WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 2017 VOLUME 91 ■ ISSUE 88
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BASEBALL
Tech defeats UNLV, 5-2, in first game of midweek set By ARIANA HERNANDEZ
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o. 3 Texas Tech defeated the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Tuesday at home in its first game of the two-game midweek set. The Red Raiders beat the Rebels, 5-2. Prior to the contest, Tech was on a threegame winning streak after sweeping Texas in Austin in its three-game weekend set. The Red Raiders are now 18-4 overall and 10-1 at home. Tech finished the night with a total of 10 hits at 31 at-bats and five runs. “Midweeks are important,” junior shortstop Orlando Garcia said. “I learned that my freshman year. It’s a tough deal when you can’t finish out midweeks. I think if you can have a solid midweek guy like John Henry like he did today, then you’ll be all right.”
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Junior infielder Orlando Garcia throws the ball to home plate during the baseball game against the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Red Raiders defeated Las Vegas, 5-2.
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CAMPUS
CAMPUS
University to test TechAlert! system, sirens
New office brings assistance to Tech community
Te x a s Te c h w i l l t e s t i t s TechAlert! emergency systems and outdoor sirens at 10:50 a.m. today. The system is used to alert the students, faculty, staff and others within the university community of emergency situations, class cancellations and delays. “The safety of our university community is our top priority,” Ronald Phillips, university counsel and emergency management coordinator, said in a Tech news release. “We test the TechAlert! system at least twice a year if it is not otherwise activated. So, it is vital we have current phone, text message and email contacts for all faculty, staff and students, so our emergency communications system can send the latest information out as fast as possible.” In a weather emergency, an outdoor siren will be utilized, according to the release, and Tech Police Department vehicles may broadcast sirens or instructions. To u p d a t e c e l l p h o n e o r home phone information in the TechAlert! system, visit www. emergency.ttu.edu. @DailyToreador
By DAVID GAY L a Vida Editor
As a part of the Center for Campus Life, the new Office of LGBTQIA helps students, faculty and staff host programming and different advocacy events to make Texas Tech a more inclusive environment for members of the LGBTQIA community. Jody Randall, the LGBTQIA administrator in the Center for Campus Life, said over the past few years, an interest had developed among the members of the Tech community for an office like this. Different LGBTQIA-centered events occurred occasionally on the student-engagement side as well as the academic side, but no overall vision or strategy to pull those two together had been implemented. This office gives these people a resource to access if they are having trouble navigating campus as a member of the LGBTQIA community, Randall said. Through the different programming that the office is putting on, all members of the Tech community can learn different aspects about the community. Randall said because she was new to campus, one of
the first things she did as the administrator in the LGBTQIA office was reach out to people who were well acquainted with the campus. “One of the first things we did here was form an LGBTQIA advisory committee with students, faculty and staff that are LGBTQIA as well as allies,” Randall said. “So, I can bounce ideas off of them and find the pulse of what’s going on around campus.” Establishing this office also lets potential students applying to Tech know they are applying to an affirming institution for LGBTQIA students, Randall said. Tech uses the Campus Pride Index, a benchmarking tool through the Campus Pride organization, to measure where the university is in terms of inclusion of the LGBTQIA community, she said. The index ranks the university on a 100-point scale and a five-star ranking, and Tech is currently at a two-star ranking. Randall said one of her goals is to increase this ranking through the different resources available on campus, including the newly established office.
SEE LGBTQIA, PG. 5