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4th VP for research candidate visits Tech The fourth and final candidate for the vice president for research position, Gary Snowder, introduced himself and answered questions during an open forum in the Escondido Theatre of the Student Union Building.

Snowder is the associate vice president for research services at the University of Nevada, Reno.

He was the associate director of a national research center at Texas A&M University, according to University of Nevada, Reno’s website. He received his bachelor’s degree in genetic and livestock management from the University of California, Davis, and he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in genetics from Texas A&M. In his address to the audience, Snowder said he sees a lot of potential within Texas Tech.

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Obama leads mourning for Navy Yard victims WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to mourn the men and women killed in the Washington Navy Yard shooting at a memorial service in their honor.

Sunday’s late-afternoon service was hosted at the Marine Barracks Washington in southeast Washington, not far from the Navy facility where authorities say 34-year-old Aaron Alexis fatally shot a dozen people last Monday morning. Police killed Alexis in a gun battle.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama also will visit with the victims’ families.

The dead range in age from 46 to 73, and include civilian employees and contractors. Eight people were also hurt, including a police officer and two others who suffered gunshot wounds.

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What started as an idea for co-head mentor of Adopt a Class Evelyn Mitchell in 2009, has grown to a recognized service program impacting high school students and influencing them to consider attending college.

A third-year medical student at Texas Tech, Mitchell attended Estacado High School in Lubbock.

“The dynamics of Lubbock are a little different,” she said. “Estacado is known for its athletic programs, but not for the potential its students have for academics.”

Fast forward four years and the Adopta-Class program is represented at three local high schools — Estacado, Matthews Alternative and at Margaret Talkington School for Young Women Leaders — with at least 10 mentors at each school and a nearly 90 students, Mitchell said.

“I wanted to give back to students,” she said. “We uplift them.”

Not only does Adopt a Class cover topics such as applying for college, but the program also introduces students to real-life college issues in an interactive manner through games and activities, Mitchell said. When the program first began, it operated after school. However, with the program going so well, principals began allowing class time for the mentors to work with students.

“Our main goal is getting the word out about higher education,” she said. “Some students aren’t interested in college, but when they see their classmates getting involved they become interested.”

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This month, President Barack Obama designated Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 as National Hispanic Heritage month, according to a news release issued by the White House.

“Hispanic-Americans represent an array of distinct and vibrant cultures, each of which enriches communities in valuable ways,” Obama said in the release. “Just as America embraces a rich blend of backgrounds, those who journey to our shores embrace America.”

At Texas Tech, students embrace their culture during this month and beyond.

When Angela Barrera, a senior public relations major from Rio Grande City, heard about an opportunity to participate in the 2013 Hispanic College Quiz Bowl, she said she jumped at the chance to represent her university.

Barrera, a member of the Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority, was chosen by her sisters to spend her summer preparing to compete in the nationally televised competition.

Organized by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the quiz bowl serves as a positive representation of young Hispanics on television.

“I take pride in my culture,” Barrera said.

“I feel that cultural awareness is extremely important to any student.”

To prepare herself for the competition, Barrera said she was instructed to choose a Tech faculty member who would help coach her through her preparation for the competition. She selected Ricky Sherfield, unit coordinator for the Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center, who helped Barrera by quizzing her on material and organized Jeopardy-style games so she would be familiar with the contest format.

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TEXAS TECH LINEBACKER Will Smith scores the first touchdown of the Red Raiders’ 33-7 win against the Bobcats on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Smith scored the first defensive touchdown of the season.

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A record 60,997 people filled Jones AT&T Stadium on Saturday evening to watch No. 25 Texas Tech (4-0, 1-0) continue its 2013 season undefeated streak against Texas State (2-1, 0-0).

The Red Raiders started slow. A field goal was the difference between Tech and Texas State after one quarter of play.

Tech struggled to move the ball consistently early in the quarter. Following a field goal on the opening possession, the Red Raiders were unable to put together another scoring drive.

An interception by sophomore linebacker Pete Robertson at the 1-yard line stalled the Bobcats’ plans to get an early jump on the Red Raiders.

Tech’s defense continued to make plays for the Red Raiders early on.

After defensive back Bruce Jones forced senior quarterback Tyler Arndt to fumble the ball, which resulted in a turnover by the Bobcats, senior defensive lineman Kerry Hyder also stepped in and forced a fumble. Hyder recovered the fumble and after dropping it, senior linebacker Will Smith grabbed the ball and returned it for a 9-yard touchdown, giving Tech a 10-0 lead.

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The second annual cotton game took place Saturday celebrating one of Lubbock’s primary resources and had fans remembering the phrase “You can’t spell cotton without a double T.” Texas Tech and local cotton sponsors joined together to raise cotton awareness for the 60,997 fans in attendance.

“It’s just a really neat opportunity for the cotton industry to be recognized,” said Mary Jane Buerkle, the director of communications and public affairs for Plains Cotton Growers.

The pregame activities included tailgates, informational booths set up by sponsors outside the stadium and the first 5,000 fans entering the stadium from gate three received the

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Tech professor establishes minority organization

By MIKAEL GONZALES Staff Writer

Today Volunteer Fair Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Red Raider Ballroom, Student Union Building So, what is it?

Interested in getting more involved in the community? Stop by the volunteer fair and see what’s out there.

Vicarious Playboys Time: 8 p.m.

Where: Maedgen Laboratory Theatre So, what is it?

Come out and enjoy a production of Vicarious Playboys.

Tuesday

Graduation Fair at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion for Texas Tech Students

Time: 9 a.m to 5 p.m.

Where: Frazier Pavilion So, what is it?

Come out and take advantage of shopping for class rings and more. Campus representatives can assist you.

Student Disability Services: Effective Accommodation Delivery in the Classroom Time: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: University Library So, what is it?

An opportunity for faculty to learn how to properly accomodate students.

“The Future of Europe,” a talk by HRH Prince Georg von Habsburg-Lothringen Time: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Where: International Cultural Center So, what is it?

Come out and enjoy a lecture by a former president of the Hungarian Red Cross.

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Lyda Garcia, visiting assistant professor at Texas Tech, has become the faculty adviser for a new organization on campus — Minorities in STEAM. The group name originated from the minority students who founded the group and its willingness to accept students with majors in science, technology, education, agriculture and mathematics, according the group’s Facebook page.

Growing up in a small southern Texas town has made her want to help students from the area discover opportunities at Tech, which may not be publicized as much in isolated areas, Garcia said.

“Being an alumni from Texas Tech, I decided to gather the South Texas students and mentor them,” she said.

Cindy Akers, associate dean for academic and student programs in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, said on Tech’s Animal and Food Science website that Garcia was brought to Tech to increase the diversity at the college among the first-generation students.

According to the website, Garcia received her bachelor’s degree in animal science from Tech and her master’s degree from West Texas A&M University.

Aside from being the adviser for the organization, Garcia said she teaches courses about meat and meat safety.

“Anything you want to know about meat, I teach,” she said.

While also working to increase food safety throughout Mexico and Central America, Garcia said she frequently takes trips to speak

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about her findings at conferences around Texas.

A few years ago, she said she started taking students with her to these conferences. It was the ideas of these students coming back from a 2010 conference in San Antonio that began conversations about the organization.

“So what started out on as a voluntary basis of six students in 2010,” Garcia said. “In 2013 we now have about 30 students.”

But when it came time to try to expand the organization, she said the students wanted to expand to include more than just agriculture majors.

The students came up with the idea to include multiple areas of study to bring more people to the organization, Garcia said. One of the main objectives of the group is to continue to see more students join.

“Well, goals for one is to increase membership,” she said. “Our shortterm goal is to unite more and more as minorities to encourage each other to do well obviously in grades.”

Garcia said the success her students have finding jobs after graduation is because of the changing demographics of the U.S., which have led to the demand for minority students, especially those who are bilingual.

She said about one-third of her time is spent on the phone talking to potential employers for the students.

“I can’t keep up,” Garcia said. “I don’t know if the students realize the importance of the group, but I’m constantly speaking to someone about this group for job placement.”

Job opportunities and networking are a few of the benefits students receive by joining the

in the cotton industry as much as it can be, and we need to be involved with them,” said Paul CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Wilson, general manger at United The game highlighted the Cotton Growers. relationship between the uniStudents from the College of versity and the cotton industry Agricultural Sciences and Natural surrounding it.

Resources and those involved in “Tech needs to be involved the industry also played a role in putting the game together as many of the booths outside the stadium were manned by Tech students.

Nathan Foster, a graduate student who also works at PhytoGen Cotton Seeds and manned one of the booths, said the main goal was trying to reach out to people so

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ANIMAL AND FOOD Sciences Professor Lyda Garcia started the Minorities in STEAM organization, which encourages the success of minority students studying science, technology, engineering, argriculture and mathmatics.

organization, she said.

The organization’s monthly meetings allow students to discuss fundraisers, scholarships, and get to know each other. Garcia said she enjoys having the students come together and communicate with other minority students.

She said seeing the students come together reinforces her purpose in life to help students find their way and educate them.

“Everybody belongs somewhere,” Garcia said. “No one should ever be left out.”

they can understand the industry and what it takes to produce the clothes on people’s backs.

Cotton is a major agricultural resource because Lubbock is sitting on the largest cotton patch in the world, Wilson said.

“It gives us an opportunity to showcase to the fans how important the cotton farmers and the market is in our area,” said Elvis Moya, the director of promotions and fan engagements for Tech Athletics.

This was the second straight year the cotton game has occurred, Buerkle said, and plans to tweak and make minor im-

provements for this year’s game date back to after last year’s game ended.

There is a close relationship because many Tech graduates work in the nearby cotton industry and many of Wilson’s board of directors were Red Raiders, she said.

Tech and the cotton industry always have been linked, Foster said, and Tech may not be here if cotton was not around.

“If it wasn’t for cotton, the city of Lubbock would not be in existence here,” he said.

The two industries rely on each other because much of the research done for cotton growers is completed by Tech, Buerkle said.

The game embedded the “Celebrate Cotton” theme with everything going on, Moya said, but it also celebrated the West Texas spirit of the cotton industry. “(Fans) can see the raw product, they can also see how that cotton is turned into the product they wear and use every day,” Buerkle said.

During the game, representatives of the industry were honored.

With harvests starting in two or three weeks, the game was perfectly timed, Buerkle said.

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Ghost Bikes promote bicycling safety

By CHELSEA GRUNDEN Staff Writer

The West Texas Cycling Association assembled two Ghost Bicycles to commemorate two cyclists killed in the Lubbock area.

The Ghost Bikes, which can be seen in Levelland and in front of the Garrison Center off of Fourth Street, were set up near the locations of the Lubbock citizens’ death.

The West Texas Cycling Association used two older bikes that were donated. The bikes were stripped of their chains and other parts that could be stolen, said Jill Booker, President of the West Texas Cycling Association. The bicycles were painted white and stand in their locations as a reminder of those who have died as well as a reminder to be safe.

“We wanted to put the Ghost Bicycles up in their honor and to let people know that bicycle safety and awareness is so important,” Booker said.

The Ghost Bicycle off of Fourth Street was put in honor of Britta Schneider, a 32-year-old who was killed in July 2012 by a drunken driver. Schneider was a visiting graduate student from Germany

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To accomplish that goal, Mitchell said after a year of working with their students the program concludes with a field trip to Tech including visits to admissions, student housing, Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center and financial aid.

“All in all, this program is a great experience,” she said. “To see the look on their face when they visit campus and realize that college is possible — It’s so rewarding.”

Students interested in education are encouraged to become involved in Adopt a Class. Senior multiple disciplinary studies major from San Antonio Adrien Hysten became involved with Adopt a Class as co-head shortly

who had been in Lubbock for one month before her accident, Booker said. Schneider’s Ghost Bicycle was put up in July 2013 and will remain on display until October.

“One of the things that we worry about is getting students over here in Lubbock who don’t understand the rules of the road and they’re more used to living in countries that are more tolerant of bicyclists,” Booker said. “We’re really trying to get the word out about graduate students or to visiting students from other countries about how to be safe in Lubbock.”

The Ghost Bicycle in Levelland commemorates Paul Nichols who was killed by a distracted driver.

He was a 72-year-old bicyclist who completed a 70-mile ride the week before his death. Booker said Nichols was riding his bicycle on a Wednesday afternoon when a woman attending to her grandchildren in the backseat hit and killed him instantly.

Ghost Bicycles are common in larger cities, seen with more than 180 locations around the world, according to the Ghost Bikes website.

The idea came to the West Texas Cycling Association from the Internet. Booker said it seemed like

a great way to bring awareness to people that drivers share the roads with cyclists and to promote safety for the cyclists as well as honoring those who have died while cycling.

“This is important to me because I ride bicycles and most of my closest friends in Lubbock are cyclists,” Booker said. “We use them for recreational purposes or for staying fit, but there are many people in Lubbock who use them as their primary source of transportation.

We feel like cyclists should be safe when they are riding on our roads.

We have large roads and lots of space, so they should be safe.”

One safety tip for cyclists Booker said she and The West Texas Cycling Association promote is to be predictable. As drivers in cars have to follow the law with signaling a turn and stopping at stop signs and red lights, so do cyclists.

Booker said she wants cyclists to be predictable and make everyone safer by following the law.

The West Texas Cycling Association is an umbrella association uniting the Lubbock Bicycle Club, Chaparral Cycling Club and Texas Tech Cycling Club, according to the association’s website.

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after it began.

“I became involved for two reasons: I need community service hours and I have a passion for helping others and making a difference in ways other than just talk,” Hysten said. “I wanted to be in their corner. Influencing someone’s life is priceless.”

Jennie Luu, a junior biology major from Fort Worth said she became involved with Adopt a Class this year and has already become the head mentor at Talkington School for Young Women Leaders.

“We try to expose them to what really happens in college,” she said.

“We try to have talks about college life because it’s a big change for them coming from an all-girls school.”

At Talkington, the Adopt a Class curriculum was adapted to suit the needs of the college-prep

students. Students, who are required to have chosen a college by graduation, work on a research project through Adopt a Class, focused on choosing a college. After their research is complete, students present their findings to their fellow classmates.

“We also plan to use mock degree plans,” Luu said. “We want students to see what is ahead of them.”

Enlightening students about what to expect when entering college isn’t the only skill the mentors teach their students.

“We give them the confidence and teach them to believe in themselves,” Hysten said. “I believe the impact we have is in knowledge.

They’re taught English and writing but no one ever teaches them how to successfully apply for college.

We’re helping prepare them.”

POLICE BLOTTER Thursday 1:33 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer arrested a student, which occurred in the Biology building, for one outstanding Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office arrest warrant. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

4:18 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft, which occurred in the basement laundry room at Clement Residence Hall. A pair of unsecured Nike tennis shoes was taken from a washing machine.

11:12 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated the report by Housing Staff of the odor of burnt marijuana coming from a dorm room at Clement Residence Hall. A student was issued at Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and charged with possession of marijuana.

Catholics cheer pope’s remarks on gays, abortion NEW YORK (AP) — Catholics attending Sunday services around the globe said they were heartened by Pope Francis’ recent remarks that the church has become too focused on “smallminded rules” on hot-button issues like homosexuality, abortion and contraceptives.

Worshippers applauded what they heard as a message of inclusion from the man who assumed the papacy just six months ago.

“I think he’s spot on,” said Shirley Holzknecht, 77, a retired school principal attending services in Little Rock, Ark. “As Catholic Christians, we do need to be more welcoming.”

In Havana, Cuba, Irene Delgado said the church needs to adapt to modern times.

“The world evolves, and I believe that the Catholic Church is seeing that it is being left behind, and that is not good,” said Delgado, 57. “So I think that they chose this Pope Francis because he is progressive, has to change things.”

Friday 1:59 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication following the report by a University Student Housing staff member of an individual breaking a window pane in the second floor west hallway men’s bathroom at Murdough Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The student also was charged with criminal mischief.

3:03 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication, evading arrest or detention and three outstanding Lubbock County warrants following a welfare check in the 900 block of University Ave. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

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

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A white bicycle sits outside the Garrison Institute on Aging as a memorial to Britta Schneider, a graduate natural resources management major from Germany, who was killed last year while riding her bicycle down 4th street when she was hit by a drunken driver.

bicycle awareness expo at South Plains Mall on Oct. 19 from noon to 4 p.m. The event will focus on bicycling safety including why it is important to wear a helmet while This year, Adopt a Class applied for the Lubbock Volunteer Center’s Get Involved Award in the college student organization category. The organization was recognized as the Lubbock Volunteer Centers’ Organization of the Year.

“I think this really says a lot about how the program has evolved and how Tech is being represented,” Mitchell said.

Adopt a Class is currently seeking individuals interested in mentoring high school students.

Mentors will be a part of someone’s future success while earning community service hours and building friendships with students.

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other countries have been governed and occupied by a specific group for thousands of years, the U.S. is relatively new and has created its own culture in the modern world. There has never been a U.S. monarchy or kingdom. Sure we were under British rule as colonies of the Empire, but then we still were considered British subjects, not U.S. citizens.

There are no ancient castles or monuments in the U.S., as many of our greatest landmarks were built in the past few centuries.

Native Americans lived in the New World for thousands of years prior to the arrival of settlers, but they are not the dominant population, nor were their civilizations as advanced as those found in Europe and Asia. But, they do have their part in what makes America exceptional.

The U.S. was born from revolution. Many other countries also have had revolutions, but many only did so for a change in government and not necessarily creating a new nation.

We have not seen war on American soil in centuries — putting our own Civil War aside. All the great wars and empire campaigns of history have been focused in Europe, the Middle East, Eastern Asia and even parts of Africa. This partly is because of our isolation from the rest of the world, with our eastern and western borders both separating us from the rest of the world by vast oceans.

Being apart from the rest of the world is one thing, but also not wanting to be involved in the affairs or

Unlike Europe, we are not divided into separate states dominated by a single race or ethnic population.

Diversity is found in each state across the nation.

concerns of the rest of the world, specifically Europe, just adds to the idea of American Exceptionalism. This is the big idea behind the Monroe Doctrine that was aimed to keep the U.S. out of the mess that was Europe.

Aside from history, our global military presence definitely makes the U.S. stand out from the crowd. The military capabilities and span of military reach around the world almost is unparalleled by any other nation.

America spends $553 billion on its military budget as of the 2012 fiscal year, which is more than the next 15 ranking nations combined.

That’s not just because of overpriced nuts and bolts; we’re talking more than 2 million soldiers among the different branches, 11 aircraft carriers in service around the globe and now the growing use of drone predator aircrafts, not to mention the technological and intelligence capabilities.

With all this might, however, I do not believe our exceptionalism demands us to act as world police and intervene between disputes among other countries. The idea that “with great power comes great responsibility” only applies to superheroes. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. It would serve the U.S. better to reduce our involvement, specifically militarily, from Syria and other disputes around the world.

“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation,” Putin said in an article in The New York Times last week.

In a sense, Putin was right in warning us not to let this idea act as an obligation to intervene or take military action. If we are to maintain this American Exceptionalism, we must act upon it responsibly and wisely.

Getting a big head about this might prove to have bad consequences.

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t doesn’t take much to show America is not exceptional, but just another country. Just look at our crumbling infrastructure, where the World Health Organization lists the U.S. as 38th in health care. In a Huffington Post article, which cites a global report by the Pearson education firm, the U.S. is ranked 17th in education. Worse, our cantankerous leaders are having trouble avoiding a government shutdown. We are no utopia.

In a response to President Barack Obama’s speech about going to war in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin in an opinion piece in The New York Times went after Obama’s comments on how the U.S. going to war on behalf of children dying from chemical weapons is a part of what makes the U.S. exceptional. Is bombing other countries and killing civilians in the process really what makes the U.S. exceptional?

Putin said it was dangerous for people to see their country as exceptional in relation to other countries. The hypocritical president has a point, as I learned from my elementary history class to be squeamish about nationalism, a disease that plagued Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

Nationalism is something we criticized the people in Germany for, which allowed the Nazis to do numerous evils to resurrect the perfect Aryan race.

Yet the people of the U.S. would likely cave to the same tactics of nationalism.

The word exceptional, from whence we get the term “American Exceptionalism,” stems from the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville, who described the U.S. in this way in his writings.

This is both an arrogant and perilous belief. While Obama in his speech said the U.S. is not the world’s police, we still act like it, and now we’re told we should because we are exceptional.

Just how have our “exceptional” policies in the Middle East worked out?

Wasn’t it the U.S. who supported Saddam

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Hussein’s early reign in Iraq, a dictator who then killed Kurds in his country with gas? Wasn’t it the U.S. who also supported Hosni Mubarak early on in Egypt, only to watch thousands of Egyptians angrily force him out of power?

Forcing our country’s way of life on people is counterintuitive. Forcing liberty or true democracy on people who don’t want it is pointless. We deserve the anger of the Middle East, which is upset with the way we’ve botched its lands.

Wasn’t American Exceptionalism the idea that led to the nuclear bombing of the Bikini Atoll island, a land still uninhabitable for its rightful residents, in the name of protecting America’s children “in the long run,” as Obama so ineloquently said in an effort to emit pathos into his argument for needless war?

But the U.S. doesn’t even have a leg to stand on in its own territory. This country has an egregious record of hatred and bigotry that stems from one idea of American Exceptionalism: Manifest destiny.

Manifest destiny led to the Trail of Tears — America’s version of genocide, where we forced Native Americans from their homes, killing them along the way.

What about the issue of slavery, where the American Exceptionalists claimed white Americans were created by God to rule over the inferior African race? The Texas Declaration of Secession letter about slaves stated “that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.”

No, America isn’t exceptional, and we never were. We’ve been blessed with numerous natural resources along with our Constitution to make us a power.

Jared Diamond’s book “Guns, Germs and Steel” shows this comes with our mainly European background, where we had an advantage when we mixed Europe’s resources with American land.

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This is why we have the ability to leave half-eaten Panda Express containers lying in the street, versus scrimping for every bite in underdeveloped or nonindustrialized countries.

Our founding fathers wouldn’t be proud of American Exceptionalism. In his farewell address, George Washington asked the nation to stay out of foreign conflicts. The Constitution was written with the individual citizen in mind, not the collective federation.

The thing that should make us different by those blessed documents we are fortuitous to have, is that we are proud of our own individual achievements, not communal collectivist efforts, forged with brainwashed pride, thanks to 12 years of being forced to stand, face the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

People should take pride in personal achievement, not nationalistic conquests they didn’t take part in.

This is why American citizens should not be petitioning the government to confiscate more in taxes for the military industrial complex to bomb places such as Syria. We should instead be trying to get the government to work for the individual again.

We should be investing in our children now — in education, health care and feeding them — for as the Census Bureau shows, our annual income has gone down since 1989, fixed for inflation, according to a Washington Post article.

We’ve tried intervention and our American Exceptionalism hasn’t worked in the Middle East. Instead, protesters in many of those countries hate us for the intervention. The U.S. doesn’t have the money or the support from citizens to police other parts of the world.

It’s time we go back to the idea of individual exceptionalism where, as the Declaration of Independence articulately states, we have the right to “the pursuit of happiness.”

Forcing our country’s way of life on people is counterintuitive.

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he notion of “American Exceptionalism” exists without a doubt.

The whole idea of its existence was of course reignited by the mediagenerated feud between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Compared to other countries around the world, we are unique and exceptionally more powerful on the global scale. But this idea of American Exceptionalism is not solely based on American military power or economic dominance on the global market.

We are most exceptional in the sense that we are so different from other countries around the world.

Much of this can be seen by looking at our history and the very birth of the U.S. We are a nation born from immigrants.

Think back to Yankee Doodle history and you’ll see the U.S. was rooted by the migration of pilgrims to the New World.

Ever since their arrival, different races and ethnic groups have migrated here.

A wide variety of races and ethnicities still make up the U.S. population today.

Unlike Europe, we are not divided into separate states dominated by a single race or ethnic population. Diversity is found in each state across the nation. And it’s not just Europeans who have flooded the borders of the U.S.; people from around the globe have found and are continuing to find their way to our shores.

Also unlike Europe, the U.S. was created in the New World. While

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Abortion column misrepresentation of facts, not indicative of reality I just finished reading Andrew Gleinser’s column in the Sept. 16 issue of The Daily Toreador, and I feel it is my moral obligation to correct some of the misrepresentations of facts found in that column. I understand the same facts can be shown in different lights, but the disregard for reality in this column is simply offensive.

First off, the identification of Cecille Richards as nothing more than the daughter of a previous Texas governor is misleading at best, as she currently serves as the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and I would think that a law student would realize it is this role, not her familial connections, that gives her the author-

ity to comment on this bill.

Secondly, the suggestion that personal responsibility is the “antidote” to America’s unusually high abortion rate — one out of every three American women will have an abortion in their lives, and any man who has had more than three sexual partners should carefully and thoughtfully consider this fact — is inserting partisan politics into what should be an easily discerned reality.

America has one of the highest abortion rates among “first-world” countries because America has the highest unintended pregnancy rate among those countries. A full 50 percent of pregnancies in this nation are

accidents. We know how to prevent accidental pregnancies, and we know how to teach effective use of contraceptive technologies, but for some reason, in this country it’s considered morally preferable to teach abstinence and to limit access and knowledge of contraceptives.

Canada, unlike America, has taxpayer-funded abortions. America will never have taxpayer-funded abortions — although tax-funded weapons are more than legal — because of the Hyde Amendment. Guess which country has a lower abortion rate? That’s right: Canada. Because in so many of the “socialized health care” countries presented as some sort of American

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nightmare, the contraceptives that are paid for with tax dollars prevent the abortions Americans claim they, too, want to prevent.

Gleinser claims “contraception is relatively cheap and easy to obtain,” which is true for many Americans, like we Texas Tech students who are wealthy enough to afford education, transportation and contraception, among other “luxuries.” Sadly, there are plenty of Americans who cannot take four-plus years to pursue education, and it’s unreasonable to assume that because we can afford contraception that that means everyone else can, as well.

If people truly believe abortion is murder, why have we as a nation decided easily accessible, low-cost or no-cost contraceptives are less moral than the abortions that often follow unintended pregnancies? When a family has to choose between paying for dinner and paying the heating bills, I think it is unreasonable to tell that family that the parents also must abstain from sex because they cannot afford condoms for that month.

In fact, many of the most effective forms of contraceptives — Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives, or LARCs — involve the greatest up-front costs.

For example, an IUD can easily cost $500 when it is first placed, but when calculated throughout the five or more years in which it provides contraception, costs less than $10 per month.

If politicians had any real interest in preventing abortions, they would jump at the opportunity to contribute to upfront costs of IUDs and other LARCs. Instead, the same people who are most vocally anti-abortion are the ones yell-

ing about personal responsibility, happily ignoring all the medical evidence we actually have about preventing unintended pregnancies.

When not repeating the phrase “personal responsibility,” these same folks often rely on financial arguments, completely ignoring the fact that every $1 spent on contraception in this nation saves $4 in longer-term reproductive health costs, including prenatal and childhood health care, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Though not the final inaccuracy, by far the most offensive misdirection in Gleinser’s column is the conflation of Kermit Gosnell’s horror show with legal abortion clinics. What Gosnell did was illegal, and that is why he was tried and found guilty in a court of law.

The column seems to miss this fact, so I’ll repeat it: Gosnell and his clinic were newsworthy because they were atypical.

Gosnell’s clinic should never be used to illustrate what occurs in a legal clinic, and Gleinser should be ashamed of himself for implying that criminal represents responsible, law-abiding physicians. What occurred in Gosnell’s clinic — tragedies that befell uninsured women of color almost exclusively — is not what occurs in the already wellregulated clinics that provide abortion services in Texas.

In fact, women who have safe and legal access to abortions are not the women who become so desperate to end their unintended pregnancies they visit clinics like Gosnell’s. The vast majority of abortions are done well before viability, before there is any possibility of delivering a live infant, and requirements such as last year’s sonogram law

most often serve as a method of delaying abortions until they are past legal abortion limits.

Also, does Gleinser sincerely believe women were surprised to discover they were pregnant with a fetus instead of, say, a kitten? The belief women needed to see a sonogram to somehow truly understand they were pregnant is offensive.

Likewise, the requirement that clinics providing abortions meet the technical requirements of ambulatory surgical facilities is equally ridiculous. Abortions already are safer than carrying and delivering a full-term pregnancy, and no law requires women to deliver a child in a fully equipped surgical facility.

The limitations being proposed are clearly directed toward restricting abortion access instead of protecting women. If Texas politicians truly cared about Texas women, they would work toward keeping clinics that provide reproductive health care open, accessible and affordable.

In conclusion, I would like to remind Gleinser that according to our current legal system, abortions before viability are legal. The Texas Legislature is wasting time and money by attempting to pass bills that are consistently being struck down as unconstitutional, such as in North Dakota, Arizona and other states, so there is no reasonable legal precedent to support the constant attempts to restrict abortions. This is a waste of tax dollars and political time, and should not be the purview of current or future legal professionals.

Melinda Dooley is a first-year medical student from Austin.

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Fraternity hosts annual GatorFest event

By NIKKI CULVER Staff Writer

The 500-foot block of bricked road between One Guy from Italy’s pizza parlor and Tully’s Corner Store on Main Street was blocked off Friday night as Alpha Tau Omega hosted their fourth annual GatorFest benefit concert, where country singer Kyle Parks headlined for the evening.

In accordance with the name of the event, fried alligator was available from an on-scene taco truck.

Will Owen, a senior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Plano, served as one of two co-chairmen for the evening within the ATO organization. The other co-chairman was Dillon Mercer, a sophomore finance major from Coppell.

“It’s really just an event to introduce all of our incoming freshmen and some of the parents, since we normally do it on parent’s weekend, to a little bit of Texas Tech, a little bit of Texas Tech style,” Owen said. “It’s a good time for people to come out. It’s after the first week of tests, so it’s a good time for them to come out and have a little fun.”

The event served as a benefit for the Young Women’s Christian Association, an organization, according to their website, dedicated to helping women advance their personal careers and goals by offering resources to women in the community.

The organization also offers child care for mothers who work and cannot afford traditional day care.

Last year’s Gatorfest concert saw an estimated 1,000 attendees, and organizers for Friday’s event saw a similar estimated 1,200 tickets sold.

“I want it to be as equally as big as Kalf Fry, but better,” Mercer said. “I want it to be like a long-lasting, continuous event.”

Ryan Kilemer served as production manager for the event. Kilemer graduated from Tech in 2001 with a business degree and has been in the music business for 17 years. He has toured with bands such as Blue October, Bowling for Soup and Nickelback.

“I helped them with the details,” he said. “It helps the event run smoothly when you have someone with the experience versus new guys every year. Luckily Will was back again this year which made it even smoother, but for a fraternity that

doesn’t know how to throw a concert or an event like this, you know, there’s a lot of mistakes and people get upset, but hiring a professional that does it for a living makes the event more legitimate for the artist and the people on that end. Everything has been top-notch professional from sound to loading time to coordination and communication.”

Kilemer said he also would like to see the event turn into a self-funding function where the members of ATO would not have to use money from other fundraising events to pay for the Gatorfest concert.

Bash Riprocks sponsored the event by providing access to the bar for those attending the event, as well as serving drinks to those on the street during the concert.

Owner Mike Fuqua said when the members of ATO contacted him to see what partnership they could develop, he was more than willing to help them out.

After seeing the dedication of ATO members, he said he will continue to support the event.

“I call them the ‘Men of ATO,’” he said. “I think it signifies a respect that they really deserve.” ➤➤nculver@dailytoreador.com

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COURTNEY RHODES, A sophomore nursing major from Houston, and Logan Mizell, a sophomore finance major from Huntsville, dance along to the live music at the fourth annual Alpha Tau Omega GatorFest on Friday on University and Main Street.

At food-filled Farm Aid, music isn’t focus Children with autism practice travel S A R AT O G A S P R I N G S , frack our farmlands,” Matthew N.Y. (AP) — Farm Aid is more said, to loud applause. Several than a family of musicians band- anti-fracking groups from New ing together to help the small York and Pennsylvania had a farmer. It’s also a family meal. booth at the event, calling for A key component of Farm New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Aid concerts — this year’s is to continue the state’s moratotaking place Saturday in Sara- rium on shale gas development toga Springs — is the food, that began in 2008. which comes through Farm Aid’s During a performance SaturHomegrown Concessions. It was day night, Pete Seeger modified a started six years ago to create line of “This Land is Your Land,” new markets for family farmers. declaring “New York was meant Vendors, which include local to be frack-free.” food-service outlets, as well as This year the village was set national brands such as Chipotle up on the expansive lawns of the a n d A m y ’s state park Organic, surroundmust meet ing the F a r m A i d ’s Saratoga criteria for Performsourcing the ing Arts ingredients C e n t e r. in their food, The acfrom organic tion there flour in the got going panini to before the free-ranging, 10-hour antibioticconcert. free hogs on T h e the barbecue village grill. offered ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Even the plenty of FARM AID cotton candy activities has a family to help farm origin, people get made from maple syrup produced in touch with their inner farmer. in the Catskills.

There’s a daylong group potato“Farm Aid’s mission is about stamp art project; workshops on family farmers, and economic making butter, bacon, cheese, opportunity for family farmers lemon vinegar and llama wool is a really big priority of ours,” bracelets; and a demonstration of said Glenda Yoder, associate how to grow shiitake mushrooms director of Farm Aid. “We also on logs in your own backyard. support good farming practices Joshua Cummings of Hartand rewarding farmers for those ford, N.Y., was biting into a practices. So our Homegrown snappy grilled bratwurst as he criteria call for food that is walked among the vendors’ sourced from family farms that tents. “I want to know where my meet an ecological standard, food came from and what went and that returns a fair price to into it,” he said, adding that the farmer.”

Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp lead the star-studded lineup this year, along with Jack Johnson, Carlene Carter, Toad the Wet Sprocket and about 10 other artists.

The annual concert is the chief moneymaker for the Farm Aid organization Nelson cofounded in 1985 and leads as president. The beneficiaries of the organization’s year-round efforts are always featured prominently at the shows, with a Homegrown Village providing concert-goers a chance to meet local farmers, learn agrarian skills, and eat food from vendors who meet strict criteria set by Farm Aid. “We talk about saving the family farmer, but the fact is, it’s the family farmer who will save us all,” Nelson said at a media event before the gates opened at noon Saturday.

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farm-fresh food also tastes better.

Will Pouch, owner of the Esperanto restaurant in Saratoga Springs, had to modify his menu for his Farm Aid booth to meet the organization’s requirements for all organic and humaneraised food.

“They have very exacting standards that made me look at my menu and sources,” Pouch said. He used organic chicken and farm-ground flour in his doughboys for the event, which increased his ingredient cost by two- or threefold, he said.

“I won’t change all my restaurant menu items, though, because many of my customers can’t afford the higher prices,” Pouch said. “But I’ll be adding more locally sourced items to the specials board.”

The Farm Aid organization has raised more than $43 million since 1985 to support programs that help small family farms, expand the Good Food Movement and promote locally grown food. Farm Aid has made grants of more than $2.5 million in the Northeast during the past 28 years, according to the organization.

Roger Allison, who started Patchwork Family Farms in Columbia, Mo., with a Farm Aid grant 20 years ago, said Farm Aid has been a lifesaver for the family farmers in his organization who raise hogs in a natural way, unconfined, without antibiotics.

“Thank god for Willie Nelson and Farm Aid,” Allison said at Saratoga after driving 23 hours to bring his truckload of savory meats. “It has really instilled hope in independent family farms all across the United States. We love Willie. Willie has helped us out.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Tom and Zsuzsa Price arrived Saturday to Kennedy International Airport, their four young children in tow, full of anxiety.

Four-year-old Callum has autism and the whole family had never been on a plane together.

They checked in, went through airport security and boarded JetBlue Flight 001, with sandy-haired Callum at times whimpering, yelling and fidgeting.

This time, though, it was just practice.

JetBlue Airways and the nonprofit Autism Speaks set up an air travel practice session for families who have children with the disorder. JetBlue officials said it was the first such event at JFK, one of the nation’s busiest airports.

“We had no idea what to expect, we didn’t know whether we’d have to turn around and go home,” said Zsuzsa Price, of Bayshore, N.Y. “We’re grateful to have the chance to try it out.”

Autism spectrum disorders are a group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges and now affects one in 88 children, according to Autism Speaks, which offers support and aims to raise awareness of the disorder. JetBlue officials said they wanted to teach their employees tools to help make travel comfortable for people with autism — who represent a growing number of customers.

“The more tools we supply to our crew members, the better we can serve our customers,” said JetBlue spokeswoman Kate Wetzel.

JetBlue workers volunteered

their time, and the airline absorbed the cost of using the plane for the afternoon. About 300 parents and children attended. The Airbus 320 departed the gate and taxied around the tarmac for 20 minutes before returning.

Parents said they appreciated the ability to practice with their

children, who ranged on the spectrum from mild to severe and in age from toddler to adult.

“They should do this at all airports, it’s awesome,” said Ryan Young of Brooklyn, sitting next to his 8-year-old daughter, Rachel, who quietly read “Diary of Wimpy Kid.”

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By CALLIE POINDEXTER Staff Writer

Plenty of Texas Tech students show their support at football games with red and black garb or the occasional painted face.

Ethan Riffe, however, prefers to don less conventional — and slightly more hairy — attire when cheering on the Red Raiders.

The freshman with no declared major from Kennedale has worn a gorilla suit to every home football game this year.

Riffe said since he bought the $80 suit for Halloween last year, he and his friends have been using it to catch people off guard whether it’s at a sporting event or a random trip to Wal-Mart.

“It was actually my dad’s idea,” he said. “He told me to wear it to a game, and I said, ‘Hey I’ll just throw a jersey over it,’ and it just kind of went from there.”

Every gorilla, however, needs a banana.

After the first home game, Riffe said he recruited his lifelong friend Chase Hinther to accompany him to cheer on the team and wear a yellow banana costume.

Hinther, a freshman with no declared major from Kennedale, said the pair has received plenty of attention from fans since joining forces.

“This kid walked up to me,” he said, “he was a friend with a bunch of ROTC members, and they were playing this game where they were all standing still, and this dude wanted me to jump in the middle of everyone and do the peanut butter jelly dance.”

So, Hinther said he did just that.

Riffe said their motive in wearing the suits is a simple one.

“I bring silly string,” he said.

“We sit in the front row if we can, as close as we can to the front. We just try to be the loud-

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ETHAN RIFFE AND Chase Hinther, undeclared freshman from Kennedale, dress up in a gorilla and a banana suit during the game against Texas State on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium

est two there, and just try to get a lot of people into the game.”

The gorilla and banana have not just received attention from fans.

Riffe said they are frequently shown on the Jumbotron at Jones AT&T Stadium, and at Saturday’s game against Texas State, Jim Knox from Fox Sports interviewed the pair.

In the fourth quarter, Riffe said Knox jumped into the stands with a microphone and began asking them questions and talking about their attire.

“The crowd was so loud and crazy where we were sitting,” Riffe said, “especially when Jim came into the stands. Everyone went crazy.”

After the first game, he said he changed his name on Twitter and Instagram to showcase his new gorilla identity so fans can more easily connect with him, and that he has many new followers and has been tagged in countless pictures and tweets.

His hometown friends have noticed, as well.

“I’ve gotten a lot of texts and tweets and whole bunch of stuff from people back in Kennedale that I knew,” Riffe said, “like

‘Hey, I see you on TV’ and stuff like that.”

The gorilla suit did not come with pockets, and he said he had to get creative to be able to carry the things he needs to the games.

To solve his problem, the gorilla comes dressed with a fanny pack.

“I think it’s a nice fashion statement,” Riffe said, laughing.

“I don’t know. It’s just something goofy to throw on. I have my cards and my phone, and I keep my silly string in there, too.”

Hinther and Riffe said they plan to walk around campus in their suits the night before every home game to take pictures with students and encourage them to come to the game.

The gorilla said he is happy fans have been breaking attendance records, showing support for the 4-0 Red Raiders and will continue to attend every home game with the banana.

“Watching football games before coming here,” Riffe said, “I didn’t really notice anything too much. But being here at the games, I realize they’re a lot more rowdy than I thought they were.” ➤➤cpoindexter@dailytoreador.com

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ETHAN RIFFE AND Chase Hinther, undeclared freshman from Kennedale, plan to wear their costumes the night before football games to encourage more students to attend.

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“They gave us a book, but no categories,” Barrera said. “I picked out what I thought was important.”

After receiving the book in July, Barrera said she studied film from the previous years’ competition and created more than 400 flash cards. With genres including modern arts, television and film, literature, important dates, heroes and maps, Barrera said she had her work cut out for her. “ We t h o u g h t w e h a d a n advantage because not many schools had the opportunity to participate in the Hispanic/ Black Knowledge Bowl,” Sherfield said, referring to a previous quiz bowl Barrera’s sorority participated in. “The format of that contest was similar to how the Hispanic Knowledge Bowl was set up.”

At the contest hosted at Resolution Studios in Chicago, Barrera competed against 12 other students from universities across the nation. Reflecting on the experience, Barrera said she encourages other students to participate in cultural events.

“Participate in anything to

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ANGELA BARRERA, A senior public relations major from Rio Grande City, represented Texas Tech in the Hispanic College Quiz show in Chicago. Barrera finished in second place out of 12 participants and the show will air on KMYL.

do with your culture and fill out cultural scholarships,” Barrera said. “ It helps you learn so much more about your history and maintaining your roots.”

That connection to history is something Sherfield said he hopes lives on even after Hispanic History month comes to a close.

“The knowledge — so many facts and history — I wish we could share that information with more students,” he said. “I hope this extends past Hispanic History month and into the

next year.”

After the contest, Barrera and her sorority sisters are interested in more opportunities to participate in cultural events on campus.

“Angela had the opportunity and now she’s trying to give back to Texas Tech,” Sherfield said. “I was impressed with her taking this initiative and I’m proud of her.”

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WWII soldier’s letter finally reaches daughter RENO, Nev. (AP) — A World War II soldier’s heartfelt letter to his daughter has finally reached her, seven decades after it was written.

Peggy Eddington-Smith received the letter penned by her father, Pfc. John Eddington, as well as his Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals, during an emotional ceremony Saturday in Dayton, Nev., about 40 miles southeast of Reno.

The father she never met wrote the three-page letter shortly after she was born and shortly before he died in Italy in June 1944. He sent it while stationed in Texas, just before he was sent overseas.

Getting his medals was nice, but the letter meant more because it made her feel closer to her father, Eddington-Smith said. She knew little about him since her mother could rarely bring herself to discuss the love of her life.

“The letter gave me more knowledge of who he was,” she told The Associated Press. “He poured out his heart to me, and a lot of men don’t put that kind of emotion in writing.

I’m just overwhelmed by everything, trying to absorb everything.”

Donna Gregory of St. Louis found the soldier’s letter and other World War II memorabilia in a box 14 years ago while helping her thenhusband clean out his grandparents’ home in Arnold, Mo., a St. Louis suburb.

Gregory’s voice cracked with emotion as she read the letter Saturday, bringing tears to EddingtonSmith and many in the crowd of about 150.

The soldier devoted the first page to his wife, saying he hoped she did not find it “silly” that he was writing a letter to a child who could not read.

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his “darling” daughter, he wrote that while she may not see him “for some time,” he wanted her to know that she was always on his mind.

“I love you so much,” the letter says. “Your mother and daddy ... are going to give you everything we can.

We will always give you all the love we have.”

Eddington urged his daughter to “always treat your mother right.

You have the sweetest mother on the Earth.”

He closed the letter by writing, “I love you with all my heart and soul forever and forever. Your loving daddy.”

Eddington-Smith and Gregory are unsure what connection the soldier had to the couple who owned the house where his memorabilia was found. Eddington was from Leadwood, Mo., about 75 miles southwest of St. Louis.

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(they) made some good plays, made some bad, and that’s what you get early on, but we’ll continue to get CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 better.”

Senior safety Terrance Bullitt said Webb’s second quarter resembled Tech’s defense must find a way to carry Mayfield’s start to the game. Each its current momentum into Big 12 quarterback tossed an interception, Conference play. made plays sporadically and added “(I’m) proud of the defense,” he three points to the scoreboard. said. “When one guy is not doing Tech’s defense kept Texas State good we have 10 other guys flying to scoreless in the first half, marking the the ball and we just have to continue first time the Red Raiders achieved that each week, each week and even back-to-back shutouts in the first half going into conference play.” since 2005.

This was the first time the Red Bobcats coach Dennis Franchione Raiders returned a fumble for a said he believes Tech’s defense has imtouchdown since 2011 against Okla- proved vastly since the arrival of dehoma State. fensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt.

Freshman quarterback Davis “I think we went into the game Webb made an early appearance in having a lot of respect for their dethe game for the Red Raiders. fense. I think their defense is fast. I Webb replaced Mayfield near like the speed of their defense and the beginning of the second quarter the way they’re playing,” he said. completing 19 of his 43 pass attempts “You know, for a group of kids who for 310 yards with two touchdowns have had five coordinators in five and two interceptions in the win- years — I think that’s correct, isn’t ning effort. it? I think the coaches on defense and Both quarterbacks are expected the players have done a heck of a job to see game action for the remain- to adjust and do what they’ve done in der of the season, Tech coach Kliff a short amount of time.”

Kingsbury said.

Texas Christian converted just “Davis (Webb) came in and three of its 16 third-down attempts played OK. Baker (Mayfield) played last week against Tech. For an encore OK. We’ve got to get a lot better at performance, the Red Raiders allowed that position overall,” he said. “I told the Bobcats to convert just five of them both they’re probably going their 16 third downs. to play the rest of the year and we’ll Kingsbury said this is the second figure it out, but you get a win with consecutive week where Tech’s two true freshmen quarterbacks and defense has set the tone early in the

game and hopefully the Red Raiders’ defensive success can continue manifesting.

“Two weeks in a row they’ve carried us,” he said. “They’ve done a great job the first four weeks really of leading this team and so, hopefully they can keep building on that and the offense needs to catch up.”

Texas State scored its first points of the game on a 49-yard touchdown run from sophomore running back Robert Lowe in the third quarter.

The Red Raiders offense responded on the following drive with their first touchdown of the game.

A 49-yard pass from Webb to junior receiver Bradley Marquez eventually set up a 4-yard touchdown pass from Webb to senior receiver Eric Ward.

Ward moved into Tech’s top-10 career receptions leaders during the performance against the Bobcats.

He finished with four catches for 35 yards and one touchdown. Ward has compiled 192 receptions during his time as a Red Raider.

Attention to detail is what granted Ward the opportunity to cement his name among the likes of former Tech receivers Wes Welker, Michael Crabtree and Danny Amendola, Ward said.

“I just think I bring consistency,” he said. “I just go out there, even in practice, I stay later than everybody else to work on the small things, because the small things turn into big things. In football you need a lot

of routine plays in a row. That’s all football is. You can’t just go out there and score every drive, but the small things turn into big things.”

Ward needs 110 yards to surpass Amendola for No. 10 in career receiving yardage at Tech.

Following another three-andout from the Bobcats, junior kicker Ryan Bustin successfully kicked his third field goal of the night from 27 yards out, giving the Red Raiders a 23-7 lead midway through the third quarter.

Webb and Marquez connected again on a 10-yard touchdown pass in the opening drive of the fourth quarter giving Tech a 30-7 lead with 12:57 remaining.

Bustin added his fourth field goal of the game giving Tech a 33-7 lead and cementing another Red Raider victory.

Tech has a bye Saturday, but the Red Raiders will travel to Kansas to face the Jayhawks Oct. 5 at Memorial Stadium.

Marquez said the focus of the bye week will be getting players healthy for the long stretch of Big 12 opponents Tech faces beginning with Kansas.

“We’re about to go on a long run of conference games now,” he said. “The non-conference is over, so definitely we’ve got to get our legs back, get our bodies back in order and continue to get better.” ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

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No. 15 Michigan avoids upset, beats UConn 24-21 EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Michigan was making a mess of another game against a heavy underdog, when Desmond Morgan snatched away Connecticut’s chance for a huge upset.

Morgan’s one-handed interception in the fourth quarter swung the game Michigan’s way and the 15th-ranked Wolverines dodged another potentially embarrassing loss with a 24-21 victory against UConn on Saturday night.

A week after Michigan needed a last-second stand to hold off Akron at the Big House, Brendan Gibbons kicked a 21-yard field goal with 4:36 left to give the Wolverines (4-0) their first lead of the second half.

“We’re Michigan. We don’t play to everyone else’s level and for the last two weeks we have. But we’re going to step it up,” defensive end Frank Clark said.

Chandler Whitmer threw two touchdown passes and Ty-Meer Brown returned a fumble 34 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter that put UConn (0-3) up 21-7.

Quarterback Devin Gardner turned the ball over three times for Michigan and the Wolverines also muffed a punt inside their 10 that led to a UConn touchdown.

Fitzgerald Toussaint carried the offense with season-high 120 yards and two

touchdowns on 24 carries.

Toussaint broke a 35-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, and scored from 12 yards out right after Morgan’s pick with 9:56 left.

Against the Zips, Gardner threw three interceptions and lost a fumble and the Wolverines came away feeling more relieved than victorious. Gardner wasn’t much better this week, going 11 for 23 for 97 yards. He ran for 64 yards and a 17-yard touchdown in the first quarter. But his defense had to bail him out, specifically Morgan.

After star Connecticut linebacker Yawin Smallwood stopped Gardner short on a fourth-and-2 at the Huskies 22 with 11:23 left in the fourth quarter, the record crowd of 42,704 at Rentschler Field was rocking and starting to believe an upset was in the making.

But Morgan made the play of the game, leaping high and snaring Whitmer’s pass over the middle with his right hand.

“It was just a simple zone coverage,” Morgan said. “I just dropped back and did what I was coached to do, kind of read off his eyes and lo and behold he threw it that way so I was just trying to jump up and make the play on it. Once I got the ball in my hands I was just trying to follow the blockers.”

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Midfielder Strahan small but plays big

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to work on her game. “[Strahan] could win mostimproved player every year,” No one thought Paige Stra- Stone said. han, a junior midfielder from Strahan did not have a choice Odessa, would become a crucial but to work hard and improve. cog in the Red Raiders’ lineup She said she did not come from when she arrived at Texas Tech. the powerhouse club teams like Strahan did not even expect some of the other premier playher current position on the team ers. to turn into reality, she said. Her Not coming from a powergrowth into one of the team’s house club team or a big town and leaders has been a learning ex- high school, Strahan said is why perience. she never thought she would start “When I first got here my a single game during her time at freshman year,” Tech.

Strahan said, “I Strahan never would’ve said she is dreamed that I pretty sure would be startno else on ing here. That the team I would be, you thought she know, in a powould eisition to lead. ther.

And it has been Jenkins great to actualsaid she rely take on that membered role, and to rewhen they ally like, I don’t first got to TOM STONE know, just run Te c h a n d COACH with it.” were talking TECH SOCCER Bridgett Jenabout all the kins, a junior equipment defender from Keller, said she they needed to perform on the also has seen Strahan’s growth field. Strahan told her teamas a leader. mates she did not have a certain Next season, Strahan will preference for cleats. The cleats probably become one of the at Wal-Mart and Academy were senior leaders for Tech when fine for her. This caught the rest seniors Hayley Haagsma and of the team off guard and made Connor Williams graduate, Jen- them wonder who Strahan was. kins said. Strahan has shown “She really just shocked us her strength and taken the right all,” Jenkins said. “She came out steps to be the next for the Red of nowhere, and she is killing it Raiders. now.”

Tech coach Tom Stone said Those doubts in Strahan’s Strahan came to the team with ability put a chip on her shoulder, something to prove.

Strahan said. This chip created He told her when she got to the aggressiveness everyone sees Lubbock this is her chance to her play with every time she is play for her dream school on the on the field. national stage and bring trophies Strahan is just 5 feet 2 inches, back to Tech, Stone said. Strahan but relishes the chance to play embraced the challenge from against bigger people, she said. the start.

When matched up against bigger Despite beginning low on the opponents, they automatically depth chart, Strahan worked think they have an advantage. hard and ended up starting the She loves to put them on their first game of the season her fresh- butts and prove them wrong. man year and has not looked back Strahan was the second-leadsince, he said. She just continues ing scorer last year with eight Staff Writer

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Paige has got a lot of West Texas in her. She really is what we like about West Texas people.

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TEXAS TECH MIDFIELDER, Paige Strahan finished second last season in goals scored and have developed into a team leader for the Red Raiders.

goals. Janine Beckie, a sophomore forward from Highlands Ranch, Colo., was the only Red Raider to have more goals with 14.

However, Strahan has only been able to find the back of the net once this season, according to Tech Athletics. This is not a result of a lack of skill, but awareness to what the team needs on a game-to-game basis.

Strahan said she believes an assist is as good as a goal. There is no need to worry about goals when there are so many scorers on the team.

If one player has all the pressure to score goals, she said the pressure will eventually hinder the player’s game.

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When Jessica Fuston, a senior forward from Cedar Park, gets back from injury, there will be too many playmakers for opposing teams to contain.

Strahan, he said, is the poster child of how he wants the Red Raiders to play.

“Paige has got a lot of West Texas in her,” Stone said. “She really is what we like about West Texas people. They’re proud people, hardworking, love a challenge. Not going to out work a true West Texan, and Paige embodies that, I think, to the fullest.” ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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Johnny Football leads No. 10 A&M, 42-13 against SMU COLLEGE STATION (AP) — SMU coach June Jones knew his team would have to play its best to compete with No. 10 Texas A&M. Instead the Mustangs turned in a penalty- and mistake-filled game to help the Aggies roll to a 42-13 win on Saturday night.

Johnny Manziel accounted for 346 yards with three touchdowns in just more than a half to help Texas A&M to the victory.

“It’s unfortunate that we didn’t play our best, and our best was demanded if we were going to beat them and we didn’t do it,” Jones said.

The Mustangs committed three turnovers — one of which was returned for a touchdown — and piled up 16 penalties for 111 yards.

“You’ve got to deal with the crowd noise and we didn’t handle it very well,” Jones said. “We must have had seven or eight off-side penalties, which set you back. It’s kind of frustrating.”

Texas A&M (3-1) was up 32-6 at halftime, and Manziel led the Aggies to a touchdown on their first drive of the third quarter before the Heisman Trophy-winner went to the bench.

It was a nice bounce-back game for Texas A&M after falling to topranked Alabama 49-42 last week.

Manziel had 244 yards passing with a touchdown and ran for 102 yards and two more scores.

“We tried a little of everything,” Jones said of trying to slow Manziel.

“He’s an amazing player. You blitz him and he’s accurate with the ball.

You rush three, and he can scramble around and make it last forever. He’s a great college football player and he’s in the perfect system.”

Deshazor Everett returned a fumble 12 yards for a touchdown and Ben Malena ran for 71 yards and two scores. He got things going for A&M with a 3-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.

Former Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert threw for 310 yards and a touchdown with an interception for SMU (1-2).

“We had a few drops early in the game that were critical in keeping drives going and making positive plays,” Jones said. “I think Garrett did a good job of competing and

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Gilbert was disappointed in the mistakes he and the Mustangs made.

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Despite the lopsided score, Texas A&M’s performance was far from flawless. The Aggies missed three straight PATs in the second quarter and were penalized 13 times for 114 yards.

The Aggies took a 14-0 lead when Manziel sidestepped a defender before high-stepping over another one en route to the end zone on a 7-yard run later in the first.

Texas A&M recovered an onside kick and was driving again when a pass by Manziel was deflected and intercepted by Hayden Greenbauer.

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Manziel rolled out and found Malcome Kennedy on a 16-yard touchdown pass that extended the lead to 20-3 early in the second quarter. Taylor Bertolet’s kick failed.

Manziel’s second 7-yard touchdown run made it 32-3 just more than three minutes later, but Bertolet missed again.

Jeremiah Gaines fumbled after a reception on the first play of SMU’s next drive and Everett scooped it up and returned it for the score. Coach Kevin Sumlin had seen enough of Bertolet and brought in Josh Lambo to attempt the PAT. But holder Drew Kaser fumbled the snap and the kick was blocked.

A 47-yard field goal by Hover as time expired in the second quarter left A&M up 32-6 at halftime.

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He was replaced by Matt Joeckel, who started A&M’s opener while Manziel served an NCAA suspension. Joeckel threw for 63 yards before Sumlin brought in freshman Kenny Hill.

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Tech volleyball receives leadership from lone senior

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Aubree Piper is the only returning senior on a young Texas Tech volleyball team.

The senior middle blocker will lead an inexperienced Tech team, featuring 13 underclassmen on its roster.

Piper, an Amarillo native, has been a productive member of the Tech volleyball team since her freshman year, and said she has progressed in the system and is ready to lead.

“I mean it’s a big responsibility being the only senior and being a leader, but it’s a lot of fun,” she said.

“I’ve gotten a lot of experience from it and just having the newcomers look up to me is just making me realize like how important of a role I can have on this team.”

Being the only senior on the team, Piper has been pushed into a leadership role, but said the role is one she embraces.

Freshman Courtney Ensch said she is grateful Piper is a leader on the team and admits she has learned a lot from Piper about various things.

“Aubree (Piper) has taught us so many things,” Ensch said. “I know me personally, I have grown as a player, being a new freshman, but I know all of us freshmen have learned something from her. Even if it’s Victoria (Hinneburg) getting hurt, or if we are on a plane, or if we are not traveling, she has just taught us so much not just on the court, but off the court and she just makes us

all better players.”

Ensch, a freshman from Southlake, has recorded 64 kills through 15 games for Tech and said she is looking to keep contributing to an inexperienced squad.

Piper also is no stranger to putting up big numbers. Through 15 games Piper has put home a team leading 163 kills and has a .310 hitting percentage.

Third-year coach Don Flora said Piper is a valuable asset to the team both physically and emotionally.

“She is hitting it for a high number percentage-wise, putting a lot of balls away for us,” he said. “She is just really emotionally available because she is feeling good about her body, you know, she doesn’t hurt as much as she has the past season.”

Piper has battled the injury bug since arriving in Lubbock, sustaining minor injuries during every season she has been at Tech. Her biggest injury was during her 2012 junior campaign in which she had to miss the whole month of October.

Despite her injury last year, Piper was able to record the highest numbers of her career both offensively and defensively.

She finished the season with a .312 hitting percentage which put her seventh all-time for Tech in a single season. She also finished the season with 57 blocks, which tied her with Mikia Mills for third on the team, despite only appearing in 22 matches. Her 2.08 kills per set average also was the highest percentage of her career.

Another major honor Piper brought home during her junior year was the Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week, the first conference weekly award won by a Tech student-athlete since 2008.

Coach Flora said it is good to see Piper putting up good numbers, but he is especially pleased to see her healthy again.

“Physically she is putting up good numbers you know, she has been very productive offensively, but I think emotionally it’s just so good to see her healthy and see her playing hard and enjoying it,” he said.

“I think they (underclassmen) feed off of that because they know how stoked she is about her senior year and being healthy and being able to be productive.”

Tech and Flora will need a healthy Piper if they want to make a ripple in the Big 12 this year.

Through her four years on the Tech volleyball team, Flora said he has seen a distinct progression with Piper on and off the court.

“She really has just learned how to go about the day-to-day work,” he said. “Elite college volleyball is hard work every day to get yourself physically and emotionally prepared.”

From freshman year to senior year, it is clear Piper has developed into a leader on Tech’s volleyball team.

Piper and the Red Raiders will begin conference play against Oklahoma at 7 p.m. Wednesday at McCasland Field House in Norman, Okla. ➤➤sfisher@dailytoreador.com

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MIDDLE BLOCKER AUBREE Piper is the lone returning senior on the Texas Tech volleyball team this season. Piper has played in every set this season and leads the team in kills.

Gray’s two touchdowns lead Texas to 31-21 victory against Kansas State AUSTIN (AP) — There’s life in Texas yet. And maybe the pressure will ease off of coach Mack Brown, even if just for a few hours or days.

Johnathan Gray rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns, David

Ash threw a 63-yard touchdown pass and Texas beat Kansas State 31-21 Saturday night in the Big 12 opener for both teams.

Gray became Texas’ first 100yard rusher on the season and Texas’ defense, pushed around

in consecutive losses, put up a solid and energetic performance, forcing three critical second-half turnovers.

Brown has been under intense pressure after three sub-par seasons and a bad start this year. The

victory allowed Texas (2-2, 1-0) to avoid its first 1-3 start since 1956 and snapped a five-game losing streak to the Wildcats.

“You always want to start the conference off right,” Gray said.

“We wanted to prove a point and

hit them in the mouth.”

John Hubert scored two touchdowns and Tyler Lockett had 13 catches for 237 yards for Kansas State (2-2, 0-1).

Gray’s first touchdown in the second quarter came after he

made two dazzling cuts on a 21yard run. His second put Texas up 24-7 in the third. Malcolm Brown ran for Texas’ last touchdown after the Wildcats had pulled within 10 points early in the fourth quarter.