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C olumn: Time management proves simple in theory, difficult in practice.

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SEASON OF CHANGE Dr. Tedd Mitchell joined the Texas Tech System when he became president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. In the last five months, he has gone from working solely as TTUHSC president to interim chancellor in August and the sole finalist for the position in October. Now Mitchell is making sure TTUHSC and the entire System are ready for the legislative session with four exceptional item requests that could change the outlook of the System.

The Daily Toreador sat down with Mitchell as the session gets into full swing to reflect on his time with the Tech System, the transition into the chancellor role and his plans for the future.

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What has the transition been like from solely being TTUHSC president to TTUHSC president and chancellor?

It’s been extremely busy. Not just because of the change in the position, but also because of the timing of it. As you know, the state of Texas does a session, a legislative session, every other year on odd numbered years. And typically, on that even numbered year, the system and all the universities are working on their budgets and other things so that by the fall of the even year, you’re trying to get

everything ready for session.

Well so, changing horses in the middle of the stream in October, that was a challenge, only because there was so much going on already. The downside is it was really, really busy because we’re getting ready for the session, the upside was it was really, really busy because we’re getting ready for the session.

So right now, everybody’s just in the mode of kind of hanging onto your hat because we’ve got until May to get everything done.

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Since you’ve stepped into the chancellor role, how have you been working with the other university presidents as

no longer just one of them, but as the chancellor and you’re getting ready for session?

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We’ve got great leadership at all the universities. These are folks that we’ve all been friends for years and this is how good it is – each of the universities for this legislative session has one specific exceptional item priority.

Each of the presidents is well versed on all the universities’ priorities so that when any of the four presidents are in Austin or in Dallas or in Amarillo or in El Paso, they can actually speak on behalf of the other presidents.

So, if Brian May from Angelo State is visiting with somebody in

Austin and something comes up about the dental school in El Paso, he’s very well versed on it. So, he can explain to that individual, whether they’re a lawmaker or just a citizen or a lobbyist or whatever it may be, he can explain to them why we need it and why it is we’re looking for it.

If Lawrence Schovanec is in Austin for something or in Dallas for something and something comes up about Angelo State, he can tell them about what a great university it is for first-generation students and why their ask at the state level is so important for student enhancement.

That’s the way we work together so that we’re not a big system like

UT or even like A&M in that we don’t have a number of universities like that. But what we do have is we have a flexibility and a closeness with our administrators that makes us, in many ways, more effective, I think.

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In the system and all the institutions, is there any one project you’re excited about presenting to the state legislature and getting the word out to the public?

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Sure, of course, the Health Sciences Center project are you kidding? No, let me tell you what we’ve done. I am equally excited about all four of our initiatives.

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Resources available for help with homework, time-management

By EMMA SIPPLE Staff Writer

As the new semester ramps up, students have to develop methods to keep their grades up from the previous semester.

“It depends on the student,” Patrick Bohn, associate director of the Texas Tech Learning Center, said. “Let’s say the student did well in the fall, then they won’t tweak much in the spring. If the grades are what they want, then there’s no need to change what they have been doing. Now let’s say there’s someone who came in the fall semester, and their grades didn’t end up how they

wanted to be. That’s when it should be a signal of ‘let’s change.’”

Bohn teaches a Programs for Academic Development and Retention class, which teaches study skills to students who fall under a certain grade point average in the previous semester.

Bohn said students’ grades usually fall due to time management issues.

“Because in high school, a parent or a guardian said, ‘At 3 o’clock, I pick you up, at 4 o’clock, you go to soccer practice,’” he said. “So, everything was scheduled. Now they get here, and they really know is that they’ve signed up for classes, and they should

be at those classes. But the rest of the time is completely open. So, a lot of students kind of overindulge in having so much free time that they have never had before.”

Time management and spending more time on schoolwork are skills college students have to get used to once there, Molly Dowling, a freshman creative media industries major from San Antonio, said.

“I had to devote more time to focus on my school work, but I was always pretty good at time management in high school because of swimming,” she said.

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Scholarship options provide students support

By MATT HAN Staff Writer

Higher education often comes with a hefty price tag, but many colleges offer to help ease this financial burden.

Texas Tech offers many scholarships to help students finance their education, according to the Tech Scholarships website. These scholarships are awarded on first-come, merit and financial need basis, Christina Rosson, director of the University Scholarship Office, said the USO staff works with institutional advancement, which fundraises for the university. Donors provide scholarship funding for either the scholarship office or for specific colleges on campus.

Rosson said the donors will have some certain criteria of how they want their money awarded, and the institutional advancement establishes an agreement with the donors and the university. The schol-

arship office will take the money, and the majority of it is endowed.

“Either the donor wants to make an annual donation, or they make a one-time donation that we spend according to their wishes,” Rosson said.

Mark Sheridan, dean of the Tech Graduate School, said the largest number of scholarships and fellowships awarded for graduate students are handled through the Graduate School.

“As a university, our commitment is to support graduate students to the largest extent possible,” Sheridan said.

Regarding student eligibility for scholarships, Sheridan said when a student applies for admissions, the faculty considers them for financial support.

Rosson said the USO staff looks into students who need financial support. She said when they pull the list of scholarships they need to award, they look at the criteria. Often, the criteria could

specify a major, a classification, geographical limitation and grade point average.

If there is a generic amount of money to award, Rosson said the staff starts with upperclassmen who have the highest GPAs and the most amount of financial need.

Tech helps students and parents find state and federal grants to help out a family’s pocketbook, According to the scholarship website. Also, the scholarship office has a search tool that will help students to find external scholarships.

“There are certainly many benefits, but the main one is that the money is free and does not have to be paid back,” Rosson said. “And it reduces the cost for your family.”

Cindy McCullough, the coordinator of scholarships for the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, said her college has a committee that informs her of which students are eligible and how much to spend on

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San Francisco police release sketch of “Doodler’ killer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 40 years after a serial killer dubbed the “Doodler” terrorized San Francisco’s gay community, police released a sketch Wednesday of what the man might look like today and announced a $100,000 reward for details leading to his capture.

Police believe the killer stabbed at least five men to death from early 1974 to late 1975.

He became known as the “Doodler” after a victim who survived an attack told police the man was doodling while they talked at a late-night diner and said he was a cartoonist.

At a news conference, police released a pair of

images that showed a 1975 sketch of the man and an “age-progression” showing what he might look like now.

“In the 1970s, this was gripping the gay community and San Francisco,” police Commander Greg McEachern told the news conference, saying authorities were releasing the new sketch in hopes of bringing justice to victims of the “horrendous homicides.”

It’s one of several cold cases, particularly serial crimes, being re-examined after the capture last year of the notorious “Golden State Killer” through DNA analysis, McEachern said.

Police have submitted DNA samples from some of the

1970s crime scenes in the Doodler case and were waiting for results from a lab.

Police described the killer as an African-American male, about 5 feet, 11 inches tall with a lanky build who was likely in his early 20s during the attacks.

At the time, a witness was able to give investigators a description of the attacker, leading to a man being detained in 1976 but never charged.

McEachern said police have interviewed the man since returning to the case and he remains a person of interest. His name was not released and authorities declined to say if he resembled the man in the sketches.

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them. McCullough said she has a list of scholarship funds and matches the students with those scholarships.

The time length to when students receive scholarships differ between continuing students and incoming freshmen, McCullough said.

The deadline for incoming freshmen is Feb. 1, so within almost about a week from then, McCullough starts to send acceptance or rejection letters. The currently enrolled students will receive their answers after her committee meets, she said.

One way or another, McCullough said she expects thank you letters from the students who have been awarded scholarships. She has started a policy where she does not apply the students’ scholarships until their donors have received a letter.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Elena Sanchez-Freeman, program manager of health and wellness at Risk Intervention and Safety Education, said blocking off time, figuring out what to do with spare time and creating a routine is challenging.

“I think time management is a big thing,” Sanchez-Freeman said. “So it’s now balancing not only study time or work time, it’s balancing friend time and food time and extracurricular activities too. It’s kind of that critical thinking.

Planning ahead skills that I think are sparked more, challenged more in those areas now that you have a more open schedule. So it’s truly a balance of all of that, and that, rightfully so, can be so overwhelming.”

There are other resources available on campus aimed at helping students, she said.

“So knowing your local resources here, we are truly here to help you,” SanchezFreedman said. “There’s so much available.”

It’s the stuff you do outside the classroom that’s going to make the difference in your grade.

PATRICK BOHN LC ASSISTANT DIRECTOR The Learning Center also provides students resources for studying and developing time management skills.

“They can come and meet with our academic coach, and the academic coach can

work with them one-on-one on time management,” Bohn said. “They can set up a plan, and say, ‘Here’s my week, here’s a calendar, write down all your classes and write down any other commitments you have to keep.’

And then in the free time in between all those is where they’re looking for places to add in study.”

The best method of doing well is asking questions and using the resources available, Bohn said.

“It’s the stuff you do outside the classroom that’s going to make the difference in your grade,” he said. “Use your resources around you.

The only person who is going to make that change happen is the student. They have to take ownership of their education, and they’ll get out exactly what they put in.” @EmmaSippleDT

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With anti-abortion push, Trump woos evangelicals again WASHINGTON (AP) — With a fierce denunciation of late-term abortions, President Donald Trump is making a move to re-energize evangelical voters whose support will be vital in heading off any possible 2020 primary challenge.

Trump, at arguably the weakest point of his presidency, seized on abortion during his State of the Union address Tuesday to re-engage on a

divisive cultural issue, using both religious rhetoric aimed at conservative Christians and scathing attacks on Democratic lawmakers who support abortion rights — in particular, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam.

Tr u m p w e n t a f t e r Northam — by title, not by name — in his speech and incorrectly claimed that the governor “stated he would execute a baby after birth.”

As the speech was being drafted, Trump had wanted to use even harsher language about Northam, and call him out by name, but he was reined in by aides, according to three White House officials and Republicans close to the White House who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations.

The message from Trump, an unlikely champion of the anti-abortion cause, was aimed squarely at evangelicals who play an outsized role in Republican politics.

Battered by the fallout from a damaging government shutdown, Trump has seen his poll numbers tumble and support within his own party slip, forcing his campaign to work to ward off any primary foes, including shoring up support among religious conservatives who could be wooed by an intraparty challenger.

Ralph Reed, a prominent GOP evangelical strategist, said the White House worked closely with evangelicals during the fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, but contact dropped off during the midterm elections and the government shutdown.

“Now we see it picking up again,” Reed said, calling Trump’s State of the Union comments “important and deeply appreciated.”

Religious voters, including Roman Catholics in the industrial Midwest, will be a key constituency in a Trump re-election, Reed said.

“He’s got a proven, demonstrable record of performing with (evangelicals),” Reed said.

“As with the Bush re-elect in 2004, it could become a building block to a strong re-election.”

In the days before the speech, White House aides telegraphed that an antiabortion passage in the address using faith-based language would become a re-election theme.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Typically, during session, you do this – we’ll go down and we will each present our base budget. The base budget has stuff that’s extremely important for the students and the researchers, so it’s looking at things like formula funding that the state provides per student, the amount of money that they give you. The state will provide higher education assistance funds, funds that come in for infrastructure that you need for researchers and for students. So, there are certain things that every university in the state needs for the operations of their university – that’s your base budget.

Then there’s a list of what are called exception items, and that’s one where they come in and say, ‘OK, McKenzi, you’re the president of this university, what would like to do, if we have additional funds, what would be a priority for you?’ With each of our universities we’ll come in and typically you’ll have three, four, five things listed out over here that if there are funds available, we would like these things. Here’s the strategy we have utilized during this session – we’re not doing any of that.

Each university is going in with one exceptional item.

One. There’s an important reason for that. If you have a list of a bunch of things that are all your biggest priority, well then you actually don’t have a biggest priority. The second thing is to make sure the folks in Austin, the legislatures, know, we’re doing everything we can to be really good stewards of the state’s money, the people’s money.

Because if you look at the legislative session, when you have a legislature that only meets every two years for 140 days and they have to do all the business of the state for the upcoming two year period, every university, every community college, every independent school district, every health-related institution and every agency so TxDOT, DPS, we all have to get it done right there.

And everybody has really important initiatives, everybody does.

So, if everybody goes down there with a big laundry list and they want everything they’re asking for, after a while it gets to be really difficult for the legislatures to say OK help me out with this, pick and choose or me. We’ve already done that. We’ve vetted it on the front end, and strategically we’re going down to make sure they understand we’re being laser focused for the universities.

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The Tech System is known for its philanthropy efforts and having donors and an alumni base that spreads way beyond the West Texas area. How do you think that wide-spread support of the system that might not be in politics necessarily may still help y’all in the session?

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I think it’ll help us tremendously for any number of reasons. Firstly, right now it’s already helped us because when you walk in to the session for the academic programs and say, ‘Listen,

fancy pickup truck, you better be thanking folks in the Permian Basin because that’s where your gas is coming from.

That’s the story. You don’t have to be a politician to tell that.

Our job in administration is to make sure they understand that by West Texans taking care of business out here, West Texans take care of the rest of the state, and to an extent, the rest of our country.

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After being announced as the new chancellor of the Texas Tech System, Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell addresses the media on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, in the Texas Tech System Administration Building. The Board of Regents voted unanimously to appoint Mitchell as the new chancellor after he was named the sole finalist for the position. Mitchell is also the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center president and plans to continue serving in both roles.

Tech and love West Texas are also given the right information they need to tell the story, then it just helps us get the message across to people in Austin.

Q we already have people, that include our alumni, that have put up a lot of money for this.’

Already a lot of our alumni have already contributed up in Amarillo for the vet school and in West Texas for the dental school.

Already on the front end that’s happened.

Moving forward, one of the things that we really do focus on with alumni is to get scholarships endowed.

So, it’s not just giving money for students this year, next year. But it’s really putting an endowment on it so that in perpetuity there’s money for kids to come in with scholarships.

The other thing is, you have to remember most of our alumni don’t know the story about the vet school or the dental school, so getting that information to them and letting them hear about the need and letting them hear about the plans we have, including getting them excited about it.

Keep in mind, you said this earlier, they don’t just live out here, they live all over. If we can get them the story and have them understand the need for this for the rural areas and for the state of Texas, they live in other people’s districts. If they’re living over in a district in Allen, then if they bump into their state rep or their state senator somewhere, they’re then empowered to say, ‘Listen, you may or may not know this, but I went to Texas Tech. They’re talking about a school out here for this or for this or for this and let me tell you about it.’

It gives us a larger, a wider voice when we’re talking to folks in the legislature.

Not from the standpoint of trying to do it for turf battle or anything like that. Purely doing it from the standpoint of meeting a need.

As I said, if you can tell your story about addressing the need and make sure that folks that love Texas

A lot of people talked about, when you stepped into the chancellor role, they were a little concerned with how you might do in session because not having political experience or anything.

You’ve worked on president’s councils before. How do you think that will help you in the session at least be familiar with the working of the legislature?

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The story of my life has been stepping into positions folks didn’t think I was ready for. When I first started at the Cooper Clinic there were people that thought I was too young to be working there. They used to tell patients when they’d ask how old I was they’d say he’s in his 30s when I wasn’t.

When I took over at the Cooper Clinic, I was younger, and there were folks, ‘Oh, I think he’s too young to do that’ and it worked out OK. I had to learn a lot, but it worked out OK. When I actually started at the Health Sciences Center, I came from a private system, I didn’t come from another academic system and there were questions about that. But, if you talk about the administrative side of things, most of what we do is dealing with people.

To the legislative session, and I understand this abso-

lutely when people say, ‘Well, he doesn’t have a political background.’ To me, it’s not about going down there and trying to play politics or to twist politic arms. It’s not about that at all. It’s about being able to consistently, passionately, confidently tell them the story of what folks out here need, No. 1. But not telling them, you need to do this because you’re nice people and we’ve got our hand out.

Because No. 2 is helping them understand how profoundly important this region of the state is for their wellbeing. And that’s one of the big secrets of the state of Texas. You guys grew up in Dallas/Fort Worth did you think about Lubbock? I didn’t. I grew up in Longview. I never thought about Lubbock. Not good, bad, indifference. Not because I’m a bad guy, it just wasn’t on our radar. Lubbock might as well have been Las Vegas, it was just some place way out there.

However, if you look at our state as of today, the state demographer was talking about this last Friday, we are now in position, we have almost 29 million people in Texas, 87 percent of the population lives on I35 or east. Eighty-seven percent of the population.

We have 13 percent of the population in West Texas – 108 counties, 49 percent of the geography, an area bigger than 46 out of the 50 states, but we have 13 percent of the population.

So there are folks in Austin that will say, ‘Well, wait a minute. Can we really justify

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spending a lot of money out there when you’ve only got 13 percent of the population?’ At the surface that might seem to make sense.

But that 13 percent of the population provides all of the food, fiber and fuel for the state. And in fact, not just for the state but for the nation. The nation’s No. 1 producer of beef is the panhandle of Texas.

The nation’s No. 1 producer of cotton is eight counties around the South Plains and Lubbock. The nation’s No. 1 producer of gas is the Permian Basin.

Our university system will be profoundly different in June than it is today, and we’re excited about it.

So, the folks in Austin need to understand they’ve got to protect the people that provide for them.

If you live in Allen and for a special occasion you like to go eat at Del Frisco’s, you better be thanking people in Amarillo because that’s where your beef came from.

If you live in Sachse and you like to drive down periodically to go to NorthPark Mall to buy fancy clothes, you better be thanking people in Lubbock because that’s where your cotton came from.

If you drove in a big ole

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Is that what you plan on telling people in the session?

You bet. Everybody I can stop, you better believe it. Because it’s the truth.

Looking forward do you plan on continuing to serve as both HSC president and the chancellor?

I do, I do. Remember my training, I am a physician, I’m a doctor by training. My roots are in healthcare. My roots are in health education.

I want to continue to serve both roles, but I also think it does give me a little bit of a different perspective having been a president of one of the system’s universities before coming over to the system office.

Right now, we’re just going to get through session and see how everything goes.

Right now, it’s a busy time for all of us.

My absolute plans are to keep both, we have, like I said, great people. If I didn’t have great folks in both of these buildings, there’s no way I could do this.

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By the end of this session, the absolute expectation is that our system will be profoundly changed with the initiatives we have.

With the mental health initiative, the Angelo State initiative, with the dental school in El Paso and the vet school in Amarillo.

Our university system will be profoundly different in June than it is today, and we’re excited about it. @McKenziMorrisDT

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Headphones are more than listening device, identity statement

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hen Beats headphones hit the shelves in 2008, audiophiles around the world rushed to purchase them, but many were left unenthused.

The sometimes-overwhelming, bass-boosted headphones were too overpriced for anyone in the music industry to take an interest, but Andre Young (Dr. Dre) knew that audiophiles weren’t his target market.

Young wanted to attract young, avid music listeners by creating a user-friendly set of headphones that came with a side of sex appeal.

Sex appeal, headphones and a hefty price tag, so who cares? Ever since Beats came

Andrew Hindle is a senior advertising major from Fort Worth.

out in 2008, they’ve been the go-to ear cans for anyone who is #trending. If you don’t like them now, wait until you realize they make noise and block all communication with the outside world. Sure, you have a ridiculous contraption stuck on your head, but so does everyone else, so it’s fine, trendy even.

You’d think the people wearing these headphones around would get tired of all the compliments and Insta-

gram likes. They don’t. You better believe these headphones are flying off the shelves on a daily basis, year-round. Thousands of students receiving “free” beats through an Apple laptop purchase in their back to school promotion.

While there are a few people who still buy parts off Amazon to fix their headphones, most people elect to purchase a new pair every year or so when they break, because for some styles of beats, it’s not if they break, it’s when. Just check out the Amazon reviews for Beats Solo 2’s.

Buying Beats can be a step in the right direction for some people as a first pair of good

headphones, but for others, it can be a slippery slope into a social void. Where does the following stop? It may only be your first set of Beats today, but tomorrow you might find yourself shopping for cars that one of the Kardashians recommended on Twitter (with BeatsAudio built in).

The average pair of Beats headphones sells for over $250, but that’s not stopping anyone from buying them; it’s not even slowing them down. The Beats headphone brand has become a symbol of quality to the average-headphone-purchasing consumer, and even if there are arguably better headphones for the same price, it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

In addition to becoming a symbol of quality, Beats headphones have become a fashion piece among young adults across the globe. And if you’re not in the flourishing market of perfectly researched, absolute noise-canceling headphones, and you’re in need of new headphones, it wouldn’t be the worst thing to find yourself in Best Buy with a blue shirt employee recommending a Beats (although the in-store prices may make you wish you had shopped online first).

So, yeah, “the times, they are a changing,” and you could buy Sony or Bose brand headphones, but sometimes change comes with a side of

awesome technology in a sexy package, and that’s where you have Beats. If you don’t have a significant other to buy you a pair for Christmas or your birthday, hit up your mom or dad or work an extra shift, because you’re going to want a pair of Beats in your life.

Some people say nay to these headphones, but what do they know? Those arrogant audiophiles with their laptops, software and forwardthinking think they know so much about audio; what nerds. Let them dance the night away with their underpriced, quality-made Pioneer headphones, good riddance.

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Time management proves simple in theory, difficult in practice

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alancing your life as a college student can be challenging, especially when you have a job.

I work at a restaurant that will remain unnamed, which always has shifts that can be worked. Although I clock out with cash in hand, the amount of money is unpredictable. Any given shift, I can leave with either $100 or $30. Sometimes I go home with enough to pay my bills, sometimes I don’t.

Predictability is not a word I am familiar with, whether it be because of my lack of income or my poor time management. I have tried to set a budget more times than I care to admit, but each time I’m usually left anxious guessing my monthly income.

Having a set schedule is unfamiliar territory for me, so I try to plan ahead by deciding what days I need to work and what days I have to study. I had to learn to manage, and sometimes

Madelaine Woodhouse is a junior journalism major from El Paso.

sacrificing one task is worth completing another.

Trying to organize and prioritize homework and bills can be overwhelming, and it becomes mentally exhausting when you’re short on rent every month. The harsh truth is often I have no one to blame but myself. If I don’t work, I can’t pay for classes.

If I work too much and don’t study, what is the point of paying for classes?

The answer is simple in theory, difficult in practice – time management.

Time management has never been easy for me. I pulled countless all-nighters last semester in an effort to complete all my assignments.

This became counterproductive once I realized an assignment that should take one

hour to complete would take two to three hours without sleep. I started that semester with goals too – make the Dean’s List, save money. I ended the semester with a lower GPA and just enough money to get me through the week.

Lots of college students work and go to school. What is their secret? Do I have too many bills, or am I really just that reckless?

This semester was going to be different. I bought a new planner, a whiteboard and created a budget sheet.

I was not going to pull allnighters, I was going to save my money and I was going to hold myself accountable for the outcome. Getting a good night’s sleep and giving yourself a break between work and school is important – I learned this the hard way.

This sounds like basic knowledge, but time goes quickly when you have a million things to do. Once, I set a regular schedule for

myself and began sleeping better, I eventually stopped resenting my situation and actually wanted to go to work. I suddenly had the energy to wake up early and tackle my daily tasks.

Something that helped me save money too was buying groceries. This sounds ridiculous be-cause you are spending money rather than saving it, but in the long run it pays off. By buying groceries I stopped buying food from the vending machines and just ordering take-out. I saved a ridiculous amount of money from eating frozen pizzas and pasta, which allowed me to work less. Therefore, I had more time for school and spent less time stressing about money.

By no means do I spend every hour I am not working at school. Sometimes I sit and binge-watch Netflix for four hours, and other times I stare at a wall and just breathe. Doing something I want to do makes me feel less

overwhelmed and resets my “I’m going crazy” button.

The library is open all night on most days of the week, so if you do need to pull an all-nighter because of work or need somewhere quiet to study, I recommend going there. After 10 p.m., you need your school ID to get inside, and you can park in the library lot after 7:30 p.m. without receiving a ticket.

But, I’m still not perfect.

Just ask my editor about how late I turned this column in.

It’s a process, and I think I’m getting better.

One thing that keeps me positive is to write down everything I did that day in my planner. This way I can go back and say, “Hey, I got it all done on Wednesday, how did I do that?” None of these things are fun by any means, but as my dad always reminds me, “You only have a few more years left, just tough it out.” @WoodhouseMaddie

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And the contrast laid bare the growing gender gap between Democrats and Republicans.

Wearing the color of the suffragists, the Democratic women of the House put on a stunning display of solidarity during the State of the Union address Tuesday.

They paid tribute to the women who came before them and gave a nod to their own achievement, as more women than ever are now representatives in the House.

There were white pant-

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The House now has more than 100 women in office. But the vast majority of them, about 90, are Democrats. House Republican women count just over a dozen.

Even when the senators arrive for a joint session like this, the gap comes into view — with the sea of dark suits

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on one side of the aisle, and the diversity of colorful suits and dresses on the other.

On this night, the simplicity of white offered a reminder that fashion is often political.

Theirs was a reflection of the voters who sent them to office last November giving Democrats the House majority.

During his speech, President Donald Trump noted the number of women in newly created jobs last year, touching off a remarkable moment.

The women in white leapt to their feet and high-fived, pointing at themselves and each other. They had won

some of those very jobs.

Trump, surprised, said, “You weren’t supposed to do that.”

Then, because he knew the part of his speech that was coming next, told them not to sit quite yet, promising “You’re going to like this.”

Trump recounted that a century after the Congress passed the Constitutional amendment “giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in the Congress than ever before.”

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“That’s great,” Trump said. “Very great.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi watched over the night, the first woman to wield the gavel, when she rose to the position in 2007, and now the only speaker in half a century to reclaim it when she was elected again in January.

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Participating in research studies offers students financial, academic benefits

By MICHELLE BLESS Staff Writer

There are two things college students are always scrambling for: good grades and money. By participating in research studies, students can obtain both.

Texas Tech has research studies available to earn money, some of which are offered by the Behavioral Medicine & Translational Research (BMTR) Lab. Dr. Martin Binks, associate professor and director of Nutrition & Metabolic Health Initiative, spoke of the research studies.

“My lab is involved in clinical trial research-using human subjects,” Binks said.

Binks primarily studies obesity and how it is related to other issues in the body a n d p s y c h o l o g y. P e o p l e who participate are paid for their time, Binks said, as these studies are open to the general public, not just to Tech students. All participants are offered the same compensation.

Fliers from Binks pro-

vide details on two of his current research studies, involving comfort level during exercise sessions, and a 16-week weight loss program. Binks said topics of his research may include brain access and behavioral, pharmacological exercise. “ We w a n t t o f i l l t h e gap (in research studies),” Binks said.

His research studies involve pre-screening sessions, and in person participation, according to his fliers available for public viewing around campus and online. “(Exercise studies may include) minimal discomfort, but a pain sensitivity test,” Binks said.

Kristina McCravey, the Center for Communication Research lab manager, is the acting manager of SONA, a research study program in the College of Media and Communication.

“SONA houses the studies that we post to it,” McCravey said.

SONA studies are cre-

ated by faculty researchers, graduate students and occasionally undergraduates, McCravey said.

“Faculty research comes from grants a lot of the time, but sometimes it’s industry-sponsored contracts,” McCravey said.

Sometimes local businesses will ask SONA staff to conduct research studies for them when they want to gather information on a specific subject, she said.

SONA is exclusive to Tech students, McCravey said, so it is an efficient way to reach the student audience.

SONA offers a variety of studies, mostly online, but some in person. McCravey said all the studies have a set number of required participants, ranging from 20 to 500. Research studies do not necessarily last the entire semester, they end when they are filled, McCravey said.

Because SONA is exclusively for students, professors often offer extra credit for students’ participation in the studies. Extra credit is the

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only compensation offered for participation in research studies, McCravey said.

Undergraduate students can be recruited to work as research assistants on these projects, and while that makes them ineligible for participation in studies through SONA, students are offered extra credit for working on the development of the studies, McCravey said. Everyone is offered compensation for their work.

All SONA studies are developed by faculty or grad students, and all are approved by the Human Research Participant Protection Program and the Institutional Review Board.

Everyone working on the studies are IRB-certified, McCravey said.

Many mass communication professors offer extra course credit for participation in SONA research studies, she said. Professors are informed before the start of the semester of the SONA studied being offered during the semester and

decide on their own if they wish to offer extra credit.

Professors are not required to offer extra credit for

studies, but all studies are available for professors to give extra credit. @MichelleBlessDT

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Presidential Lecture & Performance series invites performers to Tech The Presidential Lecture & Performance Series invites singers, dancers, actors and more to Texas Tech, giving students and locals the opportunity to view acclaimed artists.

The series will open with a performance from singer Ruthie Foster on Friday, Feb. 22. Foster, a three-time Best Blues Album Grammy nominee, draws influ-

ence from the worship services at her community church and artists like Aretha Franklin, according to the new release.

The series will continue with a performance by BODYTRAFFIC, a Los Angeles contemporary dance company on Friday, March 22.

The series will conclude with a performance of “The Complete

Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]” by the Reduced Shakespeare Company on Friday, April 12.

Performances will take place at the Allen Theatre, located in the Student Union Building.

Tickets are free for students and cost $20 for the general public, according to the website. @AkhilaReddyDT

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By HANA KELETA Staff Writer

While most students are busy studying for exams or are in class, Ayo Olajimi is beginning work on his directorial debut.

The film he is writing, “Kissed by the Sun,” depicts the dangers of drug and sexual abuse, and the hardships that come with motherhood.

The senior communications design major from Dallas is launching a crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo on Feb. 21.

Olajimi is also directing and serving as the cinematographer for the film about the lead character, Solange, a single mother in school trying to find balance between the two, and the hardships she undergoes while doing so.

“We want to tell a story that’s not only engaging on it’s own, but also a conversation starter about the dangers of drug and

sexual abuse,” he said.

“Also the hardships that come with motherhood.”

Olajimi got into film back in his junior year of high school, he said, because he believes storytelling moves people unlike anything else.

“We want to tell a story that’s not only engaging on it’s own, but also a conversation starter about the dangers of drug and sexual abuse.

AYO OLAJIMI DIRECTOR/FILMMAKER “It’s an age-old form of entertainment that that has always and will forever remain prominent,” he said.

“I plan to one day become a full-time director.”

Olajimi wants to direct narrative films, music videos and commercials all across

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The former Texas con-

the world, he said. He has slowly made a name for himself under his brand name “Ayomedia,” where he specializes in mainly music videos, photography and commercial work.

Olajimi is now branching off into narrative work on his own with this directorial debut short film.

“Filmmaking is a deep and extensive process,” he said. “Independent films such as ‘Kissed By The Sun’ are often much more rigorous.”

He and his team has turned to their community of colleagues, professors, family and fellow filmmakers to help bring their vision to life, he said.

“Funds from the campaign will go towards equipment rental, travel expenses, sound design, catering and film submissions,” he said.

“All of the elements will give our film a fighting chance at festival viewership.”

A few things for the production cost include

location fees, permit insurance, catering, camera equipment rental, set decoration, wardrobe/makeup, transportation, professional sound and color mix, traveling/lodging expenses and festival submission, Olajimi said.

Evans Biney Jr., a senior media and communications major from Dallas, is serving as Olajimi’s co-writer and cocasting director.

“The first time we (Olajimi) worked together was in 2013,” Biney said, “and ever since then, this man hasn’t slowed down. He’s always working on his vision and making sure he can execute them to his full capability.”

Biney’s favorite part of the process has been seeing both Olajimi and himself doing things they used to dream about, he said. When starting out, they did not know what they were doing whatsoever, he said, so to see how far they have come from just practice and work ethic has been a

“blessing to witness.”

Biney said he cannot wait to see where they will be in the next five years.

“I’ve learned most from (Olajimi’s) personality and how to really get out of my comfort zone and shell,” he said. “You can’t be afraid to speak up and have some control on set, because at the end of the day, if it’s not coming out how you wanted, it most likely had to do with lack of direction, and that’s definitely something I was able to work on more since I started picking up more from being around my bro.”

Malik Edwards, a senior integrative studies major from Houston, has been a part of the specific project by working on the writing team and the casting call team.

“Ayo is consistently progressing with better work,” Edwards said. “He’s always pushing to be more creative, and his knowledge on film and photography

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is through the roof for someone who is considered an ‘amateur.’ Although he has all these qualities, he remains humble.”

Edward’s favorite part of the process is simply being part of the writing team, because the story is touching, he said.

“I feel like it will leave a great impression on the younger generation of what some of us go through when trying to succeed independently,” he said. @DailyToreador

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Red Raiders face strong schedule in 2019

By ELEANOR GUINAN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech softball program will begin its season this Friday after a 31-28 finish last season with a 5-13 record in Big 12 play.

This year, the team will travel to Conroe for the Lone Star Collegiate Classic with two games on Friday, Feb. 8, two games on Saturday, Feb. 9, and one game on Sunday, Feb. 10, to kick off the 2019 season.

Tech’s first game will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, against Omaha, which finished last season with a record of 20-31 and a 5-9 record in Summit League Conference play. Former outfielder Kelly Pattison had the highest batting average with .415 with 123 at-bats, according to Omaha Athletics.

The Red Raiders will have two games with Nebraska in this tournament, the first at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8 the next at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. Nebraska had a record of 31-23 last season with a 9-13 record in Big 10 play. Junior infielder Tristan Edwards had a .356 batting average with 43 RBIs, according to Nebraska Athletics. Senior outfielder Alyvia Simmons had a .346 average and the most triples on the team with four.

The last game on Saturday will be at 7 p.m. against Wisconsin, which finished with a 29-23 overall record to accompany a winning 11-9 record in Big 10 play.

The Red Raiders will finish out the tournament with a contest against Lamar at 1 p.m. on Sunday. The Cardinals had a record of 28-28 last season with an 11-16 in Southland conference play. Lamar’s best hitter last year was sophomore catcher/infielder Shelby Henderson, who transferred to Tech after last season.

Tech will travel to Auburn for the Plainsman Invitational with two games on Friday, Feb. 15, two games on Saturday, Feb. 16, and a game on Sunday, Feb. 17.

Tech’s first game on Friday will be at 10 a.m. against Drake, with a rematch between the two at 9 a.m. on Sunday.

The Bulldogs rounded out last season 45-12 overall, with a 24-1 record in Missouri Valley conference play, according to Drake Athletics. Junior infielder Mandi Roemmich earned the highest batting average with .356, with junior outfielder Macy Johnson trailing close behind with a .345 average.

The second game on Friday will be at 3 p.m. against University of Alabama at Birmingham, which had a 26-31-1 record from last year and a 15-8-1 record in Conference USA play, according to UAB Athletics. The Blazers lost five starters from last year but have nine returning this season.

The first game on Saturday will be at 4:30 p.m. against Auburn, which finished last season 41-17 with a 11-12 record in the SEC play. Former Tiger Victoria Draper had the

highest batting average on the team at .373 and earned 40 of the Tigers’ runs. Sophomore infielder Taylor Snow was close behind Draper with a .325 average and brought home 26 runs, according to Auburn Athletics.

The final game on Saturday will be at 7 p.m. against Furman, which had a 41-15 record overall and went 10-6 in the Southern conference.

Furman has some strong hitters to replace this year, as former Paladins Hannah Reynolds and Candace Johnson had the highest batting with .284 and .283, according to Furman Athletics.

The Red Raiders will stay on the road and head to Cathedral, California, for the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classics. The tournament consists of two games on Thursday, Feb. 21, one game on Friday, Feb. 22, and two games to finish out the tournament on Saturday, Feb. 23.

Tech starts with a contest with Arizona State at 3 p.m.

The Sun Devils were 48-13 overall last year and 16-8 in PAC 12 play, according to Arizona State Athletics. Junior outfield Kindra Hackbarth had the highest batting average at .368 and 11 doubles.

The squad’s next game will be at 10:30 p.m. against Long Beach, which went 43-14 last year with a 16-5 record in Big West conference play. Former Prospector Hannah Cookson finished the season with a .290 batting average, the highest on the team, which gives the Prospectors a formidable batter to replace in the lineup, according to Long Beach Athletics.

The lone game on Friday will be against Team Japan, Japan’s national team at 10 p.m.

Tech’s first game on Saturday will be at 2 p.m. against Oregon, which had an overall record of 53-10 and went 21-3 in the Pacific 12 conference.

Sophomore outfielder Haley Cruse had the highest batting average last year with .377 and 49 hits, according to Oregon Athletics.

The Red Raiders will finish Saturday out against San

Diego St at 10 p.m. The Aztec Warriors finished the 2018 season at 20-31, with a 11-13 in Mountain West Conference, according to San Diego Athletics. Redshirt senior Katie Byrd finished with a .305 batting average and 51 hits on the season, while senior catcher/ third baseman Molly Sturdivant had the second highest average at .275 with 41 hits.

The team will finish out the tournament with a contest against Washington at 1:30 p.m. The Huskies rounded out last year 52-10 on the year and 15-8 in PAC 12 play, according to UW Athletics. Sophomore infielder Sis Bates led the team with a .389 batting average and 16 doubles.

Tech will head home for the first time, hosting the Texas Tech Invitational with two games on Friday, March 1, and two games on Saturday, March 2. The first game and the last game the team will play in the tournament will be against University of Texas Arlington at 3 p.m. on Friday and 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.

UT Arlington had a 30-28 record last year and a 14-12 record in the Sun Belt conference.

Junior center fielder Laura Curry had a .355 batting average with 50 hits on the year, according to UTA Athletics.

The team will face North Texas at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. on Saturday. The Eagles had a 25-27 overall record last year and 11-12 in Conference USA play, according to North Texas Athletics. Junior outfielder Katie Clark had the highest batting average on the team at .375 with 60 hits.

Tech will take a break from tournament play when the Red Raiders face the University of Texas at El Paso at 2 p.m. on March 5 at Rocky Johnson Field.

The Miners had a 21-33 overall record and a 10-14 record in the USA Conference. Former Miner Courtney Clayton earned the highest batting average with .413 and had the most hits with 32, according to UTEP Athletics.

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The first game Tech will play on Saturday will be at 3:45 p.m. against Memphis, who was 37-21 on the year and 10-11 in the AAC, according to Memphis Athletics. Former Tiger Kyler Trosclair had the highest batting average with .405 and 37 RBIs. The last game of the tournament will be at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday against Maine, which was 22-25 on the year and 9-7 in the CAA, according to Maine Athletics. Former Bear Rachel Carlson led the team with a .312 batting average and 49 hits.

Tech will begin Big 12 play at Rocky Johnson Field at 6 p.m. on March 22, against Oklahoma. Conference play will continue through May until the Red Raiders wrap up their season against Kentucky at 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, and 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 5. The Wildcats went 35-21 overall last season and 8-15 in the Southeastern conference.

With a stacked conference slate and several formidable non-conference opponents, Tech will need to show improvement this season if the team hopes to improve on last season’s 31-28 finish. @EleanorGuinanDT

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After posting a 31-28 record in 2018, the Texas Tech softball team lost a few key players and have added new names to the roster for this season.

The 2019 campaign will kick off at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, against Omaha in the Lone Star Collegiate Classic.

Offensively, the Red Raiders will once again be a squad capable of scoring multiple runs in a hurry. The offense is designed to be fast-paced, looking to cross the plate at any opportunity. Though the lineup is designed to move things around, Tech has hitters with potential to put the ball in play.

Among these hitters is senior All-American first baseman Jessica Hartwell. The Red Raider from Galt, California, was named to USA Softball’s Top-50 Watch list

on Jan. 30, according to Tech Athletics. Hartwell inked her name into the school record books last season with the most homeruns hit in single a season at 20.

Another big bat returning for the Red Raiders comes from redshirt junior Karli Hamilton.

Hamilton frequents right field and tallied eight home runs in 2018, according to Tech Athletics.

Another returning outfielder plays a big, yet different, role in run production for Tech’s lineup. Redshirt sophomore Heaven Burton is typically leadoff but can hold down the No. 2 spot as well.

Burton’s job at the front of the lineup is to get on base or move runners around.

Last season, Burton executed her job with a .379 batting average, .497 slugging percentage and .396 on base percentage. The left fielder also poses a threat on

the base paths, totaling nine stolen bases on 12 attempts, according to Tech Athletics.

Creeping back into the infield, sophomore Breanna Russel is returning to the team after her debut season in 2018. Russel put on a show at the plate by hitting five homeruns. As a freshman, she tied for the third most RBIs on the season at 29, according to Tech Athletics. Senior shortstop Kiana Workman was the other Red Raider she tied with.

Switching things to defense, an area where Tech was met with trouble in 2018, the Red Raiders are poised to show improvement in 2019. Tech posted a .963 fielding percentage last year, while its opponents claimed a percentage at .966, according to Tech Athletics. The Red Raiders have welcomed a few players who could have

MENS BASKETBALL

Culver makes cut for various award watch lists Texas Tech men’s basketball sophomore guard Jarrett Culver has moved up on the John R. Wooden Award Late Season Watch List and the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award Top 10.

Culver is leading the team with 17.8 points, 6.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, according to a Tech Athletics news release. In Monday night’s game against West Virginia, Culver totaled 12 points, two points and three assists. The Lubbock native scored his season-high 30 points against Abilene Christian on Saturday, Dec. 15.

Along with these two awards, Culver has also been named to Oscar Robertson Trophy and Lute Olson Award watch lists.

The sophomore guard also earned a Preseason Honorable Mention.

The Wooden Award winner will be announced in

an impact on the field.

Amongst the new-to-Tech defensive boosters is the transfer from DePaul, junior right handed pitcher Missy Zoch.

Zoch was listed to the 2018 AllBig East team for a standout sophomore season in which she went 16-6 in the circle, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech also added a new pitching coach this offseason, meaning all matters in the circle are first seen by coach Letty Olivarez. Olivarez, a Wisconsin alumna, brings over eight years of coaching experience to the team, according to Tech Athletics.

Olivarez will work with sophomore Erin Edmoundson, who led the circle in many categories for Tech – in both the bullpen and start. Edmoundson was listed to the All Big 12 Freshman team and posted a 17-12 record on the year while claiming a team best ERA at 2.97, according to

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Junior infielder Jessica Hartwell makes catches a throw during Texas Tech’s second game of a double header against New Mexico State Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, at Rocky Johnson Field. Hartwell is one of the few Red Raiders returning to the team this season.

Tech Athletics. The southpaw also struck out 135 batters while allowing 58 walks.

Tech will remain on the

road until March 1, when the Red Raiders will take on UTA in the Texas Tech Invitational. @NoahMiciotto

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Sophomore guard Jarrett Culver goes up for a lay-up during Texas Tech’s home game against Mississippi Valley State. Culver is on the late season watch list for the John R. Wooden Award.

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the week of the Elite Eight during March Madness, and the Jerry West Award

winner will be announced on Friday, April 12. @EleanorGuinanDT

Freshman guard Chrislyn Carr dribbles toward the goal during Texas Tech’s game against Texas Christian University Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Lady Red Raiders were defeated, 70-63. For full coverage of the game, visit www.dailytoreador.com.

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