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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2016 VOLUME 90 ■ ISSUE 131

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Transportation & Parking Services hosts free car clinic on campus By MICHAEL CANTU

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espite a cloudless sky and early morning heat, student commuters and visitors alike made their way out to the C1 north commuter parking lot by Jones AT&T stadium Thursday for a free car clinic. Hosted by Transportation & Parking Services three times a year, the clinic is meant to give people a chance for basic car mechanics before they head back home or travel far distances for a break from classes. Normally the event is hosted in the Commuter West parking lot, but because of construction around Indiana Avenue they decided to change the location, Stacy Stockard, marketing coordinator for Transportation & Parking services said. Attendees came into the entrance greeted by a staff member, survey card and the option for free hot dogs, drinks and snacks. “We do it before Thanksgiving and Christmas break too, because people are starting to travel around,” Eric Crouch, managing director of Transportation & Parking Services said. “And then we do

it before Spring Break when folks are hitting the road.” After their initial greeting, participants then pulled ahead while still inside of their vehicles to get their cars or trucks checked out. While getting that done they also had an insurance agent, Rebecca Egert, providing information and gifts to participants. Once a car was finished getting looks at, the driver then proceeded to a tent at the end of the line to submit their survey card so, if they were a student or faculty member, they could be entered in a drawing for a free parking permit. “You don’t even have to get out of your car for the whole process,” Stockard said. “So when it’s warm you can stay in the air conditioning of your car.” This has been a staple at Texas Tech for nearly 19 years, Crouch said. Parking Services partners with Scott’s Complete Car Care for this event, which is entirely free to the public, he said. “They’ll check your tires, your fluids and let you know if anything is off,” Crouch said. “They don’t fix anything here, they just let you know if there’s something that needs attention.”

Scott Egert, owner of Scott’s Complete Car Care, said the company has lent its services from the start of this event and when they participate they see a wide variety of cars. However, one of the biggest concerns with older and newer cars is a cracked belt. Many times there is hardly any indication of problems with the vehicle in that instance. “The reason we do this is because

they’re getting out of (summer) school right now and we’re trying to get them home safely,” Egert said. Besides belts, the group also checks on fluids in the car and tops them off if they need it, he said. They have also seen quite a few wiper blades that were torn and potentially useless. They can only look for obvious problems with cars, he said, and the reason they host this event when

they do it is mainly so students have time to fix any problems the mechanics notice before they go on long drives, presumably back home. “We’re not out here on our behalf, we’re out here on their behalf and their families behalf,” Egert said. “We don’t want to let them on the road with something that’s obvious to our eye, so we’re giving them an opportunity (now).” @MichaelCantuDT

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1: An employee from Scotts Car Care checks a truck for any problems and performs routine maintenance at no charge during the Free Car Clinic in the Commuter North parking lot on Thursday. Transportation & Parking Services hosts the event three times a year throughout the school year. 2: Employees from Scotts Car Care perform routine maintenance at no charge on vehicles lined up in the Commuter North parking lot on Thursday. The event is hosted three times a year by Transportation & Parking Services, each before a holiday break.

HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

HSC to host White Coat ceremony at Civic Center The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center will host a White Coat ceremony to introduce 182 new medical students and future doctors into the medical field and present them with their first white coat. The HSC’s School of Medicine will host the presentation at 3 p.m. today at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Theatre at 1501 Mac Davis Lane according to an HSC news release. “For many students, dreams of putting on the white coat begin the day they are accepted into medical school. The coat symbolizes that the years of hard work and

dedication have finally paid off,” Dr. Steven L. Berk, HSC executive vice-president, provost and dean of the School of Medicine said in the release. “The student’s white coat also symbolizes that they have been invited into the prestigious profession of medicine, a privilege which comes with great professional responsibility.” This ceremony stresses the importance of humanism and professionalism in the practice of medicine and the coat itself has been used as the visual hallmark of physicians since the 19th century, according to the release. This tradition for first-year

medical students marks the transition from the study of preclinical to clinical health sciences, according to the release. According to Berk, more than 100 medical schools in the U.S. have a white coat ceremony and many students consider it a right of passage. The medical students include 34 from Tech, 18 from the University of Texas Southwestern and 13 from Baylor University as well as from Duke University, Emory University, Yale University and other universities and academies around the country. @DailyToreador

INTERNATIONAL

Vice Provost to temporarily head U.S. embassy in Nigeria The Texas Tech Vice Provost for International Affairs Tibor Nagy was selected on Thursday by the United States Department of State as Charge d’Affaires or interim ambassador in Nigeria. Nagy’s term will only take place in August, according to a Tech news release, due to the retirement of the current ambassador. There is also a wait required for a Senate confirmation of a new ambassador. “For the U.S., Nigeria grows in importance each year because of our mutual security and economic interest,” Nagy said in the release. “The Nigerian people are terrific, and I’m really looking forwarded to experiencing all the changes since my last visit years ago.”

Nagy has more than 20 years experience in African relations. Some of his duties have included serving as general services officer in Lusaka, Zambia, an administrative officer in Victoria, Seychelles, systems administrator for the African Bureau in Washington, administrative officer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, deputy chief of mission at Lome, Togo, Yaoundé, Cameroon and Lagos, Nigeria, and U.S. ambassador to Guinea and Ethiopia, according to the release. While in his position Nagy plans to promote Tech because Nigeria is the world’s 15th largest nation in terms of sending international students to the U.S., according to the release. @DailyToreador


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