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Students of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine’s class of 2021 stand on the stage while Dean of Medicine Dr. Steven L. Berk speaks during the White Coat Ceremony on Friday at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The purpose of the ceremony is to show students that a physician’s responsibility is to both take care and to care for patients.

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s 180 future doctors filed into the Lubbock Civic Center, the sound of cheers and clapping from their friends and family reverberated across the walls. Students waved to their parents, some beaming with pride and others smiling uncomfortably as their parents waved wildly from their seats.

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine hosted its annual White Coat Ceremony on Friday to celebrate the class of 2021.

The ceremony shows students

that a physician’s responsibility is to both take care and to care for patients, according to the ceremony program.

“For many students, dreams of putting on a white coat begin the day they are accepted into medical school,” Dean of Medicine Dr. Steven L. Berk said in a press release.

“The coat symbolizes the years and hard work have finally paid off.”

The class of 2021 welcomed students from 68 different schools, including Texas Tech, the University of Texas Austin, the University of Texas at Dallas, Baylor University and many others, according to an HSC news release.

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The School of Medicine also welcomed its first set of twins this year. Juliana and Jacqueline Falcon graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2017 with degrees in Human Development and Family Sciences.

“We always had a passion for the sciences,” Jacqueline Falcon said.

“We decided on being pediatricians because of the way our pediatricians cared for us. We want to be like that with our patients one day.”

The Falcons chose to continue their education at HSC because of its emphasis on rural health, which the sisters know all too well. As natives of Rio Grande City, they know

how not having many resources can affect a town.

“As a pediatrician, you can build these small communities,” Juliana Falcon said. “(Jacqueline and I) understand what it’s like to be without resources and we feel that Tech highlighted (rural health) really well like they emphasized Spanish terminology and how to communicate with patients.”

The class of 2021 has the highest GPA in the School of Medicine and the highest female to male student ratio, Dr. Berk said.

Dr. Berk praised the stellar and diverse achievements of the students, which he said include a world

champion Quidditch player and a B-52 deputy aircraft commander to name a few.

He also praised the students who have struggled to get into medical school as well. “(Many of these students) were not at the top of their class and actually didn’t get into medical school the first, second, or third try,” Dr. Berk said in his speech.

“Many of them were EKG technicians or home raising a family, but they never gave up on their dream of going to medical school. We saw something in these students that nobody else did.” @DailyToreador

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Tech summer commencement schedule announced Texas Tech students graduating in August will participate in the summer commencement ceremonies on Saturday at the United Supermarkets Arena.

Students in the College of Arts & Sciences, College of Education, College of Media & Communication, College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Honors College, College of Architecture and the graduate students in those colleges will be recognized in the morning ceremony at 9 a.m., according to a Tech news release.

The afternoon ceremony will take place at 1:30 and will consist of students in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business, College of Human Sciences, University Programs, Wind Energy, Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing

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Ceremonies take place at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the United Supermarkets Arena Doors open at 7 a.m. and will stay open all day Tickets are not required not required The clear bag policy will not be in effect Free parking available in the lot west of the United Supermarkets Arena

Arts and the graduate students from those colleges.

Anyone wishing to attend a commencement ceremony will not need a ticket, according to the commencement website. Doors will open two hours prior to the first ceremony and will stay open throughout the day.

Because the ceremonies are not a ticketed event, the clear bag policy will not be in effect, according to the United Supermarkets Arena website.

Both ceremonies can be watching in real time online at www. ttu.edu/livestream/, according to the release.

This year ’s commencement speaker will be School of Music professor Jeffrey Lastrapes, according to the release.

For more information about parking, seating and anything else regarding the ceremonies, visit www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/ commencement/. @DailyToreador

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East Side Arts Camp students present work at FFAT

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Young campers took the stage at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts’ First Friday Art Trail for a show and tell for their friends and family.

The children were part of the East Side Arts Camp, which is put on by the East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood each summer. According to ELPN’s website, the East Side Arts Camp is a camp attended by forty elementary school students from Alderson, Ervin, Harwell and Hodges elementary schools.

The students take part in art, music and theater classes taught by instructors and students from the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The show and tell took place in the Christine DeVitt Icehouse behind LHUCA. Jared Strange, the arts coordinator and camp director, welcomed everyone to the event. Strange said the camp encourages the students to sharpen their art skills and develop good character.

“We have taught the kids to choreograph their own dances and perform in drama based on folk tales, as well as sing folk songs in three different languages,” Strange said. “We also taught them yoga and relaxation techniques to focus their minds and bodies for the activities.”

The show and tell started with the first-grade group displaying their choreography and warm up skills, followed by the second graders

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Local elementary school children participated in East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood’s East Side Arts Camp where they took art, music and theater classes. The work they made during the camp was put on display for friends and family members on Friday at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts during First Friday Art Trail. singing folk songs. The third, fourth and fifth graders presented the artwork they made during the camp.

Strange said the younger students created castles, turrets and draw-

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Artist display dystopian culture at FFAT

By PAYTON ROBB Staff Writer

A group of Texas Tech artists are using visual art to provide different outlooks and aspects to culture.

At the First Friday Art Trial, artists created an exhibit called “Garden of Dystopian Flights” demonstrating today’s dystopian society.

“This project’s objective was, ‘With the lingering gloom, turbulence, and disillusionment of current social, political and environmental environments, it’s tough not to think society is edging on the cusp of a dystopian future,’” assistant director Scotty Hensler said. “We wanted to express the theme of envisioning a better dystopia.”

The exhibit was shown at the Satellite Gallery and had 14 artists participate.

Michael Glen was an artist who participated in the exhibit, and he said he thought

First Friday was a good way to test people’s reactions.

Glen, along with the other artists, said he was hoping to bring about some change to THE world through his piece.

“My project was titled, “Stand in for St. Jude,” he said. “It demonstrates the things we were promised for the future and the things we actually received.”

“Stand in for St. Jude” was a participatory piece, asking for viewers to volunteer to “stand in” for St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, as the world slowly crumbled into dust. The viewer would read from a script, apologizing and defending the missing saint’s absence from a makeshift pulpit covered in plastic dinosaurs and TV screens.

Glen said the “Garden of Dystopian Flights” was designed to make the viewer indulge in critical thinking.

“It expresses the inexpress-

ible,” he said. “We tried to illustrate a various dystopia through technology, destroyed homes, nature, and survivor mentality. We are expressing things about our society.”

Most of the pieces were objects designed to evoke conversation about an apocalypse. Broken computer parts were haphazardly strung all over the ceiling while the ground was strewn with rubble, bullet casings and tents in the woods. Each piece was another facet of dystopian culture, a “garden” which viewers picked their way over.

Hensler has been working at the First Friday Art Trail for four years and thinks art is an important part of today’s civilization.

“Art feeds our culture,” Hensler said. “No matter if it is music, writing or visual art, it adds a lot of richness and depth to our lives.” @DailyToreador

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bridges out of cardboard, inspired by the fairytale curriculum. Older students made crowns and designed stained glass windows on sheets of wax paper. All of the students’ artwork is on

display at the Icehouse.

The camp culminated on Thursday with a mural painting session at the Guadalupe-Parkway Sommerville Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Every camper had a hand in designing a part of the mural, a multi-colored stained glass window.

As a final treat, the camp gave each camper a goody bag to take home, filled with crayons, map colors and art supplies to use for school.

Strange said the campers did a wonderful job and he was proud of them.

“Over the week I’ve seen them grow in dignity and compassion,” he said. “In the folk tales you read about people growing up and becoming good citizens, and we wanted the kids to see that and use it. They all stepped up to the plate and took care of each other. They deserve to be here, and to make their own mark in the Lubbock art scene.” @DailyToreador

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Members of the Military Order of the Purple Heart Richard Murphy, Isaac Barraza and Christopher Beck talk with each other after the conclusion of Purple Heart Recognition Ceremony. The Texas Tech Military and Veterans Programs hosted the ceremony on Monday at Memorial Circle. The purpose of the ceremony was to recognize Tech and local Purple Heart recipients.

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3rd Boy Scout dies after sailboat incident AV I N G E R ( A P ) — A third Boy Scout has died from injuries suffered when a sailboat struck an overhanging power line on a lake east of Dallas, an official with Texas Parks & Wildlife said.

The 11-year-old Scout died Monday at a hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, Texas

Parks & Wildlife spokesman Steve Lightfoot said.

The boy was sailing in a catamaran Saturday with two older boys, one 17 and the other 16, when it struck the power line at Lake O’The Pines near Avinger, 150 miles from Dallas.

Daniel Anderson, chief operating officer for the East

Texas Boy Scouts of America, said a Scout leader reached the boat within minutes but the two older boys were already dead. The oldest teen was found in the boat while the other two fell into the water.

Authorities have not released the names of the victims.

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Chicago files lawsuit over sanctuary cities threat

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CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel has taken his fight against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies to court, with Chicago becoming one of the first cities Monday to sue over what many U.S. cities argue are illegal bids to withhold public safety grants from so-called sanctuary cities.

A 46-page lawsuit against the government was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago a day after Emanuel announced the litigation and said the city won’t “be blackmailed” into changing its values as a city welcoming of immigrants.

It’s the latest round in a battle pitting several U.S. cities against the Trump administration. The cities have opted to limit cooperation with government enforcement of immigration law while federal officials threaten to withhold funding if those cities don’t comply.

A first order of business now that Chicago’s suit has been filed will be to ask a judge to put a freeze on the policy as the civil case plays out, said Edward Siskel, the head of City Hall’s legal department. That request for a preliminary injunction could be made within days.

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Logic key in understanding flawed arguments In life, there are good arguments and bad arguments.

The secret to differentiating between the two is by evaluating the logic being presented.

When listening to another person’s argument, listen closely to what claims they are making. If one determines certain claims may be less than factual, politely ask what source it derives from.

Keep in mind it is important to maintain a respectful approach when having friendly debates. This mindset is key to developing new levels of understanding on particular issues without insulting anyone in the process.

Byzantine Emperor Justinian I introduced a collection of legal interpretations and laws during his rule dating back to the sixth century C.E. The Codex Justinianus was one of the first legal systems in the world to establish whom the “burden of proof” fell on.

Justinian’s Code states, “Proof lies on he who asserts, not on he who denies.”

This concept has since evolved into what is known as the “presumption of innocence”, and it is the very basis of the American legal system we know today. An in-

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dividual who is under arrest is to be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

Establishing such proof should be at the core of one’s own argument. It means if you make a claim, you must provide evidence for that claim.

While it may seem very unlikely for a person’s claim to be taken seriously without establishing a single shred of evidence, it is not unusual for adults in positions of power and influence to attempt to get away with this act of obfuscation.

An example of a conspiracy theory gaining traction due to unproven claims was the Comet Ping Pong scandal that made headlines in November 2016. At the heart of this issue was publisher and director of Infowars, Alex Jones.

Jones eagerly jumped on the Pizzagate wagon to share his interpretation of leaked emails from Democratic lobbyist Anthony Podesta. Jones’ wild speculation was that Hillary Clinton and restaurant owner James Alefantis

were running an underage prostitution ring in the bathrooms of Comet Ping Pong, a Washington D.C. restaurant members of the Democratic Party frequented.

After the unfounded claims led to one man firing an assault rifle in the establishment, Michael G. Flynn, son of President Trump’s original choice for National Security Director Michael Flynn and member of the Trump transition team, took to Twitter to further support the unproven claims.

When one is assessing the case for an argument, the likelihood of a claim being true is determined by the quality of evidence supporting it.

“Until (Pizzagate) is proven to be false, it’ll remain a story.” Flynn tweeted. “The left seems to forget (the Podesta emails) and the many ‘coincidences’ tied to it.”

Flynn is asserting in his tweet that Pizzagate skeptics are responsible for supplying evidence that proves Pizza-

gate as a false narrative. In actuality, he is responsible for backing up his own claims.

In Flynn’s view, Clinton and Alefantis are presumed to be guilty until proven innocent.

When one is assessing the case for an argument, the likelihood of a claim being true is determined by the quality of evidence supporting it. Eventually, the tireless efforts of D.C. law enforcement cleared Alefantis of any wrongdoing.

“It’s been a roller coaster of emotion and fear,” Alefantis said in a telephone interview with The New York Times. “Honestly, I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. These lies and falsehoods spread about me and my restaurant exist all over the place. The damage that has been done to my company and business and my community all will remain forever.”

Alefantis eventually reached out to Infowars, asking the media outlet to retract its stories on Pizzagate with unfounded claims that were being presented as factual.

Jones issued a prerecorded public apology to Alefantis on the Infowars website.

“In our commentary about what had become known as ‘Pizzagate’, I made comments about Mr. Alefantis that in

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Trump looks to loyal voters as support slips, agenda stalls WASHINGTON (AP) — After six months of infighting, investigations and legislative failures, President Donald Trump is trying to combat new signs of weakness in his Republican base and re-energize his staunchest supporters.

White House officials have been urging the president to refocus on immigration

and other issues that resonate with the conservatives, evangelicals and workingclass whites who propelled him to the Oval Office. The president has ramped up his media-bashing via Tweet, long a successful tactic for Trump, and staged rallies hoping to marshal his base to his defense.

The effort underscores

Trump’s shaky political positioning not yet seven months into his presidency. Trump has remained deeply unpopular among Democrats, and there are signs that his support among Republicans may be softening. His advisers are aware that a serious slip in support among his core voters could jeopardize hopes for a major, early leg-

islative accomplishment and would certainly increase Republicans’ worries about his re-election prospects.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway acknowledged the concerns Sunday on ABC, saying the president’s approval rating “among Republicans and conservatives and Trump voters is down slightly.”

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hindsight I regret, and for which I apologize to him,” Jones said in the apology. “In December 2016 we disassociated ourselves from the ‘Pizzagate’ claims and theories, a position we reiterated last month after being contacted

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Infowars removed all Pizzagate related content from its social media and YouTube accounts. Two reporters previously associated with Infowars were also let go prior to Jones’ apology, he said.

“But the Pizzagate narrative, as least as concerning Mr. Alefantis and Comet Ping Pong, we have subsequently determined was based upon what we now believe was an incorrect narrative,” Jones said. “It is never easy to admit when your commentaries are based on inaccurate information, but we feel like we owe it to you the listeners, viewers and supporters to make that statement, and give an apology to you and to

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Soccer, volleyball single-match tickets now available Fans of the Texas Tech volleyball and soccer teams will now have the option to purchase singlematch tickets online.

This is the first time advance single-match tickets have been available online, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

In the past, singlematch tickets were only available at the Tech Athletic Ticket Office in advance or on site one hour before every home game.

Previously, fans have had the option to purchase the Olympic Sports VIP Pass online for $50, giving of up to four people access

to each Olympic Sports’ regular-season, according to the release. Fans can now purchase individual match tickets online and have them mailed to their home address or can pick them up at Will Call. The $50 Olympic Sports VIP Pass is still available.

Adult tickets are $5 and youth tickets are $3 and all seating at soccer and volleyball matches is general admission, according to the release.

The clear bag policy will be in effect for both sports this season. For more information on what bags are allowed, fans should

Follow The DT on Twitter

visit www.texastech.com/ clearbagpolicy.

The soccer team will have eight home matches at the John Walker Soccer Complex this season after coming off its fifthstraight NCAA Tournament bid last year. The first home game will be against San Diego State at 7 p.m. on Sept. 3.

For volleyball, Tech will have 12 home matches at the United Supermarkets Arena. The first home match will be played against Abilene Christian at 6 p.m. on Sept. 4, according to the release. @JackDensmore_DT

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The Texas Tech women’s soccer team huddles together during a timeout at its game against Oklahoma on Oct. 28 at the John Walker Soccer Complex. Single-match tickets for Tech soccer and volleyball are now available online.

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Alabama, SEC trying to climb back to college football summit Alabama and the Southeastern Conference are trying to climb back atop the college football mountain.

The SEC was toppled— at least temporarily — from that summit by the Atlantic Coast Conference last season.

A powerhouse Crimson Tide team has a much shorter climb back after a down-tothe-last-breath loss to the ACC’s Clemson in the national championship game .

‘Bama has won 17 consecutive SEC games by an average of 21 points but coach Nick Saban insists “there’s a lot of parity in our league.”

Despite Saban’s perspective, there’s no debating that the battle for No. 2 has been more heated than the competition for the top spot the past few seasons. Exhibit A: Alabama’s 54-16 win over Florida in the last SEC championship game.

Alabama remains the decisive favorite to win a fourth consecutive SEC title despite losing four first-round NFL draft picks. No team has won the league four times in a row — or three for that matter before the Tide’s run — since Steve Spurrier and Florida dominated from 1993-96.

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