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Rick Perry announces 2016 presidential bid ADDISON (AP) — Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry opened his second bid for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday, pledging to “end an era of failed leadership” and hoping this campaign will go better than his last one.

Perry announced his candidacy in a humid airport hangar in the company of fellow veterans and a hulking C-130 the cargo plane, like one he flew for the Air Force. He is one of the few veterans in a bustling Republican field short on military experience.

With Perry in the contest and confirmation earlier Thursday that former Florida Jeb Bush will run, 11 major candidates now are vying for the GOP and still more are expected to join.

For Perry, it’s a re-do of a 2012 effort that went poorly as he tumbled from flavor-ofthe-month front-runner after some gaffes.

He’s still trying to live down the “oops” he uttered in a brain-freeze moment during a debate in the 2012 race.

Perry brings a strong economic record in Texas to the contest, as he did four years ago, and his speech underscored the ability of governors past and present to point to achievements in office, not just votes and rhetoric of those in Congress.

“Leadership is not a speech on the Senate floor,” he said. “It’s not what you say. It’s what you do.”

That was an indirect swipe at Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and other rivals with little to no executive experience.

“Let’s give them real leadership,” he said of Americans. He told supporters “we have the power” to project American strength again and grow the economy, and “that is exactly why today I am running for the presidency.”

He’s been in motion for months in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, but starts from a more distant position than four years ago.

“It’s going to be hard to make a first impression a second time,” said Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist in Washington.

Perry made his announcement in front of prominent veterans, including six retired Navy SEALs. One of them, Marcus Luttrell, is a longtime Perry friend and only survivor of a four-man team attacked in Afghanistan and featured in the 2013 film “Lone Survivor.” Also in the audience was Taya Kyle, widow of Chris Kyle of “American Sniper” fame.

Texas gas prices slowly rise COPPELL (AP) — Texas drivers are paying an average of $2.55 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel this week, four cents more since last week.

AAA Texas said Thursday though that the average is still 91 cents less per gallon than last year.

Drivers in El Paso are paying the most at $2.67 per gallon. Drivers in San Antonio are paying the least at $2.46 per gallon.

Texans are paying 21 cents less than the national average of $2.76.

AAA says that for the summer driving season, consumers are on target to pay the lowest prices at the pump since 2009. Relatively low prices at the pump along with a recovering economy have contributed to drivers traveling more during the first quarter of the year than any other year on record.

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Rainfall impacts Lubbock water supply, drainage

Mosquitoes, West Nile virus threat increased by rain

By JARROD MILLER

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Though Lubbock residents may have been shocked these last few weeks from the large amounts of rain the city has seen, results show the downpours have brought significant benefits to the Lubbock community. As the storms subsided, Lubbock residents found their streets drained and lakes filled.

In the last month, Lubbock has received 12.12 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service. As the water has drained from the city, many local lakes have been filled to full capacity. Lake Alan Henry, one of Lubbock’s primary water sources, rose from 73.3 percent capacity to 100 percent in the last month, according to the Texas Water Development Board website.

Lake Meredith has also risen, rising from 5.6 percent capacity to 10.2 percent in the last month, according to the website. Lubbock draws 80 percent of its drinking water from Lake Meredith, according to the City of Lubbock’s website.

This rise is a significant change, considering Lake Meredith’s size. While Lake Alan Henry has a water conservation capacity of 94,808 acre-feet, Lake Meredith has a capacity of 500,000, according to Texas Water Development Board. The increase means an increase of 22,916 acre-feet of water, or approximately 7.5 billion gallons of water.

Lubbock residents experienced a sudden increase in mosquitoes during the past few weeks. With the increase in the amount of rainfall, getting informed of infectious disease threats and preventable measures can help fight the effects of mosquitoes.

Hot summer weather is conducive to the breeding of mosquitoes, Jaime Coy, director of cemetery and vector control of the City of Lubbock, said. Additionally, mosquito numbers have increased exponentially because of the heavy rains.

As a result, vector control has decided to adopt a process called “blanketing the city,” Coy said, where workers start from one end of the city and go clear across the city.

West Nile virus is a seasonal epidemic in North America that flares up in the summer and continues into the fall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

West Nile is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito, according to the website, and the best and easiest way to avoid West Nile is to avoid mosquito bites.

Mosquitoes of genus Culex transmit the West Nile virus, Dr. Mark Lacy, associate professor at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and infectious disease specialist, said.

There are several dozen species of Culex that are capable of transmitting West Nile.

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College of Engineering women named to program Two members of the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering have been named Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering fellows for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Zaida Gracia, assistant academic dean for Central and South American projects and director of special projects, and Rattikorn Hewett, professor and chairwoman of the Department of Computer Science, were chosen for the program that enhances management skills and leadership training, according to a Texas Tech news release.

The program selects faculty and staff at universities to create a network of women bringing organizational perspectives and personal capacity to their respective institutions, according to the release. Gracia and Hewett are part of a 31-person class of ELATE fellows who were each nominated by a dean or provost.

Gracia’s work at Tech with international projects allows her to collaborate with countries such as Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Puerto Rico, according to the release, and she came to Tech following 25 years teaching mathematics at Sacred Heart University in Puerto Rico and working to increase female and minority representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

Hewett is in charge of the Center for the Science and Engineering of Cyber Security and the Big Data cluster initiative, according to the release. She has also done extensive research on applied artificial intelligence relating to data analytics, cyber security, automated software engineering and intelligent controls, and she has published more than 100 papers, according to the release. ➤➤@DailyToreador

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THE SOUTH GRAPE Creek near Fredericksburg flooded more than one foot over the low water crossing on May 25. Recent rain in Texas created multiple river and stream floodings.

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Giovannetti brings unique background to Tech Athletics

By ANDREW GLEINSER Editor-in-ChiEf

Robert Giovannetti is looking at his new job the same way he looks at a large deficit when broadcasting a Texas Tech baseball game: “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”

Tech Athletics announced May 22 that Giovannetti, who was the managing director of Tech Public Media, was named senior associate athletics director for external operations and strategic communications, a role Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt said was “reorganized and repositioned.”

Giovannetti will oversee ticket sales and operations, promotions and fan engagement, athletics communications and sports broadcasting, according to a Tech Athletics news release, and he said he realizes handling these different departments together will present a challenge.

“There are so many moving parts, and sometimes as I sit and look at what I’m about to do, I’m thinking, ‘My goodness, this is a big chunk here,’” Giovannetti said.

“Once we have them all working in concert together, I think that’ll be the key.”

It is rare for someone who has not spent his or her career in athletics to get a job like this, Giovannetti said, but he believes his background will help him acclimate to his new position.

Giovannetti grew up a Tech fan after his family moved to Lubbock from upstate New York when he was in elementary school, he said. He initially planned on going away to college, but his mother’s death during his sophomore year of high school changed his mind.

“It kind of changes things. You want to stay around family and be around here,”

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Giovannetti said. “I didn’t have a problem with it because I love Tech.”

Giovannetti graduated with a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications and began editing a regional newspaper for a Methodist church conference, he said, before moving into television sales and media production, and then decided to start his own business.

“Myself along with two others, we started a company that was producing educational programs for industry,” Giovannetti said. “We actually were going to do a big deal with a company out of Lenexa, Kansas, then 9/11 happened in 2001.”

The Sept. 11 attacks spurred the Kansas company to shut down its international trade, which caused it to stop the production of the training programs, Giovannetti said, hurting his business and causing one of his partners to leave.

At the time, Giovannetti was freelance writing for Red Raider Sports Magazine and said he saw an opportunity to help his struggling business.

“The guy that owned (Red Raider Sports Magazine), he owned one in each Big 12 city, and he decided he was going to sell it,” Giovannetti said. “So I thought ‘Well you know what, that’s a good fallback and a good way for cash flow for my business.’”

Through his company, Giovannetti said he started doing some production for Tech when another opportunity presented itself.

The Tech football team defeated Texas A&M in College Station 48-47 in overtime in 2002, and Giovannetti said he was doing highlights for the Red Raider Club when he suggested they sell the highlights of the game.

“I spent the night all week long on the floor in front of the duplicator,

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ROBERT GIOVANNETTI WAS announced as the new senior associate athletics director for external operations and strategic communications May 22.

He began working at his new job Monday.

because it’s an hour and 35 minutes because it’s all the commercials cut out and all the in-between cut out, and I’d wake up and change out the tapes and put some more in,” Giovannetti said, “and we sold so many it kind of led to a boom for our business.”

Eventually the university cut out the middleman and started producing highlight tapes itself, Giovannetti said, but he credits this success and the cash flow from Red Raider Sports for saving his company.

Then Giovannetti started RedRaiderSports.com and the radio show Tech Talk with the help of Chris Level, he said, who is now the site’s publisher and the host of Tech Talk.

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Texas doctors do world’s first skull-scalp transplant Opening a new frontier in transplant surgery, Texas doctors have done the world’s first partial skull and scalp transplant to help a man who suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment.

Doctors from Houston Methodist Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center did the operation two weeks ago.

The recipient — Jim Boysen, a 55-year-old software developer from Austin, Texas — expects to leave the hospital Thursday with a new kidney and pancreas along with the scalp and skull grafts. He said he was stunned at how well doctors matched him to a donor with similar skin and hair coloring.

“It’s kind of shocking, really, how good they got it. I will have way more hair than when I was 21,” Boysen

joked in an interview with The Associated Press.

Last year, doctors in the Netherlands said they replaced most of a woman’s skull with a 3-D printed plastic one. The Texas operation is thought to be the first skull-scalp transplant from a human donor, as opposed to an artificial implant or a simple bone graft.

Boysen had a kidney-pancreas transplant in 1992 to treat diabetes he has had since age 5 and has been on drugs to prevent organ rejection. The immune suppression drugs raise the risk of cancer, and he developed a rare type — leiomyosarcoma.

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tions because of the playing surface the tournament will be played on.

Typically the U.S. does well on a hard court, because that is what most of the tennis courts around the country are made of.

The French tournament will be played on red clay, a surface that is not easily found at U.S. tennis courts, Vick said. Because the Europeans play on that year-round, she said they definitely have the upper hand.

But with so much experience behind Vick and the team, there is no doubt they will still be competitive, Mel McRee, Lubbock Country Club tennis professional, said.

“Vick is the most humble and kind tennis professional you can find, but if you plan on playing her, you better be in shape and stay away from the net,” McRee said. “She paints lines with her passing shots.”

Before she leaves for France, former students gathered together to wish her well and send her off with a few gifts to make the trip easier, Vick said. She was humbled by the gesture of seeing students and their parents.

“She’s been one of my lifelong mentors, and I’m lucky to still be working with her,” Hillary Garbowski, assistant professional at Hillcrest, head tennis coach of Hutch Middle School and Vick’s former student, said. “I’ve been able to help her with youth lessons, and I’ve been very blessed to do that.”

The team championship tournament will be from June 8-13, and individual championships will be from June 14-21, in La Baule, France. Vick will be competing in both tournaments, playing against individuals around the world.

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KATHY VICK, A Texas Tech alumna, was selected as one of four people from the United States to compete in the International Tennis Federation Seniors World Team Championships in La Baule, France. Vick will compete in the team championship and individual championship tournaments.

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decide between the sure thing at public media or taking his chances with the uncertainty of a new chancellor coming in.

Giovannetti chose the sure thing and continued in that role until beginning his new job with Tech Athletics. He said although it was hard to leave, Tech Public Media, which includes KTTZTV and radio, is in a better position now than when he took the job.

“I think people have taken notice and I think people recognize us and what we’re doing and what we’re trying to accomplish and what we have accomplished,” he said. “We’ve done some great local productions. I think faculty and staff feel a connection to us here.”

Tech public media has benefited from the support of the local community and the work of its employees, Giovannetti said, and whoever replaces him will be in a position to spring the department forward.

Giovannetti said he came into his new job with Tech Athletics in a way similar to how he came into his job with Hance. He spoke to Hocutt at a Tech baseball game after the athletics department weathered significant staff turnover, offering to share his opinion if Hocutt wanted it, which eventually led to a meeting.

“He just asked me my thoughts

about different people in the office and what I thought was working and what I thought wasn’t working,” Giovannetti said. “Toward the end of the conversation he said, ‘Would you be interested in the external operations job?’”

At first, he was hesitant to leave public media, he said, but communicated with Hocutt regarding the position in what was basically a two-month interview before interviewing with a committee and being offered the job.

“Robert brings a broad perspective and tremendous experience to the athletics department,” Hocutt said. “Robert’s a tremendous leader and will be able to bring our units and our teams together in a greater way than ever before with a common purpose.”

With athletics communications, Giovannetti said his goal is for the department to tell the stories of the student-athletes and the university, to streamline how it releases news and to coordinate its social media with regard to other departments.

Many different people and different pieces of the athletic department play a role in social media, Giovannetti said, and he plans to strategize how social media is done to avoid duplication of effort.

For ticket sales and operations, Giovannetti said he has

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“Basically, the virus resides in the saliva of the mosquito, and when the mosquito bites a human, the virus in the saliva is inoculated into the skin,” Lacy said. “The virus then makes its way to the dendritic cells.”

Dendritic cells are part of the immune system, he said, that are kind of like sentinel cells.

The virus replicates itself in the dendritic cells and then it gets into the blood.

At this point, the patient gets viremia, which means the virus is circulating in the patient’s blood.

“From the time the mosquito bites until you get (viremia), it’s anywhere from two to six days,” Lacy said.

Only a small percentage of people infected with West Nile become seriously ill, Lacy said.

About 80 percent of the people who are infected by a Culex mosquito do not show any symptoms at all. About 20 percent can get a flu-like illness, but they generally recover in a few days.

“But, approximately one out of 150 people will get a neurologic disease from a West Nile virus, and that can be more serious,” Lacy said. “You can get a

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Some of this water will eventually reach the Ogallala Aquifer, Ken Rainwater, a professor in the Tech Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, said.

“It will take awhile to get there, but every little bit helps,” he said. “Now it isn’t going to mean the Ogallala water is going to just jump up, but it is better than it not having anything.”

Because of the flash flooding caused by sudden downpours, some drivers were surprised to see Lubbock roads suddenly flooded. Despite the initial flooding, however, the city

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France to play against the world’s Ranked by the USTA through top tennis pros. various competitions throughout During high school, Vick played the country, those who are chosen at Monterey High School and are among the best senior tennis moved on to Texas Tech, but only players the country has, Vick said. stayed one year, she said. Follow- And with the tournament being ing the tennis coach from Tech, hosted every year, it is not too Vi c k t h e n uncommon transferred to for Vick to be Trinity Uniasked to be on versity in San the team.

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This will be Vick’s fifth time Vick said she has always kept playing for the team portion of the tennis in everything she does while tournament, she said. Vick has also coaching at the high school and been chosen to play individually, collegiate levels. Being a tennis in- which she has done twice before. structor for Hillcrest Country Club In recent years Vick has found makes it easy for her to be able to herself ranked in the top four play and coach at the same time. senior tennis players in the Vick travels all around the country, she said. Because of a country competing against ten- surprise injury, Vick was ranked nis players her age on the senior fifth last year, but was able to circuit of the United States Ten- redeem herself by regaining her nis Association, she said. Closely previous ranking, which helped related to the USTA is the Inter- boost her chances of making this national Tennis Federation, and it year’s team. is that tournament in which Vick But this year Vick is going into was chosen to represent the U.S. the tournament with some reservaStaff Writer

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meningitis or an encephalitis.”

The people who are at most risk to become ill after West Nile infection are the elderly and immuno-compromised patients, Lacy said.

If someone has a fever and a headache for a day or two and then it goes away, then he or she probably does not need to see a doctor, Lacy said.

“But if you’re staying home and you’re getting worse and worse,” he said, “you need to at least call a doctor and talk to him.”

While there are many mosquitoes in the city right now, Coy said the only case of West Nile in Texas so far this year was in Houston.

The patient was elderly and was diagnosed with a serious, neurological form of the disease, according to a Houston Chronicle article. The patient was hospitalized and is expected to recover.

“Our department applies chemicals, but we also do our best to educate people on how to prevent mosquitoes from becoming a nuisance to them,” Coy said.

The vector control department educates the public on the four Ds: DEET, Dusk to Dawn, Dress and Drain, he said.

When outdoors, Coy said people should make use of

DEET-containing insect repellants and try to stay indoors from dusk to dawn when mosquitoes are most active.

People should also dress appropriately to protect themselves and take note and get rid of any stagnant water in and around their households, he said.

“A lot of the mosquitoes that we have here in Lubbock are what we call home grown,” Coy said. “They start in people’s backyards and they usually stay within a mile of their homes.”

The vector control department has an in-house entomologist, Wayne Gellido, who analyzes the mosquito population, Coy said. Gellido also works closely with Dr. Steven Presley, associate professor of environmental toxicology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

While the vector control department has just five people who go out and spray the insecticides, Coy said those five are extremely dedicated and passionate. They work more than 12 hours a day and sometimes seven days a week.

“They take this very, very seriously,” Coy said. “When they see the mosquito population as big as they are and hear people getting sick, they almost take it personally.”

Whenever necessary, the Tech

Department of Grounds and Maintenance seeks help from the vector control department, Don Roulain, senior superintendent of the Department of Grounds and Maintenance, said.

This year, once the rains became frequent and rainwater started collecting, officials became proactive in treating the Tech campus for mosquitoes, Roulain said.

In the case of West Nile, there is currently no treatment, Lacy said. There is no antivirus medicine or vaccine for West Nile that is effective.

“So, when people get really sick with West Nile virus, all we do is support them,” he said.

“So, we try to do things for their bodies that (their bodies) can’t do for themselves until they are over the infection and recover.”

However, people should pay more attention to issues that are more threatening to them and they can do something about, Lacy said.

“People get anxious about health threats like the West Nile virus infection,” Lacy said. “But at the same time, they engage freely in smoking tobacco, using alcohol to excess, smoking pot and using drugs. To me, that just doesn’t make any sense.”

storm water system was able to clear the streets.

“By and large, the streets are clear an hour after the rainfall event has stopped,” City Engineer Mike Keenum said.

This storm water drainage is no small feat. Lubbock’s landscape is primarily flat, making it very difficult to discharge rainwater, Keenum said. Except for Lubbock’s few playa lakes, there are not many other areas to drain the rainwater, making an underground drainage system costly.

Considering this, the city uses its streets as its main rainwater transportation device, Keenum said. Decided by the City of Lubbock in 1997, the city streets are designed to drain into local

playa lakes, avoiding the hefty costs of city wide underground systems.

In regard to the flash flooding, Keenum said while it would be possible to build a system to prevent flooding, Lubbock’s landscape would make the costs unfeasible. Modern storm sewers are designed for consistent rainfall, Keenum said, not the four inch-per-hour rainfall Lubbock has recently experienced.

“We could say that we are going to take any drop of rain that hits the ground and put it underground.” Keenum said. “Back in ’97, it was estimated that that would be billions of dollars.

I would fathom to say that it has increased by several orders of magnitude.”

This is not to say the city drain-

age has remained the same since 1997. After several floods, including a particularly disastrous flood in June 1999, the city has initiated several projects to drain the city properly, Rainwater said.

“We had about eight inches over several days in a row,” Rainwater said about the June 1999 flood. “So all of the those playa lakes, starting over by the mall, filled up, and the water flowed over land, the mall parking lots, and through the streets.

It connected the playas all the way to Trinity Church.”

Unlike recent floods, these flooded areas were unable to drain quickly, leaving some neighborhood and residential areas flooded for several months.

Rainwater said the city was able to use the floods to design a system of overflow pipes. These pipes, now complete, connect several of the playa lakes that overflow, draining into one another and eventually to canyons in northeast Lubbock.

In addition to discussing Lubbock’s improvements, Rainwater said it is important for Tech students to be prepared in such flood events.

“What is important to students around here is that if you see you are having a heavy rainfall event, try and plan for it,” Rainwater said.

“If you are stuck somewhere, and it is raining and the streets are full of water, just wait.”

Though the Tech campus is not in a flood plain, the campus does contain low-lying areas prone to flooding, Rainwater said. These flooded areas have led to student accidents and injuries that could have easily been avoided.

When storms arrive and streets begin to fill, Rainwater said his advice, “What we say in the Texas Floodplain Managers Association is ‘turn around, don’t drown.’”

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12:25 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft outside Holden Hall. An unsecured bicycle was taken from the east bicycle racks.

1:14 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for an outstanding Lubbock County warrant and driving with an invalid license after a traffic stop in the 1800 block of Texas Tech Parkway. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was towed.

Wednesday 8:48 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Tech Plaza. An unsecured diploma and wall decorations were taken.

9:18 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for theft of a bicycle in the 1700 block of Boston Avenue.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

9:49 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license after a traffic stop in the 3500 block of 4th Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was released to a family member.

11:54 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for driving with an invalid license and one outstanding Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office warrant in the 2400 block of 15th Street after a traffic stop. The vehicle was impounded. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Tech Police Department.

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Police investigate campus vandalism Monday 7:28 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at the Architecture building. The sculpture at the entrance had paint on it.

8:04 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at the Petroleum Engineering building. The front entrance had paint on it.

3:41 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft in the Electrical Engineering building. A small refrigerator was taken from a secured room.

12:36 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for an outstanding Lubbock County warrant, no driver license and no liability insurance after a traffic stop in the 2500 block of 15th Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was released to a family member.

Tuesday 8:07 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for an outstanding Harris County warrant after a traffic stop in the 1100 block of Indiana Avenue. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The vehicle was impounded.

11:06 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft in the Tech Library.

A glass paperweight was taken from a secured office.

10:03 p.m. — A Tech officer documented an incident involving a non-student after observed suspicious activity in the 3000 block of 18th Street. The non-student was issued a criminal trespass and released.

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“Rivals had something called RedRaiderExtreme.com, and I was working for it and so I kind of got to know Robert,” Level said. “We just kind of hooked up that way and then we changed the name to RedRaiderSports.com.”

Giovannetti is a mentor to him, Level said, and is someone he can count on who is savvy with great street smarts.

“If you put him in any situation, he’s going to figure out a way to succeed,” Level said. “He’s just a really good dude and a really good Red Raider.”

After simultaneously working on RedRaiderSports.com, Tech Talk and sports broadcasting for KJTV-TV, Giovannetti said he was burned out when he found an opportunity with then-Chancellor Kent Hance.

“I knew Chancellor Hance from media, and I just emailed him one night and said, ‘Hey, I just want to bounce some ideas off you,’” Giovannetti said. “Next thing you know, he hired me to be his director of communications.”

Giovannetti said Hance eventually made him associate vice chancellor of communications, and he credits Hance with changing the trajectory of his career.

“It took me on a completely different trek than I ever thought I would do, and I give (Hance) a lot of credit for that,” Giovannetti said. “He gave me a lot of responsibility.”

Hance said he was impressed

by Giovannetti and believes he will do a great job in the athletics department.

“I don’t think they could’ve found anyone as good as Robert Giovannetti,” Hance said. “He’s just a hard worker and he makes sure he gets the job done.”

Giovannetti began working with Hance in 2011, according to a Tech Athletics news release, and also worked as the radio voice of Tech baseball from 2008-2012.

Giovannetti said he enjoyed calling baseball games but could not continue to do so full time because the time commitment interfered with his job. He does still do TV broadcasts of Tech sporting events, and he hopes to be able to continue that.

“There’s so much travel when you call baseball on the radio,” he said. “It’s a lot of work, and it doesn’t pay hardly anything so it can’t be your real job, as great as it would be.”

When Hance retired, Tech President M. Duane Nellis offered Giovannetti the role of managing director of Tech Public Media, Giovannetti said, and he had to

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Giovannetti said he hopes to get more Tech sporting events on television and use broadcast services to give the university as much exposure as possible.

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“When that arena’s full or even halfway full, it’s a great place to watch basketball, and you’ve got two really dynamic coaches there in basketball now,” Giovannetti said. “I think what you want to do is try to maybe reignite the love affair this community has with basketball.”

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Texas Tech baseball season ends in disappointment

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

After reaching the first College World Series in school history, the Texas Tech baseball team came up short on its goal of back-to-back trips to Omaha.

The team finished the regular season with a 31-24 overall record, which was enough for third place in the Big 12 Conference.

In the Big 12 tournament, Tech drew a first-round matchup against in-state rival Texas.

The Longhorns got hot at the right time by beating the Red Raiders and going on to win the tournament.

Because the tournament is double elimination, Tech kept its season alive by beating No. 2 Texas Christian 8-1 behind senior right-handed pitcher Corey Taylor’s five shutout innings. Taylor led the NCAA in ERA, according to the NCAA website.

Despite sweeping Baylor in the regular season, Tech lost 5-4 to the Bears the following day to end its season.

Sophomore outfielder Anthony Lyons scored a run in the eighth inning to try to start a rally but the Red Raiders could not

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TEXAS TECH INFIELD players talk with coach Tim Tadlock in the top of the 9th inning against New Mexico State on March 11 at Rip Griffin Park. Tech beat New Mexico State 7-4.

complete the comeback.

If the Red Raiders had beaten the Bears, they would have had a rematch against the Longhorns.

The team’s pitching staff set a school record with a 2.08 ERA across three games in the conference tournament. The previous record was set in 2005 with a 4.00 ERA, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Because of inconsistent play toward the end of the season and struggling in midweek games all

year, Tech was not one of 64 teams selected to the NCAA tournament, a year removed from being one of the final eight teams in the tournament.

Tech had six players earn All-Big 12 honors. By matching last season’s amount of players on all-conference teams, the Red Raiders had six All-Big 12 picks in two consecutive seasons for the first time since the conference’s first two seasons in 1997-1998, according to the release.

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TEXAS TECH PINCH hitter Tanner Gardner makes contact with the baseball March 24 against New Mexico at Rip Griffin Park. Tech lost the one-game series 7-6.

Junior first baseman Eric Gutierrez led the way with a unanimous first-team All-Big 12 selection, according to the Big 12 website. Gutierrez hit .315 with 46 RBIs this season.

Senior pitchers Corey Taylor and Cameron Smith also were selected to the first team.

Sophomore outfielder Stephen Smith, junior infielder Cory Raley and senior right-handed pitcher Dominic Moreno were all named to the second-team All-Big 12.

Junior outfielder Tyler Neslony was named All-Big 12 honorable mention, according to the website.

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Astros to renovate center field, remove Tal’s Hill Disgraced FIFA president starts work on reforms HOUSTON (AP) — The Astros have announced plans for a proposed renovation of center field at Minute Maid Park that would remove Tal’s Hill and shorten the distance in center field from 436 feet to 409 feet.

Houston’s center field is currently the deepest in the majors, and the $15 million renovation would make it the sixth-deepest

in the league.

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The renovations will begin at the end of this season and are to be completed by the start of next season.

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(AP) — Two days after be- indicted by the U.S. Department coming the face of soccer corrup- of Justice on corruption charges. tion, disgraced FIFA President A law enforcement official, Sepp Blatter said Thursday he speaking on condition of anohas already started working on nymity, has said that the 79-yearways to clean up the sport’s gov- old Blatter is a target of the investigation. Blatter has not been erning body.

Blatter, who announced his officially implicated in the case. decision to resign on Tuesday The official spoke on condition as the FIFA corruption crisis of anonymity because the case continues to build and spread is ongoing.

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He made no mention of his along with a link to a statement status as a target of the American released by FIFA. FIFA has been plunged into investigation. Instead, he kept crisis for more than a week, ever the short statement focused on since seven soccer officials were reforming an organization he has arrested at a luxury Zurich hotel presided over for 17 years.

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aware that only the FIFA Congress can pass these reforms,” Blatter said in the statement.

In a separate investigation, Swiss authorities are looking into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests won by Russia and Qatar.

In his resignation speech on Tuesday, Blatter promised a final round of modernizing reforms before leaving office. That includes finding a date for a presidential election by next March.

He also pledged to bring in term limits for his successor and FIFA executive committee members, and tougher integrity checks for election candidates.

Blatter’s statement came after separate investigations into soccer corruption were opened in South Africa and Australia, and after the headquarters of the Venezuelan Football Federation was raided by military intelligence officers.

The South African probe revolves around allegations of bribery related to the country’s winning bid for the 2010 World Cup, while Australian authorities are investigating corruption claims surrounding Australia’s failed bid for the 2022 World Cup.

All-Star managers name coaching staffs NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Don Mattingly and Cincinnati’s Bryan Price have been picked as All-Star coaches

by NL manager Bruce Bochy of the World Series champion San Francisco Giants.

Houston’s A.J. Hinch and Seattle’s Lloyd McClendon were selected for the July 14 game in Cincinnati by AL manager Ned Yost of Kansas City, Major League Baseball said Thursday.

The NL staff also includes Bochy’s Giants staff: assistant coach Shawon Dunston, bullpen coach Mark Gardner, first base coach Bill Hayes, third base coach Roberto Kelly, batting coach Hensley Meulens, pitching coach Dave Righetti and bench coach Ron Wotus. Cincinnati head athletic trainer Paul Lessard and Colorado assistant athletic trainer Scott Gehret also were selected.

The AL on-field staff includes Royals pitching coach Dave Eiland, catching coach Pedro Grifol, bullpen coach Doug Henry, third base coach Mike Jirschele, first base coach Rusty Kuntz, hitting coach Dale Sveum and bench coach Don Wakamatsu.

Los Angeles Angels head athletic trainer Adam Nevala and Tampa Bay assistant athletic trainer Paul Harker will join them.