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Expectations varied for Tommy Tuberville’s debut as the head coach of Texas Tech football.

A 35-27 win for the Red Raiders (1-0) Sunday in Jones AT&T Stadium answered many questions while raising others and got the Tuberville era started on a positive note.

But SMU (0-1) football coach June Jones said a chance to deal Tuberville a loss for his first game in scarlet and black was there for the taking.

“I felt like we were OK when we started off then we kind of hit a stretch there where Kyle (Padron) was a little flustered,” Jones said after Sunday’s game.

“We played hard, I’m proud of the way the guys played. We had our opportunities even though we gave them the turnovers and 21 points.

“We had an opportunity to win the game.”

The game played host to two of the nation’s more productive offenses from last year — SMU ranked fourth, Tech sixth — although both teams came out of the gates slow, combining for four threeand-outs in the first quarter.

The game’s first impact play came courtesy of the Red Raiders’ special teams unit, forcing and recovering a fumble at the SMU 18-yard line.

Senior receiver Lyle Leong reached the endzone five plays later, after catching a pass from former high school teammate Taylor Potts.

The two connected consistently throughout the game as Leong finished with 11 receptions for 142 yards — both career highs — and three touchdowns, matching a career-high in that category.

Despite completing 34-of-53 passes, Potts said he could have been better.

“Really we kind of come out there expecting to complete every pass, really,” he said. “When it’s incomplete, it’s my fault. So any incompletions today were my fault.”

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TEXAS TECH’S CODY Davis tackles SMU’s Chris Butler during Tech’s 35-27 win Sunday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

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RACHEL TRAPP, A junior interior design major from Albuquerque, N.M., looks at “Mecha Chicken,” a 3D print cast in sterling silver with milk plastic by Sean Scully, an instructor.

By BRITTANY HOOVER STAFF WRITER

Blow-up dolls, rainbow Slinkys and chalkboards are only some of the unusual materials used in the annual faculty and graduate student art exhibits in the art building on the Texas Tech campus.

Works for the Annual MFA Candidate Group Show are show-

cased until Oct. 3 in the art foyer, and pieces for the Annual Art Faculty Exhibition are on display until Oct. 17 in the Landmark Gallery, located in Room 104.

Christie Blizard, assistant professor of painting at Tech, said the exhibits serve as a good “welcome back” for the start of the semester.

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Coaching staff believes best is yet to come

By MIKE GRAHAM STAFF WRITER

Texas Tech head football coach Tommy Tuberville said he had not been sleeping very well leading up to the Red Raiders’ season-opening game against SMU Sunday.

While acknowledging there is still a lot of work to be done if Tech is going to be the team he believes it can be, the new coach said he was looking forward to sleeping Sunday evening after his football team defeated SMU 35-27.

TEXAS TECH COACH Tommy Tuberville disputes a call during the Red Raiders’ 35-27 victory against the Mustangs Sunday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

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Buddy Holly’s Birthday Bash Time: 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Where: Buddy Holly Center So, what is it?

Events are planned all day to celebrate what would be Buddy Holly’s 74th birthday. There are tours of the center, screenings of a movie and a reception.

“The Buddy Holly Story” Time: 8 p.m.

Where: Wells Fargo Amphitheatre at Mackenzie Park So, what is it?

The last night of the Moonlight Musical series. $10 student price

Driftwood Time: 10 p.m.

Where: The Blue Light So, what is it?

This band hailing from New York plays American roots music.

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Colleges buy land they don’t know how they’ll use NEW YO RK (AP) — Colleges and universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they’ll be used.

Some are taking advantage of good sales during a sluggish economy, while others, like Columbia University, are continuing a practice they’ve done for decades, buying even if the price isn’t discounted.

The University of Dayton last year acquired the 115-acre world headquarters of technology company NCR Corp. for the fire sale price of $18 million after buying 50 acres from the company for three times the per-acre price in 2005. And the University of Delaware last year bought a 272-acre former Chrysler auto plant in Newark, Del. for $24 million.

The schools are banking on future growth to make their purchases good

investments. In the interim, many are leasing the properties they’re not using until they need them.

It’s good that colleges are looking years or even decades ahead, but investing in real estate can be risky, academic research analyst Jane Wellman said.

“People who just lost their shirts in the last real estate crash know the risk of real estate as an investment portfolio,” Wellman said.

Colleges “are banking that now is the low point in real estate, and it may not be.”

For years, Columbia bought land wherever it could, amassing more than 17 acres on Manhattan’s Upper West Side between 2002 and 2009. Construction has begun on a multibillion-dollar expansion that would build new housing, laboratories, open space and tree-lined sidewalks.

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RaiderGATE kicked off at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in the R-1 parking lot behind the chemistry building. Students and fans came out with their grills and smokers, while Rodney Park and 50 Peso Reward took the main stage.

This student-led tailgate is scheduled take place before every home game this season and each will feature live music.

Corey Zant, a senior political science major from Mason, said it’s a great atmosphere and good way to kick back before the game.

“You get to cook, drink and have a good time with fellow Raiders.

It’s a good way to enjoy the season opener,” Zant said.

Ross Freehling, a senior mechanical engineering major, along with his friend Travis Bayer, a senior mechanical engineering technology major, came out dressed up in full body red and black suits to show their Tech spirit.

Freehling said the two plan to wear the full body suits for every game this year.

“We’re just diehard Tech fans,” Bayer said.

Aspen Teague, a senior RHIM major and current president of Tech Activities Board, said RaiderGATE

creates a fun atmosphere students can enjoy prior to the game.

“RaiderGATE is one of the biggest student-run tailgates in the nation. It’s really awesome because you get that fun atmosphere before the game,” Teague said. “The students have the cookout going on, the band playing, and all that good stuff. It’s a lot of fun.”

All of the RaiderGATE events this fall are organized and put together by TAB, she said. In previous seasons SGA also helped to organize the event.

“It’s a lot of work to put it on but it’s definitely worth it to see the excitement from the students and get that game day feel,” Teague said.

Celeste DiPaolo, a sophomore English major who is the concerts coordinator for TAB, said there is a lot of planning that goes into creating the game day atmosphere of RaiderGATE. “They are all planned the spring semester beforehand. We sit down and talk about different bands we thought would fit for the events this fall,” Dipaolo said. “All summer it’s been all planning and now it’s just been carrying them out beforehand till the day of.”

She said tickets will become available the Monday before each home game.

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For more than a decade, the water of certain areas in Bangladesh has been negatively affecting the Bangladeshi people who drink it.

The problem is caused by a metalloid element in the water called arsenic.

According to Dr. Julian Spallholz, professor of nutrition and biochemistry at Texas Tech University, the toxicity in the element arsenic causes dermatological problems and can lead to cancer or gangrene.

According to a UNICEF report done in 2007 provided by Peter Harvey, a senior advisor for water supply and quality at UNICEF, close to 31,000,000 people (26% of the population), are at risk due to the arsenic exposure found in the water in Bangladesh.

Although India and China have more people at risk by the consumption of arsenic, their percentage of population at risk are 11 percent and 2 percent respectively.

According to another UNICEF report, the arsenic problem was not clear until the 1990s.

The report says the problem is well advanced in Bangladesh, India and China.

Spallholz SPALLHOLZ said he has had a lot of experience with another element called selenium.

He said he worked directly under Dr. Klaus Schwarz, who discovered the nutritional value of selenium.

“These two nutrients (arsenic and selenium) interact,” said Spallholz.

Spallholz has been doing research with selenium for over ten years in hopes of finding a solution to the water problems in Bangladesh. He said he believes his solution can be both cheap and efficient.

A problem relating the two elements happened in the United States over 70 years ago, with the exception that the problem was backwards, Spallholz said.

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STUDENTS AT RAIDERGATE listen to one of the featured bands play prior to the Tech-SMU game Sunday.

tions reserve most of the space on game day, spots are open to individuals as well.

“Organizations can get up to six passes so they have a place to park their cars and their cookers, having their own little hang out area.

Individuals are also able to get two passes,” DiPaolo said. “People can also come in by foot to meet up with their friends there and just be able to enjoy the show.”

As for the bands that play at RaiderGATE, DiPaolo said TAB votes on the bands that come to each event, then works to get them there on game day.

“College campuses have a great

way of promoting themselves breaching the large crowd at once, but this college generation, we spread word like wildfire, which is good for the bands,” DiPaolo said.

“It’s not really hard to convince bands to play on a college campus.”

The next RaiderGate will be on September 18th starting at 3 p.m., when Tech plays the University of Texas and will feature live music from Kyle Park.

“Pretty much we’re expecting passes to run out the first day they’re available for UT,” Dipaolo said. “The crowd is going to be pretty big.”

selenium in their diets. The solution to the problem was feeding the cattle more arsenic in their diets, he said.

Spallholz said a high intake of selenium can cause cancer as well.

He said he heard about the problem in Bangladesh about ten years ago when he was watching a PBS news report.

“When I watched the program on PBS I knew two things,” he said, “One is, the intake of these people in selenium is too low and two, the arsenic concentration is very high.”

He said arsenic can come about naturally as well.

“The arsenic comes from the Himalayan mountains, it’s in the soil naturally” Spallholz said. “It comes when (water) wells were drilled in the late 1970s and 1980s.”

He said the reason these water wells were drilled is because some of the rivers and ponds were contaminated.

In one of the reports by UNICEF, the group clarifies they have been testing the water wells as well.

Depending on the results of the testing, UNICEF paints the wells green or blue for potable water and red for non-potable water.

Spallholz said the problem of finding water to drink then comes about.

“They (the Bangladeshis) have no place to go to get fresh water,” Spallholz said, “They continue to take it out of these wells because it’s better than getting immediately sick.”

If you get it from the rivers then you’re at risk of typhoid, cholera and dysentery, said Paul La Porte, a medical student and PhD student in cancer biology at the University of Chicago.

Spallholz said people have to be exposed to arsenic for a long period of time before it affects their bodies.

Ashik Mohammed Shafi, a Texas Tech mass communications graduate student from Bangladesh, said water contaminated with arsenic does not change color and does not taste different, making it difficult to notice if there is arsenic in the water.

Shafi said a way to detect high concentrations of arsenic in the body is by checking for melanosis in the skin.

“You drink it for a few months, then you see the spots in your skin,” Shafi said, “That’s when you know it’s arsenic.”

Harvey mentioned in the past it was difficult to detect arsenic in water quickly enough because tested water had to be sent to a laboratory. Now there is equipment that can do the testing on-site.

Spallholz said he tried to contact UNICEF about the problem because the organization had drilled a lot of the wells in

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He said UNICEF finally contacted him during the summer of 2000, but after hearing other experts, UNICEF told him they were not interested in his research.

“The toxicity shouldn’t be a huge problem if people had enough selenium (in their diets),” Spallholz said.

Harvey said he has not heard about Spallholz’s idea of using selenium to level down the concentrations of arsenic in the body.

Although UNICEF was not interested in Spallholz’s research, Spallholz said he kept doing research and published what he wrote about on his research in selenium. As a result of publishing his work, La Porte found and contacted Spallholz, asking him to do clinical trials.

In the beginning, Spallholz and La Porte started doing research with $5,000. The two were later able to raise $300,000, but Spallholz said the amount was not enough and most of the people involved in the research had to be volunteers.

He said others are trying to provide clean water but at a high price.

“Non-governmental organizations are trying to provide examples of clean water as the solution,” said Spallholz. “The alternatives of providing water other than through these well systems has not been very well adapted and it is expensive,” La Porte agreed.

“Those technologies are way beyond the means of the villagers, way beyond the means of the government, or UNICEF or World Bank,” said La Porte.

Spallholz said that is why he believes his idea could work, because it is cheap and effective.

“You could add selenium to the salt and to serve it to every single Bangladeshi for up to $2 million a year,” he said.

La Porte said the ideal solution to being exposed to a carcinogen is to no longer be exposed to the carcinogen.

“By far the best thing is to stop its accumulative effect,” said La Porte.

Spallholz said although the problem is the high levels of arsenic in the water, selenium could help to flush arsenic out of the body sooner.

At the moment, Spallholz, La Porte and other researchers are still trying to find more results, but they believe the most reasonable answer is to use selenium and convince the Bangladeshi government that it works.

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The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity hosted GatorFest Saturday on Main Street and University Avenue.

The event featured the Casey Donahew Band and all proceeds benefited the Lubbock YWCA. ATTENDEES BUY THEIR tickets from members of Alpha Tau Omega at the gate for Gatorfest Saturday along Main Street and University Avenue.

Lecture series to investigate how art is conceived

By BRIAN HOWARD STAFF WRITER

The School of Art, with the help of faculty from the College of Architecture, will soon host a yearlong series of public lectures by artists, art historians, and other scholars from all-around the globe known as Landscape as Knowledge.

According to the School of Art’s website, the series of lectures will begin on Sept. 16, with a discussion by Heidi Hove, a conceptual artist from Denmark.

Hove was the first artist to create an on-site project at the site of Earthbound Moon in Bledsoe, Texas.

Joe Arredondo, the director of Landmark Arts, said the series of lectures has received a lot of support already.

“The School of Art will pay for the fall semester lectures,” he said, “but the Land Art program in the college of architecture supported us by covering the spring speakers.”

The series of lectures is not only open to students in the School of Art. “The series is for everyone,” he said. “Ideally everyone will get fired up for the presentations.”

Arredondo said each lecture

in the series will be more like an on-going discussion.

“The lectures are very open ended, as we are striving for an interdisciplinary approach,” he said.

The faculty of both the school of art and the school of architecture will be very involved in the Landscape as Knowledge series.

“Our faculty sent essays back and forth with a wide array of different viewpoints,” Arredondo said.

The lectures will also have panel discussions with the Tech faculty, allowing for widely broadened horizons on each topic, he said.

Landscape as Knowledge will be more than just a series of lectures.

“There will be a program dedicated to this by an off-campus salon group in October,” he said.

Along with the guest speakers, there will be part of an exhibition on the West Texas series of photographs that are already in the Southwest Collection library, Arredondo said.

He said the main purpose of the series is to get a wide array of viewpoints of the art world.

“We are not proposing to one solution, but rather we are aiming for multiple comprehensions of

the art world,” he said.

With an open-ended discussion setting, each lecture will aim to get a wide array of depictions as to what Landscape as Knowledge really means, along with a variety of themes and topics to be discussed.

Rick Dingus, a professor in photography, said landscape artworks inevitably express something about the relations between culture and nature.

“It is a mirror that reflects our changing hopes, fears, and knowledge of who we are and how we think we fit within the

grand scheme of things,” he said.

Jorgelina Orfila, an assistant professor in 20th and 21st art history and critical theory, offers a different idea of Landscape as Knowledge.

“The debate about landscape, environment, place, and space is crucial to a contemporary art history in search of a better comprehension of the taxonomies and methodologies it uses for the examination of historical and present-day approaches to the representation of the world,” Orfila said.

“I think it’s a good way to see what everybody’s been up to,” she said. “We don’t have a lot of forums to see all the faculty work at once. It becomes really interesting to see what people are developing and what they’re thinking about doing from one year to the next.

“It’s the same thing with the graduate students, it’s a good sense of community to have everyone’s work together at the same time.”

The presentations give students an opportunity to see what faculty and graduate students, who are often part-time instructors, work on outside of class, Blizard said. Her showcased artwork is a large floor piece she created from several months of painting and made into a rug design.

The show features works by faculty in all the college’s disciplines: sculptures, ceramics, painting, drawing, jewelry making, communication design and visual studies, Blizard said. The variety of media shows the range of the faculty members.

Stephanie Nordlund, a freshman visual studies major from Plano, said she came to the opening night of the exhibits, part of First Friday Art Trail, to see what her professors had created. She was excited to see her design teacher’s work showcased. “(It’s important for students) to see that they really do know what they’re doing,” she said. “They have an insight into the art world, and they can use those perceptions to teach their students.”

Jared Applegate, an MFA candidate focusing on painting, said one interesting thing about the showcases is that the artists are from various parts of the country and the world.

“We’re from a lot of different places,” he said. “There are people from the Ukraine, Russia; I’m from Indiana, some are from the Midwest. We’re from spread out and diverse places and when the works come together and we get to see each other’s work, it’s exciting for us.”

Applegate’s work is a drawing on a chalkboard of Jimi Hendrix. He said he wants the viewers to think about what society can learn from him rather than what he is recognized for.

“Right now I’m dealing with selfdestructive history icons,” he said.

“Jimi Hendrix is one of 14 works I have right now. The idea is to take away the celebrity status…I isolated him on the chalkboard by himself to rehumanize

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him, so the viewer can think of him as a person.”

Robin Germany, associate professor in photography, said her work in the showcase is the result of experimenting with her new underwater camera in Galveston.

“It’s a photograph of the water and at the edge there’s a plastic bag stuck in the mud,” she said. “At first, you almost don’t see it. The plastic bag looks like the movement of water across the sand, then you look across and you see it’s a bag.”

Germany encourages all Tech students to experience the exhibit because it could inspire them to be art majors or take art classes.

“There is nothing threatening at all about the arts,” she said. “This exhibit is not only faculty, but MFA candidates.

It’s an opportunity to see what we do.

It’s not threatening or scary. You might come and have a connection with something.”

Catie Powe, a junior painting major from Midland, said she enjoys seeing different kinds of art at First Fridays.

“I love art,” she said with a grin. “I can’t get enough of it, you know, there’s certain pieces that make you feel good.

That’s why I come.”

She brings friends with her every time she goes to the monthly event, and this time was no different.

“I brought people every time I came that wouldn’t have necessarily come on their own,” Powe said. “Not one of them didn’t like it.”

Richard Ramirez, a freshman visual studies major from Dallas, said he was interested to see the art and what he could someday accomplish as an art student at Tech.

Other students, not just those interested in the arts, also should see what the exhibits have to offer, Ramirez said.

“A lot of what I can do is not just art, it’s other things,” he said. “I feel in order to really make yourself a well-rounded person, you need to encompass everything you know. And there’s nothing too little, nothing big, that you can’t apply to any area. Like in engineering, you need creativity. I would say coming out here is a great way to branch out.”

Blizard said all students can get something out of the art shows and take what they learn and apply it to their area of discipline or interest.

“I think (the arts) are really valuable,” she said. “A lot of it is personal freedom and personal expression. I think everybody is an artist at a certain level. Part of being an artist is remembering things we’ve forgotten.”

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Show some Texas hospitality I graduated from Tech in 1988 and have been an avid fan since long before that, and I still get to Lubbock for games whenever I can. The impact of the last decade on the football program (and the rest of the university) has been nothing short of amazing.

H o w e v e r, I w a s u t t e r l y ashamed on Sunday afternoon as the SMU band played the SMU alma mater. While they played, the Tech student body chanted “Raider Power,” at the top of their lungs. It showed a complete lack of respect and highlighted just how far our school has to go if we

truly want to be thought of as a university to be emulated or looked up to.

Not to mention the fact that we put the alumni band right next to the SMU band or that we made our guests sit in the end zone. Come on Tech, let’s show the Big 12 Conference and the rest of the country what Texas hospitality really looks like. Let’s treat our guests with respect and friendship …

And then kick their “you know whats” on the field and on the scoreboard.  Greg Mar tin is a Tech alumnus from Coleman.

New coach can help clean up Tech’s act Nathan H Milles istory has told us that Red Raider fans lack class.

Recall a conversation with another student about our student fans.

He may speak of composure or class, but that’s only because there was a bold “no” or “lacking” preceding it.

Our behavior at games or attitudes toward other schools is vulgar and tasteless. As fans this has become our identity. A stereotype undoubtedly, but people make up stereotypes based on exaggerated facts. It has to come from somewhere.

Last year a picture was printed in The Daily Toreador displaying a Tech fan who had thrown a cup at an Aggie fan. The Aggie fan was just a candid moment away from receiving this plastic present. I felt discredited as a Raider, and every time this happens our degrees will count for less.

As an advertising student who studies the ins and outs of public relations and the importance of public image, I am invested in increasing the casual perception of our school. The worst thing I hear is that Tech is a party school, so we need a hero.

Enter Tommy Tuberville: The Batman to our Gotham. He’s here to give us a winning football team, but he also has expectations to clean up the streets of Texas Tech. I would be ecstatic to see him bring over some of that southern class that radiates from Auburn’s beautiful campus.

With Tuberville becoming the face of Texas Tech we will see a more spirited campus. That long walk across Memorial Circle will be a hub of newly found conservations between strangers who have found more comfort in expanding their social life. I am a huge fan of celebrating diversity amongst students, but let’s come together and agree on sports on campus.

Tuberville, be our war witted general, not the loose cannon that we’ve seen in our late pirate captain. As you descend into battle, say farewell to those who love you most, and as we wish you luck, hold your pride higher than your guns.

The new addition of the Raider Walk is prescribed perfection. It is what we need right now on campus to unify our fans with our team. These expectations fit well with the administration’s plan to expand our student population.

Give us happy fans and that, in turn, will give others who desire that displayed experience a reason to come to Tech.

We are our best recruiters.

Last year, about a month after the Tech vs. A&M game, I was with my friends at a Whataburger in Denton. A small group of college-aged guys walked in wearing a majority of maroon. It was 2 a.m., and conversation with strangers became easy. We all began to converse.

A few of our new friends were A&M students, and had attended the rivalry game. One spoke up to proclaim that he had gotten hit in the face by a flying cup. Was it the same guy?

This is our school and our football team. Our experiences will forever be remembered and live on through legacy.

Tuberville will move our institution forward in the most desirable direction.  Milles is a senior advertising major from Flower Mound. ➤➤ r.milles@ttu.edu

Buying local: worthy trend to follow

By LUCY BERRY

THE FOR-ALA (U. NORTH ALABAMA)

Why would students, in a struggling economy, willingly choose to give money to distant executives and not to the perfectly great, mom and pop’s shops down the street?

Local businesses everywhere are suffering the repercussions of the economic crisis as more and more “for rent” signs appear in store windows.

When will people start thinking more proactively about their local economy rather than dumping their hard-earned cash into mega-stores where almost no profits re-enter the community?

I am one of the thriftiest, moneysavvy college students out there, so I understand the allure of finding the cheapest prices on common goods. I am also guilty of giving money to corporate businesses, but the change which I hope to make doesn’t require that I or others completely reconfigure their spending habits all at once.

The 3/50 project, created in 2009 and popularized by a blog post, proposes that if half of the employed population spent $50 every month at local businesses, it would produce more than $42.6 million in revenue. With every $100 spent, $68 dollars returns to the community. The project reports that at a national chain, only $43 of the same amount spent returns home.

Investing in this frame of mind doesn’t mean that one must swear off buying from corporate businesses altogether, as certain items are only available through larger chains or the Internet.

The project does, however, force people to think more about maintaining a happy medium with where they spend their money.

While buying local may seem like a trendy or hip thing to do, just as the idea of being more environmentally friendly has its own stigma, it may be one of the wisest decisions we can make as community members in saving our local economy.

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uch to the chagrin of the civilized world, Glenn Beck and his army of drones held their own little rally in on Aug. 28, the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famed March on Washington. Mostly, they did this by demanding a return to basic American principles and supporting America’s soldiers.

It seems, then, that this rally, dubbed the Restoring Honor Rally, was a bit of a misnomer. Anyone who has read on the life of King would have noticed that his life and legacy weren’t really dedicated to conservative American values and supporting wars, but rather on a progressive civil rights movement and peaceful resolution of controversial topics.

Not a particularly good start, but as with any large conservative rally of late, facts are really just a vast liberal media conspiracy.

Many liberal commentators took note of this and chided the conservatives on their not-so-hidden themes of war and conservatism. However, they refused to discuss the official theme of the rally, which is bringing God back into the picture for a Christian revival of America.

Discussing America’s Christianity is considered to be a no-fly territory for commentators, because people get insulted.

That’s not how it should be.

Religion should be criticized when it results in bad behavior. It needs to be praised when it helps others.

Tony Cardone America’s religious obsession is fascinating, but whenever it gets discussed, Christianity in particular, the followers assume that anyone who sides against the religion wants to make the worship illegal.

T h a t ’s n o t true. In fact, government has no right to make anyone worship anyone, and I think you should be able to worship wherever you please.

But a Christian revival of America? That, frankly, is the last thing America needs.

Simply put, the last forty years have been a Christian revival.

It’s not something that is taught in American history classes, because it’s so recent.

Of course, it also helps when the people who decide on the curriculum are Christians themselves, but ever

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since the godless communists of the Soviet Union came around, there was an unnecessary revival of god into everything. ‘In God We Trust’ was inserted onto federal reserve notes during the cold war. ‘Under God’ was added to the pledge during McCarthy’s Cold War. Now that the godless communists are democratic polar bear fighters, we can move on from the God superiority complex into the 21st century. What we need now is a new era of enlightenment. Religion hasn’t made our lives better. Science has. Technology has. Our problem recently, however, is that scientific progress has taken a back seat to religion and politics.

In Texas, it’s been obvious.

The constant battle between the religious theory of intelligent design and the scientific evidence of evolution. The advancements of modern medicine ignored for the illusion of prayer. Paying for a second governor’s house at the expense of education.

America’s future is bleak right now.

A sluggish economy, jobs being out-

Religion hasn’t made our lives better. Science has.

Technology has.

Our problem recently, however, is that scientific progress has taken a back seat to religion and politics.

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sourced and one-and-a-half wars have pushed our resources to the brink.

America needs science now more than ever. Education and science are the ultimate investments in the future.

It’s the one thing that has a bigger return than any stimulus package or tax cuts. A more educated population makes us a more viable job market, resulting in more higher paying jobs.

More higher paying jobs means more money in the economy, which results in more jobs in all job sectors. It’s like the famed Republican trickle-down theory, except this one actually works.

In addition to the economic boost, the advancements in technology will undoubtedly improve the lives of every human on the planet. It will reduce or eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels, which will obviously reduce our reliance on oil from unfriendly countries.

This will definitely boost our national security. So technically, if I wanted to phrase it to make the conservatives giddy, it’s investment in our national defense.

But we must make this commitment now. Not in ten years when the economy is peachy strong, or ten years after we’ve lost our edge to Europe and the Far East. Europe and China are making the commitment now. We cannot afford to wait.

 Cardone is a sophomore computer engineering major from San Antonio. ➤➤ tony.cardone@ttu.edu

Planned Quran burning day incites hatred

By MARIAH NAJMUDDIN

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By now, I’m sure almost everyone knows about the controversy surrounding the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero, but how many people know about the “International Burn a Koran Day” that will take place Sept. 11? It is within our first amendment rights to express when, how and what we believe. However, it’s mind boggling to see that the bigotry of yesteryear still plagues our society and our views.

From Japanese prison camps during the 40s to Jim Crow laws of the 60s to the Quran burning that will take place in just a few days — we can see that America is still as narrow minded as it was when our grandparents were children.

If a group of Muslims were to publicly plan to burn Bibles, it would be blasphemy and surely a sign of underground terrorism. The media would be spending hours covering the story. But this little church in Gainesville, Fla., is getting nothing short of a pat on the back and open support. They haven’t received any angry media coverage in defense of Islamic communities, nor have they received any backlash from other Christian organizations. Instead, they have received more than 7,000 fans on Facebook and a book preaching the evils of Islam.

Let me remind you, freedom of and from religion are also provided in our First Amendment.

It’s ridiculous that we have heard next to nothing about this Quran burning. Just last year, the nation was in an uproar over the University of Texas in

San Antonio’s campaign, “Smut for Smut,” a program where one could exchange religious texts for porn.

The media won’t eat up Quran burning because bashing Islam has become socially acceptable. According to an August 10 CBS poll, 45 percent of Americans said they have an “unfavorable” view toward Muslims. And according to an Aug. 19 TIME poll, 62 percent of Americans said they don’t personally know someone who is Muslim.

It’s easy to target someone and something we don’t know a thing about. In fact, Muslims make up less than 2 percent of our population. We are afraid of something we are completely oblivious to.

But this goes beyond religion no matter what faith you belong to. Not only has anti-Islamic sentiment spread since 2001, but also stereotyping has become a commonality among all faiths.

More and more Christians are viewed as intolerant and unloving, Muslims as radical and violent and Mormons as cultic and creepy.

Yes, it was Islamic extremists that attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, but let us not forget the Mormon compound in Texas that held 400 children prisoner or the more than 200 abortion clinics that have been bombed by different Protestant organizations.

I’m not trying to undermine the significance of Islamic extremism, and I’m not saying we should ridicule Quran burners, but before we strike the match, we should be a little more open-minded to the people we’re affecting, not just the people who have affected us.

There is ignorance among us all, some more than others, but we shouldn’t let the foolish acts of few define the character of many.

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Two weeks ago, more than 500 million eggs were recalled from Iowa because of a severe scare that the eggs may have carried salmonella. As a result, an outbreak of more than 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning has been reported.

This outbreak may have been prevented if the Senate had passed a food safety bill passed by the House in July 2009.

A Senate bipartisan group released a compromise amendment to the bill on Aug. 12 — the day before Wright County Egg, one of the two egg farms involve in the recent salmonella scare, announced its first recall.

The bill would impose stricter rules on inspections, increase the frequency of inspections and grant the Food and Drug Administration the power to authorize recalls and allow access to company records.

What regulators need are “more tools, and probably better tools, to prevent these events from happening,” said Craig Hedburg, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, who

thinks the legislation would provide just that, Fortune Magazine reports.

The current law, which has been in force for more than 70 years, does not allow the FDA to authorize recalls.

This means that the FDA can only ask those responsible to remove the products, but the responsible party does not have to obey the request.

Thus, the recall does not always come in a timely manner because the company is afraid of losing profits as a result of the recall.

That delay results in more people being affected by the problem associated with the recall.

If the proposed legislation passes, the FDA would be able to quickly issue a recall, forcing the responsible party to withdraw the product without first worrying about how the recall would affect the company.

This ability to enforce a recall should not be taken lightly and requirements of the FDA to prove the need for a recall prior to enforcing one should be an expectation of Congress.

An FDA report initiated after the contamination found that Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms were filthy and had poor sanitation in the areas where the hens were kept.

The report even detailed instances of rodents, wild birds and hens escaping from their cages, which could have contributed to the salmonella.

One of the more obvious solutions to this problem is to enhance and increase the oversight powers of the FDA. If the proposed legislation passes, the FDA would impose stricter rules on inspections so that problems could

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By DEVIN SANCHEZ STAFF WRITER

The Texas Tech Alumni Association hosted the 50th Reunion for the Class of 1960 this weekend. The reunion was a threeday event, which served as an opportunity for old friends to get reacquainted and rekindle their friendships.

Peggy Pearce, the Director of Special Events for the Texas Tech Alumni Association, said the first event took place in 1977 and celebrated the class of 1927. Pearce also explained why the event, which is usually held in the spring, was postponed until this fall.

“In the spring, our building [the Merket Alumni Center], was a part of the building expansion program, therefore we had to come up with a different date,” she said, “and this weekend seemed like the perfect time.”

The event hosted a total of 42 attendees, which is less than Pearce and her committee had hoped for. Pearce said in recent years the turnout to such events has declined, something she said may be a result of the recent economic troubles.

“The last two years, attendance has really declined,” she said. “We don’t know how much of that is a result of the economy, or if it is just that classes were beginning to increase in size around this time.”

Getting people out to Lubbock to see how much Tech has grown and changed is something that drives Pearce and her team to bring in attendees to such events she said.

Pearce’s assistant, Sara Lauderdale, said many people focus too much on not knowing their classmates, rather than trying to see what their alma mater has become.

“It’s not about who you know,” she said. “Tech has changed so much, people should just come and see what all is happening here.”

Bill Dean, Executive Vice President and CEO of the alumni association, was the master of ceremonies at Thursday evening’s welcome reception, which kicked off the reunion weekend. Dean also was excited to see reactions to “Today’s Texas Tech.”

“Some people have been amazed at the physical changes to the campus,” Dean said. “When they graduated in 1960, this campus didn’t look anything like it does today.”

Wesley Masters, a 1960 graduate and former Vice Chairman of the Board of Regents at Tech, was at the weekend’s events mainly to reconnect with long-lost friends and classmates. Masters graduated from Tech with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in agriculture, and said he has such pride for Tech and everything the school has accomplished.

“I have wonderful feelings about what’s been going on here,” he said. “So many goals have been set and then accomplished, it is just wonderful.”

Masters also expressed the joy he felt when he saw his classmates, some of whom he had not seen since graduation. Masters’ pride for Texas Tech is something he passed down to his children and grandchildren. Both his daughters,

Toni and Elise, attended Tech, and his granddaughter, Jessica, is currently an accounting major at Tech. Masters said he brought up a Tech family.

“A number of us have come to Tech,” he said, “most recently my granddaughter, and I couldn’t be happier she is here.”

There was a bus tour, hosted by members of President’s Select, Saturday morning. The tour took attendees around campus and made stops at several places on campus, including the English building and the Student Union Building. The tour provided the class of 1960 several opportunities to take a look around campus and see how it has changed in the past 50 years.

One person who is a bit concerned about the progressions here on campus is Jack Henry, a professor of orthopedics at Tech. Henry said that while he and his classmates have enjoyed seeing the advancements Tech has made, he wants to make sure Tech never forgets it’s roots.

“Classes are bigger now, there are more professors using T.A.s, and that is great, Tech is doing amazing,” he said, “but we need to make sure that we never lose our friendliness and our culture, that is what makes us different.”

After the tour Saturday, there was a recognition luncheon, and the reunion weekend wrapped up with the Tech vs. SMU game Sunday. ➤➤devin.sanchez@ttu.edu

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Outdoor Pursuits Center offers 18 trips

By AUDREY COLLINS STAFF WRITER

During the fall semester, the Outdoor Pursuits Center will be facilitating 18 different recreational trips that will be open to all members of the Texas Tech University community.

“These trips are specifically used to introduce people to outdoor recreation inside and outside of Lubbock,” said Curt Howell, assistant director of the OPC. Along with the discovery of all the things outdoor recreation has to offer, trip attendees will be introduced to many new experiences that will perhaps change their view on the environment around them, he said.

“Most of the trips are very successful,” Howell said. “It’s people allowing themselves to get out of

their comfort zone and open up.”

Members of the community who go on the trips will be provided with the opportunity to meet new people and connect with others, as well as themselves, through outdoor recreation.

“All of the trips are very unique,” Howell said. “Every trip has its own unique group dynamic. You have people from all over the place.”

Chris White, who works at the center, likes to keep his focus on the environment surrounding him throughout the duration of the trips.

“It’s about leaving a trace, it’s a side of ethics we have. We try to reduce our impact on the places we go,” White said.

Although biking and hiking may seem more stressful than it does fun, the OPC staff works hard to change that opinion.

“We help students to get out, have fun and learn something new,’’ Howell said. “It helps them to just take a break from all of their studying.”

Throughout the month of September the OPC will be hosting the apple butter bike ride, day hikes in Caprock Canyons, a mountain bike trip to Palo Duro Canyon, a canoe trip to the Brazos River and a caving expedition in Southeast New Mexico, among others.

More information about all of the trips being given throughout the entire fall semester, as well as prices for each trip, can be found in the OPC building, which is located right next to the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

“We’re excited about the upcoming semester,” Howell said. “We’re always excited to get people outdoors.” ➤➤audrey.collins@ttu.edu

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Raider Walk draws large crowd

By SARAH SCROGGINS STAFF WRITER

With cheers coming from the fans lining the streets, head coach Tommy Tuberville lead his football team, along with the pom squad, cheerleaders, Raider Red and members of the Goin’ Band, from Dan Law Field down Drive of Champions for the first ever Raider Walk at Texas Tech.

Since it was the first event of its kind at Tech, Tuberville said players and fans didn’t know quite what to expect, but the event turned out well.

“It was a huge success, and we will make it better and better,” he said during his Monday media conference. “It can’t work without participation from the fans, and that was an outstanding start.”

Tuberville also said there will be Raider Walks at away games for traveling fans, although they’ll be on a smaller scale.

The Red Raider coach participated in a similar event at Auburn University called the Tiger Walk, but Bobby Gleason, the Deputy Athletics Director, said that doesn’t minimize the new tradition in Lubbock.

“Traditions have to start somewhere,” he said.

Gleason said the athletic department wanted to stand behind Tuberville because they find him to be a great ambassador for the football program. He said it was a great way for fans to respond to Tuberville’s request for a fresh start.

However, he also said the depart-

ment was unsure how fans would react to the first event.

Gleason said he was pleasantly surprised. He said the fans showed their support and enjoyed being up close to the team, and the players appreciated getting a chance to see the fans and what goes on outside of the stadium during game days.

“I think it’s a great opportunity for the fans to see them without their helmets on,” Gleason said. “It’s a great way for the team to interact with the fans.”

Gleason said he is excited to see the fan turnout for Tech’s game with the University of Texas Sept. 18. at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Monica Matzner, a Tech alumna and web designer for the civil engineering department, said she was excited to see the players and spirit organizations collaborate with the positivity of the crowd.

She said Raider Walk gets the crowd more excited and involved with game day.

“I think it’s a great idea,” she said.

“It’s a fantastic tradition to start.”

Matzner said she appreciated how well organized the walk was. She said Tuberville had announced it would start at 12:15, and that was the exact time the buses pulled up with the players.

Although Gus Wood, an agriculture communications major from Clayton, N.M., missed the first Raider Walk, he said he definitely wants to go in the future.

“It’s going to be a big tradition,” he said. “It’s all about getting into your school and wanting to win. You’ve got to get behind your university.” ➤➤sarah.scroggins@ttu.edu

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Potts said the playcall was fine but he mishandled the snap.

Perhaps the the most important thing though is that Tech got itself out of the bind. The coaches continued to coach and the players continued to make plays.

Additionally, Tech’s inexperienced secondary came up with three interceptions. The defense as a whole held SMU to a field goal after the Mustangs started a drive on Tech’s eight yard line.

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Potts’ counterpart, Padron, led the Mustang offense back to within 14 points with a third quarter strike to junior receiver Cole Beasley.

The Red Raider offense responded with a three-and-out, allowing Padron and company to get on the field with the chance to cut the defecit to a touchdown.

However, Tech’s defense stepped up and stalled SMU’s attack.

Defensive back D.J. Johnson answered the call and dealt Padron his third interception, eventually resulting in a touchdown for the Red Raiders. Later in the fourth, linebacker Brian Duncan produced two sacks to stifle SMU’s final drive.

Since Tuberville’s arrival in Lubbock, the defense has perhaps experienced the most change, while also receiving more attention than it may have under former head coach Mike Leach.

But Tuberville is most concerned with his team’s ability to put an end to each game, something Tech did against SMU. “The thing we want to do this year is finish,” Tuberville said. “Finish the game off and win no matter how. That wasn’t pretty at the end, but sometimes you have to win them like that.”

The Red Raiders have moved on and began preparation Monday for New Mexico (0-1). Saturday’s game will be the Lobos’ first at home after opening their season with a 72-0 loss at No. 11 Oregon.

But Tuberville expects a lot better from the Lobos this weekend.

“Now we’ve got to get better and get ready for New Mexico,” Tuberville said during Monday’s media conference. “I know they had a tough loss, they gave up a lot of points, they didn’t score very many.

They played on the road, we’ll get a much different team this week in New Mexico.” ➤➤jose.l.rodriguez@ttu.edu

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fast, finish strong no matter what the score is and no matter what the situation is. We made a play when PHOTO BY SAM GRENADIER/The Daily Toreador it counted and I think we’ll grow from it as a team. As a defense and THE MASKED RIDER gallops down the field prior to the kickoff of the Red Raiders’ 35-27 victory over the Mustangs Sunday at Jones AT&T Stadium. as a team.”

Tech’s win puts to rest eight months of anticipation for Tuberville and the crew’s Red Raider debut.

And with the New Mexico contest looming, the coaching staff believes the best is yet to come.

“We’ve got a chance to be really good,” Brown said Sunday. “I think we’ll build on this game and keep getting better but we were far from perfect — far from perfect. But eight months, eight months is a long time and we’ll take a win.

PHOTO BY SAM GRENADIER/The Daily Toreador “Any win is a good one.”

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Red Raiders dealt first loss of season

By TOMMY MAGELSSEN

Colleen Pitts had gone 474 minutes between the posts before conceding a goal — a Tech record.

Texas Tech soccer coach Tom However, Tech picked up the presStone doesn’t believe in moral vic- sure in the closing minutes of the first tories — at least not when referring half and played a better second half. to his team’s 2-0 loss at No. 3 Notre “Once the second half got going Dame on Sunday. and we started playing the way we can “I think there’s times for moral play and putting pressure,” Stone said, victories, but “It became obhowever I don’t vious, to I think think that today everyone, by was one of those the end of the times,” Stone game, that had said Sunday we played betnight. “I was so ter in the first impressed with half we had a our overall comreal shot.” mitment to win The loss to this game, to Notre Dame fight to the very came in Tech’s end. You know, second game there were a lot at the Saint of disappointed Mary’s Classic players on our in South Bend, team.”

Ind. Tech lost its The Red first game of the Raiders defeatseason, snaped Ole Miss ping a five-game 2-0 in their winning streak. first game FriThe Red Raidday. Goals by TOM STONE ers (5-1) conmidfielder TayTECH SOCCER COACH ceded their first lor Lytle in the two goals of the fourth minute season to the Irish, a 2009 final four and forward Dawn Ward in the 22nd team. gave Tech their fifth multiple-goal The Red Raiders put themselves game of the year. Lytle, a co-captain, in a hole midway in the second half, has four goals this year and leads the conceding two goals in the span team with nine points. Ward netted of one minute. Senior goalkeeper her third goal of the year and has STAFF WRITER

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I was so impressed with our overall commitment to win the game, to fight to the very end. You know, there were a lot of disappointed players on our team.

eight points.

Both Lytle and Ward were joined by freshman midfielder Hayley Haagsma on the all-tournament team. Midfielder Tiffini Smith also was praised

by Stone for her play. He called Smith “one of the most talented players in the Big 12.”

Sophomore goalkeeper Erin Wikelius saw her first action this season, relieving Pitts in the second half against Notre Dame and notching two saves.

Stone said the two games this weekend showed his team is capable of playing with anyone in the nation, which bodes well for Big 12 Conference play.

“They need to recognize that if this is what the elite teams are like, that there’s nothing to be afraid of,” he said. “We are on course to get to that level soon, and we clearly showed that we can play with Notre Dame.”

Even though the Red Raiders are off to their best start ever, Stone said his team needs to keep up the intensity level and not take a step back following the loss.

“I told the girls after the (Notre Dame) game I said, ‘Look guys, one streak ended today; Friday we’re going to start another one,’” he said.

The Red Raiders return home to the John Walker Soccer Complex for the first time since Aug. 22 for games against North Texas at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Oral Roberts at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. ➤➤thomas.magelssen@ttu.edu

PHOTO BY PAUL HAILES/The Daily Toreador

TIFFINI SMITH DRIBBLES past a TCU defender during a game opening weekend. Tech will attempt to bounce back from a loss when it takes on North Texas Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the John Walker Soccer Complex.

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Tech volleyball learning from tourneys Tech still has time to work out kinks

By JOSHUA KOCH STAFF WRITER

After playing in another tournament the Texas Tech (2-4) volleyball team has started to learn more about themselves not only as players but as an entire team.

It was the second straight tournament the Red Raiders have participated, which Jackie Vincent said have served as good preparation for the upcoming Big 12 Conference schedule.

“These tournaments are gearing us up right now for it,” she said. “These teams are just like the Big 12 teams.

This is really good practice because this is what we are going into.”

After being shut out 3-0 by both SMU (5-1) and UC Davis (3-2) on Friday, the Red Raiders came back and defeated Texas State (2-4) on Saturday by a score of 3-2.

The Red Raiders have lost the first two matches in each of the past two tournaments before bouncing back and winning the finale.

At the beginning of the season, Tech coach Trish Knight coined the term “Bounce” as the team motto going into this year.

Throughout this young season the

Red Raiders have learned quite a bit, but Caroline Courtney said the biggest lesson learned has not come from practice but from experience.

“I think the biggest thing we’ve learned has to do with our theme this year and it was ‘Bounce,’” she said. “We definitely have had some of those games that we’re just awful, but we’re very resilient, we didn’t give up and we came back and played hard the next game.”

The team’s resiliency will have to show in its upcoming tournament, as the Red Raiders take on No. 15 Colorado State, Illinois State, and Northwestern in the Colorado State Tournament.

After this final tournament of the season, the real work begins. A week from Wednesday the Red Raiders kick off their Big 12 schedule at home against Missouri.

Tech hasn’t won a Big 12 match in its last 59 attempts and Knight said she knows the team has a few more lessons to learn before they overcome that challenge.

“They’ve got to learn that if you’re going to win games like that you have to win being aggressive,” she said. “You can’t tip to get a point you’ve got to swing away.”

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PHOTO BY BRAD TOLLEFSON/The Daily Toreador

TECH SENIOR JACKIE Vincent digs a ball during practice in the United Spirit Arena. Tech plays in its final tourney this weekend.

Let the overreacting begin.

Texas Tech eked out a victory against SMU in its season opener, but didn’t look too impressive doing it.

“That wasn’t pretty at the end, but sometimes you have to win them like that,” head coach Tommy Tuberville said after Sunday’s game.

The first game of the season is never pretty, but Tech had a relatively auspicious start. Quarterback Taylor Potts performed well, running off 11 straight completions at one point during the game, and the Red Raiders had a 21-7 halftime lead.

They appeared to be in the driver’s seat, but the offense sputtered in the second half.

In a change from the norm Tech fans have been used to, the defense was the unit that “got me out of a bind,” as Tuberville said.

After a 4th-and-one on Tech’s own 34-yard line went horribly wrong, SMU scored on seven plays, but the defense held the Mustangs the next time they got the ball with 4:52 left, thanks in large part to two sacks from senior Brian Duncan.

Tuberville took the blame for the call, saying he should have known better.

The game was ugly, but Tech was the better team all day. They should have won by far more points. The coaching staff is well aware of this.

Tuberville, offensive coordinator Neal Brown and defensive coordinator James Willis all mentioned that there is a lot of work to be done. They’re smart guys, so they know they’re right.

On the defensive side, the Red Raiders have to defend against the run a lot better.

The offensive line pass protected tremendously in the first half, but was less than stellar in the second and the run blocking just was not there at times

Jon Arnold when it was sorely needed.

Also, the offense has to learn to drive down the length of the field, something they did only once with any fervor.

The kicking game was so bad that after two attempts Tuberville just gave up on it.

But even with all of these maladies, Tech’s actually in a pretty nice spot.

They have this week to practice before a short road trip to Albuquerque to face a hapless New Mexico side.

The Lobos lost their season opener at Oregon 72-0.

Then comes the game that will really endear Tuberville to the fans — if he wins of course — at home against Texas on Sept. 18.

This year, even more than others in the past, that game looms large.

Coaches and players will diplomatically answer that their focus is solely fixed on heading west this weekend, but inside it will be tough not to look past a game against a team that may be the worst in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

If the Red Raiders win, or even play well, against the hated Longhorns, then the season may be viewed as an early success. Another outing like the one today will surely see the Red Raiders take the first hit in the “L” column.

So spare me the ‘woe is me,’ Red Raider fans. At least, until after the UT game.  Arnold is The DT’s managing editor. ➤➤ jon.arnold@ttu.edu