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Increased awareness encouraged for suicide among college students

By MICHAEL A. CANTU News Editor

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n August 2017, Alec Korol and his mother Marla Korol were attending the transfer orientation before the fall semester started at Texas Tech.

It was inside the Allen Theatre they were both watching a video with the other families over the subject of suicide. The thesis of the video was a piece on awareness and to send the message that those who worry about themselves or others contemplating suicide should tell someone.

To many, it may have seemed a bit insightful in giving some tips of warning signs. But for the Korols, it was reliving an experience.

It was only a few years earlier that Alec Korol attempted suicide, but survived.

“I don’t know what he did (during the video) but the lights were out and I was bawling because it was so real to me that that could be a possibility,” Marla Korol said. “And obviously once your child does that — that one-time attempt — that is constantly a worry.”

A report from the American Association of Suicidology found that about 9 percent of college students in the United States have made

a suicide attempt. Those numbers also place suicide as the second leading cause of death for undergraduates who are between the ages of 18-to-24 years-old.

Alec Korol was part of that nine percent after having completed suicide this past January.

It was his struggle with depression that led to his family’s worry, Marla Korol said. He was one of two children, a sister to Aubrey Esparza and son to Rob and Marla Korol. He was born in Fort Worth in 1994 and grew up around Arlington.

His family noticed throughout his middle and high school years he was withdrawn and kept himself isolated, but at the time it seemed like nothing more than usual teenage boy behavior. So, when he went off to college at Texas A&M, there was hardly any worry from his parents regarding self-harm.

They did know he suffered from clinical depression at the time, but realized that his independence was important to him, especially as he was trying to cope with the diagnosis. But after his initial suicide attempt in 2014, Alec Korol and the family began to take things a bit more serious.

“He’s never been very open with his emotions and that didn’t really improve after his attempt, I don’t believe,” Esparza said. “He was

just always very withdrawn but there were occasions during his therapy session that I know that he opened up.”

Within the last couple months prior to his death he did begin to open up to his father, she said, and things began to look up. After coming to Tech, he began to date a young woman and to make friends with some people around him. It seemed as if things in his life were improving.

He even began to open up a bit more and tell the family some of his feelings regarding his depression.

Two years ago, on his 21st birthday, he opened up to his father, describing what the world looked like through his lens. He did not go out on his birthday — with 21 a seemingly large milestone — and said there were not any friends who would go out with him, Rob Korol said.

Crying in front of his father, which was out of the realm of his usual emotional catalog, he told him there was no one he could go out with. Even though his birthday did fall on a Wednesday, Rob Korol said he did have plenty of options and people to celebrate the day with, but Alec Korol could not see that.

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Zhaire Smith hires agent, forgoes return to Tech

Horror films draw large audiences

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Just two weeks after declaring he will be entering the NBA Draft, freshman breakout star Zhaire Smith announced he will be hiring an agent to help him with the draft process, foregoing his college eligibility, which rules out a return to Texas Tech for next season.

“I know we are all happy for Zhaire, we are all supporting him, whenever he makes his decision we are going to support him, whatever he does,” fellow freshman guard Jarrett Culver said. “To be where he is at, it’s a blessing for him, and we all support him.”

The move comes as a shock to many, as Smith was not even on the NBA Draft radar until late February. Once the league and its media picked up on Smith however, he

quickly became an overnight sensation, appearing as a lottery pick on several mock drafts, which would easily make him the second highest drafted player in Tech history if he does go that high.

Smith furthered his case for being a NBA Lottery Pick with one of the better outings for a freshman in this year’s NCAA Tournament.

While Tech was making its first Elite Eight appearance in program history, Smith was putting on a show, scoring 48 points in four games, while grabbing 29 rebounds and picking up 10 assists, four steals and four blocks.

Smith did exactly what he did during the regular season, but this time he did it on college basketball’s biggest stage, and the NBA noticed.

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Freshman guard Zhaire Smith throws up a shot against Oklahoma on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Smith has declared for the NBA Draft and hired an agent, ending his Texas tech career.

From Alfred Hitchcock to John Krasinski, horror films have captivated audiences over the course of film’s history.

Whether to chase a thrill or go because a friend demands company, people continue to flock to the theaters to enter a world of horror.

In 2017, films like “It,” “Get Out” and “Split” made millions of dollars at the box office, and “A Quiet Place” grossed $50,000,000 its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo’s website. The success of these four films indicates a growth or rise in popularity of horror films.

To be sure, though, horror films have made millions in the past.

“The idea that horror films are more popular now isn’t really true,” Allison Whitney, an associate professor of film and media studies, said. “There’s

always been a place for that in the film industry and certainly in terms audience’s interests in horror movies.”

The intrigue of fear and a thrill has drawn audiences to the theater for years, which is why horror films have a place in cinema.

“People (have) always wanted to see horrific films, from the beginnings of cinema,” Robert G. Weiner, a popular-culture librarian, said.

“There’s just something about getting a chill down your spine.”

Horror can be defined as a type of movie that manipulates the viewer’s feelings, especially that of fear.

“The thing about horror, as a genre, is it’s organized around an emotional state,” Whitney said.

A subgenre of horror/thriller describes movies such as “Get Out” and “A Quiet Place.”

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “It’s like, ‘you do have friends, I know you have friends,’” Rob Korol said. “But he would internalize stuff and he was seeing things in a different light. ‘Because no one wants to go out on a Wednesday night, I don’t have friends,’ and he absolutely did.”

The Cycle Prior to completing suicide, most people have a psychiatric diagnosis — something that is identified within a person. One of the most common diagnosis is depression, Dr. Sarah Wakefield, director of child and adolescent psychiatry services at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, said.

It has also been reported there is a smaller number of people who suffer from bipolar disorder who complete suicide as well, but the statistics show it is mainly people with severe depression. Anxiety also tends to be a driver towards suicide because if that is part of one’s depression or bipolarism then it intensifies the risk factor.

That is the struggle with psychiatrists and psychologists alike, as it is part of their jobs to identify that problem and help in preventing any type of self-harm.

“We have more questions about (mental health) than we have answers. But there are some things that tend to show up repeated-

ly,” Wakefield said. “Most of our literature comes from post-mortem autopsies done on people who have been known to commit suicide and comparing those brains to people who are known not to have committed suicide.”

The longest accepted explanation has been that people may suffer from low serotonin in the central nervous systems in both the cerebral spinal fluids and in the brain, she said. New research also indicates that damaged neurons may play a factor in people’s mental health.

The Canadian Centre for Addiction and Mental Health found low-functioning brain derived neurotrophic factor as a possible explanation, she said.

“That tends to be the supportive chemical that helps neurons develop and function well and function effectively,” Wakefield said. “And it tends, at least this study said, ‘We are seeing consistently in these post-mortem brains they have lower BDNF’ in the people who have committed suicide.”

But in identifying severe depression and the potential for suicide, there is hardly any use in waiting until one is dead to perform an autopsy and get confirmation. That is why psychiatrist and psychologist have to learn patient’s histories and relationships, she said.

“We both listen to the history that patient is giving us

and think about that patient in the context of their system in which they live and exist,” Wakefield said.

The responsibility does not solely lie in mental health professionals, though. Concerned friends and family members are more often the people who would be the first to benefit from warning signs when it comes to the potential for self-harm.

The act of asking someone about their own suicidal ideations is one of the first steps in expressing concern, Kelly Cukrowicz, professor of psychology, said.

“That doesn’t put those thoughts there, it doesn’t increase their risk,” Cukrowicz said. “If you ask somebody about suicide they’ve probably already been thinking about it. And so, one of the things that I always tell my students and other people is it’s a myth to think asking about it might make somebody suicidal — it’s not going to.”

If someone asks another person about suicide that increases the ability to help connect that person with counseling or other resources which would be able to help them. But it is important to mention lots of people have thoughts of suicide, she said.

However, Cukrowicz also noted that most cases of depression stem from people who are older and, relative to the general population, the number of college students completing suicide is somewhat low, she said.

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Depression is not always the cause of one’s completing suicide, either. Many time it is situational issues like loss of a job or severe, negative life events.

The AAS estimates that in college-aged students, about 31 percent have serious thoughts of suicide. Severity comes in different forms, but it is commonly those who have attempted suicide in the past or are making plans to complete it who are the ones who need reaching out to, she said.

“When someone tells me that I’m very concerned about them or I’m starting to (become concerned), at that point I want to be sure

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that if they need any kind of emergency intervention we can make sure to take care of that,” Cukrowicz said.

There should also be concern when one notices someone stock-piling pills or purchasing weapons with intent for self-harm, Amanda Wheeler, assistant director and psychologist of the Student Counseling Center, said.

Sometimes the best practice is hearing that person out and listening to what their problem is.

“And if it becomes serious and they start talking about that they’ve actually thought about killing themselves, versus ‘I just want to die’ that ‘I want to kill myself,’ that’s

a huge distinction,” Wheeler said. “When it gets to that distinction it’s a good time to call mental health resources.”

The Stigma When it comes to suicidal thoughts and tendencies, seriousness is always a m a i n f a c t o r, W h e e l e r said. It is better to take all instances seriously rather than to risk downplaying peoples’ problems.

That lack of seriousness can be mended by just talking about mental health in general. For some people, it may be that families or various cultures just do not put a lot of emphasis on the topic.

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Law professor appointed to Texas Campus entities to host recycling mental health judicial commission event beginning next week Brian Shannon, a Paul Whitfield Horn professor at Texas Tech’s School of Law, has been appointed to the Judicial Commission on Mental Health and will serve a two-year term.

The Commission on Mental Health was created to help the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals to serve people

who are struggling with mental illness, according to a Tech news release.

Shannon has expertise in the field of criminal procedure when the person in question suffers with mental illness. He also wrote “Texas Criminal Procedure and the Offender with Mental Illness,” and co-authored four

previous books, as well as award-winning law reviews.

Shannon has been recognized for a number of honors in his years as being a law professor.

“I am very honored to have been selected to the Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to serve on this important new Judicial Commission on Mental Health,” Shannon said in the release @GraceStarkDT

In order to increase awareness of campus recycling, Hospitality Services, University Student Housing and the Office of Sustainability have partnered up for the Red Raiders Recycle Event at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 25, at the Student Union

Building West Plaza.

Students are encouraged to bring two or more empty plastic water bottles to the event and will receive a free t-shirt while supplies last. There will only be one free t-shirt per person.

This event is a part of a

large effort from the university to make the school more sustainable. To find out more information, follow Hospitality Services on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @EatAtTexasTech. @mattsetzekornDT

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Brown agress on guard deployment SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov.

Jerry Brown said Wednesday that he would join President Donald Trump’s border mission by contributing up to 400 National Guard troops, announcing a deal after a week of uncertainty about how to accomplish a deployment that focuses largely on illegal immigration and honor the governor’s insistence that troops avoid immigrationrelated work.

Brown said the Guard’s duties include fighting transnational criminal gangs and drug and gun smugglers in an order that reiterates his initial positions that the Guard

cannot handle custody duties for anyone accused of immigration violations, build border barriers or have anything to do with immigration enforcement.

The terms are similar to those outlined in a contract Brown proposed last week, which the Trump administration decided not to sign because it was not usual protocol. Brown’s office said the signatures were unnecessary after he secured federal funding for his goals.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 2 That can contribute to the negative stigma that surrounds a lot of people who live with depression, she said.

“The more and more we talk about these feelings and these thoughts, on the whole spectrum — the more what we would consider normal or happy thoughts, happy, sad, mad, things like that,” Wheeler said. “And then as they progress we need to be talking about what our thoughts are, we need to be talking about how we’re feeling with each other.”

Through research, Cukrowicz has found that when people begin to think about suicide, it’s often because they feel disconnected from other people. This is part of a theory called the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide.

This disconnect people feel causes them to also feel as though they are a burden on those who surround them — mainly friends and family.

“Those two ideas are called ‘thwarted belongingness’ and ‘perceived burdensomeness,’” Cukrowicz said. “And it’s critical to note that with the burdensomeness idea, it’s the perception, it’s not the reality, it’s the perception.”

Those feeling suicidal usually feel as though they are not contributing or doing things in ways that make things better for others, she said. It is when one is feeling like that when it’s hard for them to change their ways of thinking. Then when other people attempt to reassure them that things are different, they shrug it off and think it is inaccurate.

It is at that point when people should work with professionals in examining reasons on why that may not

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“But it isn’t usually the case where someone can just say, ‘No, I don’t think that you’re a burden on me,’ and that they’ll automatically feel better,” Cukrowicz said.

“Which is too bad because that would be an easy solution.”

At Tech, the Student Counseling Center offers classes on what they call the QPR program — QPR being short for question, prefer and refer, Wheeler said. That opens up the option of having an informal conversation about suicide and suicidal thoughts.

The QPR program teaches skills for engagement and helps people addressing issues with people who are thinking

about suicide, she said.

“It teaches you the signs and warning signs to look for in people and to realize asking people, ‘Hey, are you thinking about killing yourself,’ is really not that difficult. It shouldn’t be that scary,” Wheeler said.

Though that task is rather daunting, the worry needs to be for the person one is concerned for, rather than one’s self.

At the Risk Intervention & Safety Education office at Tech, 20 percent of resources go toward crisis management support, Elena Sanchez-Freeman, safety and wellness specialist for RISE, said. This is important for students who do not know what to do or where to go for resources.

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Many times, the staffers with the RISE office will give presentations on and off campus speaking about safety and wellness.

“Whenever I do a mental health presentation, I always stay afterwards,” SanchezFreeman said. “That’s how I’ve had a lot of students come in for one-on-ones and actually talk about that.”

Though the RISE Office is not a place that offers licensed counseling, it does provide resources for students the best it can. That means taking them to the Student Counseling Center or referring them to the Dean of Students Office.

But in relaying the message of resources there are still problems in getting that information out to everyone, she said. Which ultimately may be an impossible task in itself.

Anyone can get resource information if that person attends a presentation or visits the RISE Office while they are tabling at various events.

However, those can be easily missed, which means some students are not getting the education they deserve.

But ultimately, the challenge comes in addressing the problem. Especially when it comes to suicide, it boils down to going straight forward and asking about peoples’ problems directly.

“I would rather people ask and then hear the real answer than not ask and regret not asking,” Wheeler said. “So, it really is learning how to ask a question and knowing the resources available on campus.”

The Recovery However, sometimes those resources are not enough and those contemplating suicide go through with it. What is left behind are friends and family who have to cope with

the loss of a loved one in extraordinary circumstances.

With that may also come feelings of guilt or feelings that one did not do enough to help another, Marla Korol said.

“We’re trying to work through this and some people say, ‘There’s nothing you could’ve done, it’s a terminal illness, don’t beat yourself up,’” Rob Korol said. “But at the same time, that’s a hard approach, because it’s like — and I told (Alec) this — ‘You may feel like giving up some days but I, your mother, your sister and all your friends, we will never give up on you.”

It is hard for parents, mainly because their first instinct is to help their children. But as they move on to adulthood, it becomes more difficult to protect them and, in this case, difficult to protect them from themselves, Marla Korol said.

Sometimes people feel as though they could be partly responsible for one’s death after someone completes suicide, Cukrowicz said. Those feelings of grief are unique, though, and have to addressed in unique ways. “(We have to) recognize there’s just differences when somebody dies by suicide,” Cukrowicz said. “Because, family members tend to look back and try to figure out, ‘How could I have predicted my loved one was going to be the person who died by suicide.’”

Though the Korols are a separated couple, coping with Alex Korol’s death has brought them together in a sense.

In Arlington, the group Survivors of Suicide has helped the family quite a bit, Marla Korol said. During those meetings, the group provides resources like books and other literature to help coping families and they provide an avenue for conver-

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sation on the subject of other family member’s suicides.

“There was one guy that had been coming for two years and he said, ‘The sad thing is, every time I come there’s new faces,’” Marla Korol said.

There are also various friends who offer small tokens of hope in their everyday interactions, she said. Many of her friends verbally express their concerns for the family and tell her they are praying for them or are keeping the family in their thoughts.

For Esparza, her brother’s death gives her a bit more incentive in helping other people face the issue of suicide, she said. As a nurse on an in-patient neuroscience unit at an area hospital in Arlington, Esparza has identified professor who is researching neuropsychology.

Her hope is to study how that relates to depression.

“Just doing something to help prevent this for other people, I think is something that is healing for me,” Esparza said.

Help has also came in the form of conversation, Rob Korol said. Taking the time to speak about his son with The Daily Toreador helped him in his grieving process.

But sometimes with a chuckle the family recounts their interactions with Alec Korol and hope there can be some way to help others suffer from problems like his. It was even after his death there was solace from places they would have never expected.

“My ex, myself and my daughter are all Aggies, we went to A&M,” Marla Korol said. “And I was determined not to like Texas Tech, but the people there have been absolutely incredible in a really horrible situation.” @MichaeCantuDT

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City dog park to open at Mackenzie Park Lubbock’s first dog park will be officially open to the public after a ribbon cutting ceremony that will take place at 10 a.m. Friday, April 20.

The Canyon Run Dog Park in Mackenzie Park is an almost four-acre park that is split up into two sections, one for large

dogs over 30 pounds and another for small dogs less than 30 pounds. This park is located on Cesar E. Chavez Drive west of Joyland Amusement Park, according to a City of Lubbock news release.

The new park includes double gates, sidewalks,

benches, shade trees, a restroom and dog-friendly water fountains. Beginning Saturday, April 21, the park will be open daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The city has also compiled a list of things that are not allowed, such as human and dog food treats, glass contain-

ers, dogs in heat, sick dogs, aggressive dogs and puppies under four months.

The other dog park, Hub City Unleashed, will be located inside Clapp Park off of University Avenue.

That will open within the coming weeks. @MichaelCantuDT

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Regulators to require inspections after jet engine explosion PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. airline regulators said Wednesday they will order inspections on engine fan blades like the one that snapped off and triggered a fatal accident on a Southwest Airlines jet.

The move by the Federal Aviation Administration comes nearly a year after the engine manufacturer recommended the additional inspections, and a month after European regulators ordered their airlines to do the work.

Pressure for the FAA to act grew after an engine on

a Southwest jet blew apart Tuesday, showering the plane with debris and shattering a window. A woman sitting next to the window died of her injuries. The plane made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

Federal investigators said a blade that broke off in midflight was showing signs of metal fatigue — microscopic cracks that can splinter open under the kind of stress placed on jetliners and their engines.

The National Transportation Safety Board also blamed metal fatigue in preliminary findings

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after an engine broke apart on another Southwest Boeing 737 over Florida in 2016.

That led engine manufacturer CFM International, a joint venture of General Electric Co. and France's Safran SA, to recommend last June that airlines conduct the inspections of fan blades on many Boeing 737s.

The FAA proposed making the recommendation mandatory in August but never issued a final decision.

In a brief statement late Wednesday, an FAA official said the agency will issue an

order in the next two weeks to require ultrasonic inspection of fan blades on some CFM56-7B engines after they reach a certain number of takeoffs and landings.

Blades that fail will have to be replaced, the agency said.

It is not clear how many planes will be affected. Last year, the FAA estimated that an order would cover 220 engines on U.S. airlines. That number could be higher now because more engines have hit the number of flights triggering an inspection.

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Mueller repeating errors of past with Daniels scandal

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n May 2017, Robert Mueller was appointed to lead an investigation into the allegations that President Donald Trump’s campaign had colluded with the Russian Government to sway the 2016 Presidential election.

This came after the firing of then FBI director James Comey, who undoubtedly held a strong bias to the president.

The disputes between James Comey and President Trump go back to the investigation into former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, which is a whole different story. However, as we near a year into Mueller’s investigation we have yet to see President Trump brought up on charges.

This past Monday, Mueller and his team ordered the personal office and home of Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen to be raided. Mueller was hoping to find evidence to support the claim of the attempted cover up of an affair between Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels prior to his presidency.

First, Stormy Daniels has absolutely nothing to do with the original task that Mueller was assigned to do.

This alone goes to show the true grasps Mueller is making in order to keep his investigation alive, which is arguably to harm public opinion of the President.

Trump still denies this affair with Daniels, but even if these allegations were true, Trump would not be the first politician or President to be exposed for an affair. Trump’s affair with Daniels would be one in a long

Jason Jones is junior political science major from Alvin.

line of politicians including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, John Edwards and, the most notorious of them all, Bill Clinton.

When everything came to light with Clinton, he ended up getting articles of impeachment filed against him, not due to the affair, but due to the cover up. And even then, he was acquitted by the Senate. Ken Star’s investigation went on for more than four years, cost an estimated $80 million and, while Clinton was guilty as sin, the investigation accomplished nothing.

Congress and the American people made it very clear they don’t care about the sex life of a politician. If they did, they would not continue to re-elect them, Mueller’s investigation into Stormy Daniels appears to be a desperate grasp to unseat someone he doesn’t like.

If Trump is guilty of colluding with the Russian government in any form or fashion he should pay the consequences for it, but I’m of the opinion that I do not care or even want to know what an elected official does in his personal time or who they sleep with. @DailyToreador

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uring my college career, a professor of mine told me how, in her life, she has been sexually harassed the most by her students. I haven’t quite been able to forget about that… How am I supposed

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to forget the fact that some punks in their 20s decided they could, without deterring repercussions, harass a grown woman who has significant authority over them.

I furrowed my eyebrows with frustration as she carefully told us about two different instances in which male students made comments about her appearance or insinuated that they had romantic thoughts about her.

Let me back up, though.

The reason she told us this was because we were discussing Cheris Kramarae’s Muted Group theory.

(I know, here I go talking about theories again…

Bear with me.)

This theory suggests that certain groups have a diminished ability to speak and be heard. The group this theory focuses on is — as you may have guessed — women.

Now, of course, the extent to which women are heard varies from country to country, from culture to culture. There is no universal standard and there is no way to collectively change the way women’s thoughts and words are valued.

However, we can focus in on our fruit cake of a country and try (or pretend) that all women in the United States can be lifted out of our muted

Avery Aiken is a senior communication studies major from The Woodlands.

existence. While there is absolutely a difference in how an African American woman’s words are received verses a blue-eyed, blonde-haired woman’s words, let’s just hypothetically average it — just for about 500 more words.

Okay, now that we’ve done that, let’s address this averaged reality for women in the U.S. For the most part, women are not considered the breadwinner in their household. Women are expected to change their last name when they get married. Women are asked if they will return to work after having a baby, often because companies assume they will stay home to raise their child. Women are labeled as someone searching for an MRS degree if they verbalize their hope to find a spouse in college.

All of this assumed, it seems rather evident that women have certain stereotypes which keep us contained within the domestic realm. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing bad about a woman who can make a

can reminisce on the idea of women — who served as secretaries or positions of the like — were intentionally kept out of certain clubs and meeting so that the men could “talk business.”

Pardon me for using such an anecdotal example, but we do see this modeled in shows like Mad Men, Downton Abbey and even Parks and Rec which mockingly includes examples of this phenomenon. Women were actively kept from conversations of significance because we— oh, wait. There actually weren’t any real reasons.

Perhaps there were arguments as to why women were not included, but if I had more page space, I’d poke holes in the validity of those supposed reasons a hundred different ways.

Ultimately, my point is this: We are still living in a world where women are being silenced, systematically.

I am able to speak loudly and clearly through this column within the pages of this newspaper, but shouldn’t we be pushing for more than this?

Shouldn’t we be asking women what they plan on doing with their degree, not who they’re dating or how many kids they want to have?

I think so.

Regardless, let me give even one more example.

The Time’s Up movement that tore through our nation’s entertainment industry was catalyzed by a letter written by 700,000 female farm workers.

These women decided to write this letter of solidarity because of their own experiences as women trying to hold their own in a male-dominated industry.

The catastrophe we saw bold women shine a light on last autumn was the result of a culture which tells us women shouldn’t speak up else there will be significant consequences.

The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements exposed just how significantly silenced women are, especially when it comes to issues of sexual assault.

So, I encourage each of us to perhaps read up on the Muted Group theory and then take a critical look at the way nearly half of our population seems to have a gag tied around our heads, keeping us quiet out of fear or unheard through isolation.

This, of course, isn’t always the case, but it Is the case far too often. @AveryAikenDT

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mean chocolate chip cookie before picking her children up from elementary school.

However, there is a problem with the fact that this expected domesticity leads to a societal dynamic which places men in positions of social authority and women in positions of limited influence.

While women who choose to stay home with their children have the honor of raising up the next generation of humans, there is a serious deficit of women in positions of powerful social influence.

For example, women’s decisions are being voted on by a majority male Congress (right now, only about 20% of Congress is female).

Another example is the fact that, as of 2017, only 6.4% of Fortune 500’s CEO roles were held by women.

Take that number in for a minute.

These statistics might be representative of greater gender issues in the U.S., but right now, I am focusing on the fact that these statistics show how some of our nation’s most influential positions are filled with men. That’s a big deal.

Throwing back to the idea of a work environment being exclusively viewed as a sort of “boys club,” we

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A second bang followed, said Marty Martinez, a 29-year-old digital marketing specialist heading home to Dallas. That was when he saw a window blown out about two rows ahead of him on the other side of the plane.

Air rushed through the rapidly depressurized cabin, and “all this debris is flying in your face, down to the aisle of the plane, into the back of the plane,” Tumlinson said.

As those aboard frantically started putting their masks on and helping others with theirs, passengers and crew members rushed to reach a woman in the 14th

row who was being blown out head-first through the opening, even though she was wearing a seatbelt, according to investigators.

By at least one passenger’s account, half her body was outside the plane.

A man in a cowboy hat, rancher Tim McGinty of Hillsboro, Texas, tore his mask off and struggled to pull the woman in.

Andrew Needum, a firefighter from Celina, Texas, came to help, and the two of them managed to drag her back inside.

“It seemed like two minutes and it seemed like two hours,” McGinty told reporters, a bandage on an arm he scraped while

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When a flight attendant asked if anyone knew CPR, retired school nurse Peggy Phillips got out of her seatbelt, and she and the firefighter laid the grievously injured woman down. The two of them began administering CPR for about 20 minutes, until the plane landed.

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Ph. D. student takes trivia passion to next level

By CARLOS MCDONALD Staff Writer

Monikka Mann is an online student with Texas Tech pursuing her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering. She resides in Houston with her husband Donald Prier and their children. Mann will be competing on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” starting on April 18, 2018.

Mann is a long-time trivia buff; she has previously competed on “Jeopardy” as well as twice on “The Weakest Link.” Her love for all things trivia stems from her childhood where she was an avid “Jeopardy” watcher and played every trivia game she could get her hands on, she said.

“I’ve kind of been a nerd for my whole life,” Mann said, “I’ve been doing trivia and quiz bowl and all these different things since I was in middle school, and that’s what drove my passion for engineering, that thirst for knowledge.”

Mann’s husband, Prier, is also a Red Raider. He is pursuing a Ph.D. online in Curriculum and Instruction. Prier said his wife’s love for trivia has been something she has made evident since the day they met.

“Probably within the first

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“I think that the designation ‘thriller’ is currently used strategically to differentiate from horror as a way of kind of giving certain audiences permission to take it seriously,” Whitney said.

“Thriller is often used as a way of saying, if you don’t like horror movies, you’ll like this.”

One element of a horror film’s impact on the viewer’s experience is the audience. Watching a horror movie in a theater full of people who will scream together is vastly different from watching it alone in the dark.

“There’s just a group of bodies that are almost being controlled for a whole hour and a half or being captivated by the writers and the actors. We’re all stepping into a reality,” Sarah Tobin, a junior nursing student from Georgetown, said. “I’m always excited when I walk in and I’m always ecstatic when I walk out, if it’s good.”

That experience allows the audience to explore fears without exposure to real danger, Whitney said. While watching “A Quiet Place,” the silence was punctuated by the silence in the theater full of people.

She said she noticed the varying degrees of quietness used throughout the film, as well as enjoying the reactions of the viewers around her.

“We want to sit back and be able to still experience that adrenaline when we’re not in it,” Tobin said. “That’s where the

two hours of getting to know her I asked her, ‘if there was anything you could do what would it be?’” Prier said. “And she answered, ‘to go on jeopardy.’”

Mann’s experience on game shows is just the tip of the iceberg; trivia has immensely influenced her life as well as her family’s. Groups like “Women of Jeopardy,” a Facebook group of women who have competed on the show “Jeopardy,” have been networks of support for Mann and her family.

“I would say that being in this sort of like dysfunctional trivia family with folks all over the place, I’ve made some wonderful friends,” Mann said.

“Trivia has brought me together with a lot of really amazing people, and that’s the one thing I think has been the one blessing out of all this. Not so much the money you win, or your fifteen minutes of fame but it’s just this community of kind, wonderful and amazing people that you have to rely on.”

One Christmas season, Prier said, his wife was laid off from her job and they were worried about affording holiday presents for their children. Once the “Women of Jeopardy” caught word that the family needed help, they jumped into action.

“All these women got together, and they know our children liked to read,” Prier said. “And then they sent our kids almost two hundred and fifty books.”

Their trivia family has been a consistent source of support for them in times of need, Prier said.

“They made that Christmas for my family just incredible,” he said.

Mann sees trivia as much more than a game, and has always tried her best to treat it that way. Jason Aydelotte, a long-time Host with “Geeks Who Drink,” a national pub quiz company that conducts almost 1,000 weekly events in 38 states, has known Mann for several years.

They first met when she started being a quizzer at “Geeks Who Drink,” Aydelotte said.

“We have a lot of people who go and ask, ‘Hey what is this?

Can I play?’ And I know that if Monikka’s team has a spot, they’ll be willing to take them on,” he said.

Her inclusiveness of strangers and willingness to make new friends has been monumental to the growth of the game she loves so much, Aydelotte said. Mann has always been an amazing ambassador of her passion.

“She’s just one of my favorite quizzers for that reason,” he said.

Mann also plays a big role in modern discussion of acceptance, feeling comfortable with you who are and how to combat the effects of bullying.

“I definitely remember not being the cool kid in high school,” Mann said. “I know what it’s like to not be the popular girl, but I never let that bother me because I found my group of like minded people in trivia.”

Her strong self-confidence is rooted in what she loves to do, and that is the most important thing when seeking acceptance and community. Chances are if you love something, so do other people.

Mann also sees herself as a foundation builder for young geeks and nerds who seek such acceptance and confidence.

Her roles as a trivia quizzer and part time robotics coach in her community give her the opportunity to have hands on experience with kids who share her same passion of learning.

“My passion for trivia comes from my passion of learning in general,” Mann said. “And being a resource for the next generation of trivia geeks is super important.”

term adrenaline junkie comes from because once you get it, your brain requires more of it, and then it becomes addictive.”

An important distinction between a good horror movie and a bad one is the standards, like any good movie, Weiner said.

A horror movie’s compelling and thought-provoking plot line is not directly proportional to the enjoyment of the movie, however, he said. A large motivation to partake in horror movies is to have fun.

“No matter how terrible they are, they’re still fun,” Weiner said.

Beyond enjoying being scared with friends, horror movies can appeal to a person’s desire for adrenaline or even catharsis, he said.

This catharsis can be aided or hindered using comedy. The directors of “Get Out” and “A Quiet Place,” Jordan Peele and John Krasinski, respectively, are known comedians. Comedy has a unique relationship with horror,

as they both find unique ways of addressing issues.

“Both horror and comedy can address those kinds of big questions in really interesting and provocative ways,” Whitney said. “There are things that you can express with a joke that get to the heart of the matter in a way that saying something more directly is not allowed.”

Most horror movies also include snippets of humor in the story. This can be anything from “Get Out’s” jokes about TSA to expecting the monster in the movie to jump out when it only leads to an anticlimactic moment. The laughter this inspires can be from a place of acknowledging the movie was almost scary, or from relief, Whitney said.

“Horror movies also have comedy in them because the line between comedy and tragedy and something horrific is very thin,” Weiner said. “You’ve got to have that release for your audience, that comic relief.”

However, comedy is a very different genre from horror, and can seem disruptive to the nature of the movie. One link between comedy and horror is the response both can evoke.

“Laughing and screaming both come from a similar place in the sense that they’re responses that are not fully under our conscious control,” Whitney said.

While many people enjoy going to see these terrifying films, not everyone enjoys horror movies.

To some extent, people can enjoy some elements of horror.

One person can fear “The Exorcist” but enjoy “Stranger Things.”

Horror often mixes with other genres such as science fiction, and that can make the story more tolerable to the viewer, Weiner said.

“I’ve found that if you dig a little deeper in terms of asking people what kind of movies they like, people might enjoy certain varieties of horror movies,” Whitney said. “Some of it

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There are different aspects of a horror film that a viewer tolerates more than others. Davis said his least favorite part of horror movies is the suspense.

“It’s that specific type of fear that’s the worst, the dread,” said Davis. “That’s the most terrifying part is the stuff where it’s not happening.”

Although they are a part of today’s culture, they are not commonly recognized. Only

six films have been nominated for an Oscar in Best Picture Award, including “Get Out,” according to the Hollywood Reporter website.

Regardless of how many horror films receive nominations or awards, people continue to storm the theaters to see these movies.

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Eileen Johnson celebrates 45 years with Texas Tech

By MARY BETH HOLM Staff Writer

As soon as people step foot in Lubbock, they are immediately told how flat the landscape is. Future Red Raiders are even told the age-old joke that Lubbock is so flat, they can watch their dog run away for two weeks.

But to Eileen Johnson, Ph.D., the grasslands, especially in Lubbock, make her feel at home.

“I felt it here,” Johnson said. “You can see so far.

You can see what’s coming, you can see what is behind you. It’s the vistas that I really, really like and the landscapes.”

Johnson arrived in Lubbock in 1972 to pursue her doctoral studies at Texas Tech and take over as director of Lubbock Lake Landmark. She did not expect to make a significant impact on Lubbock and the world of paleontology 45 years later.

Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Johnson developed an interest in the sciences in middle school thanks to her teachers at the time. In seventh grade, Johnson said a teacher presented a course about many different fields of science and how they worked together. By the time Johnson finished her course, she knew what she wanted to do with her life.

After completing her master’s degree at the University of Kansas, Johnson’s mentor accepted a position for director of the M u s e u m o f Te x a s Te c h University. During his interview, Johnson said her mentor and officials from

Tech and the City of Lubbock needed someone to renew research with, what would later be known as, Lubbock Lake Landmark.

Johnson’s mentor returned to Kansas and offered her the opportunity to work with Lubbock Lake. In response, Johnson said her mentor had to help her up off the floor because she was so excited about the opportunity.

She understands that very important part of research is not just finding out the information, but sharing it with the public. In order to educate the public and enlighten the public about what we know and why we know it.

EILEEN JOHNSON DIRECTOR OF LUBBOCK LAKE LANDMARK “I knew at the time (Lubbock Lake Landmark) was very, very well known in the profession,” Johnson said. “There was very little work that had been done, but what little work had been done hinted at its significance. One of those incredible opportunities of a lifetime had been laid on my doorstep. How could I not come? How could I not be excited? I’m still here and I’m still excited.”

According to the Lubbock Lake Landmark website, the area is significant

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“I was very excited,” Johnson said. “I remember jumping up and down. It was quite an honor.”

Deborah Bigness, the manager of site operations at Lubbock Lake Landmark since 2003, first met Johnson as a graduate student in the fall of 1993. Since then, Bigness said Johnson is a wonderful colleague to work with because Johnson’s contributions to the Lubbock Lake Landmark.

When Johnson arrived in Lubbock, Bigness said, the Lubbock Lake Landmark did not have the physical facilities currently in place.

“All of that has grown and progressed under (Johnson’s) leadership,” Bigness said. “It’s still doing that. We’re still growing and maintaining facilities and growing facilities.

There was literally just the excavation on this land when she first got here to Tech.”

One of the qualities Bigness said Johnson exudes is her commitment to sharing the research done at Lubbock Lake Landmark to the public.

“She understands that very important part of research is not just finding out the information, but sharing it with the public,” Bigness said. “In order to educate the public and enlighten the public about what we know and why we know it.”

Susan Rowe met Johnson in 2006, when she was first hired as the Heritage Educa-

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Eileen Johnson celebrates her 45 years at the Museum of Texas Tech. Johnson is the director of the Lubbock Lake Landmark. tion Program Manager. She said Johnson’s best quality Rowe admires about Johnson is her encouraging attitude toward her colleagues.

Rowe has worked for several other employers in the past, but Johnson’s attitude toward Rowe makes her enjoy her job.

“I really have so much respect for her,” Rowe said.

“I want to do a good job because I know that’s what she expects from me. It makes me want to do my job to the best of my ability.

She expects a lot from her employees, but she also will let us do what we need to get the job done.”

Even if Johnson decided

to return to San Francisco, she said it would feel too foreign to her because she has lived in Lubbock longer than her time there.

“I love the mountains and the oceans,” Johnson said.

“But I really am a grasslands person at heart. It took particularly coming here to realize that.”

Johnson said she will continue teaching, submitting journal articles and recruiting new graduate students.

“I’m just a diehard researcher and that’s what I love,” Johnson said. “It’s what I want to do as long as I have the health and the resources.” @MaryBethHolmDT

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Authorities welcomed guests at an invitation-only screening Wednesday evening of the movie in a concert hall that's been converted into a cinema complex in the capital, Riyadh.

Authorities say the theater in Riyadh will be open

on Friday to the public to watch the flick and tuck into a bucket of popcorn. Tickets go on sale Thursday.

Over the past several years, Saudi Arabia has gradually loosened restrictions on movie screenings, with local film festivals and screenings in makeshift theaters. In the 1970s, there were informal movie screenings, but the experience could be interrupted by the country's

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to the scientific community because of the easily distinguishable layers of sediment and artifacts left behind from early North Americans 12,000 years ago. Johnson said the Lubbock Lake Landmark is important to the nation because it not only represents the history of the region, but also of the nation.

Johnson said even though Lubbock Lake was discovered in 1936, researchers have only scratched the surface of what Lubbock Lake has to offer.

“The true significance of it was simply not known when it was discovered or even in the early 70s,” Johnson said. “That significance has built and built and been expanded upon.

That’s why we are a national historic landmark.”

In her roles as director of the Lubbock Lake Landmark and chairwoman of heritage and museum sciences graduate program, Johnson said it has impacted her by helping to educate the next generation of museum scientists and curators.

“It is exceedingly important to educate the next generation of museum and heritage professionals,” Johnson said. “It’s an important aspect. I think, in some respects, (it’s) an ethical obligation on our part to impart this knowledge, this education and also hands-on training.

When our graduates go out, they’re ready to hit the ground and make a contribution to the profession.”

In all of her 45 years at Tech, the moment that stands out to Johnson the

religious police.

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Authorities are planning an invitation-only screening of the movie in a concert hall that's been converted into a cinema complex in the capital, Riyadh.

Wednesday's screening

will be followed by a rush to build movie theaters in major cities.

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’ve been called a pessimistic fan. I typically think of the worst-case scenario for my favorite teams and promptly expect those things to happen.

However, after spending the better part of my nearly 23-year-old life rooting for Dallas teams, I consider myself more a realist than a pessimist. I expected the Texas Rangers to be bad this year; alas, they may be even worse than previously anticipated.

Entering Wednesday, April 18, the Rangers sit at 7-12 — good enough for last place in the American League West.

Their -30-run differential is the fifth worst in all of Major League Baseball, and their 96 runs allowed are the most in the American League.

To make matters worse,

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“Will you declare for the NBA Draft?”

Smith responded with some uncertainty to the question, explaining that he would need time to think and discuss with his family before making a decision. That was on March 25. On April 4, Smith officially declared on his twitter he would be entering the draft without an agent. Almost two weeks later, on April 17, Smith declared he would forgo his college career and hire an agent.

“After careful consideration I’ve decided to forgo my collegiate career and sign with Roc Nation. Again I want to thank my family, friends, coaches, teammates, and TT fans. Your support has been great. I know this is the best decision for me and I hope to make y’all proud!”

Smith said via his Twitter.

With his declaration of staying in the draft after just one season at Tech, Smith becomes the first and only one-and-done in Tech history.

With such a quick turnaround in his draft status, Smith likely received overwhelming support from NBA teams regarding his draft status and staying in the draft made sense for his future.

Smith projects as a small forward in the NBA, but being only 18-years-old means

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the Rangers have already sent 12 players to the disabled list, combining for 191 days missed. Both figures are the highest in baseball by a wide margin.

Those injured include shortstop Elvis Andrus, second baseman Rougned Odor and center fielder Delino DeShields, three players slotted to have a significant impact in the lineup before the start of the season.

After DeShields suffered a broken left hand during the second game of the season, and the Rangers have Smith is still projected to need a few years to add more weight and size as he gets on an NBA-level diet. The team that selects Smith will be drafting him for his upside, with Smith likely taking a season or two before catching up to the NBA’s play speed.

Regardless, Smith’s current athleticism is off the charts, and with a few more years to improve, he could become a legitimate starter in the league.

Smith has immense physical ability which makes him able to dunk and defend the rim unlike most small forwards, but the true range of his skills lie on the defensive end of the court, where Smith showed a knack for defending both the perimeter and the paint, with a quick and natural eye for transitioning between the two.

Smith punished several players for trying to drive past him to the rim, picking up 39 blocks and 42 steals, and was also an active rebounder with a total of 185 rebounds last season.

Likewise with his upside, Smith has several downsides that could shake his stable athletic foundation he has built his career on. Smith struggles with hesitation when shooting from the perimeter and with the switch to NBA-distance three pointers, that flaw will likely have to be fixed by whatever team that drafts him.

Another flaw is while Smith is an explosive and dynamic player offensively, he also struggles to create his own offense, with his best offensive strengths being when

been throwing darts at the wall hoping to find some form of an adequate replacement in the outfield.

Instead, the Rangers feature the worst outfield in baseball, statistically. The unit’s combined -0.8 WAR is the worst in baseball, as is their 31.9 strikeout percentage.

Replacements Carlos Tocci and Drew Robinson look like they were brought in off the street. Tocci has two hits in 20 at-bats, good enough for a whopping .100 batting average and Robinson has struck out in nearly half of his 55 plate appearances.

Left fielder Ryan Rua’s -0.4 WAR is the second lowest in all of baseball. His performance has been so lackluster that it resulted in an earlyseason demotion to Triple-A

Round Rock, where he spent a day before being called back up to the Major Leagues after utility man Jurickson Profar’s injury. When it rains, it pours.

The outfield has been so barren of positive production; it’s forced the Rangers to move lifetime infielder Joey Gallo into left field.

However, the outfield shouldn’t bear the burden for the team’s ugly start.

As a whole, the team has the worst offensive rating in the American League at -10.8 and the worst OPS in the American League at .577.

In the team’s 7-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, April 17, the starting lineup featured five batters hitting below .250 and seven batters with an OPS below .750, which is consid-

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Left: Zhaire Smith completes a slam dunk on Saturday, March 3, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. Right: Smith passes the ball during Texas Tech’s game against Oklahoma on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. Smith is the first one-and-done player in Tech history. he is set up by teammates.

Due to his tremendous upside, but questionable mechanics and offensive talent, Smith will likely fall into the teens in the draft, with the more well-rounded and developed players being taken in the top 10. Smith is likely banking on being a top-15 pick, with several millions on the line if he is drafted in the first round.

Regardless of where he is taken, if Smith gets drafted in the first round, he will join former Red Raider Tony Battie as the only Red Raider in program

history to get drafted in the first round, and will be the first Red Raider drafted since Andre Emmett was selected 35th overall in the 2004 NBA Draft.

While Smith’s tenure at Tech was short, he will be remembered for helping Tech to its first ever Elite Eight appearance and has a shot to represent Tech in the NBA for the first time in almost a decade. The sky’s the limit for the freshman with the insane vertical that came out of nowhere for the Red Raiders. @AustinWattsDT

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With fellow freshman Zhaire Smith deciding to remain in the NFL Draft, freshman star guard Jarrett Culver will be the lone returning offensive star on Tech’s team next year, and all eyes will be on him after Tech’s first Elite Eight appearance set the bar so high for next season.

Culver was electric in his first season as a Red Raider, finishing third in points behind senior Keenan Evans and Smith. Culver averaged 11.2 points per game, 4.8 rebounds per game, 1.7 assists per game, 1.1 steals per game and 0.7 blocks per game.

Culver showed promise on both ends of the court, and will likely be Tech’s leading scorer next season, barring another freshman having a breakout season.

“Coming in my first year I was inexperienced, I got to see the game a lot from the sidelines, and it actually taught me a lot,” Culver said. “I came in, I told myself I’m gonna play as hard as I can every possession.

I don’t think anything has changed from that year to this year, I’m gonna try to still play hard and do the

best I can for my team.”

Culver mostly played as a shooting guard for Tech, but he also saw time at point guard last season with Evans battling an injury for the latter half of the season.

While just a freshman, Culver quickly became a leader on the team, with Tech coach Chris Beard stating that Culver and Smith were far more than freshman after playing so many minutes in their first season at the college level.

“Just two young guys playing at a high level, I know academically you’re a freshman, sophomore, junior … but I don’t know at what point we stop calling these guys freshmen,” Tech coach Chris Beard said after the Florida game. “I guess they are freshmen but they have played a lot of minutes, just look how many minutes they’ve played, they’ll be sophomores on teams in this tournament that haven’t played as much minutes as those guys.”

With the season now over, Culver and the rest of his teammates begin to prepare for next year, with new additions to the team in transfers and freshman joining the team.

“Everybody get better, coaches coach better, players can play better,”

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Culver said. “I just feel like if everyone gets one percent better, it makes our team a lot better. Just working hard every day, doing the best that we can to get better for each other will take us a long way.”

For him, personally, Culver is looking to continue to build on his impressive first season, and come back bigger and stronger next year as he looks to be a force on both ends of the court.

“Just get stronger a little bit, just working every day,” Culver said. “Working out with some of the managers, I know is going to make me better. Just putting in work, I know it’s gonna pay off.”

As the team begins the offseason, the void of the departing seniors hangs looms, with expectations high and players battling to fill the vacancies of the departing star players.

“It’s a weird feeling (without the seniors returning), but we all just have to get used to each other, build new relationships and bonds with each other, to have what we had last year,” Culver said.

Along with the seniors that are graduating, fellow freshman guard Zhaire Smith declared for the draft and hired an agent, forego-

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Freshman guard Jarrett Culver points to the sky after making a three-pointer during Texas Tech game against Kansas on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Culver finished his freshman season with the third most points on the team. ing his college eligibility and leaving Culver as the lone established star player on the team moving forward.

“The position (Zhaire) is in, it’s a different position than I’m in, it’s just different timing and stuff like that, but we are all happy for him,” Culver said.

When asked about what part of last season was his favorite, Culver quickly responded that the NCAA Tournament was the highlight of the season, and that making the Elite Eight was

a memorable experience.

“I’d say the (NCAA) Tournament, just the whole tournament altogether, that is just something you dream about since a kid,” Culver said.

“Being one of the last eight teams to play in the country, it’s unbelievable, just to be in that position is a blessing.”

With Tech coming off its most successful season in program history, there is added pressure on the team to make a splash next season, which will be difficult with so many key

players gone. However, Culver knows the importance of putting in the work to prepare for next year, as he attempts to lead the Red Raiders back to the NCAA Tournament.

“It’s just back to work, every day you have to get back to work and focus on this season coming up and the offseason,” Culver said. “Just trying to get better every day, being the best player you can for your team.” @AustinWattsDT

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LeBron scores 46, Cavaliers hold off Pacers to even series CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James scored 46 points and added 12 rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers bounced back from a poor performance in the opener by holding off the Indiana Pacers 100-97 on Wednesday night to even their Eastern Conference series at one game apiece.

Dazzling from the start, James scored the game’s first 16 points and had 29 at halftime, dominating the way he has in so many

previous postseasons.

But in a season in which nothing has been easy for the Cavs, Cleveland was lucky that Indiana’s Victor Oladipo missed a wide-open 3-pointer that would have tied it with 27 seconds left.

Kevin Love scored 15, but Cleveland’s All-Star center injured his left hand, the same one he broke earlier this season, with 3:43 left. Love’s status could affect the remainder of this series — and perhaps

Cleveland’s season.

Kyle Korver added 12 points, all on 3s, and made several hustling plays for the Cavs.

Oladipo scored 22 — he was in early foul trouble — and Myles Turner 18 for the Pacers, who shocked the Cavs with an overpowering win in Game 1.

Indiana clawed back from an 18-point deficit and was within 95-92 when Oladipo, who scored 32 in the opener, somehow came

free but missed maybe his easiest shot in two games.

James grabbed the rebound and made three free throws over the final 22 seconds as the Cavs avoided falling behind 2-0 on the series.

Game 3 is Friday night in Indianapolis.

The 33-year-old James was expected to be more aggressive than in Game 1, when he was unusually passive, deferred to teammates and suffered the first playoffopening loss of his career.

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