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Dance club prepares for new season

Bush visits Tech campus, speaks about women’s health initiative

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A group breakdancer practices his routine for their upcoming performance at the Student Organization Sing competition in October.

By SARAH KARDA Staff Writer

Dancers with Soul: Texas Tech Hip Hop Team is currently preparing for its new season. The team is a group of men and women dancing in the hip-hop genre. The team has been in existence since 2009, when it began with just five members.

The team has grown to 40 active members today and recently hosted its auditions for this season on Sept.

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11. The team’s motto “Mind Freak” means to blow people’s minds after watching the team’s performance, said Jaimie Capps, a senior international economics major from Glen Rose and a second-year member of the team.

“We dance for fun,” Capps said.

“We’re all pretty chill, we’re all like best friends, basically. It’s not for any specific reason, other than just for fun.”

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Hayhoe to speak with President Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio

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ormer first lady of the United States Laura Bush spoke about women’s health 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Allen Theatre.

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center opened the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health in August 2007 to address the need for biomedical research on diseases that are either unique or manifested differently in women. Previously, medical research was performed mostly on males and then applied to both men and women in clinical settings, according to the Bush Institute’s website.

“One of the missions of the institute is clinical investigation and supporting research specific to women,” HSC President Tedd Mitchell said.

“Separating sex and gender data is an important part of what we’re trying to do and give to the body of science.”

The institute strives to provide the best biological and anatomical analysis for physicians to use in their practice, Mitchell said. It also facilitates the development of sex and gender-based medicine curricula in HSC School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy and School of Nursing.

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1. Texas Tech Health Sciences Center President, Tedd L. Mitchell, sits with former first lady Laura Bush on stage in the Allen Theatre. Bush spoke at a private event at HSC on Sept. 27. 2.

Health Science Center President Tedd L. Mitchell M.D. welcomes former first lady Laura Bush to the stage in the Allen Theatre. Bush visited Tech to speak about her support of the women’s health initiative.

On Oct. 3 Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Texas Tech Climate Science Center and an associate professor of political science, is set to accept awards, premiere a PBS Digital Series and be featured in a climate change conversation with President Barack Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Hayhoe was recently honored with awards from the Sierra Club and Politico for her efforts in spreading the message of climate change dangers, according to a Tech news release. Politico placed Hayhoe on the annual Politico 50 list, which recognizes those who help shape policy and are the 50 most influential people in the national political debate.

In early September, Hayhoe was honored with the 2016 Distinguished Service Award from the Sierra Club, according to the release, for her work in convincing evangelical Christians on the realities of climate change and her work with the Climate Science Center.

Hayhoe also has joined Tech Public Media in the making of her new PBS Digital Series, “Global

Weirding.” The show will premiere today at 10 a.m. and will feature 12 episodes that air every other Wednesday, according to release.

HAYHOE Hayhoe will be featured in a conversation with Obama on the south lawn of the White House. They will discuss the importance of protecting the planet for future generations, according to the release. The conversation will also be moderated by actor and activist DiCaprio.

The discussion can be live streamed on the White House website and Facebook, according to release.

“My work may defy some stereotypes about the politics of science and religion,” Hayhoe said in the release. “By defying stereotypes, my hope is that this creates the opportunity for all of us to consider what we truly value and to align our attitudes and decisions with the values that define us.” @NydiaNatividadDT

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Texas Tech puts on Red Raider Rally, despite scheduled Thursday game On game days, students gather in the R1 parking lot to attend Raidergate, a student tailgate put on by the Student Government Association. Because this week’s football game is on a weekday, however, students will not be able to enjoy their typical tailgate.

Even under these circum-

stances, students have found a way to keep up the students’ pregame tradition.

Texas Tech has hosted Thursday home football games in the past.

According to the Tech Athletics website, the last such game was in 2013.

The Tech Activities Board tries to accommodate the tailgate

tradition by hosting a rally or a small tailgate.

“We have done something like this (the rally) in the past for the weekday game,” Troy Pike, unit coordinator for Student Union & Activities, said.

The rally will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday in the

Free Speech Area at the Student Union Building.

Student Union and Activities is collaborating with the Office of Transition & Engagement at Tech to host the rally.

Several different activities have been planned for the rally to get students excited for Thurs-

day’s game at 7:30 p.m. This event is covering all of the basics that the typical Raidergate has, just in a shorter time span and a smaller venue.

“We will have music, contests, games, inflatables, and food at the event,” Pike said. @LexiCardenDT

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Syrian students discuss white helmets group, refugee crisis

By LINDA HARDWICKE Staff Writer

Editor’s Note: this article is the last 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 complex.

The eastern side of Aleppo in Syria is under siege and bombings. A group called the White Helmets is rescuing people caught under rubble, and nations are taking in

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many Syrian refugees.

The White Helmets have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, according to the White Helmets Nobel Peace Prize website.

“They do not take any political position; they do not take any, let’s say, financial interests. It’s only volunteers who saw what’s happening in their country, who saw what’s happening in their neighborhoods—they just put their life to help the others,” Tarek Kandakji, a graduate student in geosciences from Syria, said.

The White Helmets are the voice of humanity in the Syrian revolution, Mazen Sabouni, a graduate student in business administration from Aleppo, Syria, said. The White Helmets are looking for freedom and to rebuild Syria.

The White Helmets are a symbol of hope for the Syrian people, Hasan Almekdash, a graduate student in higher education from Al Tal, Syria, said. However, they cannot change the destruction happening in Aleppo.

In order for the destruction to stop, there needs to be positive international involvement, Almekdash said.

“They are trying to help save people (from the rubble) by their hands,” Sabouni said. “They don’t have a lot of support. They can barely find (tools) to take off the rubble.

They are doing great job.

They are great team working in Syria just to bring Syria back to the right path.”

The Syrian refugee crisis The Islamic State group partially consists of people who have U.S. and European citizenships and passports, Sabouni said. It is easier for the Islamic State group to send these people to commit terroristic acts than to dis-

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Magen Sabuni, Hasen Almekdash, and Tarek Kandakji sat down for an interview Thursday night to talk about Syria and the conflicts surrounding it. They all three grew up in Syria, but came to Texas to continue their education. guise someone as a refugee.

“So far, I can’t name a Syrian guy who did terrorism acts in the world. I can’t name anyone,” Almekdash said. “So basically, maybe, and the problem is, like, whenever something bad happen — and a lot of bad things happen — it’s like this, like, using the same brush to paint everyone. So it’s just like very exaggerated and very not objective.”

Viewing Syrian refugees as dangerous is based on ignorance, Kandakji said.

There is a vetting process that takes about two years.

Families are the top priority, but they are still vetted. A single Syrian man is at the bottom of the list. Since they are interviewed by specialists for such a long time, no one from the Islamic State group gets through.

“I was listening to the BBC once, and they made

a very devastating report about a family who was able to leave a sieged area, besieged area (called Darayya, Syria),” Kandakji said. “The mother delivered a boy and during the siege. And the boy is about 2 years old or 2 and a half years old. And during the siege, they don’t have any kind of food. They only, they take the weed from the streets, and they boil it and eat it. That’s their food.

The first time he eat (rice), he started to tell his mom, ‘Mom, this food is delicious.’”

The best way to end the refugee crisis is to end the war in Syria, Almekdash said. Families cannot be blamed for fleeing Syria to protect their children.

“It’s political card to be played by political parties, each country,” Sabouni said.

“Name just one terroristic event in these countries right now by Syrian. Just one. I

challenge everybody to name only one Syrian person who committed or did any terrorism action, terroristic action in these countries.”

Immigrating to the West Countries in the Middle East who take refugees do not offer them a path to citizenship, Kandakji said. Most of the time, they are not allowed to leave the refugee camps.

To receive opportunities to restart their lives, refugees go to the western countries.

“My wife’s aunt went with her family. They went by sea to Germany,” Almekdash said. “Like 30 people, like on a boat. So, like all of the family, there are kids, and most of them are educated people — lawyers, engineers, lab technicians, doctors — on a boat, you know, to Germany.”

Refugees immigrating to the west go from Turkey to Greece and walk from Greece to the rest of Europe,

Kandakji said. Syrian refugees want their kids to have opportunities that they could not have in refugee camps.

If one is educated, it is painful to see his children unable to go to school, Almekdash said. In his minds, there is no choice. Even though immigrating to Europe via boat is dangerous and walking through various countries is tiring, Syrian families are doing those things to provide their children with a future.

“How you blame the parents if they have to ride the boat and go to Germany or apply the United Nations (to) be a refugee? How you blame them?” Kandakji said.

“I can’t blame them. At least, if I respect myself, I will not judge them because I’m not that situation — and I hope, God please don’t put me or anyone I love in that situation because no one knows. So I don’t blame them. Whatever they need to do to save their kids, they have to do it.”

It will take decades for the international community to rebuild Syria, Kandakji said. If the crisis is ignored, genocide will take place.

“I think for my country, I wish peace to prevail someday, of course the sooner the better, and that means cooperation from all nations.

And for people here, I would say the power of love defeats hate, and love is more powerful than hate,” Almekdash said. “And for my country Syria, again I want to stress that the opposition and the armed revolution is not the solution, and some of them are doing the same deeds as the regime, so I know a lot of great people who were killed by them.” @DT_Lhard

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LPD announces new app Luther to speak for local neighborhoods at Colloquium The Lubbock Police Department partnered up with www.nextdoor.com to improve city and neighbor-to-neighbor communications. The thought behind this application is to increase safety and virtue between Lubbock neighborhoods.

Nextdoor, a private social network for neighborhoods, will allow both Lubbock police and neighborhood residents to communicate more efficiently, according to an LPD news re-

lease. The app will also allow neighborhoods to collaborate more on effective neighborhood watch groups, according to the release.

This app is not completely new to the city, and more than 80 percent of Lubbock neighborhoods have started using the app, according to the release.

The app enables residents to share information such as safety issues, community events, local services and lost pets.

Nextdoor is free for residents and Lubbock police, and each neighborhood has its own private website which is accessible only to residents of that particular neighborhood, according to the release. Each neighborhood establishes and manages its own websites, and the police department will not be able to access residents’ websites, contact information or content.

All members have to verify where they live and in what neighborhood they are in. Their information cannot be accessed by any internet search engine, according to the release. @MichaelCantuDT

Jessica Luther, author of “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape,” will be the keynote speaker at the Women’s Studies Annual Gender and Gender Identity Colloquium.

The event will be 1 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Lubbock Room of the Student Union Building. Jessica Luther is an Austin-based journalist and freelance writer whose work has appeared in Texas Monthly, New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine and Sports Illustrated, according to release.

Besides her book, ‘‘Unsportsmanlike Conduct,”, Luther was

also involved in the breaking news story of the sexual assault accusations made against several athletes on the Baylor University football team in August 2015, according to release.

Luther was the journalist who broke the story.

Luther’s speech will feature subjects not mentioned in her book, such as how men also can be victims of sexual assault and homophobia in sports, according to release.

The event is open to the public and Luther will be available for a book-signing following her speech. @nydianatividad

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Marcy inducted into MCOM hall of fame Bill Marcy has been inducted into the College of Media and Communications Hall of Fame, and three other Texas Tech alumni have been honored as Outstanding Alumni.

Bill Marcy, who was the university provost and senior vice president of academic affairs from 2003 to 2008, also earned three engineering degrees from Tech, according to a Tech news release.

The College of Media & Communication’s Outstanding Alumni Awards program started as a tradition in 1981 to recognize students who have made significant contributions to the field of communication, according to the release. The Hall of

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Fame recognizes individuals who have contributed to improving the quality of college education.

Donna Huerta, Sheri Mudd and Joel West were also recognized as the College of Media & Communication’s Alumni of 2016, according to the release.

Huerta earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Tech, while Mudd and West graduated with bachelor’s degrees in public relations and moved on to get master’s degrees in mass communications, according to the release.

Huerta served as the first public information officer/ communication director for the North Texas Tollway

Authority. Currently, she is the public information officer for the Texas Department of Transportation, according to the release.

Mudd, began her career in broadcast media and is currently the local sales manager for KAMC and West, who started his career in the commercial printing industry and is a national sales manager for KAMC-TV and KLBK-TV in Lubbock, according to the release.

“Our Outstanding Alumni recipients are living testaments to the robustness and versatility of the communications degree within our college,” Dean David Perlmutter said in the release. @DailyToreador

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New student organization fights against slavery

By ALYSSA ACOSTA Staff Writer

While one would like to think something as archaic as slavery does not exist in the modern day world, it not only exists, but is also closer than one may expect.

Anna Claire Beasley, a junior electronic media and communication major from Castroville, is the president and founder of the new student organization called Students Ending Slavery.

The organization will focus on educating the community about human trafficking, preventing trafficking and providing aid to survivors.

“I was going into my freshman year of high school when I went on a mission trip with my church to a children’s home in Arkansas,” Beasley said. “We got to hear one of the stories of a girl that was there. Her mom had been selling her since she was 7 (years old) for drugs.”

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Members of Dancers with Soul participate in different events throughout the year, Capps said. They go to different places in the community and perform for the people.

“Sometimes we go to elementary schools because they invite us to entertain the kids for 2 hours,” Capps said. “So, we’ll do some community service events, we’ll dance at basketball games at halftime, basically anytime the university’s like ‘Hey we need a filler, can you do this?’

We’ll say ‘Okay, we’ll do it.’

There’s lots of events and pep rallies, all kinds of things.”

The team has won the Student Organization Sing three times. This competition allows Greek life and student organizations at Tech to compete in a dancing and singing competition. Dancers with Soul is a crowd favorite, Stephanie Riley, an early childhood education major from Celina and a first-year team member, said.

The S.O. Sing competition will be held during Homecoming Week at 7:00 p.m. in the United Supermarkets Arena on Oct. 11. The theme for this year’s competition is “Heroes versus Villains.” Riley said this event is a personal favorite for her because it will be the first big event the new DWS members dance in.

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That was the first time Beasley heard about human trafficking. She said it ignited a passion in her to end this form of slavery in the U.S. and around the world.

Human trafficking is the selling of human beings for labor or sex, Beasley said.

Lubbock is a hub for sex trafficking in West Texas.

“I thought, what better way to work against (human trafficking) than starting an organization that educates students, who are most able to do something about it in terms of starting a movement,” Beasley said.

Students Ending Slavery will be working closely with the Human Rescue Coalition in Lubbock to bring awareness and raise money for providing aid to survivors, she said. The organization will also be participating in the Walk for Freedom, which is sponsored by the A21 Campaign.

The Walk for Freedom is

a global walk, according to its website, where participants from around the world participate to take a stand against slavery.

Students Ending Slavery also plans on having other awareness campaigns, Beasley said, such as the Not for Sell campaign, where members stand throughout campus with signs that read “Not for Sale.”

A big goal of the organization this first year is to bring awareness to the slavery issue, she said. “(Human trafficking) is not an issue a lot of people like to talk about,” Daniel Blake, a senior environmental engineering major from San Antonio and treasurer of the organizaation, said. “We try to imagine that it doesn’t exist in Lubbock.”

Once the issue of human trafficking is brought to the forefront of conversations, then change can start, Blake said.

He said he hopes to get more male students involved

ward to that more than anything anyways because it’s my first event as a member, and there’s going to be just a lot of people,” Riley said. “So, I’m really looking forward to being in that atmosphere and just getting to dance in front of a whole lot of people. I’m really pumped. I kind of practice at least once a day, in my car, I just play the music.”

The team practices twice a week and each practice lasts two hours, Capps said. To be on the team, time management is of key importance.

Members have to be able to manage class schedule and classwork along with performances and dance practices.

The team performs hiphop genre dances, a newerage style of dance. There is a lot of arm movements that they do, Capps said.

The team uses a movement style called tutting, which involves fast paced arm motions in geometric patterns.

“It’s like 2 different worlds within the dance world, kind of, like the more classical genres of dance and then hip-hop,” Riley said.

“And then you go to Dancers with Soul practice, and it’s basically just fun for 2 hours, especially if we freestyle or anything. It’s more high energy, it’s student peer-led, it’s not like there’s a specific teacher. If you want to choreograph, then you choreograph, you just show the officers, so anyone

that wants to choreograph can choreograph.”

The team is very heavy on peer-involvement. The members believe in letting their teammates contribute to the routines they perform, Riley said. They have fun just dancing with each other, which is what strengthens the bonds between the team members.

Coming this season, the team is going to be participating in more events than in previous years. DWS plans to be more organized and showcase innovative choreography, Capps said. It is going to be a more interactive team this season.

“I’ve never really done dance like this outside of my room,” Riley said. “And so just getting to be in a room full of people doing the exact same thing, no matter what you look like, that’s the big thing for me. It’s a really good stress reliever and stuff. Just being in a room full for people doing the exact same thing, no matter what background you come from, is really cool.” @SarahKardaDT

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Anna Claire Beasley, a junior electronic media and communication major from Castroville, founded, Students Ending Slavery, a new student organization on campus to raise awareness and fight human trafficking and modern day slavery. The group will host their first meeting Oct. 6. with the organization because a lot of the root problems have to do with men and their treatment of women.

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ring to the Venezuelan-born actress as “Miss Housekeeping,” as Clinton said, “because she was Latina.”

“Donald, she has a name,” Clinton said, prompting Trump to ask, “Where did you find this?”

Clinton said, “Her name is Alicia Machado and she has become a U.S. citizen, and

you can bet she’s going to vote this November.”

Asked about the exchange during an interview Tuesday with “Fox and Friends,” Trump said Machado was “the worst we ever had,” adding: “She gained a massive amount of weight.

It was a real problem. We had a real problem.”

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Debate reaches 84 million, toppling record NEW YORK (AP) — The showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was the most-watched presidential debate ever, with 84 million viewers.

The Nielsen company said the viewership, over 13 different networks, toppled a record that had stood for 36 years. The previous record for presidential debate viewership was the 80.6 million people who saw the only debate in 1980 between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican challenger Ronald Reagan.

At the time of the Carter-Reagan debate, the U.S. population was 226 million. Now, it is 324 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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A Miss Universe insulted by Trump steps up for Clinton her one-time beauty pageant boss, are reverberating through the 2016 campaign as the Republican businessman and reality TV star seeks the White House.

Democratic rival Hillary Clinton told Machado’s story toward the end of Monday’s first presidential debate, scolding Trump for refer-

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Students Ending Slavery will be having its first meeting next week on October 6th.

Top: Members of the Dancers with Soul hip hop team practice at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. Dancers with Soul will perform at the upcoming Student Organization Sing competition.

Bottom: Two Dancers with Soul hip hop partners practice their formation at the recreation center for their upcoming performance at the student organization sing competition.

ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Alicia Machado says that when she gained weight after being crowned Miss Universe for 1996, Donald Trump labeled her with a sexist nickname — “Miss Piggy” — that caused her shame and humiliation.

Two decades later, Machado’s dealings with Trump,

you are doing anything because it is a sensitive issue,” Beasley said. “I thought, ‘OK, I know I can do something,’ and the first step is to start an organization

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‘Alt-Right’ movement gains more momentum

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have addressed in previous columns the rise of a vari ety of social and political movements oozing from the left-wing school of thought. Black Lives Matter and Feminism are two such movements which exemplify why I think these movements are misdirected at best and downright dangerous at worst.

But fear not my rightwing and libertarian friends, there is a growing faction on the right that might be the answer.

This faction has been dubbed the Alternative Right, or “Alt-Right,” and maintains a passionate belief in the freedom of speech and expression.

It rebukes authoritarian ideologies and liberalsaturated trends, such as politically correct culture and anti-nationalism.

God forbid a country decides to put the welfare of its own people higher on its list of priorities over the welfare of another nation’s people.

Anyway, the movement has gained momentum largely due to the preva-

Ignatius Horstmann is a sophomore history major from West Chester, Pennsylvania.

lence of a handful of internet pundits who subscribe more or less to this AltRight way of thinking.

Ben Shapiro, Gavin McInnes, John Paul Watson, Stephen Crowder, and, of course, Milo Yiannopoulos are just a few of the names I would recommend you all to search.

Far from your stereotypical, old, white industrialist or Bible-belt preacher conservative, the ranks of just these names alone include a flamboyantly gay British journalist and an ex-punk rocker turned founder of Vice News, a Brooklynbased news powerhouse.

It makes sense.

Not all millennials have fallen to this victimization-heavy school of thought where respect is a birth-right. I honestly think it started with those parents who wanted to be their kid’s friend, therefore, essentially

teaching their spoiled spawn he could do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted.

Bernie Sanders, bless his heart, masterf ully marketed his campaign to cater to this generation of people.

These youngsters — quite possibly the healthiest people in existence with their veganism and gluten-free dreadlock-clad bodies — campaigned nobly and passionately for, unfortunately, economically inconceivable political ends.

The Alt-Right, however, believes in the value of personal responsibility and pragmatism.

Create the reality you wish to live in and to hell with the people who wish to tell you what to do.

Whether you succeed or fail, it is your choice. And no, if you are white and have an opinion it is not irrelevant because of your “white privilege.”

These fine, young intellectuals see the world for how it actually is, in all its beauty and ugliness. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Poetry Society provides showcase for creativity

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nglish majors rejoice. There is an organization that allows you to read, write and listen to poetry.

Now, for the rest of the world who hate to read, write and listen to poetry, you may be wondering what the poetry society has to offer for you.

Here’s the special thing about the Poetry Society: it’s more than poetry, it’s about providing everyone with a place to express their creativity.

The society is made up of poets, song writers, sculptors, painters, engineers, journalists, actors and so much more. All of this diversity is depicted in every meeting because members bring artwork,

Daylan Holman is a sophomore architecture major from Detroit, MI.

perform songs, show videos and, of course, read poetry. Without a doubt, each meeting is more than a meeting; it’s an experience that could never be replicated again.

Each meeting is unique b e c a u s e e v e r y p e r f o rmance or art piece is specific to that meeting and won’t be shown again.

This is so exciting because each meeting has a completely different feel from the last.

Through every meeting it is mentioned the Poetry So-

ciety is about more than poetry, but talk is cheap, which makes it perfect for broke college students. As you sit through your first meeting, you begin to see not even half of the people sitting there are poets. Everyone is simply there to appreciate each other’s creativity.

Wi t h e v e r y p e r f o r mance, it is like that person is opening up to you and showing you his true self. These moments are the sparks that lead to a strong connection between the audience and the performer that cannot be duplicated even if the performer did the same exact piece that next meeting.

Every meeting, for the most part, has the same basic outline, but it is

open mic time that makes every meeting different.

Open mic is my favorite part of every meeting because you never know what you are in for when someone walks on stage.

With every performance, it is like that person is opening up to you and showing you their true self.

The best example of this would be Monday night’s meeting. It consisted of two song performances, a one-man play, a freestyle rap and many

different types of poems.

You would think going on stage in front of complete strangers would be a daunting task, but that is the beauty of open mic.

Since you can go onto the stage without knowing anyone, it gives you the chance to give everything you have on the stage without the fear that anyone will judge you for your performance.

Paul Feyisetan, the president of the of the society, founded the organization with a vision not only to make a difference in the lives of the students, but also to make an impact on the artistic impression of the culture in Lubbock.

This speaks volumes of the society’s bold aspira-

tions to push creativity to new heights here in Lubbock, but, in order for the society to reach new levels of success, it needs more and more people to come out and support.

Meetings are every other Monday — making the next meeting on Oct. 10 — in the Escondido Theatre at 7:30 p.m. I encourage everyone to come out and bring friends so that this next meeting is the greatest one yet.

You can always expect to see, hear and experience great pieces of work from the members, but I am excited to see, hear and experience what you have to bring to open mic. dholman@dailytoreador.com

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Modern rap music rapidly losing artistic authenticity

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mong the myriad of genres in my m u s i c a l l i b r a r y, rap ranks at the top. My iTunes library has a variety of rap: 90s rap, modern rap, Christian rap and even a selection of foreign rap.

I have always loved how rap combines catchy beats with forms of poetry and expression.

Over time, rappers have experimented with sound and content. Their music style has evolved more than any other genre.

However, most of the newer rap songs I hear on the radio sound completely incomprehensible, which leads me to believe rap is losing its artistic merit.

According to historians, the Golden Age of Rap/ Hip-Hop was the period between the early 1980s and late 1990s. This era produced rappers such as Big Daddy Kane, The Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z. This was rap at its finest.

These artists rapped about issues that weren’t always openly talked

Hannah Deeter is a freshman journalism major from Wheelock.

about: racism, discrimination and police brutality, among others.

These rappers brought to light important issues while promoting self-expression.

In the early 2000s, Eminem changed the rap game by becoming one of the first white rappers to enter the hip-hop scene.

Since then, rap has become more diverse. Eminem paved the way for many other white rappers.

Missy Elliot encouraged women to rap. Now, we have artists like Lil’ Kim, Nicki Minaj and Azealia Banks. As rap came out of its Golden Age, it grew more diverse.

H o w e v e r, i n r e c e n t years, I feel rap has taken on a new direction. The quality of rap has decreased in both lyrical content and vocal performance.

In fact, much of today’s rap has no substance or artistic merit, whatsoever.

Take the song “Panda,” for example. In this song, Desiigner supposedly raps about his fetish for white Corvettes.

His mumbled, sporadic lyrics are nothing more than vague references to things only Desiigner seems to understand. In one verse he rhymes the same profanity nearly five lines in a row.

However, most of the newer rap songs I hear on the radio sound completely incomprehensible.

To me, the song is hardly catchy, but maybe that’s because I can’t understand the words. However, even after reading the lyrics, I still don’t get it.

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I find it bizarre that critics complement the creativity in this song. I like songs with messages that have multiple interpretations. However, when I hear, “Big rollie, it dancin’ bigger than a pandie,” I’m not sure what to think.

Good rap should not be excessively enigmatic, and I shouldn’t have to visit www.azlyrics.com because I can’t understand the words of a song that’s rapped in my native language.

Desiigner is not the only rapper whose songs lack authenticity. I’m not trying to single him out; there is a plethora of rap songs with meaningless lyrics.

Another example is Pitbull rhyming “Kodak” with “Kodak” in his song “Give Me Everything.”

Pitbull’s lyrics might be easier to understand, but they are often trite and superficial in nature.

In “We Run the Night” he raps, “I’m go go, baby.

Fresh, oh baby. Go go, baby. Uh oh, baby. No no,

baby. Yeah yeah, baby.

Now jiggle it, baby. Let me tickle it, baby.”

Good rap should not be excessively enigmatic and I s h o u l d n ’t h a v e t o visit azlyrics.com because I can’t understand the words of a song that’s rapped in my native language.

And these are just a few examples of songs with absolutely no lyrical value.

I also feel that many artists are trying to be both singer and rappers.

Take Fetty Wap, for example. I truly believe he has no singing talent.

In many of his songs, his voice resembles that of a strange animal, yet critics seem to love it.

Drake has also tried to sing in his songs, and while

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he may sing better than Fetty Wap, his voice often sounds nasally and fake.

All this leads to my biggest worry: What has rap become?

The art form I once enjoyed and appreciated is turning into a tasteless construction of vague, meaningless and ridiculously repetitive lyrics and vocals.

I am truly amazed that lyrics like “Big rollie, it dancin’ bigger than a pandie,” can make someone millions of dollars.

I’m even more amazed the public actually enjoys this kind of music. If it didn’t, rappers wouldn’t be making that kind of money.

When I turn on the radio, I want to hear songs that are deep, poetic and meaningful. I’m tired of the superficiality. I’m tired of singers dumbing down the English language and trying to sing when they clearly can’t.

Let’s bring back the real rap. hdeeter@dailytoreador.com

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Group work, discussion impact learning

By HALEY DAVIS Staff Writer

Texas Tech students are learning to adapt to the abundance of different teaching styles in each classroom, but some students find themselves hindered when these styles do not match their learning capabilities.

The Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University proposed a set of principles as an overview of student’s success in different learning environments.

Researchers found students learn best what they practice and perform on their own instead of in groups, according to Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching website.

Jessica Carr, a senior journalism major from Frederick, Oklahoma, said she finds group projects frustrating.

“In college, students have a very busy academic schedule along with work and extra-curricular activities. It is hard to find a good time to meet up and get the projects done,” Carr said. “I think group projects have turned into busy work for students, and that is the last thing students need.”

Allison Boye is the assistant director of the TEACH program on campus, which is a year-long, intensive professional development program for doctoral stu-

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“One of the things that has come from (the Bush Institute) is the development

dents who are preparing for a career in academics.

Boye said she appreciates what group work has done in the classroom.

“I think that group work can be very effective in the classroom,” Boye said, “though, like anything, it can be done well, or it can be done poorly.”

Jessica Utts, a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, researched into the preferred learning styles within the graduating class of 1998. The styles included visual, aural/auditory, read/ write and kinesthetic.

Utts found 44 percent of students preferred reading or writing in a classroom, 42 percent preferred visual learning, 8 percent chose kinesthetic, and aural/auditory came in last at only 6 percent, according to the UCI department of statistics research website.

“When I was in school, I appreciated instructors we reached out to me as an individual,” Boye said. “I also appreciated good organization and clear communication.”

Approximately 16 percent of college students report failing or dropping out of class because of instruction and leadership-related factors, according to the Higher Learning Commission website. ”I think nowadays students are more interested

in having clear and precise assignments that they are solely responsible for,” Carr said. “Our generation is focused on being independent.”

Another common form of teaching that can be found on college campuses is discussion-based curriculum.

Jeff Schwegman, a faculty member at Stanford University, researched the impact of discussion-based classroom environments on socially introverted and extroverted students.

Schwegman found extroverts like to bounce their ideas off other people, using discussion as a way to test out their perspectives and develop. On the other hand, introverts do much of their best thinking alone and prefer working out problems in their heads before seeking feedback, according to the Stanford University Teaching Commons website.

Samantha Brookes, a senior journalism student from Lubbock, said hearing the opinions of her fellow classmates during discussion does not help her learn.

“I personally feel less prepared for tests when there’s unstructured discussion because it is easy to go off on a tangent,” Brookes said.

“I learn the material better when a class is lecture-based.”

Schwegman’s research also noted introverts sometimes find discussion dis-

tracting, but the American culture has come to view the extroverted way of thinking as the universal ideal, according to the Stanford University Teaching Commons website. Yet, introverts make up anywhere from a third to a half of the U.S. population.

“I think it’s wrong to make students participate or speak if they don’t want to, or have nothing to say on the subject,” Brookes said. “I am definitely an introvert and find it stressful to be called on and expected to talk. It gives me anxiety.”

Aimee Cloutier, a graduate student in mechanical engineering and an instructor in the TEACH program, said creating a supportive environment for the students is essential.

“I want them to know that I believe they can do well,” Cloutier said. “I try to motivate my students by letting them see my own interest in the subject. If I talk in detail about concepts, and if I share my problem solving thought process, it may help provide a framework for their own problem-solving.”

Tech’s Learning Discovery website provides students with an overview of different potential learning styles as well as study tips and a multitude of tutoring resources to ensure students’ academic success.

There is also The Learning Center on campus that

offers free peer tutoring to create an educational environment that inspires students to develop autonomous learning strategies, according to The Learning Center website.

“Having variety in the

classroom helps students to remain engaged in the material longer,” Cloutier said. “That engagement is helpful regardless of how students respond to particular learning styles.”

of modules that are used in medical schools all across the country,” Mitchell said. “We’re training the next generation of physicians to think entirely differently about the way you assess a man versus the way you assess a woman.”

Research conducted at the institute is not limited only to differences in drugs and surgical instruments pertaining to men or women.

It is aimed also at better understanding the occurrences of disease formerly thought to only afflict one gender, Mitchell said. The spectrum of illnesses that are present in both men and women is broader than once believed by the medical community.

“I do yoga and workout three times a week when I can,” Bush said. “I love to walk as well. I crave hik-

ing with my close friends in Dallas, and I think enjoying the outdoors is an important aspect to living life.”

Bush expressed pride in being associated with both Tech and HSC through the Bush Institute. She said the influence of the studies conducted through the institute are just an example of what makes West Texas great.

Working through a collab-

orative multidisciplinary network, the knowledge gained will promote further research and educational programs to benefit communities, patients and health care providers, Bush said. The Bush Institute is committed to developing an infrastructure to benefit women’s health, a global issue spanning communities.

There is now an Office of Women’s Health within the

United States Department of Health and Human Services, she said.

“One of the reasons why I was very interested in the institute is because they wanted to look at gender differences in medicine,” Bush said. “In general, men had been the subject of all research, and then the findings would then be extrapolated to women.”

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In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ an ecological disaster’s human toll TORONTO (AP) — The name Deepwater Horizon is synonymous to most with environmental catastrophe and corporate negligence.

For Mike Williams, who survived the April 2010 oil-rig explosion by plunging into the Gulf of Mexico from several stories up, it was about something else.

“My 11 brothers that got killed were immediately forgotten,” Williams said, speaking from his Sulphur Springs, Texas, home. “We understand the oil. It’s bad,

yes. The birds are dying and the shrimp and the crabs and all that stuff. But those aren’t brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, sons, daughters. Shrimp can come back.

People, you can’t bring those guys back.”

Peter Berg’s “Deepwater Horizon,” which opens in theaters Friday, puts the spotlight of a big-budget disaster movie on the human toll of a real-life tragedy. Mark Wahlberg stars as Williams, a central figure in an earlier “60 Minutes” segment that

focused on the Deepwater Horizon workers.

“There are probably several different ways you could tell this story or any story, but I liked this approach,” says Berg (“Friday Night Lights,” ‘’Battleship”). “I was very moved by the fact that 11 men lost their lives and I didn’t even know that before the ‘60 Minutes’ piece.”

Made for over $100 million by Lionsgate, “Deepwater Horizon” gives the true story the kind of action-film treatment usually reserved

for caped crusaders. A mock oil rig, 85 percent to scale, was built at an old Six Flags in Louisiana out of more than 3 million pounds of steel — one of the largest film sets ever erected. The film, based on a New York Times article that detailed the events surrounding the explosion, burrows into the details and politics of life on the rig leading up to the chaos-inducing blowout.

“It’s great that the studio would take the risk to make a movie that has no sequel

potential,” says Wahlberg.

“At a time when we get bombarded with superhero movies and other stuff that’s pretty mind-numbing, it’s nice to have a really smart, adult movie that has action.”

Though director J.C. Chandor (“A Most Violent Year”) originally helmed the project, Berg (“Friday Night Lights,” ‘’Battleship”) came aboard to lend the film a more movie star-based approach. “This film works on many levels and I think one of them is

just a big-ass action film in the best possible way,” Berg says.

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New SAT exam taken by nearly 1.4 M students, no scores yet WASHINGTON (AP) — No score results yet, but students didn’t seem to be scared off by the new version of the SAT college entrance exam.

The College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the SAT, said Tuesday that nearly 1.4 million high schoolers took the newly redesigned SAT between March and June of this year. The board says that’s up about 180,000 test takers over the same period last spring.

The new version of the test — with more of a focus on real-world vocabulary and learning — debuted in March. Some college advisers were a little cautious about encouraging students to take the debut test since it had a new format and wasn’t as familiar to students.

The College Board says it won’t release average score results for the new SAT until next fall when it has a full year of data on graduating

seniors for the 2016-2017 school year. The board says most 2016 graduating seniors, 90 percent, took the old SAT before its final run earlier this year.

In the report released Tuesday, average scores for the 2016 class of seniors for the old SAT exam showed slight declines across all sections.

The scores for graduating 2016 seniors were only reported through January of this year, when the old version of the SAT was last administered.

For seniors, the mean reading score was 494 out of 800 possible points. That compares to a mean score of 497 in reading for the class of 2015, over the same period of time, through January 2015.

Math showed another slight dip. The mean score was 508 for the 2016 senior class, compared to 512 in the previous year.

And in writing, the mean score was 482, compared to

487 in the previous year. The top score in math and writing was also 800.

Cyndie Schmeiser, chief of assessment for the College Board, says the pool of SAT takers has increased so we have a bigger and more diverse group of students taking the test.

“What we do know is that in past years more and more districts have been offering the SAT to their students for free during the school day and this has resulted in a broader spectrum of preparation among the test takers,” said Schmeiser, in a call with reporters.

The College Board made substantial changes in its redesign of the SAT. The exam still tests critical reading and math skills, but the essay portion is now optional.

The redesign focuses more on areas of math that matter most for college and career readiness and shifts away from obscure vocabulary words that don’t typically

find their way into most high school or college classrooms.

On the new SAT, there’s no longer a penalty for guessing on a question. And, the top score goes back to 1,600 with a separate score for the essay, compared with the previous test’s total of 2,400 — 800 points for each of the three categories.

Also new in the 2015-2016 school year: more tests from the College Board.

The board began offering the new PSAT 8/9, geared to 8th and 9th graders, in the fall of last year. And this spring, it debuted the PSAT 10, aimed at 10th graders.

The PSAT/NMSQT test, used to assess student performance and as a qualifier for National Merit Scholarships, also was redesigned and first administered last fall. About 42 percent of 11th graders taking that test met the board’s college and career readiness benchmark for the exam.

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Allen hits field after starting on scout team

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

He’s ready to run out of the tunnel, for the smoke to come out, for the Masked Rider to sprint across the field, ready to play the game.

He has waited all week for it. More importantly, his family is always in the stands, supporting him, loving him. He wants just one play, one big play, an interception, a touchdown, a big sack to the win the game, whatever it is. He wants to make that play for them.

Defensive back Kisean Allen played at Poteet High School in Mesquite, where he was born. In his senior year, he had 87 total tackles, three interceptions and 12 pass break ups. In terms of education, he is a sophomore kinesiology major.

His life however, is football and family, and not one is more important than the other, Allen said. He has three brothers and two sisters.

“Just knowing that my parents are watching,” Allen said. “That’s how I get pumped, because my parents, they’re the main reason why I do what I do, and so every time I’m in a locker room, I’m just thinking about ‘Man what if I make a play in front of my parents.’ What’s their

reaction going to be in the crowd? I always dream of just making that one play where my parents can be yelling in the crowd, saying ‘That’s my son.’”

His big brother played in high school, and as a kid, Allen grew up playing peewee and watching the Dallas Cowboys play. If he gets the chance to play in the NFL, Allen said he would like to play for the Cowboys, his childhood team.

His favorite player to watch was Keyshawn Johnson, and he said he hopes to be the second player with that name on the team. Allen’s inspiration is his father who helped him develop the love for football.

“It’d definitely have to be my dad,” Allen said. “He’s the one that keeps pushing me on to play football, you know, he’s Texas. So, they live and breathe football, and so growing up that’s all I did. He was the one always taking me to practice, and he even took to the hill to run extra hills as a little kid. He was always just that one that was pushing me.”

His first year at Tech, Allen was a walk on who played on the scout team. He said it was his biggest challenge to go through. Since then, he has played in seven games

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Texas Tech sophomore defensive back Kisean Allen sqaures up his opponent in Tech’s 68-55 loss to the Arizona State Sun Devils in Tempe, Arizona, at Sun Devil Stadium. during his collegiate career.

He also said he was undersized, about 152 pounds, but he has gained 30 pounds since coming to Tech.

“The biggest challenge I’ve faced was walking on and being undersized,” Allen said.

“So, just gaining weight, and catching the coaches’ eyes is really the main thing to do when you’re a walk on. So, I did whatever I could. I was on scout team, and I did good on

scout team because a couple guys went down, I stepped up and just been running with it ever since.”

Getting through the walk on period in his collegiate career, Allen said, was a morale boost for him. He uses that drive to get him through every game and every practice because he made it through that big challenge in his life.

“My motivation is being the best that I can be

honestly,” Allen said. “I feel like if you push yourself, you can go anywhere, and me being a walk on, and just me getting the opportunity to play, drives me even more.

Just coming from a walk on standpoint is like me finally getting that chance. You just want to keep going with it, and see how far you can push your limits.”

Sophomore defensive back Jah’Shawn Johnson has been

working with other defensive backs as they switch in and out players to fill gaps.

One of the players that Johnson is working with is Allen.

“Peyton and Kisean Allen,” Johnson said. “They’ve been rotating in and out, and they’ve both been doing a great job, and they pretty much know the defense, but they know how to get everybody and check and doing good.” @JackDensmore_DT

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SOCCER

Lady Raider coaching staff to host clinic

Red Raider soccer tallies two Big 12 honors

Texas Tech women’s basketball coach Candi Whitaker and her staff will host a coach’s clinic on Oct. 16 inside the United Supermarkets Arena, according to a Tech release.

The clinic is open to coaches of all levels. Registration starts at 12:30 p.m. the day of the event, which will be followed by

After a winning performance by Texas Tech soccer team on Sunday against Iowa State, freshman forward Jade King and junior defender Rebekah O’Brien were named Big 12 Offensive and Defensive players of the week, respectively, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

King is the first Red Raider to win the offensive award since 2012.

O ’ B r i e n ’s d e f e n s i v e honor is the first since senior goalkeeper Lauren Watson’s accolade in 2014, according to the release.

The 2014 season was the last time Tech soccer

guest speakers at 1 p.m., including Whitaker, Krista Gerlich, former Lady Raider and coach at UT-Arlington, and Alesha Robertson-Ellis, Wayland Baptist coach.

During the clinic, the Lady Raiders’ practice will be available to watch beginning at 4 p.m.

Coaches interested in

signing up can preregister for $40, according to the release. A staff of coaches can attend the clinic for $100.

Registration at the door is $50 a person.

Registration is available on www.ladyraiderbasketballcamps.com/coachingclinic.cfm. @TheDT_Sports

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picked up both offensive and defensive awards, according to the release.

In the 3-0 win over the Cyclones on Sunday, King and O’Brien both put the Red Raiders on the board to get Tech its first Big 12 Conference win of the season.

During the game, King tallied tw o goals w ith O’Brien knocking one into the net as well.

Last weekend, King was the only Big 12 student athlete to have a multi-goal performance in a single-match.

The freshman talent finished the game with five shots and three on goal.

She continues to lead the Big 12 in shots taken at 55 and shots per game at 4.58, according to the release.

King is also second in the conference in goals this season with five.

On the defensive side, O’Brien and the rest of the team held the Cyclones to just two shots in the first half of play.

O’Brien played the full 90 minutes of Sunday’s matchup, which marks the 12th contest she has stayed in the entire game.

O’Brien’s shot in the second half of the game tallied her third goal of the season. @ABoutwellDT

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Yankees beat Red Sox, snaps win streak NEW YORK (AP) — Gary Sanchez, Didi Gregorius and Tyler Austin homered off David Price, and the New York Yankees beat the Red Sox 6-4 Tuesday night to end Boston’s 11-game winning streak and delay its AL East title celebration.

David Ortiz, starting his final series in the Bronx, went 0 for 5 with two strikeouts and stranded seven runners. He ended the game by fanning with two on against Tyler Clippard.

Having clinched at least a wild-card berth last weekend, Boston is five games ahead of second-place Toronto with five games left, needing just one victory or a Blue Jays loss to ensure the division championship.

Toronto also prevented the Red Sox from wrapping it up Tuesday night by beating Baltimore 5-1.

Price (17-9) again struggled against the Yankees, who have only a remote chance of reaching the postseason.

They closed within four games of Baltimore for the second AL wild card with five remaining.

Sanchez hit a two-run homer in the first inning, his 20th since the Yankees brought him up from the minors on Aug. 3.

Playing in his 51st big league game, Sanchez matched Wally Berger in 1930 as the fastest to 20 homers.

Gregorius hit a solo drive in the sixth, also his 20th.

After the Red Sox rallied, Austin broke a 4-all tie with a drive to right — all four of the rookie’s homers have gone to the opposite field.

Blake Parker (1-0) got two outs for his first big league

win in two years, retiring Ortiz on a groundout with two on to end the seventh.

Clippard got the save, and the Yankees (81-76) ensured they will not finish with their first losing season since 1992.

Price gave up six runs and 12 hits — matching his season high — in 6 1/3 innings.

He is 1-3 with a 7.89 ERA against the Yankees this year, allowing 26 runs in 29 2/3 innings.

The left-hander had won eight straight decisions overall.

Yankees rookie Luis Cessa allowed two runs and five hits in six innings.

After Sanchez’s homer and Jacoby Ellsbury’s fifthinning RBI single built a 3-0 lead, Boston closed in the sixth on Dustin Pedroia’s run-scoring single and Mookie Betts’ RBI groundout.

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Jays beat O’s 5-1 in AL wild-card showdown

“Time is fleeting yearbooks are forever.”

TORONTO (AP) — Josh Donaldson hit a two-run homer, Aaron Sanchez struck out 10 and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-1 on Tuesday night in the opener of their AL wildcard showdown.

Ezequiel Carrera also homered as the Blue Jays won for the sixth time in eight games. They lead the wild-card standings by two games over the Orioles with five to play.

Baltimore began the day two games ahead of Detroit and Seattle for the league’s final playoff spot.

Orioles slugger Chris Davis was ejected for argu-

ing with plate umpire Will Little after striking out against Joe Biagini in the seventh, the third time in three at-bats Davis was caught looking. Baltimore manager Buck Showalter also was tossed after he came out to argue.

Sanchez (14-2) struck out the first four hitters he faced and five of the first six. He gave up one run and five hits over six innings to win for the first time in four starts. The right-hander walked three and reached double digits in strikeouts for the second time this season.

Batting leadoff in place of injured second baseman

Devon Travis (left shoulder), Carrera went 2 for 3 with two RBIs and scored three runs.

He walked in the first and scored when Donaldson homered off right-hander Kevin Gausman, his 37th.

Carrera connected for an opposite-field drive in the third and drove in a run with a single in the fifth.

Two batters later, Toronto made it 5-1 when Carrera scored on third baseman Manny Machado’s throwing error.

Gausman (8-12) allowed five runs, four earned, and seven hits in six innings. He gave up two home runs for the second straight start.

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FOOTBALL

Tech defense works on turnovers

By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

During their time off, the Texas Tech Red Raiders have been focusing on several key things for their upcoming game against Kansas. One thing in particular they are hoping to improve on in is making turnovers happen defensively.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said he looked at film on Kansas, and the last game the Jayhawks had against Memphis was not a true testament to who they are as a team.

The Jayhawks had six turnovers last game, but the records should not directly establish who they are as a team and their level of play, Kingsbury said.

“They had six turnovers, it kind of got out of hand. But coach (David) Beaty, I know him very well, he does a good job motivating,” he said. “And I think they’re better than probably their record indicates and probably the scores indicate. So we’ll

have to play really well to give ourselves a chance.”

Kingsbury said Tech should take advantage of this and walk away from the game on Thursday with turnovers.

Tech started up turnover circuits at the beginning of the week, senior defensive back Justis Nelson said.

Defensive coordinator David Gibbs wants to see the type plays that make turnovers happen on the defense, Nelson said.

“The past two games we haven’t had a turnover, which is a characteristic of what coach David Gibbs wants from this defense,” Nelson said.

“So we started back doing turnover circuits and stuff like that. So any time we can get our hands on that ball, that’s what we’re going to try to do.”

Sophomore defensive back Jah’Shawn Johnson reiterated that Tech has gone several weeks without any progress on making turnovers happen

during these past couple of games.

However, he said the defense has been practicing the basics to make them happen.

“We’ve been focusing on turnovers,” Johnson said. “We went two weeks straight with zero turnovers, unlike us, so we’ve been stressing that a lot this week and just staying in our gaps and tackling a lot better, just getting better as we go.”

There is still room for the defense to improve when it comes to making turnovers, Kingsbury said. However, there are areas the defense is doing well in.

“We can definitely improve,” Kingsbury said.

“But we played two offenses that protected the ball really well, just didn’t turn it over. Both quarterbacks had career nights versus us, and that’s a credit to them, and we have to do a better job of being disruptive and making plays.”

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Texas Tech defensive lineman Gary Moore tackles Louisiana Tech running back Jarred Craft during the second quarter of Tech's 59-45 win over Louisiana Tech on Sept. 17 at Jones AT&T Stadium.

In practice this week, Nelson said several players on the defense have been doing well. He also said they have been improving in areas they had been slacking in.

The players will have to put the things they have

been practicing into effect at the game on Thursday, Nelson said.

“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,” he said. “So it was good to see guys trying to get the ball, trying to make plays. So just reemphasizing stuff like that and that’s what we have to carry over into the game.” @A_HernandezDT

VOLLEYBALL

Red Raiders travel to Baylor, seek first Big 12 win

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Following losses to Texas Christian and West Virginia, the Texas Tech volleyball team continues to search for its first Big 12 Conference victory. In its third conference game of the season, the Red Raiders face off against the Baylor Bears at 7 p.m. today in the Ferrell Center.

Leading up to its matchup against the Bears, Tech has dropped its last five matches with its most recent one ending in a sweep. During its five-game losing streak, Tech only claimed one set against its five opponents.

Against the West Virginia Mountaineers, its last opponent, the Red Raiders could not prevent the Mountaineer offense from scoring and hitting efficiently. The Mountaineers hit as high

as .486 in the second set and scored 25 of its 20 points on kills. While West Virginia combined for a hitting percentage of .361, Tech attacked back by hitting .205.

Tech coach Tony Graystone said Tech has not had the confidence in its touch and quick-decision skills to pull ahead of its opponents throughout its losing stretch.

“Right now you can tell we got a group that is still trying to figure things out from our side,” Graystone said. “It’s hard for us to get past that to even see what we’re up against the other side of the net.”

Unlike the Red Raiders, Baylor enjoys a string of eight consecutive wins.

To open the Big 12 portion of its schedule, the Bears defeated a then No. 23 Kansas State squad with

a 3-0 win.

The win over Kansas State pushed the Bears’ record to 13-4. Baylor ’s defense poses a problem for the Red Raiders.

Currently, Baylor averages 2.74 blocks per set, according to a Big 12 news release. On offense, junior Katie Staiger leads the Bears as she has a conference leading 326 kills and 362 points.

Fortunately for the Red Raiders, the Tech team has regained most of its players at full health in anticipation for its match against Baylor.

Junior Ashley Morgan, senior Marguerite Grubb and sophomore Sarah Redding recorded points against West Virginia after missing time because of injury.

After Tech’s home loss

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Toni Mcdougland goes up for a spike attempt. Texas Tech played UTEP at 6 p.m. Sept. 5 in the United Supermarkets Arena practice gym. to the Mountaineers, Graystone said he needs the defense to take care of its ball control to avoid giving its opponent time to adjust

and run its game plan.

“We got to play better.

It’s a tough thing when we got a young group that’s trying to win at this level,”

Graystone said. “We’re going to have nights like this, I get it, but I’d like for us to fight a little bit more.” @DGaytanDT

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Lucroy’s two-run double helps Rangers beat Brewers 6-4 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jonathan Lucroy hit a go-ahead, two-run double against his former team in the sixth inning to help the Texas Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-4 on Tuesday night.

The Rangers now have a half-game lead over Boston for the best record in the American League. The Red Sox lost 6-4 to the Yankees

on Tuesday.

Lucroy’s hit made a winner of reliever Tony Barnette (7-3). Barnette worked one scoreless inning, leaving runners at second and third in the sixth. It was his first appearance since Sept. 4, having been sidelined with a strained oblique.

Lucroy, who played sixplus seasons for the Brewers before being traded to the

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Sam Dyson earned his 37th save, striking out Domingo Santana to leave runners at first and third in the ninth inning. Five Rangers relievers worked 4 2/3 innings and built the bullpen’s scoreless streak to 24 2/3 innings though it allowed an

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Carlos Gomez drove in Texas’ first three runs with a third-inning home run, the first hit off Nelson. The homer followed back-to-back walks to Jurickson Profar and Elvis Andrus, the Rangers’ Nos. 8 and 9 hitters opening the inning.

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