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1. Lubbock Police Chief Greg Stevens opens up the floor for questions after opening statements at the community forum at Estacado High School on Monday. 2. Lubbock community member Eduardo Guerrero addresses his concerns about the state of the east side of Lubbock at the community forum. 3. Mayor Dan Pope responds to concerns from a member of the crowd at Thursday’s community forum. 4. Donnell Hooper, a member of the Lubbock community, addresses his concerns regarding the lives of the citizens of East Lubbock.

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Lubbock community engagement task force hosted a community forum regarding race relations and police brutality on Monday evening in the cafeteria of Estacado High School.

Residents of East Lubbock were able to voice their opinions and concerns to Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope and Chief of Police Gregory Stevens.

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Author and Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman will open the Presidential Lecture & Performance Series on Oct. 21.

Known for his writing’s formal complexity and controversial content, Spiegelman’s lecture, “What the %@&*! Happened to Comics?” will discuss how the industry of comics has changed over the years, according to a Texas Tech news release.

The lecture will focus on the value of the medium and why it should not be ignored.

Also an artist and illustrator, Spiegelman began studying cartoons in high school and first began drawing professionally at the age of 16, according to the release.

His graphic novel “Maus” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its portrayal of the Holocaust by depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, according to the release.

Spiegelman is also one of only three Americans to be awarded the Grand Prix at the Angouleme International Comics Festival in 2011, according to the release.

The award is given each year to a living creator honoring his lifetime achievement, and the Grand Prix winner becomes president of the next year's festival.

Other shows planned for this season include “The Second City,” “Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue,” “We Banjo 3” and “MOMIX,”according to the release.

All events begin at 7 p.m. in the Allen Theatre.

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William “Brett” Ashworth has been appointed vice chancellor for communications and marketing by the Texas Tech System and will begin his duties Oct. 5.

Ashford has more than two decades of experience in public relations and communications strategy, according to a Tech news release.

He will be responsible for overall communications, marketing and branding for the system with the goal increasing Tech’s national and statewide awareness.

Currently serving as vice president for communications and marketing at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Ashford is responsible for overseeing the internal and external communications and marketing functions for the college, according to the release.

A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, Ashford once served as director of media relations for the Air Force at the Pentagon, according to the release.

Ashford will use his experiences as the strategic communications advisor to the government of Afghanistan to aide in his duties at Tech, according to the release.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Texas State University, Master of Business Administration from Webster University and Master of Science in Integrated Strategic Leadership from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

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The task force was established in August

by Lubbock residents to address concerns of the city of Lubbock, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Citizens were given three minutes to ask questions or voice what was on their minds to either Pope or Stevens. Most residents talked about the economic and social growth in East Lubbock.

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Tech focuses on offense during bye week

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Texas Tech wide receiver Reginald Davis III watches the defender as he runs the ball during the second half of the game against Louisiana Tech on Sept. 17 at Jones AT&T Stadium.

As they prepare to face the Kansas Jayhawks, both the Tech offense and defense focused on themselves during the bye week. For the offense, the wide receivers focused on their run blocking.

Senior defensive back Justis Nelson said the defense has shown some great effort in practice.

“Yeah, definitely. I mean, after the bye week we had a lot of guys getting their hands on balls, a lot of turnovers being created, which some, like I said, we have been slacking on,” Nelson said.

“So it was good to see guys trying to get the ball, trying to make plays. And just specific examples, I mean, a few interceptions by a couple DBs, linebackers, punching, ripping the ball out. And then maybe some (defensive) linemen getting their hands up on tipped passes, so just reemphasizing stuff like that, and that’s what we have to carry over into the game.”

During the bye week the defense looked over film from its past games to assess on how it did.

For Nelson, he said the defensive players sometimes see things they did not notice playing the game that negatively impacts them, but there are also some positives.

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Editor ’s note: this article is the second part of a three-part series about the Syrian conflict.

Since March 2011, there has been an uprising in Syria. The conflict is ongoing and has become extremely complex. Three Texas Tech students from Syria talked with The Daily Toreador about the crisis.

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siege on Aleppo and the international involvement.

Armed Conflict Begins Around 18 months after the peaceful demonstration began, the Syrian peaceful demonstrations began to turn into armed demonstrations, Mazen Sabouni, a business administration graduate student, said. As families saw their loved ones beaten, killed and tortured they armed themselves to defend each other.

Sabouni was born in Aleppo, Syria. “(Bashar al-Assad’s) regime was very happy for that because Assad’s regime cannot stop peaceful demonstrations. He might, maybe, shoot people, send thousands of soldiers to the streets to stop people, but people will continue to demonstrate,” Sabouni said.

Al-Assad was supported by many countries and groups, and other groups entered to fight for their own agendas, said Tarek Kandakji, a graduate student in geosciences from Syria. Iran, the Middle Eastern gulf countries, Hezbollah, Russia and other countries and groups were fighting inside of Syria.

The regime began to build a base for the Islamic State group in the northern part of Syria, Kandakji said.

The desert-like geography was similar and close to the part of Iraq that the Islamic State group occupied.

Northern Syria has a low population and no infrastructure. Though northern Syria is divided by borders, the tribe that occupies that region is the same tribe that occupies the part of Iraq held by the Islamic State group, Kandakji said.

“The regime, during creating this chaos in the main cities, (Al-Assad) also was planning on creating (Islamic State group),” he said. “One of the reforms he said he will do, to release prisoners because people were demanding the first set of reforms, the release of prisoners. But he didn’t release political prisoners.

He released people who used to cross the borders, radical people who used to cross the borders to reach Iraq and fight with the terrorist groups there.”

Al-Assad’s regime originally detained and tortured these radical people, Kandakji said. When al-Assad let them go around 20132014, they went to the northern part of Syria. The regime entirely withdrew from its military bases in

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the north and did not attack the Islamic State group at all, allowing it a safe place to grow.

The Islamic State group kept growing, and al-Assad used its existence as a reason to be the dictator of Syria again, Kandakji said.

The international com munity began to support him as the only alternative to an Islamic State group takeover of Syria.

“This is a problem for Syria. Even if Assad left now, or like the regime went, what are you going to do with all these people who came to Syria, like all the terrorists who came because of (Islamic State group) and other like similar groups?” Hasan Almekdash, a graduate student in higher education research from Al Tala, Syria, said.

“So that’s a big problem when you talk about a country, so investing in like the armed revolution, in my opinion, that was wrong.

And people should have stayed peaceful, and if you want to break chains, you know, you have to sacrifice the gun-dealing.”

Siege on Aleppo Aleppo is an important Syrian city, economically and by population, Kandakji said. It is a strategic location for the regime.

Aleppo is near the Turkish border also, so both sides have resources coming through Turkey to Aleppo.

“I wish you could see Aleppo. It’s one of the most beautiful historic places, l like used to visit Aleppo a lot and eat, enjoy the food there, and there are ruins in Aleppo, it’s amazing, Aleppo castle,” Almekdash said. “I feel bad for the civilians who are paying the stiff price—millions of families

with kids, with women, are suffering for things maybe I think they don’t know about—so I think of those people in Aleppo now.”

Aleppo is divided into two parts now, Sabouni said. The eastern part is controlled by the Free Syrian Army, while the western part is controlled by the al-Assad regime. The control over the parts changes regularly. Currently, the eastern side has been surrounded and is under siege.

“My sister is still living in the western side of Aleppo. It might be a little bit safer than the eastern side.

It’s under the control of regime. She was telling me (Thursday night), she was seeing the explosions in the eastern side,” Sabouni said.

“Imagine you are living in Lubbock here, and you are in Milwaukee Avenue, and you can see what’s happening in University Avenue, for example.”

No aid is being allowed to get to Aleppo, Sabouni said. The Red Crescent, a humanitarian group equivalent to the Red Cross, was trying to send food and medical aid to the eastern part of Aleppo.

The organization received approval to go to there, so a caravan of about 20 trucks made its way toward those under siege, Sabouni said. As the trucks were driving, planes from Russia and the al-Assad regime bombed the trucks, killing 10 people.

“The regime will never end, and Russia, they will never allow this area to be controlled, even if they have to destroy every single children, every single human being to use all the filthiness in the world, to put it there,” Kandakji said.

“They use (airplanes to drop) bombs, they use phosphorous bombs. They use explosive barrels a lot, they do not care, like also like chemical; everything, everything.”

The United Nations and Other International Involvement “Everybody (in the U.N.) knows that Russia and Assad regime bombed and killed those people and destroyed everything, but Russians and Assad regime keep saying, ‘No, we did not do anything. Somebody else burned this caravan,’” Sabouni said.

Since Russia is dominating the United Nations, the organization lacks the military and political power to help Syria, Kandakji said.

Every attempt to pass legislation regarding helping Syria is vetoed by Russia.

The only thing the U.N. can do is deliver aid to the regime, so the aid is not reaching anyone.

“But the United Nations is ruled by five countries: (the United States), Russia, England, France and China. One of them decide, ‘I do not want the United Nations to join a thing,’ nothing will be done,” Sabouni said. “We don’t believe in the U.N. Nobody in the world can believe in this organization. They’re purposeless.”

If the U.N. intervened against Russia, World War III would definitely occur, Almekdash said. The major countries are also concerned about the vacuum of power in Syria because the country is in the middle of the Middle East. The U.N. is very cautious about clashing with Russia.

No one in the U.N. is thinking in a human way, Kandakji said. The people

in Syria need the international community to see them in a human way. He heard a Syrian activist in Aleppo being interviewed

by BBC. The activist talked about politics being dirty and distracting from all the people being killed.

Sabouni on seeing his hometown being destroyed “It’s very painful for a person who spent 30 years of his life in the same place.

On the same time, we are thinking about the right of people to live well, to live in freedom and dignity,” Sabouni said.

When Sabouni asks his friends on the eastern side of Aleppo about their support of the revolution, they say they still want civil rights. They have lost everything, so they are fighting for their dignity and freedom, Sabouni said. The international community is doing nothing to help, even though it sees blood on the streets daily. Russia, Iraq, and al-Assad’s regime are dropping phosphorus, chlorine and barrel-bombs on the country.

“But I think Aleppo will have the victory in the end because they are fighting for their rights, if you read history, you will see all nations who were keep fighting for their rights and for their dignity and for their, maybe civil rights, they will have their victory in the end. It’s very painful, and I cannot express my feelings about what’s happening in Syria, in Aleppo especially,” Sabouni said. “But I think we will have our victory in the end. That’s what I think, in spite that we are maybe suffering, and everybody are against us, but we will get it in the end.” @DT_LHard

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North Dakota says no Indian artifacts found at pipeline site BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota state inspection of an oil pipeline site has found no sign of the Native American artifacts or human remains that an American Indian Tribe says are present, the state's chief archaeologist said in a draft memo.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had cited the potential for burial grounds and other artifacts as a major reason to lead protests that have stymied completion of the project.

Chief Archaeologist Paul Picha said in the memo first published Monday by con-

servative blogger Rob Port that seven state archeologists inspected the 1.3-mile section along the route of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in southern North Dakota. The memo said only some animal teeth and bone fragments were found during the survey last week.

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Raider Catholic building new student center

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Now that the ground has been broken, Raider Catholic, a campus Catholic student ministry, is in the process of building a new student center.

On Sept. 20, Raider Catholic broke ground for the new John Saleh Catholic Student Center. The facility is part of the Raider Promise campaign for the campus ministry and St. Elizabeth University Parish.

Raider Catholic, the official Catholic Student Center at Texas Tech, has a goal to provide “a home away from home” for Roman Catholic students at Tech, according to the Raider Catholic website.

The center will be named after parishioner John Saleh who left $5 million to Raider

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Catholic in order to begin construction for a new student center, Greg Ramzinski, director of campus ministries, said. Saleh regularly attended student mass at 5 p.m. on Sundays and was impressed with the devotion of students to the parish and to God. “He just loved the students and the work we would do here with the students,” Ramzinski said.

The new center is being constructed to provide more space for both the students and the campus ministry, Ramzinski said. The current student center is only 400 square feet, while the new student center will be four times that size.

The new center will feature a multipurpose space area, space for student organizations, office space, a conference room, study

space, a kitchen and a stage with audio and visual set-up, Ramzinski said.

“We can do certain things like educational activities or movie nights that we really can’t do here because we don’t have the space or capability,” Father Francis Orozco, chaplain of Raider Catholic, said.

Construction for the student center is expected to take 10 to 15 months and is set to open by late fall 2017, Nathan Robinett, director of development for Raider Catholic, said.

In addition to the donation from Saleh, Raider Catholic is raising funds for the center through the campaign Raider Promise. So far, Raider Catholic has received donations from alumni and other benefactors, Ramzinski said.

The organization is also working on a fundraiser called the Raider Promise banquet, which will be hosted on Saturday at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

The guest speaker for the

event will be Deacon Greg Hall, the leader of the 2010 rescue team for the 33 Chilean miners, Ramzinski said.

“The biggest impact is going to be that the students will just have basi-

cally more room, and we can grow and do more of what we do,” Orozco said. “We want the new student center to be the central location for the Catholic students.”

idents who mainly rent their homes or are not financially able to remain in the area.

Pope responded by asking the attendee to speak to his local council person, and then move up, if necessary.

“We are certainly not trying to go out and build bigger houses. If that was the deal it would have happened a long time ago,” Pope said.

Young adults of the community also came out to the forum. A 17-yearold Latina citizen voiced her concern on police brutality and the stigma of white privilege. The young lady began by asking if she should feel safe in her community with brutality issues currently seen in the U.S.

She asked how she should feel safe, and not scared of being shot down, because of the color of her skin.

She also brought up the issue of white privilege and Brock Turner, a white male former student athlete at Stanford University, who served three months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious female.

The attendee asked

Stevens what the Lubbock Police Department is doing to prevent such incidents in the community.

Stevens responded he cannot speak on those cases from other parts of the U.S., but he can comment on the main focus is what is going on in Lubbock.

Stevens said the training of police officers on the

force does not stop even after certification.

Responders who work in the station always continue training by taking courses online, Stevens said.

“We want people to look at us as a positive outcome,” he said. “And we want people to say ‘Look how good it is in Lubbock.’”

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Houston gunman had 2 weapons, Mall shooting suspect confessed thousands of rounds at scene (AP) — A disgruntled lawyer wearing militarystyle apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said.

Nine people were injured during Monday morning’s shootings on the street in front of a condo complex; six were shot and three had eye injuries from flying glass.

One person was in critical condition and another in serious condition, officials said.

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Dwayne Ready and Interim Police Chief Martha Montalvo did not identify the man and did not have information about a motive.

A bomb-squad robot examined a Porsche that police said belonged to the gunman; Texas motor vehicle records in a commercially available database showed the car is licensed to Nathan DeSai at an address in the condo complex.

The property manager of the condo complex also confirmed that police were going through DeSai’s resi-

dence, where Ready said vintage military items dating to the Civil War and other guns were found in the man’s apartment.

Authorities first received reports of the shootings about 6:30 a.m., and the man began firing at officers when they arrived. The man had two legally purchased guns — a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a semi-automatic rifle commonly known as a Tommy gun —and an unsheathed knife, Ready said.

He also noted that there were 75 spent casings at the scene, which were from officers and the gunman.

Ready said nine officers — five with the Houston Police Department and four with two other local agencies — “engaged the suspect who was shooting randomly at passersby as well as anybody he could put his sights on.”

During the shootout, one driver was shot and one of the officers “left cover to take that citizen to safety while the other officers engaged the subject,” he said.

Mayor Sylvester Turner told KTRK-TV in Houston that DeSai was a lawyer who was “disgruntled” and was “either fired or had a bad

relationship with this law firm.” But DeSai’s former law partner, Kenneth McDaniel, disputed that assertion, saying they jointly closed their 12-year-old law firm in February due to economic conditions related to Houston’s energy industry downturn.

McDaniel also said he hadn’t had contact with DeSai lately and that police called him Monday morning to check on his safety, though they didn’t explain why.

“He went his way with his practice and I went with mine,” McDaniel said, adding, “All I can say it’s a horrible situation. I’m sad for everyone involved.”

Calls placed to phone numbers connected to DeSai and his father were not immediately answered. DeSai’s father, Prakash DeSai, told KTRK that his son lived in the condo complex and drives a black Porsche. He also said his son, whom he saw Sunday, was upset because “his law practice is not going well” and stays upset “because of his personal problems.”

Perrye Turner, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Houston Division, said officials don’t believe the incident is tied to terrorism.

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California victims, suspects all ‘furries’ FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — Two men arrested in the killings of a California couple were friends with the victims’ teenage daughter and all attended “furry” events where some participants dress up in colorful animal costumes, according to friends and their social media pages.

Jennifer Yost, 39, and her husband, Christopher Yost, 34, were found dead in their Fullerton home along with family friend Arthur “Billy” Boucher, 28.

Police were summoned to the home Saturday morning by the couple’s 6-yearold daughter. She was not harmed, nor was her 9-yearold sister.

Melinda Giles said she became friends with Jennifer Yost after meeting her and her 17-year-old daughter, Katlynn Goodwill Yost, last year at a gathering of “furries.”

She said she also saw Frank Felix, 25, and Joshua Acosta, 21 — who have been arrested for investigation of the murders — at furry events, and had met Felix at the Yost family home.

She said Jennifer Yost told her several weeks ago that she had forbidden Felix from

seeing her daughter.

“To protect her daughter, Chris and Jenn were like, ‘We don’t want you to be friends with our daughter anymore,’” Giles said Monday, adding that the couple was warm, generous and recently helped her move into her new home.

“It is really sad because they didn’t deserve that. Those little girls didn’t deserve to wake up to dead parents.”

Goodwill Yost initially was reported missing after her parents’ bodies were found. On Sunday, when police announced the arrests of Felix and Acosta, they also said a 17-year-old girl was in custody and Goodwill Yost had been located and was safe.

They did not say if she is the girl suspected of involvement in the killings, citing

state law forbidding the release of juveniles’ names.

Police have not disclosed how the victims were killed.

The killings shocked the modest neighborhood, and friends left candles and condolence notes for the victims at the home.

Chris Yost was recalled as a quiet, friendly family man who loved tinkering with cars and also worked a day job designing trophies. Jennifer was a doting stay-at-home mom with a creative flair who designed jewelry and stuffed animals.

“The furries? That was a new thing they kind of got into,” said Stacy Businger, Chris’ cousin. “He was a really kind person. He would do anything for anyone. Literally he would give the shirt off his back to a perfect stranger if he needed it.”

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The suspect accused of killing five people at a Macy’s department store confessed to police, court documents said, but his motive remained a mystery Monday as a portrait emerged of him as a mentally troubled young man whose parents said they were trying to help him.

Arcan Cetin, 20, appeared in court and was officially charged with five counts of first-degree

premeditated murder following his arrest over the weekend for the rampage at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, north of Seattle.

Cetin appeared to express no emotion and said only “Yes, your honor” when asked by a judge if he understood his rights. Bail was set at $2 million and his lawyer said nothing about his client in court and did not speak with reporters.

The hearing followed a terrifying weekend that

began Friday night when police say Cetin stormed into the mall and killed five people, leaving Burlington residents panicked for nearly 24 hours until authorities arrested him.

Cetin, described by acquaintances as socially awkward, has a criminal record going back at least two years and one of his neighbors said he unnerved her so much that she kept a stun gun near her front door.

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Irresponsibility leads to failure in future I f I had a dollar for every time I heard a friend — or even myself, sadly — say one of these things: “I’m seriously such a mess. I’m practically the driver of the struggle bus. The only thing I’m worried about is when I can get to the bar next,” I would be a rich woman.

It’s funny to hear that other people are struggling just like me.

You’ll more than likely hear these phrases Saturday morning at a breakfast house. Hungover students are slumped in booths, chugging coffee like their lives depend on it.

Maybe you’ll hear it in class on Thursday after a simple wine-night got out of hand.

It’s become something of a trend to paint our-

Haley Britzky is a senior journalism major from Trophy Club.

selves as these hot messes, who live our lives from one margarita to the next. We present ourselves as young adults who need to get it together, but are making no effort to do so.

This isn’t just an occasional thing on the weekends. For too many of us, it’s a constant in our lives.

When did that become cute?

When did we start making sloppy synonymous with cool?

When did we start ranking how fun someone is by how many tests they put off studying for while at a bar on a Wednesday night?

Somewhere along the way, our society started idolizing partiers. We started idolizing the people who put off every responsibility to get blackout drunk for the third time that week.

Imagine what would happen if we changed that narrative and put responsibility and hard work before “Whiskey Wednesdays.”

The thing is, college isn’t forever; this lifestyle of late nights and late morning classes is excruciatingly temporary. Don’t get me wrong. Because of the temporariness of these years, I fully support taking hold of opportunities when they come along.

This is not a call to stop having fun and leave behind the ease that can only come with college. This

is the furthest thing from that. However, there has to be a way to balance being responsible and having fun with our friends.

This past spring semester, I lived in Washington, D.C. by myself and interned with a newspaper full time.

I had somewhat of a wakeup call when I realized if I made the choice to go out on a Tuesday, I couldn’t just skip a class the next day.

I couldn’t show up late to the office in a T-shirt and shorts with no make-up on.

I couldn’t email my editor some excuse about being sick in hopes he would understand, as we so regularly do with professors.

I had to deal with it, get dressed, look my best and go into the office ready for a full day of work. I had to

be on top of things for my editor because I was doing real work, for a real job and it really mattered. We have to get ourselves in this mindset because whether we’re ready or not, we’re going to find ourselves in these professional settings sooner than we think.

College is just practice for the real world, and what you practice becomes habit after so long.

Let’s make it cool to be driven, focused and motivated. Instead of making fun of those who skip a night out at the bars to search online for job openings, let’s encourage them in the sincerest sense to keep pursuing their passions.

Let’s stop celebrating blackouts every night, skipping classes and failing

tests. It’s not cool to be purposefully unsuccessful, and it won’t be cool when we’re sitting in our boss’s office getting fired because we showed up late for the fifth time that month.

It’s possible to have fun and be on top of things.

Yes, we’re only in our early 20s, and we shouldn’t be expected to have everything figured out. We’re still learning, and that’s okay.

But we can’t act like teenagers anymore; we’re going to be expected to contribute something to society, and we have to be ready for that.

The saying is “Work hard, play hard” not “Play hard and work if you have the time.” hbritzky@dailytoreador.com

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People must fight to protect heart, soul of US

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here is currently a fierce struggle underway. It is a battle for the soul of our nation.

In this conflict, there will be winners and there will be losers. There will be no room for moderates.

In the ensuing years, Americans will be forced to decide the type of country and, indeed, the type of world they wish to live in.

I am of course referring to the renewed struggle between the liberty Americans have enjoyed for generations and socialism.

Let me be clear, socialism — even in its supposed democratic form —deprives citizens of liberty in every meaningful way.

There are many who cite the alleged success and prosperity of democratic socialist countries, especially in north-

Jake Wischkaemper is a senior history major from Lubbock.

ern Europe, as an argument.

Incidentally, those people are free to move to any one of the countries they have such admiration for.

Unfortunately, most of them do not.

They remain here in order to assail the character of the United States and her history.

They remain in the country for which they hold such utter contempt, in hopes that they may destroy it and remake it in their socialist image.

Socialism is neither compatible with our way of life nor befitting of the

world’s last bastion of individual liberty.

Our country was founded on the principle of individualism and, as such, will be destroyed should we fail to act swiftly and with purpose.

In this sordid state of American politics, the leftists have inundated the political establishment.

Indeed, neo-liberalism has become a powerful force in American life and dominates much of our national dialogue with its false narratives and its meaningless platitudes.

These Liberals seek not only to destroy our Republican form of government, but our culture. They are making a concerted effort to do so.

We must soon decide if we will preserve our great

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Apple products stagnate, lead to plus for customers

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ith the release of the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2, it feels like it has been quite some time since Apple released a product that was truly exciting.

The last brand new product line was the Apple Watch in 2015 which received mixed reactions.

The last product Apple released that was generally considered to be exciting was the iPad in 2010. That means it’s been six years since a big, standalone product line.

Since Steve Jobs’ death almost five years ago, many will point to Jobs’ absence as the reason Apple hasn’t released a breakthrough product in a while. They think Apple has lost its touch.

Indeed, even veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg from The Verge writes, “The post-Jobs Apple has soared financially, but lacks a breakthrough product.”

It seems a great many people see Apple’s lack of a revolutionary product as an issue. But it’s not.

Products like the iPhone only come around once in a blue moon. It is unreasonable to expect Apple to continually change the tech industry.

It isn’t like Apple is falling behind, either. Released around two weeks ago, iOS 10 brought some great new improvements to Apple’s ecosystem.

Alex Olges is a freshman journalism major from Humble.

Its products are still perfectly relevant, so why do people need some new, incredible product?

One thing that should be noted is a lot of these people calling for Apple to innovate are tech journalists. Of course they want to see major innovations because that means a big, new story to report upon.

However, I believe Apple’s product stagnation is actually a very good thing.

A p p l e ’s a p p r o a c h i s often the opposite of its rival, Samsung. Samsung likes to release a great many half-baked features with its phones, leaving the user with a plethora of options, but only a few that are actually useful.

There is a lack of proper testing with its products; look at the recent Galaxy Note 7 recall, for instance.

Rather, Apple has typically been slow to adopt new technologies. It waits until a technology matures before introducing it. I appreciate this, as this means Apple’s devices are remarkably reliable.

Having used many different brands of tech over the years, my iPhone and MacBook Air have easily been the most stable de-

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unjust and perverse cause of socialism.

It is only with a mighty and concerted effort that American patriots will purge our society of the left’s demagoguery and thus, relegate its existence only to those societies that lack the will and intestinal fortitude to resist it.

I hold Americans will put forth this effort as they have done so many times before.

God willing, this will be the last occasion upon which we are forced to confront the evil of socialism.

As we inflict upon the socialists a crushing defeat in this epic war of ideas, may the spirit of 1776 sustain us in this honorable endeavor to preserve the American Way. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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they have everything to gain from their own defeat.

Let us shine the light of liberty and prosperity on those who wish to cast us into the hellish darkness of tyranny and serfdom.

Let us signal to the leftists a complete and utter rejection of their morally bankrupt ideology so that we may remain the bright beacon of liberty to which the world looks in admiration.

Let us thaw their icy hearts and purge the blackness from their souls so that they might become members of our great society and contributors to our republic.

The leftists often label their ideological opponents as dangerous.

To this, I say: Embrace the accolade of a patriot who is dangerous to the

vices I’ve owned to date.

That isn’t to say Apple’s devices are perfect. In fact, they are far from it.

Several columns ago, I denounced Apple’s decision to remove the headphone jack and replace it with its deplorable AirPods.

A p p l e ’s b o r i n g n e s s i s n ’t j u s t e x c l u s i v e t o Apple; it applies to the tech industry as a whole.

There isn’t a whole lot going on that applies to the average consumer.

Sure, there are things like virtual reality or autonomous cars, but these technologies are a little way off before being able to reach the masses.

This isn’t much of a problem because there aren’t any major issues with the tech we have now.

Years ago, we had many issues with our tech relating to size and performance.

These are no longer issues. The biggest issues we now face are often little software bugs here and there.

The fact of the matter is today’s technology is good enough. We’ve solved all the major outstanding issues for some time now.

We now live in a time where we can enjoy these highly polished products while we wait for the next big thing in the tech world.

I, for one, am just fine with that.

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We will either embrace pr os per i t y or plunder, receiving either liberty or tyranny.

We must choose to preserve the great republic for which so many men have sacrificed their lives. We must hold dear the knowledge that, as our Founding Fathers believed, the Almighty has bestowed upon our nation his righteous blessing.

We must reject the impending tyranny that pervades leftist thought and fuels its march against liberty.

These tyrants cannot seize power. They must be elected by those they wish so badly to dominate and exploit.

Our leftist opponents have very little to lose. In fact — like the rest of us —

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Fall traditions bring students together

By ARIANNA AVALLE Staff Writer

It is that time of the year to pull out favorite sweaters, drink some pumpkin spice lattes, start looking for Halloween costumes and bring out the school spirit to cheer for the football team.

This is the way American students usually celebrate the fall, but in other places of the world, people have different cultural traditions for this season.

Tyler Seale, a sophomore anthropology major from Navasota, said she loves celebrating Halloween because it gives her the chance to dress up as her favorite animal.

“I was a dinosaur for a couple of years, many years actually,” Seale said.

“I was always so excited to show people what I was interested in.”

Seale and her family would take a hay ride and then walk to the “creepy” creek during Halloween night. This year, she said her costume is going to be Dr. Ellie Sattler from “Jurassic Park” because of Seale’s love for dinosaurs.

“I think (Halloween is) just a day where you get free range, and you can be that side of you that you don’t show the public,” Seale said. “You can just have fun and you can say

‘just for today I get to be in character.’ You get to do what you want to do and that doesn’t have to mean doing something bad or being someone bad.”

Teja Geddamuri, a graduate student in electrical engineering from Kakinada, India, said his favorite fall tradition of his home country is Diwali, the festival of lights.

Diwali usually falls in the months of October or November. This festival is celebrated as a victory of good over evil, and people decorate their houses with lights and exchange sweets and food with friends and relatives.

“Diwali is celebrated on the blue moon day or the first day of the Karthika season. Karthika is the eighth lunar month of the Indian astrology,” Geddamuri said. “My favorite part is the evening of Diwali as we start the lighting of crackers and fireworks.”

Momina Mujahid, a mechanical engineering from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, said Muslims make up more than 95 percent of the Pakistan’s population, who celebrate several religious festivals. There are two Eids in a year, and the dates keep changing because they are based on the lunar calendar.

The most recent one happened two weeks ago,

and it was called Eid alAdha, she said.

“People sacrifice animals like goats, sheep, cows, camels to commemorate the willingness of Abraham to follow God’s command to sacrifice his son,” Mujahid said. “Basically, it’s a public holiday and everyone gets dressed up really nicely and celebrate it with great food and meeting friends and family.”

Hanif Tiznobake, a graduate student in electrical engineering from Tehran, Iran, said he enjoys celebrating Yalda that happens on the last night of fall, which is the longest of the year.

It’s a social hang-out with family and friends, where they serve special kinds of nuts, dried fruits and watermelons, he said.

There is traditional music and dancing, he said, and some people read aloud poems from famous Iranian poets.

“There is some old philosophy behind this night, going back to pre-Islam religions in Iran. I’m not sure, but it’s something about being a long night and the need for us to stay up together and keeping the bad things away”, Tiznobake said. “It’s a party and, like all parties, serves the purpose of being with the people you love and care.” @DailyToreador

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Moderator Lester Holt under scrutiny during debate NEW YORK (AP) — Everyone’s aware of the stakes for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the first presidential debate, but there’s a third person in the equation who faces a different pressure: Lester Holt.

The NBC News veteran is moderating his first general election debate, making him solely responsible for the questions asked each candidate and for steering the conversation. His performance will be closely watched, particularly in light of a dispute over the extent to which he should call politicians out for making untrue statements.

Holt, 57, has kept quiet about his preparations. The

NBC “Nightly News” anchor took over his job last year after predecessor Brian Williams was found to have lied about his role in news stories.

Like the moderators for all three presidential debates this fall, it’s Holt’s first time in that role for a general election debate. He hosted a Democratic primary forum in January, and has interviewed Clinton and Trump three times each during the campaign.

In a reflection of the attention that will be paid to Holt, his voter registration became an issue last week.

“Lester is a Democrat,” Trump said in a Fox News Channel interview. “It’s a

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Uganda: Police stop gay pride parade ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan police on Saturday prevented organizers from holding a gay pride parade on the orders of a government minister who said such an event is illegal.

Police blocked organizers from staging the event at two locations outside the Ugandan capital, Kampala, said Frank Mugisha, a gay rights leader in Uganda.

More than 100 LGBT people turned up for the event Saturday at a beach on Lake Victoria. Most were later ordered into minibuses and escorted by police to Kampala, apparently for questioning, the reason one young man jumped off a moving minibus and injured himself, Mugisha said.

“They are traumatized,” he said.

The LGBT people who had traveled in the minibuses were later set free, he said.

Homosexuality is a crime in Uganda, as in many African countries.

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scribes homosexual sex acts “against the order of nature.” Gay rights leaders say the LGBT community faces discrimination, violence and extortion.

In August, Ugandan police briefly arrested about 20 people attending a gay pride event at a nightclub in Kampala. Following that raid, Mugisha and his colleagues decided to postpone the pride parade until September.

On Wednesday, Simon Lokodo, the Ugandan minister in charge of ethics and integrity, issued a strong statement condemning public activities of homosexuals and urged police to arrest them if they went ahead with the parade.

In 2009, a Ugandan lawmaker introduced a bill that prescribed the death penalty for some homosexual acts, saying he wanted to protect Ugandan children.

The proposed bill prompted international condemnation.

A less severe version of the bill passed by lawmakers was rejected by a Ugandan court as unconstitutional.

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phony system. They are all Democrats.”

Holt, however, is a registered Republican, according to New York state voting records.

Asked about the misstatement on Monday, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC that it wasn’t a lie because Trump didn’t know Holt’s voter registration.

Voting records show that Anderson Cooper of CNN, who is moderating the Oct. 5 debate, is registered unaffiliated with a party in New York and Chris Wallace of Fox News, the moderator on Oct. 19, is a registered Democrat in Washington, D.C.

Martha Raddatz, who will join Cooper, lives in Virginia, which doesn’t register voters by party, and ABC would not discuss her affiliation.

That illustrates on a small scale the issue of to what extent moderators, and journalists covering the debate, should point it out when a candidate says something untrue. It became part of the pre-debate discussion when Holt’s NBC colleague, Matt Lauer, was criticized for not confronting Trump earlier this month when the Republican falsely claimed he had not expressed support for the war in Iraq during a forum between the two candidates.

The Clinton campaign

says moderators should police false statements.

Trump’s campaign says it’s not their role. Among journalists, there’s no consensus.

Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, said on CNN Sunday that in past debates moderators have generally believed the candidates should call their opponents out when something false is said.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea to get the moderator into essentially serving as the Encyclopedia Britannica,” Brown said.

Television networks were skittish Monday in discussing their fact-checking plans

in advance. None admitted in advance to plans of flashing graphics onscreen to identify a false statement; that hasn’t been done in the past. NBC News said it is teaming with PolitiFact for digital fact-checking. In past years, some networks have assigned reporters post-debate to examine the accuracy of particular statements.

The television industry will be watching to see if Monday’s debate can smash the previous record for the biggest presidential debate audience, the 80.6 million people who watched the only debate of the 1980 campaign between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

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Alpha Tau Omega implements Talkspace

By SOPHIA AYMOND Staff Writer

The national fraternity Alpha Tau Omega has partnered up with Talkspace to create a mobile application for its new and active members. This application is aimed at helping mental health in the fraternity.

The Talkspace application offers a private way to help members get mental guides, Wynn Smiley, the CEO of Alpha Tau Omega, said. It works directly with therapists, so members can get confidential online counseling for free.

“It’s a way to take pressure off of campus counseling

members and for members to get private counseling off their phones,” Smiley said.

There is also a personality test that comes with the app, said Ryan Gherardi, a senior sports management major from Flower Mound and vice president of Alpha Tau Omega.

The personality test has questions that group student members in categories labeled with colors, Gherardi said. Once a member receives his color category, the application then explains how he can interact with other color categories. “ ( A l p h a Ta u O m e g a ) does a lot of mental health work and takes it very

highly,” Gherardi said.

Counseling centers can sometimes get booked and at other times there may be scheduling conflicts.

This app makes it easier for the members of Alpha Tau Omega to seek counseling help, Smiley said.

On average, there is one counselor for every 2,000 students on a college campus. Approximately one out of four individuals in any group suffers from metal health issues.

“The problem is this is definitely happening in college,” Dave Kasdan, the vice president of business development of Talkspace, said in a video

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introducing Talkspace to the national Alpha Tau Omega organization.

College students do not seek help for mental health issues because of stigma and lack of awareness and access, Kasdan said in the video. While everyone is busy, students typically have a harder time getting access to counseling centers.

It can be difficult for individuals to admit they have mental health issues, Kasdan said. It could feel embarrassing to walk into a counseling center.

Talkspace is different from other forms of online therapy because it uses

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Mental health application for Alpha Tau Omega fraternity members Therapists in application have more than five years experience Uses forms of online-messaging therapy Two to three hours for each counseling session on Talkspace

messaging therapy with auto messages and video messages to talk to therapists, Kasdan said.

The therapists have at least five years of post-licensing experience, Kasdan said. Talkspace vets the therapists for a few months to ensure their legitimacy.

Talkspace has offering

this service for more than five years and launched its partnership with Alpha Tau Omega on Sept. 1.

“It takes about to two to three weeks to get in with the average college counseling center,” Kasdan said in the video. “It takes two to three hours with Talkspace.” @DailyToreador

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Use of body cams questioned Pentagon chief pledges $108 after Charlotte police killings billion to fix nuclear force CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in Charlotte is only the latest shooting to raise questions about how the department uses body cameras.

Six people were fatally shot since body cameras were given to all patrol officers about a year ago. But the officers who fired the fatal shots in five of those cases — including Keith Lamont Scott’s — weren’t using the cameras.

The weekend release of police footage showing the shooting of Scott did little to ease some residents’ concerns about its handling. More than 100 people jammed City Council chambers Monday night

to voice their frustrations, calling for Mayor Jennifer Roberts and Police Chief Kerr Putney to resign.

“We have no reason to trust you, and you’re giving us even less,” Khasha Harris said at the forum.

“Deep down somewhere, your conscience has to be bothering you.”

The Rev. Milton Williams, the last speaker of nearly 50 at the meeting, blamed police for actions that led to unrest over two nights.

“Our city’s in an uproar, and you did not respond. Police escalated that temperature out there,” Williams said. “No justice, no peace.

I’m going to be preaching that every Sunday.”

Roberts and Putney have

taken criticism for their handling of the aftermath of the shooting, including the delay in the release of video showing the shooting.

Scott’s family and advocacy groups complain the department divulged only about three minutes of footage from two cameras. The footage includes body camera video from another officer but not the black officer who fatally wounded Scott.

Scott’s family said he didn’t have a weapon. They have urged the police department to release all other video footage it has, as well as audio recordings of communications that could clarify how the situation unfolded.

A media coalition is also requesting more footage.

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday the Pentagon is committed to correcting decades of short-changing its nuclear force, including forging ahead with building a new generation of weapons that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming decades.

In his first nuclear-focused speech since taking over the Pentagon in February 2015, Carter implicitly rejected arguments for eliminating any element of the nuclear force or scaling back a modernization plan that some consider too costly.

With the nose of a B-52 bomber at his back, Carter

told airmen that the credibility of the American nuclear arsenal is crucial to ensuring its deterrence power. That credibility, he said, is built on personal performance.

“The confidence that you’re ready to respond is what stops potential adversaries from using nuclear weapons against the United States or our allies in the first place,” he said.

Earlier he flew by helicopter to a Minuteman 3 missile field and was taken 85 feet underground to a launch control center where two airmen are always present — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year — and ready to execute a presidential order to launch.

The nuclear-tipped Minute-

man 3 can reach a target on the other side of the globe in about 30 minutes.

It was Carter’s first visit to a nuclear weapons base as defense chief.

In his speech, Carter argued that even though the Cold War is long over, nuclear weapons are still needed to deter Russian and other potential aggressors from thinking they could get away with a nuclear attack.

“It is a sobering fact that the most likely use of nuclear weapons today is not the massive ‘nuclear exchange’ of the classic Cold War-type, but rather the unwise resort to smaller but still unprecedentedly terrible attacks, for example by Russia or North Korea,” he said.

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Testimony: Christie pals OK’d gridlock NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A political revenge scheme to create traffic gridlock near the George Washington Bridge in 2013 was approved by two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie on trial for fraud and shared with Christie’s then-campaign manager, the government’s key witness testified Monday.

David Wildstein also told jurors how he received the now-famous “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee” email from Christie’s thendeputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, on Aug. 13, 2013,

about a month before the town next to the bridge was engulfed in four days of epic traffic jams.

Kelly, who is expected to testify in her defense, has previously said some of her emails and texts from that period were meant to be sarcastic and were taken out of context.

But Wildstein, a former official at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who has pleaded guilty, told jurors Monday he assumed it meant it was time to put the scheme in action to punish Fort Lee’s Democratic mayor, Mark Sokolich.

“I understood that to mean it was time to change the lanes configuration at the upper level of the George Washington Bridge in order to create traffic in the borough of Fort Lee,” Wildstein said. “We had had joking emails before. I did not think she was joking.”

According to Wildstein, the email set in motion a chain of events that ulti-

mately led to last year ’s indictment of Kelly and former Port Authority executive Bill Baroni on fraud, conspiracy and civil rights deprivation charges.

In the days and weeks that followed, he testified, he went to Port Authority officials and sold them the story that the lane realignment was part of a traffic study.

But he said he told at least two people the true reason: Bill Stepien, Christie’s manager for his 2013 re-election campaign, and William “Pat” Schuber, a Port Authority commissioner nominated by Christie in 2011.

Schuber testified before a New Jersey legislative committee in 2014 that he had no prior knowledge of the plot.

Democratic state Sen. L o r e t t a We i n b e r g , w h o co-chaired the committee, called Monday’s revelation “personally disappointing” and said Schuber should resign if Wildstein is telling the truth.

A message left for Schuber at the Port Authority wasn’t immediately returned Monday.

C h r i s t i e h a s n ’t b e e n charged, but prosecutors say Wildstein will testify that he told the governor about the plot on the third of the four days of traffic chaos. Christie has denied that.

Both defendants say Wildstein conceived and carried out the scheme in September 2013. The bridge, one of the world’s busiest, spans the Hudson River and connects New Jersey with New York City.

Last week, Wildstein testified that Christie’s office used the Port Authority as a source of political favors for local Democratic officials whose endorsements were sought for his 2013 reelection. Christie wound up winning easily.

Wildstein said Christie and Stepien were among those who discussed the strategy at a meeting about Christie’s re-election.

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Emotional support animals provide comfort

By HALEY DAVIS Staff Writer

Emotional support animals as well as service animals have become essential companions for some Texas Tech students in their daily lives.

The legal definition of a service animal is any animal that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, according to the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education website.

Emotional support animals, on the other hand, are defined as animals that belong to persons with emotional or psychological disabilities.

Though dogs are the most common choice as service pets, Robin Brown, a junior nursing major from Atlanta, said her guinea pigs provided her with a sense of responsibility and purpose.

“They make me so happy,” Brown said. “They always cheer me up with their little personalities.”

Brown said she has three guinea pigs named Claude, Milo and Freddy, and she

has had them since she started attending Tech in Fall 2015. She lived in the Talkington Residence Hall on campus, and to keep her companions, she had to register each of them as emotional support animals.

“I had to go online and pay $99 to the National Service Animal Registry for each of them and get a doctor ’s note from a psychiatrist,” Brown said.

“I understand the dorms not wanting to be crowded with pets, but they really do make a huge difference in people that need more emotional support.”

Emotional support animals can be registered to support multiple diagnoses among their owners including anxiety, panic attacks, depression and other forms of trauma.

Seventy Five percent of lifetime mental disorders have first onset by the typical college-age range of 18 to 24, according to the Administrative Issues Journal. The stressors of college transition sometimes lead to these mental

health issues.

Delaney Vickers, a junior public relations major from Edmond, Oklahoma, said her dog, Ray, keeps her sane.

“She knows when I’m struggling with something and comforts me without asking,” Vickers said. “I can be completely weird and crazy, and she still loves me and stands by my side at the end of the day.”

R a y i s a 1 - y e a r- o l d hunting dog mix, and Vickers said Ray’s outgoing personality meshes well with her own.

“Dogs just want to love and to be loved like humans do,” Vickers said.

“People with anxiety have shown a calmer stress level and lower heart rate when petting an animal.

She gives me purpose on days when it’s hard to find any.”

The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act established the guidelines for these service animals that residences are required to adhere to.

“I think pet policies should be lenient to those who have proof or permission from a doctor that have a certain disability when letting students live in campus-housing with a pet,” Vickers said, “but I don’t think just anyone should be allowed to have a pet just due to responsibility issues with college students.”

Pets, with the exception of fish in a tank up to 5 gallons, are not allowed to visit or be kept in residence hall rooms, unless they are registered emotional support animals that have been brought to the attention of the University Student Housing staff, according to the Tech Housing website.

“I know a lot of people who have had to jump through many hoops to be able to keep their emotional support animal in their dorm or apartment,” Brown said. “I think it should be less of a process for these individuals.”

Within the past several years, colleges with no-pet policies have received more and

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Delaney Vickers, a junior public relations major from Edmond, Oklahoma, walks with her dog, Ray, who has been her emotional companion for the past year. more requests from students who claim the need for a “companion” or emotional support animal as an accommodation, according to the Administrative Issues Journal.

“You form a bond with these animals and they become a positive constant in your life,” Brown said. “They give you unconditional love.” @DailyToreador

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Turks protest assault of young Hundreds of Romanian nurse who wore shorts on bus couples cash in on lasting love I S TA N B U L ( A P ) — Turksdonned shorts and gathered in central Istanbul on Sunday to condemn the assault of a young nurse who was attacked on a bus for wearing shorts.

With chants of “Don’t interfere with my shorts!” the protest aimed to show solidarity with Aysegul Terzi, who was kicked in the face by a man, Abdullah Cakiroglu, on Sept. 12.

Cakiroglu confessed to attacking Terzi for what he called her “inappropriate” clothing, yet was released from custody despite expressing no remorse, according to Turkish news reports. Follow-

ing a public uproar over the attack, he was then re-arrested on charges of inciting hatred and interfering with the right to freedom.

On social media, critics accused the Turkish authorities of expressing tacit approval of Cakiroglu’s actions.

Accountant Saadet Yesil, 44, told The Associated Press at Sunday’s protest that everyone had a right to dress as they saw fit.

“Just as we don’t interfere with those in headscarves or gentlemen in turbans, we expect they extend us the same courtesy,” she said.

She also accused Tur-

key’s prime minister of attempting to downplay the attack. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim spoke of the assault with the Turkish daily Hurriyet last week, saying “I don’t think he is a normal man . because what he did isn’t something a normal person would do. You might not like (someone’s dress but) you just grumble about it.”

Akin Ozcan Aksoy, a 21-year-old student at Sunday’s protest, told the AP he hoped such attacks would not take place “but the direction our country is headed makes me think we will encounter more of these stories.”

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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A district of the Romanian capital on Monday celebrated hundreds of couples who have been married for at least half a century by handing out cash awards and inviting them to a joint lunch.

Bucharest’s fifth district town hall says it has given each golden anniversary couple 1,000 lei ($255) to honor family and marriage.

Some 600 people participated in the festive three-course lunch and dance, held in a ballroom. Red balloons decked the room, women were handed red roses

and a live band played traditional romantic Romanian songs.

One couple took a joint selfie, and another couple walked out of the ballroom together complaining the music was too loud.

Organizer Florentina Popescu said the longest marriage in the district had lasted 66 years. “They are an example for all of us what marriage means,” she said.

One of the participants was Silvia Agapi, 72, who has been married for 52½ years.

“We started from the idea that we wanted to do everything possible

to make the other person happy,” she said. “We wanted to stay together all our lives.”

She added that she was disappointed that divorce had become commonplace.

Octogenarians Dumitru and Floare Caldararu, who have been married for 55 years, said “mutual understanding,” was necessary for a successful marriage, adding divorce had become “a fashion.”

Some critics speculated the celebration was held for electoral reasons ahead of Romania’s parliamentary election in December.

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Lindsay Lohan visits hospital Drone to the face doesn’t stop for Syrian refugees in Turkey Bone Thugs-n-Harmony show

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says American actress Lindsay Lohan has visited Syrian refugees at an Istanbul hospital and the home of a refugee family from Aleppo.

The Anadolu agency reported Monday that the 30-year-old actress was accompanied by Turkey’s

youth and sports deputy m i n i s t e r, A b d u r r a h i m Boynukalin.

Boynukalin says media were not told about Lohan’s visit ahead of time to avoid creating a spectacle and he didn’t specify when it took place.

He said, “The important thing is that a Hollywood star take this matter seri-

ously and bring it to the world stage.”

Boynukalin says the star of such films as “Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday” was moved by the hospital, which employs only Syrian doctors and treats refugees, and offered to volunteer there.

Lohan also gave gifts to the refugee family.

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Tech gets on board with virtual reality

By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

Texas Tech football team has adopted a virtual reality performance training tool from STRIVR. Transitioning virtual reality into the Red Raiders’ practices started out slowly during the summer, and then the use of virtual reality progressed into the fall.

This training tool allows the players to study film from a first-person perspective as if the player were on the field, in a 360-degree view. Virtual reality allows the players to practice reps with audio and their teammates, according to the STRIVR website.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said as soon as he tried the device after being approached to adopt the tool, he was impressed.

“I had read an article on Carson Palmer Monday Morning Quarterback that went through his week of preparation. I was just fascinated by some of the statements he made about it,” Kingsbury said. “Then when we were approached, wanted to do it, wanted to get around and once I put it on, I was sold. It puts you at the quarterback position.

You’re getting those reps mentally that there’s no other way to simulate that.”

Junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II said virtual reality gives him the opportunity to understand the other team’s defense from his perspective before matching up against them on the field.

The system allows him to evaluate his own performance, Mahomes said.

“It really lets me get into the film,” Mahomes said.

“When you watch it on the screen you can really look at certain things, but you can’t see the whole aspect of it.

The virtual reality, I’m right there seeing exactly what I see when I’m taking my drops and making my throws. So just being able to see their defenses from my perspective before I even play them it really does help out.”

Not everyone on the team has gotten the opportunity to test out virtual reality yet. Defensive back Justin Nelson said he has not been able to try it out.

However, some of the other defensive players have.

Nelson said he is interested in trying out the tool.

“I haven’t actually used the virtual reality,” Nelson said. “I know some of the linebackers have used it to see the whole formation and stuff like that, but I’ve definitely wanted to, but I just haven’t made my way in there. So, I might go check that out after we get done.”

One of the linebackers who has had the opportunity to use the virtual reality tool is senior linebacker Luke Stice.

The tool gives the players the opportunity to work on reps when they are not on the field, Stice said.

“That’s been an unbelievable deal,” Stice said.

“I got to start working with trial runs this past spring and especially me just coming into the team trying to

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Big 12 announces kickoff time for Kansas State game On Monday morning, the Big 12 Conference announced Texas Tech and Kansas State will kick off at 6 p.m. on Oct. 8 in Manhattan, Kansas.

Since 2015, the Red Raiders have started at 6 p.m. for seven-consecutive games.

Tech is 9-7 against the Wildcats, according to a Tech Athletics news release. The game will be

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Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes II prepares to catch the ball from the snap during the Red Raiders’ game against Louisiana Tech on Sept. 17 at Jones AT&T Stadium. As part of the Red Raiders’ practices, Mahomes and other players use a virtual reality performance training tool to study film from a first-person perspective. just pick up the defense as fast as I can. That was a really great deal to be able to really get reps off of the field that you may not even get during practice, being able to get all of the reps from all the different defensive positions.”

Stice said he thinks the tool helps linebackers by placing them into situations that are similar to the ones encountered in a game.

When he uses virtual reality, Stice said it does not matter whether or not he is the player making the

play in the rep.

“Puts you back in the game or practice situations,” he said, “rather than just seeing something on the field from a coach’s view. You really get to go back and kinda re-live that rep whether you did it or not. Just being able to see that rep that that linebacker got that play.”

Stice said virtual reality is taking game film to the next level.

When using the tool, he is able to view everything at once, Stice said. He said

the 360-degree view helps when he reviews reps using the tool.

“It’s the next step,” Stice said. “It’s definitely going back and like I said re-living that rep and getting to kinda see just the entire offensive front at the same time and get to pick up on the reads and see if there’s anything you missed when you actually ran it on the field.”

When the players started using this training tool over the summer, Stice said he would use the tool as frequently as he could.

Overall virtual reality has been very useful for the team, Stice said.

“That was the deal that over the summer when the coaches are going recruiting, we could use them once or twice a day, as much as you could get in there,” he said. “We’d go through different plays in the film room, and then we could go in there and take it to almost like I said practice or game reps, different situations like that. It’s been a great deal for us.”

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passing yards.

Nelson said the entire football team should be making the same effort to make tackles.

“Yeah, that all goes back to effort,” Nelson said.

“When you see one guy hit somebody, you don’t necessarily expect him to make the play. Everybody should be running to the ball, everybody should be trying to get in on that. And for the past couple weeks, we have had that in some instances and some instances we haven’t.”

When talking about the defense, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said the defense cannot let adversity affect them.

In the rushing statistic, opponents have had a combined 10 rushing touchdowns scored against the Tech defense so far.

“Yeah, just, once again, consistency,” Kingsbury said. “I’ve said it over and over. When we have some-

thing bad happen, we can’t let it turn into four or five things in a row happen that are against us. So, we played well there at stretches that last week but gave up two late touchdowns, gave up the touchdown in the end of the first half. We don’t do that. We’re feeling a lot better about ourselves, and they know that.”

The defense has also had a recent problem in turnovers.

The only three turnovers made in the season so far were from the season opener against Stephen F. Austin.

Kingsbury talked about Kansas’ nine turnovers this season, and said it is a great opportunity for Tech defense to get some turnovers.

“We haven’t got any in the last two games, so we definitely need to try and create some,” Kingsbury said. “But more than anything I talked to our team about how that’s because of those turnovers. Don’t look at these scores or look at

the wins and losses because if you turn the ball over that many times, you’re not going to win the game.

So I don’t think it’s a true indication of who they are.”

Kingsbury said in postgame press conferences the wide receivers needed to be more physical in blocking for the run game.

So far, Tech has had 393 rushing yards, and even though sophomore running back DeMarcus Felton ran for 123 rushing yards against Louisiana Tech, junior wide receiver Dylan Cantrell said he feels like the receivers fell off on their blocking in that game.

“Just be more physical in the run game,” Cantrell said. “I think we did a good job with that against Arizona State. We kind of just fell off a little bit against Louisiana Tech with being more physical. So, that’s the biggest thing, just getting after them every play.”

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “Yeah, specifically effort and even people’s eyes, just where they’re looking,” Nelson said. “Sometimes you turn on the film, and you’ll see guys not hustling to the ball whenever it’s clear that he broke for a few yards, and guys are just waiting for somebody else to make the tackle. And then there’s plays where guys make an awesome play in the back field, tackled for a loss or attempting to punch and rip at the ball. But like you said, it’s never as good, never as bad.”

The Tech defense has allowed the most points, 130, in the Big 12 Conference, according to ESPN. The defense has also allowed 1,594 total offense yards, according to Tech Athletics.

In terms of rushing yards, Tech has allowed 620 rushing yards and 974

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Former player Greg Hardy arrested on cocaine charge DALLAS (AP) — Former Dallas defensive end Greg Hardy, who remains unsigned after a tumultuous 2015 season revolving around his domestic violence case in North Carolina, was arrested on a cocaine posses-

sion charge in Texas.

Hardy was booked early Monday and later released on $5,000 bond in the Dallas suburb of Richardson on a charge of possession of a controlled substance of less than one gram, jail spokes-

man Tim Weed said.

The 28-year-old Hardy signed with Dallas as a free agent last year after Carolina decided not to bring him back as a result of the domestic violence case.

Hardy was suspended

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Life without Duncan starts for Spurs SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Life without Tim Duncan has officially begun for the San Antonio Spurs, even if they aren’t quite ready to accept it.

For the first time since Bill Clinton was in the White House and “Men In Black” was a box office hit, the Spurs will open training camp without Duncan.

During the team’s annual media day Monday, San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich joked that Duncan is being fined daily — “$2,500 a day, every day that he does not show up.”

“I wasn’t here with him that long so it’s not as dramatic for me as it will be for everybody else, but it definitely feels like he should walk in any moment but he hasn’t yet,” Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge said.