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‘I believe in the justice system, even though the justice system doesn’t believe in me.’ — Timothy Cole

CelebratiNg iNNoCeNCe Cole exonerated 24 years after wrongful sexual assault conviction

Community gathers to honor, celebrate former student’s legacy

By KAITLIN BAIN

By KAITLIN BAIN

In 1999, at the age of 39, Timothy Cole died in prison serving a 25-year sentence for a crime he did not commit.

Michele Mallin, age 24 at the time on March 24, 1985, was a Texas Tech student who was raped by a man she later believed was Cole, according to The Innocence Project website.

She was parking her car across from her residence hall at the time when a man approached her and asked her to help him start his car, according to the website.

Wendy Davis, Texas state senator, said after Mallin told the man she did not have jumper cables and could not help him, he threatened her with a knife, took her to a field and raped her.

“Both Michele and Tim had dreams for themselves that were still very alive and real that night,” she said, “but those dreams would so dramatically change after the actions that occurred that day.”

After reporting the crime, detectives took over March on 27, when Joe Nevarez of the Lubbock Police Department received a more detailed narrative statement from Mallin, according to Opinion Order of the Court.

A composite picture was made and appeared in The University Daily, according to the order.

On April 7, 1985, Rosanna Bagby, an undercover officer was sent into a Mr. Gatti’s restaurant to talk to Cole, according to the order.

“Two weeks later, a detective spoke to Timothy Cole at a restaurant off campus and Tim became a suspect in the crime,” she said. “Officials arrested him on April 11, 1985 and convicted him of aggravated sexual assault 28 years ago, today.”

During the trial, according to court records, Mallin was asked about her identification of Cole in the photos she was shown.

Lubbock community members, officials and family of Timothy Cole gathered at the Timothy Cole Memorial Park Wednesday to honor Cole with the unveiling of the Timothy Cole Statue.

The event began with words from Todd Klein, former city councilman, a prayer and words from Nick Vilbas, executive director of the Freedom Project of Texas, Greg Abbott, Texas Attorney General, Governor Rick Perry, Senators Wendy Davis, Dan Patrick and Leticia Van de Putte, Rafael Anchia, state representative, and Cory Session, Cole’s brother.

“The occasion of which we gather today is bittersweet,” Van de Putte said. “Bitter, bitter, because it was a tragic injustice that brought us to this moment, but sweet because it will forever allow us to remember Timothy Cole, the living man.”

Each speaker told a different side of Cole’s story, from the events leading up to his wrongful conviction, Ruby Session, Cole’s late mother, and her fight for his exoneration and the Timothy Cole Act, and the unveiling of his statue.

The statue is on 19th Street and University Avenue at the Timothy Cole Memorial Park and depicts Cole looking toward the Texas Tech School of Law, a school he hoped to attend.

“This statue that we dedicate is that vision of hope,” Van de Putte said. “When you look at this statue you will see that it depicts Timothy in a way that he is looking toward the future and under his arm he carries the tools of knowledge – that precious gift that makes us understand what the future might hold and it’s inscribed: ‘I’m justice for all,’ and that’s what justice was about.”

At the end of the event, Session’s children and grandchildren gathered around the statue singing as it was unveiled.

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FAMILY MEMBERS OF Timothy Cole watch as the statue memorializing Cole is unveiled Wednesday at Timothy Cole Memorial Park. Cole was wrongly convicted of sexual assault in 1985.

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Tech reducing work hours Social media can affect users’ for students’ on-campus jobs social interactions with peers

By DANI COPELAND

By EMMA ZAMBRYCKI

Staff Writer

Texas Tech made a new rule that went into effect at the beginning of September that no longer allows any student employees to work over 20 hours a week.

Brooke Hurley, a junior communication design major from San Antonio, said she feels this new rule needs to be addressed for students who may have to pay their way through college.

“I personally pay for everything, except for tuition, which comes to about $1,000 per month for food, gas and rent, and then about $1,000 for books and art supplies each semester,” Hurley said.

Hurley is worried she might have to quit one of her jobs because she works more than 20 hours a week, she said. “(La Ventana) is good experience for me to have on my resume, so I don’t want to quit it,” she said.

“But I need the job at the School of Art in order to pay my rent and living expenses every month.”

Hurley is still with her campus jobs, she said, but is looking for an off-campus job to make up for the hours she is losing at the School of Art. She said her hours at the School of Art will now be 15 hours a week.

She said on-campus jobs are best for students because the supervisors understand the students’ workload and school schedule.

She said working on campus makes it easier for students to get work easily since most students live right by campus.

“I have worked off campus since I came to Tech and on-campus jobs are much better because they are more understanding of your workload as a student and

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they know that school comes first,” Hurley said.

Allison Rasch, a graduate student from Spring, said she started her job this semester for Tech as a teaching assistant.

She also has a second job on weekends, she said, and she works both jobs to avoid debt after she graduates.

“I have worked off campus mainly, and luckily my boss I work for works with all the students’ school schedules,” Rasch said. “I have friends who aren’t so lucky in that, since I know some of them have to

make sure they request time off or have weird hours they can work on projects.”

Rasch said finding a job as a college student can be easy if you find the job you need for your future career. She said it’s good to talk to other students who have jobs on and off campus and see what works for them.

“Figure out what day to day stuff is like in that position,” she said. “Every job has its ups and downs, but you need to find what will give you what you want and need.” ➤➤dcopeland@dailytoreador.com

74 percent of online adults use some form of social networking site, according to the Pew Research center.

Through the use of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, people around the world are able to directly communicate with one another in a matter of seconds, creating closer ties and expanding the amount of connections one has, according to the website.

The average social networking user has more connections with more people in comparison to those who do not use social media, according to the website, and is less likely to feel lonely or socially isolated.

Narissra Punyanunt-Carter, a professor of communication studies at Texas Tech, said social networking websites offer a sense of comfort and security to their users. By expressing one’s opinion on an online forum, he or she is able to tailor his or her words to fit a certain Internet persona, which may be a complete fabrication, she said.

Face to face communication allows one to be genuine, she said, because it takes into account all other forms of nonverbal language that communicating via a computer screen does not.

“So much of our communication is nonverbal and when we send a text, it doesn’t capture sar-

AFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

• Users are likely to feel lonely or socially isolated • Decreased confidence to speak up in social situations • Decreased speaking ability and use of eloquent sentences casm or humor,” she said. “People will walk away with different interpretations of the same message.”

Adrianna Acosta, a sophomore education major from Andrews, said she has noticed that some students lack the confidence to speak up, and as a result, seem awkward at times.

Websites like Facebook and Twitter can hurt a person’s confidence when speaking face to face, she said, because they act as a filter between who a person really is, versus whom they want to be seen as.

“You’re hiding behind a computer screen, you’re not face to face, you can’t judge people’s reactions, and so then you lack people skills,” Acosta said.

Desiree Markham, a professor who has taught public speaking courses in the past, said public speaking has always been a challenge for some people, but she has noticed it has become more of a problem for a greater number of students in recent years.

Eye contact, an important part of interpersonal communication and public speaking, is a major

problem for many students and for many people in general, she said.

“With computer media communication, people are a lot braver than they are in a face to face conversation, so they will be more likely to disclose information to someone if they are in a virtual environment, like social media,” she said.

Punyanunt-Carter said she has noticed that not only do students sometimes prefer virtual communication to interpersonal communication, but in most cases, they also speak as though they were communicating via text.

What used to be long, drawn out, eloquent sentences have become simple, concise, choice words, very much like those found on social networking sites and text messages, she said.

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Tech receives excellence in diversity award for third consecutive year Texas Tech received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award for the third year in a row for its successful efforts to promote diversity within the student community and faculty.

“The HEED award directly reflects the university’s initiatives to promote diversity, and I am proud of the commitment Texas Tech makes to include students from all different backgrounds,” M. Duane Nellis, Tech president, said, according to a Tech news release.

Tech is one of 82 universities to receive the diversity award and is to be recognized in the November 2014 issue of INSIGHT for its efforts, according to the release.

Diversity is important to the university because it fulfills the higher education enrollment expectations and allows for more growth and diversity within that growth,

Juan Muñoz, senior vice president for Institutional D i v e r s i t y, Equity and Community Engagement and vice provost for UnMUÑOZ dergraduate Education and Student Affairs, said.

The award also helps the university to encourage young men and women to choose Tech due to its diversity, Muñoz said.

“As demographics within the state change, Texas Tech will become a more attractive option for students from any background and circumstance as they will feel welcome,” he said.

The university as a whole en-

courages diversity within its faculty and students by the different programs it offers for those who are interested, he said.

“We have programs like Mentor Tech, Pegasus, outreach programs, veteran programs. There are programs like the Latino faculty and staff association, the African American staff association, and programs to teach our faculty to help students have multicultural and global confidence at our university,” Muñoz said.

Other universities within the state and on a national level are not taking the initiative to increase diversity like Tech is, he said.

“Most universities are not as successful as Tech. The size of our institutional efforts are second to none in the country,” he said. ➤➤anelson@dailytoreador.com

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Cole’s wrongful conviction sparks change

By KAITLIN BAIN news editor

On May 11, 2009, the Texas Senate passed the Timothy Cole Act in honor of Timothy Cole, who was wrongly convicted of rape and died in prison.

This act was a result of Cole’s exoneration on April 7, 2009, sparked by a letter from Jerry Johnson, the man who actually committed the crime, to the Independence Project of Texas, according to the Opinion Order of the Court.

Rafael Anchia, Dallas state representative, said he helped to

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“I said, ‘I think that is him,’” she said, according to the record. “I just had to get a better look, I mean I had to look at all of them.”

After the trial, officers arrested Cole, according to the order, and Mallin picked him out of a second lineup, this one, live.

According to the order, police wrote on the identification document that Mallin was positive Cole was the perpetrator, but she made sure to tell others those were not her words.

“Given the opportunity to gain freedom by admitting to a crime he didn’t commit, he chose integrity and the courage of his values to not admit to something he didn’t do,” Todd Klein, former Lubbock councilman, said.

During the court case, there was evidence brought up, but ignored, according to the order. This evidence includes Cole’s mannerisms, a fingerprint recovered from the car of another victim that did not match Cole’s and a ring and shirt found in Cole’s house that matched the description Mallin gave, but when she was shown the recovered property she told authorities it was not what had been stolen from her.

The state took blood and hair samples, according to the order, but the serology and gross hair analysis came back inconclusive, not excluding Cole, but not confirming he was, in fact, Mallin’s rapist.

During the trial, Cole’s able counsel, Mike Brown, attempted to introduce

carry the Tim Cole Act in 2009.

“There had been a recent strain of exonerations in Dallas,” he said, “and the issue was bright in my mind when we were dealing with that issue in the legislative session and I got to meet wonderful Texans – innocent men and women that through no fault of their own were deprived of the most basic liberty.”

The act, according to the act text, increases the compensation to exonerees to $80,000 per year served and expands the services offered to the exonerated after they are released, including paying for their college fare. evidence that would suggest another suspect, but these attempts were blocked by the trial courts and deemed “irrelevant,” according to the order.

Cole was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison, Sept. 18, 1986, according to the order.

“Spending 13 years in prison, never giving up on the justice system himself, Tim died of an asthma attack on December 2nd of 1999,” Davis said.

During the time Cole was in prison, Jerry Johnson came forward in an attempt to confess to the crime, according to the order.

He wrote a letter in 1995 asking for counsel to be appointed to represent him so he could confess to the crime Cole was convicted of, according to the order.

In 2006 and 2007 Johnson contacted Elliott Blackburn with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, wrote a letter to Cole and the Innocence Project of Texas.

It was this letter that prompted Tech law students affiliated with the project to follow up, resulting in a signed confession June 5, 2007, according to the order.

“She (Cole’s mother) pressed into my chest the photo of her son Tim Cole,” Davis said. “She put a face on this issue and she urged me to be of help to exonerate him and to make sure his life and his death meant something for others.”

The letter and further investigation by the Innocence Project of Texas that were brought before the court to prove Cole’s innocence, according to the order.

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Police stock up Event↵ free military gear CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) — School police departments across the country have taken advantage of free military surplus gear, stocking up on mine resistant armored vehicles, grenade launchers and scores of M16 rifles.

At least 26 school districts have participated in the Pentagon’s surplus program, which is not new but has come under scrutiny after police responded to protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last month with tear gas, armored military trucks and riot gear.

Now, amid that increased criticism, several school districts say they’ll give some of the equipment back, while others plan to keep the rifles they received. Nearly two dozen education and civil liberties groups sent a letter earlier this week to the Pentagon and the Justice and Education departments urging a stop to transfers of military weapons to school police.

The Los Angeles Unified School District — the nation’s second largest school district covering 710 square miles and enrolling more than 900,000 students — said it would remove three grenade launchers it had acquired because they “are not essential life-saving items within the scope, duties and mission” of the district’s police force.

But the district plans to keep the 60 M16s and a military vehicle — known as an MRAP — used in Iraq and Afghanistan that was built to withstand mine blasts.

District police Chief Steve Zipperman told The Associated Press that the M16s are used for training, and the MRAP, which is parked off campus, was acquired because the district could not afford to buy armored vehicles that might be used to protect officers and help students in a school shooting.

“That vehicle is used in very extraordinary circumstances involving a life-saving situation for an armed threat,” Zipperman said.

“Quite frankly I hope we never have

“If we are to give any context to this work of art, to Tim Cole’s statue, we need to fix ourselves on this goal and give freedom and justice to those who are in our jails today,” Rafael Anchia, Dallas state representative, said.

The celebration then moved to the Legacy Event Center, where friends and family gathered for refreshments and others who spoke about Cole’s life.

In addition to speakers, there was a dance performance symbolizing the breaking of chains and boundaries that came from Cole’s and others’ exoneration and a reading of “A Plea for Justice: The Timothy Cole Story” by Fred McKinley.

The act also added compensation to the families of exonerees if they are cleared after death, according to the text.

The Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions was also added as a result of the act, according to the text, to study the methodology behind preventing wrongful convictions across the state.

Anchia said not only was Cole’s family affected by the act, but Ruby Session, Cole’s late mother, impacted the way Anchia thought of exonerations.

“She gave a context to the word exoneree and exoneration

– these legal terms that we just throw around in the legislature,” he said. “She gave the context of a son, a military veteran, of an aspiring student at Texas Tech University just simply following in the steps of his sister who had attended Tech previously.”

Texas Tech has also gone through policy changes that could change the fate of others who may have been wrongly convicted in the future, Amy Murphy, Tech dean of students, said.

“The nature of university in general’s response to sexual assault and sexual violence has changed dramatically from 2011,” she said,

“mainly from activity out of the federal government.”

In 2011, the Office of Civil Rights and the Department of Education issued guidance to universities to change their response to sexual harassment.

She said it had been noted universities were not meeting their obligations in response to students who report sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus.

“At Texas Tech, for example, you would see processes that look slightly different than they did a couple of years ago, where the respondent and the complainant truly have a fair and equitable

process through every stage of the incident,” she said.

Both the victim and respondent are now eligible to appeal their cases, have an adviser at the hearing and participate in the investigation, she said.

The means of preventing sexual violence on campus also changed, she said.

“I hope what we’ll see is that students are more willing to come forward and report incidents,” she said, “and we’ll able to share with them the extensive array of resources available for them on campus.” ➤➤news@dailytoreador.com

POLICE BLOTTER

Tuesday 11:11 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated theft at the Media and Communication building. Medication was taken from an unsecured backpack.

12:23 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Gates Residence Hall. A bicycle was damaged.

1:51 p.m. — A Tech officer charged two students for theft of a laptop after investigating a disturbance at the Student Union building.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL GREG Abbott speaks during the Timothy Cole Statue unveiling on Wednesday at Timothy Cole Memorial Park.

Cole received the first posthumous pardon in 2009 after being convicted of sexual assault in 1985.

lic Safety tested biological samples from Mallin, Cole and Johnson, and after DNA testing, the department concluded the sperm cells left by the perpetrator belonged to Johnson, not Cole, according to the order.

“To a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, Johnson is the source of the DNA on the sperm cell fraction from stain two from the panties,” according to the report from the department.

On April 7, 2009, Cole was declared innocent of the crime he died in jail serving for.

“Tim Cole was, and is, innocent of the crime for which he was convicted and imprisoned and is thus exonerated by this Court; At the end, Cole’s family was awarded an honorary stole from the Tech School of Law. The stole was both the type that is awarded to veterans who graduate from the school and had the emblem of the school of law, as that was one of Cole’s aspirations.

Darby Dickerson, dean of

All legal disabilities attaching to him or his survivors as a result of his wrongful conviction are forever removed,” according to the order.

In addition to fighting for Cole’s exoneration, Session also worked for the passing of the Tim Cole Act, Davis said.

“During his long imprisonment he could have simply retreated into despair and anger and to bitterness and he simply could have given up and we wouldn’t have blamed him,” Leticia Van de Putte, Texas state senator, said. “We wouldn’t have found fault with that and he would have been entitled. He wrote, ‘I believe in the justice system even though the justice system doesn’t believe in me.’” ➤➤news@dailytoreador.com

the School of Law, said it was important to those at the school of law to include the emblem on the stole.

“Tim chose to honor truth,” Klein said. “He died in prison knowing what we all know today.

The law is fallible, but the truth will win the day.” ➤➤news@dailytoreador.com

A different student was charged with criminal trespass, a code of student conduct violation and was issued another criminal trespass warning.

2:24 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the R8 parking lot.

Season football tickets were taken from an unsecured vehicle.

5:44 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the Agricultural Sciences building. A secured men’s bicycle was taken.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Texas Tech Police Department.

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Politics should stay out of education, textbooks Service industry needs to reform tipping policy Jordan F mocracy, according to Politico.

Other changes would give bias toward Christianity and against government economic reforms.

Just last year there was fighting about science textbooks in Texas, and yet again politics will play a role as to what facts children learn and, more deviously, in what context.

According to The Texas Tribune, the nonprofit watchdog group, The Texas Freedom Network had 10 scholars read through 43 textbooks. The report from the scholars said curriculum standards for the state made it difficult to write unbiased texts.

The Texas Tribune quoted Republican State Board of Education member David Bradley, who said, “If Texas Freedom Network is unhappy with (the textbooks), then I am probably going to feel pretty good about them.” He also said the liberals wouldn’t get far with the board.

It is a shame the minds of future generations are being molded by ideology from extremities. What gets lost in the partisan battle of adults is the fact the students are in school to learn. They should have a chance to figure out their own opinions in time. This idea seems

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It is a shame the minds of future generations are being molded by ideology from extremities.

education banned, but why cause public uproar when you can guise intelligentsia as whatever one wishes?

An example of this would be the grant to the Free Market Institute at Tech, where Robert V. Duncan, vice president of research at Tech, also serves on the board of directors, according to FMI’s website.

FMI receives grants like the one from the John Templeton Foundation to study “institutional underpinnings of the mechanisms and processes that produce social change in support of economic freedom,” according to FMI’s website. Where research should be done in finding out how to better economy, the research is being configured to find brainwashing techniques for private industry.

The FMI can use its platform to host people like Ayn Rand fanatic Matt Kibbe, CEO of a non-profit libertarian lobbying group FreedomWorks, who is at Tech on Thursday to talk about his new libertarian book and promote such ideas that forget laissez-faire economics’ abject failure in our nation’s history, and neglects understanding the psychology of a sociopath in general.

Politics, and especially politics via corporate sponsors and business industries, threaten the idea of unbiased academia in Texas, and at some point when you look at the K-12 curriculum and now the curriculum of the university, one wonders how much of the education apparatus has been bought and sold — and to whom and why — to mold the minds of the next herd.

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Students should recognize importance of fine arts classes Erin Wallace to go see and the new single you download from your favorite artist are all examples of fine arts in our daily lives.

I have been acting since I was in elementary school and I can honestly say it has made me a more

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confident and aware person. I have learned how to speak in front of people, let out frustration with a creative outlet and to appreciate the simple beauty in artistic endeavors.

Fine arts classes are so much more than a degree requirement — they are an ability to grow and change.

According to an article by the Katy Independent School District, “Education in the arts is an integral part of the development of each human being. Those who have studied learning processes throughout the ages, beginning with Plato, have emphasized the importance of the arts in the education process … (the arts) are a part of the cultural heritage of every American. The arts are what make us most human, most complete as people.”

Katy ISD also found that, “The arts reach students not normally reached, in ways and methods not normally used. (This leads to better student attendance and lower dropout rates).” Arts classes are a fun time and a stress relief, so students actually want to go to these classes.

Having a class to look forward to makes going to the more boring classes more acceptable.

Katy ISD also found that including fine arts, “changes the learning environment to one of discovery, students connect with each other better, the arts provide challenges to students of all levels, students learn to become sustained, selfdirected learners, and the study of the fine arts positively impacts

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the learning of students of lower socioeconomic status as much or more than those of a higher socioeconomic status.”

The acting class I am currently taking at Tech is the class I look forward to most and it makes going to the classes before it much easier.

Acting is the greatest of all fine arts.

According to an article published by a small play house, The Broke and Beautiful Life, there are five reasons for everyone to take an acting class. In an acting class students will learn “presence, speech, listening, collaboration, and the why.”

“The why” is a question actors, and humans in their daily lives, should ask. It means, “why am I doing this or what do I hope to gain?” “The why” is finding purpose and motivation in every situation. It’s refusing to just go through the motions in life, but choosing to be actively engaged in every moment, every decision and every seemingly mundane action.

Every Tech student should take their fine arts credits, obviously, but should also be focused on truly growing as a person because of them. We need to stop thinking of these classes as necessary evils because taking arts classes will make you a better public speaker, a more confident individual, a better collaborator, a more advanced learner and more aware of the everyday decisions we make.

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t Texas Tech, many degree plans require two fine arts credits. These classes are often considered to be blow off, or grade-boosting classes.

Students don’t often spend enough time thinking about the necessary life skills they are learning in these classes and how well rounded they become because of them.

The fine arts are all around us and shape our culture, values and our belief systems. The TV show you watch in prime time, the movie you spend basically all your money

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great deal of speculation is raised when the issue of tipping comes into questionable debate. Americans live in a society today where tipping holds a significant role in a diner’s experience.

People enjoying the service rendered when eating outside their homes are often presented with the ethical question of what is considered the appropriate monetary measure of paying the individual that has dutifully fulfilled their needs, wants and desires.

In light of all the tension and significant media attention regarding celebrities and poor tipping, I believe the service industry needs to be heavily modified in the efforts of establishing fairness and efficiency among restaurants today.

Many of those who form a part of the service industry are struggling financially for various reasons.

These reasons can range from inadequate behavior when handling a customer’s needs, gender discrimination or simply being a victim to the insensitivity shared among those who are oblivious to the ethics of tipping.

I find that I share some of the common judgments held among those who conclude that hard work and devotion should be compensated.

What I cannot come to terms with is the notion of manipulation utilized by those needing to get ahead on the money ladder. The administration of some of the ethical practices currently taking place among servers is something I cannot fathom and leaves me troubled with the fact that the food industry is irrational and unfair.

According to a Mail Online article from August 2012, “The sociologist from the Univesite de Bretagne-Sud, France, tracked the tips left for seven waitresses over two months against the variously coloured lipsticks they wore. In almost 450 transactions, waitresses wearing pink or brown lippy, or none at all, got tips on average about 30 percent of the time. But when the waitresses put on red lipstick, male customers tipped half of the time — and left more money.”

It is shocking and unfortunate that psychology and gender-specific arousal tactics are being utilized to pay the bills.

The ultimatum for such issues lies in the idea of renovating and consolidating the wage system for those working in the food industry into a reasonable paycheck, absent

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Laura Gonzalez of the stress and pressures felt when so heavily depending on an inflow of tip money.

According to an Enquire article from June 2013, “servers, whose job demands are not fundamentally different than that of hard-working office assistants, or hotel concierges, or spin instructors or flight attendants should be paid the competitive wage for what they do and how well they do it, and that cost should be factored into menu prices.”

Lamentably, the system is tremendously flawed. People are uneducated, and in some cases lack remorse for neglecting to give a server proper compensation for making their dining experience be the finest it can be.

In addition to this, restaurant owners have unethically benefitted from the lack of a proportioned system.

According to a New York Times article from June 2014, “One of the most prevalent wage violations found by the Department of Labor is failure by employers to adequately “top up” wages when tips do not work out to at least $7.25 an hour. Violations also include failing to pay the full minimum wage when tipped workers spend considerable time on cleaning, cooking or other nontipped work, as well as requiring servers to share their tips with other employees who do not typically receive tips.”

I do not take the standpoint that those working in the food system are an object of pity.

Like many, I have shared an unpleasant experience derived from poor service and pessimistic attitude. However, my ethical bearing on these particular circumstances are such that an individual should never be penalized to the high extremes of not being tipped a single penny, or be submitted to the malpractice of the industry today.

With the adequate revision, alteration and implementation, our service industry can be a respectable and ethical structure, prospering in serving the needs of many Americans across the nation today.

The administration of some of the ethical practices currently taking place among servers is something I cannot fathom ...

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to scare the board.

The thing I find most interesting about education in Texas is that though the skewed information is a must, financing education is not a priority of the Republican majority, and yet this propaganda feeds from a state that is 49th in funding and buys up enough textbooks with its high student populous to make other states buy roughly the same book.

The underfunding, which seems unnecessary with economic prosperity I keep being told about, and bias are worrisome on another level, especially when it comes to higher education. A decrease in public funding has made universities greedy for private funds, and now outside institutions use universities to conduct inductive reasoning research for questionable conclusions.

It may be of some interest that, according to The Texas Tr i b u n e , a s state senator, Tech Chancellor Robert L. Duncan authored the $5.4 billion Texas education cut in 2011 and the budget cuts to universities, and he was credited by Tech President M. Duane Nellis, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador about the new research park, as being a large contributor to the new research initiative at Tech.

This is abasing to research and harmful to society where ideas are modes of capital to be bought by the highest bidder. In dystopian literature, you often see literature and higher

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or most of my life, living as a Yankee, I never followed Texas politics or education. The little knowledge I had was combined with the southern stereotype of being less educated — this is a nicer way of not using well-known derogatory terms — and of course the nationally permeated idea that Texans are arrogant.

Over the past five years, I have lived in this state and have followed the news of Texas. In this time, I have learned “arrogant” cannot be a term of mere hyperbole, and willful ignorance is a byproduct of this lifestyle.

Politics of this conservative state reach into about every aspect of Texan lives. For instance, even in our locality, Lubbock City Hall has been used as a bludgeon with costly scandals, and even education in this state is political.

One would hope the nature of academia would be to teach facts, discuss theory and to work toward unfettered truth.

However, once again, Texas is in the battle for the minds of youth as history textbooks being decided upon elicit controversies, and negligent funding of Texas school institutions (ranked 49th nationally, according to Politico) threatens scholarship.

History, which is supposed to be a recollection of factual evidence, shouldn’t be a controversial issue. Of course, this would also mean opinion wouldn’t be interjected. K-12 education should be factual. Theory discussions are better meant for adults in higher education who are using more critical thinking.

The new textbooks include passages where students learn segregated schools weren’t terrible, and the biblical Mosesinspired American-style de-

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Service, cultural sororities discuss rush Staff Writer

Not all sororities on campus are directly connected to the Greek Panhellenic society. Some consider themselves more of an organization or as a group of people with a common purpose to serve those around them, such as Miller Girls and Gamma Alpha Omega.

These organizations are different from Greek sororities in many ways, including that they begin their recruitment process two weeks after classes begin.

“If rush is after school starts, especially the second week, potential members are a little more into classes and know what they can handle,” Sarah Metoyer, a senior nutrition and dietetics major from Plano and Miller Girls president, said. “There’s also a lot more time

for us to advertise our organization.”

The rush process for Miller Girls is open to everyone, according to their website, and the week is spent getting to know both the people involved and the organization as a whole.

They advertise their recruitment process at Red Raider Orientation and through regular postings on TechAnnounce, Metoyer said.

Metoyer feels the main difference between organizations like Miller Girls and Greek sororities is they do not choose their members, she said, but rather let the girls choose them.

“We’re only one group so we see no need to bid,” Metoyer said. “We don’t really cut girls either, unless there is a serious problem with a specific individual. We focus more on community service than anything.”

Paige Pierson, a sophomore

early childhood development major service hours and study times. from Spearman Pierson and recruitment said she chair for multithinks this cultural sorority hinders the Gamma Alpha number of Omega, said their girls, but it benefits the recruitment prooverall imcess is structured age of the similarly to that sorority to of Panhellenic have a highGreek sororities, but the way they er GPA. run their sorority “ W e SARAH METOYER is different from don’t pledge both Greek life first semesPRESIDENT ter freshand Miller Girls.

MILLER GIRLS men,” PierFor Gamma son said, “so Alpha Omega, first semester freshmen are not I think it’s better anyways because allowed to rush, but rather they everyone is more settled in.” partake in an interest group The group of girls that come to where they must complete a Miller Girls separates themselves specific amount of community from those that rush Greek so-

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study shows a large majority of African-American and Hispanic news consumers don’t fully trust the media to portray their communities accurately, a statistic that could be troubling for the news industry as the minority population of the United States grows.

Three-fourths of AfricanAmerican news consumers and two-thirds of Hispanics have doubts about what mainstream media report about their communities, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Media Insight Project. And while most say it’s become easier to get news generally in the last five years, few feel the same way about news regarding their

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BRYAN SANYI, A senior philosophy major from Arlington, hands out fliers and T-shirts to students Wednesday in the Student Union building for an upcoming career fair.

Tech international students showcase culture in exhibit Staff Writer

Instead of traveling thousands of miles to a foreign country to see its sights, Texas Tech students will be able to see countries through photographs on display Friday at the “My Hometown” exhibit in the International Cultural Center.

Jane Bell, senior director of outreach and operations at the International Cultural Center, said the exhibit reception is open to the public and takes place from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday in the ICC. The exhibit will run from Friday through Oct. 13, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

“We are trying to promote and provide a number of opportunities for our international students here at Texas Tech to share their cultures,” Bell said. “This exhibit is particularly special for these students, because the images are revealing to what our students see back at their home.”

The exhibit will showcase Tech’s international students’ cultures through their photography, she said.

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Those who attend the exhibit will be able to see the variety of cultures international students experience back home, she said.

“We have 42 photographs framed in our gallery that represent only a small amount of our international students,” Bell said.

“We have over 2,000 international students on our campus.”

The exhibit provides a window into the lives of people in countries and cultures thousands of miles away, she said.

Maryann Greenberg, lead adviser for international student recruiting, said the ICC previously hosted a similar display to the “My Hometown” exhibit.

“We started planning for the exhibit back in April,” Greenberg said. “We sent out emails to our newly admitted students and current international students to submit their photos. “ International students were asked to submit five photos that represented their hometowns, according to a Tech news release.

Greenberg said the photos found in the exhibit represent the students’ cultures well.

“Some of the photos are funny, some of them are beautiful flowers, rural and urban,”

“A lot of girls are very interested in pledging, but a lot of times their academics hold them back,” Pierson said. “That’s the biggest thing I see now, is just them learning how to balance their schedule and keeping their grades up.”

Both Pierson and Metoyer said the number of pledges they have this year is smaller than they have seen in the past.

The long recruitment process is the cause of these small numbers, Pierson said. She feels that the numbers will go up in the spring once people get more adjusted to college life and feel they are ready to rush for a sorority.

“Our pledge line is a lot smaller this semester because we had a lot of people graduate last year,” Pierson said. “We hope to get that number up next semester.” ➤➤mmorris@dailytoreador.com

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rorities because of their mindsets of what they expect, she said.

She does not feel that being nonGreek hinders them, she said, but it changes the attitudes of both the officers and potential new members.

“We focus on only community service mostly,” Metoyer said. “We do have social events, and we still have those similar get-togethers, but I think you get a different group of girls when you say ‘Hey come join this service organization’ rather than ‘Hey come join our sorority.’”

According to the Center for Campus Life website, Gamma Alpha Omega had a GPA of 2.70 in the spring of 2013, which was slightly higher than the average multicultural sorority GPA. Gamma Alpha Omega focuses strongly on academics, Pierson said, and she thinks this hinders some people from joining.

Bell said. “It is really revealing.”

The photos range from representations of international students’ homesick feelings, Bell said, to photographs of culturally diverse foods.

“The subject matter was left up to the photographer,” she said. “You can tell how homesick they were. One Chinese student took beautiful flower pictures of lotuses from home.”

The ICC provides an outlet for students with an interest in other cultures and countries, Bell said.

“Texas Tech is not just for Texas anymore,” She said. “It is all over the map. The exhibit will be a great cultural experience for those who attend.” ➤➤aestolano@dailytoreador.com

own community, the survey said.

African Americans and Latinos currently make up a third of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2043, the number of minorities is expected to eclipse the number of non-Hispanic whites, with the total minority population reaching 57 percent by 2060.

People of color who are “seeking out news about their communities, they can’t find it. And what they see, they don’t think is accurate,” said Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, which teamed with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on the project. The survey was funded

by the American Press Institute and the McCormick Foundation.

When asked whether they thought news about their communities was accurate, 75 percent of blacks said only “moderately” or “slightly/not at all.” When Hispanics were asked the same question, 66 percent replied “moderately” or “slightly/not at all.”

Tia C. M. Tyree, a Howard University professor and the assistant chair of the university’s department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communications, said the stereotyping of African-Americans and Hispanics in the media, and a distrust of systems in the United States that used to be rife with racism contribute to the distrust.

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NIKKI RODRIGUEZ, A senior at Estacado High School, and Reagan Sudduth, a senior at Coronado High School, perform a scene during rehearsal of the play “Spring Awakening” on Wednesday at the Children and Adults Theatrical Studio. The play will officially premiere Friday.

The Children and Adults Theatrical Studio will premiere its latest play, “Spring Awakening,” on Friday.

The play is an adaptation of “The Awakening of Spring,” by Frank Wedekind, CATS box office manager, theater board member and director of the play, Zachery Kocurek, said. The show will feature both Texas Tech students and Lubbock residents alike.

The show premieres Friday and will have other showings Sept. 20, 26 and 27, as well as Oct. 3 and 4.

“This show is very edgy,” Kocurek said. “It’s something people don’t typically see. We’re a little bit racier, a little bit edgier and the topics we deal with in the show definitely appeal to college kids.”

The show, according to the CATS Facebook page, tells the story of fascinations of the youth and the tragic consequences brought on by the misunderstandings and provincial attitudes of the older generation toward the realities of sex and love in the world of the young.

Because today’s society tends to focus on text messages, emails and social media to speak, Kocurek said, communication can be lost.

“We’ve really explored the idea of the lack of communication between children and adults,” Kocurek said, “and what the consequences are of that and what happens when you’re speaking at people instead of to people.”

Dakota Warren, a freshman theater major from Wellington, said “Spring Awakening” is not set in a particular time or place, which makes it relatable to audiences everywhere.

The play is a story focusing on what happens when parents and children do not communicate with each other, or when parents don’t want to discuss a topic with their children, trouble and tension are created, he said.

“It’s kind of the sexual and mature awakening of a group of teenagers,” Warren said. “The story is really relevant of things that go on today. It deals with rape, abortion, homosexuality and just the confusion of teenagers maturing into adulthood.”

Brook Barrett, a freshman theater major from Lubbock,

said the play shows how forcing teenagers to figure things out on their own ultimately leads to detrimental behavior.

“It’s about teenagers whose parents don’t really tell them anything,” Barrett said, “and they have to figure things out on their own, and it’s a really difficult thing to do because, in this day and age especially, teenagers are really vulnerable, and so it ultimately leads to the teenagers reacting in unhealthy, destructive ways.”

Barrett said “Spring Awakening” is a call to action and will challenge teenagers and parents alike to become more active, and will especially challenge parents to start talking to their kids.

It is the job of parents to teach their children, he said, and teenagers need to ask questions because no question is dumb.

“I hope the audience gets the idea that not just maturing into adulthood, but into anything, you have got to have clarity and honesty to be able to approach the situation the right way,” Warren said.

More information about purchasing tickets can be found at catsplayhouse.com. ➤➤kmcminn@dailytoreador.com

Organization launches graduate, Christian mentor program

By JUSTIN GONZALES Staff Writer

Maintaining a balance between faith and academics is often times difficult for graduate students, but one Texas Tech student organization is working to change that.

The Fellowship of Christian Graduate Students is a student organization that strives to be a supportive community for all graduate students who are interested in exploring more

spiritual sides of academics, Matt Short, a graduate student studying clinical exercise physiology from Bryan, said.

SHORT Short is the current president of the organization, and he said he feels it is important for students to understand how Christ impacts their stud-

ies and how to continually grow within their faith. “ G r a d school is quite a bit different t h a n u n d e rgrad studies,” HARRIS he said, “and a lot of times studies have found that there are high numbers of graduate students who are facing some pretty tough times.”

The organization aims to help students who may be struggling with any problems in their lives, he said, and provide the necessary tools to improve their emotional, mental and spiritual health.

According to the Grad Resources website, an organization that aims to support the emotional and spiritual needs of graduate students across the nation, in 2013, 4 out of 10 graduate students reported having more stress than they could handle.

Short said the organization has plans to alleviate some of the stress put on graduate students.

For example, the program will connect graduate students with faculty members at Tech who are also Christians, he said.

“We will be pairing up graduate students with faculty members that are Christians,” Short said, “faculty members who have a good integration of their

faith and their academics and have been able to excel in the academic world.”

Jennifer Harris, a doctoral student in human development and family studies from Houston, is the communications coordinator for the organization.

Harris is hopeful to become involved in the program by being connected with a Christian faculty member herself, she said.

The organization is about connecting people to people and not just to the organization itself, she said.

“I think it’s really important for Christian grad students to have a place to go to talk about how their faith impacts their lives as grad students,” Harris said. “Because it is very different from undergrad life, it can feel a lot of times like being a Christian is not acceptable in grad school or not acceptable in academia.”

The organization will also host outreach events throughout the year, Short said, such as forums to allow guest speakers to share their personal experiences and advice.

One guest speaker will be Mike Strauss, a physics professor at the University of Oklahoma, who will be discussing the scientific evidence of God on Oct. 23.

Short said he hopes to also have weekly gatherings for the members to fellowship and to enjoy connecting with other graduate students.

The organization will be hosting a launch event today, which Short said is open to all graduate students, regardless of religious affiliation.

The launch event will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Bullen Room, room 226 of the Electrical and Computer Engineering building. ➤➤jgonzales@dailytoreador.com

Homecoming applications due Friday “Texas Tech Goes Hollywood: Coming to a Screen Near You” is the theme for this year’s homecoming week, which begins Oct. 13.

Applications for personal themes for homecoming are due by 5 p.m. Thursday, and can be either filled out online or turned in to the Union Activities office.

Lisa Branson, a senior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Austin,

is the homecoming coordinator this year.

“The first day for students to turn in event applications is this Friday, Sept. 19,” Branson said.

“That’s for all the individual events organizations want to participate in.”

For any organization not participating in S.O. Sing, event applications can be turned on either Friday or Sept. 24 in front of the Escondido Theatre or to

the Union Activities office, according to TechAnnounce.

Branson said organizations participating in S.O. Sing must start turning in applications Sept.

19 in order to reserve seats in the United Supermarkets Arena.

“We always start the application this early in the year,” she said. “It gives us more time to prepare and get everything fully ready for Homecoming week.” ➤➤lsolis@dailytoreador.com

Improper photo ban overturned AUSTIN (AP) — Texas’ top criminal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a large part of the state law banning the taking of photos or videos in public without the consent of the subject for the purpose of sexual gratification.

By an 8-1 vote, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the decision of an intermediate state appeals court, ruling that the state ban on “improper photography” is too broad and violated First Amendment freespeech rights.

The court majority found that anyone who appears in public surrenders protection from being the object of sexual fantasies. However, the 38-page ruling written by Presiding Judge Sharon Keller and filed Wednesday does not invalidate the state ban on secret photography of people in bathrooms or private dressing rooms, where a person is presumed to have privacy.

Only Judge Lawrence Meyers dissented, and he did so without releasing an opinion.

The ruling came in the Bexar County case of Ronald Thompson, who had been awaiting trial on 26 counts of improper photography.

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Tech travels for last nonconference games

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contender or champion, and receives a berth to the NCAA tournament every year.

“These are two teams that are going to give us everything we could ask for,” Stone said.

Statistically, all three teams are similar. Tech, Tulsa and Memphis each take plenty of shots and do not let opponents do the same.

Tech has the advantage in shots and goals. Tech has taken 140 shots with 16 goals scored in seven games, according to Tech Athletics. In eight games, Tulsa and Memphis have each scored 11 goals with more than 100 shots.

These two opponents, however, both record a higher percentage of shots on goal. The Golden Hurricanes have 52.4 percent of their shots on goal, and the Tigers shoot 47.5 percent on goal.

In contrast, the Red Raiders have had 38.6 percent of their shots on goal, according to Tech Athletics.

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No. 6 Texas Tech (7-0) soccer will participate in the Oklahoma State Invitational this weekend at Cowgirl Soccer Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

This tournament is the last time Tech will face two nonconference opponents in one weekend, according to Tech Athletics. Tech competes against Tulsa (6-1-1) 5 p.m. Friday and Memphis (3-2-2) 1 p.m. Sunday.

Tech coach Tom Stone said the upcoming doubleheader with Tulsa and Memphis will be the toughest so far this season.

Tulsa is off to a good start, he said, and the team is facing Tulsa in its home state, so he expects its fans are going to make the trip to Stillwater, essentially making it a home game for Tulsa.

Memphis will not be any easier to defeat than Tulsa, Stone said. He does not care if Memphis’ record is currently 3-2-2, the team is always a conference

the competition is more of a two-horse race between Tech and Tulsa.

Tech sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Watson has been scored on three times total this season.

Watson enjoys playing nonconference teams that possess strong offensive units like Tulsa and Memphis, she said. Teams with their capabilities allow her and the backline to sharpen their skills so they are ready for conference play.

For instance, Watson is working to make the backline feel comfortable with playing the ball to back to her, she said.

“Every game is more experience for me,” Watson said, “so every game I improve and I am starting to get more comfortable and more comfortable being starting goalie.”

Tulsa’s defense is not far behind, because only four goals have been scored on it. Memphis, meanwhile, has allowed opponents to score eight goals.

No matter what the num-

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TEXAS TECH FORWARD Janine Beckie moves past Abilene Christian defenders during the game Sunday at the John Walker Soccer Complex. The Red Raiders beat the Wildcats 2-0.

bers are, junior forward Janine Beckie said the Tech players are not talking much about their opponents, but focusing on themselves.

Both opponents are talented and will provide tests this weekend, she said, but Tech is going to offer some problems of its own to these opponents.

“I think definitely playing to our strengths is going to be important this weekend,” Beckie said. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Scandrick gets 2-game reprieve Vikings place Peterson on leave weekend because he figured the players and the league still had some details to work out on a revised policy for performance-enhancing drugs. He was back in the Dallas area this week, waiting a couple of days longer than he thought.

“If I would have had my way, I wouldn’t have missed any games and this would have gotten handled in August,” Scandrick said, referring to ongoing discussions over changes to the drug policy. “I’m just thankful. Those were things that were out of my hands, and I’m excited to come back.”

Scandrick acknowledged testing positive for a banned stimulant after a vacation in Mexico during the

IRVING (AP) — Orlando Scandrick had to watch the Cowboys on pay-per-view from California in their second game without him, hoping a revised drug policy would cut his four-game suspension in half.

The long-awaited word finally came Wednesday morning, and the Dallas cornerback was back on the practice field with every intention of playing Sunday in St. Louis.

Scandrick just smiled when asked if he would be ready to face the Rams.

“Yeah, without a question,” the seventh-year player said. “Without a doubt.”

Scandrick didn’t leave his home in the Los Angeles area over the

offseason, although he said he didn’t know he was taking a drug that included anything on the league’s list of performance enhancers.

The 27-year-old Scandrick went through training camp knowing he would probably miss the first part of the season. His appeal was turned down while the team was still in California, so the Cowboys adjusted by giving him extra playing time in preseason games.

“Coach (Jason) Garrett was very upset with me, but he handled me like a family member,” Scandrick said. “He was disappointed in me but he guided me through the process.

He supported me through the process. The same with my teammates.”

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switch. Now Peterson is back on paid leave through a special roster exemption granted by the NFL, the same protocol cited by the Carolina Panthers as they sat defensive end Greg Hardy a few hours later while he deals with his own domestic violence case.

“We will support Adrian during this legal and personal process, but we firmly believe this is the right decision,” said Wilf, the team’s co-owner with younger brother Mark Wilf.

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“We made a mistake,” Vikings owner Zygi Wilf said, “and we needed to get this right.”

Vikings executives emerged Wednesday from a late-night deliberation to voice regret of their initial decision to let Peterson play this week after sitting him for a game once he was charged with injuring his 4-year-old son by spanking him with a wooden

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Tech men’s golf opens season ranked No. 16

The Texas Tech men’s golf team, in the first team ranking of the season, has been named the No. 16 team nationally, according to Golfweek Magazine.

The ranking is the team’s highest since the 2010 season when the Red Raiders were competing in the NCAA Championships.

Freshman Pereira Guillermo, from Chile, enters the season ranked 19th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. This makes Guillermo the highest ranked golfer to attend Tech in school history, according to Tech Athletics, and also the top ranked freshman in the nation who is from another country.

The Red Raiders are returning four seniors — Clement Sordet, Matias Dominguez, Esteban Restrepo and Henry Todd.

This season’s schedule was also ranked the No. 1 schedule in the nation, according to Golfweek.

The NCAA Men’s Golf Regional will be hosted in Lubbock for the first time in school history on May 14-16 at the Rawls Course, according to Tech Athletics.

The Red Raiders next tournament will be Sept. 26 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the William H. Tucker Invitational. ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

Red Raider soccer players recognized nationally Texas Tech baseball visits Texas Tech senior defender Jaelene Hinkle and junior forward Janine Beckie earned national recognition Tuesday after victories against then-No. 11 California and Abilene Christian last weekend, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Beckie was honored with a spot on Top Drawer Soccer’s National Team of the Week.

Meanwhile, Hinkle made it on the CollegeSoccer360.com Honor Roll. This is the first time

either publication honored a Red Raider this season, according to the release.

Beckie scored goals in both victories from the previous weekend.

The first goal was a golden goal in the final minute of overtime against California to win 1-0. Then on Sunday, Beckie began the scoring against Abilene Christian with a goal in the first minute of the second half, leading Tech to a 2-0 victory over

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When Beckie scored against California, she became the career leader in game-winning goals at Tech with 13 in just over two seasons, according to the release.

That weekend Beckie also tied former Red Raider Kristi Patterson for second all-time in career goals when she scored her 30th against Abilene Christian.

While Beckie was scoring goals, Hinkle helped the Tech defense record two shutouts.

In those shutouts, California had four shots on goal and four corner kicks. Abilene Christian did not record a single shot on a goal or corner kick, according to the release.

Hinkle and Beckie will participate in the Oklahoma State Invitational this weekend. Tech will compete against Tulsa at 5 p.m. Friday and Memphis at 1 p.m. Sunday at Cowgirl Soccer Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

local children’s hospital With the 2015 baseball season approaching, the Texas Tech baseball team took time out of their off TADLOCK season last week to make a surprise visit to Covenant Children’s Hospital, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Members of the Tech baseball team, along with coach Tim Tadlock, took pictures, talked and presented autographed baseballs to the children staying at the hospital.

Tech baseball’s visit to Covenant Children’s Hospital is the

first event organized by the Red Raider Reach Program.

The program, created by Clark Lammert, senior forward f o r Te c h ’s m e n s b a s k e t b a l l team, looks to reach out to members of the Lubbock community by involving all of Tech’s athletic programs.

With a goal of helping Tech student athletes reach 2,000 community service hours this school year, the program schedules visits to local Lubbock hospitals for two Tech athletics teams each month.

The baseball, softball and track and field teams will make visits during the fall semester while the football, volleyball and soccer teams will schedule visits in the spring semesters once their seasons end. ➤➤dgaytan@dailytoreador.com

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T e c h j u n i o r f o rward Janine Beckie was named the ESPNW National Player of the Week We d n e s d a y for her perBECKIE formances from the past weekend, according to a Texas Tech news release.

The recognition from ESPNW is the second national honor Beckie has received in her career. She was previously named the NSCAA National Player of the Week as a freshman on Oct. 31, 2012.

During the last tournament, Beckie scored a goal against Abilene

Christian and a game-winner against then-No. 11 California. Those goals helped secure two wins to improve Tech’s record to 7-0, which is the best start to a season in program history.

The weekend began against California in Berkley, California, with a 1-0 victory for Tech, followed by a 2-0 victory over Abilene Christian.

Beckie now ranks in the top five for goals in the Big 12 Conference with four goals, according to the release. She is also tied for the conference high in game-winning goals with three. Those three game-winning goals place her fifth nationally.

Her performance against California and Abilene Christian earned her Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week and Top Drawer Soccer’s National Team of the Week, too. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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