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Committee recommends closing six state homes EL PASO (AP) — A state advisory committee has recommended that Texas shut down six of its 13 residential facilities for individuals with mental and developmental disabilities.

The recommendation comes from a Department of Aging and Disability Services report released last month, the El Paso Times reported Monday. The agency runs the centers.

A committee of the Sunset Commission, a state panel that suggests ways to improve Texas agencies, made the recommendation. The panel gave several reasons, including costs and ongoing controversies over the quality of care at the centers. “(State centers) have been a hotbed of controversy over the last 40 years, including the current U.S. Department of Justice oversight due to safety and quality of care issues,” the report said. “Meanwhile, the state spends a tremendous amount of money and effort trying to improve the quality of care at the centers ... Staff concluded that the state could no longer afford to support all 13 centers.”

Texas and the Justice Department entered into a settlement agreement in 2009 after various civil rights violations, including abuse and deaths, at the state centers.

The goal was to reach compliance

by June 2014. Since this goal has not been met, the Department of Aging and Disability Services is hoping to negotiate adjustments to the Justice Department agreement, the report said. State officials had estimated that it will cost $175.7 million to fix the most critical deficiencies at the centers.

Judge finds abortion rules unconstitutional AUSTIN (AP) — Tough new Texas abortion restrictions are on hold after a federal judge found Republican-led efforts to hold abortion clinics to hospitallevel operating standards unconstitutional in a ruling that spares more than a dozen clinics from imminent closure.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office has filed an appeal of Friday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin, court records show.

In his ruling, Yeakel cited other rules GOP lawmakers have recently passed in his decision to throw out requirements that clinics meet hospital operating standards.

Those prior abortion restrictions include mandatory sonograms and a 24-hour waiting period after a woman first seeks out an abortion.

“These substantial obstacles have reached a tipping point,” Yeakel wrote in a 21-page opinion.

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THE CAMPAIGN FOR Fearless Champions was announced during a press conference Friday in the Football Training Facility. The campaign will impact athletic facilities, scholarships and the leadership academy. The overall goal of the campaign is to raise $185 million.

Plans announced to update facilities

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff WritEr

Kirby Hocutt, Texas Tech director of athletics, announced the start of the Campaign for Fearless Champions Friday at a press conference in the Tech Football Training Facility .

The first athletic-specific campaign in Tech history, it is an initiative by the athletics department to raise $185 million through donations to enhance Tech Athletics, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Of the $185 million goal, $75 million has already been committed by Tech Athletics donors, according to the news release.

A portion of the donations collected will fund 25 Tech Athletics facility projects. Eight of the 25 projects are already funded. These projects include the United Supermarkets team facilities and weight room renovations, the indoor soccer facility, the football video board, the north end zone colonnade, the baseball grandstand and clubhouse roof, the track and field team building, and the Rawls course bunker restoration.

Hocutt said the renovations and new facilities funded by the initiative will help Tech create a more competitive athletic program.

“We have the opportunity, we have the responsibility to provide our talented student athletes, our young people, with the very best opportunities and facilities,” Hocutt said. “We have a very bold expectation for our future, expectations of achieving national championship aspirations.”

Some of the noteworthy projects the initiative is set to fund are the creation of a football indoor facility, a north end zone stadium club, south end zone premium seating and a new indoor track and field facility.

The building of the new indoor football and track and field facilities is estimated to cost $50 million.

The Double T scoreboard is not in the position of being relocated to another section of the stadium, Hocutt said.

“However, it is an iconic monument at Texas Tech University,” he said, “and I do hope, to the degree it’s possible, we can preserve that and relocate it somewhere on our athletic campus.”

No deadlines are set for the creation of the new indoor and football facilities or other athletic facility enhancements yet. However, following the end of the 2014 football season, all of the seating at Jones AT&T Stadium is scheduled for replacement prior to the 2015 season.

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Tech students, Athletics react to early closing of Gate 6

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STUDENTS WAIT IN line to get into Jones AT&T Stadium during Saturday’s football game against Central Arkansas.

Shortly after 6 p.m. kickoff Saturday, the student entrance at Jones AT&T Stadium closed its gates to students waiting in line because the section had reached full capacity.

Yelling, chants and obscenities could be heard from the 400 to 500 locked out students, who could only get in as others left the game.

“This is absolutely ridiculous,” Blaze Whites, a senior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Port Aransas, said. “I’ve never seen Tech do anything like this before. It’s never been like this. It should never be like this.”

The 15,142 attendees in the student section during Friday’s game made up the secondhighest student attendance in the stadium’s history, according to an announcement made during the game.

Nearly 1,000 more students were allowed

entry last September against Texas Christian University, when the student attendance record was set at 16,092, according to the Tech website.

“This year, with record ticket sales, we don’t have the amount of seats we had last year,” Blayne Beal, associate director of Tech Athletics, said. “We sold about 7 or 8,000 more season tickets this year than we did last year. That’s just less room for students. For this game against Central Arkansas, we were able to accommodate about 3,000 more than we normally would be able to.”

During a news conference Friday, Tech Athletics announced the Campaign for Fearless Champions, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador. In the south zone of Jones AT&T Stadium, new suites will be added because of demand for premium seating.

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The Student Government Association is introducing several initiatives in an attempt to better Texas Tech and the student body.

Hayden Hatch, SGA president, said as the voice of the students, he is responsible for voicing the concerns of the Tech student body, including the ongoing push for more dead days throughout the year.

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Currently, Tech only offers students one dead day for each finals session, but the SGA has been working on changing that since last year, Hatch said.

Hudson Nilhas, a freshman theater arts major from Fort Jackson, South Carolina, said he thinks more study days would benefit students.

“I’m already stressed out about being in college, so I know I’m going to need more time to study for finals than just one day,” he said.

Adding extra off days for students is more challenging than many might think, Hatch said.

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Thousands of students at universities across the country choose to study abroad to gain experience for their majors.

International Affairs of Texas Tech is hosting Study Abroad Week Sept. 3 through Sept. 10 to help students learn more about what it means to study abroad.

Kenny Shatley, a study abroad adviser, said this is the second semester Study Abroad Week has been at Tech.

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The week will begin with a booth on Australia on Sept. 3, and have a different country or continent every day, ending with Asia on Sept. 9, according to TechAnnounce.

To conclude Study Abroad Week, the biannual Study Abroad Fair will take place Sept. 10, Shatley said.

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Tech recycling buys Styrofoam Densifier

By ALEXIS NELSON Staff Writer

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BEN DUMOND, AN external student assistant, condenses recycled styrofoam into a square mold Friday inside the Texas Tech Recycling Center.

In early August, University Student Housing and Hospitality Services worked together to purchase a Styrofoam Densifier for the recycling program at Texas Tech.

The densifier breaks down the packing plastic foam and cups collected from the on-campus dorms, Melanie Tatum, a manager for the University Student Housing department, said.

The densifier was purchased for $26,000 by University Student Housing and Hospitality Services as a joint effort, Tatum said.

“There are no chemicals involved in the process,” she said.

“You feed in the Styrofoam and the machine crushes it up and super heats it to get the end product.”

The densifier, part of the XT200 series, weighs 1,400 pounds and is 47 inches wide by 43 inches long and 65 inches tall, according to the Preferred Recycling Equipment Incorporated website.

The machine is simplistic in its operation and can be moved with a truck, according to the website.

“It’s pretty easy,” Caleb Crow, unit supervisor of Energy Management and Sustainability at the Tech physical plant, said. “One person manages input while an-

other manages output.”

In order to collect the Styrofoam, a team of 10 students who work with the recycling center go out around campus and collect trash bags of the used plastic foam and hand separate it, Jackie Kimbler, unit manager for the University Student Housing department, said.

“We’ve collected about fifteen bags of Styrofoam just from movein weekend,” Kimbler said.

The plastic foam is then hand sorted by type and organized into piles, Kimbler said.

“The machine can only take one type of Styrofoam at a time,” she said.

While they may seem similar, plastic foam cups and packing peanuts are different and must be separated when fed into the machine, she said.

The end product, a thick gooey substance, is then molded in a wooden frame to create a brick of broken-down plastic foam, Kimbler said.

“One of these bricks can be about 37 pounds, and they’re the hottest commodity in the recycling market right now,” Tatum said.

The recycled plastic foam is re-purposed into several different things, she said.

“I believe it’s used for things like park benches, coolers and

surfboards,” Tatum said.

The current buying rate is about 30 cents a pound and each brick produced sells for about eleven dollars, she said.

The money goes toward Tech student scholarships.

“Last year we collected about $37,000 that all went back to the students,” Kimbler said.

The money came from the other recyclables, plastics, paper and cardboards, so this will add to the total, Kimbler said.

The sustainability project, which just started as recycling paper and plastics, has now grown to take on the recycling of cardboard and Styrofoam, Crow said.

The sustainability project is a joint task performed by the physical plant, University Student Housing and Hospitality Services, he said.

“Just six years ago, we didn’t have a recycling program,” Crow said. “Now we outperform the city of Lubbock.”

Each department that works with the program has its own responsibility, he said.

“Housing Services houses the machine and takes care of the recycling,” Cushman said. “Hospitality works to enforce and advocate recycling.”

Aside from the newly acquired Styrofoam densifier, the sustainability program is also now taking

the plastic bottles from sporting events, Tatum said.

“We’ve gotten the help of some of the athletic student organizations that clean up the stadium to sweep for bottles first,” Tatum said.

From the past football game against Central Arkansas, bottles collected had to be taken out in two stake-bed trucks and a pickup truck, she said. The official weight of it all had not been counted.

The sustainability program is working on getting students and the community more involved in the program, Tatum said.

“We’re working on getting permission to advocate to the local public schools and competitions to encourage recycling,” she said.

The most notable event will come sometime in January, Tatum said, when Tech competes in the nationwide competition, Recyclemania.

“Over 400 universities compete in the six-week long event. Last year we beat the University of Texas by one point. We’re hoping to beat them again this year,” she said.

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Fraternities partner in off-campus tailgate event, minimize costs

By MCKENZI MORRIS Staff Writer

This football season, members of two Texas Tech fraternities are coming together to host an exclusive tailgating event.

The Delta Chi and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members and their friends and family will have access to the tailgating event, Jeremy Jones, a senior marketing management major from Justin and Delta Chi fraternity vice president, said.

The decision for Delta Chi

and Lambda Chi Alpha to partner together this year came from good experiences of the two fraternities working together in the past, Jones said.

“We expect a lot of people, involved with a fraternity or not, to show up and have a good time,” Christian Schneider, a freshman business major from Carrollton and Delta Chi member, said.

There are 14 tailgating options this year for club members and five non-member designated parking areas on campus, according to the

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The academic calendar for the school year is set several years in advance, according to Tech administration website.

“The schedules for the school are made years in advance and they affect everyone in the city of Lubbock,” Hatch said. “The good news is that the administration is willing to listen to the proposals

Red Raider Club website.

“It wasn’t too hard preparing for the game,” Schneider said. “We just had a tough time deciding which spot to tailgate at.”

The decision to have a joint tailgate was made over the summer, and there is a tailgating committee within each fraternity that makes decisions and runs the operations for game days, Jones said.

They expect to have around 450 people per game, he said, because of how many members there are, but this game was a little different.

“[Preparing for this first game] was slightly difficult because we weren’t one hundred percent sure how many people would come out,” Jones said.

The cheapest lot fans can park and tailgate in is $50 and is off of the Marsha Sharp Freeway, and the most expensive lots are right next to the stadium and go up to $8,000 in cost.

The fraternities plan to charge people to get into the tailgating area to help cover the costs of the tailgating spots and food, and it will cost more for non-members,

Schneider said.

“At tailgates [everyone comes together and] we just cook and eat some food, hang out and have a good time,” Schneider said.

The tailgate is specifically a Delta Chi and Lambda Chi Alpha hosted event, with no ties to the university, other fraternities or any sororities, Jones said.

He believes each week attendance will grow, he said, and they are all excited about the upcoming season. “[After the first game] it feels

and work with us on the issue.”

Hatch said another initiative of the SGA is expanding students meal plans to include off campus restaurants.

The proposal has gained support from local eateries around Lubbock, he said.

“We’ve received a lot of great feedback and the surrounding restaurants are excited about this as well,” he said.

“They are always happy to support Tech and the students.”

The earliest the new meal plan would

be implemented would be the Spring 2015 semester, Hatch said.

“Students may know the Double T bench and the Double T sign at the stadium, so a senior gift is something we would like to see come back,” she said.

In the past the senior classes of Tech would donate a gift to the school for the students to use, such as the Double T bench located outside of the administration building, she said.

The idea of a senior gift is something

Nilhas would welcome at Tech, he said.

“They teach us about the Double T bench at the new student orientations,” he said. “When I leave here I want the new students to have something.”

Waldrop said the Tech football game against Oklahoma State, which will be streamed at the Jones AT&T stadium, is a part of the goals SGA has set.

SGA has a close working relationship with Tech administration, Hatch said.

The school’s leaders are focused on hearing the students’ voices and addressing the student body’s concerns, he said.

“Academics, sports and everything else here are on the rise,” she said. “There is no better time than right now to be a part of this school.”

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great because we know each week will get better and better,” Jones said.

The non-member tailgating spots open at 7:30 a.m. the morning of the game, and the donor lots open at 5:30 p.m. the day before the game, according to the website.

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Hatch said SGA has several senators who represent each college on campus.

The message that Hatch said he wants students to know is the senators are there for them.

“I would like to see students reach out to those representatives,” he said. “That’s exactly why they are there.”

SGA will focus on continuing to create new initiatives this year to help the student body, Hatch said.

“We will not be here to benefit from all of the improvements we’re making,” he said. “All of this is for the future students, Class of 2018 will have so much to enjoy. It’s such an exciting time to be a Red Raider.” ➤➤dburgess@dailytoreador.com

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Early Sunday morning, more than 10 miles from campus, members of the Texas Tech Paintball Club began practice for the upcoming season.

Dressed in full paintball gear and with masks covering their faces, the players are ready for the paint to fly.

“I expect really good things this season,” Patrick Raborn, a junior education major from Laredo, said. “We have a lot of returning players and new ones that have great potential.”

Raborn said the team was formed in 2007, and since then the team has brought home numerous awards, including a trip last year to the national collegiate competition in Florida.

The team encourages all students to join the team, regardless of gender, he said.

As the only female on the team, Sarah Balman, a junior communication design major from Austin, said it has been a

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Tech Athletics continues to look at ways to increase the student section, Beal said, and will continue to do so throughout this season and next season as well.

“At this point, we’re not looking to expand,” he said. “We have a couple of ideas for what we could possibly do for next year, but again, we sold out of season tickets. For example, the Texas game, we’re already sold out, so our student limit is only going to be about 12,577, which is our student capacity.”

The students who did not get in, Beal said, arrived at or close to game time, even though gates open 90 minutes prior to kickoff.

Edwina Chea, a graduate student from Fort Worth, said she disagrees and thinks Tech must do more to accommodate for all of its students.

“Expand the student section,” she said. “There are over 30,000 students at Texas Tech, so how do we not have seats if we’re paying for this in our tuition?”

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“We have the Study Abroad Fair every semester for students,” he said. “Our main purpose is to provide students with information on what programs are available, provide location information on the programs, and answer questions.”

The fair will start at 10 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m., according to TechAnnounce.

They have this fair every semester, Shatley said, because many students do not realize all the opportunities available to them.

“The biggest questions students have are ‘where can I go, what can I study and how much does it cost?’” he said.

“We have programs and universities all over the world for them to explore.”

Officials will be stationed at booths to answer questions about financial aid, Shatley said, and scholarship opportunities will also be available during the fair.

Lauren Dent, academic adviser for political science and global studies, said in majors like the ones her students have, many students choose to study abroad.

“I find that the students who study abroad come back more independent and really get a fuller college experience,” she said. “It helps students be better prepared to interact in a business setting and makes them generally more

male-dominated team since she year law school student from Elgin, said last year was one of joined three years ago.

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THIRD-YEAR LAW STUDENT as competiB a l m a n FROM ELGIN tion. The said her mespaintball sage to other community females who have considered playing paint- is also one of the nicest, conball is to not be daunted by all sidering we are trying to shoot each other.” the male players.

He said one of the best Many students, from freshm e n t o g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t s , feelings was beating the No.1 could be seen Sunday in full ranked paintball team, Texas p a i n t b a l l g e a r, p e r f o r m i n g A&M, last season.

The team practices twice different drills taught by the a month, Raborn said. The veteran members.

Michael Lundgren, a third- sport, he said, requires stamina,

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The paintball community is one of the nicest, considering we are trying to shoot each other.

fee allows students free admission to all sporting events.

The website does not state its policy if the student section reaches full capacity.

“This shit has never happened,” Chea said. “I’ve gone to every single home game since 2009. I left for a year, then I come back for the first game of my graduate student year, and like what the hell, I can’t even get in.”

Molly Madsen, a sophomore civil engineering major from Amarillo, said students should not be charged in their tuition if entrance is not ensured.

Student seating, she said, should be considered just as important as other seats.

“I think they should either sell less normal tickets or get rid of the student section all together,” Madsen said, “and the students who are going to go to every game can buy a season pass. I love that it’s included in our tuition, but I don’t love that I paid for a ticket to every game but am not actually guaranteed a seat.”

Tech has increased its student attendance at football games by 25 percent since 2009, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, whereas the national average has decreased by 7.1 percent since 2009.

According to a previous arShatley said he studied abroad with Tech while earning his undergraduate degree, and it helped him gain experience.

He said most students look at study abroad as an extracurricular event more than they look at it as an investment.

“I mean, yes, students always have fantastic stories to tell when they get back about everything they did and all the people they met,” Shatley said, “but they don’t realize how good it looks for their future.

Employers look at students who study abroad and know they can handle stress and adapt in an unfamiliar setting.”

One to three percent of students study abroad every year, Shatley said, and only 14 percent graduate having studied abroad.

This narrows down the pool for employers, he said, and will jump off the sheet on a resume.

“It’s such a great opportunity and can really help students to succeed,” Shatley said. “Once you do it, it’s the experience of a lifetime.”

Dent also studied abroad, and said the experience she gained while doing so is invaluable.

There are trips available for students of all majors, she said, through faculty-led trips, third party educational companies and even internships abroad.

“It really is a cool thing and is a great career prep for students,” Dent said. “It opens their minds to realize that there is a lot more out there in the world.”

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ticle in The DT, a new Tech enrollment record was set last fall at 33,111 students. With a goal of 40,000 students by 2020 and a large number of students attending each game, Madsen said Tech must make immediate changes if it expects to reach its enrollment numbers.

“We’re only here for four years and it’s extremely frustrating when we aren’t allowed into the few home football games we have,” Hannah Herring, a sophomore exercise and sport sciences major from Snyder, said. “It makes it seem to me that all Texas Tech is trying to do is rake in as much money as it can instead of taking the best interest of students into account.”

Herring said wants to be able to support her school and team at games and hopes the next home football game will be different.

Tech prides itself on its school spirit, Madsen said, but being unable to attend the game had a negative impact on hers.

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endurance, leg strength, arm strength and good cardio.

“I encourage everyone to work out,” Raborn said. “I have had days where I push my limits and I am throwing up after practice. Today [Sunday] I am staying out from 9 to 5 to practice.”

Raborn said the team competes every month against other colleges.

During the regular season, he said, Tech competes against the University of North Texas, the University of Austin at D a l l a s , U T A u s t i n , Te x a s A&M, UT San Antonio and other paintball teams from surrounding states.

The team encourages anyone who is interested in playing competitively to join the club, he said, as this season has just begun.

“We are trying to expand the sport,” Raborn said. “We want to keep it competitive, but we want to introduce new players to the sport and train them to be better so they stick around.” ➤➤aestolano@dailytoreador.com

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Michael Lundgren, a third-year law student from Elgin, gives Skyler Crouch, a freshman business major from Dallas, pointers on Sunday.

Students attend on-campus football tailgating tradition

By AMY CUNNINGHAM La Vida editor

With barbecue on the grill and loud music playing, another year of RaiderGate, the on-campus tailgating section hosted by the Student Government Association, has begun in the R-1 parking lot.

Tech alumnus Carlos Favela, lead admissions counselor for Undergraduate Admissions, said he has attended RaiderGate since he was a student and thinks it has something for almost everyone.

“I like that it’s a good, free opportunity for students to come out and socialize,” he said. “There’s free music, a DJ, it’s just a good social environment for everybody.”

RaiderGate opens four hours prior to kickoff, according to the event’s website, and closes two hours after the football game begins. Entry gates close 30 minutes before kickoff.

Favela and his friends arrived at 3 p.m. to grill, and plan to attend RaiderGate later on in the season again, Jade Liebman,

a sophomore pre-nursing major from Arlington, said.

“I’m glad that they’re offering season spots now,” Favela said. “It’s a good opportunity to come out and see who’s willing to tailgate before a game.”

Students and registered Tech clubs and organizations can reserve spaces in the R-1 parking lot by signing up for a season pass online, according to the RaiderGate website.

Season passes are given to students and organizations on a first come, first serve basis, according to the website, and will be revoked if the passholder does not attend one or more RaiderGates.

Samantha Gunnels, a junior interior design major from Houston, said she enjoys tailgating before football games.

“I like how it feels here,” she said. “It’s a good environment before a game, being out here with all of your friends.”

Future RaiderGates will take place before Saturday home games against Arkansas, West Virginia,

Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma, according to the RaiderGate website. This is the first year RaiderGate will take place before every home game.

Cress Carson, a senior agribusiness major from Dalhart, said he attended RaiderGate with one thing on his mind.

“Honestly, I just came here to get drunk,” he said. “I came for the beer and for the food.”

Alcohol is allowed, according to the website, but must be in a RaiderGate cup and cannot be in a glass container.

Additionally, Hospitality Services was on location serving hamburgers, hotdogs and other food items from its new mobile food truck.

The food truck will be at every RaiderGate and accepts dining cards as well as cash and credit, according to the website.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Gunnels said.

“We’re all having a good time, and we’re just hoping we do better this season than we did last year.” ➤➤lavida@dailytoreador.com

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A total of 12 cameras have been installed at Jones AT&T stadium to keep an eye on the crowd and improve game day safety. “That’s just the day and age in which we live,” Blayne Beal, Tech Associate Athletic Director, said, according to the KCBD article. “The decision to sell beer in Raider Alley was made after the university received feedback from fans specifying improvements they wanted to see f or t hi s s e ason.”

The decision to sell alcohol and strictly monitor alcohol intake is a great concession for students. It makes us happy because we can purchase alcohol on campus for game days and it helps the university make sure its students are safe. It is much like a bartender selling alcohol to a person, monitoring their intake, and eventually, if needed, cutting them off. It is a great time for the drinker and limits the supplier’s, or in this case Tech’s, liability.

Tech already sells alcohol to fans in premium seats, according to the article.

More and more across the United States, colleges have begun selling beer and wine at their campus stadiums during game days. According to an article by USA Today, even SMU, a private Methodist university, has started selling alcohol at its stadium.

“Though the NCAA does not sell alcohol at its championship events, including the men’s basketball tournament, it’s one of

The decision to sell alcohol and strictly monitor alcohol intake is a great concession for students.

the few unregulated areas in the pantheon of NCAA rules. Even conferences — aside from the SEC, which has a league-wide prohibition — leave the issue up to individual schools,” according to a USA Today article.

“The majority of high-profile programs in the Football Bowl Subdivision have chosen not to go in that direction for reasons that range from philosophical/religious to concerns about crowd control to unease about the appearance of profiting off alcohol,” according to the article.

Tech has upped its security for this football season and is a public university, so there should be no religious concerns with alcohol consumption on campus or liquor sales because Tech is not affiliated with any religion.

Also, the increased security and the implementation of more security cameras make Jones AT&T Stadium a perfect place for alcohol sales.

“West Virginia implemented beer sales at football games in 2011, generating upward of $500,000 in new revenue while seeing fewer incidents of rowdy fan behavior related to bingedrinking outside the stadium,” according to USA Today.

The sheer money alone is a great facilitator for alcohol sales. Increasing Tech’s budget can only be seen as a positive thing for all students and alumni.

Also, at least at West Virginia, it proved to be safer for all football fans and tailgaters.

Tech should stop being a dry campus altogether. If students are of age and can make responsible decisions, they should be able to drink on campus. Tech should also facilitate selling alcohol at school-sponsored events for the revenues and the added security of monitoring people’s alcohol intake.

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e c e n t l y, n u m e r o u s colleges across the country have allowed alcohol to be consumed on their campuses. Texas Tech has joined this trend by allowing alcoholic beverages in the West Village Residence hall and at some oncampus events.

This loosening of Tech’s traditional “dry campus” policy will be detrimental to student safety and the mission of the university as a whole. Upon recognition of this, alcoholic beverages should again be banned on all university property.

As far as student safety is concerned, the consumption of alcoholic beverages poses a number of risks.

Obviously, as alcohol use increases, so will the number of individuals who drink and drive, especially given the flaws in “Safe Ride” and other such well-meaning programs. Drunk driving is a major killer of college students.

In fact, according to a University of Virginia study, traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for students, and over half of the accidents studied involved alcohol. Recent tragedies involving Tech student fatalities have only underscored this point.

Additionally, if alcohol is more freely available, other dangerous incidents such as alcohol poisoning are more likely to occur. When the university permits alcohol on campus, this sends the message, intended or not, that the university condones drinking on its property.

A student who does not wish to drink can no longer use the excuse that they are afraid of breaking university policy.

When students have fewer ways to deny social pressure to drink, they will be more likely to drink

and perhaps drink in excess, especially in situations where students under 21 are interacting with students over 21. It is sobering to note that according to the same University of Virginia study, alcohol poisoning is the third-leading killer of college students.

Finally, alcohol can act as a “gateway” to a number of other crimes, including rape, assault, theft and vandalism. Alcohol is known to lead to a decrease in selfcontrol, causing students to commit heinous acts they otherwise would not.

Furthermore, some students use it as an ex cu se to act violently, thinking they will not be held responsible for their actions. It is important to recognize that no amount of “having a good time” (alcohol’s only “benefit”) is worth making anyone the victim of a violent crime.

As far as the detriment to the university mission, allowing alcohol on campus clearly contradicts the university’s mission of being “dedicated to student success” and “advancing knowledge.” Alcohol can only have a negative impact on student success. It would be ludicrous to argue that drinkers perform better in their studies than non-drinkers, other factors being equal.

In fact, a Northwestern University study, like many before it, demonstrates a negative relationship between student performance (time spent studying and GPA) and alcohol consumption.

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Smartphones distract users from world around them The Cougar (u. housTon)

Everyone is familiar with the sense of dread that accompanies the realization that you have somehow managed to leave home without your lifeline to the outside world. Beads of sweat instantly appear on the forehead as you pat your pockets or scour the depths of your purse in a state of sheer panic.

However, if you can accept these fits of anxiety, you may actually be better off on the days that this little gadget is left behind.

Cellphone users, regardless of age, do their best to convince themselves that they must have their phones with them at all times for reasons of safety, but this may not be the case. Admittedly, it can be terrifying to think of getting stranded in unknown surroundings without the benefit of the phone’s GPS capability or getting stuck in a jam without a way to call for help.

These are valid concerns, but the reality is that of the hour or so that Experian estimates the average user spends on a phone every day, functions like GPS account for less than 2 percent of total use. So, if smartphones aren’t being used for what people say they are needed for, it makes one wonder what are users doing with this hour each day.

According to the numbers provided

by Experian, this hour is lost to a whole bunch of nothing. The combination of social networking and surfing the web — 16 percent and 14 percent, respectively — take up a fairly big portion of one’s time, but that doesn’t come as too big of a shock. What is surprising is that phones are still used primarily for speaking with others, using this function 26 percent of the time.

This percentage may be accurate as it applies to the study at hand, but it is

also misleading — Experian measured the minutes invested in each activity, not the frequency.

It makes a certain amount of sense that talking took up the most time in the study since conversations are typically time-consuming, while texting, which registered 20 percent, is relatively quick. Snapping a “selfie” can be done in a mere second, but how much time it takes is not as significant as how often it occurs. In other words, the frequency of the activity is probably more telling than duration alone.

“Even when I think I am doing something to save time, like sending a text rather than talking on the phone, it ends up being more of a distraction,” said English graduate student Sadie Hash. “Instead of a five-minute phone conversation, it turns into 20 minutes of my phone buzzing every couple of minutes.”

No matter what the activity is that is bringing a phone to our faces, these seemingly small distractions add up to one big source of interference with our lives.

This was the same conclusion of a New York restaurant whose owners were left flummoxed in the face of negative reviews regarding the speed of their service. In effort to turn the situation around, the management increased the number of wait staff during peak hours and decreased the number of offerings on its menu.

However, despite the changes, the negative reviews continued to roll in.

The restaurant, which remains anonymous, felt that it might be time to focus its attention on their patrons, instead of their staff, as to the source of their allegedly slow service. The restaurant reviewed security camera footage from their 2004 archive and compared it sideby-side to current recordings. What the

comparison found was that from being seated to paying the check, meal times had nearly doubled in the last 10 years.

Even though they were serving the same number of guests, the dining experience — which once lasted about 65 minutes on average — had ballooned to 115 minutes. The footage revealed that diners and their cellphones dictated the speed of service, not the staff.

“Instead of serving food, many waitresses are called upon to take group shots of diners and even return food that has gone cold because diners are taking pictures of their dishes,” the owners said.

Unfortunately, the sight of diners invested in their phones instead of the other parties at their table is a sight that is becoming far from unusual. Theatre junior Austin Abernathy said he is accustomed to seeing individuals on cellphones during dinner, but he is not immune to its annoyance.

“It’s annoying to see (dates) on their

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cellphones instead of interacting with each other,” Abernathy said. “It’s okay to check your phone every now and then, but it’s frustrating to see people in front of one another who aren’t really present.”

Not only is it rude to engage with your phone rather than with the people around you, as Abernathy pointed out, it’s also likely to be a waste of time.

Furthermore, according to Business Insider, a majority of the tasks that begin on a phone aren’t completed.

That means that after taking countless pictures of dinner, selecting the right filter and coming up with the perfect caption, the picture will probably never be published on whatever social media outlet it was intended for.

Therefore, for the sake of those around you, put down the cellphone already and get back this hour. No one but you really cares about what you’re having for dinner, anyway.

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While it is true that if alcoholic beverages were not allowed on campus students would still drink elsewhere, it would be ridiculous to deny that easier access to alcohol will lead to more frequent drinking and perhaps more dangerous and widespread consequences.

Of course, the policy has not been in place long enough for there to be a comprehensive study on the number of alcohol-related incidents or a study on s t u d e n t p e rformance, but we don’t need time when we have common sense.

How many accidents will it take to change the policy? How many lives should be shattered? On a lesser scale, how many students need to fail?

I am a libertarian at heart, but the simple truth is that Tech has the authority to regulate student behavior on its property when it comes to matters of public safety and upholding its mission, as long as it does not infringe on constitutionally protected rights. If ever there was a circumstance in which this authority should be exercised, it is this one.

Alcohol proliferation on campus poses a serious risk to student safety in terms of drunken driving, alcohol poisoning and an increase in violent crime, and further negatively impacts student performance. Therefore, a prohibition on alcohol consumption, possession and distribution by any person at any time should be strictly enforced on all university property.

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exas Tech football season has begun, along with the timehonored tradition of tailgating, and an issue has recently surfaced regarding alcohol on campus and alcohol sales at school-sponsored events. College students should be allowed to drink on campus if they are of age and are responsible with it.

Most college students are legal adults, and those over 21 should be allowed to make the adult decisions that go along with d ri n ki n g alcohol. Drinking is a matter of personal responsibility; it is not automatically a given that people drinking will make bad choices. While I understand drinking alcohol can lead to poor decisions, it is up to the person to drink responsibly or accept the consequences.

Tech, it seems, is moving away from its dry campus stance. The newest residence hall on campus, West Village, is for upperclassmen and graduate students.

According to a previous article in The Daily Toreador, “The new residence hall will allow students who are 21-years-old or older to store alcohol in their apartment … (which is) a first in Tech’s history as an alcohol-free campus.”

It was also announced last week that Tech would start selling beer at Raider Alley during football tailgates. According to a KCBD article, “Texas Tech University says they will have new surveillance cameras in place and will allow beer sales in Raider Alley.”

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By EMMA ZAMBRYCKI Staff Writer

In a poll taken Friday on Texas Tech campus, 54.5 percent of female students say they often sacrifice comfort for style in their footwear.

When asked which was more important in a particular shoe, style or comfort, Mary Pearson, a freshman, said style triumphs nearly every time for her.

Although a fashionable shoe may often look the best, she said the consequence of wearing said shoe is not always worth it.

“Style [is more important], but

only up to a point,” Pearson said.

About 45.5 percent of female students polled said they would also agree that fashionable footwear is not always a priority.

One brand of shoe thought to be comfortable by many female students is Chacos, Pearson said.

According to the Chacos website, the shoes have become increasingly popular during the last 25 years. Many of the consumers live active and busy lifestyles and require a shoe that is both comfortable and durable in order to meet their needs, according to the website.

The overall construction of the shoe can cause some blisters in first-time wearers, according to the website. The hard canvas straps can cause rashes and discomfort.

Abigail Fredricks, a freshman, said she has suffered from many cuts and sores as a result of walking to class in a pair of unbrokenin Chacos.

Sneakers seem to be the more comfortable alternative, she said, in comparison to her Chacos, which have yet to be worn-in.

“I’ve heard that Alohas are pretty comfortable, but most girls wear tennis shoes,” Fredricks said.

Karmelita Valderaz, a junior, said she has learned throughout her time at Tech that sensible walking shoes, like tennis shoes, are the better choice.

She said before now she used to be a victim of fashionable shoes, often wearing tight ballet flats and sandals with little cushion. As a result of the pain in her feet, Valderaz said, she was often late to class.

“I was just trying to get to class, but I was struggling with the pain caused by those kinds of shoes,” she said.

Like Fredricks, Valderaz said she believes sneakers are the best and

most comfortable walking shoes.

She said she now opts for sneakers as opposed to stylish, yet paininducing shoes.

Valderaz said she gives credit to all the girls who push through the pain in order to be the most fashion forward.

“I can’t deal with the pain caused by all those uncomfortable shoes,” she said. “I don’t know; I just can’t do it.”

According to the WebMD website, shoes like sandals and flip flops can cause plantar fasciitis when walking around for an extended period of time.

The problem with sandals, ballet flats and flip flops is they lack arch support and leave the feet exposed to outside harmful forces such as thorns or unsuspecting furniture, according to the website.

Pearson, who has experienced the pain associated with fashionable shoes, said she sides with beauty.

“My prom and graduation shoes hurt a lot to wear, despite how gorgeous they were,” she said.

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Bad weather across Northeast shuts down concerts, delays flights throughout area PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Severe thunderstorms across the Northeast on Sunday slowed operations at airports, wreaked havoc at outdoor sporting and musical events in New York and Philadelphia and sent people scurrying from a beach after three men were struck by lightning.

The men were injured at Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay in the Bronx on Sunday evening as bad storms rolled through the area, the Fire Department

of New York said. The men were being treated at a hospital, and the extent of their injuries was unknown.

Torrential rain, thunder and lightning interrupted Labor Day weekend celebrations in Philadelphia, where a parkway hosting a music concert was evacuated for safety reasons. Organizers of the Made in America festival warned people to move quickly and calmly to the exits and to protected areas outside the downtown festival

site until the bad weather passed.

Anne Beyens, of Scottsdale, Arizona, was among a group of five waterlogged friends who were told to leave the concert after watching deejay 3LAU and ended up at a bar a mile away. They said most of the headliners they wanted to see, including Pharrell Williams and Kings of Leon, were scheduled for later in the night so they were hoping to return.

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Sports

Red Raiders start slow, win season opener

By EVERETT CORDER SportS Editor

60,778 fans set a season opener record Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium watching the heavily favored Red Raiders take on Central Arkansas.

Texas Tech won the game 42-35, but coach Kliff Kingsbury said he was embarrassed by the sloppiness of the team. The Bears, he said, wanted the win more. “(I’m) just disappointed because I know how good they can be and we come out and play like that,” Kingsbury said. “I’ve got to give Central Arkansas all the credit in the world.

They played hard. They had a plan.

They expected to win the game.”

Central Arkansas and Tech both went three-and-out on their opening offensive drives, but the Bears were able to get on the board after their second drive with a 28-yard field goal.

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by surprise, Central Arkansas attempted an onside kick on the ensuing kickoff, but Tech recovered and drove down the short field to score the game’s first touchdown.

Tech junior DeAndre Washington ran the ball from the one-yard line for the score and eventually racked up 104 rushing yards on 20 carries in the game.

Kingsbury said running the ball was working the best against the Bears, and Washington and the running backs had a solid performance.

“We weren’t able to run as well as we should have been able to, but I thought those guys carried it well,” he said. “They didn’t put it on the ground and made plays when we had to have them.”

The Tech defense made another stop on the next Central Arkansas drive, and the Red Raiders were threatening to score another touchdown before sophomore quarterback Davis Webb had a pass intercepted

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in the end zone.

The Bears drove down and scored a touchdown, and then intercepted Webb again on the next drive, leading to another touchdown that put them up 16-7.

Tech sophomore defensive back Keenon Ward said the team played well in practice leading up to the game and the players were pumped up, so he was not sure why they came out so sluggish.

“We had our techniques down.

We had our game plan in. I don’t know,” he said. “I guess we just underestimated the opponent.”

After being down by 11, the Red Raiders clicked into gear, scoring on consecutive drives and making defensive stops to put them up 21-16 heading into the locker room at halftime.

Central Arkansas coach Steve Campbell said he told his players to keep their heads up because they were within striking distance against a good team. “(I said) ‘guys, you’re only one play away from beating them if we just tidy up a couple of things,’” he said. “They came out and played tremendously, and I can’t say enough about their effort.”

Tech started off the second half with another touchdown, and when Central Arkansas responded with a field goal, it looked as though the Red Raiders would run away with the game.

The Red Raiders started their

PHOTO BY EMILY DE SANTOS/The Daily Toreador

TEXAS TECH WIDE receiver D.J. Polite-Bray jumps up to catch a pass from quarterback Davis Webb on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders defeated Central Arkansas 42-35.

next drive on their own five-yard line, however, and when Webb threw the ball away before getting outside the tackle box, the referees ruled intentional grounding and a safety.

Two points were given to the Bears, putting them down by seven to start the fourth quarter.

Campbell kept telling his players not to worry about the score no matter how far down they got, he said, and his team responded well.

“That’s the thing I’m most proud

of is the effort that our guys gave,” Campbell said. “Let’s just go out, and let’s play as hard as we possibly can for as long as we possibly can, and let’s give a great effort for four quarters.”

Both offenses took over in the last 15 minutes of the game, scoring back and forth so that the quarter ended with the Red Raiders still up by seven.

Tech senior wide receiver Bradley Marquez scored both touchdowns for the Red Raiders in the quarter, and had a career-high 11 catches for 184

yards in the game.

Marquez said although the team had more than 600 yards of total offense and won the game, there was still a lot to improve on before the next game.

“We’ve got to take some positives out of this,” he said. “Granted, it wasn’t the way we wanted to win, but we did get a victory. It wasn’t pretty, but like I said, we’ve got to learn from it.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

Webb overcomes shaky start in victory

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff WritEr

Texas Tech sophomore quarterback Davis Webb ended Saturday night’s 42-35 win over Central Arkansas with 452 passing yards on 39 completions.

After the game, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said Webb did not play up to his full potential but he did well enough to earn the victory.

“(Webb was) shaky early, just trying to do too much, trying to make every play,” Kingsbury said.

“But I thought he hung in there and bounced back well, but not his best night.”

At halftime, the Red Raiders led by a score of 21-16, but had committed 6 offensive penalties for 52 yards and Webb had thrown two interceptions.

Senior wide receiver Bradley Marquez said despite the of-

fense’s struggles in the first half, every other player deserved just as much blame as Webb for the underwhelming performance.

“I mean, there were mistakes here and there, but there were mistakes by everybody throughout the game,” he said. “He just gets a lot of attention because he’s the quarterback and maybe takes some of the blame. But by no means does he need to take the blame receiving-wise, and the

penalties hurt us a lot and put us in bad situations where he had to try to do things and try to make plays on his own where he felt that we needed some momentum, so he was going to take some shots down the field.”

On the opening drive of the second half, Webb did not miss a single pass and finished the 68yard drive with a five-yard pass to Reginald Davis that fooled almost the entire defense.

Central Arkansas responded with a field goal and then hit Webb in the end zone, which was ruled intentional grounding and resulted in a safety, cutting Tech’s lead to 28-21.

In the fourth quarter, the two teams would trade touchdowns before the game ended with a score of 42-35. Webb was key in Tech holding its lead and was 8-9 passing for 164 yards and two touchdowns in the fourth quarter alone.

Marquez said the team never doubted Webb would make plays when he needed to late in the game.

“It doesn’t always work out, but (Webb is) a competitor,” Marquez said. “He wants to win. Davis Webb, that’s our guy, and he did a great job today.”

Webb ended the game with four touchdown passes, two of which went to Marquez.

Central Arkansas coach Steve Campbell had nothing but praise for Webb for the way he played tough and lead his team.

“Davis Webb is a great quarterback. He’s a future NFL player,” Campbell said. “And it’s a matter of a guy like him, you can hope to slow down because he’s very, very hard to contain for four quarters.

But we did a good job of slowing him down there for a while.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com