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Sophomore Mami Yamamoto swings during the Lady Raiders' practice at The Rawls Course. Tech will host NCAA Regionals starting at 8 a.m. today.

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GRADUATE STUDENTS DISPLAY DESIGN RESEARCH AT FIRST FRIDAY

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hile the First Friday Art Trail is known for its showcase of art and music, a group of Texas Tech graduate students got the chance to showcase something unique at the trail.

Graduate students in the Department of Design had the chance to display some of their works, including posters from the Graduate Research Poster Competition, master’s students’ final projects and projects completed by doctoral students.

The posters included topics such as zero-fall patient rooms for hospitals, a design for outdoor learning space for kids and a classroom design for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Apoorva Rane, a graduate student in interior and environmental design from India, focused her literature review and case study in a project titled “Integrating Visual Access to Nature in Nurses Working Environments.”

The project was Rane’s spring semester project. In the fall, she said she completed her literature review on nurses working environments.

From that, Rane learned how stressful their working environments are. She said she gathered findings and compared it to other literature on how to relieve stress in working environments that are similar to nurses working environments.

Rane said she then created a set of guidelines that would allow her to map out the kind of images required for the project that she could later apply.

“This project isn’t about getting images and sticking them everywhere possible,” Rane said. “It’s about optimizing the requirement or

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1. Graduate students Nizar Haddad, and Eman Nasrallah, examine posters from the Department of Design Graduate Student Exhibition in McPherson Cellars during the First Friday Art Trail on Friday. Both Haddad and Nasrallah displayed their projects at the exhibition.

2. Graduate students display their awards at the Department of Design Graduate Student Exhibition during the First Friday Art Trail. Students displayed their research posters during the exhibit on Friday. use of that certain tool and making the most of it.”

Fares Alsaygh, a graduate student in interior and environmental design from Saudi Arabia, focused his project on an idea similar to Rane’s.

The title of his project was “Blue Space as a Therapeutic Concept,” and it focused on encompassing more green and blue spaces in hospitals.

“Blue space and green space are a natural design concept in environmental design,” Alsaygh said. “They have a positive effect on people when they interact with them or they view them or they’re inside them.”

Blue space is a landscape or a natural sight that is focused on water, he said. Green space is a landscape focused on greenery.

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After a long season of competing and traveling to different courses, the Texas Tech women’s golf team earned the No. 9 seed for the NCAA Regional Tournament.

The Lady Raiders will host the tournament starting today at The Rawls Course.

This marks the seventh time in eight seasons that Tech has made a postseason debut. It is also the team’s 17th all-time NCAA Regional appearance, according to Tech Athletics.

Junior Lady Raider golfer Gabby Barker said the team is on a high after earning the No. 9 seed and getting a bid to the NCAA Regional.

She said the players are excited to see some different schools and to play on their own course.

“I definitely feel like we have some momentum,” Barker said. “We’ve actually had our four and five players pull through and been playing a lot of good golf. With regionals coming up, especially with it being our home course, I think,

overall, our team is going to be rolling pretty good.”

Before receiving their NCAA bid, the Lady Raiders competed at the Big 12 Championship from April 21-23 in San Antonio, according to Tech Athletics. After three days of competing, Tech took home a third-place finish, under Texas in first and Iowa State in second.

Tech ended day one of the Big 12 Championship with a team score of 304, according to Tech Athletics. The team managed to cut its strokes down and the Lady Raiders ended the tournament with a score of 296.

Even though the team did not perform to the best of its ability at the beginning of the tournament, Tech coach JoJo Robertson said the Lady Raiders battled back and showed what they can do under pressure.

“Our team was excited to finish third at the Big 12, and we didn’t start out great that first day, and they really fought back hard to finish where they did,” Robertson said.

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'NORML' hosts second Global Marijuana March

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Local marijuana activists stand in front of the Lubbock County Courthouse at the end of the Global Marijuana March hosted by Hub City NORML on Sunday. The march started at 18th Street and Avenue Q.

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O n S u n d a y, t h e L u b b o c k division of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws organized a march aligned with the Global

Marijuana March movement.

From 4:20 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Hub City NORML march of 35 to 40 people marched from the northeast corner of 18th Street and Avenue Q to the Lubbock County Courthouse.

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ExxonMobil employees Climate Science Center to host final discussion donate funds to Tech As part of a fund matching program, Texas Tech has continued its yearly tradition of receiving funds from the ExxonMobil company.

Tech received more than $411,000 through ExxonMobil’s matching gifts program on Tuesday. The funds match donations from 47 ExxonMobil employees that will benefit Tech students.

The ExxonMobil matching gifts program has donated more than $3.25

million in philanthropic support for Tech, according to a Tech news release.

The matching program donates $3 for each dollar donated to Tech by ExxonMobil employees, with a dollar for retirees and surviving spouses.

“We are so very appreciative of the generosity of our alumni and the three-to-one matching support of ExxonMobil,” Tech President Lawrence Schovanec said in the release. “ExxonMo-

bil’s commitment to higher education magnifies the impact of our alumni support, and we thank them both for their continued commitment to our students and Texas Tech University.”

Over the course of the program’s history, ExxonMobil and its employees have given more than $600 million to colleges and universities through the matching gifts programs, according to the release. @ReeceNationsDT

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Family sues Texas officer, department after teen’s death DALLAS (AP) — The family of a black 15-yearold shot and killed by a white suburban Dallas police officer has sued the officer and his department, accusing the department of inadequately training the officer and ignoring warning signs that he was prone to erratic behavior.

Jordan Edwards’ funeral was Saturday, one week after he was shot dead in a vehicle leaving a house party in Balch Springs, Texas.

According to the Edwards family’s lawyers, Officer Roy Oliver fired his rifle at the vehicle as it was driving away, piercing a passenger-side window and striking Edwards.

Oliver was fired last week and arrested on a murder charge.

The lawsuit, filed Friday, says police should have known Oliver had “exhibited a pattern of escalating encounters with the public,” including a prosecutor ’s complaint about his aggressive behavior detailed in personnel records.

The complaint said prosecutors had a hard time getting Oliver to attend a trial and used language vulgar enough that one prosecutor sent an intern out of the room. Oliver received a 16-hour suspension over the complaint.

But the lawsuit also blames Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber and the department for having “failed to provide adequate training to Oliver on appropriate methods and techniques to

control situations similar to the one” that occurred on the night of April 29, when police were called to investigate underage drinking at a chaotic house party with dozens of teenagers.

“There was no reason that any person in America — not just a black person — should ever have to bury their 15-year-old child who was doing everything right in life,” Jasmine Crockett, one of the family’s attorneys, said Sunday.

Crockett said attorneys filed the lawsuit to preserve the legal rights of the teenager ’s father, Odell Edwards.

The lawsuit broadly seeks damages for Edwards’ wrongful death, but does not list a specific amount of money. No hearings have been scheduled.

Even with the quick action to fire and arrest Oliver, as Edwards’ family and people protesting the shooting had demanded, “people are still nervous and expecting to be disappointed,” Crockett said.

“That’s what we expect from our system time and time again,” she said.

The day after the shooting, police issued a statement saying the vehicle was reversing toward officers “in an aggressive manner.” Haber would correct that statement Monday after reviewing police video footage, saying the vehicle was actually driving away from the officers when Oliver fired his rifle.

Balch Springs’ use of force policy — in line with national recommendations — instructs officers to avoid shooting at moving vehicles unless their lives or others’ are in imminent danger.

But the lawsuit says officials had the responsibility to determine whether Oliver knew how to respond.

“Oliver ’s inadequate training resulted in the death of Edwards,” the lawsuit said.

A spokesman for police and an attorney for Oliver, Cindy Stormer, did not return messages Sunday seeking comment on the lawsuit.

The final Science by the Glass event will begin at 5 p.m. for happy hour on Tuesday in Albarran’s Mexican Bar & Grill located at 7722 Milwaukee Ave. A discussion will follow at 6 p.m.

This will be the final installment of the discussion, which is hosted by the

Climate Science Center at Texas Tech. The discussion is titled “Water Footprints in High Plains Agriculture” and will be presented by Chuck West, the Thorton Distinguished Chair of the Department of Plant and Soil Science.

Since May 2015, Science by the Glass has been a

monthly informal discussion series hosted by Tech’s Climate Science Center, according to the Climate Science Center website. The discussions typically focus on topics related to science, climate and society, with an intent to inform the greater Lubbock community. @BrandiAddisonDT

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The march took place after the Texas House of Representatives Committee on Public Health approved legislation on Friday that would revamp the state's medicinal marijuana program to be more inclusive and less restrictive, according to The Texas Observer. The bill, which has bipartisan support in the Texas House, is known as HB 2107.

"I came here today to show support for current legislation in the (Texas House of Representatives) that will improve upon the current medical marijuana program," Renee Anders, a Lubbock resident, said.

"I think it's important for people to be able to get the help they need without having to deal with the negative side effects of opioids or antidepressants."

Anders, a member of Hub City NORML, said the organization hosts meetings on the first and third Saturday of every month. The belief that decriminalizing cannabis would lead to an improvement in the lives of many Texans is one of the main reasons she chose to protest, she said.

"What really bothers me is when people have to become medical refugees and they have to move to places lie New Mexico or Arizona in order to improve their quality of life," Jake Syma, communication director of Hub City NORML, said. "It's unfortunate that Texas has this reputation for being a haven of freedom when it's not really all that free."

NORML has received recognition as a nonprofit organization by the Texas Secretary of State, Syma said. The group is dedicated to educating the public

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Renee Anders holds a sign that compares prescription pills to marijuana usage as she and others march down Broadway during the Global Marijuana March of Lubbock hosted by Hub City NORML on Sunday. Lubbock was one of seven Texas cities to host a march. on the benefits of cannabis use and to advocate for marijuana legalization and regulation.

The Global Marijuana March takes place annually in hundreds of cities all around the world, he said.

This year, he said, Lubbock is one of seven cities in Texas to host a marijuana march.

"Medicinal marijuana programs have had widespread success in states that have legalized it," Syma said. "It's very encouraging for us whenever we have events like this and we see enthusiastic support for our cause."

A law is already in place in Texas that allows the distribution of prescribed medical marijuana for patients with intractable epilepsy, according to the Texas Department of Safety. The "Compassionate Use Act" was signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on June 1, 2015.

The bill passed by the Texas Congress in 2015 allows for low-dosage prescription of 10 percent or more cannabidiol and no more than 0.5 percent tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, according to the TDS. All patients authorized to use medical cannabis in Texas must be under the

care of an authorized doctor, have tried two FDAapproved drugs found to be ineffective and be a permanent resident of Texas.

"I think the argument for decriminalization is reasonable and logical," Kerry McKennon, county coordinator of the Libertarian Party of Texas, said. "If God has put this plant on Earth for us to use, and it helps us treat seizures, chronic pain and depression, why shouldn't we be able to use it?"

The Libertarian Party's views on marijuana legalization has always been a supportive stance, citing social liberties and freedom of use, McKennon said. The party sides with legalization advocates and cannabis patients alike.

McKennon's party continues to campaign on the reforming of marijuana laws to allow for more inclusive access, he said.

The fight for the personal liberties of Texans is far from over.

"Texas' medical (marijuana) bill was a sham from the very beginning," he said. "Ironically, the Compassionate Use Act isn't very compassionate or useful to anyone." @ReeceNationsDT

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Euro edges up after French election LONDON (AP) — The euro is rising after Emmanuel Macron, a centrist would-be reformer and supporter of the European Union, won the French presidential election.

The currency shared by France and 18 other countries edged up 0.1 percent to 1.1013 in late Sunday trading in Europe. Stock markets weren’t open yet in Asia, though gains were expected. France’s CAC 40 index had risen last week to its highest since early 2008 — before the worst of the global financial crisis — in anticipation of the result.

While Macron’s win had been widely anticipated, the election had cast a long shadow over the continent as the defeated candidate, the farright Marine Le Pen, had wanted France to exit the 28-nation EU, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the region and its euro currency.

“Europe dodges a bullet here,” said Paul Christopher, head global market strategist for Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

The rise in the euro is not as strong as it was after Macron’s victory in the first

round of the presidential vote, as investors seem to have largely expected the outcome and polls showed him consistently in the lead by a wide margin going into the second round. But analysts say that the result lifts a huge amount of uncertainty for the European economy, which is just picking up some momentum after years of financial crises and stagnation.

“This is certainly positive for the European economy,” said Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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Tech, Lubbock communities celebrate Cinco de Mayo

By TORI McGEE AND KIRBY WARNER The Daily Toreador

Over the weekend, the Lubbock community helped showcase the importance of Mexican culture with Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

The Texas Tech Residence Halls Association hosted its annual Cinco De Mayo event on Friday evening at Urbanovsky Park.

Cinco De Mayo is a holiday that celebrates the defeat of the French army during the Battle of Puebla in Mexico on May 5, 1862, according to History.com. It is viewed as a day to commemorate the culture, achievements and experiences of people with a Mexican background.

Savannah Shelby, a sophomore communication studies and sociology dual major from Banquete, and co-chair of the leadership inclusion team under RHA, said there are many misconceptions about the holiday.

“That’s why we have this event,” Shelby said. “We want people to know the history of Cinco De Mayo, what the flag means, what bull riding is and other things. We want to put those myths away and emphasize what the true meaning is.”

The event included the Tech Mariachi Band, a mechanical bull, traditional Mexican food, maraca paint-

ing and quizzes, which participants could take to win prizes.

The Lubbock community celebrated the holiday on Saturday with the fifth annual Cinco de Mayo parade down Broadway.

The parade was hosted by Los Hermanos Familia, which, according to its website, is an organization dedicated to promoting engagement among families and providing an environment for families and youth to learn about service, skills of nature, leadership, cultural diversity and environmental stewardship.

Christy Martinez-Garcia, the president of Los Hermanos Familia, said 88 organizations signed up to be in the parade, with some general requirements being getting permits, insurance and security for vehicles along with decorations matching a specific theme.

Carlos Acosta, a senior psychology major from Dallas, was volunteering at the parade as a member of the Hispanic Student Society.

“Parades like this are

also really, really cool,” Acosta said, “because it shows how much people like to come out and celebrate these wonderful holidays.”

Acosta said Martinez-Garcia, a former president of the Hispanic Student Society, maintains her relationship with the society through donations and help.

Parades like this are also really, really cool because it shows how much people like to come out and celebrate these wonderful holidays.

CARLOS ACOSTA PARADE VOLUNTEER Martinez-Garcia said becoming aware of the history behind Cinco de Mayo is important. While the holiday celebrates a single battle, people often confuse it for Mexican Independence Day. “It is an important celebration of the Mexican community because, like I said, it was a battle that was won,” Martinez-Garcia said, “and the way that it happened (was) it was a small, just villagers and what not, that beat this well-equipped French army.” @DailyToreador

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TOP: Eric Maese, a freshman theater arts major from El Paso, tries to hang on to the mechanical bull on Friday at the Texas Tech Residence Halls Association's Cinco de Mayo celebration at Urbanovsky Park. The event gave students the chance to experience some Mexican culture.

BOTTOM: Ballet Folkloric Azlan ride down Broadway during the Los Hermanos Familia Cinco de Mayo parade on Saturday. The parade gives community members the chance to celebrate the holiday.

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In his poster on hospital design, Alsaygh presented ideas on encompassing blue space through artwork. In his virtual walk-through, he said hearing the sound of water would benefit a patient, even if the water was not there.

“We’re trying to help patients to enhance their mood and health by applying these concepts in health care environments,” Alsaygh said. “Basically, this shows how the two concepts coming from outdoor environments have positive effects on people: both water and greenery.”

Kristi Gaines, the dep a r t m e n t ’s d i r e c t o r o f graduate programs, said she was impressed by the work of her students.

“I think they did a great job,” Gaines said. “We had a graduate advisory board come through, and they selected some award winners that we’re going to present later tonight, and they were so impressed with the level of research and design and all the different types of projects that our students do.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music legend Loretta Lynn remains hospitalized after having a stroke, a publicist said Saturday.

Sony Music publicist Maria Malta said nothing has changed from information posted on Lynn's website.

Loretta Lynn remains hospitalized

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Celebrities interact at fashion show MILAN (AP) — Susan Sarandon and Courtney Love hobnobbed Sunday in the front row of Prada's first-ever runway show for the midseason Cruise line, which featured frothy pastel looks as pretty as the pastries in the brand's Marchesi cafe downstairs.

Sarandon zipped over for the show from Los Angeles, where she is working on the Showtime series "Ray Donovan." The actress said after the show that she had her eye on a dark blue belted coat dress with an open V-neck.

"That was a beautiful neckline. And I love her shoes and everything that has a sense of humor," Sarandon said.

"I am always wanting those girls to be happier, though," she quipped. "All those beautiful models.

They are wearing those gorgeous clothes. They are making money. Why aren't they happy?"

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Homa Pesarakli (left), a doctoral student from Iran studying environmental interior design shares a Best of the Best Award with Saman Jamshidi (right), a doctoral student from Iran studying environmental interior design. Their exhibit, Zero-Fall Patient Design, which won the BOB Award, was displayed in McPherson Cellars during First Friday Art Trail on Friday.

While the project was not for her class, Gaines said she worked with some of the students because it was an initiative through the Texas Department of State Health Services.

A lot of the projects are beneficial, and the physical environment plays a role in health and well-being. The exhibition helps to educate people, and it

benefits the general public in creating designs similar to the ones exhibited, she said.

“I think it is good to have this kind of exhibit because I don’t think the general public realizes what we do,” Gaines said.

“They think we paint pretty colors, but there is a lot more to it.” @BrandiAddisonDT

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The website says the 85-year-old singer and songwriter was admitted to a Nashville hospital Thursday night after suffering the stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Malta confirmed that Lynn is still in the hospital.

Lynn's website says she is responsive and expected to make a full recovery.

It says Lynn has been advised by doctors to stay off the road while she recuperates, and upcoming scheduled shows will be postponed.

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Americans need to step up by stepping more

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e do it every day.

The second we slap our feet to the ground, deciding to leave our chamber of relaxation, the count begins.

While our feet shuffle forward, our phones and wearable technology, such as Fitbits, use their programmed ability to detect this motion, giving us a number for our step count.

According to a study published in the journal of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the average American takes 5,117 daily steps.

For those of you unfamiliar to the world of step count stratification, let me tell you this is not good.

According to the American College of Sports Medicine, anything under 5,000 steps is considered sedentary, while anything between 5,000 and 7,499 is known as low active.

Furthermore, these are the bottom two out of five total classifications.

Despite the upper three — which are classified as ‘somewhat active,’ ‘active’ and ‘highly active’ — most of us are hovering between the bottom two levels.

Austin Martin is a kinesiology graduate student from Dallas.

How does this happen?

Let me continue describing the synopsis of the typical American’s daily routine, and you might see.

As we walk to the bathroom and eventually the kitchen, we may accumulate a couple of hundred steps.

If you take the time to go on a morning run, you might amass anywhere from 3,000 to 15,000 before you even eat breakfast and leave for work.

However, the average American doesn’t do this, so we might as well forget about it for this drill.

Next, we hop in our amazing motorized transportation devices, which let us reach our destinations at miraculous speeds. Our next steps occur when we open the doors of our driving machines and take a couple of hundred steps more to our workplace.

Once we reach the office, most of us sit down

and remain dormant for the majority of the day.

Perhaps, we will amass 1,000 to 2,000 more steps through excessive water cooler and bathroom trips, but that is being generous.

Next is the walk back to our cars, so add another few hundred.

From there, we will drive back home, and take a few more steps to walk into our house or apartment.

If you take the time to go on a morning run you might amass anywhere from 3,000 to 15,000 before you even eat breakfast and leave for work.

After sitting down and staring at a computer screen for the majority of the day, our brains are exhausted. To unwind, we go home, turn on a much bigger screen and flop down on the couch.

Now, unless you belong to an old fashioned fam-

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ily that eats dinner at a table, your final meal will be consumed on this penultimate resting place — AKA, the couch — while you watch more TV. By the end of the day, many people drift off to sleep with a step count in the ballpark of 3,0006,000. God help us.

How many steps should we be taking?

Most studies say we need about 10,000. I think this number is too low: We were made to walk a lot more than 10,000 steps.

How do I know this?

For the majority of human life, many more steps were demanded of us to simply exist.

Amish Americans live a similar life to the ones we did hundreds of years ago, and the previously noted study found the average Amish adult male to take 18,000 steps daily.

That is more than three times the 5,117 steps that the average American takes.

The range of 10,00012,500 is known as active, while anything more than 12,500 is highly active.

It is my opinion — as a registered strength coach

and exercise physiologist — that on most days, ablebodied Americans should amass at the very least 15,000 steps.

Furthermore, any study looking to incite noticeable health changes to an overweight population should shoot for 15,000 steps, not 10,000.

The range of 10,000-12,500 is known as active, while any thing over 12,500 is highly active.

Around a year ago, I proposed a study for school in which one group was required to walk 15,000 steps a day, while the another group adhered to its normal walking routine.

After presenting to the class, I was pelted with questions criticizing this massive number as excessive.

This criticism had me feeling down until March of this year when an article was published in The New York Times that sug-

gested 15,000 steps as a new target goal for society.

The article references a 70-year-old study conducted in London concerning step count and citytransit workers. Those who made it to 15,000 daily steps had the most normal waistlines, BMIs and metabolic profiles.

How are we going to amass more steps to meet this goal?

Our jobs are not going to change drastically with regard to their physical demand: unless we start living as the Amish do.

We can, however, run in the morning.

The most successful people I know reach 15,000 steps before they even eat breakfast. Most days, this is achieved through running.

If running is not your thing, then set aside multiple times in your day to walk for 20 minutes or so.

Next time you slide your Fitbit to the left or check your health app, you can know where you stand.

Aim for that 15,000.

You can get there. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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French cybersecurity agency to Anti-Trump late night jokes probe Macron hacking attack coming at blisteringly fast pace PARIS (AP) — France’s election campaign commission said Saturday “a significant amount of data” — and some fake information — has been leaked on social networks following a hacking attack on centrist Emmanuel Macron’s presidential campaign. It urged citizens not to relay the data on social media to protect the integrity of the French vote.

France’s government cybersecurity agency will investigate the attack, according to a government official who said it appeared to be a “very serious” breach.

The leak came 36 hours before the nation votes Sunday in a crucial presidential runoff between Macron and far-right candidate Marine

Le Pen — and just as a twoday blackout on campaigning began so that voters could reflect on their choice.

Voting started Saturday in France’s overseas territories and in some embassies abroad.

The leaked documents appear largely mundane, and the perpetrators remain unknown. It’s unclear whether the document dump will dent Macron’s large polling lead over Le Pen going into the vote.

The election commission met Saturday after the leaks emerged just before midnight Friday. The commission said the leaked data apparently came from Macron’s “information systems and mail accounts from some of his campaign managers.” It said the leaked

data had been “fraudulently” obtained and that fake news was probably mingled in with it.

The commission urged French media and citizens not to relay the leaked documents. French electoral laws impose a news blackout Saturday and most of Sunday on any campaigning and media coverage seen as swaying the election.

The Macron team asked the campaign oversight commission Saturday to bring in cybersecurity agency ANSSI to study the hack, according to a government official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the details publicly.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert, whose crude reference to Donald Trump angered some of the president’s supporters this week, has lobbed zingers at him at the blistering pace of 3.37 a day during the chief executive’s first 100 days in office.

Trump is on pace to be the most joked-about president in late-night television in at least 25 years, the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University said Thursday.

Colbert, on his show We d n e s d a y, d i s c u s s e d the fallout from a Trump joke two days earlier that prompted calls to fire him and boycott the CBS “Late Show” advertisers.

He said he didn’t regret

insulting the president, but that “I would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be.”

He made a reference to the male anatomy when he said of Trump Monday: “The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c--- holster.”

Colbert said he was upset at Trump for insulting CBS “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson.

It was one of 337 Trump jokes that Colbert has made since the president’s inauguration in January, the study said. Trevor Noah of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” made 315 Trump jokes in the same period of time, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon unleashed 231 and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel 177.

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Tech defeats South Dakota, falls to Colorado State

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball team went 1-1 in the final day of the regular season on Sunday after defeating South Dakota, 6-2, and losing to Colorado State, 4-3, in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Tech finished the season with an overall record of 1834 and a conference record of 4-14, according to Tech Athletics. The Red Raiders also finished the regular season with a home record of 4-14 and an away record of 4-13.

Against South Dakota, Tech had a total of eight hits, four RBIs, two doubles and one triple, according to CBS Sports. Junior outfielder Kaylee Strickland stole one base.

Freshman outfielder Raina O’Neal, sophomore outfielder Kiani Ramsey and senior infielder Ashley Fultz each had two hits in the game. O’Neal also hit the lone triple for the Red Raiders.

Against Colorado State, Tech had six hits, three RBIs, two home runs and one stolen base. Sophomore infielder Jessica Hartwell hit two home runs in the game in

addition to registering the three RBIs, according to CBS Sports. Sophomore infielder Kiana Workman also stole one base during the contest.

In the first game against South Dakota, the Coyotes started out strong in the top of the first when sophomore catcher Jessica Rogers hit a double to right center, which allowed junior outfielder Christy Warnock to score and take the lead, 1-0, according to CBS Sports.

However, Tech answered with a total of six runs in the bottom of the second. First, Fultz hit a double to center field that sent Ramsey home to tie the game at 1-1, according to CBS Sports.

Workman then reached on an error, which allowed Fultz to score and take the lead over South Dakota, 2-1. Senior outfielder Kierra Miles was up next and hit a double to left center, allowing Workman to score a run and extend Tech’s lead to 3-1.

Hartwell then flied out.

However, Miles was still able to score and further Tech’s lead, 4-1. O’Neal then hit an RBI triple that sent senior infielder Devon Thomey to

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Senior outfielder Kierra Miles hits the ball during Texas Tech’s softball game against the University of Texas at Rocky Johnson Field on April 13. Tech lost to Texas, 4-1. The Red Raiders defeated South Dakota, 6-2, then fell to Colorado State, 4-3, in the regular season finale. score and put Tech up, 5-1, according to CBS Sports.

The final run from Tech was scored by O’Neal after senior catcher/infielder Susan Welborn reached on an error to extend the Red Raider lead to 6-1.

The final run of the game against South Dakota was

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In the top of the sixth, Hartwell hit her second home run of the game to cut the deficit, 4-3, according to CBS Sports. However, the Rams were able to stop the Red Raiders from making a comeback as Colorado State took the 4-3 win.

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The No. 6 Texas Tech Red Raiders’ five-game winning streak came to an end on Sunday after they fell to the West Virginia Mountaineers, 3-2, in the final game of the three-game series in Morgantown, West Virginia.

After going 2-1 in the series against the Mountaineers, the Red Raiders have an overall record of 39-13 and an away record of 15-6, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech is now second in the Big 12 Conference with a record of 13-8.

In the first game of the doubleheader on Saturday, the Red Raiders defeated the Mountaineers, 1-0, according to Tech Athletics. Tech clinched the series in game two with a one-run win over West Virginia, 4-3.

During Sunday’s game, sophomore left-handed pitcher Steven Gingery started on the mound for the Red Raiders, according to West Virginia Athletics.

He pitched for 4.2 innings and was replaced on the mound in the bottom of the fifth. He allowed six hits and two runs, and also struck out five batters. This was Gingery’s first loss on the

GOLF

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 The Lady Raiders will see some familiar faces as they host the NCAA Regionals with 17 schools in the mix, according to Tech Athletics.

Of the schools coming to Lubbock, Tech has competed against Texas, Oklahoma, TCU and Iowa State.

Other teams in the mix include top-seed UCLA, Arizona State, Furman, Kent State, Brigham Young, San Diego State, UNLV, Oregon, Oregon State, Murray State, Georgetown, Richmond and Sacred Heart, according to Tech Athletics. The only teams to have played at The Rawls Course this year are Big 12 Conference rival Texas and nonconference opponent Oregon.

“Yeah, we’re excited. We have a good region, some great teams coming in, teams that we’ve seen quite a bit,” Rob-

mound to put his record at 8-1 this season.

Freshman infielder Grant Little and junior infielder Michael Davis led the team at the plate as they each registered two hits, according to West Virginia Athletics. Little also registered one run in the game. The lone RBI for the Red Raiders came from senior infielder Ryan Long. In his four at-bats, Long registered one run and one double.

The game started out slow with neither team registering a run in the first or the second innings, according to West Virginia Athletics. In the top of the third, the Red Raiders finally put a run on the board to take the 1-0 lead. After Little hit a triple to put himself in scoring position, Long hit a sacrifice RBI to send Little home to score.

The roles reversed in the fourth inning as it was the Mountaineers who registered a run. With a runner on second, freshman infielder Kevin Brophy hit an RBI single to right field to send the runner home and tie the game at 1-1, according to West Virginia Athletics.

Tech rallied back in the ertson said. “We are just really ready to have them here and experience our golf course, and I can’t wait to get it started.”

In order to move on to the NCAA Championship round, the Lady Raiders will need to finish among the top-six teams, according to Tech Athletics. If Tech does so, this will be the third time in program history that the team has moved on past the regional round.

Even though the team finished third in the Big 12 and grabbed a high seed in the NCAA, Robertson said the Lady Raiders have yet to display their true abilities on the course.

“You know, I’ve been saying for quite a while that we have not played our best golf yet,” Robertson said.

“Gabby said it, that she’s got some room to improve to get back to where she expects to be, and I know we have a couple others that think the same way.”

top of the fifth and capitalized on offense. Freshman infielder Josh Jung reached first on fielder ’s choice, which sent Long home and gave Tech the lead, 2-1, according to West Virginia Athletics. However, the Mountaineers combated the Red Raiders’ momentum with some strong offensive showings of their own.

In the bottom of the fifth, West Virginia took back the lead after registering two runs, according to West Virginia Athletics.

Sophomore outfielder/right hander Braden Zarbnisky scored the first run after a throwing error by Gingery to tie the game, 2-2. After t h e e r r o r, G i n g e r y w a s replaced on the mound by freshman right-handed pitcher Caleb Kilian.

Kilian’s first pitch was to Mountaineer sophomore infielder Cole Austin who hit a single to right field that allowed sophomore outfielder Darius Hill to score and give West Virginia the one-run lead, 3-2, according to West Virginia Athletics.

After the Red Raiders could not capitalize in the top of the sixth or seventh, freshman utility/

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Freshman infielder Grant Little swings during the No. 6 Texas Tech Red Raiders’ game against UNLV on March 22 at Dan Law Field. Little had two hits and one run in the Red Raiders’ loss to the Mountaineers on Sunday, 3-2, in Morgantown, West Virginia. right-handed pitcher John McMillon replaced Kilian on the mound in the bottom of the seventh, according to West Virginia Athletics.

The slow streak continued as both teams struggled to capitalize on offense in the eighth inning.

As the Mountaineers had the one-run lead, the Red Raiders had a final chance

to create offense in the top of the ninth, according to West Virginia Athletics.

Davis was the first to step to the plate, and he hit a single to put a runner on first, according to West Virginia Athletics.

However, the next three batters could not capitalize at the plate, and the Mountaineers took the 3-2

win over the Red Raiders.

Tech will continue its conference play as it wraps up the regular season with a three-game home series against Kansas. Games on Thursday and Friday are set to start at 6:30 p.m., and Saturday’s game will begin at 2 p.m. All games will be played at Dan Law Field. @ABoutwellDT

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Freshman Lady Raider Sofia Garcia takes her first swing in the Texas Tech women’s golf team’s practice at The Rawls Course. The Lady Raiders will host the NCAA Regional Tournament starting at 8 a.m. today at The Rawls Course.

The Rawls Course is a par-72 average and is 6,593 yards long, according to Tech Athletics. The regional is a 54-hole tournament with each day consisting of 18hole rounds. For the first day of the regionals, Tech will be paired up against San Diego

State and Brigham Young for an 8 a.m. start time.

“It just takes three days to put it all together, but we are looking forward to it,” Robertson said. “We couldn’t be happier to be playing our home course.” @ABoutwellDT

ST. ALBANS, England (AP) — Denmark won the inaugural GolfSixes tournament as Thorbjorn Olesen and Lucas Bjerregaard teamed up to beat Australia's Scott Hend and Sam Brazel in the final of the six-hole match play event on Sunday.

Victories over France in the quarterfinals and Italy in the semifinals earned the Danes a place in the title match at the Centurion Club in southern England, and Olesen and Bjerregaard won the last three holes for a 3-1 victory.

Seeking to broaden the appeal of golf, the European Tour was experimenting with GolfSixes, which featured

walk-out music on the first tee, long-drive competitions, pyrotechnics and shot clocks.

A pink mascot followed teams around the course.

"I wouldn't mind a few events a year like this, especially if I have Thorbjorn as a partner," Bjerregaard said. "I could see it really taking off, no doubt.

"I think the fact that it only takes an hour and 10 or 15 minutes to play could make for good TV and people are not out here for necessarily seven hours to watch a round of golf."

Australia reached the final by beating Thailand and then Scotland in the knockout stages on Sunday.

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