“I think the number of cases indicate increased unprotected sexual activity among students,” ColmerHamood said. “It could be due to an ‘it can’t happen to me’ attitude.”

According the National College Health Assessment Survey, only 54 percent of college students reported consistently using a condom during intercourse.

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Local election early voting ends today Tadlock, Red Raiders fill holes in pitching rotation

On Monday, 2,175 votes were cast for the Lubbock County Cities and Schools Election. Today is the last day for early voting, and the remaining voters will have a final chance to vote during Election Day on Saturday.

In this election, four candidates are running for mayor and three candidates are running for municipal judge, according the Lubbock Country Elections Office. Additionally, 11 candidates are competing for three council seats in Districts 1, 2 and 4.

The last day to register to vote was April 7, and there are 159,037 registered voters for this election season, according to the Elections Department.

The early voting center at Texas Tech is the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, according to the Elections Office. Voters can visit the Rec Center to cast votes from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. today.

The voting center at Tech for Election Day is the University Library, according to the Elections Office, and

voters can cast votes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Voters are required to present an approved form of photo identification to vote. According to the Elections Office, accepted forms of ID include driver’s license, election identification certificate, personal identification card, concealed handgun license, U.S. Military identification card, U.S. passport and U.S. citizenship/ naturalization certificate.

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Traffic to change on 34th Street starting Thursday On Thursday, the eastbound traffic on 34th Street between Memphis and Indiana will shift to a center turn lane.

According to a news release from the City of Lubbock, this is for construction that is supposed to last two days. Signs

and cones will be placed at the work zone and will direct traffic accordingly. @KristenBartonDT

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Texas Tech players and coaches meet at the mound to change pitchers during Tech’s 17-1 loss to Texas on April 24 at Rip Griffin Park. The Tech pitching staff has undergone a number of changes this season that have seen players stepping up into bigger roles.

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

Heading into the 2016 season, the most obvious unknown around the Texas Tech baseball team was about the pitching staff.

The roster has only one senior pitcher and the team lost its weekend ace from a season ago, southpaw Cameron Smith. The bullpen also lost the two best relievers, Dominic Moreno and Corey Taylor.

On top of that, the Friday starter from last year, junior right-handed pitcher Ryan Moseley, got moved to the bullpen early this season. Moseley came into the season willing to not be the Friday starter or even a starter

and has taken the change in stride.

“It doesn’t matter to me one way or another. I don’t care (what role he is in),” Moseley said. “Whatever they ask me to do, I’ll do it. Whatever it is, I’m excited.”

Without Moseley and Smith starting Fridays and Saturdays, coach Tim Tadlock decided to take a risk and start two freshmen on the first two days of weekend series.

Freshman right-handed pitcher Davis Martin has been the Friday starter, while freshman southpaw Steven Gingery has thrown on Saturday. In the first six Big 12 Conference series of the season, both freshmen have started six times.

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uled to work but I was excited so I came in. It’s definitely been busy and it’s kind of weird being in office and just talking about it.”

Alex DeRossi, a senior energy commerce major from Flower Mound and SGA’s newest external vice president, said the new experience has created multiple questions and opportunities for him to learn.

“With me being new to SGA in general, I’ve been trying to acclimate myself with different things and asking a bunch of different questions,” DeRossi said. “I think it will hit me in about a week that I’m actually here to stay for a year.”

Witt Westbrook, a junior energy commerce major from Stephenville, former senator and new internal vice president, said coming into the office was similar to the first day of school or the first day of a new job.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Westbrook said.

“It’s going to be a busy week for me but it’s been good so far, it’s been exciting.”

Kevin Koestler, a graduate student from Carrollton who is in the STEM MBA program and SGA’s new graduate vice president, said it was a busy and successful first day.

“It’s been pretty busy,” Koestler said. “I knew I’d be busy, I just didn’t think I’d get into it this quick. We dove right into it. It’s been pretty hectic but it’s also been successful.”

Each executive officer has already begun work on initiatives that will benefit or affect areas all across campus.

For Sharp, he said he is working on a few different initiatives, but two of the three mentioned relate to food on and off campus.

“We got out of a meeting today (Monday) about start-

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After reporting to their respective offices at 8 a.m.

Monday morning, the executive officers of Student Government Association are officially working on various tasks.

Benjamin Sharp, a junior economics major from Borger and the newest SGA president, said he was excited to begin his first day as president.

“It’s been fun,” Sharp said. “I came in at 8 in the morning. I wasn’t sched-

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first senate meeting of the 52nd session is a priority for Westbrook, he said.

“With the first senate meeting being this Thursday, I have a lot that I need to accomplish,” Westbrook said, “just making sure everything is lined out with legislation as well as the other senators. I’m a little nervous but I just hope that we get everything done right and that the pieces (of legislation) are passed in the right way and in the best interest of the students.”

Koestler said he started his first day working alongside Sharp on the food pantry initiative.

“The thing we’ve really been working on is implementing a plan for the food pantry,” Koestler said. “We had a meeting today about the initiative and trying to find a sustainable future on GSAC (Graduate Student Advisory Council)’s

the CDC website.

“Everyone’s heard the ‘Raider Rash’ nickname,” Robin Brown, a sophomore nursing major from Atlanta, said, “because the rate of STDs has historically been really high on cam-

pus. To make it worse, I doubt every case of syphilis is being properly treated because of the subtle nature of the disease.”

One in four college students has an STD, according to Stanford Univer-

sity’s Sexual Health Peer Resource Center.

These students account for more than half of the new STD diagnoses each y e a r, a c c o r d i n g t o t h e center’s website.

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“We’re trying to plan the summer and see what we want to do and what our priorities are,” Sharp said.

“We made a lot of promises, but we need to decide what

we want to start with and what we want to put off until the fall or the spring.”

DeRossi recently at tended a Lubbock City Council meeting to work on a transportation initiative, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, and is working on similar initiatives now.

“Right now, we’re working on the new safety app, so we’re trying to come up with a name for it and then roll it out in the next few weeks,” DeRossi said, “as well as transportation over the summer. We need to find a way to get that information out to the students.

We’re overhauling the whole transportation system and pushing for some new buses this year. I’ll also be meeting with some senators to write an official resolution saying that the student body of Texas Tech is in favor of Uber.”

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ing a food pantry for Texas Tech students,” Sharp said, “so that’s definitely a big one, but we’re continuing to work on Raider Cash, the off-campus dining bucks, and the upcoming debate.”

Sharp said the executive officers are also trying to prioritize tasks for the upcoming school year.

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Student Government Association Graduate Vice President Kevin Koestler, a graduate student in the STEM MBA program from Carrollton, External Vice President Alex DeRossi, a senior energy commerce major from Flower Mound, President Benjamin Sharp, a junior economics major from Borger, and Internal Vice President Witt Westbrook, a junior energy commerce major from Stephenville, had their first official day in office Monday. The four executive officers ran together on the Strive bloc and will serve Texas Tech during the senate’s 52nd session.

already successful food pantry on campus.”

With the first day in office completed, Sharp said the officers are eager to take on the rest of their term in office.

“I’m excited for next year, but I’m nervous because you never know what’s going to come up,” Sharp said. “It’s one of those things where you just have to be prepared for something to happen, and it’s cool to think that I’m in the position where I will have to deal with it and people believed in me enough to put me in this position. I’m confident in the team. I know I have some great guys who will do great at their jobs. I’m really excited to work with them.”

Although it has not been difficult at first, Westbrook said he is prepared for what might come his way and thanked Amber Yanez, previous internal vice president, for helping prepare him.

“I think coming in this morning I didn’t know what to expect, but it’s been pretty laid back,” Westbrook said. “I think Amber did a great job of telling me what to expect, but for me, it won’t start until after this first senate meeting when we pass legislation and have things rolling. It’s going to be one of those things that you learn as you go.

Right now I feel prepared, but there’s always going be a curveball thrown into the mix and it’s just a matter of accomplishing it in the best way possible.”

Koestler said he is excited to show people each executive officer was elected for the right reason.

“It’s been fun so far,” Koestler said, “but I’m eager to validate our election and really show that we’re the right people for the job.”

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The U.S. attorney’s office in San Antonio on Monday announced an indictment against James Anderson for conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and making a false statement to a federal investigator.

Five other educators face federal charges on allegations they prevented “limited English proficiency” students from taking

state tests to try to drive up scores.

The scheme allegedly fooled state officials into believing that academic performance had improved in the El Paso schools.

Former superintendent Lorenzo Garcia has already been sentenced to 3½ years in prison.

Anderson did not have an attorney listed in public court records.

COLLEGE STATION (AP) — The Texas A&M University System is developing a new research and development campus near its flagship College Station campus to focus on evolving technologies like driverless cars, robotics and materials to fix the country’s eroding infrastructure and train people how to use them.

A&M System Chancellor John Sharp said Monday the $150 million initial investment will construct seven buildings and testing sites and upgrade what is now its Riverside Campus at the old World War II-era Bryan Air Base. In its new incarnation, he expects as many of 10,000 students could be studying and earning degrees there.

The project includes a $12 million transportation center for research, design and testing of automated vehicles, which A&M officials said was only one part of the overall project.

The largest piece would a $73 million Center for Infrastructure Renewal, focusing on development of new methods and better materials to address concerns about the nation’s failing infrastructure. Another $12 million center will be devoted to robotics, connected vehicle technologies and cyber security.

Sharp said the new campus would be a “magnet for technology companies locating their research facilities” to the area.”

“It will bridge the ‘valley of death’ between product development and the marketplace,” M. Katherine

Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering, said.

In the area of automated vehicles, Christopher Poe, assistant director for connected and automated transportation strategy at the A&M-based Texas Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n I n s t i tute, said the institute already is working with several manufacturers of trucks and components like steering and braking systems and how automated vehicle technology can connect with vehicles.

Connected vehicles can talk with one another and use information, for example, to warn drivers of things like road and weather conditions and construction zones.

“We think those two paths are going to merge,” he said of driverless and connected vehicles.

Some vehicles already are under construction and the new center would help in that kind of research once they are delivered later this year, Poe said.

Testing of eight driverless cars began last summer in Austin, home to the rival University of Texas, in a Googlesponsored project.

The new A&M campus will be renamed the RELLIS campus, which the A&M System said was an acronym for the Texas Aggies “core values” of respect, excellence, leadership, loyalty, integrity and selfless service.

“It is a big idea and it is important that the Texas A&M University system nurture big ideas,” Sharp said.

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According to the Office of the Governor’s website, Abbott said America is in a

time of crisis as people try to silence the faithful.

“We all know that we live in the greatest country in the history of the world. But we must also realize how our nation has become broken,” Abbott said at the breakfast, according to the website.

“Our nation was founded by the rule of law originally handed down by Moses. We have strayed from that law.

We must come together to remain unbowed and respond to the challenges we face as a nation.” @KristenBartonDT

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Signs for candidates in local elections are on display at the on campus voting location for early voting, the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Once early voting is over, the location will be the Library.

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Warrant: Slain pregnant West Texas teen found with uterus removed LUBBOCK (AP) — A mentally disabled West Texas teenager who told a school worker she had been impregnated by her stepfather was found with her uterus removed when authorities discovered her body in her family’s partially burned home, according to an arrest warrant.

The mother of the 18-yearold who was found dead in Idalou, northeast of Lubbock, in February remained jailed Monday after being arrested last week on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a disabled person. The teenager’s stepfather is being held on three counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child. No one has been charged in the death, but the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office has said more charges are coming.

The arrest warrant for the mother alleges the woman knew her husband was abusing her two daughters.

The mother doesn’t yet face charges related to the younger daughter, who is 15.

The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify victims of sex crimes. The AP isn’t naming the 15-year-old girl’s family members because that could reveal her identity.

Online jail records did not list attorney for either the mother or her husband. A spokesman for the Lubbock County Sheriff ’s Office didn’t return several phone calls Monday seeking comment.

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warrant, the 18-year-old, who had the mental age of a 6 to 7 year old, had told a school worker on Jan. 29 that her stepfather had impregnated her.

“Mom told her not to tell anyone because Mom needed (the stepfather) to pay bills,” authorities wrote in the warrant.

The warrant alleges that the mother knew as early as 2008 that her husband was sexually assaulting her older daughter. The 18-year-old told a school counselor that her stepfather also abused her sister and that the sisters had talked about this and told their mother, according to the arrest warrant.

On Feb. 2, the teenager told an interviewer with the Children’s Advocacy Center that her stepfather had been touching her since she was 12. After that, the girls’ mother was told to have no contact with her husband, but he remained at their home, the arrest warrant says.

The mother later told investigators that her husband had been “intravenously using methamphetamines inside the home over an extended period of time,” the warrant says.

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The younger daughter told investigators on March 10 that her stepfather had been having sexual contact

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Feds give Texas temporary extension of Medicaid waiver AUSTIN(AP) — Texas announced Monday that the federal government had approved its request for a temporary extension of a $3.1 billion annual Medicaid waiver — despite the Republican-controlled Legislature’s refusal to embrace a key component of the White House’s signature health care law.

The agreement, which the Health and Human Services Commission called a “big win for Texas,” extends for 15 months, through 2017, a waiver first granted in 2011 that had been set to expire Sept. 30. It maintains current federal funding levels for reimbursements to hospitals for urgent care they provide to uninsured Texans.

“We’re pleased these innovative programs will have the opportunity to continue,” Chris Traylor, the agency’s executive director, said in a statement.

Texas hasn’t expanded Medicaid, a joint-federal state program that provides care to poor and disabled Americans, under the health care law — despite hospital and business groups’ objections that it costs

the state billions per year in federal subsidies.

If Texas were to expand Medicaid eligibility, it would allow federal funding to cover many of the costs now being paid for by the waiver.

Proponents of the health care law suggested federal authorities could use Texas’ expiring waiver as leverage to urge the state to expand Medicaid. In Florida, where state lawmakers have also balked at Medicaid expansion, the Obama administration recently extended a similar waiver for one year — but cut the amount of funding provided as part of it.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has maintained for months that waiver negotiations are different for every state. Still, its letter granting the extension said that if Texas can’t reach a more permanent agreement with the federal government by the end of 15 months, waiver funding “will phase down 25 percent in 2018” then by an additional quarter each year after that.

with her since she was 9 years old and that he had been sexually assaulting her two to five times a week for the past two to three years, according to the mother’s arrest warrant. The girl also told authorities she had seen her stepfather sexually assault her older sister.

The girl told investigators that her mother had kicked her husband out of their home after catching him about to sexually assault her two years ago, but that the mother allowed her husband to return after two months.

“By providing (the husband) access to her daughters after being made aware that (he) was molesting them, (the mother) aided (her husband) in the sexual assaults of her daughters,” according to the arrest warrant.

Today, Broadway Avenue between Avenue O and Avenue M will only have two lanes of traffic.

There will be rooftop

equipment installation on a building at the corner of Broadway and Avenue N, according to a news release from the City

of Lubbock. The traffic restrictions are expected to begin at 8:30 a.m. and should last four hours. @KristenBartonDT

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Officers investigate thefts Friday 4:53 p.m. — A Texas Tech police officer investigated theft in the computer center at the Engineering Key. A wallet and its contents were taken.

5:18 p.m. — A Tech officer charged and released a student for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of alcohol by a minor in Talkington Residence Hall.

12:06 a.m. — A Tech officer documented information in reference to damaged property in Gates Residence Hall. One exit sign was damaged.

1 : 5 9 a . m . — A Te c h officer investigated theft in Weymouth Residence Hall. Two exit signs were taken and three exit signs were damaged.

Saturday 2:23 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to the Livermore Auditorium because a non-student was on top of the building yelling. The non-student

was issued a criminal trespass warning.

5:18 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated possession of drug paraphernalia.

Several items believed to be drugs and drug paraphernalia were taken. The items were taken as evidence and a student suspect has been identified.

7:10 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by a minor at Jones AT&T Stadium. The student was issued a citation and released.

3:23 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for possession of a controlled substance (cocaine) and public intoxication at the 2400 block of Broadway Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

4:40 a.m. — A Tech officer documented damaged property in the Weymouth Residence Hall. A ceiling tile was damaged.

Sunday 1:14 p.m. — A Tech

officer investigated an accident without injuries and duty upon striking an unattended vehicle at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center visitor parking lot.

2:25 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at the West Village B bicycle racks. A bicycle lock was cut.

5:02 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries at the Z5C parking lot.

10:32 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for two outstanding Lubbock County Sheriff Department warrants at the 2500 block of 15th Street after a traffic stop. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

10:43 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries and duty upon striking an unattended vehicle at the R16 parking lot.

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Dallas student accidentally shoots him self at high school Monday morning DALLAS (AP) — Officials say a high school student accidentally shot himself after bringing a handgun to school that he carried in his pocket.

The 15-year-old shot himself Monday morning in the hand and leg, resulting in what authorities described as serious but not life-threatening injuries.

No other students were injured when the handgun discharged. The weapon was described by school officials as a “single-shot revolver.”

The school was placed on lockdown as administrators rushed to determine what happened.

Dallas school district police Chief Craig Miller

says metal detectors are used at the school to prevent weapons from being brought inside. But the district said in a statement that the student arrived at a time when metal-detector procedures were “not applied.”

It was not clear why the boy brought the gun to school.

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Donald Trump not prepared for election WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican presidential nomination may be in his sights, yet Donald Trump has so far ignored vital preparations needed for a quick and effective transition to the general election.

The New York businessman has collected little information about tens of millions of voters he needs to turn out in the fall. He’s sent few people to battleground states compared with likely Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, accumulated little if any research on her, and taken no steps to build a network capable of raising the roughly $1 billion needed to run a modern-day general election campaign.

“He may be able to get by on bluster and personality during the primaries, but the general election is a whole different ballgame,” said Ryan Williams, a veteran of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns.

“They’re essentially starting from zero heading into the general election.”

Trump’s early campaign efforts — fueled in the primary season by the sheer force of his personality and free media coverage — have defied all who predicted they would fall short of what’s required to win the nomination.

Yet the billionaire’s aides acknowledged they’ll tap into the resources of the party’s establishment — the Republican National Com-

mittee, above all — as the scale and scope of the 2016 contest grow exponentially.

That’s even as he rails daily against his party’s establishment as corrupt, and they predict his unique success so far will pay off again in November.

“Our ability to run a different type of campaign against Hillary Clinton in a general election is unique to the success that Mr. Trump has shown in the primaries,” said Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager.

Trump’s late start marks a sharp break from past Republican campaigns and that of Clinton, who is already beginning to shift resources to the November election. The Republican front-runner’s organizational disadvantage marks another warning sign for GOP officials who already feared he was unelectable this fall — even if he were well-prepared.

Trump has taken steps in recent week to add experienced political staff to expand his bare-bones organization. Yet the team has been consumed by playing catch up with Republican rival Ted Cruz, devoting almost no energy or planning to the next phase. Trump hopes he can score a victory in the Indiana primary Tuesday that can effectively end Cruz’s bid.

Lewandowski and other aides have also signaled a willingness to work closely

with the Republican National Committee should Trump claim the nomination — “hand in glove,” in Lewandowski’s words.

Ed Brookover is working from a recently opened Washington-area office that is tasked with developing Trump’s detailed policy prescriptions and working with allies on Capitol Hill.

“From all reports — we’ve not gone in and kicked the tires yet — the RNC’s got a larger ground game already in place than ever before,” Brookover said. “And they’ve been investing an incredible amount of money on data.”

He said that’s “going to be incredibly helpful.”

Indeed, the Republican National Committee has been expanding its national footprint and accumulating detailed information about millions of general election voters since soon after the GOP’s disastrous 2012 election. With only a few employees on the ground at this time four years ago, the RNC now has more than 200 in general election battlegrounds such as Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado.

“We are so far ahead of where we were,” said RNC chief strategist Sean Spicer. “Whether it’s Trump or someone else, that’s going to be a huge advantage.”

On the Democratic side, Clinton has already begun to send waves of campaign

staffers to battleground states. Adviser are starting to consider locations for a splashy convention rally in Philadelphia and lawyers are scrutinizing more than two dozen possible vice presidential picks. The Democratic front-runner also has a well-established donor network and is planning lucrative fundraisers in New York, Michigan, California and Texas later this month.

Trump has lashed out at other candidates for raising money from wealthy donors, but GOP leaders anticipate he will need to do the same thing in the coming months. Many Republicans are skeptical that Trump has the willingness or the capacity to cover the estimated $1 billion cost of the campaign ahead.

Absent a massive personal investment, Trump and his party will be tasked with raising millions of dollars a day to match spending levels from the past election. The Romney campaign spent years developing an extensive fundraising network and collected general election cash long before his primary contest was decided.

For now, though, the Trump campaign concedes it has done little to prepare for the fall fight.

“Once we are the nominee, we will look at all the options,” Lewandowski said of fundraising.

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Cruz fights for survival in Indiana primary OSCEOLA, Ind. (AP) — Ted Cruz’s conservative crusade for the presidency fought for new life Monday ahead of an Indiana vote that could effectively end the GOP’s primary season.

The fiery Texas senator hinted at an exit strategy, even as he vowed to compete to the end against surging Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

“I am in for the distance — as long as we have a viable path to victory,” Cruz told reporters after campaigning at a popular breakfast stop.

With his supporters fearing Cruz could lose a seventh consecutive state Tuesday, the candidate’s formulation hinted at a time when he may give up.

Like Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Cruz is already mathematically eliminated from reaching a delegate majority before the Republican Party’s national convention in July. He retreated to Indiana more than a week ago, hoping a win could at

least help him deny Trump an outright primary victory and lead to a contested convention.

But a recent poll of likely Indiana voters showed Trump holding a commanding lead.

At a stop in Monday in Marion, Indiana, Trump supporters confronted Cruz.

“Lyin’ Ted!” yelled one, using Trump’s pet name for his rival.

“What do you like about him?” Cruz asked the man.

“Name one thing.”

“Everything,” the protester replied.

After six straight victories across the Northeast late last month, math and momentum are on Trump’s side. The antiTrump movement’s only hope is to deny the billionaire businessman a 1,237-delegate majority by defeating him in Indiana and the handful of contests remaining over the next month.

Then, Cruz or another candidate would have to beat him when delegates gather in Cleveland

in July.

“Millions of Americans are praying for this state,” Cruz said. “The entire country is depending on the state of Indiana to pull us back from this cliff.”

Trump sensed an Indiana knockout.

“Honestly, if we win Indiana, it’s over. It’s over.

They’re finished. They’re gone,” the former reality television star told voters at a rally in Carmel, Ind. Tuesday features a primary on the Democratic side, too. New signs emerged that front-runner Hillary Clinton’s chief rival Bernie Sanders is fading as well.

Clinton announced $26 million in new fundraising in April, narrowly beating Sanders. His total of $25.8 million last month marked a steep decline from $46 million he collected in March.

Sanders also refused to re-

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port how much money he had in the bank, raising questions about whether he can sustain his online fundraising dominance as his path to the nomination becomes less likely.

Shrugging off the numbers, Sanders, like Cruz, vowed to “fight hard as hard as we can for every vote.”

He called the Democratic primary process “rigged,” noting that he has won 45 percent of the pledged delegates awarded after primaries or caucuses, but only about 7 percent of superdelegates, the Democratic officials and party leaders who can support the candidate of their choice.

Still, Sanders showed no signs of letting up on Clinton, pointing to differences with the former secretary of state over fundraising, Goldman Sachs speeches, the Iraq war, fracking and the minimum wage.

Polls show a close vote is likely.

know most of us are just about completely done with hearing about this arduous election cycle.

With that being said, unlike the general public, I just can’t seem to get enough of it. However, the reason this dogfight seems to be taking so long is because all the dogs involved don’t know how to actually fight.

Late last week secondplace Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz announced Carly Fiorina, of all the potential vicepresidential picks, as his running mate.

This after Cruz realized his ship is sinking.

All this makes absolutely no sense to me, though; Cruz is far from receiving the Republican nomination to run for president and Fiorina also topped out at around 3 percent of primary votes. What this does do is adds another notch to Cruz’s tally of making downright idiotic decisions.

“Carly respects the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and she understands the threats facing America,” Cruz said in an ABC news interview. “She understands this is a dangerous world and in naming her as my vice presidential nominee, I am also telling you that she is someone you can be confident in.”

I’m sure by threats facing America, Cruz means all of those illegal Mexicans who aren’t crossing the border.

What is more frightening is how Cruz is selling Fiorina as a competent businesswoman who can be in charge of things. However, according to an article from the Wall Street Journal, Fiorina was not able to actually sell anything as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.

“Carly is a brilliant salesperson and she did an exquisitely good job of selling the Compaq merger to a cynical market,” George Keyworth, former H-P board member, said in the article. “But what she could not do was execute.”

During her tenure as CEO, HP’s stock fell 55 percent, which was a higher of failure than any other technology company.

I think what is happening here is Cruz is trying to find himself another Donald Trump-like candidate. Think about it, Fiorina is a failed businessperson, she doesn’t think when she speaks, she has no compassion for those not rich and white, and most of all, the thought of her being in the White House makes any human with a heart want to blow chunks.

Fiorina has no experience in government and Cruz has no experience accomplishing anything in government — they’re a power couple in the Republican Party’s eyes.

I think after hearing this, the Republican elephant tried to sell himself to poachers to put himself out of his misery.

I can’t fathom why this combination of no talent is appealing to the Republican

Party. Out of the four Republicans trying to make it to the White House, two of them have experience in government and only one of them has experience passing laws.

John Kasich is probably the only one fit to get anywhere near the oval office, not that he needs to, but for God’s sake at least he has some experience running things.

This is exactly what the Republican Party deserves, though. They’ve fallen far from Abraham Lincoln’s progressive agenda.

They’re all trying to be like grandpa Ronald Reagan and failing. I can’t say Reagan actually accomplished anything while in office, but at least he made it look like he did something.

Anyhow, the Cruz-Fiorina ticket is doomed. Combined with her 3 percent in the primaries and a loss to a Democratic incumbent in 2010 in California, we may be seeing the end of days for this dream team.

Though I must applaud Cruz’s confidence in trying to snag the nomination seeing as how he’s statistically barred from getting the nomination in July. At least Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side has a chance if he does well in the upcoming contests.

It just makes me wonder, is this the end of the Republican Party?

Regardless of the situation, I think the end of this election will lean on the Democratic side. If you look at any polls worth their salt, they’re saying that in any matchup between the two Democratic candidates and Trump they would be able to take him by a comfortable margin.

There’s no turning back for the Republican Party.

They’ve reached a point with their voters that has completely pissed all of them off and they’d rather vote for someone everyone hates.

I shudder to think of the term President Cruz, President Trump or Vice President Fiorina would be something someone would have to say. I’ve even gone so far as to put in the prayer box every Sunday to make sure none of their aspirations are accomplished.

Fiorina has never held an elected office, neither has Trump, so why are they even contenders in this contest? I’m both depressed and amazed by that.

It’s frightening, it’s disgusting, it’s any other negative comment you can think of. The United States is far from where it used to be and we have Republican politicians to thank for that. @MichaelCantuDT

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Clinton faces tough crowd in West Virginia WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) — Hillary Clinton faced some angry voters Monday during a campaign swing through West Virginia, a state that overwhelmingly backed her eight years ago in her primary fight against thenSen. Barack Obama.

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New animal science degree track developed

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The Department of Animal and Food Sciences is known for having programs focusing on larger livestock and farm animals, but students have approached the department about a program focused on training smaller animals and researching their behavior.

Alexandra Protopovova, assistant professor in companion animal sciences, was hired to develop a program for training different companion animals like dogs or cats and learning about their behavior.

Students majoring in animal science have a variety of tracks within the degree they can choose from, and the companion animal sciences track will be a new option starting in the fall semester.

This track gives students who are not interested in working with livestock the opportunity to work with smaller animals, Protopo-

vova said. There were not many classes or research opportunities for students interested in this topic.

Protopovova said the behavior of dogs is her specialty and her passion, and there was one main thought she had when she was developing the curriculum for the course track.

“When we were developing the curriculum, one main thought was what we were going to do for those students to provide them alternative career paths and not just vet school,” Protopovova said. “How can we get the students ready for the job market?”

Sam Jackson, associate professor in animal science, said the students interested in companion animals originally had to focus in livestock. More students approached the college about having a companion animals program, so the department developed one.

“I think that this track helps the students who have the small animals

as an emphasis,” Jackson said. “It gives them more scholastic training. In the past, if they wanted to get small animal training, we had one class that addressed that. Now we have a broader range of classes.”

Protopovova said the track gives students more career opportunities. This track gives students the opportunity to learn about animal behavior, which will help students in the future.

Different careers students can receive with the help of this track include opening small businesses and working at animal shelters, Protopovova said.

Currently, the prerequisite class, Companion Animal Behavior and Training, is open to students from any major, Protopovova said. Eventually, this class will be closed off to students not in the Companion Animal Sciences track.

“This is a unique opportunity for any student that has an interest in it to come and take it,” Protopovova

said. “It integrates psychology with education and animal sciences together.

It would be interesting for many students.”

Different students will be interested in the different topics this class discusses, Protopovova said.

“We will talk a lot about learning theory in the first half of the class,” Protopovova said. “Theory is the same whether you are a human, a dog or a fish. It’s

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Prince Harry marks wounded

soldiers event

TORONTO (AP) — Two of the world’s social media superstars — Britain’s Prince Harry and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — are counting down to the 2017 Invictus Games, a sports competition for wounded, injured and sick service personnel.

Inspired by a visit to t h e Wa r r i o r G a m e s i n the United States, the 31-year-old royal founded the Invictus Games in 2013. Harry says Monday he’s been told that Toronto’s Paralympic-style competition will be the biggest and best yet. Trudeau, who met with the prince, thanked him.

no will has yet been found,” the judge said.

The hearing didn’t address how long the estate may take to settle or how much it is worth. His property holdings alone in Minnesota, including his Paisely Park studios in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen, were worth about $27 million, but music industry experts say his earnings after death are likely to be far more.

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Prince, who died suddenly last month at age 57.

Prince’s sister, Tyka Nelson, requested the appointment so that the company can manage Prince’s estate until an executor is named.

Eide asked the packed courtroom whether anyone knew of a will, and the courtroom was silent. Lawyers for Bremer Trust said they hadn’t found one but would keep looking.

“The court is not finding that there is no will, but that

but other students at the university will be interested in the minor.

“We will also have a minor for this program,” Jackson said. “If you look across campus, you have a lot of students that are in the arts and sciences or education that are required to take a minor. I think that there will be significant interest in wanting to minor in companion animal sciences.”

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Jerry Cuellar, a French graduate student from Odessa, takes advantage of the sunny weather on campus Monday afternoon by studying outside on the tables by the Texas Tech Library. Finals Week starts for Tech students on May 12 and runs through May 17.

CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — Five of Prince’s six surviving siblings appeared in court Monday for the first hearing to start sorting out an estate certain to be worth millions, a task complicated because the star musician isn’t known to have left a will.

In a hearing that lasted a little over 12 minutes, Carver County District Judge Kevin Eide formalized his appointment last week of Bremer Trust to handle matters involving the estate of

all learning. We are going to talk about the applied learning for animals. How do you deal with specific problem behaviors and how do you teach certain things to dogs and cats?”

When students applying to Texas Tech find out about this new track, there will be students who come to the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources specifically for the track, Jackson said,

only full sibling. Four halfsiblings — Alfred Jackson, Norrine Nelson, Sharon Nelson and Omarr Baker — were present. A fifth, John Nelson, didn’t attend.

Norrine Nelson and Sharon Nelson exchanged a hug in the courtroom, and family members chatted quietly. Tyka Nelson sat at a table between her two lawyers, while the four others sat side-by-side in the well, just behind their lawyers. None of the siblings commented afterward.

PARIS (AP) — Artist Olafur Eliasson is vowing to turn visitors in to explorers in his summer project at the palace of Versailles outside of Paris.

The renowned 49-year old artist, who grew up in Iceland and Denmark, presented his June 7-Oct. 30 exhibition on Monday.

In the palace’s famed 17th-century gardens, Eliasson will have three water-related installations.

One will create a spectacular waterfall in front of the palace, reviving the initial vision —never realized— of Andre Le Notre, principal gardener to King Louis XIV. “The waterfall is an attempt to finalize, to make the impossible possible, to make the dreams come true,” he said.

Other installations in the gardens will deploy a circle of mist —which will change with the weather— and blocks of ice and debris of dust and rock

that are left behind when a glacier retracts.

Inside the palace, the artist will deploy “subtle spatial interventions” integrated in its baroque architecture so visitors have to “explore” the place if they want to make sure they don’t miss any pieces of art.

“I work with nature phenomenon very often, I work with light, dematerialization, ephemera, and maybe sometimes psychology,” Eliasson said.

Eliasson said he explored the palace alone at night with only a flashlight, and found the place “very vibrant” creatively.

Last year, Anish Kapoor’s exhibition at Versailles prompted violent controversy over a sculpture that had a sexual connotation.

The palace of Versailles’ president, Catherine Pegard, said contemporary art exhibitions are a way “to show that Versailles does not remain frozen in the past.”

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Students win College of Architecture competition

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

The American Institute of Architecture Students created a competition to allow students in the College of Architecture to design and build a desk for a security worker on the ground floor of the Architecture building.

Students were challenged to create a design for the desk, create models and then pitch their ideas to board members. Once the committee approved the plans, the winning teams then had to gather materials and build the desk.

Gerardo Perez, a senior architecture major from El Paso, and Humberto Ramirez, a senior architecture major from El Paso, were the winners of the competition.

“It’s been a great opportunity because as a young undergrad student about to graduate in May, both

of us feel really grateful that we got this opportunity because it’s giving us the chance to step beyond a conceptual phase,” Perez said. “As students in the projects that we have here, we only think conceptually and we don’t really get the chance to build something, so getting that opportunity to build something from an idea to something physical it means a lot.”

It took four to five days to think about how they were going to approach the design of the desk, Perez said. The two wanted to go with a design that was modern, elegant and somewhat timeless.

Along with the desk, they decided to also re-design part of the area where the desk would be built.

“The first design took us about a month, but that has changed throughout the whole semester,” Ramirez said. “We started changing once we started

seeing the scale of the actual model, and due to some specification with the professors and the dean of the school.”

The design was constantly changing as the design went from the conceptual stage to physically building the desk.

The team ran into several problems, Perez said, including scaling and budgeting for materials.

“Sometimes you have to compromise, it becomes real, sometimes you have to think about budget,” Perez said. “It’s like, ‘oh, I have all the money in the world and I can design all this,’ no you have a budget and it’s hard and you have to think about what’s the best way to build something, how you’re going to build it and what resources you have available in Lubbock.”

The team did not have enough money for the materials they wanted, Ramirez said, and they

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did not want to have to ask the board members for more money.

They were able to get donations from local businesses from around Lubbock, he said, and gathered a total of almost $3,000.

The hardest part of the project was trying to get their idea and design across to the board members, Perez said, but in the end they were able to show them they would be able to make their design a reality.

The project helped the two students realize what architecture is really about, Perez said, and they went through hard work to push their design.

“Right now we are in the process of building it, so we’re fabricating as of now,” Ramirez said. “I feel pretty neutral about, but I know once we start actually putting it up against the wall, I am going to feel pretty good.” @RyanOrtegonDT

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Gerardo Perez and Humberto Ramirez, senior architecture majors from El Paso, won a design competition to build a desk for a security worker in the Architecture building. The students gathered almost $3,000 in donations from local businesses for the project.

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Chris Young announces stop in Lubbock Chris Young, a Billboard chart-topping country artist, is extending his “I’m Comin’ Over Tour,” and he will stop in Lubbock, performing at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The country music duo Dan and Shay as well as Cassidy Pope will open for Young, according to the USA website, and Dustin

Lynch will join the tour for the November and December performances.

Lubbock will be Young’s only tour stop in Texas during the fall, according to the artist’s website, and other stops will include New Mexico, Arizona and cities in the Northwest.

Young has amassed eight No. 1 singles from his five albums, according to the USA

website, and his most recent album, “I’m Comin’ Over,” debuted No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

Tickets for the Lubbock concert go on sale at 10 a.m.

Friday on www.selectaseatlubbock.com, and packages include premium tickets, access to a preshow acoustic event by Young and limited edition merchandise. @JenRomeroDT

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge ruled Monday that an ailing media mogul should give brief sworn testimony in a case involving his mental competency and who has the authority to make medical decisions for him.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David J. Cowan ruled Monday that attorneys for the media mogul and Sumner Redstone’s exgirlfriend and longtime companion will be allowed to solicit 30 minutes of sworn testimony from Redstone.

The session will be conducted at Redstone’s home and videotaped. Cowan says the video may be played at a trial on Redstone’s mental competency that is scheduled to begin on Friday, but the video will not be shown in open court. Cowan says

the 92-year-old’s privacy rights supersede the public’s right to see Redstone in a “weakened state.”

Allowing Redstone to testify in his home means he will not have to attend the trial or give live testimony in the trial, which will span several days and feature testimony from several doctors, experts and Redstone’s daughter Shari Redstone.

“Nobody deserves to have a career tarnished by having been taken to a courthouse and made a public spectacle of when he would not allow that to happen had he the strength himself to stop it,” Cowan wrote in his ruling.

A transcript of the testimony will be released.

Redstone’s ex-girlfriend Manuela Herzer filed a probate case last year, contend-

ing Redstone lacks mental capacity and he did not approve removing her as the person in charge of making health care decisions for him in October. That move resulted in Herzer being blocked from Redstone’s home, and the mogul’s attorneys have accused Herzer of filing the case for financial gain.

Herzer’s attorney, Pierce O’Donnell, has said his client has received millions from Redstone and is motivated only by her desire to protect him and his health.

Redstone through his holding company National Amusements controls CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. Cowan said Redstone’s testimony is crucial to the case, and he expects the video to be the first thing he reviews at Friday’s trial.

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Rockets need tough coach to improve I

n a season that was the epitome of dysfunction, the Houston Rockets somehow managed to squeak into the playoffs, which is a testament to the pure talent on their roster. Unfortunately, that did them more harm than good.

Before the Golden State Warriors mercifully eliminated the Rockets in the first round, former Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau, arguably the best available coach, had already agreed with Minnesota, and former Thunder coach Scott Brooks had already signed with Washington.

The Rockets, of course, are conducting a coaching search after making a blunder of epic proportions in firing former coach Kevin McHale just 11 games into the season.

Interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff did nothing to improve the team’s problems,

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which were not McHale’s fault to begin with.

The Rockets’ issues stem from their leaders on the court, namely James Harden and Dwight Howard.

They never learned to get along with each other and neither showed any semblance of leadership on the floor.

It didn’t help that Harden showed up out of shape to start the season and got off to a poor start as a result.

Howard is likely opting out of his contract to test free agency, and it seems unlikely the Rockets will re-sign him, which is

good. It’s time to move on from Howard and let someone else give him a max contract.

The remaining problem i s H a r d e n . H e d o e s n ’t display the leadership or attitude to be a superstar.

It’s time to move on from Howard and let someone else give him a max contract.

He doesn’t care about playing defense, yet is supposed to be the face of the franchise.

The only thing he has going for him is he’s one of the best offensive players in the game.

Part of me thinks the Rockets should trade Harden and rebuild around someone else, but

they won’t do that.

GM Daryl Morey is going to find some more pieces to put around Harden in an attempt to build chemistry and be relevant again. This is where the coaching search comes in.

The Rockets need a coach who will not only help foster the chemistry building this team needs, but also one who will push and challenge Harden to be the leader he can be and to play hard on both ends of the court.

They need someone who will command the respect and have the job security necessary to do these things.

Thibodeau would have fit that mold, but the team’s unnecessary trip to the playoffs cost them that opportunity.

Former Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy has been mentioned, and he would be a great fit in terms of

coaching the team, though I doubt he and Morey would be best of friends.

Plus, he would place a great emphasis on defense, which is something the Rockets have sorely lacked lately, with Harden being the prime example.

If Bickerstaff were to get the permanent job, he wouldn’t have the kind of job security and respect someone like Van Gundy would have. The Rockets’ problems would only continue, and that cannot be allowed to happen.

Other candidates are out there, like former Wa r r i o r s c o a c h M a r k Jackson for example, but whoever the Rockets get needs to have the ability to get through to Harden — or at least won’t be afraid to try.

Harden is difficult, but t h a t ’s t h e h a n d M o r e y dealt himself.

He won’t fold his hand and look for a new one, so he has to make the best of it, and that starts with finding a coach who won’t be intimidated by Harden and who will have the job security and support from the front office to withstand any mutiny attempts by the team’s prima donna.

They need someone who will command the respect and have the job security necessary to do these things.

And if Morey can hire a voodoo practitioner to teach Clint Capela how to shoot free throws, that would be nice too. @DailyToreador

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Astros should not worry after bad start

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he Sports Illustrated World Series curse affected the Astros play in April. Starting out 8-17, the team that was supposed to dominate the American League West has taken a step back and has seemed to go back to its early 2010’s self.

But, I’m telling you, as an Astros fan, do not worry. The Astros still have the talent to succeed in the postseason.

The thing about baseball is that it is a long season.

Through 162 games, teams can go through multiple instances of slumps and successes.

After ending the season on a low note, losing the division series to the Royals in October, the team seems to have continued that low note through April.

The real problem for the Astros through the month of April was pitching. According to the Major League Baseball website, the Astros are 24th in the majors in earned run

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average with 4.61.

Ace Dallas Keuchel has not lived up to his potential, after winning the American League Cy Young award in 2016. Leading the starting rotation with an incredibly high 4.41 ERA, Keuchel has been underwhelming starting the 2016 season.

The acquisition of Ken Giles from the Philadelphia Phillies has also not worked out in the Astros favor. Giles has given up 10 earned runs in 10 innings so far this season.

But, fans shouldn’t worry about their April start. While discouraging, history has proven that teams have gone

through similar starts and still made the playoffs.

Recently, the 2001 Oakland Athletics team made the playoffs starting the season off 8-17. Through the rest of the season, that team posted a 94-43 record to get second place in the AL West.

With their talent, the Astros have an opportunity here. The major players, including Jose Altuve and George Springer, have already had a hot start to the 2016 campaign.

Outfielder Colby Rasmus has also surprised some as one of the leading offensive forces on the team, leading the team with seven home runs, same as Altuve.

The pitching potential also gives hope. In the bullpen, Giles has the potential to bounce back from an atrocious start.

Different bullpen pieces like Luke Gregerson and Will Harris have the opportunity to return the bullpen to its

dominant self.

In the rotation, Keuchel has bounced back from slumps before, and the return of Lance McCullers from the disabled list could improve the total pitching rotation.

The Astros are talented.

They have the potential to be a top team in the league, but their poor start lowered the expectations of some baseball aficionados.

With their talent they have the ability to bounce back and still be the World Series champion at the end of the season.

The Astros have to treat May as a new start and be the best team they can be through the grueling summer. The Sports Illustrated World Series curse has affected them through April.

Let’s see if it affects them the rest of the season. I don’t think it will. @DavidGayDT

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The No. 8 ranked Texas Tech men’s tennis team had two singles players and two doubles teams receive Big 12 Conference All-Tournament Team accolades, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Representing the Red Raiders in men’s singles are sophomore Alex Sendegeya and freshman Bjorn Thomson at the No. 3 and No. 6 spot.

Sendegeya and Thomson also received honors at the No. 1 doubles spot.

Sophomore Connor Curry and senior Felipe Soares were also recognized at the No. 2 doubles position.

Against Texas Christian on Sunday, Sendegeya and Thomson defeated their opponents by a 7-5 margin.

Curry and Soares had the edge over their competitors as well, taking the advantage 6-4.

In men’s singles, Sendegeya took another win against the Horned Frogs going 6-2, and 7-5.

Thomson had a strong showing in his singles match as well, going 6-0, 6-0 against his opponent.

The Red Raiders have had an overall record this season of 27-5.

With a strong regular season record the Tech men’s tennis team looks to hold a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

The Red Raiders will host a NCAA Tournament Selection Show Watch Party at 3:30 p.m. today for the team inside the Texas Tech Club.

The men find out their seed in the tournament at approximately 4:30 p.m.

The announcements will be carried online at NCAA.com, according to the release. @TheDT_sports

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Miles finishes junior year on positive note

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

A season-long pursuit came to an end for junior right fielder Kierra Miles as she delivered her seventeenth home run of the season to break Texas Tech’s single season home run record Sunday afternoon at Rocky Johnson Field against the Baylor Bears.

On a 1-0 count at the bottom of the first, Miles jumped at a pitch from the secondbest pitcher in the Big 12 Conference, senior Heather Stearns, and dug in two runs for the Red Raiders.

While Baylor finished the game with a landslide 16-6 win, Miles’ home run gave the team a cause for celebration.

After hitting her recordbreaking home run, Miles elation showed as she said recording the single season record had an immense significance for her career at Tech.

“I feel like it’s just such an honor to play with these girls,” Miles said. “I get an opportunity to just go out and do what I do best with these girls, which is so awesome.”

Miles’ first home run of the season came in Tech’s season opener versus UNLV, and

BASEBALL

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 In the six games, Martin has posted a 2.08 ERA, while Gingery has a 2.05 ERA, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Their conference ERAs rank fourth and fifth in the Big 12.

Also in conference play, Martin and Gingery have held opponents to .206 and .212 batting averages, respectively, which rank second and third in the Big 12, according to the conference website.

“Over the years, what really the game has told me is if you can pitch, you can pitch. It doesn’t really matter in college baseball how old you are,” Tadlock said. “Once these guys line up to play, we are not checking birth certificates.”

Against the team with the

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Kierra Miles runs to home plate after scoring for the Lady Raiders in their game against McNeese State on March 5 at Rocky Johnson Field. Miles now has the most home runs hit in a single season in Tech history. the record-tying homer went against North Texas in Tech’s last nonconference series, two games before she nailed Stearns’ pitch in her last home

game of the 2016 season.

Miles’ homer against North Texas tied the previous mark of Sandy James, who hit the then single sea-

son home run record in 2011.

James’ homer came in game number 57 against New Mexico State in a NCAA Regional matchup.

highest batting average in the Big 12, No. 6 Texas Christian, Martin allowed one run over six and one-third innings, while Gingery allowed one run over four innings of work and struck out six batters.

Senior first baseman Eric Gutierrez said it does not matter who the freshman pitchers are facing, they are confident during every outing.

“If they can pitch they can pitch,” he said. “They throw what they’re told. They were successful this past weekend. I think they’ll be successful again.”

Going into the weekend series against the Horned Frogs, Tadlock had a decision to make about who the Sunday starter was going to be. After using Ty Damron as a starter on midweek games, the junior southpaw got the nod for Sunday’s rubber match.

Damron delivered by tossing five innings and allowing only one run off four hits while striking out five Horned Frogs.

After three strong start this past weekend, the starting rotation is likely set for next weekend’s meeting with Kansas.

However, there are still questions about the bullpen this season. After Gingery allowed one run on Saturday, the bullpen allowed 12 runs in relief.

Even with the starting pitchers’ low ERAs, the Red Raiders 4.18 team ERA ranks fourth in the conference.

In 21 relief appearances, junior southpaw Hayden Howard has been the team’s best out of the bullpen with a 2.85 ERA. Howard also has been Tech’s best pitcher at the end of games as he has the third most saves in the Big 12 with five. Despite Howard’s success

out of the bullpen, he has expressed interest to the coaching staff to start.

Howard got the opportunity to start in the series-deciding game against Texas, but was knocked out of game after allowing seven runs over two innings.

Tadlock would like to give Howard another chance to prove he can start since he has been so productive this season.

“We thought (starting Howard) would be a long-time decision,” Tadlock said. “Sundays haven’t been a great start for us the whole year. We like the ability for (Howard) to do better than he did today. I think everybody in that locker would agree with that.”

Tech will not have to decide on a midweek starter this week as it has off until playing Kansas next weekend in Lawrence, Kansas. @JeremyK_DT

At a .340 batting average in 156 at bats, Miles said she understood the mental aspect of hitting better than previous seasons.

“My mentality is completely different this year,” Miles said. “I went in and just went and looked for my pitch instead of whatever they threw me and it just was a lot more successful.”

Miles’ numbers at the dish backed up her new patient approach. Of her 17 home runs, seven went against a pitcher with an ERA less than four and six home runs went sailing away from home. Through 52 games, Miles’ more conservative at bats have garnered a higher on-base percentage, walks, runs batted in and slugging percentage along with her home run totals.

Compared to her sophomore season, Miles spiked her slugging percentage by .137 at .737, and drove in seven more runs at 50.

As for her home run and walk totals, Miles surpassed the combined totals of her freshman and sophomore seasons by two home runs and exceeded the number of walks she recorded in both her freshman and sophomore seasons by tallying up 19.

“The kid just makes adjustments at the plate and swings hard,” Gregory said. “It’s just so fun seeing it produce for her.” @DGaytanDT

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Three Lady Raiders land on Big 12 Tournament team The No. 19 Texas Tech women’s tennis team had one singles player and one doubles team receive Big 12 Conference All-Tournament Team, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Freshman Felicity Maltby came in at the No. 5 singles spot for the Red Raiders. In doubles, sophomore Gabriela Talaba and freshman Alex Valenstein received honors in the No. 1 doubles position.

Maltby racked up two set wins over her Texas and TCU opponents, improving her record to 20-2 for the season,

according to the release.

In the women’s doubles, Valenstein and Talaba upset the nation’s No. 15 doubles partners, Katie Poluta and Danielle Wagland, by a 6-3 advantage to defeat Texas 4-3 in the Big 12 quarterfinals.

With the Lady Raiders holding a Top 20 spot in the ITA’s rankings all season, they are in the right position to secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament, according to the release. The 64-team selection will be announced at 4 p.m. today. @TheDT_sports