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Online rank highlights Tech campus safety.
Tech’s men’s tennis senior Parker Wynn looks back on college career.
Instant gratification does not equal lasting happiness, leads to unhealthy habits.
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ne of the most memorable experiences many fans describe from Texas Tech football games is hearing the Tech Goin’ Band playing in the stands and on the field. Likewise, the members of the band describe it as an experience that has shaped their lives and how it is about more than just an instrument. Aaric Aranda, a junior finance major from Odessa, said his experience had been about making friends and how joining band has made him feel at home. “My experience with band is really different,” he said. “I came over here not knowing anyone. You go into band it’s like 400 students. You meet everyone and so like you feel really welcomed and overall (it’s) probably the best experience someone can have in college.” Issac Cardona, a senior music
education major from Fort Worth, explained that although his experience with the band was fun, it also required a big commitment. “Exciting, blood pumping, it’s an adrenaline rush honestly,” he said. “Also, time consuming, a lot of sacrifices have to be made, time commitment but a lot of smiles.” Cardona said standing in the heat for hours is the hardest part for him. He explained their rigorous summer practice schedule, where they rehearse for hours on end, and said these practices last all day broken up by food breaks, each segment taken up to three or four hours. Aranda said time management is the hardest part as several commitments are involved in his everyday life. “Having to go to those two classes and then on top of my full-time schedule with work, school, and then having to go home and practice. It’s just like managing your
time,” he said. Kandace Kerr, a sophomore music education major from Lubbock, said the best part was meeting people outside of a specific college. “You just make a lot of friendships that way and from different majors that you would never meet otherwise and so, it’s just really cool,” she said. “I know someone who is in microbiology, and I know someone who is a mechanical engineer. It’s like a wide variety, all over the spectrum.” Aranda agreed with Kerr on meeting new people, but said his experience was focused more on meeting people from all over the United States and what that has taught him. “You meet people from different areas of the United States. Like we have people from Texas, not only from Texas, but like California, Oklahoma. You learn about their cultures, their family, their lifestyle,” he said.
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Tech research team discusses Hurricane Dorian project By ADÁN RUBIO News Editor
As Hurricane Dorian made its way along the east coast of Florida, one group of Texas Tech students traveled to the Sunshine State to learn more about this storm and gain worthwhile field experience. The Tech Hurricane Research Team (TTUHRT) is a group made up of atmospheric science and National Wind Institute students and faculty which travels to different locations near the paths of oncoming hurricanes. Hurricane Dorian reached hurricane status on Aug. 28 near the U.S. Virgin Islands and later reached Category 5 strength as it hit the Bahamas, traveled along the southeast U.S. coast and later arrived near Novia Scotia, Canada from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hurricane and typhoon webpage.
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A member of the Texas Tech Goin’ Band plays his trombone during the Texas Tech vs. Montana State football game on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Goin’ Band is a Texas Tech gameday tradition, performing throughout the game and during halftime.
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The Texas Tech Hurricane Research Team deployed StickNet probes along the east coast of Florida to measure the wind speeds of Hurricane Dorian. StickNet probes are fitted with anemometers to collect data.
The Texas Tech football team lost its first game of the season as the Arizona Wildcats defeated the Red Raiders, 28-14, on Saturday in Tucson, Arizona. Heading into the game, the Red Raiders’ defense topped the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as Tech ranked second in the nation, only allowing four third-down conversions in 31 attempts (13 percent), according to the Tech Athletics game notes. Tech’s defense also allowed just 6.5 points per game after its first two games, ranking third in the FBS. In the first two games of the season, Tech’s defense only allowed 210 yards per game, ranking ninth in the nation. Senior linebacker Jordyn Brooks led Tech’s defense as the Red Raiders headed into their first Power Five matchup of the season, according to the game notes. Brooks recorded 11 total tackles in the first two games of the season, ranking 11th in the nation for tackles per game. Despite Tech’s defense topping the FBS, the Red Raiders were unable to force a turnover against Montana State and University of Texas at El Paso. Arizona’s offense was going to be Tech’s first big test to the new defense under head coach Matt Wells and defensive coordinator Keith Patterson. The Wildcats averaged 51.5 points per game, ranking 11th in the nation as the offense averaged 304.5 rushing yards (ninth in FBS) and 325 passing yards (19th in FBS) per game, according to the game notes. As the Red Raiders’ defense shined after the first two games of the season, Arizona’s offense was a road bump for Tech. While Tech’s defense headed into the game allowing just four of 31 third-down conversions, the Wildcats’ offense converted on third down 15 times in 21 attempts, according to the box score. Tech’s defense stopped Arizona from throwing the ball, only giving up 185 passing yards as senior defensive back Douglas Coleman II recorded the Red Raiders’ first two interceptions of the season, according to the box score. The defense pressured Tate as he completed 14 passes in 23 attempts, passing for a single touchdown, forcing Arizona to stick to the run game. Arizona found success on the ground as the Wildcats nearly tripled Tech’s total rushing yards, running for 314 total yards, versus Tech’s 104 rushing yards, according to the box score. In the fourth quarter, Tech’s defense could not stop Arizona’s ground attack as the Wildcats rushed for 99 yards, not attempting a single pass on the drive. The drive ended in a touchdown and two-point conversion, giving Arizona a 28-14 lead, putting the game away with four minutes left of play. The Red Raiders’ defense could
not stop the former Heisman Trophy candidate Khalil Tate in Tucson. Despite throwing two interceptions and getting sacked by Tech’s defense twice, Tate threw for 185 yards and led Arizona’s offense with 145 rushing yards, including the longest rush of the game for 84 yards. Although Arizona found success offensively, Brooks led the team with a season-high 13 total tackles, all solo tackles, according to the box score. Brooks also led Tech’s defense with three tackles for loss and a fumble recovery. Coleman led the defense with two interceptions, a pass breakup and 10 total tackles, all solo tackles. The only two sacks of the game came from junior defensive back DaMarcus Fields and redshirt freshman defensive lineman Jaylon Hutchings. Despite losing the game, Tech’s defense held Arizona to just 28 points, which is 23.5 points fewer than the Wildcats’ average heading into the game, according to the game notes. With Tech’s defense preventing Arizona from scoring as it did in its first two games, the Wildcats’ defense did the same the sophomore quarterback Alan Bowman and the Red Raiders’ offense. Bowman opened the second half with a 38-yard drive in eight plays, but pressure from Arizona’s defense forced the sophomore quarterback to throw the ball away for an incompletion. As he threw the ball away, Bowman was hit hard and struggled to get up from the hit and was walked off of the field and into the locker room. The sophomore quarterback, whose lung collapsed twice last season, returned by the end of Arizona’s offensive drive after an apparent left shoulder injury. On his first drive back from the hard hit, Bowman completed a 66-yard completion to junior McLane Mannix and finished the drive with an eight-yard touchdown to Mannix, giving Tech the 1413 lead, according to the box score. After the scoring drive, Bowman and the Red Raiders were shut down by Arizona’s defense. Bowman finished the game, completing 30 of his 55 pass attempts while throwing two interceptions, according to the box score. Tech’s offense found itself in multiple three-and-out situations as the Red Raiders struggled to convert on third down. The Red Raiders converted on third down seven times in 17 attempts, giving Tech a 41.2 completion percentage on third down, according to the box score. Tech tried to convert on fourth down three times against Arizona, converting just once as a fake field goal was stopped in the second quarter by Arizona’s defense for a five-yard tackle for loss. After coming up short, Tech lost its first game under Wells, giving the Red Raiders a 2-1 overall record this season. Wells and the Red Raiders will have their bye week before playing No.5 Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma to start conference play. @MaxHengstDT
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Texas Tech quarterback Alan Bowman throws the ball in the game against Arizona on Saturday, Sept. 12. The Red Raiders were defeated by the Wildcats, 28-14, and Bowman was injured during the game.
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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 On Sept. 9, Hurricane Dorian was reported as a post-tropical storm that left heavy rainfalls in its wake. Aaron Mehner, secondyear atmospheric sciences graduate student from Cape Girardeau, Missouri and appointed student leader of TTUHRT, said the team stayed on the east side of Orlando, Florida, and deployed anemometers along the northeast coast of Florida to obtain wind speed measurements. He said equipment was set as far north as St. Augustine, Florida, and as far south as Vero Beach, Florida. “There’s a lot of teams that go down on these storms to complete a variety of research objectives related to storm surge, damage assessment and things like that,” he said. “Our group is primarily,
pretty much exclusively focused on wind speed characteristics of these storms.” Four trailers each with 12 StickNet probes, which are part of a networked platform developed by Tech students a little over a decade ago, were brought to Florida, Mehner said. The probes, which look like tripods, are screwed into the ground and take measurements using the anemometers on them. “They have the ability to measure barometric pressure and some of them can do temperature and humidity,” he said. “As I was saying, the primary concern about this effort is more so the wind speeds. So, the big information we’re looking to achieve and obtain from those instruments is the wind speed and wind direction throughout the timeframe that the storm was impacting the area we’re in.”
Understanding the characteristics of hurricanes, whether it be with the Hurricane Dorian research or other projects, is one of the goals Mehner said TTUHRT wants to achieve. “Our goal in all of this is to measure these windspeeds, so we can help better classify what the characteristics of landfalling or near-landfalling hurricanes would look like for the purposes of, one, better understanding their structure, and that kind of goes hand-in-hand with number two when we start to model these things using computer simulations,” he said. Wi t h d a t a c o l l e c t e d from Hurricane Dorian, M e h n e r s a i d Te c h r e searchers will have a better idea of what areas are more vulnerable and how a hurricane’s strength can factor into destruction. “Basically, anything you can think of in terms
of physical characteristi c s of both the storm itself as well as some of the coastal geography of some of these regions: infrastructure and things like that,” Mehner said. “The more raw wind speed measurements that we get from these efforts, the better we’re able to understand and really refine our knowledge of the way the low-level wind field of these hurricanes looks, so we can help better equip those models for simulating these storms in the future.” Abby Hutson, thirdyear Ph.D. geosciences student from Canton, Ohio, said two radar trucks were also brought to Florida. She said the radars helped in acquiring additional information. “But with the radars, what we did is set up two radars in a location that had a lot of these StickNets; that had about eight or nine of them,” she
WWW.DAILYTOREADOR.COM said. “What we did with the radars is we’re able to get a 3D wind field. As long as you have both radars, you will get a threedimensional wind field.” Using both the StickNets and radars was a way to validate information from both pieces of equipment, Hutson said. It is necessary to know if the collected data regarding the wind fields is correct. “ Wi t h t h e 3 D w i n d field, that really helps us a lot as well because with the StickNets, you get great temporal resolution but only at one point,” she said. “And it’s kind of the opposite for radars. You don’t get the best temporal resolution, but you get a broad span of space.” Regardless of the Hurricane Dorian data collected during the TTUHRT’s time in Florida, a chance to go out in the field and collect this data may be a worthwhile experience for
those involved. Ellie Venteicher, firstyear atmospheric sciences graduate student from Williams Bay, Wisconsin, said she loves fieldwork and would do this type of work again if the opportunity arises. “I enjoyed the experience. I was very grateful to have such an experience,” she said. “Even though I am not personally working with the data, I know the data will be put to good use.” Even though her research focus is on severe thunderstorms, Venteicher said the work done by the TTUHRT at Florida will be beneficial. “Having these storms, we can’t do anything to prevent them, so we might as well study them,” Venteicher said. “Being a part of that effort to help advance research going forward is a rewarding experience.” @AdanRubioDT
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announcement, but agreed with the need for action. The ban would not impact tobacco- and menthol-flavored e-cigarettes, but Cuomo said the Department of Health would continue evaluating and that could change. Cuomo signed legislation earlier this year raising the statewide smoking age to 21, and earlier this month signed a mandate that requires state anti-tobacco campaigns to also include vaping. Vaping is also under a
federal spotlight , as health authorities look into hundreds of breathing illnesses reported in people who have used e-cigarettes and other vaping devices. In his first public comments on vaping, President Donald Trump proposed a similar federal ban last week. The FDA has been able to ban vaping flavors since 2016, but hasn’t taken the step, with officials looking into whether flavors could help cigarette smokers to quit. The global market is estimated to have a value of as much as $11 billion. The industry has spent a lot of money in states around the country to lobby against
state-level flavored e-cigarette bans, in states including Hawaii, California, Maine and Connecticut. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer earlier this month ordered that state’s health department to come out with emergency rules to prohibit flavored e-cigarette sales. Juul reiterated Sunday the agreeable stance it had taken following Trump’s proposal. In an emailed statement, spokesman Austin Finan said, “We strongly agree with the need for aggressive category-wide action on flavored products,” and “will fully comply with local laws and the final FDA policy when effective.”
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Online rank highlights Tech campus safety
By ADÁN RUBIO News Editor
For some people, attending a safe university campus may be the top priority when considering where to enroll. At Texas Tech, campus security is an aspect of the college experience that the university is working to improve. Among the nation, Tech was ranked the 66th most secure college campus out of 100 four-year public and nonprofit colleges in an August 2019 study, according to the ASecureLife website. Eleven years of crime data from these ranked schools, which consisted of those with an average annual enrollment of 10,000 or more students and those that offer housing to students, were analyzed, and the schools with the lowest property crime rates from
2007 to 2017 were ranked. Among the 10 Texas schools ranked, according to the ASecureLife website, Tech was the fifth-safest campus. Te c h P r e s i d e n t L a w rence Schovanec said safety on campus is the numberone priority at Tech. “We owe it to our students, we owe it to the families and those who care for those students, we owe it to our staff, we owe it to our faculty,” he said. “We’ve done several things in the last few years to enhance safety because of all the heightened scrutiny of issues we’re aware of.” The shooting of Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr. that took place on Oct. 9, 2017 at the Tech campus, and mass shootings in the state, such as the shooting on Aug. 3 at a Walmart in El Paso, which resulted in 22 deaths, and the shooting on
Aug. 31 in Midland-Odessa, which resulted in eight deaths, including the shooter, were events Schovanec said prompted the need to focus on campus safety. “The Department of Public Safety did an extensive review and recommendations came forward that we immediately began to implement some of those recommendations,” he said regarding events after the shooting at Tech. “There are changes on this campus now as a result of that study. In light of the tragedies that occurred here in Texas and across this nation, I think we all understand the need to make sure we’re doing everything we can to avoid those possible situations.” Tech Police Department Lt. Amy Ivey said the department has added multiple security cameras on campus to improve safety. “We have added several security cameras on campus as well as a couple of cameras on the blue phones,” she said. “Also, with new buildings going up, we’re adding more security cameras on the building going up on campus as well.”
We owe it to our students, we owe it to the families and those who care for those students, we owe it to our faculty. LAWRENCE SCHOVANEC TECH PRESIDENT These cameras will be used to solve and stop potential crimes at Tech, Ivey said. Security cameras are not the only update to security. “We’ve also added a new investigations detective on staff to kind of help with
some of the narcotic problems on campus,” she said. “So, we’re constantly looking at ways we can always improve safety and security on campus.”
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Regardless of these enhancements to campus security, Ivey said Tech PD continues to patrol campus for any sign of trouble. “Our mission statement here at the police department is to provide a safe and secure environment to live, learn and educate,” she said. “How we do that is we have officers on the street patrolling the campus 24/7, making sure they address anything that needs to be addressed.” Regarding past shootings, whether they took place in Texas or not, the need to focus on safety may be heightened for Tech students, faculty and staff. Ronald Phillips, Tech chief compliance and security officer, said the perspectives on mass shootings and the need for security in public areas has changed. “I think there’s more sensitivity, certainly, by everyone,” he said. “No matter which position you are taking, I think there’s more sensitivity given the recent shootings and events that we’ve had.” Even though he is fortunate the Tech campus has not had many issues with gun violence or concealed carry, Phillips said continu-
ing to learn about how to safely navigate an active shooter situation or other event is important. “I think training and education is important,” he said. “I think our police department does a good job of getting that information out.” Despite the safety changes and resources on the Tech campus, knowing Tech is ranked among the top safe campuses may be impactful for some people. Regarding any ranking of universities, whether it be about safety or not, Schovanec said one needs to understand the methodology of how the data is obtained and presented. “In this case, I thought it was important that we
take our high ranking in that particular publication to bring greater attention to the issue of safety and to have a conversation about it,” Schovanec said. Certain rankings of universities may not be fully reflective of what Tech or any college is doing to ensure campus safety, Schovanec said. Although, he said Tech should highlight its safety achievements and rankings whenever the opportunity arises. “I think it’s fair to say we’ve accelerated our response to issues that relate to safety,” he said. “I think you would see that across the nation if you look at institutions of high ed.” @AdanRubioDT
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Instant gratification does not equal lasting happiness
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he reflective lyrics of “What have you done for yourself? What have you done for your mental health? I even tried the drugs and it didn’t help, short term fix that breaks everything else” in “Single Again” by hip-hop artist, Big Sean, has changed the way I look at my personal life and altered how I approach my attempts at true happiness recently. While this quote is not what jumpstarted my search for more peace, happiness and acceptance, it is something I think of often when conducting self-reflection, as well as something I
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wish more people could hear and assess in themselves. While there are some instant gratifications that essentially can cause no harm to our mental health and wellbeing and which we all enjoy, such as instant meals, instant downloads, instant food deliveries and so on; it is the negative instant gratifications that can keep you from true growth and self-healing. The negative gratifications can be generally defined as something you do or use in order to feel immediate content in order to distract yourself from a situation or to cover your negative emotions. We may drink to relieve stress or cure our sadness. We go home with someone we just met in order to feel desired or escape previous heartache if even for a little, and we can’t stay single because we’re scared to be alone. We make impulsive decisions to gratify what we yearn for instead of making com-
mitment to patience and lasting healing. This isn’t the case for everyone, and actively participating in some of these things for your own personal pleasure isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It only becomes detrimental to your health and happiness when it becomes a means of escape. Psychology Today notes that there is a term in Freudian psychoanalysis called the “pleasure principle” that is defined by “instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain in order to satisfy biological and psychological needs.” One of the underlying issues with instant gratifications is we may not even be able to recognize what we are doing and exactly how it is affecting our mental state. Many times, we don’t even realize what our subconscious is trying to bury. There is an anonymous quote that says, “Whatever you don’t deal with will resurface again in a different context. Unhealed issues don’t disappear with time.” With the temporary pleasure, healing or happiness received from doing things that fill us for a short period of time, it
can be difficult to see how those short-term fixes are preventing us from reaching true, lasting happiness. The things needing healing that we choose to ignore or push to the side, can resurface in the way you treat others, treat yourself, the quality of your work and even how you see the world. In some of my darkest times, my mother used to tell me, “hurt people hurt people.” Don’t allow your wounds to bleed on others; lasting happiness involves true healing, self-reflecting and forgiveness. This is how we achieve a sense of peace within ourselves and with others. Often when we seek the immediate gratifications, we suffer the results of the consequences. Whether those consequences directly follow our actions or whether they show up later down the line, whether they come in the form of negative internal emotions or even physical consequences, these results keep us from truly “living our best lives.” Your true best life can only begin when you begin to work through your issues and not over them.
This isn’t to say that enjoying nights out or drinks after a long day is holding you back from the being the healthiest version of yourself, or that being with who you want to be with is a bad thing, but it is important to be able to recognize the motives behind it, if any. Speaking from personal experience, I recognized that while I thought I was happy for the longest time, I was just using my means of escape to distract myself from pain and sadness. It wasn’t until I got to an even darker place mentally that I realized what I thought was working for me was actually hurting me even more. While I thought certain times were enjoyable in the moment, I would always come home feeling a little more overwhelmed with emptiness and sadness each time. I thought that dressing up and going out was how I could fulfill my self-worth but when something wouldn’t turn out the way I wanted it to, I would question my selfworth even more. All of these circumstances piled on with other incidents began to add up, and I reached a very dark point in my life. Depression swept over
me and it not only affected me, but my relationships with the people I loved most, along with my school work. It wasn’t until then that I begin to reassess my more harmful coping mechanisms and became more open to healthier habits and coping mechanisms. I had to begin to work hard towards healing and healthy self-fulfillment, and to do so took a lot of strength. I started to say no to a lot of things, cut out certain habits, and assess my mental health every day. Finding true healing and happiness can be hard work and requires a lot of vulnerability. There are times when it is easy to fall back into old patterns, but it is important to be able to recognize when this is happening and to not be hard on yourself about it. R e m e m b e r, w e a r e humans, we make mistakes, and not every day is perfect. In these situations, the best thing to do is forgive yourself, and try again. Instant gratifications can be easy and fulfilling in the moment, but it will not give you the lasting happiness that everyone yearns for. @AngelaContrerasDT
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Nasty underbelly of the Body Positivity Movement
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almost became one of those girls who ended up on the wrong side of the body positivity m o ve m e n t. It w as my freshman year here at Te c h a n d I r e m e m b e r sitting outside of Wall/ Gates, eating a bean and cheese burrito, and just watching the different people walk pass me. People, mostly girls, who were skinny. Deep down I was envious because I wanted to be as skinny as them. From that moment, I would hardly eat any food at all. Maybe a small cereal for breakfast, skip lunch, then have a tiny dinner. I lost the weight but in return my body began to suffer the more weight I lost. I began to get migraines, and I would always be lightheaded and dizzy, yet I was looking the way I wanted to, and, in my mind, that made the side effects worth it. There was nothing okay, it was one of the worst mistakes I made. This
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lasted for almost all of my freshman year. I wasn’t being responsible for myself. I didn’t make the right choices and in return, I learned that lesson the hard way. It was like I had this desire to live in their skin instead of my own – and it drove me to nearly starving. As humans, we strive for perfection – this could mean anything from being the first one in your family to graduate from college to looking a certain way. For me, perfection meant striving and starving to have that “perfect body type” we have all seen on the cover of magazines and movie screens: that size 2 waistline. I feel that as women, we always strive to look our best, but soci-
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ety seems to say we are unworthy for not looking like the women on the cover of magazines. The body positivity movement started about three or four years ago when the modeling and beauty industries started to receive complaints and backlash from women standing their ground about being against companies who would only market a certain body type. When the movement and society began to make these changes, so many women were excited about finally accepting we didn’t have to look a certain way. We began to see a variety of plus-sized women on the covers of magazines that represented the different communities like the LGBTQ, African American and Hispanic. The more we saw other bodies of different women, the more you saw people who didn’t apologize for the way they looked. Women were finally feel-
ing comfortable in their own skin. We weren’t seeing the strictly selected and edited versions of women, but actual women with flaws, scars and stretch marks. But as this movement began to progress, we seemed to lose sight of what the actual movement meant. It was supposed to be this internal journey where you have a happy, positive connection with your body as a whole while also striving to choose a healthy lifestyle for yourself. The media instead decided to select certain women who they thought would be a good fit for the “plus size” model they wanted to feature. Models who barely had curves and were just a little over the size 16. Society was deciding again – for us – that this was what we as women need to look up to. Magazines and corporations wanted to appear that they care about the women’s body positivity
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movement, when in reality they played along for a little while then decided to go back to what they deemed acceptable. If you were to gather a diverse population of 20 women and compare them side by side, you would see that no two women look exactly alike. We don’t have a specific way of approaching all women with just one form of the body positivity movement. We have to open up about the body positivity movement and realize that there isn’t just one t y p e o f b o d y. L o o k i n g back on my past, I wish I would have seen an article or column talking about how accepting yourself and your body was perfectly okay. We are all in some ways our own kind of puzzle, and we can’t force ourselves to be a certain way. We have to accept that we are perfect in our own way. @TabathaMillerDT
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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 For Aranda, the Goin’ Band served as an addition to his resumé. “I can be like ‘yeah, I’m
on a D1 college band’ rather than be like ‘oh yeah, I just go to Texas Tech’ like it’s something I can add on to my resume,” he said. Kerr said her love for band started at a young age.
“I grew up here and going to the Tech games like seeing them, seeing the Goin’ Band march,” she said. “I just kind of knew that’s (the path I wanted to choose) and so I stuck with it.”
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The requirements of being a music education major is to join band for at least two years. Cardona, who is now in his fourth year, explained why he stayed. “I guess it’s more because
like you know I had teaching opportunities within the Goin’ Band,” he said. “(So), I realized that it just benefitted my major and me personally as a future educator to continue doing
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it and work up my teacher skills, my teacher voice, and the way I teach. I think the chances to make music with friends. You know? To make those kinds of memories.” @ASinghDT
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LEFT: Members of the Goin’ Band prepare to run out onto the field prior to the game against University of Texas at El Paso on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders beat the Miners, 38-3. RIGHT: A Texas Tech Goin’ Band percussionist plays cymbals during the Texas Tech vs. Montana State football game on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 at the Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders defeated the Bobcats, 45-10.
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Wynn looks back on college career By ELEANOR GUINAN Staff Writer
Texas Tech men’s tennis senior Parker Wynn has been a Red Raider for two years after transferring from Louisville. The senior reminisced about his time not only as a Red Raider but as a Cardinal as well. Wynn said he and his brother began playing tennis, soccer and basketball at four years old. However, tennis was the only sport Wynn stuck with as he grew older. “I enjoyed (tennis) the most, I think we got lucky we had some coaches that were really good with beginners at the time and it just felt the most natural than any other sport we played,” Wynn said. One of the people Wynn said he considered a role model was his mom. She taught him how to keep everything together when life gets tough, he said. Another role model Wynn had was Dirk Nowitzki, a former player for the Dallas Mavericks. Wynn said he liked Nowitzki because he conducted himself well off the court and helped the
Dallas-Fort Worth area. Wynn draws his inspiration from how the team plays as a team because once a tennis player comes to college, he said, everyone is fighting for the same end goal. “It’s a team sport now, you know, at the end of the day you have your own court - singles or doubles,” Wynn said. “Your match is what counts toward the singles point, but you also have five other guys trying to help the team win overall.” In high school, Wynn said one of the reasons he decided to go to Louisville was because he wanted to move out of state. Other than not getting many offers, the senior said he decided to be a Cardinal to play in the Atlantic Coast Conference. “I wasn’t that highly recruited in high school,” Wynn said. “I didn’t really break out tennis wise until the second half of my senior year and by that time I’d already committed. So I didn’t really get that great of an offer from Tech in the first place, Abilene Christian, too. Louisville gave me the best offer.”
When he toured Tech, Wynn said he connected well with the team, mostly his current doubles partner redshirt senior Bjorn Thomson. He said he felt like he could be himself around the team, and he liked the coaching staff as well. Although Wynn felt he needed to change schools, he also said he grew as a person at Louisville. One of the reasons why he chose Tech was because both of his parents were Red Raiders. Wynn’s father was also an athlete at Tech as he played on the football team. Tech defeated No. 6 Baylor, 4-3, and No. 17 Oklahoma, 4-3, last spring, according to Tech Athletics. Wynn said he liked how the Lubbock weather throws opponents off and it played a large part in their victories. “We had Baylor and OU come in and play us this last year and they struggled with the weather basically,” Wynn said. “I like playing for the weather conditions and also, I just like the city of Lubbock. It’s a blue-collar town.” Wynn said at the end of the day, everyone is going to do their own business in practice and at their games. However, he shows his leadership through his performance because tennis is not really a sport someone can lead, he said. “Tennis is tricky because a lot of these guys have played an individual sport their whole life,” he said, “and you throw them into a team sport, per se, and you say ‘Hey this guy is who you’re going to look up to.’ It’s tough. Some guys respond to that better than others.” The men’s tennis program has one true freshman, Reed Collier, joining the team this season. Wynn said his advice to Collier is to have fun with the given time and strive to be the best person on and off the court. “Try to be the best version of yourself whether it’s
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TOP: Junior doubles player Parker Wynn hits the ball low during his doubles match at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 2019, at the McLeod Tennis Center. BOTTOM: Junior doubles player Parker Wynn celebrates a match win against No. 19 Tulane at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019 at the McLeod Tennis Center. The Red Raiders win against The Green Wave 4-2. in practice or in the weight room,” Wynn said. “Just enjoy it, enjoy it you only get four of these seasons with the guys.” Wynn said he does not want to set a lot of goals in the preseason that he may not accomplish. However, he said he wants to make it to the singles tournament and go to the Sweet 16 with the team. “I think those two things are the things I want to accomplish before it’s all said
and done for me, other than that, I just take it as it is,” he said. The men’s and women’s teams have mutual respect for each other and support each other, Wynn said. Not only because they practice next to each other every day, but because they all want to support one another. “Both programs, we have a good relationship, (and) we are all pretty good friends with the women’s tennis team,” he said. “They respect
us, we respect the women’s program, you know they’ve done so well you look around here (the McLeod Tennis Center). They’ve won so many Big 12 Championships lately and that’s something we haven’t done and so we look up to their team as well as they look up to us.” The men’s tennis team will continue its 2019-2020 season at the Battle in the Bay on Friday, in San Francisco, California. @EleanorGuinanDT