TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016 VOLUME 90 ■ ISSUE 107
POETRY SOCIETY
ECUADOR
SOFTBALL
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SUSTAINABILITY
Recycling available during move-out week By ALEXA ROSAS
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Staff Writer
ifting through the rollaway dumpsters after move-out week, Melanie Tatum, unit assistant director of Sustainability and Warehouse Operations, has found it all, especially an abundance of new clothes — tags and all. This inspired “Give Before You Go,” Tatum said, a Texas Tech Housing program that is organized by the Tech Recycling Center. Starting on May 6, Goodwill will place donation bins in all residence halls for students to place their used bedding, clothing and electronics. “They collect anything that students just don’t really want,” Julia Peña, marketing and sustainability intern for Student Housing Sustainability, said. “It’s to avoid dumping really good stuff in the trash.” In addition, other bins will be put in the halls so students will be able to get rid of their non-perish-
able food items and their cleaning supplies. These items, Tatum said, will be split between three organizations: Meals on Wheels, Tent City and the Tech Graduate and International Food Pantry. While these bins are easily accessible to students living on campus, these services are not meant
to exclude students who live off campus, Tatum said. While these students are welcome to utilize the bins in the residence halls, there will also be a Goodwill truck in the United Supermarkets Arena parking lot on May 16 and 17. This service benefits Tech in many different ways, Tatum said.
ALUMNI
By donating so much to Goodwill, the university is saving money and labor by not having to send those items to the landfill. “In the past we would just gather it all up and then we’d call different people to come get it,” Tatum said, “and it was very labor intensive for us.”
In addition, Peña said the food saved as well as the money that comes back to the university from recycling goes back to the students in the form of scholarships and as sustenance in the Tech food pantry.
SEE MOVE-OUT, PG. 3
CHARITY
Tech alumnus releases Local nonprofit sends aid book about coach, father to Ecuador quake victims
FILE PHOTO/The Daily Toreador
Gaines Baty puts his guns up during his book signing before the Texas Tech baseball game on April 16 at Rip Griffin Park. Baty, a Tech alumnus and former Tech football player, sold and signed copies of his book, “Champion of the Barrio,” written about his father, high school coach Buryl Baty, who died when Gaines Baty was 4 years old.
By DAVID GAY Staff Writer
If a parent dies young, their child does not usually get the opportunity to get to know them. Gaines Baty got the opportunity to get to know his father through writing a book about him. “Champion of the Barrio,” a narrative nonfiction book by Baty, a former defensive end for Texas Tech in 1969, was released by Texas A&M University Press last year. Baty wrote the book about his father, Buryl Baty, a former quarterback for A&M and football coach at Bowie High School in El Paso, and the impact he made on the players he coached. Baty said he heard stories about his father throughout his life, but because Baty’s father was killed when he was four, he learned things about
his father throughout the process of writing his book. “Every time I met someone who knew my father, they would go out of their way to tell me what a good man he was,” Baty said. “He had been described to me as a special person. My mother told me these stories to keep him alive for me and for herself as well.” There was one monumental moment in Baty’s first varsity game for Tech where he felt connected to his father, he said. “Between my freshman and sophomore year at Tech, they switched me from a running back to a defensive end,” Baty said. “My first game on the varsity team, my parents were there and I came in (wearing) the No. 84 jersey. My mother realized that that was my dad’s number when he played in high school.” Baty’s inspiration to write
a book about his father came from him reading “Twelve Mighty Orphans” by Jim Dent, he said. A few pages in the book were devoted to Baty’s father. Baty thought his dad’s story was as good or better than the story in “Twelve Mighty Orphans.” Gaines Baty’s wife, Keri Baty, said after Baty read “Twelve Mighty Orphans,” she had conversations with him about the possibility of writing his own book. “We discussed the possibility of him writing a book over a period of time as he was learning more and more about his dad,” Keri Baty said. “I thought that he was a good writer, even though he had not written a book, he had written a bunch of business articles. It just felt right.”
SEE BATY, PG. 8
By ANTHONY ESTOLANO Page DeSigner
The aroma of spices and dry-food products filled the air of the Breedlove facility as staff members worked Monday afternoon to complete the packaging of their latest shipment of food, which will aid victims of the earthquake in Ecuador. Elbia Galo, Breedlove business development director, said the shipment contains 1,000,000 servings of dehydrated lentil-based and peanut-based foods and will be shipped to Guayaquil, Ecuador, today so it can reach victims in the affected areas of the country. Galo said Breedlove, a local nonprofit, specializes in the manufacturing of food for humanitarian relief programs, emergency situations and natural disasters.
“We immediately received a phone call from our partners — the evangelical and missionary alliance in Ecuador after the earthquake struck,” she said. “They told us that there was a great need of food and they wanted to help and see if we could donate some food to them.” After a meeting with the board of directors, Galo said the nonprofit decided there were enough funds set aside to send about 44 containers of food to Ecuador. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the costal region of Ecuador, has left more than 600 dead and more than 26,000 victims displaced, according to a news conference address from President of Ecuador Rafael Correa. “We need to figure out a way to help out these people affected,” Cynthia Reinoso Webb, a third-
year doctoral student from Ibarra, Ecuador, said. Reinoso Webb, along with about 23 Ecuadorian students and faculty on campus, set a goal to help raise $40,000 to donate to Breedlove this month. Marcos Sanchez Plata, an associate professor in food security, said the Tech Ecuadorian community is looking to help provide long-term solutions by raising money for food shipments. “What we are trying to get the Texas Tech community to do is be more aware,” Sanchez said. “Most importantly, we are trying to get monetary donations for meals to be shipped.” Galo said Breedlove is actively searching for donations like those raised by the Tech Ecuadorian community.
SEE ECUADOR, PG. 6