MONDAY, FEB. 8, 2016 VOLUME 90 ■ ISSUE 67
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WOMEN’S TENNIS
PG. 8
“HAIL CAESAR!” REVIEW
PG. 6
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STUDENT RECREATION
DANCING FOR D O N AT I O N S
1. Members of the RaiderThon Board play Tug-of-War on Saturday during the RaiderThon event in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. 2. During RaiderThon, students danced for six hours on Saturday to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network. 3. Brooke Downing, an accounting graduate student, instructs the Zumba portion of RaiderThon’s dancing on Saturday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.
Event hosted to raise money for Children’s
PHOTOS BY ELISE BRESSLER / The Daily Toreador
Miracle Network
1. By RYAN ORTEGON
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Staff Writer
aiderThon, a six-hour dance-a-thon to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network, took place Saturday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. RaiderThon is part of a national program called Miracle Network Dance Marathon in which universities from all over the country raise money for their local hospitals.
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The event started at noon and ended at 6 p.m. The main goal of the event was for everybody to be up and moving for six hours and to not sit down, and the slogan of the event was “Standing Up for Those Who Can’t.” Harley Puett, a junior zoology major and president of RaiderThon, said the money raised from the event helps children who come to Lubbock from many other areas. “All the money that RaiderThon raises stays at University Medical Center,
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which just so happens to help kids within a 300-mile radius, so we get a lot of Texas, a lot of New Mexico, but it all stays and helps people that come to our hospital,” she said. Puett said because this is the fourth dance marathon hosted by Texas Tech, she tried to make it fun for everyone to enjoy. The event had an inflatable obstacle course, giant Twister, tug of war, basketballs and hula hoops, all to keep the participants entertained for the time they
were there. There was also a performance from Dancers With Soul, a two-step competition and a Zumba instructor and several families who have been personally helped by the Children’s Miracle Network got up on the stage to talk to a crowd of about 300 participants about their experiences. The event was fun to participate in and a heart-warming experience, Callie Wynn, a freshman electronic media and communication and ad-
vertising dual major, said. “I really enjoyed just getting to talk to people and hearing everyone’s stories and also being able to see the impact that RaiderThon has on these families,” she said. “We always forget how blessed we are and that others are sick or have other things going on and we just need to remember to take a step back and realize that there is a lot worse things that we could be going through.” Anyone was welcome to attend the event as long as they made a $20 donation to
DonorDrive, and everyone received a T-shirt, a meal and access to all the activities. The event also encouraged students to raise $60, whether that was by themselves or by getting donations from others. Puett and her team, however, encouraged the donations to keep coming throughout the day by offering prizes and raffles to those who had the biggest donations or who told the most of their friends.
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MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH
CRIME
Volunteers work on 1930s quilt
Police investigate shooting near Tech, indecent exposure
By SHASHIDHAR SASTRY Staff Writer
In 1925, Texas Tech was opened as Texas Technological College with six buildings and an enrollment of 914 students. In the 1930s, Mabel Erwin, a faculty member of the college, taught a class on home economics. A quilt top made during that class remains to this day and is housed at the Museum of Texas Tech University. Recently, community volunteers from Lubbock agreed to work together and hand-quilt the unfinished piece from Erwin’s 435 Home Economics class.
Although the cloth top was completed during that class, a quilt is composed traditionally of three layers — the top, the batting and the backing — that are combined using the technique of quilting. “So, we’re stitching through three layers to create a design, and also to hold all three layers in place,” Marian Ann Montgomery, curator of clothing and textiles for the museum, said. “Hand-quilting is something that is not often done today.” The quilt top was pieced in the Double Irish Chain pattern of soft pastel orange fab-
rics, Montgomery said. The soft pastel colors became popular in the 1920s after World War I, when German dye manufacturers were blockaded by the British. But the appeal of the pastel colors continued to last through the 1930s and 1940s. While quilts are frequently used as beddings, Montgomery said many quilts are non-utilitarian and displayed as works of art. The hand-quilting design for this quilt was found in a book owned by a Lubbock quilter, Linda Fisher.
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MCKENZI MORRIS / The Daily Toreador
As a part of the “Legacy of a Thousand Stitches” quilt exhibit, Curator of Clothing and Textiles at the Museum of Texas Tech Marian Ann Montgomery works on an unfinished quilt from the 1930s that was part of a College of Human Ecology class project. Volunteers from Lubbock are hand stitching the quilt to finish it, and then it will hang on display in the museum.
At approximately 6 p.m. Sunday, the Lubbock Police Department responded to a shooting at St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church at 2316 Broadway. According to a campus crime alert email, a 51-year-old male victim suffered life-threatening injuries and was transported to the University Medical Center. The suspect left the scene. The suspect was last seen heading southbound on 19th Street. The police department placed officers on heightened alert and received suspect information, according to the email. The suspect never entered Tech’s campus and there does not appear to be any threat to the on-campus community, according to the email.
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