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Developing drought puts pressure on local farmers

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s drought conditions worsen in the Texas plains, farmers in the region are beginning to fear for the worst.

Wednesday, Feb. 7 will mark three months with no significant precipitation in Lubbock, according to the National Weather Service.

David Brauer, director of the Cropping Systems Research Laboratory which studies crop and livestock production common to semi-arid regions, said this weather pattern was somewhat predictable.

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Agency has been predicting La Niña weather conditions in the southern Pacific Ocean since late summer and early fall, he said.

“La Niña’s tend to bring warm, dry temperatures in the southwest part of the United States and guess what? That’s what our weather’s been this winter,” Brauer said. “The good thing about La Niña is there’s no real

predictable pattern of how it affects the weather during the summer.”

Spring, however, looks as if it could also be dry, he said. It’s possible this could change, he said, but NOAA has been predicting the continuation of La Niña through at least parts of the spring.

Winter wheat has already felt the effects of the drought, Brauer said. He would be surprised if any non-irrigated winter wheat had a significant yield.

“For wheat farmers right now, it looks pretty bad,” Brauer said.

“The conditions of the wheat fields are being reported as…low and declining, and if we don’t get precipitation in the next month that trend will just continue.”

Glen Ritchie, associate professor of crop physiology, said although he is expecting little yield from nonirrigated winter wheat, the impact of the drought on cotton and other crops is not yet irreversible.

“A lot depends on how long (the drought) goes. A week of rainfall in

February or March or April is completely going to change the outlook on it,” Ritchie said. “If the weather patterns continue on into May and June, then we’re going to see a dramatic decrease in cotton production and crop production in general here in the high plains.”

Wolf Kuhlemeier, communications director for West Texas

Growers & Producers Association, a collective for produce and vegetable farmers, said he owns a produce and vegetable farm. Soil condition is crucial in droughts.

“The biggest issue I think that faces everybody, and I think this probably even effects the cotton and wheat and people like that, is, you know when the winds blow and

it’s so dry, it’s very easy to effect the soil quality because it blows off and it erodes very easily in the wind,” Kuhlemeier said. “So I think anybody who is trying to kind of survive the drought will really have to be extra careful about their soil quality.”

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Red Raiders lead Big 12 race moving into February

Voter registration deadline Monday

By AUSTIN WATTS Sports Editor

After a dominant performance on the road to beat Texas Christian University, the Texas Tech men’s basketball team is poised to have a legitimate shot at winning the Big 12 Conference this season, with only eight games remaining before the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championships.

The Red Raiders are tied with the Kansas Jayhawks at 7-3 apiece, with Oklahoma and West Virginia trailing closely at 6-4 in a tie for the third best record. The last time Kansas failed to win the Big 12 regular season was in 2004. Since then, for a record 13 straight seasons, Kansas has won or tied for best regular season record in Big 12 play.

With eight games remaining, Tech has a clear path to winning the Big 12 regular season title. If Tech wins out, they will be the sole winner of the Big 12 Conference.

A single loss, especially to Kansas, carries the threat of Tech failing to win, or tying for, the Big 12 regular season title.

So far, Tech has played every Big 12 opponent at least once and faced Texas twice. They split the

series with Texas, while notching wins over Kansas, Oklahoma State, West Virginia, Kansas State and TCU. Their losses have come against Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa State. They will rematch every opponent in February, aside from Texas, according to Tech Athletics.

The Red Raiders have a difficult road ahead, with several tough rematches at home and on the road. For the Red Raiders, a NCAA Tournament bid is nearly clinched and can be achieved with a few wins this month, but a regular season conference title will require a nearly perfect February from the Red Raiders.

“This race doesn’t even really start until February, we are still positioning ourselves and trying to survive and win the next one,” Tech coach Chris Beard said after defeating WVU at home earlier this season. “A great friend once told me, prince today, frog tomorrow. For some reason in the heat of the game I kept thinking about that, I know we are going to be a frog again at some point because this is the Big 12, but I want to be a prince one more day.”

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TOP: Senior guard Keenan Evans makes a shot during the men’s basketball against Texas on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Tech beat Texas, 73-71. BOTTOM: Redshirt senior forward Tommy Hamilton IV advances toward the basket during Tech’s game against Texas on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. After a midweek win against the Longhorns, the Red Raiders beat TCU on the road to go 2-0 for the week.

Monday, Feb. 5 will be the last day for people to register to vote or a make a change of address for their current registration for the March primaries.

The Lubbock County election’s office will be open until 6 p.m. on Monday to provide people the opportunity make last minute changes or to register, according to a news release from the election’s office.

Applications should either be postmarked, delivered in person or faxed no later than Monday, according to the release. Faxed applications must be mailed to the voter registrar’s office within four business days.

Applications can be found online at www.votelubbock.org, www.votetexas.gov or in the election’s office at 1308 Crickets Ave. Primary elections will take place on Tuesday, March 6 and early voting will be from Tuesday, Feb. 20 to Friday, March 2. To read a full story on detailed information regarding voter registration visit www.dailytoreador.com and search “Professionals stress voter registration, need for volunteers.” @MichaelCantuDT

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Lubbock dry period to surpass 1920s record

By NATHAN NEEDHAM Staff Writer

For decades, Lubbock County has experienced fluctuations in yearly rainfall.

Records provided by the National Weather ServiceLubbock, date back to 1912 and document these sometimes extreme variations.

Lubbock is currently experiencing its third driest period with 86 days of no measurable precipitation as of Saturday, Feb. 3.

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producers are mindful to this problematic development and plan to adapt accordingly.

Determining 2018’s rainfall is proving difficult with the lack of rain since November, but communities remain aware that the ever-changing weather of West Texas might still triumph with rain.

Examining historical droughts and periods of below average rainfall in Lubbock County highlights the unusualness of no precipitation in the month of January, creating more doubts about future rain.

Lubbock’s History of Rainfall Droughts are extended periods with below average precipitation, according to the NWS. The extended period consists of three or more years with below average rainfall in this account.

Average rainfall in Lubbock ranges from 18 to 18.5 inches of rain per year, based on statistics dating back to 1912, provided by the National Centers for Environmental Information.

The top dry periods in Lubbock are defined by the NWSLubbock as periods of 40 or more days without measurable precipitation, dating back to 1911.

Current Lubbock Drought With no precipitation in sight before Tuesday, Feb. 6th, the dry period in Lubbock County will surpass that of a record set in 19211922. During this time, there was below average precipitation, followed by a quenching rainfall of 8 inches an the No. 1 dry period in Lubbock with 98 days without precipitation, during the years of 2005 and 2006. This period of absolute dryness was quenched by above average rainfall in the following year of 2007.

The second dry period ranked by the NWS-Lubbock was from 1921-1922 and consisted of 88 days without precipitation.

Currently, Lubbock ‘s in the No. 3 dry period, with 86 days without measurable rainfall.

When most people think of history of droughts in the Plains, they tend to think of the dustbowl era in the 1930s.

Statistical data uncovers that modern days have experienced more severe droughts than the earlier 1900s, resulting in the modern-day haboob in place of the dust bowl.

Drought Years Throughout the years of 1916-1918, Lubbock experienced a drought that averaged only 11.97 inches of rain per year. In the middle of the drought, in 1917, a number one record was set of only 8.73 inches of rain for the year.

This record maintained this ranking until the year of 2011.

The indicated years of drought were followed by an incredible 31.64 inches of rain in 1919, 13.14 inches above the average, according to the NCEI. From 1933-1935, Lubbock underwent another drought, averaging 12.46 inches of rain per year. This period falls in the more commonly known dust bowl era. The first year of the drought, 1935, ranks in at number 22 for the top driest periods in Lubbock, tolerating 55 consecutive days without precipitation, according to the NCEI. Later in the 1930’s, Lubbock withstood an additional drought from 1938-1940. Averaging only 13.61 inches of rain, this drought consisted of a 49-day period with no precipitation in 1939. Nevertheless, the following year of 1941 relieved the drought

with a staggering 40.55 inches of rain for the year. This is the wettest year on record, according to the NWS. Nine years later, Lubbock was struck by its longest drought on record from 19501956 averaging 12.87 inches of rain per year. This six-year drought consisted of five periods of time with 40 plus days without rain, showing the severity and length across charts provided by NCEI. Although not the longest, Lubbock experienced its worst and hottest drought from 2011-2013, this drought averaged 9.98 inches of rain per year, according to the NWS-Lubbock.

During this drought in 2011, Lubbock endured its driest and hottest year of only 5.86 inches of rain accompanied by over 100 days of 90-degree temperatures.

Additionally, Lubbock suffered from 72 consecutive days of no precipitation, achieving number eight on the top dry periods in Lubbock.

January’s without Rain The last time with no rain in the month of January was in 2014, but the year ended with 22.50 inches of rain, four inches of about the average for the area, relieving any sense of drought that January, according to the NCEI. Average rainfall for the month of January during the observed droughts is 0.49 inches of rain, although this average is not much rain, historical droughts confirm precipitation in the corresponding months of January, according to data provided by NCEI. Richard Heim, a meteorologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration drought specialist, releases monthly summaries of droughts in the United

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Griffith files for re-election Jeff Griffith has added himself in for re-election to the Lubbock City Council making him the second incumbent to seek another term.

Griffith has been representing District 3 since 2014, according to the City of Lubbock website.

As of now, there is no one else running for the District 3 position against

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Griffith.

The other two incumbents seeking re-election are District 1 Councilman Juan Chadis, who will go up against Nicholas Muniz, and Mayor Dan Pope, who will go against Lubbock attorney Charles Dunn.

Another man, Randy Christian, will seek election to the District 5 spot,

which is currently held by Karen Gibson.

The filing period to put one self on the ballot will ends Friday, Feb. 16 and the elections for both City Council and the mayoral position will be on Saturday, May 5. For up-todate information on City Council elections, visit dailytoreador.com. @MichaelCantuDT

droughts in an interview.

“Droughts have become extreme because climate change,” Roberts said. “Climate change is real.”

Roberts said droughts create extremes in weather like flash precipitation that result in flooding.

Flash flooding is an all too common occurrence in Lubbock and has caused large amounts of damage over the years to agriculture and infrastructure.

Lubbock County is also known for being the No. 1 producer of cotton in the state of Texas, according to the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce website.

Droughts have long affected the agricultural community in Lubbock and will continue to do so, but with adaptation of watering techniques and technology, the agricultural community continues to thrive. @NathanNeedhamDT

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Construction to close parts of Avenue X Deerwood Construction will begin the process of constructing a water line on Tuesday, Feb. 6, along Avenue X near 10th and Main Streets.

Most of the construction will be near the Overton Hotel and Conference Center. During the duration of construction Avenue X will be closed between 10th and Main, ac-

cording to a news release from the City of Lubbock.

This will reduce traffic access along Avenue X from 10th to Main Streets for an unspecified number of days, according to the release. Drivers are asked to use caution when driving near the area or seek an alternate route. @MichaelCantuDT

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Effort underway to save century-old suburban tree

Most suspended Ohio State fraternities resume recruitment efforts

LEAGUE CITY (AP) — A 100-year-old tree scheduled to be cut down for a school parking lot in suburban Houston has been given a month-long reprieve so people opposed to its removal can try to raise up to $200,000 to save it.

The century-old live oak near the League City Elementary School — known as Mr. Elementree — was

supposed to come down last week. Clear Creek Independent School District officials tell The Galveston County Daily News they'll now wait until March 1.

City Councilman Greg Gripon says the tree has historic value to League City and generations of former students. The school is being rebuilt stands in the way of a planned parking lot.

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States. Heim’s most recent release compared January 2017 to this January 2018 in Texas.

One year ago, in January 2017, only 7.66 percent of Texas experienced drought conditions. At the end of this January 2018, over 86 percent of Texas is experiencing drought conditions, according to Heim’s data.

This correlates with the data on rainfall amounts provided by NWS-Lubbock.

In January 2017, Lubbock received 2.03 inches of rainfall, and this January 2018, Lubbock did not collect any measurable amounts of rainfall.

Extreme Lubbock Weather Ron Roberts, chief meteorologist with KAMC-TV Texas Tech alumnus known for addressing climate change and water conservation, spoke about Lubbock

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Nearly all the Ohio State University fraternities whose activities were suspended in November, most for hazing and alcohol, have been cleared to resume recruitment events and, in many cases, social events.

The university suspended activities for the Interfraternity Council’s 37 members after 11 chapters came under investigation early in the school year. One fraternity has been suspended for three years for hazing and other violations, and three chapters were put under disciplinary probation.

The university said it is working with fraternities to address high-risk behaviors by changing the culture within those groups. Chapters have regained clearance to resume activities by submitting school-approved plans for conducting activities safely, including committing to hazing prevention efforts and alcohol-free recruitment.

School officials are pleased with the response from fraternity chapters and the plans they submitted, said Dave Isaacs, spokesman for Ohio State’s Office of Student Life.

“I think the vast majority of our fraternities recognize the need to

change that culture and are eager to move forward,” Isaacs said.

The outgoing president of the Interfraternity Council, Drew Cooper, has said student safety takes top priority.

“While culture change doesn’t occur overnight, I am hopeful that the trajectory our community is on will result in improved student safety this semester and beyond,” Cooper said in an email this week.

The suspension of fraternity activities at Ohio State occurred as a number of U.S. colleges re-examined Greek life after the deaths of several fraternity pledges last year.

Fraternity and sorority chapter activities at Texas State University remain suspended after a fraternity pledge died following an initiation ritual, and a committee including staff, students and alumni is reviewing the governance of Greek life on campus and considering whether to recommend changes.

Florida State University partially lifted its suspension of fraternities and sororities in January after changing policies to increase oversight and minimize risky behavior, though its ban on alcohol and social functions continues.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Ritchie said rain must fall by late May, or preferably earlier, to ensure there is enough moisture in the soil. There needs to be enough moisture to germinate plants, he said, and the cutoff for germination in cotton is the beginning of June.

“You have to have enough moisture when you plant (cotton) otherwise you’re not going to have the plant come up at all. Then, you’ve got to also have enough moisture when it starts to flower and put out the fruit or you’re going to produce a lot of stems and not any fruit,” Ritchie said. “It’s very water tolerant but it’s very sensitive to water at specific times in the season.”

The dry soil condition can also lead to other consequences, said Marah Walls, president of collegiate FFA and senior agricultural edu-

cation major from Ingram.

“Without crops, we’ll have barren soil, so that leaves the soil exposed for more erosion, so all these dust storms affects people’s health, allergies,” Walls said. “If we can’t have cover crops the soil is just going to keep blowing up in the air.”

From a fruits and vegetable standpoint, the drought hasn’t had a significant effect yet. If the drought continues to persist though, Kuhlemeir said, the effects of the drought will be especially severe on produce and vegetable crops.

“The big issue for us is there’s no replacement for a natural rain,” Kuhlemeir said. “You can pull all the water you want from the aquifer or city supplies, but nothing replaces a natural rain as far as replacing nutrients and having the better influence on crop themselves.”

The draining aquifer is another long-term issue, Walls said.

“Of course we’re going to need irrigation but we try to offset that as much as we can I feel like with natural rain water, so with the lack of that, farmers have to use more irrigation and where is this irrigation, this water coming from? Aquifers,” Walls said. “The Ogallalla, the big one up here, it’s being drained more and more quickly, and the thing is, once it’s gone, it’s gone.”

The issue is compounded by the financial storms farmers have to weather, she said, and the insurance policies they face in years with no growth.

“To claim crop insurance you have to show that you actually tried growing the crop. So they’re still having to irrigate all of their crops even though they know that they won’t grow and they know that they won’t be able to sell them,” Walls said. “So one, it’s wasting our water, and two, they’re still not getting any return. They physically

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have to do this so they can get any money that year to feed their families.”

The effects of facing a drought are hard on farmers and their families, Bethany Ballard, collegiate FFA vicepresident and senior agricultural education major from Sadler, said. Her family has been farming for generations, she said, and the drought of 2011 affected her family financially and emotionally.

“It really takes a toll if your livestock aren’t producing what they should be producing and puts a hole in your pocketbook for sure,” Ballard said.

Brauer said there are steps farmers can take to mitigate the effects of drought.

He recommends that farmers take into account their irrigation potential and water available, and concentrate it onto a more limited number of acres. There’s a good chance a fair amount of water will be needed early in the season, he said, to make up

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Mayan society found under Guatemala jungle

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Suburban Houston student arrested for shooting pig KATY (AP) — Police in a suburban Houston school district say they’ve arrested a student for shooting and killing a pig at the district’s agricultural facility.

Katy Independent School District officials have sent a letter to parents telling them the shooting occurred after regular school hours while the pig was being moved. The district says a teacher nearby heard the gunshot and called police.

Officials say the high school student, who is not identified, didn’t threaten anyone and didn’t harm any other livestock.

According to the letter to parents, obtained by Houston television station KTRK, the incident remains under investigation. The school district, west of Houston, says “appropriate disciplinary action will follow,” including possible removal of the student from the program.

AD. Their descendants still live in the region.

The mapping detected about 60,000 individual structures, including four major Mayan ceremonial centers with plazas and pyramids.

Garrison said that this year he went to the field with the LiDAR data to look for one of the roads revealed. "I found it, but if I had not had the LiDAR and known that that's what it was, I would

have walked right over it, because of how dense the jungle is."

Garrison noted that unlike some other ancient cultures, whose fields, roads and outbuildings have been destroyed by subsequent generations of farming, the jungle grew over abandoned Maya fields and structures, both hiding and preserving them.

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Bethany Ballard Collegiate FFA VP Ritchie similarly said that farmers should first focus where they have the best capability to irrigate, rather than overextending themselves. When we start getting additional rain, farmers can expand from there, he said.

Despite the current weather patterns and predictions, Ritchie said there is still a chance the situation

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ground, revealing contours hidden by dense foliage.

The images revealed that the Mayans altered the landscape in a much broader way than previously thought; in some areas, 95 percent of available land was cultivated.

"Their agriculture is much more intensive and therefore sustainable than we thought, and they were cultivating every inch of the land," said Francisco Estrada-Belli, a Research Assistant Professor at Tulane University, noting the ancient Mayas partly drained swampy areas that haven't been considered worth farming since.

And the extensive defensive fences, ditch-andrampart systems and irrigation canals suggest a highly organized workforce.

"There's state involvement here, because we see large canals being dug that are re-directing natural water flows," said Thomas Garrison, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ithaca College in New York.

The 810 square miles (2,100 square kilometers) of mapping done vastly expands the area that was intensively occupied by the Maya, whose culture flourished between roughly 1,000 BC and 900

If we can’t have cover crops the soil is just going to keep blowing up in the air.

will resolve itself.

“We’ve had other years that looked like they’re going to be really dry, then in April or May we start getting rainfall and you know, every year we’ve had some period of time where it looked like we were getting a drought,” Ritchie said. “And usually those are mitigated by a big rainfall.”

Just being a farmer means you are the eternal optimist, Kuhlemeir said.

You can’t grow anything and expect it to be controlled every year, he said.

The only thing they can do is hope for the best.

“The only way to compensate for this is to maintain a positive attitude,” Kuhlemeir said. “So it didn’t rain today, maybe it’ll rain tomorrow. Keep going, do the best you can and eventually the powers to be will take control and give us what we need.”

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G U AT E M A L A C I T Y (AP) — Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala's Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought.

The discoveries, which included industrial-sized agricultural fields and irrigation canals, were announced Thursday by an alliance of U.S., European and Guatemalan archaeologists working with Guatemala's Mayan Heritage and Nature Foundation.

The study estimates that roughly 10 million people may have lived within the Maya Lowlands, meaning that kind of massive food production might have been needed.

"That is two to three times more (inhabitants) than people were saying there were," said Marcello A. Canuto, a professor of Anthropology at Tulane University.

Researchers used a mapping technique called LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection And Ranging. It bounces pulsed laser light off the

for what’s not in the soil.

“It’s better to stay on the side of caution during a La Nina year,” Brauer said.

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HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Al Green still calls Jose Escobar one of his constituents, even though Escobar was deported after what he thought would be a routine check-in with immigration authorities.

That’s why Green, a Houston Democrat, flew to El Salvador on Saturday to meet with Escobar in the hopes it will call attention to the plight of families separated by deportation.

Another 200,000 people could be forced to return there because President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would end a temporary visa program for Salvadorans.

Green and Escobar met in a small room at the airport in San Salvador, El Salvador ’s capital. They were accompanied by Jose’s wife, Rose Escobar, who has remained in Texas with the couple’s two children, as well as an off-duty Houston police officer whose airfare was paid for by Green.

Green, a fierce critic of Trump who last year introduced articles of impeachment against him, told Escobar he was committed to “doing everything we can to get you back with your family.”

Speaking to The Associated Press before the trip, Green said he felt obligated to try to help Escobar, who was deported in March despite not having a criminal record, according to his family. Escobar’s immigration court appeals have failed, though his attorneys are looking for new ways to petition on his behalf.

“If not for his place of birth, we would call him an American citizen who is all of the right things,” Green said. “This is the kind of citizen that we would admire.”

El Salvador is one of the most dangerous countries in North America, an impoverished nation of 6.4 million people with one of the highest homicide rates in the world. The State Department warns people against visiting due to the country’s rampant murders, rapes and other violent crimes.

The meeting took place in the same airport where Escobar called his wife last March to tell her he had been deported.

Escobar’s family settled in the U.S. in 2001 with temporary protected status, which was granted to Salvadorans who were victims of earthquakes that year.

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t’s no secret that America is divided. Nowadays, most people cannot see themselves sitting across from a person on the opposite side of the political spectrum.

Both sides have come to truly hate each other. But where did this come from? Why are we so divided?

In my opinion, hyperbole is largely to blame. The media, activists and, yes, even the president at times are guilty in this regard. This is because hyperbole is used so frequently it no longer appears to be hyperbole but rather a statement of reality.

When the media suggests Trump is equivalent to Hitler, Stalin or Putin they are doing

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one of two things: they are either using inappropriate comparisons as hyperbole, or they are actively trying to undermine the president by attempting to make him seem equivalent to some of the worst despots in history.

I am not going to attribute this nefarious motive to the media just quite yet because I believe that it is possible for them to just be using distasteful hyperbole. I do, however, blame them for the polariza-

tion of American politics.

This is because whether or not the comparisons made are meant to be hyperbolic, there are large sections of the American people that actually now believe the loud-mouthed, reality TV star in the White House is equivalent to a man who attempted to systematically wipe out an entire group of people through the use of death camps.

This use of hyperbole can also be seen from the president but it is not as serious It’s still a big problem when he calls large sections of the media (like entire networks) fake news. I agree that our media has a bias problem

which sometimes results in what I would truly call fake news, but it’s inaccurate to say everything CNN reports is fake news.

The problem with the use of hyperbole in the news or in the White House is that those places are supposed to be places we can go for truth.

There should not be any ambiguity regarding the facts because so many people can be misled. When people start to believe that the government is on the verge of turning into Nazi Germany, violent resistance groups like ANTIFA try to shut down people who even remotely share a political ideology with the president.

It’s also a problem when people start to mistrust everything that media says because then you get into a Roy Moore situation where no one believes the media is reporting what seemed to be credible allegations of sexual misconduct.

When a political party feels they have been unfairly labeled something they are not by the other party it further drives them away, and we don’t need anymore separation in this country. We need to come back together.

The great American experiment only works if we talk to each other and negotiate and, unfortunately, it’s hard to sit down and negotiate with someone you

think you hate. I sincerely hope that this time of great division gets mended in favor of open and honest discussion, so that we can begin to treat each other as fellow Americans again.

When you go out to the world and you come across someone that has different ideas than you, I would encourage you to push aside all the hyperbole and accusations and have a basic conversation with them.

You will be surprised how quickly untruth melts away when you engage honestly with someone. @DailyToreador

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s the end of my college career nears, I often question the utility of my expensive liberal arts education when attempting to enter a competitive work force.

Only about 27 percent of people work in a field matching their college major. This leads me to believe that the jobs we hold outside of school — save STEM and law — have little to do with what we learn and more to do with the fact we have a degree at all.

Many of the things I have learned in college would have been better taught in a workplace rather than in a classroom. Because of this, college for many people ends up being a way to press pause on maturing and entering

Anna Holland is a senior electronic media & communications major from New Braunfels.

adulthood rather than any career preparation.

I am not anti-intellectual, but I see a huge gap between those that simply want to be qualified in a given field and those who want to be lifelong intellectuals. What modern universities attempt to do is combine those two, but do so unsuccessfully.

The university should be used as an intellectual space in which to grow when an experienced adult decides it is needed, not when a kid

needs to leave home. With this in mind, there needs to be more popular options for young people who simply want technical career training at a much more realistic length and price.

We should rethink higher education as an option instead of a need, specifically when there are so many skilled jobs that shouldn’t need a degree but does need skills that can never truly be taught in a classroom.

Technical certifications should be able to compete fairly with bachelor’s programs and, even more so, employers should truly screen for the best candidate, even if that person didn’t spend thousands of dollars to be-

come certified.

This lack of competition is what keeps costs extremely high. If employers only screen candidates with a college degree — no matter how pointless the degree — it will always be needed.

In turn, the cost is irrelevant to consumers if they have been told it is mandatory. Universities also receive a large supply of federal money with very little need to budget conservatively.

This leads to the next problem with higher education costs — sports. While I love being a Red Raider, this does not add to my job qualifications nor does it make any sense to have sports attached to a college education.

College athletes bring in millions of dollars to their universities every year while receiving relatively low payment in the form of a free education. For some athletes, higher education is about the sport, not the other way around. Skilled athletes should have access to fair pay in an independent league along with more affordable education for everyone.

Entertainment and schools push college as a chance to meet people, attend sporting events and “find yourself.” The problem is that was never the point of a liberal arts education when the Greco-Roman tradition founded it. The point was to equip people

with more skills to think critically about the world around them using the Socratic method.

Higher education is used as a one-size-fits-all solution for young adults, but when I look around I see many people who would have flourished going directly into industry training instead of taking their third global communications course.

The job of higher education is not to fill schedules, produce athletic brilliance, press pause on a young person’s life or keep people in the education bubble. It is to encourage and prepare people to leave it. @DailyToreador

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Black vernacular often appropriated

By MARY BETH HOLM Staff Writer

In July 2015, Kierna Mayo, the then Editorin-Chief, discussed what it means to be an African American in an editor ’s letter in “Ebony.” Loving the African American community is one thing, Mayo wrote, but non-African Americans only love the aesthetics of the community, such as food, music, and slang.

At a young age, Onysha Paxton, a senior philosophy major from Tucson, Arizona, noticed how phrases and words she heard at home were used by people who were not black. Recently, she heard a specific phrase from another Tech student that was common in the African American community.

“It was definitely an African American jargon phrase,” Paxton said. “I thought to myself, ‘that sounded so natural.’ Even the people that I know are not of my culture that use the same phrases that are common to my culture.”

This phenomenon is called cultural appropriation. Cambridge University’s dictionary defines it as the act of taking or using things from a culture, especially without showing understanding or respect of the culture, like using slang and jargon.

“I believe we have a certain form of attractiveness in the things we do and things we create,” Paxton said. “Everybody can agree, arguably, that attracts everyone.”

Michael Borshuk, an associate professor in Texas Tech’s English department, teaches a course over African American literature.

He said one of the earliest visible examples of the appropriation of black slang and vernacular is in Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit stories in the 1870s.

Borshuk said the popularity of the Uncle Remus stories is an excellent example of a white writer who became successful with traditional African American folktales but writing in a way that negatively represents African Americans and tries to capture them in a specific kind of way. “ We t a l k a b o u t h o w Americans at large take those expressions and use them all the time,” Borshuk said. “There’s this constant revitalizing of black vernacular language. There’s always kind of moving past it, and then black vernacular language keeps moving into the mainstream and then there’s this new set of black vernacular expressions or practices that replace those.”

In the example of Joel Chandler Harris, Borshuk said, also reflects how Caucasians have been fascinated by what they think is different about the African American community.

Jordan Johnson, a senior general studies major and vice president of Collegiate 100 from Mckinney, agrees with Borshuk’s statement. In today’s society, Johnson

said, millennials want to be different and express their individuality.

“Within the black community, we do a lot of things that are different,” Johnson said. “There’s certain aspects that other communities don’t have, and they want to be a part of that. I think that’s what attracts other people to the things that we do. You see white people appropriate black culture to be different and I’ve seen that as a black man in a predominantly white institution.”

Paxton said she finds the appropriation of black slang and black culture offensive because of a term called double consciousness. Double consciousness was coined by W.E.B. DuBois in 1903 in the essay, “The Souls of Black Folk.” He describes it as a sensation in which the individual looks at himself from the perspective of the Caucasian American and the African American.

“We’re not the favorable people,” Paxton said. “It’s kind of offensive because if you’re going to like one thing, you got to like everything. But everything is not always accepted socially or personally. It leaves an empty feeling, and we’re kind of loved on one end and then (we’re told) ‘we love what you do, but you can’t.’ We lose credit for a whole bunch of things.”

Nathaniel Wright, an assistant professor in the political science department, said he is offended when he hears other communities using African

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American slang because many people don’t know the meaning behind it.

“In a historical perspective, Africans were brought over as slaves, and everything was ripped and stolen from us,” Wright said. “That’s what we have in terms of our culture and our slang. But to have somebody who wants to take that and claim ownership over that to use it make money, it’s offensive because it belongs to us.”

With the rise in social media, however, Wright said he agrees the exchange of language and slang is evolving, but people should know what the words mean before they use them.

“A lack of knowledge could lead to a lot of trouble,” Wright said. “It’s important that we have this conversation about what’s appropriate. We all need to work together on how we’re different and how to use vernacular properly.”

Borshuk said the mainstream use of African American slang is inevitable because American usage draws from many different vernaculars, such as Yiddish vernacular.

“I would hope that other non-black speakers would be more aware of why they’re choosing to use phrases or expressions or words that come from the black vernacular,” Borshuk said. “I think that a lot of white Americans are interested in the sort of hipness or coolness black speech represents without considering the way black speech functions.”

Paxton said people could continue to use the vernacular if they consider the meaning of the word and why they should or should not use it.

“The last thing we need to be upset about is cultural appropriation because

we should be trying to unify and educate others on our culture when the world wants us to be separate at this time,” Paxton said. “I feel like we should focus on unity, education and loving each other.” @MaryBethHolmDT

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Dancers with Soul, Texas Tech’s hip hop team, welcomed its new members for 2018. DWS’ first practice after spring tryouts took place at the Robert H. Ewalt Recreational Center at 9 p.m. on Feb. 1.

DWS provides the opportunity for students to express themselves through dance.

“We have a hip hop culture that’s not really present in West Texas,” Colleen Hunt, a senior advertising and dance major from Duncanville and DWS’ president, said. “It’s a good way to relieve stress after studying or work.”

To be a part of DWS, students are required to try out, which they can do at the beginning of every semester.

The process includes learning two pieces of choreography and performing it in front of two or three DWS officers who add up scores at the end, Hunt said.

“We also have a freestyle section at the end so people who aren’t as good at learning choreography can show us anything they want,” she said. “We usually have 35-60 people.”

DWS has a variety of skills and experience represented on their team.

“Some are good at choreography and can’t freestyle at all. Then we have the exact opposite and then every range in between,” Isaiah “Izzy” Hernandez, a junior business major from El Paso and DWS’ treasurer, said.

DWS looks for specific skills in tryouts, Juliette Fieno, a senior early childhood major from Duncanville and social officer of Dancers with Soul, said.

We have a hip hop culture that’s not really present in West Texas.

COLLEEN HUNT DWS PRESIDENT “What we judge at tryouts is strength in movement, showmanship and if you know the choreography,” Fieno said.

After making it through tryouts, students can participate in practices and, subsequently, performances.

DWS performs at both Tech and Lubbock events.

In the past, they have performed at Raiderthon, Bahama Bucks’ grand opening, basketball games and the Chancellor’s house last year, Hunt said.

Students can also become active members if they pay the $50 per semester dues.

“That pays for the team shirt and all our social events: banquet, holiday parties, and you get gifts at those,” Hunt said. “But inactive members are definitely still welcome to come to anything and everything we have.”

To keep dues at this price, DWS does not participate in competitions.

“If we did competitions we’d have to be stricter, we’d have to raise our dues,” she said. “We like the less strict way.”

Since its creation in 2009, DWS has grown as a student organization.

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Dancers With Soul, Texas Tech’s hip-hop team, practices a routine with new members on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Team leaders were interspersed with new members to help teach the moves for the routine.

“It was less than 10 that started and now we’re up to around 75,” she said. “It’s grown since my freshman year almost exponentially.”

Not only has DWS grown, it also has helped students grow. The experience has boosted students’ confidence and expanded

their movement vocabulary, she said.

“There’s a lot of chance for both individual growth and team growth,” she said.

Students create all the c h o r e o g r a p h y, a n d t h e moves change every year.

Any DWS member can work with an officer to

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Currently, DWS does not offer any dance workshops, but that might change.

“I think if we try again within the next one or two years, to start having workshops, we’d be way more successful,” Hunt said. @DailyToreador

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Writing in the French weekly Le Point, Mars Films head Stephane Celerier dismissed the furor over renewed allegations by Allen’s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, that Allen molested her in an attic in 1992 when she

was 7. Celerier describes the accusation as a family drama caught in the crosshairs of the #MeToo movement amid fallout from the allegations of rape and sexual harassment against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein.

It is “shameless opportunism,” Celerier said of the fresh attacks against the director in the media that he said “taint the dignity of real victims.”

Celerier’s company is behind the distribution of Allen’s latest movie “Wonder Wheel,”

starring Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake, which opened in French cinemas this week to lukewarm ticket sales.

His defense of Allen is the latest chapter in an emerging narrative in France, particularly in its film industry, that the Hollywood anti-abuse campaign has gone too far.

Farrow in January gave her first on-camera interview to “CBS This Morning” about her longstanding abuse allegations against the 82-yearold filmmaker.

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The high-powered, battleheavy, 30-second ad shows Marines deploying from ships in amphibious vehicles, drop-

ping bombs from aircraft and hurling a shoulder-launched drone into the air.

“It’s not just the ships, the armor or the aircraft. It’s something more. It’s the will to fight and determination to win found inside each and every Marine that answers a nation’s call,” the announcer says, as the camera follows a squad of Marines storming off helicop-

ters into a mock firefight while explosions erupt around them.

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Super Bowl LII rough for Cowboys fans I’ve spent the past two weeks trying to figure out if a worse Super Bowl matchup was possible.

As an NFL fan, did I really want Tom Brady and the New England Patriots winning their sixth Super Bowl? No. But as a Dallas Cowboys fan, did I want the Philadelphia Eagles winning their first Super Bowl? Absolutely not.

The only conclusion I was able to draw is that there might not be enough booze in the world to make either outcome tolerable, especially one where the Eagles beat the Patriots, 41-33. That and the two-decade-long black hole that is Dallas Cowboys football grows larger and more apparent by the day.

Super Bowl LII makes it twice since 2000 that the Eagles have appeared in the Super Bowl. During that same stretch, the Cowboys have won two playoff games with each coming in separate years.

Nick Foles, a career backup quarterback, led the Eagles in the biggest game in football. Meanwhile, Tony Romo, who spent 13 years as one of the best quarterbacks in Cowboys history, failed to make the NFC Championship Game.

As kickoff approached, it became apparent that under no circumstance could even

Connelly Bock is a senior communication studies major from Plano.

an ounce of me justify rooting for the Eagles. I wasn’t rooting for the Patriots to win, but more so I was rooting for the Eagles to lose.

It’s only fitting that yet another football season ends with me rooting for another team to lose while muttering to myself every Cowboys fans’ favorite two words, “Next year.”

I’ve made it my yearly tradition to wear a Cowboys jersey during the Super Bowl as a way of showing my untiring support for a franchise that probably doesn’t deserve it. “Dude, you know the Cowboys aren’t in it right?” my roommate asks me as if I needed the reminder that I may never see a Cowboys Super Bowl appearance. “I could have told you before the season started that we wouldn’t be in it,” I replied.

Leslie Odom Jr.’s rendition of ‘America the Beautiful’ and Pinks flu-ridden performance of the National Anthem may have been the only enjoyable part of the night, especially considering how painfully mediocre Justin Timberlake’s new album is.

Just in case watching the Eagles in the Super Bowl wasn’t enough salt in the

wound for Cowboys fans, NBC showed Roger Staubach talking about how good it feels to be a champion. A reminder that being a Cowboys fan stopped being fun decades ago.

With under a minute left in the first half, the Eagles led the Patriots, 15-12.

Quarterback Nick Foles was leading his team in a way that looked like the Eagles could actually pull off a Super Bowl win.

Then, with 30 seconds left in the half, Foles caught a touchdown pass on 4th and goal.

Yes, Foles caught a touchdown pass. He now has more Super Bowl receiving touchdowns than Jason Witten and Dez Bryant combined.

At halftime, the Eagles led the Patriots, 22-12. The football apocalypse was 30 minutes away for Cowboys fans.

At least I could take solace in a Justin Timberlake halftime performance. Even though I think his new album sounds like a midlife-crisis in music form, I am unashamedly a huge NSYNC fan.

Unfortunately, no Bye Bye Bye performance, but I can respect the call back to Cry Me a River, a song that perfectly encapsulated my emotions through the first half.

The Patriots seemed to

make a simple game plan tweak at halftime — feed the ball to Rob Gronkowski even if the Eagles throw all 53 players on their roster at him.

Gronkowski caught four passes on the first drive of the second half, including a fiveyard touchdown pass from Brady, pulling the Patriots back within three points.

The lone solace Cowboys fans had in making fun of Eagles fans for never winning a Super Bowl is thrown out the window. Now, we’re the butt of the joke. And what a cruel joke it is.

And of course, it wouldn’t be an NFL game without some officiating controversy.

Corey Clement caught a 22-yard touchdown pass in the back of the end zone, except he appeared to be juggling the ball as his left foot stepped out of bounds.

After review, head official Gene Steratore announced that the play would stand while allegedly being heard muttering “screw the Cow-

Gary Woodland beats Chez Reavie in Phoenix Open playoff it’s obviously a miracle,” Woodland said. “I’m just so excited to share this with him and my family.

Hopefully, it’s the start of something special.”

Woodland beat Chez Reavie with a par on the first extra hole.

Playing three groups ahead of Reavie, Woodland birdied three of the last four holes for a 7-under 64 — the best round of the day — to finish at 18-under 266. He opened with rounds of 67, 68 and 67 after getting some advice from instructor Butch Harmon.

“Butch sent me a text Thursday morning before I played and said, ‘Forget about everything else, let’s just put four rounds togeth-

er. Don’t worry about what you shoot, don’t worry about winning, just put four good rounds together,’” Woodland said. “I don’t know if that put me at ease or what, but I definitely put four good rounds together this week.”

Reavie, who got his lone victory at the 2008 Canadian Open, made a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th to force the PGA Tour’s fourth straight playoff and the event’s third overtime finish in a row.

“It’s right up there with the putt I made to win in Canada,” the 36-year-old former Arizona State player said. “It was a lot of fun. Fortunately, I walked up and I really got a good read off it right away.”

ed a strip sack on the second play of the drive.

The Eagles recovered and played it conservatively, running the ball three times forcing the Patriots to call the last of their timeouts. A Jake Elliot 46-yard field goal with 1:05 left made it an eightpoint lead for the Eagles.

Tom Brady, the Patriots, and Cowboys fans everywhere needed a miracle.

With nine seconds left in the game and the ball on the Patriots 49-yard line, Brady heaved one into the endzone for Gronkowski, which got batted down with the game clock reading double zeros.

The Eagles did it.

For the first time in franchise history, they can now say they’re Super Bowl champions.

As I sat on the couch in my Cowboys jersey, watching the confetti fall on the team I’ve spent the better part of my 22 year life despising, I muttered to myself “next year.”

Except there probably won’t be “next year.” I’ve been saying “next year” for the past 20 plus years.

And now, the lone solace Cowboys fans had in making fun of Eagles fans for never winning a Super Bowl is thrown out the window. Now, we’re the butt of the joke. And what a cruel joke it is. @ConnellyBockDT

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“My wife kind of surprised me with him,” Woodland said. “I didn’t think he was going to be there.

I thought it would just be her. For her to bring him out, that was special and something I’ll never forget.”

Jaxson was born prematurely in June after a twin girl was lost in a miscarriage. On Sunday at TPC Scottsdale, he was in his father’s arms at the trophy celebration after a playoff victory.

“For him to be here,

boys” after the announcement.

After another touchdown pass from Brady and an Eagles field goal, the Eagles maintained a one-possession lead, 32-26, with just over 14 minutes to go in the game.

A few minutes later, Brady would toss it to Gronkowski and pull the Patriots ahead, 33-32, for their first lead of the game.

A few plays later, the Eagles appeared to take the lead back. But, once again, it wouldn’t be an NFL game without a controversial call.

Foles, who now has three more career Super Bowl passing touchdowns than Tony Romo, connected with Zach Ertz who lost control of the ball while reaching into the end zone and making contact with the ground.

A play that looked incredibly familiar to Dez’s infamous ‘no catch’ against the Green Bay Packers in the 2015 divisional round, Steratore announced the play would stand because why not.

After failing to complete the two-point conversion, the Eagles led, 38-33, but left Brady 2:21 to potentially take the lead.

Surely Brady, could lead the Patriots to victory, right?

It’s a two-minute drill he’s done countless times before.

Instead, the Eagles complet-

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Yo, Philly, you really did beat Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in a thrilling Super Bowl that rewrote the offensive record book.

Nick Foles guided the

drive of a lifetime, Zach Ertz made a bobbling touchdown catch that had to survive replay review, and an exhausted defense came up with not one but two stands in the final moments Sunday for a 41-33 victory. For the first time since 1960, the Eagles are NFL champions.

“Fly Eagles Fly,” indeed.

“We’ve played this game since we were little kids,

we dreamed about this moment,” game MVP Foles said.

“There’s plenty of kids watching this game right now dreaming about this moment and someday will be here.”

In a record-setting shootout between backup QB Foles and five-time champ Brady of the favored Patriots, Foles led a pressure-packed 75yard drive to the winning touchdown, 11 yards to Ertz

with 2:21 to go .

Then Brandon Graham strip-sacked Brady and Derek Barnett recovered, setting up rookie Jake Elliot’s 46-yard field goal for an 8-point lead.

Brady got his team to midfield, but his desperation pass fell to the ground in the end zone.

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went out here and made that one stop,” Graham said.

The underdog Eagles (163), even injured starting quarterback Carson Wentz, came bolting off the sideline in ecstasy while Brady sat on the ground, disconsolate.

It was the first Super Bowl title for Philadelphia (16-3), which went from 7-9 last season.

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“That’s what it means to Eagles fans everywhere. And for Eagles fans everywhere, this is for them.”

Super Bowl MVP Foles orchestrated the victory with the kind of drive NFL MVP Brady, a five-time champion, is known for. The drive covered 14 plays, including a fourth-down conversion.

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Davis Martin values family, baseball

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

Texas Tech junior righthanded pitcher Davis Martin has a love not only for baseball but also for family, as he grew up in a full household.

Martin grew up with two older brothers and one younger brother. Lee Middle School athletics coach and seventh grade history teacher Chase Martin, 25, is Davis Martin’s oldest brother and Channing Martin, the second oldest at 23, is at the naval academy. Martin’s youngest brother, freshman infielder Brock Martin, is currently grey shirted on the team.

Martin always had the role of being a mediator amongst his brothers with a calm, cool and collected attitude, he said, but his nerves did get tested from time to time which would result in some wrestling matches.

“My oldest brother, (Chase Martin), actually played football for two years at San Angelo State, but the funny story is I was in eighth grade and he was a senior in high school and he just got done with MCL surgery, and what we’d always do was we’d always try and beat him, because he was the older brother we want to show our dominance or whatever,” Davis Martin said. “So, I think

BASKETBALL

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 To start February, Tech defeated TCU on the road, by a score of 83-71, which pushed them into a tie for first place with Kansas. The Red Raiders had suffered all three of their conference losses on the road, so breaking that mold was important for the coming month. Tech is 5-0 while at home during conference play so far, while only 2-3 on the road. Over the coming month, four games will be at the United Super-

he just got cleared that day and we were wrestling and I went straight for his leg and started twisting it and he said ‘that’s my bad knee, that’s my bad knee’ and I said, ‘just tap, tap and it will all be over’, but we definitely wrestled and we took every possible advantage we could take as the younger brothers versus the older brother.”

Dealing with four sons who wrestled often, physical therapist Kelly Martin was lucky to have a husband that could break up the matches, she said.

However, Davis never worried her, she said, as he was never mean-spirited.

“Well, the only good thing about it is my husband is bigger than all of them,” she said.

“Davis always had common sense and I never really worried about him hurting anybody.”

Occupational therapist Steve Martin watches his son play in midweek games and Kelly and Steve watch Davis on the weekends when possible.

During the regular season, Kelly Martin not only cheers for her son and the Red Raiders but also the West Virginia Mountaineers when they do not play Tech, she said, as she is a graduate from West Virginia University.

“She does like her Mountaineers, but I think she enjoys her sons playing for Tech more.

Actually, before I committed

here, my sophomore year when Geno Smith came here and played at Tech, my mom said, ‘if you cheer for West Virginia, I’ll buy you a brand new West Virginia football shirt,’ and I said, ‘ok’”, Davis Martin said.

“So, I got a brand new West Virginia football shirt and then ended up getting blown out so it’s just funny to look back at it now, coming to school here so we burned that shirt, so I don’t own it anymore.”

One game that does stick out for his father though is the 2016 College World Series game against the Florida Gators, an experience that felt like

a dream, Steve Martin said.

In the game against Florida, Davis Martin allowed three hits with no runs, and after the Red Raiders defeated the Gators 3-2, he secured his 10th win of the season which was also the first win ever in the College World Series for Tech, according to Tech Athletics. The win also saved Tech from elimination, as the Red Raiders previously lost to TCU. However, Tech’s world series run ended with a loss to Coastal Carolina on Thursday, June 23, 2016.

“It’s pretty cool, because back in the late 80’s when we

markets Arena, with another four coming on the road, according to Tech Athletics.

“We’re just trying to win the next game on our schedule, we’re just trying to get better, we’re trying to put ourselves in a situation to play some meaningful games in late February and March,” Beard said after the WVU win.

Next for the Red Raiders is a home contest with Iowa State, who handed Tech their worst loss of the season in January, as Tech fell 70-52 on the road. Since that game, senior Keenan Evans has returned to form, putting up 32,

38 and 17 points respectively over the last three games.

A win at home is vital for the Red Raiders, in order to remain in the lead in conference record while staying perfect at home this season.

Tech will play Kansas State next, who they defeated handily earlier this season. However, Tech had the services of senior Zach Smith in that game, who has missed the last eight games following a foot injury. With the absence of Smith, this road contest against Kansas State will be a tough one for the Red Raiders.

After Kansas State, Tech will face one of their toughest games of the season, as they host Oklahoma, who also beat them earlier this season by a score of 75-65, according to Tech Athletics. This game will be vital to securing a lead in the standings and will be one of Tech’s toughest games remaining on the schedule.

Following their rematch against the Sooners, Tech will travel on the road for a pair of games, as they face Baylor and Oklahoma State on the road. Tech handled both earlier in the season, but securing tough road wins against conference foes will be vital to Tech’s chances at winning the Big 12.

“We just haven’t done anything yet, not to take anything away from some of the wins we’ve had, but this is college basketball in the Big 12, you have to be consistent,” Beard said after the WVU win. “You can go back and look at the most disappointing team this school has ever had and there will be a couple wins on each schedule.

What separates the contenders from the one-hit wonders is consistency.”

Tech’s following game will be their most important home match of the season, as they face Kansas once again.

Tech stunned many when they won their first ever game in Allen Fieldhouse earlier this season, after losing all 17 prior games versus Kansas on their home court.

The win over Kansas on the road is the crux of winning the Big 12 regular season title, and a second win over Kansas at home is the cherry on top. Tech cannot afford to lose this game, a split with Kansas would complicate things in the Big

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Texas Tech right-handed pitcher Davis Martin pitches while a Cal player gets ready to run to home plate during their game on Feb. 24, 2017, at Dan Law Field. Martin said his love for family is as deep as his love for the game of baseball. were there, baseball wasn’t as big as it is now, I mean everyone always liked baseball, but the crowds weren’t big and the facilities weren’t as big and everything else,” Steve Martin said. “It’s a cool thing seeing them cheer for him and cheering for his teammates, but I think the coolest thing is seeing little kids and adults and everybody else coming up after the game and wanting him to sign baseballs or sign their caps or their shirts, and he never takes that stuff for granted because he really enjoys it.”

On game day, Martin does not have any specific rituals

but always tries to mix up his pregame music, he said. He’ll listen to anything from rock to rap, and even occasionally slower music.

Davis Martin’s own ritual is more about the routine of game day like waking up at the same times, he said.

“I don’t wear the same jockstrap every day or something like that,” Davis Martin said. “Definitely, try and keep the same routine and kind of do similar things, but not to the bone of wearing the same socks and haven’t washed them for four weeks and all of that fun stuff. Same routines, but not rituals.”

Davis Martin’s routines also continue when he goes on the mound, where he does not think about anything other than just executing his pitches, he said.

In the two years he has played, Davis Martin has an ERA of 2.70 and a 14-3 record.

He has allowed 118 hits, 45 runs, 24 doubles, one triple and seven home runs. He also has struck out 98 batters so far.

“Just trying to beat the guy in front of me,” Davis Martin said, “I really enjoy that one on one competition, so this is the pitch that’s called ‘I’m going to try and execute it the best I can to get this guy out,’ and I don’t like getting beat so it’s just the competitive side.” @JackDensmore_DT

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Redshirt senior forward Tommy Hamilton IV takes a shot during the game against Texas on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech beat Texas, 73-71.

12 race, likely resulting in a split title.

What seperates the contenders from the one-hit wonders is consistency.

CHRIS BEARD HEAD COACH The final road match of the season follows the home bout with Kansas, as the Red Raiders head to Morgantown to face West Virginia once again. While facing Kansas at home is Tech’s biggest challenge at home, heading to Morgantown to face WVU is by far the hardest road game remaining on the schedule.

Tech made news after upsetting No. 2 WVU at home

earlier this season, with a wave of backlash following a court storming. Tech’s chances at winning the Big 12 regular season title could be on the line in Morgantown, and Tech will have to play their best basketball to escape with a win.

After two of the most anticipated games of the season, Tech will return home to face TCU, as they wrap up their regular season. With any luck, Tech will be playing to clinch the Big 12 title here, if they win all or most of their games up to this point.

The conference will not be an easy one to win, as there is a reason Kansas has won the Big 12 regular season for 13 straight years. Tech will have to avoid almost any loss over the coming weeks if they want to have a chance at usurping Kansas from their throne. @AustinWattsDT

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