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Dana Jennings: Texas Tech alumna continues her time as a Red Raider post graduation.

Football: The Red Raider defense looks to keep improving through the bye week.

Column: Continued Hurricane Harvey relief efforts highlight the good about Texas.

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ONLINE Matador Express: With fall sports in full swing, Texas Tech teams are looking to continue their success.

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LONG REFLECTS ON SHOOTING PEBBLE BEACH COURSE-RECORD

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

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TOP: Texas Tech senior golfer Hurly Long (right) hugs a teammate after defeating Oklahoma State’s Hayden Wood in a playoff to secure the Carmel Cup individual title on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Monterey, California. In the first tournament of his senior season, Long broke the Pebble Beach course record with a score of 61 during the second round.

LEFT: Long poses with a Pebble Beach Golf Links course flag after shooting the new course record during the second round of the Carmel Cup on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, in Monterey, California.

or senior golfer Hurly Long, there is no better way to start his final season as a Red Raider than to make his way into the history books and claim an individual title, not only because he wants to help his team but also because golf is his life.

In the second round of the Carmel Cup, Long shot a 61, a new Pebble Beach Golf Links course record.

Long defeated Oklahoma State’s junior Hayden Wood in a playoff after the third round of the tournament to win the individual title in Monterey, California, according to Texas Tech Athletics.

He shot birdies on the 11th, 13th, 15th and 18th holes to force a playoff with Wood. He sealed the title on the first hole of the playoff, according to Tech Athletics.

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Josh Abbott Band to play in Lubbock Friday, Saturday, tickets still on sale the website.

A general Admission pass is $30 per day, while the VIP pass costs $75 per day, according to the website. Alternately, individuals may purchase a general admission two-day pass for $50. However, all tickets must be printed for entry.

In addition to an optimal view, the VIP ticket will include access to a private bar and private port-a-potties, according to the website. The event is open to all ages. Additionally, there will be no refunds once the tickets are purchased. @DailyToreador

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Josh Abbott plays with his band during JAB Fest on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, at the Lonestar Amphitheater in Lubbock. This year’s JAB Fest will take place Friday, Sept. 8, 2017 and Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, at Lonestar Amphitheater.

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Tech Hurricane Research Team shifts focus to Hurricane Irma after Harvey Only a week after the Texas Tech Hurricane Research Team returned to Lubbock after conducting data collection during Hurricane Harvey’s landfall on the Southern Texas coast, it will now turn its attention to Hurricane Irma, according to a Tech news release.

TTUHRT will travel to the Florida coast and collect data using portable weather stations called StickNets, according to the release.

The team will be able to measure

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Josh Abbott Band will play back-to-back shows at the Lonestar Amphitheater Lubbock on Friday, Sept. 8, and Saturday, Sept. 9, as part of the annual JAB Fest.

This year’s JAB Fest will be a two-night event, according to the website, and feature artists such as Joe Nichols, Wade Bowen, William Clark Green and Parker McCollum.

Tickets for the event can be purchased at the Roadhouse Tickets website. For the show on Friday, Sept. 8, gates will open at 5 p.m., and the show will start at 5:30 p.m.; for next day’s show, gates will open at 4 p.m., and the show will start at 5 p.m., according to

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wind, temperature and air pressure as Irma approaches.

The hurricane could make landfall in the United States as early as Sunday, Sept. 10, according to the release. Irma has been declared the strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic.

“The wind data that we collected during Harvey was the strongest winds that the platforms that we at Texas Tech deploy—our StickNet platforms—(the) strongest winds

that we have ever measured in any (severe or significant) wind event in the history of the StickNet program, which dates back a decade,” Brian Hirth, research professor at the National Wind Institute, said in the release.

TTUHRT has been researching tropical systems using deployable instruments since the late 1990s, according to the release. The team has collected data from more than two dozen storms since that time.

“It’s been several years to maybe even a decade since we’ve seen the activity that has threatened the U.S. in a hurricane season as we have now seen this season,” Hirth said in the release. “The fact that Harvey made landfall and now Irma is now on its heels is not necessarily unusual, especially as we head into September, which is the peak month of the hurricane season.” @DailyToreador

Phasing out of DACA incites fears in students

By MICHAEL CANTU Opinions Editor

As the safety net that came with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals begins to crescendo down, there are students on campuses around the country who are worrying about their safety.

There are an estimated 79,000 young undocumented immigrants who have been able to receive work permits or deportation relief through DACA since it was implemented via an executive order by former President Barack Obama in August 2012, according to Pew Research Center.

Now, those people are facing an uncertain future as the federal government has decided to phase out the program and replace it with legislation that Congress will decide on within six months, according to an official White House memorandum.

New work permits will no longer be accepted, but existing permits will still offer the same protection, for the time being.

“Permits will not begin to expire for another six months and will remain active for up to 24 months,” President Donald Trump wrote in the memo. “Thus, in effect, I am not going to just cut DACA off, but rather provide a window of opportunity for Congress to finally act.”

As Texas Tech has a high number of foreign students attending the university, there is bound to be a population of those who are categorized as DACA beneficiaries. That number has yet to be confirmed by The Daily Toreador.

But, within some students who are DACA beneficiaries, there is a bit of doubt that they will have protection against deportation, Saba Nafees, a graduate student in mathematical biology from Lahore, Pakistan, and DACA beneficiary, said.

Most of the reasons cited for the removal of the program were to save jobs from United States citizens, but Nafees refutes that statement.

“To me, logic is logic. DACA people are not taking away jobs from other people,” Nafees said. “Most of us didn’t come here illegally.”

The CATO Institute has estimated that many DACA beneficiaries contribute positively to the U.S. economy, according to research from economist Thomas Church. It is estimated that the contribution from most of DACA beneficiaries would produce a gross domestic product gain of $512 billion.

It is research similar to Church’s that contradict what Trump and most of his administration believes, Nafees said.

Moreover, there will also need to be a proper reform bill from Congress that would secure the status of these people, she said. However, the possibility that Congress will not be able to come to a consensus is rather high.

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Valero lab to open in May in Livermore Center

By MAELEY HERRING Staff Writer

The Department of Chemical Engineering within the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering was presented with a $1 million gift from Valero Energy Corporation, a Fortune 500 Company based out of San Antonio, to

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renovate and construct a new laboratory with state-of-theart technology and equipment.

Sindee Simon, chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, said the gift, donated in early August, from Valero will be used to renovate the chemical engineering laboratories.

About half of the money will be used to upgrade the laboratories with new benches, new air handling and new hoods, Simon said. The remaining amount will be used for new equipment and new experimental setups for the students.

“It’s important to have state-of-the-art equipment for the students so that they are better engineers and can go into industry with a good background that allows them to hit the ground running when they first start work,” Simon said. “In particular, training our students to use state-of-the-art control equipment is important for safe plant operations, and that has broad implications for society.”

Renovation to the Livermore chemical engineering laboratory is at the beginning stages. The department is working on the design of the new lab and will start tearing out the interior materials that need to be removed, Simon said. The new lab will not be done until May 2018.

In recognition of the corporation’s investment, the facility will be renamed Valero Experiential Learning Laboratory, she said.

“Valero is proud to contribute to the state-of-the-art experiential learning laboratory at Texas Tech,” Lane Riggs, Valero executive vice president of refining operations and engineering, said

in a Texas Tech news release.

“It is important to provide excellent facilities to students.

The hands-on experience will prepare them to be better engineers and industry leaders.”

Valero is a premier manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels and petrochemical products, according to the release.

Al Sacco Jr., dean of the college of engineering, said in the news release that the hands-on learning environment, provided by Valero, will help the college continue the long tradition at Tech of producing practical engineers who are innovative and hit the ground running. “(The chemical engineering department) is thrilled with the investment that Valero has made,” Simon said. “And we think that this will give our students an advantage over students in other universities because they will be able to apply the theory they learn in other classes to real-life examples and complex situations.”

Phillips 66 has been supporting the chemical engineering laboratory for the last 10 years, Simon said. However, the current space dates back 40 years and is not sufficiently large to accommodate the growing number of students.

The critical teaching laboratory will be relocated from its current location in the basement of the chemical engineering building to the Livermore Center, where the space for the laboratory will increase by 65 percent, she said. With the approximately 2,000-square-foot facility, the department will be able to expand the types and qualities of experimental setups.

The new lab will also contain

separate areas for materials research, research in teaching and bioengineering.

“We are thankful for this partnership with the Valero Energy Corporation as it invests in Texas Tech students who are making a difference in the world,” Tech University System Chancellor Robert L. Duncan said in the release. “World-class facilities are critical for spurring innovation and impactful research. This investment will help establish the infrastructure needed to provide invaluable opportunities to faculty, staff and students.”

The Department of Chemical Engineering at Tech is ranked 50th in the nation in faculty productivity by Academic Analytics. Simon said the department has several highly productive faculty members, who are internationally and nationally recognized for their research.

“(Professors) will be able to do process-control experiments, that we can’t do right now, with using a state-of-the-art process-control trainer,” she said. “We will be able to do more analysis for bioengineering, and we hope to have a 3-D printer to make gadgets and other devices that we couldn’t make before.”

Along with the processcontrol trainer and 3-D printer, the department also plans to have new reaction-engineering equipment, which relates to manufacturing equipment that deals with reactions, Simon said.

The department also hopes to have an observation area where instructors can teach elementary school-aged children what chemical engineering is, potentially increasing the number of kids who want to go into engineering as a profession, Simon said.

“Valero’s generous contribution reflects the confidence and appreciation of globally leading corporations in our research and education missions,” Tech President Lawrence Schovanec said in the release. “Texas Tech University is grateful to Valero for this gift, which will benefit future engineering graduates and the industry.”

Blake Wallace, a junior chemical engineering major from El Dorado, Kansas, said the new laboratory will be beneficial because it will offer up-to-date technology and equipment.

“Having the opportunity to attend one of the most advanced teaching facilities in the country makes me excited and eager to learn because obviously,” Wallace said. “(Texas Tech) is the best university ever.”

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of the DACA ruling.

There is also a sense that Trump is working backwards on this legislation because it would be easier to charge Congress with coming up with a new bill and then rescind the old executive order, Levario said.

That is a pessimistic but realistic view for some, Nafees said.

“I don’t know if this is his way with charging Congress to do something, and I don’t even know if he has the votes in his own party to pass a DREAM Act,” Levario said.

Though the DACA program is not geared toward only undocumented immigrants seeking higher education, there is a portion that seeks protections, so they may continue their education.

“We’re not criminals, we’re actually doing a lot of good things here,” Christopher Ponce, a senior mathematics major who lived in Austin but was born in Mexico, said. “Hopefully, they can see some of things we’ve been doing: our research, our jobs, things like that.”

But most of the students who are DACA beneficiaries have to jump the hurdle of

financing their own college education, Nafees said.

Undocumented students in most cases are not eligible for programs like Free Application for Federal Student Aid, according to www.studentaid.gov. In Texas, however, some undocumented students are eligible to pay in-state tuition rates.

“In terms of why do we overlook blatant facts,” Nafees said, “I don’t know, I think it has do with politics, it has to do with party lines. I think it has to do with always voting for your party, not in terms of logic.”

Around 2011, the state of Alabama passed sweeping immigration laws that cracked down on undocumented immigration, according to The New York Times. It was around that same time states like Arizona and Georgia were passing similar legislation.

It was there that many immigrants were working in the agriculture industry, Levario said.

“What they experienced right off the bat was billions of dollars in lost revenue, because of crops rotting away on the vines, for example” Levario said. “They even had an effort to recruit, during the Great

Recession of 2008.”

The states’ efforts to recruit workers were not fruitful and economic problems began to increase, he said.

“They weren’t able to not only recruit workers, but the few that did show up, they were unable to retain them,” Levario said.

Local economies took the worst hit because small businesses that started up, which were centered around the immigrant population, were crippled, he said. In 2012, DACA applications for the states of Georgia and Arizona were an estimated combined 52,000 people, according to Pew. That particular data did not include Alabama.

The same data also had Texas with an estimated 21,000 DACA applicants. Halfway through 2017, there were around 200,000 immigrants who renewed their DACA status, according to Pew. “Honestly starting (Tuesday), we are not protected. ICE could walk in at the university,” Nafees said.

To ease the strain this may take on students, Tech has also started initiatives that would look into protecting DACA beneficiaries. A university-wide letter form Tech President Lawrence Schovanec was sent out to all students, faculty and staff of Tech on Tuesday, Sept. 5.

Schovanec also said in a previous interview with The Daily Toreador that after issues began to stem from the Trump presidency regarding immigrants, university officials started looking into possible actions for protecting students.

Schovanec has found it best to take a more behind-thescenes approach to these kinds of issues, he told The Daily Toreador in an April interview.

“I understand that some people would wish we would be more strident in our response,” Schovanec said.

“But, what we have to do is whenever we hear of any specific instances where a student might feel threatened, we reach out to that particular college and address that.”

As far as Nafees and Ponce are concerned, however, there is more that Tech and its administration could be doing to comfort DACA students.

Pomona University put a list earlier this week of the nearly 700 presidents and chancellors of institutions of higher learning who signed a petition to keep and continue DACA. Among the many signatures is Schovanec’s.

However, there has been little communication between some DACA students and higher administration, Nafees said.

“There are a couple of faculty members and a few people out there who are really, really passionate to protect people like us, whose hearts are breaking, probably more than mine,” Nafees said.

During the summer, while Ponce was working at Oregon Health & Science University, he, along with students enrolled, received a letter similar to the one Schovanec sent out regarding DACA. The Oregon email let students know the university would not release residency information to any federal or state agency.

The only caveat OHSU had was if the immigration status was required by a court order, Ponce said.

“Saying that they would go a step further to protect their DACA students in medical school or employees in a hospital is a lot better than just having our president say, ‘We will comply with all federal and state laws,’” Ponce, a DACA beneficiary, said. “That’s basically saying, ‘We’re going to let our government do what they want to,’ instead of just providing a layer of protection.”

Tech should take a few more steps to ensure the security of all its DACA students, Nafees said.

There are campus entities that are available to students, but a firmer statement from administration would increase comfort for most, she said.

“They need to sit us all down, they need to look us in the eye and say, ‘What exactly do you need?’” Nafees said, “instead of saying, ‘Oh, we think we can come up with policies across the system level to work with students like you.’ They need to just look us in the eye, they don’t even need to apologize. We’re already getting enough apologies from around the country.”

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “We’ve had an ineffective Congress, meaning they haven’t really passed a lot (of legislation) since 2010,” Miguel Levario, associate professor of history and democratic congressional candidate for District 19, said. “They were unable to pass a health care bill, and immigration being a huge issue, it is unlikely that they can.”

A comprehensive reform bill is unlikely to happen because they are essentially promoting a reiteration of the current DREAM Act, which is a subset

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Alumna lands dream job with Tech System

By AVERY AIKEN Managing Editor

In May 2016, Dana Jennings graduated from the College of Media & Communication with a bachelor’s degree in public relations. She spent the following year in the College of Media & Communication’s 30hour master’s program.

Upon graduation in May, she was offered the position of executive and internal communications coordinator in the Texas Tech System’s Communications and Marketing office. On Thursday, July 20, she celebrated her 22nd birthday, making her the youngest member of the System’s Communications and Marketing team.

“When I got into grad school and I got into this position, I just started to feel empowered constantly,” Jennings said, “because it was never, ‘Oh, you’re young.

You can’t do this.’ It was just, ‘You’re here, and you’re doing a good job, so keep going.’

And the same is true with my grad school courses and my grad school professors. I never felt like they weren’t trying to empower me and push me forward.”

However, Jennings did not start her schooling at Tech in the College of Media & Communication. Originally, she said, she was determined to be a dentist. Her love of biology and desire to pursue a degree in dentistry was only dampened by the chemistry-heavy degree plan that stretched before her. After a brawl with CHEM 1307, she started to explore courses offered by other colleges.

Jennings said this is what led her to the College of Media & Communication where she took her first public relations course. During the spring semester of her freshman year, she realized she loved public relations.

“Those courses just kind of sparked for me,” she said.

“I made the connection that communication has always been so important to me.

Ever since I was a child, it has always been very important to me that people are understanding what I’m trying to say, and I’m understanding what they’re trying to say.

And I want things to be very clear, and I want to get my point across, and I want to do it well and intelligently.”

Having been a confident performer and a prolific writer since she was in elementary school, Jennings said she is thankful she went to primary and secondary schools that encouraged creativity and fostered strong communication skills in students.

She said many schools nowadays do not emphasize the importance of creative writing or the arts.

To Jennings, these outlets are incredibly important.

In fact, she won two awards for costume design in North Texas. However, her greatest passion remained spoken and written word.

“I love language, and I love words,” she said. “It sounds so weird to say that.

We use words day in and day out, but I truly love words

and the power of words and finding new words to use and things like that.”

Jennings said she always tested into higher course levels in elementary school when given the chance. This same caliber of academic dedication and enthusiasm followed her all the way through graduate school.

“When I got into grad school and I got into this position, I just started to feel empowered constantly,” DANA JENNINGS EXECUTIVE AND INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Her passion for learning was matched by her professors’ willingness to pour their knowledge into their students, she said.

“My favorite courses always came down to the professors that I had and, I think, in CoMC, we have some stand-out professors,” Jennings said, “that just truly, truly invest in the lives of students, and at Texas Tech, it’s not rare to find professors like that, but I think at other universities, it is.”

Working closely with Lisa Low, assistant professor of practice of public relations, Jennings was able to develop a deeper love for the art of public relations. On top of that, Jennings said Low played an instrumental role in Jennings’ path to the System building.

“I remember, on a Sunday — three weeks before I graduated — I told Lisa Low, who was my boss in the Outpost social media lab where I worked for a year during my undergrad, ‘I think I’m going to go to grad school. Will you write me a (recommendation letter)?’” Jennings said. “(Low) was like, ‘Oh, yeah. Of course.’

The next day, she forwards me an email from someone in the chancellor’s office asking for someone to help tide them over until they hired a vice chancellor in Communications and Marketing to help with the day to day.”

Jennings said it is unlikely she would have received the opportunity to work in her current office without Low’s recommendation.

For Low, there was no question about whether or

not Jennings would be a good fit to work at the System building. Low said she could see how naturally Jennings understood the content she was being taught in her classes since the first day.

“She has an innate understanding of public relations principals,” Low said. “She had a strong interest in our major, and you could definitely see that she was learning in every single class. That’s why I say you could talk to any one of her professors, and they’d say, ‘Yeah, I remember her. She was awesome.’”

Though Jennings is no longer enrolled in classes at Tech, she said she is constantly learning more about strategic communication because she works with people who have extensive experience in the communications field.

One of her favorite things about her work in the System building is getting to be around those experienced leaders and coworkers, she said.

“I am surrounded by leadership that I wholeheartedly believe in,” Jennings said.

“And that’s honestly my favorite part, because I get to feel like I’m part of building this. I’m part of expanding our brand and executing our vision with the great leaders I’m surrounded by. And there’s constantly things to learn because everyone here has lived incredible professional lives, and they have so much to offer, and they’re so willing to teach, and they’re so willing to share

“And that’s honestly my favorite part, because I get to feel like I’m part of building this.”

DANA JENNINGS those experiences.”

Brett Ashworth, vice chancellor for Communications and Marketing for the Tech System, said when he was hired this past year, there was no question of whether or not he would offer Jennings a full-time position in the Communications and Marketing office.

From the moment he met her, he could see how driven and hard-working she is.

When he first arrived on the scene, he was tasked with the

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AVERY AIKEN/The Daily Toreador Dana Jennings,Tech alumna and executive and internal communications coordinator in theTexasTech System’s Communications and Marketing office, poses in the Texas Tech System building on Sept. 1, 2017. She recently received a full-time position in the previously mentioned office.

responsibility of constructing the Communications and Marketing team. Ashworth said he knew immediately that he would want Jennings on that team.

“At that time, Dana was really the only one performing many of the functions that we perform today, and she was doing it as a graduate assistant, which, obviously, was very impressive to me,” Ashworth said. “It was easy to see very quickly the skill set and the talent and attitude and work ethic that she possessed, which I thought was a great compliment to the Texas Tech University College of Media & Communication.”

Even when Jennings first began her work at the System building as a graduate assistant, she said her role consisted of helping Chancellor Robert L. Duncan communicate his message and vision to Tech students, faculty, staff, alumni and the rest of the world.

While that seems like a hefty job for a graduate assistant, Ashworth said she handled it with skill and confidence.

“Much of what she was doing was the internal communications or the executive communications and supporting the chancellor and doing some of his speech writing and talking-point and message development, which is a big job,” Ashworth said. “And to think that we had a graduate assistant performing those functions was really impressive.”

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share the chancellor’s vision with the Tech community.

However, she said her time at the System building has been much more meaningful than most people would expect from a theoretically administrative position.

“I feel as though I’m having a greater impact by being a part of this,” Jennings said.

Even though Jennings has only been out of graduate school for three months, she said she is sitting in her dream job. After studying how to navigate the world of digital public relations, she loves that she is able to hone her writing skills through more traditional public relations work.

She said that public relations is all about telling the

story. Everyone has a story to tell, and her job is to tell those stories. So, as she continues to help the chancellor tell the story of his vision for Tech, Jennings said she gets to start the story of her professional career here on Tech’s campus.

“Our motto at the System and Texas Tech University is, ‘From here, it’s possible,’” Jennings said. “And I am that story. I am, ‘From here, it’s possible.’ Texas Tech poured into me everything that I could have ever imagined, and I have the opportunity to pour back into it and give back to this university and this university system at a whole different level than I could have ever imagined.” @AveryAikenDT

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Harvey relief shows good side of Texas W hen I was younger, I remember Hurricane Katrina pummeling most of New Orleans and parts of Louisiana.

Most of the people in the city were displaced and rescue efforts were shown on just about every 6 p.m. newscast, each more dramatic than the other.

I was in the second grade at the time, and our teacher had decided that was as good a time as ever to give us many lessons on the anatomy of a hurricane.

We learned about the high winds, what the eye of a hurricane looks like and many other interesting facts. It was my first lesson regarding what extreme weather events were like.

It was also frightening because I kept thinking about

time it was coincidental that we caught this because there was no social media; or at least it was not available to us then.

We watched, for what seemed like hours, while people carrying just about all they had come out of the airplane; sweaty, disheveled and lost. All the while, I felt sad and frightened for their futures.

There was also footage out of Houston with the Astrodome filled with people, all laying on cots and make-shift furniture. All of them were somewhat taken care of, but uprooted out of their home and placed into discomfort.

Now the entire nation watches as people from Houston have to pour into shelters while water pours into their homes. The situa-

Michael Cantu is a senior electronic media and communications major from New Deal.

the people affected.

Authorities began to evacuate people from their homes and bring them to places like Houston and even some to Lubbock. So, evacuees boarded a plane and came to Lubbock. Some television stations took advantage of the situation and set up a live shot from the airport.

At our home, we had some family over and that Sunday morning they were all gathered around the television. They saw a live shot of evacuees exiting a plane. Mind you, at this

tion is hard to watch unfold and with Hurricane Irma predicted to visit Florida with nearly the same force is difficult to digest. But in it all is a small slither of hope as communities all around the state and country have come to help.

But in it all is a small slither of hope as commuties all around the country and state have come to help.

It is natural to see the disaster agencies come in to help the affected areas, but what we see now is something uncommon to me.

There is video-after video

of people in the area joining together to help their neighbors out.

There are also stories and videos that show people coming from every corner of Texas to lend their hands in Houston’s time of need.

One instance that caught my eye was a convoy of 18-wheelers from most, if not all, of Texas’ Division 1 universities full of supplies for the affected. All of which was donated either by the universities or people from the universities.

Even people with The Daily Toreador have lent helping hands and partnered with the College of Agricultural Science & Natural Resources to send supplies that way.

It is wonderful to see all these people try and help

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Russian accounts bought ads during US campaign WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of fake Facebook accounts, probably run from Russia, spent about $100,000 on ads aimed at stirring up divisive issues such as gun control and race relations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the social network said Wednesday.

Although the number of ads is relatively small, the disclosure provides a more detailed peek into what investigators believe was a targeted effort

by Russians to influence U.S. politics during the campaign, this time through social media.

The 470 accounts appeared to come from a notorious “troll farm,” a St. Petersburg-based organization known for promoting pro-Russian government positions via fake accounts, according to two people familiar with the investigation. The people were granted anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation.

In all, the accounts purchased some 3,000 ads between June 2015 and May 2017. While they ads didn’t specifically reference the election, a candidate or voting, they nevertheless allowed “divisive messages” to be amplified via the social media platform, the company’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, said in a statement.

Facebook has turned over its findings to federal authorities investigating Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Robert Mueller, the special counsel, is charged with overseeing Russian meddling in the U.S. election and any potential coordination with associates of President Donald Trump.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said that Facebook briefed the panel’s staff on Wednesday, but he still

wants to know more.

“I have a lot more questions for Facebook, and I’ve got a lot of questions for Twitter,” Warner said, noting that “we’ve got Twitter coming in.” He did not say when a meeting with representatives from Twitter might occur other than “soon.”

A spokeswoman for Twitter declined comment Wednesday evening.

Warner said he also wants to know more about the content of the ads pushed out by the Russian-based Internet Research Agency and whether they targeted specific voters or locations in the U.S. He said in many cases the social media messaging “was more about voter depression and suppression without having to necessarily mention an individual candidate’s name.”

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top

Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said Facebook’s disclosure confirmed what many lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the U.S. election had long suspected.

“One of the things that we’re interested obviously in finding out is whether there was any coordination in terms of the use of those paid social media trolls or the Russian use of bots,” he said.

The fake accounts were discovered during a company review of ad buys that was spurred by a broader investigation the company initiated into Russian meddling after the election, Stamos said.

In addition to the 470 accounts that appeared to be run from Russia, Stamos said its investigators also discovered an additional $50,000 in spending via 2,200 ads that “might have originated in Russia,” even including ads purchased by

accounts with IP addresses in the U.S. but set to Russian in the language settings.

The dollar amount of ad spending identified by Facebook is an infinitesimal amount compared to the total amount of advertising spending during the election. According to ad tracker Borrell Associates, more than $1.4 billion was spent during the 2016 election cycle on digital advertising alone. That figure includes spending on national, state and local elections.

Rep. Eric Swalwell, DCalif, who also serves on the House intelligence committee, said Facebook’s disclosures help to “fill in with more color some of the lines that exist,” but he would like to know more about the sophistication of the ads. He also wants to know if the content of the ads smacked of Russian propaganda.

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FEMA still focused on responding to Harvey as Irma looms off coast

Trumps donate $1M to 12 organizations for Harvey relief fund

WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with the looming threat of dual disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday ramped up preparations for Hurricane Irma as it barreled toward the Florida coast even as the agency continued the massive recovery effort in stormbattered Texas.

It was a one-two punch of powerful storms certain to strain the agency’s quickly dwindling coffers.

The roughly $1 billion left in FEMA’s Emergency Response Fund was expected to run out as soon as the end of the week, just as Category 5 Irma could be pounding Florida and less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey caused massive flooding in Houston.

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed $7.9 billion in Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united to help victims of that storm in Texas and Louisiana.

The 419-3 vote sent the aid package — likely the first of several — to the Senate in hopes of getting the bill to the president before FEMA runs out of money.

Far more money will be needed once more complete estimates of Harvey’s damage are in this fall. The storm’s wrath could end up exceeding the $110 billion federal cost of recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

That year was perhaps the last time FEMA faced as tough a test — when hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck within weeks of each other. The agency’s widely criticized response to the then-unprecedented flooding in New Orleans became a major embarrassment for the Bush administration. Despite years of post-recession funding cuts during the Obama administration, FEMA’s leaders worked to streamline and consolidate operations, cutting costs while maintaining staffing levels.

Still, top officials tried to offer reassurance on Wednesday.

“We’re not going to let money get in the way of saving lives,” FEMA administrator Brock Long said Wednesday on “CBS This Morning.” Brock said his confidence was high that the agency could handle Irma.

“Despite everything that’s going on, this is what we train for. We have catastrophic plans. Obviously after Irma, staffing patterns could be strained,” he said.

Top officials responsible for responding to large-scale public emergencies meet regularly to conduct drills and update plans covering numerous worst-case scenarios. That includes what to do if two massive hurricanes strike the U.S. mainland within days, 1,000 miles apart.

As of Wednesday, more than 100 FEMA personnel have already been deployed to Florida, where they will coordinate on the ground with the state’s emergency management officials.

FEMA regional assistance teams were also sent to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

“Our staffing levels are coming up,” Long said. “We have over 700 people right now pre-positioned to support our partners.”

FEMA maintains large stores of food, bottled water, medical supplies, cots and blankets, pre-packed and strategically placed at locations throughout the United States and its territories.

Those supplies were being pre-staged on semi-trucks, where they can be driven into the disaster zone after the storm passes.

To help speed delivery of emergency supplies after a storm, the U.S. government as part of the disaster-declaration process routinely exempts commercial truck drivers in the region from federal rules, including ones limiting how many consecutive hours they can safely drive.

The preparations were being made even as FEMA continued to respond in Texas. So far, FEMA has approved $148 million in aid for more than 180,000 survivors of Harvey, finding more than 50,000 hotel and motel rooms for survivors.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are donating a total of $1 million to a dozen organizations involved in Harvey relief work, including the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and Habitat for Humanity, the White House announced Wednesday.

The American Red Cross and Salvation Army will each receive $300,000; Samaritan’s Purse and Reachout America will collect $100,000 each.

The Trumps are giving $25,000 each to eight other organizations: the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Catholic Charities, Direct Relief, Habitat for Humanity, Houston Humane Society, Operation Blessing, Portlight Inclusive Disaster Strategies and Team Rubicon.

The White House said the donations are coming from the president’s personal funds.

Harvey slammed into the Gulf Coast of Texas on Aug. 25 as a Category 4 hurricane. It was soon downgraded to a tropical storm but lingered for days, dropping up to 50 inches of rain on Houston and the surrounding area before moving eastward to Louisiana. Homes and roads spent

days under feet of water.

The Trumps visited Corpus Christi, Texas, and Austin on Aug. 29. They returned to the region Saturday, visiting Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana, which also was battered

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“Our hearts are heavy with sadness for those who lost everything,” Trump said Wednesday at an event in North Dakota to pitch his plan for overhauling the tax code.

“They’ve also filled us with hope,” he said, speaking of having witnessed the “unyielding strength and resilience of the American spirit.”

White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said the Trumps saw some of these groups in action while visiting with hurricane survivors, first responders, volunteers and government officials during their visits to the region.

She said Trump and Mrs. Trump continue to pray for all who have been affected.

The American Red Cross said it is “grateful to the Trumps for their generous support of our mission.”

The White House first said last week that Trump wanted to make a donation, and sought suggestions from journalists on where he should contribute.

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It says a lot about people’s character and willingness to help out. The people of Houston and other Texas coastal cities need help and their fellow Texans are helping provide that for them.

With another storm on the horizon, it seems that the same actions will have to be taken again. I think there should be a little comfort for those people in that path: The comfort to know there will be someone to help.

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Local winery discusses changes in wine sales to Millennials

By ROBERT AVILA Staff Writer

Arriving at the football tailgate, one heads to the nearest cooler to grab a cold one. He sees his roommate being hoisted up for a keg stand. As everyone around him chants “chug” and his roommate’s arms begin to give, he sees wine, not beer, soaking his shirt.

When he opens up the cooler, he finds a cold bottle of sauvignon blanc rather than Lonestar.

According to the latest report from the Wine Market Council, a nonprofit organization that provides consumer research to the wine industry, millennials — defined as those aged between 21 and 38 years — are now the largest wine-drinking demographic in the U.S., making up 36 percent of all U.S. wine drinkers.

The figure overtakes Baby Boomers — aged between 51 and 69 — who accounted for 34 percent and Generation X — aged between 39 and 50 — at 18 percent.

The increase in wine consumption has led to a decrease in beer sales, according to a recent CNBC report, which found that a shift in preference has led Goldman Sachs to downgrade the Boston Beer Company — which produces Sam Adams beer and Angry Orchard Cider — for the 2017 fiscal year.

Trey Blankenship, assistant director for Texas Wine Marketing Research Institute at Texas Tech, said the transition of millennials from wine to beer is simply a natural progression that comes with age.

As other generations get older and millennials transition from college to the workforce, their social environment becomes more situated toward wine, he said.

“As people grow and become more involved in rituals of dining and things like that, wine is a much more

natural fit because wine and food are a natural pairing. I think it is just a natural progression as you get older,” he said.

Blankenship also said he attributes the switch to the recent growth in food culture, which has led Americans to look more closely at the quality of their dining experience.

“We haven’t had a strong food culture until recently,” he said. “Dining is much more of an important experience now and now that people take a bit more time to do it and then make those decisions, and wine kind of falls right into that.”

Despite the slight decline reported in beer sales, Blankenship said the biggest competitive product against wine is craft beer, which has created a more diverse and compelling product than before, one that the wine industry has taken notice of.

Mike Laughlin, director of hospitality at Lubbock winery Llano Estacado, said Llano Estacado’s focus has been to simply market toward wine drinkers as a whole, no matter what age, and provide different outlets to market toward different individuals.

Having been in Lubbock for 41 years, he believes Llano Estacado has established itself in the public’s trust.

“I know millennials aren’t pretty big into drinking wine by the glass, so they like those wine bar type things, so we do also have our products that are going to be in the grocery stores across the state,” Laughlin said.

“From our point of view, we just try to make wines for all wine audiences.”

Mickey Minter, owner of Lubbock craft beer company Plains Brew Co., said the goal is to make a product anyone can enjoy with friends in the evening.

His focus right now is on the Lubbock community, which he has been devel-

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3 ROBERT AVILA/The Daily Toreador 1. Bottles of wine sit on display at the Llano Estacado Winery on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. The winery has been established in Lubbock for over 40 years. 2. The Plains Brew Company creates and exhibits several decorative beer taps in their brewery in Lubbock on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. The Plains Brew tap was available for use, as well as several other craft beer taps. 3. The Llano Estacado Winery has miles of vineyards.

On Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, the grapes were not ready for harvesting.

oping through selling to local businesses, including Alamo Draft House, The Range, and recently Local Bar and Grill.

“A lot of people tell me they’re glad to see a local beer in Lubbock. I don’t understand how you drink wine with a meal,” he said.

“I don’t understand how you pair certain wines with certain food.”

But the owners of the winery and the craft beer company do not believe they compete with each other. Laughlin said all

beverages are related in some way, but the beers and styles of production differ in ways that do not put them in direct competition.

“It’s more almost like a brother and sister, you know, seeing who has the best GPA for the semester,” Laughlin said. “You know you’re still kind of rooting for each other.”

Still, Blankenship said wine makers are looking to market toward millennials by making wine more accessible to their lifestyle, and the packag-

ing of products has become more important to their lifestyle.

Wine makers are beginning to use more packaging that resembles beer, such as using keg systems rather than glass bottles and introducing more wine cans.

“Millennials are more into things like hiking, experiencing the world, and doing things and seeing things and to be able to have packaging that accommodates them. So, things like cans make it

more accessible,” Blankenship said.

However, Minter said he is a little less certain Millennials will embrace the idea of drinking wine out of a can.

“They will find the customer base for wine in a can.

I mean, I hate to seem like I’m profiling, but Tech kids are looking for a cheap way to drunk on Friday night,” he said. “If it’s cool to walk around with a can of wine, they’ll do it, you know. We will see.” @DailyToreador

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Trump overrules GOP with deal on spending, Harvey aid WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump briskly overruled congressional Republicans and his own treasury secretary Wednesday to cut a deal with Democrats to keep the government operating and raise America’s debt limit.

The immediate goal was ensuring money for hurricane relief, but in the process the president brazenly rolled his own party’s leaders.

In deal-making mode, Trump sided with the Democratic leaders — “Chuck and Nancy,” as he amiably referred later to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — as they pushed for the three-month deal, brushing aside the urgings of GOP leaders and Treasury Secretary Steven

Mnuchin for a much longer extension to the debt limit.

Republicans want that longer allowance to avoid having to take another vote on the politically toxic issue before the 2018 congressional elections.

The session painted a vivid portrait of discord at the highest ranks of the Republican Party. After an angry August that Trump spent lobbing attacks at fellow Republicans, specifically targeting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for the failure of health care legislation, the president wasted little time once Congress came back this week in demonstrating his disdain for the GOP House and Senate leaders charged with shepherding his agenda into law.

At first, in Wednesday’s

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Beyonce to headline Harvey relief telethon NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce, Blake Shelton, Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey will headline a one-hour telethon to benefit Hurricane Harvey victims that will be simulcast next week on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CMT. The event will be telecast live at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 12, and on tape delay at 8 p.m. on the West Coast, and streamed live on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Houston rap artist Bun

B and Scooter Braun, a Hollywood talent manager and founder of SB Projects, are the organizers.

Bun B, a Houston native and lecturer at Rice University, said he was trying to organize a local event through his contacts and recognized that Harvey was a broader tragedy.

“One morning it just hit me — this is a national disaster,” he said. “It’s personal for me because it’s home to me, it’s in my city, but it’s a national disaster.”

Oval Office meeting, the Republicans lobbied for an 18-month debt ceiling extension, then 12 months and then six, but Trump waved them off. As Mnuchin continued to press an economic argument in favor of a longerterm deal, Trump tired of it and cut him off mid-sentence.

At another point, the meeting totally lost focus when Ivanka Trump entered to raise an unrelated issue on child care tax credits. Details of the meeting were disclosed by several people briefed on the proceedings who spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly.

One photo taken through the window of the Oval Office showed an animated Schumer pointing his finger

in Trump’s face as the president smiles with his hands on his fellow New Yorker’s arms.

After the meeting, Trump boarded a plane to North Dakota with Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in an effort to garner bipartisan support for tax legislation that Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are crafting on a purely partisan basis. That continued the day of bizarre disconnects between the president and the leaders of his party.

Trump called Heitkamp to the stage at his Dakota event and praised her as a “good woman.” She will be running for re-election against a Republican in November 2018.

Heitkamp later issued a statement saying she needs to know more about

Trump’s tax plan before offering her support.

Aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters, “We had a very good meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.” He didn’t mention Republicans McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who also had been present.

“We agreed to a three-month extension on debt ceiling, which they consider to be sacred, very important.”

“I think the deal will be very good,” Trump added.

Barely an hour earlier, Ryan had slammed the Democrats’ demand for a

three-month extension as “ridiculous and disgraceful.” He issued no public statement on the final deal.

McConnell, in his own reserved fashion, did not sugar-coat what happened when he addressed reporters a short time later.

“In the meeting down at the White House, as I indicated, the president agreed with Sen. Schumer and Congresswoman Pelosi to do a three-month CR and a debt ceiling into December, and that’s what I will be offering based on the president’s decision,” McConnell said.

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Defense working to become cohesive unit

By ALEXA BOUTWELL Sports Editor

In the season home opener against Eastern Washington Saturday, Sept. 2, at Jones AT&T Stadium, the Texas Tech defense showed its improvements from last year on the field by stopping the Eagles on several occasions and holding the team to 10 points.

Junior defensive back Jah’shawn Johnson said the Red Raider defense managed to stop the Eagles offense by sticking to the game plan.

“I mean, of course they scored on us,” he said. “We just basically cleaned up what we messed up in the first half, and we just came out and started fast and finished fast.”

In the first quarter alone, the Red Raider defense stopped the Eagles offense from reaching the end zone and scoring, according to Tech Athletics. Junior linebacker Dakota Allen came up with four tackles to help deny Eastern Washington from scoring early on.

Allen ended the game one

tackle short of the team high with six, according to Tech Athletics. He also had an assist that went for a loss.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said having Allen back on the team creates a positive presence that resonates throughout the defense.

“I think you see when he was voted team captain, he has a real presence about himself,” Kingsbury said.

“He’s a mature, young man, handles his business, has a real swagger about himself that people follow, and more than anything, I think the presence he brought back to our locker room has been really good for that defense.”

Johnson also showed his dominance on the defensive end with three tackles in the first quarter for the Red Raiders, according to Tech Athletics.

He ended the first half with five total tackles with three being solo. Sophomore linebacker Jordyn Brooks matched Johnson’s stats with five total tackles and three solo tackles.

“I’m proud of Jah’Shawn and how far he’s come on the leadership side of things,”

Kingsbury said. “He is a sure tackler for us back in the back end.”

Johnson also forced a fumble on the Eagles’ first drive, which marked the sixth of his career, according to Tech Athletics. He also finished the game with a share of the team-high seven tackles to show his dominance in the backfield.

“We definitely wanted to start fast. We’ve been emphasizing it since fall camp started,” Johnson said. “I mean, the guy was kind of loose with the ball and I came to tackle him and he let it go and we got on it, so it was a good start.”

At the end of the first half, the Red Raiders had a total of 40 tackles with 26 of those being solo, according to Tech Athletics.

At the start of the third quarter, the Eagles started off with the ball, however, junior defensive lineman Tony Jones stopped Eastern Washington from scoring by sacking the Eagles quarterback, according to Tech Athletics.

This marked the Red Raiders first quarterback sack of the evening. Jones also recorded

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Junior linebacker Dakota Allen prepares for the play against Eastern Washington on Saturday, Sept.

2, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders defeated the eagles, 56-10. The Tech defense forced 64 total tackles against the Eagles. his first career interception in the fourth quarter to seal the win for Tech.

The Red Raiders ultimately defeated the Eagles, 56-10, in the season home opener, according to Tech Athletics. The Tech defense finished with 64 total tackles, 42 of which were solo. The

defense also forced one sack and two interceptions.

Senior starting quarterback Nic Shimonek said the offense did not have a solid start, but the defense attacking having the team’s back was what enabled the Red Raiders to take the win.

“Oh, man, obviously, like I said, I want to score a

touchdown on every drive.

That’s not going to happen,” Shimonek said. “So whenever that doesn’t happen and then they got our back, that’s one of our team commandments is have your brother ’s back, and they showed that (Saturday).” @ABoutwellDT

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Douglas Coleman shares story, love for football

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

Sophomore defensive back Douglas Coleman III’s mind and heart has been in football since the beginning of his collegiate career.

With his family and friends having played the sport,

this passion has been not only inside of him but also all around him.

H i s f a t h e r, D o u g l a s Coleman, was inducted into the American Football Association Hall of Fame in 2014, according to Plaquemine Post South.

His father played college

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Sophomore defensive back Douglas Coleman III celebrates after a play in the 56-10 win against Eastern Washington on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium. Coleman is following in the footsteps of his father, who also had a passion for the game. football at Eastern New Mexico, and during his senior year of high school, he set the passing record at 3,013 yards, according to Tech Athletics.

Despite with his father ’s history with football, Coleman III wanted to play the sport right from the beginning.

“When I first started out playing peewee football, I just had a passion for it, and I can never give it up,” Coleman III said. “Out of all the sports I’ve played, it’s nothing like playing football. So, I just stuck with it.”

Fast forward to Zachary high school in Zachary,

Louisiana, and Coleman played wide receiver, defensive back and special teams. As a receiver, he finished his varsity career with 114 receptions, 2,334 receiving yards and 23 receiving touchdowns, according to Tech Athletics. In his senior season, he had 62 receptions, 1,482 receiving yards and 15 touchdowns, while averaging 23.9 yards per catch and 98.8 yards receiving per game.

He was also named a two-time Class 5A AllState first team, Louisiana Sportswriters All-State and a two-time Baton Rouge All-Metro selection, accord-

ing to Tech Athletics.

Since he began playing the receiver position, Coleman III said Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant is the player he looks up to at the professional level. Coleman III’s father, however, told him that because his height and arm length, he would be better suited on defense.

“A lot of people were telling me that I have a knack for the ball in high school,” Coleman III said. “I played a couple of games on defense, and they said I probably have a better chance at defense.

So, I just gave (being a receiver) a shot really.”

Coleman started his collegiate career with the Red Raiders last year against Stephen F. Austin at Jones AT&T Stadium, according to Tech Athletics. He recorded a season-high five tackles against Louisiana Tech and matched that against TCU and Iowa State later that season.

H o w e v e r, h e m a d e his mark by getting his first career interception against TCU last year by nabbing the ball in the end zone and then recovering a fumble from former Texas Longhorn running back D’Onta Foreman on the goal line, which resulted in a record-break-

ing touchdown, according to Tech Athletics. He was also given All-Big 12 Freshman second team honors by Athlon Sports.

“Doug has come a long way,” Kingsbury said. “He’s one of those ballhawk type players, but now you see him understand the system and being in the right place all the time, being more physical at the point of attack, and so, that’s encouraging for us.”

F o r t h i s y e a r, C o l eman said his goals are to force as many turnovers as possible and to lead the nation in interceptions.

He has already started on his turnover goal as he recovered a fumble forced by junior defensive back Jah’Shawn Johnson against Eastern Washington on Saturday, Sept. 2.

For the team, he wants the Red Raiders to win not only the Big 12 Conference championship but also the national championship. However, he said, the team has to take it one game at a time.

“I feel pretty good, going into this next game, but we just have to focus on Arizona State right n o w, ” C o l e m a n s a i d .

“They’re probably not even worried about us right now. So, we’re just going to take advantage of that.” @JackDensmore_DT

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Goalkeeper rotation benefits Red Raiders

By AUSTIN WATTS Staff Writer

As the Texas Tech soccer team heads toward Big 12 Conference play, it sits at 4-1 on the season, with four recorded shutouts.

The two goalkeepers seeing time in the rotation for Tech have made a notable defensive impact.

In 2016, goalkeeper Lauren Watson played her last season with the team, leaving Tech as the second all-time in career shutouts for the Red Raiders. The roster was left with three goalkeepers to compete for playing time, and only one had a start to her name, according to Tech Athletics.

Now, after five games, Tech appears to have not one but two goalkeepers who have stepped up to fill Watson’s shoes.

The junior on the team is Carissa Christensen from Alta Loma, California, according to Tech Athletics.

Christensen has been a Red Raider for four years, and outside of some playing time in 2015, this is her first chance to start in her collegiate career.

For Christensen, this opportunity is not wholly unexpected. She said stepping into this role is something she has been preparing for.

“I’ve been playing since I was about five years old, I played because my parents forced me to, but then I learned to love it,” Christensen said. “They pushed me to go above and beyond, and try new things, and I hated it. Once I got used to it, it was way more fun, and my parents didn't have to push me anymore.

I was more up to doing it.

I became a goalkeeper in fourth or fifth grade and officially became a goalkeeper in junior high and high school, and it’s just escalated from there.”

According to Top Drawer Soccer, Christensen was one of the top-50 prospects in the state of California before joining the Red Raiders.

Christensen said she saw the opportunity on the bench as a time to learn, and the success found this season is not an unexpected occurrence.

“We’ve trained so hard for it that it’s not surprising that we’ve gotten shutouts. It’s definitely a team sport, we have all worked for it,” Christensen said. “Both defense and (the goalkeepers), we've worked and pushed each other every day for it. It’s not surprising at all.”

Alongside Christensen at goalkeeper is freshman Marissa Zucchetto from Mississauga, Ontario, Can-

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Texas Tech goalkeepers, junior Carissa Christensen and freshman Marissa Zucchetto, have both dominated on the defensive end this season for the Red Raiders. Both players compete in the net for 45 minutes of each match, giving Tech multiple forces in the net. ada. In her first season as a Red Raider, she has gotten to see the field quite a bit and her play in the net has helped Tech continue to stop opponents.

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Zucchetto has seen plenty of upper-level play in her youth, with appearances on Canada’s U-15 and U-17 teams and a gold medal win on the U-15 team, according

to Tech Athletics.

Like Christensen, Zucchetto said her experience on the field can be traced back to her early years.

“I started playing soccer when I was 4 and have played goalkeeper since I was 10,” she said.

In her first year as a Red Raider, Zucchetto has competed in all five games, according to Tech Athletics.

She has appeared in the second half of each contest and has recorded three saves while only allowing one goal.

“It feels good to get that experience,” Zucchetto said. “Once CC (Christensen) leaves, I can step into that role and not be too nervous to be in the college game.”

When asked, both players said they give defensive credit to the teammates around them. The backline has helped reduce the number of shots allowed by their opponents and has made their jobs easier, Christensen said.

“In trainings, the backline goes at it with everyone. They are very composed in the back, no matter what they are doing. They are just very calm and collected, so it’s very nice to see them stand players up,” she said. “For every defender that comes in, people that

are coming off the bench, they've all been putting in the work. They know what it takes to get there. So, they are all working really well together.”

Zucchetto also said part of being a cohesive unit in the net and on the field is knowing what role one plays and completing it to the best of one’s ability.

“Everyone knows their role, even if they come off the bench,” Zucchetto said.

“We know we have to step to the ball and not allow shots to come in or let opponents slip behind us.”

For the two goalkeepers, the fate of the position is in their hands. Tech coach Tom Stone has kept the rotation consistent, and allowed both Christensen and Zucchetto to make their case for the starting position.

“We’ve had like seven years of great goalkeeping, and so to have two that can both get a shutout and come up with a big save, they are both very good shot blockers and good organizers. It puts us in a great spot,” Stone said.

“If one of them surfaces and says ‘I want 90’ by her play, she’ll get it, and they know that, but right now, they just keep making each other better, and we are happy with that.” @AustinWattsDT

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Cowboys happy to have Elliott J.J. Watt continues fundraising FRISCO (AP) — Ezekiel Elliott practiced fully Wednesday for the first time since leaving the Dallas Cowboys for a lengthy — and ultimately unsuccessful — appeal of his six-game suspension over a domestic violence case.

The star running back will play in the opener at home against the New York Giants on Sunday night essentially because of the timing of arbitrator Harold Henderson's decision. Henderson backed the NFL process that concluded Elliott used physical force last summer against his girlfriend at the time in Ohio.

So the Cowboys move forward knowing they will have the 2016 NFL rushing leader in Week 1, but prepared that Elliott won't be back until Week 9 after that.

"We're excited for it, as we were preparing for any running back to go in there," said quarterback Dak Prescott, the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year after sharing a sen-

sational debut season with his backfield mate "Those other guys are ready.

But it's good Zeke went in there.

He had a great practice today.

He's been great all week."

Elliott missed both practices last week to attend an appeal hearing that stretched over three days in New York.

He was with the team during meetings Tuesday, but missed a walkthrough later in the day for a hearing in federal court over a temporary restraining order the NFL Players' Association is seeking on his behalf.

A federal judge is expected to rule Friday on Elliott's request, and more legal action is likely if Elliott loses.

There wasn't significant movement on the legal front before the close of business Wednesday, the day after a wild evening . Elliott's hearing started with the revelation that he would play in Week 1 and ended with his attorney announcing that the appeal had been denied.

Not long after the hearing, the NFL filed a lawsuit

in New York seeking to have its punishment enforced by a federal judge. Prescott and coach Jason Garrett say the twists and turns aren't affecting Elliott's work.

"I think the biggest thing for all of us is to focus on what we need to do each and every day," Garrett said. "That's been a point that we've tried to emphasize to our team for a long, long time. We don't spend a lot of time on other stuff."

Elliott was suspended by Commissioner Roger Goodell after the league concluded in a yearlong investigation that he had several physical confrontations last summer with Tiffany Thompson, a former girlfriend. Prosecutors in Ohio didn't pursue the case, citing conflicting evidence.

The 22-year-old Elliott denied the allegations during the appeal hearing last week, testifying for hours over two days. A week later, he sat quietly for nearly 2 1/2 hours in U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant's courtroom in Sherman, about 65 miles north of Dallas.

HOUSTON (AP) — J.J. Watt was ready to discuss his preparations for the Houston Texans' opener — and his return from a back injury that sidelined him for most of last season.

But first he took a few moments Tuesday to receive yet another donation — the biggest one yet — to a fundraising effort he set up in the days after Hurricane Harvey.

Watt accepted the check for $5 million from HEB Grocery Company, giving him more than $28 million in donations. Then he discussed how he's handled getting back to football with the city just beginning to recover from the storm.

"It's obviously a balance ... I've had a foundation my whole career," Watt said. "I've been doing things like this my whole career, obviously not on this scale, but when I'm in meetings, when I'm at practice, when I'm in the weight room, that's where 100 percent of my focus is."

Watt leaves his cellphone

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on airplane mode when he's at the facility so he can handle football duties without interruption. He joked about being so busy getting ready for the game that he hadn't yet reached out to Jimmy Fallon to thank him for the $1 million he donated to Watt's fund on Tuesday night.

"I appreciate him and sorry, Jimmy, you can look out for an email from me here as soon as practice is over," Watt said.

Sunday's game against Jacksonville will be Watt's first since Sept. 22 after his second back surgery forced him to miss the final 13 games of last season. And while his attention is on making sure he's ready for that game, he certainly knows what Sunday's game could mean to the city.

"This is so much bigger than a game, but for three hours on Sunday, we want to take people's minds off of everything that just happened," he said. "We want to

give them an escape from everything that just happened, so I know for a fact that our guys are going to give every single thing that we have to make sure that we put a smile on this city's face and give them something to cheer about for three hours."

The three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year can't wait to get back on the field after missing the first games of his six-year career last season. The Texans believe he'll return to form in no time.

"He's had an excellent preseason. He's fully healthy," coach Bill O'Brien said. "I think I've said this now a 1,000 times. It's hard to describe what it's like to block him, so it's been very difficult. I would expect him to go out there, be his usual self (and) play very well."

In usual Watt style, the man who has piled up 76 sacks in his career insisted that he has no worries about if he can return to form this season.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Long said it was a special moment because it was his first college win.

It was also the 22nd time a Red Raider has won an individual title under Tech coach Greg Sands, according to Tech Athletics.

“It may be the most incredible feat I’ve seen in 17 years of coaching this program,” Sands said. “To know that I got to watch someone break the course record at Pebble Beach is one thing, but knowing it was one of my players is a whole different level. It’s something Hurly won’t forget as long as he lives, and I won’t forget it either. For him to win the tournament was the cherry on top of a great weekend.”

Long said he is not interested in having a big celebration. Rather, he would enjoy a simple team dinner with his Red Raiders.

“They were super nice, honestly,” he said. “I love my teammates, and I know

what it feels like sometimes when you don’t play your best and somebody else is doing really well.

I’ll be happy for them, but inside you’re a little jealous honestly, and for them to be so nice to me, that was really awesome, and I really appreciate that from them. I think that says a lot about their character.”

Long’s father Ted Long was a professional golfer. He is currently head coach at the GC Mannheim-Viernheim, according to Golf Journal.

He was also a member of the PGA of America and Germany and was the 2014 PGA Trainer of the Year.

Hurly Long said he started watching golf videos at 2 weeks old, and his father got him to start playing at about 2 years old.

The day before the final round, his father did not know that Hurly Long was in a tournament, and Hurly Long said he was hoping that he could call his father and tell him he broke the course record at Pebble Beach. However,

Ted Long already knew about the tournament.

So, when Hurly Long called him, his father simply asked what he made on the 18th hole because Golfstat did not update at that moment. Hurly Long’s initial reaction was to tell his dad that he shot a double bogey, but he told his father that he shot a birdie.

If he and his dad faced off in a dual match, Hurly Long said he would win.

“If you asked me that question nine years ago, it would’ve been a realistic question,” Hurly Long said.

“I would say I would win. I hope he reads this.”

Pebble Beach has hosted five U.S. Opens and will host it again in 2019, according to PebbleBeach.com. The golf course has also hosted professional golfers such as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Johnny Miller.

Hurly Long said some holes fit toward his game more, while some holes need good long irons.

He said it is a beautiful course and puts players in a good state of mind, espe-

cially knowing how many professional golfers have played at the course.

“According to the situation, it could play very differently,” he said. “So, on the final round, we played a lot of tees off the back tees that played a lot longer and a lot tougher. In the second round, they put one or two tee boxes up, and there was no wind. The greens were soft. So, it was very conducive to good scoring.”

Last year, the Texas Tech men’s golf team finished the season in ninth place at the NCAA Regional Championship in College Grove, Tennessee, according to Tech Athletics. In last year’s Carmel Cup at Pebble Beach, Nilehn won the individual title, while the Red Raiders finished in third place.

Hurly Long said he wanted to get his first win in college before his final year, but he is looking forward to rest of this season.

“It was a great start,” Hurly Long said. “At the same time, I know I need to keep things in perspective, and we have a long

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Senior golfer Hurly Long celebrates winning the individual title at the Carmel Cup on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Monterey, California. Long broke the course record on the second day of competition with a score of 61. season ahead. It’s a nice start, and there’s nothing with being happy about it, but I need to keep working hard, I need to keep doing the things I think

I need to get better at, work on some stuff and keep doing the things that I’m doing well and hope to keep up the good form.” @JackDensmore_DT