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Texas Tech students exhibit works inspired by Southwest travels.

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team shows progress in first season under coach Marlene Stollings.

Column: The first president in SNL history to ask us to stop laughing at him.

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Relive all the Texas Tech Athletics action that took place on campus this weekend, including baseball and men’s basketball’s wins.

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BOUNDARIES Unified Basketball League brings Tech students, Special Olympics athletes together

By AKHILA REDDY L a Vida Editor

In all his years, from when he first joined Special Olympics as a 10 year old, Ben Garcia has had a wish: to play basketball at Texas Tech.

On Tuesday evening, amidst the cheers of fans ringing in the air and the pounding of sneakers on the court, Garcia got to live out this dream as a member of the Unified Basketball League.

“It’s fun,” Garcia said.

“It’s fun. In all my years I’ve been wanting to play basketball with (Tech students) and I’m excited.”

The Unified Basketball League is a partnership between Tech Intramural Sports and the South Plains chapter of Special Olympics, an organization dedicated to provid-

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TOP: Texas Tech Intramural teams and South Plain Special Olympics athletes play basketball together during the Unified Basketball League Feb. 19, 2019, in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. RIGHT: A Special Olympics athlete shoots a basket during one of the Unified Basketball League games on Feb. 19, 2019, in the Rec Center. The league is a partnership between Tech Intramural Sports and Special Olympics.

ing sports training and competition to adults and children with intellectual disabilities, according to the website.

This is the first time Tech Intramural Sports has partnered with Special Olympics, Brett Jackson, assistant director for Intramural Sports at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, said.

“So Special Olympics reached out to us last semester to partner with us on some Unified Sports, and we worked out this basketball league,” he said.

Unified leagues exist at universities across the country, Ashley Pena, executive director for the West Texas Region at Special Olympics, said. The leagues are primarily student run, with the Special Olympics serving in a support role, she said.

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SGA executive candidates share campaign plans

Tommerdahl joins Wells’ inaugural staff as special teams coordinator

By ADÁN RUBIO News Editor

With the continuation of the Texas Tech 2019 Spring Student Government Association General Election, voting will soon follow.

For the SGA election, people may want to learn about their choice of candidates to prepare for election day.

The 2019 SGA executive candidates, according to a list provided

by SGA Deputy Chief of Staff Alexandra Todd, are Rafael Martinez and David Rivero running for president, Emily Garcia running for internal vice president, Miranda Davis running for external vice president and Avery Aiken and Adam Disque running for graduate vice president.

With two SGA presidential candidates, campaigns could be the defining factor in determining which candidate gets elected.

Martinez, a junior history and political science major from The Colony, said he feels he can facilitate the improvements necessary for the university. He said he has two major goals to accomplish if elected as SGA president.

“I want to end the partnership Texas Tech University has with Barnes and Noble,” he said. “The second largest one is that I want Texas Tech University and the University System to become part of what’s known as the Permanent University Fund.”

Regarding the partnership with BN, Martinez said the store is a private company that is squeezing profits from students. He said in

By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor

Following the departure of incumbent special teams coordinator Joe Lorig, Texas Tech announced the hire of Mark Tommerdahl as the associate head coach and special teams coordinator on Tech coach Matt Wells’ inaugural staff.

Tommerdahl, whose most

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2015, the Board of Regents decided to renew a five-year contract with BN, which will expire in the middle of his possible presidential term on Feb. 28, 2020.

“I want to increase the quality of our education, while also making

it more affordable,” Martinez said regarding how he would advocate for Tech to end their partnership with BN to drive textbook prices down for students.

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Matt Wells speaks to the public and media during his welcoming press conference Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. With the hiring of Mark Tommerdahl as associate head coach and special teams coordinator to replace Joe Lorig, Wells has rounded out his first staff as Texas Tech’s new head football coach.

recent position was during the 2018 season at Purdue, previously served under Wells’ in 2017 as special teams coordinator and running backs coach while at Utah State. In total, Tommerdahl has 23 years of experience as a special teams coordinator, with over 30 total years of experience in coaching, according to a Tech Athletics release.

In his tenure as a coach, Tommerdahl has spent time at Purdue, Utah State, Cal, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana-Monroe, Texas A&M, Alabama, Texas Christian, New Mexico, Minnesota and Wyoming. Since 1996, Tommerdahl has primarily focused on special teams, with every position since relating to special teams.

For Tech, Tommerdahl will be in charge of special teams and take over assistant head coaching duties, while also serving as an assistant offensive line coach.

Over his coaching career, teams coached by Tommerdahl have made the postseason 15 times, along with winning six conference championships. Tommerdahl has coached a multitude of dynamic special teams’ players, including as recent as last season at Purdue with true freshman Rondale Moore, the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. As a tight ends coach at Texas A&M, Tommerdahl coached NFL standout Martellus Bennett, and was instrumental in coaching two-time Ray Guy award winner Ryan Allen while at Louisiana Tech, now a three-time Super Bowl Champion with the New England Patriots.

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Updated recycling options provided in Lubbock

By SYDNEY KEIM Staff Writer

Citizens of Lubbock have found it difficult to conveniently recycle in the past.

The City of Lubbock has now revamped its recycling program in hopes of showing the community how easy the process can be.

Morgan Hector said she has only been the City of Lubbock recycling supervisor for six weeks. In that time, she said she has created a new website, which can be found at mylubbock. us/recycling, programs and activities to encourage and inform citizens of Lubbock about their options to recycle.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 For his second campaign goal, Martinez said being a part of the PUF, which is a state sovereign wealth fund that has only benefitted the University of Texas and Texas A&M, would help Tech fund research programs and not rely so much on donors.

In addition to his promises, Martinez said he wants to work with state legislators to amend the constitution to help the Tech System access the PUF. He said he has also applied to be student regent, which could allow him to advocate against the System partnering with private companies, such as BN. Despite Martinez’s plans, voters may also lean toward another candidate when considering campaign promises.

Rivero, junior finance and political science major from Lovington, New Mexico, said his bloc “This Means More,” which also includes Garcia, Davis and Aiken, is working to help the student body at a local and national level.

“We want to run on attain-

tions as well as six satellite stations in Lubbock, Hector said. She would like citizens to know where and what to recycle to help Lubbock as a whole.

If one is confused about what and how to recycle items, Hector said the permanent drop-offs have workers stationed to assist citizens and sort materials. At these larger stations, people can recycle car oil, oil filters, antifreeze, as well as larger items such as mattresses and printers.

Regarding items one may have already sorted and would like to drop off quickly, the satellite sites are smaller and open 24/7 for people to drop off their recyclables, Hector said.

However, she said she would like to warn citizens

they cannot recycle plastic bags and asks individuals to avoid putting plastic bags in the drop-off containers. Although recycling is not instinctive to a lot of people, she said it is easy.

“We make all these life choices and habits early on, like brushing your hair and teeth every day,” she said. “If you can get in that mentality with recycling, it’s just as simple.”

Paula Gonzalez, a senior social work major from San Antonio, said she does not like recycling as a first option. She would like people to reduce their use of products, reuse and repurpose as many materials as they can and recycle them.

“We already cause enough

damage to the planet as it is.,” Gonzalez said. “We shouldn’t add to it.”

Del Rio Mullen, staff liaison and coordinator for Keep Lubbock Beautiful and affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, said the staff wants to help citizens form lasting habits about recycling.

“It is more than separating our plastics and paper,” Mullen said. “It is a habit that needs to be formed requiring a change in how our West Texas culture views trash.”

The agricultural district already deals with a lot of recycling and composting, Mullen said, but there is still a pushback from the urban areas.

Members of Keep Lubbock Beautiful want to

help all citizens of Lubbock get in the habit of recycling to better the environment and community, Mullen said. They

also want to see the city’s recycling program grow, so people have a convenient way to recycle.

able initiatives,” he said. “We would really like to focus on transportation initiatives, academic initiatives and student wellness.”

Whether it be adding more designated Uber and Lyft pickup locations around Lubbock, alternative parking passes for students, development on a free centralized attendance system, 24-hour access to coffee in the library or assisting Raider Red’s Food Pantry, Rivero said his bloc is dedicated to keeping every promise made to the student body.

“To be an effective leader, you need to be an approachable leader,” he said. “I quite honestly want to make it my mission and my goal to interact, more so, with students more on a daily basis.”

Informing the student body of what SGA is accomplishing is another goal Rivero said he wants to achieve.

Along with working with the Tech community, collaborating with SGA senators is another way candidates could work to help Tech.

Garcia, a senior public relations major from McKinney, said through working as

journal clerk for the executive team of the 54th session, she has worked a lot with student senators.

speaker of the senate,” Garcia said. “I’d like to get a lot of senators involved.”

In addition to the “This Means More” bloc’s work with the SGA senate, Davis, a junior political science major from Wichita Falls, said they are running to be the students’ voice.

“We feel like we have the resources on campus,” she said.

“We just need to bring them all together and implement it in the best way we know how.”

Whether it be working with administration through SGA committees to find different avenues for attendance, interacting with Hospitality Services to obtain access for 24-hour library coffee or collaborating with City Council to get more Uber and Lyft pick-up spots, Davis said she would work more with external affairs to accomplish these initiatives.

“I will be in the meetings, I will be there to take notes, to make sure that everything is getting done,” she said.

Along with helping the Tech community, graduate students are one demographic SGA candidates may support through different initiatives.

Aiken, a first year law student from The Woodlands, said every student’s perspective deserves to be supported. In

her bloc’s general campaign, she said her focus is more on graduate students.

“There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be paying specific attention to all of our students, especially our grad students,” she said regarding how graduate students pursuing fields in the arts sometimes do not receive much attention. “Even more so, the graduate students who are interested in continuing to develop and invest in our country’s cultural existence.”

In addition to the lack of attention, Aiken said life insurance, or death insurance, is expensive for international graduate students. She said most of these students are in a tricky situation, as they need to pay for college, food and insurance.

“A big part of it is allying with the Graduate Assembly,” Aiken said. “A big part of my effort will be to make sure that during the conversations that are happening with the Texas Tech System include graduate students in a very intentional and upfront way. Otherwise, they’re forgotten.”

Along with Aiken’s work to support graduate students through her campaign, Disque, a first year environmental engineering graduate student from

Wylie, said he is also running for graduate vice president as he understands the position and has developed a lot of relationships with people through his time as a SGA senator.

Regarding his campaign plans, whether it be setting a process for obtaining meeting minutes from graduate VP meetings, pushing for research mentorships or motivating students to take part in graduate education, Disque said he wants to tackle areas he is interested in learning about and resolving.

“Before you can come up with a solution to a problem, you have to develop personal relationships with people who will enact the change,” he said. “We are not in a position to where we can create change ourselves.”

Being available to people in the Tech community is one task Disque said a SGA candidate must do to accomplish his or her goals. He said a candidate needs to know which people can help them enact change.

“It’s all about partnerships, it’s all about relationships,” Disque said regarding how he as built relationships as a SGA senator. “I feel confident that whoever gets elected, it will be good.”

We would really like to focus on transportation initiatives, academic initiatives and student wellness.

DAVID RIVERO SGA CANDIDATE “I really have enjoyed interacting with a bunch of the senators,” she said. “I really value the relationship that IVP gets to build with the senators.”

The free centralized attendance system and 24-hour access to coffee in the library are the initiatives Garcia said she wants to focus on.

For professors who choose to take attendance, Garcia said she would like to provide a free attendance system to limit student expenses, such as TopHat or clickers. She said she also wants to set up a small coffee station in the library to accomplish her bloc’s goal of obtaining 24-hour coffee access.

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Tornado death confirmed as violent storms smack the South COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Weekend storms raked parts of the Southeast, leaving deaths and injuries in their wake as a tornado smashed into a commercial district in a small Mississippi city and drenching rains fed a rising flood threat.

A woman was killed when a tornado hit Columbus, Mississippi, and a man died when he drove into floodwaters in Tennessee, officials said.

Columbus Mayor Robert

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Smith said 12 other people were injured, but the injuries did not appear to be major.

City spokesman Joe Dillon said the tornado also seriously damaged a school and two community center buildings.

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Shield law on federal level discussed by experts

By EMMA SIPPLE Staff Writer

Talk of a proposed federal shield law continues from the previous presidential administration into the current one, and there is still debate on how it will be implemented.

A shield law, according to the First Amendment encyclopedia, is a law allowing journalists the privilege to refuse to disclose sources they used in a story.

“Investigative journalism means that reporters will have to deal with confidential sources,” Leo Eko, media law professor in the Texas Tech College of Media and Communication, said. “Reporters have to have confidential sources because there are a lot of people who will not talk to reporters if their confidentiality is not guaranteed.

It’s all about protecting confidential sources.”

In the 1970s, Eko said reporters argued the confidentiality between them and their sources should be protected, like the confidentiality of doctors and their patients are recognized in the law, lawyers and their clients, and people in confession at church.

He said the relationship is not seen as one that demands confidentiality in the eyes of the federal courts.

“One of the problems with special rules for journalists is there is the question of, ‘Do I belong to the club?’” Arnold Loewy, faculty director in the School of Law, said.

The issue of how the First Amendment fits in is also brought up when discussing shield laws on the federal level, Eko said.

“The courts have said that the First Amendment is not a shield,” Eko said. “Shield laws try to extend protection to reporters and try to make the First Amendment a shield against government control of information. It is intended to protect journalists from government harassment.

So, if a shield law is ultimately enacted, it will be a very good development.”

The biggest concerns for enacting a federal shield law would be national security and preventing leaks of information, Eko said. He said he believes transparency in what the government is doing is just as important.

“It’s the people’s business, because in America we have the government of the people, by the people and for the people,” he said.

“The people have a right to know what the government is doing on our behalf because it is our government.”

Along with the presence of more people utilizing so-

cial media to report and to discuss politics, the debate of free speech both on and off college campuses comes up, John Watts, a professor of law, said.

“Everything in a representative democracy hinges on free speech,” Watts said. “We sort of bet the farm on it. The model is to debate policy and discuss. The problem with free speech today is there are so many different avenues of expression.”

The echo chamber of ideas does not show the value of free speech, he said.

“The value in free speech is being able to influence others and help people realize that they might be wrong,” he said. “And this way, different ideas will be heard. It seems like no matter how wacky your beliefs are, you can find others who agree. You can even get all your information from them.”

College acts as a melting pot-like environment where ideas can be discussed, he said. People can take turns speaking and listening.

“On campus, the reason you see more conflicts with free speech is this is where a lot of young people will think deeply about issues,” he said. “Back home, you only have your friends and your family, and your friends and family will

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However, Watts said he does not think this exchange of ideas should be “a screaming contest.”

“It can be good for speakers as some may be persuad-

ed by other points of view,” he said. “Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, ‘The remedy for bad speech is more speech.’” @EmmaSippleDT

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Huawei unveils 5G phone with folding screen Buffett encourages investors to bet on economy BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — China’s Huawei unveiled a new folding-screen phone on Sunday, joining the latest trend for bendable devices as it challenges the global smartphone market’s dominant players, Apple and Samsung.

Huawei revealed its Mate X phone on the eve of MWC Barcelona, a fourday showcase of mobile devices, as the company battles U.S. allegations it is a cybersecurity risk.

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No likely survivors in jetliner crash near Houston HOUSTON (AP) — A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner heading to Houston with three people aboard disintegrated after crashing Saturday into a bay east of the city, according to a Texas sheriff.

Witnesses told emergency personnel that the twinengine plane “went in nose first,” leaving a debris field three-quarters of a mile long in Trinity Bay, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said.

“It’s probably a crash that nobody would survive,” he said, referring to the scene as “total devastation.”

The cargo plane made a steep descent shortly before 12:45 p.m. from 6,525 feet to 3,025 feet in 30 seconds, according to tracking data from FlightAware.com.

The flight was being operated for Amazon by Atlas Air, according to a statement from the airline. “Our main priority at this time is caring for those affected and we will ensure we do all we can to support them now and in the days and weeks to come,” Atlas Air said in a statement.

Dave Clark, senior vice president of Worldwide Operations at Amazon, said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the flight crew, their families and friends along with the entire team at Atlas Air during this terrible tragedy. We appreciate the first responders who worked urgently to provide support.”

Witnesses said they heard the plane’s engines surging and that the craft turned sharply before falling into a nosedive, Hawthorne said.

Aerial footage shows emergency personnel walking along a spit of marshland flecked by debris that extends into the water.

The device can be used on superfast next-generation mobile networks that are due to come online in the coming years.

Device makers are looking to folding screens as the industry’s next big thing to help them break out of an innovation malaise, although most analysts think the market is limited, at least in the early days.

The Mate X is the answer to a question Huawei faced as it sought to satisfy smartphone users’ demands

for bigger screens and longer battery life, said Richard Yu, CEO of its consumer business group.

“How can we bring the more big innovation to this smartphone industry?” Yu said at a glitzy media launch.

The Mate X will sell for 2,299 euros ($2,600) when it goes on sale by midyear. That’s even more than Samsung’s recently revealed Galaxy Fold, priced at nearly $2,000.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett says the company he built through decades of acquisitions continues to perform well even though he hasn’t found any major deals at attractive prices recently.

Buffett released his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders on Saturday. He wrote that investors should continue betting on the American economy because Berkshire

has prospered by doing so, but that they shouldn’t forget about the rest of the world.

“There are also many other countries around the world that have bright futures. About that, we should rejoice: Americans will be both more prosperous and safer if all nations thrive,” Buffett wrote. “At Berkshire, we hope to invest significant sums across borders.”

Buffett’s letter is always well-read in the business

world because of his remarkable track record, his habit of dissecting the economy or other topics and his talent for explaining complicated subjects in plain language.

But in recent years he has simplified his letters and focused mostly on Berkshire’s businesses. The sage advice and wit that used to make Buffett’s letters must-read publications is now reserved mostly for the company’s annual meeting and interviews.

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fter their cold-open parodying President Donald Trump’s national emergency announcement last week, Trump tweeted that Saturday Night Live’s portrayal of him was a “hit job” without retribution.

This isn’t unusual. He accused SNL of committing a “hit job” in a sketch during the 2016 elections, and again after watching a parody of his first press conference in January 2017.

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In context, it seems completely and absolutely absurd to accuse a comedy show that has made fun of every president since Gerald Ford in its first season in 1975, a platform for executing political hit jobs. For more than four decades, every American president has been the subject of political satire and parody on SNL; it just comes with the job, with being a public figure.

Will Ferrell’s comedic impression of George W. Bush was so popular, it was adapted into a Broadway play, broadcast live on HBO in 2009 titled, “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush.”

It broke house records for the amount earned at the Cort theatre twice in its short running. And for the eight years of getting spoofed, satirized, made fun of, criticized on SNL, when asked about the impression in a 2017 interview, Bush stated it never bothered him.

“The best humor is when you make fun of yourself,” Bush said while laughing.

In understanding the public’s need to see a leader who can accept a joke, the absurd, the ridiculous, the humorous, every president before President Trump has taken their impressions with humility, grace, and good humor.

And it isn’t that every president necessarily enjoyed being parodied on SNL. Looking back at the first parody of President Ford, his press secretary Ron Neesen stated in an October 2018 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Ford privately didn’t like being portrayed as a “genial spaz” by SNL cast member Chevy Chase—he saw himself as athletic, a tennis player, a former college football star.

But for an American public still reeling from President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, Ford put aside his pride and did what he thought was best for the country—he embraced the joke, he invited Chase to the White House, and the next year, Chase hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

It’s 2019, and at 6:52 a.m.

on a Sunday, the President of the United States of America complained to us, through Twitter on his iPhone, about some jokes he didn’t like on a comedy show. The same show that gave us more cowbell as a prescription to fever, and sketches about cats that shoot lasers from their mouths, President Trump accuses of orchestrating political hits.

It’s as simple as this—no president parodied on SNL has ever been so sensitive to criticism. None have responded to SNL with such partisan disdain, or been unable to laugh or reflect on jokes directed at themselves or their policies the way our current president has. Every president before Trump, every American leader before, understood the need to respond as a leader with humility and good humor to satirical criticism.

No matter how we defend or look the other way when it comes to President Trump’s responses to criticism, his behavior affects the mood of our nation. Every president before, both Republican and Democrat, understood this.

The American spirit is genuinely affected by the

way our president portrays himself publicly. A leader who can’t take a joke or act with humility about themselves, asks his country to do the same.

It is one thing to attack political opponents, but attacking a comedy show expressing political satire, something it has done for nearly fifty years, is ridiculous enough to be a joke itself.

Comedy at its best, is a powerful expression of freespeech. It has the ability to remove us from the stress, the self-seriousness that is all too easy to fall into in life. Laughter is a joy we all share, and can help us gain perspective or move past difficult subjects in life.

That shared joy, that ability to remove us or give us perspective on a situation, or just make our lives a little easier, make it arguably one of the most powerful tools of free speech.

The First Amendment was created to allow all types of criticism of public officials, without fear of retribution— including political satire, whether President Trump agrees with it or not.

All this makes how our elected officials respond to

humor and criticism important. It’s protected speech, and the complete and absolute absurdity of a president calling comedy sketches “...Republican hit jobs without retribution” harms both our understanding of the First Amendment and negatively affects the mood of our nation.

As silly as this sounds, and no matter how you view what SNL does, think about it this way. How would you feel if one of your friends or family members texted you every Sunday at 6 a.m. complaining about a comedy sketch on television the night before?

The president in effect, continues to ask us to stop laughing at him. In his personal sensitivity to criticism, he asks us to view jokes as “hit jobs,” parodies of him as partisan attacks. He doesn’t like it.

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US-North Korean deals often made away from negotiation table WASHINGTON (AP) — At the negotiating table, it can be difficult to get North Korean negotiators off their scripted talking points.

Sometimes deals are best sealed while on a Pyongyang subway ride, a stroll outside or even during fits of anger.

No matter what President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un may agree to at their Vietnam summit this coming week, the follow-up to those talks will require the kind of laborious discussions that have marked four major sets of negotiating sessions between the two sides over the past quarter-century.

Former U.S. diplomats who have spent years in such talks say their North Korean counterparts are always prepared and keen to sniff out anything that seems like a U.S. precondition. They say the North Koreans can launch into anti-American diatribes one minute, then courteously agree to concessions — once they’re certain they’ve gotten all they can.

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Bob Carlin, who took part in talks during the Clinton administration, recalled that at the end of one particularly difficult day of negotiations, the chief North Korean balked at one item that had been agreed upon earlier.

“I popped my cork,” Carlin said. “This was not an act. I was so angry that he would do this to me.”

When the North Korean saw Carlin’s flash of anger, he quickly backed down and agreed to what had already been negotiated.

The North Korean negotiator apparently just wanted to be able to go back to his superiors and say that he had pushed the Americans as far as he could.

“I learned something important,” Carlin said. “If they really go over the line and make me mad, don’t sit back and try to be nice. Let them know because they don’t want things to fall apart.”

In another session, it was the lead North Korean negotiator who got miffed.

Carlin, who has traveled to

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North Korea more than 30 times, said one of the U.S. negotiators wondered aloud when North Korea was going to “join the civilized world.”

“The temperature in the room dropped below freezing” and the top North Korean scolded the U.S. negotiator, Carlin said. “It’s the type of thing that Americans say without thinking and the North Koreans don’t accept.”

Victor Cha, former deputy head of U.S. delegation at the so-called six-party talks with North Korea that began in 2003 in Beijing, said sometimes the Americans want success so badly that they get caught in negotiation traps choreographed by the North Koreans.

“One of their classic negotiation loops is this end-ofwar declaration,” Cha said.

The idea is that the U.S. declares an end to the Korean War, which ended without a peace treaty. Then, the North Koreans demand the U.S. lift sanctions on them because the war is over. “No,” Cha said. “The sanctions are

on them for proliferation behavior and human rights abuses. They improve those things, then you lift some comparable sanctions.”

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration, has been a frequent mediator with North Korea since the 1990s. He has visited at least eight times, sometimes acting independently to seek the release of American detainees.

Richardson said he was talking to a North Korean official on the Pyongyang subway in 1996 when he finally persuaded him to release Evan Hunziker, an American who had illegally entered the communist country by swimming, while drunk, across the Yalu River from China.

“About 75 percent of the talking points are antiAmerican ranting,” Richardson said. “So, you’ve got to make deals with them outside of the negotiating table — either at a meal, or

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walking or in the subway as I did with Hunziker.”

Richardson said humor works sometimes, but American negotiators need to use it carefully. As a joke, Richardson said he once inquired about Hunziker’s condition in detention, specifically if he still “had his fingernails.”

“I started smiling,” Richardson said. “The North Korean looked at me. I thought he was going to kill me. And then he started laughing.

They’re not used to humor.

They’re very formal.”

On the flip side, Richardson said it was he who didn’t know whether the North Koreans were joking when they asked to be reimbursed for the cost of ammunition they used to shoot at an American helicopter pilot in 1994.

Army pilot Bobby Hall’s helicopter was hit

by North Korean air defenses after he strayed across the border, forcing him into an emergency landing. His co-pilot later died from his injuries.

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Students exhibit works inspired by southwest travels

By HANA KELETA Staff Writer

For two months, the closest thing to a home seven Texas Tech students could claim was a single van.

Journeying through the American southwest, these students experienced the landscapes and scenery of the region, drawing inspiration for a work of art: an exhibit that was showed at the Museum of Texas Tech University on Saturday, Feb. 23, as part of the Land Arts of the American West Program.

Land Arts of the American West is a two-month long camping and art program Tech offers. Elijah Olson, a senior geography major from Lubbock, said he first heard about the program at a First Friday Art Trail.

“These exhibitions used to be held at a warehouse in downtown at First Friday Art Trail, and I thought it was amazing,” Olson said. “Later on everything fell into place, when I was reminded of the program by a friend and decided that it was a good thing to do.”

The whole program is two trips, with each being a month long, he said.

The students go in a loop throughout the southwest area in two vans; one van

with all the students in it, and the other containing all the supplies.

“We start in Lubbock and then we generally go to New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and then back through New Mexico,” he said. “On the trip, every day was split between travel days and work days. Work days are when we are out of sight, we’re usually there for a few days and we just have the whole day to reflect on the space, play, create, do whatever we want essentially.”

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We start in Lubbock and then we generally go to New Mexico, Arizona, and then back through New Mexico.

ELIJAH OLSON SENIOR dents booked it to the next stop, supplied and refueled, he said.

“The two days were different in relation to each other, but they add up to a really unique experience,” he said. “The illustrations I created on the trip were sort of made during my free time as a fun thing.”

Olson did not initially intend for the illustrations to be in his final showing, he said.

“They’re goofy weird humor, and things that I thought of the ways I was feeling with land,” he said.

“The essays were more deliberate; I would sit down in the morning and write a page on what I was feeling that day and how I felt about the area.”

Olson focused on what he was seeing and put it together with the things he knew about the place.

“For instance, in places like New Mexico, there is a lot of violence inherent in the history of the landscape, but you don’t necessarily see it walking through,” he said. “It’s just these beautiful mountains and desert plains; sort of that disconnect I was trying to probe.”

Elise Dupré, a grad student in art history from Belgium, said she came to Tech for the program.

“This was my first time in the American southwest, and I’ve always wanted to travel here,” she said. “I got an email from a professor of mine about the program, and I applied immediately.”

It has been one of the best experiences of her life so far, she said.

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The Texas Tech Museum opened a new permanent rotating gallery, Leonardo’s Kitchen, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Students from the Land Arts of the American West Program presented their work in the gallery, which is the result of a two-month trip in the southwest.

“We had an amazing crew; camping in a desert for two months is definitely something,” she said. “It wasn’t easy, but it was definitely rewarding. My work and my vision benefited greatly from the trip.”

On her journey, Dupré created a book titled “Road to Chaco.”

“I drew an alphabet, like A-Z, and then I made a digital font out of that, which you can download actually,” she said. “The book also shows Google images from the Chaco road itself.”

Hannah Rotwein, a grad student studying history

from Portland, Oregon, said she ended up making films during the program, which was something she had not done before.

“I think it was some sort of visceral reaction that I had to the landscape,” she said. “It felt like the only way I could capture what I’m seeing and feeling.”

The work she has presented at the exhibit are two videos being displayed next to each other, she said.

“I also built this sheer screen that captures light differently than the atmosphere catches light,” she said. “One film is about the

sun rise in the mountains, and the other is of the sun set along a highway.”

The films are about the different places she saw in the desert, the variety of landscapes that exist and the variety of ways humans have infiltrated those environments, Rotwein said.

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Curtain set to go up on a host-less but drama-filled Oscars R. Kelly jailed in lieu of bail NEW YORK (AP) — A winter of discontent for the Academy Awards will culminate Sunday in an Oscar ceremony that may lack a host but isn’t missing intrigue.

The run-up to the 91st Academy Awards has been a series of missteps and backtracks by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. A new best “popular film” category was in, and then it was out . Kevin Hart was host and then he wasn’t .

Some categories were removed from the live broadcast, and then they were back.

But if the script this Oscar season has been constantly rewritten, the film academy is hoping for a Hollywood ending (and much better ratings than the all-time low viewership last year .) ABC’s telecast will begin at 8 p.m. EST following the usual red carpet festivities. The show is available for livestream via ABC in some cities to users with a partici-

pating TV provider.

After some unlikely Los Angeles weather — to much local fanfare, it snowed in parts of the city on Thursday — sunny skies are expected for red carpet arrivals.

Producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss have pledged that the show will be speedier this year , even though its initial goal of a three-hour broadcast has faded. Kicking things off will be a performance by Queen, featuring Adam Lambert, to celebrate the best picture-nominee “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

In the academy’s favor is a popular crop of nominees: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” ‘’A Star Is Born” and, most of all, “Black Panther” have all amassed huge sums in ticket sales.

Typically, when there are box-office hits (like “Titanic”), more people watch the Oscars.

But just how many people have seen one of the top nominees and the film favored to

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H a r r y a n d t h e p r e gnant Meghan landed in the mountain town of Asni on Sunday morning on a brief official visit to Morocco.

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win best picture — Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” — remains unknown. Netflix has declined to give box-office results or steaming viewership. It remains a nominee unlike any other. Should “Roma” — a black-and-white, Spanish and Mixtec language film about a domestic worker in a Mexican family — win, it will be both the first Netflix movie to win best picture and the first foreign language film to do so.

Yet this year’s race has been maddeningly unpredictable , with the usual predictive awards being spread across contenders such as Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book,” a divisive period dramedy about a black pianist (Mahershala Ali) and his white chauffer (Viggo Mortensen); the royal romp “The Favourite; and Ryan Coogler’s Marvel sensation “Black Panther,” which could become the first superhero film ever to win Hollywood’s top award.

Other milestones are possible, too. Though Cuaron is favored for best director, a win for Spike Lee (“BlacKkKlansman”) would make him the first black filmmaker to ever win the award. Lee has said he likes his film’s underdog position as a “dark horse — pun intended.” Lee and his fellow screenwriters are also up for best screenplay, which would give the 61-year-old Lee his first competitive Oscar.

Many also expect Glenn Close, in her seventh nomination, to finally win one. She’s the front-runner for best actress for her performance in “The Wife,” a film about the overlooked and under-honored spouse of an acclaimed novelist. Though Lady Gaga began the season as the favorite, Close has won a string of awards leading up to the Oscars, including at Saturday’s Independent Spirit Awards where she brought her dog, Pip, along as a date.

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly, one of the best-selling music artists of all time, remained jailed in Chicago on Sunday in lieu of a $100,000 bond payment that would allow him to go free pending his sex abuse trial.

The 52-year-old R&B star is behind bars in the 7,000-inmate Cook County Jail, according the county sheriff ’s online inmate locator. Kelly was charged Friday with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims, three of whom were minors.

In bond court Saturday, a judge set bail at $1 million, requiring Kelly to pay 10 percent to go free.

There are multiple technical issues that could be thwarting Kelly’s efforts to pay, said Joseph Lopez, a criminal de-

fense attorney in Chicago not connected to the Kelly case.

Bond can be paid by credit card, cash or check. Court officials must be able to talk to bank officials directly to confirm that an amount written on a check is covered, and that’s not possible when banks are closed on Sunday, Lopez said.

Kelly’s attorney, Steve Greenberg, did not respond to a message seeking comment on Sunday.

Greenberg said at the bond hearing that his Grammy Award-winning client wasn’t wealthy, despite decades of success creating hit songs for himself and others. Greenberg blamed mismanagement, bad contracts and other issues for Kelly’s financial woes.

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By HAILEY WALTER Staff Writer

It’s the day before a big exam or project is due. There is limited time to study or work, and there is a lot of material to cover.

Whether it is due to lack of planning or because of a busy schedule, there was no time to prepare ahead, and now it is time for a late night of “cramming” studying or working.

Almost every college student has experienced this.

Patrick Bohn, associate director of support operations for academic retention at Texas Tech, said there are some strategies on how to best study on limited time.

When having limited time to study for an exam, Bohn said one of the best things to do is fully understand the format of the test; whether it is multiple choice, short answer or essay.

“Going into an exam without knowing how the test will be structured adds unnecessary stress that could easily be remedied,” he said. “Check the syllabus, ask the professor or TA, sometimes they will

UNIFIED

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 A student at Tech, Curry Wilson, approached her about starting a league at Tech, she said. “(The Unified Basketball League) is something that I had wanted to partner with and do for a while, but I hadn’t found a student on campus that was kind of ready to take charge and make sure it came to life,” Pena said. “And so, kind of her coming into the office and being excited, that pushed me to make sure it started.”

Wilson, a senior public relations major from Albany, first learned of the Special Olympics and Unified League while working as a sports communications

allow you to see old versions of the exam if you just ask. The type of exam will help dictate how you prepare for it.”

Another technique, he said, is studying with a friend or classmate.

“You may have information in your notes that they missed and vice-versa,” Bohn said. “Studying with someone has been shown to increase effectiveness and takes some of the pressure off.”

While Bohn said it is something that occurs, “cramming” is not ideal for college students who often are paying for education and learning.

“I don’t believe ‘cramming’ is positive unless it really is your last resort,” he said. “You may be able to cram enough to do well on an exam or quiz, but that information rarely sticks.”

Cramming often causes stress and tension among students, and while Bohn said it is usually the result of bad planning, there are ways to destress when it does occur.

“Utilize campus resources such as the MindSpa with Student Wellness, take a fitness class as the Rec Center, or even just giving yourself intermittent breaks during your study,” he said.

Roman Taraban, a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, has performed research and written a paper regarding when students choose to study in a span of two weeks between tests.

“It turns out you might say students ‘cram,’ there was basically no apparent studying for the upcoming test until, let’s say, one day before, possibly two days before,” he said.

“So that seems to be a common method that students use to prepare for a test.”

Even though cramming seems to be a common method of studying, he said it is only a good method if a student’s goals are short term, because no long term learning/knowledge is produced from the method.

However, if still looking to improve on a cramming method of studying, Taraban said there is some research that proves possible techniques.

“If I could suggest a way to improve on cramming, which maybe not the best advice to give to students, but if you wanted to maximize, what you should do is go over the material, once, twice, or several times right before sleeping the day before a test,” he said.

intern at Tech last summer.

“UT has one, A&M has one, Duke, Alabama, even Midwestern state in Wichita Falls has a Unified league,” Wilson said. “And I was like surely if Midwestern State in Wichita Falls has a Unified league then Lubbock will have one and I was looking, scrolled over to Lubbock and we didn’t.”

Wilson went on to contact Pena and organize the Unified Basketball League. Wilson currently organizes and runs the league, as well as serving as a coach for one of the teams.

The league has been a success for the Special Olympics athletes and students, she said.

“They just want to be here and that’s kind of what I really want our organization to be,”

she said. “It’s not about sports.

We’re not just playing basketball, it’s not an intramural league. It’s a bigger image than that. It’s creating a small community on the Tech campus and making them, the athletes, feel connected to Tech.”

There are currently four basketball teams with approximately 25-30 participants in the league in total, Jackson said. The league is roughly half Special Olympics athletes and half Tech students.

The Unified League games have a different atmosphere and environment than other intramurals, he said.

“It’s fun seeing our Texas Tech students interact with the Special Olympics athletes,” Jackson said. “I think it defi-

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Students use the facilities and devices provided by Texas Tech in the library to study for exams and complete homework assignments.

During sleep, recent information is strengthened in memory, called consolidation, he said.

Even so, Taraban said for long-term learning, cramming is not effective, and students should study in small amounts a couple weeks before.

It comes down to students wanting longer term goals, he said. Cramming might work to get a good grade on a test, but it will not help for students’ future knowledge.

“As long as a student believes that ‘cramming’ works and that they’re being successful because their test grades are good, and they don’t understand how memory and learning works, they won’t change,” he said.

Students should be taught the difference between cramming and distributive learning, he said, and how it will effect their future at a university, high school or even

elementary level.

Karlie Fitzsimmons, a junior business management major at Tech, is familiar with the method of cramming herself.

“I’ve definitely had to cram for studying and projects before,” she said. “When I do, I just make sure to really focus on studying and remind myself that if I just study hard then it’ll pay. But I don’t prefer to cram, it’s too stressful.”

nitely is a different vibe when those guys are on the court, a different atmosphere, which is cool to see.”

Working with the Special Olympics athletes is a privilege, Wilson said. They are incredibly passionate about the league, which serves as an inspiration for her and other participants.

“The passion that they bring to, not just to sports but to everything that they do, and the pride that they carry with them is just so different, and you don’t see that in everybody,” she said.

Whereas most people tend to complain they have to go to work or go to school, the athletes are the opposite, she said.

They take nothing for granted.

That type of mindset can impact other people’s lives, including herself. Being a part of the league has changed her perspective on life.

“When the going gets tough and you’re like, ‘Oh man, I have all this stuff,’ but then you get a text message that says, ‘Hey, thank you so much. I had so much fun tonight,’ that’s the reason that you do it,” she said.

“It’s because of them.”

Many Special Olympics

athletes get lost in the shuffle after high school, Pena said.

They do not necessarily have the college experience that most people have never had to question, making this league a valuable opportunity.

“So when we we’re able to give them another opportunity to stay active in the community, to give them the opportunity to be a part of something like that is really important, not just for their own personal development, but for the personal development for all the Texas Tech partners that are involved with it,” she said.

Garcia’s experiences in the league have been great, he said. It is an opportunity for him to make a difference, he said, to help his peers be the best they can and see how they do competing.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Garcia said. “It motivates us. It shows that we can enjoy ourselves and have fun with them and be unified.”

Getting Tech involved with the Unified League, to give students and Special Olympics athletes these opportunities, was the right thing to do, Jackson said.

There are many reasons to do it, he said, and not one reason he could think of to not do it.

“We’re hoping that this is just the beginning of a really special partnership between Rec sports at Texas Tech and Special Olympics South Plains here in Lubbock, Texas,” he said.

The league will be having a soccer intramural later in the spring and another sports league in the fall, Wilson said.

All students, regardless of their experience or skill level, are invited to participate as athletes, coaches or fans.

Her primary goals for the league in the coming months is growth, she said. She wants to leave the league in a place where it will continue long after she has graduated.

“The college students are going to come to campus, and then they’re going to leave within three or four years,” she said.

“Even staff, faculty and staff, they’re coming and then they’re going to leave, but the only thing constant in this organization are those athletes. And so, it’s really important that what we’re doing now in this first year is for them in the future.”

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Lady Raiders show progress in first season under Stollings

By DANIELLE DIXON Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s basketball team’s season is coming to an end, and with only three games left in the regular season, the Lady Raiders are looking ahead to postseason.

The Lady Raiders ended the 2017-18 season with an overall record of 7-23, finding themselves at the bottom of the Big 12. In April 2018, the Tech basketball program announced the hiring of new head coach, Marlene Stollings, according to Tech Athletics.

Stollings is known for having success in turning a program around, having done so with three NCAA programs prior to coming to Tech.

The Lady Raiders started the season under Stollings’ reign on fire, as they took down their first two opponents of the season — Jacksonville State, 71-58, and LouisianaMonroe, 86-42, according to Tech Athletics.

After falling to their first opponent of the season — University of Idaho, 77-88 — the team turned it around and went on a three-game winning streak. Six games into the season, they were only two away from surpassing last season’s win record.

The Lady Raiders fell to their SEC opponent, Florida, during the SEC/ Big 12 Challenge to add their second loss of the season to their record, 5-2. Once again, the Lady Raiders made their way back to Lubbock, readjusted and went on another winning streak.

Tech surpassed the seven wins it gathered in the 201718 season when it took down Texas Southern at home, 7555, creating a record night for the Lady Raiders.

Junior guard Brittany Brewer said surpassing last year ’s win mark is something that has added extra momentum when continuing into the season.

“I think it instills like even more hope than we already had,” Brewer said.

“We’re really pumped, like, that is crazy to think that that already surpassed, and so I’m really excited for what conference brings.”

The Lady Raiders were working on every aspect of their game before heading to play in one of the best conferences in the women’s basketball, Stollings said. “ We a r e r e a l l y p r o gressing every aspect of the game, offense and defense, we’ve got to continually grow,” Stollings said before Big 12 play started. “We have one more prep game and it’s go time, so we’re going to continue to push them and continue to get ready for that level.”

Following the matchup with Texas Southern, Stollings became the first head coach in Lady Raider history to go 8-2 early in the season. Stollings credited her players for her success.

Getting a new coach is a big transition for student athletes, and the Lady Raiders took it well and it showed on the court, Stollings said.

“This is a fun part of it, because they get to see that it really does work, and we are able to put in the time and the effort and it results in wins,” Stollings said.

Stollings and the Lady Raiders went into Big 12 play with a 9-2 record, according to Tech Athletics. They fell to their first conference opponent, Oklahoma, 66-61, before being dominated by Baylor, 73-56.

The Lady Raiders picked up their first Big 12 win against the Kansas Jayhawks, 69-66. Despite a strong start to the season overall, Tech lost its footing and went on a seven-game losing streak.

During this span, Stollings preached intensity and consistency to her players. Tech was losing by only one or two possessions in majority of its games, and that resulted in the Lady Raiders losing momentum in the last few minutes, Stollings said.

“She preaches consistency a lot,” Carr said.

“Just staying in the play and playing the fourth quarter and not letting our intensity get down but raising it to a higher level.

So she preaches that a lot.”

Tech ended the drought by taking down the Oklahoma State Cowgirls during

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LEFT: Junior center Erin Degrate shoots and scores during Texas Tech’s game against West Virginia Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in the United Supermarkets Arena. TOP: Freshman guard Chrislyn Carr dribbles to get closer to the basket during Tech’s game against West Virginia Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in the United Supermarkets Arena. BOTTOM: Sophomore guard Angel Hayden looks for a play against West Virginia Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Lady Raiders currently have three conference wins on the season, two more than last year. the Play4Kay game to secure its second Big 12 win of the season, surpassing last season’s conference record.

After falling to West Virginia, 75-72, the Lady Raiders went on to record their first Big 12 sweep in three years, according to Tech Athletics. They took down Kansas for the second time this season, 75-71, this time on the road in Lawrence, Kansas.

That victory added Tech’s third Big 12 win of the season to its record.

Stollings said she has continuously changed the way the Lady Raiders approach each game, and that has not stopped, even though they have secured two more conference wins than last year.

The Lady Raiders will continue Big 12 play and take on Iowa State at 6 p.m.

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or the second straight year, this time at home in the Sports Performance Center, the Texas Tech men’s track and field team won the Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championship.

The Red Raiders earned 179 team points while second place Iowa State earned 109.

The 70-point difference was the largest margin of victory in conference history.

Divine Oduduru was the co-high point award winner on the men’s side with 20 points on the day. He also won two individual races — the 60m and 200m. His time in the 200m race put him at the No. 1 spot in the world for the season and gave him the Big 12 Indoor Championship meet record.

The men claimed four first-place finishes, including Oduduru’s two wins and a win from

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freshman Axel Hubert in the heptathlon and Jonah Koech in the 1000m.

The women’s team came in 19.5 points behind Texas to take home second place.

The team’s 108.5 points were the second most in program history, according to Tech Athletics. Zarriea Willis was the lone firstplace finish for the women with her gold in high jump.

The NCAA Indoor Championships will take place Friday, March 8, and Saturday, March 9, in Birmingham, Alabama. Qualifiers for nationals will be announced on Tuesday, Feb. 26.

For full coverage of both days of the Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championship, including recaps, photos and video, visit www.dailytoreador.com.

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1: The men’s track and field team celebrates its back-to-back win at the Big 12 Indoor Championship on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, in the Sports Performance Center. The Red Raiders’ 70-point victory is the largest win margin in conference history. 2: Junior Divine Oduduru leads the 200-meter dash during day two of the Big 12 Indoor Championship. He won the 60m and 200m races. 3: Freshman Lexye Price runs during the Big 12 Championship on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in the Sports Performance Center. The women’s team placed second with the second most points in program history. 4: Freshman Axel Hubert celebrates after winning the men’s heptathlon during the second day of the Big 12 Indoor Championship in the Sports Performance Center.

Photos by Iván Santiago Bravo/The Daily Toreador