TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2018 VOLUME 92 ■ ISSUE 65
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July Fourth: City officials remind people of firework laws before holiday.
Column: Racism prevalent everywhere, not just Texas Tech.
Be on the look out for our coverage of 4th on Broadway on our website this week.
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People encouraged to attend 4th on Broadway festivities For the 28th time, the 4th on Broadway celebration will take in Lubbock on July Fourth. Before the national holiday, the FiberMax TX Country Street Dance will take place at 7:30 p.m. today at the Lubbock County Courthouse Square. This year’s concert features Mike Ryan, Kody West and Grant Gilbert, according to the Broadway Festivals website. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased on the organization’s website. There will be two entrances to the concert, one at the Texas Avenue and Main Street intersection and one at the Texas Avenue and Broadway Street intersection.
The Fourth of July celebrations start at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday with the Yankee Doodle Dash. The race consists of a 5K and one-mile run, both of which people can register for online, according to the Broadway Festivals website. There will also be a free 100-yard dash, the Sparkler Sprint, for children ages 6 to 12. The Sonic Parade will start from Avenue M and Broadway Street at 9 a.m. The route will travel east on Broadway Street then turn left on Canyon Lake Drive. After turning right on Cesar E. Chavez Drive, the parade will end at Joyland Amusement Park. This year ’s parade
theme is “All You Need is Love.” Covenant and First Bank & Trust’s Evening concert will begin at 7 p.m., according to the Broadway Festivals website. The Reagor Dykes Mitsubishi Fireworks Extravaganza will start at approximately 9:45 to 10 p.m. The firework show will be set to music from Lubbock’s Youth Symphony Orchestras. For more information about 4th on Broadway at Mackenzie Park, including maps, parking information and a full list of events taking place throughout the day, visit broadwayfestivals.com. @McKenziMorrisDT
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Crowds line the sides of the parade route near Mackenzie Park at the 4th on Broadway Sonic Parade on Tuesday, July 4, 2017. The 2018 parade will start at Avenue M and Broadway Street at 9 a.m. and end at Joyland Amusement Park.
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City officials remind people of firework laws before holiday As the Fourth of July approaches, people may choose to purchase and set off fireworks. Before the holiday starts, Lubbock officials are reminding people of city and county laws regarding fireworks. Shooting fireworks inside city limits is against the law, according to a Lubbock County Emergency Management news release. However, people may set them off in uninhibited parts of Lubbock County. The Lubbock Police Department asks citizens to report any issues with fireworks, such as people setting them off or selling them inside city limits, to the non-emergency line at 806-775-2865, according to an LPD news release. The possession of fireworks in the city limits is also illegal.
Firework stands and vendors are allowed to set up shop outside the city limits, but the Emergency Management department has asked them to voluntarily ban missiles with fins and rockets as a safety precaution to the public, according to the release. Lubbock County is still in stage two of a severe drought, despite recent rainfalls, according to the release. Because of this, the Lubbock County Emergency Management department encourages people to be cautious of where they light fireworks and to make sure they have water or a fire extinguisher nearby. A tip the department has for people using fireworks is to make sure they put sparklers in a bucket of water after use.
According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission Fireworks Information Center, sparklers burn at around 2,000 degrees and remain hot for a long duration of time after going out. If tossed directly on the ground, they can catch grass and brush on fire. A burn ban is still in effect for Lubbock County, according to the Emergency Management department release, which restricts all outdoor burning. If people want to watch fireworks without buying or shooting them, the Reagor Dykes Mitsubishi Fireworks Extravaganza will take place at Mackenzie Park around dusk as part of the 4th on Broadway celebration. @McKenziMorrisDT
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Wynton Marsalis coming to Lubbock TTUHSC’s Darlene Lace recognized by World-renowned trumpeter and composer, Wynton Marsalis, will perform with the The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Oct. 8, the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra announced. Marsalis has received nine GRAMMY awards, won a Pulitzer Prize for music and helped found The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Marsalis career dates back nearly 40 years, with the musician starting his career in 1980. “Since releasing the tickets to season subscribers on June 1, we’ve seen overwhelming interest from the community,” Galen Wixson, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra president and CEO, said in the release. “We are honored
to open our stage to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. We believe we will present a oncein-a-lifetime experience to the Lubbock community.” Tickets for the general public are currently on sale. Prices and more information can be found online at www. LubbockSymphony.org. @AustinWattsDT
American Holistic Nurses Association Darlene Lacy, the RNBSN program director for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, was honored at the 38th Annual American Holistic Nurses Association Conference with the 2018 Journal of Holistic Nursing Writing Award for Practice.
She was recognized for her work on the article “Older Military Veteran Care: Many Still Believe They Are Forgotten.” Lacy, who’s career focuses on elderly care, was one of four contributors to the article, according to the release. The article focuses
on the importance of holistic care for veterans, particularly those 65 and older. She primarily focuses on nursing education now, but began her career with 20 years of nursing practice in chronic care, long term care and public health. @AustinWattsDT
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Mexico’s victor pledges to ‘reach understanding’ with Trump MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fresh off a landslide victory, Mexico’s newly elected leftist president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged Monday to “reach an understanding” with Donald Trump amid uncertain times for two countries that must seek consensus on everything from contentious trade talks to cooperation on security and migration. During a half-hour telephone conversation, Trump said the two leaders discussed topics including border security, trade and the North American Free Trade Agreement, adding that “I think the relationship will be a very good one.”
In an interview with the Televisa news network, Lopez Obrador did not provide specifics on what an “understanding” with the Trump administration might look like, except to emphasize the need for mutual respect and cooperation between the two neighbors. “We are conscious of the need to maintain good relations with the United States. We have a border of more than 3,000 kilometers, more than 12 million Mexicans live in the United States. It is our main economic-commercial partner,” he said. “We are not going to fight. We are always going
to seek for there to be an agreement. ... We are going to extend our frank hand to seek a relation of friendship, I repeat, of cooperation with the United States.” Meanwhile, members of the business and political elite who fiercely opposed Lopez Obrador ’s populist candidacy pledged to support his presidency in a loyal opposition, and the largely orderly vote in which his rivals conceded defeat gracefully — and quickly — was hailed as a win for democracy in the country. With nearly three-quarters of the ballots counted, Lopez Obrador had about 53 percent of the vote — the
most for any presidential candidate since 1982, a time when the Institutional Revolutionary Party was in its 71-year domination of Mexican politics and ruling party victories were a given. Rivals Ricardo Anaya and Jose Antonio Meade acknowledged Lopez Obrador ’s win even before official results were announced, in a break from past elections. Lopez Obrador himself refused to accept his two previous presidential losses, and in 2006 his supporters set up a protest camp that caused months of chaos in downtown Mexico City.
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Racism prevalent everywhere, not just Texas Tech
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am extremely impressed by the Texas Tech communities’ letters to the editor responses concerning the “Frat Chat” messages that surfaced on social media. Olivia Copeland and Mateus Grifo both went beyond the calls for expulsion for the young men involved in the group message and made well thought out points that resonated deeply with me. I appreciate their willingness to speak publicly about this and, if not just giving other members of the community a better understanding of the situation, their voices helped shape my own understanding. Whether it means much, both of your voices affected and mattered to me personally. And I’m grateful. I don’t really know how to write this column in a way that resonates with the people who could learn from it the most – the many individuals who, without much thought, speak with such wonton cruelty about other
Robert Avila is a third-year law student from San Antonio.
human beings. The reality is, their lives are so not like my own, it is as if we live in different worlds. It often feels as if we speak another language. And I understand that by using words like racist, privileged, xenophobic or even just inhumane to describe these conversations, I lose the attention and the trust of the many individuals just like these men. Those who speak without thought about immigration or poverty or just the way they speak about any person not existing in their own daily lives. What concerns me more than the content of what they said is the fact that they may never think about or recognize the inhumanity of their beliefs that give life to these
daily conversations. I can tell you that, from personal experience, these conversations are not exclusive to this university, this fraternity or these men. My fraternity used GroupMe and sometimes, very easily conversations like this could appear in our chat, even with the amount of diversity represented in our members. For us, those conversations would end quickly because how can you talk about immigration this way when many of the individuals you call brothers can trace their heritage back to Mexico? When your international members are from countries where many of these immigrants are fleeing for their lives from? My brothers who spoke like this could, like many others, very easily ignore the painful news stories about these immigrants I and many others empathize with but, they could not ignore that I was their friend. Beyond my back-
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ground, they could not ignore a person they already trusted calling them out on their views. They could not ignore a voice in the community they wanted to be accepted by.
I do worry that the people who speak like this become leaders or policy makers in our community. The duality of my opinion is that I am both ashamed of the conversation these men in our community had and empathetic to their inability to understand their actions. I cannot control their thoughts but, like many, I do worry that the people who speak like this become leaders or policy makers in our community. But, I see myself in them and I see them as brothers, and I recognize that I have to accept them as a part of
this community. Like Olivia Copeland described, this is an attitude, a belief system that is a part of our community. It’s a part of Greek Life, it is a part of the university, it is a part of this country and it is a part of ourselves. We can condemn them as individuals and wait for the next group of men to condemn when this happens again, or we can accept that they are a part of our community and condemn and look to break down the system of beliefs that led them to this conversation. The more we call to expel them, the more we harass them on social media, the more we ostracize these men and act like the way they spoke is an individual belief problem, the further away we get from addressing the way they speak is the same way our countries leaders are speaking. They are speaking the same way about immigrants fleeing for their lives to the U.S. border as elected
officials and people in power. A societal mentality of fearing first what we will lose when considering helping those suffering. As I’ve already proudly seen from Mateus Grifo, Olivia Copeland and the response from the Texas Tech community, rather than let these men continue to shape their beliefs around this fear, we need to accept them as part of our community and help them grow. We accept our responsibility to address this system of beliefs and we allow these men time to reflect on their own beliefs and give them a chance to redeem themselves in our community. Most importantly, we need to give them a chance to share their reflection with the people who trust them, the one’s from a different world, whose lives are so not like my own, and help these men understand and learn moving forward. @DailyToreador
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Schumer rallies opposition to Pres. Trump’s ex-lawyer fires Trump anti-abortion court pick what could be warning shot WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat tried Monday to rally public opposition to any Supreme Court pick by President Donald Trump who’d oppose abortion rights, issuing a striking campaign season call to action for voters to prevent such a nominee by putting “pressure on the Senate.” With Trump saying he’ll pick from a list of 25 potential nominees he’s compiled with guidance from conservatives, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said any of them would be “virtually certain” to favor overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that affirmed women’s right to abortion. They would also be “very likely” to back weakening President Barack Obama’s 2010 law that expanded health care coverage to millions of Americans, he said. Schumer said that while Democrats don’t control the Senate — Republicans have a 51-49 edge — most senators back abortion rights. In an unusually direct appeal to voters, he said that to block “an ideological nominee,” people should “tell your sena-
tors” to oppose anyone from Trump’s list. “It will not happen on its own,” the New Yorker wrote in an opinion column in Monday’s New York Times. “It requires the public’s focus on these issues, and its pressure on the Senate.” Trump has said he is focusing on up to seven potential candidates, including two women, to fill the vacancy of retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, a swing vote on the nine-member court. He’s said he’ll announce his pick July 9. Schumer ’s column appeared a day after Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she would oppose any nominee she believed would overturn Roe v. Wade. Collins said she would only back a judge who would show respect for settled law such as the Roe decision, which has long been anathema to conservatives. “I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law,” Collins said.
Such a judge, she said, “would not be acceptable to me because that would indicate an activist agenda.” Trump spent the weekend at his New Jersey golf club conferring with his advisers, including White House counsel Don McGahn, as he considers his options to fill the vacancy that might make precedent-shattering court decisions on abortion, health care, gay marriage and other issues. McGahn will lead the overall selection and confirmation process, the White House said Monday. He played the same role in the successful confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch last year. The White House said it is putting together a team for the confirmation process. Spokesman Raj Shah will take leave from his role in the press office to work full time on “communications, strategy and messaging coordination with Capitol Hill allies.” And Justin Clark, the director of the Office of Public Liaison, will oversee White House coordination with outside groups.
NEW YORK (AP) — After once boasting he would “take a bullet” for Donald Trump, the president’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen fired a possible warning shot toward the White House, saying he now puts “family and country first.” In his first interview since federal agents raided his home and hotel room three months ago as part of an investigation into his business dealings, Cohen made clear that protecting Trump is not his priority. “My wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will,” Cohen told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an offcamera interview that was reported on Monday’s “Good Morning America.” ‘’I put family and country first.” Cohen, who hasn’t been charged, wouldn’t say if he would cooperate with prosecutors in the probe. But he also did nothing to dampen such speculation, taking issue with some of Trump’s criticisms of the special counsel’s Russia
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Tadlock named 2018 Midwest Regional coach of the year By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor
Texas Tech baseball head coach Tim Tadlock was named the 2018 Midwest Regional Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association, as announced by Tech Athletics on Monday. Ta d l o c k c o a c h e d h i s squad to a College World Series appearance this season, the third trip in program history, all of which have come in the last five years and under Tadlock. Tech started off the season spectacularly, with a program-record 14 straight wins to start the season, according to a Tech Athletics release. The Red Raiders finished the season with a
record of 45-20, marking four seasons with at least 45 wins in the last five years. Adding to the Red Raiders’ impressive season is that one of their best players, a dominant left-hand pitcher in junior Stephen Gingery in his first appearance of the season. Despite this, Tech went on to make the CWS and win its first ever opening game, moving on to the winner’s bracket for the first time. Despite this, Tech lost both of its ensuing games to finish their season, finishing as one of just six teams to be playing that deep into the season. In his six seasons at Texas Tech, Tadlock has accrued a 239-132 record
as head coach, which is the third most wins by a head coach in program history. Tadlock also had a program record 11 players drafted in the 2018 MLB FirstYear Player draft, which was also the most players drafted of any D1 program in the first 30 rounds, according to the release. Tadlock’s selection as Midwest Coach of the Year makes him one of eight nominees for the ABCA/ Diamond National Coach of the Year award, which will be announced today, according to the release. Tadlock and the seven other nominees will be honored at the 75th annual ABCA Convention on Friday, Jan. 4, in Dallas. @AustinWattsDT
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Coach Tim Tadlock gives a signal to the Tech batter during Texas Tech’s game against Arkansas on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. Tadlock is heading into his seventh season as head coach of the Red Raiders.
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Texas Tech reveals 2018 Hall of Fame class with five inductees By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor
Texas Tech and the Double T Varsity Club revealed the five former student athletes that make up the 2018 Hall of Fame class. “The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is always the highlight of our year,” Rodney Allison, director of the Double T Varsity Club, said in a Tech Athletics news release. “We have another great class this year that is more than deserving to join the Hall of Fame.
We can’t wait to welcome this class and their families back to campus this fall.” Three of the five former student-athletes were members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams, with former Red Raiders Andre Emmett and Sean Gay being inducted alongside Lady Raider Erin Grant. Former Red Raider All-American infielder Jimmy Zachry and All-Southwest Conference linebacker Ed Mooney will join the basketball trio at the enshrinement in November.
Gay played for four seasons, finishing his career with 196 steals, which still stands as second for the program record. Gay’s 1,597 points places him 14th on the all-time Tech scoring list, while his 432 assists are third, according to the release. Fourteen years after his senior season, Emmett’s 2,256 points still stand as the all-time scoring record for a career in program history. Emmett received a consensus All-American selection in 2004, which remains the
only consensus selection in program history, according to the release. Grant played for the Lady Raiders basketball team from 2002-2006, scoring 1,108 points along with tallying 844 assists in her career. Grant helped Tech to a Sweet 16 appearance in the 200405 season, according to the release, and received two All-Big 12 first-team selections in her four-year career. Mooney played two seasons as a member of the Red Raider football team from 1966-1967,
and competed on the track and field team for three seasons. Mooney collected All-Southwest Conference first-team honors in 1967, along with an invite to the East-West Shrine Game, according to the release. He also had a successful NFL career. Zachry played third base for the Red Raider baseball team from 1980-1983, earning three All-Southwestern Conference selections, while posting a .368 batting average as a senior, which remains the third-highest average for
a Red Raider in program history, according to the release. The 2018 Texas Tech Hall of Fame Ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 2 at CenterPoint Event Center. Following the induction, Tech will host Oklahoma the following day at Jones AT&T Stadium, with all five honorees set to be recognized during the game. To book a table or single ticket to the event, contact the Double T Varsity Club at 806-834-3162 or by email at dtvc@ttu.edu. @AustinWattsDT
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LeBron leaves Eastern Conference, heads west to join Lakers
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fter what felt like years of speculation, the news finally broke on Sunday that LeBron James will be signing with the Los Angeles Lakers whenever free agency opens on July 6. My question is….why? LeBron has spent his entire career in the Eastern Conference, and has seen quite a bit of success there, with eight straight finals trips, and three championships in that span. While in the Eastern Conference, LeBron truly had no rival, as even the best of opponents could only force the series to seven games, and nobody could stand in his path to the finals. LeBron was previously a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, his second stint
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with the team that drafted him, and in four straight seasons James carried the Cavs to the finals to face the Golden State Warriors, winning a lone championship in 2016. However, in 2017, the Warriors added Kevin Durant in a move that practically ruined parity in the NBA, but that’s another story. The Cavs fell in five, and apparently LeBron decided he was done with the Cavs. Last season’s finals was a disaster, with Cavs shooting guard J.R. Smith pulling off the biggest mistake of all-
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defeat the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets, his dominant is still vastly understaffed to handle the other teams’ dynamic scorers. Between the superstar filled Warriors, star-filled Rockets, and now LeBron’s Lakers, a legitimate star-filled team will miss the Western Conference Finals, and that notion is absolutely crazy to me. The Lakers have a decent young core, including Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma and Josh Hart, but none of these players appear poised to breakout and become All-Stars next season, especially with LeBron in the spotlight now. Add in the free agent signings of Lance Stephenson, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Rajon Rondo and Javale McGee,
and the 2018-19 Lakers look like the greatest meme team of all-time. Seriously, if you haven’t seen the StephensonJames “ear incident” or any of McGee’s Shaqtin-a-fool moments you’re missing out. Add in the media circus that is the Lavar Ball saga of the NBA, and the Lakers now legitimately own the two biggest stories of last season. The Ball family and LeBron dominated talk shows, and now with the pair combined I’m not sure basketball fans will be able to go more than an hour without hearing about the Lakers next season. The true wildcard here is the Lakers front office, and their willingness to pursue LeBron a superstar sidekick. To the pleasure of many non-Laker fans, Paul George
notoriously didn’t even offer the Lakers an interview after a year of speculation that him signing with the tea was a done deal. Now the Lakers will have to pursue a trade for a superstar, and with San Antonio Spurs star forward Kawhi Leonard supposedly wanting to be a Laker, it may be merely a matter of time until the Lakers send a boatload of young players and picks to the Spurs. With Kawhi, the Lakers would legitimately rival the Warriors. However, if the Lakers are unwilling to pony up to the Spurs high asking price, it is entirely possible that the new LeBron-led Lakers don’t even make the Western Conference Finals, and that will be crazy to see. @AustinWattsDT
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Tigers recover from blown save to beat Blue Jays 3-2
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time to lose game one, again another story for another day, and then the Cavs went down in three straight games with little resistance for the Warriors third Championship in four seasons. After last season, it’s no surprise James decided to leave the Cavs, instead wanting to join a team that can build around him and provide him with some help. That’s why his decision to choose the Lakers makes very little sense. The Lakers are young and really have no developed shooters on their team, and present more of a threat in a few seasons with some development, but not right now. I have no doubt LeBron can carry the previously 3547 Lakers to a playoff appearance, but if his intention is to
TORONTO (AP) — After a rotten finish to June, the Detroit Tigers have started July with a modest winning streak. Jose Iglesias hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and the Tigers recovered
from a blown save in the ninth to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Monday, Detroit’s second straight victory following a season-long 11-game losing streak. Right-hander Joe Jimenez (4-1) got the win despite giving
up the tying run in the ninth. “It’s huge for us,” Jimenez said of the victory. “A new month, a new us.” With his team leading 2-1 after eight innings, Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire
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called on Jimenez because regular closer Shane Greene (shoulder) had been placed on the 10-day disabled list before the game. Jimenez loaded the bases with two outs and walked pinch-hitter Justin Smoak on a 3-2 pitch to force in the tying run. “When you come in as a closer, you have to make them swing the bat,” Gardenhire said. “In those situations, walks will kill you.” Detroit answered immediately in the 10th. Niko Goodrum hit a one-out triple off Seunghwan Oh (4-3) and scored the winning run when Iglesias followed with a fly ball to right. After Buck Farmer gave up a leadoff single in the 10th, Blaine Hardy finished for his first career save. “That losing streak was a little bit tough on this clubhouse,” Hardy said. “Now that we have two wins in a row, I think we’re back to where we need to be.” Tigers right-hander Mike Fiers pitched a season-high eight innings, but didn’t figure in the decision and remains winless in five starts. An efficient Fiers threw just 89 pitches, including 67 strikes. The right-hander allowed one run and three hits. He walked one and struck out five. “It was a great performance,” Gardenhire said.