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s it is near the birth date of Cesar E. Chavez, many communities around the country are setting up activities to honor the farm worker activist. A march in Lubbock over the weekend brought hundreds to pay tribute to the man.

The Cesar E. Chavez Commemoration Committee paid tribute to the late civil rights activist by hosting a march down University Avenue on Saturday.

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The march began at Hodges Park, located on N. University Avenue between Marshall Street and Cesar E Chavez Drive. The march took place from 1–3 p.m. and ended at Cavazos Middle School.

"We take pride in honoring this great American hero who humbly stayed committed to nonviolence and humanity," said event organizer Christy Martinez-Garcia of the Chavez Commemoration Committee. "Today's march is special because it is a re-enactment of the 250-mile march led

by Chavez in California in 1966."

Community members and student organizations from Texas Tech were present at the march. The event had an emphasis on remaining inclusive and peaceful in nature, Martinez-Garcia said.

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1. A volunteer leads the crowd in a chant during the Cesar Chavez People’s March on Saturday near the Buddy Holly Recreational Area.

2. A Lubbock community member holds a “Si; Se Puede” sign during the Cesar Chavez People’s March. Chavez popularized this Spanish phrase that roughly translates to "yes, we can." 3. Participants hold a Mexico flag during the Cesar Chavez People’s March near the Buddy Holly Recreational Area on Saturday.

"Today's event was meant to be symbolic of the struggles Cesar Chavez faced while he was fighting for the rights of the workers," Mike Roberts, a freshman journalism major from Big Spring, said.

"Even today, we still have a lot of farmers working low-wage jobs. So, it's important for our community to rally behind agricultural laborers."

Over time, wages for farm workers have increased, and the use of pesticides that are harmful to cultivators has become less common. However, despite this progress, there is still the need to continue the work that Chavez began in the early 1960s, Roberts said.

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Inaugural festival brings arts community together No. 3 Red Raiders sweep series against Wichita State Shockers

By DAVID GAY L a Vida Editor

Artists and musicians from all parts of the state descended on Lubbock for the inaugural High Plains Print+Art Festival this weekend at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts.

Bands covering a plethora of genres — ranging from hip-hop, and rhythm and blues to post-rock and punk — played for festival goers on Friday and Saturday night.

Austin James, a Lubbock resident and an attendee of the festival, said being an artist and a musician himself, he wanted to come and support a local event that combined the two things he loves most: art and music.

“This is one of the first kinds of (festivals) that has happened here.

So, I wanted to help out and be a part of it,” James said.

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Festival attendees gather at the Reagor Dykes Stage to watch bands perform in the High Plains Print + Art Festival on Friday. The two-day festival included various music performances and local art work.

The festival represents a congregation of talented artists and musicians from across Texas, James said. Festivals like the High Plains Print+Music Festival expose local communities to new art forms and music types as well as provide artists and musicians with the opportunity

to get their works seen or heard.

One of these bands, a local postrock quartet from the Lubbock area called Everything is Sad, got the chance to showcase its music during its set on Friday night.

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In the third game of the weekend series, the No. 3 Texas Tech baseball team defeated the Wichita State Shockers, 3-1, on Sunday in Wichita, Kansas. The Red Raiders went 3-0 over the weekend and swept the Shockers.

The win over Wichita State puts the Red Raiders at 22-4 overall on the season, 11-1 at home and 7-1 on the road, according to Tech Athletics. The three victories this weekend puts Tech on an eight-game winning streak.

After falling to Tech this weekend, the Shockers have a record of 11-13 overall, 9-4 at

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Sophomore pitcher John Henry Gonzalez throws a pitch during the game against UNLV on Tuesday. The Red Raiders defeated UNLV, 5-2. home and 2-9 on the road, according to Wichita State Athletics. The three straight losses delivered by the Red Raiders puts the Shockers on a five-game losing streak.

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Tech's only Medal of Honor recipient recognized

By BRANDI ADDISON Staff Writer

A little piece of Texas Tech history has found itself in Fort Worth as 2nd Lt. George O’Brien Jr., a Tech alumnus, was recognized as a Medal of Honor recipient at 10 a.m. Saturday at Veterans Park in Fort Worth.

On Saturday, the Metroplex Military Charitable Trust, Acme Brick and the Tarrant County Historical Commission dedicated an official Texas State Historical Marker to O’Brien.

Danny Koch, a founding father of Remember Our Heroes, explained the type of hero O’Brien was. In the United States Marine

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 In 1962, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in Delano, California, according to The New Yorker.

The organization, now called the United Farm Wo r k e r s , i s d e d i c a t e d to the rights of migrant workers, including the establishment of a minimum wage, insurance and collective bargaining.

Corps Reserves, O’Brien was injured during the Korean War on Oct. 27, 1952, Koch said. One year later in 1953, he was presented with the Medal of Honor from former President Dwight Eisenhower.

“He was wounded (around) four times and kept leading his men up the hill,” Koch said. “He helped bring the wounded down the hill and refused treatment until all of his men were taken care of.”

His valor in this situation is what earned him his Medal of Honor, Koch said.

“He is Texas Tech’s only Medal of Honor recipient,” Koch said. “It’s the highest award for honor and

bravery given out.”

The Medal of Honor is so prestigious that recipients never salute anyone, no matter how high up the other person’s position, but he must salute the recipient instead, he said.

O’Brien also received two Purple Hearts, Koch said. The first one was from the same day in 1952. Once he recovered from his injuries, he went back to serve and became wounded again, after which he earned his second Purple Heart.

He was buried in the Texas State Cemetery, which is the resting place for all Texas heroes and legends, Koch said.

"Agriculture is a big part of West Texas, and it's pretty crazy to think that the people cultivating cotton locally wouldn't have a minimum wage or health insurance without all the work that Cesar Chavez did," Chris Gamez, a junior kinesiology major from Lubbock, said. "I think it's important that we continue his legacy. That's what he would want."

This year marks the 18th annual Cesar Chavez People's March and Celebration, according to the

committee's Facebook page.

Saturday's event was also dedicated to local resident, community leader and civil rights activist Eric Emmerson Strong, who died on March 11 after a lengthy illness.

Chavez is also famous for popularizing the phrase "Sí, se puede," a Spanish phrase that roughly translates to "Yes, we can," according to the History Channel's website. In 2008, the slogan was adopted by former President Barack Obama's presidential campaign. "(Chavez's) fight for labor rights is one of the most significant contributions to

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Members of the Lubbock community participate in the 17th annual Cesar E. Chavez People's March and Celebration from 1–3 p.m.

Saturday near the Buddy Holly Recreational Area.

American society and Latino culture," Frank Little,

a Lubbock resident, said.

"All of the things he did to

improve the lives of migrant workers aren't things students learn in school, which is why it's important for us to keep his memory strong and his legacy alive."

In 1994, Chavez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President Bill Clinton for his contributions to the fight for worker's rights, according to www.biography.com.

"In a time when there seems to be a growing amount of hate and violence, we must take steps to assure peace," Martinez-Garcia said, "even if it begins with a march for peace." @ReeceNationsDT

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A Texas flag is draped over the historical marker dedicated to 2nd Lt. George O’Brien, a Korean War veteran and Texas Tech alumnus, before it was presented at 10 a.m. Saturday in Fort Worth.

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The Battle of the Hook was the battle George O’Brien was injured in, Mike O’Brien, George O’Brien’s son, said.

“He never thought he deserved it,” Mike O’Brien said. “All he ever thought about were the kids who didn’t make it.”

It hurt George O’Brien emotionally to know some of these men never made it out to be grandfathers, Mike O’Brien said. While his service was honorable and impactful, he said his father would never brag about it.

“He was just a really humble and great man,” Mike O’Brien said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has now laid out exactly what he wants in the "big, beautiful wall" that he's promised to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. But his effort to build a huge hurdle to those entering the U.S. illegally faces impediments of its own.

It's still not clear how Trump will pay for the wall that, as described in contracting notices, would be 30 feet (9 meters) high and easy on the eye for those looking at it from the north.

The Trump administration will also have to contend

with unfavorable geography and many legal battles.

Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his wall, a demand Mexico has repeatedly rejected. Trump's first budget proposal to Congress, a preliminary draft that was light on details, asked lawmakers for a $2.6 billion down payment for the wall.

An internal report prepared for Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly estimated that a wall along the entire border would cost about $21 billion. Congressional Republicans have estimated a more moderate

price tag of $12 billion to $15 billion. Trump himself has suggested a cost of about $12 billion.

It's unclear how much money Congress will approve. Lawmakers have been balking at his plans to sharply cut other federal spending to pay for the wall and other boosts to border security, while increasing military spending.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters this past week that the administration was still looking at how the wall would be funded, adding that it hasn't given up on Mexico

footing the bill.

Roughly half of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is in Texas and marked by the winding and twisting Rio Grande. A 1970 treaty with Mexico requires that anything built near that river not obstruct its flow.

The same treaty applies to a stretch of border in Arizona, where the Colorado River marks the international boundary.

Some fencing that is already in place along the frontier is built well off the river, in some places nearly a mile (about a kilometer) away from the border.

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Powerful winds, large hail take aim at Southern Plains TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Golf ball-sized hail and powerful winds are expected to roll through parts of the Southern Plains late Sunday, marking the latest round of turbulent weather across the Midwest and South, forecasters said.

The National Weather Service said the storms are forecast in parts of northern Texas and central Oklahoma, including the Oklahoma City

metropolitan area. Residents of western Arkansas will also be risk, but to a lesser degree.

Forecasters aren't ruling out tornadoes but expect the primary threats to be large hail and damaging wind gusts from thunderstorms in Oklahoma, said Patrick Marsh, the warning coordination meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.

But thanks to the time of year, he said, the weather system could spare the region from a devastating storm because it lacks a key ingredient: moisture.

"It'll be interesting to see how the storms interact with lesser amounts of moisture," Marsh said Sunday. "If this system would have happened in May, the tornado threat may have been higher."

The new threat comes as residents in the Deep South cleared branches and worked to restore power from weekend storms.

A tornado destroyed four mobile homes and damaged others near Cato, Arkansas, late Friday night. In northwest Louisiana, sheriff's officials said a church was destroyed by an apparent tornado, though no injuries were reported.

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LHUCA celebrates life of co-founder

By KIRBY WARNER Staff Writer

On Saturday, many gathered for the funeral and memorial service of Louise Hopkins Underwood, who died March 7.

According to an obituary published in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Underwood helped found the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, then known as the Lubbock Regional Arts Center, in 1996 with the center helping to spark the beginning of revitalizing Lubbock’s downtown area.

The funeral was at 2 p.m. at the LHUCA warehouses, with a brass band procession afterwards leading to the LHUCA facility and LHUCA plaza where the service was hosted until 5 p.m.

Charles Adams, the founder of the Charles Adams Studio Project and a member of the LHUCA board of directors, said he believed establishing LHUCA was Underwood's greatest accom-

plishment, with the organization promoting art ranging from theater and dance to music and literature.

“She was soft-spoken, incredibly kind and gracious,” Adams said. “She had a very understated wicked sense of humor, and she had an iron will.”

What Adams will miss most about Underwood, he said, is how she always kept everybody straight and on target.

Jack Henry, Underwood’s son-in-law, said he believed Underwood’s greatest accomplishment, besides establishing LHUCA, was the way she raised her children.

Underwood was honest, forward, generous and loving, Henry said, with the latter being her most important quality.

Andrea Tirey, the president of LHUCA’s board of directors and chief advancement officer for Texas Tech, said Underwood became a mentor for her when they first met.

“Whatever she thought the right road was, she never gave up,” Tirey said. “She just talked to people and made decisions that she felt were right for downtown and for the Lubbock community.”

Underwood wanted people from all backgrounds of life to be able to access the arts, Tirey said, with the First Friday Art Trail she began having 3,000 people coming to LHUCA for each occurrence.

Adams said First Friday Art Trail was a failure when it was first hosted, but through slow alterations, such as an increase in buildings and music, it has become a defining part of Lubbock’s culture.

A high standard was what Underwood would demand most from an arts project, Adams said.

“She and I both felt the same, that the academia view of the arts is one thing,” Adams said, “but we were interested in the populist view of the arts because the

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Members of a local brass band play near the entrance of the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts during Louise Hopkins Underwood's memorial service on Saturday. Underwood’s work in the Lubbock arts community helped establish LHUCA and the First Friday Art Trail. populist view can lead to the academic view.”

Underwood will continue to influence Lubbock beyond her remembrance, Adams said.

The mark she has left on people's lives will sustain her legacy in the years to come, Tirey said.

“So many people are im-

pacted by her vision,” Tirey said. “So, we will all work even harder to really carry that out now.” @KirbyWarner_DT

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Organizations host TTU Veg Week

By JOSH ENGARD Staff Writer

The Animal Rights Coalition of Texas Tech, along with Hub City Veg, will host the first ever Veg Week in West Texas this week. Daily gatherings, food tastings, guest speakers and documentary screenings are scheduled on campus.

The week of events kicked off Sunday with a vegan party food cooking class hosted at Natural Grocers on Slide Road.

“I wanted this to be a start for the future,” Faraz Harsini, a graduate student in biomedical sciences and president of Animal Rights Coalition, said. “There are a lot of vegan students who don’t have any resources or support, any place to go.

One good thing about Veg Week on campus is that we can meet each other and be more connected.”

The week’s events include cooking classes, gatherings at restaurants and community gardening.

According to the week’s Facebook event page, the organizers will be set up in the Free Speech Area of the Student Union Building throughout the week from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Will Felty, a sophomore English major from Lubbock and a guitarist for Everything is Sad, said when the band got together, the members were bonding over different bands like My Bloody Valentine. This helped them established the band’s Wall of Sound approach to playing.

Other popular post-rock bands helped develop the band’s sound even further, Felty said.

“We all bonded over other bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Mogwai, the greats,” Felty said. “I do think of post-rock as kind of a regional sound. Maybe not necessarily panhandle but Texas is where Explosions in the Sky came from and This Will Destroy You.” After joining the band, Felty said he helped establish the band’s more heavy and abrasive type sounds rather than the blissful and dream-like sound, which could be heard on Friday from the guitar looping that was played before his entrance.

Felty said he was excited to be a part of this festival because it brought members of the Lubbock arts community together.

Felty thinks this festival is something the arts community of Lubbock needed.

raise awareness.

Highlights of certain events throughout the week include free vegan hot dogs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Student Union Building and volunteering in the Haven Animal Shelter from 4–7 p.m. Wednesday, according to the page.

Harsini is also a peta2 representative for the university. With support from PETA, Harsini said he was able to re-establish the Animal Rights Coalition at Tech, which was started more than 30 years ago by Daniel Nathan.

The goal of the Animal Rights Coalition is to create an organized community of students interested in championing animal welfare and advocating ethically conscious lifestyles, Harsini said.

In addition to Veg Week, Harsini said, the Animal Rights Coalition hosts regular potlucks, service opportunities and casual dining events for the vegan community at Tech.

Assisting with the week of events is Hub City Veg, directed by Karla Vargas.

Hub City Veg is a nonprofit organization that promotes a plant-based lifestyle in the South Plains region through supportive servic“The people that put this together are all good friends of mine or people that I know well,” Felty said. “The art that we do have (in Lubbock) is centered around these people.”

James said the exposure to this type of music and art offered by this festival will make people of the Lubbock community more excited to experience local art.

“The fact that really good music is coming out of a small West Texas town, as opposed to a town like Austin or the Denton or Dallas area, kind of shows that there are people in towns like this making music,” James said.

“This (festival) will help people get more excited about a local act playing just as they would be for a touring band coming through.”

While the organizers are already making plans for what they are going to do next year, Jordann Davis, one of the organizers of the High Plains Print+Music Festival, said she was shocked by the success of this year’s festival.

“People came, people made it,” Davis said. “Volunteers, artists, musicians.

(The Charles Adams Studio Project) and LHUCA were willing to put in their time and resources. It would not have happened without much love from the community. Every person here, they are making this what it is.” @DavidGayDT

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Organizers will be set up in the Free Speech Area from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. throughout the week to raise awareness Free vegan hot dogs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Tuesday at the Student Union Building Volunteer event at the Haven Animal Shelter from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday

es, outreach and education.

Vargas said the growing number of vegans in the South Plains region inspired him to start Hub City Veg. “Realizing that not just in the college community,” Vargas said, “but in the entire Hub City area that there are so many people who thought they were the only vegan in town. People of all ages.”

H a r s i n i a n d Va r g a s said they had attended many vegan festivals across the state, which instilled a desire to bring one to West Texas, a place that had never had one until now.

Seeing as this would be new to the area, Harsini said there was a lot of potential for something like this to work out well.

With the vegan community in the area growing, Vargas said he thought now would be a good time to organize the event.

“Through the programs w e ’ v e d o n e s o f a r, i t ’s become very clear that there’s a curiosity and a need for people who feel like they have no support here,” Vargas said.

In the future, the organizers aim to continue to grow the vegan community both Tech and in the South Plains region through their respective organizations, Vargas said.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, t h e y would like to push for more vegan options at local restaurants and businesses by making them aware of the growth of the vegan consumers in the area, Vargas said.

“There’s definitely a consumer base here for those options,” Vargas s a i d . “ T h e y j u s t d o n ’t know it yet.”

For more information about TTU Veg Week and a full schedule, visit the week’s Facebook event page.

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Universities unfairly lower standards for athletes

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f you hang around football players long enough, you may get the notion they are not the brightest people around campus. Is this quantifiably true, or are they simply conditioned to act in a certain manner.

At Texas Tech, our football team boasts a mean SAT score of 901 out of 1600, according to U.S. News.

Scoring a 901 on the SAT will put you right around the 25th percentile. That is absolutely disgraceful.

This number was obtained from a 2008 study assessing the differences in SAT scores between football players and the student body for the top 25 percent of universities. The biggest finding of the study was a 220-point

Austin Martin is a graduate student studying kinesiology from Dallas.

average lower score for football players.

Now, I am no stranger to measures of central tendency; I know that a mean is merely the average.

Furthermore, there are certainly some players who are much smarter than your average student. I played college football for a year at my first institution and am proud of my SAT score.

But, why is the average SAT score football players need to be admitted to Tech so much lower than our

university’s average score?

How is Tech getting any closer to achieving its goal by admitting students who are supposedly less intelligent?

The mission of a college is to educate, pursue academic excellence and perform research. Nowhere in a school’s mission statement is a clause addressing the school’s role as an entertainment complex.

College football is big entertainment, especially in the south. In fact, it seems as though a great number of people prefer it to NFL. Many of these student athletes are not attending universities to go to school, and they know it. Ohio state quarterback Cardale Jones once famously tweeted,

“Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS.” This statement exemplifies that student athletes are not students at all. The title is a fraud.

Whenever I see something like this I just laugh.

This fraudulent system is so ingrained in our culture that we no longer question it. We simply accept it and shrug it off.

Not all examples are as alarming as this one. I am sure that there are student athletes who are proudly taking advantage of the opportunity they have been given and attending class on a regular basis.

However, if they were not able to meet the admission requirements other students are held to, they should never have been given that opportunity.

I know that sounds harsh, but their ability to run and jump high should not let them take the place of a more qualified, but slower, applicant.

Perhaps, at a massive school like Tech, the problem of an athlete taking the place of a more deserving student is not as salient, given our massive size. However, this problem is much larger than Tech. It is nationwide. It even plagues the United States’ most exclusive institutions. Schools like Harvard and Georgia Tech are not immune. According to

the 2008 study, Georgia Tech — one of our nation’s most elite schools — had a 315-point gap in average SAT scores between the football team and the student body.

My big question is: Why do the universities put up with this? Shouldn’t this be personally offensive to the school?

Money is the obvious answer. Collegiate United States has a monopoly on the amateur level of football, which is a $7.3 billion industry, according to The New York Times.

At the end of the day, schools need to make the choice between making money and integrity. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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‘BioShock Infinite’ video game review: Part 1

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remember the first time I picked up “BioShock Infinite” in 2013.

My concerns involving the world of Columbia not being as moody as Rapture quickly faded away as I was entranced with Columbia’s vibrant colors and sharp social commentary. The gameplay was fast and frantic, and its ending was mind-blowing. I’d never had a game blow my mind like “Infinite” did since the release of “Portal” in 2007.

While playing through “Infinite” once more in 2017, my views on the game have veered away from the romantic notions from my initial exposure to “Infinite” nearly four years ago.

As with my previous columns on both “BioShock” and “BioShock 2,” spoilers lie ahead for the campaign in “Infinite” and its downloadable content, “Burial At Sea.” While the “Infinite” subtitle was intended to allude to the idea of infinite universes accounting for every possibility, it came to suggest infinite plot holes and disappointments by the end of my recent play through. It’s funny; when I began my 2017 play through of the “BioShock” trilogy, I expected “Infinite” to remain my favorite “BioShock.” Instead, I’ve walked away with a newfound appreciation for the original, a disdain for the sequel and a disappointment with the third entry.

“BioShock Infinite” is a hugely ambitious game, and it shows. From its commentary on issues like race and religion to its expert use of color to enhance the narrative toying with the idea of a multiverse, “Infinite” aims to be much more than an average shooter. It aims to be intelligent, spinning a narrative that can spawn multiple interpretations and causing its players to continually think about its story long after the credits roll.

And it accomplished those goals quite handily the first

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time I played through “Infinite”.

Its shocking ending where it revealed there were infinite universes — and Rapture being just one of the many universes — for every possibility blew my mind at the time. The narrative in “Infinite” wasn’t shallow in the slightest; there were suddenly so many connections to be made. Previous events in the game’s campaign began to make sense, and parallels were drawn between Columbia and Rapture.

Even today, the greatness “Infinite” achieves at times is still highly apparent. For one, the world of Columbia is beautifully realized. Colors pop, and scenes are abundant with detail.

Each level looks like a brilliant painting. Use of bloom — where light goes past its borders to simulate a bright light — may seem a bit overused at times, but it creates a dream-like feeling throughout players’ stay in Columbia. This is appropriate, as Columbia is idealized in a lot of ways; it is a “dream city.”

Likewise, in “Burial at Sea,” Rapture is depicted at its best.

Presented in glorious high definition and on a level of detail never seen in the first two ventures into Rapture, in “Burial at Sea,” Rapture looks just as great as its cousin in the sky, Columbia. This is as Rapture was intended to be seen by players 10 years ago.

The use of color plays a very important role this time around.

Colors are chosen for a reason in “Infinite,” such as the shift from vibrant tones used in the beginning of the game to the washedout, more monotone colors in the later half. As Columbia changed from a thriving city in the sky to a war-stricken one, the world’s

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colors reflected that. Red, white and blue are used in conjunction with Columbia’s image to evoke patriotic vibes and ideas of freedom. Red, used by the Vox Populi, hints at the group’s darker intentions players see later in the game.

Entire essays could be written about the imagery in “Infinite,” but you get the idea. In short, everything has a purpose in Columbia. All the pieces work together to create the narrative.

Similarly, “Infinite” shows its understanding of great game design at times. Perhaps, the best example of this is during the beginning of the game where players encounter a carnival.

There are several games to play — such as a shooting gallery and a sort of “I spy” game with a man dressed as a devil — and all of them serve to teach the player how to play the game. The shooting gallery, for instance, teaches players how to shoot a gun. The “I spy” game teaches players to use Vigors — Columbia’s version of Plasmids from the previous games — as they use a Vigor called Bucking Bronco to lift the devil into the air. A tent in the back of the carnival houses a Voxophone recording station, which introduces players to Columbia’s version of Rapture’s audio logs.

I’ve mentioned in a previous column my hate for intrusive video game tutorials, but the carnival tutorial in “Infinite” is not intrusive in the slightest.

Its carnival games are, in fact, a little fun, and they provide players with rewards upon completion of each game. The carnival is also entirely optional. Players can simply grab the Possession Vigor at the end of the level and leave. Brilliant.

“Infinite” continues to offer examples of good game design for the most part, although its carnival tutorial is without a doubt its best example. It never quite reaches the great-

ness of the original fantastic level design in “BioShock,” but it still manages to produce some pretty memorable levels. The Hall of Heroes is my personal favorite, where players explore exhibits on the Boxer Rebellion, Wounded Knee Massacre and a memorial to Lady Comstock.

The environments here are unique to the Hall of Heroes and a light use of hub-style level design is employed to connect each exhibit together.

However, other areas can be downright frustrating to navigate. Because of more vertical level design through the use of Columbia’s Sky-Lines, figuring out where to go can be infuriating with the in-game GPS arrow becoming inconsistent as it tries to guide the player along Sky-Lines.

In particular, the Downtown Emporia level left me especially frustrated. Like the Hall of Heroes, Downtown Emporia uses hub-style level design but on a much bigger scale. The main area serving as the hub is split into several sections on two different vertical planes, all connected by Sky-Lines.

When activating the GPS arrow to show me where to go, the arrow would try to guide me along the Sky-Line, but the arrow didn’t move far enough ahead of me as I sped along the Sky-Line for me to clearly see when to jump down to ground level. This led to me zooming around the hub area like an idiot as I struggled to figure out where I was supposed to go. A quick fix would be to bring back the always-present GPS arrow seen in the previous games.

From a gameplay perspective, “Infinite” is the most polished “BioShock” by far, and its addition of the Sky-Lines is a great example of this. The big problem with the combat from the previous games was that it wasn’t sufficiently engaging, with the limited mobility and

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slow-paced nature of their firefights. Sky-Lines in “Infinite” aim to remedy this by providing a way to quickly traverse its much larger levels.

Firefights no longer consist of the tired shoot-heal-repeat mantra of the previous games, as the med-kit system from the first two games is completely removed. The weapon wheel is gone, too. Instead, players can only hold two weapons at a time, which encourages players to pick up whatever guns they come across as they run out of ammunition. All of this works together to create a more adaptive play-style.

In practice, I found that instead of adopting an adaptive play-style, I was just annoyed by the two-weapon limit and limited ammunition. I ended up resorting to melee attacks when I ran out of ammunition, so I could keep my favorite weapons and buy more ammunition at the next vendor. After all, dying didn’t mean going back in time and loading up a save file.

The enemies I had defeated remained dead when I died, meaning I could brute force my way through levels if I really wanted to.

Perhaps my unwillingness to play the way “Infinite” wanted me to is more on myself and less on the game. However, in my “BioShock 2” column I wrote “the combat in ‘BioShock 2’ is more refined this time around, but it’s still ‘BioShock’ combat at its core.”

I could take that same quote and replace “BioShock 2” with “BioShock Infinite,” and it would still hold true. “Infinite” certainly offers the best gameplay in the series, but it still pales in comparison to other shooters out there.

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By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

The No. 9 Texas Tech women’s tennis team returned to Lubbock to start its home slate with five consecutive matchups at the McLeod Tennis Center. The Lady Raiders defeated No. 15 Baylor at home, 4-2, on Sunday.

Preceding the contest at home, Tech defeated Texas in Austin, 4-2, on Friday, according to Tech Athletics. The 4-2 win over Baylor extended Tech’s win streak to nine.

The Lady Raiders are now 4-0 in Big 12 Conference play, 16-3 overall and 5-0 at home, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech coach Todd Petty said he has seen his team improve dividends and is proud of the hard work displayed on the tennis court.

“Super proud of the resiliency of the group to come back from a little bit of the deficit there,” Petty said. “Two matches in a row on the week-

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Sophomore right-handed pitcher Ryan Shetter started on the mound for Tech in the first four innings and threw a total of 74 pitches before being replaced by junior left-handed pitcher Jacob Patterson, according to Wichita State Athletics.

Patterson grabbed the win to put his record at 4-0 on the season. He pitched for two innings and threw a total of 32 pitches during his time on the mound.

Freshman right-handed pitcher Caleb Kilian closed out the game and grabbed the save after pitching two innings and not allowing a

end where we put ourselves in a hole and were able to dig ourselves out. Sarah (Dvorak) coming up and winning that first set to really only make us have to come back and win that third set was huge. Super proud of the group. It was a tough effort.”

In doubles action, Tech clinched the doubles point after two wins and a tie.

Freshman Alba Cortina-Pou and sophomore Alex Valenstein finished first on court three and defeated Lady Bear duo Angie Shakhraichuk and Jessica Hinojosa, 6-3.

On court two, sophomore Felicity Maltby and junior Gabriela Talaba defeated Baylor opponents Karina Traxler and Theresa Van Zyl. Lastly, on court one, junior Sarah Dvorak and junior Sabrina Federici tied with Baylor’s Blair Shankle and Elizabeth Profit to get the doubles point for Tech and make the score, 1-0.

In the singles portion of single hit or run, according to Wichita State Athletics.

Senior infielder/outfielder Hunter Hargrove had a strong offensive presence at the plate, registering two hits and one run at three at-bats, according to Wichita State Athletics. He leads Tech with a batting average of .343.

Another Red Raider with a good eye at the plate against the Shockers was freshman utility player John McMillon, according to Wichita State Athletics. McMillon registered two hits at four at-bats. He was also the only Red Raider to register both an RBI and a double.

In the first inning, both teams struggled offensively, and the game remained

the match, Tech went back and forth in its play. Baylor stood its ground and did not go down without a fight by defeating junior Katelyn Jackson in three sets, 6-2, 1-6 and 6-2, to tie up the score, 1-1.

Baylor took the lead after Rhiann Newborn defeated Valenstein in three sets, 6-3, 2-6 and 6-1, to make the score 2-1. However, the Lady Raiders pushed on as Dvorak swept Baylor’s Van Zyl in two sets, 6-4, 6-4, to make the score 2-2.

Tech regained the lead after Maltby defeated Profit in three sets of 3-6, 6-3 and

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Texas Tech sophomore Felicity Maltby returns the ball to Baylor during her singles match against No. 15 Baylor at the McLeod Tennis Center on Sunday. The Lady Raiders defeated the Lady Bears, 4-2, for their ninth consecutive win.

6-4 to take back the lead for the Lady Raiders, 3-2.

In the end, it came down to courts one and five to solidify the lead and defeat Baylor.

Tech clinched the win after Talaba defeated Shankle in three sets, 2-6, 6-3 and 7-5, to finalize the score and give

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Sophomore Texas Tech pitcher Davis Martin pitches against UTSA on March 10 at Dan Law Field. The Red Raiders won, 7-6.

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Defense outlasts offense in spring scrimmage

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech defense won the first game of the spring football series, defeating the offense, 50-36, on Saturday at Grande Communications Stadium in Midland.

Tickets for the spring game in Frisco on Saturday are currently sold out, but fans can watch the game on Fox

Sports Southwest Plus and FOX Sports GO, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The defense started the game by forcing four threeand-out series against the offense, according to the release. Junior defensive backs Jah’Shawn Johnson and Octavious Morgan and sophomore defensive back Douglas Coleman III each led the defense with six tackles.

Senior defensive back D.J. Polite-Bray and sophomore linebacker Brayden Stringer each had five takedowns.

“I was pleased,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said in the release. “We receive tremendous support each year in Midland, and this is always a fun event. I liked what we saw on both sides of the ball, and we’ll look to continue to improve the rest of spring.”

Overall, the defense had four sacks with two coming from redshirt freshman defensive lineman Noah Jones. This resulted in the defense earning 12 points from the scoring system, according to the release.

On the offensive side of the ball, senior quarterback Nic Shimonek threw for 2028 completions, 196 passing yards and one touchdown, according to the release.

The touchdown came off a 24-yard throw to senior

wide receiver Zach Austin.

After missing last season, Austin finished the scrimmage with six receptions for 68 receiving yards.

Senior wide receiver Dylan Cantrell had five receptions for 47 receiving yards, which included a touchdown from junior quarterback Payne Sullins, according to the release. Sullins finished the scrimmage throwing 10-13 completions and 115 passing yards. Sophomore quar-

terback McLane Carter took the field for the Red Raiders for the first time, throwing for 7-13 completions and 70 passing yards.

Freshman quarterback Xavier Martin also saw some action on the field and threw 4-7 completions for 48 passing yards, according to the release.

Next weekend, Tech will go back on the road and travel to The Star in Frisco for the first spring game. @JackDensmore_DT

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The Texas Tech defensive line readies for the snap in the game against the Texas Longhorns on Nov. 5. The Red Raiders fell to the Longhorns, 45-37, at Jones AT&T Stadium. The 2017 football squad competed in its first spring scrimmage, and the Tech defense defeated the offense, 50-36.

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The Texas Tech softball team swept the Iowa State Cyclones in its Big 12 Conference opening series in Ames, Iowa, this weekend.

After defeating the Cyclones, 18-4, in five innings on Friday, Tech defeated Iowa State, 6-2, in the first game of the doubleheader on Sunday and then, 4-2, in the second game.

The Red Raiders now hold a perfect conference record of 3-0, according to Tech Athletics. They have an overall record of 16-14 on the season and are 4-4 while playing on the road.

The first game on Sunday was originally set to be played on Saturday. However, weather conditions caused the game to be played at 10 a.m. Sunday morning.

In Sunday’s first game, Tech scored six runs on three hits and had three RBIs, according to Iowa State Athletics. Senior infielder/outfielder Devon Thomey had 14 putouts in the game and was also the only one to score two runs

in the first game.

The second game featured the Red Raiders’ getting four runs on six hits, with two home runs registered by freshman outfielder Raina O’Neal, according to Iowa State Athletics.

O’Neal also collected four RBIs in the game.

After a scoreless first inning in the first game, Tech was able to score a run when sophomore midfielder/infielder Kenzie Davis was hit by a pitch with bases loaded. Thomey scored the first run of the game with the walk, putting Tech up, 1-0, in the second inning.

Three innings followed, and then, Tech scored five runs in the top of the sixth to bring up its lead, 6-0.

The first run of the inning came off a single from senior infielder Brittany Warnecke, which allowed Thomey to score her second run of the day, according to Iowa State Athletics.

Then, senior outfielder Kierra Miles reached on an error and advanced to second, which allowed Warnecke, senior catcher/infielder Susan Welborn and O’Neal to score runs and extended Tech’s lead to 5-0.

The final run of the inning came from Miles after sophomore outfielder Kiani Ramsey hit a single up the middle to make the score 6-0, according to Iowa State Athletics. In the bottom of the seventh, Iowa State scored two runs to close in on Tech, 6-2, but a groundout ended the Cyclones’ run with Tech earning its

second win of the series against Iowa State.

The second game featured the Red Raiders’ getting four runs in six hits, with two home runs registered by freshman outfielder O’Neal, according to Iowa State Athletics.

O’Neal also collected four RBIs in the game.

In the second game of the doubleheader, Iowa State took the lead first in the bottom of the first inning, according to Iowa State Athletics. The Cyclones scored their first run when freshman infielder Sami Williams hit a home run to give Iowa State the early lead, 1-0.

Tech answered back in the top of the fifth inning when O’Neal hit a home run of her own to tie the game, 1-1. Then, Iowa State pulled ahead in the bottom of the fifth with another run to make the score 2-1.

Tech came back in the top of the seventh, scoring three runs to get the win over the Cyclones, 4-2.

O’Neal’s three-run home run was the nail in the coffin for the Cyclones as they did not score any runs in the bottom of the seventh.

Sophomore infielder Jessica Hartwell and Thomey each collected runs on the final home run.

Tech continues its Big 12 road slate against No. 14 Baylor at 6:30 p.m. Friday in Waco. Game two of the series will be played at 1:05 p.m. Saturday and game three will be played at 1 p.m. Sunday. @JackDensmore_DT

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Maye hits late jumper to lift UNC to Final Four MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The North Carolina Tar Heels now are a win away from getting back to a national championship game they narrowly lost a year ago.

And this time, they made the last shot.

Luke Maye hit a jumper with 0.3 seconds left and top-seeded North Carolina held off Kentucky 75-73 to earn the Tar Heels’ second straight trip to the Final Four and 20th all-time in Sunday’s showdown of college basketball’s elite in the South Regional.

The Tar Heels (31-7) will play Midwest champ Oregon on Saturday in Glendale, Arizona, in the national semifinal.

“We get to keep playing,” North Carolina coach Roy Williams said.

North Carolina took control with 12 straight points over the final 5 minutes, a run similar to what it used a week ago to beat Arkansas.

The Tar Heels finished this game with a 16-9 run.

Kentucky’s freshmen De’Aaron Fox and Malik Monk hit three quick 3s, the last two by Monk. Monk’s second shot with 7.2 seconds left and defenders in his face tied it up at 73.

Theo Pinson brought the ball down and passed back to Maye. The sophomore from Huntersville, North Carolina, knocked it down for the win with his feet on the 3-point line.

“I’m the guy that wanted him to come as a walk-on, so how dumb am I?” Williams said. “He (made) some bigtime plays today, big-time plays two days ago.”