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Concert impacts parking in Commuter West lots Because of a performance by country singers Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley in United Spirit Arena, a portion of Commuter West closed Wednesday night and will be closed throughout the day today, according to a news release.

A portion of the C11 parking lot closest to the USA loading ramp will be closed off for equipment trucks, according to the release. No additional vehicles will be able to enter the lot after 2 p.m.

Commuter West permit holders are allowed to park in other commuter lots starting at 2:30 p.m., and nearby employee parking lots become open parking at 5:30 p.m., according to the release.

Regular parking will resume Friday.

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Tech nears 40,000 enrollment goal

By CARSON WILSON Staff Writer

Although a new enrollment record has been set, Texas Tech still requires 6,889 more students to reach its goal of 40,000.

This semester’s results are a significant step to attaining the university’s goal of enrolling 40,000 students by the year 2020, according to a news release. This goal supports the university system’s objective of reaching 60,000 students among its four institutions.

If the university provides a steady increase of total enrollment by 2.5 or 2.7 percent annually, the university will reach the enrollment goal of 40,000 by 2020, said Ethan Logan, executive director of undergraduate admissions.

“I think we’re on track to achieve that goal,” he said. “We’ve been able to steadily

exponentially increase what we have in terms of incoming classes.”

For the fifth consecutive year, Tech set another enrollment record with a total of 33,111 students registered for the 2013 fall semester.

This number of students depicts almost a 16 percent increase during the last 10 years, according to the release.

The results were released during a luncheon hosted by the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce on Monday. Chancellor Kent Hance, Tech President M. Duane Nellis and Dr. Tedd Mitchell, Health Sciences Center president, spoke about the future of Tech at the luncheon.

“What a wonderful time to be at Texas Tech University,” Nellis said. “Through the efforts of our graduates, faculty, staff and students, and the foundations they laid, more

and more students annually are reaching out to Texas Tech to continue their education.”

In 2009, Tech enrolled more than 30,000 students for the first time, according to Tech’s website. Since then, enrollment at the university has steadily increased. According to a previous The Daily Toreador article, the three largest enrollment years were set in the fall semesters of 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

In 2010, 31,637 students were registered, in 2011, 32,327 students were enrolled and 32,467 were enrolled in 2012, according to the Tech website.

Factors that draw students in and benefit the growth of the university range from an increase of research commitment to the Red Raider football team’s record, Logan said.

Now: 33,111 ‘10: 31,637 ‘05: 28,001 ‘00: 24,558 ‘95: 24,185 ‘91: 24,707

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West Texas man gets prison for gun smuggling

Students rise above adversity

EL PASO (AP) — A West Texas man was been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to sell militarystyle assault rifles to Mexican drug cartels.

Julio Adrian Pesqueira-Galaviz also admitted to serving as a straw purchaser for weapons.

When he entered his guilty plea June 26, the 25-year-old defendant admitted to purchasing semi-automatic firearms like AK-47’s at El Paso sporting goods and gun stores.

The purpose was to arm the Sinaloa drug cartel.

Pesqueira-Galaviz is the first of 11 defendants charged in the case to be sentenced in this indictment.

U.S. District Judge Frank Montalvo of El Paso gave him the maximum sentence.

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was traumatic for her.

She didn’t have a bad relationship with her mother though, she said.

“I think the courts just saw her as neglectful and not able to protect me from being abused by [a family member],” Martinez said.

The court, Martinez said, found that her mom would not be able to protect her if that were to happen in the future.

Texas Tech Service Week is a series of events hosted by the Tech Activities Board, Residence Halls Association and Student Union and Activities at various times and locations throughout the university from Monday through Saturday.

On Wednesday, TAB hosted Cards For Soldiers, a community service project that handed out cards for students to fill out for soldiers, according to the event’s Facebook page. At the event, students were encouraged to write personal messages to soldiers to be delivered during the holiday season.

Natalie Butler, a sophomore management information systems and marketing major from Plano, said the card project was one of the events going on this week as an effort to reach out to the community and have students be more interactive.

“Last year we had difficulty, I guess you could say,” the outreach coordinator for TAB said, “getting people to actually come to events.”

TAB changed the format of its events for those who do not have extra food or clothes to donate to include oncampus students who could participate in other ways besides donating, Butler said.

Another way these organizations are trying to increase student interaction, she said, is by decreasing the number of events during the week and focusing on making the events shorter.

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ALEXANDRIA FULLER, A freshman history major from Dallas, Miguel Nunez, a sophomore psychology major from Ecatepec, Mexico, and Cindy Martinez, a senior human development major from Lubbock, were foster children who met each other after attending Texas Tech.

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What began as a temporary situation for senior Cindy Martinez turned into an 11-year long stay in the foster care system.

The human development and family studies major from Lubbock said she was 7 years old when she was placed in foster care.

Martinez said she told a friend something had been going on at home and

was being sexually abused by a family member.

Her friend told her mom, she said, and her mom called the police.

“The cops came and picked me up, picked my mom up, and we went to the CPS station, and basically took me away,” Martinez said.

According to the Children’s Rights website, most foster care children remain in the system an average of two years.

Martinez said the whole experience

Hispanic Scholarship Fund celebrates 5th anniversary with free cake for students

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The Hispanic Scholarship Fund celebrated its five-year anniversary with a giant free cake at noon Wednesday near the west Student Union Building Plaza.

Students, faculty and staff grabbed a slice of the free cake on their way to and from lunch while gathering information about the organization.

“We wanted to bring recognition to the organization for their five years being here and kind of celebrate with the rest of the university,” said Ricky Sherfield, unit coordinator for the Cross-Cultural Advancement Center.

The organization has helped increase enrollment to the recently reported number of 33,111 students, Sherfield said.

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Jaqueline Zavala, a senior nutrition major from Palestine, said she couldn’t imagine life without the scholarship fund.

“If it wasn’t here, I don’t know where I’d be, to be completely honest,” she said.

According to the informational pamphlet handed out at the event, Tech is one of 37 universities in the nation with an HSF scholar chapter, which serves high school and college students. According to the pamphlet, the main goal of the organization is to increase the number of Hispanic college students.

One of the major goals of the organization is to raise retention rates, Sherfield said.

The organization tries to keep students at Tech, Salcido said, and it does things such as help with resumes, host workshops and provide networking opportunities to help with retention rates.

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Come watch country superstars Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley live.

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?

Take advantage of shopping for class rings and more.

Campus representatives can assist you.

Friday

Blood Drive Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: SUB So, what is it?

Come out and save a life by donating blood.

Chicago along the Eisenhower Expressway.

Time: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Where: University Library So, what is it?

Take advantage of the opportunity to learn about group dynamics.

Graduation Fair at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion for Texas Tech Students Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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POLICE BLOTTER Tuesday 11:18 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a theft, which occurred the at Electrical Engineering building. An unsecured laptop was taken.

1:25 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a theft, which occurred at west side bicycle racks of Talkington Residence Hall. A secured Cannondale bicycle and lock were taken.

7:41 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident without injuries, in which an unattended vehicle was struck,

which occurred in the 900 block of Boston Ave. 10:52 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a report by a University Student Housing staff member of an odor of burnt marijuana coming from a dorm room at Coleman Residence Hall.

A student was issued at Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia. A second student was charged with possession of marijuana.

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

“It’s individual hard work and dedication by staff, not just undergraduate admissions, but across the academic community, and the students of Texas Tech who have all contributed to the interactions with perspective students and their parents,” he said. “It’s a combination of all of those factors together that hopefully influence a perspective students into choosing Texas Tech University.”

This year, a record of 6,308 Hispanic students and 2,044 AfricanAmerican students were enrolled, making Tech’s student population more ethnically diverse.

Logan said he believes these increasing numbers reflect the diversity in Texas.

“Our growth is matching the changes that you see in populations shifts throughout the state,” he said.

“So, as you see those things change within the institution, I think, that

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“We’re doing projects in the day and in the evening,” Butler said.

“Then we’re doing little walk-by projects, which includes Cards for Soldiers.”

The shorter events allow students to stop by between classes, while still making them feel like they’re doing something for the community, she said.

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“It’s a big moment for the organization and we wanted to share it with everyone,” Sherfield said.

The organization is not just limited to people with a Hispanic background, it is open to everyone

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just reflects the changes throughout the state.”

More records were broken with 4,892 first-time undergraduate students, and the amount of transfer undergraduate students also set a new record with 2,657.

The retention rate for last year’s freshman class is 82 percent. This is the highest percentage since 2007, which was 83 percent, according to the website. The previous year’s retention rate for freshmen was 81 percent.

The Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering had a 5 percent increase in enrollment, and, for the first time, the college enrolled more than 5,000 students.

Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and the College of Media and Communication all saw a 4 percent enrollment increase.

This semester, HSC also reached a new record with more than 4,000 students enrolled. Mitchell said the ultimate goal would be increasing

the student population.

“The next step for Health Sciences Center is to reach above 5,000 students while maintaining the same academic standards,” he said.

In 2009, the Texas Legislature placed certain standards for Texas universities to attain national research status, or tier-one status.

Tech immediately set its eyes on reaching the prestigious title.

A strategic plan instantly was put into place in 2010 to provide a vision and mission for the university, according to the website.

Increasing enrollment played a part in successfully reaching tierone status.

Although one goal is to increase enrollment, it is an equally important goal for the university to maintain Tech’s academic standards, Logan said.

Increasing enrollment while maintaining the same standards is challenging, he said. The key is to maintain relationships with perspective students and look at

things that students are interested in. For example, a variety of majors, financial aid and scholarship awards are all incentives for perspective students to choose Tech.

“We try to make sure we are just as appealing to other institutions,” Logan said. “We’re the best traditional college experience that you could look for as an incoming freshman and still be able to have access to the quality and prestige of a national research university.”

Continuous recruiting will be the driving factor in reaching Tech’s ultimate goal, he said, which will consist of visiting high schools, hosting events in various cities and keeping personal contact with potential students.

“One of the things we do really work to develop and cultivate is a personal relationship,” Logan said. “It’s important to try to be as genuine and as connected as possible. We strive very hard to make students feel like they’re a name not just a number.”

ting as much attention as TAB had hoped at the start of it, but Butler said she was optimistic for the rest of the day.

“Hopefully, people realize it’s an easy way to send someone a little bit of shining light on their dark days,” she said.

One of the students willing to send a soldier some shining light was Valerie Cadena, a senior theater major from San Antonio, who said she decided to participate in the event because she wants to lift morale for soldiers overseas.

Cadena said accessibility to the booth was a factor in her decision to stop by.

“It’s something that’s important,” she said, “and because it’s here and it’s easy.”

Stephanie Keng, a junior community family and addiction services major from Austin, said she wanted to show her support by participating.

She said she believed she was doing something good for the community by writing her support to the soldiers.

“I told them how much we ap-

preciate them and everything,” Keng said.

Both Keng and Cadena said they wished more students were motivated to get involved in service projects such as the card drive.

Other events going on during the week include the Literacy of Lubbock project at the South Plains Fairgrounds on Thursday, the blood drive Friday at the SUB, and an arboretum Saturday at Memorial Circle, according to the Service Week Facebook page.

in need of financial aid, Zavala said.

Brenda Colunga, a senior marketing, management and fashion design major from Houston, said she only has been to one meeting, but the organization already has made a strong impression on her.

“They try to focus on education and do outreach to the communities,” she said.

The event helped spread information about the mission of the organization to students who didn’t know about the scholarship fund, Sherfield said.

In the spring, the organization will try recruiting high school students from across Texas and next month there will be a high school retreat at Tech.

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Senators push bill to end phone record collection WA S H I N G T O N ( A P ) — Spying by the National Security Agency has cost the United States economically and angered allies, a bipartisan group of senators said

Wednesday in unveiling legislation that would end the collection of millions of Americans’ phone records and data on Internet usage.

Three Democrats — Oregon’s Ron Wyden, Mark Udall of Colorado and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut — and Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky outlined their legislation to end longstanding NSA surveillance practices and open up some of the actions of the secret federal court that reviews government surveillance requests.

The lawmakers argued that their bill is the appropriate re-

sponse to disclosures this past summer about the sweeping surveillance programs — one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism.

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In protest, Rousseff scuttled a scheduled state visit to the United States.

“This is not a small hiccup,” Wyden told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference.

Efforts to rein in the oncesecret surveillance programs have attracted an unusual coalition of liberal Democrats and libertarian Republicans, pitting them against House and Senate leaders who have expressed strong support for the NSA programs.

The bipartisan group unveiled the bill on the eve of a Senate hearing with the nation’s top intelligence officials, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Army Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA, in hopes of jump-starting the debate over the programs.

“Americans with no link to terrorism or espionage should not have to worry that the NSA is vacuuming up their private information,” Udall said.

The bill would change current law to prohibit the bulk collect of Americans’ phone records and their communications data. The government could still obtain records of anyone suspected of terrorism or espionage and of an individual in contact with a suspected terrorist or spy.

Paul said he didn’t understand how a “warrant that has 10 million unnamed people, all customers of Verizon” is consistent with the Constitution.

The legislation also would establish an independent, constitutional advocate to argue against the government in the secret Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court and require the attorney general to declassify court opinions that address significant interpretations of the Constitution or current law.

Blumenthal, who served as Connecticut’s attorney general, said secret courts were one of the reasons the colonists rebelled against the British government.

President Barack Obama has said he might be open to setting up public advocates who could oppose government lawyers at Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court proceedings. But the administration continues to argue that the NSA programs are crucial tools in combatting terrorism.

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Sorority hosts nighttime Flashlight Dash Staff Writer

The sun set over Memorial Circle as runners gathered for Alpha Delta Pi’s second annual Flash Light Dash. The nighttime 5K run was at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Alpha Delta Pi sponsored the run to benefit the Ronald McDonald House charity in Lubbock.

The course went around the Texas Tech campus with spots for water breaks and sorority members holding signs and cheering to encourage runners. Both the start and finish line were located in Memorial Circle.

Kayla Bounds, a senior microbiology major from Dripping Springs, joined the event to support one of her friends who is in the sorority. She said this was her first 5K run.

Friends also motivated Nathan Wells, a freshman art major from Waco, to attend the event. Wells said having a run at night was better than having one during the day because it isn’t as hot. He said he hasn’t run any 5Ks yet, but plans to do so in the future.

“I have a few friends that are ADPi’s that invited us,” Eric

Nejia, a junior personal finance he attended the event because planning major from Houston, his girlfriend is a member of the said. sponsoring sorority.

He said he thought the run “I like running 5Ks, too. I run was a good chance to raise money as many as I can, usually,” Brothfor the philanthropy. Nejia also ers said.

He said he thought running a said it was a good chance to get exercise.

5K at night was an interesting idea “I think it’s a good idea.It’s that would attract many people.

“I run 5Ks something new,” Nejia kind of on a regular basis said about having a 5K just to stay run at night. h e a l t h y, a n d also I have a He said he hasn’t lot of friends in ADPi, so participated in any 5K it kind of was runs on cama win-win — pus, but has come out and participated support them ROBERT MACK and their soin several in FRESHMAN the Lubbock rority and also PETROLEUM ENGINEERING kind of keep area.

MAJOR Nejia said my 5K running he would up,” Garrett probably participate in future Couts, a senior agriculture comruns because he enjoys running. munications major from Pampa, “When I work out I usually said. run a few laps around the Rec,” Couts said running a 5K at night was different than anything he said.

Chase Brothers, a junior me- he has done before.

“I’ve run a lot of 5Ks with a lot chanical engineering major from Tuscola, ran with his friends in of different themes, but I’ve never the Flash Light Dash. He said done a glow-in-the-dark one,” he

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This is my first 5K. This is acutally something I would like to get in to.

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PARTICIPANTS TAKE OFF from the starting line during the Alpha Delta Pi Flash Light Dash on Wednesday at Memorial Circle. Proceeds from the 5K went to the Ronald McDonald House.

said, adding he was excited to run at night.

Friends and a desire to get into shape motivated Robert Mack, a freshman petroleum engineering major from San Antonio, to participate in the

event. Mack said he wasn’t worried about runners getting hit by cars because they were all wearing reflective tape.

“This is my first 5K. This is actually something I would like to get in to,” he said.

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Rodeo team looks for successful year with new coach Staff Writer

Forty-seven members of the Texas Tech Rodeo team are looking forward to a great year led by their new coach, Philip Berry.

No stranger to the rodeo world, Berry grew up on a ranch in New Mexico where he became a part of the rodeo tradition at 8 years old and later participated in high school rodeo, before attending Sul Ross State University in Alpine.

After graduation, Berry was involved in the professional rodeo circuit where he was named the 1986 Rookie of the Year in the steer-roping event. After retiring from the circuit, Berry returned to ranching and began raising his family and coaching the rodeo team at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, N.M. Eleven years later, Berry took the opportunity to coach at Tech, which he describes as a dream job.

“When the opportunity to coach here came up, we jumped at the chance, we’ve been watching this program for years,” Berry said. “It’s a dream job. One of the main reasons I came here is for the education side, it’s a Big 12 school and that was a big draw for

me. The quality of the students is outstanding.”

Tech spent time recruiting students this year, which paid off with the team doubling in size from the previous year. Students are from across the U.S. and Canada.

However, recruiting more students isn’t Berry’s only goal.

“We’re wanting to expand our facilities and alumni base,” he said. ”We’re a club so we are totally funded by donations. That is a big push on our part.”

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is going to make in the lives of younger students.

“He is a great coach and will be a great asset to the kids coming up,” Bailey said. “We’ve already practiced more and have had more kids at practice, which has helped our team a lot.”

Levin Porter, a senior animal science major from Fort Stockton, said he agrees Berry has made a difference in a short period of time.

“I know what the program was and I’m seeing the changes,” he said. “We’ve got an enthusi-

asm throughout the team that’s incredible. Having the support system he’s giving us and, on top of that, having an awesome coach is something we’re excited about.”

With so much talent, the outlook is bright for the rodeo team this year, Porter said.

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School choice perfect US cultural decline caused by corporations solution for education L Chase

each other to attract more students by having lower tuition, better professors, more degree plans and more.

Imagine if colleges and universities worked the way public schools work. It would be like saying because one lives in the South Plains, they have to attend Texas Tech. While Tech is a great university and one of the top schools in the state, some students might have preferences that make the University of Texas or Texas A&M University better schools to accommodate their career paths.

Competition among public schools would produce the same incentives to offer the best education, hire more qualified teachers and push out lower dropout rates.

However, there is fear that schools struggling to meet these standards will be further hurt by the school choice method, causing fewer students to attend their schools, thereby taking the funding that comes with. But with fewer students to work with, shouldn’t the school’s workload lessen and allow them to move on to a more individual level with the students?

Those on the left believe we should fund the monolith of public schools blindly without question, and any money going into a private school is taking money away from public schools. But this isn’t a wise way to face the problem, especially when our hard-earned money and children’s educational future is at stake.

As of today, public schools are funded by property taxes collected by residents in the district. This is a huge reason why some schools are struggling to keep up and offer the best education for their students.

Low-income neighborhoods produce fewer funds for education as compared to wealthier communities with higher funds raised from property taxes. A quality school and education should not be specific to students who are privileged enough to live in wealthier neighborhoods.

In a “post-Robin Hood” world, the idea of local funding of schools is almost nonexistent. It’s such a disaster of collection, formulas and redistribution that I couldn’t even tell you exactly how schools are funded. It’s kind of a nightmare.

My assumption is with this new method for public education funding, local funding of schools — to the extent it exists — would not cease, but instead of the school getting the cash, students would have the money attached to them.

School choice is a new method of structuring who gets to attend which school. Having the choice to pick which school children attend is something all parents should have the privilege to do, no matter what their financial status or area of residency.

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manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.” The public has been referred to as the “masses,” “the docile masses” and the “bewildered herd” since the days of George Washington.

Corporations have adopted this view and have g r e a t l y p r o fited from it.

There has been an agenda among the largest corporations to turn the masses into mindless consumers, and for the most part, they have succeeded.

The war on music began in the 1980s with the birth of corporate puppets including Madonna, New Kids on the Block and Kenny Rogers, who paved the way for future acts to come.

Artist such as Prince, Aerosmith and other musicians left over from the 1960s and 1970s did their best to fight off the attempted corporate coup of the music industry, but to no avail.

For the 1990s, the corporate army enlisted “entertainers” such as Mariah Carey, The Spice Girls and Billy Ray Cyrus. Boy Groups including Boyz II Men, ‘N Sync, The Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees served as the

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Today, we’re stuck with an array of artless, soulless, gutless entertainers.

ion Research Business, one million people died in Iraq as a result of our occupation. Where is today’s “The Deer Hunter” or “Apocalypse Now?” Where’s our “Easy Rider?”

Where are our classics?

Where’s our “The Godfather,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “Scarface,” “Carrie,” or “Jaws?” A few directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, the Coen Brothers and David Fincher put out good movies, but they are only a handful. A handful of directors is not enough to curb America’s appetite for true art.

The most blatant form of corporate corruption can be seen right in a family living room.

The History Channel doesn’t bother to play propaganda on the Vietnam War anymore, instead adopting a new strategy. It plays reality TV shows, including “Pawn Stars,” “God, Guns and Automobiles,” and “American Pickers.” The Learning Channel now plays shows such as “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and “Little People, Big World.” The Discovery Channel plays shows including “Naked and Afraid” and “Tickle.” That’s supposed to be our science channel if you didn’t know.

My point is there seems to be a connection in the growth of inequality and the decline in art in American culture. Corporations have their paws on everything in America, and as long as their focus is short-term profit, the American public will suffer both economically and culturally.

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America needs protection from NSA spying

By PATRICK WHITE

The Collegian (Kansas sTaTe U.)

Last month, Tim Huelskamp, our Kansas representative in Congress, claimed that the National Security Agency is violating the Fourth Amendment. He also said that the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, committed perjury when he testified before congress in March. There, Clapper claimed that the NSA did not collect data on millions of Americans. In June, however, leaked documents showed that, in fact, the NSA has been monitoring the phone calls of Verizon customers for some time now.

And for the last few months since that information was released, America has been fighting back against this secret government program.

The Electric Frontier Foundation, a privacy rights group, is involved in several lawsuits against the NSA and government bodies over the constitutionality of the practice. Recently, along with tech companies, the foundation won a Freedom of Information Act request against the NSA. The act requested that data forcibly provided by U.S. tech companies be open for the public. The American Civil Liberties Union has also filed suit with Clapper himself, issuing “the challenge

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perfect template for turning the public into a sex-obsessed mall culture.

The world stood in awe when Disney-groomed tots Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears came on the scene. And now today, we’re stuck with an array of artless, soulless, gutless entertainers, including Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Lil Wayne, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Toby Keith, Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke, Drake and a multitude of others.

No, Two Chainz is not a real rapper. Tupac was a real rapper — one with a conscience for the struggles of the black community. Adam Levine is not a r o c k s t a r.

Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix were real rock stars with heart and soul.

Blake Shelton is not a country star. Hank Williams and Willie Nelson are the true artists.

You might say, “Well look at Justin Bieber and One Direction. They’re so romantic. They deserve to be superstars.” You’re wrong again. If you want to hear a real love song ladies, go listen to Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Smokey Robinson.

Remember when music had conscience, when lyrics mattered? Remember the Beatles, Bob Dylan and jazz? It seems we have lost our sense of history when it comes to the music industry.

The film industry has been completely depoliticized since the 1980s. According to Opin-

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n Monday night, Texas State Sen. Dan Patrick visited Lubbock as part of his statewide campaign for lieutenant governor of Texas.

Throughout his speech, Patrick discussed many aspects of the job he would do if elected lieutenant governor. But one topic stood out from the rest, and that topic is school choice.

School choice was one of the topics Patrick went into detail over and something he seemed passionate about. This isn’t a new issue to Texans, but many still are not quite sure as to what it means and how it would play out.

There are different plans out there but the most common is the “per-pupil” state appropriation. In this model, funds toward education are attached to the student and follow the student to whichever school the student attends. So if the per-pupil state appropriation is $10,000 for the 2014-2015 school year, whichever school the student attends will get $10,000 toward its education.

If a student attends a private school that costs $12,000 in tuition, the $10,000 would go toward the tuition and parents would be responsible for covering the remaining cost.

If it’s a public school, which includes charters, the per-pupil appropriation fully funds the school year.

This method of public education is completely different as to how the system works today. The way things are run right now, school districts run as monopolies over who gets to attend which schools. This is because the area in which the child lives determines the child’s school and what school district controls that area.

But this isn’t always fair. Just because one lives in a certain area shouldn’t mean they have to attend that school. Parents should have a choice as to which school they want their children to attend.

A great example for this is to look at the Poverty Perpetuates Poverty theory and attach it to the cycle of education’s role in a student’s life.

This is how it would work: Students who live in low-income neighborhoods must attend lowfunded schools.

Students attending low-funded schools are less likely to receive a quality education and graduate with their diploma, much less pursue higher education.

Individuals without high school diplomas will not likely get a highpaying job.

Low-income workers cannot afford to live in good neighborhoods.

Low-income parents have children who grow up in low-income neighborhoods.

Students who live in low-income neighborhoods must attend lowfunded schools.

In this sense, it’s a cycle nearly impossible to break, but school choice is a solution to this dilemma.

Allowing parents to choose where their child goes to school, opening up more opportunities for the success of their child, is something most families do not have access to.

When it comes to higher education, students have a choice as to which school they will attend. This freedom in choice forces colleges and universities to compete with

iberal think tank Economic Policy Institute in its flagship publication “The State of Working America” states “from 1983 to 2010, 38.3 percent of the wealth growth went to the top 1 percent and 74.2 percent to the top 5 percent. The bottom 60 percent, meanwhile, suffered a decline in wealth.”

The reason for the growth in economic inequality doesn’t rest solely on the shoulders of a particular political party or presidential administration.

The real problem lies in the sociopathic agendas of America’s wealthy corporations.

Corporations receive trillions of dollars in tax breaks and transfers; meanwhile the United States has one of the worst health care systems in industrialized nations. Military spending has reached an all-time high at about $800 billion per year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Institute.

That’s more than all the other countries’ military expenditures combined that we hand over to corporate weapons contractors.

This shows policy reflects the interest of power not the public, and in a capitalist society, power resides in the hands of the wealthiest individuals. These individuals happen to be the same individuals whose income has risen 241 percent since 1979, according to the Economic Policy Institute. These same individuals happen to control the music industry, the television industry and the film industry. In short, these individuals control culture.

Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, once said, “the conscious and intelligent

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against illegal spying.”

With the public backlash, Congress is also stepping in.

There are dozens of pending bills intended to reign in the powers of the Patriot Act and give Congress oversight over agencies like the NSA. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he lost confidence in the NSA’s use of broad domestic surveillance back in March of 2009, and wanted to shut it down due to its lack of a distinct scope. He said he saw for a period of three years that the NSA was collecting phone records that proved to be unrelated to terrorist activity.

It looks more and more like that Dan Brown novel is coming true. In 1998 Brown, famous for “The Da Vinci Code,” released “Digital Fortress.” In the book, the NSA has built an evil super computer that it uses in brute force to attempt to break encrypted data. “Brute force” is the term for using a computer to plug-in all possible combinations of numbers and letters to break an encryption without the key.

The point is that there have been signs all along the way that this has been going on. But until this summer, it only covered the half of the shady business.

Because if the NSA only had a James Bond supervillian-esque super computer doing its brute force

computations, then someone might owe Dan Brown a check. As it stands, it appears that the brute force computing is old news. The new way is setting up inside the infrastructure of networks that allow them to collect Internet and phone data before it is encrypted and sent out over the web.

These decryption tactics were made public in documents leaked

by Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who was approved for political asylum in Russia. While the Obama administration has called Snowden a traitor and charged him with espionage, I find it hard to listen to the president on this matter.

“You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience,” Obama said. “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

That’s not what this program is about.”

The president went on to say both that the debate on the issue is healthy for our democracy, and that the disclosure by Snowden has only caused problems. It seems to me that the only problem so far is that the government has been caught spying on its own citizens.

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ernment can’t be trusted to scoop up encrypted data and save face while developing ways to read that data.

Close to 60 percent of Americans don’t like this system of domestic spying, according to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. I can’t blame them. We are being told that this invasion of privacy is going to protect us from ourselves.

Obama’s speech on security, however, came a month after the Boston Marathon bombing – an attack that the NSA didn’t prevent and a crime that was solved

by Boston police.

The question is, just how safe can we be with the government spying on us when the IRS just got in trouble for targeting the president’s opponents? In an USA Today article that ran on Sept. 18, it revealed that the parameters that the IRS had for flagging groups seeking tax exempt status was “anti-Obama rhetoric and propaganda.” Over 80 percent of those listed were conservative or tea party organizations. Granted, while some of those applications were held up for lobbying – an activity that prevents one from qualifying – the overwhelming numbers suggest that the long arm of the law knows what the other hand is doing as well as the rest of us.

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Page 5 Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013

Student creates electronic dance music group

By CALLIE POINDEXTER Staff Writer

When Carl Thorman attended his first electronic dance music show more than a year ago, he knew the feeling the music gave him was one he would never forget.

“It was still, to date, the best show I’ve ever been to,” said the sophomore business major from Greenville. “Mostly because it was 100,000 watts, like, you couldn’t hear for three days after the show. I don’t know any other way to describe it but that you could feel the music in your soul.

It kind of shook your whole body.

It was really weird and awesome at the same time.”

Thorman said he first experienced EDM while sitting in his

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She said she guessed they determined it would be better for her to be in foster care long term.

“But I still had visits with my mom and my dad,” Martinez said.

She wasn’t really told what was going on, she said, although her foster parents told her certain things.

“I finally just figured out that I wasn’t going home,” she said. “So I had to make the best of the situation.”

Unlike Martinez, who was placed into the system at an early age, freshman Alexandria Fuller said she was put into foster care at the age of 17.

After suffering physical, emotional and sexual abuse for most of her life at the hands of family members, the history major from Dallas said she was placed into the system after trying to kill a family member.

“She tried to kill me first, so I don’t sound like I’m crazy,” Fuller said. “It sounds so crazy when I say it. ‘I tried to kill (a family member.)’ It was retaliation against trying to be murdered, that way I don’t sound like I’m a bad person.

“She accused me of having sex with a boy she made up in her head while I was at SAT tutoring. Instead of going and asking the teacher, she just assumed I was having sex with a guy. It was like she couldn’t mentally accept who I was.”

She said her family member got home and said “know you’re lying” and started to beat her up.

Fuller said the family member threw a glass cup at her face, busted her lip and her eye.

“I was like ‘Damn, this bitch is crazy,’” she said. “She told me I had to stay out of school. We were having a

apartment watching videos with his roommate, who, six months later, became a disc jockey.

Thorman began attending his roommate’s shows and fell in love with the music.

Because Thorman wanted to give Texas Tech students a way to connect with the music he loves, he decided to create an organization called EDM Raiders this semester.

“You have to know what EDM is,” he said. “A lot of people know the subgenres like ‘dubstep’ and ‘house.’ They don’t really know what EDM is as a whole kind of thing. So I would kind of want to explain to students what EDM is — electronic dance music — and it does involve all those subgenres. I would encourage them, even if you don’t know

what it is, to come look at the Facebook page. There’s videos, music, fliers that will draw your attention.”

When Thorman became involved in the EDM scene, he said he made friends with many people, including some who are associated with entertainment and production companies in Lubbock.

Thorman said because he has friends like these within the industry, he is knowledgeable about upcoming shows and events and thinks EDM Raiders will be a great way for students to come together to enjoy the music.

“The EDM scene is actually getting really big,” he said, “especially in Texas because Texas has a lot of production companies.

Since EDM is getting so big, I

wanted to give students a place to come follow that are interest in music.”

Because EDM features music without many lyrics, Thorman said it differs from many musical genres. However, recently, the music has become more lyrical in certain subgenres.

No matter the type of EDM, he said attending shows is an exciting experience.

“Everyone’s just shuffling, having a good time,” Thorman said. “It’s not really anything crazy until you get to the festivals. Once you go to festivals with like 5,000 people, that’s where it gets insane. But it’s just like a regular club, with that type of music.”

He said he enjoys getting to meet many different, interesting

people and see a glimpse into their lifestyles.

However, Thorman said some of their lifestyles involve experimenting with drugs in an unsafe manner, such as accepting different types of drugs from people they do not know.

He said he believes this was the case at the recent Electric Zoo dance music festival in New York, where two concertgoers died from drug use.

However, Thorman said just because people enjoy EDM does not necessarily mean they are drug users.

“You do not have to do drugs to enjoy the music at all, because the music itself is supposed to give you an uplifting feeling,” he said. “People think the drugs enhance it or whatever, but the

whole point of the DJ is to play the music that you like and give you this uplifting feeling.”

Thorman said he plans to attend the Borgore showon Oct. 3 in Lubbock, and hopes EDM Raiders can begin working toward hosting their own event soon.

He said he also plans to set up a booth in the Free Speech Area next week for anyone who is interested in joining or learning more about the music he feels in his soul.

“Whenever you go to an EDM festival, rave, club, show,” Thorman said, “it kind of takes you away, and you get this kind of pumped feeling about life and the music. It’s all about the music and the people.”

test on the math section of the SAT and so I was really pissed that she was trying to keep me out of school to make my face go down.”

Fuller said that’s what she was used to, however.

She would get beat up, she said, stay out of school for a couple of days, and then if it looked really bad, some tragic accident would be the excuse.

“She’d come in, go sit back down because she was tired,” Fuller said.

“Then she’d come back in and start beating me, and so I came at her with a pair of scissors.”

After the family member called the police on her, she said she was placed in a street home for two days, which is where runaways or homeless children too old to go into foster care are taken.

Fuller then got placed because she said she wanted to live in DeSoto and she wasn’t a problem kid.

“So they took me there and then I got placed into a foster home two days later,” she said.

It was weird, Fuller said, because she was used to raising herself and she had

a nice foster mom.

She said her foster mom always was trying to take care of her and Fuller didn’t really want to be taken care of.

“So I had to learn how to be a kid all over again,” Fuller said. “Eventually I let her take care of me.”

During the year and a half she was in foster care, she said there always were at least four girls in her foster mother’s house, although it rotated often.

Working together with Martinez and sophomore Miguel Nuñez, Fuller said they’re working to start a foster group at Texas Tech.

“I want to make a family,” she said.

“We can never have emotional support.

We need each other, to branch out, to be more motivated.”

Nuñez, a psychology major from Ecatepec, Mexico, said he was in and out of the foster care system several times.

According to the Administration for Children and Families, there were an estimated 254,162 children entering the foster care system in 2012.

Nuñez said when he was origi-

nally supposed to be put into the system around the age of 15 or 16, his family sent him to Indiana, so the Texas government didn’t have jurisdiction.

“After things calmed down and the case was dropped, I was returned to Texas,” Nuñez said.

By age 17 and a half, he said he went back into the system after a lawsuit.

Nuñez said he made the decision he didn’t want to stay in his house anymore, so instead of trying to stay in his house and cooperate with his family as with previous times, he went to a shelter.

“I contacted Texas RioGrande Legal Aid,” he said, “and we filed a lawsuit.

The lawsuit was a protective order.”

Nuñez said he won the protective order on his mother, but he didn’t win the order on his stepfather.

At that point, he said CPS intervened and it became his only option to get away from the house so he had to comply with them.

“You get to the point where you’ve felt too many bruises,” Nuñez

said,.“You’ve tasted enough of your own blood, and there’s an image of alcohol in a person’s eyes. It’s not comfortable to feel the alcohol in someone’s eyes or spikes or anything hitting your body.”

He said there becomes an issue of living that one can’t stand it anymore.

Nuñez said the physical stuff comes and goes.

“There’s some scars on the body, but any hit, even with a pan or a brick or whatever it is, it heals,” he said. “But the memories of it don’t quite heal.”

The hardest part of leaving, Nuñez said, was leaving his little sister behind.

“I knew that making this decision would mean no contact with her,” Nuñez said. “I would lose not only my mom and stepdad, but also cousins, uncles, aunts, grandmothers and everybody I ever knew.”

He now has a relationship with his family, he said, although he’s still insulted by family members.

Nuñez said he tries to get ahold of his sister whenever he can, but most times he can’t.

“Missing my family is the hardest,” he said, “just because I have everything else I need other than them. I still have my two arms, my two legs. I can breathe and see just fine.”

Despite all the hardships these students have faced, they don’t let their stories weigh them down.

Martinez and Nuñez said they shared their story in a campus play based on their experiences.

Fuller said she gives motivational speeches to women about her own rape experience and how to stay positive.

“Any foster kid, whoever it is, their life has something beautiful,” Nuñez said. “The ones reaching out are going to come to the decision of whether they’re going to be like their parents and just, you know, go their own way.

“Or they can do something like Alex, like Cindy, like any other foster kid at Tech or they can try to make the best, not only for themselves, but for those around them and those who have gone through the same things as them.”

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Organization works to provide clean water

By BLAINE HILL Staff Writer

The local chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been meeting frequently to talk about its hopeful project in Panama.

The Engineers Without Borders chapter at Texas Tech was founded in 2006, said the chapter’s external vice president Sagar Joshi, a junior mechanical engineering major from Dallas.

“We started the Texas Tech chapter in 2006 and we had

10 members, and now we have around 50,” he said.

All 50 members attend the meetings regularly on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Joshi said.

“Engineers Without Borders is an international organization.

Pretty much what we all do is we help out in communities around the world to build basic infrastructure, for example dams, bridges, houses and schools,” he said.

At Tech, Engineers Without

Borders is working on making a water purification system for a small village in Northeast Panama that has no clean drinking water, Joshi said.

The village of Solong is so remote, he said, that it has no roads leading to it.

“You pretty much have to fly from here, go to Panama, take a bus ride, take a jeep ride, and take a canoe ride,” Joshi said.

The village is more of a tribe, he said. They have their own king and society system, and the small village has about 300 people in it, all without any clean drinking water.

Josh i said th e E n gin eers Without Borders chapter at Tech is hoping to change that.

“The design team is starting to finalize plans. We have to figure out what we need to bring.

So, the cheapest and most efficient way to bring our supplies over to Panama, which is very

difficult,” Steven Tugman, a freshman computer engineering major from San Antonio, said.

This is the last year Engineers Without Borders at Tech is working on this project, he said, and in order to finalize all they need to, Engineers Without Borders has two groups: the finance team and the design team.

Tugman said the design team is responsible for a lot of the details of the project, while the finance team mainly deals with fundraising.

Joshi said the Solong trip is a big project for this chapter of Engineers Without Borders.

“It’s a big project because we have to follow the exact same steps that a professional company would have to follow if you give them pretty much the same project,” he said.

The group has worked for a long time to finalize each section like a professional company

would, Joshi said. They come up with the designs, run tests on local lake water to see if the filtration system is working as it should and build models — all things a professional engineering firm would go through for a similar project.

So far, he said, the group has come up with three different water filtration systems: a ceramic filter, a sand filter and a UV filter. The design team is mainly responsible for the water filter design ideas, said community service chair Paul Surope.

Besides the trip to Solong, the environmental engineering major from Grapevine said the group participates in other community service projects.

“I’ll call up the local volunteer organizations and I volunteer us as a group just to keep our members involved and making sure that the members know what the final, ultimate goal is

— tvo help people,” Surope said.

The Engineers Without Borders volunteers often attend Habitat for Humanity because Habitat for Humanity has a lot of engineer-based volunteer time, he said. The group often participates in the building, construction and sometimes destruction parts of Habitat for Humanity.

Surope said he is trying to find more engineer-oriented volunteer programs in Lubbock for Engineers Without Borders to participate in.

The Solong trip is the biggest service project Engineers Without Borders will participate in this year, Joshi said, and because of that, only a certain amount of people can go on the trip.

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Tech baseball begins to see new players develop Volleyball falls in Big 12

By PAIGE SKINNER

Sophomore infielder Eric Gutierrez said some new players to keep an eye out for are freshman infielder Ryan Long and freshman outfielder Anthony Lyons.

Tadlock said the veteran players have enough common sense to see the talent in the younger players.

“I know we were taking (batting practice) a couple of days ago and (junior outfielder Brett Bell) was following up a young lefthanded hitter and he said, ‘Boy, that’s going to be tough to follow,’” Tadlock said. “And that’s just after a round of batting practice, it’s not a game and at the same time, he was like, ‘I don’t think I’ll be bouncing any balls off the wall or

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As fall ball gets underway, the Texas Tech baseball team is getting into the swing of things and beginning to take notice of the newcomers.

Coach Tim Tadlock said the team is another year older and it’s nice to have veteran players to lead the younger players by example.

There’s an overall maturity to the team this year, Tadlock said.

“It’s nice to have some guys around that you can say, ‘Hey, follow him,’ and kind of make sure that both of them are paired up,” he said. “The younger guys are doing stuff the right way.”

much less hitting them over it.’

So as far as pushing them, I don’t know about pushing them yet.”

Last year, the Red Raiders had nine returning players. This year there are 20.

Teamwork and depending on one another seems to be key during practice and games.

Sophomore right-handed pitcher Johnathon Tripp relieved from the bullpen last season and said his teammates helped him while in jams.

“It’s all about teamwork,” he said, “and picking up your teammates is definitely a good thing. So if I got into a jam, I’d want them to get me out.”

Tech’s pitching rotation is not

set yet, but Tadlock said he can rely on junior right-handed pitcher Dominic Moreno and senior lefthanded pitcher Jonny Drozd.

“With the depth we have on the mound, we’d like them to step up,” Tadlock said. “Obviously, we’ve got Moreno coming back who can start in the rotation and Jonny could also. We’d kind of like to see what some other guys can do maybe on the weekends.”

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SEC defenses knocked on their heels, backpedaling COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The powerful defenses in the Southeastern Conference are being knocked on their heels.

The SEC has built its reputation on fast, talented defenses and rode that tradition to seven straight BCS national titles. This year, defenses are being shredded yard-by-yard.

Nine of 14 SEC teams are surrendering more yards than a year ago at this time. Among them are some of the conference’s defensive leaders the past few seasons: Alabama, LSU and South Carolina.

Whatever the reason — spread offenses, an exodus of defensive talent to the NFL or attack-minded new coaches pushing the offensive tempo — it’s apparent early on that SEC defenses are backpedaling.

Alabama coach Nick Saban said the defensive slide could simply be about talent.

“There’s a lot of explosive players on offense,” Saban said, “and maybe there’s not as many dominant defensive players.”

Saban’s top-ranked and two-time defending champion Crimson Tide outlasted Texas A&M 49-42 two weeks ago in a shootout that was nothing like the, 9-6 overtime defensive slugfest against LSU in 2011.

Then again, it’s hard to stop anybody when the league’s best defenders have moved on.

Former Georgia linebacker Jarvis Jones led the SEC with 14 ½ sacks, 24 ½ tackles for loss and seven forced fumbles a year ago and is now causing havoc for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner, the 2012 league leader in passes defended, was among four Crimson

Tide defensive starters selected in the NFL draft last spring.

LSU had seven defensive players off last year’s team drafted. With just three starters back on defense, the yards and points the Tigers allow have nearly doubled from a year ago.

LSU was giving up 149 yards and 10 points through four games in 2012; it is yielding 310 yards and 19.5 points this season.

Tigers coach Les Miles said it’s not about a lack of talent, it’s about experience.

“Our players are as talented as we’ve ever had and I think there’s a maturity that needs to take place so they can play with their cleats headed north and south, and ready to make a tackle,” Miles said.

But even veteran players are struggling to make an impact.

South Carolina All-American defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, the reigning SEC defensive player of the year, was expected to dominate after notching 13 sacks a year ago and sending the helmet of Michigan runner Vincent Smith flying off in the Outback Bowl last New Year’s Day. The Gamecocks lost five senior linebackers off last year’s team and Clowney’s seen offenses run away from his side. The Gamecocks, 11th in the country defensively a year ago, have allowed 76 points, nearly three times the 29 they gave up through three games in 2012.

Clowney has 10 tackles and two sacks this year. Gamecocks coach Steve Spurrier even joked that Clowney better get in shape this week because it’ll be a hot day in Orlando when No. 12 South Carolina faces UCF on Saturday.

Clowney picked things up in his last outing, forcing a second-half fumble in the Gamecocks 35-25 win over Vanderbilt.

“It’s hard, man,” said Chaz Sutton, the Gamecocks’ other starting defensive end. SEC teams “have a lot of great guys at the skill positions that can fly and tear the top off a defense.”

Things could get worse for SEC defenses.

The league’s leading defensive unit in Florida — the Gators have permitted fewer than 15 points and 213 yards a game so far this year — could be without star lineman Dominique Easley, who injured his knee in practice and indicated on Twitter that he’s out for the season.

And it doesn’t look like SEC offenses will show down anytime soon.

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The Texas Tech student-athlete Hall of Fame will induct six new members and add two others to the Hall of Honor on Friday.

The Hall of Honor inductees are baseball letterwinner Larry Anderson and former baseball coach Larry Hays (1987-2008).

Anderson played football and baseball at Tech from 1961-66.

He has served the school as a player, coach, supporter and as the ongoing secretary and treasurer for the Letterwinners of Tech.

Hays has the fourth all-time record in the NCAA with 1,508 wins and 860 losses. Hays also led Tech to its only two regular season conference championships in 1995 and 1997.

Being inducted into the Hall of Fame this year is receiver Rodney Blackshear, golfer Chris

Blocker, basketball center Harold Denney, end Pat Hartsfield, setter Lisa Hilgers and kicker Kenny Vinyard.

Blackshear (1987-1991) was an all-Southwest Conference team member in 1990 and 1991, and his single-season total of 973 receiving yards and nine touchdown catches in 1990 set school records.

Blocker (1959-61) was a member of Tech’s first SWC championship team in 1959. He also is one of four Red Raiders in school history to win an individual SWC golf title.

In his junior year at Tech, Denney (1962-65) averaged 17.7 points per game and 9.3 rebounds. He was a member of the first team all-SWC in both the 1963-64 and 1964-65 seasons.

On the defensive side of the ball at Tech, Hartsfield (195457) led the team in tackles in three of his four seasons. He also

was the all-time career receptions leader by the time he graduated.

The only volleyball player being inducted this year is Hilgers (1995-98). Hilgers is the Tech record holder for most career assists with 5,811, and she was named to the school’s all-millennium team in 1999, according to the release.

Vinyard took care of both the kicking and punting duties during his time at Tech. He ended his career at Tech as the school’s career leader in field goals and second in extra points, and in 1966 and 1968, his punting average was the top two single-season marks in school history.

The induction ceremony will be hosted on Nov. 1 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Banquet Hall, and the inducted will be in a ceremony prior to the football game against Oklahoma State on Nov. 2. ➤➤ecorder@dailytoreador.com

Texas Tech soccer reaching new heights Texas Tech soccer keeps climbing the rankings as the Red Raiders rose to No. 15 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings on Tuesday, according to a news release.

This ranking comes after Tech defeated University of California, Davis, and University of California, Santa Barbara, in shutout victories at the Jack

in the Box Classic in the Albuquerque, N.M. According to the release, Tech is off to its best start in program history. The Red Raiders are on a six-game winning streak and shut out their last four opponents.

The Red Raiders begin Big 12 Conference play this weekend.

Tech will face the Iowa State Cyclones at 7 p.m. Friday in

Ames, Iowa, and then the Oklahoma State Cowboys at 1 p.m.

Sunday in Stillwater.

Tech made it to No. 14 in the Top Drawer Soccer rankings. Top Drawer also mentioned sophomore midfielder Alli Murphy in its national Team of the Week because of Murphy’s two goals and one assist last weekend. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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