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SGA forms partnership with Uber

BY KAITLIN BAIN Senior reporter

Texas Tech Student Government Association External Vice President Caleb Fisher has been working with Uber officials to form a partnership between the ride-sharing company and Tech.

During the SGA elections for the 2015-2016 school year, both external vice presidential candidates spoke of a desire to start a partnership between Uber and Tech as an addition to Safe Ride programs.

Safe Ride currently has two components, Safe Ride, which is the number on the back of Tech IDs students can call to get a ride home Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, Fisher said. The second option is the S-bus, which is an SGA bus service that runs a route from campus to the Depot District and Broadway areas.

“Unfortunately, the Safe Ride options that we do offer are underutilized and frequently, I think, ineffective,” he said. “One of the big things I campaigned on was finding other options to supplement that service to make sure our students are getting to and from their locations safely.”

The option that looked the best for Tech students was a partnership with Uber, he said, because many students in the area already use Uber to get safely around Lubbock.

After beginning conversations with Uber and the City of Lubbock, however, Fisher said he hit several roadblocks

because of the current political situation in the city with Uber.

Uber does not currently meet requirements set by the city in reference to vehicles-forhire operations.

“There are no city ordinances that govern ride sharing,” Fisher said. “We were hoping to have a full-year partnership with Uber, but because of those limitations, we just had to have a short-term marketing arrangement.”

Uber is offering Tech student discounts and SGA is marketing those discounts, he said.

According to a study conducted by Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Jan-

uary, in California — Uber’s first and longest-standing market — after the launch of UberX, drunken driving crashes decreased by 60 per month among drivers younger than 30.

Fisher hopes Tech students will use these discounts and show both Uber and the City of Lubbock a partnership is a positive for students, he said.

“I think currently, without Uber, many students were resorting to driving because there was a lack of quick and efficient ways to get home,” he said.

“Personally with my network, people are using Uber already to get home safely.”

These discounts will not

only save students money, he said, but also encourage more students to get on board with the ride sharing service.

Larissa Miller, a junior education major from Plano, said she uses Uber because she knows where the car is, when it is going to get to her location and she knows it will be quick.

“No one wants to wait.

Especially when you’re with friends and want to get to your next place or you’re just ready to get home,” she said.

“Uber is just faster and it’s way safer.”

The discounts include 20 percent off for all Tech students until Sunday and a $20 credit

for all first-time Uber user students, Fisher said.

The goal for the rest of the school year, he said, is to get as many discounts as possible and hopefully end up with a long-term partnership between Tech and Uber.

“My hope is with these discounts our students are saving a lot of money and maybe those students who aren’t aware of Uber or don’t want to pay will be able to use the service to refrain from drunk driving,” he said. “I do see this being successful and helping decrease the students getting out on the road and driving drunk.” @KaitlinBain

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Slain Virginia TV reporter, cameraman were budding young journalists

(AP) — They were two young journalists, eager and hungry for a story, fulfilling their dreams of working in TV news.

Reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, grew up in the

Roanoke, Virginia, area and started their television careers there, becoming local celebrities in the process and finding love along the way.

O n We d n e s d a y, t h e two were following their

passion when they were gunned down by a disgruntled former reporter they once worked with at WDBJ. The shots rang out in the middle of a live story about the 50th anniversary of a reservoir known

as Smith Mountain Lake.

The attack was captured on Ward’s camera.

In their work, the broadcasters were “full of smiles and full of exuberance,” said Jeffrey Marks, general manager of the Roanoke station.

The pair worked as a team for the station’s “Mornin’” show, a time slot where many broadcast journalists get their start. They covered everything from breaking news to feature stories about child abuse.

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SGA, administration explore differential tuition

By KAITLIN BAIN Senior reporter

The Texas Tech and Tech University System administrations are currently looking at a plan that could change tuition costs for different degrees at Tech.

Currently, about twothirds of universities in the country are using differential tuition programs, Holton Westbrook, Tech Student Government Association president, said.

The idea is that a university will look at the colleges within it and analyze what kinds of amenities each college has, such as tutoring sessions, career service sessions and ambassador programs, as well as future factors such as earning potential for graduates, he said.

The university will then value the degrees in each college and price a potential change in tuition for each respective college.

Tech is in the early stages

of exploring a program like this for university degrees, Westbrook said.

“There was a study led by the Office of the President here at Texas Tech,” he said, “and they saw ways universities had not executed it correctly and they found ways administrations have done a great job, so they basically merged the two to create an idea and plan that could work out for our university.”

This study and model was presented in August at the most recent Board of Regents meeting, according to the Tech System Board of Regents website.

The goals of the committee were to “create a model which generates designated tuition dollars for the colleges providing flexibility of use, focus on colleges which have higher enrollment demand and higher costs to request ‘college differentials,’ and provide a baseline for colleges who are not implementing differential,” ac-

cording to the presentation given by Tech President M. Duane Nellis and Tech Chief Financial Officer Noel Sloan.

The strategy presented included converting Academic Department Instructional Assessment fees into designated tuition, allowing higher demand and highercost colleges to set an additional “differential” increase for undergraduate students, submitting to the Board of Regents in December of oddnumbered years a two-year plan to maintain overall affordability and growth and continue allowing program fees to generate funding for college-specific goals.

Each college included in this program will identify which fees they will charge for their degree in addition to tuition, Chris Cook, managing director of the Office of Communications and Marketing, said.

They will then be required to introduce the fees to the Board of Regents to gain approval, he said, just

like the Board of Regents approves tuition each year.

“There are still fees that are associated with the Rec Center and things like that,” he said. “They still exist, but they won’t be broken down into a line-item spreadsheet.”

These fees do not need to be raised very much because of the colleges being evaluated to have differential tuition, Cook said. Looking at the number of students enrolled in each college, it would not take a lot of money per student to reach the objectives set forth, such as decreasing student-tofaculty ratios.

“A lot of times students are paying for certain services that are going to the engineering college or the ag college, so we’re trying to not target all students in that issue,” Westbrook said.

“I know, for instance, the agriculture college, they’re not spending or raising by hundreds of dollars, it’s just a very small margin of change

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Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering — Differential tuition will provide the college additional revenue to add faculty to reduce current student-to-faculty ratio College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources — Differential tuition will allow the college to fund initiatives to improve education quality including developing new courses and programs and funding support for facilities and off-campus learning activities Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration — Differential tuition will allow the college to hire additional support staff and provide student development funding

that won’t be grandfathered in if it were to happen.”

The initial information has been presented to the University System Board of Regents and more discussion will take place at the next Board of Regents meeting in December.

Currently the three colleges being evaluated for differential tuition are the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. Col-

lege of Engineering, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, Cook said.

These were decided based on demand, he said, and should not deter enrollment but instead be comparable to the earning potential and value of degree each student earns. @KaitlinBain

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SGA plans scholarship program for students

By KRISTEN BARTON newS editor

In an effort to help students better afford school, the Texas Tech Student Government Association is currently working on a program to award scholarships to students.

Holton Westbrook, SGA president, said this scholarship program is important to the executive board because the members have given their service and now they want to give back financially. Westbrook said SGA understands students’ struggle to afford college and wants to help alleviate the cost of school.

“We worked with administration a little bit to find out that there are some funds that are available to be used,” Westbrook said. “We worked

with them and met and found common ground to be able to use these funds for these scholarships to give out to students.”

These funds have been in the university for some time, he said, and the account got lost because Tech has to keep track of a vast amount of scholarship funds.

Juan Muñoz, senior vice president for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and vice provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs, said the account found is a type of quasi-endowment.

“We’re still going to determine the source. You know, obviously there’s tuition that is used for financial aid in some instances set aside, there could be a program through some philanthropy dollars raised through

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Texas Tech added a new parking lot this year for students who park on campus, Commuter ICC, near the International Cultural Center and the 9th Street bridge.

Stacy Stockard, marketing coordinator for transportation and parking services, said the parking lot is convenient for students who are taking classes in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, or anywhere on the north side of campus.

There are not many changes students will see from last year though, Ruiz said, other than the new lot.

Jenae Fleming, a senior electronic media and communications major from Lubbock, said she parks in Commuter West and has experienced trouble finding parking for her classes later in the day.

Parking services usually sees a higher volume of traffic the first week of school, Stockard said, so students should try to leave early for classes to make sure they find parking and can make it to class on time.

As campus grows, Stockard said, transportation and parking services plans to expand the commuter lots.

The external vice president for the Student Government Association, Caleb Fisher, works closely with transportation and parking services, and said students want closer locations to park on campus and need education on where to park.

“I think one of the main things I’d like to see happen,” Fisher said, “would be a transportation and

calculate how much the principle generates in terms of payout.”

In the past, SGA has not had much information on funds or possibilities for this, Westbrook said. After reaching out to administration, student government is prepared to give 15 to 20 scholarships to students.

The scholarship will be about $1,000, Westbrook said, and will have a GPA requirement and be awarded to students who are involved on campus and show leadership. Some scholarships will be given solely to freshmen, and two will be given to SGA student senators, he said. The sena-

tors scholarship is to help incentivize senators to keep serving the student body.

“We are currently finishing up the descriptions and the applications,” he said, “and we should be able to give those scholarships out by mid-September or early October.”

Students can fill out an application online or a paper copy when the application is ready, Westbrook said.

SGA will give back about $20,000 per semester and is hoping to see it grow to about $100,000, Westbrook

said. They want to give students opportunities to really feel what it is like to have financial aid.

“It’s really cool to see how we had an idea that I thought would take years to come to fruition, and these guys in this office as well as administration really wanted to make that happen, and they were able to find a way to make that happen,” he said. “The administration really cares about the students to give back in a way that we’ve never done before really quickly.” @KristenBartonDT

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some kind of sponsorship, dinner, event or program,” Muñoz said.

“I’m not certain that the MUÑOZ source has been determined yet.”

The account SGA and Muñoz are currently looking at is called Student Leadership Programs. The name was changed in 2004 and could be what caused the confusion, Muñoz said.

“There’s a pool of money there that has been built up over years and I believe it can be used for scholarships,” he said. “The challenge obviously is to

parking app for your phone.”

The app would tell a student where they can park on campus depending on location, time of day and type of parking permit, he said.

“I think Lubbock is a very driver-oriented city,” Fisher said.

People who live in apartments and houses do not really have other options to get to campus sometimes, he said.

Tech has three bus routes around campus, Stockard said, and the apartment routes seem to be very popular among students living off campus.

“I think price is a concern on every campus,” Stockard said. “We actually have some of the lowest citation fees in the Big 12 and with similar universities in Texas.”

Our late fee for parking tickets is one of the least expensive compared to other campuses. After 10 days of not paying the ticket, it increases $5 and transfers to student business services, and if a student parks in a handicap spot, it is a state mandated $200 ticket.

Stockard said the most common parking violation they see is parking without a permit on campus, which usually range from $20 to $25 depending on the location, and after five tickets in one semester, a car is eligible for a boot. After 10 tickets, a car is eligible to be towed.

The parking and transportation services customers remain the main priority, she said.

“We will always experience some frustrations,” Stockard said. @EastonWollneyDT

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Journalists’ deaths have worldwide influence

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n Wednesday, a former WDBJTV reporter shot and killed journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward during an on-air interview in the Roanoke, Virginia, area.

I can’t stomach the idea of watching the video of the incident, which gunman Vester Flanagan II, known professionally as Bryce Williams, posted on Facebook. There are certain incidents that hit too close to home, and this is one of them.

People have to truly love what they do in order to pursue journalism as a career.

You work long hours, face difficult topics and, to top it off, don’t have a great salary.

In The Daily Toreador’s newsroom, I know I’ve said on countless occasions that I’ve given up my life by working for this publication.

Parker and Ward actually did.

Ram Ramgopal, executive editor of CNN, put it best when he tweeted, “This was not a war zone. Journalists were doing a perfectly safe story all local TV stations do.

Yet they get shot, on air. This is America.”

Senseless killings shouldn’t happen at all, but they especially shouldn’t happen when someone goes out to cover a local feature story.

Amy Cunningham is the managing editor of The DT and a junior public relations major from Houston.

As a former La Vida section editor, I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve covered local stories like the one Parker and Ward were working on when they were killed. I have no idea how many times I’ve sent reporters to write those same articles.

“It could’ve been me,” is one of my least favorite mentalities to have, because pretty much anything can possibly happen to a person.

But in this case, it’s kind of true.

The DT’s staff participated in an active shooting training just before classes started, and now I know why that was necessary. It’s terrifying that this is our reality now.

It makes my stomach hurt, and I don’t know that sick feeling will ever go away when thinking about the lives lost Wednesday and how their loved ones must feel.

It was a live broadcast when the shooting occurred, and I have the utmost respect for the way the WDBJ-TV crew has handled such a

tragic event.

In my opinion, their quality coverage on the loss of their fellow journalists is what Parker and Ward would’ve wanted.

According to the WDBJTV website, Flanagan shot himself Wednesday, dying later in a Virginia hospital. He was fired two years ago from the station.

A 23-page manifesto, which was faxed to ABC News, reportedly details various motivating factors for the shooting, including disgust after the June church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and discrimination by coworkers.

But as Jeff Marks, general manager of the station, said in a CNN interview, the shooter isn’t who matters anymore.

These were two journalists who had dreams bigger than what they were able to achieve, but their dedication inspires me and countless other journalists.

Whether someone is covering a Watergate-sized scandal or a feature story on the anniversary of a lake in Virginia, remember that journalism is impactful and important. I believe journalists will continue to make Parker and Ward proud. @DailyToreador

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US-Mexico border more dangerous than most think

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he United States border with Mexico is a hot topic in policy, politics and police. Most people, when they hear about the infamous border, think of one issue in particular.

Enter the drug trade.

There are many opinions on solving the problem of the drug trade, but few real solutions. Drugs come across the border in a variety of inventive ways, from drug-running cartels and semi-submersibles entering U.S. territorial waters with loads of cocaine, to a literal catapult and a Honduran with a rebreather scuba swimming through a partially submerged tunnel. There have even been partially successful attempts by cartels in Columbia and Ecuador to develop a fully functional, fully submersible submarine. But now that I think of it, this probably isn’t the issue most people hear about.

Enter the arms trade. Illegal weapons are a large part of the border issue. Fully automatic weapons, explosives and armor-piercing rounds of various levels of effectiveness cross the border. According to articles by Borderlandbeat. com and Motherboard.com, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and explosives, along with Mexican authorities, raided two shops in Mexico that were producing AR-15 pattern rifles. These shops were manufacturing weapons with the intent of selling them to organized crime.

In June of this year, a Border Patrol helicopter was also fired upon and forced down near Laredo. According to an article by CNN, the small arms fire came from the Mexican side of the border.

Because firearms are largely illegal in Mexico, the people with the most guns tend to make the most rules.

It is one reason why the cartels are often able to act with impunity, much to the chagrin of the locals caught between them and the authorities.

A botched ATF operation,

John Bowles is a senior journalism major from Garland.

Operation Fast and Furious, attempted a sting on participants in this trade by having illegal firearms sold through third parties. According to articles by CNN and the Los Angeles Times, one of these firearms the ATF failed to track was tied to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, and another was used in the recent attempted terrorist attack in Garland, Texas. However, now that I think of it, this probably is not the issue most people hear about either.

Enter human trafficking.

In 2013, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report, a sex-trafficking organization operating in Houston was exploiting Mexican and Honduran girls as young as 14. These girls were reportedly brought in via human smugglers. According to an article by U.S. News and World Report, coyotes (human smugglers) often use rape as a tool to control those they lead into the U.S. across the border. There are also other intimidation tools called “rape trees,” where coyotes pile the undergarments of their conquests to boast about the women they have raped. This is probably another issue people aren’t hearing much about.

Another issue of import, which has been confirmed

by Mexican authorities to the writers of JudicialWatch. org, is the presence of ISIS militants who camped only a few miles from the Texas border in an area known as Anapra. According to the same sources, coyotes working for the Juarez cartel are smuggling these terrorists in through areas known for their weak security and police forces. The same sources indicate that ISIS plans to

exploit the transportation infrastructure of port-of-entry Santa Theresa, New Mexico.

These sources also indicated that ISIS is conducting reconnaissance of government and infrastructure facilities, as well as universities.

There have been concerns for years that cartels would smuggle terrorists and their gear into the United States.

The terrorists would ideally, in the eyes of the cartels, distract the government and authorities from their lucrative illicit operations by giving them a threat they could not afford to ignore.

The cartels themselves are becoming a formidable force with the influx of drug money and the change they are having on the culture of the areas they control.

Many Mexican cartels worship Santa Muerte, the “Saint of Death,” who they believe protects them from bullets.

According to reports on FBI. gov, they have allegedly taken this cult worship to a new and grisly level, including ritualistic murder as part of their worship.

The Los Zetas cartel, according to an article by Time magazine, has been producing its own armored vehicles and tanks and its own weapon systems, including van-mounted road spike launchers. Cartels are making their own homebrewed military gear, and with Los Zetas founders being ex-Mexican Special Operations Forces (trained by U.S. Special Forces), according to a Fox News article, this is a recipe for extreme danger.

The southern border needs to be properly secured due to the insane threats and crime that run along its length.

These threats also need to be better reported, not to provoke fear, but so that people understand the very valid threats that face our state and our nation.

But you expected this column to be about illegal immigration, didn’t you? jbowles@dailytoreador.com

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Investigation of Texas jails a step in right direction

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he Waller County Jail, from online pictures, appears to look quite ordinary, if not a bit uninteresting. The small jail has dull, eggshell-white walls and a brown metal roof, giving the jail the appearance and charm of an old Dollar General store.

The Texas town in which the jail resides, Hempstead, has a population of approximately 5,700 inhabitants, according to a 2010 U.S. census, and appears as unassuming as its county jail.

Due to the town’s small atmosphere, the sudden death of Sandra Bland in the Waller County Jail this last July came to many as a complete surprise. According to CNN, Bland was on the way to a new job and had no history of mental illness or any criminal background.

According to the Austin American-Statesman, Sandra Bland was found dead in her cell three days after her arrest. She was arrested after supposedly assaulting a public servant after being pulled over for failing to use a turn signal.

While the police ruled the death a suicide, the family has accused the police force of foul play, causing an investigation to be launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Texas Rangers into the standards and conditions of Texas county jails.

Though the emotions around the sudden death of Bland remain high, her death has fortunately caused a much-needed look into the Texas justice system. As the facts surrounding Bland’s untimely death continue to unfold, a conversation has finally started about the many issues of the criminal justice system, including the conditions of the county jails.

The verdict of suicide may have surprised Bland’s family, but in Texas county jails, Bland’s death-by-suicide is too common. According to a NPR report titled, “The ‘Shock Of Confinement’: The Grim Reality Of Suicide In Jail”, correspondent Martin Kaste says that Texas jails have a much higher sui-

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

cide rate than society would think, and that they are much higher than the suicide rate of Texas prisons. According to an article from the Texas Tribune, of all the jail deaths in 2009, almost onethird of county jail deaths are by suicide.

Martin suggests these higher rates can be attributed to the “shock of confinement,” a term coined by corrections expert and consultant Steve J. Martin.

This term applies to individuals who, like Sandra Bland, do not have previous jail experience and can experience serious trauma in these scenarios.

According to the NPR report, the 2012 suicide rates in jails doubled the rates in prison. Kaste writes that while prison administrators have detailed reports of their inmate’s mental health, jail staff can only rely on questionnaires given to inmates.

It must be noted that, according to NPR, this questionnaire was given to Bland twice in Waller County, which obviously did not help jailers prevent Bland’s death.

Michele Deitch, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, says that the State of Texas can improve jail oversight in several ways. In an article by the Texas Tribune, Deitch says that the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the organization in charge of holding Texas jails up to standard, is critically underfunded.

According to a different article by the Texas Tribune, titled, “Sandra Bland Case Shows Deficiencies in Jail Oversight,” authors Colliers and Walters write that this commission only employees four people to watch Texas’ 244 county and private jails and only employees one inspector to deal with inmate complaints.

While this agency remains understaffed, regulation violations and poor standards often become noticed only after tragedy. In the case of suicidal patients, NPR states that Texas jails are required to check on inmates once every hour. However, for the Waller County Jail, it is unclear whether the jail was complying with standards. According to Deitch, if the commission was adequately staffed, there would be a much greater chance of jailer’s consistently enforcing these standards.

Additionally, Deitch says that Texas should have a different branch to focus on the treatment of inmates and inmate complaints. While the current Commission on Jail Standards investigates the jails’ compliance with specific standards, it does not evaluate the treatment of inmates or the relationships between staff and inmates.

While Bland’s death may be a rare occurrence for the Waller County Jail, these occurrences seem to be becoming more common. One example might be Ouisa Davis, an Iraq veteran who died in an El Paso jail last May, according to an article by the El Paso Times.

According to the article, Davis,serving a short DWI, was rushed in his cell by officers in riot gear after Davis was seen to have an alleged “episode.” In a video of the encounter, Davis can be seen shouting that he couldn’t breathe and that “I’ve got problems.”

Though Davis can be seen bleeding through the nose and ears, an ambulance wasn’t called until approximately 30 minutes after the incident, according to the article. Davis was pronounced dead shortly after and his family is currently suing for damages.

That Davis and Bland died in Texas jails within days of their arrival is horrific. However, if this investigation can provide insight into the current state of Texas jails, perhaps their deaths will not totally be in vain. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Concealed carry referendum will be open to students

BY AMANDA CASTRO-CRIST Staff Writer

Senate Bill 11 — the bill allowing concealed handguns in campus buildings with a license — has been signed into law and will go into effect on the Texas Tech campus next August.

Before then, campus administrators will develop on-campus restrictions to determine where a student can carry.

The Tech Student Government Association wants to make sure students also have a voice in the discussion.

“As student government, it’s obviously our responsibility to stay in touch with the students, understand interests and be sure to focus on that,” Holton Westbrook, SGA president and a senior agriculture economics major from Stephenville, said. “The best way to do that on an issue like this it is to gauge a student body through a referendum.”

Referendums have been used in the past to gather student feedback about campus issues like the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center and renovations on campus, Westbrook said. For campus carry, SGA will add questions to the homecoming ballot to gather responses from a large percentage of the student body.

“We’re going to do it at a high

traffic time, whenever people are voting for homecoming, as thousands of students will already be on board there,” he said. “(It’s) a list of questions that we ask that you be a part of. It’s not an action piece, it’s almost like getting a census of what the university feels for this specific issue.”

Westbrook said students and faculty across campus have already started voicing their opinions on both sides of the issue, tweeting and posting support and concerns on other social media outlets.

“Safety is a huge concern when it comes to being a student,” he said.

Michael Comfort, a sophomore history major from Kingwood, lives on campus in the West Village Residence Hall.

He said while he does support a person’s second amendment right to bear arms and does not think the right should be taken away, he still has concerns about students carrying concealed weapons on campus.

“Safety above all — I think that people should be adequately trained,” he said. “When it comes to bringing it on campus, there are still a lot of people on campus that aren’t the most mature of individuals.”

Areas of campus, whether it is a classroom or a residence hall, should be considered a learning environment, Comfort

said, and introducing guns to that environment causes an unnecessary distraction to students. The only people who should carry guns on campus are the police, he said, and in situations of an active shooting, more guns could likely cause more injuries or deaths.

“If you’re shooting somebody, whether it be the gunman or somebody else, I would think as a police officer they would shoot both and just take no risk at all because you have active gunfire going both ways,” Comfort said.

Once a person pulls out a gun on campus, whether it is to harm or protect someone, Comfort said, they have made the decision to take their life into their own hands.

“You have to face the fact that you have a gun out, you’re shooting at somebody and if somebody shoots back how are they supposed to know (the difference)?” he said. “For all they know, there are multiple shooters and they’re going to take down everybody with a gun.”

Westbrook said the campus carry discussion is one that has extended to include members of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center SGA. While both are universities, the two differ in that the HSC has a hospital facility on campus, he said.

“A large majority of their campus is going to be a no-

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SGA is planning to add a referendum to the homecoming ballot to learn students’ opinions about concealed campus carry. SGA has used referendums in the past by SGA to obtain student input.

carry zone, just simply due to the fact that it’s not a safe place to have firearms,” Westbrook said. “We’ve collaborated across the universities, but we’ve also understood our differences.”

HSC SGA President Mike Russell said they expect it will be interesting to sit in on committee meetings regarding open carry and the HSC campus.

“It’s a whole unique bear because of the hospital, because you can’t physically carry in

a hospital and in the lab setting,” Russell said. “(But) you can’t make a blanket statement saying the whole campus is off because then that violates the intent of the law.”

Regardless of which campus students attend, Westbrook said it is important for them to take part in the discussion. Students who still have more years at Tech will be directly affected once concealed carry begins next year, while graduating

students have the opportunity to shape the experiences of incoming Red Raiders, he said.

“This is a big historic moment where you can look back and say, ‘My vote mattered because I was able to give them my voice and my thoughts and insight on something as big as campus carry,’” Westbrook said.

“Potentially five minutes (of input) will shape the future for decades to come.” @CCAmanda_DT

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Fisher looks to start city service day event

BY DAVID GAY Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Student Government Association is planning an event called Tech the Town, a day for Tech students to help with service projects and give back to the city of Lubbock.

While the day is still in the planning stages, External Vice President Caleb Fisher said, SGA wants to see it implemented in the next semester.

Student government members evaluated themselves and figured out they had not been doing much for the Lubbock community, SGA President Holton Westbrook, said.

“We looked at what we were doing well and what we were not doing so well here at student government, and we didn’t do a lot for the community,” Westbrook said.

“The community has done so much for us. It’s time for

us to give back and make a positive impact.”

The way SGA sees Tech the Town is similar to how Texas A&M University does The Big Event, Westbrook said. This is a potential opportunity for students and organizations to go out and help the residents of Lubbock with different service projects.

Tech the Town will bring all the recognizable organizations on campus, such as Greek life and the band, together to help the city of Lubbock, Fisher said. Faculty, staff and Lubbock residents

will also be asked to join in the event.

“We want to try and get as many people involved as we can and trying to achieve the goal to give back to the community,” Westbrook said.

The vision SGA has toward this initiative would be similar to Arbor Day, Fisher said.

“It could be anything from picking up trash to fixing a sidewalk or planting flowers throughout the city,” he said. “It’s all about having Texas Tech students improving the city

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and building a relationship with the city of Lubbock.”

Being a service-driven leader is an important goal of student government this year, Fisher said. SGA wants to be part of what is going on in Lubbock and improving everyone’s lives in the city.

“I’m glad to be a part of a student government that is involved in being a part of the community,” Westbrook

said. “We want to ensure that we do our jobs on campus as well as taking time to give back in a positive way to the community.”

Michael Blandon, a freshman animal sciences and production major from Managua, Nicaragua, said this day would be beneficial to the student body.

“I feel like as I drive around Lubbock, there is help needed,” Blandon said.

“We shouldn’t help just as Texas Tech students but as the community of Lubbock as a whole because we all live in the same city.”

Student government hopes Tech the Town will become an annual event, Fisher said. The organization plans to set the bar high this year and hopes this will be an event the city looks forward to every year. @DavidGayDT

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Nicholas Goettsche, a third year law student from Amarillo and the SGA Supreme Court Chief Justice, oversees all rulings that make it to the Supreme Court and also advises SGA senate members when it comes to making legislation decisions.

BY JOSE MELENDEZ Staff Writer

As a young man strolling through his hometown of Amarillo, third-

year law student Nicholas Goettsche could only imagine what his future in politics and government would look like.

While pursuing an un-

dergraduate degree at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Goettsche took steps to make his dreams more feasible by serving for four years in

the WTAMU’s Student Government Association.

His first two years were spent serving in the senate with a variety of roles, and in his last two years he was vice president and eventually student body president.

Goettsche’s vision became clearer and more attainable after he transferred to Texas Tech, and he is now in the highest position of the judicial branch of the Student Government Association, chief justice for the SGA Supreme Court.

“I was responsible for representing the school to the Board of Regents, to the state and to the nation,” Goettsche said regarding his role as student body president at WTAMU. This experience helped prepare him for his new role in Tech’s SGA. “I had done it before and I thought it would be a fun experience,” Goettsche said. “I had been involved in the executive and legis-

lative branches, but never in the judicial branch.”

All of these roles are just small steps toward Goettsche’s goal of graduating from law school, moving somewhere like Austin and getting a job as a lawyer.

Goettsche also said he loves the idea of becoming a judge and ultimately being involved in politics by serving in the U.S. government by being a congressman or senator.

The SGA Supreme Court, Goettsche said, handles mostly issues with election disputes. There have not, however, been many cases in which the court has needed to get involved and make a ruling on a dispute.

“It’s probably a good thing because that means that nobody has tried to break the rules and there haven’t really been any issues,” Goettsche said.

Niravkumar Patel, a third-year law student who serves as senior as-

sociate justice of the court, said the court also handles disputes involving SGA members and cases where members of the senate make appeals for certain rulings and legislation.

Students can also submit a petition of review to the court, according to the SGA website, and the court will look to see if student rights as stated in the SGA Constitution were violated.

Goettsche and Patel were sworn into their positions on the court together, and Patel said he trusts the decisions Goettsche makes.

“Nick is very thoughtful when it comes to making decisions on anything involving the cases we deal with,” Patel said. “He doesn’t really make any decisions without thinking through all of the possible outcomes, especially when those decisions could significantly impact the entire student body.” @DailyToreador

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Campus government associations go beyond students

BY MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

Texas Tech has two campus senate groups, a staff senate and faculty senate, working to gain administrative recognitions for the needs of the faculty and staff of Tech.

Both senates unite with elected officials to let their concerns and opinions of school policy be voiced, Ben Montecillo, associate director

of NCAA compliance and staff senate president, said.

The staff senate is unique in that it deals with both students and staff, Montecillo said, and because students who work on campus can be considered staff, the unseen dealings of the group can be far reaching.

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“They fill out an application,” Montecillo said. “We have a committee that reviews it and we raise money throughout the year to help.”

The staff senate is open to staff and anyone who would like to contribute, and hosts an annual event called Tech Advantage aimed at raising money for scholarships, he said.

With more than 50 members, the senate covers the campus and encourages university staff to participate in the senate elections to have all voices represented.

The senate also recognizes exemplary staff members through the use of a bravo board, he said. Staff members write a compliment on a specific staff member from any department and highlight the good works of that person. “(Bravo board) has been good as a staff-initiated ser-

vice,” Montecillo said, “and we’re hoping to really expand that over the next few months through some good partnerships.”

The senate internally elects new senators, he said, and the requirements to be part of the senate depend on each staff member’s equal employment opportunity classification, which measures compliance for every paid member of the Tech community.

Similar to the election process of the staff senate, the faculty senate elects a set of senators from each college, Michael Farmer, associate professor of agricultural and applied economics natural resources managements and faculty senate president said.

With the faculty senate, however, the consistency in representation determines the amount of senators each college gets, he said.

Different from the other

entities, the faculty senate sends out its ballots through email with positions open and who wants to be balloted, he said.

“They can nominate within their college,” Farmer said, “and they can vote within their college.”

Farmer said there was not intially any elected faculty member on the search committee responsible for the selection of current university President M. Duane Nellis.

Though this did change, he said the way administration is looking at the faculty senate is also changing.

“It was a difficult push,” Farmer said. “We had to demand our way on that search.”

Other universities in Texas and around the country have a significant number of elected faculty members on different committees, Farmer said.

Since Nellis has been president, Farmer said the

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faculty senate has been able to participate in dean searches for the various colleges around the campus.

“I can’t think of any dean search where even a majority of a dean search was not faculty,” Farmer said. “In the past I’ve seen dean searches that we’ve had before, in my term here, that was less than 20 percent faculty, meaning more than 80 percent of the people selecting a dean were non-faculty.”

Though the staff senate does not have as big of a voice in selecting deans and other parts of administration among colleges and departments, he said one issue that has come up frequently for both senates is providing a daycare for the university.

As this would be a concern for students, staff and faculty, the committees and hearings have been an important way for the senates to give Tech administration all points of view for the issue, Farmer said.

Talks have been going on for more than a decade, Farmer said, but it was not until recently that both senates were able to have senators involved in these discussions.

“It’s moved farther along than it ever has been, which is good,” Montecillo said. “It’s still a ways off, there’s a lot to consider. It’s not an easy decision there, there’s a lot of factors that go into it.”

Without both of these senates, there could have been no way for the issues of students, staff and faculty to make their way to the administrative minds, Farmer said.

Uniting the different parts of the Tech community creates maximum efficiency in the associations by eliminating distractions that may be preventing members from doing their jobs correctly.

“The critical link between students, staff, faculty and administration is an open and representative faculty senate,” Farmer said. “That’s what helps a good university become a great university.” @MichaelCantuDT

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Briley aims to increase campus outreach

BY MALLORY BARNETT Staff Writer

The Student Government Association at Texas Tech is a multifaceted organization consisting of more than just a president, vice president and treasurer.

Valerie Briley, a senior marketing major from Wall and director of outreach for SGA, said she had to start from the ground up to gain her current position.

“I started getting interested in student government from Red Raider Orientation,” she said. “I applied to be in the Freshman Leadership Association, which is the program for freshmen where you get to intern for an executive office. I actually got to intern for the president my freshman year.”

After her internship, Briley

became interested in becoming a senator. From there, she said, her SGA career took flight.

“I was a BRILEY senator for two years for the Human Sciences Department,” she said, “as well as the chair of the human sciences senators for two years and the RNA chair and secretary for two years.”

Briley ran for internal vice president this year with the Techsan Tradition block, but lost the race. However, she said she found her niche as the director of outreach for SGA. Student government as a whole aims to serve and represent the Tech student body through partnerships, according

to the SGA website, and the director of outreach helps students understand what the SGA can offer them.

“As the director of outreach, I am actually able to make sure that whatever programs we’re doing, we are either outreaching to the Lubbock community, to the students or just to any of our affiliates in general,” she said.

Being in a position of outreach, Briley said she has several events she is already working on to bring parts of the Tech community together.

“One thing I’ll be working on for sure is making the senate retreat really fun, as well as doing the trick-or-treating that goes on in the SUB,” she said. “I really wanted to start implementing the ‘Tech The Town’ this year and at some

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point really trying to brainstorm how we could effectively do that to where the students in student government and all the other organizations on campus come together and do some type of community service.”

Techsan Tradition proposed the Tech the Town initiative during its campaign, and Holton Westbrook, a junior agricultural economics and business dual major from Stephenville and SGA president, said it would be great to be able to give back to the Tech community and make an impact, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Using marketing and public relations strategies, Briley said she is able to get the word out about what student government can offer to other organi-

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As Briley looks forward to graduation, she said she is able to reflect on her past years in student government as both a senator and director of outreach and feel prepared for the future in both the professional and communal areas.

Her actions, along with hundreds of other SGA representatives, will make a lasting impact on the students at Tech for years to come, she said.

“The best part about being in student government for me is knowing what kind of impact you have on the students at Texas Tech,” Briley said. “So, when I leave here, I know that I did something well worth my time.”

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After college, Briley said she wants to use the skills she has learned from being the director of outreach to become involved in marketing.

“What I would really love to do is work in some type of logistics,” she said. “I also really want to get involved in the community. I have always been one of those people to get involved, so I’d love to join a junior league or some type of nonprofit organization to help them raise money.”

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FAN ENGAGEMENT

SPORTS

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Athletics, SGA team up for promotion

BY EVERETT CORDER SportS Editor

With the start of the new school year comes the start of fall sport seasons, and all three Texas Tech teams beginning play want students in the seats for their games.

In order to get those students to those games, Tech Athletics has a team to come up with promotions and ideas for things that will engage fans and get them to sporting events. This year, that team has a brand new plan.

“The Wreck ‘em Truck, it’s a truck with the graphics of a Double T and Wreck ‘em on it,” Marcos Rael, the promotions and fan engagement postgraduate intern, said. “We use that as kind of a promotional thing for athletics and the ticket office and all that.”

This year, however, the truck will do more than just drive around and look pretty, Rael said.

On Fearless Fridays, an initiative announced by the Tech Student Government Association for students to wear red and black on Fridays during football season, Rael said the promotions and fan engagement team will drive the truck around and pass out shirts and water and other assorted items to students.

“It’s just to get the people more excited,” Rael said. “We’ll play music and maybe have like a little basketball hoop for people to shoot into and win little prizes. Just to kind of engage with students more than anything.”

The idea came from some of the student interns who thought they could just drive the truck around and play music, he said, and it evolved from there.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury has always been adamant that having a loud crowd and rowdy atmosphere for football games helps his players, and Rael

said this will help that happen.

“It’s great (to play at home). I know our players are fired up, and anytime you get to play at Jones Stadium, it’s great,” Kingsbury said last season. “We have the best fans in the country, so we want to get out there.”

The truck will also be used to promote the other fall sports, Rael said, like soccer and volleyball.

The plan, he said, is to drive around campus on Fridays leading up to the soccer games that night and promote all the weekend sporting events. Another thing they are considering is taking the truck to some apartment complexes around campuses before the football games on Saturday to get in some last-minute promotion.

“We’ll do (the Saturday drive) to kind of get a last word in,” Rael said. “Just trying to get people out there.”

The push to start promoting the truck started at the

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The Wreck ‘em Truck is a promotional tool used by Texas Tech Athletics. The truck will drive around the day before and on game days to pass out shirts and other prizes.

Wreck ‘em Rally, he said, and the hope is that people are always on the lookout for it on

or before game days.

“If it goes well and people start recognizing it,” Rael said,

“it’s definitely something we’ll keep going.” @EvCorder_DT

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Cowboys think they can replace Scandrick OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Orlando Scandrick’s seasonending knee injury was a flashback for Dallas coach Jason Garrett to losing linebacker Sean Lee during the offseason a year earlier.

There is one difference, though. This time, the Cowboys think they have the cornerbacks to absorb the blow.

“With this position, we’re less likely to go outside and look for Orlando Scandrick’s replacement,” Garrett said Wednesday, a day after Scandrick tore the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in his right knee in practice

at training camp. “We feel good about the guys we have on the team right now.”

Undrafted second-year player Tyler Patmon is already being touted as the new slot cornerback, a position held by Scandrick before he emerged as the best cover guy on the team the past two seasons and played outside as well.

It’s been an eventful camp for Patmon, who first emerged last year with a big game in the preseason at Miami to earn a roster spot.

He fought with All-Pro receiver Dez Bryant early in camp, was in the middle of several melees when the

St. Louis Rams visited last week and now looks like he’ll break camp Thursday with a shot to be the equivalent of a starter given how often three cornerbacks are on the field.

“I have worked in the slot since I got here last year,” Patmon said. “I’ve always been ready to play the slot. This year that was my role. If something were to happen to Orlando, I was supposed to be able to go into the slot.”

Patmon has shown the same feisty attitude as Scandrick, who was returning to the Dallas area for surgery Thursday or Friday.